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Evening star., 1944-11-02

that the Socialist party in this State
draws about three votes from the Demo-
cratic party to two from the Republican
1t is estimated that the Socialists will
poll around 10000 votes
AS for organization. the Republicans
are in much better situation than the
DemocratS-even including the CIO and
Its committees. Gov. Baldwin, Repub-
lican, is a candidate for reelection. He
IS opposed by Robert A. Hurley. whom
he defeated in 1912 by 26000 votes and
to whom he lost in 1910 by $4,000 when
Mr.. Roosevelt was carrying the State by
SIS 600. Unless there should be a Roose-
welt sweep, 1t is likely Gov. Baldwin will
win reelection. The same goes also for
Senator Danaher. Republican, who has
strong labor support.
Brian Mcmahon. former Assistant
Attorney General in the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration, is the Democratic nominee
for the Senate. He has been attacking
Senator Danaher as an isolationist. His
only chance also appears TO lie in a
Roosevelt victory OF considerable pro-
portions.
Democrats generally ere counting on
Roosevelt strength TO pull them through
IN their various contests. That goes too,
for Miss Margaret Connors, the Demo-
cratic nominee running against Mrs
Glare BoOthe Luce for the House This
contest has aroused unusual interest
particularly because Mrs. Luce has been
called the glamOr girl Of Congress
Miss COnnors is a 29-year-old LAWYER
IN Bridgeport. She has been an FBI
agent and a deputy secretary of state
Mrs Luce is expected TO come through
the winner. although Miss Connors is
predicting her own victory by 5000 votes.
Chances are that Connecticut's dele
CATION in Congress will remain Repub-
llcan, with the reservation that this
might be upset if Mr.. Roosevelt should
carry the State by anything like the
figure he did four years ago
Senator Maloney. Democrat. who has
taken much the same attitude toward
many New Deal policies as Senator
David l. Walsh of Massachusetts, has
made two or three speeches for the
Democratic ticket. but like Senator
Walsh he does not appear to have put
much heart in it.
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Terms for the BuIoors

The Bulgarian armistice. Just
made public jointly by Russia, Brit
ain and the United States, is much
the same in its military terms as
that signed by Finland and Ro-
mania. But it has distinguishing
marks as far as reparations and
territorial revisions are concerned.
The Bulgars are ordered to pay no
fiat sum. They are told merely that
they must Immediately send food
relief to Greek and Yugoslav areas
injured by their aggression and that
this will be considered as part pay
ment on whatever damage costs
may later be assessed against them
by the Allies. AS for territory, they
must give up all the land they took
from Yugoslavia and Greece in the
spring of 1941. This means, that
they lose the Aegean Sea outlet
which they then acquired, but they
are apparently to retain Southern
Dobruja, which Romania handed
over to them in 1910 under pressure
from Hitler.
Thus, the indications are that in
the next general European peace
system Bulgarias boundaries will be
largely the ones existing prior to
the First World War. On the whole,
the terms seem more lenient than
those granted the other Axis satel-
lites who have broken with Hitler
and are now fighting against him.
But this was to be expected. Bulgaria,
after all, has had traditional ties
with Russia for generations, It did
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Does not Mr.. Lawrence understand
that 1t is precisely this sort of policy
which brought about the last two wars
IN which we were compelled to engage?
Precisely because We were not ready to
act when action could have been rela-
lively easy, effective and of low cost. we
mad later TO act under compulsion, under
tremendous difficulties and at enormous
cost in blood, in time and in treasure.
What is now proposed is not war, but
police action for the prevention of war.
We and our Allies have agreed that war
is too terrible in its future potentialties
for civilized men to permit it again to
occur. Therefore it is proposed that we
JOIN with them in an organizat ation en-
powered to act preventively. as a police
force acts by taking those timely meas
ures on limited scale of effort which
may obviate the necessity of having to
make the greater and more perilous
effort of war
Mr. Lawrence deplores any arrange
ment by which armed forces are to be
employed In any part of the globe even
when neither the United States nor its
direct interests have been attacked
There it is again-the idea of waiting
until we are attacked before we do any
thing. But in the world of the rocket
and the robot bomb, If you wait until
you are attacked it is already too late
to do anything effective except perhaps
to give back as good as you get. Not a
very hopeful or satisfactory prospect.
X X
Nor iS tbaro opy nort ~ +ho ol.l.. i.
which, from the point of view of pre-
venting war. the United States does not
now have direct and very vital interest.
How we'll We remember Mr. Chamber
lains remark to the effect that Czecho-
slovakia was distant country of which
we know very little.
How well We remember the frantic
demands of the isolationists: Shall We
fight for Manchuria? Or Indo-China?
Or Danzig?
Obviously, We do not want to 60 to
war at ALL but the only way we can keep
from having to go to war because of
things which will happen Tin an un-
guarded world) in some other distant
place Of which we know little at present
is by stamping out the sparks before
the conflagration starts.
III is perfectly possible Tor Congress,
within its constitutional prerogatives, to
delegate to the President the power to
use the armed forces of the United
States for such purposes.
Indeed, there is some question If such
delegation Of power is needed as almost
all our Presidents have had occasion to
use the armed forces of the United
States to preserve American interests
of one sort or another in many quarters
of the globe.
And are We in the habit Of electing
Presidents because they cannot be
trusted to do their duty and care for the
interests of the Nation2
(copyright, 1e4A)
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The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

