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Evening star., 1944-07-16
c. OF c. to Hold Outino

The Alexandria Chamber of Com
merce will hold its annual outing to
Fort Belvoir Wednesday, Martin
Greene, business manager Of the
chamber. has announced. Members
and their guests will be treated to
an Army show, a band concert. a
review revue and a dance, as well
as a supper OF Army chow, served
outdoors If the weather permits.
The outing will start from Alexan-
dria at 2 pm.
Evening star., 1944-07-16

We must sacrifice our comforts
TO their needs; yes, and even our
needs for their comforts.
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B ethesdu Lions Club
Instulls New Officers

T. Girard Lee was Installed as
president Of the BethesdA-Che
Chase Lions Club at meeting In
the Kenwood Club this week.
Other ofIicers are: Richard w.
Fischer, first vice president; Charles
M. Stuart, second vice president: Al
bert =. Brault, third vice president;
Wilton r. Allen. secretary-treasurer;
Michael Hare, tail tWister: Edmund
WettengeL lion tanner; board MEM
bers are J. r. Enright, Joseph A.
Cantrel and Robert H. Best.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
Maryland P1A Session
10 Open tuesday At n. !.
sy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Parent Teachers Con-
ference will hold q two-day session
ct the University Of Maryland Tues
day and wednesday, with Mrs.
Stanley G. Cook, president. presid-
ing.
Community service, the psyche
logical readjustments of men and
women returning from war service.
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The Travellers 5 Notebook
Shore and Mountain Season in Full Swing;
Mockinoc Island Mecca Of Lokss Cruises;
$4750. 900 Ferrboot Being Built in Canada

cir. those idyllic dales and gardens
which he, In delicate poetic prose,
80 beautifully described as he told
Of happy pastoral life In the Cauca|
Valley, Of tragic love In the "Haci-
enda El Paraiso."
I For 1t is here in the charming city
OF Cali. just a few hours from Bal
boa, that the traveller sees, as he
fyes over that same paradise-like
valley, the light green fields OF sway
ing sugar cane, the red roof tops of
villages surrounded by stately eu-
calyptus and, nesting in the hills,
the dark green groves Of Colombia S
famous coffee.
Cali, q city of flowers and eternal
spring, Is rapidly--and rightfully-
becoming q popular vacation resort.
Moreover, it's only short flight by
connecting airline from Medellin,
second city Of the country, and from
Bogota. Colombia's lofty capital, and
q few hours by train from historic
Popayan, where time has spared
the monuments Of Colonial days.
Colombia, with its great agri-
cultural wealth, its emeralds, gold,
silver, platinum and petroleum, and
Its growing industrial enterprises,
combines scenic beauty and his
torical interest with modern prog
ress.
Slightly smaller than the COM
bined areas Of New York, California
and Texas, 1t ranks fourth in size
among the South American repub-
lies. borders on both the Pacific and
that part of the Atlantic called the
Caribbean Sea. The inaccessibility
Of many parts of the country, save
by air, has preserved q singular
charm and freshness which entirely
captivates visitors.
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Men, women and children Of the
Appalachians of North Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
are dancing. singing, yodeling and
"git-tarring" in practice for the
annual Mountain Dance and Music
Festival which will be held In Ashe-
vile. N. c., August 3 to S.
Old "ballits" brought straight
from England into the Great Smok-
les hundreds of years ago were in
cluded in the repertoire of these
Bands and performers whose
names never have been in neon but
who are big time" in the "i1ills
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RESORTS.
OCEAN GROVE, N. ],

SHAW MONT 6....o1s os:.. s;:.v! A';P.;' !;
BETTER Class Hsuse-en The Reach. Medern
Acce9me4a e4atlons-ReasonabIe Rates Euer-
Rean rlan. Convenient Dinins. l. a. SHAW.
Z WILDWOOD. N. II.
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Thrift Shop Hours Set

