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Evening star., 1946-01-27
Emergency Hospital
Signs Union Contract
Raising Workers Pay

Emergency Hospital yesterday be-
came the first hospital here to sign
a union contract for non-profession-
al employees, assuring wage increases
up to $3.50 per week and ending q
disagreement embracing more than
three years of litigation.
The hospitals refusal to recognize
the AFL Building Service Employees
Union almost resulted in strike last
July, and only certif1cation of the
case to the War Labor Board kept
workers on the job
In a statement issued by the union
yesterday, it was said the WLB never
had taken final action, but the hos
pital had acceded to a years contract
starting February 1.
Court Upholds NLRB.
In November, 1914, the Circuit
Court of Appeals upheld National
Labor Relations Board certification
of BSE as bargaining representatives
for the hospital employees and last
February the Supreme Court denied
the hospitals petition for review.
Employees covered by the new con-
tract include attendants, maids, Or
derlies, porters, timekeepers, watch
men, telephone operators, ambulance
drivers, elevator operators, house
men, cleaners, doormen, seam
stresses, kitchen employees and main
tenance and repair employees.
The union said wages ranging as
low. as $3.50 per week for maids,
elevator operators and diet kitchen
maids. and $3.50 for nurses aides
and hours ranging up to u per day
for seven-day weeks would be cor
rected by the contract.
ALI Get Wage Increases.
All employees will receive wage
increases, most of them $3.50 per
week, and the others $480 and $2.4O
Hours have been reduced to 48 and
A per week, with time and half
for overtime. The contract also
provides for vacations with pay,
meals and uniforms furnished by
the shospital, and arbitration of
disputes.
The contract was executed for
the hospital by George A. Garrett,
president of the board of directors,
and for the union by Robert P.
Bailey, union organizer, and Henry
C. Sistate, secretary-treasurer of
Local 1872.
Mr.. Garrett said the wage raises
called for in the contract actually
had beben instituted December 26
to conform with the new District
law setting a 50-cent-per-hour min
imum for District employees.
Evening star., 1946-01-27
$1,000 in Belongings
Stolen From Auto

William O'Connor, Buffalo, N. Y,
reported to police yesterday that
his automobile, parked in the first
block of Louisiana avenue NE, had
been broken into and about 1000
worth of clothing, jewelry and lug
gage stolen.
Mr.. O'Connor is visiting his
daughter, Miss Margaret O'Connor,
2025 Fendall avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1946-01-27

A farm home or farm building
catches fire every IS minutes in the
United States.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Soldiers Mother Complains

To the Editor of The Star:
I don't resent the English brides COM
ing here to join their husbands, but
do resent the fact that they were
brought here while our boys are still
abroad away from their wives and
children. The best years are slipping
by for these men, they are missing the
time of seeing their children grow up
My granddaughter was a little baby
when her daddy went away and her
only memory is of his picture. When
ever she sees father holding a baby,
she asks, rs that daddy" then she
says, my daddy has enough points"
Each night she says her prayers for her
daddy and wants his picture placed by
her bed SO he can laugh at her all
night"
Maybe you don't think this is heart
breaking for her daddy's mother to
hear? And I am sure can speak for
the daddy's wife, too. She has spent
lonely two years-not only lonely but
finding it hard to take care of baby
all alone
I guess because we don't go out and
chain ourselves to tree, or picket the
White House our sons and husbands
will be kept away just as long as pos
sible. M. E. A.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

