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Evening star., 1946-10-17
Portugal's Strategic Value
Bv Perfinar

which appears to be followed by Amer
leans with keen interest.
1t was assumed until recently that
Portugal enjoyed a measure OF internal
stability which the neighboring Franco
regime couldn't hope to match and that
years after Franco had ceased to reign
in Madrid, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
would continue to rule in Lisbon. That
belief in the solidity of the Portuguese
dictatorship may or may not have had
something to do with the special care
taken in Washington, as we'll as IN
London, to enlist the goodwill and CO.
operation of the Lisbon government.
But the sorry truth is that now un-
prejudiced observers of Portuguese
affairs feel compelled to admit that
Salazar's authoritarian government,
born in the national revolution of 1926,
is fated to undergo before long very
serious crisis. It doesn't mean that
sporadic military movements lately de-
scribed in the press are deemed to FORE
bode q full-sized revolt by the army.
BY no means. The government has a
firm hold on the army and the navy.
But the health of Salazar, founder OF
the regime, the man who all along has
been the moving spirit and practically
the sole executor of the policy devised
in behalf of President Antonio de Car
mona, is badly impaired-likely to be
impaired beyond all possibility OF re-
covery. Consequently, the governmental
machine doesn't operate today as eff
GENTLY nor as smoothly as formerly.
People in high places are beginning to
look around for successor to Salazar,
and already some four or five names are
quoted with varying degrees OF plausi-
bility.
A few months ago, parts of the ma
tional union governmental party, in
vested with virtual monopoly of the
popular representation, were returned to
the National Assembly by no more than
Is per cent of the electorate. Such q
single detail tells the whole story. All
indications are that the days of vigor-
GUS government in Portugal are num-
bered. -...
(North American Newspaper Alhanes)
Evening star., 1946-10-17
Opposes Lottery Suggestions

Opposes Lottery Suggestions
To the Editor of The Star:
One of your writer's suggests lottery
to reduce the national debt. Certainly
something must be done to save our
country from bankruptcy, but lottery
would be demoralizing.
In 1777 when honest and sincere men
were at the head of our country, the
Continental Congress tried to raise
money by lotteries, but they were not
successful.
Lotteries in those days made the poor
poorer, and the goddess of luck only
smiled on those on the inside. BY 1888
a society was formed in Pennsylvania
for the suppression of lotteries. It grew
to Nationwide proportions, and a law
was passed to stop the evil.
After reading accounts of the great
Louisiana State lottery, with its graft
and corruption, we the public would not
lottery were adopted, the officials
would take all the profits, and we would
have shame added to our national debt.
What we need is a businesslike ad-
ministration, not lottery.
I.andover, Md. JOHN RIGGLES. =
Gifts for Wounded Veterans
To the Editor of The Star:
Now, more than ever, our wounded
men, still in hospitals, suffering the
loss OF limbs or other wounds need our
services.
Wounded men from all outfits at
Walter Reed General Hospital are
visited twice weekly by the Sd Divi-
sion Society.
The Hecht Co. has placed q red
barrel on the main floor for those who
wish to bring gifts for our comrades
at Walter Reed.
While the war still was going on,
patients at the hospital did not lack
for visitors, neither did they lack play
ing cards, comic books or other little
gifts, but, now that the shooting war
Is over, many of the people are for
getting the sacrifices these men made
for our victory. -.--
HARRY CEDAR,
Hospital Committee, Sd Division Society.
Evening star., 1946-10-17
Mr.. Curron Steps Up

United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran we'll deserves the promo
ton to the District Court bench
which President Truman has given
him. Like the recent appointment
of Richmond B. Keech to a similar
judgeship, the selection is one that
will meet with general favor among
local citizens.
Although not a native of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Mr.. Curran has
become so much a part of the COM
munity as result of his long
residence and equally long public
service here that he may be regarded
as full -f1edged Washingtonian. AS
a lawyer in private practice, as as
sistant corporation counsel, as a
judge of the Municipal Court and,
for the past six years, as district at
torney, Mr.. Curran has earned the
respect of his associates and of the
general public.
He will have the large assignment
of taking the place of man whose
service on the District Court bench
has been outstanding. Associate
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue, who
retires at the end of this month, is
a man whose deep knowledge of
constitutional law has been a great
asset to the court Judge O'Don-
oghue's successor will be man
thoroughly experienced in criminal
law, a phase of jurisprudence which
greatly concerns the District Court.
Mr.. Curran long has been active in
crime suppression organizations and
movements. He will be able to carry
on his anticrime campaign even
more effectively as a member of the
court. He will have the best wishes
of the law-abiding public in his new
role in law enforcement.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

