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Evening star., 1947-03-26
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Mar. &c.
Detectives Edwin Lilya and Curtis
Kline recounted today the story OF
a sweating hour and a half in
which young veteran of the Anzio
beachhead fingered rosary as he
leveled one of two revolvers at
them, firing twice ''in case you
don't think they're loaded"
The veteran, Eugene Lepley, %,
was booked ''for investigation"
AT one point Mr.. Lepley pointed
one of the guns at his own head,
moaning: This is the only way
out" Mr.. Lilya said, but he failed
to pull the trigger.
The detectives, summoned to
Lepley's home on a disturbance call,
said they found him sitting on the
bed with the revolvers trained on
Evening star., 1947-03-26
Silver Spring Meeting
Set on School BUDGET

The proposed Montgomery County
education budget will be discussed
at citizens meeting sponsored by
the Woodside Elementary School
Parent-Teacher Association at Bile
pm. tomorrow in the school in Silver
Spring.
Irwin Wensink, member of the
School Advisory Committee to the
county commissioners and Board Of
Education, will speak.
The Valley settler., 1947-12-19
GIRL 5 TEAM WINS
! WO

OfNL iCNW WtVO w Pert's Pe Inner Girls Basket "e11 team were at their best IS they WON tive close hard fou~ht ratnes from tht Cordova Imperial Girls tenn +t- Cor dova lo st weck-end. Friday nj cht schrc WAS 2l-20 and Saturday nj cht wos 32-5l. In Fr1r days game. Corf0va started the -j to points until the final minute when field basket by Bonnie Moore and q free throw Tn the last 10 sec onds gave the lead md the game to the Matanuska Maidens. Impe rio Is led at lst. quarter B-4. Playing WAS about even in 2nd. qu9r ter which ndod l2.8. Late in the sec ond h9 IT, 2fter CordoY2 h. ,d; : ' settled down, md bocon to nartbv' the gap. How 1t was wo has been told
 Bonnie Moore t2ll1ed ..t5 points too; hard plqvine of dari2h Barry WIS :. sensational.
 Saturday nirhEs r2me started ftac and furi ous. The l0en l f>orva rde.*> soon hQd the score lO-O Tn their favor. howcvcr, Ir1pcri71s bcran co function and in | short inc were behind Qt half onlv' l9-l5. Play vas lose, h. rd fou Int, the rest of thr wov wifh never more than | points sop2r2t tnr the tco~c. Ac2 in. Miss Ao6r9 to lli61 le poin+z. vi tn Laura Fronco cont ributin F and i4rs. Dorothy 3onds j. points. The play Of Ill the oirls wHs bril- liant, for lordov9 4mporials hodn't lost .c0me in , vecrs. lqrro enthusiastic crowd of Ger dov2ns vi tncseed the contests, md after each ~2r1o the Cordov4 Busi- ness men really ah owed their hscpi- t2litE and sportma nship by tre2 t. ing the squads to 2 boat trip md dance and luncheon.
The Valley settler., 1947-12-19
MO- WIGHT MASS

The usual Mtdni rht Mass will be held Tt St. Michqe1's Church Chris t mas Eve, starttnc promptly It mid niGht. Everyone is invited to at
 SOOALITY PARTY - There will te 2 Chrt stmQs portv Tor the memhc rs or the Sodo litv Of St. Mich9e Is Church [ the home of Hrs htchaHd Aoh3n, Sunday, Dee. 21
 
 BASKET R4LL CAME ArCHoRAGz vs. PALMER DECEMpEI 20, loA7.
The Valley settler., 1947-12-19

Rept's Palmer Girls Basket "e11
 team were at their best IS they WON tive close hard fou-ht ratnes from tn Cordova Imperial Girl s tenn ; Cor dova la st Weck-end. |
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Unjust to Career Employees

