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Evening star., 1946-06-27
SenseIess Cab Strike

1t is not surprising that the re-
sponse of local taxicab drivers to the
strike call sounded by John R. Peters,
president of the United Taxicab
Drivers. Inc. proved to be anything
but unanimous and enthusiastic.
This is not a strike in the usually
accepted sense in that it has nothing
to do with any acknowledgement
dispute. It is strike against Con-
gress and against the Public Utilities
Commission. which control taxicab
operations in Washington, and, in
effect. constitutes strike against
the Government and against the
public interest. 1t is hard to see
what Is to be gained by such ir-
responsible exhibitions except the i'll
will OF the taxicab-riding public and
loss of income by participating
drivers.
Mr.. Peters asserts that the chief
objective OF the strike is reduction
in the number of local cabs, now
totaling 1900. But the public is
not willing to admit there are too
many. Furthermore, the whole
question is one for determination
by District authorities and by Con-
gress after careful study, not on
the basis of unsupported complaints
by the drivers alone. Harry c.
Davis, head of the Independent
Taxi Owners Association, took a
commercially realistic and sensible
view OF the situation in advising
Diamond drivers not to join in
the strike. Your association" he
said, "favors limitation, but is in ac-
cord with the process of due and de-
liberate consideration of the subject
by those who are empowered to de-
ternline the question. =" =" Remem-
ber your obligation to the taxicab-
riding public. Demonstrate your
loyalty to lawfully constituted gov
ernmental agencies" Fortunately,
many of the city's taxicab drivers
apparently felt the same way about
Mr. Peters strike call.
Evening star., 1946-06-27

while he fought hard to maintain the
price line he consented to virtual
abandonment Of rationing and to
wholesale wage increases. The result
was that even with price control in full
force inevitable economic pressures
blew his cherished price line to bits.
Because more and more goods were dis
appearing into the black market the
OPA has been forced to raise its own
price levels by leaps and bounds, at
the very time It was exhorting Congress
to hold the line.
as washington administrator, at least
for the time being, the indications are
that he intends to fight to keep his
place In the political sun, however. He
Is rich and ambitious, and still under
45. His close friends say he Is supremely
confident that he can carry his ideas
to the people at the polls and win.
Bowles halls from Connecticut, where
he long has been talked Of as likely
Democratic candidate for Governor or
Senator. The CIO-PAC and other
liberal groups are supporting him for
S1eAAeI VI tleSe OmCeS.
A fly in that ointment may be that
the Democratic State machine, currently
headed by Senator Brien McMahon,
definitely does not want Bowles for Gov
ernor, the post he prefers.
The regular party wheelhorses have
no intention Of placing Bowles and his
leftist following In q position to grab
OF the Jobs that Governor dispenses,
and thus bid for control Of the party
organization.
Because it needs both the support Of
the CIO-PAC and Bowles' bank account
in the approaching campaign, the ma
chine may be willing to give him the
senatorial nomination. The main un.
certainty on the latter score is said to
be = growing uncertainty among ex.
perienced Democratic politicians as to
whether the OPA label, pinned to their
campaign, would prove an asset or
liability.
(Released hy North American Newspaper
Alliancs.)
Evening star., 1946-06-27
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

