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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. APRIL 1. 1944 VcmctmX(hrmiHt Collection Tomorrow! LETTERS After the Butcher Boy! AND KUCHi-SlfcM HEKALD Tie up those bundles of scrap paper As Life Goes By By DONALD J. MacCARGO Reckless Road hr7 PuMisned tT Uannett at 57-ttl Main Street East.

Rochester, 4. N. Frank Oannett. president; Douglaa C. Townion, Vlcepreirient; UerDClt W.

Cruickshank, Secretary and Treasurer. KW1N R. UAVtNFOKT. Genera) Manager NKAL MURPHY. Bustneas Manager HAROLD W.

8ANFOKJJ. Editor A. VERNON CROOP. Acting Managlnt tailor Without or with offence to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes. Myr mm Entered at the Postofflee at Rochester, ft.

X. Second Class Mail Matter telephone: Main 7400 Ali Department MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all new dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In tnis paper and aiso ID local news published herein. All rignu reserved. RtBSrKIPTION RATES By Carrier Dally 20 cent per weelc. dally and Hunday By CMaff First and second rones: Dally IV per year; Sundav $5.20 per vear.

tor monthly rate on these rones and rates on other sones call Circulation Department. tonight and get them out to the curb! Regardless of weather, the trucks will come along tomorrow in the second big collection of this vitally important material since the first of the year. The salvage committee is out to capture a unique record for Rochester. It aims to make this the first city of its class to complete a city-wide collection in one day. In other cities these collections drag on for three or four days.

Rochester has a chance to set a new mark both, in the total tonnage of collected paper and in the of collection. Every householder can help by having the bundles at the curb when the trucks come along. As this may be early in the morning, the safest way is to get them out tonight. Trucks and collectors, all volunteer, will gather at headquarters in Spring Street at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and from then on speed will be the watchword. Again the committee specifies that scrap paper should be tied up in bales, newspapers and magazines securely tied.

There is a special need for cardboard and corrugated paper, but every kind of paper scrap, including all the odds and ends that used to be tossed into the ash can, are needed and urgently. Daily B'ble Passage What Shall They Do? Editor, Democrat and Chronicle: In regard to some recent letters concerning: landlords and unruly, out-of-hand children, would like to state, that while it is true I have no such domestic problem, and while I am far from being a landlord, still, looking at it from a realistic standpoint, just what is the landlord supposed to do? He doesn't pretend to be running a charitable institution at cost, that's for all of us as organized society to figure out, and we cannot expect much sentiment to enter into the profit system of private enterprise and rugged individualism. Perhaps the picture of devastation presented in a letter from "Another Landlord" is exaggerated, I wouldn't know, whereas other property ownrs may find they still can make a reasonable profit even under the vigorous barrage laid down by a robust family of little tikes young Americans getting ready to fight our next war. If there are such landlords they should be heard from, to help preserve our faith in human nature. But, on the other hand, where would the children of men lay their pretty heads, under our present system of profit and "dog eat dog," whose mothers and fathers are dependent upon landlords for a roof, if the landlord's enterprise Js made profitless by the wanton destruction caused by the children of apparently irresponsible parents? The only answer is government ownership, based as it is not in private gain, but the common welfare, and calculated to care for the vital needs of the people at least.

We often speak of such governments as our own as a "commonwealth." Alright, let's make it a common wealth In reality. RICHARD DANA. Brighton. II Timothy 3: 14-15: But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Films in fhe War A Unified Program of Self Interest Suggests World Anthem By B.

SKEFFINGTON Editor, Democrat and Chronicle: I like a road that dips and curves With great wide sweeps and gentle swerves, A road that dives down fearlessly Past rocky culvert, gnarled tree, Then pauses by a crystal brook Just for a moment for a look A shadowy, flowery whispering glen Before it starts to climb again. Yes, give me a road that's reckless, rude, That knows no timid attitude, A road with sway and swing and swoop. Dipping to valleys with a whoop. Then climbing past a host of trees Back to a hilltop, there to seize A breath of mountain air and try With final leap to touch the stty. The Once Over By H.

