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Evening star., 1944-12-15
This Changing World
BY Constantine Brovn

At least one additional British divi-
sion has been sent to Greece in an
effort to stamp out the resistance OF
the ELIAS forces in Athens and Attica
province as well as Salonika, which until
few days ago was occupied by only
one Indian brigade.
In view of the heavy commitments of
the British in Western Europe, Italy,
the Middle East and India, it is unlikely
that more than 10000 men can be
spared at present for the repression of
the Greek antigovernment forces
The British government hopes that
by occupying the capital and the prin-
cipal ports Of Piraeus and Salonika with
sufficient force the Greek opposition
will soon collapse "by negotiation" The
establishment of stable pro-British
government in Athens might be able
to break up the forces of resistance by
inducements" such as offers of govern
ment positions, money and supplies
which are being controlled by Great
Britain.
Until this occurs Prime Minister
Churchill intends to remain firm. Long
ago he obtained the consent of Russia
and America to handle the situation in
Greece after the expulsion of the Ger
mans, and does not see any possibility
OF encountering any overt opposition
from those powers.
n
On Wednesday, Ernest Bevin, British
minister OF labor, said President Roose-
velt at the Quebec Conference had in
1tialed the plan that Greece should be
taken care of by Great Britain. Accord
ing to what is known in Washington,
political questions relating to Greece
and the whole of the Balkans were
thoroughly discussed and settled at
Moscow and later confirmed at the
Teheran Conference year ago
When the British Prime Minister
met Mr.. Roosevelt at Quebec last sum-
mer he is reported to have suggested
that these plans be put into effect mill
tarily and requested that an American
force be sent to join the British in the
task of liberating Greece He then had
in mind major campaign in the Bal
kans with large landing force in
Albania. President Roosevelt, who knew
the heavy tasks confronting the Amer
lean forces in Western Europe and
Evening star., 1944-12-15

gressmen did on the floor of the House
Of Representatives on Wednesday, that
we should get tough" with the British,
when the nationalist press loudly de-
mands that we should get tough not
only with the British but with the Rus
sians-when these things and others
like them happen the willy DR.. Goebbels
and his henchmen rub their hands with
satisfaction and urge the generals to
fight yet a little longer and little
harder.
Obviously the need is for unity, not
for division. Obviously it serves no
purpose but the German purpose for
Americans to go about ,denouncing the
British for what is happening in Greece,
or denouncing the Russians for taking
their own view of the Polish frontier
question. We have achieved military
unity with the British and military CO.
ordination, to some extent at least, with
the Russians. 1t should be perfectly
clear that the same process applied to
the political department of the war will
produce equally excellent results.
Probably it is easier to begin by
creating an agency to unity American
and British policy; once that unity has
been achieved and put into practice it
should then be possible to coordinate
it with Russian policy But as long as the
present loose, three-cornered arrange
ment continues dependent on inter-
mlttent personal conferences between
heads of states and advisory commits
sions" having neither authority nor re-
sponsibility, there will never be any
continuity Of policy and there will never
be true unity of purpose or effort.
Take for example the recent statement
to the effect that British policy regard
ing Greece was approved by President
Roosevelt at the Quebec Conference,
and that "of course" the Greek civil war
could not then have been foreseen and
provided against.
OF course it could not. But that Is
just the trouble with trying to do things
in that fashion; it was the same in the
last war when the conference system
was tried and found wanting and when
at last a supreme war council was
created under the pressure of imminent
disaster
We need combined political chiefs OF
staff and we need 1t right away Every
day Of delay in bringing about Allied
unity gives added opportunities to the
forces Of disunity and plays the enemy's
game for him while encouraging him to
fight on in the hope that the cleavages
will go yet deeper
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Evening star., 1944-12-15
German Long-Term View
BY Maj. George Fielding Eliot

