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Evening star., 1944-06-17
The Flying Bomb

It is not altogether surprising
that the Nazis have suddenly un-
1eashed a new "secret" weapon
against Southern England. On
more than one occasion during the
past year Prime Minister Churchill
has warned that something of the
sort was to be expected, the more
so because Hitler, in his despera-
ton, is likely TO try anything and
everything--no matter how novel
or deadly-in an effort to lash his
way out of the trap that has been
sprung on him.
The news reports on the subject
are UNDERSTANDABLE vague and the
remarks of British Home Secretary
Herbert s. Morrison are purposely
guarded, but we have nevertheless
been vouchsafed enough informa-
tion to make clear that the device
is not to be laughed off. Apparently
operating on the principle of rocket
propulsion and perhaps guided by
radio, it is not so much robot or
pilotless plane as a big and expensive
bomb-a kind of torpedo with
wings-which flies very fast on
seemingly well-directed course to it's
target, blowing up with great force
seconds after it lands.
The range of this weapon is esti-
mated at 80 miles. If they have
1t in sufficient quantity, therefore,
the Nazis may conceivably be able
to do an immense amount of dam
age with it, not only to our Allied
concentrations in England but also
to our invading forces in Western
Europe. Indeed, now that it has
been revealed to us, just as our
Super Fortress has been revealed to
the Japanese, the Goebbels propa-
ganda machine has already begun
to fill the air with any number of
dire predictions about it. However,
although 1t must be taken seriously
at the moment, it is not something
that should excite undue fears or
wild imaginings, for as the British
Home Secretary has pointed out,
the available information about it
"does not suggest that exaggerated
Importance need be attached to it's
development"
It is worth remembering, in this
connection, that the possibility of
such a device was foreseen long
ago and that British and American
scientists and defense experts have
very probably been working on in
struments and measures to counter
act it. It is military truism, more
over, that no single weapon can
win battle or war all by itself
and that for every new one devel-
oped, there is an offsetting defense.
Only few years ago, for example,
the enemy's "secret" magnetic mine
had us in jitters, but it was soon
met and mastered. We can be con-
fident that much the same thing
will happen to Hitler's flying bomb,
and, for good measure, we may even
excel 1t with real, much more eff
fective surprise of our own.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Teamwork in War
By Maj. George Fieldine Eliot

In no human pursuit are the lessons
OF experience so valuable as in the con-
duct OF war. In none are the penalties
for neglecting them so certain and
so drastic.
Study the campaigns of the great
captains of the past" was Napoleon's
advice to the military leaders OF his day.
1t is just as good advice now. We
become englamored by modern scien-
tlf1c wonders, by the marvels of flight
and radio and high-powered artillery,
and we tend sometimes to believe that
with the revolutionary change in the
means OF making war, there has come
about likewise revolutionary change
IN the principles of applying those
means But 1t is not so.
All OF us can remember how conf
IDENTIFY, only few years ago, men were
writing of the twilight of sea power"
We were being given comparisons be-
tween the speed, radius of action and
cost of the battleship and the bombing
plane in every magazine that we
picked up. Yet, 1t is we'll that this idea
was not translated into national policy.
We can all remember, I think, the
days when we were being assured that
the battleship, in particular, was as
obsolete as the galleys of Salamis. 1t
could never survive, we were assured.
under the hail of bombs from the air.
In particular, it could never approach
a hostile shore and hurl its shells
against enemy Notifications, in support
OF landing operations The mine, the
aerial bomb, the rocket and all the
rest would quickly dispose of any such
attempt.
Yet observe what has been happening
these last 10 days off the Normandy
coast and what is happening at Saipan
The difficulty with these confident
theories Is always the same. they are
pictures drawn sharply in black and
white. They leave no room for the
inevitable compromises of war, for the
weighing of risk against advantage
which is the basis of all military de-
ciSion. They do not take into account
the lesson of experience, that against
every new weapon there has always
been evolved an adequate defense, that
against every new method of warfare
there has always appeared a counter
method
1t is quite true that sea power today,
in its ultimate sense of the control OF
maritime communications, Is dependent
In part on the use of the airplane.
That Is natural enough. 1t is quite
true that 1t Is not safe to take battle
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Urgent Business

