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Evening star., 1947-08-31
MdAantic Berths In u S. Amateur Go Beqqnq Sda @ar Sports
Skin-EogIe Seats
On Sale Tuesduy

Tickets for the Redskins
opening National Football
League game against the Eagles
at Philadelphia on September %
go on sale Tuesday morning at
the Redskins Office, 739 Ninth
street NV. Prices are 50, So
and 81, tax included.
Special trains will be run to
the game by the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-
roads. The Redskins Office also
announced that tickets still are
available to all home games.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Five Get Perfect Scores
For Tie in Club Shoot

Five shooters made perfect scores
in yesterdays 50-target frog arm"
competition under the extra target
system at Washington Gun Club.
In the first-place tie were George
Clark, G. B. Woefel, R. j. Luttrell,
George A. Tew and J. D. Miller.
Woefel won the miss-and-out shoot
off to take first place
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Mccarthy Swim Winner

CHICAGO, Aug. 80 (R.-Johnny
Mccarthy of Watertown. N. Y, to-
day topped So starters in the 21a-
mile Lake Michigan marathon swim,
the 25th of a series inaugurated in
1908 by the Illinois Athletic Club.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Seeks Labor Day Come

The Glover Park mems unlimited
softball' team, coached by Silky
Stewart, former major league base
ball star, and managed by George
CTiger) Love, former Atlanta Crack
er third baseman, is looking for a
Labor Day game. Call Woodley 1899.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Potomac, Rockville
Face in LEAGUE Tilt

The league leading Potomac base
ball team will be out to defend
it's perfect second-half record
against an invading Rockville nine
today in a Montgomery County
League game.
A pitchers duel is in prospect,
with Jack Freeberger, who pitched
a one-hit game while shutting out
Morningside, 40, last week, or
Boots Parnell, who hurled three
hitter last time out, slated to take
the mound for Rockville. Potomac
plans to use Jack Lyons or Otis
Printz. Lyons retired the first "a
batters to face him in chalking up
a no-hit, no-run contest against
Cissel Saxon last Sunday.
Other league games find Morning.
side at Colesville, Cissel Saxon Wis
iting Gaithersburg, Bethesda play
ing host to Sandy Spring and Green
belt meeting Silver Spring on
Browns Field.
Standings:
POTOMAC ----5 Q Bethesda - 2
Coiesyille - / SANDY .-ss,rln Spring 3
siiver Spring 2 Greenbelt - 8
X
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"'Hit into force out for Sanford in 9TH
x Two out when winning run scored.
Detroit - 900 OIL 900 o.
St. Louis ------- 900 900 020 Is
Runs-Wakefield, Swift. Zarilla, Lehner
(2): Error-Lake. Runs batted in-Lake,
hits@switt, Lake, Ste step6ens. 5ri Lehner. aae Home
run-Wakefield. Sacrifice-Swift. Double
plays-Hitchcock to STEPHENS to Judnich,
Left on bases-Detroit 9; St.. Louis O.
Bases on balls-Of Houtteman 3: off San
ford, 8; of Potter, 2. Strike outs-By
Hits-Of Sanford, 8 in Z innings: OF Pot
ter. l in 3 innings. Winning pitcher
Potter. Umpires-Messrs. Weafer, Hub
bard and Berry. Time-2:05. Attendance
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Boston - 900 100 02-3
Philadelphia - 900 900 02-2
Runs-Hopp. Rowell, Elliott. Walker
Gilbert Runs batted in-Masi C2). Elliott,
Gilbert (2). Two-base hits-Barrett. Walk
er Three-base hit-Masi. Stolen bases
Rowell (2). Home run-Gilbert. Sacri-
fces-Jurisich, RoweH, Cutler. Double
play-La Pointe to Verban to Lakeman.
Left on bases-Boston. s; Philadelphia. 8.
Bases on balls-Of Barrett, 3: off Jurisich,
). Struck out--By Barrett. 3; by Jurisich,
l. Umpires-Messrs Magerkurth. Stewart
and Henllne. Time so. Attendance,
4,34S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
Logical Appointments

