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Evening star., 1944-01-14
Natures Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
CONICAL CABBAGE
(Brassica olerncen.

We have 1t from reliable sources
that the cabbage has been cultivated
since long before records were made.
1t seems that, even in those days,
there was an effort to change the
original style Of our dependable and
sturdy cabbage. But the early cab
bage was a starved and scrawny
plant compared with the aff1uent,
hard headed, diversified ones offered
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N~eA i84

Ten Illustrations by Frank c. Pape
appear in the picture leafet "Africa's
People and Customs" If you want a
copy, send self-addressed envelope
bearing 3-cent stamp to Uucle Ray
in care OF The Evening Star
Evening star., 1944-01-14

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Evening star., 1944-01-20
TO the Editor of The

10 the Editor OF The Star.
Antistrike legisla lion and a national
service law are now being contemplated.
We have been told by Official and un-
official commentators that labor strikes
should be outlawed as they give aid
and comfort to the enemy.
On the other hand, as pointed out
by well-known newspaper columnist
the other day, Hitler, in his recent
speech, very carefully made no mention
Of American labor difficulties. Under
the Nazi and Fascist dictatorships, the
common man has forgotten what it
means 10 be able to raise his voice in
protest against unfair working and
living conditions. Even in the land
of our Ally, Soviet Russia, the tradi-
tional right of the working class to
strike or to threaten to strike. went
out of existence when the dictatorship
came in
Yes, 1t would be an aid and comfort
and a hope-to many millions of
silenced people to know that there still
is corner of the globe where men and
women are not working in involuntary
servltude; to know that there still is
one portion of the earth where people
are free enough to express their griev-
ances-organized or unorganized real
or imaginary. MIRIAM ZIONY.
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Samuel Grafton

the premise that everything we did in
French North Africa was smart. and
right. Well, that's good The audi
ence will accept that, near the begin
ming to get the show started But be-
fore the show is over they will want to
know why it is so many Frenchmen
cont seem to like us.
once you establish a premise. YOU
have to follow through. Your script
premise is that this character you're
plugging can get along with anybody.
no matter if he's a dog (and I under
stand this Darlan was not a high-class
type, but then you come to the De
Gaulle episode and your audience Won
ders why your hero doesn't get along
with him, too.
The listener might reason. well guess
this hero gets along best with the wrong
kind of Frenchman, which would be
an unfortunate conclusion, spelling the
point OF the whole script.
1 offer these tips as professional
writer who earns his income in private
Industry, under the free enterprise svs-
tenn, but who has no quarrel with gov
ernment and is always willing to give the
agencies a hand There's a lot can
be done with that script. A couple of
changes I could think of in the latter
part would pick it right up.
Evening star., 1944-01-20

want to hold listener attention YOU
have to stick to subjects that are up to
date. For instance, there is a French
character around named De Gaulle,
and lot of people are interested in
why We are not on good terms with him.
But he was never mentioned on the
whole show.
I can hardly wait for future INSTALL
ments of this serial. when they get out
the part about how smart we were to
deal with this dead Frenchman, and
reach the place about why we don t
get along better with the live one.
I also wondered little bit about the
wisdom Of putting on an official State
Department radio show to justify the
Darlan policy, right now, when our
relations with De Gaulle are so strained
and when Mr.. Churchill has Just spent
four hours with De Gaulle at Marrakesh,
trying to fix things up. De Gaulle might
think We were rubbing it in You
have to think about these things when
you do radio show. Especially in war
time. I know I once caught hell for
attacking the King of italy.
Besides. radio script has to have a
certain strong logicality about it. In
this Saturday show, they started with
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Letter to LitvinOff
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

what they could to dispel these doubts
and these distrusts of Russia, have been
assuring their readers and listeners that
the Russian people and their leaders
are fully worthy of Americas trust and
friendship, that Russia can be counted
on to play her part as a loysl and
cooperative member of the great FAM
lily of law-abiding States who, after this
war must forge out of the white hot
iron of victory the unbreakable pillars
OF lasting peace.
So, all this being true, and as we'll
known to you as it is to myself, I
would like to ask you whether you can
not explain to some of your associates
the Importance of not doing those things
which make it more difficult for this
tender growth of Soviet-American con-
fidence to flourish and prosper and come
to bear useful fruit.
y
You know that we do not have a
controlled press in this country. You
know that every American is we'll aware
that your press is controlled; that it
does not say those things which your
government does not desire to have
said. When your newspaper Pravda
publishes baseless rumor about British
agents seeking separate peace, that
does nothing but stir up suspicion and
distrust of your government here and
in Great Britain.
1t makes many Americans wonder
what your motives may be- It permits
those organs of our press who are vio-
lently opposed to American co-opera-
ton with Russia to ask whether this
is smoke screen behind which Russia
is hiding some sinister intention of her
own. 1t makes it immensely more diff
ficult for those of us who do believe in
American-Rus cooperation to tell
their fellow Americans that Russia can
be trusted. We shall have that little
item thrown in our teeth at every turn
of the road for the next six months
Can't you explain this to your col
leagues, so that they will understand.
We know full well that your govern
ment has certain views with regard to
your western frontier which it regards
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Gould Lincoln

