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Evening star., 1946-04-24
Laborer's Wife Pleads for OPA

To the Editor Of The Star:
Will you please print my letter for
the benefit Of wives of the little people?
BY that mean women like myself. My
husband is a laborer, and we can only
have a certain pay and no more. We
are in the low-income group.
This Is a plea for the retention OF
OPA. Wages have not risen in &C
cordance with living costs even with
the latest raise. With price control we
have a chance of fair living. Can't
those men in Our Congress and Senate
see that when they cripple the OPA,
they cripple people all over the Nation?
Many mistakes have been made by
OPA but as whole it is of a great
benefit to the Nation. We women who
do our own daily marketing know these
benefits and we also know that if We
are deprived of them, this Nation will
suffer a chaos hitherto unknown.
When prices go up so a man can't
buy for his children, can he be blamed
II he steals food?
In the name Of all humanity, this
must not happen. We want to live a
good life and We need the OPA for at
least another two years There's a
chance by then that our Nation will
be on a more even keel.
I remember the aftermath OF World
War No. !, and 1t isn't a nice memory
We have weathered War No in fair
shape. Let's not undo 1t now. I beg
Senators and congressman to not let
the OPA down. If they do they may
be responsible for hungry children in
the United States OF America. The little
people voted Congressman and women
into ONCE SO that they would represent
their best interests. Will they be doing
this If they allow our price control to
go under?
Please think this over, then pray 1t
over with God
MRS. s. J. LITZINGER,
Snroul pa
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Manners DepIorobIe
From the Toronto Telegram.

FROM the Toronto Telegram.
Congested streetcars and restaurants
have not encouraged the exercise of
public manners which in deteriorating,
have neither prompted better service
nor improved convenience and temper.
Men and women who would consider 1t
indecent to eat peas with a knife-a
practice which is likely to injure no one
but themselves-have apparently other
opinions when 1t comes to bargaining
and crashing and throwing their weight
about to the injury of other peoples
feet, shins and tempers The public In
London under bombs showed more re-
straint and courtesy entering an air raid
shelter than the local citizenry exhibit
entering a streetcar.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Letters to The Star
A Technical Expert Testifes
On Inadequate Paw

To the Editor Of The Star
write to thank you for your straight
forward editorial published on "Inade-
quate Pay Bills" 1t is vigorous
statement in a good cause.
Perhaps in this connection you may
be interested in the following analysis
of my experience: Over Is years ago
1 was appointed, fresh from graduate
school, to scientific position in another
large city. After more than five years
service, 1 transferred to my present
bureau to take up new work in con-
nection with aviation. The work grew
until 1t required staff of IA persons
1t as not only my responsibility to super
wise this staff but to arrange for the
transfer of funds from flve different
sources to maintain it.
The results of the work included
savings to the Government which COW
cred the entire cost of the work. They
included two patents given to the public
with no personal profit. They included
improvements in nearly every type of
equipment used in the field concerned
They included the introduction of new
types Of equipment to perform functions
so important that military agencies
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
to accomplish those functions during the
war.
Along with supervising this develop
ment work, became the chairman of
one Of the technical committees of an
engineering society and the vice preSi-
dent OF another national committee
Twice I was sent to Europe to represent
our professional interests at interna-
tional meetings. For several years I
was the United States representative
on two international technical COM
mittees.
And how has my salary increased?
If we allow that the present price level
is 1.33 as compared with the prewar
level, the prewar value of my present
salary Is $720 year more than the salary
I received when appointed. If we de-
duct from the $720 the prewar equiva-
lent of the deduction now made from
my salary for retirement, in my origi-
nal position I had a better retirement
status without any deduction, and the
prewar value Of the income tax on my
salary, there remains net increase Of
$40 a year in my remuneration from
the government.
Who is suffering the greater injustice
as the result of rising prices, a technical
man in my situation or the junior men,
ber of my group who gets ST 900 year
for work which would not have COM
manded more than $1,260 year when
I entered the Government service?
A CIVIL SERVANT.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
On the Job
From the Brantford Expositor.

From the Brantford Expositor.
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery
predicts that British occupation of Ger
many will last at least 10 years. The
British policy in that area has not been
spectacularly publicized, but at any rate
1t is policy and appears to be working.
And it is comforting to know that one
country Is going to take on the Job all
Allied countries should be doing
Evening star., 1946-04-24

There seems to be no shortage Of
materials wherewith to build new
betting booths at race tracks.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Young Soldiers and Crime Wave
To the Editor of Tha Rtar.

