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Evening star., 1945-01-07
Test in AIsuce

0erInan operations IN AlSace have
developed to degree which merits
close consideration. Beginning about
a week ago with probings of our lines
on the frontier of the Saar, they
have now been amplified in both in
tenslty and scope. Should they con-
tlnue on the present scale, they
should be logically interpreted as
test of our military dispositions, not
merely locally but along our entire
front.
1t is obvious that the German sur
prise smash into Luxembourg and
Belgium was halted only by pulling
away large sections of the American
Third Army on the Saar-Lorraine
border, which probably meant that
the Seventh Army further east in
Lower Alsace had to be regrouped
to cover the deficit. The Seventh
Army had driven clear through Al
SAGE to the German border as far as
the Rhine nearly opposite the large
German city of Karlsruhe in Baden.
This posed serious threat to the
Germans, but it also created a deep
salient for our side. This salient is
now being attacked by triple Ger
man squeeze play. The main Ger
man prong has been applied from
the Saar, has taken the important
frontier crossroads of Bitche and
has driven southwark Is miles to
the Alsatian town of Wingen, there
by cutting our lateral communica-
tions. simultaneously, the Germans
are eXerting pressure far to the
southwark from the foothold they
have held in Upper AIsace at Colmar
and have crossed the Rhine in some
strength just north of Strasbourg.
This latter operation would seem to
indicate that our line along the
Rhine is thinly held and that we
may be pulling out of the entire
salient. 1t certainly could be so in
terpreted unless we quickly develop
strength enough to throw the Ger
mans back over the Rhine and
check the penetration southwark
from Bitche. The next few days will
undoubtedly tell the story.
All these operations in Alsace
should naturally be evaluated in con-
nection with the battle of the Bel
gian bulge, which has risen to new
heights of intensity. We are obvi-
ously exerting tremendous pressure
there, pulling down elements even
of the British Second Army from the
far north to gain a decisive advan-
tage. But the Germans are thus far
standing firm there and show no
intention of pulling out. If the
Germans have the strength simul-
taneously to maintain themselves
in the Belgian bulge and develop a
large concentric offensive in Alsace,
the entire strategic picture on the
western front, from Holland to
Switzerland, will have to be recon-
sidered.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
January Gruys

January is the heart of winter and
there are those to whom the first
month is low twelve of the year.
True, the sun rides bit higher in
the sky each day; the hours of day.
light are lengthening and the hours
of darkness shortening. But it is
likely to be month of gray weather.
There is beauty, however, in the
grays of midwinter. The nimbus
and stratus clouds seem to hang low
over meadows, fields and pastures.
The clouds are not simply one over
ALL monotone shade. There are
grays of many shades. Around the
horizon, the clouds are often light
and wispy, a silvery, bright gray;
directly overhead, one can see
streaks of dark, smoky gray and
masses of piled-up bits of cloud in
which half a dozen shades are
twisted together like a mass of tan
gled yarn.
After the January thaw, when the
froSt-bitten grasses of moving
fields and pasture slopes stand re-
vealed in the cloud-filtered light,
there's gray tinge to the verdure
that covers the land. In the soft
light of cloud-quiet days is a good
time to study the soft grays that
Nature has painted over the year
The zig-zagging rail fences are
weather-grayed by the storms. heat
and cold of many seasons. The stone
walls are etched with intricate pat-
terms of gray-green moss. The
scanned, rough bark On big oaks and
big naples is a symphony of grays,
and there are beautiful, blended
patterns of the same color in the
smooth covering of the beeches and
maple saplings.
January is likely to have many
gray days, but there is beauty in
the soft shades of sky and earth.
Over all the land there is sense of
quiet waiting-the hushed, unhur-
ried spirit of midwinter. Forever
and anon as the gray days file by,
the Storm King shakes his sword
and rain or snow falls from the gray
above to the waiting land below.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Capital Sidelights
By viii p. Kennedy.

