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Evening star., 1945-07-03
Finding a Way
By Mai. George Fielding Eliot


submit that we can hope for no bet
ter than this in the affairs of nations.
We can, we must And way Of living
We must find way to prevent the loos-
ing again on the surface of this little
planet of the terrible instruments of war
which science has placed in our hands
But we won't do this by loudly demand
ing that every diff1culty which appears
be Immediately and permanently set
tled," and charging bad faith and evil
purpose to others if it is not.
Some nations, we know, are worse
than others; some we just can't trust
and must deal with accordingly; we
would be fools, indeed, to allow the Ger
mans and the japanese another chance
10 upset the whole of our hopes. Their
record is against them, but those who
are working with us, whose objective and
whose basic interests are the same as
our own. we must learn to trust-and
we will be doing we'll by ourselves and
our children If we so conduct ourselves
that others will learn to trust us, too.
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Take this matter of the San Francisco
Charter. It is great milestone in hu-
man history. 1t is more than milestone:
it is an instrument of progress and of
hope which, if we'll used, can be Of the
greatest possible help to us and to all
who signed it in establishing more
friendly relations and especially in pre-
venting the outbreak Of another war.
But it doesn't settle" anything except
the fact that We and 40 other nations
have by signing 1t expressed deterni-
nation not to have another war.
Even when the Senate has ratified the
Charter as is now confidently expected,
we still have to pass legislation giving
adequate powers to the American dele
gate on the Security Council, so that he
can represent us effectively. And we
still have to legislate the agreement pro-
viding for the ALLEGATION Of American
armed forces to support the world or
ganization in case Of need. 1t doesn't
require too much provision to anticipate
that the opponents of the world organi-
zation will center their fire on these two
legislative acts and not on the Charter
itself And even when both bills are
safely passed, we must still anticipate
that the future will bring us many prob
lens In their application to future and
unforeseeable conditions, with which
future Congresses and Presidents must
deal, and about which the American
people must be constantly thinking and
talking.
1t will help us, in facing these never
ending responsibilities, if we can lay
aside our distaste for the fact that we
are out in the world as an active partici-
pant in its affairs: that we are not going
to settle. our problems by signing char
ters or passing laws; that we can have
the peace and security we need only If
we keep working for it. and that our
job is not to settle" this or that but to
find way of living in world in which
good will never be wholly triumphant
nor evil wholly defeated.
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Evening star., 1945-07-03

I've. been reading Lester Cohen's book,
Coming Home" It's about Marine
who returns from the wars to find that
he has just about as many troubles In
Pittsburgh as he had on GuadalcanaI.
I liked the book because it's book
about real people, not heroes and vii
lians. The hero and the heroine and
their friends have their Weaknesses and
their faults; they don't accomplish
everything they set out to accomplish.
The unsympathetic characters have
their good points, they aren't unmltl-
gated scoundrels, wholly possessed OF
the Devil. Even at the end, when the
hero has surmounted some OF his difn-
culties, you realize that he still has
lot of work and lot OF trouble aheao
of him.
1t would do us all good If we could
think of our international problems and
our peace building labors in these terms,
or something like them. We are too
prone to cry for the settlement" OF
difficulties which have been troubling
the world for centuries, and to complain
bitterly if we don't get settlement"
by tomorrow morning at half past six.
Take the Polish problem The fact
is that Poland is small nation living
between two big ones, and hating both.
That's basic 1t is the root of all Po-
lands troubles and it isn't going to be
wiped away by any formula" that can
be devised. All we can hope for is
means of getting along, means where
by the Poles can have decent chance
to live their own lives for the time being.
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Or take the recent imbroglio in Syria.
We call for a settlement of the Syrian
problem-which is all linked up with
little matters like Arab unity, Anglo
French rivalry in the Middle East, the
question OF Palestine, the lifeline of the
British Empire, oil, pan-Lslam, and so
on. We're going to have to work at
these problems-not to get them set
tied. but Just to be able to live with each
other in world where they exist, and
where they or the factors which create
them will continue to exist.
The same thing can be said OF the
question of the Straits-or the question
of India--or our relations with Latin
America---or international cartels-or a
lot of other things that any of us can
think of almost offhand. We won't get
these things settled. we will, If we
have good sense and good will and good
faith, be able to live with them and
adjust them as we go along.
The Marine in the book had an idea
that he wanted to see justice done. He
didn't quite get it, even in his own
particular troubles, and certainly he
didn't abolish all injustice in Pitts
burgh, or anywhere else. He found
way of living; he found partial solu-
ton for his own problems, because he
was basically decent, honest human
being and because there were lot of
other decent, honest, human beings with
whom he came In contact-rlot faultless,
Evening star., 1945-07-03
The Aphrodite of MeIos