The Montgomery County Thrift
Shop. 47l5 Hampden lane. Bethesda,
will be open from 10 am. to noon
Mondays and Fridays during July
and August to receive donations
The shop has been closed during the
summer for renovations. It will open
again on September 2.
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Snore, mountain and lake resorts
are IN full swing with all activities
operating IN high gear as the vaca-
ton season nears It's peak under
the impetus Of ideal resort weather.
Sailboat races, tennis tournaments
and water sports are holding the
spotlight In coastal spots and ON
cials In many Of the communities
are planning for the staging Of baby
parades, casting contests, golf
events and resattas during August.
Meantime the unprecedented de-
mand for reservations Is seen GER
tain to force the resorts to continue
wide open seasonal activities
through September and into Oc-
tober.
At the pivotal point Of three
Great Lakes is . tiny world set
apart, blending the quaint Of the
romantic past with the picturesque
quictude Of isolation.
This place of escape from q
troubled world is Mackinac Island
founded by the Jesuits in 1871, the
once capital OF French Western
territory. battle-ground Of early
English, scene Of Indian tribal war
fare and this summers showplace
for four Great Lake steamship
lines, the American Express points
out in its series on American shrines
For 20 years the Island was q
national park and in 1895 was ceded
to Michigan for q State park.
As the visitor debarks for his hol-
iday, vivid and impressive are the
frontier reminders. An imposing
statue Of Father Jacques Marquette
founder of the frst island mission
recalls the discovery Of the North
west by the priest-explorer and that
his body lies buried In q sacred spot
at st. Ignace.
Days Of frontier fur trading OF
nearly 100 years ago come to mind
with the still standing John Jacob
Astor House on Market street. Today
the old rambling building is a COM
munity center and contains furni-
ture, relics and associations Of those
thrilling trading days with which
the fur agents house, the store
and warehouse mark the advance of
pioneer civilization westward.
The new 7,0OO-ton ice-breaking
car ferry which will be operated by
the Canadian National Railways In
service between Borden, Prince Ed
ward Island and Cape Tormentine
New Brunswick, will have five decks:
lower, main or railway deck; mez-
canine. automobile and boat decks.
She will be able to transport l9
railway passenger and freight cars
on three lines Of rail. so autos or
buses and $50 passengers.
Passenger accommodations will
include lounges, smoking rooms, rest
rooms and restaurant. The esti-
mated cost is "a, ,750, 900 and the con-
tract, awarded to Marine Industries,
Ltd, calls for delivery before the
winter Of 1945.
The brief, thwarted attempt at
revolt In Colombia last week turned
the eyes Of this Nation toward that
South American country. and the
Traveller turned the pages of his
Notebook to f1nd the following item
in the Panagra Routes The Story
Book Lands of South America"
When Jorge Isaacs. foremost Co.
lombia novelist, wrote his immortal
novel Maria" little did he, dream
that less than q century later Amer
ican travellers would descend from
the skies to enjoy that same pure
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still in the Dnieper Bend and would be
the spinal cord of any German defensive
system on the River Bug.
The Russians, by advancing to the
towns of Voronovitsi and Nemirov Eyes,
you had better get out the map in order
to follow this) have cut the branch
railway east of VinnitSa which connects
that town with Smyela, over near the
Dnieper. They also have cut that rail-
way farther east at Yarovatka. This is
important, because the Smyela- -Vinnitsa
railway formed one of the most i'm
portant escape routes for the German
troops in the upper part of the Dnieper
Bend area.
Probably good many Of these troops
are already out but the fact that heavy
fighting is still going on suggests that
they are not all out. Those who are
still there are now dependent on Just
one line of retreat, from Smyela straight
south to Odessa. They are being
squeezed from two sides-from the west
by Russian thrust whose central axis
is the Kiev-Smyela railway and from
the east by Russian Army whose front
is now roughly Cherkassi- si-Kirovograd,
and which is almost into Smyela itself.
Here, as previously suggested, seems to
be a Russian opportunity to trap good
many German prisoners.
Farther south, in the lower part of
the Dnieper Bend area, there is not
much going on just at present, but two
Russian armies-one centering around
Zaporozhe and one down at the mouth
OF the river-are ready to advance. The
Germans certainly are going back
behind the River Bug. and their ability
to stay there depends on their ability
to keep the Warsaw-Odessa railway
from being cut, which ability is increas-
tngly doubtful. The Russians in the
Evening star., 1944-01-12
FunuticoI Enemy

In a little more than two years of
war, American troops have taken a
total of about 26O40O Axis prisoners
10000 ItaliapS, 10000 Germans,
and exactly 377 Japanese. Exactly
BIT. No more, no less.
The figure comes from Robert P.
Patterson, Undersecretary of War.
1t is as eloquent a reminder as any
we could have of the kind of enemy
we face in the Pacific. Our sea, land
and air forces have killed off thou
sands of them, but there are still
millions of japanese in uniform and
they are all of breed that battles
to the death. Almost invariably,
once they take hold of a position,
they have to be blasted out and
burned out individually. They are
not like the Italians or the Germans.
They are suicidal fanatics, finding
surrender shameful, no matter how
hopeless the odds against them.
The fact that we have captured
only 377 of them should have a So
bering effect on all of us. Taken to-
gether with the fact that we have
so far liberated mere per cent of
their vast territorial holdings, 1t
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Frank K. Kent

