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Evening star., 1944-12-11
Letters to The Star /,
Tells About Collaboration on
Government Ouestionnaires

S'W~e eAssA%AN ASeSA0AAboAA8 ~
70 the Editor Of Ths star:
The Star on November 40 carried an
excellent editorial entitled Progress on
the Home Front" From hundreds oi
available cases 1t picked one example
of the protection afforded business
against excessive questionpairing by
Federal agencies wherein 5000 exporters
were spared laborious reporting by the
simple expedient of requesting the
agency concerned to get the desired in
formation from another Federal agency
which already had collected it.
Because of complexities and details,
the full story of simplihcation and con-
solidation of questionnaires and report
forms brought about by the Bureau OF
the Budget as administrator for the
Federal Reports Act of 1e42 never may
be told. Many Of the positive actions
OF the bureau could be stated or sum-
married, but 1t Is doubtful II any one
has an accurate idea as to the addi-
tional and vast amount of reporting
that might have been launched but
for the intercession of the Budget Bu-
reau and the cooperative spirit OF
auestionnaire issuing agencies.
The "QuesUonnaire Commands, ~
Washington Quiz Kids" and the
Washington Numbers Racket" which
hit front pages across the coun-
try two years ago probably would not
have been curbed so effectively were
1t not for the help which came from
industry itself through special COM
mittee established at the request OF
Harold D. Smith. director of the Budget
Bureau. This committee, known as the
Advisory Committee on Government
Guestionnaires. has provided the Bu-
reau with advice as to the kind OF
records kept by industries, which among
various proposed reporting SYSTEMS
would be least burdensorne, when re-
ports most easily can be hlh. and how
to achieve many other economies In
cost and manpower. and ut the sans
time see to 1T that Government can
obtain from business the information
it actually needs.
The Advisory Committee on Govern
ment Questionnaires is unique. It is
the only group Of consultants at the
level of the executive cfice of the
President. 1t Is entirely independent
of Government and puts emphasis upon
the quality not the quantity of its
advice.
1t is significant that business men,
through 10 subcommittee, have gained
acceptance Of 80 per cent of nearly
1000 recommendations submitted to the
bureau in the past two years. In ad-
dition, several hundred bootleg" ques-
tionnaires have been investigated ut a
great savings both to Government and
industry. 1t is safe to say there are
few examples Of more beneficial or sue
cessful collaboration between business
and the Federal Government.
RUSSELL SCHNEIDER,
Executive Secretary. Advisory Com
mittee on Government Question
naires
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Voice From Small Business

VOICE FROM SmalI business
To the Editor Of The Star:
How can any right thinking American
be for conscription?
Is the New Deal trying to get the boys
just out of high school (who will be
looking for jobs "out of the way" to
make the few jobs open for servicemen
coming home from the war? Then
when the year is up and the conscripted
youth can't find jobs, they'll go back to
the services and live of the taxpayers.
What about the 6o,0oo,ooo jobs the New
Deal promised before election?
! am Is years old and run the New
Moon newspaper for Anacostia and Con-
gresS Heights, and if have to leave it
for year, what would happen to it?
Naturally, it would cease to exist, l do
remember Mr.. Roosevelt saying that he
was friend of small business! Then
why is he killing it?
It We plan to arm in preparation for
another war, then why even talk about
lasting peace?
They say. it's so we won't be caught of
guard "the next time" What next time?
Hitler conscripted youth and threw
the world into war for his own and his
party's aims.
They wanted world power. So do the
Communists, and we have many such
in America today and its no use whis-
pering to ourselves that we don't
The Communists have taken charge
OF major political party. Do we want
them to fool our whole Nation-espe-
cially if we are armed and militaristic? /?
That, and many more reasons, is why
ask; How can any right thinking
American be for conscription?"
JAMES A. LEMON,
Editor, The New Noon.
Mote: An article on Editor Lemon is
nFiHtea elsewhere In today's atarJ
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Even the Wild Critters Know

