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Evening star., 1947-04-13
To the World Court

About week ago Russia'S veto
nullified a 7-to-2 Security Council
decision fixing partial guilt on AL
bania for the Corfu mine field eXplo-
sion. That action, however, has not
brought the case to an end Taking
a new course, the Council has now
referred the whole question to the
International Court of Justice at
The Hague. Although he has OBJ
jected to this and could have vetoed
it, Mr.. Gromyko, together with the
Polish delegate, has merely alb
stained from voting-presumably
because the Kremlin has decided
that its obstructionism in this mat
ter has gone far enough.
Accordingly, what the Council
could not do the World Court may
now do. 1t may determine and pro-
claim the extent of Albania's re-
sponsibility for the mine explosion
that struck two British destroyers
and killed A British sailors in Corfu
Channel last October. Britain has
described this as an Albanian crime
against humanity and the majority
of the Security Council, though We
= toed by Russia, has supported the
charge at least in part. The courts
judgment will be awaited with in
tense interest everywhere, particu-
larly because this is the FIRST case
brought before it since its establish
ment as an integral part of the
United Nations.
The veto does not govern the op-
erations of this principal judicial
organ of the U. N The court Is
made up of fifteen members already
elected by the General Assembly and
the Security Council for terms rang
ing from three to nine years. AS
now constituted the membership in
cludes one Judge each from Belgium,
Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt,
El Salvador, France. Mexico, Nor
way, Poland, Great Britain, the
United States, Russia and Yugo-
Slavia. Nine are enough to consti-
tute quorum and a simple majority
is all that is needed for a decision
In the Corfu case, the British Judge
will be free either to participate or
not. If he chooses to participate,
however, Albania-even though not
a member of the United Nations
will be entitled to judge of its own
for the duration of the proceedings.
Since 1t is not a member of the
U. N, Albania can refuse to recog-
rize the World Courts jurisdiction,
but it is unlikely to do this in view
of its desire to be a member. The
court, to be sure, has no means of
enforcing its decisions, but its moral
weight can be so great in this and
other instances that no power can
ignore its judgments without earn
ing widespread international con-
demnation. II the Corfu case Is q
Evening star., 1947-04-13
The 'Hoppieopter'

It now appears that Americans
will be able to buy "air motorcycle"
in the near future This new de-
vice-a brainchild of Horace T. Pen
tecost, Seattle engineer-waS
worked out on an experimental basis
during the war. AS originally con-.
ceived, it was meant for para
troopers midget helicopter to be
strapped on the back to make every
man bird on his own. The Army
is still interested, but at the mo-
ment Mr.. Pentecost is perfecting
notifications to make the thing sell
like hot cross buns to civilians.
These notifications consist of re-
placing the shoulder straps with a
little seat and landing gear, and ins
the next few months the whole busi-
ness probably will be ready for
market.
In other words, what we are COM
ing to is a "jeep" helicopter-arl
open-work job-that will serve the
individual in the air just as the
motorcycle has served him on the
ground. According to Mr.. Pente-
cost, the machine-which is cutely
named the "hoppicopter" have
a range of about 200 miles, a speed
of about 80 an hour and an altitude
potential of some 10000 feet. It's
weight will be in the neighborhood
of 125 pounds. and it will travel
backward, forward, sidewise, up
ward and downward with the great
est of ease Simple to operate, it
will be a boon to those rugged souls
who want to live on farm but can
not because they work in the city.
In fact, with little practice, the
hardy woman shopper may well
come to love it. Anyhow, Mr.. Pente-
cost seems to have confident
thoughts along that line.
OF course. there is the question of
what it will be like flying in the
open at 80 miles an hour? What
about the wind and the rain in ones
face? How will We keep our hats on
or our skirts from blowing? Can
people travel like that without look
ing silly, and how will they be able
to breathe? These and similar prob
lens, however, probably can be
lroned out with such things as plas-
tic windshields and oxygen masks.
After all, the ground motorcycle in
wolves much the same comfort fac
tors, yet there are those who swear
by it. Whittier are we drifting? Who
knows? The only thing we can be
sure of is that everybody apparently
wants to get there in hurry. Prog
ress will not be stopped, even If it
kills us.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
From City Hall
By John w. Thompson, Jr.

