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Evening star., 1946-09-23
The Furoes: A New Nation?

Inc UeCldrdGlOH VI luOcPcuucIlCt
from Denmark scheduled for pro-
nouncement today according to the
decision of the Lagtinget or local
parliament of the Farce Islands is
curious instance of "self-determina-
tion," doubly strange in these days
when small nations tend to feel in
secure in troubled postwar world
This remote archipelago lies mid
way between Scotland and Iceland,
being a trifle less than 800 miles
from either Farce" means "the
Sheep Islands" and denotes its chief
source of livelihood since the earliest
times. Despite their northerly posi-
ton, the Faroes have relatively
mild climate since they are washed
by the edge of the Gulf Stream
Frequent storms and prevalent high
winds hinder the growth of trees
but abundant moisture favors the
coarse grass on which sheep thrive
The islands themselves, twenty-one
in number, and probably of volcanic
origin, rise boldly from the sur
rounding ocean to heights often
exceeding 1000 feet, with many
plateaus and miniature plains, often
intersected by deep fjords. There
is a good harbor at Thorshavn, chief
town and capital of the group, and
center of the fishing industry which
Is the next important occupation of
the islanders. The total land area
Of the archipelago is $40 square
miles, with a population somewhat
under 10000.
Like Iceland, the Faroes were orig
inally settled by Norwegian Vikings,
fleeing from what to them was the
despotism of the kingship estab-
lished in their homeland in the
ninth century. The Norwegian tongue
persists, as In Iceland, though both
islands passed under the rule of
Denmark when Norway itself was
united with Denmark in the four
teenth century. and Danish the
Faroes remained until today. In the
spring of 1941, when Nazi Germany
overran Denmark. British forces
promptly occupied the Faroes, as
Anglo Canadian forces occupied Ice
land, to prevent these vital North
Atlantic stepping stones from falling
into Nazi hands, and to use them as
naval and air bases to protect the
trans-Atlantic shipping lanes from
U-boat attack
1t is possible that this prolonged
foreign occupation, with the attend
ant diversion of trade and Interrupt
ton of communication with Den
mark, has had much to do with the
current independence movement,
since the islanders already enjoyed
local self-governmentI Indeed, the
plebiscite held on September IA to
decide the issue was close affair
the advocates OF independence re-
portedly winning by only $50 votes
cut Of total Of some II 900 ballots
The debate continued hotly in par
nament, though here again inde-
Evening star., 1946-09-23
Crusoe's Isle

The island of Robinson Crusoe is
in the news again. It's real name
Is Mas-a-Terra; 1t lies In the
South Pacific three hundred and
sixty-five miles west of the coast of
Chile and was the residence OF Alex
ander Selkirk, the original Of Daniel
Defoe's celebrated adventurer, from
September, 1704, to January, 1709.
The explanation Of its temperance
in the current press is to be found in
the fact that it is to be an airbase
under the management of the Chill
can government.
A submarine volcanic disturbance
uncounted centuries back pushed
the whole Juan Fernandez archipel-
ago skyward to its present elevation
DR.. Waldo L. Schmitt of the Smith
sonian Institution, who knows the
place we'll, speaks Of Crusoe's hermit
age as being romantic bit of rock
and earth that lifts its green head"
above an ocean far from placid or
serene. strangely beautiful" he
says, "is this island. Climbing three
thousand feet up from the sea, its
woody ridges lay wreathed in fam
tastic lacy patterns of silvery fog.
The landscape rolled down
toward us like some giant theater's
drop curtain, its green ferns, forests
and streams painted by Natures
own hand"
Obviously, a botanist would regard
the isle as a paradise. How Selkirk
really considered it is matter of
debate Some readers of Howell's
biography of him hold that he was
happy in his isolation, monarch" of
all he surveyed, but Defoe, writing
in 1718 or 1719, probably was nearer
the truth when he represented the
monarch" as painfully lonely. A
bronze tablet, meanwhile, keeps the
prototype of Robinson immortal in
his former home. 1t was set up on
the skyline OF s-a-Tierra by Com
modore Powell and the officers of
H. M. 8. Topaze in 1869. Selkirk
then had been dead one hundred and
forty-seven years. His legend, how
ever, still was as vigorous as ever.
And it remains 10 nearly eight dec
ades later.
Thus once again the power of the
printed word Is demonstrated. De-
foes famous book was published In
| English on four separate occasions
Evening star., 1946-09-23
Sofety for School Children