NEW YORK, June GA year ago
the United Nations, dedicated to peace
and the improvement Of conditions of
men all over the world, was only blue
print. Today the new organization is q
going concern, dealing with issues of
great magnitude and importance
among them the control Of atomic en-
ergy and the elimination Of the atomic
bomb as a war weapon.
The United Nations was born in a
world torn by war. Because Of the great
problems which arose with the close Of
hostilities-many Of which still exist
the organization has faced peculiar diff
ficulties. It has been compelled to pro-
coed in its effort to settle disputes m.
der the most trying conditions
conditions in which the victorious ma
tions have been sparring for advantage
with their former allies.
Nevertheless, the Security Council
the principal executive agency OF the
organization-has tackled knotty politi-
cal problems with courage. including
Trans complaint against Soviet Rus
sia, the complaints lodged against Brit
ain and France for their continued use
Of troops in Greece and Syria and Le-
banon and Poland's charge that the
Franco government in Spain was
threat to world peace.
The British and the French agreed
to get their troops out Of Syria and
Lebanon; the British gave assurances
about the removal Of troops from
Greece. The Iranian issues have, in
large measure, been settled. The re-
suits have not been accomplished with.
out the discussion, sometimes in bitter
terms, Of the various problems in the
Security Council. All Of the discus
sions in the council have been public
and the world has been kept fully in
formed. A great deal has been done to
build up world opinion-a great force
which will eventually be q prime factor
In support Of the United Nations.
These are some Of the political issues
that have come before the United Ma
tions. Other matters Of even greater
consequence, in the long run, have come
before the Atomic Energy Commission,
created by q vote Of the General AS
sembly In London last winter, and the
Economic and Social Council. In fact
the Atomic Energy Commission must
work out plan for control Of atomic
energy and the elimination Of its use
in war, or the world will again face
danger Of all-out war in more devastat-
ing proportion than in the recent con-
flict. This agency Of the United Nations
Is working now as rapidly as possible,
with proposals for dealing with the
problem submitted by the United States
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Child With Bubble Set

He spins soft circles from. sheer nothing
ness;
Soon all about drift star-bright GAL
aries:
Bouncing gold Saturn leaues damp
cdress
Upon his nptursed nose wtie azure
Roll out across Kaleidoscope air.
Whirling in countless patterns time
and space
Seen. joint conspirators in tonys to share
With painting joy upon, his eager face.
But soon his dancing eyes grow bored
and dim,
The one reuolping ,oorld that dares
to Iinger
For his stDeet pleasure poises on its rim
Just to be shattered by small rude
finger.
True man IN miniature, you build, then
curse,
o tiny juggIer OF the nniuerse.
RUBY ALTIZER ROBERTS.
Evening star., 1946-06-27
BOWles' Political Future
By Jay G.. HAYDEN

One Of the most interesting specula-
tions emerging from the long fight over
the Once Of Price Administration re.
lates to the political future of Chester
BowleS.
For months past, Bowles has been
saying that he would resign II Con-
gress materially reduced OPA powers
and the legislative branch certainly did
its best to insure execution Of this threat.
The Joint Conference Committee Of
the two Houses reported . bill which,
overall, Is rather more favorable to
OPA than had been expected, but it re-
moved none Of the provisions which had
been specially designed to humiliate
Bowles Foremost in that category are
the transfer of food control to Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Anderson and pro-
hibition Of the maximum average price
system (map), which Bowles had taught
the public to regard as the sine quo non
Of his economic philosophy.
The effect Of the latter plan was to
force manufacturers Of shirts, for ex-
ample, to produce low-quality garments
at less than cost, the difference to be
made UP by overcharging for high
quality products.
Justly or otherwise this scheme has
been branded with responsibility for
the almost complete dearth Of shirts
and other much-needed commodities
at any price. .'-
Coincidentally, Bowles has been los
ing ground within the councils Of the
Truman administration. Several months
ago he was kicked upstairs from price
administrator to director Of stabiliza-
ton, in an attempt to appease rising
congressional wrath against OPA. And
when John w. Snyder, chief Of the
Office Of mobilization and reconversion
and Bowles' immediate boss, was moved
up to Secretary Of the Treasury, John
r. Steelman, rather than Bowles, moved
into Snyder's former place.
Six months ago Bowles was rated
President Truman's most influential ad-
wiser and as the man chiefly credited
with holding down prices. He also was
much touted among the home folks.
His fatal error seems to have been
Evening star., 1946-06-27
William S. Hart

