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Evening star., 1948-11-19
Ne1V Env0v Arvives

The newly appointed Uruguayan
Ambassador, Senior Alberto Domin-
guez Campora and Sonora de DOM
inguez Campora arrived last eve
ming from New York where they
have been for several days since
landing in this country. Coming
with them is the newly appointed
First Secretary, Senor Jorge Bar
retro.
The Uruguayan Charge d'Affaires
and Sonora de Mora, who went to
New York to meet them, returned
with them to Washington.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Ne1VItalian Attacbe

The italian Embassy has a new
press attache, Sigpor Gabriel Paresci.
Freshly arrived in the Capital, the
diplomat will be followed by his
family later. His wife Dogma is a
member of Italy's most famous fam
lily. She is the daughter of Marconi
inventor of the wireless. and she is
reputed to be a beautiful blond.
Signor Paresci, who was formerly
on the faculty of the University OF
Florence, is temporarily staying with
First Secretary Egidio Ortona until
he finds a house, at which time his
family will join him.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
College Clubs

DR.. Hunter B. Blakely, president
of Queens College in Charlotte, N. c.,
will be guest speaker at a dinner
meeting of the local ahmnae at 7
o o'clock tonight at the Tally Ho
Restaurant, $40 Seventeenth street
NV. Mrs. Carl J. Bastien is han
ding reservations.
Mrs. Abello, wife of the new Phil
ippine Minister, will be guest speak
er at meeting OF the local chapter
of the Greensboro College Alumnae
at 3 pm. Sunday at the home OF
Mrs. Herbert L. Reynolds. 1929
Flower avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
Miss Ethel Herring will be co-host-
ess.
Evening star., 1948-11-19

Partial list. Hundreds Of other turs and
price groups. Al prices subject to tax.
Liberal trade.in on your old fur coat.
Convenient terms can be arranged.
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Bubson's Forecast

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GOSPEL TALKS
BY Rev. r. c. Valentine
Taking Stock

What things were gain to me,
those l counted loss for Christ."-Phil
81.
The new year is an occasion for
stock taking. Business men take
stock in order to determine their
financial status. Individuals take
stock of their lives and make some
resolutions which may or may not
be kept.
1t is a good business practice to
take stock and to seek to move stock
which is getting old on the shelves.
Sometimes assets become liabilities
if they are not sold. The recognizing
of gain and loss is also valuable to
the individual.
AS we look back over the old year,
we see certain things we r not
proud of. The wasted time and eff
forts are certainly to be reckoned as
loss. But perhaps some of the things
we consider gain should also be
counted loss. Paul considered his
aristocratic birth, his misplaced zeal,
and his legal righteousness loss that
he might gain Christ. The things that
had counted for so much lost their
value in his sight when he met
Christ face to face on the Damascus
road.
If we could get the proper per-
spective we must hear Christ say,
eff any man will come after me, let
him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow me."--Matt. 1924.
Many things not wrong in themsel-
yes may keep us from coming to
Christ and experiencing the fulness
of His redemption and joy. In that
case they need to be counted as loss
and forsaken.
Too often our lives are choked by
so many things. so much pleasure
seeking, so many selfish concerns
that there is no room for Christ. So
we need to take stock and to reckon
u profits and our losses. Be done
with those things that hinder your
spiritual progress. Forsake all to fol-
low Christ. Let it be mot I but
Christ" in 1948 if you would ex-
perience real spiritual growth and
blessing.
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Behind The Scenes In
AMERICAN BUSINESS
BY KNIGHT

