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Eight Jon rnal-E very Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Tuesday, April 21, 19-12 New Fashion Designer In Washington By Peter Edson evening Consolidated Jan. 2. 1933 The News-Jeurnal Company Wilmington, Delaware (Publishers) HENRY T. CXAUS. President An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday.

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Crisis in France ONE answer to Marshal Petain's brief radio appeal for support of the new Laval government came on the same day when Jacques Doriot, advocate of collaboration with Germany, became the target of a bomb. The missile did not achieve its purpose but it was an emphatic rejection of Pierre Laval and all he stands for. Will the French people as a whole return the same answer to Marshal Petain's plea? That is a matter of supreme importance, for the attitude the mass of Frenchmen adopt toward the Laval regime can deeply affect that direction of the war. It is true, as Marshal Petain said, that France faces a crisis today that is as grave as the crisis of June, 1940. If Laval is accepted, if he is permitted to proceed for long with his plans, Hitler will have won important points in his game of conquest.

It is something that Admiral Darlan is to remain in charge of the French armed forces, since he will not surrender his best card without a struggle. But Laval is in a position to wriggle and scheme his way to greater powef and his worst enemies must admit that he is at least an able plotter and a resourceful politician. Besides, he has certain strong cards that Hitler may permit him to play. If some of the French prisoners should be released, if the barrier between occupied and unoccupied France should be lowered, if the hardships of defeat could be lessened, Laval might appear to be a benefactor. Then he could hope to go forward with his program for putting France on Germany's side.

The French people can decide whether Laval is to carry through his designs or fail. They may not have the strength, however, to make the decision without aid. It is up to the Allies to bolster their spirit and to raise their hopes. Unless there is positive as well as negative action we cannot be sure that they will make what may appear to be the harder choice. The Journal-Every Evening Is on salt at newsstands In all the principal cities and towns In the state: also leading newsstands In Philadelphia.

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Tuesday, April 21. 1942 The G. O. P. Program AS a platform or party policy the resolution adopted by the Republican National Committee in Chicago last night leaves little to be desired.

This Is because the men responsible for drafting it have faced frankly and realistically the two basic Issues of the day. The first need, as the committee declares, is for "the prosecution of an offensive war, relentlessly and without reservation, whatever it may cost in wealth, energy and human life until the United States and Its Allies have won a complete victory." But even more important, for the future of this country and the world, Is the clear recognition that the United States has "an obligation to assist in the bringing about of an understanding, comity and cooperation among the nations of the world" after the war. There is no need for fear that any group of Americans will accept anything less than a complete victory or will agree to a peace of appeasement or compromise. The greater danger, as our experience after the last war proved, is that the fruits of victory will be frittered away after they are won. There is infinitely less chance that we will lose the peace if both major parties are agreed, as they are today, that isolation is a thing of the past and that America has a responsibility and a selfish interest in the maintenance of a stable world order.

NBA Service. Inc. Don't Handle Mines! WARNINGS by District Coast Guard Officer L. E. Wells of Edge Moor Coast Guard repair base against mines that may be washed ashore or be found floating in the waters around Delaware, give advice that is vital to residents and visitors along the coast.

Officer Wells, pointing out that there are seven common types of mines, reminds that all have one thing in common that anyone within half a mile of such a mine is in a "danger zone." All, he warns, should be given a wide berth, with civilians approaching no nearer than is necessary to identify the object as a mine. Determining this, either in the case of a floating mine or one that is beached, the safe thing to do is to notify the authorities who will have the explosive device handled by persons trained in such work. Attempting to tow a mine, he warns, is apt to be a deadly undertaking. Floating mines have wreaked destruction in other areas, and an effort to release such objects in these waters is not improbable. This makes the Coast Guard officer's counsel especially timely as the season for water activities approaches.

Walter Lippmann Today and Tomorrow WASHINGTON, April 21 (NEA). Headaches over the moving of some 115,000 Japanese from their no-longer happy homes in Pacific coast states are just beginning, as the final report from the Tolan Committee Investigating National Defense Migration, will show when it is issued in a week or so. All these Japanese will be moved by the end of May not to their final wartime abodes, but out of the strategic areas into temporary reception centers. That doesn't solve the problem. In the wake of this mass migration are whirlpools and eddies that may not be quieted for months.

About 75,000 of these Japanese are U. 6. citizens, with all the rights and privileges of any other citizens. So far, the Jap citizens have been good. They have recognized they're on the spot and they have moved out of their former homes without making any fuss or starting any lawsuits.

