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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
To Be Perpetuuted

In his recent letter to DR.. VAN
nevar Bush. director of the Office of
Scientific Research and Develop
ment. President Roosevelt effectively
emphasized the desirability of max
ing that organization, or something
like 1t, a permanent fixture in our
national life. The same idea has
since been suggested to the House
Committee on Postwar Military Pol
icy by Undersecretary of War Pat
terson and others in a position to
discuss it authoritatively. It is a
subject well worth the attention of
all Americans.
The OSRD-called into being by
the Government when the Axis
became an obvious menace to the
Nation-will disband more or less
automatically when peace comes,
and unless Congress acts on the
matter, there will be nothing like 1t
again until another world emergency
develops and America feels impelled
to draft it scientists for urgent last
minute projects. It is hard to believe,
however, that this will be allowed to
happen. for OSRD's work-carried
out in conjunction with the Army
and Navy through contracts placed
with university and industrial lab
oratories throughout the country
has been so tremendously valuable
in forging the weapons of victory
that steps must surely be taken to
perpetuate it in one form or another.
Undersecretary Patterson would do
this by creating a standing research
board for defense. associating it with
the National Academy of Sciences,
and others would do 1t in other ways.
But the organizational structure is
OF secondary Importance to the idea
itself-the idea of making the best
possible use of the Nations BRAIN
power in keeping up with the amaz-
ing scientific and chronological po-
tentialities Of our age. Rockets, Jet
propulsion. aerodynamics, super
sonics, radar, atomic energy all
these are but q few of the fields in
which man has as yet scratched only
the surface. Twenty years from now,
even ten years from now, they may
lead to revolutionary changes not
merely In warfare but IN the ordi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Allies Increase Pressure
By Maj. George FieIdine Eliot

The Allied pressure against the Ger
man front along the Roer River Is in
creasing.
along the front from Linnich to Julich.
The LIST Army is across indie. a small
river which parallels the Roer, and is
evidently shaking free its right wing
from the Hurtgen Forest. which may
result in the outf1anking of Duren.
Almost certainly the next move by the
9Th Army will be an attempt toforce a
crossing of the Roer; and if the right
wing of the LIST Army can then advance,
the German troops contesting the cross
ing will be threatened with development.
Therefore the German commander on
this front, Field Marshal Won Modl, is
about to be confronted with another in
the series of painful decisions which he
has had to make since the great assault
was launched. Is he to use additional
elements Of his reserve Cd to stop the
9Th Army at the Roer, and 90 to
hold in check any enveloping move in
strength which the LIST Army may make,
or is he to withdraw along all this part
of his front to the somewhat shorter line
of the River Erft?
4 4 X
The controlling consideration in Won
Modl's mind is almost certainly his
estimate of the situation along the Mas,
farther north. Here the LIST Canadian
and End British armies are now moving
into position. They are the only Allied
armies, except the air-borne army
which are not fully engaged Hence
they are the element of additional pres
sure which Gen. Eisenhower has ready
to his hand, and with which he will seek
to gain his next point in the great battle
If Won Modl thinks that the line of
the Mas from Anthem to Roermond
will hold for time, he may decide to
fight it out where he stands in the hope
that his reserves can check the two
American armies for the time being
But almost certainly he does not have
sufficient reserves to do that and at the
same time to deal with a full-scale
British attack once the British have
broken across the Mas.
II this should happen at time when
the bulk of Won Modl's reserves are
fighting the Americans along the Roer
the position of Won Modl would be about
as bad as could be imagined. In all
probability he would then not be able
to stand on the Erft. and he would be
able to get back behind the Rhine only
after suffering severe and perhaps Grip
pling losses.
But II Won Modl should decide now ia
withdraw fighting to the Erft, he aban-
dons the advantages Of the narrow front
walled In by forests, which he is now
defending and accepts Immediately the
additional dihdculties Of battle OF
movement on considerable scale. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Timber q Crop

