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Evening star., 1947-04-30

thougnt personal liberty was an aid to
getting fed Stupid reactionaryD. And
America was saved from Burr by a great
conservative, Alexander Hamilton, who
mated Jefferson but loved America, and
threw his party's vote to a patriot F."
Burr went abroad. Since then we've
got along pretty we'll
The Bolshevik Party did not over
throw the Tsars. 1t overthrew a new
constitutional regime with civil liberties.
The Bolshevik Party destroyed it and
established more despotic dictatorship
than the Tsars' over nation with
resources equal to our own, and with
infinitely more industry, machinery.
communications and cultivated land
than our founding fathers dreamed of
when they framed the Bill of Rights,
AT the end of 20 years of peace, the
standard OF living of the Russian people
was lower than that of the poorest
neighboring European country - lower
than F1nland's, Poland's or Hungary's.
The concentration camps, purges and
slave labor did not put clothes on Rus
sian backs or teapots on their tables.
It built an army-from which whole
regiments mutinied in this last war.
This state of affairs is to go on, accord
Ing to Mr., Wallace, until consumers
goods are plentiful after which, appar-
emily, the regime will "wither away"
Mr. Wallace's solution is for the United
States to furnish the consumers goods
in the form of gigantic loan.
4
We suggest that liberties for the Rus
sian people would produce the con-
sumers' goods-and peace, too. We
suggest consumers goods will never ap-
pear In abundance SO long as every fac
tory manager has a spy over his shoulder,
natural human errors are paid for with
peoples heads, and the people serve the
state and not vice versa.
Every tyrant who ever lived has said,
Bread first, freedom later" But the
free American farmer outproduces every
state collective in the world.
Mr.. Wallace, who knows this, should
be ashamed of himself
useisassd b. tbs 8eu nyndscats hal
Evening star., 1947-04-30
should be under no illusions as to tl1e

should be under no illusions as to the
probable outcome.
Why, it may be asked. has Mr..
Molotov made his proposal? Pre-
sumably for two reasons. In the
first place, Secretary Marshalls rea-
soning was so cogent that formal
acquiescence by Moscow could hard
ly have been avoided. But more
compelling reason is probably the
Secretary's statement that our Gov-
ernment was going ahead with the
economic and political reconstruc-
ton of our zone. That sets no better
with Moscow than similar plans of
the American and British Govern
ments for cooperative action in
their zones in Germany. Our pro-
gram for the rehabilitation of
Southern Korea ought to go for
ward promptly.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
What Next in Korea?

If words had the same meaning
in the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A.,
Foreign Minister Molotovs reply to
Secretary Marshalps note regarding
Korea could be considered hopeful
augury that the prolonged deadlock
between the American and Soviet
Governments would be broken. Un-
fortunately, MoScoW's record in
Soviet-American negotiations over
Korea and the general pattern OF
Soviet diplomacy as evidenced cur
rently in the Council of Foreign Min
listers do not inspire optimism.
To be sure, Mr.. Molotov accedes
to Secretary Marshall's suggestion
that the joint viet-American
Commission on Korea resume the
sessions which were broken off in
hopeless disagreement nearly a year
ago And Mr.. Molotov likewise sug-
gests a three-point program for
consideration which includes the
establishment of Korean pro-
viSional government, the holding of
elections, and mutual aid for Korea's
economic reconstruction. All that
sounds fair enough. The catch is in
the Interpretation which Mr.. Molo-
tov places upon what he proposes.
To begin with, Mr.. Molotov re-
aff1rms Moscow's insistence upon the
correctness of its stand under the
Moscow Agreement of December,
l945, regarding Korea, and goes on
to place the blame for the subse-
quent deadlock upon the American
authorities. That deadlock was
caused chiefly by Soviet insistence
upon the exclusion of all political
groups in Korea which had protested
against the proposed five-year
Soviet-.American trusteeship as a
prelude to independence. In practice,
this would have meant that only
pro-Soviet Korean groups would
have been recognized - something
which}our representatives refused to
permit. If the Soviet members of
the commission stand pat on this
and other procedural issues, the re-
vived sessions of the joint commits
sion will be fruitless. And there is
nothing in the language of Mr.. Molo-
TOYS reply which indicates a change
in attitude. Of course. this would
not warrant refusal on our part to
resume negotiations. We should
keep the record straight. But We
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Letters to The Star
Voice Of America Broadcasts
Held of Dubious Value

