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Evening star., 1943-04-16
INSTALLMENT XIV.

Winter, at last, is upon us. In the
rear ranks, the surest indication is
to be found in reveille.
All through the late summer and
the fall, we hoped out of bed as
soon as the whistle blew. Now we
crawled grumblingly out when the
sergeant puts the whistle to his lips
for Fall out!" blast. Since it is
still dark when we stand reveille,
and we are aided occasionally by a
heaven-sent fog, there are many
saviors of democracy who slip on
merely a pair of shoes (partially
laced, pair of trousers, and a field
jacket. The field jacket, when but
toned all the way, hides the absence
of shirt and tie and the sergeant is
none the wiser.
In Headquarters Battery, the pro-
Evening star., 1943-04-16

Then I said, Things sure have
changed since I was in the Army
Back then, three or four years ago,
supply sergeants were just plain
buck sergeants and f1rst-class pri-
vate were the only one-stripe men,
"'Yeah,' he said, sort of weak-like,
time changes a lot of things
THAT was all he had to say. He
Evening star., 1943-04-16

looked sort Of foolish and pulled the
cord to get of at the next stop.
$50 there was another bull session
shot to hell. Maybe 1t was for the
best, though. didn't have chance
against a fellow with that much
talent"
(TO be continued.)
Copyright, 1943. by Henry Holt g. Col
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Stute Low EulIs

The War Labor Board has pushed
its authority out to new boundaries
in holding that its orders take prece-
dence over State laws governing con-
ditions surrounding the negotiation
of collective bargaining contracts.
The eight-to-four decision of the
board was rendered in dispute over
wages and working conditions be-
tween the J. Greenebaum Tanning
Company of Milwaukee and CIO
union, which had been certified as
the bargaining agent by the National
Labor Relations Board. The WLB
turned down the wage demand, but
ruled the union was entitled to
maintenance of membership. The
company challenged the right of the
agency to grant union security, con-
tending that under the Wisconsin
Employment Peace Act such an
arrangement is valid only when it
is approved by the secret vote of
three-fourths or more of the en-
ployes concerned.
mo law of a State which is aimed
at inserting conditions in a collective
bargaining contract between an en-
ployer and the bargaining agent of
the employees can be said to supersede
any order of the War Labor Board
regulating relations between en-
ployer and employe in time of war,
when the power to issue that regula-
ton flows from the war powers Of
the United States" said the majority
opinion by Wayne L. Morse, in which
public and labor members of the
board joined. The employer members
dissented.
While the Wisconsin Employment
Relations Board did not dispute the
right of the WLB to order mainte-
nance of membership under the
plenary war powers Of the Govern
ment, 1t made clear, In presenting
its case to the board, the feeling
that An employer complying with
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Not Aiming Too Hiqh

The goal of fifteen billion dollars,
set for the Third War Loan Cam
paign which opens next week, is a
whale of a lot Of money to be asking
citizens to contribute, without the
aid of purchases by the banks. Or
is it? What are the chances of real
izing this sum, the largest amount
ever sought in any bond-selling
campaign?
One way of answering the question
Is to remember what has been done
before. In the second campaign,
earlier this year, the goal was set at
thirteen billions, of which the banks
were expected to subscribe some five
billions. The goal for public sub
scription was set at eight billions.
What happened? The goal was
oversubscribed by three and one-half
billions. The banks went over the
top by fifty-eight millions. The pub
lie, or nonbanking sources, sub
scribed thirteen billions, four hum
dred and eighty-five millions. If the
public repeats this time, and does
just a little bit better, the goal will
be achieved. It may take some hard
pulling, but the goal will be achieved.
All the people are partners in this
enterprise of advancing money to
our Government with which to fight
the war. There should be no thought
of personal sacrifice in doing what
this partnership demands. There is
plenty of money available, though
there always are individuals, Of
course, who are hard pressed. One
reason this money should 60 into
bond purchases now is that so much
of it is going into boarding. The
only justified form of boarding is to
hoard Government bonds. That sort
of boarding is desirable. 1t puts your
money where it is needed most,
where it is safest and where it will
pay real returns on an investment in
the future of the country.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Welfare Problems