NEW YORK, December 81 = AS
time passes, some years become me-
morable in our history. There is a
very good chance that 1947 will
prove to be n of those historic
peaks. We r too close to it now to
realize how-statistically--it towers
over anything we have ever known
before. S~tatistically it dwarfs 1929,
that former peak of peacetime in
dustrial achievement. In 1947, the
greatest working force America has
ever known has been solidly en-
ployed. Using the most costly and
most efficient aggregation of tools
and plants ever assembled in the
worlds history, Americans have
turned out a staggering quantity of
goods. But so great has been the de-
mand for those goods that at years
end all kinds of consumers were cry
ing for more. Their demands were
the more insistent because they had
the cash to pay for the goods. Not
only was our gross national product
the greatest ever, but payments to
individuals were on a scale unparal-
led in the long history of mankind.
Can business in 1913 match it's ach-
ievements of 1912 Only time can
tell-time and the politicians in
whose hands rest the chance of the
world to work in peace.
The Nations Food
While other lands lay sterile under
the dictator's blight, and while in
still other lands bureaucracy held
| back the plowman's hand, the Amer
| lean farmer again made America
| bountiful and fruitful. Part Of that
| bounty was packed away for econ
| omical distribution and use, as the
| nations tanners reported the seco-7
| largest vegetable pack in the cour-
try's history. Looking to the future,
the market analysts of American Can
Company predict that demand for
canning crops will reach a new peak
within the next few years. Partly,
they base these predictions or the
apparently irresistible trend upward
for canned foods revealed in a long
range study of packing statistics.
Commercial canning of fruits and
vegetables has expanded since 1909
at a rate Is times faster than the
country's growth in population. Fur
thermore. prices of cans and canned
foods have 'held the line" closer
than most cost-of-living items. Re-
tail prices for 81 canned foods on
October 1, 1947, were actually about
three per cent less than a year ar
Iier, ACCORDING to official figures.
The Nations Homes
At this time last year, the build
ing boom had COLLAPSED, and all the
kings horses and all the kings econ
omists were trying to put the hump
ty-dumpty of building costs back on
the wall. But now the outlook for
housing is bright. From Toledo
where many of the nations windows
are made. comes an optimistic APP
p~raisal. According to John D. Gig
GERS, president Of the Libhey- Owens
Ford Glass Company, about one
million new homes will be built ir
1e48. Through an exceptional work
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ing agreement between management
and labor, designed to hold the line
on costs and raise production, L-O-F
has been able to offer is products
at a price level only about IS per
cent above what it was 10 years ago.
The company finds the trend toward
greater window areas growing in the
new homes being scheduled for 1948.
This trend is the result not only Of
new architectural concepts which
utilize the heat of the sun, but also
the result of the insulating double
paned glass known as Thermopane.
Total flat glass production for 1913
is expected to top even 1947's record
output of 1,250,000,000 square feet.
The Nations Security
During the war America became
not only the worlds largest consum-
err but also, through the miracle of
modern chemistry, one of the worlds
greatest producing areas. Now, at
long last, it looks as though Congress
were about to decide on a policy as
to disposition of the plants and ia
cilities created to produce American
rubber as a war measure. What
should this policy be? All agree that
some of these underwriting facili-
ties be kept in working order as a
vital national-security measure.
Specifically, John L. Collyer. presi-
dent of the B. F. Goodrich synthetic
capacity, proposes a simple, work
able formula: l. government partici-
patton in rubber making, as well as
in ~allocating and other regulation,
should be confined strictly to that
area necessary to assure military Sc
curitv: 2. the facilities should be con-
tinually offered for sale OF lease to
industry, subject to conditions pre-
