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Evening star., 1946-12-25

at home in peace. But those who
died have died in vain II IN some
measure, at least, we shall not pre-
serve for the peace that spiritual
unity in which We won the war.
Problems Are Great.
The problems facing the United
Nations--the worlds hope for peace
overwhelm faint hearts.
But, as we continue to labor for an
enduring peace through that great
organization, we must remember
that the world was not created lin
a day. We shall find strength and
courage at this Christmas time be-
cause so brave beginning has been
made. So with faith and courage
we shall work to hasten the day
when the sword is replaced by the
plowshare and nations do not learn
war anymore"
Selfishness and greed, individual
or national, cause most Of our
troubles. He whose birth we cele-
brate tonight was the worlds great
est teacher. He said:
Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to
you, do We even so to them; for this
is the law and the prophets"
Through all the centuries since
He spoke, history has vindicated
His teaching.
In this great country Of ours has
been demonstrated the fundamental
unity of Christianity and democ-
racy. Under our heritage of free
dom for every one on equal terms,
we also share the responsibilities OF
government. Our support of indi-
vidual freedom-free speech, free
schools, free press, and free con-
science-transcends all our differ
ences. Although we may not hope
for a new Heaven and a new earth
in our day and generation, we may
strive with undaunted faith and
courage to achieve in the present
some measure of that unity with
which the Nations sons and the
sons of our allies went forth to win
the war.
Good Start Toward Peace.
We have this glorious land not
because of a particular religious
faith, not because our ancestors
sailed from a particular foreign
port. We have our unique national
heritage because of common as
piration to be free and because of
our purpose to achieve for our
selves and for our children the good
things of life which the Christ de-
clared He came to give all mankind.
We have made good start toward
peace in the world. Ahead of us
lies the larger task of making the
peace secure.
The progress we have made gives
hope that in the coming year we
shall reach our goal. May 1947 en-
title us to the benediction OF the
Master: BLESSED are the peace
makers, for they shall be called the
children of Cod
Because of what we have achieved
for peace, because of all the promise
our future holds, I say to all our
countrymen: Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, and may God
bless YOU all.
Evening star., 1946-12-25

Remember the Name?
You will probably remember the
name. Mr.. Creedon has done more
jobs in the last six years than
sidewalk scissors sharpener. In
1910 Mr.. Creedon, who has back
ground in engineering and construc-
ton work, came to Washington fol-
the Army in connection with its
building program. From there he
went to work for Mr.. Jeffers as
suoringmaster of the synthetic rub
ber program. Then he was employed
by an engineering company on
the atom bomb project at Oak
Ridge, Tenn. Then Mr.. Creedon
skipped lightly to the office of the
director of war mobilization and
reconversion as special assist
ant" Later, he became deputy
administrator in war assets. His
next job was with the Civilian
Production Administration. And
behold, he is the new veterans
housing expediter
The name might be Kilroy, in
stead of Creedon, mightn't it?
While with War Assets, Mr.. Cree
den affixed his signature to the cele-
brated cost-plus- -fixed-fee contract
authorizing the George Fuller Con-
struction Co. to dispose of surplus
war property. He awarded the Full
-
which called upon the WAA to pay
all costs incident to the operation,
plus 100000 fixed fee in addition
of which 100000 and a large
amount for expenses have already
been paid. A nice income for nine
months operation, one might think.
Perhaps a few Of the veterans who
have been complaining to Senators
Thomas and Murdock of Utah about
Evening star., 1946-12-25

Managers of the Statler, Mayflower
and Willard Hotels have nothing to
worry about when host OF erudite
professors of foreign languages In
wade their premises this week end.
These linguistic scholars also have
a perfect command of English.
But what about the foreigners who
drop into these and other hotels
daily with no more knowledge OF
English than an African bushman?
Uneouipped with Interpreters, they
suddenly find themselves helpless to
make known even the simplest
wants.
The answer is that not all erudi-
ton is crammed into the heads OF
the Modern Language Association OF
America, whose members gather for
their 61st annual meeting FRIDAY. 1t
seems some of the worlds most lucid
linguists are hotel executives, bell
boys and walters.
ANY time a refugee from the
Tower of Babel steps up to the
statler desk the odds are over
whelming he will sget prompt serv-
= ice. The hotel doesn't employ a
battery of language experts. The
regular hired help does the work.
But the Statler did set up a sys-
tenn three years ago when the war,
increased air travel and eventually
the United Nations brought large
numbers of foreign arrivals. The
1,150 employees were interviewed
Those speaking a foreign language
were classified. Now when room
clerk runs into a suffering syntax
he merely reaches for card index
and soen has an interpreter at the
desk.
So far the system has met every
test unerringly. That includes the
gentleman who walked up to the
desk unannounced q few days age
Evening star., 1946-12-25
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. =
WEDNESDAY. pEcEMBER 25, 1915.

