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Evening star., 1942-02-01
A NEW KIND OF WORLD
By the Richt Rep james E. Freeman D. d. ILL., d. C. L.,
Bishop OF Warrington

New occasions teach new duties"
wrote James Russell Lowell, and new
duties call for new thinking. LIES crises
either see us lifted to new heights Of
more effective service or they see us
drifting to lower levels Of Incompetence
and conscious insuficlency. It has been
well said that. Mans instincts are truest
and his impulses most right when in the
big crises Of life he is called to rise to
superhuman effort and service" 1t is
equally true that, If he fails to rise in big
crises he suffers an impairment that
halts his progress and issues in failure
and possible disaster.
America is In one Of the biggest crises
In its history, crisis that will put upon
her severer tests than she has ever
known. She has been shaken out Of her
conceits Of proud isolation, her sense of
selfish complacency, and made to realize
that she cannot, despite her incompar-
able genius and power, live apart from
the world. detached and alone. Slowly
but surely we are learning that selfish
independence is not possible in a world
where distances have been annihilated
and the ether has become the medium Of
close and intimate communication. Time
was, when continents were wide apart
and peoples could live to themselves in
proud isolation. This Is no longer pos
sible. The radio brings us daily the
voices Of men whose faces we may never
see and who speak of conditions wholly
foreign to our way of life. Hitherto we
have been satisfied to trade with people
in remote places of the earth; now there
are no remote places and we must deal
with them as common sharers of q COM
mon destiny. The daily press is enlarg-
ing our horizons and bringing to us the
story Of places and peoples who expert
ence with us the perils Of world con-
fiict. Covet as we may our so-called
American way of life. we are rapidly
coming to find ourselves in close rela-
tion with those whose language and
practices are wholly alien to our own.
Everywhere, new pressures are forcing
nations and peoples into q comradeship
they have never before experienced. Even
our vocabulary is suffering changes, and
the map Of the world itself Is so altered
that our aliases need to be remade and
a new Technology employed
So rapid are the changes in the world
OF today that, within a brief space of
time we have moved from insular ways
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Mr.. De VuIeru's Protest

Prime Minister Eamon De Valera
has protested against the presence of
United States troops in Northern
Ireland as an aggression against
Ireland and violation of Irish neu-
trality." Specifically, he has charged
that the arrival of American soldiers
In the neighborhood Of Belfast is
"tacit support of the division of
north from south and recognition Of
Britain's Irish policy" An official
statement issued at Dublin is re-
ported to have referred to the au-
thorities with whom Major General
Russell P. Hartle is cooperating as
"a Quisling government" and there
are hints that preparations are
being made Ito resist invasion from
any direction" not excluding that
now occupied by the first A. E. F.
sent to Europe since 1919.
But Mr.. De Valera is too compe-
tent a scholar to pretend to hold
the United States responsible for
what for centuries has been known
as "the Ulster question" In theory,
the whole island may be one nation,
yet in terms of practical fact it is
and long has been two separate and
distinct communities. American
troops certainly are not to blame for
the ancient division. The history OF
the cleavage dates back to a time
anterior to the settlement of the
Western Hemisphere. A lack of ma
tive Irish solidarity largely made
possible the triumph Of long list
of invaders, each of whom naturally
contributed to the variation.
Mr.. De Valera would not con-
tradict the record Of the ancient
quarrel. It was taken into account,
as he knows, in the negotiations
leading TO the treaty OF December
{. 1921. creating the Irish Free State.
Evening star., 1942-02-01

will deny Japan the raw materials that
she must obtain from her new conquests
or from other parts Of the world. Once
Japan's communications are cut to the
South, the Philippines and other con-
quered areas will fall away automatically.
There is every sign, then, that the
United States regards the Pacific as
vitally important theater Of this war
and that a powerful effort will be made
to keep Japan from having her own way.
Some high, officials have intimated that
the Japanese might be given q rela-
lively free hand at this time while at
tention is centered on Germany. How
ever, that does not seem to be the oncial
policy Of this Government.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Toxinq Hospitals

