davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Those Who Ride Free

To the Editor of The Star:
Referring to the numerous strikes for
higher wages ''to take care of the high
cost of living" it appears that in many
cases the worker contributes nothing di-
rectly from his income to take care of
the additional cost to his employer and
the rest of the public.
For instance, in the case of the pres
ent demand of the employees of the
Government cafeterias for an increase
in wages ito take care of the high cost
of living" it is my impression that most
if not all, of these employees get two
meals each day for five days in each
week free of charge. So, also in connec-
tion with the request of the transit
companies for higher fares as the result
of the recent increase in wages granted
the employees I understand that these
same employees do not pay fares when
not on duty. The same thing, no doubt,
is true in many other cases. The en-
ployes are furnished their supplies free
of charge or at discount. In other
words, they are exempt from the direct
effect of the added cost to their employ
ers and to the public. Why should they
not bear their proportionate share of the
burden which their demands place upon
others?
1t should be the policy in every case
where possible to make it a condition
precedent to any increase in wages that
those benefited directly by such increase
shall bear their proportionate share of
the burden. Let the transit employees
pay fares when not on duty and let the
cafeteria employees pay for their meals
as others do. H. B.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
No Porking at the Pentogon

It is discouraging to those who
yearn for early automobile parking
relief to learn that legal obstacles
have developed to delay, If not to
defeat, Washington's first planned
experiment with fringe parking"
Chairman P. Y. K. Howat of the Dis
trict Motor Vehicle Parking Agency
says that technicalities are prevent
ing the use of the north section of
the Pentagon parking area as an all
day parking lot for Virginians wish
ing to ride into Washington on
Capital Transit buses now serving
the War Department. The buses
now return to Washington empty in
the morning rush hours. The plan
was to fill them with persons headed
for Offices in the city. In the after
noon conditions would be reversed.
The chief advantage of this prof.
ect was that it would make good
use Of a large parking area that is
now virtually unused by Pentagon
workers, enabling the Parking
Agency to test one of the major
traffic-relief proposals in it's for
ward-looking program. A recent
survey of the Mall and Potomac
Park areas showed that some 900
Virginia cars are parked there daily,
congesting traffic lanes and marring
the beauty of the parks. 1t was ex-
pected that owners of majority OF
these cars would be glad to park at
the Pentagon, where they would be
assured of ample parking space,
provided adequate bus transpor-
tation across the river were avail
able.
The legal snarl seems to arise
from jurisdictional complications
which would be involved in extern
sion of Parking Agency authority
to the Pentagon lot. There have
been conferences between District
and War Department lawyers on
the subject. The consensus is that
only an act of Congress can pave
the way for the undertaking. Since
the whole fringe parking program
will suffer a severe setback if the
Pentagon tryout cannot be made,
it is to be hoped that the Commis-
sioners will lose no time in urging
Congress to enact whatever author
ization is necessary to get the enter
prise started.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
WEDNESDAY, January 20, 1874
Mr.. Morqenthou's 'Diury'

Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
will have rendered an outstanding
public service if, as a result OF his
negotiations with former Secretary
Morgenthau, he produces an answer
to the question, When is diary
not diary, but an official document
not to be peddled to newspaper or
magazine?"
There does not seem to be much
doubt that Mr.. Morgenthau was the
most prodigious of all the diary
keepers who adorned the Washing
ton scene during the late war and
before that: Beside Mr. Morgen-
thau's 90O-volume, 10000 ,000-word
product even Elliott Roosevelt's best
efforts are reduced to pigmy propor-
tions. Mrs. Roosevelt's daily COM
ments, Madame Perkins reminis-
cences, former Secretary Ickes' re-
Elections and the memorabilia of a
growing host of other insiders seem
certain to suffer by comparison.
To give his public rough idea
of what is in store for it eventually,
Mr.. Morgenthau recently released
some choice excerpts from his
diary hardly calculated to add to
the prestige of some OF his asso-
ciates, including the late President
Roosevelt. Whether presidential
characterization of a distinguished
Britisher as "old pink WhlSkers' or
of Dean Acheson as a lightweight
could be construed as personal or
official is a point to be considered IN
classifying Mr. Morgenthau's note
books and papers.
The former cabinet officer took so
much material away with him When
he left his Treasury post that a
corps of college research experts had
to be enlisted to Gull through and
classify it. 1t is wonder that MI.
Morgenthau had time for anything
but preparing his diary, to Judge
from its size. One question that has
not been cleared up, and which
would have bearing on whether
the material is personal or public
property, is who helped the former
Secretary keep the record and who
paid for binding the 900 thick VOL
umes. Mr.. Snyder feels that regard
less of who paid for the project, 1t
included letters, memoranda and
other data that belong in Govern
ment files. If that is the case, the
public is entitled to some explana-
ton from Mr.. Morgenthau of his
reason for removing them from the
Trea s,r,-v nena rtment
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Not Yet Grown Up
ON the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian science Monltor
The widespread misconduct charged
against United States Army officers and
men has implications for American
prestige in the difficult future. In the
nature of things, the officers must take
a larger share of the blame. particularly
since poorly trained and indoctrinated
troops are now being sent as replace
ments. t.. The cause and remedy lie
deeper than is likely to be uncovered by
any Senate investigation. Partly, at
least, they point to the fact that America
has not yet grown up to the recognition
that her responsibilities to the peace
are no less imperative than to the war.
Meanwhile, the publicized difficulties OF
occupation should cause some slight
hesitation in those irresponsible enthu-
siasts who want to drop the atomic bomb
on parts of the globe that are not yet
, convinced of the superiority of ths
SAmerican Way of life.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Racial Harmony in Hawaii

