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Evening star., 1942-10-10
CriticiZes Alleged Dictator"
Who Does Not Like Recorded NJ

Criticizes Alleged Dictator"
Who Does Not Like Recorded Music"
To the Editor of The Star:
Today American men, women and chill
dren are making every possible sacrifice,
fighting life-and-death struggle to win
war against dictators. In the mean
time James c. Petrillo, a labor dictator,
is loose among us, roaming abroad,
boasting life of luxury.
Labor wanders far from its original
purpose when its leaders become political
dictators and racketeers, and our Gov
ernment wanders equally far from de-
mocracy and the Constitution when it
permits the forced subjugation of Amer
leans. Could it be possible that our
Government has become so politically
involved with labor leaders that 1t is
powerless to combat their tyranny? If so,
we need a new Government.
Mr.. Petrillo does not like recorded
music, so the American people must do
without it. The result: He has forced
recording companies out of business, is
holding up the music publishers, pre-
venting song writer's and composers from
marketing their songs and Gripping radio
service. Eventually radio announcers and
advertisers will be forced of the air.
We hardly can be expected to get high
blood pressure over fighting foreign die
tators while we are subjected to the same
menace here at home.
MRS. MARGARET STUART KELLEY.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
THfRTY-F1FTH STREET.

Lear Sir.
please let your readers know, from
time to time, what has become OF Lilly
Belle, the pet robin. She has become
real character in this household, and
I imagine in many Others Most or at
least, many persons have rescued baby
birds which have fallen out OF the nest,
but not many OF us have had the birds
stick around. Few OF us would know
them If they did.
1T is interesting to hear OF one such
bird which is grateful enough to come
back, after spending several weeks in
the forests, and which hangs around the
old homestead.
THE open weather this fall no doubt
has been responsible for the robin re-
manning, but from all have ever been
able to find out about robins, I imagine
Lilly Belle will take off for Florida soon.
1--WE would like to know more OF her
personal history since you first wrote
about her in August how she was lost
and found, and flew away, and came
back. In time when the lives OF men
are regarded as the grains Of the sand,
thousands falling with none to do them
reverence, it seems marvellous to me that
the life of one small bird has become a
matter of moment to some of us. I feel
that this holds out hope for the human
race, because If bird can be regarded
and remembered then in time perhaps
We can come back to a time when a
human life is similarly sacred
Sincerely yours, P. j. o."
Lilly Belle thanks the writer of this
kindly letter.
We thought she had left for South
Carolina-not Florida-on October g.
On that morning We heard her char
acteristic chatter In the distance-toward
the South.
This was the first morning for two
weeks that she had not been in the
maple tree at the rear OF the house,
waiting for her morning hand-out OF
raisins.
1t has been curious, Lilly Bellies fond
ness for raisins since her return.
Previously as a young thing, she had
not liked them. Scraped beef, liver, yolk
of egg, bread and milk, and small angle
worms had been her staples.
Raisins she spurned.
Occasionally she would swallow one,
then blink in surprise, shaking her head
in definite negation.
But on her return from her two weeks
trial flight in the woods lover near West
ern avenue) she found raisins just to her
liking.
+ X
We found them about the only thing
she would eat.
But not from the hand.
Lilly Belle had outgrown that
No more would she come down and
permit herself to be picked up.
Evening star., 1942-10-10

and this has facilitated the dissemi-
nation Of reports on Allied ship
movements and the subsequent sink
Ing without warning of a number OF
United Nations ships.
AS Mr.. Welles must have antici-
pated, this accusation has been pro-
ductive of profound repercussions in
both Argentina and Chile. Whether
it leads to more serious consequences
remains to be seen, but there will be
no disposition among the people of
this country to dissent from what
Mr.. Welles has said. The Axis threat
is aimed at all of the countries in
this hemisphere. and it is going to
be increasingly difficult for any ma
ton to maintain literally neutral
status. Certainly, as the war pro-
crosses, there will be a mounting
tendency to count those who do not
stand with us as being against us.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Any Rags Today?
The Office of Price Administ,

