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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
For Effective Law Enforcement

The annual report Of the Washington
Criminal Justice Association, while show
ing that the climbing crime rate here In
1946 was in line with country wide trends,
is anything but reassuring. 1t is true that
all large cities have experienced post
war increase in serious crimes. But some
of the data in the associations report
bear out previous assertions that the
crime rate could be lowered here by more
effective law enforcement.
For example, the association for several
years has supported the pleas of the
Police Department and the Commissioners
for legislation authorizing additional
patrolmen and facilities with which to
reorganize the precinct system. The need
for new police precinct in the Benning
area has been particularly urged, on the
ground that lawlessness was certain to
increase there because of ineffective
supervision from Anacostias Eleventh
Precinct Station-far across the Anacostia
River. The report now reveals that the
fears of police and citizens have material
lied. For it was in the Eleventh Precinct
that the greatest rise in juvenile crime
was recorded last year. This rise occurred
despite the fact that the overall increase
in juvenile crime for Washington in 1916
was negligible.
The association points out that steps
finally are being taken to detach the
Benning area from Anacostia precinct and
to give that congested but badly neglected
section the type of police protection 1t
deserves. That reform has been made
possible by appropriations for construc-
ton of a precinct station in Benning But
there must be sufficient policemen to
patrol this area and other troublesome
spots more thoroughly. The association
declares that Washington needs con-
siderably larger force to fight postwar
crime. The distressingly large number
of unsolved cases cited in its report bears
out this contention
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

money, every schedule of taxation in
human experience has been in some
respect an enterprise in statistics The
Encyclopaedia OF the Social Sciences
observes with Justice: whenever a pop
ulous and well organized state has arisen,
statistics have been used" Tremendous
acceleration of interest in vital statistics
developed in connection with the French
Revolution and in relation to the Ma
poleonic system, which grew out of the
failure of Robespierre and Danton. The
Statistical Society of London, established
in 1884, provided a model for similar
organizations throughout the world.
Lemuel Shattuck of the Boston Common
Council was the sponsor of the American
Statistical Association. He was we'll
acquainted in Washington, and it was
largely through his endeavors that the
census of 1850 was indeed census of indi-
viduals and not merely tally of families.
The International Statistical Institute,
created in 1885, was a natural outcome of
the statistical activities then going forward
in many different countries.
Such Is the background against which
the International Statistical Conferences
are being held. The general public in
evitably Is concerned with any and every
effort to achieve efficient cooperation in
the whole wide realm of ascertainable
reality. Men never will discover all the
answers to all the questions of the uni
verse, but their character as men will rise
in exactly the ratio of their quest for truth
which reasonably can be simplif1ed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
PreventubIe Boot TRAGEDIES

There have been many tragedies this
summer from motorboat explosions and
there will be others before the season is
over. Most Of them result from the same
cause. Gasoline and fumes accumulate
In tight, unventilated engine compartments
and are ignited by spark from the en-
CINE. Once an explosion occurs, the result
ing fire is seldom controlled. For the bilge
in small boats usually contains gasoline
leakage and the tanks are below deck. 1t is
strange that more educational propaganda
in the prevention Of such accidents is not
made available to the owners of small
power boats Some years ago the Marine
Committee of the National Fire Protection
Association issued an excellent diagram,
illustrating the common causes Of explo
sions and fires on small boats. It pointed
out the Importance OF discharging vents,
from gas tanks, into open air instead of
below deck-as so many of them do. 1t
showed dangerous installations of vents,
fill pipes, gas tanks, etc. and summed up
the precautions that should be followed
In filling tanks and ventilattng the engine
compartment before starting motor or
getting under way. Motorboat organiza-
lions, the underwriters themselves, yacht
clubs and, especially, the gasoline COM
panies that supply small boats, would
render a valuable public service If they
gave wide distribution to such educational
material. For motor boating is fine
recreation. Everything should be done to
make 1t more safe for the thousands who
enjoy it, with their families. One of the
tragedies of the numerous accidents from
motorboat explosions is the frequency with
which whole families are involved. A few
simple precautions, made available to all
owners, would do great deal to cut down
a casualty list that Is too large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
that lies beyond human ingenuity

