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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-07-07
LISTENING POST

Ex-Governor Dixon of Alabama,
speaking at the Hotel Waldorf
Astoria in New York City last
Christmas said that the Southern
states would "secede" from the
National Democratic Party, if
President Roosevelt kept on try
ing to help win the war by put
ting Negroes to work on a demo-
cratic basis.
South Carolina leads the "se-
cession' movement by withdraw
ing financial support from the
National Democratic Party. BY
so doing, these men who acknow-
ledge no law higher than their
private prejudices and greed hope
to burn in the flames of race ha-
tired all the gains the workers Of
America have chalked up in the
last ten years. To them. the
greatest crime of our generation
is not Hitler's slaughter of mil
lions of innocent people, but un-
employment insurance, old age
pensions, mothers aid, health in
surance, minimum wages, equal
wages for equal work regardless
of race, creed or color.
Negro flyers who helped bomb
some of Mussolinis islands into
submission must have got great
dealo satisfaction out of the
part the are playing in punetur-
ing the Sawdust Caesar whose
son Dragged of the pleasure it
gave him to drop bombs and poi
son gas on helpless Philippians.
from the government payroll on
next November Is three officials
accused by house committees Of
membership in subversive organ
izations.
Evening star., 1943-05-14

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Take them regularly.
Evening star., 1943-05-14

War time or peace time easily accessible aids for
emergencies important. 1t is wise family that
keeps on hand, always, helpful assortment of Med
icne Cabinet items for little hurts and simple rem
edies. Even in more serious cases. wisely stocked
Medicine Cabinet is sensible safeguard, until the
doctor arrives. Fill yours now, and save money as
you do it by buying at your neighborhood Peoples
Drug Store. Courteous, helpful service always
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Evening star., 1943-01-01
Defends Temporary" Bill
Providing Overtime Pay.
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star.
In the article by Hugh c. Boutell, con-
demning Government overtime pay, he
states: I'm these days anybody who
takes longer than is absolutely necessary
to do given job in order to draw more
pay is guilty of disloyalty"
agree with Mr.. Boutell on this state
ment, but emphatically deny that the
Government overtime pay bill has caused
any such condition. I would like to
point out that the War and Navy De-
partments have been working 48 hours
week for over year with no extra
compensation for a large percentage Of
the employees, especially those of the
lower-pay grades.
Is it right that a $5,000-a-year man
should receive overtime pay, while his
$1,800-a-year secretary works the addi-
tional eight hours a week for nothing?
That is the kind of situation that has
existed in the War Department.
Before this bill is criticized, it should
be remembered that it is just tenn
porary bill to correct the above situation
and give the new Congress chance to
work out permanent pay bill for Gov
ernment employees.
1t is only common sense that in time
of war all agencies should work longer
hours than in peacetime. But in order
to maintain democracy it is important
that all Government employees be treated
equally and given the same privileges Of
overtime pay as the members of labor
unionS. EDWIN FAY GRAY,
Evening star., 1943-01-01
No Loss Yet

In dissolving their Real Estate Tax
Exemption Committee the Commis-
sioners appropriately noted the ex-
cellent work Of its members in their
long investigation Of tax-exempt
private property in the District.
Their views we're not followed in full
by Congress in enactment Of the new
tax-exemption law. But one OF the
chief purposes Of the investigation,
the Qualification of the exemption
statutes and definition of congress
sional policy on exempting private
property from taxation, was accom-
plished with benefit to the munich
pality.
There is disposition to say that
the new tax-exempt property legisla-
ton, resulting from the Commission
ers' study and signed by the President
on Saturday, will cost" the District
over 100000 annually in tax reve-
nues. That is misleading. The Com
missioners put back on the tax rolls
private property valued at about
$25.o0o.o 900. hitherto exempt from
Evening star., 1943-01-01
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1DeH.

