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Evening star., 1947-06-28
Another Income Tax Bill?

In sense it might seem that Congress
would be putting the President on the spot
If it presented him again with the once
vetoed income tax BILL changed only to
make the reductions effective on January
next instead of July l. From broader
perspective, however the move might pro-
vide Mr.. Truman means of getting off
another spot-the one in which the veto
put him.
There are some good reasons why he
might sign the bill, provided the effective
date were advanced six months, as pro-
posed by Representative Knutson and a
growing bipartisan group on both sides of
the Capitol He could point to the fact
that his veto of the original bill had saved
for the Treasury about half of the four
billions which it was estimated the reduc-
tionS would cost in revenue. The Nations
fiscal situation, which the President cited
as primary reason for his veto, thus
would be two billion dollars better off by
the time the new bill took effect
Furthermore, the Democratic Senators
who are joining with the Republicans in
resurrecting the tax bill are coupling their
advocacy with the thought that it would
pass after rather than before the appro-
priation bills. This would obviate the
objection to considering tax revision before
expenditures are decided on. If Senator
Byrd'S efforts are successful, the budget
ceiling resolution meanwhile would have
been reported from conference, aimed at
prospective savings of from 81 soc, 600, 900
to S6 1000 900 0000-depending on whether
the Senate or the House version wins out
A practical consideration in favor of
re-enactment of the tax bill is that the
proposed six-month waiting period would
be a boon to those who must adjust
payrols to take care of changed de-
ductions. The July ! date would have
imposed tremendous burden on the pay
roll accountants. And it would have given
the Internal Revenue Bureau large-sized
tax refund headache.
The Republican leadership naturally will
want to make sure that the changed sit
uation will produce enough additional
Democratic votes to assure defeat of a
| second veto, if necessity required, They
also will not relish being placed in the
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Work for Men of Good Will

It is characteristic of Herbert L. Wlllett,
jr., that he has chosen to remove himself
from the dictatorship of the Washington
Community Chest so that impending dis
cussions of its reorganization Will not be
complicated by personalities.
At the same time, it will be taken for
granted by many of his friends and ad-
mirers that his intimate experience with
development of the Chest idea in Wash
ington, his fine integrity and his under
standing knowledge of the city should be
available to those who determine the future
course of the Chest.
That course has been shaped, to some
extent, by the assumption by the Com
munity Chest Federation of functions pre-
viouSly exercised by the Washington Com
munity Chest. The Washington Commu-
nifty Chest will no longer spearhead the
annual local campaign for funds. The same
change in future activities confrontS one
of its agencies, the Council of Social Agen-
cies. A committee representing the Chest
trustees and the council directors will eX-
plore the type of reorganized Chest and
council organization found most adaptable
to the new conditions. Mr.. Willett says
himself that there is no longer any clearly
defined role for director of the Washing
ton Community Chest as now set up. The
studies under way will discover the proper
role
Application of the Chest idea in Wash
ington was the work of public spirited men
and women of good will, working to find
the most practical machinery for raising
and administering funds for private well
fare. It's basic principle has been the sub
jugation of personal prejudices or predilec-
tions in private welfare work in favor of
community unity. If we drop that basic
principle in an attempt to satisfy every
body's ideas as to what is proper field of
Community Chest-financed private welfare
we shall end up by satisfying very few and
dissatisfying very many. But if we ap-
proach the matter as its founders did, as
men and women of good will, conscious of
our limitations in appeasing all discomfort
but conscious of the strength that lies in
community determination to do what rea-
sonably can be done, we shall end up with
a stronger Community Chest. Mr.. Willett
somehow belongs in that picture of the
stronger Chest.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

the world must share in our riches-but not
China, our traditional friend! Why? We are
told China will receive no aid until she forms
e. more democratic" government, or words to
that effect. In other words, when she's palsy
walsy with the Communists obviously. We
rush aid to Greece and Turkey and elsewhere
in Europe against the Communists, but in
China we're aiding the Communists against
the established government. Do you see what
I mean?
If we persist in this policy will we not drive
our Chinese friends to turn, in desperation,
to the enemy (you-know-who)2 And if there
should eventually be an alliance among you-
know-who, China, India and all the other
Asiatics against US, where will we be? 1t is
not good to contemplate the outcome, but, in
any case, all of us would suffer for the mis-
takes of the few.
If there is some great secret reason why
the Chinese government should be denied our
aid. = think it's time we knew about it.
Nothing we've been told so far is sufficient.
One thing feel in my bones: If We ALLEVIATE
our Chinese friends now, there1l come day
when we'll regret it. Will it be too late?
T. E. L.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

