Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28

Replies to Mr.. Laski's Opinion
To the Editor of The Star
In his article in The Sunday Star,
December %, Harold j. LasN states:
IT think, indeed, that the Roman
Catholic church in the United States
is today less American, and more vati-
can-orientated than at any other time
in 10 lktesy." l.. "a
These words, I fear, manifest more
Mr.. Laski's dislike of the Catholic
church than either his power. of reason
ing or his store of information.
What does "Vatican-orientated"
mean? lit does mean-as It can only
that the spiritual head of the Catholic
church, fn~America as indeed through
out the world, is the bishop of Rome,
why should this fact-a central and
permanent fact in the church's history
be interpreted as now initiating
against the patriotism Of American
Catholics2
Yet this is precisely what Mr.. Laski
implies; and this new attack of his,
like SO much leftist propaganda, is pi-
quantity redolent of the now defunct
Nazi technique. Hitler, too objected
to the alien origin of that church's
founder.
Mr.. Laski, moreover, displays an I'M
justifiable ignorance of the fact that
every good Catholic must "ipso facto"
be good citizen, or does he deliberate
ly ignore 1t. CYRIL ToUMANOFF.
Washington Gets Scolded
To the Editor of The Star:
was very much surprised at the con-
fusion caused by the recent finch
snowfall. Public schools were closed,
transportation slowed down to a crawl,
and the accident rate, especially injuries
caused by falls, scared to fearful high.
But such piddling snowfall scarcely
would have been worthy of notice in any
town or city of New York or any other
Northern State. Within hours the roads
and streets would have been cleaned and
sanded down to prevent dangerous
icing.
Here in Washington three days after
the snowfall cars still slide and slip
along streets paved with hard-packed
treacherous snow and ice; and it is
rare household or business establishment
that has mustered enough energy and
pride to clean its front sidewalk.
Why doesn't Washington, like most
Northern communities, adopt law re-
curing. every property owner to have
the snow removed from his sidewalk or
pavement within "a hours after . snow
fall? SAM sMooKLER, R. T. l/c.
Asks About Britain in Iran
To the Editor Of The Star:
Secretary Ickes, in an article about
getting "our share" of the oil in the
Near East, published in one of our
weekly magazines this past year, made
: in passing the following statement:
Great Britain first penetrated Iran
PERSIA economically, until she had
economic domination of the country.
This was followed by political domina-
ton OF Iran by Great Britain"
Can it be that it is this domination
by Great Britain in Iran which Russia
Is trying to upset7
Was Mr.. Ickes' statement correct?
r. s. p.
Praise for Christmas Cartoon
To the Editor Of The Star:
On Sunday morning I clipped the
cartoon from the front page of The
Star, and took occasion during the
service to hold it up before the congre-
cation and comment on its significance.
So long as there are people in public
life-journalism, politics, education, bust
ness, or what not--who will do things
Of this kind, which so pointedly show
that Christianity holds the only solu-
ton Of the worlds problems, then feel
our American our Christian--way OF
life is still safe.
I,wish very heartily to commend your
excellent paper on this fne action. s
D. CAMPBELL MAYERS,
Rector, Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Middlehurs, VI.
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