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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-09

Mrs Mama A Thomas Of
Wellington st, has returned
from New York and Washing
ton where she visited her
daughters Mrs Lillian B john
son and Mrs Dorothy M West,
Mr. and Mrs Thomas spent
their vacation in Maine.
Boston Branch. Equal Rights
League, Louis e. Pasco. Sr.,
president, will hold special inn
pOrtant meeting Tuesday even
ing, Oct. IL, at the new Guard
ian office, 977 fremont St. at
Douglass So, nearly opposite
Hammond st. All members in
vited.
Selmus Turner Of SO Camden
st, father of Simpson Turner,
speaker for Sheloh Khall's
Electric Choir died Friday.
Funeral services Monday p IN
from Peoples Baptist church.
Estella Lane, soprano, with
Zelma Clarke Johnson, reader,
and Elrena Watkins Brighams
appeared in a recital at Pee
pies Baptist church last Thurs
day night under the auspices
of the Missionary Society OF
the church. All the artists were
warmly greeted by the large
audience. Mrs Lane was es-
pecially pleasing and the 9TH
er artists also did well. A
very large crowd attended
Florence Heggie was the ac-
companist.
Walter Carter, Of Boston and
Lowell, returned this week
from ten-day visit to Can
ada.
The Flower Club presents two
One-act plays, l. 'The House on
the Sand; 2. "After Church
Supper, Thursday, Oct. Ia, at
S:15 p. NJ, at Ebenezer Baptist
Church, Rev. VIM. S. RavenelI,
pastor. Mrs. Anna Williams,
chairman, James Henderson,
coach. Subscription 35c.
Mesdames Everton Morrison.
Lillian Williams, Greta Tyrrell,
Maize Collins, Charlotte Tim
bers, Elizabeth Ransom, Es-
tella Crosby, Daphne Little
john, Thomas Bowles, all of
them members of the House
wives League attended the VIC
tory supper given by the Wo-
mems War Saving Committee,
Sept IL, at the Copley Plaza.
The Housewives League to date
has sold more than a million
dollars worth of War Bonds.
A beautiful service in honor
Of Mrs Mary S Fraction and
others was given at the home
at II Waumbeck st last Sunday
by members of the Seventh
Day Adventists church. With
Mrs Lillian Feurtado as mis-
tress of ceremonies the pro-
gram included solos by Mrs
Minnie Driver and David
Smith; an address by Mr. Phil
lips. A delicious collation. was
served to the 35 guests present.
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White Club which meets once
a month at 466 Mass ave. The
forum will open later in Oc-
tober.
Mrs Elizabeth German
Wheatley, soprano, will be
presented In recital Thursday
evening, Dec Q at Gloucester
Memorial Presbyterian church,
Rex Benjamin Andersen, pas
tor. Assisting on the program
will be Gladys N Fuller, dra-
matte reader.
Miss Roberta Dunbar of
Providence, president N e Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs will
be the guest speaker tomorrow
afternoon at a musical tea Civ
Evening star., 1943-07-07
PLAY CLOTHES

4 N OLD American custom, This getting out
- and playing In the summertime -. don't
let little thing like having TO stoy home spoil
your fun! In the right foshions, you con hovs
the time Of your life -. In the yord, At The
pools, on the root, touring the parks! Herr ore
some "tip-offs" you'll need for fun-tms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
The Great Game of Politics
Joint lobor and Management Effort Can Spur
Production by Program Against Absenteesm

makes 1t unprecedentedly difficult.
What is suggested is that the
remedy lies in an educational cam
paign, beginning with the labor
management committees which,
adopting the old Baltimore e. Ohio
Roalroad plan, Mr.. Nelson set up
more than year ago. Through
these the supervisors and foremen
IN these great factories could re-
celve instructions that would result
In the education along preventive
lines of millions of workers.
The men who know most about it
say that one big cause of absentee
ism lies in permitting men and
women who are feeling badly to
continue working. Often, if these
were sent home for day or so, they
would not have to be out for several
weeks. Also the accident rate is
accelerated when half-sick people
are permitted to operate machines.
Wastage All Around.
Absenteeism in industry because
OF sickness represents, it is con-
tended, an enormous wastage to
employees because of loss of wages,
to management because of loss of
{ nings and to the country be-
cause OF lowered production. The
problem can be solved, both as to
health and morale, it is claimed,
better by working from the bottom
up through labor management COM
mittees than in any other way.
What's the matter with our war
agencies that all they do is talk
about this situation? Here is some
thing upon which labor and man.
agement can cooperate to their
mutual advantage and which at the
same time would mean more ships,
more planes, more guns and more
bombs for winning the war.
One would think they would rush
to ameliorate this problem at
least to the extent Of Mr.. Nelson's
2 per cent. One would think that
one OF these agencies would set up
division of industrial health
management with a competent man
as director and consulting COM
mittee Of experts.
There Is nothing either crackpot
or paternalistic in the idea of in
tensive work on this absenteeism
business. There are men who have
become experts. Why not use them?
1t seems as vital as it is obvious.
But, perhaps, that accounts for the
inertia-it Is too obvious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10