them, etc. Later on they came over and in
just IS minutes that large tarpaulin had been
lashed to the iron framework. I offered bill
to each of them; they refused to take any
money. saying they we're glad to help me, that
they had had their days pay from their own
boat, ETC. 1 told them I was willing to pay for
what wanted, and almost pressed the bills
into their hands! Whereupon they put their
hands to their backs and stoutly refused to take
cent for their services-simply reiterating
what they had said previously-that It was
their pleasure to help me- ETC.
I wrote a letter to the captain of the yacht
Zone of the largest now in the harbor) COM
mending this gracious attitude of his men, and
I sincerely hope their record will show some
creoit for this most unusual act. In fact i is
almost unheard of in these days of greedy
people who want more and more money for
less and less work.
submit this incident is so outstanding in
these times that publicity should be given to it.
LILLIAN SINCLAIR.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

ing their noses to the trap, however. they
usually find something more to their liking
outside the trap. 1t Is because OF this
cantankerous habit that beetle experts now
advise against setting up traps unless your
neighbor and your neighbor's neighbors do
the same.
Science is still hopeful of matching wits
with the little green beetles, however. The
latest antidote is DDT. II trees and shrubs
are sprayed with DDT just before the beetle
season starts it is just beginning in these
parts, the results are said to be startling.
Beetle experts are spraying the stuff all
over airplanes at the National Airport, to
discourage insectiverous stowaways. Every
beetle sufferer will fervently hope that the
wartime insect spray will win the beetle
battle now being waged in most of the East
and in parts of the Midwest. But they will
believe that the battle is over only when
another summer rolls around without the
usual temperance of the voracious vege-
tarians.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Aquin-the Beetle Bottle

1t is not surprising to learn that those
perennial pesky pests. the japanese beetles,
have taken to hitcfhiking by plane in
search of new fields to conquer They are
ingenious little bugs, as any gardener who
has done battle with them can attest. When
first they began to appear in mass forma-
ton in this area. they were suckers for
beetle traps. Literally tons of them were
lured into the rose-scented traps before
the beetles began to get wise to what was
going on. Gradually they seemed to grow
wary of the traps. Last year some beetle
trappers found it necessary to catch the
insects by hand and shove them into the
traps by sheer force.
The most annoying part of the trap
business, moreover, is the tendency Of
beetles to leave neighbor's rose bushes
in quest of the source of the artificial scent
in the adjoining garden. Instead of follow
Evening star., 1947-06-28
III-Advised Demotions

In passing a bill to improve promotion
procedures in the Army and Navy the
House overrode some suggestions by Rep
resentative Bradley Republican, of Cali
forna that deserve serious consideration
by the Senate when the bill comes up there.
Himself a veteran naval officer who retired
only last year Representative Bradley
strongly criticized provision, written into
the measure in committee, which would
limit the Army and Navy to four four-star
officers each
The House Armed Services Committee
presumably felt that there is too much
top brass" in both services as an after
math of the war. But in moving to reduce
this top-heaviness it unrealiStically applied
the same ceiling to services having differ
ent requirements with regard to rank.
More than that, in providing that one of
the Navys four-Star ranks should go to the
Marine Corps, the House would leave the
Navy with only three full admirals, as COM
pared with the ArmyS proposed four full
generals.
Representative Bradley'S argument
against this provision was based largely on
sentimental considerations. 1t does seem
rather callous to denote veteran officers
so soon after they have rendered outstand-
ing service to their country. But there are
more serious aspects to the proposed reduc-
ton. Although the provision would leave
top-ranking Army officers in Far Eastern
and European occupied areas undisturbed,
the Navy would be required to denote two
admirals in command of key naval forces
abroad. These forces are assigned to the
highly important mission Of supporting our
foreign policies in the troubled Eastern
Atlantic c-Mediterranean and Western Pa
ciflc areas. To denote these commanders
now would be to lower their prestige in such
a way 9s to detract from the effectiveness
Of Americas show Of naval power abroad.
The Senate would be well advised to ponder
these possible effects Of TIE House pro-
posal and to amend the dill accordingly.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
DuwdIinq With Security

