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Evening star., 1946-02-03

also the concept Of that supercor-
poration called the state, resulting
in national and international collapse
Of justice. The tragedies Of nations,
sourced in moral maladjustment, re-
suit in national wickedness and in
ternational crime. And for neither,
it is slovenly supposed. need any one
answer to God
The fertility OF this practical error
In spawning social and political Ills
may escape the superficial glance.
But 1t does not evade detection by
the sentinels on the ramparts of the
Kingdom of God. The alarm, rung
loudly as Indifferent generations
paused neither to listen nor to act.
was pointedly sounded once more by
the supreme pontiff in his Christmas
message Of 1912. Again the world
was categorically warned against
corporate contempt Of God, especially
on the part Of the state, and against
q reputation Of corporate destiny
subordinate to the moral law.
This very pronouncement lays the
error that the church is but a port
of missing men. The supreme
pontif manifestly offers guiding
hand in the social and political
amelioration of the world. His con-
cept Of the church's mission is cer-
tainly not that she Is only ferry
man on the River Styx. Now, as
long as the erroneous view of the
church's mission prevails, she will be
resisted by the prosperous and the
powerful with the petulance charac-
teristic Of the adolescent chafing
under the unwanted protection of an
anxious mothers arms. The leaders
Of men must come to find in the
church source of supernatural life.
For that indeed she is.
II am come that they may have
life and have it more abundantly"
This was the vitalizing mission of the
church's founder; this is also the
destiny of the church.
She indeed has ointment Tor the
sinners wounds, but treasures jeal-
ously the bread of life. She min
listers salve indeed to the sinners
shame, but glorifies in salute the
vigor of the saint. She indeed stirs
the waters of restoration but always
with vision of the life they will be-
stow. She is not only regenerative
of lost vitality, she is the very heart
through which all supernatural life
must flow.
How, then, can it be said, that the
great men of the world need not SAL
vation? One might as well contend
that the world can dispense with
moral life. If economic and political
corporate activity moves like an i'm
moral corpse in a world it has made a
grave, the cause is not difficult to
find. For them all, as for the world.
a soul must be found and a soul that
can be saved.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Let the Senute Decide

The real question to be decided
tomorrow by the Senate Judiciary
Committee is whether the entire
Senate should pass judgment on the
claim of some 100000 citizens of
the United States for representation
in their Government.
Perhaps there are some members
of the Judiciary Committee who
have doubts concerning the particu-
lar wording of the Sumners-Capper
resolution, but that fact, If it be a
fact, does not mean that the Senate
should be denied opportunity to
debate the question, and this is one
reason to hope that the committee
will report the resolution tomorrow
and put it on the Senate calendar.
Although very few members of the
Senate would be willing to put them
selves arbitrarily on record as op-
posing the right of citizens to vote,
there are some Senators who feel
that to give the District representa-
ton in the Senate, as we'll as in the
House, would confer on the District
something analogous to the status
of State. There has been advanced
even the bizarre contention that
representation in Congress for
Washington, Washington being
city, would lead to demands from
other cities for comparable recog-
milton.
If points such as these are trou-
bling any members of the Senate,
then they are debatable. But they
should be debated-not with view
to digging up excuses to deny the
citizens of Washington the right to
vote-but with real purpose to take
appropriate action to remove all
obstructions to their exercise of this
right.
The -Capper resolution, If
approved, would merely give Con-
gress a power it now lacks-the
power to decide the degree Of repre-
sentation in the Congress and the
electoral. college that Congress may
consider wise. 1t does not bind Con-
gress~ to any irrevocable course Of
action. 1t does not guarantee the
people of the District anything. 1t
merely enables Congress to do some
thing that, without amendment OF
the Constitution, it could not do.
But the decision as to what may or
should be done is left entirely to
Congress.
BY voting tomorrow to report the
resolution, the members of the
Judiciary Committee would merely
be giving the Senate an opportunity
to decide whether it wants to take
a preliminary but essential step in
the process of determining what
voting privileges, if any, are to be
conferred upon the people of the
District And there is sound reason
to hope that the committee, in
simple justice to 100000 good Amer
leans, will be willing to do this.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

