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Evening star., 1944-08-06
HitIer's Lost PURGE

The announcement accompanying
the establishment by Adolf Hitler of
a so-called Court of Honor to hear
charges against German Army off,
GERS allegedly involved in the recent
attempt on his life carries strong
suggestion that this is Der Fuehrer's
last stand.
There are hints that hundreds.
perhaps thousands, OF officers may
be implicated in the plot. The
complaints against them will be
heard in the first instance by the
Court of Honor, composed of high
ranking army men, but the suspected
persons will be turned over to the
notorious Peoples Court for trial
and sentence. In other words, the
right of court-martial has been
suspended and the accused army
officers, from field marshals to lieu
tenants, will be turned over to the
sinister Peoples Court. which is
tool of the Gestapo and which for
years has been condemning men,
women and even children to death
in its secret sessions.
The German DNB Agency, an
nouncing the wholesale purge, says
that it was requested by the army
and that Hitler agreed to turn the
suspects over to the Peoples Court
In compliance with the wishes of
the army. In other words, we are
asked to believe transparent false
hood-that the army is the moving
spirit behind this abolition of the
right of court-martial in favor of a
procedure in the Peoples Court
which amounts to little more than
formalized slaughter. The real
reason for this, of course, is obvious.
Hitler, for purposes of home con-
sumption, pretends to bow to the will
OF the army. In all probability the
truth is that, lacking any real
evidence against the men accused of
completely in very dubious plot"
Hitler knows that convictions could
never be obtained before courts
martial composed of German off,
GERS. Hence, the Peoples Court,
which will do his bidding, is manipu-
lated into the picture as the actual
trial agency. Presumably, the Court
of Honor will act merely in a pre-
liminary capacity in ex parte pro-
ceedings.
This undoubtedly will facilitate
the liquidation Of any one and every
one even suspected Of disloyalty to
the Nazi regime. But 1t is q mani
Evening star., 1944-08-06
LocuI Munpower

Reaction to the first months oper-
alton of the War Manpower Com
missions priority referral program
in Washington appears to be largely
favorable in the two industries most
in need of help-the restaurants and
the laundries. The problem of these
two services had been one of turn
over rather than merely shortage of
help, and it was to lick turnover
rather than to meet shortages alone
that VINO put into effect here re-
strictions as severe as these in oper-
alton any place in the country. Now
employers are reporting that fewer
workers have quit during the past
month. This they attribute to the
reluctance Of workers to go through
all the red tape and surmount all
the new obstacles put in the way of
Job shopping.
Fears that the new system would
work a hardship on legitimate job
seekers appear to have been un-
founded. The United States Employ
ment Service referred $4,000 workers
to jobs in July as compared with
$500 in June A larger percentage
have been sent to essential work-a
major goal OF the program - but
department stores and other estab-
lishments classed as '1ess essential"
are getting about as much help as
they did before the new system,
according to USES reports. The
number OF workers to refer has
simply increased through the process
of channeling almost all job-seekers
through the USES.
Employment ceilings, holding the
level of employment at the peak
reached between May Is and June /,
have been accepted in most cases
without protest, as indicated by the
comparatively small number Of ap-
plications for adjustment. The less
essential employers, however, have
complained. VINO explains 1t has
sefused to raise the employment
Evening star., 1944-08-06

