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Evening star., 1944-10-19

Chicago. His opponent this year Is
William E. King, also Negro. There
are some indications that the Negro
vote will not be as solidly Democratic
as in the past when Mr.. Roosevelt has
won.
The farmers in Illinois are this year
strongly Republican. Labor is clinging
to Mr.. Roosevelt, although there are
signs OF division in the ranks For
example. Joseph Allen, business agent
OF the Slate and Tile Roofers Local IT,
asserts: -Four more years of Madame
Perkins and the hundred and one bu-
reaus and theorists that have been in
Jected into the labor picture would be a
catastrophe. The picture goes a little
deeper than Madame Perkins The
future of labor is now in the palms of
Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder."
On the other side, r. Emmett Kelly.
secretary treasurer of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters Union, secretary of the
Illinois American Federation of Labor
Committee for Roosevelt, saws: II had in
mind the reelection Of President who
through IL years in the White House
never failed in his obligations to working
men and women. We of labor will never
4oiSC eiiC idSt illicc years Ol fCeDuOuC9n
administration, $780, 1881 and 1882 of
the Hoover years"
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What the women will do is a puzzle.
causing worry to both sides Many OF
the newly registered voters are women.
This puzzle, along with the unknown
soldier vote, helps to make Illinois still
guess.
Senator Scott Lucas, Democrat, Is
making strong fight for reelection.
He has some support from Republican
businessmen who do not cotton to
Richard j. Lyons, flamboyant Republican
candidate for the Senate 1t is even
intimated in some quarters that Senator
Lucas may run more strongly than Mr..
Roosevelt, but the polls do not bear this
out.
Gov. Green, Republican, is in a tussle
with Thomas j. Courtney, who has been
States attorney in Cook County, the
Democratic gubernatorial candidate. In
the past Mr.. Courtney and Mayor Kelly
have locked horns in intraparty fights.
Mayor Kelly has accepted him for this
campaign, though how much absolute
support the Kelly machine will give is
question that election day will answer.
Gov. Green looks like winner.
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Then and Now

Time was when the Wehrmacht
and the Luftwaffe were triumphant
everywhere. No worries for Nazi
Germany then. 1t had weapons and
manpower without end, loot and
resources beyond measure, power
more than enough to fill it with
dreams about being the master not
merely of Europe but of the whole
world for the next thousand years.
Five years ago, three years ago,
even two years ago-before Mont
gomery struck back at Ell Alamein
and the Russians struck back at
Stalingrad and Anglo-American
forces invaded Northwest Africa
Hitler could still speak with limit
less cocksureness. But how different
everything is now! The Wehrmacht
and the Luftwaffe, once so proud
and "invincible," bleed out their last
blood; Nazi Germany quivers from
end to end, it's cities in flames, its
manpower near exhaustion, it's
armament industries shattered.
Gone the loot. Gone the ability to
exploit the resources of Europe.
Gone the wild dream of world power.
Now when Hitler speaks, he speaks
only to call down curses on other
Germans who would destroy him. Or
when he issues proclamation-as
he has just done-it is only to order
all the able-bodied men of the Reich
to fight. And how many such men
are there left? The people of Ger
many must be asking themselves
many questions. They must be ask
ing about Goebbels' total mobiliza-
ton during the summer; they must
be asking about the lame and the
halt who have already been sent
into the front lines; they must be
asking about the sanity OF trying to
oppose the overwhelming might of
the Allies when their own radio tells
them that they will have to fight
with pitchforks, scythes, pixies and
swords.
Madness. That is the word that
must be creeping more and more
into the consciousness OF the Ger
man masses. Perhaps they were too
Evening star., 1944-10-19

