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Federal Workers

In striking from the Senate
approved postwar demobilization
and conversion bill 4 section au-
thorizing the payment OF unemploy-
ment benefits to Federal workers,
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee apparently takes the position
that those who work for the Gov
eminent are not entitled to the
same consideration that is being
given workers in private industry.
1t is dif1cult to see any Justification
for this point of view.
The recommendation for extend
ing unemployment benefits to
Federal workers was made after
careful study by the Special Com
mittee on Postwar Economic Policy
and Planning. After further con-
sideration it was approved by the
Senate Finance Committee and.
finally, by large majority in the
Senate. These facts alone should
serve to indicate that the proposal
has substantial merit.
There are other considerations
however, which lend added strength
to the plan. AS pointed out in the
report OF the Special Committee.
many OF these Government en-
ployes, especially in shipyards,
arsenals. etc., have worked and
lived side by side with employees in
private industry. The Government.
through its war contracts, is paying
the cost of the unemployment pro-
lection given workers in the latter
category. Why should 1t not also
pay the cost of similar protec ton for
the people on its own payrolls?
Many of the people now on the Fed
eral rolls gave up accumulated
BENEFITS under the State systems in
order to take jobs in federally op-
Grated war plants and Federal war
agencies. As 4 matter Of simple
justice, they ought to- be placed In
the status they would have enjoyed
had they ignored the Federal Gov
ernment's appeals for workers and
remained In their private en-
ployment.
This Is not = proposal for the
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Another Reform Is Due

The Capitol Police Board Is to
be commended for its decision OPEN
ing the Capitol from 9 to 4:30 O'Clock
on Sunday for the accommodation
OF visitors, Federal employees and
servicemen to whom that day offers
the only opportunity for sight
seeing.
Some day there will be another
reform at the Capitol in the system
OF handling the crowds of visitors
to this most famous of American
public buildings. That reform will
find expression in ending the OBJ
noxious petty patronage system
under which small clique Of
privileged characters is given athe
sightseeing concession" At the
Capitol, without any public account
Ing tor the amount or expenditure
OF funds collected from American
citizens who want to look over their
property.
The guide service at the Capitol
should be established by law. The
guides should be Government en-
ployes enjoying the protection of
the merit system. If the authorities
wish to charge a fee. to make the
service self-sustaining. 1t might be
appropriate to do so. But the system
now Is a relic which has outlived
current conceptions Of proprietS and
ought to be done away with.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
The Political Mill
By GowII Lincoln

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
which struck Devastating blow at
American naval forces In the Pacific
more than two and hall years Aso, Is
thrustine itself into the political cam
paisn. The American people are coming
more and more to suspect that they
have not been given the whole story.
Doubtless the Democratic vice presi-
Dental candidate, Senator Truman OF
Missouri, had no intention Of stirrinS up
this issue when he wrote for Golfers
his article on consolidation Of all ma
tional defense arms in one department.
He might have avoided this II he had
omitted reference to lack Of co-ordina-
ticn between the Army and the Navy in
HaWlS&hich he declared was re-
sponSInr the Japanesa surprise. !.
THIS reference gave Admiral Husband
Z. Kimnei, Who was the naval COM
mander at Pearl Harbor, an opportunity
to make again 4 demand for q court
come out. He asserted that the Amer
ican people would be amazed" when
1t does.
No good reason exists. from q military
point, Of view, why the truth should
not be known at this late date. That
some one, Or some persons, blundered
Is we'll understood If Admiral Kimmel
and Mai. Gen. Walter C. Short, in
command Of the Army forces 1t Pearl
Harbor. are responsible. 1t should be
revealed and punishment placed where
1t is deserved. Outside of relieving them
OF their commands and making them
inactive no steps have been taken by
the administration.
The desperate fight last June Of ad-
ministration forces in and out of Con-
sress to have the courts martial of these
men put OF until after the presidential
election November I leaves the country
wondering what was the reason for the
delay. 1t leaves it wondering also II
the Administration ever intends to bring
these men to trial. The argument ad-
vanced at the time was that 1t would
hinder the war effort to bring ofiicers
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permanent blanketing In Of Federal
employees at public expense, although
there seems no reason why there
should not be some appropriate ar
rangement to provide permanent
unemployment coverase for them.
This. however. Is merely IN emer-
gency proposal, designed to cover
the period Of dislocation expected to
accompany the termination Of the
war. 1t is q limited protection
against hardship which Congress
should be willing to grant, and it is
to be hoped the Senate provision
will be restored before final action
is taken on the bill.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
French Become Allies
By Maj. Georfs FieIdinf Eliot