To the Editor of The Star:
In your interesting editorial in your
issue of April "A, under the caption OF
Voice of America" you are inclined
to agree that If the subcommittee Of the
House Appropriation Committee were
Influenced by belief that our propa-
ganda broadcasts to Russia and other
lands were not achieving any worth
while results, 1t would be difficult to
object to the saving of $3l ,Oo0, 900 which
these broadcasts would cost. However,
although there is no serious evidence
that the broadcasts are Of the slightest
Importance in furthering our national
interests. you are disposed to consider
that the experiment should be con-
tinued
To many taxpayers, on the other
hand, 1t will seem that $31, ,000, 900 Is
sizable amount we'll worth saving If
1t can be saved, and that the subcom-
mittee should be thanked, rather than
blamed, for making practical effort
to contain Government expenditures.
Nothing that has been revealed to us,
thus far, respecting our propaganda pro-
gram, either suggests that 1t is getting to
the people it is supposed to reach or that
If 1t did get to them that 1t could affect
their way of thinking in the slightest
degree. And If by chance the peoples
OF Eastern Europe listened in consider
able numbers to our programs it would,
again, not make the slightest difference
in our relations with their governments
whose leaders already know all they
want to know about America, and are
not compelled to pay any attention to
public opinion which is practically nom
existent.
We need no propaganda in Europe,
especially, conducted under Government
auspices, because, without cent of ex-
pense, we have many millions of propa-
gandlsts at our service, consisting of our
foreign born population and their i'm
mediate descendants, who by word of
>~>SNeAA S%AAo ASeVCl dIC pISSCllLlUR our
case far more persuasively and objec-
lively than any conceivable Government
department. BY and large every Euro
pean peasant and industrial worker
knows what America Is and hopes to be
and the long line of applicants for visas
at every American consulate proves con-
clusively the effectiveness of the unof-
f1cial propaganda to which have
alluded
Congress can render no greater service
to the cause of good relations with for
eign countries than by restricting our
diplomatic establishments to their long
established functions, which means leay-
ing Americas story" to be told by our
several Ambassadors and not by radio
commentators and music hall singers.
ROBERT P. SKINNER.
Charlottesville, Va.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Pattern

NotD, in his room, alone. he sulks. his
tears
Well out of bitterness. he does mot
knotc
He flls the rounded pattern Of the
years 1
! see in him child of long ago, g
Alone, frustrated, angry: noto he broods
In stark self pity: no one understands
A boy OF t,0elre, pltose s1ptftly chanai7,o
moods ~ p
Must buttress Hte's anreasontng de-
nlGnds. n
am the parent and am the child:
MY cieto comes from beioap, and from
dbope. i
knoio the only gateway to his pord,
But must n1oDe slotoly, till he feels
my lone
Bridging the chasm that the years haps
made
UntH ne knot1s he has not been betrayedt
MAE WNKLER GOODMAN.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Buyers Strike Proposed

10 the EDITOR OF The Star:
Your editorial of April % entitled
Now or Never" is particularly wise,
sagaciouS and timely, and it promptly
should be observed by the public If this
country is to escape the disastrous re-
currence of breadlines in our midst.
Unscrupulous merchants have gone
all out to shake down the general pub
lie to its last farthing. To overcome
and defeat such calamitous result
the people should rise up in their wrath
and smite the vicious specter before, as
your editorial advises, things get en-
tirely out of hand.
One need only take notice of the
price of bread, which used to sell for
5 cents loaf, now selling between
IL and IA cents, to be able to tell In
which direction we rapidly are drifting.
If the people only would be firm in
their determination to limit their buy
ing to the bare necessities of life for a
month or so, the effect upon the heart
less profiteers would be 50 disastrous
that prices inevitably would come tum-
bling down. CONSUMER.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
A Students Complaint

To the Editor OF The Star:
would like to sound my views on the
deplorable conditions of colleges in the
present day.
To begin, why did colleges of the
prewar size of a thousand students
suddenly increase to eight times this
size with a very fractional per cent of
gain in additional buildings and equip
ment? There is limit to the number
OF students who can be properly fed in
a given college dining hall. Many COL
leges have far exceeded this number,
to the cost of all students concerned.
The classroom situation is absolutely
disgraceful. At the University of Mary
land, hundreds of students funk courses
such as mathematics and chemistry.
not because they don't understand the
subject, but rather because the teaching
staff grades on curve so outrageous
that very few even get an average
grade. STUDENT.
College Park, Md.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Are Disasters Necessary?

