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Evening star., 1948-12-13
EGG SHAMPOO.

(Fron, Mrs. NJ. S. Y, Aquasco.)
About the egg shampoo which was
requested sometime back. Take one
small egg, beat. apply to scalp with
small cloth or sponge. Let get
barely dry ana shampoo as usual.
The drying egg draws out soil from
the pores and all will wash out to-
gether, leaving hair soft and clean.
Evening star., 1948-12-13
HANDBAG.

(Front Mrs. v. M, Riperddle.)
For Mrs. Z. P. r., Alexandria.
There is "f1xit" shop on Twelfth
street just above G where they claim
to repair anything. They will prob
ably be able to repair your little
GIRLS handbag.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
The Vote and T foreign Policy

With Tuesdays election results plainly
before them, all governments abroad may
safely rid themselves of any serious un-
certainty they may have felt recently re-
garding the future character of American
foreign policy For President Truman's
victory serves, in effect, as an Endorsement
of that policy. 1t Is an Endorsement, more
over, that seems particularly emphatic in
view of the fact that the voters, giving only
microscopic support to the bitter and blind
Henry Wallace and repudiating isolationist-
minded Republicans like Senator Brooks
and Representative Knutson, have returned
the Democrats to firm control Of both
houses of Congress. -
Before the election, when so many so
mistakenly predicted that Mr.. Truman
would be swept from Office, serious ques-
tions were beginning to be raised overseas
about the possibility of a reversal or drastic
modification of our approach to inter-
national problems It is true enough, Of
course, that Governor Dewey. and the
Republicans had long been committed to
bipartisanship on the basic elements of
our foreign policy, such as aid to Greece,
the Marshall Plan, and the overall resolve
to block further Soviet aggression It is
true, too, that through Senator Vanden-
berg, John Foster Dulles and others, they
had actively participated in the formula
ton and application of many aspects OF
that policy. Nevertheless, as far as the
rest of the world was concerned, the pros
pect of a change in administrations had
the natural effect of creating some dis
turbing doubts.
Now, however, with Mr.. Truman swept
back into the White House, and with his
party strongly in command of Congress,
the basis for all such doubts has been
removed. There will be no ten-week in
terregnun. There will be no need for
extraordinary bipartisan measures-as
there would have been had Mr.. Dewey been
elected-to reaSsure the world, at time
of critical and swift-moving events, of CO.
operation between the outgoing President
and the President-elect to guarantee that
decisions taken by the former during this
month or next would still stand after the
latter's Inauguration in January. Mr..
Truman's victory has made an arrange
ment of that sort unnecessary. II develop
ments abroad in the period Immediately
ahead should require important American
moves regarding issues like the Berlin
blockade, or support to China, or the
negotiation of North Atlantic security
pact the prospect Of an impending change
In administrations will not exist to make
other nations feel uncertain about the
durability of those moves.
All this, taken together with the fact
that Mr.. Truman's party will dominate
Congress and that Mr.. Dewey and other
Republican leaders promise to continue
supporting the essentials OF our foreign
Evening star., 1948-11-04

the surprise OF their lives when the votes
are counted on November 2. And the
pollsters who have been predicting a Re-
publican victory are going to feel like the
Literary Digest felt in 1885 when it pre-
dicted that ALI Landon would defeat
Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Mr.. Barkley spoke with evident sincerity,
on the basis of his findings during Nation
wide campaigning trips. The seventy -one-
year-old Kentuckian travelled the length
and breadth Of the country In the Demo-
cratic cause. He went into the deep South
to plead for party unity and he made
special excursions into many States in
support OF Democratic candidates for Con-
gress. The results show that his efforts
were well worth the exhausting energy
which he put into them.
He will take over his new responsibilities
with an abundance of experience in public
life, derived from his long service as ma
1ority leader of the Senate under Demo-
cratic rule and as minority leader under
the recent Republican dominance of that
body. Throughout this period he has
gained the respect and affection not only
OF his party colleagues but of many persons
OF other political views. The vice presi-
dency is q well-earned reward for the un-
tagging work and unfailing loyalty of an
outstanding leader Of the Democratic
Party.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
He Earned His Reward

