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Evening star., 1946-10-18
Virginia VS.. United Stotes

washington, 1CSel1 3 VlCLlm OF
extraordinary tax exemption, will
watch with sympathetic interest the
forthcoming referendum in Virginia
on the question of seeking taxes from
the United States for Federal prop
erty in the State. Virginia is the
latest Of more than a score Of States
to raise the question in recent years.
It is question older than many of
the States and one that involves
an important constitutional issue.
Under proposed amendment to
the State constitution to be sub
mitted to the voters on November
5, Virginia would abolish prohibi-
ton against taxation of Federal
property within the State. The
referendum is of particular concern
to Arlington County, where Federal
holdings have expanded rapidly in
the past decade, with concurrent
shrinkage of tax-producing terri
tory. The United States now owns
more than four square miles of
what once was taxable property in
the county. It's most recent move
to extend Federal holdings is
under way in connection with pro-
posed acquisition of the ,Nevtus
tract, near Arlington Cemetery, for
a veterans hospital.
If Virginia should vote to remove
the restriction against imposition of
taxes against the Federal Govern
ment, it will have paved the way
for what promises to be deter
mined effort by Virginia and, more
especially, by Arlington County to
obtain from Congress special relief
legislation. For it will take special
legislation to permit a State to
collect revenue from the Federal
Government. Maryland found out
in 1919 that no State can tax the
United States. That basic principle
of Federal-State sovereignty was
enunciated by Chief Justice Marshall
in a historic opinion known as
McCulloch VS.. Maryland, in which a
Maryland law imposing a tax on a
Federal bank was held to be uncon-
Stitutional.
Virginia and other States suffer-
ing loss of revenues by reason Of
Federal "invasions" of their terri
tory have right to ask Congress for
some means of reimbursement, how
ever, just as the District of Colum-
bia has the right to demand an
equitable fiscal arrangement to
compensate for Federal tax-free
property and for municipal services.
Having the power of the ballot
behind them something which
Washington lacks - the Virginians
and the voters in other States faced
with similar problems have a much
better chance of obtaining legisla-
tive relief than Washingtonians.
Since the matter of Federal tax-free
inroads in the States has become of
such widespread concern, it might
be wise for the States to coordinate
their efforts in support of general
legislation. And such a law, to be
equitable and just, should include
the District of Columbia among the
beneflciarieS.
Evening star., 1946-10-18
The Political consequences
By Ravuo oud M0lev

In any event, the President has pro-
vided plenty of meat for Republican
speeches. 1t was poor political speech
that Mr.. Truman made last Monday.
Apparently he was trying to say that
there are a lot of selfish peopleyaround
and that he had finally decided to join
them.
He proceeded methodically to pull
The rugs from under most of those des-
perate Democrats in various States
who have been trying to place the blame
for the meat shortage. Some said that
the missing meat was held by packers.
The President said that the packers
cupboards were bare. Others talked of
seizing meat on the farms. This Mr..
Truman dismissed as impractical. Other
Democrats demanded that Republican
Governors buy meat for the people of
their States. This. by inference, the
President ALSO dismissed.
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It will win no votes to call the farmers
selfish. What did Mr. Truman expect
sell few animals when restoration
of price control was advertised we'll in
advance? Roosevelt used to talk about
SIeeUy pcOplc, Uut llc llcFCl luClitiAieo
them. Mr. Truman is more specific.
He had a whack or two for everybody
farmers, managers, industrial workers,
Republicans, and, indirectly, for Demo-
Gratis as well.
It will be pointed out that in June
and July the President fully supported
the OPA's dire predictions of things to
come under weakened price control.
Three weeks without price control
proved him to be poor prophet. He
wouldn't sign the first bill, although his
own leaders in Congress said it was
workable Then another bill came
along, not quite so good, and he signed it.
Mr.. Truman would have us believe
that the great feature about the bill he
did sign was the Decontrol Board: 1t
was to be judicial, Independent. But
In his speech he announced the lifting
of controls with not word about the
poor Decontrol Board. 1t is, then, ex-
actly what some people thought it would
bean agent of the Executive.
The President singled out Senator
Taft for an extra spank when, In fact,
Taft was largely responsible for the
one blunder made by the Republicans
which Is now Of help to Democrats II
Taft and others in July had simply per-
Evening star., 1946-10-18