President Truman has done the logical
thing in appointing Kenneth c. Royal,
John L. Sullivan and W. Stuart Symington
as secretaries of the three departments
which will compose the new National Mill
tary Establishment created by the unifica-
ton law. These men, all veterans of World
War I and all in the service of their coun-
try in. World War II in military or civilian
capacities, well deserve the honor of being
the first civilian heads of the Nations
armed forces under the newly created post
of Secretary of Defense. They constitute
team which has worked together
smoothly in the past and which may be
expected to do so in the critical beginnings
of Defense Secretary Forrestal's revolu-
tionary setup.
Having succeeded Robert P. Patterson as
Secretary of War, Mr.. Royal will continue
working at job with which he is thor
oughly familiar-although as Secretary of
the Army he no longer will be member
of the Presidents cabinet. This does not
necessarily mean that he or Navy Secre-
tary Sullivan and Air Secretary Symington
will not>attend cabinet meetings, however
While they are not entitled to attend regu-
larly and participate in the discussions, it
is considered likely that they will be in
vited frequently, if not regularly, to accom-
pany their superior, Secretary Forrestal,
to the White House sessions. Many other
high-ranking noncabinet officials have
attended cabinet meetings in the past
The trio will not actually take Office, of
course, until Mr.. Forrestal himself has for
JIy lob tLa Of
of Defense. The former Navy Secretary is
scheduled to be sworn in about the middle
of next month. In the meantime the
President should have made considerable
Roadway in picking additional key men in
the new establishment. All of these subor-
dinate officials will be vested with heavy
responsibilities under terms of the merger
act Picking the right men to fill the vital
new directorships of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, National Resources Board,
Munitions Board and Research and Devel-
opment Board is no less important than
filling the top departmental positions
Other important appointments which must
be made soon are those of the Chiefs of
Staff for the Army and Air Forces and
the Chief of Naval Operations. The Army
and Navy staff commands may be filled by
incumbents, at least for the time being,
but the Air Chief of Staff post is brand
new one.
Completion of the list of higher echelon
officials is a prerequisite step to reorganiz-
ing the defense branches in accordance with
the overall chart provided by Congress
in the Armed Forces Uniication Act. This
reorganization task will not be accom-
plished overnight. 1t is certain to be
long -drawn-out process, taxing the ad-
ministratve capacities, as we'll as the pa
tience and tact, of Secretary Forrestal and
his assistants. 1t is fortunate that the
President has been able to place such out
standing men in the four highest execu-
tive positions of the new establishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
Twin ISM Evils

Although nothing new has been added
to the sum total of knowledge already
available concerning fascism, the publ
cation of the historical volume, "Fascism
in Action" will serve useful purpose.
1t is we'll that the public should keep in
mind that there is more than one foreign
theology against which democratic peoples
must keep alert if they are to retain their
cherished liberties.
The 200-page report just issued by the
Legislative Reference Service of the Library
of Congress leaves no room for doubt that
totalitarianism in any form-whether of
the right or the left-is un-American and
dangerous. The book is companion piece
to Communism in Action" issued earlier.
The twin publications supply all the evil
dence that is needed to show that fascism
and communism are twin evils, with so
many identical characteristics that it is
difficult to tell them apart at first glance.
There had been opposition in Congress
to publication of the fascism history on
the ground that fascism does not pose a
threat to the United States today and that
most of the pressure for publication came
from left-Wing circles. The House was not
impressed by these arguments, however.
In authorizing publication the House pro-
vided for insertion of several pages con-
tanning an interesting and valuable COM
parison of the two "isms" which supposedly
are Numerically opposed to each other
but which in reality are so much alike.
Most of the characteristics ascribed in
the analysis to fascism apply equally as
we'll to communism. Fascism, the book
states, is PHILOSOPHY and way of life
which requires that its followers serve the
state with an answering faith and an
unquestioning obedience" Freedom, it is
pointed out, is nonexistent in the demo-
cratic sense The life of the individual
has small value. Rule is by leader
possessed of dictatorial powers. Education
and thought control are used to condition
the mind of the masses Foreign policies
are dynamic and aggressive" and are cal
culated to make gains by creating crises.
Foreign trade is used as an instrument to
gain political detectives. Labor is regi-
mented, with the result that free col
lective bargaining and self-government by
labor organizations are abolished.
There are distinctions between the two
PHILOSOPHERS, of course, but they have to do
mainly with varying means for achieving
similar ends. Both systems are repugnant
| to those who value their heritage of free
dom under the Bill of Rights. The danger
| lies in the fact that both isms usually
masquerade in the guise of democracy and
| prey on the discomfort which is to be found
even in democracies when times are bad.
1t is vitality important that both of these
potential threats to democracy shotld be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
A Chompin' an q Chewin'
From the Salina journal.

