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Small but Comfortable
Prom the London Daily Mail.

At last something really good and
practical has come out of postwar house
planning. The new small house reflects
great credit on Lord Portal and all who
have been associated with him at the
once Of Works in its production. Com
fort, convenience and rapidity Of erec-
ton are its salient characteristics. The
house now being shown was actually put
together, complete, in less than four
days, and this fact, together with its
manifest interior advantages, should do
much to dispel the common antipathy to
"prefabricated" design. Housewives will
be specially interested in the prominence
the architect has given to the kitchen.
No longer is this to be hidden away.
neglected. place Of drudgery. It is
here seen as center in which every
possible labor-saving device must be
installed. Terrible housing conditions,
due to overcrowding, are threatened
Immediately after the war. They can
be largely remedied by local authorities
If they take advantage Of the oppor.
tunity now put before them.
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part or the whole OF this function to
Allied armies-Poles, Dutch, French, etc.
This, then. represents the aim for
which we are fighting the war in
Europe. On such a settlement. called
the elimination of the German danger"
rests the hope of little children in all
nations today that they will not have
to fight. On 1t rests the integrity of
our cities. our visions of progress, pros
perity, and that harmony which Is
peace. There is, therefore, no issue
before us which demands such close
analysis; none which requires more
imagination and foresight. For every
thing in this world has consequences;
every cause produces a certain effect
And 1t is, therefore, your duty and
mine to consider the consequences of
such peace and the conditions neces-
sary for maintaining it.
First, we must ask some questions.
The questions and answers will take
more space than this or another column
affords.
What is proposed to be done with the
population Of the territories detached
in the east? Wherever the eastern
boundaries of Germany may be drawn,
it is the Polish intention to evacuate
the German population into the rest
OF the Reich. East Prussia alone, though
thinly populated, contains 1900 900 Ger
mans. who constitute practically its
whole population. At least another 3d.
100000 live in the other territories being
discussed. In pre-l939 Poland, in the
so-called Corridor and Wartegau, there
oh
mans, and since 1889 the Germans have
evacuated from the Baltic States and
Southern Russia and settled in Western
Poland about 100000 more. Therefore,
this settlement would mean that from
minimum of 100000 to maximum of
100000 Germans would be sent into
the truncated Reich from Polish ter
ritory alone.
But this example, once given, Is bound
to be followed by other. states. There
are $500 900 Germans in Czechoslovakia
German colonies in all the Southeast
ern Europe states-Hungary, Romania
and Yugoslavia-total at least a couple
OF millions more.
So 1t Is proposed to send into the
Reich, truncated Of its most thinly set
tied territory, and with its industries
taken out Of Reich control, 10000, 900 to
100000 extra population The pre-
1889 Reich contained IS 900 900. It is pro-
posed, in much smaller Reich, to in
crease this population to $4,000 900,
more or less
Let us consider the probable conse-
Quences Of this.
tTo Be Continued
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New Dean