NoSlol 1ldl lHOly III hawaii
To the Editor of The Star:
Last Saturdays editorial on Changes
in Hawaii" overlooked an outstanding
and almost unique contribution which
that Territory is making. 1t even stuck
an ominous note with implications con-
corning national and international har-
mony and peace. According to the
editorial, the most outstanding claim to
statehood is the doubling of the white
population without which it was feared
that nonwhites might challenge some
of the white mans domination. Now
that the white man is reasonably sure
of dominating ALL phases of life, we
may get along with the matter of state
hood. 1t is this very attitude which
at last has aroused certain colored peo-
piles in the world and which, if con-
tinued, will forever preclude internal
harmony and international peace.
What greater contribution could any
prospective State make to the welfare
of the country than large scale DEM
onstration that various races can and
do live together in mutual respect and
aloha? The nonwhite groups by their
labor, thrift and cultural gifts together
with their proven loyalty to America
have contributed significantly to the
protection and development of the Ter
ritory and have demonstrated their
civic ability.
To Nation plagued with prejudice
fSom within and beset with conflicting
interests without, this example OF ra-
cial equality and real freedom should
be not only an adequate ticket OF ad-
mission to statehood but also symbol
of leadership in field In which the
Nation Is weak. =. g. HOPE.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Wood Thrush

When dag is hus1ted and hidden,
And golden woods are mute.
The elegist of evening
Touches his silDer lutte.
As II the light mere lyric
That from the first star CLEANS
Far through the deny ptnewood
The glimnaering choral streams.
As IT the rosebay's beauty
In music oUerbrin,med
TIL all the fading forest hears
Her radiant pespers hynrned.
As IL through, lonely oriels
OF sundol0n's gorgeous Jane
Resplendent dying Beauty sang
Anthems OF lo1e and pain.
As If a heart long harTied
And scourged byy,uany rod
Had triunphed, and trere singing
Safe in the arms pf God.
ARCHIBALO RUTIEDGE.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

various minorities In British India,
such as the Mohammedans, the
Sikhs, and the low-caste Hindus to
a special status safeguarding them
from the threat of subjection to the
high-caste Hindu oligarchy which
dominates the Congress Party.
Should British authority prove
unable to maintain order in this
stormy transition period, the native
princes could play a forceful part
in the chaotic confusion which
might ensue. At any rate, their
role should neither be forgotten nor
r11irimized
Evening star., 1947-01-29

seems to be developing q conscious
ness OF It's own, coupled with wide
spread repugnance against a return
Of Egyptian rule. II the Egyptian
government succeeds in getting the
Sudanese and collateral issues be-
fore the Security Council of q. N. it
will present that body with one of
the most complex and difficult cases
it has yet tackled
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Sees No Issue of Control

