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Evening star., 1947-04-04
Extending Rent Control

In view OF the continuing scar
city OF rental housing, President
Truman could not logically do
otherwise than request that Con-
gress extend Government controls
over rents beyond June 80 next. II
Congress believed that these con-
trolls were necessary last year, it Is
hard to see how it can fail to grant
the Presidents request for a years
continuance, for there has been no
appreciable change for the better
in the rental situation during the
past year.
There has, it is true, been a
gradual revival of home and apart
ment construction since the easi ig
OF construction controls, but there
still exists a country wide shortage
of rental units, especially in the
cheaper categories. Vacancy"
signs on desirable houses and apart
mentS still are virtually nonexist-
ent. Apartment seekers daily wait
eagerly in newspaper lobbies for
first-run editions which may con-
tain newly advertised places to live.
A Federal survey of lightweight
cities in 1946 showed that these con-
ditions are general.
Such being the case, the need for
further regulation of rents and
evictions to prevent any unscrupu-
lous landlords from taking uncon-
scionable advantage of distressed
families is just as compelling now
as it was when the rent-control
policy was adopted.
AT the same time, there is merit
to the contention of some members
OF Congress that consideration be
paid to the, plight of landlords
caught in the wise Of rent ceilings
and increased maintenance and
operational costs. Those who are
being unfairly penalized by Federal
controls deserve some relief, whether
1t be in the form of fiat percent
age increase, as proposed by the
House Banking Committee, or the
regional readjustment plan favored
by the Senate Banking Committee.
Even-handed justices requires that
landlords as well as tenants be safe
guarded against inequities.
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Make the Mines Safe

In the light OF alarming olS-
closures concerning uncorrected
hazards at the Centralia mine, Sec
retary of the Interior Krug's drastic
order closing 518 other mines OF
questionable safety, though it comes
late In the day, is thoroughly justi-
fed. The Centralia disaster has
brought revelations of confused
Jurisdictions in mine-safety enforce
ment, of failure to comply with
safety standards and of the admix-
ture of State inspection activities
with politics.
1t has not yet been established to
what extent any or all of these fac
tors were responsible for the death
of III miners at Centralia, but 1t
is evident that the Centralia mine
is not the only one affected by them.
In Illinois, at least, all mines have
been subject to the same sort OF
politically controlled safety-enforce-
ment service as prevailed at Gen.
tralia. Ugly stories following that
catastrophe indicate that State
mine inspectors have been spending
a considerable amount of time and
energy recently in the solicitation of
political campaign funds from mine
operators. Political shenanigans of
this nature are not conducive to
firm and impartial mine inspection,
to put it mildly.
Since the States, not the Federal
Government, have primary respon-
sibilitg for enforcement of mine
safety regulations, it behooves State
authorities to take stock of their
ine-inspection departments and
make certain that they are efficient
enforcement agencies in fact, not
political machines. Having been
jealous of their right to control
mines within. their borders, the
States have a heavy responsibility
which they must measure up to. But
for the circumstances of Government
seizure of the mines, MI. Krug
would have been powerless to close
the mines which Federal or State
inspectors have found to, be unduly
hazardous. Ordinarily the Federal
inspectors can only advise, not
command compliance.
Even now there is a question as
to how far the Government can 60
In requiring the mine owners to
correct existing hazards. Some op-
orators have reported inability to
obtain safety equipment recon-
mended by inspectors. because of
shortage of materials. Cost of such
equipment is another deterrent.
Some miners have resisted safety
measures. The union itself shares
culpability in not having taken full
advantage Of the authority rested
with its Mine Safety Committees.
Whatever the difficulties, 1t seems
obvious that either they must be
surmounted in some way-yet to
be determined by the various
investigating groups-or the mines
which are definitely dangerous will
have to remain closed. This Is one
point on which the general public
will find itself in full agreement
with John L. Lewis.
Evening star., 1947-04-04
other respects with the matters before
the prime ministers.

other respects with the matters before
the prime ministers.
So far as I am concerned, think that
she should get nothing, but. in fact, pay
reparations to us and England and
France because she was as much an
aggressor as Germany, in that she
Joined with Germany In the attack
upon Poland and got her share Of the
loot. am one OF those who believe that
If Russia had not signed up with Hitler
1t is highly probable that Hitler would
never have attacked Poland, and If this
probably is true. We ought to demand
reparations from her as being joint ag-
gressor with Hitler. We have no particu-
lar obligation to Russia, Is she was fight
ing to save her type OF totalitarianism
and not in any sense to save democ-
racy." That was as much misalliance
for us as Hitler's with Japan was for
Germany. Both were acts Of mutual con-
venience. and maybe necessity. The prin-
cipae governing both acts was the same.
GEoRGE w. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Command Performance

