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Evening star., 1947-03-21

tration which is becoming increas-
ingly evident in American unionism.
Only last week ten CIO and AFL
maritime unions agreed to resist
attempts Of the Communists to
move in on maritime unions" This
conceded with denunciation by
Guild President Milton Murray of
"undemocratic" communistic activi-
ties within the New York City and
Los Angeles units of the News
papers Guild. These are hopeful
signs to friends of labor who long
have perceived the dangers of allow
ing communistic influences free
rein in unions to carry on their
un-American, divisive campaign
against our industrial system and
our form Of Government.
Evening star., 1947-03-21
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

for "resolute action" "Ii.e United
Nations is designed to make possible
lasting freedom and independence for
all it's members" but, I'VE have consid-
cred how the United Nations might as
sist in this (the Creek crisis But the
situation is an urgent one requiring
immediate action, and the United Ma
tions and its related organizations are
not in position to extend help Of the
kind that is required"
The definition of crisis" implies
urgency"
The U. N. was never designed as an
organization that could create a world
law and world police, through which
alone the freedom of all could be main
tanned. The terrible gaps were in the
original Dumbarton Oaks plan. Yet
the State Department itself went up
and down the country selling it to the
American people as an infalliple instru-
ment Of collective security, and to raise
a doubt was almost high treason.
H. G. Wells said of the League of
Nations to lady who thought it a
"beginning":: "You can't make an auto
IIlOU1c UuL VI tIlG DcSllulllSS VI per"
ambulator." The U. N. is no better.
It was never possible to enforce
peace" Only law can be enforced.
Without world law there can be no
world police; without q world ethos
there can be no law.
The United States has no authority
to police the world. The U. N. has no
authority either because it is not an
instrument of law, but only an inter-
national debating society participated
in by sovereign states each swayed by
sacred egoism."
That is the trouble and the United
States should take its stand, not In
Greece nor on German reparations.
but on q. N. accommodating 1t gen.
uine law-creating and law-enforcing
agency. There we can afford a show
down, because our position will be above
reproach.
AS Senator Tydings said, ''The sands
In the hourglass grow less and less"
released by the Bell Syndicate. 1ne.)
Evening star., 1947-03-21

Bit by bit the falsity and inadequacy
of all measures taken during and since
the war to keep the peace come to light.
These are the falsity of the concept of
congenitally good" and bad nations,
according to which nature has shown
favoritism in distributing Righteousness
and sin; the idea that perpetual punish
ment is an agent of reform; the belief
that the calculated destruction of ener-
gies anywhere can contribute to general
prosperity; the empty hope that COM
mon law can emerge without common
ethos; and, finally, that the structure
erected and hailed at San Francisco is
an instrument of collective security, and
the 'beginning"-as President Roose-
velt put it-of world constitution.
Murder will out" and so will truth
no matter what is marked "top secret"
The truth has been out for a long time
for any one with eyes to see. Even for
the nonreligious there must have been
some significance in the fact that the
San Francisco Conference opened with
out an appeal for the blessing OF God.
The peace devised could bear reference
to no standards, so prayer was properly
omitted.
But, as the roadside posters used to
proclaim in the small-town evangelical
communities of my childhood: Be sure
your sins will find you out.
! They will.
In Moscow, it is revealed that the
United States at Yalta agreed to repara-
tions in the form of the forced labor of
human persons, to be delivered regard
less of any crimes they may have COM
mitted. They were common soldiers,
drafted like other soldiers, and by an
omnipotent state in which conscien-
tious objection was capital crime.
They were protected during the war by
the self-interest of those whose ma
tionals were also prisoners and by those
conventions designed somewhat to niti-
gate the barbariSms of war.
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Then, after surrender, to the gallows
with those who imported forced labor
to Germany. and up with the new slave
holders!
What of you, President Roosevelt, who
had sworn on your deepest political
conviction and religious faith" that "the
Allies will not enslave the German
people, because the Allies do not traffic
in human slavery?"
Yet your signature was on that in
fanny. How desperately i'll you must
have been! Perhaps not always there;
already-at moments-as the weeping
Churchill reported, "as though In an
other world"
What of you, Mr. Churchill intrepid
lover of freedom? Magnanimous, san
guine, and in some ways wise?
And what Of you, Mr.. Stain? For
nearly q generation invoking the soli-
darity Of the workers of the world!
Did you think that Nazism would be
on trial in victory over it?
Democracy - freedom - communism
were, and are, on trial.
How broken their citadels!
Now comes President Truman calling
Evening star., 1947-03-21
The Faces on Mount
Rushmore

