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Evening star., 1947-03-17
Labor in Arsentina

To the Editor of The Star:
This is in reference to the letter OF
Martin Luis Drago, Counselor of the
Argentine Embassy, who did not like
my recent article on the current situa-
ton in Argentina.
So far as his criticism Of the articles
themselves is concerned the issue of
The Evening Star which contained his
letter carried news story which may
be deemed adequate reply to Mr..
Drago's pronouncement. That story
reported in some detail the unanimous
findings of the recently returned A. F..
of L. delegation regarding the govern
ment-controlled labor setup in Argen-
tina. The delegations account Of the
present situation substantiateS mine.
Mr.. Drago cited with approval a state
ment made by Mr.. Arnold Zander,
acting chairman of the A. F. of L. dele
CATION. Mr.. Drago's appreciation of Mr..
Zander was evidently written before
the delegation made public its straight
forward report, which will be accepted
as truthful by everybody but those
officially implicated.
JOHN HERLING.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
On the Record
Rp Dorothy THOMPSON

Italy's government is as democratic
as any in Europe. And this govern
ment is now asked to sign treaty
which lays Italy wide open to the
same Soviet puppets who conquered
Yugoslavia and are threatening Greece.
While Italy is forced to abandon her
most important naval establishments
on the Adriatic, the Soviet puppet.
Albania, is creating a powerful naval
and air base across the same sea.
With a powerful Yugoslav army across
her borders, Italy Is required to abandon
the mountains, which are her only
defense on land, and to disarm.
A poor country by nature, and an
overpopulated one, she Is to be deprived
of her chief mineral resources-includ-
ing most Of her inadequate supplies OF
coal-and prepare to receive into her
congested area 250,000 evacuees from
less congested parts Finally, she Is to
be taxed a reparations bill from current
production.
The italian Communists, in intimate
contact with Marshal Tito, profiteer on
disillusionment with the west, proclaim
ing that exploitation of the lost terri
tories and the recovery of the Italian
economy can begin only when Italy COM
bines with Yugoslavia.
If we consider these propositions In
connection with our stand in Greece,
we appear to be running around like
chickens without heads.
Hungary has been looted to collapse
by the Russians The anti-Communist
parties, representing the vast majority,
are being smashed by the Communist
machine. The people place their dying
hopes only on the United States.
Bulgaria, as much Hitler ally as any
satellite-as was Slovakia, which nobody
mentions-is a Soviet pet to be re-
warded, though the Dimitrov regime
turned even these perennial pro-Rus-
slams against 1t.
Now all these countries are to be
pushed away from us by treaties that
violate reason, justice, common sense
and pledges, while We take a stand in
Greece.
The Senate is not required to ratify
these treaties. 1t should await develop
ments and consider them only in the
framework of an all-European settle
ment.
tReleased By The Bell Syndicate. Ins)
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Grab This Opportunity

II local taxpayers themselves
were examining the need for new
and higher revenue to support a
budget that has more than doubled
in the past ten years they would
20 about it very much as Repre-
sentative Bates and Senator Cain
have done.
These two chairrnen of the respon-
sible House and Senate subcommit-
tees have asked the Commissioners
to begin by justifying their greatly
increased costs of local government.
The Commissioners will be able to
show that while local tax revenues
have gone up nearly 100 per cent
the national Government is paying
proportionately less now than it was
ten years ago. They will show that
a substantial portion of the actual
increases in local government cost
is the result of national wage pol
icies ordered by Congress, in some
cases over the protest of the Com
missioners. They will show that In
the past ten years or so the national
Government has increased its own
holdings of tax-exempt land by
more than 18 per cent, while
decreasing the proportionate share
of local revenue which it makes
available (partly in lieu of taxes)
through the lump sum. They will
show that in spite of budget which
has more than doubled, the city is
far behind in supplying vital needs
of it's citizens.
Mr.. Bates wants a breakdown of
the cost of services to the Federal
Government paid for by the local
taxpayer. He will find an itemized
list-exceeding $4,000, ,000-prepared
by his brethren of the House Sub
committee on District Appropria-
tons last year. He expresses some
interest in the fact that nontax-
paying nonresidents enjoy free
tuition in the public schools of
Washington. He will find that time
and again the free-tuition item has
been knocked out, only to be restored
under pressure of voting citizens
who do not live here. He will find
that while Congress, within the
past ten years, put intp effect a
local income tax, that Congress at
the same time exempted thousands
of local residents from paying this
income tax-because these residents
have the power of votes.
The opportunity to review the past
ten years of increased local govern
ment costs is one that the Commis-
sioners should value. 1t gives them
the chance to make factual record
in support of a formula under which
local taxes will in some degree be
matched by Federal funds in support
of the American Capital, and to
show that an increase in local taxes
alone will not do the job.
Evening star., 1947-03-17