Young Soldiers and Crime Wave
To the Editor Of The Star:
The confession of Chairman May of
the House Military Affairs Committee
that lit is wrong to put children in the
Army" is noted with feeling. Many
people have known 1t for long time.
Will we hear Representative Wadsworth
ever admit this basic truth?
When the head of the Police Depart
ment and the Commissioners have to
bubble over the question, rs there or
Is there not a countrywide crime
wave?" the gentlemen who have insisted
that inducing the Nations minor chill
dren into the Army would make them
better citizens-well, what will these
gentlemen say? If military life makes
such admirable citizens-and there has
been an unusually good opportunity to
try to make them-should we or should
we not have bubble about armed rob-
berry, assault with deadly weapons, rape
and hold-ups?
My own personal and intimate con-
tact with numbers of our youngsters
returned from war is that, far from
having acquired a holy dread of law
and respect for the rights of others, they
actually have learned how to circum-
vent the law and in fact are inclined to
be "scoff-laws." Naturally this covers
only certain percentage of the whole,
but after all, do we or do we not have
crime wave, and is it or is it not due
to veterans?
Yet there are legislators who would
put every boy at IS years into the Army.
God save us!
Evening star., 1946-04-24
RICHARD L. FELDMAN.

Retorts to Mr.. Hurban
To the Editor of The Star:
If Mr.. Hurban, the Czechoslovak
Minister to the United States had not
denied Constantine Browns statement
that there were Russian troop concen-
trations in his country, many of us
still might have believed that Mr..
Browns information possibly was based
on unreliable information. We have
learned, however, from long experience
that when Moscow takes the trouble to
make one of its satellite underlings issue
a denial of this sort, the stories are
true. Mr.. Hurban would serve his master
in the Krenlin better by maintaining q
wise silence. Veritas, O. j. DEKOM.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Little Strikes
From. the London Times:

FIoh. bne LonQon 1lmeS.
The strikes at Smithfeld and South
ampton have been a reminder that.
while the period since the war has been
singularly free from major disputes, the
country does not suffer from the con-
slant pinpricks of minor stoppages. Last
year there were 2,293 stoppages and
2,840,000 working days were lost. In the
first five months of this year there were
978 stoppages and 100000 working days
lost. which Is about the same annual
rate. 1t represents considerably less
than OIL per cent of the total working
days, and compares extremely favorably
with the record of the years after the
First World War, when 34,966,0 900 days
were lost in 1919, 1886 900 in 1920. and
85,872,000 in 1921. 1t also compares IA
vorably with the conditions obtaining
in the United States, and may be due
in part to the fact that there is a Lahour
Government in power here. Neverthe-
less the loss of between 100000 and
100000 working days year should not
pe accepted as inevitable.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Any foreign policy, to be reasonable,
must be consistent and recognize the
limits of possibility. A policy of un-
limited interventionism will lead either
to war, or to repeatedly taking stands
only to retreat from them to the point
where the United States can suffer the
effects of a lost war without ever having
fought it.
In the military agreements made re-
garding the limits of the advances of
the British and American armies in
the political choices made regarding the
acceptance or rejection of specific re-
gimes and at Teheran, and Yalta, the
American President agreed to measures
which could only be interpreted by the
Russians as constituting an extended
sphere of Russian influence on the
Baltic, in eastern Europe and in the
Balkans.
All these agreements were, of course,
modified by restrictions, such as pro-
visions for free" elections. But their
vagueneSs, the fact that nothing in them
constituted guarantees, that there were
no provisions against political arrest
no definitions of "collaborator,' and no
provisions at all for some states, must
have indicated to the Russians that the
restrictions were not seriously meant
and that, in fact, the western powers
had suffered fundamental disintereSt-
edness in the Soviet border states.
Neither Mr. Roosevelt. nor Mr.
Churchill, could have been under illu-
sions about the nature of the Beirut or
Tito regimes, and they should have been
under none regarding the political pro-
grams of these Soviet agents, for I
presume both countries have intelligence
services.
Beirut and Tito had been Comintern
and Soviet agents for years. Both had
been active since the last war in de-
veloping plans for Communist Danubian
and Balkan federations, as elaborated
IN the Communist Confederation Bal
kanique published in the '20s in Vienna,
with which both were associated.
The program there foreshadowed is
now being Systematically pursued and
Trieste, and the Dardanelles. 1t also,
of necessity, includes eastern Austria
and Vienna, as key points
The partition of Europe was thus an
accomplished fact after Teheran, Yalta,
and Potsdam. The Dardanelles issue
was not settled, neither was the issue Of
Trieste, nor the economic control of the
Danube. But Turkey, by the other
agreements, was isolated in the Balkans
and the entire length of the Danube,
except In Austria, was put under Soviet
control, as was the hinterland of the
port of Trieste. The logical dynamics
of the situation would lead inexorably
to the eventual absorption of the entire
area, and the Soviet rulers, who are
nothing if not logical, could hardly have
drawn other deductions than that in
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Workers on the Farm

