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Evening star., 1944-05-20
Censorship Settlement

The censorship controversy in
Australia, which recently led to the
temporary suppression of six metro
politan newspapers, seems to have
been settled on basis that Is both
sensible and satisfactory to the
parties.
A dispute of long standing, the
issue became acute when newspaper
proprietors refused to comply with
certain demands of the Australian
censorship department concerning
the publication of American criti-
cism of a proposed reduction in the
size of Australia's armed forces.
After the suppression order had been
issued the publishers went into court
and secured an order restraining
the censor from interfering with the
publication of the news.
The permanent settlement which
has now been reached is the out
growth of negotiations begun after
the court intervened and as a result
OF suggestions made by the Chief
Justice of Australia's high court.
Australia has long had an effec-
tive voluntary censorship of mate
rial which would be of military value
to the enemy, and these safeguards
are continued in the new agreement.
There are specific prohibitions, how
ever, against the use of censorship
to prevent publication OF matter
which the censor deems injurious to
morale or to stifie criticism and COM
ment. Furthermore, the right of the
newspapers to publish reports of
industrial disputes and stoppages
is expressly recognized.
These concessions represent i'm
portant gains for the Australian
press, and they were made possible
because public sympathy was with
the newspapers in this dispute. That
the Australian people, no less than
our, own, were unwilling to acquiesce
in the unreasonable abridgement of
their free press is a good omen for
the future.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
o.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller- Couch
undoubtedly was better known to
readers of the senior group than to
their young contemporaries. There
was time when his name was
familiar to thousands of cultivated
people in every English-speaking
country of the world. If his day is
over, so, too, perhaps regrettably, is
that of the once comfortable and
relatively happy civilization to which
he belonged. Something was added
to life upon this earth in his later
years-something stark and ugly
and unkind, and seeing it and being
incapable of correcting it, he has
gone away as gentleman of eighty
excusably might and left the task
OF making matters right again to
the youthful hands ready and
anxious to take it on.
He was native to the west country,
born in Cornwall in the autumn of
1858, and educated at Newton Abbot.
Clifton and Trinity College, Oxford.
Before the turn of the century he
taught and wrote for the literary
journals in London; thereafter, he
dwelt in the village of Fowey and
practiced his craft in a rural free
dom which suited his convenience
even when he had become famous
and strangers visited him as though
he were the Wax Museum, only not
paying for the privilege of inspecting
him as they did Madame Taussauds
marvellous manikins. His novels,
most OF them, were pictures of the
Cornish-folk and, thinking of Dead
Mans Rock" Troy Town" and other
works of the same genus, the critics
classified him with Dickens without
noticing how much more accurate an
observer he was.
Long before the signature CO. had
been identified as his own especial
symbol, his style was appreciated
by a host of professional writing
people skilled in judgment. Far
more numerous, of course, was the
public which applauded his editorial
management of The oxford Book
OF English Verse" between 1900 and
1910. Half a million copies of that
best of anthologies after Palgrave
were sold, It's capacity for being
initiated suggests the powers of it's
sponsor as a mentor and guide.
Unquestionably it was for his influ-
ence upon the minds of his followers
that Sir Arthur was given his
Knlghthood in 1910 and appointed
King Edward VII professor of
English literature at Cambridge in
1912. Much of his best achievement
was produced after he had been
recognized as tops" His contribu-
tions to Shakespearana, his essays
on The Art of Writing" and The
Art OF Reading" his sea stories,
his verse, his sketch biographies
OF Florence Nightingale, Father
Damien and other worthless, his
parodies, his fugitive pieces in the
magazines kept him alive for the
oldsters If not for their successors.
He never will be lost entirely because
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Something to UnscrumbIe

From the Toronto Star.
1t is obvious that the untangling of
the governments semipartnership in
private companies will be an exceed
ingly complex task. Great pressure will
no doubt be brought upon the gov
ernment to part with its assets at sac
rifice prices assets located in both
crown and private companies. Private
industry will want the government
"out." In many cases it will be to the
public advantage for the government
to stay 'in"
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Saw q Notified Butterfly

sa10 a mottled butterfly
Rest on an iris Leaf:
Three poppies and nottled sky,
A hungry humning bird nearby,
Till it 10as past belief
That all the mountains and the sea
All earth and stars together
Could add jot's safety,
Unless perhaps bumbIebes
Harvesting the heather.
CULLEN JONES.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Political View of Ward Case