Charles Sumner Greenwood, 4507 Van
Ness street Northwest, who was brought
to the Capitol from Norwalk, Conn, in
1900 by the late Representative Ebenezer
j. Hill of Connecticut, retired Decem-
ber 81 after having served as secretary
to seven House members. In his early
days at the Capitol, he was assistant
clerk OF the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee when Senator Joseph r. Hawley
was chairman, and he recalls that the
entire membership of that committee
were Union and Confederate generals.
Among them was Gen. Edmund w.
Pettus' OF Alabama, elected to the Senate
when he was 76.. He previously had
served in the Mexican War, and was
an envoy from Alabama to Mississippi
during the formation of the Southern
Confederacy. One day at the age Of SO
he was passing near Peace Monument
and helped Union soldier across Penn
sylvania avenue. The veteran turned
to Gen. Pettus and said, II hope when
you are as old as I am there1l be as
kind man to help you" Inquiry dis
closed that Pettus was the elder by IL
years.
Mr.. Greenwood was one of the few
not members Of the Senate to witness
the fierce McLaurin- n-"Pitchfork Ben"
Tillman scrap in the Senate chamber.
He was clerk to the House Banking
and Currency Committee when Mr.. Hill
was defeated in 1912. Carter Glass and
Mr.. Hill were members Of the commit
tee and Mr.. Glass paid Mr.. Hill the
tribute of saying: I'VE need your brains,
I wish you could leave them with us"
Other members whom Mr.. Greenwood
served as secretary were: James Glynn,
E. Hart Fem, Augustine Lonergan, DR..
William Lincoln Higgins, the late
Thomas r. Ball, all Of Connecticut, and
for the past four years with Fred j..
Douglas of Utica, N. Y, where he has
had his daughter as assistant. Betimes
he was a special agent in the United
States Customs House, freelanced selling
calculating machines and vacuum
cleaners, worked for the Veterans Ad-
ministration in Newington, Conn, with
the Social Security Board in Baltimore
and with the Railroad Retirement Board
all for brief periods.
For 20 years Mr.. Greenwood was
golf enthusiast, taking up the sport In
1923 when he was ~. His hobby now Is
woodworking and he has an excellent
shop in his home. He was married In
1899 Just before he came to the Capitol
and is looking forward to celebrate his
golden wedding anniversary. His imme-
diate occupation is trying to find a
small farm in Southern Vermont where
he can enjoy his retirement.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
From War to Peace
By the Req. William J. Lalou, S. r. D.,
Associate Professor Lur0y Master OF Ceremonies
the Catholic Nnpersitu OF America

Of science and the mastery OF the
forces Of nature are often applied to
spreading death and destruction be-
fore they are utilized for the happi-
ness of human kind. The war that
was to end war, quarter Of century
ago, has proved to have been only the 4
prelude to the most deadly conflict
in all history.
God seems to have permitted the
world to punish itself for its own sins.
The world had listened to false
christs and false prophets. 1t had set
up idols on the altar of the living
God. 1t had worshiped false gods;
the state or the race, an economic or
a military system. 1t would have
brotherhood of man without the
fatherhood of God, as in Soviet Rus
sia. 1t could glorify the governing
power of the state as though 1t owed
no allegiance to God, as in Fascist
Italy. 1t would deny the fundamental
equality of man by exalting one peo-
pie as the superrace, led by mad
messiah, as in Nazi Germany. 1t
would adore at the altar of military
might, as in war-crazy Japan. Nor
were we Of the United Nations free
from this idolatry, as we substituted
the cult of money and power and
pleasure for the service of God Even
democracy can be exalted into false
god unless it recognizes Supreme
Being who is the final source OF the
rights which it guarantees to man.
II the world Is to pass, whether
suddenly or gradually, from the pres
ent Good Friday of war to an Easter
Sunday of peace. it must be as the re-
suit of a spirit of faith in God and a
recognition of our basic dependence
upon him. Our hope for the to-
morrow must rest on Christ's prayer
on the cross for the erring world of
yesterday and today: Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they
do" Guke, xxiii34) Let us trust
that the nations in their plans for
peace will not be too intent on divid-
ing the spoils of the present global
crucifixion as were the soldiers on
Calvary too occupied in dividing the
Saviour's garments among them to
hear the plea of mercy for them
which issued from the lips of the
dying Christ. So, we should all unite
in prayer that the spirit of Christ
will guide the authorities of the post
war period in their efforts to build a
lasting peace, that they will ac-
knowledge the supreme domination
OF Christ the King, which alone will
insure a happy passage from war to
peace
Evening star., 1945-01-07

ford to be passive about the application
of principles like those Of the Atlantic
Charter. It is merely to say that though
constant effort must be made to put
those principles to work. realistic ideal
lists will keep in mind at the same time
that 1t is not in the nature Of the world
ever to be all sun, moonlight and roses
and that ups and downs and setbacks
on the road to good and lasting peace
are virtually inevitable. The defeatist
attitude OF the faint-hearted, the all-or-
nothing attitude Of the impatient per
fectionists and the jeering attitude OF
the cynics are barren and futile. More
than little measure of faith, COM
promise. and understanding is needed
in these times; given It, humanity will
surely move into brighter era, no
matter how slowly.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

