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Evening star., 1943-02-21

scene Of action force stronger than
our own. If this be the case, the
mere fact that the American units
were able to withdraw in good order
after four days of hard fighting may
be regarded as something Of an
achievement in its own right.
An interesting aspect of the battle
Is the disclosure that the Germans
we're able to knock out many Of our
tanks with their dive bombers, while
our own fighter planes and dive
bombers on the far side of the Atlas
Mountains seem to have been
grounded by mud and bad flying
weather. This does not explain what
happened to our own aviation based
on the three forward flying fields
which later had to be abandoned to
the enemy. Possibly the planes based
on these advance fields were too few
in number to oppose the NaziS
successfully, or the fields may
have been put out of commission
early in the fight. Whatever the ex-
planation, however, it appears that
the inexperienced American armored
units, lacking adequate fighter pro-
lection, were subjected to the de-
moralizing experience of sustained
enemy dive bombing attacks, and it
is gratifying that these green units
did not go to pieces in the face of
such a handicap.
According to the reports reaching
this country, the United States
troops, even though beaten, with
drew reluctantly and, so far as their
morale is concerned, are ready for
another test with the enemy. This
being the case, there is added point
to Secretary Stimsons observation
that, while this defeat should not
be mlnimized, still less should it be
exaggerated" In other words, there
is reason to be confident that the
American troops, in their first en-
counter with the hardened veterans
OF almost four years of warfare, have
acquitted themselves we'll. And that
is a circumstance which augurs we'll
for the future.
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progress could be expected, there must
be careful estimate Of their capacities,
and their readiness to assume large .obli-
cations. May We not believe that today
new yardsticks of measurement must be
employed and finer standard of valua-
ton used if, out of the present world
chaos, We are to attain to new day; a
new day in which inequities shall give
place to equities, injustice TO justice,
where the most vital concerns of men Of
every class and cline are adequately and
consistently met?
The Man with the measuring line is
abroad today.
He is sitting out the hearts of men
Before His judgment-se
Nothing can escape the scrutiny of His
penetrating vision, no area Of life be
immune to His righteous Judgment. To
the attentive ear, above the CLANCY and
strife of warning nations, We are begin
ming to sense the voice OF the eternal
God We are beginning to realize the
deficiencies and inadequacies in our way
of life There are strong evidences that
this is true. Human might and human
strength are proving inadequate in
themselves. In our homes in particular,
in every form of our social life and in
our vast enterprises and political forums.
there must come the recognition Of the
need OF remeasuring and reappraising
the values which we have unduly stressed
and upon which we have too greatly re-
lied. The great Evaluator is the one who
is ever seeking to lift human personality
to the highest levels it has ever reached,
who gave to life new Interpretation
and a new meaning.
1t would be difficult to project our
selves into the days ahead without again
turning to Him whose yardstick of ap-
praisal is the most just, the most accu-
rate and the most reassuring the world
has ever known.
Evening star., 1943-02-21

An Office treatment helps both him and
you, for treatment is easier and more
efficient.
2. II you must call him TO your home,
try to telephone shortly before 9 in the
morning, so that he can plan his day. A
Newton doctor who makes four separate
trips to Waban merely because the calls
came in that way is not being utilized
very effectively Gasoline, tires and med
lcal skill are all being wasted.
8. Be ready with all the information
a lay person can give about the patient
when you call the doctor. Such informa-
ton is better clue to the urgency OF
the Illness than the judgment OF an un-
trained observer.
These are not difficult precepts, and
a doctor whose patients observe them
Is better able to carry on through this
critical period.
Evening star., 1943-02-21
TIMES OF REMEASURING
By the Right ReD. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. H. D. D. c. L,
Bishop OF Washington

