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Historical and Nature
Walks Scheduled Sunday

National Capital Parks naturalist
activities for the coming week end
include an historical tour of Lin
coin Park, the Capitol grounds and
the Grant Memorial, a bird walk
through the Soldiers Home grounds
and a nature walk In Fort Totten
Park.
Stanley w. Mcclure, National
Capital Parks historian. will con-
duct the historical tour from the
Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park to
the Grant Memorial, giving histori-
cal accounts of the Nathaniel Green
and Garfield statues, the Folger
Shakespeare Library and the Lii
brary of Congress, the Supreme
Court building, fountain of Neptune,
the Capitol and the Peace Monu-
ment en- route.
Mr.. Mcclure will meet the group
at the Lincoln Emancipation statue
in Lincoln Park at 3 pm. Sunday
Persons participating in the bird
walk should meet the park natural
ist at the west entrance to Soldiers
Home at Park place and Park Road
NV. at 7:30 am. Sunday.
The nature walk will organize at
Hawaii avenue and Allison street
NE. at 3 pm. Sunday for walk
through Fort Totten Park, which Is
located Just north of Soldiers Home
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and skill as by the individuals who
directed the 1886 and 1910 Roosevelt
tights and who are now directing
this one. Having twice proved the
great gullibility Of the American
people, one hardly can blame them
Tor thinking that there is no limit
to 1t. With its glamorous leaders
operating behind a screen of shining
ldeal1sm and making monopolistic
claim to all the virtues, the agents
OF this administration consistently
deal with the most evil figures in
the political world, calculatingly ar
ray class against class and effect
combinations with the most dan
gerous groups in the country.
That is not an exaggerated state
ment. 1t is true one, fully sus-
ceptible OF proof. Twice the New
Dealers have played that game and
they are now preparing to do it
again. In 1886, scattering almost
unlimited largesse to both, they
made an alliance between the farm
lobbyists and the labor lobbyists
This was the farm labor combina-
ton proclaimed by Prof. Tugwell
and which was to relegate business
to the rear and dominate the politi-
cal scene. Though it was an unnatu-
raj union, 1t came pretty close to
doing exactly that for a while. When
to 1t was added the colored vote in
the Northern States, captured
through Mrs. Roosevelt, the WPA
and Federal jobs, Mr.. Roosevelt
would have been irresistible in 1896
even without his personal following
and even though the Republicans
had had stronger man.
Needed Machines in 1910.
In that campaign he did not
really need the city machines with
which he had become allied, but he
did need them in 1940 Without
Eddie Kelly of Chicago, Eddie Flynn
of Brooklyn, Frank Hague of New
Jersey, Joe Guffey of PENNSYLVANIA
and other Of the machine type
bosses the phony third-term draft
certainly could not have been put
over. And though Mr.. Roosevelt
held the colored vote, the farm
vote and the labor vote, without
these machines he could not have
been elected. In brief. it was these
city bosses who supported him for
their own sordid reasons and whom
he had fattened with Federal
patronage and favors who made the
third term possible.
That is basic political fact
which no informed person will dis
pute. And now, as 1914 approaches,
the same game, differing only in
detail, is being played. Again rep
resented as the indispensable
man." with heavy emphasis upon
the necessity of not changing the
Commander in Chief" until the war
Is won and the peace made, strong
emotional plea is being made by
administration propagandists, while
the practical fellows do their deal
ing under cover. There is also the
completely demagogic argument
that unless Mr.. Roosevelt is con-
tinued in power all our social
gains" will be lost and the Gov
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Court Upho|ds 0PA RefusaI
To eef Firm Raise Prices

The United States Emergency
Court of Appeals late yesterday up
held Price Administrator Browns
refusal to allow the United States
Gypsum Co., an adjustment in prices
OF its products-sold in three West
ern States-in order to absorb a
3 per cent transportation tax i'm
posed since the maximum price reg
ulation was put into effect.
The court dismissed a complaint
against the Price Administrator re-
garding sales of gypsum products
in California, Nevada and Arizona
in connection with which the com
pany has to bear the burden of the
transportation tax. The products
1t was pointed out, are transported
from the company's Midland, Calf.
plant
Justice Bolitha j. Laws. of Dis
trlct Court and also a Judge of the
Emergency Court of Appeals. and
Judge Calvert Magruder of the lat
ter tribunal sat on the case with
Chief Judge Albert B. Maris, who
wrote the courts decision.
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The Great Game of Politics.