To get along nicely In life. one Of the
like other people.
The different person, either In mood
or appearance, is the butt Of ridicule
and often downright persecution.
1t is said that all white penguins are
pecked to death by the mass of penguins,
If the mother does not permit it to
starve.
and white coat which all good penguins
are wearing must suffer for their abnor-
| mality.
Our black squirrel spent all of the
afternoon In the yard.
He enjoyed himself, too. Part of this
was due to the evident fear Of the gray
ones. They gave him wide berth at
all times.
This black rodent was not as dark as
some we have seen.
He had just little brown mixed
in, but was black enough to give a de-
cidedly different appearance as he sat
hunched up before the sunflower seed.
The fur of these black forms seems
to be SIMMER than the coats of the gray
squirrels. Probably this is due to the
way the light catches it.
They are handsome animals, some Of
them being almost coal black. Others
have rusty appearance, just as some
Scotty dogs have, or black cats, so-called.
II you ruff1e the fur of black cat, it
almost always shows rusty below.
A real black cat, as black as night, is
not often seen.
Evidently black squirrels are working
their way North from just below Chevy
Chase Circle, where they have been
colonized for many years.
In the past year we have seen some of
them farther North on Connecticut
avenue, and northward on Brookville
road
Early this fall we saw one just block
from our home. Whether the specimen
which spent Christmas Day with us is
| this squirrel we do not know.
| Aside from their unusual color, they
are exactly like the gray forms. The
suspicion Of them by other squirrels
| probably tends to make them hostile, In
their turn.
| There is no reason why the color
change should make any difference In
the disposition.
| Our hope is that this black squirrel
| will find the eating good and make a
steady thing Of coming to see us.
If he chases away a few of the dozer
which usually inhabit the yard, 1t will
be no bad thing, since a dozen squirrel.
are, we'll, just few too many.
| Half dozen are all right, but wher
the number gets to 10 or more, perhaps
something should be done about it, ano
the black squirrel indicates that he i!
willing to do it.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
The best Christmas gift we got was

The best Christmas gift we got was
black squirrel.
And he came of his own free will.
After wanting a black squirrel for IL
years, we had about given it up, when,
all OF sudden, there he was eating at
the bird feeding station.
The best part of it all was that he
remained all day.
In the past years, two or three of these
squirrels had appeared in the yard, but
had permitted themselves to be run out
by the gray squirrels.
This black one was q sort of Hitler
squirrel
He did the running.
AS soon as gray one showed up he
ambled over to investigate it.
He did this with swagger, as if quite
sure of his power.
Only one gray rodent chose to dispute
the feeding station with him.
And it yielded SO quickly that 1t must
have been very surprised, itself.
The black one simply rushed it. The
other tumbled head over heels and went
up tree.
The black squirrel went back to the
feeder.
In short order the 10 gray squirrels
in the yard had given authority to the
black one.
He had the feeding station all to him.
self.
He left the birds severely alone, as all
squirrels do.
He was more interested in the SUM-
flower seed.
The other squirrels gave him a wide
berth. They did not seem to know what
to make of the situation.
A mother gray squirrel busted herself
with carrying great mouthfuls of leaves
to winter nest she was making about
80 feet high in locust tree.
Up and down she swarmed, time after
time, heaping old dried oak leaves in
the nest.
The black squirrels are simply forms
of the gray ones
Theirs is an interesting color phase.
The phenomenon is what is known as
mechanism.
The odd thing is that this change in
coloration seems to affect the tempera-
ment of the animal, and its relation with
the gray forms.
House cats do not mind different
colors. We have never seen one cat dis
like another because it was a different
color The nearest to it is the yellow
cat, which at times tends to displease
cats of other colors.
Certainly the yellow house cat is more
disliked by blue jays than cats of any
other color.
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In nature, the different Is almost al
ways penaliZed.
Even among human beings, the differ
ent person has burden to bear.
Evening star., 1943-01-01

taxation. This property, II taxed,
would yield about $437 900 a year.
But Congress decided not to tax it
and the District therefore is not
losing any revenue that previously
had been collected. Furthermore,
about half of this property was equit-
ably entitled to exemption, in the
opinion Of the Commissioners. They
had no intention of trying to tax it..
It will be interesting now to know
whether the fears on the part of
some municipal officials will mate
rialize and property hitherto held
taxable claim exemption under the
new legislation. There is as yet no
evidence that this will be the case.
II 1t is, the Commissioners may be
able to demonstrate an abuse of the
exemption privilege which, in the
opinion OF Congress, does not exist
now.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Casualty List Publication