HARTFORD, Conn. Nov. 2.-Connect-
icut. sandwiched in between New York
and Massachusetts, with large industrial
areas as well as rural looks to be close
IN the presidential race. The Republican
trend in the Nutmeg State, however has
been strong. There has been no sign of
a change in that trend and the State
may well go for Gov. Dewey, despite the
Commander in Chief campaign which
fourth termerS are Waging.
This Republican trend was empha-
sized in 1912 when Connecticut elected
solid Republican delegation to the
House. and more recently in city and
town elections which have gone strongly
Republican
Democrats are hopeful a scheduled
visit by President Roosevelt in this city
on his way to deliver his Saturday night
speech in Boston will bolster the fourth
term cause. They are claiming the
State tor the President by $4,000 votes
although some of the leaders say pri-
vatelv they will be pleased if he carries
1t by as much as 10 900 votes
Republicans are predicting Dewey
victory by 10000 to $4,000.
There is some split in the hitherto
strong Roosevelt vote in organized labor
due here as elsewhere to jealousy of
the C1O and its Political Action Com
mittee. The AFL, however gave its en-
dorsement to the President
While some Republicans are expected
to vote for Roosevelt on the Commander
in Chief and foreign policy issues. there
Is chance there will be more Demo-
cratic defections, particularly among the
Irish and talianAmericans, of whom
there are many in the State Republi-
cans also have chance to pick up more
OF the Polish vote than in the past.
Registration OF new voters has been
heavy. Many have registered, however
as independents. and no one seems to
know just what this means, although
both sides are claiming an advantage
Mayor Jasper McLevy. that cannv
Scot Socialist in Bridgeport, has made
up this year with the National Socialist
ticket headed by Norman Thomas and
there is a complete Socialist ticket in
the field. including presidential electors.
This will be of some advantage to the
Dewey ticket. for it has been developed
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This Changing World
Br Constantine Brown

