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Evening star., 1945-03-23
Too Late, Gentlemen
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

It is too late, gentlemen of the high
command.
You replace Field Marshal Karl
Rudolf Gerd Won Rundstedt by Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring as COM
mander in chief of the western defenses
OF the Reich. You say to yourselves,
doubtless, this Kesselring has wrought
miracles In Italy. Now he will produce
us another miracle on the Rhine.
No, no, Meme Herren Of the high
command.
The day for miracles along the Rhine
is past.
Kesselring Is a good soldier. You
have produced none better and few his
equal in this war. But neither Kessel-
ring nor any other general can do what
is needed now. He cannot make you
more soldiers.
You have lost too many German SOL
diers, Meme Herren. That is your
trouble, and it Is trouble there is no
getting around. Some you have lost in
hard fighting, from bitter necessity.
Some you have lost because your Nazi
overlords would not permit you to give
up ground that could no longer be de-
Tended. And some you have lost-as
you have Just lost perhaps as many as
100000 in the fatal triangle between the
Rhine, the Saar and the Moselle-be-
cause YOU were outmatched in wits, in
leadership and in speed Of movement by
q younger and more ingenious people
who meant to see to 1t that the likes of
you, Meme Herren, do not trouble their
civilization again.
Nov, vyo,, cford heIipd &ha DItyn x,,;fI
the remnants of your broken armies.
remnants into battle groups, trying to
supply them with such ammunition and
weapons as your blasted factories can
still produce. You stand there, with the
Saarland lost, with Upper Silesia lost,
with half the Ruhr under artillery fire
and the other half shuddering under
the ceaseless hail of bombs-and you
bring Kesselring from Italy and say:
Defend the Rhine"
To which fitting reply would be,
thank you, my good friends and COM
rades Of the high command, for Moth
ing.
Consider what is the nature OF this
miracle which you have demanded from
the field marshal.
Your armies have been driven from
the west bank Of the Rhine, save for
dimiuishing pocket in which what is
left of your lst Army is being destroyed
by Allied armor and aircraft. On the
east bank, the United States 1st Army
no longer holds mere bridgehead, but
an offensive area which had been ex-
panded northward to the River Sieg.
Along the course OF the remainder Of
the river, seven other Allied armies are
preparing for series OF grand assaults,
with ample reserves, ample material
and overwhelming air superiority; and
there Is an Allied air-borne army as well.
Evening star., 1945-03-23

pledged themselves, in case one Of
them was attacked, to maintain an
attitude Of complete neutrality. That
declaration. made less than three
months before Germany's attack on
Russia, was one of the diplomatic
bases under which Turkey main
tanned its neutrality against heavy
Axis pressure. And the value Of this
neutrality to the Allies was attested
by the categorical assurances given
in August. 1941. by Russia and Brit
ain to respect Turkeys territorial
integrity.
When the tide of war changed q
year later, the Allies came to con-
slider Turkeys neutrality less desir-
able than its entry into the war on
the Allied side. However. Turkey.
which militarily was in no position
to wage offensive warfare against
the Axis. maintained its neutrality,
despite growing pressure and criti-
cism. especially from Moscow. Only
last month did Turkey declare war
against Germany, when the act had
become militarily an empty gesture,
avowedly designed to qualify Turkey
for membership in the United Ma
tions and participation in the San
Francisco Conference.
Russia's sudden action generally is
interpreted as foreshadowing de-
mands upon Turkey for modification
of the Montreux Convention of 1885
whereby Turkey fortifies and controls
the straits connecting the Black Sea
with the Mediterranean. For CEN
turies it has been a Russian dream
to dominate Constantinople and the
straits. and in the last war this was
promised the Czarist government by
Britain and France. the pledge laps
ing when Russia quit the war and
collapsed into Red revolution. There
would seem to be no point in de-
nouncing the existing treaty with
Turkey unless Moscow meditates
some changes in the straits settle
ment to its advantage. But the
Montreux Convention is an interna-
tional instrument and Turkey is
member of the United Nations. Dis
'closure of Moscow's intentions there
fore will be awaited with interest.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Etruscon CIoy

