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WANTED TO BUY 100 to
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FOR RENT-Six acres Of land
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Evening star., 1947-03-30
And Now Korea

The wider implications of our
stand against Communist aggression
are seen in the re-emergence in the
news of another area of friction
between this country and the Soviet
Union. That area is Korea. Though
situated halfway around the globe
from Greece and Turkey, Korea not
only presents a situation similar in
character to that in the Near East
but also oAe wherein Soviet Russia
and the United States have long
stood face to face.
1t was that situation which Acting
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
broached during his recent testi-
mony before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Mr.. Acheson
stressed the very serious problem"
arising from Moscow's refusal to
implement It's agreement with this
country regarding the unification of
Korea except on terms which would
amount to Communist control.
Since the Russians have most of
Korea's natural resources, the Amer
ican zone of occupation requires
additional aid from us, estimated to
amount to something like $2O0,0O0,-
600 over a three-year period.
. Only last month, our commander
In Korea, 1t. Gen. John r. Hodge,
during a visit to Washington vir-
tually confirmed reports that Russia
Is conscripting Northern Koreans
for a Russian trained and equipped
army that might reach 100000. Our
own zone is permeated with native
Communist propaganda and activity
designed to throw it into chronic
turmoil. Presumably the ultimate
aim is to squeeze us completely out
of Korea.
All this, of course, is entirely
contrary to both the spirit and the
letter of the top-level diplomatic
agreement concluded at Moscow
between the American and Soviet
Governments, under which the
provisional arrangement bisecting
Korea into a northern and southern
zone of military occupation should
give place to a joint trusteeship
limited to five years.
From the very first, the Soviet
authorities have made this agree
ment a dead letter. The military
demarcation line has become, in the
most literal sense, an iron curtain, -
across which virtually nothing and
Evening star., 1947-03-30
PenuIize All of Them

Justice Alexander Holtzoff's irrita-
ton over the fact that "underlings"
rather than "big shots" of the num-
bers racket are being brought before
him in District Court is understand
able. 1t is an open secret that num-
bers betting goes on daily all over
the city. It is so widespread that
there can be no doubt that it is
well-organized and profitable "busi-
ness" for the top-level gamblers who
run the racket. Police have esti-
mated in the past that millions of
dollars in pennies, nickels, dimes and
dollars annually are taken out the
pockets of wage earners least able
to stand even the relatively small
losses involved. And the odds are so
great as to guarantee the racketeers
tremendous profits every year.
While it is highly regrettable that
the police seem able to catch only
the runners on the very outer fringe
of the gambling rings in Washing
ton, it is to be hoped that the courts
will not make things easier for the
"big shots" by making a practice of
letting runners off with fines instead
of jail sentences. Justice Holtzoff,
in commenting on the absence of
cases against leaders of the numbers
racket, let one runner 60 last week
with a suspended sentence of three
to nine months, a $75 fine and a
years probation. The trouble with
such policy, if persisted in, is that
most of the runners will pay their
fines (probably with money donated
by their bosses) and, probation or
no probation, will be right back at
the old stand in short order.
The gambling laws were amended
In 1888 to provide the option of Jail
terms for numbers runners. At that
time it was the consensus of police
and prosecutors that fines alone were
no real deterrent-that term in jail
was the best way Of depriving the
racketeers of the runners so essen
tial to successful operation of the
game" There is no~reason to be-
lieve that the situation has changed
In this respect.
At the same time, Justice Holtzoff
is not alone in wondering why police
do not seem to be able to bring the
higher-ups of the racket to justice.
1t has been done in the past, through
earnest, intelligent police work
Some of those who have gone to jail
are back in circulation-possibly en-
gagged in the same illegal activities.
The police should not be content to
strike at the edges of the racket, but
should exert themselves to smash at
the very heart of big time gambling
in Washington,
Evening star., 1947-03-30
For the Record

