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Evening star., 1948-12-29
Tito and the West

Time may heal many things, but 1t does
not seem to be healing the rift between
YugoSlavia and the Soviet bloc. On the
contrary, if Premier-Marshal Tito's words
mean anything, the estrangement has now
reached a stage where both sides are
engaged in a kind of economic warfare
against each other.
Thus in the bitter address he has just
made at Belgrade, the Yugoslav dictator
has openly warned the Soviet Union and
it's European satellites that unless they
live up to their trade agreements with
him, he will cut off all exports of raw
materials to them and seek to negotiate
new economic arrangements with the
capitalistic West.
The burden of Tito's latest complaint is
that the members of the Soviet bloc are
following policy designed to prevent the
industrialization of Yugoslavia and hold
down the country to the status Of mere
food producer and supplier of raw mate
rials, which it has in abundance. To that
end he says, they have violated their
agreements to send him machinery in
exchange for shipments of such things
as ferrous and nonferrous metals.
AS given out by Tito, Yugoslavia's export
figures show that the bulk of its raw
materials have gone to Russia and the
other countries behind the Iron Curtain.
Accordingly, if the Soviet bloc persists in
refusing to send machinery in return,
and If Tito carries out his threat to
retaliate with his own brand of economic
sanctions, the effect can be telling,
especially on the satellites with inadequate
natural resources.
More important than this, however, is
the fact that Tito, in voicing his threat,
appears to have made his first open bid
for new rapprochement with the West
in general. In this connection, 1t is sig
nifcant that only last week Yugoslavia
signed trade accord with Britain COM
mitting 1t to supply raw materials in
exchange for crude oils textiles, chemicals
and machinery. Assuming continued hos
tility from the Soviet bloc, there is little
reason to doubt that Tito will strive to
work out similar accords with other
Western powers.
Since he is dictator who claims to be
a Communist despite his rift with the
Kremlin, and since he still adheres to the
Soviet line in the United Nations, it would
be mistake to conclude from all this
that Tito is about ready to swing COM
pletely to the West. Nevertheless, there
is at least the possibility of an eventual
split that could crack the Iron Curtain
wide open in strategically important part
of the world. At any rate, in Yugoslavia
as elsewhere, economic pressures have a
way of forcing such changes.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Civilization Series

The Library Of Congress, with the sup
port of the Rockefeller Foundation, will
sponsor an enterprise in scholarship which
should attract the attention of large lay
public. AS summarized in news release
approved by DR.. Luther H Evans, librarian,
the project calls for series of sixteen
extended essays" dealing with various
aspects of American civilization in the
twentieth century. The tentative title of
the series is "The Library of Congress
Series in American Civilization"
Prof. John Sirjimake Of Yale University
will prepare study of the American home;
DR.. Hugh Leavell of Harvard will deal with
safeguarding the peoples health; Prof.
Thomas Cochran of New York has been
assigned the changing patterns of Amer
ican industrialisn. Other collaborators
are Prof. Lowry Nelson of Minnesota, who
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Man Aquinst the Arctic

It was case of man against the Arctic
In the Greenland air rescue operations,
and the story Of mans triumph in the epic
battle adds thrilling chapter to aviation
history. This was severe test for our
developing air-sea rescue setup-one that
provides lessons of inestimable value in the
little-explored field of Far Northern life
saving and salvage techniques.
1t is interesting to compare the plight
of the twelve Air Force flyers marooned on
the Greenland ice cap with that Of the
members of another ill-fated Arctic aerial
expedition, the Andree Polar exploration
party. There was no radio to inform the
world of the forced landing on the Polar
Ice of Solomon August Andree's airship in
the summer of 1897. Nor were there planes
to search for them or attempt rescue
Andree and his two companions perished
on the ice north of Spitzbergen. Their
bodies were found there thirty three years
later.
But there never was any doubt in the
minds Of Air Force officials as to the ulti-
mate success of the well-organized and
persistent efforts to remove the downed
American flyers from the bleak ice of
Greenland. The challenge was formida-
BILE one that required careful planning by
those in charge and admirable courage
and self-sacrifcial spirit by the men carry
ing out the plans. Nature seemed deter
mined to block the rescue operations but
every setback served only to stimulate the
enterprise and the ingenuity and the hero
ism of all concerned.
1t is at such times as these that men
and services rise above petty differences
Carrier aviation responded quickly and
gladly to an Air Force appeal for aid
just as the latter would respond if condi-
tions were reversed. The Navy men aboard
the carrier Saipan well deserve the COM
mendation which General Hoyt Vanden-
berg has given them, even though their
help was not needed The carrier was still
a thousand miles from its goal when an
Air Force CAT cargo plane, equipped with
skis and Jato Get assisted takeof) rockets,
removed the stranded men from the ice
cap. The combination of Jato and skis
was new one that proved highly effective
for the special conditions prevailing. The
plan undoubtedly will be used in any future
rescue activities involving ice and snow.
And there are sure to be further accidents
to our planes in the Arctic, for the Far
North has become regular proving ground
for planes and flyers. The equipment and
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Karl Marks Ideas

