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Evening star., 1946-03-22
The Political Mill
By Got Lincoln

How to make Republicans and Demd
Gratis in Congress vote the party line Of
fundamental-and other-issues hal
been pain-in-the-neck to party leaderS
for many, many years. All kinds OF
expedients, including purges and patron
age have been tried. Patronage-whichI
means handing over appointments to
Federal ONCE or employment-has
probably been the most effective. The
granting or withholding of patronage
to persuade recalcitrants has been
used by administrations Of both parties.
In spite Of attempted purges and the
granting or not granting of patronage,
Independent minded Republicans and
Democrats have refused to go along with.
their party leaders-and they probably
always will.
Secretary of Commerce Henry A.
Wallace has come forward with the
latest proposal to deal with the recall
citrants. There should" said Mr.
Wallace. "be sense of party discipline.
and in the course OF Congress if
member does not vote for the party
issues, he should be expelled from the
party"
Mr.. Wallace would leave decision in
cases OF expulsion TO the President, Vice
President, and the majority leaders OF
the House and Senate, and the minority
party leaders on their side of the fence.
It's a novel idea, which has been de-
nounced by members of his own party,
some of whom have called it fascism,
Hitlerism and worse. Under the party
lash, men who voted against the party
line. whether from personal conviction
or because of the wishes of their par
ticular constituencies, would be tossed
out on their ear. Not out of Congress,
but out of their respective parties.
Mr.. Wallace was impelled to make
his proposal because the Republican,
Democratic coalition in both houses of
Congress has made mince-meat of the
administrators New Dealish legislative
measures. Enough of the more con-
Servative Democrats in Congress have
lined up with Republicans against these
measures to prevent favorable action or
to so change the measures that their
sponsors had difficulty recognizing
them. It is Mr.. Wallace's idea that If
the party leaders read these representa-
tives and senators formally out of the
party, their constituents will fail to re-
nominate them and pick other candi-
Evening star., 1946-03-22

IN tlpoks Of consistency. Would he
suggt that the discipline be admin
isterSy the party leaders who un-
cererl lbusly purged him in Chicago
two ago? Is the power to purge
to b4en to the President who was
selec9t Chicago because he was more
accepe to Southern Democrats than
was Wallace?
Th9 9fht Of the Democrats is serious.
The Dealers have little left in their
bag o. fi3ies which can hold together
coah. And a coalition was all
that ever had. There is nothing
left inV bag but statistical things like
the ex1 1on of social security and the
budgethf; national resources and in
come. employment" is everybody's
properVcause 1t is really nothing but
pnra4The Truman administration
has theFer of Office and patronage.
But tna9 a power of defense, not of
aggress1t Foreign policy is not en-
couragl4 an issue, for both parties
recognizSt votes should not be sought
by warliA loves in this present situa-
ton.
Even t1onmunists cannot develop
nationatcy, because If they propose
an extre1brograrn 1t will be called
qulsl1ng, It is mild, 1t will be torn
with frate strife. About all that the
old Social3kiave left is their hatred
Of the Sow
splinter is the oldest disease Of
radical ankmiradical parties. The
very nature hen like Messrs. Wallace
ana Ickes the La Follettes makes
them poten ebels. They are the real
rugged ma als OF politics. They
came 70 ian dissenters. They were
always reao walk alone. The psy-
cnoiogy the auired in their, youth
oies nard. ever they go, they will
uitimatciy re the wild asses skins
ana tne can The wild. If they 60
DECK 70 the licans, they may make
POSSIBLE VIC or that party in l948.
ous nnaAy. erism" will once more
anlct the Hep Ian party. The pains
o. tne Demo today will be the
cramps o. the hblicans tomorrow.
uHs'sssso " tns lated Newspapers ins.l
Evening star., 1946-03-22
This Changing World
By Qonsfanfine Broun

