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satisfactory than the spirit of this
demonstration, extended to one who
has stirred the Capital as have few other
men in all the long, glorious history OF
the great republic"
But even more impressive, it seems.
was the spectacle described in The Star
of September II, 1919, beginning:
Equipped for war as in the red days
when it struck terror to the heart of
the German foe, the 1st Division of
Regulars, led in person by Gen. John j.
Pershing is marching up Pennsylvania
avenue today in the greatest military re-
view the Capital has seen in more than
half a century At the head of the
column, as escort, there is moving with
rare percision, one of the most perfect
units of fighting men ever assembled
.Pershing's Own'-a composite regiment
six regular divisions. Today is perhaps
the last time most of these men who
have suffered and dared so much will
march as soldiers of their country, for
within week a majority of them will
have returned to civil life and only
nucleus will remain to carry on the
high standard Of military achievement
established in the worlds greatest war"
But the nucleus embraced number Of
officers who were available when a still
greater struggle summoned them to fur
ther action. The list included Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, not a member of
the LIST, yet one of Gen. Pershing's
boys He saw Ro service in Europe in
the First World War, but he was ready
when a quarter century later he was
wanted for the responsibility Of Allied
commander on the continent.
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Beautiful Ludy

The white birch is the lovely lady
of the woodlands. Surrounded by
sturdy oaks, gnarled, rough -barked
sugar naples and massive, wide
branching beeches, she remains
aloof and beautiful in her robes of
white. And if, by fortunate chance,
she is encircled by the greenness of
hemlocks, spruces and frs, the dark
background enhances her delicate
lovelineSS.
She is dignified and has an air of
self-sufflciency, but at the same
time she is friendly tree. He who
has seen a forest of white birches
in the northland beside a blue
water lake or along rock studded
rushing river has observed one of
natures unforgettable pictures.
The cleaning white bark, the
graceful slender branches that seem
to move in the slightest breeze, the
glossy petioled leaves, the unusual
blossoms and slender brown seed
cones-all are part of Betula alba's
charm and appeal. Now, in June,
the new leaves, with their distinc-
tive, serrated margins and spear
pointed tips, are an exquisite light
green in color that will darken as
summer heat and drought come to
the land.
The white birch is perhaps the
best known of all our trees. It is
intimately associated with the Ma
tions history and literature. For
untold centuries the Redman used
it's strong, thin bark to cover his
canoes. Poets and prose writer's
have sung paeans to it's beauty.
Farm lads and girls have swung
from its slender top. When the ice
and sleet storms of winter bend it
low, Betula alba does not resist; she
merely bows her head to the forces
Of nature, and when the warmth
and sun return, she resumes her
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Professional Shortage?

A joint report by the American
Council on Education and the Ma
tional Research Council warns that
the wars inroads on the number OF
students in our professional schools
constitute "a serious threat to the
health, safety and welfare of the
Nation for the next two decades"
This probably is viewing the situa-
ton with too much alarm, but the
statistics clearly indicate that the
subject is not to be taken lightly.
Enrollments in our medical schools,
according to the report, show that
for some time after the war there
will be 10000 fewer doctors available
to our civilian population than in
prewar days. AS for dentists, instead
of the maximum enrolment of 5000
freshmen in the 38 dental schools
whose normal flow of graduates is
regarded as necessary for the Ma
ton, only about $50 are expected to
be enrolled this year. The same kind
of decline marks the pharmacy field:
In 1912 the enrolment of students
was 1928, but it is down currently to
3,611-a fact likely to have a long
term effect on drugstores, health
services, manufacturing laboratories
and the like.
Perhaps the most striking figures
in the report are those covering stu
dents of engineering. In 1910 there
were 10000 of them in our colleges.
but today there are only $4,000, and
1900 of these are waiting to be in
Quoted into the Army and Navy. In
the opinion of the American Council
OF Education and the National Re-
search Council. this means that
there will be deficiency of technical
skills in the postwar period and that
our industries will be hard put for
some years to hire a sufficient
number Of competent men to cope
with the chronological developments
ahead.
Making the most of its statistics,
the report contends that the Army
and Navy have been mistaken in
their draft policies and that the
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Traffic Law Enforcement

