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Evening star., 1944-12-25
1t Must Go On
From the Toronto Globe and Mail.

From the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Unbroken smoothness in the workings
OF the war partnership of the United
States and the British nations hardly
could have been hoped for, and there
have been occasional riffs and disputes
due to honest differences of opinion
about policy, one of them having
emerged recently in connection with the
provisions of new government for
Italy. But such differences are super
flcial excrescences and while mischief
makers in both countries will exploit
them they cannot and must not be al
lowed to hinder the continuance of the
harmonious cooperation of the Anglo
Saxon peoples, which is today winning
the war, for the equally important tasks
Of peace. If it were to break down and
the British and American peoples were
to go their separate ways, even without
engaging in competitive rivalry, the
hopes of building new world order
which would guarantee peace and secur-
ity would fade and the war would have
been fought In vain.
Evening star., 1944-12-25
This Changing World
By Constantine Broom

There is one great gift the American
people have been anxiously expecting
on Christmas day--the major Russian
offensive on the Eastern Front against
the main German defense lines west of
Warsaw
The United States has been playing
Santa Claus to all our allies for the
last three years. and she has enjoyed
this role as much as the wealthy head
of family enjoys giving presents to
members of his family and trusted
friends One of our closest allies, the
Russians, have benefited to the tune Of
more than $4,000, 100000 from Uncle
Sans treasury chest. Through lease
lend the Russians have received every
thing from tanks and planes to butter
and gold braid in as large quantities as
they required.
In less than six months after Pearl
Harbor the Russians asked us to start a
large scale offensive on the Western
Front. We could not then comply with
their request because we were just get
ting ready to fight. But in November,
1912, we did undertake the offensive in
North Africa. This, our ally complained,
was of little value to them since the
fighting in Africa was thousands of miles
away from the scene of battle where the
Germans were putting forth their main
effort.
Now we have become hard pinched.
The Germans, taking advantage Of the
secondary operations on the Eastern
Front have plunged some Of their best
divisions against the American forces
which have been fighting relentlessly
since June s. And we do not have the
same reservoir Of manpower as the Rus
slams have; we must fight strong
enemy in the Pacific and our men in
Europe are fighting 5000 miles from
their main bases of supply.
The Russians had agreed at Teheran
to synchronize their offensive with
ours-provided the battle of Nor
mandy turned in our favor. Since the
middle of July, when they stopped with
in four miles of Warsaw on the eastern
bank of the Vistula River, they have
had ample time to regroup their forces
and gather the necessary supplies for
the coup de grace we had all agreed at
Evening star., 1944-12-25
Time Out for War

A good case might have been
made in favor of a definite and
clear-cut policy to retain profess
sional sports in wartime and to
grant occupational exemptions to at
least a proportion of the players.
But there has been no definite
policy in this respect. Professional
sports have been kept alive, in the
main, by the availability of players
deferred from military service on
the strength of physical defects.
One result has been public cynicism
in regard to the bona fldes of ex-
emptions classifying as unfit for
military service the husky athletes
who earn livelihood through their
physical prowess. War Mobilization
Director Byrnes is well advised in
making his request that deferments
of professional athletes be thorough
ly rescreened by selective service. The
result may be better public un-
derstanding of how men who can
meet even the lowered standards of
professional football, baseball, bas-
ket ball and hockey can be marked
down as incapable of far less exact :
ing duty in the armed forces.
In this connection, it is interest
ing to note that while the race track
authorities are for the most part
patriotically accepting without ques-
ton Mr.. Byrnes' ban on racing,
some of them make the point that
racing still is permitted in England
and, until short time ago, in Ger
many. But is it not about time that
we cut our own pattern, stop de-
pending for guidance on what some
other countries are doing? We must
know, by this time, that PARKWAY
measures at home are inadequate: ::
that until we are putting every
available resource at home into the
fight, we shall lag behind what we
ought to be doing. That may be
the main consideration behind Mr..
Byrnes' breakdown on luxury sports.
One may hope that it is.
Evening star., 1944-12-25
Season of Memories
By Mai. Georpe FieIdinp Eliot