There is nothing unreasonable in the
urgent request of former Justice Owen j.
Roberts that Congress delay adjournment,
if necessary, in order to vote on universal
military training legislation AS is the
case also with the armed services merger
bill, the issues involved are SO important
to the country's security that they should
be decided now by fortnight debate and
balloting.
1t would be regrettable if the dislike for
the training plan voiced in an interview by
Senator Taft, chairman of the Senate Re-
publican Policy Committee, should deter
Congress from facing the UNIT problem
with the promptness and courage asked
by Chairman Compton of the Presidents
Advisory Commission and by former JUS
tice Roberts. Senator Taft's arguments
are the same old ones that have been
convincingly answered by the Compton
commission and by the Citizens Emer-
gency Committee headed by former JUS
tice Roberts.
There has been too much dawdling al
ready with the "hot" topics of military
training and ArmyNavy consolidation.
The Seventy y-ninth Congress dallied
around with the training proposal until it
was too late last year. The present Con-
gress understandably delayed action until
the report of the Advisory Commission was
in hand But, with that persuasive docu-
ment before it. for several weeks, there
still are no signs of concerted activity
The unifcation bill apparently has bet
ter chance of reaching the floor.
It is not enough to shrug off proposals
for prompt action on the training proposal
with the comment that Congress has other
matters to occupy it's time during the few
weeks before adjournment, tentatively
scheduled for the latter part of July. DR..
Compton and his commission and Justice
Roberts and his group have presented con-
vincing arguments against any further de-
lay. They contend that conditions in the
world are such that grave hazards exist
for any nation lacking militarily trained
reservoir of manpoWer, available instantly
in an emergency.
Congress will be assuming heavy re-
sponSibilities if it fails to heed these we'll
considered warnings. 1t will not be dis
charging its duties fully and forthrightly
if 1t continues to daWdle with such impor-
tant subjects as military training and the
merger. They should be brought to a vote
before Congress goes on vacation.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Russio and Our Oil

There is more heat than light in much
Of the current congressional comment on
shipments of American petroleum to
Russia and the possibility of shortage"
of gasoline and fuel oil in the United
States during the coming winter.
1t does not seem to make sense, of course,
that the Soviet Union should be importing
from us what we ourselves need. AS is
so often the case, however, appearances in
this instance are deceiving. 1t may be
that the Russians are using some lend
lease tankers that should have been re-
turned to us long ago. 1t may be, too,
that we ought to re-enact our wartime
export controls to stop them from getting
any more of our oil. But these points
whatever their merits may behave at
best only an extremely negligible bearing
on the so-called shortage" developing in
America.
A few figures from the Department of
Commerce are enough to demonstrate this
fact. Thus, in 1916. Russia bought and took
away only 100000 barrels of fuel oil and
gasoline from producing sources in this
country. So far this year, it has imported
only about 100000 barrels from us. Stated
another way, our shipments to it over
period of eighteen months have amounted
to much less than what the American
people consume every day. Our daily con-
sumption - unprecedented - now averages
about 5733,000 barrels, an increase of
around 157O0 barrels over our wartime
peak
In other words, even if we refused to
let the Soviet Union import from us at the
rate of the past eighteen months, the effect
on our possible Shortage" next winter
would be virtually imperceptible. The
Shortage" prospect has not been caused
by the Russian drain" In fact, in the
sense that we still have enormous amounts
of petroleum in our own country and fabu-
louS resources in our holdings abroad,
there actually is no shortage" in sight
When people use that word what they are
talking about is not lack of the product
itself but lack of the equipment needed
to refine, store and transport it in suffi-
cient quantities to satisfy our greatly in
creased postwar demand
1t is because these facilities are short
especially transportation facilities like
pipelines, trucks, tank cars, etc.-that some
sections of the United States may be
pinched occasionally for gasoline and fuel
Oil in the months Immediately ahead.
There appears to be little reason, however,
to fear that the Shortage" will be intense
or critical. According to experts, it will be
no worse than spotty-not serious enough
to require anything like wartime rationing.
Moreover, it probably will fade away en-
tirely before the spring.
In the circumstances, it is a gross dis
tortion to represent the Soviet shipments
as having any material influence on our
present oil situation. Whether or not we
want our petroleum to go to the Russians
and what about our desire to have them
join in a European recovery plan?-the
little that has been going to them since
the end of the war has been a mere drop
in the bucket, Stopping 1t will not prevent
shortage" which may never materialze
ANYWAY
Evening star., 1947-06-28
On 'Slanted' Cartoons

