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Evening star., 1947-03-14
Closed Shop for Lawmakers?

To the Editor of The Star:
Congratulations to the Supreme Court
on its fearless decision allowing fore
mems unions to act as bargaining agents.
This is in the true American spirit of
free enterprise under law. Not even a
pedant could ask for a more perfect
example of syllogistic reasoning. It may
be concisely stated: Every employe from
the very fact of employment is required
to act in his employers interest.
Certain classes of employees are guar
anteed the right to join unions, and, if
necessary (as in the truck driver cases.
to force compliance with their demands
on the public at large. Foremen are
employees. Therefore, foremen are en-
titled to act in their employers interest,
and through their organization, to define
the extent of their actions.
The implications, if followed out,
might result in a reductio ad absurdum.
For example, the House and Senate
might organize themselves into the
United Lawmakers of America, and vote
for closed shop. They might then, by
majority vote, deny membership to men,
bers of any particular political party.
Zach house is now the judge of its own
membership Then, by majority caucus,
it would be logical to expel all members
who failed to vote according to the die
sates Of the union president. tSee UNIV
and musicians} Thus, step by step, we
could arrive at the highly desirable goal
Of ore-man Congress.
The Biblical dictum that mo man may
serve two masters" is long outworn, and
need not even be considered.
BENITO ADOLF LEWIS.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Good Ideu-for Cows

It is nice to learn that laziness
pays dividends. There is catch to
this, of course. The catch is that
laziness is virtue much to be de-
sired if you happen to. be a COW.
New York State COW experts say SO,
after long and diligent study OF
COWS that fret and cows that enjoy
life to the fullest. In other words,
there is lot to be said for that con-
tented-cow theory, after all.
Too many persons have assumed
that because a COW does not have
to bother with ilcome-taX returns,
Communists, nuclear fssion or
strikes, she perforce leads an easy
going life. Nothing to do all day
long but MUNICH grass, chew her cud,
switch flies with her tail and, come
sundoWn, give pail of milk to her
appreciative owner. Persons VINO
assume that are taking too much
for granted The experts found that
COWS have plenty of worries and
plenty of peeves. As one OF the
experts pointed out to the Metro
politan Certified Milk Producers
Association Cthe producers in this
instance being owners Of cows
rather than the cows themselves) =,
how would a human being ike to
be chained in stall all night, with
perhaps chickens rooSting on his
back and rats scurrEng around his
feet? Well, neither does a COW.
The answer to the problem is so
simple that it is wonder some
friend of the COW did not think
about it sooner It is the "loaflng
barn. sort of combination lounge
and powder room. where the girls
of the bovine family may loll
around, preen themselves and gos-
sip about the blond heifer in the
next pasture. There are no STAN
chionS, no chains. no inhibitlonS OF
any kind in a loafing barn. And
the COWS love it. Sixteen New York
farms tested the coW-restroom idea
and found that the cows were
healthier, the milk richer and the
whole barnyard atmosphere better
All of this holds true only with
respect to COWS, however. The ex-
perts have yet to devise a loafing
barn that will enable the farmer OF
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Frog at Evening

No doubt your personality
Is ntany more than t1Do times dual,
For hare seen since promised moon
Four emerald facets OF the je11eI:
A minstrel Dho ldnssnts the noe
OF ,corld since t01tery beginning,
Where all ts lost and nothing found,
And only sorrow north the winntng:
And you haze played the sad bufoon
From some lost u1o1tarch's rettnue,
With grotesque antics pied your cause,
As all poor testers sometimes do:
And you haze been buccaneer.
A bully. boisterons as they come,
Secure upon lily pad
BelIoped for one more Jug o rum
And noD, oh Buddtd, green and bronze.
Benign upon rotttng log.
Inefable, you contemplate
The liquid cosmos OF a frog.
YETzA GILLESPIE
Evening star., 1947-03-14

resolution. This accounts for the
unusually narrow margin by which
the government was sustained, the
vote on the motion of censure be-
ing defeated, 374 to 1913, while the
positive approval of the House
asked for by the government was
passed by 371 to 2O4.
The verdict of most qualified OBJ
servers is that, while the Labor gov
ernment has emerged victorious
from it's parliamentary ordeal, it
does so somewhat battered and with
its prestige definitely lowered. The
government certainly advanced no
new plans or policies beyond those
set forth in recent White Paper
and supporting announcements.
The emphasis is still on domestic
austerity and rationing, concentra-
ton on exports and efforts at in
creasing production without COM
pulsion on labor. While there may
be no practicable alternative, cur
rent discomfort will doubtless per-
sist and opposition arguments re-
main effective talking points.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
ENOUGH Rope Is Enough

