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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-04-09

u SVOJl SISSIll Al Cd .Ie
razJedala in gonila V iskanje
gresne zene, pa tudi O svojem
nepojmljivem in nepremaglji-
vem hrepenenju, da bi zopet Vi
del prokletega pankerta.
Govoril je med krcevitim
ihtenjem z drhtecim, tn pa tam
zlobno sikajocim glasom, a ME
COVE besede so %strahotno odme-
vale Cd grobnice.
Carmen ga je poslusala ne
popisni grozi in imslila je, da
DO zdaj zdaj zblaznela. Mrzel
pot il je oblival cello, krcevito
ihtenje il je dvigalo grudi.
Strta, oklofutana, ona, XII je
bila sauna vsega kriva, je il be-
sed zanicevanja in mrznje, XII je
brat z mimi sramotil nedolzno,
il teh strasnih besed je nena-
donna zvedela, da ona, XII 10 je
priStevala med mrtve, Sc zivi,
zivi ~osramocena, opljuvana, IL
gnana z donna, matt brez otrO-
ka, zena brez moza, kaznovana
"a greh, XII ga je storila druga.
In hotela je izpregovoriti, pro-
testirati, ustaviti potok zaljivih
besed 49,.
Toda nobenega glasu nj spra-
villa il sebe.
Slednjic je napela vse sile in
zajecljala:
Nesrecnej! MolCi! Molci
Sal me ubijes!
In V silnem zivcnem napadu
Sc je zgrudila ma materin grob.
Ramon je skocil k Mi, pre-
strasen in zmeden, hOtec jo pre-
street ,toda bilo j. re prepOzno,
Lezala je ma tlaku in pri pad
Gu je bila zadela $ Celom OBJ OIL
tarno stopnico. Bila je onesve-
Scena.
Kri il je tekla pc obrazu. Ra-
mon je Intel V vas pc pomoc,
Kmalu so Carmen odnesli V
grad in polozili ma posteljo
Brz so poklicali zdravnika, XII
je izjavil, da nj mic hudega, da
ii je postalO samo slabo; Odre-
dill je, maj lei nekaj casa mir
no.
Robert je sedel pri njeni po-
stelji. 10 Sc je zavedla, je pro-
sila, maj ju puste z mozem sa-
ma.
Ramon je odsel V svojo soho,
Zaman je skusal zbrati svojc
misIi, zaman :je razmisljal, kaj
pomeni Cudno sestrino vedenje.
Tedaj je pa nekdo potrkal ma
njegova vrata. Vstopila sta Car
men in MEN MOI.
Bila sta zelo bleda; toda IL
raz njunih obraZov je prical {
trdnem sklepu izpolniti dolz-
most.
Carmen je drhtela, bila je
bleda ko lid. POznalo Sc il je,
da strasno trpi. Tudi Robert je
bill YES IL sebe.
Gotovo nj bill tako zbegan ia
krat V Coulmiersu, ko je pogra-
bill V dezju krOgel in svinca z
vroCo roko zastavo svojega pol
ka, lezeCo ma tleh med trupli
ko jo je dvignil visoko in po-
nosno, smejoC Sc smrti V obraz
To pot mt pa nj grozila smrt.
temvec nekaj hujsega.
Moral hi bill priznati edinc
napako svojega zivljenja, cd.
kriti slabost zene, XII jo je ljubi]
boil kakor svoje zivljenje, H.
dati vse tajne in sramezljiv
obrate ~ljubezni, opravicljive
morda, toda gresne v oceh sve.
ia, posebno pa V bratovih oceh
Treba je bio priznati, da je
bilo spostovanje in ljubezen, k
je je bila delezna Carmen, V
resnici tatvina ma skodo druge
zene, Medicine, XII je pa veljala
"a gresnico, angela, XII so vsi vi.
deli V MEM nestvor, mucenice
XII so jo smatrali "a izgubljenc
zensko.
In to grozno priznanje je bi'
lotreba izreci vprico obupane'
pa rooza re- svetnice. ypricO "a
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-04-09
Toda Robert d'Alboize lie bi