Difficult to detect among the welter
OF consultations, it stands almost
directly over the South Pole and
through the centuries since the
first whalers ventured into these
angry waters, it has been the un-
failing guide of mariners.
Just below it, about eight times its
size, is the celestial false cross set
like a will-o- -wisp in the skies.
1t moves in an ellipse of wide radius
around the pole and has led many
ships far of their courses.
In the depths Of the ship a light
on the radarscope tracks icebergs
with an accuracy of a few feet. Like
a Christmas spectacle itself is this
radarscope set on the highest point
of the ship.
The Chaplain has put up a Cana
dian hemlock decorated with red
streamers. The northern forest is
coming now to the grave of its dead
sister of the south. Thus Christmas
comes to the ice-buried Antarctic.
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Jap Diet Angered
As Two Members
Plan to Marry
By the Assoeioied Press

TOKYO, Dec. 25.-Two men,
bers of the House of Repre-
sentatives today announced
their intention to marry and
provoked quick charges in the
press of a love triangle within
the Diet.
Kiyoshi Kawanishi, %, and
Miss Kiyoko Mkt, u, told
newsmen and women Diet
members they plan to be mar
ried January 6.
The press said Kawanishi,
already married, plans to get
a divorce. 1t said this caused
some members of the Liberal
Party, of which both Kawan-
ishi and Miss Mkt are men,
bers, to demand the BRIDE
elects expulsion from the party
and from the Women Diet
Members Club.
In typical japanese custom
no one criticized Kawanishi.
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Hotel Workers Here Meet
Every Tower of Babel Test

and almost cracked the hotels win
ming streak.
The clerks tried everything
French, Greek and Russian. The
stranger only shook his head in
violent negation and sputtered on.
Busboy Understands.
Finally an Arabian born busboy
was called in from the colony room.
He understood. The bearded new
conner was a Saudi-Arabian attach
ed to the United Nations delegation.
What he talked was a combination
African and French, hybrid tongue
spoken by the Senegalese.
The Statler's embassy room
walters nave the key to some 10
languages themselves. One Filipino
busboy can slice through Chinese
and Japanese as well as his own
native tongue.
When the whole Statler League of
Nation is rounded up, you can hear
% languages going at once.
Even Icelandic, the toughest lingo
of them all, is on tap. 1t comes in
handy, too, for the hotel has more
visitors from the northern island
than would seem likely.
The guest who ratified off French
patois gave the hotel little trouble
until it was discovered he was from
Santa Domingo. In the coffee room
was girl who had worked in hotel
on that island, and she had the right
combination.
Once the foreigner is assigned to
his room, the rest is easy. If he is
in the big shot bracket, he usually
migrates to his embassy. If not, he
either knows a friend, or the friend
of a friend, who keeps him on the
right track.
"Frenchie" Ace Interpreter.
Probably the ace Interpreter OF
them all is S. A. "Frenchie" Morrell,
| bellboy at the Maydower. When
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Amnesty to Nozis Brings
PIeo for Draft VioIutors

The Rev. Charles L. Carhart,
honorary chairman of the Wash
ington Pacifist Fellowship, charged
in a statement today that the
United States, in granting amnesty
to nearly a million "little Nazis" in
Germany, Is more generous abroad
than to conscientious directors at
home.
Mr.. Carhart pointed out that,
while President Truman has di-
rected a board of three persons to
review cases of 1000 convicted as
draft law violators, the pacificist
group and others have been work.
ing for complete amnesty this
Christmas for all selective service
violators.
Evening star., 1946-12-25

