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Evening star., 1947-11-13
Ii Must Be Followed Up

Commissioner Mason'S prompt action
yesterday in calling conference OF health
and hospital officials to discuss Gallinger's
notorious psychopathic division is to be
commended But that is only the starting
point. Some positive plan OF action must
be found and vigorously pushed.
In this connection The Star notes with
pleasure that Representative A. l.. Miller
of Nebraska, chairman of the Healtn ana
Welfare Subcommittee of the House DIS
trict Committee, voluntarily put IN an
appearance at the meeting and onered
some suggestions, both as physician ana
as an interested member of Congress. In
telligent interest by congressional commit
tees has done much to raise standards at
Gallinger and to make it hospital In
which the community can take real pride.
There is absolutely no reason why the
psychopathic division must continue TO lag
behind, showing no improvement in spite
of past criticism.
Congress will do whatever is necessary.
But action should not wait on Congress.
There are untitled vacancies in positions
authorized by Congress. The psychopathlc
division is avoided, rather than sought, by
men who could lift its standards. Com
missioner Mason remarked on the heaVy
duties imposed on DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert,
chief of the division, doubling in brass as
District alienist. He was doing two or
three mems work four years ago, when
Senate committee investigated the place
The complaint is that he still is doing two
and three mems work. Why? What sort
of management is that? Is it because he
insists on doing it or is it because he finds
no support from his superiors?
Commissioner Mason has taken the nee
essary first steps to get to the bottom OF
what is wrong Other steps must follow,
under pressure of real determination to
correct what can be corrected now.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
UAW SWINGS Riqht

There has never been anything simple
or clear-cut about the internal politics OF
the United Automobile Workers. The
union has been split for years into two
major factions and these major elements
in turn have encompassed number OF
fantastic splinter groups.
Because of this, the seemingly impressive
swing to the right at the current meeting
in Atlantic City should be received with
certain amount of caution. The swing
may be due primarily to the fact that the
unions 100000 members are fed up with
the left-wingers whose tactics often have
blended nicely into the Communist Party
line. Or it may be due to the personal pop
ularity of UAW President Walter Reuther
and a superior organizing job in his be-
half by his adherents.
Whatever the reason, however. the fact
remains that the left-wing faction has
been showed under.
Mr. Reuther was reelected president
without any opposition worthy of the
name Last year he was able to beat R. j.
Thomas of the left-wing clique by the
narrow margin of 124 votes out OF 5000
cast. This year Mr.. Thomas did not even
seek the union presidency, and was badly
Evening star., 1947-11-13

beaten in a bid for one of the two vice
presidential posts. There was not even a
demonstration for "R. j." who had led the
union for years, when he was nominated
for the vice presidency. The other left
wingers to fall were Richard T. Leonard,
vice president, and George F. Adde's, Sec
retary- treasurer for the past eleven years
Mr.. Adde's. regarded as the strongest of
the <left-wing candidates, was beaten by
almost a wo-to-one vote, with the others
losing by large margins. This is the more
surprising since Mr.. Reuther, although
able to squeeze through for the presidency
last year, was not able to carry any of his
slate of candidates with him and also
failed to gain control of the executive
board.
From now on, however, there will be
different story. All of the officers are
Reuther men, and in all probability he will
control the new executive board. This
means that the 40-year-old Mr.. Reuther,
whom CIO President Philip Murray calls
that little red head" has become one of
the very top men in the labor movement
and the unquestioned boss of what is prob
ably our biggest and most volatile union.
1t remains to be seen how Mr.. Reuther will
use his power. But no one should suppose
that he is conservative merely because,
by UAW standards, he is right-winger.
Mr.. Reuther is vigorous, articulate and
extremely able political liberal.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
A Negro Flyers Problem

To the Editor Of The Star:
For the past four or five months have
been trying unsuccessfully to take flight-train-
ing under the CT bill at the airf1elds located in
and around Washington. I have been unable
to make any contact with the fields because
receive the old familiar tune that We're filled
up here" or TITS all right with me but it would
hurt my trade, sorry
Being Negro, I'm used to that. I was deeply
hurt, however, because ever since I was kid
have always looked upon pilots as people
with an intelligence higher than their terra
firma cousins who are filled up with hate and
prejudice against my people. 1 don't think
man could fly around up in Gods free air and
repeat to himself, mo Negroes allowed
enlisted and served three years overseas in
the Air Force just to be near plane, so I'm
not going to give up now. 1 have my student
pilots permit, so If I can't fly here I'll try
somewhere else as soon as I can move out of
this so-called "seat of democracy
HARVEY KING.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
Criticizing the Critics