Not to be overlooked in the aftermath
of Tuesdays election is the contribution
to Democratic victory made by Vice Presi-
dent-elect Alben Barkley. As keynoter OF
Mr.. Truman.s campaign, the gentleman
from Paducah set the wheels rolling along
path which was to lead to the triumph
which he always insisted was inevitable
When Senator Barkley stopped of in
Washington less than two weeks ago he
continued to insist that surprise" was
in store for doubling Democrats and a lot
of other people. At that time he made a
prophecy that is worth repeating, in view
of what has happened. He said: "A lot
of Republicans who thought the election
was In the bag for them are going to get
Evening star., 1948-11-04
New District Committees

Raising local revenue will be the most
important problem before the House and
Senate District Committees in the Eighty
first Congress. It has been the hope OF
municipal officials that the problem would
be tackled as soon as the new Congress
meets. Under the Republican Congress
the District was fortunate in having
Joint subcommittee on Fiscal Relations
already set up and thoroughly familiar
with the nature of the problem. The joint
subcommittee had decided that local
sales tax was the only way out and was
prepared to push 1t again next January.
Democratic control of Congress washes
out that prospect. Representative Nc
MILAN of South Carolina win be chairman
of the House District Committee If he
chooses and he has told The Star he will
take the job. He has been cold to sales
tax in the past. Senator Johnston Of
South Carolina killed the sales tax single
handed in the Senate last spring. Senator
Johnston will be chairman of the Senate
District Committee If he wants the post.
He tells The Star he Is undecided as be-
tween that and the possibly more attrac-
tive craftsmanship of the Committee on
Civil Service.
The problem facing the District, how
ever, is not so much the attitude Of the new
chairmen. The problem is the same old diff
ficulty of educating" brand-new commit
tees and subcommittee on the Districts
fiscal dilemma and doing it in time to get
constructive action. There will not be any
delay in the organization of the new Con-
gress But membership of the House and
Senate District Committees, as well as the
chairmanships, will undergo substantial
change. And the new members assigned to
work on the budget will proceed independ-
emily of the new members assigned to
work, through the legislative committees,
on how the money spent in the budget is
to be raised.
The Commissioners and the taxpaying
citizens of Washington have a job cut out
for them in presenting the Districts case
before the Appropriation and Legislative
Committees; presentation that will be
so factuaily persuasive that wise budgeting
and revenue raising win result. Reorgan-
ization of Congress and the presence of
new members who know little of the city's
problems make the job more complicated
than usual.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
Bod Day for the PoIIsters

One Oh tle SatlSIyuE IeSultS O1 Tile
election is that the professional poll
takers fell nat on their faces.
Misery loves company. The professional
pollsters had plenty of company, to be
sure. Most Of the newspapers, including
The Stars own political writer's, were as
wrong in their forecasts as the pollsters.
But there is a difference. It is this differ
ence that produces some satisfaction over
the flop of the professionals.
The newspapers followed different
methods of forecasting. But most of
them doubtless chose system that past
experience has often shown to be depend
able. The practice was to talk to the
local politicians on both sides and other
observers of local habit who have proved
competent in other judgments and then
to strike an average, cross-section Of
opinion. There was no cut-and-dried pro-
cedure beyond talking to people who
usually guess right. This time they guessed
wrong-and how!
But the modern art of polling is not
based on guesswork. Its practitioners nave
perfected techniques to the point where
they were beginning to fancy themselves
as the discoverers of new science. They
were analyzing public opinion by applying
certain laws as fixed, in their own estima-
ton, as those of the Medes and the Per-
slams. And around the forecasts based on
the Interpretation of such laws, down to
the last decimal point, there has been
developing cult of infallibility extremely
annoying to those who believed but could
not prove that 1t contained large amount
of hokum.
There was something sinister about this
new science. 1t was taking the mystery
out of public opinion, exposing it to the
vulgar curiosity of bystanders. 1t was
telling people what they thought and Incl
dentally telling them what they ought to
think. 1t was impudently assuming
prerogative never claimed, in the past by
the gods of chance and precisely outlining
in advance the course of human events
But now tpraise bell this new science
has come cropper. 1t has fiunked its
major test Unlike the Literary Digest, it
may survive. For members of the cult are
legion and they have filled the bookshelves
with ponderouS tones which will not be
burned overnight. But the whole country
Is laughing at them. Their fumbling alibis
carry no weight. Public opinion is un-
chained, free once more to work in its
mysterious way its wonders to perform.
The polls have demonstrated themselves
to be as fallible as other mundane crea-
tions. The only mystery now remaining
is the source of that sublime faith of those
few Democrats who never believed the
polls in the first place and were sure all
along that Mr.. Truman would win.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
'Gideon's Army'

