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Evening star., 1946-01-26
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

LONDON, Jan. 26.-The world had
Its first glimpse of the Security Council
OF the United Nations in action yes
terday-that agency which has been
set up particularly to keep the peace.
There was, however, nothing particu-
larly peaceful about this meeting. Brit
lsh antagonism to Soviet Russia fared
in an unmistakable manner.
British Foreign Minister Bevin, a
rough antagonist, declared in blunt
language he was tired of Russian
charges made in private Assembly
against his government and wanted these
charges now aired in open meeting.
Mr.. Bevin was getting underway with
quite a TRADE when he was interrupted
by the chairman of the Council, N. J. o.
Maxim, Australia's minister for the
navy, who virtually told the British
minister he was out Of order.
However, Mr.. Bevin had his way and
the Council voted to take up for early
consideration the complaint made by
Iran against Russian interference in
her internal affairs, and the complaints
filed by Russia and the Ukraine, one of
the Soviet Socialist republics, against
the British for keeping and using
troops in Greece and Indonesia.
1t was tense session, with Deputy
Foreign Commissar Vishinsky of Rus
sia seeking to nail down the PROPOSE
tion that the Council would talk about
whether the Iranian case should be
taken up for consideration rather than
that the complaint should actually be
up for debate. If Mr. Vishinsky's idea
had been adopted, there was a chance,
at least, that the Iranians would never
have had hearing by the Council.
Chairman Maxim ruled that Mr.. vi
shinsky would have ample opportunity
to state his governments reasons why
the Iranian complaint should not be
considered by the Council or to move
in any direction he chose. But, said Mr.
Maxim, the Council would also be free
to take any action it deemed wise. And
that is where the matter stood when
the Council adjourned.
The Security Council is having its first
baptism of fire and it is coming largely
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Change in Air Commend

General Spaatz is so eminently
fitted for the Office that President
Truman could not have made bet
ter or more logical choice in naming
a successor to General Arnold as
Chief of the Army Air Forces.
Several weeks ago General Arnold,
who is not in the best of health, held
sort of farewell press conference
at which he announced that his
biggest postwar desire was to with
draw from the hurly-burly of official
life. Now that his retirement is
imminent, the American people
who owe him great debt-will wish
him their best. being not unmindful
OF the heavy burdens he has borne
and OF his extraordinary service in
directing the growth of the Nations
air power from almost nothing to
the mightiest thing of its kind in
history.
1t is a safe assumption that the
Presidents selection of General
Spaatz reflects General Arnolds own
view of the officer best equipped to
be his successor. This is not sur
prising. of course, for the incoming
chief of the Army Air Forces has
behind him 80 years of rich expert
ence in military aviation-an expe-
rience which qualified him, in the
war just ended. to assume the high
est combat commands, among them
the command of the famous Eighth
Air Force and the command, success
sively in Europe and Asia. of all
American strategic bombing.
This background naturally has
Kept General Spaatz abreast of
every kind of aerial development. so
that when he formally takes his
place, ex officio, as a member of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, he will be able
to argue with exceptional force for
ideas calculated to retain in peace
time the American air supremacy
which General Arnold so brilliantly
built up during the war.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Man and the Moon

