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Evening star., 1947-07-03
Old Man River Rolls On

The mighty Mississippi is on the rampage
again, demonstrating its dislike of man
made restraints and its tendency, when
properly agitated, to throw them off and
60 wherever it pleases. And as it surges
beyond all-time high-water marks in the
St. Louis area, residents of the flooded
and threatened sections are renewing their
demands that something be done" to pre-
vent such disasters.
Much already has been done in the long
battle by Army engineers to control the
floods of this great drainage canal bisect-
ing the country. Millions of dollars have
been spent in building levees, spillways and
safety valve reservoirs along the main
river and its upper tributaries. Millions
more have been spent in raising the levees
higher and higher and in adding new over
flow facilities, as deforestation, erosion and
to magnify the flood problem, year after
year.
And many millions of dollars additional
will have to be spent if the huge drainage
basin, including the upper valleys where
most of the current flood waters originated,
ever is to be rendered more nearly flood
proof. The high crest now sweeping south
ward from st. Louis is largely the result
OF phenomenal floods dumped into the
Mississippi by the overflowing Missouri
Basin. The lower Mississippi itself has
been well provided in recent years with
levees, spillways and other types of pro-
lection, but the Missouri Valley has not
been treated so well.
Hampering hood-control work on the
Missouri system have been inadequate
appropriations and controversy over the
advisability of setting up Missouri Valley
Authority to handle not only flood regula-
ton but it's corollaries, irrigation and
power. The ultimate cost would vary,
according to whether only flood control by
Army engineers is authorized, or COM
bined flood control irrigation -hydroelec-
trio power development is undertaken. The
latter program proposed by President
Roosevelt as a counterpart of IVA, has
been estimated to involve an ultimate cost
of one and half to two billions of dollars
Even the more conservative Army program
would call for more than half billion in
Federal appropriations. History Of flood
control in the Mississippi Valley has shown
that harnessing the big river and its tribu-
taries is costly task-more costly than it
would have been had the job been under
taken on something more than the piece
meal basis dictated by piecemeal appro-
priations. The engineers say the task can
be done-if the Nation is willing to pay
the BILL
Evening star., 1947-07-03

the many loose ends still hanging over from
wars. This is always left up to the people
who always sincerely believe in working for
peace as their opponents believe in challeng-
ing for wars and whom militarists take
delight in calling "pacif1st shouters," etc.
(This however, might be more the fault Of
the press.)
If former generals or any other high mill
tary men are taking these positions sincerely
to try to improve economic conditions, which
will eliminate most wars, then I can go on
and admiring them for their efforts.
On the other hand, do not think that we
should put in iron-clad military men, who are
clamoring to sell their wares" to students
to make them militaristic. thus aiding and
abetting an already too militaristic world
r. w. KAUCHER.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Generals as College Heads

To the Editor of The Star:
I have been trying very hard to solve just
why former Gen. Eisenhower has accepted
the presidency of Columbia University, one
of the most nberal-minded institutions that
I know of. I have always respected and
admired Gen. Eisenhower for his cooperation
in humane interest; however, cannot see any
object in having generals or any other high
class officers taking over our colleges or other
institutions, unless there is q possibility of
them being taken over entirely by the Gov
ernment eventually, to breed Faseists. I
become alarmed to even suspect this.
I think all nations should have had enough
Of war. Today is the time for highly intelli-
gent people, whether militarist or civilian, to
use more propaganda toward striving for
peace. Who are all these leaders clamoring
for war? I am sure it is not the general
public, who however. are always the victims.
You seldom see high military leaders taking
over hospital duties, helping to put together
Evening star., 1947-07-03
By Thomas G.. Buchanan

