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Evening star., 1943-02-19
RAF Bombers Strike
Al WiIheImshaven
And Occupied Areas
Seven Planes Are Lost;
Targets in France and
Belgium Also Blasted
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. l9.-RAF bomb
ers roared back to attack Will
helmshaven, German naval base.
last night and other Allied air.
craft attacked rail lines on the
continent and shipping off the
coast, the Air Ministry announced
today.
Seven planes, including four
bombers, were lost in the nights
operations, the ministry said.
The attack on Wilhelmshaven was
heavy as the bombing run was made
in good weather it was said. The
last previous attack on the naval
base was February IL.
The German high commands
broadcast communique declared that
in the raid on Wilhelmshaven "the
population, particularly in the sur
rounding localities. suffered losses"
1t claimed nine bombers shot down.
Railways and canal lines in France
and Belgium were the continental
targets.
A medium sized enemy supply
ship was hit off the Dutch coast
and set on fire, ministry COM
munique said, but results were diff
cult to observe as coastal command
aircraft sought shipping targets in
that area.
Besides the four bombers lost, two
fighters and one of the coastal COM
mand craft failed to return, the
ministry acknowledged. -=.
The raid was the 18th night at.
tack on Germany this month.
The Bremen radio quoted Paris
report today as saying 1900 persons
have been killed and 1850 houses
destroyed during recent Allied, air
raids on Lorient, the German sub
marine base on the Atlantic coast
of Brittany. .....
Evening star., 1943-02-19
Trinity COLLEGE Ball

War bonds will be purchased with
the proceeds of the "midwinter
ball" of Trinity College, to be held
March S at the Willard Hotel. The
dance will be sponsored by the class
of "A, with Betty Bresnehan as chair
man. and by the Washington
Alumnae Chapter, with Mrs. Will
liam Collins as chairman. Music
will be furnished by Ray Kings
orchestra.
Evening star., 1943-02-19

| o recommend
books for read
ing.
An expert die
titan can rec
ommend health
full foods - and
h ow much of
each to be taken
at stated meals
with calm con-
fdence. Ev n
if you don't like
the food, it will
be good for you.
The recommend
ed Su distances,
including t h e
Evening star., 1943-02-19

issued Dy tne
Navy today.
T o d a US list
c o n t aims the
n a m es Of 40
d e a d. wounded
and m i S S i n 6.
bringing the to-
tai casualties for
the Navy, Ma
rine Corps and
Coast Guard in
the war to 23,432.
Pvt. Garrison
enlisted in Feb
r airy of last
year. His mother
Evening star., 1943-02-19

proper amount of alphabetical vita
Minis. will percolate through natural
channels to bring-or keep-the
bloom Of health on your cheek.
But it isn't that way with recon-
mended reading A distaste for a
book means either immediate re-
lection or lingering pains of indi-
gestion. Little or no good can come
from attempting to swallow dis
tasteful books, and often the result
is permanently harmful.
How many adults have missed the
fun of Dickens, the brilliance OF
Thackeray, the glories of Shake
speare or the beauty Of Keats be-
cause. too early in life. teachers
tried to pound the virtues of such
writer's into the minds of their
pupils with all the delicacy Of a
circus roustabout hammering the
tent pegs for the big top into the
ground with wooden maui?
Nobody has yet tried it but it
might be much better if some
teacher would say to a class some
day:
AT this point we should take up
the study OF Twelfth Night" by
William Shakespeare, but I sternly
forbid you to read that play. Glass
dismissed"
Tastes Differ Widely.
Even where others ask for advice
OH reading, it S risk to give it be-
cause tastes differ so widely. What
John Doe considers a masterpiece
Richard Roe will take his oath is
a beastly bore and a waste of white
paper and black print. But some
requests for advice in reading are of
a kind that it is impossible to
ignore.
For instance. there is boy in
the north woods who is Of Army
age and wishes he were in the Army
But he can't join. He's in sani-
tarium. He has tuberculosis. Tire
doctor has told him that, at best,
he will have to stay there another
year. The doctor added that 1t
would be a good chance to improve
his mind by reading books. But
the doctor didn't care to name the
Evening star., 1943-02-19
SABBATH Seeks 10 0per
Hobbs Bill Hearings
To Labor Opponents
Wants Unions TO Have
Chance to Give Views
To Rules Committee
BY the ASSOCIATED Press.