Ter now the presidential election goes.
he expects the Republicans to win the
presidency, too, but whether they do or
not he is confident they will control
ana organize the House. This would be
unusual in the extreme. The hide as
general rule goes with the carcass in
THESE electons-when a President is
elected OF one party that party also has
the majority in the House.
%t
The present makeup of the House Is
2l7 Democrats-one less than a major
ity-209 Republicans, minor party
members 4 Democratic vacancies and
Republican vacancy. These Demo-
cratic vacancies are in Oklahoma, Ala
bama, New York and Colorado. The
republicans believe they may fill the
two vacancies in Oklahoma and Col
orado if special elections are held. The
Republican vacancy is in Illinois.
caused by the death of Representative
Wheat-a strong Republican district
The Republicans. therefore, will 60
into the congressional elections in No
Vember almost on a par, so far as House
strength Is concerned, with the Demo-
Gratis.
the TACT that in the by-elections which
nave been won by the Republicans, and
in the other elections in 1912 and 1943.
with exceptions, light vote has been
cast as compared to presidential years.
Their hope is that when the "stay-at-
nome vote" comes out, it will vote the
Democratic ticket, particularly if Presi-
dent Roosevelt heads that ticket. They
don't know, however, that this will be
SO and that is what worries them. To
speculate on how voters might have
voted had they felt strongly enough to
go to the polls on election day is rather
idle
The Democrats are counting on the
war to win the election. Without it as
an issue, few of them would have real
nope. To win they must retain the
labor vote, the Negro vote in Northern
States-and they must have big per-
centage Of the soldier vote. They have
little hope of the farmer vote.
Evening star., 1944-01-20

elected their candidate to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of the late
Representative Creal. Democrat The
only Democrat Offset in these House
by-electlonS came in the second Cali
fornia district, where Democrat sue
ceeded the late Representative Engle-
bright, Republican. Candidates in
that district were placed on the ballot
by petition, with two Republicans con-
testing against the Democratic csndi-
date. The two Republicans received
more than 60 per cent of the total vote.
The Republican victories in these
House elections showed a big gain in
the Republican percentage of the total
vote cast. For example, the fourth
Kentucky district. where the percentage
gain in the Republican vote as compared
to 1912 was 10 per cent; in the Missouri
second district, the percentage gain
was "a per cent, and in the Kansas
second district it was 10 per cent,
although Representative Guyer had held
this district for years and was a popular
figure
The Pennsylvania second district
elected Republican in 1894. In the
1our successive congressional elections
it was carried by the Democrats. with
Mr.. McGranery as their candidate. He
won in 1892 however, by the narrow
margin of 713 votes. The Republicans
won on Tuesday with lead of nearly
5000 votes. In other words. the Re-
publicans polled in 1912 about 495 per
cent of the total vote, and on Tuesday.
56.7 per cent.
In 1912 the Republicans lost 80 con-
gresslonal districts throughout the
country in which they polled from As
per cent to 40 per cent plus 1t is obvi-
GUS that in the elections next Noyem-
Der they have only to show percentage
gains in these districts similar to that
IN the second Pennsylvania district and
they will control the next House.
Representative Halleck of Indiana
chairman of the Republican Congress
sional Committee, predicts fatty that
the COP will have a majority in the
House elected next November, no mat
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Constantine Bro1Vn