Prime Minister Churchill's statement
that the war against Germany may last
until next summer serves as new
reminder of situation on both the
western and eastern fronts that has
been rather apparent for the last few
weeks
Concerning the fighting in France,
Holland and along the western borders
OF the Reich, the Americans and British
have made no attempt to hide the fact
that 1t has been chiefly the supply
problem, coupled with stiffened re-
sistence, which has kept us from moving
farther inside Germany.
The Russian forces have gathered a
large share of the sensational news re-
Gently, though much has come from
the Berlin radio. The fall of former Axis
satellite or Nazi-occupied countries has
made good reading" for the haters
of Naziism. but as far as the progress
of the war against Germany itself is
concerned, it has meant little.
That the Germans feel they are able
to keep the Allies in the west in check.
at least until spring, is becoming more
evident AS winter draws on. and the
recent shift of Col Gen. Heinz Guderian.
chleI OF the German Army general
stan, to commander on the eastern
front only emphasizes the point. The
Germans hope to stop the Russians at
the so-calied Koenigsberg -Insterburg
line, whereas the Russians themselves
hope to press their enemy to the
Poznan- Breslau line.
Ihe Berlin high command has high
hopes OF stopping the threat that tho
German positions along the Vistula
River will be outhanked. The Russians
have not advanced there for IA weeks.
1t Is at point on the Vistula north
OF Warsaw that the Russian forces are
little more than 300 miles from Berlin
and this is the most direct route to the
German capital.
When the Germans were on the move
In their offensive DAYS of 1940-4l any
territory they took outside Germany was
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Letters to The Star
Discusses School Conditions in
Northern virginia
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
On November 7, Virginia voters will
vote to determine whether or not the
Literary Fund will be frozen at $l0-
600, 900 or not. This fund accrues from
fines and the proceeds of escheats and
forfeitures. The money ,has been used
as borrowing source by municipalities
to build schools. The proponents of the
divert some Of it to aid gifted students
and TO bolster a weak teachers retire
ment fund.
Negro voters, in the main, possibly
will vote not to freeze the fund, but
many believe that probably the colored
constituency would fare better If the
fund could be used to give teachers
more security and to benefit needy
students.
The reason given is that almost no
money from this fund. The RosenWald
fund, a philanthropic donation to the
South, augmented by State funds, was
used to build schools. A comparison
between schools for colored children in
many counties in Virginia and schools
for white children is shocking. Attrac-
tive buildings and healthful environs
make possible the best of education
for some children, but many schools for
Negroes are terrible.
The regional high school at Manassas
for Negroes is the only high school
serving the counties in Northern Vlr-
ginia, and although the curriculum is
modem, the buildings are old and so
repelling for lack of repair that many
children move to or travel to Washing
ton for secondary education rather than
go 80 and 40 miles in busses to Ma
naSSaS.
1t is a serious commentary on public
educate that one segment of the public
school population is segregated from the
other and must be educated under con-
ditions that nullify much of what the
hard working teachers try to do with
their charges A 100000 high school
is now being built in Falls Church.
There Is a splendid high school at
Fairfax Although nearly every school
for white children in this county Is
commodious brick structure. there Is
only one brick building for Negro chill
dren in the county. Yet Fairfax now is
a prosperous county.
These are some of the reasons Ne
groes are giving for doubling the value
of voting to support fund which to
date has meant almost nothing, except
in an indirect way, in improvement OF
schools for Negro children. After all,
they are American children and en-
titled to equal opportunities for edu-
cation. E. B. HENDERSON.
Falls Church, Va.
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so much to the good and Germany was
glad to have it, Now, with the very
borders Of the Reich either crossed or
threatened on all sides, these territories
lose their Importance. In fact, their
loss might be welcome though it sounds
strange, because with every loss more
troops are withdrawn and become avail
able for front-iine duty elsewhere.
The Russians apparently do not expect
TO make much headway this winter.
They have been more busily occupied
with taking over and becoming firmly
established in former German-occupied
countries than in launching an all-out
offensive against the German lines
where it woulG hurt most
Recent news dispatches from Moscow
point up the fact that the Russians are
settling down for winter campaign.
One dispatch contained the statement
that while the German army has been
mauled severely on the eastern front, it
is now arrayed behind fortifications and
natural defenses. There Is trench war
fare in Poland and the fighting in East
Prussia, temporarily at least, appears to
be a CORY Stalemate."
On Tuesday the German radio said,
The battle of East Prussia may be re-
garded as terminated and made aSser-
tions that the Russians had been con-
siderably weakened by IA days of violent
combat
On November 7 the Russians will cele-
bra, the 9th anniversary of the Soviet
revolution and, according to Moscow
censored dispatches, the Russians are
striving for complete liberation of every
foot of Soviet territory"
Washington observers who have been
critical of the Russian tactics of seizing
territory which can only have political
bearing on the fight against the Ger
mans read into these words the strong
implication that Premier Stain is will
ing to sit by and content himself for the
moment with the reoccupation of old
Russian territories or territories that
he regards as important to the postwar
welfare of his own country
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The Postwar World
By Maj. GeOrge FieIdinp Eliot

1t is extremely difficult for most of
us to understand that the world in
which We shall find ourselves after the
war Is won will be in many respects
very different indeed from the world
we knew before the war began
Despite ourselves. we find our
thoughts running along lines which
would be appropriate enough for 1918
or even 1888. but do not bear much
relation to the conditions which We
shall face, let us say. in 1916
In trying to apply the lessons of ex-
perience, we sometimes fail to remember
that they are only lessons not blue
prints of the future; that they afford us
lamp to guide our feet along uncharted
ways and not chart of those WAYS
which we have yet to tread
In the days before the great wars of
this century. Americans thought of ma
tional defense in terms of protecting
their territory, their possessions and
their rights against possible attack by
other nations. They thought, therefore,
in terms of military defense, of prepara-
ton as affected by the time given by
their distance from the sources of power
of other states.
They thought in terms of going to
war" declaring war" as the last resort
when all else had failed and when it
became necessary to mobilize the re-
sources of the Nation for the common
defense
But those days are gone forever. be-
cause of the fundamental changes that
have taken place in the world in our
means OF movement and of communica-
ton and the nature of war itself The
world has grown smaller. while the
weapons have grown speeder, more ter
rible and more far-reaching.
Today, unless civilized man is to go
underground and live the sunless life
Of the mole, he must think not in terms
Of defending his homeland against
attack after attack has begun, but in
terms of making it impossible for any
one to attack at all. In other words,
we no longer prepare to defend ourselves
if war comes, we prepare to prevent
war from occurring.
There is no other way by which we
may survive and preserve those rights,
those possessions and those ideals which
are as dear to us as life itself.
That is why there is so much of hope
in the preparations now under way to
create an international security organi-
zation by which the victors in this war
may remain associated to prevent the
outbreak of another war. And that is
why it is so discouraging to find men
of influence and honest purpose still
thinking and speaking in the terms of
an age that is gone forever.
For example in a recent column David
Lawrence made clear his anxiety over
"a plan whereby American boys may be
ordered into war by the President here
after without the specific consent of the
American people normally given by
declaration OF war In . particular dis
pute"
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For All People

