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Evening star., 1946-07-19
Bubies Are Necessary
From the Detroit News.

A court decision which may well have
repercussions, since the human prob
lem on which it bears Is universal in
our cities, has been handed down in
Cleveland, where it has been held,
2 to l, by Court of Appeals that a
tenant cannot be evicted because his
wife had a baby although his rental
contract provided for mo pets-adults
only"
We do not know if this is a good
law-quite possibly it is not-but the
comment of the judge speaking for
the majority is something that had to
be said.
He defended not only the reason
ableness and healthy desire of young
couples to have babies, but their right
to become parents, and added the
sociological truth which has been
somewhat lost sight of In the un-
natural living of our times, that it Is
against the public interest to enter into
any contract which would encourage
race suicide.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Commutina by Air

The possibility that straphanging
by metropolitan commuters may
reach the ultimate of its long
development since horse-car days is
foreseen in the announcement that
Civil Aeronautics Board examiners
have recommended approval of an
extensive airplane committing serv-
ice for New York City. If the plan
finally is approved by the board
itself, New York City would be
connected with forty-two outlying
Long Island, New Jersey and Con-
necticut communities by a network
of shuttle airlines operAed by new
company with the intriguing name,
Air Committing, Inc.
OF course, straphanging is not
likely to be permitted in the COM
muter planes at first. That will
come-if at all-when committing
by air becomes as commonplace as
packing into a subway train, a
streetcar or a bus. Just now the
aviation industry is feeling it's way
in the short-line field, under the
watchful eyes of CAB officials. Air
Committing, Inc, plans to operate
both land and amphibian planes of
limited passenger and cargo capac-
tiles. Financiers and other business
men who live in Greenwich or other
Connecticut residential centers or
in number of points in New Jersey
will be able to catch a morning
amphibian that will land them at
the foot of Wall Street before they
have finished reading the headlines,
almost.
Other cities will watch the Man
haitian enterprise with interest, but
hardly with bated breath. New York
City is peculiarly we'll adapted to
pioneer in air committing, because
OF geographic as we'll as population
factors. Washington's harried COM
muters are not yet ready to take to
the air. When they are, air COM
muting probably will have pro-
gressed to the point where helicopter
buses will drop the officegoer on
the roof of his place of employment
in the morning and back in his
front yard in the evening-com-
muting, in other words, on a high
plane.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
This Changing World
By Constantine ByotOn

sweep across former Axis-controlled
areas. Behind it all appeared to be the
Russians memory of how the Germans
butchered the Russians.
Whether or not this should be SO is not
the point. but it is interesting to note
that the top Russian commanders have
either overlooked even the most fragrant
instances or have encouraged them
Such fiagrancy would never be con-
doned in the American Army, and it
should not be the purpose of critics of
the present low morale in the American
Army to advocate it. However, it is true
that morale in our Army is at probably
its lowest point in history. Certain rules
of our Army have been modified (salut-
ing, for instance) and some of them will
certainly not be conducive to better
morale or discipline.
In one of its recent broadcasts con-
corning the Red Army, the Moscow radio
asserted that "all the demands made by
these regulations fthose ordered by
Stalin have for their objective the
strengthening of the military capacity
of the armed forces of the Soviet Union. ="
Thus, We see that while Russia's major
allies of the war-the western democ-
racies-have been and continue de-
emphasizing the military, Russia ap-
parently is placing more emphasis than
ever before on her army and navy, par
ticularly the former
As pointed out by Ambassador william
Bullitt in his recent book The Great
Globe Itself all Russian life revolyes
around the theme of Russia first" The
recent revelations concerning Soviet
espionage activities during the war are
Just one phase of the overall pattern
But they do make it clear that America
should be on her toes in the future re-
garding the efficiency of our intelligence
services, even If she has lapsed into
lethargy regarding the maintenance of
strong military establishment
Despite the frequent failures OF our
intelligence system prior to and during
the war, our armed forces went to great
victories. Observers can only say that
1t might be different next time,
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Partial Reorganization