said to be willing to remove some of the
members Of his cabinet who are still
labeled as reactionary But he wants to
do this himself and desires to pick his
own men for cabinet jobs from the
Lublin organization.
Whether Premier Stain, who has
thrown his full support behind the
Lublin group, will consent to this solu-
tion is still diplomatic riddle Prime
Minister Churchill is reported to be
strongly backing the stand of his Polish
colleague. The situation is not clear
and apparently in order to gain time the
three cornered conversations have
shifted in the last few days to map
readings"
The matter of the future Soviet-Polish
boundary has been brought to the fore
again. Mr.. Mikolaj ajczyk is said, however,
to display little interest in whether the
Molotov- -Ribbentrop line established in
1899 on the pattern of the old Curzon
line is the future frontier between the
two countries. He also is only mildly
interested in the compensations Russia
is said to have offered Poland at Ger
manys expense for the loss of territory.
The Polish Premier is said to be stand
ing by what he told President Roosevelt
last June when he was White House
guest that frontiers in Europe are elastic
and subject to change. The main
problem which interests him and his
people is whether Poland will emerge
from the war as a really sovereign inde-
pendent republic. Like the representa-
tives Of the rest Of the smaller European
countries, Mr.. Mikolajczyk is said to
regard the Atlantic Charter as his po-
litical bible and stands by it in all his
conservations with Premier Stain and
Foreign Commisar Molotov.
Although Mr. Churchill has only few
high cards in his hand, he Is said to
agree with the Mikolaj jczyk thesis. After
the Warsaw tragedy there has been a
strong change in Britains public opinion
in favor of the Poles A large number
of members Of Parliament, some of them
strong supporters Of the British Prime
Minister, have gone on record as sup
porting the Polish view, and no fewer
than q members served notice in Com
mons that they intended to ask some
pertinent questions about Polands most
recent disaster
Mr.. Churchill's trip to Moscow caused
them to postpone their queries, but the
Prime Minister knew he might have to
face hostile House II he did not give
his full support to the Polish government
in exile.
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Glorious ImpossibiIities

In his recent speech in the
New York Herald Tribune Forum,
Lieutenant General Brehon B.
Somervell spoke of captured Ger
man documents which refer again
and again to the impossible" things
accomplished by the Army Service
Forces in supplying the troops in
France since D day.
&Here, as General Somervell listed
them, are some of the "impossibil-
tiles: Two and half million troops
put ashore in the first 100 days of
the invasion; more than half a
million vehicles (four minute, day
and night landed in the same time;
seventeen million ship tons sent
across the beaches or through bat
tered ports in this period, more than
twice the material received by Gen
eral Pershing through friendly and
unchanged ports in nineteen
months of the First World War; over
800 miles of pipeline laid, reaching
ftbm the Channel and the Mediter-
ranean toward the front, helping
supply our troops with more than a
million gallons of gasoline every
twenty-four hours; railroads, de-
stroyed with their signal communi-
cations, bridges and rolling stock,
by the retreating Germans, now re-
paired and carrying nearly hun
dred thousands tons a week behind
locomotives and in, cars manufac-
tured in the United States and car
RED across the sea; the Red Ball"
motor route across France, with
laden trucks roaring back and forth
between the beaches and the fronts
IN a stream that never stops; air
transport which has evacuated
10000 wounded to British hospitals,
and $4,000 casualties to hospitals in
the United States; bridges that were
built and ready before the Germans
destroyed the bridges they were to
Evening star., 1944-10-19

The landing of British troops at
Piraeus, the port of Athens. and the
capture by the Allies of the islands of
Scarpanto and Cvthera are significant
of a return of Allied control over the
Aegean Sea, which means the ap-
proaches to the Straits of the Dar-
danelles.
The Germans still have garrisons on
Rhodes and Leros and in the west part
of Crete, but these garrisons can hardly
do very much now to interfere with the
movement of Allied shipping under
proper escort. The capture Of Scarpanto
breaks the link between Rhodes and
Crete and opens the southeastern gate
to the Aegean, just as the capture of
Cythera opens the southwestern gate.
The Corinth Canal is reported blocked,
but few such blocks have long resisted
the efforts Of Allied engineers.
Thus three separate maritime high
ways into the Aegean are now open, or
virtually open, for Allied use. The only
uncertainty regarding the approach to
the Dardanelles lies in the fact that
We have no present knowledge as to
whether the Germans still hold the
island of Lemnos which is close to
the entrance to the straits, but if they
do they will probably not be there long.
In fact, all the remaining German
garrisons can be isolated and neutralized
just as japanese garrisons in the Pacific
have been dealt with. Lacking aircraft
and torpedo boats, they will have no
means of interfering with Allied ship
ping which keeps out of the range of
their artillery.
This is fact of great significance re-
garding the future course of the war,
because it means that the supply route
to Russia is now immensely shortened.
The fact that the Russians have been
putting a great deal of weight into the
southern flank of their long front is
possibly due to their anticipation that
Allied supplies will soon be rolling in
through the ports of Odessa, Constanta,
Nikolaiev and Varna. The fact is that
comparatively short and easy sea COM
munications between Russia and the
Western Allies have been re-established
or are on the point Of being re-
established.
There d . vast saving IN time. in
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Allied Control Over Aegean
By Mai. George Fielding Eliot