Who bears the cost of hospital care for those
who cannot pay their own bills?
To large extent, it's the patient who pays
his own way, and is already digging deep into
his pockets to do so.
In the annual report of Columbia Hospital
on last years operations, published this week,
Supt. N. L. McDiarn1id made this point clear.
ut Is an anomaly" he said, that provision
for the INDECENT sick, which should be re-
sponsibility of the entire tax paying community,
is transferred to the few tax payers who be-
come sick and is made payable at a time when
they themselves are confronted with the burden
Of their own illness"
Caught in q spiral of rising operating costs,
Washington hospitals have been forced to raise
prices to remain self supporting When some
of their patients are too poor to pay, the others
have to carry an extra load.
Many Washingtonians are under the I'M
preston that the Health Security Administra-
ton repays the hospitals in full for charity
patients.
Actually, as HSA officials have been the first
to point out, Community Chest funds are not
adequate'to do the job. For each day an indi-
gent patient spends in the hospital, HSA is
able to give the hospital only IS. The average
cost of service at Columbia Hospital was cal
CuldGcO dL $lUo0 u udy ldSt yCd4 SO1APdACo
with 1886 in 1945. Thus, while the cost OF
maintaining INDECENT patients is less than the
$1099 average, the daily loss to the hospital is
nevertheless substantial.
Deficit on Group Republication.
Adding these losses for the entire year, the
report placed the difference between the funds
received for charity cases and the amount they
would have been charged rs regular paying
patients at $27,228.
To make the situation worse, Columbia Hos
pital also lost $4,494 last year on its contract
with Group disqualification, Inc, according to
the report. The increase in the cost of hos
pitalization during the year was greater than
the rise in GHI's daily payments.
cit is believed that this is not in accord with
the understanding or desire of subscribers to
group disqualification" the report observed.
"They carry the coverage not with any desire
to secure service at lesser rate than others
or to be subsidized by others. They carry their
coverage as insurance against a sudden heavy
demand. They expect and probably believe
that their payments are adequate to pay In
full for their hospital care"
CHI officials, aware Of rising hospital costs,
made two supplemental payments during the
year to reduce the loss which, under the ex
isting contract, would have been much greater.
No such reduction was possible by the in
digent hospital admission agency, HSA, because
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Swun Dive

The complicated muscles bend and fer,
Body strains against the air.
CRAFTY inertia shift their grip,
Pull OUTWARD, up,Dard, clean and tatr.
Below the ,Dord Perfection fills the mind,
The frantic 1Dish that ,De might keep
This time forever and this perfect grace,
This transient beauty from, the deep.
The fawless moment goes trailing the
dream,
The doUnDdrd ,Dinds assert their north.
The body turns, the lovely Dings fold back.
Our hearts like arro,os, come to earth.
ARTHUR HAROLD. >
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Mass Trial Evils

The language used by majority of the
Court OF Appeals in approving the dis
missal Of the indictment against all Of the
defendants in the sedition case serves to
strengthen the belief that the ends of
justice are poorly served by mass trials.
When Chief Justice Laws, of the District
Court, dismissed the Indictment last De-
cember, he said that it would be "a travesty
on justice" to permit new trial of the
defendants. And now the Court of Appeals,
with Justice Edgerton dissenting says that
the action taken by Chief Justice Laws
seems to us altogether reasonable and
proper, and, in fact, we are not prepared to
say 1t was not compelled<in the light of
the facts then shown to exist"
What are some of the facts? The de-
PENDANTS, nearly thirty in number, were in
dicted on conspiracy charge three and
half years ago. Their first trial had run for
eight months, but was by no means COM
pleted, when the death of the presiding
Judge resulted in miStrial. The jurors
and the defense attorneys, many of whom
were serving without compensation, had
been tied up all that time. The trial, with
so many defendants and so many lawyers
involved, had become almost chaotic at
stages Certainly, to say that such a trial
could ever have resulted in a fair judg-
ment would tax the imagination. That it
would have ended as mockery is much
more probable, and this result would be
all the more probable if the prosecution
were to be revived at this late date.
A fair appraisal points to the conclusion
that the Department of Justice, in electing
to prosecute all of the sedition defendants
in Washington, was motivated more by zeal
than good judgment. It ought to be ex-
tremely wary of mass trials in the future
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Townsend Point of View

To the Editor Of The Star:
A recent item in The Star announced Gap
Between Exports and Imports Widens." 1t
gives exports of $13s1, 100000 and imports at
$473, 800 O0O This means that We are sending
abroad 900 of goods in one month for
which we never will be paid. All over town
these days you see the Townsendites trying to
get decent pension for our own old folks.
Why in common sense do we not give these our
own people the billions we pretend to sell to
foretgners7 +. A. sORENsEN.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Star Staff Photo.

