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Evening star., 1943-08-01
COLLEGE PARK MD

Near Md. University Beautiful home of
masonry conStruction-STONE FRONT
situated on a knoll comprising nearly 40
600 square feet, Practically new: :SO-day
occupancy Finest construction-best ma
.elIdt ana equipment Four bedrooms and
two baths on md floor; first floor library
ana lavatory' de luxe clubroom excelen9
mald quarters; thorough insulation
ms is an unusually attractive home and
viii certainly please the discriminating
p ppurchsser BOSS & PHELPS. Realtors.
Ma. $500 exclusively. Sunday and eve
nlngS. call Mr. ShackpIford CIioo ggaS
Evening star., 1943-08-01
SPACIOUS GROnNDs


=, Modernized old home, amidst gore.or,
gtu G trees, said to be the oldest fouse in
s ANS Chureh, S4-acre lot. with frontare ~
more than 200 it.. the grounds are ay
uuSHey landscaped. Large Iivinr roon,
MIN MIN sione fireplace, random width Aoors
iarz axe dining room with fireplace, kitehsn
sonr fsaunory, bedrooms, tile bath on arst
IooI' basement with oil heat, incsnarafnTS
auLo; eiec hot-water heater 1nd roo,
CONSISTS OF large bedroom and hath otber
readures. vermont slate roof detacheS g.
dastan sna the property is within waikinz
Sis 5no 70 ous' stores and theaters. Price.
~, COLONIAL REALTY CO. INC
Sh- 2110 Realtors. oxford O575
IN COUNTRY CLUB SECTION
AN ATTRACTIVE BRICK HOME
ON LARGE CORNER LOT d
BEDROOMS AND 3 BATHS ON
lst AND End FLOORS. RECREA-
IION ROOM AND MAIDS ROOM
AND BATH IN BASEMENT IN
SPECT1ON AFTERNOONS AND
SUNDAYS. 4429 38th ST N
ARLINGTON. '
w. S, HOGE, Jr., REALToR.
EXCLUSIVE, AGENT.
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Evening star., 1943-08-01
NEARBY Vast 500

One block to bus, Bunealow. 4 rooms Z
and bath, screened porch and inclosed
pofch. : bedrooms fun basement; lear
oeiacned garage good lot; 5000 cash re-
oulreo BOSS & PHELPS, realtors texc.I-
Slvelyj. Ma. $500. ASK for Mr. Shackel-
forQ Evenings and Sunday SLIGO RGne
Evening star., 1943-12-26

Dinner dress Of black crepe in
the Grecion revival fashion show
It wrops the figure closely ond
hos deep bond Of Greeion gold
embroidered pottern outlining the
double hemIine. A long seorf
hones from one shoulder TO drope
around the bodice ond shoulders
Evening star., 1943-12-26

In honor Of uneonquerobIe
Greece! A revival Of its clossic
styles is shown in q pre-
view Of spring and summer
foshions at New York's Metro
politon Museum OF Art. Of
these two hot styles the one
at left is the warriors hot OF
black felt with gold bond and
curled helmet. The other is q
Ponomo helmet with scroll de-
sign Of Ionic influence.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-01-21

Capt. James w. Snyder, u. s.
army intelligence officer, who in
civilian life was a historian, is shown
in conversation with a veteran In
dian guide. This picturesque native
served in China during the Boxer
rebellion. The ribbon decoration is
for service with the late Lord Kitch-
ener. He also served under Lord
Roberts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-01-21

Lieut.. Matthew j. Connolly, OSB,
chaplain of the 505th parachute in
fantry, is shown putting on his chute,
in Washington, ID. c. He recently
qualified as a jumping chaplain by
making five parachute jumps. 1t
would seem that the expression "sky
pilot" has double meaning in this
particular case.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-01-21

Personally we are Of the opinion
that Sergeant Baycura belongs in the
air force. If he can make a motor
cycle fly just think what he could do
with an airplane! The sergeant is
an instructor in the motorcycle
school at Camp Lee, Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-01-21