To the Editor of The Star:
The Montgomery Ward incident can
not be dismissed by lightly referring to
1t as bedtime story.
AS matter of fact, it is a serious
sequel to tragic tale, which deals with
packed courts, purges, RECOMMENDATION,
waste and a debt which staggers the
imagination.
1t is believed that the American peo-
pie will write "finiS" to the sad story
next Noven.Ser
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH,
Commentator for Editorial
To the Editor OF The Star:
Your editorial of May 8, "A Friend"
is worthy of the highest praise
Clermont Fla. c. w. BROOMALL.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Foshion Notes
From the Topeka Capital.

Unlike the British, members OF our
armed forces will not be outfitted with
civilian clothes before returning home.
But it won't take the WACS long to
change their millinery Every WAC has
a new hat as a postwar project.
Evening star., 1944-05-20

he possessed "the supreme gift of
charm which rightfully enough
is expected from poets and philoso-
pliers deserving of those high and
noble titles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Cities in Debt
.484 Millions
State in Need Of Funds
for Postwar. Kelly Told

LANSING. June 4-Gov. Kellys
special tax study advisory COM
mittee declared Saturday in its
first progress report that many
Michigan municipalities require
additional funds and need them
promptly.
At the same time the commit
tee also pointed out that despite
the states anticipated SIS. 900. 00O
surplus this year there will be
insufficient funds to meet state
postwar needs.
There Ia outstanding APP
proximateIy S484,555,587 mu-
nicipal Indebtedness In the
state" State Treasurer d. Hale
Brake, tax committee chair
man. said, "and municipalities
face the necessity of consid-
cradle capital outlay shortly
following the war.
I'm many instances this can
not be financed by borrowing
because Of present heavy In
debtedness. Other means must
be found to relieve their taxing
problems"
Al. po...R A a n.s..at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
COP Race Open,
Bricker Asserts

HARTFORD. Conn. June 3
GNS)--Gov. Bricker of Ohio to-
day told reporters that no Repub-
lican candidate had q majority Of
the delegates and that the ma
tional COP convention would not
be stampeded into endorsing a
candidate picked in advance.
He said the federal government
and the states must reach some
understanding regarding the limi-
tation OF their power 10 tax and
he urged return OF the ". s. En-
ployment Service 10 state govern
ment.
Gov. Bricker blamed the Roose-
welt administration for Pearl
Harbor' in not having kept the
public informed He favored a
world court and a continuing
council 10 consider currency,
boundaries. communications and
transportation, but he opposed
any international police force.
Fighting bth L. Coming
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Wrong Way u
kssseIrine Winning Race
to Retreat. Nazis Say

NEW YORK, June 3 UNS)-
German propaganda outdid itseli
today in finding a new way to
explain Nazi disasters in Italy.
Now. according TO a broadcast
heard by CHS. Field Marshal AL.
bert Kesselring ia winner in Q
"retreating race"
The broadcast said:
"Kesselring has gained q good
start on the Eighth Army In the
retreating race along the roads
Of communication TO the north.
There II no indication rs 20 how
far Kesselring intends 20 with
draw"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Won Wieeand Says:
Wilson Staked His All
On League Lost
Same Forces Which Spiked Treaty
of Versailles Still Weld Power
By KARL H. Won WIEGAND

President Woodrow Wilson staked his all, his
ideals, his reputation, his place in history, on the
League of Nations. 1t was the child of his mind. His
hope, his dream of becoming the architect and
builder of that structure Of iusion-permanent
world peace.
The League of Nations would prevent any more
wars when the "war to end war" had done its job
as the last Armageddon. The League would super
wise and control the world.
The major powers the big fve-Amerca. Britain
France Italy Japanbut especially the troAmerica Brit
ain, France-woud rule the league.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Dr.. Patterson Honored

WORCESTER, Mass, June 3
QNS)-Dr. Thomas l.. Patterson
Of the faculty OF Wayne Univer-
Sity. Detroit. today was awarded
an honorary doctor of science de-
gree al Clark University.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT

