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Evening star., 1947-11-07

telephoned the manager Of the dairy, who
replied: 1--WE are sorry we couldn't give you
any advance notice but the price increase
was only granted yesterday Friday). How
ever, we will only charge you the old price
for the, milk delivered to you today" He did
not explain how the dairy was able to have
such nice printed notices Of the price changes
made on such short notice, even to having
the effective date on them. Also, the permis-
sion granted to the dairies to increase the
price of milk did not order them to start
charging the advanced prices the very next
day. Some dairies were at least courteous
enough to wait two or three days in order to
notify their customers. allowing them to
change their orders If they felt they could
not pay such q high price, and 1t is very
high price for such basic food.
Immediately Cancelled my order with this
company and Saturdays delivery is being
returned to them. AS q further insult they
tried to leave me q delivery Of milk today
(Monday) after had Cancelled it on Saturday.
If the customer would show more spunk in
circumstances like this and demand fair
deal, We could at least show that we are more
than guinea pigs. This attitude that Is grip
ping the people Of America today, namely,
get all you can for yourself and the other
fellow be hanged, is soon going to lead us to
national catastrophe, from which we may not
recover. RALPH 8. PEARsE.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
First Thinus First

President Truman's decision to ask the
special session Of Congress to deal with
emergency European aid ahead Of action
on domestic prices fully merits the ap-
proval and support which 1t has received.
Previously, the President had indicated
that he wanted the price question put
ahead of emergency aid. In The Stars
opinion, to have done that would have
been to put the aid program in needless
jeopardy. The price issue is important
and the President is right in insisting that
Congress deal with 1t. Still, first things
should be put first. The real emergency
Is in Western Europe, not at home, and 1t
is simply inconceivable that Congress
should be called into special session to deal
with an emergency only to be sidetracked
by presidential direction on matter Of
secondary Importance so far as the time
factor is concerned.
Both the President and Congress are to
be commended for agreeing to reverse the
order Of dealing with these subjects.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
A Critical Year for the Chest

Here, in brief, is the financial back
ground of this years goal in the Com
munity Chest Federation campaign:
Allocated last year IT'S, ,975
Agency requests (this year, ------ 5,O87 ,288
Budget Committee recommended 4,566,0
The campaign goal ------------- $500 900
The public is being asked to give 81, ,187,-
900 less than the agencies asked for to
meet their needs.
It is being asked for 100000 less than
the Budget Committee, going over the
agency requests with fine-tooth comb,
recommended as logical goal.
But without discounting the need, the
federation's Executive Committee in joint
meeting with the Budget and Campaign
Committees decided arbitrarily to cut the
goal to the amount that past experience
indicates will be forthcoming. The hope
here is that the goal will be oversubscribed.
The fact is that the subscribers to the
Chests are being asked for the minimum
that should be expected of them. There is
no padding, no setting of sights higher
than the target.
This is something of departure from
previous years, when the logical argument
prevailed that the minimum needs should
not be reduced merely because the money
to meet them might not be forthcoming.
For the needs continue to exist, no matter
how they may be reduced on paper. If we
fail to reach the goal finally adopted, the
failure will be a serious one which may
prejudice the continued. operation in
Washington and the surrounding counties
of the Community Chest principle
This campaign is, therefore, a critical
campaign. 1t is not. however, a difficult
campaign to make succeed. The i'm
portance of succeeding requires no argu-
ment. Most of the people of this COM
munity - the extensive community of
Washington and the Metropolitan Area
are in sympathy with objectives of most
of the Chest agencies and conscious of the
economy, the efficiency and the wisdom of
a united appeal. For those who do not
agree with the objectives OF some Chest
agencies, their dissent can be given prac-
tical expression on the pledge cards. AS
1t Is an impossibility to embrace within
a Community Chest only the agencies that
everybody believes in, the good citizen will
be inclined to forgo the luxury of per-
sonal objection In favor of the great
principle OF united action the Chest
represents.
Thousands Of unselfsh men and women
are giving up their time and effort in
working for the common cause of Com
munity Chest success this year. They de-
serve the help of those whom they will
call upon for contributions.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Task for q Joint Committee

