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Elective Job
May Offer
j Outlet
Governorship or
House Seat Suggested
For Mrs. Roosevelt
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Apart from the war—or maybe
because of the war—the person most
discussed In America today is Mrs.
Roosevelt. Almost everywhere In
side and outside
the National |
Capital people '
are expressing j
themselves on j
the propriety of
what the Presi
dent’s wife is do- >
lng and saying
about civilian
defense and par
ticularly her be
lief that it ex
tends to various
social welfare
activities that
David Lawrence.
ordinarily would not be associated
with civilian defense.
Much of the criticism is unfair
and much of it is so right that one
winders why the controversy isn’t
disposed of once and for all by Mrs.
Roosevelt herself by going to the
root of the whole difficulty.
The difficulty is that Mrs. Roose
velt is an appointed official. Most
people think she was appointed pri
marily because of her relationship
to the President. This isn't exactly
so. Even if Mr. Roosevelt were not
President and it was decided to
have a woman head up some social
welfare activities in the Govern
ment, Mrs. Roosevelt would be a
logical appointee. She has one of
the best social welfare minds in the
country.
So the question doesn’t turn upon
Mrs. Roosevelt’s qualifications, to
serve in the civilian defense organi
sation. The real problem is wheth
er the President's wife should accept
any appointive office while her hus
band Is the most powerful official
In our whole governmental setup.
Shuns Idleness.
If one answers in the negative, it
Imposes a handicap on Mrs. Roose
velt, who doesn’t want to be a social
butterfly and an idle member of the
family while there is important
work to be done. She has an active
mind and a vigorous personality,
somewhat like that of her late uncle,
Theodore Roosevelt.
bo the next question is what shall
Mrs. Roosevelt do if she is denied
an appointive place in the Govern
ment? The answer for her may be
to reject once and for all the idea
of holding appointive office and de
vote herself to elective office. Many
women do and some of them now
sit in the House and Senate. Some
also have run for the governorship
of States.
There's an election this year for
Governor of New York. Mrs. Roose
velt has as much right as any other
citizen to enter the lists. She is a
liberal of record. She is a good
campaign speaker. Few who heard
her address the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago in 1940 will
deny that she Is an able orator, for
her speech, delivered extemporane
ously, was the best of that whole
convention.
It is true that Gov. Lehman may
be a candidate for a fourth term,
but there are many people who think
three terms are enough and that
someone else should be given a
chance now in the Democratic party
in New York State. Mrs. Roosevelt
is well known in her home State.
She has made mistakes, but they
are of the kind which the President
once described with reference to
himself as “mistakes of the heart
rather than of the mind."
Might Replace Fish.
If Mrs. Roosevelt is entitled to
high office, the people alone can
decide. If the governorship is not to
her liking and she wishes to run for
Congress, doubtless she could get
the nomination at Hyde Park. Rep
resentative Fish is now representing
the Hyde Park district and Mr.
Roosevelt has been trying for years
to get a candidate to defeat him.
Maybe if Mrs. Roosevelt ran she
would be elected.
Certainly she would find work in
the House of Representatives con
genial. It affords plenty of oppor
tunity for social welfare, class legis
lation, boondogging, public owner
ship schemes, soaking-the-rich,
soaking-the-poor, and all other de
vices that have made the New Deal
famous and the public treasury as
empty as it is today. It affords
plenty of opportunity also for mis
takes of the mind as well as the
heart. And so far as giving Mrs.
Roosevelt an occupation to which
few could possibly take exception—
because she would be holding office
by virtue of election by the people
rather than an appointment through
her husband’s influence—it would be
an ideal haven of refuge for an able
woman with an energetic person
ality.
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0. C. D. Aide to Speak
George Strong, chief of the rescue
squad service. Office of Civilian De
fense, will discuss rescue organiza
tion in the District at 8 p.m. Satur
day during a meeting of the Wash
ington Radio Club in the Capital
Radio Engineering Institute. 3224
Sixteenth street N.W.
War in Retrospect
By the Assodsted Press.