selves informed Of Allied movements.
while We can know exactly what they
are doing from day to day, even from
hour to hour.
In these circumstances, it Is hopeless
for the Germans to think of makin2
stand In northern France-say on the
line OF the Somme River They have
not enough troops to hold q solid front
from switzerland to the sea, and anv
shorter line will be outflanked and
rolled up against the Channel coast.
as the 7th Army has already been
rolled up One more such disaster. and
the Germans will not even be able to
make defense on the Rhine.
There is, therefore, no course now OMEN
TO the German High Command except
the headlong evacuation, at the ton
speed OF which their means of trans
port is capable, of all of France. Rel.
gum ana that part Of the Netherlands
lying south Of the great water lines of
the Rhine and the Waal. A delayine
operation on the Meuse might be feas-
IDLE, but the speed Of the American ad-
vance eastward from Sens and IN tn
Grenoble Is ominous even for that. for
an extension of these two converpino
movements will bring our forces to
O1Jon, Nancy and Belfort, turning the
line OF the Meuse from the south.
.. - -
The hard fact 10 that the 0ermsn.
have no mobile forces suficient to check
our wide turning movements, and thew
must therefore find line on which thev
can present solid front which We m,,st
assault frontAlly, q line which We car
not outnank. No such line Il AVAILABLE
70 them unless one Of it, fianks rests
on the sea and the other on Svitzer-
land. Time Is needed for the consolida.
ton OF such 4 position, and more men
more guns, more tanks to make 1t secure
ana TO provide 1t with reserve forces
capable Of meeting any attempt to
breach It.
Probably the line of the Rhine il far
enough back, and close enough to the
sources of German power, to be thus
consolidated and supported before We
can get. to 1t In stlfncient force to break
through-for, after all, the Allies have
their supply problems, too, and they
are serious ones.
But the liberation Of France has now
been virtually accomplished. The dread
robot-bomb coast Is In course of beins
outdanked, and cannot be defended
except on the suicide principle, by an
isolated force which could not even be
supplied With robots.
tesDs1isAt. le44. New Yesk fsibuas. mel
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Paris is free.

sxu[lS Ii ITce.
The city of light becomes the first Of
the great captive capitals of Europe to
be liberated from the German conquest.
The news will run like wildfire across
the length and breadth of France, where
already French soldiers are rising from
the shadows in which they have been
SO long obscured to strike new blows for
freedom.
The words OF the French national
hymn take on a new and splendid
meaning: ITO arms, citizens! Form
your battalions! Let us march, SO that
impure blood may fertilize our fields!"
A new ally takes her place proudly
beside the American and British armies
who have burst like an avenging torrent
into Western Europe.
The importance Of this fact, both
military and political. cannot be over
emphasized.
Nor can We over emphasize the terrific
force Of the assault which has brought
this liberation of Paris and OF most OF
France 20 swiftly into being.
Only 4 few, days ago we were wonder
ing If the. Allied armies could break out
of the Normandy Peninsula by the end
Of August. We were cautioning every
one against over Optimism. This atti-
tude, which was ofIicially encouraged
and even insisted upon, was wist; for
the fortunes of battle are subject to
unforeseeable fluctuations But it Is
now evident beyond all possible question
that the weight of men, Of weapons, of
armor,> OF shock power and mobility
which has been hurled upon the hapless
German armies Of the west IL more
than they can hope to resist anywhere
short Of the Rhine and the aiesfried
Line, If indeed they can resist it there.
These are the factors to be kept In
mind:
The German armies of the west have
lost most Of their armor. which has been
destroyed In the Normandy pockets or
Is in course Of destruction along the
lower reaches of the Seine.
They have likewise lost 4 great part
of their motor transport.
Their remaining divisions are there
fore relatively immobile. They cannot
group and regroup swiftly, to meet the
stunning speed Of the Allied movements.
Paris is now free, and that means
that the whole vast web Of the French
railway and road system centering on
Paris Is open Tor the use Of Allied forces.
The Germans have almost no air
power, ana therefore cannot keep them.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
This Changing World
By Cosss1Ssjss byeapS

