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Evening star., 1943-08-31
per cent OF these plants reduced
their accident frequency.

their accident frequency.
Experience in accident prevention
has accumulated a wealth of data
in the form of known causes of &C
cidents, applicable to any situation.
The prime requisite for accident
prevention in plants is determina-
tion by management to adopt an
accident prevention program. Un-
willingness is attributable to an un-
conscious failure to recognize what
can be done, rather than to any
specific opposition.
The accident frequency (number
of accidents to millions of man.
hours continues to increase, al
though there is an encouraging drop
IN the size of increase. Reasons for
the increase are the inexperience of
workers and the fact that less than
one-fourth of plants with Govern
ment contracts have been helped by
the safety experts. The majority,
through ignorance or lack of inter-
est, has failed to avail itself of a
valuable service by the Government.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
SHEPHERD STREET.


your popular column is quite correct
in emphasizing the persistence OF pigeons.
But you say nothing about the per-
sistence of gray squirrels. The latter are
not only persistent, but I am convinced
they are in league with Hitler.
'They are playing havoc with the Vic
tory gardens in our neighborhood.
had never thought of squirrels eating
tomatoes and cantaloupes, but they are
doing so on huge scale.
II saw a squirrel 60 across my lawn
carrying tomato that weighed at least
as much as he did. And how do you
explain half tomato dropping at my
feet out of an oak tree?
For persistence I'll match my gray
squirrels against your pigeons, and I'll
swap you gray squirrels for about 40
OF your pigeons.
Incidentally, how do you do away
with gray squirrels, especially when they
are so cute and so attractive that one
has not the heart to harm them?
Sincerely yours, w. La r., Jr"
k*
Bird feeding and Victory gardens play
into the paws of squirrels.
1t is impossible to blame them for
taking advantage of good opportunity
They will eat almost anything, If hard
pressed for food
No one who puts out free lunch can
blame these or any other creatures for
coming.
Yet 1t is fact that scores, perhaps
hundreds of Victory gardeners have
grown red in the face over the squirrels.
As red as their own tomatoes.
After all, a few tomatoes or other
edibles will neither make nor break a
garden
The point is, we believe, that most OF
the anger over squirrels and rabbits is
misplaced and wasted.
They do little damage, in the agere-
gate but 1t is not the aggregate, it must
be confessed, which counts with the new
vegetable gardener.
He Is so interested in what he is doing.
and so beset by insect enemies and
drought, that the squirrels are simply the
last straws.
Quite lively straws they are, too, as
they whisk around after food.
Wherever there is something good to
eat, squirrel will find it.
We believe that the entertainment
they give is well worth the little food
they eat.
We advise gardeners, Victory and
otherwise, to calm down about the squir-
reIs.
The sight Of grown man shooting
squirrels in Victory garden, when there
are so many larger and more dangerous
foes loose in the world, is not one to be
proud of.
i
The only humane way we know to get
rid of squirrels is to trap them and then
take them across town and let them
loose.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
Housing Problem Exhibit

=, Some elemental aspects of Wash
ington's "slum" problem are visible
:, in the case of two old frame houses,
against which the Board for Con-
demnation of Insanitary Dwellings
plans to institute condemnation
proceedings on the ground that they
are unfit for human habitation. The
case achieved passing notoriety be-
cause the Water Department shut off
the water supply after unpaid bills
:, reached total of more than $100,
3 .manifestly beyond the ability of the
tenants to pay. The board found
,cthat while no health menace re-
suited from that action, conditions
of the houses themselves were in
violation of health and other regu-
stations.
ss' The property owner, 1t might be
supposed, would be the victim. AS a
matter of fact. the tenants are be-
ing punished. 1t is represented that
the owner of the premises. for ex-
ample, does not believe necessary
repairs are economically feasible.
Loss of the dwellings themselves, If
facondemned and razed. might even
sIfbe an economy in saving taxes. But
sfif the tenants are evicted by con-
sdemnation, where are they to go?
No public housing is available. They
will merely follow others, forced into
equally insanitary, congested "slums"
by the housing shortage and other
ia elements which have aggravated
this shortage.
z The Alley Dwelling Authority, now
the National Capital Housing Au-
thority, was created to deal with
Just this type of condition. But it's
funds for that work were cut off two
!. years ago and it Is now engaged
chiefly in providing low-cost housing
- for Immigrant war workers. While
housing the war workers Is a present
necessity, it should not be at the
expense of the lowest of income
groups, mainly Negroes, who have
been forced by war congestion into
lower and lower levels of housing
accommodations.
Sanitary standards in housing
should, of course, be maintained.
But 1t is idle to believe that they can
be maintained merely by condemning
the rattletrap structures into which
people have been crowded because
there is no other place for them to
60. The end of the war, easing the
: pressure for low-cost housing in
Washington, would tend to relieve
the condition. The question is
whether we are safe in waiting for
1.-THE end of the war to bring a solu-
ton of very serious problem.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
COP Faces Test

