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Evening star., 1948-06-03

tographed by George Willis Ritchey be-
tween 1900 and 1918 will challenge atten-
ton as they come into view for the first
time.
The marvel of the whole magnificent
picture already has been guessed. How
much the demonstrated reality may exceed
the anticipated is in itself speculation.
The elemental fact, as Rufus Matthew
Jones has declared, is the beauty OF all
creation whether we mortals find it by
telescope or microscope. Within that
beauty many thoughtful people agree with
Sir James Jeans mankind is not inpris-
oned. On the contrary, I'VE can mold
events to our desire"-if our desire be one
with that of God. Before the Mount Palo-
mar "eye" begins its career, 1t is pledged
to the service of illimitable knowledge
which likewise should be unlimited con-
structive power.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Start of Nonsegregation

To the Edit tor Of The Star:
What the outcome of the current delibera-
tions on the use of school grounds for recrea-
tional purposes is likely to be one can easily
guess. Neither the Board of Education nor
the Department of Recreation is noted for
hostility toward racial segregation. This much
do venture to say: That by display of
courage and enlightenment the authorities now
have it within their power to initiate policy
which, in terms of democratic practices at
home and potent prestige abroad, may turn out
to be only the starting point
If two or three playground areas should be
used erimentally-social experiments are
no less valid than scientific ones-an answer
would be given to both sides of the nonsegre-
CATION problem as to whether it will work here.
j. w. HAYWOOD, Jr.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Old Cow Hand
y lounges on the steps

Old Jerry lounges on the steps
TO giue his boots rest,
And stares out tuhere the sun has MADE
Its campfire in the West:
And nhen the edges of the sky
Blaze up around the sun,
He thinks aloud OF other days.
No,p that this day is done,
OF cattle bawling for the salt
Until the prdirie rings,
And Just to prone himself, man
Looks at the stars and sings,
Tiu the blue night comes after him, Il
And brands him aDith star,
A lonesome brand that tufH not fade,
Epen uhere people are.
And Jerry hardly sees the place
TO ,ohere the years hare brought him,
For times master Dith the rope.
And its Iariat has caught him.
YETZA GILLESPIE.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Mr.. Truman Heads West

At the risk of becoming involved in
some one elses fight it may be suggested
that Republican National Chairman Car
roll Reece is being unnecessarily tart in
his comments on the Presidents Western
trip.
Up to a point one can sympathize with
Mr.. Reece For politics is his business.
He ought to know political trip when
he sees one Yet Mr.. Truman, with that
talent for political poetic license which
seems to go along with the presidency,
keeps insisting that this is strictly a nom
political trip.
Ostensibly, he is going out to the Uni
versity of California to receive an honorary
degree. That is long way for any man
to go for any degree, and the President
is not exactly travelling as the crow flies.
His special train, after leaving Chicago,
will take him into at least eighteen States,
all of them politically important next
November. In the course of the journey,
Mr. Truman will make five set speeches.
And it has been announced in suspiciously
vague terms that he will make "a number"
of platform appearances-those pleasant
in which the President gets chance to
meet the voters and the voters get a
chance to see the President.
Considering all of this, it is not sur
prising that Mr.. Reece, skeptic that he is,
should suspect that this nonpolitical trip
business is something other than the truth
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
But he ought to keep his skepticism within
bounds There is no need for him to
suggest that Mr.. Truman ought to make
a stop in Kansas City to lay wreaths on
the tombs of the ghosts who are alleged
to have voted for him when he ran for the
Senate Nor was it kind of him to propose
a stopover in Iowa at the birthplace of
Henry Wallace.
After all, If Mr.. Reece and bis Repub-
lican cohorts are to be believed Mr. Tru-
man, politically speaking, is living on
borrowed time. According to them, he is
all washed up He has not a chance of
reelection Indeed, listening to the fore
casts of Mr. Reece, one almost feels sorry
for the President in his pathetic deterrni-
nation to attempt the impossible.
So why should not Mr.. Truman make
this trip in his own way? One of our
noble traditions is that condemned man
be permitted to choose what he wants for
his last meal and eat 1t in peace. So why
not let Mr.. Truman have his final fling?
Perhaps he is spoofing us bit about its
strictly nonpolitical character, but Why
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Truce in Palestine?

