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Evening star., 1946-08-23

perate, hate them as intruders and
often have insufficient imagination to
put themselves In their places. These
fugitives are set apart. Where, and
how, can they ever begin life again?
There are few young, strong people
among them. Mostly they are weary
mothers, children and the very old.
Leading everything else in it's evil
effects on morale is the de-Nazification
program, so essential, SO difficult, and
administered with bureaucratic lack of
insight, with incompetence and often
gross injustice. Parts of Germany are
swarning with Nazis, who, of course,
support each other. In one place where
notorious Nazis are in the most i'm
portaut positions the occupation au-
thorities have recently closed kinder
garten because the woman who ran it
was for two years Nazi party member
who voluntarily, and years ago, resigned
from the party. More than that one
could hardly do without risking the
gallows
Finally, 1t is grave fact that to-
day, as yesterday a dangerous social
dividing line cleaves Germany. Ger
many's political unity may be relatively
unimportant to Europe, but her social
and economic unity is vital. The Rus
slams are not popular, but Communism
plays its own tune, long familiar one,
too, and many doubtless find it sweet.
II the German workers have the choice
only between Germany economically
disintegrated, paralyzed and poisoned
by the rehabilitation program Of the
west and the promises of the Com
munists, though today they would re-
gard these alternatives as a choice be-
tween evils tomorrow they may feel
very differently.
THE situation of youth is disquieting
German youth does not. in general
give bad impression. 1t is understand
able that teen-agers feel neither re-
sponsibility nor guilt for the past. This
is no sign of exaggerated nationalism.
II they defend German soldiers against
the obloquy indiscriminately heaped
on them, knowing that all, willy-nilly,
were enrolled in the German forces,
that Is no sign of militarism. German
youth Is skeptical, critical, eager for
knowledge and much more susceptible
than a superficial impression leads
strangers to believe. 1t has empty hands
and empty hearts, longing to be filled.
But all propaganda disgusts it-includ-
ing preachments about democracy and
Christianity. 1t is open to conviction
about both, not by talk, but by example" !"
This summarizes, in two columns, the
confidential report from all German
zones.
released by the Bell Syndicate Inc)
Evening star., 1946-08-23
Festival

Nothing ,Dill euer be as beautiful as that
one time
OF paper lanterns gloaping IN the elnss
at night,
Glo,ping like fantastic trut suspended IN
still boughs,
flushed In the magic epenino and
tremulous NTH candleHght.
Sheer gause and traiI bamboo held all
erotic shades:
Rich red of dragons blood, green like
the emerald OF no Leaf,
Pale lemon splashed ,Dith monstrous
Oriental fo,Ders.
Fragile because they ,Dere lovely, beau-
titul because so brtef.
The lanterns. II they ,Dere not burned,
are somehow lost,
The elms haze aged NTH flight OF Bit
ter years,
We shah not recapture magic OF that
far lost summer night
When childhood kne,n no grtef beyond
its o1pn quick tears.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1946-08-23
Somebody Had to Do 1t

In the past year the Government
has reduced it's force of civilian en-
ployes by about 100000, including
Navy Yard workers and a host of
others whose jobs were directly af-
fected by the end of the fighting
The reductions just outlined by
the Budget Bureau come within
another category. They are the lay
offs required to meet the limitations
imposed by the salary increase law.
They are ordered, in other words,
by Congress - not the executive
branch of the Government. And
it is interesting and perhaps signifi-
cant to note that these layoffs are
the first substantial reductions or
dered in Government personnel
since the early years of the Roose-
velt administration, in 1884. Mr..
Roosevelt, it will be recalled, came
into office after campaign in which
he advocated a Is per cent reduc-
ton in Government expenses. About
the only appropriation bill which
carried out that principle, however,
was the District of Columbia bill
and the principal reduction there
was in the size of the Federal pay
ment.
But after this initial and futile
gesture in the direction of economy
Federal payrolls continued their up
ward growth. Until Congress cou-
pied a mandate to reduce payrolls
with It's vote to increase Government
salary, there was no impelling force
from any quarter to cut down on
jobs. The step ordered by Con-
gress has been criticized because it
is arbitrary. Yet had Congress not
ordered it there is nothing in the
record to indicate that the executive
branch would have taken the in
itiative. Somebody had to do it.
Evening star., 1946-08-23

