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Marine Air Base At Cherry
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Indicative of the Marine Corps peaeme activity
Corps Air Base Cherry Point North Carolina Occupying
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earth carry to the sea two cubic
miles of debris.
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Experiences In China Since 1925
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A son was born at LOT o'clock
this morning in the Key West
Municipal Hospital to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Kinds, 1901 Flagler
avenue. The newcomer weighed
10 pounds and IL ounces.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
The FORGOTTEN Man

To the Editor of The Star:
A short time ago there was much talk
about the forgotten man. Who was or
who is the forgotten man? Did our
benefactors and humanitarians find him
and save him from obliteration? We
take it for granted that they did, which
Is very commendable, but they over
looked 5000 or more real forgotten men,
I refer to the retired Government
workers. Here is a group that has been
sadly forgotten; who after 80 years or
more of faithful service and with living
conditions at an all-time high, with
prices that tax the pockets of the rich.
have been left like the old mule who
has outlived his usefulness to pick what
dry leaves he can find to maintain his
fast declining form.
The average pay Of these castaways
is $66 per month to subsist on. Can
you imagine what they have eaten, worn,
or where they have slept Chose who
have survived these last few years.?
We wonder at times when we note
the stress placed on the needy of other
countries, which way we are looking.
We need but to drop our eyes and behold
these castaways and their families
struggling to subsist on meager $66 to
keep body and soul together.
I ask in the name Of justice and hu-
manity, what Is to be done about it?
ULYSSES MACKALL.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

of course, may be open to criticism
as evidence that the great powers
lack confidence in the ability of the
United Nations to maintain peace.
Yet it is a fact that the U. N. Char
ter provides for such special ar
rangements as a kind of double
security guarantee, and at this stage
they can be justified. Similarly, al
though it is difficult to conceive of
wrecked Germany being able to
stage comeback, the pacts in ques-
ton can serve to reassure all parties
concerned that there will be no con-
test of power to rearm the Germans,
with the victors playing them off
against each other in a grim and
potentially disastrous game.
Seen in this light, at 9 time when
the United Nations is still feeling its
way, the London Paris Moscow tri-
angle of treaties makes more than
a little sense. So does the proposed
Big Four treaty. In their own way,
if faithfully adhered to, they can
help to diminish mutual suspicious
and promote a safer balance of
power in Europe.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
British View of Brituin's Duty
From the London Daily Mail.

From the London Daily Mall.
If Britain is determined to give India
complete ndependence-and the pledge
has been given without any mandate
from the people-it is her clear duty to
insure, as far as lies within her power,
a peaceful future for the great mass
of the Indian people That could be
assured il the Hindus conquered the
Moslems or the Moslems conquered the
Hindus. In either event the victorious
party would impose their policies upon
the vanquished. 1t Is not solution,
however, that can be contemplated by
Britain. The rivals must, somehow or
other, settle down together, in united
India If possible, but in two Indias If
necessary - Hindustan for the Hindus
and Pakistan for the Moslems. In the
last resort, the one Indian can be OBJ
tanned only by force. But the two In
dias can be constructed without it. The
British government seems lately to have
accepted this view. In all this far too
little has been heard Of the interests of
the minorities and Of the Indian states.
All have helped to build up India as we
know 1t. Many have fought bravely for
Britain in two wars. We should be
dishonored II we abandoned them. with
out safeguards, to the mercies Of the
majority parties.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Lunar TeIeyision

The moon may be put to some
practical use, after all. Not that
the earth's satellite does not already
perform sundry useful services,
such as giving Uttered beaches
tidal bath, inspiring song writer's,
Illuminating lovers lanes, and so on.
But science is planning to give the
moon a chance to do a new and
highly important job in the field of
television.
According to statements made at
the New York convention of the
Institute of Radio Engineers, tele-
vision experts are planning to test
the feasibility of using the moon as
a relay station for television broad
casts between America and Europe.
At present television is extremely
limited in scope. Unless a coaxial
cable is used, the broadcast cannot
be sent beyond the horizon. Trans
oceanic television broadcasting is
an impossibility under existing con-
ditions.
Taking their cue from the sue
cess of Army radio engineers in
sending radar impulse to the moon
and back, civilian engineers will
conduct tests to see II similar tele-
vision waves can be sent to the
moon and bounced down to televi-
sion receivers in London or some
other European city. If the tests
are successful, the time may not be
far off when the moon will serve
as full-fledged relay point for
television broadcasts to Europe of
world-series games, presidential in
augurations, the Kentucky Derby
and the like.
OF course, the moon may not CO.
operate. It has looked down upon
so many more interesting events in
its time without evidencing any
particular reaction that 1t may not
consider these lesser things worth
passing on to Europe or any other
place. 1t is worth a trial, however.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
What's in a Name?