In considering the latest-the sixth
effort of the United Nations to handle the
Palestine crisis, it is important to under
stand its nature as well as its prospects.
This truce proposal does not attempt even
a partial solution OF the complex and
explosive problem. 1t seeks merely to halt
the fighting for one month, in order tenn
porarily to stabilize the situation, give
craftsmanship a chance to work and
possibly to cool the passions OF the con-
tending parties.
The immediate prospects OF this truce
effort are frankly dubious. Despite &C
ceptances in principle by both sides, each
qualified its reply with terms which,
whether called conditions" or "clarlf1ca-
tions," appear to be mutually unacceptable.
Furthermore, the fighting goes on, SEEM
ingly with no abatement.
Nevertheless, there are certain hopeful
aspects of the matter. To begin with,
the truce proposal is British suggestion
which has been agreed to by all the great
powers with the possible exception OF
Russia. This indicates a measure OF
agreement between Britain and the United
States for common action looking toward
an ending of Arab-Jewish hostilities. And
that is important, because the differences
between London and Washington on the
Palestine issue are perhaps the prime
reason why effective United Nations
action has been impossible. 1t may make
possible the decreeing by the U. N. OF
effective sanctions in case the combatants
ignore or defy the truce proposal Obvi-
ously, neither Arabs nor Jews would be
in position to fout U. N. decision which
had the whole-hearted backing OF the
Great Powers coupled with resolution to
take the necessary measures to implement
the decision itself.
Certain obvious lessons can be, and
doubtless have been, drawn from the
actual hostilities. Despite all the blood
shed and destruction entailed thus far,
neither side has shown overwhelming mill
tary superiority This would indicate a
costly, prolonged and indecisive struggle,
especially if an effective embargo is placed
upon the receipt of arms and supplies from
abroad. And the resources of Jews and
Arabs are alike limited.
Perhaps even more important is grow
ing awareness in both the United States
and Britain that, in falling to cope with
the war in Palestine, spreading vacuum
is being created, not only in Palestine but
throughout the Middle East, from which
Soviet Russia is bound to be the eventual
gamer This common fear of Moscow is
the factor which, more than anything
else, impels Washington and London to
find a common denomination in their
Palestine policies.
Therefore, although the truce proposal
has not had immediate success, 1t may be
considered as a hopeful approach to
effective action. Something, at least, has
been gained, even though that Some
thing" may, for the moment, be i'm
ponderable
Evening star., 1948-06-03
How Vulnerable Are Curriers'?

Navy Secretary Sullivan has supplied the
Senate Armed Services Committee with
some good reasons why the Navy still has
faith in aircraft carriers, even in an age
of new military weapons. In addition to
pointing to the remarkable offensive
achievements OF carrier aviation in World
War II, Mr.. Sullivan has cited some inter-
esting figures to challenge "uninformed
statements that. carriers are excessively
vulnerable"
The committee naturally was anxious to
learn. all it could as to the defensive
capabilities of carriers, in view OF the
Nays plans for building super" car
rier of $1,000 tons displacement After
hearing testimony from Mr.. Sullivan,
Admiral Denfeld and other advocates of
the big-carrier program, the committee
voted unanimously to approve construc-
ton OF a prototype ship. capable of launch
ing bombers armed with atomic bombs.
There has been lot OF publicity about
the losses suffered by our carrier fleet
during the Pacific war. The sinking of
an aircraft carrier is big news. The other
side of the story is less spectacular A
successful evasive action naturally does
not rate the headlines or the space given
a sinking Because of the disproportion-
ate amount of publicity accorded the
destruction of five fast carriers and six
escort carriers, many persons have gained
a distorted opinion as to the yulnerability
of this type of ship.
When it is considered, however, that
{ho fod
total of ITO carriers in combat areas for
periods aggregating $40 months, it can
be seen that there is good cause for the
esteem in which carriers are held by
naval combat veterans. The Navy had
thirty-three fast carriers in the war-ships
capable of more than thirty knots. These
big craft were subjected to every kind of
attack the enemy could devise, from sub
marine torpedoes to kamikazes. Their
combat service aggregated 460 trying
months. Yet we lost only five fast carriers
three to japanese carrier planes and two
to Jap submarines. Four of the five were
sunk during the first year of the war,
before later improvements in fre-protec-
tion and damage-eontrol facilities were
adopted Although the lighter escort car
rierS, converted from merchant vessels,
were slower, less well armed and other
wise more vulnerable than their bigger
sisters seventy y-seven of them aggregated
480 months in combat areas with loss
of only six.
The proposed supercarrier will have
many advantages over its predecessors.
1t will be as fast or faster than other
carriers, more heavily armored than any
carrier in history, devoid of island or other
f1ight-deck distractions and equipped with
latest antiaircraft weapons. 1t should be
a vast improvement over the carriers which
proved so formidable and so valuable in
the late conflict. :>*
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Not $50 a Week Pension

