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Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-01
WORCESTER

On Sunday evening the St Matthews Tabernacle, Independent Order of Galilean Fishermen, as- senlbled in John St. Baptist Church; special music was under the leadership of Mrs. Laura Leak; Mrs. Hattie Matthews gave a splendid reading. Rev. William M Gibson delivered the sermon; Grand Worthy Ruler William Ky Ter and his staff from Boston were also present.
 The Cheerio Club met in the home of Mrs. Harriet Clark, 8S Clayton Street on Wednesday evening. Plans were made for their annual trip to Revere Beach, the date to be announced. ....
 The Anna B. Latham Mission =ary Circle met last Thursday evening in the home of Mrs. Eva Poteat, 56 Mason Street. -
 Mrs. Mary Hampton of Pros pect Street received. many cards and other remembrances while she was i'll in the hospital. es
 Mrs. Hattie Nero, who sustained an operation some weeks ago in the Worcester City Hospital, is very i'll in her home, 27 Kendrick Avenue. Mrs. Lulu Baskerville still is confined to her home, 19 Lib -erty St. @ t
 The Mems Club of AME Zion Church observed ladies night last Thursday night in the church; we were. glad to see Rev. and Mrs Hurt at the assembly; Rev. Mrs Susan Murray of New Jersey was also most welcome guest; Mad anne Ada Belle Griffin gave g reading; Mrs. Janilee StovaH ren. -dered a piano selection and Mrs Blanche Fisher rendered several vocal selections; adjourning to the vestry, all enjoyed a delectaIble repast.
 MT. and Mrs. Franklin White NShirley Higginbotham) were giv. zen a housewarming party in their home on Liberty St., Saturday .evenng. These young folk recent Ny came here from Virginia; Mrs Melissa Harvey and Mrs. Gather. inc Wright assisted. Among the guests were Mrs. Herman Cross land, MT. and Mrs. Wesley Harp -er, Miss s. Ella Wilson, Mrs. An nie Grant, Mrs. Everett Hampton with her daughters Hope and Faith; also Miss Martha Brown, Mrs. John J. Goldsberry, MT. George Higginbotham, Raymond Schuyler, Sr., Mir. Price Hunt, Mrs. Blanche Cooper; Mrs. Stan ley Wise, Mrs. Raymond Schuyler, Jr., Mrs. Olive Tyler, Mrs. Ma bel Hamilton and others.
 Mt. Olive Church on Prospect Street conducted their Rally Day Sunday; Bishop Chanan proved "a capable speaker there were many visitors to enjoy the servic- -es and to participate in the deli -cious dinner; the senior choir of John St. Baptist Church rendered appropriate music under the lead ership of Mrs. Laura Leak. Rev Susan Murray of New Jersey was given a real welcome and is to conduct revival meetings here.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-01

youthful shoulders. Those who manoeuvered the slick game should bow their heads in disgrace.
 John Paredes, the great all around athlete at Cambridge High and Latin School, seems to be a real one-man show by all reports we hear and read of him. A popu- lar and good athlete, a good stu dent, a good mixer, a good danc- CT, bit of Thespian and last but not least a gentleman.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-01
Say It With Verse
WHAT PRICE, WAR?

The look in his eyes may be diff
 ferent; The smile on his lips may be gone The spring in his gait may be
 lacking; He may feel weak and alone. Nay, don't weep on his aching
 shoulder, And mourn for the boy who is
 lost, For the change from boy to man.
 hood
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Compromise Merger
By Ray,n M OIey

mand the three services. He would ad-
wise the President and the defense sec
retary and get from them the orders
which he would execute. But the lam
guage of the proposal is so loose that
he could. substantially, be put in COM
mand. Congress is thus asked to give
the President power to legislate this
chief into a position of power not spe-
cifically authorized in the bill.
In the current bill, a departure is
made from the former Army plan in
that the subordinate civilian heads of
the three services would be called secre.
taries, not assistant secretaries. This
is a distinction without a difference. A
secretary without cabinet rank is lust
another assistant secretary, whatever
you call him. The secretary" for the
Navy would be six times removed from
the top. Above him would be the sec
retery and undersecretary of common
defense. It is quite evident that. for
all practical purposes, the assistant sec
retaries for research and DEVELOPMENT.
intelligence and procurement would be
superior to him. The whole plan would
create vast tumble of secretaries, with
no clear line of authority anywhere. It
is chartmaker's nightmare.
tEeieased by Associated Newspapers, Inc)
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Fomine Facts Needed

