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Evening star., 1948-01-13
No Lowering of Standards

4SO AOWCIulS VI OldlAdI dS
To the Editor of The Star:
The editorial published recently on the short
age Of cadets and midshipmen at the serv-
ice academies was a penetrating analysis.
The writer clearly has shown the difficulties
confronting the individual who seeks appoint
ment to one academy or the other. How
ever, feel that he has placed emphasis
too heavily on certain difficulties, and possibly
has chosen the wrong solution to the problems.
Certainly, the appointment system is unfair
both to the academies and to a person seeking
entrance to one of them. Representatives, who
jealousy hold the right to appoint cadets
and midshipmen, consistently favor the sons
of those men who are in position to help
them politically. This means that the much
more capable candidates are neglected. In
wartime it means that men are killed who
might have been saved by superior leadership.
Most Senators and Representatives are not
of the opinion of Representative Fulton penn
sylvania), who said: II lose ten friends for
every friend I gain by appointing boy to West
Point" If they were, they would abolish the
present restricted appointment system for
more universal one such as the Coast Guard
method. Candidates for the Coast Guard
Academy are selected from the United States
at large by competitive mental and physical
examination This prevents congressional
favoritism from producing Coast Guard mid
slipn1en of inferior quality.
But evidently more Representatives cling to
the views of Representative Hope Kansas, who
believes that the present system is properly
democratic for free country. He said that any
other method might produce a military clique
such as the Junkers in Germany before
World War H. To this argument it can be
said that an appointment system open to the
male youth Of the United States at large Is
vastly more democratic than the present way
of restricting appointees to the friends OF
Representatives.
It is true that the service academies are
competing with Public Law 346 which gives
veterans the right to attend college with the
tuition paid by the Government But the vet
Grams are passing out of the age group for
appointment. What must worry the super-n-
tendents of West Point and Annapolis is
that the youths who have not seen active
military service are impressed unfavorably
with what the Army and Navy have to offer
in the way of work, salaries, social life. etc.
Undoubtedly, If the entrance requirements
were lowered the academies quotas would
be filed without difficulty. The solution for
Evening star., 1948-01-13
The Cold War Gets Hotter

Coming on the heels of Prime Minister
Attlee's recent address in the same vein,
Herbert Morrison's somberly blunt attack
on the Kremlin and it's satellites Is a
significant measure of how the British are
hardening against the Soviet Union More
than that, it is evidence OF marked
warming up in the "cold war" between
Communist totalitarianism and the free
western world.
Mr.. Morrison has not sugared his WORDS
Speaking as Deputy Prime Minister ana
majority leader of the House of Commons,
he has made clear that Britain's Labor
government is fed up with Soviet policy.
It is fed up with the endless stream OF
"untruthful and malicious" propaganda
emanating from the Kremlin and its pup
pet Red regimes behind the iron curtain
Tt is fed UP with their ruthless police-state
methods and with their hypocritical effort
to describe those methods as democratic" !"
It is fed up, above ALL with their avowed,
rule-or-ruin offensive to wreck the Euro
pean Recovery Program and impede the
progress of mankind-an offensive that
can be explained only as something in
the more misery there is in the world the
better it is for revolutionary Communist
success, the doctrine of triumph through
chaos"
But if the men of the Kremlin imagine
that they can play this game without
running into serious and determined op-
position, they are hoodwinking themselves.
MIR. Morrison has left little room for doubt
that Britain is resolved to stand with. the
United States and other Independent lands
in doing everything it can-through the
United Nations or otherwise-to meet the
Red challenge. In his words, the British
fought the recent war to win the right
of free men to free opinion and the right
to live under institutions of their own
choosing" They do not propose now to
"lie down" to a Soviet policy calculated
to make nonsense of the sacrifices and the
victory" of that war by substituting for
Hitlerism a Communist tyranny that re-
jects the hand of friendship, refuses to
cooperate for a decent peace, and gives
every sign of wanting to dominate Europe
and the world.
Mr.. Morrison has made point of ap
pealing again to the Soviet Union to show
"the necessary willingness to reach ac-
commodation, to give as well as take-the
will to agree" And he has underscored
his appeal with plain warning-namely,
that unless the men of the Kremlin begin
to reverse engines and to discard provoca-
tive polices" they will be risking war at
some time" OF course, war at some time"
does not necessarily mean tomorrow or
next year or five years from now. But it
does mean, in Mr.. Morrison's implied
opinion that the situation today is he2ded
toward armed conflict and that the conflict
might break out sooner than the world
dares to think If Russian policy does not
change for the better.
When men as highly placed as Mr.. Nor
yison speak in terms of this sort, it is not
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Lines to An Old Bed Sheet

