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Evening star., 1948-11-17
Specialists In Yer. y

The buying power =: ., =.
states enable the RroaT o
offer a remarkabis ab-
ric. styles and s,rss ~aAple,
Brooks stores cab y: men
Of every dimension Auding
regulars, shorts, longs, sto,. =, short
stouts, extra-shorts and Longs.
Men from sizes 80 to 80 can be
perfectly fitted. This tremendous
variety and range Of sizes has
meant more satisfied customers. !.
The Brooks Chain has thrived on
that satisfaction.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Wsr. BY " Million Men!

Brooks Clothing needs no testi-
monials from Movie-stars. The best
testimonial any product can earn
Is acceptance by thrifty, careful
buying American men. This Brooks
Clothes have achieved to a remark
able extent: 25O, 900 men wear these
fine clothes regularly!
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Stores in ii States

Clothing is shipped directly from
the factory to stores in the II
states in which the Brooks Chain
now operates. The man who buys
a suit from any one of these stores,
therefore. is actually buying di-
rectly from the maker. The low
prices on these fine suits, topcoats
and other apparel reflects the
savings accomplished by squeezing
every unnecessary penny out Of the
business of making excellent
clothes. In fact, no garment in these
stores is priced over 1880. Despite
the high-calibre Of both the fabric
and tailoring, this proceeding re-
mains. 1t is triumph Of American
production.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
ADVERTISEMENT.
Brooks Clothing
Chain Holds
Prices Down!

News that the Brooks Chain had
recently expanded into 8 more i'm
portant cities came as no surprise
to the clothing industry. This fast
growing, dynamic organization has
met success in city after city be-
cause of its demonstrated ability
to pack more downright value into
the consumers clothing dollar.
Have ) Factories
Brooks is the chain that selects
only choice fabrics from Americas
foremost mills. Fabrics used are
ordinarily found in suits selling
from $40 to .s15 more. All the
clothing is tailored by Brooks own
factories in Baltimore, Westminster
and Hampstead, Maryland. These
factories are noted for the sea-
soned, experienced craftsmanship
of their union tailors.
Evening star., 1948-11-17


s
, 1948-02-07
HIGHLIGHTS
of the REPORT on the
FISCAL AFFAIRS
of the Municipality of ST. croix
Virgin Islands
Continued from Thursday

l. As the vacancies in the De-
partment ocur, positive re-
cruitment campaigns be I'M
dertaken to encourage the
widest possible competition
for positions, and new recruits
be selected by competitive ex-
animation from the group bet
ween the ages Of q and 80.
2. A positive and sustained
program be undertaken for
the training of officers in both
police and fire protection
functions.
3. A system of records and re-
ports be devised and kept up
to-date SO as ttee provide aaddee-
quate information concerning
the work Of the Department
and SO as to permit the distri-
button if manpoWer and equip
ment chrono1oglcally and geo
graphically in accordance
with the need for police and
fire protection services.
4. The Department have as
signed to it the four pieces of
fire apparatus now under the
jurisdiction Of the Depart
ment of Public Works and a
minimum of five police cars
equipped with 2-way radios,
firearms, searchlights, fire
extinguishers, and first-aid
, 1948-02-07
SHIPPING NEWS

The S. S. Edward w. Scripps.
sailed from New York January
18th, and Is due at Frederik-
sted February 7th, accepting
freight for St. Martin, Guade-
loupe, Trinidad, Puerto Sucre,
Guanto, Caripito, Demerara,
Paramaribo.
G STEAMSHIP co. Inc.
Rob't L. Merwin & Co. Inc.
Agents
, 1948-02-07
SIXTEEN HOUSES

The United States Public
Health Service is known thru
out the United States ana 1ts
territories as one of the most
progressive of the agencies in
terested in the cause and pre-.
vention of those diseases
which attack mankind. The
United States Public Health
Service has seen fit to spend
time and money on the con-
troll of tropical diseases. The
United States Public Health
Service has joined with anoth-
.er organization well known
for its progressive attitude -
Columbia University - and
has supplied funds and work
.ers to aid our Health Depart
ment in the program to era
dictate from St. Croix the mos
quito which carries the germ
of filariasis.
mo chain is stronger than
its weakest link. For the pro-
the program TO be successful.
every house must be effective
" sprayed at regular intervals
over a period Of years.
Sixteen people, within the
last six weeks refused to have
their houses sprayed with DID
T by the Health Department.
Sixteen houses not sprayed
means sixteen houses where
the mosquito can live and feed
and carry the germs of filar-
iasis. Sixteen houses not spray
ed means sixteen houses from
which the mosquito may pos
sibly help the mosquito to in
crease.
Is your house one of the six
teen? VIII your house be like.
one of the sixteen?
We hope notl
Office Of Health Education
st. Croix, V. /. y $40
, 1948-02-07
equipment.