these heretofore unpublished details
point to the fact that the Yugoslav air.
men were informed as soon as the
American transports took of and lay in
waiting for them as soon as they ar
rived over the Yugoslav air strip.
The Belgrade government implies that
both American transport planes were
engaged in espionage by means of air
photography. The planes, according to
official American statements, did not
have the required equipment for that
purpose. But even If we were to accept
the Yugoslav thesis there could have
been no real harm in photographing
the military positions of an ally"
The American and British divisions
which are manning the Morgan Line on
the basis of an international agreement
will remain there until the Peace Con-
ference at Paris decides what to do
about the disputed territory. They are
much weaker than the Yugoslav forces,
which outnumber them by at least S
to l. These American British divisions
are mere police force without any Of
fensive power. There is even a Yugoslav
battalion inside the Morgan Line doing
police duty with It's erstwhile allies.
~ X II
The Belgrade government mentioned
in its protest" to Washington that our
airmen had violated Yugoslavias air
sovereignty some 172 times. However, it
seems strange to political and military
observers in Washington that Marshal
Tito decided to take drastic action at a
time when the international situation is
more delicate than it has been since
1899.
The fact that the airmen and pas
sengers Of the first plane have been kept
incommunicado for many days at the
headquarters of the 1st Yugoslav Army
and the Belgrade government has re-
fused to liberate them after the usual
diplomatic representations is regarded
by our Government as another indica-
ton of provocation.
Yugoslavia today is country without
civil liberties, and there is no such thing
as habeas corpus. Natives and for
eigners alike are subjected to the Dra-
CONAN rules of the OZNA Russian-p pat
termed state secret police. But the
American Government hoped that the
citizens of a Nation which has been
overgenerous in spending hundreds of
millions of dollars to supply the Yugo-
slav government with food and raw
materials might be given at least some
consideration in keeping with the Gus
tom OF international courtesy
Evening star., 1946-08-23
Get the Drunken Driver

An automobile driver arrested for
exceeding the speed limit is going
to have a harder time from now
on convincing the authorities that
he should retain the privilege of
driving.
An applicant for a drivers permit
from now on is going to be examined
more rigidly than in the past as to
hisi1tness to drive, and it is probable
that regulations will be adopted
later on to require additional exam
ination-designed, for example, to
detect defective vision-in renewal
OF driving permits.
This is all to the good A careless
or physically impaired automobile
driver is menace to the public and
his continued right to drive should
be formally questioned. The new
regulations and practices now ap-
proved will be studied closely for
their bearing on future reduction
of automobile accidents.
But there is another field that
demands equal investigation In
the first seven months of 1945 there
were 80 arrests for driving while
drunk. In the comparable period
this year there have been 149 This
80 per cent increase is not the result
merely of stricter police enforce
ment. 1t indicates a definite in
crease in the practice of drunken
driving. The maximum penalty now
for first offense is $500, or six
months in jail, or both The maxi
mum penalty for second offense is
$1,000, or year in Jail, or both. The
suggestion has been made that these
penalties be increased.
The trouble is not in the degree of
penalty, however, but in the leniency
of sentences. The average fine for
first offense now seems to be about
$3.50, with no Jail sentence. The
courts are more strict now than they
were some time ago, when the aver
age ran around $100. Any conviction
for drunken driving is accompanied
by automatic suspension of license,
the customary period-discretionary
with the director of traffic-being
six months.
There is a trend throughout the
country, according to traffic author
tiles, to increase the penalties. New
Jerseys traffic director has just
recommended a first -offense mini
mum penalty of $500 and ninety
days in Jail. Certainly there is no
greater highway menace than the
drunken driver, no traffic offense
against the public which is more
ineXcusable or which calls for
swifter, more certain punishment. A
mandatory Jail sentence for drunken
driving, strictly enforced, would do
much to bring this menace under,
control.
Evening star., 1946-08-23

guise of a fanatical Moslem move
ment which expelled the Egyptians
from the Sudan and might have in
vaded Egypt itself but for British
armed intervention which ultimately
reconquered the Sudan and estab-
lished a "condominium" authority
wherein Egyptian participation was
recognized but where British initia-
tive was paramount. The un-
scrambling of this joint arrange
ment and the REIMBURSEMENT of
British interest in a region so i'm
portant to the empire is sacrifice
which London is unlikely to make,
especially in the critical period
through which the Near and Middle
East is now passing.
Evening star., 1946-08-23
Tell Syndicate, Incl