A noble project this Above the plain,
And tohere their nlore-than-hortzontc1
gaze
Regards our changing patterns with
disdnin,
Then ,een, far more than sculpture az
the days
ldd Nm to Years. Were any one altpe
Today. the porld might claim him
and be tise.
y. Grass, nryopic council might dertps
Ne,p purpose and neto Vision through
his eyes.
Rut thees are faces on granite hfl
And those they represent are richly
past.
The winds ,oiu hecr their s0isdons,
and the stone.
The centuries may turn them 10 their
uiH,
But America will haze them to the
last
The hills the glory and the earth
. the bons. ARTHUR HAROLD. j..
Evening star., 1947-03-21
On Writing Letters
From the Ottawa Journal.

from the OttAWa JOURNAL.
Something about our modern age
seems to encourage us to believe that
we have nothing to say in letters. We
take refuge in the excuse that the old
timers didn't have radios or movies and
therefore were obliged to write letters
to keep from going daft. But even this
won't do. Pliny the Younger encoun-
tered the retort back in AID. 81, and
he replied There is nothing to write
about, you say Well, then, write and
let me know just this-that there is
nothing to write about" Lord Chester
field in the comparatively recent year
Of 1857 likewise rebuked the lazy: "You
will say you had no news to write me;
and that probably may be true; but,
without news, one has always something
to say to those with whom one desires
to have anything to do" No, there is
no adequate excuse and the only honest
one is laziness. AS nation our art in
letter. writing is largely confined to the
school Of yours Of the 18th inst. to
hand and we beg to acknowledge receipt
Of same" More's the pity.
Evening star., 1947-03-21
Copitol Plans Con Woit
From the Halifax Herald.

Canadians, generally, would be proud
to have national capital unrivalled In
the world. But they will prefer to have
such development undertaken strictly as
a long-term project. It is quite appar-
ent that the plan involves lot OF
money. There have been suggestions
that some Of the more enthusiastic
planners In Ottawa would charge ahead
with the plan at rate faster than Is
wise. Such a move would only result III
nationwide protest. Gradual develop
ment according to a sound plan Is wise.
Wasteful spending at time wneh
money is badly needed for other p'n'
poses Is wicked.
Evening star., 1947-03-21

~ major street tDould pass oper it.
whether it will merely make it easier
for the city to disintegrate into Mary
land and Virginia.
It Is sometimes hard to see what the
planners are driving at because they
have never laid an illustration Of how
they think everything ought to be before
the public.
A careful analysis of their piecemeal
plans to date, however, shows what they
hope to accomplish.
Let's take look at the city planners
Washington of the future.
From q distance it would look about
the way it does now. But closer inSpec-
ton would show only a fraction of the
through streets we have now. The
through streets, however, would handle
many times the traffic more easily than
now.
Some would be Highway Director
H. c. Whitehurst's expressways. Others
would be like K street NV. is now. But
opportunities to turn off even the K
street type would be far less frequent
maybe every three or four blocks.
Most residential streets would be cul
de sacs. Portions of them would be
planted with grass and trees while other
parts would be left for parking and
service Of property.
Uses for Zoning.
Through extensive re-zoning, business
and industry would be found grouped
so as not to conflict with residential
neighborhoods.
Schools, Fairgrounds, parks, police
cfo}iN
into "cell structure" sometimes serv-
ing one cell, as in the case OF an ele-
mentary school, sometimes several, as In
the case of a police station or high
school.
Downtown, business would be served
by off-street parking garages. Express
streetcars and buses would use only the
streets favored as traffic arteries and
improved as such. This would be par
ticularly true of the expressWays.
An example of the expressway transit
combination is illustrated above.
Since attractive living conditions
would be more prevalent within the
District, the incentive to move out would
be reduced.
Under the city's new Slum Redevelop-
ment Act the planning commission in
tends to do just these things over a
long period of years. The act would
integrate into the District master plan
the municipal governments highway,
water. sewer, health and other plans,
the Board of Education's school plans,
the Interior Departments park plans,
the War Departments waterfront plans,
the Federal Works Agency's building
plans, the Capital Transit Co.'S transit
plans-all the plans that are now being
pushed independently of one another.
In this way the city planner hopes
to lead the District out of the wilder
ness Of decentralization and blight.
And If control over city development
can be extended so that the entire
Metropolitan Area Of Washington is
treated as whole, the entire urban
center we call Greater Washington can
be saved lot Of money in the long run
and become better place to live.
Evening star., 1947-03-21
No More Security