Russia has placed herself in tuch q
didicult diplomatic position inFegArd
to the UNO that It will take statsman-
ship Of an entirely different typ than
her leaders have hitherto disp1Ved to
extricate herself from q situatioi which
Is OF her own doing.
The United States, Great Britin and
the overwhelming majority OF he ma
tions belonging to the UNO Re de-
termtned to bring the Russo fanian
dispute before the tribunal.
The member nations are moi con-
cerned with the saving Of thl UNO
than the saving Of Iran. Undd these
circumstances the chances are sill that
the Soviet will win its requestkor a
postponement of q controversy hich.
IN the opinion of the other nationAcon-
stitutes an actual threat to the kace
Of the world.
The question of what Russia wiIto in
the face OF its first major setback 1ore-
most in the minds Of most dipfnats
and high oficials in Washington. They
admit. however. that the unpleasak i'm
passe Is more fraught with dangb for
Russia than for the other nationf
There are several possible oubmes
that can result from the insistendthat
the Security Council next week tie up
the case of Iran VS.. Russia.
The most optimistic point of Wv is
that the Soviet government, aw3 Of
the feeling which exists almost cry
where in the world that the UNOlust
not be allowed to become a weatng,
Will gracefully back down and agr1 to
submit her controversy to the UNQor
the second time in two months. ne
Russian representatives may at he
same time raise other questions ah
as the presence of British troopsn
Greece or similar subterfuges and l.
tempt to obtain from the Council h
extension of time to permit "furtf
direct conversations with the Teheh
government.
Those who envision this solution pd
out that under such conditions a CD
d'etat might take place in the nj
future in Teheran where the Tudeh d
pro- Russian Communist party has h&
gathering strength. A new friend
government might be established; 3
Russian government would then y
ercise enough pressure on WashinA
and London to obtain its recogni4
and at the third meeting of the Secuk
Council the Soviet and the puppet 81
representatives would be able to reA
that full and complete understaS
ing had been reached by the two q
ernments.
Other observers. who claim to kr1
more accurately the thoughts of
Kremlin, say Russia could not and
this solution since it would appearE
Evening star., 1946-03-22

dates who will vote for New Deal
measures.
The late President Roosevelt, in the
neyoay OF his power, undertook to
purge" certain Democratic members
d the Senate who had opposed his
supreme Court packing bill-among
f1em Senators George of Georgia,
smith Of South Carolina and Tydings
Bt Maryland. He failed utterly. The
2ctum OF President Truman. Senator
sarkley of Kentucky and Speaker
fayburn of Texas, directed against
enator Byrd of Virginia, for example,
puld be no more effective than the
posevelt kind of purge. Furthermore.
I a. practical proposition, it would be
possible to get the Kentucky senator
Id Texas representative to turn
pmbs down on their colleagues from
pthern States.
p a way, Mr.. Wallace's plan is in
Ped to get all the so-called liberals
one party and the conservatives
another. That, too, has been the
I'm Of many political reformers.
&c arc -1lucldlS WHO lllSlSL upon
aing to the Republican party-one
4example. Senator La Toilette Of
onsin, has just declared his inten-
q OF returning to the Republican
There are conservatives who stick
Vas fast to the Democratic party
asnot all Of them come from the,
81.
bpose, for the sake of argument,
taMr. Wallace succeeded in getting
the conservative Democrats in
Cfess out of the Democratic party
Az the present session, and all of
t1iberal Republicans out of the
Relican party. There would still be
a hjority of anti-New Dealers in
C&ss, no matter what you called
thf And the chances are that these
pues would be returned to the next
Cofss by their constituents, many
OF pm would resent an effort by a
nal kl administration to dictate their
chdof Senators and Representatives.
1t bounds like wallace fantasy.
whole truth Of the matter Is that
whfhe people of the country are
fee 4conservative-which they do a
goot Of the ime-Congress will vote
conAtive, and when liberalism is In
the tendency 1t will vote liberal,
whef party lines are violated or not.
Evening star., 1946-03-22
Russiu and the UNO