From the Sal1na journal
Some time ago the chompers Of popcorn and
the chewers of gum moved from the movie
horse-opera theaters into the potter society OF
the first runs-and to some of the patrons OF
the better cinema houses, they aren't wanted.
For instance, the Winfield Courier shouts that:
There is nothing more dstracting in movie
house than to be listening to a cinema climax
build-up ;" which can't be heard above
pop OF a COB of chicle. or a crunch. munch
crackle of handful of insideout chicken feed
Then again this defense of the above indictment
appeared in the Augusta Gazette:
when we go to the movies we go Tor enjoy
ment and box of popcorn adds greatly 10 that
enjoyment"
whether popcorn chompers begin to cause
falling off of movie patronage the chances are
the theater managers will do something about
IT, The neat popcorn machines in the outer
Iohhes whose volume of sales indicates high
percentage of patronage for the extracurricular
"enioyment" will. then disappear. AS Tor tne
gum chewers-well, they are always with us.
in the office, In the classroom, in the stores ana
4, tho theater And then there Is bubble gum,
a menace which certainly cannot be isolated at
the movies.
However, there is still another side to the
story Not only have theater- goers shown by
their patronage that there Is demand for
movie popcorn, but this demand represents an
imnortant source of revenue, part of which Is
diverted BY many theaters to worthy cause
an employe fund which pays for such things as
medical care and disqualification OF the employees
and their families.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
DefenSeS in Hawaii
Islands Stripped of Fighting Strength but Are No Longer
Vital Base for Danger Sources Have Shifted
By Lee Hills


HONOLULU, T. Of H.-So far as we're con-
cerned there could be another Pearl Harbor"
here tomorrow.
This great American air and naval base is
less protected and more vulnerable than it was
when the Japs struck nearly six years ago.
If another young corporal today picked up
attacking. planes on his radar screen and if
alert defense forces this time went into action
there is little they could do to stave off defeat
The best that Brig. Gen. Ralph E. Wooten
commander of the 7th Air Force, could put in
the air would be one fighter group of obsolete
PATS. There are no B-29s here to track down
an enemy at sea. The closest jet fighters or
superbombers are in California.
The defenses here have been stripped of
men and firepower. Some harbor gun positions
stand empty. The scant 10000 GIs here are
service troops, with housekeeping" duties. If
there were combat infantrymen on the job,
they'd have housemaid's knees rather than
sore backs from carrying rifles.
After all you have read about the tragedy
of Pearl Harbor, this understrength setup may
almost seem like criminal military negligence.
Actually it makes good sense. In 1941 Hawaii
was under the guns of hostile big power.
Japan had huge navy in the Pacific
Today the United States has only one poten-
tial competitor Hawaii is farther
from Russia than almost anything America
holds.
Instead of being an outpost, Hawaii is rear
base and supply depot. The front line of
democracy in the west is in Japan and Korea
and the Philippines. When the occupation
troops pull out of Japan and Korea and when
the Army and Navy finish pulling down to
skeleton strength in the Philppnes our west
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ern military frontier will be the big bases on
Guam and Okinawa.
The United States has almost finished rolling
up all its hard-won bases in the South Pacific,
according to Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, COM
mander in chief of the Pacific One small de-
tachment left at Tarawa will be out within a
few days. On tiny Fiji island, one officer and
one enlisted man are completing paper work
When this is done. practically everything
America has miitarily in the Central and South
Pacific will be concentrated here on the island
of Oahu.
Kwajalein in the Marshalls is being main
tanned as a major refueling base between Homo
lulu and Guam Commercial airliners which
fly the Pacific have been using it as a service
stop, but these will be rerouted through Wake
Island this summer as soon as new facilities
there are completed. Kwajalen will then con-
tinue strictly military way-station.
1t. Gen. John E. Hull, in charge of Pacific
ground forces, says Hawaii still guards the
western approach to the United States, but
there is little to guard against here now.
The defense emphasis is more upon Alaska
and the Aleutians, with Hawaii as supply base
and protecting the flank of this northwestern
approach to the United States.
A tipof on the diminishing strategic role this
island plays was the recent proposal that the
Army trade Hickam Field (near Pearl Harbor)
to the Navy for BARRIERS Point, Navy airfeld
and the only base on the island big enough for
B-29s.
The plan makes good sense both ways. 1T was
turned down. however, solely because of the cost
involved and because it isn't necessary. Gen.
Wooten has no B-29s.
D.l,,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