The other night I attended a me-
mortal dinner in honor of Wendell
Willkie, arranged by Freedom House.
and devoted to the Willkie theme of
one world. There were a number of
excellent speeches, as we'll as drama
tization of the theme, but I could not
overcome an impression of emptiness
caused by the general avoidance of the
critical question: What kind of one
world?
The assumption seemed, in general,
to be that one world under one govern
ment was desirable in itself as the only
sure means of ending international war
But we have nevertheless just fought
the bitterest war of history to prevent
the creation of one world, which might
have realized the same objective. Hit
ler's one world would have been that of
tyranny, Theoretically constructed of
racial castles, the lowest order of them
slaves, the highest soldiers and admin
istrators, organized in a planned and
state directed economy, and controlled
against internal rebellion. Had the
whole passion of man been for peace and
for any sort of world government, and
at any price that would have kept peace,
Hitler's new order should have been ac-
ceptable; whole races would have per-
ished, and others been drastically re-
duced, but a total Fascist victory and a
world police state could have prevented
war. Yet the majority of mankind pre-
ferred war.
There is another concept of one world,
far more powerful in its appeal to mil
lions of oppressed races and insecure
nd hof ic of fHa
world U. S. S. r. 1t is a world, theoret-
ically at least, of racial and social
equality. Theoretically. some time, some
way, after whole classes have perished,
whole cultures been overthrown, whole
economies paralyzed by rebellions and
then taken over by single-minded
party priesthood, a new order would
emerge, like something out of the Book
of Revelation. All the goats having
been separated from the sheep, and the
saving remnant of man redeemed
through infinite terrors riding black
red, and pale horses, sweet peace and
brotherhood would reign eternally, even
without the instrumentality of a state
which would miraculously wither away.
There is, again, what was, think,
rather vaguely the Willkie concept of
one world of manifold social and eco
nomic systems, organized for liberty
under law, for which it was hoped a
beginning might be made in UNO. In
this concept no common social or eco
nomic theory need form the content
of the many states; each would be
respected, if it were not Fascist" or
aggressive; each would eschew ''ter-
ritorial or other aggrandizement"
colonial peoples, gradually obtaining
Evening star., 1946-02-22

received less than a majority of all
the votes cast.
The voting was light, the total being
only 36.7 per cent of the ballots cast
IN the district in 1914, but the signifi-
cant thing is that the ALP showing,
proportionately, was much better
than that of Tammany. This indi-
Gates. for one thing, that the CIO
electioneering tactics, particularly
in the left-wing unions, are ex-
tremely effective. And for another,
it suggests that Tammany is slip
ping. The logical conclusion is that
the American Labor party, while it
may be still unable to put forward
and elect its own candidates, has
demonstrated strength enough to
demand and secure greater conces-
Sions from the regular Democratic
organization than it has been able
to get in the past.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

government would be admitted with
equality, and an international police
force would enforce the law. This is
not one world in any totalitarian sense;
it is one world in respect only Of thou
shalt nots.
But this one world has been knocked
out by the speeches of Kalinin, Molotov
and Stain. They made it abundantly
clear that Russia will never trust
world half capitalist and half COM
munist; Comintern history throws doubt
on whether it would ever trust a world
half communist and half socialist.
The Western one world concept n:akes
no allowance for social and political
dynamism-those revolutionary forms of
expansionism which involve no direct
aggressions but are accomplished by the
devices by which Hitler, for instance,
took Austria: The capture of states from
within.
The late Prof. Karl Becker wrote a
book called How New Will the New
World Be?" in which he anticipated
some more sober realities The only
one world concept that has visibly
gained ground since the Germans laid
down their arms is that of the Soviets,
who believe in the power of the sword
(even If it be not drawn, the dyna-
mism of an idea and the tait accompli,
and thus combine the politics Of NO
hammed, Machiavelli and Alexander
the zealot, the diplomat, the conlueror.
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But our present peace actually rests
on the balance of power-and of power
that will cease to be in balance the
hn
Straits, the Red Sea and the Mediter-
ranean, for on that day they will control
Europe and the Middle East and thus
the Eastern Hemisphere.
One world might pe nearer oy hat
process, but it would not be the cne
world envisioned by Wendell Willkie.
For that is needed more than plati-
tudes. For that is needed grandiose
internal renovation and reform; recog-
milton that the age of romantic indi-
vidualism is past; rejection of every
motive of greed and grab; wholehearted
support to and cooperation with Britain
for dynamic, progressive colonial pro-
gram of economic reconstruction and
liberation; modern program for Eu-
rope, including Germany; the capacity
to face the fact that the 18th century
capitalist age is finished; the will, not
TO fight the Soviet Union, but to COM
pete with her for the allegiance of man.
kind, not to ourselves, nor for ourselves,
but for all men and women of good will
If We do not mobilize and quickly that
will, we shall see out of moral and
intellectual stagnation the disintegra-
ton of the West, and not by blows from
without but by bitter disturbances
within
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Evening star., 1946-02-22
Vice Admiral Wilkinson