Again we have a Democratic
President. Franklin d. Roosevelt,
in our hig$est office.
Like Mr.. Wilson before him. he
has the high aspiration 10 bring
about a war-less world and that
America shall lead that world in
the ways OF peace and prosperity
Again and unfortunately he
seems 10 think that that end can
best be arrived AZ in peace Of
force maintained by force which
is latent war.
He would replace the idealism
Of Woodrow Wilson with the VIC
tors concept Of realism.
Out of the fog Of obscurity that
has settled down upon the war
and fnonrrntaTtiy hfursE the out
look in Europe and Asia. there
looms the announcement by
President Roosevelt Of his draft
plan for a world organization for
international security after the
war and Secretary of State Hulrs
invitation 10 Soviet Russia. Britain
and as courtesy gesture, to
Chungking free China. to send
ENJOYS to Washington 10 discuss
the Roosevelt American plan.
TOOK A GAMBLE
Militarily President Roosevelt
as commander in chief of our
armed forces. staked America
all on his Europe First plan of
strategy as the shortest road TO
victory and the end Of the war
1t was a strategic gamble. II is
still a gamble insofar as whether
or not il is the shorter road
As a statesman the President
appears to be stalking his place
in history, Americas prestige
and power, his own name and its
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04

place in history. on one card--his
firm belief that Communist Soviet
Russia can be brought into his
world organization for interna-
tional security. be one OF the
triumvirate with America and Bri:
tain, and can be so committed
that il always will act not in
Russia's national or imperial in
terests but internationally in unity
with the other two.
The instability OF a basis for
unity where the fundamental
principles are so inherently and
so pronouncedly opposed TO each
other as totalitarianism is 70
democracy and communism is to
our capitalism with It's free en-
terprise. no doubt will be over
looked or ignored. Faith is won
derful thing but sometimes 1t is
blind TO reality.
We do not yet know the Presi-
dents draft plan for world Sc
curity but it is a fairly safe guess
that there is no place in the or
ganization for the vanquished.
NECESSITIES CITED
Reconciliation, understanding.
agreement and cooperation.
These imply freedom. Justice
and equality of rights and oppor-
tunlty.
Any peace that does not in
clude these will not be lasting.
Any international organization
that excludes them cannot hong
ensure world tranquility.
There is. a strange lull and
suspense OF major battle activity
in Europe. The war is concen-
trated on about 30 miles of Allied
front in southern Italy.
Since the beginning of the new
drive on Rome Is days ago, the
progress has been good. In spots
1t has been an average of about
two miles day The fighting has
been heroic, hard. tough and
costly.
RESISTANCE TOUGH
Front line dispatches report
that the resistance Of the enemy,
estimated tween 20. and IA
divisions. has been skillful and
tenaciously desperate against al
most thrice their number OF
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. troops.
The capture of Rome seems
certain. II will be the first of
the three Axis capitals. Berlin.
Rome. Tokyo, 10 be taken.
It's fall for that reason will be
of great political and psychology
cal significance. Militarily II will
have little or no decisive char
acter.
II is 300 miles from the outer
main German defense lines in
northern Italy. Behind those lines
lie the Alps. After the fall of
Rome. Italy becomes more Of a
liability than an asset 10 Hitler.
war designs on the continent.
BATTLES MARK TIME
Decisive battles seem 10 be
waiting on diplomatic actions and
political agreements among the
Allies that have TO do with the
shaping of the peace 10 be i'm
posed following the full victory
not yet in hand and with accords
on a postwar world organization.
For reasons OF obiectivity and
seeing things as they are, il would
be well 10 bear in mind that after
four years and 10 months of war
in Europe not one Anglo-Ameri-
can-Soviet foot is yet anywhere
on German territory or nearer
than several hundred miles.
Ever since the British disaster
at Dunkirk in the spring OF 1910
Britain has been preparing for the
great invasion now impending. We
have been making preparation:
for it from the day that in Wash
ington the Europe First plan o.
strategy was decided upon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
DYING NOW FOR 1919

On farflung battlefields In
Europe and In Asia. thousands of
our American boys are dying
whose graves were dug at YER
sailles before they were born.
II is well 10 remember what
was done by European statecraft
and European diplomacy 10 the
idealistic peace plan and high
principles Of one American presi-
dent inspired by the laudable am
bition 10 become the political sa-
viour OF the world and that the
same methods and practices pre-
vail in the Europe of today that
obtained there 25 years ago.
By that strange periodicity In
history whereby some events re.
peat themselves, America today is
facing a situation almost startling
in It's similarity 10 that which
faced US in 1919.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04