Government has authorized have been dis
tributed impartially among the competing
companies.
1t is against this background OF success
full progress by domestic and overseas air.
lines that the committee recommends that
competition be continued. The committee
did not close the administration door on
an eventual change of policy, If some I'M
foreseen national emergency should indi-
cate desirability of chosen instrument"
Advocates of the latter plan will probably
find hard going ahead in the immediate
future 1t will be difficult to overcome the
persuasive report of the Presidents ad-
viserS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
AustroIio's Population Problem

Arthur A. Calwell Minister of Immigra-
ton and Information in the government
OF Australia, has come to the United
States to recruit new citizens for his
country. He has tried to persuade Eng
lishmen to move down under" but has
encountered opposition from Winston
Churchill and others who insist that
Britons ought to say at home and eight
it out" A similar reaction undoubtedly
will develop in North America, if the cam
paign which Mr.. CalweI represents shows
signs Of notably succeeding here. The
Second World War taught the United
States the lesson of falling birthrate
So, too most Canadians instinctively under
in this earth is human power Agents
from the Dominion are in Europe at the
present moment enlisting immigrants.
But Mr.. Calwell's purposes are defensible
He has reason to anticipate the continued
effects of rising birthrate in Japan. Even
ii Shinto miltarism never again threatens
Australia with armed invasion, the compe-
tltion OF Nipponese labor and Nipponese
culture is force which must be dealt
with, not for few decades but actually
for generations. What far seeing Aus
tralians want is more or less arbitrary
stimulation of their own rate of popula-
ton growth. The number of people now
resident in the Commonwealth does not
exceed eight million If the losses of 1923
to 1888 we're to be repeated, the total count
century hence might be less than that
of today.
Mr.. Calwells problem. however, is not
simply recruiting immigration as such.
Australia needs men and women who are
qualified for constructive living in a
country vastly different from any part of
the northern hemisphere. Intelligence,
of course, is the prime requisite. Next
in order come training or skill in industry,
personal capital for investment and help
full connections back home" in the ma
tions from which the immigrants derive
Finally and by no means least important
Is a certain stalwart determination to
succeed-a trait of character which is not
a surplus commodity anywhere under the
SUM-
The United States naturally has a pro-
found interest in the prosperity and
security of Australians. We went to their
assistance in 1941 and we will aid them
in times of theoretical peace as we did
in seasons of bitter conflict. But the de-
velopment of a population adequate in
size and power to hold the front" per-
petually down under" is task of vast
proportions It will do no good to think
| of it as a little joA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
Competitive Aviation

The report of President Truman's Air
Co-ordinating Committee may prove to be
the last, as we'll as the latest, word IN the
recently publicized controversy over the
proposal to restrict American overseas air
line operations to one chosen instrument.
The committees unanimous disapproval
of the plan antedated the heated verbal
exchange between Senator Brewster and
Howard Hughes on the same subject. Now,
however, the committee has disclosed It's
reasons for opposing the airline merger
"at this time"
The committee, which was appointed to
coordinate governmental policies respect
ing civil and military aviation, has, in
effect, put the administration on record
against legislation, strongly advocated by
Senator Brewster to eliminate competition
In the overseas flying business. The Dill
sponsored by the Maine Senator would
have provided for single American airline
to carry the United States flag on sched-
uled air routes abroad. The plan was
backed by Pan American Always, but OPP
posed by its competitor, TranS-World Air
lines, controlled by Mr.. Hughes.
The presidential advisory committee can
see no merit in the plan under existing
conditions On the contrary, it foresees
danger in permitting lone small manage
ment group" to acquire powers which con-
ceivably could be used to interfere in
policies of great national interest" 1t still
adheres to the well-established American
theory that free enterprise can best de-
velop civil aviation and best serve the
public and the national interest. The
committee has only to review what free
competition among the airlines has &C
complished in the past to find support fol
It's convictions. Competition has en-
couraged technical research and brought
expansion of civil aviation to It's present
advanced stages. Planes, equipment anc
operating procedures have benefited from
this healthy rivalry. What subsidies thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
Fifty Years Ago

