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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Letter From London

To the Editor of The Star:
inclose herewith copy OF part OF
letter from friend in London which
I think you may consider worth re-
printing. r. M. K.
The portion of the communication re-
ferred to reads as follows:
In the American press recently there
have been certain dolorous statements
regarding the condition of the British
Commonwealth of Nations, its downfall
being considered imminent and its peo-
pie in process of losing their tradi-
tional morale. incline to the view that,
as in all countries, there is an unruly
element, consisting very largely of
"wishful thinkers" but the aforesaid
statements are inconsistent with the
true facts. There never was time when
the British people have been required
to show greater residence to adversely
than today, and see no evidence OF
weakening. When had the pleasure Of
seeing you in Washington, I told you
that we were facing one of the grim
NEST winters in our history. Indeed, I
was not exaggerating, as the conditions
are of a somewhat onerous character,
but the public has shown its phil
osophic acceptance of causes for which
there is no human responsibility. I'm
doubtedly, they are very critical Of the
government in the lack of foresight
which is most evident.
What has happened in India is again.
no evidence that the empire is disinte-
grating. There is, on the other hand, a
not uninspired view-which commend
to those who may criticize our conduct
in the affairs of that country-and it is
that the political wisdom which under
lies the pursuance of the determination
that the democratic principle shall be
carried to its logical conclusion, and
having formed the opinion that India
has advanced sufficiently along the path
of political and social progress, it is felt
that the time has now arrived when
she is qualified to bear her own burdens
and fulfill her destiny.
Britain's chief concern is that the
transfer of authority shall be OF an
orderly character, with the avoidance of
bloodshed and religious strife which
many people fear may be the result.
The changeover will impose the supreme
test. of tolerance and craftsmanship. I
am hopeful that we shall emerge with
an enhancement of world respect.
JOHN Balm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Making 1t Easy for Reds

Chairman -ReeS of the House Civil
Service Committee has good cause
to be alarmed over the present
open door" policy of the Govern
ment departments toward Commu-
nists and other employees whose
loyalty is subject to question. He is
undoubtedly correct when he asserts
that such persons are being hired
every day for important Federal
jobs. But it is unfair to imply that
the Civil Service Commission is Gin
different" to this situation. AS a
matter of fact, the record shows
that the commission is just as wor-
ried as Mr.. Rees over the dangers
of such governmental laxity. The
trouble iS-aS a House Subcomnllt-
tee, of which Mr. Rees was a men,
Der, pointed out last year-that the
commissions hands have been tied
by lack of funds with which to
carry on necessary loyalty investi-
cations
Mr.. Rees criticizes the commits
sion for failing to initiate loyalty
Investigations in cases involving
employees already in the service. Yet
the House subcommittee reported to
Congress that the commissions rea-
son for adopting this policy is based
on "a recognized and accepted prin-
ciple of law that the head of a
department or agency is the only
person who can effectuate removal"
The commissions responsibility and
authority end, in other words, after
it has cleared an applicant for ap-
pointment. In the Friedman case
the Supreme Court upheld only the
right of the commission to inves-
tigate employees who, like Friedman,
had been appointed Subject to in
vestigation."
But even if the commission had
legal authority to investigate all
employees already on the payroll of
the various departments, it has
neither money nor facilities to I'M
dertake the task. In fact, it was
forced last year virtually to abandon
it's former system of screening ap-
plicants for Federal employment.
Looping off by Congress of most of
its funds for personnel investiga-
tons caused the commission to re-
duce its investigative staff from a
wartime peak of about TOO to 100.
This abbreviated staff could not
hope to do more than check on ap-
plicants for certain of the more
important jobs The task of screen
ing the vast majority of applicants
was turned over to the heads of the
departments, few of which have
facilities for doing this vital work.
Hence the potential influx of unde-
sirable employees pictured by Chair
man Rees.
AS The Star has stated repeatedly
in the past, this condition is per-
ilous one-aS witness what hap
pened under similar circumstances
in Canada. 1t is to be earnestly
hoped that Mr.. Rees will be able
to arouse his colleagues at the
Capitol to the implicit dangers of
this sort of shortsighted ECONOMY"
an economy that could be extremely
costly in the end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
WeII-Eurned Rebuke