Kim, a boxer formerly owned by
the late Lou Gehrig, is shown with
George O'ROurke, former "Seeing
Eye" trainer, at the government ar
senal at Pictinny, near Dover, N. j.,
where O'Rourke is guard. kim is ON
duty at the arsenal. Note the shoes
worn by the dog to protect his pads
during constant patrol of his beat"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

substantially bomb Germany out of the
war.
There is a parallel worth considering
in Hitler's U-boats. We do not know
exactly why, just at the moment when
they should have become most effective,
the submarines failed. Our protective
measures are more efficient, of course,
and there has been effective bombing of
U-boat bases. Yet many suspect that the
collapse of the submarine menace is due
at least as much to Hitler's inability to
supply capable crews as to any shortage
of available underSea raiders themselves.
Ten thousand FortreSses and Liberators
are useless without skilled pilots, naviga-
tors and bombardierS, just as hundreds
of U-Boats are useless without trained
crews with stomachs for playing tag
with depth charges and shells.
The Germans believe we can't keep
up our nd-the-clock bombing They
have to believe that, or capitulate, be-
cause if we can keep it up they are licked
right now.
So we must hope, and believe, that we
can keep the pace, because that is how
the war can be shortened-how those
optimists who have committed them
selves to relatively quick victory can
make good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
Bomber Losses

2 The news from the European front
looks very, very good Day after day and
night after night British and American
bombers are devastating Germany, Italy,
and their occupied sources of military
supply. We are destroying factories, dis
yupting communications, damaging
nerves and morale. We have given Hitler
and Mussolini bad case of jitters Often
our bombers destroy more Axis planes
than we lose With this nations ire
mendous resources, it would appear that
in such war of attrition we cannot pos
sibly fail to win. But we are sacrificing
big planes for small ones, large crews for
single pilots. We are losing them in in
creasing quantities as the desperate
Reich throws all she has into defense.
We can replace the planes. So far as
machines 60, the swap would be advan-
tageous to us even though our losses be-
came even heavier than they are likely
to become
It is the pilots, the navigators, the
bombadierS we can't afford to lose. Upon
the reserve of such personnel now exist
ing, and upon our ability to maintain the
level of the pool for at least the remain
der Of 1913. may depend whether we can
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
The Come-Uppance of the
Normandie

Time was when we drove along New
York City's west side parkway and as we
approached the fifties it was our pleasure
TO see all the "big ones" docked; just in
Or ready to sail. There came a day, how
ever, when two or three big boats were the
only ones in their proper grooves. Big
boats were out for the duration except
as they were used for war purposes. The
Queen Mary and the Normandie, how
ever, were in their proper hunks wearing
deep mourning Finally there was just
the Normandie incapacitated by a fire
OF unknown origin.
For months now the process of restor-
ing the Normandie has been going on:
A thing of beauty when first she came
upon the sight she has been an ugly
mass of half wreckage, lying on her side.
However, the work of salvaging went on.
We had more or less forgotten this nau-
tical wreck until the other day we read
that she is practically righted, her salvag-
ing one of the biggest jobs of it's kind
ever undertaken.
Her chief use in life from now on
through the duration is military secret,
but it is safe to say she will travel the
seas in some useful war capacity. We
rejoice to know that the boat has been
saved from a Watery grave, and though
her many decks will not be promenaded
by Joyous travellers, she will do her stuff
valiantly in some capacity, that is quite
sure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

off steam. 1t is their way of show
ing their contempt for the moral
status quo. But if they really put
their beliefs into operation, in bus
mess or personal practices, they
would indeed bear watching. The
venerable DR.. Samuel johnson once
said, IF a man really thinks there
is no distinction between virtue and
vice, why, sir, when he leaves our
houses, let us count our SPOONS"
II man WHO works IN + baaik
really believes that there is no hard
and fast distinction between right
and wrong, or if the lawyer who
settles our estates feels that way, or
the doctor to whom we commit the
care of our sick bodies, then we
may well feel ourselves to be on
shaky ground indeed.
Right and wrong are inherent IN
the created universe. There is as
much difference between them as
between black and white. darknss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
Horse Sense