1t is a bit surprising tnaI Oecre-
tarv of Labor Schwellenbach has
come out in favor of outlaWing the
Communist Party in America. He
leans toward liberalism in the best
sense. and that means he holds
everybody's civil liberties in high re-
gard. Accordingly, when he adVo-
Gates that particular group be de-
prived of part of them, he makes
news of more than passing interest.
1t is clear enough, of course, why
Mr.. Schwellenbach feels as he does.
Like nearly all the rest of US, he has
lost patience with our intellectually
devious Communicative acrobatlc
dialecticians who can adjust them
selves with the greatest of ease to
any given situation calling for a
new twist and turn in the party line.
He is sick and tired of their front
organizations, of their inflltrating
tactics, of their strident Russia-can-
do-no-wrong philosophy, and of the
whole pattern of their thought and
action. Above everything, he is
against them because they are anti
freedom, and he cannot see why we
should let them run for office when
their purpose is to destroy the Gov
eminent"
On the face of things, Mr. Schwel-
lenbach thus seems to have a good
case for outlaWing the Communists
as a political party-good enough,
indeed, to win the sympathetic in
dorsement of Attorney General
Clark. 1t is a question, though,
whether any such action-which
might we'll require a constitutional
amendments either necessary or
advisable. After all, the Communists
number fewer than 100000 in this
country. Politically speaking, as far
as the general public goes, they do
not have enough appeal to elect a
dog catcher, and their charm has not
grown with the years. On the con-
trary, the more they carry on, the
more they seem to win enemies and
influence people against themselves.
1t is doubtful that they have ever
been quite so unpopular in America
as they are now, and their near
future prospects look unrelievedly
dim.
In such circumstances. wholly
apart from constitutional considera-
tions, why bother to outlaw these
people from politics? To do so would
tend only to make them do in~their
little underground what they do in
the open now. AS things stand, they
themselves are pretty effectively
taking care of what Mr.. SchWellen-
bach wants; in a de facto sense, they
themselves are outlawing their own
party by making it offensive in the
eyes of the whole country-and ri
diculous when it is not offensive. A
strong, democratic America need not
be afraid of them. 1t need merely
keep them under reasonable watch
while letting them have enough
rope to hang themselves.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

into the Reich millions and millions of
absolutely destitute creatures-to swell
the numbers of the homeless in cities
which were half rubble from saturation
bombing. Then, in peace" came the
systematic destruction and removal of
factories in a Europe short of every
sort of capital equipment and COM
modify.
Even the largest printing plant-and
in our zone-was disrnantled perhaps
because 1t had published Nazi books
Fifteen hundred of the "best brains
British and American-sat down for
months to work out how Germany could
be reduced to the economic level of her
"neighbors." Meanwhile, Communist
governments and policies in those neigh
boring states reduced them to starva-
tion, economic standstill, and utter
squalor.
With all Europe in coal crisis, the
Ruhr slowed down because of lack of
equipment and because the miners are
too upderfed to work. Only within the
last months is it again being stood on
its feet, at q fraction of capacity. SO,
for the sake of their t1atreds, French
men--as we'll as Germans--froze, and
Dutch rebuilders of Rotterdam stood
empty-handed for lack of German ma
chinery.
Every scrap of available labor, ma
chinery, skill and organization was
needed to rebuild. rehouse and feed
devastated subcontinent. But 100000
war prisoners, most of them Europeans,
were and are-according to Soviet
statements-retained in the Soviet
Union to build an opera house in the
Buriat- -Mongol republic or branch of
the Trans-Siberian railroad.
And the people of America applauded.
Whoever opened warning mouth had
it slapped shut. I know.
Now we must rush in with a loan to
Greece. Now we must defend the East
ern Mediterranean. Now we must stop
the Soviet Union at the Dardanelles.
Yes. we must. I am not saying no.
But Europe cannot be saved from
Balkan peninsula; nor can it be saved
by loans. nor can it be rescued by the
atomic bomb. 1t can only be rescued,
if at all, by supreme act of conversion,
on the part of the American people and
their officials.
1ou CdliliOl lisilt DoioiiCFioIi Wall
loans or bombs. You can only fight a
bad idea with a better idea. and then
support that better idea with planning
and money. A better idea requires. not
a modification Of but complete break
with previous policies. 1t also requires
intelligent, penetrating knowledge of
Europe and of the constructive forces
in Europe. They are not dead, but are
dying shall. in future column,
anslyze what these constructive forces
are.
tReisased By the Bell Syndicate Inc,
Evening star., 1947-03-14