The swift and daring American
advance across the Brittany PENN
sula. besides trapping a Nazi force
OF about $4,000 men, is reported to
have already placed our troops in
Brest and has opened up the i'm
mediate prospect that other great
Breton ports soon will be available
to us. From this point on the battle
will move deep into France. With
the British and Canadians striking
out southwest of Caen, our Allied
armies now are clearly entering
upon a war Of movement full of
decisive potentialities.
Since the first landings on the
beaches OF Normandy, our forces
have knocked out something like
100000 enemy troops, 100 900 of them
being taken prisoner. This is an
immense achievement whose effects
on the Nazi capacity to make a pro-
tracted stand in the broad, maneu-
verable French interior are likely to
work very favorably for our Allied
armies in the relatively near future.
Current reports suggest a degree of
bewilderment among the retreating
Germans at many points, and there
are indications that they will have
no fixed system of Notifications
until they reach the Maginot and
Seigfried Lines. This means that
Paris may be in our hands sooner
than seemed possible during the
weeks of bitter effort to break out
of the narrow confines of the Co
tentin Peninsula. 1t means, too,
that the suffering people of the Lon
don area may not have to wait too
long before Hitler is deprived of a
good deal OF the area now used for
launching his flying bombs.
In the larger, strategical sense, ,cou-
pied with the picture of the crumbling
Axis satellites and with the great
feats of the Red Army in the East,
the war of movement now begin
ming in the west promises to dash
the last hopes of the Nazis by i'm
pressing upon the German people
that Goebbels was speaking empty
words when he told them recently
that in the weeks ahead the Wehr =
machtMou1d stabilize all fronts, that
new secret weapons would be
brought into play and that the gen.
eral situation would turn to Ger
many's advantage.
If all goes we'll for us, however,
our Allied forces in France may be
across the borders of the Reich be-
fore the summer is over, together
with the Russians, who are already
in East Prussia. 1t will be interest
ing then to see whether the Gestapo
will be enough to induce the Ger
man Army and home front to keep
on fighting. Militarily and politi-
cally, our advancing Allied forces
east, west and South-seem to be
fast demonstrating that Hitler's war
is even now lost and that the peo-
pie of Germany, in continuing to
wage it, are wasting their blood and
treasure on one of history's worst
and blackest utilities.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
A Bod BEGINNING

The designation of Representa-
tives Starnes and Costello to serve
on the three-man Dies subcommit-
tee which will investigate political
activities of the C1O is almost GER
tain to impair public confidence IN
the subcommittee work.
This has nothing to do with Mr..
Starnes and Mr.. Costello as individ-
uals. They might endeavor to con-
duct the finest of Investigations, but
the fact that they were defeated in
recent primaries in which they were
opposed by the CIO can hardly fail
to prejudice public reception OF their
findings with regard to C1O political
activity. And since they will con-
stitute a majority of the Investigate
ing group, it follows that the find
ings of the subcommittee will be
equally vulnerable.
It is too bad that Chairman Dies
did not see fit to select an investi-
eating committee composed of men
who could not be accused of bias for
or against the CIO. The labor Or
ganization's political program has
become an important issue, and the
public Is entitled to such facts as a
proper investigation might bring to
light. But an investigation con-
Quoted by men who, rightly or
wrongly, will be accused of prejudice
will not appeal to any one as a
proper inquiry. It probably will
prove to be nothing more than a
waste of time and energy.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
United Republicans

The main impression which one
derives from the meeting of the
twenty-six Republican Governors at
st. Louis is one of unity-unity both
as to their objectives and the
methods of attaining them.
These Governors represent co.
100000 of our people, and their
States have 339 of the 531 electoral
votes. For this reason, II for no
other, it is highly significant that
they have harmonized their views
with respect to the important po-
litical and economic questions which
have caused so much strife and con-
fusion within the Roosevelt admin
iStration. Whether this Republican
unanimity is of an ephemeral or
lasting character remains to be
seen. But while 1t prevails it en-
hances their prospects of success on
election day and promises we'll for
the future of the country If the
Republicans should be returned to
power in Washington.
There is not space here to review
the detailed statements of the posi-
ton of the Republican Governors
on the important issues which are
before the country today and which
will arise after the war. But, as
generalization, it may be said that
they do not contemplate any funda-
mental changes in the major pro-
grams initiated by the Roosevelt
administration, and which most
people agree are necessary and
right. What the Governors do pro-
pose is better administration Of
these programs, looking toward the
elimination of slipshod methods and
the abuse of power for partisan pur-
poses which have contributed so
much to dissension within the
country.
1t is especially interesting to note
that the Governors have agreed in
broad terms on the boundary to be
drawn between the exercise of Fed
eral power and the use of powers
which properly belong to the States.
This question has been the source
OF much controversy within the
present administration, and the
breach within the Democratic party
on this score is growing wider. The
COP Governors have gone on rec
ord, however, as agreeing that "the
great objectives we have here sought
for America cannot be accomplished,
either by a constant grasping for
power on the part of the Federal
Government or through a stubborn
resistance by the States to the par
ticipation of the Federal Govern
ment in developing and ,increas-
ingly complicated society,", They can
be reached only through co-opera-
ton based upon complete and
sympathetic understanding between
the two and a determination to
make our system work in the spirit
as well as the letter of the Consti-
tuition"
Some may object to this on the
ground that it is a generalization.
But 1t suggests that the Governors
at least are thinking in the right
direction, and even that holds some
hope of change for the better.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Teuch the Young Ideu
From the Los Angeles Times.


