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Evening star., 1947-11-30
Here's a Christmas. Gift You
Can Make f0rY0m Mother

Now Is a good time for you boys
who are handy with tools to be
making Christmas gifts. This handy
sewing box will look attractive in
any room Of the house and it will
enable your mother or an aunt to
carry her mending materials wher-
ever she wishes.
1t will repay you to use good wood
on this project-black walnut, ma
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Electrical Group to Meet

The Electrical Contractors Asso-
citation Of the District will hold =
mass meeting Tuesday at 8 pm. in
the Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth
street NV.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

It to the sides and ends with glue
and brads.
The drawing shows a pattern for
half the handle. Lay it out on =
piece of wood and cut out the full
handle with a coping saw. Attach
it with glue and round headed screws
to the strip that goes across the top
of the box
The small sliding tray for needles,
pins and thimble must be made very
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Odd Facts

If powerful lightning strokes
which shatter trees and buildings
could be controlled and sold COM
mercially as electricity they would
be worth less than 50 cents q dozen.
If you breathed pure oxygen all
the time you would die.
Two deadly poisons. sodium and
chlorine, combine to form harmless
table salt.
The production Of q pound OF
beef requires, directly or indirectly.
between Is and 30 tons Of water.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

hogany, or gum. Then 1t can be
stained. vanished and rubbed to .
high finish.
Cut out the ends and sides first.
Cover the joints with thin coating
of glue and fasten the four pieces
firmly together with l-inch wire
brads. Then hold the box firmly
on your bench or in a wise and plane
the bevels on the edges Of the side
pieces. Cut out the bottom and fit
Evening star., 1947-11-30

carefully SO that it will move back
and forth easily without sticking. A
little soap rubbed on the sides after
it is fitted in place will make 1t slide
easily.
The covers are fastened to the box
with small brass hinges. Sandpaper
the whole cabinet inside and out
before staining and vanishing.
Knobs may be placed on the covers
If YOU wish.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

MectiukS tHAS WCcA.
Monday-National Guard Of Hon.
or, Stephen P. McGroarty Post, Le-
gion Club; Department OF Com
nerce Post, Department OF Com
merce.
Tuesday-Vincent B. Costello
Post, Legion Club; I'd Division Post,
New colonial Hotel.
Wednesday-Sergt. Jasper Post,
Legion Club: Washington Building
and Construction Trades Post, Pyth-
ian Temple.
Thursday - George Washington
Post. Jane A. Delano Post. Legion
Club; Fort Stevens Post. Stansbury
Hall.
Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing Post, Legion Club; Colum-
bia Post, 6S74 Georgia avenue NV.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

Mrs. Margaret E. Carroll. depart
ment Child Welfare chairman, has
called a meeting of her committee
at pm. Friday at the American
Legion Club. Plans for the chill
dren's Christmas party will be made.
Unit presidents should see that their
chairmen are present at this meet
ing.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

Jane A. Delano Post on Thursday
evening will make arrangements Tor
their annual dinner at the Fairfax
Hotel on December 18 at $50 pm.
Make reservations with Lula B..
Carter, RA. 2416.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

Sergt. Jasper Post on Wednesday
evening will make plans for the dis
tribution of Christmas baskets to
needy veterans families and for the
annual Christmas party. Plans for
the annual testimonial banquet
honoring Past Comdr. Mclaughlin
will also be announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-16
s35o,O0O DAMAGE DONE
70 JUDGSON COLLEGE

