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Evening star., 1947-12-05
Paintings Of Ghosts
Exhibited by Artist
By the Associated Press


LONDON.-An artist, who not
only claims he sees ghosts but paints
them as well, has opened an ex-
hibition of 1853 pictures.
He is Austin Osman Spare, ST.
wear old self-taught son of a London
policeman, and his pictures are on
view in the Archer gallery, West
bourne Grove.
Included is a pastel drawing. OF
an alleged ghost he says ambled
into his basement room on Wynne
road, Stockwell, London, while ne
was working.
IT just dropped what I was doing
and put down what saw" he said
"As ghosts go, he looked pretty sub
stantial. That's why the picture It
self looks rather like a real por-
trait"
Mr.. Spare says he has run into
ghosts before and he doesn't mind q
bit. In fact, he says he has written
20 books on the subject.
But ghosts or no ghosts art Is his
life work. Critics and dealers have
praised his draughtsmanship. Johr
Singer Sargent repeatedly called
him genius at II.
The strain of turning out almost
picture a day has told on him
however, and Mr.. Spare has lost
weight.
"In fact, I'm almost ghost my
SELF" he said. However, the bones
| 90 last"
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Bomb Attached to Car
Fails to Score JUDGE
By the Assoeiatsd Prsss

LIVINGSTON, Mont.-The prac-
tical joker who attached squealine
bomb to the starter Of Justice Of the
Peace M. A. Clayton's car got little
satisfaction from his prank.
The bomb went of with q roar
when Justice Clayton stepped on the
starter. He drove off as II nothing
had happened. The next day some
one asked the judge about 1t.
You know" Justice Clayton re-
piled, II did think the car sounded
a trifle different"
Evening star., 1947-12-05
60096 Crime Increase
Reported by Austria
By the Associated Press

VIENNA.-The Austrian Ministry
of the Interior has issued a report
showing an increase Of more than
900 per cent in major crimes over
prewar figures.
The ministry said there were 1854
cases of murder or attempted muir
der in the first nine months Of this
year, compared with 62 In 1887.
There have been 618 robberies this
Evening star., 1947-12-05
year, compared with 81 ten years

year, compared with 81 ten years
ago.
The government report did not
specifically lay the blame on troops
of the four occupying powers. but
noted that Austrians were involved
in only Is per cent of the murder
cases and an even smaller percent
age of the robberies.
The report emphasized the "ab-
solute inadequacy' of the armament
Evening star., 1947-12-05

Of civilian police authorities. It
said that since the end Of the war
112 policemen have been killed on
duty and many others have been
severely wounded.
Evening star., 1947-12-05

Indian legend credits the discov-
cry Of tea to a devout Buddhist,
Bodhidharma. He is said to have
stayed awake for seven years to
contemplate the Buddha.
Evening star., 1947-12-05

Fuel Shortage Cuts Power
Shortage Of fuel in Nanking
China has forced drastic curtail-
ment In use Of power for lighting
and space heating, with penalty
rationing system" in use.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
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Evening star., 1947-12-07
l Can Spot EN-

IT ALWAYS used to puzzle me, when was around
l8 or 20, how an old duffer, like am now, could
tell when people was feelin' romantical!
could take girl friend in to joint like this to
buy her hamburger. We would act just as prim an
uroper as if we was in church - not sttin' too close
an wouldn't even squeeze her hand. But it didn't
seem to fool the forty-an' upwards folks
"What're you love birds gonna have?" some
uinnin counter man would ask us, smirkin' an
roln' his eyes. We would gulp, feelin' euiltier
than Adam an Eve that time they we're caught
eatin' apples.
Now, shucks, can spot romance by the time
couple slams the DOORS before they ever get into
the place.
Last night young Jay Watkins comes in with
Gily Baze's oldest daughter.
"What're you love birds gonna have?" ask EN-
before remember how used to hate that question.
Were not love birds" the gal snaps.
1--WE ARE practically strangers" Jay added, with
sort of mind your own business tone "Hamburpers
with osions," he adds.
Lots Of onions. the gal says sarcastic. So mind
my own business, little ashamed for havin' embar-
rassed the kids an worried over having guessed
wrong. But could have sworn they was ridin'
the rose tinted clouds of youthful yearnin' for
each other.
Twas careful to keep my eyes off 'em. while fried
their hambmgers An put two big slices of onion on
each plate the way they said went back in the store
room to get some stuff still thinkin about EN- When
l come back out they had finished eatin', left the
money an gone.
heard their car door shut, an shook my head
figured must be losin' my sense of the romantic
They sure looked in love-
Then picked up their plates. There was still the
two full slices of onion each plate an grnned to
myself You can't fool an Of hand when it comes to
romance, no sir! -WAllY BOREN
Evening star., 1947-01-15
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