Are DISASTERS Necessary?
To the Editor of The Star:
What is the why of these catastrophe
visitations all over our beloved coun-
try-train disasters in Pennsylvania, in
Illinois. along the East Coast; holo-
causts in Massachusetts, and Georgia:
explosions in California, Illinois and
Texas: epidenics? Those of us who
are left are asking: Is it God; is 1t
man?
War Is too horrible not to have re-
percussions like these, and I, one small
voice in our republic, bewail our laxity
in places Of delegated responsibility.
cannot help but remember the cir
cumstances of Pearl Harbor nor the
warnings with which its advent was
heralded. I cannot forget the many.
many uniformed Americans torn from
their homes and thrust against a dey-
lllsh enemy. I cannot forget the hos
pitals today teeming with human war
wrecks. I cannot forget our hospitality
to prisoners of war! And I protest
most vigorously to the addition of these
other things so subtle, so terrible. and
occurring with such precision that nv
mind whirs with questions. I object
to people I have never known-fellow
Misunderstanding died that I might
live In this free country, and then see
this country gouged out with more hu-
mans. The sacrifice of human life has
surely been sufficient. Let us face the
TACT that there are un-democratic,
warped, desperate people in the world
who hate us.
We are great Nation under God:
we need not be a foolish, kowtowing
Nation! Wholesale disasters like these
do not need to happen.
EUGENE M. STECHOW,
Evening star., 1947-04-30
The Historic Mile

That was a fine. hearty welcome
to President Aleman yesterday. The
spirit of the great crowds that lined
the route of the procession reflected
genuine, wholesome friendliness
and enthusiasm for a distinguished
guest. And a contributing factor in
making a colorful spectacle of the
occasion was that the parade fol-
lowed, for part of it's course, the
traditional route of parades-Penn-
sylvania avenue.
In recent years the people In
charge of such affairs have done
their level best to shunt all process
sions down the back way-Consti-
tuition avenue, leaving Pennsylvania
avenue free for traffic. That has
been a mistake. Constitution avenue
serves utilitarian purpose, as it
did yesterday in feeding the pro-
cessior into Pennsylvania avenue on
the way from the airport to the
District Building and the White
House. But that broad stretch up
Pennsylvania avenue between the
Capitol and the Treasury is line of
march, for heroes or visiting celebri-
ties, that should never be aban-
doned. Deep means of anguish usu-
ally emanate from the District
Building at the thought of moving
the heavy, wooden streetcar load
ing platforms to make way for a
parade. Yesterdays procession could
move between them-leaving these
noble relics undisturbed. The. plat
forms should be made of light metal.
easily removed. And everything
should be done to preserve a route
of march that history has so closely
identified with the American Cap
itaL
The parades that move down the
back way, Constitution avenue, lack
an atmosphere that only the "his-
toric mile" on Pennsylvania avenue
is able to provide. It has been
written that mo other mile Of Amer
lean roadway is so rich in historic
association, tradition and senti-
ments" as the stretch of pavement
between the Capitol and the White
House. 1t is the natural route of
great professions and any other
route becomes a makeshift substi-
tute.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
And CrystoI Gozinq Spheres

From the Cleveland News.
The text OF the Yalta agreement h
disclosed in full; but it's probably use
less at this late date to call for calipers
and the dice used on that historic oc-
casion.
Evening star., 1947-04-30

CThe following statements some Of them
condensed. are taken from the House debate
Of Monday on the bill authorixing the Commits
sioners to decide. after hearings. on daylight
saving for the District of Columbia.l
Evening star., 1947-07-27
MURDER BY TELEPHONE
Continued from preceding page