IL has become so very clear that the
Germans are fighting for time, without
any real hope of reversing the military
situation by force of arms, that we
must repeatedly remind ourselves of the
nature of the German. objectives in so
doing.
AS straight common sense PROPOSE
ton, nation which is defeated and
which entertains no hope of military
reversal is well advised to make such
terms as it can, or even to surrender un-
conditionally to bring hopeless war
to an end without further loss of life
or destruction of property. But the
Germans fight on.
There are, of course. certain military
advantages to be gained-training of
additional troops, reorganization of
broken units, increased production by
the decentralized airplane plants, more
secret weapons But these are merely
temporary gains.
Almost certainly Nazi hopes lie in the
political and not the military field They
hope that as the war continues, and
as fresh political problems press in
upon the United Nations from every
side, these problems will by their ma
ture and in course of attempts at their
solution produce divisions among the
United Nations.
They can hardly hope that these
divisions will produce such estrange-
ments as will give Germany military
respite; they are not likely to be as
sangulne as that. But they hope that
the frictions thus engendered, under the
pressure of events, will be sufficient to
undermine the unity of purpose and
effort of their opponents so that the
grand alliance can never translate itself
into cohesive and enduring world or
ganization for the maintenance of peace.
In other words, the Germans take the
long-term view. They are beaten this
time well and good. They accept that
as fact because they must. But they
dread above everything else the trans
lation of this victory into an organized
world security system which would pre-
vent Germany from ever having a
chance to try again for the dominion OF
the world by force The longer they
can drag out the present war. they rea-
son, the more acute become the difficult
ties in the political field with which
the Allies must deal, and with which
they must deal under great strain, be-
cause the solution of these difficulties
is so incredibly complicated by military
necessities.
When we permit these difficulties tc
divide us in spirit or purpose from oul
Allies, when we demand las some Con.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Letters to The Star
Urges Higher Textile Wages
to Spur Production

To the Editor of The Star:
The Army is stressing the need for an
immediate increase in the production of
cotton duck to meet urgent requirements
OF the men on the fighting fronts.
Shortages of duck and other textiles is
SO acute that WPB Administrator j. A.
Krug has suggested that sheet steel
might be shipped to the fronts to substi-
tute for ordinary tentage
But the Textile Workers Union of
America (CIO) repeatedly has stressed
the, fact that until the very low wages
paid to cotton textile workers are in
creased, it will be impossible to do very
much toward recruiting additional man.
power to make more of the fabrics that
are so badly needed.
Here is case in point: The Textile
Workers Union of America recently has
accepted intos its ranks the workers in
three small mills in Texas whose facil-
tiles are almost entirely concentrated on
duck manufacture. The mills are located
in Hillsborough, Mexia and Itasca, Tex,
and are named after the towns The
minimum wage in these three plants is
40 cents an hour-the very lowest
amount allowed by order of the Fair
Labor Standards Act. The highest
actual average wage to the most skilled
men in these plants Qoomfixers) is 81
to IS cents an hour. The plants are not
far from large airplane shops where the
starting wage for unskilled help is at
least as high as the top wage in the
cotton mills for the highest skilled work.
ers. Under these circumstances, it is
no wonder that the three mills in ques-
ton are working with about 40 per cent
of the help needed to secure capacity
production of the duck the Army needs
The manufacturers claim they are
losing money because overhead is unduly
high due to insufficient labor force. Re-
Gently, however, OPA gave a price rise
OF Az per cent to producers of duck.
We don't quarrel with that action, vet
the NWLB has had before it for over
year case involving a demand by the
TWUA for 60-cent an hour minimum
JOHN W. EDELMAN,
Washington Representative, TWUA.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Federation or Confederation

Federation or Confederation
To the Editor of The Star:
Clearly, the public is demanding a
permanent world peace. But the friends
thereof must be alert to its essentials,
otherwise it will be only a deception.
The language by which the agreement
is expressed is no more important than
the machinery provided for the admin
istration. One of two types of organ
ization finally will be proposed for the
augmentation Of a permanent world
peace.
One leaves undivided sovereign power
with each of the member nations, and
so allows each to withdraw from the
union If it so desires Such a confed-
Grafton twice has been put to the test
in recent times. Our forefathers, after
declaring their independence, endeav-
ored to establish permanent union of
the l3 colonies by organizing them into a
confederation. 1t required but eight
years experience Q781 to 1789) to prove
Its complete failure. A more perfect
the same principle was employed in the
League of Nations. The result was the
Second World War. We therefore are
astonished to have the confederate prin-
ciple again urged for preserving the
coming world peace.
The other type of organiza ton pro-
posed for implementing a permanent
world peace leaves to each member ma
ton supreme authority over all matters
confined to its borders. In such cases
not even appeals can be carried to the
central government. The central power
exercises only such functions as are dele
gated to it by the member nations. They
chiefly are the preservation of peace
and the promotion Of the common good.
This federal organization was first
perfected by our able American fathers
following the failure of the confeder-
alton. More than $50 years of expert
ence, under many stresses and strains,
have proved its success. Other federal
states, notably Canada, Australia and
Switzerland, have proved its desirability.
The coming international peace will
be implemented by an organization en-
ploying either the principle of the con-
federation or of the federation. The
nationalists will offer many arguments
in support of the former and opposed
to the latter. As a matter of truth,
the real issue lies between the preser-
vation of national sovereignty and the
preservation of human rights. We at
home must insist that a third world
war shall not be fought to establish
the truth that governments are insti-
tuted among men for the benefit of the
governed" DELOS o. KINSMAN.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Lost Light

