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Evening star., 1943-08-13
Single Tax Doctrine
Again Set Forth.


To the Editor OF The Star:
Free America" seems on the way to
becoming one word as yankee" is
said to be in the South.
Our radio Chauvins would have us
believe we are the only free people on
earth, whereas, we have no more of
freedom than is general throughout the
British Empire and even less than in
some parts of it that are breaking away
from the squirearchial conditions of the
mother country imposed upon them as
colonies,
On a like Colonial basis we undertook
to found state dedicated to freedom
and equality and have rested there un-
mindful of the centuries of demonstra-
ton that freedom and feudalism are at
opposite poles; that bread-and-b butter
freedom, or freedom from want, as now
phrased, is unattainable under whatever
government, where the SOIL the sole
source of human subsistence is given
over to private control and exploitation
as means of profit without labor.
The advantages both in spirit and
substance given the Russian people by
abolition of their feudal system of land
tenure with its train of privileged para
sites may be judged by comparison of
the Russia of today with the Russia
of the tsars, and the fact that in the
recent worldwide depression, Russia
presented no spectacle of mass unem-
ployment.
We need, however, no MARKHAM cata-
clysm to assure us Of the substantial
freedom we lack. We have long had
before us program to attain it peace
fully and with the least disturbance to
our political and social institutions, by
Evening star., 1943-08-13
Behind the Nov Bill

The bill by Chairman May of the
House Military Affairs Committee,
which would prohibit the draft of any
fathers into the armed forces, is the
sort of arbitrary restraint on the use
of manpower which by all means
should be avoided But it was avoided
only with difficulty earlier in this
session and it will be harder to avoid
it when Congress comes back. For
the administration will be unable to
demonstrate by the record that it is
making the best use of available
civilian manpower. And if the mill
tary authorities we're unable to con-
vince the House early this year that
the size of the armed forces should
be left for them to decide, they are
going to be hard put to do it now.
The fatal weakness in our efforts
to solve the manpower problem has
been the glaring inconsistency be-
tween our conception of military
service and civilian service. We have
faced the inevitability of military
service without fiinching; but our
conception of civilian service has
been confused with human rights
and property rights and every other
right except the Nations right to
depend on its citizens for support
of the men on the battle fronts.
We are now facing the ugly conse-
quences. with no workable program
to deal with them.
There has been lack of candor, on
the part OF the manpower authorities
in connection with the draft of faith
ers that is not to be explained merely
by the uncertainties of war. Con-
fiicting statements about the neces-
sity for the step have confused the
matter from the very beginning. In
postponing their induction again, by
waiting until the Nationwide pool
of non-fathers Is exhausted, the
manpower authorities are in effect
doing what they testified earlier in
the year Gin opposing the Kilday
bilD could not be done without ad-
ministrative disruption. And the
public does not yet know definitely
whether the date now tentatively
set for induction of fathers is based
on military necessities, or whether it
Is merely another indirect effort to
scare fathers into essential industry
The voluntary" method of allocat-
ing manpower to needed industry is
falling apart. A substantial part of
the serious manpower shortage in the
essential warplane industries on the
West Coast is attributed to the fact
that men are leaving the aviation
industry to get higher pay in ship
building plants And while there Is
a ban against such job transfers, it
remains purely theoretical because
1t Is not being enforced.
Unless the administration can pre-
sent Congress with some evidence
that it has civilian manpower pol
icy that will work ard that the
draft of fathers is an inescapable
war necessity, such measures as the
May bill, which have plenty of sup
port, will be enacted. At the same
time it is becoming increasingly clear
that legislation in the form of a
national service act, putting every
body in the Nation on an equal foot
ing for wartime service, is the re-
main alternative in the avoidance of
continued muddling with manpower.
Evening star., 1943-08-13

try to rob the people of billion or
more dollars.
Incredible, you say? Perhaps so,
for those of faint heart. But let the
summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot Skulk away and say that this
simply cannot be true. The real
American will steel himself to face
this crisis and see it through. And
from now on he will believe anything.
Evening star., 1943-08-13
Blackstone

