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WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round 11 DE GLANCES By Galbraith ijmtnlitht tawSullrtitt Pog 6 Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 By DREW PEARSON Noted Capital Columnist Senators Favor Use of Troops In World Peace Biddle and Littell Both Liberals But Clashed; Mill mi! Attorney General Disliked Aide's Belligerence; By RADFORD MOBLEY Chief of The -Star-Bulletin's Washington Bureau Hawaii's Greatest Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday 125 Merchant Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, U. S. A. DOWN TO CASES pop proposition The Girl In the Front Office says she can't understand why, since the baseball season is over, there is such a.

demand for empty bottles here. Ripley says three strong1 men can't nncnrl the Pangolin once It carls op. The average mother experiences similar difficulty In retting a young son out of bed. One of the satisfactory things about wartime Is that a fellow doesn't have to worry about whether his tuxedo tie is going to stay out. Nail armies are collapsing in Hungary, says 'an item, and the Man With the Red Mustache says it may be because they, are Hungary.

Your Hokum for Today: "Oh, we didn't know you folks were just sitting down to dinner." HOWARD D. CASE. Despite Background, Biddle Fights for Underdog WASHINGTON, D. Along Philadelphia's swank Main Line, they tell how the former Prince of Wales, while dining among Quaker City bluebloods, was asked: "Would you like to meet Biddle?" To which the Prince replied: "What's a biddle?" Ever since the Biddle-Littell row broke the justice department wide WASHINGTON, D. C.

Fifty three members of the senate are now prepared to vote for a RILEY H. ALLEN EDITOR world peace or- ganization giving i I the American delegate discre-T I tionary power to; I WASHINGTON BUREAU 1238 National Press building, Washington, D. C. Radford Mobley, bureau chief. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES O'Mara Ormsbee.

New York 270 Madison Chicago 230 N. Micht-an L. A. 403 W. Eighth S.

F. Russ Bldg. The war and navy departments at one time wanted congress to pass a "Dora" or defense of the Realm act similar to England's, under which two members of parliament have been jailed without trial. But Bid MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. dle has blocked such an act here.

He also bucked the army regarding martial law in Hawaii. use troops against threats to world peace. In a poll just completed by The Star-Bulletin it is established that these senators would vote affirmatively this question regarded as a key Letters From Readers A. B. C.

Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. U. P. The Star-Bulletin receives the standard day report of the United Press. Mobley one for revealing the senate's post A Thought for Toddy It is the first of all problems for a man to find oat what kind of work he Is to do in this universe.

Carlyle. war position. Fifty -three senators is eleven short fo the needed two-thirds to get such a treaty through the U. S. senate.

But replies to inquiries from thirty-six senators listed as ful or non-committal" indicate that these eleven might easily be picked THEY RESENT SEEING LOAFERS IN WARTIME Editor The Star-Bulletin: I have just read a letter In your paper by a "Local Soldier's Wife" and believe me, she has written something that I have been wondering about for some time. I am indeed in sympathy with her. Like "Local Soldier's Wife," I too have a man in the army and I am not griping because such is the situation, but it does make one stop and think when we see so many loafers hanging around poolrooms and just being bums, while many a good conscientious fellow who has kept to his job almost day and night, and who would be of value to the war effort, is drafted into the army, while some bum stays here to insult girls on the street. If they can't be made to work, how about putting them in the army? I am sure a little discipline will not hurt them; in fact might do them some good. Another thing Is hard to understand, and that is why so many men who have no trade at all and having no more important job than I have in my kitchen washing dishes, get a deferment, while one who has a trade and works hard at it is drafted into the army.

Maybe someone smarter than I am can answer that. WOMAN WHO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. up. umy six voted no. There is still a chance, however, that a handful of wilful men can prevent formation of a tight world organization If advantage is not taken of sentiment arising from results of the recent election, the poll shows.

