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Evening star., 1943-09-03
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. TraceDell.

do something different, by introducing
new species, he runs the risk of throwing
monkey wrench into the machinery, as
the saying has it.
Yet this has not stopped man from
experimenting, and it is fortunate for
him that he continues to do so. for out
OF his experiments have come many
great discoveries.
Hahnemann, the medical discoverer
deplored in his day the incessant ex-
Fermentation of scientists in what
seemed to him to be fruitless toll. He
was wrong. Out of the experiments Of
thousands of such men have come results
lar surprising ANYTHING he did.
The bat Is an interesting mammal
which most persons will be glad to let
alone.
Yet, as we revealed here recently.
many scientists say it is most interest,"
ing creature, which probably does a
great deal more good than harm.
Inc average person may get as close
glimpse of bats as he cares to get by
Sitting out in lawn chair Just at dusk.
II there is fairly wide space between
trees, the bats will use this as a f1yinp
ground
Inen the observer may watch them
IN their apparently erratic flights. Often
watchers mix them up with birds and
think they are watching 'bullbats. =
which, OF course, are not bats at all.
They think that such good flying could
be done by nothing except real bird.
The fact Is that the bat can flv as
expertly as any bird, and is guided bv an
extra sense which keeps it from buttinp
into anything.
1t is said that bat can avoid a fine
cord hung up to trap him.
This comes through some extra sem
sorry ability, probably the use of short
waves of some sort, according to the
experts,
The cratic flight Of the bats. dipping
and rising, Is for the purpose of track
ing down and catching insects, whose
manners of fight are naturally erratic
and considerably aided by the exigencies
OF trying to get away from their pur-
suers.
Even the ladies need not be afraid OF
watching the bats outdoors. At times
they may dip uncomfortably close. but
there is no chance of them touching an
observer. There is no need, even, to
wear a hat.
One of the most interesting features
OF bat flight is the way the creature can
tilt itself, so that one wing is pointing
straight up.
In this feature the bat approximates
some OF the ways of modern airplanes.
The idea of a "batman" has intrigued
mankind for centuries.
The silhouette of bat is astonishinplv
like that of some of the latest English
bombers. Its intelligent looking ears
and little eyes give the creature an ap-
pearance utterly unlike anything else
that flies, and one which has aspects of
beauty, If the observer will forget super
stition and remember that in natures
plan this flying mammal has been given
good work to do.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
PortuI-to-PortoI Test

Inc portal-to- portal pay issue,
which for weeks has been a bone of
contention between the United Mine
Workers and the War Labor Board,
has started moving toward judicial
determination on two fronts. Miners
employed by the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company, a
United States Steel subsidiary, have
just instituted suit in Federal Dis
trict Court, Birmingham, seeking a
two-hour daily allowance for under
ground travel time, which they
claim under the Wage and Hour Act.
Earlier, operators sued in District
Court, Abingdon, Virginia, to deter
mine their liability under the same
law.
While the miners say they are en-
titled to two hours daily for travel,
they ask payment only for the time
by which this would raise their basic
five-day, thirty-lve hour work week
above the forty-hour standard set
by the Wage and Hour Act, in the
effort to derive the extra benefit
from the law. Under such an ar
rangement--to cite one example--
they would be considered on duty
forty-five hours in five days, and
draw travel pay at the rate of time
and one-half after forty hours. 1t
should be said, however, that this
would be entirely distinct from and
in addition to, any overtime the
miners might earn for actually
working over thirty-five hours as
their maximum week enjoys five
hour advantage over that fixed by
the Wage and Hour Act.
Whatever the decision of the lower
courts may be, however, it is certain
that the case finally will go to the
Supreme Court, and it will be we'll
to have an authoritative ruling on
this point, which was injected into
the coal dispute only after workmen
employed in ore mines by Tennessee
Coal and Iron and other companies,
were held by Southern courts to be
entitled to the portal to- portal pay.
Because of the time the litigation
can be expected to consume, the end
OF the war may have taken the
issue away from the War Labor
Board, which urged the court tests,
before the case is concluded, but
inevitably it would continue to crop
up in contract negotiations between
the operators and miners.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Out of the Darkness