Even the Wild Critters Know
Te the Editor Of The Star:
In your editorial Educating the
Nazis,' December 2. you urged that the
Nazts should be educated piously in
"our" democracy. as though the Nazs
did not know anything about democ-
racy and freedom. But the Nazs, the
same as all other creatures, know as
much about democracy and freedom
as we do. The Nazis have democracy
and freedom among and for themselves,
but they crininally refuse the good
things to anybody but themselves.
Hence the question is not that of edu-
eating the Nazis; the question is that
OF eliminating them like so much YER
min. This Is what the Teheran Con-
ference calls for; this also is what the
Soviet Union is doing.
From the day creatures are born
until the day they die, they strive for
democracy and freedom. Why9 Be-
cause 1t is one of the first laws of
nature-it is instinct. That's why ma
ture has given all its children means
for offense and means for defense.
If you don't believe the above, catch
any wild, dumb critter from the wide
open spaces, take its freedom away by
caging 1t and you will hnd that its
main thought is to regain its liberty.
II 1t can't regain it, 1t will be very sad
1t may die from sheer longing for lib
erty. Whys Instinct-the laws of ma
ture, OF course, And human creatures
are no exception. Let no man tell you
that we alone know about freedom and
democracy. JOSEPH ANDERSON,
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Rocket PotentioIities

A1tllougH deScFlblAg 0ermdny'S S
W. rocket as not very accurate and
OF extremely doubtful" military
value, the British Air Ministry, in it's
first public comment on the subject,
makes clear that it is speaking only
of the weapon in It's present form
and not of what it may be weeks or
months from now. So far, with it's
almost unbelievable speed of 5000
miles an hour, its range has been
limited to about 200 miles and its
destructive force has been no greater
than that of the vi flying bomb, but
improved versions are wholly possible
and may be put into action before
the Nasis finally go down.
Similarly, just as the potentialities
of w cannot be laughed off. we
cannot afford to dismiss entirely the
recent reports from Stockholm re-
garding vengeance weapon number
3. These reports, quoting Nazi and
other sources, warn that VS. may
soon begin hitting our Atlantic sea-
board, and although all such talk
must be taken with more than a few
grains of salt, the possibility-no
matter how remote it may be-must
be reckoned with. On the basis of
what is known about vi and W., of
course, experts have figured out that
to deliver one ton of explosive to New
York from firing sites in Norway or
Germany, rocket would have to
weigh $500 tons (most of which
would be fuel), that each such rocket
would cost about $4,000 900 to build
and that its terrific take-off blast
might cause 100 times more damage
to the launching area than to the
receiving end
Assuming that the Nazis have not
developed some revolutionary and
compact motive power out of a new
energy source, it thus appears highly
improbable that New York and other
eastern cities will soon be feeling
the impact of a transatlantic rocket
bombardment. For the rumered VS.,
if mere enlargement of the present
W. and if driven by the same kind of
fuel, would obviously be a militarily
absurd weapon, not only from the
standpoint of cost but also because
as the experts indicate-it probably
would be far more devastating to the
senders than to the target. More
over, its inaecuracy might be such
that by the time it reached this side
of the ocean it would be so far off
course as to blow up hundreds or
thousands of miles from it's objective.
The fearful potentialities of these
v weapons, however, are too real to
be ignored. 1t is perhaps safe to
assume in the year 1914 that the
enemy has not the kind of fuel that
would make feasible a rocket often
sive against the United States. But
the same may not be true in the year
1864 or 1914, for man has been dig
ging deep down into the most hidden
and most secret reeesses of nature,
and If he keeps on digging-as he
will-he may come up, before the
century ends, with things that can
be at once awesemely good and
awesomely evil. More than any other
single reality in our age, this is a
fact which refutes those who still
think that great nations can live
splendidly isolated from one another
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Work or FIGHT" Again