According to the best available infor.
nation, the question of Poland and the
Baltic States was not discussed either
at the conference of the foreign min.
listers or at the meeting between the
chiefs of states. Hence the Russians
are said to believe that neither the
United States nor Britain would let 1t
become major problem now or after
the war. The Russians seem to be under
the impression that whatever they do
will eventually be accepted by Washing
ton and London.
There is, however, a deeper problem
which worries the Moscow diplomats.
That is the possibility of "re-orienta-
ton of the British policies.
A few months ago distinguished and
very well informed British editor F. A.
Voigt, foreign editor of the powerful
liberal paper, the Manchester Guardian.
and editor of the influential political
magazine, Nineteenth Century and
After, wrote an article discussing the
Importance OF balance of power in
Europe for both Britain and Europe
itself.
He was followed shortly afterward by
speech by Field Marshal SHUTS, the
Prime Minister Of South Africa, who
said that under the present conditions
In Europe it is essential that some
european nations group themselves into
an organization to be known as the
British confederation of nations. In
these two expressions of opinion, which
bore an official stamp, since Field Mar
shal Smuts Is one of the most powerful
ngures IN the British commonwealth, the
SOVIET government may have seen a
challenge to Russia's postwar aims in
Europe. The statements have created
as great a stir among the diplomats as
among the general public.
Evening star., 1944-01-20

Ter. killed IN an alrplane accident.
One swallow does not make spring.
Nor does one Republican gain in the
Pennsylvania delegation in the House
necessarily mean a Republican sweep
in the national elections next November.
But the victory of Joseph NJ Pratt, Re-
publican, In the second district located
in Philadelphia over his Democratic
opponent, William A. Barrett, is just
one of series of Republican victories
and Democratic defeats since the cleo
tions OF 1912. In 1912 there was a surge
of Republicanism which nearly carried
the House for the COP and which swept
into office Republican Governors m
many of the bigger States, including
New York.
Since those 1912 elections, the Re-
publicanS have elected Governors of
Kentucky and New Jersey, ousting
Democratic regimes in both They re-
peated their 1912 victory in New York,
electing new Republican Lieutenant
Governor by large vote. They elected
Representative Bennett in the sixth
Missouri district to succeed his father.
They elected Republican in the Second
Kansas district to fill vacancy caused
by the death of Representative Guyer.
In the fourth Kentucky district, they
Evening star., 1944-01-20
A Needed Correction

oy uQAlOlOllAS q PlOVlolOll Ill tIlS
pending revenue measure to require
nonprofit, tax-exempt organiza-
tions to file annual financial state
ments with the Treasury, the SEN
ate has taken step that seems
wholly sound and unobjectionable
in principle. At first glance, because
of Senator Railey's effective speech
favoring it as a check on the power
OF organized labor. it may appear
to some to be an "antiunion" de-
vice. But it is not that. Senator
Clark of Missouri, who sought un-
successfully to defeat it. made it
clear in the debate that he was
opposed to it because of his convic-
ton that 1t was devised originally
and chiefly as the entering wedge
of drive to impose taxation on
farm co-operatives.
Despite this charge, however, and
the argument that the provision
would burden the Internal Revenue
Bureau and all the nonprofit groups
concerned with heavy new paper
work, Senator Clark and his sup
porters failed, by vote of 43 to "a,
to convince the Senate. Looking at
the measure in general. Senator
George, for example. summed up the
principle involved when he said he
could not see why tax-exempt Or
nizationS-apart from the several
exceptions made in the bill-should
not be obliged to file statements
showing the size of their income, its
source and the nature of it's dis
bursement, irrespective of whether
they are farm co-operatives, labor
unions or building and loan associa-
tions. This is not tax provision"
he declared. "It is simply a request
for international returns so that
the committees of Congress may
know whether they ought to proceed
to tax any one who is now tax
exempt"
Such provision seems altogether
reasonable in respect to any group.
Labor leaders may object, but it
is still fact that unions, with their
vast war expansion, are becoming
big financial structures in them
selves. taking in regular dues from
millions of individuals. This is power
without any check, wealth without
any accounting. and as Senator
Bailey has pointed out, the public
is vitality interested in it and has
every reason to want to know
through annual statements to the
Treasury or otherwise - just how
great it is and how it is being used
BY its action, the Senate has moved
to correct a situation long in need
of correction. and as a result the
Nation as whole ought to benefit.
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Burometric Reudino

