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Evening star., 1944-01-07
Frank K. Kent

1alntest chance of strike and that the
orotherhoods had given solemn assur-
ances OF this to the President and to
Congress. This does not seem to make
sense. But 1t makes as much sense as
the pious assumption of Mr.. Murray, the
great no-strike pledger, that for the
more than 90,O00,0OO tons of steel
which were poured at the enemy in the
past year" exclusive credit must be given
to the steel workers, as though for their
share in this vast production of steel
they had not been highly paid and as
though they had not recently struck bv
the thousands for still higher pay
which, if and when they get it. will ef-
fectually sabotage the Presidents anti
imitation program. Inadequate as it is,
it is all we have. The important thing
is not that the important officials"
statement was anonymous but that it
is true.
Certainly, 1t would have been better
II, instead OF taking over the railroads
and temporizing with the steel leaders,
the President had gone to bat at the
hrst suggestion of strike and urged
Congress to enact a national service act,
which it would have done with great
speed under White House leadership.
But, belated, guarded and indirect as
was the Roosevelt statement 1t does
support, to some extent at least the
Marshall statement Combined they
really pin it on the labor bosses. 1t
Is hoped that this time Mr.. Roosevelt
will not stop thinking along the same
lines" and will not, despite certain dis
turbing indications, yield again. If he
keeps thinking that way there ought to
be no more strikes while the war lasts.
There ought never to have been any
after we got in-and there would not
have been any if Mr. Roosevelt had not
held the door open when Congress
wanted to close it.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

troops; they can afford to put strong
garrisons into the Marshalls, well
equipped and provided with ample am
munition and food. They have plenty
of forced labor to help the troops dig
in. They have a framework of perma-
nent installations and defenses, built
during the quarter-century that they
have occupied-and illegally fortified
the Marshalls. They have air strips
on a number of the islands, and it Is
these islands which are of chief i'm
portance; probably there are naval in
stallations, suitable for the repair and
supply of destroyers and submarines,
on one or more atolls.
+
AS long as the Japanese troops can
hold given island, possessing an air
strip, Japanese aircraft can operate
there, within the limits Of Japanese
capacity to send aircraft into the Gen.
trail Pacific. We can "neutralize" the
Evening star., 1944-01-07

land bases were about 600 miles away
Funafuti in the Ellice Islands, and
Howland Island). Our new bases in the
Gllberts bring us within $50 miles OF
Jaluit, one of the principal atolls of the
Marshall group, and about the same dis
tance from Mill. If we should get these
two islands, we would be progressively
better off as regards others of the
Marshall archipelago. A great deal de-
pendS on this matter of island air bases,
because every one which we have with
IN striking distance of a given objective
means that much more air power con-
centrated on that objective, that many
more tons of bombs which can be Drop
ped on the objective during the prepara-
tory stages of an attack, and in conse-
quence that much less resistance from
the garrison when our landing parties
go in to take the place-therefore that
many less American marines and sol.
diers killed and wounded.
The more firmly we become establish
ed in given area, the more we can en-
ploy the by-passing strategy which has
worked so well in the Solomons. It
will not be necessary to smash our way
ashore on every little coral dot which
contains Japanese garrison.
When we can place ourselves between
a given Japanese base and its sources
of supply and reinforcement, so that
1t Is no longer a practicable or eco
nomical operation for the Japanese to
fly over Or around us to get to that base.
then that particular garrison can be
left to rot, or to make its escape as best
they can-as happened at Vella Lavells
and Kiska, and as seems to be happen
ing in southern Bougainville.
(copyrisht, 1914, N. =. Tribune. rne)
Evening star., 1944-01-07
Dorothy Thompson

