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Evening star., 1942-09-25
Treasury Plans
To Withdrew
723 Millions
By the Associated Press.

6S tnS ASSOCIATED P1eSt.
The Treasury asked Federal Re-
serve banks today to notify deposi-
tories in their districts that 1t would
withdraw a total of 1923 .O00, 900 for
deposit to the credit OF the United
States Treasurer on September 20.
The amounts to be called from the
various Federal Reserve districts
are: Boston, $500. 900; New York,
s6l 900, 900; Philadelphia, $4,000 900;
Cleveland. So, ,200, 900; Richmond, 81
500, 900; Atlanta, So, 500 900; Chicago.
$3l 100000: st. Louis. $500 COO:
Minneapolis, 81 ,400. 900; Kansas
City, $500 900; Dallas. $4,000, 900,
and San Francisco, $4,000, 900.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Foreign EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, Sept rs (P.-Late for.
eisn EXCHANGE rates follow Great Britain
in dollars, others in cents):
Canada-Omcial Canadian Control Board
rates for United States dollars: Buying, Ia
per per- cent premium selling: per cent pre-
dollars in New York Of. buying, 9.gl pei
cent: selling. q. 90 per cent
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
United States cents. - ''''o y
Europe-Great Britain. ofncial Bank.
ers' Foreign Exchange Committee rates.
cables, 4. .O4.
Latin n.Ameriea-Argentina, ofncial 20.
Tree, 255e, down l.50 Gent; Brasil Of.
Rates In spot cables unless otherwise
indicated. Nomtnals
Evening star., 1942-09-25
SCRAP SLACkERS CAN
LOSE THIS WAR!

Its squarely up to you. The mills need
scrap to make the steel to go across the
sea as ships, and tanks, and guns. They
need it now-and in the months to come.
For all new steel must be 500 scrap
and the mills are running out They haven't
enough for even 80 days more production
then they'll be shutting down.
Unless you get to work. Unless you 60
into your basement and your attic and rout
out the junk that's there. Talk about it to
your friends and neighbors-you men who
know what war is like. Tell them Don't
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Sears Offering
|Oversubscribed
On EXCHANGE
y the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-A special
Offering of 22,000 shares of Sears,
Roebuck 81 Co capital stock At SAW
was quickly oversubscribed on the
floor Of the New York Stock Ex-7
change today, resulting In, allot-
ments.
The offering was, made by Gold
man. Sachs 81 Co. and allowed q
commission Of IS cents q share,
Evening star., 1942-09-25
New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25-Growing
confusion ever the fate of the price
control legislation brought lull in
cotton trading today. Light liqm-
dating and hedging orders were on
set by trade price fixing.
Earlier in the session cotton sold
OF so cents bale on nervous liqui-
dation and hedge selling which
found only scale down support.
After the pressure abated values
gradually worked upward.
There was heavy liquidation in
October ard switching into later
months, rejecting issuance Of 81
transferable notices which were
stopped slowly.
Late afternoon values were 30
cents bale lower to cents higher:
October, 1899; December, 1881, and
March, 1882. .,
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Dividend Is Declared

BALTIMORE, Sept. IS R).-Di-
rectors of the Mercantile Trust Co.
declared the usual quarterly divi-
dend of per cent, or $3.50 a share,
payable September 30 to stockhold-
ers Of record that date. 1t is the
162d consecutive dividend paid by
the company.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Baltimore Stocks
Odd-Lot Dealings
Special Dispatch to The Star.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. IS IP.-The S.
curities Commission reported today these
Transactions by customers with odd-lot
Stock Exchange for September "a: 1881
purchases involving 1922 shares; 2,als
sales involving SO,627 shares, including
8 short sales involving 625s shares.
They asked for 4 scrap-now let
EN- have 1t. Collect yours now.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Washington Exchange
SALES.

SALES. -
Potomac Electric Power 6H p6d.-S
at 1151s. s& ---
National Bank Of Washinston--l0
at 80.
Washington Gas $3.50 pfd.-S At 9oA 1.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-The Associated
| 35 commodities today declined to 1O0.55.
Previous Day. 10000; week sEo 1884;
| 1942. 1871. 1910 1889
Hish -1ooooao essdd3 sss5 as.l4
1925 averase equals 1909
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Chicago Cash Market