The first dean of Washington was
George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, busi-
nessman who became a theologian
and in middle life made himself one
of the most distinguished iconog-
raphists Of his time. Under the
third Bishop of Washington, he
supervised the construction of Wash
ington Cathedral from the apse to
the crossing. His successors-Noble
c. Powell, now Bishop of Maryland
but still a member of the Cathedral
Chapter, and the late Ze Barney
Thorne Phillips-held office in an
era OF depression and war, yet con-
slstently added necessary refine
ments to the elemental fabric of
the building.
For further campaign of struc-
tural enterprise, however, the Cathe-
dral has had to wait the election of
a fourth dean. John Wallace Suter,
jr, by name, he is not altogether
a stranger at Mount Saint Alban.
He journeyed to Washington for the
conservation of the Right Reverend
Angus Dun, fourth Bishop, on April
19, and he has been here on numer-
Gus other occasions. A native of
Winchester, Massachusetts,, born in
1890, he attended Harvard Union
Theological Seminary and the Epis-
copal Theological School. Success
sively educational secretary of the
diocese Of Massachusetts, and secre-
tary of the department of religious
education of the National Council
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
he believes in creative teaching" as
distinct from traditional pedagogy.
It follows that he will be actively
interested in that phase of the
Cathedral's chartered purpose which
Is represented in the unique College
of Preachers and the several schools
for girls and boys in the close.
But DR.. Suffers principal RESPONSE
bility, Of course, will be for the
Cathedral proper. Under changes
recently made in the bylaws Of the
chapter, his duties are certain to be
more comprehensive than were those
Of his predecessors. The scope Of
his opportunities likewise has been
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now are declining to their fall.
1t seems beyond question that the
japanese leaders know their own peril.
They know that once the United States
and the British Commonwealth are able
to turn their entire resources to the
destruction of Japans military power,
1t Is task well within the capacity of
those nations to accomplish, and that
IN the accomplishing of it the very
course of events will bring about an
increased measure of Chinese assist
ance. They know too, that all chances
favor the close association in this task
OF the armed forces of the Soviet Union.
They are, therefore, desperately anxious
to stave off this day of reckoning.
~
Their plan for doing so involves q
continuance. for the present, of their
desperate resistance on all military
fronts. But it may well involve, also, q
gradual softening of the political front.
The fall of Premier TOTO and his closest
associates may be the first move in such
a campaign.
The Japanese might say to the world,
Japan alone will not stand in the way
Of peace. We have learned our lesson.
we renounce aggression as an instru-
ment Of national policy. We will now
become good law-abiding citizens Of the
world community"
Thus they will hope to prepare the
soil IN which, In due course, may grow
up new version of the old legend-we
were never really defeated, we yielded
to circumstances, we were betrayed by
the Germans, we were stabbed in the
back by the forces of disunity within
our own homeland, but-we are still the
divinely ordained masters Of the world.
1t Is profoundly to be hoped that the
peoples of the United Nations, one and
all, will realize that no victory is worth
its cost which does not end In the un-
conditional surrender Of Germany and
Of Japan-a surrender which includes
the visual, inescapable demonstration to
every German and every japanese that
the mastery Of the world cannot be
attained and that the rnonstrous crime
Of seeking 1t by conquest does not pay.
tcop.risht 1914. New York Tribune Inc)
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HitIer's Escape

Unlike the dubious assassination
effort in the early stages of the war,
yesterdays attempt on the life of
Adolf Hitler has every appearance of
being the product of far-reaching
and deep seated revolt against the
ruthless and ruinous rule imposed
on Germany by its fanatical Fuehrer.
Nearly five years ago, on Novem-
Der 8, 1899, time bomb exploded
in the Munich beer hall a few
minutes after Hitler had left the
building following an address to his
Nazi cohorts. Although Hitler was
not injured, the German GeStapo
made the most Of It's opportunity.
Two British secret agents and a
mysterious character identified as
Georg Elser were said to have been
arrested by Heinrich Himmler's
sleuths. What happened to them,
If they ever were arrested, has never
been disclosed, and there has been
more than one suggestion that the
whole affair was manufactured by
the Gestapo to whip up the spirit
of the German people in the early
days of the war.
But If Hitler is to be believed, yes
terday's attempt at assassination
was not the work of Allied agents,
but Of what he described as "am-
bilious, stupid and criminal" officers
of the German Army, among whom
was the distinguished Colonel Gen.
eral Ludwig Beck. chief of the Ger
man general staff until 1888. Der
Fuehrer apparently escaped with
minor injuries. yet his own words,
in broadcast to the German people,
make 1t clear that he regards this
attempted assassination as a threat
OF very serious proportions.
Although asserting that the plant
ing Of the bomb was the work OF a
small clique" of officers, Hitler
nevertheless felt impelled to admon-
ish the German soldiers that they
must not obey orders of "usurpers"
and that they should arrest the
criminals" at every opportunity.
From this it is plain enough that
apprehension lies heavily on Hitler's
mind. Certainly. If the attempt on
his life had been the work Of a few
unimportant men, he would not
have felt impelled to appeal per-
sonally to the army for It's support.
There u always the danger, Of
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Foes Political War
Bv Mai. GeOree FieIdine Eliot

