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Evening star., 1946-02-09
Rudur Bays the Moon

Call of these radar hounds that bay
the moon,
Insolent beams that dog the queen Of
night.
What feeble cries bespeaE the lady's
plight!
Muzsle her rude tormentors lest she
S,Doon.
Ah, ,Dho would probe such royalty and
grace
or penetrate her shining mystery
Shepherdess OF the bright, obedient
sea,
Weaver OF dreams that light the louer's
face?
Luna, torsake at last your ancient calm;
Parry and foil the fierce, insatiats
pack.
Yourself a huntreSS, hurl the purSuers
back
COMPOUNDED NTH some stratospheric
bomb
Has earth no secrets left that man
should pry
And track such radiant quarry through
the sky?
INEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Navy and Airpower
Bv Frederick Palmer

AL the more attention should be paid
to Navy Secretary Forrestals annual re-
port because he does not directly men
ton the atomic bomb, let alone the
atomic bomb tests. The report Is a
powerful indirect argument against the
merger Of the armed forces without di-
rect mention of the merger. 1t is also
one against separate air force without
directly mentioning that either
Gen. Eisenhower, Chief Of the Army
Staff, is for the merger, but he is known
to agree with Admiral Nimitz about
separate air force. Neither wants to
see Army and Navy airpower unified in
young third arm distinct from the
two old arms, which date back far be-
yond smooth-bore cannon and sailing
ships.
The Army wants all based planes
in the Army fold. The Navy wants all
carrier planes and some land-based
planes in the Navy fold. So the real
issue is whether the sailors shall still
have some land-based planes which the
soldiers think is no business of the
sailor. With the Navy against the
merger the Army inclination was to
unite the two old arms, each retaining
its own airpower.
Without in any way impinging on the
restrictions on further public Army
Navy controversy about the merger,
Secretary Forrestal scores a triumph
Evening star., 1946-02-09
UNO Site Opposition
By George Fielding Eliot

world save on cent-per-cent basis"
/ do not say that the individuals
aforementioned hold these views. I do
say that these views are prevalent
throughout the communities affected by
the UNO decision. do say that there
is not country club in all that area
at which, of a Saturday evening, such
opinions would lack hearty applause.
~
Possibly all this is due more to lack
of understanding than active antipathy
to international organization. Perhaps
these fortunate folk have never before
had to think very much about the con-
Germs of people outside their own circle
of activities. Maybe in that sense the
coming of the UNO will be good for
them. For example, Mr.. Wilkie Bushby.
a New York lawyer who owns home in
Greenwich, says according to the
Bridgeport Sunday Post) that Green
wich residents have mo hostility" to the
UNO but don't want Its capital plunked
down in Greenwich" Perhaps after Mr.
Bushby and his friends have thought
the matter over for while it may
occur to them that there are worse
things which might be 'plunked down
in Greenwich" than the headquarters
of world organization to keep the
peace of all mankind.
Atomic bombs, for instance.
Copyright, 1946)
Evening star., 1946-02-09
TSFET Patches Unknown

To the Editor of The Star:
My son, who is stationed in Germany
with the Engineers, wrote me to send
him some TSFET patches. went to
the stores that sell the regulation
patches and could not find any, so I
spent about two and half hours calling
different branches in the War Depart
ment, including the individual who is
supposed to design all army patches,
and could not find out what this par
ticular patch was. began to think my
son had made mistake, or either it
was a special patch that they dreamed
up "over there" so wrote him about it.
Following is his reply: "No wonder
we can't get home from over here, If
no one in the War Department knows
what TSFET stands for. It's for The
ater Service Forces-European Theater
1t takes the place of Com z" Com
munications zone) which was used by
all troops in France and the like, who
did the supplying of the troops UP
front. Now 1t applies to all units servic-
Ing the Army of Occupation. Tell them
about 1t at the War Department, will
you9 They might be interested"
I am beginning to wonder just what
they do know in the War Department
since Secretary Patterson didn't know
the points were frozen as of September
2, l945, and the designer of patches
didn't know about the patch that they
all wear over there.
MOTHER OF CT WITH ENOUGH
POINTS.
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Problem Still UnsoIved

