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Evening star., 1944-08-19
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

President RooSevelts campaign to be
Reelected Commander In chief" is in
full swing. 1t has been ever since he
made his radio address to the Demo-
cratic National Convention from a naval
base on the Pacific Coast. His trip to
Pearl Harbor and his Saturday night
report to the people on that trip are
just further steps in that campaign.
When Mr.. Roosevelt last July wrote to
Democratic National Chairman Robert
E. Hannegan saying he would accept a
fourth-term nomination, he said: Il
would accept and serve, but 1 would not
run, in the usual partisan, political
sense"
If the Presidents recent expedition
to the Pacific Coast and Hawaii is any
criterion, his campaign will be differ
ent." He can capitalize at any time
with an Army inspection tour, or visit
to meet Churchill or Stain, or both.
Politics were involved in the Presi-
dents Pacific trip-just as much politics
as the demands Of the dyed-in- -the-wool
New Dealers for a S35 week unemploy-
ment payment handled by the Federal
oo'cl lliIleIiL- III IIle recent senate 1ght
over reconversion legislation The peo-
pie OF the West Coast resented the fact
that the President placed the Pacific war
in more or less minor category. The
West Coast States have gone Republican
In recent elections. The President s
trip, not necessary from military point
OF view, was timed to dispel this resent
ment, which grew over two-year
period.
The President did not mention parti-
san politics, either in his addresses to
the public or his talks with the men in
the armed forces, on this trip. He did
not have to. The trip had its political
significance. The only question then is
how effective was it politically? 1t may
have had considerable effect - but
whether or not it did will develop later.
The Republicans shout that the Presi-
dent is using his position as Com
mander in Chief" of the armed forces to
play politics. But in the end, all de-
pends-not upon this criticism-but
upon how effective politically the Presi-
dents campaign is, how many votes it
gathers in. No holds are barred in this
game. The Republicans point out that
Mr.. Roosevelt is taking advantage of his
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Roots Dictionary

The Associated Press reports the
release to the public of a dictionary
of those words which scientists find
so helpful and the rest of the human
race so bewildering and provoking.
Such key to the jargon of organ
lied common sense" it seems, has
been wanted by professional savants.
The need, now supplied by Professor
Edmund C. Jaeger OF Riverside
Junior College, California, and his
publisher, Charles C. Thomas of
Springfield, Illinois, was a natural
development of the discovery, made
long ago, that technical labels may
be created to order and at will, as,
for example, the Greek word for
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Civilized Instinct

Some persons quite sincerely hold
that the fate of a building, however
ancient or beautiful, is inconsequen-
tial as compared with the fate of
even single human being Inquiry
among soldiers, however, seems to
indicate that fighting men have a
different view. The artillery officers
who shelled Monte Casino were
prompted by no delight in their
work. 1t was duty to destroy the
famous abbey, but when that duty
had been discharged there was no
American in the neighborhood to
say that he was glad that Saint
Benedict's shrine was gone.
A natural human instinct is in
volved in the circumstances. Civil
lied individuals commonly are pos
sessed of an inborn respect for the
fruits of labor, especially when they
are contained in a monument of
public character. The Leaning Tower
at Pisa, for example, belongs to all
mankind Even when the Germans
were reported to be using it for
observation purposes, the Allies hesi-
tated to train their guns upon it.
A similar reluctance moved Amer
leans to spare the twin steeples of
Coutances Cathedral. The damage
inflicted upon the cathedral Of
Capua by American bombardment is
being repaired. Help almost GER
tainly will be extended to cities like
Caen and towns like Saint Lo which
have been demolished in the cam
paign of liberation. The same i'm
pulse which sent relief in generous
quantity from the United States to
Messina at the time of the earth
quake in 1908 already is felt with
regard to the communities devas-
tated in the prevailing struggle.
Many other precedents for such
generosity exist, if any be demanded
During the First World War, it will
be remembered, the great coronation
church at Rheims was blasted into
ruins by the Germans despite Joffre's
assurance that it was not being en-
ployed to any military advantage
Five hundred missiles hit the roof
and walls. While the rain of death
continued, volunteers recruited by
Canon Landrieux rescued wounded
prisoners left behind by the retreat
ing enemy. The prisoners were kin
to the deStroyers of Rheims, but the
citizens of Rheims took pity on
them. A philanthropic American
John D. Rockefeller, junior-paid
homage to their courage and charity
by furnishing the money for the
Evening star., 1944-08-19
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,cn

