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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Warmers must be twisting
Barbara StanWycks arm
BY MARJonIE MILTON

When THE Two Mrs. CAROLS
first appeared on Broadway, au-
dienees gladly paid through the
nose to watch the skillful Eliza
beth Bergner pull off a tour de
fierce.
With the less accomplished
Barbara StanwYck playing the
same role. movie audiences will
probably be asking for their
money back. Indeed. the whole.
movie is as neat a job of rnis-
casting as we've seen in some
time.
As a mad artist who spends the
time between canvasses in muir
dering his wives, Humphrey Bo-
CART is the same tough guy his
fans want to see. Few actors on
the screen can surpass Bogey in
conveying violent brutality, but
the tortured subt1eties Of mad
ness are not his speciality
DURING the recent congress
sionaI investigation on Comnu-
nists in the movies, commenta-
tor remarked that he had often
wondered why Robert Taylor was
in pictures. Now ! know" he
added, "they make him"
After viewing the current Of
fering on the Roosevelt screen,
we can only reach the same con-
clusion about Mr.. Tay1or's wife,
Barbara Stanwyek. Warmers must
be twisting her arm.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Not for humans

In License court before Judge
Cecil C. Smith last week, Mrs.
Leauntee Hodge 6610 Vernon
avenue, was fined $50 and $40
costs for using a cellar for human
habitation with too-1ow ceiling
and floor, and failing, to repair
a leaky roof and broken plaster
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14

WASHINGTON. - GP) -
Adding their voices to the chorus
of protest against the Taft-Hart-
ley labor bill, Pres. Robert W..
Kenney of the NATL Lawyers
Guild and Chairman Charles, G..
Bolte of the American Veterans
Committee wrote Pres. Truman
June 9, appealing for a veto Of
the measure.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
REVIEWS IN BRIEF ON BOOKS

AMERICAS STAKE IN THE
MIDWEST. 1t will depict the role
of the Midwest in the political
and economic life of the United
States.
AN INTRODUCTION TO Rus
SIAN LITERATURE has been pre-
pared for Doubleday by DIR. Helen
Muchniei of the Smith College fac
ulty, one of the foremost students
Of Russian literature in this eoun-
try. In the early chapters DR..
Muchnic discusses the folk itera-
ture and the early written tradi-
ton Of Russia. Later chapters
evaluate the important writer's
whose names are familiar to every
one but whose work has hereto
fore been studied by few. The
price is $500.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14

International p ublisher an
nounce that they have the manu-
script of new book by William
z. Foster promised them for early
publication. The tentative title is
POST WAR EUROPE and is based
on three month trip Mr.. Foster
recently made through Europe. 1t
will cover the economic, political
and labor conditions in England,
France, Italy, Trieste, Jugcslavia,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Po-
land-especial1y the kind of gov
eminent.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
LABOR FACT BOOK .. pre-


pared by Labor Research Associa-
ton. has just been issued The
price is $500. Published bi-an-
nually, it is now in it's sixteenth
year. 1t is indispensable for labor
leaders and students, inasmuch as
it deals with every aspect and
phase of labor problems and de-
velopments.
The second issue Of MAIN
STREAM the literary quarterly,
has Just appeared on the stands.
If you were among the thousands
who were unable to buy the first
issue because it was Immediately
exhausted, I advise you to start
off with the present one, which
appears to be of equally high con-
tent. VIII be reviewed later.
Boni & Gaer. new, progressive
publishing house, have announced
for the near future. THE TRUTH
ABOUT CONGRESS by Irving
Richter, who is the Legislation
Representative In Washington for
the United Automobile Workers
(CIO). There Will be two editions:
cloth, $2.50$paper, $1.00.
Mieridel lie Sour has just signed
a contract with A. A. Wyn, Inc,
for a book tentatively entitled,
Evening star., 1947-11-14