The sitper net Of dusk roto fades atDav
Before the nights deep pelret curtain
ing.
A sudden star iHuminotes the iody
OF parks and lanes phers ,ooits the
subtle spring.
But something Is nnaiss. For anxious eyes
Search out the distant horizons of cloud
That pesls the beauty OF soft trensulous
skies
And hides romantic ceilings like
shrotd.
one star is not enough for nights like
these.
For questions asked and ANSWERS to be
gtueH.:
But hushi there's gold sntangled n the
Like something spilled from out the
mint OF heapeN;
For riding foton his royal purple lane
Ths Indispensable moon Is here agninf
RUBY ALTIzER ROBERTS.
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Letters to The Star
A Registered Nurse Pleads
for Better Salaries

To the Editor Of The star:
I am writing to you In desperation
regarding certain articles in the news
papers about the training Of practical
nurses at Gallinger Hospital. Not only
do they intend to train them in a short
time. but viii pay them salary Of 81 $40
per year. 7 am one OF the younger
nurses who gave up good wartime jobs
to enter training. Now, after three years
OF good honest effort, find that women
with much less training and experience
are to receive the same salary as I.
There are, besides the younger nurses.
thousands who served overseas and
came home to find that they had worked
to help save the lives Of our men and
uphold the honor OF the profession, only
to be showed aside by an inexperienced
girl.
have no objection to practical nurses,
but they are of little or NO value in q
hospital To check this statement you
might ask just how many duties they
are allowed to perform In regard to
charting, giving medication or treat
ments. Practical nurses on special duty
must rely on the floor nurse to do these
things and yet they are allowed to
charge the same fee as registered nurses.
My point is that II the money Is to be
spent, why not spend it on something
worthwhile? Instead of training ten
practical nurses for few months each,
why not spend the money to train one
student for three years? There are
thousands of girls who have the ambi-
ton, but are without funds.
Solving the Shortage.
I know the need is immediate but in
stead of singing the old song Relieve
the Shortage" change the tune to Raise
the Salary of the General Duty Nurse"
You would soon find many wel-staffed
hospitals.
The minimum wage for registered
nurses In the District, is $165 month
This dn terms of days. is $3.50 from
which Withholding tax is deducted. This
is practically the same wage domestic
receives for day, except that she is
usually provided transportation. How
many professional people work for such
a low salary?
Other ways to relieve the shortage
would be:
/. Establish small day nurseries con-
nected with the hospitals In order to
allow married nurses to work and yet be
assured their children are cared for
properly.
2. Establish schools for brush-up
courses in order that nurses who have
not worked for long time could gain
few lessons that they have half for
gotten and SO regain confidence to ac-
cept the responsibility Of caring for the
lives of others.
3. Lower the entrance fees in q uni
form manner, SO that all nursing schools
in the United States have the same
rates.
4. Provide scholarships for high
school graduates who would make ex-
cellent nurses. but can't afford tuition.
REGISTERED NURSE.
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Mr.. Toft on the Atom