There is a tide in the affairs of
men,
Which, taken at the food leads on
to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their
life
Is bound in shadows, and in mis-
cries"
So wrote Shakespeare. These recur-
ring tides Of opportunity may be re-
peated in the life Of individuals and
peoples, 1t is clearly evident that We
are on such f1ood-tide today which,
recognized and its implication accepted,
may prove one of the great transitions in
human history. Scanning the record Of
the past, it is easy to discover the periods
that have marked the great advances of
races and peoples Again. it can be
noted that failure to recognize the inn
plications of events has resulted in
people being bound In shadows and in
miseries."
The capacity to evaluate and under
stand the meaning of epochal expert
ences calls for the finest and most dis
eliminating judgment.
In one of the recorded incidents in the
Old Testament, the prophet zachariah
speaks of a momentous period in which
his people were in process of great and
far-reaching changes. He speaks of the
reformation and renewal of life that
came to them as they discerned the pur-
poses Of God. In the graphic account
which he gives of the rehabilitation Of
their ancient capital, he writes: Il lifted
up mine eyes again and looked, and be-
hold, a man with measuring line in his
hand. Then said 7, Whittier goest thou?
and he said to me: To measure Jerusa-
lem" In the mind of the prophet, the
crisis that had come to his people called
for the remeasuring and reappraisal of
their virtues and strength. Before any
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going to do 1t just as fast as the Lord

sNAA6 w eS Az JAoC co dSl do lllC LOl "
will let us.
This gave Madame Chang her cue,
and she was quick to seize it. Yes,
she said, this met with her approval
and she was content to leave the
problem of getting munitions to
China to the President. But, she
added, there was an old saying that
the Lord helps those who help them
selves.
This had all the earmarks of a gen.
tie dig at the President, but the First
Lady of China did not go beyond it..
At no stage of her comment was there
any trace of the bitterness and
criticism which have marked the
tone of others who have come here in
China's behalf. And it is safe to say
that China's case was aided rather
than injured by the note of under
standing and restraint on which her
remarks to the press were pitched.
Evening star., 1943-02-21
Education Tomorrow

DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University, in the
course OF his report for l942, raises
a number of questions of general in
terest concerning the future of higher
education in the world. THE past
year." he says, has been one of
educational revolution in American
colleges and universities. Prob
lens which have presented them
selves for study and solution are in
large part new, and the traditional
matters of academic work and pro-
cedure have passed into the
background. For the first time, per-
haps, the majority of the American
people have been made aware of the
enormously important place that the
colleges and universities of the coun-
try play in the Nations life, They
are no longer looked upon as remote
and isolated intellectual -centers, but
rather as effective and true repre-
sentatives of every part of the intel
lectual life" of the people
This means, in brief, that higher
learning is becoming. or already has
become, necessity. Young men and
women hereafter will not think of
the privileges and advantages of ad-
vanced education as luXuries, but
rather as imperative requirements
for achievement and success. DR..
Butler summarizes the new concep-
ton in the words: "As leaders in
the intellectual life of the Nation, and
therefore of the whole present day
world, the American institutions of
higher education must be prepared
to take guiding and constructive
part in the role which the Federal
Government must play when the war
is ended. In the new organization
of the world for the protection of
prosperity and peace against any
other attack similar to that which
is now going forward on SO stupen-
dous a scale, the colleges and uni
versities must be everywhere
guiding influence"
For the rebuilding of civilization,
obviously, professional effort will be
wanted, There will be few opportu-
mites for amateur endeavor. however
earnest Well-intentioned and sim
cere. In the stern business of the
next two or three decades trained
intelligence, matured and disciplined
skill, acute experience. self-sacritiC-
ing devotion are qualities without
which no individual will be able to
labor effectively. The task is prodi-
gious in its dimensions, CoSmic in it's
scope Where are people adequate to
the challenge to be found? DR..
Butler sadly declares: There is no
longer a single university, save in
name, on the continent Of Europe,
with the exception of Sweden. In
Great Britain, in the United States
and in the other American countries
are the only universities that are left
to exert intellectual influence and
leadership" If a reconstructed
world is to rest upon "a sound basis
of economic, social and political
principles and be supported by intel
| lectual convictions and confidence"
ways and means must be discovered
for keeping existing institutions
alive and, anticipating the termina-
ton of the strife, in condition to
Justify their existence in the crea-
ton of greater renaissance than
| ever has been seen in half
| millennium.
Evening star., 1943-02-21
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Fifty years ago the Washington Board
Of Trade held its third annual banquet,
reported at length in The Evening Star
of February 81, 1898, beginning as fol-
lows: Washington of
Boord Of Trode the past, Washington
Banquet of the present, and
Washington of the fu-
ture-this triple theme formed the sub
ject of discussion and after dinner
speeches at the banquet of the Board of
Trade last night. 1t was a memorable
occasion in the history that has done so
much in the years of its existence for the
welfare of the city. 1t was the third
annual banquet and not the least in
Importance and significance, for there
were present not only the men who are
interested in the city's progress, but also
large number of men who, from the
fact that they occupy seats in Congress,
are in a position to grant much that the
citizens of Washington feel that they
have right to demand" The banquet
was served in the large dining room of
the Riggs House at Fifteenth and G
streets, now no longer in existence 1t is
interesting to note that Mikado ice
cream was served, exact composition un-
known. The most ambitious project dis
cussed was proposed expansion of
Washington to such point that "Balti-
more should become but the northern
suburb of the Nations Capita"
tlonably difficult feat, considering that
a line stretched north from Washington
would come nowhere near the Monu-
mental City.
The Star Of February lS, 1893, dis
cussed the personnel Of the incoming
cabinet, and printed
The pictures of some of its
New Cabinet members. The cabinet
included Secretary of
State, Walter G. Gresham; Treasury,
John G. Carlisle; Postmaster General,
Wilson G. Bissell Interior, Hoke Smith;
Agriculture, j. Sterling Morton.
The great election dispute in Kansas
finally was settled At the polls. more
than three months be-
Election Dispute fore, the Republicans
Settled were victorious, but
Democrats doubted the
result and we're reluctant to support the
State government. The Star of February
Is, 1898, announced: I'm the District
Court cat Topeka this morning Judge
Hazen rendered decision in favor of
the Republican House on the motion for
an injunction to restrain the State treas
urer from paying the Legislature salary
warrants. For several hours yesterday
two courts were wrestling with cases
upon which hinged the issue as to which
house was the legally constituted body"
Jim Corbett, having knocked out the
great Sullivan, had his title challenged
by Charley Mitch
Corbett ond ell. There had
Mitchell Matched been many argu-
ments over the
terms of the meeting, but on February
20, 1888 The Star disclosed an agreement
of great interest to the sporting world:
Charles Mitchell has conceded all the
conditions demanded by Corbett.
The two parties met Saturday evening
After very little preliminary discussion
Mitchell announced that he was willing
to concede that the winner should take
all the purse" 1t was an unwise decision.
The bout took place on January 25 of
the following year, at Jacksonville, Fla,
and Mitchell missed out on any share of
the $4,000 purse by being decisively
aoored in the third round.
Evening star., 1943-02-21

Fifty years ago the Washington Board
Of Trade held its third annual banquet,
reported at length in The Evening Star
of February 81, 1893, beginning as fol-
Evening star., 1943-02-21

It may be that Hitler's regent in
conspicuity is caused by the pangs
Of authorship. His best seller so far
is "Mein Kampf" 1t is not without
the bounds Of possibility that he is
now engaged on a new work to be
called "Mein Rueckzug' or perhaps
"Mein Niederlange." The first means
my retreat; the second my dc
featn
Evening star., 1943-02-21

There is a plant called bladder
wort whose stomach floats at the
surface and snares food fishes. It
might be good idea for those living
near the water to plant some. just as
Orientals keep captive cormorants.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
SOroptimist Club
Holds China Night