To the Editor OF The Star:
It's too bad that Karl Marx couldn't have
met P. G. Nutting. If he had, Mr.. Nutting
might have made man Of him, instead Of
Marx being "a worthless pauper and dismal
failure as man."
Then poor Karl might have become the local
boy who made good by having letter to the
editor accepted for publication instead Of pid-
ding around with such picayune works as
"Das Kapital," "The Eighteenth Brumaire,"
etc., which have caused exclamations of sur
prise cat Marks genius) from the pens and lips
of some of the greatest thinkers of all time.
No one wins his case by heaping insults upon
those with whose ideas he happens to disagree.
have known who Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels were since was boy in short pants;
but, who is P. G. Nutting, man, fish, q
vegetable or a mineral? DIR. E. j. IRVINE.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Cruelty to Livestock

To the Edltor OF Inc 5IhI:
On Decmeber 10 you printed a letter from
Mrs r. H. Kroetz commenting on the cruelty
of two men loading pigs on a truck. Since that
letter was printed, have received number
of clippings of it through the mail from various
readers of your paper.
Every year, according to the report of the
National Livestock Association at Chicago, over
100000 head of livestock are crippled (not
killed. by senseless cruelty and careless han
ding while being loaded and shipped to market.
Farm animals are beaten with clubs or jabbed
with sharp prongs while being loaded and
unloaded, and are thrown to the floor of trucks
and trampled by other animals as result OF
careless driving. As a consequence of these
commonplace cruelties. the public suffers an
economic loss of thousands Of dollars each
year, as the bruised meat must be trimmed
away as unfit for human consumption!
While the economic loss is great, there Is
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Agreement on Tips

Soviet lieutenant colonel named
Vladimir Kotko has taken position with
which most Americans will heartily agree.
Venting his feelings in letter to Moscow
newspaper, he has come out fatty against
the practice of tipping, which apparently
has been spreading among Russians. His
opinion is that it is so ridiculous and
disgusting" that it ought to be done
away with without further delay. Pre-
sumably, like millions of us over here in
this country, he has had some sad or
maddening experience with the custom.
For example, he suddenly may have come
to realize that his innumerable gratuities
to hat-check girls total several times the
original cost of his hat; or he may have
figured out that he would have a small
fortune today If he had been able to save
all the rubleS he has given away to please
BARRIERS, walters doormen, cab drivers and
all the rest who expect fee for them
selves over and above the price of their
service; or possibly some surly recipients,
judging his tips not large enough to suit
them, have responded to his generosity
with belittling smirks or angry snarls.
But whatever the reason for Colonel
Kotko's letter, his feelings obviously are
essentially the same as those of millions
of us on this side of the water. It may
be assumed, moreover, that there are many
more like him In Russia, which only goes
to show that we are all brothers under
the skin-at least as far as tipping goes.
We may be hopelessly at odds over prac-
tically everything else, but when it comes
to the gratuity racket, the area of Soviet
American agreement probably is large
enough for complete meeting of minds,
including even those of Foreign Minister
Molotov and Secretary Marshall. Here is
one question, anyhow, where theological
differences do not matter. Whether a
Communist or capitalist nobody-except
the receiver-will argue violently against
the idea Of putting an end to tips. Too
bad the same cannot be said of the worlds
other, more serious problems as put
ting an end to wars, cold and hot
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Communism and Labor