Sso1AOAA az 9OAI gar
age facilities be provided for
two pieces of fire apparatus
and two police cars; in remod-
ling the police station at Fort
Christian garage facilities be
provided for a minimum of 2
pieces Of fire apparatus and 3
police cars as well as improv-
ed Jail facilities for housing
offenders serving short Jail
sentences; that in both stations
sleeping, kitchen, and dining
facilities be provided for Of
ficials on duty but not on ac-
tive assignment, in order to
permit the Department to be
organized on the tWo-platoon
system.
6. A system of two-way radio
be installed with sets at each
station and on each police car
and on those pieces of fire APP
paratus making the first res
ponse on fire alarms.
Z. Patrol activities be design
ed to serve both police protec-
ton and fire prevention func-
lions and be related in a con-
siderable measure to the time
and place of police incidents;
that the Department rely
largely on patrol by one-man
patrol cars rather than the
present system Of foot and
motorcycle patrol; that the
Kings Hill station be aban-
doned and a large share of
the rural patrol outside the
immediate environs of Fred
eriksted be assigned to the
Fort Christian station.
s. Other municipal employees
be selected to serve on a vol
unteer basis of fire fighters
to supplement the full-time
employees Of T the the Public ubbllic Safe
ty Department and p%artici-
pate in the Departments train
ing activities,
9. Except for top command Of
ficers, the Department be or
ganized on a two-platoon ba-
sis with Public Safety officers
working "a hours on and "a
hours off. The 24-hour duty
tour would include in each
case (a) an assignment on pa
troll, (b) an assignment on sta
, 1948-02-07


the Virgin Islands, and, with
the establishment of a centra-
lied inSular government as
recommended elsewhere in
his report, there would be
created a department of Pub
lie Safety headed by a Direc-
tor responsible to the Cover
nor. In such case, the Director
would have responsible to
him a small headquarters staff
and the commanding officers
Tor the Christiansted and Fred
|eriksted districts and those
commanding the st. Thomas
and st. Johns districts. Sever
al advantages would accrue
10 a single department hav-
ing Jurisdiction over all the
Island. The position of direc-
tor would assume an impor-
lance which would warrant
the expense of employing a
top-flight public safety adj
ministrator. The unification
for all manpoWer into a single
force would improve both
I~flexibility of assignment and
amount of resources availa-
bic for assignment to major
emergencies. The larger de-
would have better
facilities for and be more like
|ly to inaugurate and main
tain improved training, disci-
plinary and administrative
standards. While it must be
recognized that water obstac-
les will contribute to. the diff
|ficulty of departmental opera
tons, the availability of air
transport and the installation
of an adequate radio communi
cation system will make uni
fled operations practicable to-
day even though they would
not have been so only a few
years ago. The population to
be served by police services
in the Virgin Islands--some
24,O00--is distributed over an
area which, even including
the intervening water, is
roughly comparable in size to
the average county in the
states.
(To be continued
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
DISPLACED:
Bill Pending

Although the desperate problem
of Europe's displaced persons has
not been attracting much headline
attention lately, congress has been
busy working out legislation to ad-
NIT quotas Of DPS into the U. S.
Latest report was that an in
formal poll showed that majority
of the. senate would vote for a bin
to admit 100000 displaced persons
into this country during the next
two years.
The actual bill being considered
by the senate judiciary committee
sets the figure at 100000 DIP immi-
grants for the next two years, but
several senators have introduced
amendments to raise that total to
100000 and to remove some restric-
tions imposed by the committee.
One senate source said the poll
indicated that at least SIS senators
were ready to vote for the less re-
strictive version. The house judi
ciary committee already has ap-
proved a similar measure to admit
100000 DPS in the next two years.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
will to Peace
Finds Expression