industrial raw materials. Only so per
cent of Italy's soil is arabic; she has
almost no coal, oil or minerals; and
with worldwide restrictions on immi-
grafton she is unable to export her
surplus population, as she did for gen.
erationS.
Premier de Gasperi did not attack
the peace treaty now ready for presen-
tation, except by indirection. This COL
umn has no such inhibitions. The treaty
deprives italy of all her coal-never
enough, but amounting to million
and quarter tons annually. 1taly's
other coal came from Poland, German
Silesia, now also Polish; the Ruhr and
England. The Polish and East German
coal is now going in large part to the
Soviet Union and Is within the Soviet's
economic system. The Ruhr is prac-
tically at standstill, England has
coal crisis Of her own. Sc Italy can
only get coal from the United States.
But Italy can pay for 1t only in ex-
ported goods. Hence Premier de Gas
peri's plea that America take the lead
in general tariff reduction. I greatly
doubt that we shall do So. so where is
Italy to 60 for raw materials? The only
other place is the economic complex Of
the U. S. S. r. For Italy's population,
deprived of colonial outlets, open to
Soviet military pressure on indefensible
borders, and cut OIL from the Danubian
hinterland by the Venezia Guilia ar
rangement, can only subsist by an in
tensification Of industrialization on the
basis of imported raw materials which
she must pay for in finished goods. In
a capitalist but protective-tarif world
she will, in the long run, be unable to
purchase those materials in places from
which her exports are barred.
Either the existing markets must be
widened or new markets must be Gre
ated by imaginative projects. The
western world has enough know-how
for this; what 1t lacks lis cohesive in
telligence and will. SO far-except for
Winston Churchill-no western states
man has shown any comprehension OF
the overall problems Of Europe. or
produced any blueprint for dealing with
them.
Italy, since the war, has shown rather
more solicitude for our future than we
for hers THE toad beneath the har-
row knows exactly where each tooth
point goes" But II italy is ploughed
under more than Italy will be ploughed
under.
Signor de Gasperi showed he knows
this, although he did not say it.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, 1ne)
Evening star., 1947-01-15
Our WeIsh-Americuns

FROM the EmportA Gazette.
As an instance of the assimilation Of
foreigners into American citizenship DR..
Vincent Jones, a retired Congregational
minister who Is living temporarily in
Emporia, cites the Welsh churches. DR..
Jones says that when he came to Amer
lea from Wales, in 1900, there were in
the United States, from New York to
San Francisco, 1910 Welsh churches. in
which only the Welsh language was
used in the church services. At the
present time, says DR.. Jones, there are
but IS Welsh churches in the United
States in which the Welsh language Is
used.
The Welsh came to America, says DR..
Jones, not for religious freedom-they
had that-but for financial freedom.
They wanted homes and better stand
ard of living, and they saw in the United
States the opportunity to secure these
things for themselves and their families.
They brought to this country the same
religious forms and expressions and be-
liefs they had maintained in their home
lana They were thrifty and industrious.
and the few who did not attain the de-
sired goal had as rule, says DR.. Jones,
only themselves to Name,
Evening star., 1947-01-15
Aid to Teachers

