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Evening star., 1945-12-05
The Arab Boycott

The Arab Leagues announcement
that its seven member states would
boycott all Jewish-produced goods
from Palestine beginning January l
injects major economic irritant
into the thorny Arab-Jewish prob
lem., The leagues secretary-general,
Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey. explains
the measure on the ground that
Jewish industry in Palestine is
based on Zionist funds, collected in
foreign countries, to serve a political
purpose: The establishment of a
Jewish national home and state in
Palestine. This purpose is not real
liable except by the exploitation of
markets in Arab countries"
The seriousness of this threat
should not be minimized. Alongside
the extensive agricultural colonial
tion Of Palestine by Jewish inmi-
grants there has developed a we'll
diversified industry. centering in the
all-Jewish port city of Tel-Aviv. Be-
fore the late war Palestinian ex-
ports were geared chiefly to Euro
pean markets. the mainstay being
the citrus fruit trade, including
fruit juices and essences, and the
largest single market being the
British Isles. Near Eastern markets
took mainly manufactured lines
such as Dead Sea chemicals, cement,
soap, medicinal products, perfumery
and cosmetics, textile. leather and
clothing. Virtually all of these ex-
ports were of Jewish origin and
marketed by Jewish initiative.
The war, with its virtual closing of
trade routes to Europe, disrupted the
citrus industry. but enhanced the
Importance of industrial and manu-
factured exports to Near Eastern
markets. A systematic boycott would
thus deal body-blow to Palestine's
economic life. since shipping limita-
tionS and exchange complications
have not yet restored citrus exports
to their preWar status.
The boycott has proved an effec-
tive political instrument on several
occasions in recent decades. The
most extensive and best organized
have been those in prewar China,
directed against japanese and. at
one time, against western imports.
Given the intense nationalist feeling
aroused in Arab lands. the chances
are that the projected ban against
Palestinian exports of Jewish origin
would produce serious consequences.
1t is to be noted that the boycott
will not apply to the products of
Jewish industry in Arab states other
than Palestine. Regarding the hard
ship inflicted upon Arabs working
for Jewish industry in Palestine, the
League spokesman said he believed
the "Zionists will be most pleased
when 10000 Arabs are forced to
leave Palestine"
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Is the Public Helpless?

The stubborn disagreement be-
tween eleven local trucking COM
panies and their striking teamsters
has long since passed the point
where it concerns them alone. The
public interest is directly involved
and Government Intervention is
necessary to protect it.
If existing statutes can be invoked,
permitting Government seizure of
struck companies-and it would
seem that this might be done
there should be no further delay in
applying them. Much of the dam
age already inflicted on the public
and those who cater to the public
need is irreparable. Freight cars
loaded IN seasonal and perishable
mercha4- -iSe are jammed in the
freight yards and other cars des-
tined for Washington are held up
elsewhere by resulting freight en-
bargoes. Even if the men went back
today, weeks will pass before any,
thing like normal commerce can be
resumed.
There is no excuse for the inf1ic-
ton of such penalties on the inno-
cent public, in no way concerned
with the causes of this dispute. The
strike offers an excellent example of
the need for adequate machinery
suggested by the President in his
message on Monday-to protect the
public interest in just such situa-
tionS. If the Commissioners, who
have attempted to bring the op-
posing parties together, are unsuc-
cessful in their attempts and no
other positive action is taken by
Government authority, the Commis-
sioners should at least apply the
principle advocated by the Pres
ident. Let them give the public their
opinion of where the blame lies.
The union has offered to accept
arbitration. Other employing truck
companies already have reached
agreement with the teamsters. Why
are these eleven struck companies
refusing either to accept arbitration
of all the points at issue or to agree
on terms accepted by other en-
ployers? The public has a right to
know such facts from official sources.
1t is disgraceful condition which
gives eleven employers and less than
300 employees the power indefinitely
to tie up business in a community
of a million people, with the Gov
eminent lacking or refusing to exer-
else the power to protect their
interests.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Counterinq Rudur