Certainly, If the successor to Hitler's
dream OF consolidated empire from the
Channel to the Urals becomes another
totalitarian power hostile to the whole
civilization of which America is part,
we have not only lost the peace; we
fought the war in vain. That sooner or
later, therefore, the United States, as
the defender of the West, would have to
call halt to Soviet imperialism-which
has already encompassed or obliterated
q series of historic European states
was long obvious.
But it Is also time that our right hand
should know what our left hand is doing.
After Munich gave Hitler the most
important strategical points for expan-
sion, Britain and France guaranteed"
Poland What that guarantee amounted
to we now know.
Now. while Congress is being asked
to guarantee the freedom OF Greece, 1t
is also being asked expeditiously to ratify
the Italian. Hungarian, Bulgarian and
Rumanian peace treaties.
submit that it is impossible, in rea-
son, to reconcile these two policies.
The issue is whether Greece is to
become a Soviet colony. The means
for securing that end Is Marshal Tito's
support of the radical elements Of
ELIAS. The factors contributing to
possible success are misery, unemploy-
ment, hunger, fear and military in-
capacity to deal with an armed rebellion
supported within Greek territory by
external assistance. The Greek gov
ernment. must be aided to relieve the
economic suffering of the Greek peo-
pie and resist the enemies Of Greece
for the defense of Europe and the
Middle East.
But what, then, Of Italy?
Soviet pressure on Greece comes via
Yugoslavia. So does the pressure on
Italy and Austria. Italy, however, is
an enemy" who must be punished" :"
What Italy? The Italian people and
nation? Former Prime Minister
Churchill and President Roosevelt af-
firmed, with accuracy, that the Italian
people were all but unanimously against
the war. The Italians were the only
people to overthrow Fascism on their
own initiative No European resist
ance movement contributed so much
to our victory nor suffered so many
casualties in actual fighting on our side.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Northern Treusure-House

The proving of vast iron ore
deposit which may turn out to be-
the richest and most extensive in
the world is welcome news to our
Northern neighbors, Canada and
Newfoundland, and will presumably
have significant reflex effects upon
our own economy.
This important find is merely the
latest in long series of discoveries
which have already done so much
to enrich and develop the Dominion.
They have all occurred in that
natural treasure-house, known to
biologists as the Pre-Cambrian
Shield, which covers most of North
eastern Canada. This Shield" is
the remains of an extensive noun
tain system geologically' so ancient
that it has been worn down to its
very roots, thereby exposing mineral
deposits of various kinds at the bases
of vanished peaks. Hitherto the
most important finds have been
gold, nickel and uranium. Now, iron
has been abundantly added. Incl
dentally, our famous Mesabi Range
deposit, the source of most of our
iron, in Northern Minnesota, Is due
to this same Pre- -Cambrian Shield,
which there extends trifle south of
the Canadian border.
The new find is far removed from
Mesabi. 1t lies in the extreme north
east, straddling the border between
the Canadian province of Quebec and
Labrador, the coastal strip which
is politically part of the separate
colony of Newfoundland. Indeed,
the major part of the field seems
to be on the Labrador side. The
field as whole covers at least
$4,000 square miles. and the proved
deposits, of richness exceeding
that of Mesabi. are almost meal
culable in their content.
Today this region is tenanted by
only few thousand wandering In
dians and Eskimos. It's excessively
cold and inhospitable climate has
hitherto rendered it worthless for
settlement. Now grandiose plans,
are being laid for its intensive de-
velopment. A railroad is to be driven
in from Canada. while port facilities
are to be constructed in both Canada
and Labrador to bring out the ore.
Most of the energy needed can be
Evening star., 1947-03-17

supplied by hydro-electric power
from numerous waterfalls. It Is
estimated that the ore can be sup
piled to our Atlantic ports cheaply
and to our Lake ports also after the
completion of the st. Lawrence deep
waterway. That would take the load
off our Mesabi mines. seriously de-
pleted by the strained production of
the war years.
One probable result of this devel-
opment will be the financial reha-
bilitation of Newfoundland. That
ancient British colony has been vir-
tually in receivership for the past
decade. The wealth drawn from its
Labrador dependency should go far
to rehabilitate Newfoundland's eco
nomic life.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Winter Sunday

