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Evening star., 1947-03-24
The Greenery Problem

Food Is an important matter, but
the countryman does not want it
thought that he is fussy about it.
He is merely particular. However,
a perusal of contemporary home
magazines and the food pages OF
the papers leads him to the con-
clusion that the time has arrived
when men must get together and
take firm stand on a pressing
problem. The matter OF greenery
masquerading as grub has gone far
enough. It is getting so that every
time a man has a steak or chop
or a dish of good plebian mashed
potatoes set before him, he has to
spend a quarter hour picking off
the parsley.
Now there is nothing wrong with
parsley as such. If the women folks
want to eat the European am
miaceous aromatic garden herb
there is nothing in our form of
representative democratic govern
ment to prevent them. If they want
to chop up Petroselinum hortense
and use 1t in soups and stews that
is o. Xii they do not use too
much. One readily comedies that
on the basis of available evidence
green feed is good for cows, chick
ems and rabbits. Who is homo
sapiens to insist that what is good
for his animals is not beneficial to
him?
But it is being overdone. A mess
Of lettuce leaves and gelatinous
matter topped with a red cherry,
and the whole smeared with whipped
cream or some form OF dressing,
is not grub. When a man snaps
his teeth together on a mouthful
he has to be careful of his bridge
work. This Nation was built from
a wilderness on honest food. Per-
haps it is too much to expect very
often platter of fried salt pork,
milk gravy and boiled potatoes.
Dried apple pies and triple layer
chocolate cakes have gone out of
fashion. Homemade bread and
fried mush have joined fringe
topped buggies and high-button
shoes. But if all good men will
come to the aid of the cause there
is a fighting chance of stopping
this greenery business before it goes
too far.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Fall of Yenun

The Chinese Minister of Informa-
ton seems guilty of slight exag-
geration in suggesting that the fall
of Communist Yenan may be re-
garded as "the turning point" in
China's civil war.
Actually, capture of the city by
Generalissimo Chiang's Nationalist
forces comes as no surprise. Bombed
out by the Japanese during the war,
it has been stripped of everything
movable by the Chinese Com
munists, who began evacuating it
weeks ago. There is no reason to
suppose that they will not head
quarter themselves in new place
in Manchuria and continue operat-
ing against the Nationalist govern
ment from there. In a military
sense, therefore, Yenan in Chiang's
hands seems to have no great sig
nificance.
Yet the fall of the place has a
certain symbolical and psychologi-
cal Importance. The city has been
the capital of the Chinese Com
munists for years past-the foun-
tainhead of their resistance. The
top Communist leaders may not be
greatly depressed by the fact that
the Nationalist government now has
it, but their rank-and-f1le followers
especially those who have looked
upon Yenan as the brain and nerve
center of the cause-may well be
disheartened by it. If Chiang's
forces cannot be stopped here, how
can they be stopped anywhere, and
what good is it to continue the
struggle if all that can be done is
to retreat?
Questions of this sort must occur
to more than a few Chinese. Yenan's s
capture does not promise an early
Evening star., 1947-03-24
On the Record
By Dorothy Thomson

have an anonymous communication
from person in California who writes:
Russia cannot collect cash in Ger
many for even part of the willful
damage Germany inflicted There
fore, her demand for labor in lieu of
cash is justifable, and only can other
wise be considered by biased and
distorted mind Would you be so con-
cerned if the tables were reversed and
those horrid Bolshies were made to
work Cat forced labor?
The correspondent does not give his
name or address, but his letter deserves
public reply.
Answer to direct question should be
exactly as concerned If "the tables were
reversed"
am concerned in principle. The lack
of principle in practically every measure
designed or taken for the peace concerns
me most OF all.
When wars are lost it is customary for
the victors to charge reparations against
the losers. When the loser Is the aggres-
sor, reparations are just. But justice
also demands that reparations should be
justly distributed among the defeated
people. ,
Following this war, the victors have
collected reparations by force against
individuals. Property has been taken
from some persons and not from others,
or from the community as whole.
But of all reparations taken, the worst
is the taking of men in slavery.
These have, in fact, been taken regard
less Of their individual behavior in rela-
ton to Naziism. The choice has been
made according to age, health, working
capacity. and whether-as prisoners
they were In the hands of the slave
owners. These men, two years after
the war, are separated from their fami-
lies, denied the most primary human
rights and needs, kept in penal camps,
and maintained on bare subsistence or,
falling beneath it, allowed to perish.
To this, one has got to say either a
yes or a no.
do not say no out Of pity for the
Germans"
I say no because am an American
and believe in American principles.
The Soviet Union not only has taken
such slave labor from Germany and
German satellites who committed ag-
gression against her.
From Poland she removed TO slave
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Progress in japan
BY David laurence
From the Montreal Star.