To the Editor Of The Star
I wish to bring to your attention an error
in the Sunday, May 30 edition of The Star,
page A.
The story concerns the unified effort of
more than 200 Congressman, backed by sew
eral old age pension groups, to promote q
uniform national old age pension, to replace
the present humiliatlng "old age assistance"
plan now administered by the States.
In the congressional petition to the Ways
and Means Committee the following statement
occurs: I'VE. the undersigned members of the
Eightieth Congress, respectfully represent that
our present pensions for the aged are made
quate. We feel that they should be increased
to at least $50 per month"
The Star. in its news story, quotes this figure
as "at least $50 per week"
AGNES q. ~SHANKLE,
Editor. National Pension Guide, General
Welfare Federation Of America.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Deplores Appeasing Arabs

To the Editor of The Star:
have been profoundly disturbed by recent
British attitudes with respect to the Arab
Israel conflict. 1t seems incredible that the
British government again would follow a
policy of appeasement after having been
taught by the near fatal lesson of the NaA
blitz of 1910 that placating aggressors en-
courages them to greater destruction.
When the world talks and pleads for peace,
Mr.. Bevin unhinchingly becomes the stanch
supporter Of aggression. Instead of hating
the present conflict between Jews and Arabs,
the British government fagrantly supports
the aggressors with money and officers. On
the other hand, the British delegate at the
Security Council of the United Nations has
sabotaged every effort for stern measures
suggested by the delegates of the United
States and Russia.
Appeasing the Grand Mufti and his Nazi
crowd will not solve the world problems.
BERNARD BUCHNER
Evening star., 1948-06-03
National Health Insurance Argued


To the Hdtor Of The Star:
Yes. Some Rejectees Were Healthy" as you
say in your editorial Of May 28. Yet the fact
remains that hundreds Of thousands Of young
men in the prime of life were found to have
physical defects which could have been pre-
vented, remedied or lessened with prompt and
adequate medical care. The chief of the Med
ical Division of Selectiye Service, Col.
Leonard G. Rowntree, said in testimony be-
fore Senate subcommittee in July, 1874:
"From Is to 20 per cent Of men rejected for
military service are rejected because of dis
qualifying defects which could have been easily
ren1edied." He estimated that at the time this
represented 900 men, or one out of every
six in the rejected pool Moreover, during the
war years the Army itself recognized the need
for health resources" Over million and
q half men having major physical defects were
taken in spite of them into the military ranks
and successfully rehabilitated through adj
equate medical care. Must we again wait for
another emergency situation to do something
about national health security?
Editorially you say that: ITO attempt to
compare rural and urban health conditions by
referring to draft statistics is futile" Ger
tainly, we do not need to rely upon wartime
experience alone to appreciate the fact that
the rural areas of this country are woefully
lacking in adequate health facilities and medi-
cal personnel as compared with urban areas
even though 1t is well known that the short
age of doctors, nurses and dentists in rural
areas was acutely accentuated by our initially
ill-considered medical manpower recruiting
policy. Appropriate recognition of the increas-
ingly distressing health and medical care prob
lens in rural areas is given annually when the
American Medical Association holds the Ma
tional Rural Health Conference.
Only this week the American Academy of
Pediatrics reports, in the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association most revealing pic
-ture Of Health Services for the Rural Child"
There it clearly is shown that there are easily
measured and critical Inequalities in the
amount of medical care received by children
In rural areas"
Let us not be lulled into a state of COM
placency and do nothing because of status quo
pleas. National health insurance, as proven
in number of foreign countries, Is way of
providing all of our people with prompt and
adequate medical attention when it is needed
and before illness or disability becomes Ca
tastrophic. National health insurance will
provide the purchasing power that is necessary
in rural areas to attract doctors and to support
needed hospital and health centers.,
MORRIS LLEWELLYN COOKE.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Permanency of Disability