weakness and dependence which domi-
mates Europe's small nations in their
relation to their mighty neighbors.
On the other hand is a sober recogni-
ton by Denmark of Germanys position.
Denmark had claimed, since she lost
the two provinces, Schleswig and Hol-
stein, to Bismarck, that Schleswig at
least, including its largest city, Flens-
burg, should come back to the Danish
kingdom In plebescite after World
War I those counties of Schleswig which
showed Danish ma jority were returned
to Denmark. After Germany lost the
second World War. more and more
groups In Southern Schleswig began to
demand that they become Danes. Even
the population of the small islands OF
Heligoland, undoubtedly German and
until the 1905 under English domina-
ton Bismarck swapped Dar-es-Salaam
East Africa, against them, came with
a petition to become part of the Danish
kingdom.
Denmarks Prime Minister Kristensen,
head Of a minority government, had
great personal inclination to ''reconquer"
a considerable part of this territory
The Danish Parliament, however. in
cluding the Prime Minister'S own party,
showed moderate and probably wiser
attitude. With 81 votes against SIS
: Communists did not vote-they decided
that no plebiscite for a remuneration of
Southern Schleswig should be held.
They only asked that the Danes in Ger
many should have the right Of cultural
development of their own and that they
might not be overrun by the huge num-
her Of German refugees who fled there
out of Russia's occupation zone.
The Danish attitude is clearly defined
by two facts: Denmark saw Germany
defeated before, in 1918. and saw the
dangerous neighbor become strong
again. Even beaten large nation has
to be treated cautiously by a small
neighbor. Second: Germany was al
ways Denmark's second-largest client.
The practical Danes want to have this
client again, as soon as he RECEIVERS.
Qaeleased by the Associated Newspapers, lneo
Evening star., 1946-08-23
AngIo-E -Eqyptiun Disputes

Egypt's rejection of British pro-
posals for a new treaty between the
two countries adjourns still further
the conclusion of an agreement
which would remove one major
source of friction in the complexly
troubled Near and Middle East. The
rejection comes somewhat as a sur
prise, since the two parties had ap-
peared to be narrowing their differ
ences during the four months of ne
gotiation.
Although the decision of the Egyp-
tian delegation was unanimous, the
evidence points to victory of the
extreme nationalist element over the
present government headed by Pre-
nier Ismail Sidky Pasha. That gov
ernment has not got firm majority
in the Egyptian Parliament and is
under constant fire from the opposi-
ton headed by the Wafd party,
which is extremely nationalistic in
character. The inference is that the
Premier felt compelled to take
more uncompromising stand than
his previous attitude had indicated.
This Egyptian rejection of the
British proposals implies neither
breakdown in the negotiations nor
an enduring deadlock, and both
sides take pains to emphasize that
the talks will continue. The question
is whether or not the Egyptian dele
cation will now come forward with
proposals of their own which scale
down somewhat their original stand.
This included demands for an i'm
mediate and total evacuation of
Egyptian soil by all British forces
and for an unqualified British rec
ognition of Egyptian sovereignty
over the Sudan. The British have
agreed on evacuation, but have
asked that it be done over a three
year period and that it be coupled
with treaty of alliance for mutual
defense against common enemies.
They have been least responsive to
discussions over the Sudan.
This Sudanese issue is really the
most difficult of the lot. The vast
region to the southwark of historic
Egypt, known as the Sudan, was con-
quered early in the last century by
the armies of Mehemet Ali, the Al
hanian adyenturer who founded the
present Egyptian royal house Mis-
government and weakness of the
Egyptian authorities provoked
general rising of the sudanese In the
Evening star., 1946-08-23
Letters to The Star
Outraged Victim Bites the Hand
That Handed Him a Ticket