From the Montreal star.
The Japanese people, who were ex-
pected to commit suicide in millions as
Allied soldiers landed on their shores,
have shown little or no resentment at
any time against their conquerors. Freed
of fear of police punishment of inde-
pendent thinking, they have shown some
capacity for criticism Of the Emperor
and the government. General Mac
Arthur does not claim that democracy
has been established. 1t is not so easy
as that. He believes that, in view OF the
aptitude the Japanese have shown in
learning the first lessons OF democracy,
bayonet control is neither necessary nor
helpful. Their change Of heart he calls
a spiritual revolution, and it Is indeed
that If he is correct in all his conclu-
sions.
Japan is, as General Macarthur points
out, still under virtual economic block
ade, which can only be lifted when a
peace treaty is signed. The sooner stable
conditions of trade are restored, the
more likely it will be there will be no
need to do more than watch, control.
and guide as Japan works out her own
xaJvati0p
Evening star., 1947-03-24
News From Oberummerquu

The Associated Press reports that
first steps are being taken toward
the revival of the Passion Play at
Oberammergau. Scores of candi-
dates for the hundred name" parts
in the worlds most notably famous
religious drama are practicing in
the little Bavarian village. This
summer they will present "The
Prodigal Son." Actors who appear in
1t will have good chance to be
elected to roles in the grander spec
tacle proposed for 1850.
An English newspaperman-Wil-
liam T. Stead, lost in the sinking OF
the Titanic in 1912-was responsible
for much of the celebrity which the
greatest of surviving Passion repre-
sentations by living performers has
won. He visited the tiny town in
the Kofel Mountains late in the
nineteenth century and wrote from
his own observation and experience
the standard guide" to the produc-
tions OF 1900 and 1910. A missionary
of a sort himself, he employed his
genius with words to arouse the
curiosity of thousands of people in
Britain and America. Not all OF
his audience made pilgrimage to
Oberammergau, but enough of it did
to guarantee success beyond the
dreams of the native community.
The achievement, however, never
was merely a tourists festival. So
compelling is the power of the
story, especially when it is enacted
by individuals who have qualified
themselves by the conservation Of
their whole lives, that the Passion
Play becomes a dedication-a sac
rament almost-for those who see
and hear it done, The drama begins
at eight in the morning and con-
tinues with only one brief interm1s-
sion for eight hours. Eighteen acts
and twenty-four tableaux are in
cluded in the Daisenberger text. No
wigs or facial makeup are permitted.
The players literally must 'look"
the characters they assume. They
are woodcarvers, small farmers,
dairy hands, shopkeepers in their
routine careers.
1t was in 1884 that the custom
OF offering the story of the last days
Evening star., 1947-03-24

labor penal camps no less than $780,
900 civilians and prisoners of war She
worked them under conditions no diff
ferent from those of German penal
camps, except that there were no gas
chambers and sanitary conditions were
worse.
These are facts, for which an i'm
mense amount of sworn evidence ex-
lists, taken from the testimony of those
repatriated when Russia became a
Polish "ally"
The crime of slavery was charged
against the representatives of the Ger
man state in Nuremberg.
A crime is either a crime or not a
crime. If it is crime, it is crime
by whomever committed. The Nuern-
berg indictment did not permit argu-
ments Of extenuating circumstances. 1t
was described as the beginning of new
international law. But If the prose-
cutors indulge in the crimes Of which
they indicted the defendants, no law is
established and the avowed purpose of
the trial fails.
Human slavery prejudices the lives
OF free workers everywhere. "A nation
cannot endure half slave and half free"
said Lincoln. If Eincoln was right, 1t
must be emphatically rejected that any
good can accrue to Russian workers by
the presence in their country of 5,O0O,-
600 imported slaves
X ~
That the same persons who believe
that prosperous America depends on
mass purchasing power can argue that
the world economy is aided by depriving
10000 900 Germans, 10000, 900 Japanese
and some 40,000,000 German satellites
of all purchasing power, is an aero
battles Of logic am unable to follow.
The use of slave labor by state
claiming to be the Mecca Of the work
ers of the world" blows that claim into
thin air.
The incompatibility of the Soyiets
appealing in Germany for their work
ers' state" while they draft German
workers into slavery is unrecognizable
only by the Seryile.
It Is my correspondent, submit,
whose mind is distorted. He should re-
examine the terrible implications of
what he advocates, not for the sake
Of the Germans, but for his own sake,
and the sake Of his children.
released By The Bell Syndicate. Ins.)
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Harvest Years
These are the harvest years. the hout