1t is not possible at this time to
predict accurately the wonders likely
to flow from the fact that man has
at last made physical contact with
the moon.
AS Major General Harry C. Ingles
OF the Army Signal Corps explains,
however, the corps Buck Rogerish
radar experiment at Belmar, New
Jersey-an experiment in which the
earth called out to the moon and
the moon answered back in 2b
seconds--unqueStionably opens the
way to developments which only a
few short years ago would have
been considered sheer fantasy of a
caliber not much higher than that
encountered in the comic strips.
To begin with, despite the studied
conservatism of his evaluation. Gen.
eral Ingles leaves little room for
doubt that the achievement is a
very great one, it's primary signifl-
cance' being that it has demon
Strated with certainty-for the first
tlme-that a high frequency radio
wave can penetrate the electrically
charged ionosphere encircling the
earth and the stratosphere. Radar
has already proved itself an amazing
photographer on this planet, and
noW-as a result of what has been
done with it at Belmar-it promises
a vast enlargement of astronomical
knowledge, with the day perhaps
not distant when it will draw for
man detailed typographical maps
not only of the moon but of other
celestial bodies as well.
Beyond that, it has obvious and
very real possibilities in relation to
the radio control of extremely long
range rockets and jet-propelled mis-
siles. Further, it removes from the
realm OF make-believe the develop
ment of those hair-raising space
ships" about which General Arnold.
retiring chief of the Army Air Forces.
spoke with grim earnestness some
weeks ago. Coupled with atomic
power, in short, it makes conceivable
wholly apart from its good and
far-reaching peacetime potentialities
"a future war which must numb
the lively imagination with visions
OF terror beyond the. capacity of
words to describe.
In effect, electronically, man now
has visited the moon and returned
to find himself further advanced
than ever in probing the innermost
secrets of Nature. On some day in
the future he may even succeed in
projecting himself literally. or at
least in projecting one of his guided
machines, through the $4,000 miles
OF space which his radar, with the
speed of light, has just travelled
out and back again. Taken in con-
junction with what he is doing with
the atom, this is thing that must
do more than make him feel proud:
1t must make him ask himself, as
never before, where he will ulti-
mately end if he does not somehow
succeed in becoming as wise as he is
knowing.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Iran Problem Vexing
By Maj. George FieIdine Eliot

The Iranian affair may look from
here like tempest in a teapot
1t is not. 1t is a serious matter, and
1t is one more warning-if any more
were needed-that there are in all this
world no more remote countries of
which we scarcely know the name and
in which it is unreasonable indeed that
we should be expected to take lively
interest" Gas the late Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain once remarked of
Czechoslovakia).
The United States is now the princi-
pal pillar of world peace and security.
The people of this country, who make
or break its policies, are concerned with
what happens in Iran and with what
happens everywhere else in the world.
We may not like that fact We may
refuse to accept it. If so, then so much
the worse for us and for the world For
facts have a way of catching up with
those who try to pretend that they do
not exist, as Mr.. Chamberlain and the
British public discovered in the matter
of Czechoslovakia.
How does the fate of an Iranian prov
ince concern world peace and security?
Simply because the fate of that province
Is being watched throughout the Mid
die East, and in Moscow as well, as
portent of things to come The Soviet
government has not made clear its off,
cial views as to the future of Iran. But
the acts of its representatives and the
tone of its controlled press make very
clear indeed that there are those in
high places in the Kremlin who have
ambitions in the direction of the Darda-
nelles, of the Turkish borderlands along
the Caucasian frontier, and also in Iran
itself. Taken together, these ambitions
would, If accomplished, place Russia in
dominant position in the whole Mid
die Eastern area.
What do we care? you may say.
You can take two points of view on
that. Both arrive at the same conclu-
sion. You can take the moralistic line
that we are member of the United
Nations Organization, of which Turkey
and Iran are also members, and there
fore we are pledged to prevent their dis
memberment, to the maintenance of a
world system in which the rights of
small nations stand on equal footing
with the rights of great nations.
Or you can take the utilitarian point
OF view, that our security rests on
seeing to it that no single nation be-
comes master of the whole Eurasian
land mass, or major part of it, for
then that nation would have superior
resources to those of the American con-
tinents plus the British Isles and Aus
tralia. It was this menace, In part.
which nnotivated our late war against
Germany. and the previous one. too.
do not for moment accuse the present
Soviet government Of entertaining such
designs. I merely remark that 1t would
, be inconvenient, indeed, II when the
Evening star., 1946-01-26
A New FIuo