The statue known inaccurately as
the Venus de Milo" is back in the
Louvre in Paris. where it has be-
longed during more than a hundred
years. It's restoration provides an
occasion for expressing the wish that
among English-speaking peoples it
should bear its proper designation as
the "Aphrodite of Melos." I'm moth
ing Latin and in nothing French"
the figure is Greek from top to toe
in conception and in execution; in
purpose and in effect.
Professor F. B. Tarbell of the Uni
versity of Chicago summarizes. the
judgment of many critics when he
writes: 'This is the worthiest exist
ing embodiment of the Goddess of
Love" 1t is, indeed, as he insists,
both "chaste and noble. echoing the
sentiment of the fourth century at
its best" Dr. H. H. Powers, presi-
dent of the Bureau of University
Travel, applies to the figure the
phrase "womanhood transcendent,
untrammeled by the human blight
of limitation" and adds that it rep
resents "the dream of humanity and
the essence of the divine"
But both these quoted authorities
are talking about the statue in it's
mutilated condition. How much more
marvellous it must have been before
the arms were broken away! The
sculptor responsible for the work in
its original form brought to perfec-
ton complete achievement. He
created in stone woman of Olym-
plan grace and charm, surprising in
beauty any woman of the earth who
ever had lived-an ideal in the
strictest meaning of the word.
The identity of the artist probably
never will be discovered. Neither is
it likely that the names of those who
mutilated the statue ever will be
known. Many legends have devel-
oped around its finding in the ruins
of an ancient temple on an island
of the Aegean Sea. 1t has been sug-
gested that the figure was not in
tured until certain sailors dragged
Evening star., 1945-07-03

The rules for the administration of
the American-occupied zones OF Ger
many are described as harsh. The off,
GERS are supposed TO enforce tough regu-
lations, including the now admittedly
unenforcible nonfraternization order.
But while the rules and regulations are
those of Roman peace" the hundreds
of thousands of American soldiers gar
risoning the German territories are kind
and sympathetic TO all except the
avowed Nazis,
The soldiers are handing out some OF
their rations to women and children in
distress and, while applying the curfew
and other military regulations strictly,
there is no looting and unwarranted
harsh treatment of the well-behaved
citizens.
The same is said to prevail in the
British zone where harsh occupation
rules have been prescribed by the gov
ernment, but the officers and the men
are able to find many ways of mitigating
them.
The rules are different in the Russian
area. The official instructions from
Moscow provide for large-scale assist
ance to the mon -Hitlerite" population.
The Soviet broadcasts have informed
the world that adequate supplies, in
cluding luxuries such as coffee, were
sent to the famished German population
east of the Elbe River.
Soon after the capitulation of the
NaZis the Soviet military government
ordered stores opened and provided
them with immediate necessities for the
civilian population. Bakers were mobi-
lized and ordered to 60 to work and
-four was provided for limited amount
of bread for the hungry civilians. Thea
ters and movies were reopened in Berlin
ard other important cities, while orches-
tras were reorganized and ordered to
play in public places.
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Public schools, using revised textbooks
which arrived in the Russian controlled
areas within 10 days after the Hitlerites
gave up, are functioning again. Town
councils headed by Germans with good
or fair Communist records are going
about their duties under the strict SUI
pervision of the political police.
Except for the organization of town
councils, none of the advantages offered
by The Russian armies of occupation
exists in the American and British
zones. Yet, according to reports received
in Washington, every time it is an
nounced that the Americans turn over
another slice of Germany to the Rus
slams, there is a large exodus of Ger
mans into the remaining American
areas. So large Is this exodus, despite
the warning that the United States will
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Rubid Tuxpuyers

