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Evening star., 1943-10-06

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slow, tasty casserole cooking For serving,
too. Get one OF these durable casseroles
at your nearest Peoples Drug Store.
Evening star., 1943-10-06

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FULLY experienced registered phormoeists compound it
using pure, fresh pharmoeeueo owoys double checking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
New Shipyurd

I tUonder 1Dhdt the mountain dreams
today
To see the stipyard near It's south
ern flank,
The squat nude ,1orkers' shanties.
rank on rank,
The haIt-built hoIloD hulIs along the
bay.
/ ponder IL 1t pieDs the torch-nt ,ray,
The Uelders' flare, the pounded
plate and plank,
The dash and s1Dtrl OF men, the
acres blank
With sheds groom tunous-s,ottt, and
fungus-gray.
Far oUer all the flame and dust It
looms,
Remembering years tohen round
its tangled feet
Only the redwood and the liue-ouk
rose.
And sill aloof it Stares, In cloud
wrapped gloons,
Mindless OF the shriu furry and
retreat
OF one Who pricks the ancient
rocks, and goes.
STANTON A. COBLENTz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

It has not worked out that way.
The oft-beaten Red Army not only
Is still fighting; it is on the offensive
and it is German armies that are
being encircled and destroyed, Ger
man propagandists who are talking
hopefully of the vastness of the east
ern territories in which there is
ample room for retreat.
No one can say with any certainty
how these harsh tidings will be re-
ceived by the people back home in
Germany. Apparently their leaders
are trying to prepare them for still
worse news to come, and if their
task is unduly hard they have only
themselves to blame. 1t was they
who built up the myth of Nazi in
vincibility when the tide of war was
running their way And now that
defeat has set in, it Is up to them to
tear it down, if they can, without
destroying the will of their people
to fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Alexander WooIIcott

Alexander WoOllcOtt probably was
not great original thinker. He will
be remembered as a commentator
rather than as the sponsor of new
conceptions. No idea hitherto I'M
expressed came from his fertile brain.
He was critic in the true meaning
of that Word-a person of keen en-
thusiasms and soaring prejudices.
Nothing under the sun escaped his
interest. He had fixed opinions about
everything. Thus it happened that
he never completely won-ror lost
his audience. Invariably, a sub
stantial minority disagreed with him
and he, with more or less energetic
violence, with it.
People consequently accused him of
being professionally perverse. They
blamed him for illiberality and in
tolerance, and he took up their chal-
lenge with zeal which generally was
effective beyond even his own ex-
pectation. His vanity was a natural
result of the ease with which he
achieved his triumphs over less able
controversialists. None of those with
whom he battled ever succeeded
in defeating him. Mr.. Woollcott
gloried in such conflicts. He got
enormous pleasure out of throwing
verbal bombshells. Yet he also found
authentic Joy in sentimental exer-
cises of the more generous sort. He
was the most graceful payer of COM
pliments as well as the bitterest dis
penSer of sarcastic punishment. The
things he cared about were objects
OF fearful emotion to him. He could
and not infrequently did-weep
over tale of his own telling.
None of his contemporaries sur
passed him in the art of putting
language together. He was a master
stylist-not without fault but GER
tainly without willful carelessness.
His mannerisms both in writing and
In speaking were those of a DELHI
crate virtuoso. He chose to be what
AAS Woo LILO SClllQS W OIldu uekI66
and extent was self-created. The
power which he developed in his
Journalistic labors and as the radio
Town Crier could not be regarded
as an accident. He generated it out
OF his own determined soul Lacking
such driving force, he might have
been only a neighborhood character
in the obscurity of his birthplace,
the otherwise undistinguished vii
lage of Phalanx, New Jersey. And
the world would have been the loser
had he not possessed the peculiar
endowment which accounts for his
success. Mr.. Woollcott justified his
existence not exclusively by making
readers and listeners laugh and cry.
Over the years he espoused a long
list of good causes which truly needed
the help which he could give. The
most constant and the best of the
loyalties which he delighted to serve
was that of civilization itself. He
has died with his face toward the
enemy, and his epitaph should in
clude the phrase which he adopted
as the title Of one of his earlier
books, 1.-THE Command Is Forward"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Fish Former