There is a lot of common sense
embodied in the new budget requests
Of District welfare authorities to per-
nit drafting of actual specifications
now for construction projects which
are deemed desirable and necessary
after wartime restrictions are lifted.
For such purposes $190,000 is
sought for the fiscal year beginning
next July l, the total cost of the
suggested new institutional homes
and expanded facilities being some
thing over $6,3OO,0OO.
1t is proposed to provide at some
later date new housing for the in
dustrial home schools for boy, girl,
colored and white delinquent youths
and for the Home for Aged and In
firm, as we'll as Improvements at the
District Training School for Feeble
minded and at the Occoquan Work
. house and the Lorton Reformatory.
: Certainly, there Is no point in wait
ing until the war is won to start
! planning for construction projects
; which then can be executed. Effec-
tive postwar planning means the
completion now of plans for needed
programs which will be ready to go
as soon as priorities permit. Il
Many of the Districts welfare in
stitutions are out-moded, or in
sufficient in facilities or unsuited for
their purpose and some smack of
neglect If not pinch-penny atti-
tude. This was found the case at
the Home for Aged, as pointed out
many times in recent years in The
Star. Building of new home was
delayed by war conditions, but mean
while many conditions have been
corrected by provision of funds for
q cleanup and expansion of essen
tial services.
Judging from declarations by well
fare officials, the present industrial
home school for white children is
disgrace. The old building is
described as fire trap, there is said
to be SO per cent shortage in staff,
a lack of sufficient chairs, dining
tables, beds and other equipment, an
inadequate recreational program,
with employees having to work long
overtime hours, and if the morale of
the staff Is low, as reported, there
cannot be much accomplished as to
the intended rehabilitation" of the
delinquent youth confined there.
New construction will have to wait
until critical materials are available
but partial correction can be
achieved by the prompt provision of
extra help and supplies. There is no
excuse for permitting the deplorable
conditions to continue.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
The New Cities

An American flyer, taking part in
the destruction of Hitler's industrial
front, writes home: Don't imagine
that have any pleasure knocking to
pieces these beautiful old cities. The
thought of it fills me with horror and
remorse."
Such reaction is normal In civil
lized person. The Allies, striving for
victory in the interest of the whole
human race, have endeavored to
spare religious and cultural estab-
lishments wherever they have found
them in the neighborhood of their
targets. Much that they gladly
would have saved, however, un-
doubtedly has been demolished.
But some consolation may be had
from the fact that the conscience of
mankind will insist upon the restora-
ton of all that is susceptible of
restoration and the replacement of
all that cannot be repaired Some
thing of the vision needed may be
discovered in Frederick Harrison's
Meaning of History" published
nearly fifty years ago. There it is
written: "The citizen of the future
will live in a city through which
silver streams will flow, in which the
air will be spotless of SCOT, 80 where
gardens, promenades, open squares,
flowers, green lawns, porticos and
noble monuments will abound"
Not in large communities only
would these facilities and adorn-
ments be available. The same
prophet continues:
Museums, statues galleries, colleges
schools and public halls will no longer
be concentrated in overgrown capi-
tails; they will be universal in every
moderate town. No town would be
worth living in if it does not offer a
free library. a good art gallery, lecture
and music, halls, baths and gymnasia
free to all and within reach of all.
To use . these, we shall need day
Of rest in the week as we'll as day of
worship on Sunday. Every citizen
will be free Of all the resources needed
to cultivate his body, his mind, his
heart, his enjoyment of life, health,
skill and grace, his sense of beauty,
his desire for society, his thirst for
knowledge.
Obviously, new society is forecast
in the words quoted, but it likewise
will be society in harmony with the
ideals of such forerunners of modern
progress as Washington, Jefferson
and Franklin, almost as Well-known
and as greatly respected in Europe as
In America. The city in which these
lines are printed was intended to
fulfill Harrison'S aspiration century
before he penned it. What now is
wanted Is a thousand cities, ten
thousand towns seeking similar
beauty, more general happiness.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Also for Conodion Girls