Chairman SABBATH carried to
the House Rules Committee to-
day organized labor's fight to
prevent passage of the Hobbs
anti-racketeering bill.
Mr.. SABBATH said he would ask the
committee to waive its long stand
ing rule against permitting others
than members of Congress to testify,
in order to allow spokesmen for the
American Federation of Labor, the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions and the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen to voice their pro-
tests.
Displaying letter from CIO Pres
ident Philip Murray condemning the
bill, Mr.. SABBATH said he would insist
that the hearings, resumed today
after a two-day recess, be thrown
open.
He made no attempt to conceal
his own opposition to the measure,
which would make labor organiza-
tions subject to prosecution under
the 1884 Anti-Racketeering Act for
any interference with interstate
commerce.
Labor's War Effort Praised.
This is no time to rock the boat"
Mr.. SABBATH said. Labor is doing a
fine Job in industry to help us win
the war. I don't thing it would be
wise to antagonize them now"
Mr.. Murrays letter said the bill
poses AS curb on racketeering,
but the simple truth is its authors
seek merely to eliminate present
language protecting legitimate labor
activities and to insert language
such as has been used by anti-labor
courts in decades past to outlaw the
very existence of organizations of
working men and women
Should Mr. Sabbath's veWs prevail
and the committee decide to hear
outside witnesses, the first probably
would be Joseph A. Padway, gen.
eral counsel for the AFL. Mr.. Pad
way contends that what the bill
really does is ito limit labor's peace
full and ordinary activities by the
method of straight criminal stat
ute. so broadly worded as to afford
a threat to, if not actually to pro-
scribe, almost all of the usual peace
full and ordinary activities of labor
organizations"
II the legislation is enacted, Mr.
Padway said, any union member
who takes part in a strike will be
liable to 90 years imprisonment and
a $4,000 fine.
Hobbs Explains Measure.
Representative Hobbs, Democrat,
of Alabama, author of the bill, de-
clares it is not aimed at labor but
at ANY one who unlawfully inter
feres with interstate commerce,
whether he carries q union card or
not"
AS the Rules Committee tackled
the Hobbs bill. Chairman Vinson
announced the House Naval Affairs
Committee would start public hear
ings probably next week on the
Johnson bill to require Navy con-
tractors to report to local draft
boards the names Of employees ab-
sent from work without just cause.
Backing up his bill which he in
troduced yesterday, Representative
Johnson, Democrat of Texas, called
on Congress to say to the loafer,
tie inexcusable absentee, the slack
er" that the draft board will get
you If you don't watch out"
Evening star., 1943-02-19
Newspapers Rotioned

The supply of copies of The
Star is necessarily being linn
tied to neWsdealers and news
boys to meet only the actual
demand Of their customers.
Readers Of The Star are
asked to cooperate in this
wartime measure by placing
standing orders for The Star
with their newsstand or news
boy or telephone National 5000
for carrier delivery every eve
ming and Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1943-02-19
D. {. Boy, With Marines,
Wounded in Action

Pvt. James G. Garrison 1S, of the
Marine Corps, a Washington youth
whose mother, Mrs Elsie v. Garri-
son, lives at 20l4 C street NE. is
listed as wounded in a casualty list
Evening star., 1943-02-19
One Small Voice-By John Kieron


In case OF sickness, it's a ticklish
thing to recommend a particular
doctor. And in sickness or in health.
it's an even more ticklish matter
Evening star., 1943-02-19

Turn trash into cash and use 1t to
smash the Axis. Collect that junk
metal now.
Evening star., 1943-02-19
Soldiers Go to Mills

Nearly 900 timber workers have
been released from the New Zealand
Army to return to work in forests
and mills to help produce lumber
for defense construction.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
Confusion Over the Pacific

