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Profit Condemned
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star.
As to disposal of surplus property,
why does not the Federal Government
hang onto the lands it has ACQUIRED.
mostly at fancy prices, and lease them
to veterans and others for use, not at
the extortionate rates demanded by pri-
vate owners, but at such rates as repre-
sents their economic value for produce
tion? The rentals thus would afford a
revenue to take the place OF taxes on
industrial production that penalize the
busy for the benefit of the idle.
No country that is privately owned
and exploited by a small minority of
its people for profit at loss to the great
majority whose needs and activities are
mainly the measure of the value of its
resources, ever can hope to be real
democracy of equal opportunity for all
We hear much of such democracy.
but have failed to realize it through the
initial mistake of undertaking to estab.
lish 1t on foundation of feudalism.
Hence, no opportunity for rectification,
however small. should be permitted to
pass. WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1944-09-28
The Political Mill
BY Gould Lincoln

MADISON, Wis. Sept. 27.-Wiscon-
sin, for the first time since 1928, this
year will cast its electoral vote for a
Republican candidate, unless all signs
fail.
-Four years ago the LaFollette Pro-
gressive Party made common cause with
President Roosevelt-and he squeaked
in ahead OF Wendell L. Willkie, by
Is 900 votes in total Of 1888, 900 cast.
Today the picture is different The
Progressive Party is strongly divided for
and against Roosevelt. Its platform
convention failed to indorse the Presi-
dent. One enthusiastic Roosevelt sup
porter on the resolutions committee
offered resolution putting the party
on record for a fourth Roosevelt term.
1t did not receive a second, although
other members of the committee IA
vored Mr. Roosevelt
The fact OF the matter was that the
Roosevelt Progressives feared to bring
the matter to a showdown in the con-
vention. The same Progressive who
had offered the resolution in commit
tee, which failed, moved to suspend the
rules that he might offer the resolution
from the floor. But he was showed
under.
\
Not only did the Progressive conven-
ton four years ago send Mr.. Roosevelt
a telegram wishing him well. but Sen
ator Robert w. LaFollette publicly de-
clared his support Of the President
Senator LaFollette was himself a can
didate for election in 1910, and this year
he is not. His term runs another two
years. LaFollette's lead over his Re-
publican opponent was $4,000.
Gov. Dewey of New York. the Repub-
lican standard bearer this year, has
following of his own in this State as
we'll as the support of the anti-fourth
termers. He campaigned in the State
in 1910, when he was seeking the presi-
Dental nomination. While he did not
campaign here this year for delegates
to the Republican National Convention,
the Republicans turned to him in large
numbers in the primary election.
This happened even after he had
sent messages to the Dewey-pledged
Evening star., 1944-09-28
h. This Changing World
By Constantine Brorn