1t would be an excellent thing if the
House and Senate District Committees
decided to conduct joint hearings on the
Auchincloss home-rule proposal.
The advantages of this procedure are
so obvious that they should appeal to every
one. The latest example in joint commit
tee consideration was the tax legislation
In the past session. Identical bills were
introduced in House and Senate, and sub
committees from the two District COM
mittees sat together in the hearings. One
result was elimination of the time-wasting
duplication of separate hearings. Another
was that House and Senate managers of
the tax legislation went on the floor with
the same background and in complete
agreement as to what the legislation
should be.
Much of the same thing happened some
years ago in the bill to control sale of
liquor in the District, following repeal Of
prohibition. Joint hearings were held on
this legislation and it's enactment was
expedited as result.
The Auchincloss proposals, now being
put into legislative form, should be intro
oAAS
House If the appropriate subcommittee
from both sides of the Capitol will sit to-
gether, better hearings will result, for
greater opportunity can be given to the
suggestions from those called to testify.
The chances for definite action in the
coming session of Congress would be in
creased, for the joint hearings would elm
mate much waste Of time. And 1t is well
to have any sharp differences of opinion
settled by simultaneous action Of the sub
committees rather than having the same
proposal reported out in conflicting forms.
One of the good recommendations Of
the Auchincloss plan on home rule is
establishment Of joint committee on the
District of Columbia. The merits of the
proposal would be demonstrated very we'll
by joint committee consideration of the
proposal atself.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

energy, and speak Historically Of the
all over again the Utopian promises that
seem no nearer fulf1llment today than
three decades ago. The formula is simple:
Keep the mob in line by dangling a carrot
before it's nose and frightening 1t with
talk about capitalistic "warmongers"
But if things like Mr.. Molotov's latest
speech thus are designed chiefly for home
consumption, the free outside world can
not dismiss them as of little consequence.
The Russian people hear practically moth
ing but such propaganda and they can be
welded firmly together by it. They can
be made to follow docilely a dictatorship
that has already annexed more than
100000 square miles of territory and ham
mered out a satellite European dominion
as far west as Czechoslovakia. In one
breath Mr.. Molotov argues that this dicta-
torship and capitalism can work together,
but in the next breath-perhaps mindful
of Lenins dictum that the two must
eventually engage in death struggle-he
says that our way of life is on its last legs
and "all roads lead to communism"
1lIAe may pIoVe nlIH llsAI, ApeiIy May
be lost everywhere, unless free men and
free nations move boldly together now to
meet the challenge On it's thirtieth ami
versary the Soviet Union is on the make
throughout Europe and Asia, and there
must be counteraction accordingly-action
like the projected Marshall plan and ade-
quate military preparedness. Without
that, tomorrows world may well belong
to the totalitarianS.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Russiu Thirty Years Later

Foreign Minister Molotov'S virulent
speech to the Russian people Is tailored to
the fact that today marks the thirtieth
anniversary of the Soviet revolution. It Is
speech meant primarily for home con-
sumption. There is nothing really new in
It, 1t merely rehashes-in a more authori-
tative voice-the old, familiar line of the
Vishinskys, Gromykos and other, lesser
lights in the Kremlin's stable of truth
butchering propagandists and diplomatic
hatchet men.
The line has long since been discredited
In the free and informed outside world
But the Russian masses-imprisoned be-
hind the "iron curtain"-do not know that.
So Mr.. Molotov can torture truth without
fear of contradiction within the Soviet
borders. He can say that America foolishly
regards the atomic bomb as lasting
secret, although our Government has made
clear that any major country can in time
in f1ve years or so-make A-weapons of
Its own without any help from us. He can
say that Britain and the United States
are blocking international control, al
though the record screams out that the
kremlin alone Is blocking it. Similarly he
can say that we are building bases close
to the U. S. s. r. "as preparation for
aggression" He can say all this and more
besides, and none of his compatriots will
rise to challenge him. The Communist
dictatorship takes care of that
Since Mr.. Molotov and his colleagues in
the Politbureau must know that the free
world will not be hoodwinked by these fab
relations, their purpose must be to hood
wink the Russian people. And why must the
Russian people be hoodwinked? Perhaps
the answer can be found in this: That the
Soviet dictatorship, after thirty years of
rule, has little to offer but stale promises
of Utopia and one of the lowest standards
OF living-spiritually and materially-in
the world. True, the U. S. S. r. has greatly
increased the literacy of the country, ex-
panded technical education, made consid-
cradle industrial progress and become
power second only to the United States
At the same time, however, it has estab-
lished system of government far more
oppressive and bloody than that of the
corrupt czardom. It has established an
absolute tyranny tolerating no opposition,
tyranny built in its early days on the
corpses of millions of deliberately starved
peasant dissenters and now held together
by the secret police, concentration camps,
firing squads and ceaseless barrage of
violently untruthful propaganda
Nor has there been any appreciable
economic betterment to take some of the
curse off this awful political slavery.
Despite all the censorship binding them,
the masses of Russia must have an inkling
that they are more down-at- the heels than
most peoples elsewhere, particularly the
American people whose living standard is
about ten times higher. This can cause
discomfort. So let the Molotovs rise and
conjure up picture of misery in America.
Let them invent scares OF aggression, and
hint that the Soviets will soon have atomic
Evening star., 1947-11-07
1t Wus No 'Struw Mon