He had never replaced the
phone in its cradle!
Now he tried to control him
self, but his fear was running riot.
There was only one thing to
do. He must get back to the
house - must face that CHASTITY
thing again - must get near the
phone and replace it in its stand.
He had to chance it!
Avoiding the outside Office, so
that his employees would not
see him leaving, he slipped
through a side door and gained
the street unobserved.
BUT once he was in his car, his
foot pressed the accelerator i'm
patiently, rashly. The car.
screamed on tortured tires
around corners and through
lights.
In five minutes he was jab-
bing at his front-door lock with
the key.
As the door opened, almost
Evening star., 1947-07-27

overpowering gas smell engulfed
him, but he covered his mouth
with his hand and rushed to-
wards the pantry.
The phone was lying on the
table where he had carelessly
thrown it.
HIS one thought was to get it
back in its cradle - then get
back to the Office and place that
fatal call.
They mustn't find his wife the
way she was now!
He furnbled the phone back
into the cradle.
Turning to run out, he was
stopped for just a second by his
wife's leering face.
At that precise moment, COM
petent, well-trained Miss John
son fulfilled her promise of trying
to get the number after fifteen
minutes.
This time the line was not
busy. The End
Evening star., 1947-09-05
Sorority Meas

An illustrated lecture on her work
with the American Red Cross in
Japan will be given by Miss Ruth
Meehan at a meeting of the College
Park Alumnae Association of Alpha
Delta Pi Sorority at $50 pm. Sun
day at the home of Mrs. James E.
Webster, 216 Albany avenue, Takoma
Park, Md. Miss Meehan is a mem
ber OF the association.
Washington girls entering college
this fall will be guests of honor of
the Washington Alumnae Chapter
OF Gamma Phi Beta. international
sorority, at rushing party from S
to pm. tomorrow at the home of
Mrs. A. Burke Summers, Holly Oaks
Hostesses assisting at the recep-
ton will include Mrs. Abe McGregor
Golf, wife of the Representative
from Idaho: Mrs. Charles T. Akre,
secretary of the local Pan-Hellenic
organization: Mrs. Paul E. johnson,
director of Province VIII of Gamma
Phi Beta; Mrs. S. w. Blore, rushing
chairman, and Mrs. r. J, Danne-
miller, president of the Woman's
Club of Chevy Chase.
The Washington Alumnae Chapter
of Delta zeta Sorority will hold its
first fall meeting at 8 pm. Wednes-
day at the chapter house, 2l29 6
street NV. The program will in
clude discussion of the 1948 agenda,
planning of layette shipments to
Norway, and music by Mrs. Donald
c. Schoolcraft. Miss Barbara Hart,
president, will preside.
An outdoor supper will be held by
members of the active and alumnae
chapters of Sigma Kappa at Z pm.
Monday at the home of Mrs. Jane
Maddox of Potomac, Md. A group
of girls planning to enter George
Washington University in the fall
will be guests at the supper, which
will conclude the sorority's summer
rush season. .
Evening star., 1947-09-05

married recently in the Congress
Heights Methodist Church, the Rev
George L. Connor officiating.
Miss Mary Katharine White was
her sisters maid of honor and Mr.
Michael had his brother, Mr.. Edgar
F. Michael. as his best man.
Bei9el-BIansfield
Miss Marguerite Theresa Blans-
field, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Thomas Blansfield of Aberdeen, was
married recently to Mr.. George
Leonard Beigel, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George L. Beigel of Baltimore. The
ceremony was performed in the
rectory of the Church of St. Joan
of Arc In Aberdeen, the Rev. G. H
Yingling officiating.
Attendants for the bride and
BRIDEGROOM we're M'~-T Mildred
Eeusler Foley, cousin Of the bride.
and MI. Robert Bump of Baltim> {,
Mr.. and Mrs. Beigel went to the
Pocono Mountains for their wedding
trip following the reception in the
Colonial Hotel. They are making
their home in Baltimore. Mr.. Beigel
attended Swarthmore College and
Harvard University and his bride
was graduated from Trinity College
in the class of 1916,
Evening star., 1947-09-05
AnnOzEuc ceH2eNts

Grace Episcopal Church in Alex
andria was the scene of the recent
wedding of Miss Bette Lee Bragg
and Mr.. Roebrt L. Pettitt, the rector,
the Rev. Merrill Yoh oficiating. The
reception followed in the home of
the brides parents, Maj. and Mrs.
Roy Darlington Bragg on Mount Ida
avenue.
Maj. Bragg gave his daughter in
marriage and she was attended by
her sister, Miss Mary Elaine Bragg,
while her brother, Mr.. Ernest Car
rington Bragg, was best man.
Mr.. pettitt is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Pettitt also of Alex
anoria and he and his bride are
making their home there at 5l8
East Luray avenue.
Michael-Whife
Miss Emma P. White, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Essie P. White of
Mullens. w. Va, and Mr.. Herbert
A. Michael, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles E. Michael, formerly of
Berkeley Springs, w. Va, were
Evening star., 1947-09-05
Buffet Dinner