There can be no doubt of the
wholehearted willingness of the
American people to cooperate in
any practical and effective program
to avert starvation of men, women
and children wherever they may be.
The record shows that we are SYM
pathetic and generous Nation, ready
to respond promptly and unstint-
ingly whenever we are convinced of
the urgency and authenticity of the
need. The Governments call few
weeks ago for a tightening of belts
and other food conservation meas
ures in behalf of threatened
Europe and Asia did not fall on deaf
ears, albeit there was widespread
surprise at the suddenness of the
call. But developments since the
initial announcement OF the famine
crisis have tended so to confuse the
public as to the extent, nature and
means of solving the problem that
success of the famine-relief program
on a voluntary basis, at least-is
being seriously imperiled.
President Truman correctly stated
the situation when, in his cabled
request for the return from Cairo of
Herbert Hoover. he said that IAN
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Nozis and Population

The evil that Hitler did in his life
time lives after him in many ways,
not least in its effect on the non
German population of Europe. The
first comprehensive Allied report on
the subject shows that he accom-
plished more than little in his
black plan to make the Reich nu-
merically stronger than ever through
his "breed-for-th -Fatherland" cam
paign and to weaken the Reich's
neighbors by reducing their birth
rates through systematic program
of direct and indirect racial mur-
der.
Thus, according to the report, Ger
many's population increased 1885,
600 during the first seven years of
the Nazi regime. and there was only
a relatively negligible decline in
births during the war years. Simul-
taneously, however, from 1899 until
the spring of 1945, some 100000
Jews were liquidated throughout the
continent and up to 100000 men
and women of varied nationality
Poles, French, Russians, Czechs, Bel
gians, etc. were separated from
each other under the slave-labor
policy. These statistics speak for
themselves. Coupled with the fact
that the well-fed Nazi Reich forced
most European peoples to such a
low level of nutrition that child
bearing was inhibited and marked
by an increased mortality rate, the
figures mean that while the German
population was more than holding
its own the population in surround
ing countries was deprived of nat
ural development.
Perhaps millions Of babies, in
Evening star., 1946-04-19

famine areas 10 per cent OF the wheat
that went into domestic milling and
so per cent of the wheat that went into
distilling
Even Argentina is about to take dras-
tic steps.
But American politicians want to be
reelected.
Half-hearted appeals are made to
American housewives.
The President refuses to recommend
rationing; he says it will take too long
to set 1t up. The crisis is now, he says.
The crisis is accumulating. The year
l947 will be worse than the year 1916.
The Agriculture Department asks
farmers to reduce grain-feeding to stock.
But the only way is to set aside grain
at the source
Thousands of Americans are sending
lood packages to Europe. But the
process Is attended by unconscionable
red tape. Purchases on the retail mar
ket are exorbitantly high. Private
companies, expediting food, are making
pretty dividends. The parcel mails are
not yet open to Germany and Austria.
The latest plan is that any individual
sending packages to relatives or friends
In Germany will have to send another
for displaced persons. Thus is charity
to be penalized.
Meanwhile the victors play power
politics and the politicians, hungry for
votes, appeal never to the peoples best
instincts, but only to their worst-to
selfishness, greed, and stupidity. Mayor
ODwyer of New York, progressive
l believe, rushes out to assure roller
and ice skaters in Flushing Meadow
Park that their rink will not long be
occupied by U. N. No one, not even a
roller skater, must be disaccommodated
IN order to help save the world from
famine and ourselves from another war.
Skate on, lads and lassies; you, too,
will be voters, soon! Skate on into the
abyss-and vote for ODwyer!
Nature, kindly mother, who pro-
vides for all her children if they cul-
tivate her soil in justice and in peace,
Furnishes those who offend her in ter
rible wrath. The pale horse is ridden,
With famine will come disease. (Chol-
era RACES in China) With famine will
come the mental and spiritual aberra-
tions that break out in violence and
appalling crimes, turning peoples and
nations into lawless mobs.
And shall that Age of Darkness be
called democracy?
released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1946-04-19

other words, were prevented from
being born by a deliberate plan
such as the slave-labor separation
OF sexes-calculated to bring Ger
many out of the war far more Wig
orous in numbers than any of its
neighbors. 1t remains to be seen
how marked a long-term influence
this may have on the history of
Europe, but there can be no doubt,
in a short-term sense, that it has
debilitatcd countries like France.
This is but one of many reasons why
the French, the Poles, the Czechs,
the Russians and others are less in
clined than we are to question
whether the Germans are now being
treated too harshly.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Hands OFF News
From the Wall Street Journal.