MARION, Ala, July b-R)-
.a,storic Jewett Hall, main build
so IF Budson college, was destroy
.d today by fire set off by light
s4ng.
No oae was reported injured al
a,c,,gh 60 teen-age girls had been
attending Baptist Auxiliary meet
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-16

ing IN the building. The girl. were
Ia an adjoining dormitory when
the fire started and were evacu-
ated without confusion.
Judson, Baptist school for girls
founded in 1883, was not in session
and only a few administrative
workers were in the building.
No official estimate of the loss
was available. A marine business
man estimated, however, that the
damage would total $3.50, 900.
Evening star., 1947-07-12

not eligible for telephone until the veterans
have all been served.
I should like to know what is wrong with the
guys who took the worst blow of the war at
Pearl Harbor? (Or has Pearl Harbor been
forgotten?) And who then went on to spend
the remainder of the war at sea except to come
in port long enough to be patched up take on
more ammunition and return to the war zone
again. My husband was among the many who
did just that. Still, these regular servicemen
have no rights since the war is over. They
stand helplessly by, while the veterans are
privileged above them. They take the high
prices that are handed them without being
able to strike" back for better wages Worst
of all, they are sent overseas away from their
families But then I suppose, since they have
no other rights they have no right to family
either. .
do not deny that many civilian servicemen
were sent overseas and many did not return;
but who held the fort and died while these
civilians got their training?
Last and most important of all is this simple
question: What is the difference between a
veteran and a man who went through the war,
but who is still in service? Or would that be
an embarrassing question?
My answer would be: None!
DISGUSTED.
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Chinese Puzzle

President Chang Kai-ShekS broadcast
to the nation calling for policy of war
to the death" against the Communists is
the climax of a whole recent series of
official pronouncementS emphasizing the
increasing bitterness of the civil war be-
tween China's two major factions. 1t like
wise highlights the vexatious question of
what we can and should do regarding the
Chinese problem.
That problem is of long standing. 1t
really began when the decrepit Manchu
Empire crashed into ruin nearly four
decades ago and was succeeded by re-
public striving to transform China into
a nation-State run at least partially along
western lines. The transitional process has
proved immensely difficult, involving both
internal disruption and foreign interven-
ton. For the past two decades, the main
Kuomintang Nationalists and the Com
munists each seeking to mold China
according to their respective ideologies,
which are 50 mutually antipathetic that
genuine compromise has proved impossible.
Until recently, American policy has been
based on the possibility OF such an under
standing. But bitter experience has tended
to show that, in China as elsewhere, no
political coalition embracing Communist
faction can be stable or enduring. This
does not mean that the Kuomintang
regime is either efficient or reliable. It's
glaring shortcomings have been exposed
by many foreign observers. And 1t was the
grave faults of each side that caused Gen
eral Marshall, after year of vain efforts,
to issue his celebrated verdict virtually
saying: "A plague on both your houses" !"
Granting all that, however, the question
remains whether the defeat of the Kuo-
mintang and the victory of the Commu-
nists would not be major blow to our
interests. Yet, just how far should we 60
in attempting to shore up the Kuomintang
regime? China is so vast and the foreign
complications are so serious, especially
from the side OF Soviet Russia, that any
thing like large-scale American interven-
ton would be fraught with the gravest
Evening star., 1947-07-12
The Business of Judqes

