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Evening star., 1948-11-07
Execution DeIuys

Judge Alexander Holtzoffs concern over
the time lag between conviction and
execution in District murder cases is we'll
founded. It is automatic in law-enforce-
ment circles that prompt administration
of justice is one of the more effective of
crime deterrents. Yet the records show
an average lapse of eighteen months in
the District between pronouncement of a
guilty verdict for murder and execution of
the death sentence.
1t Is right and proper, of course, that
man condemned to death should have the
benefit OF every recourse provided by law
But even after the court of last resort has
passed on case, there usually is con-
siderable additional delay while papers
asking executive clemency are prepared
and while the Department of Justice in
vestigates the case in question.
Justice Holtzoff, himself a former
Justice Department official, believes that
the clemency petition delays could be
shortened If new procedures were adopted
He suggests that the department could
save time by starting its inquiries in po-
tential clemency cases Immediately after
refusal by the Court of Appeals to overturn
lower courts verdict. This is a recon-
mendation that should be given careful
consideration by the Attorney General.
II there is any feasible way of reducing
the number and length of delays in such
cases, without infringing the rights of
the accused, it should be adopted forth
with, in the interest of better law enforce
ment in Washington.
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Salute to Third Cavalry

Washingtonians have more than pass
ing interest in the formal transformation
of the century-old Third Cavalry into the
modernized horseless outfit known as the
Third Armored Cavalry Regiment. The
final step in the evolution took place at
Fort Meade, with the retirement of the
historic standards of the veteran outfit to
make way for new insignia.
The Third Cavalry had distinguished it
self in several wars before it came to Fort
Myer, Virginia, in 1919 for long and
colorful tour of duty. BY its weekly exhi-
bitions in the post riding hall and its fire.
quent appearances in parades along Penn
sylvania avenue, the regiment became
known as "Washington's Own" and "The
Presidents Own.' During those bright
days the units commanders included such
notables as General (tl1en ColoneD George
Patton, who later was to lead its armored
version against the Germans in World War
II, and General Jonathan Wainwright,
hero of Bataan.
The Third Cavalry left Fort Myer, never
to return, early in World War II. It was
reorganized into hard-hitting, fast ar
mored group at Camp Gordon, Georgia.
When it went overseas it became part of
the Tenth Arnored Division, spearhead of
General Patton's drive into Germany. AS
result of that achievement, four battle
streamers were added to the organizations
many other awards. Those previous honors
included General Winfield SCOTS designa-
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North Chino Exodus

