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Evening star., 1945-06-27
Letters to The Star
Wants German Industry Watched
if Not Risidly Restricted

To the Editor Of The Star.
The present investigation of the Kill
gore Committee on Germany's indus
trial and commercial postwar plans Is
much more than just matter for ex-
perts. 1t is well for us, the public to
follow it carefully, because in the last
analysis we will have to make the de-
cision in regard to our foreign trade.
America stands for free enterprise
and individual initiative. Business,
whether big or small, has an obliga-
ton to its stockholders or to its en-
ployes to establish profits. Any sitting
influence, be 1t in the restriction of pro-
duction or in distribution, or any trade
which can only operate one way (ex-
ports without imports) OF necessity must
upset the financial apple cart.
We now witness the resumption of
German industrial potentials under
American management Our steel and
oil concerns, to name but few, whose
interests are global, have their men on
our Allied Control Commission. It is
hard to imagine that these men are in
structed or willing to turn out a measly
production. It is also doubtful that at
the end Of our occupation, whenever
that may be, 1t will be their intention
or their advice to the Allied Control
Commission to dismantle or remove the
plants, in which they have had a work.
ing interest for SO many years. We
are making plans to prevent unemploy-
ment when the boys get home, and yet
our steel industry has slowed down in
some cases, but we are merrily produce
Ing In German plants instead.
Crude rubber shipments arrived in
Germany from England until five DAYS
before the declaration OF war between
those two countries. All this was due
to the fact that there was no one to
propose national policy on the all-im-
portant matter of just how far cartels
and big business should be permitted
TO free enterprise" us into dangerous
situation. Already some American
companies are trying to- obtain State
Department permission for their Ger
man managers to come here for con-
situations and small American business
likewise is trying to get across the ocean
to see what can be salvaged or revital-
lied
When the hearings of the Kileore
Committee are concluded and suff1cient
evidence of an eventual danger to our
physical security has been gathered 4
recommendation should be made to
Congress to provide for the necessary
safeguards. 1t will be up to us to think
this out carefully on the basis of what
Will be brought out during these fact
nnding hearings, and to decide whether
1t is better to do without the profits of q
trade with Germany for a generation or
two or to run the risk of having another
generation or two of human beings
killed of when the time comes to pay
for our present mistakes.
MRS. c. PETER CROWLEY.
Evening star., 1945-06-27

The first women's chapter of the
Izaak Walton League has been
formed out in Ohio. Well. the ladies
have always known pretty well how
to hook them and land them.
Evening star., 1945-06-27

Any trial of Marshal Hermann
Goering would. per sc. be a mass
trial"
Evening star., 1945-06-27
A Few More Steps

To the Editor OF The Star:
Recently the Animal Protective Asso-
ciation, 5000 Wheeler road Sc, has
found both kittens and puppies dropped
at the foot Of the drive. These little
animals soon get out of their bags and
wander of into the woods, where they
may die slowly Of starvation and thirst.
We do not know how many were left,
so cannot be sure to find them all May
we appeal to the public: Please come q
little farther and place your pets in the
safety Of cage or yard? These extra few
steps will save us much work and the
animals days Of possible suffering.
MRS. H. D. ALBIN, Secretary,
Animal Protective Association.
Evening star., 1945-06-27

A Question for Senator Bilbo
To the Editor of The Star:
On June l3 The Star reported that the
Senate was considering legislation to
abolish poll tax payment as a voting
requirement, but some Senators were
opposed to this.
Senator Bilbo was quoted as saying
wen speak as long as we have to in
order to prevent passage" Why does
the Senator want to hinder poor people
from voting? Does he recall this sem
tence in the Fourteenth Article to the
Constitution, mo State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States?
DAVID r. MIDDLETON
Evening star., 1945-06-27
Opposes Peacetime Conservation

