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Evening star., 1944-03-05
General Activities in Alexandria
Large Number Of Visitors
Attract Interest OF Society

Society interest for the moment Il
centered for the most part in WIS.,
itors, a larger number than usual
being on the scene this season
Among those here for an indefinite
stay are Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Stro-
beck Of Chicago, who are the guests
of their son-in-law and daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. landau.
A recent visitor entertained by
Mr.. and Mrs. landau was their
nephew, Maj. Lincoln landau OF
Missoula, Mont, who returned re-
Gently from a tour Of duty in Alaska
and the Aleutians.
Mr.. and Mrs. landau also have
as their guest their daughter, Mrs
Alex Biondi, whose husband is on
duty in Italy.
Mrs. Ray E. Dingeman Of Grand
Rapids, wife Of Col Dingeman, is
the guest Of her sister, Mrs. Alfred
j. Dumas, and is making the ac-
quaintance Of her new niece, Jeanne
Dumas.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M. Young, jr., OF
Roanoke are visiting Mrs. Young
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar H. Dull
and her brother, Mr.. Charles Dull.
Mrs. Anne Callahan of Kingston
Pa, is here for visit with her SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Carl H. Schwartz, jr.
DR.. and Mrs. Arthur Mourot OF
Norfolk are visiting Mrs. Mourot's
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Society Events
In LeOnardtOwn

LEONARDTOWN, Nd, Mar. A.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Louis Edwards have
with them for his furlough their son,
Pvt. j. Louis Edwards, jr, U. S.
M. C.
Mrs. Roland Duke, jr., wife of
Sergt. Duke, is spending month
with Sergt. Dukes family.
Mrs. L. B. johnson entertained
Tuesday at luncheon followed by
bridge at Cherclift, Morganza.
Sergt. Louis Wallace is spending
his furlough with his family in
Hollywood.
Miss Lillian Bowling of Hughes
vile will spend March in Washing
ton and Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Barnes moved
yesterday into their new home on
Sroomes Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mister of
Bfoomes Island entertained at din
ner Tuesday in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lorin Byran of Silver Spring.
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Anniversary Party
In Gaifhersburq

GAITHERSBURG, Mar. 4.-Mrs.
Margaret James is spending this
week end in Camridge with her
aunt, Mrs. Charles Kinnamon, who
is entertaining at a family dinner
today in honor of her fathers BIRTH
day anniversary
Mrs. R. K. Shirley and son, Reg
inald King, jr, are spending this
week end with her stepfather and
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mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Swartz,
in Martinsburg, w. Va.
Mrs. Helen Rice has reopened her
home in Darnestown after spending
the winter with Mrs. v. H. Mich
olson and had as guests this week
her son, Mr.. Millard Rice of Buck
nell University, and daughter, Miss
Evening star., 1944-03-05

"GEoRGIANA's" crisp striped
coot dress hos the new side-but-
ton closing. set-in belt and
frilled collar touched with en-
broidey. Blue and red. Sizes
IA to 2O--S3 $500
Evening star., 1944-04-24
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

AMG going to tell when we occupy
Germany?
I had before me copy of the
Schwarze Korps official Gestapo and
s. s. paper, Of March 16. It publishes
letters from prisoners of war In Amer
ican camps. Unless these letters are
forged, they have all passed our censors.
They are published as part of cam
paign for maintaining German home
morale. They attack America; they i'm
ply bad treatment in American camps:
they brag that If any German in one
OF our camps weakens they see to 1t
that he remains loyal.
I have been war prisoner for five
months. Sorely as this experience has
undermined my physical strength and
VIII continue to do SO, nothing will
change me. On the contrary, stronger
than before is my faith in the strength
OF my Fuehrer and more certain nv
convictions Of our victory"
This Is from one letter. The Geneva
convention prevents our making propa-
ganda amongst prisoners of war. Must
we allow them to make propaganda
from our camps?
You can imagine my fate as q pris-
oner of war. What would not give to
De back amongst my comrades at the
front! stu our courage and certainty
IN f1nal victory remain unbroken. We
know Wnat we owe our Fuehrer."
That is another
You wonder at our unbroken faith.
Believe me that's no miracle And IL
any amongst us think differently, be
sure we will make him faithful. We
are all waiting to show on our return
nome That faith and deeds are not
mere words. Some days ago you suf-
Iered terror-attack from the air.
ana the visitors may have been treated
mpoitely. II everything should be-
come too difficult to bear, remain
brave! We suffer the same sort Of
tning every day. =. When things are
oark look at the picture Of our Fueh-
rer that once gave Mamma"
Here there is the straight inference
that prisoners of war are being tor
tured IN our camps. And again the
party propaganda.
Ine Geneva convention provides for
prisoner communication with his fam
1ly-not for pep-propaganda urging
continuation of the fight.
One such letter offsets days of the
radio propaganda that we beam on
Germany.
This same article in Schwarze Korps
brags, "The German soldier went into
the war as political soldier and in
prison he has become so in even higher
degree"
How do we like the boast that Ameri-
can prison camps are training centers
Tor the coming Nazi underground? And
does not this article itself furnish ade-
quate grounds for drastically revising
our practices?
(Released by the Bell Syndicate Incl
Evening star., 1944-04-24
SimpIified Tuxes