According to competent authority,
the original decision banning publi-
cation of casualty lists as a whole
was not based on considerations Of
military secrecy. 1t was Influenced
by recommendations colored by some
strange theory that such publication
would damage public morale. And
for that reason alone, the lifting Of
the ban is gratifying. For this ban
was a final relic of the doctrine, now
wisely abandoned by the new Office
of War Information, that the people
must be coddled along and not told
too much about the stark facts Of
war.
As a practical matter, the lifting
of the ban on Nation wide casualty
list publication will have little effect
in changing the current practice Of
newspapers In printing only the local
Evening star., 1943-01-01
The Aluminium Case

The Justice Department is adopt
Ing an unusual course in attempting
to keep alive it's dissolution suit
under the antitrust laws against the
Aluminium Company Of America.
After the Government had ap-
pealed from an adverse decision of
Southern District Court of New York
it developed that the Supreme Court
could not muster quorum to hear
the case because four members
Chief Justice Stone and Justices
Jackson and Murphy as Attorneys
General, and Justice Reed as Solici-
tor General-had some previous con-
nection with it. The company there
upon moved for dismissal, and now
the Justice Department has coun-
tered by asking that the case be re-
tanned on the docket, explaining that
proposed legislation would open the
way for hearing by reducing from
six to five the number of justices
constituting quorum. There also
is the possibility, the Government
brief says, that with the passage Of
time members Of the court whose
relation to the case has been only
nominal may feel compelled, ex ne
cessitate, to participate in order to
preserve the appellants statutory
right of appeal"
1t is not necessary to pass on the
merits of this particular case to con-
clude that a proposal such as this to
keep an action pending in the hope
of obtaining changes in the law is
not far removed from an ex post
facto proceeding. Whether the
quorum should be six or five is beside
the point. That the court should be
so constituted that all litigation is
assured a full and fair hearing is
undisputable. But the fact that the
contrary is true is due to the practice
of appointing Supreme Court JUS
tices from the ranks of Justice De-
partment officials who have prose-
cuted cases which afterward come
before them for judicial appraisal.
There is q remedy for this which
does not require legislative action.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
A New Year Downs

No1o buds the nep year, like an
ancient tree,
With myriad blossom hours that
must knoD
The warmth OF sunlight, silent
misery
OF storm-dark skies. HoU ,otl tho
harvest bloD
When comes the autumn NTH its
needed yield?
Will fruit be wholesome, nurtured
by our care,
Or only those that rot upon the field.
And at the haruest time, lope's bins
be bare?
S1oitt comes the noment-oppor-
tune-the ,oinged hour,
When sacrifice and Dilling deeds
thereof
Must serDe to make each bud fruit
Jul folUer,
So that haruest of good ,piH and
loue,
May dra,O all races, creeds and peo.
pies near,
Before the dawning OF another
year.
JOHN RICHARD MoRELAND.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Suggests "Scrapping" Big Guns
And Equipment for Making Them.

And Equipment for Making Them.
To the Editor Of The Star.
During recent years much criticism
has been expressed regarding the failure
Of Congress to appropriate funds for the
fortification of the island of Guam.
With the facts concerning the de-
bacles Of Pearl Harbor and Singapore
before us we we'll may question the wis
dom of fortifying any land base either
on continent or an island, against at
tack by seaborne enemy forces.
Recent events fairly we'll have estab-
lshed the fact that naval attacks against
coastal cities, whether or not protected
by fortiflcations, have little chance of
success as against modern submarines
and aerial torpedoes and bombs.
This all goes to show that the day of
the big l6-inch and Pinch guns has
passed, whether they are mounted on
capital ships or in land Notifications.
Any acknowledgment of this situation
necessarily points to the futility of the
continued construction of this heavy
armament. Further consideration would
indicate that in the Washington Navy
Yard all the heavy gun stock, as we'll as
the huge lathes, planers and other spe-
cial machine tools might as well be
scrapped and the plant converted into a
factory for the manufacture of field
artillery. anti-aircraft guns, accessories
for submarines and destroyers or other
needed war equipment.
WILBUR q. NAYERS,
Evening star., 1943-01-01

