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Evening star., 1945-12-15
Dupont Circle Plan

From the long series of designs,
discussions and revised designs re-
lating to the projected Dupont Circle
underpass has come drastically
modified plan which has many ad-
vantages to recommend it. Under
the latest proposal. drawn up by
Captain H. C. Whitehurst, highway
director. and approved by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission. automobile traffic from
Connecticut avenue will pass under
Massachusetts avenue through
tunnel along the axis of the circle,
but streetcar traffic will be diverted
into curved tunnels constructed
around the perimeter of the circle.
This arrangement would eliminate
the long pedestrian tunnels from the
outside of the circle to the streetcar
loading platforms in the center that
would have been required in the
plan previously approved by the
Commission. Fears had been eX-
pressed in some civic quarters that
the extended passages might at
tract pickpockets and other law
violators.
The new plan calls for the routing
OF northbound streetcar traffic
through a tunnel curving around
the east side of the circle, while
southbound streetcars would follow
a curving course at the opposite side
of the park. Subway entrances
would be placed at convenient points
across from the circle, with short
stairways and passageways leading
to underground loading platforms.
The revised plan contemplates no
kiosks or unsightly protuberances to
mar the park, as would have been
the case with some earlier versions
of the project. Every effort would
be made to preserve the natural
beauty Of this famous old circle, the
proponents of the plan assert.
Ofhand, the construction of the
additional subways for streetcars
would seem to involve much greater
costs, but officials who have studied
the plan believe that the elimination
of the long pedestrian tunnels, up
per and lower level passageways and
other costly phases of previous de-
signs will tend to offset the added
rost of building separate Streetcar
tunnels around the circle. All in
all, the latest plan comes closer to
meeting the views of majority of
the varied interests concerned than
any st it's predecessors. It's final
adoption would open the way for
an early start toward realization of
a long-delayed traffic acceleration
project.
Evening star., 1945-12-15

wholly dissatisfied with the course of
this legislation to date-legislation
which they counted on particularly to
keep their grip on the Government and
the American people. How they feel
about it is clear from the comment
made, in House debate, by Representa-
tive Marcantonio, ,sAmerican Labor par
ty, of New York He said
THE bill as passed by the Senate
may be designated as a mere prayer;
the bill reported by the House by this
committee can be described as a left
handed prayer"
The argument made by Representa-
tive Manasco against Government
guarantee of jobs was that, in case of
large unemployment-for example, g.
100000, including every one who said
he or she wished a job-it would cost
the Government-or rather the tax
payers-$16, 900 900, 600, figuring an aver
age of $4,000 a year per person. Wit
nesses appearing before the commit
tee in support of the guarantee argued
that $4,000 was minimum for decent
living.
Mr.. Manasco contended that the
country could not stand such an ex-
penditure, piled on top of the huge
Government budget which will be nee
essary for many years to come. "The
President in transmitting message to
Congress on the original BILL" he said,
had to look into a crystal ball. He
stated that 100000 people would be
unemployed in November of next year
and tasked Congress what it was 60
ING to dO about IL F"
Three distinct groups in the House
took different positions on the bill. One
supported the committee bill, one sup
ported the original bill with the en-
ployment guarantee by the Govern
ment and one was opposed to the leg
islation in either form. Those who
favored the original bill were hopeless
ly outnumbered-with the other two
groups against them. So the measure
finally passed by vote of 254 to 126 as
it came from the committee.
The supporters of the measure as 1t
passed contend that it will provide the
necessary machinery to enable the ad-
ministration to get clear view of the
economic situation in the country and
the probable outlook for the succeed
ing year. With such data in hand, they
say it will be possible for the Presi-
dent to recommend legislation and ap-
preparations to promote" employment.
Evening star., 1945-12-15