The Capital of the United States
undoubtedly is an appropriate place
to set up statue of Sir William
Blackstone, but he will need expla-
nation to the average citizen. Even
the generality of American lawyers,
to whom his Commentaries" still
are Bible of sort, know little of
the story OF his career. Few men of
his degree Of modern Importance
more definitely belong to another
age.
Born in London July 10, 1923,
Blackstone first won notice at Char
terhouSe and then at Pembroke
College, oxford. He brought repu-
tation for excellence in scholarship
with him when he entered the Middle
Temple in 1741. Chosen a fellow of
All Souls in 1744 and called to the bar
in 1746, he attended the courts at
Westminster for seven years with
such scant profit that finally he
decided to retire from the pretense
of practicing. His failure gave him
the opportunity upon which his fame
is built. A series of lectures on the
British constitution which he deliv-
cred at oxford led to the establish
ment of the Vinerian professorship,
and Sir William was named the first
university teacher of common law in
England. In 1859 he published an
edition of the Great Charter and the
Charter of the Forest with notes, and
in 1765 he brought out the first
volume of the commentaries, "
which gained for him the success he
craved.
Blackstone returned to Westmin-
Evening star., 1943-08-13
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 10riter, although the use of
a pseudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserUes
the right to edit all letters With
q Uie1O to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-08-13

Nazi officials are telling their pub
lie that Mussolini resigned because
of some disease-and are telling
themselves that it we'll may be con-
tagious.
Evening star., 1943-08-13

Victor Emmanuel long has been
the shortest of reigning monarchs,
but even at an age of past seventy
he seems to have grown a full foot
OVERNIGHT
Evening star., 1943-08-13

Nazi propagandists assert that the
United Nations in Sicily were badly
fooled by the German retreat from
Catania-just what was to be ex-
pected, no doubt, from military
ounces
Evening star., 1943-08-13

Just few short years ago bomb
bay" would have been simply child
ish mis-spelling OF a large city in
India.
Evening star., 1943-08-13
Confirmation of Report
Concerning Waste of Gasoline.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
With reference to the article In The
Star for August 10 concerning the gaso-
line situation in Southern Maryland:
Like your reporter I recently had
occasion to travel to Southern Maryland
on business, and I, too, was amazed
at the way gasoline is wasted in that
area. I talked to many of the workers
at the Naval Air Base at Cedar Point
and learned that many of them travel
back and forth between the base and
Washington or Baltimore each day.
Many of them living on the base think
nothing of driving to the same cities
for dates in the evening.
1 observed a steady stream of traffic
on the road between Leonardtown and
Washington, all of which was travelling
around so miles an hour.
Your reporter did not touch upon the
waste of gas by the Navy itself. While
L was at the base I heard Navy pilots
talking about flying to Washington or
Norfolk to get a haircut.
I will add that I travelled by bus, or
at least 1 went to Cedar Point by bus,
because I did not have gasoline enough
to drive my own car.
I had no difficulty in getting a ride
back to Washington with some Of the
sailors on the base
FRED w. SHIELDS.
Evening star., 1943-08-13

substituting ground-rent for taxes on in
dustry and breaking down our tariff
walls and other barriers to free ex-
change.
To sum up, we need no more of New
Dealism revamping old deals, dispiriting
social aids, sops to soldiers and the
like, to bury us deeper under more
mountains of debt. We need, instead,
to prevail over the pocket patriots back
OF our facade of democracy in a way
to open our lands and markets to the
fullest, free production and exchange
by the millions of us who have few or no
resources beyond capacity for labor.
That done, we may think more of ex-
tending freedom to the rest of back
ward humanity.
WALTER N. CAMPBELL,
Evening star., 1943-08-13
@. Can a tiger swim?-G. J.
A. Tigers swim easily and readil

A. Tigers swim easily and readily.
Q. What is the plane known as the
Seaflre?-T. A. F.
A. This is new. fast, highly armed
fighter aircraft, designed to operate
from the deck of an aircraft carrier. 1t
was used by the RAF to protect the
conveys to North Africa.
Evening star., 1943-08-13

A reader CON get the ans,oer to any
question OF tact by Drtting The Zoe
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
d. c.. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
Evening star., 1943-08-13