The great fact in the world today Is
the war. Try as he may. no one can
escape 1t. For some 1t means actual
participation in the conflict. For
others it may mean only incon-
venience. For many it means tragedy,
the loss of son or brother or husband,
or anxiety about the fate Of loved
ones from whom nothing has been
heard.
Everything today Is measured with
relation to the war. OF every activity
the question Is asked: Does it help
the war effort2" or, Does it impede
the war effort?" Sincere Christians
throughout the world are making a
very definite contribution to the work
of bringing peace out OF war by their
prayerful dependence upon God,
who alone can give us peace, the real
peace which the world left to itself
can neither give nor take away. They
are invoking something higher and
more potent than military strategy,
diplomatic ingenuity and economic
pressure, 'for they are seeking the
heavenly influence of the Holy Spirit,
the Spirit OF wisdom and understand
ing. the Spirit of counsel and forti-
tude, the Spirit Of knowledge and
piety, the Spirit Of the fear Of the
Lord, to guide the nations in their
quest for lasting peace that our
children and our childrens children
will not be afflicted with the scourge
of war which lashes mankind today.
All the peoples of the world sigh
for peace, even those who willfully
went to war. We often picture the
peace as coming as unexpectedly as
1t did in 1918. In the Holy Week
liturgy Of the church, there Is a dra-
matte transition from the mourning
Of Good Friday to the Joy and tri-
umph of Easter There is a moment
in the mass Of Holy Saturday morn
ing, which is the anticipated mass of
Easter, when there Is a sudden change
from the desolation of passiontide to
the triumph of Easter morn, as the
organ plays and the bells ring and the
wells fall from the statues and pic
lures. Some envision the coming of
the peace in some such striking fash
ion when the alleluia Of the armistice
will quiet the din OF battle. The
world today is suffering its Good Fri
day. 1t Is crucified to a cross of its
own erection. 1t is a sad commentary
on our supposed progress in civiliza-
tion that mankind still tries to solve
its problems by murder and destruc-
ton as it did in the savage state Of
the Old Stone Age. The discoveries
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Foolish Sacrifice

From the Saint John telegraph journal.
Every day there are purchasers Of
stock not worth the paper 1t is printed
on. To do 1t, lot Of them are cashing
in their postwar nest eggs-their vic
tory bonds and war savings certificates.
When eventually they find out they have
racketeer, they are likely to complain to
authorities. but it is too late then to do
much about 1t.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

Shelby assaulted the editor. Shelby
had published in his paper an open
letter to Madeline Pollard. requesting
her to 60 on the lecture platform with
him, now that Col. Breckinridge is
lecturing. He said that she had more
sense than Breckenridge and all his
lawyers, mentioning Shelby among the
rest, and that she did not lie. as all
Of them had DONE"
Evening star., 1945-01-07

The holidays are not too far be-
hind us to make US fail to recall
the perennial joke about Christmas
neckties. But the scarves about which
they TESTED five, ten and fifteen years
back would be regarded as rather
conservative in these days OF sar-
torial sunburses.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

So far there is no brand OF ciga-
rettes called Bronchitis" and no
motor fuel named "Snare Drum
Gas" or "Asphyxiation." But there
might as well be.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

