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Evening star., 1948-01-18
Whitney Resigns From PEA
On Ihird-Porty Issue
BY The Asseeiotsa Press

.
CLEVELAND, Jan. IA. F
/ Whitney said today he would con.
tinue to advise more than 00,00t
members of the Brotherhood oil
Railroad Trainmen to Cooperate
wherever possible with all progress
sive groups" though he personally
has split with the Progressive ,Citi-
zens of America over the third
party issue.
The brotherhood president, who
has been serving as member of
peas board Of directors, said in a
letter Of resignation mo sincere
friend of freedom could quarrel
with Pea aims" but "idealism
must oftens be tempered with
enough realism to keep lofty goals
from being forever out of reach"
THAT is why I cannot go along
with Pea in its Endorsement OF g.
third party for the elections of
ls4S. My opposition stems from
the belief that such move at this
time will not bring our common OBJ
jectives nearer but would actually
make them more remote than ever" "
Mr.. Whitney said.
II have heretofore advised the
membership of the Brotherhood Of
Railroad Trainmen that in these
difficult times when it appears the
Fascists are making progress, they
should cooperate wherever possible
with all progressive groups, should
support the friends of the people
and defeat the enemies of the peo-
ple," said Whitney adding:
That will continue to be the B.
r. T.'s policy in the future"
Evening star., 1948-01-18

of big business and further weaken
independent business.
"The first step in meeting the in
fation crisis is to give substantial
wage increases to the workers. These
increases could easily come out OF
exorbitant corporation profits with
out raising prices. The increased
purchasing power of workers will
shore up the American standard OF
living. Maintaining their purchas-
ing power is essential to every
farmer, small businessman and pro-
fessional person.
THE need FOR a wage increase is
desperate"
Mr.. Wallace declared that the
Bureau of Labor statistics in the
middle Of 1947 had estimated that
$62 week was necessary for min
imum budget for family of four;
that since then the estimate had In
creased by $4 a week. and that the
actual wage in the manufacturing
industry averages around $50 a
week, and that inadequate figure is
higher than in most other employ
ment. He insisted that labor's share
! in the national income has been cut
drastically.
Pay Raises Called Necessary.
"Wage increases for the workers
are more than cost-of living prob
lem," he said, they are a national
economic necessity" He pointed
out that since the war, productivity
had increased sharply.
THE Nations economy cannot af-
ford to let the profit from this
greater productivity flow unre-
strained into the Golfers of the big
corporations, while the living
standards of the people are crum-
bling.
THE bipartisan program rejects
prosperity and a high standard OF
living for the American people.
The Republicans offer them longer
hours of work, while the adminis-
tration proposes wage freeze.
THE big business propaganda
that wage increases are inf1ationary
and cause price increases salves the
conscience of some people, but it
does not fool the workers.
THE volume of profits today is
Evening star., 1948-01-18

Italian and German artists of the
18th and 10th Centuries have been
acquired by the National Gallery OF
Art, David E. Finley, director, an
nounced yesterday.
The paintings, described by Mr.
Finley as among the most i'm
! portant works of art in private pos
sessions in this country" are from
the Ralph and Mary Booth collec-
tion of Detroit and have been given
I to the gallery by Mrs. Booth.
In 1912 Mrs. Booth gave three
pieces of sculpture, Mr. Finley re-
called.
The Detroit collection was assem-
bled by Mrs. Booth and her husband,
the late Ralph Harmon Booth,
Michigan newspaper publisher and
United States Minister to Denmark
at the time of his death in 1881.
Among the acquisitions is a Ma
donna and Child" by lhe Venetian
artist, Giovanni .Bellini. 1t is the
18th work by this master to be
placed in the gallery's collection.
John Walker, chief curator, called
it mot only one of the most eX-
quisite of all his works in its treat
ment of the subject, in its relation
of figures and landscape, but also
historically of the greatest interest,
since the 17th Century artist. David
Teniers the Younger, left pictorial
record of it in one of his views of
the picture gallery of Archduke
Leopold William at Brussels"
Another painting on the Ma
donna and Child" theme is among
the latest Booth collection gifts. 1t
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Proposed Cut in Tin Plate
Protested by PIoeser
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Chairman Ploeser of the House
Small Business Committee yester-
day protested that proposed cuts
in the use of tin plate for canning
would cause Nation wide hardship.
The ALLEGATION of tin, a scarce
metal, is handled by the Commerce
Department. 1t has been confer
ring with industry groups relative
TO curtailing use Of tin plate for
less essential items.
Mr.. Ploeser wrote Secretary Of
Commerce Hartman that a pro-
jected Commerce Department order
would sharply curtail the use of tin
plate for canning food stuffs and
eliminate small and medium sized
cans, 80 much in demand by small
families and single persons.
Moreover, he said, it would be
severely injurious to small busi-
ness"
Evening star., 1948-01-18
ST. Andrew Society
Plans Burns Fete