Fate plays strange tricks, but none
could be stranger or more ironic
than the tragic death at Norfolk of
Vice Admiral Theodore Stark Will
kinson, veteran naval hero and
holder of numerous decorations, in
cluding the Congressional Medal of
Honor. During his long and color
ful combat career death brushed bv
him more than once, yet it was his
lot to fall victim to an unusual
peacetime accident while driving a
car onto ferry boat. In some un-
explained manner - presumably at
tributable to brake failure-the car
plunged through barrier and fell
overheard, carrying Admiral Wilkin-
son to the bottom with it. One of the
admiraPs last acts was to shove his
wife through a door of the car as it
began it's plunge. She was saved.
Admiral Wilkinson, a native of
Annapolis and a long time resident
OF Washington and vicinity, had
faced danger many times in his &C
tion-packed life at sea and ashore.
One of his narrowest escapes from
injury or death occurred during his
first experience with amphibian
warfare, at Vera Cruz in April, 1914.
Then an ensign, he led a company
OF sailors in a daring landing opera
ton conducted from the battleship
Florida. The objective of the un-
declared warfare was the Vera Cruz
customs house. His party surprised
the Mexican garrison and reached
shore without being hit, but the
invaders" had tough time of it
lodging bullets for two days before
returning to their ship. For this ac-
ton "above and beyond the call of
duty" Ensign Wilkinson received the
coveted Congressional Medal. Dur
ing the first World War his techni-
cal ingenuity played a major role
in the development of special ord
nance devices, including gas shells,
smoke screen apparatus, depth
charges and mines used in the North
Sea blockade.
1t was in World War II that he
saw amphibiouS warfare reach the
peak OF perfection, and he was cred
tied with having much to do with
the development of this type of op-
GRAFTON. After serving as chief of
naval intelligence during the first
months of the war, he went to the
Pacific, first as commander OF a bat
tleship division and later as deputy
South Pacific commander under
Admiral Halsey. He won his first
Evening star., 1946-02-22
The Pope Speaks

The address of Pope Plus XII de-
livered after the final ceremonies
inducing record number of new
cardinals was, as had been ex-
pected, a noteworthy pronounce
ment of the principles and policies
which implement the attitude and
conduct of the Roman Catholic
Church in these troublous times.
Speaking from the papal throne in
the spacious Hall of Benedictions of
st. Peters, his visible hearers, the
cardinals and spectators, were
SWelled into an illimitable audience
by the magic of radio broadcast
throughout the world.
The keynote of the Pope's address
was basically the same as that
struck by him on previous occasions.
This is a condemnation of and
warning against the erroneous
trend visible in contemporary life
which the Pontiff denominated "im-
perialism," but which might perhaps
be better described by the word "to-
talitarianism."
The word imperialism" as usual
ly employed today, denotes the rule
of great powers over more primi-
tive and backward peoples, together
with their economic exploitation.
The context of the Pope's address,
however, shows that he had a more
extensive meaning in mind. Mod
ern Imperialism" he declares, "does
not seek man out as such but the
material things and forces to which
it subjects him." It is an "unbridled
tendency toward expansion, which
has within it the gnawing of cease
less unrest, and brings it about that
to each demand made as needed for
security, there follows another and
another without end" And the
Pontiff concludes that this trend
carries in it germs which endanger
the very foundations of human in
tercourSe.
In similar vein, the Pope reiterates
his condemnation of that exaggera-
ton of the state from it's true mis-
sion as defender of the law" into
that leviathan of the Old Testa-
ment, which dominates everything
because it wants to draw almost
everything to itself"
In contrast to these destructive
trends, Pope Plus sets forth the con-
structive mission of the church
which begins with the individual
and strives "to form man, to model
and perfect him in the divine image.
:. Through men thus formed, the
church prepares for human society
basis on which it can rest Sc
curely."
The Pontiff likewise contrasted
imperialism" with the aim of the
church, which, though supranation-
al and universal in character. does
not plan "to include and somehow
embrace, as in gigantic world en-
pire, all human society"
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Teamwork in Peace

