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Evening star., 1942-12-26

Will IL be necessary to supply the
armed forces in this country and
abroad, but the civilian popula-
ton, including the workers in
the munition plants and ship
yards, must have their share.
And beyond this, food must be
shipped abroad in increasing
quantities. When the war comes
to an end, Herbert Hoover, former
President, food administrator
during the last war, has warned
this country must be In position
to feed hundreds of millions OF
the peoples in the devastated
areas of the world.
Only by the most careful
planning will it be possible to
meet these needs. Some wav.
reserves of foodstuffs must be
built up, particularly if this coun-
try is to be in a position to 20 to
the rescue of the peoples in other
nations.
Closely Related Problems.
Control of food and produc-
ton OF agricultural commodities
are so closely related as to be al
most one and the same problem.
For that reason, the man-and it
should be one man in the opin-
Ion OF Mr.. Hoover-who controls
prices and has charge of food
ratloning should also deal with
the question of production.
American farmers neither can
nor will produce the increasing
amounts of foodstuffs if they are
to be compelled to sell their
produce below the cost of pro-
ductlon-or even at the level of
that cost. The American farmer
Is entitled to sufficient profit to
give him and his family living.
Therefore the control of prices
OF foodstuffs, and the ceilings
placed on those prices becomes of
vital importance-a problem that
must be considered at all times
in connection with the produce
ton desired.
The American consumer of food
today has more money in his
pocket than he has had for years
perhaps than ever before. 1t is
not going to help the food con-
sumer, however, if there is an
insufficient amount OF food to
purchase. If the supply fails, the
consumer is out. of luck whether.
the prices of bread, butter. milk
and meat are high or low.
1t has been popular in many
quarters to attack the farm bloc,
so called, in Congress and out.
The attacks have come, how
ever, not from the producers of
food, but from those who wish
to buy food as cheaply as pos
sible-no matter what happens
to the men and women who have
the job of raising the wheat, the
hogs, the corn or the cattle. It
Is about time that the problem
OF sufficient production was given
more attention.
Evening star., 1942-12-26

rector OF the Selective Service Blu
reau Of the War Manpower Com
mission, was quoted by owl as de-
claring that "one State with large
Negro population over a period of
several months filled every call made
upon 1T for Negro selectees by volun-
teers. In large sections of other
States also this has been true. The
Negro has availed himself as freelv
as possible under the conditions to
volunteer for service in the armed
forces"
Southern States.
The Bureau Of Selective Service
statistics revealed that In Southern
States colored men constituted 1874
per cent of all inductions in Louisi-
ana, 34'5 per cent in Florida. "a per
cent in Alabama. 27.8 in Virginia,
1874 in Texas, 1871 in Maryland. 81
In Kentucky and 70 in West Vir-
ginla. In each Of the States. the
owl said, the percentage of colored
men inducted exceeded the per-
centage of colored men registered
under selective service.
In four States the percentage of
colored inductions either equaled the
percentage of colored registrations
or closely approximated the propor-
ton. Colored men constituted 44.2
per cent In Mississippi. "a per cent
IN south Carolina, 325 per cent in
Georgia. 21.3 per cent in Arkansas
and l8.5 per cent In Tennessee.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
I'D Rather Be Riqht'
Universal War Service Act to Be Put Over
By Foes Of Labor and the Administration

