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peutic value, and people Ia general, living
ii q hard world, appear to want It. The
box-office tells
In any case, people have made It clear
that they are against paying for talking
pictures that preach ideologies or other
wise bore them stiff It is safe bet that
even the average Russian would rather
spend two hours watching somebody like
Dorothy Lamour in bit OF nonsense and
a sarong than somebody like uya Ehren-
berg narrating full-length feature about
the giories of collectivism. Despite Marx,
human nature is human nature.
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A Box-Office Natter

Culture and Life, Soviet periodical
devoted to the idea that art can be artistic
only when it agitates for communism and
the Stain Five-Year Plan, has now lam
basted Hollywood. Hollywood, it says,
serves capitalistic "reactionaries' by paint
ing "a distorted sweetened picture" of
America in movies that smell mile OF
propaganda" Well, it would be easy enough
to reply with facts and figures showing
that the pot in this instance, being much
blacker, has q lot of nerve panning the
kettle. But why bother?
HOLLYWOOD, of course, is a private enter
prise and not the tool of propaganda
demanding government. 1t has many
faults but 1t knows from experience that
the vast majority of -goers-here
and abroad-do not like to pay out their
good money for anything but entertain
ment. If well acted and wrapped up in
reasonably interesting story, measure OF
theological stuff will be acceptable to them.
On the whole, however, they prefer produc-
tions-tearful or gay-that tend to carry
them out of themselves for the few hours
they spend in the dark observing the ups
and downs of fabulous creatures acting out
every emotion from A to z. What STRINGS,
what vicarious living in their secret hearts
as they sit there silently seeing and hear
ing! The whole business may distort or
sweeten reality but that is the way most
of us want it.
Some years ago, while he was still the
czar of Hollywood, Will Hays commented on
all this by declaring that the movies, in
response to public demand, had to be
"eudaemonistic." Mr.. Hays learned word
referred to something dating back to
the ancient Greek philosophers, notably
Aristotle Aristotle was a great preacher
of "-udaemonism" system of ethics
placir stress on the art of attaining
happiness, good spirit, a cheerful frame
of mind To link it with present-day movies
is to latter the movies, but it has variant
known as "escapism"-a thing which Gull
ture and Life undoubtedly scorns as Just
another capitalistic trick. Still-taken in
moderate doses-escapism can have thera-
Evening star., 1947-05-16

Hundreds Of people who ordinarily are not
interested in philatelic matters will welcome
the release OF the new Scent postage stamp
Reproducing 1.-THE Doctor" The painting
chosen for the central motif of the COM
memorative for the centenary of the American
Medical Association is one OF the most W1deiy
famous genre works in existence. 1t Is q
major objective of thousands OF visitors to the
Tate Gallery in London yearly. POSTCARDS ana
color prints of it have been circulated through
out the world. In the United States alone
literally millions Of school textbooks have made
it familiar to three generations OF children.
The story it tells has been adapted TO motion
picture and radio uses. Yet relatively lew per-
sons know how 1t came to be created, where,
when and by whom.
The artist responsible for "The Doctor" was
Sir Luke Fildes, British painter Of great dis
tinction, born at Liverpool October l8, 1884,
and educated at Chester, Warrington and
South Kensington. When only 21 he began
to draw for w. L. Thomas, founder OF the
London Graphic. His sketches, in the form OF
wood-engravings, also appeared IN London So
ciety, Once a Week and the Illustrated London
News, starting in 1865. He was admitted as
student at the Royal Academy in 1885, saw his
first picture in oil hung on the line at the
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1879 and Royal Academician in 1887.
One Poignant Picture Sets Fashion.
Fildes' first triumphal success was tre-
mendous social document"-a canvas entitled
Applicants for Admission to Casual Ward,
showing 40 or more charity patients awaiting
admission to q hospital. The distress OF the
men, women and children portrayed was, IN
effect, an indictment of the times. Critics
called the composition "a sermon - - never to
be forgotten" When the painting was dis
played to the public, a railing had to be erected
In front of 1t to protect it against being injured
by the press of the crowd and policemen were
summoned to manage the throng. Charles
Dickens was so much impressed with the spirit
Of the picture that he invited Fildes to illustrate
Edwin brood"
But in the interim the artist already was
contemplating work which should have greater
and more enduring appeal than the pathetic
"Casuals" This is 1.-THE Doctor" for which he
Is assured Of Immortality. 1t was q theme
cautiously and painstakingly approached
Fildes first thought about 1t for long while;
Evening star., 1947-05-16
On Unehurted Seas