From the Hamilton Spectator
To dream Of an old security is treach-
cry. We haven't got 1t. The Anglo
Saxon world in its new form remains
the sole authentic guardian of our whole
concept of free political state. We
need unity in Canada; unity in North
America, unity between the Common
wealth and America It should be q
fresh and dynamic unity, liberal and
realistic, peace-loving yet prepared for
any emergency.
Evening star., 1947-03-21
Woman of the Week

The hnal chapter OF the Georgia
story contains one underplayed item
which indicates that Mrs. Talmadge,
rather than Herman, is the one to
watch in that family. It is reported
that Mr.. Talmadge, who had a fine
time playing Governor for nine
weeks, phoned his wife at the Gov
ernor's Mansion on Peachtree street
and said Honey, get our stuff to-
gether now and we'll move out this
afternoon
Unfortunately, it is not reported
what Mrs. Talmadge said to Herman.
Any woman who could even be
expected to get the family's clothes
and personal effects packed and
moved in one afternoon has what it
takes, in Georgia or anywhere else.
Mrs. Talmadge did not, of course,
have to bother about the furniture.
That goes with the house.
But in nine weeks one can and
usually does accumulate a lot of
family pictures and do-dads, and
opportunities for such a collection
were increased by the circumstances
of the Talmadge occupancy. 1t
takes most women a whole afternoon
to clear up one closet and the top
bureau drawer. All Herman had to
do, of course, was to clear out his
desk.
Ones sympathy and admiration
go to Mrs. Talmadge, who must be
a woman of shockproof nerves, great
energy, and extreme efficiency if she
got packed and moved in one after
noon. If, as would be only natural
in such circumstances, she left
Herman's umbrella hanging in the
closet, or a pair of her nylons way
back on a shelf, Mr.. Talmadge should
be the one to go back, ring the door
bell, and ask for them. He brought
1t on himself.
Evening star., 1947-03-21
Federal Labor Courts

