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Evening star., 1945-11-17
Letters to The Star

Discusses Mispronunciations on
Radio and Their Consequences
To the Editor Of The Star:
The late Justice Holmes deplored the
mispronunciation OF common words by
the radio broadcasters of his day. In
one of his last court decisions some
legal snarl made pertinent his writing
that: "a word is the skin of living
thought" and, boy, how our radio COM
mentators do strip this hide of of
certain words through sloppy pronun-
citation!
refer to common words in heavy
current use For instance, there is no
dictionary tolerance or usage excuse
for pronouncing the words predict,
presume, proposal, produce, production
Try mouthing them into such non
existent words as perdict, presumably,
perposal, perduction, perfection.
We assume that these radio COM
mentators have spelled the proper words
correctly on their reading copy. If so,
why not pronounce them correctly? It
surely Is not hard to form the speech
organs to pronounce such words ex-
actly as spelled.
However, careless habit or some
vocal laziness has made this spurious
talk "a property of easiness" which
listeners find hard to tolerate.
As Hamlet instructed his players, the
"groundlings" will not be critical, but
the careless rendition Of lines will make
the judicious grieve, the censure of
which, one must in your allowance
Overweight whole theatre of Others"
Yet 1t doesn't seem to. The sponsors
evidently take 1t and like 1t.
The writer is not referring to elocu-
ton or voice qualities. Differences In
natural gifts and In personality are
welcomed by listeners.
1t may also be argued that so long as
listeners understand the commentators
meaning, these word mutilations may
be by-passed and forgotten. However
1T is not so easy to localize the harm
area. Consider, please, that reading
and spelling is not taught in our schools
as In the days when you and were
young, Maggie. Pupils do not really
study spelling any more or line up on
one side of the schoolroom and try to
spell-down the girls and boys backed
against the opposite wall. remember
the really tough words teacher handed
out. I also remember the spelling OF
those words, which proves the merit OF
that type of teaching Scholars now are
supposed to absorb the letter arrange
ment and sound Of words and spell 'em
as they hear 'en, much like the Squeers
School method reported by Dickens
Many Of our high schools have certain
radio programs rebroadcast for their
current-events class discussions. This
permits mutilated pronunciation to en-.
courage careless spelling and talking
no end. The dictionary is flouted, and
the instructor holding speech classes il
thrown for loss.
At least a partial explanation thus
appears for the statements made by
civil service examiners and busines.
office managers to the effect that youns
people now seeking employment seem Il
know the typewriter keyboard fairl,
well, but do not know how to spell.
w. A. WILLIAMSON,
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Now Is the Time

This was the day, l45 years ago,
when Congress was to hold its
first meeting in the new City of
Washington. There must have been
considerable grumbling among the
members who had gotten here to
keep the date, travelling over ter
rible roads, finding place to live
in the rough village being carved
out of the wilderness. A quorum
was not available and 1t was not
until three days later that enough
members had struggled in to form
one, and to hear President Adams
message calling their attention to
the fact that one of the first things
for Congress to decide was whether
to assume immediate jurisdiction
over this District, set aside as a
Capital.
Seventeen years before, the con-
stitutional provision had been writ
ten calling for establishment of an
area which would be the Capital.
The men who wrote it did not know
where it would be, who would live
there, what States, if they were will
ing to do it at all, would agree to
cede the territory. They were not
even sure that the baby Republic
then being born would live long
enough even to see the establish
ment of such a Capital. If they
thought much about how the people
there would vote, they probably de-
cided that the States which ceded
the territory would take care of the
matter.
But the States of Maryland and
Virginia-unlike the Car of Russia,
the King of Spain or the Emperor
Napoleon, when they sold their
holdings in America to the infant
Republic later on-failed to provide
for the citizenship rights of the
people who lived on the land. And
in 1900 it is to be doubted that the
voting question had been very seri-
ously considered even by the people.
Those who lived here voted as citi-
zens of Maryland and Virginia in
1S0O-just before Congress came
here. They may have thought they
would keep right on voting.
When they found this was not the
case the people of Virginia began an
agitation which lasted until 1846,
when Congress, making a fatal
error, receded the Virginia portion
of the District. The people of
Georgetown were equally upset, but
were unable to do anything about it.
And except for national elections,
they were running their own affairs
pretty much as they pleased without
too much interference from Con-
gress. 1t was not until 1874 that
Congress really assumed the juris-
diction over the District as a whole
as we understand it today.
On Monday the Senate Judiciary
Committee may reach a vote on a
proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition giving to Congress the power
to grant to the people of the District
voting representation in Congress
and in the electoral college. The
resolution offers an opportunity not
merely to correct a mistake and to
right a wrong, but to take a great,
progressive step in governing this
Capital of the United States. It
should be reported to the Senate by
a great majority. For it is believed
that if Congress and the people of
the United States are given oppor-
tunity to vote on so simple and
elementary a question of right and
wrong, there can be only one
answer and that the people of the
American Capital will be admitted
to membership in the Union they
have served so we'll for so long.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
This and That
By Charles E. Trace,peU.