= Eve feel as II we are in roWpoat
rocking In midocean and in need OF some
sort of star on which to fix our future
course" So said General Eisenhower in an
nouncing the formation of an advance
study group Of young officers to explore
the future of atomic warfare.
The three officers initially assigned to
this momentous task are truly in boat,
headed for uncharted seas. Hiroshima and
Bikini dropped a curtain on conventional
techniques and weapons and tactics Of the
preatomic age and opened grim new
vista for military pioneering. It is indica-
tive of the new order Of open -mindedness
at the War and Navy Departments, OF
their recognition Of the inevitability Of
revolutionary changes which lie ahead,
that both departments are assigning
officers to do nothing but study the dread
full potentialities OF atomic energy, elec-
tronics, rockets and other developments in
the field Of military science.
General Eisenhower, while instructing
these military explorers to try to peer ten,
fifteen or even twenty-five years ahead,
does not actually expect that they or any
other group of minds can foretell definitely
what war a quarter century from now
would be like A similar study Immediately
after World War I scarcely could have
anticipated the scientific destruction
methods of World War II. But had there
been less smugness among our military and
naval planners in the years before Pearl
Harbor, had there been more Of the open
mindedness toward new ideas in tactics,
strategy and equipment that now is being
manifested by our defense experts, there
undoubtedly would have been quicker vic
tories for us, at lesser costs in lives and
money. It is reassuring to know that we
appreciate the gravity of our plight as we
look toward new and deadlier military
horizons and that we mean to chart a
forward looking, alert and prudent course
In the strange waters ahead
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tnen he made a few tentative sketches: next
he had built in his studio In Melbury Roao
London, the cottage walls and ceiling shown
in the finished canvas. During the period OF
his engagement with the preliminaries. he told
his biographer, David Croal Thomson, that the
"new subject" would be more appealing, more
terrible perhaps but yet more beadtiful tnan
any previous endeavor In his experience. The
interior details not counting the human ng-
ures, were obtained In small house In Moray
in Northeast Scotland. A legend af6rms that
this building was property Of Queen Victoria
How tho Artist Labored on Greater work.
But setting the scene" was only minor
aspect Of the task Fildes had given himself.
"The Doctor" may have been modelled after
any of several eminent physicians Of the day.
1t likewise has been suggested that the artist
himself posed for him. There is resemblance
between the principal character in the picture
and accredited photographs OF the painter.
More difficult, however, was the conception
and drawing OF the sick child, the fever
stricken little patient upon whom the light
OF the oil lamp falls as she sleeps. Fildes
proved his genius as well as his capacity for
reverence in his efforts. When the painting
eventually was finished, Thomson wrote Of 1t:
"IT1is composition - has been recognized by
the medical profession as great and lasting
compliment to the whole body. No more
noble figure than the doctor could be imagined
the grave anxiety, supported by calm as
surance In his own knowledge and skill, not
put forward in any self-sufdcient way, but
with dignity and patience At the cottage
window the dawn begins to steal in"
The picture at last was exhibited In 1891.
It was sensation. Contemporary accounts say
that people openly wept on seeing It, Strangers
stopped the artist on the street to thank him.
The Queen commanded" him to paint por-
traits of the Duke and Duchess Of York. later
King George and Queen Mary Subse-
quently commissioned to do the coronation
portraits Of King Edward VII, he was knighted
in 1906 and admitted to the Victorian Order
in 1918. He died February n. 1927.
Sir Henry Tate, millionaire sugar magnate,
gave the original Of "The Doctor to the
British nation in 1897. A copy OF 1t has been
supplied to the Post ONCE, Department by
the Library Of Congress The new stamp Is
scheduled for release at Atlantic City on June
.. It Is prophesied that It will be the most
popular commemorative ever issued
Evening star., 1947-05-16
The Untoxed Realty Owner

