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Evening star., 1947-05-02
Visitor From the Philippines
Vice President Quirino Has Helped to Cement Our
New Relationship With Youngest Republic
By James g. Wingo.

Nothing would have hurt American feel-
ings and influence more than any SuS-
picion in the Filipinos that they were
being pushed around or outsmarted.
Both Mr.. QuirIno and Ambassador
Paul ". McNutt, who has recently re-
turned to washington. saw to 1t that
They succeeded in laying the solid foun-
dation OF lasting, friendly partnership
between the United States and the
Philippines. The various treaties which
resulted are definitely what the United
States Congress had envisioned-agree-
ments of mutual benefit to the two in
dependent republics, voluntarily arrived
at.
In the amazingly successful campaign
to amend the Philippine constitution In
order to allow American citizens to par
ticipate in the economic development
of the Philippines and in the operation
of public utilities on equal terms with
Philippine citizens, Mr.. Quirino played
role second only to President Roxas.
His eloquent speeches all over the coun-
try helped to overcome what might have
grown into an effective opposition along
the supernationalistic arguments ex-
pounded by Jose p. Laurel, president
Of the puppet Philippine republic dur
ing the Japanese occupation, and Ca
milo Osias. former Philippine resident
commissioner in Washington and menu
ber of the Laurel cabinet The amend
nent was accepted by the people with
out any serious opposition.
Portly Mr.. Quirino is 81 years old and
comes from the Ilocano region OF North
ern Luzon. He graduated from the law
college of the University of the Philip
pines with high honors He first won
distinction in the public service as
private secretary to the late Manuel
Quezon when he was president of the
Philippine Senate. He served as mem
ber of both houses of the Philippine ma
tional legislature and held various posts
in President Quezon's cabinet. When
elected Vice President of the Philippines
year ago he was president pro tempore
of the Senate, of which Mr.. Roxas was
president.
Bereft by the War.
Mr. Quirino Is bringing with him to
Washington son and daughter, rem
nants of his one-time big family Dur
Ing the battle for Manila In February,
1945, Mr.. Quirino's wife, three other
children, mother law and brother-in-
law were killed by the retreating Japa-
neSe marines.
Before his Washington visit Mr.. Qui-
>rino inspected the Philippine consulates
in Honolulu and San Francisco. After
his brief stay at the Blair-Lee House as
guest of the United States Government,
he will transfer to the Philippine En-
bassy on Sheridan Circle. His host, Am
bassador Joaquin M. Elizalde, will give
several parties in his honor. Then he
will go to New York, where the office
of Philippine Delegate to the United
Nations Carlos P. Romulo and another
Philippine consulate are located. and
where he plans to meet the various dele
gates to the United Nations.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Where Women Are Better
By Da,id Laurence
. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The telephone strike Is giving abun-
dant proof, if proof were needed, of the
wisdom of the Bell System In employ
ing women as operators. Many of the
emergency operators on the job during
the strike are men and they don't have
the patience for the job. They seem
about as much in their place as boys
playing the part of girls in a high
school comedy.
Some, let it be said bluntly, are plain
catty. A st. Louis woman was trying the
other night to put through call about
a newborn baby. The male operator
seemed quite sympathetic.
"a new baby, well, well! And how are
mother and baby doing?"
ooh, spienoidly!"
We'll. there's no emergency then and
your call can't be put through"
When are those girls with patient
manner and polite voice coming back on
the lob?
Evening star., 1947-05-02