One Year Ago Today.
Generalissimo Franco of
Spain and Premier Mussolini
confer in Italy. Italian planes
bomb Athens area; Royal Air
Force attacks Sicily for five
hours.
Two Years Ago Today.
Great Australian anil New
Zealand force disembarks at
Suez. Russians hurl new di
visions into Summa battle in
Finland, shell Viipuri.
Twenty-five Years Ago Today.
British claim gains north
of Ancre on western front.
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The Political Mill
London Puts Election Issue on Efficiency
In Government and Principles of Government
By GOULD LINCOLN.
This is Lincoln Day—a day that
can be celebrated by Democrats
as well as Republicans, for Abra
ham Lincoln preserved the Union
and paved the way for the build
ing of the great Nation. Because
Lincoln was the first Republican
President, it has been a custom cf
Republicans to select this date for
praise of Lincoln and the princi
ples of the Republican party. To
day is no exception. But first.
Republican orators are declaring
their allegiance to the war effort
now being conducted by President
Roosevelt. This was the principal
theme of an address delivered by
former Gov. Alf M. L&ndon of
Kansas, the party's presidential
candidate in 1936, at the Lincoln
Day dinner given here last night.
It will be the theme of dinners to
be given tonight throughout the
country. Wendell L. Willkie in
Boston, Thomas E. Dewey in New
York, Senator Taft in Knoxville,
and other Republican leaders in
other cities will urge Republicans
everywhere to make the fight for
victory against the Axis powers.
This spirit of unity ;can be of
the greatest value to the country
—it is essential to victory. It can
be hampered by unnecessary
partisanship either by the Repub
licans or the Democrats. It would
be unpatriotic for Republicans to
put impediments in the way of the
administration’s efforts to win the
war. On the other hand, it would
be wors£ than stupid for the ad
ministration, because of political
prejudices, not to make us§ of all
the talent and ability of America.
The first partisan challenge
came from Democratic National
Chairman Edward J. Flynn—
when he charged that the Re
publicans were more anxious to
win control of the House of
Representatives at the Novem
ber elections than they were to
win the war against the Axis
powers. He called for the elec
tion of a Democratic House, a
Congress not hostile to the Presi
dent. President Kooseveit, assea
to comment on the Flynn state
ment, said the easiest way to
put It was to say that members
of Congress should be re-elected
on their record of support of the
Government—meaning the ad
ministration-regardless of party.
Members, he said, who will sup
port the Government in the
emergency and who have sup
ported it, should be chosen.
Pearl Harbor Turning Point.
Since Pearl Harbor, members
of Congress of all parties have
supported the Government in
its war effort. Before Pearl
Harbor, however, there was a
cleavage, with so-called isola
tionists in both parties opposing
some of the administration’s de
fense measures and strongly op
posing the foreign policy of the
administration. How far the
President is going in opposition to
re-election of those members of
Congress has not been disclosed.
How far the voters will support
an effort to retire members of
Congress — who since Pearl
Harbor have gone all out for
national defense and winning
the war—also is still to be dis
closed, even if these members
did not see eye to eye with the
administration before Pearl
Harbor.
• It is entirely natural for a
political party to seek to be re
tained in power. Where there
are elections, it will seek to win
them. At the same time, politics
is the only way in which the
American people h$ve an oppor
tunity to express themselves on
the conduct of public affairs. .
This Is true In war as it Is in
peace times.
Mr. Landon, in his address last
night, took issue with the Presi
Trial Board Will Weigh
Case Against Two Police
A special trial board consisting of
three civilian officials of the District
government was created yesterday
by the Commissioners to hear
charges against two police privates
charged with assaulting several
citizens. No date has been set for
the trial.
The accused officers are Pvts.
Henry J. Martin and James E.
Stabler, who were indicted and tried
in District Court, where the fcharges
were dismissed, with the exception
of simple assault involving Pvt.
Martin.
The special trial board was rec
ommended by Police Chief Edward
J. Kelly on the ground that when he
was a polide inspector he conducted
an investigation of the case and is
to appear as a witness at the trial
board hearing.
