Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1942, Page 21

Democratic O.C.D. Aide John B. Keily Cites Responsibility for Physical Fitness The “toughening up” period arrived in the United States now that we are at war, John B. Kelly told members of the Woman's Na- tional Democratic Club at a lunch- eon meeting yesterday at club head- quarters. Mr. Kelly, who is director of phys- Ical fitness of the Office of Civilian Defense, asserted that both the Jap- anese and Germans have a head- start on this country in physical fitness. “There aren’t 10 per cent of our boys who can swim the quarter mile that the Japanese can,” he eaid. “The German is a tough, well-condi- tioned athlete. True, all the humor has been taken out of him. He is bestial but that’s the kind of ma- chine we're up against.” The speaker included the women In his denunciation of national physical weakness and provoked considerable laughter as he spoke of the women who “eat, drink and spread.” A campaign to improve the physi- eal welfare of young Americans was scheduled to start last night with the opening of 85 schools for poten- ttal draftees, offering a six-week course of physical education, accord- Ing to the speaker. The course will include such exercises as climbing and swimming and will “save the Army a month of training,” Mr. Kelly declared. Mrs. W. Meade Fletcher, jr., chair- man of the Information Hour Com=- mittee, presided at the luncheon. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Ocie Heady. Other guests at the speaker’s table Included Mrs. Hugh B. Thomas, president of the National Demo- cratic League; Mrs. Lewis Moore, ir., of the Office of Price Adminis- tration, and Miss Ally Clareg of the office of the Speaker of the House. Dr. Rosinski to Speak At Gadsby’s Tavern Dr. Herbert Rosinski, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Harvard University, will be guest speaker at & meeting of the Alexandria Woman’s Club, at 2 p.m. tomorrow, at Gadsby’s Tavern. The speaker will have as his sub- ject, “The War in the Pacific.” Dr. Rosinski, through the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation, is now in Washington doing research on his latest book. “Command of the Sea.” The program will include the singing of a group of songs “Ha- waiian Landscape” by Marie Felton Olive, mezzo soprano, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. David C. Book. Mrs. R. Reynolds Blackwell, chair- man of hostesses, will receive, as- sisted by Mrs. C. H. Strader, Mrs. Marshall H. Bailey, jr.; Mrs. Robert Sutherland, Mrs. D. S. Shelton and Mrs. George Trayer. has Problem Program Mrs. Harry Englebright, wife of Representative Englebright of Cali- fornia, will be guest speaker on Nelle Van D. Smith's problem pro- gram over WWDC at 10:45 a.m. Fri- day. Her subject will be “How to Get Donors for the Plasma Bank.” Vienna P.-T. A. to Meet The Vienna (Va.) Parent-Teacher Assoclation will meet at 8 p.m. to- morrow at the school. A talk by Alvord Sherman and singing by the school Glee Club are on the program. Custom Spark Could Flame German Doubt and Rivalry Women Hear |For Nazi Power Into Chaos Overnight This s the fAfth of & series by a foreign correspondent jus returned from Europe. By DAVID M. NICHOL, Correspondent gt The Star and Chiesso Current in Berlin last fall was the story of the optimist and the pessi- mist who met on the street. “Well,” sald the optimist, previ- ously most cheerful about the pros- pects, “I'm afraid we're going to lose the war.” “Of course,” said the pessimist, “but when?” Sixteen months earlier, when I first arrived in the Third Reich’s capital the circulation of such an episode would have been impossible. There was an atmosphere of confi- dence, of certainty. France had been defeated in an incredibly short time. England, at Dunkerque, had brushed as close to disaster as the British Empire has ever come. Night after night the Luftwaffe was rain- ing down its.terror on London and on every industrial center of any }mupomaee. But England did not all. Turns Southward With Spring. Winter came. Weather hampered airplanes ‘and submarines altke, Hitler talked of spring, and the horrors he would loose. - But spring arrived, and the Nazi might turned south into Yugoslavia and Greece, leaped to Crete, and then began its fearsome march into Russia. “We win wonderful victories,” one German~ said, “but we haven't beaten England, and until we do the war will not be ended.” Victory communiques often are the sugar on the pills. A year ago Ger- many should have reduced its meat rations sharply, but the police told the economic authorities they would not take responsibility for what might result. For a week after the assault on Yugoslavia there was no news of importance. Then on Sun- day afternoon the loudspeakers blared the trumpet calls five times. Germany had again achieved the impossible. Two or three days later the Nazi public first learned that the veal chop and wurst quots would be cut 20 per cent. Morale Dips Further. demonstrated that it is a workable system. It is still in the process of being established, a process which exposes the emotionally and intel- lectually exhausted German to al- most daily new jars and jolts. By its very nature Naziism can have no rivals for the interests or alle- giance of the people. It can brook no interference from any quarter. ‘That is the picture in general terms. Specifically, it explains the continued persecutions of the church, which faces certain extinction if Hitler wins. It is the key to the progressive liquidation of every or- ganization outside the party scope. 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