The announcement that the Ways
and Means Committee has COM
pleted work on a tax sinpliflcation
program, which is scheduled to be
introduced in the House today by
Chairman Doughton, will come as
good news to American taxpayers.
The principal beneficiaries of the
proposed changes will be the 30,-
100000 taxpayers with incomes
under $1,000 a year and subject to
withholding levies. II the new pro-
gram goes through, their withhold
ing rates will be adjusted to cover
their full tax liability and they will
be relieved of the necessity of filing
returns. For the remaining 20,000,-
600 Federal income taxpayers there
will be notifications designed to
eliminate many of the complications
of the present returns, but they still
will be required to file returns and
may expect the amounts withheld
from their earnings to be somewhat
less than their total tax. Even in
these cases, however. the contem-
plated changes would afford a sub
stantial measure of relief from the
harassing paper work which now
has to be done.
While the payment of taxes at
current rates can never be made
painless, there is good reason to
believe that Representative Jere
Cooper of Tennessee did not exag-
gerate when he said that the pro-
posed bill provides the greatest
progress in making income taxes
convenient for the taxpayer ever
offered in this or any other country"
Certainly the members Of the Ways
and Means Committee have worked
hard to bring about real simplifi-
cation of the Federal tax structure,
and they are entitled to unstinted
commentator.
Evening star., 1944-04-24

AS previously pointed out in these ar
tlcleS, the Germans have-on the front
between the Pripet Marshes and the
Carpathlans reached the limits of
withdrawal. They cannot go farther
back without losing control of the whole
military situation in the east and expos
ing their eastern armies to piecemeal
destruction.
Therefore it is to be expected that
we shall see German counterefforts.
not only the one now in progress, but
also one striking from the northwest
along the Axis Brest-Litovsk-K -Kowel, in
tended to disorganize the Russian ad-
vanced elements and bring the Russian
armies to a temporary standstill. The
Russians are pretty well ahead of their
supply system, and once halted, as they
appear to be now, they must do a good
zeal OF reorganizing before they can
again advance in force.
The fact that the Germans were
able to thrust forward to retake Buc-
sacz, and to make contact with their
trapped forces in the Skala pocket,
suggests a degree of Russian overexten-
sion which permitted German raiding
force Git could hardly have been any,
NAA%A16 AiOAS' W AlllAC GlllOuSll dIlu score
local success.
We may consider the crucial area
between the Pripet and the Carpathians,
therefore, as one of arrested animation
one in which both sides are desper-
ately trying to get ready for new
move, and in which the side which Is
ready first is likely to score at least an
initial success.
Farther south, in Romania, the lack
of news suggests that the Germans are
still holding the "bolt" positions which
protect the withdrawal of the 9Th and
9th Armies, and that these troops will
probably get away behind the defense of
the Focsani-Galatz gap and have a
chance to reorganize and rearm. OF
course the Russians may be holding
back news of Russian advance. as
they often do, until they see what the
results are going to be; but the weight
OF probability inclines the other way.
especially since Konev, like Zhukov, is
overextended and is in an area served
by standard-gauge railways for which
the Russians have little, If any, rolling
stock.
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Evening star., 1944-04-24
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,yn

