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Evening star., 1944-10-15
Symphony Orchestra
First Luncheon
In Ne1U Drive

Catherine Drinker Bowen will be
the guest of honor and speaker
Wednesday at the first luncheon of
the Women's Committee of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra of the
season, which will open the fourth
annual drive for the Wednesday
Evening Al-Subscription Concerts.
Mrs. Peter Belin again is chair
man of the drive, with Mrs. Reeve
Lewis. IL, as vice chairman, the
purpose of the campaign being to
sell during the coming three weeks
all of TIE 3.844 seats in Constitution
Hall on season basis. The first
of the Wednesday evening concerts
will be given November g.,
Mrs. Ralph A. Bard is head of the
speakers bureau for the drive and
will be seated at the head table with
the honor guest, and others at the
head table will be Mrs Emory Scott
Land, chairman of the luncheon
committee; Mrs. Corcoran Thorn,
chairman, and Mrs. M. Robert Gug-
genheim and Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howe, members of the box commit
tee; Mrs. Merritt Kirk Ruddock,
chairman of the newcomers COM
mittee, and Mrs. r. H. Dunlap,
chairman of the publicity commit
tee.
Also at the head table will be Mrs.
Patrick Jay Hurley, Mrs. Carl An
drew Spaatz, Mrs. Howard David
son. Mrs. Truxtun Beale and Mr.. j.
E. Mulch, manager of the National
Symphony Orchestra.
The honor guest and speaker at
the luncheon, which will be given
at the Statler Hotel, is the author
of the current best seller, Yankee
From Olympus" a biography of
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In
private life she is Mrs. Thomas
Mexican Downs, wife of Comdr.
Downs of the Navy Medical Corps,
and is at present resident in
Washington.
Mrs. Ruddock has divided her
committee for this work into two
groups, regional and apartments.
Chairmen of the regional groups are
Mrs. A. Sidney Buford, Mrs. Charles
E. Branham, Mrs. George A. Lincoln,
Mrs. John S. Graham, Mrs. John S.
Davenport III, Mrs C. R. Agnew, jr.;
Mrs. David N Yerkes, Mrs. George
w. Oakes and Mrs. Estes Kefauver.
Chairmen of the apartment group
include Mrs. John Broz, Mrs.
Charles EdmonSton, Mrs. B. War;
wick Davenport, Mrs. John Street,
1t. Emma Reilly, U. S, N. r.; Mrs.
Philander Priestley Claxton, jr.;
Mrs. Norris Chapman, Mrs. A. Y. P.
Garnett and Mrs. Ray Cline.
The luncheon is open to the public
and reservations may be made until
tomorrow evening at the Women's
Committee headquarters at 1927 K
street.
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pitfalls requested flowers, this request
was turned over to the Garden Club.
When hospitals requested sightsee-
ing tours for convalescent soldiers,
Camp and Hospital Service arranged
with the Red Cross Motor Corps to
have them taken on the tours. Serv-
ing as a channel for volunteer spe-
cial services, Camp and Hospital
Service is in a position to see that
servicemen are not deluged with
things they do not need or want
but that they DO get what they really
need, and ask for"
Although hospital needs have al
ways come first there was more of a
demand for services for the able
bodied at the beginning of the war.
Now hospital demands have in
creased. There are tremendous
plans afoot for Christmas in the
hospitals-every patient is to have
present and there will be Christ
mas decorations and Christmas trees
(See SMITH, Page B-5.)
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(See BROOKS, Page B-5.)
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Mrs. Albert Peter and is a graduate
OF Catholic University.
The engagement of Miss Virginia
V. Hates to 1t. q. g. Jack Mere
dith Matthews, U. S. N. r., of East
Moline, ILL.,. is announced by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Hates.
Miss Hates attended Mount st.
Marys College in New Hampshire
and is graduate of Dunbarton
College in this city She is based at
New London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry NJ Bedell an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Beverly May Bedell,
to Pfc. Herbert c. Wade, jr.. U. S.
M. c., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wade of
New York.
The bridegroom ELECT is on duty
in the South Pacific and plans
for the wedding will be made when
he returns to this country.
Miss Nancy Keen Hayes, whose
(See ENGAGENfENTS pooe pc1
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announcement Of Engagements
attract Interest of S0cietv

