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Evening star., 1943-04-25

MAID, g.h.w. and cook. 2 adults. 2 chill
Thurs. and Sun. akternoons on; $40 Ref
erence8 required. 10 w. Kirk St, Chevy
Chase, Nd. Oh. zoos.
Evening star., 1943-04-25

WOMAN OR GIRL, reliable to stay with
elderly lady, light housework, to 5, Tues
day through Sat, $40 wk. and carfare;
refs. Cali Silver Spring O53l Sun. and
Evening star., 1943-04-25

GIRL, clean, neat, for gh.w,. to pm
No Sun. work. Bungalow. Ref and health
GER. required. Call TIA. 1923 Sun. bet.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
HELP WoMEN (cent.) .
C.ERK-TYPIST,

e. es' sss s:sstS xssr rood sII1 :ssT sS
Automobile Club, 1643 Conn. ave. NV.
No phone calls.
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| WOMAN, reliable. part time, easy work;
| good wages days. Apply morning, 1871
Evening star., 1943-04-25

| COUPLE, colored. wish elderly woman to
care for children stay nights. Call Hill
side 05S1-R or Hillside O562-W.
GENERAL HOUSEWORKER, settled, re-
| in, family 1890 to $50. De 0423, 8
Evening star., 1943-04-25

WOMAN, reliable, 2-7 pm, g.h.w., small
apt, light cooking, health card; $40 week,
no Sundays. Possible morning work in
same apt house GI, zoos 05s
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FASHION SHOP
18th G F SIS. NV.

COUPLE, colored, to care for household
woman must be good cook; references re-
CURED; wages, 1925 month; live in. Box
| 353-L, Star 1Sa
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MAID. psrt-tinA. no oundayS, small apt. tn
AslarsseH .,1-3sRn. health sasd' 80
Evening star., 1943-04-25

GIRL, living in vicinity Silver Spring
light housework, cook dinner, care of g.
year-old boy. No Sundays SH 1878.
GIRL (colored) for ehw, help with care
Of children hrs. s to 8; SIC per week
Chestnut O95O 0Ss
Evening star., 1943-04-25
HELP MEN & WOMEN.

WANTED-Man or woman who knows piano
cording, who can practice in spare time
with singer. Box 412-L. Star.
SODA FOUNTAIN HELP,
MEN OR WOMEN: 6 TO 10 pm. Apply
Phone EN-. 21O2.
Part-Time Fountain Work.
2 or 8 nights. 8 to 12 pm. "a day
Sunday; good pay. Service Pharmacy,
l4th and L SITS. NV.
DRUG CLERKS-Good pav,
8-hour day, 6-day week, vaca-
ton with pay. Apply at any
Peoples Drug Store or at en-
ployment department, II P
st. ne.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
SlDEllMEs

MODEL. The young Navy man on our
cover is 23-year-old 1t. G.g) Joseph Par
sons. He graduated from the Naval Acad-
emy two weeks after Pearl Harbor and
he's been busy ever since. Fourteen
months destroyer service - on convoy
escort - makes him feel that battleshp
assignment would be dull He, like many
another young Navy officer, is already a
three-ribbon veteran.
The bronze star on an American De-
fense ribbon indicates active sea duty
before Pearl Harbor ION soldier ribbon
Evening star., 1943-04-04

FRANK MANCINI is, or was, a dishwash-
er in New York People were always
ordering him around, and there was
no one to whom he could give orders. So
about year ago, Frank invested $40 of
his hard-earned money in an Army uni
form, paid another fifty cents to mill
tary policeman for his armband and spent
his spare time chasing soldiers off park
benches. When he was arrested, Frank
explained that he merely wanted to feel
important.
never learned what happened after
Evening star., 1943-04-04

