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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Easter. 1913

Suggested BY Pisro Della Franesseas
Surely the memory of His heavy cross
Will touch our hearts to aue this
durkened year, t'~.' :.
When all lands bo,oed BY ,osioht Of
bitter loss
Yearn Nth ne,o hope as Pentscost
dra1Ds near. ,', g.
Picture Golgothd's hillside IN ths
dim, III
Gray-Uatered light of the first
Easter ddtrn.
Gross, stupid Roman soldiers guard
ing Him
Sleep by the sepulchre, but He has
gone.
Behold Him risen! In glory, strength
and potDer
He stands, one foot upon the tomb
as base,
Holding the stag Of pSctory IN His
hand. -
= And Heauen and earth ar met IN
HIS calm face. *s
Lift up your hearts and stcoyds IN
euery land,
Death has no place tn thiS III.
unphant hour.
ANNE WOOD MURRAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Union Voters

= The Iowa State Federation Of
labor (AFL) is undertaking an in
teresting though somewhat unortho-
dox union experiment.
According to an announcement by
A. A. Couch, president of the organ
hation, q plan has been worked out
for penalizing union members who
do not vote in public elections. Under
this program, as outlined by Mr..
Couch, there will be q monthly in
crease In the dues Of each member.
On election days a union representa-
tive will be at the polls and those
members who are checked of as
voting will receive q refund in the
amount Of the increase in dues.
Those who do not vote will forfeit
their right to a refund, or, in effect,
they will be fined by the union for
not voting.
In the sense that every citizen
should vote, the objective of this
plan-assuming there is no attempt
to dictate how the union members
shall VOTES not without merit.
But, granting this. the Iowa expert
ment is indicative OF the manner in
which an individual can be shorn Of
his rights In the name Of unionism.
II . union can punish . man for
not voting, 1t can also punish him
tor voting, or for doing or not doing
almost anything that comes to mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26

gress assembled, That this Nation under
God has taken up arms in an appeal to
mankind's present ultimate tribunal in
order to aid in the evolution of future
world in which mankind may be more
nearly cast in the image of it's Maker;
that such a future world be one where
the desires, ambitions and wishes of in
dividuals and nations, great and small
will be limited as to their fulfllment
only by the requirement that no accom-
plishment shall be to the detriment of
any other individual or nation, great or
small; that this Nation highly declares
its readiness now to consider any and all
details needed to establish such world :;
that this invitation to create lasting
peace extends to all men of good will,
belligerent or neutral, and that this Ma
ton is prepared to consider any and all
proposals from whatsoever source so long
as they are submitted in the spirit of
this resolution"
HERBERT WACHSMANN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce,uell.