@. Please give the names Of some
noted persons who were children Of
ministers-M. R. r.
A. Woodrow Wilson, Chester A. Ar
thur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover,
Charles Evans Hughes, Dorothy Thomp-
son and Pearl Buck.
@. What books are known as the
worlds great Literary Bibles?-C F. K.
A. There are a few books so pre-
eminent for content and style that they
have been called the Literary Bibles.
These are the "Iliad" and odyssey" Of
Homer, THE Divine Comedy" of Dante,
the greater dramas of Shakespeare and
Goethe's Faust" Each Of these en-
bodies the ideals Of race, or an age, or
civilization.
@. Is the Queen of England descend
ed from Robert Bruce?-F. T. L.
A. Queen Elizabeth is a descendant
of Robert Bruce, whose castle at Glamis,
in Scotland, is mentioned by Shakespeare
in Macbeth"
@. How many characters are there in
the ChlneSe language?-E. Y.
A. Out of the 44.449 ord-characters
contained in the dictionaries, even a
well-educated man needs fewer than
5000.
@. What are the names of the dia-
critical marks used to indicate long and
short vowel sounds?-N r.
A. The horizontal mark indicating a
long vowel is called a 'macron" The
curved mark which indicates a short
vowel is termed "breve."
@. Who are the kings represented on
playing cards?-A. L. D.
A. The modern king on the playing
cards is stylized figure with the COM
posite characteristics of many of the
kings Of history who have appeared on
cards at various times. The original four
kings are believed to have been Char
lemagne, Alexander, Caesar and Henry
VIII.
@. Is 1t fact that a flea always
Jumps backwerd?-P. Y.
A. The flea, which has a streamlined
body travels tail first and lands facing
in the direction from which it came.
Q. Why was the Mountain of Mystery
in Zion Park so named?-T. S.
A. Many of the peaks of the Noun
tain Of Mystery have never been climbed.
The submits of these soaring peaks
present such varied tints and hues of
red that the experts in pigments are
beWlldered. Thus, the name Mountain
of Mystery Is appropriate.
Q. How many book matches are used
each year in the United States?-Q. DIN.
A. The annual consumption of book
matches is 225 billions. In addition 275
billion boxed matches are used In thi,
country.
@. Did Negroes ever own slaves?-
P. B. S.
A. Previous to the Civil War manv
Negroes owned slaves Many of these
were from families who had been able
to purchase and hold to insure their
not being again sold into slavery. Ac-
cording to the Negro Year Book, 1t was
estimated that at the outbreak of the
Civil War there were 5000 Negro slave
owners with $4,000 slaves.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Hoskin's Answers
To Questions
Bu Frederic ]. Haskin.

By Frederic J. Hdsktn.
A reader can get the ansuer to any
question OF fact by iriting The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HasAtn, director, Washington,
d. C. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
@. How much does 1t cost to build q
jeep?-E. N. G.
A. The cost Of jeep Is 5000.
@. Why is the road runner 50 called7
r. E. N.
A. The road runner, a cuckoo Is 30
called because of its speed on foot. When
chased by an automobile, one Of these
birds sprinted at a rate of "a miles per
hour.
@. How long did Massachusetts, have
a law forbidding the observance Of
Christmas?-B. N.
A. The law providing q fine Of fve
shillings for abstaining from work to
celebrate Christmas was passed In 1859
by the General Court Of Massachusetts.
1t was not repealed until 1881.
@. Were aircraft carriers used In the
last war?-J. B. G.
A. They were not. The first airplane
carrier, the Langley, was not commits
stoned as such until 1922.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Protests Alleged Discrimination
In Behalf of Farm Families.