I. PHILLIPS Where the Gloom Is Jacoh Deters of the Anzio beachhead declared that one gets better feeling the. closer he gets In batdefront, 'It's in "ashington. New York, London, Algiers and other places that you suffer most from nerves' he said." News item). I.

In Washington there's a nervousness, In Iondon folks are low; In Gotham there is some distress-Detroit fears every blow; Some cities for nerve capsules hunt And grow worse day by day; It's only on the battlefront That things seem quite okay. IL The mobs on Broadway shake their heads (If they've the time to spare) And register a nervous dread About "that beachhead "It's pretty bad," moans Washington, Which seems a hollow shell; It's only where the fighting's done That things at times go well. III. In Florida, there's much concern; Each sun-tanned, carefree lad Displaying such a lovely burn Chirps, "Things are looking Palm Beach verandas fretful are Quite low feels Hollywood; It's on the battlefields flung far That all looks pretty good. IV.

In Picadilly there's some gloom; Algiers all good news shuns; In any tropic hotel room Are pessimistic ones; In Gotham nighterles you hear The people moanin' low The only guys who show some cheer Are those at Anzio! V. "I don't quite like the looks of things, The racetrack boys declare; "I think we pulled a boner," sings A guy in some beach-chair; On Gulf Stream beaches folks are tense; Bad turns in war they see; It's funny what a difference In places there can be. Beginning Saturday a tax of 30 per cent will be levied on eating places which have music, dancing or other entertainment. But the places are, so we hear, arranging a dodge. We hear they will In most cases the music and entertainment until after a specific hour, urging customers to finish their dinners and get their checks before the deadline.

Russia is moving so fast that even the military experts are puzzled. They fail to consider the possibility, that it's just a case of the brakes needing to be relined. Ima Dodo took the increase in the price of postage stamps with strange enthusiasm. That is, up to the point where the boasted that she had been saving her twos for years and now intended to sell them for three cent each and make a clean-up. casey vri Mr.

Leo Casey has been named press agent for Wendell Willkie's nomination campaign. Which calls for a verse, "Casey and the Hat." There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place, There was pride in Casey's bearing, and smile on Casey's face; And when, responding to the cheers, he threw In Willkie's hat. No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twii Casey at the bat. How Many Valid? The President wisely has decided not to stand in the way of such additional voting opportunity as the Congression-ally approved soldier ballot measure affords. He has suggested supplementary permission to use the Federal ballot for service men and women who have not received state ballots by an appropriate date, whether or not they applied lor them and whether or not the State has authorized their use.

The bill which has become law made the Federal ballot available if states had authorized their use and if state ballots had been applied for by Sept. 1 but not received by Oct. 1. What the President has been anxious to do is to have as many service people vote as possible. What Congress has been trying to do is to make the votes that are cast effective.

For the Constitution expressly provides that presidential electors shall be chosen by states in the manner in which their legislatures direct. Congress therefore could not validate votes for electors unless this provision of the Constitution was changed. Consequently, opening the Federal ballot to service persons from states which do not validate them would be an empty gesture. It may be that Congress should determine the manner in which votes shall be cast for presidential electors or for members of Congress; it may be that the electoral college system of choosing a president should be abandoned. It will take a constitutional amendment to do it, however.

Those who are impatient with what Congress has been trying to do seem to have ignored these basic considerations. It hardly needs the assurance of Will Hays, motion picture boss, to convince the public of the big part which the picture industry plays in the war effort. The news tells us, almost every day. of prominent players setting out for or coming back from the Army camps, at home and abroad. Many stars are winning stripes and decorations In combat duty.

