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Evening star., 1945-12-02
By Luther III. Evans

TT WAS on New Year Day, 1900,
that the Rev. John Elliott, pas
tor OF the church in East Gull
ford, Conn, and his collabor-
ator, Samuel johnson, jr.. affixed
their signatures to the preface of the
second edition Of "A Selected, Pro-
nouncing and Accented Dictionary
FOR the Use of Schools in Ameri-
ca This slender, contribution to
photography defined q librarian" as
zone who has the care of library"
and library" as "a collection or
place for books" The concepts OF
the library IS . mere depository
existed then and persist today, and
for these reasons it Is obvious that
something altogether different was
contemplated when, on the oath OF
April, an act was passed appropriat-
ing 5000 "for the purchase of such
books as may be necessary for the
use Of Congress at the said City of
washington" and providing that
"the said books shall be placed in
one suitable apartment in the Capt.
tol =. for the use of both Houses
OF Congress and the members there
of, according to such regulations as
the committee i. shall devise and
establish"
Actually, this act which created
the Library of Congress nowhere
contains reference to library or
to . librarian, but it is apparent
from It's text that the new collec-
tions were to be working collections
and the administration of them was
to be In terms Of the service which
It would exist to perform. Through
out its history as an institution
these objectives have been the OBJ
jectives which have governed its de-
velopment.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Largest in the WorId

Today its collections are numeri-
cally larger than the collections of
any other single library in the
world; among them are nearly g.
100000 printed volumes and PAM
phlets, an approximately equal
number Of manuscripts, more than
100000 maps, about 1000, 900 vol
umes and pieces of music and
10000 prints. not to mention large
holdings Of monograph records,
newspapers, motion pictures and
microfllms. They are arranged on
400 miles of steel shelves in the two
largest buildings in the world de-
voted exclusively to library purposes.
They have grown to. their present
sixe partly by the natural process
Of accretion, but largely in direct
proportion and response to the de-
mands made upon them. Because
Of its mnemonic classification, vast
catalogs and other apparatus, the
Library Of Congress has been ac-
claimed as 'the greatest biblio-
graphic establishment on earth"
This b not to say that the
Library's collections have achieved
anything like Hbration; on the con-
trary, the endless struggle with COM
pleteness claims q principal portion
Of the attention Of its officers and
subject specialists. For example, it
has been said (and said truthfully)
that the Library possesses the
largest collection Of Chinese litera-
ture outside the Orient, but guam
titative distinction should not be
construed as assurance of q repre-
sentation Of all of the disciplines
adequate to the conduct Of war
in Asia; as q matter of fact, it has
been necessary during the recent
period Of hostilities to adopt des-
perate and only partially successful
measures to repair painful def
ciencies and then only with the
help Of other agencies created spe-
ciflcally for the purpose.
Evening star., 1945-12-02

books on the shelves (and the Lii
brary,s highly developed scheme Of
classification serves as an outstand-
ing reference add, ne will be ad-
mitted If the nature of his work
requires it.
If reader Is engaged in q study
involving the continuous use of a
number of the same books day after
day, q table is reserved in his name.
For the reader who wishes to die
tate to stenographer assignments
are made for the purpose in places
where he may do so without disturb
ing others.
For the advanced scholar engaged
in the pursuit of studies in the
national interest q private study
room, equipped with desk. a chair,
typewriter stand and q bookcase,
Is available.
There are at present 225 Of these
rooms. OF particular delight to res
idents Of Washington are the L.
brary's public concerts of chamber
music, made possible by the NUM-
ficence of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge and Mrs. Gertrude Clarke
Whittall.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
OHf-of-Toicn Services

For the citizen unable to visit
Washington in propria persona the
Library performs a variety Of serv-
ices. Upon application from his
own librarian books are sent on loan
to his community. provided that the
purpose Of their loan may be con-
strued as serious contribution to
knowledge. and provided further
that their nature and their kind are
such that they are not procurable
locally.
A well-equipped photo duplication
laboratory provides him at mod
crate cost with Photographic re-
productions of materials which, by
reason Of their content, rarity, con-
dition or Importance to the conduct
of official business, cannot be sent to
him on interhbrary loan.
From the Librarys recording lab
oratory he may purchase transcript
tions Of folk-songs, instrumental
music and speech recordings.
But most important, perhaps. OF
all Of its activities on his behalf is
the Library's cheerful and earnest
willingness to respond to his requests
for information concerning the ma
terials in its possession or derivable
from them. This service is necessar-
lily limited by the extent and pres
sure of governmental work and by
the Library's objective to extend
rather than supplant, or impinge
upon, the resources available in his
Evening star., 1945-12-02