To the Editor of The Star:
am fully in accord with the current
drive for traffic safety I am native
Washingtonian, have four young chill
dren and the safety of Washington s
streets is of real, permanent concern
to me.
In some instances the police are mis-
guided in their zeal and are proving
poor examples by their actions and
omissions.
I would like to cite the following as
an interesting occurrence this week
that would be amusing, If it were not
for its serious implications. I hope you
agree that it merits publication in The
Star.
Ten years ago the Commerce Depart
ment issued parking permits for news
papermen and others who daily visit
there, on business. My allotted space
is an unused driveway off Fifteenth
street near E street. When parked
there, my car juts out about two feet
over a 15-foot-wide sidewalk, less, in
fact, than adjacent shrubbery.
Unmolested by police for 10 years, six
mayed to find our cars suddenly and
without warning had been hauled away
and impounded by the police for "ob-
structing sidewalk
Naturally we protested this rough
treatment vigorously to the Traffic Bu-
reau and Pvt. George E. Fisher who
ordered our cars hauled away, was called
In. He acknowledged that our cars
did not protrude more than a foot or
two out onto a broad 15-foot sidewalk,
destrians, but no explanation why the
arrests in an area belonging to the Fed
eral Government, with no signs, and
unmolested for 10 years.
In court the point was made that
this was carrying things too far, even
in a safety campaign, and the judge
agreed, ordering refunds of collateral.
If this unpleasant experience left a
bitter taste in our mouth, it did even
more to the Jealous Mr.. Fisher. Did he
Sally lOl Oll lid lllOGOlCyIlC dllO bP-
prehend speeders and real traffic vio-
lators? He did not. He was last seen
by me today, August 81 at 4 pm, while
supposedly on actual duty, relaxing and
calmly watching baseball game on the
Ellipse. This is an area where he had
no right to be while on duty since it Is
a public park under the jurisdiction
of the United States Park Police. And.
ironically enough, there was a string
of cars parked around the south en-
trance of the White House in direct
violation of Metropolitan Police official
mo Parking" signs. These cars were
in sight OF where Mr.. Fisher was watch
ing the baseball game, but were not
ticketed by him. And where do you
think his motorcycle was parked? You
guessed it-right in front of a mo Park
ing" sign. LEO CULLINANE,
Washington Bureau, New York Herald
Tribune
Evening star., 1946-08-23

1t has been disclosed that Rock
Creek Park was used in test of
Illuminated foxes designed to scare
the Japs. They temporarily diverted
attention from the lit-up wolves.
Evening star., 1946-04-25
Agriculture Department
Promotion Given Hunter
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BY the Associated Press
w. Carroll Hunter of White Hall
Md, has been elevated from associ-
ate solicitor Of the Agriculture De-
partment, Secretary Anderson an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Hunter succeeds Robert H
Shields, recently appointed admin
istrator of the departments produc-
ton and marketing administration
Evening star., 1946-04-25
DR.. Kapitza, Russian
Atom Expert, Named
To Science Academy

The National Academy of Sciences
elected as foreign associate yes
terday afternoon DR.. Peter Kapitza,
Russian physicist whose name has
been mentioned most frequently in
connection with Soviet atom bomb
developments.
DR.. Kapitza's most recent ac-
complishment was demonstration of
the existence of the negatron. or
negatively charged proton, with
elaborate apparatus set up on high
Caucasus mountaintop. This led to
the weird hypothesis of the exist
ence somewhere in the universe of
negative matter" which would
cancel ordinary matter if brought
in contract with it.
Among the 20 American scientists
elected to membership was DR..
Merle A. Tuve, 1875 Hesketh stree1
Chevy Chase, under whose direction
the proximity fuse was developed
during the war
British Mathematician Named.
Elected as foreign associate with
DR.. Kapitza was DR.. Sidney Chap
man, mathematician of the London
College of Science and Technology
Other American members elected
were:
DR.. Samuel King Allison, director
OF the Institute for Nuclear Studies.
University of Chicago
DR.. Rudolph John Anderson, Pro-
fessor of Chemistry, Yale University
DR.. Ernest Brown Babcock. Pro-
fessor of Genetics, University of
California.
DR.. Kenneth T. Bainbridge, asso-
ciate professor of physics, Harvard
University.
DR. Elmer K. Bolton, director
chemical department of E. I. du
Pont de Nemours g. Co.
| United States Geologist HOnored.
DR.. Wilmot Hyde Bradley, chief
geologist, United States Geological
Survey.
DR.. Perry Byerly, professor of seis-
mology, University of California.
DR.. Paul Roberts Cannon, pro-
fessor of pathology, University of
Chicago.
DR.. Milislav Demerco. director de-
partment of genetics. Carnegie In
stitution of Washington.
DR.. Jesse Douglas, associate pro-
fessor OF mathematics, Brooklyn Col
lege.
DR.. Clarence Henry Graham, pro-
fessor of psychology, Columbia Uni
versity
DR.. Morris S. Kharasch, Carl Will
liam Eisendrath, professor of chem
istry, University of Chicago.
DR.. Karl Paul Link, assistant pro-
fessor of biochemistry, University of
Wisconsin.
DR.. Robert F. Loeb, Lambert pro-
feSsor of medicine, College of Ply
Evening star., 1946-04-25