The buffeting which President
Truman's initial program for gov
ernmental reorganization received
at the Capitol before finally emerg-
ing in truncated form is not too
encouraging to longtime advocates
of economy and efficiency in the
executive establishment. 1t is true
that two-thirds of the Presidents S
three-part plan succeeded in surviv-
ing the legislative storm which
developed over the relatively innoc-
uous proposals, but the escape from
complete defeat was so narrow that
prospects of any comprehensive
reorganization of the Government
seem to be as remote as ever.
Credit for saving the second and
third parts of the Presidents pro-
gram goes to the slight majority in
the Senate who voted to give Mr.
Truman a green light on merger of
Federal health and welfare agencies
and sundry other reforms in the
interest of more efficient admins
tration of the sprawling executive
setup. Plan No. 2, relating to welfare
activities, slipped through by the
close vote of 40 to 81, while Plan No.
3, covering miscellaneous mergers
and realignments, passed by vote
of 81 to 30. Plan No. l, calling for a
consolidation of housing functions,
and presumably the most important
of the trio, was rejected by the
Senate. All three plans had been
overwhelmingly disapproved by the
House, on recommendation of it's
Committee on Expenditures in the
Executive Departments.
Thus, the sum total of the much
ballyhooed action of Congress last
year in authorizing the President to
undertake a long reorgan-
ization of the departments is a
series of nondrastic readjustments
WHICH, 1lOlQ 1OTtIl lltGle nope Ol
achieving any considerable savings
in personnel or money. What is
needed, of course, is a thorough
going overhaul and modernization
of the war-sWollen, haphazardly
thrown-together administrative ma
chinery. That is asking a lot, in
the light of the dismal record of
Congress in recent years with
respect to reorganization proposals.
But at least a small start has been
made, thanks to the Senate. And it
is to be hoped that the President
will renew the fight when Congress
reconvenes in January.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Letters to The Star
Says Mr.. Mellett Erred Again
In Acknowledging Mistake
To the Editor The Star:

To the Editor The Star:
In acknowledging and correcting. in
the Star of July Is, his earlier erroneous
statement that there had been no House
hearings on the Bulwinkle bill, Mr..
Mellett makes two other statements
which are in error.
1t is not correct, as stated, that MIR.
Bulwinkle, author of the bill and chair
man OF the subcommittee which con-
Quoted the hearings, announced that
evidence gathered by the Department
of Justice in the Western railroads suit
would not be heard. What Mr.. Bulwinkle
said, as Is shown on page Of the record
of the hearings, was that the committee
was not going into the merits or de-
merits of the Western railroad cases."
But this did not preclude the presenta-
ton of any evidence gathered for that
purpose which might have been germane
to the question before the committee.
That question was not whether the car
riers had acted in violation of existing
law, as alleged by the department, but
the question of what the law should be
had facts bearing on the question which
was before the committee, there was
every opportunity to present them. In
fact, the department did submit its views
In letter in which its position in the
Western railroads suit was strongly
stated.
1t is not true, as stated by Mr.. Mellett,
that the Bulwinkle bill provides the
means whereby the transportation in
dustry could obtain complete exemption
from the antitrust laws" The bill is
limited to those agreements among car
rlers which have to do with matters un-
der the jurisdiction of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and which are
filed with and approved by that body as
being in accord with standards of public
interest laid down in the national trans
portation policy established by Congress.
There Is an apparent, or asserted, con-
dlct between certain features of the
antitrust laws which govern all busi-
ness and the special statutes which deal
with regulated highway. waterway and
railway transportation. The essential
question involved is whether the trans
portation regulation which Congress has
established for these carriers shall be
administered in continuing and sys-
tematic way by the Interstate Commerce
Commission as to interstate traffic, and
by the several State commissions as to
intrastate traffic, or whether it shall be
administered in hit-or-miss fashion by
the Spasmodic activities of the antitrust
division.
The bill does not weaken the policy
OF the antitrust laws. In fact, by its
provisions to make that policy workable
in the special field of regulated transpor-
tation, it is strengthened Neither does
the bill establish a precedent. On the
contrary. it follows a precedent already
established in the Civil Aeronautics Act
In respect to air carriers and in the
Maritime Act of 1915 with respect to
the shipping industries subject to that
act. j. ]. PELLEY.
President, Association of American
Railroads.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

