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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22
Postwar improvements Program

Charlotte, N. C.-This city has an
nounced an $11 ATT ,425 postwar pub
lie improvements program. Engineer
ing improvements will include con-
struction of a road to the municipal
airport, elimination of grade cross
ings, widening of streets, pedestrian
under-passes, extensions to the water
system, sanitary improvements and
construction of new public library
building and branches and new
health building.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22
ASOUND INVESTMENT

We Americans have just made a
sound investment. We have put the
third war-loan drive over the top. We
have backed the attack today by pro-
viding against an emergency need to-
morrow.
| Now there is another drive to be
put over the top. This time we are
| being asked not to lend, but to give.
But the term is deceptive. For do
nation to the National War Fund is
an investment, too.
What are we investing in? Well,
| for one thing, in the comfort and good
health and good spirits Of our sons
and brothers in the fighting forces,
through the USO. And for another, in
the welfare of our soldiers families
and of our war workers and their chill
dren, through our home welfare agen-
cies. And through the Allied relief
agencies, we are investing in the en-
durance of our allies in war-torn and
in our sympathy and support.
The United States has been in this
war for two years, come December z.
And our casualties up to the invasion
of Italy were 115,204. Enough to
shake us out of our complacency-if
we ever were complaceent. Certainly
enough to make us realize that the
cost of war can ever be measured
merely in dollars and cents.
But the Chinese have been at war
for seven years. Their losses must be
measured in millions of men and a
large part of their country. The Brit
ish have been at war four years, and
for whole year they held out grimly
alone, digging out of their bombed
cities, Tightening their belts while
their food-ships went to the bottom.
| The Russian people for two and one
half years have withstood the barbar-
ian hordes Of the Western Axis pow
ers, their industrial plant crippled,
their richest food-producing area
overrun, millions of soldiers and peas
ants either dead or in Hitler's power.
The peoples of China, England,
Russia, the occupied countries, have
taken terrible beating. Yet they
must continue to endure. The fate of
the war and of the world depends upon
it. And we who have not yet suffered
as they have suffered, owe it to them
to help them with everything it is in
our power to give.
President Roosevelt has called the
National War Fund an essential part
of the war effort. The members of the
| AFL have never failed to contribute
their share and more to the winning
of the war. They are on the fighting
fronts; they are manning the produc-
tion lines. Through the Labor League
for Human Rights they are mobilized
in $50 American cities to support this
campaign for funds to carry on the
humanitarian work of home welfare
agencies, the USO, and the Allied war
relief agencies. Not as an investment,
though there is none better, but as an
opportunity. They know that He spoke
truly who said, ct is more blessed to
give than to receive"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22
Boy and Girl Delivery Service

Middletown, Ohio.--Efforts will be
made to solve the delivery problem
facing Middletown merchants through
organization of "teen age boy and
girl delivery service corporation" un-
der supervision of the Junior Achieve
ment League.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22

Non-reflecting windshields will re-
duce the number of automobile acci-
dents in the postwar period, say
scientists at the American Optical Co.
plant, Southbridge, Mass, where the
process was perfected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22
WISDOM

The man who gives me employment,
which I must have or suffer, that man
is my master, let me call him what /
will.-Henry George.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22

A Milwaukee alderman proposes
turning 5000 vacant lots owned by the
city into Victory gardens.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22

think it must be conceded that this
country now has a good fve-cent
cigar, plus tax.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22
Delegates Pledge Aid
To Italian Workers

Boston (ILNS). = American Fed
Grafton of Labor help to the workers
Of Italy in rebuilding their free trade
unions was pledged by the federation
in convention here. The convention
declared for the punishment of those
who had assisted the Fascist regime
in criminal attacks against the leaders
of the Italian labor movement.
The convention declared its regret
that organizations like the AFL and
Italian-American Labor Council shave
not been consulted on the labor policy
of the Allied Military Government" in
Italy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22

You rarely make mistake by add
ing sweetening to a beverage served
to a lady.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22