Sees No Issue of Control
To the Editor of The Star
In your editorial of January "a you
question If the vote in the recent plebis-
cite favoring the right" to vote for
officials of the local city government
means that majority of the residents
here desire surrender by Congress of
it's control over the District"
The Supreme Court of the United
States, in the case of Stoutenburgh VS..
Hennick (129 U. S. l4D, said: 1T is a
cardinal principle of our system of gov
ernment that local affairs shall be man.
aged by local authorities, and general
affairs by the central authority, and
hence, while the rule is also funda-
mental that the power to make laws
cannot be delegated, the creation of
municipalities exercising local self-gov-
ernment has never been held to trench
upon that rule. Such legislation is not
regarded as transfer of general legis-
lative power, but rather as the grant of
authority to prescribe local regulations,
according to immemorial practice, sub
ject, of course, to the interposition Of
the superior in cases of necessity"
The Constitution says that Congress
shall have power to exercise exclusive
legislation" over the area ceded by par
ticular States for "the seat of the Gov
ernment of the United States" In its
exercise of this power Congress, in 1902,
created the City of Washington a
municipality exercising local self-gov-
ernment." In 1871 Congress attempted
to do the same thing with the whole Of
the District of Columbia, but bungled
the job. In 1873 Congress took away
local self-government but promised to
pay one-haf of the municipal costs
thereafter. In 1921 Congress repudiated
that promise.
At no time during the last 146 years
has Congress surrendered its control"
over the District. Restoration of local
government would not involve sur
render of the control" contemplated by
the Constitution, which is that Congress
shall be our legislative body, comparable
to State Legislature.
KENNETH P. ARMSTRONG.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Leovinq Only Boredom

From the oskaloosa qowa) Tribune Press.
Life would be practically perfect, II
somebody would invent process for
taking the hard work out Of it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
BASEBALL.

Results of exhibition games play cd Sunday by the big league teams resulted as follows:
 Boston CA) T; Cincinnati tN) 6 Washington (A) "A" T; Detroit (A) "A" 6.
 Detroit (A) "B" 6; Syracuse IL) t13 innings.
 Chattanooga (SA) l3; Washing ton (A) B" II.
 St, Louis (N) 3; New York (A) O. Pittsburgh (N) g. Boston tN) 0. Philadelphia (N ?; Philadelphia (A) "A" 0.
 Baltimore dL) 5; Philadelphia (A) B" 0.
 Brooklyn tN) "A" 12; Cuban All Stars 4
 Brooklyn (N) B" 3; St. Louis !(A) 1.
 Cleveland (A) II; Chicago (A) 3 Here are results of Pacific Coast League exhibition games:
 San Francisco II; New York Gi- ants 9.
 Chicago Cubs II; Oakland 9. Sacramento 13; Seattle 2.
 San Diego T; Los Angeles 5. Portland 4; Hollywood 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
NO TROOPS TO BE SENT
 TO GREECE

fConttnued Jron, Page JneJ
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24

and to make untenable any Greek government not suhservient to Communistic aims.
 Greece Ripe Plum"
 "U. s. Representatives in Greece have become convinced that the increasing effrontery of Greece's northern neighbors and of the FAM (the Communist organiza- tion) is an indication of belief that Greece is a ripe plum ready to fall into their hands within a few weeks through lack of support by the Western Democracies.
 Of Turkey, the documents said that countrys trouble stems from demands from Russia for special privileges in the strategic Dar- danelles, and for strategic areas in Northwestern Turkey. They added:
 Turkey can do little to com bat this war of nerves, but the Turks have made it clear that they will oppose with force any at tempt to violate their sovereignty and territorial integrity
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24

RENO, N1v., March 24.-R- Swiss skt3rs, paced by speedy Karl Jolitor, scored a clean sweep in the two-day second annual Silver Dollar ski derby.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
LAST SERVICES FOR
 ALICE HALL TUESDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Hall, who passed away last Friday at St. Anns Hospital, will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in the chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
 The Rev. J. T. Spurlin of the First Baptist Church will conduct the services, and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
 The casket will not be opened at the funeral, but friends who wish may call this evening between the hours of 7:30 and o'clock at the chapel of the Mortuary.
 Mrs. Alice Hall has .heen a resi- dent of the Territory for 31 years, and was 72 years old at the time of her death She is survived by no known relatives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
YUkp52o4 FEET WITH
 ONE YUNp
Kongsgaard of Kongsberg Makes Record Leap Be-
 fore Crowd of 6,000

