New Dealers
Want Short
Campaign
Glenn Frank Puts
Finishing Touches on
G. 0. P. Platform
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
The game between the Repub
lican and Democratic National Com
mittees relative to the question of
which convention should be held
first has been ..,.vv :
ended by the |
anno uncement |
that the Repub- 5
licans have se
lected June 24.
and the Demo
crats July 15.
The Democrats
—that is, the -r
New Deal fac- J
tion of the party |
—have been rep
resented as de
sirous of begin- ,
tting the cam- |
jjaigil i a i 11 c. i
late, anyway. David Lawrence.
President Roosevelt has become con
vinced that a short, intensive cam
paign is better than a long-drawn
out affair. For a party on the de
fensive, the preference might be
expected to be the other way so as
to have more time to answer attacks
and build a new offensive.
If. President Roosevelt is to be
drafted the Democrats will need
only three days—from Monday to
Thursday—because the last time
the convention was held the Presi
dent wrote the platform and sent it
to Philadelphia and the whole pro
ceeding could have been consum
mated in a couple of days. It was
stretched out to make happy the
Philadelphia hotels and shopkeepers
who had contributed toward the
fund to bring the convention to the
Quaker City.
Speaking of platforms, the Re
publicans are going to have some
thing novel in the history of politi
cal parties this time. They have
had a committee at work for more
than two years, headed by Glenn
Frank, former president of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. This com
mittee was not composed of politi
cians or of politically-minded per
sons at all. It was a committee who
made it their business to study and
survey national economic problems
at first hand, consulting with spe
cialists in almost every field of the
controversial material covered.
To Appear Next Week.
The final platform, of course, will
be written by the national conven
tion. but the Dr. Frank platform
will be made public next week. It
consists of 30,000 words and it was
purposely made comprehensive so
as to avoid the clever epigrams and
ambiguous phrases which character
ize party platforms that are made
up by resolutions committees in the
haste and turmoil of national con
ventions.
me ur. rranK document in its
present form does not bind anybody,
but it is a challenge to the delegates
of the party to accept the liberalism
*rhich the proposed platform con
tains. It would be surprising if the
publication of the suggested platform
did not play a vital part in the pre
convention campaign. The public
will have a right to ask what Senator
Vandenberg or Senator Taft or Gov.
Bricker or Thomas E. Dewey think
of the statement of party plans and
* purposes.
Revised Many Times.
Many members of Congress have
been consulted in the preparation of
the Dr. Frank platform. There have
been dozens of drafts and revisions.
Regional committees in different
parts of the country have spent
many nights at work in discussion
and writing. It is perhaps the most
carefully prepared document that
has ever been presented to a politi
cal party dealing with national sub
jects and it will unquestionably be
of aid to State Republican conven
tions in the next several months.
Some of the conservatives and the
politicians in the party have not
liked what the Glenn Frank Com
mittee was doing. They thought it
was poor strategy to give the Demo
crats something to shoot at so far in
advance of the national convention.
But the progressives in the party,
who have forthrightly sponsored the
proposed platform, feel that the
Democrats will have a hard time
evading the basic recommendations
contained therein, and that the
debate may turn to the publicity
advantage of the Republicans,
whose principal handicap thus far
has been a widespread belief that
they had no program or definite ap
proach to the solution of present day
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Education Association
To Hear Star Writer
Constantine Brown, foreign affairs
writer of The Star, will speak on
“America and the World Conflict”
at the annual dinner meeting of the
Education Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia at 6:30 p.m. today
In the Willard Hotel.
The program will include music
and readings. Mrs. Mary S. Resh,
president of the association, will
preside.
Guests of honar are to include
Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend
ent of schools, and Mrs. Ballou;
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of Co
■* ltimbian College of George Wash
ington University, and Mrs. Doyle,
president of the Board of Educa
tion; Robert L. Haycock, first assist
ant superintendent of schools, and
Mrs. Haycock and Dr. and Mrs.
” Willard E. Givens of the National
Education Association.
O'Mahoney Bill Bars
23,000,000 Lbs. of Mail
By the Associated Press.
Postal officials and Senate col
leagues credited Senator O’Mahoney,
Democrat, of Wyoming today with
eliminating 23.000,000 pounds of
mail—nearly 300,000,000 pieces—
from the postage-free list during the
last year.
Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona said yesterday the big re
duction was in matter mailed from
Federal agencies and was caused by
a limiting amendment Senator
O’Mahoney attached to the Post
Office appropriation bill a year ago.
« This required all Government
agencies to certify that everything
they sent out without paying post
age had been requested by the
recipient.
The Capital Parade
Actions of Justice Murphy Prove
Puzzle to Capital Circles
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
The Capital la buzzing with the strange doings of Justice Prank
Murphy. When he was offered his place on the Supreme Bench, he said
[ he didn’t want it. When he had accepted it he stated that he wouldn't be
sworn in for some time, privately hinting that he had to save the Justice
Department from his successor’s malevolent influence. When he had been
sworn in at the President’s command, he retired to Palm Beach for a fort
night.
And now, having finally assumed his robes and taken his seat with his
fellow justices, he has gone to Arizona for a fortnight of the healthful
rest he presumably failed to get at Palm Beach. He explained to his
inenas iana iu uie viuci uusuuci
that he needed the Arizona trip
because of a bronchial infection.
Yet the night before he announced
his departure, he husbanded his
strength by sitting late at a huge
dinner, and on the day of the an
nouncement he was observed sooth
ing his bronchi with the ozone
filled air of an embassy cocktail
party
ITS MY
A PIPES.
unaer tne circumstances, the l
local gossips are rather naturally drawing one of two conclusions—that
Mtrphy is either funking his Job, or holding too lightly the great office
which has been confided to him. In the backwash of the talk, there are
also stories casting disagreeable fresh light on his administration of the
Justice Department.
It is said that on the e vet of his departure he reopened at least one
case he had himself closed for lack of evidence, suddenly ordering
prosecutions of Detroit recruiters of volunteers to fight with the Spanish
Loyalists, and leaving his successor to deal with a thoroughly embarrass
ing, situation. It is also said the Assistant Attorney General Thurman
W. Arnold's prosecutions of anti-trust violations in the building trades,
for which Murphy gladly took the showers of editorial praise, were
undertaken in open disobedience to Murphy’s direct orders.
If Murphy really is this sort of china egg, your correspondents
and many others are much to blame for taking him at his face value.
Possibly he is not. Possibly the stories do not give the whole picture.
Possibly, despite the dinner parties, Murphy’s health is seriously run
down. One thing, however, is clear. The talk now going the rounds help
neither Murphy nor the court on which he rather Intermittently sits.
Dewey Disquiet
The auguries attending the presidential campaign of young Thomas
E. Dewey seem fair indeed. His gestures toward the Republican nomina
tion get a good press; his speeches are hugely attended and warmly
commented on. But behind this front there is disquiet even in the
arcana of the Dewey camp.
Recently one of the men formally listed by Dewey as a member of
his “brain trust” confided his worries to a number of political friends
who have brought the story to Washington. The Dewey brain truster
frankly admitted three things: (1). Influential leaders in the Republican
organization fear Dewey as one who does not keep the rules of the
political game. (2). Business contributors dislike a certain “quarter-back”
quality in him and tend to describe him as “another Roosevelt.”
(3). Serious persons of the mugwump type tend to suspect him of lack
of principle. For these reasons the Deweyite high command is not as
hopeful as it might seem Justified in being.
Incidentally, another sign of lack of confidence is the continual
quotation of Dewey as insisting he will accept only the presidency, pre
ferring to wait and run again for Governor of New York in 1942 to taking
the second place on the Republican ticket in 1940.
•
A New Story
A partial compromise has been arranged in the row between the
New Deal and the utilities companies over the power needs for national
ueien&e. oeeretary oi me interior
Harold L. Ickes’ National Power
Policy Committee has just sent a
report to the White House praising
the executives of the largest operat
ing companies for agreeing to
1 undertake expansion of the power
production facilities to the extent
of 300,000 kilowatts by 1941. This
is about half the expansion orig
* mally demanded by the New Dealers.
-wv* w uu iiic uuici iiauu, uic unutica
executives have not abandoned their opposition to the New Deal plan
for connecting intrastate systems by high-tension power lines built at
Government expense. This they regard as the entering wedge for further
regulation, and they have insisted that it be studied further before a
decision is reached.