The action of the Real Estate Tax
Exemption Board In tentatively max
ing Washington's voluntary hospitals
liable to taxation, thereby reversing
a policy which has been in effect for
more than sixty years and upon
which the hospitals have relied for
successful operation, is a matter of
vital concern to the community.
These hospitals had been deemed
tax exempt because they are not
profit-making institutions in the
accepted meaning Of the term and
because they do large amount of
charity work which otherwise would
have to be furnished by the local
authorities. It might also be pointed
out that during the past sixty years
the hospitals, acting upon the hith-
erto unqueStioned assumption that
they were exempt from taxation,
have greatly expanded their facilities
for charitable work. To remove the
exemption now, as one hospital
official put it, means that well
either have to fold up or let the
Government take US over"
1t is perfectly evident, however,
that no one in the District, public
officials included, wants to drive the
hospitals to any such extremity, and
there can be no doubt that 1t would
be an act of sheer folly to do so. In
fact, the Tax Exemption Board, while
recommending the removal of hos
pitals from tax exempt lists, has con-
sistently cited the valuable service
rendered the community by these
institutions and has stated there
was no evidence that they were in
fluenced by any profit motive. The
basic difficulty is to be found In the
language Of the District tax law,
which provides exemption for
buildings belonging to institutions
Of purely public charity, conducted
without charge to inmates, profit or
incomes. -" Since the hospitals
necessarily charge patients who are
able to pay, the members Of the Tax
Exemption Board concluded that
literal Interpretation Of the statute
would remove the institutions from
the tax exempt list.
The question now is pending be-
fore the District Commissioners for
review, and it is expected that they
will send to Congress proposed
amendment to the tax law providing
specifically for the exemption Of the
voluntary hospitals. It is to be
hoped that there will be no delay in
taking this step, and that every ef-
fort will be made to expedite favor
able action in Congress.
There is every reason to believe
that Congress intended to exempt
the hospitals In the first place, and
it is unthinkable that a contrary
view should prevail now. The fact
remains, however, that in the present
state of affairs these public service
institutions are left in a doubtful
status which cannot fail to impair
their efficiency OF operation, and the
Commissioners should exert every
effort to resolve this doubt in favor
of the hospitals at the earliest
possible date.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Reversal in Mexico

The recent decision of the Mexican
Supreme Court recognizing the right
of foreign oil companies to indemnt-
fication for seizure Of subsol prop
critics acquired before 1917 may prove
to be a favorable development for
American petroleum firms, now
awaiting adjudication Of their COM
pensation for the appropriations OF
1888.
The ruling, which was given In an
obscure case before the Mexican high
court, reversed previous decisions Of
the court while Lazaro Cardenas was
President of Mexico, particularly
that Of December, 1899, which upheld
the appropriations and permitted
the government to take ten years In
compensating the dispossessed firms.
The American companies dissoci-
ated themselves from subsequent
valuation proceedings conducted by
Mexican agencies and appealed to
the State Department that they had
been denied justice in the Mexican
courts. That brought the matter
into the sphere of diplomatic nego-
tiation and last month a mixed
board-one American and one Mexi-
can expert-was appointed to deter
mine the amount due the American
firms. Their guide hitherto with
regard to Mexican law was the
Supreme Court decision Of 1899,
which, like previous decisions, did
not recognize rights in subsoil
property.
The Mexican constitution of 1917
nationalized all subsoil minerals and
Mexico has refused to make any
compensation for appropriation OF
properties then held. The present
decision recognizes that the 1917
constitution was not retroactive with
respect to subsoil rights.
Reversal of Supreme Court deci-
sions is by no means unique, and
there has been a change in the COM
position OF the Supreme Court since
President Cardenas' judges rendered
their decision, indicating possibility
that the present court, appointed by
the moderate Avila Camacho, re-
fleets his middle-o -the-road views.
To the extent that this decision
may provide basis-and there is no
certainty yet that it will-for more
favorable treatment Of the American
| oil companies, it will be contribu-
ton to the settlement Of Mexican
American issues which still cloud the
inter American sky-even after the
Rio de Janeiro conference made such
progress toward uniflcation of the
American republics for prosecution
of the war.
The Senate has just ratified a
treaty with Mexico settling some
1900 claims between the two coun-
tries, however, and it is to be hoped
that some way will be found to give
practical immediate effect to the
latest Mexican decision for settle
ment of the one remaining major
| issue between these two nations.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