The American people must be eX-
cused if they happen to be slightly
mixed up by the recent spate of
conflicting Official statements over
our naval. land and air strength in
the South and Southwest Pacific
On November 9 Secretary Knox
unequivocally declared that the
Japanese were facing disaster" in
that theater. On November II Ad-
miral Nimitz, commander in chief
OF the Pacific Fleet, strongly in
timated that our forces were all
primed for great new offensive blows.
On November IA, amid other au-
thoritative remarks of a similar ma
ture, including the claim that we
enjoyed land, sea and air superiority
in the South and Southwest Pacific,
President Manuel Quezon of the
Philippines assured his countrymen
that General Macarthur "soon will
be able to start the reconquest of
our homeland"
Then all of sudden, from General
MacArthur's headquarters, came a
story tending to give the impression
that the General was receiving too
small quantity of material to carry
out any big action. Whereupon Rear
Admiral William Brent Young, now
in London after a recent tour of the
Pacific area, Immediately asserted
that the Navy was pouring supplies
into the Southwest Pacific on a scale
large enough to support a major
offensive" The latest rejoinder
comes from Colonel LeGrande Diller,
spokesman for General Macarthur.
The Southwest Pacific theater, says
the Colonel, "is now receiving some
thing under ten per cent of what
America is shipping overseas" and is
therefore insuff1ciently equipped for
heavy new operations against the
japanese.
Those of US who are not In on the
Evening star., 1943-11-18
In Peace as Well as War

President Roosevelt has expressed
a simple but profoundly meaningful
truth in his message to the New York
Herald Tribune Forum: The side
holding the initiative always has the
advantage over the side on the de-
fenSive. This has been demonstrated
in particularly striking manner on
the battlefields of the world during
the past year, but its significance
does not apply merely to war. It
applies to peace as well, perhaps in
an even greater degree.
We need only remember the high
lights of the years between 1918 and
1889 to appreciate the value of the
Initiative in this sense. The men of
the democracies in that era first
became confused and then de-
pressed and finally began to feel
that they were helpless against the
strange, ugly and seemingly irresisti-
BILE forces moving forward to take
over the world. People would shrug
their shoulders and smile sadly, as
If to say, well, what can we do
about it?" The mood was a dis
tinctly fatalistic one, reaching so
deep and spreading so far in so
many lands that there was a gen.
eral inclination to yield for a time
to the pernicious doctrine implicit
in talk about the wave of the
future" the idea being that the wave
could not be stopped and that the
sensible thing to do, therefore, was
sit down and let it roll over US.
In other words, forgetting that the
future is made by man and not man
by the future, the peoples of the
democracies came close to capitu-
lating to the so-called new order"
which was really nothing but the old
order of tyranny set forth in modern
phrasing and supported by twen-
tieth century arms. Up until 1889
and for time thereafter, we were
begged down in a sterile defensive
while Hitler and his Axis partners
were exercising the initiative every
where. Not until it was almost too
late was there anything like general
realization that we had allowed our
selves to be mesmerized close to the
point of losing our free way of life.
Fortunately, we have come back
a far way-far enough to have re-
captured the initiative. And now
that we have it, we should keep it,
not for the duration of the war alone
but for the long future. This is the
wise and far-seeing point made by
the President in his message. "The
forces OF civilization and common
decency, the overwhelming majority
of the human race" must never
again go on the defensive against
evil. That much at least we should
have learned by this time from what
has happened since 1918.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
Lost Appeal

The Community War Fund cam
paign is scheduled to close tomorrow.
If its s4,8O0.0OO objective is to be
reached, subscriptions in amount Of
$572,093 must be obtained. Such a
sum easily could be raised from those
$4,000 residents of Metropolitan
Washington who thus far have given
nothing if only they were persuaded
to respond.
Nothing more requires to be said
about the needs Of the fund. Citi-
zens of Washington and vicinity
already know that the imperative
war charities and "home front"
social agencies are dependent upon
the principle of sharing. If the
money for their operation is not
supplied voluntarily by the public,
they must suspend or at least curtail
their activities.
The Star sincerely hopes to be
able to report on Saturday that the
maximum goal of the fund drive
has been achieved. Campaign head
quarters are at 1101 M street NV,
Metropolitan 1884.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
No Exclusive Purtnership
From the London Times.

from the London Times.
Britain must look across the English
Channel to the continent, whence the
major threats to her security have al
ways come. She must also look across
the oceans to all the continents. For
this reason neither an exclusive partner
ship with European power nor, on the
other hand, an exclusive partnership
with a non-European power, even if
attainable, could furnish the British
commonwealth with q broad enough
basis for security. In the United States
acute and influential minds are also in
sisting that provision for American Sc
curity must begin with "nuclear" triple
or quadruple understanding which can
be the hard core of world system. The
establishment of a sound and settled
relation between Great Britain and the
United States has been a mighty
achievement of the years of war, a deep
foundation on which to build. The con-
crete purpose of the three-power talks
which lie ahead is to strengthen ties
with that other great country which has
hitherto borne the brunt Of war on the
European continent and will exercise in
the future settlement Of Europe share
proportionats 10 it, efforts and to it,
vaotoRia&
Evening star., 1943-11-18