The family of slain Policeman
Richard H. Taylor had a subdued
but more secure Christmas today
with announcement that the public
subscription fund being collected for
them by the Police Department and
Washington newspapers has passed
the $4,000 mark.
Readers of The Star alone have
given $867.47 for the wife and two
teen-age children of Pvt. Taylor,
who was shot to death earlier this
month by Townsend Annes, IA, in a
downtown gunfight.
Largest single contribution was
500 from the former Ambassador to
Japan, Joseph G. Grew, and Mrs.
Grew. The smallest was so cents
from newsboy for whom Policeman
Taylor used to buy an occasional
soda on hot summer days.
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Byrd Armada Marks
Christmas Among
Antarctic Iceberqs
Nv +. stoff corr..nooden, Of III. s,o,


ABOARD THE U. S. S. MOUNT
Dec. 25.-Two gold cru
cifixes hang high among the south
ern stars as this South Pole armada
enters the ocean Of blue ghosts on
Christmas eve.
It is midnight. From below come
hoarse-voiced snatches of carols.
There are lighted trees in the ward
rooms and mess halls. Before a
candle-lit altar set among scream
ing steam pipes the white-robed
chaplain chants Christmas mass.
This is written on the Mount
Olympus bridge. Southwark over
the ocean the starred crosses
shine as beacoas.
In the year ends duskless summer
the icebergs float in whitecapped
swells. They wear shrouds of blue
phosphorescence. Their ghostly noise
is like the popping Of beer bottles.
Chaplain Chants Mass.
"Dominus Vobiscum, pax vobis-
cum" comes the voice of the chap.
lain chanting mass. A sailor choil
in the wardroom is singing Come
All Ye Faithful" The ensign or
watch is humming the air as he
fixes his glasses on an iceberg.
The grey clouds drift in smoky
masses over the sky now and ther
eclipsing the starry crucifixes. There
are occasional snow f1urries. Fal
up in the eastern sky-almost to the
zenith-the belt of Orion looks up.
side down for this is the Southern
Hemisphere. The brightest object
in the heavens is the reddish Can
opus-the second most brilliant stal
ever seen from earth. 1t is a Ian
tern among the drifting clouds.
Steadily the Mt. Olympus rolls
and tosses towards the two crosses
the true cross and the false cross
The first is a small golden object
Evening star., 1946-12-25

about on Christmas than column
by McLemore. I'll tell you a few,
if you are still with me.
Nerve -Frazzling Racket.
Here's one: Why in the world were
children ever told that Santa Claus
came sliding down the chimney in
the middle of the night, and that
daybreak was the time to get out OF
bed and run down to see what S.
Claus had left? AS long as the
Santa Claus story is myth
(spelled out in case there are any
children in the room why didn't
the grownups make it a good, big,
comfortable fib? 1t would have been
Just as easy to tell children that
Santa Claus came crashing around
about 10 O'Clock Christmas morn
ing, and that any one who made a
sound before that time was liable
not to get any presents. This would
have enabled my parents, your
parents, and now you, to have en-
joyed a good mornings sleep on a
holiday.
AS it is now, Christmas is nerve
frazzling racket. You no sooner get
to bed than you have to get up. The
terrible part about it is that no
matter how old you get, you still
get up early on Christmas morning.
AS the twig is bent, SO grows the
bald-headed man. For the life OF
me, 1 can't stay in bed Christmas
morning. The training of youth
drives me from the covers, and sends
me bounding down the steps when
dawn's rosy fingers are tracing the
sky with pastel shades. (That last
sentence is just to show you that
can write just as prettily as the
next fellow when I set my mind
to it,
Here's Apother Snarl.
Here's another Christmas snarl:
A man has to be happy on Christ
mas. He may owe the bank all he'll
make in the next year; Treasury
Department agents may be posing
as bookends in his library; he may
be growing third ear; and he may
have just been run over by a bull
dozer, but come Christmas morning
he must get out of bed smiling. He
must be hale, hearty and effusive
even though what he really wants
to do is to have day all by himself,
alone, to mediate on the beauty OF
being a hermit in cave.
Here is one more, and final,
Christmas snarl: Locusts come only
once in seven years, but relatives
come every Christmas. never have
been able to figure out where some
of my relatives come from. They
simply appear at Christmas, ! have
a feeling that they live in between
the walls. like bees. But they don't
eat like bees. They eat like beavers
and speaking Of beavers-most OF
my dearly beloved relatives look
like beavers. have one fifth cousin
who, upon seeing turkey, removes
his celluloid collar with Old World
grace, and announces that he wants
nothing but white meat.
But, as I said earlier: A happy
Christmas. A joyous Noel.
May there be an orange in the
toe of your stocking, Brazil nut
on top and some one near you who
is glad. you got them both.
distributed by McNauRht Syndicate, Inco
Evening star., 1946-12-25
17o Navy Prisoners
Are Granted Amnesty
BY The Assoeioied Press

