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club sought members to join in group
purchase of plane
And, as II to prove "the airplane il
here to stay" under Motor Travel"
appeared the following:
EYING licensed twin -ensined plane to
The Aviation" advertisements cover
more than just sales offers. Wanted, to
buy or lease" appears frequently. Flying
schools. aircraft repairs, parts and gen.
eral service are included. There even
are reminders that the law of gravity
still prevails:
CRACKED-UP. Taylorcraft BL-5o for sale.
TV1 "DETAILS cali - during business hours.
To be sure the total Aviation" adj
vertising space is far less than that
taken up by Automobiles But last
weeks lineage was nearly quarter Of
column, great increase over the two
or three advertisements carried not so
long ago.
Perhaps it won't be long before house.
wives may be saying to their husbands:
There's nice buy advertised here
under Aviation Let's drive out and
look 1t over"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
BY Joe Van Denburg

One postwar age" seems already to
be upon us. The classified advertise
ments give proof, although the termi-
nology probably still bat1ies the man on
the street: ....
FOR sAIH-le41 de luxe side-by-side
Tayiorcraft. 6b-hH continsntal engine;
soa insiudsd sisaS esn Se n nsssss
For the uninitiated, this advertise
ment describes two-place private air.
plane, one Of many aircraft offered for
sale in last weeks issue of The Sunday
Star.
Only few months ago an aviation"
classification was practically unheard
Of in newspaper advertisements. What
few airplanes were offered for sale end
ed up under Miscellaneous" Last
spring The Star became the first WASH
ington paper to carry them separately.
Last Sunday 10 airplanes were Of
fered for sale. dealers solicited, orders
for four makes Of planes, two airports
advertised their facilities and I flying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Americans Are Training
For Business Overseas
BY Robert J. Lewis

to Peru; j. H. Magowen, British Min
lister to the United States; c. M. Ii,
associate director Nankai Institute of
Economics, and many others.
Enrolled for courses this year are
approximately so graduate students and
business representatives, ranging In age
from 20 to 48. During the first year,
half that number signed up. Event.
ually total OF as many as 100 stu
dents may be accepted. Scholarships
and fellowships available pay as high
as $1,000 for highly qualified applicants.
Standards Are High
Eligibility standards are high. Be-
sides business nominees and college
graduates, military officers and Fed
eral officials may be accepted when
designated by the Government. Last
year. for instance, Is Air Force colonies
received a special post-hostilities course.
Students are impressed by the new
responsibilities the United States must
share in world affairs. A 23-year-old
girl graduate of the University of South
Carolina said:
"A country that is as influential as
the United States can, and should be,
tremendous force for good in the
interests of world peace. feel there
could be no finer work than to have the
opportunity of doing ones best to bring
about closer understanding among
nations"
No artificial standards block the way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
George Santayana Finds
It's Fun to Do Nothing
BY Dwight L. Pitkin,
Associated Press stafY Writer.

ROME-George Santayana. living the
life Of recluse In a convent here at
the age Of 81, says he is lazy, because
he doesn't apply himself to his writing
every day.
The famous savant and one-time
Harvard professor, called by some critics
the greatest American philosopher, says
he already has written one more book
than he ever intended to write. Now,
however, he is working on still an
other book. It will be about world poll
tics and he has had 1t in his system
ever since before World War I.
Il am lazy" the philosopher con-
tends. Sometimes I go for three or
four days without writing a line. I
md pleasure in doing nothing. Some
people cannot do that; they get bored
with themselves. But with me it is an
art-just doing nothing"
He Has Test for Life
Nevertheless, santayana, who is
nimble and sprightly with a zest for
life, even though it is clustered life
and he says he is living on borrowed
time, hopes to complete the book some
OF these days. His title for it Is "Domi-
nations and Powers"
Santayana began collecting material
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for his political studies at the start
Of the century, but he put aside the
work in 1914 at the start of World War
I when he was in England and devoted
most of his time to philosophical
studies. Now, he explains, the Second
World War has provided much more
ample and definite material than did
the war of 19l4-19l8. But he must unity
and correlate it.
Santayana. who writes leisurely with
an old-fashioned steel pen, says, the
book now has moral unity, but it lacks
formal unity. Parts of it already have
been published. If I don't have time
to give it the formal unity it should
have, it could be published as an un-
completed work" ,aen> s.. ~~et
santayana keeps up with world
events by reading Italian newspapers.
His favorite Is the Vatican newspaper,
L'Osservatore Romano.
The Madrid-born philosopher, per-
haps best known to Americans for his
novel on New England life, The Last
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BY Harry Lever