A hundred years ago you Dere blue far
Blo1ping In Ireland-,otld and nnerpressed;;
Today you hold the torasths OF fragrant tDar
NM mothers mothers sadiroas caressed
Into your length-secrets of pfnks and
clorer;;
There are some little scur-ltke seams
betDeen
Your careful folds: once you 1oere sndgged
by RoDer,
once by q small scared ghost on Halloween.
You tented giggltng children: serued as
shroud
For the piano tohen ,oe a0ere a,oay;
But you are quite as beautiful and proud
As you ,oere, gift-,orapped, on that ,oedding
day,
When Grandma, in ,0hite lace and pearls,
united
The ribbons, blushtag as betit brtde'
COSETTE MIDDLETON.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

beside the point to wonder. grimly. how
much longer the "cold war" can be waged,
or how much hotter it can get, before it
becomes full-scale explosion. There are
areas in the world Greece, for instance
where such speculation is pertinent as of
this moment Whether it knows it or not,
the Soviet Union, in its violently dishonest
and aggressive theological and economic
campaign against the west, is playing with
the deadliest kind of dynamite
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Drugstore History

The modern drugstore Is a distinctly
American invention. ut has been the work
of many minds and many hands. No one
person is entitled to a predominant share
of the credit for its evolution. But Cynthia
Lowry, writing for the Associated Press,
wants DR.. Thomas Hunter, general
practitioner of medicine at Newport,
Rhode Island, remembered as the sponsor
of the earliest still extant drugstore. The
date of the opening of his establishment,
she says. was 1852. Philip and John Cas-
well, brothers. took over the business in
1845, added William Massey as partner
and opened New York branch in the
original Fifth Avenue Hotel. The firm
still prospers, but it's activities are centered
in Manhattan and all that remains of
the Newport store is its facade, carefully
preserved in the Newport Museum.
Not everybody, however, will accept Miss
Lowry's theory of drugstore history If it
shuts out the enterprises of the first Vir-
ginia colonists. As early as 1921 Sir Francis
Wyatt, coming out to Jamestown, was
instructed to employ apothecaries for the
making of oil of walnuts. The settlers
coincidentally were requested to watch for
gums, dyes and drugs unknown or at any
rate uncommon In Europe. Sassafras, 1t
seems, had been carried from the New
World to the Old for as far back as 1852.
In the very nature of things the first non
native Americans were bound to learn OF
medicinal herbs with which the Indians
long had been familiar. Quinine repre-
sented a case in point. The virtues of the
bark of the cinchona tree were appreciated
by the aboriginal Peruvians before they
were discovered by the Jesuits about 1900
and popularized by the Countess Of Chin
chon in Spain in 1640.
Drugs, 1t should be emphasized, were not
isolated from other commodities In those
early times. It was not until the end Of
the first quarter Of the nineteenth century
that the professional pharmacist began to
emerge as man of science, restricting his
interests to his own branch of medicine.
The famous Stabler- er-Leadbeater shop at
107 South Fairfax street, Alexandria, prob
ably was pioneer in the specifically
pharmaceutical field. It was opened in
1892 and operated until 1888 and, though
other articles were dispensed within its
walls, its main function and purpose was
that OF drugstore in the particular mean
ing of the phrase.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Decentralization as a Cure