To the Editor of The Star:
1t will be crime against our fighting
men If peacetime compulsory military
conscription is effected while millions
OF them still are on foreign soil How
can so grave question be passed upon
intelligently at this moment when the
peace has not yet been won? AS a mat
ter Of fact, the Selective Training and
Service Act adequately provides for our
needs for fighting men to conclude the
present war. With Germany already
impotent, Japan on the way, and Eng
land presently being referred to as
that little island of Russia" one must
pause to ask: Who are we getting ready
to fight now? Since the whole of Eu-
rope has been made safe for COM
munism. why fight the Soviets? Or is
this something that the World War II
propagandists didn't bargain for?
Isn't it high time that the people
adopt an absolutely cynical attitude re-
garding the causes Of war? Peacetime
conscription will not insure peace, and
every intelligent person knows it. In
lieu Of spending millions on peacetime
conscription, why not use the money
to investigate the causes of this war?
When John Doe was blowing the fer
tile fields of Iowa during the pre-Pearl
Harbor era, what decisions were being
made by our so-called statesmen which
subsequently affected the destiny of a
whole nation? Most of us are reason
ably sure, at least, that it wasn't John
Does foreign policy that plunged us
into World War II. F.S.
Evening star., 1945-06-27
Unjustifed Hospitalization

UnJustlhed disqualification
To the Editor of The star:
A recent letter calling attention to
the use of Bethesda Naval Hospital by
civilian officials and their families is
not hitting below the belt.
worked as a student nurse at WAL
ter Reed Hospital during the First
World War and the use of that hos
pital by people who, in my opinion, were
not entitled to use it was outrageous.
disqualification is expensive, and to
provide this service for every Govern
ment official, big and semibig, takes a
lot of taxpayers money. C.L,C,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-03
BISHOP RIGHT URGES
new CABINET POST

MEMPHIS, Dec. / (ANP) = At
the meeting Of the Ministerial Coun-
Gil held here, Bishop R. R Wright
Jr., presiding bishop of the AME
church in Tennessee and Kentucky,
argued the need for new officer in
the Presidents cabinet, and the min
isterial council passed a resolution
approving the same and authorized
sending a letter to President Tru-
man in support of the request.
Bishop Wright said, Goodwill is
the only guarantee of peace. We
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-03

must not only just talk it, we must
study the methods of educating
people into goodwill and the tech
niques of implementing Goodwill
into all of the structures of our
society.
"When our government was es-
tablished, our constitution plainly
gave as one of the purposes of this
union, to promite domestic tranquil
ity, and domestic tranquility is on
an equality with common defense.
We need department of peace as
much as a department of war or a
department. of the navy. This nation
like the rest of the world has devot-
ed much of it's best brains and it's
largest financial appropriations to
developing the art of war with the
excuse that common defense made
that necessary. With the develop
ment of science to the point where
we have poison gases, and atomic
bombs, etc., we need now to special
ize in the promotion of peace-at
home, and in all the world.
81 know the preaching of peace
has been left chiefly to the church,
and the church under severe handi-
caps has done good job. But what
we need now is more than preach
ing-we need implementation on a
scale that only the government can
do it,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-03
DELTA5 AT CHRISTMAS
CONVENTION IN RICHMOND

RICHMOND, Dec. 3 (ANP).-
The 18th national convention of
Delta Sigma Theta sorority will
convene for a three day meet here
Dec. 27, at the request of the eight
Delta chapters in that locality.
Theme for the convention selected
by a planning committee which met
in Richmond early in November is
Designs for Living in a New Age" !"
Mrs. Mae Wright Downs of New
Jersey, the grand president, will
preside.
Among the outstanding personal
tiles of the sorority who will hold
special place on the program are
Miss Elsie Austin of Washington,
Mrs. Jessie Heslip of Toledo, both
attorneys, and Mrs. Paul Robson
of Enfield, Conn.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-03
BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
CALLS FOR FEp( Law TO
PROTECT NEGRO WORKERS