II am come that they may have
life more STANDARDIZATION x.l0). 4
Since corporation has no soul, it
can derive no benefit from an insti-
tuition established for the salvation
Of souls. A defense Of this or some
other kind against the payment Of
tithes was needed in Massachusetts,
until 1883 when the Congregational
Church was disestablished by a
State constitutional amendment, for
prior to that action the established
church was not affected by the first
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion because this acted as restraint
only upon Congress.
Without insisting on the obligation
OF commercial corporation to pay q
tithe, one finds nevertheless In the
epigrammatic defense just described
two latent errors that underlie the
desperate state of spiritual bank
ruptcy apparent everywhere.
One of these errors is that corpo-
rations are not responsible for their
conduct. The other Is that the
church is kind of port of missing
men.
With the first of these erroneous
views our courts, it is true, do not
wholly agree. Compensation for
damages Is required Of corporations,
and they can be punished for crimes.
at least If the latter do not involve
certain elements that are thought
possible only to rational physical
person, such as malice. As to these,
there is frequent admission that the
law can punish, not the authority
primarily guilty. but only some hap
less agent whose economic needs con-
quered whatever moral sense he had
in the service of leviathan.
But we have no courts to hold cor
porations responsible in the sphere Of
the law Of God. Universally, If
thoughtlessly, the corporation is con-
ceived to be exonerated from re-
sponsibility to Gods law. Thus q
kind OF negative moral justification
Is bestowed on all its derelictions and
the sins of all who cooperate in
them. Even the hapless agent man
ages kind Of immunity in the form
of conscience, If he can but escape the
forum Of the state. 1t is thought
that he had Of necessity to be about
his company's, not his Fathers,
business. A new twist Is thus given
the admonition of Jesus, You can
not serve God and Mammon"
Matthew, vi.21. It is indolently
assumed by the multitudes that a
corporation never was organized to
serve God and that no one can be
held for its failure to do so.
Though it is seldom asserted out
side the precincts of the academy in
states that are not totalitarian, the
virus latent in this view of the cor
poration's responsibility permeates
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Uniustified Outburst


In the absence of more substantial
evidence than was contained in his
initial broadSide, Legion Commander
Stelle's surprising attack on Vet
erans' Administrator Omar Bradley
appears to be as lacking in merit
as it was wanting in temperatures.
Even without benefit of General
Bradley's effective reply to Mr..
Steele's charges, any unbiased per-
son could not but have been i'm
pressed by the manifest unfairness
Of the Legion commanders implied
demand for removal of General
Bradley before he had had an ade-
quate opportunity to demonstrate
what he can do. No administrator,
short of a miracle man, could have
achieved, in the six months General
Bradley has been in Office, all the
things that Mr.. Stelle's press re-
lease categorically accused General
Bradley of having failed to do. These
charges ranged from failure to keep
abreast of correspondence to failure
to centralize VA Offices now scat
tered in numerous buildings in
crowded Washington.
When 1t Is considered that dur
ing the time General Bradley has
been Veterans Administrator the
number of veterans constituting
actual or potential VA clients in
creased from 6,688, 900 to more than
double that number, that the num-
Der Of disability claims by World
War II veterans jumped from less
than a million to more than two mil
lion and that of 1884, 900 letters re-
ceived, 1887 900 were answered, the
magnitude of the job which General
Bradley accepted, like good soldier,
last August is plainly evident. 1t was
because of the very bigness of the
undertaking that President Truman,
with widespread public approval
including that of the Legion-as-
signed to the task man universally
respected by servicemen for his
qualities and attainments as soldier,
leader and administrator. It is dis
tressing to have the national COM
mander Of the American Legion
making public unsupported crit
icisms calculated to shake the faith
Of veterans in their sincere friend
and top-level advocate.
In a letter sent to all members Of
Congress, Mr.. Stelle purported to
express the views Of not only the
American Legion but the American
people as well. He is taking in too
much ground. He does not repre-:
sent the American people in this
matter, and, as President Truman
himself longtime Legion member
pointed out in defending General
Bradley-he certainly did not speak
for all members of the Legion when
he delivered his unfortunate attack.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Meet the u. S. A.

Tne institute OF international
Education, with headquarters in
New York, has brought out publi-
cation for foreign students which
cannot fail to be of very great in
terest to many American students
also. It is entitled: Meet the
U. S. A. runs to one hundred and
eighty pages Of text and illustra-
tions, sells at cost of production
fifty cents copy. But the most
notably important fact about it is
that its author is visitor from
China. His name is Ching-kun
Yang, he is graduate of the
University Of Michigan with the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy, has
been successful newspaper editor
and currently is teaching in the
University of Washington.
DR.. Yang wrote his book originally
in Chinese, then translated it into
English. The manuscript was read
and approved by members of the
staff of the Division of Cultural CO.
operation Of the Department of
State. 1t was printed and is being
circulated by the Institute because,
as DR.. Stephen Duggan says in a
foreword, it is different" from other
works relating the experience and
observations of foreign students in
America. 1t contains a searching
analysis of American civilization and
culture" describes briefly but ade-
quately all phases of our life: Polit-
ical, economic, social, cultural and
industrial" Churches and labor
unions are discussed as though they
had been invented or discovered only
recently. The parts played by the
chain store and the syndicated
column come in for consideration
mo activity has escaped the keen
eye Of DR.. Yang"
But that eye has been friendly.
DR.. Duggan explains: "The entire
book is suffused by loving enthu-
Siasm for the American dream" It
begins with the affirmation: Amer
lea is new, appallingly new" and "the
newness of America can be seen from
historical chronology, but more obvi-
ously from personal experience. !"
On other pages are a wealth of
gentle, sometimes naive, always
philosophical interpretations of
things and people and their enter
prises which are fascinating as seen
through DR.. Yang's optical and in
tellectual faculties. His book may
not be ''best seller" but "a reading
Of it" surely, as Dr.. Duggan believes,
will give an average citizen OF the
United States "a more intimate
knowledge OF our own way Of life
and an increased but chastened
pride in his country"
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Capital Sidelights
BIZ Will p. Kennedy.

