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Evening star., 1944-12-13
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,cn

The plans for the liberation of Luzon
and operations against Formosa and the
Chinese coast which were drafted last
summer by Gen. Douglas Macarthur
and Admiral Chester w. Nimitz and ap-
proved by the combined chiefs of staff
in Washington may have to be re-
shuffled and delayed until next year.
Only the present operations on Leyte,
important air raids on Japan and some
new naval actions are believed to be
contemplated within the next few
months
There are two main reasons for this
reshuf1ing of plans. The war in Europe
Is not likely to end this year and the
British fleet, which until few months
ago was fully occupied In European
waters, is now available for action and is
gathering in the Indian Ocean.
When the plans were made for an
all-out offensive in the Pacific leading
to the liberation of the Philippines, and
possibly other equally important actions,
the Allied high command was fully con-
fdent that before the end of the year
all organized German resistance would
cease. Under such circumstances, while
the forces under Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover and 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark
would have still needed some replace
ments and supplies, the quantities re-
quired by them would have been rela-
lively unimportant. The bulk of the
war production and ample reinforce
ments thus could have been dispatched
to the Pacific area.
Neither Gen. Macarthur nor Admiral
Nimitz had any illusions about the
determined resistance of the Japanese
They knew they had to fight hard for
every inch of territory and that the
cost would be high. Tarawa, Saipan,
and now more recently Leyte, have con-
flrmed this belief.
The prolongation of the war in Europe
and the violence of the German re-
sistance requires that much larger
force be sent to Europe as quickly as
possible. We do not have an inexhaust-
ible number of trained men. The losses
in the present battles in Germany are
heavier than ever before. Gen. Eisen-
hover must have replacements and they
must reach him without delay.
The same thing applies to the supplies
and particularly artillery shells. Pro-
Evening star., 1944-12-13
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

One cannot lightly dismiss the appre-
tensions Of Mr.. Churchill that Europe
is threatened with seizure Of power by
ruthless armed left-wing groups who, be-
cause Of their superior discipline and
organization, may impose their rule by
force in the midst of chaos. This would
not be victory for democracy, freedom
or civilization.
But Mr.. Churchill's description Of
the situation was not an analysis of it.
The question would like to ask Is:
What are the most favorable possible
conditions for the seizure Of power by
ruthless minority? would like to state
those conditions and suggest that we
ourselves are creating them by the
sum-total of our policies toward Europe
A minority seizure Of power is most
likely where there are weak and unpop-
ular governments. A government is weak
II 1t depends for its support on servility
to foreign power, for then the patriotic
feelings Of the population, both right
and left, revolt from it.
A government is unpopular If 1t Is un-
willing to recognize there has arisen in
Europe vast demand for change, and
complete distrust of the old personah-
ties. dynasties and organized interests
which have already demonstrated their
failure to protect the nation.
A popular government must be strong
enough to maintain the interests and
the independence of the nation, even in
the face Of Allied demands insofar as
these 60 beyond military necessities. It
must put out of Office every one connect
ed with previous defeat, failure, treason
and servility to the Nazis, and put new
and uncorrupted people in. IL must
recognize the popular demand for social
reform in agricultural countries a
thoroughgoing land reform; in industrial
countries popular control, in one form
or another over the basic industries.
If an armed minority anywhere is
able to get control it will be because
it advances these principles, not be-
cause 1t advocates Bolshevism. If strong
non-Communist governments accept
these principles they will absorb the
more radical opposition, at least for the
time being, and if in the future coups
d'etat are attempted they will exclude
themselves from the main trends of the
nation.
But what kind of governments have
we fostered?
In France there is strong govern
ment, supporting and absorbing the
Evening star., 1944-12-13
Mikodo's S Palace