These are the harpest years, the hours
bright
As Ieapes to1sic1l hang apon ths maple
tree
In Autumn-and each Delpet night
Soft with tulfllment and the certainty
That all of sorroa1 ends, the joyous field
Gipes up the treasure that the years
haze SCUM
RslinQuishing the bnroeon OF It's yield:
The Uine is mellon, noao the heart has
gros0n
To taste the flavor In its heady rest
And, quietly to sit and dream. to hold
No bitterness for failure and the rest
OF sharp aduersity-the days are gold
Though Time DiH spend them faster
than you think
Gtue thanks, and tut the chalice up.
and drink
LUCILLE q. JACKSON.
Evening star., 1947-03-24

of the Saviour in dramatic form
at Oberammergau was started. A
mysterious plague was decimating
the village, and the first production
of the Passion Play was, in effect,
an appeal for mercy. Something of
the same inspiration may be felt
now among the descendants of the
original actors. Their little town
was not wrecked in the Second
World War, but in common with
millions everywhere they dread the
danger of third.
Evening star., 1947-03-24

Hollywood makeup men, who help
glamorize feminine stars, think they
should be eligible for an academy
award. If so, how about the BARRIERS
who enhance the beauty of the
dreamboys of the bobby -soxers?
Evening star., 1947-03-24

end to the tragic civil war. But to
the extent that it makes Communist
resistance seem increasingly inef-
fective, it can have q meaningful
effect on morale.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Note on $500 Wheat

To the Editor of The Star:
The good news Of our bumper wheat
crop is eclipsed by the bad news that
the farmers who produced it, or the
commission merchants who sell it, are
going to make hungry if not starving
world pay So bushel for it or go
without. That is tops" for hundred
years. with one exception.
Three dollar wheat at such a time as
this is sure to make the welkin ring
again with bitter cries of "Uncle Shy
lock"
It would be foolish to expect people
who are fighting for their very ex-
istence to listen to our talk OF good
neighbor," or the superiority Of the
American way of life or any other
of our favorite themes 20 long as we
offer them s. wheat when we know
they haven't what 1t takes to pay
cash for 50 wheat, dr even far cheaper
wheat. KATHERINE AUBREY.
Evening star., 1947-08-02
War Materials
Continued From First Page

dorf said that the plant had "close
ties" with another Askania unit in
the Russian sector and under Sow
let control.
The American order against
Askania made front page news in
the Berlin press. Russian-controlled
newspapers printed the United States
announcement but deleted the phrase
which said the plants were producing
for a foreign power.
Large quantities of war material
were found secreted in stockpiles IN
the two factories.
An Allied Control Authority law
aimed at demilitarizing Germany
forbids German manufacture, trans
portation or storage of war ma
teriak. violators are subject to the
death penalty. An AMG statement
said it may take week to determine
if the law was violated.
1t was pointed out that Berlin Is
an island in the Soviet zone Of
Germany and that to move goods
through the Soviet zone would re-
quire a Soviet license.
Submarine Periscopes Found.
semi-completed gyroscope motors
used in aircraft, submarines and
tanks. wings and body parts Of Link
trainers, theodolites for use In OBJ
serving the trajectories Of guided
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Shark Caught in Potomac Net
Ruled Harmless but Rure