HYAK, Wash, March 24.-tR- Over hill that produced Ameri- can record-teating exhibition leaps cn two successive days, four top American ski stars clinched places on the 1948 United States Olympics ski Jumping team before a Cas- cacos Mountain snowstorm blew in last night.
 It was field day for the mid west ski riders. Three of the competitors named by the Olym- pics selection committee hail from the ski capitals of Northern Mich igan and the fourth from Minne- sota.
 TEey were, in the order in which they placed in the tough two-day competition: Joe Perrault, Ish- peming Mich; Walter Bietila Iron Mountain, Mich; Sverre Fred helm, St. Paul, and Ralph Bietila 1shpeming, youngest of the three famed jumping brothers.
 Art Deylin, New York states top jumper, also. is expected to be member of the team. He did not compete in the trials because of a recent injury
 While the Olympics candidates were concentrating on form, a chunky Norwegian. out for dis tance, stole the fancy of the crowd which Milwaukee railroad officials estimated in excess of 6.oOO.
 Arnold Kongsgaard, of Kongs berg, Norway, who was freed from Nazi concentration camp less than two years ago, leaped a stunning 294 feet on his second try of the day on the Milwaukee Bowls Olympian hill
 It exceeded by five feet the 289 fcot national record of the late Torger Tokle and was four feet ahead of the leap Kongsgaard made the previous day. It was on the same bill where Tokle set an American record of 238 in 1941- record which he broke at Iron Mountain year later.
 Kcngsgaards leap, however, will not go into the record books be- cause it was an exhibition in stead of point jumping com petition.
 RENO, N>v., March 24.-LRl- Swiss ski3rs, paced by speedy Karl Jolitor, scored a clean sweep in the two-day second annual Silver Dollar ski derbY
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
BAlEBALL@

Here is how the basketball tour naments are turning out
 At New York-H Holy Cross defeat- cd City College of New York, CO., 45, to win the Eastern Regional NCAA championship. Wisconsin de- teated Navy, 50-49 for third place
 At Kansas City-Oklahoma edg- cd Texas, 55-54 to win Western Re- gional NCAA championship and will play Holy Cross at Madison Square Garden, New York Tuesday night for NCAA title. oregon State defeated Wyoming 63-49 for third place regionally. Texas and City will play Tuesday night in New York for NCAA third place.
 At Bartlesville, Okla, Oilds won national AAU hoop title for fifth straight year, defeating Oakland 62-4l. Denver defeated Seattle, 58-36 for third place.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
NO BAND pRA(TICE
 BE HELD THIS WEEK

Owing to many members re- hearsing for the operetta to be given Friday night, there will be no practice of the City Band this week according to an announcement made ty director Joseph Shofner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
FROM OTHER TOWNS

Jessie H. Milligan from Skagway, Jack Culbert from Sitka, Chester Cart from Pelican and Arthur R. Hudson from Hoonah are newly re- gistered as guests of the Hotel Ju- neau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24

wood Wolves, 3 to 0. They'll mee the winner of tEe Seattle Portland series for the league crown.
 Seattle's Ironmen last night beat Portland, to 2 and evened the Northern Series at two game apiece. They'll resume the best of seven series at Portland to. morrow night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
ATTENTION EASTERN STARS

Initiation, Juneau Chapter No. T, Tuesday, March %, 8 o'clock. Mem bers urged to attend.
 ALICE BROWN, Secy.
 adv. 534-t2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
VETERANS ARE NOW
 GETTING INSURANCE
 RE!NSTATED, REPORT

Reinstatement of National Ser vice Life Insurance by veterans in tte Territory of Alaska amounted to s1 ,482,000 since the inaugura- ton of the extended insurance re- instatement campaign on February i, according to announcement made today by Ernest E. Lincoln, man. ager of tle Veterans Administra- tion, Regional Office, in Juneau
 Lincoln further stated that 197 reinstatements have been made since February 4, indicating the increa cd aWarenc3s by Alaska vet erans of the advantages of the new libera,i-el NSLI policies.
 ANCHORAGE MAN VISITOR
 Otis Bobbitt, from Anchorage, was at the Hotel Juneau on Sun day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
Sporis Briefs.