no additional Community Chest funds were
available.
A hospital. the report pointed out is not
itself a charitable institution, but one "by
means OF whose facilities the charitable con-
tributions of firms and individuals within the
community are made effective In the care OF
sick"
To keep these facilities available, it is empha-
sized, the hospital must keep solvent, ie, its
expenses must be met by receipts from some
source.
There are four principal sources which may
be used to support the charity load: Commu-
nifty Chest funds, endowments from wealthy
individuals or corporations, contributions of
tax funds and additional charges to full-pay
patients.
II the family of the hospital patient, already
facing the dual burden Of unavoidably high
hospital expenses and worry over the sick, is
to be spared the further cost Of assuming part
Of the hospitals charity load, the first three
sources must be expanded.
Chest Funds Are Limited.
Health Security Administration Is asking for
enough money from the Community Chest
Federation next year to make possible pay
ment Of $3.50 day for INDECENT adults, instead
of the present IS, and an increase from $3.50
to 81 day for babies.
What the Community Chest can give is
limited, of course, by the generosity with which
the public responds to its annual drive for
funds. Even if HSA secures the extra funds
it has requested, however, the hospitals must
still face substantial deficit on INDECENT
patients for operating costs in all the institu-
tions are above the $3.50 daily level.
An expansion of large individual contribu-
tions from wealthy philanthropists Is some
thing on which hospitals can no longer rely,
the Columbia Hospital report acknowledged.
This is particularly true, it was pointed out, In
the District of Columbia, because of the popula-
tons peculiar economic structure.
Here the charity problem merges with the
larger issue of how the Districts hospitals can
pay their operating costs and still take care
OF long-needed maintenance and expansion.
I'm many cities" according to the report,
industrial establishments, in recognition Of
the importance of the immediate availability
of hospital facilities in their own program for
the welfare and security Of their employees,
provide funds that will give assurance Of serv-
ice to their employees In Washington there
are few such firms"
'The one great employer" the report con-
cluded. 'is the Government of the United
States The welfare of its employees should be
a matter of concern to 1t. = There is hope
that that employer will make the provision
required"
Evening star., 1947-07-03
One. Veto After Another

To the Editor OF The Star:
Walter Winchell announced that now eight
big unions are pledged to support President
Truman for reelection. This shows that the
Presidents veto was merely political deal
with the labor leaders. He once made the
announcement that he would cooperate with
the Republican Congress, but the consistent
attitude of the administration has been to
oppose every effort on the part of Republican
leaders to economic and to cut the budget.
And now it is just one veto after another.
OBSERVER.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Voice of America a Nostrum?

Voice of America a Nostrum?
To the Editor Of The Star:
The Voice of America has planned gigantic
bureaucracy to transmit to the world at large
glad tidings of democracy from our glass house.
Such a scheme, think, Is an imposition
upon the State Department and the taxpayers
as well.
It should occur to our legislative function
aries that the Voice is just one of scores Of
such nostrums that at first glance may appear
appropriately pre-eminent under studiously
kept world unrest. AUGUSTUS LEE.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Questions and Answers
Bv Gould Lincoln

q writing % The EyenRs S1sE InfSrnsti9%n q
Q. What percentage of English words are
Latin?-C. N. D.
A. It has been estimated that 20 per cent
of words used in English conversation are
derived from Latin.
@. How do the legs of an insect move In walk
ing?-J. r. w.
A. The front and hind legs on one side, and
the middle leg on the other move forward al
most at the same time while the other three
legs support the body.
Q. How many Federal penitentiaries are
there?-J. K. S.
A. There are United States penitentiaries at
Alcatraz Island, Calf; Atlanta, Ga; Leaven-
worth. Kans.; Lewisburg Pa; Mcneil Island.
Wash, and Terre Haute, Ind.
@. Are tea leaves picked by hand?-G. M. p.
A, The leaf shoots or "flush'' are stripped
from the plant by native women, an operation
which requires both knowledge and skill. About
5000 shoots make pound of tea. {.
@. If soldier is discharged while overseas.
will his fare be paid to his homer. B.
A. In order to be discharged overseas man
must present an excellent reason to his com-s
manding ofdcer. II an overseas discharge is,
approved, transportation money may be paid
at the time of separation from the service. A
man, however, must furnish his own means.
OF transportation. !
Evening star., 1947-07-03

The latest medical report on bubble gum
is that it is not harmful. So much for the
hopes of millions of parents that something
would be found wrong with it to give them
an excuse to take it away from their
children.
Evening star., 1947-07-03