To the Editor OF The Star:
I heartily agree with G. B. B. in The Star
of November IL as to the vagaries OF dramatic
critics My own reaction is they have to see
so much trash that when a good play comes
along they have become soured and tired.
While in New York recently I had the
pleasure of witnessing the best musical play
I have seen for long time (and remember
the Bostonians. Yet this play, Music in My
Heart" was damned with faint praise by the
critics when it came out two months ago. And
one of them at least refuses to admit his mis-
take, as no later than last week he fails to
include it in his list of the established hits Of
the new season
Starting off with music by Tschaikowsky, and
based on incidents in his life, there is re-
freshing cohesiveness in music, lyrics and story;
, the costumes and scenery are an artistic tri-
umph, there is wonderful ballet and the cast
could not be better. What more do they
want? Fortunately a lot of people apparently
pay little attention to the critics, as they had
a full house at the matinee attended.
II some of these critics were switched to other
reporting, say the police beat for while, they
would come back to their regular job with
fresher viewpoint. @. e.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
One Bright Spot, Anyhow

The news has been so bad for SO long
that it is a decidedly rare and refreshing
experience to pick up paper these Gays
and run across a statement as cheerful as
the one made the other night by Dr.
George A. Gamow. DR.. Gamow, professor
of theoretical physics at George Washing
ton University, was up in New York speak
ing at Cooper Union, and what he said was
this: That the sun will not 60 hayWlre Tor
another ten billion years.
A lot of people have tended to brood
about this subject for some time past In
addition to developing jitters over Things
like imitation, the economic crisis ABROAD
the dumpy, long g-skirted new look OF
American women, the violence OF Russian
propaganda, the sociological implications
of bubble gum, and the possibility OF an
eventual atomic war, they have let their
minds range far out into space and come
back with fearsome visions Of the sun
suddenly blowing up or burning out ana
thus putting an end to our world. On top
of all our down. to-earth headaches, this
cosmic worry certainly has not been con-
ducve to clipper frame Of mind.
How pleasant it is, therefore, to have
an expert like Dr. Gamow reassure us that
it is much too early for anybody to hide
under the bedclothes from fear of an I'M
minent solar cataclysm. In his unqualified
Judgment the sun is not going to explode;
it is merely going to die a lingering death,
with it's heat growing imperceptibly fainter
and fainter from millennium to millen-
MUM, but remaining warm enough to
support life on our planet for the next ten
billion years. Assuming that some incal-
culable force in the cosmos does not upset
DR.. Gamow's theoretical physics, there is
thus one thing that the human race will
not have to worry about for long, long
time.
Let us take our blessings as they come.
This is one good piece of news at least.
Things may be bad all over down here on
earth but up there the sun is still shining,
and 1t promises to keep on that way for
ages and ages. AS for the longevity OF
man himself, that seems to be another
Evening star., 1947-11-13
EouaIizina Tax Burdens