The measure of the disaster suffered bv
the Nationalist armies in Manchuria is
dramatically revealed by the frenzied
maSS-hight Of civilians from North China
the next objective of the triumphant
Communist columns Swarming multi
tudeS besiege the booking Offices and
landing fields of civilian air lines which
can at best accommodate only 1.-THE of
the would-be passengers. AS for coastal
shipping, every boat leaving Tentsin
or other North China ports is packed to
the suffocation point with terror stricken
humanity.
Those migrant throngs are composed
mostly of the wealthy and well-to-do
classes who feel themselves especially
menaced by a Communist occupation.
Accordingly, they are abandoning homes,
businesses and all personal possessions
except those they can carry themselves.
The upper-class Chinese is usually canny
person, taught by decades of political
viciSsitudes to carry on under adverse
circumstances. That such persons are
tearing up their roots and leaving for an
uncertain future in what amounts to exile
is convincing proof of their dread of COM
munism and what 1t may mean individually
and collectively.
That their fear is well grounded is
attested by the action OF our own En-
bassy authorities in advising American
civilians and ordering families and de-
pendents Of our military personnel to quit
not only North China but also the Nam
king Shanghai area. This clearly indicates
that our authorities in China do not expect
the second-string Nationalist forces now
massing in North China to be able to cope
with the impending Communist offensive.
And once those forces are broken, there
seems little to stop the Red sweep into
Central China to the Yangtse or even
beyond.
Under these circumstances, prediction
as to the ultimate extent of the Communist
advance is difficult. It should not be for
gotten that China is less a country than
a subcontinent, vast in extent, backward
in communications, and with an incon-
ceivably huge population. The overrun-
ming of all China by the Communists and
its integration into a solid Communist
regime could still be difficult and lengthy
operation. Even the collapse of the pres
ent Nationalist government could be fol-
lowed by augmentation into many local
regimes-a phenomenon that has fire.
quently happened in Chinese history On
the other hand, the Chinese Communists
exhibit conference and discipline which
could confound precedent. The one thing
than can hardly be overestimated is the
gravity of the crisis that now exists.
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private diplomatic talks, will be able to
convert the Kremlin. The sum of the
situation is that the vast majority is will
ing and eager to effectuate the American
plan, but the Soviet Union standing alto
gether alone with Its small bloc of servile
satellites-is vigorously opposed, insisting
on a proposal that would make violations
and evasions all too easy. Whatever
direct negotiations may now take place,
one thing seems certain: This impasse
can be broken only by Russian reversal.
Without that, the potentially catastrophe
nuelear armaments race will continue and
the world will find itself living in an
atmosphere of constantly growing dread.
The warning is plainly implicit in the
U. N. Assembly vote.
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seemed to annex the garden as part of the
living room. Among the visitors which the
glass disclosed during the summer days were
two kinds OF winged creatures. One was
strikingly garbed in coat Of iridescent colors.
This gaudy marauder would glide In on hlmy
wings and alight to stay on flower or leaf or
stem. There were no transient guests. Such
an arrival is always sentence of death for
the plant invaded. ANY growing thing will
be devoured inch by inch until it Is entirely
destroyed by the voracious vandal. That deadly
insect is called the japanese beetle.
But daily In the balmy sunshine another
visitor hovered over the leaves and the bios
SONS. This one came not to destroy, but to
fulfill. 1t was somewhat dowdy in appearance,
clothed in q fuzzy brown coat its wardrobe
not as colorful as the first 1t did not remain
long on any plant. It fitted from blossom to
blossom, gathering from each nectar and pollen.
It came to take, but its mission was to give
more than 1t took away. From one petal to
another it transported the different pollens
which are the promise for the gardens next
generation of incensed beauty. That insect
Is called the honey bee.
No garden has the problem with bee. Every
garden knows the menace Of the beetle. The
bee is a friend. The beetle Is an enemy.
Now our lawns and gardens are in many
ways microcosms Of the worlds human activi-
ties There are violets and there are vipers
We are grateful for feathered songsters, for
humming birds and the colored marvel Of but
terfy wings. But there also are beetles as well
as bees in every field of human endeavor.
1t is not being cynical, but simply factual, to
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Nervous Investors

A small temporary decline in the stock
market was to have been expected as
more or less normally nervous reaction to
the Republican defeat in the elections. But
Fridays sharp drop in prices-offset some
what by yesterdays trading-seems to be
an example of how nervousness can be
carried to an unwarranted extreme.
Thus, only the other day the Wall Street
Journal carried survey showing industry
as whole in fine fettle, with profits Alt
per cent above the third quarter of 1947
and with all signs indicating record high
earnings for 1948. Moreover, according to
the survey, business in general (there are
exceptions, of course) appears to be quite
optimistic about the outlook for next year
"a view shared by most economists, many
of whom expect the Nation to enjoy pros
perity well into the 195Os.
Considered against this background,
Fridays stock tumble-which apparently
reflected selling by average investors
and not by professional traders-seems to
make little or no economic sense. Pre-
sumably, therefore, it must be ascribed to
political disappointment over the down.
fall of the Republicans and to fears that
the triumphant President Truman, with
his own party dominating Congress, Is
planning to lay hard about him with new
controls for industry, higher taxes, price
legislation, repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor
law, and other measures likely to cause
kind of convulsion in the national economy.
Such fears, however, seem exaggerated, or
at least they are decidedly premature At
any rate, despite the character of some OF
his campaign speeches, President Truman's
past record hardly justifies the suspicion
that he is likely to set out now to do away
with investment incentives, deprive in
dustry of fair and reasonable profits, or
otherwise pull the props from under our
ee-enterprise system. Furthermore, even
If he has program of that sort in mind
which appears doubtful in the extreme-it
is well to remember that the new Congress
will still contain large number of Re-
publicans and big bloc of fairly con-
servative Democrats, combination pow
erful enough to prevent excesses.
In sum, the President has given nobody
any reason to suppose that he regards his
election as a mandate to revolutionize
America, and even If he did, Congress
would check him. Accordingly If the. eco
nomic outlook does not justify a sudden
nosedive in stock prices, neither does the
political outlook. The chances would seem
to be that the market will fully recover
just as soon as the nervous investor has
had some calming second thoughts.
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OnIy Russiu Con Break 1t

