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Evening star., 1947-04-06

PLANNED 10 get what Joy they could
from what promised to Be ! drab
Easter parade.
The more than 1000 bels Of Rome,
from the tiny ones Of half hidden
converts to the deep throated
bronzes 81 the great st. Peters
Basilica, tolied the coming Of East
er eve today.
Services were being held IN most
of the city's 400 churches, and will
be climaxed tomorrow with the
pontifical mass at st. Peters, at
which Federico Cardinal Tedeschini,
archpriest Of the Basilica. Will ofi-
ciate. II.
In Moscow. the Rev. g. Al La
berge, American pastor Of the
Evening star., 1947-04-06

ism, thousands 81 pilgrims con-
vereed for services marking cne Of
Christendom1 holiest days
Day-long Anglican services were
planned In st. Pauls Cathedral IN
London.
In many OF Europe's cities and
towns, children who should by time
honored custom be hunting for East
Eer eggs instead will wall for more
food.
In Britain, even the iowly potato
was scarcity. Many Britons saved
their weeks meat ration-28 cents
worth-for their Easter dinners.
In Berlin, people who counted
themselves lucky to get their al
loted 1850 calories of food 4 day
Evening star., 1947-04-06
orthodox, Syrian, coptic, Armenian
Jacohite and Abyssinian faiths.
E0ster Offers Respite
From Europes 5 Woes
BY fhs Associused Pres,

BY fhs Assoeiused Press
LONDON. April 5.-Europeans
prepared TO celebrate the rites OF re-
surrection in the Protestant and
Catholic Churches and Cathedrals
Of their ravaged continent tomor-
row.
The joyous religious observances
offered . respite from the economic
woes which gripped Europe.
In Rome, the capital of Catholic
Evening star., 1947-04-06
Col. Dewitt to Speak

Col. Peyton q. Dewitt, adiutant
general OF the District National
Guard, viii address q meeting Of the
Washington Automotive Trade As
sociation at pm. tomorrow at the
Hotel 2400, after d dinner at $50
pm. There also viii be q report
BY d special committee on 9 plan
whereby members may purchase IN
surance for their employees through
the association.
Evening star., 1947-04-06

Roman Catholic Church 81 st. Louis
sof the French, planned three East-
or masses. He said French Foreign
Minister Bidsult was planning to
attend.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Treatment of Degenerates
Psychiarist Believes More Than Half Can Be Cured If
They Are Given Proper Care
Bv Miriam OHenbere

Week after week, men come into Municipal
Court to answer charges of molesting chill
dren, indecent exposure or other abnormal
acts of a sexual nature.
Right now their punishment is light fine
or a short jail sentence. In a few months,
they are again free to go on as before.
To deal with this problem, the United States
Attorney is preparing statute aimed at giving
washington much if not more protection
than other communities The proposed statute
would combine long terms in Jail with the pos
sibility OF mental treatment for these offenders.
The question is whether there is any chance
of curing these men of the strange mental
quirks that lead them to molest children or
otherwise conduct themselves ndecently If
they can be cured, the danger of their presence
in the community would be permanently re-
moved.
Some psychiatrists say the problem is hope
less, but there are others who have treated
these men and say some Of them can be cured
One such psychiatrist is DR.. Benjamin Karp-
man. who has turned the bright light of psy-
choanalysis on these offenders for % years as
st. Elizabeths Hospital psychiatrist. He is
author of several books and numerous articles
on the subject and is considered one of the
best-informed men in the country on the
AS DR.. Winfred Overholser, superintendent
of st. Elizabeths Hospital, points out, some of
the psychiatrists who have dismissed these
cases as hopeless have never tried to treat
them Dr. Karpman has worked with them
and has had successes.
On the basis of his own past experiences as
well as those of other psychiatrsts whose work
he has studied, Dr. Karpman says the chance
of curing these men Is better than so per cent.
Another Is per cent, in Dr. Karpman's
opinion will be improved.
AS for the remaining Is per cent or more,
both DR.. Overholser and Dr. Karpman feel that
if they cannot be cured they are potentially
dangerous and should remain In mental hos
ptals.
Offenders Mentally Ill.
The law looks on these men as criminals and
the proposed new statute also would hold them
legally responsible for what they do.
But Dr. Karpman believes that these men
are also mentally i'll. On that point, the Dis
trtct Medical Society agrees. 1t is on the
question of cures that unanimity is lacking.
DR.. Karpman puts 1t this way:
THE chances of treatment are good and bad.
They are bad If the so-called sex psychopath
is urged to come of his own accord for treat
ment AS a rule, he is 50 we'll fixed in his
perversion that he has no desire to change.
THE chances for treatment are good when
the man Is under pressure-for instance, when
he is caught in the meshes Of the law and
there is hanging over him the possibility OF a
long sentence"
He added, however, that as soon as the
threat of sentence is removed the man often
stops the treatment
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Two-Wuy Cooperation Needed