The traditional attitude OF the
generality of people toward timber
is summarized in Joyce Kilmer's
observation that: "Only God can
make tree" But the latest meeting
OF the American Philosophical So
ciety at its hall in independence
Square, Philadelphia, a few days ago
may have the effect of changing the
formerly accepted point of view in
this matter. Half a dozen author
tiles on different aspects of the
lumber industry, assembled under
the presidency of DR.. Edwin G..
Conklin, DR.. Thomas s. Gates and
DR.. Frank A. Fetter, set forth their
findings in symposium which was
q model of its kind. The net result
OF the discussion is the suggestion
that, far from being an affair of
purely divine Intervention more or
less accidental in occurrence, the
growing of oak or pine or maple
may be, should be and is just about
as reasonable and profitable a
human enterprise as, say, the raising
OF cotton, corn or sugar cane.
Wilson Compton, secretary and
manager of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association, told the
society: There are now nearly a
thousand tree farms comprising ten
million acres in ten Western and
Southern States" and "the number
is constantly growing" His organ
ization, he explained, has CO.
operated with the forestry depart
ments of thirty-seven different COM
monwealths in a survey of available
resources, and this "checkup" indi-
Gates that about one hundred and
forty-three million acres of privately
owned land is being protected in
systematic production OF forest
crops"
For many years, Mr.. Compton adj
mitted, the forest industries +" =
were Indifferent to the forest future,
regarding 1t as public and not an
industry responsibility" but to-day
there are few substantial forest own
srs who are not exploring the posi-
bilities Of permanent forest produc-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04

line of the Erft, as already observed Is
shorter than his present front, but that
is very largely because a retirement to
the Erft involves the abandonment of
the so-called Sittard Corner; where the
Germans have salient projecting to
the Mas at Maesyck. The problem of
getting out of this salient without heavy
loss would be an additional anxiety to
Won Modl should he determine to with
draw
There is also the question of the quail
ity of some of his infantry units. Lately
the Germans have been using better
trained troops. This Is partly because
many of the Volksgrenadier Divisions
have suffered severe casualties and have
been taken out of the line. and partly
because some of the hastily reformed
and reorganized divisions have been
shaking down" and acquiring cohesion
and experience.
1t Is quite possible that the divisions
temporarily pulled out are being used to
form upon new line (perhaps that of
the Erft) on which the present 'front.'
line elements may retire. But a fighting
withdrawal is one of the most difncult Of
military operations, placing maximum
strain on commanders and troops of all
arms and grades but particularly the
infantry. The risk that Won Modl takes
If he decides on withdrawal is therefore
the greater in proportion as his infantry
Is lacking in training and experience.
1t is however, necessary to observe
that the present conduct of German
operations as q whole bears the mark of
capable, hard-boiled military leadership,
and has done 50 ever since the German
resistance along the western frontier
began to develop. There is strong sug-
gestion that whatever may have hap
pened to Hitler, his intuition is no longer
in control Of the German Army. This
may be only temporary condition; We
should hope that 1t is so, for Hitler as
German commander In chief is Infinitely
to be preferred to any German profess
sional soldier, from the Allied point Of
view
We should not, however, count on his
return to command. We should rather
reckon with the continuance OF the
present grim, capable-managed resist
ance, until 1t is overcome at last by
overwhelming power relentlessly applied
to every part of the German front, and
the resultant killing or capture of so
many German soldiers that organized
resistance can no longer be maintained.
For most Of the German problems tin
Guiding those local problems Of Won
Modl above stated arise from the simple
fact that there is shortage Of German
manpower, and 1t is to increase this
shortage to the breaking point that Is
the basic object OF all our fighting IN
Western Europe.
Copyright ls44)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
The Oil Treaty

