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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

cisco Coordinating Council whibA
originated the school
Soon they get so they like it.
Some continue coming even when
their sentence no longer eompels
them to. Glasses are informal
Question periods follow. Parents
don't get final exam or a diplo=
ma when they graduate. They
get a QUESTIONABLE asking for
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How oft we think of you,
Mother, dear In quiet hours
your image comes to us. How
we long your kindly face to see.
and fondly wish that you were
with us herel In times of dark
ness. we have felt you near; Your
love. your courage and your pur-
ity-A steady beacon light have
proved to be - Have kept us
strong and quieted our fears.
Since you have marked the way
that We shall tread and by your
life have proved it can be done.
We choose to serve your God and
do right. We choose the lowly
path without a dread, and know
that when life's short race is run.
we shall live with Christ. where
faith is lost in sight. "-Renbeck.
Alton Saunders. Sr., Cecil and
Fred Williams, Vivienne l.. and
Fountain w. Pennick, children.
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HOW SHERIFF CALLAHAN WON The KIDS;
If YOU CAN'T BEAT EN-, uNE 'EM

Soon after Harlan S. Callahan
took office as sheriff of King
County, Washington, in January,
1913. the heavily populated bust
ness and residence district of
Greenwood, north of Seattle, was
enlivened by 100 boys engaged
in a midnight riot
1t was a gang fight. Several
boys were more or less seriously
hurt. Windows were broken,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

The only staple foodstuffs in
Britain in unrestricted supply are
potatoes, other vegetables. and
bread. Ordinary consumers re-
ceived an average of two and
one-half eggs month in 1913.
Total consumption of meat per
head in Britain in 1913 was twen-
ty-two ounces per week-a fall of
twenty-seven per cent from the
pre-war average.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14
Bv BONNIE WILEY

About a year ago San Fran
cisco grew tired of combating the
upswing Of juvenile delinquency
and decided to concentrate on
parents for a change. A school
for delinquent parents was set
up, TO promote juvenile welfare
by strengthening home ties"
Judges in the courts now send
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

the parents Of delinauents to the
schools as a condition Of proba-
tons or while their child's case
is on the calendar.
Glasses meet from eight to nine
each Monday night in the audi
forum of the san Francisco city
county health center.
Pupils fall into three types:
Parents of delinquent chill
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

dren.
2 - Parents who themselves
are delinquent and have been
hailed into court.
3.-Parents attending volun-
tarily
"Those who are sentenced
come grudging the first time"
explained George Jarrett, execu-
tive secretary of the San Fran
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

Shopping Officials
On Beacon Hill two kids do
ing fine job of running a store
during dads absence. They like
playing store. Shopping officials
order their daddy to send them
out to play under penalty of a
$500 fine.
Another Beacon Hill boy is or
dered to leave his part-time job
as a helper after SCHOOL, Go out
and play and get into mischief.
The boy is deprived of the priv
ilege of learning to read bank
book instead of getting into mis-
chief. The boy doesn't like 1t.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

at the age of three with his par
ents migrated to Yakima, Wash.
In 1905 he was wed TO Miss Mamie
Evans of Yakima. Two children
attic General Hospital Saturday,
February 10th.
He was born in Norfolk, Va, and
were born of this union, Alberta
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14
JUST TO REMIND YOU

F. d. R. tells NAAcP. segre-
cation in peaee-time army may
be abolished Another good rea-
son for a Memorial to Negro
soldiers. just to remind you.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-14

Don't Be a Juvenile Delin-
quent," the solgan of u 'Teen-age
canteen, corrals thousand
youngsters who jltterbug to the
music of a swing band every Sat
urday night.
Teen-Age Club Is really demo-
cratic. They are beyond the
reach of the $3.50 p. m. curfew.
Negro Republicans are plannine
Lest We Forget Campaigna gainst
the Demo- Republican coalition in
congress. They. will have plenty
of liners.
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James Garfield Taylor
Succumbs February 10