Issued Weekly ut s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton. 0his
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-22

Entered at the Postofice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second-C Class Mail Matter.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
Leuse-lend Limits

LeaSe-lend has served an admir-
able purpose admirably. 1t has made
the United States participation in
the war against the Axis more and
more effective. Necessarily it must
be administered by the Executive.
However, Congress. and particularly
the Senate, is determined that lease
lend agreements entered into with
foreign nations-even though they
be our allies in war-shall not be
used to build up postwar economic
engagements without congressional
approval
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, in unanimous report
to the Senate supporting the extern
sion Of the Lease-Lend Act for an
other year, stated the case. If and
when any agreements are made re-
lating to the removal of tariffs, trade
barriers Of any kind, or any other
matters seeking to carry into effect
the Atlantic Charter, the committee
insisted that they must be dealt
with in the constitutional manner.
This means action BY Congress or
ratification by the Senate, if these
proposals take the form of treaty.
Reference was made to the So
called master agreements entered
into under lease-lend with the gov
ernments of Great Britain, the
Soviet Union, China and others of
the United Nations, Obviously it is
proposed through these agreements
to outline programs of postwar eco
nomic action--if not actually to en-
ter into agreements to cover postwar
conditions. And the committee said
SO that all the world, including our
own administration. might know:
THE committee believes that there
is no authority in the Lease-Lend
Act to warrant any general postwar
commitments or postwar policies in
agreements made under the terms of
the LeaSe-Lend Act"
The report of the Foreign Relations
Committee and it's PRONUNCIATION of
this declaration on postwar commit
ments has not been given the widest
publicity. 1t is of such grave i'm
portance, however, that all the gov
ernments concerned, our own in
cluded, should give heed. 1t draws a
clear distinction between e-lend
as war measure and what may be
done under lease-lend to meet post
war conditions.
1t may well be that the administra-
ton has in mind the submission Of
all postwar agreements, whether
they be outgrowths of lease-lend &C
tivities or not, to Congress or to the
Senate for final ratification But
if the nations with which any such
agreements are made realize clearly
that ratification will be necessary,
future disappointments and mis-
understandings may be avoided.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
THIS AND THAT
By Charles T. Trdce1CeN.

dogs -manger. not allowing any
other bird to come to feeding station,
but not caring much for the food itself.
The favorite winter foods of this
species are bread, doughnut and raislns
Apple, cut in half, will almost always
attract them.
Berries, however, are their first love.
and they will come where there are
planted many shrubs bearing them.
They like both the dogwood tree ber-
ries and those on the bush dogwood
~
Wild fruits of all kinds are its food
1t eats beetles, grasshoppers, cater
pillars, wasps and ants, later on.
Berries of the Virginia creeper and the
privet are eaten in season.
These supplies may be augmented by
handouts of bread and raiSins. The
latter will be increasingly difficult to get,
from now on, If not impossible, but
mockingbirds like bread in almost any
form.
The only difficulty about the use of
bread as food for the song birds is that
it attracts starlings.
1t is magical, the way it attracts.
just put out few slices of stale bread
dipped in water or not, and almost before
you are back in the house, startling will
appear
This, though you had not seen one OF
these birds all day long.
After this first one appears, the re-
malnder of the flock come in short order
Many believe that the birds keep a scout
on the lookout. Just how he manages tc
be so prompt in his detection, is an
other question.
1t is even more Of mystery how he
manages to let the others know. He
never flies away, but he remains at his
post, getting first innings. When the
others fly down. he keeps right on. You
would never suspect there had been any
arrangement between them.
Cynics may say there is no arrange
ment. Such things "just happen" Any
one who has watched this magical at
traction of bread for starlings will have
another thought about the matter. 1t
may be that the starIings set watch on
larly for birds, especially in winter.
Ground meat will always draw few
OF them in summer. This is very much
appreciated by the mockingbirds, along
with the cardinals, catbirds and many
others.
From now on, this will be rare help
after meat rationing goes into effect
Still, few crumbs may be spared now
and then.
1t may be that some of the dried dog
foods, wet down with water, would serve
as an excellent substitute
All birds, whether insectivorous O,
grammlverous, feed their young on in
sects, and ground meat makes a very
good substitute for insects, and one
which helps the parent birds nightly ir
finding enough to go around.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
Memorials of Menducity

