Evening star., 1946-12-26
Letters to The Star
Favors Ousting of Minorities

FaVOrS OuSt1n8 or MlnOrltleS
From Czechoslovakia
To the Editor Of The Star:
There is lot of pro- German and pro-
Hungarian propaganda being dissemi-
mated in this country today; also lot
of uninformed opinion and misplaced
sympathy.
Referring to his letter published on
December 10, I see that w. Lewis
Hauser tries to draw a distinction be-
tween the German and Hungarian
minorities of Czechoslovakia. The fact
is that both had been enjoying, in
Czechoslovakia, liberties and democratic
citizenship which they could not have
found in either Germany or Hungary;
both misused their liberties and oppor-
tunities, both were columnists and
traitors. And the usual punishment for
treason Is DEATH Both the Germans
and the Hungarians of Czechoslovakia
are faring much better than that. And
they are also faring much better than
the Czechs and Slovaks did when the
Germans and the Hungarians were on
top.
The Hungarians had the first Fascist
type regime in modern Europe. And
they were as brutal and bloody as the
Nazis. The Czechoslovak government
has been trying, ever since the end OF
the war, to come to some friendly agree
ment with Hungary for the exchange
of their respective minoritieS. But the
Hungarian government has refused to
let her Slovaks leave and also has re-
fused to let the Hungarian minority In
Slovakia be moved. She wants to
use the situation as an argument for
acquiring some Czechoslovak territory,
although at the same time she wants
to transfer some half million or
so of her own German minority
into Germany.
The transfer of the Hungarian minor
ity from Czechoslovakia may be "ab-
horrent to every American" But what
do most Americans know about the
historical and political background OF
this problem? What do they know
about most any other foreign problem?
(And that goes for Gen. Bedell Smith
also) The fact is that the American
people are doing pretty poor job of
solving their own problems.
I do not approve of everything that
Is being done in Czechoslovakia today;
but I believe that the removal of its
German and Hungarian minorities is
the only practical and just solution of
the problem. EDW. WOLESENSKY.
Parents Blamed Again
To the Editor Of The Star:
I thoroughly agree with the woman
who recently wrote The Star that
juvenile delinquency was largely due
to the bad influence of the movies.
Parents should find out if the pictures
their children are going to see are fit
for them to see. saw one advertise
ment of picture here with the title:
Murder Among Friends!" What a
fine picture that must have been for
young people!
Parents give their children money to
60 to the movies and have no idea what
horrible trash they will see. Movie pic
ture proprietors care nothing of what
moral effect their pictures may have
upon the young people who see them,
just so their seats are filled.
I was surprised not long ago to see
a prominent movie "star" take the part
of a drunken woman.
When there are beautiful scenes of
travel and plays which are worthwhile,
why see the degenerate?
There are two verses in the Bible that
apply to this question. In Proverbs,
xxii6, we read: Train up a child
in the way he should go: and when he
is old, he will not depart from it." And
in Proverbs xxix.l5, we find: THE
rod and reproof give wisdom: but a
child left to himself bringeth his mother
to shame"
What Is the matter with parents to-
day? Are card parties more important
than child training? H. B. B.
Secret Ballot on Strikes
To the Editor of The Star:
Give them secret ballot and they
will do the rest" This was the COM
ment of an ex-Congressman who for
many years had represented Midwest
ern constituency. The subject Of dis
cussion was strikes and their paralyzing
effects upon all efforts at reconversion.
Strikes! Who wants them and keeps
them going? Management, obviously,
does not want them. The general pub
lie, which eventually pays for them,
does not want them. Owners of bonds,
who see values steadily declining, do
not want them. The real workers,
who have had enough of forced layoffs
and know the reduced purchasing
power Of their daily wage, do not want
them.
Well, who does want strikes and keeps