James G. Taylor, for more than
twenty years an officer of the Sc
attic Humane Society. died at Sc
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EDITORIAL

The removal of Sheriff Callahan is "abso-
utely essential to the protection of the youth of
this community The New World
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Says Pay Cut Is to Blame

To the Editor Of The Star:
Newspaper stories on the Community
War Fund drive place responsibility
upon Federal workers for the lag in the
drive.
= In the interest of the fund, and in
simple justice to Government employees.
I submit that attention should be To-
cused on the most important and most
neglected factor in this situation-the
recent cut averaging 20 per cent in
Federal workers take-home pay. Even
prior to this reduction, the great majority
Of Federal workers found it hard to make
ends meet on their salaries in this
expensive city.
President Truman himself described
Federal pay scales as ''pitiful" and "in-
adequate" Here is the obvious cause
of the lag in the fund drive. Here is
reflected the stake of Washington as a
community in supporting "a decent
salary scale for all Federal Government
employees" again to quote President
Truman. Neglecting Federal workers
own pay problems and blaming them
for the lag in the fund drive is both
unfair and useless.
WILLIAM w. STAFFORD.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Letters to The Star
Wants Separate Army and Navy
To Maintain Tradition

To the Editor Of The Star:
The Military Affairs Committee Of the
United States Senate recently has un-
dertaken the discussion which concerns
the proposed merger of the Army and
Navy into one department of national
defense. This proposed merger, favored
by the War Department and certain Of
ficers of the Army would destroy the
foundation Of our national security.
The outcome of such a proposed union
can mean only weakness and disunity.
Experience has proved, with the end
ing of this past war, that the various
branches of the armed forces OF the
United States can function more per-
fectly working unto themselves as indi-
vidual units. BY maintaining pride Of
tradition in each branch of service, the
spirit of accomplishment will be mo-
tivating influence toward any objective.
1t is necessary to keep our traditions
in order to build strength and unity.
The Navy of the United States today
is the greatest sea power in the world.
This strength has been greatly due to
the officers and men being trained in
the traditions of the sea. The proposed
merger, If made reality, would elimi-
nate forever any significance of being
associated with either the Army or
the Navy. 1t is essential that we en-
phasize tradition and pride of service
1t is these Intangible factors which have
built and made our Army and Navy
strong.
PHILIP MONTGOMERY GROVE.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
France and the Reich

Secretary of State Byrnes has just
revealed at a press conference that
our Government is taking active
steps to break the deadlock which
now blocks important decisions by
the Allied Control Council in Ger
many. This deadlock is due to the
attitude of France. which takes ad-
vantage of the unanimity rule in the
control councils procedure to pre-
vent the establishment of vital
agencies envisioned by the Potsdam
agreement for the economic recon-
struction of the Reich. At Potsdam
it was decided that, though Ger
many was divided into separate
occupation spheres, it was to be
treated as "an economic unit" And
experience has proved that, unless
this be speedily done, Germany will
fall into economic chaos with all the
disastrous consequences that this
will entail.
To this France presents series of
arguments to justify its obstructive
methods. First of all, France points
out that. despite its vehement pro-
tests, it was not invited to Potsdam
and thus had no part in the deci-
sions there taken. Furthermore,
some of those decisions were highly
Objectionable to France. At that
conference, restricted to the big
Three" the United States and Brit
ain acceded to Russia's demands for
a most drastic redrawing of Ger
many's eastern frontiers and to
other provisions which gave Russia
virtually everything it wanted in the
postwar settlement of the Reich.
But nothing was done to satisfy
what France deems equally vital to
her future security. The French
feel that the Rhineland should be
permanently separated from the
rest Of Germany and set up as q
state dependent on France. They
likewise feel that the industrial re-
gion Of the Ruhr should be sundered
from the future Reich and placed
Evening star., 1945-11-24