Reports from the Far East-most of
them from sources which have been
proved reliable in the past--indicate
that the Japanese have readjusted their
strategy Certain shifts in Japanese
industry lead observers to believe the
Japanese have foreseen the possibility
CT eventually losing the South Pacific.
The Japanese intend to do their ut
most to knock China out of the war to
reduce the chances Of American air
attacks on the Japanese islands from
the Chinese mainland. The offensive
in Manipur Province is intended, ac-
cording to reliable Far East reports, not
so much to create turmoil in India
but to sever communications between
Chungking and the outside world and
cut off supplies for Chang Kai-shek.
The swift Japanese offensive against
the railway junction of Chengchow with
crack troops from the famous Kwan-
tung Army is also intended to deprive
China of one of its most important re-
naming granaries.
Should both these military operations
prove successful the Chungking govern
ment might have to surrender or be-
come another government in exile.
In many official quarters the warning
of Ambassador Joseph Grew that the
Japanese may move bag and baggage
into China If their islands become un-
tenable has been taken lightly. Reliable
reports from Japan indicate, however,
that there is considerable truth in Mr..
Crews statements. In recent months
there has been considerable shifting
of Japanese industry into Northern
China. Airplane factories, motor fac
tories and even synthetic rubber plants
have now been established in that area.
The fact that six synthetic rubber fac
tories are being erected in Manchuria
seems to indicate that the Japanese
foresee the possibility Of eventually los
ing the rich rubber plantations in, the
South Pacific.
Double tracking of the Peiping-
Shanghai railway has been completed
Evening star., 1944-04-24

the Oxford laboratory available to
American workers"
A challenging footnote to Mr..
Fosdick's report is his frank declara-
ton that creative ideas" and
trained men" are more important
than financial sustenance and that:
"The best that foundation can
aim to do is to put its support in
the right place, at the right time" I"
Such words are generous as well as
modest. Organized philanthropy,
however, Is entitled to some credit
for expediting the development of
scientific efforts which because of
lack of laboratories or tools or assist
ance" otherwise might be retarded.
If the $3.50 had been withheld,
there might never have been any
penicillin.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Lull Before Storm
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

For once the Soviet communique re-
ports that nothing of Importance is
happening on the fronts. This situa-
ton the Germans describe as the lull
before the storm, saying that the Rus
slams are gathering forces for new and
more powerful offensives.
Actually two German counteroffen-
sives seem to be in progress, one in the
Narva area north of Lake Peipus and
one in the area of Stanislawow, at the
approaches to the Carpathian passes
into Hungary.
OF the aforementioned operation, it
may be suggested that the Germans
are getting ready for their long-overdue
withdrawal in North Russia, and are
counterattacking to upset the Russian
preparations to pursue. That might be
sensible military explanation; there is
no other, for the Germans can hardly
at this time expect to accomplish very
far-reaching results by an operation
north of Lake Peipus.
But there is also a political explana-
ton, which is that the Germans are
trying desperately to keep the Firms in
the war on their side, and this Narva
oil cd Id eilc Ollc dDOVe dll Outlets Ill winch
the Firms are interested. Now that the
Firms are definitely committed, perhaps
the Germans will feel that it is safe to
withdraw from Narva. One is unpleas-
antly reminded of their furious attacks
before Moscow, and the loud talk of
deathless resolution that Moscow should
be taken, which went on right through
the 7th Of December, 1941, till the JAP
anese were defir ely committed-and
ceased with precise German economy
on the 9th, when the retreat of the Ger
man armies began.
The German counterattacks in the
StanislaWow area may have some poll
tical angles also. The Germanss per-
sistently speak of German and Hun
garian troops" as being engaged in these
operations. The German purpose may
In part be to get the Hungarians thor
oughly involved in the fighting, so in
volved, in fact, that there can be no
possibility of Hungarian ears listening
any longer to Russian suggestions that
one good way for Hungary to get Tran
sylvania would be to abandon the Ger
man alliance. But aside from this, these
operations have considerable military
significance.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Seq Urqe