He said, however, he felt safe In
saying that water enthusiasts need
have no fear In meeting man.
eating sharks in Southern Mary
land waters.
DR.. Truitt described the great
white shark as uncommon anywhere.
Their habitat is the temperate
and tropical zones of the Atlantic
but they are rare even in those
regions" he said.
DR.. Samuel F. Hildebrand, senior
ichthyologist with the Interior De-
partment's Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice. said a 600-pound shark, appar-
emily q great white shark, was re-
ported caught August 6, 1887. near
Galesville, Nd. and in July Of the
same year a 400-pounder was cap
tured in the Chesapeake Bay.
The white shark and the hammer
head were the only important men,
bers of the shark family whose ap-
pearance in Chesapeake Bay he
could recall.
John c. Pearson. director Of the
aquarium in the Commerce Build
ing, pointed out that althoug many
sharks might be termed "mar1-eat-
ers" because Of their size, ana
there have been apparently authen-
tic cases Of sharks attacking swim
mers, the fish Is naturally normally
tirnid and easily frightened.
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Boys of Roman Choir Astonish
Elders in Devourinq u. S. Food

The novelty Of American food is
Of paramount appeal to the "a boys.
ranging in age from to IA, who are
members Of the Roman choir which
will give a concert at 8 pm. tomor-
row in Griffith Stadium.
The youngsters weren't around
yesterday when the Right Rev. Msgr.
Licinio Refice. composer, conductor
and leader Of the choir. received the
key to the City of Washington on
the steps Of the District Building.
The boys had been left In New York
to recover from their trip from italy
TO the well-fed New World, and only
20 of the 30 adult voices were pres
ent.
Outeat Elders.
But according to vladimir Lub-
arsky, impresario for the group. the
eating of the children "is terrific +"
Through an interpreter he told re-
porters that none Of us men can
keep up with them. They haven't
seen such food before"
He, too, rolled his eyes when asked
about American food. He hadn't
eaten any hot dogs yet, he said, but
had sampled the food which you
don't know what goes into it,
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Speeiei Dispoteh 10 The Stor

CHAPEL POINT, Md. Aug. q
The shark caught In a seine IN
Southern Maryland today was ten
tatively identified as harmless but
rare specimen of the shark family:
DR.. r. v. Truitt. director OF the
State Department Of Research and
Education, said he believes the
9-foot, 4O0-pound shark caught In
the Potomac River near here Mon
day was of the species known as
great white. shark.
Fish of this type also are called
man caters DR.. Truitt said. But
there is nothing IN the record to
indicate that a shark OF this kind
has ever attacked human"
He said he believed the shark S
reported attempt to attack Meyer
Swami of Issue, Nd, and his three
man crew Of colored men when
hauled alongside the boat was in
reality q desperate attempt to es-
cape the fishermen's net.
Dr.. Truitt's Identification was
made in q telephone conversation
from his laboratory at Solomons
Island. He based his decision on a
description of the flsh taken from
q photograph published in yester-
DAVIS Star and from verbal descrip-
tion by persons who have seen the
fsh.
Evening star., 1947-08-02

This, 1t developed. was hamburger.
The group, known as the Roman
Singers of Sacred Music, Is drawn
from the four Vatican choirs. Their
concert tomorrow is the first of more
than 100 they plan to give In the
United States and Canada.
A crowd of about 100 persons
watched Geoffrey Thornett, Sec
retary of the Board of District Com
missioners and official representative
OF the city for the occasion, welcome
the singers to the Capital.
Entertained at Reception.
Antonio Dazzi, Italian Embassy
attache. welcomed them in the name
Of the Italian Ambassador.
Then they treated the spectators
to a special version of the Ave
Maria arranged by their leader.
Their concert tomorrow is being
sponsored by the Lido Civic Club,
which entertained them yesterday
afternoon at a Mayflower Hotel
reception.
One member Of the group is
Franco Pima. nephew of Enzio
Pima. famed Metropolitan Opera
Company basso.
Evening star., 1947-08-02
1.-Two D. T.. Guardsmen
Are Commissioned as
Camp Training Nears

The District NATIONAL Guard. units
of which will leave for Fort Meade
tomorrow for summer training, last
night saw two Of its members raised
from the enlisted ranks to second
lieutenants.
They were the first enlisted men
to win commissions in the recently
reactivated National Guard here.
The new officers are Nelson O..
Rima, BOT Flower avenue, Takoma
Park, Md, and Frank Eutemark,
1140 North Vermont street, Airing
ton, Va.
1t. Rima Is a former first sergeant
and combat veteran. He served
with the 104th Ordnance Company
of the 10Th Division, and now is
manager Of veterans housing at the
University of Maryland. 1t. Eute-
mark is former staff sergeant now
employed in the Veterans Admin
istration.
Their bars were pinned on at the
National Guard Armory by 1t. Col.
George o. Weber. commanding off,
Ger Of the 163d Military Police
Battalion.
The M. p. unit and the 260th
Antiaircraft Group. another local
National Guard outfit, are scheduled
to leave tomorrow morning for Fort
Meade, where they will take part
in summer training activities until
August II.
Other District Guard units are
scheduled to train at Andrews Field
during the summer, while Maryland
Guardsmen will 60 through maneu-
verS at Camp Richie.
Evening star., 1947-08-02

