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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-14

Rio De Janeiro, Jan l4-Nearly recent years has had it's Argentine in huff just as the chorus of 21 for Hemisphere harmony. This one The first Pan American confer ence this reporter attended, at Ha- vana in 1928, was disrupted when the Argentine Ambassador packed his trunks because Calvin Coolidge and Charles E. Hughes wouldn't o. K. customs union. And the last con- ference at Lima, Peru, was kept waiting by temperamental Argentine Foreign Minister Cantillo, who took a couple of weeks off at a mountain resort in Chile, refusing to go near telephone to o. K. the last act of the conference.
 Today, the gentleman scheduled to do the prima donna act on be- half of Argentina is new Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guinazu RuizGuinazu is to South America what Col. Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler were to the U. $. A. before Pearl Harbor-only much more so.
 He is married to German, has very definite sympathies with Span ish Dictator Franco, has spent a large part of his life as diplomat in Europe, and believes that Ar gentinas future must lockstep with Europe, not with the U. s. A.
 It was Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu who tossed the neat little bombshell into the Rio de Janeiro preliminaries last week by an- nouncing to the world that Argenti- na could not agree to any alliances or measures of e-belligerency" at Rio.
 NO ARGENTINE MEAT
 Some people attribute Argentina's lack of cooperation with the United States to the fact that every time President Roosevelt proposes buying a few cans of timed beef, Senator OMahoney of Wyoming or Senator Connally of Texas lashes out against Argentine meat. Or even when we undertake to admit Argentine meat from the remote Island of Terra del Fueeo, the tip end of the country
  not exist, the American Livestock Association yells to high heaven.
 However, the real fact is that the bulk of the Argentine people forgive our cow Senators and understand that this is just playing politics Furthermore the great bulk of the Argentine people are 99 per cent with us.
 Perhaps we have Adolf Hitler to thank for it, but the U. S. A. was never so popular in Argentina as it is today. You would think that Roosevelt was the President of Ar gentina, judging by his popularity in Buenos Aires.
 But this is among the Argentine people--not with the Government. The Government represents the old aristocratic ranch owners, who came into power through the revolution of 1880 and have been using Tammany methods to keep themselves in pow CT ever since.
 ANTI-U. $. RECORDS
 Therefore, Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu is not out of step with his Government when he bucks the U, s. A.. Brazil, and other anti-AXis countries Here Is the recent rec ord of the ultra -reactionary Argen- tine Government:
 1. A "subversive plot" in the Ar , genuine Air Corps was reported last
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rclrlgeratOr ships were called ln. | And gradually the tankers and the cargo boats began to operate on irregular schedules Service was dis rupted and delays were frequent CargoeS began to pile up on the
 Wharves, including stuff for the government priority shipments and stock piles.
 All these sore points are to be | taken up by the economic experts who sit in on the meeting of 2l | American republics foreign minis ters, opening in Rio de Janeiro Jan. IS, and the United States delegation headed by Undersecretary of State Summer Welles is pr0Dably in for some sharp questioning. In general, the South and Central Americans understand what the United States is up against. They have grumbled, but understandingly, and hoping that matters could be improved upon.
 In the first place, much of the goods the United States is now shipping to the LatinS is new cargo we did not handle before. NeWsprint, which used to come from Denmark ard Sweden and Finland. Coal, which came from Europe. The mari time Commission has put on ships for this emergency cargo and for petroleum to keep the railroads and public utilities of the east coast countries going. Thus far none has been shut down, but at times the reserves have run low and caused a scare.
 FASTER AND FULLER
 Loading boats fuller and speeding uploading operations have helped considerably, and while the total tonnage of 194l trade with South America will break all records, it still isn't enough, for the demands at both ends of the runs are greater than ever before.
 Another factor that has helped has been the putting in service of the approximately 100 axis ships tied up in South and Central Amer ican ports at the outbreak of the war. Some 60 of these were freight CTS and 18 were tankerS. About half these ships have been taken over for service between the Americas and gradually others will be mo- bilized and recommissioned to re- lieve the traffic Jam. Some, however. were so badly sabotaged by their crews that their recommisSiOning will be almost impossible. Who pays for the repairs and who conveys these ships must be determined.
 Even if there were enough ships to haul everything that had to be hauled, there would still be the problem of United States priorities and the question of whether our war production program can spare enough materials to keep South America going There just isn't any aluminium for South America, and that understood. But 3 per cent of the United States iron and steel production would keep South Am erican railroads and factories and mines and plantations going enough to get by on--if we can spare it.
 One proposal which the other American republics are likely to present to the United States dele gation is to do away with the priori- ties system of passing everything on the individual order, and give each country an allocation of such and such a quantity of this and that material. Then let the governments
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Criticism Is not necessarily
 censOrious and it usually is wrong to use the verb criticize
 as a synonym for condemn
 or disparagc.

