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Evening star., 1943-02-03
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

ny OOROThY THOMPSON.
In his preface to the 1855 edi-
ton Of Leaves Of Grass" Walt
Whitman wrote an essay on the
function Of the poet. In him."
he says, past and future are not
disjomed, but joined. The great
est poet forms the consistence Of
what Is to be from what has been,
and is. He drags the dead out Of
their cof1ins and stands them
again on their feet"
It is in the great essay that
Walt Whitman declares that the
function Of the poet is ito cheer
up slaves and horrify despots."
Liberty" he says, takes the ad-
herence Of heroes wherever men
and women exist, but never from
the rest more than from the
poets. They are the voice and ex-
position Of liberty"
For poet" write "artists"-the
medium whoever distills in music
picture, or words, the emotions,
sensibilities and yearnings of his
age. His instinct is infallible.
HE supplies what wants sup
plying; he checks what wants
checking. If peace Is the rou-
tine, out OF him speaks the
spirit Of peace, 80 In war he is
the most deadly force Of the war.
Who recruits him recruits horse
and foot"
So 1t has always been. And so
1t is today. This is what gave to
Toscanini's Sunday NBC pro-
gram Of Verdi its enormous sig
nificance. Rebroadcast to Italy,
the great choruses utter a cry
more vivid than any words that
could be spoken by script writer's.
The man who swung the baton is
one Of 1taly's most beloved sons,
and the man who wrote the music
the very embodiment OF Whit
mans Poet"
Verdi, like roscanini, was a po-
Atical figure without political
ambition. His age spoke through
him. It was q revolutionary age
the age Of the italian Risorgi-
mento. italy groaned under the
oppression Of the Hapsburgs and
under the reactionary kings Of
the Holy Alliance.
The national revolution Of Italy
was international, at the same
time. It was q call to free men
everywhere. Its greatest philos-
ophers, MazZint and Gioberu,
saw in the nation but one seq
ment Of human society. What
they desired for Italy they desired
for al nations.
Verdi became the expression
for the people Of that revolution
lin the most popular form OF
Evening star., 1943-02-03

asination Of the people In the
United States - no other such
encounter between two heads Of
states ever has before.
Because the two leaders and
their military advisers discussed
exhaustively all the phases Of
Allied future operations and gave
. warning that the only peace
condition we can entertain Is
complete surrender OF our enc
mics . wave Of optimism has
swept the country. Many persons
have been led to believe that vic
tory Is now only . question Of
relatively short time.
In many responsible quarters
l943 IS indicated IS the year
which will see the end Of our
troubles. It Is also obvious that
the principal effort Of the United
States and Great Britain viii be
directed toward defeating Hitler
and Mussolini. Hirohito, it Is
assumed, will be given . short
spell Of grace and We will tackle
him after we have disposed Of
Hitler.
Perfect Plan-on Paper.
On paper this plan appears
perfect. All we have to do from
now on is to put It in execution.
Get the men and especially the
ships together, move them across
the Atlantic or whatever other
area our chiefs Of STAFF may de-
eide on and get to work. But
while We must concentrate all our
efforts IN this gigantic task all We
may expect to do in the Pacific Is
to hold the Japanese.
The forces under Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and Admiral william
Halsey must operate. as In the
past. on shoe string basis. The
al important shipping problem.
which Is responsible for the delay
In sending supplies to North
Africa to Gen. Henri 0iraud's
10000 troops. is also the reason
why more essential reinforce
ments are not being sent to the
South Pacific.
Gen. Macarthur has done won-
ders with the relatively small
forces ct hts disposal. Admiral
Halsey has more than held hts
own against overwhelming Japa.
nese forces.
Our mir superiority has con-
tributed greatly to their being
able to hold" the Japs ~ our
strategy requires Of them. But
it Is . bare possibility that tho
japanese have brought In enough
reinforcements to take away the
edge Of superiority held by Gen.
Macarthur and admiral Halsey.
Evening star., 1943-02-03
BY FRANK r. KENT,