atomic circles in the U. N. specu-
lated that the second report would
be approved by a 10-to-0 vote as
was the first. Russia and Poland
abstained on the final vote on the
first report, which contained the
general framework for an atomic
control treaty, and Russia and the
United States still are far from
agreement on fundamentals.
Some of the major points OF the
papers were:
i. The international control
agency must hold atomic source ma
terial, nuclear fuel and dangerous
facilities in trust, without power to
sell them. Nations or persons should
not own atomic source material, nus
clear fuel or dangerous facilities.
2. The agency should limit ma
tional research and development
activities only so far as security re-
ouirements demanded.
3. The agency must keep up with
the latest developments in the atom
ic field.
The agency should have wide
powers of inspection, by plane and
other means, but these powers
should have some limits yet to be
decided.
$ An atomic treaty should carry
the principle that comparable ma
tionsl deposits of atomic-bearine
ores throughout the world shoule
be used up proportionately so that
one nation would not gain an ad-
vantage,
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Kon Tiki
Continued From First Page.)

followed us for q long time, also
great fiocks of birds.
The island continued visible from
the raft until $50 and from the
mast for two hours more.
Now that we are In the heart Of
the archipelago, we are having some
difficulty keeping q constant look
out for new land which can arrest
the Kon-Tik westward drift.
Cross currents are strong and
treacherous and the raft is subject
to considerable side drift, since the
ropes which hold the centerboards
in place under water all broke dur
ing the recent four-day storm when
winds reached . peak of 2,700 feet
a minute. Underwater repairs are
impossible. since We are still fol-
lowed closely by sharks.
Otherwise, both raft and crew are
in excellent condition.
We have checked all the ropes
holding the main logs together,
holding the mast and the cabin, in
case we have to run ashore amid
breakers. We have also improvised
an anchor out Of heavy scrap lashed
to q rope. We have no doubt that
somewhere in this group Of ato,ls
we are bound to come across an
island SO placed that current and
wind will permit us to make the
shore.
Meanwhile, six coconuts are now
sprouting green leaves, q calabash
and our last potato are in the sun
on deck, waiting to be planted on
the soil OF Polynesia as the followers
of Tiki. the sun god, planted the re-
main6ers of their supplies when
their voyage ended about the year
400.
Evening star., 1947-08-02
EXCL in 500, 900 Suit Says
lowe! Was Left in Stomach
Rx tha Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. "A veteran
who charged an Army surgeon left
a hand towel in his stomach after
an abdominal operation filed suit
Yesterday in Federal Court for $780,
900 damages from the Government.
Arthur K. Jefferson of Joppa, Md,
said after an operation at the Fort
Belvoir Hospital in Virginia, July 3,
1945, he suffered intense pain,
jaundice and nausea"
Mr.. Jefferson's suit alleged a towel
marked ~. S. Medical Department
was removed from his stomach IN
q second operation.
The veteran said he was dis
charged January 9, 1916, and since
then has been unable to eat or
digest his food properly. He con-
tended the towel 80 distorted and
injured" his abdomen it required
removal of a part of his small in
testines.
MIR. Jefferson's complaint omitted
the name of the surgeon he charged
with failure ito use due and proper
skill"
Evening star., 1947-08-02
Liverpool Shops, Synagogue
Damaged; Glasgow Suffers

LIVERPOOL, England, Aug. J
R.-Tension mounted in Liverpool
today as red-painted anti-semitic
signs appeared near the docks and
Jewish shopkeepers' windows in sew
eral sections Of the city were
smashed. Windows of a synagogue
also were broken.
The incidents apparently reflected
resentment over the hanging OF two
British army sergeants by Jewish
underground members in Palestine
this week.
Police received an emergency call
from a Jewish doctor who said he
had been assaulted tn a cafe. Squad
cars cruised city streets, but no
arrests were made, police said.
In Glasgow bricks were thrown
through ii shop windows in the
Jewish quarter. Police OF that Scot
tish city arrested one man on
charges of breaking window.