senator Connally's prediction that
the treaty embodying the oil COM
pact with Great Britain will never
be ratified" deals a heavy blow to
hopes for postwar world in which
the United States would join with
other nations to stabilize the pro-
duction and conservation of basic
commodities.
To a considerable extent, the oil
compact serves as a test of our in
tentions, so far as they relate to
international cooperation after the
war ends. 1t is product Of long
and painstaking negotiations with
the British, and it unquestionably
represents the considered judgment
of the administration as to what
would be the best course for this
country to pursue, both in our own
interests and in the interests of the
nations with which we shall have to
live in the future. Yet the Senate
apparently proposes to kill it without
benefit even of public hearing.
The proposed treaty was sent to
the Senate last August and was re-
ferred to the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, of which Senator >Connally
is chairman. The officials who pre-
pared it have had no opportunity
to defend or explain its provisions.
Nor have any OF the provisions been
shown to be prejudicial to legitimate
American interests. Senator Con-
nally condemns it on the highly
generalized ground that it is unfair
to the American oil industry. Sena-
tor Mcclellan opposes international
ALLEGATION of our soil. And Senator
White is against permitting any in
ternational organization to say how
much oil the United States can pro-
duce.
These sound like the kind of
objections that can and apparently
will be raised against any form of
economic cooperation which limits
In any way our own freedom to do
business in the postwar world in
such fashion and on such terms as
may suit our fancy, and If we are
going to insist on economic freedom
OF that sort we might just as well
stop talking about international CO.
operation and prepare for a return
to the cutthroat competition which
contributed in no small measure to
this war. However, if there is merit
to any or all of the objections the
proper way to establish it is through
q public hearing. That would per-
NIT of critical appraisal of the
objections, and would facilitate a
rational modification of the compact
If the desirability of revision should
be established. IT the opponents of
the treaty have a valid case they
should not object to this procedure
and cannot be injured by it. To
pursue the other course-to let the
treaty die in a committee pigeon
hole-would strongly imply, that
selfish interests have the upper hand
In the Senate and are undertaking
to enforce a rule-or-ruin policy in
postwar economic matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
The War Comes First

When the War Production Boards
limited reconversion plan went into
effect last summer-with the reluct-
ant acquieSence of the Army and
Navy-assurances were given that it
would be promptly adjusted or sus-
pended if it we're found to be inter-
fering with essential military output.
The suspension just ordered, there
fore, is in keeping with policy and
does not necessarily imply that it
was a mistake ever to have started
the program.
Actually, when Mr. Nelson, who
was then chairman of the WPB, won
his case for limited reconversion,
the situation seemed definitely to
warrant what he envisioned-a
small and modest beginning on pre-
pairing the Nation for a gradual re-
turn to a peacetime economy. Since
then, however, with the Nazis re-
sisting bitterly before the Rhine and
with our forces months ahead of
their timetable in the Pacific, the
demand for certain military items
especially ammunition has in
creased so sharply that things
scheduled for production early next
year must be obtained today and
shipped to the battle fronts with
the utmost speed.
The need to meet this demands
demand flowing more from battle
successes than from home-front
failures-is, of course, so paramount
that there can be no question of the
wisdom of the action taken jointly
by the Army, the Navy, the War
Manpower Commission and the WPB
to ban all new authorizations for
civilian production in 112 of our
leading industrial areas. This or
der, which will be effective for 80
days and which will be accompanied
by the construction of more fac
tories, apparently will have little
effect upon those plants that have
already been authorized to turn out
consumer goods, but it appears
drastic enough to check the flow of
workers from essential to non
essential jobs and to make reason
ably certain that there will be
enough labor and facilities available
to meet the stepped-up requirements
OF our armed forces.
At the end of 80 days, perhaps, it
will be feasible again to take up
reconversion where it is now being
left of, though Chairman Krug of
the WPB warns that owing to the
accelerating drive against Japan,
cutbacks in the military procure
ment program after Germanys de-
feat will probably be considerably
less than the As per cent estimate
made by the Army last September.
What has already been accomplished
in this Observation-Disclosures for
the manufacture of about $780,
900 in civilian goods-does not
represent wasted effort, but will
continue to serve as a fair start
on what will one day be our biggest
national problem-the transition to
peacetime output. Meanwhile, the
war obviously comes first, and
America must Guido itself in pro-
ducing the mountains of supplies
now needed to save lives and speed
the final victory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Home Responsibility
BY Daud Laurence
Prom the Topeka Capital.