scribed by the National Security Re-
source Board, and 3, wartime agree
ments for exchange of technical in
formation on man-made rubber
should be ended. Now it is up to the
nations lawmakers.
The Notions Factories
This year American industry faces
a costly program of expanding its
plant facilities. The kind of financ-
ing, j. e., whether il will have to bor-
row the money to build these new
plants. or whether it can raise own
ership money through the sale OF
capital stock, is yet to be determin-
ed. But there is one trend in new
plants which is pronounced. This is
the trend toward automatic controls
The fact is, instruments are not sub
iect to human error. They control
processes better than people can. Sc
th6s year. according to Harold w
sweat. president of Minneapolis
Honeywell Regulator Company, for
, every 81 million put into new plants
| some 81 1000 will go into instruments
| to make that plant more automatic
In 1895, the ratio was only $500 OF
instruments to each 81 million oil
plant. The trend, he says, is parti-
cularly noticeable in the chemica,
and petroleum industries. But it is
also marked in the basic metals, uti.
lities, foods, textiles and ceramic
| fields.
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600 square feet of floor space on a
rail siding and requests information
about power rates, labor supply, tax
rates in communities and transporta-
ton facilities.
Tip For Communities Issuing Bonds
Communities issuing municipal
bonds under the BAWI Act are adj
vised to complete the transcript work
and all legal preliminaries before
the bonds are placed on the market.
BY doing this bonds can be deliver
ed within a reasonable length of time
after the bond sale. According to
Charles and Trauernicht, bonding at
torneys, these preliminaries should
include delivery of the complete
transcript of proceedings to the
states Bond Attorney for his opinion
and valuation of the bonds. At this
time a certified copy of this trans
cript will be sent to the Agricultural
and Industrial Board. After the act
ual sale of the bonds, the community
will then submit to the Board a certi-
fled copy of the bond sale proceed
ings or a copy of the contract for the
sale of the bonds, whereupon the
Board will render its approval on
the bond issue as a whole.
Manual For Community Surveys
The Bureau of Business Research
at the University of Mississippi has
just released "a Manual For Com
munity Surveys" to aid Mississippi
municipalities in making surveys as
a prelude to attracting industry to
the state. Copies may be obtained by
writing to the Bureau of Business
Research.
Governor on Freight Rate Committee
Governor Wright has been APP
pointed a member of the Freight
Rate Committee of the Southern
Governors Conference which met
early in November at Ashville, N. c.
Speciul Event Dutes Wanted
This Board urgently needs a list
of special events in your community
or section for use in Mississippi's
current advertising and publicity
program to attract tourists to the
state. The travel department is now
attempting to make up a Calendar
of Events" for Mississippi for 1948,
which will list such things as pill
grimages, flower shows, horse shows,
fairs, field trials, sailing events, fish
ing rodeos, dog shows, livestock
shows. or any special event which
would interest a visitor. Please CO.
operate by getting this information
to the travel department of the board
as soon as possible.
Truvel Tour Publicity Pays Off
A member of the Hoosier Motor
Club of Indianapolis wrote the fol-
lowing letter to Miss Louann Myers,
manager, who recently completed a
tour of Mississippi as a guest of the
Board. The letter reads as follows:
81 have inst read YOUR article about
your trip through Mississippi. 1t has
a particular appeal to me at this time
because we have been thinking of
going to Tucson the middle of jan
usry and feel we should like to go
vic Vicksburg and NatcheZ. / know
it is 2 little further than going thro-
ugh Cape Giradeau and Little Rock
but we want to go that wav through
Mississippi even if it is a little fur
Their"
Miss Myers added a footnote TO
the effect that she had just routed a
honeymoon couple through Missis-
sippi en- route Mississippi Gulf Coast.
GOVERNOR FIELDING l..
WRIGHT, Chairman,
' -MIII Z PAPKCnAIE.
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Reel Estate