Coming to Washington Tuesday, so
shortly after the visit Of President
Miguel Aleman. is another distinguished
guest from abroad-Vice President El-
pidio Quirino of the Philippines, which
for long time was Mexico'S sister
colony and ruled through the Spanish
Kings vieeroy in Mexico.
The fact that President Aleman does
not speak English while Vice President
Quirino speaks it very fluently, indicates
the wide divergence of the two former
Spanish colonies in their subsequent
development. Although Mexico has been
a next-door neighbor to the United
States the Philippines, 1000 miles away
across the Pacific. has received by far
the greater influence from America and
has been closer to her politically. cul-
turally and economically than Mexico.
Since 1885, when the Philippines be-
came independent from the United
States, the Philippines has had three
Presidents, all English-speaking. The
third tand first of the fully independent
republic), Manuel Roxas, was educated
entirely under the American established
public schools in the Philippines. So
was the man who viii be the guest of
the United States Government next
week.
Vice President Quirino is Secretary OF
Foreign Affairs and stands in line to
succeed the President of his country In
case of emergency. His first job as
Secretary of Foreign Affairs has been
to see to it that the close political,
economic, military and cultural ties
between the Philippines and the United
States, existing for nearly half CEN
tury as an American dependency, would
be continued on the basis OF indepen-
dent, equal partners.
Philippine Sovereignty Protected.
In the negotiations on American mill
tary, naval and air bases in the Philip
pines Mr.. Quirino succeeded in estab-
fishing the policy that nothing would
be included in any treaty to minimize
Philippine sovereignty; that features of
extraterritoriality unacceptable to SOW.
ereign nation would not be tolerated on
Philippine soil, and that no American
bases would be established near civil
ian population centers. He was jeal-
ously watchful of Philippine interests,
sovereignty and dignity.
In the final analysis Mr. Quirino did
as much as any other man to promote
better permanent relations between the
United States and the Philippines. Had
he indiscriminately succumbed to Amer
ican demands, grave damage would have
been inflicted upon American-Philip-
pine amity. Filipinos would have pro-
tested that the United States was TAX
ing advantage of the war-weakened con-
dition of their country.
Representing a weak, impoverished,
infant republic, he stuck to his guns.
If any American in the Philippines ever
doubted the absoluteness and complete
ness of Philippine independence, he soon
learned the truth.
The result of the prolonged negotia-
tions was undoubtedly what the over
whelming majority of the American and
Filipino people wanted in the first place.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Apply the Remedy Now

War is notoriously wasteful busi-
ness, especially when 1t comes to a
nation unprepared for combat on
a worldwide scale. An idea of just
how waSteful war can be may be
obtained from a perusal of the report
on Unified Logistics Support of the
United States Armed Services" by
Lieutenant General Leroy Lutes,
Army procurement director.
The report, submitted to the Sen
ate Armed Forces Committee, de-
clares that failure of the Army and
the Navy properly to coordinate
their supply activities cost the tax
payers more than billion dollars
of unnecessary expense. General
Lutes lays the blame for costly
duplication and overlapping in the
procurement field not on either serv-
ice but on the inefficient system
under which in the past they have
been compelled to wage war.
His findings are, of course, an i'm
pressive argument for the type OF
consolidated procurement setup con-
templated under the pending merger
legislation. Supply officers of both
services themselves decried the
waste which they saw as World War
II mushroomed to global proportions.
Some of them got together and did
something about it voluntarily. The
War and Navy Departments joined
in seeking ways to reduce the
amount of duplication, with varying
measures of success.
1t was not easy, however, In the
midst of the fighting, to make any
drastic reorganizations in the in
terest of economy. Our enemies
gave us little time to think about
Evening star., 1947-05-02
FORGOTTEN Inventor

Millions Of people have used cellu-
loid camera film without for a
moment pausing to wonder to whom
they owe its invention. Hannibal
WilliSton Goodwin is as completely
forgotten as any modern benefactor
possibly could be. In a recent test
of professional workers in the pho
tographic industry not even veterans
with more than four decades of
experience remembered his name.
Yet 1t is obvious that he was a man
deserving of the gratitude of subse-
quent generations. If only because
of his services to medicine and
surgery, he merits recollection.
Mr.. Goodwin was a native of
Taughannock in Tompkins County,
New York, born April 80, 1922. He
was educated for the ministry at
! Union College and the General
Theological Seminary and was or
dained and appointed rector of
Christ Church at Bordentown, New
Jersey, in 1851. Later he preached
and taught at st. Paul's, Newark,
and in Trinity parish in the same
city, which he organized. His health
failing temporarily, he moved to San
Francisco in 1860 and, recovering,
became rector of Grace Church
there. BY 1867, however, he was
back in Newark, where during the
next two decades he was in charge
of the House of Prayer. His interest
in photography began with the idea
that the religious education of young
people could be advanced most effec-
lively through the employment of
illustrations relating the story of
the Scriptures He obtained stere-
optican outfit for this purpose but
soon discovered that he would be
obliged to make his own pictures.
This led him to a long series of
experiments in search for a substi-
tute for glass. During the whole
progress of ten years he strove to
solve the problem thus outlined.
Finally on May 2, 1887, he applied
for a patent on what he called a
Photographic pellicle." Shortly
Evening star., 1947-05-02
After Ten Years
(Wife to husband,