a man of Senator Taft's intelligence
can have taken the position he has
taken regarding the fearsome prob
lem of the atom. His attack on David
E. Lilienthal-which Mr.. Lilienthal
happily survived in yesterdays re-
commital vote-is of secondary i'm
portance. What is of prime impor-
tance is the type of thinking that
went into that attack.
To begin with, it may be said that
Mr.. Taft has betrayed woeful per-
sonal misconception of the meaning
and purpose of the so-called Ache
son-Lilienthal report on interna-
tional atomic control. That trail
blazing report was never meant to
be anything more than a tentative
but indispensable start on the pro-
posals later submitted to the United
Nations by Mr.. Baruch. Yet MIR.
Taft has interpreted it as having
been naive" final plan that would
have promptly handed over the A
bomb and our related secrets to
Russia. Any one who has read the
report, or who has taken the trouble
to reread it, must regard such an
Interpretation as a distortion that
is hardly excusable.
But much more serious than this
misinterpretation is Senator Taft's
attitude toward the whole effort to
subject the atom to world control.
Apparently he thinks the Baruch
plan is not much better than the
Acheson-Lilienthal report. out of
which the plan grew. He would have
the United States Immediately with
draw 1t from the United Nations.
He would have the Army and Navy
run nuclear fission in this country.
AS for the future. he would be will
ing-on some vague and distant
date-to try to devise and negotiate
better" set of proposals. In short,
he is afraid Of action now; he wants
to do nothing but hold on indefi-
nitely to our secrets.
Unfortunately, however. Mr.. Taft
does not seem to have taken into
full account the f1eeting nature of
those secrets or the fact that every
nation of consequence-even though
we keep our knowledge completely
under wraps-very probably will be
able to produce its own A-weapons
five, ten, or fifteen years from now.
Nor does Mr.. Taft seem to have
weighed the alternatives to world
control. If we are to have no con-
troll, what must we expect? We must
expect the deadliest ornaments race
in the history of mankind-a race
that could end in an abomination
and desolation not far removed from
the annihilation of humanity. OF
course, there is another possibility.
With nuclear competition already In
full swing, but with ourselves in ex-
elusive possession of the bomb, we
could conceivably become ruthless,
amoral and frightened enough to
try to destroy all potential opposi-
tion in a forehanded preventive"
war.
To be sure, given continued Soviet
opposition to our atomic proposals,
the worst may happen. But this is
no time for Senator Taft and other
Americans of like mind to join Rus
sia-as they are now doing, in their
own fashion-in that kind of vision
less thinking that can be the death
of our civilization. 1t is much too
early to give up trying to harness
the atom for peace along the lines
of our American plan. IT there are
risks in that plan, they are as
nothing compared with the risks in
volved in the alternatives.
Evening star., 1947-04-04

Jews to their death in German torture
dungeons and gas chambers was Nazi
invention. 1t had become ingrained in
the German character through hundreds
of years, and Hitler only carried it to
its practical result. Oberammergau
could not have failed to make sub
stantial contribution to 1t.
In keeping with the attempt that Is
being made to create common brother
hood between Christian and Jew, We
should oppose every effort to revamp
the intolerant spirit which brought un-
told suffering to the Catholics in Eng
land, to the Protestants In France, and
to the Jews everywhere.
RABBI c. A. RUBENSTEIN.
Baltimore, Md.
Evening star., 1947-04-04

Ex-Mayor La Guardia may have
his faults, but once in a while he
says something signiflcant-as, for
example: II think that a work of
art should be beautiful, should in
spire instead of distress, and please
instead of arnoy."
Evening star., 1947-04-04
On Izzat, Yurt, Etc.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Proemially speaking, 1t occurs to me
that acedia is largely responsible for
the present lack of concinnity in mod
ern writing and speaking. However,
although I am somewhat of younker
in the art of phrasing sesquipedalian-
isms, I cannot let the alopecia of your
pedanticism 60 unchallenged
The reason for not using the other
398, 900 words referred to In your April
/ editorial ("Why Not Izzat?") is pri-
marily due to velleity and the fact that
improving the vocabulary encounters
the sequacious situation:
A man with pronounced lisp
learned to enunciate the sibilants in
Sister Suzy sewing shirts for soldiers"
But he later remarked, "It ith thuch
hard thententh to bring into ordinary
concentration.
Unless the newspapers of today desire
to burke the matter. it behooves We
editors to improve the rhetorical izzat
of your writers. A simple editorial
accomplishes little. Distribute thesau-
ruses to your scribes and penalize them
for failing to exercise the anathema
of reconditenesS.
With this parthian arrow, shall fold
my 'yurt' like the Arabs, and silently
steal away LARRY PORTER.
Objects to Passion Play
To the Editor ot The Star:
In your editorial News From Oberam-
mergau" you wrote with marked en-
thusiasm over the prospect of revival
of the Passion Play, which brought such
fame to that little village in the Ba-
varian Alps.
witnessed a performance in 1910 and
observed the emotional impact of the
Passion Play on the audience. Neither
I nor a Christian minister, my COM
panion, carried away the impression
that the acting was "corsecration" and
the play itself sacrament" We saw
a performance that was conducive only
to the creation of prejudice In minds
that had harbored none before and to
the revival and intensification OF re-
ligious hatreds that had perhaps lain
dormant. The story of the Crucifxion
was enacted with blood-curdling realism,
and the spectator never.was allowed to
forget its cardinal motif-that Jews
brought about the cruelties practiced on
the Christ agonizing on the cross. The
wonder to me, as well as to my COM
panion, was that some in the audience,
with the deepest emotions stirred by the
ghastly, portentous spectacle. did not
fall upon the first Jews they met in the
street and tear them limb from limb.
Surely, you do not think that the anti
Semitism which brought millions Of
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Quite q Metropolis!