turn to the headlines of that battle-
SCARED veteran of this war-"werk-
or-fight" prove to be of any
great value in stemming the drift
away from war work or in over
coming the lag in production of
critical munitions.
Nearly a year ago the President
asked Congress to adopt compulsory
service legislation. "As yeu know"
he said, II have for three years
hesitated to recommend national
service act. Today, however, I am
convinced of its necessity" That
was on January II of this year Now,
eleven months later, the need for
some such legislation is every bit as
urgent, if not more SO, and the
prospects of getting it are even less
bright.
There have been a number of
reasons for the failure to obtain the
necessary legislation. Foremost
among them, perhaps, has been the
unwillingness of Congress to incur
the political risks of such step.
Another has been that the Presi-
dent, after his initial statement,
made no real effort to secure enact
ment of the legislation, despite the
fact that he was convinced of it's
necessity. Still another has been
the curious attitude of the War
ManpoWer Commission toward legis-
latien and its strong preference for
the so-called voluntary controls.
Less than three months after the
President had asked for a national
service act, for instance, Paul v.
McNutt, chairman of the Manpower
Commission, said that while he
might have favored such a law
eighteen months earlier, he would
regard its enactment in March, 1914,
as "little less than tragic" At that
time he thought the manpower situ-
alton was relatively good" and i'm
proving. Furthermore, the commits
sion was working on its new con-
trolls, which were to go into effect
July /, and which were intended to
cope with turnover and labor short
ages by the application of employ
ment ceilings and the channeling of
virtually all hiring through the
United States Employment Service.
Unfortunately, these controls,
which looked good on paper, have
not worked well in practice. Per-
haps they have simply not been en-
forced. Or it may be that they are
unenforceable. In any event, by the
end of July Mr.. McNutt, while still
defending the program of voluntary
controls, was describing the drift
away from war Jobs as positively
dangerous development" And now,
in its latest monthly report, the War
Production Board says that in Oc-
teber mot one of the major cate
gories of combat munitions met it's
schedule"
In this situation, and with the
threat of actual munitions short
ages at the fronts as a result of
production failures looming larger,
the "Work-or-fight" remedy is being
revived. This has not accomplished
much in the past, but it may drive
few men into war production, or
1t may enable military authorities
to release few men from the serv-
ices to war plants through securing
requirements for them. At it's best,
however, it is an exceedingly poor
substitute for compulsory service
the war obligation which this Ma
ton has been unwilling to assume.
Evening star., 1944-12-11

There will be no compromise
peace with the arrogant United
States and Great Britain" declares
a wrathful broadcast by japanese
Domei. This agency Is not always
entirely accurate, but it never spoke
a truer word.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Anyway Rich"
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
A Pennsylvania manufacturer who
urges, let's teach the Amerieans to
want TO be rich again." has got his
again" In the wreAg place. As far ss
mest Americans are concerned, the eeF-
rect version Weuld be; 'Lets taaeh the
Americans again 70 want b b yaah,.
Evening star., 1944-12-11

If the inaugural plans get much
more simple 1t may all end by the
President-e elect and the Chief Justice
Just going into a telephone booth.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06

"HOw to Shut Up Winchell" was
in The Wisconsin State Journal:
REP. Clare Hoffman, the shame
of Michigan in the halls of Con-
gress, wants to amend the articles Of
war to get at Walter Winchen for
his 'contemptuous and disreSpectful'
attack on national lawmakers and
high government officers. That
done, Rep. Hoffman will next move
logically toward shutting up every
body in the country who is wise
to Rep. Hoffman and his ilk and
wants to say SO. That has been
done in other countries, for certain
Of whose principles Rep. Hoffman
seems to have a great deal more lik-
ing than our own. We still let Wal
ter Winchel, OF anyone else who
has something to say about our gov
eminent, say 1t as long as he stays
within the Bill of Rights and the
laws of libel. The best way to
shut him up is to prove him wrong,
which Hoffman probably thought
of doing, and, Of course, couldn't,
even II ne wanted"
The newspapers reported the
crocodile tears of Gong. Rankin and
Hoffman because the House ap-
proved Today adjournment for
the holidays. Wept Rankin: They're
not getting any recesseS in the
Southwest Pacific"
Many aren't getting any votes,
either. Thanks to Mr.. Rankin.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
G-Men Probe
Stars Cars

Hollywood, April 6-(UP)-G-men
put on their overalls today for q
look under the hoods of some of
Hollywood'S fanciest automobiles -
where they expect to find expensive
and Illegal gadgets to make them
run on countryfield stove gas, with
out coupons "a, "B", or "C''.
Lawrence w. Zonker, an automo-
tive tinkerer, was held on charges
Of the war production board that
he violated its regulations in selling
butane conversion units without
prioritieS.
The butane gas tank. the same as
used in place Of natural gas in rural
homes, and a $500 carburetor con-
version were installed on about 600
cars In the Hollywood area, said
James E. Harrington, head Of the
Justice Departments war frauds
unit. Among them he listed cars
owned by Bob Hope, Enrol Flynn,
Cary Grant, Eddie Cantor, Gary
Cooper, Barbara Hutton, richest girl
In town. and Louis B. Mayer, head
Of MGM and recipient Of the ma
TONS highest salary.
Some Of the asserted purchasers
said they wouldn't know a butane
II 1t bit them.
The FBI investigation came at the
personal instigation Of petroleum
Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who
toured the eWst recently ana want
Cd to know why hutane consumption
WAS up % 5000 100 gallons Z year.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
Russians
NeorOdesso
'PACEFOUR
CONTINUED from Page u