The utter rout Of "Gideon's Army" cap
tanned by Henry A. Wallace and stated by
the Communists and party-line boys, Is
a welcome result of Tuesdays election.
Putting aside their for -the-record pre-
dictions of victory, the :Wallaceites had
hoped to poll about 100000 votes. Per-
haps some of them even expected to get
that many. Other estimates had ranged
from 100000 upward in the early part
Of the campaign to around three or three
and q half million in Its latter stages
Actually, Mr.. wallace garnered only few
more than 100000 votes.
This is gratifying for more reasons than
one. 1t should be conclusive evidence to
the rest of the world, Russia included, that
Mr. Wallace was not speaking for any
significant segment of American opinion
in his violent attacks on our bipartisan
foreign policy. His plea for appeasement
Of the 'Russians-for that is what 1t was
fell on deaf ears. Mr.. Wallace also went
all the way to the left in his stand on
domestic issues, and the magnitude of his
defeat demonstrates that in this area,
too, not many Americans were willing to
follow him.
In the light of the beating it has taken
there Is little chance that the Progressive
Party will survive. Mr.. wallace talks
bravely of returning to the crusade with
renewed vigor. 1t Is possible, of course,
that the Communists may want to prop
up the battered remnants of the party
for their own purposes, but the odds are
against their being able to keep it alive
The American people have made 1t abun-
dantly clear that they want no part Of It,
And the Communists, being reasonably
astute politically, and having done all the
damage they could with Mr.. Wallace, can
be expected to look for another horse to
ride the next time.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
The Presidents Victory

1IcSlocut 4Iuuldu anu governor OeWSy
have set the right example for the coun-
try in their moves to counteract any bit
terness which might survive the election.
MIR. Truman took his great victory, q
personal triumph If there ever was one,
in becoming spirit of humility. There
was no gloating, no attempt to rub it In.
Governor Dewey proved himself to be
good loser, warmer personality in defeat
than he had seemed to be when confident
OF election. It Is not often that news
papermen applaud the New York Gov
ernor. But they did applaud him when
he wound up his post election press con-
ference, and he deserved 1t for the manner
In which he had taken what must have
been for him the bitterest Of disappoint-
ments |
Both men, with the political campaign
behind them, put their emphasis on the
need for national unity, on the Importance
of standing together in our approach to
the difficult and dangerous problems which
must be met in the days to come. It is
essential that this be done and one of the
happy aspects of our political system is
that the American people, by and large,
iAufC always DECl dUlc W TlS6 ABOVE GQS
differences of an election campaign.
The President emerges from this elec-
ton bigger man. No longer will there
be heard slurring references to him as q
political accident, for he has demon
strated that he has the courage and the
hardihood to wage winning tight in the
face of adversely. With Democratic Con-
gress 1t is good thing for the country
to have Democratic President. Those
who went down the line for Governor
Dewey should recognize that he would
have had miserable and probably unsuc-
cessful term in the White House with the
Democrats in command of Capitol Hill.
Such split political personality in these
days would have cost the country more
than victory at the polls would have been
worth.
When the President returns to Wash
lngton tomorrow he will receive a warm
welcome from the National Capital. Those
who have arranged the greeting are to be
commended for their efforts, which point
the way to the national unity that Is so
urgently required. There will be differ
ences, OF course, on domestic issues, but
partisan bitterness prejudicial to the
national interest must not be permitted
to survive the election.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
To q Little Boy at School