The House paused in It's considera-
ton of the first appropriation bill to
pay tribute to Gen. Robert E. Lee, mill
tary leader of THE Lost Cause" the
greatest commander Of the English
speaking race" who when about to sur
render told his men: I'VE were not
defeated-we were starved out" Chair
man Cannon of the Appropriations Com
mittee displayed photograph OF Lee,
different in that "it Is the only known
photograph of the general which has
not been retouched and which has never
been published" Concerning the picture.
he told this story: His great-aunt had
four sons who served for four years
under Lee in the Army Of Northern
Virginia. Shortly after the close of the
war, their mother boarded the local
Rock, near Pehbleton, her home, on her
way to an Episcopal church convention
in Richmond Gen. Lee, also a delegate,
was aboard the same packet. When
about to land, Mr.. Cannon's great-aunt
approached the general, explained that
him and pleaded that she hoped he
would send her his portrait. Lee took
her address, but did not promise. A
few days after her return home she
received package from Richmond, con-
tanning four autographed photographs
of Lee one for each of her sons. It was
one of those portraits that Mr.. Cannon
exhibited in the Speakers lobby.
He also recalled the services Of the
late Maj. Charles M. Stedman, with
whom he had served in Congress, the
last surviving Confederate ofncer to be
the Confederate Army as a private,
fought heroically as captain under
direct command of Gen. Lee in the Bat
tie Of the wilderness, where he was
wounded in the leg, later surrendering
as a major at Appomattox.
Subsequently, when Lee was president
of washington and Lee University, at
State celebration. a young woman car
rying child pressed to the platform.
Then lifting the child she asked Lee to
take him in his arms, saying: when he
grows up I want to tell him that Gen.
Lee held him." Lee complied and,
handing the child back. admonished her:
"Teach him he must deny himself"
Representative Case of South Dakota
declared: "If there Is single text on
any single theme that might be handed
to the United States today it would be
Teach the people of the United States
they must deny themselves Repre-
sentative Rankin of Mississippi added:
"It is pretty coed time to teach the
rest of the world that We are going to
deny them some"
1t was Mr.. Rankin who pointed out
that Maj Gen. Maurice of the British
Army has written life Of Lee, compar-
ing him with all the great generals of
the English-speaking race, concluding
with Marlborough and wellington, stat
ing that the latter was great military
leader on the battlefield, as great as
Lee, but that wellington's men did not
love him, while as Lee rode away from
Appomattox after surrender his men
tried to touch his horse Therefore" !"
he quoted Maurice. II place Lee above
wellington as the greatest commander
of the English speaking race"
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Too Little Condor

Some people have profeSsed to be
shocked by the revelation that there
was secret agreement at Yalta to
turn the Kuriles over to the Soviet
Union. Perhaps there is some JUS
tif1cation for this. But the decision
to let the Russians have these islands
is not nearly SO shocking as the
manner in which this Government
mishandled the incident and misin-
formed the American people.
Last February % the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt told small group of
newspapermen that his message of
the following day to Congress on the
Yalta conference would not tell all
that certain secret understandings
had been reached. About a month
later Mr.. Stettinius, then Secretary
OF State, evaded questions about
secret agreements made at Yalta.
Shortly before the Potsdam con-
ference, presumably sometime in
July, President Truman learned of
the Roosevelt Churchill Stain agree
ment to let Russia have the Kuriles.
Secretary of State Byrnes has said
that he did not learn Of the agree
ment until latter w day." which
came on September 2.
But on September 4 Mr.. Byrnes
held press conference at which he
indicated that Russia would get the
Kuriles. He stated, however, that
while the matter was broached at
Yalta and discussed" there as an
informal plan, no agreement" had
been reached or even attempted.
He added that he wanted it clearly
understood that the United States
had made no commitment on the
matter Of the Kuriles.
This erroneous information was
published in the newspapers and
went unchallenged. II President
Truman, who knew the facts at the
time, saw the reports Of the Byrnes'
conference, he did not publicly cor
rect them. Nor did Mr.. Byrnes
correct his own misstatements when
he subsequently learned that he had
been in error.
Nothing more was done until jan
uary % of this year, when Under
secretary of State Acheson, who ap-
parently knew little more of the
facts than the American people
although almost a year had passed
since the agreement was made,
stated his belief that the agreement
provided merely for Russian "occu-
patton" of the Kuriles after the de-
feat of Japan. The reaction from
Moscow was prompt and the truth at
last was brought into the open. Mr..
Acheson was definitely wrong, the
Moscow radio announced. The IDEAL"
at Yalta was that the Kuriles were
to be handed over to the U. s. S. r."
This was confirmed last week by
Mr.. Byrnes and President Truman.
So much for the chronology of
sorry episode. At best it reveals an
utterly deplorable absence of liaisoTl
among the top policy-mahng Of
ficials of this Government. And If
one wants to take less charitable
view OF the matter, it might be said
to reflect lack of candor in dealing
with the American public, COM
pounded by failure to correct mis-
statements of fact until virtually
compelled to do SO by disclosures
from Moscow. And all of this long
after the stated reason for the orig
inal secrecy had ceased to exist.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