If all the cigarettes in the country
were laid end to end, the reach for
them would result in a frantic
scramble.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

to use compulsion on the home front
when all other means have failed.
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To those who have been clamor-
ing for blueprints and formulas pre-
cisely defining Americas position in
relation to every conceivable inter-
national problem, the Presidents
views on foreign policy will be read
with something less than satisfac-
ton. But considering the present
state of the world, with the war
reaching new peaks of violence and
with the internal politics of the lib
Grated and semi-iberated lands un-
avoidably in condition of either
flux or confusion, it is difficult to
see how Mr.. Roosevelt could have
expressed himself better or more
specifically.
The United States, says the Pres
ident, still adheres to the principles
Of the Atlantic Charter and will do
its best, now and in the future, to
secure so far as is humanity possible
the fulf1llment of those principles.
Economic and military strength is
an important and inescapable fac
tor in international politics, but in
keeping with the Charter and with
American tradition, the policy of
this country is that all such power
must be linked with responsibility
Evening star., 1945-01-07

Ten Commandments and mighty reli-
gions like Christianity, even though they
have been honored perhaps as much in
the breach as in the observance, have
enriched life beyond calculation, lead
ing the imperfect but perfectible human
race out of the dark swamp and jungle
into the light and carrying it forward
progressively, step by step through the
ages, to new heights of material and
spiritual achievement. There have been
grave setbacks, of course, grave setbacks
like the present war, but no one, surely,
not even the most unrealistic idealist,
would say that the Decalogue and
Christian doctrine, because they have
been frequently ignored and outraged
by man, have not irradiated our society
with their nobleness and gradually, in
cessantly, so nodded. modified, new
formed or reformed it as to make 1t on
occasion beautiful, If not in a measure
divine.
A declaration like the Atlantic Charter
is, of course, only pallid reflection Of
the higher principles. but to the extent
that it is infused with the spirit of
Christianity and represents an interna-
tionai acknowledgment that the worlds
problems can be best solved in that
spirit, 1t holds out the promise that the
future can most certainly be better than
the present or past. But patience will
be required Men differ. Nations diff
fer. Cultures differ The society Of
mankind Is vast complex Of deeply In
grained and widely varying fears, habits
Of mind, prejudices and historical View
points with ancient roots. This is the
formidable reality against which ideals
and aspirations must do battle, like the
sea smashing against : great rock on the
shore. And just as It takes time for the
sea to wear away the rough edges Of the
rock, 1t will take time for our ideals
and aspirations to beat down, little by
little, the things that frustrate them.
This Is not to say that men can af-
Evening star., 1945-01-07

tIllS klQQ.
Both Churchill and Stain appear to
be cool to the idea of really effective
world organization, preferring regional
groupings instead. The United States
Senate, with its veto power over any
world arrangement involving the United
States. appears to favor another expert
ment with world organization and to
oppose new series of alliances of the
kind favored by Churchill and Stain.
Roosevelt seems to incline to the
Churchill-Stalin idea of regional group
ings with some sugar coating to make
them palatable to the Senate.
Out of it all, in the end, could come
what amounts to a much closer working
arrangement between the United States
and Great Britain within the framework
OF q United Nations organization of
modest power and Importance. # this
outcome is to be realized, however, the
United States Senate is likely to insist
that the United States have a voice in
policy making commensurate with the
military strength this country now is
demonstrating.
The idea of tagging along when policy
is shaped that can lead to wars which
the United States then has to win, does
not appeal to the Senate.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

Inere Will be debate, as there
should be, over putting into immedi-
ate effect the revolutionary measures
in total mobilization OF civilians for
which the President has asked. But
no citizen now can remain uncon-
scious of the silent pleadings in sup
port of those measures, pleadings
which take form in the lengthening
columns OF names on every new list
of the wounded, the missing and
the dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-07-16
Chinese Seize
Strategic City

CHUNGKING. July l6. up
Chinese troops driving toward KWei-
lin. former American airbase town,
have captured Kuangmien. SO miles
southwest of KWeilin. and Liukiang.
TO miles to the southwest. a head
quarters communique said Monday.
Meanwhile the Communist Daily
New China reported that the jap
anese have turned Shanghai into 4
battlefield ready Tor Allied land
lngs.
Walls Of SandbagS We're reported
erected in the streets. with zig gag
bitches dug in the fields. as the Jap
anese prepared for a fight to the
finish. The $50 best cement build
ings in the city have been fortified
and additional fortlfications are be
ng constructed along the shore Of
the Yangtze delta. the newspaper
said.
The Japanese garrison III the
Shanghai, Nanking, HangchoW tri-
angle has been increased TO 10000.
including the new Japanese Seventh
army corps.
1t also was reported that III the
Marking area Lhe Japs have COM
pleted SIX husc underground tuu-
nelS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-07-16
CALFXICO YOUTH INTEND
TO HAVE PLAY CENTER