The debate on the reorganization Of
the armed services is having one good
effect, at least.
1t is bringing home to the people Of
this country the fact that there can be
no piecemeal solution of the great prob
lem of national security.
The Navy, after several false starts,
has at last faced this fact squarely.
The plan which Secretary Forrestal
has presented to Congress meets the
issues and needs of overall national
security and covers every phase of
subject which, in this age Of air power
and atomic power. is of greater i'm
portance to our country than any other.
The Army still clings to "compart-
mentalized" thinking-the sort of think
ing which, as DR.. SZilard remarked to
day. hampered atomic research so seri-
ously and will hamper progress in any
field to which it is applied.
An Army spokesman confeSses that "the
Army plan did not purport to cover the
whole field of national security" But
any plan which calls for wholesale re-
organization of the whole of our armed
forces, and yet does not take into &C
count the manner in which those armed
forces are to fit into the broad picture
of national security. is by that very
fact defective and incomplete.
The Army has, of course, no monopoly
on compartmentalized thinking. A lot
of that type of thinking has been done
in the Navy. too. One evidence of it
lies in the fact that the people of this
country do not yet know how very great
a part their Navy played in this war, or
understand the real measure of its con-
tribution to our victory This is due to
compartmentalized thinking by high
Navy brass" on the subject of public
relations. The people weren't told the
facts due to failure to keep just bal
ance between the real needs of military
security and the real need of telling the
people what their Navy was doing. The
Navy is paying price for this now,
when it needs and deserves public sup
port in its present difficulties.
It is notable that the basic elements
of the Navys plan are the product of
civilian mind. They are the work of
Ferdinand Eberstadt, who saw from the
vantage point of the War Production
Board and the Army-Navy Munitions
Board the wartime workings of the two
departments. Secretary Forrestal wisely
chose Mr.. Eberstadt to draw up gen.
eral report on the reorganization Of the
armed forces. But it is unfortunate
that this plan now has to be presented
as a Navy plan, in circumstances which
lead many people to believe that it is
a partisan, defensive measure to offset
the Armys proposal.
If President Truman had seen fit, at
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Security Fact-Finding
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

the outset. to appoint full-time civil
ian commission to examine the whole
subject and make recommendations as
to the reorganization of the structure of
national security after giving full con-
sideration to all aspects of the problem.
much of the present bitterness would
have been avoided.
A congressional committee cannot pos
sibly give enough time to so important
matter, because its members are in
dividually overworked by their ordinary
duties.
Every one of the members of the SEN
ate Military Affairs Committee, before
whom the present hearings are taking
place, belongs to at least three other
major committees of the Senate, and at
least one or two minor or special COM
mittees. Every one Of them must also
give a great part of his time to attend
ing to the needs and demands of his
constituency and some attention to gen.
eral legislation. They would be i'm
mensely aided If they could have the
benefit of thorough threshing out Of
the details of their present problem by
an impartial civilian commission.
And they would be immensely aided
if the present atmosphere of controversy
could be lightened, If a moratorium
could be declared on abuse and hard
work and also on half-baked thinking
1t doesn't help for the Army to say that
the Navy presentation is dishonest and
misleading
Nor does it help for the New York
Times to say editorially that the Navy
plan fails to answer the basic need for
unihcation of military planning, pro-
curement and operations when as a
matter of plain fact the Navy plan gives
far more attention to practicable So
luton of this need than the Army plan
even preUends to, as any person of rea-
sonable intelligence can ascertain mere
ly by reading the two laid side by side.
The trouble is that this takes lot of
reading and lot of pains, and most
people just haven't the time to devote
to it-including Senators.
The immediate requirement is still for
full-time civilian commission to study out
the whole problem in all its ramidcations.
Unless this is done there is a grave
danger that piecemeal decisions will be
taken and that We shall have a piece
meal structure of national security that
may fail us when we need it most The
President has found it necessary to ap-
point fact-finding board in the Gen
eral Motors strike. That is precisely
what is needed in matter of immense
ly greater Importance to the country
our national security. We must have
the facts-all the facts-before we can
act wisely.
(Copyright, 1887
Evening star., 1945-12-15
While Rome Burns