Inc Army and Navy have CO.
operated with scientists at Harvard
University in lifting the curtain of
window" one of the mysterious
counter-radar devices which con-
founded the Germans and Japs and
helped to bring about their defeat.
Window was the code name ap-
piled to showers of aluminium foil
which our forces dropped from
planes or shot from rockets in sue
ceSSful efforts to throw enemy radar
sets off the track of our planes and
ships. These weird showers of thin
metal ribbons, incidentally, are the
answer to the question of what be-
came of much of the aluminium foil
which disappeared from chewing
gum and cigarettes during the war.
The foil barrages caused the en-
emy's radar screens to cut astound-
Ing capers, so that the impulses
which ECHOED" from our sea and
air craft became lost in the disturb
ances. Moreover, a few thousand
strips of wafer-thin "icicles" float
ing around near a radar set could
deceive the operator into believing
that several bombers or a squadron
OF fighters were headed from a GER
tain direction. Thus, just before the
invasion of Normandy, Allied planes
dropped tons of window" in the
Calais area, tricking the Luftwaffe
into believing that a mighty pre-
invasion assault was under way. 1t
is said that the bulk of German
planes which had been held in re-
serve to repel an invasion wasted
their gasoline looking for phantom
surface and air armadas at Calais,
while the real invasion was taking
place on the Normandy beaches.
In addition to window" the sci
entists of the CRM (Counter-R -Radar
Measures) Laboratory at Harvard
developed a radar- -jamming device
that sent powerful radio impulses to
enemy radar sets, rendering them
useless for the time being. They
were working on other instruments
designed to nullify radar when the
war ended. And because the enemy
was known to possess radar- jam
ming apparatus, too, the experts
were even trying to perfect a device
that would counter the enemy's
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Perspective

HotD gold this mountain pas, pie,ped
from the plain!
For,Dard trudged, and torward, for.
1Ddrd still,
Eager to reach its foot, then mad to gain
The pinnacle. / could not guess hoao
Tn ,oirds tOould be, here on the crest,
ho,o green
The plains ,oould look, spread out, far.
far belo1U.
Strange that paused not By the ,oooded
scene,
Strange that stayed not by the
river's foul
Notn, from this summit, rock k-bestre,pn
and rough,
see the loneliness I left behind.
Those fields that yesterday toere not
enough
OF beauty, glop like en,eralds. And
/ find
This peak is gray, not gold against tn
blue.
But green the valley that I hurried
throughi
PRUDENCE <. aEAREY.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
On the Record
By Dorothy Thomson

1t takes an equable temper to answer
charges that disregard or misrepresent
everything one has ever said.
For months The Society for the
Prevention of World War H." under
Rex Stout, has Systematically cam
paigned against this column, the latest
shot being an attack which the New
York Post published last week.
have never-to quote Mr.. Stout
attacked the principles established by
the war crimes tribunal" I have raised
questions regarding contradictions in
principles and warned about the pit
into which our concepts of justice might
fall. Mr. Stout might do well to con-
suit on this matter such men as Chief
Justice Stone, Justice Roberts. and JUS
tice Learned Hand. I challenge Mr..
Stout to produce single line in which
1 have defended German murderers"
unless he believes that all Germans in
Guiding children and the unborn are
murderers, except the particular Ger
mans who are advising him. In this
case, I must quote Justice Jackson's
indictment of the accused war criminals:
we have no purpose to incrim-
mate the whole German people. We
know the Nazi party was not put into
power by majority of the German
vote. We know it came to power by
an evil alliance between extreme
Nazi revolutionists and the most
aggressive German militarists."
AS for my dangerous illusions about
the alleged good Germans" 1 appar-
emily knew the best Germans, who were
hanged by Hitler, fighting for the cause
OF decency, and whom I honor above
Mr.. Stout's German advisers who have
confined their anti Hitler activities to
slandering honest Americans and all
Germans but themselves at safe dis
tance from the Gestapo.
Mr.. Stout will be unable to sustain
the libel that I have ever Knocked at
the sufferings and torture" of Hitler's
victims. I prefer to leave the answer
to that charge to Hitler's actual VIC
tims-Jews, Poles, Czechs. They know
how I feel and what I have done
publicly and privately.
And II Mr.. Stout can find in nv
writings propaganda in favor of the
master race'-any master race-I will
pay him handsomely.
What becomes increasingly apparent
Is that the kill 'em all l-boys are less
motivated by sympathy for Hitler's vic
TINS than by desire to create new
victims.
When, months ago, criticized the
Morgenthau-Potsdam policies on the
ground that they would create con-
ditions with which any army of occu-
patton would find it impossible to cope,
was almost isolated.
Since I first took stand for total
German disarmament and denazifica-
Evening star., 1945-12-05
This Changing World
By Constantine Brosvn