NJ VI
To the Editor Of The Star:
There has been entirely too much emotion
and too little common sense displayed in this
matter of the recall of the on-Regular officers
to duty for disqualification.
To begin with, these officers were not orig
inally released until maximum treatment had
been given and they we're not, as you said in
your May n editorial. Equity for Disabled
Reservists," recalled for disqualification. II
disqualification were the issue, as veterans they
had the entire veterans hospital setup open
to them.
They were on duty solely for survey to
determine whether they had permanent, serv-
ice-connected disabilities which would entitle
them to certihcation to the Veterans Admins
tration for retirement pay.
Properly there should be sympathy for these
officers. Every one probably had bona hde
injury Most probably had service connected
injuries. But what was in question was
whether the injury met the third test Of per-
manency. 1t was this question which caused
these officers to be brought repeatedly before
disposition and retiring boards and to have
their papers sent repeatedly to the Surgeon
General.
With many OF these officers unable to work,
or unable to get OF from work for the in
terminable surveys, the Army-bogged down
by stupid law which it failed (until recently
to ask to have changed-began on August 8,
1s46, to call these officers to active duty for
survey.
Controller Generals Ruling.
The controller general on March IL, 1948,
properly held that the recalls were illegal
since calls to duty by law were limited to
those able and willing to render service.
Now, for the sake Of 1880 officers affected
by the controllers decision, The Star, Senator
Sparkman, Representative league and others,
in an ecstasy of emotion want to overthrow
the whole Reserve concept
Wouldn't 1t be much simpler, more equitable
and cheaper:
l. To pass q simple forgiveness bill. not
changing any basic law, to waive repayments
by this group?
2 To handle the situation for the future by
enacting the conditional retirement law be-
latedly recommended by the Army and indorsed
by the Legal Subcommittee Of the House Armed
Services Committee?
wonder If your editorial writer, in urging
active duty status for these officers, knew that
he might be handing over $500 bonus to the
officer whose claim upset the applicant. The
controllers decision resulted from the claim
OF an Air Reserve captain, who after year
at Valley Forge General Hospital at full pay,
Evening star., 1948-06-03
General Bradley's Speech

To the Editor Of The Star:
All those who have missed hearing or reading
Gen. Bradley's Memorial Day speech delivered
at Green Meadows Mass, truly missed mas
terpiece OF thinking It Is one OF the finest
summaries OF the worlds plight regarding war
versus peace which has been given In many
day.
I wish it could be printed in large type in
every paper in the world where each individual
eve could not miss reading 1t and giving to 1t
the deserved meditation.
MARTHA MoFTETT BACHE.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Clothing Needed in Germany


To the Editor OF The Star
On Friday. May %, you published a column
by Dorothy Thompson about the difficulty of
sending relief clothing abroad, in particular to
Germany. Perhaps, in this connection, your
readers will be interested in the following ex
cerpts from letter have received from Capt
Jerome Robbins Hq, OMGUS Berlin Com
mand APO 742, care Postmaster, New York:
Clothing Is critical item in Germany. It Is
impossible to buy it in the shops. The dis
placed persons must depend upon assistance
from voluntary agencies or from relatives in
other parts Of the world. In many cases this
supply is inadequate. Therefore. the clothing
I am able to bring to the camps Is a great
help for them
I'm Berlin I am responsible for the welfare
Of $4,000 displaced persons. Six thousand live
in two camps and the remaining 5000 live in
Berlin. The 5000 are mostly German Jews
who managed to remain alive during the years
of war. The 5000 who live in the camps are
mostly Polish Jews. . -. The exodus from
Germany Is very slow.
II would appreciate it greatly If you would
haps they, too, would have clothing or food
stuffs that they would care to- send"
Thus there is person in military govern
ment other than IAN acquaintance Of Miss
Thompson whose duty 1t is to receive and
distribute relief packages, and, as Miss Thomp-
son points out, the postage Is much lower and
the limits much higher for packages going to
the APO address. Combined length and girth
may measure up to 100 inches, and weight may
be up to 10 pounds. A READER.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,Oriter, although 1t Is permissible for
a ,Driter knotDn to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1948-06-03