Ghosts made no mischief on Our
chromium stair.
We had s1Uept do,on the cob,oebs from
the ,Dall,
Denying each Arlcnnny thing its ldtr,
Had smashed the stuinedglass Dtrl-
dotD in the hall.
Our sunny d,Delling, secured thus and
streamhned.
Was stripped of all old legends. None
could tell
Us of far mansions. tpe of modern mind
Were quite as through NTH Heaven
as tDith He'll.
But notU the darkness and the cold tuind
crying,
And noio the epas that one cannot
see.
our house Is strangely chill, the fire ts
dying.
Shadows are lingering the latch, and
Who kept no candle for this perilous
night
Turn and ransack the sky for lost
light.
PRUDENCE X. GEAREY.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Paid Boxing Commissioners

4iC1C 10 q 1d1Ilb OuOl dl lS1llS lIOlI
the bill to reorganize the District
Boxing Commission. 1t may be toe
late to do anything about it. as the
bill has received the unanimous
approval of both houses of Congress
and now awaits action by the Presi-
dent. Should he veto it, no harm and
some good might result.
This bill started out to accomplish
desirable purpose, suggested by the
controller generals office-to make
fees collected by the commission
payable to District revenues after
they reached a certain amount, in
stead of remaining to the credit of
the commission. Then it was sug-
geSted that the two civilian members
of the boxing commission should be
paid fee per meeting, which seemed
at least reasonable. When the House
passed the bill last March. the fee
per meeting had become an annual
salary OF $1,000 year. When it
passed the Senate after hurried con-
sideration-along with some seven
teen other local measureS-the ST 300
per year had grown to $240O per
year, and the payment had been
made retroactive to July l, 1914.
Perhaps there should be compen-
sation for the boxing commissioners.
The regulation of professional box
Ing is not only self-supporting but
yields small profit. The commits
sioners spend lot of time going to
fights, etc. But now that they are
to be paid at the rate they are paid,
their jobs become political plums and
as time goes on will attract a less
desirable type of candidate than we
associate with citizen boards in the
District.
Furthermore, the salary creates a
curious type of inequity. Members
Of the Commission on Licensure to
Practice the Healing Arts are COM
penSated on the basis of what is left
over after the fees are collected and
expenses paid, and nothing is left
over this year. Members of the
Board of Dental Examiners receive
$40 per meeting, and members of the
Nurses Examining Board receive $40
per day spent in performing their
work. The Board of Zoning Adjust
ment. one of the most important in
the District, divides $500 a year
among three members on the basis
of their attendance at meetings
Members of the Board of Pharmacy
are paid reasonable amounts" while
members of the Board of Optometry
are paid in the discretion of the
Commissioners. What is it about
boxing commissioner that makes his
services so valuable in relation to
those just mentioned? BY way of
further contrast. the members of
such important citizen boards as
the Board Of Education, the Board of
Library Trustees, the Board of Public
Welfare, the Recreation Board and
others regard their work as public
service, the value of which would
be difficult to measure in terms of
money
Should the boxing commission bill
be vetoed, one distinct benefit would
be the new opportunity thus pre-
sented for the Commissioners to
Initiate legislation standardizing the
amount and method of compensat-
ing members of those boards in the
District, service on which should be
paid for, That. at least, would be a
disintereSted approach to the mat
ter. The approach to the question of
paying boxing commissioners was
not.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Recipe for Success
BY Dapid Laurence
rom the Windsor Star.