Apparently President Truman's advisers
on security matters did not inform him OF
all the facts before he criticized the press
yesterday for what he described as setting
up straw man and then knocking 1t
down. If that proviso designed to protect
administrative officials against "enbar-
rassment" was straw man, 1t was conjured
up not by the newspapers but by the
Presidents own Security Advisory Board.
It was not the newspapers which inserted
in the original set of proposed security
rules the provision which would have au-
thorized the various Federal agencies to
classify as "conf1dentiaP any information
which might cause serious administrative
embarrassment or difficulty"
The proviso was not the result of what
Mr.. Truman said was a disposition of the
press to make straw men out of fragments
of preliminary reports. The Veterans Ad-
ministration adopted the preliminary" re-
port-proviSo and alias soon as received.
And the VA kept these preliminary" reg
ulations in effect for more than three
months before canceling them this week
after press criticism.
II the Objectionable proviso was Just
straw man, the press while disclaiming
responsibility for setting 1t up, is glad to
accept credit for knocking 1t down. For,
as the American Society of Newspaper
Editors recently pointed out, this ILL
advised proposal smacked of gag rule" in
it's worst form.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
No FBI Black List

Director J. Edgar Hoover Of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has contributed q
much-needed clarifcation to the Sub
versive list" question, which has been con-
fused by too much loose talk Of late. His
sharp letter to the National Lawyers Guild
Is, in effect, an implied rebuke to any we'll
meaning citizens who may refer to the
existence of some FBI or other depart
mental "black list" without first learning
the facts.
The chain of events which led to Mr..
Hoover's vigorous denial that such list
has been given out or even prepared by the
FBI started when Clifford H. Newell past
president of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, named the National Lawyers
Guild as among organizations on the Sub
versive list of the FBI" His statement was
made in connection with action of Fed
Grafton committee in questioning the ell
gibility for membership of a prospective
delegate,
1t turns out that Mr.. Newell had in mind
a list published on May %, 1946, by the
House Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties. part of which was reprinted in The
Star last March. Mr. Newell says he
thought the FBI had been referred to by
the House Committee as the source of
some of its information. Mr.. Newell was
in error. The report in question listed Or
ganizations cited by the committee in the
past for alleged un-American activities
supplemented by names of organizations
criticized by various other public or quasi
public groups. Included also, were more
than a score of allegedly subversive Or
ganizations listed in 1912 by Attorney Gen.
eral Biddle for confidential guidance of the
Interdepartmental Loyalty Committee, set
UP under the Hatch Act This confidential
list was published in the Congressional
Record by the Dies Committee, without ap-
proval of the Attorney General. The Biddle
list now is largely obsolete. as many of the
organizations named have disappeared.
1t is true, however, that an up-to-date
list of organizations considered by the Gov
ernment as subversive is in the making. 1t
is being prepared not by the FBI but by
Attorney General Tom Clark-by direction
Of the President. That the FBI will be
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Rose Window