secrets of the high command can
not know who is right and who
wrong in this long-range and rather
extraordinary argument. It may be
that nine or ten per cent of what
America is shipping overseas is
quite enough to meet General Mac
Arthur's immediate needs. And it
may be, too. that the offensive blows
promised by Admiral Nimitz are to
be launched from positions other
than those we hold in the South and
Southwest Pacific. Be that as 1t
may, however, 1t is still q fact that
all this openly-aired conflict in
official opinion confuses the Ameri-
can people. One can only hope that
it confuses the japanese as we'll II
it does that, then it has value that
the layman's eye cannot otherwise
see
Evening star., 1943-11-18
River Sycomores

Barren OF leaf. yet beautiful the,
stand
AS frozen argent flames beneath
once
9lue-lambent sky, but now OF pe,U.
ter-grey
Without a 1oinoing songs byieh,
resonance.
Yet song Is ended not. The riue,
sings
TO shadoDs on its breast, to
darklng crypts;;
And the ,Dind Is blowino hard, /,
bloUing shriH
A Whistltno tune through puckered
icy lips.
Song has not ended, and the deer
roots feel
The lyric Thythm OF the springs
gone by,
And coming sprinotime weu upon
the pay
With bud and leaf, Nth BRIGHT
notes IN the sky.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
The More Worthy Goal

Aside from the moral or the legal
merits of OPA's case against L. P.
Steuart and Brothers, local oil deal
ers, or the justice of the hearing
commissioners determination, a part
OF his decision, made public yester-
day, is worthy of emphasis: "An
order which will require better COM
pllance with the rationing regula-
tions is the proper goal to be reached,
rather than run the risk of injury
to the public by taking away re-
spondent's right to continue in the
rationing program"
The OPA's prosecutors, in too many
cases, have been altogether reckless
IN demanding penalties for which
the only known parallel is the rule
laid down by the Queen in Alice
In Wonderland: "Of with his
head!" There has been little hesita-
tion In demanding that ration vio-
lators pay for their crime by being
put out OF business, regardless of
regulations built up over the years,
the circumstance of the violations
or the resulting inconvenience to
the public.
This procedure has not appealed
TO the American public's sense of
fairness. 1t is one explanation of
the rather blind-and equally reck-
less-antagonism from the people
which OPA has created for itself.
The proper goal to be reached, as
the hearing commissioner said yes
terday, is better compliance with the
regulations. The goal is not to de-
stroy a citizens business, on the
Juvenile assertion that the business
Is not necessary, because the citizen
may have failed to conform in every
respect to ration regulations.
More of the hearing commission
er's philosophy, and less OF the
arbitrary consignment to the gull
lotine advocated by some of OPA's
lawyers, will make for better ration
enforcement and more willing COM
pliance on the part of business and
the public.
Evening star., 1943-11-18

British defense was stout, aided by
the local Italian troops and by
Greek contingent brought in at the
last moment. The end came sud
denly after an encouraging rally by
the defenders. Berlin reports the
capture OF 5000 British and 5000
Italian troops, which sounds prob
able. The sole remaining British
foothold is Samos, much larger is
land. than the other two and still
more isolated, so it's chances are
proportionately slim.
Thus is liquidated a bold venture,
which did not succeed. The reasons
for undertaking so risky an opera
ton are probably both strategic and
diplomatic. Two months ago the
Aegean situation was still scrambled
and uncertain. Those initial British
blows might have revealed such
German weakness that a quick
follow-up could have expelled them
from the Aegean and thereby opened
the sea lanes alike to Salonika and
the Straits. Such a success would
have profoundly impressed Turkey
and would have relieved her from
the air threat from German Aegean
bases, which doubtless does much
to keep her neutral. 1t is also pos
sible that, at that time, the British
Near Eastern high command medi-
tated large-scale operations, which
overall strategy subsequently ad-
]ourned or Cancelled. Anyhow. the
gamble has failed, Berlin can at
last chalk up a minor victory, and
Turkey will perhaps be confirmed
in its cautious neutrality. The larger
picture remains unaltered.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Tr1ceUeH,
1t is classed as songbird, owing to the

