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Evening star., 1948-11-25
Doobious Pronunciations

To the Editor Of The Star:
Some persons say Governor DOGGY "irher
toobs." and MOO York" How revolving! yea
to think these persons should be boiled IN
oil. Now, however. realize that their gnafly
accent Is not their fault They are not resHn-
sible for being born outside the south: Itn
their cruel misfortune. 4 bENI1f
Evening star., 1948-11-25
Letters to The Star

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Evening star., 1948-11-25
Free Gifts Approved

70 the Editor Of TIE Star:
Looks like We are coming back to the New
Deal version II government by inquisition.
What man On this committee investigating
the sales Of automobiles would refuse . free
gift of hundred dollars or q thousand?
Are We to Understand that the only real
piety left In the land Is to be found in Con-
gress7
If an automobile salesman Is offered . bonus
or tip or "whab have you" on the sale of a
car, let him have 1t, says me. It's lot better
than . reorganization of the Legion of snoop-
ers" we had jrst a few years back when
farmerA were toh how many rows Of tomatoes
they could raise how many bales Of cotton,
etc.
If q man Is fool enough to throw hundreds
Of dollars away Is bonus on a new car and
he can md . salesman who Is crooked enough
to take 1t, there isn't much that government
rightfully can do about it-except Of course set
up all over again the aforementioned govern
ment by inquisition Some of us thought we
had enough of thtt. FRED Z. RICK.
Evening star., 1948-11-25
Questions and Answers

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Evening star., 1948-11-25
Automobile Investigation Indorsed

TO the Editor Of The Star
Although some of the investigations that
have been going On In Congress have exposed
too much about which nothing has been done,
I can only say 'aurrahi Hurrah!" to these
automobile investigation results. At least
little something hts resulted.
However, havs suspicion that the sur
face only has been scratched (and incidently
the general convertation of the public, II you
please, tends to confirm that Suspicion. If
there were some way to carry this thing to
. really successful conclusion, 1t surely should
be made known 10 that public" perhaps
through this column. L. W. D.
Evening star., 1948-11-25

Il OCA LOuSdl1OH OppOSSa
To the Editor Of The Star
In The Star of November 20, under the cap
tion sBroadened Sex Education" Ray H.
Everett, executive secretary, Social Hygiene
Society, remarks that lust as sex is an integral
part of the wholeness of life, so sex education
should be an integral part Of the educational
process"
What is said with some truth of sex can be
said as truly Of religion, that it is an integral
part of life. Yet religion is not taught in the
Districts public schools There is nearly the
same reason why neither subject can safely be
taught In public school. Either, If taught
with any adequacy at all, would involve taking
sides for or against the moral or religious con-
victions Of important segments Of the citizens
who send their children to the public schools.
Mr.. Everett makes a further point that "the
weakest argument against sound education on
sex is thatit would lead to undesirable expert
mentation." myself favor sound education
on sex" but maintain that public, group educa-
ton is psychologically unsound, in dealing with
SEX This ID especially so because Of the en-
phasis 1t generally places on the physical
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
SPORT: The Winter OIympics

Hockey Association of America, was
accepted as the us. entry by the
Swiss Olympic Committee and fin
ished fourth in the nine-t team tourna-
ment.
It's record, however, will never
show in Olympic annals. The Inter
national Olympic Committee ruled out
the AHA. Avery Brundage, Ameri-
can committee member, said the
AHA. represented commercial in
tereSts in ice hockey.
The LOG. also ruled that the In
ternational Ice Hockey Federation, of
which the AHA. is a member, no
longer shall be the governing body
of worldwide amateur ice hockey.
In an endeaVOr to prevent future
disputes, the LOG. rewrote Olympic
regulations which it admitted were
contradictory" They will be pub
lished probably next summer.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Chips