Now that everybody has agreed to CO.
operate, all that remains to insure success
of the new plan for hospitalizing certain
drunks is liberal application of common,
sense on the part of the police in screening
potential patients. Although Commis
sioner Mason seems to have been con-
cerned chiefly with the degree of Health
Department co-operation-a concern which
was dissipated at yesterdays get-together
at the District Building-the real burden
of cooperation rests on the precinct
police If the man on the beat or the
officer in the precinct station fails to use
his head in selecting subjects for medical
examination, the efforts of hospital au
thorities to cooperate will be nullified.
If Gallinger Hospital, already operating
at maximum capacity in most depart
ments, should be swamped with prisoners
of the "just plain drunk" variety, the
hospital observation plan will fall Of its
own weight The consignment last week
end of twenty-five cases of acute alcohol
ism was about all the hospital could handle
ut one time. That the police used dis
elimination R picking these patients is
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Crisis in kushmir

1t is melancholy commentary on the
present state Of this troubled world that
the Vale of Kashmir, one of earth's famed
beauty spots, should be engulfed in the
wave of fanatical strife which appears to
be engulfing the vast Subcontinent OF
India.
,Kashmir, once famed for the exquisite
shawls favored by our great-grandmothers
lies at the northwest corner of India under
the shadow of the mighty Himalayas The
heart of the country is the Vale, broad
and well-watered valley ringed on every
side with lofty mountains. Its only year.
round outlet is westward into the MoSlem-
populated region, today politically inde-
pendent as the new state of Pakistan, and
the bulk of Kashmir's 1000, 900 inhabitants
are likewise Moslems. The normal orien-
tation OF Kashmir would, therefore, seem
to be toward incorporation with Pakistan.
However, this trend is crosscut by dynas-
tic considerations. AS happens in other
Indian native states the ruler of Kashmir
does not share the faith of the majority of
his subjects. He is Hindu maharaja and
is surrounded by an aristocracy of high
caste Brahmins, one OF whom, Jawaharlal
Nehru, is an outstanding leader in India.
The maharaja's rule Is likewise buttressed
by private army of about 10000, nearly
all Hindu and Sikh mercenaries. 1t Is this
upper class which endeavors to keep Kash-
mir from joining Pakistan and probably
wishes to join Hindu India.
That, however, arouses fanatical dis
content among his Mosem subjects, with
the exception of few wealthy Moslem
landowners who make common cause with
the Hindu aristocrats. The Kashmiri Mos
lem masses on their side, are being sup
ported not only by Pakistan, but also by
the ultrafanatical Moslem tribesmen
known as Pathans who inhabit the noun
tains of the northwest frontier province
bordering on Afghanistan, the Pathans
themselves being Afghan in blood. The
Pathans are in an especially bellicose mood
because, with the end of British rule, they
have ceased to get the subsidies which the
British Raj paid them to keep the peace.
Raiding parties, apparently Pathans, have
invaded Kashmir, and have been welcomed
by the local Moslems.
This threat has been countered by the
government of Hindu India. Heeding the
appeal of the Maharaja, airborne Indian
troops have been flown into Kashmir and
are now battling the Pathans and their
sympathizers. Those troops are said to be
Sikhs, the fiercest enemies of the Moslems.
And the Indian government has accepted
the provisional accession of Kashmir to
India.
All this naturally arouses Pakistan,
which looks upon Kashmir as logically part
of MoSlem India. Pakistan volunteers are
repeatedly swarming into Kashmir which
thus threatens to become a battle ground
between the two dominions Should that
occur, 1t may be an ominous shape of
things to come" in India.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Beautiful Glass .