(Wife to husband,
NoD haze learned, / think as tceu as
any
What one must take, toho takes Iocs's
daily bread:
Think tauice before you spend q joosssh
penny;
Look thrice before you otpe dream
its head.
NoD an, Iessoned gel enough to chort
Hoto moonlight hid ptat courtshfp
really toon.
The kitchen uieto OF life, the nursemaid
part
My marriage portion iohen all ,cas said
and done.
But If to come OF age means, more or less,
KnosDings cannot hare my fu OF
clothes
Or heuUen OF mad hats, think you
guess
You fill such needs neper think OF
those.
And euen through surface anger. you
must see
That In my heart Is w1itten: So let
1t be-
ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Help From q Strong Source

Representative Walt Koran
craftsmanship OF the House Subcom-
mittee on District Appropriations
has made him a key figure in Con-
gress in all money matters con-
corning Washington. Tradition and
practice lodge in his hands a great
amount of influence. Washington
has benefited or suffered in the
past, depending on the attitude of
his predecessors. Some of them
have been great figures in the de-
velopment of the Capital; the
whims, ignorance and prejudice of
others have contributed to many of
the inequities and stupidities of
Congressional local government
which have retarded this develop
ment.
It is all the more gratifying,
therefore, to note Mr.. Horan's spon-
sorship of legislation to fix method
for annual measurement of the
amount the Federal Government
should pay in local appropriations.
It indicates MIR. Horans recognition
of this step as the foundation of
any new, fair and workable method
of dividing National Capital ex-
penseS between the exclusively
controlling Federal Government and
the unrepresented, taxpaying local
community. For the past several
years the chairmen of the same
committee on the Senate side have
sponsored such legislation. Senator
Overton did vast amount OF con-
structive work in working out a
formula. His plan was modified and
perfected by Senator O'Mahoney.
Senator Cain has recognized the
Importance of the principle, with
out committing himself to any def
mite formula.
On the House side Representative
Hebert has sponsored the Overton-
O'Mahoney formula. But Mr.. Ho-
rams bill assumes new significance.
1t is based, like others, on the ratio
of Government-owned, tax-free
property in Washington to the total
taxable property. BY. slightly diff
ferent approach, it reaches compa-
rable conclusion-that there should
be fixed and definite relationship
between what the Federal Govern
ment pays and what the local COM
munity pays; that the extent Of the
Federal obligation should be meas
ured each year in dollars and cents
and that when it is so measured the
Federal Governments rightful share
is substantially in excess of what it
Is now paying.
The adoption by Congress of some
such formula should be Point Num-
ber One of the pending tax-raising
program Coming from so infiuen-
tial member of the powerful House
Appropriations Committee, the bill
sponsored by Mr.. Horan should
facilitate the task of the Joint
Legislative Committee now working
for a fair and practical revenue
raising program.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Name of the Century

In California, a land of many Won
ders, a man called Miswald Cends
Wrandvakist has petitioned the
Alameda County Superior Court to
change his name. Mr.. Wrandvakist
is superstitious. He feels that his
luck would improve if he were free
to reintroduce himself to everybody
as Linkols Dislgrowels Wrandvans-
gilnolkets.
At the moment it is not known
how the court will decide. OF course,
it could say to Mr.. Wrandvakist that
changing his name will not neces-
sarily change his luck. Day after
day lot of people try to make for
tune smile on them by resorting to
ever so many devices, such as carry
ing a rabbits foot, knocking on
wood, throwing split salt over the
left shoulder or being particularly
careful about not stepping on cracks
in the sidewalk. These measures,
however, are of little avail. Ones
destiny, after all, is in ones self;
it is not in the stars or in odd
maneuvers like having the law let
Mr.. Wrandvakist call himself Linkols
Dislgrowels Observation-Disclosures.
Yet, although the Alameda court
may deny the petition, one is
tempted to hope that it will not.
There is certain grandeur in what
Mr.. Wrandvakist proposes. Most of
us in a similar situation would ask
for change to something like Tom
Smith or Bill Jones. But he has
been inspired. He has thought up
what is probably the most arresting
name of the century, thing that
thunders and haunts at the same
time, like the primitive beat OF dis
tant tom toms.
Linkols Dislgrowels Wrandvans-
gilmolkets-whata name to roll off
the tongue! 1t is such things that
lend color to our world. All of us
will seem robbed of something,
somehow, if the Alameda court rules
against Mr.. Wrandvakist and holds
him already yclept spectacularly
enough,
Evening star., 1947-05-02
thereafter Henry NJ. Reichenbach
also applied for patent for flexible