The Office of Price Administration
Is one Government agency which is
courageous enough to hew to the
line, letting the chips fall where
they may. In a moment Of unbe-
lievable heroism it actually has laid
down the law to housewives, with an
injunction to make their clothes last
longer and numerous tips on how
this may be accomplished.
Husbands, of course, have had the
same idea all along, and have even
voiced it, oh so feebly, along about
the first of the month. They have
been promptly annihilated with the
reply: do you want me to go around
in rags?" There is really no answer.
If they do not want their wives to
60 around in rags, the wives get the
decision by heads-I-win; on the
other hand, If they like rags, they
are afraid to put themselves on rec
ord by admitting such peculiar tastes,
and it Is an automatic case Of tails
they-lose. But now all they have to
do is to ask their wives to follow the
directions of the OPA, and steer a
middle course between new clothes
and rags. They can even pile it on
thicker. and claim that each new
article Of clothing steals fabric from
our armed forces, and hinders the
wal.
Yes, they can do this, but heroes
are born, not made. Furthermore
unlike the late p. I. Barnum's 3 clients,
there Is not one born every minute.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Parking at Union Station.

The approved method of taking
departing friends to Union Station in
an automobile has been comparable
to the problem involved in landing
paratroopers from a transport plane.
Piloted successfully through the de-
fensive network of impatient traffic
officers to the platform in front of
the station, the passengers must bail
out on signal and land as best they
can. There is no stopping the car
for more than the briefest of pauses.
And parking the car has been too
fantastic a proposition even to con-
slider. Meeting an incoming train
with an automobile has required long
and carefully drawn plans in advance.
There were no parking places be-
cause the available space around the
Evening star., 1942-10-10
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Address

O. Who is the Lion Of Judah7-B.
c. E.
A. Lion of Judah is title assumed
by the rulers Of Ethiopia The phrase
Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root Of
David, is found in Revelation. VS. This
has been interpreted as signifying the
glorifled Saviour. The lion is said to have
been the emblem of the tribe Of Judah.
O. What type of article did President
Roosevelt's daughter patent?-A. L. N.
A. Mrs. Boettiger (Anna RoosevelD
has patent on doll.
O. How do wines get their colors?-J.
N. T.
A. Wines depend for their color upon
they were made.
@. What scientist made an expert
ment to determine whether or not the
ancients were right in believing that hot
water froze more quickly than cold?-
H. T.
A. Roger Bacon. He found, on Bit
ter cold day, that the cold water froze
first
O. What is the origin Of the express
sion, when you call me that, smile" p
D. E.
A. 1t is from The Virginian,' by
Owen Wister.
@. What is sheWbred?-N. o. NJ
Mi i.
lish Bible for the IL loaves, which, ac-
cording to the Pentateuchal codes, was
placed on a table of acacia wood in the
holy place. They were made OF fine flour,
unleavened, and sprinkled with frank
incense. They were arranged in two
rows of six loaves each, and the bread
was changed every Sabbath.
Q. What is the source of the plot Of
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"?-V. J..
A. North's translation of Plutarch's
Lives" was Shakespeares textbook of
ancient history and furnished the raw
material for the drama.
@. What is the longest time that
fresh eggs may be stored in an electric
refrigerator r. C.
A. The Bureau of Dairy Products does
not advise keeping eggs in the electric
refrigerator more than two weeks.
@. Where is the famous memorial
under water?-D. F.
A. What is probably the only me-
mortal ever placed below the surface Of
the water marks the spot where Capt.
James Cook was slain by the natives in
Hawaii. 1t is a bronze tablet In Keala-
kekua Bay, which bears the inscription:
Near this spot Capt. James Cook was
killed February IA. 1779. Tablet dedi-
Gated August 18, 1923, by Cook sesqui-
centennial Commission"
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Fortnight Language