of a valiant people to throw off
the yoke Of l7th century despotism.
In this truly great novel, she
comes alive again to rule the
hearts of men and hold the fate
Of 4 people in her delicate fingers.
Sz.75
Evening star., 1945-12-02

ey sARRie SAWS. Fors~erd by
SGT MARION HARCROvE. Cor
teons BY SGT. LEONARD SAkSOkF.
uso,~ 81 The Wolf in G.
nvblico'ioss
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
COIllIllllniSm'S PROGRAM
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

UEoREwARNED forearmcd," says the
Il old adage.
Certainly that applies today to the new
technique of american" communism, which
was recently exposed by the Hearst papers in
a dispatch from its Washington bureau.
The dispatch describes the battle plan for
the 1916 congressional elections and it should
put all REAL Americans on their toes.
The FIVE major points of attack are to be;
1-"Whoop it up for spending legis-
laton.
2-"Encourage strikes and unrest
3-"Agitate discomfort among veterans.
AROUSE racial and group prejudice.
Spending legislation" will be encouraged
by the Reds, because the more we spend the
more we tax and the more we are taxed the
nearer private enterprise approaches bank
ruptcy.
Strikes and economic unrest will be
fomented because communism depends for It's
growth on misery and discomfort.
CD ACIAL and group prejudice is one of
IL the most potent weapons of the Reds
because it pits class against class and makes
appeal to the lowest and most primitive forms
of social venom.
The "smearing" program has always been
weapon of the Reds. Whoever believes in
the America that has put us in the command
ing world position we occupy today is
Fascist" "reactionary," an enemy of the
working classes etc, etc, ad nauseam.
All this, together with the Social lcgis-
lation now pending in Congress, is the formula
for creeping socialism, which when ii stands
upright on it's feet tif it ever does) will be
recognized instantly as a combination of Rus
sian communism, nazsm, fascism.
1--WE creep before we walk" might be the
motto for the communstc attack in America.
Thus we are forewarned. Will patriotic
Americans take advantage of this warning by
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
WHAT do YOU KNOW?

n. C., park bench as his
office
3-True or false: (a) Marie
Antolnette was rescued from
prison by Joan of Arc. (b)
The capital of Czecho-Slo-
vakia is Prague.
-ComplAe the following
ShakespeeTean quotations;
The better part Of vslor
is -
ST you can guess the speed
Of the average eScalator you
can answer this one cor
rectly How long would it
take 10 travel a mile on an
eScalator la) one half hour;
CbD one hour, tc) more than
two hourS2
6-Who was the first 20-game
winner tpitcher) IN the ma
lor leagues in the present
season?
What geometrical shape is
banana: (a) trapezoid;
tb) obloid; (c) rectangle?
8 In flying parlance what does
the word Roger mean?
ANSWERS on opposite page.)
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04

beginning NOW an intensive campaign against
these traitors to our way Of life and to our
liberties?
Communism should be outlawed like
nazism and fascism.
The Bill of Rights was not written to pro-
tect those who would destroy both the spirit
and the letter of this GREAT BULWARK
AGAINST COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM,
which are the antithesis of every section and
article in the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights was written BY
AMERICANS FOR AMERICANS, to preserve
the AMERICAN WAY and the LIBERTIES
OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
The authors Of that creed of political lib
erty never for a moment conceived that it
would be used to bring back that very form
of dictatorial stateism which the men of the
Revolution fought against and died to destroy.
COMMUNISM and state socialism are there
~ fore ANTI-BILL OF RIGHTS, ANTI
CONSTITUTIONAL. That being so, Com
munist party or group should be outlawed
just as we have outlawed Nazi bunds and
Fascist groups.
Herbert Hoover sees the menace plainly
and he tells us to forearm against it in these
rousing words, defending our economic
political system
1--WE SHOULD CEASE TO APOLOGIZE
FOR IT. Our first postwar purpose should be
To restore it. The American system of life
is unique in the world. We made II. 1t started
as a revolt against the curbing and suppress
sion of the inalienable rights of men by the
state Our structure of government. our polit-
ical, social and economic ideals have in all
these centuries been q vieilant defense Of
these rights AGAINST THE POWER OF THE
STATE, the power TO use force, TO en,lave."
We can't just have a written Constitution
and Bill of Rights and then walk away
We must FIGHT for them-now more
than ever when the program for the DE-
STRUCTION OF OUR WAY OF LIFE boldly
confronts us as challenge.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
PART V