Although our Allied forces may
be long way from knocking out
Germany, the rapidly changing face
of the war makes partial demobili-
cation a near enough prospect to
spur Congress and all other groups
concerned into taking concrete and
complete preparatory action with
out further delay If this is not
done, then it is wholly possible that
conditions within the United States
by next Christmas may be socially
and economically chaotic.
The great problem now in the
making, a problem demanding i'm
mediate attention, is simply this:
That if in the months just ahead
our Allied arms should succeed in
winning the battle of Europe, our
entire war production program
would undergo vast revision, with
great numbers of industries obliged
to reconvert to peacetime output
and with millions of Individuals
soldiers and civilian workers alike
faced with the prospect of finding
new jobs or being temporarily un-
employed.
There is bound to be considerable
dislocation, in any case, but to
cushion it, to keep it within man
ageable limits, to make the de-
mobilization transition as smooth
and painless as possible, there has
already been devised a broad pro-
gram of action upon which all
Americans are agreed, except per-
hapS in few relatively minor de-
tails. This program was first set
forth in the Baruch- Hancock re-
port last February, but though al
most universally accepted, the
major part of it still is waiting to
be enacted into law by Congress,
and in some executive agencies
there has been dawdling over GER
tain phases of it.
In recent letter to James F.
Byrnes, director of the Office of War
Mobilization, Mr.. Baruch expressed
serious concern on this score. For
the good Of all of us" he said, the
Evening star., 1944-06-17

ships or any other naval craft within
reach of enemy land-based bombers
unless some adequate provision is made
for their protection against air attack.
But adequate provision has been
evolved; it exists; it has been proven.
Indeed the airplane has itself become
one of the principal weapons of sea
power; and where are those who used
to assure us-with all sorts of technical
data to support their ideas-that the
carrier-base plane could never COM
pete with the land-based plane?
This is just another example of the
fallacy of black -and-white pictures of
war All war is compromise. No
commander in war ever believes he has
enough of anything. He does the best
he can with what he has, and he knows
that he must always accept certain
element of risk. But he also knows, If
he knows his business to begin with,
that he must place a certain funda-
mental reliance in the lessons of expert
ence; and he will be fortunate if the
nation which sends him forth has, in
its military policy been equally consci-
GUS of the value of those lessons.
One is inevitably reminded, by these
reflections, of the report of the British
Committee of Imperial Defense on
black-and-w white recommendation that
the Royal Navy should cease the con-
struction of battleships.
IF this recommendation" the COM
mittee observed, turns out to be JUS
titled by events, and We have not fol-
lowed it, we shall have wasted money.
But If it turns out not to be so justified,
and we have followed it, we shall have
lost the Empire"
The truth of the matter is simply
that the black -and-white theorist is
not satisfied to have his pet weapon
or his pet scheme fitted into general
pattern. He does not want to be part
of team. He wants to win the war
all by himself That is what Gen.
Arnold was thinking Of no doubt, when
he remarked that nobody expected the
B-29 Super Fortress to win the war by
itself. No one weapon and no one
method can do that.
In Normandy, in the Pacific, in Bur-
ma our men and the men of our Allies
are fighting and winning because they
and their leaders have learned that
teamwork wins wars. That a combina-
tion of all methods is necessary to over
come an enemy who uses combination
of all methods. 1t is the team that
counts.
(Copyright, 1914, New York Tribune. Ine.)
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Within the Law

LII his appearance before Cne
Senate Committee on Campaign Ex-
penditures. Sidney Hillman took the
position that the activities of the
CIO Political Action Committee are
within the law" which forbids
labor unions to make contributions
in election campaigns. Perhaps he
is right.
Mr.. Hillman drew a distinction
between an election campaign as
such and primaries and campaigns
to bring about the nomination of
particular candidate. His legal ad-
wiser drew an equally fine distinc-
tion between contributions" by
labor unions and expenses" in
CURED in "edueationap campaigns
in behalf of an individual These
are hair-splitting technicalities and
it is not for the layman to pass
judgment on them. But there is
one observation which may be made.
The Political Action Committee is
openly and avowedly seeking the re-
election of President Roosevelt.
And, guided by skilled lawyers, it
may be able to keep its activities
within the letter of the law. A few
years ago the corporation lawyers"
about whom we have heard so
much, also were able to find loop
holes in the laws, and for their
cleverness they were roundly de-
nounced by the members of the
Presidents political family. Before
long public opinion turned against
the corporation lawyers, and today
it is very hard for them to find a
loophole in any law. This is some-
thing that the Political Action Com
mittee, while staying within the
law" might well keep in mind.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Capt. Semmes a Local Boy