else unusual discipline in the forthcom-
ing election campaign it will be made
to order for our enemies To dare to
hold presidential election at the cli-
max OF war is to court catastrophe.
Nothing could make 1t tolerable except
the elimination of the most contro-
versial issues, both foreign and domestic,
a voluntary curbing of every tongue and
the creation of SO harmonious a spirit
that none would greatly care who was
elected, and the election be essentially
but the maintenance of tradition.
But there are no signs of any such
lnhibitions among opposition party
leaders. Apparently we shall have poll
tics as usual-which is worse than busi-
ness as usual Instead of Democrats
and Republicans meeting to bury their
tomahawks, they are already manufac-
turing poisoned arrows fer the quad
rennial battle, and exacerbating every
rift while they piously talk about the
necessity of unity.
The candidate in the Republican
ranks who has most conspicuously be-
haved as a responsible citizen of the
Republic, the only American civilian
who is almost as familiar to the soldiers
as the President, and who has the con-
fdence Of the governments of our AL
lies, Wendell Willkie, stands at the bot
tom OF the party's favor, not because
OF his faults but because of his virtues.
Mr.. Witlkie who is for unity among
the Allies, believes that unity begins
at home. That is too much for those
who would risk losing victory for the
Republic to achieve victory for Repub-
hcanism-which without the Republic
would need another name.
CReleased by The Bell Syndicate Incl
Evening star., 1944-01-07
On the Record

And that the American Army. at this
moment, should have to use the ener-
gies of its members to administer the
railroads as we'll as plan a great in
vasion is scandalous.
What Is going on in the minds of our
soldiers will bear directly on their be-
havlor in the war; and it also will infiu-
ence their political behavior when they
get home. Many of them are very
young and the war has been the decisive
experience of their lives, forming their
whole attitude toward American society.
Physicians tending wounded soldiers
tell me that, reading the papers, they
are becoming bitterly antilabor, even de-
nouncing their own laboring fathers
At the same time, in such hospitals as
those at Atlantic City and Miami, they
are outraged by the display of luxury
amongst vacationers and lnfuriated by
the war profiteering.
The inevitable result of such revulsion
must be drift toward stern leadership
even of a dictatorial nature
Nothing is being helped, either, by a
renewal of the prohibition campaign,
by the same kind of bigoted minority
who organized the movement last time
while millions of American men were
still modified
Then, however, prohibition could be
described as IAN experiment noble in
purpose" Today the word describes
the era Of crime. And it is a fighting
word for American troops, to whom the
blue-noses attempting to protect their
morals" are school marms reducing
to the status of childhood, youths whom
Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, North
Africa and Salerno have prematurely
made into men.
Also, unless the political parties exer-
Evening star., 1944-01-07
Moral SABOTAGE

WHEN admiral EMORY -. Lana,
chairman of the Maritime Commits
sion. asks whether a letdown on the
home front is not a form of moral
sabotage" he is expressing the
thoughts Of many Americans who
are ready to return an unequivocal
affirmative to his question: ITO
weaken at this fateful and historical
moment, to slow down, to take it
easy, to avoid realities, to sabotage
the spirit of victory-may not one
classify such attitudes as approach
ing treason?"
There is, of course, sharp differ
ence between the legal and the popu-
lar meaning of sabotage and treason
and Admiral Land may not be think
ing of strikes in connection with
such terms any more than he is
thinking of any other acts by citizens
or groups of citizens which impede
the conduct of the war. But because
strikes are in the public mind, they
may be mentioned as illustrative of
the curiously contradictory concep-
tions of what is right and what is
wrong which have added to the con-
fusion of our public thinking today.
We exact the highest penalties
from the saboteur who damages, or
tries to damage. war plant; from
the traitor who gives aid and comfort
to the enemy or even from the weary
soldier who endangers the lives of
his comrades by falling asleep at his
post. Yet we regard a disruptive
strike in a war plant merely as the
exercise of the rights of citizenship;
and unless he runs afoul some stat
ute, the citizen who eXacts extortion-
ate profit from the Government for
manufacture of highly essential
goods is more apt to be looked upon
as a smart Yankee than as a traitor.
1t would be as unfair as it would
be erroneous to place the blame for
this anomaly on organized labor or
the occasional profiteer The blame
rests with the American people
Congress, representing public opin-
ion at work, has zealously protected
the right of worker to lay down his
tools on the theory that negation of
that right would amount to slavery
The administrat ton has resisted any
antistrike legislation. Government
leaders have been loathe to accept.
If they have not discouraged, the
idea of universal wartime service for
all citizens, demanding of every man
and woman the allegiance of SOL
dier. Instead of that lofty concept,
most Of the emphasis has been on
the rights of special groups rather
than on the duties of all the people
But we are coming now to one of
two things: We are going to be so
outraged as a people, regardless of
who may be to blame, over acts of
moral sabotage" or other acts which
suggest treason. that none will dare
perpetrate the crime against the
people Of delaying final victory by
endangering the conduct of the war;
or we are going to adopt a national
service act which. treating every
citizen as a soldier, exacts a severe
penalty under law for conduct un-
becoming a soldier.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