The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee, while allowing funds for nee
essary repairs, has Cancelled an ap-
preparation of $1,650,O00 to expand
the White House. Unless the Senate
as a whole restores the item to the
independent Offices bill, this action
kills the plan to build new west
wing on the Executive Mansion as
well as serves to discourage any at
tempt to revive the original pro-
posals to add museum, cafeteria,
an auditorium and other enlarge
ments-propoSals at first approved
with some reluctance by the Fine
Arts Commission but more recently,
with President Truman's consent,
modified.
However, the Senate Committee
leaves the problem of legitimately
needed additional office facilities for
the President and his staff unsolved.
Mr.. Truman's demand for space for
the work he has to do has not been
met by refusal to grant funds for
that patching" of the White House
to which the public properly OBJ
1ected. The President was justified
and still is justified in wanting office
room "big enough to turn around in."
What Congress now should take
into immediate consideration is
what Congress was asked to consider
as far back as 1902-the furnishing
OF money to construct an adequate,
modern executive Office building in
the vicinity of the White House yet
not within its grounds. Further de-
lay in facing that issue almost GER
tainly would result in more plans
for temporary, haphazard extension
OF the Executive Mansion. The prob
lem of providing an up-to-date
structure specifically for the use and
convenience of the Presidents off,
cial family should be tackled at once
and with determination to achieve
complete solution of it.
Evening star., 1946-02-09
This Changing World
By Constantine Broun

President Truman's appeal to Ameri-
cans to tighten their belts so that the
people of war-devastated countries can
survive the next six months was
prompted by the factual accounts of
American observers abroad. These men
have recently sent SOS reports out that
the present confused and desperate Sit
uation in Europe will become even more
tragic unless at least 17,500000 tons of
wheat and other cereals are dispatched
in the immediate future.
The sending of food to Europe will not
solve the political problems, which have
deeper causes. But it may alleviate
them to certain extent.
The grains and other food stuffs will
be distributed by the UNRRA in the
areas which come under its jurisdiction
Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Italy,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine,
White Russia and China.
The quantities required by the
UNRRA do not exceed one-fourth of the
total asked by Mr.. Truman. This in
ternational organization needs 4,250, 900
tons of wheat, corn, barley and any
other cereals which may be available
At this time it is receiving only $4,000
tons month instead of 100000 which
Is its goal. The total is nowhere near
enough to accomplish the purpose for
which the agency was created.
The balance requested by the Chief
Executive will be earmarked for coun-
tries outside the UNRRA's sphere of
activities, such as France, Belgium, the
Netherlands, North Africa, Iran and
others that may feel the pinch 1t will
be sold for cash, services or promissory
notes to governments which need it.
So far as Germany and Japan are
concerned, there is nothing to indicate
whether they will receive any part of
the American bonanza. Germany has
no government, except the Allied mill
tary authorities, while all of Japan's
funds are frozen and only Gen. Mac
Arthur has the power to let the Tokyo
government buy food abroad.
The military governments in Germany
west of the Oder River have their
hands full with many difficult problems.
The lack of food, which has created
banditry on large scale, is one of these
problems and it is believed that after
the needs of all the liberated and
friendly countries have been satisfied,
the residue may go to the American,
British and French zones in Germany.
According to Herbert Lehman, direc-
tor of the UNRRA, inland transporta-
ton in the United States and Canada
offers the greatest handicap in feeding
Europe.
Shipping is now available to send
the UNNRA-purchased supplies to the
various European ports Transporta-
ton in the countries being supplied by
UNRRA is far from being satisfactory
but the organization has a large num-
Evening star., 1946-02-09

for Navy airpower in his report. 1t is
also a triumph for one-tine Ensign
Jack" Towers, lone survivor of the
three pioneer Navy flyers
In the assignment of the two active
postwar fleets the carriers are out in
front and the battleships in the rear
or tied up in port. The big Pacific
feet will have nine carriers, nine escort
carriers, and two battleships with two
carriers and two battleships in reserve,
along with a big force of submarines
and destroyers.
In announcing this tentative operat-
ing force plan for the calendar year of
1947" Secretary Forrestal makes an
oblique reference to the atomic bomb
in saying that the assumptions under
lying the plan must be reviewed period
ically to keep them in line with re-
alities"
Admiral John H. Towers, airman, the
new commander in chief of the Pacific
Fleet, is the same Jack Towers who
TAXED his damaged plane l20 miles on
the surface of the sea in the first trans
Atlantic flight; the same who fought
through the years for naval airpower.
So there you are. Is Congress going
to separate naval airpower from a fleet
under command of an airman? AS we'll
might its ships be taken out of Navy
control in a merger
Released by North American NeySpsper Alliance
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Naval Officer EquoIity