Darkness 10as oUer the earth, and the
sun undreamed of;
A quiet time, not even a slight ,ptnd
stirred,
When suddenly, out OF Somewhere,
clearly singing,
The Doice OF bird.
The Uoice of a bird, siluer and gold
in the darkness,
A thing so lovely the heart stood
still to hear,
Holding its surge OF blood for
tim,eleSS instant,
Precious and near.
He sang NTH joy, and praised the
approaching sunlight,
Told of the day in sho,0er OF
liquid notes,
And as he sang hundred Others
joined him
With pulsing throats.
Then, far in the eastern sky lance
Sprang npl0ard,
RiUing the dark Nth fame OF
lilac and rose,
Outpouring in threads OF light
through the shattered dark
ness,
The morning grops
Taller and stronger, overcoming the
darkness,
Circling the ,porld NTH arms OF
laughing light,
And the birds groip quiet, hduipg
heralded morning,
That conquered night.
MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
BerIin's S Defenses

1t has been almost three years
since the German effort to smash
Britain from the air broke it's back
against the valiant defense of the
Royal Air Force. The peak was
reached on September Is, 1910, on
which day at least 185 Nazi planes
were shot out of the air by the Brit
ish fighters and ground units. That
was enough for the Luftwaffe. Al
though heavy blows were struck at
later dates, never again was there a
serious challenge to the superiority
OF the RAF in the air over Britain.
Now, in sense, the reverse of that
grim drama is being staged in the
night skies above Berlin. This time
it is the British who are hoping to
smash the enemy's will to fight with
concentrated bomber attacks. And
it is the Germans who are throwing
every available fighter plane into the
struggle in desperate effort to beat
down the attackers. Will the Luft-
waite, shielding the heart of the Ger
man war effort, be able to duplicate
the magnificent achievement of the
Raj? The next few months should
bring an answer to this question, and
the nature of that answer will 60 far
toward shaping the future character
of the war.
Within the span of a week, the
British have made two mass attacks
on Berlin, the second blow being
struck Tuesday night. Bomber losses
were heavier in the first raid, but
there seems to be general agreement
that greater defensive fighter
strength was encountered in the sec
ond attack.
The raiders were picked up by
| German night fighters 400 miles from
Berlin and had to fight their way
through to the target. Once over the
Reich capital they ran into new
defensive tactics. High flying Ger
man planes dropped brilliant white
parachute flares to light up the in
truders as they came in to make their
bombing runs. 1t is during the brief
period required for this run that a
bomber is most vulnerable, and it
was during this period that hun
dreds of German fighters, their can
non and machine guns blazing
SWarmed in to attack the brightly
lighted raiders.
London estimates that the Ger
mans had concentrated from 500 to
600 night fighters over Berlin. for the
defense of the city. Many of these
interceptors were equipped with
searchlights, and, although the
ground defensives of Berlin. are ex-
tensive, these guns played little part
in the battle. 1t was fighter plane
against bomber, and the British
found the going very hard indeed.
Their losses were put at forty-seven
| planes. No estimate of German losses
has been given, but the indications
are that they were small.
This. in brief, is the shape that
the Battle Of Berlin will take. The
Germans are straining every nerve
to build more and more fighters, and
to get them into the air. For time
at least, 1t Is to be expected that
the curve of their defensive power
will rise. The question is whether
! with the British attacking by night
Evening star., 1943-09-03
"sTONELEIGH COURT