The average urbanite has little
understanding of the actual work
ing conditions on the majority OF
Americas farms. In recent arti-
Gle the National Grange Monthly
summarized the results of Nation
wide survey which uncovered some
interesting points. They may seem
a paradox to the city dweller who
has been reading of record d-breaking
crops and the high income level of
farmers. 1t is a fact that during the
war the Nations farms with 25
per cent manpower shortage and
without much new equipment in
creased food production by approx
mately 35 per cent.
However, the Grange survey shows
that farm operators today get less
than so per cent as much work per
man as they did in 1885. This is a
paradoxical situation until one
knows that a major revolution has
been occurring in American agricul-
ture. The mechanization of farming
has made it possible for one man to
produce more than two did a decade
ago. There are over 100000 trac-
tors in use today, an increase OF 100
per cent since 1929. New types of
machinery are lessening the work OF
hay making and hay storage. Com
bines, corn pickers and milking ma
chimes allow one man, or man and
his family to handle large acreages
and herds. New farm equipment
plus electricity is taking much OF
the drudgery from farm work.
The other angle of the problem is
more difficult to solve. Farm workers
have put in long hours. The modern
trend is toward both shorter work
ing day and a shorter week. The
forty hour week is becoming more
and more common in business, in
dustry and the retail trades. If
farm work compels long hours and
a six-day week with chores on Sun
days, there is no reason to believe
that able and ambitious young peo-
pie will stay on farms. This is a
problem that deeply concerns farm
leaders. We need strong rural
society. A Nation of 140,000,000
people, 80 per cent urban, must be
certain of its food supply. Workers
Evening star., 1946-10-16
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,yr

China the Marking government Is ad-
vancing from victory to victory only be-
cause of the open support lent to 1t by
the American government.
British troops are already in Greece,
although withdrawal is slowly pro-
ceeding, and it would require little in
the way of provocation to involve them
in Greece's civil war What the United
States may do would be part of some
action by the United Nations. Thus,
the possibility of foreign forces coming
to the aid of the present Greek govern
ment is not to be put lightly aside.
On the Lertist side of the situation,
Russia has enjoyed considerable success
with a device which is readymade for
just such foreign aggressionS without
involving the Soviet Union directly.
That is the maintenance of a false dis
tinction between the U. S. S. r. and two
of its component republics-White Rus
sia and the Ukraine
j.
We have not yet seen the fullest de-
velopment and use of this device OF
ostensibly autonomous segments of the
Soviet Union for the accomplishment
of missions which the Soviet Union as
whole desires to stay free of. These
missions may be either diplomatic or
military, and the situation in Greece
just like the Dardanelles situation
would provide ideal testing grounds for
either.
The Greek civil war is still in its
formative stages, although front lines
are beginning to become roughly dis
cernible, with the Leftists concentrat-
ing their efforts in Northern Greece.
allegedly with the purpose of establish
ing an autonomous republic there.
Certainly the struggle will become
worse before it becomes better, and the
question is just how deeply foreign in
terests will become involved before the
issue is decided. Just as certainly a
Leftist victory in Greece will encourage
Soviet Russia to proceed to the next step
on her path of Xpansion-establishm
of a Russian hold on the DardanelleS.
Spain, it will be remembered, en-
couraged Hitler TO engulf Austria and
to launch his campaign against Czecho
slovakia, which led to Munich and in
turn encouraged him to attack Poland.
The one thing that may deter the
Kremlin from challenging the West
Immediately and directly would be a
defeat for the Lttist campaign in
Greece, and that may require the first
application of United Nations military
measures.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Outlook in India

Though subject to reservations, 1t
is cheering news that the Moslem
League has agreed to the new British
proposal for its participation in the
interim government set up as first
step toward making India free ana
independent.
Last spring, when Britain pre-
sented a complete plan for lnde-
pendence, there was hope that
India's bitterly divided political and
religious groups would be able to
unite on it. Their ancient and en-
venomed differences, however, proved
too deep for that. The predoml-
nantly Hindu Congress Party went
along with the proposals., but the
Moslem League-the second most
important element-boycotted them.
The result was an outbreak OF
bloody summer rioting that shocked
the world, delayed the country's
march toward government, and
served to confirm London's warning
that anarchy might quickly ensue
should British forces withdraw prior
to a bona fide agreement among the
native factions.
The proposal which the Moslem
League leaders have now accepted
gives them five SeatS-as against six
for the Congress Party-in the in
term government. Considering that
they are far less numerous than the
Hindus, this is clearly a better-than-
fair apportionment. If the arrange
ment promotes real cooperation, the
next step for India will be conVen-
ton to draw up a constitution along
the lines suggested by Britaln-a
constitution designed to keep the
country in one piece, protect the
rights of religious and political mi
norities, provide broad provincial
autonomy, and create central gov
ernment acting for all groups in the
field of defense and foreign affairs.
Under such a government, the In
dian people would be a completely
free and independent nation either
within or outside the British Com
monWealth.
Both as regards the future of
India itself and the development of
a stable peace throughout Asia, this
is a prospect of profound historical
Importance, and the Moslem Leagues
latest attitude is an encouraging
sign that it may well materialize.
In any event, Britain cannot be
blamed for any failure in this re-
spect. AS matters stand today, it
is up to the Indians themselves to
decide whether they are to be
great new self-governing people.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