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er Bob has asked me to marry him He says that as long as he and his buddies had to vote by mail, he figured he could propose the same way The poll is considered here in the light of the recent move toward a constitutional amendment which would nullify treaty making pow open, a lot or people are asking the same question: "What, who and how is Francis Biddle?" If you talk to his old friends en the Philadelphia main line, they will tell you he is a traitdr to his class. If you talk to Norman Littell, his former assistant attorney gen-j eral, he will tell you Biddle is merely the stooge and puppet of Tommy Corcoran. If you talk to some of the newspaper publishers: against whom Biddle is bringing suit in the Associated Press their remarks are almost unprintable, But if you talk to the men who work with him day in and day out in the justice department, 90 per cent will tell you he is a shy, hesitant person, who sometimes waits before making up his mind but, once he is sure he is right, will fight harder for the right and for the underdog than any other attorney general in recent years. FDR tells how, when Biddle was proposed as head of the national labor relations board in 1934, he feared Biddle was too reactionary. In Philadelphia, Biddle had been attorney for the Pennsylvania railroad, biggest railway property in the world.

His last law case before he entered the government was to defend the Pennsylvania against Wendell Berge of the justice department in a rebate case. Biddle and the railroad won. Today Berge is assistant attorney general under Biddle, and today they are both prosecuting one of the biggest antitrust cases in history against the railroads. mam ALMOST TOO LIBERAL Shortly after Biddle came to Washington in 1934, FDR had occasion to wish his new man wasn't so liberal. The San Francisco Call-Bulletin? had fired a newspaperman.

Dean S. Jennings, in violation of the NRA labor code. The president wasn't looking for a scrap with the newspapers at that early date in his administration, but Biddle, as chairman of the national labor relations board, one of the most thankless jobs in the country, ordered Jennings reinstated. Biddle probably gets his Instinct of battling for the underdog partly from the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose secretary he was; partly from Mrs. Biddle.

Biddle has written a book on Holmes, soon to be filmed in Hollywood. Mrs. Biddle, a well known poetess, writes under the name of Kathcrine. nd there you run up against the fact that his young assistant attorney general, Norman Littell, now quarreling with him so bitterly, did exactly the same thing. In fact, Littell took the lead in the fight for civil law in Hawaii, with Biddle's support.

CLASH OF PERSONALITIES The inside of this violent clash of personalities is' that both men stand for the same things, but Biddle is slower, more cautious, believes in winning over his fellow cabinet members in the war and navy departments by persuasion if possible. But Littell, brilliant, impatient, belligerent, scorns persuasion, is never happier than when publicly rowing with the army or navy. For instance, the late Secretary, of the Navy Frank Knox, as honest as the day is long, nearly fainted when Littell told congressmen that the navy had perpetrated another Teapot Dome scandal in leasing Elk Hills to Standard Oil of California. Littell was right about the lease not being good policy but it was an honest lease, and there was no "little black bag" connected with it, as in Harding's day. Frank Knox never got over this reflection on his honesty.

Again, Littell wanted to condemn the Savannah Shipyards and claims that "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran lobbied with Biddle against condemnation. But the real fact is that Littell lost money for the government in that case. Corcoran had proposed a settlement whereby the government would pay the shipyard owners $1,000,000 for their property. Littell opposed. And in a joint conference, Biddle sided with Littell, as he nearly always did.

He told hira to go ahead and try the case. Whereupon Littell lost. A Savannah jury made the government pay not $1,000,000 but $1,378,368.36. The government was out over $378,000. ers of the senate by a two-third vote and substitute a bare majority CIVILIAN AMERICA ABROAD vote by Dotn nouses.

The roll call has some surprises By WALTER LIFFMANN- lations with our Allies: he would It shows that senators normally in opposition to the white house are presently with it on this have paid for it on the battlefields. In this column Walter Lipp-nann combines bis report on conditions in Europe following his return to New York. question. It points clearly to the need for decisive action by the President in timing with the European war. If he strikes while the iron Is hot he probably has the votes with Bet if by a failure of our Information services we make a botch of our political relations, failing to understand what is going- on among our Allies or to make clear to them where wo stand and what we mean, the result is likely to be not remedy for the trouble but an Inconclusive argument.

Until the administration is will NEW YORK There is a serious disparity between the military power of the United States and its civilian representatives abroad. The fact is, I think, that while the uniformed services have him. No doubt exists about a two-thirds majority in the senate supporting a. strong world peace or-' ganization. In reply to this question, the poll shows 73 senators favoring, 22 doubtful or noncommittal, and none against.