The most commonly used medium
for introducing the average adult
American to our processes of justice
is the Traffic Court. Most of us seem
to land there, sooner or later, for a
brush with the law in modern auto
mobile driving is almost inevitable.
That is one reason why it is so i'm
portant to make the traffic courts,
laboring as they do under so great
volumn of business, truly repre-
sentative of the judicial machinery
functioning at its best. They have
not reached that degree of perfec-
ton yet, for they have had to serve
as pioneers in vast and complicat-
ed new field.
The District Bar Association de-
serves commentator for it's lead
ership in arranging the recently
held traffic court conference, in the
interests of claw enforcement, the
judiciary and the public" The in
teresting discussions by representa-
tive spokesmen Of these interests at
the initial conference held here this
week laid the groundwork for helpful
and progressive steps in improve
ment of law enforcement and traf-
fic court administration. Subsequent
conferences should be able to accom-
plish even more.
It was gratifying to hear from one
OF the speakers, Norman Damon of
the Automotive Safety Foundation,
Of the high standing of our own traf-
f1c courts here in Washington. But
his statistical summary of the grim
casualty lists which will accompany
the return of unrestricted use of
automobiles is in itself enough to
emphasize the Importance of action
now in preparation of better en-
forcement of traffic laws after the
war.
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Capital Sidelights
BIZ VIII 2. Kennedu.

James V. McClintic last week said
goodby to host of friends in Congress
and official life after 80 years OF public
service here. Following the notable ex-
ample of former Vice President and
Speaker Cactus" Jack Garner, he left
Washington to get caught up on fishing.
character in public life, Jim McChntic
was born in Texas. His first job out of
school. however, was with wholesale
house in st. Louis. Then he became a
travelling salesman, was called a'"drum-
nler,' moved to Oklahoma, conducted
mercantile establishment, homesteaded
in what is now the heart Of the richest
oil field, surrendered his homestead for
S400 mortgage and never went back
After being county clerk and member
OF both houses of the State Legislature,
he was elected to Congress in 1914 as
the first Representative from the 7th
District. He served 20 years in the
House. where he organized the most
famous of the Congressional baseball
teams and in 1888 started the Capitol
Pages School. Chairman of the Demo-
cratic Patronage Committee and a lieu
tenant of the so-called Garner
machine" he was generally popular as
well as distinctly powerful. After his
last term in Congress he was successfully
assistant director of traffic with the
District Government. special assistant
to the Secretary of the Interior and
fiscal agent with the War Department.
He is a noted hunter and fisherman.
At a farewell luncheon in the Speakers
dining room, Mr. McClintic's services
were lauded by Speaker Rayburn, Ma
jority Leader Mccormack, Minority
Leader Martin, Democratic Whip Rams
peck, Director of War Mobilization and
Reconversion Fred M. Vinson, Chair
man Robert L. Doughton of the Ways
and Means Committee, on which he had
formerly served, and the entire men,
bership of the Oklahoma delegation.
x
Although the Office of parliamentarian
to the Speaker has been an important
cog in the House machinery for prac-
tically the entire life of Congress and
although two great parliamentarians
have compiled II large volumes of the
Speakers decisions, known as ''prece-
DENTS" neither Asher Kinds nor Clarence
Cannon had the official title of "Parlia-
mentarian." In the Forty-first Congress
Speaker James G. Blaine had as
Speakers clerk" John D. Barclay who,
in the Forty-second Congress, was pro-
NOTED to clerk at the Speakers table"
by which designation the Office was
listed until February %, 1927, when Lehr
Fess was holding that post to Speaker
Longworth. The legislative appropri-
alton bill then provided that "the
designation of the position clerk to the
Speakers table is hereby changed to
parliamentarian The following Janu-
ary, Lewis Deschler succeeded Parlia-
mentarian Fess, and since that time
has held the Office continuously. While
he still has desk in the Speakers outer
office, Mr.. Deschler is the first parlia-
mentarian to have private office also.
The House finally realized that he
should have place to which he might
retire for study and research without
interruption.
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United States, alone among the
major Allies, has failed to see far
enough ahead to provide against a
serious thinning-out Of the ranks of
its professionally trained citizens.
This is highly arguable, and in one
respect-in its warning on the doctor
outlook-the report is fatty contra
dicted by other authorities in
position to know.
Nevertheless, the figures on the
whole are impressive. Before the
war one often heard that there were
actually too many studying den-
tistry, pharmacy, engineering, etc.
But if that were true then it does
not seem true now.
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Jesus had unique way OF taking
ancient hopes and hidden truths ana
infusing them with new life.
Above the din OF earthly conflict
we hear the voice of Jesus saying:
Because live, ye shall live also"
Immortality is that which lends
meaning and dignity to life. It is
something to be desired, something
to seek; and to attain it is the CROWN
ing Joy Of all achievements. The way
to enter into eternal life Is to believe
in Jesus Christ. Believe that He Is
the Messiah whose coming was fore
told by all Of the prophets. Believe
in Him as earths greatest teacher of
moral precepts and spiritual prin-
ciples.
Had 1t not been for Jesus, the hope
of life everlasting would still be vague
and shadowy. Had it not been for
Him, men still would be lanquishing
under the philosophic delusion that
pleasure is the goal of life and cal
lousness the true attitude toward
human suffering
The teachings Of Jesus stand the
test of time. A false philosophy can
not abide this test. We see today
the horrible plight of nations VIC
timized by false philosophy. Time
has proved that the philosophers who
called Paul a "babbler" were them
selves the devotees of a philosophy
that long since has been discredited.
But the teachings of Jesus survive.
The more they are understood, the
better they are appreciated. Mil
lions of people throughout the earth
joyfully worship God in the name of
Jesus, who said: Il am He that liveth
and was dead, and, behold, I am alive
forevermore, Amen; and have the
keys of he'll and of death"
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Expert Witness

