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Evening star., 1947-12-05
No Time to Mark Time
Master Minds of Both Parties Attempting
To Outfank Each Other on Initiation

guide and speed this project. Their
tentative - perhaps tenuous - hope
is that when they have licked
something into shape, they can per-
suade Senator Tobey of New Hamp-
shire, the liberal Republican who
is chairman of the Banking and
Currency Committee, to offer it with
a Democratic co-sponsor from his
committee, probably Senator Spark
man Of Alabama.
In other secret meetings the Re-
publicans are putting high polish
on their own strategy. They have
determined to offer the special ses-
sion Republican anti-inflation
policy. Whether formal legislation
to implement 1t also will be pushed
is presently in doubt.
G. o. P. to Reject Controls.
The Republican policy will firmly
reject all Truman requests for con-
trolls over prices, wages and ration
ing and for ALLEGATIONS and pri-
critics. It will include: An ex-
tension Of export controls with a
warning that the domestic economy
must be protected; continuation Of
Government authority to control
freight car use; suggestions for new
Government efforts to win volun-
tary agreements from labor and
business on prices, wages, etc.
The two programs probably will
hit the Senate floor simultaneously
A giant battle Of words can be ex-
pected. There is little prospect OF
action except possibly on such rela-
lively noncontroversial matters as
export and freight car controls.
Actually there is little real heart
for any program anywhere. But the
action of the CIO in bluntly an
nouncing it will seek a third round
Of wage increases, with the prompt
counterattack from the National
Association Of Manufacturers, has
had a galvanic effect. Nobody now
wants to be put in the position OF
merely marking time.
Evening star., 1947-12-05

A society in a Dorothy Thompson.
state of anarchy is not free, even if
everyone is free to shout his head
off in the streets or the press. For
the basic freedom is freedom to live.
If the people cannot get bread or
coal because the bakers will not
bake, or the miners dig, or the
transportation systems move essen
tiaI goods; If workers cannot get to
where they earn their livelihoods
or enter the places if they do get
there; if even the young cannot
learn because the schools are closed
if, in short, every avenue of exist
ence Is blockaded, the people are
entirely deprived of freedom.
These people are in worse con
dition than if they were in state
of slavery. For some sort of exist
ence is insured for slaves, and some
sort of order, but in anarchy moth.
ing is insured. Any form of socia
order is better than none. Ever
tyranny Is better than anarchy
Tyranny is the rule Of the one o.
the few over the many; but anarch,
is the tyranny Of the many ovel
each other, and no rule at all.
Peril in Internal Blockade.
Communist theorists have plotted
the overthrow of states and societie
by internal blockade. Just as .
nation forced to import the bull
OF its food and raw materials Cal
be defeated in war if ships can b'
prevented from reaching its ports
so even a nation rich in resource
can suffer all the effects Of wa
and defeat if the internal flow Of it
services is halted. If miners la.
down their tools, dock workers re
fuse to unload ships, trains stol
in the sheds or on the rails, th'
exact parallel to state of sieg
| is created.
/ This is the new form of war, wage
, with the instrument of the organize
proletariat-the workers. First de
prived by one means or another
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kie Collett of Missouri to return to
the White House and again assume
the duties of a director of economic
stabilization.
Judge Collett, honest and earnest,
has stepped down several times from
the Federal bench to which his old
friend, Mr.. Truman, appointed him.
to trouble shoot for his benefactor
He was. for example, the umpire in
the great Snyder-Bowles conflicts
last year.
However, a dim view of these
judicial absences has been taken
both by the District itself and by
the Senate Judiciary Committee. So
the White House party is seeing
what little camaraderie in the
Florida sunshine will do to soften
the Collett resistance.
Senate Leaders Helping.
In Washington, meanwhile, cabl-
net officers and administrative ex-
perts who have been testifying on
the Truman program, often at cross
purposes, are having their heads
knocked together in series OF
secret conferences under the White
House aegis. The idea Is to smooth
out all differences and devise a
coherent program in line with the
presidential recommendations that
can be brought before Democratic
policy committee.
Senate leaders are helping tt
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Minister MOlO- constantine brown.
tov and his chief lieutenant, Andrei
Vishinsky, are watching their step
for the same reason.
Secretary of State Marshall's ad-
wiser, John Foster Dulles, is expected
to return to London soon with a full
f1rst-hand report on the general
political situation in France. He
went to Paris for talks not only with
American embassy officials, who are
following closely the French devel-
opments, but also with all the nom
Communist political leaders in and
out of the cabinet. The latter are
reported to have rallied behind the
government of Premier Robert
Schuman.
Although the situation in Italy
| is considered far more dangerous
because of the proximity of Yugo-
slav armies to the Italian border, the
result OF the struggle between the
Communists and the constituted
authority in France is of more di-
rect concern because the success or
failure of the Schuman adminiStra-
ton will affect the London confer
| ence.
Slight Improvement Apparent.
From reports received in Washing
ton official quarters in the past "a
hours, it appears that there has been
a slight improvement in the French
strike situation, principally because
many workers are fed up with the
idleness imposed on them by the
General Confederation of Labor.
This is illustrated in the spectacu-
lar increase in the ranks of here
tofore little known rival of the gen.
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On the Record
Survival of Parliamentary Democracy
In Europe Doubtful as Blockades Increase

