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Evening star., 1947-03-05
Together We Must Live

Underlying the pleasant exchange
of sentiments attending President
Truman's visit to Mexico as guest
of President Aleman is a mutual
desire by two neighboring republics
to stand stanchly together in an era
of world-shaking economic unrest.
President Aleman put it succinctly
when he said that together we
must live and together we must
prosper"
Whatever the difficulties which
Mexico and the United States have
experienced in living together as
good neighbors in the past, there is
every compelling reason why we
must see in the future that the good
neighbor policy amounts to some
thing more than a pretty phrase.
Mr.. Truman's dramatic tribute to
Mexican cadets who fell at Chapul-
tepec a century ago was a practical
and effective demonstration of this
attitude. The nonintervention which
President Truman promised applies
in the aggressive military sense, but
it is to our common advantage to
interest ourselves in the general
welfare of each other. We are
already doing that in current efforts
to combat the outbreak of hoof-
and-mouth disease in Mexico, in
plans for bringing American capital
to the aid of Mexicos industrializa-
ten program and in other ways.
More than that, the United States
and our friends south of the border
have seen the necessity for COL
laborating in the maintenance of
the security of the Americas against
outside intervention. This interven-
ton may not necessarily take the
form of frontal assault by landing
forces. 1t may consist of under
cover maneuverings by fifth COL
umns, capable of doing great dam
age to the solidarity of the hemi-
sphere. Perhaps this is one of the
things Mr.. Truman had in mind
when he pointed out that noninter-
vention "does not and cannot mean
indifference to what goes on beyond
our borders" He noted "the prog
ress we have made toward estab-
fishing community of nations with
authority to enforce the law on de-
linquents." This progress is evident
not only in what Mr.. Truman de-
scribed as the inter-American sys-
tenn of cooperation but in the set
ting up of the United Nations.
Mr.. Truman's visit to Mexico-the
first by an American President
and President Alemans forthcon-
ing return visit to the United States
are bound to strengthen the ties
between the two democracies they
represent. And the net result will
be to tighten the bonds between
North America and all of Latin
America.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

1ronical Comment on Bus Rides
To the Editor of The Star:
Why should people complain about
paying more for Capital Transit pass
just because they can't get seats on
buses and streetcars? Everything else
is so high that money doesn't 60 far
enough anyway, so why not pay more
for the exciting drama of riding buses
and streetcars?
Lots of people in Washington sit down
too much anyway and they need the
exercise involved in getting around
Washington with a Capital Transit
pass. If people can't afford to pay more
for their ride, let them walk-it will
improve the appetite. OF course, they
may not be able to afford food either,
but the results are the same-reduc-
ing-either you get mashed several sizes
smaller or you walk off the extra
pounds
Frankly, don't mind standing up on.
bus half as much as I mind waiting
in the cold for them, but I try to re-
member that "they also serve who only
stand and watt" while stand and
wait for the privilege of standing up
on bus. Sure would like to know what
I'm serving. ELEANOR LINN.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

sniped at or undermined In Con-
gress, what will be the real meaning
of bipartisanship in our foreign po-
litical policy? Certainly, the one
policy cannot have much force
unless it is integrated with the
other.
In short, any effort to wreck re-
ciprocal trade would be irrecon-
cilable with the united American
desire for good and enduring peace
the basic objective of our bipar-
tisan foreign policy. For to build
such peace it is vitally necessary
to encourage an expanding world
economy, and it is simply impossible
to encourage that kind of economy
with high protectionist tariffs. The
logic is all on the side of reciprocity.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Letters to The Star
A Mother Advocates Better
Pay for Teachers
To the Editor o. The Star:

To the Editor o. The Star:
1t is no wonder teachers are striking.
The wonder is that they all don't strike.
In the Sunday Star there were pictures
showing the Senator from Louisiana
hiring stenographer at a salary of
$4,000 a year. That is more than the
average family man makes es-certainly
much more than teacher makes. A
teacher has a great responsibility, in
that she shares, with parents, the mold
ing of future citizens. Does the senog-
rapher to Senator have such re-
sponsibility?
do not believe that so much would
have to be spent on delinquent children
if we had more and better qualified
teachers. How can we get more and
better qualified teachers when our
Government offers jobs of much less
responsibility for more than double
the pay?
am not teacher. but a mother
who realizes how the shortage Of good
teachers has affected the education of
her child and all the other children in
our public schools. E. M. D.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

life which they had never fully
shared. Unfortunately, the officials
and soldiers sent by the Central
Government seem, for the most part,
to have acted like swarm of car
petbaggers, strangling the formerly
prosperous island with monopolistic
controls over industry and COM
merce, and expressing the inhabit-
ants by fragrant corruption and
squeeze"
This naturally alienated the ma
tives, Chinese and aborigines alike,
from their "liberaters," and gave
rise to "Formosan Peoples" move
ment demanding wide local auton-
omy. The recent rebellion is an
index of widespread resentment at
direct Chinese rule. Obviously, a
thorough investigation followed by
genuine administrative reform is
needed if unrest is to be allayed
and a stubborn separatist move
ment is to be averted.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
I roubIe in Formoso

For months, intermittent news
dispatches from the Far East have
told of growing unrest in Formosa,
punctuated by riots and eliminating
in a widespread rebellion which the
Chinese authorities have now sought
to allay by promises of a commits
sion OF inquiry to investigate popu-
lar grievances. Remote though
Formosa is from the main stream of
events, it is interesting as a test
case for the efficacy of Chinese rule.
Formosa has had checkered
past. This large island lies off the
South-Central Chinese province of
Fukien, from which it is separated
by a wide strait. averaging about
100 miles. Its native inhabitants
are a fierce, intractable breed of
Malays addicted to head-hunting
and cannibalism. Since most of
the interior consists of lofty, Jungle
clad mountains, the aborigines have
never been thoroughly subdued, but
the coastal plains have for CEN
turies been colonized by Chinese,
mostly from Fukien. These colo
nists, with strong provincial con-
sciousness and speaking a peculiar
dialect, felt little allegiance to the
old Chinese Empire and were vir-
tually independent. Spanish navi-
gators investigated the island in
the sixteenth century and gave it
its western name, F'ormosa, which
means "the beautiful" from its ma
jestic appearance as seen from the
sea. Later, the Dutch made coastal
settlements until expelled by the
Chinese settlers. Only thereafter, in
the late seventeenth century, did the
local Chinese acknowledge Chinese
sovereignty, but the imperial au-
thorities were so oppressive and
corrupt that the island was in
constant state of rebellion, while
the warfare between Chinese and
aborigines went endlessly on.
Formosa was thus a neglected and
backward appendage of the Chinese
Empire when Japan obtained its ces-
sion as one of the fruits Of it's VIC
torious war over China in 1895.
And it is only fair to say that, in
its first important conquest, Japa-
nese colonial rule appeared at its
best. During the full half century
OF Japanese sovereignty, order was
established, natural resources were
developed, and the aborigines were
driven into the remotest mountain
Businesses.
Such was the situation when
Formosa was handed back to China
after the japanese collapse in the
autumn of 1s45. Obviously, the
island required delicate handling If
the local Chinese were to be har-
moniously integrated into q national
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Siqnificunt Warming

The position taken by the National
Federation of Federal Employees on
the issue of a reduction in Federal
personnel is so unusual as to be
worthy of special attention.
The NFFE is the oldest, wealthiest
and probably the largest union of
Federal workers. Ordinarily one
would expect a union of that status
to be in the ranks of those resisting
the efforts of the new Congress to
bring about a contraction of the
Federal Governments working force
Far from joining this opposition
movement, however, the NFFE, in
the March issue of its official publ
cation, sharply rebukes those officials
Of the executive department who are
resisting the drive to reduce payrolls
and eliminate employees of dubious
loyalty"
At first glance this might seem to
be strange procedure for a union
presumably interested in keeping as
many of its members as possible on
the public payroll. Actually, how
ever, it Is a move that is indicative
of degree of intelligence all too
often lacking in union tactics.
For the fact of the matter is that
the Republican Congress is going to
Insist on a substantial reduction in
force in the executive branch. If
there are administrators who be-
neve, as the NFFE charges, that
their agencies cannot be curtailed
sin the slightest degree" and who
hope to be able to "outsmart" the
Congressional Appropriations Com
nlittees, they have a rude awakening
In store. For the cutbacks are
coming.
The only real question is whether
this will be done as painlessly as
possible, with the intelligent CO.
operation of executive officials, or
whether, in words of the NFFE
statement, an exasperated Congress
will resort to meat ak" tactics. #
the latter proves to be the case,
then the best interests of all Federal
workers will suffer most.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
WilIium Shakespeare
By Dapid Laurence
With words as pointed as fierce Tribal,