MYTH apparently no regard for what
w is going on in his own state and
in the nation at large, Senator James NJ.
Mead of New York has introduced in
Congress bill 10 create federal "small
business finance corporation, authorized
to make and guarantee loans to small
business amounting to ONE BILLION
DOLLARS"
The proposal fits snugly into the far
reaching program of socialistic legisla-
ton, including the full employment bill, y
to which a group of II senator's have
committed themselves: And senator Mead,
the proponent of this particular bill, is
a member of the group
Defying the well known fact that
bureaucrats are not bankers, the Mead
bill Is. 1320) would put the United
States government Immediately and di-
rectly in the commercial banking busi-
ness.
In fact, the Mead bill would in prac-
tice put the government into the invest
ment banking business too since the
corporation could make long-term loans
up to 10 years-renewable for another
10 years-or could buy and hold the pre-
ferred stock of little business corpora
tions to 1O-year amortization period.
CENATOR MEAD is one of the mem
- bers of Congress who should KNOW
that the banking business is not one for
the government to undertake and that
actually THERE is NOT EVEN AN
EMERGENCY EXCUSE FOR THE
UNDERTAKING.
The New York senator is chairman
of one of the congressional subcommit-
tees which have been INVESTIGATING
small business finance"
The committees have had expert testi-
mony on the subject
They have also been informed Of
fcially that THE BANKS OF THE
COUNTRY have already made ample
arrangements to finance the needs Of
little business"
The American Bankers Association,
to which more than 90 per cent of the
banks in the United States belong has
in action a "hve-point plan" which was
fully described to Congress by Mr..
Robert NJ Hanes, chairman of postwar
small business credit commission instl-
tuted by the association in June, 1914
Zone of the first steps of the COM
mission" Mr.. Hanes said, was to
promulgate a credit policy, the funda-
mentals of which have been practiced
by the banks for years, and to give it
impetus and new significance.
1T declared that it would see that
every competent man, firm or corpora
ton needing bank credit for some con-
structive purpose that would serve the
enterprise economy of our country would
get it-and in adequate amounts and for
sufficient lengths of time to do the job"
At the time of Mr.. Hanes', testimony
last June, the association had organized,
on manageable regional basis, THIRTY
SEVEN voluntary bank credit groups
which were THEN READY TO OPER-
ATE with a credit reserve" of $780,
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04

(a) country; (b) philosopher;
tcl planet.
Who said these famous words
about GLORY? (a) Go
where glory waits thee
lhl "The paths of glory lead
bUt 10 the grave. % Cc) TO
tho glory that was Greece
and the grandeur that was
Rome. Cd What price
glory? tcJ "But trailing
clouds Of glory do We come
from God. who is our home"
Answers on opposite page.)
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
BY E. F. TOMPkINS

900 specially provided for small
business" financing exclusively.
And other groups were still forming:
The aggregate reserve" now available
exceeds SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOL
LARS.
In this nationwide combination, the
New York City banks have set up a
S10O,0O0,O00 credit group" to participate
in loans anywhere in the country that
exceed the lending limits of smaller in
stitutions"
Likewise, in Senator Mead's own con-
stituency, under the leadership of the New
York State Bankers Association, VIRTU-
ALLY ALL THE BANKS IN THE
STATE have combined to serve little
business"
A survey shows that the 700 CONNER
cial banks in New York alone have a
total of S503 OPS, 651 available for loans
to retailers, wholesalers, small manufac-
turers and other businessmen.
The New York program includes
long term" loans payable "in instalments
over period of years" and "other types
of credit especially designed to help the
businessman who is trustworthy and
competent and who has only moderate
amount Of capital"
UNDER THE AMERICAN FREE
ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, THEREFORE,,
THERE is NO DEARTH OF BANK
MONEY AVAILABLE FOR SMALL
BUSINESS LOANS.
And many small business interests are
in no need of loans.
A y INQUIRY made by the fife insur-
"A ance companies in America" has as
certained that. as of Dec. 81 1914, in
dividuals" had accumulated savings of
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN
BILLION DOLLARS; "unincorporated
businesses" had set aside nearly NINE
TEEN BILLION DOLLARS in currency.
bank deposits and government securities;
and the farm population had amasscd
FIFTEEN AND ONE-HALF BILLION
DOLLARS in cash, and savings, besides
reducing the total of farm mortgages
one-ffth
The Mead plan appears TO be social
istic corruption of a plan suggested to
Congress by the Investment Bankers AS
sociation. under which Federal Reserve
banks would charter and support pri-
vately owned regional investment COM
panies in their districts to buy securities
of, and lend money to, small and unin-
corporated businesses.
These investment companies would be
financed and managed within their own
trade areas
Mr.. John c. Folger president of the
Investment Bankers Association and one
of the most experienced men in the field
warned Congress against any scheme
for direct government loans guarantees
or insurance based on government credit y
1--WE are convinced he said, that ALL
SUCH SCHEMES are not only unwOrk-
able. hut would also constitute A MAJOR
THREAT TO THE SYSTEM OF PRI-
NATE ENTERPRISE IN THE UNITED
STATES"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
Know'eooe lest
By DR.. SABINA CONNOLLY