Capt. Semmes Local Boy
To the Editor of The Star:
In the editorial on Cherbourg in The
Star of June IA, it was good to read
again of the nearly forgotten Civil War
battle between the Kearsarge and the
Alabama off the Cherbourg coast 1t
is of special interest to old Washing
tonians because Capt. Raphael Semmes
of the Alabama was, in way, Wash
ington boy. Born in nearby Charles
County, Md, he was early left an or
phan and then was reared by an uncle.
a merchant in Georgetown, D. C. They
came from the same Catholic COM
munity in Charles County which in
later years gave us DR.. Parran, the
present surgeon general of the United
States Public Health Service.
1t also is worth noting that the
Kearsarge might have been sunk instead
OF the Alabama. One of the latter's
shells lodged in the sternpost of the
Kearsarge but did not explode. A sec
ton of the timber with the shell in
place was exhibited in the old Navy
Yard Museum here when I was a boy
I suppose 1t is now in the National
Museum.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
This Changing World
By Constantine Rroscn

Within less than two weeks after the
agreement had been signed large
part of the Kwantung army, which
had been concentrated on the Siberian
border for many years and was con-
sidered Hirohito's best professional
army, was transferred to the south
and used later as the spearhead Of
Japan's drive to Loyang. Together with
the japanese forces in Western China,
it is now making substantial progress
in the battle against Chang Kai-shek's
forces.
Many military observers at the gen.
eralissimos headquarters are afraid that
the Japs' relentless drive will continue
throughout the summer and may end
in complete victory.
The Chinese leader himself is reported
to be gravely concerned over these de-
velopments which are aimed not only
at the sitting of all resistance in China
but also at depriving the Allies OF vital
air bases. Carrier-based planes are not
as efficient as the new American Super
Fortesses, which need much space for
take-offs. Neither are the bases in the
various islands we are seiZing as ade-
quate as bases in China.
Chang has his forces divided into two
groups-one is fighting Japan, while the
other, containing some OF his best di-
visions, Is facing the Chinese Communist
armies.
If rapprochement between the Com
munist leaders in Sinkiang and Chang
Kai-shek. could be arranged, the situ-
alton would improve considerably.
Chang emphasized this matter when
he met President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill in Cairo before their
trip to Teheran. He asked his two
allies to make strong representations
to Premier Stain, whose influence with
the Chinese Communists is great.
Whether the American President and
the British Prime Minister broached
this question at Teheran is still secret.
But the situation between the Chung
king and Sinkiang governments has not
improved in the least. The Russian
Premier and especially the "Politbureau"
in Moscow do not care much for the
generalissimo, who has fought the
Chinese Communists for nearly 20 wears
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Letters to The Star
Protests Unjust Treatment
of Retired Officers
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In an effort to assure justice to re-
tired officers who are recalled to active
duty and who complete the same
number of years of active duty as entitle
active-list officers to promotion. Senator
johnson OF California has introduced
bill which has been approved by the
Military Affairs Committee. A similar
bill, H. r. 21l9, is pending in the House.
The intent of the bill is praiseworthy,
yet it typif1es the thoughtless and ILL
considered type Of action frequently oc-
curing in Congress. In its present form
the bill is rank class legislation. It
seeks to select small, chosen group for
preferential treatment while denying its
benefits to others possessing the same
qualifications. Obviously this bill seeks
to reward retired officers for any war
service" they may perform in this war.
The fact that these officers will face no
greater hazard than falling out Of
swivel chair is well known.
The retired list of the Army is full of
officers with actual combat duty in the
Spanish American War and in World
War I. They are the faithful servants
who served from IS to 18 years without
a promotion, Loyalty and efficiently
building up strong National Guard,
good ROTC, a 100,000-strong Officers
Reserve Corps and an efficient Regular
Army. Many of them, after 10 years
service, including from one to two years
overseas duty in World War I, were re-
tired in the grade of captain.
Yet these two bills reflect indifference
to the injustice to which they would
subject these retired veterans. Many a
World War retired captain of II years
service would be promoted to major,
and many major with overseas service
included in his Is years service would
attain lieutenant colonelcy II accorded
the same consideration proposed in these
bills for those retired officers who by
chance perform some desk duty in this
war This could be done without one
dollar of cost to the Government Any
retired officer who has the required II,
% or % years service for promotion to
major, lieutenant colonel or colonel
already draws the pay of that grade,
hence the promotion would be only an
honorary" award. As these bills now
stand, they are discriminatory and rank
Glass legislation"
RETIRED VETERAN OF
WORLD WAR I.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Commends Mr.. Ickes
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Secretary Ickes pleads for IAN elm
ination of hate and intolerance for
minorities at home" as an essential con-
dition to peace in which we need not
expect another D-day in generation.
He is on sound ground 1t is an anomaly
of the most glaring sort to be killing
other people and losing our own first
born for the principle of liberation Of
other races from tyranny while we
practice segregation and other devices
of hate and humiliation against millions
of our own citizens.
E B. HENDERSON,
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Sees Rule Wars Cure

