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Evening star., 1948-09-12

on a demonstration table in
the Motor Pool Office. Every
detail Of an accident and even
shrubbery that might OBJ
struct the drivers view is in
cluded.
Before a soldier Is per-
mitted to leave the garage on
his first driving assignment
he is given a thorough train
ing course regardless of his
previous driving experience.
He must learn traffic regula-
tions of the District, Virginia
and Maryland and be able to
make his way directly to any
point to which his assignment
slip may order.
The soldiers who drive gen.
erals as well as those of lesser
rank to their destinations
must be punctilous in their
Army discipline. They can
not smoke while driving and
are forbidden to lounge
around in the cars. On the
other hand. they may relax
In a recreation room in the
garage and socialize around
the Motor Pool beverage bar
between assignments.
The Motor Pool, which has
not had a fatality in acci-
dents in more than two
decades of operation, has been
highly commended by top
ranking officers of the Pen
tagon. When Gen. Eisen-
hover left for his Columbia
duties. he wrote the officers
and men of the pool: "You
have done a good job!"
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Il Rules for Safe Driving in the Army

gans in the continuous safety
campaign of the United States
Army Motor Center in the
Pentagon. Although the psy-
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Lost Act in CzechosIovokio

Premier Gottwald and his Kremlin-
serving co-conSpirators have now put the
final touch to their embalming job on
democracy in Czechoslovakia. They have
decreed that there will be only one slate
of candidates in the elections" scheduled
for May %. There will be no opposition
ticket. The Communists will name the
officials eligible for a vote Nobody else
will be allowed to run. The peoples choice
will be dictated to them.
All this, according to Premier Gottwald,
is being done in order to confirm the
results Of the February events In demo-
cratic, constitutional and parliamentary
fashion" He has said this with straight
face. The statement Is as brazen, as
mocking and as indecent butchery of
the truth as any mouthed by the Kremlin's
other puppets in the dark world of terror
and lies behind the iron curtain. Democ-
racy, constitution parliament-these are
the great and noble things that Gottwald
claims to serve by burying them! He is
entitled now to take his place in history
sde-by side with the biggest hypocrites
ever to have won the contempt of honest
men,
This last dreary act in the Czech tragedy
is not surprising. Of course. As in every
other satellite land in the Soviet empire,
its inevitability was fixed the moment the
Communists staged their coup in Prague
two months ago. The pattern followed by
Gottwald has long since become revoltingly
familiar to the free world, to any one who
knows anything at all about the recent
history of such places as Poland, Hungary,
Romania and Bulgaria. The history is
simply and grimly tale of native traitors
working for the Kremlin in nearly dozen
different countries and numbering liberty
there in the name of democracy. Never
In modern times-not even in the heyday
of Hitler-has there been a more ruthless
or more monstrous use Of duplicity and
treachery as weapons of aggression.
Two months ago, before the coup, Czecho-
slovakia was preparing for genuinely dem
ocratie elections. But the Communists,
representing only minority Of the people
and realizing that many of their earlier
supporters had drifted away from them,
could not stand such test. could not
bear the idea of vote exposing their
weakness. So with the help and blessing
Of the Kremlin, they did their dirty work.
They killed on freedom. They did away
with opposition parties. They took over
the ballot box and made sure that they
alone would control 1t. The Gottwald
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private chapel:

private chapel; as Bliss Carman put it,:
They're praising God on Sunday.
They'll be all right on Monday,
It's just little habit they've acquired"
The prophet Ezekiel was asked to look
through hole in the wall and found himself
peering at an, underground crypt. He was
amazed to find there, bowling down to rep
resentations of vile and repulsive things, the
very same leaders Of Israel whom he had
seen worshipping in the. temple above. AS he
looked in incredible and shocked surprise,
his mysterious conductor whispered do you
see what the national and religious leaders do
in the dark, every man In the private chapel
Of his own imagination?" Here is mirrored q
hideous possibility. For every man, unoer-
meath the public temple, where all actions
and religious gestures are scrutinized, is q
hidden chapel where is the altar Of inner de-
votion On its walls are the symbols Of the
afnnities which draw his heart as the fame
draws the moth. Here both the saint and the
sinner paint the things which reveal the ruling
passions. Forever we are frescclng the walls
Of that chamber with the representations Of
the things we really love and admire. the
deepest afinities of our hearts
That chapel beneath and within is not, we
are thankful, necessarily pagan as was the
one the prophet saw. The decorations there
may not be dissertations; they may be corona
Evening star., 1948-04-11