Folded in frozen snotD the pillaoe lies;
All dingy things IN frosty Whtteness
wrapped.
Clear hangs the tufted spirs upon the
skies,
Free spin the skaters, laughing, scarlet
capped.
Round sound the brczen bells,
The spires bellsi
All this tomorros0s busy ,Oheels ,oiil
crush;
TomorrotO's muddy noise and traNc
grind:
White toiH be churned to yellotr, s'soto
to slush,
As trampled as the Main Streets Of the
mind.
on, hear them ring again, the sptry bells,
The soaring pealing bells, ring out,
ring essS
Against the MONDAYS compromise and
doubt.
Hold tast-hold high
Good tDill!" they cry;
Hold free the mind
Hold clear the trll
Hold dear the Sunday temper still
Men OF good tDiu,
Men OF good trtrl!
Good DfH!"
KATE BRAcKETT.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
IreIund's Magic

Saint Patrick's Day is a useful
occasion if only because it provides
opportunity for remembrance of the
great spiritual and cultural Inherit
ance of the people of Ireland. The
apostle to Erin, who died at Saul
on March II. 493. was but a part
albeit a most important part-of
that tremendous wealth of ideas
and ideals. If the beautiful prayers
attributed to his pen really were OF
his own composition he was poet
of distinction. In any case he
fathered literature of unparalleled
richness and power.
Something older than Christian
ity, however, is represented in Irish
mythology and folklore. The pagan
high kings and the priests of the
Druid cult taught faith in fairies
and elves long ages before the Star
of Bethlehem shohe over the infant
Jesus. Mountains and rivers, accord
ing to their notion, were inhabited
with beings as much endowed with
life as themselves. 1t is from the
prehistoric era of Ireland that the
immortal "little ones" come down
the years to Margaret O'Brien and
the Three Wise Fools.
And their association with Saint
Brigid, Saint COLUMBIA, the bishops,
the founders of abbeys and schools,
the heroes of many wars, the bards
who sang of their prodigious deeds
is very intimate. The whole pageant
of Irish tradition is ''of piece"
Only to the outsider are the Hound
of Culann and Brian Boru, Hugh
O'Neill and his nephew, Henry Grat-
tan and Daniel O'Connell, Robert
Emmet, Charles Stewart Parnell and
Padriac Pearse isolated from each
other. The ties that bind them
together reach from the Tuatha-
de-Dananns to william Butler Yeats,
George w. Russell, Victor Herbert
and John Mccormack. They include
in their embrace men as different
as Thomas Moore and Bernard
Shaw, Edmund Burke and Sir viii
Orpen.
1t is for this reason that Erin
endures. Small in size and strength
as nations go, she survives while
grander states decline. The arts
serve her well. She has a magic in
her character that made order
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Democracy at Work

To the Editor of The Star:
The impressive and courageous state
ment recently made by Alan Barth at
the League of Women Voters luncheon,
which showed the deplorable conditions
under which colored people live here,
may well be instrumental in correcting
some of them. People may know that
certain injustices exist, but they are
often Indifferent and not moved to do
anything about them unless somebody
definitely calls their attention to them.
But there is no reason why we should
despair of seeing democracy actually
work in the National Capital. On one
notable occasion. at least, it did work
beautifully and it has worked success
fully in that particular field ever since.
On March l, 1895, when the Congress
of the United States authorized the Dis
trict Commissioners to place women
on the Board of Trustees, as it was then
called, people began to wonder whether
a colored woman would be appointed.
Decided objections to such q monstrous
idea were expressed by many. But the
commissioner Of education declared
emphatically that If colored woman
could be found who was qualified it
would be only just and proper to appoint
her, and he intended to do it. He kept
his word and appointed colored woman
who served six years and then resigned.
Sometime later Congress delegated
the justices of the District Supreme
Court to appoint members of the Board
Of Education. Whereupon those gentle
ment declared that they would put no
body on their new board who had ever
served here in that capacity before.
And the colored woman who had re-
signed after serving six years was the
only person whom the judges appointed
on their new board who had ever served
in that capacity before. Five years
afterward she resigned again, having
served altogether II years as member
of the board. This colored woman never
had any difficulty with either the white
women or the men and nobody OBJ
jected to her presence in any way,
shape or form.
1t is greatly to be regretted that there
Is segregation In our public schools. Ger
tainly this condition cannot 60 on in
definitely in the Capital of a country
calling itself q democracy. unless II
intends to make itself the jest and joke
OF the whole world. But, so far as race
relations are concerned, the National
Capital has redeemed itself in one re-
spect, at least, by having Board of
Education on which the two races work
together in peace. It Is incumbent upon
all good citizens who really believe in
democracy to work with might and main
to have this pattern spread over =
wider field.
MARY CHURCH TERRELL.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Southern COOKING