One food "hate" for each member of
the family-that is the allowance an
astute housewife has permitted.
Each person may select one perfectly
good dislike, in the food line. with no re-
strlctions, but must eat ANYTHING else
put on the table.
In this clever way, guided with good
humor, every one is satisfied, and there
are no leftovers, and, above all, no
grouches
AT this table there is no kicking
against any food, now by one member,
now by another.
everything is eaten up, because 1t is
the rule of the housewife.
perhaps there are others who, pestered
by multitude of food dislikes, NAV
take a hint from this suburban home
maker.
Our own pet food "hate" is the onion.
Leeks and all other members of the
group come under my own personal ban.
With another 1t may be spinach.
In one family, the boys do not like
cream, and will not even drink milk it
globules of the offending substance are
seen in it.
No doubt these youngsters could be
fooled, to their advantage, by serving
them homogenized milk, in which the
cream is broken up and distributed
through the milk.
Then, perhaps, human psychology
would come to the fore, were they told
of the deception.
"Gee," they would exclaim, not know
ing, this is swell milk"
R11t let the fart Oof O1,t Jof fI,o
was still there, they probably would re-
fuse to drink it.
Spinach no doubt would stand large
on most peoples list of dislikes.
Every one remembers the old cartoon.
showing the little boy saying to his
mother, II say it's spinach, and say to
hell with it,
1t made such hit because 1t ex-
pressed the way most persons felt.
Housewives and diet experts have
tried for years to make spinach accept
able to the American taste. They have
steWed 1t, fried it, garnished it, steamed
1t, covered it with butter, sauce, smoth-
cred it with whipped cream, and done
about everything that may be done to a
vegetable substance, without gaining
one single vote
For many years it was footed as a
wonderful way for children to get their
daily iron.
Recent Investigations of food scien-
lists have shown that the iron is there.
all right, but that most of it is unavail-
able to the human system.
Which, of course, is just what the
spinach haters thought all the time.
\ 4 X
Turnips, now
Who would eat turnips who could find
anything else to eat?
And cabbage, after all, is no great
shakes, when it comes to real food. Bulk,
of course, but there are easier ways to
get all the necessary bulk.
Kidneys, pigs knuckles, and even
creamed chipped beef, come within the
ban of some consumers.
The first two, no doubt, represent a
mental hazard, just as does tripe.
But creamed Clipped beef is the pet
peeve OF one, and he has every right to
this food hate"
There is, after all, no accounting for
taste, nor, as the Romans put 1t, any ar
guing over it, either.
What one likes, one likes; and what
one diSlikes, one often hates.
Let fried chicken be mentioned, how
ever, and smile comes to every face.
Is there any one In the whole world,
we wonder, who would put fried chicken
cr roast turkey among his List Of per-
sonaIly hated foods2
Evening star., 1945-11-17