Washington officials are expecting q
stream OF representatives from Europe
in the near future. They will all come
with the same mission: to obtain loans
ranging from millions to billions of
dollars
The British have already made ar
rangements to obtain loan of close to
"a 200 100000. The remaining hurdle is
Congress, where conditions of the loan
are likely to be thoroughly scrutinized.
Conversations between the Russian
representatives and State and Treasury
Department officials for a reported
$4,000, 100000 credit have been carried
on for some time, and while no definite
arrangements have been made it is ex-
pected that they will be completed early
next year.
In the meantime, Poland has asked
visas for an economic mission seeking to
negotiate loan of between $500, 900 900
and $500 1000, 900.
The negotiations for such sums will be
more complicated because of the uncer-
tainty Of Poland's economic situation.
The American Government, and particu-
larly the Import-Export Bank, is taking
the position that it must be satisfied
that money advanced will be repaid with
interest in the not too distant future
But while Britain and Russia will be
able to meet their obligations, through
repayment in kind, or particularly in the
case Of Russia, in gold, there Is little
hope that the Poles will be able to meet
obligations they intend to assume.
The entire stock of gold Poland pos
sessed before the German invasion is
now either at Fort Knox or in Canada.
1t is subject to lengthy litigation be-
cause it did not belong to the Polish
government but to the Bank of Poland
in which the government had some
stock. The owners of the shares of that
Institutions majority of whom are out
side Poland-are not likely to yield their
possessions and will demand that the
gold held in America be kept here until
their shares have been redeemed in yel-
low metal
A mere decree on the part OF the War
saw government that the Bank OF Po-
land has been nationalized will not af-
feet the shareholders who can bring
their case before American and Cana
dian courts.
The repayment of loan with exports
is equally complicated.
AS in the case of Hungary and Ro-
mania, the Polish government has
placed its entire national economy un-
der the wing of Moscow. The Polish
currency-the zlot-has been tied to the
Russian ruble and has no gold backing.
Poland is not free to promise any pay
ments in kind unless 1t obtains Moscow's
consent. Moreover, 1t does not possess
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Nature Wins Out
From the Topeka Capt.

From the Topeka Capital.
Kansas University scientists, digging
up the tusks and other remains of
mammoth at farm near Holton, help
remind the present generation that q
great many changes have occurr1i on
this old earth, and that the lives of in
dividuals are but heeting flashes in the
long span of history
The prehistoric animal found on q
jackson County farm was alive perhaps
10000 years ago. Or, it may have been
100000 years ago. The scientists cannot
be certain, and to most people it is per-
haps of little consequence.
But the point is this: No matter how
much men may struggle to make the
world over to suit their liking, the
relentless processes of evolution create
changes which triumph in the long esti-
mate Of time.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