LANDLORDS VICTIMIZED BY HEEDLESS TENANTS Editor The Star-Bulletin: Being a landlord, I was much interested in a letter signed "Weary Landlord." The popular 1944 version of the landlord is a grasping, gouging ogre of vast wealth and peculiarities. If said landlord has for a number of years by great economy managed to pay for a few rental units with the thought in mind that he would have a serene old age, the joke is on him. The tenant does not take into consideration the fact that repairs are double in price; labor, if obtainable, for cleaning up filthy messes is double, taxes are varied, insurance, lights, home exemption is lost, linen not home from the laundry is lost (try and buy any, even if you have the cash). A stunt of tenants is to remove doors and windows, leave them in the yard as garbage (try and replace them, it's next to impossible). Norfolk pine of ten years' growth and cherished by the landlord are chopped down as Christmas trees (the landlord has a branch of the algaroba for his).

We could go on and on but I should mention one tenant who spent his spare time reposing on his beauty rest (pre-war rents) and shot wads of chewing gum up into the ceiling. (A nice shot in most cases, that fellow! The Shadow says, "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men?" Our Version is. "The Landlord does," if he has some furnished houses for rentl ANOTHER WEARY LANDLORD ing to remove men who are not equal to their jobs and to replace DANGER IN DIVISION Two dispatches from Europe in recent days together tell a story of critical significance of what is happening in the world today. One, from Madrid, reports the reaction of Germans in neutral Spain to present developments in Allied relations. It said: "Nothing in the last year has delighted them more than dispatches from Washington, London and Athens, which they interpret as an indication that America and Britain are determined tc block further Soviet expansion in Europe.

'They say the silence in Moscow means the Russians are not pleased. "The Germans are pleased with any signs of British distrust of Russia, or the opposite, and they think they can see both" The olher dispatch, from London, reported a growing belief that an early meeting of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin would be held, citing the following reason for urgency: "A sharp decline in American-British relations, now possibly at their lowest ebb since the war began, was given as one argument against further delay." Why are American-British relations at such a low ebb? One of the reasons is British policy in Italy and Greece. Americans do not like Britain's resort to arms to enforce a government satisfactory to itself in Greece, nor British interference in Italy, and have not hesitated to say so. The British, seeing Europe's problems from a different point of view from that of the American, naturally resent our criticism." They have to live with Europe, we do not. what few Americans realize is that Britain Is bankrupt.

Thinking Britons know it; they see their country desperately impoverished by five years of war, while the apparently unending stream of billions rolls out America. They see Britain no longer a first class power unless every effort is strained to recover the position held before the war. In so straining, some of the spirit of the Atlantic Charter is being stretched pretty thin. Yet rone of these differences Is serious enough to endanger the unity of our two nations in the face of the common enemy. Germany, though hurt, is still fighting, still to be beaten.

The defeat of Jaijan is still far distant. It will take more to crush each one than we had figured on; and this includes most of our leaders. For these two nations to begin drifting apart at this point would be the greatest catastrophe that could befall us both. We have to win the war first. Let's do our quarreling and wrangling and splitting when the foe is done away with.

them as soon as as they show signs i been growing in force, in discipline, and In professional competence, the foreign service and the related agencies give the effect of a case of retarded, perhaps even of arrested, develop of not being equal to their jobs, it will be fighting a first class war I. In both polls Senator Harry Tru with a third rate diplomatic ma man is eliminated, making the total chine. count of only 95 senators. Senator Without a good many resigna ment. There is a tions, a good many promotions.

Truman will become vice president before the vote, and his successor is not named. Surprises in the "discretionary world of differ ence between the military power of power" poll include Senator Wiley and a good many new appointments, nothing substantial can bo accomplished. The civilian services dealing with foreign relations need rejuvenation and reinforcement. But they need also to be organized from the top downward in order to make of Wisconsin and Senator Taft of the United States today and before LIppmann Ohio, both Republicans, voting to give discretionary power to the Pearl Harbor; there has been no comparable progress on the exilian American delegate. side.

Garrison Chapin, one of her poems having been set to music for the Philadelphia Philharmonic orchestra. As attorney general, Biddle has There is no doubt a good gen eral reason why we have learned to conduct war more readily than done a lot of things that made his we have learned to conduct our foreign relations. War is now in high degree a kind of armed industrialism, and Americans have Those are some'of the facts which Littell, brilliant but emotional, did not make clear in his public blasts at his chief, the attorney general. BIDDLE'S BIG MISTAKE i Littell is God's gift to newspapermen. He loves to try his cases in the papers.