FROM the wall Street Journal
During the war the press associations
furnished their news reports to Gov
ernment agencies and these were used
to make up short-wave broadcasts which
were directed to the citizens of other
nations. The record of this Government
broadcasting was not very good. There
were some downright misrepresenta-
tlons and good deal of clumsy ANA
teurism. On balance one may doubt the
value OF the contribution to the war
effort.
When it was proposed to continue
this activity into peacetime, the Asso-
ciated Press and the United Press re-
FUSED to make their news reports avail
able for such purposes. For that refusal
they have been criticized and the critics
nave freely ascribed motives. This cam
pa1gn has been aided by various conf
mentators whose whole outlook has be-
come so European that any reference to
American ways and traditions in the
conduct of foreign affairs is usually
described as naive" and very often far
less charitable terms are employed.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

"And looked and beheld a pale
horse, and his name that sat on him
tods death, and hell tollowed NTH
him." Book OF Revelation.
I'VE, the peoples of the United Ma
tions, determined to reafirm
faith in fundamental human rights
and to promote social progress
and better standards Of life in larger
freedom have agreed to the
present Charter of the United Nations. :"
Preamble to the United Nations Char
ter.
India is faced with q famine as
disastrous as that OF 1943
In the Middle East, countries hitherto
-sufncient for food are clamoring for
imports. Even South Africa Is petition
ing for food supplies.
The ration in Great Britain Is below
the lowest point of the war.
The greatest food-exporting area of
the world is normally that part Of the
Far East over which war has ragged.
There is no reserve of rice in Burma
to meet the needs Of India and Ceylon.
In Australia, one of the four great
wheat-producing countries Of the world,
there has been a disastrous drought and
q shortage of farm workers and phos-
phate fertilizer.
In continental Europe diversion of
manpower and shortages of fertilizer
and machinery cut wheat production
from $4,000 900 tons before the war to
$4,000 900 in 1s45.
No wheat is now reaching Western
Europe from East-European countries,
normally the bread and potato basket of
all Europe up to the Rhine
In these countries the deportation of
native German-speaking populations
and hasty and ill-organized land re-
forms have disastrously reduced produc-
ton.
The British zone. the poorest food
producing area Of Germany, now aug
nented by 100000 refugees, is forced
to reduce rations to 1000 calories per
day.
Austrians in cities are starving.
There Is no inter- zonal pooling of
food in Germany.
In most European countries the nom
farming population is getting less than
1900 calories per day.
4
The three great surplus wheat coun-
tries today are America, Canada and
the Argentine. 49,.
Canada has kept or re-established
ratfoning and set aside for export to
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Soviet Fisticuffs
From the san Francisco cbror,.,.

NASAse sAsS osAs : ~fAuSlSCU NuE0ulcle.
When two automobiles collided in the
outskirts of Moscow q week ago Sunday.
an alteration resulted. One of the
drivers was mauled by Russian civilians,
and because he happened to be William
Wallace, the American Vice Consul, the
incident was reported in this country
as an illustration of how Russian senti-
ment had suddenly turned against
Americans.
The circumstances of this trafac
smashup support no such blanket con-
clusion. Mr.. Wallace's superior is quot
ed as saying that the incident could
have happened anywhere" and any
American who has witnessed or en-
gagged in fist fighting after trafic ac-
cident can well believe it. The simplest
psychological explanation is so far the
most convincing; Russian motorist,
no less than an American, gets sore
when some other ear crumples his
fender.
Evening star., 1946-04-19

