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Evening star., 1947-03-23
Mysteries of
WASHINGTON City

Comments BY Caleb At1Duter OF
Ohio during the session OF the
Tuenty- eighth Congress in 1S44)
placed as members of Congress are
on a pinnacle, in view of whole ma
ton, unless they possess well-oalanced
minds, they are not to be envied."
~
"No sooner is the hippen laid aside,
than the pantaloons, and the boots.
and the cocked-up hat follow, as the
dress Of the boy-and the girl Is dressed
like young lady. Her locks are curled,
and she looks around her for beau!
OF these things we mean not to COM
plain, but we merely note them as a
change effected in our manners, since
the last age, whether for better or for
worse, We do not way. The days Of our
fathers are gone by, and this genera
ton assumes to be wiser than the
former one was, but whether better
one, on the whole, is at best doubtful
with me-"
+
"Five thousand persons can be well
accommodated in Washington city. For
the size of it, this has more and better
accommodations for travellers, than any
other city with which I am personally
acquainted"
z X
However much we may loathe occa-
sional loafers who come here, and quite
too many OF them do come here, yet
the people themselves are as good as
the people of any other section Of the
Union"
Let us hope, too, that the day is
not far off, when our highest Officers,
civil, naval and military, will be sober,
honest. and moral men,
II have always found reading people
more placid and more agreeable In their
manners than others
How many messengers, assistant
messengers, doorkeepers and assistant
doorkeepers, clerks and assistant clerks,
postmasters and assistant postmasters,
paperfolders, pages, etc, etc, there are
here, cannot tell, because I do not
know, but their numbers must be very
large. and they cost the Nation q
great deal.'
Evening star., 1947-03-23

for their first year or two of service
Fortunately, the composition of the Sem
ate today is such that this ancient
custom has become outmoded. More
than one-half the members OF the pres
ent Senate are serving their first term
and less than fourth Of the Senators
have served for more than two terms.
OF the Republican Senators, only three,
capper of Kansas, White of Maine and
vandenberg of Michigan antedate the
New Deal era. It is probably the young
est Senate since the reconstruction
period, 80 fluctuating has been the swing
Of the political pendulum in all the bi-
ennial elections since h9se.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
The Cost OF Loyalty
By the Rep II. P. Clarke, D. D.,
Pastor of Washington Methodist

LOYALTY is one of the high virtues
of life. It Is the trust and steward
ship OF life. It is faithfulness carried
out into deeds. Disloyalty is one of
the hard words in the language and
one Of the ugliest attitudes Of life.
Everything of real value costs
dearly. The greatest pride and Joy
OF parents are their children. But
there Is the cost. There Is the blood
and sacrifice, the anxiety and the
eagerness. Loyalty is faithfulness to
a person or a principle. Was there
ever time when stern loyalty, based
upon high integrity, counted for
more?
We express our loyalty by becona-
ing skilled workmen.
ANY task of the kingdom worth
doing requires skill, technique and
real craftsmanship. We have only
one life to live here. and we are
honor bound to live it productivity,
creatively and effectively. To fail to
do so is living tragedy.
We cannot afford to be blunderers.
Our business is to shun those things
that would hinder, detract and cut
down our skill and effectiveness, and
to expose ourselves to those infiu-
ences, resources and strengths which
exalt, accelerate and lift up all our
powers. We must become approved
workmen.
We must dare to be different when
the time comes. Not that we are
going to cut away from our social
order, or become cranks; but we must
have the daring and the courage to
live our own lives effectively and
efficiently. So many are slaves to
custom, to fashion, to the status quo.
A real part of life is to learn the
secret OF how we can work with
others. The important tasks OF life
are cooperative tasks, such as estab-
fishing the home, or the school, or
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Corfu Test Case