More power to those young folk Of
CaleHico who are determined to organize
and keep going recreatiOnal center. In
their "Declaration Of Independence" they
say they have waited long enough on the
adults Of the city to make good on much
talk"
After ALL who should DO better in
sponsoring and putting into motion a
project than those who will benefit di-
rectly from it?
The CaleXico youngsters are not alone
in the Valley in lacking proper and ade-
quate supervised recreationS. Ell Cen
trans may blush alongside Calexicans
and others for the same reason: Other
communities in the cOurty have eff
cent, Well-Working centers.
In FL Centre there is the need for ac-
quiring grounds in some sections Of the
city. But lying idle right now is City
Park. To some extent school grounds
might be available through the summer
months. survey reveals that vacant
lots can be obtained.
However. the major trouble is lack Of
setting up a definite program with some
personnel AS it stands now, mothers
hardly can be expected to send their chill
dren to City Park, or even permit them
to 60 there for the reason that there is
al entire lack Of supervision.
The success Of any youth recreational
project lies largely in program Of CON
tinuOus and helpful activity. 1t is not
merely a matter of having a place for
children to congregate but in offering
something at once interesting, attractive
and notwithstanding that calls for
a bit of initiative on the child's part and
something in which the child will have a
creative part.
There should and must be parental CO.
operation. Most certainly not just
place where children may go ito get
them from underfoOt at home"
We hope the CaleXico youngsters sue
ceed and that their success will set the
pattern for all the rest Of the Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1945-07-16
AMAZING TRIBUTE
(SacramentO Bee)

(SacranentO Bee)
Safety Of air travel is being taken for
granted by an ever increasing multitude
Of American travellers.
And recently released figures of the
National Safety council sustain this
faith Sixteen American air lines com
pleted their 1914 operations without
single fatality.
Big and little companies were included
in tn els, with United Air Lines winning
the safety award within the former
group, and American Export Lines, with
total Of fewer than 100000 passon-
ger miles, in the latter.
The council presented a special war
time distinguished service medal to
United for not having had an accident
since May |, 1912. Its planes travelled
in that period more than 1,00O,0OO,000
passenger miles. Eastern Airines was
close behind with 907 00000 miles with
out an accident.
This is an amazing tribute both to
those who build the planes and those
who fly them.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-07-16
FREE ENTERPRISE FOR
kiRLlNES WINS VICTORY
(Los Angeles Times)


The policy Of competitive operation of
American airlineS to foreign countries
has Just been given tremendous impetus
The Civil Aeronautics Board has issued
certificates authorizing three airlines-
Pan American AirWays, American Ex-
port Airlmes and Transcontinental &
Western Air, Inc.-to operate routes to
Europe. Africa, the Middle East and
Asia. This action was taken under the
regulatory powers granted the board by
congress and is directly contrary to the
policy Of government subsidy to q
chosen instrument" which has been
sought by one group.
This recognition Of controlled compe-
tition is 4 wholesome development
The American system has flourshed
under the doctrine Of permitting such
agencies as public carriers to compete
under whatever overall regulation has
seemed necessary for the public interest.
1t is important now that this policy
be carried over into the field of air com
merce, the great means Of transportation
Of the future
Fortunately. the Senate Commerce
COmmlttee-although by a very narrow
margin-tabled a monopoly bill which
HoulN nave pIOFlbltu CIle SOFtI HilltIlI
subsidized method
The committee, Senator Josiah W.
Bailey of North Carolina chairman, has
had under consideration for many
months the bill Of Senator Pat McCar-
ran, Nevada, calling for a monopoly in
operation Of international air routes.
Seventeen of the 19 u. s. airlines, many
of which did not file for foreign air
routes, have backed the policy of COM
petition. The Senate Commerce Com
mittee should stick to its guns.
Western States are especially interest
ed now that CAB. has given permission
to American Airlines to purchase con-
trolling interest in American Export
Airlines T.W A. and American will pro-
vide direct one-carrier service from cit
les on their domestic routes to points
halfway around the world.
This country is heading into the air
age 1t should be alert to see that aerial
supremacy and unrivaled service are
maintained in the American way - by
competition and not by monopoly.