To the Editor of The Star:
Let me quote from your paper: THE
largest printing job will be the declara-
ton blank on which consumers will
have to list all the canned goods and
processed foods - except home-canned
items-in their possession"
1t seems to me that the talks given
Sunday night on the radio about the
coming food rationing should have an
swered all questions. Yet, here a few
hours later many persons want to know
why "home items" do not con-
stitute food to be eaten in the future
and why they should not be declared
on blank the same as professionally
canned goods.
OPA wants cooperation and unity
throughout the United States and then
they deliberately separate the farm FAM
lilies from the city families.
Food ION the shelf" which is canned
or preserved is food for future use no
matter who has done the canning
If the OPA< expects to get full and
honest cooperation, they should change
the quoted paragraph to read %" all
the canned goods and processed foods
including home-canned items-etc"
Every one should be required to declare
everything he has and then start ration
ing from there
Gas rationing was very unfair. Fuel
oil rationing was even worse-now see
what they are doing to food rationing,
Must it ever be thus? XYZ,
Evening star., 1943-01-01

names. Few newspapers will have
the facilities for publishing long
columns Of thousands OF names, nor
would there be the local interest to
justify such publication. But as
long as the ban existed, 1t was un-
healthy. It is we'll that it has been
removed.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Being Prepared for War
Held q Guarantee Of Peace.

10 the EDITOR OF The StAr:
Charles LaWson's thesis that disarma-
ment will prevent war would be more
impressive if it were not totally at vari-
ance with the facts Of our own history.
Since. 1900, this Nation has faced the
probability of major war seven times.
On five of those occasions we we're so
completely unprepared as to be for all
practical purposes disarmed, and each
time war followed, being forced upon us
by the enemy at least three times of the
five. On one occasion, We had made a
belated start toward rearmament, and
war was forced upon VI by ths enemy
Evening star., 1943-01-01
The Governor of New York

The inauguration today of Thomas
E. Dewey as Governor of New York
marks the return of the Republican
party to complete control of the
government of the Empire State for
the first time in twenty years. Be-
yond that. it gives recognition to a
vigorous, courageous public servant
Mr.. Dewey captured the imagina-
ton OF the people, not alone OF New
York but of the country, a decade
ago by the manner in which he
tackled and put in Jail racketeers
and criminals, and finally, corrupt
political leaders.
Four years ago Mr. Dewey was the
defeated candidate for Governor Of
New York. BY the amazing run he
made, however, against the veteran
Governor Herbert Lehman, backed by
President Roosevelt, Mr.. Dewey really
gained in political stature. He ran
only 10000 votes behind, a narrow
margin in an election in which more
than 100000 votes were cast. Mr..
Dewey showed himself a good loser.
Two years later he sought the Repub-
lican presidential nomination. Not
withstanding the fact he had ac-
tually faced the voters in more pri-
mary elections than any Of the other
candidates, and had won the prefer
ence OF more voters, Mr.. Dewey was
defeated for the nomination. Again
he was a good loser. He did his ut
most to bring about the election Of
Wendell L. Willkie, to whom he had
lost.
Now Mr. Dewey is on the threshold
Of a great administrative task. He
is to be the war Governor of New
York. He knows New York, city and
State. He is as familiar with it's
laws and its people, with its virtues
and with its faults, as any man alive.
He was elected to Office by an
overwhelming vote-running $4,000
votes ahead of his Democratic op-
ponent, Attorney General John J.
Bennett, jr. He has the confidence
OF the people. A great deal is ex-
pected of him in his new Office.
Mr.. Dewey is a young man. He
was only 36 years old when he took
over as District Attorney for New
York County. He had been only %
when he was made chief assistant
United States attorney for the
southern district Of New York. He
was still SO when he was first
nominated by the Republicans for
Governor. At SO he sought the
presidential nomination, and at 40,
he is Governor.
When Mr.. Dewey tackled the
gangsters in New York, crime was
rampant and political protection"
was the order Of the day. 1t began
to look as though decency and justice
were back numbers. First as assist
ant United States attorney and later
as special prosecutor appointed by
Governor Lehman, and finally as an
elected district attorney of New
York County, Mr.. Dewey threw the
fear OF God into the beer barons, the
rum runners, the labor racketeers,
the shady politicians. His methods
were thorough.
What the year holds for Mr.. Dewey
can be estimated, if not known ex-
actly. He has big job on his hands.
That he means to deal with it he
has already shown. He has promised
to streamline the State government,
to amend the tax laws, to fill State
offices with honest and efficient men
and women. He has made it clear to
all that he intends to be Governor
of New York-not candidate for the
presidency in 1914. BY being the one
-successfully-he may well become,
the choice Of the people for the
other.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1Driter, although the use of
a pseudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserUes
the right to edit all letters With
Uie1D to condensation.