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, 1948-10-22
MoraTan Sunday School
10 Have Rally Sunday

Plans have been completed
by the Teachers and Students
Of the Friedensthal Moravfan
Sunday School to hold a rally
on Sunday, October "a, at 200
o'clock.
An invitation is issued to
the public by the Rev. William
Allen, pastor.
, 1948-10-22
and EgYptiuns
Accept Geese Fire

Jews and Egyptians have &C
cepted a cease fire order and
have notified Acting Mediator
Ralph Bunche. The Jews said
they accepted the order on the
assumption that the Egyptians
would do likewise.
Reports however, said that
the Egyptian forces launched
a strong counter-atta k
against the Israelis and that
the fighting may not have
ended today, as expected.
, 1948-10-22

two trips daily from. their
zone and three or four when
flying from airfields in the
British zone, which is nearer.
Evening star., 1948-09-18

Miss McNally generally is regarded
as the FIRST lady of labor" having
served longer in the labor movement
than any other woman.
The NFFE now has about 100000
members, and its continued men,
bership gains during the past few
months, particularly among younger
Federal employees, make union Of
ficials confident that the NFFE Is
in for a great increase in member
ship during the next few years.
During its five-day convention
here, the NFFE adopted, as its ma
jor goals, support of the Flanders
bill to revise the Federal Classifica-
zion Pay Act, improved administra-
ton in the Civil Service Commis-
sion, more authority and respon-
sibiity for personnel officers in the
various Government agencies, i'm
proved retirement benefits and
strengthening of the civil service
merit system by giving greater job
protection rights to career employees.
Favor Travel Scale Rise.
Also, the convention favored in
creased travel allowances for Fed
eral employees and tax exemptions
on Federal retirement annuities.
The convention did not approve
Evening star., 1948-09-18

"a resolution asking that about 3oo,-
oG0 .war-service employees be given
permanent status. NFFE officials
and delegates felt this would hurt
the merit system. With the Gov
ernment rapidly holding exams for
permanent status jobs, the conven-
Evening star., 1948-09-18

Ition evidently felt war-service en-
ployes with any ability will not have
too much trouble getting perma-
nent status.
Evening star., 1948-09-18
500 Delegates Call
NFFE Convention
Most Successful
BY Joseph Young
Stor Steff Correspondent

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 1s.-The
more than 600 delegates to the 18th
biennial convention of the National
Federation of Federal Employees
were on their way home today, fol-
lowing the windup of what NFFE
officials termed 'one of the most
successful conventions we've ever
had"
There was no doubt that the en-
thusiasm and interest in Federal
personnel problems shown by the
delegates was greater than that
shown in many years.
While NFFE conventions always
have been business-like, this con-
vention was spanked by the enthu-
siasm shown by the surprising num-
ber of young delegates who attend
ed the unions convention for the
first time.
This new blood" augurs well for
the NFFE and it's avowed goal to
continue it's efforts on behalf of i'm
proved working conditions for Gov
ernment employees and improved ef-
ficiency in the Federal service. Some
of the younger delegates have new
and progressive ideas, which they
hope the union will put into effect
in the near future.
Rally Behind Officers.
All the delegates rallied behind
the team of Luther C. Steward and
Gertrude M. McNally, the unions
president and secretary treasurer.
Mr. Steward and Miss McNally were
elected unanimously by acclamation
of the convention.
This team has headed the NFFE,
which is an Independent union, al
most since its inception back in 1917.
Evening star., 1948-09-18

In addition. the NFFE sharply
criticized political appointments in
any Federal jobs, except those Of
policy-making nature. 1t also
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Mr.. PetriIIo Backs Down