Plus tips.
uniforms for all help supplied and main
Dishwashers. walters, cooks receive meals
plus pay.
About 20 per cent of the employees
waters and bellmen - depend
largely on tips for their compensa-
tion. Hotel management estimates
that walters earn from $65 to 500
a week from salary and tips; bellmen
and mattresses between $45 and $65.
The union spokesman was not in
clined to make any estimate on tips.
Both sides speak disparagingly of
the tip system, which in the case
of group dinners takes on aspects of
a racket. The 10 per cent per plate
gratuity charge added to the bill is
not gratuity but a tax levied on the
public. 1t is written into the con-
tract. One point of dispute now is
its division between walters and
other hotel employees. The walters
at present take rs per cent.
The wage scales seem low. Yet
management contends they are
topped in the hotel business only in
Detroit and some West Coast cities.
In Pittsburgh, where hotels are closed
by strike, the workers demand for
a 20 per cent increase would bring
the pay level there to- about what
it is in Washington now. The unions
contend that Washington hotels are
in a preferred position; that lower
wages in some other cities are Offset
by privileges not enjoyed here. With
one exception wage increases here
since 1941 have been given in
amounts of cents or less per hour,
as result of negotiation or Labor
Board policy. The unions want to
break up what they call the nickel
odeon" system.
There are only few cents differ
ence between managements offer
and the unsuccessful wage COM
promise brought to management
with union approval by a Labor
Department conciliator. Manage
ment contends that the "few cents"
is the difference between an annual
payroll increase of 100000 and
$1,7O0,000 at time of declining
business and profits. The union
spokesman doubts the estimates but
has no figures. Hotel rates are still
governed by rent control and OPA.
There are collateral demands from
the unions and there are conflicting
points of view on conditions which
accompanied offers from union to
management, and vice versa, on
settlement. The Star is in no posi-
ton to judge the merits of such
claims. But the main issue is wages.
If that is settled, the strike probably
would end.
And when the two sides in such an
involved dispute get themselves as
thoroughly deadlocked as the unions
and hotel management are now
there is only one sensible course to
follow. That is to arbitrate the wage
issue. Both sides should agree to
that and it is management's turn
to make an offer. The risk and
degree of compromise wrapped up
in arbitration seem about evenly
divided
Evening star., 1946-10-17
This and That
Bv. Charles 3. TrdcetDeu.


Leegy, tiger cat, had . flicker.
1t was that very rainy morning, and.
we had just sat down to breakfast.
Now no one likes to be disturbed at
breakfast, of all meals.
A modern breakfast ought to be
peaceful, quiet, far from the cares OF
the world
The flicker thought otherwise, and
no one could blame him.
Such a scream as it sent up, there in
the wet, had never been heard in the
neighborhood.
1t was totally unbirdlike.
It reminded one of q seized rabbit
or some other four-legged animal.
Bluejays joined in the din.
1t was at this moment that we
thought something should be done
about it.
Not wishing to rush out in the pour
ing rain, we opened the closet for an
umbrella
Seventeen things Immediately fell
out, down and around us. A can of
something or other rolled across the
floor.
We got the umbrella, however, and
sailed out the front door.
The screams Of the unknown animal
as we all thought-had redoubled.
The jays were swooping low, trying
to strike the long-legged cat on the
back.
The flicker, now plainly seen, was
striking out with its long bill and
sweeping its wet wings across the cats
jaws.
Leggy, who is kind enough with
human beings, looked as If he rather
wished he had let the big bird alone.
ALI this time the racket was going
on. Jays swooped in and out.
Other birds, including a band of
sparrows and three robins, joined in
the noise, flying excitedly from branch
TO branch.
BY this time Leggy had dragged his
prey back under a bush, where the
frantic fappings of the flicker caused
him to lose his hold.
Away went the bird, to take refuge
in an evergreen, apparently none the
worse for his adventure.
The cat seemed relieved, and so were
the human watchers, for it is often a
task, sometimes an impossible one, to
get bird away from an animal. Too
often the creature retires to a safe
place under a porch, although it sell
dom If ever goes up a tree with its
prey.
A few cats hold on with a bulldog
grip, so that 1t is impossible to rescue
the bird without injuring it still farther.
Some cats may be made to loosen
their grip by dashing q pail OF cold
water over them.
Others still hold on.
The cat Is regarded as a natural
enemy of birds, but many OF them
seldom touch them. Good food helps
keep them off.
Leggy rather prefers squirrels, in pur-
suit of which he is seldom successful.
1t was 'Smudgy, the gunmetal cat,
who caught three squirrels, all of which
he laid down in front of tree, up
which trees the squirrels carefully
scampered, leaving a much perplexed
feline below.
We were pleased that the flicker got
away in good shape. This Is one OF
the best of the woodpecker family, a
great ant eater and pleasant to have
around. Some of them stay all winter,
so watch out for this one, showing
yellow when he flies. He has a red
patch on the back of his neck and
black crescent on his chest.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