With Russia and five of its satellites
alone dissenting, the United Nations Gen.
eral Assembly now has gone formally on
record in favor of the American plan for
world control of the atom. Despite all the
bitter eloquence of Andrei Vishinsky, the
overwhelming majority has unqualifledly
rejected the Soviet Unions sievelike coun-
terproposal. In effect, passing kind of
moral Judgment on the Kremlin's nay
saying obstructionism, it has warned that
mankind can have no adequate protection
against the danger of war with A-weapons
unless and until this most awesome of new
forces is harnessed for peace in vetoless
policing system setting up rigid safeguards
against the hazards of violations and
evasions.
The Assembly vote-which confirms
decision reached fortnight ago by the
Political and Security Committee-has
been taken in recognition of the bleak
fact that the United Nations Atomic
Energy Commission, after more than two
years of fruitless striving to get Russia to
cooperate with the rest of the world in
establishing effective control, has come to
a terrible dead end. Accordingly, in its
vote, the Assembly, while asking the Com
mission to continue with whatever work
j.: seems practicable, has called upon the
Big Five and Canada (the original spon-
sors of the Commission) to negotiate
directly among themselves in an effort to
find some basis for agreement and to
report back to the U. N as whole not
later than the next session.
In other words, the problem of getting
out of the dead end has been removed
temporarily from the United Nations in
the hope that China, France, Britain.
Canada and the United States, through
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ton of the Third as Brave Rifles" after
the victory at Chapultepec. The Thirds
riflemen also fought in numerous Indian
campaigns, in the Civil War, in the Span
ish-Amercan War and in the Philippine
Insurrection.
Present members of the regiment have
a right to be proud of the valiant record
of this formidable fighting aggregation. It
can be readily understood why, despite the
absence of horses, the Il new regiment
insists on calling itself cavalry" With
such history, it would be pity for such
an organization to lose its identity COM
pletely
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observe that some people are like the Japanese
beetle; they may be SNOWY, but they are deadly.
Their secret Of getting on in life is to use
others for their own selfish purposes. Were 1t
not for nobler souls who put back into the pool
Of life q little more than they take out, these
human parasites would soon destroy the basis
Of their own existence, exhausting the very
things on which they feed. But there are other
people who, In gathering riches from many
fields Of knowledge and culture and thus devel-
oping their own personalities, also enrich
Others The fact is that what we do for
others must always come through what we
make Of ourselves.
There is a world Of pertinent insight in a
letter Of the dramatist, Ibsen, to young friend.
In . very wise sentence he wrote: There Is no
way in which you can benefit society more than
by coming the metal you have in yourself"
It is life's high art to coin the previous metal
of ones own personality and then spend it on
the counter Of others need. But alas, there
are human beetles who blight everything they
touch. Their only thought is to consume for
their own selfish aggrandizement. They leave,
in tatters the green stems and the white flowers
of idealism and altruism in the garden of the
common days.
For instance there are men whose chief
thought regarding unsullied young womanhood
Is 70 ScOuCe duO W OcSIdoc. o0uC1I uAoOCI1
fiction finds such insects crawling on too many
Of its smutty pages. There are others who with
their unclean minds use casual conversation
as carriers of their own communicating imagina-
ton. They cannot express themselves without
leaving a foul trail in the garden Of another's
thoughts. But, thank God for those who, like
the bee, dwell in beauty and fragrance and
carrying the best of the present become archi-
tects of the patterns that are yet to be. Thank
God for those who while they carry ON the
commerce Of their own high purpose also are
the pollenizers Of tomorrow's gardens. Such a
one, for instance, was Alice Freeman Palmer.
Her distinguished husband, in his biography Of
her, speaks about talking with Wellesley
girl regarding the impression that his wife's
great spirit made on her students. The girl
said, when was called into her Office, either
for commendation social visit or a repri-
mand, left her desk and her presence feeling
as If I had been dipped in sunshine"
Blessed are the creators who dip everything
in sunshine. And cursed be the destroyers
whose blight is the breath of DEATH
Hear, ye, the parable Of the beetles and
the hAnS
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Fifty Years Ago