10y Sou1 tcSy VI tIl6 OIllG6Q states
Army Air Forces, all the world now
knows what the palace of the EN-
peror of Japan looks like from the
skies. The making of such pictures
was forbidden even to japanese in
the days before Pearl Harbor. Ger
tain aeronauts from the United
States, circling the globe, got into
trouble for merely passing near "for-
hidden areas" as long ago as 1929.
At last, however, the chance Of war
has laid the secret bare.
The original residence of the To-
kugawa shoguns was built by Ota
Dokwan in 1856. Fourteen different
territorial lords" occupied the castle
during two hundred and seventy
years. In 1868, when the shogunate
surrendered the sovereignty held in
trust to the imperial court, the EN-
peror removed here from Kyoto."
The palace repeatedly has been
burned. A confagration in 1873
drove the Mikado and his family to
the detached palace" at Akasaka,
where they remained until 1888,
when the new palace was completed
after six years work"
Inside the precincts there are two
Enclosures, one within the other.
Two bridges and two ponderous old
lowered gateways guard the en-
trance to the front of the main
building, "a long, yellow brick edifice
with the conical towers and steep
roof of French chateau" The
official japanese guidebook says:
The Offices of the imperial house.
hold department are assigned to this
foreign wing and the new structure,
excepting this department section, is
a labyrinthine collection of temple
like buildings. & = Built on sloping
and uneven ground, there are count
less differences of level in the innu-
merable roofs and floors. The pair
of iron and stone bridges called
Niju-bashi is visible from outside, as
are also the roofs of portion of the
palace buildings, viz, the main cham
ber and Homei den. Ordinary people
are allowed to approach only as far
as the end of the first bridge out
side the outer gate.
A moat surrounds the outer in
closure, winding a total distance of
five miles from the Sumidagawa
River and back again. Many changes
have occurred in the neighborhood
OF the palace since it last officially
was permitted to be described. The
adjacent Hibiya Park, including
about forty-two acres, is or until re-
Gently was drill ground and ath-
letic field, surrounded by govern
ment offices, the residences of no.
bles, schools, museums, the embas-
Evening star., 1944-12-13
Letters to The Star
Some Beautiful Words for
The Christmastide

To the Editor Of The Star:
The following lines were written by
Fra Giovanni in 1913:
Il salute you. am your friend, and
my love for you goes deep. There is
nothing can give you which you have
not got; but there is much, that while
cannot give it, you can take. No heaven
can come to us unless our hearts find
rest IN today. Take heaven! No peace
/. lies in the future which is not hidden in
this precious little instant. Take peacel
The gloom of the world is but shadow.
Behind it yet within our reach Is Joy.
There is radiance and glory in the dark
ness, could we but see, and to see we
have only to look. I beseech you to look.
Life is so generous giver, but we,
judging its gifts by their coverings, cast
them away as ugly or heavy or hard.
Remove the covering and you will find
beneath 1t living splendor, woven of
love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome
1t, grasp it, and you touch the angels
hand that brings it to you. Everything
We call a trial, sorrow, or a duty, be-
ieve me, that angels hand is there; the
gift is there, and the wonder of an over
shadowing presence. Our joys too: be
not content with them as joys They
too conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meanings and pur-
pose, so full of beauty beneath its cover
ing that you will find earth but clcaks
your heaven. Courage then to claim it;
that is all! But courage you have;
and the knowledge that we are pilgrims
together, vending through unknown
country our way home. And so at this
Christmas time greet you. Not quite
as the world sends greetings. but with
profound esteem and with the prayer
that for you now and forever the day
breaks and the shadows flee away"
FRED e. THOMPSON.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

.,k--...n etove; shep, behind the
stove, mutters and means in his
sleep as he dreams Of the fat, be-
whiskered woodchuck that eluded
him all summer long.
Many men and women now living
in cities remember those winter
evenings in the farm kitchen. There
was peace and sanctuary there;
there was unity and affection. There
was also the American Dream. For
in farm kitchens all over a great
land boys and girls dreamed youths
dreams of adventure and accom-
plishment. And from those kitchens
in due time went those who have
helped build a great Nation in this
Western Continent.
Evening star., 1944-12-13
Praise for Columnists

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t has been said that the purpose
of an education should be to teach us
not how much but how little we know.
Religion Is from "re" and "legare, F"
meaning ITO bind together" There is
nothing finer in all literature than St.
Paul's 18th chapter, LIST Corinthians,
when the word love" is substituted for
charity" as 1t is in the modern trans
lations.
All of which is preparatory to saying
that The Stars columnists deserve con-
sideration for the variety they express.
Dorothy Thompson at times has the
vision without which the people perish.
David Lawrence usually Is level-headed,
Constantine Brown informative. Frank
r. Kent Is honest In his comments from
the Republican point of view. Lowell
Mellett gives us New Deal ideas Maj.
George Fielding Eliot has his audience.
Doesn't it seem that The Star is CIV
ing its readers square deal2 Why
find fault with anybody?
MRS M. j. H.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

