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4-n DE3 MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER JAN. 23. ID I t. Progressive Heads British Catholics New Archbishop of Westminster Interested in Social Structure. Soviet Army Exploits Threats to German Forces Are Increased.

EDBTQRB ALS BY CARROLL BINDER. Editor, Chicago Daily Xcus Foreign Service. Special to The Des Moines Sunday Register. Whatever reservations may be entertained in some quarters about the behavior last week of the Soviet gov 5 Lords is probably considerably more democratic in its makeup, actually, tfcan popular opinion abroad, especially in this country, supposes it to be. Lords include experts in many fields men whose right to sit there stems from valuable service dered either to the government or tp society in public office, in the sciences, in business, in labor organizations.

That house is more nearly a representative cross section of the nation's activities, without the partisan complexion of the House of Commons, than could ever be true of a body purely hereditary and not freshened by appointments from outside the old, established peerdom. But it does include, also, many "backwoods" hereditary peers, who fail to exercise their privileges as legislators. It is the membership of these in the House of Lords that is creating the demand for abandonment of the hereditary system. America has a few beams in its own national legislative eye. But it may always be remarked that the cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

BY HELEN KIRKPATRICK. Special radio dispatch to the Chi-cciro Daily News and The Des Moines Register. LONDON, ENGLAND Msgr. Bernard Griffin, Westminster's stocky, red-headed, young new archbishop is one of the most progressive churchmen in Britain today, and can be counted on to follow the liberal and progressive program so well begun by his predecessor, Cardinal Hinsley, and to go even further than the late cardinal went. The pope's choice of a successor to the archbishopric of Westminster, ranking post in the British Roman Catholic hierarchy, took British Catholics by surprise, with the exception of Msgr.

Godfrey, apostolic delegate to Britain. For some time Msgr. Godfrey had had his eye on the young Birmingham auxiliary bishop, and on Archbishop Williams of Birmingham, whose protege Griffin has been. Expert in Canon Law Through Godfrey, the pope has undoubtedly followed the activities of the 44-year-old cleric who is regarded in London as the most learned expert in canon law in Britain, and who holds a doctor's degree in canon law from Gregorian university. An enlisted man in the royal navy air force and the royal air force during the last war, Griffin studied at British colleges, the English college in Rome, and Gregorian university.

He returned to Britain in 1927, where he became secretary to the archbishop of Birmingham, Dr. Williams' predecessor, then to Williams himself. In 1938 he became auxiliary bishop of Birmingham. Meanwhile, in 1937 the pope had appointed him administrator of Father Hudson's Homes in Birmingham large orphanages and schools. His ad- in the distribution of 'wealth was against social justice and that a social system that tolerated Insecurity for its people, allowing them to suffer through no fault of their own, was economically unsound and morally disgraceful.

Industry's first duty, the letter stated, Is to pay a wage sufficient for comfort and saving. The other points were based on this premise. This pastoral letter gives an excellent idea of Griffin's views. His approval and support of the Beveridge plan is implied, and he has several times publicly stated that it has his fullest support. HE IS A MAN WHO HOLDS STRONG VIEWS AND DOES NOT HESITATE TO EXPRESS THEM, WHETHER THEY ARE POPULAR OR NOT.

Greater Unity Sought One of the Cardinal Hinsley's strongest wishes was for greater unity among the world's churches, and for the practical application of Christianity to present-day problems. He founded the "Sword of the Spirit," a group of Catholic laymen dedicated to the practical application of Christian principles and committed to further cooperation among churches. It was naturally hoped that Hinsley's successor would sponsor the "Sword of Spirit," and in church co-operation. Griffin is the man who will succeed Hinsley as head of the "Sword of the Spirit," and who has many times expressed his belief in its principles. Hinsley was joint president of the Council of Christians and Jews, an organization composed of the head of the Church of England, the moderator of the Church of Scotland, the moderator of the Free Church council, the chief rabbi, and the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Britain.

This step was one of which many Catholics regarded as radical and drastic, and one which might not be approved by the Vatican. There is every reason to believe that it has not only been ap-proved by the Vatican, but that the pope is prepared to go further than approving mere representation on a council with other churches. For Decent Way of Life Griffin certainly favors the widest co-operation among churches, especial-" ly for the relief of suffering in Europe, for postwar reconstruction, and for the establishment of a social system which will guarantee decent living standards and minimum conditions for a Christian way of life. There may be considerable changes in the Westminster diocese which, in the view of many churchmen, requires considerable modernization. The appointment of so young a man and one who almost certainly was not on the canon, promises that such changes will occur.

