Evening star., 1945-04-23
Letters to The Star
Reports What Happens When
Meat Is Scarce, People Selfish

Meat Is Scarce, People Selfish
To the Editor Of The Star:
A little incident took place in
Washington supermarket which, in IT.
self. may not be very important, but
which, If 1t were multiplied, would be-
come national problem.
For the first time in days there was
meat to be bought, including limited
amount Of breakfast bacon. Such news
spreads like wildfire. In the midst OF
the showing and confusion man sud-
denly dove to the floor and came up
with ration book in his hand. With
out the slightest effort at concealment
the man examined the book eagerly,
first for red stamps, then blue stamps,
then sugar and shoe stamps-in short,
gave 1t thorough going-over before
pocketing it. There was no thought for
the loser, whose name and address
undoubtedly were right there in plain
sight-just selfish seizure of what
didn't belong to him, when he saw
chance to get away with it. He was
not German nor japanese. He was
American. A dozen people saw what
was going on; nobody seemed to bother
about 1t.
At the same meat counter, during
half-hour period, 10 women took two
number slips, instead Of one, out of the
little rack on top of the counter, quick
ly divided their purchasing into two
parts, with different clerks waiting on
them, and bought breakfast bacon with
each number.
Several couples, husbands and wives,
each took number and each bought
breakfast bacon.
The supply soon was exhausted; many
people went without. 1t wasn't, as we
said before, very important except that
Americans always like to think of them
selves as playing square. These Offend
ers against that principle were Amer
leans. E. M. S.
Calls for Spiritual Demonstration
To the Editor of The Star;
Now, more than ever, we realize that
we need divine guidance in the affairs
of men. The greatest decisions affect
ing these affairs will come from the
conference at San Francisco. May all
thinking men and women pray for this
guidance.
Let the forces of light bring eplight-
eminent to those who rule the earth, to
our statesmen and our legislators and
to all who seek to aid mankind.
Let the spirit of the Lord rest upon
them, the spirit of wisdom and under
standing. the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit Of knowledge and the
fear of the Lord
Let this spirit make them of quick
understanding in the fear of the Lord,
so that they shall not judge after the
sight Of the eyes, neither reprove after
the hearing Of the ears; but with right
eousness shall they Judge the poor, and
reprove with equity for the meek OF
the earth. E.. Ed,
Praises Lublin Government
To the Editor of The Star:
There are some persons on the eve Of
the San Francisco Conference who are
trying to use the so-called dor it does
not rule PolanO Polish government in
London as lever to disrupt the meet
ing and destroy the unity of the United
Nations. They will not succeed.
1t was proposed at Yalta by the Big
Three that Poland make restitution to
the Soviet Union of land taken by
Poland from the Soviet republics, for
which in return 1t would be given the
rich land lying between the Oder and
the Vistula Rivers, fronting the Baltic
Sea from the Oder to East Prussia and
then following the Curzon Line. This
would make Poland an economically
self-sustaining country.
But the London Poles were deter
mined to keep the land of the Soviet
republics whose Red Army has not only
liberated Poland but is helping to feed
and rebuild that nation.
There is good neighbor government
in Poland. The army of this govern
ment did not leave Russia after being
rescued from the Nazis, refitted and
rearmed, as did the soldiers under the
London Poles. This army stayed to fight
with the Red Army that came to their
relief. The Lublin government is bring
ing democracy to Poland by driving off
the invader, by rebuilding the devas-
tated country, by giving the peasant
lands to till, by wiping out race dis
elimination, by educating all people. 1t
will contribute to the building of unity
and peace at San Francisco.
The London Poles. who gambled that
the Soviet Union would fall under the
Nazi assault, who slandered the Soviet
Union by accusing it of the Katyn Forest
massacre, hardly can be either a good
neighbor to the Soviet Union or con-
tribute anything but dissension to the
San Francisco meeting.
RICHARD STEIN.
Protestants Already Striving
To the Editor OF The Star:
Printed in the Letters to the Editor"
column of April II was letter from
DR.. Phillip Marshall Brown urging