Dear Sir:
IN. McM. pleads for some words In
defense of the bat, Well, praise may be
a form of defense:
Standing near the center of the city,
stones throw from the Central Market
was weird-looking, ramshackle build
ing of the mansard-roof type with skirts
OF masonry, wooden bodice and a slate
mantle. In the bonnet of that edifice
were bats-thousands of them! This
was the American Legation prior to the
Managua, Nicaragua, earthquake of
April, 1881, which, in exactly three sec
onds, reduced the capital to rubble.
Malaria had been fairly epidemic in
Managua during the years 1927 1890, so
much so that the cooperation of our
Marines was sought by the Nicaraguan
authorities, and the Marine flyers spent
many flying hours busting the margins
OF Lake Managua with paris green in an
endeavor to kill the mosquito larvae.
Most of the American residents had
malaria, coming or going or acutely.
But the employees of the American Le-
CATION were singularly free from it.
though they frequently worked beyond
dusk. (The hours of dawn and dusk
are those during which the malaria car
rying mosquito has his rendezvous with
death.)
The bats that roasted In the bonnet
OF the American Legation building did
not bother any one much, except that
they mussed the attic floor considerably.
Tor IN the manufacture of guano, guam
tlty production, Myotis subulatos is the
champion for weight and size among all
the creatures that fy-angels not eligi
ble Ministers had come and ministers
had gone and none deemed it worth
while to disturb the bats. But one came
at last. in 1928. and in 1929 he decreed
the massacre of the bats in the Legation
attic by cyanide, and the fell deed was
accomplished quite against the advice of
the writer,
Within three weeks thereafter eyerv
one in the Legation had contracted ma
laria, and one of the staff, secretary
died therefrom. The bats had kept the
grounds and building free of mosquitoes.
When they were destroyed the mosoui-
toes rushed in and had their innings,
The Legation burned to the ground
in the earthquake of 1881, and the Min
lister who played the role of Herod to
the bats died in 1888 of rare ailment.
But do not attribute these misfortunes
to the bats.
Yours very truly, G. C. p"
This interesting letter is another proof
IT proof were needed, of the danger OF
interfering with nature.
Often this is seen in the introduction
of certain birds or insects to combat
certain other insects.
English sparrows, for instance. were
brought here to do a job, but it turned
out that they were, at least to some
persons, far worse than the trouble they
were supposed to eradicate.
So it goes
Whenever man steps in and tries to
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Earlier lnyosions

EorlleF Inv0SIonS
Times have changed, but the art
of war remains very much what it
was long before written records were
compiled. When General Dwight D.
Eisenhower gave the command to
cross the Straits of MesSina into
Italy, he had no leisure to think of
the fact, yet it is true that for the
moment he assumed role like that
of William of Normandy at the start
of the invasion of England in 1866.
The story has been told again and
again, but it still has a power of
fascination hitherto unequalled.
Harold the Saxon is it's hero; his
brother, Tostig the Traitor, its villain.
They had quarreled, and to that
circumstance may. be attributed a
sequence of events" which even now,
after eight centuries, continues. Mad
with anger, Tostig abandoned his
family and betrayed his country.
Urged by him, Harald Hardrada,
King of Norway, undertook the estab-
lishment of "a great Scandinavian
empire like that of Canute the
Great" He gathered "a fleet larger
than any that had ever before issued
from any northern port" and to 1t
added ships from Iceland, the Ork-
neys, Scotland, Flanders and the
Danish settlements in Ireland The
armada thus accumulated appeared
off the east coast of Britain suddenly.
At Scarborough and Holderness thou
sands of Morse warriors came ashore.
Near York they met the English
under the Earls Edwin and Morcar
and were victorious.
Word of the battle was carried to
King Harold in the south, and he
marched northward with the utmost
haste" At Stamford Bridge on Sep
tember Is he encountered Tostig and
the host of his alien friends. In
formal language an offer of wealth
and portion of the kingdom was
proposed. The traitor replied: "If
I accept these terms, what will you
give my ally, the King of Norway?"
Harold's answer was the classic re-
tort: Seven feet of English soil, or,
as he Is very tall, perhaps a little
more" Frightful carnage followed.
When 1t had finished, Harold was
the winner and both his enemies
were dead; yet his cause was hope
less. AS he sat at dinner in York
news reached him that the Normans
had landed in Sussex-sixty thou
sand knights ferried over the Chan
mel in nearly a thousand vessels.
The tired veterans of the struggle
in the north were all that Harold
had to oppose Duke Williams fresh
and confident" legion. On October
IA at Senlac, nine miles from Hast
ings, the fate of England was decided.
Both sides fought with a bravery
worthy of the prize for which they
were contending, and the battle
ragged furiously from morn till eve"
The English ranks broke when Harold
was struck in one eye with an arrow
and fell dead from his horse. Dover,
Canterbury and Winchester sur
rendered to the conqueror. He was
crowned at Westminster Abbey on
Christmas Day.
Men and machines won Britain as
men and machines now will liberate
the community of Europe.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
In Need of HeIp

