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Evening star., 1948-09-09
A Break for Firemen

Those adults whose youthful ambition
was to grow up and be q fireman, and
who have not yet entirely conquered a
sense of Illustration when the engines 60
by, will be interested in a current dispatch
from New York City.
1t seems that the life Of fireman is not
all that 1t has been cracked up to be-not
by about 10000 ear-splitting, nerve-shat-
tering clangs day.
Some time ago medical study in the
New York Fire Department revealed an
exceptionally high rate OF cardiac and
apprehension cases among the firemen.
Further study indicated that this was
associated with the changing OF fire bells.
Under the system then in effect the fire
gong in every station rang for every alarm
in the city, changing eighty times on each
alarm. This, at the average rate of ESQ
alarms day, meant that the 1iremen were
being subjected to 10000 daily clangs OF
the gong.
That comes close to infringing the con-
stitutional ban on cruel and unusual pun
ishments. To the average man, beset by
nothing worse than jangling telephones,
automobile horns, blaring radios and gar
rulous associates, the mere thought OF
such a thing is almost enough to induce
a nervous breakdown. Something ought
to done about It,, and, happily, something
Is being done. ST..
New York is putting new alarm system
into effect. The city is being divided into
zones for fire purposes, and from now on
the bells will clang only in the hrehouses
in the zone in which fire is located No
>exact figures are available, but it may be
that in the future the ears and nerves of
the average fireman will not be assaulted
more than two or three thousand times a
day. That is not so bad But it still is
bad enough to reconcile any sane person
to that whim of circumstance which
steered him away from a career as fire
fighter. I~ 49, PIN \Ah
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Clouds Over Indio

The prospects for peace in the Indian
subcontinent have taken turn for the
worse in Hyderabad and Kashmir, where
the antagonism between Hindus and Mos
lens is assuming alarming proportions.
This age-old hostility has already riven
the unity attained under British rule, re-
sulting in the creation of two states, India
and Pakistan, dominated respectively by
the Hfndus and the Moslems. Each seeks
to round out its frontiers. And In Hydera-
bad and Kashmir, rival claims have
reached the shooting point.
The two regions present Numerically
opposite situations. In Hyderabad, a large
princely state of South Central India, the
ruler and the upper class are Moslems,
while the majority of the people are Hindu.
In Kashmir, perched at the subcontinent's
northern apex and touching both the Do
minions of India and Pakistan, the reign
ing prince and upper class are Hindus,
ruling majority OF Moslems.
The Indian Government has been putting
every conceivable pressure short of force
to persuade the Nizam of Hyderabad to
join India and relinquish his power to
and appeals to the United Nations. Alleg-
ing internal disorders in the state, the
Government of India threatens to over
whelm the Nizam's army and occupy the
country. y
In Kashmir, local rebellion of Mos
lens induced the ruler to appeal to India
for aid and declare his adhesion to the
Dominion. The rebels were joined by
tribesmen from the adjacent Afghan bor-
der, apparently with the covert assistance
of Pakistan, while Indian troops likewise
entered the country to support the ruler.
In order to halt war that threatened to
embroil the entire subcontinent, the United
Nations got India and Pakistan to ac-
quiesce in the sending OF U. N. Com
mission to investigate the situation and
arrange for the holding OF plebiscite to
determine Kashmir's ALLEGATION by the vote
of its inhabitants. Now, however, the
its efforts, owing to blocking tactics by
both India and Pakistan, while the civil
war continues with unabated fury and
its explosive possibilities become more
obvious.
At so ticklish a moment, the forcible
overrunning of Hyderabad by the Indian
Government might well start general war;
1t would certainly infiame further Moslem
sentiment everywhere and have immediate
repercussions on the struggle in Kashmir.
Such are the dual challenges, alike to
Hindu Moslem craftsmanship and to the
United Nations. Quick action would seem
to be imperative, if an already deplorable
situation is not to get out of hand and
lead to catastrophe.
Evening star., 1948-09-09
This and That
Bu Charles E. TraceaDell