The disclosure that more than nine hun
dred thousand temporary" employees are
still on the Government payroll-two
years after the close of World War Twill
come as surprise to many persons, as 1t
did to Chairman Rees, Of the House Civil
Service Committee. But experience has
shown that the Federal establishment Is
traditionally slow in releasing wartime en-
ployes. Indeed If the postwar trends of
World War I are repeated, many of the
so-called temporary employees of World
War II eventually will become permanent
civil service workers, retained of necessity
to meet requirements of departmental
growth.
But the really surprising-and regret
table-development in the civil service
system since the late war is not so much
the slowness Of departmental retrench-
ment as the injustice that has been done
many old-line employees in the economy
process In ordering drastic personnel re-
ductions in the departments, Congress was
aiming the ak primarily at war-swollen
agencies. The Civil Service Commission
has found, however, that more than fifteen
hundred career workers have been deprived
Of their jobs under the curtailed appropria-
tion program. Many Of these regular EN-
ployes have experience and skills that the
Government can Ill afford to lose. Some
Evening star., 1947-09-06
The Food Price villains

looming meat, egg and butter prices
cannot accurately be blamed on single
villain. Depending on individual preJu-
dices, one might be tempted to say that
the trouble stems from our shipments
abroad, or from the fact that the OPA is
gone, or from some kind of conspiracy
cooked up by lot of bloated profiteers in
a smoke filled room The truth is, though,
that all such convenient whipping-boy
explanations grossly oversimplify the
situation.
Actually, if foreign shipments the end
of OPA or profiteering are to be considered
at all, they must be considered as relatively
minor factors. The real villains OF the
piece-the major villains-are distractions,
conditions and forces that cannot be
stopped by ukase, or defeated at the next
election or thrown into Jail. They include
record breaking earnings by our farmers
and industrial workers, prodigiouS ma
tional appetite, the iron whim of Mother
Nature, and the well-known law OF supply
and demand.
Consider Mother Nature, for example.
Last year she smiled on the good American
earth, and we harvested record corn
crop of almost 3,3OOOO0,OOO bushels. But
this year she froWned and the crop is
down almost billion bushels, and 1t may
be down even more than that if there is an
early frost. This has sent the price OF
corn to an unprecedented peak. 1t means
that there will be less feed, at much greater
cost, for pigs and cattle, and that means
that there will be less pork and beef for
the table, and the pork and beef will ac-
cordingly be more expensive.
But natures unkindness to the corn crop
Is not the sole factor involved. With full
employment with farm and factory earn
ings breaking all past records. Americans
have plenty of money and they are eating
at fabulous rate, creating an extraor-
dinary demand in the face of limited
supply. Thus, in the case of meat, our
per capita consumption amounts to about
155 pounds year-the greatest in more
than four decades-or an overall annual
total of about twenty-three billion pounds,
a figure dwarflng our exports of 500000,000
pounds. This colossal appetite, together
with the corn setback Is one of the chief
influences behind mounting prices for beef,
pork etc. Much the same holds true for
butter and eggs. AS far as eggs are con-
cerned, incidentally, our consumption of
them has been abnormally high, and 1t is
likely to be higher because the cost of meat
Is driving people to eat them as substi-
tute for chops, steaks and roasts.
OF course, for housewives who have to
put meals on the table and for breadwin-
ners who like to eat we'll without paying
a kings ransom, 1t is small comfort to
know that a combination of more or less
inanimate and intractable villains is
responsible for the present situation.
Nevertheless. If the problem is to be dealt
with intelligently-and about the only
solution suggested 50 far is a more Spartan
diet for everybody-the factors involved
need to be kept straight. The dose Of in
fiation we are having now will not be made
any the less bitter If we place the blame
where 1t does not really belong.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
A Matter of Common Sense