Some people may be inclined to
argue that yesterdays mixup at the
District Building over the price of
dog tags was due to the weather.
Undoubtedly the weather helped. 1t
was the sort of day that leads an
otherwise reasonable man to assume
an unreasonable position and stick
to it.
But the hot weather was only
partly to blame. Here was a beau
tiful opportunity to take simple
proposition-the simple proposition
being that 50 tags remained at 81
until the law making them So be-
came effective-and get it fright
fully confused. Naturally, the oppor-
tunity was quickly seized. The
lawyers made ruling, then reversed
themselves. The tax collector ruled,
in accordance with the rich tradi-
tions Of his office, against the tax
payers. The Commissioners re-
versed the tax collector. The tax
collector, having reversed the tax
payers, eventually reversed himself.
1t will require as much effort on the
part of the taxpayer to retrieve the
additional dollar enormously paid
the tax collector as to housebreak
another puppy.
All.of which suggests that the er-
roneously collected dollars be pooled
by the taxpayers in a fund to
innoculate the people at the District
Building against rabies. A taxpayers
bite, in circumstances such as these,
is a serious matter.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

be dropped on Japanese towns and
cities, with the result that within
the measurable future, If Japan goes
on with the war, not single city or
town worthy of the name will be
left standing.
In the face of this grim prospect,
and the Japanese can do nothing to
alter it, the Tokyo propagandists
continue to talk of twenty-year
war. Perhaps SO, but there arises
strong suspicion that somebody is
whistling in the dark. 1t would be
more interesting, and probably more
instructive, to hear from the $780,
600 people who can no longer live
in deserted Tokyo, and who, before
many months have passed, will be
unable to live anywhere in Japan
unless they are prepared to set up
housekeeping in caves and forests.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Noise and Nerves
From the Pathfinder Magazine.

From the Pathfinder Magazine, s
Thomas A. Edison once predicted the
man of the future would be deaf be-
cause the growing amount of traffic and
industrial noise would ruin his ears.
Almost as pessinnistic are present-day
scientists concerned with the problem or
noise. Low-fiying planes will have
pathological effects" on persons below
unless some way Is found to muffie en-
gine noises, William Phelps Emo of the
Emo Foundation, New York. warned
plane manufacturers. Even the bursting
of a blown-up bag raises brain pressure
four times above normal, Mr.. Emo said.
Noise may cause nervous indigestion,
DR.. Walter B. Cannon of Harvard found.
And the National Noise Abatement
Council said occupational deafness is
becoming more and more common.
street noises cause anger and other
disturbing emotions, and some insanity
is caused by noise
Evening star., 1945-07-03
New Mission to Moscow

The arrival in the Soviet capital of
a special diplomatic mission from
the Chungking government of China
headed by Premier T. v. Soong is an
event of great potential significance.
The mere fact of its occurrence is, in
itself, hopeful augury; because this
is the first conference between the
two governments on what diplomats
call "the highest levep in many
years. Relations between Moscow and
the Kuomintang regime, while cor
rect, have not been cordial since
that regime broke with the Chinese
Communists and expelled their Rus
sian advisers. Presumably, the pres
ent mission foreshadowS a genuine
effort on the part of Chungking to
arrive at a better understanding
1t is more than likely that the
groundwork for the mission was laid
at the San Francisco Conference,
which Mr. Soong, just elevated to the
premiership, attended as head of the
Chinese delegation, and where he
had the opportunity to meet and
talk with Mr. Molotoff, Soviet Com
misSar of Foreign Affairs. Certainly,
Mr. Soong would not have gone to
Moscow unless the diplomatic pre-
liminaries had been satisfactorily
worked out.
The Chungking Premier will have
plenty to discuss with his opposite
numbers and with Marshal Stain,
for the problem of Sino-SovIet rela-
tions is complex and of long stand
ing. The most pressing issue is
doubtless that of the Chinese Com
muniSt regime at Sian, in North
western China, whose chronic feud
with the Chungking regime renders
impossible united front against the
japanese invaders and threatens to
rekindle the fires of open civil war
when the common enemy is expelled.
Moscow, like Washington, witholds
diplomatic recognition from the
Sian regime but is understood to be
benevolently disposed to it. Should
Soviet Russia intervene in the Far
Eastern war, the Sian issue would
become acute, together with the
status of Manchuria and Korea, and
reaching decisions would have to
be made alike by Moscow, Chung
king and the western powers.
Even those thorny matters do not
exhaust the list of items on Mr..
Soong's agenda. There are also the
questions of Mongolia and Singkiang
or Chinese Turkestan. Both those
remote regions, formerly loose de-
Tendencies of the feudal Manchu
Empire, are claimed as integral parts
of the Chinese nation-state estab-
lished by the republican revolution
of 1911. But the Chinese republic
never made good it's claims over
Mongolia, which became an effective
dependency of Russia, while in Sing
kiang China's hold is weak and the
Russian influence is strong. A gen.
eral settlement of all these outstand-
ing issues may not Immediately be
arrived at. But exploratory talks
conducted on an amicable basis will
be useful and are certainly timely.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Lesson of the Charter