As was to be expected, the Nations
leading gourmets reluctantly pushed
themselves away from the table at
the first annual Virginia master
chefs tournament and agreed unan-
imously that Southern cooking In
general and Virginia cooking in par
ticular are everything that they are
cracked up to be-
The gastronomic connoisseurs were
not without their doubts when they
accepted the invitation of the State
Chamber of Commerce to pass on
the merits of such traditional dishes
as Virginia fried chicken, baked
peanut-fed ham, shad roe, Norfolk
spots and Chesapeake Bay oysters
to mention only a few. The experts
had tasted alleged Southern cook
ing" in various parts Of the country
and they were not too much i'm
pressed. Others, not pretending to
be gourmets, have had the same
experience.
The trouble is that nobody but a
Virginian really knows how to fry a
chicken or bake an old ham or broil
a bacon-wrapped oyster in true Vir-
ginia style. 1t is libel on the Old
Dominion to try to pass off soggy
drumstick or a Synthetically cured
ham as Virginia delicacy, yet Vir-
ginians who tour the North or West
frequently encounter such misrep-
resentations in roadside inns or city
restaurants. They can understand
the misgivings with which the judges
tackled their assignment at Virginia
Beach. And they can appreciate the
pleased expressions which each dish
produced during the big experiment.
The lesson is plain for every one
who enjoys good cooking. North
erners should stick to their own
inimitable table specialities, from
Boston baked beans to fried clans
and clam chowder with or without
tomatoes), leaving Southern fried
chicken and the like to Southern
cooks. And, conversely, let South
erners be content with serving the
tasty foods for which they are justly
famous. The Northern visitor does
not expect, or want, to be offered a
spurious cream pie" or fish chowder,
a la Maryland or Virginia.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Letters to The Star
VUVStlOnS IOT NOnXTeSS OH
Rent Increase

To the Editor of The Star:
recently read that the Rent Control
Board in Washington is operating so
efficiently that no one appeared before
The Senate Banking Committee to pro-
test the way in which it is administered.
do not understand this as there are
all kinds of conflicting prices on apart
ments and rooms. In good apartment
hsuses many still have one room and
bath for $50 or $35 because they rented
these apartments before the maximum
rent date, while others are paying twice
as much for similar apartments be-
cause they did not happen to be rented
when rents were frozen. Any fat rate
Of increase on rents would be added to
the high-priced apartments just the
same as to the low-priced ones (value
being the same), depending entirely
upon when they were rented. 1t is not
uncommon for two girls In an ordinary
rooming house to pay $50 each for a
double room, with maybe half dozen
people using the same bath, while there
are these one-room apartments in nice
apartment houses renting to one person
for half the money. These people are
still hogging these apartments and have
been since before the war.
Room rent Is all out of proportion to
the rent on houses and apartments.
These people who rent houses and
apartments for the purpose of renting
rooms are still paying cheap rent be-
cause they rented before the maximum
rent date. This being the case, why are
they allowed to charge such exorbitant
prices for rooms? I know the answer
that Is always given to this-the Rent
Control Board has the authority to
regulate rent. Does it? It has the
authority, but not the power. The board
could not possibly handle the thousands
and thousands of cases that would have
to be considered separately.
Couldn't some scheme be worked out
whereby the room rent would be some
what in proportion to the rent on houses
and apartments? For instance, in houses
and apartments renting for from $50 to
$75 or from $75 to 500 a month and
so on, have the room rent not to exceed
a certain amount. This would relieve
the board of handling the cases and save
the roomers from incurring the enmity
of the landlady.
ANY Congressman voting for certain
per cent increase in rent must be doing
it as means of getting the trouble
settled in the quickest way possible
they certainly know that it would work
hardship on the majority and would
be no solution to the problem. If rent
control is to continue, it should be
changed in some way to make it work.
able. A property owner cannot even
take house or an apartment OF his
own to live in himself without giving
six months notice. I think it high time
this ruling was discontinued.
Gentlemen, the war is over. How much
longer do we have to put up with these
conditions? E. s. M.
Evening star., 1947-03-17