From the Cleveland News.
There is talk lately in New York of
building bus terminal. and . town
that big probably could support road
shows
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Asainst Reparations for Russia

To the Editor OF The Star:
note In the press that Russia is max
ing the matter OF reparations settlement,
involving some 10 billions to her, an
essential condition to her dealings In
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
ROTARY HEARS
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industrial and agricultural in
terror of the state.
He noted that the rates for 100
pounds of tobacco from Lumber
ton to Wilmington is 10 cents, the
rate from the same leaf center
to Norfolk is IS cents, and YET
Norfolk has a practical monopoly
because "she a provide adequate
warehouse facilities and we don't
have them"
He suggested that through co.
operation with the Piedmont, their
raw materials could be shipped
out through Wilmington and their
manufactured imports also be
brought through the port.
Selling Needed
"The state is rapidly becoming
awake to the enormous potential.
ties Of Wilmington as a port
he said, and 1--WE must either
take advantage of this great asset,
by selling it statewide, or it will
decrease in use and prestige as
Charleston and Norfolk surge for.
ward"
Members of the octet, which
sang several songs including
Stout Hearted Men" and "Ken-
lucky Babe" are G. S. Blomme,
j. L. Sutton, Fred H. Smith, w.
H. Allison, G. M. Applebury, L.
]. LaSure, M. B. Wilson, and J.
H. Tillman.
Guest at the meeting, other than
the members of the octet, were
Eugene Olive. Wake Forest, J. ].
Hudiburg, Holy Ridge, and A. E.
Gibson, Jr., of Wilmington.
Next week, the club will hold
a supper meeting at the Wrights-
boro Community clubhouse as
guests of Albert Setter. This is
an annual AFFAIR.".
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
CLARK
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ers of America, for the reason
that great Britain had been Ameri-
cas- best customer through many
years and the withdrawal of Brit
ish buyers was calculated to de.
moralize prices and bring about
great distress in the tobacco
areas. They also reminded Lord
~1nverchapel of the fact that while
the British loan did not contain
definite stipulations, it wal natural
ly assumed in the tobacco growing
areas that a loan in such a large
amount would enable Great Britain
to maintain normal trade rela-
tons.
The delegation also complained
to Lord Inverchapel that the Brit
ish government had failed to give
advance notice of their intention to
drast1cally curtail the purchase of
American tobacco until after
quotas for the 1947 crop had been
proclaimed and farmers had made
their plans and that the action
taken had naturally aroused con-
siderable resentment in those
areas.
Ambassador Interested
The ambassador was quickly in
terested in this and pointed out
that it is never possible for the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to give
prior notice Of his intentions since
this would inevitably lead to de-
structive speculation on the stock
exchange.
Congressman Clark and Cooley
suggested that the Commodity
Credit corporation might enable the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
JURY TO RECEIVE

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to trial.
TWenty-one of the defendants are
charged with murder. They also
are charged with being accessory
before and after the fact and with
conspiracy to commit murder.
Seven others were acquitted of
murder and accessory after the
fact, by a directed verdict. but
remain charged with conspiracy
and accessory before the fact.
Defense Attorney Thomas Wof-
ford in conclusion, reminded the
jury suspicion. no matter how
great, is not sufficient to base a
verdict of guilty" and declared,
you are the sole. judges of the
facts and of the credibility of the
witnesses"
Wofford assaulted participation OF
the Federal Bureau of InYestiga-
tioa in the lynch probe. we get
along pretty well down here until
they start interfering with as from
Washington and the North.
IF they would sympathize with
Us instead of criticize us, we might
get along toward recovering from
the time they laid waste to this
country rs years ago." he said.
Wofford accused the FBI of be.
ing afflicted with "meddler's
Nch," and cried there's no cure
for it, except a verdict by jury OF
this kind to acquit these boys and
show them it's no use meddling il
Greenville county,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
COMMITTEE MEET
TO DRAFT PLANS
Reserve Officers Will Com.
plete 1947 Convention
Details Tonight