III Ills leIteT 10 chairman WOOO-
rum of the House Committee on
Postwar Military Training, Gen
eral Eisenhower appeals for a peace
time training program on the
ground of national necessity. He
speaks on this subject as an expert,
as one who has learned the lessons
of military preparedness in the
hard school of war If there is any
answer to his contentious, it has
not yet been made by those who
oppose military training in time of
peace or who plead for a postpone
ment of the decision.
General Eisenhower says that
there are certain truths which must
be widely and definitely understood
before any logical approach to the
problem of peacetime training is
possible. chronological advances
have not eliminated the need for
numbers in war. And in any major
conflict "the quicker the maximum
potential can be converted into tao
tical power the surer the victory
and the less the cost" If there
should be another war the probabil-
tiles are that we will not be able to
develop this maximum potential
after the shooting starts. This time
our allies held off the enemy until
we could make good our lack of
preparation. But we are not likely
to have another period of grace of
this sort; certainly we cannot count
on it.
General Eisenhower also told the
committee that fairness to the
country and to the individuals
chances of survival in war demand
that each able bodied citizen re-
ceive in time of peace thorough
grounding in technique, discipline
and understanding of the citizens
obligations in time of emergency"
In the early stages of this war we
had to send partially trained troops
into battle. And as all experience
in war should have led us to expect,
their performance was not as good
and casualties in the comparative
sense were higher than was the case
with the fully trained troops who
routed the Germans in France.
The essential point that General
Eisenhower wanted to make-and it
is significant that all of our military
leaders agree with him-is that
there is too great a risk in waiting
until war is imminent to begin ade-
quate preparation. And it would
seem equally risky to refuse to pre-
pare for war because we hope there
will not be another war. If the op-
ponents of military training are not
in agreement with these points of
view, and they obviously are not,
what have they to offer as an effec-
tive alternative? So far, in the
words of Secretary of War Stimson,
they have fallen back on "shopworn
catchwords." Yet these catchwords,
even if they should lead to the de-
feat of the training program, will
do nothing to insure the security of
the United States nor to preserve
the peace of the world.
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It is one of the ironies of this war
that when you see a heavily bearded
sailor walking on the street, the
chances are that while he was away
life was just one close shave after
another for him.
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Won Ribbentrop