The gifts of President and Mrs. Truman
and Ambassador and Mrs. Lewis w.
Douglas to Princess Elizabeth are beautiful
in themselves. But they also serve to
call attention to an American art
which should be more generally ap-
preciated 1t happens that glass was
among the first offerings of the New
World shipped from Virginia to England
A glass-house was built near Jamestown in
1908, and its products were exhibited in
London early in the next year. Eight
craftsmen from Poland and Germany were
imported by the Colonial authorities to
aid in the development of the infant
industry A second establishment was set
up with italian experts in charge in 1921.
Tradition tells that both plants were de-
Stroyed by the Indians. But the idea OF
making fine glass persisted in the Potomac
if not in the James Valley, and factory
at Alexandria is recorded to have turned
out 10000 pounds of grade A glassware
in 1887.
Meanwhile, glass manufacturing had
been started in Massachusetts, about 1885,
So important was the production of worthy
dItlCleS dIlu uLeIlSllS VI glass tIldG IIlc
General Court granted Isaac C.. Winslow
and few other persons the exclusive right
to operate a glass plant in 1852. The
Legislature subsequently gave Whalley,
Hunnewell and certain of their contem-
poraries charter which was in effect q
monopoly for decade and half begin
ming in 1887. Workmen in the Boston
.glass-house were exempted from military
duty Similar concessions were given
employees of glass factories in Pennsyl-
vania, where the colonys founder had
produced glass prior to 1888. Henry Will
liam Stiegel, German baron, commenced
his career as maker of meritorious glass
at Mannheim, near Lancaster, in 1859.
Albert Gallatin was interested in the glass
industry at New Geneva, on the Mononga-
hela, in 1797. Examples of the ware made
by all these pioneers now are preserved IN
museums and in private collections
throughout the world.
But the presents sent to the heir to the
British throne last week demonstrate that
it is not from the past alone that richly
distinguished glass derives in the United
States. The engraved "merry-go-round"
bowl displayed yesterday at Buckingham
Palace was designed by Sidney Waugh,
talented sculptor known in Washington
for his embellishments Of the National
Archives and Post Office Department
Buildings. In common with plates repro
ducing Audubon's birds, it was executed
at the famous Steuben glass factories at
Corning, New York.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
MikoIojczyk Mystery

The sudden disappearance of Stanislaw
Mikolajczyk portends the climax of one of
the most poignant political dramas in post
war Europe. Whatever may have happened
to him personally, his removal from the
political scene spells the failure of major
attempt at genuine political reconstruct
tion in Poland d-admittedly key point in
the relations between the Soviet Union
and the democratic world.
Poland's role in postwar Europe is due
not merely to its strategic and economic
Importance, but perhaps even more to psy-
Geological considerations. World War II
was precipitated by Hitler's attack on
Poland which had stood valiantly up to
his demands, relying on the guaranty
treaty extended by Britain shortly before.
No other victim of Nazi aggression there
fore had so valid claim to full restitution
of its sovereignty and independence. The
treatment of Poland thus became moral
touchstone to the true character of the
peace settlement.
How that moral imperative was shirked
by the Western powers makes probably the
most shameful aspect of the postwar
period Excusing themselves by the argu-
ment of expediency, London and Wash
ington sacrificed Poland on the altar of
"appeasement" toward Moscow. This policy
was persisted in even after Moscow had
violated series Of promises regarding
Poland The patriotic Polish government
in exile, set up in London. was disavowed
in favor of the Soviet satellite regime
originally set up amid Russian bayonets
and subsequently transported by the
Soviet Army to ruined Warsaw.
With this regime. most of the London
Poles resolutely refused to have any truck.
However, reluctantly and under heavy
pressure, one of its members was per-
suaded to return to Poland and try to
form a coalition government with some
semblance of legality. This was stanislaw
Mkolajczyk, head Of the Polish Peasant
Party.
In retrospect, we can see from bitter
experience not only in Poland but in the
other countries behind the iron curtain,
how hopeless was this experiment. From
the very first, the puppet rulers in Warsaw
refused to allow the Peasant Party leader
or his followers any real share in the con-
duct of affairs. In recent months the last
semblance of pretense has been cast aside
The Peasant Party has clearly been slated
for ruthless liquidation, and the fate of
Petkov in Bulgaria was q clear warning
of what the last opposition leader in Poland
had to expect.
At this writing. no one seems to know
just what has happened to him. He may
have escaped from the country to safety,
but there are likewise the grim possibili-
ti&s that he has been done away iWith by
Evening star., 1947-10-29