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Travel in Finland
Hampered by Short
Period of Daylight
Sun Rises at 10, Sets at 3;
Auto Lights Barred .
In War Zone
By WILLIAM L. WHITE.
SOMEWHERE IN FINLAND.—We
leave for the front long before the
late Arctic dawn. The sun does not
rise here until after 10 o'clock and
sets before 3 in the afternoon. So
every hour of daylight is precious,
if we are to see this war of the
far North.
And In this twilight we must
travel. If we start when it is dark,
we may run off the road, for cars
are allowed no lights in the war zone,
and if we wait until broad day then
the Russian bombers may be out,
machine-gunning the roads to the
lines.
As twilight gives away to day,
we see we are moving through a
magic fairyland. Those few trees
which have shed their, leaves in the
fall now have every twig thickly
coated with ice. When the sun
breaks through they seen to burn
with cold light and glisten like cut
glass. Most are pines and spruces,
and these are heavy with snow; they
look as though thick pure white
whipped-cream had been gently
poured over them from above.
Halted by Sentries.
Suddenly two sentries nait us; we
have arrived at a divisional head
quarters and must get passes on into
the lines. Headquarters is a sub
stantial farm house, but, of course,
the farmer and his family have been
moved from the district. Shell have
caved in the roof of his barn and one
wing of the house. Out back is a big
hay rake—a new one but rusting,
as the machinery shed which shel
tered it is leaning crazily in those
few places where the shell did not
completely smash it to kindling.
On the farmer’s back porch are
his big cream cans,, each with a
metal tag into which is stamped his
name—he belonged to the local
dairy marketing co-operative.
We wait inside for the pass. In the
living room are a few chairs and in
one corner an old reed organ. The
room is chilly because there is little
warmth left in the stove. The
lieutenant apologize for this, but
there can be no fire in the daytime,
for chimney smoke could be seen by
day against the snow from the air,
and the Russians would know that
this house was still occupied.
While we wait would we like to
see the dugodts? We walk out back,
along a trail 50 yards from the house.
We climb the narrow trench into the
dugout, stooping to get under the
camouflage screen which hides its
entrance—a wire netting on which
have been piled a few pine branches;
these hold a thick layer of snow, so
that the curtained door at the bot
tom is completely invisible from the
air.
Four Tiers of Bunks.
Inside first warm moist air, sweet
with the bodies of tired men sleeping.
Dimly by the light of a single kero
sene lantern at the end we see four
tiers of bunks under the stout log
roof and all are full; twelve men
sleep here, a crew which by night
mends telephone lines to the front
that have been broken by shell lire.
A few of them raise up on their
elbows to stare at us with sleepy.
friendly curiosity; the rest snore on.
Most of the work of this army is
ione at night when bombers and
scout planes are at roost; then the
roads are crowded with supply
trucks, moving over the snow with
out lights. We soon become used to
these bomb-shelters full of sleeping
men.
As we leave we are followed up the
path by a soldier with a broad-lipped
shovel. With this he fills in his
own and our footprints in the deep
snow, smoothing it over, leaving not
a trace. A beaten-down path from
this dugout to the.farm house could
be seen from the air by day; would
tell the Russians this farm was still
occupied.
And at last our passes. "From
here on up the danger is very real;
any can stay here who wish to.”
‘We know. We go at our own
risk.”
During the morning this question
and answer become a familiar ritual.
We have left our cars and are now
walking toward the front over a hard
beaten trail in the deep snow, wider
than one man needs, but not quite
broad enough for two. Then we see
how it was made, for we step aside
to let six soldiers on skis glide past,
all in white camouflage sheeting,
fluttering over their furs an<J wool
ens. Even their German-type steel
helmets are painted white or covered
with cotton hoods. Effortlessly,
easily as though skating, they float
on down the winding trail toward
the sound of the guns. This is now
continuous, the crack of one inter
rupting the dying echo of th£ last.
And now appear shell craters. In
warmer countries a crater is a vivid
black or yellow gash in the green
turf. But here in this war of the
snows une pure wniie oecomes siowiy
a little gray as though it were soot
stained city snow, and in the exact
center of this great circle of gray is
the deep pockmark of the shell.