Griffin is a dynamic man, though lacking perhaps Hinsley's great presence, owing to his lesser physical stature. He is a man in the Hinsley tradition, and as much more progressive as he is younger in years. (Copyright, 1944.) Rumanian coast; if they fail to fco'i the center, they are in danger of helr.S split in two; if they cannot withstand a southward thrust between Zhmerinka and the junction of Shepetovka, farther west, they will be in danger of envelopment. "The Germans may escape all three of these perils but only at the price of a blood 3- rearguard action with an improvised and inadequate system of supply. Eventually (and not immediately) it will be found to form a separate front.

Thus German strategy, which always has adopted a policy of "one by one', may find Itself Involved in four widely separated campaigns before the year is out." The Russian operations in the north menace German control of Pskov which is the focal point of all the main railway lines of the extreme north. If the Russians' forces striking down from Leningrad form a junction with those striking up from Novgorod the Germans will have no way of escape except a 24 mile wide bottleneck between the Gulf of Finland and the northern end of Lake Peipus which forms the boundary between Russia and Estonia. In that case an area of 100 square miles would have to be quickly evacuated by the Germans. Finland Worse Off. The predicament of Finland, already grave, will be even worse if operations in the north develop as anticipated.

Relevant in this Connection are some observations in an official guide book for the armed forces Just released by the U. S. war department. Discussing "military facts" of the Russian attack on Finland in 1939. without passing moral the war department manual tells our soldiers: "The possession of this buffer territorj- (the Baltic provinces and part of Finland) did greatly facilitate the 11S.S R.

defense when the attack duly fell. Had the not acted so, the Allied cause would be weaker today." The Allied cause likewise would be weaker but for the remarkable military achievements of the Russians last week and during the preceding 31 months. We should keep that fact in mind in considering the reaction cf the Russian government to a note of the Polish government-in-exile regarding the dispute over the border and government of Poland and to a slur on the loyalty of the British government published in Pravda, organ of the Communist party. Disbelief. Those most familiar with the temper of the British government and people did not for a moment believe that they would thus betray their Allies and doom themselves to another war for survival if not a defeat in this war.

Those most familiar with the temper of the Russian people and government could nt believe that Russia, which was defeating the armies responsible for the death of so many million Russians and the devastation of so much Russian territory, would suddenly come to separate terms with its enemy. There have been many guesses as to why this report was printed. The most plausible is that the Russians were irked by British intervention in the dispute with Poland and annoyed by publication in British newspapers of Stockholm and Istanbul dispatches asserting that three British officers had landed by parachute in Rumania and provided Premier Antonescu with, "proof" that Hitler was attempting to negotiate a separate peace with Russia at Rumania's expense. There is no analogy between the status of Pravda and that of privately owned American and British newspapers but the Russians apparently intend to give Pravda occasional rein to needle the British and ourselves a3 Unofficial Manager Former President Declared Dewey's Leader, IS THERE LIFE ON ANY OTHER PLANET? We see that an American scien-tist has proved the existence of an surrounding one of the satellites of the planet Saturn. This satellite is called Titan.

Saturn is, of course, like our earth, one of the planets of our solar system. It appears that the gases discovered on the satellite Titan are not the kind that would support life like we have on the Earth. What this bit of knowledge added to our scientific store brings to our mind is the age-old controversy as to whether there may be life upon any other body in the universe except the Earth. Of course there has long been the speculation about our neighbor planet, liars. The original theory that lines photographed on Mars at certain times were certainly canals, and that therefore intelligent beings more or less like humanity must have built the canals, has been pretty badly shaken.

Nearly all scientists today will insist that nobody knows about Mars. In recent years there developed quite a shift among eminent scientists as to whether there could be life on any planet, anywhere in the universe, except ours. Some of the very most eminent, indeed, got themselves half convinced in the negative. But still more recently there have been a number of discoveries, like this one about the atmosphere on Titan, which certainly suggest thnt it is one thing to say we have "no proof of life elsewhere and quite another thing to say that we are justified in concluding that there isn't any such life. Far be it from us to assert that life isn't limited to the Earth.