Mr.. Byrnes did his best, but the dam
age had already been done, in Teheran,
Yalta and Potsdam. An old German
proverb-and it exists in other Ian
guages-says, He who says "A must
also say b." The "A" of overthrowing
the Atlantic Charter, ousting Mihailo-
vich in favor of Tito, letting down the
pro-western regime OF Poland: parti-
tioning Poland and then partitioning
Germany as compensation" refusing
all approaches to terminate the war by
what is now slowly being revealed as a
quite formidable German anti-Nazi
movement; and, by all these things, put
ting Russia on the German Baltic port
of Stettin, on the Elbe, the Danube, and
now at the very gates Of Trieste, leads
to the b" that all of Western Europe,
Britain and we, ourselves. are in most
serious position of insecurity.
Mr.. Byrnes may hope that the inter-
naturalization of Trieste may prove
the best means of preventing armed
conflict and relieving tension" but he
must be recalling that this last war
started in and over similarly Inter
nationalized" city-Danzig. Trieste is
in worse position, for, as Mr. Byrnes
notes, Titos Yugoslavia controls all the
rails leading from the Danubian coun-
tries to the port which is their normal
outlet. and can. therefore, strangle the
port economically at any time Furth-
ermore (what Mr.. Byrnes fails to men
tom the hinterland of Trieste, awardec
to Yugoslavia. contains all of the yer.
little coal that Italy possesses.
But quite as important are the repara-
tons to be paid to Russia under the
terms Of the proposed Italian treaty
These. amounting to $4,000 900, are
to begin only after two years and
are to be in the form of the de-
livery of manufactured goods to the
Soviet Union. "In order to avoid our
having to finance Italy's purchase of
raw materials to furnish these products
to the Soviets, we also required agree
ment that the imported materials need
ed by Italy to make these deliveries
should be supplied by the Soviets," saio
Mr. Byrnes.
Nothing could be more perfect up
for the eventual Sovietizing of italy!
Political conquest usually begins with
economic conquest. Italian factories
once set up and functioning will deliver
to Russia the consumers goods for which
the Russian people are starving-and
which Russia herself cannot produce in
sufficient quantities If she keeps her war
machine functioning, as she intends to
do
These Italian factories working for
delivery to Russia, will have one single
market, the Soyiets, and one single
source of raw materials-the u, S. S. r,
The day Preparations" cease to be paid
and this relationship stops, thousands of
italian workers will be thrown out of
Evening star., 1946-07-19

While there appears to be nothing
extraordinary in the fact that for the
last several days the Soviet radio has
been continually emphasizing the value
OF discipline in RuSsia's armed forces,
there Is, nevertheless, an interesting
contrast between Russia's and Amer
ica's attitudes toward their respective
armies and navies.
While the world knows that the Soviet
has only negligible navy as COM
pared with those of other great powers,
Russia did have-and continues to have
"a vast and highly efficient army, with
troops scattered throughout the nations
of Eastern Europe.
Beginning Sunday, and for an entire
week ending with Navy Day on July %,
the Russians will hold gigantic celebra-
tions throughout the country. Private
citizens are to be permitted to board
stage plays dedicated to the navy, and
according to the Moscow radio, Officers
will reminisce and tell each other how
they fought during the Patriotic War
and how they are seeking to attain
fresh successes IN their training period
in peacetime."
AS to the Red Army, the Moscow
broadcasts have been pointing out that
under the new disciplinary regulations.
which went into effect on June by
order of Prime Minister Stain, every
man in the army must become person
ally responsible for the maintenance of
discipline and first of all, must be per-
sonally responsible for his own obedience
to disciplinary rules"
During World War II. morale, as it is
understood by the commanders of the
Red Army, has been one of the army's
chief attributes, if such it might be
called. To start with, the Russian SOL
dier is hardy and ferocious fighter,
and he has shown no hesitancy in going
to any lengths to gain his objectives.
Well-founded reports have filtered
through the iron curtain" of Eastern
Europe that the Red soldiers have never
let conscience" or adherence to rules of
good conduct" guide them in their
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Keep the Gutes Shut

