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FOUR DAILY MAIL, HAGERSTOWN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1941. 1S2S) Published every evening except Sunday by Tbe Mail Publishing Company, 23 Summit town. Maryland, National Advertising Burke, Kuipera Maboney, Inc. New Fork, 1203 Graybar Chicago, 203 North Wabasb Aveuue: Atlanta, 1601 flhodea-Haverty Building: Dallas, S07 Southwestern Life Building: Oklahoma City 558 First National Building. Address ail communications to The Daily Mail Editorial, Business or Circulation Department, not to individuals.

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OF THE ASSOCIATED PKESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tbe use of publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited ID this paper and also local news published therein. All rights of publl- ciation of special dispatches herein also reserved. leaders have had more to do with it than the mere onset of the Russian winter. In view of such broadcasts, it appears that there has been more to the reports of Russian successes than has heen usually allowed in discount of the- Soviet command's own communiques, and that the Germans are not just withdrawing to a winter line in accordance with plans previously made. Boy Scouts Do Their Part War Potential There Is considerable talk these days about America's war meant the real capacity of this which term is nation to make war when all of its great material resources are mobilized.

That potential is particularly evident in the case of The United States can produce three tons of steel for every two tons that can be made by Germany, Japan, Italy and all other countries combined. Aggregate steel capacity of the United States, the British Empire and Russia is considerably more than double the Axis -And it is a question, as the Nazi debacle in Russia grows, how long Hitler will have the steel resources of Baltic and Balkan, countries under his thumb, Since 1929 America, Britain and Russia have made long strides In expansion of steel production while the rest of the the cole exception of not. This is heartening information because steel Is a measure of the real capacity of a nation to arm itself. Oil is the essential to keep the war machine going -but only' steel can initiate it. But steel alone is not enough.

Without persistent and determined work to convert the metal Into machines and implements, America's overwhelming capacity can not be brought to bear. The nation's cue at this hour is to work as it has never worked before. And from border to border and coast to coast the arsenal of democracy is girding Itself for the task. The Bo- Scouts of America are again demonstrating the character and patriotism which their organization inculcates among them, in aiding tho nation in its war extremity. The latest effort of the Scouts, one in which they are well equipped to tackle by experience, is participation in the national defense waste paper campaign, the entire membership having enlisted in this work at the request of Leon Henderson, administrator of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply.

They are "knee deep" in these collections. One troop has a record of collecting four and a half tons. The Scouts have aided the campaign for savings stamps and bonds for defense by distributing and placing posters. Within a few weeks they placed some 545,000 posters in 11,550 communities. Then Secretary Morgenthau had them place 400,000 large easel posters on display and finally they placed 7,500 posters of the small billboard type at theaters and railroad stations.

Many thousands of defense stamp and bond pamphlets were distributed by them at the baseabll games of the major and minor leagues. The boys also took part in the national aluminum collection campaign, collecting some 9,000,000 pounds in 9,491 communities. When a serious housing shortage developed in connection with defense projects in fourteen New England communities, Boy Scouts called at 400,000 homes, listing them as to their availability in helping the housing problem. They helped in the United Service campaign. Substantial aid was also Disarmament Project Nazis Sing A Different Tune The official Nazi radio spokesman has.

been broadcasting plaintive speeches about the "unbelievable difficulties" under which the Germans are fighting in Russia. "All the worries and all the work and all the hopes of the German peopelare centered on this German given and is yet. being given in the test blackout demonstrations in various cities and We can all heartily applaud this work on the part of these future citizens, leaders and 'defenders. They did fine service back in the World war, when the organization totaled 420,000. It has now swelled to 1,500,000 Scouts, Cubs and leaders.