There would be little ground Tor
criticism if Democratic Executive
Director Gael Sullivan, sincerely
desiring to reinforce the bipartisan
support of this countrys foreign
policy, had employed the right
methods in his approach to Carroll
Reece, Republican national chair
man. But Mr.. Sullivan did not
employ the right methods.
The proper thing would haye been
for Mr.. Sullivan to submit his pro-
posal to Mr.. Reece and then await
the latter's reply. 1t is apparent on
the face of the matter that Mr..
Reece would not have concurred in
the proposal, for the statement
drafted by Mr.. Sullivan, in addition
to disappearing the position of
Senator Vandenberg, would have
committed the Republicans to sup
port both the detectives and the
methods of the Truman policy"
1t is hard to see how any one
acquainted with the facts of con-
gressional life could have believed
for a moment that the Republicans
would rise to that lure. Mr.. Sullivan
Is a newcomer to the Washington
scene, however, and those who are
charitably disposed might have been
willing to excuse this blunder on
the ground of ineXperience.
The thing which the Republicans
are not willing to overlook, and
which is hard for others to reconcile
with any theory of wellintentioned
but misguided zeal, is that Mr..
Sullivan made public his proposed
joint statement and letter to Mr.
Reece without waiting to hear the
latter's views. This is one of the
oldest of political tricks, designed
to put the opposition on the spot,
and since Mr.. Sullivan has been
around long enough to be fully
aware of this, the general reaction
will be that he has earned the
rebukes which have been forthcom-
Ing from Senator Vandenberg and
Mr.. Reece.
Presumably, Mr.. Sullivan's real
motive was to even the score with
Mr.. Reece for the latter's blast last
week against President Truman's
alleged failure to cooperate with
the Republican Congress on domes-
tic questions. That was strictly a
partisan political statement. But at
least it was concerned with domestic
politics, while Mr.. Sullivan has I'M
dertaken to fish in the troubled
waters of foreign relations. The
dangers of this have been made
obvious, and it is to be hoped that
Mr. Sullivan has learned his lesson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19

cent houses 80 per cent of the popula-
ton. It produces As per cent of major
crimes, SIS per cent OF juvenile delin-
quency, so per cent of arrests, go per
cent of tuberculosis, so per cent of other
diseases, IS per cent of fires. 1t accounts
for IS per cent of city costs. 1t con-
tributes only per cent of city tax reve-
nues.
Modern cities are the result OF the
industrial revolution, starting about 1910.
A hundred years later 100000 Ameri-
cans lived in 1854 urban places.
But at the time this growth start
ed people still walked or used horses.
Cities had to be compact. Systems of
closely spaced streets, chopping the city
into small blocks, were chosen for eff
cheney in what was largely pedestrian
world.
AS they grew, the same system was
extended. Then came the streetcar 1t
expanded the radius of cities to about
miles.
BY a what-was-good-e enough dad
is-good- enough-for-m process the sys-
tenn of closely spaced streets and
crowded blocks continued to expand.
About 1910 the automobile began COM
ing into its own. The automobile did two
things. 1t made cities even more con-
gested and distasteful to city jewellers.
1t also provided a means of escape.
Whereas only few wealthy persons
formerly had been able to leave, now
the average man could, and did.
But neither he, nor his city govern
ment, nor the government of the new
community to which he went, saw much
farther ahead than the what-was-go good
enough-for- father idea of laying out q
community.
Same Process Repeated.
And now families are moving out Of
where their fathers moved to. No one
can be blamed for moving. Every one
wants to live in desirable, uncongested
surroundings.
Since the war there has been plainly
evident a growing understanding that
this situation doesn't have to be-a feel
ing that there Is way to undo past
mistakes.
With the growth Of this feeling has
come the city planner. He thinks he has
the answer. He is, primarily, technical
man. Usually he has a commission OF
laymen and public officials for whom he
works. Frequently not only is he mis-
understood but likewise his commission.
An almost insurmountable obstacle to
his work is that cities no longer fit
into their corporate limits, but include
a widening number of counties and small
towns. In Washington this condition
is complicated by the fixed boundaries
of the District of Columbia, beyond
which the city cannot expand its juris-
diction or tax collections. Yet the city
planner has to work within strait
jacket of obsolete political boundaries.
He brings no brand-new science to the
municipal field. His real job is to CO.
ordinate the various ways In which q
city gets built or rebuilt so that one kind
of development does not tread on the
toes of another and cause the kind of
community that people want to get
out Of.
(Tomorrow: Cities Built to Plan)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
joseph Pulitzer