A few days ago, as a memorial Of
the tWenty-fifth anniversary of the
establishment of the movie industry
in Germany, a radio broadcast was
made, including an impersonation of
Baron Munchausen, who used to hold
the record as the biggest liar in Ger
many. Then, to make it complete,
came a speech from the Baron'S
closest riVal-no less a parsonage
than GoebbelS himself. Not that
GoebbelS had any suspicion that he
was inviting comparisons; the Ger
man mind doesn't work that way.
Yet if any comparison in mendac-
lty were made. Munchausen would
not fare SO badly His stories were
entertaining. His very name, Frei-
herr Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Won
MunchauSen, lends glamour to his
tall tales, most of them, incidentally,
about military events in Russia. His
auditors chuCkle at the abSurditieS of
the fat, jolly old fraud and are hap
pier for having listened 1t is i'm
possible to conceive of any one, even
German, chuckling over the utter
anceS Of GoebbelS, the very sound of
whose name suggests the petulant
cluck Of disgruntled fowl. The
Baron's lies will live long after the
barren falSilcations of his challenger
have periShed.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
Other Edens

The name of Eden is not new in
the annals of the British Empire.
President Roosevelt's distinguished
guest belongs to family which has
been eminent in public service for
many generations. He is descended
from another Robert. born at Dur
ham in the first half of the eighteenth
century, and appointed TO succeed
HOratlO Sharpe as Governor of the
Province Of Maryland in 1853. II is
recorded of this ancestor Of the Sec
retary of State for Foreign Affairs
that he was very popular with the
people on account of his courtesy and
moderation" Taking Office on June
5, 1863, he preached Cancellation be-
tween the Colonies and the mother
country as long as there was any
sense IN such a doctrine. The tax on
tea was Objectionable to him, and he
urged it's repeal. Later, when hos
tilities had become inevitable, he was
protected by the Council of Safety at
Annapolis and allowed to sail for
England, where, soon after his ar
rival, he was created a baronet in
recognition Of his constructive but
Evening star., 1943-03-15