RELIABLE reports concernine conditions
N Germany and 6n the fighting fronts
appear TO justify the necessity Of an.
other meeting between President Nooee.
welt and Prime Minister Churchill ana
their principal military advisers.
At About this time last year the heads
OF the American and British Govern
nents met at Quebec where they drafted
plars for dealing with the totterin0
Italians. For the time being, the site
Of the forthcoming meeting y not
known ana, for that matter. y not
important But the fact that such
meeting Il contemplated In the not too
distant future \ important a An indi-
cation Of how close the Germans ARE to
total defeat.
According to the Admissions Of the
Germans themselves, the Mad reserve
pools are getting simmer every day.
Throughout the Reich civilians up 70
the age Of 50 who were not ensased
IN war work are being pressed into
service. Hotels, restaurants ana sl,ope
are being closed, nswspapers are beine
suppressed and number Of industries
maintained for the purpose Of enabling
the Reich to trade with the nsutralS
ana the satellites are ceasins operA.
tions. Heinrich Himmler u applying
the fine-tooth comb to get into the army
any man who can still walk and stand
4 certain amount Of fatieue.
Tne German military commentators
admit that battles on the eastern front
have been lost principally because the
new reserves" composed OF ardent but
somewhat aged German patriots were
not able to stand the assaults Of the
youthful Russian troops.
They also explain the retreats Of the
armies In the west under Marshal Guen-
ther Won Kluse As neceseitAted by the
lack OF immediate and Adequate re.
serves
According to neutral observers, It ap.
pears, however, that many young men
OF which Germany still has q substan.
tial number-Are being placed In the
home SIS and Elite corps which Himm-
Ter u keeping within the Reich where
ne hopes to repress any further attempt
TO overthrow the NAzi regime. Some OF
these observers maintain that Hinnmler
intends to create 4 personal army, With
whose aid he expects to take over the
helm Of the Reich.
In any event, it Is evident that the
Germans, who have suffered seriouA
losses In the last few months. are ket.
ting tired ana lack. rsplacements while
the American forces In France ana the
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Juvenile Court Criticized


To the EDITOR Of The Star:
The park authorities say \thAt Rock
Creek Park Il insuficiently policed.
But . thousand policemen could not
make the park safe for women a. long
As Congress permits the sob sisters to
have their way with respect to the
handling Of incorrigible juveniles.
The adult purse snatcher who Yields
knife when resisted u merely the
juvenile purse snatcher grown up.
Not only do the juvenile court judges
repeatedly free the same youths after
they have snatched purses, broken open
and robbed parking meters, committed
aggravated cases Of destruction on pri.
vAte property, stolen automobiles, ETC..
but the law requires that the names
Of the offenders be kept secret.
A more complete setup for the breed
ing Of criminals could hardly b
imagined. .s,,.
We need 4 change Of policy to state
where forgiveness viii be predicated
upon repentance. Until then the mad
march will 60 on. F.d.C G.
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Kussians In the east have ample n.
placements.
It b probabls that the strain soon
Win break the German spirit Of resist.
Ance and there y justtncatton 70 expect
Sensational Developments Ii the near
future. The number q o1rman een.
erals who are surrenderine 70 the RUS.
SLAMS with the troops they command y
increasins every week. An these men.
some bearing names wen known IN Ger
naany's military history. are broadcast-
ing p the troops At the front that sur.
render. when the situation appears to
bs hopeless and tlae sacrifice Of human
Lives utterly, ,useles1, 10 not q shame but
. military virtue. Generals Ike Jreen
Won Arnim maintain that II takes much
more courage for 4 military man 70
face realities and surrender when there
y full publication for such IN Aet
than 70 die On the hsld OF honor.
Under these circumstances, the Al.
lies on the western front are settins
ready with the Armistice conditions
which win follow unconditional surren-
DER. whether our conditions viii Be
Accepted by the whole army o. only By
lArge units u iImmaterial. Last year.
only King Victor Emmanuel Of italy
ana his newly appointed premier, Mar.
shAl Ptetro DedoSlio, surrendered. AL.
though the forces north Of Rome re-.
mAined at war with the United states.
We gave armistice terms to that frae-
tion OF the Italian Government ana
forces after they accepted unconditional
surrender.
somewhat similar situation may de-
velop regarding the German forces. The
conditions regulating the armistice win,
OF course, be totally different from those
given the Italians. who agreed even
tually to hght on OUR side.
What these conditions will be Is. of
course, secret. But the American and
British experts have been working on
them for some time and they will have
To be submitted to President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill for final
approval. 1t seems there u no necessity
TOR having the Russians join in the
conversations.
Premier Stain has some very definite
IDEAS about what he wants to DO. and
both President Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill have had the opportunity Of
becoming acquainted with them a. far
back - last December wheo they met him
At 1eherAr. There seems to have been
no change IN the overall situation In
the east to nece1sitAte any major Alter
alton OF the plan outlined then By
Stain.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
How Billions chonse Honds
By Dspil laurence e
On the Lyons (KansaD Nav