It is difficult to believe that there
is any justification for the refusal of
the Senate Education and Labor
Committee to act promptly on the
Presidents request for legislation to
facilitate the settlement of current
and threatened industrial disputes.
If this were a novel question. or if
the President had asked for legisla-
tion of drastic nature, then there
would be every reason to proceed
carefully with a thorough investiga-
ton. But neither condition applies
in this instance. Mr.. Truman is
faced with a condition in industry
which is seriously retarding our
reconversion program and which
threatens us with national paralysis.
In an effort to deal with this imme-
diate crisis he has asked Congress
to enact legislation setting up fact
finding commissions to investigate
disputes of national significance
with view to making recommended
tions to the parties He has also
asked that strikes in these cases be
prohibited for a period of thirty days
while the commissions are discharg-
Ing their functions.
That is a simple request for mild
remedy, and the President strongly
urged that Congress act upon it be-
fore the Christmas recess. After a
brief hearing. however. the Senate
committee has decided to drop the
matter until Congress reconvenes in
January, after which time it is plan
ming to hold at least four weeks of
hearings.
There has been some criticism of
the Presidents proposal to the effect
that it is too mild, that it does not
90 far enough, and that, if approved
by Congress, it would not prove of
material assistance in dealing with
strikes. Possibly that is true, and it
may be shown in time that the prob
lem cannot be solved without resort
to legislation much more drastic
than that now proposed. But that
Is problem for the future, and it is
not a problem which can be disposed
OF intelligently in time to enable the
administration to cope with the
automobile strike which is under
way, the steel strike which has been
cot for next month or anv of tho
other major strikes that are i'm
pending.
The President needs and has asked
for some assistance In dealing with
the immediate situation. What he
proposes certainly cannot do any
harm, and 1t may do some good. In
any event. 1t is more promising than
the program" Of the key members
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Sofety Education
From the El Dorado Times.

from the 81 Doraoo Times.
Safety education is very important
item in our schools today. It should be
taught to all classes. Teaching or
preaching safety, however, is not enough
II the only thing child gets out of
safety education is bundle of facts he
can recite to the teacher or visitors, I
don't believe We have taught him a
thing. He must do" what he is being
taught-he must do what people preach
to him. A famous author once said
Il have quit trying to be good, but
have not quit trying to do good"
That is the thought. Cultivate safe
habits in the children through safety
education, Safety education must, of
course, be based on intelligence, facts
and ideals but it must have coupled
with that desirable and safe habits.
Safety education is conception of
life or state of mind. It must, how
ever, at the same time create ma
chine or thought for building efficient
and safe conduct.
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Right to Be Heard
Bu Frederick Palmer

The way for the congressional lnVeS-
tigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster to
stop wasting time is to call Admiral
Kimmel and Gen. Short to testify at
once.
Then Chairman Barley, chairman of
the investigating committee. and its
legal staff, need no longer be appalled,
at the prospect of 60 more witnesses yet
to be examined, which may prolong the
investigation for months.
Is it the plan to examine So OF the
witnesses before coming to the two key
witnesses? This would be in line with
the program so far, which means that
these go might beget 60 more before
it was the turn of the two.
Kimmel and Short were not sitting at
desks in Washington, but were in feet
and Army command at Pearl Harbor
when the disaster occurred.
They have the right to be heard. They
were not given the hearing of court
martial after they were relieved of COM
mand lest secrets be revealed to the
enemy. For the same reason of security
the people must wait for the truth until
after the war. That was all right, but
it did not mean that after the war the
truth should still be concealed.
X + y ~
This investigation was to give us the
truth. It's progress so far might be
taken as calculated to make 1t a fiasco
in palliating the disaster.
Throughout the investigation Kimmel
and Short have been on the sidelines
as spectators waiting to be called. So
have other important witnesses who
were in the action or on the scene of
action at Pearl Harbor.
Is 1t possible that Kimmel and Short
do not want to be heard? Are they sat
isfied to call 1t quits without being
heard. satisfied to leave the Judgment
OF history to others who were neither
ashore nor afioat at Pearl Harbor on
that costly December 4, 1941?
After they have been heard, do we
have TO hear the 90 or moro other Wit
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Unpleasant Spectacle