For Soldier Fallen In Italy
Bettceen Assist and Peru0ia,s hill
There lies q cavern, an Etruscan tomb.
And timeless terra Gotta figures stiu
Remain irithin the rock-hetDm, shad.
otry room.
These statuettes recall the cherished
dead,
Clad in familiar sandals, wreath snd
stole,
Reclined at ease, Nth psoudlv Nffed
head
And holding, each. coin for charon's
toll.
$50 I tpould make your portrait II I
might,
Nodded as though In fred Etruscan
clay:
With lifted head a. iDhen you loped the
light
Who kneD too soon the darkenimg Of
your day:
And tor the ferry toll to ChGron's land.
4 coin Of Ious's osrx Vintage IN your
kand.
AGNES KKaDRICK GRAY.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Remedy at the Source

1t is true, as Senator IydlngS Salu,
that the District Commissioners,
representing the municipal govern
ment, should have greater power.
But more powerful municipal gov
ernment would not relieve Senator
Tydings or his colleagues in House
and Senate of the opportunities
of Washington residents in connec-
ton with desirable or undesirable
local legislation.
1t is true, as Senator TydingS said,
that the present system of governing
100000 residents of the National
Capital is "an outrage" But the
outrage is the denial to these resi-
dents of the fundamental right of
American citizens to representation
In their Government.
When Senator TydingS, as chair
man of subcommittee of the Senate
District Committee, is forced to
spend two hours listening to resi-
dents who want legislation for some
relatively trivial purpose-trivial in
comparison with questions of great
national importance-he indicates a
natural evaporation. Yet he would
not express that evaporation were
he spending the same amount of
time listening to delegation of
Maryland voters. In one case there
is an imposition on the time of
busy Senator. In the other the
Senator is merely fulfilling one of
the duties relating to his position
as a representative of the people of
Maryland.
Congress should have, among it's
members, the duly elected repre-
sentatives of the people of Wash
ington. These representatives would
not consider their duties as spokes-
men for the people of Washington
as onerous, time wasting or trivial.
They would relieve their colleagues
in Congress of much of the detail,
In preliminary consideration of local
legislation, by assuming the same
sort Of responsibility borne by repre-
Sentatives of the people of the States.
Their presence in Congress would
not, on the other hand, affect in
the slightest degree the exclusive
control over the seat of government
which the Constitution very wisely
places with Congress. Their presence
in Congress, together with repre-
sentation Of local residents in the
electoral college, would remove a
basic and indefensible injustice from
which spring most of the difficulties
relating to government of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Efficiency in local government
might be increased by proper legisla-
ton delegating to the Commissioners
greater regulation-making powers
having the effect of local ordinances.
AS stated here previously, commend
able progress has been made along
such lines. But Congress will remain
the source of local government and
the people who live here will con-
tinue to go to that source for the
remedy of their wrongs and in all
matters affecting their welfare.
Congress can never rid itself of its
responsibility over the District of
Columbia. Why does Congress delay
the inevitable step of sharing that
responsibility with the people of
washington by giving them repre-
sentative government?
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Nearing the Brink

Except for mopping-up operations,
the wreckage of German arms west
of the Rhine is now complete all
the way northward from Switzer-
land to Holland. The American
Third Army's tornadolike drive,
carried out in conjunction with the
American Seventh Army smashing
up from the south, has within a
weeks time not merely cost the
enemy the loss of 100000 men in
prisoners alone, shattering two of his
armies and eliminating his last sa-
lient on this side of the river of
destiny" but has also deprived him
OF the rich Saar industrial area.
From the purely military stand
point, this great achievement, real
lied against some of the strongest
Notifications in Western Europe,
probably will be studied for years to
come as one of the wars classic Of
fenSive operations "a fearsomely
brilliant business of swift armored
and infantry thrusts supplemented
by air power striking against enemy
columns fleeing eastward from the
debacle. The outstanding immedi-
ate significance of the victory, how
ever, lies in the fact that it signals
the beginning of the last days of
the war in Europe, with Germanys
capacity to resist visibly disintegrat-
ing under mighty new Allied blows
from east and west. With the Saar
falling to our forces, that capacity
has been disastrously hit, for this
coal and steel region is one of the
three principal centers of heavy in
duStry in the Reich, and coming on
top of the Russians recent seizure of
Silesia, its loss means that the Nazis
now have only the Ruhr left as
major source of arms.
And the Ruhr itself is obviously
doomed. Not only do we dominate
the west bank Of the Rhine, but we
have a great bridgehead firmly es-
tablished across it, and this bridge
head, being constantly expanded by
the American First Army, now
touches the edge of the Ruhr plain
and is clearly developing into the
southern arm of a great pincers
movement. AS for the. other arm,
the northern arm, Field Marshal
Montgomery, according to the Ger
mans, has at last unleashed the
Canadian First, the British Second
and the American Ninth Armies in
a tremendous offensive across the
river on 65-mile front from
Arnhem to Dusseldorf. All told, to
seize the Ruhr and smash the heart
OF the Reich, General Eisenhower
has at least nine armies at his dis
posal, including the American Fiji
teenth and the First Air borne, both
OF which are still cloaked in mystery.
Against this overwhelming force
IN the west and the new Russian
drive in the east, further German
resistance seems madness. Silesia
is gone. The Saar is gone. And the
Ruhr is going to 60 similarly. The
loss of its industrial potential, taken
together with its huge manpower
losses and unparalleled pulverization
by our vast and supremely dominant
air forces, is carrying Germany to
the brink of collapse, and whether
it surrenders formally or not, its
total defeat now appears near
enough to be called imminent.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Stirring in the South
By David Laurence
From the st. Louis star-Times,