fruitless efforts. How much he loved
America was demonstrated when he
returned to Maryland to spend his
flnal years as landed proprietor.
His wife was Caroline, the youngest
daughter of Charles, fifth Lord Balti-
more. The date of his death is given
as September 2, 1884, and his grave at
Annapolis still is pointed out to Wis
itors. A grandson, Sir Frederick
Eden, was killed at the battle of New
Orleans, December "a, 1914.
Meanwhile, a brother of the gov
ernor, William by name, born in 1745,
had had a notable career in British
politics as the first Baron Auckland.
He was in succession Undersecre-
tary of State, commissioner of the
Board Of Trade, commissioner to
North America, chief secretary for
Ireland, AmbaSsa dor to Spain, Min
lister to the Netherlands, Postmaster
General and president of the Board
of Trade. Married to Eleanor, a sis
ter OF the first Lord Mimic, he left
large family, including Emily Eden,
gifted novelist; George, second
baron, Governor General of India,
1835-1842, and Robert John, third
baron, also Bishop Of Bath and Wells.
whose son was Sir Ashley Eden, Lieu
tenant Governor of Bengal, 1877
1882.
The father of Sir Anthony Eden
was Sir William Eden, seventh Baron
Auckland and fifth Baronet Mary
land. 1t is a legend that all the
men of the family are handsome and
tactful, all the ladies beautiful and
gracious.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
The Problem of Absenteeism
From the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
The problems of absenteeism are not
answerable with ballyhoo alone They
require careful thought. In some fac
tories consideration must be given
proper work scheduling; some must
think about the wisdom of hiring women
with small children; in others, the relief
from monotony, with music or frequent
recess periods, must be undertaken: in
Others realistic readjustment of hours
to flt the capacities of certain workers is
necessary. The problem has commu-
nifty aspects, too. How about the estab-
llshment of well supervised nurseries
and play yards for children of war
workers? What about keeping stores
open in evening and other hours for
working housewives? What is to be said
about housing and amusement?
Evening star., 1943-03-15
Bombing Civilians
Considered a NaZi Method.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Boiling Somerville, in his letter OF
March 8, would warn Germany that ANY
further atrocities will mean hundreds ot
thousands of Germans killed by bombs
after the manner in which Germany
bombed the helpless civilians of Warsaw
Rotterdam and Belgrade"
He seems to believe that the whole
Christian world has not shown enough
concern toward the most cowardly,
brutal mass murder of Jews ever per-
petrated by the offspring of shocking
system of economic exploitation
I firmly believe that the Allies are on
the right track in their concentrated
bombings Of military detectives. This is
the only way in which to shatter the
myth Of Nazi military industrial and
racial invincibility. To bomb the many
innocent men, women and children in
Germany who probably look forward to
Allied bombngs with hope in their
hearts, would be an inhuman blunder
equal to the bombing of innocent civil
lans by the Hitlerites. No special bombs
nave as yet been designed which will
fall only on Nazis and leave unharmed
the Nazi victims.
Does any one possibly believe that a
spark of sympathy might arise in the
frozen heart of Hitler at the bombing of
the German people? Has the self-cen-
tered house painter any more love for
his own people than he has for those he
conquered? In fact, the Allies might be
doing the Nazis great favor if they
bombed those Germans who despise
fascism. 1t would save the Nazis the
trouble and risk of Wiping them out
themselves.
We must wage a crushing onslaught
against the German military and indus
trial machine. To retaliate against civil
ians for the brutal bombing OF other
innocent civilians would be playing into
the hands of the Nazs. D. A.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
ALEXANDRIA, Va.

Dear Sir.
My favorite bird, the mockingbird
put on fine show for me early the other
morning, and I thought your readers
might wish to enjoy it. too.
This bird few down on the lawn be-
side barberry bush. 1t was just after
that sluicing rain, and the earth had
been washed out around the bush.
"At first I thought the bird was fe-
male towhee, but the moment l saw it in
action I saw it for the mocker it really
was.
Then it showed the white on its wings
and tail to perfection. There was no
mistaking it after that.
The way it showed the white so plain
ly was in leaping up as it were, to get
berries off the barberry bush.
The mockingbird futtered into the
air, holding itself as steady as possible
before the bush, while it seized bar
berry in its beak
THE mockingbird is no humming-
bird, SO 1t couldn't hold itself very still,
and only managed to do as we'll as it did
by dint of much fiuttering of its wings
I'm this fiuttering it seemed to me
that I had never seen so much white on
mockingbird before. The bird made
three of these flights, if they could be
called flights, each time achieving a
magnificent display.
Some Of my friends get confused be-
tween the mockingbird and the catbird.
Just the other day one told me that he
had catbird in his yard I had a great
deal of trouble convincing him that cat
birds are not here in the winter, and
that what he saw was a mockingbird
He told me later that he had looked for
the white, when the bird flew, and saw
it perfectly, and now Is willing to admit
that what he saw is mockingbird.
The mockinebird has pleased me for
many years. I am from the South
where we look upon the mocker as our
own bird, and almost sort of trade
mark, but it is the same bird around
here, and I am glad it is, because it
makes me feel quite at home.
Last summer I was pleased to have
one of these birds sing at night, Just as
it does down South.
Sincerely yours, L. c."
y X
Mockingbird lane is the name we have
given to that section of Brookville road
north of Bradley lane.
Many barberry hedges and dogwood
trees line the thoroughfare and in these
the mockingbirds are to be seen at all
times.
1t is not unusual to count as many as
half dozen mockingbirds along here in
walk of no more than six blocks.
The mockingbird is one of the species
which winters in Washington and vi
cinity.
We have found this bird to vary in
disposition Just as much as human be-
ines do, Some of them are veritable
Evening star., 1943-03-15