Next month a national confer
ence for the prevention of World
War III" will be held on the cam
pus of Grinnell college in Iowa.
The purpose is to present a
definite, concrete working plan to
prevent a third world war; methods
which. can be presented to the two
national political conventions at
Philadelphia
The roster of speakers will in
clude representative Of many OF
the organizations now working for
a single sovereign, world organiza-
ton.
Meanwhile Winston Churchill is
hammering steadily at his pur-
pose of building a United States of
Europe. Although the Attlee gov
ernment has not approved the
idea, the prime minister himself
has spoken words Of encourage
ment regarding the formation Of
a real liberalization Of the west
ern union.
Attlee even went so far as to say
that Britain was willing to sacrifice
her sovereignty In part to bring 1t
about, although he qualified the
promise by saying the time was
not yet ripe for such step.
But Churchill wants to strike
now. He received considerable
support from the unofficial gath
ering in the Hague-a forum, they
called it-composed Of representa-
tives of the Marshall plan coun-
tries, plus exiled leaders.
Churchill's proposals and the
Grinnell conference are both part OF
the tremendous will to peace" that
currently is finding expression.
Perhaps eventually we will learn
that great lesson of history-to
yield the sovereignty that causes
wars to the kind of sovereignty
that allows not only the other free.
doms to the individual but which,
also will give him freedom from
the FEAR Of war. Just as the
liberalization of the separate col.
onies made the citizen of the state
of New York free from the fear oi
war with the state Of Pennsylvania
"a situation possible because both
recognize a higher sovereignty
the United States government.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04

President Truman. got a little
peeved recently over the same
line of cOlumnar chatter and be-
gan to "Iet it be known" that he
could write himself. Of course,
all presidents get advice, counsel,
assistance and inspiration from
many. men of many minds. Of
course, there are humanitarians
and grammarians, stylists and
Carlyle-ists, photographers and
geOgraphers, economists and
agronOmists, Russians, Prussians
and Persians upon whom he can
call if the need arises.
And somehow or other, each and
all, if they but contribute one jot
or title to the sacred paper, think
they wrote the whole-or at least
the stenographer who had to take
down all the stuff hopefully offered
for possible presidential use thinks
so, and tells her friends about it
confidentially.
The problem Of presidential
speeches is much to the fore these
days for this reason: President
Truman and his advisers, despite
the rebel yells, the walls OF the
defeatists, the triumphant roar Of
the elephant and the ominous hoof-
beats of the polls as they Gallup
downhin, still believe he has
fighting chance to return in Novem-
ber to the White House, and he
intends to fight for it.
The President is going on a
speaking tour of the West - OF
course, it isn't a campaign. that
would be undignified and immodest
before the convention has asked.
He will speak under no political
sponsorship" But he will speak and
he is going to ad Lib, as we say in
the trade. Even if we hadn't had
our ears conditioned for IL long
years by the golden voice that
breathed over the firesides, the un-
oratorical oratory of Harry Truman
when he reads speech, be it ever
so humble, never would be mis-
taken for the vox humana or the
angels chorus.
But when Harry Truman gets up
and talks, he's very human, very
sensible, and not altogether un-
persuasive. So from now on, he's
going to speak extemporaneously,
no matter how much preparation
it takes.
He showed what he could do with
out notes or manuscript (and with
out learning by rote) when he
addressed the newspaper publish
ers and the Gridiron club in April,
and again in May when he talked
off-the-cuff to the national confer
ence on family life in Washington.
And since such speeches aren't
written, nobody can say he wrote
them for him.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
SequeL