James c. Petrillo, president of the Amer
lean Federation Of Musicians, has shown
good judgment in withdrawing his arbi-
trary ban on duplication Of standard mu-
sical broadcasts over FM Frequency mod
ulation) radio stations. 1t Is hardly
coincidence that his decision to back down
on his FIN taboo came almost on the eve
of the expiration tonight of his unions
contracts with the radio networks. Rep
resentatives of the radio industry had
testified at recent hearings at the Capitol
that they were awaiting this deadline be-
fore undertaking showdown with Mr.
Petrillo over the FM ban. They asserted
their belief that the Taft Hartley law
would protect them against any union
reprisals.
The existing contracts (which. by mu-
tual agreement, are being extended for
sixty days. do not specifically ban FM
broadcasts involving music. But Mr. Pc
trillo had served notice that he was against
such broadcasts on the ground that du-
plicate AMIN programs meant that his
musicians were supplying extra services
at no extra cost. The networks pointed
Evening star., 1948-02-01

awful use would be made Of the airplane,"
Orville once remarked. When he and
Wilbur made their first historic flights
over the sand dunes of the North Carolina
coast forty-four years ago they believed
only that they were pioneering a new and
revolutionary mode of travel and COM
merce They were correct as far as their
minds at that early stage of aviation were
able to project them into the future. Even
when Orville demonstrated one of the
Wright planes to military authorities at
Fort Myer in 1908 he claimed no more for
it than that it would become an invaluable
reconnaissance device But, being highly
patriotic citizen Mr.. Wright did not heSi-
tate when, during two World Wars, his
Government sought his expert advice in
making the plane an effective means OF
defense and attack against the Nations
enemies. Both Wright brothers made i'm
portant contributions to military aircraft
research and development
It was all the more regrettable, therefore,
that there should have developed any con-
troversy tending to induce feeling on the
part of Orville Wright that America did
not fully recognize the achievements OF
his brother and himself The long dispute
which he had with the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition over the wording on the Langley
machine hurt him deeply, and the wound
was slow to heal in spite of the best efforts
of the institution to apologize and make
amends for an unjust slight. AS a result,
the first plane actually to carry man in
self-powered flight reposes in British
museum, rather than in the country of
its inventors. 1t is the earnest hepe OF
every American that some way yet may
be found to bring the first Wright flying
machine back to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, where it belongs.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

out that no additional listeners were in
volved, however. as the FIN audience was
made up of listeners who had forsaken
the AM, or standard, bands.
FIN listeners will be enthusiastic over the
agreement, for 1t means that the finest
music may now be broadcast simultane-
ously over standard and FIN channels. Tel
evision remains, for the time being, on Mr..
Petrillo's black list, however, with the ab-
surd result that music of ice shows or
other televised performances must be shut
off from the television public. The tele-
vision question is the subject OF "continu
ing discussions" between the union and the
>broadcasters, so that there is hope that
some settlement may be reached in this
new and important radio field, too.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Why Not Add Some Pepper, Too?

Washington motorists are not the only
persons who have been worried about the
increasing use of salt as a substitute for
sand on icy streets. The problem has been
discussed by traffic and highway experts
at the meeting here this week of the
American Road Builders Association.
Motorists may take comfort from the fact
that the consensus Of the experts was
that the possible ill-effects of salt on motor
cars should be taken with a grain OF salt.
The concern OF local car owners was
aroused when District officials warned
that salt spray may cause some damage
to the paint of automobiles and possibly
to the exposed metal undersurfaces. Will
liam A. Xanten, superintendent of sani-
tation, suggested that cars be washed down
occasionally to remove all traces of salt.
But Mr.. Xanten after questioning high
way and traffic officials at the road build
ers' convention. has become convinced
that there is no good reason to fear salt
more than sand as nonskid agent. Both
have their disadvantages (sand being
especially injurious to brake Innings, for
example), but both are tried and proved
accident preventers.
This is not the first winter that Wash
ington streets have been salted down,
although use of the chemicals (sodium
chloride and calcium chloride) has been
more widespread this year. Both of these
commercial salts were used on number
of streets last winter. with effective re-
suits and negligible complaints In fact,
many motorists did not know they were
riding on salt-treated streets New York
City is but one of large number of cities
which have used the salt treatment for
years. New York delegates to the local
convention reported that no seriously ad-
verse effects had been noted during this
time. Salt cannot be used on concrete
streets, however, as it deteriorates cement.
Only macadamized streets are unaffected.
Thus, the salt question boils down to
a weighing of the advantages and disad-
vantages of its use. Its chief advantage
over sand is that it not only sticks in
stantly to the slickest ice surface but ac-
tually proceeds to melt its way through
to the macadam, washing away with the
melted ice. One application of salt does
the job of several applications of sand and
leaves the street ice-free. Until it can
be shown that the use of salt is more OBJ
jectionable here than elsewhere its con-
tinued use on certain District streets
seems fully justified,
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Mr.. Kruq's Tordy Protest

