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Evening star., 1947-02-11
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

The controlled Congress
has been in session little less than six
weeks. Already the opposition is claim
ing with considerable glee that the
majority party on Capitol Hill is break
ing into hostile groups-divided on such
questions as labor legislation, income
tax reduction, reduction of federal ex-
penditures and the tariff issue, exem-
plified in the divergence Of opinion on
the reciprocal trade agreement system.
Nevertheless, on the only test votes
that have been taken in the Senate and
House to date the Republicans have
shown remarkable solidarity. The first
came in the Senate, when the Republi-
cans stood together with the loss of less
than handful of votes, on the proposal
to extend the life OF two special COM
mittees created in the last Congress
one to investigate the national defense
program and the other, small business.
The House Republicans voted solidly for
the Michener resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution limiting
a President of the United States to two
four year terms.
The big hurdles are still to come.
Fortunately there has been no deviation,
so far as the Republicans are concerned,
from the non-partisan foreign policy
which has been developed during the
war and since its close. The President
has been assured that he will receive
strong backing from the Republicans in
Congress when it comes to international
relations political relations.
X y X +
. The economic side of international
relations, however, is, in the opinion OF
some Republican leaders, another mat
ter. For example, the continuation Of
the reciprocal trade agreement system,
developed over the years by the late
Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Under
this system the President is authorized
TO cut custom duties, while making
reciprocal agreements with foreign ma
tions. The trade agreements act does
not expire until midyear 1948. Obviously
the act is safe from amendment or
repeal, even should the Republican
Congress pass such legislation. A pres
idential veto could kill 1t, and there
would be no chance Of q two-thirds
vote Of Ather house Of Congress to
override the veto.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
TUESDAY, February IL, I947
The Vanishing Teacher

In discussing with reporters his
recommendations for an increase
in teachers pay. Superintendent of
Schools Corning revealed the dis
turbing fact that AT of Washing
tons $500 public school teachers
are temporary appointees with sub
standard qualifications. That the
Nations Capital is not alone in this
respect is shown in findings of a
countrywide survey just completed
by DR.. Benjamin Fine, education edi-
tor of the New York Times. The
survey factually supports the Ma
tional Education Associations recent
warning that unless present trends
are arrested, teaching may become
the vanishing profession.
There is no reason for local pride
or complacency in the fact that
some communities are worse off
than our own with regard to crowded
classrooms or lowered teaching
standards. 1t is bad enough to know
that 13,675 Washington boys and
girls are not receiving the quality of
education deemed necessary to pre-
pare them for college or for business
or professional careers.
Nearly everywhere DR.. Fine en-
countered the same story of steady
exodus of qualified teachers into
more lucrative pursuits during the
war years, of fewer and fewer grad
yates coming from the teachers
colleges, of widespread discomfort
among those who have clung to
teaching despite inadequate pay,
overloaded classrooms and other
disheartening conditions. The Ma
tion's teachers colleges report that
only 7 per cent of Americas college
students are studying to be teachers,
as compared with % per cent a
quarter of century ago. And ap-
proximately 350,000 teachers have
forsaken the profession since 1910.
Fortunately, albeit belatedly, some
thing is being done to meet the edu--
cation crisis. Here, as elsewhere,
efforts are being made to improve
the lot of teachers. not only from
the standpoint of pay but of oppor-
tunity for advancement. This move
ment should help to bolster sagging
morale of teachers, to halt the flight
of experienced teachers into other
fields, to attract competent new
faculty members and to provide our
children with the caliber of instruc-
tion to which they are entitled.
These reforms are so vital to the
coAntry's future welfare that no
further delay in effecting them can
safely be countenanced.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
The Golden Element

