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Evening star., 1943-10-21
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. Trdce1Dell.

In such cases it is necessary for the
person to raise the bird "by hand"
This is not necessary with squirrels
All one has to do, as our correspondent
proved, Is to put the baby in q place
where it will be seen by the mother.
Several years ago severe afternoon
thunderstorm blew young squirrel
to the ground
The baby was not more than inches
long, and most of that was tall
1t lay on the ground beneath the
limbs Of the tall locust from which it
had fallen.
A wire-haired terrier discovered it.
He was barking at the foot of the
tree, dashing forward and then draw
ing back, In the nervous way these
dogs have
We went over to see what he was
barking at, and found the baby squirrel.
1t was breathing. but that was about
all. 1t was ice cold.
The mother, all this time, was max
ing a peculiar moaning sound in the
branches above.
1t was queer noise. Squirrels have
quite vocabulary, but these words of
sorrow over one lost are used only at
such times.
Once heard, these sad sounds will
never be forgotten
We placed the baby in a crotch of
the tree about feet up.
The mother came down like an arrow
straight to her infant.
She laid it out across the branch.
and swiftly licked it all over, to warm
1t up and restore the flow of blood.
Then she seized it in her mouth, and
ran aloft to the summer nest, high in
the tree. This is the real squirrel cradle,
an extremely large birds nest" about
18 inches across.
Some time later three healthy babies
were scurrying through the limbs of
that tree, leading their mother a merry
chase.
1t Is always best to take squirrels out
of an attic.
They are such lively and mischievous
things that they are better off in a
tree, where they belong.
This fall there seems to be an unusu-
ally large number of young squirrels,
probably due to the conditions named.
LACK of ammunition and millions of
hunters abroad in the armed forcesD
Wildlife naturally profits, to the ex-
tent OF replenishment of the ranks.
Extension of the suburbs year by year
helps in this. because the squirrels are
protected, being generally regarded as
a proper part of the suburban scene.
They find much food which has been
put out mainly for the birds, in addi-
ton to the end products of many nut
bearing trees. Most persons who feed
the birds try, at first, to keep the squir-
rels away, but mostly end up by per-
mitting them to eat as they please,
since they are persistent animals, and
need large amount of food, due to
their high rate of metabolism.
Evening star., 1943-10-21
Argues for Adoption Of
Federal School Subsidies,

10 tne Edltor OF 1 ne otar
The educational opportunities of sew
eral million school children hang upon
a decision of the United States Senate.
A bill, S. 627, introduced jointly by
Senator Ebert D. Thomas of Utah and
Senator Lister Hill of Alabama, would
provide emergency funds for keeping
schools open during the war and ad-
justing certain inequities of schooling
which are greatly handicapping the war
effort, and will give us a generation of
young people i'll prepared for the main
tenance Of peace which we hope this
time will be permanent.
Last school year, more than 10000
teachers left the Nations classrooms.
1t is expected that some 10O.O 900 will
leave this winter. Some of these teach
ers have entered the armed forces and
auxiliary services, but the most wide
spread and at the same time preventable
cause for the teacher flight from the
schools, is inadequate salaries. These
are as low as 1858 on Statewide aver
age. There are 10000 teachers in the
United States whose salaries are less
than $1,000; $1,000 whose salaries are
less than 5000, and 10000 receive $500
or less for years work.
In the face of a shortage unprece-
dented in educational history war ac-
tivities Of the schools have tremendously
increased. The vocational shops of the
public schools have to date prepared
more than 100000 youth and adults
in the specific skills OF the war indus
tries. They still have an important re-
sponsibility in the training OF the coun-
trys war manpower. In the high schools
are more than million boys, who, If
the war lasts another year, will be in
the armed forces. These boys are being
given pre-induction training in courses,
including physical fitness courses, worked
out by the schools in cooperation with
the War ana Navy Departments. Last
Evening star., 1943-10-21
More Good Than Harm