from the WlndSor 5tAT.
One of yesterdays successful candi-
dates, who during long career in pub
lie life has never been beaten, was dis
cussing his political methods after the
returns came in. I've never had an
organization" he said. I've never done
any canvassing and never hired a hall.
I just start in the day after election
being decent" There is nothing involved
or complex in this system. But it does
work
Evening star., 1944-12-15

Explorer Vilhjalmar Stefansson
says of the Arctic, THE average
snowfall is much less than that Of
Scotland or Iowa the little there is
disappears rapidly" This makes one
wonder what all that hard, white,
cold stuff was that Franklin, Greely,
Peary and others found so difficult.
Evening star., 1944-12-15
Sounds Familiar

Prom the Winnipeg Tribune.
The composite opinion of world lead
ers is that victory may be nearer than
we think and farther away than we sup
pose. The watchword then is get hot
but keep cool and put everything in the
punch, but don't press.
Evening star., 1944-12-15

P. G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves,
the perfect valet. is advised to trade
him in for lawyer now.
Evening star., 1944-12-15

Goebbels has appealed to Germans
to keep mum about the war. He has
not wasted his breath In asking
them to keep glum.
Evening star., 1944-12-15

There is no shortage of shocked
troops in the German Army.
Evening star., 1944-01-10
Housing Center Asks
Alexandria Listinqs

An urgent appeal for listing of
rooms and furnished apartments
has been made by the Alexandria
War Housing Center at the request
of Government agency which
plans the immediate recruitment
and trarsferral of approximately SO
workers to Cameron.
Miss Barbara Watkins, director
Of the War Housing Center, said
that the rooms are needed for wom-
en- employees, and some furnished
apartments must be made available
for employees with families.
The housing accommodations are
needed in section of the city ac-
cessible to the Duke street bus going
to Cameron. Listings can be made
at the center by calling Temple
1854.
Evening star., 1944-01-10
Weather Forecaster
Insists More Cold
Will Descend on D. T.
Six-Inch Snowfall Due
Sunday Falls Short
Of Expectations

1t will be fair in Washington
today with continued cold, the
Weather Bureau thinks. 1t
isn't certain, you understand
but all indications point that
way, after a careful double
check of the weather map.
The 3-to-6-inch snow predicted
Saturday night and yesterday failed
to materialize, but the Weather
Bureau forecaster is emphatic that
it did snow some. Not hard, per-
haps, and maybe not at all in some
sections of the city, bu, some fell
at the airport and was only 5.9999
inches short of the anticipated peak
Tonight's low temperature will be
around % degrees-maybe, the fore
caster said. A low of IA was pre-
dicted last night and it was-almost
The mercury sagged to a chilly 20
at $40 am. But the bureau is
pretty sure freezing weather will
continue today. 1t is confident
nobody will be bothered by the heat,
or the humidity.
Continued cold was forecast in
Virginia and North Carolina, sec
tions of which were blanketed under
snow varying from l to S inches in
depth. Norfolk experienced a sea-
sonal record fall of inches and
Richmond received 2 inches, but
traffic in both cities and throughout
the State was reported to be pro-
ceeding normally. Only one bus
line was reported serving North
Carolina, however.
Two trafic deaths attributed to
icy road conditions were reported
near, Roanoke. Mrs. George II,
Stevens of near Moneta, and her
sister, Miss Estalene Sarver, 10, of
near Roanoke, were burned to
death when the truck in which they
were riding skidded on the Roanoke
Catawba highway, turned over and
caught fire.
George H. Stevens, husband of
the dead woman, and William J.
Brown, Army Air Forces, of Dor
chester, Mass, also riding in the
truck, received third-degree burns
and were admitted to Roanoke
Hospital for treatment.
Evening star., 1944-01-10

proofreading staff of the Govern
ment Printing Office. He was a
member of Joppa Lodge, No. 35,
FAAM, and the Joppa Chapter, No.
27, Order of the Eastern Star.
lie w2s a mem5er of the congre-
cation of the Rode Island Avenue
M"thc dist Chur~n.
He is survived by son, Glenn C.
Dorse,, S., of 3222 Twent.eth street
NE; three grandchildren. Glenn C.
Dorsey, jr., Baltimore; Mrs. Lois
Cochran, Denver, and Mrs. Lillian
Burris, Cheyenne, Wyo. Three
great-grandchildren and one great
great also survive.
Funeral services, attended by
members of the Masonic Order, will
be held from the Deal funeral home.
1912 Georgia avenue NV, at noon
tomorrow. Burial will be in Ar
lington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-01-10
Asked
For New Kitchen
AT Ga||inger
District Also to File
Request for Money
For Patterson School