q Massachusetts this week revoked a
1888 colonial law banning residents of
Providence from visiting the Bav
State. ''All is forgiven, come 70 Bos-
ton any time, wrote Gov. Robert F.
Bradford to Gov John o. Pastore of
Rhode Island, after signing the revo-
cation.
Q A wave Of shoplfting ended in
northern Wisconsin with the arrest of
q family Of FIVE whose members in
tended to open store. Deputies
searching their home near Merrill
found hundreds, possibly thousands
Of dollars in merchandise.
Q In Washington, DC, the Fred
Harris household ran out Of fuel oil.
His wife telephoned the White House.
was told the President was in con-
ference. She sent a telegram to Mr.
Truman: I'VE are freezing. Tried to
get some oil and couldn't. Will YOU
see what you can do right away?p
Four hours after she first called the
White House. 1000 gallons Of oil were
delivered to Mrs. Harris, wife of a
Negro day laborer, and her neighbors.
And, just % make sure, the District
fuel coordinator dispatched another
l,500 gallons.
Q When Ere broke out in a gasoline
engine used to pump water, a desper-
ate Cortland, N. Y, farmer put il out
with cider. It was hard decision to
make" said Frank Harris. Il didn't
want 70 lose my house, but hated to
lose 20 gallons Of good cider
@ a Kansas City police dispatcher
picked up the telephone. Il Just stole
q police car" said feminine voice.
q got tired waiting for that bus.
You'll find Il at 18th and Hardestv. /"
The vehicle was recovered a few
minutes after two shamefaced cops
repcrle3 their patrol car stolen while
they were having coffee
@ In HDecorah, Ia. a radio broadcast
interrupted q sermon at st. Benedict's
Catholic Church. When it happened q
second time. the Rev. Daniel O'Sul-
Ivan removed from his vestment a
small Walkie-talkie he was using to
amplify bis voice. There was no
trouble after that.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Winter
BeoufifuI Ohio

beoUTlful Onlo
The worst Ohio River ice Jam in
80 years menaces millions Of dollars
in shipping and dock installations
along the 981-nile water course.
Jagged ice foes piled up in the
Cincinnati Harbor this week under
the currents relentless pressure. The
river remained about 80 feet below
its 52-foot food stage, however, in-
dicating that the water flowed al
most normally underneath.
Maj. Gen. Douglas L. Weart, Ohio
River division engineer, said many
pleasure boats had been damaged.
Most commercial river craft, tugs and
barges are moored for protection be-
hind huge concrete barriers.
Heavy rains or sudden thaw could
set millions of ice foes on the march.
They would crash into existing ice
jams and possibly dam the current,
creating flood conditions.
One ice jam at Addyston, just be-
,ow Cincinnati extends SIS miles
downstream to Madison, Ind.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Medicine
The FomiIY Doctor

lliS OlIilIY OOCiOT
A trustee of the American Medical
Association views with alarm the
trend towards specialization in medi-
cine. q
DR.. Wingate M. Johnson of Win
ston-Salem, N. c., speaking in Chi
cago to the A.M.A.'s Council on
Medical Education and Hospitals.
warned that a continued trend away
from general practice could be dis
astrOus to the profession.
when the next depression comes"
he said, many specialists will suffer
loss of income and possibly be forced
into general practice without prepa-
ration. Let us not forget that during
the last depression, physicians were
operating taXicabs and elevators. AS
far as I know, none of these were
family doctors"
DR.. Johnson said that already pa
tients were complaining they could
not get doctors to come to their
homes when necessary.
Unless public demand for family
doctors is met, he warned, politicians
who promise free medical care to all
will find ready followers.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
The WORLD This WEEK
PRICES: Economics Of Supply & Demand

EUROPE is experiencing a mild
IL winter, raising hope for har-
vests that in some countries may
equal those of prewar years.
A survey of the continent shows
Germany, despite food shortages.
is better off than last year. In France
one of the best harvests since before
the war is in prospect. Fields already
are green in Britain which last year
went through its worst winter in half
a century.
In Italy, the winter is about over
and winter wheat is six inches high.
Some areas of Russia report the
warmest weather in so years. Argen-
tina and Australia are exporting
wheat. So are Russia and Romania.
Prospects are good for a bumper
American winter wheat crop.
Commodity Prices Sag
AS these facts became known,
swollen grain prices cracked in the
nations commodity markets. For three
successive days last week, wheat and
corn dropped the full limit permitted
under trading regulations at Chicago,
Minneapolis and Kansas City.
This week after a momentary rally
the market reeled again. Prices of
cotton, grain and livestock slumped.
Stocks on the New York Exchange
fell.
The price break and its implica-
tons became headline news.
Il
committee began an inquiry. Rep.
August H. Andersen (R-Minn),
chairman of House committee on
commodity trading, charged that
spectators with inside information
made. tremendous profits within a
few days.
American housewives, fighting the
high cost of living, asked: "Is this the
end of infation?"
Businessmen pondered: "How will
this affect my company? Is it the start
of recession?"
Russian Reaction
Russia, of course, had no doubts.
The Soviet press and radio, which
have predicted a depression for capi-
talistic America, said it was a major
crisis.
Blared Radio Moscow: Soviet peo-
pie have always felt that the much
advertised plans for saving world
economy with the dollar are aimed,
primarily, at averting an inevitable
crisis in American. economy. The
more imminent the crisis grows, the
more wantonly the kings of the dol
lar will exploit war -ravaged Europe"
American economists, however, hold
a different view One week before
the. price crack, a group of prominent
business experts conferred with ad-
ministration economists. At this gov
ernment-business meeting, the ex-
perts predicted that imitation was at
or near its postwar peak. They fore
cast drop in prices.
Others see in the commodity price
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Coal
A Loaded Gun