AS a sedative to numb the fear of
public debt, the people have been told
that no harm could result from the debt
because the people merely owed it to
themselves. Harold G.. Moulton, head of
the Brookings Institution has knocked
the lowe it to YOURSELF theory into a
cooked hat in booklet entitled "The
New Philosophy of Public Debt" He
shows that those who pay taxes to sup
port the debt are not identical with those
who receive the interest on the debt or
the government bounties which the debt
makes possible.
While the people may owe the public
debt to themselves, the man who is taxed
to pay interest on the debt will soon find
that the tax collector will take his shirt
if he does not pay his taxes, to pay inter
est on debt which he loves to himself"
Mr. Moulton blasts the idea that public
debt can 60 on growing forever without
doing any harm. His remarks shoot
close to financial and economic advisors
of the government, and to the National
Resources Planning Board
He makes it brutally clear that deficit
spending and boundless public debt lead
either to totalitarianism or to debt repu-
diation and that without "a stable system
of public finance . in the United States,
and also in other countries the foundation
stone for international reconstruction will
rest on quicksand.'
His analysis is just plain horse sense
which most everybody understood until
they we're hypnotized with the suggestion
that prosperity could be brought about
by printing the pump continuously with
public funds. He does not try to prove
that government debt is bad, but he does
insist that it must be controlled.
The time will come when in spite of all
the prinaings, the pump will suck air if
the water supply is exhausted. The earn
ings of the people are the water in the
financial we'll Those earnings must
come from individual effort and produc-
ton which depend on prosperous operat-
ing industries and agriculture. The
pump primers produce no new water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

The fifty-year plan to rebuild London
will make of the English capital differ
ent Cooks tour stopping-off place When
and if we start travelling again, there will
be up-to-the-minute engineering specl-
mems, such as bridges, super parkWays,
and home developments. Everything will
be pretty nice according to plan, but it
won't look like the London that Dickens
has described. Naturally many of the old
landmarks that have escaped the bomb
ings will still remain. Westminster Abbey
will not be scrapped, but there will be
general change in the main arteries, in
the roads Even the famed embankment
will get a shellacking and "river pies
aunces" erected, perhaps something sim
liar to the layout along the Hudson com
ing into New York City via the west side
Parkway. All of this will be an eyeful for
the tourist of the future, but to those who
were accustomed to some of the dingler
Dickensian spots, the newness may be
slightly Disappointing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
Press Comment
NEW CANNED MUSIC" FOR
SOLDIERS
(Hartford Courant)
FLORIDA SHIP CANAL

tf1dT ClOTQ COuTdIlU)
1t may seem trivial matter, yet
bit of thoughtfulness on our part
from now until the end of July
may cheer many lonely soldier.
sailor or Marine from the Arctic
to tibet ropics. We refer to the
sta wide drive the American
Legion and its Auxiliary have
launched to supply photograph rec
ords for men and women in serv-
ice. Few of us do not have old rec
ords around the house, which we
no longer play either because we
have tired of them or because the
young folks spurn them as "corny"
The aim of the nonprofit corpo-
ration, Records for Our Fighting
Men, Inc" for which the Legion
is collecting agent, is precisely to
keep "corny," outmoded musical and
spoken recordings from the fighting
forces. The corporation has made
an arrangement with the major rec
ord producing companies that they
shall pay cash for all these old mu-
scum pieces, then melt them down
for their own use. The money thus
obtained is to be put, all of it,
into buying brand new records for
our widely scattered troops.
From all accounts the recent ma
tion-wide campaign to collect books
for soldiers was anything, but a
success. All too many well-mean-
ing people donated dog-eared vol
umes of the Rollo, Parson Weems
and Jared Sparks eras. thick with
attic dust. when what the men
wanted was good up-to-date fiction,
live biography and practical techni-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
Immoral Tax Practices

r. j. Aller, president of the American
Power and Light Company, criticizes
discriminatory taxation policies of the
Federal government against electric util
tiles, and urges that the present formula
used for the computation of such taxes
be corrected. He stresses the unfair tax
alton of investor-oWned utilities as COM
pared with government-oWned projects,
and declares that this "favoritism" shown
to publicly-owned utilities creates a
powerful incentive toward public owner
ship and the Specialization of an industry
which has been an outstanding success
in the American system of free enter
prise"
If it were proposed to exempt investor
owned utilities from taxation, there would
be terrific roar raised because of tax
funds that would be lost to city, county,
state and Federal government. But the
people, probably because they do not fully
understand the issue, permit govern
ment-owned utilities to be tax-exerlpt,
thereby destroying tax-paying properties
and private enterprise, and increasing
each individual tax bill.
Mr.. Aller further pointed out that "be-
fore the war regulated utility may have
earned just per cent. Today Federal
tax rates on net income, exclusive of the
excess profits tax, are more than twice
the 1889 rate and, therefore, such a util
ity must have substantially increased net
earnings to meet such increased taxes;
but even if earnings are realized in many
cases the excess profits tax of 81 per cent
absorbs most of the increase"
It is easy to imagine the millions of
dollars in increased taxes that must be
loaded onto the general taxpayer to
make up for the tax exemptions granted
great Federal and municipal utilities
when such governmental projects escape
payment of the percentages of their earn
ings in taxes such as are charged against
the investor-owned companies. 1t is I'M
fair, un-American and a robbery of the
taxpayer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
In Today's Mail
SOLDIERS SORELY IN NEED
OF MYSTERY NOVELS
SAYS WRITER
Bridgeport, Conn.
July 10, 1913.