Even this ls^ also white-gray, for
the explosion throws up into the air
not only dirt, but several feet of
snow as well, and this, being lighter,
flutters down last, covering the torn
black clods of the crater.
Shells Blast Down .Trees,
Ahead the forest seems to thin, but
it is an artificial clearing. For some
reason, no one here knows why, the
Russians concentrated their artillery
fire here, blasting down every tree
for 200 yards. Their shattered
trunks, covered now by fresh snow,
lie everywhere. What, in this patch
of forest, did the Russians think
they had located, that they should
spend thousands of dollars in shells
battering it down? A Finnish bat
tery? A post of command dugout?
Hie sound of the guns is nearer,
louder, and I clock it with my stop
watch, 33 explosions per minute—
about one every 2 seconds, or, say,
2,000 an hour. A quiet day in this
sector, we are told.
Now and then, off in the forest, a
soldier pauses to look up at us, waist
deep in the round hole He is digging.
He wipes sweat from his forehead
with the edge of his white camou
flage hood. In this bitter weather,
33 degrees below zero, it quickly
freezes there, stiffening the cotton
cloth. He is making a post for an
anti-tank sentinel. When the hole
is deep enough a man can squat in
it with only his head sticking out;
if a tank comes crashing through the
forest he ducks down out of sight;
when it is near enough he pops up
from nowhere to hurl a potato
masher hand-grenade with a
package of dynamite tied to it
against the tread of the tank.
The trail ends in front of a second
line dugout. In front of it, well
camouflaged, is a rack where the
soldiers park their skis. Out of It
steps the major commanding this
The Political Mill
Kansas Democrats, Agreeing on Roosevelt, May
Solve Allegiance Through 'Favorite Son' Woodring
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Kansas Democrats are ready to
support President Roosevelt for a
third term nomination—if he wishes
it. If he does not desire a renoml
nation, then
they are likely
to turn to Secre
tary of War
Harry H. Wood
ring, former
Governor of
Kansas, as a
“favorite s o n”
candidate, and
send a delega
tion instructed
to support Mr.
Woodring at the
Democratic Na- .
tional Conven- I
tion.
Secretary o. uouia Lincoln^
Woodring has for some time been
urged to permit his name to be laid
before the Democratic State Con
vention, which takes place in May,
as a favorite son candidate, so that
a delegation to the national com
mittee, pledged to him, may be
elected. He has declined, however,
to discuss publicly his plans for the
1940 Dreconvention campaign.
In recent days, however, Mr.
Woodring, Guy T, Helveijng, head
of the Internal Revenue Bureau and
a dominating power in Kansas
Democratic politics, and Lynn Brod
erick, Democratic national commit
teeman for the state, have canvassed
the situation as it relates both to the
State and national political pictures.
They have gone over every angle of
the situation with Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley, Democratic
national chairman and, at last, him
self an avowed candidate for the
presidential nomination.
Mr Farley is credited with be
lieving that the President will not
run for renomination—and for that
reason, it is said, has permitted his
name to be filed in the Massa
chusetts presidential preferential
primary. He has communicated this
belief to the Kansas Democratic
leaders. They, in turn, are unwill
ing to commit their State delegation
to any of the candidates—other
than President Roosevelt—in ad
vance of the national convention.
But they are willing to have a
Woodring favorite son delegation, j
^ a m s m I.
VVU1U
An advantage of having a favorite
son delegation, backing Secretary’
Woodring on the early ballots in the
convention, is obvious. Under such
circumstances it will be possible to
swing the Kansas delegation in a
block to the right candidate at the
right time—whether it be President
Roosevelt or another, if the Presi
dent makes no statement in ad
vance of the national convention.
If an uninstructed' delegation were
sent to the convention, it might
split five ways.
If - President Roosevelt desires
renomination. Secretary Woodring,
a member of the cabinet and a close
friend of the President, would Im
mediately fall in with the plan. In
1932. the Woodring-Selverlng forces
rode the Roosevelt bandwagon from
the start of the desperate fight which
wound up with the nomination of
Franklin D Roosevelt
The Kansas leaders want to know
whether the President will be again
a candidate before they reach any
final decision. They see in the selec
tion of a Woodring delegation the
best possible solution of their diffi
culties as long as the President's
plans remain a mystery.
Roosevelt Reported in Accord.