Second episode of the affair of the
Russian peace overture was a
Stalin-to-Wallace pass that went
over the head of the U. S. govern
ment.
The Russian premier took ad-
vantage of an "open letter. which
Henry Wallace had addressed to
him demanding an open showdown
between the two nations. Wallace's
proposals, as summarized by Stain,
included:
1. General reduction of arma-
ments and prohibition of atomic
weapons.
2. Conclusion of peace treaties
with Germany and Japan.
3. Evacuation of troops from
China and Korea.
4. Respect for the sovereignty
of individual countries and nom
interference In their domestic af-
fairs.
S. World development of inter-
national trade.
st don't know whether the United
States government approves Mr..
Wallace's program -" Stain
said, making it starkly clear that
he was talking, not to the govern
ment, but to the American people.
He applauded the Wallace letter
as ''the most important document
of recent times" and declared, GAS
far as the government Of the USSR
is concerned, it considers that Mr..
Wallace's program could serve as
good and fruitful basis for an
agreement"
Apparently Russian attempt to
bring about a showdown in the
East-West struggle before an au-
dience of world public opinion, Stall
ms bombshen statement renewed
the question Of whether the new
Soviet tactics are merely propa-
ganda or a genuine effort for peace.
Either way the U. S. was in
difficult position. If the Russian
appeal is taken at face value it cuts
the ground from under the tough
American cold war strategy. If it
is propaganda it undoubtedly will
serve to put the U. S. in a bad light
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
Impulse to Zion

Arnold TOynbee, British his
tOrian, types the Jews as a fOs-
/ silized remnant of an extinct
civilization.
He meant that because of their
single-minded, faultless devotion
to the religion of Moses and their
strict adherence to ancestral
customs, the Jews, descending
through history as a compact
group, have retained most of the
original characteristics whic c n
marked them when first they
emerged as part of the Syriac
civilization thousands of years
before Christ. "'
They are recognized today as
being in but not of the societies
In which they appear on every
portion of the globe. They al
most invariably form a minority
group, and as such they have
been targets for endless persecu-
tiOn.
Socially, world Jewry has been
of two minds concerning the
most desirable end it could
achieve for itself. Those two
conflicting trains of thought are
represented by the "zionists"
and the "dispersionists."
The dispersionists have advO-
Gated that Jews should mingle
freely with whatever people they
have chosen to live among and
gradually be assimilated by that
people. Zionists, of course, favor
establishment of a national
homeland - an indestructible
ideal ever since Moses led the
exodus to Canaan.
Since the war, with NaZl at
tempts to obliterate German
Jews completely and subsequent
displacement of millions of Eu-
ropean Jews, zionism has been
given a tremendous impetus.
That impulse to Zion has been
distilled into what the world has
come to know as the Palestine
problem" More recently it
crystaIlized even further in the
actual establishment of a Jewish
state - called Israel - in Pales-
tine, ancient homeland of the
pre- Christian era Jews.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
FARM PLAN:
Trun1an's

To shore up his sinking political
prestige in his campaign for re-
nomination, President Truman pro-
posed to congress a four point farm
program which he claimed is "es-
sentiaT" to productive, prosperous
agriculture in the U. S.
Burden of his message were these
recommendations:
A permanent system of 'flexi-
L. BILE price supports for agricul-
tural commodities.
y Full support to the continu,
4" ance and expansion of our pro-
gram of soil conservation"
. Legislation by congre to
~ continue and strengthen pro.
grams to assure adequate consump.
ton of agricultural products.
1--WE need to consider other
T" means for assisting farmers tc
meet their special problems. For
example, we must support and pro-
tect farm cooperatives. We must
continue to work toward sound
system of crop insurance"
There was nothing very startling
about the proposals, and they car
ried the unmistakable ring of a
campaign year bid for the farmers
favorable attention.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
ATOM RACE:
Official

Governments Of the world never
have been farther from outlawing
the use of atomic weapons. In fact.
the atomic armament race is just
settling down to a long, straight
away dash.
It is a contest involving astron-
omical costs, with horrible disaster
If not ultimate destruction possibly
lurking just beyond the horizon.
So far the U. 8. is well IN the
lead, as indicated by the recent
announcement Of the development
and successful testing Of three new
atomic weapons which are said to
supersede the original atom bombs
in destructive power.
The United Nations atomic ener-
gy commission made the race Off
cial when, after two years Of fruit
less effort to work out some kind
of International atomic control, 1t
finally voted to suspend negotia-
tions.
Other developments follow e d
swiftly to prove that the U. S. is
deadly serious about developing a
powerful and diversified atomic
arsenal:
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the atomic energy commission, re-
ported that the present stage OF
the commissions tests Of atomic
weapons is concluded"
President Truman then author
lied the commission to take
"steps at once for further de-
velopment based on information
gained from the tests"
What Russia was doing about
atomic weapons remained pretty
much of a mystery, at least as far
as the American public was con-
cerned. It was an accepted fact
that the Russians knew how to
make an atom bomb. Whether they
had the industrial facilities to do so
still remained a matter Of consid-
cradle conjecture.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
WINDFALL:
PrOpaganda