Chicago Cash MARKET.
=, Wheat; No. red, veevily. l.3pA Corn.
No ! yellow; S4h:s5h; No: Q, s4A-s6a:
white. 1.iO; No. 8. 1. .Oe; No. 4, 1.O7h.
Oats: No, 3 mixed 81: No. 3 white. 81: No.
& 4sh-49: No: !! special red heavy. b3h;
Sal 90, nominal; hard. 67-75 nominal;
feec, $3.50. nominal. Field seed, per hun
d{edveient nominal timothy. 4.75-t 90;
Evening star., 1942-09-25

prime summer yellow and prime crude un-
quoted. October. 13 OBJ; December, jan
uary and March. 132Ob.
Spot cotton closed steady, rs cents a
bale lower. Sales, 6.62s. Low middiins
15.2 "a; middling, 1s.4s; GOOD middling
Is %, ReceiptS, b,4l9. Stock. 100000.
b Bid. n Nominal.
Evening star., 1942-09-25

Buy bonds and stamps for the boys
In the camps.
Evening star., 1942-09-25

SEOtI
n-Nominal
Cottenseed Oil
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
4 higher. Sales 81 contracts. December,
1876.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
New Orleans Prices.

New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS Sept rs R.-cot-
ton futures were hesitant here today with
hedge selling o6settinc trade buying The
market closed steady 5 to IS cents 4 bale
Evening star., 1942-09-25
MIeCNLANH0Ue.

Ex dividend. Plus extras q Pad so
far this year. 2ee extra. h $500 extra
k zoe extra. m 81 SO extra, D Paid in
1871. slo.oo extra. - -
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Dividends Announced

NEW, YORK, Sept. rs R.-Divtdends
declared:
Evening star., 1942-09-25
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Ter RI d W cp 1st 4As 1s4s 1os
Evening star., 1942-03-29

East and West Coasts. however, re-
NAMED a divided responsibility, with
the Army and Navy ostensibly CO.
operating but actually pursuing their
own methods Of spotting and attack
ing submarines. Earlier this week
Governor Broughton of North Caro-
lima charged that there has been q
Shocking lack Of coordination be-
tween the Army, the Navy. the Coast
Guard and the air forces" in guard
Ing the Carolina coast.
The Navy now assumes supreme
command Of all anti-submarine
operations along both seaboards. All
military and naval stats will be
brought together in the same Offices
under the new setup. The Navy
points out that this Joint system OF
control will eliminate "any possible
uncertainty regarding jurisdictional
limits"
With the submarine menace grow
ing to alarming proportions as q
result OF the concentration Of Nazi
undersea craft in American waters.
it is high time that all possibility Of
jurisdictional misunderstanding be-
tween our patrol forces be elirni-
mated. An intensified, more effective
counteroffensive against lurking u
boats should result from the unified
command.
Evening star., 1942-03-29
Anti-Submurine Command

The public, gravely concerned over
the steadily increasing toll of ships
sunk off our shores by German
U-boats, will derive a measure OF
reinsurance from the announce
ment that the Army and Navy have
worked out a plan of co-ordinated
nti-submarine operations along the
Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. At the
same time, however, the announce
ment will come as something of a
surprise to those who had assumed
that the lessons of Pearl Harbor had
resulted long ago in closely CO.
ordinated offshore patrol by our
military and naval forces.
After the Roberts Commission had
disclosed that Army and Navy au-
thorities In Hawaii had failed to
coordinate their activities or to
check on what each other was doing,
orders were issued unifying COM
mands at Honolulu, at Panama and
In the Eastern Caribbean area. Ma
val officers were placed in charge in
Hawaii and the Caribbean while an
Army commander took over at the
Panama Canal. The vital anti-sub-
marine patrol activities along our
Evening star., 1942-03-29
The Busic Unity

When individuals despair, as they
sometimes do, of the possible devel-
opment of durable peace in the world,
1t is good for them to remember
that the foundations of international
cooperation were laid long since and
are proving measurably effective
even now in the midst Of universal
war.
A distinguished scholar recently
called attention to the fact that:
"An American soldier wounded on a
battlefield In the Far East owes his
life to the japanese scientist, Kita-
sato, who Isolated the bacillus Of
tetanus. A Russian soldier saved by
blood TRANSMISSION Is indebted to
Landsteiner, an Austrian. A German
soldier is shielded from typhoid fever
with the help of Russian, Metch-
nikoff. A Dutch marine in the East
Indies is protected from malaria be-
cause of the experiments of an Ital-
ian, Grassi; while British aviator
in North Africa escapes death from
surgical infection because a French
man, PaSteur, and a German, Koch,
elaborated new technique"
But Of course it is not merely in
the field Of medicine that "the cul-
tural melting pot" Is a constructive
reality. The same principle applies
throughout the whole gamut OF the
sciences and the arts. It is manifest
in architecture, painting, sculpture,
music, dancing, literature, the drama,
engineering, mathematics, chemistry,
astronomy, social and political
economy, philosophy and religion.
The forces which draw the human
race together in a single bond Of
fellowship have not been destroyed.
On the contrary, they flourish as
never before since history first was
written. The fundamental difficulty
is that Of the relatively minor factor
OF purpose. ITO what end?" is the
cry which the whole all-inclusive
species utters. BY way of answer it
Is suggested that "our children" If
not ourselves, from birth to death
''' are surrounded by an invisible
host-the spirits Of men who never
thought in terms Of flags or boundary
lines and who never served a lesser
loyalty than the welfare of mankind.
The fundamental unity Of
civilization Is the unity of its intel
lectual life"
Evening star., 1942-03-29
GETHSEMANE
the Right James E. Freeman D. d. ILL., D., D. c. L,
Bishop of Wdshnoton.