The travails of Seaman Ripple"
a hapless and imaginary WAVE who
knows all the answers, are depicted in
an S6-page book whose creator, a real
WAVE, admits she is for the most part
the ripple in question.
The artist, Yeoman &c Dorothea j.
Byerly. %, says she has been drawing
Seaman Ripple" type drawings since
she was old enough to hold pencil.
Ripple is me mostly, and my expert
ences in the service have mostly been
hers, except for few. The added ex-
periences belong to other girls in the
service, and make her representative
WAVE" Miss Byerly explained simply.
Seaman Ripple" has been well re-
ceived. About 500 copies of the book
have been sold by Miss Byerly to
WAVES around town. The artist said
she decided to take long chance on
her ability and printed the books at
her own expense. She has had no pre-
vious art experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
BY Norman Walker,
Associated Press Stan Writer

On July 3, 1912, the Army undertook
Panama in six months for SIS 100000.
Work was abandoned October 81,
1943-16 months later-With the road
only two-thirds done. 1t had cost $44,-
100000.
The Army says the job was a neces-
sary gamble-necessary because the sea
route to Panama was dotted with Ger
man submarines
Some members of Congress disagree
They say it was boner.
Wednesday a subcommittee of the
Senate War Investigating Committee
Mead committee) resumes hearings
broken off during the summer recess.
A chief point produced in earlier
hearings came from 1t. Gen. Eugene
Reybold, chief of Army engineers. He
said he had reported April 9, 1s43, that
the nter-American highway work was
interfering with the war effort. Yet
construction wasn't halted until the fol-
lowing October.
Congress Is Interested
Subcommittee Chairman Briggs
Democrat, of Missouri says Army big
wigs will be asked to answer charges of
construction fraud and Irregularities
when the hearings resume.
So far the committee has been most
concerned with reasons for building the
highway at all during the most critical
period of the war, when materials were
scarce and transportation facilities sore
ly taxed.
Only few days before work began
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the OPP
erations officer on the general staff, had
disapproved it. Apparently Eisenhower
was overruled.
Army plans called for building 900
miles Of gravel or rock-surfaced road
south from the Mexico Guatemala Dor
der. 1t was thought supplies could be
moved from the United States through
Mexico by railroad.
Into South America
Some sections of road in the 1900 mile
distance already had been built as part
of the Public Roads Administration
long-range program for pan-American
highway. This is eventually to run from
Texas through Central America and
past Panama down to Valparaiso, Chile,
then across South America to Buenos
Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
Gen. Reybold was directed simply
to link up the road sections in Central
America to provide a continuous truck
haul route.
ut is certain" Reybold told the sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Mexico to the Argentine in Your Car
the construction of the highway as a
matter Of military insurance.
BEGAN as Rush Project