1.-THE gray one stood with the dead
squirrel between his front feet. It was
really pitiful sight, the squirrel there,
on his side, with his little paws folded
under his head, almost as If he were
asleep. There was no question of him
being dead. instinctively started to
drive both the cats away, but decided
since the squirrel was dead, to let matters
take their course, and to see what would
happen. Maybe I was wrong in that,
but that was what did. The two cats
glared at each other, with great branches
arching over them. 1t was the evening
of the rain. Water was dripping down
from the branches and the ground was
as wet as sponge.
THE two cats glared, and yowled, and
finally the gray one, the killer, turned
tail and skunk away, leaving the prey
to the black cat. decided that this was
nature, and that I, as the seeing intel
licezlce, had no right to interfere, so
went indoors. If I do not like the way
nature Is, in all things, do not believe
that it gives me any right to interfere.
What is happening all over the world
is nature, or what is it? I don't know,
and wonder If any one else does.
VERY truly yours, B. o. c."
X X
The sort of killer cats described by
this correspondent is not representative
Of the house cat tribes.
There can be little question that there
is just as much difference between in
dividual house cats as there is between
individual men.
Just as there are bad men and good
men, men of intelligence and men of no
particular brains, so there are mild
hammered cats and evil cats.
This must be so, else the creatures
could never have gotten the reputation
which has logged them through the ages.
Friends of these animals well know
that blanket indictment of the cat
tribe is no more fair than blanket in
dictment Of humanity.
1t is not simple justice to call all men
evil because some of them are aggressors,
in the worst sense of the term.
All the time, warfare is going on in
the minds and hearts of men, and the
balance has not yet been struck.
That is the hope of our race, that when
the balance is finally struck, it will be
on the good side.
X
We suspect that the squirrels which
have not yet managed to get into our
first correspondents feeding station will
| in time manage it.
They are intelligent animals, with
| quick wit and as close to sense of
humor as animals can manage.
| No doubt the day is not far off when
one of them will see the easy way to
| get in.
Then he should be allowed to remain
because what he will have done will be
as much of a triumph, for him, as the
winning of an important battle among
| human beings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
For the first time since I have been
feeding the birds, and that means many
years, have q feeding station which is
squirrel-proofl This may be of interest
to many of your readers, judging from
the accounts in your column from time
to time.
Il take no credit for my invention,
because it was no brains of mine, but
mere chance, which seems to have kept
the squirrels out. had experimental,
now and then, in trying to erect sta
ton which would give entrance only to
the songbirds. even went to the trouble
OF making one on a rod, with tin
apron, as one of your readers suggested.
This sounded good, but it failed, mainly
due to placing it too near a tree.
This new feeding station, which has
really proved squirrel proof, was simply
a piece of good fortune. have very
small station, which put one day on the
side of the house, beneath an overhang.
Il was not thinking about squirrels,
when I put 1t there. One day I hap
pened to look out, and there was a
squirrel, trying to get in.
He could come down the roof, but
could not manage to get from the edge
back under the overhang.
Since then literally dozens of squirrels
have. tried to bridge the distance, but
they have not been able to figure it out.
So the birds have this small feeding
station all to themselves.
1.-THE joke Of the matter is that the
squirrels could do 1t easily, by going up
a tree, from which they could make a
flying leap to the station. Just why
they have not tried 1t, I do not know,
but the fact Is that they haven't.
Il expect almost any day to be able
to report that one has thought out the
matter, and has been in the station.
Until that time comes, remain, friend
of squirrels. Sincerely, T. NJ
~
"TAKoMA PARK.
Dear Sir:
Il see by your column that some people
do not like squirrels. If they could
have seen one the other day, they would
have felt sorry for it. I have lush
growth of shrubbery in my yard My
wife says ought to cut some of it down,
but like to see things grow and thrive.
This section of the yard is regular
little jungle, and the other evening, just
at dusk witnessed a regular jungle
scene in it.
Il had gone out to the porch, to see
the source of some yowls coming from
that direction. There is nothing I en-
joy more than good cat fight. 1t has
plenty of comedy, and plenty of action,
but mostly they never seem to hurt each
other much. This time I was too late
to see the real action. It had taken
place before I got there. An old gray
tom had killed squirrel, there in the
little jungle. and was now beset by a
big black cat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Anzoc Anniversary

Yesterday was Easter in Australia
and New Zealand as elsewhere in the
civilized portions of the earth. But
to the peoples of the commonwealth
down under" it also was Anzac Day,
another anniversary of that April
rs, 1915, when their soldiers stormed
the beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli in
one OF the most notably valiant &C
lions OF the First World War.
There is no special need to repeat
the story in detail at this time. Brit
ish and French attachments were
with the Australians and New
zealanders under gruelling Turkish
lire, and their cooperation is not
forgotten. Yet it was the Anzac
divisions that bore the brunt of the
battle and suffered the greatest cas-
ualties-10, 800 men killed or wound
ed IN just few hours of fighting.
whether or not the sacrifice was
JuStlfled remains matter of debate
to this hour; but the Australians and
the New Zealanders regard the oues-
ton as possessed of only academic
interest now. Their purpose when
they attempted to force the Darda-
nelles was to relieve the pressure
upon Russia, and they achieved their
purpose in that regard Until De-
cember 20, 1915, they maintained the
struggle. Before their withdrawal
they had demonstrated their capac-
1ty as soldiers equal to any to be
found under any flag
Charles Bean, writing in the
"Ofncial History of Australia in the
War of 1914-1918," says: 1.-THE Aus
tralian soldier had revealed to him.
self, to his own officers and to a few
OF those outsiders who watched him
closely, what manner of fighter he
was -. He had scattered to the
winds once and for all the notion
often reiterated that an Australian
force would be ineffective through
lack OF discipline. In flame of, the
Whitest heat was tested the discipline
OF this new force, raised suddenly
from a people unaccustomed to re-
stralnt, naturally haters of the sys-
tenn OF cast-iron subordination on
which most armies are trained. It
was not the discipline of habit which
made either the Australians or New
Zealanders endure. What motive
sustained them? 1t was not love of a
fight *''. 1t lay in the mettle of the
men themselves =. Life was verv
dear, but life was not worth living
unless they could be true to their
Idea OF manhood Standing
upon that alone, when help failed
and hope faded, when the end doomed
clear in front of them, when the
whole world seemed to crumble and
the heaven to fall in, they faced its
ruin undismayed"
Once again the peoples down
under" are in peril. The curtain
raiser" of twenty-eight years ago
taught them how to meet the present
challenge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Huskin's Answers
To Questions,
BIZ Frederic J. Hdskin.