The 189th birthday of Robert
Burns. national poet of Scotland
will be celebrated at pm. Friday
by the st. Andrews Society OF
Washington. Members and friends
iof the society will banquet and
dance in the Mayfiower Hotel.
/ Principal speakers will be Sir
Robert Alexander Watson Watt,
British scientist and inventor of
radar; DR.. Peter Marshall, president
Of the Society, and DR.. David
I Daiches, who will deliver the ad-
dress on Burns.
Among the guests Of honor will
be Sir John Balfour, the British
Minister, and Lady Balfour; Justice
William o. Douglas of the Supreme
Court and Mrs. Douglas; Sir Victor
Goddard Of the Royal Air Force and
Lady Goddard, and Rear Admiral
P. w. B. Brooking of the British
Admiralty delegation and Mrs.
Brooking
Music will be furnished by the
Kiltie Band OF York, Pa, and Bob
Nicholson. radio baritone, who will
sing in duets with Miss Dorothy
Warwick, soprano. Girl dancers of
the society will perform Scottish
folk dances.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
National Gallery Gets 8 Works
By Noted Italians and Germans
by Tintoretto, also arl Italian

is by Tintoretto, also an Italian
master.
Mr.. Walker said he knew of no
other work by this artist with a
similar concentration on the figures
of the Virgin and the Christ Child.
Moreover, the very original har-
mony of silvery grays and delicate
umbers reveals a rare aspect of
Tintoretto as a colorist," he COM
mented.
Mr.. Walker also was enthusiastic
about Portrait of Youth" by Gio-
vanni Antonio Boltraffio.
This work, he said, has long been
recognized as one of the greatest
works by this gifted pupil of eLon-
ardo da Vinci and is, in my opinion,
his masterpiece as a portrait painter.
1t was among the % paintings from
America shown at the great Italian
Exhibition in London in 1880, where
lit was much praised by critics and
connoisseurs."
The other gifts are portraits OF
Prince and Princess of Saxony, by
Lucas Cranach the Elder; portraits of
a Mayor of Memmingen and his
wife, by Berdhard Strigel, court
painter of Emperor Macmillan, and
Portrait of a Nobleman," one of
the few paintings to be recognized
as work of Nicolaus Kremer.
These fine German pictures are
particularly welcome to the gal
lery's collection" Mr.. Walker said,
for the representation of German
art has been until now somewhat
weak when compared to other
schools"
The eight pictures have been
hanging in the Booth residence in
Crosse 'Pointe, Mich, near Detroit.
Evening star., 1948-01-18

| greater vigor through 1948, and
| through so, Sc, go, and '64."
| Answer to Truman.
The resolution 1ndorsing Mr.. Wal
lace's candidacy was submitted by
the conventions political committee
and was adopted by voice vote. 1t
followed last months Endorsement
by the Pea executive committee in
New York. A convention report said
six of 40 PEA board members had
resigned as result of the Wallace
Endorsement.
The Wallace speech was in part
an answer to the appeal for left
wing support contained in Presi-
dent Truman's recent message to
Congress on the. State of the Union
which seemed to align the President
with all the Roosevelt New Deal
policies.
Mr.. Wallace asserted that Mr.
Truman was merely paying lip serv-
ice to the Roosevelt New Deal-that
MI. Truman had never gone through
with full support of any New Dea
measures he had proposed as Presl-
dent. Mr.. Wallace ridiculed the
Truman anti-infation bill as inef-
fective-particularly the "selective
controls" Which he said were q
farce" The heart of the Truman
proposal, he added was a wage
! freeze"
/ Reiterates Need of New Party.
! Again and again Mr.. Wallace re-
iterated the need of a new political
party, clearly indicating he is in
this presidential race to stay-as
indeed, he said fatty he was at q
press conference earlier in the day
/ He attacked what he called the
bipartisan program OF the Re-
publicans and the Democrats, which
he said was in the interests of the
prohteers as well as opposed te
peace.
The way to halt the imitation
spiral" said MI. Wallace, 'is to
strike at its source: profiteering
When imitation ceases to be prOnt-
able, the American people will be
able to breathe easy again.
1T is an election necessity for
the Democrats and Republicans to
do a good deal of talking against
infation-like sin, they are against
it. But they take no real steps to
fight it. To the contrary, they en-
courage it. They make gestures,
but they are equally futile gestures.
They refuse to tackle proflteering.
He said that Secretary of Com
merce Hartman proposed that in
hation be fought by weakening the
antitrust laws and the Republican
Congress had responded enthusi-
astically.
Sees Monopoly Strengthened.
"They enacted the suggestion into
law" he continued, "and it will in
evitably strengthen the monopoly
Evening star., 1948-01-18
6. 0. P. Chiefs 10 Map
Strategy on spending
And Taxes This Week
D he Assesie,.d pr...