uoDICSd, plCillSlllCCSd olSa. A>1Il
trenutek nj okleval.
z drhteicm glasom je izpre-
govoril in povedal je vse pc
pravici. Pravil je 0 ljubezni,
XII Sc je vnela v njegovem srcu
Ia Carmen takoj, ko jo je "a
gledal. Bio je V Stockholm,
ko je bila Carmen S Saint-Hy-
rieijom ma zenitovanjskem Pc
tovanju.
PROPORTIONAL je ,kako sta Sc
srecala ma parniku, XII maj bi
ju odpeljal V Francijo, O FARO
XII sredi oceana, ko sta mislila,
da sta izgubljena in da jima ne
preostaja drugega nego umreti;
pripovedoval je, kako je prislo
namestu pricakovane smrti XIV
l.jen:je, nepricakovana resitev,
cudezna blagoslovitev njune
l.jubezni.
In prisel je do mucnega pri-
znanja. Carmen je povesila gla-
vo V pricakovanju izbruha Ra-
monovega srda, ko je zvedel "a
MEN greh, XII je omadezeval rod
binsko cast.
Robert je nadaljeval, pripo-
vedoval je O svojem dolgem lju-
bavnem razmerju, O locitvi, XII
jo je zahteval odhod Saint
HyrieiXa in njegove zene V Gu
yano, kako Sc je hotel locitvi
upreti in kako je koncno Helena
il sestrske ljubezni sklenila OBJ
varovati Carmen skandala, one
caScenja, morda cello smrti.
- Prispela je V Tours, k:jer
sem takrat bill, in Meme meme
besede so pomirile mojo bes-
most, moi obup. V svojem srcu
polnem ljubezni do sestre, .je
naSla besede, XII Sc il je z mimi
posrecilo izvabiti il meme oblju.
DO veCne lOcitve. PosrecilO Sc j
je cello pregovoriti me, da sem
il hotel izrociti VISA Carmenina
pisma $50. In to .je bila njena
pot takrat, ko je bila diva dni z
donna, uboga Helena, XII sva jo s
Carmen objokovala kot mrtvc
in XII je Sc viva, kajne?
Ramon je posluSal svaka in
nobena misica njegovega obra,
"a Sc nj zganila. Zaman sta
Carmen in Robert iskala izpre.
membe njegovih potezah. Nit
z oCesom nj trenil.
Robert je obmolknil in nekaj
casa je bilo vse tho.
Kar Sc je zalesketala solza
RamOnOVem Ocesu in melanholi.
cen smehl,jaj mu je zaigral ns
ObraZu.
Carmen je padla ma kolena ir
zajecljala:
- Usmiljenje!
- Usmil:jenje! -. Ia koga
Draga, dobra sestrica, - je cd.
govoril in jo dvignil. - Usmi.
ljenje? =. Da, usmiljenje, cd.
puscanje =. "a gresnico, ne
srecnico, XII jo hoceta resiti s
plemenito lazjo -.
- z lazjo? - sta ga preki.
Mia Carmen in Robert VISA pre-.
s%enecena.
- Il socutja do ME -. Tods
ali more spregovoriti V mojen
srcu socutje, XII ga je unicila
Mar morem socustvovati Z
MO JAZZ, XII ga je njena podlost
obsodila ma strasno zivotarenje
polno bolesti in solz?
- Toda ona je nedolzna ..
Poslusaj naju, Ramon. Nedol.
INA je!
- Nedolzna! -. All, zamar
81 prizadevata, draga moja. Ts
zenska je gresna 1T mater,
jo sva jo obsodila in proklela..
Zlocina nj mogoce odpustiti.
- &c ii pa praviva, &c ii pri.
segava 49,.
- Mislita, da ne razumen
vse velicine vajine zrtve, Use
plemenitosti vajine ljubezni?
49, Toda -.
- Videla sta me tako strtega
L
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Victory Goot

