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Evening star., 1943-11-30

talking to q people who have Just
seen large part Of their capital
city laid in ruins. and who are be-
ginning to realize that their military
leaders are incapable of protecting
them against future visitations of
death and destruction from the
skies. Perhaps Goebbels felt that he
had to hold out to these people some
hope of peace, to persuade them to
the belief that their leaders were
willing to give up the war on some
other terms than unconditional sur
render. Or again. he may have had
In mind the rumored Roosevelt
Churchill-Stalin meeting, and the
reports that they are about to offer
the Germans a last chance" to
surrender. Maybe he felt it was the
part Of wisdom to open the door
wide enough to indicate that the
Nazi overlords are in a receptive
mood. Finally, 1t is possible that
conditions within Germany are
worse than we know, and that the
walls of the fortress are ready to
crumble.
This last, however is the least
likely Of the possibilities. The avail
able evidence indicates that the Nazi
military machine is capable of con-
tinuing the fight, and nothing that
Goebbels may say can be trusted to
mean that the will to fight is gone.
His remarks are interesting, but we
would be we'll advised to treat them
as nothing more than tacit admis-
sion on the part of Goebbels that
Germany cannot win the war. And
to the extent that that is a confess
sion OF weakness, we should strike
the harder.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
An Affront Repealed

Only the Presidents signature is
needed now to erase a sixty-year- old
aftront to people who have become
one OF our most valiant and most
important allies. With Senate pas
sage Of the House-approved Magnu-
son Andrews bill. the Chinese ex-
clusion laws have been removed
from the statute books and what
Mr.. Roosevelt has called a historic
mistake" has thus been rectifed, de-
priving the Japanese Of the ammu-
milton they have used we'll and
frequently in an effort to build up
ill-will against us in China and
throughout Asia.
The repeal means that whereas
none was admitted before. total of
los Chinese will be allowed to enter
the United States every year from
now on, under our quota system of
immigration. 1t means, further,
that a certain number of Chinese
aliens living at present in this coun-
try will have the right to become
naturalized citizens. Heretofore. as
result Of legislation enacted sixty
years ago to prevent the importation
OF coolie labor. the people of China
have had good reason to resent the
discrimination against them and to
interpret 1t as a measure indicating
that Americans insultingly regarded
them as interiors.
Although the exclusion laws were
originally not meant to be such a
slur, they came to have the effect
Of one. and the Japanese during the
past few years have made the most
of that fact, using it to promote re-
sentiment against the white man and
spread the doctrine of Asia for the
Asiatics." BY the repeater, there
fore, Congress has struck an effec-
tive blow against enemy propa-
ganda. But more than that, it has
ended the strange situation in which
although China was our ally in the
war-an ally whose sacriflcial effort
has won the undying admiration
and thanks Of all Americans-our
Evening star., 1943-11-30
War and Delinquency

Hearings before a special Senate
Subcommittee on Wartime Health
and Education will establish, in the
language of committee announce
ment, the effect of growing juvenile
delinquency on the war effort" II
the Senate committee could first
establish the effect of the war effort
on juvenile delinquency, the results
might be even more helpful. For in
spite OF the great amount of discus
sion OF the subject these days, it Is
difficult to find the statistics by
which to determine, in relation to
the past, the amount of juvenile
delinquency attributable to the war.
Chairman Claude Pepper says
himself that there seems to be no
compilation of accurate and COM
plete information on the causes,
extent or result of delinquency. Our
preliminary study indicates that
prevalent attitudes range from the
hysteria Of those who treat the prob
lem as one purely Of police discipline
to those who would put two lollypops
IN every hand" While the Senator's
own announcement speaks of grow
Ing juvenile delinquency, the def
mite proof of it's growth is not
furnished.
In Washington last week. DR..
Joseph A. Murphy of the Health
Department presented some surpris-
Ing statistics to the Board of Educa-
tion's Advisory Committee on War
time and Postwar Problems of the
Child. There was a showing, for
instance, that an estimated Al per
cent Of illegitimate births in the
District involved mothers under
nineteen years old; that total of
one hundred and thirty-three school
children under sixteen years old were
excused last year because Of preg-
nancy or to care for their infants,
The figures were shocking enough,
indicating condition in some of the
Negro schools especially, that con-
Germs the whole community. But
while the report was hinged on war
time and postwar problems, there
was nothing to show statisticallv
that this problem is any more grave
now than it was in peacetime; or
that it will be more, or less, compli-
Gated in the postwar period.
At least one qualified expert in the
field Of juvenile delinquency has
written that while there are many
indices of particular trends, they are
so colored by numerous variables as
to make comparisons difficult. FIRE.
quent discussion undoubtedly is
making the public more conscious
OF juvenile delinquency, more aware
OF the need for corrective effort,
regardless of the amount of increase
which might be shown by acceptable
statistics. That, of course, is bound
to be beneficial. More beneficial,
certainly, than some OF the state
ments about juvenile delinquency
which would indicate that the i'm.
pact OF war is giving US a generation
OF depraved young Americans.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Subsidies Discussed
As Reformers' self -Delusion."

