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Evening star., 1947-07-11
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vegetable Dinner
Broted Tomatoes YeLo,u Squash
Spinach With Egg Slices Spoon Bread
Cherry Nut Loaf Cake Iced Tea
Cherry Nut Loaf Cake.

Cherry Nut Loaf Cake.
IA cups sifted y cup shortening
double-actng a cup milk
baking powder % cup honey
y teaspoon salt teaspoon almond extract
u cup sugar u cup finely chopped candied
egg whites cherries
V cup sugar u cup finely chopped citron
I chopped nutmeats
sift once sitter with baking powder salt
cup sugar. egg whites until oamy. Add sugar
gradually beating until mixture will stand in soft peaks set
shortening temperature mix stir just to
S ingredients Add milk honey and almond extract
until is dampened Then beat minutes Add egg
white Fold in fruit and nuts
low speed Of electric mixer Count only
beating beating strokes Allow about $50 u
per scape bowl and spoon often while mixing
which been lined bottom with
paper then creased Bake F) IS
minutes or until before scing BY vi
Evening star., 1947-07-11
Over the Back Fence
By IsabsI Haekest

An up-and coming high school of asqaaanes
found almost kind Of job
rns OF tho ladder He has woksd from the ond up a might
the past year Last summer he dug and counted p bsee
planted nearby ioculation
fight beetles by spreading milky disease
least the fr1nges Of science
system the number Of grabs he dug and counted and claims
he developed great speed and accuracy.
county job oansas taksr HI
eped Of traps day, eossss
This somewhat less sarty than digging g1ub but stM
noonotonons
Evening star., 1947-07-11

TO SLIP RHODODENDRONS?
(From E. A. E., Edge,D1ter.)
Would greatly appreciate it If any
Of your readers know If there is any
way to slip rhododendron plants or
to start young new plants from the
main plant.
Evening star., 1947-07-11

Here's the suit that will be staging comeback this
fo now thot the 20 per tox has been removed
suits and coots trimmed with fur. Long and shohoired
fur will be featured many fall suits. Real leopard skins
trim this black broodeot suit Designed by Ado Marc,
the fneertp box jacket flares widely at the back This
suit shown recently in Chicago.
Evening star., 1947-03-04