Secretary Krug's belated attempt to stop
construction of the annex to the Pan
American Union Building seeks to reopen
a debate which started nearly a dozen
years ago. His predecessor, Mr.. IckeS,
halted the project as long as he headed
the Interior Department, but it promptly
was revived when he ceased to occupy
that position. Now, with the plans finally
approved by both the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and the
Fine Arts Commission, there seems little
efficiency in an endeavor to disturb what
looks like fait accompli.
But Mr.. Krug is correct in dep1oring the
violation of the building line of the north
side of Constitution avenue The new Pan
American structure may be a beautiful
composition. 1t originally was designed
by Paul P. Cret long before the south
building of the Interior Department was
dreamed of. At that time, though, the
site was larger than it is at present. The
changes which: have occurred in the neigh
borhood since Congress authorized the
Union to cross Virginia avenue in 1929
admittedly have hurt the whole conception
as Mr. Cret saw it. Alterations have been
effected in his drawings to meet these
environmental restrictions Even so, the
new building could be located in more
appropriate place.
For instance, why have the officers of the
Pan American Union refused to put the
annex in the northwest corner of their
own grounds, where the somewhat un-
slightly garage might have been spared
easily enough? Such use of portion of
their tract would not have injured Mr..
Crets creation. Neither would 1t have
been subject to just criticism as an i'm
pingement on the existing facilities OF the
Union.
Proposing to stop the work now seems
futile, however. Also, it is fair question
to ask: What good would it do the persuade
the Fine Arts Commission to rescind its
approval? The history of the past few
weeks suffices to show that its opinions its
findings, its counsel and advice mean little,
even to the President of the United States.
Still, If Mr.. Krug can persuade Congress
to see the matter as he sees it, all well and
good. What really is needed is legislative
action to apply the protective principle
adopted with respect to the Treasury
Building in 1870 to the whole Federal City.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

of living death. Through our dining room
windows peer wan faces of human wrecks
which this very day stretch out emaciated
arms to our land of plenty and make us
ashamed to sit unheeding at loaded tables,
abysmal and the nto do nothing personally
ing scenes are but brief hours removed from
our abundance Bitter winter now augments
their frozen agony.
We see and we hear. But to have our feel
ings profoundly moved by need so vast and
abysmal ana then to do nothing personally
about it will inevitably do something terrible
to us. We may at last suffer from hardening
of the sympathies, and that is more deadly
malady than hardening of the arteries. Sym
pathies are the arteries of the soul.
II we are to save our own souls the vital
question is not just What can America do?"
but, What can I do?"
X Il Il
The interim aid to feed the hungry and to
save Western Europe from the collapse which,
for its own ends, the Kremlin hopes, is even
now performing miracles in assuaging human
suffering. 1t is at least a partial response to
the cry: Come before winter
The long-range plan to help Europe help
itself which is being hammered into shape on
the anvil of democratic debate, is the kind
of imperialism" of which America well can
be proud. OF course to lose our life does
mean that we will save it. That law was
not passed by Congress and cannot be re-
voked by it; it is written at the very heart
of the universe. But our national effort is
not enough. 1t is individual persons who are
stretched on the postwar torture racks, and
as individual families and persons we must re-
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Come Before Winter ~<~~
A Plea for Personal Charity in a Time of Hunger
That God Might Exist