In calling for Nation wide OBJ
servance of Brotherhood Week from
February II to "a, President Truman
proposed that the American people
adopt as their slogan: "In peace as
in war-teamWork." The President
could not have expressed more sue
cinctly the spirit of the fine move
ment sponsored by the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
a movement designed to eliminate
group prejudices and hates and to
promote, in their stead, tolerance
and understanding. Teamwork won
for us historic victory over enemies
who sought by propaganda of hate
and intolerance to divide us and
thereby to make conquest easier.
Our teamwork on the fields of battle
was a teamwork of Americans of
all classes, creeds and colors, united
for victory. 1t was unity that
confounded both ends of the Axis
and that gave the lie to Hitler's
jaundiced appraisal of our "deca-
dent democracy"
There is just as much need for
teamwork, now that peace has come,
as there was during the heat of
battle. The same shoulder to- -shoul-
der unity which carried our forces
to Berlin and Tokyo is essential to
a successful solution of the prob
lens of peace. There is no room
for disunity or discrimination in any
form In tackling the big jobs of re-
employment, reconversion and eco
nomic readjustment which lie ahead.
These are tasks requiring the whole
hearted cooperation of a united
people. II the observance of Broth
erhood Week will help to keep alive
the spirit of teamwork which proved
so effective in combat, it will have
made an invaluable contribution to
the Nations material and moral
strength in the critical postwar
period now confronting the Amer
lean people.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

Distinguished Service Medal for his
historic Solomons campaign, re-
ceived a gold star in lieu of second
medal for leading a task force in
the Palau invasion and was given a
second star, signlfying a third DSM,
for commanding a task force at
Leyte and at Lingayen Gulf.
With typical modesty, Admiral
Wilkinson always insisted that he
personally won none of his medals
that his men won them for him.
His friends know that he earned
every citation, however, by hard
work, intelligence and great per-
sonal courage. His death is a dis
tinct loss to the Navy and to the
country he served so WELL
Evening star., 1946-02-22

war. 1t was a period of seeking equilib-
rum and understanding.
That is how the current strain should
be regarded. War will profit no one
But in the present situation is vastly
different element - the new United
States. In Victorian days we were con-
cerned with internal problems. In gen.
eral we followed an America for
Americans line. We were isolationists
in relation to Europe, although we were
slowly moving into the Orient.
Now, on the other hand, we are in
volved in world politics everywhere We
cannot withdraw. We cannot return
to the detachment of so years ago. And
we must use our power and Influence
to make world peace secure.
But our power is being frittered away
through disunity at home. That dis
unity manifests itself in several ways.
First, we have virile war of propaganda
at home. On the one hand, organiza-
tions, writer's and speakers are waging
bitter anti-Russian campaign of words.
Most of our old Socialists are like the
British Socialists, carrying on, day after
day, the old feud with Stain. On the
other side Is the domestic semi-Com-
munist line, calling its opponents Fas-
cists and counter
Labor and management still fail to
find an American formula for industrial
peace. The great productive power of
the Nation, which is our best assurance
of security, is losing ground every day.
The Army and Navy are debating the
Issue Of one two or three cahinet offi-
GERS. The political parties, with no con-
structive program on either side, are
pursuing merely critical and negative
tactics. And our foreign policy is full
of hesitancy and indecision.
Real peace in the world will wait until
there is real peace at home here in the
United States.
Hselessed By the Associated Newspapers Inc.l
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Letters to, The Star
Public Questions Discussed i,
Imagined Letter to Senator