We don't know. But two considerations have led 1 us to be skeptical of even the most exalted scientist who was tempted to come to a final negative judgment on the subject. One consideration is the fact that the universe is so incomprehensibly vast, with so many millions of suns like ours or billions or trillions or quadrillions that it seems ridiculous to talk about no condition existing anywhere, on any planet of any of those suns, that could possibly support life comparable to ours. Par-ticularl' since we know so little -about all these innumerable solar systems, and still more particularly because even the best of our scientists can only guess as to how many more of them there are that our biggest telescopes haven't even got a glimpse of yet. The second consideration is that we've never been able to figure out why life elsewhere, if it exists, must necessarily be "life as we know it." The "miracle" of the existence of life on our planet, vegetable and animal, dependent on the existence of an atmosphere containing oxygen and not too much of some other gases, might be equalled, somewhere in the vast stretches of space, by a miracle which brought about a di ferent kind of life nourished by different kinds of atmosphere.

Or couldn't it? Anyhow, we think we are being truly scientific when we point out that science cannot possibly say today whether there is or whether there isn't any other life on planets other than ours. Scientists can and do sa "We have no proof." When they say, or seem to say, a "Yes" or a "No" they are merely building a theory, based on the present state of our knowledge or ignorance. And the true scientist always makes that very clear, for he is alwa3s on the lookout for more knowledge which may upset any present theory. ernment towards its TVliaVi Tipitrhhnr nnH I the Soviet press to- omW I wants Russia's Rrit- ish ally there can only be unbounded enthusiasm in Allied circles for the remarkable exploits of the Russian armies. A powerful Russian offensive in the north already has lifted the 29-month siege of Leningrad, liberated binder.

Novgorod and crashed through strong German defenses in the direction of the Baltic and the vitally important strategic and communications center of Pskov. Large numbers of Germans already have been slain and many others appear likely to be trapped by the present brilliantly conceived and ably executed operations. Chances for Baltic Fleet. The Russian Baltic fleet, immobilized during most of the war, may soon be freed for operations which would cut Finland off from sea connection with Germany and later might seriously hamper the shipment of badly needed Swedish iron ore to Germany. Seven hundred miles to the south oilier Kulan armies cut the Hovno Jshepetovka link of the double tracked Warsaw Kazatln railway forcing the Germans to employ a line ISO miles to the southwest for servicing their forces In southern Russia.

In their desperate effort to prevent the Russians from breaking through the Germans' southern lines into Rumania and wresting from German control the invaluable oil fields and refineries at Ploesti the armies commanded by Marshal von Manstein have permitted themselves to be placed in a most unenviable position. Front Is Lengthened. While the Russians are advancing Into Polandin the direction of Pinsk and Lwow Jsver a broadening front German forces are still fighting 500 miles eastward on the banks of the Dnieper and holding out in the Crimea. As a result of this extraordinary strategy the Russian front today is 1,960 miles long whereas in August it was only 1,360 miles long. Had the Germans not been in such great need of Rumanian oil and of continued control of Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria they long since would have withdrawn from the Dnieper bend to the Dniester or the Prut rivers.

Such a move would have enabled them to offer strong resistance at Lwow and Brest Litovsk to the advancing Russian armies. Last Ditch Stand. Rather than expose the inflammable Balkans to early Russian pressure from the east and Anglo-American pressure from the south and west the audacious and rulhless Germans have risked 500,000 men in a last ditch stand between the Carpathians and the Crimea. That is why the Germans are sticking on in Krivoi Rog and Nikopol although the Russians are within very close range. The railway between Odessa and Lwow, with Zhmerinka as the junction for connections with Tarnopol and Cernauti, is Von Manstein's most important 'means of lateral communications.

The Russians naturally are doing their utmost to capture Zhmerinka and split Von Manstein's forces in two. Nazi Troubles. Von Manst sin's predicament is thus described by a student of military strategy: "If his forces let go on the right, the Russians from Nikojaev and Se vastopol will threaten Odessa and the I The Most Rei Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster. ministration -has been outstanding. Griffin's interest in the social struc ture has been a practical and realistic one, of which his work in the Binning-ham diocese is eloquent testimony Last year four archbishops of Westminster, Liverpool, Cardiff and Bir mingham issued a joint pastoral letter on social reform.