accounts for the fact that as a party for
lO years 1t has consistently supported
the New Deal in everything and on all
occasions The one exception was in
the matter Of foreign policy. In the
early days of the war, it was distinctly
lSolationlstic so far as America was con-
cerned. and only swung over to the
Roosevelt foreign policy after Hitler
attacked Russia. Up to that time its
synpathleS were on the other side and
the sudden attack left it in an absurd
position. Now, on all points, the Com
munlstS see eye to eye with the admin
lstration. Mr.. Browder was ahead even
or Senators Guffy and Pepper in de-
mandlng fourth term for Mr.. Roose-
welt, just as he had demanded a third
term.
SO far as diminishing the Communist
influence in the next election, the aban-
donment Of its position as a political
party will enhance it, in that it will
enable the party vote to be cast solidly
for Mr.. Roosevelt or the New Deal can
dldate, instead of having it partly
diverted by the presence of Commu-
mist party candidate on the ballot. The
truth is that this remuneration by the
Communist party of the name Com
munist party its expressed determina-
ton to work within the two-party sys-
tenn and its declaration favoring free
enterprise are all part of a perfectly
obvious plan not to mix less in Ameri-
can politics but more In brief, the
Communist party and its leaders have
not changed their spots Their methods,
their motives and their objectives re-
main the same. just as Mr. Roosevelts
remain the same.
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taken. This means that the one remain
ing north-south railway which directly
connects the German southern armies
with their central armies has been
severed. We should, however, reserve
judgment as to the strategic results,
since it is at these points that the Rus
sian lines of supply are most extended,
and it is likewise at these points that
the Germans are closest to their massed
reserve forces, which are concentrated
in Poland. The Germans have been the
first to hint at the loss of Sarny, which
suggests that they may be planning a
big counterattack to take it back again.
The situation farther to the southeast
is actually more serious from the
German point of view. Here the German
resistance centers on the rail loop sur
rounding the town of Vinnitsa, which
covers the approaches to the important
railway junction of Ymerinka Cor
zhmerinka) controlling the trunk line
Warsaw-Lwow-Ta -Tarnopol- Odessa. This
is the life line Of the German armies
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federated republics, three composed of
Slavonic peoples, numbering over 70
per cent of the population, with Russians
predominating and Ukrainians the next
largest group. A quarter of the 169
ethnic groups do not clearly belong to
white peoples.
Thus, though it is possible, but diff
cult to draw ethnic frontiers for a
Polish national state, it is not possible
to draw them on the same principles
for the nonnational Soviet Union. 1t
is this fact that could make Soviet ex-
pansion disquieting. For there is no
natural stopping place for it on purely
ethnographic grounds as there is none
for the British Empire
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The western or Polish Ukrainians have
had many, many troubles as minori-
ties. Some Of them, backed by the
Soviet, have wanted to join their racial
comrades" in the Soviet Ukraine.
Others. backed by exiled white Russians,
some Poles, Germans and persons in
western countries have wanted to assist
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Law to Stop Profits
In Wartime Advocated.