Heinrich Himmler, who since July 20
has become the most powerful man in
the Reich, Is making desperate efforts
to transform Germany into national
communist state as quickly as possible.
He is not even attempting to be orig
inal but is following textually the recipes
which Premier Stain discarded several
years ago after Russia had become a
truly consolidated state.
Himmler suggests that until last
month Germany was still dominated by
military oligarchy, rather than by
national socialism, which he describes
as bourgeois-feudal system which re-
lied on wealth or birth in order to MAIN
tain its centuries-old privileges
This is rapidly coming to an end.
The Peoples Court, a tribunal from
which there is NO appeal, is functioning
in all principal cities of the Reich and
is sending to the gallows or before firing
squads many members of the military
aristocracy.
The head of this organization is DR..
Frelsler, an ascetic and fanatical Nazi
who always has advocated "head-roll-
AA6 EOACy. WllCi llc WAS IeCOIl-
mended by Himmler, soon after Hitler
became the ruler of the Reich, to be
president of the Leipzig Supreme Court.
Reichsmarshal Goering opposed his ap-
pointment because OF his almost un-
believable cruelty. Hitler himself
shared Goering's point Of view and DR..
Freisler was given a minor job in the
Nazi judiciary. He Is now Himmler's
chief executioner and presides over the
traitors trials which invariably end
with death sentences.
The courts are no longer composed of
men with juridical training The judges
sitting with DR.. Freisler are taken from
all walks of life: bakers, butchers. fac
tory hands. etc. They need no legal
training. The question before them is
whether those brought to trial are guilty
OF treason to the Fuehrer. And since
the appearance Of the defendants in
itself is a proof of guilt, the judges sit
on the bench only to confirm death
sentences.
DR.. Freisler is prosecutor and Judge
at the same time. He does not have
the delicate touch of Andrei Vishinsky.
who acted as the peoples prosecutor IN
the Moscow purges of 1886. During
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first" and the Greek word for
animal" may be brought together
to signify "protozoon" or "proto-
zoun," meaning "a primordial or
flrst-formed organism"
Professor Jaeger's work opens
with "aapt," from the Greek
"aaptos," for "unapproachable," and
closes with "zyzz," which is de-
scribed as new Latin" for "zigzag."
To illustrate how his lexicon will be
helpful to the specialists, for whom
it is especially intended, the word
"enzyme" is cited. 1t was built" by
combining "zym," from the Greek
lyme" denoting "leaven" or
yeast" and "en," the Greek term
for "in" or among" The result is
the scientific symbol for "a living
catalyst Of the human body" or, in
ordinary language, "an accelerator"
the mysterious biochemical agent
In a man which makes him con-
sistently active and energetic.
OF course, Professor Jaeger real
ICES we'll enough that the average
person, not trained in the wizardry
OF coming words, is confused by the
multiplicity of such designations.
His labors will render it easier to
invent still further numbers of
strange, yet altogether logical, "jaw
breakers" But the end at which he
aims is simplification. He has &C
complished a step in that direction
in his dictionary of roots.
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these prosecutions Vishinsky gave the
impression he was conducting his cases
with the view of giving the defendants
a chance, although they had none. AS
at the Moscow trials the German pris-
oners admit they have been traitors.
DR. Freisler, however, Is making it
clear that he is not trying the indi-
viduals before his court alone but the
entire bourgeois military class in the
Reich and takes pains to explain that
these men, who are either morons by
birth or are lazy loafers living on their
ill-acquired privileges, must all dis
appear.
One Of the principal charges DR..
Freisler brought against Marshal Won
Witzleben was that had he succeeded in
taking over the German government
after Hitlers assassination he would
have released all political prisoners and
already had prepared orders to free the
Jews from the various ghettos and con-
centration camps throughout the Reich
and German-occupied territories. This
crime alone, pointed out DR.. Freisler,
made Witzeleben worthy of the gallows.
Hitler may realize that Germany has
lost the war. But he and his accolytes
hope to plunge Europe into go years
revolution" during which the super
ficial liberalism which has been prev
alent on the continent for the last so
years will be doomed.
The terror robot raids on England,
according to Hitlers and Himmler' 8
spokesman, are only sample of what
Germany will do in the near future
before her regular fighting forces are
utterly defeated. The Nazi extremists
aim at creating such chaos in Europe
that no government will be able to hold
its own. They gloat over the lassitude
and depression which they report is
existing in England as a result OF the
continuous hardships to which the
British population Is subjected daily and
predict that as soon as the other new
secret weapons being devised in the
German laboratories are ready and
launched on Hitlers foes there will be
complete disintegration of the Euro
pean morale. What the Third Inter-
rationale directed from Moscow has
not been able to achieve in nearly a
quarter Of century, the Nazi spokes-
man say will now be accomplished by
the new trends Of the German national
communism.
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H-Hour