Instead of the trial board consist
ing of police officers, the Commis
sioners designated District Tax As
sessor Edward A. Dent, chairman;
District Auditor A. R. Pilkerton and
District Insurance Supt. Arthur F.
Jordan.
dent on the Idea that the put
record of members of Congress
on the administration’s foreign
policy should be the yardstick by
which they are to be measured In
the coming elections. He said:
“The country Is not interested in
criminations and recriminations
between Isolationists aflH inter
ventionists. Differences between
those two groups became obsolete
with our entrance into the war.
They are now united in our
common cause.’’
Cites British System.
Mr. Landon’s own idea is that
the voters should vote on the
Issue of efficiency in government
and on the principles of gov
ernment. He contended that only
in this way can the best interests
of the country be served. It
was the duty of Republicans to
criticize where criticism was jus
tified. He undertook, himself, to
criticize the administration where
he thought It has been at fault.
“In this great national effort,”
he said, "we might weU take a
leaf from the book of our Eng
lish cousins. Their determina
tion to win ultimate victory never
changes. But they do change
leaders, in the field or at home,
wherever bungling management
of their wars endangers military
success-.”
Again, he said, "the kind of
politics that because of party
defends incompetence is treason.”
He charged there has been a lack
of frankness on the part of the
Executive In the emergency, and
said that "the New Dealers are
treating this war as Just another
political alphabetical project.”
He charged, too, that the New
Dealers are planning for “a total
itarian collectivism,” to be re
tained after the conclusion of
the war. He said that the coun
try, when war came, was un
prepared despite the huge ap
propriations made by Congress
last year for national defense.
He complained that the admin
istration ignored the industrial
mobilization plan worked out
by the Army and Navy general
staffs, and as a consequence,
not only was the country unpre
pared, but “little business" all
over the country is being ruined.
Calls for Inflation Curb.
Mr. Landon urged that all non
defense expenditures be cut at
least 25 per cent, that “all exist
ing inflationary policies that are
holdovers 'from its early days”
should be removed by the ad
ministration so as to curb in
flation. He attacked the idea,
which he said had been put
forward by the President, that
the Executive should be em
powered by legislation to make
quick adjustments in the timing
of tax rates and collections in an
emergency. This, he said, would
mean that Congress would dele
gate its authority over the raising
and application of taxes to the
Executive.
He praised, however, the Presi
dent’s vast program of war pro
duction. “Our pride is stirred
and our enthusiasm inspired by
the extent of the President’s prop
gram," he said, and he added,
"we believe it can be accom
plished.’’
The Republicans are stating
their position regarding national
politics today. On February 23,
when the Nation celebrates
Washington’s birthday anniver
sary, the Democrats will hold
rallies all over the country to
sound their cry to battle in the
coming elections. President
Roosevelt is expected to address
the Nation by radio that night,
telling the people of the war
effort and what must be done to
win. But whether he will say
anything bearing on the coming
elections In this address is an
other matter.
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Hours Crucial at Singapore
Eliot Says Sumatra and Java Can Be Held if Aid
Arrives While Japs Are Fighting British
By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.
There Is now but one task remain
ing for the garrison at Singapore to
perform—to gain time at whatever
cost, to keep occupied as many Jap
anese troops and
and airplanes as
possible for as
long as possible.
For the time
being, Singapo6e
Is of no more
value as a naval
base; but as long
as its garrison
continues to re
sist it cannot be
used by the Jap
anese and strong
Japanese forces
are held to the
Hal. G. Fielding Eliot.
job of trying to take it. In prin
ciple, the situation of the garrison
at Singapore is exactly the same,
and the object of its continued re
sistance the same as with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s forces on the
Bataan Peninsula and on Corregidor.
The basic conditions of the strug
gle in the Tar East have not -altered.
These are:
1. The Japanese are trying to
gain an impregnable strategic posi
tion with limited but immediately
available resources.
2. The United Nations are trying
to bring their superior resources to
bear, but are hampered by the fac
tors of time and distance.