rather weak-minded, stand mildly by,
only occasionally glaring or using my
elbow to advantage.
Appeals to the Capital Transit Co.
have proved fruitless, to date; perhaps
an appeal to the public would avail
more.
Since we are incapable of conceiving
the idea that We should sometimes be
considerate of others, perhaps a sign
to that effect would awaken an ideal
in our hard-shelled souls, particularly
since it would involve the other fel-
lows being considerate of us, too. Dur
ing rush hours people stand in line; in
fact, they're very righteous about it,
The Capital Transit Co. maintains
that II they erected signs requesting
passengers to form line that starter
would be needed to see that they did
form the line. They undoubtedly know
from experience that we humans be-
come animals of very low intelligence
and morals when confronted with bus;
but they might at least give us a chance.
Public opinion just might serve instead
of a starter.
Especially at transfer points, such as
Georgia avenue and Irving street and
at Fourteenth and Irving, q sign to
4uele could do no harm. itat
6 Londoners queue for buses all the
time. Should we Washingtonians admit
that we haven't reached the British
level Of intelligence? ANN EDDY.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Senator Wayne L. Morse, Republican
Of Oregon, who has split violently with
Republican National Chairman Carroll
Reece and more or less violently with
the Republican congressional leaders, is
an unusual kind of party rebel. In
election campaigns-for example in 1914
and 1946-Senator Morse not only has
been regular" in his support of Re
publican candidates for President and
Vice President and for membership in
Congress but he has been one of the
most widely used campaigners.
Despite the fact he has been accused
by Republicans in the Senate of being
New Dealer practically ever since he
took his seat in 1945, he supported the
Dewey-Bricker Republican national
ticket in 1914, and spent as much time
speaking for that ticket as he did for
himself-a candidate for the senator
ship that year. He has not called him
self Republican in between elections
and then bolted his party's ticket at
election time-as did the late Senator
George Norris of Nebraska on several
occasions. He did not as did Senator
Ball of Minnesota, bolt the Dewey ticket
and support Roosevelt in the last
presidential election.
Nor will Senator Morse bolt his
party's ticket in 1948-no matter what
he has to say now about the Republican
national chairman and about the Re-
publican leadership in Congress-and
that is plenty, for he considers both
reactionary in the extreme. He takes
his party membership seriously, but he
does not believe that he must give up
his own views on legislative issues that
come before the Senate merely because
Republican leaders White. Taft, Wherry,
Bridges, etc., tell him to. If he thinks
the attitude of the party is reactionary,
he says so without hesitation. He has
done so frequently.
\ X 4
Obviously, since he supported the
Republican ticket when Gov. Dewey of
New York was the presidential candi-
date in 1914, Senator Morse would
support Dewey again If the New Yorker
became the party nominee for President
next year. He admits as much. #
Harold E. Stassen, former Governor of
Minnesota, were the nominee, he would
be enthusiastically campaigning for
him. Just what would happen, however.
if the Republican convention should
nominate for President Senator Taft or
Senator Bricker of Ohio, or any other
candidate whom Mr. Morse considers
reactionary Republican, remains to be
seen. He might support actively the
candidate or he might just say nothing.
One thing he would not do, however,
is to bolt his party's ticket and come
out for President Truman or any other
candidate the Democrats might nomi-
nate.
So while Senator Morse, by his re-
fusal to go along with the Republican
leaders ID the Senate, may give the
Democrats certain amount Of JOY.
they will get mighty little satisfaction
Evening star., 1947-03-04
China and Unity

There seems more than a lit
tie wiShfulneSs in Generalissimo
Chiang's prediction that China will
achieve unity in another six months
or year. Most signs point to an
intenSiication of strife between his
Nationalist forces and the Chinese
Communists. Conceivably he may be
able to smash the latter fairly rap
idly in an all-out drive against them,
but more than that will be required
to pull the country together and
give it the political harmony it so
sorely needs.
When General Marshall ended his
mediation mission, just shortly be-
fore becoming Secretary of State, he
placed special emphasis on the de-
STABILITY of sweeping government
tai reorganization in China. The
problem of how to promote Chinese
peace and well-being, he said, lies
between two extremist forces-"the
dominant reactonary group in the
government and the irreconcilable
Communists" In his judgment, what
the situation calls for Isl the "as-
sumption of leadership by the lib
erals in the government and in the
minority parties, splendid group of
men, but who as yet lack the polit-
ical power to exercise controlling
influence"
Reports indicate that the Chang
regime will undergo some measure
of reorganization later this month
as one of the steps preliminary to
holding democratic elections under
China's new constitution. AS it ex-
lists now, the Nationalist government
is a one-party government, the party
being the Kuomintang. What re-
mains to be seen is whether it will
be reorganized on a broad enough
basis to give fair representation to
other political parties as well-to the
splendid group of men" Secretary
Marshall has in mind. With that
kind of change and with Generals
simo Chiang's continued leadership
the outlook for unity would brighten
considerably.
Under the best of circumstances,
of course, China's difficulties will
remain very great for long time to
come. Ravaged by years of warfare
among themselves and with the
Japanese, the inflation-ridden Chi
nese people are economically pros
trate. Even If Generalissimo Chang
Evening star., 1947-03-04
'Trovesty on Justice