Chairman Buck OF the Senate DlStrlct
Committee has introduced another Dill
for annual measurement, by nxed
formula, of the amount the Federal Gov
ernmerlt should pay toward maintenance
and operating costs of the District.
His ia the third bill introduced this
session. Chairman Horan OF the House
subcommittee on District Appropriations
is sponsoring one and Representative
Hebert of Louisiana has introduced the
bill containing the Overton-O 'Mahoney
formula, Representative Bates OF Massa-
chusetts is working on still another one.
All of the bills are designed to produce
method of measurement of the Federal
Governments financial obligation to its
CAPITAL City, related in some fashion TO
the amount furnished by local taxpayers.
Discovery and adoption OF some fair
method Of measurement Is OF fundamental
importance to Washington. Without II
there will be continuation OF hit-or-mlss
policies which in the past twenty years
have steadily increased local taxes while
reducing the amount paid by the largest
owner of real estate in the Capitalize
Federal Government. Local taxpayers
alone cannot meet the rising costs in this
expensive Federal City.
For that reason unusual local interest
attaches to bill by Representative Clair
Engle of California on which subconl-
rnittee of the House Public Lands Commit
tee will hold hearings this month. The
bills purpose is to study. on Nationwide
v,I,io "A Eadaro1 (50V-
eminent might contribute to State and
local governments in lieu OF taxes on Gov
ernment-owned real estate. Here over half
our real estate is tax exempt, most OF 1T
owned by the National Government
According to the National Association OF
County Officials, some forty laws have
been enacted by Congress providing almost
as many different methods of measuring
Federal contributions "in lieu of taxes"
The association believes there should be
uniformity in these methods and that one
acceptable system might be no more ex-
pensiye than the sum total OF those now
followed.
The difficulty, of course, springs from
The doctrine that local governments can
not tax Federal property. What is needed
Is q method to make up revenues lost to
local governments through tax exemption
without lodging in local government the
power to tax Federal holdings. Here In
Washington the local real estate tax, II
applied to Federal-owned land and i'm
provements, would amount to about $12,-
500 0000 The National Government already
pays to the District lump sum Of $8,000,-
900 in lieu of any tax contributions. But
the lump sum is admittedly inadequate by
any standard of measurement and is based
on nothing, being merely a compromise
figure. While Washington is the chief
sufferer from lack of a specific method OF
measuring what the Federal payment
should be, 1t is interesting to note that
other local authorities the Nation over are
becoming conscious, If in lesser degree, OF
the same problem.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Questions and Answers

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Please inclose three tsl cents for return postase
Q. How much of the public debt LIS repre-
sented by Series War Bonds?-W. Q. r.
A. On January 81, 1947, the total public debt
outstanding amounted to s259,7 100000 OF
this, United States Savings Bonds amounted
to $50 343 600 900 and $50 507 900 900 was repre-
sented by Series Bonds.
Q. Who designated September II as Teachers
Day?-E. G.
A. The National Education Association says
that it was decided by o group Of educators,
including the United States ONCE Of Educa-
tion to set aside September IL as Teachers
Day.
Q. How are floral clocks constructed3--
J. p. D.
A. Usually the intricate electrical works are
hidden in cement vault underground. The
foliage used for the hands grows in light soil
in zinc trough but the plants In the dial and
base are rooted in the mound of earth From
1000 to 10000 or more plants are required
and the foliage must be kept to certain
height. Before World War II there were about
half dozen such clocks in existence, two In
the United States, one in Canada and others
In England, Scotland and Switzerland.
Q. Who selects the designs on our coins'-
r. B. D.
A. The selection OF designs 10 mace py the
director of the mint with the approval OF the
Secretary OF the Treasury. In few instances,
Congress has prescribed a coin design.
@. Who was the "Gadfiy Of Athens"?--I. L.
A. Socrates According to Plato, Socrates
declared that In rousing the Athenians from
their apathy by his system OF questioning he
was like q gadfiy stinging lazy horse into
action
@, How much annual rainfall Is necessary
for ordinary farming?-B. B.
A. In temperate climates abundant crops can
be obtained without irrigation II the rainfall
is 20 inches or more. However, q yearly rain.
fall OF 10 inches may be enough II it happens
to come at the right season: Many other fac
tors must be considered.
O. What Is the oldest Indian tribe?-C. G. w.
A. The Mayas are the oldest Indian stock Of
which we have knowledge. According to tradi-
tion they emigrated from "the Far North" TO
Mexico and Central America before the begin
ming Of the Christian era.
A. The drst formation battle seems TO hays
occurred on May g. 1917, when, In battle be-
tween British and German flyers, fve two
scatter fighters fought three formations Of
nine planes each.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
SponieI

