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Reprisals
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but that "one day our ever
growing anti-aircraft defenses
and future retaliation will make
an end to the activities of the
Huns Of the air"
DARK HINTS
Ugly hints of measures to be
taken against captured alrmen
were closely co..lected with a
German press campaign against
American filters imprisoned af-
ter the Nov 20 raid ON Bremen
and accused of having murder
incorporated written on their
uniforms.
A Berlin dispatch TO the
Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher
Zeltung claimed that the planes
of an entire squadron were so
lettered and that another squad
ron called itself home block
busters"
This referred 10 the practise
of American alrmen giving their
glib bombers names, often face
tious, such as Suzy O. Who
dat and Wabbit Twacks."
The bombed and battered
Nazis are screeching that the
names of some of the planes
prove that gangsters control
the American airforce.
BLAME ALLIES
In Selling on the Kharkov
trials for further justification of
German brutality, a Nazi foreign
office spokesman claimed the
trials were agreed upon in prin-
ciple at the Tcheran conference,
so the British and Americans
share the responsibility Swed-
ish press reports said.
DNB's official statement spe-
officially accuse President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill Of aSSociating them
selves with the kharkov pro-
Cecdings and licned those pro-
ceedings TO medieval witch
trials"
Three Germans and a Russian
traitor, who admitted at their
trial before Kharkov military
court that they had committed
and witnessed numerous acts Of
atrocities against Russian civil
ians and soldiers, were hanged
Sunday IN Kharkov's public
square.
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Pacific
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stronghold on New Britain.
ZEROS HIT BACK

LEROS Hi BAChA
u. S. Seventh Air Force Lib
orators found that out when
they ralded the new Taroa air
base in the Maloelap atoll of the
Marshalls Monday They drop
ped Is tons of bombs but 80
Zcros rose 10 intercept and
knocked off three LiberatorS.
-Four ZeroS were shot down.
Seven others met destruction i'm
an american raid the day be-
fore.
The enemy sent up so fighters
against Libcrators and their
cscorting fighters which at
tackled Rabaul Harbor, sank
one merchant vessel and set two
others Attire. The Allies and the
enemy each lost four fighters. In
attacks on a convoy off Ka-
vicng, New Ireland, to the
northwest of Rabaul, direct hits
were scored on three japanese
cargo ships, and a fourth was
also damaged.
japanese planes bounced on
an empty convoy in waters off
New Guinea, but managed "a
sink only a two-hundred tonner
at cost of IA aircraft and six
probables. The Tokyo radio
broadcast claims that Japanese
planes yesterday had sunk nine
Allied transports and two cruis-
crs off Cape Merkus, the Amer
ican-hcld peninsula on New
Britain.
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cuSs foremen'S grievances with
the management Compa y
spokesman denied this saying he
was docked a total OF ~ hours
for carrying on union activities
on company time
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bombors also struck at Terra
Gina, 80 miles southeast OF
Rome.
One enemy plane was de-
stroycd for loss Of one Allied
aircraft.
A naval communique said
that British motor torpedo
boats captured German schoon-
crs off the Yugoslav coast Dec.
10, taking their crews prisoners.
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After stealing $1,000 from a
safe in Cairo. Egypt, an absent
minded burglar forgot his tool
chest, bearing his name and adj
dress.
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Eskimos of northern Green
land freeze cider duck eggs and
eat them like apples.
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but that "one day our ever
growing anti-aircraft defenses
and future retaliation will make
an end to the activities Of the
Huns Of the air"
Evening star., 1943-10-27
Federal 'Droft Dodoers'