Gethsemane suggests disappointment
tragedy, the hour of darkness. AS related
to the most somber incident in the life
Of Jesus Christ 1t takes its place in the
narrative Of Holy Week. It was q garden,
so we are told, and to it the Master re-
sorted often. In the record 1t might have
remained as a garden, beautiful and ap-
pealing, but because 1t Is associated with
the betrayal of Christ its very name Is
synonymous with dark shadows, suffering
and death.
We mark again today the recurring an
niversary Of Holy Week and at the very
heart Of it we find two focal points:
Gethsemane and Calvary. These two
names have been burned into the very
consciousness of the human race the
world over. Gethsemane as the name Of
place is used as descriptive Of pain and
agony. The poet uses it in his graphic
description Of some battlefield. When
the artist attempts to register its mean
ing on canvas he employees the somber
pigments of his palette. When today We
seek term that will adequately describe
our deeply stirred emotions 1t Is Geth.
semane that comes Immediately to mind.
In the short annal Of Jesus life there
are but few focal points about which
the strange story revolves Bethlehem
speaks of Christmas and birth. Naza-
reth. of His childhood, the years Of train
ing and accepted discipline. Jerusalem.
of the temple to which He went and
where for the first time He disclosed His
divine gifts. Later, Capernaum, Beth
any, Galilee and other places to which
He resorted and where His teachings
were given. teachings that have caused
countless millions Of men to look to Him
as their Saviour and Redeemer. Even
the dark shadows Of Gethsemane and
the still darker shadows OF Calvary have
come to be interpreted as the supreme
expressions of a love that is incompar-
able.
Here, indeed is a paradox. the most
repellant and forbidding have become
the most deeply significant and attrac-
tive. That which was designed to mark
the climax OF life has become the SYM
Dol of high accomplishment. One whom
those who condemned and crucified as
a felon, as violator Of ancient laws.
has won the devotion and admiration
Evening star., 1942-03-29
( men through the long centuries Of

Of men through the long centuries Of
time.
Today the world Is faced with . new
and terrible Gethsemane. Today, all
the kindreds and peoples Of the earth
are in mortal conflict. In large part 1t
Is . conflict that has to do with Him
who went to Gethsemane and Calvary,
of one who accepted shame. sacrifice
and martyrdom for mighty cause. That
cause and its high purpose Is once again
assailed. The strife is ON between arro-
CANT and anti Christian ideals and the
ideals Of those who hold tenaciously to
the way Of life taught by the Man on
Calvary's cross. The strongest fact In
history is the irresistible persuasiveness
of the crucified. No person or incident
in history makes the appeal that the
Man on the cross makes. From this
strange climax In the life Of . s;nless
man the world has received consolation
and hope and has girdled the globe with
temples reared to His name and praise.
New courage, new and holier aspirations
have filled the hearts Of men through
long generations. Here Is an example
Of love and service that has fired men
to heroic deeds and selhess devotion to
some great cause Millions have taken
from these Gethsemane and Calvary cpl
sodes new courage, and in the strife OF
life have found themselves armed against
every adversely and calamity.
A new Gethsemane Is Ut hand. Shall
1t be met with physical courage alone?
Shall we exhibit to the world the fatal
ism Of our enemies, the courage Of men
who died without hope? Shall We be
Of those who believe that fulhument OF
duty to country and sovereign nsures
the rewards Of some nebulous Nirvana
where human spirits are absorbed into
some underlined and blissful state?
This Is not our spirit, nor is 1t our
conception OF ultimate attainment. Like
Him who pursued the hard and lonely
way, We too will face our hour Of su-
preme testing. Be 1t some dark Geth-
semane where faith is tried to the ut
most, we will accept it. knowing the
while that 1t is but the way by which
we must come to the consummation Of
nfe's highest fulnllment and the attain
ment Of its assured objective.
Evening star., 1942-03-29