spond, II forever after we are to live with
ourselves.
In all the history of the world there never
before was anything comparable to the stream
Of ife-sustaining packages which is being
sent by individuals here to individuals there
One agency alone without profit, has forwarded
100000 packages at a cost Of 5000 000
donated not by act of Congress but by indi-
vidual benehcence. That is America at its best
Have you yet had part in fiinging across
the sea even one of these life preservers? Any
preacher, priest or rabbi will tell you how to
share in this beautiful ministry. Grateful re-
sponses coming. from the other side have made
individual donors know that here is life's
greatest Joy, and that Ito give is to live"
Johan Bojers novel, "The Great Hunger, /"
hoodlights today's tragic scene as we gaze
at the bare and bitter fields Of friend and
former foe alike who felt the full fury Of the
war. It is the story Of Peer Holm, who, from
wealth and honor came to broken health and
poverty. Back again in the village where he
started, performing lowly service, one terrible
day, because of the callous indifference of a
boorish neighbor, Peers little daughter was
horribly killed. AS reprisal the villagers re-
fused to sell to the culprit seeds for his fields.
That was a sentence of ruin and hunger. But
early one morning Peer Holm took the last
half bushel Of his own barley and climbing
the fence of the hated one sowed 1t in his
neighbor's field. The spring revealed the deed,
as Peers field was partly bare and his neigh
bor's green.
How could you do it?" asked the villagers
Peer replied, "The. spark of eternity was once
more aglow in me and said, Let there be
light Therefore, I went out and sowed the
field that God might exist"
What stupendous word! For every one of
us, God does not exist in creed but in deed
God is love, and hatred is the mist that hides
His face.
Today, across this continent, there are thou
sands and thousands of churches which, ac-
cording to their own rituals, will take the
bread and wine of holy communion. In this
day of the great hunger, in the invisible ink
of compassion on every package which wings
its way even to enemy fields, who can doubt
there is written Lowell's deep insight
THE holy supper is kept indeed,
Whenever we care for another's need;
Who gives himself with his aims feeds three,
Himself his hungering neighbor, and Me-"
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Benevolent Trade Combine

Attorney General Clark'S approval OF the
petroleum industrys emergency plan for
increasing the supply of fuel oil clears the
way for a benevolent combine In the in
terest of chilly public. The National
Petroleum Council proposed the plan last
week, but was UNDERSTANDABLE reluctant to
put it into effect without Federal guar
antee of immunity from antitrust action.
For the program, calling for a cutback IN
gasoline production and pooling OF fuel
oil reserves, conceivably might have been
regarded by Mr.. Clark's energetic anti
trust law enforcers as technical combi-
nation in restraint of trade.
Interior Secretary Krug had pointed out
this possibility in his request to the Attor-
ney General for Department OF Justice
clearance of the industrys voluntary pro-
posals. Mr.. Clarks approval was condi-
tional in that price agreements were ex-
cluded. The Attorney General has given
his blessing, however, on the industry's
suggestions for adding to the fuel-oil sup
ply by cutting down on gasoline produc-
ton during the next sixty days, channel
ing oil deliveries into depleted areas and
lengthening the work day.
This program has the advantage OF
affording almost immediate relief for the
present oil-shortage crisis-at the expense,
of course, of gasoline consumers Fortu-
nately, however, gasoline consumption
usually falls off in bad weather, so that less
of the highly refined product Is required by
the driving public. The heating season
will be nearly over within two months, so
that the industry will be able to return to
normal gasoline production just as the
spring touring season begins
There is a distinct likelihood of con-
tinuing scarcity of gasoline and oil prod
ucts this coming summer and next winter,
however, according to authorities on the
subject. More than emergency measures
: will be required to meet this long-view
problem. It is encouraging in this con-
nection to learn that the oil and steel in
terests plan to sit down and talk over the
possibility of allocating more steel for oil
production, both natural and synthetic.
This Is another industrial combination
which should prove to be in the public in
terest
Evening star., 1948-02-01
OrviIle WRIGHT

It was with mixed emotions that Orville
Wright saw the airplane evolve from the
crude contraption of Kitty Hawk fame into
the incredibly fast and universally re-
spected-and feared-sky traveller of today
Neither he nor his brother Wilbur ever
expressed regret over having invented a
machine which could bring terrible de-
struction and suffering to mankind, for
both on numerous occasions voiced the
hope that ultimately the airplane would
be as powerful an instrument of peace
o 1t has been formidable weapon Of war.
wilbur and could not foresee what
Evening star., 1948-02-01
r L ~ ! Some ShadoaOs of Coming Events
AOOhHlS 1AllNdu Are Noted Here and abroad
(By the World staff of the Associated Press)

weapon. The result might be split as In
France.
ACCRA, British West Africa-Disease may
wipe out cocoa trees in the Gold Coast colony
within 20 years unless drastic steps are taken,
said the governor, Sir Gerald Greasy. Cocoa
production, chief source of revenue here, has
declined one-third in 10 years.
CAIRO-Arab League members say the fate
of the provisional treaty of alliance between
Iraq and Great Britain may be determined by
happenings in Palestine. Assad Dagher, press
officer for the league. says 'the Arab people
do not consider an alliance with people who
stab them in the back" very satisfactory.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Needed: A Better Robot Bruin