Under grasses green and deep
Little Peter lies asleep.
Peter had the softest hGtri
And the blackest, you 1Dould strenr.
Peter had the longest edrsl
Longer than his dozen years.
And the brightest eyes and tcnys!
He ,ods brilliant all his ddys.
When his time came to depart
He took son1ethtng OF my heart.
Under grasses green and deep
Little Peter lies Gsleep.
SAMUEL u. eAR0Kle1.
Evening star., 1947-05-16

they wanted it. I'm not forgetting and never
will, my buddies who never came back.
The Last War? Again we were lucky Our
land, the U. 8. A., again escaped unscratched.
Our land" yes, but once again we left white
crosses" this time in nearly all Of the world.
was too old to 60; working, hoping, cannot
say praying; don't know how. Hoping when
this war was over we would never have to 60
through another war;
1owERY c. HALL
Doubts Mr.. Lawrence's CIO Lawyers
To the Editor Of The Star:
Your columnist, David Lawrence, In The Star
for May 9, makes second attempt to assert
that the Wagner Act "was written by lawyers
Of the CIO," though he and The Stars editors
know that the Wagner Act was drafted long
before there was any CIO. He admits that,
but says he INTENDED to say that the influence
ing AFL lawyers subsequently became the
CIO"
This, too is conscious error. The labor
lawyers, whose views in 1884 were invited by
Senator Wagner, are still in the AFI. have
every respect for CIO lawyers, but as one who
sat In on those drafting conferences in 1883
1895, have to record that no Subsequent"
CIO lawyer had anything effective to do with
the act, which was drafted, to the last comma,
under the eye OF Senator Wagner himself.
Mr. Lawrence then tries to bolster his error
by saying after the Wagner law was passed.
AFL unions charged that the CIO was being
favored" by NLRB. He suppresses what he
knows: That the CIO necessarily. by conyen-
tion resolutions and by deputations, charged"
that the AFL was being favored. It's better
to cite the statistical record: For 10 years both
AFL and CIO have filed charges" cases and
representation cases with NLRB in about the
same proportion-ffty-f1fty. And currently,
each continues to request board elections and
win or lose elections in the same proportion
ffty-fifty.
Mr. Lawrence's line, which has been parroted
by Senator Taft IN present Senate debates, Is
symptomatic Of phase OF the business lobby
around Congressional the Wagner Act Was
the creation Of the CIO cred radically and
the NLRB was their creature. Mr.. Lawrence's
latest contribution puts 1t thus: ut WAS natural
that lawyers sympathetic with the industrial
union philosophy should have influenced Sen
ator Wagner OF New York mote that New
York; for In 1885 that was the dominant note
Of the radicals In the labor movement"
Wrong again, consciously. As Senator Thomas
Of Utah, who sat In the Senate Labor Commit
tee, 1s34-'5, recently said in the Senate, 1t was
the radicals" who opposed the Wagner Act,
At the 1884 hearings, he noted, the Communist
party, through its official representative, .
Vell-known industrial unionist, opposed the
proposed act, lock, stock and barrel" They
maintained that opposition until 1887, their
~orly allies" ut the hearings being the National
Association of Manufacturers.
4. BI.AlKRsHoRN.
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Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
Uriter, although it is permissible for
Driter kno1pn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief
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that:
All passes. Art alone
Enduring stays to US;
The bust outlasts the throne,
The coin Tiberius.
He spent the best years Of his life design
ing and engraving metal disks by which
other Americans would trade their labor.
Nothing but the instinct Of civilized society
dictates that such tokens should be beau
tiful. So far as their pragmatic purpose
is concerned, there is no reason why they
should not be blank or simply stamped
with numerals of value. The starkly eco
nomic theory of organized human existence
fails no more egregiously anywhere than
in its contention that the deliberate crea-
ton of loveliness is useless exercise.
Mr.. Sinnock was unsurpassed in his
generation as a maker of numismatic
pictures. He gave to coins and medals
a voice Of sort, to tell the story Of the
Nation by which they were issued. The
Evening star., 1947-05-16
John R. Sinnock

None knew better than John r. Sinnock
the truth Of Austin Dobson's conviction
that:
Evening star., 1947-05-24
Contractor Fined in Fight
In Church Auditorium