TO the Editor OF The STAR
Please let me express my appreciation OF
Donald r. Richberg's article appearing in The
Sunday Star, January 4, and heartily indorse
the letter Of Sydney B. Smith published In
The STAR January Z. To me this is one OF the
straws in the wind indicating that our coun-
try is returning to sanity. Let me say further
that believe decentralization is the answer
to most of the worlds present ills. Democracy
works best from the bottom up, not from the
top down Let Congress clip the wings OF
the Federal bureaucracy, and give back to the
States their proper functions. In Kentucky,
the community council idea is being applied
effectively on Statewide basis and is gain
ing nationwide recognition. That is real
democracy. DONALD z. dAfsE.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,oriter, although it is permissible for
,Driter kno1on to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
O. Is there a sea in the Antarctic named
for the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
r. B.
A. According to the Federal Board of Geo.
graphic Names the late President declined
having sea named for him because Norway
had previously named 1t In honor Of the ex-
plorer Roald Amundsen.
@. How many dog racing tracks are there
and which is the most popular?-J. L.
A. According to the new Encyclopedia OF
Sports by Frank Menke, sports authority,
there were 16 tracks in operation in 1916
one in Arizona, one In Oregon, three in Massa-
chusetts. and II in Florida. Wonderland track
at Revere Mass, drew about 100000 paid
patrons. apparently a record for one track
during a single season
Q. What is the daily cost of feeding soldier
Of the United States Army?-N. B. E.
A. In September, 1947, the daily cost of .
soldiers food was reported to be 98 cents.
One year earlier it was 49 cents
@. What college or university has the most
football players?-D. r. E.
A. It Is believed that the United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, has more
students playing regular football than any
university.
Q. When did oPA go out of existence7-
sc.
A. On December IL, 1946 President Truman
created the ONCE Of Temporary Controls and
several other emergency organizations. Maj.
Gen. Philip B. Fleming was made head Of
the Office of Temporary Controls. The Office
Of Temporary Controls was ordered by Presi-
dent Truman to disband in June 1947.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Presidents Inconsistency Noted

Presidents Inconsistency Noted
To the Editor of The STAR
What travesty today on "the land of the
free" as the administration presses its deter
mination to enforce peacetime rationing Of
food!
Shades of the police state" the Presidents
own designation Of this only few weeks ago.
Now Mr. Truman is requesting bigger and
better powers of control.
From the Observation-Disclosures Good
Lord deliver us. Have we not had enough?"
P. j. S.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

For project in '4s, the behavior clinics
might look into the strange case of world
diplomacy and why it fights at the drop
of the word peace.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

1t is computed that Americans pay more
for government of all types than for food.
There once was a Congo tribe that got
around this by eating the tax collector.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

It should be like old times with Wallace
running. Not since Willkie have we had
a candidate who came uncombed hve
minutes after leaving the barber.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

. One Veil Sahiboglu, Turk, admits to
an age of 1885, This, though, is low for
Turks, who have been quoted as high as
157 in better times.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

The Enquirer mentions Cincinnati
smotorist, stuck In the mud, who had TO
throw 500 pounds of accessories overheard
before he could proceed.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

This is election year, leap year and the
year of decision. To the man in the street
with no opinion, we can only suggest he
get off the street.
Evening star., 1948-01-13

the lack Of cadets and midshipmen-the solu-
ton the editorial PROPOSES. a dangerous
one. Lowering the standards Of West Point
and Annapolis negates the very reason for
which they were established, and that Is
to form an elite cadre which all the Regular
Army personnel may initiate In peacetime
and around which the Reserve Corps may rally
in a national emergency. Let us not lower
the standards of the service academies. A
combination OF better public relations, better
salaries and candidates chosen from the United
States at large is a more desirable solution.
TRAVIS L. HOUSER.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star information
Bureau, 316 street NE. Washington 2 D. c.
Please inclose cents for return postage
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Dissents From Mr.. Richbers's View.