a Loaded Gun
Cyrus S. Ching, chief federal labor
conciliator, declared the. government
Will not permit soft coal strike this
spring to cripple the nations industry.
The South Coal Producers Associa-
ton Immediately yelled Foul" Il
said Ching practically handed John
L. Lewis a loaded gun to take into
negotiations.
If Lewis demands are such that
we can't concede," said a West Vir-
ginia mine official ''the government
will step in and grant him what he
wants. Lewis knows the only way the
government can get coal is to give in
The United Mine Workers chieftain
already had taken what many OPERA
tors regard as a possible first step
toward ending the present contract
April /. On the first of this month.
Lewis notified the operators a dispute
exists over his proposed 500 a month
pension for miners go or older, with
20 years in the pits.
Under the Taft-Hartley Law, a
union must give so days notice of a
Walkout. The government still can
stall an actual strike for another 80
days by using other machinery in the
act.
Ching offered the coal operators
slight consolation. He said it was up
to the producers to make their own
agreement with Lewis. The federal
Cancellation service will help If asked.
"But if a strike develops" he
warned, ''the government win step
in. In that case, it will be settled bv
somebody who does not know as
much about the situation as you do"
Ching said he had no idea whether
Lewis actually plans a Walkout
IF I could ever say what Mr.. Lewis
has in mind" he declared, Il would
not wear hat-Pd wear a halo"
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
People
Heroic Man in White

Heroic Man in White
DR.. Claude Barlow, whose home is
johannesburg, ~ Y, went to Egypt
IN 1929 for the Rockefeller Founda-
ton to do research on Bilharzia dis
ease, a bladder ailment caused by
tiny parasites. Thousands of Egyptians
were afflicted with the scourge. It
saps the strength and occasionally
proves fatal.
For 10 years DR.. Barlow poked
about the canals and rivers of Egypt
learning of the snailS which are hosts
to the Bilharzia parasite.
In World War II American soldiers
were returning home with the dis
ease. Fearing its spread, the u. S.
Public Health Service began research
to discover whether American snails
might carry the parasite.
DR.. Barlow suggested that an Egyp-
tian sufferer go to America to assist
in the studies He was told this was
impossible. He decided to provide an
infected American-himself-for the
lengthy laboratory investigation.
Twice the elderly doctor exposed
himself to make certain of infection.
By Christmas, 1914, his condition had
become grave. Because his value to
science as a host to Bilharzia was
great, he refused to accept treatment
until the spring of 1945. BY that time
his health was shattered.
DR.. Barlow's role as human guinea
pig brought out new facts which
made control of the disease much
easier. 1t did not spread in America.
At the end of the war DR.. Barlow
returned to Egypt as an expert in the
Ministry of Public Health.
This week he was summoned to the
U. S. embassy in Cairo. There he re-
ceived from Ambassador S. Pinknev
Tuck, acting for President Truman.
the Medal of Merit. The Presidential
citation recorded his sacrifice of per-
sonal health for science as an inn
portant contribution to Americas war
effort.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
The Distqff Side

What would happen if women
extended their leap year pre-
negatives this fall to vote as a
block for women candidates?
"We would find ourselves ad-
dressing the occupant of the
White House as Madame Presi-
dent. said Chairman McGrath
of the Democratic National Com
mittee.
I'VE would have 80 gentle
women in the Senate.
"Our entire House of Repre-
sentatives would be women.
There would be SO women
governors.
Even the dog catchers would
wear skirts"
But McGrath, addressing a
Washington Democratic women's
club, said this was not likely to
happen this or any other year.
Women are too thoughtful"
he said, ito vote in blocks"
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Trouble
In Orient