To the Editor Of The Star:
If our sick and sad civilization ex-
poets to endure, the churches must take
ends and do their part In seeking
solution for the problems which cul-
inmate in carnage and chaos
With due respects to creed and ritual,
they have not lessened strife to any
marked degree. Countless wars have
been waged in the name of religion, in
cluding the Christian, just as they have
been fought to promote world empire,
save democracy" and establish global
utopias. But lasting liberty is not born
of battle. We cannot bomb our way to
brotherhood
Wars forever may he .outlawed, only
If or when the Golden Rule supplants
the age-old rule Of gold.
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH.
Approves Spanking Yanquis
To the Editor of The Star:
It is with satisfaction that I have
read the partial account in The Star for
June of the address delivered before
the International Education Assembly
at Frederick. Md, by, DR.. Hernane
Tavares de "A. az last . Latin Ameri-
can of note hAs given us public
spanking for our uninteiligent efforts to
build up a feeling Of friendship as
political and business asset in those
countries. -
The criticism is justified and, in vary
ing degree, has been for decades past.
While the quality of the irritant has
not been changed it has been increased
greatly in quantity by the arrival in
Latin America, due to the exigencies of
war, of numbers of Yanquis, who for the
most part are unaware that standards
other than their own exist. Nor do they
realize the damage they themselves are
doing to our interests. present and
future.
Our executives, both business and gov
ernmental, make tours of inspection,
receive compliments and return without
having perceived the true reasons for
our failure to inspire the mutual con-
f1dence we desire.
feel that we owe debt of gratitude
to DR.. de Sa for speaking out so frankly.
1t is to be hoped that those responsible
for the activities of our people from the
Rio Grande to Cape Horn, whether in
uniform or not, official or unofficial,
finally may become conscious of these
shortcomings in our methods and the
urgent necessity of instituting the
necessary reforms.
U. GRANT SMITH.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Yes, Indeed!
By David laurence
From the London Daily Mail.

From the London Daily Mail.
The war largely and inevitably has
starved us of beauty. Travel restric-
tions, austerity, and the blackout de-
prive us of color and variety in our
lives. They were good for us, and
postwar planners should not forget to
see that postwar England is "Merrie
England" once again.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-03
.Pre-School
Clinic Dates
Are Set Up

me season Ton the prc-SChOu! elm
lcS. sometimes called the summer
roundup. OF children who are 10 en-
ter school next session Is at hand
and the health department, has ar
ranged the following schedules. Dr
a. ID. Gregg announced today. These
clinics are held !or the purpose Of
giving the smallpox and dlphthcrid
vaccinations. also 10 examine teeth
and tonS!lS ard other defects tina,
parents may correct before school
begins.
II Is important that children have
The diphthcria vaccination this spring
as II requires two tc three months To
establish immunity and if parents
wish their children TO DC immune
when they enter school next fall.
he further stated. The family Dhv-
SIcIan may dO this or the child NAV
be brought 10 the school clinic. d..
Gregg urged.
Schedule Tor clinics III the white
school are as follows:
ZcD Vance. Monday, April }. 1880
p. IN.
Aycock, Friday. Apr. :. 800 a. m.
Central, Friday. April II. l.3O p. m.
South Henderson, Wednesday. Ay-
ril 10. 100 p. m
Townsville. Friday, April y, 1870
p. m.
MIddlcburg. Monday. April -. I:30
p. m.
Clark ST, Wednesday, April 2G ,.30
p. m.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-03
Mrs. w. w. Parker
Presents Class In
Another Recital