The Christmas season is always a
season of memories.
This is a war Christmas-the sixth
war Christmas for most of our Allies
(though it is the ninth for the Chi
nese); 1t is our fourth.
On our first war Christmas the Nation
was still reeling under the shock of the
disaster at Pearl Harbor. We are not
likely to forget that Christmas for a
long time. Looking back on it we realize
how little we then understood the mag
nitude of the task and of the sacrifices
which lay before us.
On our second war Christmas, matters
were little better. We were begin
ming to turn the tide in the Pacific and
in Europe. On our third, we could
speak with some confidence Of the fu-
ture-it was clear that we were not
going to be beaten. but the road still
seemed long and difficult.
Our fourth war Christmas comes to
us In the midst of the last desperate
enemy effort to check our victorious
advance in Western Europe. We have
succeeded in landing the full might Of
America and Britain on the continent
of Europe, we have smashed the famed
Atlantic Wall, We have brought our
armies to the western frontiers of Ger
many itself, we have liberated France,
and we have compelled the enemy to
throw his last stake upon the board.
We are engaged, on this Christmas.
in a mighty struggle to destroy this
final enemy countereffort, into which
he has nut his all
Solemnly in this Christmas season, we
may reflect on the sacrifices our sons
and brothers and dear ones are making
along the Western Front from the val
ley of the Meuse down through the
hills and woods of the Ardennes and in
the little towns of the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg. We know that in the
surrounded garrisons behind the wave
of the current German advance, our
men are having no very cheerful Christ
mas, that the airborne K rations form
the bulk of their Christmas dinner, that
they will spend the hours OF Christmas
Day not in happy relaxation, but in Bit
ter struggle with desperate enemy.
But we know also that from the north
and from the south the divisions OF the
Allied armies are gathering on the
Evening star., 1944-12-25
He Knew Lincoln
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
was much interested in a news story
appearing in The Star recently concern
ing recently found bit of Lincolnia.
The missive quoted was written in
longhand by President Abraham Lin
coin to the adjutant general of the Army
concerning release from the Army draft
Of one Crook" and another individual
whose name I cannot recall
Unquestionably, President Lincoln re-
ferred to Col" William H Crook, who
was personal bodyguard of the mar
tyred President, and whom the writer
knew well in the early years of this
correspondents residence in Washing
ton. l first met Col" Crook in 1904
when he was executive secretary at the
White House. Col" Crook was brother
Of DR.. Harrison Crook, at that time one
of Washington's leading physicians,
with Offices at Fifteenth and l. streets,
and cousin of Gen. Crook, the re-
nowned old Indian fighter of our Army.
Col" Crook and his wife (nee Priddy)
lived on Park road NV, directly across
from where the present Church Of the
Sacred Heart now stands at Sixteenth
street and Park road NV. They main
tanned fashionable boarding house for
select clientele
"Col." Crook was a handsome man
with snowy white hair and full rounded
beard. He was meticulous in his attire,
and his manners and department were
exemplary and truly representative of
the Southern gentleman of poise and
character
Among those who lived with Col"
and Mrs. Crook for short stays or per-
manently. I recall: William Loeb, secre-
tary to President Theodore Roosevelt;
Rudolph Forster, lately deceased execu-
tive secretary to President F. D. Roose-
welt; Ira R. T. Smith, in charge of the
mail at the White House; Harry L..
Charlton, now retired and living in Alta
dena, Calf; Mr.. Netherlands, who
was White House attache, and scores
Of cabinet members, Senators and House
leaders.
Col" Crook idolized President Lin
coin, and have a lengthy mental store
"a tAAo PSASOAiol VI bilc
martyred President, which he related to
me in great and reverent detail. He died
believing that If he had not taken the
night off the President would not have
been slain by Booth He believed that
had he been on duty Booth would never
have been allowed to creep up to the
presidential box, as he would have pre-
vented such action.
His memory for detail was prodigious,
and his manner of discussion most
Illuminating and vivid He gave Miss
Ida Tarbell, the novelist, much data
and personal characterization for her
book: HE Knew Lincoln"
Col" and Mrs. Crook both are dead,
but my wife and I are in regular cor
respondence with his stepdaughter, who
resides in Memphis, Tenn.
Col" Crook was an amiable and de-
voted public servant. His idea of honor
was spelled with capital "H," and knew
no alterations or debasement. He was
splendid gentleman of the old school,
and it Is happy memory and pleasure
to tell the fortunate owner of this
bit of Lincolnia that it refers to gallant
character in the person of col" William
H. Crook. C. MELVIN SHARPE.
Evening star., 1944-12-25
Symbols of Christmas