employ planes for an offensive
aimed eventually at the capture
Of Rabaul,. Japan's key base IN
that area.
But the next Jump from Rabaul
Is more than TOO miles to Truk
and In attacking that stronghold.
and, Of course. in moving on
Japan herself, our troops viii
have to be transported In ships
supported by airplanes.
American naval ofncers with
whom have talked In the Pacific
say that we will undoubtedly
suffer heavy losses and that our
invasion forces will have to be so
large that we can disregard losses
and keep going. We do not yet
have those forces.
The date Of our major Pacific
ofYensives, therefore, depends on
how soon our workers can turn
out warships-especially carriers,
transports, airplanes and all the
tremendous quantities Of supplies
and material needed to equip our
forces,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
BY FRANK r. KENT.

10y MANN
The drastic and dramatic proc
lamations that, from time to time
issue from the Manpower Commits
sion do not conceal the fact that tne
whole manpower problem has been
muddled and those in charge have
never come to grips with realities.
Notwithstanding the recently an
nounced freezing order, they are
not grasping them now, as shown
by the way Chairman McNutt backs
away from the national war service
bill introduced by Representative
Wadsworth and Senator Austin and
which, months ago, when the situa-
ton was less acute than now, Mr..
McNutt had indicated was inevi-
! table.
1t is not only that, with typical
political timidity, the administra-
ton has refused to deal with the
obvious fact that a considerable part
Of the labor shortage is due to re-
strictive labor laws and union regu-
lations, but it has stood consistently
in the way of congressional action
to modify these.
In addition, the men in charge
have ignored certain other conceded
causes for loss Of manpower, which
can be cured without legislation,
friction or fight. One Of these is
absenteeism.
Nelson Cites Effect.
It was Donald Nelson who. in a
speech the other day, asserted that
absenteeism in war plants was caus-
ing 4 10 per cent loss In production.
He added that If this could be re-
duced by 2 per cent. 1t would per-
NIT fulfillment of the WPB sched-
ules for this year.
One would think that a statement
as fiat and unequivocal as that,
coming from the head of the War
Production Board, at least would
interest the Manpower Commission
to the point Of inquiring whether
there was not = way to effect that
4 per cent reduction.
But that does not seem to be the
case. Instead, the engineers and
physicians who have studied the
problem Of absenteeism in industry
for years and who qualify as ex-
perts, have difnculty in getting a
hearing on the subject in Washing
ton, though they come offering a
remedy and eager to apply 1t. Most
Of these accept Mr.. Nelson's 10 per
cent reduction loss figure, pointing
out that before the war the figure
was per cent.
Les Time for Protection.
1t is interesting that the increase
Is not chargeable, the experts say,
80 much to morale as to health and
accidents. The point is made that
the expansion Of the war industries
has been 30 great and the pressure
under which the many thousands
Of defense plant workers labor is so
high that the vital business Of
guarding against illness and acct
dents Il not being considered with
quite the care IS in other days.
The management OF these plants,
70 far from being Obvious to the
need, take every precaution they
can, but the sheer size of the lob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10

prices were uncontrolled and per
mitted to follow the infationary
pattern Of World War l." -
Certainly such = vast program
can make Americans feel proud
and make civilians realize that sac.
rtffces in the civilian economy are
necessary II the full force OF this
mighty amount Of production Il to
be brought to play against the Axis
with the hope Of bringing the war
to an early end.
tReproduetion Rishts R<seryed.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10

Listsn to Arch Mcdonald
"Speak;ns Of Sports" over
ation WJSV every
Wsdnssday night at 6:l5
FRANKLIN $3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Stulemute in Pacific
Both U. S. and Jopon Declared Facing
Powerful Obstacles to Future Offensives
BY CLARK LEE.