@. Does chlorine gas have dis tinctive color?
 A. Chlorine Is a greenish yellow gas. Its color suggested the name chlorine" from the Greek word "chloros," meaning greenish yellow, which was given to it about 1910 by Davy.
 o. Who invented the diving bell used by the Navy?
 A. The Navy Department states that there was no single inventor of the bell. Its development was worked on by the Bureau of Con- struction and Repair of the Navy, by men at the New York Navy Yard, and also by private com- pany.
 o. What is considered the most beautiful sound in the English language?
 A. Edgar Allan Poe in his &C., count of how he wrote "The Raven" states that after trying over many sounds he reached the conclusion that the syllable "or" was the most resonant. Hence he used the words Lenore, nevermore, etc.
 o. How did the ancient Egyp- tians make the papyruS on which they wrote?
 A. It was made from a water plant of the same name, extensive ly cultivated in the Egyptian delta. The pith was cut into strips which were placed side by side on flat surface, and over these second layer of strips at right angles to the first was laid. The whole was pressed or rolled into a sheet, which was then soaked in water. After drying the sheet was ready for use
 o. Who was the first ceramits to make copper lustre glass?
 A. The art is said to have orig mated with Richard Frank of Bris- lington, England, about 1740, being a form of Bristol's delft manufac- ture.
 Q. Is there law prohibiting the post office department from employ ing tubercular persons?
 A. No, but in accordance with an executive order of February 23, 1906, persons who are tubercular to such an extent as to constitute menace to the health of their associates and the public are not to be employed in government offices and work shops.
 EDITORS NOTE: If you arc desirious of securing this weeks booklet entitled YOUR HEALTH BOOK. address F. M. Kirby, Dept. 8-1O9, Waterbury Democrat Service Sureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. C., with 10 cents to cover postage.
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prima donna who has left the stage was ready to shout hurrah promises to be no exception.
 September. Government opponents now charge the plot was deliber- ately staged by the government it. self in order to pretend to put it down.
 2. Rigging the elections in Buenos Aires province last month to prevent the dominant Radical party from gaining further strength in the Con- gress. Then, to prevent protests against such rigging, the Conserva- tive governmbent declared a state of siege.
 8. Banning a pro-U. s. demon stration after Japan had provoked war. The Radicals, through their pro-U. s. Accion Argentina, laid plans for a public tribute to Roose- welt, but the government outlawed the demonstration as "unneutral." THE PEOPLE AND
 THE GOVERNMENT
 Chief ace in the hand of the Unit ed States is the resentment of the Argentine people against this poli- tical rule. Already the unrest of the Argentine public has pushed it's con- servative Government into declar- ing that the U. $. is not a belliger- ent, which gives our Warsnips the facilities of Argentine ports hither- to denied to Britain and other bel ligerents. However, the general Ar genuine public does not consider this enough and most of them will be roofing for the Welles-Aran policy at Rio.
 Furthermore the Radical party, representing the majority of the people, is no irresponsible rag-tag of the country, but rising and re- putable middle class. Typical of their supporters are Alberto Duhau, one of the wealthiest men ill the country, who acts as angel for Ac- cion Argentina. Other Radical lead CTS are Pablo Bardin, Wealthy Argentine sportsman; eX-President Alvear, grandson of the Argentine founder; and ex-Foreign Minister Pueyrredon, wealthy cattle ranch CT who also served for many years as Ambassador in Washington.
 The rift within Argentina Is so pad, that it is not outside the realm of possibility that the Rio confer ence will bring it to a serious crisis. Copyright, 1942, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
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obvious re q sons, tonnage has been withdrawn from hemisphere ru n S in large amounts a n d on 0 t h coasts. First the passen ger liners were ale q in. Nobody wanted to travel on cruises in war times and the cargo carry ing C a D a c ity of the luxury liners i s mt so grea t. Then some of the fruit b o a [ S, the
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Selected Poem
THE TRANSFER PATTERN
(Etbel King in the New York Sum