that Joachim Won Ribbentrop was
captured in cheap rooming house,
half asleep and garbed in rumpled
pajamas. He once prided himself
on being one of the worlds most
wide-awake diplomats, and no mem
ber of the Nazi hierarchy had a
greater liking for splendor or was
quite so intent on being we'll
groomed. How inglorious and hu-
initiating, then, to be caught as he
was-disheveled, in mean surround
ings, before the eyes of the British,
the very same British he tried. so
hard to ape both in dress and
manner in the days before the war.
But the humor of the incident is
quickly dissipated by the recollection
of this mans career. A snob who
greatly valued the aristocratic won"
inherited from an old-maid relative,
a champagne salesman who sky
rocketed to power under Hitler, "a
pretentious and pompous adven-
turer who made an ass of himself as
ambassador to Britain, he was in
many ways ridiculous figure. Yet
his acts were hardly the kind that
could be laughed off. Time and again
as the German foreign minister. he
outsmarted the French and the Brit
ish, and though his artful cunning
was without honor, he certainly
achieved diplomatic coups that were
of tremendous help in the Nazi
march of conquest.
Won Ribbentrop helped fashion the
anticomintern pact with Italy and
Japan-the pact that once seemed
so reassuring to those Britons and
Frenchmen who liked to believe that
German rearmament was being di-
rected against Russia. He assured
Hitler that the absorption of Austria
would cause at most only pious pro-
tests in London and Paris, and he
was right in that. He offered similar
advice when the Fuehrer reached
out for Czechoslovakia. and the
Munich agreement proved him right
again. And then came the crowning
moment of his career-that day in
August, 1899. when he confounded
the western world by flying to Mos
COW to sign a treaty of nonaggression
with the Soviet Union. Now Poland
was ripe for slaughter. and once
more Won Ribbentrop convinced Hit
ler that Britain and France would
sit by and do nothing. and so the
Wehrmacht marched and the Luft-
waite f1ew-but this time the former
wine salesman had outsmarted him
self, and there was war.
In all probability, irrespective OF
this colossal misjudgment of the
British and French temper, there
would have been war anyhow. be-
cause by that time the Nazis had
gone so far along the road of aggres-
sion that there could be no turning
back. To the extent that Won Rib
bentrop prepared the way diploma
tically, however. to the extent that
he pressed Hitler to go on, it may be
said of him that he was one of the
chief architects of the confict-a
conflict that has cost millions of
lives and ended in an all-ehgulf1ng
disaster for Germany.
1t is good that this man is now our
prisoner, scheduled to face the Allied
justice he had hoped to escape either
by hiding or suicide. There is much
he can tell us before his punishment
is f1xed-much that should help to
round out the story of how Nazi
Germany conspired against the
peace of the world. In an all too
destructive career, this is the one
truly constructive contribution that
Won Ribbentrop can make to history.
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pose Of gentle dignity. Neither
large nor too numerous, she is both
gracious and aristocratic. Sensitive
and self sufficient, she is the beau
tiful lady of the woodlands.
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Maybe small" business would Just
as leave write Its own Magma Charta.
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Philippines after the close of the War
With Spain. The hero of Manila Bay
did not arrive in Washington until Octo-
ber 2, 1899, and the first of two parades
staged in his honor on the evening of
that day was predominantly civilian
Republic, the Union Veteran Legion
and other organizations of retired SOL
diers marched in the procession. The
majority OF participants, however, were
Government clerks on bicycles, printers,
letter carriers, college students and high
school cadets. It had been arranged
that the admiral should go directly
from the railroad station to the White
House. He reviewed the parade from
an official stand. The following morn
ing he witnessed a second procession of
businessmen on horseback, Marines, de-
tails of cavalry and artillery, the officers
and crew of the Olympia, the District
of Columbia National Guard and other
military and naval personnel, then rode
to the Capitol with President Mckinley
and received the gift of an ornamental
dress sword.
The Stars chronicle of the ceremonies
filled many columns. It's editorial OBJ
servations also were numerous and
copious. Washington" it declared, "has
risen adequately to the occasion. En-
bodying here all the varying elements
which combine to make a great Nation
it represents on all occasions the i'm
pulses of every section and State, and
when it cheers it is the voice Of North
South, East and West, united in one
vast volume of enthusiasm. When 1t
stretches forth its hand to welcome Its
hero It is acting in the name of all the
people. Nothing could have been more
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Fifty Years Ago