Molotov charges that the United
States dominated the Paris Confer
ence. After watching the labor
management strife and the price
control muddle, it's good to know
that our Government dominates
something.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

The average American in the
days of plenty used to eat his own
weight in meat in year, the
amount being $50 pounds. Not only
the lack of meat but the fretting
about it has probably reduced this
average avoirdupois.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

In football when the line doesn't
hold, the quarterback kicks or
passes. In politics, when the line
breaks, there is fumbling,. taxing,
kicking, and passing.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

Of conservative and much of moder-
ate opinion has just been Demon
strated. On the other hand, Com
munist discipline and solidarity have
been equally exemplified.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

From the Minneapolis star-Journsl:
The war has been over for many
months, but-alas!-the Dove Of Peace
- still out On Z limb.
Evening star., 1946-10-17

Football is declared to be safer
than driving in traffic Probably
because players are trained, obey
the rules and stop when they hear
a whistle.
Evening star., 1946-10-17
Arbitrute the Issue
With Sunday Morning Edition.
ASHIN TON, d. C.

Here is the forty eight-hour week
ly wage pattern, past and present, in
Washington hotels closed by the
strike:
Evening star., 1946-10-17

One maritime strike after another
seems to show that the main use of
sea legs is in a walk-out.
Evening star., 1946-10-17
And Plenty Far Out!

Hospital Committee, Sd Division Society
Evening star., 1946-12-01

oACtCu W NcWHhn 6u0uutu.
readers with an enticing intro
duction by Padraic Colum.
Seumas O'Sullivan is and will
probably remain best known for
his line written many years ago
at the time of the Celtic Re-
vival:
TtDilight people, tohy ,oiu you
still be crying,
Crying and calling to me out
OF the trees?
For under the quiet grass the
toise are lying.
And all the strong ones are
gone ouer the seas.
Nothing In this wide selection
from his work quite comes up to
that. But his Dublin (1916)" is
fine stirring thing and many
of his rather pictorial verses on
Irish places and people evoke
nostalgia.
Experienced experimentalists
as well as practised tradition
alists have marked the year with
their poetry. Chief of these is
William Carlos Williams pre-
senting the first portion of his
new poem Paterson" Taking a
slice of his native New Jersey, he
has viewed it air-plane fashion,
for its geography. its history, it's
indef1nable atmosphere.
Another experimental poet but
one who has perhaps by now
lived past this characterization
is John Gould Fletcher whose
new book, "The Burning Noun
tain" adds two dozen long poems
to the weighty mass of his out
put. Fletcher, like most of his
contemporaries, is deeply affected
by current history but his poems
vary widely in time and place.
The scene shifts easily from the
Santa Fe Trail to the woods. of
New England, beaten by hurri-
cane, to the "Steel, smelted out
of rock, Rock, riveted to Steel"
that Is New York. There is a
certain monotony in Fletchers
long, undisciplined rhythms, a
monotony that is not necessarily
unattractive and that receives an
apotheosis in his skilful Sym
phony of Snow"
4 +
The year of 1946 brought
special benson in the shape of
a handful of poems by Stephen
Vincent Benet which are ap-
pearing posthumously in a VOL
ume of short stories called 1.-THE
Last Circle" The most memoir
able of these is his Little Testa-
ment." Mrs. Benet relates in her
introduction: "He wrote it in
June of 1941. when he decided
to re-make his will. He said he
wished to make another will
of intangible, not tangible,
things. He laughed and said
he would leave it to speak for
him after he died. But think
he thought it would be a long
time" 1t seems unjust to tear
asunder a poem which flows SO
inevitably from part to part but
perhaps this stanza will illustrate
its quality:
80. My people lUere soldiers for
the most part-they had
Spain and ireland in
their STrond:.
I tUGS cotDard and afraid,
get haze not Shan,ed
them, / think.
! haze not refused the drink
a1hen there might be
DeTonl in the drink.
/ haze turitten the verse for
nay pleasure, not for
praise or money or the
crotDd.
OF the newer and younger
figures on the poetic horizon, far
and away the most remarkable is
the poet, Robert Lowell. Coming
from the Boston milieu that his
Evening star., 1946-12-01