The nature of the Gallinger Hos
pltal investigation and report might
nave justified Commissioner Mason
IN maintaining the hands-off at
tltude he assumed during the hear
lngs and, as a defendant under
charges, sitting by and letting this
little tempest run its course. That
he has not chosen to do so is to his
credit. He has made a handsome
apology for his attitude during the
hearings, for which, as an ordinary
human being, he had plenty of
excuse. He has gone further now by
Initiating certain definite moves to
correct Immediately some of the un-
satisfactory conditions at the hos
pital pointed out by the investiga-
tors.
The late Dr. William A. White. the
highly respected superintendent of
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, was the
butt OF a very vicious type of
political attack by some members
OF the House which took the form
OF charges against his conduct of
the hospital and touched his profess
Slonal integrity. He was characteris-
tically philosophic about such
things, and although some of the
so-called investigations must have
brought him personal suffering he
used to say that they did the hos
pital more good than harm.
Those who have felt a sense of
outrage at some of the manifestly
unjust tactics and findings of the
Gallinger Investigators, especially
as they affect personal regulations,
can at the same time agree that
more good than harm will come of
1t In the end. More attention will
be paid to conditions that other
wise would have been treated as
routine. Those who control local
appropriations are not apt to as
sumo responsibility for denying i'm
provements that can be made by
expenditure of money alone. Under
attack, though some of it may be
unjust, the staff at Gallinger will not
allow further criticism to be sus-
tanned.
1t Is question whether such
investigations must, for their effec-
tiveness, depend on dramatized mud
singing. Senator Capper and
Senator Burton probably will ac-
complish far more, through their
present painstaking and intelligent
search for cure Of Washingtons
slum problems, than If they went
about it by trying to embellish with
personal attack scandal half a
century old. 1t is unfortunate that
there is not more regard, in Con-
gressional committee proceedings,
for personal regulations that can
suffer permanent injury by slovenly
acceptance of what could never pass
muster in court as evidence.
little more teamwork at the
Capitol with the locN officials who
have responsibility without au-
thority, little less inclination to
capitalize shortcomings for the
sake OF passing publicity, would 60
long way toward making the i'm
provements that everybody regards
as desirable. There is plenty of
room for them in the District,
Evening star., 1943-10-21

month the director of the Selective Serv-
ice System issued directive to local
selective service boards to seek the as
sistance of the local schools in the edu-
cation of a half million illiterate men
vino cannot be accepted for military
service until they learn to read and
write. During last school year alone
the teachers and pupils of the schools
were responsible for the sale of thou
sands Of dollars worth of War bonds
and stamps. These and scores of other
activities directly imposed upon the
schools by all-out war will have to be
curtailed unless the schools have finan-
cial help.
The amount of money which the Hill
Thomas bill would make available is
$500 100000 This is an average of about
$40 per child per year in the United
States. This is certainly not an ex-
orbitant increase in the cost of year
of schooling. The legislation specifically
reserves the control of the schools to
local school authorities and prohibits
the Federal Government from any juris-
diction over administration, organiza-
ton, instruction, methods of instruction
and materials of instruction.
The failure of the schools effectively
to assume their wartime duties is serious
enough. A curtailment of their services
to peace is more serious still II we are
unwilling to add $40 per year per child
to give US the enlightened citizenry upon
which government depends, then
what are we fighting for?
BELMONT FARLEY,
National Education Association.
Evening star., 1943-10-21
Discusses Historic
Role of Haiti.

To the Editor of The Star:
The visit Of the President OF Haiti
recalls to Americans the generally un-
recognized pat played by that island in
the history Of their nation. At the close
OF the 18th century, European rivalries
involving France, Spain and Great
Britain, all claiming territory here and
opposing our expansion beyond the Mis-
sissippi. led to an effort by Napoleon to
establish New France in this hemi-
sphere. The Haitian Army, recruited by
a former slave, Touissaint L'Overture,
drove the French, under Napoleon's
brother, out OF their island, thwarting
the intent to use Haiti as a base for
invasion of America by way OF French
Louisiana At that time three -eighths
Of our exports had to pass through New
Orleans to market, from our western
settlements" as Jefferson knew SO we'll
and Louisiana included what Is now
Texas. Taking advantage of Napoleon's
need for money and the disappointment
from Haitian opposition, Jefferson, with
the aid Of Livingston, Madison and
Monroe, bought Louisiana Territory for
s80,000,0 900, one-fourth of which went to
Americans for claims against France.
That acquisition gave the United
States untold wealth, land from Canada
to the Gulf and from the Mississippi to
the Rocky Mountains, provided the stage
for the frontier to enact a program Of
free enterprise, and furnished the eco
nomic basis for policy of isolation from
which we are dragged by socio- economic
changes. CHARLES M. THOMAS.
Evening star., 1943-10-21
Mystifyine
From the Boston Post.