The statement which Warren r.
Austin has made for the record of
the motives activating our program
of aid to Greece and Turkey should
dispel any notion that the United
States is working at cross purposes
with the United Nations.
Mr.. Austin's remarks were tactful
and restrained. Nevertheless, he put
his cards on the table, and they are
there for all to see.
This is the heart of his statement:
''The program Of economic assist
ance Ito Greece and Turkey con-
templated by the United States is of
an emergency and temporary char
acter. The United States believes
that the United Nations and its re-
lated agencies should assume the
| principal responsibility, within their
capabilities, for the long range tasks
of assistance required for the re-
construction of Greece"
This is equivalent to saying, in
polite language, that the United
States is assuming responsibility for
extending aid of an emergency and
temporary character because the
United Nations is not capable at this
time of rendering such assistance.
For the longer pull, this Government
looks to the assumption of principal
responsibility by the U. N. and it's
agencies. But even here it is impor-
tant to note the qualifying phrase,
within their capabilities.
More plainly put, Mr.. Austin,
speaking for the United States, pro-
claims our support of the United
Nations and upholds its exercise of
authority in those areas where it is,
in fact, authoritative. But at the
same time he recognizes that there
are conditions and circumstances in
which the U. N. cannot function
effectively, and as to these he does
not propose to deceive himself or
any one else.
The SHOWS are melting in the
mountains of Northern Greece, and
as spring advances guerrilla activ-
tiles will be intensified. This is a
situation and a threat which call for
action, and since the U. N. cannot
take timely action, the United States,
responsive to its obligation under
the Charter" proposes to take emer-
gency action on its own account.
This is not policy which under
cuts the United Nations. On the
contrary, it upholds the U. N. and
contributes to the cause of peace.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

nobody can pass. The Russian zone
has been effectively communized
and, for all intents and purposes,
MADE a satellite of the Soviet Union.
Our local authorities can do nothing
with their opposite Russian num-
bers across the line, while the
economic situation in our zone can
not be remedied from its local
resources.
Here, then, would seem to be a
situation, long antedating that in
Greece and Turkey, in which we
must shoulder the burden unless we
propose to let Soviet-directed Com
munist aggression ultimately win by
default.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Coal, Oil and Atom

" u1dy VIC t4ldt dVOIIllC cIleESy Will
eventually replace coal as a prime
source Of power in this country. It
may be, too, that our natural pc
troleum resources will in time be
exhausted. But these long-term
possibilities, though far-reaching in
their significance, do not mean that
the day is coming when there will
be no work for miners and when
= Americans will lack oil and gasoline
for heating their homes and run
ming their cars and planes.
This point is we'll illustrated by
the joint research and development
program just announced by the
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Com
pany and the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey. Together, these
corporations-each the biggest in its
fleld-have undertaken $120000,-
900 project for the commercial pro-
duction of gas, gasoline and oil from
soft coal. They expect this produc-
tion to be in full swing four years
from now, by which time-if every
thing works out as planned-Amer-
lea will have giant new fuel
industry.
The two-company program looks
forward to having this new industry
achieve daily output of 100000, 900
cubic feet of heating gas during the
winter months and 20O000,000 dur
ing the remainder of the year for
the Pittsburgh area. In addition,
the plan calls for summertime pro-
duction of 114,OOO,OOO gallons of
gasoline, 100000 gallons of Diesel
and fuel oil, and 100000 gallons of
alcohol for use in synthetic rubber
and other products. All this is
expected to require the consumption
of about 10000 tons of coal every
day and the employment of 1000
miners, plus 1000 others needed to
operate the plants and handle
supplies and equipment.
American industrialists, of course,
have known for long time how to
convert coal into gas and liquid
fuel, as Germany did during the
war. They have held back only
because our natural resources have
been adequate and because such
conversion has involved extra costs.
Now, however, with our resources
less than they were and with
improved techniques cutting down
the cost factor, projects like the one
announced in Pittsburgh are wholly
practical. In due course, therefore,
they are likely to be highly signif1-
cant part of our economy, with our
exploitable coal supply large enough
to support heavy production and
consumption demands for many
centuries to come.
The long-term outlook thus seems
to argue strongly against gloomy
theories about the economic effects
of the atom and the future of our
oil wells. If atomic energy ulti-
mately succeeds coal as a primary
power source, there still will be
plenty of work in the mines and
plenty of raw material for all the
Evening star., 1947-03-30

nurtured on his Holy Writ, which
started with the staggering afirma-
ton: In the beginning God ''. ~?
Surely it is healthy, and in fact
inevitable to continue this intuitive
search for God till we find Him
speaking to US in the one language
that all His creatures can under
stand-the language Of Life-a life
that for us Christians was the final
revelation comprehensive to the
human mind. In this stupendous
faith lies the hope of the world
the faith that man is created in
Gods image, created with an affinity
for Him, that within man Is a hidden
divineness, a divineness that found
its contamination in one superlative
Life, that in this Life lies the secret
of the relationship between God and
man, and man and man.
It is this supreme Life that can
give direction to our relationships
and to the perplexing problems Of
our day. Their solution does not lie
in socialism or communism or cap
italism, but the ethic of Jesus Christ.
We hear of people being classified
as right of center" and "left of
center" but there are not enough
who know what our center is, or Him
who is our center. Our religion will
not give us exact and easy solutions
to our questions, but it will afford
us goals and the power to reach these
goals. That is the sequence of
thought to which the words of our
American sailor lead us. Don't leave
it blank" is the last legacy left us
by one who "laid so costly sacrifice
upon the altar of freedom"
Don't leave it blank" is the mes
sage to the people Of this country
to whom destiny has presented so
great an opportunity. Starting with
this shy but passionate affirmation
OF faith, we can build gradually upon
1t till We find ourselves empowered to
go forward in the fellowship and
strength Of the free sons of God.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Scenery for Sale