Friends of Secretary Woodring say
that the President is in accord with
plan of sending a favorite son dele
gation for Woodring from Kansas to
the national convention. Certainly
it does not appear that such a
maneuver would in any way lessen
the President’s ability to obtain the
vote of the Kansas delegation if he
eventually permits his name to go
before the convention
Some of the Kansas leaders, if the
President should take himself out of
the running, would prefer Secretary
of State Cordell Hull or Vice Presi
dent Gamer as a presidential candi
date to Federal Security Administra
tor Paul V. McNutt, Attorney Gen
eral Robert H. Jackson or Senator
Burton K. Wheeler. But they have
not committed themselves to any of
these candidates, nor will they do so
at this time, it is said
Personally, Secretary Woodring Is
on most friendly terms with all the
potential Democratic nominees. The
McNutts are friends of long stand
ing. Attorney General Jackson and
the Secretary of War are close
friends, and so with Secretary Hull.
Secretary Woodring is to go to
Kansas to make the principal speech
at the Democratic gathering there
on February 22, Washington's Birth
day. It has been a custom for thirty
years or more to hold a big Demo
cratic rally on that date, just as the
Republicans hold a big party get
together on January 29—the anni
versary of Kansas statehood.
Should Secretary Woodring be
come a favorite son candidate in
Kansas, it will be with other favorite
son candidates in several States. Un
less present plans fall, the Democrats
in Ohio will send a favorite son dele
gation to the national convention,
backing Senator Vic Donahey.
Speaker Bankhead of Alabama will
be the favorite son candidate of his
State. Postmaster General Farley
may have the backing of the New
York delegation, Secretary of Agri
culture Henry A. Wallace that of the
Iowa delegation, and Paul McNutt
will undoubtedly have the backing
of the Indiana delegation.
Anti-Third Termers Confused.
More and more convinced are
most of the Democrats—the vast
majority of them—that President
Roosevelt can obtain the presidential
nomination if he decides to have it.
His silence has created such con
fusion in Washington and elsewhere
that the anti-third term Democrats
have been entirely unable to co
operate and form an anti-third
term alliance. Indeed, so demoral
ized are the anti-third term ranks
and leaders that it looks as though
the President will be able to say
to the national convention when
it meets: "Take this candidate"—
for example Attorney General Jack
son or Justice Douglas of the Su
preme Court—"or take me.” Many
of the leaders have Insisted they
would never agree to the nomination
of either Jackson or Douglas.
Members of the Republican Na
tional Committee are firmly con-1
vlnced, they say, that the President
will be a candidate for a third term.
While some of them believe he will I
be the most difficult man to defeat |
on the Democratic side, they say
it is not because Roosevelt is so
strong, but because the other candi
dates are so weak—blighted in their
growth by the Roosevelt silence.
None of them has been in a position
for a national build up. If Mr.
Roosevelt had made it clear he was
not to be a candidate, then it would
have been possible for the Democrats
to groom effectually one or more
other candidates for the nomina
tion.
Republican National Chairman
John Hamilton took the Roosevelt
bull by the horns at yesterday's
meeting of the G. O. P. National
Committee and challneged the
Democrats to renominate the Presi
dent. His speech to the committee
men, broadcast as it was. was a
keynote for the anti-third term
campaign which the Republicans
expect to wage
While the Democrats in Kansas
are working along in harmony to
ward the party s national conven
tion, those in the neighboring State
of Missouri are showing anything
but harmony. The forces of Senator
Clark and Gov. Stark are engaged
in a bitter fight over the control
of the State’s delegation. Gov.
Stark has gone right along with
the Roosevelt third termers, while
Senator Clark has been a bitter foe
of the administration on many oc
casions during the last two years.
Will Giving $40,000toVictims
Of Disasters Faces Test
isany next wees a uisLrici, i/uun
jury will be called upon to determine
if a will made by a Bureau of En
graving and Printing employe and
leaving some $40,000 to charitable
organizations to aid victims of floods,
cyclones and similar disasters is
valid.
Miss Julia C. Mudd, Government
worker, died December 2, 1938, leav
ing a will made February 4, 1937,
under which the residue of her es
tate was left for this purpose. The
gross estate is about $50,000.