Lest all our treasured symbols should be
tossed
Into the flames OF tDar, tenaciously
We cling to candle, ,Dredth and SPAR
Killing tree
And star abope old pastures, pale ,Dith
frost.
But though the outer emblemss all Be
lost
4 Those myriad gifts that traverse land
and sea,
The seasons dear, familiar pngeantry-
Something tUiH still suruipe the holo-
cduSt..
Something OF spirit, indefnable
And dedthless. Though a thousand
armies die,
A dream forespoken at the Snpior,s
birth
Apaits the kingdom OF good ,pill on
earth
When peace shall blossom, pure and
beautiful,
Aboue the dark soil OF the years gone
By.
INEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1944-12-25
Letters to The Star
Pens a Reverie on Forgiving
For Christmas Time
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star
When the Christmas season is upon
us, the Christmas spirit should be with
in us. The Christmas spirit influences
human conduct in various ways-it
prompts us to get and forget, to bear
and forbear, to give and forgive.
Through the spirit of Christmas we
get visions-visions of pinched faces,
twisted forms, and starved souls;
through it we forget selfish ends, per-
sonal dislikes, and fancied injuries;
through 1t we bear the blows and darts
OF our own misdoings, and forbear the
faults and injustices of others; through
it we give good and forgive wrong.
The spirit of Christmas is conceived
in the heart of love, born in the manger
of humility, and nurtured on the breast
of tolerance
The giving of goods does not always
argue philanthropy; on the contrary,
it may be source of profit. The real
test of character is ones forgiving the
wrongs of others. Magnanimity alone
can pass such tests. The great and
strong forgive, forget, forbear, and
grow; the small and weak harbor, re-
member, whine, shrivel and decay. The
noble counteract the venom of hatred
with the antidote of tolerance at the
inception of the malady; the mean feed
their vitals to the vulture of revenge
The strong extinguish the burning fuse
of malice with one puff of tolerance;
the weak fan fancied sparks into con-
suming flames, and then perish amid
the conflagration. He who forgets evil
gets good in return.
1t is difficult to determine which is
farther removed from the throne of
heaven, the impenitent or the vindic-
tive; both journey toward the same
goal, yet in opposite directions.
Many new-turned page in the Book
of Life reveals another of infamous
writing Before we write" another act,
let's right" the one already enacted.
Unless the Christmas spirit cleanses
our hearts of embittered memories, i'm
placable enmity, and plotted revenge.
we shall experience Christless Christ
mas, though we empty purse, pocket and
pantry to feed the poor.
The Star of Bethlehem will shine upon
the abode of him who, in the peace of
his own heart, lies down in hovel or
palace with good will toward all men.
In him shall be reborn Gods Christmas
gift to the children of men.
Forgiveness is the last word on the
lexicon of life-the last word from Him
who died that life may be abundant.
DIR. T. K. MUSICK.
Evening star., 1944-12-25

Gods peace. primeval leader to
fellowship, we now peacefully praise.
For, peace is the atonement, the con-
sent who generates and operates one
common nature in all. All long for
peace. She converts the divisible
multitude to total oneness, not silenc-
ing all movement but intending every
ones proper movement. She re-
duces the civil war of the universe
to a harmonious settlement.
JOHANNES ERIUGENA.
have headed this Christmas edi-
torial with quotation from medieval
philosopher, attributed to the year $50
A. D., toward the close Of the so-called
Dark Ages" which bear for all our
modern science a terrible resemblance
to our own age. For then. as now, a
world system and civilization had fallen
to pieces, leaving social and political
disintegration and an intellectual and
spiritual vacuum to fill which two Ideas
were contending-what in modern
phraseology would be called power poll
tics" and that of the Christian faith
preaching unity in God
1t was this antagonism which made
the Dark Ages dark. In the time of
Eriugena the darkness was beginning
to lift as the concept of a moral and
spiritual order governing the behavior
of princes and kings and the relations
between classes and peoples was slowly
emerging.
Eriugenas words reveal the true ma
ture of peace. She converts the divis-
ible multitude to oneness she re-
duces the civil war to a harmonious
settlement peace operates one COM
mon nature in all"
The presumption Of the common
nature" is essential to peace. Yet the
times when this common nature was
assumed by the philosopher. at the
beginning of the ninth century, showed
no outward and visible signs of 1t. All
Europe rocked with wars-not one war
but continual and unremitting wars
for centuries the fragments of broken
civilization had been fighting each
other; Asiastic hordes were attacking
Europe and settling in its midst; Moor
ish tribes were coming from the south:
strong men, mobilizing the countryside,
fought to establish fiefs for themselves,
and other strong men sought to oust
them. The concept of law was non
existent. The idea of equal citizenship
partially established in the Roman era
was gone. Wars were wars of sur
vival." The enemy had no rights
The contenders sometimes carried
the banner OF Christ, but 1t was a char
Evening star., 1944-12-25

for showing In other French cities.
The owl picture magazine "Voir'
and news-digest magazine "U. S. A."
are being sent into France In large
quantities. American movies, par
ticularly newsreels distributed by
Allied agencies, again are being
shown and enthusiastically received
in France. A.group of French news
papermen is being selected to visit
this country and take back to France
a first-hand report of Americas war
effort on the domestic front.
All of this is indicative of prog
ress, but there remains much to be
done.
Evening star., 1944-12-25
An Editor Gets the Blues
rom the Victoria Colonist