FTon tne LYONS kansaO News.
Where do all these billions come from
that are keeping up this paternaIistic
Government and our participation In 4
world war on the side? Wen. thAy ID
not come from the 5000 900 public ON
cias holding down Federal 1obs. Or
from 100000 boys in military service.
Of It.
That money comes from the farmar
you see out plowing, from the business.
man you zee scurrying about his store.
from the woman who does your vssh.
ing, from the man who digs your water
ditch. Man not only earns his breed
by the sweat Of his brow, but keens
royalty or pseudo-royalty in velvet st
the same time. Taxes imposed in ths
name Of the poor and indorsed by the
poor seldom hurt the rich very much.
They only serve to grind the poor into
deeper poverty and sometimes drns the
Weu-to-do down to the sama level
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Paris and the French

It is good that Paris has been
wrested from the enemy by its own
citizens, good that the. darkness has
been lifted from the City Of Light
by the French themselves. This
supremely great and historic event
could not have happened, of course,
II our American, British, Canadian
and other Allied forces had not
made it possible, but still nothing
could be more fitting than that it
has been fulfilled from within, even
before the entrance of any Of our
advancing armies.
That Paris Is free again means
many things. Militarily, it means
that the Germans have been de-
prived Of the greatest communica-
tions hub in all Of France, and
politically and psychologically, taken
together with such coinciding
events as the surrender of Romania,
1t marks a turn in the war that
must ring and reverberate across
the continents Of the world like a
mighty bell tolling the end of Nazi-
dom. But over and above this, from
the standpoint Of the long suffering
French people, it represents the
dawn of a new day, symbolizing not
merely their liberation from a hated
and cruel tyranny but their rebirth
as a nation conceived In liberty,
equality and fraternity, a nation
with opportunity to resume once
more its traditional place in the
forefront Of our western civilization.
To the people OF France, there
fore, the fact that Frenchmen them
selves have played so large a role
In freeing Paris must seem pro-
foundly gratifying and meaningful,
a bright and thrilling augury OF 4
national renascence to be achieved
by themselves, just as the liberation
Of their capital has been achieved!
As for America, as for the Allied
world as whole, it rejoices with
them, for with the City of Light
theirs again, with more than half
of their land under Allied control
or held by their forces of the in
terror, and with the German armies
threatened with destruction In the
northwest and south, they can an
ticipate with good reason that their
whole country will soon be swept
clean of the Nazis. And then, as
quickly as practicable, they will be
able to set up government OF their
own choosing to get on with the
enormously difficult, yet happy and
soul-satisfying, task OF building a
great new republic on the wreckage
of the past.
1t was in June four years ago that
the now-crumbling Nazis strutted
into Paris, displaying such power
that half the world began to regard
them as "invincible" In the time
In between, France, like all of Hitler's
victims, suffered the full torments
OF the oppressed, but its spirit was
never conquered and its faith in
liberty and its hopes for deliverance
did not die. And so, after the long
and bitter night, Frenchmen can
look happily again to their beautiful
and storied capital, see at last the
bright glow of returning freedom
and lift up their hearts, certain in
the knowledge that what they have
endured so valiantly they have not
endured in vain.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Surrender of Romoniu