International Justice under the League of
Nations.
He resigned from the latter post before
his term expired, but continued his cru
sade for international equity by under
taking the tremendous task of preparing
a seventy y-five-volume compilation of an
cient and modern laws for the government
of nations. Although far from complete at
his death, this work is said to constitute
valuable reference source for students of
mems past efforts to outlaw aggression
and disorder in the world. Mr.. Moore be-
lieyed that the past held lessons for the
future, that the world some day would
profit by its mistakes in abandoning rule
of law for one of armed might. 1t is
measure of his faith that two world wars
failed to shake his belief that law and
order eventually will triumph over anarchy
and violence-no less among nations than
among men.
Evening star., 1947-11-14

Century Fox productions shown in his archdio-
cese. The operator of the Erlanger Theater
featuring Jane Russell in THE Outlaw was
warned that his three other midcity houses
the Karlton Keith's and the Goldman also
would be boycotted
AS understand, the State Of Pennsylvania
has State censorship over moving picture
films and as long as these two films were ap-
proved for public showing, there is hardly any
need for other kind of censorship, no matter
from what source 1t comes. There could be no
quarrel with the clergymen of the Catholic
faith instructing their following not to attend
the movie houses where pictures failing to gain
their approval are shown But to issue an ulti-
matun, give orders to the proprietors of the
theaters organize boycott and place pickets
in front of the theater in an effort to prevent
other people from visiting the show is horse
of different color
In this country the church is separated from
the state, and if one denomination doesn't like
a certain picture, or play what is to prevent
the Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran or Jew
ish churches and their leaders from demanding
the same equality in censorship over movies
stage plays, newspapers or radio?
EUGENE ESTEN.
Editors Note: The operator Of the Erlanger
Theater has withdrawn THE Outlaw in
difference to Cardinal Dougherty's position.
Evening star., 1947-11-14
European Customs Union?

The opening of an international con-
ference to explore the possibilities of
European customs union Is an interesting
DEVELOPMENT, albeit the immediate likell-
hood of any such eventuality appears re-
mote. The idea itself is not new. Indeed,
it has often been discussed in the past,
though usually by professional economists
on an academic plane. What brings 1t
within the realm of practical politics is
Europe's dire necessity. This was stressed
by Belgian Premier Spaak in his welcom-
ing address, when he told the assembled
delegates: eff there is to be salvation for
Europe, it must be through new methods" :"
The active participants in the confer
ence comprise all the nations of Western
Europe with the significant exception of
Sweden, which contents itself with an
observer. This is undoubtedly due to
Swedish fear of offending Soviet Russia,
which, of course, opposes the conference
and all it stands for.
Brussels, the meeting place, was aptly
chosen, because it is the capital of Belgium.
That country, together with the Neither
lands and Luxembourg, is already putting
into effect a customs union under the
felicitous title of "Benelux" That expert
ment, indeed, serves as a sort of working
model for the larger project. The idea
does not contemplate scrapping of all
tariff barriers within Europe, which would
weld the continent into complete GUS
toms union like the United States. Every
one realizes that economic differences, liv-
ing standards, and local vested interests
are too great to permit of such thorough
going economic amalgamation. What the
delegates have in mind is the formation
of a series of regional tariff agreements
akin to Benelux, whereby groups of coun-
tries sufficiently similar in economic status
Evening star., 1947-11-14

and reasonably complementary can gradu-
ally merge their economic lives. Suggested
additions to Benelux would be Scandi-
navia; the Latin bloc"-France, Italy and
Spain; and the British Commonwealth.
Obviously. the present conference can
do little more than explore the intricate
problem, while study group" of experts
will continue to meet for spadework and
the collection of pertinent data. Even
these preliminary labors will necessarily be
one-sided until the eastern half of Europe,
now beyond Moscow's forbidding iron cur
tain" can be practically envisioned as with
in the scope of the project. Nevertheless,
any serious discussion of Europe's economic
integration is heartening. 1t will surely
have the benevolent interest of the United
States
Evening star., 1947-11-14
John Bussett Moore