The Cenate Judiciary Committee has
made public good and timely report
which takes strong exception to the grow
ing tendency to use Federal judges in non-
judicial assignments.
This report takes as its main theme the
proposition that "the business of judges is
and should remain judging" That is a
sound premise, and the drift away from it
in recent years gives cause for real concern.
There may be few very exceptional
cases when some overriding national in
terest justifies the President in asking a
Judge to step down from the bench and
undertake some special assignment. One
such occasion came at the time Of Pearl
Harbor, when the late President Roosevelt
asked Supreme Court Justice Roberts to
undertake an investigation of that dis
aster. The President knew that he might
be accused of deliberately provoking such
al incident as a means of taking the coun-
try into war. He also knew that the success
of the japanese was very apt to shake
public confidence in our topmost military
commanders at a time. when loss of con-
f1dence in them or in the President, could
have ruinous consequences. In those cir
cumstances there was good reason to ask a
man of Justice Roberts stature, who could
not be suspected of any pro- administra-
ton political leanings, to supervise a
factual investigation. But it should be
emphasized that occasions such as this are
very rare. And as experience has shown,
the tendency is for the President to at
IN 1nyy1 1n i1JIi IiNio
he is faced with some difficult problem, a
solution of which might be facilitated by
extending to it the mantle of respectability
which surrounds the Federal courts.
However desirable this might seem upon
superficial consideration, the fact is that
the practice tends to degrade the courts.
AS the Senate committee expressed it:
'The whole independence and integrity of
judicial Office must at least be embar-
rassed, if not compromised, by the easy
flow from bench to political Office. Yet this
is where the practice of appointing judges
to executive offices tends to lead. $50 The
high standard demanded Of the Federal
judiciary and its complete attachment to
things judicial should not be subjected to
the disintegrating erosion of particular ex-
ceptions. The business of judges is and
should remain judging"
The committee decided not to recon-
mend any legislation to deal with the
problem at this time, preferring, instead, to
call upon the President to exercise restraint
and discretion in seeking assistance from
the judicial branch. This is wise recon-
mendation, and one which should be
needed by our Chief Executives.
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Our Air Forces 'Speorheud'

Debate in the senate on Lne ArHly
appropriation bill has revealed alarming
weaknesses in what the Compton Com
mission terms the vital "spearhead OF our
professional armed serviceS"-an aerial
striking force That commission, In It's
report recommending adoption Of univer-
sal military training, gave first priority
to aviation in the field Of defense. I'VE
believe" the commission said, "that an
aggressor's reluctance to start war and
his handicap in prosecuting 1t success
fully If he did start it would be in direct
proportion to the power and readiness OF
our mobile striking force"
Senator Lodge, Republican, of MasSa-
chusetts quoted this part OF the commits
sion's report in waging an admirable,
though losing, battle on the floor OF the
Senate to give the Army Air Forces the
full striking force" it contends it should
have in the postwar period. The picture
which Senator Lodge gave his colleagues
of our demobilization-b battered aviation
spearhead as it exists today is not pleas
ant one-except, perhaps, to any potential
enemy. Overall figures of our supposed
Army-Navy plane strength confuse the
real picture, he pointed out
For example, sense of false security
may be derived from the oft-quoted statis-
tics showing that the AAF still has $4,000
planes of all types. The dismal truth Is
that the vast majority of these planes are
In storage. And every day they are becom-
ing more and more obsolescent. Senator
Lodge, after consulting the AAF' points out
that America today could muster striking
force of only one hundred and thirty long
range bombers.
Perhaps this "spearhead" would be ade
quate If 1t were free to strike the first blow.
But as the Massachusetts, Senator re-
minded the Senate, history and tradition
make it plain that we would wait to be
attacked before delivering a counterblow.
"Our hope" he warned, "lies in being ready
to retaliate the moment we are attacked"
The retaliatory blow inevitably must be
administered by an adequate and prepared
aerial striking force. Such force, the
AAF insists, will require minimum of
seventy air groups, comprising approx
mately 1000 operational bombers, fighters
and other combat aircraft. The War De-
partment has recommended that twelve
OF these air groups be maintained on a
skeleton basis only. The Budget Bureau
further reduced the fully operational
spearhead to fifty-five groups, with fifteen
skeletonized groups in reserve. The House
approved only fifty effective groups, with
twenty skeletonized. The Senate Armed
Services Committee restored the Budget
Bureaus allowance. And yesterday the
conferees on the Navy bill voted a sub
stantial increase for naval aviation.
Senator Lodge is correct in holding that
1t is extremely risky to substitute congress
sional Judgment for professional airmen's
judgment in so momentous a matter as
determining the safe minimum of strength
for our military spearhead. The least that
Congress should do is grant the full budget
allowance for this vital arm of offense and
defense
Evening star., 1947-07-12

risks. And piecemeal aid could cause our
policy to fall between two stools.
It is this dilemma, so complex and so
momentous, that has caused our policy
to exhibit both caution and ambiguity.
It's basic principle is clear enough: The
maintenance of China's sovereignty and
integrity, and the furtherance of its po-
litical evolution toward internal harmony
and international stability. Yet how to
implement that policy is something that
presents the gravest challenge to construc-
tive craftsmanship. And there is nothing
in China's present chaotic situation to
indicate that either harmony or stability
is within sight
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Information Service