1t seems the time OF gold superIntire.
Like migratory wings, has hurried By
When soughing ptads become as tugitfDe
As leaves that ,nope gold nets upon the
sky;
And, since the Dintry moon Gboce the
1pood
Sits diamonds along each frosted
boAgh
SO lately plundered of Its golden hood.
And silpers cool ttaras for then, noto.
Yet any silhouette you choose among
The maze OF branches crystallized by
night
WHI lure its gold again tohen ddirn has
flung
On it the stain OF crinason-spun day-
light;
For, though the snn's long dtptts ptIter
them,
They Ieave gold fngerprtnts for eDery
gem. SARAH M. HOWARD.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

his thinking, he preferred always
to be his own boss. Toward the
end, his philosophy broadened and
sweetened. Not long before he died,
October IS, 1881, he said: "Be coura-.
geous. . Be as brave as your
fathers before you. : Have faith.
Go forward"
Such was the considered. doctrine
of the famous American honored
today. He enriched his fellows by
his spiritual example as well as by
the productions of the electrical age
of which he was the major architect.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Facts and LiIienthuI

senator BrldgeS OF New hampshire
and Senator Johnson of Colorado
have made lamentably inaccurate
and loose remarks about the So
called Acheson-Lilienthal report on
the international control of atomic
energy.
To support his attack on Mr.. Lii
lienthal, Senator Bridges has de-
clared that the report proposed to
turn over the atom bomb and secret
to the United Nations, including
Communist Russia, without the
safeguards later insisted upon by
Mr.. Baruch." In a similar blast
aimed at belittling Mr.. Lilienthal's
qualifications, Senator Johnson has
called the release of the report "the
greatest blunder in diplomacy this
country has ever made" adding that
it was embarrassing to the United
Nations commission trying to work
out international controls"
What are the facts?
To begin with, the report was the
product of many mems minds-men
outstanding in the field of industry
and science. It was drafted by a
board of consultants at the direction
of special State Department COM
mittee consisting of Dean Acheson,
DR.. Vannevar Bush, DR.. James B,
Conant, General Leslie r. Groves
and John J. McCloy. The consul
tants were Chester I. Bernard, Dr.
J. Robert Oppenheimer. DR.. Charles
A. Thomas, Harry A. Whine, and Mr..
Lilienthal, chairman.
For more than seven weeks these
distinguished Americans devoted
virtually all of their time and energy
to the problem handed them-the
problem of how to control the fear
some power of the atom. The report
they submitted proposed nothing
of the sort suggested by Senator
Bridges, not even remotely. On the
contrary, it made a special point of
emphasizing with underlined words
that it was written mot as final
plan, but as a place to begin, a foun-
dation on which to build"
AS for Senator Johnson's remarks,
the facts are: ID That Mr.. Lilien-
thai had nothing whatever to do
with releasing the report; (2) that
the State Department presented it
to the Senate Atomic Energy Com
mittee last March Is, in strictest
secrecy; 60 that its substance, de-
spite the secrecy, was in next days
newspapers; a. that the State De-
partment thereupon-on March 28-
made the text public, and (5) that
the report, far from being terrible
blunder embarrassing the interna-
tional control effort, was the in
dispensable preliminary to the plan
submitted by Mr.. Baruch less than
three months later to the United
Nations-the plan essential to the
beginning of discussions.
The overall fact about this report
is that it has passed into history as
great and inspired contribution to
Americas effort to build a lasting
peace in the atomic age. Mr.. Lilien-
thai and every one else who took
part in writing it deserve lasting
credit for having charted a course
to avoid a new kind of war that
could mean universal humiliation.
The record ought to be kept straight,
not distorted.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Boy Scout Week

There perhaps Is no compelling
reason for the setting aside of any
special week for appreciation of the
Boy Scout movement. Since 1910,
more than thirteen and a half
million men and boys have been
members of it. The service it
renders is familiar to the average
citizen-and is indorsed by him.
But Boy Scout Week does have
purpose and an objective deserv-
ing of comment. The slogan this
year is Scouts of the World
Building for Tomorrow" In har-
mony with that sentiment, all boys
already enrolled rededicate them
selves to the lofty ideals of con-
structive activity, cooperation and
mutuality first set forth by the
founders. four decades ago. More
especially, however, the annual
seven days of emphasis on Scouting
are intended as an invitation to
other boys to "join up."
For friends of the movement out
side its immediate orbit the week
furnishes an opportunity for re-
newal of interest and support. The
men who established the pioneer
Scout groups realized that the gre
garious instinct of youth was bound
to be manifested in every society,
and that, helped and guided with
intelligence and devotion, it could
be a compelling force for civilization
everywhere. AS against juvenile
delinquency, "dead end" gangs and
cynical tolerance of crime, it is an
asset worth preserving.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Conodu HELPS
From La Patrie fMontreaD.