When the case came before Jus
tice Bolitha J. Laws recently he
notified the Justice Department.
Attorney General Robert Jackson
urged United States Attorney David
A. Pine to have one of his staff
watch out for the public interest in
'the proceedings. Mr. Pine has as
signed Assistant United States At
torney John L. Laskey to represent
the Government.
Mr. Laskey explained yesterday
that the jury will be asked to de
termine if Miss Mudd was of sound
mind when she made the will and
if it was validly executed. The trial
is expected to take three days.
Miss Mudd’s executor, Loren Her
front-line battalion—a great, hearty
man in furs and a thick turtle neck
sweater. Smiling, unshaven, he
salutes. Then he shakes hand* with
a bear's warm grip and bids us wel
come. He might be a bluff and
hearty football coach. Now those of
us who have not camouflage must
put on suits which he provides here,
f already have mine—a cape made of
white sheeting which falls below
ny trenchcoat with a hood to go
over a steel helmet; I might be a
knight of the Ku Klux Klan.
But now the major is serious.
From here on up the danger is very
real; it is not a thing to be laughed
at. Any who are tired may go into
the dugout, lie down and be com
fortable by the stove until the others
return. And again we give the ritual
answer; we are none of us tired, we
will go on up at our own risk.
From the side of the dugout the
trail deepens to a communication
trench, which zig-zags through the
forest on up toward the Finnish
front lines and the continuous roar
of the Russian guns.
uei l, lent estate umu, uicu ictcniiy,
and the case was thrown into the
court when heirs of Miss Mudd at
tacked the validity of the will.
Charles D. Mudd, a nephew, rep
resented by the law firm of Wilkes
Sc Artis, is standing with the Gov
ernment in contending that the will
is valid. The law firm of Gardiner,
Earnest <& Gardiner, representing a
dozen heirs, nieces and nephews of
Miss Mudd, contends the will is
valueless. Joining in this stand is
the law firm of O’Shea, Burnett Sc
Goldstein, representing other rela
tives.
Retail Credit Association
Completes Organization
Organization of the Retail Credit
Association of the District of Co
lumbia was completed last night at
a meeting in the National Cash
Register Co. auditorium. Abe Coonin,
controller of William Hahn Sc Co.,
was elected president of the associa
tion and Elwood M. Arthur, as
sistant credit manager of Woodward
Sc Lothrop, was elected vice presi
dent.
The other officers are David Ben
heim, credit manager of the Hech
inger Co., treasurer, and John K.
Althaus, secretary-treasurer of the
Credit Bureau, secretary. The as
sociation was formed to enable its
members to make detailed studies
of credit procedure throughout the
country, it was announced.
Directors selected are:
Joshua P. Stedehouder, Lansburgh
& Bro.; Roscoe W. Reichard, the
Hecht Co.; Leo Baum, the Goldenberg
Co.; Harry N. Aiken, Grosner’s; Ed
ward A. Henkel, Raleigh Haberdasher;
Charles M. Keefer, 8. Kann Sons
Co.; Samuel M. Collegeman, Morris
Plan Bank; Ben Stein, Benson’s
Jewelry; O. W. B. Brown, Eiseman’s;
Helen Martin, Frank R. Jelleff, Inc.;
Gilbert F. Haley, Hugh Reilly; Davis
Weir, State Loan Co.; Jennings A»
Snider, Julius Garflnckel; Wallace
G. Hocker, Palais Royal; Martha
Bean, Brooks, Inc.; William H.
Clark, Randall H. Hagner; William
J. Riccardi, Hamilton National Bank,
and R. M. Hardy, Nation-Wide Serv
ice Grocers.
This Changing World
Troop Roinforcomonts Nocdod Promptly
To Save Finns From Russia
By CONSTANTWB BROWN.
A miracle can save the Finns. And that miracle must take the
shape of an immediate—very immediate—assistance from France, Great
Britain and the Scandinavian states. The sending of war materials
alone will do no good. Troops—at least 50,000 men at first—must reach
Finland within the next *10 days or two weeks at the latest to prevent
tWe Russians from conquering the country.