The Republican high command Ii
Congress yesterday arranged 4 serie.
of conferences for this week to draw
up legislative program centerint
on cuts in taxes and Government
spending.
Meanwhile, the Senate House Eco.
nomic Committee, headed by Sena.
tor Taft, voted unanimously to pu
of its answer to the President
economic recommendations unit
March l, one month later than is re.
iquired by law. A formal amendment
Fof the statute will be necessary
A key pont In Mr.. Truman's eco.
nomic recommendations was revived
authority to control prices and wage.
and to ration scarce goods. There
has been little indication that hi
program will be adopted, unles,
prices advance sharply above theil
present levels.
House Speaker Martin forecast
success for the Republican program
sof reduced taxes and appropria tions
but did not estimate how deer
eihter cut would go. !.
+ COP Plan Outlined.
Through reduction In Federal
spending, some COP chiefs hope to
take enough pressure OF prices tc
debate the high cost Of living as
in issue in the approaching presi-
DENTAL campaign.
This Is the schedule Of meetings
to outline a program for a year
when every move will be weighed
for its political significance:
/. A huddle Of Senate and House
experts in Speaker Martins Office
tomorrow for a preliminary survey
for the, possibility of pruning Presi-
dent Truman's s39 ,669 ,000, 900 budget.
Some Republicans have called for
taking as much as a 5000, ,000,-
900 slice from the total.
2. A meeting OF Senate and House
leaders later in the week to consider
the program in general-what is
likely to be. taken up and when.
3. A session of the House Republi-
can Steering Committee tomorrow
Or Tuesday to discuss the program
for the House alone, Speaker Martin
said anything can come up, and
probably will" He said he supposes
someone will mention universal
training and maybe increased ex-
pense allowances for veterans going
to school.
Training Lacks Support.
The speaker said he has no idea
what would happen to universal
training, but Republicans in general
and many democrats. have shown
little inclination to pass such leg
islation.
For a week or two, the Senate
and House expect to do most of
their work in committees The
Marshall Plan for European recov-
cry is in the hearing stage on both
sides, with prospects 1t may stay
there for weeks.
Only secondary bills are now
docketed for action on. Senate and
House floors. The House may take
Evening star., 1948-01-18
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington D. c. = A.
II i

up this week bill to confiscate an
estimated $250. 900 900 Of German
and Japanese assets held by the
Alien Property Custodian and use
them to help Americans who SUI
fered losses durin,; the war.
The Senate may get around to a
bill to boost retirement benefits fer
Government workers and later to a
measure to authorize development
Of the st. Lawrence Seaway.
But on the top items Congress is
slated to handle, nothing will be
settled at least until this weeks Re-
publican get-togethers.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Judge Prescott to Speak
To University Women

Circuit Judge Stedman Prescott
Of Montgomery County will discuss
the jury system at meeting Of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase - Chapter,
American Association of University
Women, at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Recreation
Center, Norwood drive.
Mrs. Frederick Kirby, one of the
first county women called for jury
service, also will speak. ,ss.. .taa
Evening star., 1948-01-18