actually-other means Of annihila-
ton quite as appalling.
This Is fact meriting the kind Of
emphasis accorded it by President
Truman and Prime Ministers Attlee
and King in their joint declaration
calling for the strongest possible in
ternational collaboration - through
the United Nations Organization
to protect humanity from the catas-
trophic potentialities of the har-
messed atom. For 1t is not only this
terrible new destroyer that we must
fear. We must fear, too, as the
three leaders stated, "the possibility
of the development of other weap-
ons, or Of new methods of warfare,
which may constitute as great a
threat to civilization as the military
use of atomic energy"
The language here is not specific,
but there can be little doubt that
some special knowledge inspired the
writing of it. Not all the secrets of
the war have as yet been revealed to
us. All that we know is that the
longer the conflict went on, the
more total it became, making less
and less of a distinction between
home fronts and battle fronts. The
atomic bomb was introduced in the
last days of the struggle, and had the
japanese not surrendered when they
did, it is entirely possible that our
forces would have resorted to other
mighty new weapons of vast de-
structiveness.
To illustrate this point, one need
only recall that in the years after
1918 there was much authoritative
talk about meteorological weapons
AS it happened, they were not used
IN the war just ended, but that does
not necessarily mean that they were
not available or that they would
have been held back by either side
If the struggle had lasted much
longer. They might have been used
to wipe out crops, for instance, OF
to spread humiliation in densely
populated areas, and should there be
another conflict, it will be so total
that they may well be employed
perhaps in the form of rockets OF
guided missiles. Similarly, as is
strongly suggested in the Smyth
report on the subject, the devel-
opment of atomic energy has led
to radioactive by-products which
have awesome military potentialties
probably far more deadly than the
most deadly of orthodox poison
gases.
Bacteria and radioactive gases
these are but two of the things
which Messrs. Truman. Attlee and
King may have had in mind when
they wrote Of "other weapons" con-
stituting "as great a threat to civili-
zation as the military use of atomic
energy" When we think of war now
we must think Of more than a ter.
rifying bomb; we must think also OF
such hideous things as scientific
plague-making and the gaseous
liquidation of great multitudes. II
this is not enough to make all ma.
tions and peoples work earnestly
without letup, for a lasting peace
then perhaps it is not too much te
say that humanity is scarcely
worthy of survival.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
No Hurry

From the Boston Herald.
Az each day passes, some new dtu-
alton Is clarified. but We still prefer to
be little cautious and wait for the
the later cla1incation of ths elarinca-
tton.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Explains Ration Incident

Explains NatlOn incident
To the Editor of The Star:
May ask you to correct an extremely
erroneous item about me which appeared
in The Star for November 10?
The following statement is made:
Mrs. Keyes left Alexandria two
years ago when the local rationing board
refused to grant her gasoline to drive
to her New Hampshire farm. : She
has not made her home in Alexandria
since that time"
have never made my home in Alex
andria. My legal residence is, and ever
since my marriage has been, at Pine
Grove Farm, North Haverhill, N. H.
It Is, however, my invariable custom
to take up residence In any place in
dicated by my work as an author, and
for several years used Alexandria as
a center, because at that time Wash
ington gave me the subject matter for
most of my writing. However, it was
succeeded by Louisiana as a scene of
major endeavor. I went to that State
in January, 1912, and remained there
nine months. But I returned North
in the fall of that same year, and, ex-
cept for several brief trips to the deep
South, divided all my. time between
Alexandria and New England until Mo-
vember, 1943. have been in Louisiana
most of the time since, at work on q
novel which has only recently been fin
ished and which Is scheduled for pub
lication late this month.
Prior to this departure for Louisiana
In November, 1943, was In Alexandria
all the fall, in residence at my house
there. and, when left. .the local ra-
tioning board gave me, without ques-
tion, the necessary gasoline for a change
OF residence. In justice to this organ
ization. as well as to myself, I hope you
will make the indicated correction.
FRANCES PARKINSON KEYEs.
Editors Note:
According to James 8 Douglas, jr., execu-
tive secretary Of the Alexandria Rationing
Board, MIS-. Keyes' application for supplement
tai gasoline from her home At 602 Cameron
was rejected on Ausust IL. ia43. Her appeal
TO the Roanoke District oPA was fled on Sep-
easnd22i: mns5 r. 55s4S from nsN H.mDsrs and ts
1943. 81 the Roanoke once That MS Keyes
had agreed to withdraw her appeal Il the Alex
andria board would grant her gasoline to drive
t. to- her new @ home IN New Orleans, This E.so..
the same time the Aexandria board was In
gtructed 70 transfer Mrs, Keyess entire ration
folder e ths New Orleans board.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Poison Gas Parallel
TO the Editor of The st.r:

To the Editor OF The Star:
So many ideas are being advanced re-
garding control Of the atomic bomb that
perhaps one more will not be out OF
place. In the late war in Europe various
nations had supplies Of poison gas, in
cluding Germany herself. She, however,
did not dare to put this into use for fear
of reprisals.
Would it not be good idea to place
the atomic bomb in the possession of
the peace loving nations and by agree
ment have the use of it barred from
warfare in the same manner as poison
gas? Then, if any nation should SO far
forget itself as to drop atomic bombs
on neighbor. have it understood that
the other nations would drop such bombs
on the aggressor. Would not such a
threat tend to discourage the use of this
new weapon? CHARLES j. GILLISS.
Haymarket, Va.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
'Picketine' for Living Room

'Picketine' for Living Room
To the Editor Of The Star:
If one takes note of our strike situa-
ton he surely must think We were
kidding when few months ago we were
processing our ardent desire for peace
If the people of this Nation were
crammed into a smaller area with 10
times the density OF population, as in
Germany and Italy, Of course we would
never resort to violence to get more
'lebensraum." Oh, no. we would only
do peaceful picketing. v. j.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
URAN LEAGUE PRESENTS
ISSUE OF APPOINTMENT OF
NEROES TO VETERANS
ADMINISTRATIO

New ork-The appointment of
Negroes to the policy making staff
Of the Veterans Adminis stration fea
tured a discussion held in Washing
ton Last week between General
Omar Bradley and julius A. Thorn
as. Director of Industrial Relations
of the National Urban League. The
General indicated that considera-
ton had been given to such appoint
ments. but that no final decision
has been made. Declaring that he
appreciated thoroughly many of
the problems to be faced by Negro
veterans. eneral Bradley stated:
1T will be the policy of the Vet
Grams Administration to serve all
veterans without discrimination. 7
He said that Negroes are now en-
ployed in the Veterans Administra-
ton. and that others would be en-
ployed as the program expands.
Referring to the training received
by Negroes in the armed forces,
General Bradley emphasized the i'm
portance of obtaining employment
for them would provide the oppor-
tunity to use these newly y-acquired
skills.
Admitting that he had not had
not had sufficient time to become
thoroughly familiar with all phas-
e. Of the problem. General Bradley
expressed the hope that many more
Negro veterans would take advan-
tage of the opportunity to continue
their education and improve their
skills. According t. recent reports
only a fraction of the Veterans eiig-
ible for educational assistance nave
applied for it. The availability Of
good paying jobs before vi Day is
thought to be largely responsible
for this situation, for the number
of applications for scholarship aid
is steadily Increasing.
In commenting on the conference
Thomas said that the Urban League
is preparing additional information
about the problems of Negro veter
ans to be presented to General
Bradley. The appointment of a
competent assistant to the Admin
istrator the assignment OF Negroes
to positions at the policy making
level, and the adoption Of policies
to prevent widespread discrimina-
ton against Negro veterans are a.
mong the recommnndations to be
submitted.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
ANTI POLL TAX BILL
REPDRT URGED

New York.-The NAACP this
week called upon Senator Carl H.
Hatch ID. N. NJ, Judiciary Sub
committee Chairman handling HR
Z. the Anti-Pon Tax Bill, to make
a speedy and favorable report CT
the measure
Leslie Perry, Of the NAACP,
Washington Bureau writing to Sen
ator Hatch declared: your sub
committee has had HR-7 under
consideration since June 16, 1945, a
few days after it passed the House
by an overwhelming majority.
This legislation is not new to you
or to the other members of the sub
committee. After extensive hear
ings bills identical to HR-7 receiv-
ed the approval Of Senate judiciary
Committees in the 77th and 18th
Congress. At a time when this
country is demanding free cleo
tons in Bulgaria and other Europ-
can countries We find it extremely
difficult to understand why there
should be such hehitancy by your
subcommittee to reporting out a
bill to permit free elections here
at home.
The NAACP expressed the fear
that the committee will try to com
promise by reporting out SJ-92.
bill to outlaw the poll tax by con
stitutional amendment which wa
introduced few days ago by a
committee member, Senator Joseph
C. O'Mahoney. A constitutional a.
mendment must be ratified by 36
states in order to become law
which the NAACP. says, would take
years.
AS a member Of the Judiciary
Committee Hatch voted against the
Anti-Poll Tax Bill last year. 1t is
believed he favorS the constitution
al amendment approach. All NAA-
CP Branches were asked to send
wires to the subcommittee urging
it to report out HR-7, and not the
constitutional amendment bill.
Members of the Judiciary Sub
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06