With words as pointed as fierce TybnIrs
Slpord
He corped for thought erits and
entrances
On great stage OF aDonder unerp,ored,
Where time 1ith life breaks the
shining tdnces,
Where thinkers find directions .rhtch
are part
OF depths too deep for philosophys
strong light.
And NTH Hratto learn no mind can
chart
What heapen and earth keep In
abiding night.
His ,1as a magic pen that truly caught
All that to which mans longings may
aspire,
And that gape all those gracious hours
tDhere thought
Catches the measures OF the spirits
lyre.
And rises ouer the confines OF fate
TO soar as larks that sing at hedre1's
gate.
EDWARD D. GARNER.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
On the Record
By Dorothy Thon bson

Now, when the peace" conference as
sembles in Moscow, there will be only
the Big Two. For in the last weeks
the British Empire has taken curtain
calm India, the Middle East, and
now in Greece. So the reverberations
mount as Kipling's "Recessional~ sounds
its prophetic warning.
The British are presently Withdraw
ing from Greece and asking us to pick
up the ball in the Mediterranean. In
Greece, wobbly government in a
bankrupt country is contending with
forces whose interest and support are
by no means merely domestic. Greece
is the missing link in the Soviet-spon-
sored Communist Danubian Balkan
federation. II they win In Greece, Tur-
key is gone, and with 1t international
control of the DardanelleS.
It is high time that the United States
began to think with the utmost sobriety
OF Its international commitments, its
capacity to discharge them, the effect
upon our own society Of attempting to
enlarge them, and the probable out
come.
Intervention breeds counterinterven-
ton, and counterinterventions ulti-
mately mean war.
Mutual Intervention seems certain to
invite q clash. And before we 60 one
step farther we had better consider
what we have to intevene with and what
for. do not think we have yet asked
ourselves that question and answered
it positively about any area where our
wealth and manpower are flowing. But
the situation today is beyond further
solution by impulsiyeness, missionary
ism or passion. We need q thorough
going stock -taking-an to remind our
selves Of all the fools who have rushed
In where angelsor wise men--feared to
tread.
frs,.....A - ~. vsu s~rA,e.4. 49,.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

It is now clear what lay behind Gen.
Marshall,s solemn warning in his speech
at Princeton University regarding the
gravity of crisis greater in many ways
than that of the war.
When great powers pass out of his
tory, they do not do so unobtrusively.
The reverberations of their passing echo
for decades or generations, sometimes
for centuries. In more reasonable epochs
the common sense Of nations recognized
this. Even in war, the belligerents tried
to save and restore the enemy state lest
its final collapse should bring down
more than it. But we no longer live
in the age of reason; the presiding spirit
is not Apollo but Dionysius. Our actions
are occasioned and influenced by pas
sion, the clamor Of interests and the
most reckless disregard for the lessons
Of history-or geography, or reality.
The total collapse and loss of SOW
ereignty Of Germany and Japan was
the goal fought for; the meaning of
unconditional surrender" There were
those who trembled at the prospect of
the aftermath Of such an unlimited
victory fought by coalition Of powers
with by no means identical interests.
Some foresight-and more hindsight Of
history-would have told us that such
victory is also catastrophe, entailing
burden of gigantic proportions. In
the case Of Germany, it demanded q
Solomon's judgment between the con-
tenders for the remains.
But the processes of war are not re-
versible, and the totality Of modern war
eclipSes the mind
At the beginning Of the war, there
were five major world powers and
many medium-sized and smaller states
living relatively independent lives and
exercising certain cushioning and
shock-absorbing effect. At the end Of
hostilittes, there were the Big Three.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Death of the Tuno