Last Sunday in front-line broadcast
from the sector in which the United
States lst Army is fighting, Richard
Hottelet Of CHS quoted an American
infantry officer as saying: Its tough
going now, but when we lick these guys
this time they're really licked"
There is food for thought in that
statement.
The Germans are putting up very
tough fight in the Rhineland. They are
defending every village with the utmost
desperation. Our troops cannot by
pass the fortified villages because they
are built on the roads, and the mud
makes it impossible to move armor and
trucks except along the roads.
So progress is slow and costly. But 1T
is steady, and it is costing the Germans
more than it costs us to fight that sort
of battle because we have better support,
because we can do more than they can
to save lives by using material.
This is especially notable whenever
weather permits our close-support avi-
alton to operate; these days of good
weather are our great margin of ad-
vantage. 1t is a margin which in the
end the Germans cannot overcome.
r X 4
Always the demand on German COM
manders is for more men. A village is
entered by American troops-the sector
commander must move up his reserve
unit "a company, perhaps, with few
tanks) to check our progress Despite
this reinforcement the village is taken
because we have more men and more
fire support.
1t must be retaken A German bat
talon Is moved up, with dozen tanks
1t is shattered in heavy fighting, which
may or may not retake the village. In
either case the casualties must be re-
placed from the nearest replacement
pool or in some cases the German units
are so badly battered that they must be
taken out of the line altogether and
others substituted
Eventually the division defending that
part Of the front has to be withdrawn
and a new division put into the line to
replace it while the broken division is
filled up with recruits, reorganized, re-
equipped and given at least little rest
and little chance to train its new men,
Very likely 1t has to return to the front
before these various processes have all
been completed.
Always German units below their
proper strength. short Of equipment and
Evening star., 1944-12-13
Still Life

White s,odns are poised, contemplattre
at sundotDn,
Profound upon the motio,Iess black
glass OF lake
Among drift OF fallen golden scillo,o
ledpes;
The chill autun,nal evsntng mist q
on the brake.
Light fades from copper Hush to pale
lime-green,
The last cold ripples quietly ,oash the
shore,
Somewhere a movement rHstles In dry
underbrnsh,
And the seDeral stlences Of dHsk
descend once more.
The first star shimn,ers tn clear cue
ming sky;
One last late crIckets plaintipe thin
bell rings,
And now the spectral s,oans. stH dinlv
luminous,
Fold stadotpy heads beneath thsir
sh1doUed sctngs.
FREDERICK EBRI0HT.
Evening star., 1944-12-13
This and That
By Charles E. TraceueH.
BETHESDA Md