The American Automobile Asso-
citation and the Junior Board of
Commerce have chosen the opening
day of school to renew a campaign
which should never terminate
safety on the streets for children.
Their slogan - Little Children
Should Be Seen, but Not Hurts
the subject OF Bergman cartoon
today and becomes highly appro-
pirate as somes 50 900 children begin
their daily pilgrimage to and from
school. Everything that can be done
should be done to impress the mean
ing of this picturesque variation of
an old adage on the people who drive
automobiles.
The campaign in the past has pro-
duced notable results. A recent
count of pedestrian fatalities shows
that of forty-three traffic deaths
this year, only seven involved chill
dren and of these children only one
was of school age. The others had
not entered school. There was a
direct connection between the cam
paign for safety of school children
and the cause of death of these
seven children. Six were killed
crossing the street not at a cross
walk, and four of these children
were running-not walking-across
the street. The other child was
playing in the street. These are the
mistakes that school children are
taught to avoid.
The boy patrol system, the excel
lent cooperation of the Metropol-
itan Police and the traffic education
given in the schools have taught
both the children and the auto
mobile driver to regard the cross
walk as the only safe place to cross
a street, and the safest manner to
cross street at a cross walk is to
walk-not to run. Any study of
accidents involving pedestrians and
automobiles shows that the two
classes OF people which furnish the
largest number of pedestrian fatal
tiles are the preschool children and
older people past fifty. Today's
school-age child is traffic wise, the
result of continued effort to make
him so.
Evening star., 1946-09-23
Day Dreamer

He pJ6yed that he trus q oTotcn Msedooics
Who only had long grasses for house
And played that hs tcds hunting rtpsnsd
seeds
That gro,p on s.payins tips Of Tiny Useds
He played that hs had tchfsksrs on NJ
nose
And tiny cIa,Ds Instead Of his brosc1 toes
And that no tpds the pery stse to scdmper
Up held, dotpn field, ,cith not thing to
hamper
HIS coming or his going, such as shoes
or striped socks or hoRdksrchfefs to
lose.
II tpds the pery nicsst kind Of play
TO M the long hours OF the summer day
Because It only took aim 5sst oAs
TO build dream lfks t'tis ard 3xnsp
right IN 1t,
And there he tras, bsfors hs could count
thres,
Just ssythixe q ~ ~ eloes 70, hss
ANo0xL ANlkoUA
Evening star., 1946-09-23
Only Out Of Place
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
All the papers quote Senator Vanden-
berg as saying, I'VE can only cooper
ate with one Secretary of State at a
time"
1t is to be hoped that the Senator
did not say it in that way. That little
word "only" is the worst abused word
in the language. Almost half the time
1t is misplaced in the sentence. It seems
we had movie entitled, you Are Only
Young Once"
There Is very simple rule OF gram
mar covering this point, but one does
not need to know it, or have any other
knowledge of grammar in order to get
his "only" In the correct place. All he
has to do is to say exactly what he
means. ELMER c. HELM.
Evening star., 1946-09-23
,endence was carried by . slim

pendence was carried by . slim
margin.
There Is no prospect that Den
mark will do anything to prevent
the Farce Islanders from setting
themselves up as new nation;
though what this remote and tiny
segment of humanity can gain by
going it alone is not clear The sole
interest of the outer world in this
development arises from the fact
that, in the Air Age, the most iso-
lated islands may have high strategic
significance as bases.
Evening star., 1946-09-23

during his own lifetime. It soon was
translated into Dutch, German,
French, Italian and Spanish. A
Philadelphia bibliophile who spe-
cialized in the quest for different
issues of the text located more than
four hundred editions. The list Is
being added to annually and some of
the more recent varieties" are au-
thentic works of art in the best
meaning of the phrase.
Evening star., 1946-09-23
Send Them Home
From the London Daily Express.

From the London Daily Express.
There are l60. 900 able bodied Germans
now employed in getting In the harvest.
That figure, says Tom Williams, may
rise to 100000. As soon as this years
harvest is in, Britain should send the
Germans home to cultivate their own
fields and feed their own people. For
the continued use Of German labor will
spell ruin to British agriculture. It
covers up and CLOSES over the weak
nesses Of our position ut . time when
they should Be exposed, when remedies
should b sought with usos.
Evening star., 1946-09-23
Differs With 'Spinster'

To the Editor Of The Star.
I wish to challenge Spinster's letter,
Endorsed by H. B. Bradford. stating that
1t is dangerous for babies to sleep on
their stomachs.
On the stomach Is the best and most
natural way to sleep, especially for
babies. Their stomachs empty natural
ly when they sleep on their stomachs.
Our three babies always slept on their
Just as many babies have smothered
sleeping on their backs as on their
stomachs. FATHER.
Evening star., 1946-09-23
But It's Still Black Market

To the Editor Of The Star:
A little item tucked away in a cor
ner OF Thursdays paper tells Of a match
shortage in Brisbane, Australia. with
matches reported tougher to get than
cigars, cigarettes or black-market grog.'
think you will be interested to know
that in Brisbane they don't call 1t
"black-market" grog; instead, they use
the more impressive phrase. "sly grog."
SAMUEL l.. MILNER.
Evening star., 1946-09-23

1t is claimed that there Is q dog
in England which actually talks in
stead of just barking. He should be
sent to sit in at the Peace Confer
ence.
Evening star., 1946-09-23

Florida, Texas and California
trained the most Navy flyers during
World War II. Things were better
when they just trained ball players.
Evening star., 1946-09-23

That new American proverb:
Hats of to the past; coats of for
the future" ignores that the tax
collectors are getting everybody's
shirts and pants.
Evening star., 1946-09-23
In City Streets, Also!