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Evening star., 1948-01-18
Wallace
Continued From First PageD

the convention by Chairman Robert
w. Kenny, there was a wild-ano
ged-ovation. with delegates
parading around the hall. They
carried banners inscribed wallace
or War" They Call Wallace Left
but They Know He Is Right" and
1--WE Want Wallace" The crowd
on the floor and In the gallery took
up a chant I'VE Want Wallace" as
the parade proceeded.
The delegates sang THE Battle
Hymn of the Republic" during the
floor demonstrations both before
and after the speech.
They chanted Wallace in '48,
and, when one delegate called for
Paul Robson. the Negro singer, for
Vice President" they roared 1--WE
Want Robson"
Mr. Robson sat next to Mr.. Wal
lace on the platform in the crowded
confetti strewn ballroom of the
Knickerbocker Hotel, the conven-
ton hall. He was named last April
by Congressional committee as
one of a group of persons ''invari-
ably found supporting the Com
munist Party and its front organ
izations.'
Delayed 5 Minutes.
Mr.. Wallace, however, was the
main attraction. Clad in a dark
suit, with his gray hair neatly
combed, he was delayed minutes
in starting his hour-long speech
as the delegates noisily stamped
and paraded.
Pointing to the cheering progress
sive delegates. Mr.. Wallace prefaced
his prepared speech with:
This will not blow over as 1912
blew over, as 1924 blew over, and
am sure it is a greater political
movement than that of 1854. Or that
in the 1905 by Thomas Jefferson.
This will be carried on with
Evening star., 1948-01-18

so large that substantial wage In.
crease could be paid and prices
could be cut and still leave cor.
porate profits both before and aftel
taxes at a level very much higher
than before the war; !.
Wall Street got Its pay-off in
1947. MI. Wallace said, gaining
enormous tax concessions and de-
stroying price control and weak
ening the collective bargaining
power of the workers. Corporate
profits before taxes, he said, were
$28, 900 600, 900 in 1947, and, after
taxes, SIT, 900, ,00O, GOO, about 80 per
cent above the record average OF
wartime When to these profits are
added about $4,000, ,000. 900 addi-
tional corporate income set aside
for depreciation and reserves and
officers salaries. The corporations
made more money in 1947 than the
total national income Of either
1882 or 1888.
Big business, he charged, black
mailed" the Government in 1910
when it demanded enormous profits
for It's part in defending the Nation.
The "blackmail" paid off in the years
l941 to 1945, inclusive, to the tune
Of $106 900 900 900 before taxes and
$47, 600. .000, 900 after taxes.
Throughout his address. Mr.. Wall
lace aimed barbed criticism at Pres
ident Truman. He attacked the
President because of his demand for
legislation to draft railroad workers
into the armed service to break the
railroad strike, and for his use of
the injunction process to break the
strike of the coal miners.
He charged that Mr.. Truman had
failed to exert all his influence to
have Congress sustain his veto Of the
Taft Hartley labor law, and that
today the President merely was say
ing he proposed to enforce that law,
without asking its repeal.
Language Of Politicians.
at will take" Mr.. Wallace said,
"a vigorous, well-organized third
party speaking language politi-
clans understandable language Of
votes-to secure the repeal of the
Taft Hartley Act"
He added that this act made the
Government an agent Of monopoly
to be used to smash union rights.
"Tfe final objective is the complete
destruction Of the trade union move
ment." he said.
"The wage-cutting and union
busting techniques of the Taft
Hartley. law are now being tested and
perfected. s5ISA
To-day, in Washington, Govern
ment Services, Inc.,-aI OF whose
trustees are Federal oficials-is re-
fusing to bargain with 1,500 Negro
cafeteria workers whose average
take-home pay is $2l.s1 a week.
Federal building guards are escort
ing strikebreakers to and from cafe
terias. The Taft-Hartley law de-
stroyed the need for management to
bargain in good faith" MIR. Wallace
declared. @ ~. ..
"Eat-Less" Policy.
He commented on the "eat-less"
policy of Senator Taft, Republican,
of Ohio and President Truman, de-
claring that it was indicative Of
the effort to reduce American stand
ards of living.
He charged, too, that there had
been developed in Washington new
device to attack labor-the con-
Evening star., 1948-01-18