In revealing that the valiant
American submarine Tang was de-
stroyed by the boomeranglike ac-
tions of one of her own torpedoes,
Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood
has lifted the lid on one of the late
wars well-kept secrets. The Tang
presumably was using new-type
directional torpedo developed during
the war. This torpedo was equipped
with a homing device designed to
guide it unerringly to it's target.
In most cases the new torpedo
performed with uncanny efficiency
Ito the distress of the Japanese
Navy and merchant marine. All
that was necessary was to aim the
missile in the general direction of
an enemy ship and the device In
the nose of the torpedo would do
the rest. But the early models of
the new weapon apparently had
bugs" The Tang's torpedo started
toward its target, but soon began to
curve back toward the submarine.
Commander Richard O'Kane, who
later was to receive the Congress
sional Medal of Honor, saw the wake
OF the torpedo heading back to-
ward his ship and attempted to
maneuver out of the way-but in
vain. Only nine officers and men,
including Commander OKane, es-
capped the explosion and sinking of
their ship.
Whether there were other freak
accidents of the kind that caused
the suicide" of the Tang has not
been disclosed by the Navy. Ger
tain it is, however, that naval
science has profited from the trial
and-error lessons with many new
weapons developed with feverish
haste during the war. In time of
peace these inventions are tested
exhaustively before being put into
service. Under the urgency of war,
however, there is notealways time to
experiment as thoroughly as might
be desired. There is some consola-
tion in the fact that before she be-
came a victim of self-destruction
the Tang on her final mission had
sent more than 100000 tons of enemy
shipping to the bottom of Formosa
Strait.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Trade and Peace

Ine PreSldent'S executive order on
reciprocal trade procedures is sub
stantially in accord with the changes
proposed short time ago by Sen
tors Vandenberg and Millikin. It
has twofold purpose: Cd to make
'"doubly sure that American inter-
ests will be safeguarded," and (2),
by so doing, to discourage the high
tariff Republican element in Con-
gress from trying to undermine the
reciprocity program at this time.
AS chairmen, respectively, of the
Foreign Relations Committee and
the Finance Committee, Senators
Vandenberg and Millikin had the
same purpose in mind when they
first made their proposals. These
called for escape clauses" in all
future reciprocal agreements to
permit the United States to modify
or cancel any tariff cut found to be
harmful to our domestic economy;
they called also for a procedure
under which the Federal Tariff
Commission would hold reviews and
public hearings and have the right
to advise the President against con-
cessions likely to injure American
business.
In his executive order the Presi-
dent has followed these proposals
fairly closely. The only exception
Of any possible consequence is that
he would not have the Tariff Com
mission advise him in advance of
making concessions; such advice
would be offered, instead, by an
interdepartmental committee repre-
senting several Federal agencies, in
cluding the commission. This repre-
sents only a minor departure from
the Vandenberg -Millikin plan, and
the two Republican Senators have
expressed themselves as satisfied, on
the whole, that the Presidents
action will be highly useful for
progress in desirable direction"
Apparently, however, several of
the "protectionist" Republicans in
the Senate and House are in no
mood to be mollifieds Senator Taft,
who is himself hostile to reciprocity,
has advised them that it would be
futile-against the Presidents veto
to try to upset the program before
the Trade Agreements Act comes up
for renewal in 1948. Nevertheless
some Of them-notably Chairman
Knutson of the House Ways and
Means Committee-seem as intent
as ever on making a hot issue of
the subject right now.
This is particularly unfortunate
because the United States is to
confer with eighteen other countries
in April in an effort to write per-
nanent charter for the Interna-
tional Trade Organization and to
work out specific measures to pro-
mote freer flow of world COM
merce. The program-aimed at
mutual enrichment through the
elimination of friction breeding
barriers between nation and nation
lis one OF the key parts of our
foreign economic policy. II 1t Is
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Untimely Economy

Untimely Economy
To the Editor of The Star:
We are now on the brink of assuming
all the obligations of the British Empire,
due to the trend OF the war
During the period from World War I
and until shortly after commencement
of the trying ordeal which we were
fortunate to have been among the
victors, the British have been carrying
the burden of policing the waters to
make countries safe for the democratic
peoples; now the shoe has been placed
on our foot, so the planned reduction
in budgets should not be undertaken,
as we should realize by now that any
peoples willing to be leaders have to
pay and pay for such leadership.
WILLIAM F. SHEPHERD,
G. S. K, u. S. N.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-17
Along The Cape Fear
LONG LIVE THE ATLANTIC

