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Evening star., 1945-10-11

there is no doubt they would register
tnelr support OF a proposal that La
Toilette run for reelection next wear
as Republican. He has worked with
them, and in many instances, he has
voted with them.
In Wisconsin, the picture is some
what different. Some of the oId.line
Republicans have no more use for the
present Senator La Toilette than they
had for his father-old Fighting Bob"
whom they were never able to defeat.
Tom Coleman, an industrialist and
chairman Of the Republican Central
Committee, is one of them. Tt was
Mr.. Coleman who demanded Of the
Republican-controlled State LEGISLATURE
the passage of the "fence-me-in bill"
which would have made it obligatory on
the nominee OF any party to pledge
support OF every party nominee on the
ticket and OF the party platform in the
1896 electlons-and to have made such
a pledge by last August Is. 1t was in
tended to smoke out La Toilette and
also to fence him in. The LEGISLATURE
passed the bill. but Republican Gov.
Goodland killed it with veto. Mr.
Coleman spoke his mind freely about
the Governor and the later replied In
kind, with result that there is bitter
feud which might be decidedly helpful
to Senator La Toilette, If and when he
declares himself in the fight for a
Republican nomination.
Not all Republicans in Wisconsin
have the same feeling toward La Fol-
lette that Mr.. Coleman has-not by a
jugful. Indeed, many of them would
be glad to vote for him as they have
in the past. Too, if he becomes the
Republican nominee for the Senate,
Senator La Toilette would undoubtedly
carry back with him into the Republic
can ranks many of the progressives
who left the older party in 1894. There
is much, Therefore, for the Republicans
in Wisconsin to consider in this situa-
tlon, as there is for the Senator him
self. The Republican delegation in the
House is, generally speaking, a progress
sive group, with whom La Toilette has
been or. good terms.
In Wisconsin. voters may go into any
primary they desire, regardless of past
party afhliation. The question, there
fore. Is whether La Toilette can attract
enough Republican voters who. COM
bined with his progressive followers,
would give him victory in the Repub-
hcan primary. His chances appear
good
Evening star., 1945-10-11

tary Of State Byrnes to the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and from
the public report made to the House OF
Commons by Foreign Secretary Beyin,
1t Is obvious that Commissar Molotov
was more adamant than ever at the
London Conference. His attitude was
dictated by strict orders from the
Kremlin. Premier Stain was in con-
slant touch with his chief diplomat and
was determined to be tougher than ever
before. London yielded no positive
results.
In the meantime, the Communists in
Yenan, who had sent their leader,
Chairman Mao, to discuss with General
issimo Chang Kai-shek the settlement
OF long rivalry. had also become
tough. Diplomats who are carefully
reading the Sino- Russian treaty of last
August are now discovering that while
Russia pledged itself not to help the
Chinese Communists effectively she
promised nothing regarding infiltrations
and indirect assistance.
Since the end of the London Confer
ence important skirmishes in China be-
tween the Communist armies and troops
Of the Central government have been
reported. The Communists claim Chang
is using puppet government and Japa-
nese forces in his fight against the
Yenan forces. American military ad-
visers who are detailed to the Chinese
units are unable to confirm the Yenan
accusations.
And while the Russians are said to
be prepared to live up to the letter of
the treaty with Chang and have an
nounced that their armies have begun
to withdraw from Manchuria, there are
reliable reports that the Mukden ar
senal, which provided the japanese
armies with large amount of ordnance,
Is still working. According to reliable
reports, the arsenal's output is being
handed over to the Chinese communist
armies
A Yenan army, estimated at between
100000 and 100000 communists, lis re-
ported TO have encircled Shanghai. The
Communists have always had a large
number Of men at their disposal. but
the lack OF equipment was such that
no one could consider them as more
than guerrillas. Whether, with the as
sistance of the Mukden arsenal and
with supplies captured by the Russians
from the surrendered Kwantung Army,
they can be organized into an active
military force remains to be seen.
The American Army, Air Force and
Navy have completed their job Our
generals and admirals have been able
to report that the mission has been
successfully completed" 1t is up to
the American diplomats to gather the
fruits OF our military victories. In this
they have had little success SO far.
Evening star., 1945-10-11
The World TODAY
BY Perfinar