1t is abundantly clear that both our
enemies, Germany and Japan, are now
fighting a political rather than a mill
tary war.
In both enemy capitals the fact Of
military defeat is accepted as inevitable.
In botA the same purpose now actuates
the policy Of the leaders: To try to save
something from the wreck of broken
hopes, enough if possible to revive those
hopes at a more auSpicious season.
The Germans, with their Atlantic Wall
preached. with their eastern defenses in
a state Of semicollapse, with the Rus
slams almost over the East Prussian
border and with the hail of unrelenting
bombs crushing the life from their vital
industrial centers, fight on in hope that
something will turn up'-that Russia
will at long last fall out with the western
powers that the American election will
bring into ofiice an administration more
susceptible to negotiations than that Of
Mr.. Roosevelt, that the war -weariea
Russians, the sentimental" British and
American peoples will sicken Of blood
shed and consider the margin between
unconditional surrender and q pro-
gressively attractive series Of German
peace 1CClclS lIOL WUI Ill lCS COSG Ill llVcS
and treasure.
But it is becoming increasingly ap-
parent that these hopes are doomed to
disappointment. The greater the evi-
dence of German weakness-and that
evidence accumulates almost by the
hour-the less the chance of any nego-
tiated peace with the present German
government, and the less the chance
that any sort Of German government,
army-controlled or otherwise, can be
formed which can beg Germany off with
anything short of the unconditional
surrender which has been demanded by
the United Nations.
The Japanese unquestionably enter
tain brighter hopes. They are aware of
the difficulties and costs of reducing
their distant citadels. They are aware
that the British and American peoples
have been warned repeatedly that it
viii be no easy task to bring the Japa-
nese people to final submission. And
they are aware that their German allies
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Decision of d Solomon

The Committee on Credentials of
the Democratic convention obvi-
ously was moved by desire to calm
troubled waters as well as to act
fairly when 1t made its decision to
admit both the regular and the
trump convention" delegates from
Texas. The strict validity OF its de-
cision, however, might be tested by
the question of how the committee
would have decided had the issues
been reversed; in other words, had
Roosevelt delegates been sent by the
party convention to Chicago, and
anti-Roosevelt delegates, chosen by
rump convention, were seeking to
gain admittance. Would the Com
mittee on Credentials have been so
anxious then to deliver the verdict
of Solomon and cut the child M
half?
While the convention ratified the
decision Of its Credentials Commit
tee, admitting both delegations, the
people Of Texas constitute the real
court Of appeals and they will make
the final decision on the validity of
the conventions decision. II enough
Of them agree with the outraged
anti-New Deal delegates who walked
out Of the hall Illuminating against
the Reputation of Texas" by the
Democratic convention, another in
f1ammatory issue will have been
added to those which already have
sent Texas Democrats on a rampage.
AS it is, the fact that half the
regular" anti-New Deal delegates
voted for Mr.. Roosevelt in the end
may indicate that the Texas revolt
is already on the wane, and, come
November, peace will be restored
Speaker Rayburn should be able to
furnish expert testimony on such
trends after the votes are counted
in his primary tomorrow.
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Deeper Than We Know

Deeper than ,oe know. the green Is
rooted
Fdthoms beloD our feet It's roots
descend
Like cropping fingers doDnward through
the dark,
Reaching for rills that ripple with.
out end.
Out of a cracked earth in an August noon
viii lift Hving blade and leaf and
foDer,
WGtered from ledges OF a lost rapine
TO last, unyieldino. through It's burn.
ing hour.
But deeper eren yet than any green,
Abore the barren acres of a grief
Nay htt heart bsrett through Its hard
hour,
Rooted beyond belieH
1eA7ELLE BRYANs LoNGFELLow. :
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This Changing World
By Constantine BrosUn

The war looks very different from the
map and operation rooms OF the leaders
Of the fighting forces than it looks to
the public who see 1t through ofIicial
communiques and censored stories.
Every one Of the battles on land, at
sea and in the air of which we read with
breathless interest Is received with only
Q mild professional interest by those
responsible for military operations
The recent sensational raids On Japan
were known by those on the inside many
months ago even to the minute when
our superbombers were to take of and
the havoc they were going to spread on
Japan. Nothing was left to chance.
Even losses could be forecast with 80
per cent approximation On paper it
was obvious that they could not be very
heavy since the japanese had neither
tighter planes nor flax" which could
reach our bombers at the altitude they
were flying.
Our task force operations in the Gen.
tral Pacific also were planned months
earlier to the most minute detail. The
enemy strength In the island was well
known and appropriate dispositions
were taken to avoid any unpleasant
surprise. The force with which we struck
the Japanese in those outer defenses
was so powerful that We Just could not
miss.
In military operations the approxima-
tion OF the sacrifice is made beforehand
and the difference either In larger or
smaller losses is a matter concerning
the local commanders. So far the eval-
uation of losses has been far below the
number of men, ships and airplanes we
were willing to pay for these operations
In France the situation is not much
different. The enemy is, of course, in
far stronger position than the Japa-
nese in the Pacific and the necessary
allowances have been made for some of
his surprise moves. But by admitting
that he has the maximum strength he
can have in given area, the high COM
mand believes we cannot miss fire if
everything goes according to schedule.
That Is 10 say if the local commanders
make no blunders and the promises of
our Allies to do certain things at an
agreed given time are fulfilled.
Before landing in Normandy exhaus-
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Fourth-Term Bid