Common sense fully supports the State
DEPARTMENTS rejection of Russia's protest
against the decision to raise the level of
industry in the Anglo-American zones of
Germany According to the Soviet view,
Britain and the United States have violated
the Potsdam agreement in making the de-
cison without Russian assent, but the Rus
slams themselves have steadfastly refused
to honor one of the most important of the
Potsdam provisions-namely, to treat the
defeated Reich as single economic unit.
This refusal has made the Anglo-American
action mandatory. without such action,
there could only be a do-notlling attitude
toward employing the German economy to
speed European recovery and to ease the
burden of occupation costs on the British
and ourselves.
Actually, as the State Department has
pointed out, the main objectives of the
Potsdam agreement-to eliminate the
German war potential and enable Ger
many to support itself-are not affected
or undermined by the Anglo-American de-
cision. That decision is aimed primarily
at increasing the Ruhrs industrial output
to the 1885 level, not merely to permit the
Germans to pay their own way and thus
tighten the expenses of Britain and the
United States, but also-and perhaps more
importantly-to revitalize the continental
economy. 1t is not for nothing that Ger
many has been called the workshop of
Europe. Until it huns again-always with
safeguards against resurgent militarism-
the neighboring European countries will be
held back economically.
BY its veto Of all past efforts at the
economic unification of Germany, the
Soviet Union has left itself wide open to
the charge Of deliberately seeking to create
German poorhouse, with the end in view
OF retardng the recovery of Western
Europe and imposing prolonged and ex-
cessive occupation burden on Britain and
the United States. In the circumstances,
the Russians are hardly in a position to
complain against the bizonal action taken
by the British and ourselves in an attempt
to end the stagnation they have caused by
their obstructionist nay-saying. In effect,
their protest is protest against our re-
fusal to be stymied by them any longer.
The State Department has answered them
in a sensbly blunt way: We are simply
fed up with their policy of paralysis.
Evening star., 1947-09-06

have s. ten, fifteen or twenty years,
only to find themselves suddenly cut off
the payroll through no fault of their own.
The Civil Service Commission is correct
in contending that it was not the intention
of Congress that the current reductions in
force should be made at the expense of
civil service employees who were serving
the Government before the emergency ex-
pansion of war days. Yet the fact is that
the commission has been unable to induce
some of the agencies to cooperate in re-
storing the career workers to the payroll.
The commission therefore is justified in
resorting to drastic measures to force ad-
ministrative authorities to make room for
the jobless civil servants. even If a small
percentage of the nine hundred thousand
war service workers must relinquish their
positions This is matter of simple fair
ness to group of veteran employees who
have become innocent victims of the
economy drive.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Sufety-A Continuing Problem

There is merit in the proposal that a
permanent committee representing the
public be created to advise the Commis
sloners on flre-safety regulations. A tenn
porary committee already has rendered
good service in studying provisions and
suggesting notifications of the proposed
new safety code.
The nineteen-man advisory committee
yesterday recommended number of re-
visions in the regulations drawn up for
new construction. The changes met with
general approval of representatives of nu-
merous civic and trade organizations at
tending hearing at the District Building.
The prospect thus is bright for eany en-
forcement of workable" rules that will
increase the safety of hotels, apartments,
offices and other buildings to be con-
structed in the future.
Still confronting the committee and the
Commissioners, however, is the bigger task
of formulating code that will give maxi
mum protection to the public in buildings
already in existence-without imposing too
severe a hardship on owners of these
structures. The original regulations drawn
up by the Commissioners were protested
by building owners and operators on the
ground that some of the requirements were
so costly or so drastic otherwise as to put
them out of business if rigidly enforced
There was no disputing the fact that their
buildings complied with safety regulations
in effect at the time of construction. Nor
was there any doubt that the old regula-
tions are inadequate in the light of lessons
learned, at the cost of many lives, in hotel
and other fires in recent years throughout
the country.
In recognition of the difficulties of this
aspect of the fire-safety problem, the Com
miSsioners have postponed enforcement of
the proposed code until next April. Mean
while the advisory committee will con-
tinue its study of the special problem of
rendering older buildings safer This effort
to arrive at a satisfactory modification of
the proposed code-satisfactory not only
to building interests but to occupants of
potentially hazardous buildings-should be
pressed to an early conclusion. And since
the problem of building safety is a con-
tinuing one, involving changing conditions,
establishment of the advisory committee
on permanent basis would be in the
public interest
Evening star., 1947-09-06
And Now for the Crobqruss