In Ambassador Walter Bedell
Smiths formal and completely rou-
tine statement to Soviet Foreign
Minister v. M. Molotov, the Rus
slams thought they had propa-
ganda bonanza.
1t was cleverly done. Smiths
otherwise tough statement, which
simply repeated the basic U. S.
foreign policy with regard to Rus
sia, contained one sentence that
Moscow took as a loophole: GAS far
as the United States is concerned,
the door is always wide open for
full aiscussion and the composing Of
our differences"
Molotov seized upon that sentence
and the announcement was broad
cast to the world that Russia ac-
cepted the American "offer" to me-
gotiate.
It looked like propaganda vic
tory of major proportions for the
Soviets. Briefly, it put them in the
position of being able to point with
pride to their manifest willingness
to settle the bitter differences which
have kept the world unnerved for
so long.
If the U. S. refused to talk, that
would be fine with the Russians
who would capitalize on that fact
with a vengeance. If a peace con-
ference did develop as result OF
the original trick, the old and Ia
miliar Soviet obstructionist tactics
would be brought into play to do
the usual job of sabotage.
That was about the way 1t
stacked up to the high officials in
Washington. Both President Tru-
man and Secretary Of State George
Marshall made it clear that there
would be no conference, that there
was no logical basis for one and
that such a conference could not
possibly succeed at this time be-
cause neither the U. S. nor Russia
had altered or modified it's position
in any way.
In addition to the propaganda
value of the Russian move, it might
also have been calculated to throw
some sand into the gears OF the
incipient U. S. defense program.
If the Soviets, suddenly assum-
ing a peaceful mien, were able to
hypnotic the American people into
feeling falsely secure, congress in an
election year might be coerced into
wasting lot of time in preparing
such items of the defense program
as the 70-group air force bill and
the draft bill. That wasted time
could, in the light of possible fu-
ture events, turn out to be incalcu-
lably precious.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
ISRAELI:
In Palestine

Events moved with the swiftness
of time itself in the Holy Land.
Ritualizing the expiration of
Great Britain's 30-year mandate
rule over Palestine, Sir Alan Cum
ningham, British high commission
er, hauled down his personal flag
in Jerusalem and flew to Haifa
where he boarded a cruiser.
That was that. Britannia no Ion
ger ruled the Palestinians.
Then the Jews, who had been
denied a legally partitioned state,
proclaimed the existence of a new,
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
Then Came the Tub

The indoor bath was brought
about when water systems were in
troduced into cities in the early
1905. BY 1880 the revolutionary idea
Of warm bath three times a week
was the aim of a crusade. By the
1920s the U. S. owned 95 per cent Of
all tubs in the world and had begun
to 60 In for such variations of the
standard porcelain tub as solid onyx
tubs, marble tubs and tubs with
solid gold fixtures.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04

An opponent of communism,
Einaudi also was a foe of Musso-
lini's brand of fascism. He is an
internationally known writer on
public finance and economic his
tory.
Einaudi's first task as president
of the republic was to designate
a premier and instruct him to form
a cabinet. There was no doubt
that he would name Alcide de Gas
peri, premier of the provisional
government, to continue in that
capacity on a permanent basis.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
Well, Not Exactly

A. c. Hudson of Portsmouth, N.
H., head of committee of fire pro-
lection experts who examined the
White House recently, said he
wouldn't exactly call the Presidents S
home a firetrap, but still and all
there are plenty of hazards existing
at the Pennsylvania avenue edifice.
There is nothing wrong with the
White House that a lot Of fire-proof-
ing won't fix, he said, but it needs
a lot of money.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-04
Heart Of Asparagus

Asparagus is grown in nearly an
sections of the United States, but
large industrial production is limit
ed to a few localities. In 1945, in the
nation, 126,25 acres were used for
commercial growing of asparagus.
About half Of this acreage was 10
Gated in California. Principal areas
OF production in that state are Sac
ramento, San Joaquin, San Fernan-
do and Imperial valleys.