For about a year now the Commits
sioners have been suppressing report
by city investigators based on study
of the operations of the Board OF Police
and Fire Surgeons. Rumor says 1t Is
pretty warm and that certain members
of Congress are interested in bringing
it out of its pigeon-hole.
The petroleum industry has done a
bangup job of rounding up opposition
to the proposed one-cent increase in the
gasoline tax here. This concern for the
consumer would be touching if the COM
panies had not raised gasoline prices
recently.
There is search on now for private
funds to publish the final draft OF Engi-
neer Commissioner Gordon r. YoungSs
plan of new construction for the District.
Commissioner Guy Mason is looking
around for good career man in District
service to become secretary of the Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board. The post
was held until recently by Mrs. Margaret
Davis Nerlick, who resigned. The board
has recommended another woman for
the job but Mr.. Mason probably will
give it to man.
r *x
That vacancy on the District Rede-
velopment Land Agency caused by the
appointment of George A. Garrett as
Minister to Ireland is due to be filled
soon. 1t is presidential appointment
subject to confirmation by the Senate,
but Mr.. Truman probably viii rely on
the Commissioners for a recommends
ton.
y 4
The protests of the building industry
and property management groups about
the stiff fire safety regulations adopted
by the Commissioners would have been
much more useful if they had come
before the rules were enacted. A lot
of committees are now doing the work
which should have been done then.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Festival Of Spring

The japanese cherry blossoms
around the Tidal Basin are but q
single incident in the calendar of
spring, beginning in January and
continuing until late In June.
Granted that their beauty is spec
tacular to a notable degree, 1t never
theless remains true that they are
associated with a great variety Of
other growths each of which in its
own distinctive way is deserving of
appreciation. So fortunate is Wash
ington in its location that winter in
its neighborhood ordinarily lasts
only brief while. Shortly after
Christmas Indian pipes begin to
appear in the sheltered portions of
the woods. BY March / the golden
forsythia has started to bloom, a
bright herald of the glory to come.
Then quietly emerges the slender,
graceful loveliness of the lily of the
valley in places where the sun is
free to enter. New grasses next spot
the marshes, and the buds of the elm
trees in the midst of the city prepare
to open. The shrub magnolias break
their bonds, flourish too briefly and
fall.
It is at the moment when this
inevitable disaster occurs that the
Yoshino cherries blossom in fash
ing radiance of snowy white. The
water mirrors their grace, the sky
supplies it with a background of
azure satin. Not even in the Orient
is there any similar sight of equal
grandeur. The, double pink blooms
of the Kwanzans repeat the miracle
three weeks later, and again the
crowds respond Meanwhile, a
lengthy list of other, larger trees
array themselves in their own par
ticular splendors. The bald cy-
presses lead the procession. Soon
after them the dogwoods, white and
pink, offer their annual pageant In
the parks and in private gardens.
At their feet the violets riot, purple,
white and rarer yellow.
What subsequently occurs is the
fulfilment of the original promise of
the spring. Elm seeds cover the
pavements, new green reeds rim the
rivers shores, marsh plants arise in
profusion, honeysuekle vines run
wild, the locusts-black and honey
hang out their clusters of sweet
flowers, the oaks-red, white and
pin-deck themselves with their re-.
spective finery, the sycamores and
the beeches prove once more the
grace that dwells in living lumber.
And by the end Of May the whole
tumultuous spectacle of roses on
parade is passing down nearly every
residential street. Nature and peo-
pie together are responsible for this
narrative of perennial burgeoning.
Their cooperation obeys the grand
est law in all the universe.
Evening star., 1947-04-13

been universal agreement shout
science or literature or music or the
drama or any other art. Humanity
is moving through an era OF con-
fusion. The painters laboring in
that chaos are not immune to its
influences. It would be unnatural
If the twentieth biennial did not re-
fleet the age to which it belongs.
There is beauty in it. even If it be
difficult to discover. What perhaps
is more important Is the fact that
tremendous vitality is manifest In
the show. The artists who have
brought it together are forceful
characters, and they deserve respect
for their power as well as for the
integrity of which they properly are
so proud.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Time for q Review