Responsible official quarters In Wash
ington by no means regard the re-
ported 3l0,b71 ,000,0 900 cut in the Red
Army budget as an indication that the
Soviet Army Is being reduced to peace
time establishment
According to War Department an
alysts, the Red Army's budget, consider
ing the requirements Of that army. will
enable the U. 8. 8. r. to have military
machine larger than the combined
forces OF the western powers, including
the United States.
The new Russian appropriations pro-
vide 100000 900 for the army air
forces and navy as against an expendi-
ture of $4,000 100000 by the United
States for its actual military needs
But figures alone do not tell the whole
story.
While. the base pay OF the American
enlisted man is $75 month, the pay Of
his Russian counterpart Is less than 81
a month Military service In the
U. S. S. r. is compulsory and the pay
Is considered only as pocket money to
enable Ivan to buy himself extra ciga-
rettes or an occasional glass Of fire.
water. Our Army is based mainly on
voluntary enlistments and the pay must
be made suficient to draw young men
into the services.
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While the Russians aresspending ST.
100000 month to pay 1000, 900 men in
the army we have to spend $75 5000, 900
a month for the same purpose. An
army of 100000 which the Russians
are reported to be keeping under arms
at this time costs them $220,00O,000,
while fifth Of that force costs the
United States Government 100000, 900.
But that is not all. While the meinte-
nance of an American soldier is esti-
mated to cost the Government more
than So a day the cost per individual to
the Soviet government for food, medical
care, clothing and recreation Is esti-
mated at one-tenth that figure.
Moreover, the American Army Of
Occupation in Europe and Asia is being
provided for all its needs with supplies
purchased in the United States and
transported overseas at considerable
cost. The Russian armies of occupa-
ton live on the land. The presence of
about 100000 Red Army soldiers in
Europe and some 200 1000 in Asia actually
constitutes saving to the Russian
treasury.
Under these conditions, 1t is apparent
that the Soviet budget of $1l 900 900 900
for the armed forces can maintain an
incomparably larger military establish
Evening star., 1946-10-18
Progress
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Progress. if assayed at short intervals,
is usually discouragingly slow. APP
praised over long periods, 1t frequently
is great
The death of former heavyweight
boxing champion Jack johnson makes
this a good time to assess the public
attitude on racial tolerance. When
johnson was in his prime in the prize
ring, the cry from one end OF the
country to the other was for the de-
velopment of white hope" who would
prove" supremacy of the race in
boxing.
Search for this "hope" went on for
some years, and to mention Johnson's
name was usually to bring an express
sion of intolerance from whites
Today there Is another Negro heavy
weight champion. But there is no wild
clamor for a white hope" Many of
those who shouted the loudest 80 years
and more ago view Joe Louis reign
with equanimity.s
Tolerance may be advancing at a
snails pace, but it is certainly advancing.
Evening star., 1946-10-18
A Hidden War Disclosed

1nere is always compelling IN
terest in the phrase: Nov it can
be told" This certainly applies to
a statement made by Soviet
Prosecutor S. A. Golunsky. Russian
representative to the "war crimes"
trial now starting in Tokyo, where
the chief leaders of the former i'm
perial regime are to be brought to
justice for their parts in planning
and launching aggressive warfare.
AS part of the build-up for the
Soviet case, the world is, for the first
time, told at least the Russian side
of those armed clashes which oc-
Cured during the late 1930s along
many parts of the remote frontiers
which separated Russian Siberia
and the Russian satellite state of
Outer Mongolia from Japanese-held
Korea, Manchuria (Manchukuo),
and Inner Mongolia.
OF course, news of those events
reached the outer world at the time
But they leaked out through thick
wells of censorship and designing
propaganda. Certainly, the precise
military operations and their stra-
tegic, tactical and technical lessons
were not then disclosed, albeit gen.
eral stats would have given much
to have been fully informed of them.
According to the Soviet statement,
Japan was always the aggressor, its
aim being to test out the strength
of the Red Army in the Far East
as part of plan eventually to in
wade and conquer Siberia as far as
Lake Baikal-an objective which
Japan actually undertook between
1918 and 1920, when the former
czarist empire was dissolving into
temporary chaos and civil strife as
a result of the Bolshevik revolution.
Furthermore, Japan is now charged
with having supplemented these
military attacks by extensive use OF
White Russian emigres trained to
sabotage and anti Communist
propaganda.
= Those japanese attacks ranged
from small skirmishes to large
scale operations precipitating regu-
lar battles, especially those on the
Korean border in 1888 and on the
Mongolian border early in 1885,,
That they were not the prelude to
regular Russo-Japanese war was
due to the fact that they resulted
in crushing Japanese defeats due
largely to the superiority of Soviet
equipment, especially new model
tanks. All this convinced the Japa-
nese warlords that the attempt to
conquer Eastern Siberia would have
to be postponed, although a Japa-
nese army, million strong, was
kept In Korea and Manchuria even
after Japan had challenged America
and Britain at Pearl Harbor.
So much for the Russian state
Evening star., 1946-10-18
This Changing World
By Constantine Broiyn