Al. City real estate will continue
to hold firm throughout l948, due
to less available space caused by
pulling down structures to save
taxes, to provide parking spaces, etc.
Theirs also is a Discrimination to-
build city property in view of the
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Anyone who feels that he does not
have time to write that book, or com-
pose that poem he has always had
in his system, should harken to the
career of Lin Yutang, the famous
Chinese writer. Not only does he
but has just invented a new type
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writer which types 10000 Chinese
characters instead of the measly 26.
In an hour, this much-needed mach
inc will do the work which ordin-
arily takes a full day for a Chinese
copyist.
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Out on Long Island a man was
honored recently whose record of
service is longer than some of our
lives. He is Henry L. Stimson, form
er Secretary of War and Secretary of
State, the first under President Taft,
the second under President Roose-
welt through the last war. In between
he was also Secretary of State under
President Hoover. For more than
forty years, Mr.. Stimson served his
country splendidly and well, two
great political parties recognizing his
ability and ignoring party lines to
call him in. General Marshall and
General Eisenhower and a list of
other notables called to honor him
on his Both birthday. Here indeed is
a man who can look back upon a full
and fruitful life and know that the
thanks he receives come from the
grateful hearts of his c~ountrymen.
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Officials of the United Nations
here are somewhat disillusioned-
and this time il isn't Gromyko.
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Two men on the commuter train
were talking about experts-one Gym
ically reminding the other that an
'expert is anyone who is away from
home" They were decrying the
mushroom growth of so-called ex-
perts in all lines of business, parti-
cularly those who become rather
good at giving advice and who in
stall themselves in their own offices
and start charging high prices for it.
Lots Of them make it stick too. I
know one man who gets $1,000
a year from each of seven firms for
being a consultant. He probably does
not know as much as some who make
a tenth that much-but evidently he
makes a lot of people think other
wise.
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present high inflationary building
costs.
AZ. Suburban real estate will con-
tinue in greater demand with still
higher prices during 1948.
43. Big commercial farm acreage
may sell for less during 1913; but
subsistence farms located close to
established communities will hold
up in price.
A. General building should in
crease during 1948. Young people
are gradually getting accustomed to
high building costs and tired of liv-
ing with their mothers-in-law.
as. Both office and residential
rents will be higher in 1948. Property
owners are entitled to receive high
er rentals. Only as such are granted
will there be as much building as
there should be.
As. Mortgage rates during 1948
will continue about the same as in
1947. These rates are very favorable
for those who have the courage to
build. However, in 1948, it will be
harder to obtain mortgage loans.
Politics
AZ. Both President Truman and
the Republican leaders will be play
ing politics up to November Q, l948.
1t is now too early to forecast the
outcome of the Presidential election.
The Republicans, however, have so
bungled the price controversy that
MI. Truman has a fair chance of re-
election.
48. Congreksmen returning from
Europe will determine our foreign
policy and take il out of the hands
of the State Department. the Brass
Hats, and even the President HIM
self.
40. Unless illness or accident inter
feres, Mr. Truman will be the Demo
cratic candidate, with the possibility
of Mr., Marshall being on the tickef
with him.
so. We forecast a greater interes'
in sane religion. temperance, anc
civic righteousness during l948, with
J continued reaction against denomi
nationalism, intolerance and dogma.
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Red faces and many apologies fol-
lowed.
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Inside the window at IT'S 5th Ave-
nue., a man was working on some
thing and I stopped to watch. In
front of him was a mechanical device
looking something like a small lathe.
He was holding a piece of glass
which he skillfully applied to a
grinding wheel. Nearby were tools,
other bits of glass and metal, and a
sign which said Eye glasses made
and fitted while you wait" / went
in and talked to the proprietor. He
explained that this was a new shop
and that the idea itself was rather
new. Anyone who needed glasses
could come in, be examined and fit
ted, and within thirty minutes walk
out with a new pair of especially
made spectacles-good ones too, he
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4 i !; v Is! Is!