In an information sheet handed
to the press at the court-martial of
Captain Charles B. McVay III the
Navy quoted Commander Iko Hashi-
moto. Japanese submarine skipper,
as commenting that his trip to
America had been a pleasant" one.
There are many persons. however,
who do not regard the spectacle of
Hashimoto's appearance as a wit
ness against Captain McVay as a
pleasant one. And on the basis of
this enemy aliens testimony at the
extraordinary Navy Yard proceed
ings. there are many who will fail
to see any justification for affording
Hashimoto such pleasant" inter-
lude.
The announced purpose of bring
ing the japanese officer here was to
establish that his submarine had
torpedoed Captain McVay's Inflated
ship. the U. S. S. indianapolis, thus
laying legal groundwork for the
charge that Captain McVay haz-
arded his cruiser by failing to zigzag
in waters where enemy submarines
were believed to be operating. If
Hashimoto's testimony had been
necessary to support this premise or
if his testimony had been needed
to establish any other material fact,
his use as a prosecution witness
would have been justified But the
consensus of credible American wit
neSseS has been that the cruiser was
torpedoed. AS a matter of fact,
Hashimoto's testimony failed to es-
tablish definitely that his submarine
sank the Indianapolis. He said he
torpedoed a ship as large or larger
than a cruiser, but in a location
fifty-five miles from that where the
indianapolis went down. Nor was
Japanese testimony necessarys to
show that Captain McVay was not
steering a zigzag course. All of the
witnesses have agreed on this point.
Incidentally, Hashimoto testified
that he could have sunk the ship
whether she was zigzagging or not.
What, then, was accomplished by
transporting from Japan a defeated
enemy whose credibility, to put 1t
mildly, was subject to questioning?
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Autumn South

Gray tinte-stained marble monuments
rep0se in sun
Under the thinning leaUes Of china
berry boughs,
And old men on park benches speak in
sottened tones
or, reminiscent, slip easily into quiet
dr0tDse.
Rich odor OF Doodsn,oke tints the
tDarn1- cool air,
Resi.ous, s,0eet ,0ith in,memorial
traditions smell,
And golden sycamores she'd hushed
Leaves one by one,
The city is silent under dreanalike
spell.
Flamboyant harvest OF autumn lies IN
the market place:
The first frost pill be coming one
night soon,
But for the moment bright summer
hangs IN eQnipoise,
Caught by rich secret laughter n the
afternoon.
FREDERICK EBRIoHT.
Evening star., 1945-12-15
The Political Mill
Bv Gould Lincoln

The House, In passing the so-called
full employment bill, struck substan-
tial blow for freedom in this country.
1t abandoned Government guaran-
tee of jobs-provided in the original
administration bill and, though wa
tered down, still found in the bill as
it passed the Senate. The policy writ
ten into the bill by the House is ito
promote" rather than to guarantee en-
ployment.
The bill, having passed the House,
has to run the gantlet of conference
committee consideration, in which the
Senate will have its representatives.
While the House and Senate bills diff
fer in many particulars, the real issue
lies in the statement of government
policy.
Every one is for full employment.
Every one believes that an American,
wishing to work and capable of work.
ing, should be given every opportunity
to obtain a job. Full employment"
became a popular slogan overnight
when the administration proposed the
passage of a full employment bill"
Having seized on this popular slogan,
the supporters of a guarantee of jobs
by the government tied this principle
into the measure-quite securely, they
hoped.
Many members of the Senate baked
at the idea of a government guarantee.
They sought to remove the substance
of such a policy, but at the same time
leave the shell. The powerful political
urge to support full employment" how
ever, prevented the actual abandon
ment of the Government guarantee.
So all the Senate accomplished was
amendments seeking to safeguard the
Federal Treasury.
The House Committee on Executive
Expenditures, of which Representative
Manasco, Democrat. of Alabama is
chairman, was more hard-headed. 1t
declined fatty to be hurried or dra-
gooned into reporting out bill. espe-
cially a bill containing this Govern
ment guarantee. President Truman
raped the committee over the knuckles
in an address delivered to the country
over the radio, for delaying action on
this legislation. Nearly every epithet
in the calendar was hurled at Chair
man Manassas head by the New Deal
ers, the CIO, and left wingers gener
ally.
These gentlemen are disgruntled and
Evening star., 1945-12-15