has not yet been terminated, the
manner in which 1t has been con-
Quoted before the Security Council
of the United Nations throws a
rather discouraging light on the
ability Of that body to render just
and impartial decisions on contro-
versial issues.
The narrow but navigable strait
between the Greek island of Corfu
and the Albanian mainland has for
centuries been an international
waterway, legally usable by warships
and merchant vessels of all nations.
The new Communist dominated
government of Albania asserted,
however, that portion of the chan
mel was Albanian territorial water,
erected powerful coastal defenses
and objected to the passage of
British warships Last October, two
British destroyers hit mines in the
Corfu Straits, with heavy damage
and considerable loss of life. There
after, British craft swept the chan
mel, against Albania's heated protest,
and discovered anchored mines
which had been freshly laid.
This mine field was located in a
narrow portion of the straits only
a short distance from the Albanian
shore and its coast defenses, amply
manned and with constant lookouts.
Although the Albanian government
disclaimed all knowledge Of the
matter, it is contended that it would
have been impossible for mine
laying vessels to have operated with
out being seen by Albanian sentries.
On the basis of this and other
evidence, Britain charged that the
mines were laid ''by the Albanian
government or with its connivance."
In either circumstance, that would
have been breach of The Hague
Convention of 1907, which is estab-
lished international law.
Unfortunately, the hearings before
the Security Council have from the
first been conducted in an atmos-
phere of power politics. Soviet
Russia, seconded by Poland, has
consistently backed Albania in its
claim of innocence, while the Al
banian representative has impugned
Britain's motives. The upshot has
been that the Council remains
widely split. Our delegate, Herschel
Johnson, has suggested a formula
which would find that Albania had
knowledge of the mipe-sowing and
was thus guilty of breach of The
Hague Convention, but dismissing
the charges Of actual mine-laying
or "connivance"
Yet even this compromise formula
has been hotly rejected by the Soviet
delegate, Andrei Gromyko. So strong
Is Russia's stand that a veto is
expected If majority of the Council
should find Albania in any way
culpable. The indications now are
that the case may be by-passed by
the Council and shunted to the
International Court of Justice for
fresh consideration.
All this has practical bearing
upon relations of the United Nations
to the far more important and con-
troversial issue of aid to Greece and
Turkey, which is now so much in
the limelight. The Corfu Straits
case is not a happy augury.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
A Day for Grundmo?

A subcommittee of the House Ju-
dietary Committee has under ad-
visement twenty-five different bills
to set aside as many special days
and weeks in honor of various per-
sons and things. A particularly de-
termined group - the National
Grandmothers Club of Americas
working hard for grandma. We
have Mothers Day and Fathers
Day, it says, so why not day for
the mothers of mothers and fathers?
The question is a challenging one,
and Congress can hardly do less
than face it.
Grandma's friends are not asking
for a great deal, of course. AS one
of them said to the subcommit-
tee, Americas organized grand
mothers merely want everybody to
know that "the real thrill of life
time comes when the first grand
child is born; that this little child
is not having one grandmother, it
is having two grandmothers" and
that thus grandmothers "are max
ing many people happy" The logic
here is not quite clear. but the SEN
timent is. and If the case were to be
judged solely on that basis, there
would seem to be every reason why
grandma should have her day, with
florists and gift shops making the
most Of it the way they do on
Mothers Day and Fathers Day.
Sentiment to one side, however,
certain hard questions must be
asked. A grandmother is also
mother. Is she to have two days?
Would that be fair to those who
have only one day? And why not
a day for grandpa, too? Indeed,
why not day for great-grandpar-
ents and great-great-grandparents
clear back to Adam and Eve? Come
to think OF it, how is 1t that we do
not have an Adam Day and an Eve
Day? They started everything.
Without them there never would
have been people around organizing
themselves into groups demanding
that days be named in their honor.
Congress has got to weigh the
principle involved in this issue. If
the grandmother proposal is upheld,
then logic and fairness demand that
something be done for Adam and
Eve. For that matter, it might be a
good idea, too, to name a day in
honor of all those Americans who
have studiously refrained from Or
ganizing to have day named in
their honor. But are there enough
days left for that?
Evening star., 1947-03-23

business, or government, or building
ones own life. We are all tied up
together in this bundle Of life. No
matter how talented one is, If he
cannot work with others, his abilities
count for little, or 60 to waste. Some
times one is compelled to drop out
of high school or college, or busi-
ness connection, because he will not
work with others. This working with
others. does not mean doing away
with Independent thinking or indi-
vidual effort. Let one express, with
out prejudice, his thoughts and ideas.
but when decisions are made let us
60 along together. There is the story
OF our Constitution. Great minds
differed, they were caught in the
thralls OF debate, but when they had
decided the issues, dissension ended
and they went on together to build
this great Nation.
We must learn to combine pure
religion with high intelligence. One
OF our greatest needs is dedicated
brains. One must think and pray
oneself through to God. But intel
ligence alone may turn into devious
paths. Some of the most intelligent
persons have been among the great
est rascals. Intelligence may become
fanatical and visionary. The balance
of religion is needed to hold life
together. The combination is un-
beatable.r
We cannot afford to put out in this
world on a secondhand experience.
We cannot handle a f1rst-hand devil
with a second hand Christ. We must
know Him for ourselves.
Gen. Booth when asked the secret
of his life, said: Jesus Christ has
had all that there was of me-" This
is the quality of loyalty indicated
by the Master when He declared:
IF any man will come after me, let
him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me-"
Evening star., 1947-03-23