Mr.. T. L. Tsui, first secretary of
the Chinese Embassy, spoke on
"China At War" at a dinner meet
ing of the Soroptimist Club held
Monday evening at Kenwood Club,
with the president, Mrs. Ruth
Farnham, presiding.
The entire program was desig-
mated as "China Night" and was a
part of the nationwide movement
to raise money for the training of
Chinese nurses.
A brass Chinese vase donated by
the Club was won by Mrs. VIM.
Koplovitz. guest. A $25 war bond
went to Mrs. Rosamond Price, a
member of the club.
Nelson Ho, of the Aviation De-
partment of the Chinese Military
Mission sang songs in both Chinese
and English.
A number of prominent business
and professional women Of the
county and members of Washing
ton and Alexandria Soroptimist
Clubs were among the guests.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
POOlesville Women
Set County Record

The women of Poolesville have
set a county record by making
1,O38 sewn and knitted garments
for the Red Cross, and have been
commended by Mrs. George Hart
man, county chairman of produc-
ton.
The garments, cut ready for sew
ing in Washington, are taken by
the Red Cross Motor Corps to
Rockville where they are picked up
by Mrs. C. M. Upton, driver of the
station wagon of the Public Health
Lay Council, who delivers them to
Poolesville.
The unit was organized by Mrs.
Byron D. White, wife of a Pooles-
vile physician, and meets regular
ly at her home, Stony Castle, one
of the show places of the county.
Average attendance at these week
ly servings is 20. Mrs. Lutte Hemp
stone is the oldest worker. She is
80 and was active in similar work
during the first World War-she
sews on buttons and labels and has
missed only one meeting during the
year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
Local Women Get
2O-Year Bar Pins

Among the Red Cross workers
in Montgomery County awarded
service bar pins there are two
women from upper Montgomery
who have seen 20 years or more of
service, Mrs. Somervell Dawson, of
Rockville; and Mrs. Willard West
of Sandy Spring.
Cited for ten years service are
DR.. Edwin Broome, Mrs. Frank
Marshall, Rockville; Mrs. Robert
Gray, Poolesville. For 5 years or
more the pins were given to Miss
Alverda Cooke, Gaithersburg; Miss
Rebecca Leaman, Germantown !;
Mrs. Lewis Merriam, and Mrs.
Henry M. Milburn, Kensington;
DR.. v. L. Ellicott, of Rockville, and
Mrs. Austin A. Lamar of Sandy
Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
War Bonds For
Christmas Gifts

Mrs. Louise Valdenar Price, 9
member of the staff Of the Clerks
Office in Rockville, has received 9
letter from the employees Of the
Capitol Power Plant, telling of the
purchase Of War Bond as 9
Christmas gift to her husband Sgt
William r. Price, now somewhere
in England. The accompanying
verses were especially appropriate
TO the occasion:
The workers at the Power Plant,
All Of US, wish to give
Expression Of our love for those
Who fight that we may live
Especially, to you, our friends,
Who once worked with us here,
But now are in The Service on
The battlefront somewhere.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
Izaak Walton League
To Meet Here, Oct. 26

A special meeting of the Rock
vile Chapter of the Izaak Walton
League has been called for Tuesday
evening, October 26, at s o'clock in
the police hearing room at Rock
vile.
This meeting will initiate the
Fall membership campaign. 1913
marks the 10th anniversary of the
local Chapter which was chartered
in the summer 1888. A special
effort is being made to contact all
charter members and others who
have been active in conservation
work during the past decade.
President, Frank s. DeMent has
written to all members urging
them to attend. Mr.. DEMENT, point
ed out that war time needs have
severely taxed resources and that
the need for post war planning is
urgent. He said, "many letters
have been received from members
of Rockville Chapter now in active
service urging those at home to
keep up their effort to improve our
out doors pending their return"
The chapter meets the first We'd
nesday of every month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
HOuse-TO-HOuse
Canvass For War
Fund Quota
COunty's Share of National
War Fund Is $S7,374-
Other Great Causes