@. Where are the Krupp shops To-
Gated? Have any been bombed r.
w. A.
A. The Krupp Works are located in
Essen, Germany. Fifty-three Krupp
shops had been hit by July 4, l943.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Byrnes Hits Report
He'll Fight Cotton Ed
ny the Associatet, prass
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes, a former Supreme Court
Justice and a former Senator from
South Carolina, said last night there
was mo excuse" for statement
that he would interest himself in
next years contest for the Senate
in South Carolina.
Commenting on a statement ap-
pearing in Drew Pearson's WASH
ington column to the effect that
Gov. Olin D. Johnston of South
Carolina would have Mr.. Byrnes'
"tacit support" in a campaign
against veteran Senator Ellison D.
Cotton Ed" Smith in 1914, MIR.
Byrnes said in an authorized quo
tation:
There Is no excuse for the state
ment. I have not spoken to any
person about the candidacy of any,
one for any Office in South Carolina,
and do not intend to do So"
Senator Smith defeated Gov.
Johnston for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Senator for South Caro-
lima in 1888, equivalent to election
in that State, in what was de-
scribed as purge campaign.
Gov. Johnston had announced his
candidacy in 1888 after a call on
President Roosevelt.
Senator Smith, dean Of the Sem
ate, has indicated he will run for
seventh term, next year. He was
first elected in 1908 and has served
continuously.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Federal Bar Association
Plans Annual Luncheon

The Federal Bar Association will
hold its annual luncheon in honor
of the senior judges of the United
States Circuit Courts during their
annual conference with members of
the United States Supreme Court
on September % at the Willard
Hotel.
Marguerite Rawalt, president of
the association, has appointed the
following committeeman to handle
the affair:
Committee on Arrangements, Rob-
ert H. Shields and Judge George
d. Nelson, cochairmen; Catherine
EdmonSon, secretary. Included
among the chairmen who will serve
on subcommittees are Walter Wyatt,
distinguished guests; Justin Miller,
reception; Lewis B. Moulton, tickets
and seating; Anna A. ONeill, dec
orations; Lewis H. Fisher, programs;
j. Bernard Spector, publicity; Fan
ney Neyman Litvin, broadcasting::
David S.. DAWSON floor committee
and Guilford Jameson, iaison with
other bar associations.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Army FIYs PeniciIIin
To Girl in Macon, Ga,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, Sept. A supply
OF pencillin was flown here by an
Army Liberator bomber from New
York today for treatment of a 15-
year-old girl, seriously i'll with a
Streptococci infection.
The four-engined plane, piloted
by Col. j. E. Davies of Mitchell
Field, landed about 20 miles from
here. The drug was Immediately
transferred to car and rushed to
the hospital, where physicians be-
gan administering it to Anne Shirley
Carter.
The Army provided the plane
after supply of the drug had been
dispatched by parcel post yesterday
in answer to an appeal from the
Macon News.
Don Weldon of the News waited
all last night in Atlanta, expecting
the shipment to arrive by CONNER
cial airline. Learning today that it
was coming parcel post, physicians
advised that it would probably ar
rive too late to save the girl. The
Army was then requested to trans
port a duplicate shipment of the
drug.
The girl is the daughter of G. K.
Carter, superintendent Of the Macon
Division of the Southern Railway.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Big Savings Reported
In Ordnance Costs
Sunday, September 5, 1948.
SECTION A.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ABERDEEN, Md, Sept. Army
ordnance is saving American tax
payers millions of dollars monthly,
through reduced manufacturing
costs and conservation of raw ma
terials, Aberdeen Proving Ground
officials said today.
The officers at the Ordnance De-
partment cited one example where
the cost for the entire gun mount
OF a .50-caliber anti aircraft machine
has been reduced SO per cent.
A survey memorandum received by
Brig. Gen. Donald Armstrong. COM
manding the Ordnance Replacement
Training Center of the Aberdeen
Proving Ground, indicated that, in
addition to cost reduction, the Ord
nance Department, Army Service
Forces, is conserving millions of
pounds of critical materials due to
various conversions and redesigns.
On the basis of Army require
ments for 1943, Army ordnance esti-
mates that sufficient aluminium will
be released to build over 10000
fighter planes; sufficient copper for
4,000,000,000 extra rounds of So
caliber aircraft ammunition, and
enough steel for the construction of
$1,000 railroad oil tank cars.
Aberdeen officers said that ap-
proximately 100 Army ordnance cita-
tions have been awarded individuals
for outstanding industrial contribu-
tions to the all-out ordnance pro-
duction program.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
ANPAFearsNewspr
Quota May Be Cut
1917 Next Quarter
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The fourth
quarter reduction in newsprint use
may be as much as 10 per cent
below the present third quarter
basis" the American Newspaper
Publishers Association said today.
The Newspaper Industry Advisory
Committee yesterday recommended
an additional per cent be trimmed
from consumption, already restricted
to less than amounts used in 1941.
The War Production Board took
no immediate action on the recon-
mendation pending word from Cam
ada on how much neWsprint paper
that largest supplying country could
furnish.
Cut Is Expected.
In bulletin to members, the
ANPA said the cut may be ex-
pected even If Canada should con-
tinue shipments to this country at
present levels-basically 100000 tons
a month-and added:
"It is expected that the cut will
certainly not be less than per cent
additional and may be as much as
10 per cent below the present third
quarter basis"
Analysing the supply demand pic
ture, the ANPA said:
"If United States publishers in the
fourth Quarter receive the estimated
maximum tonnage from all sources,
the expected amount is set at $4,000
tons. E se
This is less. than the amount esti-
mated to be consumed in the fourth
quarter if there is no further cut in
consumption =, this fact alone
making it necessary for further ex-
pected cut to be made in addition to
using some tonnage out of stocks on
hand"
Inventory Cut Suggested.
The possibility of using paper from
inventories was the basis of the
newspaper advisory committees ad-
vice against cut greater than per
cent. 1t suggested inventories in the
hands of publishers be reduced in
the northeast and central regions to
~ Aoyo supply Alum OO, dIlo Ill lllC
west and south to IS days from rs.
Newspapers already are restricted
to use of less paper than the amount
that was required to serve net paid
circulation in 1941. The first order
limited them basicauy to 100 per
cent of that figure, and on July
further cut ranging up to per cent
for larger newspapers became effec-
tive.
Newsprint consumption for the
first seven months of 1943 was esti-
mated at AS per cent less than in
the comparable 1941 period.
In connection with suggested
tighter restrictions on newspaper
appeals to the WPB for additional
neWsprint, the ANPA commented:
1T is reported that the number of
appeals from newspapers in the
third quarter exceeds the number
filed in either the first or second
quarters.
For the first quarter the WPB
granted newspapers 6,532 additional
tons of neWsprint and in the second
quarter 1892 extra tons. The total,
l24 ,314 tons for six months, COM
pared with total neWsprint consump-
ton for the same period of l 1,873, ,46O
tons.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Hreefcar Motorman Held
In Death Of Man, Is