The parians OF that ume,
Germany and Bolshevik Russia,
could come in IL contrite and
after a period and process of
penance and publication.
SORT OF PURGATORY
The interim would be some
thing of a purgstory for them
before they would be permitted
to enter the heaven OF the league.
II was a great gamble. Mr.
Wilson lost.
The Versailles peace OF force
and by force. and the League OF
Nations, were materialiZed in con-
crete form but not as our Ameri-
can President Of that day, had
conceived them or wanted them.
He had 10 make concession
after concession 10 the British
prime minister David Lloy d.
George. 10 Clemenceau. the
French Tiger" and TO Sonnino
Of Italy.
The Y. 6. Senate sensed that
the Versailles treaty was the
foundation and platform OF World
War ii and wisely refused 10
ratify ii.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24

members of the armed forces have
already returned to civilian life and
are continuing to return at the rate
of almost 100000 a month, Mr..
Creeger pointed out that numerous
governmental and social agencies
are concerning themselves with the
problems and needs Of these men.
THE churches dare be no less
concerned about heir problems and
needs" he declared.
The conference program is de-
signed to furnish knowledge of the
plans Of governmental and other
agencies; to give information con-
corning the specific attitudes and
needs of returning service men and
women; to provide opportunity for
considering the distinctively religi-
Gus needs involved; and to make
plans to meet these needs.
The four agencies sponsoring the
meeting are: the Christian Commits
sion for Camp and Defense Com
munities, the General Commission
on Army and Navy Chaplains, the
Commission on Religion and Health
of the Federal Council of Church.
es, and the Service Mems Christian
League.
In addition to Mr.. Creeger, the
members of the Steering Committee
are: Rev. Seward Hiltner, secretary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24

Radios delivering a bundle OF
dreams to listeners these days. Some
of the dreamy hit songs that are
riding the airwaves include Sweet
Slumber, Don't Believe Everything
You Dream and Goodnight, Where
ever You Are" On the drama side,
the CHS series, I'VE Who Dream
aired Fridays at 7:15 p. M, EWT,
and starring Radios Dream Voice."
Claire Niesen has been keeping
listeners awake and by their radios.
Milton Berle. star of Let Your
self Co., saw one of the new Broad
way plays which the critics had
raped. There were cheers for the
players on everyone's lips" said
Berle, ''only the players didn't like
the way they were shaped"
Most miSspelled name in radio
is Red De Corsia, who plays cab
drivers, gangsters and what-have-
you on MIR. and Mrs. North" Some
spell the name using "di," "Di' and
de" It's also been done DeCorsia. 8"
Asked what the correct way was,
Ted cracked, de Corsia, of Cor
Sia!" - p
The college of Musical Knowl-
edge" adds an overseas division
starting in July, when the "Ole Pro-
fessor," Kay KySter, takes an eight
week leave from his NBC Wednes-
day night series, to entertain Amer
1caS ghting men at the battle
fronss. Always a prime favorite in
any foxhole poll of entertainment
personalities, Kyser will try to cover
as much ground as possible during
his tour. While Kyser is overseas,
his program will continue with
prominent entertainment person.
atty taking Kyser's place as director
of the college of Musical Knowl-
edge" orchestra and soloists, and as
conductor of the quiz.
Vera Oldham, who writes the Joe
Gotten. Notwithstanding Unlim-
ited' Sunday airslow, is a scribe
of much and varied radio expert
ence. Remember "Chandu the Magi-
clan" which thrilled and chilled
tuners-in a decade ago? Vera was
the gal who guided Chandu through
his blood-curdling adventures. Later,
she wrote the Parker Family"
series, and more recently worked for
the radio branch of the owl in
San Francisco.
Rosemary De Camp, who's win
ming plaudits for her sensitive
handling of the role of Mildred
in "Of Human Bondage" on the
NBC "Star Playhouse started act
ing with an entirely different type
of role in mind. Her DIGESTION to
follow theatrical career was in
spired by those 1lair-raising movies
starring lob Mix and Harry Carey
A pair of very decorative pot
holders was sent to Charme Allen,
The Mother" of Mother and Dad
r's1adcasts heard each Saturday af-
eefuOon, by little old lady resident
- 6 small mid western town. It
seems something was burning in
the script Of recent program and
z Moth" discovered that dad" in
putting the roast ''in the oven" also
put Mothers" pot holders in along
with the big roasting pan. The gift
was intended to replace the
burned" ones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24