Sun falls through loaded glass II, hushed
chromntic tones:
Clear garnet OF old Uine, the blue OF
iris, violet deeper than night,
Rich amber, amethyst and scarlet shafts
of n1uted flame
Transform to fo,oers the pale faces ,otth
their dappled light
All that is earthly and transient Is mashed
dDdy,
And as the svelling surt OF organ chords
mounts higher
The faces lift In luminous response to
sunHt UGDes
Transfgured for the moment and sane
tilted by fire.
BIZ patient hands that fashioned lace OF
stone and pane
Three centuries later the miracle Is
brought to pass,
And mortal eyes glimpse Dision OF an
immortality
II briefly and in the shado,oed gardens
OF stained glass.
FREDERICK EBRIaHT.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Letters to The Star
Gun Factory Wages
To the Editor Of The Star:

ouH TdCtOTy wages
To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial Of, November 3, "No Gain for
the Public" certainly explains merely one Of
the myriad Of such cases where the public
suffers to the benefit Of few. Perhaps that
is one reason that the cost Of living has risen
1ss per cent, Many groups have also received
the benefit of wage increases to buy the milk
which Just jumped 2 cents quart. and pay the
so per cent raise for members OF Congress.
The Government burns the potatoes and buys
the tobacco and eggs to keep the prices up
and then sends the grain to Europe-thls Is
commendable. However, shouldn't little
generosity be shown to the so-called "blue-
collar" worker at the Naval Gun Factory?
After months of wage survey the painters
were generously awarded / cent per hour
increase carpenters cents, electricians
cents and toolmakers l6 cents
The Government, having spent billions OF
dollars abroad must expect US to live on
patriotism. We don't want charity but II we
are skilled enough to produce the Nays
technical equipment Of the 2oth century, why
do we have to accept a pay which has Its
sonrce in law Of 1862?
AN. g. r. MECHANIC.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
The Price of Milk

70 the Editor of The Star:
think 1t is high time the customer is given
a little courtesy and respect. The prevailing
idea is that he can be pushed around and
charged any price at will To Illustrate let
me relate what occurred last Saturday, not
only to me but to thousands of other citizens
in Washington.
Ny milk was delivered as usual. accompanied
by printed notice that this milk and milk in
the future would cost me 81 cents quart
instead of 1917 cents. It was taken for granted
would be perfectly satisfied and willing to
pay the price, 50 no advance notice was given
me. This discourtesy made me disgusted, 20
Evening star., 1947-11-07
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What is the difference between the weight
of large, medium and small eggs within the
same grade?-A. H. P.
A. Medium eggs weigh about one-eighth less
than large eggs; small eggs about one-fourth
less than large eggs. The smaller eggs within
a grade have the same food value as the larger
eggs, allowing for the difference in weight, ac-
cording to the Department of Agriculture
@. Why is the load line mark on ship called
"plimsoll mark"?-S. N. H.
A. Samuel Pliusoll, member Of the British
Parliament, who believed that the number Of
disasters at sea was due In large part to over
loading, fought for the reform provided In tho
Merchant Shipping Act Of 1876. This provided
that circular disc, drawn with line through
the center, should be placed upon the legal load
line OF every British vessel. This Is known aS
the "plinlsoll mark" and has been almost UNI
versally adopted.
G. Who wrote the poem, "on the Grass
hopper and the Cricket"?-J. M.
A. John Keats. One evening, while Keats
Leigh Hunt and Cowden Clarke were discuss
ing poetry, the proposal was made that each
write poem on topic to be agreed upon
Hunt suggested the grasshopper and the
cricket and each Immediately went to work.
Leigh Hunts poem Is entitled ITO the Grass
hopper and the Cricket"
9. How many parts are there In an auto
mobile?-A. s.
A. Tho Automobile Manufacturer Associa-
ton says that the number Of parts per car
naturally varies somewhat between makes, but
. typical car has about $500 different parts,
although II each NUT or bolt etc, Is counted
individually, the number Of pieces In a pas
senger car Is about 1900.
@. What occasioned the writing of the song,
"Oh Susannah," by Stephen Foster?-A. M. H.
A. According to Fosters sister, 1t was writ
ten for club called "The knights of S. r"
1t was started in 1845. The sign of the order
was a fish. The watchwords were Heroes
Fail Not" This club of young men met twice
a week at Fosters house. "Oh! Susannah"
was probably written in Pittsburgh 1t was
sung, possibly for the first time, at Andrews
Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh, Sep
tember II. 1847.
O. Is there such thing as death ray" that
can be used in war?-M. J. B.
A. Dr. Albert r Murray, who investigated the
so-called death rays" for the Office of Scien-
tific Research and Development, reported that
no known rays would serve any useful purpose
In war.
Q. Is there any advantage to sleeping with
head to the north7-G. E. M.
A. This is mere superstition. It makes no
difference in which direction one lies during
sleep. The average person has Is to 20 diff
ferent sleeping positions and changes these
about IS times a night to allow the various
muscles Of the body to relax and rest
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Stars, Men and Atoms
Breeding Experiments
May End Poultry Disease
Doubling of Egg Output Is Possibl.
AT Same Time, Cornell Report,
Bv Thomas r. Henry