perts; they fear the insecurity of
war work; the paradoxical result is
that the nearer the war approaches
its peak, the harder 1t becomes to
shift these men and women over.)
The wish to protect these jobs
is certainly not based on q clear
and just estimation of war needs;
it is kind Of hankering; kind
of reluctance to bulge: it is not
liberalism, which can be flrm and
hard; it is that other, softer thing
l have mentioned. 1t is like the
pacifism that was still visible in
portions of the French labor move
ment in 1885, something remem-
bered from the past. once valid,
and still clinging on after It's day
is over.
1t is too late for labor, even with
all its just fears of those who hate
it, to behave automatically and
instinctively.
An Eye for the Clock.
1t must behave consciously and
knowingly. For the soft. sluggish
state OF mind" now displayed on
the universal service issue. labor
can substitute the hardness and
f1rmness of real liberalism, which
would accept compulsory job direc-
tives, then insist on fair, temperate
administration (actually, in Eng
land, advice" to workers has been
enough, once the law was on the
books and then insist, too, that
a labor man head the program, just
as we matter-of-factly agreed that
a business man should head the
business side of the war program.
There is nothing in the book that
says liberalism ought not to know
what time it is.
When you strike. at the right
time, with the right proposal, all
sorts Of doors open. A labor-backed
universal service law could be made
the occasion for ending job discrimi-
nation against minority groups; it
would become powerful lever
against dilatory practices by indus
try, wherever these can be found:
it could push the whole war for
ward, toughly and firmly, whereas
that soft. sluggish something I have
described merely leads to melan-
choly rear-guard battles with moth
ing done and nothing gained.
That Is one way you can tell
liberalism from namby -pambyism.
Namby- -pambyism opens no doors
at all. and finally robs its victims of
the power to make decisions, In time
or out of time.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Pine trees Of the South may be
the source OF synthetic rubber made
from turpentine under a system ad-
vocated by two Detroit men. who
claim that the method is an i'm
provement over natures because of
the possibilities of controlling the
process.
By the use Of porus disk which
it is claimed duplicates the effect
Of the rubber trees bark on its sap,
John A. Tolman inventor of the
process, and Alfred M. Spanier,
chemical engineer, would split the
molecules of turpentine to obtain
isoprene, basic material from
which synthetic rubber can be pro-
duced.
Mr.. Spanier told a Senate Agri-
cultural Subcommittee, I'VE do not
propose or suggest at this moment
that all Of the American rubber can
be made by this system.
OLA 4VAI1IluH fhCI INCCuCus
I'VE think 1t is by far the best
system, and We do think that If our
peacetime requirements of American
rubber were produced by this system,
it would only require 100000 acres
of trees, or perhaps we would better
say, 10 or Is times the amount Of
turpentine that has ever been pro-
duced before"
He estimated that it would require
10000 barrels of turpentine to pro-
duce about 100000 tons of rubber, at
cost of about cents a pound for
the synthetic product.
The committee chairman, Senator
Gillette. Democrat, of Iowa. said the
committee is interested in all po-
tential sources of rubber and would
give Mr.. Spanier and Mr.. Tolman
what assistance it could in getting
some materials with which to COM
plete a small plant to prove their
experiments.
Filter Disk Used.
Mr.. Spanier said the production
of rubber in the natural state Is
effected primarily through a chem
ical change or catalytic action ef-
fected in the porus cells of the rub
Der tree bark.
This effect, he explained, they can
reproduce by using a filter disk.
composed of glass fibers laid paral-
lei, so that as many as 2,000 900
pores per square inch can be created.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
-Four Die Of Gas Fumes
In Two Holiday Tragedies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLOOMSBURY, Pa, Dec. 90
-Four persons, including the presi-
dent of Bloomsbury Town Council,
died Of gas fumes here yesterday
in two holiday tragedies.
Coroner Kenneth H. McHenry
listed the victims Of Clyde L. Oil,
sr., 81, president OF Council and a
prominent businessman; his daugh-
ter Dorothy Ruth. %, and his father,
Boyd T. Oil, 80, and Mrs. Carl Kin
ney, l9-year -old bride of six months.
Relatives arriving at the Obi
home for Christmas dinner found
all three inside the locked house.
The coroner said all three died of
coal gas from the furnace.
Mrs. Kinly. who with her hus-
band, was found unconscious In
their trailer home Christmas eve,
died yesterday in q hospital, where
her husband is 4 patient. Coroner
McHenry said they were overcome
by fumes from an oil stove.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
Reduced Fuel Imports
Brings Dublin Gas Crisis

Reduced fuel imports have cut
gas output In Dublin so per cent
and the fuel situation in EXre con-
tinues critical. In Dublin 10000
households depend entirely on gas
for lighting.
AS gas supply in the evenings is
available only between 6 and 7
O'Clock the government has extended
the small kerosene ration to house
holds where gas is the only means
OF artificial light. The gas works
IN Cavan have been closed for lack
of fuel.
In spite of savings of gasoline due
to the stoppage Of private motoring
overconsumption is estimated at
2o,oO0 to $4,000 gallons monthly. In
consequence. the allowances for
doctors and veterinary surgeons and
for commercial trucks have been
substantially reduced.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
'Serapping Of Education
For War Work Opposed
By the Associated presI.