GIVE Yourself oNF Tor zach ~ ~ hr,t
question Seote 80. hdiliant J-a. bntht.
a-s s,rats o. doll
The last Russo japanese
War had It's peace treaty
signed at tal Versailles,
France; ~ Geneva. Swift
zcrland, lC) Portsmouth,
y. H.
These women's names Sug-
CeSt a l. S. president Who?
laISuSanna BoylSton and
Abigail Smith; lb) Frances
Willard and Barbara Frlct-
chic icl Molly Stark and
Mary Lyon
According 10 tradition. 'he
Fountain o. Youth is really.
tal Niagara Fails y. y. thJ
Silver Sprlng. Fla, tCJ Yo-
semitic Fails. Cal
. II you saw blue flag with
yellow cross. would YOU
know that it is tho flag Of
tal LatvIa; lbD Slsmk-tVJ
Sweden
3 Uranium was named after
IO-C The DETROIT TlWE'
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
Btain Game

G''s 'ourssH 10 Tor Zach eorrsst snssr
th'ourh question fS 10 zach for IN, ~
rnsininr t~o eossuons Any scor, ss Of
hirhsr is st,susnt
Who wrote tho story called
Captains Courageous in
the movie version of which
YOU saw Spencer Tracy star?
What well known u. S. cit
izen. who has been advisef TO
N ~ more than one of our prfsi.
dents uses a Washington
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04
The Pay Off

WHEN Gen. Douglas Macarthur NJ
stepped for the first time on the
conquered soil of Japan, he looked
about him at the vast array of Amer
lean military might assembling in the
occupied area and observed:
From Melbourne TO Tokyo is a
long road, long, hard road.
But this looks like the pay of.
1t is indeed "the pay of, " in very
many ways and for very many things.
The American landings in force
on the beaches and airports of Japan
have begun the final settlement of a
long score with the japanese nation.
We have become accustomed to
thinking of the beginning of that
score as having occurred at Pearl
Harbor, and surely that violent and
treacherous act of criminal and mur.
derous assault set in motion the
decisive events for which Japan must
now pay in full.
But that was not the real be-
ginning.
lust when the japanese mind first
became fixed upon war with
America as the destiny of Japan we
do not know.
1t probably dates from the days
of Commodore Perry, when the Japa
nese people experienced their first
sense of Illustration at our hands.
All down through the years they
were continuously feeling themselves
frustrated and obstructed by
America.
They coveted our great wealth.
They envied the constructive and
creative capacities of our people.
They were jealous of our re.
sources and of our industries.
They were contemptuous of the
freedom our people enjoyed, and held
it to be weakness upon which they
would eventually seize to accomplish
our destruction.
The only respect they had for us
was for our power, when it was
plainly greater than their own-their
conception of power being solely one
of the ability and the will and the
urge to destroy.
There were many signposts along
this long, hard road of which Gen.
Macarthur speaks - long before
Pearl Harbor.
The attempted racial and eco
nomic infltrations, effectively and
most fortuitously frustrated by our
early exclusion laws, put up many of
those signposts.
The aggressions against helpless
China, which we denounced and pro-
tested but did not resist or prevent,
put up many more.
The callous and studied attack
upon the gunboat Panay, purposely
and calculatingly staged to test our
WHAT DO
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04


