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Evening star., 1947-10-19
By John CIoeett Proctor

thanks today, not only for the
progress we have made in our rail-
roads. but practically for almost
everything else.
Today we think our streetcars are
crowded. but in the distant past
many Of us were often very glad to
get just a toehold on the rear stel
of bobtailed car in order to reach
our destination. In this connection
good description Of the way the
streetcars were sometimes crowded
was printed at the time of the Han
Ion Courtney boat race in 1880. 1t
said:
$50 jammed with passengers were
the Washington & Georgetown
streetcars with people on their way
to the Georgetown river front that
some took positions on the roofs of
the cars, so damaging the tops that
holes were stove in them, necessitat-
ing their being repaired"
Some half intoxicated men," the
story continues, even went so far as
to mount the backs of the car horses
and would not abandon their posi-
tions until forced to do so by the
police"
The writer, in calling this state
ment to the attention of veteran
Washingtonian, learned that he
agreed to its accuracy and amplified
it by saying that it was the only
time he had ever seen man hang
ing on a car with just one leg hooked
inside the window and the rest OF
the body on the outside of the car,
being supported from above by grip
ping the top of the car with his
hand.
One and Two Horses.
OF course, the person who has no
knowledge of the pioneer days of
railroads in Washington cannot, to
any considerable extent, visualize
the improvements that have taken
place on any of the early horse
drawn streetcar lines of this city.
The Avenue line had both one
and two horse cars, the F street line
at first had one horse, later two
horses, and the Ninth street, New
York avenue or G street and the
Fourteenth street lines one horse.
However, this refers to the very
early days and the number of horses
varied with the period.
The two-horse cars had both driv-
ers and conductors, while on the
one-horse cars the driver gave out
packages of tickets and made
change, the fare deposited In the
box, to the front of the car, by the
passenger.
1t was on the Fourteenth street
line that such Literary talent as
John Burroughs and Walt Whitman
used to ride, and the latter always
preferred to ride out on the DASH
board with the driver, and in this
way he was probably inspired to
write his poem which ran like this:
'Conductor, When you receive 1are,
Punch in the presence of the pas
senjare;
A blue trip slip for an Scent fare,
A buff trip slip for a Scent fare,
A pink trip slip for 3-cent fare,
Punch in the presence OF the pas
senjare!
Chorus:
Punch, brothers, punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the pas
senjare"
The Old Bells.
When the sky was overcast, the
temperature low and snow was In
the air and on the ground the
sound of the car bells could be
heard for many blocks as they kept
time with the rhythm of the half
loping. half-trotting horses-ting-a-
Evening star., 1947-10-19

The Old Bells.
When the sky was overcast. the
temperature low and snow was In
the air and on the ground the
sound of the car bells could be
heard for many blocks as they kept
time with the rhythm of the half
loping, half -trotting horses-ting-
Evening star., 1947-10-19

good because it won't fly He was
a fighting man who never pretended
to be anything else And thank God
he was on our side"
Patton must have been very glad
to have this scrappy, forceful red
headed apologist on his side, too.
Evening star., 1947-08-20

trees as something to get rid Of so
that there may be more land to
cultivate. Moreover the Department
is completely in control Of the farm
lobbies, notably that Of Edward
A. ONeal and his tarm bureau.
Further, not one of our Secretaries
of Agriculture has been concerned
primarily with forestry. They have
been farmers or the representatives
of farmers. They have had little un-
derstanding of forest problems, so
the Forest Service has been left to
itself to grow up hog wild.
The result has been the building
up of one of the most inbred OF all
of our bureaucracies. 1t has too
many generals and too few priyates.
One of its principal duties has been
dutifully to attend meetings OF local
women's clubs, etc, to extol the
Forest Service. Each little bureau
crat has been given carte blanche
to build up his division. Many OF its
many generals and its fewer priv
ates are more skilled in propaganda
than they are in sound forest prac-
tices.
Never Made q Profit
The result has been that only once
in At years has the Forest Service
made a profit on its operations. In
every other year 1t has spent more
money in protecting" our national
forests than 1t has taken in, al
though 1t has sold millions Of board
feet of timber to saw mill operators.
1t Is a close question whether the
value of the timber now In. the
national forests equals the total
amount of money that has been
appropriated to the Forest Service
during the years of its experience.
The administration of our forest
lands does not need to be carried on
at loss. The misapplication Of our
neatly uniformed foresters might be
justified If they were operating at
a profit. 1t is not right that mis-
management resulting in losses to
the Government should be hidden
behind a thick fog Of self-serving
talk.
There are two agencies which,
again and again, have shown a
profit on their management Of for
est lands. These are the Bureaus OF
Indian Affairs and of Land Man
agement of the Interior Depart
ment. These manage, respectively,
the timber lands on the Indian res
ervations and the Oregon and Cali
fornia railroad lands which were
taken back by the Government
when the railroads failed to comply
with the conditions under which
the lands had been granted Some
Of these lands are in national forest,
some in private ownership, with the
Evening star., 1947-08-20
On the Record
Question Asked if Gandhi Can Tame
Violence in People He Has Freed