The Annapolis ring-the Navys
version of the "old school tie" SYM
Dol of exclusiveness-would lose at
least some of its magic in naval
circles under program of officer
selection and equaliza ton of oppor-
tunity recommended by special
board headed by Rear Admiral Lau-
renee T. Dubose. The present system
OF promotion by selection boards in
the case of senior officers gave rise
during the recent war to sotto voce
criticism by some Reserve officers
who felt that their lack of a Naval
Academy background caused them to
be passed over by boards generally
dominated by regular officers. These
criticisms persisted despite the fact
that Reserve officers often were in
cluded in selection boards and that
many promotions were meted out to
deserving Reservists.
The proposed system would draw
into the ranks of the Regular Navy
thousands of young officers from
colleges maintaining Naval Reserve
officers Training Corps, from GER
tain outstanding technical schools
and, in the case Of aviation officers,
from accredited universities after
adequate aviation training on shore
and with the fleet. Moreover, these
officers and those transferring from
reserve or temporary status to the
regular service would be given as
surance that merit alone-not the
possession or lack of an Annapolis
education-will be the basis for as
signment and promotion,
Such a guarantee of equality of
opportunity should be helpful to the
Navy in building its officer strength
to the 10000 line officers estimated
to be required by Americas postwar
fleet. This means an annual incre-
ment of approximately 5000 new
off1cers-far beyond the capacity of
the Naval Academy. The Navy will
be more attractive as a career to
young men not fortunate enough to
obtain appointments to Annapolis
if they know that there will be no
discrimination against them because
they happened to graduate from a
civilian college instead of the Navy's
own university"
Evening star., 1946-02-09

To any one who has ever during the
past 10 years tried to discuss either
foreign or domestic politics across
Westchester or a Greenwich bridge
table, the reaction of the residents of
those parts to the proposed location of
UNO headquarters in their midst will
at least be no surprise, whatever else
may be said of it.
THE whole of North Castle is in
famed" means Town Supervisor James
D. Hopkins of that ancient Westchester
community. That's too bad, of course:
but the whole world has been inflamed
these past six years with a fever of
somewhat greater malignancy than
that which now besets the citizens of
North Castle.
"We don't know whether we are to
become refugees or where we are going
to make our bed after the UNO
moves in," complains Sumner Mccall,
chairman of the Round Hill Road AS.
ISOLATION One wonders whether Mr..
Mccall, a vice president of the Amer
lean Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.,
and a director of various other sizable
corporations, would be surprised to
learn that there are throughout this
able war shattered folk-real and tragic
refugees-who would not be greatly ex-
ercised even If Mr.. Mccall were driven
to make his bed in the squalor of the
Waldorf Astoria, but who are greatly
exercised, indeed, about the future of
the UNO.
Mr.. James Joseph (Gene) Tunney of
Arlington and Stamford, whose list of
directorates (and of top-drawer clubs
is even longer than Mr.. McCalls, says
with commendable caution, Naturally
we are all for the UNO," but adds
the view that the site should go to
some less settled area where the peo-
pie want it." And where, of course, 1t
will not disturb the even tenor OF Mr..
Tunneys comfortable existence. Mr.
Tunney, who is among other matters
distinguished as Shakespearean
scholar, says his home is $50 years old
and he doesn't want to give 1t up. He
might perhaps reflect on the words of
King Lear: Upon such sacrifices the
gods themselves throw incense"
All of this would not be of much
Importance, in itself. save to remind us
that willingness to contribute to the
general welfare is a sentiment not
universally present in human breasts;
a fact of which there is too much
evidence already. But it is important
in another sense, for it is representa-
tive of section of American opinion
or rather of American inertia and re-
action, which can be real danger
to the stability of that edifice of world
Seci1rity of which America rn1YSt he
the chief pillar. There are still
lamentable number of Americans who
are ready to say, Let us keep what
we have, let us make America safe
and snug, let us be suspicious of all
that foreigners may do and say Let
Us give nothing to the rest Of the
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Another Appraisal of Columnists