In fact. these indirect statements were
the first ever directed at the Messrs.
Green and Murray by an official source
IN which they were neither patted on
the back nor excuses made for them.
This is the first time any administra-
tion official has said what he really
thought about them
The second thing about the two state
ments is that they very correctly reflect
the thought and feeling of the great bulk
OF the American people at home and of
practically all our soldiers and sailors
abroad. For long time these have been
thoroughly outraged by the strikes and
threats of strikes by which the labor
bosses have obtained more money and
more power and the war effort been re-
tarded. The statements could have been
appropriately made, officially, many
months ago. Instead, all we have had
has been series Of greasy letters, COM
promises and concessions-a yielding to
pressure all down the administration
line.
AS to the effect-unless the Admin
istration now weakly attempts to soothe
the wounded feelings of the Messrs.
Green and Murray by assuring them
that they really are noble and unselfish
fellows and it was all a mistake, the
effect will be very beneficial. 1t, of
course, would have been better had the
general made the statement direct and
for quotation and had Mr.. Roosevelt
spoken out personally instead of guard
edly through his secretary. But, even
in the form they took, if there is no
weakening, they will make very unlikely
any repetition of the threat to paralyze
a Nation at war, to which we have sew
eral times been treated
The statements induced in the Messrs
Green and Murray an almost hysterical
condition. For example, the former We
hemently declared that, though a strike
date had been set, there was never the
Evening star., 1944-01-07
Repeats Satisfaction
With Present District "System

To the Editor of The Star:
May reply to Mr.. Armstrong's letter
OF January 4. He implies that I must
have been blind and deaf to the "volumi-
nous testimony" offered at the recent
hearing on the McCarran bill not to
have profited to a greater extent.
My views as stated in nv letter of
December 30, were based upon a still
broader record. They have been held
Tor long time, and were expressed in
a'letter published May 26, 1898, following
suffrage plebiscite and hearing be-
fore the House Judiciary Committee
which traverSed much the same ground
as the recent hearing.
Relative to the early history of the
District, I have an interesting write-up
In a cyclopedia Chambers, American
Additions printed about 1880. from
which I quote: The District of Colum-
ola was governed directly by Congress
until 1871, when the people of the
District were given the privileges of self
government as a regular territory; but
mus lar they have sent no delegate to
Congress. AS in other territories. the
voters have no voice in presidential
elections and it is singular fact that
until the Act of 1871 many of the
people residing in this District in sight
OF the Capitol were not political citizens
OF any State nor of the Nation
Shortly after that was written, Con-
gress terminated the so-called territorial
government and installed the present
system, which has functioned with gen.
eral satisfaction ever since.
My plea is for a continuation of that
system, with re-enforcements of men
and money to meet the present crises.
This is no time to change horses.
G. v. BURNSIDE,
Evening star., 1944-01-07

At least ten other volumes on
Lincoln came from her pen.
But Miss Tarbell was not only q
maker Of books. Not even a brief
and hurried estimate of her career
should fail to stress the fact that
from beginning to end she was
JOURNALIST. Her influence upon her
time thus was direct and prompt.
Even when allowance is conceded
for effort unavoidably wasted, she
appears in retrospect as an impor-
tant factor in the creation of that
American pattern of thought and
feeling which is essentially humane.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

First, Gen. Mar
shall's statement was
not made for publi-
cation. If he had
wished to make a
public statement on
a matter SO touchy,
he would, no doubt,
have written it and
reques tie d to be
quoted exactly. Since
a version was re-
ported IN the press,
I have talked with
two participants in
the conference who
gave a Ollita differ
Evening star., 1944-01-07
COrrects The Star
On Esquire Case.