It is an error on the side of under
statement to say that the Depart
ment of Justice, in pressing for a
retrial of the fantastic mass sedition
case, is displaying more zeal than
good judgment.
This criticism is subject to two
qualifications. A revival of the case
might be feasible if the department
has devised some appropriate means
of prosecuting a few of the defend
ants or of prosecuting them in small
groups Secondly, it may be that o.
John Rogge, chief prosecutor in the
1914 trial, but who subsequently was
"fired" by the Attorney General, un-
covered new and important evidence
during his trip to Germany last year.
Spokesman for the department have
not indicated that either of these
assumptions is well founded, how
ever, and inquiries by reporters have
produced only a mo comment" re-
sponse.
If this can be taken to mean that
Justice officials are thinking in
terms Of another mass trial on the
1914 model, there is ample reason to
view the development with profound
misgiving. That case ended in mis-
trial when Presiding Judge Eicher
died after listening to a compound
of testimony, argument and uproar
over period of eight months. Even
after so long time the Government
had not nearly completed its case
and, with allowance for defense tes-'
timony, the prospect was that the
trial would last much more than a
year. Furthermore, the complexion
of the case was such that the chief
prosecutor stated publicly that he
did not believe convictions, if OBJ
tanned, would be upheld in the Su-
preme Court.
1t was against this background
chat Chief Justice Belitha 7. Laws
Of the District Court dismissed the
Indictments against the tweaty-six
surviving defendants last November,
with the comment that retrial of
the case would be "travesty on
Justice"
That comment was amply justi-
fed when made and there has been,
no known development since to In.
validate it. Consequently,t may be-
said that the Department of.Justice.
is in danger of doing far more dam
age to that concept of fair play
which is the essence of our demo-
cratic system than could possibly
have been done by. the curious as
sortment of individuals named in
the sedition indictments.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
On Sitting Still

In an era when change is the key
note one hesitates to deliver a dog
matte. opinion. Progress means
change and the countryman recog-
nizes that he cannot slow down the
intricate gears if he would. What
the world most needs is a matter of
opinion, and around the forums of
village stores men deliver their judg-
ments. That is the way it should be
in democracy, where every man is
entitled to his idiosyncracies and
personal tangents if they do not un-
duly trespass on the rights and pre-
negatives of his peers. A man is
entitled to his belief that the ship
of state will hold more even course
II cooks would learn to put sweet
potatoes in beef stews. Some feel
that general overhauling of the
Nations hall closets is the major
need of the contemporary situation.
There is reasonable foundation for
the belief that what we most need
is a renaissance of the ability to sit
still for spell. Before the machin-
cry of national and international re-
lationships slipped into high gear
men liked to sit for a while. Some
times they sat and thought; some
times they just sat. Both techniques
have helped. The progress of man
kind has resulted from the former.
To men who have sat and thought
we owe much. They are the ones
who have pondered the ways human
life could be improved. The moon
gazers" and their contemporaries
labeled idle" dreamers have always
suffered the gibes of those who in
sisted on action every minute. Wal
ter Bagehot, the banker, editor and
discerning commentator on the
English constitution, long ago saw
the advantages of sitting. 1T is Ger
tain,"' he said, "that we should have
been far wiser race than we are if
we had been reader to sit quiet. We
should have known much better the
way in which it was best to act when
we came to act" If our leaders
would sit and think a reasonable
part of the time, it would reduce the
fruitless trial and error sallies and
save energies for the goals mankind
is trying to achieve.
Evening star., 1947-03-04

Is not being overwishful In pre-
dieting the early advent Of their
political unity, their rehabilitation
will be a slow and painful process.
But If they can get together, if they
can create democratically broad
ened government without too much
further delay, the hardest part of
their problem will be solved. Every
one anxious for peace and stability
in Asia must hope for such a de-
velopment. Without it, a potentially
prosperous future will continue to
elude China and the world as a
whole will be the less secure for that
reason.
Evening star., 1947-03-04