The Red Cross Of Spokane, Wash
ington, having been donated flock
of goats and seeking a way to dis
pose of them, has come out with
new slogan-"A Victory Goat for
Every Victory Garden" The propa-
ganda is attractive. Get three to
seven quarts of milk day" is only
part of it. The really subtle por-
ton, designed to hook suffering hus-
bands, is the suggestion that the
animals will NOV the lawn, free
1t is the old, false lure of some
thing for nothing. The Victory Goat.
like victory itself, is not free. The
comic strip variety of goat will live
of old tin cans, rags, newspapers
and an occasional weed, but the
goat of stern reality is not so gullible.
He dotes on fresh cabbages and juicy
tomatoes, blithely unconscious Of
the fact that he is in the war and
should not waste vegetables, Off
cially classified now as munitions.
Still less can he be made to realize
that he is intended to be an ami
mated, evenly operating lawn mower.
When it comes to cutting grass prop
erly, it is expected that father, as
usual, will be the goat, while mother
achieves the victory.
Evening star., 1943-03-14

being cut off by war and the British
blockade. the French West Indies
could look only to us for foodstuffs,
oil and other vital imports. Our
economic stranglehold was unan-
swerable.
The French Warships were demili-
tarized, the local radio was con-
trolled and American observers on
the spot saw to it that agreements
were lived up to. This situation was
satisfactory to us until our interven-
ton in North Africa and the conse-
quent evaporation of Vichy trans
formed the entire picture. Admiral
Roberts position and continued pose
of loyalty to Petain had become an
untenable anomaly from every
aspect. Accordingly, Washington is
taking steps to have the French West
Indies fall in line with all the rest
of Greater France free of Axis mill
tary domination. The chances are
that economic pressure will soon
do the trick.
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Tax Appeals Decision

The Court ofSkppeals decision
further defining the powers Of the
Board of Tax Appeals serves to
clarity tire 1910 statute creating the
board, while at the same time giving
District taxpayers more equitable
treatment by affording fuller review
of disputed assessments.
The one-man board has operated
on the theory that an assessment of
real estate, made by the Board of
Assistant Assessors and approved by
the Board of Equalization and Re-
view, could not be reduced by the
board in the absence of a showing
that it was capricious or arbitrary,
or so at variance with the true value
of the property as to be actually or
constructively fraudulent. The Dis
trict Government has likewise con-
strued the law.
The Court of Appeals, in an
opinion by Justice Vinson, brushes
aside this Interpretation.
1t is clear to U.S. Justice Vinson
Evening star., 1943-03-14
A Protest Vote

The President, in issuing his exec
utive order limiting salaries to
$4,000 after taxes. took the position
that he was acting within the scope
OF authority which Congress had in
tended to give him. Any support
which may have existed for that DO
sition has been removed by the House
vote on the Disney amendment.
BY that vote-212 to 145 on the
real teSt-the House recorded an
emphatic protest against the action
taken by the President and served
notice that any assertion of dubious
executive power will be resented and
challenged. In sense, this is un-
fortunate. Against the background
Of the debate on the floor, the vote
plainly was both a rebuke to Mr..
Roosevelt and a reputation of his
action. This is not conducive to the
relationship that should exist, espe-
cially in time of war, between the
President and Congress, but, once
VAN SASSapAfC oiaSl 4ldu bCCli lSSuCu,
1t is difficult to see how the House
could have acted otherwise to cor
rect the misinterpretation of it's
intent. Perhaps the incident will be
accepted as restraint against future
attempts to exercise doubtful power,
and If so 1t will have served a useful
purpose.
The indications are that the Senate
will move promptly to concur in the
House action. 1t is to be hoped,
however, that careful consideration
will be given to that provision of
the Disney amendment which ap-
parently would permit salaries to rise
to net of s25,00O before the after
Pearl Harhor" ceiling would apply
The wisdom of this. if wages are to
be stabilized. is exceedingly dubious.
Evening star., 1943-03-14