by street and house by house.
Malinovsky's forces some of them
veterans Of Stalingrad, virtually
sealed the fate Of the garrison yes
terday by cutting both the high
Odessa to Chisinan in BesSarabia
way and railway running from
and pushing on another three miles
to the head Of trackless swamps
that extend down to the Dniester
lagoon.
The only land escape route re-
naming in German hands was a
single-track coastal railway that
hurdles the f1ve-mile-wide Dniester
lagoon by ferry. Only a trickle Of
Germans could escape from Obese
by this route.
A month ago, the remnants Of the
German 9Th and 9Th Armies re-
naming in the Odessa pocket were
estimated unof1cially at more than
100000, but tens Of thousands OF
the enemy since have fed westward
to Rumania as the Russians con-
verged on the port.
Railway Cut
The Russians cut the Odessa
Chisinau railway with the capture
of RaZdelnaya, 35 miles northwest
Of Odessa, and severed the Odessa
Chisinau highway by advancing
eight miles southwest Of Kuchur-
gan. Another three-mile push to the
southwest engulfed Baden and
brought Malinovsky's forces to the
head Of swamplands that reach to
the Dniester lagoon.
The Bird Army also seized 100 adj
ditional localities in converging
drives around 70-mile arc stretch
ing from the lower Dniester north
west Of Odessa to the Black Sea
coast east Of the port.
"Retreating under the blows OF
our troops, the enemy is suffering
heavy losses in men and equipment
the Soviet high command said in
its midnight communique. During
yesterday, IS tanks, 40 guns includ-
ing II of 150-millimeter caliber and
seven Of 2l0 millimetrs, 400 trucks
four river crossing barges and seven
stores Of ammunition, food and wal
supplies were captured.
No Reports
Though there we're no new re-
ports of the Soviet advance in Ru-
mania or of the battle for encircled
Tarnopol IN Old Poland, Marshal
Gregory X. Zhukov's LIST Ukrainiar
Army was revealed to have killed
nearly 1000 more Germans ir
tightening Its moose around the
remnants Of Is surrounded divisions
in the Skala pocket northeast Of
Cernanti a desperate attempt by
drunken Hitlerites" to break
through the Soviet ring TO the west
ended with the battlefield Uttered
with hundreds Of German dead anc
the Wreckage of 30 enemy tanks
the midnight communique said.
The communique also disclosed
belatedly that some 1900 German;
were killed and 1850 captured In
Hotin, which fell Tuesday, on the
south bank Of the Dniester north
east of Cernauti.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
GO. P. Unity
Seen In Step
Continued from Page u

Typical Republican comment was
that Of Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., N.
Y, who said 1.-THE withdrawal of
Mr.. Willkie is an unSelfish and
patriotic act in order to promote
unity in the Republican party and
assure the defeat of the New Deal,
the fourth term and the bureau
cratic administration
Some Republicans expressed re-
greet that Willkie attacked Dewey
as being supported by America
Firsters." Among them Sen. Robert
A. Taft, r., o., q supporter of Gov
John Bricker of Ohio, ~f1o sand:
1T is unfortunate that Willkie
allowed his natural Disappointment
to lead him TO attack Republicans
who disagree with him on foreign
policy. Nevertheless. his withdrawal
will lead to greater unity OF all
Republicans behind the principles
declared at Mackinac"
Other Republican comment:
Sen. John A. Danaher, Conn; 'If
Mr.. Roosevelt would only do the
same thing, I think our people
would have a vrey great deal more
confidence in the general scene
Sen. owen Brewster. r., Me-;
Willkie has rendered a great service
TO his party by his vigorous cham
pionShip of liberalism and IT trust
he will continue to support the Re.
publican party"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
Casino Still
StoIemoted
CONTINUED from Page -