r STATEMENT of the Owner
ship, Management, Circulation, etc.
required by the Acts of Congress of
August "a, 1912 and March 8, 1888
OF The Omaha Guide published
every Saturday at Omaha, Nebras-
ka, County Of Douglas
Before me, a Notary Public il
and for the State and county afore-
said, personally appeared G. c. Gal
loway, who, having been duly sworn
according to law, deposes and says
that he is the publisher of the
Omaha Guide, and that the follow
ing is, to the best of his knowledge
and belief, a true statement of the
ownership, management Of the a
foresaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required
by the Act Of August "a, 1912, as
amended by the Act of March 3,
1888, embodied in section 537, Postal
Laws and Regulations, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing
editor ard business managers are:
Publisher c. c. Galloway, Oma-
ha. Nebraska.
Editor, G. G. Galloway, Omaha.
Nebraska
Manager Editor, None
Business Manager, c. c. Gallo
way
?. That the owner is: The Oma-
ha Guide Publishing Co., c. c.
Galloway
8. That the known bondholder.,
mortgages, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 percent Of
more of total amount Of bonds,
mortgages or other securities, are
none.
4. That the two paragraphs mex:
above, giving the naires of the own
ers' stockholders and security hold
ers, il any contain not only the lis;
OF stock holders and security hold
ers as thee appear upon the books Of
the company, but also, in cases
where the stockholder or security
holder apears upon the books OF the
company as trustee or in any other
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
FULL EMPLOYMENT BILL IN
GRAVE DANGER
NAACP WARNS

Washington. Sept. p The Ma
ACP today told doubtful" senate
members of the Banking and Cur
rency Committee, which has under
consideration $3.50, the Full En-
pIoyment legislation. that enuncia-
ton in the bill that 'all Americans
able to work and seeking work
for the right to useful, remuner-
ative regular. and full-time EN-
ployment" and lit is the policy Of
the United States to assure the ex-
istence at all times of sufficient
employment opportunities to en-
able all Americans freely to exer-
else this right, is an important
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06

hold stock and securities in a capac-
ity other than that of a bona fiGe
owner; and this affiant has no rea-
son to believe that any other person,
association, or corporatiGh has any
interest direct or indirect in the said
stock, bonds, or other securities
than as so stated by him.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 4th day of October. 1945.
Charles F Davis,
(My Commission expires, Sept. 4,
1949)
c. c. Galloway, owner.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06

post war concept which should be
enacted into law.
The bill which has been favor
ably exported by subcommittee
is running into hot water before
the full committee. One of the
chief targets of conservative COM
mittee members is the declaration
that employment is basic Ameri-
can right. which the government
should guarantee. Those on the
Senate Banking and Currency Com
mittee reported to be demanding
that provisions guaranteeing en-
ployment be stricken are: Senators
Robert A. Taft OR. Ohio); John
Thomas Or. Idaho); Hugh A. But
Ter Or. Nebraska); Arthur Capper,
(R. Kans.); Eugene D Milliken.
Or. Colo); Bourke B. Hickenloop-
er Or. Iowa); John H. Bankhead CD
Ala.) who constitute a majority of
a full committee. The balance of
power is held by three men on the
2O-member Senate Committee.
They are: Ernst w. Mcfarland Cd.
ArizD; J. w. Fulbright Cd. Ark.
and E. p. Carville CD. Nev).
1t is expected that the full COM
mittee will vote on September 20.
NAACP officials expressed the opin-
ion that if the opposition succeeds
in watering down and otherwise
masculating the Full Employment
and Unemployment Bills it will
mean that most of the reconvers-
ion and post war legislation of
which these bills are a part, such as
FEPC, Social Security and the
Housing Program, will be serious-
ly imperiled. 1t urged that all or
CARNATIONS write their senators to
support the meaningful bills or a.
mendments when it reaches the
Floor of the Senate
CITY BTU. MEET AT
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06

Washington, DC Bishop j.
Ralph Magee Of Chicago (right)
presents to Ambassador Diamantop-
oulos a check for 255,OOO in sim
pie ceremony in the Greek Embassy
here A gift from the Methodists
of America to the children Of Greece
it will be forwarded to His Beatit-
ude, Archbishop Damaskinos, Re-
gent of Greece and distributed for
their relief Looking on apprec,
iatively is Archbishop Athenagorus,
primate of the Greek Orthodox
Church of North and South Amer
ca.