From La Patrie fMontreaD.
If there is one nation whose sincerity
in any discussion on disarmament no
one can doubt it is Canada. Our coun-
try has taken positive and practical
action by proposing that the United Ma
tions soon devote plenary session
specially to the problem of disarm-
ament. It does not seem able to find
solution In the present session. That
proposal was adopted by subcommit-
tee and it is to be hoped that it will
also receive the assent of the plenary
assembly. The war psycfosis which
exists at the present time is sustained
by everything that the public reads on
the subject of the new arms that are
being forged in the laboratories of the
nations, and the defenses against them
which are being prepared.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Edison Centenary

On the hundredth anniversary of
his birth, Thomas Alva Edison re-
quires not so much to be praised as
to be comprehended. He was the
greatest inventor who ever has lived
in modern times, and it is not un-
natural that many legends have
developed about him. But what is
wanted-the highest tribute possible
to pay to his memory-is under
standing of him.
First, he was an American, as
native as the Nations soil. He
sprang from middle-class people
and never ceased to think and act
as middle-class people do. The mo-
tives that stimulated his efforts were
frankly egoistic. He rose to fame
and fortune the hard way. All that
he owed to schools was a teachers
opinion that he was added" Be-
fore he was twelve he was earning
his board and keep. His only patron
was himself. In periods of depres-
sion he roamed the country in
search of jobs. He perfected his
first invention when he was only
sixteen, but he was ragged,
disheveled failure-a tramp telegra-
pher-at twenty-one, Reading the
books of Michael Faraday gave him
the strategic guidance he wanted.
He acquired from them the meth
odology imperative for success in
making electricity work.
Then followed a long series of
experiments out of which Edison
perfected over thousand patent
able devices-including the incan-
descent lamp, the phonograph, the
motion picture protector, the dicta-
phone, the mimeograph, the radio
aerial, different types of batteries,
magnetic ore separators and con-
crete moulds for construction appli-
cation. His earnings often were
large, but his losses likewise were
tremendous. Years literally were
spent in search. of single detail
of knowledge Edison was at once
a chemist, an engineer and pro-
moter. His position as an authentic
scientist, incidentally, was not con-
ceded by the National Academy until
he was eighty-one.
Meanwhile, the Wizard" labored
In his laboratory, surrounded by a
"gang" of chosen and seasoned
helpers. They were isolated on
occasion for months at a stretch,
steadily toiling over problems which
the world knew and cared nothing
about-until finally they were
solved. Edison rarely, If ever, was
endowed. Starkly individualistic in
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Letters to The Star
Sharp Questions About Officials
and Their Private Papers'