Secretary Ickes now suggests that
farmers add a new crop to their list
fish. Briefly, the idea is to flood low
lands Of poor agricultural value,
plant fish, and reap them at intervals
as they ripen The food value per
acre, he says, may compare favorably
with that Of more common crops,
while the cost is less and the harvest
ing easier and more fun.
The farmer might at first feel
rather nonplussed at not being able
to complain, as he sometimes does,
about heavy rains that drowned out
his crop, but there would be other
compensations. The Governors of
many States are constantly urging
citizens to get out and help farmers
at harvest time, but no urging will be
needed If the crop has fins and scales
and may be reaped with a rod and
reel instead Of a pitchfork. Usually
at this time, just when cash is low,
the farmer must make big outlay
for harvest hands; if he is farming
fish, he should be able to make his
help pay him, or at least make some
deal with them on a fish-cropping
basis for part of the catch. Or he
might use a seine instead, and put
1t all over the orthodox farmer by
getting a net profit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Commends Proposal
To Cut Maryland Taxes.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Gov. O'Conor has shown the kind
OF leadership that is needed and ap-
preciated by Maryland taxpayers In
his proposal to slash income taxes and
reduce the budget for the next two years
by one-third In the face of demands of
various bureaus to continue spending as
usual.
No better use could be made of the
present s1o,o0o.000 surplus than to return
1t to the taxpayers responsible for it and
who have felt that the State income
taxes have been too high for several
years.
Especially worthy Of commentator Is
the Governors proposal to limit spend
ing by departments to q ratio deter
mined by the percentage of reduction in
receipts under pre-war receipts and
disbursements. Maryland defense indus
tries easily can absorb any State per-
sonnet that may become unemployed as
result of wartime curtailment of
services
1t Is now up to the legislators. The
Governor has pointed the way and it
does not seem possible that any legislator
could fail to see the necessity for de-
creased State expenditures in view of the
unavoidable levying of greatly increased
Federal taxes of all kinds.
P. FREDERICK DRYER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace,UeN.

This species seems much more stupid
than the housefiy.
The housef1y is one of the most clever
of all living things.
Any one who has tried to swat fly
knows about this.
Miss it once and you have time Of
it ever hitting it.
The creature seems to be able, there
after, to gauge every blow aimed at it,
and to get out of the way just in the
famous nick of time.
Few magicians can equal the fly In
its ability to disappear.
It's complete disappearance acts would
do credit to the late Houdini.
The fly is here one second, and then
it is gone. No matter how still you
remain, with "swatter" poised in the
air, the insect will not come into sight.
You give up the hunt and begin to
read. All at once there is the fly. trying
to find food on your knee, as If nothing
had ever happened.
This ability of the fly to hide itself
is one OF its greatest assets, both out
doors and indoors. In the open 1t has
many enemies. and not much food; in
side, 1t meets that greatest killer of them
all, man, but finds food.
Perhaps it is impossible for any human
being to understand what fly must
feel when it alights on a table loaded
with food.
Even the barest table, in wartime, will
represent treasures beyond belief to fly
This is because it requires such small
amounts
Fortunately for it, a fly is able to live
off of many foods.
1t is almost as omniverous as man.
1t will eat sugar, bread, meat, milk,
almost anything which has protein or
carbohydrate in it.
This writer once kept f. in good
health on his desk all winter by placing
lemon drop on the desk every three
or four weeks.
The candy would not disappear, but
merely grow too hard to be good fly food.
Hence it was replaced at intervals.
We worked up quite an interest In
this fly. We tried to keep it from
winging its way to colleagues desk,
worthy person who is mainly inter-
ested in politics: We knew what would
happen and, sure enough, it did.
One day, just as spring was coming
on, this busy man felt our pet fly on
his neck. Up went his hand. Swat!
L got him." he said, with satisfaction
Flies played no part in his affairs, and
no doubt he was right, in world in
which realists rule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

and the chairman finds 1t "hearten-
ing that employer and employe are
putting more emphasis on the or
derby processes for determining bar
gaining rights, and less on the use
of force.
Due to increased membership of
organized labor, the division within
the labor movement which encour-
ages rivalry, and the wartime re-
linquiShment by labor of the right
to strike, the board had a record
docket during the year, nearly 1000
cases being filed. Representation
cases were in the majority, in the
proportion of about six to five, and
while this means that there was an
appreciate number of unfair prac-
tice geS-approximately 5000
the point stressed by the board is
that this is an increase of only 3 per
cent over the previous year, while
representation cases were up 80 per
cent. The board adds that in many
instances 1t was possible to effect
settlement by informal procedure,
because the parties were able to get
together.
Several reasons present them
selves for the changed situation.
Largely responsible, no doubt, are
the war and the fact that the law no
longer is regarded as an innovation
stoutly to be resisted, but has be-
come an accepted factor in industry.
A further explanation probably lies
within the board itself, where new
administrators have sought to be
less the prosecutor and more the
judge. This was bound to be re-
fected in better labor relations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Single Tax Advocate q
Denies Red" Danger.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Even the grim realities of war have
some humorous aspects. One such ex-
ample Is the new cry of "red peril"
now being raised by the most monstrous
forces OF relentless cruelty ever to de-
scend upon economically exploited peo-
pie. There is no doubt that the world
Is threatened by peril. but it is not
red. 1t is a peril which brings to
mankind conditions which promote Hit
lers and Quislings,: peril which makes
men see red only In the form of their
own blood.
We, In America, who have been born
and nurtured in political and religious
freedom, find Government control over
legitimate individual activity repugnant
to the very fundamentals of justice and
completely opposed to the principles ex-
pounded by Christ. Every man, no
matter who he may be or where he
may be, is a creation OF God and
rghtfully belongs only to himself and
not to the state.
The Russian system, however, has
been and is an ideal scapegoat for those
In politically free nations whose eyes
continue to view with greater anxiety
and fear existing unjust tax laws and
tariffs which laid the groundwork for
both the First World War and the
second. II we disagree with the Russian
system Of government-and I am sure
most OF us do-let us not deceive our
selves into believing that we can isolate
Russia from the rest of the world. If
we continue to set up mental and physi-
cal barriers against any children OF
God in other nations, Russia included,
we shall be guilty of blunder which
can invite only self-destruction.
Trade among nations is as natural as
life itself. Simply because our system
differs from that Of Russia is no reason
why we should seek to penalize those
people. The Russians are displaying
heroism and endurance which we can
not even begin to measure. Our people
hardly can realize the intolerable hard
ships and privations which the Russian
people are suffering.
We are not afraid of red peril"
because we know what we already have
and what we want. Freedom of speech
and of religion is something we have and
never will relinquish Economic free
dom is something which we are de-
termined to obtain. The present private
monopoly of Gods earth must be broken
and single tax on land values must
take the place of the multitudinous taxes
which today ruthlessly rob labor and
industry of their rightful earnings.
Let us face this issue with courage
The Sullivan family Of Iowa did not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hdskin.