From the Garden City tKans) TELEGRAM.
We are in receipt today of very
lengthy QUESTIONABLE from the OpA at
Washington. This little job weighs about
2 pounds and is printed in fine type-it
wants to know about our paper require
ments-preparatory to another cut in
weight. Each paragraph refers to an
other page-like Jig saw puzzle. If
you know of a juggler that can keep
lamp shades, tennis balls and Indian
clubs all in the air at the same time
send him in to help us make out this
report!
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Reply to Senator Guffey,
Who Saw Pennsylvania Favorable"


To the Editor of The Star:
Senator Guffey's letter in the series,
What the Folks Back Home Are Think
ing" recently appearing in The Star, is
something to write home about" I
mean actually.
My people in Pennsylvania will be
astonished, am certain, to learn their
Senator has just publicly blanketed them
into group of "nonthinkers.
Il have been all over the State since
Congress adjourned and found every
thing favorable and nothing unfavor-
able says Senator Guffey. He men,
tions speech made in Pittsburgh in
support of the Hatch Hill Burton Ball
resolution and the many letters received
approving his position. And the rest
OF his space is given to quoting and
commenting on letter written by for
mer President Taft in February, 1919.
This in answer to what the folks back
home are thinking!
So far, most Senators and Represen-
tatives have given us a clear cross
cut OF the opinions and attitudes of
their people. Pennsylvanians are not
different. They, too, think! And what
are they thinking?
That the progress Of the war is good
thanks to Gems. Eisenhower, Doolit-
tie, Macarthur, Patton and the long list
SO well known to us all, plus the able
assistance of their own stalwart sons
and grandsons, and their neighbors'
sons from New York, Ohio, Indiana and
on across the country. You see, when
Pennsylvania says "our boys" he
means "our boys"
They are thinking this administra-
ton has gone overheard for bureaucra-
cy, and that something should be done
about that-but quick! Realizing
our foreign entanglements and obliga-
tlons, they still believe the President
is too foreign minded" And they do
not like the idea of Worldwide bank
ing system to be operated contrary to
our ideas of sound policy in local bank
Ing, as has been suggested. They do
not believe we are yet super" enough
to manage the entire world, either.
The farmers and dairymen, and the
breeders of cattle and sheep mot all
PennsylVanians are coal niners) de-
clare they often are hindered more than
helped by the men behind the desks in
Washington. They do not like it when
man is fined $50 for raising too much"
wheat. They believe the world needs
food, that America needs a larger re-
serve and better methods of distribu-
ton.
What are my people thinking? Re-
publicans are thinking that Wendell
Willkie should go roll hoop and give
the Republican party air.
The storekeepers are mostly mad, not
with ingrained hatred, but old fashioned
righteous indignation at so many paper
bosses. The small service stationmen
and garagemen have taken it on the
chin, you will agree. Yet they seemed
best reconciled to their losses of any
group They bear up well under the
continual strafing of changed rulings
and shortages.
They do lament, however, that much
OF their distress could have been avert
Evening star., 1943-09-03

of the votes cast, and in 1886 ap-
proximately u per cent of the voters
preferred the Democratic presidential
candidate.
In these circumstances it is sur
prising that the Democrats derive
so much comfort from the fact that
the two Republican candidates polled
only 5000 more votes than the Demo-
cratic candidate. A cynic might
suggest that they are grasping at
straWs.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