Chester Bowling, 3S, 2812 Olive
avenue NV, a Capital Transit
streetcar motorman, was held yes
terday by coroner's jury for Po-
lice Court action under the Negli-
gent Homicide Act in the death of
Clarence A. Storke, 73-year-old re-
tired Potomac Electric Power Co.
employe of $50 I street NE.
Mr.. Storke was struck by the
streetcar September in the 1900
block of Benning road NE. and
died few hours later in Casualty
Hospital.
According to police records, Mr..
Bowling was operating a streetcar
that collided with two pedestrians
on May IL at Bladensburg and Ben
ming roads NE, and on April 20
struck another on H street near
Ninth street NE.
Mr.. Bowling was released on ST.
600 bond after being booked at the
traffic division.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Three Flyers and Boy Die
In Navy Plane Crash
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 4.-Three
Navy men and a colored boy are
dead as result of a Navy land plane
crash near Manteo, N. c., and an
other boy who was burned was in
fair" condition tonight at Albe-
marie Hospital in Elizabeth City,
N. c.
The children, aged 9 and II, were
walking in wooded area when the
plane fell near them Friday night,
it was reported by the Fifth District
Relations Office. They were burned
when the craft burst into flames.
The dead are Ensign D. M. Senter,
Berkley, Calf, pilot; Charles j.
Lach, aviation radioman, third
class, Union, N. j., and Orlando B.
Lyons, aviation machinist's mate,
third class, Setauket, N. Y, occu-
pants of the plane. and John DAN
iels, 8, Manteo.
The injured boy is Rudolph Pen
dleton, II, also of Manteo. Both he
and young Daniels were taken to
the Elizabeth Hospital, where DAN
iels died.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Kentucky Methodist Board
Calls for Prohibition
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 4.-The
Board of Temperance of the Ken
lucky Methodist Conference recon-
mended here today that "declara-
ton of prohibition" be imposed in
this country for the duration.
The Rev. w. l.. Clark of Lexington,
chairman of the board which made
its report to the conference, said
the action was taken because of the
need for conserving food and other
materials which go into the manu-
facture of alcoholic beverages.
The Board of Temperance also
recommended two regulations af-
fecting movie theaters. One would
eliminate the showing of motion pic
lures on Sunday and the other
would eliminate the present method
of block booking"
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Noted Editors, Artists
Attend Launching Of
Marie N. MeIoney'
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 4.-With a
distinguished group of writer's, edi-
tors, artists and newspaper people
on hand for the ceremony, the Lib
erty ship Marie M. Meloney, named
for the late founder and editor of
the magazine, This Week." was
launched today.
The vessel, constructed in Is days
at the Bethlehem-F Fairfield Ship
yard, was sponsored by the novelist
Rose Franken, wife of Mrs. Meloney's
son, William Brown Meloney.
Distinguished Guests Attend.
Guest included Mrs. Ogden Reid,
Of the New York Herald Tribune :;
w. I. Nichols, Mrs. Meloney's sue
cessor as editor of This Week.; 10
Davidson, sculptor, and a number of
other friends and colleagues of the
late editor.
Preceding the launching of the
10,600-ton vessel, the 196th produced
at the Fairfield yard, the party was
entertained at luncheon at a Bal
timore hotel.
Mrs. Meloney, a native of Bards-
town, KY, began her career at the
age of 16 as a political writer for
the Washington Post and at 18 be-
came Washington correspondent for
the Denver Post.
From this story book beginning,
Mrs. Meloney continued to gather
literary and journalistic laurels un-
til her death in June. tt9CYrgPg
She was editor of "Womans Mag
azine", and associate editor of de-
lineator" for six years, later becom-
ing editor of ''Delineator."
Later she became editor of "This
Week." published by the New York
Herald Tribune, The Sunday Star
and other newspapers. ,....
While with the Tribune, she
founded, organized and conducted
for several years the newspapers
forum on current affairs.
She was decorated numerous times
by the governments of France, Bel
GUM and Poland for her relief work
among impoverished people.
Mrs. Meloney also had the dis
tinction of being the first woman
member of the New York Suns
general staff.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Hearings on Bus Fares
To Resume Wednesday