ulSClG IlCCO lldS uctClOpcu III GIllS
country to bring forc!5!y and dra-
matically to public attention, as a
spur to the food-for famine effort,
the facts about conditions in Europe
which your visit and inquiries have
brought to light" The public is not
apathetic; it is befuddled by the
series of conflicting statements
which have come from supposedly
authoritative quarters regarding the
number Of mouths to be fed, the
expected duration of the famine, the
desirability or otherwise of volun-
tary food conservation measures as
against a return to rationing.
While Mr.. Hoover, as honorary
chairman Of the Famine Emergency
Committee, estimated-prior to leav-
ing on his European survey-that
approximately SOC, 100000 persons, or
about one-fourth of the worlds pop
ulation, face starvation, Herbert
Lehman, former director of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration, insists that
two-thirds of the people on the globe
are in immediate danger Of mass
starvation" At the outset the Presi-
dents emergency group formulated
a short-range, intensive campaign
OF voluntary participation designed
to meet Critical period" between
now and the harvest in July. Mr..
Lehman, on the other hand, con-
tended that the outlook is so bleak
that emergency, voluntary methods
will not do the job-that a long-view
program OF food control through ra-
tioning and other drastic measures
will be required to assure results.
And now President Truman and
Chester A. Davis, chairman of the
Famine Emergency Committee, as
sert that the famine threat is grow
ing worse, and Mr.. Davis says the
crisis will not end with the next
harvest, as heretofore believed, and
that rationing may be necessary,
after all. As a matter OF fact, it
develops, the postwar food shortage
was predicted year ago by Judge
Samuel E. Rosenman, following a
presidential mission to Europe to
study postwar food prospects, but
nothing was done about his sugges-
tion for Nationwide publicity cam
paign until the recent drive was
undertaken.
In view of all the puzzling and
disconcerting views that have been
expressed in connection with the
famine problem, the American peo-
pie would greatly benefit from an
authoritative clarification of the sit
uation. President Truman and for
mer President Hoover will have an
excellent opportunity to clear the
atmosphere when they go on the
radio tonight to discuss the food
crisis. 1t is to be hoped they will
make the most of this opportunity
lest some human beings abroad
suffer for lack of full understand
ing Of their plight by those in a
position to render aid.
Evening star., 1946-04-19

Some months ago, when Army-Navy
unification plans began to get hot, it
was suggested in this column that the
place to unity the services was in the
White House. The Presidents time, OF
course, is extremely limited, allowing
only for supreme decisions. But it is
possible to attach to the President a
deputy with sufncient authority and
dignity to correlate those matters in
which joint Army-Navy interests are
involved. The President already has
six administrative assistants. But so
insignificant have been the appointees
that the present grade of assistant
President is unsumcient. A deputy
could be added who would be qualified
affairs.
Maj. George Fielding Eliot has now
made a similar proposal to end the
current controversy over the Presi-
dents Endorsed plan. 1t should be
needed by Congress.
The President is committed to the
Army plan. He cannot well retreat.
The Navy is prevented by a White
House gag from a real appeal to the
public. Congress Is In no mood to act
hastily. Therefore, unless q statesman
like solution comes forth, the contro-
versy will run on, like fostering sore,
through year when major military de-
cisions must be made.
Maj. Eliot allows the Army major
concession. There should, he says, be
a department and a cabinet secretary
for air. Considering that President
Truman has already conceded that the
Navy must keep much Of its air force,
this new department would largely be
an Army show at the beginning. That
would give the Navy one of the three
seats. in the cabinet dealing with the
armed services. This is a sensible con-
cession.
A serious objection to the present
scrambled Thomas plan is its provision
for single Chief of Stah. Under him
would be the commanding generals OF
Army and Air and the Chief OF Naval
Operations. This feature Is special
source of irritation to Navy leaders
Such a Chief OF Staff would have to be
a technical man. Hence, an Army, Navy
or Air man.
The duties of the proposed Chief Of
stan are not clear. Hs would notseom-
Evening star., 1946-04-19