The letter, read in churches on Whitsunday, June 21, set forth 10 "minimum conditions for a Christian way of Griffin was responsible for drafting important parts of this letter. The letter stated that inequality MacArthur to operate as he did on the lionus Marchers. I merely ordered him to 'handle the situation' as chief of staff." Hoover believes that MacArthur's strict sense of military discipline got the better of him on this occasion and that the bonus uprising could have been put down without filling Pennsyl vania Avenue with tanks and burning the pitiful personal belongings of the veterans. Wisconsin and Wallace. The few high-up administrationites who know the whole story, consider recent happenings at the Wisconsin Democratic convention extremely sig nificant.

The chief fight among Wis consin Democrats was over Henry Wallace as running mate on a Roose velt fourth term ticket. Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker and Federal Economic Admin istrator Leo Crowley asked Congress man Howard McMurray of Milwaukee to go out to Wisconsin and make a fight for Wallace with his fellow Dem ocrats. The fact that these two high- up Democrats both went down the line for Wallace, is considered significant in itself. It puts to rest ideas that F.D.R. is veering toward Jimmy Byrnes as a running mate.

When Congressman McMurray got out to Milwaukee, he encountered tough sledding. Old line Wisconsin Democrats were delighted to pledge for Roosevelt for a fourth term, considered him the only man with a real chance of winning. But they would not take Wallace. The battle against him was led by State Senator Tony Gaw-ronski of South Milwaukee, Senator James H. Carroll and ex-Senator Harry W.

Bolens. Wallace, however, is not taking the defeat lying down. He is going to stage his own personal invasion of Wisconsin on Feb. 11 with a big meeting in Milwaukee at which he will be introduced by Bill Evjue, editor of the Madison Capital Times. The meeting will be the tip-off in a campaign to amalgamate Wisconsin Progressives with Democrats into a unity group.

Best Bid for Nomination. BY DREW PEARSON. Washington Merry-Go-Round. WASHINGTON Friends who have talked to Herbert Hoover recently say he has virtually become unofficial campaign manager for Governor Tom Dewey. However, Hoover readily admits that Dewey will have a fight on his hands to get the Republican nomination.

Shortly after Alf Landon, the G.O.P. 1936 nominee, indicated that Dewey could win the nomination on the first ballot, Hoover told hoover. Landon that it was foolish to assume that Wendell Willkie, whom Hoover considers the "man to be beat" at the G.O.P. convention, would not offer formidable resistance. However, Hoover scoffs at the idea that General Douglas MacArthur will get anywhere.

The former president still accuses MacArthur of trying to shift the blame to him for the bloodshed that occurred during the famous "Bonus March" on Washington, while MacArthur was chief of staff under Hoover. Doubts He'll Retire. "There is no way to introduce General MacArthur to the country under circumstances that would justify his nomination," Hoover tells friends. "Unless he retires from the Army and I don't think he will in time for the campaign it would appear that he was putting personal ambition ahead of his job in the Pacific in order to become a presidential candidate. I am sure that the general has no such intention." When Hoover gets wound up on the subject, he adds something that has stuck in his craw since the "Bonus March." "I got the blame for that incident," he recently told a friend, "but I never instructed General WE FIND THAT THEIR LOYALTY COUNTS.

One day the war department in Washington releases a report by Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt implying (but carefully not saying outright) that Japanese-Americans on the Pacific coast were up to their necks in espionage from Pearl Harbor until they were evacuated a few months later. The next day the war department announces that Japanese-Americans born in this country will be reclassified by selective service, and accepted on the same basis as other citizens.

This is because of the "excellent showing" the Japanese-American volunteer combat team has made in training, and the Japanese-American volunteer battalion now fighting in Italy. Evidently the war department -is still not all of one mind on this question. But actions speak louder than words, and we take it that restoration of equality before the draft boards means a good deal more than the publication of a report filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated guesses. Incidentally, the DeWitt report marks a retreat for him from the still more extreme position he took last spring. In regard to the possibility of returning some of the Japanese-Americans evacuated from the west coast military zone, of which he was then commander, he told a house subcommittee at that time: "A Jap's a Jap.

It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen or not. I don't want any of them. We got them out. They were a dangerous element." Evidently General DeWitt's superiors in the war department think they are a "dangerous" element, too but dangerous to the German Reichswehr, dangerous to the Imperial Japanese army, against both of which Japanese-Americans have fought with gallantry under the flag of their country, the United States. Evidently the United States government feels it does make a difference whether a man is a citizen or not, whether he'a loyal or not.