To the Editor Of The Star:
Sir In 'front.' page article appearing IN The
Star of November the statement was made
that 10-man citizens advisory committee had
recommended in addition to income tax re-
duction that married couples throughout the
country be permitted to split their income
for tax purposes, and thereby enable all to
enjoy the advantages now limited to 13 States
having community property laws" Such rec
ommendation, it was stated, is expected to
be dealt with in the first tax bill brought out
of committee
That q reasonable cut in the too-heavy in
come tax now paid will benefit the many is
susceptible of demonstration but the alleged
benefits envsioned by community property
proponents, so far as the average income tax
payer is concerned, is all but nonexistent
These individuals fail to point out that bene-
fits under such laws are reserved for the COM
paratively few with an income exceeding $5,000
therefore may be labeled class legislation.
I have before me table showing the
ings of those tax payers with no dependents
and income in excess of $4,000. With $4,000
income under community property law man
will have a saving of $38, hardly worth men,
tioning.
With an income of $4,000 his saving will
jump to the more respectable figure of $342.
With income of $4,000, his saving jumps to
$685. OF $25 900, he saves $2,622. The fortu-
nate individual with income of $4,000 saves
s6071 With income of 100000 he is credited
with $l2,S54 And he with respectable income
of 100000 saves the munjficent sum OF
s23,e21.
So the average taxpayer, with income def
nitely short of the $1,000 minimum, If he ex-
poets to benefit by community property laws
is doomed to be sorely disappointed.
Further, the decrease in Government rev.
enues under the expected extension of the COM
munity principle nationally, also should be
considered. This reliably is set at s90O,O00,000
a respectable figure indeed. That, it will be
admitted will have to be made up either by
bond issues or upon additional taxes upon our
already tax-burdened public.
Seems to me those seeking surcease from
undue tax burdens view the situation from
the wrong angle. Instead of, as now seems
to be the case, seeking aid along new and
unfair tax lines why can't We so amend the
tax laws that those enjoying unfair tax ad-
vantages may be brought down to the common
level of the average taxpayer?
SAML. SALOMAN.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
Government Supervisors
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The methods which certain unions employ, as
set forth by Representative Ralph w. Gwinn
on October 27 are very similar to those which
many supervisors in the Government service
use. Some of these supervisors will not give
work to employees who are efficient. Instead,
the jobs are given to people who are mex
perienced. And, although this is generally &C
cepted as being true, yet no one does anything
to improve the situation. On the contrary.
every investigation has tended so far to aggra
vate the condition.
Incidentally, it would be interesting to know
why Mr.. Gwinn is just now starting his search
ing inquiry into the housing problem. The
reasons which he gave for lack of proper
housing have long been known to countless
people who, unfortunately, were powerless to
act. So the public might well ask who is re-
sponsible for the disgraceful situations that
have delayed the building of sufficient houses
to take care of our domestic needs. AL.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
The New Mexico's Humiliation

1t is bad enough for such a gallant ship
as the old U. S. S. New Mexico to return
to the port of her birth in tow of tugs, en-
route to the junk heap. But it Is heaping
insult on the once proud battleship to
force her into the Battle of Newark
against such unworthy yet formidable foes
as two municipal fireboats.
Time was when the 3000O-ton battle
wagon was able to stand up to the worst
that the japanese could offer, from bombs
to flaming kamkazes. Now with her big
guns spiked" by holing and her other
weapons dismantled, the New Mexico is
incapable even of resisting, an attack by
fire hose What humiliation!
Her log, preserved in naval archives.
tells of her commissioning at the New
York Navy Yard in May of 1918, of her
relatively uneventful service in World War
I, of her assignment to the neutrality
zone" patrol in the Atlantic prior to
Pearl Harbor and of her final era of glory
in World War IL Her guns blazed at
Kwajalein, Kavieng, Tinian, Guam, Leyte,
Samar, Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf and
Okinawa. Twice she was hit by kamikazes
which bored through her curtain of fire.
In one such attack off Okinawa she shot
down eight japanese planes. She was the
flagship of Admiral Spruance, commander
of the rowing Fifth Fleet, in the spring of
1945. Despite her age she acquitted her
self nobly until wars end.
And now her fighting days over, she
returns to find herself an unwelcome
guest, threatened with water and foamite
by task force of fireboats bent on pre-
venting her entry into the port of Newark.
The city does not want her remains cut
up and junked on its water front. This is
understandable, and it should be added,
Newark intends no disrespect to the war
veteran. But it does seem too bad that
the battle-scarred hulk could not have
passed into oblivion without suffering the
indignities to which she is now being
Subjected
Evening star., 1947-11-13
October

October is a ,Oomdn in q scarlet eo1Dn,
With long earrings of dazzling gold.
Her eyes are topaz, crimson are her lips;
And brtght her laughter is and bold.
Her cape of purple, splashed NTH safron
hueS,
she trails NTH gay, majestic air;
Her matchless fragrance bredthes OF
lovely things,
A olowing ratAbotD is her hair.
By day she reigns queen and proudly
fdunts
A radiance that April lost.
She shoDs at early morn her flaming robes
And coat of silDer ernine frost.
But In the night she botos her hennded
head
And sheds dark tears OF grief untold,
For In her heart she fears Uhot naortdH
fear:
The tragedy OF oroDing old.
WILLIAM ARNETTE WOFFORD.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
Automobile Accessories.

