Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-14


without too Lowell Mellett.
much worry, since, contrary to pop
ular fiction, experience proves that
plumbers, electricians, carpenters
and such usually arrive as promised
in response to emergency calls. It
was washday, but that could be
postponed. Relatives en- route over
land from Indiana were not due for
another day. Water would be cours-
Ing through all the pipes as usual
before the situation got serious.
Home in the evening and there
was the electrician, preparing to re-
install the factory-repaired original
motor. Then the hitch. It didn't
fit the base. The factory seems to
have sent us somebody else's motor
But the electrician guessed he could
anchor 1t to the base after an ad-
justment or two. Then another
hitch. He couldn't use that pulley
He'd have to try to find one over
in Westinghouse the morning. No
water that night, save what re-
manned in the pressure tank.
Brave Face to world.
Bad dreams. What if he couldn' t
find a pulley? What if he had to
send to the factory for one? That
would mean days without water. 1t
would mean reverting to nature in
lot of respects, not convenient in
a polite suburban community. 1t
would mean moving in on the neigh
bors or finding hotel rooms for
everybody concerned, including the
relatives, now somewhere in the AL
leghenies rolling trustfully eastward.
A shave in a teacup and brave
face to the world. The brave face
was wasted. Down in the well the
electrician was whistling cheerfully
Had he found right-sized pulley?
Nope. What would he do? "Ream
'er out" He'd ream out the misfit
pulley and make it fit.
Which he did. He reamed er out
and in practically no time the pro-
cesses of civilization were once again
functioning throughout the house
hold before noon the washing was
appearing on the line. Let the
Hoosiers come.
All this accomplished, it was
possible to take up some of the
farther-reaching problems of civil
lization. The labor problem, for
instance, and the atomic bomb.
Even Russia.
The newspapers revealed that an
emergency crew already had done a
job in the labor field. The Case
labor batting bill, passed by the
House in a form that threatened
to make industrial peace impossible,
had been redrafted by a subcom-
mittee of the Senate Education and
Labor Committee.
1.-THE only thing left of the Case
bill is its number and its title" q
subcommittee spokesman reported,
adding hopefully, "our substitute Is
one in which management, labor
and the public will have confidence"
In other words, the subcommittee
had reamed 'er out.
Atomic Bomb Matter.
In the matter of the atomic bomb
things didn't look so good. A new
move to weaken civilian control of
atomic energy had won the support
Of majority of the Senate COM
mittee. The military men, aided by
Senator Vandenberg, had moved in,
over the determined protests of the
country's scientists.
A bit of roaming out seemed to
be called for.
AS for Russia, a volunteer emer-
gency crew had appeared on the
scene in the persons of those tried
and true veterans, Cordell Hull and
Henry L. Stimson. Both found the
same thing wrong with the Russo
American situation: it was filling
up with distrust and suspicion
Ream it out, they said. The surest
way to make a man untrustworthy
said Mr.. Stimson, is to diStrust him
There can be no place, said Mr..
Hull, for suspicious or mistrust-
ing attitude.
To these voices was added that OF
Senator Connally, reporting to his
colleagues on the UNO meeting. He
declared his conviction that mutual
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