Judging a man by hia ancestry is neither sensible nor American. The only justification there was for the hasty mass evacuation of west coast Japanese-Americans was that it was a national emergency, and that the political and military authorities did not think there was time to sort them out into loyal and disloyal. Now the sorting has been done, with these results: Japanese-American in U. S. and ponsesMions 285,000 Japanese-Americans in continental TJ.

127,000 Japanese-Americans evacuated from coast 110,000 Japanese-Americans serving in armed forces 9,000 Japanese-Americans interned as dangerous aliens 1,800 Japanese-Americans detained as disloyal at Tule Lake. 6,000 "A Jap's a Jap" nothing! We might add that the rhief thing distinguishing our Japanese-Americans seems to be education. The Japanese-born who came over here as laborers many years ago without much education, made a place for themselves here, and had reached an average age of 60 when they were suddenly put behind barbed wire, are mostly loyal to the United States. Still more so are their children (average age now about 20) who were born here arid went to school here. The few disloyal ones are chiefly found among those who were born here and were sent back to Japan to be educated, or Japanese-born who kept up intimate contacts with the old country and became exposed to its nationalist "revolution" of the last dozen years.

All in all, according to Bob in the Belle Plaine Union, we are pretty well off. Less meat has improved our health (at least for those of middle age) and the mere fact that we have to carry home the groceries makes us think twice befora we buy. of Strikes and War Production Mr. Willkie's Chance THE WORLD 25 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1919 (From the files of The Des Moines Register.) Russians connected with the old Czarist regime have refused to meet with representatives of the bolshevist government a a parley called by the supreme council of the Paris peace conference.

French diplomats were skeptical of the proposed acceptance of bolshevist3 at the parley, as proposed by President Wilson. Former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has been sawing wood to keep the home fires burning in the castle he occupies, according to dispatches. A Labor View (Excerpts from an editorial in official publication of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.) Since Pearl Harbor, major strike or strike threat repercussions have af fected chiefly, three industries: coal, steel and railways. Has production of coal been ma terially affected during the turbulent year of 1943? Have the disturbances in the soft coal fields in that year actually halted or hampered the war effort on the production line? Let us look at these government figures for bituminous output during the past four years: Production Per Year Month Tons Manpower 193!) 82,905,000 100.0 112.1 109.7 117.5 1940 1941 1942 First 10 Months 1942 1943 38,398,000 42,846,000 48,833,000 Tons Per Alonth 48.293,000 48,971,000 118.4 104.9 It will be noted that soft coal ton nage in 1943 has registered a marked jump despite decrease of manpower in the pits owing to the draft and other causes. It is evident that despite scare headlines, loose statements and dire forebodings, we still have to be informed, in a reliable way, of a single warship that was halted on the ways, of a single tank that was stalled on the assembly line, or of a bomber that actually missed completion on time owing to lack of coal.

Regarding; Steel. As regards the steel stoppages, let us quote from a recent article by John Chamberlain issued by Freedom House in New York. "Certainly, no union should interfere some of our papers needle them. After the Pravda canard had done its harm to British-Russian relations and fed the prejudices of Americans the Russian press and radio published the British denial of separate negotiations. 1 Copyright, 19 44.) labor baiter has had the audacity publicly to claim that a single gun or tank had failed of delivery owing to the brief stoppage of the steel men in Ohio, or that a single armament or soldier-bearing train had missed it3 schedule owing to the threat of the railway men to go out on strike in.

conformity with their strike vote. Pledges Declared Kept. Whatever causes there may have existed in the past two years for the failure to achieve better co-ordination of the nation's resources for the war effort, they could not fairly be placed at the door of labor. We reiterate: Right after Pearl Harbor, the American trade unions pledged to forego strikes so as not to hurt the war effort. Labor has squarely and honestly fulfilled this pledge.

The American production record, indeed, has been the biggest single factor in the ever-brightening war picture on all fronts ask Hitler Hirohito. And the few unforunate d-ations from this all-out fulfilment of the no-strike pledge, deviations brought on largely through the provocative and arrogant attitude of Big Business and bungling on the part of several administration agencies, have not, we maintain, injured or retarded the war effort. Without hesitation, labor can offer its wartime record for full scrutiny to the general American community yes, to the men and women in the armed forces on all fronts with its production book wide open and r.o facts concealed. All smearing and baiting notwithstanding, labor's great record can very well meet the test of most exacting patriotism today and the most searching analysis of the his torian of tomorrow. THE PENALTY WAS NOT EXACTLY HARSH.