The administration politicians are
proceeding on the assumption that,
politically, the Republican leadership
In Congress is foolish and. itself, can
be depended on to nullify the ad-
vantage which the November elec-
tions have given its party. Perhaps
they are right about that and within
a short while the Republican attack
will be Of such character as to rob
their 1914 prospects of their present
charm.
Certainly. 1t requires no particular
discernment to see one of the pit
falls into which the rejuvenated
and strengthened Republicans may
easily fall. 1t is easy. to. to grasp
the fact that the clever administra-
ton politicians are silently praying
that they will do exactly that. They
hardly can wait for the thing to
happen.
What the coldly practical fellows
among the New Deal strategists
hope is that the Republicans as .
party, or. anyhow. the bulk of them,
will become responsible for the
reputation Of the reciprocal trade
agreements which come up for con-
gressional approval within 4 short
time.
Steadfastly Exposed.
These are the pacts with which for
10 years Secretary Of State Cordell
Hull steadfastly has tried to break
down the tariff barriers that blocked
the international channels, and open
up q clear and unrestricted now OF
trade between nations. Against op-
position Cor. anyhow, lukewarmness)
inside the administration as well as
outside, with undertaking persis-
tence, he achieved = remarkable de-
gree of success.
The strength Of his ideas and his
quiet courage In fighting for them
have made him the outstanding
member Of the Roosevelt cabinet
and rendered him immune to the
shipping from the inside as well Is
the outside. to which he Is con-
stantly subjected.
Recent bitter criticism OF his
North African policies, which were
fully approved by the President, has
been singularly ineffective in shak-
ing confidence in either his integrity
or his wisdom.
Far-Reaching Achievement.
Though the New Dealers do not
List them Is such, these reciprocal
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Toseonini's Broadcast Of verdis Composition
Seen as Call to ItoIions to Overthrow Despot

italian art Of that period: the
opera. His ''Nabucco" was q po-
litical event Of the first magni-
tude. It's chorus Of the Hebrew
slaves became. Immediately. the
song Of his peoples liberty. Franz
Werfel, in his preface to q volume
on Verdi's letters, recalls that the
day after "Nabucco" opened peo-
pie were singing the song in the
street and that 1T became the
anthem Of revolt against foreign
rule and oppression" The fol-
lowers Of Mazzini and Garibaldi
chalked on the white walls OF
Italy then viva Verdi"
SO, when Toscanini chose
from the vast works Of Italy,s
greatest operatic composer, those
long familiar passages that once
stirred the italian masses to their
depths, he was forming the con-
sistence Of what is to be from
what has been," and dragging
the dead out Of their graves to
stand them again on their feet"
His timing was perfect. He
put Verdi on his feet to call to
the people Of italy again, in a
moment when . despot grasping
for new empire has lost the
empire Of his predecessors and
the arch enemies Of the italian
Risorsimento occupy the whole
Of Verdi's land.
The man who welded the
baton knew Verdi. Seventy-six
years old himself, he once. as .
boy Of 10, played the cello under
Verdi's baton.
The man whose great orchestra
sang across the seas from New
York to his people knows Mus
solini. Not yet has the story
adequately been told Of the Inn
placable 11ght between artist and
dictator. Toscanini was not 4
figure to be treated lightly.
Let music swell the breese"
In our calls to Europe. It speaks
to the instinctual, the historical
memories, the soul. Who recruits
1t recruits horse and foot. The
audience that stood and cheered
as Toscanini played Verdi's
Hymn Of the Nations" was rep
resentative Of free and enslaved
Europe and an audience Of
artists. Frank tears rolled down
the maestro's face as he mar
shaled brasses and strings, wind
and percussion to assault the
bastions Of despots. He was
calling to italy in voice that has
the ratification Of the people Of
his nation. For he knows what
Whitman knew: The artist does
not argue. He Is judgment"
(Keleased ~ ths Dsll SYNDICATE, Ine.)
Evening star., 1943-02-03
This Changing World
Reported Jop Victory Declared Cooked Up
To Cheer Public in Berlin and Rome
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
omcial quarters show extreme
reticence regarding the reported
major engagement in the South
west Pacific. where. according to
Japanese and Italian broadcasts.
several American battleships and
cruisers either have been sent to
the bottom or severely damaged
by Japanese planes.
In some quarters the Japanese
claims are being brushed Oh With
the statement the Axis needed
victories desperately and Berlin
may have induced Toxic to put
out the reports Of = major Amer
lean naval disaster in order to
cheer up the public in Berlin and
Rome, where bad news has been
= daily diet for the last three
months.
In less imaginative Washing
ton quarters this theory is being
discounted. Tho Japanese have
made . speciality Of exasseratins
their successes and minimizing
or not mentioning their defeats.
In fact, during the last big naval
battle for Guadalcanal the Toxic
government ordered celebrations
in honor Of the men who had
succeeded in taking back the is
land from the American Marines.
seme BASIS for Claims.
At the same time It Is recalled
that while Toxic has been guilty
Of many obvious "exaggerations"
there always has been some defl-
mite basis for their omcial claims.
The more uncertain the enemy
remains regarding the results Of
an engagement, the better It Is
for our fighting forces.
There Is = tendency to mini
mise - much as possible the i'm
portance Of the Pacific war rome.
This tendency Is due not 90
much to the belief that the Japa-
nese are easy" but because any
emphasis on the military situa-
ton IN that area might distract
public attention from the future
battle zones In Europe which
were decided upon at Casablanca.
The meeting between President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill has infiamed the Inn
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Washington
Filled With
Knockers
So McEvoy Flees
And. in Turn. Tokes
WoIlop at Movies