. threat to Ethiopia. The country Is of
much greater importance to the British
Empire at this time, because, as q re-
suit of developments in the Near and
Middle East, the British airlines to
India may have to be routed principally
by way of Ethiopia. An air agreement,
giving exclusive air rights to Britain,
Is said to have been reached with En-
peror Halle Selassie.
Russia, which in the past paid little
attention to the East African empire,
has recently developed q keen interest
in the country. The suspicious British
feel that the Moscow government will
endeavor to undermine Britain's DO
sition either by attempts to get Selassie
in the Russian camp by friendly means
or by creating trouble which eventually
would force him to abdicate.
The Ethiopians have been closely
united whenever Italy menaced their
territorial independence. But the pres
ent Emperor has many opponents, in
cluding about IL "Rases" (heads of
large and important tribes), who say
they have legitimate claims to his
throne.
The short-lived annexation of the
country to Italy and later its liberation
by British troops have prevented them
from being troublesome
Selassie returned from exile to his
throne on May S, 1941, and in January,
1912, signed military accord with the
British government which provided him
with the necessary police forces until
such time as he could reorganize his
own forces
1t is expected that Marshal Timoshen-
ko will be accompanied by a stan of
experts who have been trained in Ethi-
opisn politics at the Baky school where
Soviet specialists receive special
course regarding every country in the
world. Besides learning languages they
are also taught the best means of To-
menting trouble and how to approach
the discontented elements in the coun-
try where they are to be sent.
Then the organizations which show
willingness to cooperate with the U. S.
S. r. are proclaimed democratic" and
the infiltration starts.
In order to make the work more ef-
ficient, 1t is essential for the Soviet
government to have a base of its own
in some nearby area This explains to
political observers why Moscow insists
on having a base on the Red Sea and
Is claiming trusteeship over Eritrea.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,rn

Ofhcials in close touch with Russian
diplomatic moves say that Marshal
Simeon Timoshenko, whose name has
seldom been mentioned since he was
replaced by younger men" after lead
ing the brilliant defensive actions
against the Nazi onslaught, has been
selected to be Soviet Ambassador to
Ethiopia and will go to Adds Ababa
soon.
Similarly, dispatches from Chile re-
port that Ambassador Dmitri Zhukov,
nephew of Marshal Zhukov, has ar
rived at Santiago to open up a super
embassy. Moscow Is anxious to develop
to the fullest degree intimate relations
with the South American republics.
The reported selections of Timo-
shenko to what may be considered by
outsiders as an insignificant post is
regarded by diplomatic observers as
highly important.
Last September, at the conference of
foreign ministers in London the Soviet
government pegged its claim for naval
base in the Red Sea. Since that con-
ference there have been increasing signs
that Moscow wishes to obtain a trustee
ship on Eritrea and Is determined to
- A~A6 NP eAAS AAdVVSA 0t Vic AkCCt11Ik Ul
the Big Four foreign ministers in Paris.
Eritrea in itself is of little impor-
tance, except that it has q good harbor
at Massawa.
The Soviet government has been en-
deavoring since the end of the war to
obtain naval and air base on the At
rican shores Of the Red Sea. The
only other modern harbor is Djibuti,
which belongs to France, an ally which
is likely to become a close associate of
the U. S. S. r. in the near future.
The British are said to favor either
placing Eritrea under an Ethiopian
mandate or giving it outright to that
country, which has suffered much in the
past at the hands of the Fascist regime
In Italy. They will make this request
at the forthcoming peace conference in
Paris and there is little likelihood that
the Italians will object. That colony
was important to Rome merely for
colonial expansionist aims but other
wise has little economic value. The
American Government also will not
object to such transaction.
A demand from the U. S. S. R. to be en-
trusted with its trusteeship has already
aroused deep suspicion within the Brit
tsh government because it considers it
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Advocates Foreign Lesion


There seems to be no need for extend.
ing the draft law. Millions of men all
over the world are willing and ready to
serve in an American Foreign Legion.
Such an American Foreign Legion could
and should be established. The French
as well as the British have experienced
good results by using foreign troops.
Early termination of the draft. mean
while, should enable our youth to return
to the schools, colleges and universities
where they belong. It is a shame how
the young men between 1S and Is at
present waste their time. While men of
equal age in Germany and in Japan are
studying in the universities and in other
schools of higher learning, we, the vic
tors, permit our boys to stand by as un-
learned and unskilled guardians.
ALICE KAHN.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Easter Lily

am q l1lV
With sculptured chclice,
PeGrly as marble,
As Deluet-snooth.
/ am more spotless
Than tUhite doue's breast;
Brides lift me against folds
OF lustrous satin.
/ bend in sno,oy peace
Before the lighted altar;
Or rest like prayer
In the hands OF the dead,
As still as !.
Like the tDhite fotper
OF eternity,
I bloonaed at the tomb OF Christ:
Angels ,Dings brushed my petals
That first Easter morning.
ANNE WOOD MURRAY.