| Among the interesting engage
ment announcements that are being
made today by resident Washingto-
mans is the announcement of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward D. Barrett of the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Joan Barrett. to Ensign James E.
Markham, jr., son of the Alien
Property Custodian and Mrs. Mark
ham. No wedding date has been
selected.
F., Miss Barrett is a graduate of
Sacred Heart Academy and Ensign
Markham was attending George
town University when he entered
the service
No date has been selected for the
wedding of Miss Margaret Marie
Drach. whose engagement to 1t
q. g. Maurice A. Peter. U. S. N r.,
is announced by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. P. Drach.
Miss Drach was graduated from
Immaculate Seminary and Junior
College.
1t. Peter is the son of Mr.. and
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(See JOHNS, Page B-4D
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front and the men and women on
all the fighting fronts of the United
Nations, will climax the meeting
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss is in
charge of issuing invitations for
the boxes and Mrs. Edward Sturde-
want is in charge of promotion.
Evening star., 1944-10-15
Weddinq Date

December % has been chosen by
Miss Mary Barr Hamill, whose
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chalmers
Hamil of Washington, formerly Of
White Plains, N. Y. announce her
engagement to Mr.. James H. Wilson
OF st. Louis, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Wilson of White Plains.
Evening star., 1944-10-15

(see ENGAGEMENTS, Page B-6J
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Evening star., 1944-11-21
Pipeline to Chino

To the ever-growing list of half
miraculous American achievements
in the field of logistics must now be
added the story of the oil pipeline
being built into China. Just revealed
in substantial detail for the first
time, it is story of mans ingenuity
and endurance triumphing over
natural obstacles which in other
days would have seemed virtually
inSurmountable.
The work on this highly signifl-
cant project did not begin in earnest
until last March. Since then it has
moved forward across rivers, over
mountain ranges and through dense,
disease-infested jungle areas all the
way from Calcutta. India, northeast
ward into Northern Burma, whence
it is being pushed with all possible
speed toward it's ultimate terminus
in China. With the greater part Of
it already finished. it is today the
longest operating military pipeline
in the world, planned to extend al
most 1000 miles when finally COM
pleted
Made up of six-inch and fcur-inch
piping specifically designed for war
purposes, this vital carrier has
potential monthly delivery capacity
of perhaps 10000 or 45,0O1 tons.
From big feeder tankers docking at
Calcutta and from the fields and
refineries of Northeast Assam. it
now supports our Allied needs all
along its route into Burma. 1t is
pumping gasoline to our Super For
tresses in India; it is easing the task
OF supplying General Chennault's
18th Air Force; it is a major factor
in the campaign against the Japa-
neSe in the Burmese theater: and
it is taking such good care of our
ground vehicles that cargo trucks
on the Ledo road no longer have to
carry extra supplies of fuel to keep
going but can instead refuel at
service stations" on the way.
This great pipeline. of course, does
not solve our supply problem in
Southeast Asia, but it greatly SIM
plifies the situation by relieving the
Indian railways. our air transport
and our Ledo road trucking of the
burden of delivering fuel, thus per-
mitting them to concentrate on the
delivery of guns. ammunition and
other essential nonfuid war equip
ment. Planned and carried out by
construction units of our Army's
Services of Supply, the project is at
once military development of the
first Importance and a monument
to the vision and fiber of the men
responsible for it.
Evening star., 1944-11-21
SociuIizution in Europe

Inc outstanding trend through
out Europe today is toward socializa-
ton. This trend was visible over
most of the continent even before
the war, but the war has not only
greatly accelerated it there but has
also profoundly. affected Britain in
the same direction. Unless current
tendencies are altered, all of Europe
probably soon will exhibit series
of national economies socialistic in
character and, with the possible
exception of Britain, totalitarian in
pattern.
From this aspect, Europe may be
divided into three categories. The
most extreme of these is the Soviet
Union, which of course has been
completely socialized and totalitar-
lanized ever since the Communist
regime was established in 1917. The
authoritarian dicta torships which
arose in Fascist Italy Nazi Germany
and other European countries dur
ing the interwar period were eco
nomically of the same basic type%of
totalitarian socialism, despite their
nominal retention of private prop
erty and corporate activities. Axis
conquest of virtually the entire con-
tlnent which took place in 1940-41
extended the Nazi-Fascist economic
system almost everywhere in Europe,
which deliberately was integrated
into totalitarian unity at the same
time that the process of Specialization
was Speeded up by war necessities in
Germany and Italy. Private and
corporate ownership was deliber-
ately so alienated and scrambled
that it would be almost impossible
to restore the prewar status even if
it should be SO desired But, alike in
the liberated countries and in Italy,
the obvious trend of public opinion
is against the re-establishment of
the prewar economic systems. The
only question is whether those coun-
tries will be avowedly communistic
on the Soviet model or whether more
moderate socialisms will be estab-
lished.
In Britain. traditional capitalism
and private initiative survive in
theory, but the war has left Britain
so indebted and economically dis
rupted that most Englishmen feel
the necessity for elaborate collective
Evening star., 1944-11-21
Shuke-up in China