$1,000. The localities mentioned included: sante
Fe and Grant Counties, N Mex; Mount
Mica, Paris, Me; Haddam Neck, Conn;
Cowee Valley, N. c., and Calaveras County.
Calf. Special Agent" Kunz was 80 at the time.
He had been vice president and gem expert
at Tnany's from 1879 onward. position which
he retained until his death at 78 in 1882. One
of the greatest authorities on jewels who ever
has lived, he left books on precious stones and
their ornamental settings which are supreme
classics OF their kind. Many foreign govern
ments gave him decorations.
The annual meeting OF the Washington Golf
Club, held at 'its pretty little clubhouse on
the links" on April 5, 1893, was
Golf Club reported in The Star of the fol-
Election lowing day. new constitution
was put into effect" and the fols
lowing members were elected to the Board OF
Governors: Henry May Blair Lee, George
HELEN, Arthur T. Brice, James Mcmillan, John
A. Baker, Edward r. Riggs, John r. Leech, w.
J. Boardman and DR.. T. Morris Murray. Mr..
May was chosen president by the board at i1
organization session Immediately after the
general meettug.
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single ticket decree Is merely the last
winding sheet needed to wrap up Czech
democracy and throw 1t In the grave.
This terrible evil would be perhaps
bit less terrible II the Communists had at
least the decency not to try presenting 1t
as a good and wholesome form Of democ-
rscy. But they are what they are. Their
morals are an inversion, q hideous bur-
lesque of everything that honest people
hold to be moral. In the system that
prevails in Czechoslovakia, in every satel-
lite land and in the Soviet Union, the free
world is up against thing Of the devils
making. TO say that we must make our
selves strong enough to meet 1t, strong
in all ways, is merely to recognize the
grinly obvious
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Revolt in Boqotu

The confusion which pervadeS the news
reports out of Bogota, twenty-four hours
after the meeting place of the Ninth Pan
American Conference was engulfed In a
savage revolt, should serve to prevent the
forming Of any settled opinion as to what
has happened in the Colombian capital,
or what can be expected to happen.
It Is the belief of DR.. Eduardo Santos,
Vice President of Colombia, that the up
rising was not revolution in the conven-
tional sense, but rather riotous demon
stration of resentment over the asSasSina-
ton of DR.. Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, popular
head of Colombias Liberal Party. Since
DR.. Santos is himself Liberal, and since
he has been in communication, from his
present headquarters in New York, with
friends and associates in Bogota, his view
Is entitled to respect.
Furthermore the dispatches from Bo-
gotta, at least up to noon yesterday, tend
to confirm DR.. Santos opinion. After an
afternoon and night of savage, bloody
rioting, the disorders had subsidized by
yesterday morning. And Conservative
President Mariana Ospina Perez claimed
that government forces were in control Of
the situation.
If these things are true, the fair infer
ence is that the revolt, or perhaps 1t should
be called the riot, has spent its force. This
would indicate that the outbreak was In
fact a spontaneous uprising, touched of
by frenzied rage at the spread of the word
that DR.. Gaitan had been slain.
There is, Of course, the contrary view
that the revolt was planned and carried
out by Communist agents In furtherance
of instructions from Moscow to do every
thing possible to discredit and break up
the Pan American Conference. On the
basis of the available evidence, this seems
improbable. For one thing this theory
necessarily assumes that the assassination
of Dr. Gaitan was engineered by the Com
munists. While that is possible, 1t is un-
likely, for Dr. Gaitan, while evidently not
a Communist himself, was well over to the
political left, and had accepted Communist
support. A more reasonable view would
be that, as claimed by DR.. Santos, the
rioting began more or less spontaneously
after the assassination, and that the Com
munists then jumped in to exploit 1t In
every possible way. This would not have
been too difficult, for popular feeling
against the Perez coalition government
has been rising in recent weeks. Shortly
before the conference was convened, DR..
Gaitan openly broke with President Perez,
who won his office in 1946 with minority
of the vote, thanks to split in the Liberal
Party.
Whatever may be the facts pertaining
to the revolt, however, there can be no
doubt that it Is a disastrous setback for
the Pan American meeting. That the
conference can continue in Bogota is ex-
ceedingly doubtful. And II 1t has to be
postponed or transferred to some other
place, the Communists will have achieved
a large measure of their alleged purpose
to discredit 1t.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
The Algerian Elections