ctAJ ~ 49,
Editor of the Democrat:
Nothing is appreciated more by
the boys in uniform than package
from home, but they certainly
would like to see a few books tucked
among the cakes and candies.
They like mysteries and plenty OF
them! Carlton Morse, author of the
radio series, II Love a Mystery"
has been circulating a list of his
"ten best favorites of all time" and
is mailing the sets of books to so
camps. Here are the books he
chose: "Unpleasantness at the Bel
Iona Club" by Dorothy Savers; Red
Gardenia," by Jonathan Latimer;
Dashiell Hammett's 1.-The Dain
Curse" Eric Ambler's cause for
Alarm" THE Big Sleep" by Ray
mond Chandler; Sabotage" by
Cleve F. Adams, Toast to Tomor-
row." by Manning Coles; Murder Of
an Aristocrat," by Mignon Eberhart;
1.-The Rasp," by Philip Macdonald
and 1.-THE Red Box" by Rex Stout.
I have no quarrel whatever on
that score, but I am positive that
no list can be boiled down to ten, or
even twenty. The best idea is tc
gather up all the mysteries on oul
shelves and send them on. Reader:
of this column can tell their friend!
of the idea, and in that way, thu
soldiers and sailors can have enough
books on hand to take care of what
ever free time they possess.
Signed:
] A MYSTERY REApE6
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

was illustrated when the Chilean
Government sent a mission to
Washington to buy strategic ma
terif.is from the United States.
The Chileans were mystified to
learn that they could not pur-
chase anything from the U. S.
Government. 1t all had to be
done through government
business channels. They figured
they might just as well have
stayed at home.
NORTH AFRICAN GENERALS
There is no truth to the gossip
that Gen. Marshall and Gen. Els
enhower rowed when the Chief of
Staff visited North Africa.
The rumor got started because
Eisenhower, anxious to push
ahead fast in the Mediterra-
mean, had to be restrained some
what by Gen. Marshall. How
ever, Gen. Eisenhower is the
type who will argue vigorously
and effectively regarding any
strategy until it is fi''ally SCI
tied. But once settled he will
carry it out religiously to the
last letter.
Contrary to some reports, the
fact that Eisenhower once served as
chief of staff to Gen. Macarthur for
four years in the Philippines does
not mean that he stands in the
Macarthur camp rather than with
Gen. Marshall. Real fact is that
both Eisenhower and Brig. Gen
Tom Davis, who was MacArthur's
personal aide in the Philippines
have been on the outs with the Pa
cific commander for some time, and
it has been gall and NORWOOD for
Macarthur to see his onetime in
significant subordinate in the Phil
ippines now commanding the most
important theatre of the war -
North Africa.
NOTE: Macarthur several times
has limited to Washington that h1
would like to be transferred to CON-
mand in North Africa. This would
IldVC lillll OfCl
OLD MILITARY FRIENDS
Friendship between Gen. Eisen-
hover and Gen. Marshall dates
back to World War 1 when Marshall
was the chief strategist for Gen
Pershing and planned troop trans
fer and strategy behind the ST.
Mihiel front.
Eisenhower, somewhat younger
has always worshipped Marshall as
the greatest military genius of our
time. When Marshall picked his
younger friend for the North Afri-
can assignment, he did not tell him
what was cooking, but called him
in and laid befure him a plan OF
operation for taking North Africa
what do you think of it?'
Marshall asked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