"It seems unfortunately true that the
epidemic of world lawlessness is spread
ing" said the President.
when an epidemic of physical dis
ease starts to spread, the community
approves and joins In quarantine of
the patients in order to protect the
health of the community against the
spread of the disease. -
'It ought to be inconceivable that in
this modern era and in the face of ex-
perience any nation could be so foolish
and ruthless as to run the risk of plung-
ing the whole world into war by invading
and violating in contravention of solemn
treaties the territory of other nations
that have done them no real harm and
which are too weak to protect themselves
adequately. Yet the peace of the world
and the welfare and security of every
nation is today being threatened by that
very thing"
1t sounds as though it might be
quotation from President Truman's mes
sage of Wednesday, but the words are
those of President Roosevelt, homeWard
bound after an 5000 mile tour of the
American continent, at a ceremony dedi-
eating a bridge in Chicago, october 5,
1887.
Rhineland Re0ccupied.
In the Hitler timetable it was between
reoccupation of the Rhineland March,
1880 and Anschluss-the Austrian an
nexation-( March, 1889. Goering's air
suuadrons and Mussolinis Black Arrows
were supporting the Franco insurgency
in Spain. The spotlight that week was
on the Far East. The League of Nations
at Geneva, under the presidency of the
Aga Khan, warned Japan of the possi-
bility of international action on it's inva-
sion of China and authorized the calling
nine-poWer treaty.
Then as now the country was in
terested in many things. Mr.. Roose-
velts fight to enlarge the Supreme
Court had been defeated in the last
Congress and all wondered whether 1t
would be renewed in the incoming one.
Justice Black, the new appointee, had
gone on the radio on the previous FRI
day night to assail intolerance and
explain his joining and resigning from
the Ku Klux Klan Is years before.
The CIO had just broken from the AFL.
Budget balancing and tax cuts were
out of the question, but the economy
had improved and there was to be
curtailment of WPA.
The word "quarantine"' did cause
stir. 1t is interesting to page the
files and check the response to that
startling suggestion of a change in
American policy. The Stars editorial
the next day said, "The President does
mot formally commit the country to
international action to check the
spreading epidemic of world lawlessness.
But he leaves little doubt that he is
prepared to throw the full weight of
United States influence against aggres-
sor nations that without declaration
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Nurse Qualifications

Commissioner Mason is not alone
in his criticism of proposals to
tighten up on qualifications of reg
istered nurses. A number of hos
pital officials share his belief that
the time has come to make it easier
for girls to enter the nursing pro-
fession, rather than to make it
harder for them to qualify
Yet the Nurses Examining Board,
despite the gravity of the nurse
shortage and the health crisis re-
sulting from it, recently added a re-
quirement that an applicant for
registered nurse school must have
been graduated from high school in
the top half of her class. This sub
stantially reduced the potential field
of nurse aspirants. Yet the records
show that many of the more compe-
tent graduate nurses in at least one
local hospital were in the lower half
of their high school classes.
4O 10 1llS1l1y VI tIlC
Graduate Nurses Association and
the Nurses Examining Board to
seek to maintain and improve the
standards of the nursing profession
by every reasonable means. Grad
uate nurses have become, in effect,
physicians assistants, intrusted
with responsibilities which vitally
affect the welfare of their patients.
The nurses consequently should be
carefully selected and thoroughly
trained. 1t is yet to be demon
strated, however, that a nurse who
may have Jagged behind some of
her classmates in scholastic stand
ing would not serve as efficiently as
one with a better high school
record.
The dearth of nurses is so critical
that the public interest would seem
to require reconsideration of
nurses qualifications at this time
even if only as a means of tenn
porary relief for the hard-put hos
pitfalls. And a supplementary meas
ure should be a broader program
for training practical nurses for
hospital service.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Letters to The Star
Iso1ationism Plays Into Hands
of Russians, He Warns