1t is ironic that disclosures re-
garding alleged subversive activities
at the Armys Aberdeen Proving
Grounds should come almost stimuli
taneously with the virtual abandon
ment by the Civil Service Commission
Of its procedure for fingerprinting
and investigating applicants for
Federal employment. The investi-
cations which led to dismissal of
five employees at the closely-guarded
Aberdeen ordnance plant took place
prior to collapse of the investigative
system because of lack of funds.
Representative Mundt of South
Dakota did not eXaggerate the
situation when he described as
"foolhardy and dangerous" this re-
Taxation of vigilance. The Aberdeen
case serves to emphasize the need
for continued alertnesS.
1t is true, as Mr.. Mundt told the
House, that this serious matter had
"all but escaped public notice"-until
The Star called attention to it in its
news and editorial columns last Sun
day. But it cannot be said with equal
verify that Congress was not in
formed about the dilemma facing
the commission as a result of budget
cuts, nor can Congress, in all fair
ness, pass the buck completely to the
Budget Bureau. Both Civil Service
Commissioner Flemming and Di-
rector J. Edgar Hoover of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation testi-
fed at appropriations hearings re-
garding the hazards of investigative
relaxation, but Congress failed to
heed the warnings.
AS result of this apathetic atti-
tude, Congress approved the alb
surdly small sum of $78,624 for civil
service loyalty" Investigations in
the 1947 fiscal year, as compared
with an appropriation of $2,246, ,498
last year. This means that the COM
mission must discontinue. finger
printing altogether and that it will
have facilities for checking on the
character and loyalty of about one
out of every 500 applicants. If there
is any real investigating to be done,
it will have to be done by the vari-
Gus departments, and few have
funds or equipment to do the job.
1t is not too late to insure closing
of the gates against criminals and
subversive agitators who may seek
to enter the Government service for
ulterior purposes. Congress cannot
afford longer to turn it's back on the
warnings of those in a position to
know the perils of taking down the
barriers. This is an emergency JUS
tifying introduction and prompt
passage of a special deficiency ap-
preparation before Congress ad-
1ourns for the summer.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Touched by the Wand

Gayly she stDings to meet the shore,
Her aDk,oard bosom resting on the
tDater,
Old reconverted packet; on her fore,
"The Queen" In silrer paint. The
aged daughter
OF sober travelled channels, no,D diperted
From Memphis and Mobile, old routes
OF trade
In cotton, coal, nolasses; and alerted
To magic realms Moondritt her course
is laid.
Cauiope tootling out her heart beat,
She chugs, her signals sound the
seasons blisses,
OF crowded decks, the urge OF dancing
feet:
Her cargo, laughter, youth and stolen
kisses.
And all her borrowed lure is caught and
bound
IN ribboned moonlight and a fog horn
sound. CLARA HYDE.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Profit Sharing
From the Wall Street journal.

From The Wall Street Journal.
Within limits there is, of course, an
identity of interest as between employer
and employe. Both prosper by produc-
ton of salable goods and by price reduc-
tion which enlarges sales while it raises
the purchasing power of the dollar, wage
dollar and profit dollar. In one aspect
profit-sharing plans attempt to give
practical expression to the underlying
common interest of employer and en-
ploye. They can be expected to con-
tribute to the easing of tension over the
longer term: they may help to soften the
spirit of animosity that often develops
in collective bargaining. To expect of
them great and immediate results $50
luton" Of the labor relations problem"
would be unwise.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Lure of the Army
From the Jersey Journal.

From the Jersey Journal
After all, why shouldn't there be big
rush to enlist in the Army, either by
those who have never been in it, or by
those who have? Many soldiers have
found Army life very worthwhile, and
such jobs are particularly intriguing
now that the fighting is over and the
danger has subsidized Lots Of men
would enjoy little life abroad-either
in Germany or Japan, with free ocean
trip both ways. While the compensa-
ton isn't high, there are certain ad-
vantages dispensations avail
able to Army and Navy men-that a
mere civilian cannot have with a
civilian job. Then, most of all, there
is the feeling that one is doing ones
patriotic duty in serving ones coun-
try
Evening star., 1946-07-19