Since q unanimous vote OF the
eleven members would be required to
call OF Mondays opening meeting Of
the United Nations Security Council,
and since both Britain and America
are opposed to postponement, the
Russians cannot hope for favorable
action on their request for sixteen
day delay unless they press their
argument after the Council convenes
and succeed in rallying seven votes
to their side, the minimum required
by the UNO Charter for such an
action
This possibility, however, seems
remote at the moment, with all
signs indicating that most members
OF the Council have been unim-
pressed by Russia's claim. AS ad-
vanced by Ambassador Gromyko, the
claim is that since the two countries
are currently negotiating their dis
pute, Trans appeal to the Council
has come as such surprise that the
Soviet government needs more time
to prepare its case. But this is bit
hard to believe. In the first place,
the negotiations-which were agreed
upon at the January meeting of the
council-clearly have been begged
down for days. Further, consider
ing the fact that both Britain and
the United States have written notes
to Moscow on the subject and that
reports from Teheran have fore
shadowed 1t for some time, the sit
uation is anything but unexpected.
In the circumstances it is difficult
to see why the Russians need sixteen
days of grace. Whatever their real
motive in requesting. a postpone
ment, there can be no doubt that
they are familiar enough with all
sides Of the dispute to be able today
to clarity their position one way or
the other. But this they have stead
fastly refused to do. The Iranian
Premier apparently got nowhere
when he went recently to Moscow to
negotiate with them. Similarly, the
Soviets have answered the British
and American notes with complete
silence. Meanwhile, far from with
drawing their troops from Iran in
accordance with treaty obligations,
they have been maneuvering Red
Army forces in that country in such
a way as to make the rest OF the
world suspect that they are intent on
a war Of nerves calculated either to
promote the overthrow of the pres
ent Teheran regime or to intimidate
Turkey or to do both.
Against such a background. spec
ulation does not seem exaggerated
when it raises the question whether
the Russians may not be stalling for
time in asking for a Council post
ponement-stalling in the hope that.
between next Monday and April 10
the Iranian situation can be reduced
to q fait accompli about which the
Council would be able to do little or
nothing. If that is the real reason
behind it, their request should most
certainly be rejected. This may
entail some risk of a Soviet estrange-
ment in the UNO, but the UNo can
not run away from a critical test of
this sort and expect to be effective.
Evening star., 1946-03-22
Cherry Blossoms


To the Editor Of The Star:
Regeneration has begun and shaving
millions would be free: the kingdom of
the rising sun Is cropping toward democ-
racy.
So, when the burseoning cherry trees
again bedeck .Potomacs shore perhaps
We, too, can scent the breeze and feel
their beauties as Of yore..
Some folks quite fail to realize that
Nature bears no enmity; they overlook
the bards surmise that "only God can
make tree"
To call these blossoms Japanese,
stirs up in them fierce edema,.
But Nippon begs: Excuse it, please,
till roses grow in Hiroshima"
RAY H. EVERETT.
Evening star., 1946-03-22
Alarming Crime Trend

The growing tide" OF juvenile
delinquency which has impelled
Attorney General Clark to plan a
national conference on means OF
combating the trend is statistically
supported by the annual bulletin on
Uniform Crime Reports just re-
leased by the Federal Bureau of
investigation. It is an alarming
wave OF lawlessness on the part of
members Of the younger generation
which confronts the Nations law
enforcement agencies, according to
the grim tabulations and analyses
OF crime contained in the survey of
police departments. For example,
OF more than half million arrests
by police and other enforcement
officers, more than 81 per cent were
under Il years of age and more IT,
year-olds were arrested than the
total in any other age group.
Furthermore, arrests of girls under
Il increased 1898 per cent last year
over the last peacetime year, 194l.
Crime generally is on the increase.
ALI but two States North Dakota
and South Carolina) reported rising
crime rates last year. The specific
percentage Of increase for 1000
cities having a total population OF
65,000,000 was 12.4 per cent over
1914, with robberies, automobile
thefts, burglaries, negligent man.
daughters and murders leading the
list, in that order. The FBI
announced that the crime increase
last year was the greatest in the
15-year period during which it has
been tabulating crime statistics on
q national scale.
Attorney General Clark and FBI
Director Hoover attribute the
growth OF crime to wartime disloca-
tions Of community life, and
especially to disruptions in the
home, leading to relaxation OF
parental controls. Children formerly
subject to and respectful of domestic
discipline too often were left to
shift for themselves after school by
parents called to duty in the armed
services or in war factories. Many
OF the larger cities have experienced
trouble with youthful gangs of high
school age which have shown a
callous disregard for law and order.
Such a well-organized gang OF boys
and girls OF teen age in Boston
confessed to numerous depredations,
holdups and, finally, to a murder in
course of robbery.
Disturbing, also, is the fact that
law enforcement authorities fear an
even greater upward trend in
youthful crimes during the imme-
diate postwar period such as was
experienced after the First World
War. The letdown from war
tensions can breed unrest and
excesses that lead to lawlessness. It
Is necessary as never before that
public and private agencies and
individuals concerned with these
Evening star., 1946-03-22
Well, He Could Monuoe!