It can be depended upon to render commensurate service today. In whatever they undertake, by reason of their record, their capability and their fine spirit, they deserve all possible support and encouragement. Man About Manhattan By George Tucker Ei they apparently were caught i ment and, finally, as to evoke the with their hands in their pock- famous but too little read and I with their hands in their pock ets at Pearl Harbor, with a known thug and a notorious sneak-puncher, at that, lurking near, weren't we all? Ou present view the campaign to remilitarize date only from May, 1940. and even our arguments on that phase of problem are confused, for there were very few among the iso soldier whether he is at- Control Of Rents Gets A Try The'first measure enacted in this to effect in the national capital country to control rents will go in- on New Year's day. The act will rentals at their level of Jan- A LOVEBUG OR A MOSQUITO D.

mantic U. S. soldiers stationed almost unheeded open letter to aj- Caribbean sea pons shonld do bo EW YORK, Dec. have a success story for a change. We haven't had one since several days before yesterday.

I Know you remember the one about the local boys who made good, but if you will come with me out to Queens. I will promise not to excite your envy too greatly with the one about the horse player who hocked his wife's jewels and parlayed a tip into a real estate pie. WE'RE talking now about the roly-poly little actor who achieved world renown as Vice President Thrbttlebottom of the United States. Victor Moore. Our man Victor wasn't always in the heavy cream.

He used to wear i 95 cent shirts and lie used to drop I most of his pay every week at the local tracks. Came a day when he ran into an ex-actor who had gone into the real estate business" and did a little- hooking on the side. "You want a horse?" he inquired. "Chum," the future V.P. replied.

"You couldn't possibly understand what a novelty a horse would be." "It's like the bookie-realtor explained. "I'll give you a horse. On one condition. If you win, you make a down payment on a nice little piece of property I got lined up on Roosevelt avenue." ALL remember, was 30 years ago. The name of that horse was Quadrille.

Victor went home and gathered his wife's earrings and bracelets and fled to a pawnshop on the Bowery, where he obtained S300 in cold cash. To the last-red i cent this sum was placed on Quadrille's sensitive nose, and Quadrille won, paying SSOO. Now if 0. Henry were writing this tale, he. would probably say that Moore refused to buy the property and that a few years later it was worth a million dollars.

But Victor Moore is not an 0. Henry character, and so next day, after redeeming his wife's pearls at the Sign of the Golden Inn, he turned up at that spot where Roosevelt intersects Broadway, screwed his eye over a piece of bare field, and made a S10 payment. The tag on the lot was and it took him ten years to amortize it. But amortize he did. and so it ss by Father Lord.

S. which! ieir couniri be hind screen recognized this enormity as a spe-j fc Fau head of Tulane came to pass that as Moore 1 -t t- ir i "i nn i rilnov tno VOSl I cial concern of the members of the kal meclicine de grew famous and older the real es- churcti. Irreligious Jews abandon- tare in Jackson Heights grew dear- eel their faith and a police commissioner of New York who served during the era of wonderful nonsense observed that the young Jewish criminals were ashamed of the old-fashioned piety of their old- country parents and spat at them when the old people came to weep over them in jail. We were not thinking of our liberties then or the duties of citizenship or any need to he prepared er and cleaver. lationists who opposed.

this pro-j to fight, a mad enemy. Profits. gram. Those few incidentally, and lest we forget, were mainly Communists and Nazis, not Americans. Most of the patriotic Americans who were isolationists up to that hour of war believed in militariz high the glamorize people who were tear- I Will not prolong the suspense.

Five year; ago Victor Moore was offered $250,000 for his Queens holdings, acquired through a noble nag named Quadrille, ind refused. A little later this offer was raised to $500.000, and he still refused. Today, he is head of the Victor Moore Triangle, a giant new bus terminal bearing his name on the spot where a bookie, a nag and pnrtmeiu. advises army doctors; a pawnghop helped him cement his i £1 IH.fl gh wages. New at least, i here It bad enoueh to be bitten for Hfe papers assigned specialist? toj by the lov( bus )ut he malaria car-j Ag jn i-yins mosquito has sting that's ter ing up money In dives run openly hd swatlers may i i i- J41 by criminal? under political pro-, come staildard com -ting equipment in tection.