Just as the traffic light changed,
the woman started across And
Street, but she didn't notice the cars
beginning to move. An automobile
brushed close to her and she jump
ed-and just then a gorgeous feather
which adorned her hat came loose
and dropped to the street. She didn't
notice this, either. A man in the a
stuck his head out the window and
tried to tell her that she had dropp-
ed something. Evidently thinking he
was razzing her for nearly getting
hit, she ignored his remark and
shouted back in a Brooklyn accent,
"ah shet up, you smart aleck!" and
strobe on across the street, leaving
her resplendent feather lying in
g~loriously amid the rushing traffic.
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II the writer's of the radio show,
Mystery Time" thought they had
picked out an unusual name when
they dubbed a certain character
"Amos Galley" they were most de-
finitely wrong. The other night when
this program was on the air and was
being heard in Montreal, Canada,
this character in the play was cleo
trocuted for a crime he had never
committen-all of which seemed
dramatically fine-until a man by
that name picked up the telephone
and told the radio officials his home
was in Montreal, he was very much
alive and had committed no crime,
Evening star., 1948-11-06
By Alice Eversmon

The London String Quartet re-
turned after q long absence to give
a program in the Library of Con-
gress last night under the auspices
of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Foundation. The group, now made
up of John Pennington and Lau-
rent Halleux, violins; Cecil Bonva-
lot, viola, and c. Warwick Evans,
cello, has a distinction of style not
to be found in the same measure in
other ensembles. To hear the Lon
don foursome play is to hear real
music. The audience, filling the
hall, accorded them q reception that
brought the genial artists out at
least four times after the first num-
ber.
In the years that interest in
chamber music has grown to such
great proportions, string quartet
playing has also gone long way
forward. Perhaps 1t has gone too
far. At least, when listening to the
Londoners one feels that the mas
sRe, tempestuous delivery affected
by many groups is quite out Of keep
ing with the original design of
this type of music. The London
Quartet returns 1t to its natural
frame. Its dimensions are never
forced out of line and the musi-
clans served as a medium for the
music to speak for itself.
Naturally, this latter point is the
height of artistry. 1t means COM
plete concentration and absorption
and almost an equal amount of alb.
negation of the personal. The Lon
don players achieve this by a gath
ering together, as 1t were, of their
tone so that one hears the whole
sound with the shadings the voices
OF the different instruments contrib
ute. Their personalities do not in
trude except as an artistic unit and
this is further assured by their
quiet manner in performance. It
would seem that their principal OBJ
jective was to preserve in the art
its intimate character.
The program last night consisted
OF Hayden's Quartet in D minor,
op. rs, No. O." the Dohnanyi Quar-
tet in D fiat major, op. Is" and the
Beethoven Quartet in A minor, op.
1872"
The playing of the Haydn work
was a masterpiece. The infinite
delicate details that make this one
of Haydn's greatest compositions
were realized with complete unan-
unity in matters OF dynamics and
Evening star., 1948-11-06
This Changing World
Truman Not Expected to Renew Efforts
To Get in Touch With Stain Personally

man intends to change it. The time
may come, 1t Is true, when we shall
find out that the airlift has to be
abandoned. But we shall cross that
bridge when we get to it, according
to those close to Mr.. Truman.
For the time being the propa-
ganda value Of the airlift is still
satisfactory, although it is realized
that we face many headaches in the
Berlin area. For instance, we shall
not be able to supply the population
Of that city more than so pounds OF
coal per family this winter. Last
winters ration was $50 pounds. The
shortage of coal is so great that the
heating of the houses and ofices
occupied by American officials and
their families which had been
scheduled for November / was post
poned to December !.
Planes Wearing Out.
These difficulties together with the
prospects that our transport planes
will be in poor shape by next spring
are well known in Moscow. Also it
is known there that the coming win
ter will see a number of major
strikes and social upsets in France
and italy. All these problems have
been engineered by the Politburo
and are designed to make our po-
sition In Europe untenable.
Mr.. Truman's reported desire to
have a -to-heart talk with the
Soviet dictator, through a highly
placed American Intermediary can
be useful only if he feels there Is
some common ground for an under
standing with Moscow. There is
no question of having anybody ex-
plore the mind of the Russian
leader. That is only too well known
by now
Therefore, say some, of Mr.. Tru-
mans advisers, unless there is some
definite indication from Moscow that,
since the American people have
given the President another four
year mandate, there must be q shift
in the Kremlin policies toward the
United States and other free coun-
tries, the sending of an emissary to
see the Soviet Prime Minister could
serve no good purpose. 1t would
merely give the impression to the
rest of the world that we are scared.
And 1t would have O. good propa-
ganda value-for the Russians-and
it would help neither the cause
of peace nor Americas stand in the
world.
Evening star., 1948-11-06
On the Other Hand
Now to Give Credit Where Due
Those Who Helped Truman Most

platter. Not satisfied with doing II
once. they did 1t twice; first in the
regular session and then again In
the extra session following the con-
ventions, right out in the broad
light of the campaign already under
way.
There are others, and one of them
is the prepoSterous j. Parnell
Thomas. Encouraged by his party
leaders, he strove nightly, and with
all fairness forgotten, to substitute
communism" for the real issues.
The people didn't flnd that suffi-
cient. In his own funny district he
was reelected for some reason,
but two Of his active committee
colleagues, Representatives Nc
Dowell of Pennsylvania and Vail of
Illinois, were washed out at the
polls.
These little items are related, not
to rub salt in anybody's wounds,
but merely as hints to any American
boy who may want to become Presi-
dent when he grows up.
tcopyright, 1913. Globe syndicate)