BETHESDA, Md.
Dear Sir:
Il have been waiting for your an
nual popcorn article, but since don't
see 1t l am writing to you to hurry
1t on.
IF there is anything in the food
line like, and there are many things
l like, 1t is hot buttered popcorn. What
are we going to do with popcorn without
butter?
You and your famous friend, Mr..
Iempleton Jones, have 50 many ideas
ABOUT SO many things, maybe you can
solve this one, what to do with popcorn
without any butter to put on It.
Very truly, H. McM"
Ho, no, no, and ha, ha, ha, Christ
mas is coming, and there is plenty
OF popcorn in the stores.
This ought to be good news to all
devotees of this delicious bit of
Americana
AS long as there is popcorn, backed
by our brave boys and girls, the tradi-
tional American Christmas ought to
come in the right spirit, despite trem-
bling lips at times.
The soul-destroying news over the
radio. buoyed by some soul-elevatine
matters, too, cannot quench the joy
of Christmas.
1t does not take much to make one
happy look, smile, a good book
and maybe popcorn.
*** X
Butter, Of course, Is the best SAUCE
for 1t, with bit of salt, but there are
others
In the old days, and many will re-
member, grandmother even used lard.
coating the inside of the kettle with
1t. With salt added at the proper
time, the result was fit for even the
connoisseur.
In those days, it was true, no one
expected as much as we do today. An
orange was ranking Christmas pres
ent. Just one orange, all by itself.
Think Of that, all ye spoiled people
Popcorn may be turned out neatly
with oleomargerine, too, as many have
discovered, much to their own amaze
ment.
There are oleos, and oleos: 1t is
necessary to experiment a little, and
find out the best one or two for your
own taste.
And be sure to use only half the
amount Of coloring matter. Even but
ter does not taste right when it is too
yellow, or orange, as the case may be.
X y
There is not much food value to
popcorn. The fact that it has few
calories-about 100 for cup and a half
(unpoppeO makes it good for the
person on diet, provided he or she
does not cover it with too much butter,
oleomargarine, lard or what have you.
This should be added merely to give
the proper taste, not to make the
popped corn fairly swim. The flavor
is the thing, after all.
Many families have found that the
family dog or cat, or both, like but
tered popcorn, probably for the butter.
Perhaps popcorn Is more of small
town habit than a city habit, but since
many of us came from small towns,
no doubt popcorn still reigns in all
Its old-fashioned splendor.
SWeetened popcorn never has had
exactly the same lure as the buttered,
although there are many good ways
to fix it.
Here is a good tip, for persons who
lament the lack of the fancy Christ
mas tree decorations of several years
ago:
Take needle and thread, and string
up many feet of alternated popcorns
and cranberries. If you can't get
cranberries, use just the popped corn
alone.
These festoons give q real festive
air to any Christmas tree. They bring
back a touch of the good old America
OF yesteryear, which some Of US are
In danger Of forgetting.
Evening star., 1944-12-13
Not q National Court

IN recent years there has been a
tendency-one might almost say an
inspired tendency-to treat the
Court OF Appeals for the District as
a national tribunal. It's important
junction as an appellate court for
the determination of the large pro-
portion of strictly local questions
which come before it has been mini
mized or ignored. And the practical
effect of this has been to bar fully
qualified local men from considera-
ton in filling appellate vacancies.
A few days ago. however, no less
sn authority than the Supreme
Court pointedly directed attention
to the fact that proper functioning
of the local courts, including the
Court of Appeals, requires that
judges be familiar with "the intrica-
cies and trends of local law and
practice"
The Supreme Courts pronounce
ment came in a suit for debt by two
lawyers against the Electric Utili-
ties Employees Union, which has It's
headquarters in Washington. Trou-
bled by some aspects of the case, the
Court of Appeals asked the Supreme
Court to answer the following ques-
ton. ~Is an unincorporated labor
union. with its principal Office in
the District of Columbia, suable as
such in an action in debt brought
against it in the District Court of
the United States for the District
of Columbia, where service of proc
ess is duly had upon its president at
its principal ofhce?"
Presumably the appellate judges
were in doubt as to the application
to the question of an earlier Su-
preme Court decision, but the JUS
tices OF the latter tribunal refused
to answer the inquiry on the ground
that it involved primarily a determi-
nation of local law, and that it was
up to the Court of Appeals to make
that determination.
The term local law, as used by the
Supreme Court, refers to the COM
mon law and statutes of Maryland
In force at the time of the cession
Of the District to the United States,
as modified by acts of Congress and
as interpreted and applied by the
courts of the District. Said the Su-
preme Court: eve think it appro-
pirate that the question of local
law should be answered by the
courts of the District before this
court is called upon to answer it
'. There are cogent reasons why
this court should not undertake to
decide questions of local law with
out the aid of some expression of
the views of judges of the local
courts who are familiar with the in
tricacies and trends of local law and
practice"
This was not intended, of course,
as any reflection on the present
members of the Court of Appeals.
But it seems self-evident, neverthe-
less, that the administration
marked disposition to treat the court
as a national rather than a local
tribunal, and to use this as justifi-
cation for the appointment of non
District men to all vacancies, pre-
cludes the selection of appellate
judges who actually are familiar
with the intricacies and trends of
local law and practice. In fact, the
opposite is almost certain to be the
case, and 1t is to be hoped that the
recommendation which is implicit
in the Supreme Courts statement
will carry weight If the President
intends to fill the appellate court
vacancy created by the resignation
of Justice Vinson more than a year
and half ago.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