We had been through 1t all a hundred
times before;
Yet 1t ,ods nothing. nothing at all like
this.
1t had been merely a dress rehearsal
nothing moro
And there Is no rehearsal at the edoe
OF precipice.
1t had come, finally. that for ,phich ne
had tDdited;
1t had come inevitably. 1pith a strange
precision,
And the moment hung ouer Us, heavily.
saturated,
As Hte hung in the balance OF indect-
sion.
Yet no,o. tuithin Us, ,De discopered hid
den potDer.
An inner calm and q stren1th: and
as tt greto near
We faced, unftnchtng. the ertenuatino
hour
And n1arpeled that fear h0A vun-
6hed-dissolued In teor.
MAE WINKLER GOODMAN.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Tottering Nazi Edifice
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

The question which seems to be on
the lips of every one in this country is
When will the European war end?
How long can the Germans keep on
fghting?"
1t is only within the last few days
that there has seemed to be any def
mite indications which might enable
that question to be answered by any
thing except sheer guesswork.
Now it appears that the liberation of
the greater part of France is at hand
Most of the vast area between the Seine
and the Loire is clear of German troops.
except for belt of territory Immediately
along the former river, and the German
garrisons still holding out in the ports
of Brittany. Southern France has been
invaded, and all over the country the
French forces of the interior are rising
and retaining their home districts
from scattered enemy units and COL
laborationists.
OF the four German armies known
to be in France, the 7th is in course
of destruction along the Seine the
10th, much weakened, is in the south
and may not be able to get away
the 1st seems to be forming up in
the Paris area, and the 18th is pinned
fast to the robot-bomb coast.
The prospects are that the destruction
OF the 7th Army will be completed
during August. save for few remnants
which may get away to join the 1st,
and that toward the first week in Sep
tember the Allied forces in Northern
France will join battle with the German
1st Army - perhaps reinforced by ele-
ments of the 18th and 19th-along a
front defending the approaches to the
Pas-de-Calais coast and the robot
bomb installations.
This will be the decisive final phase
of the Second Battle Of France. The
Germans will have to find means to
hold front extending from the channel
to the Swiss frontier; If not, they will
be outf1anked and rolled back very
quickly by the vastly superior Allied
armor. Since it is doubtful whether the
Germans will be strong enough to hold
such front, their prospects are not
bright for successful or even pro-
tracted defense Of Northern France, Bel
GUM and Holland.
Their best line Of defense in the west
is the Rhine, and it is quite conceivable
that the end Of September may find
them on It, or in full retreat toward 1t.
Meanwhile. if Southern France is
quickly taken over by the invading and
interior forces of the Allies, the posi-
ton OF the German armies In Italy be-
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comes impossible They must be with
drawn or be destroyed. Probably they
can continue for time to defend the
Brenner Pass and the approaches to
the Yugoslav frontier. This change also
seems likely to take place before Sep
tember ends.
On the eastern front, the Russians
nave paused along most of the line in
order to reorganize their supply system,
orlng forward their broad-gauge rail
heads, and regroup their forces for de-
cislve attacks. One such attack seems
shaping up against East Prussia, north
ern bastion of the main German de-
tense line. Another is advancing in the
south, in the area Sandomierz- -Kielce,
after being checked for time by Ger
man counterattacks
There seems good reason to think
that decisive battles on the eastern front
will be fought in late August and dur
ing September, with Russian efforts ris-
ing to new crescendo of fury, and
with German resources less and less
adequate to meet the Russian assaults,
concentrated for the most part on
much shorter front
tember will see Germany deserted by
Bulgaria and Finland, and possibly by
Rumania also, with unpredictable effect