TO the Editor of The Star:
Others in Washington may be interested In
the following letter:
"You may recall back in war days, there
was caused to be built in Washington an In
formation Center on Pennsylvania avenue
across from the Willard Hotel. I became quite
interested in this center and have been using
it. have never yet gone to them for informa-
ton but what they came up with the answer.
I have many Of my friends using this bureau
now consider it one of the best departments
in Washington, since somehow they have de-
veloped a system whereby they seem to know
everything. If you have not used the depart
ment try 1t. I have been trying to get my
friends to request some information that could
not be answered by them, or be told where
the answer could be found. Up to the present
time, they all report the little girl at the front
door with the telephones always comes up
with the answer.
"If you want Bill S. 131 they have number
of them on file. In fact, they have all olils
introduced either In the House or Senate IN
dexed and cross-indexed under every concelV-
able subject, and they usually have supply
on hand. They do not stop there, they call
up the House or Senate and tell you what Is
being done. Really it is good.
"You would be interested in several other
experiences I have had. arrived in WASH
ington, got my work done and had little
spare time. It occurred to me that maybe two
of my clients might be in town. I called their
hotel and found they were not registered
then went over to the Information Department
across the street from the Willard Hotel. I
told the young lady I would like to find out
whether John Willard of Bigelow, Kent, Will
lard & Co., or Will McGrath of Williamson
Heater Co. were in town. I told her II they
were the names OF the departments where
she might locate them. In a very few minutes,
she had them both on the phone. think
she made at least 10 calls, so don't you ever
let them tear that building down or abandon
the personnel that is in there. 1t renders me
a great service when I am In Washington"
The letter Is signed by George T. Trundle,
jr., president of the Trundle Engineering Co.
of Cleveland, Chicago and New York.
MORRIS l.. COOKE.
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Protecting the Atomic Bomb

The disclosure that highly confidential
documents were removed by two Army ser
geants demobiliZed from the Los Alamos
atomic bomb center naturally raises
question as to the adequacy of security
measures surrounding the whole A-bomb
project. The public, jittery enough as 1t
is over the tremendous potentialities and
dangers of our nuclear experiments, needs
reinsurance that such incidents will not
recur.
The fact that the integrity of bomb
secrets twice has been threatened by SOL
diers assigned to safeguard them adds to
the anxiety. 1t is recalled that official
action still is pending" against several
veterans who had snapshots of the atomic
bomb in their possession. These pictures
surely could not have been taken-and
secret documents could not have been re-
moved from the files at Los Alamos-
proper security measures been in effect.
1t is to the credit of the Atomic Energy
Commission that the absence of the Los
Alamos papers was so promptly discovered
after the commission had taken over the
plant from the Army. The law creating
the commission gives it full responsible
ity for safeguarding atomic secrets. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation now Is
engaged in checking on all personnel
assigned to the allimportant task of pro-
tecting the bomb from prying eyes. 1t Is
hard to conceive of loyalty check that
should be more thorough than this one.
The question of prosecuting the "souve-
mir hunters" who raided the Los Alamos
files is one for joint determination by the
Department of Justice and the Atomic
Energy Commission. That there should be
any question at all about it arises from the
possibility that successful prosecution
might compromise the very secrets which
the commission is pledged to guard. If
this question is valid one, it is logical
to question also the value Of the penalty
provisions written into the Atomic Energy
Act For if prosecution of such offenses
is not feasible without disclosing atomic
secrets the punitive provisions of the law
would appear to be worthless. Some De-
partment OF Justice officials are said to
feel that prosecutions can be brought sue
cessfully. A somewhat similar precedent
was set in 1941 when the department
prosecuted defendant in a case involving
the then top-secret Norden bombsight. The
final decision, under the atomic law, will
rest with the Atomic Energy Commission.
Unless some way is found to prosecute and
punish violators OF the act, however, safe
guarding of the bomb will become an ex-
tremely difficult undertaking. Only the
certainty of severe punishment is likely to
be deterrent to souvenir hunters" to say
nothing of persons with more dangerous
motives.
Evening star., 1947-07-12