out of the Oregon Senator when it comes
to electioneering Indeed, it may be
expected that the Republicans will send
Mr. Morse into largely populated, in
dustrial areas to campaign for the
party ticket, and where he might be
expected to do the most good. It was
Morse upon whom the Republicans
relied for much of their campaigning
m hitherto radical States like Washing
ton in 1896 and it was in those States
he did the party a lot of good. The
Democrats of Washington, for example,
shed tears when the Oregon Liberal
Republican came into their State and
went down the line for the Republican
congressional ticket.
All this will not interfere with the
brisk war which has been declared by
Morse against Chairman Reece and the
Republican leaders in the House and
Senate-and by them accepted. In
deed, the Republican leadership in the
upper house has already undertaken
quietly to discipline--or chastise-the
Oregon Senator for opposition. He was
denied place on the Foreign Relations
Committee, to which he held he was
entitled, and on the Economic Com
mittee more recently.
Mr.. Morse for his part has just issued
a blast, attacking an editorial in the
Republican News, official organ of the
Republican National Committee, in
which Chairman Reece urged all Re-
publicans in Congress to get behind the
elected Republican leaders Of the House
and Senate, and vote with them.
"A more brazen demand for reac-
tionary control Of the Republican Party
has not been suggested by Republican
spokesman for many years" commented
Mr. Morse. "As one Republican deny
that the group Of Republicans for whom
Carroll Reece serves as chore boy rep
resents the rank and file views of regis
tered Republican voters. 1t is Reece
and the machine politicians for whom
he speaks who would have us vote for
a tax program that would sell national
defense short; that would sell the value
of the American dollar short; that
would have us vote for budget pro-
gram that would sell the west short;
that sell our international obligations
short, and that would sell a sound
Republican program short"
Morse considers he is carrying on the
late Wendell WILKES program to lib-
eralize the Republican Party and his
warfare against the party bosses. He
said the middle of -the-road liberal
Republicans cannot teamwork with the
Reece type of Republicans" He and
they, he said, will carry this fight to
the Republican voters Of America. BY
that he means they will speak far
and wide, and will 60 into primary
elections and elections Of delegations
to party conventions. At present Morse
has with him in his fight only two or
three Republican Senators-notably
Aiken Of Vermont and Tobey Of New
Hampshire. He says, however. he has
Just begun to night.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Volunteer Army

There can be little doubt that
Congress will readily accede to
President Truman's request that the
draft law be allowed to die natural
death on March 81 next. The previ-
Gus Congress manifested such dis
taste for the law that its extension
was in doubt until the final vote
was taken. 1t would have taken
some extremely persuasive testi-
mony by the President and his diplo-
matte, military and naval advisers
TO induce Congress to grant selective
service further lease on life.
1t is evident from the White House
message, supplemented by state
ments of Army personnel authorities,
that it would have been difficult to
make out very strong case at this
time for another extension of the
act. The fact is that the War and
Navy Departments would much pre-
fer to have volunteers than draftees
II they can get them-and they have
been quite successful so far in get
ting them through intensive re-
eruiting campaigns. In January
enlistments were nearly double the
average of $4,000 reached in Novem-
ber and December, and during the
first half of February more than
$4,000 recruits were signed up. Re-
cruiting officials believe that the
trend is such as to assure enough
men to enable the Army to reach
Its July l goal of 100000 and the
Navy its goal of 571 1000.
Both services will have to continue
their recruiting efforts without letup
If the strength they deem necessary
for 1948 is to be attained. Removal
of the draft threat" may compli-
cate their task. But the risks have
been calculated carefully and the
War and Navy Departments say they
are willing to take the chance on
one condition. They will insist on
the right to ask for return to selec-
tive service II there should be a
serious falling off in enlistments.
This is something that Congress
would not have to deal with until
some time in the future, but the
proyiso is important and should not
be forgotten.
With the draft law a dead issue,
Congress can devote its undivided
attention, militarily, to the very live
issue of universal military training.
In fact, the need for this type of
training will be greater than ever
as the regular military and naval
forces shrink to peacetime size.
Unless we are to maintain larger
armed forces than are now planned,
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Only the Roin