11d1l century ago work was lust
being started on the construction of a
LANDMARK now familiar to WASHINGTON
the old Post Once Building on Penn
sylvania avenue at Eleventh
City Post street. Said The Star of
Office February /, 1892: "A hole is
rapidly being dug in the
square on which the new city post ONCE
is to be built Contractor Gleason having
begun work early this morning. 80 The
contractor has promised the Government
that he will have the hole ready for
building operations by April /, and as
an earnest of his intention he had a
hundred men and seventy horses at
work by 7 o'clock this morning. The
horses were gayly decked with new Amer
ican flags in honor of the character of
the work"
Apt these days is an article published
by The Star on January 80, 1892, en-.
titled: Exploits of Our
Novol Navy Which Are Pointed to
Exploits With Pride" 1t is not feasi-
in part, too many incidents being re-
corded. but among them were a number
relating to wars" Of which most Amer
leans never have heard. American in
terests were attacked at Naples, Italy;
Smyrna: Greytown, South Africa; Asun-
cion, Paraguay, and Quallah Battoo,
Sumatra. In all these cases the firm
stands taken by our naval forces restored
peace, actual bombardment being neces-
sary in Greytown and Quallah Battoo.
Quiet but effective work on the part
of the State Department and the Foreign
ONCE Of Italy slowly over
New came the break in diplo-
ltoIjon matte negotiations caused
Minister by the mob lynchings of
number of Italians in
New Orleans. Italy had recalled her
minister in protest. The Star Of Feb
ruary 2, 1892, reported: THE govern
ment of Italy is about to resume full
diplomatic relations with the United
States. Baron Fava, it will be remem-
bered, quit his post on an indefinite
leave of absence at the time Of the con-
troversy between the two governments
arising from the shooting of the Italians
in the New Orleans jail by a mob. 1t is
now reported that Baron Fava will be
appointed Minister to Denmark. re-
placing Signor Catalini, who will be
sent as Minister to Washington"
Fifty years ago a steamship wreck
was news, not q commonplace as 1t Is
in wartime. The Star OF
Wreck Of February l, 1892, IN a dis
SIS. Elder patch from London, told
of the wreck Of the
steamer Elder OF the Isle Of Wight:
"The steamer Elder Of the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship Co., Capt. Helm
ecke, which left New York for Bremen
on January %, went ashore during the
past night on the Atherfield Rocks, 8
miles west of ventor. Isle Of Wight. '''
It is evident that the Elder missed the
Needles Light while making for the
Solent or water between the Isle OF
Wight and the mainland Of England.
Particulars gathered during the day In
regard to the stranding Of the Elder
show that she ran on the rocks at
about 10 o'clock last night"
Evening star., 1942-02-01

all afnliated unions to demand Sub
stantial" wage increases in forth
coming collective bargaining nego-
tiations. But the test Of the price
control effort should not be long In
the making, for the undertaking is
now entering the experimental stage,
and the results shortly will speak for
themselves. The consumer and ulti-
mate sufferer can only hope for the
best.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
EMPLOYMENT Rises

A sharp rise in Federal employ
ment in the District Is disclosed by
the latest monthly personnel state
ment Of the Civil Service Commis-
sion, which shows that in November
there was an increase In excess OF
5000 over October, bringing the
total to 1928. Based on this rate
of growth, the figure now probably
is around 210,000-and moving stead
lily toward the 250,000 level which
administration spokesmen have pre-
dicted will be reached by the middle
Of the year.
Nearly 80 per cent Of the November
increase was divided between the
Navy Department and the ONCE Of
Emergency Management, but more
than a score of other executive
agencies also reflected the wartime
expansion. There also were some
reductions.
The November employment total Is
just about 10000 over the peak for
the first World War, and affords
basis for interesting comparisons.
When the Government machine,
which already had been expanding
for seven years, took on an acceler-
ated rate of growth in June, 1910,
coincident with the Inauguration of
the defense program, employment
here was nearly 131 900, which means
that the additions since then, in
round figures, have amounted to
$4,000. The War and Navy Depart
ments have accounted for nearly half
of this total, and the ONCE for
Emergency Management has taken
a sizable share, reporting $3.50 per-
sons on the rolls. About three
fourths of the departments and in
dependent agencies are responsible
for the remainder, no more than q
dozen units having failed to reflect
some increase in personnel.
This is a discouraging showing.
In some instances, of course, agencies
we're bound to have their work in
creased by the arms program, but 1t
is difficult to believe that there has
been any occasion for such a univer-
sal branching as these figures
disclose. In fact, they give rise to
the suspicion that the preparedness
effort often has served as an excuse
to add personnel.
But whether 1t has or has not,
there is no doubt that little effort has
been made to adjust the peace-time
establishment to the needs Of war,
and correspondingly to diminish the
endless stream of new workers to the
Capital. Certainly, decentralization
is not the answer, as has been amply
demonstrated by the difficulties en-
countered in attempting to locate
elsewhere the 10000 workers already
ordered out of the Capital.
It has been pointed out before,
but it will bear repeating, that one
thing urgently needed Is a deter
mined effort to bring order into the
developing chaos by making the
fullest use of the personnel already
on the job, and eliminating, as far
as is possible, the need for thousands
Of new employees. Such program
would call for suspension of some
Federal activities for the duration of
the emergency and curtailments of
others, but there is no reason it
should not be attempted.
Business as usual is out for pri-
vate industry, and it is about time
for the same principle to be invoked
by the Government.
Evening star., 1942-02-01