Two confidential kilograms sent to
the French Embassies and Legations by
Pierre -Etienne Flandin, Frances for
eign Minister under Marshal Petain, in
December, 1910, and January, 1941, fully
answer the question which Pierre Laval
cunningly tried to ignore when Presi-
dent-Judge Mongibeaux put it straight
to him the other day: Was the re-
appointment of Laval to ministerial
office in April, ls42, the result OF Ger
man pressure?
The first telegram is dated December
"a, 1910. Flandin had succeeded Laval
as Minister of Foreign Affairs on De-
cember 13 when the latter was arrested
and assigned a forced residence in his
house near Vichy. In order to soothe
the Nazi overload, Flandin took care to
emphasize in that telegram that Petain
was no less devoted to the policy of
collaboration with Germany than the
Minister whom he had just dismissed.
Whatever Emergencies they had, Flan-
din explained, concerned internal and
not international affairs
In the second telegram, sent on jan
uary "a, 1910, Flandin regretfully put
on record that the Germans were still
resentful. Of the treatment meted out
to Laval.
~
Petain waited for the Fuehrer to
approve plan of governmental re-
organization he submitted to him and
he was left In the lurch. Petain, con-
tinned the telegram, has to Withstand
the pressure of the authorities Of occu-
patton. He has to face the prospect Of
a new set of still more rigorous meas
ures striking at the French population
outside the free zone, and he may feel
compelled to readmit Laval to the
government.
This is very clear. The German ruler
not only insisted on the continuance Of
the so-callcd policy of collaboration; he
believed that to make success OF that
policy Laval had to be at the helm.
Evening star., 1945-10-11
This Changing World
By C onsfanfins Broun

Gen. Marshalls report, which was
completed before the failure of the Lon
don Conference Of Foreign Ministers.
adnonishes the American people to keep
their powder dry by maintaining
strong national defense.
The general, who gave this country
the best story OF the war made public
thus far, refrains naturally from dis
cussing the political-diplomati angles
which OF necessity must come into the
national defense picture.
But 1t is obvious that the conclusions
reached by the American chief of staff
has as background the conferences at
Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam which he
had attended as one OF the principal
advisers of Presidents Roosevelt and
Truman. Like all the distinguished
American professional, military men,
Gen. Marshall hates war and knows
better than the civilian diplomats and
politicians the uselessness and the
wastefulness OF international confiagra-
tions
The presentation Of Gen. Marshalps
report coincided with the worsening of
diplomatic relations between the west
ern powers and Russia.
The American people gave a sigh of
relief after WI day and hoped that the
peace organization, which was estab-
lished under the San Francisco Charter,
would be sufficient safeguard against
further major wars. Because of this
conviction the war industries are by
way OF being rapidly reconverted and
the redeployment of the forces is pro-
ceeding at greater pace than respon-
ry 1ffx.
This, however, is unavoidable in genu-
Inc peace-loving nation.
According to competent authorities
even the SLOW" process of redeployment
has already affected the Nations nation
al defense. These authorities maintain
that should America be called-because
OF some great misfortune-to use force
again in the near future 1t would take
us between is and 10 months to get the
armed forces on a proper war footing.
These same quarters think Moscow's
unexpected aggressive diplomacy has
been prompted by the realization of this
situation.
Between the Moscow Conference of
Foreign Ministers in the fall of ls43 and
the Potsdam Big Three meeting In july.
1945, the principal diplomatic military
argument of the Soviet leaders was that
they might consider ending the war
unilaterally unless their claims on ter
ritories IN Europe were satisfied by
America and Britain.
AT Potsdam, however. Premier Stain
was more conciliatory than at any other
conference. We were then at the height
OF our military power.
From the statements made by Secre-
Evening star., 1945-10-11
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