The bent tpings OF the white gulls are
1,o11 curDing
In restless arcs oper sea OF blue
glass,
And their thin cries are signal -iDdrnt',g
To all the shark-lean outbound ships
that pass.
Beyond the edge OF these dark reefs,
they keen,
Are thousand splinters and bar
nacled huLls
And White bones bleaching on the yeI-
lo,D sands.
No sailor heeds the bleak cries OF the
gulls.
Antiphonal from ship to gulls 90 toords,
Said ,Dithout sound, denying tceight
of cost
Against the pull OF tides and breakers
thrGH:
No sailor thinks OF other ships long
lost.
He only hears the olack-oiled engines
throb
And hears the nrgtng-on OF the ships
bell,
And his heart rides anatratd on epen
keel
Into phat may be storm, and noun
tdin-hedDy siUeH.
He kno1Ds t0hat the gulls can nerer
knot0 or see
That both OF them are phsrs their
hearts insist they bel
q ANOBEL ARMOUR. J
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and will help considerably Japanis
traftic from the coast to the interior OF
China. japanese losses in shipping
have been severe. The Tokyo rulers are
attempting to offset these losses by the
construction of wooden ships. There
are large quantities of wood in Indo-
China and labor is so plentiful, that the
japanese expect to be able to produce
large numbers of 'sampans"
The recent conference between repre-
sentatives of Germany and Italy in
Tokyo was more than a formal affair.
The italian Ambassador was, Of course,
invited as token" But important
conversations between Hitleris men and
high Japanese officials, have been re-
ported. 1T Is known that recently many
German specialists have arrived in
Japan to help the Japanese with pro-
duction. New airplane factories are
being built on the Chinese mainland
under supervision Of German experts
who are giving their associates the
benefit Of all the latest technical de-
velopments In aircraft.
y
For the first time since the outbreak
OF the war Nazi submarines have been
definitely identified in the South Pacific.
1t is believed that German submarine
experts are assisting their Japanese col
leagues in the construction of new
types of small submarines for use in
inland waters.
All this information, which Is ac-
cepted as reliable in responsible quar-
ters in Washington, does not indicate
that the Japanese consider themselves
through" But at the same time they
realize that the rising power of the
United States may overcome their re-
sistance and Tokyo wishes to cinch its
"lebensraun1," If not on the South Pa
cific, at least on the mainland of China.
The general belief of japanese political
leaders seems to be that neither the
United States nor Great Britain will
press Japan very hard after they have
regained the Southwest Pacific, par
ticularly If the price is very high.
Evening star., 1944-04-24

Newspaper correspondents have been
allowed to visit camps in which Ger
man prisoners of war are interned and
their revelations are important. 1t is
clear that we are going farther than
the obligations of the Geneva conven-
ton. Correspondents, for instance, re-
port being greeted by the Nazi salute
The Geneva convention requires that
prisoners salute in the manner Of their
army. There is no Hitler salute in the
German Army. A soldier with his
head covered lifts his hand in a con-
ventional military salute and, with head
uncovered, stands with elbows back, at
attention. The Hitler salute Is q party
salute and a direct provocation.
There are substantiated stories of
anti-Naz prisoners being beaten to
death by Nazis. The permission we
give for political Nazi celebrations in
camps, and NaI .salutes, strengthens
the hold Of Nazi fanatics over other
prisoners. On Wednesday the camp at
Fort Custer, Mich, held great cele-
nration OF Hitlers 55th birthday. Know
ing Nazi methods, it Is certain that
non-Na1 prisoners were compelled to
attend.
With all our doctrine Of recognition
and nonrecognition Of governments.
prisoners, dying, are given military
funerals with the collins wrapped in
the Swastika flag Of the usurper, whose
government we are pledged to nquidate.
II the same German soldier had died
on battlefield, he would not in all
probability be buried under the Swas-
tika. Just why every military funeral
should be amplifed by the political
emblems of a regime we are fighting
to dissolve, I do not know.
Men live in symbols. The disinte-
grafton of Nazi morale may come with
defeat. But these prisoners will not
be present there. They will 60 home
In excellent health, having been very
Well led and cared for. And mean
while, on American soil, we shall have
kept alive all the symbols of their party
dictatorship.
The Geneva convention does not pro-
vide for situations like this one, for it is
something new in the world. Apparently
we have not the wits to adjust ourselves
to this new situation.
We are failing to divide Nazi and
non-Nazi prisoners-although the Rus
slams have succeeded. A high official
said, "You cannot tell Nazi from
non-Nazi by looking at him." But there
are ways Of telling. think could tell
in five minutes conversation myself
Men who put up provocative signs on
the walls, Dragging that they will win
the war, and go around giving Nazi
salutes are Nazis. If we cannot make
anti-Nazi camps we certainly can make
Nazi camps. And If we cannot dis
t1ngu1sh Nazis from -Nazis on Ameri-
can soil among internees how is the
Evening star., 1944-04-24
CurdinuI O'ConneII