world, of a new order-social, political,
economic. The greatest dreamer the
world has ever known who had the
loftiest vision of the possibilities of new
world, wherein dwelleth righteousness
was Jesus of Nazareth
We cannot remain static, We cannot
subject ourselves to another period
marked by stagnation. There is such a
thing as a new way of life, and it is those
who are capable, yes, daring enough,
rightly to see its infinite possibilities, who
will lead us out of our present slough
into new world marked by righteous
ways and righteous dealings These
dreamers, and there are some with us
today. are looked upon as being imprac-
teal, but they are not. There are hun
dreds of bodies, committees, organiza-
tions, over the length and breadth OF this
land, who are trying to forecast events
and plan against the future. Much that
we have read from their musings and de-
liberations seems to suggest the reorder-
ing Of life on old lines-old lines that
have signally failed us. Obviously We
need TO look backward as we'll as forward
We need to remember the rock whence
we are hewn, and the ideals of those who
builded in the past better than We have
builded in the present. We need some
thing of the vision and the dreaming
that characterized the statesmen of 1887
who made constitution fit for repub-
lie that was to grow into the greatest of
nations. They. too, were dreamers and
visionaries, and they had an eye to the
future.
I like the prophets clear distinction
between old men and young men. 1t is a
combination devoutly to be wished-the
maturity OF age with its fine dreaming;
the spontaniety and alertness of mind
and the adventuresome spirit of youth.
God give us, in these days, this rare COM
bination.
Dreamer of dreams we take the taunt
with gladness.
knowing that God beyond the years
Hath wrought the dreams that count
with men for madness
Into the fabric OF the world TO be-"
Evening star., 1943-03-14

states, that this restraint by the
Board Of Tax Appeals in proceedings
of this character, is self-imposed, and
that such limitation upon its power
and authority cannot be found
within the four corners of the
statute" The board, the court added,
may affirm, cancel, reduce or in
crease" a protested assessment after
hearing.
In view Of the taxing procedure in
the District it is desirable that the
appellate body have this latitude.
Under present practice, assistant as
SCISSORS who fix the original valua-
ton Of property, also make up half
the membership of the Board of
Equalization and Review, which
passes on claims for ver-asseSsment
Granting that those serving in this
dual capacity strive for impartiality
the fact remains that a situation in
which officials Judge issues and then
rule on appeals from their own deci-
sionS, is not satisfactory.
That taxpayers may benefit sub
stantially from the new grant of
authority to the Board of Tax
Appeals is indicated by the circum-
stances surrounding the case the
court decided. The board had be-
lieved reductions in two contested
assessments justified, but declined to
make them because of doubt as to
its powers
Evening star., 1943-03-14
THE DREAMER AND THE VISIONARY
By the Right Reu. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. d. ILL., d. D. c. L.
Bishop of Washington

Your old men shall dream dreams:
your young men shall see visions; thus
wrote the Prophet Joel. The statesman
prophet was projecting himself into the
future, seeking to discover on the horizons
new type of leadership, a new kind of
craftsmanship. The immediate response
to this descriptive passage Is that it is
impractical and out of consonance with
what men call realistic view of life. Is
1t? The most cursory study of history,
ancient and modern, compels us to recog-
nize that those who have led peoples and
nations from the lower levels of an un-
satisfied and unsatisfying way of life. to
higher levels where they have attained
true satisfaction and the fulfilment of
their highest aspirations, have been those
who were capable of lifting the veil that
screens the future. preparing their fell
lows for fresh advance
The so-called practical man." the So
called practical statesman" has his
place, but it is not a place comparable
to that occupied by those who are capa-
BILE of appraising not only present events
and the values of life as they seem to be,
but are capable of forecasting conditions
of which the so-called practical man and
statesman hardly dreams, those who, un-
der the inspiring influence of a great
vision, or a dream that is suggestive OF
night thoughts, sees in the possibilities
ahead new heights and calls his fellows
to follow him.
The prophet speaks Of the old men as
dreaming dreams. the young men as
seeing visions. Here is a combination,
indeed, that We need in these troublous
and confused days. We shall need our
armed forces and need them greatly to
protect us from designing and malevo-
lent enemies; yes, and We shall need
statesmen too, who sufficiently grasp and
rightly appraise the urgent needs of a
world terribly shaken and disordered
But we need something more. We need
those who see beyond the practical, see
beyond the immediate present, yes, and
the immediate future; men and women
who are inspired by living. vitalizing
faith, who dare TO dream dreams and see
visions-dreams and visions OF new
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Crack Down on Martinique