matter Of military insurance.
Began as Rush Project
so, looking backward, it may well
seem that beginning this project as a
rush project and continuing into the
early fall of 1913 was an unnecessary
expenditure Of construction funds under
abnormal and expensive conditions.
But the Army could not know all
these things in advance" If the war
tide hadn't turned, Reybold added: The
War Department would not have been
forgiven for its failure to construct a
highway even if 1t had cost great deal
more than it did cost"
The Army engineers chief was unable
to say why the project wasn't stopped
sooner after 1t became apparent the road
wasn't needed as military supply route
Reybold said he was just the builder,
had nothing to do with starting the
work or stopping it, The road had
been requested by the Army service
forces, headed by It. Gen. Brehon
Somervell, which was responsible for
supplying the Panama Canal Zone.
Reybold said the original $4,000 900
estimate was based on incomplete in
formation The latest Army estimate
fixed the total cost, If the road Is fin
ished, at $4,000 900.
Paying the Bill
The Army paid for all the work it did.
Under the Public Roads Administration
long-range program in Central America,
one-third of the cost is paid for by the
country involved.
The Army tried to do the job in one
dry season, usually six months long
Gen. Reybold testified an unforeseen
lack OF shipping in the Gulf of Mexico
to move supplies made this impossible
The committee began its investiga-
ton last June after Republican mem
bers in both Senate and House voiced
reports that contractors received rs
much as 40 per cent profits.
Chairman Briggs said the new hear
ings will delve into profits, equipment
rentals, letting OF contracts, locating
routes and all other matters.
Since the Army pulled out, the Public
Roads Administration has gone right
ahead building sections of the road.
The work has been principally in Hon.
duras and Costa Rica. President Tru-
man, in his recent message to Congress,
recommended s25. 0O0, 900 appropria-
ton to finish the road to Panama.
This, added to the s44 ,o00, 900 the Army
has already spent, would make the total
cost 100000 instead of 100000 900 as
the Army estimated. However, the Army
says 1t expects to recover about 100000
900 by selling used equipment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

Puritan" and his recent autobio9raph.
ical work, Persons and Places" says
he frequently Is asked why he doesn't
write another novel,
Has Done a Lot of Thinking
Il don't need money" he explains.
II have no greed. I have everything 7
want. And / wrote all that had to
say in The Last Puritan the memoirs
of my time. My period is that Of 1890,
and after that it has been survival
period"
He added quickly, though, that most
OF his philosophical thinking has been
done since then.
His large, expressive gray eyes twin
kle and his face, which 81 years have
left virtually as smooth as his tenn
permanent, beams with amusement a.
he recalls some OF the letters he has
received from persons who thought he
treated their forbears unjustly in THE
Last Puritan"
'The only part of America that
knew" he says, was New England.
Now it has changed. New England
has become like the rest of America.
There is a new set of values. The
people of the period wrote about were
shy, reserved, honorable and scrupulous,
The people of today certainly are not
shy; they are not scrupulous, but that
does not mean they are not good. Yes,
they are good"
The Atom Bomb
Santayana accepts the changed world
with philosophical smile. Yes, he had
read about the atomic bomb.
Il am not physicist" he says, but
l. understand the atom bomb is no
larger than an orange and that its
action is contagious. 1t shows that
matter is active"
DO you recall" he asks, the hymn
The Day of Wrath and that the earth
will return to ashes? Perhaps that is
how the earth will end-in ashes"
The philosopher chuckles over the
idea and the prospect of the world
ending its career in one grand atomic
explosion does not seem to appall him.
Santayana, who came to Rome 81
years ago, has been living for three
years in the Mount Cello Hospital Of
the Sisters of the Little Company OF
Mary. The sisters, known as the blue
nuns because they wear light blue wells,
describe him as kindly gentleman who
keeps very much to himself and
Catholic. though not a practicing one.
He goes to church, but never on Sum-
days, because there are always other
people there then and he likes to b
alone in church.
In Good Health
Except for an occasional touch OF
cold, Santayana enjoys good health.
He doesn't smoke, but likes a glass
of MARSHA wine.
Friends in America frequently send
him food packages and his heasekeeper,
Sister Angela White, formerly Of Chica-
60, prepares something special.
To-day I had apple pie made from
ingredients in one of the packages"
Santayana said with evident relish.
Sugar and white -four are scarce articles
in Rome. even though apples are plenti-
full right now
ut was delicious" Santayana said.
Philosophers like good food, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

&C.. Seaman Ripple is me
MOSTLY"
Office here, to print 1000 more books at
a plant he has in East Orange, N. j.
We're going to distribute them at
Navy Pxs and in ships stores all over
the country" she said. "Old Ripple is
going to get around. If she brings few
laughs, We'll be satisfied.
"She has emotions like everybody else
and wears big flower in her bonnet.
The flower is barometer of her moods.
When Seaman Ripple is happy, the
bloom stands up and waves back and
forth; when she's sad it willis, and when
she's angry the flower just stands up
straight and menacing like" Miss
Byerly said.
Stick Drawing
The artistic style used in the book is
known as stick drawing" and Miss
Byerly said 1t Is original. It seems to
encompass an advanced style Of dood-
ling with extraordinary refinements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