Lilly Belle, the pet robin, after an absence
OF two years, came back the other day.
There could be little doubt about her.
Just little social call, before going South.
to thank us for past faYors.
Lilly is fine bird
She has a saucy way of talking back, and
en- intriguing method Of hopping along a GER
tain limb Of the maple tree by the garage.
No other bird can make that claim.
She is very fat, this season, which is pretty
good for robin years old.
used to say
The word came from "fettle," naturally
enough, Anglo-saxon for girdle, or belt.
Hence, to grid ones SELF or make prepa-
rations. The noun means the state OF being
fettled, made ready, in trim In fine fettle
came to mean in good spirits.
Lilly Belle wouldn't know about that, and
is much better of for it. All the birds and
Deasts are saved from so much!
Lilly mas no use for the more than 400 900
words in the big dictionary (most of which
are unknown even to humans.
She has a language all her own, sutdcient
for her needs.
She is bouncing around these days, ready to
ioin some Of her friends on the long trip South.
A group of about "a robins will gather one
day on a lawn-we hope ours.
The big bird, third from the left, will be Lilly
Belle.
When we first saw her, years ago. she was
almost as large as she is now.
But she would have been dead in few hours
If, We hadn't come across her there on the
hot pavement
soneway she. had fallen from the nest.
Father and mother she had none ss far
as anybody could see.
She made fine specimen to raise, because
she had been well fed, and was found soon
enough, SO that she had not suffered in any
manner.
Sometimes it is very difdcult and disheart-
ening to raise young birds by hand, since they
already are in such q state-though they may
not show it-that the case is hopeless.
Lilly, evidently, had been fed on the best
worms and insects.
She had all her vitemins and minerals, and
that is why she Is such fine bird today.
Now she is an old lady bird, but she flies
as we'll as any, and as far. Let all kind-hearted
people Of whom there are still many, hope that
she is able to fly back again next year.
The most exciting episode in Iillys life, st
least as far as her human friends know, was
when she few behind the large old bureau
in the garage, which was her home until
she was weeks old
All they knew, one late afternoon, was that
she had disappeared.
Boxes and barrels were looked behind, but
no one thought Of the old bureau.
But Lilly was there, as We found out "A
hours later.
It was dark behind the bureau so Lilly went
TO sleep.
She answered no calls, and couldn't ny up,
although she had managed to fan down.
So she Just stayed put, and might have been
there yet, If q final thought had not dictated
the moving of the bureau.
There was Lilly Belle, chirping msdly, as the
| light struck her, hungry but happy.
From now on, all robins will ny South.
There are few, maybe half q dozen or so,
that remain here, in the deep woods.
The sensible ones will ny with Lilly Belle.
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Nv THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Did Queen Elizabeth gave ring to the
Earl of Essex and promise that ii ever he wer:
in serious trouble she would protect him u
he sent the ring to her?-C. p. p.
A. According to the Dictionary OF National
Biography: 'rhe story that Essex. when IN
favor had received ring from Elizabeth with
an understanding that she would pardon him
anv offense if he sent it to her when in danger,
and that just before his death, he forwarded
it to the Countess OF Nottingham, who retained
IT, is quite apocryphal."
A. After Columbus discovered the islands
of the East Coast of America who was the
arst person to come to the mainland?-D. w. K.
A. Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Coast
M Florida, April O. 1913. He did not know
that it was the mainland. He supposed it
was q large island which the Indians called
Timini, but named the region he discovered
Florida.
@. Please give the titles OF some OF the best
large folos of currier and Ives prints
E L. r.
A. Wall Street from Trinity Church, 1925:
Rut1ed Grouse Shooting, 1855; Our National
Game; American Express Train, 1854: Clipper
Ship Racer" 1854; Husking, 1851: the Old
Homestead in Winter, 1854; Winter in the
Country, 1854; West Point, Newburgh in the
Distance.
@. What are "ciyil rights"?--M P. r.
A. civil rights" is term applied to those
liberties possessed by the individual as
member of a State; more particularly those
liberties guaranteed to the individual in the
State against encroachment by his Govern
uneut. The most important Of these
rights is embodied in the clauses which pro-
hibits the Government from depriving any one
Of life. liberty or property, without due process
N law"
Evening star., 1948-09-09

numerous the listeners, the better. Movies
Of the music dramas suitable for repro
duction on fllm should reach millions who
may have heard operas sung but never
have seen them presented The public
surely will watch for further news OF the
negotiations now in progress
Evening star., 1948-09-09