Commends Mr.. Bullitt's Book
To the Editor The Star:
Every statesman who has to do with
our foreign affairs by all means should
read former United States Ambassador
w. c. Bullitts recent book, The Great
Globe, Itself" excerpts from which ap-
pear in the July Readers Digest.
During the past war, when Japan
made her treacherous and unprovoked
attack upon us, and when our troops
were closing in upon Japan, Russia
made no move to aid us, when we
greatly had relieved the pressure upon
the Eastern Front OF the Germans
against her.
Mr.. Bullitt writes: Roosevelt hoped
to accomplish his grand design by Cd
giving Stain, without limit, everything
ne asked for the prosecution of the war,
and to ask for nothing in return; 90
persuading Stain to adhere to state
ments of general aims, like the Atlantic
Charter, and go meeting Stain face
to face and persuading him into an
acceptance OF Christian ways and dem
ocratic principles" Why ask for moth
ing in returnP" Were not our supplies
to Russia worth her paying for2 Has
Russia ever treated any other country
like that?
To quote again: '"The peoples of the
Soviet Union live in an enormously rich,
sparsely inhabited, undeveloped area,
so extensive that it includes one-sixth
of the land of the entire earth. -.
Why, then, does the Soviet govern
ment's appetite for expansion remain
insatiable?" She has had 100 years of
rule by despots," and murderous crooks
they were.
Mr. Bullitt writes: The Soviet Unions
powers of digestion are greater than
those of any other nation because its
digestive processes are unreStrained by
any considerations of humanity or mo-
rality. In areas which 1t controls COM
pletely it either murders Immediately or
deports to certain death at slave labor
all its political opponents of all classes,
and all highly educated persons whom
1t cannot terrorize into becoming it's
agents. BY continuing to murder and
deport all who criticize, it finally re-
duces its victims to terrorized mass of
despairing individuals whom it then
compels to vote for a Soviet picked
candidate under penalty of losing their
bread cards, which are nothing less
then permits to live. BY this process
it has already digested Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania and Eastern POLAND. And
when the Soviet government embraces
in friendship any non-C Communist gov
ernment, it is always with the ultimate
intention of driving dagger into its
back. That is why Stain is unappeas-
able. That is why President Roosevelt's
great design was foredoomed to failure"
1t seems that Russia desires a loan
from the United States, but we should
not consider granting it for an instant!
If the Russians choose to live under
the yoke of conscienceless despots, let
them do SO. However, it is not their
province to dictate to us what sort of a
government We shall have. HB.B.
Evening star., 1946-07-19

George Gershwin's popularity is
growing. No less than $4,000 people
filled the lewiston Stadium for a
memorial concert of his compost
tions. The explanation may be that
he took life as he found it-not as he
imagined it to be-and made music
of it that ordinary folk can under
stand without special instruction.
Evening star., 1946-07-19

Bright Light" and the companion
piece I'm the Evening by the Moon
light" Perhaps the commemoration
sponsored by the Lions will result in
the accurate identification of Bland
with the fruits of his genius, now
the common possession of millions.
Evening star., 1946-07-19

A pigeon recently flew into the
window of a Federal Office building
here and laid an egg in a CORE
spondence tray. A rather large
number of big-shot Government Of
fcials have been known to make
similar deposits.
Evening star., 1946-07-19

Male high school graduates get
their diplomas knowing thoroughly
one thing of which their grand
fathers were abysmally ignorant.
That is the general contour of the
legs Of their feminine classmates
Evening star., 1946-07-19

If newspaperman who writes
critically about the Soviet Union
is IAN untalented calumniator" as
Pravda sees him, wonder what
newspaperman who does not write
critically about the Soviet Union is?
Evening star., 1946-07-19

Remember those appealing adver-
tisements showing the little girl
asking her mother, "Mommy, who
was Hitler?" They could be revived
now with the youngster wanting
to know. What was butter?"
Evening star., 1946-07-19

The National Guard is being
doubled in size. 1t ought to follow
that public appreciation of it should
be doubled but will it?
Evening star., 1946-07-19

OPA may or may not be dead yet,
but in the end the ultimate con-
sumer will pay the funeral expenses.
Evening star., 1946-07-19

Talmadges and the Bilbos may be
expected to cash in on their special
brands OF soapbox oratory.