.
 University of Kentucky, general ly regarded as the country's top college basketball team, battles the University of Utah in New Yolkis Madison Square Garden for the National Invitation Tournament championship. Kentucky reached the finals by defeating Long Island University and North Carolina State. Utah advanced to the championship game by winning from Duquesre and West Virginia.
 At Stampede Pass, Wash, the Pacific Coast conference inter collegiate ski meet moves into the final day of competition. The University of Idaho is holding a slight lead ever the field with 189 points. The University of Wash ington is second with 174l4 Other teams line up as follows Wash ington State 17314; Oregon State e5 and the University of Oregon AT.
 Cne-half of the Pacific Coast ice hockey league pest season playoffs has been decided. The Los Angeles Monarchs clinched the Southern Division crown Sat- I1rcav nioht hv Wi1nino the fifth and deciding game from the Holly
Evening star., 1947-01-08
The Future of Agriculture
By Raym ond oley

ton. One paper read at that meeting
said: "In 1920, one farm person In
the United States produced enough
agricultural products to support him.
self and .28 of another person By
1945, he produced enough for himself
and AS other persons" This figure
Is probably correct, if we consider every
person on a farm as a producer The
fact is that the number of people on
farms who are real factors in produc-
ton has declined from 100000 be-
fore 1899 to 8,500,0c0 now. Every per-
son really employed on a farm pro-
duces enough for himself and II other
people in the United States. If we
include exports, the figure may be 20
people supplied by one farm worker.
i
To put the facts in another way,
our farm production has increased cne-
third in seven years, while the number
Of workers in agriculture has declined
nearly one-fifth. High production has
not been uniform, of course. The bet
ter equipped farms have made tre-
mendous increases in production per
worker. thirds of farm production
has been done by one-third of the
farms.
We can hardly ward OF over pro-
duction by turning back the clock or,
to Use another figure of speech, by
plowing under the machines. The
Hungarians tried that some years ago,
when their government stopped the
use of farm machinery because farm
hands complained.
The task before Congress Is to meet
farm overproduction by rational means
OF improving the national diet. by
increasing exports and, most important
OF all, by using farm products as in
dustrial raw materials. In agriculture,
Government must play a larger and
larger role Republicans may talk
about free enterprise, but they will
never keep farm voters completely
satisfied by any such theology. Farmers
like ample Government aid-for farm
ers. In fact. they have grown to de-
pend on 1t.
released by Associated NEWSPAPERS. lns)
Evening star., 1947-01-08
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

L
leaders will be exterminated, in order
that, by legal means, the present
scoundrels, who pretend to be demo-
crats," may get, not merely de facto,
but de jure control of the country.
The technique of the modern coup
detat ought, by now, to be universally
recognizable The modern legal" revolu-
-. ton does not seize power by direct ac-
tion-as the Bolshevik revolution did in
Russia, in a moment Of collapse and
chaos The modern pattern is not that
of Lenin, but of Hitler. And only that
method can be used under present cir
cumstances, when, in consideration OF
the 'reactionary" sensibilities of the
western powers, pretense of legality"
and democracy" must be maintained
The modern pattern for the seizure of
the state starts therefore, as Hitler's
did. with a coalition government, in
which the revolutionaries demand Ger
tain key posts. They are always in the
first line, the opposition controlling the
police forces. They also seek positions
having authority over the economy and
propaganda, or culture" They then
use these key posts to liquidate their
fellow-co -coalitionists, after crushing all
possible opposition in the country. The
2 device by which this Is done is to dis
cover plot" for the overthrow of the
state"
The Communists in Hungary are in a
tiny minority, and UNDERSTANDABLE SO.
In 1918, Hungary had the experience Of
a Communist revolution, that Of Bella
Kun. That revolution was bloody, stupid
and horrible 1t first liquidated the
nascent Hungarian democracy-With the
aid of the Allied peace treaties-and
was eventually overthrown by military
coup by Admiral Horthy, which brought
with it its own reaction of counter
revolutionary terror. Under the Nazis
the Hungarians had another experience
of terror, and are thoroughly fed up
with all revolutionisms. They want, like
every other people in the world, peace,
liberty, order and economic security.
Now what they have is coalition
government, with Communists in a
minority. If we had not stupidity agreed
to government for all liberated states
composed of a union of all "anti-Fascist"
parties, they would not be there at all.
AS 1t Is, Communists are in charge,
in Hungary, of the Supreme Economic
Council, of the Ministry of the Interior,
and of the command of the police forces.
And they are using these positions to
liquidate the opposition in the country,
terrorize the people, and prepare the
way for legal" seizure of power. What
happened this week end is just the
beginning.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. IncJ