John Bassett Moore did not live to see a
realization of his hopes of a world ruled by
law rather than by force. He had the
satisfaction during his long lifetime. how
ever, of participating in many conferences
and tribunals which contributed to better
understanding among nations.
Mr.. Moore wrote prodigiously and
worked relentlessly in behalf of the cause
of international law, first as professor
at Columbia University and later as a
public servant. His initial important in
ternational assignment in the field of
diplomacy was as member of the
Spanish American Peace Commission in
Paris in 1898 Later he became member
of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at
The Hague and of other arbitration and
international law groups. His final as
signment of this nature was as the Amer
.can member of the Permanent Court OF
Evening star., 1947-11-14
Some Facts on School Buildings

In their zeal for elimination of segrega-
ton in Washington's dual school system
some of the group spokesmen seem to have
exaggerated the facts.
AS an example, the statement has been
made that policy of transferring "old
and dilapidated" school buildings from
white to colored use has resulted in con-
dition which finds the "vast majority" OF
Negro schools in handed-down buildings,
while the vast majority of white schools
have been built since 1900.
According to information at the Frank
lin School, 13 of the ST colored schools
were transferred from white to col
ored use. The remainder were built for
colored pupils The transfers followed
population shifts. Two colored schools
have been transferred to white use in the
past but neither is in use now.
The average age of all Washington
school buildings, according to Star study,
is about 35 years. In the white schools it
is 33 and in the colored it is 38 years. In
the white schools, approximately half the
buildings are older than this average age;
in the Negro schools about two-thirds.
School buildings, of course, follow popu-
lation. The oldest are in the oldest parts
of the city. There is about the same in
equality (as between old and new school
buildings) in the white divisions as there is
between the white and colored. BY divi-
sions, the lowest average age in the white
schools is Is years, in the third DIVISION
the highest average age, A years, is in the
seventh division. The lowest average age
in colored schools is 26 years, in the
twelfth division; the highest is in the
tenth division, with an average age of 56
years.
The following table, based on Star
study, indicates the precise division of
school buildings by age groups between
the white and colored schools:
Evening star., 1947-11-14

to the disgust Of law-abiding citizens, are
beating the strict foreign money regulations.
The Ministry of Labor order was specifically
directed at the "spivs," although, of course, 1t
did not mention them by name when it re-
quired registration by persons now employed
in betting and gambling, including football
pools "a large industry here) and in amuse-
ment arcades, night clubs and street trading in
urban areas"
The original regulations issued under the
comprehensive Control of Engagements law
that permits the CONSUMPTION of peacetime la
Dor were much milder than the orders issued
this week. Under the first order the person
who refused to register or be directed" to a
useful job was subject to maximum penalty
of 100 pounds (s4oO and three months in
prison. The latest order raised this to a
maximum of 500 pounds $4,000 fine and two
years imprisonment. The Government obvi-
ously means business.
Report for Duty-But What Duty?
The alleged smartness of the spivs has be-
: the Manchester Guardian had this to say about
them and the new order:
1.-THE spivs themselves-those vague individ-
uals whose irritating existence on the fringes
of the black market or in the lucrative demi-
world of crime produced the clamor that has
led to the new order-will simply be expected
to report for duty.
"Since they have probably been lodging au-
thority in one form or another for years, many
of them even during the war years, 1t is exceed
ingy unlikely that they will present themselves
dutifully at the nearest labor exchange now.
"In fact, the spivs seem about the last peo-
pie that the formidable new registration-for-
employment order Is likely to touch"
Some employers and foremen have talked
with have doubted the wisdom Of forcing
"spivs" into manual labor. In one coal mine
the manager said he wanted none of them.
They would. he predicted. be loafers and trouble
makers. The essential industries to which they
will be directed include mining, farming and
textile production, none of which offers much
opportunity to the agile mind of city slicker.
Many of the minor industrial ills have been
blamed on the "spivs,' who are national Scape-
goats They have been the object of British
hurnor and wisecracks. When the Labor gov
ernment's power campaign to increase produc-
ton lamentably failed, one reason given was
that the placard Work or Want!" was trans
lated into "Spiv and Live!'
printed by special arrangement with the st. Louis
Post Dspatch.)
Evening star., 1947-11-14
Swan of Summer