several occasions, including the last
meeting Of the Big Three at Potsdam.
The American Government has acted
secretively, so far as It's own people are
concerned, only in those cases where 1t
surrendered some of its formally pro-
claimed policies either to the Soviet
Union or to Great Britain in an endeavor
to maintain harmony between the major
Allies.
The British, on the whole, have acted
with similar candor and, with few ex-
ceptions, such as in Palestine, where
they are accused by Zionists of foment-
ing Arab troubles" they cannot be said
to have offered any surprises since the
cessation Of hostilities on the Western
and Pacific fronts. Even In regard to
Palestine, State Department officials
have no evidence, even circumstantial,
that the actions of the Arabs have been
fostered by Britain.
The same thing cannot be said, un-
fortunately, about our Russian friends.
At some future date the State Depart
ment will be able to present conclusive
proof that the separatist movement in
Iran was instigated and assisted by
Russia, in defiance Of pledges given the
Iran1an government in the winter Of
1943.
The discreet queries put to Moscow
as to its intentions in regard to Turkey
have lacked candor It is reliably re-
ported that President Truman asked
Premier Stain at Potsdam on two oc-
casions about suggestions of what should
be done about that potentially trouble
some situation. The Presidents ques-
tions were answered by significant
silence.
In the Far East, the Russian govern
ment has adopted an attitude which
gives rise to serious misgivings in high
quarters in Washington. Contrary to
definite agreements reached at Potsdam.
the Russians are now demanding par
ticipation in the administration of
Japan with "veto" power, and also de-
mand an exclusive zone of occupation In
Hokkaido, completely outside the juris-
diction Of the Allied supreme COM
mander.
In spite Of statements to the contrary
from the Communist organization at
Yenan, there is more than circum-
stantial evidence that the ragged and
poorly armed Communist forces in
China have been supplied with sufficient
armament and clothing to equip SOC, 900
guerrillas. Furthermore, the presence
OF some $50 Russian staff officers at
Kalgan, to assist the Chinese Commun-
ist general staff has been definitely
established.
The structure of the United Nations
Organization has thus been damaged
IN many places. It could be repaired If
the major powers use more candor In
their dealings with each other.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

President Truman, in a special mes
sage to Congress, has tackled the prob
lem of medical care and health insur-
ance for the American people as a
whole. His message was followed i'm
mediately by the introduction of bill
to establish national health program
by Senator Wagner of New York,
Democrat, one of the fathers of the
Social Security Act
This Is an issue which has been kick
ing around the Capitol for several years
The war, with its huge expenditures and
its demands on the medical fraternity.
had something to do with the pigeon
holing of earlier measures, offered by
Senator Wagner and others, dealing
with the problem. Further, distaste
on the part OF many legislators for fur
ther regimentation of the people, and
for heavy governmental expenditures
not connected with war, played their
parts in its sidetracking. Mr.. Truman
has chosen now to bring it to the fore.
Both the President in his message
and Senator Wagner in a statement he
made on his new bill insisted that the
health program advanced is not social
lied medicine"-a term which was used
by opponents to knock down the ears of
earlier, similar proposals
x =
The question arises, however, whether
the health of the country and the in
dividual ills of its citizens are to be
cared for-as in the past-through pri-
vate initiative or by the Government
How wide is the proposal in the Wagner
program may be gathered from the
Senator's own statement that "the bill
which have introduced includes five
provisions which will make available
basic health services to all the people
wherever they live and whatever their
incomes"
Title one of the bill provides for
Federal grants to states for health
services; title two, for prepaid personal
health service benefits, and title three
for general provisions. Senator Wagner
has made no effort, in this bill, to set
up the plan for actual payment for
health services. He has suggested that
the plan can be financed either through
premiums raised through income or
general taxes or through payroll con-
tributions, or both.
What he is trying to do is to have the
program recognized through general and
authorizing legislation, and then let the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House and the Finance Committee OF
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Comments on Editorial