Commissioner Mason is right.
There is vital public interest at
stake In the functioning of the
Nurses Examining Board. The law
creating 1t was written forty years
. ago. 1t ought to be reviewed to
: discoveS whether the interests of
the general public, as well as of the
graduate nurses, are adequately
protected.
The immediate case in point is
: the boards arbitrary refusal OF the
, request by Garfield Hospital for
authorization to institute its own
school for training practical nurses.
The hospital is unable to recruit
enough student nurses for its ortho-
dox training school. unfortunate
ly," said the board, "it is not per-
r1issible at this time" Why is it
: not permissible? The American
College Of Surgeons, conscious Of the
serious and even alarming nurse
shortage, has recommended the step.
.. Other hospitals, including Gallinger,
are doing it. But there seems to be
+ a rule that prevents it at GARFIELD.
Whose rule? Is it more important
to protect the rule than to meet
pressing demand affecting the in
terests of the general public?
Commissioner Mason contends
that the Graduate Nurses Associa-
ton and the Nurses Examining
Board between them exercise a
monopolistic control in graduate
nursing which needs examining.
The Star agrees. The association
prides itself on graduate nursing
standards. They are high. They
are so high that they have run into
the law of diminishing returns. 1t
requires so much time, so much
preparation, so much hard work to
meet all the requirements OF
graduate nurse that the money COM
pensation has become inadequate.
Splendidly-equipped nurses-prob-
ably the best-trained in the world
are turning to other fields for more
sremunerauve employment. Increase
the remuneration and the public's
ability to meet the bill becomes a
question. And the public needs
more nurses.
Yet, in these circumstances the
graduate nurses are suggesting leg
islation to license practical nurses.
Is there any public demand for
licensing practical nurses? Have
you tried to obtain the services Of
a practical nurse recently? Is there
such an overabundance of supply
that they need wedding out by
.selective licensing-more standards,
more red tape? Who, except for
the registered nurses, is advocating
any such step? Is there widespread
or scandalous abuse, by its practi-
TONERS, of practical nursing?
There should be some formal in
quiry to- determine whether the
Health Department, representing the
interests of all the people, rather
than board, representing the
nursing profession, should make the
rules and set the standards for
nursing. Mr.. Mason is on the right
track,
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Looking Ahead ss'.s ssssT it,. es. sss z51sss


Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd faces
some criticism when he gets back from
the South Pole. He is expected this
week.
II results from his practice of naming
Antarctic geographical features after
his relatives.
Marie Byrd Land, named for his wife,
and Hal Flood Range. named for his
uncle. on previous expeditions, have
gained general acceptance The trouble
started when he cabled his cousin. Boil
Ting Byrd Flood, radio station employe.
8 last week that he had named peak
Mount Boiling Flood.
'Byrd's first two expeditions were
privately financed" one official Gem
mented, and there was justification for
using his own family name. But his
last two expeditions were Government
enterprises and the establishment of
place names is Government response
bility."
Dr. Meredith F. Burrill. director of the
United States Board on Geographical
Names, said the admiral had agreed to
defer assignment of place names until
after conferring with the board upon
his return.
However, DR.. Burrill slnilingly added,
Admiral Byrd is an impetuous man
and would not have accomplished his
undertakings otherwise.
Evening star., 1947-04-13

Federal Security Agency so that they
could be relieved Of even the mild super
vision of Mr.. Goodwin, the present
director of the Federal service.
Neither of these suggestions was ex-
pressly adopted, but the committee did
the next best thing. It cut the number
of persons in the central and regional
offices by so percent Despite the policy
of reducing the rest of the Labor De-
partment's estimates, however, the sub
committee left completely intact the
largest item in the bill-the $72 900 600
reserved for the States Unless the
Senate reverses this action it looks as II
the mistake OF 1889 Is well on its way
to being repeated.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
P0sfmaSfers