The shy and retiring Biddle doesn't. Neither did the cabinet members on whose toes Littell stepped. Unfortunately, in Washington it is sometimes necessary to try cases in the newspapers and step on toes. Sometimes that is the only way you can blast slow moving red tape. Undoubtedly, Littell did a great service to his country on many things.

But he made the mistake of talking about his cabinet chief behind his back, sometimes in words that were fighting terms. Biddle waited patiently until after the elections, then asked Littell to resign. That was his big mistake. He should have used the Roosevelt technique of getting Littell another job. Down in South Jersey, Francis coherent and effective the making of policy and its administration.

We have formed a combined force out of the armed services but there is no such combination of the foreign service, our economic agencies, and of the OWL They can not represent the United States efficiently abroad because back in Washington there is nothing that corresponds to the joint chiefs of staff. There is in other words no war cabinet to which all great matters are submitted and from which there is promulgated the policy cf the United States, as distinct from the policy of Elmer Davis or Mr. been able to draw quickly upon The Meaning Of Dumbarton Oaks Agreement By PETER EDSON (NEA Washington Correspondent) WASHINGTON For several days, this space will be devoted to an attempt to spell out in the simplest possible language the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for charter creating a their aptitude and their experience in producing, transporting, dis tributing, and In handling com blueblood friends in Philadelphia writhe in anguish prosecuting the insurance companies, seizing Montgomery-Ward, bringing more antitrust cases than any other attorney general in history. But there Is one thing about which not many of them know, with which they probably would agree. Though little publicized, Biddle's achievement has been in preserving civil liberties In war-.

time. In the last war, the Justice de plicated equipment, and in man WOULD DONATE CLOTHING TO FILIPINOS Editor The Star-Bulletin: Please allow me to convey my idea to the leaders of the different Filipino communities and club organizations, about a way of helping our needy loved ones parents, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends in the Philippines, particularly in the places liberated" by Gen. Douglas MacArthur where I presumed help could possibly be extended now, The horrible and devastating effect of this war is not doubted and we certainly know the very grave situation of our loved onesnot enough food or clothing. It is worth mentioning that from our pay envelopes or pay checks, we generously gave and we are still willing to give contributions to the different relief agencies, the Red Cross. Community Chest Fund, Philippines Relief Fund, etc.

We have banquets, dances and other ways to step up our contributions. What about the old clothing many of us have, such as coats, pants, shirts, sweaters, jackets, girls and women's dresses, etc. we don't like to wear aging the division of labor in large scale enterprises. But owing to our long isolation we have not had ready at hand Morgenthau or Admiral Leahy or enough experienced men for the conduct of foreign relations, nor did we have the tradition and the know- Mr. Crowley or of a chief of division in the state department, or at critical points but not systematically United Nations Organization prevent wars.

The document produced by the partment prosecuted 1,956 cases for seditious utterances. Some newspa how. of the president himself. Yet when we have made all the representatives of explanations, we can not afford indulgently to explain away the fact the United States, Grat Britain. So.

but still as good as new? I am asking you. Filipino 4) that we could by this time be better id viet Russia and prepared to form and administer foreign policy, and that we must China, in seven weeks of explor- ation at the old most urgently take measures to be come better prepared. Biddle has built himself a summer beach cottage where he likes to fish and lounge in old clothes. He fancies himself 'a great surf fisherman, though he is extremely bad. He also fancies himself quite a good automobile driver, though he is not.

One day he backed his car off the road into the sand and got stuck, causing his young nephew to remark: "If Uncle Francis is smart enough to be attorney general, you'd think he'd have learned not to back into that sand." Today Uncle Francis is wishing he had not backed into Norman LittelL pers were shut down. All sorts of people were thrown into jail. In the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln threw 200,000 people into jail without trial or hearing. But in this war, Biddle has prosecuted only 18 cases for sedition.

And no one has been held in jail without trial or hearing. A lot of people at the beginning of the war demanded that Biddle prosecute Father Coughlin. But Biddle refused, contending it would arouse religious prejudice and appear to be persecution. Instead, he let the church silence Coughlin. Even the White House at one time prodded Biddle because he did not crack down on the radio priest.

leaden. Is it not good. II you should ten or asK about these old clothings from your members and friends I think many are willing to give and when you have them packed-ready, solicit the aid of army and navy authority or relief agency or church organization, to have them delivered and distributed to our reedy loved ones? Thus, I am pretty sure that our loved ones, instead of becoming a burden, will be of more help to Gen. Douglas MacArthur; which means the earlier liberation of the Philippines and the quicker war end. Yours truly, ISIDRO M.