largely psychological, Of real con-
troll over their mass decisions, they
are called out on strike by leaders
who wish to use them for a con-
sciously designed end: The capture
Of political power. When led by
fanatical and unscrupulous men,
they become private armies, to be
unanswered from strategic point to
strategic point against the economy
This is "class" war, though 1t is
waged by powerful minorities con-
trolling more or less blind masses,
who are called into action on such
narrower matters as wages and
working conditions. BY this manner
the state can be overthrown, con-
ceivably without bloodshed. This is
what is plotted in Italy and France.
Weakness In Such Strategy.
There is, however, weakness in
this strategy. The armies of the
workers, drawing the Gordon of the
blockade, also are the victims of the
blockade. They are not outside So
ciety assaulting it, but inside So
ciety pulling it down upon their
own heads An isolated strike Is an
assault by a relatively small num-
ber on a single strategic point. In 1t
the strikers have a chance to win by
embarrassing the stable areas. But
a general strike, or simultaneous
strikes directed at key points in the
economy so as effectively to disem-
ploy all workers. is an assault by
everybody against everybody. Since
each person is part of everybody,
no one escapes injury. The masses
thus are modified against the
masses.
Now if these masses clearly and
consciously concentrate on a single
objective-such as: Throw out the
government; all power to the Com
munist party; and all hail to our
great leader, Stalin-then they are
likely to win, and by winning accept
new leaders and lift the siege. In
Italy and France, however, the
leaders cannot mobilize under such
slogans. They must mobilize on de-
mands for better wages and working
conditions. But when everything
is paralyzed there are no wages
and no working conditions at all
The workers themselves then are
besieged and starving, hoisted on
their own petard.
When such point is reached,
the question Of democratic" pro-
cedures becomes minor. The siege
has to be lifted. The minority who
created 1.-THE leaders of the
workers-cannot lift 1t because that
would be defeat. But 1t must be
lifted-constitutionally If possible
unconstitutionally If necessary. Fol
the nation has to be returned to law
even if to arbitrary law; and has
to be saved, even if saved from it.
self
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc.)
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i e y w IlL ho"i' -"'"e'
championship was made by the
Twentieth Century Sporting Club,
but I don't believe it. I am con-
vinced that 1t was made in Heaven
when P. T. Barnum and Texas
Guinan flew across one another one
day.
To say that Walcott, as a fighter,
doesn't belong even in the same
fight with Louis would be flattering
Walcott. Fisticufnly, the challenger
for pugilism's brightest diadem
doesn't belong even in the same
planet with Mrs. Barrow's betting
boy from 'Bama, and I am quite
sure that no one knows this better
than Walcott. Those black and blue
spots to be noticed when he weighed
in for the fight undoubtedly were
made by his pinching himself to
see If it were really true that he
was to have fight with Louis and
a chance to join that fairly ex-
elusive club, all Of whose members
have been knocked galleywest by
the champion.
There has been quite a bit OF
betting on the fight, most of it on
which way Walcott will fall when
really tagged by Joe. If you like
him to fall forward-which is the
way man falls when sternly struck
you have to put up $6 to win IS.
It is even money that he will fall
backward. Some are betting that
jersey Joe will fall sideways, and it
isn't such a bad bet when one re-
calls the falls that some of Louis
victims have taken. Remember
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cally trying tc
outfank e a C h
O tn er on the
a n til n fatior
front before tn
special session.
ends.
The darklin.
plain extends a.
far south as Key
w e S t. TIL e r {
President Tru.
man and aides
John r. Steel
man and CLARK
Clifford are put.
ting the bee or
I11doa Inhn Cas-.
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| some 10000 of us
sit down in Mad
son Square Gar
den for the Joe
ILouis-Jersey Joe
| Walcott fight.
To pay $50 for
q ringside seat
at this affair is
like paying ten
bucks to find
out ow the
| Civil War came
! out. The papers
say at the
Louis-W a CO t. t
match for the
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THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. . Ali
s.,