There is disposition in this coun-
try to interpret the changes which
GeneraliSSimo Chang Kai-Shek has
made in his war cabinet as a sur
render to Allied pressure" but this
may we'll be no better than a half
truth.
That pressure has been applied
cannot be doubted, and it is reason
able to suppose that this has con-
tributed to the shake-up in Chung
king. 1t seems quite likely, however,
that the generalisSimo was also in
f1uenced by other considerations.
For one thing, conditions within
China have made change impera-
tive. The country is in the grip of
a wild imitation. Graft and the
black markets combine to make life
intolerable for the great mass of the
Chinese, and popular demand for a
change had reached point where
the stability of the government was
seriously threatened.
OF greater significance, however, is
the attitude of the generalissimo
through seven years of war against
Japan. He may be accused of fight
Ing with an eye to his own political
position throughout that period. It
may be said that he has carried on
a war within a war against the
Chinese Communists while resisting
the japanese. 1t may be true that
he and some of his generals have
resisted the modernization of the
Chinese Army for fear that the army
might threaten their own hold on
China. But the overriding fact
remains that Chang Kai-shek has
never ceased to resist Japan, that
he has turned deaf ear to many
attractive peace offers, and that
China which has been bled white
Is still in the war today.
1t was against this background
OF a continuing fight against Japan
that Major General Patrick J. ,Hur-
ley aid Donald M Nelson took UP
the question of improving China's
war effort with the generalissimo
Pressure probably was used. But it
is also true that they found the
Chinese national leader receptive to
their proposals in many respects,
and there is good reason to suppose
that the cabinet changes which
have just been announced are in
fulfllment of an agreement made
weeks ago with Chang Kai-Shek. If
this be the case, the sensible thing
would be to treat the cabinet shake
up as an important step forward for
a War-Weary China and not as
mere concession to pressure applied
by this country or any of its Allies.
Evening star., 1944-11-21

was somewhat better, merely because
we had adopted selective service more
than a year before Japan attacked Peerl
Harbor This, however, Gid not prevent
our shipping from being ravaged by
German submarines right on our shores.
Nor did it prevent the fall of the
Philippines.
The only nations prepared to fight
at the outbreak of the present war
were the aggressor nations-Germanv,
Japan and Italy. In a lesser degree,
Russia was prepared and preparing, as
it fortunately turned out. England.
France and, most especially, the United
States were unprepared. Had they been
adequately trained and armed, the war
might not have come
One small nation in Europe has MAIN
tanned its neutrality in both these world
wars, largely because it was ready to
flght-SWitzerland, where every young
man is trained in arms. This in itself is
a sufficient object lesson.
*
Identical bills for universal military
training for this country have been in
troduced in House and Senate by Rep
resentative Wadsworth of New York and
Senator Gurney of South Dakota-as
long ago as Februady, 1943. They call
for years military training for every
boy when he shall have finished his high
school course. After training, he enters
the reserves. subject to future training
and to call for service Both Mr..
Wadswodth and Senator Gurney are
great advocates of military training, not
for aggressive war but for national de-
fense and the preservation of peace Mr..
WadsWorth was author Of the present
Selective Service Act, and he is men,
Der of the House Committee on Post
war Military Planning
The argument is advanced by op-
ponents of military training that it will
lead to militarism in the United States
The fact that all men will be trained in
arms, however, precludes the idea that
a military caste will grow up. No such
thing exists in Switzerland where all re-
ceive military training. 1t is argued,
too, by the antis that if the Nation be
trained in arms. it will lead us into
future wars. Well, unframed, we have
been forced into war-and undoubtedly
will be again.
Evening star., 1944-11-21