To the Editor Of The Star:
Every now and then I am tempted to
write my Senator, but never seem to
get around to doing SO. Perhaps it is
because I am lazy or it may be that T
am influenced by friend who always
asks: Whats the use?" I admit I'm
lazy, and moreover that question has
some pertinence to it. .daresay many
others are likewise afflicted.
Occasionally, however, in my mind, I
compose letter, and in it I formulate
questions intended to be searching and
embarrassing. I ask my Senator, for
example, why he doesn't get behind
legislation to amend the Wagner Act,
as protection for the public. He must
understand, certainly as well as I do,
that there are parts of that act that are
scandalous. And then again I'd like to
inquire why he has permitted himself to
be fooled for years by Chester BowIes,
the widely touted lad who didn't hold
the line. Doesn't my Senator know that
Bowles had no more to do with keeping
prices down that you or I did? Or does
he think that Bowles also held the line
in the United Kingdom, Canada, Ar
gentina, Australia, Sweden, New Zea-
land or Mexico? A little honest re-
search would soon set him right by
raising the question of the efficacy of
price-fixing.
And then I'd like to know why my
Senator hasn't done something about
our armed forces, other than to poster
the War and Navy Departments to "get
Johnny home" and how it is that he
can view with apparent equaninity, in
these appalling times, the disintegration
preaching impotence. He must be able
to recognize that fact as clearly as John
Commoner or can see it. Sometimes
I feel that my good friend John should
be in the Senate instead of my Senator.
And why does my Senator waste his
time over the question of suffrage for
the District of Columbia? Does he
think it would be step forward to set
up another municipal political machine?
Doesn't he know the type of people who
would soon rise to power, if the right of
suffrage were granted the District? If
he doesn't, all he has to do is to look
around him, at Chicago, Boston, Balti-
more. New York and other points north.
east, south and west.
There are lots of other questions I
would like to ask my Senator, but. as
I said at the outset, am lazy fellow;
and then again up pops the question:
Whats the use?"
COL. H. H. PEEL,
United States Army. Retired.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,cn

Since 1912 the Moscow leaders have
been accustomed to being treated as
the spoiled children Of the United Ma
tions who had to be humored at any
cost. They are now indignant over
having the spotlight turned on one of
their recent "pranks."
The official Soviet communique deal
ing with the Canadian espionage case
carefully avoided mention OF the fact
that 1t was a Russian Embassy attache
who divulged the extent of Russian
spying in Canada with some side lights
on the activity in the United States
Moscow placed the whole matter on
high political plane, blaming the fail
ure of British Foreign Secretary Bevin's
policies at the. UNO Security Council
sessions for Canada's disclosures.
Espionage is as old as wars and has
changed with wars.
Hundreds of years ago the spies, Sc
lected from the lowest characters to be
found in any country. operated during
a war within and behind the lines of
the enemy and attempted to uncover
information on the position and
strength of the opposing armies
But as wars changed in character, so
OAu C~oPioAd6C. SPCSidl
were set up within the departments
handling military matters, later called
war departments or ministries. Able
officers, who studied the war potential
of all nations, were placed in charge, but
the actual spying was put in the hands
of hirelings for whom the respective
governments never assumed RESPONSE
bility. When caught and brought to
trial by a foreign power they were Of
flcially disavowed and had to take
whatever punishment was inflicted on
them. In wartime it is an inglorious
death, either before a firing squad or
by hanging. In peacetime it is, as a
rule, long term at hard labor. FIRE.
quently, when two countries catch each
others spies there is an off -the-record
deal whereby the spies are liberated and
the score evened up.
In modern times, particularly since
mechanical, electrical and chemical sci
ence entered into the war picture, the
intelligence services-the official and
inoffensive name given the spy organ
izations-have had to use more deli
cate methods than previously, when
only nations armament and man.
power had to be considered.
The new intelligence services are
divided into two branches One which
operates in the open attempts to ap-
praise the economic, social and indus