L
Possibility of eliminating by breeding O, .
poultry disease which causes an annual loss
Of $50 900 900, at the same time doubling egg
production and increasing weight approximately
one fourth, has Just been reported to the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement Of
science here by two Cornell University
biologists
Their experiment lasted IL years. 1t is a
strik,np demonstration, say Drs F. B. Hutt and
r x. Cole of the Cornell Department of Poultry
Husbandry, of a way to increase enormously
both egg and poultry production throughout
the country.
The disease was avian lymphomatosS, form
of spreading tumor responsible for about 40
per cent of deaths among chicks IN the first
wear. It is highly contagious. but liability to
contagon is hereditary.
Started in 1885.
Starting in 1885 with groups OF White Leg
horns, among the best egg producers, Drs. HUT
and Cole started q breeding experiment, mat
ing survivors of exposed stock In each genera
ton and thus gradually eliminating suscepti-
bility. At the same time weights gradually In
creased and the hens laid more and larger
eggs.
Previously all attacks on avian lynphomatosis
had proved futile. The only barrier was a de-
gree of isolation of suspectible stock, which was
far too expensive to be practical. The method
worked out at Cornell also, they explain, would
not be practical for the average farmer who
seeks to improve his stock. He could not AFFORD
the necessary effort and expense.
They propose that resistant strains be de-
veloped by agricultural colleges and expert
ment stations and distributed among farmers
as are disease resistant varieties of plants.
Another proposal Is that large numbers OF
resistant roosters be produced and distributed
to all who supply eggs for commercial hatch
cries, which now provide about 90 per cent OF
the chickens in this country. Practically no
attention would be given to the hens.
Transmitted Through Male.
The Cornell tests showed that great part,
although not all, Of the susceptibility Is trans
mitted through the male line. At the same
time resistant roosters seem to transmit most
of the better egg-laying qualities. Admittedly,
they say, this process would be slow, but it
would be continuous and remarkable improve
ment could be brought about in a decade.
Not only did the breeding experiments reduce
the rate of avian lymphomatosis practically to
the vanishing point but cut down other diseases
so that the total death rate of chicks was re-
duced almost two-thirds. The latter result was
quite incidental and unexpected
Poultry breeding hitherto has been concerned
almost entirely with producing better egg pro-
duction and better cooking BIRDS but appar-
emily almost all the good qualities are tied up
generally in hereditary complex.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
writer, although 1t Is permissible TOR
writer kno1pn to The Star to use a
non de plune. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Place for a Subsidy

To the Editor of The STAR
Milk subsidy! Why don't we subsidize milk to
the people who are rearing children?
NO KIDS.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
.sSi yfs'ah III 5ns5 ''Ss
Please inclose cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

A psychiatrist advises parents to tell the
children there is no Santa Claus. If Santa
Claus is the man we think he is he doesn't
believe In psychiatrists.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

Nations intending to follow the example
of Brazil would do well first to get their
ambassadors safe out Of Russia on some
pretext or other.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

CThis Is the third Of series Of articles by SEN
ator Tydtngs reporting on his findings during O
recent extensive trip through Europe.)