But without getting soft or sentimental about these Jap-Americans, they are unquestionably taking pretty much of a beating and the potentialities for claims against the government out of real or imaginary damages to their persons and property can be rather sizeable. In simplest analysis, the problem has been that it's impossible to tell a good Jap from a bad Jap. In the hours and days immediately following the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, FBI and the military authorities took into custody some 5000 Japs on whom the finger of suspicion had already fallen. They're safely tucked away in concentration camps today and are no problem. Tha fact is that today the government has no evidence of any actual sabotage from the Japanese-American element of the population.

Espionage, yes. The Japs did plenty of spying. But no sabotage. There remained the danger that any one of the more than 100,000 Japs still at large might commit sabotage, however, so at this point the Army took over. Even the 6000 young men of Japanese extraction who were in the U.

S. military service had to be demobilized into the reserves. The 5000 suspicious characters put into concentration camps included most of the leading citizens, the exporters and importers, the bankers, the big merchants and hotelkeepers. They could hire lawyers and agents to look after private interests, keep businesses going. But the mass of Japanese left included the poorer elements, the fruit and vegetable growers and vendors, the fishermen, the people who took in each other's washing.

Tolan committee members and Staff Director Robert K. Lamb give the FBI, the Army and WRA, the new War Relocation Authority under Director Milton S. Eisenhower, a wholesome pat on the back for the job done thus far. At the same time the committee will not hesitate to point out some of the existing dangers and' the troubles that lie ahead. There is no provision yet for safeguarding the property interests of these U.

citizens of Jap extraction, as the Alien Property Custodianship takes care of non-residents only. Consequently the Jap-Americans' cars, houses, furniture and farms are now threatened with serious depreciation or destruction, laying the basis for many claims against the government later. The Army, now is footing the bill for preliminary transfers of the Japanese population from defense areas to temporary reception centers on race tracks, parks and similar semi-public places where ample shelter and adequate public utilities are quickly available. On permanent relocation center has been selected, an Indian reservation in New Mexico. Others are being considered, but one problem here is that no state wants these colonies.

But the luckless Japs have to go somewhere, and once on these permanent reservations the problems multiply. Shall they be paid? If so, what? Should it be more than the soldiers' wage? Shall they be put to developing areas which will be theirs after the war? Or shall they build homes and break ground for others? Shall they be forced labor or free labor? Shall they forced to grow crops needed for the U. S. war effort guayule, for instance, or sugar. beets or the truck and vegetables needed as vitamins for victory? Can they be used in other war production, such as having the fishermen make camouflage nets? Those are just a few of the headaches ahead.

Government survey of scrap metal situation in New England is expected to show what should be done in other areas. The waste paper collection campaign is pronounced a success, will be continued. It's against the law for a wife to sew cuffs on her husband's pants. In spite of wartime building restrictions, construction for 1942 may reach $14,000,000,000. against in 1941.

And a building labor need for 250,000 more men is anticipated. The average number of eggs per hen per year has risen from 84 in 1909 to 110 in 1941 And the 381,000,000 hens In the country laid over 41,000,000,000 eggs last year. Don't ask who counted. Salvage for Victory THIS week attention is being directed to the real significance of Salvage for Victory. On Friday, which has been designated by Mayor Albert W.

James as collection day, there will be gathered accumulations of discarded articles which the federal government needs in furthering the war effort. All residents who have such articles are expected to cooperate. This means searching the premises of each so as to find all types of waste which will prove useful. In issuing the proclamation designating Friday as collection day Mayor James is acting in accordance with Gov. Walter W.

Bacon's call to all Delawareans to conserve and salvage usable materials for the purpose indicated. "Total war for victory," Governor Bacon states, "requires total war on waste at home." This, he said, "means saving every scrap of paper, every old rag, every bit of rubber, every metal object." Many of these things can be found in cellars and 'attics. Now is the time to gather them and arrange for their disposal, either by gift or through sales to regular collection agencies. The point is to make these things available at once. This, however, is not a program of one week.

It is to be carried on throughout the war. The accumulation will be continuous and its disposal, to be effective, must be taken care of in like manner. Financing the Y. W. C.

A. IN its current appeal to the people of Wilmington for funds to assist in financing its operation for another year the Young Women's Christian Association has announced that it is 78 per cent self-supporting. The amount sought in the campaign, $37,860, will be required to bridge the gap. The picture is especially gratifying in view of the fact that the current expense and that of the immediate future is increased by the part the association is playing in promoting the civilian defense program. Among other things courses in first aid, nutrition and home nursing are being carried on.

One well may wonder how Wilmington could get along without the Y. W. C. A. It has a field for which it alone is fitted.

It gives a type of service for which there are no other agencies. It benefits especially girls and young women. It has been doing so for 47 years. All of this has been possible because it has had the sympathetic interest and help of the public. to congressmen which I have seen, that the complaint comes from the smaller business men who do not deal with Mr.