ed. Certain well-informed people tried
to warn of impending disaster as long
ago as 10 years. Western Pennsyl-
vanians will recall the voice of Col
Faddis, who served as Congressman
from the Washington Greene district,
and who is now overseas in the service
of his country, challenging his listeners
to acknowledge our need of an expansive
rubber stock pile.
Mothers are thinking what sad but
gallant thing an empty chair can be-
and catch themselves laying plates now
and then-where Bill or Tom always
sat.
Fathers are thinking the blankety-
blank Government can tax their shirt
tails off if only it brings the boys back.
But they are not blindfolded, nor dumb,
and they want to know where their tax
money goes. They understand pretty
we'll the magnificence of the "modus
operandi' of great war. They under
stand the merciless cost in life and in
jury, too, but they want to know who
is wasteful and extravagant in Washing
ton, and if small unpreventables are
played up as form of sabotage
FORMER PENNSYLVANIA.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

and the Americans by day, we have
the bomber strength to absorb the
losses that will have to be taken if
these new German defenses are to
be overwhelmed. He who would at
tempt to give the answer now would
be a rash prophet.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the tDriter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn for publication is
permissible. The Star reserues
the right to edit all letters Nth
Diel0 to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

The charge of eight grand per day
made by the Chateau Frontenac for
the important international group
recently comforting in that hostelry
does not come as a complete surprise
to good many American tourists.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

BY now 1t seems that the United
Nations march into Berlin will be
more of the nature of crawl, with
Alpine climbing equipment, over
heaps of rubble.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Broadcasters Criticized
For "Mannerisms."

To the Editor OF The Star:
One must sympathize with the indig-
nation of our Secretary of State when
the department over which he presides
is accused by a sensational commenta-
tor of trying to bleed Russia white"
The absurdity as we'll as the complete
faislty OF such charge should be ap-
parent when we consider all that this
country has done and is trying to do
for Russia. However, the wisdom of a
reply to the charge is questionable. 1t
is as sensible as trying to put out a fire
by throwing on gasoline. On the other
hand, silence may be misunderstood.
The world may not understand our
bizarre methods of advertising and may
fail to make proper allowance for shrink
age.
l have many times felt the urge to
comment upon the use to which the
immense power of the radio is put in
this country. In my opinion much of its
potential value is worse than wasted.
But, speaking only of broadcasts of news
and comment thereon, all of which are
sponsored by commercial interests, it is
apparent to every thinking person that
such sponsorship must affect adversely
the credibility of the broadcast, which
is in competition with a hundred other
programs for share of public attention.
A large majority of news commentators
endeavor to meet their responsibility
by the intelligence and fairness of their
comment, but few resort to exaggera-
ton, extravaganza and mannerisms to
draw public attention. Sponsors of the
latter class should be made to feel the
resentment of a fair minded public
CHARLES v. BURNSIDE.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

Archduke Otto is rejected by the
United States Army. Just suppose
some ancient and overbearing Habs-
burg Holy Roman Emperor could
have foreseen slur like that at the
hands of an upstart democracy.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

1t may be wise to save money, but
there Is certainly not much incentive
nowadays to lay anything aside for a
rainy day.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

A reader can get the anstCer TO dny
question OF fact by ,priting The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric j. Haskin, director. Washington,
d. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-24
HOLIDAY SOCIAL
AT " TONIGHT

Featuring tonight's social pro-
gram Of the Industrial Recreation
Association will be Gala Thanks
giving Eve dance for Industrial
workers which have been conducted
for the past six weeks regularly.
These dances in the past have been
held in Temple hall but from now
on they will be at the Central Y.
M. C. A. starting with the first one
tonight.
Besides having the popular Unico
Baroness orchestra play for music
the Mendelssohn Male Chorus will
entertain with a few selections
which has made them one of the
most prominent singing groups in
the east. The chorus will be directed
BY Loring Burwell. The chorus will
consists of twenty-five voices Sing
ing tonight.
Additional entertainment will be
provided by Tim Nolan, the popular
Irish idol who sings old time num-
beers. Miss Sue Andreanno of the
BenruS Company whose beautiful
voice was SO well received at a re-
cent USO dance will also sing few
Of the popular numbers of the day.
The dance will start at p. m. and
will last until a. m.
All these social functions provid-
ed for the war workers are being
sponsored by the Industrial Recre-
alton Association, an organization
consisting of the smaller and larger
factories Of Waterbury, whose pur-
pose is to provide Wholesome recrea-
ton caty-wide which will furnish
relief, enjoyment and an opportun-
ity to get acquainted.