To the Editor Of The Star:
This prolonged "rassle" over one D.
Lilienthal for the job of trigger-man
on the atom bomb is nerve-rackingl
One goes to bed night after night won~
dering II the job of bombardiering will
by next morning be in the control of
Uncle Joe Stain or not. Better no bonn
bardier than the wrong one!
don't know this D. Lilienthal but I
don't like long names. Why couldn't
the President nominate somebody with
name like Jones or Smith or Brown
a name you can spell without looking
in foreign-language lexicon?
Before I advise my constituents to
vote for D. Lilienthal would like you to
hire Lowell Mellett or some other
unbiased partisan to dig up and publish
the scandal about how this D. Lilienthal
stuck his nose under the tent of one
long-forgotten iva engineer named
Morgan, then raised up and blew this
Morgan right out of his own tent. win
you, now? RICHARD L. FELDMAN.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Guaranteed Gas Supply

The recent breakdown of the
single pipeline supplying Washing
ton with natural gas gives added
Importance to the implicit condition
which the Public Utilities Commis-
sion has attached to it's order per-
hitting the Washington Gas Light
Company to change over from
manufactured to natural gas. This
condition is that the company main
tain an adequate standby plant for
manufacturing a high thermal unit
gas to replace or supplement the
natural supply in time of emergency.
The company proposes to retain
and improve it's plant in the eastern
section of the city for standby pur-
poses. It's West Washington plant
will be abandoned, except for the
holders, which will be used to store
reserve gas. Apparently the COM
pany was able to satisfy the PUG
that the eastern plant would prove
adequate to supply the city's needs
in event of future pipeline break
downs.
The time no doubt will come
and it may not be far off-when
there will be enough new sources Of
natural gas supply to warrant dis
continuance of even the lone standby
facilities. An additional pipeline is
being extended toward this area
from the Pennsylvania fields. Even
tually the Metropolitan Area may
benefit also from gas flowing through
the Big Inch pipeline. Until the
reserve sources of the natural prod
uct are sufficient to assure the Dis
trict of uninterrupted service under
all conditions, however, the COM
pany should be required to hold
onto its manufacturing facilities.
Since this was not rate hearing,
the PUG did not go into the matter
of the effect of gas conversion on
consumer rates, except to satisfy it
self that conversion will obviate any
increase due to rising costs of gas
manufacture 1t did, however, ap-
prove the billing of customers on
thermal rather than volumetric
basis. AS manufacturing costs dwin-
die and finally disappear, the users
of gas will naturally look forward
to a downward adjustment of their
monthly bills. How soon such a
decline may reasonably be expected
is not indicated either by the COM
pany or the commission. It will
require fair test of operating costs
under the converted system to
answer the rate question intelligently.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Alliances Against Germany

The new nfty-year Anglo-French
treaty of alliance raises the posi-
bility that Big Four pact may yet
be completed against Germany. The
United States is on record as being
anxious to work out such an ar
rangement, and Foreign Ministers
Bevin of Britain and Bidault of
France have openly called for it.
The only question is whether Russia
is willing.
AS matters stand the Anglo
French pact completes London.
Paris-Moscow triangle. Russia has
a twenty-year alliance with France
and a twenty-year mutual assist
ance agreement with Britain. ALI
three are essentially alike in that
they are directed against the posi-
bility of a resurgent Germany. The
main difference is that the British
and French are committed to each
other for fifty years. The British,
however, have offered to write the
same long period into their present
treaty with Russia. The treaty is
now scheduled for revision, and
there is chance that this will be
one of the changes. A similar change
in the Soviet-French pact would be
logical.
Also logical would be an all-inclu-
sive Big Four treaty. Such a treaty
has been twice proposed by the
United States. Under it we would
join Britain, France and Russia in
enforcing for twenty-five or more
years any German Standardization
plan agreed upon in the final peace
settlement. When we first sug-
gested this last year we did so to
make clear to the Russians that we
were as determined as they to rem
der Germany incapable of future
aggression. But at that time the
Russians would have no part of the
proposal. Judging from Mr.. Bevin's
remarks on the eve of the Moscow
Conference, however, there is reason
to feel that they may have since
changed their minds. In any event,
in view Of their pacts with Britain
and France, 1t is difficult to see why
they should shy away from a spe-
cial agreement committing all of
the Big Four to mutual protection
against q possible German come
back.
All these anti-German alliances,
Evening star., 1947-03-08