On the left flank Of the 5th
Army line German field guns hurled
an estimated 900 shells into a mar
row sector of the Allied coastal po-
sitions west Of Minturno.
The main weight of the enemy
bombardment fell upon Allied
strongpoints around the village of
Tremensuon where Nad shells
crashed down at the rate of 20 a
minute for is minutes. Official re-
ports said, however, that Allied cas-
ualties from this Smelling were rel
atively light.
Minor patrol activity and artillery
exchanges continued on the Ando
beachhead front, and front dis
patches said Na1i shells landed In
an American hospital there Tues.
day for the second time In "A hours
and causing one casualty.
On the British 9th army's Adriatic
front, Allied troops broke up o small
enemy attack northeast Of Orsog-
ma, while the Germans raked the
Orsogna.O rtona highway with NOR
tar and shell fire.
Bad weather limited aerial opera
tons over Italy, but Allied fighter
bombers maintained their offensive
against enemy communications and
front linz areas.
The iow-flYing attack rIenea
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Continued from Page y
had not released our bombs. Our
borbardier later admitted he looked
twice at Venafro before deciding 1t
was not Casino.
Though Venafro had a railway
station there we're no railway yards
adjacent to it as there were at Cas-
sino, and the GROWING hill rising
west of the town was topped only by
ar unchanged house instead Of the
ruins Of the Montecassino monas-
terry, he said.
Investigation
After returning to base, an in
vestigation indicated that eight or
10 ships from the second wave OF
our formation had bombed Venafro
Most of the bontardierS were
alarmed into salvoing their bomb
loads when they saw bombs fall from
one ship whose bombrack apparent
" mallunctioned when the bomb bay
doors opened.
III one ship, the bombardier
hurched over his bonbsight tense
for the bombing run, was kicked by
'Sa navigator when he saw bombs
dropping fro manother ship on the
town below.
I'VE are passing over the target,
the navigator shouted, and the bonn
barber pressed the release gear
The crews Of other LiberatorS told
similar stories.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06

supporter in Wisconsin was an
American first adherent followed
shortly upon a statement by the
Rev. Gerald l.. K. Smith, one time
Louisiana Minister who variously
attached himself to the late Huey
P. Long, the Townsend cd age pen
sion movement, Father Charles E.
Coughlin and others. Smith an
nounced that WILKES defeat In
Wisconsin was a great victory for
America first. He added that he was
communicating with Dewey who, in
New York speech this week, said
"the Gerald L. K. Smiths and hteir
ilk must not be permitted to pollute
the stream Of American life" Smith
said he was writing to Dewey that
he was not at all offended because
he was confident you have been
misinformed concerning my activi-
ties"
There have been two recent third
party movements of consequence.
Theadore Roosevelt, national hero
wrecked the Republican party in
1912 by organizing the progressive
party and becoming its presidential
nominee. The late Robert M. La
Toilette, great political figure in
his own right, organized a progress
sive party in 1924. He carried Wis
consin and the city Of Cleveland, 0.
Scant Support
There was scant support for spec
ulation that Willkie would attempt
a third party. But as free agent
a rover in the political croquet game
he may prove now to be in pos
ition to exert more influence than
as candidate for the presidential
nomina ton. His opposition to
Dewey's nomination generally is
conceded. Willkie now IS in posi-
ton to ask embarrassing questions
and perhaps to obtain wider inter-
est for them than If he were a can
didate himself. That Wulkie will
continue the America first" theme
Of attack Is almost inevitable and
he is expected to lombard the gov
ernor with questions about his avail
ability for the Republican nomina-
ton in view of Dewey's repeated
statements that he wants to COM
plete his four-year term in Albany.
Another development foreseen to-
day was "stop-Dewey" movement
which should attract Stassen, Mac
Arthur'sS supporters, Gov. John w.
Bricker Of Ohio, and anyone else
with aspirations Of his own or a
fayorite other than Dewey. AS
things have gone so far, Dewey'S
chances consistently have improved
and it is the custom of presidential
aspirants to NOV down the front
runner. That may explain in part
what happened to Willkie in Wis
consin.
Sen. Warren r. Austin, r., VT,
advocate of international coopera-
ton, said "the cause is the thing"
He added that the Wisconsin out
come certainly proves that from
any standpoint the Republican par
ty has got to work hard, and that
this won't be any walk-away cleo
ton"
II regret that Mr.. Wilkes ef-
fort should not be more acceptable
to the people of Wisconsin" he con-
tinued. II would like to know
whether or not this means that
the midwest Is going to sag back
into Isolationism and abandon the
principles of the Mackinac Charter.
1.-THE people of the world are anx-
iously watching the United States,
which has the power, to see wheth-
er it viii sc IoaWaa6 10 some kind
of international organization to
keep the peace. I certainly hope the
Wisconsin vote is not to be taken
as reputation Of Mr.. Wilkes
principles"