CANAVERAL 752 Kanea St. The fundamental truth Is. I believe, that the standard of judgment we apply to our civilian agencies is so much softer than that which our military leaders have set for themselves and for their subordinates. The United States could never have become the great military power it now is if Gen. Mar shall and Admiral King had con tinued to use men whom they knew to be inadequate, if they had not replaced men quickly who were not equal to their responsibility.

Gallup Poll: Nazi Atrocity Stories Believed In U. S. There is lacking a central controlling brain. It is, of course, impossible for any one's brain to control the whole complex activity, and therefore if there is to be control, it must be by the collective brain of a small, well disciplined, war cabinet or council. As this does not exist, our representatives abroad are not instructed and informed about the policies of the government they represent.

Unable to speak with sufficient authority about American policy, they do not, except in the rare cases where a single individual has personal and extra-official connections, have genuine access to the foreigners with whom they are supposed to deal. For information is a two way affair: an official, or any one else, say a newspaper man, who has little information to give will not get much information in return. Because our representatives abroad are very badly informed about Washington and the United States, they can not hope systematically and continually to keep Washington properly informed about Europe. We must not be surprised, therefore, if at the very time when the material power of the United States is a determining Influence in western Europe, our political Influence is diminishing. It is diminishing not because Europe seeks to exclude our influence but because we lack the personnel, the teamwork, and the organized and coordinated ca--pacity to exercise our proper They too have had to deal In a hard way with old friends.

They buss estate in Washington, is in no sense fin-ished work. Be- i-dson fore Congress is asked to put its stamp of approval on the United Nations Organization, the Dumbarton Oaks proposals require further action, first by the four governments, to complete the draft of the plan, then full consideration and adoption at a conference of all the United Nations which will probably be called soon and held early in 1945. After that meeting the formal charter will go to the U. S. Senate and all other United Nations governments for ratification or rejection.

No one ean predict when this final action will be taken. This subject of the United Nations Organization to promote, maintain and enforce peace and security will become an increasingly important topic for debate, in and out of Congress. And the men shaping the foreign policy of the United States want this question debated want it threshed out in every high school and college debating society, in every town hall, on every radio forum, in every newspaper how far this country is willing to to in granting to an in too have had to overcome political pressure and the vested rights of men well intrenched in their jobs. But never would they have made the United States a great military power if they had been as unwilling as the civilian leaders to exercise their authority sternly. The need for sternness is, of course, more immediately evident in the fighting services.

There the of the stories of German atrocities in Belgium were found to have been exaggerations if not hoaxes, with the result that many Americans became suspicious of all atrocity stories, and inclined to discount them as "propaganda." As part of its survey, the institute put this question to all people (76 per cent) who think the German mass murder stories are true: "Nobody knows, of course, how many may have been murdered, but what would be your best guess?" The range follows: 100,000 or less 100,000 to 500,000 5 500,000 to 1,000,000 1 1.000,000 6 2,000,000 to 6.000,000 8 6.000,000 or more 4 Unwilling to guess 25 76 The survey found some differ failure of a commander has soon to "be paid for in lives and in treasure, whereas in the civilian services the consequences of inadequacy and of failure are less self-evident. Gen. Eisenhower could not afford to make a botch of his military re By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion NEW YORK. Contrary to the widespread skepticism of atrocity stories after the last war, today an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the accounts of Nazi atrocities and mass murder of Jews and Christians in Europe are true. But there is a wide difference of opinion as to the extent of the slaughter and the number of victims.

Regardless of the number involved, the American people are fully prepared to believe that mass murder and atrocities have taken place, as witnessed by their vote on the following question in the institute's survey: "Do you believe 'the stories that tho Germans have murdered many people in concentration camps are true or not true?" True 76 Not true 12 No opinion 12 The size of the majority is noteworthy. After the last war some ternational authority the right to Disease Rate Cut Sharply In Texas employ American armed forces, along with the forces of other nations, in preventing wars. LIFT THE CUSTOMS SAFEGUARD? News from Washington of the proposed lifting of customs inspection for Hawaiian ports is bound to cause serious apprehension here. The work of the customs bureau is not merely to assess duties and collect fees. It is not merely to inspect imports and crack down on efforts to run in narcotics.