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-The war
affords an opportunity for boys and
girls to work for victory but does not
justify scrapping their education
for the duration. the National Child
Labor Committee says.
In its annual report for the year
ending September 30, released yes
terday by Courtenay Dinwiddie, gen.
eral secretary, the committee warned
against wholesale relaxing of rules
governing the employment of chill
dren.
Conceding that there Is a need for
juvenile aid in agriculture. the COM
mittee said this could be met with
out exposing children ito conditions
that will seriously injure their USE
fulness to their country and them
selves"
The committee declared that tax
Evening star., 1942-12-26
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

There is a difference between lib
eralism and namby- -pambyism. De-
tense Of overtime pay is liberalism,
because overtime pay does not af-
feet the war effort and because its
elimination would run counter to
even the conservative principle OF
not using the war to sneak over
fundamental social changes. But
refusal to support Universal War
Service Act is not liberalism; it is
namby- -pambyism.
We have to draw a line between
what Is liberal and what Is merely
soft.
There Is a kind of political slush-
iness which passes for liberalism,
but it is really fake. To allow one
private car to ply the roads Of the
East unnecessarily, while even one
home Is without heat, is not liberal
ism; it is political goo, spread on
with a trowel, and it lacks both
bones and substance. To delay on
universal service is another clear
case Of administrative mushiness.
The Univarsal War Service Act is
coming (as it came to England two
and one-half years ago. but it is
coming in precisely the wrong way;
1T Is being put over" on labor and
the administration by conservatives,
in Congress and out; its midwives
are men and agencies that have
never been conspicuously friendly to
labor, and sometimes raucously the
reverse.
Insecurity Feared.
Paul v. McNutt, the Manpower
Commissioner. speaks in favor of
such an act, but few others in the
administration do. Labor itself is
fighting kind of rear guard action
against this proposal to assign nom
essential workers to essential tasks,
by Government order, but on what
theological ground 1t is hard to see.
Labor has decided that the war is
worth giving up strikes for, that it
is worth giving UP It's sons and hus-
bands for, that it is worth paying
taxes for, but has yet to declare
coolly that it is worth giving up the
right to work at useless job for.
That millions of Americans are
working at n-essential Jobs is
incontrovertible. (The moment the
war news gets bit better, they
cling to these jobs all the more
fiercely. am told by personnel ex-
Evening star., 1942-12-26
Dieppe Roid Casualties
Arrive in Cunudo
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HALIFAX, Dec. 26.-A group Of
Canadian soldiers, wounded at
Dieppe, representing nearly every
regiment in the spectacular raid last
August. have arrived in the Domin-
ion, it was announced ofncially yes
terday.
With the wounded were several
hundred sergeants returned for Of
f1cer training and a large group of
English recruits for the common
wealth air-training program.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
This Changing World
DorIon Assassination May Force Allies to Put
Force Five Times as Great in Afrco

Our offensive may have to be
postponed If these men, together
with some Of the Arab tribes who
are being worked" by Axis prop
aganda, decide to throw a monkey
wrench into existing arrange
ments as a result of Admiral
Darlan's death. The Nazis there
by would benefit to a greater
extent than If they obtained a
temporary military success In
TuniSia.
Possibility that some faction in
the Allied camp opposed to the
"Vichy traitor" may have engin-
eered the murder has been ad-
vanced. but this theory is so dis
tasteful to all those working for
one purpose only-to defeat the
enemy-that it is being dis
counted. The appearance Of
Admiral Darlan on the side OF
the Allies caused the greatest
controversy we have encountered
so far in the war. Passions were
aroused here and abroad, but it
is inconceivable that any anti
Darlan group, regardless of how
hostile it may have been, should
have melted the Staying.
Allies Aware of Risks.
Every one is aware of the risks
the Allied forces would encounter
If portions of the French army
and the civilian population be-
came disunited again and began
to shoot at our lines of communi-
cation. Instead of fighting the
Nazis with the hope of an early
victory. we would have to con-
centrate our forces on "pacify-
ing" the French empire. 1t is no
secret to say that for such a task
we would need as much as five
times the present British-Ameri-
can force in Africa.
Gen. Giraud's success in his
new job hinges on many con-
siderations. The elderly general
may have difficulties filling Ad-
miral Darlan's shoes because he
did not go to Africa with a
mandate" from Marshal Petain.
Some of the governors, including
Pierre Boisson, who rules Dakar,
may not be willing to cooperate
as heartily with Gen. Giraud as
they did with his predecessor,
but 1t is hoped that the close CO.
operation of the two men with
the Allies may serve to bring all
the French in Africa under one
standard.
In any event, the shot that
killed Admiral Darlan may cause
serious eruption in Africa and
those who instigated the murder
knew the situation we'll.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
The Political Mill
A Single Food Administrator Should Have
Charge Of Prices, Production and Rotonine