ernment taken over by those who
put property rights" above human
rights"
Political Assets.
Properly played up, these points
are political assets of considerable
weight. But they are not enough
either to nominate or elect Mr..
Roosevelt again-and every practical
politician knows it. They know that
this time the farmer-labor alliance
can no longer be counted upon; that
the farm vote is irrevocably lost; that
the colored vote, though still strong
ly pro-Roosevelt, is less so than 1t
was; that the small businessman has
become disilluSioned and that there
is the accumulation of resentments
inevitably created by a too long
tenure Of Office. The job Of the
fourth-term managers is to offset
these defections and they are going
at 1t in an exceedingly practical
way.
OF course, one thing upon which
they properly count is the vast in
crease in the Federal jobholders-
now more than 100000. This means
a lot, but it is not enough, either.
Clearly, greater dependence than
ever has got to be placed upon the
big city machines and the radical
groups. The recent eulogistic in
dorsement by the official Communist
organ of Mr.. Frank Hague, on the
general ground that because of his
support of Mr.. Roosevelt for fourth
term, they have to love him, IL
lustrate what is going on under
meath. And this alliance has been
aided personally by the President,
first, by series of indefensible ap-
pointments for the Hagues, Kellys
and Kennedys; second, by extreme
coddling of the American Labor
party of New York, which controls
100000 votes in the greatest State in
the Union and is recognized as the
most radical organization in America.
Not Supposed to Know.
But the great gullible American
people are not supposed to know any
of this. When the facts are pre-
sented they are told that they come
from Roosevelt haters." Then, the
Federal jobholders in the various
States rush to write denunciatory
letters to their local newspapers. All
the people are expected to believe
is that Mr.. Roosevelt reluctantly will
consent to run again because there
is no one else to conclude the VIC
tory or make the peace. They are
further expected to believe that he
has banished politics from his mind
and that his aides are all noble
fellows whose only reason for stay
ing in office is to serve the interests
OF the common man" There was
never anything farther from the
truth. That they have gotten away
with this bunk so long is no tribute
to the intelligence of the people.
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Lions Plan 10 Extend
Mental Hyqiene Work

Plans to extend nationally the
work being performed by the WASH
ington Institute of Mental Hygiene.
1864 Columbia road NV, will be
made by representatives of the
Metropolitan Areas Lions Clubs at
a special meeting at Arts Diner,
838 Bladensburg road NE. Tuesday
at 1915, pm, M. j. Blanke, scrs"- 4.
tary of the East Gate Lions Club,
announced today.
The institute, which was started
two years ago by the East Gate
Lions Club. has concentrated on
helping and curing the insane in
the District. Drs. Walter Freeman
and James w. Watts, of George
Washington University, have been
in charge.
The meeting also seeks to make
the work the major charitable in
terest of the Lions Clubs throughout
the country.
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the foreign Dorothy Thompson.
broadcasts division of the Owl if
he realized in advance what he
was up against.
For in order to wage political
warfare there must be a political
policy. But if there is political
policy in respect to enemy peo-
pies, it is a secret not shared
with the Owl, which is therefore
operating in anarchy.
For many months script writers
Of broadcasts to enemy countries,
paid and volunteer. have been
asking the following questions:
What do we wish to accomplish
in Italy and Germany? The
overthrow of the Fascist and
Nazi regimes? If so, what sort
of Government would we recog-
nize? What hopes can we hold
out to democratic governments?
If Fascism is overthrown by a
military coup, would that change
our attitude?
Must Know Answers.
Are we at one with Russia and
Britain concerning the future of
enemy peoples? Does the At
lantic Charter apply to them? In
case of revolution and peace is
Italy to retain any colonies?
Would a liberal government
pursing Fascism obtain more
favorable peace terms than a
Fascist or military government?
Now, I submit, that unless
those conducting political war
fare know the answers to these
questions, it is impossible to act
intelligently. For these are the
questions that the enemy peoples
must be asking themselves. The
object of political warfare is to
influence the mind and behavior
OF enemy peoples in specific di-
rections, not to make direction
less propaganda. 1t is an instru-
ment in support of policy.
The amazing fact is that these
critically important questions
have not been answered by our
Government, either to the Owl
script writer's or independent edi-
tors, commentators and writer's,
who also have asked them.
X X
AS long as an acute political
situation had not arisen, it was
possible to conduct political war
fare wholly with the aim of dis
couraging enemy peoples, in the
realization that they were losing
the war. But when they start to
revolt against their leadership,
and revolutionary situation be-
gins to develop. what is needed is
encouragement for our potential
Allies in enemy countries and
for that more is necessary than
repetition of unconditional
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vestigated by Congress, and if there
are any clandestine or secret pledges
made to Mr.. Churchill in the init
mate and sympathetic relationship"
prevailing between him and the
President they ought to be made a
matter of public record If there are
no such understandings, then the
British shipping world should be
disillusioned at once for the pub
licity given to the Roosevelt .
Churchill pronouncement and the
manner of it's making would lead to
the belief that it is hardly just
routine transfer of flag for 2,000,-
900 tons of shipping paid for by
American taxpayers and investors.
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Course in Home Nursing
Shortened to d Weeks