COrrects The Star
On Esquire Case.
To the Editor OF The Star:
An editorial in The Star Of January 2
headed The Esquire Case" is based on
an assumption not borne out by the
facts
The editorial says "the question orig
mally at issue was whether or not the
publication was obscene" It declares
that the Postmaster General, in ruling
that the magazine does not meet the
requirements fixed by law for the sec
ond-class mailing privileges, attacked
from new angle" after the hearings
had been concluded WITHOUT giving the
magazine chance to be heard on these
points. That is not the fact.
The second of the three charges which
Esquire answered, alleged that the
publication had mot fulfilled the uuali-
flcations of second-class mailing privi-
leges established by the Fourth Condi-
ton Of 20 Stat. 259" (the second-class
mailing law. Evidence was presented
on this precise question. 1t was argued
at the hearing by counsel for both sides.
Counsel for the Post ONCE Department
took pains to dissolve any doubt as to
its meaning, and counsel for the maga-
zine specifically stated their under
standing and acceptance of the fact
that there were two grounds
VINCENT NJ MILES.
Solicitor, Post Office Department.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

tions are hopeless. To proceed on
any other assumption would be to
underestimate the dogged and re-
sourceful nature of our foe; though
the initiative belongs to our side
everywhere and though we can be
certain of ultimate victory, the
fiercest and bloodiest phase of the
war is probably yet to come.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

that the japanese
are rushing REIN
f or C e m e n ts into
these islands, seems
to add up to a COM
ing American often
sive in that direc-
ton.
The j a p a n e S e
must continue to put
their dependence in
the ability of their
island garrisons to
exact a heavy price
for each island posi-
ton. The japanese
still have D1entv of
Evening star., 1944-01-07

organ OF the Com
munist party in Rus
sia, has aroused wide
comment in ofhcial
Washington quarters.
The com motion
created was not due
to the fact that
P r av d a somewhat
manhanGled the for
mer Republican pres
idential candidate in
a lengthy editorial,
but because it con-
tanned an ill-con-
cealed warning to all
concerned that R,llS-
Evening star., 1944-01-07

MADE directly by
such men are for
gotten in "a hours.
For these reasons
the two recent ones
in the former cate
CORY are of especial
interest because they
promise to have an
effect greater than
any, either direct or
indirect, in quite a
time.
One, of course, was
the now-famous as
sertion of a high
official" since iden-
Evening star., 1944-01-07

Remember way back, couple of
years ago, when the only uniformed
bits of femininity one saw on Wash
ington'S streets were the members OF
the field staff Of the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society?
Evening star., 1944-01-07
Sees Discrimination"
In Courtesy to Catholics.
To the Editor of The Star:

IN courtesy to Catholics.
To the Editor of The Star:
Among the often-quoted four freedoms
Is the freedom of religion. The Gov
eminent of this country does not, or at
least most of the people believe that it
does not, interfere with this freedom.
The church and the state are separate
institutions. And yet, on New Year
Day the Government released its Catho-
lie employees for mass at noon. The
Catholics were released for one hour
and no leave was charged against them.
However, employees of other faiths who
wished to leave in order to attend church
service were told that they might not
leave because they were not Catholics.
This is religious discrimination. Al
though the day was proclaimed a day
OF prayer by President Roosevelt only
one religious body was allowed to OBJ
serve it on Government time have no
objection to the Catholics being released
but shouldn't the Jews and Protestants
have been released also?
YVONNE G. McCAv
Evening star., 1944-01-07
This Changing World

The "slapping down" Of Wendell Will
kie, one Of Russia's staunchest friends
in the United States, by David zas-
lavsky, editor of Pravda, the official
Evening star., 1944-01-07
The Great Game of Politics

1t is not often that statements on
public affairs not attributable directly
to important public figures ring the
bell. For that matter, most of those
Evening star., 1944-01-07

A number of further observations may
be made concerning the statement re-
garding strikes supposedly made by Gen.
Marshall.
Evening star., 1944-01-07
Letters to The Star
Plain People at Home
Alleged to Be Not "Complacent."