Comments on Editorial
To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial of November 6, "Mr.
Baruch's Advice" is before me. My let
ter to Congressman Gore was partic-
ularly in answer to questions that were
raised by these Congressman about in
f1ation.
What I said about the caution we
should observe when making loans to
nationalized and totalized countries
should not be misinterpreted as mean
ing we should not make loans to these
countries. am for aid to Great Britain.
am also for lending to Soviet Russia
whose system of government I certainly
do not approve. I have no desire to
interfere in any way with whatever
forms Of government any Of these coun-
tries may want to follow. I do, however.
want us to make such loans with our
eyes open-not to promise more than
we can fulfill, and to see that the con-
ditions of the loans are such as not to
become means Of economic warfare
against us.
Freedom and dignity will have no
place In q world thoroughly prepared
for nationalistic, economic action.
BERNARD NJ. BARUCH.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Cuuqht in the Middle

The National Memorial Stadium
Commission was brought into being
by legislation introduced at the re-
quest of the National Stadium Com
mittee, an organization of Washing
ton citizens interested in building an
adequate stadium for the Capital.
This committee has evidently de-
cided that the Stadium Commission
will never get anywhere with pend
ing legislation calling for a grant of
funds for the preparation of de-
signs. The legislation is sponsored
in the Senate by Chairman Bilbo of
the Senate District Committee, who
is also chairman of the National
Memorial Stadium Commission The
legislation has become involved in
the political currents which sway,
and which are swayed by, Senator
Bilbo and has become more closely
identified with the Senator than
with the purpose it was intended to
accomplish.
Having <seen the commission and
the commission bill run into po-
litical blind alley. the citizens are
now interested in obtaining legisla-
ton under which the Government
would lease or otherwise permit use
of the land which has been desig-
mated by agreement as the future
site Of stadium. Construction of
the stadium, with the necessary
financing, would be left to private
enterprise. Later on, it would revert
to the Government.
Those who have explored the
matter believe that such an ar
rangement would be practicable and
make possible the construction of
an adequate stadium with the in
tereStS of the Government fully pro-
ted They have found enough sup
porters of the idea in Congress to
make them believe the legislation
will be found acceptable.
The situation provides another
example of the unusual handicaps
facing the people of Washington in
attempting to obtain Improvements
which in other municipalities are
the result of local initiative and
drive. The fundamental fault, of
course, is that the people here are
without representation in their
Government. They are deprived of
all the means by which citizens in
other places-including those re-
mote places throughout the world
which our sons are now patrolling
in the blessed name of democracy
indicate their wishes and make
them effective. They are dependent
on the whims of men elected by
every other community in the
United States except their own, and
when these whims clash the man
who is caught in the middle is the
voteless citizen of Washington.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Opposes 100000 Limit
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In conversation recently with a mod
ern-minded woman imbued with our
thoughtless modern desire for indis-
criminate betterment, she made the
unqualified statement that: "No one
should be allowed to have or earn more
than 100000, which is sufficient for
any one."
But worthy young man under such
a policy would be denied all incentive
and opportunity for making anything
of himself or being worth anything to
himself, his community and country
should he upon reaching his majority
come into fortune Of 100000 or more
and would also be required to give away
all in excess Of the amount. Condemned
to life Of idleness and sloth, he would
be denied all opportunity to advance
and assist himself, those dependent
upon him and others.
Likewise, all who have the good for
tune to earn 100000 before, or by the
time of reaching middle age, would be
denied all further opportunity for ad-
vancing themselves. The remainder
of their lives would be one of enforced
loafing and idleness, unjust to both
themselves and the public since Satan
finds some mischief still for idle hands
to do" and much mischief could be done
with $100, 900 in the hands Of an idler.
During her last years, met, not so
long ago, wealthy old lady who, as
young woman, was poor and kept
boarding house here in Washington.
BY industry and thrift she saved enough
to buy few lots in California with the
expectation that by the time she had
reached old age she could have saved
enough to build small bungalow upon
her lots and retire there. After own
ing the lots few years oil was struck
upon adjoining property as well as upon
her lots and the royalties she received
for her oil during the first year or two
greatly exceeded 100000. Would any
thoughtful and honest-minded person
deny her the right to all her good for
tune? Would 1t not have been criminal
to have robbed her in any way of any
part of her money?
F. S. KEY-SMITH.
Evening star., 1945-11-24