W. NSSS COL
The acceptance by the American
Labor party of the Democratic NOM
lnee for Lieutenant Governor, 1t.
Gen. William N. Haskell, U. S. A.,
retired, has finally set the stage in
New York for a test of Republican
strength there. Had the American
Labor party declined to support
General Haskell and insisted upon
retaining its own candidate in the
field, there would have been no
doubt of Republican victory. AS
1t Is. the COP in the November cleo
ton will face the same combination
OF voters that it may be expected to
meet in the 1914 presidential cam
paign, particularly if President
Roosevelt is nominated for a fourth
term.
With Governor Dewey at the head
of his party's ticket, New York went
Republican last year. The question
is whether the Republican tide is
less strong than it was year ago.
Since Governor Dewey will not be
on the ticket this time, the Re-
publicans may miss something OF
the personal strength which the
former nemesis of racketeers has
with the voters.
The Democrats, both Roosevelt
and Farley factions, are lining up
back of General Haskell. The Ameri-
can Labor party, announcing its
support of the Democratic nominee,
said: General Haskell's joint des-
ignation by the ALP and the Demo-
cratic party assures unity of the
New Deal forces in President Roose-
velt's home State"
If there is unity of the New Deal
forces, however, there also is unity
among the Republicans. Their can
didate, State Senator Joe r. Hanley,
has received promises of aid from
Republicans all over the State.
Wendell L. Willkie, the COP presi-
Dental nominee in 1910, has offered
to campaign for him. This is in
contrast to Mr.. WILKES attitude in
the 1912 gubernatorial contest. He
took no active part in that cam
paign-and only announced his sup
port of the Dewey ticket four days
before election.
Ordinarily, the election of Lieu
tenant Governor in New York would
hardly cause ripple of national
interest. The coming contest, how
ever, has been built up as a curtain
raiser for the 1914 national election.
It seems almost certain, therefore,
that national issues will be injected
into campaign for the election of
an official who has nothing what
ever to do with national affairs. The
plea will be made by the New Dealers
to elect General Haskell and uphold
the hand of President Roosevelt, on
the ground that a defeat for the
Democratic party in New York would
be regarded as a blow directed at
Mr.. Roosevelt. The ALP already has
declared that united support of Cen
eral Haskell will mean support of the
Commander in Chief"
Mr.. Hanley will run with the &C
tive support Of Governor Dewey, and
his campaign will be based on the
excellent record of the Dewey ad-
ministration in Albany. But if the
New Dealers bring national issues
into the campaign, the Republicans
may be expected to reply with an
attack upon the administration of
the OPA and other problems of the
home front.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
A Jittery Conoueror