American farmer was encouraged
to produce more and more food
stuffs. They were encouraged
to do so also by increases in the
prices obtained for their prod
uce. 1t looked as though the
millennium had arrived for the
American farmer. Land values
in the agricultural States
mounted by leaps and bounds.
Farmers bought larger and
larger farms, and put them into
production. When the war
ended, the bottom dropped out,
for the farmers. One thing had
resulted from the operation,
however. There had been plenty
of food. not only for the people
of America and their armed
forces abroad. but also to fill the
stomachs Of many starving
Europeans.
How to guard against a repeti-
ton Of the defiationary misfor-
tunes OF the farmers is part Of
the whole problem which now
confronts the country. After the
last war ended, this country was
in a hurry to erect trade barriers
so high that the peoples of other
lands were thrown back upon
themselves. They could not sell
goods here nor continue to buy
American farm products. It
would be unfortunate If again the
United States followed such a
course. Without foreign COM
merce, the American people
suffer, along with the rest of the
world.
Once the war has ended the
likelihood of a great resurgence
Of so-called "isolationism" be-
comes threat. This is the view
OF Mayor La Guardia of New
York, who is in a position to
Judge of the feelings of a great
mass Of Americans and who is
opposed to isolationism. It will
be fostered by various racial
groups as well as by selfish Amer
lean interests. War and its hard
ships have never been popular,
and once war ends, the effort is
to get away from these hardships
as fast as possible.
The Logical Administrator.
International co-operation-the
phrase which has become so
common in these days, and which
means so little until it has been
translated into action-means far
more than some plan for the
maintenance OF international
peace. Unless there is economic
cooperation also among the
nations - the maintenance OF
peace, even by an international
police force. will have little
chance.
To get back to the question Of
food-which will become more
and more vital as the war goes
on-the problems will not be
solved efficiently If one man. or
one Government agency, is to
deal with price control. another
with rationing and still another
with production. AL are too
closely related. The whole could
we'll be designated food admins
tration, with one administrator
as its head. 1t would be possible
under such circumstances to keep
the whole problem in one per-
pective.
II the Department OF Agricul-
ture, which has been dealing with
the problem of food production.
is the proper agency to tackle the
whole food issue. the food ad-
mlnlstration should be turned
over to 1t. At least it would then
be In a position to know both
what the right hand and the left
hand were doing. Certainly it
would put the farmers In a better
frame Of mind.
Evening star., 1942-12-26

ing children under is years Of age
from school for full-time work does
not provide efficient war workers.
Citing the draft figures on illiteracy.
the committee said complete break
in the education Of those above Is
might be the worst thing that could
happen from the standpoint of ma
tional manpower needs.
The war, the committee declared,
calls for great sacrifices, but not
for the abandonment of reason and
judgment"
Evening star., 1942-12-26
Seattle Marine Cooks
To Stop Paying CIO Dues
Nv the Associated Press.

6y the ASS0cltted Press.
SEATTLE, Dec. 26.-The Seattle
local OF the West Coast Marine
Cooks and Stewards Association will
discontinue payment of dues to the
CIO.
Business Agent Jack Slayer said
he has wired CIO President Phillip
Murray Of the decision, reached
after controversy over hiring East
Coast seamen for new West Coast
ships.
Instead Of supporting us in our
night for our rights" Mr.. Slayer de-
clared, "the national tried to aid the
opposition on the East Coast In NOV
ing in on West Coast ships"
Evening star., 1942-12-26
; Soldiers Die in Wreck

SILVER CITY, N. Mex, Decem-
Der rs (P.-Three enlisted men of
the Deming IN. Mex) Air Base
were killed and 20 were injured as
two trucks returning men to the
base from a dance left a highway.
The dead, listed by the Army, in
cluded: Corpl. Samuel Schasetz.
Port Chester, N. Y, and Pvt. Carl
Marchesi, st. Louis. Mo.
Evening star., 1942-12-26