The Russian word for yes is da, accord
ing to diplomats who can remember when
they last used the word.
Evening star., 1947-07-03

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
1oriter, although it Is permissible for a
,uriter kno,Dn to The Star to use
non, de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Letters to The Star
Aptitude Test and Intellect

Aptitude Lest and Intellect
TO the Editor Of The Star:
The feature article In The Sunday Star BY
Miriam Gutenberg entitled TEST Shows Writer
Never Should Have Done It," is very interesting
and well written and contains more than meets
the eye. This aptitude test was given by the
District USES.
It reminds me of an aptitude test took at
a local university several years ago when study
ing Writing for Publicity" This test proved
that was weak in vocabulary And words are
what have the most of-and how!
However, cannot blame the test too much
as did not really give it a fair chance. 1t
had to be written with certain kind of pencil
as was told that it was to be corrected by
a machine. Instead of answering some of the
"jaybird" questions, I wrote "the heck with
this!" And in . number Of places I wrote
this question is an insult to my intelligence!'
So you see I really did not give the machine
a chance. I'll bet its face was red at all of
that impertinence. LAURA K. POLLOCK.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Experience as a Teacher

Experience as eacner
To the Editor of The STAR
The Star recently had these headings: 3
Tankers May Sail With Oil for Russia Before
Controls Return"-"Wartime Curbs on Exports
Will Go Back Into Effect Next Monday"
History sometimes repeats! Why not send
a cargo of atomic bombs to possible
future enemy? We have learned nothing from
our past folly! The scrap iron we supplied
to Japan was turned back on us in China
and at Pearl Harbor We can't learn anything
from experience, but when a great city of ours
is blown up, that may possibly arouse us from
our Slumber.
I always liked what Ben Franklin said:
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will
learn in no other, and scarce in that"
H. B. BRADFORD.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
MORE ACTIVITIES FOR JULY FOURTH
 BEING LINED Up

More activities are being planned for Juneau's three day Fourth of July ce'; bration. The celebration committee revealed today that plans are underway to include baseball games on the calendar and to issue invitations to out-of-otWn teams to participate in three day tour nament.
 To extend the show from land and sea and air, the committee has extended an invitation to the Army to send planes to Juneau to take part in an air show A baby show is also outlined.
 Chairmen of the various com mittees named, so far, are:
 General Chairman: Mayor Waino E. Hendrickson; Finance Commit tee: Fred Hcnning; Water Sports Bob Bowling; Land Sports: Harry Sperling; Publicity: Henry Hogue; Queens Contest: Mrs. Lucille John- son; Queens Activities: Mrs. Cecil CaSsler.
 Added to the General Committee are Bud Nance and Rod Darnell, representing the Rotary Club and the Juneau Merchants Association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
EXTENSION or RECLAMATION ACT I5S0UGHT
House Public Lands Com miftee Asked for Aet
 for All Territories

WASHINGTON, May 12.-lR- A House Public Lands subcommit- teen was asked today to extend the reclamation Act to cover AL aska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
 Reclamation Commissioner Mich ael Straus told the committee ir- rigation projects particularly are needed in Puerto Rico which has enc of the highest population den- sities in the world and must im- port about one-half of it's food.
 Other witnesses were the Govern or of Alaska and Colin Lennox President of the Hawaiian Board of Agriculture and Forestry.
 Alaska's Governor said little is now known of reclamation possi- bilities in Alaska, but that he felt investigations should be made by the Bureau of Reclamation.
 Lennox said Hawaii has spent S39 9,000000 on irrigation projects developing more land than any comparable area in continental United States.
 The subcommittee postponed ac- ion on the bill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
ALEUTiAM IN, OUT
 LATE IAT. NIGHT

The steamer A.rutian of the AL aska Steamship Company arrived in port from Seward at 10:3O o'clock Saturday night, sailing southbound at O5 the same night
 Approximately B students and personnel belng transferred from the Eklutna School near Seward to Mt. Edgecumbe School, disem- parked here.
 Seventy-five boxes of fresh hali- but were loaded for shipment to Seattle, with 95 boxes left on the dock for lack of time.
 Seattle-bound passengers were MT. and Mrs. Sam Shabaldak, Rheta Mitchell, George w. Futile, Carl Graham, MT. and Mrs. w. K. Burford, Roy Watson, J. H. War ren, J. M. Taylor, Mrs. G. Wells, Mrs. Joe Wells, Alvin Anderson and John Madison.
 Leaving for Ketchikan were Thomas Brown, Harold Sowder, Mrs, Harold Sowder and V. P. Dickson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
WALLACE BERRY IS
 FEATURED IN BILL
 AT 10TH CENTURY