Field Marshal Mannerheim’s men are exhausted. They have done
more than any army in the world could be expected to do. In many
cases they fought in a 2-to-7 proportion. The strategy of the Finn*
lsh high command has been faultless. The fighting ardor of the troops
iiu uccu c}wvii ummuh. nu wuuiy
in the world—not even the Serbs in
1914 or the French at Verdun—has
shown greater heroism than the
Finns. But they are now being
overwhelmed by the great number
of men the Russians are able to put
' in the field.
The Swedes and the Norwe
gians have sent across the border
a substantial number of volunteers.
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are losing many men They need full divisions to take the place of1
those which have been at the front for almost three months and allow
them to go hack to the second line.
France Willing to Send Troops
The French are ready to send troops at once. This for two reasons:
The general staff realizes that the Finns are fighting the battle of
Great Britain and France. It also realizes that Scandinavia might be
a remunerative battlefield where German, French British and Russian
forces might meet. It knows that if a large expeditionary corps of allies
were to show up in Scandinavia, the Swedes and the Norwegians would
not hesitate for a fraction of a second to Join the allies, offer stiff resist
ance to any attempt of the Oermans to land in Southern Scandinavia,
and fight to the bitter end for the freedom of the Nordic states.
The other reason the Daladler government is willing to fight Russia
is that the parties of the right, which at the present time.are stronger
than those of Leon Blum and company, insist on fighting Russia. In the
secret session of last week Deladier was told bluntly that he would lose the
support of the rightists if he pussyfooted on the Russian question.
Daladler explained to these men that he himself was in favor of an
aggressive policy against the U. S B. R.. with Finland as a pretext for
such a policy, but that France had to follow Great Britain. And the
rub came from London.
Mr. Chamberlain, it appears, cannot see his way to declare war
on Russia for fear that it may complicate matters with Germany. He
agreed to allow British volunteers to go to Finland—a somewhat tardy
concession—but could not agree to precipitate a large-scale war with
the Russians and the Germans at the same time.
British Realizing Plight of Finns
This was, of course, the position of the British early this week.
Whether something has changed it is not known here yet. It is pos
sible that in face of the ordeal of the Finns public opinion in Great
Britain might force the hand of the government.
Heretofore people in England were not quite aware cf the plight
of the Finns. They believed that the killing of so many thousands of
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letins from Helsinki to the foreign
news agencies) would continue in
definitely, and that the sending of
an air force and war material
would enable the troops of Field
Marshall Mannerheim to resist
indefinitely. The truth is coming
out now. The Russians have suf
fered many casualties, but they had
such huge reserves that their losses <
were just like a flee bite.
It is possible—but not likely—that a change of mind of the British
public might induce Mr. Chamberlain to change fhis mind and accept
the suggestions of the French to send an expeditionary force into Scan
dinavia—despite the risks and technical difficulties such an adventure
must entail.
But the Finns have made it clear to the world that unless such
a “miracle” occurred—and occurred pronto—Finland would be reduced
to a Russian province before the end of the spring.
Nature’s Children
Brain Coral
By LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
^You can easily see the reason
this coral was given Its name. But
the original coral polyp, which was
the foundation of this great mass,
was but a fraction of an inch in
sire Millions, or even billions, live
together, and their combined num
ber forms some of the oddest shapes
imaginable and some are quite beau
tiful in their form and color.
Corals are abundant in the warm
waters of the tropics; a few occur
in temperate regions and even in
the Arctic. A few live a single ex
istence. but the majority of them,
by division. These establish vast
colonies. The corals with which we
are more familiar are those that
build coral islands and reefs. These
may be found in many parts of the
world.
The coral polyp is scientifically
known as a Coelenterate and
resemble in structure the sea
anemone. The skeleton, which it
builds up by extracting the bicar
bonate of lime from the sea water, is
for the purpose of supporting the
delicate tissues within.
The outside of the coral is the
skeleton. Besides the true owners
there are many little neighbors who
seek shelter and protection as well
as food from the corals.
The home of each polyp is called
a corallite and the colony of
many of them scientifically known
as a corallum. Polyps reproduce by
budding and by self-division (fis
sion)—very similar to that of sea
anemones. And the way this bud
ding takes place will determine the
shape of the colony. Where the
budding is restricted to certain indi
viduals of the colony branched
forms result. When the budding
takes place by fission, globe-like
masses are formed. These are often
perfectly symmetrical and they are
called brain-corals.