Householders throughout Mont
gomery County will have their
chance to contribute to the Com
munity War Funds campaign for
$4,800,000 this week and next
House toulouse canvassing is in
charge of committee headed by
Judge Stedman Prescott.
Last July, a forward step was
taken which was of great import
ance to the civic welfare of the
county-the formation of the Mont
gomery County Community Chest.
Immediately upon organization
came the problem of raising the
necessary money to meet the needs
of the fourteen participating agen-
cies in the year to come. 1t was de-
cided to accept the neighborly in
vitation of the Community War
Fund of the Metropolitan Wash
ington Area to be included in the
campaign and every effort has been
made to assist in the promotion of
a successful campaign.
A double duty lies upon the local
community. In administering to
the needs within the County local
citizens must accept the response
bility. But in raising the necessary
funds, a united campaign. saves
time and effort for volunteer solicit
tors, and the cost of raising funds
for such a purpose is far less in a
great, united campaign.
Besides the County agencies
which win benefit from this cam
paign citizens will be contributing
to other great causes. The U.S.O.
and other war hospitality and the
United Nations War Relief-all in
just one contribution. The county's
quota has been set at $87, 374.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
Voters League To
Lunch October 20

This Brave New World For
Which We Fight-What can indi-
vidual League members do to help
bring it about will be the subject
of a panel discussion at the reg
ular monthly luncheon meeting of
the Montgomery County League of
Women Voters on Friday, October
20 at 1890 P. M. at the Chevy
Chase Methodist Church at Con-
necticut Avenue and Sheppard
Street.
Reservations for the luncheon
must be made by Wednesday,
October 81, with Mrs. S. Shepard
Jones, Oliver 2998. Guests who are
interested in the program of the
league will be welcomed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
Pardon Us 50 Rockville
Has Red Cross Chapter!

Thomas M. Anderson, Chairman,
has announced a meeting of the
Rockville-Potomac Branch of the
Montgomery County Chapter of the
Red Cross on Tuesday evening,
October 26th, in the Fire Depart
nent Building, at 1880 o'clock P. M.
All members of the Roci<ville-Po-
tomac Branch are urged to make
special effort TO be present, as a
number Of important matters will
come before the meeting.
Mr.. Anderson also announced for
the benefit of those who might be
unaware of the fact that the for
nation of the Rockville Potomac
Branch Of the Montgomery County
Chapter of the American National
Red Cross mad been approved by
the Montgomery County Chapter as
of July, 1913.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-10-21
Jurors Drawn For
November Court Term

q Jurors to serve at the November
term of the Circuit Court fol
Montgomery County were drawn al
Rockville Tuesday by Judge Sted-
man Prescott. Instead of SO day
they will. receive So for each days
attendance. The list follows:
First District-Harry Wachter
Edmund r. Codwise.
Second District-Daniel T. Jack
son, Charles Jasper Price.
Third District-Walter P. Hos
kinson, John T. Fyffe, Lawrence A,
Darby.
Fourth District-Frank p. Jenk-
ms, James B. Nicholson, Jr., John
V. Peter, Buell. M. Gardner, Ebert
T. Clagett, Heath E. Butt.
Fifth District Francis E. Valid
enar, Sr., James M. Anderson, John
L. Case, Frederick w. Kruhm.
Sixth District-William A. Gass-
away, Frank Esworthy.
Seventh District Gordon D.
Burrows, Ralph Benson, Charles T.
Crockett, George F. Cramer, E.
Percival Wilson, Noble F. Perry,
J. Wesley Buchanan, Royal F. Car
lock.
Eighth District-Robert H. Chi
chester, Douglas H. Riggs, Mahlon
Kirk Nv.
Ninth District--Leo r. Demory,
Clyde M. Anderson, Thomas w.
Troxell.
Tenth District. Arson Ball,
John Dunbar Stone.
Eleventh District - Eberly T.
Dixon, Earl F. Strottlemeyer.
Twelfth District-Guy D. Wat
kins, Emory d. Monkey.
Thirteenth District - Paul v.
Kreh, John Shure, Jr., Davis w.
Simpson, jeremiah C. Broderick,
Louis r. Schrider, Samuel M.
Payne, William F. Steiner, Fred B.
Kitterman, Hugh o. McKinnie.