Strategically, the issue has nar
rowed down to the possession of the
islands in the Malay barrier, of
which the chief are Sumatra and
Java. If these islands can be held,
the Japanese can at least be pre
vented from breaking through into
the Indian Ocean and attacking the
vital Allied sea communications
there.
Seige Would Aid Sumatra.
It Is obvious that if Singapore
falls the Japanese troops on the
Malay Peninsula will be released for
an onslaught on Sumatra. It will
be difficult to prevent their use of
naval forces to support such an
attack. It might be possible for
them to gain possession of Sumatra
before the reinforcements which
are now* converging toward the bat
tle area could arrive in sufficient
force to stop them. Thus every day
gained by the Singapore garrison is
a day which contributes directly to
the security of Sumatra.
Should Sumatra fall, the Japanese
would have full possession of the
Strait of Malacca and direct access
to the Indian Ocean and the Bay
of Bengal.
Moreover, the Japanese would be
free to concentrate all their East
Indian forces on Java, the center
and citadel of Dutch power. Al
ready the Japanese hold a line of
outposts facing Java and the smaller
islands stretching eastward from
Java toward Timor and Port Dar
win. They are attacking Banjer
massin, in 8outh Borneo, and Ma
cassar, at the southwestern tip of
Celebes, in order to improve their
positions. No one can doubt that
Java will be stoutly defended, but,
like Sumatra, the success of its
defense will be very largely based
on the amount of help that can
come to it from outside. This Is a
matter of time. If reinforcements,
particularly strong air reinforce
ments, can reach these two Dutch
islands before the Japanese can
develop a full-scale attack against
them, it is entirely likely that they
can be held.
One Naval Base Remains.
If so, the Japanese can be pre
vented from using the Strait of
Malacca to any appreciable extent,
and denied altogether the even more
important passage of the Strait of
Sunda. The naval base at Soerabaja
can be preserved for the use of the
Allied naval forces; It is the only
naval base in these waters which
now remains in Allied hands. Aus
tralia can be protected from direct
attack in force, and eventually, as
the Allied power grows, the far
flung Japanese outposts can be re
duced one by one, as they were
gained, and pressure brought to
bear against the Japanese lines of
communication in the South China
Sea.
Therefore, the tenure of Java
and Sumatra is now the crucial
point In the struggle for the Par
East. If they can be held, the Allies
can eventually take the offensive
and drive back the Japanese. If
they are lost, the Japanese can then
take the offensive in the Indian
Ocean, with results that will be felt
as far afield as the Middle East, the
Caucasus and the Yangtze Valley.
That strong reinforcements are on
the way is an opsn secret. How
strong they are. and how near to the
crucial area, are items of informa
tion properly kept secret.
But that the primary duty of all
the Allied forces now present in the
Par East is to gain time for their
arrival there can be no question.
It is the old story so often repeated
of insufficient preparation, lack of
forethought, unwillingness to face
unpleasant facts, having to be paid
for with the blood of brave men.
Every hour that Gen. MacArthur
can gain in Luzon, every hour that
Gen. Percival can gain at Singapore,
is an hour well worth the sacrifice
that it will cost. The Malay bar
rier must be held. Its security rests
very largely in the hands of those
who may not live to see the last
waves of the Japanese onslaught
break against it in bloody defeat.
(Copyright, 1942, New York Tribune. Ine.)
This Changing World
Normandie Disaster Declared No 'Accident';
Churchill Guesses Wrong on Singapore
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
The most optimistic official
commentators, who heretofore
have maintained that the Pacific
situation will not be favorable
soon, but will ultimately change
greatly to our advantage, now
admit that we are in serious
danger.
The truth is that the force ap
plied by the war-prepared and
war-minded Axis against the un
prepared and Still easy-going
United Nations is so great that
unless this country wakes from
Its lethargy it may find itself in
graver danger than ever before
in its history.
This applies not only to certain
sections of the country, but also
to many organizations in Wash
ington, where a complacent at
titude still prevails.