savings wiped out or his home lost as the result
of serious illness, an operation or an accident.
Whether it is against the law or not, I
doubt if many people would object to the
spending of few dollars in the fight to obtain
such beneficial legislation. I'll wager the
amount was infinitesimal in comparison with
the amount spent to propagandize UNIT and
when viewed in the light of the money spent
by the Army in public relations activities in
1946-$5,681,114 to be exact-it hardly could
be found.
In spite of the fact that the daily press
favors the military in its reporting, there are
many people in the United States who resent
the profligate spending of tax monies by the
armed forces at the expense Of public health,
public works, etc. We can have strong Army
without such extravagant and wasteful spend
ing as is the case today. YOUNG MOTHER.
Evening star., 1947-07-12

parade grounds. Coming up the street, run
ming, were father and his two children,
girl and boy. When they were close to the
corner, the father picked up the little girl
and lifted her over the hedge of the corner
property while the boy squeezed through the
hedge. Then both the children ran across the
yard Of my neighbor, meeting the father, who
did walk around the corner.
The children may have gained q minute
to see more Of the parade, but they lost their
respect for the property Of some one who
lived there. This father, I feel, is responsible
for not training his children differently. E.
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Prefers Health Insurance
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I read that Federal action has been re-
quested against six Government agencies tor
working for the enactment of national health
insurance law, and I was surprised to learn
that it is illegal to use Federal money to try
to influence legislation. On May 81 I was
asked If would accept an invitation from
the Secretary of War to 60 on two-day plane
trip to the compulsory military training unit
at Fort Knox was told that 16-passenger
planes went regularly to Fort Knox from major
cities of the country to show the people what
a wonderful program they had at this camp
which was set up as a sample OF what we
might expect If compulsory military training
is made a part of our democratic" way OF
life The trip was to cost me nothing but
about 50 for lodging" Everything else was
to be furnished by the Army.
Every one knows that it costs great deal
of money to run 16-passenger planes, ana II
the trip was offered to me, one OF the least
important little people, how many more must
have been carried there, shown around, ted
and brought bsck-all with Federal money?
Shortly after I was asked to 60, the House
Executive Expenditures Subcommittee held
hearing on the methods of propaganda used
to sell the compulsory military training idea
to the country and Assistant Secretary OF
War Howard c. Peterson admitted that TWO
civilians had been employed by the Army to
travel about the country and line up support
for universal military training among civic
groups, women's clubs and other bodies, and
that Army planes had been used to fly civilians
to Fort Knox to see the UNIT unit there
Secretary Peterson said, I'VE make no apology
for our efforts to obtain the understanding
and support Of the public for our program"
Representative Harness, who was chairman
Of the committee, charged that the War De-
partment had illegally attempted to influence
Congress in this matter, but the Justice De-
partment was not asked to proceed against It.
However, action will be brought against six
agencies which were attempting to work Tor
the benefit Of the civilian, who each day finds
the cost of living rising and to whom major
illness spells catastrophe.
National health insurance has been in force
for many years In Poland. New Zealand, the
Scandinavian countries and many Others. The
United States is behind the times IN this re-
gard. Here the very rich, the very poor and
| armed forces personnel and their families all
receive excellent medical care. It is the man
In the middle who earns too much to obtain
free medical attention, who suffers under the
l present system, and who Is likely to see his