I rattle the dishes, the radio bLafeS,
run the Sweeper, and sing the stairs, !,
turn on faucets and try tor riot, I
But nothing disturbs this ntDful quiet
That / had counted as coming Joys.
A house berett OF boy noise.
miss the sound of tricycle. bells
And tiger roars and Lone Ranger yells,
And miss suspense of the quiet minute
That nl,pays ended NTH fretrorks tn It
The screen door slams to the hearts stceet
shock
And it's beloped, noisy t,Delue o'clock.
GLADYS MCKEE.
Evening star., 1948-11-04

policy, should have the salutary effect OF
persuading the United Nations particu-
larly Russia-that our role In the world,
at least for the next four years, is not
likely to differ substantially from what it
has been up to now. Certainly, despite
such unfortunate incidents as the ill-timed
move to send Chief Justice Vinson to
Moscow and the election-year politicking
over Palestine, the situation today offers
no solid ground for doubts about Americas
position on international fundamentals.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
Praise for MIR. McLemore

To the Editor OF The Star:
am one OF the many readers Of The Star
who enjoy Henry McLemore's interesting col
umn. His article about Japan, October ~, was
especially interesting to me as was with the
1lth Airborne Division and my battalion was
the Honor Guard for Gen. Macarthur and
the first outfit in Japan. We arrived by plane
two days before the signing of the peace treaty
on the Missouri. Although we went straight
to Yokohama just across the bay, some AIR
borne men already were in Tokyo to greet the
LIST Cavalry Division, although the latter got
credit for being the first to arrive.
r. A. MYERS.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.


O. Does the average family pay approxi-
matey one-fourth of its income for rent? This
is the proportion that was formerly given In
many books on budgeting-L. I. r.
A. There is not much statistical basis for
this traditional statement, and 1t probably Is
true only when incomes are at an abnormally
low level. The 1947 ration was u per cent
for non-farm families (before taxes. Low.
income families tunder $4,000 spent slightly
more than one fifth Of their total income on
monthly rent payments in 1947, while high
income families $4,000 or over spent just
under one-tenth for rent. These figures are
only a rough indication, however, because some
rents were increased after the survey.
@. Is there record Of the name Of the
British spy of the Revolutionary War who was
captured while carrying o message enclosed
In a silver bullet?-M D.
A. The spy's name was Daniel Taylor. He
taken to the headquarters of Gen. George
Clinton of the American Army. Taylor at first
thought he was in the English Clinton's head.
quarters and upon discovering his error swal.
lowed the bullet. Bullet and message were OBJ
tanned after DR.. Moses Highly administered
an emetic and Taylor was court-martialed and
hanged at Hurley near Kingston. N. Y.
Q. How long is the life of motion picture
theater?-A. G.
A. Compared with most other types OF build.
ings the life of a motion picture theater IL
short. For tax purposes, buildings, are gem
orally written off in 80 years, although the
majority have a much longer period OF use-
fullness.
Q. What is the meaning of the name "Uru-
guay?"-L. T. e.
A. The name means birds tall It is de-
rived from the Guarani Indian uru, bird" and
quay, 'ttan" and was applied in alllsion to o
falls on the river, which spread out like
birds tail.
@. Why are slip covers not used on mohair
furniture?-L. H.
A. There are several reasons. Mohair is very
susceptible to moths. While most mohair fur
niture is treated with moth repellent before
leaving the factory, this In time will wear Oh.
If the article is covered and stands In q dark
corner Of the room. moths are likely to infest
it. The nap In mohair Is high and the weight
of q slip cover presses down the pile, which
being held In this one position receives more
wear on any given spot than when the pile
iS free
Evening star., 1948-11-04
Teachers Pay Inadequate