that the way of a would-be world
conqueror is hard. His armies on
every active front are being beaten.
His principal cities are being pounded
into rubble by enemy bombs. And
there is restless stirring throughout
the little countries that offer possible
avenues for invasion of the Reich.
Der Fuehrers latest move has been
made against the little kingdom of
Denmark, which he has held in a
state OF supposedly benevolent pro-
tective custody for more than three
years. The Danes did not, and pre-
sumably could not, offer any resis-
tance when the Germans overran
their country as companion piece
to the treacherous invasion of Nor
way in April, 1910, the move which
marked the end of the period of
"phony" war. With a population of
around 100000 and no natural de-
lenses, Denmark was not in a posi-
tion to fight its powerful neighbor to
the south. Hence the Danish gov
ernment made no effort to build up
military organization, realizing
that any armed force it might create
could never offer more than token
resistance to the Germans. Why
throw away money on an army of no
military Importance, the government
reasoned, when it could be spent to
much better advantage in other
directions?
But If the Danish capacity to fight
the Germans was negligible, their
capacity to resist was great. Hitler
tried to win the Danes over to his
concept Of the new Europe, and Den
mark was held forth as shining
model OF what could be expected by
countries willing to bow to the Reich
and then to cooperate with the Nazi
overlords. But the Danes were stub
born. Although faring better than
the people of other small nations,
they steadfastly resisted the German
encroachment. An underground
campaign of strikes and sabotage
was carried on, and the Danish gov
ernment refused to yield to German
demands for more drastic treatment
OF these rebellious elements. So the
Germans have marched In and the
last flicker of liberty In Denmark has
been snuffed out.
Yet 1t Is easy to believe that this is
not source of qualification to Hitler.
for it merely ties up more German
resources at time when Germany
has no resources to spare. Nor Is
Denmark the only fresh sore spot in
the new world order.
Down in the Balkans, far from the
centers of German power, there are
other ominous STRINGS. The mys-
terious death of King Boris has
shaken Hitler's tenuous hold on his
Bulgarian ally, and there is more
than possibility that the Bulgars
may try to desert the Nazi standard.
So what is Hitler to do? If he de-
cides to send German troops to hold
Bulgaria, from what source are
these troops to be drawn? And If he
decides against this, how is he to be
certain that Bulgaria will not 60 over
to the Allies, and thus breach the
walls of fortress Europe?
Hitler may have the means to deal
with these problems, and it may be
that their Importance is magnified
in Allied eyes by wishful thinking.
But the greater probability is that
these upheavals in areas that once
were squarely under his heel are
serious matters to a man who, in
whatever direction he may turn, is
faced with grave threats that he
never imagined he would have to
meet.
Evening star., 1943-08-31

recognize the French committee, who
administer and control vast and rich
empire, to whom the entire French ma
ton looks for guidance and who repre-
sent many, If not all, shades of opinion
of political France
That the committee will accept this
recognition" does not make it less
shameful for us to offer it.
vERITAs.
OPA Accused Of Having
"Too Much to Do"
To the Editor of The Star:
This food situa ton Is at times anus
ing-and again, foolish. Not long ago
store shelves were bare of pineapple in
any form. Then shipment arrived
but the points required for its purchase
were so many that people did not care
to use up half their blue points for a
month on one large can of pineapple
juice that would deprive them of getting
any other canned foods.
Now, consequently, the shelves are
glutted with cans of pineapple-juice,
Sill cdNCu dltu SllCcd-dIu Gllcy sway IIlCIG
on the shelves. 1t would have saved la
Dor, time, tin and transportation from
Hawaii if it had been left there.
I do not imagine that our troops over-
seas are feasting largely upon pineapple.
which most of them rarely had at home
Why not loosen up on some of these
stored canned foods and relieve store
shelves of excessive weight and storage
to nobodys advantage?
The OPA evidently has so much to do
that it cannot manage the job properly.
We are not getting shell-shocked, but
price land -point-shocked.
I see that green apples are beginning
to appear-never have seen such runts
before in any store. Farmers know Of
used to let their hogs in to take care of
such apples. They were not worth the
time picking them up. Surely with
proper management, we should not have
famine of our own making. We do
not import our foods from Germany or
Japan. H. B. BRADFORD.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the lDriter, although the use OF
pseudonyna for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters Nth
Die1D to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Farmers Are Given
Rating With Services
On Fuel for Tractors
WFA Points to Idle
Machines in Revealing
lckes' Preferential Order

The War Food Administration dis
closed this afternoon that Petro-
leum Administrator Ickes has issued
an order giving farmers in the East
ern States equal preference with the
Army and Navy in purchase Of gaso-
line and fuel oil for their tractors.
Action was taken following reports
that many tractors in the North
eastern States had been immobilized
for lack Of gasoline
Pointing out that this month Is
the vital month in determining the
size of the l943 crops, VIA an
nounced:
To insure fuel for these tractors,
an order has been issued by the pc
troleum administrator for War Civ
ing farmers in the Eastern States
equivalent preference with the Army
and Navy in the purchase of gasoline
and fuel oil for their tractors"
VIA called on motorists in the
Eastern area to help assist "by not
using one gallon of gasoline un-
necessarily, because every gallon
burned unnecessarily means an idle
tractor-and an idle tractor means
implanted and unharvested acres y
Implanted and unharvested acres.
WA said will jeopardize our food
supply "in the critical fighting
months ahead of us"
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Maryland U. Conference
On Dehydration Ends