Subsidies Discussed
As Reformers' self Delusion."
10 the Editor Of The Star:
The first lady is quoted as saying
that food subsidies will reduce the debt
our children will have to pay.
This declaration - implying worry
about the public debt-marks a healthy
departure from views held by other New
Dealers. Washington's happy squander-
ers have betrayed infinite contempt for
bankruptcy, have blandly excused their
itch to dole out billions in support OF
hare-brained schemes by saying the size
of the debt did not matter because we
owed it to ourselves.
Were not recent subsidies, rollbacks
and like phenomena set up by our
brainsters in part to keep wage de-
mends, strikes and resulting imitation
within bounds? Yet labor has CO.
operated by booming its wage requests"
to such peaks as it's bosses have deemed
1t expedient to try for in one set Of
demands.
Such backsnders as the farmers and
millions Of plain people"-labor bosses
and some bureaucrats excepted-are fed
up with subsidies. They regard them,
at best, as political bunko and razzle-
dazzle; a thinly-veiled form of self
delusion, proof of the governing clique's
inability to divorce itself from the itch
to dictate and regulate.
With the bulk of the country working
at soft" money jobs, why should not
costs be paid directly by the people
absorbing surpluses and checking debt
growth? Should the grocer's boy deliver
a pound Of baloney with steamroller
drawn by an elephant because he never
learned to ride bicycle?
Instead New Dealers, resentful If their
mere sayso is not taken Is gospel, insist
that subsidies-the great political shell
game and milestone around every tax
payers neck-be kept in force.
Perhaps through long employment a
Evening star., 1943-11-30

country was still closed to It's emil
grating citizens.
1t is a good thing that this alb
surdity has at long last been elimi-
mated. The Chinese now have an
earnest of our true and deep respect
for them. Before this, they could
only wonder what kind of friends
we were when we kept the door shut
in their faces even while we show
cred them with warm words and
high praise from our parlor win
dow,
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Censorship
From the lola (Kans.) REGISTER.

rIom tne 1ole (hAnS.) REGISTER.
Our dispensers Of information in
washington might ponder with profit
the wise observation made by Paul Bel
lamy, editor OF the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, in a recent address:
Said Mr.. Bellamy: MY quarrel with
much Of the censorship idea entertained
by both the Army ard Navy, and to a
certain extent by other departments of
the Government, is that many of these
officials do not seem to realize that the
American people are an adult race
that they know about the facts OF life,
that they know about birth and death,
that they know about cowardice and
about bravery, about good and about
wrong. It Is folly Of the worst kind to
try to keep bad news away from them,
and It is equal folly to keep good news
from them"
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Marines Tear Down "Jungles"
OF Jap Philosophy.

To the Editor of The Star:
Recently, there has appeared In the
newspapers an Associated Press dis
ID entitled, "Japs Say Marines Tear
Down Jungles."
The complaint registered Is to this
effect: The Japs are complaining that
the Marines are not good jungle fighters,
but that they tear down the jungles
and that after while there will be no
jungles in which to fight.
And might add no Japs to fight In
them. we hope!
Hurrah for the Marines!
Which all goes to show that the Ma
rine slogan, The Marines have landed
and the situation is we'll in hand" still
holds
Tear down the jungles. How typically
American! If you cannot cope with
the obstacle, tear it down. And why
not? But be bit careful in this
tearing down process or you may destroy
that on which you yourself may need
to build. Instead of standing for CEN
turies and gazing at stone wall step
over 1t OF tear it down. Try to save
some Of the stones, however. If there
had been no strength in them, they
would not have stood there so long.
The Jap comprehends that the Amer
leans are tearing down the jungles.
This he can grasp. But what he does
not realize Cor does hep is that we are
tearing down the jungle which exists
in the japanese mind. BY the time that
the Allies are through with the Nips
there will not be enough of their old
superstitions left intact to conceal the
foolishness of their ideologies even from
themselves. LAURA K. POLLOCK,
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Congress Can Tax