The President may have over
reached himself in denouncing as
mud singers all of those who have
criticized Federal draft deferments.
1t is probable that some of these
critics have been sincere enough,
but it is also Self-evident that many
of them have made little, if any,
effort to ascertain the facts before
sounding off"
Mr.. Roosevelt says that Federal
employees who have been deferred
from the draft for occupational
reasons constitute only little more
than per cent of the nearly 3,OOO,-
900 persons on the executive pay
rolls. This is a figure which means
little in itself and means nothing
for purposes of comparison with
private industry, since the Presi-
dents total Is not broken down to
show how many are women, how
many are physically incapacita ted,
the number who are over draft age,
etc. Actually, the percentage of
those deferred, in relation to the
number of Federal male employees
within the draft age limits, might
be quite high, but, even so, the fig
ure would be without real signifl-
canoe.
The important fact disclosed by
Mr.. Roosevelt is that the total num-
Der Of men with occupational de-
ferments in the executive agencies
Is s8,o53. Offhand, that may seem
Evening star., 1943-10-27
Look Before You Leup
From the Edmonton La survivance.

From the Edmonton La SurVivance.
The war keeps on and continues to
upset our economv and our whole life
Because of the scarcity of manpower
today there are numbers of vacancies
with good wages. MANY are tempted to
let themselves be attracted by the bait
Already in number of our parishes
empty places appear; the land is being
abandoned for the city This situation
this race after wages, must be OBJ
served with uneasiness. The war will
not last forever. 1t may end sooner
than we think What will then become
OF these temporary wages? Who can
assure us that after the war we will not
have another unemployment crisis? AS
a matter of fact it will be necessary to
establish in civilian life some 10000
men who are in the active services.
They will have first chance; others must
make way for them. Have these de-
serters of the land carefully thought
out their decision? Furthermore are
even the attractive wages so great a
benefit? What becomes of those wages
when big rent has to be paid to stay
in the city $50 month for three or
four rooms? Wages 60 fast when you
have to pay for milk, eggs. butter, meat
etc.-au things that the farmer has at
h1S 6spoGAl.
Evening star., 1943-10-27

1t will not be many days now before
the annual flight of the starlings begin,
as they come back to the warmth of
the National Capital from their summer
haunts in Canada.
Some of the big birds are already here.
When they come in only the ex-
perienced eye of the bird watcher will
see them, so it is a pretty good idea TO
be on the watch for them, because their
flight together issone Of the most beau
tiful sights in nature.
So much i'll has been said against
these birds that it is good to remember
this, to hold the balance true.
The concerted flight Of the starlings
is equaled by some species, but excelled
by none. Yet most persons do not
realize this They seem to think there
is nothing good about starlings. nor
possibly can be anything good about
them.
Human pilots would give good deal
to be able to engage in mass flying as
capably as the starlings.
The big birds not only fly in ranks,
but manage to change their course to-
gether as If some leader had given an
invisible order
If there is any order given. it must be
by some sort OF radio which mankind
has not yet discovered.
Every wing tilts at exactly the same
moment.
This is the marvel Of the starting
flight.
1t is not case of one bird following
the other, and SO on through the crowd.
Every bird turns at the same time.
Every wing dips, and every tail slants
just the same way at precisely the one
and same moment.
We have seen the starlings flying over
the Chevy Chase Club, some time in
November, and the flight is something
to watch.
Experts who have studied both birds
and the science of fight regard the
startling as one of the most capable Of
all flyers, reaching his perfection in
these mass flights.
This Is not the only way in which
this canny big bird uses what may be
described, for want Of better word, as
radio intelligence.
In the winter he sends out scouts, and
these picked foragers locate food espe-
cially that put out at bird feeding sta
tions
When he locates 1t. however he does
not return to the main group.
He simply takes up station in tree
or on building and signals the band.
How he does it is unknown but he
must do it, because it is not long before
the other members Of the group appear.
1t may be, Of course, that they are
located at some distance, but still not
so far away as to be invisible to the
scout
1t must be remembered that bird eyes
are marvellous eyes.
They have to be. to spot an insect
crawling along the ground.
1t is possible that the scout starting
Evening star., 1943-10-27
InterIude in Autumn