in triumphal procession! But IN
Calcutta he says: "A tooth for a
tooth Is no remedy. Love Is the
only lasting cure Of hatred. Mans
madness knows no communal or
racial barrier"
Others in history have preached
nonviolence. Jesus preached 1t and
died. But Gandhi alone demon
strated its political power. The
British do not withdraw from India,
defeated by arms. They withdraw
before a movement led by a man
who taught that all weapons break
on the absolutely nonaggressive, re-
sistant spirit.
In India innumerable legends re-
port miracles performed by Gandhi.
The stories distress him because he
disclaims all supernatural power.
Yet millions believe him the REIN
carnation of Rama Krishna or Gau-
tama Buddha-divine. To what
avail to dismiss such feelings? II,
in a century Of unexampled violence,
inhumanity, bestia1ity and the awful
portent of atomic disintegration,
there is a man who actually loves
his enemies, who nights by simple
withdrawal of cooperation, who
takes no hostage but that Of his
own life-if there be such man In
such a time, must not the people
believe him, somehow, God?
Did he not, in truth, cause an en-
pire to tremble when, in prison, he
tasted unto death? Did not armed
power shudder before the premoni-
ton of the forces that would be
let loose should he so die? Did not
the skeptic, George Bernard Shaw,
say of him: "A man like Gandhi
comes only once in a thousand
years?
Gandhi is immeasurably the most
awesome figure in India; he has be-
come an element in the Indian soul,
and in the world soul. That soul is
divided, one part reaching toward
love and peace; the other toward
hatred and destruction.
His spirit caused an empire to
perform the most generous and
unique act of recorded imperial his
tory. Can 1t now tame violence in
the people he has freed? And If
he dies in failure, what then? What
awful woe--for India and for all
of us!
released by the Bell Syndicate. 7ne)
Evening star., 1947-08-20

e nOllOW, mOuTLIul uOIe.
For the man who freed India is
not among the celebrators. He sits
In a slum district of teeming CAL
cutta, where Moslems and Hindus
hitherto lived together in peace.
Now Calcutta is officially Hindu.
Surrounding him is the devastation
wrought by Hindu destruction of
Moslem life and property, while into
the city pour thousands Of Hindu
victims of Moslem violence else
where.
Sees Liberty, Not Peace.
The man who wanted liberty and
peace for India sees liberty, but not
peace. His heart is breaking. He
speaks: This is not a day to cele-
brate; 1t is day for silence and
prayer
In the intoxication of nationalist
celebration and resentment OF Mos
lem secession, Hindu youths find his
resistance to his peoples violence
an insult. They throw stones
against his house, crying: "Why do
you come here, to the Hindu dis
tricts, to protest? Go shame the
Moslems!"
He is very old, wraith-thin from
ascetic discipline, as he steps out
to face his assailants. He has moth
ing with which to defend himself
but the threat that more than once
shook the British Empire - the
threat of his self-accepted death.
To the youths he says: "1f you
prefer violence, remove me. 1t is
not me but my corpse that will be
taken from here"
The young men listen in silence
With cast-down eyes they go away
In the streets of New Delhi the
masses call "Gandhi!" Now they
long to hoist him on their shoulders
Evening star., 1947-08-20
This Changing World
American Aviation Being Resrouped
In Fear of Unexpected Aggression
8 Re9rOuped
,ted Aggression