Henry McLemore Is on his
Uoy overseas. For 0pprort-
rtdtely t,oo ,oeeks J. p. Nc
Epoy. sCell-known Uriter, Utll
substitute for him,
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Tux Clinic Speaker

Gerald L. Wallace. head OF the
criminal and compromise section
IN the tax division, Justice De-
partment, will speak tonight before
the taxation clinic of National
University. His subject will be
Some Recent Important Tax
Cases."
Evening star., 1943-02-03

we can tell you that Cadillac engineers and
craftsmen have worked heroically for more than
q year, behind sealed doors, to create one Of
the really new and bewilderine weapons in the
Allied arsenal The British call it the Honey.
The American boys say it is precisely the sort
of tank they would expect from Cadillac.
We are not yet in position to tell you the de-
tails, because this new tank has two innovations
which arc wholly new in tank warfare.
Evening star., 1943-02-03

TIE opinions OF the cers this page their o,D not
necessdty The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars eDort to 0tps an sides OF questions s
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-02-03

Tank production, of course, il but part Of
We also produce major percentage of the pre-
cision parts for famous airplme engine. And
we have done 20 from the day this engine moved
into volume production.
When the time comes for full revelation Of
Cadillac's war effort, we are sure the American
public will feel that its faith in Cadillac has
again been justified.
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Now it can be told :!

After the hard.hittins American forces landed
in North Africa, there was tremendous roar
of 9unhre from Z weapon no army had ever
faced beforehand bewildered enemy save
ground hastily.
1t was the baptismal day for the Cadillac.built
Ms tank-a brilliant new weapon built in COM
plete secrecy in the Cadillac plants.
Even yet, the entire story cannot be told But
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
D. T.. Recreation Are;
Directors Will
Meet Today
Expect to Complete
Program for Physical
Fitness of Students

Area directors of the District
Recreation Department were to meet
today to complete plans for "Vic-
tory Builders program of physical
fitness on all District Fairgrounds.
The Victory Builders" plan,
Recreation Supt. Milo F. Christian
sen told board members at meeting
yesterday. will consist of a series of
achievements tests in swimming
hiking, crafts, obstacle races and
other activities. Each boy and girl
will get symbol for each success
sive skill test he passes.
eve will be able to reach the ele-
mentary and junior high school
students who are not getting the
expanded physical fitness program
in the schools" Mr.. Christensen
said. Experimental programs will
be held at several Fairgrounds b.
April and the tests will be in full
swing at all Fairgrounds by summer
to replace school training when
classes stop in June.
Praised by Board.
Mr.. Christensen was commended
officially by the board yesterday for
his efforts in getting the War Pro-
duction Board to lift bans on con-
struction of IA out of "a proposed
Fairgrounds.
Il think we ought to put in the
record some recognition of the work
that Mr.. Christensen has done in
getting this project approved" said
Parks Supt. Irving S. Root, who was
also present at WPB hearings on the
construction.
He has worked increasingly and
the fact that they were approved
is due to his efforts more than to
any other one man"
Board members turned down a
request Of Water Safety Instructor
John w. Gates of the Red Cross
that the board head physical fit
ness committee for the District. The
board decided to wait to see If the
War Hospitality Committee sets up
similar subcommittee before do
ing more than Endorsing" such a
physical fitness organization.
Bundy Approved.
Department officials appeared last
night before the East Central Civic
Association to announce that the
Bundy playground is among the
IA approved by WPB. Members of
the board warned Chairman Harry
S. Wender yesterday that any board
member who attends meetings of
this or any other civic organization
should not ENTER into arguments
or say anything which would bind
the board"
The Gordon Junior High School
playground will now be operated five
afternoons week and Saturday
morning to accommodate pupils of
both Gordon and the nearby Fill
more Elementary School, Mr.. Chris
| Hansen said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Draft May Imperi|
Fitness Program
In Schools Here
District Officials Fear
Instructors Indicted
Can't Be Replaced