The nomination of Franklin D.
Roosevelt for fourth term as Presi-
dent--a foregone conclusion from
the beginning-has now become an
accomplished fact.
There was no contest worthy OF
the name. Senator Harry Byrd OF
Virginia was put in nomination by
dissident Southern delegates to the
convention, but he was not a candi-
date, the opposition was poorly
organized, and only three States
Mississippi, Louisiana and his native
Virginia-stood squarely behind him.
A few more Byrd votes were picked
up here and there, but his total of
80 made only the slightest impress
sion on the Presidents tremendous
first-ballot majority.
On this record, and on the basis
OF every known fact, there can be
no slightest doubt that this Demo-
cratic convention wanted the Presi-
dent and no one else as its candi-
date. Whether his chances will
suffer on election day as a result
OF the sputtering Southern revolt
remains to be seen, but as of this
time it seems more than likely that
the Southern States will fall into
line when the time comes to be
counted.
1t goes without saying, certainly,
that the President and his campaign
managers will work hard to this end.
The party platform CLOSES over the
explosive racial issue, and the Presi-
dent, in his acceptance speech, re-
trained from saying anything which
might give offense to the voters of
the South. Indeed, from any point
OF view, there was much to be
admired in Mr. Roosevelt's message
to the convention.
Both its language and it's tone
were dignif1ed and in keeping with
the gravity of the occasion. At no
point was there any of the rantinp
which has marred some of the other
convention speeches. and it may not
be amlss to express the hope that
the Presidents lieutenants-the
men who will go out and do the
actual campaigning for him-will
see tit to take the acceptance speech
as the model for their own efforts.
1t was interesting also to note the
emphasis which the President and
other speakers placed on postwar
questions-the making of the peace
and the reconversion of our war
industry.
This, coupled with developments
abroad, strongly suggests that they
believe the Commander in Chief"
appeal may lose much of its DO
tency before election day. It would
be going too far, perhaps, to assume
that the Democratic party leaders
foreSee an end to the war in Europe,
and possibly in the Pacific, by No
vember 7, but it is entirely reason
able to suppose that the certainty
OF an Allied military victory will
have become evident to all by that
time, and that political strategy is
being shaped accordingly.
This is all to the good. The war.
in the military sense, is not apt to
be major problem in the years
1945-l949. What will concern us then
will be the building of a secure peace
and the working out of our economic
future. Since these are the real
problems that await us, they also
constitute the main issues on which
this years election should be
decided.
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enlarged. For the friends of the
Cathedral his election is an event
OF significance. It reasonably Is
taken for granted that he will
accept. When he has been installed,
the Cathedral organization once
again will be complete.
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Politics and the Army
From the Topeka Capital.

from the Topeka CNpitaI.
One Of the first acts Of Hitler was to
take over the army. The same was true
Of Mussolini, and Of every other dictator,
If any one in the United States should
obtain complete control of the military
forces in time Of peace-with no citizen
soldier units In the various States
governors and other elected representa-.
tives Of the people would be powerless,
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Permanent Features?

fefmanent FeatureSY
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t seems to me that friends may come
and friends may 60, but death, taxes
and Roosevelt are forever with US,
especially Roosevelt and taxes.
MRS. g. L. q.
Evening star., 1944-07-21