II Hawaii and Alaska are admitted
to the Union as States in line with
the proposal made to Congress by
President Truman, the American
flag must be redesigned. The pres
ent arrangement of six rows of eight
stars each necessarily will be out
of date the moment the two new
States have been accepted by their
sisters in the national federation.
Yet a delay may occur before the
rearranged banner appears. There
Is precedent for making haste
slowly in such matters. New Mexico
was admitted to the Union as the
forty-eighth State on February a.,
1912, but it was not until the follow
Ing October that President Taft
issued an executive order approving
the flag as it now exists.
The original American ensign was
an adaptation of the British Union
Jack with seven red and six white
stripes as field. 1t first was raised
at Cambridge, Massachusetts,, by
General George Washington, June 2,
l776. But alteration of the design
was inevitable after the Declaration
OF Independence, and Congress took
the requisite action when it resolved
that the flag of the United States
should be thirteen stripes alternate
red and white with Sthe union
thirteen stars white in a blue
field representing new constella-
tlon." The date of this proceeding
was June IA, 1777. A further Change
was indicated when the Constitution
was adopted and Vermont and Ken
lucky Joined the thirteen original
subscribers to the national charter.
So the flag became composition of
fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, five
rows of three each, January 13, 1874.
Soon, however, it was realized that
the banner would be unwieldy if
further stripes were added indefi-
nitely. A solution to the problem
was found in the decision to keep
the number of stripes thirteen and
to let nature take it's course with
regard to stars. Congress, on April
4, 1918, returned to the conception
of 1777, providing that a new star
shall be added to the field whenever
a new State is admitted to the Union.
The principle thus expressed has
Evening star., 1946-01-26

adoption Of any real coercive measures
by merely vetoing the decisions of the
Security organization.
But in some quarters It Is feared that
the U. s. s. r.. which feels that it now
has the whip hand because 1t is the only
great power now maintaining its forces
on war footing. might precipitate a
crisis by walking out on the UNO il the
council decides to act in the Iranian
case. The majority of members OF the
Security Council are reported from Lon
don to have taken the position that
Russia has had several months in which
to reach an amicable settlement with
the Teheran government. Since this
has not been done, the provisions of the
UNO Charter must be enforced, lest the
world lose confidence in its efficacy.
Russia and few other members of
the council are reported to have taken
the position that such picayunish mat
ters should not be discussed now because
they Will only create bad blood between
the nations whose responsibility it is
to maintain peace. Moreover the Rus
sian delegation, voicing the views of its
government, points out that the original
Soviet idea expressed at Teheran and
Yalta that the peace of the world can
best be maintained by the three large
military powers is now being fully vindi-
Gated.
There have been veiled threats, ac-
cording to reports from London, to the
effect that If the Iranian matter is not
quickly buried by the council Russia may
refuse to participate any further in the
United Nations Organization.
Some quarters in WASHINGTON fear
that If these threats are actually carried
out the would will be threatened with
political anarchy. Hence, the delegates
OF the great powers must tread softly
and not permit themselves to be placed
in position where they may be held
responsible for disintegration of the
UNO.
Other quarters say that if the Rus
slams decide to be moody again and
actually abandon the world organization,
whose charter they fully approved, their
move will be regretted by all the other
nations. But the UNO can and must
function regardless of the "vapors" of
one or more of its members
Evening star., 1946-01-26

been standard practice for more
than a hundred and twenty-seven
years. According to custom, revised
flags are flown for the first time
following the reception of a new star
on the next July 4. The arrange
ment of the stars in the field seems
to be left to the Secretary of War
to work out At least that was the
case in 1896 when the occupant of
that offlce-Daniel S. Lamont of
New York-ordered that there should
be forty-flve stars "in six rows, the
flrst, third and fifth rows to have
eight stars and the others seven
stars, the rows alternating"
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Russiu and the UNO