The rains tnsistent tonatoms Diu not
cease
Their haunting throb g.. the endless
rhythmic beating
Echoes Uithtn the heart, and gtpes no
pe1ce-
It falls In g1,ostlike tohispers. Oft
repeating
Dreams long forgotten; sound on silper
sound
Awdkes the heart. stabbing It ptth
pain
lind still the ntercfless tomtonts pulse
and pound,
And still the dull relentless beat Of
OF rain i. J
Yet only rain iDiH stir the lonely heart
NeUer the tDird, nerer the friendly
Only the rain can rend me, part By
part
By these faint tocsfns ts the soul
undone;.
Only the rains persistent symphony
Tugs at the heart, and ,ctH not let
.e be. {
MAE wINKLER GOODMAN.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
State Without a Conscience
To the Editor Of The Star:

State Without a Conscience
To the Editor Of The Star:
Deep, indeed, is the real difference
between the democratic way of life and
the way Of plumbing the
very depths Of the human spirit. For
what Is planted deeper in the nature of
man than conscience-that still, small
voice, which is, nevertheless, supremely
above the voices of all states? And
how can forms Of government differ
more profoundly than in their attitude
toward mems consciences?
Here, we have God-fearing democ-
racy, which is built solidly upon the
principle of least possible interference
with mems consciences. Democracy's
apparent ineff1ciencies are due to
nothing so much as to democracy's ad-
mirable attempts to step out OF the way
OF mems consciences as far as possible }
But In Russia, men live under a
totalitarian Communist state which
bows to no God, and says it can do no
wrong. Hence, that state has no real
conscience. Nor has 1t any tender
ness toward the conscience of any man.
Let us not deny that Communist
Russia is most certainly a go-getter
state. Believing, as 1t does, that "the
end justifies the means" (and that its
own end is "the" endD, and believing
that mems consciences are to be used
only as mere means to its own ends
(and are to be tortured unto destruc-
tiCn where they do not yield to its
commands Communist Russia is state
of truly terrifying force, and is gaining
steadily in power position, just as Nazi
Germany did in the days of her ap-
peasement.
BOILING SOMERVILLE.
Norwood, Va,
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Letters to The Star From Its Readers
No Sympathy for Drunks Lady Rider Demands Courtesy
The Superior Dog Lecture for Women
Urges Rock Pile for Drunks

Urges Rock Pile for Drunks
To the Editor Of The Star:
Why waste the valuable time of
doctors and nurses on chronic drunks
when the services of these people are
so urgently needed elsewhere? Elderly
people, who have been sober and in
dustrious citizens, may be dying in
misery because of lack of means to
command the services of physicians and
nurses. Older people are being crowded
to the wall-are being forced to seek
shelter in nursing homes" when the
expense involved is not beyond their
means. The charge for such services-I
have discovered-is, generally from 5000
month to as much as $3.50 week,
Evening star., 1947-03-04

recourse to nice words in order to cover
up their unseemly deeds"
What nerve, to pose as boaster Of
sanctity of treaties, now, after the u S..
S. r. has become the worlds champion
treaty-violator. With Latvia alone the
U. S. S. R. has violated: The peace
treaty, the nonaggression treaty, concili-
alton convention, mutual assistance
pact, the antiwar pact, the convention
defining the aggressor, the Leagues
covenant and numerous others.
DIR. ALFRED BILMANIS,
Latvian Minister.
Evening star., 1947-03-04

them and should know" He replied.
Man, by ali means"
Judging from the universal mass
slaughter in which the race has been
involved twice in the present century
in futile attempts to save democracy
and establish the -Four Freedoms, it
would seem that mankind as whole is
destined to travel long distances before
he reaches the higher plane now occu-
pied by faithful animals.
The late Charles Edward Russell, q
great liberal and humanitarian, once
delivered a scathing denunciation
against vivisection at the grave of
dog in little green cemetary for pets
He said, Il would rather die than have
my life perpetuated by radical science
that is dependent upon torturing ami
mails. We can learn fidelity from
dogs. Dogs don't enter into coven-
ants and tear them up. That is man.
Dogs don't Cypress and enslave their
fellows. If humans would observe dogs,
they might possibly become in time as
fine and true and noble as dogs are"
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH.s