science is pushing on to larger and
more promising electronic fields!
And the FEC has made it plain that
while it does not think color tele-
vision quite ready for the public, it
should not be too long before en-
terprising television men will be
broadcasting the pink halo of cherry
blossoms around the Tidal Basin
or the purple bruises on the bat
tered body of some contender for
the heavyweight boxing champion
ship.
Evening star., 1947-03-23

National Theater shortly. Eighty-thr
years of age, he could look back over
career of distinction on both sides OF
the Atlantic. He had played Cardinal
Wolsey to the Queen Katharine OF
Charlotte Cushman in Boston in 1850.
Later, he was the original Abel Murcott
with Laura Keene in Our American
Cousin" When interviewed here, Mr..
Couldock declared: i have played
everything among the great parts In
classic drama have been Richard,
Richelieu, Hamlet, Iago, Shylock.
Othello and all the rest, save Romeo"
The role Of Juliet's lover. 1t seems. re-
quired a less robust frame than he ever
had possessed
Evening star., 1947-03-23

The Maryland Legislature off,
cially adopted the "feathered oriole"
as the State bird. Presumably it
keeps its feathers by being exempt
from the State income tax.
Evening star., 1947-03-23

Just when Britons have come to
the conclusion that the best thing
they can do these hard times is to
60 to sleep until they get better
they are walked up by a jolt Of day
lipht-saying time.
Evening star., 1947-03-23

Scientists have been having a
hard time persuading Britain that
the axis of the earth has not shifted
and brought the. North Pole to their
island.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
BIZ Gerard D. Reilly

drafting language to cover a great vari-
ETY. of industrial practices, the debate
on the bill lasted for seven, legislative
days. An interesting sign of the change
which has come about in the Senate
since long tenure of office has become
the execution rather than the rule, was
the prominent part played in the debate
by Junior Senators. Senator Donnen OF
Missouri, who was in charge Of the bill
as chairman of the subcommittee which
conducted the hearings, Is just begin
ming the third year of his first term in
the Senate Until recent times it was
almost unheard of for any Senator who
had not served two or three terms to be
placed in charge Of an important meas
ure.
The principal spokesman for the
minority was Senator McGrath of Rhode
Island. who is just beginning his first
term. Their arguments were well above
the Senate average from the standpoint
Of both relevance and erudition. More
over, one of the ablest defenses of the
majority report was made by another
newly elected member, Senator Cooper
of Kentucky, former circuit judge
in that State. All three of these men
have had considerable experience both
in public life and at the bar. Donnell
and McGrath served with distinction
as Governors of their, respective States,
and in addition McGrath held the
blue ribbon legal post Of United States
Solicitor General for one year. The
new Kentucky Senator has been both
a county and circuit judge.
Nevertheless, under the unwritten law
which prevailed In the upper chamber
until the last two years Senator's with
even such background as theirs would
have been constrained to remain silent
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02

(NOTARIAL SEAL) Subscribed and before this lst day of July BEVERLY A. MORGAN,
 Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska. My commission expires December 27, l947.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
Battle COnvicts h, Philippines

ANIL A, (PD Thirty-two heavily armed escaped convicts last night seized control of Gala pan, capital of Mindoro island, but military police achievements restored order late today after a bitter gun fight in which the rebel leader was killed.
 Governor Conrado Morente of Mindoro telegraphed Malacanan palace that 10 of the jailbreakers had been captured, l9 still were at large and three were killed.
 Morente, along with Capalan's mayor, Xilomeno Sumaco, the city police chief and Congressman Raul Leuterio, were disarmed by the escapees.
 Heavy endorsements of mili- tary police were flown to Mindoro to put down the coup after a Phil ippines airline pilot managed to fly to Manila from the embattled capital and reported the uprising.
 The convicts had seized all local
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
Daily eather
 Flights To Pole