To the Editor Of The Star
Proposals to draft labor are class
legislation. No matter how we'll inten-
toned, such law would do irreparable
harm. 1t is the Fascist method which
admits an irreconcilable difference be-
tween capital and labor whether ex-
pressed by industry or a government
agency.
The cause for such a laundering sug-
gestlon is the attempt to fit a square
peg into round hole-that is. trying to
make wages of labor per hour, the square
peg, fit the round hole of the Little Steel
formula, which is defunct because of the
failure to stop imitation, by the failure to
put ceiling on profits while putting
ceiling on wages.
Labor does feel it has received the
short end of the deal-but labor would
be willing, even eager, to take all the
profits out of war and work for just the
necessities of life as their kin are doing
on the battle fronts, provided that during
the war there would be moratorium on
profits for every one.
This would mean no profits for fight
ing on the battle front or on the pro-
duction front to defend ones country
no debts to saddle future generations. no
reason for war except in self defense
and no more fortunes to be made from
the destruction and manning of human
beings.
To those who want to draft labor, we
say: Make it equitable by drafting all
the resources of our country. The solu-
ton is to stop imitation and to provide
stiff Jail sentences for those leading any
strike whether of capital or labor dur
ing wartime. R. STEIN.
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mander. The trails become impossible,
streams become torrents, and aviation.
to great extent, is grounded. In
short, no military man would under
take any offensive during the mon
Soons.
Although months have elapsed since
the rains have stopped there has been
no indication that Admiral Mount
batten is ready to strike.
1t Is possible that the Admiral, who
Is regarded as one of the most dashing
British officers, is preparing some local
offensive, but in most quarters it is
considered doubtful that a major oper-
alton will be undertaken in the near
future. The number of British troops
in India is relatively small The in
ternal situation demands that India
be garrisoned by metropolitan troops.
Some of the Indian divisions are excel
lent. The best still are fighting in the
Mediterranean and might be found in
the cross-Channel offensive.
Most of those stationed in their
homeland are not sufficiently proficient
to be matched against the japanese who
are occupying Burma and the Neither
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party the words Communist Associa-
ton And just as Mr. Roosevelt seeks
10 convey the idea that the New Deal
Is over and henceforth all New Dealers
are interested solely in winning the war.
SO does Mr.. Browder neatly convey the
loea that the Communists will no longer
wage war on the system of free enter
prise.
one is as patiently phony as the other
the primary purpose of the New Deal
now, as 1t has been in the past, is the
indefinite continuation in power of the
New Deal and the New Dealers. And
the primary purpose of the Communist
Association is the same as that of the
Communist party"-to wit, the over
throw of the American system of gov
ernment and the substitution Of one on
Communistic lines. The present Com
munist leadership Is not entitled to
credit for sincerity. Ever since 1893,
when the New Deal was fully revealed,
1t has been a settled Communist con-
viction that the best way of achieving
the Communist objective was through
the New Deal.
The basis of this belief was that
period of chaos is essential before the
change can be made. The argument
and sound one, too-was that the
New Deal tends toward a chaotic con-
dition out of which Communism is
most likely to emerge. In that, most
thoughtful conservatives agree with the
Communist leaders. In at least one of
their party conventions, the Commu-
nists ofdcially declared that "the New
Deal points in our direction which
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lands Indies. An about offensive as
Admiral Mountbatten unquestionably
expected to undertake when he accepted
the command, is dangerous unless re-
Inducements of metropolitan or Amer
lean troops can be made available to
him.
Assistance Is unlikely under the pres
ent circumstances because we and the
British will need every trained man for
the battle against Hitler. although on
paper the western Allies have a large
number of soldiers, our striking forces
and those Of the British still are limited.
Unless the Nazis collapse before next
summer we will need for the European
battlefields every trained unit we can
muster.
This is the realistic picture presented
to those who wonder, S months after
the offensive against the japanese in
Asia had been promised, why there Is
no sign that Admiral Mountbatten is
ready to move.
1t appears that the real reason Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Church.
Ill and their top strategists made the
Quebec announcement was the impa-
tence OF the Chinese. GeneraliSsimo
Chang Kai-shek and the "gissima"
have been outspoken in their private
communications to Washington and
London. The head of the Chinese re-
public has told us that his generals
are losing patience not SO much because
of the lack of Allied activity, but be-
cause they could get none of their &C
customed worldly goods except from
Japan
Conditions in China were getting
desperate not only for the population
which has been used to hardship. but
also for the upper classes which led a
pleasant life before they were pushed
away from the seaports. The former
warlords and businessmen were growl-
ing and did not conceal their dis
satisfaction with the situation which has
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Letters to The Star
worth While" Home Rule
Wanted for Washingtonians.
70 the Editor Of The star;

To the Editor Of The Star:
In his civic column in The Sunday
Star of January 8, Jesse G. Suter-with
whose views I very often agree-accuses
local suffrage advocates of wrongly
though sincerely believing that an cleo
tive local government would give "gen-
uine home rule" without our having at
the same time voting participation in
the Congress which has supreme legis-
latiye authority above that local govern
ment.
Mr.. Suter does not state in this article
whether he thinks national representa-
ticn without an elective local govern
ment would constitute genuine home
rule or whether it is merely that local
suffrage is somehow useless or even
dangerous to accept as gift from Con-
gresS until or unless we have already
acquired some representation in that
Congress.
There seems to be some difference of
opinion as to what is covered by the
term "home rule" but there should not
be, as it has we'll l-established mean
ing in relation to municipal govern
ment in this country. 1t refers to sub
stantial government in distinctly
local affairs and not to representation
in the more general government, al
though all cities except Washington
have that, too. There are varying de-
grees of local self-rule, some cities being
freer from State interference than
others, by constitutional restriction or
by statutory or customary action, but
all are subject in some respects to the
paramount government under whose au-
thority they are created as local gov
ernmental units.
Washington, as the only city of it's
kind under Federal jurisdiction and
with important Federal interests in
volved in it's affairs, cannot expect to
be free from some very proper and
also occasional meddlesome direct ac-
ton in local matters oy the higher au-
thority, even if system aimed at the
fullest practicable amount of home rule
were set up here. That is all the more
reason why We should want to be repre-
sented int that higher authority. But
which will give us more substance of
nome rule G.e., autonomy or local self
governmen): Municipal powers vested
IN BODY elected by the people of the
District or leSS-than- lone per cent repre-
Sentatlon in the National Government
which still would retain power to act
directly or to veto the acts of munich
pal government, however chosen?
The local suffrage advocates I know
do not have what Mr. Suter seems to
lmpute to them-great illusions about
the completeness of the lf-government
which is likely to be obtained If some
revision of the McCarran bill can be
put through at this time. They do feel,
however, that such bill would be a
worthwhile amount of home rule, and
also that its successful operation would
help and not hinder the subsequent
acquiring of additional portions of self
government, including fuller powers for
the elected local government and also
representation in the National Govern
ment. GEORGE w. HODGKINS.