Senator McCarran'S proposal. for
q Federally appropriated pay raise
for the Nations teachers is a drastic
one. But the teachers salary crisis
is so acute and so far reaching that
1t will take drastic action Of some
sort to deal with the problem. 1t is
not just a question of fair play for
the men and women who make their
living in the classroom; 1t has be-
come a question in some communi-
ties of preventing further deteriora-
ton of war disrupted public edu-
cation system.
Congress, in effect, recognized the
serioumess of the plight of under
paid school teachers in general
when 1t voted Washington teachers
q last-minute stopgap pay increase
of $3.50 last year. Many of the
States have taken similar emergency
action, coincident with an outbreak
of demonstrations and actual strikes
by teachers overburdened with the
rising cost of living. A special ses-
sion of the Virginia Legislature is
preparing to appropriate more than
$6,000,000 as a temporary measure
of relief.
The trouble with all these tenn
porary measures is that the ills
they seek to alleviate are of long
standing and require something
more than first-aid treatment. The
fiat increase granted belatedly by
the Seventy-ninth Congress to Dis
trict teachers will expire on July /
next unless the new Congress takes
remedial action. Passage of the
McCarran subsidy bill without ad-
ditional District legislation would
not solve the problem locally. In
fact, substitution of the proposed
sliding scale of Federal payments
for the present $3.50 increase would
result in a pay reduction for ap-
proximately third of Washing
tons 3,271 teachers. The most that
any local teacher woaldFeceive from
the Federal aid program would be
$1O0.,
The only practical solution here
and elsewhere-is to tackle the
teachers pay problem with view
to effecting a relatively permanent
readjustment of pay scales-a read
justment which takes into account
not only higher living costs but the
need for restoring and maintaining
the best possible standards of edu-
cation for our youth. Teachers
salaries have Jagged behind those
of most other employees having COM
parable responsibilities, and within
the teaching system itself there
have developed pay inequities which
should be eliminated Such a gen.
eral overhaul of the local pay struc-
ture is being studied by District
school officials, for early considera-
ton of Congress. This is the right
approach. And it should be pre-
requisite to anything which Con-
gress may decide to do in the way
of a national aid-to-teacherS pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1947-01-15

Once again as at Paris, the Italian
Premier, Alcide de Gasperi, has raised
his voice, not only in behalf of his
country, but in behalf of that free,
democratic civilization to which we still
belong.
He was in a more difficult situation
than at Paris for he spoke, not to all
Allied peacemakers together, but to the
American people, and thought he
showed tact in steering away from the
reefs of internal American Emergencies
and riffs between the great powers. Yet
he could not disguise his realization Of
the unity of European and American
civilization, though he avoided any
special pleading on its behalf.
While he was speaking there were
hunger demonstrations in Rome, and
the papers which reported his speech
brought a photograph Of the ragged
bodies and pallid faces of the demon
strators, -
Also. While ne VAS speaking, Socialist
congress IN italy led by Signor Nenni,
who favors united front with the
Communists, heard cheers for Russia
and misses for the western nations.
Hunger, unemployment, and above all.
disillusionment, do not breed democ-
racy, but revolution.
Signor de Gasperi has never been
a revolutionist, Fascist or Red. He Is
a constructionist, who hopes to move
into the future over bridge one end Of
which rests upon a solid and great
humanistic tradition. He does not want
to wade into the future through new
prisons OF terror and rivers OF. blood.
He believes that great, happy and
peaceful civilizations cannot be built
by bowling masses swayed by skiliful
leaders. but by the cooperation OF
But he also knows that the conditions
essential to the creation of free demo-
cratic societies are not summarized in
freedom of speech, religion and as
sembly. These, indeed, can be the in
struments for their destruction ii work,
bread and hope are lacking.
When italy, on demand, surrendered
Internationally, under government
which had already ousted Mussolini,
and afterwards made no mean con-
tribution to our victory, we assumed
complete responsibility for the lives Of
the italian people and the future OF the
italian nation.
But the burden which we assumed
was the greater because of the peculiar
problems which De Gasperi indicated.
Fotty-six million people live in coun-
try the size of California, with nothing
like California's resources OF land or
Evening star., 1947-01-15
Elm Street-Winter Day