WASHINGTON, R - Daily weather flights to the North Pole, to replace the present weekly schedule, will be started soon by the army air forces.
 Brig. Gen. D. N. Yates, chief of the AAF's air weather service, told news conference that he ex- poets the new schedule-to pro- vide continuing information from the biggest weather blind spot in the northern hemisphere will commence some time in July.
 Airplanes used for the flights from Ladd Field, near Fairbanks, are converted B-29's, stripped of their guns and armor and equip ped with gadgets used by the weather men.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
FORMER SOURDOUGH REMEMBERS PALS

A former Alaskan sourdough who hade his pile in the great Nome gold rush remembered old comrades in a will filed in superb or court in San Francisco yester- day.
 The will, that of John Licten- berg, who died in San Francisco June 20 at the age of 81, sets up a $10,000 trust fund for oldtimers living in the Pioneer Home at Sitka. Other bequests included S1O,OOO in war bonds to Gladys Selvin, and $3,O0O in bonds to Vic tor Selvin, of San Francisco, both friends of Lictenberg; $5,000 in war bonds to John Schwegler, and $2,000 to Mrs, Lauria Hammer, both of Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
BICYCLES AND TRICYcLES WANTED FOR PARADE

Children having tricycles and bicycles are busy planning for the Fourth of July parade as decor ated cycles will be the feature of the children's parade. All children planning to enter the parade are requested to be at the playfield immediately following the literary program.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
ROBERT KNIGHT RECEIVES PRIVATE FLYING LICENSE

Robert Knight of Richter Pho tos, has received his private fly ing license from the Peninsula Flying Service. He is the first stu dent in Nome to receive his train ing under the G. l. Bill and also has the distinction of having earn ed license in thirty days training.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
MRS. LARRY JOHANSON
 RETURNS FROM STATES

Mrs. Larry Johanson, who has been in the States with her small son for medical care, returned this morning on the Pan American.
 Miss Venita England, sister of Mrs. Johanson accompanied her from the States and plans to visit here for several weeks.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
CONGRESS ROUNDUP

WASHINGTON, { R)-President Truman's call for Congressional investigation of what he termed "brazen operations" by a real es- tate lobby blew up a storm on Capitol Hill yesterday.
 Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Senate's Republican policy committee, commented that he wouldn't mind running such an inquiry himself.
 But his Ohio colleague, Senator Bricker, called MT. Truman's pro- posal "the cheapest kind of politi- cal demagoguery."
 And Senator Sparkman O. AlaJ said he was for an investiga- ton but instead of singling out the real estate lobby let's investi- gate them all"
 Officials of real estate organiza- tions were indignant.
 Tn his message advising Con- gress that he had signed the rent bill Monday, MT. Truman asserted real estate lobby has constant ly sought to weaken rent control and to do away with necessary aids to housing"
 Two influential Republicans in the House Challenged a statement by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower that the U. s. army is a poor sec ond" to Russia's.
 Rep. Short CMD, second ranking member of the armed services committee, called it propaganda for universal military training" Rep. Allen UllJ, rules commit tee chairman, asked:> What have our military leaders been doing with all the billions furnished them? It seems that somebody ought to explain how our army got into 'second-rate' position if it is second-rate-on more money and supplies than Russia has for its so-called first-class military establishment" Eisenhower made the statement last week to a Senate appropria- tions committee while arguing that $435, 100000 which the House cut out of the army's budget should be restored.
 The start of the 1948 fiscal year found Congress still undecided how much to give the state de- partment for its 'voice of Amer ica" radio broadcasts to Russia and other foreign lands.
 The Senate voted S11,970,000 for the broadcasts, with limit of S1.l57.OOO for hiring talent to write and produce programs. Other program would be obtained by contracts with commercial ra- dio chains.
 The House, which failed to vote and funds for the "voice of Amer ica," has yet to accept the Senate's
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
TOURISTS WILL ARRIVE HERE JULY FOURTH

A group of tourists is scheduled to arrive on July fourth with the Pan Pacific Good NeighbOr Tours to take in the sports and enjoy several of the side trips offered by railroad and plane.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
MIR. AND MRS. MoDROw TO MAKE HOME IN NOME