oSSANooAJ AVAIL 6CllIIldu, dppCdllIlR
before the Senate Finance Commit
tee after the House had rejected the
Treasury'S tax program, has shown
no disposition to retreat from his
original position.
The Treasury, he said, wants
$l0,500 100000 in new taxes. 1t
wants to get this money under the
original program, which would re-
lieve some 100000 persons in the
lower income groups from payment
OF direct taxes, and it has not aban-
doned its opposition to a Federal
sales tax In short, Mr.. Morgenthau
stands precisely where he stood
when he appeared before the Ways
and Means Committee OF the House,
and the rebuff that he received there
seems likely to be repeated in the
Senate.
The tax bill, as passed by the
House, is expected to raise about
81, JAP 100000 This is relatively little
additional revenue to be collected in
a year which will bring the highest
national income in history, and
which will leave an estimated
$4,000 100000 Of surplus income in
the hands OF the people. Certainly,
on the statistical record, we can
afford to pay more taxes this year.
II we do not pay them now, when
individual incomes are rising under
the stimulus of Government spend
ing, there is very small likelihood
that We will pay them when the war
ends and the artificial prosperity
accompanying it is gone At the end
OF this fiscal year-and the war will
not be over then-We will have a
national debt Of 100000, 900 900.
The interest alone will be $4,000 00O,-
600. II we are not willing to take
more than $4,000, ,0o0, 900 in new taxes
now from an income surplus Of $685.
900 0,000, 900, what are we going to do
when the war boom Is over?
The Treasury, apparently unwilling
to aim its tax program at the indi-
vidualS who have received the bulk
OF inflated war income, shows no
disposition to propose new taxes that
Congress might approve. But that,
while dampening influence, does
not mean that the hands of Congress
are tied. Despite Mr.. Morgenthau's
GOODNESS toward sales tax, and de-
spite his rather curious prediction
that only about Sl,0oO,OOO,0OO of
additional revenue would be raised,
there is no reason why Congress
should not impose a sales tax, If
that is what 1t wants. Nor is there
any reason why Congress, If 1t so
desires, should not enact tax legisla-
ton to reach excess income in the
hands of the lower income groups.
II Congress really believes that this
is the source from which additional
new revenue should be taken-if it is
satisfied that the threat of imitation
comes from surplus income in the
hands OF these individuals-there is
no real reason why it should not
proceed to tax them more heavily,
regardless of the Treasury's position.
Obviously, If Congress is unwilling
to impose its own levies, there is little
point in accusing the Treasury of
playing politics because it wants to
relieve 100000 persons of direct
taxes.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Every One Can Learn
From the Windsor Star.

From the Windsor Star.
Striking coal miners challenge Con-
gresham, who criticized them, to go
into mine and work for few days,
saying he would change his opinion. It
might be fair also to suggest that some
Of the miners 60 into the battle fronts
and see what happens II the weapons
that coal helps produce do not arrive
In time.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Cartoon Praised
For Emotions"

For Emotions"
To the Editor of The Star:
Please permit me to compliment c. K.
Bergman on his splendid cartoon in
The Star for Thanksgiving Day.
What a world Of human emotions 1t
portrays! Hatred, greed, vengeance,
sorrow, remorse, pain and death, all
wrapped in one bundle on the Thanks
giving dish. Too late for the creaking
raven to sputter "Nevermore."
To me this is the ace Of all Mr..
Berrymans pictures and should be en-
tered in the cartoon contest of 1943.
FRANK CLIFTON BELL,
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 10rtter, although the use of
q pseudonyna for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
q uie1D to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Denies Human Character
OF German People.


OF German People.
TO the Editor of The Star:
David Lawrence in his article of No.
vember Is expresses concern for the well
fare OF the German people. His whole
thinking seems to me to be based upon
a hopeless fallacy.
1t Is preposterous to talk Of the Nazis
and the German people as though they
were separate and distinct. Let Mr..
Lawrence read some of the letters found
in the pockets of German prisoners or
killed in the field on the eastern front.
Let him see that these bloodthirsty
fiends are the German people and not
just Nazis.
There were some naive Communists
in this country who believed that Ger
man Communists would not fight Rus
slams. Look at them, those German
Communists. they are today the most
barbarous fighters against the Soviet
Union. The same is true of the Ger
man Christians.
For President Roosevelt, Prime Min
lister Churchill or Marshal Stain to
talk to the German people is just as
futile as to try to ward off an attack by
ferocious tiger by holding a Bible in
front Of him.
The German people themselves have
decreed that only might is right. Not
until they are completely subdued and
re-educated in the course of four or six
generations will they be worthy of re-
ceiving the same consideration as any
other segment of the human family. To-
day they are not human at all, and
hence net entitled to the considcra-
ton given human beings
j. ANTHONY MARCUS.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

vote-seeking instruments, subsidies have
taken on something Of the sacred char
acter of debt which does not count be-
cause we appear to receive the benefits
concurrently and 80 on owing ito
ourselves.
II retarding debt growth is of real
concern, why have two prime cures been
ditched-Government economy and a
national sales tax?
Last, If the cost OF subsidies isn't
added directly and inevitably to our
children's debt, what is it added to?
WALTER BAHNSEN.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