thereafter Henry M. Reichenbach
also applied for a patent for flexible
Photographic film"
The Dictionary OF American Biog-
raphy says: "The Patent Office
thereupon declared an interference
between the two patentees and a
bitter fight was precipitated," but
Mr.. Goodwin "had little difficulty in
proving that he was the original
inventor of the celluloid photo
graphic film" and patent papers
eventually were issued to him on
September 10, 1893. A decision Of
the United States Circuit Court con-
firmed his priority and cleared the
way for the payment of $4,000, 600 to
his representatives In 1914. Mean
while, the inventor himself, aged
seventy eight, had died on the last
day of the nineteenth century.
Evening star., 1947-05-02

and Italian situations battle the imagi-
nation as the result of policies we also
promoted and Mr.. Dulles himself Is
blaming the Russians for advocating
the upping of German steel produc-
tion-in a Europe starving for steel
the Soviets say to the Germans, "join
lis and all you have lost will be re-
stored"
If the German people believed 1t,
nothing could halt Soviet success. We
are not frustrating that program. The
Soviets themselves are. Too many Ger
mans fought in Russia, and saw what
Soviet civilization does for the common
man. Too many know Russian be-
havior in Koenigsberg Too many are
sick to the bone of reigns of terror.
Mr.. Dulles clearly states what the
people of Europe want: "* not to
be divided against themselves hot
to be unified under the domination of
a great power = 4" to increase economic
productivity human freedom"
X
But those things imply the creation
of European confederation, or several
interlocking federations in a common
wealth. No American statesman has
stated that. Mr.. Dulles approaches 1t,
but SHES away. He speaks of the
necessity of economic union, and of
s'the freedom and independence of
Austria independence and union are
incompatible ideas. The latter implies
concessions to the former.
To accomplish the salvation Of Eu-
rope means to stop to think of Ger
many" and France" and to think of
Europe, with, its many cultural parishes
and its common needs. 1T implies put
ting money, brains, and every effort
behind one single purpose-not a dozen
contradictory purposes.
The Soviets have one great asset
which we lack-sing1eness of purpose.
And we shall get nowhere by falling
back upon our ideals" Ideals re-
quire intelligence, boldness, sacrifice,
faith for their realization. History is
strewn with the dead bones of ideals,
and no period more than this one.
fReieased by the Bel1 Svndicate TnrA
Evening star., 1947-05-02
This and That
harles E. TraceUeH.
FALLS CHURCH, Va.