To the Editor OF The Star:
am surprised that paper with your
standing would allow your editorial page
to become personal sounding board
for the letters of j. j. Sperry and
Edmund X. Goldsborough. They have
been writing, or should I say gripping,
for over year now. With our country
fighting a terrible war, we could do
without that sort of thing-at least for
a week. J. K.
To the Editor OF The Star:
have no desire to enter into an ex-
tensive argument with J. j. Sperry, E.
K. Goldsborough or any one about any
thing First, can't afford It; second,
I don't like to see my name in print,
and, third, don't want to appear men,
tally of balance by arguing with vendors
of hate.
My comments about these two men
were prompted by comments have
heard about them from many sources.
They write their stuff, as you perhaps
know, almost daily to every newspaper
in Washington, reiterating their pet
obsession-hatred Of the New Deal and
Roosevelt Such repetition is not only
tiresome to the reading public. but shows
a pronounced ignorance on their part in
giving to the public opinions that no one
cares about.
AS to the Eagle being defeated, that
will be o. K, II the American voters
desire it. But they won't get an Eagle
in his place, but small hummingbird
that flies both forward and backward
with no general direction to follow.
WprN
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Critics Criticized

To the Editor Of The Star:
No man ever will see Gov. Dewey assist
the weary old Eagle back to his Hyde
Park eyrie," as predicted by J. J. Sperry
in his letter of July IA. Believe you
me, when this Nation turns out to select
Chief Executive to represent them at
the peace table, some one will have to
assist Gov. Dewey.
Kenneth Sloan was perfectly right
when he stated in his letter that I'VE
do not want a young. untried. inexperi-
enced Chief Executive in the White
House in time Of war or in the years
Immediately following the war"
A READER,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-13
Campus Gossin

Wonder what would happen to
Christine if Percy would go back to
Chicago? Wonder is it true that
Ruth Ellis won't accept campus
boy friend? Why not Ruth? Ollie
Mae don't seem to care SO much
about Sgt. George since Jessie Cat
son started calling on her. What
is he got Ollie that Sgt. George
doesn't have?
Since Sgt. Burns is back to Camp
Mccain, Elizabeth has dropped the
campus guys.
Agnes Green doesn't seem to get
around much more.
Verda Mae, make up your mind
and settle down to one boy friend
Catherine Jackson don't seem to
care about soldiers and neither civil
lians, why not get into the mood
Catherine?
Tosie CORY is slow but when.
ever she gets boy friend she is
sure.
If Genolia would stop acting like
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-13

Elizabeth Harmon has been
laughing since Sgt. Burns moved
to Camp Mccain, don't do anything
wrong, Elizabeth.
Carrie Boyd has quit writing Sgt.
Edwards since his ex-girl friend
spent the weekend with him. You
couldn't take that could you, Car
RE?
Christine received letter from
Sam Jones, watch out Minnie Lee.
she'll roll you.
It's time. to quit grinning Adell,
because Pvt. Chester is gack at
camp.
Corene Heffner can't make up
her mind whether she likes SOL
diers, sailors or Marines, make up
your mind, Corene.
Walter Harrington seems to be
getting around since Ella Louise is
sick. Tell us about it, Walter.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-13

mary teacher played several num-
bers for the B. 7. u. on her piano
accordion Sunday evening. These
numbers were especially enjoyed
and appreciated.
The Boy Scouts of Regiment 1876
had Tenderfoot test recently, ac-
cording to Scoutmaster, Ralph
James. Scouts M. K. Davis, Allen
Brooks, Edgar Glover, c.. w. Glover,
John Walter Wiley, Roy Ingram,
Percy Lanfair, Andrew Lee Walk
er, Morgan Butler, Boisy Walker
were promoted to second class
Scouts. Roy Ingram was promoted
to Asst. Patrol Leader. M K. Da-
Wis was promoted to Patrol Lead
er. C. W. Glover was promoted to
Asst. Scout Master.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-13

The Boy Scouts are playing an
important part in the community.
We are proud of them.
We wonder what would happen
if: lola would smile? Adell Brown
couldn't grin? Carrie Boyd could
outsmart her boyfriend? Blanche
wouldn't go home on the weekend?
Elizabeth couldn't hear from Sgt.
Burns? Katherine Jackson would
go out once? j. d. Hunlley would
start back dancing? M. K. Davis
could be the hep cat of the class?
Christine Hannibal would quit Per-
cy Harmon? Inez couldn't smile
at Roy? Rosie Lee Riley would
wear some makeup? Blanche
Montgomery couldn't talk to SOL