effort. in manpower and in shipping to
be realized. For example, compare
the Persian Gulf route into Russia, SO
long in use and built up at such vast
pains, with the Black -Dardanelles
route.
First, the sea haul 1t is roughly
$500 miles by sea from New York to
Persian Gulf ports, and about $500
miles from British to Persian Gulf
ports, by way of the Mediterranean
and the Suez Canal From New York
to Odessa, by way of the Dardanelles,
is only little over 5000 miles, and the
distance from British ports to Odessa
is not much more than 5000 miles.
Then there is the land haul. When
ship reaches Odessa. it's cargo can be
discharged into Russian railway cars
which can be hauled directly up to
the Railroads in use by the Russian
Army, only few hundred miles away
in many cases. But when a ship
reaches a Persian Gulf port its cargo
must be hauled by the single track
Trans-Iranian railway, or by truck, up
to Tabriz, where the Russians take
over. Here there must be another
s-shipment, for the Russian rail-
ways are broad gauge while the Trans
Iranian is standard gauge. Then there
is another long haul, well over a thou
sand miles, before the European the
ater of operations is even entered.
In considering the Dardanelles route,
there is Of course the attitude Of Tur-
key to be taken into account Turkey
controls both sides Of the historic
straits. She has the right, under inter-
national treaty arrangements, to bar
the passage of armed ships of belliger-
ent powers when to permit such pas
sage would bring Turkey into danger
But the time is surely long past for
any such anxieties on the part of the
Turks.
With Bulgaria and Greece free of
German troops, or about to be, with
Germany no longer commanding free
access to her Aegean garisons, or any
port at all on the Black Sea, there can
be no danger for Turkey now In throw
ing open the straits to the passage Of
Allied warships, as well as armed mer-
chantmen.
tcopyrisht, 1e44)
Evening star., 1944-10-19
This Changing World
By Constantine Broyn