Final plans for the 18th annual
convention of tae North Carolina
Reserve Officers association which
will be held at Wrightsville Beach
this weekend, will be completed
tonight at a meeting of all COM
mittees in charge of arrangements,
according to Col. John Bright Hill,
president of the State association.
The convention, slated for Sat
urday and Sunday, May 1926, in
the Ocean Terrace hotel, will be
the first held by the association in
six years. None was held during
the
The meeting, too, will be the
la rgest ever held, as between 500
and 1000 members are expected to
attend, Col. Hill said. A more def
Unite number will be determined
tonight as the reservations commit
tee will make their report, he said.
Committees m a k i n 6 arrange
ments are composed of men in the
local unit of the organization, and
dlt as
Convention Committee
Conventional. Col. Henry E..
Boyd, 1t. Col. William F. Burns,
Major Hugh A. Plowden, Major
Earle B. Merrill, 1t. F. M. Nal
10y, 1t. Isaac T. Reynolds, 1t.
William F. Brooks.
Registration-Major William E.
Luck, Major Earle 3. Merrill, 1t.
Francis M. Malloy, 1t. Ernest H.
Whitaker.
Distinguished Guests-Col. An
drew H, Harriss, Jr., Col. r. S.
McClelland, Col. Beverly Snow,
Col. Lawrence L.. Simpson, 1t.
Col. Weston L. Blanchard, 1t. Col.
Henry E. Boyd, and Capt. W. S,
R. Beane.
Entertainment - Capt. 4. Law
renee Lee and Capt. Marsden Bel
lamy, Jr.
Dance-Lt. Elmer L. Mathews,
Jr., Capt. Melvin K%ester, and 1t.
L. w. Preston, Jr.
Banquet-Lt. Col. Edwin J.
Schaefer, Capt. ]. T. Dickson, and
1t. Dirk Swart.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
ROAD CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT AWARDED

RALEIGH, May 20-P-Low
bids on % road projects which
we're opened here today by the
highway commission totaled ST.
1857, 6682. sc.
A total Of 1913 contractors SUBJ
mitted bids on the projects. They
included:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, surfac-
ing and structures of 6.72 miles
OIL U. S. 258 from a point near
N. c. "a to a point near N. c. Al,
Barrus Const., Co., Kinston. Sloo,-
657.6 go.
o e Construction OF
bridges and approaches for Big
Swamp overflow and Big Swamp
main run ON N. c. I'll between
Allentown and Bladenboio, F. W.
Rrinkley, Granite Quarry, $751;
973.20.
Robson - Bituminous surface
surface treatment Of 1872 miles
or three sections of county roads
in the vicinity of Pembroke, Rem
merit and Fairmont, Zeigler-Cline
Construction CO., $40, 518.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
TO MEET AT BEACH
MAY 81 JUNE L

The state convention of the
Knights of Columbus will be held
at Wrightsville Beach on May 81
to June /, with approximately 40C
members attending, according tc
Gordon Doran, good knight of the
Wilmington council.
Featuring the banquet meeting
which will precede a dance al
Ocean Terrace hotel, convention
headquarters, will be a speech by
Joseph Lamb, supreme secretary
from New Haven, Conn. Other
featured speakers will be Francis
Heaze1, supreme treasurer of Ashe-
Vile; and Edward McHugh, SUI
'preme director.
The speech by Lamb at $3.50
Saturday night will be aired over
station WMFD, according % tenta.
tive plans, Doran said.
Convention mass will be spoken
at st. Theresa's church, Wrights-
vile on Saturday morning at
O'Clock, and the delegation will
hear Bishop Vincent Waters at
a. m. at st. Mary's church
in Wilmington Sunday.
Doran said that between 145 and
$50 new members will be initiated
into the order at 2 p. m. Sunday.
On tae committee for arrange
ments are: Doran, D.. A. Lockfall,
C. 3. Burgess, Charles Peschau,
J.. F. Gordon, Herber' Bailey,
Walter Brinker and Thomas F.
Mitchell.
Invited to attend the convention
are heads of city, state and county
offices including J. R. Benson,
Wilmington's city manager, Addi-
son Hewlett, chairman of the New
Hanover board of county commits
sioners, and Mayors Thomas
Groom, Carolina Beach, w. Ronald
Lane, Wilmington, and Sidney V,
Allen, Wrightsville Beach.