There is this tnterlude, this hour Of
grace,
Frost framed and bound pithtn q
1Dhistle'S note,
Eleuen and eleUen, face to face
Upon the gridiron, ,utnes beat IN
each throat
And pound the pulses, all that mat
ters noU
Is speed, precision and the Juggling
heart.
The spirit is 1Darn, unspoken po1D
To spill that blond left end; the
haltbacks start
Hearing the signals, then teint Nm
concern,
Fall back in line to patt the
Uhistle's shriH
Cry that 1DiH split the sunlight and
1DiN burn
The seconds like a bonfire. War
is still
And stands forgotten on a stripe Of
1uhite,
As Hold that line" shouts do1rn
the cloudless sky
And "Watch that pass" reels back
1D1th laughing might
Throughout the Quartered hour
that hurries BY,
Leaving a footprint, faint, remem-
.... bered, fair,
OF peace upon this clean. gold
autumn air.
GLADYS MCKEE. -.
Evening star., 1943-10-27

they have been ofncially affirmed
and are wholly in character with
similar reports from Russia and
other countries. They are in charac-
ter with the story of Lidice, with the
story of numberless hostages slaugh-
tered in cold blood, with the story
of race determination in many q
dark conquered corner of Europe
with all the stories of planned ter
ror we have been hearing ever since
the Nazis gobbled up Czechoslo-
vakia and went on from there to
ride like the Four HorSemen of the
Apocalypse from one end of the
continent to the other
Nor should these unspeakable
crimes be viewed solely as the ex-
preston of a furiously blind mad
ness. The madness is there, to be
sure, but there is also the clear
suggestion of method. Nazi Ger
many no longer hopes to win the
war, but it hopes for the next best
thing. 1t hopes to be stronger in
defeat, relatively, than any other
European country west of Russia,
and to this end it has been leaving
no evil undone in an effort to insure
that all the lands beyond its bor-
ders will be physically and mentally
rickety for a generation or more to
come. In France alone, for example,
owing to high policy fixed in Berlin,
countless thousands of children are
not being born who should be born
and other thousands are dying al
most as soon as they are born. That
is one way to make sure that a ma
ton will not be strong in the future
This murder of potential man.
hood is being carried out on a conti-
nent-Wide scale, and though it is
not direct thing, though it is done
bloodlessly through such devices as
leaving the victim country without
enough food to maintain health, it
is the most appalling single crime
that can be charged against Hitler
and the Nazis. They know the war
is going to end in disaster for
them, but they are doing their best
to make it end even more disastrous
ly Tor the rest Of Europe.
Evening star., 1943-10-27

rather large. But before there could
be an intelligent basis for criticism
it would be necessary to examine
the facts upon which each Of these
deferments was granted, and that is
something that the critics have been
unwilling or unable to do. An honest
examination of the facts probably
would disclose that most of these
deferred workers, because of special
skills, are contributing more toward
winning the war in their present
capacities than they possibly could
contribute if inducted into military
services. And, that being the case,
it Is grossly unjust and definitely
harmful to smear them indiScrim-
inately as draft dodgers"
Evening star., 1943-10-27
THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles Z. TrdceDell.