From the Boston Post.
There may be way to explain it, but
the layman is baffled. The Government
announces that for the first eight months
of the year less than per cent Of the
butter produced in this Nation was
shipped abroad At the same time, II
per cent of the cheese products were
shipped out OF the total supply of
pork products in the Nation, Is per
cent were sent abroad, and only per
cent of the beef and veal. That being
SO, how is it that the butter shortage
is acute, but cheese is readily available
on the home front? How is 1t that
there is an acute shortage of steer beef
and not of veal and pork? The layman
is entitled to an explanation He is
willing to make sacrifices If given the
real reason why he should.
Evening star., 1943-10-21
Their Only Hope

year ago, when Stalingrad
seemed about to fall and Rommel
was hammering at the gates Of
Alexandria and Suez, the United
Nations faced supremely critical
situation. Today it is the other way
around, and as our Allied power con-
verges from all directions upon the
heart of Fortress Europe" we hear
reports of an extraordinary meeting
OF the highest political and mill
tary authorities of Germany"
1t is perhaps more than a little
significant that this meeting was
called not by Hitler, though he at
tended and addressed it, but by
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief
OF the high command of the Ger
man armed forces. There is at least
a suggestion here that events have
begun to run such a black course
for the Reich that the professional
military leaders are moving to put
the Fuehrer and the Nazi party in
the background and take matters in
their own hands in an effort to
escape total defeat.
Yet they cannot do this merely
by getting rid Of Hitler and his chief
henchmen, If that is what some of
them are contemplating. They can
not do it as long as the United
Nations-particularly Britain, Rus
sia and the United States-hold to
the common objective of smashing
German arms. For they have had
notice served on them by both Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill that our Allied forces are
as intent upon crushing their power
as upon liquidating Hitler and the
Nazi new order" And despite a
widespread impression to the con-
trary, Premier Marshal Stain has
similarly declared that Germanys
surrender must be unconditional.
How then can the German high
command hope to save itself from
total defeat, if not by banking upon
an eventual division among the
Allies? 1t seems far too late in the
war for secret weapons and sensa-
tional surprises to be of any great
help in reversing the present mill
tary tide, so that the only chance
for Germany appears to be through
prolonged last-ditch resistance cal
culated to weary us and win time
for a possible falling-out between
Russia on one hand and Britain and
the United States on the other.
This is point that cannot be
stated too often or emphasized too
much. Germany's only hope for an
avenue of escape is through cracks
in our Allied political and military
strategy. 1t is a point that will
almost certainly have great bearing
on the temper of the momentous
conferences that have just begun in
Moscow. And it is certainly a point
that speaks volumes against those
here at home who seem to take a
wayward delight in being the ir-
responsible agents of discord and
disunion at time when harmony
and oneness of purpose can do so
much to shorten the war.
Evening star., 1943-10-21
A Newspaper Subsidy

Opinion among the newspapers Is
sharply divided over the merits OF
the Bankhead bill, now before the
Senate Committee on Banking and
Currency, the purpose Of which is
to authorize the Treasury to dis
tribute from five to thirty million
dollars year among the news
papers for advertising the sale OF
Government bonds and other obliga-
tions.
Some of the editors believe that
such an expenditure for advertising
is sound enough and that the money
would relieve the financial plight
of many of the smaller newspapers,
especially the weeklies, semiweeklies
and triweeklies. Other editors are
as firmly convinced that the bill is
an opening wedge to subsidization
of newspapers and therefore carries
with it a dangerous threat to the
independence, if not the freedom, of
the press.
Newspapers exist in their present
form on advertising revenue, and
the National Editorial Association,
one of the proponents of the Bank
head legislation. points out that as
no advertiser controls the press now
there is no reason to fear such con-
troll by the National Government
AS spokesman for the proponents,
the association dismisses the fears
of a subsidy as merely silly talk
with an ulterior motive behind it,"
The trouble with the Bankhead
bill is that the chief pressure behind
it comes from those who would bene-
fit financially from its passage, and
not from those whose main interest
is to sell Government obligations
through a sound advertising pro-
gram. If the President and the
Secretary of the Treasury besought
Congress to appropriate funds for
an advertising campaign to sell Gov
Evening star., 1943-10-21
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,Driter, although the use of
a pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
a pie1U to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-10-21

Apple production in the United
States for 1943 is estimated as only
43 per cent of the 1912 crop. This
all works out OK; there is about the
same falling-off in doctors to be
kept away.
Evening star., 1943-10-21
Relates Difficulty Of Carrying Books
To and From Defense Plant.