ACJlng secretary OF State sumner
Welles' disclosure that no food ship
mentS had been permitted to go to
the island of Martinique since No
vember indicates the showdown
stage in our relations with that
eccentric fragment of Frances dis
rupted colonial empire.
November was, of course, the day
our troops landed in French North
Africa. That decisive event pre-
cipitated an immediate breach with
the Vichy regime. closely followed
by the virtual disappearance of the
regime itself by Axis military occu-
patton of the part of France pre-
viously under Vichy control. Mean
while, the local French authorities
IN North Africa had made their
peace with the American and British
occupying forces and have now spe-
cifically repudiated all connection
with the phantom regime in France
headed by the Axis stooge, Pierre
Laval. The same is true of French
West Africa and other bits of over
seas France such as French Somali-
land and the feet interned at Alex
andria. Egypt.
To this process Of anti-Axis con-
solidation there is one glaring ex-
ception. This is the French West
Indies. comprising the islands of
Martinique and Guadeloupe. plus
Cayenne or French Guiana. bit of
territory on the Caribbean coast of
South America, That miniature CO.
lonial bloc is ruled by Admiral
Georges Robert as high commits
sioner from his headquarters at
Martinique, He was confirmed in
that office by Marshal Petain when
the latter headed the Vichy regime
which succeeded the defunct Third
Republic in the summer Of 1910.
The collapse of France and its
virtual domination by the Axis ere
ated threat to New World security
which demanded quick action by our
Government, even though We were
still technically neutral. According
ly, negotiations were opened between
Washington and Martinique to avert
the danger that the French West
Indies might become Axis bases
From the first, Admiral Robert
proved hard to deal with. A pic
turesque personality with Vandyke
beard and the peppery temperament
of the proverbial Gallo cock. he
stood stiffly on his own dignity and
his fiamboyant loyalty to Marshal
Petain. Robert held certain impor-
tant assets, including several power
full WarShips, a feet Of merchant
shipping, and vast hoard Of golo
shipped to Martinique from France
to save it from the Germans. The
admiral profeSSed his readiness tC
fight even hopeless battle against
an American armed occupation
That would have been a nasty buSi.
ness which Washington wanted tC
avoid. Fortunately, we held blood
less weapon - economic pressure
The French West Indies specialize
on tropical luxury products, mostly
sugar and rum. They are barely self
feeding, and most of their commerce
Is normally with France. That trade
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Into Sharp Focus
ON the New York Herald Tribune.

From The New YORK Herald Tribune
Naturally the whole prospect Of food
shortages, now brought into sharp focus
by the sudden cut in amounts to be
allowed under the point ration system,
emphasizes the need to plant, to make
use of every available plot of ground SO
that fresh vegetables may take the place
of processed ones, SO that home dried
and canned foods may take the place of
rationed articles. But for the people who
have no land. other measures are .neces-
sary to prevent certain essentials being
squeezed out of their diet, to prevent, in
short, hunger. at least Of the hidden"
variety. To say that this is but one OF
many urgent problems connected with
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Empire Not Dead
From the Montreal Star.