Here at home the pictures presented in the theaters show how seriously the industry is trying to bring the facts of war home to the public. Mr. Hays, in his annual report as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, explains that the industry has kept in mind the different needs of the men at the front or in the training camps, who want gay reminders of the old home life, and of the home front public, which needs reminders of the grim side of war. "The motion picture screen would fail and fail lamentably," he says, "if it did not alert the vast millions at home to the conditions under which we must fight this war, the sacrifices necessary to win it and the tasks still before us." Hollywood has its manpower problems, it seems. Many stars are in the service and there is a shortage of skilled workers "from script writers to cameramen." Nevertheless more than 1,500 actors and actresses made more than 12,000 free appearances in approximately 2,200 events last year, and many millions of armed men have been entertained.

The War Activities Committee of the industry has more than 200,000 volunteers ready to help in any activity to help the war cause. Besides all this, the industry has gone in for special films, for use in military training, in a big way. Hundreds of films have been made to illustrate various processes as a supplement to class room instruction. Possibly the industry has made no more important war contribution than this. Mr.

Hays invariably makes us see that there is more to the motion picture industry than taking in money at the window. This is a particularly good thing to see in war time. The enclosed suggested International Anthem I believe worthy of Some such anthem would do much to help the Christian unity so greatly needed in the world today. RUSSEL I HAYDEN. 72 Flower City Pk.

To the Christian Science Monitor: The correspondence column of a recent issue of The Christian Science Monitor contained a reference to an international anthem. This set me thinking, with the accompanying result. It could be sung to the tune of the Seamen's Hymn: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save." INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM God of Love, we turn to Thee Who blesses all men equally. And does to all mankind dispense The wealth of Thy beneficence. Whose bounty has prepared a place For every creature, class and race.

God of Truth, we turn to Thee. The everlasting harmony Of sun and star bespeak a plan As faithfully designed for man. May we obediently fulfill The purpose of Thy perfect will. God of Life, we turn to Thee Who would have all men to be free Free to reflect eternal good In gratitude and brotherhood. We yield our own unequal ways To let Thy radiance fill our days.

Lord of all, we turn to Thee In whose supremacy we see A oneness that can tolerate barriers of fear and hate. In confident and humble prayer Commit we all men to Thy care. EDGAR NEWGASS. Steyning, Sussex, England. tion with the land-grant universities and, so far as can learn, little appreciation of what research and education can do for the men and women enrolled in its ranks, and for their families.

This, I am sure, is attributable to the comparative newness of the labor movement rather than to any lack of vision upon the part of its leadership. 1 believe the land-grant universities have Just as much to offer labor as they have for industry and agriculture, and surely labor has an equal right with the others to benefit from the services of these public institutions." He says all three groups can work together in complete understanding in a program "free of hypocrisy," and that each group can retain its character. He would set the program up under a. joint council of from 12 to 20 members, selected equally by the three groups. Industry's members might be selected by such organizations as the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Na- r-tional Association of Manufacturers, labor's by the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations; agriculture's by 1 the Grange, Farm Bureau, Farmers Union and the National Council of Farmers Co-operatives.

This committee would deal direct with the Land Association, and could if desired break down into regional committees on the basis of the four regional federal research laboratories. In each state, also, there could be a state committee dealing directly with the state college. So much for the organization setup. Babcock's ideal is that this combined committee would sponsor a program of national research on the broad program of improving human welfare through science. "In science," he says, "there is no place for a left wing or a right wing or a pressure group.

In approaching such a program none of the interested parties need pretend to be anything but selfish. Out of the research they sponsor, industry may legitimately hope for things to manufacture and sell at a profit, labor for work and wages, and agriculture for a higher standard of living on the farm." To illustrate what he has in mind, Babcock suggests two projects, human nutrition and rubber research. He sees ahead a possibility of a level of human nutrition which never before has been approached, and this Is to be made a possibility largely by new means of processing food. Quick-freezing and zero storage, he believes, promise new crops and practices for farmers, millions of new jobs for labor, a whole new field of manufacturing for industry, and better food at lower cost in greater volume for the consumer. The keys to this development, he says, are research and pure science, which likewise hold the future of the rubber industry.