Unless something like a miracle
occurs the principal United Na
tions naval and air basee in the
South Pacific will be in the hands
of the Japanese by the end of
spring.
America’s industrial potential
is enormous, but it will take some
time yet before the dozens of
billions of dollars appropriated
for arms, ammunition, ships and
planes can be translated into
fighting tools.
Normandie Had Mission.
Meanwhile, the Axis powers are
not going to be idle, giving us
time to prepare for this terrific
fight.
The espionage services of the
Germans end Japanese in this
country have been remarkable
and the antidote for them ex
tremely poor. The result is that
the enemy knows about as well
as our highest officials the exact
tempo of our production. Nazi
Japanese operations are con
ducted in accordance with a defi
nite plan and whenever Berlin
and Tokio fear that some mat
ters in the United States are
moving faster than they antici
pated "accidents” occur.
Despite official declarations
that the French superliner Nor
mandie was not the victim of
sabotage, many responsible of
ficials believe her partial destruc
tion was by no means accidental.
She was supposed to start, with
a group of other ships, on a most
important mission in the near
future and was being prepared
for that mission when the "acci
dent” occurred.
Well - informed quarters in
Washington concede that for
many months to come the ac
tivity of the United Nations in
the South Pacific and around
Australia will havs to be con
fined to raids such as those made
recently on the Gilbert and Mar
shall Islands and the Macassar
Straits.
The appointment of the Neth
erlands admiral, C. E. L. Helfrich,
as acting commander of the
United Nations naval forces In
place of Admiral Thomas C.
Hart, Is a clear indication that
for the time being the United
Nations fleet needs only a raid
ing leader. Admiral Hart Indi
cated his Intention to retire even
before the outbreak of the war,
for be reached retirement age 18
months ago.
It is hoped that a sufficient
air force will be dispatched to
Australia to help the hastily
gathered forces of that Common
wealth to ward oft Japanese in
vasion. This is expected to be
done through quick raids against
Japanese lines of communica
tion. But while the situation in
regard to Australia continues to
be menacing, there is the gravest
concern about Rangoon and the
Burma road. Equal apprehen
sion is felt over the situation In
India.
Churchill Guessed Wrong.
American naval and military
strategists are inclined to believe
that Japan’s main effort after
she has succeeded in subduing
Singapore and the Netherlands
Indies will be In the Indian
Ocean.
In the meantime, a political
explosion is not ruled out in Eng
land. Prime Minister Churchill
is a forceful man, but he has dis
played a weakness for guessing
wrong.
He assured the people of this
country In his speech to Con
gress, as he assured the Chinese
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and his own people in London,
that Singapore would hold. He
said reinforcements were being
rushed to the beleaguered fortress
at the time when the Japanese
were still some 200 miles away
and had not yet come out of the
jungle. He indicated that im
portant reinforcements of mod
em planes were being sent.
The fall of Singapore is bound
to be a heavier blow to the Brit
ish than any previous defeat;
worse even than the Norwegian
fiasco and the Greek and Crete
disasters. Hence, it is believed
in many Washington quarters
that Mr. Churchill will have to
do a lot of explaining and will
have to use something more than
rhetoric to appease the British
people, who placed unbounded
confidence in his abilities and
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McLemore—
Oscar in the Bag
For The Bbbe'
By HENRY McLEMORE.
HOLLYWOOD.—The 1942 Motion
Picture Academy Award Is as good
as in the bag.
The critics who hand out the
Henry McLemore.
coveted Oicir
for the most
distln g u i s h e d
acting during
the year can
faithfully choose
the winner, de
spite the fact
that the year Li
only In Its sec
ond month, be
cause one of the
really great ac
tors in the world
has arrived In
Holly wood to
make a movie. He is George Herman
Ruth, better known as "Babe,” “The
Babe,” “The Bambino" and "The
King of Swat.”
He is here to play a prominent
role in the picture that Samuel
Goldwyn will make of the life of
Lou Gehrig. As a rule actors do
not excite me and I can truthfully
say I would not cross the street
(even with a green light) to see most
of them play volley ball with a
lemon meringue pie.