places where the snow drifted deep
and men and lads had to shovel
spell before the horses could get
through. It was alternate hard work
and fun. But on sunny cold day
after a storm had finished, it was
good job to break out the roads.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

existed. That Is the danger to the
peace OF the world which sets us
one against another. It is this
suspicion which causes misunder-
standing and makes one wonder
what is the motive behind It,"
If there is still place in the world
for plain speaking, Mr.. Bevin's words
should contribute to better inter-
national understanding in clearer
atmosphere.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

There are two kinds of Americans:
Those who are old enough to re-
member Buster Brown and Tige
and those who. being younger. can
remember only Little Orphan Annie
and Sandy.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

Lewis Carroll never exactly went
hungry for lack Of penny, but 1t
is interesting to speculate on what
he would have thought of all that
1880 received by Alice in 1928 for
the manuscript Of her adventures
In Wonderland.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

present welfare organization is cur
rently under way under the auspices Of
the Council Of Social Agencies. Advice
and counsel OF civic leaders should be
sought and given careful consideration
before any change Is made.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Or d Rottie?

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Constituents are sending baby shoes
and booties to members of Congress
with pleas to. Send my daddy home"
An appropriate gift, In return would be
a nice cry-baby dolf
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Definition

From the Pratt tKans) Union.
After investigating for two months. we
have found out what an income is. 1t is
something you can't live without or
within.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Spiritual Bankrubtcy

By the Reu. Jerome D. Hannah, S. r. D., LII. J. c. D,
Professor OF La Catholic Uniuerstv Of America
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Status Held Endangered by Clash
With Commissioners

department status directly under the
Commissioners.
The proposal to place the Jurisdiction
under the Commissioners is not new.
Auditor Dan Donovan, the strong man
Of District government until his death
in 1910, had long sought to centralize
all District government and public serv-
ices under the city heads. It took a
row with the welfare board over ap-
pointment of welfare director in 1941
to prompt the present Board of Com
missioners to seek the change.
There are good arguments for and
against the plan. Proponents feel it
would wipe out incidents like the Gill
and receiving home cases and result in
better welfare administration. Oppo-
nents feel the change would rob the
unrepresented District citizens Of the
small measure of participation they
possess in their Government.
If there are to be changes in basic
law, they should follow only the most
careful and objective study. The We'll
fare Act Of 1926 creating the Welfare
Board and consolidating under it the
work OF several agencies, including the
old Board of Charities, was the OUT
growth OF years Of study by citizens
commission on welfare legislation under
Judge Frederick L. Siddons OF the then
District Supreme Court. The commits
sion had the advice and counsel Of an
expert 1rom the Russell Sage Foundssio
In New York. An examination OF the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-08
POLITICAL
FOR RECORDER.

| wish to announce mat I am a
candidate for the office of Recorder
to succeed myself subject to the
Democratic Primary May 25, 1916.
| solicit your support and coopera-
ton, and assure you that it will be
deeply appreciated.
If | am the choice of the people
| will fill the office to the best OF
my ability as l have in the past.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-08
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I offer myself as candidate for
Constable of Henderson Township,
subject to the Democratic Primary,
May 25, 1916.
Your vote and support will be
greatly appreciated. Formerly a
member of the Police Department
for ~ years.
G.. SAM EASTWOOD
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-08
FOR CORONER.

I am a candidate for Coroner of
Vance County in the Democratic
Primary to be held May IS. Your
vote and support will be greatly APP
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-08
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support appreciated.
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