Conductor Don Bryan recognizes
the worth of other maeStri. That's
one indication of his own worth.
Though Don composes and arranges
the background music for his show,
the Radio Readers Digest" he
doesn't use his own theme. It's one
that was written by Lyn Murray
when he was the programs maestro.
Soprano Rose Dirman appears as
guest soloist on The Lyn Murray
Show" tonight, at 6:15 p. M, over
CHS. Songs to be heard include
MY Little Nest of Heavenly Blue"
with the soprano accompanied by
the Lyn Murray Chorus; From the
Land Of the Sky Blue Waters" sung
by Miss Dirman, and two selections
by the chorus, Say 1t With Music"
and "Alouette".
If Julia Sanderson hasn't yet in
cluded your request number on her
MBS Let's Be Charming" series,
be patient! The Serenaders trio will
take three week leave of absence
from her Thursday program some
time this summer to make a movie
and, while they're away, Julia plans
to use their program time to catch
up on songs that her listeners have
been asking for.
Bill Goodwin, featured player on
the Burns and Allen show, has
clicked in the Paramount picture,
"Incendiary Blonde" and the studio
has launched a national build-up
for him.
Rora Linda, pianist featured for
the past several years on the
Hour of Charm, soon will be a
motion picture artist in her own
right. She has left the program, to
take role in the United Artists
picture Carnegie Hall" which will
have it's premiere at that famed
New York concert hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

1t doesn't look as If Bob Hawk
will get vacation this summer. The
sponsor of his Thanks to the
Yanks" quiz on CHS Saturday
nights, has been so impressed with
the way the program has been ac-
cepted by dialers, current indica-
tons are that the series will stick
right through the hot months.
A musical salute to Russia is
scheduled for the April 80 Hour
of Charm" broadcast. Included is
Dmitri Shostakovich's hymn,
United Nations" and such other
favorites as the Russian Sailor
Dance" Ozark Eyes and Song Of
the Volga Boatsmen."
Michael Raffetto, who studied to
be a lawyer but wound up as Jack
Packard" in Carlton E. Morse'S, Il
Love Mystery, adventure series on
CHS, says that the difference be-
tween legal loophole and the
hangman'S moose is in how far you
stick your neck out!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24

Complying with requests of a
combine of South American stations
which are forming school for
newscasters, Jim Doyle, NBC news
commentator, this week began
transcribing special series of rec
ords in Spanish to be used to teach
students the fundamentals of news
broadcaSting.
Director Phil Cohan did a switch
on an old custom when he became
pappy last week. Instead of hand
ing out cigars he gave cigarettes to
the cast of his CHS ciggie-spon-
sored Durante-Moore show. Next
week Cohan's birthday. comes up,
and guess what he's getting?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24
Returned Servicemen
To Get Church Help
Attitudes and Needs of Vets to Be Aired at National
Ministry Conference in Baltimore May 1918

ment, education and social agencies,
as well as the Church, were an
nounced today by the Rev. Marion
J. Creeger, executive secretary OF
the Christian Commission for Camp
and Defense Communities, and
Chairman of the Steering Commit
tee for the Conference.
According to Mr.. Creeger. the
conference has been called in re-
Spouse to a growing demand on
the part of local churches and
church groups over the country for
information and guidance on their
responsibilities in ministering to re-
turning service personnel now and
in the post war period.
Noting that more than a million
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24
MUZZLE-LOADER ALL SET

Daykin, Neb. (UP)-Grandfath-
er's old muzzle loading gun now is
community concern. Alderman
George Apking. who owns it, couldn't
shoot it because he lacked some
necessary parts. But Mayor Walter
c. Parchow took care of that when
he purchased a powder horn, shot
pouch, percussion caps and gunwads
at an auction. Daykinites are hold
ing their ears in apprehension.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-24

New York, N. Y, April 24.-One
of the most significant interdenom-
national meetings of the year ill
be the National Conference on the
Ministry of the Church to Return
ing Service Men, which has been
called for May 17-18 by four inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL commissions repre-
senting the International Council
of Religious Education, the Federal
Council of the Churches Of Christ
in America, the Home Missions
Council Of Church Women. The
meeting will be held in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Preliminary details of the confer
ence, which will bring together out
standing representatives of govern