There will be development in human nutrition, in methods of processing and storing food, and in the improvement and utilization of synthetic rubber. These developments may come about largely through individual or corporative initiative and enterprise, but Babcock has the ideal that none this will be lost and national welfare will be enhanced by the work of research institutions working entirely in the public interest. This, in fact, is what the land-grant colleges do today. None of the results of research at these public institutions are patented and there are no secrets withheld for the favored few. Nor will they indorse methods which are unproved, much less those which are known to be unsound, let the chips fall where they may.

Public interest has gained immensely, and under such a program as Cornell's chairman proposes only greater good could come. The three great population and business groups of the country would each have an equal hand in applying the pressure of science to human betterment. fJHE so-called land-grant colleges in the various state were established with the aid of federal grants of public domain, primary purpose of the colleges being to provide education in agriculture and mechanic arts. In addition to providing educational facilities for the individual, these colleges have carried on extensive research affecting people, products and methods of agriculture. Industry, largely dependent upon the people and products of the soil, has shown increasing interest in the results of research at these colleges and has reaped many benefits.

Now H. E. Babcock. chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, has suggested that agriculture, Industry and labor get together and make joint use of the research facilities of the land-grant colleges. This would seem to be a natural development in keeping with the Act of Congress which provided that the collegesshould "teach such branches la ted to agriculture and the mechanic arts." The, colleges were started at a time when America was an agricultural nation and there were "but signs of a budding industrial development," as Babcock says, "and labor, as we know labor today, was not even thought of.

The land-grant universities, hy recognizing the importance of the mechanic arts and forcing academic acceptance of the engineer, set in motion the machinery which made available the engineering knowledge on which the industry of today is founded and by which the war is being won." With this background, Babcock proposes a "joint program of self-interest for industry, agriculture and labor," with the land-grant colleges acting as a service agency In developing joint projects. Says Babcock: "Labor being the newest of the great forces in the country has as yet no connec Looking Backward Items from Daily Democrat (1834) and Chronicle (1870) 100 YKAKS AGO TOO AY 1844 "The citizens of Rochester are invited to meet at 7 o'clock on Thursday evening, April 4, at the Court House to take into consideration the propriety of a memorial to petition Congress for the preservation and improvement of our harbor and the location of a naval depot at the Port of Genesee." I ITERATURE By MARK SULLIVAN Japan Birthrate Real Peril S5 YEARS AGO TODAY 1909 Highest temperature was 47 degrees; lowest, 36 degrees. "Fires caused several thousand dollars damage in and around Sea Breeze. The large Sea Breeze Hotel was burned to the ground and another hotel operated by Louis Geisler was damaged. Three cottages a mile west of Sea Breeze were burned and two others were damaged.

A third hotel was damaged, as was also a bath house." The Balkans Choice On the surface, it might seem that Nazi occupation of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria would be an operation similar in purpose and as effective in a military way as the Nazi occupation of Holland, Belgium, France, Norway and all the other countries the Nazis have taken over by the simple process of marching in. The reason why the occupation of the Balkan countries is entirely different than previous Nazi grabs is presented clearly by the article in the Moscow newspaper Izvestia calling on the Balkan people to quit the Nazi camp now and join up with the United Nations. Here, on the very border of Rumania, is the powerful Russian army, which by its extraordinary triumphs of the last year has proved its capacity to carry the war onto Rumanian soil. The Nazis cannot simply march into that region, unopposed, and proceed to fortify it at their leisure. They will be confronted by the forces that have beaten them soundly all the way from Stalingrad to the Prut River.