of Russians, He Warns
To the Editor of The Star:
Surely the peoples of Russia are hu-
man enough to desire freedom. And
surely, such desire among the Russians
is the hope and opportunity of world
democracy in its anxious seeking of
the road away from war.
We can, If we choose, bargain in a
big way with the spokesmen of the Rus
slams We can offer immense supplies
of tempting consumer goods-the goods
which mean most to the peoples of
Russia-in return for the Russian gov
ernment's granting its peoples the SIM
Pile, elementary freedom of intercourse
with us and the outside world.
BY thus bargaining with Russia's
spokesmen, and bargaining in such loud
voice that all Russia's peoples hear us,
Russias rulers could not easily hold
out against us-and against the peoples
they are even now finding some difficulty
in holding in physical and mental bond
age.
If this is not our greatest opportunity,
where, then, can opportunity be found?
And what can we expect, except what
came upon the world through the blind
ed German people?
If, instead of exploiting this oppor-
tunity for all it is worth, we take tenn
porary refuge in some sort of isolation-
ism, then the iron curtain will stretch
and grow. And the peril likewise will
grow of 'curtaias' for democracy every
where. BOILING SOMERVILLE.
Norwood, Va.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
This and That
BIZ Charles E. TraceWeU

That first robin
At this writing no one had seen him
yet, but quick-eared lady over on
Macarthur boulevard heard him.
That was about March 10, and the
chances are he was one of the half
dozen or so robins which live in and
around Rock Creek Park all winter.
Then an astute young fellow from
Manassas, Va, whom we will call jim
mie, wrote as follows:
please put my colnmn in the paper.
THE other day I saw a robin.
HE was flying around my feeding
station.
II wondered if he wanted to eat
Then I got my answer. He started
to eat.
after he ate he flew away. I did
not see him any more"
Everybody loves that first robin.
The point is, however, that far too
many persons forget about him later
We were particularly pleased that the
woman heard the first robin over on
Macarthur boulevard.
More people ought to listen for these
birds.
And they ought to keep on listening
all spring and summer long, for there
is no finer music.
The robin belongs to the group of
birds which has such fine singers as
the wood thrush and the hermit thrush
as members
Young robins even have spots on their
breasts, just as the thrushes do.
So make no mistake about the robin
being worth listening to.
His song is of the essence of the
outdoors 1t is not as beautiful as the
melody, but it is mighty pleasant to
hear
But it has way of losing itself in
the general hum of the outdoors: that
is why we advise every one to become
robin-song conscious.
Once its flowing type Of song is got
in the ear as well as in the mind, it
will never be lost.
And then one will have pleasant
possession, always at hand, or should
we say at ear?
Anyway, the hearing is the thing.
Let us get away from this idea, too
common. that it is only the first robin
We should be interested In.
1t is fun to see him, that first robin
but Just as pleasurable to see the second,
and the third, and to see the others
all summer.
IN fact, the last robin, too is some
thing.
A robin is a good bird wherever and
whenever you see him. The American
world has agreed on that for long
time Perhaps it is the only thing our
world does agree ON.
Robins arc standards of measurement,
for one thing.
A strange bird is either smaller or
larger than robin.
Another standard is, of course, the
English sparrow.
When we want to find out what a
stranger in the yard is, we tell some
one else we hope will know that the
| newcomer was as large as sparrow,
or even smaller than a sparrow"
Our American robin is actually not a
robin at all, but thrush.
re is q friendly fellow, whose chill
dren are forever falling out of nests,
since these are none too well made.
More baby robins are raised by hand
than any other species.
They respond nicely to treatment,
and become very friendly, and signify
their interest later by returning every
spring for long time.
Lily Belle, our own pet robin, has
been coming back for six years, now,
| If she returns this month.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
She Fears Preparedness