A reader can get the anstDer to any ;
question OF fact by iurfttng. The Ere- {
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred. :
eric J. HGskin, director, Wdshtn1tCn,
d. c.. Please isclose stamp tor return
postage.
@. What Indian tribe adopted Mrs.
Roosevelt and gave her the name Prin.
cess Of Many Trails?-P. r. M.
A. The White House says that the
Indian tribe into which Mrs. Roosevelt
was adopted recently was the Penobscot.
@. What is the proportion Of butter
fat in butter that is graded as adulter-
ated?-A. w. R. r+
A. Any butter falling below the 80
per cent minimum for butterfat Is an
adulterated product under the terms Of
the Federal Food and Drugs Act.
@. In what year did the United States
surpass Great Britain as the leading
industrial nation?-M. F.
A. In the last decade of the last CEN
fury, for the first time for over 100 years,
another country, the United States, ap-
preached and surpassed Great Britain
in the amount Of manufactured goods.
Q. What is meant by a top sergeant7
M. G. K.
A. A top sergeant" in the Army is
q first or master sergeant.
@. Is it fact that frog will suffo.
cate If its mouth is held open?-Q. O.
A. Because of the peculiar breathing
process of the frog, it may suffocate il
its mouth is held open too long.
Q. What name was originally chosen
for the aircraft carrier u S. S. Lexins-
ton?-R. M. 49,
A. The original name selected for the
vessel was the Cabot. When the former
Lexington was sunk in the battle of the
Coral Sea, the employees of the Fore
River Yard asked Secretary, Of the Navy
Knox to give her name to the ship they
were building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Allied Sea Losses

The dispute between the Truman
Committee and the Navy Depart
ment concerning the extent of Allied
shipping losses in 1912 will contribute
nothing to better public apprecia-
ton of the seriousness of the war.
In its recent report the committee
said the Allied countries had lost an
average of 100000 tons of shipping
a month during the past year-a
total well in excess Of their combined
production. This was startling news
since 1t had been believed that ship
ping losses, while undoubtedly heavy,
were we'll under that figure. Then
came the statement from the Navy
a categorical denial of the commit
tees report. Secretary Knox said
that the figures given were very
seriously off"-presumably much too
high. The committee, he suggested,
got its figure of 100000 tons a
month from some uninformed
source, probably common gossip"
This is serious charge to bring
against Senate committee which
was created to investigate the
progress of our war program, and
upon which the public depends to a
considerable extent for its under
standing of our military effort. Nor
is the seriousness of the matter
lessened by the assertion of COM
mlttee members that prior to pub
LEGATION the report was submitted to
the Navy, but was not challenged.
In view of the uncertainty which
this incident has created in the
minds OF the people, it would be
helpful if the Navy could see its way
clear to releasing the real facts as
to shipping losses. This has not been
done for asserted reasons of military
secrecy. although If this be a sound
position, it seems strange that the
Navy, when it received the advance
copy OF the committee report, did
not challenge it both on grounds of
accuracy ana proprlety.
From the layman's view of this
matter, however, 1t seems not I'M
reasonable to believe that a dis
closure OF our shipping losses might
be prejudicial to our own interests.
1t is not likely that the enemy has
full and complete information as to
the total of tonnage sunk, and the
question, therefore, is whether it is
desirable to withhold the facts from
our own people in order to deny in
formation to the enemy. The Navy
has answered this question in the
affirmative and no civilian is in a
position to challenge it's judgment.
But the people do have a right to
expect that they will not be misled
and confused in such an important
matter by conflicting reports from
official agencies. The public is not
apt to be fully impressed with the
seriousness of the war when the
sources upon which they must rely
for information cannot agree either
as to facts or policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26

bicentenary celebration now in proc
ess, meanwhile, it would seem, may
provide an opportunity to take ad-
vantage of the proposal set forth by
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler of Co.
lumbia University in 1885: Thomas
Jefferson was fundamentally right
in his political philosophy, and it is
high time that he was rescued, not
by one political party but by all
Americans, from being the Forgotten
Man which he now obviously is"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Jefferson's Philosophy

