Evening star., 1948-01-09

Easements are full of uncollected garbage and
vernlin our grounds are constantly messy and
unkempt. All these things we have endured
so far, but this business Of armed thugs pa
trolling our lawns and standing guard beside
our back doors is the last straw. MRS. r.
Weakened Staff of Life
To the Editor Of The Star:
To add to our astronomical troubles-scar-
city of food products and accompanying en-
hanced prices-we now learn that our famed
"staff Of life" is but delusion and snare.
First the flour from which 1t Is made sedu-
lously is denuded Of Its mineral and other
life-giving properties. then subjected to
bleaching process that we reliably are informed
adds poisonous products to the artif1cially
whitened -four, then to further add insult to
injury it is "sunbaked" to save precious mo-
ments in rushing this fraudulent product to
market.
The question that cannot fail to agitate us
is where are our health boards when these
deleterious processes are going on?
To please our not very discriminating
eye we are robbing our stomachs by tolerating
denuded and harmful staff of life, shoddy
imitation Of our former h-giving product.
Seems we will have to start all over again
and teach our housewives first that the -four
now demanded does not quite measure up in
life-giving properties: then that the bleaching
process detracts from both appearance and
food value. then adds harmful products Of its
own again the loaf should be more fully baked
than the sodden mass that usually burdens
our grocers' shelves. Do that and again we
may be assured that the -four, base Of our
bread, cakes and other Of our bakery products
with which we feed our families, once more
may be depended upon.
StNdI. SALOMAN.
Editors note: letter from lie Roy
Voris, executive secretary, National Research
Council printed yesterday, contends that
fears about devitalized bread are unjustif1ed)
Post Office Take Notice
To the Editor Of The Star:
Why is it that the Post Once Department
discourages and antagonizes the public by
making it so difficult to send food packages to
Europe?
Here is an illustration: After many hours
spent in collecting the food, weighing each
item, making list Of the contents and their
weight and their cost, packing them tightly
and wrapping them securely, finally managed
to get the parcel to the post Office. But was
not allowed to mail it. It was half pound
overweight. 1t so happened that I was leaving
that day for a six weeks trip, so the food that
could have been over there had to wait for
my return, and is still waiting for I haven't
had the time to redo" it.
What difference did it make that the pack
age was slightly overweight and why must
everything be listed in such detail? If the
post office must have some data, why couldn't
we just list them as "1s pounds of food costing
$780,? had thought that the really i'm
portant thing was to get the food over there
as quickly as possible.
DORIS H. MURPHY.
Poem for Attention of Mr.. Wallace
To the Editor Of The Star.
Letters to The Star" January q under the
subtitle, 'Readers Discuss wallace Speech"
were most interesting, particularly that from
D. Thomas Curtin in which he suggests the
walrus as symbol for the third party" spon-
sored by the former Secretary Of Commerce.
Perhaps the mule also should be considered
in that connection because, to quote from a
speech by the late IgnatiuS Donnelly, author
and Representative from Minnesota, it is with
out pride of ancestry or hope Of posterity"
The constructive thinking reflected in the
letter addressed to you by Edward Jones is
likewise worthy Of special note He states that
Mr.. Wallace describes himself as one who
loves the Americanism was taught to respect
in the public schools Of Iowa half century
ago" In the latter behalf, the following un-
copyrighted poem of mine, published in the
October, 1916, issue of the Journal of the Bar
Association of the District Of Columbia, may
appeal to readers of The Star as theme bet
ter suited for discussion in the forthcoming
political campaign in these United States:
Exemp.ar for Peace.
America, more famed in war than peace,
With greater power the body's than the souls,
Traditionally the pioneer whose goals
To conquer natures forces never cease
Let your virile manhood mellow now
BY growth of mind and spirit linked with
might;
Seek new truth and beauty learn more light
OF peace of happiness, and then know how
To live and reap the grain that Drawn has
sown.
Refine the crude let substance be not all
For which strong hearts are set lest deep
pail
OF vain and selfish strife makes them disown
Their heritage of loved democracy,
While communism spreads its leprosy
JAMES PATRICK McGOVERN
Canaanites Remembered
To the Editor Of The Star:
Answering in turn I. Rossner's reply to a
previous letter published December II, one
might ask: How does the putting of new
blood into the ideal of self-determination
prove the rightness of stealing another ma
tions thousand-yea -old homeland?" If by new
blood he means a more energetic use of the