The japanese finally decided we
were weak enough to attack and de-
feat and destroy-the time and event
they had been waiting and lusting
for all through the years.
They were wrong, but they
struck.
Now the bitter fruits of their
mistake and their folly, of their
oovetOusness and jealousy, of their
contempt and hate, of their avarice
and savagery, are being reaped in the
rubble and misery and tragedy of
their devastated land.
1T HAS surely been long, hard
road Japan has forced us to take,
and the longness and hardness of it
have not been entirely for payment
and atonement by the Japanese.
We have spent and exhausted cur
own treasure lavishly along the way.
We have paid for every step of
the way in precious American blood.
But it is Japan which lies crushed
and broken, Inundated and impover
ished at the end of the bitter road
she chose to follow, frustrated and
growling beyond anything in her
own experience or the experience of
any nation in all the history of the
world.
1t is JUSTICE which is being
visited upon Japan today-the i'm
placable and inevitable and final pay
off, as Gen. Macarthur said, for all
of her dreams of world conquest in
spirit of bestiality, and especially for
her mistaken notion that the digni-
fed and decent men of the world
would not dare to stand against her
and would not be able to prevail
against her.
But Japan is undeservedly for
tunate, even in the ashes of her de-
feat and her Illustration and her
humiliation.
WHATEVER the japanese nation
contemplated and nearly con-
trived, for America and the whole
civilized world in it's dreams of de-
struction, Gen. Macarthur and the
military might he commands do not
now stand upon the soil of Japan
with intent and purpose to destroy.
Crushed and shamed as she is,
Japan may still rise from her ashes
but only in the event her people find
it in their hearts to accept and de-
serve place of dignity and decency
in the family of nations.
The road to Tokyo has surely
been long and hard.
But the PAY OFF for Japan will
be longer and harder than anything
in the record of human atonement-
and will last as long and be as hard
as the time it takes for her to achieve
and justify the esteem of mankind.
YOU KNOW?
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-04

IO-C The DETROIT TIMES
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-11-17
EXCITEMENT UNNECESSARY

"lu-.dIuu, propaganda. says GOV.
CHERRY. of North Carolina. Dr. irving To- "un-
jerm.u, Tho sacred ideals tor which our
veterans fought Boz the TWO great World
War
We do not know exactly what the chief
executive ha, Iu mimi. a. In~idlous propa-
Randa boat wc doubt 81 u Is anything more
.hau 90, usual lime of thought that comes
'u thu~, who are not entirely pleased with
fhe advocacy 81 ISSUES and i>mS which they
dI~appro,e and the unpleasant suspicion
that some 81 them might get across.
There has been "insIdious prOpagan-
da" .u the United States since the nation
started IT'S career. Nearly every public
speaker. including the clergy. views with
aIafm much more easily than they point the
aaE o. concrete application Of principles
to current problems. Lets not get excited
about the matter.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-11-17

aDonf be too hard On the boy.
Anre." he pleaded. My sister q
4 pretty hard woman 90 deal with
and Wayne has gotten into inc
-BIs he'd better he getting out
q IL Sir. Farham." she argued
unhappily. AFTER ALL what sort
~ a lie viii we be able 20 build
together IL Wayne never Is al
lowed 10 think for himself"
ION. you're quite right about
L." he agreed. The thing - 4
you get tired u Edna's tricks and
turn Wayne down. ben never
amount - anything. I'm con
WINGED of that And the boys gol
good stun IN him. Also I'm con-
WINGED that he loves you deeplyi
yes" she answered YEARLY
SOMEHOW I know hc does. That's
why I've Just got 70 be patient
and wait"
Ills hands gripped her shout
ders hard. That's the grill And
look. Anne. consider me your
friend. won't you7 I know what
a splendid person you are and
believe waync's destiny lies IN
your hands 7"
She smiled a little wanlv,
Thanks for believing in me. Mr.
Farham-and in Wayne"
~ the outer Office John Lowell
I aas leaning against her desk
It's smile was cynical. Well
looks ike you've gotten q re-
prirveg"
She fclt anger tingle along her
SPINE. What do you meant
20. dent prctendi You know
fwisnt Iva talking about. ] take u
fthat yoFfg wedding has been pest.
peaed You sec. ] happen 70 read
! tlss paperS. too.
Slls was 80 angry she did not
lonk NJ his eycs-if she had she
mlght have seen the anxious light
~ them And so7" Her words
were dripping with Ice What
right had he 20 come here and
taunt herr
IT. shrugged. ~And 50 thought
prrhars we might resume oar
cnt@ciy happy association with
each otherl'
"Oh. YOU did," Having John
Lowell know that Wayne had
treated her IN such a shameful
mannCF. was the most bitter dose
her pride had ever been called
upon % weather.
To went on. adding insult "a
injury. Because Wayne Nc