reader can get the anstper to any
question OF fact By priting The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HdSkin, director, Washington,
d. c. Please inciose stamp TOR return
postage.
@. What does the Army OF the
United States consist OF at the present
time?-H. z. V.
A. The War Department says that for
the duration Of the war the Army Of tho
United States comprises the Regular
Army, the Federalized National Guard,
selectees and volunteer enlisted men.
@. What is the derivation OF tbs
word "pretzer'7-N. D. T.
A. Pretzel is by some thought to
come from the Latin word meaning "a
little reward" In Europe, in the Md
del Ages, it was the custom for monks
to present pretzels to the poor and TO
school children during the lenten sea-
son as a reward for diligence.
@. Where were carillons first used7-
N. M E.
A. Carillons originated In the Low
Countries. They were set In towers
for the purpose Of giving warning of
attack. floods, fire or the closing of the
city gates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Ruml Plan Supported
Without Regard to Name of Year.


To the Editor of The Star:
The antipathy exhibited by the Treas
ury Department toward the Ruml Plan
for Income Tax Payments seems to
spring from the persistent childish idea
that it permits the forfeiture of one
years revenues. This idea is entirely
fallacious; the only way any revenue
could be surrendered would be to sus-
pend tax payments for a given period.
The name of the year Is entirely ir-
relevant to the function of tax collect
ing; it could bear the label of any year
without at all arresting the regular flow
OF taxes into the Federal Treasury.
Even granting that tagging the present
years taxes with the current numeral
would enable the customers mystically
to evade taxes due for 1912, the admin
istration should remember the many bill
lions of dollar owed us and defaulted
by the European nations who contemptu-
ously called us Uncle Shylock" because
we requested payments. A mild con-
sideration for our citizens who have had
to make good those deficits would not be
amiss-Or Is generous attitude reserved
for foreign peoples?
However, since tax rates are variable,
always subject to the will of Congress,
regulated according to the fiscal needs,
and since no suspension of payments is
contemplated, it is difficult to find any
flaw in the Ruml plan. 1t is basically
sound and sensible and in nowise halts
the flow of revenue.
AS to the objection that it permits
degree of leniency toward estates of
persons who died last year-give the poor
dead little break The inheritance
taxes will do their lethal work there.
HOWARD v. SWARTZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Gloomy Communique

The Germans last week issued what
is said to have been their gloomiest
communique of the war 1t was
story of defeat mounting to disaster
on the Russian plains. and it must
keVe had a profoundly depressing
effect on the German people.
They have been conditioned to
heady diet of war news. In the early
days of the conflict, when the Reichs-
wehr was running roughshod over
all opposition in Poland, the Low
lands and France, Hitler and his
rch-propagandist, Goebbels, fed the
Germans generously on the strong
meat of victory. This was in marked
contrast to the policy followed with
respect to the food that men can eat.
The policy there was a wise one.
Strict rationing was in effect even
before the war, the purpose being to
prepare the people for the hardships
that inevitably were coming. In the
Nazi plan there was no place for a
COl1dpSt VI HUI clC Gildg 1lliEilG
company the sudden denial to the
people of bread and meat in the
midst Of a hard war year.
But Der Fuehrer and his aides were
not so far-sighted in the case Of
propaganda They paraded the in
vincibility of the NaZi armies before
the people. Time and again they
were told of the destruction of the
Russian Army, of the thousands Of
Soviet planes and tanks which had
been destroyed or captured, and
without which the Red Army could
not carry on the fight. Month after
month, as GoebbelS told the story,
there was just one more battle to be
fought, one more victory to be won,
and then would come the final col
lapse of Russian resistance and the
reaping of sthe rich Nazi rewards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Let the Work Go On