on the general military situation in the
Danubian area.
Finally, as the area held by the Ger
mans becomes more CONSTRUCTED, and as
Allied air bases are pushed forward on
the continent closer and closer to the
vital centers of German power, the ef-
feet Of the Allied bombing attacks will
tend to increase very rapidly.
To sum up, 1t now seems possible to
forecast the pattern Of the war in Eu-
rope as reaching decisive phase during
the month Of September, with two great
battles being fought during that month
in the east and in the west-perhaps
along the river lines of the Vistula and
the Seine respectively, and each with
great capital city as Its central point.
If the Allies win these battles, and
there is every probability that they will
win both Of them, then there remains
for the Germans only the possibility to
retreat to or within the frontiers of
Germany, and the prospects of fighting
two more defensive battles on two other
river lines. those of the Oder and the
Rhine. As one very well-informed Brit
ish observer puts it, whether the Ger.
mans will choose, or will be able to
Tight these final battles remains q SUBJ
ject Of pure speculation.
tcopyrisht, 1914. New York Tribune. Ine.)
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Not to Be RidicuIed

1t is worth noting that the Nazis,
openly admitting that the Allied
armies are too strong to be stopped
at this juncture, are now beginning
to emphasize that Germany is pin
ming all its hopes on holding out
long enough to permit a tide
turning introduction of secret new
weapons.
Thus the Berlin radio, forecasting
additional big retreats, declares that
the main purpose of present German
strategy is to buy time while SEN
sationally novel types of arms are
being prepared for later use. Thus
too, Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler's
own newspaper, says that the Nazis
are going to pull out of large sections
of France in order mot to let op-
irrational freedom slip from them
before total mobilization on the
home front bears first fruits" the
all-important objective at this point
being to elude our forces with the
aim OF one day changing the whole
aspect of the war with revolution
in German armament production.
In other words, the Nazis seem to
be frankly conceding that they can
not stand up against our armies on
the basis of such standard weapons
as tanks and guns and the kind of
planes now in action. This amounts
to saying that they would have to
consider themselves already defeated
if normal military circumstances
were all that counted but they keep
limiting that by trading space for
time, they hope to triumph over
such circumstances and supplant
them with developments so alb
normal or revolutionary as to enable
them to win the war.
This sort of talk, of course, may
be nothing but sheer buncombe de-
signed to Stiffen the spines of the
German people at time when they
see their armies being battered
Churchill and others have repeatedly
warned, however, it is not to be
discounted as something entirely
meaningless. The Nazis have long
been mumbling darkly about their
"V' devices (the "V' being the alb
breviation of their word for reprisal
or vengeance weapon) and the first
OF these, the flying bomb, has been
IN action now for many weeks, and
no one in the London area is dis
posed to regard it as a laughing
matter. Nor is there any reason to
shrug off the possibility that it may
be succeeded by novelties of a far
more deadly kind-like giant rocket
bombs, for example, or even sensa-
tional new planes, against which our
own standard models might be
vastly handicapped.
Such possible developments, to be
sure, have been anticipated by our
Allied high command, and it is
almost inconceivable that their in
troduction-coming at this point in
the War-could save Hitler from
defeat. Yet that does not mean that
talk about "a revolution in German
armament production" can be safely
ridiculed, for since the Nazis are
quite as resourceful as they are des-
perate, it would he reckless of ns
to assume that they have no sur
prises in store for us and that from
now on the battle against them will
be relatively easy.
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Blames Free Enterprise