From the Halifax Herald.
According to an estimate by Canadian
military authorities in London, and
quoted by the Manchester Guardian, no
fewer than 10000 English girls have
married Canadian soldiers, sailors or
airmen within the last few years. Few
OF these brides will reach their new
homes in Canada until after the war, and
the Guardian editorially commends the
Canadian Legion overseas educational
service in Britain for its provision of an
experimental weeks course for the wives
OF Canadian servicemen." 1t might
not be amiss to adopt some such pre-
marital educational course in our high
schools and young peoples societies. The
syllabus outlines knowledge which every
Canadian girl should possess.
Evening star., 1943-09-02

such an order, technically, at least,
was violating the Wisconsin statute.
The merit of this particular argu-
ment is open to debate, however, for
while the Wisconsin law requires a
three-fourths vote for employees to
obtain an "all-union agreement" the
National Labor Relations Act permits
closed-shop contracts to be nego-
tiated by bargaining agent chosen
by majority vote, and the WLB con-
tends that in court test the Federal
law would prevail.
However this may be, the board,
in this instance, was following a
consistent pattern, which it holds to
be justified on the ground of war
time neceSSity.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
kino Christion X

From it's start, the difference be-
tween the civilized nations of the
world and the Axis has been moral
issue. Events in Denmark during the
past few days have demonstrated
that solemn truth once more. Two
thousand persons, it is estimated.
have been killed in clashes with the
Nazi police. Authentic news of con-
ditions in Copenhagen is difficult to
obtain, but the broadcasts from the
controlled radio station there suggest
a reign of terror, street fighting, sum-
mary executions, wholesale arrests,
discontinuance of necessary public
services, famine and all the nameless
horrors associated with barbarian
occupation of modern city. Part
of the Danish fleet admittedly has
been scuttled, a few ships have
reached Sweden The Gestapo is
retaliating by imprisoning officers,
Admiral Vedal among them.
Probably it will be months before
the whole story can be told Mean
while, enough is known to justify a
few words of appreciation for Den
marks people. The contrast between
their oppressor, General Hermann
Won Hannecken, and their lawful
sovereign, the good King Christian x,
a hostage with his wife, Queen Alex
andrine, at Sorgenfri Castle, Is
striking. His majesty, born Septem-
ber 26, 1870, no longer is young His
threescore and twelve years show in
the lines of his face; his tall form is
bent. But not even the heavy burden
of sorrow which he has carried since
Der Fuehrer ordered the seizure of
his country on April 8, 1940 has
7. broken his spirit. He submitted to
the Germans because he lacked the
physical force, the mechanized
strength, to oppose them; yet he
never conceded them the right to do
what they had the might to do. On
the first anniversary of the Nazi
invasion, the royal family was wildly
cheered in the streets. Those who
participated in the demonstration
= risked their lives to encourage their
legitimate monarch. He consistently
: has responded in kind. Through
; words of deep symbolic significance,
!. he has advised the loyal Danes to
continue the assertion of their ma
z tionality.
1t follows that the Allies have In
Evening star., 1943-09-02
A Little Doq and |