DR.. Leslie spier, professor of an
thropology. University Of New Mex
leo.
Mr.. Stanley Smith Stevens, asso-
ciate professor of physiology. Har-
ward University.
DR.. Chauncey Guy Suits, director
of research laboratory. General
Electric Co.
DR.. Frederick E. Terman, head
of department of electric engi-
neering. Stanford University.
DR.. Chester Hamlin Workman,
head of department of bacteriol-
ogy. Iowa State College.
DR.. Roger John Williams, direc-
tor Of Biochemical Institute, Uni
versity of Texas.
DR.. Frank Clifford Whitmore,
dean, School of Chemistry and
Physics, Pennsylvania State College
DR.. Wendell Phillips Woodring
principal seologist, United States
Geological Survey.
Evening star., 1946-04-25

sicians and Surgeons. Columbia
University.
Esmond Ray Long. professor of
pathology, School of Medicine and
director of laboratories, Henry
Phipps Institute, University of Penn
sylvania.
Columbia Chemist Named.
DR.. Joseph E. Mayer, professor of
chemistry, Columbia University.
DR.. Charles Snowden Piggot,
physical chemist, Geophysical Lab
oratory, Carnegie Institution of
Washington.
DR.. Marcus Morton Rhoades,
professor of botany, Columbia Uni
versity
DR.. George Scatchard. professor
of chemistry. Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology
DR.. Tracy Morton Sonneborn
professor of zoology, Indiana Uni
versity
Evening star., 1946-10-04
Fmbnck SCOTTIE

Fashions in a fattering mood creating new
interest behind your back with headframing ruf1e
of soft felt! Lustrous pastel feathers, sleeky en-
meshed in net, surround the forward cuff play
up the color of your eyes, accent your costumes
just one of many delightfully."- wearable Scottles IN
our Fall collection.
A1llney-Second Floor
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Deaths Reported

Elizabeth Eli o; ;costlow ,ss 50. 1892 R st.
Ida McCracken. rs. 1913 18th st. ne.
Carolyn r. Ross, "a, 1903 P ST.
jamie c. Venable. 10. 2100 l St
Helen A. Versis, 72. 757 Princeton pl
Thomas c.. Washington. IL. 2724 Porter st
John W.. Jett, 81. .7019 Georgia ave.
William NJ. Day. So $500 14th st
Elizabeth Q. James, 65. BIO 10th ST. Sc.
William Friess. 65, Arlington. Va.
William G. Collier, 81, 5524 Sherrier pl
Louis. N. Calder. 80. 1905 o st. sc.
Harold r. Townsend. SO, $3.50 Branch ave
william r cumberland; IS; 1106h eth st
Claude H. Beach, So. 3611 Benning I'd. s.e
Robert G.. Masterson. "a, 644 Mass. ave
Grace D. Tsaacs. So. 1919 18th st. ne
Philip r. Alsop. so, 1924 Potomac ave. Sc
Hannah Lemelman A, 500 Roxboro pl
Barbara Donovan, Al, Bethesda. Md
Mildred Gassett 33 3I3 Parkland pl. Sc
a. Eleine Sacco, 20. Gaithersbure. Md
Infant Munich, ! month, 433 18th st. Sc
. infant Macatee. 3 days. Fairfax. Va.
Infant Macatee, 3 DAYS. Fairfax. Va
Infant Webb. / day. III oates St ne.
Abraham Brown. s6. s95 Mintwood slss d. pi Z
Jamie P Brown. 81. 3os st.
Lula B Pnfh. 60 3o4 D st. s.w,
David L. Yates. So 1913 Girard ST.
Matearet NJ. Lucas 80, 133sv st.
Katie p. English, "a. 1921 ist st. s.w.