into gasoline and ice-cold Brooklyn
Bridges.
The fight marks Joe's oath defense
Of his heavyweight title. Some are
saying that 1t win be his last-that
after this one he will retire. This
I don't believe. Never in history has
any man been paid so handsomely
for shooting sitting ducks as has
Louis, and he would be out OF his
mind to abandon such profitable
and pleasant way Of spending his
evenings.
Distributed BY McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1947-12-05

III LOIlUOll.
The American
and British dele
cations are re-
luctant to lay all
their cards on
the table until
the life = and
death struggle
b e t W e e n the
French govern
nlent and the
Moscow con-
trolled Commu-
nists reaches a
final outcome
Russian Foreign
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Train Kills ; Jup Children

TOKYO, Dec. 5 P).-TWo 5-year-
old japanese girls and 6-year-old
boy were killed by a suburban train
today when they put their ears to
theatracks to hear its rumbling ap-
proach and saw their peril too late
Evening star., 1947-12-05
French Novelist to Speak

Maurice Bedel, French novelist
and lecturer, now on tour In the
United States, will address the ALI
ance Francaise at Sis pm. today
in Anderson House, 2l18 Massachu-
sets avenue NV.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
BY Constantine BrOaOn

The obscure situation on the
French home front is partly respon-
sible for the slow progress of the Big
Four Foreign Ministers Conference
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McLemore
Betting Is on Which Way
Joe Wulcott Will Foil
By Henry McLemore

There Is one born every minute,
but I'll bet you that never before
have SO many suckers gathered
under one roof as there will be when
Evening star., 1947-12-05

BY DOrOfhy thompson
It is dubious whether parliament
tary democracy will survive much
longer in continental Europe.
Government must be able to
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maintain order
see that the
services neceS-
sary to comfort
or at least tt
existence, func-
ton; and defend
the nation from
foreign subju-
cation. Other
wise it is no gov
ernment.
All constitu-
tional freedoms
depend on the
existence of an
orderly society.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Bv Doris Fleeson

While the Senate kills time and
the House violently debates the
interim foreign aid bill, the master
minds of both parties are franti-
Evening star., 1947-04-05
he .. c. Rental
Housing Picture

Applications for rental housing
fled with the District Housing Gen.
ter, I4OO Pennsylvania avenue NV,
totaled 1856 during the last week. In
the same time IS dwellings and 182
rooms were listed for rent.
OF the applicants, 800 wanted
apartments and houses, and 35
wanted rooms.
Applicants were classified as fol-
lows:
YAterans and NonService
Evening star., 1947-04-05

Often lot with good view Is
steep and irregular. When you get
ready to build on such a lot, you
need particularly careful planning
If the house design is not studied
carefully in relation to the grades,
excessive terracing may be necessary
and the house may never seem to
"flt."
How one architect met the prob
lem of sharply sloping lot is shown
In the picture layout above.
The house was designed by Archi-
tect Roscoe L. Wood, Cabin John,
Md, for an 80-by-10 -100-foot lot, which
has deep guAy on one side, and
which slopes sharply down to the
old C. & o. Canal at Brookmont,
Md.
The design takes advantage of the
opportunity for a view of the canal
and river.
Overall dimensions of the house
are Is by % feet. Informal living
has been concentrated on the base
ment level, with the dining room
opening onto a terrace overlooking
canal and river.
On the second floor first floor ap-
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Godgets
Simple VentiIotor
Freshens Kitchen Air,
Keeps Walls CIeun
By HiIson Munsey