In agreeing to discuss the Iranian
situation at a meeting next Monday,
the United Nations Security Council
has Sgreed also to discuss the situa-
ton in Greece and Indonesia. The
potentially grave nature of this
move, however, revolves around
nelsher Greece nor Indonesia, the
British and Dutch being perfectly
willing to have them made a subject
of discussion. Where the danger
lies is in the issue over Iran. and it
is real danger because the council
has overridden strong Russian OBJ
jections in deciding to talk about it.
Under the United Nations Charter,
Iran appears to be entirely within
its rights in carrying it's complaint
to the Security Council, but the
Soviet Union-through Vice Com
missar of Foreign Affairs Vishinsky
has denied this on several grounds.
The points made by the Russians
include Cd that the Iranian govern
ment has failed to substantiate it's
charges against them; (2) that it is
engaging more and more in anti
Soviet propaganda, but that direct
negotiations between Moscow and
Teheran "can and should" settle the
difficulties between them, and 60
that the situation, in any case, does
not threaten international peace
and that Trans appeal for a council
discussion is therefore invalid.
Since these arguments have car
ried no weight at first hearing, and
since RusSia's veto power as a per-
narent member cannot be exercised
to prevent any such appeal from
being accepted, Trans caSe-unless
the council should find reason next
Monday to recommend a resump-
tion of direct negotiations between
Teheran and Moscow-will now pre-
sumabiy be aired in full before this
most important of the United Ma
tions agences. The council of
course, can do no more than hold a
discussion at this time, and the
Russians because their veto power
can be exercised to block anything
going beyond that-may find it
agreeable to sit tight for the present,
though feeling rebuffed. But if the
other members of the council after
discussing the matter, should act in
favor of more positive steps such as
an international investigation, then
the Soviet Union, by taking an un-
compromising stand in opposition.
could easily create a critical impasse.
If the Russians have a good case,
however, they may yet decide to be
as cooperative in relation to Iran
as the British and Dutch promise to
be in relation to Greece and In
donesia. We must hope so, at any
rate, for the great potential danger
in the present situation is that if
Moscow follows an intransigent
course, the UNO may suffer blow
paralyzing all efforts to achieve a
just and enduring peace through a
system of collective world security,
Evening star., 1946-01-26

covery that: Considerable differ
ences in educational philosophy
remain a distinguishing character
istic Of the entire area" Such
diversity probably is something to
rejoice about. The one sort OF
higher learning which America
certainly does not want is the
regimented kind which sometimes
in some places has been thought
imperatively expedient.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
| Saw q Weed

This noon sa,o tDeed Nth silver
ledDeS;
1t leaned across my path as II to say.
Stranger, stop: look at me. you pass
my tDdy
AS IT beggnr from den of thiepes
Whtned at your door, Perhaps when
once you're seen
Me dancing to the tune of light and
tDind,
Comparing life to laughter, you may find
A beauty in my hieroglyphs OF green."
A busy person hearing rerdure plead
May think himself quite i'll, nor sat-
to men
He heard for fear the malady may last:
Yet on each ledf, embroidered by some
pen,
I sdto a ,oriting from the ancient past:
am no scholar 50 could not read.
CULLEN JONES.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Give Them q Chance
From the calsary Herald,

In the pattern plan for a postwar
Canada as envisaged by the federal gov
ernment, as well as by provincial gov
ernments, there should be opportunity
for all transportation services to show
profit not only to the public but to them
selves AS transportation legislation and
regulation exist at present conditions
are open to legitimate criticism and not
conducive to future prosperity of the
services involved. AL four are of import
ance from the viewpoint of the public
interest and any unnecessary delay by
governments in dealing effectively with
the existing problem would be properly
regarded as neglect Of duty.
Evening star., 1946-01-26

There are two kinds of Americans.
Those who can remember Arbuckle's
coftee In wrappers from which the
signature was cut for premiums, and
those who, being too young, have no
such redolent memories.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Inquiries About Bombed Fish

To the Editor of The Star:
Now that we are about to test the
atomic bomb on hundred ships, is any
one thinking about the possible effect
on food fish? From reports of the effect
on human victims in Japan it would
seem entirely possible that considerable
numbers of fish might live for some time
after having been slightly injured and
be taken in commercial catches of
fish, eventually finding their way to our
tables. just what will happen to the
unwary soul who likes his Goldfish cakes
and neglects to inquire whether or not
they are concocted of radioactive cod?
ENRIQUE OREGANO.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Overpoid

From the Daily oklahoman.
Emperor Hirohito has been drawing q
salary of 100000 year. There seems
to be plenty of evidence scattered helter-
skelter around Japan that he isn't
worth it.
The frontiersman., 1946-12-21

BABY NAMED
 The infant da1gh- ter of Mr. and Mr s <. Fr ed Monson, born last week, has been named Grace Marie.
The frontiersman., 1946-12-21
YOUR { FAVE pAY2 YOU GOT "A WAIT