Under the law proposed here. the man could
not be released from the mental hospital until
competent psychiatrists pronounced him cured.
If such a law were passed, the offenders
would be screened to determine which ones
could benefit by treatment-benef1t for them
selves and for society
Some cases." said DR.. Karpman, will be
sneering, contemptuous They won't respond
to treatment and they will make every effort
to get out"
But others will agree to take treatment Just
as they have done in the past Such agree
ment is necessary. AS matter OF fact, without
the patients desire to get WELL the psychiatrist
can't do much for him.
DR.. Karpman recalled one case where an
Army officer was committed to Gallinger HosA
pital after his fourth arrest for indecent
exposure. He refused treatment and behaved
so well that he was released. year and
half later he was arrested again.
That time, he volunteered for treatment He
said he couldn't fight it alone
After Is treatments, his compulson dis
appeared" DR.. Karpman said. He acquired
enough understanding of why he was behaving
as he did so that it lost its attractiveness He
has never been in trouble since. That was %
years ago."
Psychologically, all forms of perversion are
related to each other, DR.. Karpman said. The
treatment in all cases is MISUNDERSTANDING
inventory of the mans personality liabilities
and assets, of his entire emotional life.
The psychiatrist is looking for the episode or
series of episodes that started the trouble. He
has to purrow deep into the mans mind to un-
cover what was pushed down into the un-
conscious to grow and tester until it hardened
into some unacceptable form of behavior.
Time Of Cure Varies.
Sometimes it takes only few months to re-
lease the dammed-up emotion that started the
trouble. Sometimes a cure takes years, DR..
Karpman said
He explained that the treatments have to
be spaced over considerable period to let the
man recover from the shock Of reliving past
experiences through psychoanalysis He COM
pared it tosthe shock of an operation
But the two principal problems are to talk
the man into taking treatment and to make the
man continue the treatments until he is cured.
Under the proposed new law, Dr. Karpman
said the desire to get out Of a mental hospital
would have the effect OF selling the man on
treatment and of course he would have to see
the treatments through to get out.
Those who favor this procedure believe there
is place for doctors as we'll as prison wardens
in coping with these offenders.
They believe that struggling off the posi-
bility of curing these men maintaining the
long standing taboo against discussing the
problem at all will leave the District just where
1t has been since the days of common law.
And they recall that until the problem OF
venereal diseases was faced frankly and openly,
1t, too, went unchecked.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
No Bureaucratic Iron Curtain

The Security Advisory Board of the
State Defense Co-ordinating Committee
has shown good sense in eliminating from
its proposed draft of Federal security regu-
lations phraseology which could have be-
come an iron curtain" for blundering or
faithless bureaucrats. The language in
question would have classified as confiden-
tial any information in any department OF
the Government which could have caused
official embarrassment" If made public.
The ill-advised proposal had been severely
criticized by large section OF the press,
including The Star.
The modified draft of the security rules,
as disclosed at the State Department yes
terday had been purged OF provisions
which would have authorized departmental
officials to withhold from the public any
data which, in their opinion, might cause
the department. or its personnel serious
administrative embarrassment" Elimi-
mated also was prohibition against re-
lease of information 'prejudicial to the
interests or prestige of ANY governmental
activity"
Why such far-fetched provisos ever were
new security guide is yet to be explained.
The regulations were drawn up by board
appointed in accordance with recommends
tions of the Presidents Loyalty Committee,
which found that uniform classification
of "top secret" secret" confidential" and
restricted" material was necessary for
guidance of the Federal agencies There
was no suggestion in the report OF the
Presidents committee, however, that the
classification be extended to matters which
might reflect on the prestige of an agency
or official or result in administrative
embarrassment"
For some reason not announced, the
Veterans Administration adopted the pro-
posed MISUNDERSTANDING the objec-
tionable provisos-in advance OF their
approval by the President. This agency
should lose no time in following the exam
pie of the Security Advisory Board IN
deleting the criticized portions of the code.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
1Uriter, although it is permissible for a
1Uriter kno1Un to The Star to use a
non de plune Please be brief.