The outcome of the current Algerian
elections is generally interpreted as a
victory for moderation and stability. These
elections were the first to be held under
q statute passed by the French National
Assembly last autumn, providing for
local Assembly. And that in itself, was a
noteworthy innovation
Algeria's status has Away been some
what anomalous. France gained posses
sion of the country by conquest begun
in 1880 and extending over many years
against the stubborn resistance Of the
natives, who are Mohammedans of Arab
or Berber origin. However, French policy
aimed at colonizing the country with
Frenchmen and other Europeans, so as
to make it eventually an extension of
France itself This colonization policy
was successful to the extent that there
are now fully 100000 persons of European
origin or descent who feel themselves
loyal Frenchmen.
However, the natives have never been
thus assimilated. And here, as elsewhere,
the introduction of modern sanitation and
ordered living has resulted in rapid in
crease Of the native population, which
today outnumbers the European element
approximately eight to one Until re-
Gently, the natives did not participate in
political life, with the exception of a
selves with the ruling French minority
Politically, Algeria had been treated as a
part of the homeland, with representation
in the French Parliament on a depart
mental basis. Meanwhile, French rule had
been extended over most of North Africa.
although both Tunis on the east and
Morocco on the west were technically
"protectorates" of the French Empire
rather than colonies.
The gravest threat to French ascend
ancy has been the rise of native nation
alist movement throughout North Africa.
In Algeria, this stressed the claims of the
natives to political rights. These claims
were opposed by the Europeans as the
opening wedge for native domination and
the ultimate attainment of independence
involving the subsection or expulsion OF
the Europeans. This native nationalism
was stimulated both by Frances defeat
in World War II and by Communist propa-
ganda, which sought to foment trouble on
all sides and bring about a chaotic
situation.
Faced with this difficult situation, the
French National Assembly attempted a
compromise solution by giving Algeria
local self-government while holding the
balance between Europeans and natives
This was done by apportioning half the
seats to Europeans and half to natives
Like most compromises, this did moi
satisfy either party. Europeans objected
Evening star., 1948-04-11
T ao11,,r A ha,d ! Some Shadoos of Coming Evenfs
AOOklllS 1AllOdu Are Noted Here and abroad
(By the World staff of the Associated Press.)

ROME.-Anti-C Communists here and in
Northern Italy say they expect their opponents
to launch something big" as a last-minute
effort to win borderline votes in the national
elections next Sunday. No one claims to know
exactly, but most say it will be some new
scandal" aimed at high Christian Democratic
figures. One prominent Christian Democrat in
Milan says he thinks it may be something in
the international field" Some political
prophets predict significant shifts in geograph-
ical distribution of pro- Communist votes in
the election. Reports indicate the Communist
Socialist combine will lose votes In its tradi-
tional stronghold, the industrial north, but
gain ground in the agricultural south. The
usual explanation is American aid to italy
under the Marshall Plan is easily understood
by industrial workers, but farm hands, whose
clamor for agrarian reform has gone largely
unheeded, lend attentive ears to Leftist prom
ises.
LONDON-Backers Of the proposal to admit
Italy to the United Nations expect the move
to put Russia on the spot. Russia blocked Italy
last fall, but now 1t is supporting Italian
Communists in next Sundays election and Is
expected to hesitate before registering q new
objection which might cost vital votes.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
A Government for Germany?