nesses? Are they to 60 on repeating
over and over the vast amount of testi-
mony already heard on the rim of the
real sources of the truth? On the con-
trary, it will then be up to the investi-
CATION to limit further testimony only to
the germane in forming its final judg-
ment
Does the commission want to sidestep
the responsibility of judgment? Are
undercover influences, whether political,
military or naval or within the legal
staff itself. to conceal the real truth for
good?
1t begins to look as though the inves-
tigation itself should be investigated
with warning that we are not to forget
the subject in celebrating the Christmas
holidays without hearing from Kimmel
and Short
Evening star., 1945-12-15

among the first of nations for do,
mestic probity. is now experiencing
a record-smashing outbreak of law
lessness. AS after 1918, in short, the
problem today seems more or less
inevitable, but this does not mean
that we can afford to be passive
about it. On the contrary. as both
the President and Mr.. Hoover warn,
we must take the fullest possible
action to cope with it now. Other
wise it may run wild and make the
years Immediately ahead a night
mare of gansterism disgracing all of
Evening star., 1945-12-15
1 Hess Remembers

From the Montgomery Alabama Journal.
That board of international psychi-
artists in Berlin which reported that
Rudolph Hess was mot insane in the
strict sense, but that his loss Of memory
might interfere with his ability to make
his defense" must feel rather imposed
upon now that Hess has confessed that
his amnesia was fake simulated for
strategic reasonS.s
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NOVOGODTSNU DARAK RADNICKOJ
BORBI.
Swim Pretplatnicima "Radnicke Borbe"

Swim Pretplatnicima "RadniGke Borbe".
Sa OWN Sc iskreno pozvate da pruzte novcanu pomoc Jedino]
Revolucionarnoj Radnckoj Novini ma jugoslavenskom jeziku RAD
NIcKOJ BORBI. Da jj omogucite da dale sri radnHku prosetu,
koja je cd neophodne nuznosti pod sadasnjim ozbllJnim pr1lkama.
Kapitalizam ide strmoglavce, koji peti da odvede drustvo u pro-
past. On je postao smetnja zapreka svakom daljnem drustvenom
progresu. Otkuda dolaze raovi, besposlice sve druge nesrece, cd
koIh strada radno covecanstvo, samo SOCLJALISTIckA sTAMPA
naucno pravilno objasnjava, tie ui radnicku klasu kao mose poster
svoje o%slobodjenje. Otuda je u Interest," radnika da materlJalno pc"
MAUI RADNIcKU sTAMPU, tako da moze redovno nesmetano da
vrsi svoju funkciju. Street, MarksistGku prosvetu, bez koe radn4ska
klasa ne mole postici svoje oslobodjenje.
Same RADNIcKA BORBA, ma jugoslavenskom jeziku, siri takvu
prosvetu. cato Sc pozivate da jj materijalno pomognete, jer nike
drugi jOj nce pomoti.
Ispunite donji dec posaljite ga zajedno S vasim prilogom "a
Novogodsnji Darak RADNIcKOJ BORBL.
P. S%LEPcEVIC,
sekretar Federaciie.
Mr.. F. Slepcevic,
3413 St. Clair Ave.
Cleveland IA, Ohie.
Dragi Druze:
u prilozenom Salem ii $-- moi priog "a Novogodisnji
Darak RADNIcKOJ BORBI, tako da mole nadalje siriti Marhas-
ticku prosvetu medju radnicima naseg jezika.
Drugarski tt pozdrav,
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