Such identification of ones own effort
with the total effort would seem to me
great need in todays war program. Vic
tory. as everybody knows. depends large
ly, if not chiefly, upon producing planes
and tanks and guns and cartridges, and
getting them where they are needed. How
can any man in munitions plant or fac
tory or shipyard regard himself as unim-
portant, or fail to say to himself, This
is my war?
How can he be sure that the day he
stayed home because he was a bit tired
Evening star., 1943-04-04

always be second-rate because they regard
their tasks as beneath them. Il mention
AL Capone because no less an expert than
]. Edgar Hoover attributes much of our
crime to the desire to be a big shot and
get into the newspapers.) All of us have
our small vanities, but worlds separate
our bogus military policeman from
soldier friend OF mine who writes me about
a gay infraction of discipline in his unit.
and adds, regretfully, Il couldn't join in,
because I'm working for my stripes, and
it's important that set good example.
4HE desire to be important seems to
me one of the most vital of human urges.
Men and women can do their best only
when they believe that doing their best
matters greatly. Stuart Chase recently
verified this observation in his report of
study of factory workers carried on IN
General Electric plant near Chicago New
inducements and comforts were intro
duced in that plant, and production in
creased materially. The employees were
told of the experiment, and asked for aid
and advice.
Then every improvement in work con-
ditions was temporarily taken away -
rest pauses, the free 'snacks,' the shorter
hours - and output jumped TO an all-t,me
high The efficiency experts discovered
that there was something more effective
than wages or hours or physical condl-
tions. That something was the success OF
an effort to make the workers realize their
importance. When they were enlisted in
the experiment, they had become individ-
uals trying to help their company solve
problem.
This is the spirit we need now as never
before Our company is our country: its
problem and crisis are ours. Each of us
should echo the thrilling words that were
found in the diary of an American soldier
who died at Chateau-T Thierry: Il will
work; will save; will sacrifice; l will
endure will fight cheerfully and do my
utmost; as if the whole struggle depended
on me alone"
That's my idea of feeling important
enough to be important.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

it means a full years service before De-
cember y.
The star on any service ribbon indicates
one ma jor engagement. On 1t. Parsons
Middle East ribbon, the engagement was
Casablanca.
ODD. The date of Easter this year
April Is - is the latest it can be in any
year. The last time Easter fell on the 25th
was in 1885, 1t won't happen again for
95 years - 2O38
GROWTH. One of the most fourishing
pig clubs in London is to be found at the
Regents Park Zoo. 1t was started with
two pigs two years ago, and 80 pigs a
year are now being sold to the Ministry
of Food. Feeding costs nothing - neigh
boring restaurants help the cause by con-
tributing all the leftovers the porkers need.
ON THE UP AND UP. And speaking of
backyard livestock THIS WEEK Poet
Margaret FlShbaCk observes:
1t seems a sacrilege to fry
An egg, the price has scared SO high.
think the hen herself must be
Astonished at her progeny.
For. like the well-known goose of old,
She's laying eggs of solid gold.
And when she does her daily stint,
Her nests a veritable mint.
THOUGHTFUL. Out in the wilds of New
Guinea one unit of the American armed
forces has set up a dark room and a
camera-lending library. They send back
home pictures of their buddies and of
themselves, than which there is no finer
gift for the home front. M.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

It may not be as hard you think-if you'll go
at it right You can start learning right here
by Claiming Pollock
Evening star., 1943-04-04

may not prove to be a fatal
one-day delay? The delay that
caused the plane or tank on
which he was working to be late
in arriving at the front, and
thereby accounting for the one
plane or tank too little that lost
the one battle that might have
decided a crucial campaign?
Evening star., 1943-04-04


now, and so every riveter, carpenter and
mechanic is even more important, now.
/ HE best of US have some quaint notions
on the subject of self-importance. l know
men and women who pride themselves on
singular mustaches. or bad temper, or ILL
health, or having been photographed in
"cafe society,"
A good many of US put on distinction
as Frank, our fake Mp, put on the arm
band; and, fortunately, great many
more of US are entitled to armbands Of
which we are not even aware. Most really
big men are too busy doing important
things to think much of their personal i'm
portance. l can never forget seeing a
minor movie actor strut into theater,
shouldering aside a quiet, unobtrusive,
white-haired little man - Professor Elm
stein.
This wish to seem somebody l insist,
is quite different from the wish to be
Somebody" The wish to be creates the
Thomas A. Edisons and the Henry J.
kaisers and the frst-rate craftsmen and
mechanics and doctors and lawyers; the
wish to seem explains the AL Capones and
the craftsmen and mechanics who will
Evening star., 1943-04-04