Associated Press STAFF Correspondent.
NEW YORK, Feb. lO.-The
military situation in the Pacific
today shapes up as a stalemate in
its broader aspects, with both
the United States and Japan
facing powerful obstacles to any
future offensives they may I'M
dertake.
Japan has been stopped. but
We are not yet ready for the big
advance, although President
Roosevelt has stated that our
growing power will soon enable
us to substitute an offensive war
for our policy of attrition.
Our difficulty is getting at the
Japs.
Once we get close enough to
slug it out with them on the
ground, at sea and in the air, we
have proven their masters.
Their withdrawal from Quad
alcanal, announced by the Toxic
radio, is a clear-cut admission of
local defeat. But at the same
time the Japanese have undoubt-
eddy taken advantage of the past
six months to dig in strongly in
the other islands of the Solomons
and to establish positions to
which they will cling tenaciously
and stubbornly.
Despite the evacuation of the
defeated remnants from Guadal-
canal, our war in the Pacific re-
mains essentially one of attrition.
This campaign to weaken our
enemies is being carried on
throughout the Pacific by our
submarines, and by our airplanes
in the skies of the Aleutians and
the South Seas.
Jap Losses Heavy.
In six months Of fighting in the
Solomons. climaxed now by the
victory of Guadalcanal, our
planes have inflicted far heavier
losses on the enemy than we have
suffered ourselves.
Japan's southwark surge was
stopped there and the attempts
to recapture the island have now
PROBABLY been turned back once
and for all.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
after capturing Papua, New
Guinea, is putting pressure on
the japanese bases at Lac and
Salamaua, farther up the New
Guinea coast, using planes to
ferry troops and supplies over
the rugged mountains to our air.
field at Wau, which lies in a
hilly pocket only IS miles from
the nearest Japanese positions.
The British drive from India
into Northwestern Burma is
making slow progress. This at
tack is not yet major campaign
to recapture Burma and reopen
the Burma road. It's immediate
objective seems to be to seize
the Akyab airport, thus denying
the japanese base within
bombing distance of Calcutta
and placing our own bombers
within easy range of Rangoon.
Japan's armies are COMPARE
lively inactive on the fronts of
China while the Chinese, lack
ing artillery and supported only
by a small, though hard-hitting
American air force, cannot take
the initiative.
Despite the serious local Set
backs they have suffered. the
Japanese probably flnd the pres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
u. S. Should
Be Proud of
War Output
Cool Of $4,000
Planes Yearly to Be
Reached EosiIy
By DAVID LAWRENCE,


While Official figures are rarely
Issued and usually are Jumped to-
gether with other general state
ments, an analysis OF Donald Nell
sons latest progress report reveals
that American industry is accom-
plishing some truly remarkable
things in war production.
Thus. based on December achieve
ment Of 5.489 planes, the United
States as the arsenal of democracy
Is actually turning out planes at a
rate in excess of $1,000 per year
the largest by far of any nation in
the world and certainly far in excess
OF Germany, Italy and Japan COM
bined.
Aircraft engines are being pro-
duced In quantities greatly in excess
Of the number Of planes that can be
assembled to use them. Our air
plane output is actually lower than
1t might otherwise be if there we're
not inadequate procurement OF
component parts and accessories,
including numerous items of Gov
eminent furnished equipment"
This means that some of the smaller
businesses which make the gadgets
have not yet been fully co-ordinated
but 1t also means that once this is
accomplished the goal of $4,000
planes year set originally for l943
could be reached.
Tank Output at Peak.
Tanks are being produced so
rapidly by quantity production
methods that it now is officially
revealed that output OF tanks has
reached its peak. and is scheduled
to decline in 1913"
Merchant vessels approximating
1,l67, 900 lightweight tons were de-
Nvered in December by the Mari
time Commission and production is
increasing This means that we are
actually building ships at the rate
Of 100000 tons per year-a phe-
nomenal amount Of shipping. espe-
cially when 1t is considered that the
entire Japanese merchant marine
was recently estimated to be about
100000 tons, with q capacity for
increase Of perhaps not more than
100000 tons year.
The important point, however, to
be ascertained Is whether any con-
siderable part Of the 14,004, 900 tons
Of our shipping is being allocated
to the Pacific to match thu 5000, 900
available 100 per cent to the Japa-
nese for their operations against
opponents in the Pacific Ocean.
The latest report is properly
vague on the number of Army and
Navy vessels built. All that is said
is that deliveries jumped sharply
with the completion of a large
number of landing vessels" and that
December deliveries were some
what greater than November" s
ThH signifies that emphasis for
the time being was given to large
combat yesseis-possibly new air.
craft carriers or cruisers. It indi-
Gated that escort vessel. however
have suffered and an increase is
absolutely essential II the Nazi sub
marine menace Is to be overcome
The reasons were doubtless asso-
ciated with military strategy.
81 Billions in 1912.
Perhaps the most sensational
piece OF information in Mr.. Nelson's
whole report is the disclosure that
we actually paid out Of the Treas
ury $50 ,406 ,OO0, 900 for war purposes
In 1912. If the December expendi- |
ture OF $6,l25 900 900 is multiplied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Nozi Defect by Russions Indicated This Year;
Allies Must Act to Be Equal Partners in Victory