The growth of dehydration In
response to the problem of supply
ing vast quantities of food to the
armed forces and to civilians in all
parts of the world was emphasized
during a three e-day dehydration con-
ference which ended at the Uni
versity of Maryland today.
1t. Col. c. G. Dunn Of the Army
Quartermaster Corps pointed out
that in l941 there were IL dehy-
drafting plants turning out dehy-
drafted vegetables at the rate of 49,
100000 pounds a year. In 1912, he
said. there were three times as
many plants and production had
increased 300 per cent.
He said that the Government may
be expected to become more strict
as to the quality requirements of
dehydrated fruits and vegetables,
and that more rigid sanitary pre-
cautions in dehydrating plants prob
ably will be required.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Police NonpIussed as Bees
Appear, Disappear, Reuppeur

A swarm of bees, enough to fill
half f-bushel basket. formed a hive
on a slender branch of a big tree
at the corner of Nineteenth and f
streets NV. today and brought COM
plications to police of No. 3 precinct.
First, police in radio car visited
the scene at noon and reported
they saw no bees.
But J. D. MacKnight. 1900 r
street. knows a hive when he sees
one. He had not put screens in the
windows of his rooming house, and
his girl roomers feared they would
be stung in their sleep if they kept
the windows open, he said. Mr..
MacKnight swung into action.
He phoned No. 3 precinct again,
telling police to remove the bee
menace. In the meantime, police
had told Ernest S. Robinson, bee
keeper, Of Cottage City, Md, not
to make the trip to 1900 r street
because the tempermental queen bee
had led her hive to another place.
Mr.. Robinson is the bee trouble
shooter. Whenever police get in
a jam and want bees removed, they
call Mr.. Robinson.
4 A reporter saw the bees at 1890
o,m. At 1910 pm. police of No.
Fecinct decided to send out an
oher rescue" squad. Mr.. Mac
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Roosevelt High Bond Rally
Raises $4,000 for Bomber

approximately $35 900 worth of
war ponds toward purchase of a
oomoer 10 be christened the Julius
Lewis Bomber in honor of the first
graduate OF Roosevelt High School
10 oe kllied in action, has been
raised curing the first two days of
the s5o.ooo drive which was opened
of1icially win a rally last night in
the high school auditorium
The drive is being sponsored by
the Home and School Association Of
Roosevelt High, Under the leadershin
of Mrs. Alfred j. s,einbere and will
continue the for anaher week
Mr.. and Mrs: Josph Lewis. 4eo6
Eighth street NV. hrents of F,rst
1t. Julius Lewis, o. Nho was killed
in action in North Afrie we're honor
guests at last nights ray
Evening star., 1943-05-14

Knight peered out his window. To
his sorrow. the bees were still there
or there again-depending on
whose word you take.
Once before a swarm OF bees
muscled in on Mr.. MacKnight' S
premises. They settled on a cornice
and liked it so we'll they spent the
entire summer there, Mr.. Mac
Knight said.
Maybe the bees did leave and, as
suddenly, came back to Nineteenth
and r streets. It's all a matter
OF the queen bees mood. Where
she goes, there go the other bees
those who know the ways of bees
maintain.
Today's invasion followed a bee
attack on police boxes yesterday at
Seventeenth street and Good Hope
road. at Thirteenth and w streets
and In front of 2937 Fort Baker
drive Sc. During the day Police
man K. T. Stein, accompanying Mr.
Robinson. was stung in the left ca,
and a reporter was stung on the
| leg.
Mr.. MacKnight said he was tax.
ing no chances on becoming a cas-
ualty himself: he decided to remain
indoors. But he was hoping that
bee expert would arrive quickly. he
added.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Mobi|izing Of Youth
For Farm Work Is
Discussed at Farley
Col. Taylor Declares
;, 500, 900 From Cities
Must Help With Crops