Some of those who Judge the situa-
ton In the European theater of oper-
ations from the military point of view
believe the possibility Of our troops fac
ing winter campaign has greatly in
creased In the last two weeks
They attribute this change in the
prospects Of an early end Of the war in
Europe to two factors
One is that the fighting quality of the
German troops has improved consider
ably since we reached the confines of
the Reich because they are fighting in
defense of the Fatherland itself.
The other reason is that in the last
few weeks the German high command
has been able to shift Nazi troops from
the eastern to the western borders.
This transfer of first-class fighting
divisions was made possible by the
fact that the Russian high command
has slowed operations in the important
fighting areas on the eastern front
where their main attacks have been
centered on Germany's satellites.
1t is now nearly four months since
the American, British and Canadian
forces made their remarkable landings
are not yet ready to threaten the Reich
itself.
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When President Roosevelt, Premier
Stain and Prime Minister Churchill met
at Teheran last December they are said
to have discussed two plans of action.
One was an attack on Germany across
the Mediterranean and through the Bal
kans. This plan had the drawback of
delaying the final defeat Of the enemy
but had the advantage of being less
costly in human lives
Premier Stain is said to have pointed
out that the German resistance could
be crushed quickly only If two large
forces advanced from the east and the
west simultaneously. Caught in such
powerful nutcracker the Germans would
have to give up in a short time
Preparations were made Immediately
to throw an overwhelming American
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landing forces In swing northWard to
the Danube and the Save, extending
on their right flank to join the Rus
slams in Rumania and Hungary. And
by that time the Allied armies from
Italy may be coming north past Venice
toward Trieste.
Thus there is every prospect that the
Germans are about to be given a triple
instead of double defensive problem;
that whereas only last May they were
thinking in terms of Konigsberg and
Breslau. and are now getting anxious
about Dusseldorf. Cologne. and Mann
helm they must also begin worrying
about Vienna and the Moravian Gate.
That the Germans can find the re-
sources to meet this new threat seems
unlikely indeed. But we must realize
that it is threat which may take a
little time to develop We are not yet
at the gates of Vienna but only at
those of Budapest; we are not yet at
Trieste, but only at Rimini we are not
yet across the Save, but only in AL
bania. In between, there are many miles
to be covered. The Germans may try
to make them difficult miles. If they
do SO, they will need soldiers. equip
ment, weapons. What they use in the
south. they cannot use in the east and
the west.
This is the real present Importance of
the new southern front-the Germans
must do as they did in France, cut their
losses and let us come quickly up to
their frontiers while they use the time
thus gained to organize their defense.
or they must try as they have usually
done to keep us far away and thus
compromise their ability to defend
themselves elsewhere. 1t should be per-
1ectly clear that the addition of the
third factor to the German strategic call
culation makes it all but insoluble what
ever their decision may be; but that
means eventually insoluble.
The Germans are fighting now. not
for victory but for time, and one NAV
suppose that in the midst of their
present terrible anxieties it is some-
thing OF relief to their high com.
mand to continue to stave OF final dis
aster even for each single day, without
taking too much thought of what the
morrow may bring
(Copyright 1944J
Evening star., 1944-09-28
The Rubicon

Many an American schooled in the
classics must have remembered
Plutarch when reading that the
Allied forces have hammered across
the little stream which anciently
was regarded as the boundary be-
tween Italy proper and Cisalpine
Gaul. The author Of the compara-
tive biographies added two phrases
to the language of all the world
when he wrote of how Julius Caesar,
arriving at the Rubicon, stopped to
deliberate for while and then,
with the cry THE die is cast!"
passed over the water.
TO comprehend the meaning of
the incident it is necessary to know
that after the death of Crassus in
So BIC. it was inevitable that a
struggle for supremacy should de-
velop between Caesar and Pompey.
The former had a splendid military
reputation from his conquest of
Gaul, but he was feared as a poten-
tial dictator. His rival, by no means
loved yet desperately needed by the
MOBILES and their friends, was elected
sole consul-and thus, in effect,
became Immediately just such a
master of Rome as the conservatives
had most reason to dread The mis-
take soon was realized Meanwhile,
Caesar, strengthened by the chal-
lenee to his power acted with the
skill OF clever politician as we'll as
tha courage of a brave soldier. The
Senate afforded him an opportunity
by ordering him to surrender his
command. He came to Ravenna
with only a single legion. The Sem
ate then proclaimed him "a public
enemy But, as F. B. Marsh explains
IN his rounding of the Roman
Empire Caesar was not the man
to lose the fruits of a hard-earned
success for lack of daring or initia-
tive" Without waiting for REIN
forcements from Gaul, he marched
on the capital.
The Rubicon momentarily was the
symbol of the traditional republic of
Caesars fathers. If he were to stav
north of it, he would be obliged to
give consent to the tyranny of
Pompey. On the other hand, he
certainly must have understood that
civil war could end only in the
victory of an himself, if
he we're fortunate; his competitor,
if such were the verdict of the Fates.
Small! wonder that he paused to
think of the consequences of his
procedure! 1t happened that public
sentiment had veered toward Caesar.
The first blood was split at Corfnium
in. the Abruzzi. Pompey escaped to
Greece. Caesar let him go. When
the rivals met again, 1t was at Phar-
salia in Thessaly where, on August
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delegate candidates asking them to
withdraw and insisting he was not a
candidate.
Further, the Republicans Of Wiscon-
sin are we'll organized this year, and
according to reports will be we'll heeled
with campaign funds. They expect to
put on an aggressive campaign, starting
very soCn. They have control of all
the State of1ices, including county offices.
This will help them get out the vote.
The Democratic party has been no
toriously weak in this State.
For 40 or so years it did not elect a
Governor. The real opposition which
the regular Republicans faced was from
the La Toilette Progressive wing of the
COP. Today the Democrats are not
numerous. Mr.. Roosevelts three VIC
tories in the State, in 1882. 1896 and
1910, came about because the La Toilette
Progressives and independent voters
turned to him in presidential elections.
Without such solid support, Mr.: Roose-
welt does not appear to have a chance
TO carry the State on November 7.
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1t would be unfair to call Wisconsin
an isolationist State. Many of its peo-
pie are strong supporters of interna-
tional collaboration to maintain peace
in the future. Nevertheless, 1t is true
that there are many voters in the State
who are at least "nationalists" as
opposed to 'internationalists" This
group will not vote for Mr. Roosevelt,
and while they do not approve of Gov.
Dewey's strong stand for American COL
laboration with the other nations, will
prefer him.
CLOS Political Action Committee is
not as active in this State as elsewhere.
1t backed the wrong candidates in the
primary elections and was defeated.
Further. the charge has been made that
the CIO in Wisconsin has been Com
munist dominated. So a united labor
committee has been organized to work
for Roosevelt, including AFL workers.
AS in other States. organized labor
will support the President. but in the
rural communities and on the farms
he is weak Observers here believe Gov.
Dewey will carry the State by $4,000
votes or more
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Albania and Germany