inferior to that OF the
U. S. S. r. Under present plans
our industrial establishments, which
produced the best planes in the
world from 1912 to 1945. will have
to shut down and dismiss thousands
Of technicians who made American
aviation the formidable power 1t
finally became.
According to figures available
in the War Department, Russia
has allocated about $4,000, 600, 900
to produce between 10000 and 10000
planes in the 1918 period. For
comparable period the United
States Congress has appropriated
only enough money for the Air
Force to buy 800 planes. while the
Navy will be able to get only $50
planes with its appropriation.
Unlike Russia, Americas aircraft
plants are owned by private corpora
tons which cannot afford to main
tain large stats Of technicians for
the pitifully small Army and Navy
business they are getting. These
men will have to find employment
elsewhere and it will take a long
time to reassemble them If an
emergency requires us to rebuild
our Air Force quickly.
Equipment Outmoded.
The Air Forces present equip
ment would be outmoded in a few
months If another power, which
works continuously at aviation de-
velopment, succeeds in building new
types. Thus, while our aircraft In
dustry remains stagnant, Russia
will continue to improve and ex-
pertinent with entirely new models.
The fault does not lie so much
with Congress as with high ofhcials
in the executive branch who until
very recently insisted that our for
eign relations were good enough to
remove any fear Of another war.
Some OF the highest military lead
ers until last June were proclaim
ing that another war was "un-
thinkable."
But in July selected number
from both houses Of Congress was
given a thorough briefing by the
War Department on Russian war
preparations, particularly in Siberia.
They were duly impressed with the
facts and figures placed before them.
But because their briefing was top
secret, they could not tell the
country what they learned.
The result has been that under
the economy pledge" they were un-
able to Increase the Air Forces
budget several billion dollars. They
feared their constituents would re-
gard them as jingoes and spend
thrifts who had fallen under the
influence of "the brass"
Evening star., 1947-08-20

went on a de- Constantine Brown
mobilization binge when the shoot
ing war ended. This resulted In
pulverization not only Of the ground
forces but also of their air arm,
which today is a greater potential
instrument for maintaining peace
than the United Nations and all
the worlds diplomats put together.
It Is generally admitted that rela-
tions between the United States
and Russia are strained, dangerous
ly so. The Soviet has made a farce
out OF the U. N. Security Councils
efforts to keep peace.
,Moscow's leaders are on ram
page today because they are fully
aware that this country has no
first line of defense. What Is even
worse, it will take us longer than
even the Russians anticipate to re-
create the powerful air force we had
at the end of the war.
Outnumbers U. S. 10 to 1.
According to available oficial
figures, Russian first line aviation
outnumbers Americas Air Force
about 10 to 1. Because Of this weak
ness, and the fear of an unexpected
aggression, a regrouping Of American
aviation Is under way. Our best
combat units overseas are being re-
called to the United States. where
they will be sheltered against any
surprise.
In this country these units can
be utilized as mediocre defense
force II our own territory is directly
menaced. But this move certainly
will not strengthen our interna-
tional position. The American Gov
eminent can speak as loudly as 1t
wants, but 1t will not influence
Russia so long as we do not have
the means to implement our So
called strong policy"
Not only is our first-line aviation
Evening star., 1947-08-20
Man to Man
Forest Service Seen as Bureaucracy
OF MANY Generals and Few Privates

larger portion administered by the
Department Of the Interior.
Here we have fair comparison
of the efficiency OF different agen-
cies in administering similar forest
lands. For every dollar expended
by the Interior Department for tim
Der management Of It's revested rail-
road lands, the Government, in 1910
received $40 from the sale Of timber
Under the Forest Service, for every
dollar spent on its part Of these
same forests, the return was only
$3.50.
Taking into consideration the
total timber operations of the two
departments in 1946. for every dol
lar expended by the Interior De-
partment for managing timh :
lands, it took in $413, while on y \
forest lands administered by =
Forest Service. for every dG
spent, the return to the Cow z
ment was only IS cents. In ST. =
the Interior Department made
profit while the Forest Service dt
Grated at a loss. %
High Overhead Blamed. Ia.
The chief reason for the cos-s
operations Of the Forest Service .,
its high overhead. The service co ~
fessed to 1870 employees, a year A.
who really worked in the forests! s1
against more than twice that ma 81
3,O03-who were employed in =,
gional supervisory offices, or o,
Washington. The big drain on Q,
funds of the Forest Service is II
these so-called Supervisory" 5,
ployes who get relatively FIoi
salaries. :.
Thanks to It's persistent prt. 5. >
ganda, the Forest Service has y
suaded many people that its pers- /.
mel are veritable monarchs of ge
forest. 1t has only to sing, we y
man, Spare That Tree" to loosa =
food Of letters addressed to m4- :
bers Of Congress. Its administrayn e
is deficit administration. Since sisE'
we'll known that only God can rfkesu
a tree, the tinkling cymbals inFness
Forest Service have come to refdor
themselves as somehow identedss
with. the deity because they .ooR'
have something to do with t is-1l
selling them at a loss. oe
The Secretary Of AgrifHre 10 10
should either make the restl Z
Service one of his major corns, h'
or ask the President to traer 1t pe
to some one else. This tigslttle l
lobby needs some supervision, psf n; n
Of all, the lumber interest tetes II
that infest it should be et1i-
mated. =
Evening star., 1947-08-20