~ ~ HEN the United Ma
A tions G Conference
wv opened in 1945, "The
w New Yorker" COM
mented: Poets would make bet
ter delegates. Poets have
been singing this stuff for years
uncounted, and they are still
singing it. Someday people
will put faith in poets, who saw
things centuries ago in perfect
clarity"
The poetry Of the year 1916 has
been notable for the concentrated
attention it has paid to the prob
lens of the present earth. The
poets who have published
volumes during this year seldom
evince any desire or even un-
conscious straining to escape
from their own nations into
countries of self-satisfying imagi-
nation. They look upon contem-
porary horrors pityingly but un-
flinchingly. The experienced poets
are in a measure reconciled yet
gird themselves for an unknown
future. The younger poets are
angrier and more gloomy but
equally courageous in their deter
mination to see life and see 1t
whole.
Raymond Holden, whose "Se-
lected Poems" mark him once
again as a mature and medita-
tive poet, has voiced the pre-
vailing thought in his double
summons: unable to die, come.
Man, and study life. -. Unable
to live, come Man, and study
death" Holden sees the world
as This dattened world of hope,
This dish of agony" Never forget
the day, he says:
When, from the forest, man,
the iDiId one, came
With knowledge pointed in his
mind like fame,
Able at last to choose to Sape
or slay.
These quotations are taken
from section of previously un-
published poems entitled War
Behind the Brow" In the selec-
tions from Holden's earlier pub
hshed work, such as THE Pup
pet Flesh" "Leda and the Swan"
and Chance Has a Whip" there
is perhaps greater felicity of ex-
preston but they cannot match
his most recent poems in intel
,ectual content.
A challenge similar to Holden's
Is uttered by Ruth Pitter, the
English poet, and she has risen
above her usual withdrawn and
somewhat sentimental character
in the title poem of her book,
"The Bridge. Her attunement
to the tragedies of war is again
reflected in THE Sparrow's
Skull and in Passion and
Peace" with its opening line,
'Poetry, like all passion, seeks
for peace"-these two being
among the finest poems in her
book.
Another English poet. Robert
Graves, has, perhaps Lccause of
his large historical perspective,
expressed his current reflections
with a calm obliqueness in his
Poems: l938-1945. In "To Lucia
At Birth" he writes:
-. Outrageous company to be
born into,
Lunatics of a shining age
long dead -.
HGrE ho1D they roar: but
neUer turn your head.
Nothing tDiH change them, let
them not change you.
Another poet who is unwilling
to surrender all joy in the face
of the threats of history, is the
American, Genevieve Taggard.
Her new book, "Slow Music" is
rewarding both in it's expressions
of delight in earth's landscapes
and in it's examinations of earth's
more political aspects. In such
a poem as "Demeter" with its
beautiful lines, STUDY the art
of seeds, The nativity of caves"
in "Gilfeather Again." and in
Hymn to Yellow" there is re-
freshment for the imagination.
A versatile poet, writing a more
Evening star., 1946-12-01

Dorothed Kingsland, q grad
uate of Bryn Mni0r College,
has been a repietoer for the
Saturday Repieto OF Literature
and for the NetD York Times
Book ReDieto. Her article on
the poetry of 1916 ,oas ioritten
ercluSiuely for The Star.
Evening star., 1946-12-01