Since the last report from Moscow
describing the command performance
Of the famous Moscow ballet at which
Prime Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain were cheered for seven minutes by
a "hand-picked" audience, there has
been a dimout of news from the Rus
sian capital.
The Prime Ministers of Russia, Great
Britain and Poland are still in Moscow
discussing vital political problems the
solution of which will have a deep
effect on the war and on the postwar
organization of Europe
Little is known about the progress
OF the conversations between Mr..
Churchill and Premier Stain regard
ing the Balkans and Southeastern
Europe.
But, according to information reach
ing Washington regarding the Polish
problem, it appears that Premier STAN
islaw Mikolajczyk is more determined
regime Is recognized as the de jure gov
ernment of Poland.
He desires that any changes which
may be necessary to comply with Pre-
mier Stains wishes of having
AiChAiy SVFCILAlcllt al TOldHQ SHOULD
be made within the framework of the
London government. In this the
Polish Premier Is said to have the full
support OF the British government and
the sympathy of Washington.
After the July meeting between Pre-
mier Stain and Mr.. Mikolaj jczyk the
impression was created abroad that the
Polish question revolves around the
quarrel between two Polish factions:
the Soviet-sponsored Lublin govern
ment and the Polish government in
London. This is being formally re-
pudiated by Mr.. Mikolajczyk, who
maintains that the only power the
Lublin government has is that pro-
vided by the bayonets of the Red
Army. Outside that it has little If
any following in the country.
The ill-fated Warsaw uprising of the
Polish underground headed by Gen.
Komorowski Gen. Bor resulted in
the massacre of tens of thousands of
Poles. The violent cameaign of the
Lublin organization, smearing Gen.
Komorowski even after his capture by
the Nazis, is said to have alienated
even the few followers of the Soviet
sponsored administration throughout
Poland
Today Mr.. Mikola jczyk believes the
government in exile is stronger with the
Polish people than ever before. He is
Evening star., 1944-10-19
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-Illinois, with its %
electoral votes. is the third largest prize
in the presidential contest, and 1t looks
as though Gov. Dewey may nose Presi-
dent Roosevelt out of it on election dav
Mayor Kelly Of Chicago pooh poohs the
idea of a Dewey victory. The Demo-
cratic boss insists that he will run up so
large vote in Chicago that it will over
top anything the Republicans may do
down State
There is every evidence, however, that
the Republicans will come up to Chicago
with a huge lead. Predictions are that
1t will reach 100000 to $50 900. II they
do. it is likely the State will be in the
Republican column. -Four years ago, in
a very heavy vote. President Roosevelt
defeated the late Wendell l.. Willkie in
Illinois by $4,000. His victory was won
in Cook County, which includes Chicago
and which gave the President 223,0O0
more votes than it gave Mr.. Willkie.
Mayor Kelly is counting on the large
registration this year in Cook County.
In the city, the increase amounts to
5000. In the rest of the county, how
ever, it is 10000. The catch here is
that outside of the city, Cook County is
more strongly Republican than Demo-
cratic, and much of the new registra-
ton is likely to be Republican. Mayor
Kelly is quoting polls in Chicago that
give the President 81 per cent of the
vote and Gov. Dewey only 49, He's
looking for = 100000 lead over Mr..
Dewey.
The Democratic leaders in Illinois,
among them Mayor Kelly, are hoping to
get the President out here for a great
rally in Soldiers Field on or about Octo-
ber 49, The President is to speak in
Philadelphia on October q. If the
President comes here, the plans call for
a great parade, with emphasis on the So
called nationality groups, the Poles. the
Czechs. the Italians and many others,
to whom the Democrats have been
catering especially. Thus the drive to
get the President here is interpreted
in some quarters as sign that the
Democratic leaders are distinctly
worried
The Democrats are counting too. on
the large Negro vote in Chicago The
only Negro in the present Congress is
Democratic Representative Dawson of
the First Illinois District, part of
Evening star., 1944-10-19

replace-these and a hundred other
marvels of skill, teamwork, planning
and determination.
These things are going on in
France while back here at home the
air is filled with the bellows OF angry
men, reviling each other, calling
each other names, belittling one
group, glorifying another, pointing
with alarm to impending catas-
trophe or painting with broad
strokes the paradise that lies just
around the corner, depending on
how we vote; a Nation torn by a:
bitter disunity that within three
weeks will be forgiven and forgotten,
no matter how we vote. That, in
Hitler's eyes, is still another i'm
possibility"
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Rendezvous Off Greece

Describing the British entry into
Athens, Star War Correspondent
Newbold Noyes. jr.. wrote in his
dispatch yesterday of the great
armada of fighting ships and trans
ports, lying off Piraeus, waiting for
the minesweepers to finish their
work, stretched as far as the naked
eye could see"
There probably were sailors and
soldiers aboard who last had seen
that shore line three and a half
years ago. What a triumph, for
them, and for all they represent, in
this return! The last time British
armada lay off the shores Of Greece
it was small, inadequate for the
gigantic job OF rescue assigned to
it, but somehow equal to the task.
Between April "a and April 20, 194l,
working only under cover of dark
ness, few cruisers, destroyers,
transports and every lighter that
could be found, evacuated 50,162
British troops from Greece. There
was no air protection. The inland
waters were treacherous, magnetic
mines were all about, few charts
were available. Hundreds OF the
soldiers were wounded All of them
were exhausted from their retreat
before the German invaders. Those
who could not be got of one night,
because of approaching dawn, must
lie concealed until darkness came
again.
Bartimeus, the British writer on
naval matters, tells the story as
merely another exploit of the
Mediterranean fleet. He recalls the
final message from Radio Athens"
closing down as the Nazis came in
sight: Last night with you and for
you. Happy days with victory and
liberty-God with you and for you.
Good luck And the acknowledge
ment from battered Malta: Very
grateful for your message. The
Medes and the Persians could not
make it. How shall the modern
Attila?" And from Alexandria
I'VE shall not forget you and look
forward to the day OF freedom"
That armada described by Cor
respondent Noyes was keeping a
rendezvous.
Evening star., 1944-10-19