Wallace Beery and Binnie Bar nes are teamed on the screen for the first time in "Barbary Coast Gent" the new M-G-M film at the 20th Century Theatre tonight. "Barbary Coast Gent" is story of San Francisco's Barbary Coast and early Nevada gold-field days.
 Miss Barnes plays Lii Danish, owner of a Barbary Coast "refin- ed7 gambling house, who is in love with Beery.
 Beery returns to the type of role that has made him favorite with movie-goers everywhere. He portrays two-gun bunco artist who turns into a 1880 Robin Hood
 Frances Rafferty and Bruce Kel- logg have the romantic leads in this feature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
OLD WEST STORY
 FEATURE NOW Al
 CAPITOL THEATRE

An exciting dramatization of a vivid chapter in the history Of the old West is seen in RKO Radios spectacular melodrama, "Badman's Territory now on the screen at the Capitol Theatre.
 Randolph Scott and Ann Rich ards respectively play the hero and heroine of the picture, which deals with old events in the Ok lahoma Panhandle. For forty years this area, larger than the state of Connecticut, was completely law less because of legal oversights which left it without any govern mental jurisdiction.
 After epic conflict the region was included in the newly form ed Territory of Oklahoma in 1890, and amid this conflict is played the romance and action of the jim. Scott plays sheriff and Miss Richards is fiery news paper editor. George "Gabby' Hayes shares honors with them as genial bandit.
 A train robbery by the James boys, the Daltons' memorable raid on Cotfeyville, and a frontier horserace provide some of the ex- citing sequences of "Badmar's Territory"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
RHODE BRINGS IN 2ND GRUMMAM FOR
 FWl SERVICE HERE

Clarence J Rhode, Aircraft Su- pervisor of the U. s. Fish and Wildlife Service, arrived here Sat- urday with the second of three Grumman airplanes which have been assigned to the Fish and Wild life Service in Alaska. Rhode was scheduled to take off, late today for Anchorage where the plane will be put into service.
 As passengers, Rhode will take with him Charles E. Gillham, liar old Dobyns, Les Ensign and Gene Bridge. Gillian ana Dobyns will go to the Kenai Peninsula to hunt predatory animals for about a month. Gillham recently rejoined the F&WL Service to supervise the killing of predatory animals and Dobyns has been loaned to assist Gillham in the Kenai hunt. DobynG is District Agent for the Fish and Wildlife Service at Pendleton, Ore.
 Ensign and Bridge are biologists from the Fisheries Division and are enroute to the F&WL Brooks La boratory at the headwaters of the Naknek River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
REINDEER HERD
 IS ABSORBED BY
 ROWING CARIBOU

Herbert C. Mcclellan, Unit Man ager Of the Reindeer Service Of the Alaska Native Service at KotZebue, today informed local ANS officials that the Shungnak reindeer herd has been absorbed by the migration of a caribou herd.
 Mcclellan said that he received this information from Marvin E. Warbelow, local ANS Reindeer Supt. at Shungnak. Warbelow said that many reindeer herds have been similarly threatened this year but that this instance was the first successful incident. Warhelow re- ported that many precautionary measures had been taken to pre- vent the caribou from interfering with the reindeer in that area. He said that, this year. caribou are migrating further west than is usual.
 The Shungnak herd, consisting of five or six hundred deer was on loan to Evan Conmack from a na- tive association. It has now been reduced to 37 head, Warbelow said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
COALITION GOVT.
 iS FORTHCOMING
 FOR JAPANESE

TOKYO, May l2.-IH-Japan's three main parties will receive equal representation in the forth coming coalition cabinet, which will be pledged to adopt tight state control of key industries, political leaders decided today.
 Whether the premiership will go 10 the Socialists, who hold a plurality in the diet, remained un- answered after this second meeting to form a coalition government. The Conservative cabinet. headed by Premier Shigeru Yoshida will resign May 20.