CLEVELAND, Dec. 3 (ANP) =
The necessity of immediate enact
ment of federal FEPC law to pro-
tect the rights of Negro workers
was pointed out here Thursday by
Atty. Charles w. Anderson, presi-
dent of the National Bar association,
during the lawyers three-day con-
vention.
Picturing the plight of the Negro
civilian workers along with that of
returning Negro veterans, Atty.
Anderson, member of Kentucky's
state legislature and the south's
only Negro state lawmaker, urged
lawyers to fight for the enactment
of federal fair employment prac-
tice commission law.
''It will be hard enough on Negro
workers during the reconversion
crisis to hold their own against the
general job threats which affect all
workers." he said, "yet they face the
added burden of race prejudice that
deprives them of equal opportunity
for jobs and advancement on the
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-03

basis of ability, which is their DEM
ocratic right. To protect that right,
we need now more than ever a per-
manent FEPC, and this association
should vigorously join in the fight
to bring about such permanent leg
islation."
His review of problems that face
Negroes in the postwar period be-
gan VI day, which was the signal
for national rejoicing as we'll as the
occasion for realistic stock taking
of plans for reconversion, postwar
planning and for coping with inter-
racial tensions" He said that ''fail-
ure to act on effective reconversion
of governmental agencies, lack of
legislation aimed at providing Sc
curity, an orderly plan for recon-
version and the resulting last-min-
lte scuffle for action at the national
level found America as unprepared
for peace as it was for war;"
Negro veterans face racial dis
elimination handcaps in applying
for government aid under the CT
bill Of rights, he said. He pointed
to the evil of state rights and asked:
"Will the county agent and the
local community in the south be
more interested in square deal for
he returning veteran than they
have been in the past for Negro cit
izens?"
Returning veterans will not be
satisfied with the old American
In noting the responsibility for
black mems jobs" he declared, ''but
they will be concerned about an
equal days pay for an equal amount
of work, irrespective of color" He
urged the lawyers to back the co.
job program. "Our primary
goal must be full protection and full
he said.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-03
PROTESTANT YOUTH OF
~ DENOMINATIONS
AT RACE PARLEY

CHIAGO, Nov. 20 (ANP) An
interracial rally, sponsored by the
Chicago Christian Youth council,
brought 400 young people of AZ
Protestant denominations together
at the First Presbyterian church.
Cne of the speakers, the Rev.
Perry Sieto, young Japanese
American of Illinois Wesleyan uni
versity, said:
"There is only one race. 1t is the
human race"
The rally was an outgrowth of
recent meeting of the council when
delegates representing $4,000 young
Protestants condemned racial school
strikes. Civic, evangelistic and
interracial problems were studied
by the group during one-hour work
shop sessions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
Artificial Lights Boost
Egg Output in Winter

One way to stimulate egg produc-
ton during the winter months, when
egg prices are relatively high, is by
the use of artificial lights, points out
f. M. Funk of the University Of
Missouri college of agriculture.
Until recently it was believed that
the use of artificial lights increased
egg production by increasing the
consumption of feed and water.
While feed and water should be be-
fore the birds at all times, the in
crease in egg production from arti-
fetal lighting results primarily from
the stimulation of hormone produc-
ton which increases ovarian
activity.
A number of different methods of
using lights have been used with
satisfactory results. Lights turned
on in the morning give good results
Evening lights may be used but some
system of dimming the lights is
necessary so the birds will 60 to
roost before the lights are turned
off entirely. The length of the day
can be more accurately adjusted by
using both evening and morning
lights.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
Rug Care