Fisticuffs in a church auditorium
led to the conviction yesterday of
building contractor charged with
assault on an architect. Both men
were engaged in remodeling the
building.
Fined 500 was William Collins,
48. colored, Of the 800 block of T
street NV, after a Municipal Court
jury had returned guilty verdict
before Judge George D. Nelson.
Roscoe Vaughn, colored, of the
500 block of T street NV. tie COM
plainant, testified he and Collins
got into dispute last month over
the specifications of a fight of steps
in the auditorium G. the Meridian
Hill Baptist Church, l725 Kalo-
rama road NV.
Collins admitted he struck the
other man, but only after Mr..
Vaughn had reached "menacirgly"
into a pocket. The Rev. Roose-
velt Mcintyre, pastor of the church,
testified he saw Er. Vaughn
knocked to the floor.
Factory smoke is being used in
Russia to increase vegetable produce
ton,
Evening star., 1947-05-24
Divorce Boom Predicted
From Housing Shortage

The Veterans of Foreign Wars
predicted today the Nations di-
vorce rate will take a drastic up
swing during the next five years
as a result of the housing shortage.
George T. Trial, VFW educational
chief, said studies on college camp
uses particularly show that hous-
ing lacks are causing "home-to-
mother movement among wives of
thousands of student veterans"
college authorities are worried
over this situation" Mr.. Trial de-
clared. Many of them fatty pre-
dict the separations will end in
the divorce courts, even though they
start as temporary separations.
And where families have been
able to stay together on campuses,
they have been forced by the cost
of living to cut food budgets far
below the point required for good
health and normal development"
Evening star., 1947-05-24
Preliminary Meeting
|0f Daughters Of 1872
Session Being Held

The 54th associa te council OF the
National Society United States
Daughters of 1872 was to begin this
morning at the Hotel Statler with
committee meetings preceding the
convening of the regular session
Monday.
Registration will take place today
and Monday morning. The council
will close its meetings Tuesday.
The annual supper meeting of the
Association of State Presidents and
Charter Members will be held today.
Tomorrow the Officers National
Club, presided over by Mrs. Henry
Bourne Joy, will hold its annual
meeting and breakfast at national
headquarters, 1461 Rhode Island
avenue NV.
A memorial service to deceased
members will take place at 2:30 pm.
tomorrow in st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Sixteenth and H streets
NV, with the Rev. C. Leslie Glenn
officiating.
Reception Tomorrow.
Mrs. Charles H. Stephenson, ma
tional chaplain, will be in charge OF
the ceremonies. Mrs Charles Henry
Plotner, state president for the Dis
trict, will commemorate Mrs. Herbert
Blandy, last Real Daughter OF the
District, who died on Christmas
Day, 1916.
Another event tomorrow will be
a reception at national headquar-I
tiers from to pm. The program
will include music by June Mann,
pianist, and Dorothy Perrenoud,
guitarist, from the Columbia School
of Music.
Mrs. Lucius Willingham McCon-
nell, national president, and her Of
flcers will be in the receiving line.
A meeting of the Board Of Di-
rectors will be held at s pm. SUM-
day at the Statler.
On Monday, the regular session
will open at 1890 am. with the
bugle call and professional march,
STARS and Stripes Forever" played
by the Marine Band. Mrs. McCon-
nell III declare the council in ses-
sion, and the invocation will be
by Mrs. Charles H. Stephenson,
chaplain national.
Gossett to Speak.
Mrs. Plotner will present the wei
come to Washington.
Representative Gossett, Democrat,
of Texas will speak on National
Defense" at the afternoon session.
A reception will be held at 7:30
pm. for delegates, members and
guests, in honor of national officers
and guests, in the Statler, followed
by a banquet at 8 pm. Greetings
will be brought by Capt. Milo F.
McAlpin. president of the General
Society of the War of 1872.
There will be an address on CAN
drew Jackson" by Col Robert S.
Henry. The program will include
musical selections by Dorothea
Lawrence, soprano, in honor Of the
15Gth anniversary of the launching
of the frigate Constitution on Octo-
ber 81, 1897.
A business session will be held
at pm. Tuesday in the Hotel
Statler and a Board Of Directors
meeting will follow adjournment.
Evening star., 1947-05-24

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Evening star., 1947-05-24

Factory smoke Is being used In
Russia to increase vegetable produc-
ton