consequence that lies beyond human ingenuity
to alter.
But what are the chances for any such long
term policy of economic reform with our law
makers having to jump election hurdles every
two years, which tends to make them but
rubber stamps for lobby ruls? movement
is now on to restrict the presidential office
to two four-year terms. Why not make it
one eight-year term? much more effective
move would be to restrict legislative offices
to but one and much longer term, with
stronger assurances of divorce of the electives
from all private interests and influences.
WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
What We Say About Russia

To the Editor of The Star:
Your new feature in The Star, what the
Russians Are Saying About U.s." is very inter-
esting, informative and Is worth the attention
of your readers who want honest, straight
from the shoulder opinion about us, our in
stitutions and our policies, coined in Russia
for the Russian masses by the so-called gov
ernment- controlled press and radio
However, try as hard as one could, have
yet to find in the excerpts the amount Of ha-
tired, abuse, misrepresentation and downright
appeals to an open declaration Of war, dropping
of atom bombs on Moscow and other Russian
industrial cities, as are figuring daily in our
own, free American press, our radio commen-
tators' reports and the y.jingoistic speeches
of some of our United States Senators. Con-
gressmen and ex-Governors. And least but
not last, the actions in this respect by the
leaders of our superpatriotic ex-service Or
carnations. Just ending their recent gather
ing or reunion, with fire-eating speeches,
threatening Russia with all the might Of our
Army, Navy, Air Forces and Of course, the
atom bomb while the rank and file Of their
membership were joyfully and playfully engaged
in the innocent sport Of conveying electric
shocks to the unsuspecting ladies, using as
a medium specially constructed canes, and
spraying water guns.
OF course, the rank and file Of these organi-
cations were very little interested in the po-
litical speeches of their leaders. The middle
aged and the past-middle aged members,
come to the conventions for good time and
were getting it in the best way they could.
It is my candid opinion, that your esteemed
newspaper could achieve great service to
this country by printing alongside OF What
the Russians Are Saying About U.s. What
the Americans Are Saying About Russia"
Such an approach to the Russian question
and entirely impartial presentations of the
makers of public opinion in both countries
could help a, lot in stopping the foolish and
irresponsible talk of war and our holy mission
to lead the world against communism and
dissipating our financial, natural and physical
resources on countries that are just as far
from our concept of democracy to the right
as the Russians are to the left.
EUGENE ESTEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
A Lot of Nails, Anyway
To the Editor Of The Star:


According to my figures you had thousand
times too many nails in The Star of September
s. In the first column Of the first page, Mr..
Cox of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.
says that $4,000 tons of steel will make three
trillion and 1872 billion eight-penny nails The
10000 tons are 5i2 million ounces. Since 1t
takes about seven of the nails to make an
ounce, there would be seven times 512 million,
or billion 548 million. But since my figures
are rough" I'll settle for the 1892 600 100000
which you printed If you'll divide 1t by 1000.
GEORGE FREDERICK MILLER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Homburq and Europe's Jews