Relates Difficulty Of Carrying Books
To and From Defense Plant.
To the Editor of The Star
l enjoyed very much Charles E.
Tracewells column This and That"
in the September % issue of The Star,
in which he replied to a reader on the
subject of reading books while riding
to work. The habit of reading books
on the cars and buses is one which I
never utilized very often while living
in my native home, Washington, prob
ably because I was always too deeply
engrossed in the ever interesting beauty
of that city.
But, now that I live and work In a
large and typical American city domi-
anted by industry, I no longer have
opportunity to enjoy vivid scenery while
riding to work. Consequently, I de-
veloped the habit of reading books
along the way. But recently a most
unfortunate problem has arisen and I
am wondering just how many others
have become the victims Of this mis-
fortune
The defense plant in which I work
is one in which worker may ente~
with the book he reads while travel
ing to work, but, in order to take the
book with him after work, it is neces-
sary to obtain special pass slip each
day from the department head. Since
doing this would not be very practicable,
the reader-worker must give up his op-
portunity to gain new knowledge. and
thus resort to either daydreaming or
sleeping, or possibly reading the news
paper. ROBERT EMMETT BURKE.
Chicago.
Evening star., 1943-10-21

"Voturno Line Taken" read a re-
cent newspaper statement. 1t would
appear to have had the L knocked
out of it.
Evening star., 1943-10-21

Q. What literary works are believed
10 nave had the greatest influence upon
human thought?-R. T. H.
A. According to "Hallecks English
Literature with the exception of the
Scriptures, Shakespeare's dramas have
surpassed all other works in molding
modern English thought. If a person
should master Shakespeare and the
Bible, he would find most that is great
est in human thought, outside tho
realm of science"
Evening star., 1943-10-21

Q. What modern city stands on the
site of ancient Troy?-A. L. D.
A. The modern Turkish city Of His
sarhk is the traditional site of ancient
Troy. The famous dispute concerning
the exact site began about AID. leo and
was not settled until 1893.
Evening star., 1943-10-21

Q. How many words are there in the
Oxford English dictionary?-J. v.
A. The number is given as approxi-
mately 725, ,000
Evening star., 1943-10-21

Q. How much ore is required to pro-
duce one gram of radium?-I. D.
"A. One gram is obtained from nine
tons OF Belgian Congo ore, as compared
with one gram from 400 tons of Amer
lean ore. gram is equal to about l/28
of an ounce.
Evening star., 1943-10-21

@. Why is Colorado called the Cen
tennial State?-J. E. N.
A. The reason Is that 1t was admitted
to the Union on August /, 1876, 100
years after the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Fire Bans Books

In one week recently Fire banned
II books, published In London. a.
being unit to read.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Kearny Yards Launch
.148th Wartime Shin

BY the Associated Press.
KEARNY, N. j.. Dec. l6-The
Allen M Summer, the 48th destroyer
and l48th ship built by the Federal
Shipbuilding q Dry Dock Co. during
the two-year period since December
7, l941, slid down the ways yester-
day at the company's Kearnv yards
The vessel was christened by Mrs
Allen NJ. Summer of Montross. Va.
in memory Of her husband. a marine
captain killed in France in the
World War. 1;'r
Navy men said the destroyer. frst
OF a new type. has the power OF
cruisers Of the last war. 'e
Lynn H Korndor1. president Of
the company, said 48 destroyers,c 4
troopehiPs q cruisers, el2- combat
cargo boats. tankers and u fast
freighters have been launched at
Federars Kearny yards: The COM
pany's, wards st Port Newark. he
said, have turned out 3e landing
craft for infantry and 80 DESTROYER
escorts
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Germans Push Back
YugosIav Partisans
o, ~ Aeroo;..aJn