LONG LIVE THE ATLANTIC
The Queen of the Cape Fear
stood with bowed head yester-
day, her brass aglow in the Ne-
cember sun, her decks polished
to a spic-' -'n-span cleanliness.
1t was taps for the Old Gal.
She was being replaced by a
much younger princess in the
household of the city fire depart
ment with the arrival Sunday of
her successor-yet to be named.
But it is doubtful if he SUI
cessor will bow out of service,
with more brilliant career than
the Atlantic.
Her master recalls many events
which stand out in the life of
the Cape Fear waterfront dur
ing the 35 years she has seen
river service. He says she av-
eraged answering approximately
35 alarms year.
One of the most recent dramat-
is calls came during the recent
war when the oil tanker
"Oleney" limped into port with
jagged hole in her bottom.
The tanker had rammel SUBJ
marine, her crew revealed, not
far out Of the mouth of the Cape
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-17
New Fire atShOwS Wear, Tear
OF Hard Life, Reporter ''FindS"
$13,500 "Buy" Turns Up
With Shedding Paint,
Rotted Planking
BY ROY COOK
Star Staff Writer

A "new" $13,500 fireboat, or
what is supposed to be convert
ed into a fireboat, was towed in
to Wilmington late Sunday after
noon.
Yesterday afternoon, this re-
porter went aboard the craft for
ar unofficial" inspection. First,
I would like to make it clear
that I am no authority on boats
and know nothing about them.
But, from all I could see the
city of Wilmington is stuck with
a $13,500 pile of floating junk.
The craft was built in 1943 and
has enjoyed a very hard life
and no care, at least it's appear
ance would so indicate. H.
The thick coats of Navy grey
paint have buckled and cracked
and can be pulled off in sheets.
That, I was told, can be fixed.
One side, and not being a sea-
dog, I can't say which side, was
ripped and torn and rotten in
several places. Plenty Of places
on the bow were rotten and will
disintegrate with the lightest
touch.
The windows on the cabin
See NEW FIRE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-17

Fear. For 10 hours the Atlantic
stood guard over the crippled
tanker and pumped water from
her hold.
Another war incident in which
the Atlantic figured was the day
following the bombing of Pearl
Harbor. This time a tanker put
into the Cape Fear with fire
threatening thousands of gallons
Of oil which the boat was carry
ing. It took the Atlantic only As
minutes to set things Alright on
the tanker and save the ship
from exploding.
The Atlantic likewise has seen
service as a life-saver. She has
been used to recover bodies from
the waters of the Cape Fear.
Those are just a few of the in
cidents in the life of this old
boat dear to the city's firemen
and her genial chief.
Chief Groom once said that
she had saved the city untold
thousands of dollars and had re-
paid her keep a thousand times.
But time moves on. What can
be made of her successor remains
to be seen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-17
Piedmont President I'm.
worried Over Threat
OF Court Action
WINSTON-SALEM, |

WINSTON-S SALEM, Dec. 16
-R-Tom Davis, president OF
Piedmont Airlines here, said to-
day upon his return from Wash
ington, D. c., that the newly
authorized airlines company
would not be ready to start op-
erations before Christmas, but
that he hoped to hold the in
augural flight ''soon after thai.
Piedmont Airlines received
the word "go" from the Civil
Aeronautics Board in Washing
ton Monday. The local company
had previously been granted L.
700 miles of routes in five states
by the C. A. B. last April but
operations were stalled w b e n
State Airlines of Charlotte pro-
testing the awarding of these
routes to the Winston-Salem
company. The c. A. B. has for
several weeks been reconsider
ing the case and on Monday fl
nally gave it's final decision,
throwing the Charlotte protest
out and awarding Piedmont the
original routes that had been CIV
en- them in the frs place.
Meanwhile, H. K. Gilbert, Jr.,
president of the State Airlines,
announced after the CABS fl
nal decision that State Airlines
See DAVIS on Page Two