1t is easy for Americans, who do not
have to deal directly with such tragic
problems, to assail the British for the
way they are handling the Hamburg dis
embarkation of the 4, 400 hapless Jews of
the Exodus 1947. Respect for the truth
however, demands that charges accusing
Britain of Hitlerism be branded for what
they are-namely, the reckless distortions
of extremists like those arrested in France
for plotting to bomb" London with prop
uganda echoing the line of the terroristic
Stern gang of Palestine.
Actually, as matter Of record, who are
the more responsible for what is happening
at Hamburg-the British, or those who
originally organized the Exodus expedi-
ton with full knowledge that it would
very probably end in a poignant failure?
The Jews who went as passengers have
merited the worlds sympathy, but there
seems at least some reason to believe that
the organizers of their ill-starred voyage
were more interested in using them to
dramatic an issue than in getting them to
the Promised Land.
There can be little doubt, at any rate,
that the passengers of the Exodus 1947
had only the slimmest chance of breaking
through the tight blockade against illegal
immigration. Coming chiefly from Ger
many, they had boarded the ship in France
early in July and set sail secretly for
Palestine. About week later British war
ships intercepted them. Being without
visas, they were thereupon transferred to
three other vessels and returned to Fort de
Bouc, France. But there they refused to
disembark, and the French declined to
force them. 1t was then decided to take
this decision in keeping with its interpre-
tation Of what 1t had to do as the manda-
tory power OF the Holy Land; moreover,
in so deciding, it was in an extremely
difficult and unenviable position, with no
easy "out" available.
Perhaps the situation could have been
handled in better way. But Americans
who have been quick to lecture Britain
about letting the Jews into Palestine, but
slow to criticize their own country for
declining to do little more than talk about
the problem--ought not to be too free
with their censure. Certainly, it does vio-
lence to the truth, and it libeIs a brave
people who fought doggedly against Hitler,
to say of the British that they are EMU
lating the Nszis at Hamburg. Such emo
tion-charged talk serves only to cover the
issue with confusion; 1t plays right into
the hands of the extremists and tends to
deepen the Jewish tragedy in Europe.
That tragedy cannot be assuaged by plac-
ing all the onus on Britain. The fact Is
that the responsibility for ending 1t in a
decent, humanitarian way is no longer one
country's alone.
As the United Nations Special Committee
on Palestine has made clear, what is
needed is concrete international action
to give new hope to a people driven by a
desperate sense of compulsion to get out
of Europe converted by Hitler into
CHASTITY Jewish graveyard. This demands
priority attention in the forthcoming meet
ing of the General Assembly. The news
from Hamburg emphasizes the deeply
tragic and explosive nature Of the over
all problem involved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

sus. Some cat
/ 9 x icographer
must have been
reading one of
Ernest Thomp-
son S e t o n S
W o cd Graf t
books for boys,
published many
years ago, in
which he in
vented q pSeu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

o-Indian language called Tutree," direct an
cestor of tut talk Consonants were doubled,
with few necessary exceptions &c was suk,
h was hash y was yak, etc., vowels were un-
changed. Thus, yes was yak-e-sus; bubble was
"bub- u-bub- b-lul-e" and my name as
little boy, more years ago than I care to
remember was TUT-O-MUM-MUM-YA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

the crabgrass
problem. Their
method Is cas-
Ter than that
of group one
as you defined
t h e m. They
use the simple
e KIP e d lent Of
not Gu t / n 6
their lawn too
short at any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

hardships to innocent persons-as in the
Unangst case--and may even threaten the
health of the public, it should be resorted
to only after consultation with health au-
thorities. There are ethical as well as
social and legal questions In this matter
that may require legislative action to re-
solve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Let Him Go Forth

Let him 90 forth
II go he Mould
TO n1oue q mountain
Or stem q food,
TO hold back tides
That are OUTWARD sDHled,
To find treasure
or Sdve the 1Dorld.
Let him go forth
Nor sag he'll meet
With heartbreak here
Or there defeat,
For none can measure
or chart the span
OF Uhat man may 40
If he thinks he can.
ETHEL BARNETT De VITO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
He Has Licked the Crabsrass

TO The Editor OF The star
"And Now for the crabgrass" was an excel
lent editorial. 1t should, however, have in
cluded third group of community home
owners. They are the ones who have licked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
1priter, although it is permissible for
1oriter kno1Dn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Seton's 'Hepcat' Talk

To the Editor Of The Star
"Plus IL change, plus c'est lie meme chosel"
Budding Sunday feature writer Carter Dawson
reports that the latest fad of the hepcats is
talking In "tut talk"-for example, yes is "yake-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Questions and Answers

A reader can obtain the answer to any question
q fact by writing The Evening star Information
Bureau, 316 street NE. Washington 2, D. C.
Please include cents for return POSTAGE.
BY THE HASKN SERVICE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Woman Candidate for ABC Board