The installation of the Very
Reverend John Wallace Suter as
dean Of Washington Cathedral yes
terday marked the beginning Of a
new page in the history Of the
beautiful diocesan church at Mount
Saint Adams. Again and again
throughout the service it was de-
clared that the Cathedral is to be
faithful to the vision of the prophet
Isaiah expressed in the words:
Mine house shall be called a house
Of prayer for all people"
OF course, such an affirmation is
not new. The first Bishop Of Wash
ington and each of his successors
agreed in the conception of the
Cathedral as "a witness to Christ"
in which diversive influences were
out of place. Even when only the
Bethlehem Chapel had been COM
pleted, all classes and conditions of
people were welcomed to worship.
Later, as one additional portion Of
the vast fabric after another was
brought into sacred use, the same
ideal Of fellowship in religion was
carried forward. Ministers Of many
different branches of Christian be-
lief have preached from the Cathe-
dral pulpit, taught in the Cathedral
schools, written for the Cathedral
publications. The thousands of
pilgrims who annually visit the close
represent all denominations. No
other church in the United States
has been more free in terms of
welcome for all comers.
But it is good to hear the new
dean and his bishop again insist
upon the traditional universally of
the Cathedral as an institution of
religion, education and charity. The
magnificent design of Mount Saint
Adams as whole never will be
finished except as it draws to it's
support liberal Christians of every
variety.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
A Mountain Woman

Some are born OF palleys,
But am mountain born,
l rodmed q laurel thicket
To the tune OF q hunting horn,
/ learned a knife-keen laughter ~
From, lonesome mountain brooks,
The lore OF song and spice1Dood
/ neper found in books. f.
/ tD0lk in fern fragrance y
That curls beside a stream,
I ,Ued me tall ridge runner
Who could fiddle Derdrs dream,
He built clay-chinked cabin =
With chimney hearth for me; (
Ny big sons are sepen q
And straight as a sDeet gum tree.
/ am a mountain Doman,
Full of years and bent,
With my pipe and my chimney corne
I am UeH content. &
ALMA robson HIGREl
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Tough Spot for q Soldier

One OF the necessary qualifca-
tions Of top-ranking officers in this
war is an ability to get along with
people, especially our Allies. That
has been a happy trait Of character
In Major General A. C. Wedemeyer,
just transferred from one hot spot as
Lord Mountbattens deputy chief of
staff in the Southeast Asia Com
mand to hotter spot as Generals
Sin1o Chiang's chief of staff and
commander of American forces in
the Chinese theater.
The fact that he was near at
hand. with years experience in
helping to unsnarl some of the mys-
terious tangles of the India Burma
theater, made him the most imme-
diately available officer to relieve
General Stilwell But there was
more to it than that. General
Wedemeyer had a reputation in
Washington as brilliant staff off,
Ger before the British asked for him
In India. He combines tact with
f1rmness in gracious personality
that enables him to work as member
of a team. He is competent for any
operation where soldering must be
mixed with diplomacy.
In a way, it is one of the ironies
of the professional soldiers life that
finds General Wedemeyer in China,
while so many Of his comrades are
preparing for the final assault on
Germany. General Wedemeyer is
one of the best-informed men on
Germany in the Army. He attended
the German War College for two
years In the period Immediately
preceding the war, numbering
among his classmates and in
etructors the ranking oficers-or
those who remain alive-in Hitler's
army. He was one of General Mar
shalls chief planners of the opera
tions which began in Africa and
ended with the Normandy landings.
Evening star., 1944-11-02
Doubts Arisino
From the Montreal Star

From the Montreal Star
Russia may not like Franco or Salazar
and describe their governments as pro-
Fascist-why Switzerland was included
in the same category is puzzling-but
these countries must participate in the
postwar international organization and
their participation can be arranged only
by way of conference and agreement
1t is true they are not among the United
Nations, but international aviation after
the war must include not only the Allied
nations, but all others as we'll
The Soviet attitude, whether based on
the reasons publicly assigned or not,
raises grave misgivings over the success
of other efforts at international con-
Citation and agreement
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not attack Soviet SOIL and the Red
Army was at war with it for fewer
than 100 hours before Sofia surren-
dered.
The real feeling against Bulgaria
will be found in neighboring Greece
and Yugoslavia, for there, as Prime
Minister Churchill declared not long
ago, it has committed acts for which
"full atonement must be exacted."
AS the armistice terms suggested,
the Allied Control Commission will
probably work out suitable repara-
tions charges and take steps to
punish individual Bulgarians guilty
of criminal misdeeds against the
Greeks and Yugoslavs.
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His new assignment is one of the
toughest, and In many ways one OF
the most important, jobs in the
Army. Those who know him feel
that he Is good man to help turn
threatened failure into something
approaching success,