AL indications point toward q
record-breakihg year of travel with
in our own borders. The time is not
too distant when middle class folks
will take the children and hop
Super-duper airliner for a week in
distant part of the world. When air
ships travel a thousand or more
miles an hour and carry 500 to 1000
passengers, it will become just rou-
tine to know first hand this planet
on which we live. There will prob
ably be hotels in the Arctic and
Antarctic regions, lodges on the
great mountain ranges of Asia and
de luxe camps in the heart of Africa.
Meanwhile, John Citizen and his
family say they are going to travel
the United States. In new cars and
old, American families are going to
take to the road this season-accord-
ing to surveys. 1t brings up prob
lem that should concern civic off,
cials and public-spirited individuals
and organizations. During the war
years unsightly dumps and hetero-
geneous masses OF debris have in
creased along the roadsides outside
cities, towns and villages. Ashes,
papers and messy graveyards of
abandoned automobiles make un-
slightly spots within mile or two
of historic spots. A stark gaping
wound of a gravel bank may be the
forefront of view of mountain
vistas.
Certain communities have made
progress with the problem of road
side Identification. Ordinances gov
erning dumps have been enacted and
enforced. Trees and shrubs have
been planted; billboards have been
kept within control. Community
groups of interested citizens have
discovered that cooperative action
secures results. The countryside
should be beautiful from an esthetic
viewpoint. Certain sections of the
| Nation have learned that beauty
pays in dollars and cents. There is
scenery for sale in the United States.
Millions of Americans will buy it.
A roadside identification program
is one of the new frontiers to be
conquered.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

written contracts for definite term
would be meaningless If such was the
law. Otherwise, even though company
made concessions on wages and hours
and signed contract, the union could
strike the very next day with complete
immunity. If the trial examiner was
correct in his premire that rights guar
anteed by the act exist irrespective OF
the contract, any provision in contract
which signed away these rights-for ex
ample, no-strike agreement would be
void. Yet the Supreme Court has up
held the validity of these provisions by
deciding that employers have right to
discharge employees who strike In breach
of contract,
Evening star., 1947-03-30
From City Hall
By John w. Thompson, Jr

A Senate subcommittee has rescued
local taxpayers, temporarily at least,
from their betrayal by the Commission
ers more than year ago on financing
a new Federal courthouse.
At that time the city heads and Cor
poration Counsel Vernon West were
talked by committee of judges into
thinking the city should turn over for
half price ST. 400 900 land site paid for
by local tax dollars. In addition they
agreed the city should pay half the
cost of construction, equipment and la
Dor and later operation Of the project,
estimated to cost $10,300,000 exclusive
of land. 1t was kindly arranged that
the half credit allowed the city tax
payers for this site could be subtracted
from the municipal half of the total
cost.
If they had consulted their own rec
ords, nowhere would they have found
a precedent for this arrangement with
Federal agency. In its other relation
ships with the United States, the Dis
trict pays for services rendered-but not
for construction items of purely Fed
eral nature. To establish a principle of
city paynent in this instance could
pave the way for taxing Washingto-
mans for new roof for the Capitol on
the ground that Congress handles Dis
trict business.
After the deal was completed at least
one of the Commissioners rejoiced that
the city would only have to pay half the
cost of this Federal building
"It's written into the bill $780," he
explained, isn't that what we want in
development of the city, 50-50?" Maybe
so when the Federal Government starts
paying half the cost of our new schools,
libraries and other expenses. This Fed
eral court deal was strictly one-way
ticket for the District.
The Senate subcommittee, headed by
Senator Cain. Republican, of Washing
ton has written into the pending bill
full credit for the city-oWned site and
left it for Congress to decide the cost
and payment>for the building.
Traffic Director George E. Keneipp
wants total of 5000 parking meters in
downtown Washington. And, further
more, he would like to get them all at
once instead of in patches of few hun
dred year. The city now has $50 with
about 400 on order.
Propaganda Department: New York
City will collect 100000, 900 from its 2
per cent sales tax by the end Of this
fiscal year June 80. The proposed Dis
trict sales levy is modelled on New
York's except that it contains more ex-
emptions. 1T is expected to yield SO 9,0o0,-
900 in a full year Of operation, but this
is probably a low estimate.
New York also has another means OF
getting to the transient for contripu-
ton toward city expenses tax on all
hotel rooms costing more than 81. The
tax applies to anybody using such ac-
commodations less than 80 days and Is
due to yield SO 900 900 by June 80.
: Some leaders in the colored COM
munity are skeptical of improvements
in housing for colored under the new
slum clearance act. They frankly ex-
pect much Of the redevelopment will
take the form of traffic arteries and
parks instead Of new housing for the
disadvantaged.
The anti-gasoline tax lobby Is work.
ing overtime against the proposed penny
increase to cents gallon.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