To the Editor Of The Star:
The Star quoted Commissioner Mason as ex-
messing desire for long list OF man
applicants to fill the vacancy which mas re-
Gently arisen on the ABC Board of the Dlstr1ct.
The fact that the three member board has IN
the past been composed of two men and one
woman should not initiate against the appoint
ment of a qualified candidate for public ONCE
REGARDLESS of the sex of that candidate. Various
boards of the District, including the Board OF
Commissioners of the District OF Columbia,
are composed entirely of men, yet women are
the natural guardians Of the home ana
children.
The Federation of Citizens Associations has
Endorsed Mrs. Leslie Wright for the post. Mrs.
Wright has been nominated for the ONCE on
the ABC Board by Senator Arthur Capper.
ranking member of the Senate COMMITTEE OF
the District of Columbia, and Senator Clyde Il.
Hoey, former member of the District Com
mittee.
As a longtime resident of the District OF
Columbia and a practicing attorney who has
frequently appeared before the ABC Board IN
behalf of the citizens Of the District Mrs.
Wright has established her broad humani-
tartan policies AS national chairman OF legis-
lation of the Federation Of Womens Clubs,
Mrs. Wright has proved her leadership and
thorough grasp of the laws of our Nation. AS
an active member of the District of Columbia
branch of the National Woman's Party, Mrs.
Wright has steadfastly striven for equality be-
tween men and women.
It is with considerable pride in Mrs. Wright's
past achievements and the utmost confidence
in her impartial, objective, judicial judgment,
that the District of Columbia branch of the
National Woman's Party indorses Mrs. Leslie
Wright and urges her appointment.
KATHRYN PAINTER WARD,
Chairman, D. c. Branch, National Woman's
Party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

O. read that King Haakon of Norway re-
ceived 100000 kroner annually. How much
is this In our money?-H L. H.
A. Since Norwegian krone lis now worth
about 2o16 cents in United States money, his
salary would be equivalent to $20l 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

@. Who first said, Let them eat cake"f
&C. p. A.
A. Although Queen Marie Antoinette Of
France is generally credited with this phrase.
1t Is found in "Rousseaus Confessions" written
in 1874. Marie Antonette lived from 1755
to 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

Q. Do migratory birds travel by day or by
night?-L G.. r.
A. Some migratory birds travel indifferently
by day or night as the wading or swimming
birds. Others such as cranes, gulls, pelicans
and swallows generally travel by day when
migrating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09
Cool to Democratic 'Warm.up'

Cool to Democratic 'Warm.up'
To the Editor of The Star:
Labor has no monopoly upon reckless and
irresponsible leadership. The Democratic
warm-up for the 1913 campaign put on last
week disclosed the head of the premier city
in the country tanning the class-hre that is
smoldering when he said the Republican Con-
gress tried to turn the working people into
second-class citizens and Representative
Helen Gahagan Douglas did the "me too" act
when she spoke of the opposition party as
being the party Of big business and the friend
of the real estate lobby, said 1t destroyed rent
control the veterans housing program and
removed all restrictions from installment
buying.
There is nothing in the record of the last
Congress to indicate that there was any
attempt to turn the working people OF the
country into second-class citizens The Taft
Hartley Labor Act did nothing more than
register the congressional will to the effect
that contract should be bilateral, that no
longer should one party be bound and the
other free as permitted in the old Wagner
Act To this there be no fair and honest
objection, as no honest man, laborer or citl-
zen. wants to be free when the other con-
tracing party Is bound; that Is, he wants no
underhold.
To the great discredit of both John L. Lewis
and Big Steel the provision in the act against
unwarranted or outlaw strikes was stipulated
out and in lieu thereof the phrase that labor
would work under the terms Of the contract
If and when able and willing to do 50 was
inserted Does labor gain in responsibility
by such sham and mockery? The question
answers ITSELF and the answer is emphatically,
no. Instead OF being an attempt to make
second class citizens Of labor, it is decided
attempt to make labor what at heart 1T is
flrst-class citizens-and what 1t would act like
without the Intervention Of reckless and ire
sponsible leadership.
And what the lady from California accom-
plished by her accusations it Is difficult to
see. OF course, rents, like prices generally
could not remain stationary or frozen when
costs generally were uncontrolled. The objec-
tive of OPA was fine, but 1t was literally
impossible OF attainment The weight OF this
planet could not have held the price-lid
down with labor and material prices unfrozen
and running wild. Veterans housing Is i'm
possible for like reasons and we might as well
be factul and honest about the matter.
AS for installment buying, the answer lies
in the fact that Americans are Wiling 10
surrender the right of contract only In time
of war, for which they are to be commended
TO be sure, installment buying Is abused; out
30 is the use of the highway.
In short, find myself at variance with the
current political theology because OF Its undue
emphasis upon RECOMMENDATION at the expense
If freedom. JOHN w. HESTER.
oxford, N. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