The report from the House Un-American
Activities Committee ,on Communism and
Labor, set out in question n-and-anSwer
form, is necessarily an oversimplif1ed
treatment of the subject. If 1t were other
wise hardly any one would read it. Subject
to this reservation, however, it is fair, a
balanced, and an informative treatise on
one of our most difficult problems.
It is not an antilabor or an antiunion
report Men like Philip Murray and James
B. Carey, who have fought to expose and
drive out the union Communists, are given
credit for their efforts. The report is spe-
cific in naming known Communists in labor
and in identifying unions which have been
taken over by them, but it sticks to facts
which can be supported by evidence and
does not contend that all unions are
subject to Communist influence.
The main purpose of this report is to
familiarize the average worker with the
Communist technique, and to impress him
with the fact that the best remedy lies with
the workers themselves.
Except for the indirect penalty laid on
Communist union officers by the Taft
Hartley Act, there is nothing in the law to
prevent Communists from joining and
dominating any union. At present they
control several unions of great Importance
"a control which would enable them to
cripple this country in event of war.
Should the Communists exercise this
power in wartime, the Government pre-
sumably would take drastic repreSsive
measures. But in time of peace it is doubt
full that any effective and constitutional
statutory barrier can be raised against
them. If the captured unions are to be
freed, the members must free them.
In this connection, the report describes
how a minority of Communists can and
do gain control of union. They get their
full strength out for union meetings, and
they are we'll organized. They have pro-
gram of their own. They resort to delaying
tactics until the non Communists, tired or
disgusted, go home. Then the Communists
shove their own program through, al
though in many instances their total
strength is but fraction of the entire
membership. The moral is obvious: If the
non-Communists want to keep control of
their unions they must attend meetings
and stay as long as the Communists. In
the suggestions offered along this and
other lines, the committees report is a
constructive one.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Civilizins Mems Minds

TO The Editor OF The Star:
This headline in your paper for December
27 interested me: AN Elaborate Scheme of
Projects Has Been Outlined for World Organ
ization in Effort to Civlize Mans Mind
Who are the men and women who are going
to make the effort? Are they really distin-
guished citizens? How have they been chosen?
Where will they get the money necessary for
the work? Do they work through churches
and schools or both? When is mind civilized?
What percentage of American citizens have
civilized minds?
Is UNESCO doing great work or just blow
ing bubbles? AVERAGE CITIZEN.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Letters to The Star
Center for Medical DIAGNOSIS


To the Editor Of The Star:
Every one knows from his own experience
or that Of some member of his family that
even today, in spite of the remarkable progress
Of medical science, cases of sickness not in
frequently occur which the physicians con-
suited fail to diagnose or. which is much
worse, diagnose incorrectly.
The purpose OF this letter is not to criticize
our doctors, for have no doubt that as group
they are as well trained, as competent and as
conscientious as those of any nation. My
purpose is to call attention to the problem and
to suggest mechanism for pooling medical
experience which would greatly raise the stand
ard OF medical diagnosis in this country
I am informed by a medical friend that OF
the cases that come to the ordinary general
practitioner, about 80 per cent are routine as
lar as diagnosis is concerned. The remaining
or 10 per cent of the cases are more or less
battling. There are physicians who In such
cases are frank with their patients and ac-
knowledge that they are uncertain; but most
physicians, in order to maintain the fiction of
professional infallibility, seem to prefer to
proceed on the basis OF uncertain diagnoses
even though they may involve unnecessary
operations or useless treatments.
To assist physicians in arriving at correct
diagnoses, 1t is suggested that the National
Institute of Health or the American Medical
Association establish a Center for Medical
Diagnosis to which any physician could send by
wire or by airmail summary of the symptoms
and history for any battling case, and from
which he would then receive list of all pos
sbe causes or combinations of causes as shown
by the pooled experience collected at the center.
From such list the physician would proceed,
by appropriate tests, to eliminate as many as
practicable; he would then give any simple
treatments which might prove effective, and
would postpone any serious operation until the
last.
In order to be able to furnish the required
information, the center would need to accumu-
late as complete a file of correct diagnoses as
practicable with the cooperation of physicians.
Every bah1ing case should be reported to the
center as soon as the correct cause has been
determined, with all pertinent details AL such
cases would be recorded on punched cards
capable of being mechanically sorted in a
Holerith machine. Then when an inquiry came
in for the possible diagnosis Of certain case,
all the cards corresponding to the case in
symptoms, history, etc., could be extracted me-
chanically in few minutes.
During the last war, the National Research
Council prepared cards for all the scientists in
this country and could quickly determine, by
use of such a sorting machine, which men had
any desired qualifications. The proposed file
certainly would be practicable; and if doctors
would cooperate by furnishing the correct dag
noses and details for all battling cases, the file
would become increasingly valuable. The un-
told misery and deaths due to the present
failure Of physicians to diagnose illnesses cor
rectly in time would be largely eliminated.
GORDON S. FULCHER
Evening star., 1948-12-29