Those persons who think of Will
liam Shakespeare Hart merely as
"the two-gun terror of bad men and
savior of maidens in distress" in
western" movies underestimate his
achievement. It was not for nothing
that he bore the name of the great
est of dramatists. His career in the
legitimate theater was distinctively
noteworthy. Between 1889 and 1914,
he toured with Daniel Bandmann,
Lawrence Barrett, r. D. Mclean,
Marie Prescott, Ada Rehan, Helen
Modjeska and Julia Arthur very
creditable list Of stars. When the
century started, he was a success in
the role of MESSIAH in "Ben Hur."
The part which seems to have de-
termined the latter half of his career
was that Of Cash Hawkins in 1.-THE
Squaw Man." He also was a hit in
"The Virginian" and "The Trail of
the Lonesome Pine"
Nothing more natural than the
performance of similar assignments
on the screen could be imagined.
The principal difficulty was that
the West of Mr.. Hart's time had
forgotten the West as it was in its
classic period. A "rootin', tootin'"
imitation Of the genuine article had
developed. Before truly adequate
picture could be produced, Hollywood
had to be educated. It was in '"The
Aryan" that the first frontier mas
terpiece was brought into being.
Few readers are apt to remember it.,
but at the moment of its premier
showing it was an authentic sensa-
ton. Bessie Love, then only seven
teen and endowed with a wonderful
childlike beauty, was the heroine.
Mr.. Hart deliberately sought to make
the film historic. His own contribu-
ton was dignity which no earlier
western" had possessed.
With unchallenged artistry to back
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Odd of Us

1t will be interesting to see how
the Army's new "democratizing"
rules work out. Some of the recon-
mendations made recently by the
Doolittle board were obviously
sound, and the War Department has
done well in adopting them. To put
1T mildly, however, little twinges of
doubt must assail any one who tries
to figure out just how Americas
military prestige, morale, efficiency
and all-around smartness will be
helped by cutting down on salutes
and making privates and five-star
generals wear exactly the same uni
forms same cut, same color, same
material, everything the same but
the inconspicuous insignia.
As Secretary of War Patterson
points out, the idea of abolishing
the hand salute off duty and off
installations is not new. The Army
tried it in 1922, and went back to
tradition in 1929. It tried it again
in 1910, and went back again to ira
dition two years later. Now that it
is trying 1t once more, anybody can
make his own guess as to how long
the recurrent fad will last, but all of
us can be pretty sure that it will in
crease morale and efficiency not a
jot or little. As for the uniformity
Of uniforms-a basically unimagi-
native, dull and herd-minded ideal
1t opens up a number of curious pos
sibilities.
No other army in the world has
such a rule. Our own Navy appar-
emily would have nothing to do with
it. What will it mean for a man like
General Eisenhower? What about
the protocol Of the thing? How will
it be II the Chief OF Staff has to
walk around dressed like a private
no class at some soiree glittering
with the gold of American admirals
and the swank Of commanders from
abroad5-with a bemedaled Zhukov.
for instance, or a resplendent Nim-
itz? Will it perhaps be permissible
then for General Eisenhower, lost
in the crowd in his modest CT get
up. to call attention to himself by
wearing star-shaped neon lights
all ablaze?
These questions may seem super
ficial and absurd but hardly more
superficial or absurd than the idea
OF trying to build better and
smarter Army with rules that do
not "democratize" nearly so much
as they pay homage to a queer kind
of snobbishness turned upside down.
Russia, whose generals dress as
Evening star., 1946-06-27
On Reading the Bible

From the Herald. Helena-west Helena, Ark.
A scientific and exhaustive Nation
wide survey of the taste of the Ameri-
can reading public during the first six
months of last year has been made by
the Book Manufacturers Institute and
the results are extremely interesting.
Encouraging is the report that 95
per cent of the people read the Bible,
but discouraging is the observation that
a large percentage read only a few
verses in church on Sunday or repol'
that they read it sometime in their life,
BY comparison, the survey reveals
that "a per cent read Forever Amber,
one Of the lurid sex novels Of the recen,
past,
Evening star., 1946-06-27