In a much broader sense, it is a public safeguard, and as such it cts in close coordination with such affiliated agencies as public health and public quarantine or plant inspection. Thus the customs service is one'barrier, and a very important barrier, against the introduction of insect pests and plant The dropping of the inspection, it is understood, would apply to airports as well as seaport. And in these days of swift transit from the disease-ridden tropics to Hawaii, that is a point not to be ignored. The matter of customs revenue is important, and the loss of those revenues will be felt by the federal treasury, for Hawaii is ordinarily one of Uncle Sam's most consistent and active oroducers of customs fees. But that, is a consideration secondary to the danger of weakening the structure of expert inspection erected to guard Hawaii from pest and disease.

The brief dispatch from Washington which brought the public first news of the projected move refers to it as "a measure to facilitate wartime operations." Thus, presumably, the lifting of customs restrictions would be for the purpose of speeding up the entry and dispatch of vessels from island ports. So far as we know there has been no official complaint or showing that the work of the customs staff has delayed war cargoes or lindered the sailing of vessels. Indeed, the port of Honolulu, it has repeatedly been stated, has one of the best records in the world for fast discharge and turn-around of ships in wartime. The customs and other federal civil agencies here have had their part in this fine record. The proposed congressional move deserves and should have the study of appropriate committees of congress betore any action is taken.

The emergencies of wartime justify extraordinary methods and measures. But it is axiomatic that these must clearly be justified by the acuteness and size of the emergency and that otherwise the normal processes of law and regulation should continue. WISE AND OTHERWISE Bernard Shaw implores his doting admirers to lay off and let him write. We believe our novelty stores offer a card for use in such contingencies: "Quiet! Genius at work!" Detroit News. -How long have we had those?" asked the golfer speculatively as he watched the doughnut machine making one hole in one after another.

Now we are told that American women use enough lipstick every year to paint 40,000 barns. Maybe so, but we think it's the hard way to pail a barn. Town Through Closing of the 'Houses' ences of opinion by sections as to A Book a Day PRACTICALLY AP PARENT, PRE-NURSERY RHYMES. By Kathryn Kay. Murray Gee, Inc.

This is a book of sprightly verse the truth of the atrocity stories, but Prizewinners In the Great Dishwashing Letter Contest (Note: Herewith are the two first prliewinners In Tho Star-Bulletin's domestic debate on the tople. Should Husband. Help His Wife Wash the Names ef the judges must neeessarily be kept secret for fear of family complicationsin selecting the arbiters this newspaper stipulated that even' their wives or husbands, as the case might be, must be kept in ignorance.) SHE'S AGAINST HUSBAND-DISHWASHERS! Dishwashing Editor! The Star-Bulletin: You ask, "Should a husband help wash the dishes?" No! No, for tho following reasons: 1. He is usually bit clumsy In the kitchen and may break the very dishes you prize. 2.

If running hot water is used, he will usually use twice as much as is really necessary, thereby run up the gas or electric bill. 3. Most likely he will pour half a box of powdered soap in the dishpan Instead of measuring or carefully shaking enough for the present needs. 4. If he were asked to help, he may start that habit ef making excuses to attend meetings, clubs or those very important business deals.

9. Now that yard men are so scarce, let him mow the lawn or mop the kitchen. That really takes masculine energy. I say again, he should not help wash the dishes. If wife persists on having him help with the dishes, just let him wipe! Yours truly, ELBERT'S WIFE.

Florence C. Ogden, 3041 Kaimuki Ave, Honolulu, T. H. HE'S FOR CONNUBIAL COOPERATION Dishwashing Editor, The Star-Bulletin: Any man worthy of a good wife should be willing to lend a hand at any task at all. That is the way U.

S. Navy works and even Hirohito would have to admit we're not doing badly. AU over the world we are fighting the idea of super-races; let's not have a super-half in any home. In the Navy I learned to peel spuds, make beds, cook and wash both dishes and floors, along with my military duties. I don't pretend I'm crazy about the domestic angles, but I know I've gained a greater appreciation and understanding of these important and necessary tasks.

Sure, a husband should help wash the dishes. Every man of necessity asks his wife to do many jobs that are not strictly her work. Neither the man nor the woman loses either virility or feminine charm through lending each other hand. Instead, they gain a new understanding et the importance ef each other's work and increase by 50 per cent their chances of ft successful married life. Mind you, I don't say the overalls should be permanently exchanged for the apron but it helps if both sides know how they fit! Nautically yours, SAILOR SAM.