I haze heard the last cry of the dying s10ar,.
The sDan of summer, the White, ths
shining one;
1t pulsed on the pale air, subdued and
1DGn-
Not harsh and loud, but ,oauering, lost,
alone.
And retrteued one ,ohite plume, drifting
do,on;;
From the burning brake took 1t as It
The fanae-colored brake that ,Dtu soon Be
dry and bro1Dn.)
AS the poignant cry struck like broken
bell
One sundered plume, one 1ohite, tn,n1ac-
ulate feather
To ho1d'and gently smooth, remembering
Sun-drenched hours OF brilliant summer
1Deather
Seen in this fragment OF once strong
wtrag.
The swan Is gone, but the autumn atr 10
filed
With echoes of sound that Is not st1lIed.
MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE.
Evening star., 1947-11-14

This table is roughly indicative Of popu-
lation trends in the past. After the First
World War and extending up to the past
war, white pupils were on part time In
Central High School, Western High School,
Eastern High School and Anacostia High
School for periods of five years-at various
times, in other words, pupils were on part
time classes in these schools throughout
their entire high-school careers. And
during this time no colored school children
were on part time White schools were
built to overcome this deficiency.
But in the past ten years an eXtraor-
dinary change in school population has
taken place Migration and increasing
birth rate resulted in a net gain of 1873
per cent in colored school pupils, while
there was a decrease of about IA per cent
in the white schools Thus, most of recent
new-school construction under way and
planned is to overcome relatively new con-
gestion in colored schools and catch up
with new growth and direction of popu-
lation.
The groups opposing transfer to colored
use of five white schools in Northeast and
Southwest Washington are really opposing
segregation. But in the argument against
segregation, they are blocking purely
temporary expedient which would place
about half of the 6825 boys and girls now
attending part-time classes in the colored
schools on full-time basis. The transfer
of schools would not be permanent. 1t
would remain in effect only until new con-
struction is completed.
There are arguments in favor of elm
mating segregation. In The Stars opinion
they do not outweigh the arguments
against eliminating segregation. But the
generalization that Negro pupils are con-
signed to dilapidated, Worn-out buildings
handed down by the whites is not valid
nor an accurate argument; the argument
that colored children are receiving an in
ferior education is, in The Stars opinion,
an unfair reflection on the quality of
education available at the hands of devoted
Negro men and women in charge of the
colored school divisions
Evening star., 1947-11-14
On Outlawine War