Q. Please explain the term "dounle
jeopardy."-D. D. S.
A. Amendment of the United States
Constitution provides that persons shcu
not be subject for the same offense to be
twice put in jeopardy OF life or limb
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-20
Local 29b
Notes

Moorefeld Local 296. UFWA,
voted at its regular meeting Dec.
10 to buy $50 war bond, since the
money In the treasury is more than
enough to meet immediate needs.
However, the local will have to
send a trouble-shooter to Cleveland
with an axe before long II the
RWLB dosn't come across with
that raise that the union negoti-
ated last August.
Pres. Ray Ours went out after
wild turkey and ran into three big
wildcats. He came home soon afters
he says.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-20
GRAPEVINE
PoIIy-Ticks
By MARY LII CON

During the past week, your polit-
ical reporter had occasion to OBJ
serve first hand some OF the irony
Of Price Controlled Tor we should
say, not so we'll CONTROLLED Wash
ington.
In space of two blocks in down.
town Washington. we observed:
III Coffee in large chain store
luncheonette for 5 cents cup; (2)
in a large chain restaurant the
coffee was 10 cents cup: (3) in
an Independent restaurant, not
classy either. the coffee was %
cents a cup, and this did not in
clude any music or any added at
traction.
The latter place was short OF
help, and customers had to wait at
least 20 minutes for service. Sand
witches in this place ranged from
the lowly hamburger and weiner
brands at Is cents each. to ham.
bacon or chicken, so cents up.
Prices like the above quoted are
frequent, and IL is high time that
the OPA started cleanup in its
own house. Girls who leave the
small towns to go TO Washington
and enroll with the Civil Service.
in order to do something WORTH
while for the war effort. are frus-
trated by the exorbitant charges
for room rent and meals in Wash
ington.
Congress should investigate the
hundreds of girls who are quitting
the government service daily be-
cause they cannot get by in WASH
ington. even though the pay may
average over S170o per year.
One amusing sign was observed
In a downtown eatery, which clear
~ presents the plight OF the res
taurant owners or managers. The
sign read: Customers will please
be patient with out Mattresses.
Mattresses are harder to get than
customers"
Yes, there is plenty of room for
general overhauling of price
structures in Washington, and UNI
der the very noses of OPA officials.
La gaceta., 1943-05-22
la PSTCOSIS
POR Los BROMUROS

Ell doctor Frank j. Curran IN.
Yor), ha hecho un estudio sobre
50 casos de psicosis producidas por
los bromuros. He aqui sus conclu-
stones: Los bromuros reemplazan
a los cloruros en- la sangre duran
te ell curse del tratamiento bromu-
RADIO y las manifestations t6xicas
pueden aparecer cuando un rs a
35 por ciento de los hal6genos son
reemplazados por los bromuros.
I'm p~orcentaje de 40 por ciento
puede ser considerable como fatal.
Los epilepticos parece ser que to-
leran mejor los bromuros que los
~sujetos normales. Los sintomas de
la intoxicaci6n por bromuro SON:
la rigidez, ell acne, las molestias
La gaceta., 1943-05-22
SARMIENTO Y Los
MEDTOCRES

Cuenta leopold Lugones, con
aouel talento que fue su blas6n,
al perfilar a Sarmiento, que en-
1859 discutiase en- la Legislature
de Buenos Aires una garantia del
siete por ciento al capital de ocho-
cientos mil pesos que Sc proponia
invertir cierta compahia ferrovia-
ria en- la Inca a San Fernando,
suburbio de la capital argentina.
Los Diputados encontraron exec
silva la suma.
Sarmiento la consider6 exigua
hasta 10 ridiculo, afirmando que
los ferrocarriles argentinos llega-
rfan pronto a valer, no ochocien-
tos mil pesos sino ocho millones.
Risas de incredulidad. Ell ora
La gaceta., 1943-05-22

~pastricas, la lentitud en- las reac-
clones pupilares, falta de firmeza
on la marcia, temblor de la len
qua Y de las manos y modiflca-
clones en- los reflejos de los ten
dones que puedn ser aumentadas
O disminuidas. Ell tipo mas comun
de psicosis bromica es ell delirio,
de una duracion media de tres a
seis semanas. Las er%upciones de
acne estan con frecuencia acompa-
tnadas de trastornos mentales. Los
so casos de trastornos mentales
observados por Curran han sldo
clasificados de la manera sigulen-
tie. Parafasia, alucinaciones visua-
les, trastornos de la memoria con
fabulaci6n. Ell tratamiento consis-
tie en- suprimir ell bromuro y dar
cloruro de sodio por via bucal o
intravenosa.
La gaceta., 1943-05-22
Use ME HUBIERA MUERTO,
POR QUE TIE 10 IBA A
NEGAR?