cussed Trieste question Is being viewed.
The western powers desire to interna.
tionaliZe the harbor OF that Mediter-
ranean city SO as to make 1t available
to all hinterland and outside trading
countries, leaving the sovereignty over
Western Istria to Italy.
The Russian contention so far has
been that while 1t has no objection to
the decentralization of the harbor,
the city Of Trieste itself and all the ad-
jacent territories must be handed over
to the Yugoslav government. The solu-
ton proposed by Frances Foreign Min
lister Georges Bidault that the whole
area become internationalized and
placed under the control Of an interna-
tional police force has now been rejected.
OF course. all participants in the pres
ent negotiations are aware that the in
ternationalization Of a territory in which
two neighboring nations have claims is
not happy solution; 1t Is merely post
poning a crisis until either Of the claim
ants has gathered enough power to
transform the makeshift arrangement
into a de facto occupation. This has
been the case in the past whenever such
diplomatic gymnastics have been
adopted.
Marshal Tito has made 1t clear to the
world that Trieste and the adjacent ter
ritortes must be under Yugoslav control
not because Of ethnic considerations, for
the ma ajority Of the population Is italian,
but because Of strategic necessities.
In these claims he has the full backing
Of Moscow.
This he cinched definitely during the
recent 10 days visit to the Kremlin,
where Tito laid the foundation OF the
future political, military and economic
relations between the country he now
rules and the U. s. s. r.
It Is on the basis Of this agreement
that Foreign Minister Molotov, who had
previously given some vague indications
that he might concur to some sort Of a
compromise to satisfy all the nations
concerned, has now changed his tune
and supported yesterday solution
favorable to Tito exclusively.
The Soviet Foreign Minister'S gesture
to include an italian official in the
administration Of Istria, which other
wise would be controlled by Yugoslayia,
was SO empty that Mr.. Byrnes, acting
in the name Of the other western
powers. was compelled to reject it.
Evening star., 1946-06-27

splendiferously as any in the world
today, once experimental with this
sort Of thing. but quickly dropped it.
Indeed, only week or SO ago. Pre-
mier Stain himself ordered the Red
Army to step up the snap and fire.
quency Of its saluting and to be as
neat as a pin in every particular, in
cluding uniforms. How odd of us to
take an opposite tack almost stimuli
taneously!
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Favors Hoover DAM

To the Editor Of The Star:
It was very heartening to read Hugh
Barcley Rich's letter in your paper Of
June 18, urging that the great installa-
ton Of the Colorado River be called
again the Hoover Dam.
have waited many years for some
one to start campaign for the restora-
ton Of the name Hoover" to that
work. The late VIII Rogers, while pro-
testing against the change Of name,
said he would never call it by any other
name.
I agree with Mr.. Rich, that the name
should be corrected now, and I know
q great many people feel as do
about it. N, JANE McEWEN.
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Wants Charity at Home

Wants Charity at Home
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t is high time the United States
woke up to what 1t is doing to its own
people. Meat Is needed to build good
muscles and body tissue and for iron;
whole wheat bread for good nerves, di-
gestion and appetite; butter for vitamin
A for good eyesight. They are vitality
essential foods for good health for
which there are no adequate substi-
suites.
Americans are glad to share food
with starving peoples, but when their
children 60 hungry for essential foods
while food which is paid for by their
hard-earned taxes is sent to foreign
countries, then 1t becomes ridiculous.
Charity begins at homel In our zeal
to be humane to other peoples, we are
showing no humaneness to our own peo-
pie and seriously depleted health will be
the result Of our lack of foresight in
years to come. Already, there Is wide
spread malnutrttion in children in
Washington, right under our eyes, but
nothing is done about 1.-THE job at
hand IS always so unglamorous- while
we send tons Of food to other peoples.
I'M.
Evening star., 1946-06-27
To Meet q Common Peril