Modern terminology was unknown
half century back, but commentators
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Wages
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be required automatically to turn
Down all demands involving price
consequences which exceeded the
limits.
1t would not be necessary for
President Roosevelt to approve the
policy change" since the executive
order establishing the Office of
Economic Sterilization assigned to
Mr.. Vinson all presidential powers
OF the Sterilization Act.
Differences between Mr.. Vinson
and WLB over fringe" policy de-
veloped after the boards late No
Vember decision allowing steel
workers about cents an hour more
IN secondary adjustments.
WLB ruled the workers could have
the increase unless it entailed a
price adjustment or was approved
by the sterilization director.
Mr.. Vinson objected to the phrase
which said he could approve a wage
hike involving price rise as contrary
to rehabilitation policy. He con-
tended that the Presidents hold
the-line' order of April, 1943, as
well as the later Qualification of it
oy the then sterilization director
James F. Byrnes, fatty prohibited
wage increases involving price ex-
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Navy Doctors Wage
Grim Battle 10 Save
Lives on Ship Off Two
BY SECOND 1T. JIM G. LUCAS,

BY SECOND 1T. JIM G. LUCAS,
Marine Corps Public Relations ofhcer.
Distributed by the Associated Press.)
TWO JIMA Delayed This Navy
transport lay less than 1000 yards
off the blazing beaches last night
while four gallant Navy doctors
and two dentists fought to save the
lives of "A mangled Marines.
1t was gripping battle, one which
began less than two hours after the
first assault wave had gone ashore
yesterday.
At the height of this fight to
save life, enemy shells landed be-
tween this transport and one 100
yards to the left. For three hours,
gun crews stood at their stations
to fight off enemy planes while the
silent battle went on inside.
This morning, tired 1t. Comdr. j.
H. McCauley of Los Angeles, Calf,
said he hadn't done enough. -Four
Marines were dead.
But TO were alive and SO have a
good chance to survive.
The first wounded were brought
aboard even before this transport
had discharged its combat troops.
Commander McCauley, E. S.
Groseclose of Lynchburg, Va, and
E. B. Frazier of Mobile, Ala, and
Lieut.. R. A. Hamilton of Springfield,
KY, Navy doctors, went into action
as soon as the casualty boat came
along side.
The wardroom was cleared, and
the tables took their first patients.
Officers quarters were evacuated,
,, and became hospital wards. BY
mldafternoon, three boatloads of
casualties had arrived
Assisting the doctors were two
Navy dentists, 1t. w. j. McGill of
Homestead, Pa, and 1t. William
King of Luverne, Ala, and the ships
chaplain, 1t. w. E. Wright of Fort
Worth, Tex, former pastor of the
First Christian Church at Smith
vile, Tex.
oAAS man dlCo Ill tllC d1lcl
noon. Comdr. McCauley fought
desperately to save his life, but the
man was all but dead when he
reached the ship.
Unbelievable Accomplished.
Unbelievable medical feats were
accomplished in those brief hours.
Brain surgery was performed on the
rolling sea. Comdr. McCauley saved
the shattered arm of Marine
rather than amputate.
An attempt to serve the evening
meal was interrupted by the arrival
of more wounded.
| The battle to save life continued
throughout the night and into the
next morning.
Chaplain Wright moved con-
stantly among the wounded. He
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sac 10 Observe 89th
Founder Day Friday

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, national
fraternity, will have it's 18th found
er's day banquet Friday night at
the Statler Hotel, with DR.. George
Gallup, president of the Institute OF
Public Opinion, as speaker.
Other distinguished speakers who
are members and who have accepted
invitations to address the gathering
are Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland; Fred Turner, dean of
men at the University of Illinois
and president of the national fra
ternity, and Lauren Foreman, execu-
tive secretary of sac.
The program is dedicated to the
men in the armed services, with
the award of membership in sac to
two men killed in action heading the
list. The two men, who were men,
bers of local fraternity at the Uni
versity of Maryland which later
joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon, are
John Curtin and Bob Willis.
Prior to the banquet, an initiation
will be held in the Pan American
room of the Statler Hotel at pm.