For 40 years Wisconsin has had a La
Toilette in the Senate-more than one.
fourth of the entire life of that body.
Next year the people will decide whether
they are to continue the La Toilette ira
dition for another six years. Senato
Robert M. La Toilette comes UP for re-
nomination and reelection. The Junior
La Toilette has served for 20 consecutive
years in the Upper House-the same
length of service as that of his father,
whom he succeeded. He came to the
Senate when he was only 30 years old
the minimum constitutional age for
Senators. He has made a record which
should stand him in good stead
When he first was elected to the
Senate in September, 1925, the present
Senator was Republicans was bis
father before hiin-known in those days
as Progressive Republican He was
again elected as Republican in 1928.
In 1884, however, he took leading part
in the formation Of the Progressive party
and was its candidate for the Senate,
and as Progressive he was elected and
reelected in 1910. Today he is faced
with an important decision affecting his
political future-to seek again senatorial
election as Progressive or to return to
the Republican party and fight for
Republican nomination. He has made
no announcement of his plans-but there
is strong reason why he should make
bid for Republican nomination.
In the first place, the Progressive party
has been torn internally; its political
fortunes in the State have waned until,
outside of Senator La Toilette in the
Senate and Representative Hull in the
House, it has no representatives in
Congress. Nor does it hold any major
State Office. Like the Farmer-Labor
party in Minnesota which, too, has lost
its political grip, the Progressive party
in Wisconsin was formed largely by dis
gruntled Progressive Republicans. al
though it drew some Democrats into its
ranks also.
In the second place, many of the
responsible Republican leaders, realizing
that the COP, If it is to win national
elections. must have support Of progress
sive-minded voters-in Wisconsin and
In other States-would gladly welcome
Senator La Toilette back to the Repub-
lican fold, just as they welcomed the
return OF Senator Shipstead of Mime
sofa to their party after he had been
several times elected as a Farmer
Laborite. If the matter were left to
his Republican colleagues in the Senate,
Evening star., 1945-10-11
Cameo Reyerie

The slopes ,uere laurel-green her ,Ded-
ding day,
When frst she ,Dore this carpen
Her soldier husbands gift, long-long
ago.
The Blue Ridge haze grew dim and ia.
In westward ,oagon trek ,oith lunqe and
stDay.
Rich loan ,oas found. crab blooms,
plum-thtcket sno,D-
But Diew this pin through lens OF
dream -. and kno,D
An epic past no sonnet can portray.
Like music from some lost and lopely
hour,
Tradition trails the centuries in fiqht.
,Dedr her pin and sleeping pears
are stirred:
Old gardens unturl flags OF iris foUer,
A yellotU rose Is leaning on tbs
A phantom cradle rocks =. no
sound is heard.
MARY PEERY WHITAKER.
Evening star., 1945-10-11

po de Mayo has pulled series of
coups whereby one general has sue
ceeded another In the dictatorial
chair, much as the Praetorian
Guards from their camp on the out
skirts Of Rome deposed and set UP
series of emperors as the Roman
state entered its dictatorial phase.
General Avalos was appointed to his
key post only recently by Peron.
Probably the redoubtable Vice Presi-
dent would not have done so unless
he considered Avalos man of his
own kidney. Thus Avalos' action
may be merely cynical double
cross in just another barrack coup
d'etat-the Argentine version of
palace revolution" In that case
the immediate result would be
mere substitution of personalities
rather than a change in the charac-
ter of the regime itself.
Evening star., 1945-10-11
Jupon and Silk

In prewar days Japan produced
-eighths of the worlds COM
mercial silk. This constituted it's
chief export industry and was one
of the key props of its peacetime
economy. Now, however, as the
country adjusts itself to complete
defeat, it must look to future in
which this particular business-once
offering means of livelihood to
great numbers of Japanese-will
largely disappear.
AS pointed out by a Department
of Commerce economist, Japan may
continue to have large domestic
market for silk, but the American
sales outlet will be drastically cut
down. Before the war. we bought
up almost ninety per cent of the
country's total exports of the COM
modify, but from now on we are
likely to buy not more than twenty
per cent and possibly as little as
ten per cent. These figures speak
pretty much for themselves. 1t is
not probable that the japanese will
be able to find substitute customer
on comparable scale and their
economic rehabilitation is therefore
going to be that much more difficult.
1t is not the war, however, that
has been the primary cause of the
undermining of this once-great ex-
port business in Japan, Even If the
Japanese had never launched their
criminal aggression, this situation
would almost certainly have con-
fronted them now. The reason for
it is the development of the syn
thetics rayon and nylon, particularly
the latter.
The silk-worm, in short, has been
made obsolete in a large measure
by technology, and an important
area OF prewar employment in ia
pan thus has been greatly con-
tracted. BY intensified cultivation
Of the land and the possible develop
ment Of new industries, the Japa-
nese in the years ahead may be
able to support themselves in their
small home islands, but clearly they
will have no easy time of 1t.
Evening star., 1945-10-11
Non-C Communist Luski
From the chicsEo Sun.