1t is gratifying that the Facility
Review Committee of WPB will at
least hear what Commissioner Mason
and Milo F. Christensen, recreation
superintendent, have to say in sup
port of completing the recreation
projects on which the committee
arbitrarily halted work some time
ago.
But it is significant that this hear
ing has been granted after, not
before, the work was stopped. 1t is
significant because it is more or less
characteristic of the bureaucratic
fumblings which have so exas-
perated Commissioner Mason and
everybody else in connection with
getting anything done in the maze
Of conflicting authority possessed by
various Federal agencies with which
the municipality must deal.
Take these projects as an example.
Last winter the War and Navy De-
partments were taking over tennis
courts, softball and baseball dia-
monds and golf courses in Potomac
Park and the Monument Grounds
as sites for temporary buildings and
parking lots. The matter was dis
cussed at some length in. hearings
on the Lanham Act and there was
general agreement that effort should
be made to replace recreational fa-
cilities thus lost. There was con-
siderable testimony as to their value
In crowded Washington.
When the Lanham Act made funds
for such purposes available the
Commissioners submitted carefully
drawn plan to the Federal Works
Agency for the development of new
areas. The Federal Works Agency
studied it, the Federal Security
Agency studied it, the Budget Bureau
studied 1t. They all approved the
plan as essential to the war effort"
The work was begun, one considera-
ton being that no critical materials
would be used.
This work was going forward as
scheduled when the Facilities Re-
view Committee of WPB, without
any discussion with local authorities
or inquiry, stopped 1t on the general
theory that only essential war work
should proceed 1t even sent its
stop order to the wrong agency. 1t
had no plans for utilizing the men
and machinery in other types of
work The contractors were pulled
off the job without notice and, &C
cording to what they tell The Star,
they have been cooling their heels
since.
These recreational projects are
relatively unimportant, In so far as
the great war effort is concerned.
But they are important locally.
They are not Fairgrounds for chill
dren. They have been located near
residential sections to provide some
recreation facilities for adults. They
are not wasting manpower or ma
terials needed for other types of war
work Nothing but useless delay has
resulted from stopping the work; no
slight advantage has been gained in
furthering the war effort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir.
During the recent warm spell many
flies came into our house from the
outdoors.
What I would like to know is how
and where they managed to live out
doors during the preceding cold2
ut had been down to near zero out
our way, at one time, but here were these
flies, as frisky as ever, and as full of
pep as houseflies ever are
What ways do they have OF protect
ing themselves from the cold?
Certainly they cannot fly around in
freezing weather. This is mystery to
me. Or are these flies young ones which
have Just Matched out?
Very truly, L. T. G."
&* *
Housefies are not fools, by any means,
They protect themselves in various
ways, the chief one being to find some
place which is relatively warmer than
the open air.
Crevices in rabbit burrows will serve.
Dens of field mice, OF chipmunks and
the winter nests, so-called, Of the gray
squirrel, afford them shelter.
It has been established that a house
fly can live in winter about four months.
This, in many cases, would carry 1t
through the coolest months, even in
such a climate as this.
Many householders hereabouts have
found it good to keep their screens up
the year around, not only to keep out
flies, but also house-to-house canvassers!
The number of these latter pests has
declined in recent years, but still a few
of them come around. And when they
do, nothing stops them SO well as
securely latched screen door.
1t is interesting to watch the look on
the canvasser's face when he seizes the
screen door handle and tries to come in.
He is doing his best to live up to in
struction A, in his salesmanship booklet:
Get your foot in the door,"
The idea Is to keep the door open, so
that the conversation may continue.
Instructions B, c, D, etc, can be
worked thereafter with comparative ease,
but nothing at all can be done If the
foot cannot be wedged in the door,
A heartlessly latched screen stops all
argument.
X
Houseflies come in the year around
whenever door is left open too long.
All those who do the family wash at
home know about this.
Even If the door is open no more than
IN allow the rIotheS from fho line tn ha
carried In, soon half a dozen flies will
be winging around.
Some Of these are blow-fies, as they
are called, the large variety with the
big buzz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Labor Bourd Report

That the National Labor Relations
Board is becoming more of Judge
than prosecutor for labor issues, is
made clear in the annual report
of Chairman Harry A. Mills. For
the first time since the Wagner Act
was passed in 1885, the board, In
the fiscal year ending June 80, dealt
with more cases involving represen-
tation than unfair labor practices,