THE customary gap between
4 victor an6 vanquished is al.
most lndistinguishable in China
and Japan. Both nations face dire
hardship amid economic, political
and social upheavals.
CHINA, Of course, still is ravaged bv
clVlI war. Japan is digging out from
oeteat under occupation rule.
emma this week entered its lunar
new year-The Year Of the Rat-with
government prestige and power al
one OF the lowest ebbs in modern his
tory. In Marking, Generalissimo
Chlang Kai-shek bleaklv told he
lleutenants: ''This year win be better
than last" Last year was The Year Of
the Pig.
American Ala Is Prop
Hope Of substantial aid from the
United States appears the only big
prop supporting Chiangs govern
ment
Neutral observers have watched
Chinese Communist military influence
increase steadily while the National
Ist governments economic and boIit.
lcaI powers receded. In the past year.
the governments position north Of
the Yangtze River was reduced grad
ually to islands Of resistance and
lts hold IN Manchuria became criti-
cally weak.
ANY improvement, neutrals say.
depends upon us. aid which. even
many Americans think, NAV be too
late to stem the Communist advanuo.
japanese Cabinet Out
In Japan, Prime Minister Tetsu
Katayama, the first Christian premier
in Nippon's history, resigned with his
cabinet because he could not obtain
legislative cooperation.
Katayama said he had been "riding
a whtrlwind" during his seven months
IN Office and that resignation was in
evitable.
Before announcing his decision. he
conferred for two hours with Gen
Douglas Macarthur, supreme Allied
commander.
Macarthur did not interfere. He OBJ
served tnat many of the cabinets
problems were inherent in the throes
OF nation caught in war and defeat.
The general added, however, that
decisive progress has been made"
Katayama, Socialist, had been
under attack by labor and farm
groups and by his own partys left
wing. There had been political cross
fire from Foreign Minister Hitoshi
Ashida, leader of the conservative
Democratic Party and former Prime
Minister Shigeru Yoshia, head of the
conservative Liberal Party.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
In Short

Willed: BY Thomas w. Lamont.
financier, $1OOOO,OOO to charity and
education, including $4,000, 600 to Har-
ward University.
offered: BY Russia to buy 81
American ships it got under wartime
Lend-Lease.
Announced: By the President, a
five-day official visit, starting Feb
ruary 81, to Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands and Cuba, followed by a To-
day vacation in Key West, Fla.
EmbargOed: By the federal govern
ment, all fuel oil shipments from east
coast ports.
Indicted: BY federal grand jury,
the CIO and its president, Philip
Murray, on charges of violating the
Taft-Hartley Laws ban on political
expenditures.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20

dramatically if prices were not so
high and encOuntering so much con-
sumer resistance.
If the commodity price drop sticks,
retail prices of food will come down.
Other prices will come down, too.
A recession need. not follow, econo-
mlsts say. A recession is simply a de-
gree of adjustment. If commodities
stabilize on a lower level it is just
what the consumer wants-lower
prices. It is only when adjustment
becomes severe that it moves into re-
cession, or depression.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20

trend was not necessarily important
until 10 days ago when they began a
daily plunge of the full allowable
limits of ten cents a bushel on wheat
and eight cents on corn.
Long Range Reasons
The direct reasons are that the
world wheat supply began to look
much better because of good crops
prospects, increased production
abroad and sharply lessening for
eign need for American grain.
But this in itself, economists say,
would not have tumbled prices so
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20

Truman's 1O-point civil rights pro-
gram the core Of his speech.
If he does. however, McGrath will
tell the Georgia state organization
and give it chance to withdraw the
invitation.
Dixie Democrats are aroused over
the Presidents February 2 message to
Congress. In it, Mr.. Truman called for
action to ban state poll taxes, abolish
Jim CroWism" on trains and buses.
make lynching a federal offense and
set up fair employment practice
commission.
Although most Southerners con-
denim these objectives, many are re-
luctant to break away from the Demo
cratic Party.
Southern governors, conferring at
Wakulla Springs, Fla, decided on a
4O-day "coOling-off" period before
they consider it again. Meanwhile
they named a committee to carry the
South's complaint on invasion of
states rights to Washington.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Money
Counterfeit Toll