The Star gave front-page space in It's issue OF
August 2. 1897 to the story of Mrs Margaret
Lelong, "the first woman to ride
Lody Cyclist a wheel from Chicago to the Pa
Arrives cific Ocean" She had left the
Windy City alone on May 20, had
reached San Francisco on July and let it be
known during all her journey she received not
one unkind or discourteous word" True. she
was once pursued by herd of cattle, but by
using her revolver she caused them to change
their course What she would have done had
a pack of two-legged wolves attempted to detain
her Is not disclosed
This was the headline in The Star of August
3, 1897, applied to dispatch from Paris. Tex,
telling how Rev. Cap Jones, "a
Peculiar preacher who was married and
Froqedy' had children" eloped with the
16-year-old daughter of Rev
James Widesky" Learning that the runaways
were in the Indian Territory, the girls father
gathered a number of friends, among whom
was another preacher, and went in pursuit"
Jones "eluded them and returned to Texas, but
Widesky and party overhauled him and shot
him, leaving him for dead in the woods near
his home" traveller, passing that way, heard
him grooming and Jones told him who did
it, and "afterWard died"-with the result that
Widesky and five of his partners in vengeance
were lodged in Jail at Bonham." g..
Well-merited success was the keynote OF a
story in The Star on August 10, 1897, setting
forth that: t"Bryon S. Adams,
Mr. Adams the man who never disap-
'lmnrovino' points, has added number
of improvements to his print
ing establishment, 512 Eleventh street NV
which make it one of the most COM
plete and up-to-date in the city" A new sky
light has been constructed over the main ROOM
and "the presses now rest on concrete floors
so that there is no vibration whatever" Also
"the entire front of the building has been re-
modelled so that the exterior is especially hand
some The office interior has been finished in
oak, and the floor paved with hard wood in
mosaic form. Heavy plate glass windows and
beveled glass, oval-shaped, with the initials
of the proprietor ground in in the doors, make
q fine appearance. Electric lights have bein
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

added, electric bells and speaking tubes. Mr..
Adams is Washington boy started in the
business here II years ago, and has worked
himself up from the foot of the ladder"
~
IAN interesting Christian Endeavor echo
meeting" said The Star of August 90 1897,
was held at the residence of
Endeovorers M. M. Lewis, 222 East Capitol
On Tour street, last evening, under the
auspices of the Friends C. E.
Society Dr. r. B. Warder of Howard Univer-
sity presented an instructive and entertaining
word painting panorama Of the recent tour of
the washington delegation to San Francisco,
tersely describing the scenery and experience
and incidents of the palace-car trip across the
continent, including the charming experiences
OF the tourists in Denver and the Rockies,
where on Pixies Peak they sang songs OF
praise at an altitude of near three miles above
old ocean, the visit to the Mormon Temple at
Salt Lake, the welcome at Sacramento and
royal reception at the Golden Gate. Miss
Jennie Levering. the secretary, presented
word sketch of the journey from San Fran
cisco to Portland Seattle and Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. The ha ppy combination Of charm
ing scenery, enthusiasm of the tourists and
interesting incidents aptly portrayed made the
story one of much interest = = Forty or fifty
guests were present"
Half a century ago American women re-
ceived their instructions as to what they should
wear from Berlin as well as
Fashions from Paris. The Star for Au-
From Berlin gust 81, 1897, presented 4
pulled sleeve, narrow waist,
long and ruffied skirt model" which an I'M
named artist In the German capital had perpe-
trated especially for Indian summer in the
United States. 1t was explained that: THE
color combination of changeable moss green
and bright blue Is suggestive of natures aspect
when she dons her richest, most variable colors
while bidding farewell to our admiring gaze
before she retires to rest" Further, three
rows of rlfdes simulate an apron overskirt with
deep points in front and reaching higher at
the back. Each row of rufies consists OF wide
and very full pleated ruffie of changeable blue
and green taffeta exactly matching the colors
in the foulard and serving as background 70
set of the gathered founce OF real Valenciennes
lace, headed by narrow milliner's fold OF
moss green velvet" Sounds familiar, doesn't 1T