If Rumania clings to her alliance with Germany, it will be with the moral certainty that her territory will be a bloody battleground. As Izvestia puts it, the problem for the Rumanians is "Either to be completely occupied without resistance by the Germans with th inevitable prospect of making their territories a theater of war operations and in the final analysis sharing the fate of Germany, or to break with Germany, joining with the democratic countries, firmly and decisively rising in defense of their sovereignty and the very existence of their state." The other little countries of Europe had no such choice; they were overwhelmed, for the most part, before they could muster resistance, and there was no powerful ally at hand to help them. If Germany tries to take over the Balkan countries, with or without the consent of the peoples, it will bring the war into those countries. If they rise up and resist occupation they will save themselves both now and in the post-war settlements. Meanwhile the Russians are at the Prut, the pre-war boundary between Russia and Rumania.

They are almost within reach of the Plocsti oil fields. The Balkan peoples have a powerful "persuader" over their heads to Induce thcrrt to quit the Axis while the quitting is good. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY 1919 Highest temperature was 24 degrees: lowest, 15 degrees. "Irving S. Robeson, of Rochester, the North and South champion, in the amateur golf tournament at Pinehurst, N.

got into difficulty on the second half of his round on course two today and wound up with an 87. This gave him a total of 160 and landed him in a tie for tenth place in the championship Abroad and at Home Ask the average intelligent citizen what ought to be done with men called for military service but' found physically or otherwise incapable of performing it. Our guess is that he would say: use them wherever they are needed, so as to release qualified men for the main task. And these uses may be in war production or in Army or Navy work away from the fighting lines. Compulsion would be unnecessary if such men are engaged in unquestionably war-essential production.

As occupational deferments are combed finer and finer some such plan will be necessary. If the war lasts longer than most persons now reasonably expect tne principle of universal war service for all citizens may have to be applied more drastically. It was a lift to see the name of the Philippines in the headlines again. And it was there justifiably. The American attack on the Palau islands came as close as 450 miles to the largest Philippine island, little more than an hour's flying time for some planes.

If we are able to go that close, in what is indicated as force enough to cause Japanese warships and planes to scurry away, the recapture of Manila and Bataan at least becomes a probability instead of a possibility. It is a practice of Marine commanders, and no doubt that of commanders of other service branches in combat areas, to give the men who are to do. the job some overall idea of the objective, so they can see clearly where their individual efforts fit. Something of that same perspective on war Jobs done by workers in vital war production is afforded Bausch Lomb workers in "Dawn's Early Light," the dramatic production at the Eastman Theater, this week. The dramatizations and the addresses gave each worker a direct link to the men on the fighting fronts.

onny sayings and Life By WILBUR DWIGHT DUNKEL Without Concern of Glory Work, without concern of fortune or of glory, to accomplish the heart's-desired journey to the moon! Put forth notbirg that has not its spring in the very heart, yet, modest Then, if it happen that to some small extent he triumph, obliged to render nof one jot In short, scorning to be the parasite, th creeper, if even failing to be the oak, rise, not perchance to a great height, but rise alone! That famous admonition spoken by Cyrano de Bergerac in Rostand's well-known play of that name comes to mind on the anniversary of the playwright's birth in Marseille. France, on April 1, 1868. Though his family was well established and he received a good, education in the Lycee de Marseilles and at the College Stanislas In Paris where he went to study law, success came slowly. His decision to leave the law and become a writer led to the production of his first play when he was only twenty. Poems and other plays did not, however, add to his reputation.

But when he was thirty, "Cyrano de scored a resounding triumph. Coquelin, the actor-manager, and Sarah Bernhardt repeated their Parisian success in New York, playing the leading roles. However impractical and romtntlo Cyrano's thoughts and actions may seem, this play remains after forty-five years appealing and exciting. As Walter Hampden played Cyrano season after season, the audiences continued to respond to the magic spell created. Though Rostand's "L'Aig'on" and "Chantecler" have been popular enough ia America, he never achieved with any other play the success attained with "Cyrano.