Certainly, no one connected with the League
believes in feeding vast numbers Of i'll assorted
animals, when food for humans Is scarce. The
only animals kept at the League are Of the
type and temperament that will make some
lonely children good companions or guardians.
Other animals are disposed of as soon as their
unsuitabiity is ascertained, which often is
only matter of minutes.
Many League services to the community are
we'll known our "a hours-a-day ambulance
service for animals of every description, our
unique records of lost and found pets, lists
of dog license numbers available at all times,
etc Surely this is not moment to discourage
any activity that makes the world a better
place! ELIZABETH J. McSHERRY,
Member, Board of Directors, Washington Ami
NAL Rescue League.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Still Need for Cuution

While yesterdays heavy showers have
brought at least temporary relief in many
drought areas, the forest fire season Is far
from over. The disastrous fires in Maine
and Massachusetts give weight to the
warnings issued by police and fire author
tiles in other parts of the eastern Atlantic
region. The fires in New England followed
close upon National Fire Prevention Week,
proclaimed this month by President Tru-
man to alert citizens to the fire dangers
which invariably arrive with the fall sea-
son. The Presidents proclamation pointed
out that obstruction by fire OF our natural
and created resources has almost doubled
during the past decade" 1t is unfortunate
that these annual observances and proc
lamations are taken in matter-of-course
way by too many citizens. Yet many OF
the worst fires result from the disregard
Of the elementary principles of safety
by individuals.
While the origins of the several fires
which have swept the Down East resort
sections and other portions OF the North
eastern States are as yet uncertain, 1t Is
significant that the risk of fire from
carelessness with matches, cigarettes and
trash fires has been greatly magnifled this
fall by the long dry spell. New England
is not unique in this respect. The District
and nearby areas had been without sub
stantial rainfall for month until yester-
day Such drought, coupled with the
fall of leaves, creates a situation that holds
real danger, especially in wooded sections
It will take more than one days showers
to eliminate the need for further caution.
National Parks officials are warranted
In cautioning the public against leaving
embers from picnic fires, tossing lighted
cigarettes away without grinding them
under foot or running other risks with
80 much natural tinder round about. The
annual fire-loss toll is bound to continue
high until the public becomes better
aroused to the need for individual CO.
operation in fire prevention
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Ruiin

The silence yesterday was like a pail,
And heat lay heavily on everything.
A red dust, POWDERED fine, ,oas In the air
And formed on bush and tree, thick
coUering
Last night, / heard from far aUay, the
sound
OF fairies dancing lightly on dead grass.
Nearer it came . 1t tons the feet OF td,ens
scampertng on In fright. They seemed
to pass,
And companies OF mounted men dashed by
While mighty bombers, roaring, filled the
sky!
Today, the garden lies refreshed and cool;
seen the sun shine through the rain
TO show the ,oiteh's spell Is at an end,
And soon the n,ocking birds UtH sing
dgdtfh EDITH TATUM.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Letters. to The Star
Foreign Attitudes Resented

TO The Editor OF Tie star:
1t makes my blood boil when read so much
publicity about the forthcoming wedding of
Princess Elizabeth. Only those Of royal blue
blood are judged worthy of attending. England
is too proud to invite one Of our common"
citizens to the ceremony and yet not too proud
to take our good old American dollars produced
by the common people of America.
And France-so poor, so desperate. that one
is led to believe that she may sink any moment
sends dress designers over to America to say:
Mrs Jones, your dress is entirely too short.
You must throw out your whole wardrobe and
get new clothes You are old-fashioned now"
Where do the French think Americans get
dollars to lend them?
KAY WHITENER.