The Star on November 1. 1898, reported the
opening and dedication Of "the new Columbian
University Hospital on H street
Columbian I'm the presence of upward Of
HospitoI 1000 Of the best citizens of
Washington" It was an institu-
ton which was to be operated in conjunction
with the Medical College. DR.. Z. A. de
schweinitz, dean Of the latter, greeted visitors
to the building. The Rev. Dr. Benaiah Longley
Whitman, president Of the university, also
formally welcomed the guests. Others sharing
In the ceremony were: Mrs. w. H. Hoeke
representing the lady managers; Rev. DR..
Wallace Radcliffe, pastor Of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, and G. w. Need
ham, spokesman Of the Board Of Trustees.
The hospital was the parent organization of
the George. washington University Hospital
which today rises above Pennsylvania avenue
and Twenty-third street NV.
What will no doubt be regarded as an i'm
portant step in the movement toward the
celebration Of the centennial
PIons for anniversary Of the establish
Centennial ment Of the National Capital
in this CITY," said The Star of
November 2. 1898, was taken last evening at
meeting Of citizens at the rooms Of the Board
Of Trade, 1410 g street NV It was then de-
cided that the proposed celebration in 1900
should be an appropriate great national historic
event and that the general Government should
be invited to join with the local government of
the District In properly observing the OCCASION
1t was also suggested that as q result of the
centennial anniversary some permanent me-
mortal of the event should be erected in this
city, and that the necessary expenses should be
equally divided between the two governments !"
Those taking part in the meeting included:
James g. Barrett, John w. Thompson M M
Parker, Charles ]. Bell, Theodore w. Noyes,
Lawrence Gardner and John Joy Edson Half
century later plans are in process Of develop
ment for the celebration Of the 150th ami
versary Of the Federal City.
Prices in Washington i've decades back were
not out Of reach. For example, Woodward e.
Lothrop advertised in The Star
Shirts Not for November 3, 1898: Shirts to
Expensive Measure-for Dress, for Busi-
ness for Outing, for Travelling;
: quality, style, ft, workmanship and price guar
anteed. We make to measure: shirts for So
Harry Park of the Century Cycle Club, The
Star of November 4, 1898, announced, had
broken the bicycle racing rec
breokino ord for the distance between
The Record New York and Washington
as Of the date mentioned. He
had completed the run of 243 miles in IS hours
and IS minutes-1 hour and A minutes faster
than ever had been registered before. MI.
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Stamps and Common Sense