Methods of saving rugs and car
pets from the rug-cutting ravages of
gritty dirt, malicious moths and
sharp furniture legs are suggested
by Lois A. Lutz, Oregon State col
lege extension specialist in home
manag cement. Caster cups under fur
niture legs keep them from cutting
into carpets These may be of glasss
plastic or wood. Pads under floor
coverings take some of the wear. A
mothproofed hair pad is best, but
several layers of newspapers will do.
Door mats help keep dirt off rugs
and carpets indoors. A quick brush
up is recommended every day. Daily
sweeping with a soft brush or hand
carpet sweeper picks up loose dirt,
lint and thread. If left on longer,
dirt works down to the roots of the
pile where more severe cleaning is
necess ary to remove it. Dhling-room
rugs regularly exposed to crumbs
and grease need a daily brushing to
whisk off grease before it can soak
In.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
Magnetic Storms

During the SO years from 1908 to
1912 there were 1890 days on
which magnetic storms occurred on
the earth. A study of these days
made at the Commonwealth Solar
observatory, Canberra, Australia,
by DR.. c. w. Allen, and reported in
the Monthly Notes of the Royal
Astronomical Society,"" reveals they
fall into four groups, all of which
are associated with q periods. Three
of the groups were associated with
visible eruptions on the sun, or with
sun spots, and these magnetic storms
took place is and 2.5 days after
the disturbances were on the sun S
meridian. The fourth group, con-
sisting of lesser storms, was asso-
ciated with region on the sun on
which there was no visible outbreak.
The particles causing these disturb
ances require, it is estimated, three
days to travel from the sun to the
earth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
SOLDIERS WANT THEIR OWN
FARMS

1t is extremely doubtful if any &C
curate estimate can be made of the
number of returning servicemen who
will enter any given business or voca-
ton after the war; The primary con-
Germ of everyone on the home front
however, must be to see that as many
a spossible of the veterans will have
an opportunity to follow the pattern
of their own choosing. This is only
consistent with the American prin-
ciple of free enterprise.
The only available indication OF
the intentions of men in the armed
forces regarding their future pursuits
is furnished by the survey made by
the Information and Education Di-
vision, Army Service Forces, using
10000 men as cross section sample.
Among other things, it was found
that percent of the sample" want
farms of their own. Applying this per
centage to IL " million service men,
some $500 have desire to own
and operate farms. The survey show
ed further that AZ per cent of the
men of the number desiring to own
businesses or farms had been owners
of business or farms before the war.
As percent had been employed in the
types of business which they hope to
own or had had farm experince. The
remaining IL per cent had never had
experience in their chosen fields.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
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TAXPAYERS FACED WITH
DOUBLE THREAT

Maryland taxpayers are raced WIZ
double threat declares the Mary
land Public Expenditure Cuoncil. Not
only has the State tax rate on earned
income been increased 16 20, but
recent press reports predict that Gov.
O'Conor wants to raise income tax
ates another 33 %. What arouses
the taxpayers is the TACT that the
ates prevailing last year brought tie
State $6,900,000 more than the
State spent, and the Governor him
SELF estimated an additional surplus
Of some $2,0OO,000 at the end of the
present fiscal year. This surplus, the
taxpayers claim, is ample proof that
the tax rates are too high now and
should be reduced instead of being
increased.
The tax rate on earned income 70
1913 was $40 per $1,000. The 8 2
per cent increase in the rate as i
stands for 1914 income will requir,
wage earners to pay 1888 pei
$1,000 of earned income, and if the
Governor raises the rate as predicted
it will cost wage earners $40 for eat
$1,000 of taxable earnings. Inves,
ment income is at present taxed
S33.33 on $1,000 If the predicted in
crease goes into effect, this class
income will be taxed $50 per Sl,0G9
Taxpayers all over the State ar
telling their Senators and Delegates
they paid $6,900,000 more than
cost to run the State last year, an
they want at least part of that money
back in reduced rates, and they re-
sent any increase in the State Tax.
The taxpayers are willing to have
part of the surplus used to pay OFT
the States debt. But the amount thai
can be paid on the debt is limited be
cause the State cannot pay off it's
bonds BEFORE they come due, and on
ly certain amount becomes due each
year. Realizing this, the taxpayers
agree that a certain amount of the
surplus may be held to meet the con-
tingencies of tie postwar period. But
they want single part of the surplus
returned in tax reductions.
Harry S. Middendorf reports that
organized taxpayers have already
called meetings in all sections of the
State to register their protest against
any tax increase and to intensity de-
mands that the surplus, which they
regard as an overpayment of their
true tax obligations, be returned in
part, at least, by reducing the tax
rate,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
Nylon Fabrics