History repeats. Lloyd George,
during World War I, promised homes
fit for heroes to live in but never
made good when the victory was
won. A lot of CT Joes of World
War II currently are finding out
that those little white cottages with
the chicken yards out back that they
dreamed about at Anzio and Tarawa
are just as far away as the moon.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

counter-radar weapons. AL of these
secret wartime projects proved the
value of continuous research in the
military sciences. The Harvard
laboratory and many others are
closing down now that their war
time assignments are done. Means
must be found, however, of carrying
on such research If America is to
keep abreast of world developments
and not be found wanting in time of
emergency.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

Cardinals in given yard are Some
timey" birds.
Not even the best supply of sunf1ower
seed can guarantee their presence
And 1t seems at times that the more
one longs for this particular bird, the
surer it is to remain away.
In our own experience, we have had
as many as IL pairs one winter, to fall
down to mere one pair the next.
This fall there seems to be a dearth
of these birds everywhere, for what rea-
son no one seems to know. If any
reader has any ideas on the subject,
this column will be glad to print them.
1t is easy for the individual bird
watcher to note a lack in his own
grounds, and jump to the conclusion
that the lack must be universal. Often
this is not the case.
Usually what one must do. to explain
the absence of a desired species, is to
look over the situation and see if there
Is not some reason which is holding
them back
They may be no farther away than
yonder patch of woods. listening and
waiting for the inimical condition, such
as 1t may be, to change for the better.
Building a house may cause so much
noise, for instance, that these sensitive
birds prefer to stay away. It is not the
noise, in itself, but the waves of con-
cussion of hammers, etc., which these
birds object to. Not all birds are as
flnicky in their ways. There is here no
question of objecting to noise as a hu-
man being might, because of the tur-
moil getting on ones nerves. Birds do
not have nerves" in that way. Fear is
very large In their. lives, and often
noises startle them, but they have
enough intelligence to get used to con-
slant noises, and not to mind them
simply because they are noises. But
the effects of noise on their sense of
hearing is distinctly another matter.
The hearing of all birds is acute but
some species seem Indifferent to even
loud noises.
Perfection of flight and perfection of
hearing go together.
1t is interesting to note that birds
resemble reptiles in having no ear
trumpet, or pima, as have most animals.
Birds are very closely related to
snakes, of course.
Nest building and food capture are
instructive with birds. They need little
though" in our sense, to carry on these
activities.
Their sense of sight is marvellous.
Turkey vultures, or buzzards, detect
their food not by the sense of smell but
by sight
The many long warm months from
last March almost through November
hereabouts-may have had something
to do with the seeming disappearance
OF the cardinals from many yards.
They found food everywhere, and
were not so dependent upon the hand
outs in the yards of their human
admirers.
We believe that no one need worry
overmuch about them. When cold
weather really sets in, and the berries
are hard to find, the redbirds will come
back for the sunf1ower and other seeds
they remember. One may feel sure that
birds do have memory of a sort. Ger
tainly they want food more than any
thing else in winter, and have some
way OF recalling where they found it in
the past.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Faith in Superstate Expressed

To the Editor Of The Star:
Somebody always is complaining be-
cause the United States has no policy
to apply to foreign countries. The rea-
son Is plain, If the facts are considered.
Here We have, abundant resources,
enough to support a large number of
people on property incomes, a much
larger number doing work that adds
nothing to the supply of needed things,
and have enough left to- support the
producers in greater comfort than any
other country. AS result, the voters
heartily support the property system,
and democracy and capitalism go hand
in hand.
In other countries, where there Is
real scarcity, the working people are
getting tired of supporting those who
only own for living, and by votes and
insurrection are trying to get rid of
them. The property interests, to pro-
tect themselves, are trying to keep peo-
pie from voting against private prop
erty.
Between the two forces, voting gives
place to military rule with dictators
on both sides. America cannot choose
between them, because neither side
wants our system. So We have to recog-
nize whatever government is established.
That puts us on good terms with a good
many dictators, and on bad terms with
good many movements toward democ-
racy. for lack of ability to remodel the
governments of foreign countries.
'Clinging to our own sovereignty, we
cannot interfere with the sovereignty of
even dictator. Only a superstate
pledged to democracy can untangle the
situation. A. CRAIG.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Suggests Mercer by Degrees