tempt Of Congress device,,-whicf
be said has been used to deprive
Hollywood writers of their jobs. He
dubbed the Republican and Demo
cratic Parties company parties,
because Of their attitude toward
labor.
Getting around briefly to the for
eign policy Of the administration
Mr. Wallace said:
The bipartisan labor policy is 4
vital part OF the bipartisan for
eign policy. The, maintenance Of q
Wall Street-militarist foreign pol
Icy depends on keeping the work
ers and the rest Of the American
people down.
"The administrations war policy
its Truman doctrine and mis-
named European Recovery Program
requires q strictly controlled econ
omy: an economy, that is, which i
controlled by big business in the
interest of big business. This wal
policy must inevitably lead to ever
higher prices and bigger profits,
Mr.. Wallace declared.
The resolution .ndorsing Mr.. Wal
lace's candidacy was read to the
convention by James Waterman
Wise, q New York writer and son OF
Rabbi Stephen Wise, It concluded
with q peoples party and q
peoples candidate we are confident
the American people will regain con-
troll of their destiny to build an
abundant, secure and free and
peaceful America. !"
A total OF 446 convention dele.
gates from IS States was present
and representatives, attended from
10 colleges and universities.
Evening star., 1948-04-04
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Evening star., 1948-11-07
What Freedom
OF the Press
Means Today
THE PRESS AND THE
CONSTITUTION

ne JCCo AIND i ne
CONSTITUTION
BY j. Edward Gerald. (UniUer-
sity of Minnesota Press; $780,
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.
ANY contribution to better knowl-
edge and understanding of freedom
of the press is as timely and i'm
portant as the days news.
A University of Minnesota
journalism professor here appraises
court decisions and administrative
acts for their influence not only on
the newspaper business but on the
constitutional guarantee of a basic
freedom. His contribution is worthy
and welcome. although not as simply
and clearly written as many laymen,
including newspaper workers, could
wish.
Prof. Gerald finds that, despite
many gains from judicial interpreta-
tions, American newspapers expert
|enced increasing legal restraints
during the period from the Mime
sofa gag" law Of 1881 to the Taft
Hartley Act of 1947. He finds that
governmental interference often was
Federal expansion If not encroach-
ment at the expense of State and
local regulatory power BY and
large, however, he believes the trend
has been toward safeguarding and
strengthening the common welfare
without doing violence to freedom
of the press.
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Exhibition Pieces
OF Certain Literary
Phenomena

THE BEAST IN ME and Other
Animals
BY James Thurber. (Harcourt,
Brace & Co.. $3.J
OLD Mr.. FLOOD
BY Joseph Mitchell. (DueH,
Sloan G. Pedrce. ST.
THE HOUSE WITHOUT A ROOF
BY Joel Sayre. (Farrar, Straus
& Co.; s275J
The evolution of the New Yorker
style OF reporting, which is the most
urbane way of writing current his
tory yet devised, has been one of the
literary phenomena of the last few
decades. The hallmark is the no.
stone-unturned technique, with the
findings cased in shiny, durable, OBJ
Jective prose. When a New Yorker
writer working with the dedicated
concentration of a medieval scholar,
finishes investigating a subject. it
is likely to stay Investigated for some
time. These three books which
originated in the magazine, are three
cases in point.
Mr.. James Thurber. who Is better
known as our leading humorist,
proves his beagle qualities as re-
porter in "Soapland." an exhaustive
but never exhausting study of the
daytime radio drama, which is the
longest and most impressive piece in
this collection of prose and pictures.
Included also are some highly pol
ished Manhattan vignettes which
first appeared in the New Yorker's
glinting Talk of the Town" section.
There is a dash of Thurber fiction
which doesn't seem so successful
and an incompatible dog story,
marked by that gentle disillusion
which is one of the incest things
about Mr.. Thurber.
Gotham Life.
Joseph Mitchell, whose "McSorley's
Wonderful Saloon" is considered by
many to be the best slice of Gotham
life, has come up with a little char
acter sketch dipped in brine, which
is also and quite unpretentiously
marvellous picture of old age. His
hero is Hugh ]. Flood, retired
housewrecker who hangs around the
Fulton Fish Market. Mr.. Flood, at
90 is determined to live to be lis
and is a confirmed "seafoodetarian,"
a hard drinker and a brilliant talker.
He is a composite of several salty
old parties to whom Mr.. Mitchell
has listened tirelessly and under
standingly. It's another one of his
little masterpieces.
"The House Without q Roof" Is
the story of Joel Sayre's friendship
with an anti-Nazi family named
Hoffman whom he discovered in the
rubble of Berlin. Hoffmans wife
and her daughter were in constant
peril because they were "mongrels."
Mr.. Sayre tells, largely in their own
words, their narrowing experiences,
the most stirring of which is Hoff-
mans inspired draft-dodging through
feigned insanity. M. MEG.