FTOnI GTe MONLTeAI StBf.
The feverish anxiety with which many
people are planning the dissolution and
redistribution of the British colonial en-
pire apparently leaves the British gov
ernment unmoved. It is continuing the
administration of that empire in war
time along progressive lines, and max
ing plans for the future which certainly
do not envisage the liquidation of the
colonial possessions
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Mr.. Moroon

One Of the humblest and least
self-assertive of men, John Pierpont
Morgan, jr.. dying in the midst of
great war. would not wish an extrav-
agant eulogy. He had lived three
quarters of century. a considerable
part OF that period In defective
health. AS far back as 1886 he re-
marked to newspaper reporter that
he did not expect to last much
longer" Many sorrows were his lot;
he suffered losses and diSappoint-
ments in common with the generality
OF his contemporaries, Most par
ticularly, the incessant strife be-
tween nations and classes wearied
him. He felt the prevailing distress
of the human race all the more
keenly because, though he denied
that he was prophet, he had fore
seen it.
The legend was that he was pos
sessed Of influence beyond that of
emperors and kings. It was sup
posed that he could control world
trends in industry, in finance, in
politics. Gradually, however. it be-
came apparent that no individual
could exercise such sovereignty over
the rushing tide of events. Mr..
Morgan never at any moment in his
career was endowed with authority
arbitrarily to shape the course of any
country's destiny. His counsel was
sought by the representative of
many governments At the outbreak
of hostilities in 1914 he formed a
syndicate of 1900 banks and corpo-
rations to fund the military opera
tions of the Allies. He was CONNER
cial agent for Great Britain and
Belgium, arranged vast loans to
France and Russia, floated the Amer
lean portion of the German bond
issue provided for by the Dawes Plan,
saved Cuba from bankruptcy, served
as director or an adviser to eighty
nine different business organizations,
proved to the satisfaction of a
numerous public that financial con-
centration is necessary and power is
dangerous only when held by evil
hands"
His personal wealth, inherited from
his father and added to by his own
activity, was prodigious. 1t provided
Mr.. Morgan with the means to give
generously to lengthy list of reli-
gious, educational and charitable
institutions at home and abroad. His
library and the wing he built for the
Metropolitan Museum in New York
will be among his most enduring
monuments.
Washington knew him as a rea-
sonably frequent visitor. Mr.. Morgan
testified before congressional COM
mittees in 1888 and 1886. He also
was here when King George vi and
Queen Elizabeth visited President
Roosevelt in 1899. Mere bystanders
who saw him on such occasions
formed friendly opinion toward
him. Large of body. plain Of face,
unassuming in manner, courteous
and kindly, he did not live up to the
conventional concept of multi
millionaire Instead, he seemed an
average American" who, but for the
accident of being born his fathers
;rr,4 l. ~ fo
or a crossroads merchant. Some
aspects of the forklore which de-
veloped around him nonetheless
were justified He has left his mark
upon the chronicle of human expe-
rience, and the mark is bright.
Evening star., 1943-03-14
AVessel
Lost

wartime food production - problems
which there Is little time to solve-is a
the food situation threatens malnutrition
for large groups OF Americans is .
specification which makes the urgency
inescapAble.
Evening star., 1943-03-14

OF each member Of the committee. 50
that District people may know the back
ground OF those with whom they deal ID :
seeking legislation. -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-25
of the Hook

How To Beat The Races. SyS-
tenn OH; Jimmy Hahn, racing
form trackman at the Fair
Grounds, spent the winter at
Mexico City track He re-
ports a sure method of beating
the game. discovered by an en-
ploye OF the mutuel department.
The lad. with a little larceny
in his heart discovered the
track diem tieek-the tote ticket
selling machines after the last
race &C.. So ne showed up in the
morning and punched himself
off a bundle of winning tickets
on the last race of the previous
day o.. Then ne cashed them.
tie beat the races in whlrl-
wind fashion until the manage
ment caught up with him .
Then they started locking the
machines They also locked
the larcenouS lad up in the
Mexican juggeroo, where he has
plenty OF time to figure out a
new system.