permit the private owners and opera
tors OF industrial plants and services to
use the courts to restrain arbitrary
action by labor unions which threatens
the health and safety Of the people.
1t Is possible that Congress may adopt
combination of both these courses.
giving Government the power to declare
when an emergency exists and when
the private owners may seek restraining
court orders, to be in effect until some
fair agreement can be entered into be-
tween the owners and the workers.
\ X X
General approval of the Supreme
Court decision, except in labor circles,
has been expressed. It is relief to the
American people to know they still
have a Government which cannot be
defied and overridden by single man,
backed by labor union. What Mr..
Lewis and the mine workers may decide
to do is not clearly known.
The general supposition is, however,
that there will be no work stoppage in
the mines when April l rolls around.
March 81 is the date set for the end
ing of the truce with which Mr.. Lewis
generously sent the miners back to work
shortly before Christmas and permitted
the work of the Nation to go on.
To President Truman will 60 much
credit for having decided to 60 to the
mat with Mr.. Lewis on this issue of
permitting strike against Government
operated mines. Mr.. Lewis had gone
ahead with the coal strike, notwith-
standing the election Of Republican,
controlled Congress- pretty clear in
dication Of the attitude Of the people
toward q Democratic administration
which for dozen years or more had
bowed low before the leaders of organ
lied labor. The head Of the mine work.
ers' union was not as impressed as were
some Of the rest Of the labor leaders.
Organized labor has been minding
its ps and as since the Congressional
elections, however for 1t realized and
still realizes that the new Congress Is
committed to writing new labor laws
There are some who believe that this
threat is sufflcient--and that organized
labor will go easier than it did in 1948
because of it-so that Congress need
pass no labor laws, or. at least none
of real moment. Nothing could be
more mistaken Such lack Of action
would merely be taken by the leaders
Of organized labor as q sign that Con-
gress is afraid of them, and as meaning
they could go ahead and hamstring
American industry and recovery when
and a. they might desire.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
We Have q Giants Role

Baylor University should be read by
all Americans who have any doubts
about the meaning and Importance
of reciprocal trade,
Without world trade, he says,
peace and freedom must decline.
Without it, economic warfare must
replace economic cooperation.
Without it, nation must retaliate
against nation with tariff boosts,
embargoes, quotas and subsidies"-
a friction breeding competition In
which everybody eventually loses
and in which the seeds of armed
conflict flourish.
The history of the years before
the Second World War amply sup
ports the Presidents thesis. In that
period, with America sharing much
of the blame, international COM
merce was choked off by tariff bar
riers and other restrictive devices.
Nations, such as Germany, sought
self-sufflciency by internal economic
regimentation. This regimentation,
in turn, contributed to the world
wide spread of unemployment and
depression. In its worst form
again as in Germany-it put an end
to personal liberty. It was one of
the important reasons why the
peace did not endure.
Now we have peace again. But
it is terribly uneasy peace. With
everything in state of fiux and
uncertainty, the United States alone
has the ability to lead. AS the
President declares, eve are the
giant of the economic world.
Whether we like it or not, the fu-
ture pattern of economic relations
depends upon u.s." If we do not act
in keeping with our strength, then
the pattern of prewar days-dan-
gerous cutthroat competition in in
ternational trade-will be repeated
all over again.
Accordingly, for the sake Of our
own employment and prosperity, as
well as for the peace and well-being
of the world at large, we must do
everything we can to make sue
cess of the forthcoming Geneva Con-
ference to write charter for the
International Trade Organization
and to work out reciprocity conces-
sions for freer flow of commerce.
The President does not claim that
success here will be enough in itself.
He leaves no room for doubt, how
ever, that the Geneva objectives
represent vital part of our foreign
economic policy and that failure
would deal a heavy blow to all our
relations abroad.
Under the best of conditions the
reciprocity program will be difficult
to carry out. For that reason the
President has solemnly warned the
high-tariff members of Congress-
minority but an influential one-not
to make hard problem harder. He
has reminded them that "Our for
eign relations, political and eco
nomic, are indivisible." He has re-
minded them that if those relations
do not receive bipartisan support in
an economic sense, bipartisan sup
port in the political sense will be
largely meaningless.
1t is good and timely reminder.
If it is taken to heart by all of us,
the American giant will not fail to
play the role it must play If the
peace is to be more than prelude
to another war.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
100 Per Cent Americans