In introducing Ihelr Dill Tor SyS-
tenn of Federal Labor Courts, Sena-
tors Ferguson and Smith are spon-
Soring a form of compulsory arbi-
tration likely to run into strong
union-management resistance. Yet
the proposed legislation has such an
admirable objective that Congress
would do well to give 1t the most
serious consideration.
Stated briefly the bill would set
up a network of special courts
comparable to our Federal District
Courts-in eleven districts through
out the Nation. The jurisdiction of
these courts would be strictly linn
tied. They would cover only the
Interpretation and enforcement of
existing labor laws and collective
bargaining agreements in cases
where all mediation efforts fail to
avert industrial disputes affecting
interstate commerce. In such cases
they could force settlements by
orders, judgments, fines, injunctions
and other measures against either
recalcitrant union leaders or recall
citrant employers. Among their
numerous powers would be the
power to overrule administrative
agencies like the National Labor
Relations Board.
AS its sponsors point out, the pro-
posed legislation would have no
effect on the collective bargaining
process itself. The labor courts
would deal only with disputed con-
tracts already in effect; in its pres
ent form, the bill would not give
them jurisdiction over cases in
which paralyzing strikes occur after
a contract expires and new one is
being negotiated. In recent years,
however, the great majority of
strikes have revolved around union
management differences over agree
ments already in force. Accordingly,
II special tribunals were available
to adjudicate such differences with
dispatch-our regular courts are too
burdened for that-a vast amount
of economic grief could be avoided.
In presenting this thesis, Senators
Ferguson and Smith have large
measure of common sense on their
side. After all. II two reasonable
men seriously dispute the meaning
of a contract between them, they
do not beat each other over the head
in a knockdown and drag-out fight
to force a settlement; they go to
court instead. Basically, as Senator
Ferguson declares, a union-em-
ployer argument over collective
bargaining agreement amounts to
much the same thing except that
the issues are bigger, more people
are involved, and the economic Sc
curity of the Nation is endangered"
Why, then, should labor and man
agement refuse to resort to impair
tial adjudication? Why must they
insist on staging an angry test Of
strength harmful alike to them
selves and the public at large?
The Ferguson-Smith bill may
be attacked on the ground that
it would expand the Governments
role in private enterprise, that it
might encourage endless labor litiga-
ton, and that compulsory arbitra-
ton in any form is un-American.
Whatever may be said against it,
however, it at least has the virtue
of seeking affirmative action to solve
the kind of industrial trouble that
can do grave injury to our complex
society.
Evening star., 1947-03-21

The city planner is at work in Wash
ington today.
In the past his mission and his mo-
tives, however, have been somewhat
misunderstood. This is because the
renaissance of planned Washington,
which began in 1900 with the centen-
NAL Of the District, started by stress
ing the Importance of an orderly ar
rangement Of Federal buildings, me-
MORALS and parks.
For this reason the impression per-
sists that the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission is concerned
only with beautifying the National Cap
ital aspects OF the city-not to assist 1t
in solving its practical problems of
growth and blight.
The very inclusion of the word park"
in its title has helped to create this
illusion. It has spent lot Of its time
on parks, memorials and public build
ings, for the Federal Government is
Washingtons basic industry.
But the mission of Washingtons plan
ners is far more extensive.
Not always understood by the resi-
dents of Washington Is the 20 years
labor put in by the commission to
replan Washington, the city-not Wash
ington, the National Capital.
Every time q park Is bought or
parkway planned, a school site picked,
a rezoning problem thraShed out, a
revamping of the highway and trans
poration system advocated, the plan
ming commission tries to see to it that
the addition or the changes fit into
a pattern for the. future.
Fitting Everything to a Pattern.
The toughest job of the commission
Is to keep the multitude of agencies
which have hand in the development
of Washington from drafting independ-
ent plans for their own special needs
which may clash with other independ-
ent plans and add new problems to the
old problems these various agencies are
trying to clear up.
1t has been a hard fight to make
school officials see that the sites they
choose for buildings should be related
to parks, to police stations, to libraries,
to major highways and transit lines,
to Federal buildings and to private de-
velopment.
One OF the hardest campaigns the
planners have fought and even now are
fighting has been to persuade the Dis
trict Highway Department that there is
more to rebuilding the city's highway
and transit system than merely smooth
ing the way for people to ride from
here to there.
A major engagement in this campaign
will take place at a hearing before the
commissioners next Wednesday March
26) when the planners advance their
version of how Washington's street and
transit system should be rebuilt.
The differences between the High
way Department and the planners, it
will be seen, do not stem so much from
the type of improvement which is ad-
vocated, but where it is put in rela-
ton to everything else; whether it will
protect the city from further blight or
Evening star., 1947-03-21
Commends LANCER Bill