FL paraguayo Veloso (asi Sc lie
conocia), fue muy buen guitarris-
ia Y con ST instrumental sc CANA
ba la vida. Acostumbraba pasarse
la noche en- los cafes del centric v
contiguous al Mercado Central. Sc
retiraba al venir las barras del
dia, e~nvuelto en- un ponchito PAM
pa en- ell cual envolvia su guitarra
para p%reservarla de las grandes
heladas.
En- una de las salidas del Merca-
do, sc encontro en- forma inespe-
rada, con otro paraguayo, oriun-
do del mismo pueblo, por anadi.
dura %vecinos de puerta V con
quien no sc veia hacia treinta a.
nos.
Verse y abrazarse fue TODD uno.
A raiz del saludo Y al comienzo
de la conversation. expresole ell
primero al segundo: "Sabras que
bastante tie llore porque me ha-
bian dicho que tie habias muerto-'.
Ell otro, con la cachaza Y ell can
ito de la raza, lie respondio "Ya
me YES. ~ 81 me hubiera muer-
to, por que te 10 iba a negar?"
La gaceta., 1943-05-22
E VERSION DEL
PECADO ORIGINAL

Cualquiera diria que ell profile
ma del origen del hombre y de
sus primeros pasos-infortunados
pasos-por este mundo traidor es-
ia mas que resuelto. Tremendo
error. Cada dia nos encontramos
con que ell problema esta mas en-
brollado. AL menos, para los teo-
logos y los historiadores religio-
sos.
En- un texto de epoca remota,
ell "Alfabeto de Ben Sra, hay
un pasaje que dice:
"Cuando ell Eterno hubo creado
ell mundo y ell primer hombre, vic
que este Sc hallaba solo, e inme-
diatamente lie cre6 una mujer de
la terra como el, cuyo nombre es
Lilith -. Pronto comenzaron a re-
ganar ~ es que, como sc sabian
iguales, ninguno guerra dar prio-
ridad al otro en- la vida c%orriente).
No sc entendian. Cuando Lilith
comprendi6 que este era IRENE
diable, pronunci6 ell nombre inc
fable y Sc desvaneci6 en- ell aire."
"Pero en- ell Genesis" hay una
Erase que alude al momentO en-
que Dios condujo a la mujer a la
p~resencia del hombre. Dijo ell HON
bre: "Esta, por la vez %presente, es
hueso de mis- huesos y carne de mi
carne. Sc llamara mujer porque
ha sido tomada del hombre."
Asi pues, Eva es la segunda cria-
tura femenina. Lo cual no impli-
ca la desaparici6n de Lilith. De
ella vuelven a %encontrarse huellas:
su nombre, bajo la pluma de los
padres de la Iglesia, Sc convirtio
en- lamia, demoniO, angel maldito,
que figura en- ell Talmud. En- las
paginas del Talmud aparece este
consejo: "ESta prohibido dormir
solo en- una casa, porque aquel que
10 hace cae en- las manos de Lii
lith."
La figura de Lilith ha llegado
hasta la literature moderna como
ina vampiresa cualquiera. Tn es-
critor de este siglo ha escrito un
poema sobre Lilith-poema o no
vela-y ha imaginable la aventura
de la criatura igual al hombre,
modelada por la mano de Dios en-
a%rcilla. Remy de Gourmont ha
supuesto que las %exigencias de Lii
18th a Dios mismo incitaron a este
ultimo a darla como esposa de Sa-
tan. FL matrimonio no tuvo lugar
porque la union era esteril. Adam
y Eva Sc %recreaban en- ell paradise,
Satan y Lilith en- ell inferno. En-
tonces Sc produciria la aventura
de la serpiente. Una vez que ell CO.
nocimiento fue revelado al hombre
y a Ia mujer, ambos consumaron
ell pecado; pero, segdn ell citado
escritor, ell pecado ve~rdadero con-
s~istiria en- ell adulterio; porque
Adam habia conocido entonces a
Lifith -.
NJ en- aquel tempo podia ell
hombre escapar a SUI destino.