Discussing the theology of Thomas
Jefferson before the American Philo-
sophical Society, DR.. Carl Becker of
Cornell University has suggested that
the third President, If alive today"
would subscribe to this revised
declaration of the democratic faith:
1--WE hold these truths to be self
evident: That the individual man
has dignity and worth in his own
right; that it is better to be governed
by persuasion than by force; that
fraternal good will is more worthy
than a selfish and contentious spirit;
that in the long run all values, both
for the individual and for society, are
inseparable from the love Of truth and
the disinterested search for it; that
the truth can be discovered only in
solar as the mind of man is free; and
that knowledge and the power it
confers should be used for promoting
the welfare and happiness of all men
rather than for serving the selfish
interests of those individuals and
classes whom fortune and intelligence
have endowed with a temporary
advantage"
OF course, there will be critics who
will not agree with such an inter-
probation. DR.. Becker limited, per-
haps, at the possession of an element
of personal bias when he gave it as
his opinion that "the policy of laissez
faire, as it was understood by Jeffer-
son, would not work as a scheme for
peaceful relations in the brotherhood
of man and of nations" The Sage of
Monticello, it should be pointed out,
did not seek any scheme" to that
twentieth century end. He was a
man OF his own age. His views about
agriculture, urban development, the
tendency of government to enlarge
its functions, the ambitions of polit-
ical leaders to win and to hold high
position in the state, the unwilling
ness OF some citizens to bear their
fair share Of the common burden of
democracy and his insistence that
the individual was supreme before
God-all these convictions, dear to
him to the last moment of his life,
mark the author of the Declaration
Of Independence as an intellectual
comrade of Shakespeare, John Locke
and Voltaire and not of Karl Marx.
How definite was his stand is
proved most distinctively in the
letter which Jefferson wrote to
Francis Hopkinson in 1889, including
the lines: II never submitted the
whole system Of my opinions to the
creed of any party of men whatever,
in religion, in philosophy, in politics
or in anything else, where I was
capable Of thinking for myself. Such
an addiction Is the last degradation
of a free and moral agent. II I
could not 60 to heaven but with .
party, would not 60 there at ALL"
DR.. Becker's revision" is Of in.
terest As his qep Affirmation. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Price Ceilings Discussed
From Farmers Angle.

To the Editor of The Star:
After the farmer and the members of
his family have worked hard to feed the
Nation and its armed forces and other
nations and their armed forces, the
farmer should be on a parity with in
dustry.
In fact, he deserves more than parity.
There has been lot said about
high prices due to the middle man, proc
essor, ETC., but If the farmer received
enough for his products to be able to
compete with industry for labor, the
professors, market men and others
would find farm price ceiling a proc
essing price ceiling and labor price
ceiling in time.
The farmer should be more than en-
titled to charge as much for his own and
his family's labor as industry is allowed
to charge.
Farm price ceilings are too low, but
the sky is the limit for the professor.
Take wheat: 3h bushels will make
barrel of whole wheat flour. The farmer
received less than a at the time he sold;
the professor ground it and packed 1t in
barrel and sent 1t back to the farmer
at So and the farmer paid the freight
both ways. Is this what is meant by
the farmers getting too much" for
farm products?
Why not have ceiling Of $3.50 per
bushel for the farm price and make the
professors ceiling 33h per cent above
that?
OPA should have two ceilings-one
for farmers prices, the other for proc
essor's and middle mans.
GUY STONESTREET.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26

At time when unions are broaden
ing the field of the closed shop and
the check-off, under which a mans
right to work is contingent upon his
standing with his union, the pro-
gram which Mr.. Couch is inaugural
Ing in Iowa would seem to be worthy
OF more than casual notice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
Winning Their Spurs

one reason the House could not
make up its mind last week on
allowing WAVES to serve overseas
was that the question seemed to get
away from what should be the real
issue-their actual value to the Navy
and the war effort in service over
seas-and reverted more or less to a
debate on women's rights, in the
course of which some controversies
were reopened which doubtless began
with Adam and Eve.
What should be Of interest now is
the success of the experiment, not
only with the WAVES, but with the
WAACS and the other auxiliary
corps, in freeing able bodied men in
the services for field and combat
duty. Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Affairs Committee produced
some rather interesting statistics.
At the end of last month, he said,
the WAVES had replaced 1902 Of
f1cers and 1882 enlisted men who,
according to Mr.. Vinson, were then
sent to sea for combat duty" Most
OF these requirements were in Wash
ington. Mr.. Vinson produced an
other interesting item in revealing
that some 1000 WAVES are helping
out in the Navy Department because
of a shortage of civilian personnel,
aggravated by weekend absen-
teeism.
An older service, the WAACS have
placed some $4,000 officers and en-
listed personnel in the field, with
another thousand on recruiting duty.
1t is necessary to generalize, the War
Department explains, as to the num-
Der of able-bodied males the WAACS
have released for combat duty, but
components of WAACS are now per-
forming duties previously performed
by men. With an authorized
strength of 10000, and with about
1000 week coming out of training,
the WAACS are just beginning to
take over the parts assigned to them
in the Army. Up to this time, many
of them have had to devote time to
training other WAACS.
The auxiliary services have been
the subject Of so much discussion
relating to the propriety OF this and
that, the appearance Of their uni
forms. their conduct in public places,
ETC., that very little attention has
been placed on their actual value to
the services. The step-ups in au-
thorized strength have been one indi-
cation. The growing manpower
shortage has increased their poten-
tial value. II they have not won
unanimous public approval yet, it is
probably because they are still a
novelty and being new contestants
In field hitherto closed, are yet to
win their spurs.