To the Editor Of The Star: .......--,
After reading the subtle but vicious article
by Donald Richberg on January 4. relating to
the report Of the Presidents Committee on
Civil Rights, could appreciate more the rea-
sons for the difficulties faced in reaching
solution to the race problem" peculiar to our
country.
In epaluating the writer's trend of thought
in regard to whether an individual has right
to work and live wherever and with whomever
he pleases, and his opposition to the enactment
of Federal Fair Employment Practices Act,
the author deliberately camouflages the subject
by confusing social equalities with political
and economic equalities. maintain that a
correction of present injustices through the
courts would go long way in making the indi-
vidual by his own choice, willing to meet all
fellow Americans on common level. 1t would
also serve to counteract the ill-feeling toward
others induced by this type of article, written
with the underhanded technique of swaying
the opinion of readers through the use of unre-
lated subtleties. such as the writer used in
speaking of inequalities resultant from differ
ing abilities" If the author ever had COM
pared statistics dealing with the inequalities
Of separate educational facilities, he would be
aware of the fact that there is no superior
race, only superior opportunity. The writer
further attempts to influence the readers
thoughts through contradictory statements
such as that liberties will be lessened as more
and more people receive their civil rights. To
analyze this statement, how does 1t follow in
any school of thought, that the basic rights of
individuals will be lost through the expansion
Of civil rights for all?
Such an article make one wonder II the
writer could have enough insight to imagine
himself a member of another race, walking the
streets of this country, with the knowledge that
he could be victimized through mob violence on
the least provocation or that some member of
his family criminally could be assaulted with
the criminal going unpunished for his crime
though proved guilty.
Let us hope that readers will not be duped
by this type Of article but instead will analyze
it and its many contradictions, so that at the
conclusion of their reading, they will not be
coerced into the beliefs of the writer, but will
feel that complete civil rights for all are worth
upholding and fighting for at any cost.
JAMES l.. WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Urses Getting Back to the Past

CTSSS oCtSAlS Lawn " uAS = OSs
TO the Editor OF The Star:
It infuriates me when read, as I did IN
your paper, that the White House still will
observe meatless and eggless Tuesdays and
Thursdays, and that at all the receptions and
festive occasions punch Is the only thing
served.
These United States, the most powerful Of
nations, should be ashamed that their Presi-
dent and members of his family cannot have
the luxurious living and fine foods which they
properly deserve as the First Family in our
land. We, the people, should be very happy
to know that our First Family can dine with
all the pomp and splendor to which First
Family of a nation such as ours is entitled
No matter what our beliefs in politics, let us
not lean so far toward democracy" as to
drag every one down to a mean level.
Let us stop this nonsense of giving our all
to Europe. Certainly, let us take care Of the
poor and starving as far as it is within our
power to do SO, but let us not pull ourselves
down to such low level that none Of us will
be able to give such help in the future. Let
us take q Tip" from England-we seem to
be following her in all the wrong ways-and
give glamour and romance to our First Family
at least.
I am q simple American citizen. I have
worked hard for Is years. and have saved
enough money to take care of sickness. have
life insurance and I do not expect dole"
should get sick, and do not expect "dole"
for my old age, although have been forced
into having Social Security card. I want to
make my living and I always have been
able to do it in this wonderful land Of ours.
Let us get back to the time when people
who deserve respect, are given respect; let
our children be taught to respect their
teachers and their parents; let them not be
juvenile delinquents for the sake of "de-
mocracy"-let us, in other words get back
to respect for each other, and have Govern
ment for the people and by the people.
So let us all get down to work. Let's put
away our own money and build some interest
upon 1t rather than let the Government build
up interest and hand it to us later And above
all, let us give homage and respect where
homage and respect are due, and let us not
deny to our President, the representative of
our land, his right to live as BELTS his title
and station in life. Let us be proud we are
able to see him live in q style which BELTS
a President, just as we would be proud to
see our own families live in the style which
BELTS our station in living. In other words,
let US respect each other. w. ]. r.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1948-01-30