Nelson or with the war-procurement agencies. For them the forty-hour law is a real impediment to a longer working week and to the more complete use of their machines and plants. For them the law works as in the days of the depression it was meant to work namely, as a severe penalty on longer hours in order to compel them to hire more men. Their complaint is a real one. They are not paid by the government.

They cannot raise prices or Mr. Henderson will put a ceiling over them. They cannot easily hire more men because men are being drafted into the Army or lured into the industries, where they get deferment and also higher pay. The feeling in Congress comes from them, and it is no accident that the feeling is strongest in the South and Southwest, where there are relatively few war contractors, relatively more small business men who are caught by frozen prices, rising taxes, shorter supplies of materials and labor, and. finally, penalty payments for working more than 40 hours.

It is plain, I think, that as Mr. Nelson proceeds with the conversion of industry and as Governor McNutt and General Hershey proceed with the mobilization of manpower, more attention must be paid than any one in authority is now paying to the problems of producers who, though outside the war effort itself, are nevertheless very necessary to the country. At the peak of mobilization for total war they will probably still represent something like 40 or 50 per cent of the national economy. Even after all the civilian luxuries and conveniences and gadgets (Continued on next page) in this law, and the heads of the war industries have taken little or no part in asking that the law should be changed. This is surely a very odd situation, and it has produced a rather bitter and excited controversy.

Yet it is, I think, a case where the advocates on both sides have been right, but there has been no meeting of minds because they have been talking about different things. The war production officials have been talking about plants which have war contracts: it is quite true that in these plants the forty-hour law docs not hold production down to forty hours a week. It merely increases the weekly wage. A repeal of the law would mean an actual reduction of wages. The war production officials look upon repeal as a dangerous nuisance which would open up a new cycle of labor demands to bring total weekly wages back to the present leveL For in these plants money is not a consideration to the employers because the government pays the wage bill.

This explains why Mr. Nelson and all the other officials do not want the forty-hour law disturbed, and it is not necessary to invent other reasons, as, for example, that they are being dictated to by the labor union officials. On the other hand, the agitation against the forty-hour law, which is so strongly reflected in Congress, has its own valid basis. It is not necessary to invent reasons for it, as, for example, that it is some sort of anti-labor conspiracy. The agitation against the forty-hour law does not arise from the war contractors, but, on the contrary, from the industries which do not have war contracts and must therefore pay their own wage bills.

I feel sure, from letters which reach me, and from the letters WITH the appointment of Governor McNutt and the War Man Power Commission we can perhaps begin to see in a new light and somewhat more clearly the many labor questions which the country has been discussing. A long step has been taken toward universal service for war; Governor McNutt is specifically directed to recommend the legislation which will be necessary to supplement the powers that Major General Hershey has already developed in regard to deferment under the draft law. Now when a country moves toward universal service, the peacetime labor problem is transformed into the wartime manpower problem. As that change takes place, all the stock issues in industrial relations are changed, and many of these issues are superseded. It is, therefore, not only reasonable but very necessary for Congress and for the public to pause for a reappraisal of the actual situation.

In the broadest terms, the essential difference is that the old labor problem In war industry has revolved around the hiring of men and women by private employers, whereas the new manpower problem will revolve around the conscription of men and women by the government for service to the nation. The difference is so far-reaching that it will take us all some time to adjust our minds to it. Yet what has happened recently in the agitation about the forty-hour law shows how confusing it is to think as we have usually thought about the labor problem. From all parts of the country there Is a very strong attack on the forty-hour law as an obstruction to the war effort. At the same time the responsible officials in Washington have been unanimously opposed to a change The world situation at the present time indicates that the hopes of civilization rest upon the worthy banners of the courageous Russian Army.

Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur in radiogram to Soviet Army on its twenty-fourth anniversary. It costs Japan $1,000 to make a hole, and it costs us $2 to fill it up. Chinese official, discussing the Burma Road with Daniel Arnstein, American traffic expert. It's Coming, Adolf TT7E hope Adolf Hitler doesn't mind if our birth- day present to him arrives a little late this year.

We should have liked nothing better than to have given him a nice, big surprise party'on his anniversary yesterday. But he needn't be afraid that we have forgotten him because nothing arrived. That isn't true at all and the best proof of it is that a lot of us Americans have been busily making plans to drop in on Him at the earliest opportunity. The boys have been getting up some very exciting entertainment for him too. It wouldn't be nice to spoil the secret by telling just what, but we can promise Adolf that it will be a really bang-up party when it goes off.