A four-week course in home
nursing, which will be sponsored by
the American Red Cross, will begin
at 10 am. Tuesday at the Walsh
House, 2020 Massachusetts, avenue
NV.
The course, normally completed
IN six weeks, was shortened to give
those whose time is limited an op-
portunity for the training
The classes will meet on Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday of each
week and will end Septenoher 7
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W a t c h e d
eagerly / n
Washing t on
and in Lon
don.
In view of
the fact only
a Ii m i t e d
n u m b er of
N a ri forces
are involved
in the Sicilian
campaign -
not more than
40,000-a n d
because Sicily
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This Changing World

defeat was the presence at the
front OF heterogeneous forces
Italians, Rumanians and Slovaks
and, Of course, they could not
take it.
Reich Is Pessimistic.
Last spring the Nazis an
nounced that henceforth they
would place only good German
divisions on the fighting front,
leaving the satellites in the rear
for service duties.
1t is true that the Berlin high
command has never claimed to
have taken the offensive since
their forces began moving east
ward toward Kursk. They told
the world that all the fierce Rus
sian assaults were breaking down
before the Nazi defensive wall.
The mere fact that the NaZis
are on the defensive In Russia
for the first time during the
summer has created pessimistic
feeling in the Reich. Last year
about this time, the Axis armies
were marching toward the Volga
River and the rich oil fields of
the Caucasus, and 1t looked from
the outside that by the end Of
Fall they would be solidly en-
trenched on the Volga.
The Nazi propaganda machine
was limiting that 1t would not
be surprised If the Summer cam
paign Of 1943 would find them
at the fringes of the Ural Noun
tains.
Now the Nazi high command
is seriously thinking about estab-
fishing a strong defensive line
on the Dnieper-a long way from
the Urals and the Volga. They
say that such a line would re-
quire a much smaller force-not
more than $50 divisions-and
that the Notifications there are
such that force three times as
large could not break through.
Forces Seen Salvaged.
Competent Washington observ-
ers do not believe the loss of Orel
in itself and Belgorod will deal
a death blow to German morale.
The all-important thing these
observers would like to know Is
whether the Russians intend to
push their advantage toward
Bryansk and possible even far
ther west.
From scanty reports received
here, it appears that the Ger
mans have managed to withdraw
the bulk Of their forces from the
Orel-BelGOrOd area.
If the Russians can press their
advantage Immediately without
giving the Nazis time to reorgan-
ize, it is likely the German
morale will suffer greatly. But
if they are compelled to pause,
Orel and Belgorod will become q
major incident without any fur
ther serious repercussions on
morale. .
While an Allied action in West
ern Europe this year Is still be-
lieved to be out Of the question,
the night bombings by British
aviation are likely to be renewed
on an even larger scale than last
week in the hope that they will
be an important contributing
factor to the destruction of the
German will to resist.
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comfortable apartment in an awning
factory, because I can't stand the
sun. For all the good things that
the sun does for corn in Iowa, cotton
in Georgia, wheat in Kansas and
oranges in California, 1t takes out
the mean side of Its nature by get
ting even with me. Not that I ever
remember this until it's too late.
During six months in England.
where any knowledge of the sun is
based strictly on hearsay, I used to
long for my home town and a
chance to stretch out on the sand
and let the blessed sun beat down on
me. That's just exactly what did
the first day got home. No amount
of warnings could keep me from
basking on and on until had what
thought was the basis Of . real
good tan. What I really got was
sunburn so severe that neighbors .
came with cup custards, calls foot
jelly, chicken broth and innumerabls
home remedies for my ailment.
Can't Get Tanned.
But as painful as sunburn can
be. it isn't as painful as the en-
barrassment of never being able to
get tan. From past experience
I know what I will look like when I
am sufficiently recovered from this
sunburn to go down on the beach
again.
will peel and be just as white as
I ever was but. like a burned child
who breads the fire, III have a
healthy respect for the sun for
while. I'll dodge from beach UNI
brella to beach umbrella. I'll plaster
myself with every known kind Of
lotion. I'll wrap my legs in towels
and wear shirt with my bathing
trunks. In fact, I'll be just about
as unattractive as possible and be