procedures tried out in the Greenland
operations may be expected to save other
lives in the years ahead. So the holiday
season misfortunes of the men on the ice
cap were not without bright side. The
brightest facet, of course, was the fact that
while the marooned men missed a merry
Christmas, they have good reason to cele-
brate a happy New Year, warmly and
fervently.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Publicizins Automobile Accidents

Publicizing Automobile Accidents
To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Star of December ~ I noticed two
news items in which feel there is too much
difference in the manner Of presentation.
One of these items displays picture OF an
airplane on it's back with the statement that
the pilot narrowly escaped death and the crash
was being investigated by Civil Aeronautics
Administration inspectors.
The other had no picture and merely stated
two young men were injured in an automooile
accident, one critically, etc.
I do not intend to minimize any accident
either large or small but do feel that in pro-
portion to the number of airplane accidents and
automobile accidents the latter do not receive
enough publicity. If you were to make it
point to publish picture Of every automobile
wreck, feel it would do a lot to make the public
more automobile accident conscious.
TRUMAN E. BRUCH.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Divine Mandate to Israel

To the Editor OF The Star:
On the editorial page of The Star for De-
cember 26 my attention was arrested by the
headline "Highhandedness in Palestine" fol-
lowed by the statement that: "Dr. Ralph j.
Bunche, in his capacity as acting United Ma
tions Mediator for Palestine cheerfully declared
the Arab-Israel war had come to de facto end
and that prospects were bright for the early
negotiation of a final peace settlement"
Many of the worlds thinkers, it seems, are
indulging in wishful notions instead of turning
to the prophetic authority of Gods word. Lest
we forget where to seek for our own informa-
ton, I am going to quote from prophetic
sermon by DR.. James H. Miers of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church as it relates to Palestine,
as follows:
I'm that divine autocracy which I am ever
proclaiming as near, we learn from the Scrip
lures that every man shall sit in safety under
his own vine and fig tree. Mark you, it is his
very own. God long ago gave His grant OF pro-
prietorship to Israel of Palestine and its con-
tiguous territories. The whole problem Of that
land could be settled in one hour, if the ma
tions would look at what God has written in
His word That whole land and much other
territory is Israels by divine right. The Arab
is an intruder and squatter there. =
"The Devil will fight to the last ditch to
prevent Israel from returning to Palestine.
Today large parts of it may be barren desert
under the duress of the Arab; let Israel have it,
give Israel peace, and in Is years it will blossom
as rose garden"
In the 18th chapter Of zechariah. especially
verses and 7, there seems to be decree or
Endorsement of the determined activities Of
Judah: I'm that day will make the governors
of Judah like an hearth Of fire among the wood,
and like torch of fire in q sheaf; and they
shall devour all the people round about, on the
right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem
shall be inhabited again in her own place, even
in Jerusalem. The Lord also shall save the
tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house
of David and the glory of the inhabitants Of
Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against
Judah" ADA M. BUXTON.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Pigeon Problem Set Forth