The international Business Machines
Corporation has just made available to
science a mechanical brain that has all
the earrnarks of being the best and fastest
in the world. Containing scores Of thou
sands of parts and endowed with fam
tastically retentive memory, 1t can answer
in matter of seconds, minutes or days
questions which would take man the
whole Of his life to answer. In fact, ac-
cording to the IBM. it can handle problems
heretofore regarded as so insoluble or SO
hopelessly time consuming that the hu-
man mind has left them severely alone
without going into its technicalities (too
confusing for us laymen), suffice to say
that this magical machine is mathema-
tician Of stupendous talent. For example
it can take numbers like % 3678, ,905 GIL ,401
and multiply them by each other nifty
times second. The same holds true for
its addition, subtraction, division, etc. 1t
is so good, so smart, that everybody who
knows anything about 1t expects it to solve
a set of formulate giving the position OF
the moon for each six hours during the
last century and the century to come
Each phase of this problem-the first ma
ior one to be fed to the device-will be
completed in seven minutes. though the
equation involved would fill 300-page
book if printed.
Thus, quite obviously, this latest of the
IBMs masterpieces-formally dubbed the
"selective Sequence Electronic Calculator"
must be hailed as a very wonderful
thing. Yet the average man and woman
will not be completely bowled over by it.
After all, they cannot be blamed If they
are more or less indifferent to what the
moons position has been or will be every
six hours over period of 200 years. A
machine that can tell them that may i'm
press them in a mild sort of way, but 1t
will not excite them. It will excite them
only when it is able to tell them how to
get an apartment before they go crazy
for want of one. 1t will make them dance
and sing in the streets only when 1t shows
them how to lick imitation and make both
ends meet, or how to surmount things like
oil shortages, or how to get along with
each other as we'll as the Russians, or how
to achieve lasting and reasonably pros
porous peace in frightened, atom ridden
world.
Good as it is, in sum, the "Selective
Sequence Electroiic Calculator" leaves
something to be desired. We need a bet
ter one before we can hope to end the
more pressing of our bread butter
problems and the human woes that have
seemed so far to be much too much for
the mere mind of man. But let US not be
downhearted. The IBM and others in
this field have made such startling prog
ress already that they may yet come
forward with a gadget that will be the
answer to everything-or at least to the
things that trouble us most
Evening star., 1948-02-01

his mind and the pro-
lection for his body
for which he begs.
Please, please, come
before winter! That
poignant plea came
from Europe. 1t comes
from that same con-
tinent to every one Of
us today. Come be-
fore winter stabs and
starves u.s." With
their shrunken bodies
and sunken eyes.
"Give us bread" cry
unnuInbered victims
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Another Toll Highway
From the Kansas City Kansan:

From the Kansas City kansan:
The first leg of the privatey-f financed toll
highway In Maine has been opened to tramc.
This improvement will be watched by all states
interested in bettering their highway systems
without bankrupting themselves federal
roads authority recently stated that toll roads
would not be practical.
The Maine turnpike is q self-liquidatins ton
road. It's financing is handled through tns
Maine Turnpike authority set UP by tns sta1s.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

Members OF Congress hear that the Army
Mayfair Force may seek about $16,0o0y0000o
for running expenses next year. President
Truman in his budget requested only $1l .00o.-
100000. Military men say the boost is neces-
sary to replace WORKOUT out-moded equip
ment,
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Spires Of the Spirit

BE sure to come before winter" So pleaded
Paul, the great apostle, in one of his immortal
letters. 1t was getting chill in that damp
Roman cell Sorely he needed the food for
Evening star., 1948-02-01

Leaving the parsnip in the ground for
the winter improves the parsnip. Also
with luck, there is the chance 1t will be
forgotten.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

It's ali illusion that grandma had more
clothes than the modern girl. She Just put
them all On.