ton are the cream OF what is left
of the great Hitler force-the
mightiest concentration OF the
Reichswehr. On them rest all
the hopes OF Hitler's strategy.
About 100 divisions have been
utterly defeated or partly an
initiated.
Now the Nazis say-in the
fourth year Of the war-that they
will begin a total war" This is
patent nonsense. What the best
and most experienced troops, the
flower OF the Reichswehr, could
not accomplish. will not be
achieved by the rag-ta and bob
tail OF what Hitler can gather
together and train to the music
of funeral marches.
Hitler does not need a new
army year from now. He needs
it now. All he can expect is a
breathing spell early in the
spring, during the thaw period,
Of about five weeks. But then
the final battle will begin and
as far as know the Russians have
strong reserves for this campaign.
Now. II we look at this pic
ture coolly, the outcry coming
from Britain for action-for de-
spite the American caution there
is an excited offensive spirit in
Britain-is no longer a Help
Poor Russia" cry. 1t is . sug-
gestion that we had better par
ticipate in the victory.
No Plea, But an Invitation
Russia wants us to participate.
When President Roosevelt con-
graduated Stain on Stalingrad,
Stain responded that he hoped
the United Nations victory over
the common foe would be
achieved lin the near future"
1t was no longer 4 plea. It was
an invitation.
Let us make no mistake: II the
Russians win this war alone the
peace table viii be dominated by
Russia. There is no indication
that Russia wants this RESPONSE
bility. But 1t will be put in her
lap and there is no historical
precedent according to which q
nation, having won a huge VIC
tory. hands the victory to a
fellow-traveler.
Popular thinking in America
about peace has been predicated
on an nglo-American victory.
with Russia greatly weakened
and grateful for having been
liberated by the western powers.
AS things look now. exactly the
reverse will be the picture. The
western powers, and especially
Britain, viii have been saved by
Russia. not Russia by Britain
and the United States.
We still can be equals In the
victory. but not by waiting too
long. At this stage Of the war
time Is on the side Of the most
offensive power.
(Released BY the Bell Syndicate, IneJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Will Aid With Tex Forms

A deputy collector Of internal
revenue will be at the Montgomery
County National Bank Of Rockville
and the Farmers Banking & Trust
Co. Of Rockville from February IL
to February Is and February 10 to
AZ, respectively, to assist taxpayers
to make out their Federal tax re-
turns. A collector was at the First
National Bank Of Sandy Spring to-
day and win be there tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
U. S. Jeeps Will Help
Britons With PIowinq

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb 10.-American
jeeps, the Handy Andys of the
United States Army. are going to
pillow nov.
!, The, ve..'cles, which have been
used to hal generals and even
Presidents. hun tanks and carry
the wounded to /. ospitals, will be
pressed into service in the spring
blowing program in Eprland to
rase food for part Of the American
armed forces here. They already
are being employed to clear thou
sands of acres Of agricultural land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10