When cooking, the kitchen often
becomes overheated and the odors
Of food, particularly vegetables,
travel through the house. This can
be prevented by installing venti-
lating system that will draw of the
air.
This system can be used with any
type of range using any kind of fuel.
The hood that holds down the fumes
from cooking extends only fIx
inches above and behind the stove.
The air from the kitchen is drawn
off through lowers into an air duct.
The motor and blower are inclosed
Ia square metal frame. They are
easily accessible for repairs or clean
ing by the removal of two side pam
els. The power unit has revolving
base so that the duct to the outside
can be placed in any direction.
Use of a ventilating system in the
kitchen prevents the accumulation
of grease on the walls and ceiling
and reduces the need for redecorat-
ing frequently. Installation is SIM
pie and inexpensive.
(Released by The Consolidated News
Features, Inc.)
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I'll 900, an increase OF ~ PET ceAt,
Mr.. Husband said.
Mortgages in the institutions
portfolios amounted to $67 .857 coo.
Holdings Of cash and Government
bonds were equal to IS per cent OF
total assets, bringing the institu-
tions' "liquidity position to q higher
proportion than at any time prior
to the war" he said.
More than 10000 persons with
savings In these District institu-
tions now are protected through
Federal insurance up to a maximum
OF 5000 per account.
During 1916, the 10 institutions
made loans totaling $28, ,671 900, as
compared with $17,541 900 in the
previous year. A large part Of the
Increase was the result Of GI home
loans and other financing IN CO.
operation with the Veterans Emer-
gency Housing Program.
Local institutions are the Ana
costa Federal Savings Il Loan
Association, Brookland Building As
sociation, Columbia Federal Saw
ings and Loan Association, District
Building g. Loan Association, East
ern Building & Loan Associa-
ton, First Federal Savings & Loan
Association, Home Mutual Build
ing & Loan Association, Interstate
Building Association, Northwestern
Federal Savaings & Loan Associa-
ton, and Prudential Building g.
Loan Association.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
SIS Units Authorized

The District FILA Office this week
issued permits for construction of 65
dwelling units, bringing the total
authorized since December "a to S.
116.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
FIue Lining in Home Chimney
Held Way to Avoid Trouble

lining of a fiue. Thus the lined
chimney is cleaner and safer.
Very often you see chimneys
which have fue lining but do not
have a beyeled cap at the top. This
cap is necessary, as it sheds water
off the chimney top at once, and
prevents filtration down through the
brick-work.
Being vertical, the sides will shed
water, but often the top will be
dished, or so fiat as to hold water.
The cap prevents this.
The f1ashings around the base Of
a chimney are sheet-metal shields
(See WOOD, Page BID
Evening star., 1947-04-05
D. {. Building Permit,
TofaIing S471,515
Issued in Week

Building permits totaling $472, ,515
were issued during the last week by
Robert q. Davis, District building
inspections director. This was a
drop of $685., 1857 from last weeks
total.
Among permits was one for $108,-s
600 to build twelve 2-story North
east dwellings.
Permits of $1,000 and over follow:
]. B. Tiffey & Son, .316 Kennedy street
iess connecticnt Connect cut avenue venue NV. architects;
80 to 90 varnum street NE: to cost
Milton 1sen. woodward Building, owner
and builder; Edmund W. Dreyfuss,. 1919
Fifteenth street NV, architect. to
aRns hEass 1k summit ana
Me- to cost $4,000
Robert !. Silyerman. 1905 K street NV,
anaaE ' as erect ssRen sstory brek
and cinder block dwellings; 1900 to 1915
Savannah stree, sE aas to cost stSss} s45.5GSo
owners and builders: Marion l. Bagley,
Nd. architect: to erect sixteen s-story
s44 8 a. Deiafeld Street W Ne: to cost $1,000
each.
B: F.. c., line, owners and builders;
Marion L. Bagley,. architect; to erect
fouItsen 2-staogTy brick and sindsr block &
NE; to cost -S5. 900 each
B, r. C.. Inc, owners and builders;
2-story brick and cinder block dwellings;
1878 to 1898 South Dakota avenue NE;
to cost $4,000 each.
Frank G; and Mary I; seaizetti, 2lo6
no sseesea ssSa ssm GSst sos
bos street NV, architect: to erect one
2-story brick dwelling; 1920 Bangor street
Sc: to cost $4,000
Francis c. Almirall and John r. de
sibour. 1343 New Hampshire avenue NV,
owners: builder not selected; Almiran E,
Caughlin. architect: to make general alter
alton to brick DWELLINGS; 2704-211S N
streHt NV; to cost $4,000. a
Charles Tarwater, 442s Hunt street NE,
442S Hunt street N e, architect: to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder block
dwelling; 20S Oneida place NE; to cost
Olive W. o'Neal, 2735 @ street NV,
owner; builder not selected J.. Blaine
johnson, 14O1 Sheridan street NV. archi-
tect: to erect one 1-story brick addition
to dwelling; 1873 Q street NV: to cost
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Marshall Davis Elected
Association President