systems never can possess. Even
her name is romantic. Perhaps, as
the Irish themselves Fundamentally
believe, she is unique. The shamrock
grows naturally nowhere else.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Silver Lining

From the Edmonton Journal.
Cheer upl It won't be so long before
ye are hearing that heat and drought
threaten to ruin the CROP
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Too Expensive Still

From the Davenport uowG Democrat.
Atomic bombs can now be made at q
cost Of 81 million. The world still can't
afford them
Evening star., 1947-03-17

.tThis article. is condensed and Is re-
printed by permission from the current issue
Of the Journal Of the Bar Association Of the
District Of Columbia.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
Slightly Off The Record
Wilmington, N. c.
April 20, 1947.

DedF EeSSy-
One of the most beautiful entertainments ever given in Will
Thomas H. Wright was the charming hostess at a brilliant recep
ton from 4:30 until 6 O'Clock at her home no North 18th street in
honor of her daughterinlaw, Mrs. Thomas H. Wright, Jr, who was
the former Miss Margaret Taylor of Greensboro. The entire lower
lovely arrangements of white azalas,. snapdragons, roses and tulips.
In the living room the guests were received by Mrs. Wright and
presented to Mrs Tom Wright, Jr. Assisting ar mother and sister
inIaw in receiving was Mrs. William S. R. Beane, the former Miss
Eleanor Gilchrist Wright. The hostess, chose for the occasion a be-
coming floral print silk dinner gown with background OF white, with
which she wore a lavendar orchid at her shoulder. The guest of
honor was simply stunning in her silk print dress of dinner length
with a deep purple orchid corsage-exactly the right shade to en-
nance her brunette loveiness-whie Mrs. Beane was similarly at
tired in a modish print dinner frock of softly blending hues. On the
guests were greeted by Mrs. Arthur VanBuren, sisterin-law of Mrs.
Wright, and by Mrs. Thomas H. Wright, the wife of Bishop Wright.
Punch was served by Mrs. Clayton G. Bellamy and Mrs. Raymond
H. Holland, nieces of Mr.. Thomas H. Wright Being attracted by a
stopped to view the beautiful azaEa garden where also could be
seen innumerable crimson tulips and hundreds of gold and purple
pansies. In the dining room the entire decorative motif was carried
out in white and green and here punch was served from a silver
table was covered with an Italian cut work banquet cloth and center
ed with a enormous silver bowl filled with pure white blossoms
which was thanked by four antique silver candelabra holding tall
white cleaning tapers. Invidual iced and decorated cakes in white
in silver comportes completed the lovely table arrangement APP
proximately one hundred guests called during the late afternoon.
We heard the other day that Jack and Josie Hammer of Bright
waters. Long Island, will arrive the end Of this week to attend the
wedding of Miss Charlotte Sprunt and David r. Murchison, Jr. which
will take place at st. James Episcopal church on Saturday, April
Miami, leaving their car here until their return from Florida. This
will re Josie Hammers first trip south. Jack Hammer, you will
remember grew up in Wilmington, attended school here; and made
bis hon with his parents at 1901 Grace street until they moved back
to the north, whence they came, some years ago. Jack is the son
Continued On Page 3, Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
Davis,
W. H. johnson
Engaged To Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Farrior
Davis of Burgaw announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Jul
liette, to William Hutchins johnson
of Durham, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Aubrey Phillip johnson of Ports
mouth, Va. Miss Davis is the niece
of Mrs. Victor Bordeaux of Burgaw
The bride-to-be, now employed
by the Farmers Mutual Exchange
in Durham, attended Woman's Col
lege University OF North Carolina
in Greensboro, and Flora MacDon-
aid college in Red Springs.
Mr.. Jchnso is employed by the
oucl'c Service Compay Of North
Carolina in Durham. Previously,
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