From the st. Louis Post st-Dispatch.
HOGS are very erratic on the Chicago
market. But it's really nothing COM
pared with what they are on the high.
Evening star., 1946-09-23

Meat has vanished from butcher
shops and packing houses. One re-
port is meat may not be available
until falling ceilings are repaired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12
Reform German Labor
By Peter EdSOrs

wage system was completely cockeyed. Old men got more than young men, to force young men mo the army. Heads of families got more than single men, to encourage the birth rate. The problem was how to democratize this Set-up
 First step to vote for shop stewards by secret ballot. German workmen didn't know what 1t meant because under Hitler, the only ballots the Germans knew about were those with single slate Of picked candidates and a place to mark. "YaP'
 Three thousand shop elections were held under U s. supervision and 10000 stewards were elected. It was a great experience for the Germans-ther first lesson in democracy-marking secret ballot Tn a closed booth and dropping it. folded. into box. Next job was to organize unions. The Germans were permitted to organize industrial unions like ClO, or craft unions like AFIs organized along democratic lines.
 Every union must have constitution. Every issue must be decided by membership vote. There must be regular meetings. Books must be open. Dues must be approved by membership Officers must be rotated and can serve only one-year terms. There can De no closed shop So far over 200 unions have been so organized.
 U. S. policy is not to encourage the formation Of a purely Labor political party as in the BrttiAh 1cn nor of Communist workers party as in the Russian zone Instead, the union members are being enooa4- aged to take an active part in national polStacs through the established German Social-DemooTatcs National-Ch Christian or other political movements.
 It's an interesting experiment. Maybe 1t will work and maybe it won't But as Gen. McSherTy sees tts one of the two best chances to democraeEe Germany will come through wel-organized labor movement. The other chance will come through proper education If the children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12
A Thought For Today
Security-Russian Style

Senator Pepper of Florida brought home with him from Russia explicit advice to the American people from Premier Stan Then having delivered it. the senator pro- eeeded to disregard it.
 Mr. Stalin's advice which had preceded Mr. Pepper from Moscow by several weeks this: Judge Russia she s Don't praise don't scod us but base your udg rent fact and rumors Whereupon Senator Pepper proceeded explain Rssas present foreign policy an almost fantastic desire for security arising from that coun try's suffering under the Nazi invasion
 No deny that Russia suffered terribly It was not the Russian the Communist theology that suffered It thousands of decent innocent people who death torture and prvaon at the hands of brutal out whose Nazi bosses feared Communism and tried to per- Buade them that they superior Only the most bitter antRussan fail to sympathze with these vic Eims.
 But when Senator Pepper says this suffering is the son for Russian foreign policy he is talking if not at least not provabe fact He expressing the personal opn ion of liberal sympathetic statesman. And though Mr. Pepper has Russia and her leaders at first hand his explanation does not seem logical.
 Two world would seem to have taught most gov ernments that security lies in cooperative international eff fort to preserve peace It does not thrive in atmosphere of dscontent and suspicion Russia might to have cepted this view when she joined the United Nations Or ganization Yet she joined pretty much her own terms
 At the tme the Russian government has pursued
 of unatera action which scarcely be called anything but nperiasc It has surrounded Russia with governments of its choice imposed the peoples of Poland Yugosava Romana and Bulgaria It has present. ed these to its Allies accomplished facts ignoring AngoAmerican protests that they not representative governments.
 The Russian government has refused to allow Iranan government troops into certain sections of their cou try It has made strong if informal territorial demands upon Turkey It has denounced the westen type of freedom and continues to foreign reports.
 Many of these actions violate Russa's signed con- mitments All of them have aroused suspicion and i'll will in various quarters Together they represent policy which, perhaps than anything else is holding back world security Unless the prospect of armed isolation in re- sentfu world is the Russian governments idea ot security its almost fantastic desire" is currently being fulfilled by fantastic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12

military government in Algers and the European theater, he was given the manpower job in Germany when the fighting stopped. Pre-Htler Germany had a strong organized labor movement of about eight tenn had much broader old-age, health and unem- ployment benefits than in the United States and was fundamentally sound.
 But the labor situation Gen. McSherry and his little manpower organization inherited from the Nazs was a large mess All plants were, of course, closed down. throwing hundreds of thousands out of work. quick survey registered six million workers. over 20 per cent unemployed Tn addition there were two or more million displaced persons plus million in concentration camps plus two million discharged soldiers and two million prisoners of war. Housing was 50 to 90 per cent destroyed.
 