From the Victoria CoIonist.
Urbanitis is dinly recognized dis
ease, which appears to be throttling the
world little by little by the metamor-
phosis of natural human values into me-
chanical and artificial ones. Thus jazz
becomes music. blurbs become art, bosh
becomes poetry and walking two blocks
is called exercise. In some lands the
disease has spread far. Night has be-
come day, noise has replaced silence and
billboards exhort humanity to do every
thing under the sun except think.
Evening star., 1944-12-25

has already paid its best dividends
by blocking the Burma road and
threatening British India with inva-
sion. Once those two situations have
been liquidated, Burma becomes
sideshow in Japanese strategy. The
question is, however, whether the
correlative diminution of Burmas
value to the Allies might make it's
speedy conquest worth the price.
Evening star., 1944-12-25

A Baltimore paper recently ran an
advertisement offering a reward of
a carton of cigarettes for the return
of bunch of lost keys. 1t is believed
that they must be the proverbial
keys to the mint.
Evening star., 1944-12-25

Time was when only millionaire
could own an old master. At the
National Gallery, however, 1t now is
possible to buy true-color prints of
priceless pictures for less than a
neighborhood movie ticket.
Evening star., 1944-12-25

flanks of the German effort; we know
that the German attempts to fan out
to north and south have been checked
at every attempt; we know that Ger
man progress westward means only ad-
ditional peril to the irreplaceable Ger
man armored divisions as long as they
cannot swing right or left to exploit
their gains. For the counterblows, when
they come, will strike at base of the
German penetration, cutting the supply
roads by the life-blood of the German
effort flows to the westward
And we know that kindly Providence
has given our fighting men the very
best Christmas present that they could
have asked for, the Christmas gift for
which they must have prayed during
the days of fog that helped the Ger
mans so greatly-two days of clear
weather in which our airmen can strike
against the German armor, the German
supply columns, the German troop for
nations. Friday was clear and Friday
was spent very largely in overcoming
the resistance of the Luftwaffe; Sat-
urday likewise dawned clear, with
fewer German planes In the sky, more
time therefore for our air power to hit
the Germans on the grounds.
If Christmas Day Is likewise clear. we
may begin to hope that the tide has
been turned.
This writer has seen some war Christ
masses In earlier days-the Christmas of
1915, when we lay In Egypt licking our
wounds and counting the vacant places
in our ranks after the terrible defeat of
GallipoH; the Christmas of 1915 when
we were reckoning the awful cost and
the tiny gains of the great Somme bat
tie; the Christmas of 1917, when the
bloody mud Of Passchendaele had filled
mems hearts with something very like
despair. This Is no such Christmas of
bitter reflection and uncertain promise.
1t is Christmas season in which we
may look back with pride upon the ac-
complishment Of the year just ending;
when we may look forward to future
bright with hope, year which certainly
will see one Of our enemies brought to
defeat, year which will just as GER
tainly see the other reeling under the
blows OF cur concentrated power as We
and our Allies close In upon 1t.
tcopyrtght 1e44o
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-02-07
Nelncii v besneln napadu
ma kolone pred Rilnom
Nacijske elitne cete ustavljene;
nekatere zavezniSke edinice ma umiku

ALzIR g. feb. - Zavezniski glavni stan je danes
poroca, da mogoGne nemske se, med katermi so tudi
Himmlereve eitne SIS cete, besno napadajo invazska
oporsca pod Rimom in kot posedica so bile nekatere
ednice pete arnade prisiljene teku zadnjih "a ur
umaknt oko dive milf in konsodirati svoje
postojanke.
correspondent Associated Pressa' Daniel De Luce,
XII nahaja invazsko so, poroca, da SO zaVezniske
sie, XII Sc nahajao seveno cd Cauoceto, nedeljo
Sc vedno drzale svoje posojanke potem ko pc
TEX ekom najhujsih nemskih napadov izravnale svoje
crte
V soboto zvecer je correspondent Reynold Packard
poroca da zavezniske se tekom "menj janja pozicj
dosegle postojanke, XII nahajao 16 mill cd Rima
ravn crt ter 20 mill po cesti.
Il tega e sklepat da prednje britske cete med
petkom in soboto umaknile dive milf Doticne cete
popre nahajale neposedni blizini kraja Campoeone
XII lezi Is mill JUNO Cd Rima.
Zavezniska armada XII stoj nasproti Nemcem pri
Gustav crt e vceraj glasom zadnh vesti il Alzira
sedla kraj Masena Alberta, dive milf zapadno cd mesta
Casino, kar ponen, da zavezniki Casino prak
ticne svrhe obkoili.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-02-07
Il zziiv|ienio Il n sih
Iiud; po Ameriki