their share toward swelling the Gov
ernment establishment to it's present
proportions, for it is automatic that
when employment is unsupervised,
now jobs blossom profusely.
But it goes without saying that the
time has passed when this sort of
thing can be condoned, and the COM
mission is entirely justified in adopt
ing the tough" attitude forecast by
Commissioner Flemming There has
been little visible evidence of careful
personnel planning by muShrooming
war units, and now that the issue
has been raised by member Of the
Civil Service Commission it seems
certain that if the agencies them
selves fail to put their houses in
order, Congress will.
Evening star., 1943-03-15

as "the only fair method to accomplish
what has to be done" quite untenable.
Proposals to subsidize low wage levels
to obviate the charge OF slavery only
makes the position more untenable.
Raising real wages under war conditions
is out of the question. To raise money
wages therefore is certain to make the
money worthless, i. e., it can only be
mfiationary. Equality Of opportunity
can only be attained, and enslavement
avoided, by cutting wages and salaries
to fit the wartime curtailment of avail
able goods and services. Obviously, farm
labor needs no such cut in pay to curb
its purchasing power. But it needs an
advance in pay, with resultant higher
costs OF living for other labor. If high
wages are not cut "for the duration"
ALDEN A. POTTER.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
instruction Offered
Leon Henderson's Successor.

To the Editor Of The Star
Hard boiled Leon Henderson, before
he left Office, should have taken his
innocent and unsophisticated friend,
Prentiss Brown, aside and told him a
few OF the facts of life. He might have
gone out Connecticut avenue a way and
watched the B and C stickers attached
to autos rolling merrily along a route
that furnishes, II not comfortable. at
least adequate and efficient public trans
portation. And not one out Of 10 of these
give evidence of the pooling requisite
for such stickers. Leon should have taken
down recent file Of a popular magazine
showing survey made across the entire
country covering Americans engaged in
the equipment repair business and in
dicating that over so per cent of them
make practice of cheating the Gus
toner, if said customer appears to be a
trusting soul. And Leon might have
argued, since there is no evidence that
sharpers have any special tendency to
gravitate toward the auto, watch or
radio repair business, the Readers
Digest really furnished cross section
of the integrity of the species homo
sapiens Americanus.
II Senator Brown still clung to his
belief in Santa Claus, Leon could have
repeated the old sociological experiment
OF stufing a few dollar bills together
with an Identification card into a wallet
and dropping it on the sidewalk, dem
tiy,nr 10 ~, i
just one chance in so of having it re-
turned
Ours Is competitive society One
takes goods or services into the public
market place and must trade them for
goods Or services OF greater value. One
soon learns II he gets less value, he goes
bust" if he gets the same value. he
doesn't get ahead. This developes acqui-
sitiveness, shrewdness. sharpness, often
craftlneSs. However, deSrab BILE our profit
system may be in stimulating industry
and making America what it is today
1t does not tend to generate the spirit
OF self-sacrifice nor inspire loftiness of
SOUL
In every great voluntary movement,
whether it be raising an army or organ
1zing a community chest, few great
hearts sacrifice magnifcently, the most
of us remain carelessly Indifferent unless
forced and prodded, and far too many
chisel at every opportunity. Let others
chant the lovely ballad, Were all good
Americans, all t-r-o-o b-l-o-o",, let Con-
gressmen stick their hands in their dig
nified bosoms and declaim that we all
are jostling each other to pour our last
drop of blood and our last ounce of
treasure on the altar of patriotism. since
they need votes, but Prentiss Brown has
realistic total war to win against
ruthless and closely knit enemy economy
His hard task is to save the last drop of
gas and Oil, the last ounce of food and
rubber. I fear someday his soft pro-
nouncement about the honor system"
will be classed in history along with the
beatific Mr.. Bryan's Million armed men
springing to the aid of our country, over
night DWIGHT T. SCOTT.