in one of our cities, the along with guitars in ing the country but opposed Pres- mayor collected a dollar a barrel i ident Roosevelt's foreign policy i from the bootleggers for -permit- which they thought provocative and dangerous. They did not counsel unarmed surrender to anyone. They ting them to dig in the public Government Will streets and lay a pipeline from their brewery outlet and for armed and mighty isola- nobody even thought of sending! Operate Service I him to prison. were tion. But, before May 1340.

and especially before Hitler started this war deliberately and wantonly and in violation of every assurance that he could give to lull the suspicions of trusting, peaceful people, we all were guilty and the entire nation was st.ill off guard when Japan struck. i descriptions of the rising might of NOT TO prettify the case, we thg Fnphrer dictatorship and of had beon for a dozen years the a army of ten million drunkenest people on earth. Gin ANNAPOLIS. Dec. 20 Governor O'Conor early last night LONG aco.

Woodrow Wilson, a i notified President Roosevelt he ac- dying man. preached a warninsr ceded to the President's request Tor that if we rejected the League of transfer of the Maryland State Em- Nation? this country would have ploymont Service to the Federal to go armed to the teeth forever Government. in a world of hungry and wolfish) The President asked that all per- WP rejected the league sonnol, records, ar-d facilities oper- ann even after trav- ated by the separate States be elers from Europe brought, back turned over to the U. S. Employment Service in order that "we utilize to the 'fullest possible extent all of the man power and woman power of this country to increase goes into the record Masis rounding out 50 years in show business.

Currently he is uisianr Purchase." and a few weeks ago he completed Paramount's version of that musical adventure with the Berlin tunes, on the west coast. been good year. I don't know whether he still has a two-spot for the horses or not. I forgot to ask. Crosses Awarded American Heroes Where Is Our Hope? TN DAYS like this people are asking where they can put their feet down and find solid ground, or where they can lay hold on something that will not run like sand through- their fingers.

A better disposed generation than our own has probably never lived on the face of the earth. Even the people in war-torn countries are not belligerent by nature but are made so because they are pressed into a prevailing mode. All over the world today men and women are asking, What is the ultimate solution for all human problems? There are millions of us who believe that the-ultimate solution is religion. If we read the signs of the times aright, the world has got into the state it has because man has come to consider himself an economic factor rather than--a child of God. He has believed that he is responsible only to the laws of supply and demand and not to great spiritual requirements laid down by a Heavenly Father.

And because of this, he has found himself, involved in all possible types of social dislocations. To use a theological term, he has fallen from grace, and in so doing he has experienced fractures and concussions. When John Knox, the famous Scotch reformer, was on his death bed, one of his associates who was standing by called to him and said: "John Knox, hast thou hope?" -He slowly lifted his finger and pointed upwards. That was all. but it was enough.

If our hope does not lie then indeed are we headed toward despair. All Right? ROUND REGISTERED By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen The Story of the German Embassy in Washington Washington, Dec. interesting but least known Embassv in Washington is that of Nazi Germany, which for approximated three years has gone its own way practically XS, almost isolated, watching its-country drift nearer and nearer war with the United States-but powerless to prevent it. men.

We were too busy having a was our obsession, money and lux- gof)( -j tjme lmtil thc crap production of war materials." uary 1, 1941, and will remain in ry anfi i easu ore our consum- aftpr which A re too i Vllsy with! O'Conor said "our State Service operation until December 31. 19-15. ing popular interests and we made a num er other interests, all; has functioned satisfactorily and with beneficial results meeting all ccopr.ized demands upon it despite the unpre- gods of trashy individuals who photographed well in the movies orj At a selfish or political. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 War Department reported in a brief communique last night that enemy patrols increased their ground operations" in the Philippines.