from the Chlc&Ho Sun.
Just to keep the record straight, n
word on Harold Laski: Our morning
contemporary referred to him the other
day, In long editorial harangue, as
Stains deputy in Britain" "a Com
munist and a Stalinite" who "eulogizes
Stalipist totalitarianism without re-
straint."
That was enough to surprise any one
who has read Laski in the past. He has
shown great admiration for Russian
achievements, but not for Communist
totalltarianism. Nor has he had
change of heart
Writing the other day, he praised ths
French Socialist party for voting to re-
Ject fusion with the Communists, casti-
gated the Communists for aiming at die.
tatorship and added: Their (the Com
munlstso view of peace and war, of
international policy - is shaped less
In Paris than in Moscow, or rather. bv
what Paris Communists think is the
Moscow line Like the character
in Moturi's play, they embrace their
rival, the better to strangle him."
Some Communist
Evening star., 1945-10-11
Saint Mury's Church i.

The name Of the Mother of Christ
naturally was associated with the
first enterprise of the Catholic
church in the Chesapeake Bay
region. Father Andrew White and
two other priests had much to do
with the laying of the foundation
stone of the Commonwealth of
Maryland in the spring of 1884, and
1t was no accident that the capital
Of the new colony was called Saint
Marys City. During hundred and
thirty years beginning with the rise
of the Cromwellian party in England
and continuing until the start of the
Revolution by which the American
settlements were separated from the
British crown. the Catholic concep-
tion Of religion, though officially
frowned upon, was kept alive in
private families in the neighborhood
of the pioneer plantation.
Then in 1774 Father John Carroll
built tiny sanctuary at Forest Glen
which he dedicated to Saint John
the Evangelist. Another early shrine
was the Queens Chapel, bequeathed
to Bishop Carroll by Richard Queen
In 1874. 1t served Catholics residing
in the section where the Catholic
University now stands. Three years
after the purchase of land for the
District of Columbia, Father Anthony
Caffrey bought from the commits
sioners two lots bounded by Ninth
and Tenth and r and G streets for
"the congregation of Saint Patrick"
He was succeeded by Father William
Matthews in 1904 or 1905 and became
Evening star., 1945-10-11
Defense Is Dead

General MarShallS last report as
Chief of Staff contains this chal-
lenging statement: "The only effec-
tive defense nation can now main
tain is the power of attack"
In support of this he cited re-
port from General Arnold, COM
mander of the Army Air Forces, who
said, in part: THE Navy, now the
strongest in the world, will protect
our shores from any attack by an
amphibious enemy who might chal-
lenge through the sea approaches,
but we must also now be prepared
to oppose stratospheric development.
s*" It is clear that the only defense
against this kind of warfare is the
ability to attack. We must secure
our Nation by ourselves developing
and maintaining the weapons, troops
and techniques required to warn
aggressors and deter them from
launching a modern devastating war
against u.s.
These statements come close to
looking facts in the face, but neither
General Marshall nor General Ar
mold quite comes to grips with the
realities which will confront us in
the future. They say that we must
have the power to attack" or the
ability to attack" and there is no
doubt that this is true as far as it
goes. The real question, however,
and the one which they leave un-
touched, is how and when and un-
der what circumstances we would
use our power or ability to attack
to prevent some other nation from
destroying us with another and in
finitely more terrible Pearl Harbor
attack.
In different section of his report
the Chief of staff, warning that an
other great war would bring the
homes and factories of America into
the front line of combat, declares:
''It is obvious that another war would
start with a lightning attack to take
us unaware. The pace of the attack
would be at supersonic speeds of
rocket weapons, closely followed by
a striking force which would seek to
exploit the initial and critical ad-
vantage"
This undoubtedly is true. And
while General Marshall does not say
SO, there are those who earnestly
believe that such surprise attack
might well destroy with one blow our
capacity to fight. Hence, If we con-
cede the possibility of another war,
the real question is not so much
whether we should have the power
to attack" as means of deterring
an aggressor, or as a means of fight
ing back after we have been dealt
devastating blow, but whether, hav-
ing the power, we will use it to at
tack our prospective enemy before
he can attack us.
For obvious reasons General Mar
shaH does not discuss this question.
It involves considerations of high
policy-for example, whether Pres
ident, having information that we
were about to be attacked, should
order defensive assault on his own
initiative, or whether he should seek
a declaration of war from Congress,
and thereby enable our enemy to
smash us while the legislators were
debating the issue.
At the moment this may seem far
fetched. But II this world Is to suf-
fer another war, If any nation is to
achieve position where it might
attack us, there will be time when
this question will become very real
and very grim. At the least, 1t is
something worth thinking about
Nouy
Evening star., 1945-10-11
Discounts Majority Rule