In his address to the National For
eign Trade Convention at Boston,
Acting Secretary of State Sumner
Welles made no effort to mask his
thoughts behind the niceties of diplo-
matte phraseology. Consequently,
there is much in his talk that is OF
interest to the American people.
Significantly, Mr.. Welles placed
extreme emphasis on the Importance
of maximum aid to Russia, and,
asserting his belief in the ultimate
victory of the United Nations, said
: he was not "one Of those few who
believe that we are losing the war"
Mr.. Welles also dealt with the shape
of the postwar world, and warned
his listeners that if the United States
expects to sell it's goods abroad after
the war it must be prepared to accept
the goods and services Of other ma
tions in payment.
For most of the people Of this
country, however. the high point OF
the Acting Secretary's speech was his
outspoken comment with respect to
Argentina and Chile. Without men
tioning these states by name. Mr..
sWelles nevertheless made the blunt
charge that the United States and
other American republics associated
with it In the war effort were being
stabbed in the back" by Axis agents
operating in Chile and Argentina.
These two nations, he said, "are still
permitting" Axis agents to utilize
their territory as an operating base,
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Pleads Case Of Teachers
Who "Are Put Upon"
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Why are teachers always the butt? If
there is any extra or special service,
"let the teachers do it'-of course. with
out extra pay. The Department of Edu-
cation credits the teachers of the United
States with over a million hours of extra
free service in "rationing" alone since
last March. This is equivalent to one
full week per teacher.
If any one must be inconvenienced, it
Is the teachers who are put upon.
When paydays are staggered, the
teachers, who are only paid once a
month, are set for the second of the
month. Because they are only paid
once a month teachers must bank their
money. Yet they are paid when no
banks are open. They may not leave
their buildings at lunchtime to 60 to
bank and owing to the fact that prac-
tically all schools are purposely placed
away from business districts it would
not be feasible
And now comes the second of the
month and there is no pay for teachers.
the bulk of whom have had no pay since
June 30.
High-paid officers and supervisors are
paid twice month but the small
salaried, underpaid teacher only once
and cannot get that at a decent time.
Even the best of budgeting couldn't be
expected to have taken into account the
rising cost of necessities this summer.
But taxes must be paid in September
or there is a penalty. At least half, if
not more, of the teachers own homes and
while the District Building withholds
their money. it exacts penalty if tax
money is not paid.
Since the first of September the
auditors Office has had the names of
most of the new teachers as well as the
old ones. If for some reason they could
not get their new checks written, why
not pay the old teachers? This pro-
cedure has been followed several times
In the past
We teachers want, and need, the
restoration Of our old payday-the last
teaching day Of the month. M. G. q.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Recitotive for the Apple
Harvest

No1D apple orchard boughs bend lo,o
Like Christmas trees Where GEN.
erous hand
Hangs topaz light and rubu olop
For children oper all the land.
The backdrop skies are bluest blue
When apple orchard bouohs bend
loW;:
One accent note OF black olides
through;
A plane IN n1tniature-the crow.
Times cycle pauses in ttsJfow
To grant brief respite from ntes
stress
While apple orchard boughs bend
lou
And men are moued to thankful
This is ,Dise autunn's gift supreme.
She ertts. satisfied to kno,D
Through ,Dinter days earth holds the
dream
OF apple orchard bonghs bent lo,p.
B. Y. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Expresses Appreciation for News
About Colored Citizens.