the other hand, as years 90 IN eaob
crop failure should be less dieas-
trOus than preceding ones owinp
10 the lessons which may be learn
ed. The important thing. however
which all farmers and Others in
terested in farm crops sbould rec.
Ognize is the Importance of diversi-
ticatiOn of both location and rota-
ton so that a fair portion Of the
crops will come through safely
Whatever may happen to certain
other crops.
WHEN PURCHASING A FARM
Now a word of advice to those
who are looking for farms bnt
have not yet purchased one. Get n
tarm in the central part of tbe
country which is not too subiect
either to dry spells or wet smells
Buy a farm equally divided between
upland and bOttOmland. with some
woodland and with an independent
water supply. Before making anv
purchase, visit the new U. s irri,
cation developments in the south
west. They are worthy of careful
study as the sO-called ARID lana
is very very rich. The very Foot
that it has not had rainfall eanses
1t to retain the minerals and vita
MINIS which have been largely wash
ed out of much farm land subiect 70
normal rainfall throughout tbe
centuries. 'i0
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1948-01-30

OF Professor Fl. T. Stetson, author
OF Sunspots in Action" clio Ronald
Press, IS East 26th Street, New
York 10, New York. Probably there
IS some connection between sun
spots and both crops and business
winch we do not yet understand
the science of all forecasting is in
lls infancy. Briefly the Sunspot
Iheory is that when these spots are
very brilliant and active, we suffer
from either. or both, very hot and
very cold weather. 1t is further
true that these sunspots will be
brilliant in 1913.
On the other hand. since the cold
summer Of 1916, when the sunspots
We're very brilliant, there have been
many other years when the sun
Spots were equally brilliant and
when none of the corresponding
years were badly upset by weather
conditions. Therefore, as a statis-
ucian, I would say that there is no
existing evidence for farmers to
worry about concerning sunspOts.
aitnough there may be much for
the radio broadcasting companies
70 worry about from sunspOts. In
snort, all scientists believe that
sunspOts have an important effect
upon the vegetation of the earth
as well as upon the men and AMI
mals-Dut not enough evidence ex-
ISIS 70 enable forecasts to be based
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1948-01-30
$12,315,9OO Program
For Public Utility
Delaware Power And Light Co.
Plans New Construction Program

Authorization for a new construc-
ton program tOtaling $685. 800
for the Southern Division of the
Delaware Power & Light Company,
The Eastern Shore Public Service
Company of Maryland and Eastern
Shore Public Service Company of
Virginia, was announced today by
Mr. Lewis Payne, President of the
latter two companies. This huge
construction program is in cOntinu-
alton Of the cOmpany's policy to inn
prove, extend and expand it's facili-
ties to keep pace with the growth
and prosperity of the DelmarVa
Peninsula.
In announcing the systems con-
tructiOn plans, Mrs. Payne said,
This money Will be used to in
crease our generating capacity, to
rebuild and extend transmission
lines, to enlarge the capacity of
ssubstations, and to rebuild and ex-
tend distribution lines to our GUS
toners.
"Delmarva Peninsula is growing
rapidly day-by-day, and we are full
ly cOgnizant of the extent to which
any area relies upon electric power
to aid it in it's growth. Our expan-
sion plan is a continuance of our
policy to make available, as rapid
ly as possible, everywhere through
cut the Peninsula, an adequate and
dependable supply of electricity to
meet the needs of our homes, farms.
stores and industries, maintaining
efficient service to present custo-
mers while extending service TO
new customers.
THE largest single item in this
new construction program" Mr..
Payne stated, "is the installation OF
10000 XIV generating unit with
boiler and auxiliary facilities in
the systems steam generating plant
at Vienna, Maryland. This unit will
be in addition to a $4,000 XIV unit
now being completed and a second
10000 XIV unit now under cOnstruc-
ton. It is estimated the second T.
600 XIV unit here in referred to-
will be ready for service early in
1919. -
While all of this new construc-
ton has been authorized as a long
range program" Mr.. Payne CON
tnued, "a substantial part of the
expenditures necessarily will he
carried over into 1949."