This street OF eln,s toas like Gothic
With summers leafness to make Il
dim
With summers tDurmth to lend vngus
incense and
Gray squirrels. oarooyle-,otse, on each
high limb.
Between drab. tree trunks, fo1oer-gdy
gardens ssone,
Like soindotcs of stained glass, dark
framed by these.
1t seemed Jest OF God-d Gothic nGrs
Should rise toltere Purttans had plant.
ed treesi
God, too, found brepity the soul OF toit.
Soon gone-the Gothic splendor Of
this street.
Today, each tree trunk, euery ledfess
branch -
10 colorlessly wrapped In ice and sleet. :.
Vanished the garden fo,oers and. every
where, :
one looks upon the toton, the sky, the
sea.
Nop Elm street stands, Pilgrim meet,
ing house, -
Wren-spired and sohite-in stern sim
plicitv. az
VIOLET AIIEyN STOREY. y"
Evening star., 1947-01-15

Russia's internal problem, which is to
raise Russia's military power beyond
that which lies In the United States,
Britain and their allies. It goes almost
without saying that Russia will have
to solve the problem of atomic warfare
for herself, and whatever international
atomic controls are finally adopted, 1t
is certain that Russia will accept none
which interfere with her research along
this line. 1t
Russia's war preparations are, Of
course, as much external as they are
.internal, and the other facet of her
preparations is the solid entrenchment
European countries-includingG Greece, If
the Communists can be supplied with
suficient arms-and the development Of
their military potential.
Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary
and Yugoslavia are primarily agricul-
tural countries which possess substan-
tial quantities Of certain strategic ma
terials, and their function will be to
supply Russia with food and her war
machine with raw materials for the
final gamble.
Russia's industrial machine has been
limping along under serious handicaps
of mismanagement and corruption in
high places. Drastic steps are being
taken to clean this out to enable at
tainment of the goals Of the Five-Year
Plan, which is an essential condition
to issuance Of any challenge to the
western democracies.
The new Balkan bloc, whose functions
will be politico economic, will provide
Russia with solid foundation OF ag-
ricultural and industrial resources.
Russia sees clearly that softening
Of her attitude at this time just after
the Republicans have come to power IN
Congress will support the growing
movement in the United States for
military and naval reductions in support
of tax reduction. Moscow believes-on
the basis of historic precedent-that in
the absence of direct military threat
the American people tend to drift of
into peaceful and secure sleep from
which they rouse only when the bombs
start bursting.
Ten years from now-or even i've
given freedom from overt Russian
threats, the United States can be ex-
pected to be 50 engrossed In her own
affairs that nothing short of direct
menace will persuade her to take up
arms.
Evening star., 1947-01-15
DemObilize the RFC
By Rapm NJ oley

OF the New Deal, 1t received power to
lend to all sorts of businesses In order
to alleviate unemployment and for other
worthy purposes. It's broad authority
and f1exibility of administration were
such that almost limitless ranges of
operations were possible. 1t could be
used to promote economic theories, such
as the idea that small business is
freer and safer element in economic
life than large business. The restric-
tions on its lending powers were relaxed.
At first, loans had to be fully and
adequately secured" Subsequently,
there was required only reasonable as
surance of repayment" .
Because of the acunen and success
of Jesse Jones, the RFC became virtual
ly a one-man institution. Powers were
extended by Congress only because it
was recognized that Jones would proper
ly exercise such powers. The recognition
that such powers were personally be-
slowed was shown when Congress Wltn-
drew the RFC from the Department OF
Commerce when Jones ceased to pc lts
Secretary. Such personal legislation
was a practical matter, but 1t was also
dangerous. For Jones Is mortal, ana
his powers have devolved on lesser men.
y +
The best way to protect the public
interest and to preserve the potentlai
usefulness of the RFC would be to ter
inmate its lending power on June 30,
with the proviso that such power may
be restored under certain emergency
conditions. Perhaps the best way 70
have those emergency conditions ON
cially recognized in the future would
be to authorize the President, under .
specified situation, to declare national
credit emergency. This course would
preserve the RFC as an agency which
has proved its worth under straitened
credit conditions and also prevent. in
normal times, its use for political pur-
poses or for the furtherance Of the
pet economic theories Of the administfa-
ton in power. Certainly 1t should not
be continued with anything like its
present authority.
0Reieased by the Associated Newspapers. InsJ
Evening star., 1947-01-15
Winding Up 'Indiun Civil