Letters for qualifications must bear
the signature and address OF the
soriter, although it Is permissible tor
q ,0riter knoapn to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

Football, whose season is upon us, t1nds
us at our worst as a spectator-the type
that keeps an eye on the ball, which turns
out to be left guards headgear.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

Roger Babson believes the pull OF gravity
can be overcome; and we shouldn't. be
surprised. All things are possible, now
that Russia takes over science and will
bend it to the party line.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

You're middle-aged If you're pulled up
sharply for saying roadster" instead OF
convertible" If you are old enough to
call them runabouts, you're one OF the
walking dead.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

Navy officers gone fiabby are told to get
into shape, as nothing lends our one active
battleship top-heavy appearance like a
herd OF baggy adn1irals on the bridge.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

When her husbands expensive bait had
failed, a Virginia girl caught fish with q
handkerchief. TITS knowing when to drop
it," says local grandmother reminis-
Gently, M.
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Pleasing Foreign Voters


To the Rditor Of The STAR
Andre Maurois in his Miracle of America"
opened one OF his chapters thus: THE Euro
peans who had sought refuge on the new cor,-
tinent believed they had escaped from the
endemic feuds OF Europe" Many Of us have
devoutly hoped that after the experience Of
the First world War We had washed our HANDS
of Europe and her endemic feuds," but 1t
seems that our hopes were born to be blasted.
and we ere now paying . hideous price for
the failure.
In my youth We used to hear the word
"daffy" used quite frequently, and ind that
word expresses exactly what think Of our
present state of mind. With all our domestic
troubles we still are tmporttned to let nearly
q million foreigners come In to add to the con-
fusion. This is true, even though We see In
the same papers that our housing problem Is
bordering on the fatal" and that our schools
ere bulging out on all sides, notwithstanding
the colossal sums Of money being spent In both
directions; and the end Is not yet IN sight In
either case. Yet, to cater to foreign voters, the
politicos will add to this intolerable situation
The motto now Is America Last" and 1t A
becoming pretty disgusting.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

Like whiff of old sachet are Whitaker
Chambers fond "reminiscences of boom
doggling days. He recalls being paid by
the Government, but doesn't remember
for what work.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

Sciences miserable failures are in the
everyday things: A cure for the common
cold; a shirt sleeve that grows with the
arms of q 13-year-old boy.
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Good Landlord Praised .

To the Editor Of The Star:
A recent news item disclosed that the wealthy
owner OF an apartment house in a northern
city informed his faithful tenants that he had
decided to reduce the rents, despite inflated
costs. He was not even interested in the "co-
operative plan" and its increased revenue and
the idea Of threatening good American citizens
with eviction unless they purchased so-called
perpetual lease" was regarded with repulsion.
1t is heartening to know that there are rich
men who sre more concerned with helping
human beings than harming them. This good
landlord. believed that the Golden Rule should
supersede the rule Of gold.
EDMUND X. GOLDSBOROUGH
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question OF
fact By writing The Evening Star information
Bureau, sic Eye street NE, washington z, p: c.
Please incose three (3) cents for return postsRe'
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Does Anybody Really Know?

To The Editor Of The Star:
With a nod of gratitude to Francis Hitler for
his reply to my letter, would like to press the
question, 'Eoes any one among your readers
really know that mankind is millions Of years
oId?"
This question implies no interest whatever in
the mythical red herrings OF modern snthropol-
ogy such rs the Trinil, Piltdown and Wajah
men.
We are subjected to an endless stream OF
estimates that man Is so and so millions OF
years old.
What we would like is one statement Of fact
by q reader who knows.
DONALD r. HAYNES.
Evening star., 1948-09-09
Motherhood Profession, Too

1VIOINCIJ1OUU u I IIOIGSSIO0, 1 90
TO the Editor of The STAR
In answer to letter printed on August 80, en-
titled Women Themselves to Blame" wish to
say women must bear the children, if there is to
be any posterity. Furthermore, the task Of
rearing the children is rightly theirs. And
every one ought to know that this is full time
-20-year job for each child, allowing little Or
no time for politics, art or anything else. If
a woman has several children, it means rs or 80
years out of her life. So that not until As or
so Is she free to follow profession or study.
Truly, then, is it not q marvel that women
have done as much as they have in the profess
sions and public affairs?
MRS. FRANCES P. LOULAN.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