To the Editor of The Star:
The question of amalgamating the
armed forces seems to have resolved into
a typical Army-Navy catfight. Speak
ers from both sides have presented the
dire and fatal results of merger or of
no merger.
Why not try the idea a little at
time? At first, perhaps, the supply and
purchasing departments of both forces
could be Joined and we could see If the
great savings and ease of operation pre-
dicted by the Army would result.
A. A. A.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Well. Is TIP

To the Editor of The Star:
Is our line of defense now along the
Great Wall Of China? If SO, God help
usI FREDERICK MOORE.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
This and That
By Charles E. TrdceUeH.

Dy OTtuT tco y. UCEUHIl.
20 STREET.
Dear Sir:
What has become of the cardinalsp
Though in the heart of the city, we
formerly had at least pair all the
time, and occasionally more of them.
Now we have none.
This is sad thing for our family,
all the members of which like birds, and
particularly are fond of the redbirds.
Has something happened to them, do
you think? In past years we missed
them at times, but never for so long a
time.
"If you can throw any light on this
mystery, it will be welcomed by
Yours sincerely, G. H. D."
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-04-28

his theories all the way from short
folk tunes like his "Carolina Shout
to his Harlem Symphony"
The concert program consists en-
tirely of works by Mr.. Johnson. In
addition to excerpts from those al
ready mentioned, it includes the
premiere of tone poem "Reflec-
ton" and lode to Dorie Miller"
The concert should be interesting
in showing the growth of the one
time so-called "jazz" into it's proper
place in the field of symphonic
music.
Josef Cherniavsky, who conducts
the orchestra is remembered for his
NBC broadcasts. "The man who
makes classical music popular and
popular music classical"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-04-28

of the Missouri Province Of the
Society of Jesus and Father Hol-
loran's superior, was at the time.
After Father Heithaus's arrival at
St. Mary's, Father Zuercher, is re-
ported to have discussed the matter
with his consultors. or provincial
advisers, and to have told Father
Holloran that Negroes must be ad-
mitted. The contemplated racial
ban was withdrawn and four Negro
couples were present at the annual
prom for the first time in the his
tory of the school.
Father Heithaus did not return
here after leaving for ST. Mary's
but Father Holloran limited that he
might assume his position on the
faculty. The liberal priest is re-
ported to be acting as a civilian
chaplain at Fort Riley, Kan.
Father Dunno, Father Holloran
said, went to Los Angeles. He is sub
ject to the California province and
was stationed here temporarily
while awaiting an assignment to
China. Father Dunno came here last
September to teach at the new in
stitute of social studies, a school
set up for the instruction of mem
bers of the Jesuit order. He is con-
sidered a man of strong liberal ten
dencies. He taught a course in social
movements in the institute, course
called "Studies in the Philosophy of
Government Democracy" in the
graduate school, and a course on
"The Soviet Form of Government, :"
available to undergraduates.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-04-28
Dean Of Jazz pianisfs To Give
Carnegie Hall Concert

NEW YORK, April % (ANP)-
James P. Johnson, "dean of jazz
pianists," will give the first in a
series of ''pop" concerts at Crne-
gle hall on Friday evening, May 4,
assisted by chorus and orchestra
conducted by Josef Cherniavsky.
For the past several years Mr..
Johnson has spent the major part
of his time composing. He occupies
an important place in present-day
American music. His influence has
been felt through such outstanding
musicians as George Gershwin,
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and the
late "Fats" Waller, who was his
outstanding pupil.
Born in New Brunswick, N. j.,
he has spent his entire musical life
as an exponent of his theory that
American folk music finds it's
source in the early folk music of the
Negro. AS a composer he has applied