President Trumans visit to the
Senate to submit the United Nations
Charter, and his reception by that
august body, combine to teach a
lesson which should be brought
home to the people of this country.
For Mr.. Truman it was a visit
with old friends-friends in whom
he has confidence and who have
confidence in him. AS he entered
the Senate chamber the members,
regardless of party, stood and
cheered him, and he received a SIM
liar ovation when he had concluded
his brief and appropriately informal
presentation. If there was a single
discordant note, a hint of serious
opposition to prompt ratification of
the Charter, it escaped the attention
of the veteran reporters who crowded
the press gallery for this historic
occasion.
Some of these observers, recalling
the July day of twenty-six years ago
when Woodrow Wilson went before
the Senate on similar mission,
took note of the contrast between
the two occasions. The relations be-
tween President Wilson and the
Senate had suffered from mutual
distruSt. Mr.. Wilson spoke eioquently
and at length in behalf of his cher
iShed League of Nations. But his
appeal fell on many unsympathetic
ears. For variety of reasons, some
of them probably unavoidable, there
was no public support for the League
comparable to that which assures
ratification of the Charter, and when
Mr.. Wilson, man already broken
in health, left the Senate chamber
the defeat of the project to which
he had given the best that was in
him was clearly foreshadowed. How
great the contrast when the present
occupant of the White House can
lay the successor to the Laegue be-
fore the Senate and receive the COM
forting assurance from Majority
Leader Barkley that "I cannot put
my finger on as many as six Senators
who might be against it."
Yet it would have been entirely
possible to have created an atmos-
phere of serious hostility toward
the Charter and there was a time
when it seemed that some of its
supporters might succeed in accom-
plishing precisely that result. A few
months ago these jealous advocates
were distrustful of the Senate and
its constitutional processes. They
were afraid to intrust this country's
role under the Charter to what they
regarded as the whims of one-third
plus one of the membership of the
Senate, and there was an energetic
and noisy search for some means of
circumventing the constitutional re-
quirement that treaties be ratified
by two-thirds vote. Fortunately,
however, common sense prevailed,
and the bitter fight which this
would surely have precipitated, with
resulting danger to the Charter
itself, has been avoided.
Instead of going before the Senate
in an atmosphere of conflict, the
Charter is received with good feel
ing, if not enthusiasm. It's ratifca-
ton is assured, and, more important,
the evidence of it's overwhelming
Endorsement by the people is not
clouded by quarrels over any COL
lateral issue. A proper understand
ing of this experience should operate
in the future to restrain those whose
zeal is apt to get the better of their
judgment.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
How to Help Soldiers

To the Editor Of The Star
How can a combat soldier be taught
the ways of living civilian life again?
How often I have heard this ques-
ton! And ask myself: Is there a
solution? I mean solution that will
solve all difficulties.
True, the soldier has lived a civilian
life longer than his military life. But
do civilians know what combat does to
a mans mind. to ones train of thought?
1t is up to you good people to lend
a helping hand, to apply psychology
the like of which has never been seen.
plead with you, when GI Joe
comes home, don't ask questions about
his experiences, but treat him as if he
had Just been on vacation.
After three years overseas / returned
to a strange country. But my family,
God bless them, treated me just as If
had been away on short visit, and it
worked.
I write this in an effort to help 9TH
ers, and think 1t will solve all ques-
tions. JOSEPH SCHWARTZ.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

it along the shore in panic haste and
thus injured it irreparably. Jules
Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville.
navigator who also was natural
philosopher of distinction, was the
person who secured the treasure for
France. He recognized the value of
the "Aphrodite of Melos" when it
was unearthed in 1920 and per-
suaded the French Ambassador at
Constantinople to obtain it for King
Louis XVIII, It's cost, allegedly, was
only ST 800.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