To the Editor Of The Star:
To the credit of your journal, I believe 1t is
one of the finest newspapers in the United
States in giving the news to your readers.
I reviewed the editorial in November issue
"Chaotic Automobile Market" There was one
part in the editorial that I believe could have
some clariication to your readers. I quote:
"The AAA complains of such practices as load
ing new cars with unwarranted accessories"
AS I read the editorial, I would believe the
inference is that the dealer by and large is
responsible for the loading of cars with acces-
sories think the responsibility for this tests
in other directions
I have been a member of the autcmotive
industry for close to 40 years and am still
member of that industry. The practice Of load
ing cars with accessories may be found to
originate with the car manufacturer starting
In around 1880 and ever-ihcreasing activities
upon the part of the car manufacturers In
making their car dealers take the accessories
and include them in the price Of the delivered
car to the user
GEORGE j. BURGER
Evening star., 1947-11-13
Concerned Teachers
TO the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
As school people whose interests center pretty
much around the welfare of young people, we
feel that some answer should be given to the
letter in The Star of October 81 by Concerned
Property Owner who protested the calling OF
a teachers meeting in Maryland over the Hal
loween period.
It was matter of much concern to teachers
all over the State when it was realized that 1t
was necessary, because OF other conventions
being held in Baltimore, to schedule State
meeting on october 3o-31. However, arrange
ments have been made to avoid this situation in
the years to cone. The State Teachers Asso-
citation meeting for next year has been tenta-
lively set for the middle of October.
Year after year, schools have been concerned
with the development of attitudes of citizen
ship in all pupils which will make them con-
scious of the necessity of preserving property
at all times However, 1t is a little hard for
teachers to understand how they can be held
Evening star., 1947-11-13
The RoiIroudinq of Manu-

The expected thing has happened in the
trial" of DR.. Juliu Manu-, the venerable
leader of the smashed-up Peasant Party
in Romania. He has been convicted" OF
high treason" and sentenced to solitary
Imprisonment for the rest of his life. The
only reason he is not to be hanged or shot
as in the case of the courageous Nikola
Petkov of Bulgaria-is that the law OF his
country does not allow for that during
peacetime.
But one should not say his country"
Actually DR.. Manu- has not been tried by
his country. He has been tried by Com
munist- t-dominated puppet government
that takes its orders directly from Soviet
Russia He has been tried, in his own
land, by an alien minded clique acting as
the willing tool of foreign power. The
immediate agency for carrying out this
bitter and revolving mimicry of justice has
been so-called military tribunal headed
by a so-called judge named Colonel Alex
ander PetreScu, notoriouSly unprinctpled
opportunist who once worked hand in
glove with the Germans and ran Romania's
prison camps during the Nazi occupation.
During that occupation, DR.. Maniu's pro-
Allied sentiments were we'll known to Hit
ler's agents, but they took no direct action
against him. They refrained from doing
so for the simple reason that they did not
want to stir up unnecessary trouble in the
great popular following enjoyed by him.
But the Communist regime at Bucharest
that is to say, the Kremlin's Romanian
branch office-has had no such qualms.
Having first entrenched itself by trickery,
having next terrorized the Peasant Party
virtually out of existence, it has now topped
off everything by railroading DR.. Manu- to
living death on trumped-up charges of
having conspired with Britain and the
United States for the overthrow of his
country's government.
Like the Bulgarian Nikola Petkov, of
course, DR.. Manu- has been guilty of only
one crime" This crime" has been his
devotion to democratic principles and his
honest and sturdy leadership of an open,
aboveboard, pro-freedom political organ
ization opposed to totalitarianiSm. But
police state can tolerate no opposition of
any kind-least of all the kind once offered
by Romanias Peasant Party Hence the
trial" of men like Manu-. BY now this
pattern of Communist Justice" has be-
come familiar feature of every new
democracy behind the iron curtain. What
it amounts to, in effect, is a weapon en-
ployed with ever-increasing brazenness to
tighten the Kremlin's grip on its expand
ing satellite empire.
The Manu- "conviction" represents the
latest, but probably not the last, use of
this weapon-a mockery of the Romanian
peace treaty, Yalta, Potsdam and the prin-
ciples of the United Nations. Strong Dip
lomatic representations, together possibly
with action by the U. N itself, are therefore
in order. To be sure, they are not likely to
have any immediate effect, but at least we
may hope for this: That they will help to
keep the record so clear and stir up
such moral indignation in the world at
large that Russia and its puppets will yet
find it wise to stop playing their shocking
game
Evening star., 1947-11-13
DC-6 Fire Mystery