To the Editor of The Star:
As reader OF your excellent paper for
nearly Is years, wish to comment
briefly on the letter which you published
last week, signed "A 10O-Per-Cent
American" In which the writer opposed
the nomination of David Lilienthal. The
reason he gave-that Mr.. Lilienthal is
a "Red"-was so fiimsy and, may say,
silly" that was surprised you even
gave space to 1t. OF course, know that
in your letter column you try to include
letters expressing views on both sides of
controversial question, but If those
opposing this nomination can produce
nothing better than the reason given in
the letter am referring to, they must
be very hard up.
May refer this self-styled "10o-Per-
Cent American" to Lowell Mellett's COL
umn which appeared in your paper last
Thursday night and note the contrast
in the witnesses for and against Mr..
Lilienthal, and perhaps this might give
him some food for thought? have
never known really patriotic American
to have to label himself as such. Actions,
and not words, are proof of ones loyalty.
In. A FAITHFUL READER.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Women Demand Too Much

observation and experience that it is
more often the women who refuse to
marry the males than otherwise. This
accounts for the existence of many
bachelors whatever may be the reasons
for the women's attitude in this matter.
The demands which women make be-
fore they will marry pen are well
known, particularly as REGARDS men
who have reached middle-age. The fact
that prominent public official is
bachelor proves nothing, since the vast
majority of bachelors are not prominent
public men. I know quite number of
bachelors who are not bachelors by
choice, but because they cannot meet
the unreasonable demands of women.
ROBERT F. BAUER.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

oppression by majorities, national or
local. Hitherto, the British "Raj,"
standing above all native parties,
supplied such a guarantee. Now,
with Britain unable much longer to
control the situation and pledged to
get out under any circumstances by
the summer Of 1948, India's emnat-
tied factions are nearing the mex
orable deadline when they must
either compromise or fight 1t out.
The Punjab situation grimly sug-
gests the latter alternative.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

fundamental needs of children toward
their emotional and physical growth will
such sad incidents cease to occur. Adult
delinquency might well be the topic of
consideration in contrast to juvenile
delinquency. The case Of these boys
wanting something to do" reveals the
defects of the provision of recreational
facilities in the, community. Of which
Mr.. Ball is member.
If we choose to neglect our duty, our
children will become thieves; their IA
theirs and mothers will be the parents
Of thieves; decent and honest girls will
become the wives OF thieves; their chill
dren will be the sons and daughters Of
thieves, and we may all buy our tickets
on the merry -go-round for the perpet-
uation OF juvenile delinquency.
p. G. L.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

The need Of remedial labor legislation
was emphasized, not minimized, by the
Supreme Courts decision in the case
OF John L. Lewis and the United Mine
Workers of America. The decision was
victory for the Governments Gov
ernment which has control of the coal
mines, having seized them under the
emergency powers given the President
by acts of Congress during the war.
What the American people are inter-
ested in is: What will be the situation
when the Government restores the coal
mines to the private operators, which
1T must do not later than July /?
An industry wide coal strike, the
kind of a strike Mr. Lewis as president
of the mine workers can call, can tie
the economy Of the United States into
bowknots and freeze the people. 1t
Is an arbitrary power The decision
of the Supreme Court gives the Govern
ment the right to intervene through
the courts, Notwithstanding the Norris
La Guardia Anti-injunction Act, while
the Government holds the coal mines.
In other words, the court holds that
Congress did not intend to bar, and did
not bar, the Government itself from
using the courts and the injunction
process when the Government is in
volved. But when the coal mines again
are in the hands of their private owners
for operation, the owners are bound by
the Norris-La Guardia Act, and they are
impotent to go to the courts.
Mr.. Lewis will be in position to tell
the operators, and the American peo-
pie, that If his demands are not granted,
there will be no coal mined. That,
of course, is just the position he wants
to occupy. He maintains that it Is the
only way-the free way-to bargain.
It is difficult, however, for the other
party, the mine operators, to bargain
with pistol-the total strike-held to
their heads.
Congress may take several courses on
legislation. And plainly Congress is
going to do something to prevent, If it
can, the recurrence Of total shutdowns
in industries that are vital to the life
and health and safety of the people.
It can enact permanent law, giving
the government the right to seize and
operate properties such as coal mines,
railroads, ETC., If industry wide strikes
or lockouts threatened or actually occur
Government seizure, however, seems
q poor solution. An alternative Is to
amend the labor laws, which now put
unions above and beyond antitrust laws
and the use Of court injunctions, and