The expanded program of new "con1-
memorative" postage stamps inflicted upon
the Post Office Department by the Eight
ieth Congress brought protests from the
philatelic public from its start. This was
natural because it is the stamp collectors
of the Nation who, through their purchases
of mint adhesives which never are used
for postal purposes, pay the costs of all
postal labels. It also was logical devel-
opment because the country's philatelists
are jealous of the integrity of stamps
They believe that the character of the
Nations postage paper should be respected.
Particularly, they resent any and every
effort to make stamps mere convenience
of propaganda.
Many of the issues of the current year
admittedly were the result of pressure
group activity The stamp for the "cen-
tenary' of the poultry industry was
finagled by the publisher OF chicken trade
paper, the Salute to Youth" stamp was q
by-product of an advertising campaign
staged by motion picture studio. the
Volunteer Firemen stamp was promoted by
member of the House of Representatives
who wished to thank some Delaware fire.
men who put out blaze in his own home.
the so-called United States-Canada
Friendship" stamp was solicited by the
sponsors of Niagara Bridge celebration
and the stamp for the American Turner's
Society is another such publicity stunt.
None of these adhesives was of truly
national consequence. Few, If any, OF
them (or Of a dozen others only slightly
less OBJECTIONABLE would have been pro-
duced if Congress had not passed ill-con-
sidered resolutions "authorizing and direct
ing" the Postmaster General to bring them
out. But still worse abuse Of the "com-
memorative" stamp custom is indicated
following the assembling of the Eighty y-first
Congress on January 8. More than twenty
additional issues already have been asked
for. The petitioners speak for the cheese
and show window industries, promoters Of
celebrations of only neighborhood conse-
quence, groups interested in special causes
of a secondary category and many indi-
viduals who simply want their pet fixa-
tions "honored."
few weeks ago philatelic leaders de-
cided to appeal to individual Congressman
to halt the tide. James H. Bower, secre-
tary of the Pentagon Philatelic Society,
put the problem up to Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Michigan, who now, in
reply, has suggested possible solution
in these words: IT think it would be a
great improvement in the Congressional
process if-instead of passing individual
acts for individual commemorative
stamps'-all such proposals were held up
in the first instance until the appropriate
House and Senate committees would report
one bill covering all of the commemorative
stamps for the next fiscal year. This
would permit comparative study of the
proposals and would tend to eliminate the
less worthy and thus reduce the total out
put"
Surely, this sounds like sense. 1t is to
be hoped that something along the line
postulated will be accepted as standard
practice.
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Outlook in Other Fields:

Reclamation Restrictions imposed on con-
struction and personnel by Eightieth Congress
likely to be modified, but no new major projects
started. Federal power plants and transmits
sion lines probably will be pushed, especially
IN Northwest. Commissioner Michael straus
likely to stay. '.'
Acknowledgement program likely to get
shot IN the arm. Ernest Gruening's appoint
ment as Governor probably will be confirmed
1ndians-Ten-year Navajo rehabilitation
program seems due for new support.
= Bureau OF Mines-James Boyd to be con-
frmed as director and collect a years back
pay, held up while Republican Senate refused
to confirm him.
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.4Ndtu1C 3 IldllOlWOTk
supernal wonder.
Such was the part
nership of q window
and q garden which
for one lonely So
journer transfigured
a month spent in the
midst Of a busy city
with its smoke and
CRIME. His room
faced a quadrangle
in which, amid bare
pavements and hostile
air, a lovely garden
was set like a radiant
gem. The window
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Park had left City Hall in Manhattan at $50
am. the previous day. He reached the Dis
trict Of Columbia at S:35 am. Losses OF TINS
en- route were: 20 minutes waiting for Staten
Island ferry, IS minutes at the New jersey
end Of the boat trip, IS minutes in Princeton
for dinner. IS minutes In Philadelphia. 80 min.
utes In Baltimore.
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7 OOkin0 Ahead Some Shadows of Coming Events
AoONAA0 AA1~oA Are Noted Here and abroad
(By the World stan of the Associated Press,

from time to time is the replacement of Am
bassador Jefferson Caffery at Paris
All Ambassadors, assistant secretaries and
other top ofncials as well as cabinet officers
normally submit their designations when q
new presidential term begins. That gives Mr..
Truman the option, without extraordinary
fuss, of making new appointments wherever
he wishes.
Some officials familiar with White House
thinking believe that the President may try to
nnd qualified labor men for one or two am
bassadorial positions,
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Spires of the Spirit
Bees and BeetIeS
Discussion of the Virtue of Coinina the Precious
Metal of Ones Own Personality
Bv n n
By the Req. Frederick Brown Harris, D. D.. Lit. D.

Every window is picture window, no
matter how small the panes. An inch Of glass
may frame infinity. revealing suficient Of
Natures handiwork to suggest vistas Of
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Wonder what our nice old grandmother
would have made. Of the verb. "unzip.'