conscious of my unattractiveness
all the time.
All around me will be bronzed
people. My bronzed wife will play
catch with a bronzed Navy flyer
from a nearby base, while cover
and whimper under my umbrella.
My bronzed friends will ride SURF
boards and cast for fish in the surf
while I sit in my beach robe, pray
ing for nightfall so we will all go
indoors and get dressed. At least
in the evening all I have to look
at is bronzed faces.
All people who are tanned act as
If they felt that all untanned people
were sissies and very unhealthy. I
don't have any ailments that know
of, but all the tanned creatures that
run around here in Florida look at
me as If I were a sort of Typhoid
Mary.
Call Children Away.
have actually had bronzed
mothers call their little bronzed chill
dren to come away from me and
play on another part of the beach.
This inability to get any darker
than well-scrubbed porcelain wash
basin has been a trial to me
for years.
I remember when I was 10 or II
years old and moved to Bradenton,
Fla, how longed and ached to be
tanned like my playmates. I finally
got so desperate that one day I
robbed the kitchen pantry and
rubbed two cans of Bakers cocoa
all over me- I was beautiful as long
as I stayed on land, but when I
came out of the Manatee River,
I resembled nothing so much as a
scent chocolate milk shake.
Wasn't it Conan Doyle who wrote
Sherlock Holmes story called The
Red-Headed Lacquer" I wish T
could get up one. All of us redheads
could put on our big straw hats, our
creams and lotions, our shirts and
long pants and go down to our end
of the beach, and freckle and peel
together
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is at the periphery of the Euro
pean fortress which, from the
German point of view, starts at
the River Po, the effect of the
defeat in Sicily is likely to be
limited as far as the morale of
the German people is concerned.
The situation on the eastern
front is different. Although the
Germans have been prepared by
their propaganda organizations
to expect some strategic with
draWals" in Russia, it is hoped
here that the fall of Orel and
Belgorod will have bad effect
on the German home front.
The German people have been
educated to believe that the
eastern front is the only one
that matters. Europe, they have
been told, is a strong fortress.
The Allies may succeed in nib
bling at its fringes and register
local successes here and there.
But there is a sufficient German
army, SO the Goebbels propa-
ganda machine has been saying,
to make 1t impossible for the
Allies actually to dent the Euro
pean fortress.
Russian Story Different.
German commentators and ex-
perts have presented facts and
figures to their people showing
that the Anglo-Saxons did not
have a sufficient military ma
chine for large-scale invasion
Of Europe, and Goebbels has an
nounced in the last few weeks
that the Nazi high command
actually would welcome an at
tempt of the American-British
forces to tackle any of the forti-
fed positions of Europe.
The statements were good bro
mldes for the Germans, who have
no means Of knowing what Is
happening in the outside world.
But the Russian story is diff
ferent. The Germans know that
thirds of their entire armed
forces are on the Soviet front.
They had been told that the Rus
slams had suffered such tremen-
dous losses since 1941 that they
were short of breath, that what
ever offensives they would under
take would be only local in scope
and would be smashed by the
powerful Nazi armies.
Last year, after the Stalingrad
disaster, German propaganda
said the principal reason for the
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as a front yard
Is just about as
sensible as for a
hay fever suf-
ferer to build
his house In a
field Of golden
rod.
1t would have
b e en- m u c h
smarter for me
to have bought
q nice little plot
inside Mammoth
Cave or tn have
negotiated for a
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the hopes of the
British shipping
interests h a v e
been u n d u ! Y
S t i'm u lated by
he announce
nent made in
the Ho use Of
Com m ons by
Prime Minister
Churchill.
Mr.. Churchill
made a special
point of explain
ing tn e n e W
arrsn gem emf,
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to cover up po-
litlcal practices
Of an extremely
unsavory nature
with the pre-
tense of purity.
This, to be sure,
is an almost in
V a r / a b ! e rule
with all poll
ticians in all
campaigns.
But never has
it been devel-
oped with such
high Hypocrisy
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trouble ! e S
deeper than
the criticism
indicates, nor
can it be dis
m i S S e d by
C h a n G e S in
ers on n e !.
Under pres
e n condi-
tions, no in
t e ii e ctually
honest person
would take a
position with
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Ram Raised on Bottle