Plain People Mt Home
Alleged to Be Not "Complacent."
To the Editor of The Star:
Complacency. According to Mr.. Web
ster, the word hasn't very fiattering
meaning.
On the average Of once q day the
radio accuses us, in one way or another,
of complacency. Among the people in,
this writer's private world, the word
has come to be fighting one.
Maybe there is reason for so net
tling us. Perhaps it is believed that
the stirring of the spleen serves as q
tonic. Or possibly, since there are all
kinds of people in the world, those who
point accusing fingers at our so-called
complacency are so unfortunate as to
move among people who somehow man
age to derive sort of smugness out
Of this unspeakable war Probably the
accusers hear heavy taxpayers wailing
because they are required to cough up
q percentage of the money rolling into
their Golfers, when equally big men,
as we'll as the middle man and the
little man, are giving absolutely all.
II Is 1nconceivable, but possibly there
are few who feel that against money
eAASAS 40 Aio boAniiSAl6 WClSllt, CNcI
American blood. Such must be away
in the minority.
For my part, see women in overalls,
with lines under their eyes, men dog
gedly buried in newspapers, mothers
with blank smiles, young wives with
pinched faces, sWeethearts in off guard
moments looking into space, children
buying dime Defense Stamps, housewives
washing and flattening tin cans and
straining waste fat, eking out time
for the Red Cross.
We keep up the morale. We shopped
like mad for Christmas gifts, sensible
ones on the whole; we had holiday get
togethers. Some of us even had eggnog.
And there was laughter around the
Christmas trees, but so very little of it
came from below the tonsils Every day
we see brave Americans covering up
hurting hearts.
Americans are fine and big and GER
tainly not devoid of common sense.
Moreover, we have sense of humor
wen even accept kick or two if it
Will set the Axis off on the wrong track
II there Is complacency, I see none
OF 1T, only one all-enveloping aim: To
stand back of those we hold dearest
who have gone away from us, so that
we may have them back again as soon
as possible. NETTLED.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

1t is said to be still possible to OBJ
tain a seat on the stock exchange.
This must be because 1t is not going
any place
Evening star., 1944-01-07

The Chinese soldier depends on
rice for his maintenance, in contrast
to many an American soldier, who
does better with dice.
Evening star., 1944-01-07

Our continuous air attacks on the
the reports of our reconnaissance planes
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-03
By TOM GILL

head. "Believe me when I say I
want to bring no one sorrow. I've
lived too intimately with pain my
self" Rising, she came close to him.
Don't distrust me, Colin, and don't
expect too much from me. And don't
forget that the hours ahead may not
be easy"
Trina led the way down the trail.
Yes, she was frightened.
And Colin marveled that this girl
who had confronted him in her
room, who had sat unmoved while
they ripped the pontoon in landing,
could be unnerved at the prospect
of seeing the man she was about to
marry.
But why had Selkirk never
spoken of one whose picture stood
for so many years on his desk?
Well, that was Rods way. Init
mately as Colin had known him,
there were long gaps in his life that
Colin himself never understood. All
that was really known was that
years ago he had appeared in Lear
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-03

come in and start lacking II down
this very day, with my blessings.
AS one who has always respect
ed the ingenuity OF the individual
in trades where competition Is
keen, am delighted by an aging
darby named q ,phus who oper-
ates bootblack stand in the West
Forties. Popped against his polish
and brushes, Josephus flaunts a
flamboyant sign reading Former
Vaudeville Entertainer. Songs and
Smart Sayings tn Every Shine.
Now ! ask you, what chance is
there for a strictly no-talent boot
black in the free Of such provoca.
tive salesmanship?... Two OF the
towns most publicized-via- matrl-
mony blondes. who don't happen TO
be friends, might be interested 10
learn that they have something in
common besides i plurality OF hus'
bands. Customarily, they're breezy
and down.to.earth and regular. but
when they've had more than six
drinks. they both give 1t the Ie-
verse" As they drink, they de-
velop broad British accents, and
dignity descend; upon them like
a cast-iron cloak.
| observed at Coo Rouge the 9TH
er evening that when Dorothy La
mour was not singing endearments
at her handsome Major William
Ross Howard. she was calling him
Willie. All, well-there are
Willie Howards and Willie How
ards, | guess. =. I've just caught Up
with Tin Pan Alleys designation
for what the outside world calls