A postage stamp to marx the
centenary of his birth undoubtedly
will serve to renew public interest
in the career of Joseph Pulitzer.
The isolation of the last twenty
years of his life made him stranger
to his own generation. Younger
readers know and appreciate the
prizes for achievement in literature
which he established in his will, but
they have not been acquainted with
their human backgrounds condi-
ton which formal admission to the
philatelic gallery of the Nation now
should serve to correct.
Mr.. Pulitzer was a great exponent
of the principle of individualism.
He symbolized "the born independ-
ent" in journalism and politics. A
native of Hungary, he came to
America to enlist in the Union Army
in 1864. Penniless, half-blind, eccen-
trio in appearance, he wandered
from town to town after the close
of hostilities, keeping body and soul
together by working at mental jobs.
But his genius was an endowment
equal to his need. In 1868 he was
employed as a reporter on Carl
Schurz's WeStliche Post. A decade
later he bought the st. Louis Dis
patch and merged it with the st.
Louis Post to make one of the most
important newspapers of that and
the present time. He purchased the
New York World in 1888 and directed
its development as an organ of
practical democracy until his death
in 1911.
Such are the salient facts of Mr.
Pulitzer's history. To comprehend
his significance, however, it is
necessary to consider circumstances
which influenced him compellingly.
The first of these was his increasing
invalidism from 1890 onward His
eyes gradually failed him completely,
his nerves became veritable inStru-
ments of torture, the slightest sound
was agony to him, he struggled
against his disabilities until exist
ence was almost intolerable. Yet
he continued his work His suffering
stimulated rather than retarded his
endeavors. On board his yacht he
moved from harbor to harbor, die
Eating to secretaries the instructions
he wished his staff to follow. Up
to the last his mind still was con-
structively active. The Columbia
School of Journalism Is his monu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19

Poland and its western neighbor and
SO furnish the chief argument for
eventual Polish incorporation in the
Soviet Union, which is known to be the
Polish Communists goal. When saw
Mr.. Beirut, the Polish president, in
January, he said, I'VE must stick with
the Soviets because population pressure
will drive Germany to expansion"
Nothing like creating the menace
against which only the Soviets can
defend you!
Poland lost, during the war, by the
determination of most Of her Jews, and
the transfer of her non-Polish Slavic
minorities to the Soviets, 100000
population. Her prewar population was
over 35,0O0,0 900; her present population
is 24,0000O0. Without the eastern terri
tories, she has almost the same num-
Der of persons per square mile as prewar.
Seventy million Germans are expected
to live on approximately 100000 square
miles of territory: 100000 Poles on
something over 100000.
~ y
When Gen. Marshall expressed doubt
in Moscow whether Poland could settle
and exploit this new land at anything
like It's previous productive capacity, he,
therefore, talked reasonably. This ter
ritory supported a population, German,
and fractionally Polish, of 100000
It's great fields fed another 100000
With the Germans expelled, to settle
and use 1t as fully would take five
twelfths of the Polish population. The
Polish government claims to have settled
100000, with plans for more, but 1t is
doubtful whether this has actually
happened and whether great further
increase of Polish population is possible.
A tour through the territory six weeks
ago revealed immense amounts OF SUI
perb agricultural land uncultivated, with
many of the settlers" merely squatters.
We have heard for generation about
Soviet planning" But economic plan
ners would never transplant European
peasants and workers by the millions
from relatively underpopulated into
seriously overpopulated territories. Yet
that Is exactly what the Soviets have
supported, at an incalculable cost In
present and future human suffering and
chaos. If there is any plan, it can only
be to ruin tn order to rule
And I am amazed that Americans Of
Polish descent, most of whom greatly
fear that the Soviets will swallow Poland
completely, by backing the Beirut gov
eminent on this matter contribute to
the end they oppose.
With their Illustrations have every
sympathy. No country received the raw
deal accorded Poland by all her allies.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Account Must Be Token
Prom the London Daily Telegraph and
Morning Post.