ment than this country II 1t spent
similar amount.
But the most significant item in the
Russian military expenditure is the in
crease by 21a times in the funds for
scientific research. This was done on
orders from Generalissimo Stain him.
self. who stated last February that 1T is
necessary not only to overtake but to
exceed In the nearest future the achieve
ments Of science outside the U. 8. s. r."
The Soviet appropriations for scientific
research amount close to 81 900, ,000,00o
From available information the Soviet
scientists, while eager to develop the
atomic bomb, are paying less attention
to its development than to the develop
ment of meteorological warfare. where
their progress is said to have exceeded
that of the United States and Great
Britain.
archaeological research requires less
equipment and less costly raw materials
than atom augmentation. From the
strictly military point of view, it can
be more deadly than the atom bomb
While this missile causes great devasta-
ton on given target-particularly in
an industrial rea-bacteriological war
fare is more telling on armies in the
field and on massed concentrations. The
deadly bacteria can be contained in a
small receptacle which can be dropped
from the air and cause epidemics which
will spread rapidly in the ranks of the
enemy The area of devastation of the
atom bomb is limited. The spread of
the virus contained in the bacteria bomb
is practically unlimiteQ and might affect
an entire continent.
Engineering and handling of machines
has never been strong point with the
Russians. But they have always been
proficient laboratory workers in the field
OF medicine and chemistry. In order
to develop atomic energy they are COM
PEELED to use foreigners, such as German
scientists who were captured in the Rus
sian zone of Germany. These individ-
uals may do their best in order to
obtain certain privileges for themselves
and their families. But the suspicious
Russians do not trust them entirely.
Those who work in the meteorological
projects are all native Russians, party
members whose loyalty is above suspi-
cion. So far as is known here, not only
have they made considerable progress
in developing new devices for this war
of the future but they are also working
at new vaccines to immunize the Rus
sian soldiers who might enter areas
where bacteria bombs had been dropped.
Evening star., 1946-10-18
A Fine Lesson in Civics

The fine cooperation of the public
schools in arrangements for Wash
ington's unofficial plebiscite on
election day-November 5-will do
as much as anything to make 1t a
community success. The Board of
Education's prompt willingness to
make public schools available as
polling places had been anticipated.
But the wording Of Superintendent
Of Schools Hobart M. Corning's
recommendation to the board was in
itself a splendid Endorsement Of the
plebiscite idea as an educational
experiment in civics and govern
ment. The young people In the
Junior and senior high schools will
absorb knowledge that is not avail
able in the textbooks. Their par
ticipation as helpers at the polls
will teach them that while the books
say one thing regarding the funda-
mentals of American Government
by consent of the governed, there
is a glaring and illogical incon-
sistency right here in the Capital,
where intelligent Americans are
taxed without representation and
governed by everybody in the coun-
try except themselves. Like many
of their elders, they have never seen
anybody drop vote in ballot box.
The term election day. is to them
a pure abstraction. 1t has no real
meaning. But for the first time
they can help give it meaning in
Washington, help run the homemade
and imperfect machinery which will
be set up to record the will of
community. The Star agrees with
DR.. Corning that the school children,
by taking part in the plebiscite, will
be taught a lesson in civics that will
make them think. If they can be
made to think they, and the rest
of us, will become better citizens.
Evening star., 1946-10-18
No Immisrants Wanted