| The obvious and probably irreparable
breakdown of four power military admin
istration of Germany confronts the West
ern Allies with an insistent dilemma. Are
| they frankly to recognize the splitting OF
Germany caused by Soviet sabotage and
| build up their unified zones into new
| entity? Or are they to predicate their
actions on a theoretical restoration Of
| German unity even though this means a
showdown clash with the Soviet Union?
Ofhand, 1t might seem that the former
alternative is the safer, more practical, and
| more easily attainable. Yet such a course
might fatally handicap the Western Allies
| in their competition with Soviet Russia
for the cooperation and theological alle-
glance of the German people. In this
issue, the moral imponderables" may out
weigh material factors.
PROSTATE and amorphous though 1t be
today, there can be no question that even
! tually some sort of q revived Germany
will emerge. The national spirit of the
German people will tolerate no other solu-
ton. And any foreign influence which
can be identified as opposing that evolu-
tion toward national reunification will
incur the growing enmity Of the Germans,
no matter what material benefits may
attend partition. Realization Of that fact
is the driving force behind Communist
propaganda, which seeks to convince Ger
mans everywhere that Soviet Russia is
the sole possible architect Of German re-
union. And 1t is obvious that Soviet
backed regime set up in Berlin and claim
ing allegiance over all Germany is going
to be established in the near future.
Unless the Western Allies are to incur
heavy moral handicap, they must counter
this Communist move by establishing
regime which, though temporarily func-
tioning only in the three western zones,
will be predicated upon it's eventual extern
sion to the Soviet eastern zone
as WELL
The legal as we'll as the moral basis for
such action by the Western Powers Is
clear. BY the agreement made by the
victors over Hitlers defunct Reich on June
S, 1945, 1t was specifically provided that,
pending peace settlement, the German
frontiers are to be considered as those of
December 81, 1887. 1t was likewise pro-
vided under the Potsdam agreement that
this provisional Germany" was to be
considered and treated as an economic
whole.
Both of those agreements have been sys-
tematically and hagrantly violated by
Soviet Russia and its satellite, Poland.
That is all the more reason for the Western
Powers to stand on the validity of those
agreements and to refuse to recognize
de facto changes wrought by Moscow in
defiance of its obligations.
The difficulties involved in such course
are obvious Likewise the dangers But
any other course threatens in the long run
to exact heavy price for following the
dictates of temporary expediency.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Cherry Blossoms Are News

1t is refreshing to the spirit in these
otherwise depressing times to consider the
cherry blossoms. Here they are again,
boldly vying for observation-disclosures of the
trouble and turmoil that would claim a
monopoly on our thoughts.
The cherry blossoms, with customary
wiles, refuse to be crowded off the front
pages by news of rioting and bloodshed,
of threats of war, of strikes, of legislation,
of politics This year, certainly, their
chances of crashing into the news and pic
ture cdAlmns with their usual springtime
vigor seemed imperiled by competition
from South America, Berlin Moscow and
London-not to mention domestic events.
But editors are people. Who are they to
say that there is not news-good news-in
the annual blossoming of the trees around
the Tidal Basin and on Hams Point? The
wonders of nature are no less noteworthy,
surely than mans achievements in devils
Ing new ways of prolonging life-or ending
it by radioactive blast.
1t was ironic, of course, that these trees
should have been token of good will from
a nation which later was to revert to
treachery against us. The first shipment,
In 1909, was destroyed because of pests and
disease with which they were afflicted. A
second consignment from Tokyo arrived in
1912. The first tree was planted at the
Tidal Basin by Mrs. William Howard Taft,
wife of the then President.
The early blooming light-pink single
blossom variety was planted around the
Basin. The deeper-hued double blossom
trees were placed in East Potomac Park.
Their first blooming provided the Basin
with feathery pink halo that since has
become as familiar to the people outside
of Washington as to those of us who live
here. Photographers, amateur and pro-
fessional, have found inspiration in this
annual spectacle. Prose and poetry have
proclaimed the glory of the short-lived
scene. Thousands of citizens each year
have timed their visits so that they could
join in the annual pilgrimage to Washing
ton in cherry blossom time.
There is a measure Of reinsurance for
ourselves and a ray of hope for worried
world in the arresting fact that America is
still free enough and happy enough and
rational enough to find time to observe
the miracle of the Towering trees along
It's CAPITALS water front,
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Onion Juice