From the Christian Science Monitor. -4
The Cleveland Indians have signed
Pitcher Bob Feller for reported salary
OF $4,000. That's one Feller that
doesn't need a friend.
Evening star., 1946-03-22

Republican scientists are said to
be seeking some elusive, rare ele-
nnent on which they can experiment
for two years. use it to split the
Solid South and make q political
bombShell in 1913.
Evening star., 1946-03-22
K Il Work.!

From the 1oston Globe.
Unlimited praise must be given Presi-
dent Truman for his perfectly original
acheme of having American foreign
policy Ihaped By IN intelligence sys-
tam.
Evening star., 1946-03-22

Budget Bureaus Adjustment
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t seems to me that the question of
propriety OF action by the Bureau of
the Budget in cutting the Navy appro-
priation request Is quite serious and
significant, and that the newspapers
have jumped the gun in judging the
merits Of the issue. I hope you viii see
At to publish the following paragraphs
to indicate the possibility of two sides
to the question.
In your editorial of March II con-
corning the matter, believe you have
erred on three counts:
/. BY not giving the Bureau of the
Budget the same hearing you charge it
should have given the Navy. I fear
that you have prejudged-and in error.
2. BY quoting the number of battle
ships which can be maintained under
the slash to ~ billions as four; and
stating that before the war we con-
sidered it necessary to maintain IL
yes, and with an appropriation only q
fraction of the slashed figure for ~.
3. BY your assertion that Navy people
should decide how much is necessary
not Budget Bureau civilians. The pro-
cedure has been long ng-established and
widely approved that the executive de-
partments shall recommend budgets to
the President who through his expert
staff Bureau Of the Budget shall study
and adjust the various departmental
estimates. 1t is routine that depart
ments pad original requests literally and
that Budget experts must make close
examination and adjustment.
I fear that q smoke screen has been
thrown up and that newspapers are
adding to it, by passing opinions before
assessing such facts as the amounts OF
unexpended funds the Navy still has,
the alleged inexpertness of Budget Bu-
reau officials, the specious statistics of
the II versus battleship variety, the
extent of hearing accorded to the Navy
which latter. am willing to wager
was much greater than the reader
might assume.
LOWELL H. HATTERY.
Evening star., 1946-03-22
Letters to The Star
Volunteer Red Cross Worker
Pays Tribute to Leader

TO the Editor OF The star:
There have been many editorials and
articles written about Miss Mabel
Boardman since her death last Sunday.
But not yet have I read anything
written by volunteer worker Of no
Importance.
Miss Boardman not only founded the
Volunteer Special Services. She was the
Volunteer Special Services. Through her
many years In the American Red Cross
she worked for and with the volunteers
and when the need arose she fought
for them
Only those who were privileged to
work with Miss Boardman can possibly
realize the tact, the wisdom, the heart
and the fairness that was hers. No
problem was so small to take to her,
no problem was too great for her to
solve.
Although her days were full from the
time she reached the office until she
left. she was never too busy to see
and to help any worker who felt the
need for advice and assistance.
Two years ago when Miss Boardman
resigned from active work in the Dis
trict Of Columbia Chapter a luncheon
was planned In her honor. Hundreds
and hundreds of applicants were un-
able to buy tickets. Indeed, it was said
that II every hotel and restaurant in the
city of Washington had been made
available for this luncheon still there
would not have been room enough for
all those who wished to attend.
The people who worked longest for
Miss Boardman were the people who
loved her best. And not only did she
make others happy. she was happy
herself.
What better epitaph could she have
than:
"Iil ask OF death no greater boon
than this:
That it shall be as wonderful as
life"? SUSA STANTON SNYDER.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-27
TwoHeldii IN
Indiana Case