Citing the opinion Of traffic experts
that 30 per cent of automobile accidents
are due to faulty driving, the California
Highway Patrol wants classes in safe
driving in every high school In the State.
starting next fall. The courses would
have two-fold purpose-instruction of
youth In safe civilian driving, to reduce
accidents, and instruction of boys about
to enter the armed services so they can
quickly be taught to operate military We
hicles. II, as the patrol declares, the
courses can be given at nominal expense
and will not require costly apparatus,
boards Of education might very well
consider such additions to the curricu-
lum. The course would be more prac-
tical than some already given. While
there is no substitute for driving expe-
rience, the principles Of safe driving
can be taught In the classroom. Ger.
tainly there u . great need for better
drivorA
Evening star., 1944-08-06
God IN the Sbad01v
By the Req. s. Paul Schtlltng, Ph. D..
Minister. Brookldnd Methodist Church.

him." A man once rode a donkey
to visit . friend, leaving the animal
outside the gate. Insecurely fastened,
the donkey wandered inside, and
during the too-long visit OF his mas
ter consumed all the blossoms on the
grapevines in the yard. The owner
gave up all thought OF grapes for that
season. But in time new blossoms
appeared. and in the fall came the
best crop the vines had ever produced.
The extra pruning became q means
Of bounty.
Mans extremity is Gods oppor-
tunity." Indeed, the Chinese word
for crisis Is q combination of two
words, meaning danger" and "op-
portunity." The crisis of the pres
ent, with all Its tragedy and horror,
can become the dawn of q new day
OF opportunity, and all Of US may
help bring that day to pass.
3. Whatever happens, God is near,
and nothing can thwart his purposes.
Neither death nor life can
separate us from the love of God"
Lowell was voicing a profound truth
when he wrote:
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow.
Keeping watch above His own"
Over 30 years ago M. Louise Has
kins, humble English school
teacher in India, wrote little known
book, THE Desert" One day some of
her lines came to the attention of a
man in Buckingham Palace, and in
December, 1899, King George vi Of
England read them over the radio
In his Christmas message 10 his
people: II said to a man who stood
at the gate of the years, Give me a
light that may tread safely into the
unknown, and he replied, Go out
into the darkness and put your hand
into the hand Of God. That shall be
to you better than a light and safer
than a known Way'"
Evening star., 1944-08-06

level Of the less essential plants until
1t can determine how large . supply
Of available workers remains to be
tapped.
The program is yet to meet its
most severe test-the departure Of
approximately 1000 summer workers
from the labor force. So far, how
ever, the employers have been more
optimistic about the possibilities Of
this system than about the numer-
GUS other efforts of VINO to meet
their problems.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

All Of us, especially In time OF war.
are compelled to face fear and worry.
difnculty and suffering. Such ex-
periences cannot be avoided, but
they can be overcome. There are
resources Of the spirit which enable
US to meet them victoriously.
1. Some things which happen to
US are not the unmitigated evils they
seem to be. We cannot properly
Judge events In isolation. We need
perspective. The Chinese philosopher,
Lin Yutang, has . parable Of an
old man who lived with his son In an
abandoned fort. The old mans horse.
his only work-animal, wandered
away, and the neighbors came to
commiserate with him. He replied,
How do you know this Is Ill for
tuner" A week later the horse re-
turned, bringing herd of wild horses
with him. The horses were captured,
and the neighbors came to congratu-
late the old man. But" he queried,
"how do you know this is good for
tune" With SO many horses, the
boy took to riding, and soon had a
broken leg. Again the neighbors
expressed sorrow. But the old man
said, How do you know this is Ill
fortune?" In few days warlord
came through the country, pressing
into service all able-bodied men, and
passing by the crippled son. The
neighbors came again to congratulate
the old man, but again he asked,
"How do you know this is good
fortune?"
All of us can point to times in our
lives when we were sure we were
ruined because we did not have our
way, but on looking back later could
see that the results were much better
than if we had gotten what we
wanted. Like Matthew Arnold, we
must "see life steadily and see it
whole"
2. No tragedy is so great that God
cannot bring meaning and triumph
out of it. With clear insight the
Psalmist declares that "the Lord
maketh the wrath of man to praise
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Continuity of War