agreeing to these dispositions We had
resigned ourselves to their obvious re-
suits
This is not by way of defending the
agreements, which this column considers
morally and politically reprehensible.
We collaborated to destroy every vestige
of political and personal freedom for as
many people as there are citizens of the
United States. Since we have also
established the concept of collective
guilt" whereby each of us is to be held
responsible for what our governments
plindly obey" it is necessary to protest
for the record
But the processes of history are not
reversible, nor are the provisions, re-
strictions. and safeguards of the San
Francisco charter regarding the human
rights of individuals and small states
either adjudicable, or enforceable, ex-
cept by war If and when the Soviet
Union desires to take the Dardanelles,
We shall have put her in a position to
do SO, ana that moment will come when
She thinks she is strong enough or we
are weak enough. If, then. We intend
to fight for the Dardanelles, We should
make that clear, because only that GER
tainty would prevent the consummation
o. an age-old Russian aspiration. II
we do not SO intend, We should use what
ever concessions We make to wiring
other concessions, under conditions
which We can guarantee enforcement
We keep trying to recover losses while
losing, or endangering what we still hold.
through lack of any rational program of
our own.
, We went into this war without a Eu-
ropean program and this moment even
have no western program.
x *
From an economic viewpoint, for in
stance, the Soviet proposals for Trieste
are more rational than ours, for they, at
least, would keep it integrated with its
hinterland and communication system
which we are proposing to give away. As
an Italian, or international port it
will be dead. We are proposing to kill
Trieste rather than let Tito murder, de-
port, or "forcibly convert its hundreds
of thousands of Italians.
Our revulsion is noble but belated. For
Trieste not only involves Yugoslavia and
Italy, but Austria, Czechosloyakia, Ro-
mania and Hungary, where we have
little influence, since we abandoned our
power.
If Eastern Europe is ever recovered for
freedom, short of war-which would give
it the final coup de grace-it will not be
by verbal interventionismsb but by the Gre
alton of a new free, unified Europe from
what is left of the European nations,
and the br sakdown of the Soviet satel-
lites through misrule, inherent in the
imposition of Quisling regimes upon
peoples that have long known or aspired
to freedom
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Evening star., 1946-10-16
New York Eniumu

The voters of New York, especially
those in New York City. have gone
off the reservation. and the politi-
clans would like to know where they
are heading.
In the metropolis some 2,715,000
have registered for next months
election, an increase of % per cent
over the last State contest in 1912.
And the upstate registration this
year is 1,118,909-a jump of 7 per
cent over 1912. Obviously, a dis
turbing something is afoot.
All of the partisan spokesmen-
Republican, Democratic, American
Labor and Liberal-profess to view
this unusual outpouring with graft
fcation. But they have to do that.
Actually, none of Them knows what
it means.
Normally, in Statewide or ma
tional contest, big registration in
New York City presages Demo-
cratic victory. But this year there
are reasons for believing that the
old axiom may not hold true.
For one. there have been unusual
indications of traditional Demo-
cratic resentment at the tieup with
the Communism American
Labor Party and its CIO-PAC sup
porters. A number of the faithful
have been heard to grumble at the
handling of international affairs
and over the political ineptitude in
Washington. Some of the Zionists,
surfeited with promises in lieu of
action in the Palestine matter,
are said to be flirting with the
Republican ticket. Governor Dewey
and Senatorial Candidate Ives al
legedly have gained ground among
the Negroes in Harlem by virtue of
their sponsorship of New York's
antidiscrimination law.
But the one factor which seems
most seriously to threaten the good
name of the old political axiom is
the meat shortage. An unusually
large number of women were seen
in the lines outside the registration
places. Considering the amount of
line-standing that they have to
endure in butcher shops, grocery
stores, etc. the mere presence of
women in a political line must have
some significance. But these women
were not content to stand in silence.