you Dait, III be right back" he u,ed
to say
10 the small ,ohtte dog whose soft
eyes begged to 90;
With books and lunch boz, of ia
school each day,
His eyes as blue as the fa1 bloom
that used to oro,o
IN the lo,oer field, his hair az bro,pn.
Then lonely daylight hours draooino
by,
impatient till the laooard sun uent
do,0n,
We nsed to wait. the little dog ana T.
And with little dog, a bro,on ons
notC,
/ matched him 90 one misty day last
tan,
Hot1 blue his eyes beneath the cage,
broU,
My slender son, Just lately Sro,Dn 50
tail.
"You ,oait," he said, and then hL
young poice broke,
With eyes too proud TOR tears / paped
to him,
Then out there In the Ddr's grim
battle smoke
His plane ,Dds lost on some horison's
rim.
"Yon ,oait :" he said, and 80 Us
scan the sky
And Dait and hope d snlaH
brotpn dog and T.
ALMA ROBSON HIGBEE.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. TrnceiDeH.

While the viewpoint Of this corre-
spondent is understandable, We would
advise him not to feel had about the
matter.
Rats are rats, and are enemies Of the
human race.
Often in this world, as the present
hours are showing, good men must have
keen sense Of duty about the enemies of
the human race, whether two-leeeed or
four-legged.
Certain well-known human enemies of
the race have attacked the better things
OF the spirit, and so must be taught a
lesson "in the only way they know as
our President has said.
Rats attack humanity on the physical
plane alone.
They spread disease and are contami-
nators Of foods and in many other ways
SO live and act as to be 4 menace to
humanity.
The war against the rat Is q perpetual
one.
Yet at the same time it Is permissible,
we feel. to marvel, as our correspondent
did, at the great vigor. of the creature.
1t is only when we recognize this vigor,
see 1t in action and come to understand
some OF its implications that we will 20
to the trouble and expense Of fighting
the menace personally.
The rat brings his warfare home. and
that Is how 1t comes about that so many
persons are coming to recognize their
evil.
1t Is one thing to read about some
community fighting rats and quite an
other to have them in your own barn or
garage, or even in your own home.
Surely no one would tolerate rats in 4
home without taking some steps to get
rid OF them, and as surely no one ought
to tolerate them around any premise.
They are one field of life toward which
even the sentimentalist may steel his or
her heart.
Rats, indeed, may be taken As sort Of
test.
If one has any feeling Of sadness over
the death OF rat-either two-legged
or four-legged one-he may know that
he is too sentimental.
Kindness is a Christian virtue. but
sentimentality Is that same virtue run
wild.
Let us honor our correspondents feel
1ngs, but at the same time assure him
that he was in no sense cruel and should
not in the least feel ashamed of himself
He should read Bulwer-Lytton's "The
Coming Race" first published In 1871, in
which Is given an imaginative picture of
a race driven underground and how they
took care Of certain creatures there
which they found harmful to them.
An amusing passage in this book, BY
the way, ends with these words
Il wound up by repeating the slowins
prediction OF the magnificent future that
smiled upon mankind-when the flag OF
| freedom should float over an entire con.
tinent and 2O0,0O0,0 900 of intelligent citi.
zens accustomed from infancy to the
daily use Of of'revolvers, should apply to .
covering universe the doctrine of the
| Patriot Monroe" b.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Letters to the Editor
Registered Nurse Discusses
Shortage Of Nurses.