Marshall Davis has been elected
president Of the Building Owners
and Managers Association of Metro
politan Washington. Other officers
chosen were w. r. Stubbs, treasurer,
and Rufus S. Lusk, secretary.
Elected to the Executive Commit
tee were Clarence Brown, Nathan
Raf1er, James E. Douglass, jr., ADJ
miral A. Station, Harvey L. Hum
phrey and A. Julian Brylawski.
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2.Ot " st. NV.
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Civil Engineer
JOHN G. AHLERS

Solution OF Construction Problems
Within a Budget. Financing.
SPEED WITH ECONOMY is an original
slogan coined by us.
o-o1 ~ q NV MI 53i1
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$85, ,O8o, ,00OnResourcesS Sets
Thrift Unit Record IN District

OF 10 insured home financing institutions u the
1916, William H. Husband
manager Federal Savings Loan Insurance Corp said
today.
This total q District record.
savings the public totaled $
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Breuninqer to Speak

The final realtors sales confer
ence, sponsored by the Washington
Real Estate Board, will be held at s
pm. next Friday in the Washington
Gas Light Co. auditorium. Lewis T.
Breuninger will speak on How to
Make Money in Real Estate" A
panel will include Homer Phillips,
Charles H. Hillegeist, board presi-
dent, and Carey Winston, member of
the District Real Estate Commission.
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Careful Plan Needed to Fit
House to Steep, Irregular Lot

preaching from the street, the
whole space is occupied by one
14h -by-26h foot beamed living
room, with 20-foot picture window
taking advantage of the river view.
On the top floor are two bedrooms,
each 10 feet by IL feet, and bath,
plus large closets.
From the street elevation, there is
a 20-inch top-hoor overhang. The
first two floors are of brick, and the
top floor of frame. The rear of the
house has a southwest exposure.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
New Building Methods
Tested by British
To Speed Housing

To cope with its acute housing
shortage, Great Britain Is doing 6
considerable amount of experiment.
| ing with new construction methods
and prefabrication.
Latest news from England is the
report that $4,000 prefabricated
houses will be mass produced fol-
rural areas.
Traditional in design, the houses
will have Notwithstanding OF
precast concrete panels.
Total floor area per house will be
945 square feet.
Not long ago, production of an
other similar type of prefabricated
concrete house was begun in the
south of England. Builders contend
this house can be built twice as
quickly as the conventional house
with much smaller percentage of
skilled labor.
"a foreman and five men can COM
plete the one-story house in eight
days." said the report.
Manufacturers Of that house said
they hope to get so houses in pro-
duction daily this year.
A large British aircraft firm Is
using plane-construction techniques
to turn out an aluminium h9use
which, it is said, can be erected IN
two hours. ssite
The house leaves the factory COM
plete in four sections, with all cleo
trio wiring and plumbing in place,
ready for connection. This alum
mum house is said to cost about S.
400. Production rate for $4,000
houses on order is at the rate of $50
houses a week Nearly 10000 have
been produced SO far, it was said.
Another home, a semidetached,
two-story permanent steel-framed
residence, is built of prefabricated
brick panels and retains tradi-
tional appearance. It can be put up
in seven days, the makers say.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
By w. Wodsworth Wood

One of the most important details
in the building of a house is the
chimney. AS rule the construction
will be solid and safe enough, but
very often some of the fine points
will. be neglected or CLOSED over.
These may be the cause of some
trouble a few years after the house
is finished.
To begin with, all chimneys should
be lined with terra Gotta fue lining
This lining prevents to great ex-
tent. any accumulation of SCOT, be-
cause it cannot cling to the smooth
surface as it can to the rough brick
Evening star., 1947-04-05
First Aid
By ROGER c. Whitman

Question: I have a gas conver-
sion burner in my furnace, and am
not receiving any moisture in the
heat. The water container Is on
the back Of the furnace, about 1a
inches from the bottom. With coal,
the furnace gets warm enough at
the bottom so as to cause evapora-
ton. With gas it does not. Do you
know of any other system that
would correct this trouble?
Answer: With an automatic heat
ing system, the humidifler pan
should be installed at or near the
top of the furnace, for that is the
hottest spot. You could install a
modern humidifier, which auto
matically feeds water into the pan
and has higher rate Of evapora-
ton.
Doggy Odor.
Question: We kept our dog and
pups in the basement for about
three months. The odor that they
1see FIRST AID, Page B-2D
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SECOND FLOOR GROUND FLOOR

First and floor plans of semdetached steeframed
house It has living dining room kitchen and square
hail. with bultin clothes closet first floor and two bed
rooms big bathroom separate avaory second floor
Photos supplied by British Information Services.