Mrs. w. w. Parker, ST., presented
hcr piano pupils in their second re-
cltal ui the year Saturday night "A,
her nome ON Chestnut street. The
nome was beautifully decorated with
early spring flowers.
An apprcclatlvc audience of
friends and parents were loud in
tnclr praise and applause of each
performance. Following the rcpulal.
program. Miss Peggy Parker. former
member OF the class. now y student
al Meredith college. played Chopin
SchcrZo. which She played ON Thurs
day at Meredith student recital.
with the exception OF four, each
pupil on the program received an
award Tor regular daily practice since
Inc last recital. Other awards were
presented and refreshments OF choco-
late fudge and homemade sal,ed nuts
were served.
Those appearing on the program
IN order were MIShcW Cooper. Jean
Hicks. Laura piric. Mary Matal"s.
Evelyn Adams. Fay Bcclwith. Walter
Parker. Grace Boyd Hicks. CanclIa
BccNwl,h. Becky Tjppctt. Shirley
Ehrc,. Carolyn King. Martha Jane
NcwComO. Patsy Glenn. Alice Ruth
Gardner. Billy Noel. Sarah Green.
Julia Thomas Gary, Virginia Sattcr-
white, Ruth Parks, Melissa Glenn.
Bertha Wilson, Lucy Ann Watkins.
Myrtle Aston, Sallic Gene Kcrncr.
Gloria NanDyke, Ann Royster, and
Ruth Dennis.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-03

Kansas City 10 al mills located in
eastern North Carolina IS now 55c pcr
cwt. This regulation covers corn
meal, corn flour. corn srirs. and
other products made by dry corn
mining process from yellow or white
corn. II does not cover ground or
cracked corn. corn bran. and other
Sim!la: products used for animal
feeding purposes.
y new farmers guide mas also been
released and any merchants inter-
cSicd IN obtaining one may contact
The price clerk. The highlghtS of the
guide are as follows. II the sale of
home canned fruits and vegetables
do not exceed 1900 quarts per year
or SO per calender month. such sales
are not covered by any price rcsu-
!dtIon. The ceiling price of country
butter To retail store is 4Oc per
pound and i3c 10 IN individual CON
Nuncr No sale OF more than two
pounds al one time is considered a
retail sale. II more than two pounds
are sold al one time 10 one individual
the ceiling price is I0c. The ceiling
price 10 the consumer of graded and
country run eggs will remain at the
following prices for April and Nav.
Large grade y soc, large grade B 46c.
large grade { and ungraded eggs 44c
When an individual buys poultry
from the farmer the ceiling price on
live .rycr~ j. 38c and when they
are dressed and drawn SOC. Live
hens have top price of 34c and
when They are dressed and drawn
they may bring Sic.
The lpca! War Price and Rationing
Board has received instructions from
the Raleigh office on the new cx-
else tax and viii he glad to furnish
the information available a. j., per
,aus To- price controlled items. The
OPA vii! shortly issue an order in
structlng the retailers how this new
tax mast be shown on their price
tags and receipts. This office has
received a great many questions
from beer and wine dealers. In
answer Wc wish 10 state that a &c
tax may be added to the ceiling price
uf 500. bottles OF beer and lc on
the l2-Oz. bottle. On sales of draft
beer retailer may charge an adj
dtIonai iC over MS present maximum
price for all sales ~ containers hold
.nG %-UI. or more No increase mag
be made where the containCr size
al the draft beer is less than 3
ounces.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-03
Farm Bureau Asks
Liberal Postwar Plan

Continued from Page Onc.)
in industrial prices u'd wages If Ia
boz"
70 Ci!CCtuntc such program. i
would be- necessary. the farm organ
iIatIon said. f. have AN cicC. e
system of price supports. including
mandatory commodity loans ~ ,hc
government.
The icdCratiuu'S recommendations
were made before Il conference being
held by u special Republican dgri-
cultural advisory committee Of f'yC
governors and four members of Con-
grcsS created ia draft farm r;ank
for presentation to the national con-
VCntICn here IN June.