But I went to the train to meet
The Babe. So did hundreds of blase
Hollywoodians, who are so accus
tomed to celebrated thesplans that
the sight of a pair of dark glasses
makes them shudder.
The Babe did not disappoint the
crowd. He stepped off the train
wearing a polo coat that, judging
from its size was cut from a real
polo field, and a camel's hair cap
of such vast proportions that it
could cross and recross any desert
without a drink of water. In simply
directing the porter what to do with
his luggage he displayed a mixture
of the best qualities of Rooney,
Tracy, Colman, Hope and Hardy.
* * * *
You will never guess the role he is
going to play in the picture. There
was talk at first of casting him in
the role of the Yankee Stadium
itself, but a recent illness cost him
30 or 40 pounds and now he is not
quite large enough to portray that
mammoth pile of steel and concrete.
He could play the main grandstand
and mezzanine all right, but he isn’t
quite up to serving as the bleachers,
too. So he is going to play Babe
Ruth.
This is a role in which he can't
miss. He has played it for going
on 50 years. All his life he has been
The Babe. Nothing else. Hundreds
of people have tried to make him
change, but he heard them not. He
was The Babe eating 15 hamburgers
at a single standing. He was The
Babe hitting the ball. He was The
Babe morning, noon and night, and.
wealth and fame changed him not.
No living actor ever gave a per
formance that matched the Babe's
during the big baseball show that
was the 1932 World Series. You re
member that one in which the Babe,
angered by the taunts of the Chi
cago players, halted the proceedings
while at bat and, with a wave of his
hand indicated to the Cubs and the
50,000 customers in the stands, what
he intended to do with Charlie
Root's next picth.
He pointed to the far-away stands.
It was a tremendous moment. Here
was an actor writing his own lines.
Here was an actor halting a drama
to improve upon a script with ad
libs. Here was the finest moment
in a great show that is sports.
George Herman Ruth didn't fall.
He caught Root's pitch, a fast one
that cut across the letters of his
shirt, and he hit it so hard that it
is rolling yet.
Ruth is not new to motion pic
tures. Away back in 1926 he starred
in a drama with Anna Q Nilson (if
that’s the way you spell it) titled
"The Babe Comes Home.” The big
scene in that mighty spectacle, if
my memory is not up to some knav
ery. was when the Babe tried to kill
a mouse that was frightening Miss
Nielson (let's try spelling it that
way). He never got the mouse, as
I recall it, but he wrecked the apart
ment building in the chase. His
display of emotions in that particu
lar scene ran the gamut from a
(Arliss) to z (Zazu Pitts).
That was a silent movie. The
Babe's only trouble in his new ven
ture (and it’s a minor one) will be
to remember his lines. He is ele
phantine but his memory isn't. To
him every one is “Kid.” When he
left the Yankees he still didn't know
the name of the second baseman or
catcher or the shortstop. They
were "Kid” to him.
But Mr. Goldwyn probably won’t
hold this against him. After all.
Mr. Goldwyn, when some one men
tioned the manager who ran the
Yankees when Ruth was in his
prime, said, "Muller Higgins? I
knew him well.”
(Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.)
Geographic Talk to Feature
Scenes About Key West
Key West, one of the Nation’s
winter playgrounds, will be pictured
to members of the National Geo
graphic Society at Constitution Hall
tomorrow night, when James B.
Pond lectures on “Through the
Florida Keys.’’
The lecture will portray in na
tural-color film a tour along the fa
mous scenic Overseas highway to
Key West, from which Mr. Pond's
camera was focused on sharks and
other sea life moving about the
shallow water. Deep sea fisher
men’s camps and exotic flowers of
Key West also will be features of
the film.
Weightman P.-T. A. Fete
The Grant - Weightman Parent
Teacher Association will celebrate
Founders’ Day at 8 o’clock tonight
at the Weightman School. Since all
children have been transferred to
the Corcoran School, while the
Weightman School is In use as a
recruiting station, parents of Cor
coran students have also been Invited
to the meeting.