If Emerson is right when he argues
that "the genius of our life is Jealous
OF individuals and will not have anv
Individual great, except through the
general" the career of such a man
as William Cardinal O'Connell is
easy to understand. The great leader
OF the Roman Catholic hierarchy in
the United States came to his high
ONCE straight from the folk. He was
child Of the masses, eleventh born
IN poor family of the mill town of
Lowell. His infancy and his early
youth were spent under conditions
OF poverty and Illustration. He was
hurt by the then prevailing preiu-
dice against immigrants from Ire
land and their religion. To the end
OF his life he could not forget certain
sorrowful experiences with militant
intolerance.
But Cardinal O'Connell was pos
sessed of strength equal to his need.
Step by step he developed the powers
that were in his mind and soul. By
nature scholar and through rigid
discipline a toiler, he made himself
master Of vast realm of knowledge
from which 1t was possible for him
to draw practical achievements of
1ncalculable value to hundreds of
thousands Of Americans who even
now may not be conscious of their
debt to him. Ordained a priest at
Rome in 1884, he was granted a
ministry lasting nearly six full dec
ades. The award of the red hat was
an honor which he earned by his
devotion and his labor. He might
have won similar success in any
other field Of endeavor and dedica-
ton that he might have chosen:
but 1t was his deliberate and conse-
Grated choice to apply his talents to
the church. AS a fluent linguist, a
convincing orator, persuasive
writer, a competent musician, a the
ologian and philosopher of supreme
distinction, he contributed to the
progress of the whole Christian
movement in his time.
Cardinal O'Connell also will be
remembered as a patriot Of wide
vision and hope. He was not narrow.
In any cause Of mutual concern, he
gladly worked with persons and
Evening star., 1944-04-24
District Budget Hearings

Hearings on the District budget
for the next fiscal year begin today
against a curiously contradictory
background of recent publicity.
On the one hand, there is the pic
ture painted by recent Investigations
to show the unsatisfactory condi-
tions at Gallinger Hospital, the Dis
trict Jail and other municipal insti-
tutions suffering from inadequate
staff personnel and lack of proper
equipment.
On the other hand, District
officials are talking about the large
surplus of revenues now in sight
at the end of the current fiscal year,
with tax collections consistently ex-
ceeding previous estimates.
The war, of course, is largely
responsible for both conditions.
Many of the administrative defects
recently criticized result from in
ability to secure even the authorized
personnel. Competent men and
women have been lost and are hard
to replace. Faults in physical equip
ment antedate the war, but some
of them would have been removed
but for the restrictions on building
and material. The surplus of reve-
nueS, as Budget Officer Fowler
points out, is a paper surplus" re-
sulting from the collection of taxes
that cannot be spent until war
restrictions are removed.
The District is fortunate that this
condition is being studied this year,
by the two men chiefly responsible
for the District bill, Chairman
Coffee, who heads the House Sub
committee on District Appropria-
tions, and Representative Karl
Stefan of Nebraska, ranking mi
nority member.
Mr.. Coffee has indicated his will
ingness to discuss with Representa-
tive D'Alesandro the results of the
recent inquiry into public welfare
institutional needs in an effort to
determine what can be done now.
and Mr.. Stefan, who had been max
ing some Investigations of his own
at Gallinger, is anxious that as
much construction as possible get
under way, without waiting in
definitely for the end of the war.
He has also requested a list of con-
struction projects that make up the
District postwar program.
Progress made now in authorizing
new work, even though construction
will have to wait, will pay dividends
later on.
We need to know what Congress
Is willing to have done, and what
comes first. The appropriation bill
this year should be a prospectus of
needed projects, sanctioned by Con-
gress, and delayed only so long as
wartime restrictions remain in
effect