To the Editor Of The Star;
1t seems to me that The Star might get a
reputation as an independent newspaper, and
not merely as an organ of the Republican
party, if Bergman would slant his cartoons
differently, so as to give the whole picture.
For example, Berryman's recent cartoon has
Mr. Truman sitting at his desk with worried
look on his face On the desk beside him are
two scrolls tagged Labor Bill and Tax Bill.
On either side of him are two tough looking
men in threatening attitude, labeled Labor
Boss and Politician. It seems to me that have
heard in connection with these bills the names
of two other persons who might be labeled
"Rich Man" and Big Industrialist," How
about giving the public the United States
Chamber of Commerce slant, Mr.. Bergman?
The people of the Nation are just as worried
as Mr. Truman they see insecurity and pos
sibIy disaster before them The Washington
politicians, and those who use them, seem to
think only of 194s. A welcome chance for most
people, when they open their newspapers, would
be cartoons rejecting regard for the inter-
ests of all Americans, of whatever class.
LEILA SELLERS.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
The Plight of Hungary

To the Editor of The Star:
I am afraid that your recent editorial Hun
gary Raises It's Voice" will leave the wrong
impression of the Hungarians with many of
your readers.
The Hungarians did come out of Asia to the
Danube valley about thousand years ago,
but they did not settle down" right away.
They were a nation of barbarous looterS, and
they tried, for many years after coming to the
Danube valley, to live by raiding and plumber
ing the surrounding nations-until they were
thoroughly licked" And Christianity gave
them only superficial veneer, not real west
ern civilization" Civilization is not acquired so
simply as that
Under the leadership of Kossuth they fought
for the freedom of the Magyars alone, or rather
of the ruling caste of the Magyars. They op-
pressed their own pople And as for their sub
iect races they treated them with the utmost
brutality and lack of consideration. For ex-
ample they did not even regard the Slovaks
as human beings.
Under the dual monarchy they did, indeed,
become masters in their own house" but that
house" was expanded far beyond the legiti-
mate limits of the Magyar nation, In fact,
the Magyars were a minority in their own
house" and they shamefully misruled and
abused the other people.
And if they were defeated and looted by for
eign invaders in the first World War, they
were only reaping the just reward of their own
misconduct. And they were not dragged into
World War II by Axis pressure" They, to-
gether with Poland, helped Hitler to put the
squeeze" on Czechoslovakia at the time of the
Munich crisis, and they eagerly, and on their
own initiative invaded that country, seized
Ruthenia, and even tried to seize the whole of
Slovakia.
I do not sympathize with the Communist
coup in Hungary and I should like to see the
Hungarians attain a real democracy, and
freedom for their own people But it must not
be forgotten that it was the government of
Ferenc Macy, now in this country, which signed
an agreement with Czechoslovakia for the ex-
change of populations, and then went back
on its agreement. And Macy, even now, in this
country, is charging Czechoslovakia with brutal
treatment of their Hungarian minority That
charge is just plain Hungarian propaganda,
and is on a par with the prewar claims OF
Hitler that the "Sudeten Germans" were being
oppressed and abused by Czechoslovakia. Let
us keep the facts straight.
EDWARD WOLESENSKY.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Another Air Crash Theory
the -ditor of The Star.