Efom Tue St. LouA BtkI-IlmeH.
Georgia may not stand alone among
the Southern States abolishing the poll
tax this year. In spite Of the efforts
Of Boss Crump. real fight is being
made to get repeater through the
Tennessee Legislature, and Just the
other day, the Southern Planter, the
oldest farm publication in the United
States, said that this barrier to voting
in Virginia is doomed, just as surely as
day follows darkness"
Are the Southern politicians simply
trying to forestall Federal legislation
which they are coming to regard q
almost inevitable, or Is there q new
intensiacation Of liberalism below the
Mason and Dixon Line?
Evening star., 1945-03-23
From Mother of Six in Service

From Mother of Six in Service
To the Editor of The Star:
7 read in one OF your columns an
article about two soldiers who have
been in service for three years in the
Pacific area, and I wish to state that
I also have son, who went overseas
in July, 1912. He also was stationed in
the Hawaiian Islands, then was sent
to the Philippines. This soldier never
has had furlough even before Pearl
Harbor
While In the Hawaiian Islands he
was injured, but was returned to duty
when fully recovered.
1t does seem strange with many
awaiting assignments that things like
this should happen to some.
I now have five sons serving our
country. My one daughter also was in
the Marines.
I hope that there will be some ac-
ton taken in these cases Of our boys
serving overseas so long.
MRS. FLORA MAGUIRE.
Evening star., 1945-03-23

Three CT Joes were talking about
the future. The first declared: lone
Of Mons meals is what I want!"
and the second: "Give me a real
bed!" But the third just murmured
to himself: "I'll take both at the
same time!" And that's the way it
goes. The combination of things
back home-not merely this thing
or that thing separately-is what
the boys are longing for.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
No Celebration Possible

To the Editor Of The Star:
Drawing the public's attention to
Planning for We Day" is noble
thought, but let me add one thought
for those that intend to celebrate:
A celebrator, other than q military
man in the battle Of Germany, no
doubt must be one person who has
been well fed, has had . good time
during the war, never gave blood, made
no sacrifices and perhaps Is q glutton
and wants his drink on We day.
I lost one of my family during this
war, two more are fighting in the Pa
cific right now. Can others like myself
even think Of celebrating? Have COM
passion on others. SORROW.
Evening star., 1945-03-23

Among the mysteries of wartime
is that OF the identity of the artist
who designed the ration coupons.
He seems to be just about as anony-
NOUS as the chap who devises income
tax forms.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Joint Interest

From the McComb Clliss.) Enterprise.
A Mississippi mother Is reported to
have written the Army. MY son." she
said, "has taken out $4,000 war risk In
surance. So keep him In safe place,
g It Is q much your interest now ~ It
Is mine."
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Wants Restaurant Meals Rationed
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
I wonder how any one can expect
our rationing system to be a success,
any more than expect a bucket with
great big hole at the bottom to hold
water.
AS long as we can escape rationing
by eating in club or restaurant when
our points become short, or when we
want to economic them to buy such
luxuries as roast beef, steak or butter,
rationing will keep on being joke.
If our Government had told us, Spend
your ration points where you want, at
the butchers, at club or a restaurant,
but, wherever it is, let us have those
points, the food situation probably
would be very much better and the
housewives with small incomes and
several children eating at home would
not be so bitter and feel that they are
the hardest and most unfairly hit by the
restrictions.
It would be no more difficult to hand
out your points in restaurant than
to hand out money, land nobody would
starye. MOTHER OF THREE.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
So Pitkets Hurt
In Riot al Studio