Sharp Questions About Officials
and Their Private Papers
To the Editor Of The Star:
I understand that former Govern
ment official insists that when public
official retires or is retired from public
Office, he has perfect right to remove
his private papers,
But just what may be regarded as
private papers"
Are papers, written on Government
stationery, on time for which the Gov
ernment pays, typed by a stenographer
whose salary is paid by the Government,
and stored or filed in space owned or
leased by the Government, and, based
On information which the offdal has
been enabled to acquire solely by reason
of his official position. private papers?
Can one who capitalizes on his own
official position by reducing information
available to him only because of his
official position to private papers,
wholly at Government expense, justify
the title of "honest"?
OF course, any Government official who
uses Government motor vehicle, op-
Grated at Government expense, to deliver
his wifes eggs to market hardly can
be expected to challenge the honesty of
such claim
ROBERT A. HUTCHINSON.
Utopia as Seen in London
To the Editor Of The Star:
A simple way of curing governments
Of their longtime habit of strangling
production and exchange with taxes
and tariffs for the benefit of monopoly,
and the financing of social betterment
schemes that sap the peoples vitality
by making them more and more depend
ent on public bounty, is shown in the
following excerpt from an article in
London journal devoted to economics:
"If, indulging a perhaps extravagant
fancy, we were to imagine a society in
which men exerted on social questions
as much common sense as they every
day bring to personal matters, the solu-
tions OF these supposed abStruse prob
lens would not be difficult. Instead Of
fining the enterpriser and operative by
taxation and rating for producing, they
would be relieved Of all such discourage
inents; instead Of ignoring the monopoly
laws which enable landowners to levy
a toll upon the production of all who
use land, the land value which the
community creates would be collected by
the community to defray the cost of
all public services; instead of burdening
themselves with the cost of an immense
army of official producers engaged
in preventing each man from exerting
all his industry and ingenuity in that
infinite range of exchanges necessary
to modern industry, the army would be
disbanded and advised to. obtain pro-
ductive work; instead of waiting for
international committees of experts to
direct the trade of other countries an
enlightened society would open its trade
to all peoples of the world, thereby
benefiting itself and them materially
and showing in practice that the pros
perity Of one country did not depend
upon the coercion Of Others"
WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Or Under?

From the Cleveland News.
Great minds, figuring ways to beat the
portal-to-portal rap, have thought Of
about everything but locking the gates
and making the boys climb over.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

Flight OF VOteleSS WaShInStonlan
To the Editor OF The Star:
I believe the elections of last Noyem-
ber quite. generally have been inter
preted as an uprising of the, unorganized
citizens against the various pressure
groups who had been managing and
mis-managing the country. A vote is
good weapon against pressure groups.
But here in Washington we have no
vote; and this leaves us peculiarly at
the mercy of noisy, strongly organized
minorities We cannot prove at an
election how we wish our city managed
The citizens associations (Which more
truly represent us than any other agen-
cies) can and do pass resolutions set
ting forth our wishes But how soon is
a quiet, orderly parliamentary proce-
dure of this sort forgotten while the
pressure groups with their picketing,
etc, never let themselves be forgottenI
What can we do to make ourselves
heard without the vote? If large num-
bers of us reused ourselves from our
lethargy and took the trouble to write
letters to the Commissioners protesting
against the efforts Of noisy minorities
to rule US by force. would that help7
N. W.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Praise for Madam Janos

0lSC lOG lV1dOdI1l AMOS
To the Editor CT The Star:
Having read several adverse criticisms
of the concert given recently by the
Polish pianist, Madam Maryla Janos,
may give my opinion as to what con-
slider an outstanding musical achieve
ment?
AS has been truly said by a great
musician, it is only when one has en-
dured great suffering, that one truly
can interpret the real meaning of music.
The finest music we have today is the
expression of soul that has been tried
by deep personal grief.
Having risen from the depths Of hu-
man experience and overcome misfor-
tunes such as one shrinks to contem-
plate, 1t was the soul of q woman tri-
umphant over pain that spoke to us the
other night, the soul of a great artist
and the living exponent of a great
master
To notice only the trifling imperfec-
tions, fortunately disregarded by those
who recognized the great artistry of the
performer, reminds one of the man, who
when viewing one of the magnificent
Turner sunsets, remarked to the artist:
II never have seen such colors as that!"
To which Turner replied: Don't you
wish you could?"
AS one who speaks from the depths
of her heart, may thank Madam Janos
for her truly magnificent performance?
v. M.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