bear little or no
resemblance to
logic or common
sense, the Forest
Service Is a part
Of the Agricul-
ture Depart
ment. That this
arrangement is
an adn1inistra-
tive alteration
is obvious from
the fact that
the Agriculture
Department is
interested In
farm problems
Evening star., 1947-08-20
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. G.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7o lsO.

Herald's South American corre-
spondent, first Of the reporters to
arrive for the Rio conference. .
Rios pretty well excited about the
coming visit of President Truman.
D.. People are hoping he will come
into the harbor aboard the Mis-
souri,. They like a show, and
the Missouri, with the President
aboard, in the magnificent harbor,
would provide 1t.
Of now to get a Brazilian hair
cut. There are more barber
shops In Rio than any other place
in the world. There must be
three to block. :. More tomorrow
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. IneD
Evening star., 1947-08-20

the right Henry McLemors.
fear q crown. I'd have q lot Of
ps-a tweed one for morning
q dark blue serge one for
anoon functions, and a velvet
iior evening wear.
Eok q drink OF pinga today.
i I hadn't. Pinga is the native
filian drink and, to Judge by It's
/, Is made from old Oregon
ft fires. 1t isn't served with
ser or ginger ale or water. The
Ter stands by with q fire ex-
suisher and, when you have
Hlowed the stuff. he squirts q
Brt of the extinguishing liquid
In your throat. If this doesn't
Inch the flames he puts in a
for the fire department and
hook and ladder wagon rushes to
scene to put you out. P1nga,
Iica really Is a nickname, Is a
he product and. honestly, makes
hula seem as gentle and sooth-
h Is milk.
hid lunch with Admiral Powell.
Rafof Pan American World AIR
lay down here. One Of the few
ms this ex-sergeant ever sat down
Eitlbig brass and felt comfortable.
|. Il turned out that the Admiral,
yhcyas in the Pacific throughout
he var, headed the convoy which
me, along with the rest OF
he 9TH Infantry Division. from
dans to Lingayen Gulf for the
.uzol landing.
Woder how things are at home?
let Jsnes hasn't cut the grass since
left Hope he is taking care
The cookers, Bumble and Dinah,
lough. Speaking Of dogs,
razilian dogs look Brazilian.
!, do the cats. They have a
" and carefree look in their eyes,
ID there is a happiness in their
six which is entirely lacking in
nerican dogs and cat. They
rt Of samba as they trot the
reefs. And, what Is more
nazing, they understand Portu-
lese much better than I do.
The Rio Chamber OF Commerce
lould get busy and sell the climate
this city in the winter months
. BY winter months, I mean
MINER months IN the United
,ates, the seasons being reversed
Right now, the weather in Ric
beyond belief. You won't
.lieve me, but 1t Is neither hot
,r cold. It is perfect.
ou can wear a topcoat and be
comfortable, or you car
ear the hghtest of tropical worstec
tits and be comfortable. You
m use covers on the bed at night
sleep uncovered, and it's all thu
me. It's amazing. The
Gather in Rio in August seems t
e to be a combination of the mos
,lightful weather of Florida, Cali
'rnia, Arizona and the Riviera.
ct Rio folk tell me that at my
Ext stop, Sac Paulo. 1t Is ever
,tter, and that I will wonder when
get there how I ever thought
los climate was perfection. .
hat I will have to see for myself
Ran into Ernie Hill, the Miami
Evening star., 1947-08-20