HOLLYWOOD oct s CUP)-
Fifty film workers were injured
today as replacement workers
Stormed through picket lines 10 60
10 work at Warner Brothers
studios.
Forty deputy SheriffS and $50
police from Burbank. Glendale,
san Fernando and Pasadena,
wearing gas masks and Tin he'll
NETS and carrying clubs and guns,
broke up the battle after five
minutes.
Eight of the injured were taken
by ambulance 10 Burbank Recciv-
ING Hospital, but the rest required
only emergency treatment at
first aid stations at the studio
gates.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
Woman Faces
Larceny Trial

Mrs. Adele Abraham, 40. of 90S
Delaware, accused by her race
track companion of cashing in
s., 407 in winning horse tickets
which belonged 10 him, did no bet
ter than place" today in record
er'S court.
She placed" by being held for
trial by Judge w. Mckay Skillman
on two larceny counts.
The complainant. Louis Major.
s., a grocer. who lives AT l0524 r.
jefferson. testified he ran $3.50
into S2,407 by betting on John
Saho. Mrs. AbrahamS bond of
$500 was continued.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09

plus n nry
kdiser, tn g
ship m a n,
and 90 eTy-
b o d y laugh
n g. Of
course. B o b
says the only
trouble uith
"a ritingo a
c o u m n ia
that you hoUe
to c drry a
portable type
Writer around
With you.
He says he
WM report on
ID ctr oit Uid
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
Winners

Y o. CHAFFE goes back TO
Lie Erie, Pa, bearing proudly
that baseball Hank Greenberg
hit into the stands in the second
game.
Chaffee says is cost him S25--
and well worth il.
The youngster who caught it
didn't want TO sell. Chaffe kept
st him and the youngster put
the price at what he deemed i'm
possible.
Chaffee jumped at the chance.
spent the rest of the day having
the thing autographed-by Har-
ridge, Hank and LOT of Tigers.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
Dutch TO Depor+ Nazis

HILVERSUM, Holland. Oct. 8
QNS)-The Netherlands govern
ment announced today that all
Germans, excepting political refu-
gees. who held citizenship in the
Reich May will be deported.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
Nuns the W0rds

A LOT of taxi boys are not re-
"A porting those early morning
holdups-after the first time.
They say they lose too much
time at headquarters looking at
suspects, and can't afford it.
So they travel light as to
money-and take small losses
Of 81 20 $40 instead of a couple
OF days pay.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09

Pas
IF YOU go swimming with the
Il city's first family. the JEFF
frieses, you'll find the mayor.
and both his sistersF Mrs. Lola
II a.nnav N and Mrs. Grace
Cogan, swim the breast stroke.
Says JEFF: "We're dated every
time we take to water"
That is because Pa.-the late
Judge Edward J. Jeffries. taught
his children 10 swim. He's stiti
Pa TO all who know him well. In
the old days the children, forti.
fed with box lunches, used to
ride the ferry boat from Wood
ward TO Belle Isle back and
forth until after court.
Then Pa would pedal over on
his bike, and the w I'M m n <
lesson would follow. They swan
where the canoes are now.
+. Jeff says his first sneak swims
were in the old county ditch be-
tween Lothrop and The Boule-
ward. not far from the old home
on Eighteenth street--now Lin
wood.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
OUR
TIMES
Back Stage;
By Vera
Brown.