Discounts Majority Rule
To the Editor of The Star;
A writer in The Star urges that the
Recreation Board follow "the will of
the majority" in the matter of providing
playground facilities. But it was the
will Of the majority to hang the Scotts-
boro boys. Slavery existed according
to the will Of the majority in the South
which even yet wills to hold the Negro
in economic and political bondage. Re-
cent programs In Germany were willed
and wrought by Nazi majority.
The question OF enforced separation
finds weak answer in the will Of the
majority. 1t ignores completely the
obligations of the majority, the rights OF
primary. and the future health Of
society.
Justice Is not afforded by counting
noses. J. W.. HAYWOOD, u.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-03-02
Shower HOnOrs
Mrs. Ross Watson
On Sunday Evening

Mrs Ross Watson, nee Lucille
Douglas, was honored Sunday af-
ternoon by a shower at Masonic
Temple at which Mrs. G. A. Christ
enson and her daughter, Miss Betty
Clark, were cohostesses. Mrs. Wat
son, whose husband is serving over
seas, was the first baby girl to be
born in Coolidge, later moving to
Florence with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Douglas.
The program included life
history of the bride in verse, writ
ten and read by Mrs. w. II. Farms
worth. Mrs. Mary Gardner Miller
sang a solo, Sweet peas were used
in decoration and the shower gifts
were heaped on a table, to which
the bride found her way by follow
ing a cord that led to devious
places before bringing her to the
table.
Guests were Mesdames John Ash
more Roberts, H. A. Odom, Y. Z.
White, Abbie Dee Ledyard, Charles
Yates, r. S. Dixon, Johnnie Jean
Cockrill, Kathleen Merrill, E. o.
Thompson, Leon Thompson, George
Ware, Bertha Wallace. Margie
Neighbors, William Short, Frances
Mode, r. ]. Jones, Alice Robertson,
Ed Lacey, Anna Humphries, j. {.
Jayne, f. NJ. Watson. Belle McCul-
Tough, Don Paul, P. B. Hannah,
Josephine Borree, w. B. Newcomb,
s. P. Soule, Ethel Christensen, Asa
Gardner. Mary Gardner Miller,
Virginia NJ. Bollin, Blanche Appel,
E. d. Chandler, George Truitt, w.
H. Farnsworth, NJ. c. Morrison,
William Jackson, ID. S. Davis, and
Misses Ann Hannah, Freda Nassau,
Bess Nassau, Dorothy Dossey, Ma
rie Dossey, La Verne Odom, Betty
June Yates, Madge Dixon, and
Margie Neighbors, all of Coolidge.
Mesdames Alvin Kirmse, Laura
Payne, Mark Gattinger, Anna Syl-
vester, Bob Cook, Marjorie Fuller,
Faye Scoggins, Joe La Gear, Evelyn
Whitlow, D. O. Martin, Mae Tram
mel. Eva d. NORM, E. c. Strube,
]. w. Baker, James L. Shepard, Jr.,
C. Griffin, R. L. Pinyon, j. Hermon,
Beulah Prock, Mrs. Croy Morrow,
Mrs. Lena Morrell, and Misses Dor
othy Shepard, Mary Douglas, Eve
lyn Gattinger, Peggy Cook, Cor
nelia Morgan and Betty Carol Ash
ley, all of Florence; Mrs. W. t.
Garrett and Barbara Garrett of
Casa Grande.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-03-02

habits as soon as supplies
make it possible. We may have
learned how to conserve gaso-
Ilhe, for example, but if we
nave money in our pockets we'd
rather step on the gas than
diddle along at 80 "conserva-
ton miles" per hour.
And there is no doubt that those
manufacturers who have made an
honest end broad-minded effort to
teach us to conserve their products
in wartime have won public good
will which will benefit them in the
postwar era% For a recent survey
showed that of all types of war
time advertising, the conserva-
tion theme has met with greatest
public approval.
SECURITY income
Our "How to Get Along Without"
education hasn't been nearly as ex-
tensive as 1t has been in other
countries. But it has been exten
sive enough to give us a better
evaluation of what is really essen
tial and what isn't.