There have been various theories advanced
about the cause of the Capitaliner crash near
Leesburg. Nobody but an experienced man
knows how quickly one can lose altitude in
and with "a heavy such as the pilot was fly
ing. In a few seconds one may we'll drop
thousands of feet. In this case, as 1 see it,
it is quite possible that the thoroughly expert
enced pilot became i'll, slumped over the
stick and before the co-pilot could move his
body in order to pull the ship back up again
it crashed into that fateful spot
Way back in 1925, when I first few with
Mai. Gen. Westside T. Larson, propounded
the possibility of devising a stick" that would
pull plane up instead of down when the
stick was moved forward. Somehow, the
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis

10 tne 1ditot OF Inc star:
A clipping from your paper tells of the
college professors remarks about Jefferson
Davis and Abraham Lincoln. am glad that
finally somebody has the courage to speak out
and tell the truth. Abraham Lincoln is the
only topic about which the people get only one
side Lincoln has been placed before the bar
OF public opinion and without any complaining
witness he has been assigned to eternal glory
and immortality"
On the other hand these same glorifers
have turned prosecutors: they have haled
Jefferson Davis and all of the Southern people
before that same bar of public opinion, and
without single defending witness they have
downed them to the depths of perdition as
saVages, villains, murderers. incapable of self
government or loyalty to any form of govern
ment.
They talk about the ignorant South. The
ignorant ones live in the North
M. D. BOLAND.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Cabbage Worm

Hiding in green, Uordciously
1t feeds upon the tender leaf.
From tarthest edge to deWy heart
DeUours the emerald reef.
Under naked rib it stops;
There held By silk parenthesiS,
1t casts caterpillar coat
To be slumberir1g chrySdhs. =.
But not for long. miracle
OF Dhtte, net t0ings come forth to dry:
Foroetttno it Dds once 4 norm,
1t floats beneath blue summer sky.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

original designers of the ailerons stuck to the
idea of making horse rear up by pulling the
reins in. That, to my mind, may have been
the cause of the tragic crash. But, alas. no
mouth will ever open to testify to the fact
that they were witness to what believe
actually happened. CHARLES A. CRETE.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

a zeal ear. we
must help Ger
many, they say
and Italy.
Both are de-
feated enemies.
We must help
Franco Spain,
Peron's Argen-
t / n a very
Soviet satellite
in EI1ropp All
Evening star., 1947-06-28

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
aoriter, although it is permissible for
t0riter knopn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

John Gay the poet exclaimed: From
wine what sudden friendship springs"
But nowadays baseball, horse races, style
shows and the circus have at least as great
an influence in bringing strangers to-
gether.
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Military Training Pro and Con

NIll1tary raining FRO ana Ion
To the editor of The Star:
Since the Truman commission has rendered
prejudiced report on the subject of COM
pulsory peacetime military training, as could
be expected OF biased commission, let us now
have a report from commission biased in
opposition to peacetime conscription and mill
tary training of our sons. The public is Ger
tainly entitled to know both sides of the
subject.
We have grown and prospered and fought
and won all our wars the last $50 years
without peacetime conscription and military
training and it is folly to begin now.
The Truman commission, in order to make
balanced affair of our war preparations,
would, besides spending billions on the military
training of our boys, spend additional billions
on guns, battleships, planes munitions and
other mechanical equipment, thus doubling
and quadrupling the tax burden of our pos
terity and adding billions to the bank accounts
of the high officials of industry.
CHAS. M. PIDGEON.
Evening star., 1947-06-28

asked Cnenl II
they W ou ! d
come over to
help me after
their time was
up, stating it
was imperative
I get my tar
paulin up with
out further de-
lay, that I
orJ ~ n ~
Evening star., 1947-06-28
Letters to The Star
Aid for China Universal Military Training and Other
Topics Prompt Readers to Write Opinions
49, rs;t.r - rr,,n CO..

To the Editor of The Star:
One of the things that really has me ready
for my straitiacket and padded cell is our
treatment of our friend and former ally, China.
China pleads for our assistance, but we turn
Evening star., 1947-06-28

Attics are the places where people keep
the bargains they bought at auctions and
some day mean to use.