The best PROOF OF BrltalnS 1nten-
ton to withdraw from India as soon
as practicable is the arrival in New
Delhi of Arthur Henderson, Under
secretary of State for India, to dis
cuss the question of terms under
which the Indian government serv-
ices will be terminated.
For nearly a century the Gov
ernment of India"-a mere handful
of highly trained executive and ad-
ministrative specialists-has per-
formed the remarkable political feat
of ruling the vast subcontinent of
India and it's hundreds of millions
of inhabitants. divided between
themselves into a great variety Of
mutually antagonistic castles, creeds
and cultures.
Those services included medical,
sanitation and police branches, to-
gether with officers from the British
Army assigned to the native forces;
but the "aristocrat" of them all was
the famous Indian Civil Service" !"
aptly termed the "steel frame" OF the
British Raj. Picked from the best
talent in English universities and
vigorously trained in the languages,
cultures and customs of the areas
to which they were assigned, these
administrators spent a lifetime of
service full of dignity and honor.
They were secure in the knowledge
that they would retire on adequate
pensions supplemented by the in
tangible yet precious rewards OF
titles and esteem. Autocratic and
aloof though it doubtless was, the
Indian Civil" was a benevolent au-
tocracy, noted for its ability, hon
esty, fairness and devotion to duty.
It's great days have been celebrated
in the works of. Rudyard Kipling
and other writers on India.
The rise of Indian nationaliSm,
with its demand for native self-gov-
ernment, even though it should be
less efficient and impersonal. obvi-
ouslye spelled the eventual end of
British rule. During the past three
decades, the British have done their
best to anticipate that eventuality by
increasingly "Indianizing" the serv-
the top posts have remained pre-
ices-with mixed results. However,
dominantly in British hands, But the
time Is now at hand for the final
transfer of authority, and Secretary
Evening star., 1947-01-15
'Dishonorinq' Contracts

The Metal Trades Department OF
the American Federation of Labor
representing some 1,500 900 workers,
and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen, also AFL,
have raised an important issue of
good faith in connection with the
deluge of portal pay suits now being
filed by CIO unions.
There may be more than meets
the eye in the position taken by
the AFL unions. Possibly their
members have no claim to portal
pay under the provisions of the
Supreme Court decision on the
point, or it may be that the unions
now demanding something in excess
of $4,000, 100000 from employers
have claims that promise greater
returns through court action. But
unless and until this is shown to
be the case, the stand taken by the
AFL groups must be regarded as a
wholly admirable one.
The meat workers accuse the
suing unions of hitting below the
belt" And a spokesman declares
that "our organization should not
now besmirch its fine record of fair
dealing and fair play by filing
numerous damage suits against en-
ployers over the portal-to-portal
pay question, especially when
neither side could anticipate these
issues when collective bargaining
agreements were conSummated in
good faith" Stressing the i'm
portance of good faith and integrity
by both parties in their relationship
to collective bargaining agreements,
the Metal Trades Department state
ment concludes: CAS- to existing
agreements with employers, many of
them entered into with the same
corporation for a generation or
more, the Executive Council def
initely recommends that existing
collective bargaining agreements
must not be dishonored by now
entering into legal suits to secure a
form of wages which were not pro-
vided for when the existing agree
ments were negotiated"
These are sentiments which the
members of the Supreme Court who
joined in the portal pay decision,
as well as those who are currently
trying to squeeze the last dollar out
of that ruling, would do well to read
and ponder.