"dCc. i Uc tdll-
can natu r lily
c a n n OF ke
sides in political
d Is u t e S and
hence must use
implicit rat h e r
than explicit
phrases.
Thro u 6 h o u t
all Christendom
the 0lessage of
the Pope strikes
a note Of hope
fulness, because
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Evening star., 1942-12-26
Southern Pines May Be Source
Of New Synthetic Rubber

BY using the disk as a primary
tool, Mr.. Spanier added. it is COM
paratively simply to convert tur-
pentine into the raw synthetic rub
Der, because pinene, derived from
turpentine, contains exactly twice
the number of molecules contained
in the natural rubber.
DR.. j. Alfred Hall, principal bio
chemist OF the United States Forest
Service, said that in the event the
system can be developed on prac-
tica lbasis, the South would be the
principal source Of supply for the
needed turpentine.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
AIgiers Civilians to Get
Tons Of Allied Food
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ALGIERS, Dec. 26.-Arrival In
French North African ports of a.
900 tons Of food products and other
materials for distribution among
the civilian population was ofncially
announced, appropriately. on Christ.
mas Day.
Tho shipment included British
merchandise and great quantities Of
flour, milk, sugar and potatoes.
French and Allied authorities hoped
to speed distribution az much "a
possible. The goods will Be appor.
toned to merchants for sale to civil
ianS.
Evening star., 1942-12-26

have to DO his
putting with a
ooS = n e C K
icicle.
But the famed
A u 6 u S t a Ma
tional Club Is
C o n ducting an
e x p er | m e n t
which may rev.
o ! u tionize the
game Of golf as
we'll as make a
definite contri-
button to the
-,s~~,~- Af fkA
Evening star., 1942-12-26

Algiers at the
request Of 1t.
Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhow-
er to assume
the post held
by the la t .
Admiral Jean
Darlan.
Inc aSSASSl.
nation Of Ad-
miral Darlan
h a S created
serious c n
Germ In re-
k1A
Evening star., 1942-12-26

e x periencing
S h o rtages Of
various foods
to which they
have become
a c c ustonned.
Meats, butter,
even m ! ] k
have b e e n
d1mcult to OBJ
tain in the
quantities de-
Sired-or even
a t IL, on
occasions.
Not Onlv
Evening star., 1942-12-26
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Gen. Henri Honore Giraud.
commander Of the French forces
in Africa, who had been at the
Tunisian front, has returned to
Evening star., 1942-12-26

CHE opinions OF the Driters this page not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions of interest
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-12-26
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Food, and more food, for years
to come, is the pressing problem
OF America. Already the people
IN many parts Of the country are
Evening star., 1942-12-26
Pope's
Strike Note
OfHope
Points to Burriers
Thot Lasting Peace
Must Surmount
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

There is something at once
magnificent and yet simple in the
remarkable broadcast of Pope Plus
concerning internal and external
Evening star., 1942-12-26
Turkey EIevotes Beons

Because Of their low cost, beans,
which never were popular In Turkey,
have become principal food In that
country. @~
Evening star., 1942-12-26
McLennore-
Augusta Golf Club
Now Is Posture
By HENRY McLEMORE.

This is q most inappropriate time
to write about golf, I'll admit, what
with a global war going on and the
weather so cold that a man would
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Crispus Attacks
Assn Election of
Officers Nov. IL

The annual meeting and election
of officers of the Crispus Attacks
Home Association will be held at
the Halle @. Brown Community
House on Tuesday, November IT.
at 8 p. m. All members who are in
terested in the welfare of Crispus
Attacks Home are urged to be pres
ent to help elect and be elected to
the various offices.
The following organizations hav-
ing active membership, paid fol-
this year, are urged to see that
their representatives attend this
meeting: Credjafawn Social Club
Criterion Art Club, Postal Alliance
Women's Auxiliary to the Postal
Alliance, Saint Paul Chapter No
1, o. E. S., Self Culture Club, We'd
nesday Study Club.
Memberships reported in the last
association meeting were for Mines
Naomi Thomas, Aldonia Anderson,
Mable Brown, Grace Ferguson, Ad-
die Jackson, James G. Kirk, Mary
Burton, Myrtle Harris, Carrie Rob-
inson, Stella Harper, Mable Milan;
Messrs. James Mckinney, Nath-
aniel Evans, julius McNeal, Nath-
aniel Smith, Simmon Harris, Zeke
Harper, Ellis Manning; Miss Edith
Gillard and the Postal Alliance
Women's Auxiliary.