Miss Elizabeth S. Graham enter
tanned at a buffet dinner last eve
ming in her home in Chevy Chase
in honor of Miss Helen Louise
Buckley and Mr.. John Maury Bod
ley, whose marriage will take place
tomorrow.
The other guests were Miss Mar
garet Buckley, who will be her sis
ter's maid of honor; Miss Anne
Buckley, another sister. and Miss
Frances Bodley, sister of the BRIDE
groom. who will be bridesmaids, and
Mrs. John P. Buckley, mother of
the bride-elect, Last evenings
hostess also will be a bridesmaid.
Evening star., 1947-09-05

Married Saturday to Mr.. Leon
ard Dean McQuiston, son OF
Mrs. Dale B. Bradford OF
Inole1Dood, CaHt, she formerly
was Miss Patricia Jean Perrin,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. I. H.
Perrin OF Jonesboro, Ark. The
wedding took place in the
Church OF Christ, the Req. C.
E. McGauhey officiating. Mr..
and Mrs. McQuiSton are max
inq their home in Nebraska
Hall in Arlington Farms.
Harris & E1Uing Photo.
Evening star., 1947-09-05
Prenubtial Party

Mrs. Ivy A. Pelzman enter
tanned at a tea and shower yester-
day In her apartment at the Shore
ham in compliment to Miss Bar
bara Caldwell, whose marriage to
Mr.. George Kenneth Brobeck, 1r,
will take place this evening In st.
Adams Church.
DR.. and Mrs. Pelzman returned
this week from New England where
they spent the month of August.
Evening star., 1947-09-05
Tea Slated Suudav

Frank q. Fletcher of radio station
WARL will be the guest of the
Women's City Club at tea from
to pm. Sunday at the clubs head
quarters, 1888 I street NV. He will
give an illustrated lecture on THE
Future of Radio Through Better
Listening"
The club will hold the first in a
series of monthly luncheon meetings
at noon Thursday, with the program
under the direction of Mrs. David
Spaulding and her committee. Res
ervations should be made by Tues
day with Miss Nancie Holland, ex-
ecutive secretary of the club.
Evening star., 1947-09-05
In the Meas

+, The chief clerk Of the Interior
Department, Mr.. F. Z. Dotson, is
spending his vacation in his former
home in West Virginia and Is &C
companied by his daughter, Miss
\
Gloria Dotson.
Evening star., 1947-09-05

Most Of India's mineral resources
lie outside the borders of the new
state of Pakistan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
WHITEVILLE FIRMS
GRANTED CHARTERS

WHITEVILLE, June 6 - In
cluded in the charters of incorpo-
ration issued in Raleigh yesterday
by Secretary of State Thad Eure
were the following of interest in
Whiteville:
Braxton Motor Sales Corpora
ton, of Whiteville, to deal in
motor vehicles, accessories, and
electrical appliances.
The authorized capital stock of
500, 600. Subscribed stock $500
by S. L. Braxton, Norma E. Brax-
ton, and Noah C. Braxton, all of
Whiteville.
Braxton Auto Parts Corpora
ton was also granted a charter.
An authorized capital stock of
$500, 900, subscribed stock of $500
by S. l.. Braxton, Norma E.. Brax-
ton and H. l.. Sellers, all of White
Vile.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

PreparingFor Big Blows

cottages and destroyed two fish
ing piers. At Wrightsville the
damage was less extensive all
though two piers we're broken in
half. In Wilmington roofs were
torn off, power lines broken, glass
windows shattered and large trees
uprooted.
In 1881 the wind rose to IS miles
per hour and at times to 80 miles
per hour. The thermometer, wind
velocity instrument, was torn
from the ROOF of the weather sta
ton. 1t was the worst storm to
strike here.
Since 1873, when the Weather
Bureau records begin, 20 hurri-
canes have passed over Whining
ton. Some years two were record
ed in a months time. But this
year, while the law of averages
says, mo hurricanes" the Wealth
err Bureau is taking no chances.