'Superstitions' Privileged?
To the Editor OF The Star:
7 see that you still are crying about that
Supreme Court decision on the misuse OF the
public school system for the propagation Of
religious superstition. Evidently you cant
take it."
And you are not only unwilling to let the
country have g. real honest separation of
church and state, but you think that your
religious superstitions should have a privileged
position in public discussions. While the
air is to be filled with proreligious propaganda,
no reply or criticism of those views is to be
permitted. That looks very much like an ad-
mission that your religious doctrines cannot
stand public discussion and debate. What is
such a religion worth?
And il your attitude In this matter Is the
result Of Christian teaching, is not that fact
in itself serious Indictment OF the Christian
religion? EDW. WOLESENSKY
Evening star., 1948-09-09
MIR. Wallace's Insult to the South


DIR. IRENE DOUGLAS WALDO.
MIR. Wallace's Insult to the South
To the Editor Of The Star:
I wish the treatment accorded Henry Wallace
in North Carolina had been different in its
nature. The incidents at Durham, Burlington,
Greensboro and Charlotte were unfortunate,
indeed reprehensible. But such Is not peculiar
to any section Of the country.
In 1910 Wendell Willkie received the same
kind OF treatment in the industrial sections of
the Midwest. Unrestrained resentment mani
tests itself at times in the North Is well as the
South. Racial and class consciousness is fertile
ground for Just such expressions. And the
truth is that Mr.. Wallace aud his political
patron saint did as much to create such con-
sciousness as any two men who ever lived
within the confines OF this country. That
Mr.. wallace now has become the victim of such
consciousness is but simple poetic justice.
But the observance Of civil rights does not
justify the deliberate offense Mr. Wallace has
given the dominant political and social sensi-
bilities of the South. Nothing in the Bill OF
Rights or in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Con-
stitution is offended by the doctrine Of local
segregation Or Ehe absence of social equality.
That being true, Mr. Wallace went beyond all
constitutional or civil rights requirements and
offered the South a political and social insult
by canceling reservations at the white hotels
and going out and fraternizing generally in
the homes OF Negroes in the communities
visited because the white hotels would not
accept the Negroes in his entourage as pa
irons. And the fact that he is two times an ex-,
cabinet officer and former Vice President of
the United States only accentuates his insult
to Southern sensibilities.
And that is not ALL He knows full well that
he is no nearer the White House than I am
and will not be on or after November next.
The defeat Of Mr.. Truman or any other candi-
date for the presidency is not worth the dis
ruption Of any great area OF the United States.
To that, add the cowardice involved. The mess
Mr. wallace has made will have to be cleaned
up by the men and women OF goodwill OF both
races, which may take years to accomplish.
JOHN W. HEATER.
Oxford N c.
Evening star., 1948-09-09

innocent person have his mail censored? Such
action is bound to make him feel like crook,
and some leading psychologists believe that
treating q person like crook is liable to cause
him to become one. Censorship Of mail should
not be imposed on any patient until he has
done something wrong to deserve 1t.
Dir. IRENE DOUGLAS WALDO.
Evening star., 1948-09-09


! would be the cure Of the other.
Twas also interested in Mr.. DORIS statement
| that the monstrosties of the human mno
| described by psychiatrists are really only the
Imaginary creatures dreamed up by the hal
| lucinated imaginations Of the authors" What
| an idiotic statement!
There are psychiatrists in all mental institu-
! tions (where Mr.. Dorr would perhaps Ike 10
| see them as patients) who help large porn
| Of the patients to point where they may be
| discharged, and there are great many people
who never get to asylums because they are
lucky enough to obtain help from psychiatrists
before the breaking point Is reached.
- noticed that Mr.. Dorr did not offer any
suggestions beneficial to the insane. Has
| he any? GLENN CAROW.
| To the Editor OF The Star:
| Hundreds OF articles in the press Of the Ma
| ton during the past three or four years have
criticized just about everything pertaining to
mental hospitals and mental patients, and
| several national organizations have large and
complete fles OF authentic information, photo
/ graphs, af1davits and credentials that verify,
corroborate and substantiate everything so far
published in this field.
All the facts are so generally known that
there is little, If anything, one might say that
has not already been said . thousand times or
more in newspapers, magazines. books snd
personal correspondence. However. little has
been said regarding censorship Of patients
mail. It Is . cruel injustice for the o3icials to
assume that every mental patient is desperate
crook. believe that censorship Of mail should
be limited by law only to those persons who
| have actually been convicted OF some Illegal
orense involving the mails. Why should N
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-10-15
Philander Painters
Need No Tricks To
Down A|corn 26.7