hoof, enough food to keep body and
soul flourishing for that matter, if
equitably distributed. But such is
the perverseness of human nature
that the lack of one item of food
| beef, in this instance-is enough to
| increase the demand and create the
illusion that there is an overall
| lack of food
The problem of the moment is SOL
wing the food situation therefore
| boils down to matter of getting
more beef moving to market and
on that matter, countrymen, the
| best minds faiter and fail. AS SEN
ator Eugene D. Millikin of Denver,
Colo, put it after hearings on this
subject before the Senate Commit
tee on Agriculture, I'VE have this
morning reached a state of COM
plete intellectual bankruptcy in try
ing to put more meat back on the
table, It's kind of a mixed meta
phor, but if you follow the train of
thought you grasp the idea that yes,
we have no beef and yes, we may be
| running out of brains.
QUESTION OF SUBSIDIES
The prevailing thought in Con-
gress now seems to be that subsidies
shall not pass. Congress passed
law, the Price Control Act of 1912,
authorizing subsidy payments, ap-
parently without realizing what it
was doing. Office of Price Admin
istra ton went ahead to put those
subsidies in effect in an effort to
hold down further rises in the cost
of living
Now Congress renegs and even
considers repeating that portion of
the Price Control Act which au-
thorizes subsidies, though many of
the constituents of many of the
congressman have been living off
farm subsidies of one kind and an
other for years.
Maybe it is proper now to call a
halt, but the lack of beef on the
table today is attributable primar-
lily to only one thing-uncertainty
on the market caused by failure of
Congress to take decisive action on
subsidies. Packers can't be blamed
for cutting prices to stockmen as
result, and stockmen have not
shipped their beef animals to mar
ket because they have played the
bunch that Congress would knock
out subsidies and permit the price
of beef to rise. The only answer
which most Congressman can give
for getting more meat on the table
is to let the prices rise. That takes
care of the stock raiser and packer,
but what does it do to the consun-
err?
ONE WAY TO HARNESS PRICES
The pious hope that letting the
price Of one commodity rise will not
cause explosive initiation is bunk.
On the theory that we could have
just one more little price rise here
and there and then stop we have
been deluding ourselves for the past
two years and a half, while the cost
of food has risen 46 per cent and
the cost of living "a per cent.
There is only one way to stop
price increases and that is to say
that present prices cannot be ex-
ceeded and assure producers and
packers that prices are not to be in
creased again. Once that assurance
is put over, then the meat will start
coming to market. This, however is
the unpopular point of view and ev-
idence piles up it won't be done
that way. If prices are permitted to
rise and food becomes consequently
scarcer with Congressional approval,
that is one way in which the next
election can be lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12
ut looks OK to me-" replied
Eisenhower after some study.
you'd better think So" shot
back Marshall. you're going to
he in commando

Eisenhower after some study.
you'd better think So" shot
back Marshall. You're going to
be in command
FLORIDA SHIP CANAL
Here is the inside story of how
the President finally committed him.
self in favor of completing the
highly controversial Florida barge
canal. Chief factor behind the
scenes was the gray-haired gentle
man from Texas who pushes him.
self around the corridors of the
Capitol in wheel chair - Con-
gresham Joseph j. Mansfield, who,
in spite of his informity, is one of
the most effective members of Con-
greSS.
AS Chairman of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee of the House,
Judge Mansfield has long favored
the Florida project, and was author
of the bill by which Congress au-
thorized its construction.
When the appropriation for con-
struction of the canal failed to pass
Congress this spring, Mansfield
wrote the President, pointing out
that the gasoline and fuel oil short
age on the East Coast might have
been averted by the Florida Canal,
and that it was still not too late.
But, said Mansfield, the effort would
require the open support of the
President.
The Presidents reply was cate
gorically favorable, urging that
construction begin as soon as man
power and materials were avail
able, which he hoped would be "at
an early date"
NOTE: For initial work, the Pres
ident can use funds from the gen.
eral rivers and harbors appropria-
ton, without waiting for a specific
appropriation from Congress.
Copyright. 1943, by United Feature
Syndicate, IncD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

The way words
have of getting
twisted and ex-
aggerated out of
all proportion in
wartime, lack of
f Cd tod a y
means lack of
meat, and lack
of meat means
lack of beef in
the meat mar
ket. There are
plenty of live
beef, and plenty
of other meat
animals ON the