ADOuI OOlOFcu SltlZenS.
To the Editor of The Star:
May I express my reaction to the in
. creased space given to news relating to
colored citizens OF the Metropolitan
Area?
A few days ago wrote to you express
ing the hope that the nearly 100000 COL
ored people who reside in the city and it's
immediate environs would be able to find
in the daily papers news items of in
terest pertaining to Negroes in the armed
forces, industry and civic life.
1t has been gratifying to note the in
teresting pictures of prominent colored
people who are doing things for the good
of democracy.
I once said that I regretted the alb
sence of news concerning the colored
soldiers from Washington who are in
armed forces. l think we should like to
know of the promotions, transfers and
items of interest concerning the soldiers
who have lived here.
have noted that the daily press often
seems to convey the idea that the school
system, in which I work, only exists in
matters of progress for the children of
one group. Although we operate as a
separate unit, often the impression is
given that our schools in many fields act
under the supervision or direction of
white directors, which is not so.
Again let me say we appreciate the
policy of The Star that gives us pictures
and news that are inspiring to the large
number of colored people who look to
The Star for news.
E. B. HENDERSON.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
COmmends Book
On War Effort.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The writer again is indebted to the
Washington Public Library for allowing
him to come in touch with handsome
new crimson tome entitled America
Organizes to Win the War;" a handbook
on the American war effort. The book
with its great vitality seems like an
America In the flesh. It is 2O-authored,
its 20 chapters being from the hands Of
the best authorities including Roosevelt,
Churchill, Vice President Wallace, Sec
retary Wickard and perhaps lesser
known, but especially equipped authori-
ties on all phases of the American body
polite. Among the subjects treated are:
Freedom versus Compulsion, the Track
of the War, the Psychology Morale War,
War Afioat, War Afoot, War Awing,
Affiliations Crusade, Agriculture Fights,
Machinery's Hosts, Labor Wars, Moneys
Bit, Censorship's Power, Psychology's
(wits) Warfare, Man in : the Street
Morale, Science Takes a Hand, Nations
Health, Youth Legioned, etc.
". DANA.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Social Security Freeze

5' In his letter opposing Senator
Vandenbergs proposal to freeze old
age insurance taxes at the prevailing
level for at least another year-a
proposal which has been adopted
by the Senate-President Roosevelt
-makes the assertion that such action
would "cause a real and justifiable
fear that adequate funds will not
be accumulated to meet the heavy
needs of the future and that the
claims for benefits accruing under
the present law may be jeopardized ;"
This statement is in marked contrast
to the information given the Senate
by Senator Vandenberg.
When he advanced his freezing
plan, the Senator pointed out that
the social security reserve fund now
includes an amount six times greater
than the anticipated benefits for the
next five years. If this is an accurate
statement, it well may be wondered
what there is to justify the fears cited
Ny AFl1 leUOoCVClU III lis ltCJeI.
In this connection, it is necessary
to keep in mind the fact that the
social security reserves exist in the
form of Government securities pur-
chased with the tax receipts. To
increase the combined tax now from
2 to 4 per cent would merely in
crease the total Of Government
bonds payable to the social security
account. Therefore, in the last
analysis, 1t is the Governments
credit which gives assurance that
future claims will be paid, and there
would seem to be little reason from
a security standpoint to double the
Governments obligation if the
bookkeeping reserve already is more
than adequate
There is a suggestion in the Pres
ldent'S letter that the tax rate should
be doubled to provide anti-infation-
airy sources for financing the war. It
is true that the higher tax rate would
have this effect, but if the social Sc
curlty levy is to be treated pri-
marlly as a revenue-raising device
the basic intent of the law will be
altered. II there is any danger to
the insurance system, it lies more in
this direction than in the proposed
freezing of the tax rate.
If it be desirable to finance a
greater portion of the wars cost
through direct taxation, that OBJ
jective can be attained without
:perverting the social security tax. A
sales tax would serve the same pur-
pose. The administration, of course,
has opposed the sales tax on the
ground that it ignores the principle
of taxing in accordance with ability
to pay. But this also is true of the
social security tax, yet the adminis-
. tration, curiously enough, seems in
Q different to this presumed objection
q in the case of its own proposals.
= Assuming that the people can pay
higher taxes at this time, it would
seem desirable that these increased
reveaues should go directly toward
defraying the cost of the war. This,
certainly, is an effective way to pro-
tect the Governments credit, and
that is more than can be said of a
proposal to raise war revenues in the
@guiSe of broadened social reform,
N the net effect of which is to transfer
the Government indebtedness from
one hnnk To annthe
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Munpower Problem.