. HEN the United Ma
tions G o n t e r en- c Q
opened in 1945. "The
New Yorker" COM
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-15
Preparing
Plates For
Tax Roll

c. B. Wilcox and Thomas
O'Connor are in Key West as
representatives of the Addresso-
graph Sales Corporation, and to-
day began the preparation OF
plates to be used hereafter by
Tax Assessor Gandolfo and Col
lector Wilson.
Forty thousand plates of par
GELS of land in Monroe county
will be made. Wilcox said he eX-
pected that the task will be com
pleted by early in January.
Once made, a plate IS never
DESTROYED. When a parcel OF land'
lot or acreage, is sold, the asses
sor has a machine that stamps
out the name of the former own
or and writes in the name OF the
new owner. lt
This fiscal year is the last un-
der which the old system OF pre-
narine tax statements will be Is
sued. The books for next yeal
will be prepared under the Ad-
dressograph system. Changing OF
names on plates will be done IN
Assessor Gandolfo's office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-15
Appears More
Liquor Licenses
Will Be Issued

Number of liquor, beer and
wine licenses, issued by Tax Col
lector Howard E. Wilson in Mon
roe county, confutes the general
impression that had been enter
tanned in Key West that, a year
or so after the war, there would
be fewer saloons in the county.
Effective October l, Collector
Wilson has issued 1870 such Ii
censes, as compared with 149
from October l, 1945, to Septem-
Der 80, 1916, the dates of the fis-
cal year in Monroe.
Wilson said that during the
coming winter more liquor Ii
censes likely will be applied for
on the upper keys, as well as in
Key West. He explained that on
the upper keys particularly a
good many bars are operated only
during the tourist season.
Basing his opinion on last
year, he said that the number of
liquor, beer and wine licenses
this year probably will exceed
those of the 1945-'46 fiscal year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-15
Army Recruits
Three In Key
West Monday

Corporal Atkinson. of the Army
Recruiting Office here, announces
that three Key WesterS signed up
with him this morning. They are
Clifford E. Hayes, 281 Sawyer's
Lane, an ex-Navy man; Horace
Allen Young, Jr., II, of 1921 Flag
Ter avenue, a new recruit for the
Army Air Force, whose father
served in the Navy during the
war and is now employed at the
sub base; and Matthew Zacal,
1915 William Street, also an ex-
serviCeman and also entering the
Air Force.
The Army recruiting office is
open Monday and Tuesday every
other week, with Corporal Akin
son and Corporal Anthony shar-
ing the work, as a change from
their duties in the Miami office.
$50 far" Atkinson said, re
cruits have run about fifty-fifty,
half new and half reenlstmcnts
However, in the future we eX-
pect they will mostly be re-en-
listments, after the boys have
tried their luck at getting civil
ian jobs, used up their savings,
and made up their nindS they
can do a useful job for Uncle
Sam in the u. S. Army"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-15
ReturnCOlors To
National Guard

Orlando is to be the scene OF
colorful ceremonies on ArmiStlce
Day. November IL, for the return
ing of the National ColorS by the
Federal Government to the Flor
ida National Guard. These colors
were carried so valiantly by sol
diers of Florida against the enc
my until the bugles sounded end
ing World War IL Aa.-
Willard F. Caldwell, governor
of the State of Florida, will make
the acceptance speech IAN behalf
of the state. Colonel Robert G.
HOWE, commanding officer of the
Florida Military District, will
make the presentation on behalf
of Lieutenant General >GriSwold,
commanding general of the Sew
enth United States Army.
Units to be returned colors in
this special ArmiStice Day cere-
mony include:
The 124th Infantry, 10th Field
Artillery, 265th Coast Artillery,
56th Field Artillery Brigade and
the 62nd Infantry Brigade.
The ceremony will take place
at IL o'clock in the morning in
the band shell overlooking the
beautiful lake in Orlando with
the presentation of the colors to
Governor Caldwell by Colonel
Howie. Many distinguished Army
and Navy leaders, together with
the leading citizens of the state
will be in attendance.
A broadcast over a statewide
network of Florida stations is
planned at the scene of these col
orful ceremonies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-15
Seems Cay To
Be Named For
~ w.
Comptroller

Sometime this afternoon II Is
expected that the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, In
session in Jacksonville, will nom
mate candidate for the office OF
state comptroller to succeed
James M. Lee, who died sudden
" October 6. The nominee Will
be elected November 5, without
opposition, as the Republicans
have declined to put a candidate
in the field.
Judging from information that
has reached The Citizen office,
Acting Comptroller Clarence M.
Gay of Orlando, former clerk OF
the circuit court of Orange coun-
ty, will be nominated. He has
been endorsed by Governor Hol-
land.
Monroe county is represented
at the meeting of the executive
committee by William V. Albury
and Miss Florence E. Sawyer.
Each of the 81 counties in the
state, small or large, has only
two representatives.