Up to this time Hitler jhas been used to giving his own parties in his own way and it must be admitted that he has staged some rather spectacular blow-offs. But John Bull and Uncle Sam and Joe Stalin are not going to let him get away with that this year, if they can possibly help it. It is too bad that the plans aren't quite complete but they are getting bigger and better all the time. Several. thousand shiny new bombers are on their way to Russia and England for the show and there are thousands of new tanks and guns also en route.

That is the kind of thing that Adolf understands best and we aim to give him what he can appreciate. Now that he has some idea what's coming, we hope he won't mind waiting a little longer. For we can promise that this surprise party, when it comes, will be the biggest one he ever saw so big, in fact, that we don't believe he'll want another one for 1,000 years. Editorial Opinions From Other Newspapers Why Not? From the Republic Bulletin Congressman Dies charges that on the Board of Economic Welfare, Maurice Parmelee, principal economist, is a proponent of the nudist cult Well, it may not be a bad idea to have someone like that around. We are gradually divesting ourselves of our clothing.

Of course the women started it several ago. But now the new suits for men are to have no cuffs on the trousers, and no vests for double-breasted suits. Pretty soon the tax collector will be taking our shirts. Maybe we ought to know a little about etiquette among the nudists. fusing to teach his lmbecilic Ignorance in their schools, by denouncing his Antichrist in their churches.

Within this week 1,100 of their clergy resigned rather than accept the blasphemies concocted in Berlin and handed down by Quisling. Will Norway be free again? In the hearts of her people she is free now. The moon, in Mr. Steinbeck's phrase, may be down. Nevertheless, the sun shall rise and, in Norway, even at midnight.

25 Years Ago Today From Every Evening April 21, 1917 A Bridge Expert Talks By Edgar A. Guest cannot stand stupidity!" said one who heads his class. "The sort of fool who doesn't know when he should bid or pass. My friends may very useful be in varying arts or trades, But I insist they ought to know when clubs outnumber spades. "A surgeon once who saved my life with most unusual skill Will never hear from me again, unless I'm taken ill.

He thinks that bridge is played for fun that's going much too far The game's intended for a few to show how smart they are! "I know a lot of slow-poke chaps. Upon their cards they look And try to think of everything that's printed in the book. Once played, they think the hand is done, which isn't so at all. IH play one seven weeks later on, and every card recall. "I fear 111 have to quit the game.

Not many seem, to be Sufficiently endowed with brains to play at bridge with me. And looking back across the years I find it sad but true, The stupid are so many, and the brilliant are so few!" (Copyright. 1942. Edgar A. Ouesti Free Norway From the New York Times Two years ago Adolf Hitler took Norway under his protection.

He protected her by invading her territories, bombing her cities, killing her soldiers and civilians, and driving out her chosen government. She resisted his protection, under arms, for 62 days. That part of her vast merchant fleet which was not trapped in port by the Axis disobeyed the treacherous orders sent out from occupied Oslo and went over to the democracies. Of the 30,000 Norwegian seamen who manned her ships, 1,300 have already died in service against the common enemy. Hitler protected Norway by robbing her people of their blankets, their fuel and their food; by suppressing their free institutions; by giving power to a handful of traitors, led by Quisling, whom every loyal Norwegian despises and has always despised; by exacting forced labor; by imprisoning the best and wisest; by shooting the most courageous.

spirit of her 3.000,000 people has not been broken, and will not be. They fight him by quiet resistance, by giving aid to British fliers and landing parties, by sabotage, by secret news- papers. They fight him openly by re Representative William M. Connelly today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for member of City Council from the Twelfth Ward. The biennial municipal election takes place in June.

Bicycle Registration ADVISABILITY of safeguarding one's property which may tempt thieves is stressed by a bicycle registration project now under way in Mid-dletown. A systematic plan has been adopted by Chief of Police Charles F. McCloskey which requires little work on the part of owners but which is good insurance nevertheless. A card for each machine is' filled out with the serial number and other descriptive information. The cards, which are filed, simplify the task of the police in case of theft.

Similar protective measures have been adopted elsewhere. As bicycles have greater value now since the use of automobiles has begun to decline, owners should avail themselves of all facilities for their Wide Uses of Corn From the Emporia, Gazette "Rubber from Corn" is a head over an editorial in the Salina Journal, suggesting that Kansas corn has what it takes to supply rubber for the American people. Corn is a versatile vegetable. It probably would yield up rubber as it yields up white oil for the salad. Out of corn come molasses and glucose.

Out of corn come breakfast food, pancakes, hoe cakes, shellac, wall board and delirium tremens. Arthur E. Cole of Wilmington died today of Injuries suffered Wednesday while at work. Wise Bird? From the Detroit News A crow In Arizona is building Its nest of barbed wire, and the Dove of Peace would like to know more. A case of anthrax in Wilmington was reported to the Board of Health today..