Some TOO nominations to postmaster
ships are gathering dust in the Senate
fear they will stay dust-laden for some
time.
The nominations come from the Pres
ident, who is also titular head of the
Democratic party. But the Republican
party now controls Congress and the
Senate must approve the nominations.
In 1948 the Republicans hope to elect
a President and he could be expected to
make nominations more to the Repub-
licanS' likineaf 5sgf.@ 9Ess s3a's Eksaf
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German Farms

BERLIN-Many farmers In the Brit
ish occupation zone are reported to be
selling part. of their land to beat an ex-
pected order under which all holdings
over $50 hectares tabout go acres)
would be taken over by German states
in the zone.
The land would be parceled out to
new settlers Owners would be compen-
sated but would not be sure OF keeping
the part of their land they want.
Evening star., 1947-04-13

The real function of "the forgotten
man" is not, as some have supposed,
the getting of something for nothing
from the Government. William
Graham Sumner of Yale, who in
vented the phrase, wrote of his hero:
''The forgotten man works and
yotes-but his chief business in life
is to pay"
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Price Fears

One of the big factors behind ad-
ministration concern over prices is tear
of cutbacks in production to keep prices
at high levels.
Some manufacturers, with inventories
rising faster than shipments or orders,
find themselves in spot because of this.
With no intention of creating ar "arti-
fetal shortage" they might face sus-
picion of price-rigging if they cut down
production because of high prices of
materials.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Overseas Items

ISTANBUL. Turkey, which remained
nonbelligerent until only weeks before
Germany capitulated, is expected to
issue white paper defending her course
during World War II.
BATAVIA.-Because of large scale
counterfeiting, Economics Minister Aakk
GAM plans to replace the entire Indo-
nesian Republic currency issue in rid
summer.
JERUSALEM. - A Jewish Agency
spokesman predicts that one result of
the blasting of the Haifa oil line by
Jewish extremists .'in their mad game"
will be that Arabs will sell surplus oil
to Jews at high prices"
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Siashes Stalled

Republican hopes to whittle several
billion dollars from President Tru-
mans budget are growing DINNER.
Senate and House can't agree on
whether to cut six billion, as voted by
the House, or four and "a half, as ap-
proved by the Senate.
Senator Knowland. Republican. of
California, who has been sitting in ap-
preparations hearings almost daily for
month. says he has yet to find one
single witness who favofs cutting one
single fund
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Diplomatic Delay

Some members OF the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee want to take their
5 time about confirming Stanton Grifiis
as Ambassador to Poland. to avoid any
possible Interpretation that they don't
agree with the opinions OF his predeces-
sor, Arthur Bliss Lane.
Lane resigned with blast at Russia.
The committee has questioned Grifis.
and members say they're satisfied his
views are similar to Lanes.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Martin Filling;

The speech that Senator Martin. Re-
publican, of Pennsylvania made on Pres
nient Truman's Greek-T Turkish program
sounded to some of his colleagues like
a political test rum Despite his 81 years,
Senator Martin Is q vigorous speaker
and campaigner.
He denounced isolationism but pleaded
for sanity in foreign expenditures in
supporting the bill To some this added
up te pretty good doctrine for Re-
publican whose vote-heavy State may
make him man to be reckoned with
nationally ia 194S.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Sbaak Due to Keep U. ~. Post

LAKE SUCCESS, II. Y-Paul- Henri
Spaak, president of the United Ma
tions General Assembly. likely will be
reelected when the Assembly meets
in special session to take up the Pales-
tine problem-unless his duties as Bel
gian Prefiier interfere.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Foreign Ministers

LONDON.-Many British officials will
be satisfied if new Anglo-Soviet treaty
alone results from the Moscow Foreign
Ministers conference. Treaty talks are
going on outside the conference.
The general expectation here is that
the Foreign Ministers will have to make
second attempt to solve the German
riddle at London some time this sum-
ner
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Ford Estate Tar

Internal revenue officials say they do
not know the size of Henry Ford's
estate, but the tax on it is bound to be
considerable.
the tax on ~one-million dollar
estate is 81 per cent lsS7O,o0O) and on
estates Of $1o,oo0,00O or more it is II
per cent (s7,7oo, 600 and up).
Evening star., 1947-04-13