under international control. Until
these demands are met, France uses
her veto power to block any general
settlement Of Germany
Secretary Byrnes' answer to these
French arguments Is that the Ruhr
and Rhineland are parts of a larger
whole, that can best be disposed Of
in the ultimate general settlement.
Meanwhile, unless the Potsdam
agreement is carried out, chaotic
collapse throughout Germany will
bring about an almost hopeless sit
uation. And it is the general opinion
Of all qualified observers. except the
French. that the economic severance
of the Ruhr will leave what remains
Of the Reich in an impossible situa-
ton, which will react disastrously
upon the economic life of Europe as
a whole. Thus, both the short and
the long term aspects of the problem
require prompt concerted action
by all four occupying powers if a
catastrophe Is to be averted.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
WuIcheren

The dduntless Dutch ,pho once lifted an
island
Out OF the gray relentless North Sea
Are not shadow men, not lost oray
ghosts.
They are alsue IN the uetns OF todays
men
Who are driDisg the piles and npdnnsng
the pumps
For netD reclciming,
Hearing GboDe the sound OF the enoines
The dro,Dsy hum OF the gold -brown bees,
Seeing beyond the driuen piles
The stDeep OF green fields and the black
and tDhite
OF the herds OF grazing cattle,
While the remembered color of tulips
Is hot against their aching eyelids,
Red and yellotD, magenta and naupe.
Tomorrow or tomorrow the doorsteps
1oiH be W7lite again
With the sand and the soap and the
scrub-p1ils.
The irhite starc1ted caps OF the ,Domen
Wiu be tDinged like the butterflies
That hoDer oDer the tulip beds.
Tomorrow or tomorrow copper kettles
Wtu sing on the blue-tiled heGrthsi
ANOBEL ARMOUR
Evening star., 1945-11-24

the Senate worry about how the money
required Is to be raised, through one kind
OF tax or another. There is a reason
for this course-Mr. Wagner has not
found favor for his earlier proposals In
either the Ways and Means or the
Finance Committee. His new bill has
been referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor.
Obviously, every one Is for better
health and for the best health services
at the lowest possible charges to the
individual, including disqualification.
nursing and doctors care. Whether this
should be obtained through private in
1tiative-except those health measures
which necessarily must come under the
Public Health Service-or through Gov
ernment is the question. It's q choice
that Congress and the country ulti-
mately will make
While the program now advanced NAV
at the outset not be "socialized medi-
cine" or political medicine" as the
President and Mr.. Wagner assert, there
Is no assurance it will not become so.
How far and how long can the practice
OF medicine exist half private and half
Government? The Government in COM
petition with private medicine in all
probability can have only one result
eventually it will be all Government
medicine.
Mr.. Wagner insisted that there will
be free choice of physicians made by
the citizens-and at the same time that
the physicians will have the right to
take what pa tients they wish. There is
violent conflict in the two ideas. If there
is Government medicine in the end. the
citizens will take medical services from
those physicians to whom they are
assigned
The Government can provide aid In
the construction and equipment of hos
pitfalls so that there shall be enough to
care for the people who need hospital
treatement, and that has been proposed
in other measures as we'll as in the
Wagner bill. 1t can provide money for
medical research-and it does now in the
Public Health Service to some degree.
But whether the Government should
undertake to provide medical services for
all the people is another matter. 1t may
lead to RECOMMENDATION and political ap-
pointments and to the employment of a
great number of administrative agents.
In the end the whole people will pay
for these services either through general
taxes or through payroll taxes or both.