well 10 PaklS-
tan; nor in New
Delhi, W h e r e
H n du India S
legislature took
over its new re-
sponsibili t / e S !;
nor in the pa
rades, the be-
decked streets,
the unfurled new
flags; nor in
Nehru's excla-
nation that In
dia has kept
her tryst with
destiny"
Evening star., 1947-08-20

r e h a b ! litation
after the war, In
the hope Of pre-
serving peace,
American avia-
ton was being
starved and dis
integrated.
Com p ! e t ely
m isc on STRUNG
the aims of the
U. S. S. r. and
her satellites,
he executive
and legislative
branches Of the
GOV r n m e n t
Evening star., 1947-08-20

members Of the
National Labor
Relations Board
whom he had
Just appointed.
Labor union
. u b ! 1 Q q =
tions have been
referring glee-
fully to the cpl
sode and have
noted that Mr..
Truman warned
the three new
Labor Relations
Board members
that he did not
A..A -
Evening star., 1947-08-20
By Constantine Brovn

Top-ranking aviation officers sad
ly note that while the American
Government was pouring billions Of
dollars into foreign relief and
Evening star., 1947-08-20

plnTo 'AHl-
Ijad wish I
tthEht sould
nfonly livery
slit. hp ex-
tre practi-
ca|. Carol
to
thSeth { land
h&s plenty
ohem) but
INV | ou [
aPwn. . .
u I cannot
,fstand. II I
u King, and
Il fhe rioht
Evening star., 1947-08-20
Truman Intimidation
OF NLRB Members
Reported in Leak
By David Laurence

Word has leaked out that Mr.
Truman engaged in what has been
called by some observers "intimi-
dstion" in q recent conference with
Evening star., 1947-08-20
By Dorothy Thompson

The drama Of India is not in the
pomp of national liberation. 1t Is
neither in Karachi, where Viscount
Mountbatten uttered Britain'S fare
Evening star., 1947-08-20
By Harold L. Ickes

The duty Of the Forest Service
is to protect our national forests
and to sell such timber in them as
1t deems wise, but, for reasons which
Evening star., 1947-08-20
BY GIuyos Williams IA
Mlhore
Br{iln Borber
Trtsim
H fnrv Mel en- ore
b lnry McLem ore

RID r JANEIRO-Fragments
from f diary: Saw King Carol
of RHal today in the Copaca-
banaPals Hotel. =. I was shop
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Take My Word for 1t
By Fronk Colby
How They Talk,

Following is an analysis of the
speech of Joseph w. Martin, jr.,
Speaker of the House
Voice: A rather high baritone of
good quality. Despite his long years
in politics, Speaker Martin has re-
manned free of what is called ora
tors throat" sort of frog voice re-
sulting from thickening of the vo-
Cal cords.
Enunciation: Good.
Style: Somewhat spread eagle,
but dramatic and forceful neverthe-
less. His speech pattern is standard
American. Indeed. one would take
Mr.. Martin for a Midwesterner were
it not for a certain New Englandism
that crops out occasionally in his
speech-that of fiattening the "a"
before "r" in such words as guard,
hard, heart. This fiat "a" cit Is al
most if not quite, as fiat as in that,
man') is especially typical of Mas
sachusetts. (Mr. Martin is q native
of North Attelboro, Mass. where he
is the publisher of the Evening
Chronicle). Emily Post once wrote:
There is no rhyming word as fiat
as they New Englanders) say
heart"
The Speaker does not use the New
England broad A in any of the So
called "ask words" AS a matter of
fact, the broad A Is in the process
Of passing out of New England
speech generally. In my opinion, the
broad A, in another generation or
two, will be as seldom heard in New
England speech as 1t is now in the
speech of the rest of the country.
Speaker Martin, like most orators
Of the old school, speaks in too loud
a voice for good radio reproduction.
The microphone Is better pleased
with the voice that does not shout
against the waves.
Pronunciation: Good on the
whole, but punctuated with occa-
sional lapses.
Score: Voice, %; enunciation, 40:
style, 20; pronunciation, Is. Total,
78. Rating, good.
(copyright. The Bell Syndicate. Inc. 1s47)
Evening star., 1947-07-08
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