Washington lies in an area which marks
the northern limit for good Southern lawn
grasses and the southern limit for good
Northern lawn grasses. This unfortunate
betwixt-and- between position gives crab
grass a wholly unfair advantage and
divides an otherwise peaceful community
Of homeowners into two groups, which
regard each other through jaundiced eyes.
One group believes that crabgrass can
be licked. With unflagging zeal the mem
bers of this group subject their lawns in
midsummer to systematic and minute
inspection. They pounce on the first crab
grass that shows its ugly head early in
July and with singular patience remove
each blade as the season advances. Never
tagging, as the summer grows old and
September approaches, never Stacking in
their constant vigil they are ready, come
Labor Day, to clean up with implements
designed for the purpose any luckless
sprouts OF crabgrass that have evaded
them before. Then, with a selfrighteous-
ness which is fully justified they look
across the way at the neighbor who belongs
to the other group.
This other group is made up largely of
philosophers who believe in letting we'll
enough alone and taking things as they
come They are the same ones who found
. themselves conquered last spring by a
sneak invasion of dandelons But, having
seen these 60, in time, they believe crab
grass will, in turn, make its departure, too.
It will, and all too soon. 1t will wither and
die and replace Its rich green carpet by
muddy, brown spots which eventually in
clude the whole lawn. And in the mean
time, its billions of seed will take wings
on the breeze and bury themselves in the
lawn of the good neighbor whose freedom
, from crabgrass has been won at the price
! of eternal vigilance, there to sleep through
, winter and renew the battle next year.
. Experts on the grass problem including
, the custodians of the parks, are more apt
. to belong to the latter group than to those
. who never cease their struggle against
. erabgrass. The park people are inclined
Evening star., 1947-09-06
All Deserve q Break

steps being taken by the Office Of
National Capital Parks to give tourists "a
break" in the scramble to find parking
space In Washington will mean additional
hardships for local motorists. The latter
have hard enough time as it is in finding
places to park for business or pleasure pur-
poses. Yet there is much to be said in
behalf of visitors who feel that some pro-
vision should be made for them to park
near such places of interest as the White
House, Washington Monument and Lin
coin Memorial. The park authorities plan
to eliminate all-day parking on roadways
near these centers Of interest, substituting
a two-hour limit
Local motorists, who deserve a break as
much as the folks from cut of the city,
would be willing to suffer further restric-
tions If their suffering and their outcries
would lead to definite action in their be-
half. They have waited long and patiently
for remedial measures recommended by
various agencies. Many surveys and traf-
fic studies have been made. But the park
ing problem In downtown Washington
seems to grow worse and worse.
One of the more promising suggestions
was that OF the District Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency, calling for so-called fringe
parking lots, to supplement additional off,
street parking lots and buildings in the
congested district. In the fringe lots, just
outside the commercial section, motorists
could park all day long to their hearts
content, without inconveniencing tourists
or other fellow motorists seeking temporary
parking places. The agency has run into
difficulties in it's efforts to obtain co-opera-
ton of Federal authorities and private
interests in this program. 1t is said to be
still searching for suitable areas for fringe
lots.
The fringe parking idea should not be
dropped without trial, at least. The
agency should continue its efforts to find
appropriate locations and practicable ways
of operating the lots Perhaps the elm
ination Of all-day parking will serve to
rally public support behind fringe parking
and thus hasten action on badly tagging
relief program.
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Seeing Both Sides