(Ethel King in the NeW 7ofk SUnI The loom of winter WeaveS curious stuff The texture smooth as ice, or homespun rough; And in a neutral scale the coors go From russet, silver, gray to chalky snow The pattern rigid as q leaf1esS tree, Or softened with padded quality; For warp and wool the elements the threads Over the barren worlds the tissue spreads Wan grace awaiting word of times command And then as though by some pure Seight of hand The fostering cover suddenly unSeaS, Becoming part of all that it reveals, The stark web blended in the bright design Of roses, clover apples and the vine.
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ana most ADeral DE DuSlHeSS eX- ecutiVe in the country.
 U. S.-CANADIAN
 COOPERATION
 On the morning that the State Department issued it's famous statement blasting the ''so-called" Free French for taking over the tiny islands of St.Pierre- -Miquelon, Ray Atherton, chief of the State Departments European Division, telephoned to Hume Wrong, coun- Selor of the Canadian Lega ton.
 Canada is more concerned with the two French islands than any other country because they are nearest her shores: so Atherton read to Canadian Counselor Wrong the statement blasting the Free French.
 What do you think of it?" he asked.
 "I think it's too strong" re- piled Wrong, whose government strongly sympathizes with De-
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Washington Merry-Go-Round By
Dies Discovers Schools West Coach Teach Loyalty Tokyo Censors Criticism


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A Thought for Today

Through God we shall do valanty for he 1t Is that shall tread down our enemies.-Psalms I08:I3.
 The winds and waves are always on the side of the abest navigators-EdWard Gbbon
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 4:5l a. m. Sun rises TIP a. m.; sets 4:44 p. m All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
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DO TUT IIIt IdAI ItW WttKo LTIt problem of getting cargo space for South American commerce has been getting tougher and tougher. For
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Pan American Conference
 By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN
 (Co-Authors of the Washington Merry Go Round")

Rio De l4Neay American conference left
 huff Republics hurrah for Hemisphere harmony. This exception
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} NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Good NeighbOrS Want Goods Delivered
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Corresnotdent

Washington Jan. H.1he getting strategic from South America and of sending priority South America boil down the problem ships ships ship
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Evening star., 1942-06-07

third way is to mix the first two methods.
Each method, however has as many ex-
ceptions as the rules Of French grammer.
On June the Navy Department put
into effect what 1t termed stream
lined" procedure, adopted for security"
reasons and to expedite the transaction
Of official business by visitors. Here is
the way 1t works:
Under revised plans of the depart
nents provost marshal, Official visitors,
including members Of Congress, dirlo-
matte corps, members of the armed forces
and other governmental interdepart-
mental callers and employees on official
business, are to use the main entrance
of the Navy Department at Eighteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
Commercial visitors, except those having
business with the activities housed in the
new temporary buildings south and east
of the main Navy Building, are to use
the entrance at Seventeenth street and
the avenue.
A receptionist building has been estab-
Evening star., 1942-06-07