To the Editor OF The Star:
From a third-story window across from my
Office on Pennsylvania avenue a lady daily
throws bread crumbs to pigeons on the side
walk below. On the same sidewalk is a man
who runs newsstand. Naturally, he doesn't
take kindly to the f1ocks of pigeons, nor to the
crumb dispenser, fear, since he wields q
wicked broom against the birds.
OF course, this is only tiny segment of
the Washington pigeon, startling and sparrow
problem. Is there some kind of smog or DEATH
dealing gas that could be used against these
birds and not endanger human beings? Could
building ledges be wired so as to give the
birds hot-foot?
Is it against the law for me to snare enough
pigeons for pigeon stew?
r. D. HOSTETTER.
Evening star., 1948-12-29

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
Uriter, although it Is permissible TOR
a priter kno,on to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
MIR. Quillen's Gem

To the Editor OF The Star:
"The more ignorant a man is. the better
satisfied he is with himself This gem is
enough to give Robert Quillen q claim to
greatness, If he had never written anything
else 1t is our high privilege to see that 1t
is not forgotten. HIRAM LACKEY.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Viqnette: 9 AN.

NM office floor is caressed at night
BIZ the tired gnarled knees of the char
1DO1a1n
neDer see
Nerer hear speak -.
Never thank.
/ am not deceived By the automatic nae@s.
ing sun
Making my aoork-a-day cage
A shining sterile place
Before 1t Is desecrGted F..
By papers and dust,
Ashes and printers ink.
I am aware of the mundane labor
That keeps office wtndo,os nHght
At night.
I think of the tired gr,drleed knees.
I leaue my uase of roses for the unknoson
who dusts my desk at dark.
TADD FISHER.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
The Savage Human Race

To the Editor Of The Star:
When will the nations of the earth settle
their disputes by arbitration instead of blind
ing, crppling and butchering their fellow
men.
In the year 1156 Chinese Tartary was build
ing up new dynasty among the tribes OF
the central portion of the Asatic continent.
In that year was born THAR greatest chieftain,
Temujin, later named Genghis Khan At the
head of vast armies he developed an enormous
empire at the cost of $4,000 cities and
towns and 100000 lives-a greater waste,
probably, than resulted from all the Crusades!
But the Second World War seems to have
been the most destructive of human life and
homes this world has experienced SO far. One
paper reports 25,000,000 casualties as a total
tor the warning nations up to September 3,
1912 United States casualties were more than
100000 up to 1914
We have built great engines of destruction,
battle ships and giant planes that can drop
atomic bombs upon helpless population and
kill them by the hundred thousand
Where are the savage Communists getting
with the slaughter of their fellow men?
The pompous Mussolini after an aggressive
attack on Ethiopia, and driving out her king,
in this last war was hung head downward.
and spit upon by his countrymen! What
price glory?"
The Apostle of Peace said: Blessed are
the peacemakers; for they shall be called the
children of God"
How long Is it going to take this human
race to give up savagery?
H B. BRADFORD
Mr.. Lawrence and NAM Party Line
To the Editor Of The star:
I am disappointed to observe how closely
David Lawrence adheres to the National Asso-
citation Of Manufacturers party-line when he
chages the leaders of the American labor move
ment with debating" to Congress in his article
in your paper on December %.
Typically, he omits mentioning how the
powerful NAM lobby dictated" sections and
paragraphs of the iniquitous Taft-Hartley law
to the members of the 80th Congress. Then,
when an aroused public became aware Of the
Vaccinations of this lobby and appealed in
record numbers to their President to veto this
repressive legislation, this same NAM lobby
cracked the whip" to assure its passage over
the presidential veto.
Isn't Mr.. Lawrence aware that the repeal OF
the NAM-Taft-Hartley law was an issue in the
recent election? Does he forget that the people
went to the polls on election day and in face
of almost solid opposition from the kept
press chose the President and Congressional
majority that were pledged to the repeal of the
NAM-Taft-Hartley law?
In leveling his barbs at the closed shop, Mr..
Lawrence also follows the NAM party-line by
accentuating its abuses and totally emitting
the outstanding part the closed shop has played
in raising our standard of living, improving our
working conditions, combating sweatshops and
child labor, and sponsoring adequate social
security
When the electorate of our Nation can no
longer dictate" to Its legislative body, our
democracy surely will be dead.
THOMAS v. HALL.