by IL it means that we are spending
today at the rate of $73,500 900 600
for the year 1s43. When 1t is con-
sidered that our whole program In
World War I left us after 10 months
of war with an increase In public
debt. of about $4,000 900 900 some
idea of the way we have increased
our production may be gained.
1t is announced also that the
Nations expenditures for munitions
and war construction - planes,
tanks, ships, guns, ammunition and
other ordnance will aggregate
around $l57 200, 900 900 from June,
1910, through the end of ls43 II
prices are held at current levels.
The ONCE Of Price Administrator
claims this Is $4,000, 100000 less
than the $235 ,OOo, 900 900 that the
same program would have cost If
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THE opinions OF the rers this page their DUN,
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented
Stars e0or to gue all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In the last few days yelled
warnings have been issued that
no full scale Anglo American Of
fenSive on the European CONT
nent is to be expected in the near
future. and that our action will
be confined to operations of
limited extent and objective.
From London, Admiral Harold E.
Stark warned that submarines
were taking a heavy toll of equip
ment.
If this be true then We are
going to leave the main job of
defeating Germany to the Rus
slams. For Germany is going to
be defeated, and according to all
the signs and portents is going to
be defeated this year. I cannot
think of single instance in
world history where armies have
suffered such disasters as have
Wv toliiC WIG oCi mai Oil III
the last weeks and ever have
recuperated.
At the beginning Of the Russo
German war the Russian armies
suffered, too. But the Russian
strategy in this war as in the
Napoleonic War was to retreat
INTO the interior, and the from
tier troops were not the elite of
the Russian forces but were there
to cover that initial retreat. Al
though the losses were heavy, not
single Russian army has been
annihilated.
Nazis in Caucasus Finished.
The German armies which
have been fighting in the Cau-
casus are finished. One success
full Russian enlightenment has
followed another and there seems
to be no end to them. The Rus
sian storm has slammed the last
door that led from the north to
Rostov. German troops in the
west corner OF the Caucasus are
completely cut off, in an ever
narrowing ring. without railroads
or supplies, and with no way back.
The idea that they may evacuate
themselves in a second Dun
kerque' is impossible. The Rus
slams hold the whole northeast
stretch of the Azov Sea. the
Kerch Straits, and command the
waters. There is no analogy to
Dunkerque. The collapse of the
Stalingrad 9Th Army and the
Caucasian army is two Tannen-
bergs in a few weeks.
The reconquest Of Kursk is
comparable to the British break
through at Cambria, on August
6, 1918. But, in the same mo-
ment, a new development is de-
veloping in the south, where the
Rostov and Donetz German arm
les are threatened with being cut
OF by Russian drive straight to
the Sea of Azov. ....
These armies that have suf-
fered and are suffering annihila-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-02-11
Sandy Srai>sS Ne0.d- Social 1zs~sd

Robert H. Wilson from Roches-
ter, N. Y, who is a student at
Swarthmore College, stayed during
the past week with his aunt, Mrs.
Florence M. Bentley.
Miss Jean H. Thomas spent the
past week end here, returning to
her position in Baltimore the first
of the week.
1t. Robert R. Moore and Mrs.
Moore and Mr.. and Mrs. S. Brook
Moore and their daughter from
Hagerstown, Md, were all at
"Plainfield" with their parents over
Sunday.
Gordon Farquhar, who was at
tending Yale University, is at home
before reporting for Army duty.
Mrs. Gladys H. Young, who for
several years, has been a teacher
and librarian at Sherwood School,
leaves to enter the WAVES at a
camp in Northampton.
Walter C. Detroit, chief of
emergency service has appointed
William John Thomas III, of Ash
ton assistant deputy chief of Sandy
Spring report center.
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by records. No admission charge.
Miss Elizabeth Schroeder, bet
ter known as Sonny, spent the
past week end with her grand
mother, Mrs. Frederick Drummer
in Washington, ID. C.
Mrs. Ralph Briggs, of Raleigh,
North Carolina, is spending this
week with her mother-in-law,
Mrs. Mae Briggs, and aunt, Mrs.
Ethel Mills on Walker Avenue.
Mrs. Roland Oxford and daugh-
ter, Susan, are spending this
week end with her mother, Mrs.
Susan McGraw in Washington.
Private Harold U. Peddicord,
member of the Coast Artillery,
is spending this week with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
H. Peddicord, on Frederick Ave
nue..
Mrs. William McBain was
called to Virginia last week by
the illness and death of her uncle,
Mr.. Henry H. Otley, who was
laid to rest on Sunday in the
Ebenezer Cemetery at Bloomfield,
Virginia.