moment, but it is As definite as an
exploding blockbuster that Romania
i'm a last-minute act Of contri-
tio9-has ousted the Antonescu
regime, created new government,
deserted Hitler and set in motion
events OF decisive importance In
Eastern Europe. The Russian offen-
sive, driving directly upon Bucharest
and the Ploesti oil fields, apparently
has thus precipitated the inevitable.
According to a proclamation by
young King Michael. Romania has
not only surrendered to Russian and
Allied terms but proposes, like post
Fascist Italy. to join the war against
Germany as co-belligerent on the
side Of the United Nations. And
quite like Mussolini, Antonescu ap-
pears to be going along with the
stupefied Nazis in 4 futile effort to
carry on as q shadow government to
salvage some OF the Romanian
wreckage for Hitler. But such
Berlin-inspired measures are prac-
tically meaningless, being little more
than the wild gestures of frightened
and desperate improvisation. the
big fact, the towering fact, is that
Bucharest is no longer an Axis
capital and that the troops who once
did 50 much to help the Fuehrer
during his ill-fated adventure in
Russia are now turning against him,
a development about Which he can
do virtually nothing.
Romania's surrender does more
than deprive the Nazis OF their
largest natural source of oil and Of
troops who have heretofore been of
great help to them. It skaters the
whole Balkan front and imperils
whatever German forces are in
Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hun
gary, Czechoslovakia and Southern
Poland. Wholly apart from its effect
on the fast-wayering Firms, this
event must surely hasten the deci-
'sion' of tie Bulears and Hungarians
to end their unhappy Partnership
with Berlin, and thus speed up the
day when. Hitler will be obliged to
fall back all the way into Germany,
there to be pinned down until he is
beaten to his knees or until some
one does away with him to permit
the capitulation jof the Reich. =
Taken. together with the libera-
ton 81 .Ragis and Marse1lle, With the
advaases OF AAnskasnAies
throughout France and WEI Slf ~
lentlesS Hammer blows being struck
by the Red Army in the Baltic area,
at the borders of old East Prussia
and at the gates of Warsaw, the sur
render Of the Romanians thunder
ously illustrates the constantly ac-
celebrating disintegration OF one of
the blacklist tyrannies ever to afflict
mankind. We are at a moment in
history freighted with immense and
sensational potentialties. The war
has reached a point where men are
no longer optimistic or wishful, but
merely reasonable, when they attune
their ears expectantly for the final
death rattle of Nazidom.
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Some Fields Must Wo;t

Thee stricken valleys blu hecr onns
again
The music OF q merry ,phbtled tune.
The ready laughter Of the sors uho'vs
gone
70 right tor lasting peace: on soon
Thsy ,osu return: the days ,ciR paas. 4.
And one by one they'H chSnce thsfy
guns Jor plolps,
And change thsir uniforms for ovsyal,s.--
Ths Nohtsn0 Jor the tending Of tbs
cotpsi
But some deserted felds 1ss1t matt n
hear
4 asdr remembered melody, SHtiI--
4 little lad sro,ps VI to nans estete.
And Learns TIE tvHse has brother used
to trsH. ROSE CLEvENoR.
Evening star., 1944-08-24

News OF victories in EuTope should
be read in the burning light OF the
sacrifices chronicied in the Roll Of
Honor. Success In war does not
simply happen. 1t is paid for with
very precious lives. And the end Of
the list Is not yet in sight.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
A Word to the Columnists

A Word to the Columnists
To the Editor of The Star:
II is very interesting to note how
many of the columnists, known to be
anti-New Deal, are able to interpret
with such authority the intent and
meaning of New Deal policies and leg
islation passed by the Congress. But,
when certain Government agencies
make interpretations or rulings on
laws passed BY Congress. these same
cLlumnists take the attitude that the
person responsible for the interpreta-
ton is fool or Is making the inter.
probation to further the administra.
tons chances of success in the forth
coming election. II these gentlemen
die not practice this procedure 20 con-
sistently. their motives might not be
50 apparent to American voters.
WILLIAM r. KELLER.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Urses Traffic Action

70 the Editor Of The Star: 81
Our entry into the war slowed tenn
porarily the trafic problem. which was
becoming a menace to our welfare.
After the war. motor trafiic here as
elsewhere will be on an unprecedented
scale. Now Is the time to plan and act.
The coming era warrants immediate
action for 4 Washington not hitherto
envisioned. WALLACE KIAEBAL.