The successful landing of flaming DC-6
commercial airliner at Gallup, New Mexico
was fortunate in more ways than one. The
latest accident to this new type OF plane
NAV provide the key which will solve the
mystery of the tragic destruction OF
sister ship near Bryce Canyon, Utah, last
month, with the loss of So lives.
Apparently both planes caught nre IN
the under part of the fuselage. The pilot
of the United Airlines plane radloed just
before the Utah crash that the baggage
compartment was aflre--a section OF the
ship which cannot be reached by the crew,
but which is equipped with automatic f1re
alarm and extinguisher systems. The
plane itself was so badly wrecked that
determination of the exact origin of the
fire was virtually impossible. However,
the Douglas Aircraft Company suggested
the possibility of leak in the hydraulic
system and all DC-6 planes were immedl-
ately checked for such leaks. Later the
company recommended separation OF the
presentation and heating systems, as an
additional safeguard.
The skillful landing of the American
Airlnes plane at Gallup and the quick ex-
tinguishing of the fire by ground crew
give investigators something tangible to
work on. The chances of finding the cause
of both fires therefore are greatly in
creased Officials of the airlineS using
these high altitude planes have taken the
only logical course in voluntarily ground
ing the ships pending official and private
Investigations. The planes should be kept
grounded until their safety has been
assured.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
Incipient Totalitarianism?


To the Editor of The Star:
For the first time in my life Tn: sorry
majored in domestic science instead of political
science, for when the lords and masters of
creation start kicking over the most obvious
and familiar of our democratic Institutions
WELL then even home body reaches boiling
point.
What I'm driving at, of course, is our latest
national scandal, the curt and final dismissal
OF seven State Department employees under
conditions making 1t impossible for them to
obtain work either in or out of Government. Is
incipient totaitarianism setting in, or what?
know only the facts of the case as they have
been given out through the press by the &C
cusers and the accused but, as see it. there
are only two pertinent facts involved so far:
% That these people have not been informed
of their offenses, and CD they have been denied
any opportunity to defend themselves.
This Is not woman's sentimental defense OF
few unfortunate people. For all I know they
may be guilty as sin, in which case they should
be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and
not left at large to go about disclosing secret
information they came by as State Department
employees.
Even though it is violation of their rights
as citizens, the personal privation or embar-
rassment suffered Is by no means the most
vital factor involved The appalling thing is
the stupid, hghhanded, nearsighted, undemo-
cratic exhibition put on by those intrusted
with the responsibility Of at all costs, keeping
America American
KATHERINE WINDERS.
Evening star., 1947-11-13

question 1t all depends on whether he has
brains and spirit enough to find way out
of his multitudinous worries or whether he
will let himself become so ensnarled in
them that they will drive him to an early
grave Anyhow, Old Sol is all right. We
can count on that.
Evening star., 1947-11-13

responsible for public property at such times.
Isn't there wide open opportunity here for
parents to assume responsibility for the de-
velopment of good citizenship among their own
children? Indeed, this is exactly what the
parents of the Bethesda Chevy Chase area
have been doing. For the past two years, the
service clubs Nions Kiwanis, Civitan, Rotary
and the Chamber of Commerce have planned
jointly for parties and other activities for all
young people in the area at various centers on
Halloween night This plan has been highly
successful. This year, without immediate
teacher supervision the parties were held as
usual with practically no rowdyism and destruc-
ton of property. We think that this is a
tribute both to our young people and to their
parents. CONCERNED TEACHERS"