thorough knowledge OF code, map
maker, map-reader, flight recorder,
an intelligence interpreter and gunner.
Frequently he also is pilot.
The observer Is the man in the middle
in responsibilities as we'll as in the seat
ing arrangement of one of the types
of planes he habitually rides.
He is, finally, key member of the
ground air support commands which.
although comparatively new (the first
was activated by name last September),
are growing rapidly in strategic stature
as elements of the Army air forces.
Translated into lay language, ground
air support" means the coordination
of aviation with ground troops, in which
there are two main objectives-to spy
out the enemy's ground forces, and to
furnish combat aviation (dive bombers
and attack planes) for our own ground
forces.
Col Reeves cites the fluctuating Libyan
campaign, now in its fifth major phase
Of conflict, as clear-cut example of
how adequate observation or the lack
Of it can influence military engagements.
I'm my opinion the frequent shifting
Of the trend of battle in Libya," he says,
has been due largely to lack of suffl-
cient observation which would furnish
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Saving Britain's Orchid Refugees

was the famous Empress of Russia"
That's big, ripping, pure white bloom.
There have been only three such blooms
so far. The Bealls have a waiting list
for them, and price is no object with
people who can afford The Empress"
1t will be eight years before all the
English refugees bloom and the Bealls
know what they have.
But here's curious thing about the
jungle beauties: They take seven to
twelve years before they produce their
first flowers, but after that they go to
work. They bloom once year, and the
older the plant the more flowers, and the
bigger the flowers. Orchid plants live
200 to 400 years. They record their own
ages There's thick green leaf for each
year.
The Bealls dabbled a little in orchids
before the last war. But when the war
came they sold their orchids, at loss,
to make room for cucumbers and toma-
toes
This war they can hardly sell their
orchids-they now have 10000 plants
But the rose houses are making room
for tomatoes.
They've done some Of their own col
lecting.
Ferguson Beall, son, now in the Air
Force, made three trips to bring plants
Evening star., 1942-06-07

name, address. nature of business and
destination, which is granted once the
information desk has checked with the
Treasury employe the visitor wishes to
see. 1t is then up to the Treasury en-
ploye to make arrangements for getting
the visitor out.
Both the Government Printing Office
and the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing are also using woman escorts. In the
G. P. O. the women once used to take
people sightseeing in the building are
now used as guides for those whose
appointments have been verified at the
guards Office. There are no restrictions
for those who wish to purchase Govern
ment documents at As G street NV.
At the Engraving Bureau, the visitor on
business is stopped at the entrance by
guard, taken to receptionist, who makes
out a pass and turns him over to an
escort. A record is kept of the time of
arrival and leaving and of the destina-
ton.
The Engraving Bureau, incidentally, is
one of the two Government buildings
which one of the citys former leading
sightseeing concerns had to cut from
it's schedule. The other building is the
White House.
Perhaps the oldest situation of all has
arisen at the new Municipal Center
Building, Fourth street and Indiana
avenue NV, which the Metropolitan
Police Department shares with the War
Department Under Army regulations
requiring badges, it has become necessary
for detectives and plainclotheSmen to
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Keeping the Visitors in Check

zionist at the entrance must verify the
appointment with the bureau receptionist
and a record is made of all visits, includ-
ing the date and time of entry, name and
company represented, reason for visit,
name of person to be visited, his name
and bureau and time of departure. The
visitor then proceeds to the reception
room of the bureau, where the recep-
zionist contacts the official or Office
designated on the entry card. In the
last step, the visitor is escorted to the
desk of the Navy official.
Among the departments and agencies
where check is necessary with the per-
son granting an appointment, but where
usually no guide or usher is required,
are the State Department-except the
Division of Current Information, where
a pass is suficient-the Federal Reserve
building, Government Printing Office,
War Department Offices and the Civil
Service Commission. The War Depart
ment, however, does require an escort
under what it calls unusual circum-
stances"
Usherettes.
About the first of this year the
Treasury Department added theatrical
touch by inaugurating a system of using
usherettes in uniforms to conduct visitors
to and from their destination in the
main Treasury building. The visitor must
first be given an Identification card, with
Evening star., 1942-06-07
n Women Are All Out for Victory
Wide World Photo.