BY the Associated Press
4 LONDON, Dec. l6-The Yugoslav
Partisan lines have given way under
the crushing pressure of constantly
reinforced German troops in Croatia
and the advancing Nazis are burn
ing and sacking every village in
their path, the headquarters of
Marshal Josip Broz CTito) an
nounced today.
Marshal Tito's war bulletin
broadcast by the Free Yugoslav
radio, seid the German break
through was achieved by five COL
umns of Nazis and Ustachis tCroat
puppet storm troopers in the Kor-
/ dan and Baniya districts southwest
of Zagreb.
/ In the neighborhood Lika district
Marshal Tito said the Yugoslavs
beat off attacks by German and
Chetnik (Serb guerrilla) forces, de-
Istroying one Nazi column between
Donji Lipac and the town of Bihac
across the border in Western Bosnia
| Partisans operating in Eastern
Bosnia between Rogatica and Soko-
| lovic killed 70 of the enemy. Near
Visegrad, 40 miles east of Sarajevo
Marshal Tito's men wiped out d
regiment of German Alpine troops,
the communique said.
! The Partisans said they sank two
enemy ships in the Adriatic, off Dali
malta, and damaged three others
In Slovenia. Partisan units stormet
/ the town of Mali Sladnik, destroyed
the German garrison and captured
war material, Marshal Tito reported
Evening star., 1943-12-16

plete generalization OF the home
front will result.
THE members OF these five rail-
road operating brotherhoods are
now issuing the challenge with firm
resolve. We share with all patriotic
citizens the view that strike is to
be deplored, but we assert that the
underlying causes which move hun
dreds Of thousands of loyal citizens
to vote a strike are also to be de-
plored. . ."
This marked the third time In
history the operating brotherhoods
have set joint Nationwide walk
out date. A Walkout scheduled two
days before Pearl Harbor was
averted by mediation. Congressional
approval of the Adamson law pro-
vidlng an eight-hour day with time
and half for overtime brought
cancellation of a strike scheduled in
1916 The historic Pullman strike
Of 1894 was the last general railroad
walkout. Several shop crafts struck
/ in 1922
Evening star., 1943-12-16
kewsprint Use Cut
-Afs =. tsss.sF S..
.147Pct. in.Eoyember
~ she AssUciated Press.s~ss
l l n. 3rsxTy rIs.s' xy@7p c~.-ss.s.> =

|. Dy the Asscciated Press.s~ss 80
7 NEW YORK, Dec. is.-The Ma
tion's newspapers in November cut
their use OF newsprint paper l4.7 PEI
cent under cons,unpuon an the cor
srespcndans month -iastsyear and is
'spef cent under usage In November
of 1941. a survey OF, the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
indicated today. >3.ss- =. (,
Newsprint used by 525 newspapers.
which account for 743 per cent OF
total consumption, amounted to
222,343 tons in November.
For the first II months OF the
year total consumption OF newsprint.
based on these figures, was estimated
at 1857 $50 tons, or 81 per cent less
than in the comparable 1912 period.
and ga per cent less than in the
first II months Of l941.
In Montreal, the Newsprint Asso-
citation OF Canada estimated stocks
Of this type of paper in the hands of
manufacturers at the end of Novem-
Der totaled 47s,636 tons, the lowest
since August, 1941.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Administration Group
Threatens Appeal 10
tsasst 5.az7-ss %+---,
Public on Soldier Vote
xy the Associated Press.


Administration supporters de-
elared today they will take the
servicemen's vote issue to the
people in next years political
campaigns unless Congress
passes some kind of law to
facilitate the balloting.
Senator Lucas, Democrat, of Illi-
nois, disclosing that he is drafting
compromise legislation designed tc
let the States determine finally
whether to count absentee ballots
marked by uniformed personnel
said its rejection by Congress would
be the signal for an appeal direct
to the voters
This IS going to be one Of the
biggest issues of the 1914 campaign, .
Senator Lucas told reporter IF
the soldiers don't get the right to
vote under a system that will work
I'm certainly going to tell the peo-
pie of Illinois why their sons and
brothers have been denied tha.
right"
Others to Raise Issue.
Other administration supporters.
he said, have expressed the same
intention.
Senator Lucas charged in the
Senate Yesterday that Republicans
who joined with Southern Demo-
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Tarawa Casualties Reach
San Francisco Hospital

. BY me ASSOCIATED Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. l6.-The
men who were manned in the battle
Of Tarawa began to come home
yesterdayAAsome permanently In.
jured, others ambulatory cases who
will return to service after treat
ment. 90
The shipload Of casualties. an
undisclosed but small percentage of
the 1857 marines who, were wounded
IN the bloody battle for the tiny
atoll in the. Gilbert Islands, was
unloaded into waiting ambulances
and taken to a naval hospital.
The atoll, captured in a three