The clock work precision of the
passing from Lawrence to WILL
Jams for two touchdowns. the
hard running of Tank" Butler,
and a pass from Taylor to Jack
son led the Philander Smith
Fighting Panthers to a 200 score
at the first half.
The outstanding play of the
game was a fifty yard run off
tackle by Palmer as he ploughed
through about eight would-be
tacklers and was finally knocked
out of bounds on the Braves g.
yard line.
The Panthers struck pay dirt in
every quarter except the second.
The Braves touchdown came in
the fourth quarter on thirty
yard pass from Gilmore to FRYER.
Glen flank" Butler was by far
the outstanding player of the
game with his hard runs off tao
kle. his passes, and low tackles
backing up the line.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-10-15

Randolph, "that the decision did
not turn upon the merits OF the
case at all which hinge upon the
denial Of seniority rights to col
ored locomotive firemen prevent
ing them from working on diesel
locomotives and obtaining new
runs Dodging the main issue, the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
ginemen and Firemen, which is
largely responsible for the infam-
Gus Southeastern Carriers Con-
ference Agreement. claims that
its principal place of business is
Cleveland, and therefore is be-
yond the jurisdiction Of the Dis
triet of Columbia courts. This
position, however, Is definitely
untenable according to the opin-
ions of the attorneys of the Bro
therhood of Sleeping Car Porters
who will press the case to the
limit" concluded Mr.. Randolph.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-10-15
SHAPELESS GIRLS ARE 0UTDATED

NEW YORK-(CNS)-There's just no excuse for anybody
going around these days out of shape! We're putting boldly
but we mean 1t just that If have of ine
gence and what female should be lacking that? and little
geup in the old fashioned there earthly
why you shouldn't curve in the right places
For this Leap Year in which fashion designers
have conspred against the unattached They've put
everything that humanity possible in clothes hide what
young miss hasn't got and to make has, And
they have thought angle down the
make them follow the line
Let's be more explicit If you've bad legs fat
thn too crooked - this the boys need
you've hips and have always been straight stick
pad en- you're too hppy much derriere leave
out the pads but still the flowing skirts Either way YOU
can't wrong and will still hear the whistles
little waistlne or none at ALL high wastne dresses
full skirt and only will know the difference will
gosh you're waisted when you used cry over
stragtasa rod appearance you're chesed
like young boy pad of and stay high wasned
dresses They fully draped and meant for YOU
So you see you can't with the fashions They
meant to deceive and add what God forgot don't
have to starve day in and day look we'll them
have do is take brutal Yourself Pull Yourself
apart another would scientifically and codv Tell
yourself things you know else would buy accord
ingy.
There's the right costume waiting for you that hides inst
the flaw and will make curvaceous stunning
than what figure audience will say and of course
you will smile demurely.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-10-15
Break Color Ban In
Washington School

Observation-Disclosures that col.
ored students will be admitted to
science courses offered at the
Wilson Teachers College, in the
District of Columbia, by the Unit
ed States Department of Agri-
culture, was given the NAACP
this week following complaints of
discriminatory exclusion.
Three students who sought to
enroll in science courses given at
the Wilson Teachers College
which is under the direction of
the District School Board and
provides training for whites only,
we told that they could not
b e enrolled because O +
d requirement by the District
school officials In directing this
problem to the attention of Sec
rotary Charles F. Brannan of the
Department of Agriculture, Clar-
ence Mitchell, NAACP labor sec.
rotary, said:
we feel certain that the De-
partment of Agriculture. under
your administration, does not wish
to be a party to an unfair action
of this kind"
In response, Mr.. Brannan gave
assurance that the departments
school makes no distinction a.
mong its potential students aside
from the usual ones of appro-
PIRATE educational backgrounds.
Each year there are many Ne
groes among its student body. A