Back Stage;
HENRY FORD II, such a
IL good guy, rehearsing for
his Ford Hour appearance al
Music Hall-and plenty scared.
Said program director Bill Red
dick:
"Get in there aud pitch. If
you're good we might hire
you
Quipped industrialist Ford;
"How much:"
BY the way way, the radio
control room set up al Music
Hail alone cost $4,000.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09

TWO hotel men, Carl Berry Of
Il the Book, and Pretto
Norton Of Windsor's Norton
Palmer.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
Hero:

lies been nominated by some
H pretty, twittering watt
resses because he laughed when
one of them let slip a serving of
spinach loaf--with cheese sauce
that covered him from forehead
TO waist.
Said the offender, almost in
tears:
"Hs's the kindsst n,an I sVsr
BGg."
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
POtpOurri;

IN AlCn AlsilA OF NlIlllit anu
Il Cass confuses southbound
drivers who find themselves half
way across Temple when traffic
moves north--and holds them
back for five seconds 10 take
care Of one-way Temple traffic.
Donna Byrd goes into the first
grade at Pensacola where shs
and her nom will live this winter
While dad plays the winter cir
suit.
There's lot OF talk that Pop
Sam Byrd will move from Plum
Hollow--to another plum here.
For that big Tiger baseball
rally, Fred Aiatthaei- -will be
POSTMASTER. BY indications.
tickets will be as scarce as they
were for the Series. II
H..
Vows
A FRENCHMAN will tell you
"A he can always tell an Amer
lcsn girl a. far as he can see her
IN his native Paris--her skirts
are always TOO short, hes hose
too lisht and hev hair toe. lone.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-09
Bob Tale:

HoLUMNfST B6B HOPE chin
" ming pith Detroit biRUigs-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Resolutions Passed
BY WV Auxiliary

The special committee to draft
resolutions of respect and SYM
pathy in the death of Sister Kate
o. Baker do submit the following:
l. eve the member of the La
dies Auxiliary to Post 2573 Vafer-
ans of Foreign Wars of the United
States bear testimony to her genu-
inc Christian character, her loyal
ty and unwavering- fidelity to the
auxiliary;
2. That while we sorrow over
her untimely departure, finding 1t
difficult to think we will no longer
have her bright kindly face amort,
us, we rejoice that we have as
her legacy to us the record OF
her sweet pure life;
3. That we extend to her be-
reaved husband and relatives OF
our deceased member our heart
felt sympathy. We earnest COM
ment them to Him, who acquaint-
ed with grief is able to comfort
in this hour of greatest need.
Resolved that we place a copy
of these resolutions upon the min
utes of the auxiliary and cause a
copy to be forwarded to the be-
loved husband and relatives;
Respectively submitted:
Hattie B. Mann
Frances H. McIntire.
July 18th, 1915.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Colleen McNein,
Sgt. Golden Marry

,LUMBERToN, July 28.-Mr:
and Mrs. James D. McNelH OF
Iumberton, Route 2, announce sne
marriage of their daughter, COL
1ean to SGT. Wayne H. Golden
son Of Mrs. Paul Flyn OF LOUIS
Vile. KY, in Fayetteville on June =.
70 The bride, a graduate OF 81,
Pauls High school, is employed IN
Fayetteville. Sgt. Golden served
e;oht months overseas with the
17fh A:rborne Division and is now
Stationed at Kennedy General nos
pital in Memphis, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Britt OF
Lrmberton, Route 1, announce the
engagement of their da'etnt Z.
Mary Florence, to Flight Officer
Dennis P Mccarthy Of Rosedale,
Long Island, N. Y. Flight Officer
Mccarthy has just arrived IN the
states from overseas, where ne
served six months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stinson Powell en-
tertained at dinner for visiting
|servicemen at the Lunbertor
Servicemen's club Sunday. Pvt
LIVE Shelangeski of Fort Bragg
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Steve She
langeski of Fairfield, Iowa, cut the
birthday cake given by the hosts
Assisting in entertaining we
USO Chairman and Mrs. W. M
Best, Misses Sadie Rae Pope ane
Ethel Pittman. Musicians were
Mrs. Erwin T. Williams and Bill,
Bridges.
Miss Betty Goode Hardin wa
hostess at Coca-Cola party a
the home of her parents, DR.. ant
Mrs. E: R. Hardin, in honor o
Miss Rachel Brown of Jasper
Tenn, who was housegUest of he.
, uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Per
ry H. Ashe.
Miss Carolyn Lyerly entertained
: at party at McMillan's Beacl
) honoring her houseguests, Mlsse
) Erlene Edens and Jerry Shook o
! Red Springs. Dancing was en-
joyed.
, Mrs. R. H. Livermore and Mrs
: R. H. Livermore. Jr, Of Lumber
ton we're hostesses at bridg
=, supper at the formers Crescen
! Beach cottage in honor of a groul
! of Lumberton girls who were O.
a houseparty there. Miss Bett