SAN PEDRO, Calf, Dec. 25-It's
an old Navy custom.
The naval disciplinary barracks
on Terminal Island announced that
ITO prisoners had been granted
amnesty-including a railroad ticket
home, a new suit and $25 in cash
some of them several months before
their court-martial terms were up,
as part of the traditional naval
peacetime Christmas gift. All were
serving time for minor offenses and
all were eligible for discharge.
Another rs were restored to active
duty with no black marks against
their records.
Evening star., 1946-12-25
7oyIor Fund Passes $4,000

and coin store on Pvt. Taylor's for
mer beat, collected $103.97 from
other merchants and friends.
Among the contributions was 81
given by an inmate Of Lorton Re-
formatory.
Cash or checks made out to- In
spector Clement P. Cox, will be re-
ceived and acknowledged by The
Star and forwarded to Inspector Cox
for inclusion in the special police
fund set up for the Taylor family.
Contributions received thus far in
clude:
Evening star., 1946-12-25

a "h o m i n 6 pi-
geon" at all. 1t
was just "the
bird"
It is tragedy
e n o u g h t h a t
President Tru-
man should have
chosen to dis
e m b o W ell the
veterans hous-
ing prog r a m.
But at lie a S t
equally t r a g i C
was his choice
of a new hous-
ing expediter in
the person OF
I1.,aAlx n Crnale
Evening star., 1946-12-25
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. How many 33d degree Masons
are there in the United States?-.
F. c. S.
A. In the Southern jurisdiction
there can only be 80 active 33d
degree members. There may, how
ever, be a larger number of hon
orary members. The Northern juris-
diction allows 66 33d degree Masons
The number of active members is
hardly ever full.
@. BY whom are the Nobel Prizes
awarded to the individuals who win
them?-A. v.
A. To those winners who are able
to attend the ceremonies in person,
the prizes are awarded by King
Gustav v of Sweden in the Concert
Hall of Stockholm. The Peace
Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
@. On which side of the House of
Representatives do the Democrats
sit?-H. T. G.
A. The Democrats sit on the east
side of the chamber, the Republi-
cans on the west.
@. Is there an estimate of the
minimum number of employees that
can carry on the work of the Fed
eral Government? How many are
there at present?-W. j. r.
A. The National Civil Service
League has estimated that the
number of civilian workers can be
reduced to 1,350,00O but that a
larger cut would mean the elimina-
ton of many services essential to
the public welfare. There are
2,l54,100 civilians now in Federal
Government employment.
@. Who originated the phrase
good neighbor policy" in reference
to relations between the United
States and Central and South
America?-R. E.
A. The phrase is taken from the
first inaugural address of Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
said, 81 dedicate this Nation to the
policy of the good neighbor."
O. Where did Browning find the
book on which he based his Ring
and the Book "?-M. A. L.
A. In 1864, Browning purchased
this book in the Piazza San Lor-
EMO, Florence, Italy, for the equiv
alent of SO cents.
@. What is the area of Alaska?
How much of the land belongs to
the Government?-E. H. L.
A. The area of the Territory is
586, 400 square miles. About SO per
cent of the land belongs to the
Federal Government.
D. q. - 49,
A. The term is literal transla-
ton of the French vers libre and
is the name given to a form of
poetry written without meter or
rhyme and usually without regular
stanzas. Robert Bridges, former
poet laureate of England, defined
free verse as cadenced prose ar
ranged in sections resembling STAN
zas or verses.
@. What are the three smallest
State capitals from the standpoint
of pop11latj0p o-F @ r
A. They are Carson City, New,
2,478; Pierre, S. Oak, 1922; Dover,
Del, 5,517.
@. Which States lead in the pro-
of cattle and in dairy prod
M. ].
A. The Department of Agricul-
ture says that the top-ranking
cattle production States are Texas,
Iowa and Minnesota in the order
named. The States ranking highest
in the production of dairy products
are Wisconsin, Minnesota and New
York.
@. Is there more than one species
of zebra ?-J. D. F.
A. There are three distinct species
of zebra found in Africa. The
mountain zebra of the regions of
Cape Colony is now very scarce,
its general color is white with
black stripes. Burchell's zebra is
found in the plains of South Africa
and is larger than the mountain
zebra. 1t is pale yellow brown
color with dark brown or black
stripes. Grevy's zebra is the third
species.
Evening star., 1946-12-25

ndppy Slidlu-
ler.
Slap-happy.
I wish all of
you readers a
Merry Christmas
and a Happy
Christmas, but I
do not t h i n k
t h a t, you are
6 o ing to take
tim e off on
Christmas Day
to re a d m y
greetings to you.
There are so
m a n y m o r e
fhitnc Il c.,anl
Evening star., 1946-12-25
McLennore-
Puts on Orange
In Your Stocking