The District government has filed
an application with the Federal
Works Agency asking s229, ,655 for q
new kitchen building and equipment
at Gallinger Municipal Hospital and
planned to file today a $430 900 ap-
plication with the agency for a a.
room structure for the Patterson
Elementary School.
Conditions in the present CALM
ger kitchen were severely criticized
in the recent investigation of the
hospital by Senate subcommittee.
The new kitchen sought by the Dis
trict would greatly enlarge the pres
ent cooking facilities of the hospital.
The main part of the proposed
kitchen, designed to accommodate
1000 persons, in contrast to the pres
ent seating capacity of 500 persons.
will be one-story building, con-
nected with the main building and
with the commissary and service
building.
To Include Dining Rooms.
The structure is designed to in
clude new doctors and dieticians'
dining room, lockers, showers, re-
frlgerators and bakeries. D. ".
Auld, liaison officer between the
District, government and the FWA,
said 1t is proposed to utilize present
kitchen facilities as much as possible
and supplement them with new
equipment.
The new kitchen, Mr.. Auld said.
would provide better equipment
for the cooks of the hospital. He
said that it was proposed to put
new laundry in the space occu-
pied by the present kitchen.
The proposed Patterson School at
South Capitol and Darlington street
S.W., will be three stories high on
one side and two on the other be-
cause Of the slope of the site. AS
designed by the municipal archi-
tect's office, it would include an au-
ditorium, lunchroom and two nurs-
cry rooms, to operate under the
Districts child care program.
Preliminary Surveys Made.
Mr.. Auld explained that the
money for the hospital would be
grant. For the Patterson School,
approximately $222,000 would be
loan and the balance grant.
Preliminary surveys of the two
projects, Mr.. Auld declared, have
already been made by the FWA. He
predicted that it might be a month
before final word was received from
the FWA. II final approval is given,
he said it might be possible to start
construction in eight weeks Esti-
mated construction time for each
building is 180 DAYS.
Evening star., 1944-01-10

Falls Church, dated December 49,
Ensign Smith said that he had re-
ceived his Christmas packages and
that he had opened them early be-
cause he was lonesome.
Mrs. Smith said that she received
a letter yesterday from his buddy, q
pilot in the squadron, who wrote
that Ensign Smith had been on pa
troll duty for about four hours and
was coming in to land on the car
rier when his wing flaps failed to
retract.
The plane went out of control, he
wrote, and it was too near the water
for Ensign Smith to bail out.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, the
young pilot was a graduate of Mont
gomery Blair High School, Silver
Spring, Md, and was a junior at
Ohio State University when he en-
listed in the Navy in February, 1912
Overseas since October, he had par
ticipated in the Gilbert Islands cam
paign.
His wife, Mrs. Maurine A. Smith
lives in Rogers, MINI.
A brother, Lowell Smith, 10, is
enrolled in the Navy Viz program
and is stationed at Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio. Col. Smith, who is
attached to the Army Air Forces
here, Is now on temporary duty in
Houston, Tex,
Evening star., 1944-01-10
Three Women Saved
From Burning Home

Three elderly women, one of whom
had been overcome by smoke, were
rescued from their burning home on
the new Greenbelt road near Balti-
more boulevard early today by
rc,bers of the Branchville Fire
T. crtment.
iremen found Miss Katherine
= her lying on the floor of her
fcS"oc-n after battering in the front
&C.. Ter sisters, the Misses Mar
r>~ct and Josephine Maher, were
f0'7n1 cropping about in their smoke
& cd rooms.
-7iremen said the women were
tc-en to the home of Mrs. Joseph
I .nccchiaro next door, where their
condition was reported excellent"
tccay. Miss Katherine Maher, it
was said, was overcome after turn
irr in the alarm.
Firemen said the blaze started
In trash basket near the furnace
and spread to wood piled along the
basement wall They estimated
damage at $500 to $1,000.
The Berwyn Heights and College
Park Fire Departments helped put
out the fire,