Shortage of Nurses.
10 the Editor Of The Star:
Regarding your editorial concerning
the shortage of nurses, may make a
few remarks?
You say, at the end OF your first para
graph, THE most encouraging prospect
in connection with this problem is that
there is no lack of intelligent effort to
solve it." I am not disputing this state
ment, but there is still something wrong
or there would not be so many OF us
tied up in our homes. I say, $50 many
of u.s. and yet do not know the exact
numbers, but can judge only from my
own community. I don't even know
just how much effort has gone into the
attempt to try to release the inactive"
graduate nurses from their home duties,
or whether any attempt along this line
has been made, or even considered.
I realize that each of us must have
his own individual problems, many of
which must be solved separately. The
question would seem to be: just how i'm
portant are we to the national war
effort? Are we important enough that
competent, dependable help could be
guaranteed 50 that our homes and chill
dren would be cared for adequately in
our absence while on duty?
The thing that irks me more than
anything else about all the publicity
about the nurse shortage Is that the
graduate nurse Is getting q black eye.
How do you think we feel, day after day,
listening to the ding donging over the
radio and reading the pleas in the news
papers? Some of us feel pretty helpless,
I can tell you. When the nurses do
not respond to the various eloquent
pleas, the natural assumption is that
they are either unpatriotic and won't
respond because they don't care to be
bothered or that they are mercenary and
will not respond unless more money Is
offered. Both may be true, but prefer
to think, unless I can be proved wrong,
that there are quite few whose hands
are tied, and who struggle from day to
day with the problem of what to do
leave their homes and families and 20 to
work, or stay home (where some COM
petent persons are needed and not
answer that insistent call for help which
Is almost, If not entirely, as heart-rend-
ing to nurse as childs plea to its
mother?
Maybe I am speaking only for myself,
but have nurses been offered competent
help to take care of their duties at home,
and have they refused? Personally, my
strength is limited, but I put In eight
good hours a day here at home, and
with broken hours (Which are generally
preferred in a hospitaD, could do just
as much there. However, can't do
both. There are three of us Graduate
nurses) living in row here on our street.
The two others have children I haven't
asked them, but If competent help were
available, I don't doubt that they would
contribute their valuable training to the
hospitals at this time.
The Nurses Aides, from all reports,
have done wonderful job, but as any
graduate nurse knows, they cannot take
responsibility or do highly skilled pro-
fessional work for which they have not
been trained. Why not give the same
amount Of training 10 similar group Of
Evening star., 1943-09-02
"TAKOMA PARK,

Dear Sir:
IT would like to tell you story and
ask you If you think was cruel know
that rats are not much esteemed by
humanity, for very good reasons, but
when saw those baby rats struggling in
the water felt ashamed of myself.
'It happened this way. I hearkened
to your advice to use red squill, and got
some of 1t and put it out for some big
rats which had been attracted to the
bird-feeding station. I have been feed
ing the birds for many years, but this
was the first time that any rats had
come around At least as far as know.
never saw any before.
"These were big ones, and thought I
should not tolerate them. put out the
material, some of it down the rat holes
running under the garage, and the rest
of 1t inside the garage. I thought the
animals must have nest or hiding place
in an old pile of wood in one corner of
the garage. People are foolish, I am
coming to believe, who build up piles of
wood and permit them to stand for a
long time. Yet see such wood piles
everywhere. They are danger from
many standpoints.
"Well, the next day I went into the
garage and found all the bait gone, but
no sign Of rat.
Il watched the bird feeding station for
several days, but didn't see my unwel-
come visitors again.
I concluded that the red squill had
done the work, just as you said it would.
"On the fifth day, ON entering the
garage, saw two baby rats on the floor.
Undoubtedly they had come out of the
wood pile, since one Of them was quite
close to 1t. The other was over to one
side.
"One of them was on its back
"The poor things had not had anything
to eat or drink since their mother had
been taken.
They had such big paws.
Their eyes were closed. I felt ashamed
Of myself, but realized that rats are rats,
so went and got bucket of water and
took up the rats one by one in a trowel
and dropped them into the bucket.
Now here Is the surprising part.
Although they didn't have their eyes
open even, and hadn't had anything to
eat for five days, those baby rats began
to swim like mad the moment they
struck the water
Think of it-swimming away, al
though without food for SO long, and
with their eyes unopened!
Il cont mind telling you that really
felt ashamed and marveled at nature
once more, thinking of all that vigor in
such weak things. human baby
dropped into water would sink like a
stone, but these little rats struck out for
the shore. as if they had always known
how to swim, which guess they did.
Il turned my back and went out Of the
garage, as could not stand to see them
die that way, and yet knew there was
nothing could do about it.
- 49,. Sincerely, E: J. H"