Fifty years ago Congress was nightly
disturbed over q hot controversy that
served as political dynamite-free silver.
Members were afraid to
Free Silver vote either for or against
eL.l..I the free coinage OF silver
at the ratio Of Is to l for
gold. and tremendous relief was felt at
the following news, taken from The Star
of March %, 1892: The Silver Bill Dead.
From the Eastern Republican standpoint
Mr.. Reeds little party in the House got
a decided advantage in political position
by their conduct when the silver bill was
given two very black eyes. The result
then has pretty well satisfied every one
that the Republicans. by voting with
the anti-silver Democrats, can defeat the
Bland bill"
This week was marked by the death
of the famous poet. Walt Whitman, at
Camden, N. J. The Star Of March 80.
1892. reported: Between II
Deoth Of o'clock this morning and l
Ao.. o'clock this afternoon sew
eIdI tliOuodllO pcoPic '1C"Su
the body Of Walt Whitman. The poet
looked natural and those of his friends
who had not been able TO see him during
his last illness we're pleased to fnd his
face as calm and placid as II he had
just lain down to sleep"
Other local news included a spiritual
iStic congress. The Star Of March rs,
1892, in an article illustrated by picture
of the conventional
SpjrituoIistic sheeted ghost. said:
r Those people in this
city who believe in spir-
itualism-that belief which acknowl-
edges the presence around us Of dis
embodied spirits-are preparing for
spiritual reunion on the evening OF
March 81. There will be rappings by
ghostly hands, gruesome sounds and
noises and mysterious communications
which the faithful will think are from
beyond the bourne. This interesting II
uncanny event will be the celebration
of the 49th anniversary OF the advent
of modern spirtualism"
\
News from Europe was scarce, but
what little there was concerned the
Kaiser, who precipitated . ministry
crisis. Said Tho Star
AMotter Of March 20, 1892: "Ber-
ofu, lin-The crisis in the
VI ''o"o'' Prussian ministry is re-
newed. It is stated that Herrfurth,
minister of the interior, and Heyden.
minister of agriculture. have presented
their designations. The motive Is '
that the ministry has been discredited
by the action of the Kaiser IN aban-
doning the educational bill, and that 1T
is therefore necessary. as a matter OF
honor, for the members Of the cabinet
who gave either positive or passive sup
port to the bill to resign Apparently
Germany was particular about honor
in those days.
Evening star., 1942-03-29
Invader From Africa

1t often has been remarked that
modern inventions have served to
bring the most distant communities
Of the earth into the relation Of one
all-inclusive neighborhood. This cir
cumstance at first was considered
an achievement to be hailed with
unqualified rejoicing. Soon, however,
it began to be realized that automatic
uniflcation of mankind involved
some noteworthy liabilities. For
example, when aerial navigation
between the Old World and the New
was inaugurated, one of the earliest
passengers to make the westward
passage of the Atlantic was the
Anopheles gambiae mosquito. A
widespread and devastating malaria
epidemic resulted. More than $4,000
square miles Of territory in North
eastern Brazil was infected. How
many persons died is unknown. That
veritable army succumbed has been
conceded.
But the invasion was resisted
almost from its start. and 1t now is
announced that "this particular
battle would seem to have been
won-at great labor and cost, and
after enormous suffering" Over 1000
trained workers, modified under
the leadership Of DR.. Fred L. Soper of
the Rockefeller Foundation, risked
their own lives to protect those of
their neighbors north as well as south
Of the Equator. The breeding places
Of the carrier mosquito-shallow
river beds in warm climates-were
disinfected. Coincidentally, planes
crossing the ocean from Africa to
America were carefully fumigated.
In consequence, Raymond B. Fosdick
in his review" for 1s41 reports:
Thorough search by well-trained
and selected personnel throughout
the entire area Of previous infesta-
ton, and even far beyond the old
limits, failed to reveal the presence
OF single gambiae."
Yet 1t would be an error of judg-
ment to suppose that there is no
further danger of a vast malarial
plague traceable to importation.
Truly the price Of liberty is
eternal vigilance" It is the logical
supposition OF science that: MANY
types of disease-bearing insects, not
yet universally distributed, could take
advantage of the airplane to infect
plants, animals and men In regions
far removed from their original
Evening star., 1942-03-29
A Natter
OF Honor?