Chicago, Ill. - Dne 20. ja-
nuarja je umrl rojak Jos. Ia
gar, star IS let in donna il Iske
vasi pri Ljubljani. v Ameriki
.je bill Al let in zapusca druzi-
no.
Frontenac, Kans. - Dne "a.
t. m. je umrla Julia Juvan, sta
ra 78 let, clanica drustva 27
S. N. P. J. Bila je Cehinja, XII
:je bivala 55 let v Ameriki. Ia
pusca pet sinov, tri hcere, II
vnukov in tri pravnuke.
Frank Marinsek, z Cicero, ILL.,,
XII Sc je z amerisko armada ma
hajal v zacetku vojne ma Fill
pinih, je bill zajet cd Japoncev,
XII ga sedaj drze ujetnistv0A
Pred kratkim Sc je oglasil $ pi-
smom starsem, v katerem il le
sporoca, d a m u gre dobro",
glavno pa je to, da je se ziv.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-02-07
Rozmere v Nemeciiiiii ciii

LONDON, 3. februarja. 60.
N. A. - Tuneli ma evropskih
zeleznicah so postal zatocisca
in skrivalisca "a locomotive.
Tako skusajo zdaj Nemci ohra-
niti svoj zeleznieni material in
Sc izogniti najhujsim posledi-
cam udarjanja zavezniskega le-
talstva.
v mnogih slueajih so bill do
zdaj tuneli sluzili domaeemu
prebivalstvu kot zatocisce, a
zdaj jim je vstop prepovedan,
ker je ia varni kraj namenjen
izkljucno lokomotivam.
Tudi druga porocila, XII pri-
hajajo il Europe pod nemskim
imenom, pripovedujejo o trans
portnih tezavah v Nemciji. L.
Francije so Nemci well novih
10000 zelezniskih vagonov, in
to kljub temu, da grozi v "a
padni Evropi invazija. Povecini
so ii vagoni jedilni, spalni in
potniski vozovi - Nemci so jih
spremenili v bolniske vagone, v
katerih zdai prevazajo svoje
ranjence il vzhodne fronte.
v Poznanskem okraju so "a
cell uporabljati vojne invalide '
zelezniski sluzbi, kjer jih pre-.
nj bilo dovoljeno nastaviti. Ia
ko poskusajo Nemci popravit
obupno pomanjkanje izurjenif
zelezniskih nastavljencev. (,
Uradni krogi v Nemciji zda.
odsvetujejo civilnemu prebiyal
stvu selitev IL bombardiranif
krajev, ker to proved obreme
.njuje transportni sistem. Ia
cell SO cello pravo propagandnt
kampanjo v cilju, da pregovor'
rodbine, kateril4 hise so bile po
rusene, maj ostanejo kjer so, il
ne gredo kot begunci v smer
proti vzhodu ali jugu. Ponoci p;
Sc vendar pripeti, da Sc pomi
kajo dodge vrste, beguncev i
krajev, ki 50 postal cilj zavez
niskega letalstva, drugam
kraje, XII leze v blizini.
Ma kanalih in ma rekah 8
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-02-07
Rusi v zraCni
Ofenzivi "a
zlOmitev Finske

STOCKHOLM, 7. februarja.
- Rusi so sedaj, ko je Lenin-
grad varen pred nemskimi to-
povi, priceli z operacijami, ka--
terih ocividno namen je, da Sc
zbije Finsko in prisili h kapitu-
laciji.
Snoci je ruska zracna sila,
brojeca mad sto letal bombardi-
rala finsko glavno mesto Hell
sinki. Temu bombnemu napadu,
XII je trajal tri ure, je kmalu ma
to sledil drugi.
Napad ma Helsinki je bill vpri-
zorjen tekom luninega svita in
je bill najhujsi, XII ga je dozive-
Ia finska prestolnica liza leta
1941.
Ko je dospela druga ruska
zracna sila, so V mestu Sc ved-
no divjali pozari, XII so bill "a
neteni tekom prvega napada.
Glasom vesti V svedskih listih,
je bill med drugim tezko priza-
det kolodvor Helsinkiju.