Signs at the American Mer-
lean border at Laredo, the
starting place of Merico's sec
ton OF the Inter-An1erican
highway.
committee, that if the War Department
had know in 1912 the facts it knows to-
day, the inter-American highway would
never have been built.
I'm other words, with knowledge that
the japanese menace in the Pacific
would be met as soon as it was met and
with knowledge that the submarine
sinkings in the Caribbean would be de-
creased as they were decreased, there
would have been no necessity to start
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Books Go to Navy PXs

That's the strange thing, for Seaman
Ripple" is polished product that would
do credit to an accomplished cartoonist.
Miss Byerly said she has already ar
ranged with Navy Printer &c Henry
Katz, stationed at the photographic
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
Stars and Stripes

WONDER just what it costs 10
w keep 'sm flying? lt's plenty,
Harry Heidsn, the hsemsn, sx-
plains.
Usually ak Hags will supply
q building for an entire year.
That is, If a big sleet storm
doesn't befAll. Then a flsg may
whip itself out in an hour
Flags on the Psnobseot and
Fisher buildings take real beat.
ibgs.
Federal Rspsrvv buys sia flag,
annually.
Larger flags coat about $3.50.
Right row the flag business
is slow, the end OF the var did
IL. Mslvindals - busy putting -
flag in each ,choolroom, or the
Lsgionnairss are.
For tallsst buildings, Heidsp
has the end OF the stripes bound
TO give more body, and the flags
last longer.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

For a mouse. Hagen used iHs
silver cigarct lighter. The trap
picked II up ln a flash. Every
body was fascinated
This went or. with Fisher 81
wide-eyed spectator far into
The night. Tic trap never
missed once
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
old Refraln:

A Nd still wonderful Fritz
"A kre1Sier, now 20. in town
for his concert tomorrow. His
good friend and accompanist
for half a century, Carl LamSon,
~ the piano The great man
looks every inch the artist he IS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
Fond NIeuOrv:

GPORTS scribe Leo Macdonell
~ boarded q serNicemen'S cab
and rode downtown in silence
until they hit Grand River ht
Fourteenth and tangled mess
Of traffic.
Mumbled the former member
Of an armored division:
Boy, I'd Rits nv right arm
fer ny fonk right nou!'
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
Ford Wage Talks
Reopen Friday

Representatives ol the Ford
Motors CO.. and ihe IAW-CIO VIII
.uaU discussions on the unions
r--El L-l-A-.1l- uGI-Eent mage
r-r. r/h.rc NlomOrroM a union
spokesman a1ro4ucnd today
2 lre CrT2p.nN numaun for I'm,
Nrr7rrr aL#In>t z. unauthorized
s'Hk.~ Was tabled until a later
..He|.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
From Washington;

A MOTHER Csss Tech la3
"A makes good. Harrison C..
Chandler Jr. is now secretHF
Of the new National ADVISORY
Committee on AtrOnautlCS.
He's member Of a Canadian
subcommittee on aviation tCa,
and rates a military escort
when he visits the Dominion.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
Hunters Ease,

Dill MeNAMEE, advsrti,ins
~ director of the Chicago
HsToId-Amsriean in town, with
Stuart List of the Pittsburgh
Sun Telegraph. Walter Csndler
of the Baltimore ksws-Post and
Louis Boone of the San Fran.
cisco Eraminsr, and Bill pretty
low in spirits.
He wanted TO so duck hunt.
ing with Jeu Flsok.
No time.
Right at this moment Bill IS
over in his suite at the Book
CGdiiioc in pAjsmAs pinging
away at ducks at nickel for
SiN.
Jess had one Of those trick
Thootine machines moved in
'vhen he learned the hunting
arty had to be called off.
Bill is determined to take ak
y six. Best he has managed so
81: FIVE on one coin.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
More Long Distance:

LOR those who wrote In 10
IL castigate me about long dis
tance calls 10 Paris, here's the
dope. We have IS calls waiting
until Dec. 10 that's because
other parts OF the country got
theirs in ahead of us.
The tie-up is on the east coast.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
listening In:

NHE telephone panyS
Il preXy, George Nelch. will re-
sign when his retirement date
comes up on Jan. so.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
RotIOu of Barrel:

ANY morning you NAY sre
"a Judge in PURPLE pHd
Shirt . lawyer in pink and h.ac
Stripeg. and glad iO wear such
shirts.
They Re Christmas presents Of
other wears. which went or frC
bottom 81 ths pie.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
Brown


THE other p. Dr. Ed Fisher
L wandered into Walter llaEeu
room At the DAG 80 find noue
Chirite of Evans Products a.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

DIGIT now IS carloads of
= pine trees have been
ordered from so miles north of
Toronto for consumption here.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
Reminder:

III l.. TIBBETTS. the aircraft
LIE man. in town with Maj. no
Of the Chinese air force plus
two civilian technicians, MessrS.
Shang and Chen, on their way
to Muskegon TO look over Pratt
Whitney up there. They want TO
keep their country's air force up
To snuff---to insure peace.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-05-05
War Against
Segregated
Armed Forces

BUTLER, N. J-RepreSent-
ativeS of Is national organiza-
lions converting here this week,
formed the National Committee
to Abolish Segregation in the
Armed Services and adopted a
resolution urging President Tru-
man, as Commander-in-Ch
issue a proclamation abolishing
such segregation.
Meeting at the invitation of
A. Philip Randolph, president,
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car
Porters, AFL; Willard S. Town
send, president, United Trans
port Service Employees, CLIO;
Morris Milgram, national secret
airy. workers Defense League,
and Wilfred Kerr, chairman,
Lynn Committee to Abolish Sc
gregation in the Armed Forces,
the delegates voted also to CO.
operate with all existing organ
izations presently engaged in the
fight, and to enlist the support
of organizations all over the
country
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-05-05
Dorothy haynOr
Sings On State
House Steps

In a Salute to the San Fran
cisco Conference" staged on the
steps OF the state House Fri
day, April 81, Dorothy Maynor
was a special guest Of Governor
Maurice J. Tobin.
In presenting Miss Maynor,
Prof. Anton DeHaaS Of Harvard
said that once in a great while
God bestows upon one a beauti-
full voice, and at is my pleasure
to present Miss Maynor as one
of the chosen few"
More than a thousand people
stood enthralled when Miss
NTaynor sang 1.-THE Battle Hymn
Of the Republic" and america
the Beautiful as her voice, as
clear as a bell, carried and
swelled over historic Boston
Common.
The Salute was sponsored by
the Dumbarton Oaks Committee
OF the Joint Council for Interna-
tional Cooperation.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-05-05
will Obey FEP Law
Says Metropolitan
Insurance Co.

NEW YORK (C) - "The com
pany will abide by the law"
(meaning the Ives-Quinn BID
said a representative of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Co. to
a committee of picketers of the
March on Washington Movement
who maintained a picket line
around the head Office of the
company on April 10, biennial
election day of directors.
When March representatives
pointed out that the N. Y. FEPC
was imperative outside of New
York and asked what change
would be followed elsewhere the
official could not state, but he
assured the picketers that eve
will cut no corners in complying
with the law"
Because of increased interest
in the March program as re-
suit Of the campaign against the
discriminatory policies Of the
Metropolitan, the local unit Of
the March has launched its an
nual membership drive. Miss
Lucille Barnes, active civic
worker, assisted by Mrs. Mattoie
Bowe, heads the campaign.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-05-05

Young toIented soprano Of
BrookIine, who will sing the
role of Matilda in the opera
"Amundo," TO be given Thurs
day evening, Nay 10, OF 8:I5
o'clock in New England Mu-
tuoI HoII. Alfred Lomox, her
young son in the opera will
play the role of LiGs. Loymon
Hunter, will play she Hom-
mond organ, assisted by GeroI-
dine Robert, on the pionoforte.
A large cast of prominent
Greater Boston singers will be
in the opera. This will be the
world premiere performance.
Marian Mccree, will sing the
primo ronno role, and jones
Brown, the leading baritone
role. Dr.. William Andrew
Rhodes will conduct.