Bottle-fed and reared on cows
milk, a ram owned by Miss Mollie
Wilson OF near Adelaide, Australia
now weighs 238 pounds, is 53l2
inches long and BIZ inches high.
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On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

The lamentable performance Of
the owl on the fall of the
Fascist regime has come in for
justified criticism. But the real
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HE opinions OF the Driter this their not
necessarily The Stars opinions presented in The
Stars effort to all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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.McLemore-
Wants to Stort
Redheud League
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

DAYTONA BEACH. Fla.--For q
man of my red-headed complexion
to choose to have home right on
the beach with the Atlantic Ocean
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BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Reports of reaction in Germany
caused by the capture of Orel
and Belgorod by the Russians
and Catania by the British are
Evening star., 1943-08-06
BY FRANK r. KENT.

AS the campaign for the fourth
term progresses, the New Deal
strategists are once more demon
strating their extraordinary ability
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Ship Gift
Qualification
Needed Now
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

Does President Roosevelt intend to
make a present of 100000 tons of
American shipping to Great Britain?
If not, then it IS to be feared that
Evening star., 1943-08-06

surrender" and continued threats
to blow their factories and cities
to bits.
Then a political program is
essential, designed to create sup
porters who will fight our war
inside enemy lands. To win sup
porters, one must offer some
thing. The mere promise that
their individual lives will be
spared appeals only to the crav-
en-, trying to escape. 1t does not
appeal to active. patriotic. re-
sponsible forces from whom we
may desire concerted action.
For months I have been try
ing to get an answer to the same
questions that have perturbed the
script writers of the Owl and
not only I, but many other edi-
torial writer's and commentators.
If they have found the answers,
I wish they would tell me. Kings-
bury Smith, who covers the
State Department for'Mr. Hearst,
and Is usually reliable, claims
that he does know our Govern
ment's plans for defeated Ger
many and Italy, and has set
them forth in two issues of the
American Mercury. But these
plans have not been affirmed
or denied by the State Depart
ment
If these plans are accurately
reported. then Owl commenta-
tors we're correct in saying that
as far as the future of enemy
peoples is concerned, the fall of
Fascism makes no difference. For
we intend in any case to occupy
enemy countries, and administer
them, first with military and
later with civilian authorities, us
ing for this. purpose specially
trained "Gauleiters," and "edu-
Gators"
Working In Vacuum.
So the question is not what the
broadcasters shouldn't have said.
The question is what they should
have said. Obviously, the broad
casters could not present their
listeners with these unconfrmed
plans which if circulated in
enemy countries would inevita-
bly, strengthen the resistance of
every element of the peoples
against us, and behind any war
leader, Fascist or not.
Had the questions which the
broadcasters have been asking
been answered, no one would
have needed to try to reach the
President or State Department
on the night Mussolini abdicated.
Like any good army. they would
have followed strategy planned
long in advance, setting it into
motion the moment Fascism fell.
r
Without a planned strategy,
the script writer's were thrown on
their own wits, and that their
wits gale dthem is no wonder.
They seized on Mr.. Grafton, who
was ready with his own opinion,
and invented an imaginary COM
mentator to express an imaginary
opinion. Only an imaginary COM
mentator or unofficial person
could have had an opinion, as
matters stand.
For If there is a policy, 1t is
locked in the bosoms of the Presi-
dent, the chiefs of the armed
forces and Mr.. Hull. The rest of
us, including the owl, are wag-
ing this war in a political vac
uum.
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