Development of woven nylon fab
RIGS was undertaken before the war
in a limited way and all work of
this kind was stopped as soon as
nylon was needed for military pur-
poses. The early studies were car
ried far enough in the development
of fabrics for underwear, slips, pam
ties, gowns and foundation gar
ments to indicate that nylon contrib
uted a great deal toward lessening
the weight of garments, and its adj
vantages in easy washing and quick
drying were found particularly valu-
able.
Experimental work before the war
also indicated that properly con-
structed fabrics of nylon could be
permanently 'set'' to minimize
wrinkling and that they might pos
sess advantages in instability. This
work gave definite indications that
good nylon neckwear could be manu-
featured, that nylon in velvets and
other pile fabrics could be made
crushproof, that the curtain stretch
er as a result might become a
thing of the past and that perma-
nent ruffies and pleats might be
set so as to be unaffected by
cleaning and even washing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
Old Aleuts Practiced
Two-Way Polygamy

Inhabitants of the Alaskan region,
ancient Aleuts, had a primitive civil
lization of their own, anthropologists
say.
The Aleuts practiced two-way po-
lygamy, with a man entitled to as
many wives as he could support by
hunting, and woman to as many
husbands as she could keep house
for. Wives were obtained by vio-
lent capture, or by purchase from
their parents, followed by mock alb
duction to preserve illusions of cave
man methods. When a man mar
ried, he was encouraged to keep
adding to his harem all the younger
sisters and cousins of his wife-and
conversely, woman frequently be-
came the bride also of all her hIs-
bands brothers and cousins. Yet,
despite these conditions, the cap
ture of brides from other islands
was often the cause of combat. Also,
girls with service men in this region
need not worry, as the modern de-
scendants of the Aleuts do not con-
tinue these free-and-easy polyga-
NOUS practices.
Descriptive names were used by
the Aleuts. Some translate to such
phrases as "The Quickly Speaking
Person." 1.-THE One Who Is Always
Lying" and 1.-THE Sea Lions Hair"
Punishment of children was rare.
Almost the only type known, and
one common to all Eskimos, con-
sists of plunging crying infant into
snow or cold water. "This remedy,
performed in winter amid broken
ice, is very effectual."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26
FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR
INDECENT ASKED

Formal steps to initiate in the
counties OF Maryland a program OF
free medical, dental, and hospital
care for persons financially unable
to nav for such services themselves
were taken by Governor Herbert X.
O'Conor in proposed bill which has
beben introduced in the General AS
sembly.
Disclosing that three-year study
of medical conditions throughout tie
State shows present facilities FOL
medical and hospital treatment as in
adequate in many counties, and that
needed medical attention usually is
not available to those unable to pay
for it, the Governor explained thai
under his bill a Bureau of Medical
Services would be set up within the
Health Department and would be au-
thorized to contract with physicians
dentists and hospitals for the treat
ment of persons certified by the State
Department of Public Welfare.
Jurisdiction over the three chronic
disease hospitals to be established IN
the State also would be vested in the
Bureau, Governor O'Conor pointed
out.
"The plan has been endorsed,
Governor O'Conor told the General
Assembly, "by the Medical and Chi
urugical Faculty of Maryland and
Medical groups throughout the State
and therefore, may well be accepted
as the considered opinion of the med
ical profession with regard to the
States responsibility toward it's indi-
gent and medically INDECENT citizens
1 am earnestly in favor of the plan
believing that it will be of great ben
eft to the people of the State as a
whole, and particularly to that group
of our citizenry Immediately affect
ed