Of human conduct in another and better
direction. They say there is no Utopia
on the scientific horizon. But they do
say that society must undergo a reor-
ganization so as to save civilization, for
as things now stand what Is considered
civilization has become self destruction.
Scientists also say that one of the
first things to be undertaken In the re-
organization of society is to change the
pattern Of thinking. As an illustration,
they pose this query: Shall chosen lead
ers be the ones who make the most pas
sionate appeal to emotions, or those who
are able to demonstrate truth from facts
and logic? And they point out that wars
are often waged on the ability Of leader
to influence his people through an ap-
peal that has no logic. Since pure SCI
ence is truth, other forms of thinking
would be changed to reason and truth
patterns to Offset propaganda.
Then there would be q change Of atti-
tude toward conservation Of resources,
and everything would be scientifically
and economically used. Instead Of scat
tering oil, gas, coal and metals where
they cannot be recovered, the more
abundant life would be achieved by the
proper use Of these things, not by their
waste, and the possible Improvement Of
corning generations.
In whatever ways and on whatever
subjects there may be differences of
opinion, there Is evidently on the hori.
zon Of postwar days need for q com.
plete revamping Of national and inter.
national policies and the introduction
Of new ones. II science can swing in that
direction Is 1t has IN the direction of dc.
struction, new day will come to q war,
torn world.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
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Evening star., 1942-02-01

very different than it Is today.
The result OF this situation IS that
Japan Is In . desperate race with the
clock. She either must keep up her
blitzkrieg tempo or the United States,
given four or five nonths-or even less
will be ready to start to turn the tables.
Points that are being made by officials
with the very best understanding of the
problem in the Pacific are these:
The first essential of success is air
superiority to be gained in hurry.
Then there must be recognition that
China can supply the base for eventual
air and naval operations directly against
Japan. This means that every effort
must be made TO keep open the supply
route to Chinese armies. To maintain
that route requires that Singapore be
held at almost any cost, or, if lost, that
the British and Americans keep Japan
from penetrating into Burma.
The next prerequisite to success is
held to be an early start of air and
naval raiding against Japan's lines Of
communication. The point is made that
the United States must not hesitate to
take big risks in order to gain the offen-
sive, because this country can replace
its losses while Japan will have difficulty
making requirements in a long war.
Main bases for these operations will
be Australia, India and China, with
Siberia to follow If Russia enters the war.
The Dutch Indies and Burma are sec
ondary bases.
In the end, Japan will be defeated by
concentrated and continued air attack
from Chinese and Siberian bases, by
naval strength and BY blockade which
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
GestapO Agent in
Charge in Denmark

LONDON, Oct. 14.-CUP0-Gen.
Hermann Won Hanneken, close as
sociate of Gestapo chief Heinrich
Himmler, assumed his duties as
German commander-in -in-chief in
Denmark toGay.
Indicative of the tension between
Denmark and Germany was the
fact that Won Hanneken has fail
ed to visit King Christian since
his arrival as successor to Gen.
Luedke, who was recalled from
his p ost for employment else
where"
Won Hanneken review the Dan
ish Nazi free corps" which left
for the Russian front after a
months furlough in Copenhagen.
Gen Kantstein, brigade leader of
the notorious troops, stood beside
Won Hanneken at the review. He
told members of the free corps that
the great and heavy sacrifices
which have been made and which
still lie ahead" will not have been
in vain.
Hanneken. 54. served as under
secretary to Reichsmarshal Herman
Goering during execution of the
economic year-1plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
DEATH : FUNERAL
NOTICES