As the pressure of Gen. Eisenhowers S
six armies increases against the western
defenses Of Germany, the question which
all of us are asking iS-how long can
the Germans continue to hold off these
attacks? The answer to that question
is certainly based on just one factor
German manpower. The famous West
Wall is primarily wall of men. No
fortilcationS, no pillboxes or tank traps
or concrete bunkers can resist the ter
rife power of a modern attack unless
first there are men enough to man them,
and second, in addition to that, men
enough to provide for counterattack,
forces which can throw back such at
tacking elements as may penetrate the
defensive zone here and there.
One well-informed military observer
gave me his opinion that If the Ger
mans lose another 100000 men in the
west they will be unable to carry on
organized resistance there any longer
without making substantial and prob
ably disastrous Withdrawals from the
Russian front. Even if they were to
try to do so, such shift of troops prob
ably could not reach the western front
in time to be of any service in the
progress, and of that there is no sign.
But there are plenty of signs that the
Germans are willing to spend the lives
OF their men in the west at a lavish
rate. They are fighting, at any rate,
on the northern or Rhineland front,
with the utmost tenacity for every yard
of German ground From the senti-
mental point of view this may have it's
virtue. but from the military point of
view it is fantastic The Allies out
number the German armies of the west
almost three to one, yet the Germans
fight hard everywhere, they make no
Withdrawals unless compelled and they
use their local reserves Immediately in
small counterattacks to try to restore
their lines after every small-scaIe Allied
advance.
Since we know that the Germans are
not FOOLS we must seek some other
reason for the way they are fighting;
and it seems quite likely that the rea-
son Is very simple one. The German
infantry we are now engaging in the
Rhineland is largely the product of the
total mobilization OF this summer, which
combed all the available men, includ-
ing some in pretty bad physical condi-
tion, out of government Offices, local
party organizations, and the factories,
and formed them into units called
volksgrenadiere, under the command of
officers and noncoms, taken from the
broken remnants of the German armies
that were smashed in France. The
German plan seems to have been to
use these troops to hold the West Wall,
while an attempt was being made to
get together some sort of mobile reserve
to back them up. The German high
command knew, OF course, that the
Evening star., 1944-11-21
This Changing World
By Constantine Brovn

Some of the French officials who are
now in the United States studying the
possibility of resuming postwar trade
between America and France are seri-
ouSly concerned over the future They
realize the American Government will
do its best, through legislation, to facili-
tate increased exchange of goods. But
they wonder to what extent the Ameri-
can people will be willing to use some
of the French exports which were very
popular in the United States before the
war
Until 1899 French wines, champagne
and liqueurs formed an important item
in the commercial exchanges between
the two countries American still and
sparkling wines and brandies were con-
sidered inferior and the liqueur produc-
ton in this country was practically nil.
The many years of prohibition had made
it impossible for the vintners to give
the public high-grade wines. Moreover,
the consumption of hard liquor had in
creased considerably in the prohibition
years.
After 1910 the French export of alco-
holic beverages to the United States
was reduced to minimum In the
meantime, the American wine pro-
ducers have had enough time to age
their wines and increase production both
as to quantity and quality. Today, it is
admitted by connoisseurs that the
American still and sparkling wines are
at least as good as the average imported
product
X X 4
The difficulty in obtaining hard liquor
at reasonable price has increased the
consumption of wines in this country.
While in the past these were used by
relatively few sophisticated Americans,
wines now have become popular drink
in this country. This change. of taste
has favored the domestic wines since
the French product had become rare
and was necessarily expensive.
y *
The same thing applies to the COM
paratively few champagne and brandy
drinkers who, while turning up their
noses at the American brands, have
Evening star., 1944-11-21
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

The postwar military planning COM
mittee of the House is expected this week
to determine when it will begin con-
sideration of measures for universal
military training, as permanent policy
1t may begin hearings within a short
time, or postpone them until the first
of the year Whatever the decision, the
important thing is that the problem is
to be tackled. No more important legis-
lation than this is likely to come before
the next Congress. President Roosevelt
wisely and patriotically, is supporting
military training.
1t is generally agreed that this coun-
try will enter an international organi-
zation for the maintenance of peace in
the future. 1t also is generally agreed
that this country will support a proposal
that force shall be used, if necessary,
to prevent wars of aggression and pre-
serve peace in the world. In other words.
the power and influence of the United
States is to be eXerted in the cause of
peace.
Obviously the power and influence Of
this country will be enhanced or lessened
in the ratio of its preparedness to fight
if and when it shall be necessary. This
country was totally unprepared when
the present war broke out in Europe 1t
had failed to learn the lesson of the
World War. 1t turned its back on pro-
posals for universal military training
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Already today agitation against mill
tary training for Americas young men
is getting underway. 1t may increase
after the war has been Won 1t did
after the last war. The very fact that
the country will-if present plans are
carried out-enter an international Or
ganization for peace may enhance this
opposition to military training on the
theory that it will not then be necessary
We have been forced into two great
wars in the quarter century when we
were unprepared to fight In both these
wars we have adopted consumption.
and have had to start from the ground
up with the men who have had to do
the fighting, The first years Of both
wars-until this country could prepare
were anxious years. The situation at the
time of our entry into the second war