Hearings on trans-Potomac bus
rates will be resumed at 9:30 am.
Wednesday before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The hearings were halted indef-
initely when Commissioner William
Patterson held that evidence of the
complete financial returns of the
four transit companies involved was
irrelevant to the issue.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Barge Adrift in River
Finally Docks Itself
BY the Associated Press.

by Tie AsSoclHLeu FTess,
YONKERS, N. Y.-An empty
barge broke away from its mooring
at sand and stone company's
wharf and began drifting south in
the strong current of the Hudson
River.
Onlookers notified police who
hoped into car and headed for
the city's recreation pier, some dis
tance down the river, pondering how
to get out on the river to stop the
barge.
When the police arrived, however,
they found the boat had swung right
into the pier-and all that was
necessary was TO tie her up.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Berlin Radio Reports
Herriot Seriously Ill

BY the Associated Press.
The Brazzville radio in a broad
cast recorded in New York by the
Associated Press yesterday reported
that the Berlin radio had announced
that Edouard Herriot, former French
premier, was seriously i'll. No other
details were given and there was
no announcement as to where Mr..
Herriot was.
Last May NBC said 1t had learned
from a reliable source that the
Nazis had removed Mr.. Herriot
from France to Germany.
Evening star., 1943-09-05
Weather Report

FURNISHED By the United States Weather
Bureau.)
District of Columbia: Somewhat
warmer Sunday. A brief thunder
shower late Sunday afternoon.
Virginia and Maryland: Some
what warmer Sunday. Scattered
thundershowers Sunday afternoon.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Renort Urnt;I m ID M Sat,-aax
Evening star., 1943-09-05

Record Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Highest, 7S, at 4:25 pm: yesterday,
year ago, 81.
Lowest, 80, at SPA am: yesterday,
year ago, II.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 9S, on August 10.
Lowest. q, on February Is.
Tide Tables.