blind-or too pleased-to recognize
1t in the days when their Wehr-
macht and Lrftwaffe were inflict-
ing agony and desolation on other
lands. But now that the agony and
desolation are Germany's, now that
the sower of the wind is reaping the
whirlwind, they are probably begin
ming to see it. seig he'll! He'll Hitler!
He'll crime and madness! After five
years of it, the people of the Reich,
with their pitchforks and scythes,
are not likely to amount to much
of an army.
Evening star., 1944-10-19
A CIeur-Cut Stand

Governor Dewey's primary pur-
pose last night was to remove any
basis for doubt that he is a whole
hearted supporter of international
collaboration for the maintenance
Of peace. It is difficult to see how
he could have stated his position
more clearly or more emphatically..
He indorses, without qualification
the accomplishments at Dumbarton
Oaks as a good beginning. No SEN
slole person contends that they are
more than that. He states with the
greatest emphasis that the building
of world organization to maintain
peace should not wait upon final
victory, but should go forward "as
rapidly as possible to immediate So
luton" Finally, he says that we
must make certain that our par
tlclpation in this world organiza-
ton is not subjected to reservations
that would nullify the power of that
organization to maintain peace and
to halt future aggression"
No man with a sense of responsi-
blllty would undertake more spe-
clflc commitments while the postwar
security project remains in it's pres
ent neoulous stage. This is not the
time for the dotting of "is" and
crossing Of ITS" What is needed
now is the determination to build
security organization that can
function effectively and the resolve
to stand squarely behind it when
1t is built. Some of the details of
Its construction are important and
they will be difficult to work out.
But the solutions can be found if
the will to find them exists. and
Governor Dewey was saying last
night that he is determined that
the answers shall be found. If what
he said leaves some of his critics still
unsatisfled, it is safe ASSUMPTION
that nothing he could say would
satisfy them.
Presumably, with this in mind,
the Republican candidate warned
against adopting an all-or- nothing
attitude in this undertaking. Sc
curity can be achieved, he said, only
through agreement among our
selves, among the great powers and
among some sixty nations, great and
small. In this situation we cannot
expect to get exactly what we want,
and II we refuse to concede anything
to opposing viewpoints we will wind
up by getting nothing. This may
seem like the statement of a self
evident truth. But it is a truth
which is often forgotten in the heat
of controversy.
Most of the balance of the speech
was devoted to criticism of the
Presidents handling of foreign af-
fairs on the basis of personal, secret
diplomacy" This is matter which
may be proper subject of political
debate, but in time of war it is
especially difficult to say where the
line should be drawn between secret
diplomacy and the conduct of for
eign affairs in a goldfish bowl. No
one can doubt that a measure of
secrecy is necessary, and, lacking the
essential information, it is not easy
to say that the President has gone
too far in this respect. In final
analysis, that will be determined by
his 1lltina q te Slnnncc or failnra
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Knows What He Wants

Prom the Topeka Capital.
Jeff Davis, self-asserted king Of the
hoboes, has his postwar program all
mapped out, but he will not be able to
attain his objective unless the women Of
America cooperate.
1--WE want women war workers to re-
turn to their kitchens, so we will be an
swered when We knock at back DOORS"
he exclaims.
Evening star., 1944-10-19

From the Christian Science Monitor.
Our neighborhood music store tells us
that fully half the young people that
come in buy symphony, concerto, or
operatic records. When we told about
pilots We know who, after hours OF
listening to roaring motors and machine
guns, like nothing better than to listen
to Beethoven, Mozart or Rimsky- -Korsa-
kov on their record players, while they
build model planes, the young woman
behind the counter ventured the opinion
that these men Of action found the
classics soothing. Is 1t the fellows bored
stiff in barracks and bases that prefer
hooRie- -wooRie?