Prom the London Daily Telegraph and
Morning Post
The economic provisions of any peace
treaty far outstrip in Importance any
geographical, or indeed political, provi-
sions. This feeling, which is undoubt-
edly growing stronger in this country,
is far from wholly due to the desire to
be quit of the immense burdens now
involved in sustaining any sort Of
German economy. Moreover, 1t owes
nothing at all to any sentimentality
over German sufferings What inspires
1t Is the inevitable fact that in any
future organization of Europe account
must be taken of Germans and Germany.
In principle, this surely must be COM
mon ground, and therefore what has
to be settled is the degree of limitation
of Germanys economic freedom and
how such limitation can be enforced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Undermining the Union
rom the London Daily Herald.

From the London Daily Herald.
Laws cannot be altered by unilateral
action in a democratic country. The
British system of collective bargaining,
built up with great care over SO many
years, has brought untold benefit to
the workers and gives them an in
valuable protection. 1t may be that
the system is in some respects i'm
perfect. But the imperfections must
be mended by hard thinking and calm
discussion. Unofficial strikes, SO far
from improving the machinery. tend
only to bring it into disrepute and to
undermine that trade union authority
which is indispensable to its effective
functioning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
'Terrorists' in Palestine
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The star:
Some of our newspapers are elaborat-
ing on the British reports on what a
few Palestinian Jews are doing, but are
not mentioning the facts of the under
lying reasons for same.
England has sold its honor for mess
of oily pottage and is abusing its man
datory authority by catering to the
Arabs and depressing the Jews to such
an extent that if it were not for the
patience and natural peacefulness of the
Jews, there would be open warfare.
However, few of the veterans left
over from those who gave their lives
and blood fighting for England are re-
sisting this tyranny in the only way
they can, and that is called terrorism"
S. D. SHEPARD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Part.Time Pupils
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star
The Congress will be guilty of gross
dereliction if it does not grant the
Board of Education's request for enough
money to allow construction of build
ings that can afford long delayed
relief to some 1000 "part-time" District
pupils. These students, in adult life,
will be held to the stiff requirements of
an increasingly competitive society.
They have the right to expect their
present elders to give them at least a
fair educational chance. Providing this
opportunity abides ultimately with Con-
gress. J. w. HAYWOOD, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19

reparations. France insists that the
Ruhr be economically sundered from
the Reich, which the other three
powers insist would render Germany
economy unavoidable.
Such, in nutshell, is the deadlock
which the respective standpoints of
the Big Four have revealed. Unless
these are mere preliminaries to
genuine bargaining, the outlook for
agreement is slim indeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Memory

Ace is the stirring spoon that frees
The longest, deepest memories
And brings up hours that bear no mark
OF halt century In the dark.
Warmed By the late sun as tt goes,
The body and the mind may doze.
But the inner eye a1akes to glot1
And DteD its private picture sho1o
OF bits of time and life dredged up
From memory's unbottomed cup.
Where no,u and again bright gems are
tossed
That long ago ,Dere n,ourned as lost.
ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19

ment. It's worldwide impact bull
warks the cause of the free press
everywhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-19
Sweet-und Low?
From the Cleveland News.

from the Cleveland News.
Nothing comes of Congressmans
proposed bonus of Is pounds Of sugar
to every housewife Just another sweet
nothing that one says to all the girls.
Evening star., 1947-09-05
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