first war began. The earliest mass
struggles took place long before
written records were kept Philoso-
pliers have supposed that people be-
gan to gang up" against each other
as a direct consequence of their
obedience to the commandment: go
forth and multiply" According to
this theory, organized attack and or
ganized resistance were the results
Of common needs and common aspi-
rations. It is presumed that the
increase of population and inevita-
BILE development of habits of migra-
ton brought into existence the art Of
armed offense and its concommitant,
the science Of defending occupied
ground.
But there is no evidence to prove
that these ideas are true. The word
"war" is Of Northern European
origin. 1t has many variants in
English and is related to "guerre"
in French and guerra" in Spanish,
Portuguese and Italian. In its prim-
tive form it seems to signify an
"entanglement" or embodiment"
merely. The conception OF inter-
national war on vast scale is new
as compared with the ancient habit
OF strife between families, tribes,
classes, towns or minor states. Yet
casual glance over the pages of
Homer will suffice to show that the
campaign against Troy in its essen
tials was just the same sort of oper-
alton as prevailing drives against
Hitler's Germany and Hirohito's
Japan. Humanity already had
learned much about fighting by 1893
BIC. Hector, Agamemnon and their
contemporaries were "of the COM
pany" of today's ranking admirals
and generals.
A like observation applies to the
long contest between Hellas and the
Persians, from 504 to 331 BIC; the
struggle for the control of the Med
iterranean basin waged by Rome
against Carthage, Greece and Num-
ida, from 264 to 106 BIC: the
fateful endeavors of Rome to survive
against the barbarians. from 410 to
$50 AID; the Saracenic incursions
Of Europe and Africa, from ITO to
1892, with their reactions; the Cru
sades, especially from 1905 to 1891;
the dynastic competitions for power
in England, France, Spain and Aus
tria, from 1455 to 1853, and the
Napoleonic ventures in conquest
which arose from the French Revo-
luton, from 1900 to 1915. Men use
machines of war today as they use
them because Of a chain Of expert
ence reaching from Miltiades to
Pershing
It Is we'll to remember this con-
tinuity. The temptation to simplify
the present ordeal Of humanity by
stressing its alleged novelty might
have deplorable consequences, If 1t
were yielded to. Defeat OF Der
Fuehrer and the Mikado will not
Danish strife from the earth. The
custom of war cannot be wished
away. Whatever, 1t was that
prompted men to go out and throw
rocks at each other in remote an
tiquity is Of piece with the motives
and ambitions Of some at least OF
those men who currently are tossing
metal about. 1t is force in the
world that must be recognized and
dealt with as such. Closely con-
nected with it are ignorance and
poverty, injustice and the denial OF
the natural fellowship Of the chill
dren of one Almighty Father.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

In 1898 Dewey took Manila while
Roosevelt took San Juan Hill. In
1914 the question is whether Dewey
will take Capitol Hill before Roose-
velt takes Manila.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

Natives of the Marshall Islands
are now being taught to farm. It is
believed, however. that they are not
yet sufficiently civilized to be taught
how to plow under and reap Gov
ernment checks.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

The best travel advice these days
is identical with the London Punch's
famous advice to young man con-
templating matrimony-DoN'T.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