To the Editor of The Star:
Does it not seem strange that the men
elected by our people to represent them
in Congress should not want to do what
their constituents send them to WASH
ington to do?
AS I understand it, our people are op-
posed to peacetime military training.
We are positively and absolutely set
against future war and therefore we are
against any preparation for a possible
future war.
We want our representatives in both
houses of Congress to work for peace and
to refuse to vote to prepare for war. We
want them to work for disarmament and
peace.
We want them to understand that the
security obtained by general disarma-
ment is far greater than the "protection"
offered by armaments. Experience has
proved that armaments are for destruc-
ton, not protection, and that the arma-
ments of an enemy can kill our people
and desolate our land as effectively as
our armaments can destroy them. The
attitude back of armaments is crush or
oe crushed. Is that the attitude which
will lead to "a just and lasting peace?
Our Congress has voted our country
into membership in the United Nations
which is supposed to reduce to a mini
mum the threat of war and to promote
peace. If peacetime conscription should
be approvedsit would be tantamount to
telling the world that our faith in the
U. N. is nil.
Governments have not progressed NOR
ally; they have rather retrogressed for
they are today planning to kill off fellow
human beings in larger numbers than
ever before and with greater ease by
more terrible weapons.
This problem of world peace is strictly
psychological. Military training is train
ing for war which is exactly what we,
the people, do not want. We are worn
out and disguised with the very thought
OF war and its long drawn out frightful
aftermath. Why not train our young
people for peace? Instruct them how
peace can be maintained. There is time
enough before another world war can be
plotted and planned.
BY opposing any bill for peacetime
conscription our Senators and Repre-
sentatives would take decisive step of
progress toward security, sanity and
world peace. Build friendships, not
Warships, for national defense"
LYDIA G. WENTWORTH.
Brookline Mass.
Evening star., 1947-03-14

From a Policeman's Widow
To the Editor of The Star:
have been trying for some time to
find adequate words to express my graf
itude and deep appreciation to The Star,
to the entire police force, and to the
many others who have given me such
generous financial aid and sympathetic
understanding since the sudden death
of my beloved husband, Richard H.
Taylor.
Without the help of these many
friends, do not believe my family and
I could have carried on, and I should
like to express to each and every one,
through The Star, my heartfelt thanks
for all that has been done for us.
O. MYRTLE TAYLOR.
Editors Note: Policeman Taylor was
fatally shot last December by a 14-year-
old boy whom he sought to arrest. Many
readers of The Star contributed to a
fund which The Star turned over to the
bereaved family
Evening star., 1947-03-14

the farmers wife to relax and forget
the chores without resultant chaos
"a chaos that would be extremely
upsetting to contented cows, among
other things.
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Stock Market Mixed;
Some IndustriaIs
And Rails Improve
By Victor Eubonk
Associated Press FinoneioI Writer


NEW YORK, July 22.-Buyers
liked selected rails and industrials
in today's stock market. but con-
tinued to avoid many leaders.
1t was another one of the slow
sessions of the month. Carriers came
to the fore after Slightly uneven
opening. While favorites held gains
of fractions to a point or so near
the fourth hour. top marks were re-
duced and numerous losers persisted
Bidding in the transportation Sec
ton was predicated partly on the
thought that this group still was
behind" the market. Good revenue
statements and hopes for boosted
rates were helpful. Imitation think
ing remained as stimulant for
individual issues. Commitments were
trimmed because of the belief a
real technical correction had yet to
appear.
Rising tendencies were exhibited
by Southern Pacific, as this roads
engineers strike was settled; South
ern Railway, Chesapeake g. Ohio,
Illinois Central, Gulf Mobile & Ohio
Bethlehem, Standard Oil New Jer-
sey) (at 1947 peak, General Mo-
tors, International Harvester, Boe-
ing, Kennecott and Electric Power
& Light.
John R. Thompson COMMON
slipped following an omitted divi-
dend. On the downside most of the
time were Goodyear, Goodrich, Mon
santo Chemical, Du Pont, Dow
Chemical, Union Carbide, Deere,
American Smelling, Philip Morris,
Texas Co., Sears Roebuck and Mont
gomery Ward
Bonds were uneven,
Evening star., 1947-07-22
Eyrie Of Unknown Tribe
Found in South Africa

The mountain eyrie Of an un-
known native tribe has been dis
covered in the Drakensberg area of
South Africa near one Of the largest
Natal vacation resorts, Durham re-
ports. In consists Of group of
caves and lookout post bearing
evidence Of having been inhabited
about rs years ago, but nobody
knows who these now extinct dem
liens were.
One inner cave appears to be
fathomless. Natives refuse to 60
near the place. One theory is that
the caves were q last refuge Of the
Bushmen, another that they were
used by Bantu fleeing from the
brutal regimes of the old Zulu kings.
Albert van der Reit Of Cathedral
Peak has been told by natives that
a tribe of cannibals once inhabited
the area.