To the Editor of The Star:
You really ought to know my opinions
of your columnists. Here they are:
G. F. Eliot often infuriates me. He
thinks the Army is wonderful; hate it
and the Navy, too.
Lowell Mellett, I think, is the next
worst He liked F. D. Roosevelt and
that spoiled him for me- But I read
him regularly. Way down deep inside
of him, I see, is an overwhelming urge
to serve humanity and get at truth, be-
ing fair in the process.
I suppose David Lawrence writes ar
ticles because he has to make living.
know he is wrong sometimes, but at
times he takes my ego down a few
notches. The man really knows more,
sometimes, than I do.
Dorothy Thompson has taught me a
lot I didn't know, but I think it is an
outrage that you let her put in her
junk about fair treatment of the Ger
mans even If they did perpetrate out
RACES.
oOAAu WTlLlI1SS are
usually good. They have Republican
leanings, that is. At least they are good
when they seem to have such leanings.
think ought to write you letter of
protest when they seem a bit Demo-
cratic or New.Deal.
II I were Constantine Brown I'd
change my ways. I'd scurry around
making my living by writing about what
major officials did not tell me-
I'm disconsolate that Raymond Moley
Is discredited because he got fired. can
not think Of a greater honor than to
get fired from the New Deal
Frank Kent is my pick of the whole
lot. Mr.. Kent can see hokum and ba-
loney when it is just turning the corner
at the planet Pluto. He may be too big
for his breeches but know some others
who are, too.
Henry McLemore amuses me, too:
worse, he Stays me. You don't mean to
tell me that he really Is not serious?
HARDSCRABBLE.
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Volunteer Packers Wanted

To the Editor Of The Star:
The citizens of Washington are doing
well In their donations to the current
clothing drive. However, in two requests
they are not doing all they could to
speed the donations on their way.
People are not tying together their
gifts of shoes. If people would do this
before sending in shoes, it would be a
great help, because as one can imagine
it is very difficult to find the mate of
one shoe among thousands of others.
The last few days there have been
articles in the newspapers calling for
100 men and women to volunteer to
sort and pack clothing and shoes for
Europe on Tuesday and Friday nights
from 7 to 10 pm. Last night, the first
OF the volunteer nights in the current
drive, there were only handful on hand
to work. I am sure more people would
have come, II they had known of the
great need for help.
In order to reach the center, at 469
c street, it is necessary to 60 down an
alley from the 400 block of D street.
The work Is not heavy, but come In
your old clothes and dress warmly.
CHRISTOPHER w. MAGEE.
Evening star., 1946-02-09

sought the domination and control
OF. that portion of the Pacific Ocean
denominated the Sea of Okhotsk.
A glance at the map will suffice to
show the relation of the Kuriles to
the Siberian mainland. They are
roughly comparable to Long Island,
Block Island, Martha's Vineyard and
Nantucket off the coast of New York
and New England or the marginal
islands of North Carolina between
Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras
east of Pamlico Bay.
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Letters to The Star
Thanks to Brave Young Man
From a Grateful Father

To the Editor of The Star:
feel must report this to your paper
as would like to thank you and the
party who saved my boy from sure
death Thursday night while crossing at
Twelfth street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV.
My wife, my son and I were return
ing home from visiting some friends
and were crossing at Twelfth street and
Rhode Island avenue NV. when a taxi
came speeding down Rhode Island ave-
nue. at breakneck speed to beat the traf-
fic light We were hallway across Rhode
Island avenue and my son was not
clear of the path of the taxi, when out
OF somewhere a young man dashed
across the street and caught my son
around the waist and threw him to
safety.
The young man was hit hard by the
taxi and rolled in the street We rushed
to his aid and picked him up and he
said he was not hurt and did not want
to report this to the police. We asked
him If he felt all right and also offered
him money, for wanted to have him
go to a doctor, but he refused. Then
he left saying, Good night"
Due to our leaving for Florida today
I did not find time to look him up and
in our terrific haste and confusion we
did not notice the number of the taxi
or the tag number
We are not residents of Washington
and I would like to have you put this
in your paper as a token of our thanks
to such fine, brave man of your city.
ED. c. BRECHER.
Evening star., 1946-02-09
Justice on TriuI