that, but l hope Frank came be-
fore a judge with a sense OF
humor and a deep and sympa-
thetic understanding of human
nature. For though this impost-
or's behavior was reprehensible,
it sprang from an urge as univer-
sal and essential as the urge to
eat or breathe Enervh0dY wants
Evening star., 1943-04-04

to feel important; we must believe our
selves to be necessary, and a required part
of our world, if we are to keep our self
respect and our zeal.
What puzzles me sometimes is that we
try so hard to feel important when it's so
easy to be important - so nearly lmpos-
sible to be otherwise. Why couldn't our
friend Frank comprehend that washing
dishes, and washing them well, is thou
sand times more important than pretend
ing that one has the right to chase soldiers
off park benches?
ONE of the things always liked about
Richard, the carpenter who built my study
in the country, was his pride in his calling.
and the consequent frmness of his self
respect. Richard, who is now in our Navy,
has clear understanding of the necessity
for every cog in the wheel that moves our
complicated economic and industrial sys-
tenn. "You couldn't write so comfortably
he said to me, If hadn't put up this shop
for you, and couldn't have put up this
shop but for the men who saw lumber.
None of US would get very far without the
others, so we're all pretty important. What
makes a man important is not so much
what he does, but how well he does it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
Holding The Line

The Battle of Salerno in its eighth day
yesterday, the costliest and most deadly en-
gagement in the Mediterranean theater of
war, with the Allies forced to defensive action
to hold their brdgehead, is at the critical
stage with General Clark's Army at last gain
ing slight advantage. Outnumbered by the
Germans, who also have the better positions,
General Clark's job has been to hold on until
the Eighth British Army General Montgom-
ery's veterans of the African campaign should
sweep up the Adriatic and join the battle,
a feat it had brought to within % miles of
accomplishment when this was written.
Without waiting for Montgomery's arrival
Clark had started an offensive in the south
ern sector of the bridgehead front which had
forced the enemy to withdraw a part OF his
forces. 1t is not too much to think that if
General Clark had been so successful in hold
ing the line that he could venture at attack
before Montgomery came up he must be GER
tain of the outcome of the battle.
While the fighting is bitter and may even
be drawn out while it should not be over
looked that the enemy is suffering tremen-
dous losses and that aGd tional forces are
hard for him to bring up because of the
Allied command of the air. The Germans
are getting some reinforcements but far few
er than the Allies who dominate all water
approaches as we'll as the air.
The Germans recognize that Allied victory
at Salerno will be an important step toward
victory in the in Europe Consequently
they putting into it every ounce of fire
power they can get into position. When they
are defeated, as they will be, it would seem
that major thrust through the Balkans,
the drumfire of which is already heard will
be launched The Allied Ninth Army has al
ready quit its quarters on the Middle East
for an unannounced destination We may be
sure that another mighty stroke is in the
making.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
Raymond Clapper Says:
Hull Failed To State
Ho1u Force To Be Had

mas presence also would be de-
sirable.
Objection would be raised by
some against including any ma
tons except those providing the
bulk of the military forces. The
staff organization would be con-
cerned with making military de-
cisions. Therefore, its membership
must be compact and confined to
those who will provide the main
forces. Otherwise the organization
would degenerate into debating
society.
How much authority would the
combined chiefs Of staff have?
Now the group makes recommen-
dations subject to personal approx
al of Roosevelt nd Churchill.
Would it be possible to make a
combined chiefs of staff the tech
meal arm of an international Or
ganiZation? Or should it remain
the staff agency of the heads OF
the American. British and, in the
future. of the Russian govern
ments? In substance that reaches
back to the fundamental question.
Are we to proceed on the basis
Of alliances with a few nations
such as Britain and Russia, or in
a broader United Nations orGani-
cation?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
Rome's Plight