The invasion of Albania probably
does not involve very large numbers
OF troops but it may achieve results
OF major Importance in relation to
the battle of Germany. A short time
ago, driving through Bulgaria ard
Romania, the Russians were re-
ported to be near the Greek border
and effecting a junction with Tito's
Partisans in Northeastern Yugo-
slavia. Now, with the Albanian
operations, there seems to be a good
chance that the Russians, the Parti-
sans and the air borne and sea- borne
land forces of the Adriatic"
sumably British and American-Will
be able to form solid wall across
all roads leading northward from
Greece.
Though winter will soon be set
Ting upon this part of the Balkans,
the weather may remain favorable
long enough to enable our Allied
forces to close an iron trap on per-
haps as many as $50 900 Nazi troops.
These troops are scattered through
the Aegean Islands, Greece, Albania
and Southern Yugoslavia, and re-
ports have indicated that Hitler has
been planning to pull them back
through Hungary and Austria into
the Reich. Hard pressed for man
power and seasoned fighters. he
could undoubtedly use them to ad-
vantage in his desperate efforts to
hold the inner fortress of Germany,
but the invasion of Albania suggests
the strong possibility that he will
have to write them of as lost
legions, for If Allied strength is
1oined' in a solid line clear across
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Lost Refroin

The springs unfolding is d lost refrain,
GroDn sUeeter NTH remembering hotp
the rain
Hung siluer threads against the April
night
And je,Deled the lilac hedges in the lane.
We kno,0 again the bobolink's mad
flight,
His ringing song like liuing bars OF light
Flung in a heady challenge to the
SkteS
We see above the knoll scuddin1 kite.
Our garden plot lifts pelpet pansp eyes
A child's clear gaze once held that glad
SurmiSe-
The grass spreads greener for each sud-
den SholDer;
The years slo,u passing leapes the heart
gro,Dn tUise.
Loue is reborn NTH every radiant fo,Der,
Life sings netD refrain iDith each neto
hour. IVY LINDSLEY.
(This poem tDGs the last submitted
to The Star BY its author, a palued
contributor for number OF years.
II q printed - Q memorial 10 hssy
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force against the Atlantic so that after
we cracked the German wall in France
our forces would be able to continue
their offensive relentlessly. Our military
men had taken 1t for granted that soon
after 1t was apparent that our invasion
was successful the Russians would start
their operations against the Reich itself
before the bad winter weather set in.
But the Russians are not believed to
have as yet begun their real offensive.
The operations against Romania, Bull
garia, Hungary and Latvia were splen-
didly conceived and executed. But they
have had more Of moral repercussion
than military one on the German
high command.
The quickest road to the heart of
Germany is not through the Balkans or
even through East Prussia, where the
Konigsberg -Insterburg lines of fortifica-
tions might have halted the Russians for
some time. The real road is from War
saw through Lodz to the Poznan Breslau
line. In that area there also is a we'll
organized and fanatical Polish under
ground which demonstrated what it
could do in the fruitless coup of last
expected to resist desperately in that
area but they had done so previously at
other strategic points in the east and
were not able to stem the Russian ava
lanche. After the attempt to take
Warsaw 10 weeks ago the Russian high
command switched its main activities to
objectives such as Romania, Bulgar ria,
Hungary and more recently to Latvia
1t is admitted that these territories
have an important political meaning to
the Moscow leaders, but from the point
of view of breaking down the German
resistance they have a limited scope.
Thus the Russians are moving forward
in the Balkans and in the Baltic states
toward their political and strategic OBJ
jectives with little opposition. The
Americans and British far to the west
have met revived German defense and
are faced with the prospect OF winter
fighting
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Laziness Rebuked
the Editor OF The Star:

10 the Eoltor OF The Star:
All my life have been for the UNDER
dog. Whether it was a matter of re-
hglon or of race or of economic status,
I consistently have sympathized with
the downtrodden and the abused. But
today, after many years of experience
OF life, in business and otherwise,
begin to understand what may have
moved the New Jersey legislator when,
during the depression, he said, Let 'em
scratch a while"
honest union man who is fighting for
what he thinks he needs to take care of
his family Though have no sympathy
whatsoever for the all-too-large number
of dishonest labor leaders,.
The majority among all classes Of
workers are doing a good, patriotic days
work. What has aroused my concern
and scorn is the young women land some
mem who I see. as my duty takes me
to various Offices, sitting at their desks
reading papers or visiting with their
neighbors or promenading through the
corridors, on the way to the drugstore
as though theirs were the "life of Reilly"
while neighboring Offices are crying for
the simplest help to further the work
of their respective organizations.
Employers seem to refrain from assert
ing themselves in simple normal man.
ner for fear the unsatisfactory employe
will leave for another job. So the
vicious downward spiral goes lower and
lower.
How long this will last I do not know.
That there will come retribution, I am
not sure. Many of these young women
will marry before they meet bad condi-
tions of employment and it will be their
husbands and their children who will
suffer from the terrible habits of lazi-
ness and unwillingness to assume re-
sponsibility that now are being formed.
Neglect of the simplest virtues of human
association cannot but leave its mark.
For years I signed myself as "Op-
timist" Today fear I am becoming
one who, properly signs himself
PESSIMIST.
Evening star., 1944-09-28
New Squeeze on Nazis
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

The great fear of the German high
command since the last war ended-to
Judge from the words of German mill
tary writer's and even those of Adolf
Hitler, whose military ideas may not be
sound but are certainly influential-has
been war on two fronts.
The Germans fully appreciate the
difficulty of the decisions which had to
be made in the last war as to ALLEGATION
of forces, and the bitter cost of the
mistakes that inevitably were made.
They realized the tendency to equalize
demands to balance the sending of one
division east by sending another west,
the trend being in the direction of never
having quite enough to gain decision
on either front.
Now Germany is fighting a two-front
war under conditions which exaggerate
these difficulties to point at which
disaster is always just around the
corner the conditions being shortage
of manpower and the constant inter-
ruption of internal communications by
Allied air attacks.
On the east, nevertheless, the Ger
mans have somehow contrived to bring
about a temporary stabilization on the
East Prussia -Vistula line On the west
they have contrived for the time being
to do the same along the Rhine and the
Moselle. How long the temporary sta
bilization on either front will endure is
a matter for speculation; there is every
reason to believe that on both sides
fresh blows are in preparation which
the Germans will find it difficult If rot
impossible to parry.
But now it looks as though the Ger
mans are about to be presented with
third front-a southern front-Which
they will find it as essential to defend
as their eastern or western fronts. The
Russian incursion into Rumania knocked
not only that country but Bulgaria as
we'll out of the war on the German side
and into the camp of the Allies.
Hungary is either being invaded or is
about to be invaded: its plains lie open
before the Russo -Rumanian armies, and
even If the Hungarians fight as nard as
they can it seems difficult to see how
they can long defend Budapest, or how
they can long delay Russian advance
northward toward the Mofavian Gate
way, the historic passage into Germany
from the south. There is much evidence
that the German grip on Greece is COL
lapsing and the German armies in Italy
can hardly defend their Apennine posi-
tions much longer, but must retire to the
Alps if they can. contrive to get away
which ~ now doubtful.
Added to this comes the news of what
seems to be a large-scale Allied inva-
sion of Albania. This brings Allied
ground forces into the Balkan PENN
sula; it brings arms and direct support
to the Yugoslavs, who have resisted the
Germans 20 long: It links up the Yugo-
slavs and Greeks together With the
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9, 4S BE-, the infantry Of Pompey
was overwhelmed by the cavalry of
Caesar.
Pompey, however, had his revenge.
It was at the foot of his statue in
the Senate building that Caesar was
assassinated, March Is. A. The
Rubicon remains nineteen hundred
years later their monument. It is
matter of local dispute in the neigh
borhood of Rimini as to whether the
little river was the modern Uso or
the modern Fiumicino. Experts on
the subject incline to think that in
Caesars day the two streams were
one and the same.
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Mr.. Byrnes on Wooes