II may or may not be significant that
most of the amendments to the Federal
Constitution over the past century have
been adopted toward the end or shortly
after the end of the two major wars
of that period. Perhaps that is because
things are in a more fluid condition at
such times and the public is willing TO
make changes. At the present time
there are a number of details in our
Constitution which are definitely in
need of change, and the Judiciary Com
mittees of Congress might well put to-
gether a group of minor amendments to
60 through the hopper together.
I pointed out the other day in this
column that there seems to be con-
stitutional difficulty in the way of Pres
ident Truman's excellent suggestions
about putting the Speaker Of the House
in line for presidential succession and
for holding a special election to fill a
vacancy in the presidency. The point
I made was that the Constitution says
the term of the President shall be four
years, and good constitutional lawyers
say that Congress cannot provide for
an election for an abbreviated term.
This could be corrected very easily.
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Another question which will have
some note in the weeks to come is the
unnecessary provision that treaty be
confirmed by a two-thirds majority of
the Senate. Perhaps better way OF
confirming treaties would be by SIM
pie majority of both houses. And while
the Senate's power of veto over the
Executive is being overhauled, 1t might
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Too intelligent for Thut
From the victori. colonist.

From the victoris Colonist.
1t is amazing how popular the public
is with the governments at the time of
an election. 1t Is consulted as to this,
asked regarding that, addressed in the
softest of terms and told. moreover, that
it is intelligent. The last is true Were
the public not intelligent 1t would have
sold its liberties long ago, and. to the
drst set Of denasogues.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
MurqinuIiu on Peace

Peace is but an intertude.
So the legends run.
War is an undying teud.
Early died my son.
War begets its parallel:
This the nrchipes shotD.
fFor my son, the annals tell
Killed at Ansio.)
Armistice imperntanent--
True the records run.
Yet is death benefcient:.
Peace is yours, n1g son.
CHRISTIE JEFFRIES
Evening star., 1945-07-03

The Germans always have been a
peculiar people. For example, Bis
marck said that Attila the Hun was
a greater man than John Bright,
the English reformer whose whole
life was spent in selfless service to
humanity.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

One of the reasons that President
Truman Is popular with all kinds
and conditions of his countrymen
is that he isn't mad at ANYBODY.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Urges Discharsins First Men In

Smithsonian Institution.
Arkansas State press., 1945-01-12
Magnolia
Free Hope Community

Free Hope Community.
Mr.. and Mrs. White and daugh.
ter, Juanita. left for Los Angeles,
Calf. Tuesday after an extended
visit here with parents, Mr.. and
Mrs, Dock Jones. All schools
In this vicinity opened Tuesday,
Jan. End :. Miss Annie Bell Pas
chall spent several days in Cam
den visiting her sister, Miss
Lizzie NJ. Rose is improving after
her operation. Mrs, Eliza Jami.
son spent the night with her sis
ter Mrs. Bethenia Banks. II Is
also amusing to know she had the
pleasure of killing a fox In her
back yard last week. Mastr Ro-
ger Jamison and sister Of Calf.
were Free Hope School visitors
last week, Walker High School
basketball team made ii two out
OF thr' ovet Free Hope Jan 9th
The senior lays of Waller won by
score of 1927 The girls by a
score of 31-13, while the Jr. boys
Of Ere Hope Won by the scere of
1871 Magnolia and Walker will
play next week.
Arkansas State press., 1945-01-12
DUMAS

Continued from Page g.
home in Chicago Thursday after
spending Xmas with her mother,
a.'fs. Julia Jones. Mrs. Viola
Baker and daughter returned
nome Friday after visiting Mrs,
Willie Mae and Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. Emma Lee Payton of Little
Rock and a teacher in the city of
roses spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr., and Mrs. Perry Lee,
Mrs Lee is i'll. Born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Asa Drew a fine baby girl.
She was christened Joe Ann. -.
Mr., and Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs.
Addie Pow II and daughters, vi
Wan and Viria. left for Detroit,
Mich, Thursday.