An information column states that
the first movement is usually the
most important in a symphony, mas
much as it carries the composers
most powerful message. In the case
of certain works the audience is in
clined to wish that he had stopped
right there.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

Once collegiate varsity letter was
a distinction and letters from two
different institutions a great rarity.
With the present training program
and its shutting of students, how
ever, there are football players en-
titled to wear three or more-enough
to put them in the alphabet soup"
class.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

Among noted lines which recently
failed to live up to their advance
notices may be mentioned Maginot,
Siegfried. Gothic and that of the
football team of the United States
Naval Academy.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

sizes Of foreign nations and the
houses Of the industrial millionaires
who controlled the silk trade and
other businesses.
Evening star., 1944-12-13

But what kind of governments have
we fostered?
In France there is a strong govern
ment supporting and absorbing the
Evening star., 1944-09-26
Weather Observers Get New
Quarters at NotionoI Airport
Desk With SpseioI
Instruments Helps
Meteoroloeists

Washington's weather observers at
the National Airport have moved
upstairs to an all-slass penthouse
on the roof Of the terminal build
ing.
A new desk with built-in instru-
ments, just installed in the new
quarters, was shown to q reporter
today by II. L. Groom. rneteorolo-
gist In charge Of observation.
The desk was designed by B. G.
Haynes, who Is in charge Of Ill OBJ
servation In the Nation. It has q
new aneroid barometer which oper-
ates from vacuum cells instead Of
from . column Of mercury, Is in
barometers used previously. The
barometer reading Is indicated by
. needle on . large dial. Other
dials on the panel show wind direc-
ton and wind velocity, operating
from instruments on the roof.
The desk also has . valve for in
hating small balloons with helium
gas in order to find wind direction
and velocity aloft.
This observation Is carried out
by young women. One fills the bal
loon with gas and releases 1t, ther
takes over the operation Of . plot
ting chart . yard In diameter, which
is on another panefof the desk. An
other girl sits at a range finder In
tiny observatory-ike dome nearby
She follows the course of the balloon
In the air with her range finder and
reports its changing position and
height measurements on q loud
speaker interphone to the plotting
Evening star., 1944-09-26
Arlington Man, "a, Is Held
For Grand Jury in Accident

Glenn e. Paquet, "a, of 2o28 Lee
highway, yesterday was held for the
action of the grand jury after a
hearing in Arlington County Court
on charges Of leaving the scene of
an accident. His bond remained at
81 600.
Police reported that Paquet ran
down Mi1 Harriet L. Weatherly, 20,
|of 2420 North Florida street, while
she was waiting at . bus stop on
Lee highway several days ago, in
fiicting serious head, back and leg
injuries.
The car was travelling more than
so miles per hour when the accident
occurred, police charged, adding that
Paquet was apprehended about 3
miles from the scene of the accident
Capt. James J. Scott, head OF the
county police trafac division, told
the court the driver was under the
influence Of alcohol. had an expired
Virginia drivers permit and q re-
voked Michigan drivers license.
Capt. Scott also testified the car
showed evidence Of having struck
something.
Evening star., 1944-09-26
lsHRst;oniinq
&Remiinde5@a

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. L
blue stamps AS through Z-8 and
AS through LIS good indefinite
ly. Each stamp worth 10 points
Most canned vegetables and
special foods now of rationing
Use of blue tokens to be discon-
tinhed October l.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Red STAMPS A-s
through Z-8 and AS through G-5
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. All meats except beet
steaks, roast beef and choice cuts
OF lamb and pork are point free
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in. The fact that lard
shortening and cooking oils have
been removed from the ration list
does not mean fat collection is
less essential.
Sugar-Book No. 4 stamps 80 through
80 valid for s pounds indefinitely
Book No. 4 stamp 40 good for S
pounds for home canning through
February 20. 1945.
Gasoline-A-11 coupons good for 8
gallons each through November 8.
BIS, B-4, C-3 and ca coupons
good for s gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps / and 2 In
Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and S cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through August 81, 1945. Period I,
1o44-45 ration, also good for 10
gallons q unit.