Q. Please give the name Of the plane which
carried the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
r. M L.
A. The Super Fortlesses which dropped the
first atomic bomb On Hiroshima was named
Enola Gay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-09

q. How many marriages have taken place
between members of United States forces and
German girls?-C. s.
A. Since the lifting of the American-German
marriage ban in December, 1916. UP to June 80.
1s47, approximately 2,225 applications have
been received throughout the United States
zone, of which GAG have been approved.
O. How many OF the working mothers IN
the United States are heads Of families?-
r. G. P.
A. 1t was estimated in 1946 that Of the
125O,00o working mothers. 100000 were de-
scribed by the Census Bureau as wives OF the
heads of normal families (ooth husband and
wife present) in which there were children
under years There were $4,000 classified
as heads of families in which there were one
or more Young children.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-07-31
New Teachers For
|LandOn School

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Cooke
Wilcox have both been appointed
to teaching positions at the Landon
School for Boys, Bethesda, Direct
or H. H. MacCubbin has announced.
Mr.. Wilcox has been appointed
head of the Upper School Mathe-
MATES Department while Mrs.
Wilcox will teach the third grade
in the Lower School.
Mr.. Wilcox attended Fessenden
School, West Newton, Mass, and
st. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.,
and graduated from Princeton with
honors in mathematics. He taught
mathematics and was Head of the
History Department at st. Marks
School, Southboro, Mass, and
founded the Farm Hill School and
Summer Camp at Griffinsburg, Va.
Mrs. Wilcox studied at Crofton
House, Vancouver, B. c., and grad
uated from Bently Episcopal Pri-
DRY, Stanmore, England. She was
at one time secretary to the Dean
of Freshmen at Yale University
and taught English and Allied
Subjects at the Farm Hill School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-07-31
County Men Stationed
At German Resort

T-Sgt. Parke N. Ward, son of
Parke N. Ward of Gaithersburg,
says life with the regular Army
in occupied Germany is an inter
esting one. Sgt. Ward is stationed
in Wiesbaden, now the home Of
the Headquarters, United States
Forces in Europe. Wiesbaden is
one of the most famous spas and
health resorts of prewar Europe.
Sgt. Ward should have much to
tell about the hot mineral baths
when he gets home.
Also enjoying the Wiesbaden
Health Resort is S-Sgt. Edwin A.
Spies, Jr., of Chevy Chase. Sgt.
Spies is serving with the Communi-
cations Unit Headquarters Com
mand.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-07-31

The first monthly Maryland re-
tail sales tax return form will be
in the mails this week to all mer-
chants and others who hold licenses.
According to the law, this report
must be filled out and returned to
James ]. Lacy, Comptroller of the
Treasury and Administrators of the
Retail Sales Tax Act, 10 West Bal
timore Street, Baltimore, /, Md.
Payment must be made by check
or money order and mailed to the
Baltimore address.
More than 10000 of these forms
will be mailed and it is imperative
that these return forms reach the
Comptroller not later than August
Is, for the month of July.
Frank A. Shallenberger, of the
State Comptroller's Office, stated
this return form is known as
RSTD 8. The form, continued Mr..
Shallenberger, has been prepared
in duplicate and the following in