Have you wondered why? Perhaps Cyrano represents a characteristic present to some degree in everyone. However much we boast of freedom, we have little. We are all in the fame boat and depend one upon the other in the complex society of our time. And so we enjoy watch ing the valiant Cyrano live true to his idel. For the time In the theater we may even think of ourselves as practicing what we believe is right.

That, too, ii pleasant. should be read in the light of our present manpower crisis and its seriousness grasped. The newspaper from which it is here quoted put on it a caption humorous in tone, even faintly jeering: "Patter of Little Feet Is Japs Only Comfort." But that dispatch is no matter for humor. And the self-confidence of a nation which produces many children is no matter for jeering by a nation which produces relatively few. On the contrary, it 5a occasion for solemn soul-searching.

For another text read a sentence from Prime Minister Churchill's speech last Sunday: "Our population is unhappily about to enter a period of numerical decline." Mr. Churchill was moved by a report of a royal commission which spoke of England's declining birth late as "one of the most somber anxieties of the times. The decline is largely deliberate he-cause young people for the last 25 years have either deliberately not had children or have limited their families to one or two." Turn now to ourselves. Dwell for the moment not on our present birth rate, the number of children born this year and the last two or three that we can discuss some other time. Dwell here on our past birth rate during the years, say, from 1900 to 1925.

Those are the years which produced our present man power and did not produce enough. The fact, brought home to us this moment, is that we do not have as much man power as we ought to have for fighting this war, including not onljtrnen for combat but for industry. Our lack constitutes a crisis. In practically every activity of the war commanders are calling for more men, yASHINGTON-Our military heads are deeply concerned about man power and because they are concerned, so are all the people. The concern is put in strong words by President Roosevelt and by other officials including Undersecretary of War Robert P.

Patterson, whose austere statement is: "The nation is facing a man-power problem of a critical character." This present concern is immediate, to be met at once. It is a crisis of the present phase of this war. But let us look at the problem from the long-range viewpoint, the viewpoint of national survival over a period of generations. For a beginning, read a recent United Press dispatch from Japan. The rulers of that country think of this war as one inning in a prolonged struggle for survival to be prolonged, if necessary and if Japan can bring it about, for many generations.

Looking at it that way, Japan thinks she has a reason for supposing that in the long run she will prevail. The reason is expressed in the dispatch: "Tokyo radio comforted the Japanese people today with the-statement that 'no matter what stormy winds may blow, Japan will have power and standing ts a nation because of her increasing birth rate. Unlike America and Britain where children are born for convenience and the birth rate is controlled Japan has a great number of young It may be that dispatch was not read by as many Americans as its significance calls for. It including men physically able for combat and others for various services. Having supposed that we had screened out all our 1-A we are re-screening for more.

Why do we not have as much man power as we need? To ask that question is to ask another. Why did the women of America during the years 1900 to 1925 and later, have a declining number of babies? Part of the reason, no doubt, was related to social and economic conditions. But to put all the responsibility there would be one of those fallacies by which persons delude themselves in" order to excuse themselves assigning to conditions outside themselves a responsibility which in fact is within themselves. Much of the reason was deliberate refraining from parenthood. The question is personal to every woman to some, at least, it is a reproach or an accusation.

The answer, in individual cases, would involve much candor, some regret. The answer, in the aggregate of all cases, would touch every aspect of our social and economic life. The sum of the answers would include, as details, the reasons why some women did not marry, why some married late, and particularly why many wives, to use the word used by the British Royal Commission, "deliberately" refrained from motherhood, having no children, or only one or two. The answer, if we are completely candid, would include examination of the fruits, or, more accurately, lack of fruits, of the birth control with which Japan taunts us so-called "planned parenthood." It was during those years that this phenomenon grew and spread, and we have now reached the point where we can judge the national consequences Of it. Copyright, 1944 Who's that pullln the little girl up the hill in her wagon and spoil In my April fool Jok? 1.