Those Anaconda Wire Cable Co. officials sentenced to 12 to 18 months in prison for conspiracy got off lightly. They were convicted of defrauding the government by faking inspections, so that substandard copper wire "got by" for army signal corps use. A good deal of this wire went to Russia under lend-lease, right in the perilous months when the fate of the whole world was being decided by the Red armies. Russian complaints that half the wire they received was defective led to the Investigation.

Here is an incomprehensible crime, ranking with the "embalmed beef" scandals of the Spanish-American war. The "gouge 'em" tradition in American business is still strong in isolated quarters, though it has been growing increasingly old-fashfbned in the last two or three generations. sentences imposed in the Anaconda case are hardly stiff enough to act as deterrents. But maybe the shock of public -revelation that auch things can be done will help. HOUSE OF LORDS AND HEREDITARY TITLES.

England is hearing more and more frequently, during the period when war debate focuses attentfon upon parliament, the suggestion that the hereditary principle under which peers pass down their seats in the House of Lords should give way to the appointment of lifetime peers only. Ai now constituted, th House of with critical war production even to prevent injustice. But just what did the Ohio (one-day) steel stoppage amount to? The men struck after four Republic Steel plants had shut down furnaces. They struck after U. S.

Steel had announced the closing of the ingot-producing Penncoyd works near Philadelphia. Phil Murray and the steel workers had been informed that basic steel had been over-produced; they had been told, in effect, that ingot, slab and bloom stocks were in excess of what the war fabricating plants could use. "In other worilg, the War Production Board and the Army had made It perfectly plain to the steel workers that a short protest strike could have no ill effects on the delivery of armaments to the soldiers. "If the 'high official' who lectured the strikers was General Marshall, then it is reasonable to assume that the right hand of the high command does not know what its left hand is doing." Government of Men. In the case of the railwaymen, a special board made a wage award.

Then Judge Vinson, the economic stepped in to set the award aside. This is a prime example of a "government of men, not of Moreover, it is a "government of one When the decision of a board of arbitration can be flouted, who can blame the railroad men for getting the Idea that no machinery for the achievement of justice is available in fllf.ni And fMiu lilmtiA ftiftt Primary Vote Thought BY MARK SULLIVAN. WASHINGTON, D. Mr. Willkie's real chance to show how he stands among Republican voters is ahead of him, and begins within two months.

That chance lies in the state primaries. The state primaries are official tests, conducted under law. If, in a considerable number of states, Willkie enters the Republican primaries. and wins them by material majorities, he will by that fact show convincingly that he stands well sii.i.iva.v. with Republican voters.

And if he makes this convincing demonstration, in a sufficient number of states, the Republican leaders will take notice of it, and so will the Republican national convention. Varied Primary Laws. What will count is the popular vote Mr. Willkie gets in primaries not the number of convention delegates he wins. By no means all the states hold primaries, and the primary laws of the states are complex and varied.

In some states, the primary Is optional; in some not conclusively binding on the delegates. Only In comparatively few states do the primary laws give the voters opportunity to say, specifically and bind-ingly, whom they prefer for the presidential nomination. Even if Mr. Willkie should win the primary in every state in which the laws provide for a conclusive contest, he would still be short of enough delegates to compose a majority of the convention. Voters' Preference.

It is not the number of delegates won by Mr. Willkie that will count it is the popular vote he gets. Mr. Willkie's chance lies in entering those state primaries which give the voters a clear-cut opportunity to say whom they prefer for the Republican presidential nomination whether Mr. Willkie or Governor Dewey, or some other.

Mr. Willkie's chance lies In making whirlwind personal campaigns in those states and winning them. He would do well to enter all the states in which the primary laws provide for such a clear-cut expression of the wish of the voters. The virtue and purpose of such a course by Mr. Willkie would be impress Republican leaders and impress the country.

Only by showing that he is strong with the rank and file of Republican voters is Mr. Willkie likely to get the nomination. The primaries some of which provide opportunity for a clear-cut test of popular preference and some of which do not begin March 14 in New Hampshire. Six more follow In April: Wisconsin and New York, April Illinois and Nebraska, April 11; Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, April 25. Others follow in May.

for threatening to counter lawless force majeure with the force ma-juere of a strike? At any rate, not even the most rabid.