Among the first things the Germans did,
after sending paratroopers into Vatican City
for its protection, was to seize all food
supplies in Romes warehouses so that now
even emergency rationing OF the population
is impossible and signs of citywide famine
are showing up. In addition, the German
military has been practicing its customary
barbarity, driving men into exile, slaughter
ing "suspicious" persons and indulging in per-
secutions in which the Nazis excel.
If Rome is not speedily retaken there is
every reason to think that the people will llr-
dergo as great hardshps as the people of
Athens have endured, or succumbed to- under
Axis occupation. Terrible as this is to con-
template there is sort of poetic justice in it,
as a large part of the abuses Athenians have
been subjected to was committed by Italians
spurred on by their German masters
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17

made a good case. Admiral King, in state
ment sent to Chairman Reynolds of the Sem
ate Military Committee, says no decrease can
Gus detriment :"
Testimony is not all in. Additional Navy
men are to be heard from and General Mar
shall, chief of staff, is to state his position
when he returns from Mexico. But it begins
to appear that pre-Pearl Harbor fathers will
Maybe this is the only way the United States
armed forces can be built up to the required
number, but the disruption of home life their
departure will create is grievous to contem-
plate.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
Monaghan Incident

Unless Japanese strategy is also being de-
cided by intuition, it is difficult to believe
that it could include a clash with the Rus
SLAMS in Mongolia, as reported indirectly from
Chungking.
Reds, for although an attack on Siberia would
create a second Russian front, the japanese
have more to lose than to gain from such
an operation.
The reports, which are admittedly uncon-
firmed officially, may refer to nothing more
serious than a fight between patrols, which
have been frequent, and which neither Russia
nor Japan have been inclined to investigate
too thoroughly lest they uncover an actual
covert act" which could set up a new battle
zone But if the clash should lead to war
between Japan and Russia, Moscow probably
would not be long in opening Vladivostol to
American air forces, and VladivostolS is among
the best spots from which to bomb Japan.
| The Japanese war makers have made some
mistakes which are becoming more costly
daily. They went too far with their early
conquests, for one thing, and are finding out
about 1t to their sorrow as Macarthur and
aalsey continue to drive them back from
base to base with heavy losses ir men. air
power and naval strength. But we cannot
imagine them provoking war with Russia
unless they have indeed gone berserk
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
Fathers May Have To Go

C>t .,r.sstsf$. hss nesr that pre-PearI Harbor
fa,fiets stf5,3E ~ he called up for military
ssfYa>s AF-esss h4eif pregcncc In the ranks
cc1G s.s .g'pYsG al actual necessity. We have
NOS HaAteG ne ManDnWcr Commission or Sc
IectJYe Heay!ce ~ 20 through with their pro-
gram ~ MGuct them Without first receiving
word Hoan the top military leaders that the
armed forces could not be recruited for viz
tory without them.
Now comes the revelation [ h # vithont
drafting them the need for $50 900 men can.
not be filled except at the cost of war nro.
auction, which must not slacken C.enor.1
McNarney, deputy chief of staff and Under
secretary of War Robert Patterson have or
declared before the military committee anc
Senator Barley, who insisted action on III.
Wheeler postponement proposal be DELAYED
until the view of military leaders could b,
obtained, seems to believe the Arnv ha,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
The Literary Guidepost

Flame is complicated, and a good
many years of experience at sort
ing out and boiling down, acquired
with The Associated Press, has
gone into Mr.. Gallagher's book.
The product is ordered, not too
detailed, yet complete even down
TO the Indispensable man fro m
Brooklyn. Gallagher met him in
North Africa soneplace. and what
ne wanted was to be shirtless at
Ebbets Field, roofing for them
buns"
NO book has. up to now. told
an this story. Certainly none has
told 1t against the background of
dealings with the French, LOYAL
ana otherwise. that Gallagher
provides. He does not pretend to
know whether we were wise to
treat with Darlan and Noeues but
ne does tell how we did the treat
ing in detail 1t is an extremely
interesting story, too. Included are
some difficulties, some slip-ups
and some stupidities which had to
be hidden while the campaign was
In progress. And the author is
convinced that if some of those
people who attended second front
mass meetings in safe New York
had been in North Africa. thew
would understand the second front
delay-if it is delay.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17