At the same time awards of the Distinguished Service Cross were announced to Second Lieutenants George S. Welch and Kenneth M. Taylor of the Air Corps for extraordinary heroism in action during the Japanese attack on Hawaii, 11 -i i i I I ll ix 1 shoeKed us with obscene hooks i any dangcr imtil mtior made his cedented situation in tin? State The awards werc the first of a which had no other appeal than wa and even theu ew Americans with defers industries presenting nnmhcr to be given for heroism in tacking or. defending," Commentator Hans Fritsche said in one broadcast heard in New York city by the Columbia Broadcasting System. "If it should be necessary," Fritsche went on.

"everything will be sacrificed for him. None of us forgets for a day or even for an hour the German soldier, who, under unbelievable difficulties, will save the Fatherland from the Bolshevist flood." Quite a change of tune, indeed, other Nazi broadcasters have heretofore shouted about ten exploits of "our victorious German army." Quite a change 01" tune, indeed, from the boasts made by Adolf Hitler many weeks since that the war in A rent administrator, who will be appointed by the District commissioners at a salary of will be in full charge of the act and his filth We even made a god of A1 i wore willing to admit that ho might, an extraordinary problem. Hawfli and the Philippines Others Capono. who pandered to our vices one flav artack UP of if it were "Because of the successful func- ft decisions will be linal unless re- 9n snared at our hypocriucal pre- then it woul i .1. oe maae in me near imure versed by a court of law.

Twice a year he must, present. Congress a report on activities of his office. Before January I every landlord, 1P mission of religion and that I ment" which congressmen and Stale Service performing their air fitting December 7, were including hotel keepers, must, un-j prohibition which was a. con-intors preyed upon for cash sifts duties faithfully should be safe- i the first to rpce ve the Distinguish- It is important to note, and may be indicative of real opinion inside Germany, that recent envoys to the United States, and even part of the German Embassy today, have not been particularly sympathetic with Hitler. The blue-blooded Count von Prit- witz, Ambassador during Hoover's ousted by Hitler and now lives in seclusion in Berlin.

Hans Luther, who followed him. was made Ambassador in Washington because Hitler wanted to get him out of the Luther had been chancellor and finance minister in the days of the Republic and Hitler sent him to relative exile in the U. S. A. Luther was followed by Dr.

Hans Dieckhoff, a very able diplomat, who, when recalled in 1937, spent nine months trying to see Hitler to warn him the United States would not remain neutral if Germany went to war in Europe. However, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop stood in the way of this warning until 1938, by which time the die was cast. Today, the man who runs the German Embassy, Hans Minister and Charge d'Affaires, is probably closer to Hitler than any of his immediate predecessors. Yet Thomsen is a queer combination. His wife hates Hitler.

His father is a Norwegian. And Thomsen himself was educated in Italy, England and France. Thomsen got to know Hitler when der Fuehrer first assumed the role of dictator in 1933. Hitler did tense of respectability. "the covernmont," th Id be 10 tioning during peace time lam defi-1 nccord WJth a poljcy Qf awardinff at.

rich, im-irately of the opinion that a return for in action For years, the Protestant. personal power in Washington, and to the present system should gallantry as promptly as possible. clercy was concerned with one is- not. up to the individual to get. i made after the emergency.

I also Lieius. Welch and Taylor, cited sue to the almost total neglect of out of the jam, the "govern-' f0(? Tnat experienced personnel in revjous or ie valor in the slant, provocation to drink and a source of crime and political corruption. In New York. New Jer- der the new law notify tenants of the rates they will be charged. A landlord who 'fives false int'ormn- i sf! Albany.