from the Topeka Capital.
When these veterans come home they
may not vocally question our part In
the winning of the war But every one
who shirks his home-front duty will not
feel any too comfortable when the bat
tle-scarred servicemen glance inquiringly
into our eyes, as if to ask: What did
you do in the warp
1t is our guess that only those who
perform every possible service to help
shorten the war will be capable of look
ing those men In the eyes when they
return. s8e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Letters to The Star
Sees Britons and Americans
Bound by Understanding

To the Editor Of The Star:
pie which quotes your paper on the
question Of differences between the
Americans and the British.
1t is q peculiar thing about these
differences" that they usually take the
form of "brickbats" slung by individuals
or small groups. In England they seem
to come from people who fear that the
greater industrial and economic re-
sources of the United States Of Amer
lea will Dust us from many Of our for
mer foreign markets and capture the
bulk of postwar transport, especially in
the air.
In America feeling seems to center
around the impression that the British
have at their head lot of scheming
rogues who, having succeeded in push
ing the United States into the war, are
now engaged in seeing to 1t that all the
dirty work is done by the American
forces.
AS for our side of the problem, the
solution lies entirely In our own hands.
We must expect American business to
do its best to catch" all the trade 1t
can, we must not blame America If by
our own Incidence in making our
markets or in our failing to build suit
able aircraft we allow your people to
beat us to it,
think that We either pushed you into
the war or are leaving you to do the
job on your own, then I think that if
he cannot be convinced by Mr.. Church.
Ills statement he should just wait until
some of your boys come back from Eu-
rope or Burma and ask them. If any
one has any legitimate grouse on these
grounds, surely it is the Russians, for
they alone have had the Germans on
their own soil and have lost far more
in men and materiel than both Britain
and America together.
But think that far more important
than these arguments is the develop
ment of relations between your men in
the forces and ours.
When first the Yanks came over here,
We had the old idea that they would
"brag," and perhaps because of this we
noticed 1t and resented 1t when some Of
them did. One heard tales of fights
between Americans and English in pubs,
though few Of us ever saw any. But
that was at the start. I do not seek to
sentimentalize at all, but / can tell you
truthfully and frankly that people like
myself have more real friendship for
the Yanks than we ever had for any
other of our allies
When we first met Free French, Nor
wegians, etc, we did not have any quar-
rels because we took it for granted that
there were differences and We allowed
for them. But relations with the Ameri-
cans started with the idea that they are
so similar we cannot treat them as for
eigners." So we treated them as we
treated each other; differences were not
allowed for: they were worked out and
the result is something worth calling
friendship.
I could 60 on for long time about
this. OF course, there have been some
things to which your people over here
could object. But as far as the feeling
between your men and ours is concerned,
there Is real understanding and SYM
pathy.
CORPL. JEOFFREY L. ARDERN,
r. A. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04

It Is said that whitewa shed water
melons will last through the winter.
Whitewashed politicians, however,
need last only through election day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Objects to Compulsory Training

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is evident that war fast is becon,-
ing the heritage of youth Proof of this
is the present determination to :oist
peacetime compulsory military train
ing on American manhood If such q
law Is passed and the Federal Govern
ment once experiences the thrill OF
controlling the youth of our country in
peacetime step toward total
itarianism-we might as well confess
now that the present war is being
fought in vain and the Dumbarton Oaks
plan is ludicrous gesture.
Further, since compulsory military
training is an instrument of offensive
war, the necessity Of passing the pro-
posed legislation is highly questionable
OF course, the bald fact is: The only
chance for success this law has is to
put 1t over now while the Nation is
war-minded. FS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Child Smokers Especially