Dear Sir:
This morning, very early, there came
to my garden pair of newcomers.
"He was black, with dull brown head
and neck, and she was dull brown all
over and slightly smaller.
I'm walk and manneriSms they re-
sembled grackles but though it has
been many years since last I saw their
species. they were known to me then as
'cowbirds' because of their habit of fire.
quenting COW pastures.
SIS this correct and is there such a
bird in the lexicon?
"As small boy frequently found an
unusual egg in the nests of English
sparrows and was told by elders that it
was cowbirds egg, that they never
nested but were parasites who let other
birds hatch their eggs for them.
what part of this is truth and how
much is fancy?
"Inquisitively yours, E. H."
\ y X
1t is all true
The cowhird Is a fine-looking creature,
but his habits are not so good.
Our correspondents elders told him
He-or rather she-sneaks her eggs
into the nests of other species, partic-
ularly the warblers.
The disparity in size between the true
babies of the warblers and the ungainly
cowbird baby makes him get the lions
share of the food.
In this way the young cowbird thrives
at the expense-literally- the baby
warblers.
Mostly the young warblers die, leaving
the cowbird to grow to full size and ma
turity.
Thus for every new cowbird in the
world, it has been estimated, probably
five other native birds must die.
This is rather high price to pay for
cowbirds. some believe.
But when you see them in your yard,
you will not think of this, perhaps, but
welcome them as beautiful birds, good
additions to the landscape, and we are
not sure that you will not be right.
1t is impossible, at least unwise, for
the watcher to take part in all the
quarrels of nature.
There is no end to them, for one
thing, and in the second place 1t isn't
at all necessary.
Nature has been taking care of her
scheme of things for many thousands
of years.
Cowbirds have been putting their eggs
into others nests all that time and we
still have other birds.
That is the point.
It will do no observer good and do very
little good in any way, for him to grow
red in the face at "the very idea" of the
nefarious work of the mother cowbird.
From our human standards she does
wrong, but who knows what the stand
ards of nature really are?
Maybe nature chuckles to herself at
the clever cowbirds.
And seeing them in the yard, we must
agree with her that they are fine speci-
mems, pleasant to look at and nice to
have around
-Four of them visited our feeding sta
tions recently. They got along with all
the other birds and we were able to
watch them at close range and to see
just how beautiful they are.
They really are handsome.
Perhaps We may evaluate the male
cowbird. Perhaps he knows nothing of
the devious ways of his good wife
This leaves the female, as usual, to
take the blame.
But now and then the smaller bird
mothers outwit her. The yellow warbler
has been known to build a second nest
right over the cowbirds eggs and even a
third one over thati
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Mercer StuIemote

Advocates of Army-Navy merger
legislation have good reason to be
worried over the painfully slow
progress being made at the Capitol
in reporting out bill that can pass
at this session of Congress. It is
becoming increasingly evident that
a virtual stalemate has developed in
the Senate Armed Forces Committee
over the administration bill, a stale
mate which, unless broken very
quickly, could mean the death of
this important defense measure as
far as the present session is con-
cerned.
The differences which exist among
committee members over the Presi-
dents bill do not appear to be
insurmountable. Most of the objec-
tions raised against the bill are met
in the proposed executive order to
be issued under the legislation. It
would be a relatively simple matter
to transfer to the bill some Of the
language of the order and thus
eliminate much of the criticism
which is delaying action. :.
For example, several influential
members of the committee feel
strongly that the powers of the
supersecretary of national defense
should be more clearly defined in
the bill and that the integrity of
Naval Aviation and the Marine Corps
should be guaranteed not only in
the executive order, as is the case
now, but also in the basic legisla-
ton. These members fear that
unless the bill is made more explicit,
an arbitrary secretary sometime in
the future, with executive approval,
could reduce Naval Aviation and the
Marine Corps to state of military
impotence. But efforts to revise the
bill so as to preclude such arbitrary
action have been resisted by other
committee members and by the War
Department on the ground that the
bill should not be cluttered up with
"details" Guaranteeing the preser-
vation of Naval Aviation and the
Marines is something more than
detail to those vital branches of the
Navy, however.
The really alarming aspect of the
merger delay is the effect it is having
on joint Army Navy planning for
national defense. Neither service
feels free to go ahead with major
undertakings deemed essential to
the security of the United States
until they know where they stand
under the merger legislation. The
planning, manning, maintenance
and operation of certain bases and
installations are matters of uncer-
tainty until Congress has acted
finally, one way or the other.
In these circumstances, it behooves
Congress to come to some decision
expeditiously. 1t can be done if the
task is approached on give-and
take basis and with an eye to the
dangers of interminable debate.
Perhaps the best way to thresh
matters out and come to an agree
ment would be around the confer
ence table-at a meeting of COM
mitteemen, heads of the armed serv-
ices and perhaps a representative of
the President. There have been
enough indications recently of a
disposition to compromise to war
rant the belief that such a round
table discussion might break the
present deadlock and start the mer-
ger moving toward reality.
Evening star., 1947-05-02

A distinct improvement in diplo-
matte negotiations with the Soviet
is noted. Often the Russians wait
twenty-four hours before saying
"nn"