In organizing "cOmmlCCee OF Cne
whole" to begin functioning at once
to draft a plan for world control Of
the atom, the United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission has
acted with happy unanimity and
with laudable dispatch to deal with
problem too urgent and portentous
to permit OF any delay.
The newly formed committee,
made up of representatives Of each
of the commissions twelve nation
members, faces task quite as diff
cult as it is fateful. There is general
agreement among all governments
that extraordinary and unprece-
dented measures will have to be
taken to guard against the common
peril OF a world catastrophe, but be-
yond that there is a wide diver
gency OF views revolving around the
Russian and American proposals,
and it is these that the committee
must try to reconcile.
Both plans are on common ground
in calling for a solemn treaty out
lawing the A-bomb and related
weapons. But Russia up to now has
placed most of its emphasis on the
treaty, and has spoken only in
vague terms, and with secondary
stress, of an implementing system
of sanctions and supervision, insist
ing at the same time that the veto
power Of the Big Five must be re-
tanned. Our own proposal, on the
other hand, while recognizing the
Importance OF an international
covenant, pays primary attention to
the mechanism needed to make
such a covenant work-a mecha-
nism with teeth in 1t, setting up
powerful world authority, cutting
across national sovereignties, fixing
swift and sure punishment for vio-
lations and suspending the veto
right in the atomic field.
Broadly speaking, the basic differ
ences to be reconciled thus reduce
themselves to matter of machinery.
Through its committee OF the
whole" the United Nations Atomic
Energy Commission must determine
precisely what kind OF control
Russia has in mind and whether it
is hopelessly inadequate or has
strength enough to raise the posi-
bility that its best features can be
combined with the best features Of
the American proposal to organize a
system satisfactory to all. AS Mr..
Baruch has made clear, of course,
the United States will not surrender
its present advantage unless and
until treaty promises are effectively
implemented, and it is significant
that this position, in its essentials,
has the overwhelming support OF
the Atomic Energy Commission.
Only one Observation-Disclosures in
dorsed the Soviet approach to the
problem, and 1t has done so in
way to suggest that it is not wholly
opposed to restricted veto or the
establishment Of a genuinely pow
erful world authority, fact that
may indicate Russian willingness to
compromise.
In any event, since the new "com-
mittee of the whole" will operate on
the basis OF a majority vote and
since most of its members lean to-
ward the American view, the plan it
drafts will almost certainly have
teeth in it. The big question is
whether Russia will dissent. At the
moment the outlook may not seem
too bright, but the Atomic Energy
Commission is reported to feel mod
erately optimistic. AS long as the
powers concerned remember that
failure to agree will gravely imperil
all, there will be reason to hope.
Evening star., 1946-06-27

The reference books yell that 1t
was Alexander Pope who invented
Lo, the Poor Indian. But who was
it who popularized him? Nobody
seems to know,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-14
Strike Crisis
Might Ease
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uaeeoat strike last night Ne said
the $500 All crcwgnen and The 90
tOg companies had agreed 10 ar
bltratlon of their wage dispute by
a three man board.
The strikers first task was TO
move millions Of tons Of oil and
coal piled up on the New Jersey
shore across the Hudson River TO
the fuel.starved city, scores Of
ocean ships were waiting 10 be
warped into docks for loading or
unloading.
Government mediator James e.
Dewey reported little progress yes
terday IN efforts to settle the strike
OF lSs.o0o General Motors workers,
although 0M and the clio United
Auto workers were only one cent
apart on the wage question,
The JAW had rejected the COM
pany's offer Of an 10 l-2 cent in
crease and insisted that 0M REIN
state the ls45 contract. The com.
pany has demanded that certain
clauses. including maintenance Of
membership, be modified in the
new agreement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-14

NAoub2Alucu At0W rage ~
York Tug Nottingham Of New York
which was towing the craft that the
last body was taken from the va
ter
All bodies were being taken eth
er to Fishers Isuand. n. T., or
Fort Trumbull at New London-the
points from which the rescue craft
had been dispatched.
The Coast Guard which reported
the tragedy said names Of the crew
members were not Immediately
available.
News OF the accident was inter-
cepted by the Coast Guards head
quarters at Boston.
The barage was being towed when
a member CT the tugs crew noticed
blinker light being flashed. I'M
medlateiy the tug halted but be-
fore 1t could be turned about the
barge had sunk.
The Coast Guard boat Yeaton
from the New London, Conn, base,
q ply flying boat from Quonset.
q motor lifeboat from Fishers Is
land and q second motor llfeboat
from Watch Hill were dispatched TO
the scene.
This tug was owned by the Steam
Tug Nottingham Company Of New
York City.