Evening star., 1946-12-19
Letters to The Star
Blames Radio Crime Dramas
For Juvenile DELINQUENCY

Blames Kadio Crime Dramas
| For Juvenile Delinquency
| To the Editor Of The Star:
In my opinion the unfortunate death
of Private Taylor of the police force
is due partly to one Of our Creates
| mediums of influence. The radio pro-
| grams of an evening are filled with the
| screams of the wounded and dying
punctuated with the sound OF gunshots
| True the villains or gangsters get theil
| just rewards in the end, amid a hail
| of bullets or behind the bars, but the
suggestion nevertheless always is there
that a life of crime Is thrilling and
maybe Is worth the price that is to be
paid
Most Of the time I do not turn the
radio on until after my children are
in bed, because want them to grow
up to know that there is something else
in life besides sordidness and crime
am sure that they will find enough
of it In the daily papers when they are
old enough to read them. I know that
in a land as great as ours the radio
writer's and sponsors could find material
that would be entertaining and educa-
tional to replace this type Of program.
The young people then would find their
interests were turning to something
more constructive and to the emulation
of the persons who made and are max
ing this country what it is today.
Stricter censorship OF the radio would
be big step in curbing juvenile de-
linquency. WILLIAM H. ADAMS.
MIR. Noyes' Point Clarified !.
To the Editor Of The Star:
It is highly regrettable that very
intelligent article by Newbold Noyes,
on the foreign policy of the United
States, has been railroaded by readers
into a free-for-all between self-ap-
pointed defenders of capitalism and the
New Deal.
The main theme Of the Noyes article
was: Whichever their likes or dislikes,
if Americans want to fight communism
otherwise than by mutual humiliation,
their natural allies are the foreign
Socialists.
The writer pointed out that, by $50
cialists" he meant all those who do not
advocate a 100 per cent free enterprise,
but who nevertheless deem the protec-
ton of the civil liberties to be their main
political endeavor. This definition COW
ers, for instance, the European liberals,
Christian Democrats, radicals, who, to-
gether with the Socialists. constitute 95
per cent Of the non- Communist popula-
ton.
Few people who have any knowledge
at all of politics in the world could con-
tend that this thesis is wrong 1t re-
peatedly has been confirmed by facts,
as the shift of France toward communism
on the very morrow of the American
elections, which, rightly or wrongly,
were interpreted abroad as a preamble
to the letdown of foreign socialism by
American opinion.
The only argumentatiye part of Mr..
Noyes' article, therefore, consists of its
premise. The real issue: Should Ameri-
cans fight communism? J. T.
What Becape of Single Tax
To the Editor Of The Star:
w. E. Aliens letter, with your Single
Tax" caption, reminded some of the
readers that, once upon time, single
tax was a matter of economic discussion,
just as we occasionally are reminded
that there was a dodo bird.
It doesn't seem to matter what plum
age the bird displayed, but .We, the
people" Tom, Dick and Carrie, ought
to know at least what the single-tax
proposition was. It was not, as the
name suggests, q taxation matter, but
misnamed; like the guinea pig, which
is rodent, rat from Guinea.
Their proposition was that the ad-
ministration should collect from those
permitted, by virtue of title deeds, the
exclusive use, occupation and control
of land, whatever such use, occupation
and control reasonably was worth lie.
the rental value of the land) and to use
the fund to reduce, or perhaps eliminate,
taxation.
Having submitted, and emphasized
the proposition, the group should have
stopped talking and said to the opposi-
ton: 'If not, why not?' but they tax
talked the proposition into the "innocu-
GUS desuetude" that envelopes the dodo
bird. j. B. CHAMBERLAIN.
NAACP Approves Social Survey
To the Editor Of The Star:
The District Branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People long has stood for
equality and justice in all phases OF
government. We believe that WASH
ington, in its expression of our national
strength and social development, must
be city Of justice and freedom. 1t can
not relieve itself Of this duty and re-
sponsibility by claiming exemptions
based on community patterns and ira
ditions Government must be dynamic
and progressive. And the government
of Christian nation must be vigilant
in its efforts to protect the rights of
its citizens to the exclusion of any fic-
tion or fancy which is based upon dis
tinctions of race, sex and creed.
We believe that Washington is and
ought to be the fountain of American
liberty. It must epitomize the finest
and most splendid example of the
unity of our Nation.
Upon this faith we stand firmly