AAA "AAAo may PAONC w lldNC UcCH
his swan song as the Director of
War Mobilization, James F. Byrnes
has taken his stand with those who
believe that the Government should
continue to hold the line" against
wage and price increases until the
dangers of imitation are past. And,
in his Judgment, these dangers will
be with US until Japan as we'll as
Germany has been defeated.
Mr.. Byrnes made his position clear
In an address at the Press Club yes
terday. He did not refer directly to
the Little Steel formula nor to
labor's demand that it be scrapped.
But there can be no doubt that his
address, delivered at time when
that controversy is approaching it's
climax, was intended as public
statement of his belief that the wage
line as well as the price line should
be held.
He began by pointing out that the
cost OF living, according to figures
OF the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
has risen only 253 per cent since
January l, 1941. Labor spokesmen
dispute this figure, but disinterested
experts agree that it is substantially
correct. Mr.. Byrnes then pointed
out that since January l, l941, the
average weekly earnings of salary
and wage earnerS have increased
51.3 per cent, while average hourly
earnings have risen 364 per cent.
There have been higher estimates in
these respects, but even on the basis
of Mr.. Byrnes lower figures as to
earnings, there can be no justifica-
ton for a wage increase that is re-
lated to the cost of living.
In all probability this statement
will be denounced by the spokesmen
for the labor groups who are de-
manding higher wages for the work
ers they represent. But they do not
represent all of the people of this
country and their wage demands
can be granted only at the expense
of other groups. AS Mr. Byrnes
pointed out, the white collar work
ers and people with small fixed in
comes have Jared less we'll (than the
organized workers. during this war,
but the only way to help them is to
continue to hold the line against
infation.'
AS the President said some time
ago the way to hold the line is to
hold it, and not to hook for excuses
to breach it at one point or an
other. If the Little Steel formula
should be abandoned now the line
will have been preached, probably
irreparably and dangerously So
Those workers who are represented
by powerful unions would receive
temporary benefits, but they would
benefit only at the expense Of those
with small fixed incomes and the
white collar classes. And there
would be grave danger that price
Initiation would speedily nullify the
temporary wage advantages of or
ganized labor. That, in effect, is
what Mr.. Byrnes was saying yester-
day. That is what the President
and every other responsible official
has said at one time or another.
The only question is whether the
President and his stabilization aides
will resist the strong pressure that
labor can and is bringing to bear in
this election wear
Evening star., 1944-09-28
No Single Arm
By David Laurence ,
From the New York Times

from lne rev YORK Times.
Like sea power, air power has proved
that it has a decisive influence on war
and Herewith on world history. But. like
sea power, it has also demonstrated that
it alone cannot win a war against a
determined enemy, because it cannot
finish the war. That must be done bv
the ground forces. More than ever.
war has become total effort of a nation
IN which all arms must join, and victory
Is achieved. not by this or that arm
alone. but by the combined operations
OF all. Once victory has been achieved
there will be glory enough for all.