To the Editor Of The Star:
I wish to voice approval of r. Wilson's
idea on opposing liberal immigration to
European refugees Let them stay In
the countries that we have helped and
are still helping to make livable for
them. Why allow more to enter our
country when we haven't housing for
all Americans? I. JONES.
Criticizes Article on Switzerland
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t was with much surprise that I read
In The Star of October IL most
dastardly attack against one of the best,
most democratic nations in the world,
namely, Switzerland. The article pub
lished as news was not news in any
sense of the word, but propaganda pure
and simple. The enormity of the offense
against clean, peace-loving nation
land, incidentally, our own country lies
in the insidious nature of the attack;
if it had been made by the Daily Worker,
it would have been one more piece of
open communistic propaganda, but hav-
ing been made by decent paper, read
by decent, unsuspecting people, it Is
close to treachery to both the readers
and the Nation. One bit OF communistic
propaganda published in conservative
paper is worth 10 placed in communistic
papers, for the latter are labeled Red"
but the former are, supposedly, honest,
American. JAMES H. ANDERSON.
Editors Note.-Mr. Anderson refers
to an article by William McGaf1n, a
correspondent of The Star and the
Chicago Daily News, with whom, of
course, he is privileged to disagree0
Evening star., 1946-10-18
Not at Any Price

Now that retail meat prices are
at giddy heights in some places
it is not surprising that there are
reports of incipient buyers strikes
in our somewhat distraught land.
Steaks are nice. Roasts, chops,
bacon, ham and everything else like
that are nice. But nice as they are,
they are not indispensable, and no
prudent or right-thinking house
wife will submit to the equivalent
of highway robbery to get them.
Perhaps there are more than a
few individuals with so much money
to burn that they will not think twice
about the matter. BY and large,
though, if current signs are not mis-
leading, the American people will
refuse to be put upon too much. AS
between red meat at any price and
a poultry or vegetable dinner, they
will choose the latter. They will
have chicken in a dozen different
ways, and If that goes sky-high, too,
then they will manage otherwise.
They will have nourishing and in
expensive soups. They will have egg
dishes. They will get along some
how with potatoes and green beans
and cabbage and the like. They
will do anything but pay a kings
ransom for steak or pork chop,
not only because of principle but
also-and primarily-because there
is a decided limit to what they can
afford.
More than that-"Caveat vendor!"
1t is true that many neighborhood
store is caught betwixt and between.
If meat on the hoof is sold at record
prices to the packers, the cost goes
up correspondingly for the whole
saler and retailer, and the butcher
around the corner must either resort
to upward pricing or sell at a loss.
Most housewives will understand
this. What they will not under
stand is the storekeeper who obvi-
ously is eager to take their last
penny. They have long memories.
They will remember him when
things are normal again, and quite
properly they will remember him
with resentment that can be bad
business for him. BY all means,
therefore, let him beware. Let any
seller beware who is not playing fair
with the public.
Actually, the seller at the retail
level, like the prudent housewife
herself, is not altogether powerless
against skyrocketing prices. He can
60 on a kind of buying strike, too,
and wholesalers will feel it just as
he feels the resistance of his own
customers. Indeed, there are indi-
cations already that some such re-
tail-wholesale opposition is develop
ing and tending to sober the live
stock markets. The demand for
meat may still be far in excess of
the supply, but that does not place
America wholly at the mercy of the
profiteer. 8
Together with the housewife, in
short, the livestock buyers and the
buyers of processed meats have 1t
within their power to keep prices
from running wild. The end of
OPA controls-which were them
selves becoming virtually useless
Evening star., 1946-10-18
Henry WuIIuce's New Job
By David Laurence
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Our distinguished contemporary, the
New Republic, has new editor in the
person of Henry Wallace, who will now
battle for his ideas through its columns.
1t is said Mr.. Wallace's job is a
specially Created one 'above the existing
board of editors" which consists Of such
veteran wielders of the blue pencil as
Bruce Bliven. Does that mean that MIR.
Wallace's copy goes to the composing
room untouched? In the interest of the
New Republic, in the interest of Mr..
Wallace and in the general interest, this
would appear to be an error. For as re-
cent events have amply shown, what
Editor Wallace needs is an editor.
Evening star., 1946-10-18