Terminal leave pay is handled by the War Depar tment, and rep resentatives of the Ve terans' Admin i tra- tion can do nothing to sr3ed up the pay- ment, it was stated this week by Floyd L. Guert in of the terri torial veterans' of f ice.
 Mr. Guert in, who was in Seldovia br iefly earlier in the week, said that this question was the prime ipal one veter- ans br ing to him.
 Nothing can be done to fac ilitate payment after the ap- plication is made ;" Mr {. Guert in said . "You imply have to wait until your turn to receive your pay. It's a tremendous job and the government is handling it as rarid- " oe ]; r 70, V
The frontiersman., 1946-12-21

%
 CA,ty |nllK OELv q HeS9< sS. <A55{ES !slEs |5!2slz s.25l. { of the milxnan IS cart down the Boardwalk soon will b7 a fam 1liar sound in seldo- via again.
 Datryman Frank Bell said this week that he expects to have ar ample sGrrly of milk after the first of the year, and he will be able again to fill all or ders for milk.
 Ere ssh milk already is a daily offer ing on the menus Of the LinWood Cafe.
 Nr. Bell said that the shipping ti5-up and resultant lack of livestock feed, had little last ing effect O. his herd.
 VI really butcher ed only one COW that I ha5n It planned to-" he stated. VI was planning to cut down ny herd through the win ter anyway, and the fact that I have mt been d7ltv7ring milk this last month had nothing to do with a feed shor tage.
 F7ed for his hard of five COWS was sup piled partly by the lQn0ERS0n6,SGn
The frontiersman., 1946-12-21
CAIly I1(uk DtLvents To Bt Rt5unfo HeRef fAf1tR FlRs1 0f LIAR

s tock of salt grass which the dairymar cut when the str ike f ir st began, and par tly by a stock of f 5ed which he nur cha s7d in Homer carl fer this fall.
 Mr. Bell has been improving his barn and 5cuirment dur ing the temporary milk route shutdown. He said he hores to be able to add to his d5l ivery orders dur ing the coming mon ths so that the purchase and ins talla t ion of a small ras t eur iz ing machine will be pos sibl le.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-12
New'sY " Notes .t NEa F91
 From SkagwaY

SKAGWAY, Alaska, Sept. g. Special Correspondence) = School began again in Skagway after a lengthy vacation which started the middle of May. An almost entirely new staff and a number of new students were present to start the new semester. The school staff this year is; First and Second grades. Miss Helen Wallace; Third and Fourth, Mrs. Van Gorder; Fifth and Sixth, Miss Lottie Gat- fy: Seventh and Eighth, Mrs. An nette Briggs, Commercial Subjects and English Mrs. Grace Wilhelm; Science and Mathematics, E. B. Dell; Social Science and Athletics, Barney Anderson; Music, Miss Wal lace; Art, Mrs. Van Gorder; Home Economics, Mrs. Briggs.
 Following are few bits of intor- nation about the new and old staff which will help introduce them to local residents:
 Miss Wallace is former resi- dent of New York. She is living in one of the Powell apartments on Fifth and Broadway.
 Mrs. Briggs, from Boise, Idaho has a four year old daughter, FL len Kay, and they are staying with MT. and Mrs. George Nelson at their apartment at the Sanatorium. Mrs. Nelson, also from Boise, and Mrs. Briggs are friends of many years standing.
 E. B. Dell, high school instructor, has a wife and two children, a boy in the sixth grade and a four year old daughter. They are now living in one of the Gualt houses on Seventh Street. MT. and Mrs. Dell are well adjusted to life in Alaska as he has taught in the interior nine years, one child be- ing born in the Yukon territory and the other in the Kuskokwim dis trict. The past year they spent in North Dakota.
 Mrs. Van Gorder spent the sum- mer vacation at Tenakee. She is living in the Dodge home at pres ent.
 The new superintendent, Barney Anderson, is no stranger in Skag- way, having taught here several wears ago. He and his wife and three children are living in the Lamoreaux home. MT. Andersen has been teaching and coaching in Juneau High the past several years.