Teodulo, 80, died in CAL
eXico Oct IA, 1912. Resident of
CaleXico for % years. Beloved
father of 8 children: Adalberta L.
Lopez Van Castro, Felicitas
Lopez Suarez, Marcedes Lo-
PEE Suarez, Jesus Lopez Suarez,
Teodulo Lopez Suarez, Micaela
Lopez Suarez, Margarita L. Blan-
co, and Adela Lopez Suarez.
Friends are respectfully invited
to attend services at the Catholic
church in CaleXico at 8 am.
Thursday. Burial will be at Mt.
View cemetery, with A. r. HENS,
CaleXico and Ell Centro Mortician,
in charge. 1918
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
l2-WANTED TO RENT
i3-ROOMS FOR RENT
l6-PASTURAGE

80 ACRES CORN STALK pasture
Good feed. Phi. 1894. 116 No. 9th
St., Ell Centro. 9-30TF
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
l8-Country Property for Sale

FARM FOR SALE by owner. 100
acres good land. Small down pay
ment, bal. cheaper than rent. Mr.
Thompson, Auto Club, 825 Main
Phone 287. lO-lF
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
UNION OF CHURCHES
WINS APPROVAL,

NAPERVILLE, Ill, Oct. IA
(U.PD-A union of the Church Of
the United Brethren in Christ and
the Evangelical church today bore
the endorsement Of the general con-
ference of the Evangelical church.
The conference voted 226 to six
yesterday to approve a united or
ganization of some 100000 mem
bers with property valued at $780,
00c.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
Two Cadets Die
In Training Crash

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 14.-(U.P0-
Officials of the Mariana basic train
ing field today were investigating
the crash of a training plane in
which two cadets were killed late
yesterday.
Dead were Cadets Harry H.
Haldeman. Jr., Long Beach. Calf,
and Paul A. Doin, New Bedford,
Mass.
Col. T. j. Meyer, commanding Of
ficer at the field, said the men
were on a routine mission when
their plane crashed about 10 miles
northwest of the field.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
Two Ships Sunk in
So. America Seas

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-UP0
A medium sized Panamanian mer-
chant vessel and a small us. mer-
chant vessel were torpedoed and
sunk by enemy submarines off the
Atlantic coast of South America,
the Navy Department announced
today.
Thirty-three casualties out of a
crew of II were sustained in the
sinking of the Panamanian vessel.
The attack on the us. ship result
ed in nine casualties out of a crew
of SO. The Panamanian vessel was
attacked late in August, the other
late in September.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
SAILORS BEST
JITTERUGS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-U.P)
Sailors are out -jitterbugging the
soldiers in the capital. Eight of
the 13 semi-finalists in a USO jit-
terbug contest are sailors. They'll
fight" it out for the champion
ship, October "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-14
HIMMLER IN ROME

NEW YORK. Oct. IA. up
The British radio said today that
Heinrich Himmler, chief of the
German Gestapo is in Rome and
has had long meeting there with
Benito MuSSolini
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-25

Detroiter Peg Green. who had
Ensign Johnny Harbourne Of
Pensacola, Fla, up for the
eVentful weekend.
The Beta Kappa boys swing
out with their term party last
night In a purple and gold set
ting fraternity colorS) accord
ING 10 The plans Of their social
chairman. Henry StafSeth Of
East Lansing Henrys date
was jean Delyle. also from
Lansing
Edith TagGart. Sturgis junior.
went with Don Randolph Of
Grand Rapids. and Norman
Perrin Detroit freshman. squirrel
Kay McGlll of Detroit. The
Beard brothers. senior Tom and
sophomore Pat. escorted LOIS
Rolchard Of Detroit and Mar
lory Rice Of Saginaw, and Fritz
Parker Connecticut junior. in
vited Harriet Hanson 10 come
up from Crosse Polnte.