able, they are eager to perform all these
and many other jobs, including the one
at which they are said to excel, precision
inspection of parts, where keen eyes
and sensitive fingers can find and reject
the flaws that may cost life.
So abundant are the women seeking
work in war industries that President
Roosevelt recently rejected the proposal
for registration of womanpower until
those already registered with the United
States Employment Service are absorbed
into war industry.
But not for long will the number Of
women seeking war industries jobs ex-
ceed the number Of jobs. BY the end Of
l943 it Is estimated there will be 30
900 900 war workers, Of whom 1000 900
will be women.
As the demands advance, attention
is focused on the biggest reserve OF
United States womanpower, the % ,6OO.-
600 women who are either housewives
or at home.
Evening star., 1942-06-07

out of the tropics. On one trip to the
Costa Rican Mountains he brought out
the rare orchid of DEATH It's named
that because so many men have lost
their lives searching for it. Snakes do
the business.
He's most proud Of the "adontaglos-
sums" he found high in the Andes. You
seldom see them The blossoms are as
big as large pansies, and they grow
about 10 to long curving stem. Some
times the blossoms are used for expen-
sive corsages, but often the whole sprays
are sold-at SIS to $40 spray-to veal
thy orchid fanciers for display in their
homes.
The rarest adontaglossum Is pure
white. The Bealls have several of those.
They're kept in an air-conditioned
greenhouse at the 55-degree temperature
to which the plants were accustomed
in the Andes.
The senior Bean is q good orchid
story teller. He tells of an Englishman
who offered $4,000 just for dash OF
pollen from one bloom. He was refused.
The Bealls have q child from that plant.
Beall says when that blooms, his Gus
toners list will have to be patient.
Such flowers, he says. are like Cleo
patra's kisses-they can be given away,
but they can't be bought.
Evening star., 1942-06-07
Planes Spot Enemy Markers Here

fer to the 7th Balloon Company on duty
over the front lines.
On April 9, 1918. while on an important
aerial mission, his balloon was attacked
and, In the words of the DISC cita-
tion, she hung from his basket under
fire from enemy machine guns until the
balloon burst into flames, when he
jumped. He reascended as soon as an
other balloon could be inflated. ="
To the Germans dismay, he continued
to bob up like a cork For the citation
reveals that on April % he was shot
down twice and on each occasion went
up again as soon as another balloon was
ready.
The work being done by the men under
his command is typical of operations at
other key air force bases.
Right now Army observers are playing
an important part in the never-ending
hunt for Axis submarines.
On these missions, carried out by
three-seater, single -motored land-based
planes, the observer must navigate the
course, radio code messages back to the
base keep comprehensive record of
the fight and full details as to position.
type, estimated speed and direction of
each ship sighted, and not infrequently
must crawl part way out of the cockpit,
lean casually over wing while the pilot
dips the plane, and thus take whatever
photographs are considered necessary for
the record.
Scores of lives have been saved by
observer crews which have located sur
vivors from torpedoed ships and have
led rescue vessels to them. These same
patrols have prevented many submarine
attacks by their mere presence over the
water-or, in the words of the Army and
Navy flyers on offshore patrol, 'for every
one we see, 20 see us and dive"
But the observers duties under ordi-
nary circumstances will be concerned
chiefly with ground operations, much
like the maneuvers they went through
with ground troops recently during q
command post exercise
Here they participated in bombing at
tacks on the enemy, hedge-hopped low
over enemy troops and hovered high in
the air for observation; relayed messages
between their front-line forces and head
quarters; sketched maps and took pho
tographs of enemy installations; helped
direct artillery fire, and even did a
neat pickup" in which an observer
plane swoops down close to the ground
and, by means OF hook at the end
of a rope, picks up a container with a
message inside.
Besides maintaining steady flow of
intelligence about the enemy, without
which an army would be like a boxer
going into the ring blindfolded, the
ground air support commands will be
called upon to provide striking power
from the air, and are alse taking on the
latest in air and ground collaboration
glider troops.
Flexibility is the keynote Of the oper-
ations of the ground air support COM
mands-and the man in the middle oi
this new tactical unit Is the observer
the owlish eagle of the Army air forces