Plans for mObilizing Young people
for work on the Nations farms and
the problems involved were reviewed
today by the Childrens Bureau Sub
committee of Young Workers in
Wartime Agriculture. which opened
two-day meeting at the Labor
Department..
1t. Col J. A. Taylor. deputy ad-
mlnlstrator of the War Food Ad-
ministration. told the meeting that
approximately $4,000 city residents
must be recruited this year to help
meet the farm labor shortage.
Courtenay Dinwiddie of New YORK
chairman of the committee. presided
The meeting was attended bv about
4o members OF the committee and
representatives of Federal agencies,
New Problems Foreseen.
Miss Beatrice M. Mcconnell of
the Childrens Bureau said the
youth farm labor program last year
was but fraction of that planned
for this year and warned that all
problems are by no means solved
and that new ones are constantly
arising.
1T was easier last year to get
farm labor from place to place than
it will be this year. which means
that in shortage areas youth will
be used in increasing numbers" she
said. Safe transportation becomes
an acute problem"
M. C. Wilson. of the extension
service of the Agriculture Depart
ment, described the plans for mo-
blllzlng young people locally tc
work on farms.
Discusses Orientation.
DR.. F. W. Lathrop of the Office OF
Education outlined the plans of that
agency in cooperating with the Vic
tory Farm Volunteers, describing its
plans for orienting city boys and
girls in the problems which they will
face when they go to work on the
farms, Plans for cooperation BY
youth-serving agencies for the war
time agricultural program were out
lined to the meeting by Charles
Hendry, research director of the
Boy Scouts of America.
Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of
the Childrens Bureau, spoke this
afternoon.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Court Orders Hearino
In June on Hecht Co.
Price Ceiling Case
OPA Told to File Brief
By Monday, With Firm
To Reply in 20 Days

The Court of Appeals for the
District today ordered an oral hear
ing in June on the Hecht Co. price
ceiling case, in granting a motion
filed by the Office of Price Admins
tration last week asking that
date be set for arguing the case
prior to the tribunals adjournment
for summer recess.
The court also ordered OPA to
file its brief in the case at the
Court of Appeals by Monday and
ordered the Hecht Co. to file its
brief within 20 days thereafter.
The OPA appealed the case. which
was dismissed in February by Justice
F.. Dickinson Let's of District Court.
who refused to grant the OPA an
injunction against the Hecht Co., on
charges or violating the price ceiling,
price posting and price recording
regulations
Justice Let's expressed the view
at the time that IAN injunction
would not be in the public interest"
The motion to advance the case in
the Court of Appeals was filed in
behalf Of OPA by Attorney George
M. Austin, head of the OPAs special
litigation section and other OPA at
torneys.
Spencer Gordon, attorney for the
Hecht Co.. who earlier filed an an
sWer to the motion to advance. in
the answer declared in the firms
behalf that it had no objection to
the entry of an order advancing
this case and assigning it for argu-
ment on some day prior to adjourn
| ment of the court for summer re-
cess if this can be done without
limiting the time allowed for the
preparation of the brief of the
appellee" ,the Hecht Co...
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Lands Again Urges
0CD Unit
Asks Commissioners
To Reconsider Stond

National OCD Director James M
Lands today again urged the Com
missioners to reconsider their recent
decision not to finance the program
Of the Civilian War Services unit
OF volunteer civilian defense
workers.
Attending a conference with the
city heads in addition to Mr.. Landis
were Corporation Counsel Rich
mond B. Keech. 1t. Col Leonce
R. Legendre. assistant to Civilian
Defense Co-ordinator John Russell
Young. and officials of the District
Civilian Defense Department.
When the District Civilian De-
fense department was set up last
February l, the unit then known
as the Civilian Mobilization Di-
vision, was attached to the depart
ment as an auxiliary Later. after
weeks of study, the city heads said
they had found it impossible ito
fit the Civilian War Services unit
and its program into the official
municipal government PLAN There
fore, they reserved their earlier plan
TO ask Congress for authority 20
make it a part of the municipal
organization and funds for it's oper-
alton.
The Executive Committee in
charge OF the unit since then has
named a Steering Committee to
plan its future course.
There was no formal report as to
tpday's meeting, but after it was
concluded after l o'clock, Commits
sioner Guy Mason said the session
was held at the request of Mr..
Lands. He said the Commissioners
had listened to Mr.. Lands views
and that no action was taken.