service, Supt Samuel G. Eberly said that
the heirs of the late Francis Potts, who
owned the coaches and horses, wished
to liouidate the business. 1t was hoped
that single buyer for the entire enter
prise might appear. but none had done
so. Streetcars were responsible for
the decline of herdic transportation.
The price of a ride had been reduced
to 8 cents, but the public seemingly
preferred the newer, faster method Of
getting around town.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
orr Faitb-D0m't Leape II Blank
By Coleman Jennings,
Layn1an, st. Johns Episcopal Church.

An American sailor, who lay dying
on the deck of cruiser, just hit by
q japanese bomb, was attended in
his last minutes of life by friend
of mine, then a pharmacists mate.
What religion shall I put down
Hebrew, Catholic or Protestant"
asked the medical corpsman, follow
ing routine practice.
The sailor was confused. He hadn't
belonged to any church.
Its o. K, buddie," said my friend.
Don't worry about it. We won't put
down anything. How'll that be?"
mo, mol" gasped the sailor, sum-
moning all his strength. Don't leave
1t blank. Please don't leave it blank"
The sailor died, and whether his
name has swelled the casualty lists
OF Jews, Catholics or Protestants, I
don't know. 1t is of no Importance.
Don't leave it blank" I unused,
when 1 first heard the story. AS I
repeated those striking, idiomatic
words, don't leave it blank, don't
leave it blank" I felt that I caught
the echo of the earliest cry of pre-
historic man, craving for relation
ship between himself and the
mysterious source from which he
came, craving to belong to some
thing which partook Of the divine
scheme of things.
X X
"Others have formulated creeds for
themselves which I have not been
able to grasp or give allegiance to-"
the sailor might have said, had
strength and perhaps a little more
subtlety been left in him. But I
have a faltering intuition of a power
behind the universe. And want to
be of the company of those who
are identified with it,
Isn't this akin to the cry Of the
ancient Psalmist, who, sensing the
divine initiative of his Creator,
heard Him say, Seek ye my face"
and responded, '"Thy face, Lord, will
I seek"-that Psalmist who was
Evening star., 1947-03-30
No Help for Them

From the Cleveland News
It appears there is the lost generation
of Republicans: Those who were too
young for Office In the years before
F.. D. r. and now are too old.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
It Mioht Be Worth It!

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Dutch Permitted to Trade Directly
With Germans. One tulip for clinch-
ing evidence Of Hitler's decease.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

gas and liquid fuel that will be
needed when, as and If our natural
petroleum disappears. We need not
worry too much about that.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
By Gerard D. Reilly.

Another instance of staff policy which
is difficult to reconcile with the decisions
of the national board is a case in the
Honolulu region. This has resulted in
a finding by trial examiner that cer-
tain companies in Hawaii were guilty
of refusal to bargain because they in
sisted during the course of contract ne
gotiations with the Teamsters Union
that the collective agreement should
contain a no-strike clause, and clauses
forbidding union activity during work.
ing hours, coercing employees to join,
and agreeing that employees would be
subject to discharge for "insubordina-
ton, pilterage, drunkenness, incompe-
terce or failure to perform the work as
required"
In the negotiations the companies
agreed to grant wage increases providing
these clauses were inserted. The union
rejected this offer. Although it would
seem that this simply amounted to an
impasse, the trial examiner upheld the
union in its contention that refusal to
bargain in good faith had occurred.
1t is true that the Wagner Act does
expressly preserve the right to strike and
guarantees employees protection in en-
gaging in self organization and other
forms of concerted activity. 1t has never
been thought, however, that these rights
could not be waived in return for a
collective agreement guaranteeing GER
tain standards of wages. hours and other
working conditions. In fact, the whole
emphasis placed by the board upon the
importance Of reducing agreements to