Chicago and Boston i number realized that political corruption thrived so mon-1 Woodrow Wilson wns right nnd. to their constituencies so that they; guarded in their positions. could he re-elected. Onlv since May. 19-10.

have ed Service Cross in the present "I am pleased to give this further con flict any evidence of Maryland's cooperation Welch. 23 a native of Wilming! at this critical, time." tion on rates charged last. January I will be liable for a Sl.OOO fine, one year's imprisonment, or bo'h. I Although several stales earlier make possible municipal rent con- this year considered legislation to trol regulations, no laws were enacted, and any regulations now in force are directed by the "1'air rent committees'' suggested by the Rent section of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply. This may suffice t.o keep the rent strously under Catholic bosses as as a'nntlon, we were no more alert ton, was credited with the destroying of four Japanese planes There are 600.000 acres of virgin i and Taylor with two.

to impair the people's confidence i when the, blow fell tan the com- i timber in the Kila wilderness Area Taylor. 22. is the son of Mr. 1 i Mrs. J.

K. Taylor, Hominy, Okla. the American way of govern-j manders Harbor. in New Mexico. who have come Into power in her country, how on her last trip home she felt she couldn't even trust the" servants, and above all how she hated Hitler.

Childless, temperamental and distrait, Frau Thomsen is a woman of deep sensitivity, who cannot bear to see wild things hurt, writes books for children about birds and animals, and once imported a German brown squirrel as her pet. Unfortunately it bit a diplomat and mysteriously disappeared. Frau Thomsen goes regularly to the zoo, where she has made friends with some of the wild creatures, particularly a western mountain lion which she scratches behind the ears and feeds grass. The animals at the zoo were among her few friends. She can certainly not be happy when she returns to the Hitler rule which she despises.

The SS Man The only member of the German Embassy who has been watched carfeully by U. S. intelligence agencies is -Ulrica Freiherr von Gien- anth. He is an SS man, a member of the National Socialist, and Is presumed to be planted in the Embassy to make sure that its staff follows Party principles. He claims that he is not a member of the Gestapo, but other members of the staff are not so sure.

On the decorative side of the Embassy is Baron von Strempel, who serves four wines at dinner, shoots ot iu excellent game of golf and used not know diplomatic proceduie, ana i interpret I to drive a 95-mile-an-hour German Thomsen, serving as er and liaison officer with the Foreign Office, saved him from many an error. They were close for three years. Later Hitler sent for Thomsen to come all the way from Washington to serve as his interpreter on his first trip to Rome, and bought him a new uniform for the occasion. She Hates Hitler Thomson's wife, however, is just the opposite. A violent anti-Nazi, she has been known to sit at dinner parties' for an hour after the ladies had withdrawn, telling them how she detested the "low people" Russia was over, that the Russian situation in hand, although further armies had crumbled and that only mopping order.

up work was then in Yes, something went wrong w'th the Russian excursion, and the valor and fortitude of the Russian and the strategy of their legislation was contemplated the Price Control bill lately under consideration in Congress, which had a section on control of rents in defense areas, and the new Price Control bill will in all likelihood have one of the kind. TRACY REACH FOR THE SKY, MOLE, AND KEEP COMIMG OUT I THINK OUR FRIEND WILL SOON BE WITH US sports car. Then there is General Friedrich von Boetticher, the military at-" tache, and harmless, whose daughter'five years ago, when she graduated from a Quaker school, was voted the outstanding member of her class. Also there is Vice Admiral Robert Witthoeft-Emden, who carries the hyphenated name because he was on the famous German raider Emden, during the last war. The Admiral was a very popular figure with U.

S. Army and Navy officers before the tension tightened. Some years ago, however, he was observed frequently in the neighborhood of San Diego, and the Navy became worried over his activities. The mystery was solved when he married Elizabeth Stuart Henley, daughter of a wealthy New York family, at that time living in San Diego. The German Embassy staff seems to have a way with American women, for Herr Karl Resenberg.

first secretary, married Claire Bockoff, of California; while Ernst Hepp, press attache, married Frances Fulenwider of Denver. Miss Fulenwider's family is of Dutch origin and has been in this country for generations. Incidentally, von Geini anth, the Brown Shirt member of the Embassy, got married last Tuesday, one week after Hitler de- clared war on the United 1 but he married a German girl, i This will give her diplomatic mnni'y to leave the country..