signals the rest Of the band simply by
flying to a signal post.
The fact that he remains there, in
stead of flying on, may tell the others
that he has found food.
We would not put 1t past these inteli-
at varying distances, at high places, so
that each can see the next.
In this way they could blanket city,
from the deep downtown to the subur-
ban areas.
We prefer to believe, however, that
the starlings use some sort Of radio in
telligence in their work.
II they use it in their marvellous group
flying, and this is generally believed by
experts, it is not dificult to believe that
they use some form of it in notifying
each other of the discovery of food
Food, in the animal and bird kingdom,
is paramount.
And, try as hard as human beings will
to pretend otherwise, it is pretty i'm
portant to humans, too.
So 1t is no wonder that the starlngs
use every bit Of intelligence they have
in keeping each other informed OF food
sources
Whatever form Of group living they
practice, 1t Is apparent that they stick
together, and each helps the other In
America this is particularly necessary,
because they are not admired here, gen.
orally speaking, as they are in England.
1t comes as something Of a shock to
many Americans to learn that in Eng
ling Is looked upon with deep respect,
and written about in the same way.
The startling is hero in many q
childrens story, no matter what he may
be in this country.
There are few birds which have more
native intelligence. His waddling gait
and short tail give him an ungainly ap-
pearance which bellies his keen mind
His is quick intelligence, ready to act
upon the instant
This column has carried the tale Of
the startling which saved baby sparrow
"A oAAi Wv AiAS Aai n iiAdd PuodiC Ny
ing in, seizing the young bird by the
back Of the neck and carrying it to dry
land.
We also have reported how, in a deep
snow, one startling perched upon the
back Of another to eat his bread with
dry feet.
Also this column has told the story
OF the old starting which few into a
bird feeding station in heavy rain and
remained there all afternoon not to eat,
but just to keep dry. Few birds seem to
have this sort of intelligence
The habits Of starlings, which makes
them most distasteful to Americans, of
roosting on public buildings is dictated
solely by intelligence. They have dis
covered that such buildings have heat
all night, and that the ledges are able to
keep their feet warm. The starlings have
unusually sensitive claws and must use
their brains to keep them warm. It is a
problem easily solved. by a creature
which already has solved the mysteries
OF massed flight.
Evening star., 1943-10-27
Woman Willing to Work
Five DayS-And Then Some,

To the Editor Of The Star:
There is much criticism of women
these days because more of them are
not leaving their homes and taking war
jobs. May I say that when it becomes
possible for women to work five days
a week on war jobs, there probably will
be plenty of women available?
I applied for war job for five days
a week and was told that we are at war
and that should be willing TO work
48 hours week. My answer was that
I expected to work many more than 48
hours week, for I had family to
look after and house to keep in order,
in addition to the work I was willing
to do outside my home.
Another person told me that woman
asked for equality with men and now
was the time to prove that equality by
doing the sort of work men were doing.
Is it equality for man to fill one job
while a woman fills two?
Let us work five days week and give
us one day to take care of our homes
and one day for rest, such as men have.
If the job must 60 on six days without
interruption, it might even be possible
to let two housewives handle it, one
working three days week and the other
three. We are willing to do little more
than our share. (ARe) ANN MANN.
Evening star., 1943-10-27
A MethodicoI Madness

Like Samson pulling the pillars
down, Hitler and his Nazi hordes are
perhaps even more destructive in
their present retreat phase than
they were in the days when they
were advancing everywhere, exult-
antly singing the supermen's song
about owning Europe today, and
tomorrow the world.
Fresh evidence in support of this
is on its way to President Roosevelt's
desk, in the form of report per-
sonally edited by Colonel Edgar
Erskine Hume, Virginian who
heads the Allied military govern
ment in Italy. The report tells of
the retreating Nazis collectively
and individually" robbing shops,
homes and even people on the
streets. 1t tells of the wanton de-
struction of the University of Ma
pies; of BOBBY traps deliberately de-
signed to blow up civilians, including
children; of the Germans releasing
dangerous criminalS-killerS and sex
maniacs-from Italian jails in order
to stir up as much evil as possible; of
food supplies painstakingly ruined or
fouled to spread starvation; of water
systems and sewage disposal plants
wrecked to create pestilence; of hos
pitals looted of everything needed
to care for the populace; of brutal
beatings and numerous murders, in
cluding sadistic ones, especially
those of women"
There is little reason to doubt the
truth Of such atroeity stories, for
Evening star., 1943-10-27