MT. and Mrs. Gerald Modrow of Kalama, Wash, arrived Mon day, to be employed by Wiens'. MT. Modrow will be gas man for the company, replacing Kenneth Webb who is departing soon for the States.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
CARL MICKLESON
 RETURNS FROM STATES

Carl Mickleson, who was called to Seattle suddenly due to the death of his mother, returned home this morning.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02

Then there's the dumb stenog- rapher who didn't mail the circu- lar letters because she couldn't find any round envelopes.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02
JAMES ADAMS ILL WITH PNEUMONIA

U. s. Commissioner James Adams is confined to his home with pneumonia.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02

radio transmitters, cutting off communications from Calapan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-16
Challenge 10 Lovers

glimpsed the honorable dis.
charge button glinting golden in
the lapel of his tweed jacket.
Her emerald eyes those hate
full fabricators of trouble
widened.
"Y-you've been in service? Of
course, knew you must be.
Every time thought of you,
l imagined you in uniform. But
but
He chuckled, deep in his
throat. $50 you did think of
mel"
"Why-yes." Cam could feel
her cheeks take on the posture
hue of the paper strawberry
sundae glued to the fountain
mirror. "I-often, as a matter
of fact. I've wondered a great
many times what happened to
you"
II signed up a few weeks aft
er I left Carter"
"You-you never wrote. Why
not, Joel?" Cam was not even
aware that this was the same
question another man had been
asking of her, scarcely ten min
utes earlier. Her gaze held
+Joel's unblinkingly, not even. as
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-16
Bv Ethel HAMLl

THE STORY: On the opening
,.r of college Camellia Austin,
H.. aa.nghter of the Dean, is chided
s ~ Young Professor Herbert
" eoyowell for not having written
!, him during the summer. He
s.rns her that she can't go on
rieving forever about Gary
Tarlowe, who was killed in the
%sr Cam had not been in love
Nth With Gary any more than she
s.d been in love with other
n 'suno cadets whom she had
!,,tod and later written V-mail
:" -. But when Gary left his in
srance to Cam as his ''fi-
.ncee." everyone believed it to
:. tragic romance. No one
p,ows ~ that the one man Cam
s..1lv loved was Joel Conroy,
rho had been too poor to finish
.olleee four years ago. Cam
..lls Herbert she is through ro-
s,,ncing. Leaving him, she
lakes her way through a crowd
.,tudents when suddenly
.omeone swings her around and
s;sses M her. It is Joel Conroy,
h,ck as veteran student.
CHAPTER w
For the first time, then, she
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-16

Tyet, aware Of it own lntentness.
II didn't think it would be
right" he answered, honestly,
making no effort to deny that
she had been so definite a part
of his young life in that past
they were discussing that she
would have had a right to ex-
pect to hear. "There was I, 60
ing overseas. Maybe not coming
back. You were so young. And
besides-oh, I don't know"
1 Giggling shrill greetings, two
pretty sophomores from the Eta
Mu house wriggled between
them. Ozzie Kremolka, so close
Cam might have reached out
and touched him, was greeting
someone with a particular ef-
fusiveness. One of the trustees,
Cam noted mechanically, with
only one oblique facet Of her
mind. The babble of the crowd
in the booths was loud, in
sistent.
"Come along, my pet" Joel
was saying, cor you'll have rs
both tramp1ed to death. I'll
walk you home"
Ozzie mumbled something
cheerful and indistinct as Joel
hurried her past him, a firm
hand under her elbow. The
glass door swung shut behind
them then, and they were out
in the street.
/ Directly across the way the
campus stretched cool and IN
distinct in the lengthening shad-
ows. Ancient elms waved their
high 2lumage all up College
Hills long, easy slope. Golden
light slanted down across them
in dim, angular lines like fallen
banners.
t'It hasn't changed" joel
breathed, as if to himself 'Not
a tree is any different
Cam glanced up, cataloguing
the small divergences between
this mans face above her and
the boys face so closely like
it which seemed almost more
real than reality even now. He
was laughing, over nothing in
particular beyond hi is pleasure
in being here where he wanted
to be, as they climbed the old
walk side by side to where the
facing red brick Georgian
houses of the Dean and the
President rode the hills crest.
you've been missing Carter,
haven't you, Joel?"
$50 much, sometimes, that it
was like bad toothache.
Moved down into my heart, of
course. Part of me just never
did leave here"
He looked down at her, laugh