should this have such an upsetting effect
on Mr.. Reece? Can 1t be possible that
he, too, is spoofing us when he seems so
confident that Mr.. Truman will be receiv-
ing his mail next year at Independence,
Mo- and not at 1900 Pennsylvania avenue?
Evening star., 1948-06-03
Questions and Answers

reader get the answer to any question ef
Bureau, ais Eye street NE Washington 2 b &.
Evening star., 1948-06-03
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. How much did Philip of Macedon pay
for his favorite horse Bucephalus?-M. j. r
A. The king is said to have paid 13 talents in
gold for the horse. talent was worth about
81 $50. "
Evening star., 1948-06-03
More Than Anti-Communist?

To the Editor OF The Star:
During the past two weeks have read your
news columns apropos of the Mundt bill. 1t
has paineds and surprised me to observe that
you have played this thing straight and re-
ported it purely as an antiCommunist
measure.
No reader would have gathered from your
accounts that the majority of those who oppose
this measure do so, not through any love of
communism, but because they consider 1t a
dangerous infringement of our basic civil
rights. Under our, Constitution no public off,
cial may prescribe what is orthodox in matters
of opinion. The Mundt bill, however, would
empower the Attorney General, political ap-
pointee, to brand organizations as communistic
on the basis of vague standards If in his opin-
ion any of their aims are similar to some
views of Communist political organization"
or foreign Communist government" Since
it seems there scarcely is a political, civic or
religious body in this Nation some of whose
aims are not similar to some of the stated aims
of communistic organizations, this should have
the effect of 1egalizing one mans personal
prejudice.
Under other OF its provisions any peaceful
effort to effect changes in our Government
might become reasonable Had this bill been
law in the 192os it is not inconceivable that
those persons who were attempting to repeal
the 18th or prohibition amendment might
have found themselves branded, fined and
jailed as traitors. The Democrats might some
day find themselves traitors for seeking to de-
feat the Republicans or vice versa. Since one
of the bills sponsors himself admits that it.,
will not outlaw the Communist Party, it Is
not unreasonable to suppose that he Is more
interested in curtailing freedom Of speech than
In controlling communism.
The purpose of this letter, however, is not
to give digest of the Mundt bill, but to pro-
test against what consider to be the partial
coverage OF the. bin in your, news columns.
-. BYRON ALLEN,
Chairman Civil Rights Committee, Southern
Conference for Human Welfare.
Evening star., 1948-06-03

@. Is propaganda the singular form of tn
word or is it plural, like data?-L J. D.
A. Propaganda is the singular form: Its plura
is propagandas
Evening star., 1948-06-03

followed by retirepent, wanted also the $500
annual bonus paid to Air Reserve officers not
selected for Regular commissions.
Il could fill column with the background
on that prewar law, which remained in effect
to cost the taxpayers millions solely because
OF some inept senatorial leadership during
the Seventy-eighth and Seventy ninth Con-
greSses)
Legislation Recommended.
The forgiveness and the conditional retire.
ment legislation should be enacted promptly,
but actually there win be no great harm If
they go over to January. The Government
isn't going to collect these payments tomorrow
or next month, for that matter.
The merits Of the conditional retirement
should be too obvious to require listing. A
disability should be paid for while it exists;
that's the rule for veterans pensions, em-
ployment compensation and accident insur-
ance, and 1t should be the rule for the
disabled of1cer-Regular or non-Regular.
If after. say five years, a series Of examina-
tions not less frequently than annually should
disclose the disability unimproved, it could
be declared permanent without lot of argu-
ments between retiring boards and the Sur
geon Generals ofice. But If the disability is
cured, there is little justification for con-
tinuing retirement pay; the ofdcer has re-
ceived 1t when he needed it..
Apart from its sensible treatment OF the
disabled, this conditional retirement plan
would diminish administrative expense and
would preserve the concept of active-duty
status. JOHN SLINKMAN.