DdCk DOOr 10 Berlin, Dy Vcs
Gallagher doubleday, Doran;
$2.75).
Correspondents books come in
waves, like bombers. The first
wave is of course the flock Of
quickies which are rushed to press
as correspondents return fro m
their first assignments. Some OF
these have been amazingly fine,
in this war.
But on the whole. the second
wave is the more important. This
brings out the considered books.
covering whole campaigns, OF
completed phases of vast opera.
TONS. They are on-the-spot hsto-
RES, subject to later correction,
but written with sufficient detach-
ment to give a reader a real per
spectlve. Yves Gallagher's Back
Door To Berlin" is one of these,
and an important one.
1t is the story of Flame. -
Flame was the code word for the
NORM African campaign, first an
ldea OF President Roosevelt's, later
a bundle of officers in one of Lon
u e most secret buildings, and
llnally an amphibious operation of
u,iparalled magnitude directed by
o11lces chlseled out of the rocky
interior of Gibraltar. The story Of
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
AS Others Say 1t
POINT TAFT OVERLOOKS

Discussing his program for a
peaceful world after the war be-
fore the Chicago Bar association,
Senator Robert A. Taft laid down
the first point as complete vic
tory and consequent disarmament
of the Axis powers which alone
should insure peace for many a
year to come"
But is it as simple as that? Our
memory goes back to the last war
and our firm belief that the dis
armament of Germany would in
sure peace indefinitely. In spite of
disarmament, Germany started an
other war within 20 years.
The Ohio senator still has to tell
US how we can be sure that a
disarmed Germany after this war
will stay Observation-Disclosures City
Star.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
QUOTATIONS

We all hate RECOMMENDATION. But a certain
amount is going to be essential for the inn
mediate period following the War.-Alfred p
Sloan, Jr.. industrialist.
The business of Jap self-sacrifice by tying
themselves in coconut trees and sniping is,
except perhaps in few scattered instances.
legendary Gerald H. Shea, Guadalcanal
fighter.
Now that European politics have been sup
planted by world politics, all island nations,
including our own, must see to it that no
nation spreads out its power to dominate the
great world land areas.-President Dixon Ry-
an Fox of Union College
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
More Bungling

Ration Book No 8 is still missing in many
Raleigh is that from $4,000 to $1,000 had not
even been placed in the mail-not for Will
mngton alone but over the state.
AS long as shoppers cannot produce the
proper stamps-the brown ones which have
replaced the red in No book-they may
not buy rationed meats. How long they must
90 meatless is not known, but the fact re-
mains that for the present at least and pos
silly for some time to come they are de-
MED the right to buy meat
Raleigh says it mas not authority TO issue
supplementary stamps. The Wilmington board
can't do it either But some place along the
line the authority must exist Somebody in
OPA surely could rescnd or simplify the or
der so that families who have not received
the No. book might get little meat while
the Raleigh OPA office catches up with its
work.
3, Being autocratic and more than slightly
despotic, the only exceptions recognized by
the OPA favor children, aged persons and
invalids, who may receive a weeks supply
- Of stamps on the promise that when No.
8 books are received an equivalent number
II stamps will be surrendered from them.
~: .stznts, the old guard and sick people
~. 10. the only citizens who deserve consid-
e.stlon Well persons, particularly persons in
oaziaess and war work, need taste of meat
now and then to keep up their energy.
The situation, which nobody can do any
thing about, is one more example of bureau
cratic bungling. 1t furnishes fresh evidence
Of the insufficiency of government by edict.
How much more of the same sort of blunder-
ing are the American people to be subjected
to, before Constitutional government is re-
stored?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-17
80 LONG. DAD"

On the desk is a letter merely
signed "A Sailors Dad, and it
tells us that ore boys furlough
came to an end the other night.
The train was due at 8 @ o'clock,
and they drove 10 miles to the
station. But first there was a din
ner of fried chicken-and all the
family were cheerful. Two of the
young sailors chums, boys he had
fished with, went to the station
with them They joked with one
another on the way to the station
but the sailors dad confesses
that the jests were corny. The
laughter was nervous - but they
had wanted to laugh. Then they
were at the station, and the sailor
shook hands with his chums, and
kissed his mother, and patted her
on the back. He said so long,
dad, and passed through h e
gate. They stood there looking.
And the letter tells:
we WdtSlleu OltI Tall son cross
the tracks toward his train. He
didn't look back. I wasn't going
to quit watching him so long as
l could see him. My wife plucked
my sleeve. Don't watch him out
of sight, she said. Its bad luck.
Then she wiped the tears out of
her eyes with her handkerchief.
took the lead back to the car,
so they couldn't see mine"
1t wasn't necessary for this let
ter to be signed more definitely