To the Editor of The Star:
The only fitting reply to the recent letter Of
Disguised American Is a paraphrasing OF his
own statement:
From time to time my family and have
read of the atrocities committed by the Brit
ish against the Jews in Palestine and we have
marveled at the patience of the Jews. And
now we are filled with horror and loathing by
the hanging Of three young Jews who had
fought for Britain during this past war, and
were convicted only of belonging to one OF
the terrorist societies, and by the brutal
reprisals both in Palestine and in the United
Kingdom for the murder of the two sergeants."
Disguised American is perhaps taken to
task too severely Can one really condemn him
for falling to view both the excesses of the
Irgunists and the excesses of the British with
equanimity? His reaction is doubtless COM
mon coin with thousands of wel-meaning
people who glance at newspaper headline
and allow their prejudices to write whatever
article follows.
With q modicum of reflection the editors
of The Star may determine what is and what
Is not printable opinion; any letter which Is
so fact and $50 emotion is worthless and in
sulting when presented as challenge to the
writer of a more thoughtful paragraph; any
such letter, which is allowed to toy with so
real a problem as racial prejudice, becomes
dangerous when enhanced with the respect
ability of newsprint. So much is fairly obvious
It is a sporting democratic principle to pre-
sent both sides of a question; 1t is only on
these premises that this letter asks publica-
tion But The Star should either editorially ex-
press its doubts in accepting basic American
ethics OF human dignity or stop debating an
axiom within its pages. OBITER DICTUM
Evening star., 1947-09-06
In Defense of Ecuador

To the Editor of The Star:
read your most unfriendly editorial en-
titled "Turnabout in Ecuador in Thursdays
Star and would like to make few comments
on it.
The scanty information gathered from the
news that has been published these days
about the political change in my country has
given the editorialist very poor and superb
cial understanding of the situation and de-
velopments in Ecuador Had he known little
more on the subject he could have found
deeper meaning and pass on a better judg-
ment Had he been acquainted little more
with the people and the events he pretends
to know he could have said that dictator
ship that was set up on August %, through e.
military coup, was unable to survive more
than week because of general disapproval
and rejection and because of the general Will
of the people to go back to constitutional rule.
So, public opinion started the counter-revo-
luton and government under the constitution
was rapidly re-established.
There is moral to be drawn from these
events and it is not the one so rudely suggested
by your editorial: The moral is that military
coups to seize political power are rejected by
the people of Ecuador, who have come to real
ize that the only satisfactory way of organiz-
ing government Is the democratic expression
of the will of the people through free electlouS.
I am not affirming that we have already
reached most advanced stage in our political
development, but do say that we are moving
in the right direction toward democratic ideals.
It seems to me that the close consideration
Of the political events that took place in my
country during the last two weeks will prove
that we have set up good example to other
nations to resist the establishment of regimes
by force. This seems to suggest that Ecuador
is not the barbarous country that your edi-
torial tries to demonstrate. No doubt we have
many drawbacks and things to be changed
and imprcved-as all countries have-but it is
unjust and unfriendly to try to emphasize only
those negative aspects and overlook positive
features L. NEFTALI PONCE,
Ambassador of Ecuador.
Evening star., 1947-09-06

to let nature take it's course sowing rye in
the fall over withering crabgrass and thus
getting winter covering on such show
lawns, as, say, the White House. To do
otherwise, they contend, would cost more
than taxpayers want to spend. And as
long as any crabgrass grows anywhere in
the District, its spread is inevitable.
So, hail to the good citizen whose lawn
this time of year, is free of crabgrass. His
little oasis, in desert of dying crabgrass,
is tribute to his muscle, his faith in the
triumph of mind over matter
Evening star., 1947-09-06
Curse of Motor Noises

70 the Editor Of The Star:
have been resident of Washington, D. c.,
for the past two years and, although find 1t
a beautiful, clean and interesting city, some
one has fallen by the wayside with regard
to trafnc rules and regulations.
Can they not enforce law against motor
bikes and horn blowing, as well as speeding?
live on very busy street. Thirteenth
street. 1t is the noisiest street in creation.
There is the constant roaring Of speeding
automobiles and motorbikes and 1t is beyond
me as TO why drivers have to blow their horns
at the least provocation. In New York City
they have enforced an anti-noise law which
prohibits such annoyances and II It can be