By Henry McLemore
Happy jingle bells to every one.
Happy Donner and Bitten.
Happy days are here again.
Happy Hooligan.
Evening star., 1946-12-25

mg) developed IN
public life with
out the sort of
kno W ! e d g e or
acquaintance to
justify it, but
almost overnight
as a result of
the most fortu-
itous and casual
association, re-
fleets superficial
thought and un-
real feelings. 1t
is easy to jeer
about this but
jeering does not
affect the facts.
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Answers to
Questions

A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau. 316 street
NE. Washington =, D. c. Please in
close 8 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Harold L. Ickes
MAN to Man
Truman Seen Giving Bird to Veterans
In Choice of New Housing Expediter

When the veterans mustered out OF service each was
Commander in Chief Pres
dent Truman thanking him his patriotic service and wishing
Godspeed in his return to civilian life He was also given
the famous "homng pigeon" to in his coat lapel
That it "homng pigeon" must seem some
Evening star., 1946-12-25
Frank r. Kent
TheGreat GameofPOliticS
Dignity of High Office Mires Down
In Fad of Fred and Joe Familiarity

Specializing contributing factors to the current shallow
and inncery in public fepartculay Washington
experienced observer interesting
theory Perhaps it not adequate and to
trivial But there than little plausbity in there
is
Evening star., 1946-12-25

The gist of this idea is that the
facile familiarity Zone outstanding
symptom of which is promiscuous
and indiscriminate first-name call
Evening star., 1946-12-25

what fantastic. On the basis of
the Commander in Chiefs latest
decisions on housing for war veter-
ans. it would seem that it wasn't
Evening star., 1946-12-25

@. Who originated the phrase
good neighbor policy" in reference
to relations between the United
States and Central and South
America?-R. E.
A. The phrase is taken from the
first inaugural address of Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
said, II dedicate this Nation to the
policy of the good neighbor."
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-07-25
Appointed Head
Of State Group
Doolittle Announces
Campbell Will Head
Montono Air Force

According to an announce
ment received from 1t. Gen.
j a m H. Doolittle, Gen.
Thomas D. Campbell has &C
copied his invitation to become
chairman of the Montana state
group of the Air Force associa-
ton.
In this capacity, Campbell
will head up state activities for
the national organization of
former and present members OF
the army air forces.
BY August /, Air Force day,
deadline for the Air Force as
ISOLATION charter membership,
Gen. Campbell expects to have
several local charter squadrons
established.
Campbell is now on terminal
leave from the army and was
released from active duty on
July IS. He arrived in Hardin
Monday to attend to the bust
mess matters in connection
with the Campbell Farming
corporation.
An interview with the former
general will appear in next
weeks edition of the Hardin
Tribune-Herald.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-07-25
Attend Bible Comp
Nedr Red Lodge

More than ITS members OF
the Lutheran Walther league
departed Sunday after a week
of religious services and enter
tainment at Billings Lions CLUB
near Red Lodge in the Bear
tooth mountains.
Those from Hardin who at
tended were the Rev. A. Gierke,
Jake Jabs, Edear MODS, Vern-
on OFT, Roy Pitsch, Marcia
Schmeichel, Charles Gierke.
Raymond and Delmar Ganske.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don GanSke, MI.
and Mrs. Otto Unverzagt and
daughter, Jane, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Pitsch and Bon
ME.
Rev. Gierke was in charge of
the music department. of the
entire camp.
Other cities represented were
Laurel, Park City, Columbus,
Bridger, Belfry, St. Xavier, Bill
lings, Beach, N. D., York, Neb.,
Powell, Lowell. Gillette and
Cody, Wyo., Milwaukee, Wis,
and Odessa, MINI.
A Lutheran service volunteer
school will be held at the camp
by the Montana district of the
Walther league from August 26
! to 80, 1t was announced.