Counterfeit Toll
Counterfeiting cost the American
public $4,000 in 1947. This is almost
twice what the public lost on bogus
money in 1916.
James J. Maloney, chief Of the Sc
cret Service, reported this week that
$2,769,O0O in counterfeit bills were
seized before they could get into cir
culation.
Of this total, $4,000 was in bills
which reached here from abroad. A
raid on a counterfeiter's lair near
Marseilles, France, barred $2,IOOOOO in
fake US. currency.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Ice Hockey Row

The fifth Winter Olympic Games
ended this week at st. Moritz. Sweden
won the Today competition. Switzer-
land was second and the United
States third.
Americans took three champion
ships. One was in its old specially
the four-man bobsled race-won bv
a team piloted by Frank Tyler of
Lake Placid, N. Y. Other winners
were Dick Button, 18, of Englewood,
N. j., mems figure skating, and Mrs.
Gretchen Fraser, Vancouver, Wash,
special women's ski slalom.
But discord of an unprecedented
ice hockey row fingered as athletes of
the % nations headed home.
The US. Olympic Committee e
hockey team came, saw and remained
just tourists. It's rival, the Amateur
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20

This is the Russian comeback to
publication by the u. S. State De-
partment on January 81 of 26O cap
tured Nazi documents dealing with
secret Russian-German relations just
prior to the war.
These disclosed that Hitler and
Stain conspired to whack up Poland,
divide the Baltic states, dominate the
Balkans and smash British and French
influence throughout Europe, Asia
and Africa.
The Russian answer is that the us.
State Department distorted history
ito heap lies on the Soviet Union"
Moscow promised to "set the record
straight" with further documents
from captured files.
On this point, British Foreign Sec
retary Ernest Bevin said recently
that, just because the United States
published some material out of con-
text, there was no reason for Britain
to do the same.
Propaganda BarEages
Here are some Of the things quail
ifed western observers have noted:
i should be borne in mind that the
war Of words is not being Waged to
change opinions in Washington or
Moscow. Its purpose is to sway think
ing IN Europe, in the No Mans Land
between east and west.
Washington doubts that the Rus
slams in rebuttal can produce much
embarrassing information. The zap
peasement" was carried out in fullest
publicity at the time and most of the
western leaders responsible for it are
gone
BY contrast, the men who ruled
Russia in l9S9-41, when the disputed
Nazi-SOViet deals were being made,
are the same who rule it today.
In justification, it might be said
that after World War I, fear Of COM
munism resulted in a virtual inter-
national boycott Of the Soviet Union.
Some western diplomats even well
coined the rise of Hitler as an anti
dote-for time When they woke up.
it was too late,
BY that time Stain had as little
faith in the west as he had in the
Nazis. Russia used the time it bought
with the secret German pact for self
preservation
But now, the west contends, Russia
is back at her old game of stirring up
world revolution If that is true. It
iustifes after 20 years the vests
original fear Of communism.
Fear Of Germany
The new Russian propaganda line
exploits the theme that American
financial aid rebuilt Germany after
World War I From this it is an easy
propaganda step to show that through
the Marshall plan America aims again
to revive the Ruhr.
One Of the most recurrent fears in
Europe. particularly among small ma
tions, is that Germany may become
strong and warlise again.
Washingtons answer is that its pol
icy calls for revival not Of Germany
alone but of all western Europe.
America is striving to help western
Europe make itself as strong as Dos
sible. with al the help that can be
obtained from a Germany under
strong Allied control.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20

drop major victory for the Ameri-
can consumer. 1t was a battle he
didn't know he was fighting but the
American consumer began it very
quietly last fall, they say, when he
decided many prices at store count
ers were too high and tapered off his
buying.
Of all the nations inflated costs.
the prices of commodities have been
the largest bubbles. They had to break
first.
Actually, grain prices have de-
clined since mid-January, but the
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-20
Return
One CI Bride

London newspapers headlined this
week the return Of a CT bride to her
native Britain because she didn't like
the SHOW Me" state of Missouri.
Mrs. Irene Petifurd, 81, thinks
Sikeston, Mo. (pop. 10000, a chick
town." She told this story to re-
porters:
At II she married handsome Corp.
Charles Petifurd of the us. Army
Air Corps He used to pace up and
down her mothers small flat and tell
her about Sikeston, "the greatest lit
tie place on earth," and about the
spacious life" he could offer her
there.
She found her new home in Skies
ton was a cabin without bath. toilet
or running water Everybody was in
terested in everybody else's business