Add to the list of people to pity:
Those aspirants for grand opera
who mournfu1ly sing the broadcast
commercials.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Popular Paul

ATHENS Look for long troubled re-
lations between the Greek people and
the monarchy to ease, now that Paul I
has succeeded to the throne.
Unlike his brother, the late George II.
King Paul has been good mixer. He
carried out many chores for his brother.
like his recent tour of frontier posts
to distribute parcels among the troops.
Paul's easy sense of humor, his yacht
ing interest and the fact that he is
a family man with three children have
endeared him to the people. George
was known as the ''unsmiling King"
Evening star., 1947-04-13
More Generous

From the Dallas Morning News.
The modern girl hasn't thing that
the fashioned girl didn't have. She
Just shows more Of It.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
G-Men's Refirem emf

There is opposition in the House to
a Senate bill to allow FBI agents
to retire on more liberal terms than
apply to other Federal workers.
G-men are not under the civil service
retirement system now (although. they
have their own pension plan.) Neither
are narcotics agents or secret service
operatives, who have asked to be in
cluded in the Senate measure. -at,
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test Of the power Of the court Itself,
It Is even more 3 test Of the good
faith Of all countries belonging to
the United Nations or seeking as
Albania is seeking to be admitted.
Evening star., 1947-04-13

a f6OTSdlllZdlIOl UIuCI uliuCi tiic war
Powers Act establishing the Employ
ment Service and transferring it to the
War Manpower Commission. The lobby
was again on the job, however and sue
ceeded in making the resuscitation of the
agency only partial by getting the House
subcommittee to attach rider which
kept in effect the State salary classifica-
tions. Since most of these were far
below the level of the war agencies as
we'll as war industries, the turnover in
local personnel was tremendous.
After the war the President liquidated
the War Manpower Commission, ana
transferred the Employment Service to
the Department of Labor. Under pres
sure of the unemployment compensation
commissioners, however, another rider
was attached to the appropriation bill
pursuant to which the local offices were
returned to the jurisdiction of the States.
The subcommittee also obligingly in
serted language which relieved the
States for year of any duty to match
the Federal appropriations
Not satisfied with this, however, the
lobby again reappeared on the congress
sional scene this year. The delegation
was deferentially received by the sub
committee as representing the Interstate
Employment Conference" 1t blithely
suggested that since IL, was too late to
bring the matter of renewing their fiscal
obligations under the Wagner -Peyser
Act to the attention OF the State
Legislatures. Congress might well sus-
pend permanently the duty of making
any State contribution. 1t also limited
that the general sentiment was that the
agency be transferred back TO the
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This partial list of the Aces rights
and powers is enough to emphasize the
agency's great and unique importance.
With atomic development still in Its
infancy, Mr.. Lilienthal and his fellow
commissioners are armed with the kind
of authority they heed to discharge their
grave responsibilities AS the first adj
ministrators of this fateful civilian
project, they will be pioneering in .
field capable of revolutionizing the
Nation and the world. As long as the
peace is uncertain and international
control only dream, their main efforts
will be concentrated on military applica-
tions of the atom. They will be privy
to the most forbidding information.
They will be men apart from the rest
Of us in that sense-a little group sworn
to kind of dedicated secrecy and duty
bound to guard what they know at all
costs and do everything they can to keep
America supreme in nuclear ornaments.
But If the world is ever to enjoy
contentment of mind again, the day
must come when the atoms awful mil
itary significance Is dwarfed by 1ts
potential good. 1t can improve health;
sit can bring great industrial changes;
it can effect an economic Transformation
enriching nations everywhere. Accord
ingly, even as they deal primarily with
A-weapons at this time, the members
Of the United States Atomic Energy
Commission are under instructions from
Congress to deal as well with the
development Of nuclear power for peace
time purposes. II international events
continue to discourage this. our Acc
and similar agencies in other lands will
become little more than grim competitors
in an arms race so deadly that our
fear ridden civilization will be In con-
slant danger OF some sudden, panic.
induced catastrophe engulfng all