A. A. O'Keefe, Y2c, USNR, Com. Air Pac. War Mobilisation Director James F.

Byrnes When the Russians reach Hitler's capital I nominate for chairman of the welcoming committee our own General Eisenhower. no important difference in of the number of victims. designed for those who have had any Donald Nelson In Chungking Again experience with babies, including those who have been one. The author composed her offering while in the process of learning about babies the hard way, by becoming a to say for about three months, with at least two members carrying on indefinitely. The presence here of five United mother.

A dauntless woman, she learned to" laugh amid her woes. States' steel-making experts reflects the importance attached to this as We consider, mt this time, that there is a great decrease in unorganized clandestine prostitution. A far as sex crimes are concerned, there has been no Increase in this area. If there Is any further Information you desire, please call cn us at any time. Sincerely, R.

S. LLOYD. M. D. Health Unit Director Corpus Christi, Texas The Bible And The World Today (Brief facts about the book which moulds more lives than any other.) WHO WROTE THE BIBLE? The whole list of contributors ne one knows.

They were prophets and poets, sages and singers, fishermen and physicians, lovers and lawgivers, men to whom God spoke with such power that their words live'on as a part of the changeless record that still molds the lives of men and nations. By A. T. STEELE Chicago Daily News Foreign Service CHUNGKING. China.

Donald M. Nelson and 13 other assorted American experts are at Chungking and find China in the midst of one of its most trying periods of difficulty since the outbreak of the Pacific war. Mr. Nelson's visit coincides with a new low in the country's military outlook and a new high in the ex pect of Chinese production. It has been estimated that the output of (Note: This is one of a series of letters to The Star-Bulletin giving the experiences of mainland cities and towns in the closing of houses of prostitution.

The Star-Bulletin wrote to the medical authorities of various such cities near which large numbers of the armed forces are stationed.) Corpus Christi, Texas November 20, 1944 Mr. Riley H. Allen, Editor The Honolulu Star-Bulletin In answering your questions regarding the closing of houses of prostitution in Corpus Christi, we wish to advise that the venereal disease rate among the armed forces dropped approximately 40 per cent. For a short time after the closing of the houses of prostitution, there was a small amount of difficulty in curbing the prostitutes thus released from the houses. With excellent police work, and tho city and county police cooperating with the city-county Health Department, this was soon Another item which has helped decrease the rate, is the institution by the state health department, of a venereal disease hospital, through which all female venereal disease persons, and those reasonably suspected of having a venereal disease, are kept until cured, or pronounced not having venereal disease.

the Chinese steel mills is little more than 10 per cent of their maximum potential. Higher copper production will also be sought. change rate of American dollars. With American technical help, it is hoped that China will be able to produce, in its own smelters and factories, a larger percentage of the The experiences related brought hilarious laughter from several bachelors who leaf ed through the book while it rested on our shelf. Husbands who were once anxious fathers to be may also like to give a reminiscent chuckle.

Mothers will, perhaps, feel that the whole episode has been tossed off a bit too lightly. However, anyone can have some fun from the whole thing. Cheerful thumbnail sketches highlight the verses the subjects of which roam from "Examining Board" to "Song at Seven Months" and so on to "Welcome." No experience in the gamut of motherhood to be has passed unnoticed. All this makes for a bit of cheerful Cuff. Kathryn Kay, the author, knows her subject intimately as the picture of her comely child proves.

Her jacket life story is most raw materials required lor its The industrial problem is one of Chinas biggest, but an even bigger one at the moment is the Com The last- few days have seen an alarming rise in currency inflation, with the result that one United States greenback today is bringing 450 Chinese dollars on the black market more than 100 times the prewar rate and more than twice the rate of four months ago, Mr. Nelson and his staff are here to help China put its dislocated industrial system in order with the aim of increasing the output and improving the distribution ef China's war production. Mr. Nelson may remain only a short time but most of his staff is expected munist-Kuomintang issue, with which Mr. Nelson has nothing to do.

To what extent China will be able to pull itself together depends con THINGS WE CANT UNDERSTAND DEPT. That piece of rag your wife gave you the other day to clean the car with is the frock she just couldn't manage without last spring. Wall Street Journal. siderably on current negotiations between the two parties, the outcome of which is still in the bal ance..