Blames Government for Controls
To the Editor Of The Star:
In a letter published in The Star
February a tenant complains of hav-
ing to pay $3.50 a month for a one
room apartment, and very likely his
complaint is well founded.
In Arlington County there is a seven
room house, close to the city, in excel
lent location, with all modern improve
ments. ETC., renting for only $50 per
month. Such examples as these (two
extremes are prevalent over the coun-
try in general and in the Washington
vicinity in particular and such condi-
tions are arguments (but not the only
arguments) that rental control should
be terminated. Such control works
hardships on both the tenant and the
owner of rental property.
II the Government will quit meddling
with the private affairs of individual
citizens, especially in peace time, an in
creased supply Of rent houses and apart
ments will be forthcoming and the
housing situation will improve When
the claw of supply and demand" is in
terfered with somebody is going to
suffer
A EXAS-VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-03-01

The Canadian Broadcasting
Company each Sunday sends out
program IN Swedish. These
broadcasts may soon become daily.
A new film version OF Selma
Lagerlof's novel. THE Story OF
Costa Berling," will be made by
Wive-film in Stockholm. II has
been made into a motion picture
only once before. in 1928, with
Greta Carlo and Lars Hanson IN
the leading parts.
Fifty-thousand nightshift work
ers will undergo a thorough medi-
cal examination to determine
whether irregular hours are
detrimental to their health. The
tests will be conducted by Prof.
Sven Forsman, head of the depart
ment OF occupational hygiene al
the Swedish Institute of Puohe
Health. .
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-03-01

lnie where during the morning il
unloa6ed number Of German
troops hidden away in what was
supposed 10 BE- coal ship.
As stated. temporary report
o. the commission can have little
actual Importance today; il viii
nevertheless be Of historic interest
to ponder what might have been
the development in case the big
ship had been sunk outside Copen-
hagen OF that fateful morning.
1t may Be just possible that some
German werlords in Berlin were
waiting for Just such information
10 the effect that the mummy ship
had sunk and that landing in Den
mark was TO De difficult.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-03-01
The Gun That Failed

i ls sad that -he minister read
The letter while alone with the
courier without asking further
Questions; il i also stated that
tfe courier had additional infor-
nation which was not n the letter.
The Danish cabinet had inforrns-
ton from Churchill IN England to
The effect that England was not
Z. position TO aid Denmark if an
attack was made. The Danish
legation in Berlin had advised
mobilization 10 stop the Germans
( few days And this is how
things stood in the dark morning
hours Of April 9Th
At that moment z small forte
Of soldiers on the middle fort
outside Of Copenhagen in the
Q. esunG observed the dark hulk
Of a German ship sliding past. If
this big snip had q red lantern If
might have passed without COM
nlent-but it was utterly dark.
T following rules IN such cases the
officer in charge ordered the fir
ing Of cannon with a blank
cartridge. II a ship proceeds after
that loaded cartridge is to be
fired IN front OF the bow as q warn
ing. But these shots from the
cannon Of the middle fort were
never fired,
The commission reports that the
Lieutenant IN charge was known as
fascist-he committed suicide in
1913. The other men around the
cannon reported that the weapon
could not be loaded because two
matches were found in the rills.
One OF the soldiers reports how
ever, that the matches were no
actual hindrance, but the cap had
rot been removed from the missile
when loading. and hence would not
1T II the cannon.
At all events the big ship swung
" estwarG around the Trekroner
fort. reached the quay at LANCE
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-03-01

MN IN a very jolly way, and he
was allowed to admire in silence
all the very fine flowers. pictures
and statues" A second meeting
grew out of the ,irst, and this
time Dickens brought with him
to Gore House a set of his books
each volume inscribed ITO Hans
Christian Andersen from his friend
and admirer Charles Dickens" He
also warmly invited him to come
and share 'the crowded family
life at Broadstairs.
Just before crossing the channel
Hans Andersen dined with Dickens
at Broadstairs and next morning
has host walked over to Ramsgate
TO see his boat leave. Andersen
recorded the farewell:
we pressed each others hands
and he looked at me so kindly
with his shrewd sympathetic ewes
and, as the ship went off. there
ne stood waving his hat and look
ing so gallant, so youthful and
50 handsome. Dickens was the last
who sent me a greeting from dear
Engiand's shore From Charles
DICKENS. by Una Pope Hennessy
New York: Howell. Soskin.
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