Hitler has sent out a whole string
of new generals to the Russian
front. Not to be outdone In mill
tary courtesy, the Soviets are meet
ing the plan halfway by moving the
front westward.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

festation Of weakness, not strength.
A desperate and frightened Hitler Is
merely destroying the. foundation Of
his own power as he embarks upon
what may very well prove to be his
last purge.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

all probability will find himself fighting
a losing economic battle. He will sus-
pect, naturally enough, that his Govern
ment believes in equality for him when
his services are needed, but leaves him
to his own devices when the acute need
for him has disappeared. And this will
mean fresh crop of bitterness for the
country as a whole.
These are some of the considerations
which argue against the current effort
to treat the Negro's right to work with
out discrimination as matter of war
emergency. For 1t is not right which
arises out of the war. 1t is a right
which is rooted in simple justice, and
which is as valid in peace as in war.
But how is right which is now so
largely an abstraction to be given the
substance of reality?
The alternative to the method en-
ployed at Philadelphia is the process
of education and persuasion, which the
FEPC has used in other instances. It
will be said, of course, that this is too
slow and too uncertain, that the Negro
has already waited too long for the
economic equality which he ought to
have. And, in sense, this is true.
Considerable progress has been made but
1t will not be easy to educate our people,
where sef-interest and prejudice are in
volved, to recognize the right of the
Negro to work where he is qualified
to work, regardless of race or color.
1t will take time, perhaps q long time.
But If Philadelphia serves as an example
OF what is to be expected generally from
the use Of pressure tactics, then 1t may
well be contended that, from the long
range point Of view, the slower method
Is the surer. and win be productive Of
greater results.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
FutiIity for Germans

SUNDAY, August 6, 1914
Evening star., 1944-02-25
He Thought of Hutton
AS Tentacles Closed
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
The meat shortage is getting
mighty acute out Hollywood way.
Even plants have started eating
people.
Eddie Bracken and Gil Lamb,
who appear with Dorothy Lamour
in her next feature, Rainbow
Island" were walking through a
verdant forest filled with tropical
ferns and plants when they stopped
to admire an odd-looking specimen.
It resembled a watermelon, only
10 times larger. AS they stepped
closer to examine it the plant sud-
denly closed around them, encir-
cling them in a viselike grip.
Helpless-the breath crushed from
their bodies-they were slowly be-
ing strangled to death, when a ma
tive appeared and stabbed the plant
in the back, releasing the boys.
"Cut, )" yelled the director.
"You know" said Eddie, smiling
blissfully, "for a minute I thought
that Betty Hutton had got me-"
Evening star., 1944-02-25

In converting a foreign drama into
the light American idiom was
"Amphitryon 49," also a Theater
Guild production.
AS the author of some of the
theater's more brilliant laughter
pieces, Mr.. Behrman's association
with "Jacobowsky" Oknown irrever-
emily in the trade as "Jake") makes
less surprising the fact that it is
a comedy despite Mr.. Werfels long
established, darkly- -brooding .atti-
tude toward human existence.
X X X
1.-The Last Hazard" latest Royal
Air Force short subject which deals
with the subject of the balloon ships
which guard the channels to Brit
ish ports, will have its first Wash
ington showing today at the Trans
Lux. The picture is a complete ex-
animation of this special service
and the first ever made of its work.
"The Last Hazard" is being dis
tributed in this country by RKO.
X X
Another special personal appear
ance has been added to the busy
schedule of Miss Kathryn Grayson,
namely, that at $3.50 tonight at the
Highland theater. Miss Grayson
supplants 1t. Eddie Albert, U. S.
N. r., who was called out of the
city. The program in which Miss
Grayson will participate is the High
lands War Bond rally show. Ad-
mission will be through the pur-
chase of bonds only.
Neatest booking trick Of the sea-
son is that by which Loew's Capitol
theater gets "A Guy Named Joe"
for its War Bond rally next We'd
nesday night, but thereafter sur
renders the picture to the Palace
for its regular first run.
X X X X
Argentinita, popular nish
dancer, is this years star performer
on the benefit program of the Smith
College Club of Washington. The
performance has been set for the
night Of March 13 at Constitution
Hall. the proceeds to 60 toward the
clubs scholarship fund, any sur
plus to the maintenance of Ying-
ling College in China. Tickets for
the program, which includes numer-
Gus other performers, are on sale
at Shows Concert Bureau.
Evening star., 1944-02-25
RestrictionsUnlim
HOLLYWOOD.

While Samuel Goldwyn was max
Ing up in Arms" he insisted on
only one major stipulation for the
Goldwyn girls: No dates, morning,
noon or night, while the picture
was in production Goldwyn based
1T on sound judgment and past ex-
perience with the lovely lassies. He
had seen too many production hours
lost and money wasted because girls
were late on the set on the morning
after big night.