Fear that the physical training
program in the District high schools
will suffer seriously because the in
structing staff is being decimated
under the draft law was expressed
today by Representative Stefan Of
Nebraska. ranking Republican on
the District Subcommittee on Appro-
priations, which originated a war
time physical training expansion in
the District schools last year
Grave concern was also ex-
pressed by Asst. Supt. of Schools
Chester w. Holmes in a letter to
Dr.. A. L. Threlkeld, national di-
rector of the High School Victory
Corps in the Office Of Education.
Stefan Gets Appeals.
Representative Stefan has received
appeals from Federal and District
officials because he is sponsor of the
physical training program which
would be expanded to make military
training compulsory in all local high
schools and to send the students to
regular Army camps in summer to
experience genuine Army dis
cipline."
Representative Stefan said that
the Army, by drafting or commits
sioning the instructors, is iniuring
the present ''toughening up pro-
gram to make high school boys
physically fit for induction at the
age of 10.
Assistant Superintendent Holmes
called attention in his letter to the
fact that Congress last year appro-
priated 100000 to provide 45 addi-
tional instructors in the Health De-
partment and physical education.
Mr.. Holmes said it was the intention
to widen the program for develop
ment of boys coming into draft age
SO that they would be in fine physi-
cal condition for service.
Despite the lowering of college
degree standards, we were barely
able to qualify enough men to COM
plete our personnel with the OPEN
ing of school, said Mr.. Holmes.
Replacement Difficult.
Since then, We have lost several
by draft or commissioning and have
exhausted the sources of supply.
Replacement with competent per-
sons appears impossible"
Mr.. Holmes pointed out that the
one way he sees ito obviate this
d1fticulty is for the Army and NAVY
to commission such teachers of
health and physical education and
then assign them right back on their
present jobs. This would have the
effect of making most of them con-
tent and not cause them to seek
positions at higher salaries than
they are getting as teachers, and at
the same time provide the train
ing which these two branches insist
our bows must have"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Police Declare Youth
Struck Man Who Died

A teen-age colored youth made a
statement last night admitting he
struck Charles Murray Faidley, 81
year-old floral designer, on the head
with his fist last Friday night in an
attempted street robbery, police said
today.
Mr.. Faidley, who lived at 1912
Massachusetts, avenue NV, died in
Casualty Hospital Saturday of a
fractured skull. He was found lying
IN the street in the HOO block OF
Seventh street NV.
Eight other colored youths, rang
ing in age from 10 to IT, are being
held in connection with the death
Some have confessed approaching
Mr.. Faidley near a Seventh street
theater Friday night with the in
tention OF robbing him, police said.
The suspects were arrested Mon
day night in raid on the theater.
police revealed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Honor Student, Is, Found Dead
In Room Beside Gas Heater
Believed Overcome
By Fumes While
Studying Lessons

Warren F. Goodwin, 16-year-old
honor graduate of Langley Junior
High School. was found dead by his
mother at 6 am. today on the floor
Of his room at SEA Bates street
NV, a gas heater glowing beside
his body.
The youth had been studying in
bed last night and evidently had
been overcome by fumes of the
lighted heater. Police believe he
tried to make his way out of the
room, but collapsed on the floor
His mother. Mrs. Lorelle Goodwin
started in to wake him for school
Through the glass door Of tie bed
room, she saw the red-hot heater
and she rushed in to find him
stretched on the floor. The Fire De-
partment rescue squad was sum-
moned and worked futilely over the
boy. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a certificate of acct
dental death.
Warren was graduated only this
month from Langley. He was an
AFRAID warden's messenger.
Mrs. Goodwin. an employe Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Tax Law 10 Require
Many D. {. Workers
To Report Rent Paid
Return Mandatory if
Landlord Receives
$500 Annually