To the Editor of The Star:
Recent revelations of intolerable con-
ditions in hospitals show that free en-
terprise isn't doing itself proud in TAX
ing care of the health needs of the
people. Friendly congressman, as usual,
view with alarm and offer the perfectly
ducky suggestion that the Government
might loan the funds etc. Evidently,
the Government is required to do every
thing for free enterprise except to take
in the profits and except to see that the
people get a square deal.
Apparently. it's perfectly American"
to have socialized funds for financing
free enterprise, but socialized medicine!
Perish the thought. JEAN LUCAS.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-26
Hartford Clerks
Get Pay Increase

The New England War Labor
Board today announced approval of
wage adjustments proposed by the
Economy Grocery Stores Corp, and
the Retail Clerks Int'l Protective
ASH, A. F. of L., which will result in
wage increases for about 1850 en-
ployeS in company stores located
throughout Massachusetts,, as we'll as
six stores in Hartford, Conn, and one
in Vermont.
The Board approved scale of mini
mum rates proposed by the company
and union for full time and part time
employees and wage increases ranging
from ST per week to clerks receiving
over $28 up to S. per week for man.
ayers of self-service stores receiving
up to $53 per week. The increases to
part time clerks range from 2 to
cents per hour The increases, granted
to correct gross inequities, were ap-
proved retroactively to March 3, 1913,
the date of expiration of the previous
agreement between the parties.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-26
Rooseyelt's Five-Point Program

President Roosev proposal for National Service Act in
Guided in 5pOin which ne described lust and
equitable WHOLE Text of the program follows:
II recommend that the Congress adopt:
81 realistic awwhich will all unreasonable profits
both individual corporate reduce the ultimate of the
daughters. The bill under cOndera-
ton by the Congress does not begin to meet this test
2 continuation of the law for the renegOaOn of
trahch will exobian profits and fair prices
the For long have pleaded with the
Congress take undue profits of
S of food lawwhich will enable the (a)
place reasonable floor under the prices the farmer
for his productions and CD place ceiling the prices
will for the food he buys This should apply
necessities Ony and will require public funds
will appropriations about of the annual
of the
~ Early of the sterilization statute of October,
1912 This June 3d. 1914 and extended we'll in
advance the might well price chaos by
We have sterilization by wihfu thinking We
integrity American dol
lar
So. national service la-which, for the duration of the
will strikes and with certain appropriate exceptions will
make available for production other
ices able-bOdied adult in this nation.
These five together form and equitable whole
would recommend national unless the other
passed keep down the of living, share equab
the burdens of hold sterilization ne
undue profits"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-26
1913 Profits Set
American Record

WASHINGTON. Corporation
profits for the third quarter of last
wear were $5,70O,000,00O before taxes,
1.-THE highest for any quarter in Amer
lean economic history and 1919 above
the same quarter of 1912" the De-
partment of Commerce announced this
week.
Even after deduction of taxes big
business did all right for itself, with
corporation profits slightly more
than $1,000, 100000, 690 above the
1912 quarter
Corporation profits after taxes are
expected to reach the "all-time high"
of about $780, 100000 for the year,
the department said. Profits before
taxes are also expected to set a new
record, it said, estimating them at
between $4,000, 100000 and $780,
100000.