The countryman is resigned to the in
evitable complications of progress. He
knows that switches, buttons and levers
will be distinguishing mark of civiliza-
ton in the second half of the century.
He is interested to watch the new models
of horseless carriages and see just how
low they can be built and still clear the
frost heaves in roads. He realizes frozen
and dehydrated foods loom large in
mans quest for security. Man-controlled
weather Is just over the horizon and a
motor has been affixed to the wheel
barrow. But the most recent news item
Is going just trifie too far too fast
According to progress report of the
New York State Agricultural Experiment
Station at Geneva the latest product
of foods research is concentrated onion
Juice. The report frankly admits the
liquid can be stored for as long as two
years and still give good flavor to many
dishes. Devised as a use for off-grade,
discolored or blemished onions, the con-
centrate can be used in soups, sauces,
pickles, catsup and other food products -
Entirely aside from the horrendous GER
tainty that New Workers will inevitably
put onion juice in clam chowder along
with tomatoes. carrots and parsnips, 1t
Is a saddening thing to reflect on the
culinary crimes now possible. The coun-
tryman wants few honest and authors
tative onions fried with his supper potatoes
in the old iron spider. Onions in stews
and chowders must be the pristine product
to give satisfaction to the palate. Genuine
onion soup is one of the best in the list,
but If it is liquid merely favored by
concentrate it will sink to the level of
mediocrity Progress is certain in a
dynamic, democratic society, but it does
seem as though there is enough to worry
about today without the possibility of
onion juice supplanting the use of the
edible bulb of the liliacious Asiastic plant.
Evening star., 1948-04-11

tions OF the hottest and the best. TO be sure,
the Hbertine paints there the obscenities which
corrupt his thoughts and the debaucheries
which degrade. For mans spiritual and
moral deterioration begins with the debase-
ment of his Imagination. OF course, the pure
ii heart, out Of thoughts and fancies that
uplift and enrich, will paint upon those walls
the things that are excellent and of good
report.
The solemn thing Is that this chapel may
be Gods or the devils; 1t may be shrine Of
hate or shrine of love. But 1t is, in every
case. the place Of Hearts Desire. Howe'er 1t
be, from the cradle to the grave we each live
In the presence Of the things we etch. day by
day. upon the cloistered walls Of the soul
Those inner companionships inevitably mold
our lives into their likeness, even as in Haw-
thorne's story Ernest, who gazed constantly
at the noble features of the Great Stone Face,
was changed into the same image. As a man
thinketh in his heart, 50 is he.
Is that mystic shrine within you covered
with such figures as were laid bare in some
chambers of Pompeii, where the excavators
were led to cover up the pictures because they
were so foul? Or is your private chapel like
the cells In the Convent Of st. Marco in
Florence. where Fra Angeles holy sweet
genius has left on the bare walls to be looked
at, as he fancied, only by one devout brother
in each cell, angel imaginings and noble, pure
celestial faces that calm and hallow those
that gaze upon them?
So
Thinking Of the beatitudes or the blasphemies
suggested by these searching questions, fol-
lowing US like the eyes Of portrait which
seem to pierce one from whatever angle 1t Is
viewed, let us fall on our knees with the prayer
upon penitent lips:
Create in me q clean heart, o God. and
renew q right spirit within me-"
In that private chapel known only to Thee,
unto whom all hearts are open, all desires
known. and from whom no secrets are hid,
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the
inspiration Of Thy Holy Spirit" and so make
my heart an altar and Thy love the flame.
Evening star., 1948-04-11

to native parity while native. extremists
demanded full representation that would
have insured their parliamentary pre-
dominance.
The first elections were thus held In
an atmosphere OF extremist agitation and
uncertainty. However, the results are
encouraging. The extreme native nation-
alists did not do as well as the moderates;
while the Communists got nowhere. The
Algerian Assembly will thus probably start
out with workable prospects. There is no
likelihood that Algerias status within the
French Empire will be challenged.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Bold Air Force

Air Force leaders are so sold on the idea Of
an all-powerful air arm that they are virtually
ignoring a presidential rule. The rule is that
no agency can ask for more money than the
President recommends that Congress give It,
Both Air Secretary Symington and Gen.
Spaatz, retiring chief of air staff. have steadily
plugged 7o-group Air Force before congress
sional committees. Proposals made to Con-
gress by President Truman and Defense Sec
retary Forrestal would give the Air Force only
IS groups Gen. Spaatz announced his retire.
ment after proposing the 7o-group force. Some
high officials believe Mr.. Synington may re-
sign in Billy Mitchell" type of protest, If
he is ordered to lay of.