mitted price control, except on rents,
to die after the Presidents veto, what
ever price rises that might have fol-
lowed could have been attributed to
White House stubbornness. Now the
issue Is not so clear The meat short
age is due to those who participated
in the OPA revival under the second
BILL and Taft and others share the
blame with the President.
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In the main, the advantage still is
with the Republicans, for the President
has an unexpected capacity to blunder.
He waited too long, and election day will
arrive while tempers are still warm
And meat will be high and scarce. The
Democratic panic. so clearly apparent
in many States, will hardly be stopped
by Mr.. Truman's speech.
(Reieased by Associated Newspapers Inc)
Evening star., 1946-10-18
Unworthy USO?

Once again the people are called
upon to support the Community Chest.
And as usual, organizations are pub
hcizing the matter and urging their
workers to contribute. The majority Of
these organizations are worthy of sup
port. But there is one organization
which do not think is worthy of con-
tinued support. refer to the USO.
During the recent war the USO per-
formed wonderful service in time of
genuine stress. Men who were called
to do necessary Job for their country
found relief at the USO during time
of from regular. duties. And since near
ly every family in the Nation was af-
fected, the voluntary support of the
USO was regarded as necessary duty
in the winning of the war. But now
that peace has come. why continue this
wartime agency? The men in the armed
services are already getting more bene-
fits than most civilians.
JAMES G. TOWERY.
Evening star., 1946-10-18

"All that was asked of him was
the same as that asked Of President
Roosevelt, Churchill, kings and
queens and everybody who has
come here" declared an official in
discussing the recent customs delay
at the airport which SO irritated the
Russian Ambassador. A Soviet func-
tionary seems to think that to be
placed on such a level was rather
rough treatment.
Evening star., 1946-10-18

Ynent. How much Japanese for
bearance toward Russia was due to
the decision Of the Japanese high
command to launch a war against
the English speaking powers rather
than against the Soviet Union will
probably be revealed at the trial
now starting In Tokyo. But the
Soviet revelation of this hidden
war" is both interesting and in,
structive, as far as 1t goes.
Evening star., 1946-10-18

does not mean the end Of every
control. Public opinion, together
with a Arm refusal to pay tribute
to greed, remains potent weapon,
and from stockyard to butcher shop
1t may yet do good job of stabi-
lizing all around.
Evening star., 1946-10-18

1t is to be hoped that when the
Foreign Ministers Council meets in
New York members will not accept
picket lines as a sign of democracy
at work.
Evening star., 1946-10-18
BoIkun Beur Trup

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
That old saying, Don't bite the hand
that's feeding you," must now be re-
written. If you don't want to get the
hand you're feeding with bitten, don't
stick 1t into Yugoslavia-
Evening star., 1946-10-18
Capsule Trumun

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
As time. passes, President Truman
looks more like the sort of man who
honestly and sincerely does wish he
would do something.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Central School P-TA
Holds Monthly Meet
AT School Tuesday

The monthly meeting Of the
Centrai School Parent Teacher
Association took the form Of q
reception honoring teachers and
fathers, in the auditorium of the
school Tuesday evening with
Thomas r. Wells as guest speak
err.
Mr.. Wells subject was "Edu-
cation for Responsible Parent
heod," a topic that is OF present
holding the attention of all par
ont-teacher associations in the
state.
Those attending were. greeted
by a reception committee head
ed by the president, Mrs. A. NJ.
Pelham, who was assisted by
Mechanics Arthur Conway, Fl. B.
Cole, and X. II. Terreson. AS
each teacher entered, the COM
mittee presented her with a
handsome corsage of flowers
During the business period a
report from the membership
committee showed that the drive
for new members that is being
held this month has already
brought the club roster up to the
state quota, but that it is hoped
that efforts to add new names
fr1ill not be discontinued until
Che close of the drive. The com
nlittee reported that Mrs. f. j.
Murfay's and Mrs. Charles Sail
ba's rooms had captured the
prize that is being offered to
. g grades securing the greatest NUM-
Der Of new P-TA members in q
stated time and that parties had
already been given the children
n that grade.
The meeting was made partic-
ularly festive through use of au-
tumn flowers and foliage which
decked the stage and were in
evidence on a table overlaid with
a handsome write cloth and or.
namented with silver candle