1t is classed as songbird, owing to the
construction of its vocal organs, but
actually it is not much Of a singer.
1t is said to have song of four notes,
but very few persons have ever heard or
recognized it when they did hear it.
1t Is often found in company with nut
matches and woodpeckers. This fine trio
accounts for thousands OF inimical in
sects,
Tho creeper is especially beneficial,
because in the list Of things he eats are
no insects which may be said to be any,
thing but harmful to man and his in
terestS.
He eats eggs, wasps, ants, cocoons,
scales and plant lice.
Spiders and spider eggs are his special
treat He cleans the trees Of all sorts of
dormant forms OF life, most of them
overlooked by the summer birds, and he
does not harm the bark in any way.
These accomplishments are particu-
larly welcome. because they come at 4
time Of the year when trees receive no
antiseptic treatment other than cold.
Freezing temperatures do trees great
deal OF good, by slowing down the inim-
ical influences which poster them in hot
weather.
AS long as the dormant insects are
present, however, they may be accounted
danger, ready to spring into life on
any OF the warm days which come so
often In most winters.
Brown creepers do their bit to keep
the trees clean. The service they render
mankind cannot be measured in dollars
and cents, but 1t is none the less sure.
There are four other creepers in Amer
lea, found in the Southwest and the
Rocky Mountains. They look very much
like ours, except that some OF them are
paler.
The brown creeper builds q nest as
well concealed as itself. 1t often Is placed
behind q loosened section OF bark. The
creeper itself does not pull OIL the bark,
but merely waits until 1t discovers such
loosened place. The nest Is almost
perfectly camounaged. A fr tree is the
favorite nesting site. The eggs number
from hve to eight, hecked with light
brown.
This bird is found from Canada to
Florida. 1t winters over a large part of
its breeding range.
The brown creeper is regarded BY
many watchers as less interesting than
the chickadees and nuthatches, mostly
because he Is more businesslike in his
devotion to insect catching.
The chickadees and nuthatches seem
to have an air of playfulness about them
which makes them better watching.
Some observers have likened them to
typical American small boys, who run
out of the house and begin to jump up
and down on the sidewalk for the sheer
Joy Of living.
The creeper is all business. Life to
him is real, and he must be finding
himself something to eat before night
comes. He counts that day lost whose
broad descending sun sees him 20 to
bed without full stomach.
Evening star., 1943-11-18

allotment on the present basis OF rep
resentation.
AS to the form of government in the
District, I join with those who think
the present form should be retained.
Having lived in the District IS years,
have become convinced that the pres
ent government through appointed
commissioners is far better than could
be realized through an elected council
OF commissioners as contemplated in
the McCarren bill. In fact, I have
grown to be proud of the efficiency,
economy and cleanness Of our city gov
eminent. That is not to say that it
could not be improved. If there has
ever been any scandal in its conduct,
it has escaped my knowledge. The near
est approach Is the recent agitation
concerning conditions at Gallinger Hos
pltal; and even in that matter feel
that the case has been overdrawn and
that the report attempts to make up
In severity what should have been pre-
vented by constancy in attention. The
remedy lies in giving the District gov-
eminent funds and force adequate to
meet the present emergencies.
! venture to touch upon a subject
that in the minds of many citizens is
the basis of objection to the extension
OF the franchise here. They dread the
corruption that has marked many city
administrations and stress the existence
OF opportunity for such corruption in
the considerable portion of our popula-
ton that Is in low economic position.
Similar groups exist in other cities,
However. such groups. both here and
elsewhere, are relatively minor. and if
the great majority should fail to exer-
else their franchise in securing proper
representatives in Congress 1t would be
time to abandon the experiment.
believe that, In the exercise OF ele-
mentary common sense, the people as
a whole, including the feared minority,
would endeavor to send such repre-
sentatives to the Congress as might be
expected to have the greatest possible
influence in that body. My thought is
that all should be elected at large. I
submit, in passing, that our lower-in-
come groups have greater need of able
and Intelligent representation than have
those of us who are better off eco
nomically.
Directors further stress the fact that
many of our residents now vote in vari-
GUS States under the provisions Of
absentee-voter laws. I do not have
such = privilege. Nor would its ex-
istence compensate for the absence OF
the privilege Of taking a more effective
part in the government Of the city in
which are all of my present property,
business and social interests.
This is an opportunity that must not
be wasted. Let us all get behind the
Capper-Sumners resolution.
CHARLES v. BURNSIDE.