cult Job Of trying to fix retail prices ana
to ration available supplies OF many
commodities among all groups. 1t per-
mits Mr.. Roosevelt to satisfy the LABOR
leaders, who in turn gain prestige With
the wage-earning groups which get the
income increases that enable them TO
cut In on the middle class living
standards. It allows Donald Nelson to
tell the Army and Navy to negotiate war
contracts on q basis Of adequate pront
for the industries involved with price
to be regarded as q secondary matter.
It enables Congress to jack up tax rates
on this class of income to meet larger
proportion Of the revenue needs.
Everything looks simple, so long as the
middle class is willing to absorb the war
shock in a disproportionate degree.
However, in the long run this whole
tendency is regarded as highly danger
GUS. The reason is that the political
balance wheel in the United States is
seriously disturbed. A. the middle class
II sacrificed In order to simplify the
problem Of running . war the country
loses . great stabilizing influence.
Evening star., 1942-03-29
Fishermun's Gehennu

With spring in the air, the con-
firned angler is brushing up tackle
put away for winter and planning to
add new items. Besides this, If he
is a real piscatorial addict. he IS do
ing the same for his Intangible but
equally essential armament, his stock
Of stories and alibis, paying particu-
lar attention to the granddaddy Of
them all, the big one that got away.
Half his pleasure comes from giving
a plausible excuse for that loss.
But not anglers on Lake Buhi,
fisherman's paradise in reverse. In
the embattled Philippines. Buhi has
the strange distinction Of having
more kinds Of tiny fishes than any
other place in the world. The cream
Of its crop is the pandaka pygmaea,
which reaches a maximum length Of
two-fifths of an inch and runs six
teen thousand to the pound. The
tackle problem for Buh is very SIM
plea tea strainer Is as good as
anything else in waters 50 swarm
ing that it is difficult to drink from
them without inhaling fish-but
what stories do its fishermen tell2
It would be as silly for them to talk
about the big one, or any other one,
that got away, as it would be to dis
cuss the molecules tot steam that
escaped from q bubbling teakettle.
They must suffer in silence.
As one Of our lesser postwar re-
construction problems Of making the
world a better place in which to live,
why not import sardines to Buhi?
Sardines, the big bullies, would have
no trouble handling pandaka pyg-
maea, one -hundredth their size, and
would enormously increase the
morale Of Buhi's unfortunate anglers.
Evening star., 1942-03-29

habitat" The same observation may
be offered with respect to destructive
ideas. II civilization is to survive it
must be defended successfully against
disgenic dognas and the aggressions
which accrue from them. To that
purpose the democratic nations are
enlisted,
Evening star., 1942-03-29

Japanese internees from the West
Coast will get for nothing a change
of scenery for which many Americans
annuallypay out many thousands Of
dollars-from fiat ocean to snow
capped Sierras.
Evening star., 1942-03-29

considerable detail to the quality and
quantity Of paper and envelopes wasted
by various agencies Of the Government.
Much Of the shortage, he said, il caused
by Government propaganda agencies,
which even ssnd out franked envelopes
requesting publishers to certify that the
copy sent them has been printed. M.
Hardy called this-'Not only sxpendvs
and unnecessary bat preslmptuous.-
Evening star., 1942-03-29

Mr.. Mellett and his merry carpen-
ter crew are doing one thing for all
of US. anyway; they are bringing the
invigorating aroma Of fresh-cut lum-
Der to downtown washington.
Evening star., 1942-03-29

exemption for farm labor and for farm
ers themselves. Workers are often en-
gagged In actual war production and are
exempt as a result. White collar work.
ers, however, are able to make no such
case. If they are statesmen their useful
ness already Is in question. II they are
minor executives, or clerks, or admins
trative workers others can be trained
to take their places.
The result Of all 81 this Is that the
middle class in this country is caught
right In the middle.
Nobody Is worrying much about 1t.
No powerful bloc in Congress is organized
to insist that middle class incomes be
pushed up in proportion to the increase
In the incomes Of other classes. The
President isn't demanding that steps be
taken to insure that white collar work.
ers and middle class workers generally
have their incomes protected 50 that
they will be able to share as they have
shared in the past in available goods.
In fact, the middle class In this coun-
try Is used as the shock absorber of the
war effort. It's political impotence per-
mits the party In power to use this class
as a sacrifice to the farm and labor
groups which demand an increase in
their living standards as the price Of
full cooperation in the war effort The
middle class is expected as a matter of
course to give this cooperation, and to
take In its stride the partial liquidation
that war will impose upon 1t.
That Is . simple method Of solving
some Of the current problems. 1t re-
Neves Leon Henderson Of tho very din
Evening star., 1942-03-29
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Fifty years ago Congress was nightly
disturbed over q hot controversy that
served as political dynamite-free silver.