tuition says: The President shall be
Commander in Chief Of the Army and
Navy of the United States, and of the
militia of the several States when called
into the actual service of the United
States" Here again Is a warning to the
States to keep well-regulated militia"
Such a thing the several States have
never had, in spite Of the warning,
and it is the last thing that a profess
sional politician would desire. When a
"well-regulated militia" was specified
the intent Of the founders seems to be
just what the words said.
Switzerland, the only practical de-
mocracy in the modern world, is COM
posed of sovereign cantons, the citizens
OF each Of them being soldiers from
20 to As years OF age, 25 years of service
for each. Nowhere in the world is there
another country In which the several
states OF the union are as jealous Of
their individual rights as III Switzerland.
yet there are no people more united
than the Swiss. For over $50 wears the
warning nations have walked wide OF
this little republic.
Herein, perhaps, lies a moral Man.
kind progresses steadily by the law of
evolution, the law Of the Creator, and
1t is useless to pin hope on slogans
and man made social revolutions" Un-
fortuantely, each succeeding generation
fiouts the experience of its predecessors,
loses sight of the wisdom of divine
laws and then. when trouble comes,
looks to some human leader" to pull
1t out of the mire. Such leaders" in
variably end by becoming despotic char
acters. The only indispensable man"
was the victim of the Tragedy on Calvary
and only by needing His words can last
ing peace and security be obtained.
The Father endowed each of us with the
ability to think for ourselves. When
we let others do our thinking, we are
betraying that divine heritage.
G. j. S.
Evening star., 1943-10-27
Navy Day, 1943


American Navy, built and building,
was scrapped in exchange for
formula and a false sense of econ
omy. The First World War had been
a painful and a costly experience.
And we were resolved, at that time,
to build Navy so strong that no
hostile nation could hope to chal-
lenge us on the seas.
But that resolution was to prove
short lived. AS our fleet grew in
power the British and the japanese
strove to keep pace. A naval build
ing race was soon under way, and
in the early 192Os we were feeling
the pinch of postwar depression.
The people of the country were in no
mood to support big naval appro-
priations, and although President
Harding, newly in office, made
fight for bigger Navy, the pressure
OF public opinion was too strong.
The senatorial advocates of disarm-
ament had their way, and in 1922
the 5-5-3 ratio for Great Britain, the
United States and Japan came out
OF the Washington Arms Conference,
and the Navy headed into a long
period of neglect and decline.
No one doubts now that a serious
mistake was made. While we per-
mltted our Navy to languish, not
even keeping it up to treaty strength,
the Japanese were secretly whiting
away the slim margin of actual su-
perlority that the formula gave us.
While we were abiding by our agree
ment not to fortify Pacific outposts,
the japanese were secretly fortify-
ing islands in violation of treaty.
We knew that this was going on, but
we did nothing about it, because
neither Congress nor the people
could then perceive the ultimate i'm
portance that these islands were to
assume.
1t was not until Europe was
plunged into war in the fall of 1889
that We began any serious effort to
build up our naval strength, and we
soon found that this was a slow and
dlfncult process. AS late as mid
1910 new planes and new ships were
being added to the fleet in absurdly
small numbers. We were danger
ouSly weak and, for the time being.
there was not much that we could
do about it. 1t was our good fortune
that the japanese did not choose to
hit us then.
But all Of that is changed now. AS
we enter upon Navy Day, 1943, we
have. or soon will have, by far the
most powerful fleet in the world.
The new WarShips are coming down
the ways by the hundreds. Where
the Navy did we'll to get twenty-five
new planes in the fateful month of
June, 1910, when the military power
OF France crashed in ruins, it is now
receiving thousands upon thousands
OF vastly improved new fighters and
bombers.
Despite the frantic efforts of our
enemies, we are establishing a mar
gin of naval superiority which will
combine with our Army to crush
them. And our enemies know it.
But after they are beaten what
then? Will we fall back into the old
error, or will we profit by the blunder
OF 1922? In all probability we shall
not repeat that mistake, but, never
theless, this Navy Day might we'll be
dedicated to the resolution that this
time we propose to hold on to the
great fighting force that we have
built until some alternative form of
security has been put to the test and
found adequate.