The living coral is not only more
beautiful when alive but has a
surface that is soft and downy,
because of the many waving tenta
cles, and the colors are exquisite.
When life has departed, the coraV
ADVERTISEMENT.
Is soon a bleached skeleton, for the
living animal is very fragile and
dissolves. For many years all
species were believed to be sea
flowers. They were so brilliantly
colored and posssessed such fanciful
shapes. Finally the truth about
them was recognized and a study of
their life cycle revealed a more
thrilling story than the fictional
one—which, as you have already
discovered, is almost always true
with Nature s Children.
Appeal on Revocation
Of Liquor Permit Denied
The Commissioners have denied
the appeal of Olga Fayed from the
revocation by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board of class C liquor
license at 702 Ninth street N.W., it
was announced yesterday. The
license was revoked as of midnight
January 30 on charges including sale
of liquor to a minor and to an in
toxicated person and of permitting
an intoxicated person to remain on
the premises.
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Carey, Culebra Beard
Not Needed New,
Bucks Gotham's Snow
By LEMUEL F. PABTON.
William F. Carey, a youth of 34,
had to grow a beard to bow the
steam-shovel crews when he was
shoving through Culebra Cut in the
Panama Canal. That was because
he looked too young for the Job. My
Job was to make a non-technical
report on progress, in collaboration
with the time inspectors. I remem
ber that the only special note 1 ever
made on Mr. Carey, whom I saw oc
casionally, was to report that his
men were always on the Job, and
moving more dirt than anybody
around there.
Beardless rocky-faced and ruddy,
Mr. Carey, as sanitation commis
sioner, bucks the New York blissard,
commanding an army of 38,000 men
and apparatus which looks like
something from the Mannerhelm
Line. He works all night, biting a
dead cigar, receiving bulletins from
the front and shooting out orders.
While he has no engineering degree,
Mr. Carey has been doing big engi
neering Jobs all his life and he loves
to take on a mountain or a rock slide
or a snowstorm with no holds barred.
He likes to eat, too, and a tray of
food is brought in every so often as
he lights to dig out New York’s 8,300
miles of streets from the snowdrifts.
A young student engineer discovered
that when he was helping Mr. Carey
drive a railroad through a wild
mountain region of Montana. On a
hot day, the boss would say he’d
give his right eye for a cold glass of
beer.
"That looks like a keg of beer down
there in the stream,” the lad would
say. It was beer, all right, with a
brace of pork chops and a big slab
of pie and this and that. The youth
had planted them ahead of Mr.
Carey along the line of the survey.
The boy made good, and there’s a
tip for any ambitious young snow
fighter.
Mr. uarey dum railways arouna
Puget Sound, took the kinks out of
railroads in the Rockies, drove tun
nels in the Bolivian Andes, built
dams in Vermont and sawmills in
Washington and bossed 3,000 coolies
in China. Smacking down a hard
rock mountain, or getting a half
Nelson on a run-away river nat
urally made him a prizefight fan,
and he became a sports promoter
successor to the late Tex Richard as
president of Madison Square Garden.
He became sanitation commissioner
in 1936.
At 15, he left his father’s Hoosic
Falls, N. Y., farm, with $11 and be
gan taking on tough jobs as a
teamster in the Colorado Rockies.
He is six feet tall, still husky and
loves to swing from the heel on
anything elemental—even if it is
only a few million tons of slush.
Culbra Cut was slushy, too, but he
made it stick.
D. C. Naval Reserves
To Shoot in Matches
Naval Reserves of the city will have
an opportunity to compete In the
National Rifle Matches at Camp
Perry, Ohio, next fall, according to
plans announced yesterday by the
Navy Department.
The Naval Reserve will put two
teams of 14 men each in the competi
tion. Capt. Randall Jacobs, acting
chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
announced. Members of the teams
will be selected in June. Com
mandants of the Reserves have been
notified to arrange elimination con
tests and to forward results to the
bureau.
Watercolort on Exhibit
A three-week showing of water- *
colors by Mary Eliabeth Partridge of
Ossining. N. Y., will open at 4 pm.
tomorrow at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery, 1600 Twenty-first street
N.W. The artist’s 35 paintings on
exhibition may be seen from 11 am.
to 6 pm. on weekdays and on other
Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m.
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