NoW for an instant in the. on,inous
slate-gray daun
Charged aoith impending storm, the sea
gone still and strangely graue,
The cloud ,oall cracks ,Dith light, the
lepel food of sun
Breaks molten gold, pours fiery copper
tide on 1DaUe and ,Uave
The Dinds 1Uithheld, the single creamy
Seabird poised,
The dune grass frozen in fired delicate
elements of dance,
Beyond long line of rose-anber foam,
under black-Diolet roof OF cloud,
Shoreline and estuaries flame in this
luminous internal of trance.
None but this season and this hour could
see a coast thus still,
The churn of surt remote, swells calm,
the last OF autumn fed;
And noD the mariner lUlo reads more
than his glass tDil know
The day is young, the year is old, and
there is storm ahead.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1944-01-20

as essential to Russian interests. On
the whole. think it may be fairly said
that the question of your frontiers with
Poland has been examined in the
American press with a considerable de-
gree of sympathy for your point OF
view.
Could it not have been possible for
your government to make a frank and
clear and temperate statement on the
subject, setting forth the really excel
lent case which can be made for the
Curzon Line, instead of taking the
chip -on-the he-shoulder" attitude which
has characterized Soviet official utter
ances on this point? We don't ask Rus
sia to submit to our arbitration, or to
British arbitration in every question
that arises between Russia and her
neighbors: But would not Russian in
terests be better served in the end il
you managed to convey the idea that
American and British public opinion.
goodwill and confidence were considered
matters of some Importance in Russian
official circles?
Personally, as you we'll know, Mr.. Vice
SoiiiiiioooAs ldFc lOIlS pSlleVeQ Jfat
the future peace and security of the
world in general and of my country in
particular, must be based on a sound
understanding and wholehearted co-op-
GRAFTON between the British Common
wealth, the Soviet Union and the
United States.
Many other Americans believe the
same thing. You believe that, too But
no understanding between governments
or statesmen is worth very much, or
will last very long, unless it is backed
by the confidence Of the people. Can't
you persuade your official associates that
there is some virtue in the old Ameri-
can proverb about the respective virtues
Of vinegar and molasses for the CATCH
Ing of flies?
Sincerely yours,
(Signe0 George Fielding Eliot.
That is what I would like to write
to Maxim Ltvinoff-H could
r. (Copyrisht. 1914, N. 2. Tribune. Ine., =
Evening star., 1944-01-20

confidence and good will, between the
Russian and the American peoples.
You have seen the slow but steady
growth of that confidence and good
will on both sides, partly as result
of your own labors, partly as result
of the magnificent victories of your
countrymen against the common foe,
partly as result of our own contribu-
tions to your war effort, partly as g re-
suit of the endeavors of our President
and Secretary of State on the one hand,
and your Premier and Foreign Com
missar on the other, eliminating in the
historic meetings at Moscow and Te-
heran.
You know that this growth was from
very small beginnings on both sides.
You know that there was a vast igno-
rance of and vast prejudice against
Russia in this country, and similar
ignorance of and prejudice against
the United States in Russia. You know
that these conditions have not yet been
overcome by any means. You know that
many influences are still at work in
America to prevent any real under
standing with Russia.
You also know that many of us here
in America who have the public ear
among whom the writer of these words
takes humble place-have been doing
Evening star., 1944-01-20
Limited Tenure Considered
No Cure for disagreement.

To the Editor of The Star
Senator ODaniel of Texas recently
came out with a proposal to abolish
reflections and limit all holders of
Federal elective Offices to one term of
six years, as a means of restoring to
the people control of Government now
lost to "a gang of political racketeers"
through "the undying love in the hearts
of politicians for reelection"
1t Is reasSuring to have distinguished
company in criticism of a program that
requires biennial hiring and firing of
our legislators without limit to their
comeback and regardless of anything
else that may confront us. 1t may look
democratic, but it works out to some
thing quite different against. which we
nave done nothing but hold our noses.
There is nothing new about the "lost
control OF which the Senator COM
plains, but why damn the politicians?
Our politicians in office are no different
from the rest Of us in wanting to keep
their jobs, and most of them deserve
to, as there always would be a majority
to observe their sole duty to the Nation.
If only the gimme" boys could be kept
OH their backs. These gentry are not
politicians. From the top down thev are
OF our most enterprising citizenry. A
tasty sample of their enterprise is in
the legislative attention given to oleo-
margarine, with its fine sense of color
values-to be impaired by the Nations
busy housewives.
II we are to have the much -heraIGed
freedom from fear" we will need to
begin with our Congressman. But a
single term Of six years would not
likely improve conditions for the rest
of us. The term should be so extended
as to offer a career to our best talent
under conditions to give reasonable as
surance of disinterested service with
experience where we need it most.
WALTER N. CAMPBELL.