Detroit. Feb. e7-AP-Two men,
identified by the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation as the bandits
who shot an Indiana State Trooper
Sunday. we're captured early today
in a Detroit hotel.
Robert Guerin. head Of the local
FBI office, said the men. both ne
groes. are william steele. %. and
Willie Lee Hopkins. So, both OF
Louisville, Ky.
A large force Of FBI agents and
Detroit police surrounded a small
downtown hotel. The agents then
telephoned the two men and or
dered them to back out OF their
separate rooms with their hands
up. The pair complied.
Guerin said the two men shot
Indiana State Trooper Robert Ben
nett four times last Sunday near
Seymour. Ind. after he halted the
cars In which they were travel
ing They were the object Of
widespread hunt in Indiana. he add.
ed.
He said the pair, wanted here
oil charges OF violating the ma
tional motor vehicle theft act. had
five guns in their possession when
arrested by himself and Deputy
Chief Of Detroit Detectives William
B. Dresden.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-27
Methodist Bishop
Goes to Norway

Detroit. Feb ZAP Bishop
Raymond ]. Wade, the city's resi-
dent bishop for the Methodist
Church. Is on his way to Copen-
hagen. Norway, bearing a concrete
expression of goodwill from Mich
igan Methodists to the denomina-
tons churches in Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden.
The bishop, who took off from
the city airport yesterday accom-
panied by his wife. carried with
him fund OF $4,000 raised by
Michigan church members to re-
build Methodist mission in Ham
merfest, Norway. that was destroy
ed during the war
approximately POO persons, in.
Guiding a committee Of Methodist
clcrgymen and Rymen saw him
Off.
Bishop Wade, who until 1883
served as administrative head Of
the church in SCANDINAVIAN coun-
tries. told the group:
In spite Of certain adverse cur
rents. I believe that the distinct
trend in the world is toward peace.
brotherhood and a strong and et-
fectiye United Nations Organiza.
ton.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-27
Thirty Bills
Become Law

Lansing. Feb. 27-AP-Governor
Kelly has signed 90 of the 80
bills passed by the special session
OF the legislature.
He still held on his desk today
the Stanley bill which would allow
war veterans TO regain profes.
sional or occupational licenses
including liquor licenses-if those
licenses lapsed up to is months
before the holders entered mill.
tary service.
Kelly Tuesday signed 10 mea.
sures which:
Provide for the disposal OF the
present boys vocational school
site and the acquisition OF a new
one.
Raise the jurisdictional age limit
at the boys school from IS to 10
years.
Return TO probate judges discre-
ton in waving juveniles TO adult
courts in felony cases.
Revise the municipal revenue
bond law. extending city powers
and providing for stronger state
controls.
Require local governments TO
refund to war veterans homestead
taxes paid since 1910 and grant ex.
emptions 10 veterans who were in
service when exemptions were
granted.
Exempt governmental and public
utility owners OF easements from
the legal necessity OF recording
them before next September.
Limit to five per cent the amount
of reserve balance which employers
must keep In the unemployment
compensation fund.
Reinstate veterans studying for
professional or trade licenses at
the point of training they had at
tanned before entering military
service.
Permit the state to reinsure with
private insurance firms heavy con.
Centrated risks at state liquor com
mission warehouses and health de.
partment laboratories.
Appropriate S7.SSO,00O for state
departmental deficiencies. iucmd.
ing 100000 for possible state
payroll raises.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-27
Objection to
.Charter Seen

Ypsilani Kiwanlans today heard
Louis Golczynski. science teacher
at Roosevelt High School, speak
against the proposed city charter
for Ypsilanti.
Recommending a continuance Of
the present form of city govern
ment. Mr.. Golczynski said the city
manager system places too much
power in the hands of one man.
Under the present system. he
declared, each ward is represented
by its own alderman, elected by
the people. This is more demo-
cratic than the form OF government
proposed under the new charter,
he stated.
The more responsible people
are Mr.. Golczynski concluded.
the better government you will
have"
At the conclusion OF the speech.
club members responded enthu
sastically in 10 minutes OF open
debate from the floor.
New members taken into Kiwan.
is at today's meeting were Harry
Peek. Edward Cuthbert. and Cor
don G. Packard. Guests were Il.
A. Sprague. Gerald Payne, Otto
Kress, and Richard Eyerard. OF
lpsilanti; Jack Trytten and Leon
ard Young OF Ann Arbor; 1t.
Theodore Weber. Los Angeles.
Calf; and Samuel Davis of BAL.
las, Texas.