To the Editor of The Star:
Daily in the public press we read how all
things are being geared to the minutest detail
Northern Maine as NEST for war BIRDS" the
most powerful bombers. 1t is to be ready In
1e49.
An intense effort is being made to have
passed early in January compulsory military
training bill which will cover boys in their
teens Each house would then be invaded and
the virus of militarsm be implanted.
A general has indicated atom bombs, and
presumably other weapons of mass destrucuon,
probably would not be used in another war,
as gas was not in the last war. Evidently II
is the hope that would make the world SAFE
for war again. But 1t would be taking dan
perous risk for new flip has been added
to war which would tend to make 1t SO Vlo-
lent and ruthless any means might be USED
to avoid defeat. So-called war CRIMINALS OF
the defeated enemy are to be tried and pun
shed by the hundreds of thousands. The
United States Army. this summer, two years
after fighting ceased, hanged 4S Nazis in mass
execution, and has since condemned others.
At present we are the most powerful Nation.
time. money, health, our hope of rich IN
heritance for our descendants, our very IN
centive for further effort, all may continue
to be cast as at present, into the voraclous,
Unsuitable NAV Of war preparation. War
preparation never yet showed any indication
of the abandonment of war. We can go to
Europe with loaf Of bread in one hand
which we ourselves need, and In the other
hand weapons of annihilation, accompanied
by the constant, awful fear they may be called
into use.
Or we could take the lead in immediate bold
action for the outlawing of war, and enact
mert of a universal law abolishing 1t. Might
it be suggested most potent aid in the &C
complishment of this purpose would be that
the people of the world as whole have in
formation of the basic essentials in world
affairs, and knowledge of the awful poten-
tialities of further war. Such information could
be given quickly and easily in the same manner
as information regarding food.
Abandonment OF war would be the most
profound act Of man. The human race would
at once be lifted to higher plane We then
could enter the thrilling new world the scen-
lists have revealed to us. There would be high
incentive and opportunity for all.
As 1t never was their duty to vote, it Is the
duty Of each and every person to help drive
war from the world. M. P. w.
Evening star., 1947-11-14

is the target >of "SpiU."
of the drastic DEGREES this week by the Ministry
of Labor that all men between 18 and 81 years
old not now ganfully employed and all women
between 18 and Al years old, similarly unem-
ployed, must register with the Government
Labor Exchanges for useful work.
''Spiv" Is the favorite name applied to the
man who successfully dodges useful work yet
is plentifully supplied with money and hard
to-get goods. The female Of the species is
sometimes called "spivette."
The generally accepted definition of a "spiv"
is "a man who gets a good living by his wits
without working and, If possible, without
crime" The category ranges from the fellow
who can get 1t for you wholesale" for small
fee to the black market dealer in food and
clothing coupons for which there are severe
penalties.
Small Time Operators.
In American terms the nearest thing to a
"spiv" is the numbers runner. the ticket specu-
lator and the race track tout. He is, IN short,
a small-time operator, not necessarily rack
eteer and rarely gangster. The term does not
include the gunman, burglar or stickup man.
1t apparently came up from the underworld
from the word "spif" or "spiff," meaning smart,
dandihed or excellent. Lately it has branched
out to the adjective "spivvish," which can be
applied either to something phoney or some
thing hard to get.
Because of the gambling fever raging in Eng
land, the "spiv" is usually associated with the
horse and dog races. fights and betting on
football games. In Paris he would be one Of
the many furtive individuals who sidle up to
foreigners to whisper, ANY money to changer"
So far as have been able to learn, however,
there Is no black market in British currency in
England although few British travellers, much
Evening star., 1947-11-14
Forced Labor in Britain

There has been an attempt to sugar.
coat the resort to forced labor in Britain,
now formally announced by the Attlee
primarily at the "spivs"-those Britishers
who live by their wits on the fringes of the
law But that is an unworthy subterfuge,
for the forced-labor order applies to all
Britons within certain age groups and with
the exception of certain categories Of
women. The order is intended to recruit
working force of 100000 men and women
from among those who are not now work.
ing or who are not "usefully" employed.
In the future they will work or they will
60 to jail.
This departure from democratic tradi-
ton finds it's Justification in national
necessity. The British government, al
though it.still tolerates strikes, is no longer
willing to condone sheer idleness or
frivolous employment. 1t has come to the
reluctant conclusion that henceforth the
need of the nation for more production
must take precedence over the right of the
individual to do as he pleases.
AS nation with tradition of respect
for the freedom of the individual which
is second to none takes this step toward
totaltarianism, it Is impossible to escape
certain measure of misgiving. If 100000
people can be put to forced labor in
Britain on the ground of necessity, what
will the next step be? If Britains economy
goes from bad to worse as we'll may be
the case, is there any real hope of revers-
ing or even checking this trend toward
an all-powerful state?