Elmer Davis plea for some clari-
flcation of the Nations war man.
power problem is we'll made. He
doubtless would find full support for
such Qualification from within the
Manpower Commission itself. The
commission is fully aware of all the
contradictions, perplexities and the
confusion which afflict the man.
power problem today But it lacks
the power to deal with them. When
tactful persuasion and suggestion are
ineffective, the commission is at the
end of its rope. 1t lacks real au-
thority, so that the manpower prob
lem, like its predecessor, the rubber
problem, becomes a headless mon
Ster.
The Army and the Navy are COM
petitively engaged in recruiting
skilled workers from vital war indus
tries. There exists no clear-cut oc-
cupational deferment policy, and
each local draft board more or less
determines its own. Employers, in
many cases, believing there was an
occupational deferment policy, failed
to train substitute workers for those
called into the service. Other en-
ployers, alarmed over losses to the
service, have accumulated unneces-
sarily large reserves. Workers have
changed jobs, in order to seek what
they thought would be deferment,
while others have enlisted, in re-
sponse to persuasive arguments that
if they failed to enlist they would be
drafted. Gold mines have been
closed, finally, after pleas from the
Manpower Commission that the
miners were needed in mining more
useful metals. But it is a question
whether the tardy closing will find
any miners left. Many gold miners
already have ceased mining and gone
into war Industries where the paw
dirt is far richer and more plentiful,
There is no failure to recognize
the existence of these and many
other attributes of our uncontrolled
manpoWer problem. There has been
no lack of effort by Mr.. McNutt and
his associates in getting at the root
OF what causes the difficulty. The
commission knows that too many
men are leaving the farms, that too
many men are leaving essential war
industries. But until there is au-
thority by law to back up the COM
missions own directives, which have
no real authority now, there can be
no definite or continued policy in
arriving at a solution of the man.
power problem.
Mr. McNutt's conception Of the
purpose of the law now needed is
interesting and reassuring. In his re-
cent testimony before the House Ap-
preparations Committee he said that
the need was not so much for COM
pulslon" on the workers, the bugbear
in most discussions of proposed
legislation, but more for their pro-
lection against the very forms of
compulsion which are driving them
out of their essential industry jobs
today. A directive of the commission
with law behind it could establish
occupational preferments and make
them stick. And law would estab-
lish some authoritative referee as
between relative needs; whether
welders will do more for their coun-
try in shipyard than aboard a
warship.
Good spadework in preparation for
the administration of such law has
been done by the Manpower Com
mission. But the law itself cannot
be delayed too long.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hdsktn.

A reader can get the anstper to any
question OF fact by 1rriting The Eve-
ning Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hdskfn, director, Washington,
C. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
@. To what extent has the number
Of births in the United States increased7
r. j. D.
A. The number Of births in 1941 was
2,72s0O0, an increase Of more than 4oo,-
600 over the annual average Of the pre-
ceding decade. This means that a baby
was born every II u minutes.
Q. When were physical examinations
first required for Government employees?
R. j. F.
A. President Warren G. Harding
initiated such examinations for en-
ployes in the civil service. 1t was one
of his last executive acts before start
ing the trip to Alaska and California,
from which he never returned.
@. What were the full names OF the
brothers Grimm?-L. S. H.
A. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Will
helm Karl Grimm Their fairy tales
were written for recreation during leis-
ure time. What they considered their
greatest work was a dictionary Of the
German language, which was never f1n-
ished.
@. Who commanded the first United
States air unit to engage in fighting on
the western front in the first World
War?-L. j. K.
A. Major B. M. Atkinson organized
the 1st Pursuit Group at Villeneuve-
les-Vertus, France, and commanded this
group, which was the first American air
unit TO see active duty at the front.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Believes Stalin's Complaint
Is Justified by Allied Neglect.
To the Editor OF The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
I think Wendell Willkie had something
when he advanced the opinion that some
OF our military leaders probably would
need some prodding to bring about the
immediate opening Of second front In
Europe.
1t seems to me that Stain had every
justification for his recent statement
that we-the United States as well as
Great Britain-have not lived up to our
commitments, have not carried out the
Rooeevelt-M -Molotov agreement Of last
Evening star., 1942-10-10

A drive is on in Baltimore for old
keys to add to the metal salvage. If
enough are obtained, they may be
able to open up a second front.
Evening star., 1942-10-10

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