If you paid $500 or more in rent
last year, you may have to file an
information return reporting such
payments to the Bureau of Internal
Revenue.
Treasury officials said today that
income tax regulations require a re-
port on all payments of rent totaling
$500 or more in 1912 made to IAN
individual, a resident fiduciary or a
resident partnership"
Exempt from this regulation is
rent paid by tenant to a real es-
tate agent" and payments of any
type made to corporation.
This means, Treasury officials
said, that if you paid your rent di-
rect to your landlord, who may be
an individual, an estate or trust or
partnership, you must file an in
formation return reporting such
payments by February Is. If you
paid your rent to a real estate agent
or corporation or representative of a
corporation owning the property
which you rent, an information re-
turn is not required.
officials said the regulation with
respect to information returns ap-
plies not only to persons renting
homes, apartments, Offices and bus
mess Establishments, but also to
those renting rooms
In crowded Washington, it was
believed large numbers of Govern
ment workers who pay $500 year
or more for rooms will be required
to file an information return, since
most of them pay their rent direct
to the landlord.
Reports on rent payments have
been required under the income tax
law for many years. officials said,
but it was not until recent lowering
of exemptions that they have af-
fected the average tenant.
Recently Treasury officials pointed
out that because of lowered income
tax exemptions large numbers of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Woman HI by Streetcar
Raises '43 Toll Here 10 10
| D. 6. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1943 10
Killed in same period in 1912 16
Toll for all of 1912 100

Mrs. Sarah Oden, IA, of 8O4 F
street S.W., died in Casualty Hos
pital yesterday afternoon from in
juries received when struck by a
streetcar last Thursday.
She was the tenth District traffic
victim OF the year, compared to le
for the corresponding period in 1912
Mrs. Oden was hit by the street
car at Seventh and G streets S.W.
and suffered head and internal in
juries.
Abraham S. Gibble. 40. of 498 ]
street SW., operator Of the car, was
released to an attorney for the
Capital Transit Co, pending an
inquest.
James L. Hawkins, colored, SO, of
1924 B street Sc. is in serious con-
dition at Casualty Hospital with a
possible fracture of the hip and
head injuries received early today
when struck by a streetcar near
Fourteenth and East Capitol streets
The Streetcar was operated bv
James w Hudson, 50, of 1892 A
street Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10

employers OF domestic help never
before affected would be required to
report on information returns pay
ments of $500 or more to domestic
servants if the servants are single.
and $1,000 or more if they are
married.
Reports on rent payments are re-
quired on the same information re-
turn CForm 1099 on which reports
OF payments to servants and other
individuals for personal services are
made. The information returns.
which are in addition to the regular
income tax return which every tax
payer must file by March Is, are
used as a check on income tax re-
turns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
War Ration Book No. |
Applications Available

Persons who have not yet reg
stered for War Ration Book No. |
will be able to obtain the books from
their local ration boards as soon as
detailed instructions on procedure
are received from the National OPA
office. the District Office Of Price
Administration announced today
Applicants may obtain application
blanks now by writing TO the ration
board IN the area in which they live.
After filling out these blanks. they
should wait until notified through
the newspapers that books are being
issued, Then, they are to take the
blanks to their ration boards. where
they will sign in the presence of a
registrar and receive the No. ra-
ton books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
Former Edison Official
Named to OCS Post
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Charles Sumner Williams, former
board chairman of the Thomas A.
Edison Co., has been appointed
deputy director of the Office of
Civilian Supply in charge of op-
erations.
Two other appointments of deputy
directors were announced sinful
taneously by Director Joseph. L.
Weiner. The men are Arthur r.
Burns, in charge of programs, and
Harold Stein, in charge of projects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-10
O'Conor PoroIes Eleven

Gov. O'Conor granted a parole
yesterday to Alfred Edward Carter,
who was serving An l8-month prison
term following his conviction in
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court on charge OF carnal knoWl-
edge. Carter was among II persons
granted paroles. The Maryland
Governor also announced two COM
mutations of sentence. two remis-
sions of fines and one full pardon.