Amazing and distressing are the
sordid charges of perverted and We
nal justice brought against former
Federal Judge Albert w. Johnson by
the House Judiciary Committee.
After a two-year investigation of the
Pennsylvanian's conduct on and off
the bench, the committee has con-
cluded that Judge Johnson "sold
justice" in his court "for all the traf-
fic would bear" The report declared
that almost every litigant who had
the misfortune to appear before this
wicked and malicious judge became
the immediate object of
crooked conspiracy whose sole inter
est was the amount of money that
could be extorted from him for JUS
tice or the evasion of justice" De-
spite the extraordinary gravity of
the charges, the committee has de-
cided that no useful purpose would
be served by the Impeachment of
Judge Johnson, in view of the fact
that he resigned from the bench
last July and cut himself off from
$4,000 yearly pension.
Perhaps, in reaching it's decision
against impeachment proceedings,
the committee also had in mind the
fact that Judge Johnson, three of
his sons and six others are under
Federal indictment on charges of
conspiring to obstruct justice. The
indictment resulted recently from
an 1aemonth grand jury investiga-
tion of the case. Why it should have
taken so long for the House commit
tee and the grand jury to complete
their separate inquiries has not been
explained. Certainly the alleged
conspiracy is of such shocking ma
ture that the defendants should be
brought to trial with a minimum of
Evening star., 1946-02-09

Der of trucks which can convey the sup
plies from the ports of debarkation to
the various centers where UNRRA oper-
ates. Thus, distribution is not a par
ticularly difficult problem since the
authorities can use primitive transpor-
tation methods such as OK carts and
mules.
In Western Europe where the rail-
way system has broken down, roads
and bridges have been sufficiently re-
paired to permit transportation of food.
No one, however, can answer the ques-
tion of whether American assistance
will help solve Europes problems ma
terially and whether we might not have
the same famine next year.
X 4 **
The agricultural countries in Eastern
Europe-Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria,
the Ukraine, Hungary and Poland
used to have superabundance of food
stuffs which in peacetime they ex-
changed for manufactured products.
The war has not affected the produc-
tlvlty Of the rich soil. The lack of
food at present is due to the fact that
so many of the peasants have been
killed and others have been in military
service for so many years that only
old men and women have been able
to till the land. They have not pro-
duced enough to feed themselves.
1t was expected that with the end of
the war in Europe the Eastern Euro
pean peasantry would resume their
previous activities This, however, is
not likely to be the case The Eastern
European agricultural countries have
new "ideological' governments which
have embarked on vast re-armament
programs. General notifications have
been ordered since We day in most of
these countries and since the farming
population far exceeds the town popula-
ton, it is the peasant again who has
to answer the call to arms.
In addition to this major drawback,
the food basket of Europe has been
thoroughly depleted of agricultural
machinery and of the cattle which are
being used for farming Oxen and
water buffalo are seen more frequently
than the tractor on Bulgarian, Ro-
manian and Serbian farms The Ger
mans were the first to deprive the
natives of the basket" of their animals.
The Russians came later as liberators
and took the balance to make good the
losses they have suffered at the hands
Of the Nazis.
Thus the present American belt
tightening might prove of temporary
value only, unless the governments of
the Eastern European countries are
persuaded to adopt policy of complete
demobilization of their farm hands.
This country might be able to provide
Europe with tractors and possibly even
cattle. But this assistance would be
OF little avail so long as the govern
ments of the farming countries insist
on keeping their manpoWer under arms,
Evening star., 1946-02-09
The Modern Wuy
From the Detroit Free Press.


The Air Transport Association has
recommended to the Government that
the airmail rate be reduced from 8
cents an ounce to cents. Also it hopes
to see the difference between air and
regular lrst-class mail rates eventually
eliminated.
We do not recall that in the old days
the railroads ever thought of increas-
ing their mail-carrying business by
lowering postal rates.
The air carriers realize that the less
it costs to mail letter the more letters
there will be mailed, and that the more
letters mailed the more the revenue
from carrying them. This is form of
enlightened selflshness" with which
industry is already familiar, but which
deserves even wider application.