To the Editor Of The Star:
The cartoon In The Sunday Star for
November IS Is right along the line Of
my proposal regarding the cigarette
shortage. Let every man, woman and
child forego smoking one day out of
every three and invest the money thus
saved In War Stamps. The same pro-
posal goes for the liquor shortage.
A SUBSCRIBER,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-04
Thinks Oriental Issue Serious


To The Editor Of The Star
The significance of the recent raids
by BIO squadrons over Tokyo lies not
in the renewal of visits to the japanese
capital, nor in the air bombardment
itself, but rather in the fact that it will
be difficult If not almost impossible for
Hirohito's henchmen to replace the dies,
stamping and welding machinery, as
well as every modern tool which goes
into the making of the Naka jimas at
Tokyo and the Mitsubishis at Nagoya.
It is small wonder that rumors are
afoot that German experts and TECH
nicians are being rushed to Japan to
fill the gaping holes being torn in Nip
pon's industrial system.
The battle now SINNERS down to
whether or not the leading commercial
and financial families can decentralize
their industries fast enough to permit
almost uninterrupted progress in their
fabrication Of materials of war. In this
the Mitsuis, Sumitomos, Okadas, Mitsu-
bishis and Kuharas will have unqualified
support from Premier Toisho. If they
succeed, our difficulties in Asia will
have been but begun, for, vulgar as the
comparison may seem, Japan will then
be like a great tapeworm, winding
through and fattening on the mainland
of China and Korea, down to the Malay
Peninsula. The mere Topping of of the
head at Tokyo will have no fatal effect
upon this monster should the Japs be
successful in their scattering of their
war industries where they can take adj
vantage Of the maximum of slave labor,
raw materials and the 10000 miles of
Chinese national railways they now
control
This American-bor Chinese girl be-
heves the most serious aspect of the
struggle unfortunately is the one least
discussed. While 10000 Canadian Army
men refuse overseas service China has
witnessed the killing of 1000, 600 of their
own soldiers since the war started on
July Z, 1897. CHIU CHUN-MIJI
Evening star., 1944-05-15

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-21

presided over by Mrs. Henry a.
Dennis, president. the new slate OF
officers was presented and accepted
by the society. Mrs. Dennis then pre-
sented Mrs. F.. NorliCct Gardner,
who delivered a most interesting ana
Insplratlonal talk about her work as
a missionary in China.
Mrs. A. j. Davis gave the dcvo-
tlonaIS and Mrs. NJ. G. Miles rem
dcred a vocal solo accompanied al
the piano By Mrs. NJ. F. Legg.
Al the conclusion Of the meeting a
social hour was held honorInG
twenty-five Baptist teachers in the
city schools. Who were special
guests at the meeting.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-21
House to Vote on
Revived Crop Insurance

Continued from Page One,)
The liquidation acu n c"mc a'tr.' -
government had invested ubou; ST
million over a liN"-Nrar prr1nH.
Representative Hope, karS&> RF-
publican. ranking minority meMotH
of tho House Agriculture Commit
tee. said, Il don't think there coul
be a better thing to stabilize agrlcul-
1urc than a Wcll-Workct put system.
of crop insurance. He c%on'rndeo
the old program was not gwen {
fair trial.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-21
BACkAChE,
LEG PAINS may
BE DANGER SIGN
0f Tired k;dnevs
OF Tired Kidneys

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miserable, don't just complain and do nothing
about them. Nature may be warning You that
your kidneys need attention.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out OF the
blood. They help most people pass about 3
pints a day.
II the II miles Of kidney tubes and filters
don't work we'll, poisonous waste matter stays
in the blood. These polsons may start nagginS
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puifiness under the eyes, headaches and diAzl-
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thing wrong with your kidneys or bladder
Don't wait! Ask your drugsist for Doan's
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