Commends LANCER Bill
To the Editor of The Star:
1t is to be hoped that Congress will
not delay passing the LANCER retire.
ment bill in its entirety.
After all that has been done in the
way of retirement for Government en-
ployes 1t still remains true that the
great majority will retire on 81, 200 or
less.
Retirement on half salary benefits
only those in the higher brackets or
those who get $1,000 or more. But there
is no place now where two persons can
live on $1,000 a year, unless they have
other income; and very few Of the low
salaried people have that. Even one
person alone hardly could get by on it.
Government people in the lower grades
will keep on working until they
reach compulsory retirement age and
have to go. This is contrary to the
general trend to make more jobs for
veterans and younger people.
GOVERNMENT CLERK.
Evening star., 1947-03-21

against the pretty good early Kuni-
yoshi" which nbeled them.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Boswell damages
his contention by printing in the
current issue Of his magazine four
teen reproductions of modernistic
pictures and only six that by any
stretch of the imagination can be
called conservative,
Evening star., 1947-03-21
Gun Law LoophoIes


Districts concealed weapons law
should be plugged-and quickly. The
loopholes have been there for long
time, but the recent series of shoot
ings on the public streets here have
served to focus attention anew on
the laws defects.
Any statute which purports to
outlaw the carrying of hidden gun
is ridiculous if it is no more effec-
tive than the District law is. Under
the present law policeman is
powerless to arrest a person sus-
pected of carrying an unlicensed
gun unless that person fourishes
the gun in the immediate presence
of the officer. The fact that wit
nesses say he fourished the gun
before the policeman arrived at the
scene is not enough, the courts have
held. This was the situation
confronting Policeman Raymond
Padgett the other night when he
sought to question a man accused
by witnesses of threatening them
with a gun. He could question the
man but he had no authority to
arrest him on the information then
available.
This absurdity arises from the
fact that the carrying of a con-
cealed weapon is only misde-
meanor under existing law-and the
person committing misdemeanor
is not subject to arrest unless a
policeman actually witnessed the
offense or he is fortified with a war
rant sworn out on the basis of prior
evidence. If carrying an unlicensed
gun were felony. on the other
hand, the officer could seize the sus-
pect upon probable cause"-for ex-
ample, if he saw the outline of a
pistol in a bulging pocket of sus-
pected criminal.
The Hebert bill, on which a hear
ing will be held Monday before the
Judiciary Subcommittee of the
House District Committee, would
remedy the situation by authorizing
policemen to make arrests or to con-
duct searches and seizures" when
ever they believe there is probable
cause" just as they do in felony
cases. This bill has the indorse-
ment of local court, prosecution and
police officials. Prompt enactment
of this measure or something SINH
lar to it would make life a whole lot
tougher for gunner who now roam
the streets without fear of police
inquisitiveness. And the probability
is that the toll of victims in such
callous shootings as those which
have occurred recently would be
drastically reduced.
The Hebert bill would be only an
initial step toward strengthening
the local firearms laws, however.
The present registration law is out
moded and Ineffective. 1t covers
initial sales, but guns are subse-
quently transferred many times in
private deals without registration.
Moreover, many purchases made
outside the District are unreported
here. No license is required to keep
firearms in home or office. Perhaps
the ultimate solution is a national
firearms registration law covering
not only submachine guns and
sawed-off shotguns, as at present,
but also pistols and other deadly
weapons capable of easy conceal
ment.
Evening star., 1947-03-21
Rights of Communism

Rights of Communism
To the Editor of The Star:
Secretary of Labor Schwellerbach has
proposed that we deny the right of the
franchise to those that we think have
leanings toward communism.
That one fact would do more harm
than any other proposal that may be-
come one of our laws, now, or hereafter.
To deny the right to any bona fide party
on any ballot, would be violating one
of our cherished rights that we have
been taught from babyhood up to be-
lieve in.
The right of any person or party to
have candidates to run for any Office,
in any State, is just what we in Amer
lea have always taken for granted. To
start tampering with our American
system is playing right into commun-
ism's hands.
We, in America have always felt that
our opportunities were only limited by
our abilities-to start denying some of
our people the cherished right to vote,
whether he be Socialist, Communist
or any other party affiliate would be
digging right at the roots of our national
heritage. JOHN S. GARDINER Sr.
Evening star., 1947-03-21

A man in Saugus, Mass, trapped
for fifty-four hours in the rungs of
a rocking chair, had to be treated
in a hospital for exposure. He will
probably feel a bit rocky for some
time vet.