To the Editor OF The Star:
BY this time, the people of Washington have
had q chance to learn about the dificult con-
ditions under which their public school teach
ers work. First, they know that if teacher
is absent even one day, she must pay the SUBJ
stitute who works in her place, no matter how
unavoidable the absence is. Also, it repeatedly
has been told that the $500 increase of
two years ago Is myth. Likewise, the latest
rumor that every teacher with the M. A. de-
gree received an immediate bonus of $500 is
pure fiction.
Yet, nothing like all of the story Is known
to the general public. The present low salaries
are insufficient to attract good teachers and
keep those who already are in the system. In
this city, the District government must COM
pete with private business and the Federal
Government for capable employees. Teachers
are paid less than professional employees OF the
Federal Government with the same qualif1ca-
tions. 1t is only natural that teachers and
other District employees should try to shift to
field where remuneration is more nearly ade
quate.
teachers with high qualifications as long as
the present low salaries are paid. The effect
already Is being felt in the enrolment in the
two teachers colleges. Fewer young people are
entering the courses for teacher training, since
they are not hopeful of securing living wage
in that poorly paid profession.
1t, moreover, is an on1inous fact that there
are now several hundred temporary teachers
in the Washington school system This simply
means that the present salaries will not at
tract people with the high qualifications set
up by the Board of Education for permanent
teachers.
Teachers, taxpayers and children In the
District of Columbia are sure to suffer, as long
as this wretched state of affairs continues
DON B. GOODLOE,
Legislative Representative, Local n, Anneri-
can Federation Of Teachers.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
Get the Names First

TO the Editor Of The Star:
have been reading various letters concern
ing treat or trick night. The majority Of
people are against such begging by neighbor-
hood children, and agree with them. Re-
fined people do not want their children to be
beggars and thus make themselves nuisances
to other people
would like to suggest that homeowners who
are bothered by "brats" who damage their
property if they are refused treats should get
the names and addresses of the children first.
Then If damage results, the owner can call on
the parents of all the doorbell ringers, If neces
sary, and make them pay for the damage.
Then all parents surely would see the necessi-
ty of breaking their children from pestering
peace-loving citizens. MRS. r. A. MYERS.
Evening star., 1948-11-04

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
iDriter, although 1t is permissible for
toriter knoaDn to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The washington Star Information
Bureau, 316 street NE, washington 2, D. c.
Please inclose cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1948-11-04
Grand Jury System Deplored

Grano jury Oystem DeplOred
TO the Editor Of The Star.
Something to Remember" states in part:
Grand juriss In the District of Columbia are
not instrumentalities for cheap political In
vestigations. The record on this point is too
clear for dispute. Mr.. Thomas can rest assured
that the investigation Of the complaint against
him will be conducted fairly, and, II there
should be an Indictment that he will receive
fair trial.
May q veteran who shouted in vain for .
trial on the record when one District grand
jury after another indicted him at the behest
Of the Justice Department on the false charge
of "conspiring to corrupt the morale Of the
armed forces" most seriously challenge your
editorial pronouncement?
The battle cry Remember the sedition
Case!" should provide the eloquent terse an
swer to any such editorial attempt to pedestal
. District grand jury
Our Army system of justice moves quite well
without use Of the grand jury system. The
point is not that might makes right, but that
American military might Is more honest, more
honorable, more humane than much that
passes undercover today as the civil right.
Political scientists such as Prof Raymond
Moley have long recognized the grand jury as
o nth wheel on our body polite, but 1t took
Washington's mass sedition case to reveal the
grand jury system ut Its worst.
If the system is to be continued, the grand
jury must be streamlined to permit the exer-
else Of minimum Of intelligence and to al
low for the presence Of q public defender to
act as q check on the political prosecutor out
to mold the grand jury into his own rubber
stamp for the benefit of his own political pre-
ferment. PRESCOTT BENNETT