 The Maxi labor system organized from the top down with all union officials appointed The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12
FATE'S ANSWER
(New Haven Register

In an editorial on December % entitled Spectacle Or Progress?," this newspaper questioned the wis dom of the Fourteenth Annual All- American Air Maneuvers, which have now terminated at Miami, Fla. At that time. the question was ask ed as to whether any such show as this made an honest contribution to aerial progress and development or constituted a mere spectacle, a Roman holiday of thrills for an ex- citement seeking throng. The hand of fate has made itself felt to an- Swer this question.
 During the course of this show, a revival of the aerial-circus type of program which was little more than a throw-back to the barn storming days of the airplane, a light plane racing pilot was critical ly injured as the result of a crash with another plane while round- ing a pylon. Tn another accident a meddlesome spectator started up a grounded and unguarded Army plane, causing it to run uncon-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12
Who Is Crazy?

We now have many regulators of business that one wonders how manufacturers and retailers managed to give the United States the highest living standard in the world before the professional doctors of economics took during the emergency which has been used to cover multitude of sins
 Chain stores which have been criticized for low-cost selling are according the Retail Dry Goods Assoca ton forced by law sell nyon hosiery prices under thou sands of small independent retailers. They complain that under OPA orders they charge the price for nyon hosiery whether they obtain it directly from the mills or from wholesalers at higher cost On the other hand, they claim the OPA order allows nonchain stores higher ceiling price hosiery purchased from wholesalers. Not so many years ago chains forced foego oss lead ers the theory that it hurt independents. Now public authorities force chains to sell what amounts oss lead ers"
 Is it any wonder that business in the United States confused store shelves empty? Reconversion still thing talked about for the future The nations prosperity depends production and retailing How much longer we stand political horseplay?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12
Views of the Press

| trolled to demolish trophy stand. The fact that it barely missed the field bandstand, where some 100 high school age musicians were massed, represented more good luck than good management. A terrific toll of lives and injuries might well have resulted.
 One of the features of this show was the appearance in simulated combat flying of some Is of this nations veteran combat carrier pilots.
 It must again be repeated that the place for this sort of thing is at military fields, remote from crowds or congested centers. The place to develop merican aviation is in the laboratory and on the testing field, with professional test pilots at the controls. Such shows as this Miami event can have no other result than to obstruct, rather than advance, public confidence in air transport.
 It is to be hoped that the les- son gained from these tragedies and near-tragedies will not be lost in the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-12

that steel prices were going up. His job was to sell by his old friend Reconverslon Csar John Snyder of St. Louis who in turn had been wned and dned by the steel people in Pittsburgh
 Chester Bowles also had talked with Big Steel leaders His talks were far energetic, more per- suasve than Snyder's. Bowles once ran one. of the best advertising firms in the nation, is an excellent salesman. All his salesmanship was turned on Big Steel leaders.
 "You are going to have bigger margin of profit than you realize" he told them. You now work ing A hours in the mills and 52 hours in your cap- tive mines When you drop to 20 hours, you will net big saving in overtime The price of scrap iron is now at ceiling. It will drop in the spring, which means more saving. Production per man went up to 10 per cent after the last war It will do the same after this war; which will save you $l000OO00O alone. You can't tell what your profits will be- So why not try out new increased wage scale without sharp price hike? Try it out for six months-then come back and we'll examine the whole question again. If you need price increase then we'll give 1t to you"
 Bowles is a persuasive talker He has more charm than any Washingtonian since Franklin Roosevelt. But he made no impression.
 After the last war, steel wages scared even without union pressure" Bowles summarized. 50 did prices And once imitation gets going you'll have labor coming back until they get not 30 per cent increase in wages, but 50 per cent or even 75 per cent. You can't tell where this thing will stop"
 Steel leaders shrugged their shoulders
 Bowles offered them price increase of $2.50 per ton to compensate for low pre-war prices on certain types of special steel But Big Steel leaders were convinced from their talks with John Snyder that they could get considerably more He had let the cat out of the bag that Truman could not and would not afford strike. The Administrations bargaining power was gone.
 so with the battle already lost Chester Bowles went to the White House. He made no resignation threatS-though some of his junior advisers had urged him to resign If he lost the imitation battle But he did warn the President quietly fervently that this would be the first great break in the imitation dyke.
 If steel goes up, every other industry using steel will come back to the OPA for a price increase Bowles warned-and will be entitled to get it. The automobile people will come back and want higher prices So will the hardware people the farm ma chinery people, and so down the line until you have whole series of price boosts Then labor comes back for more wage increases and imitation is on.
 The President however had made up his mind
 Do your best" he told Bowes, as the interview