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Evening star., 1948-01-06

In the field OF safer tanks for gasoline
storage. The board favors the bladder
type Of tank. which reduces the likelihood
Of gasoline leakage in event OF 4 crash.
OF course, 1t is probable that the advent
OF Jet propulsion for commercial planes
will solve the gasoline problem by making
use OF less volatile fuels However, Jet
propulsion itself brings new crop of
safety problems to perplex the experts.
The board is correct in holding that the
matter Of safety in the air is continually
changing one, requiring persistent research
on the part both of the Government and
OF private indus try. This is, at best, 4
trial-and-error process but the testing
should be done in the laboratory, not after
new plane has been put into service.
There have been unfortunate indication
in the past that some new types OF COM
mercial craft have not been sufficiently
tested at the factory before allowing them
to become public carriers.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
By-Pussinq the Commission

Under instructions from Chairman Gill
more D. Clarke, the Fine Arts Commission
has issued fortnight statement regard
ing its position on the White House bal
cony. The proposal has been given careful
consideration at two meetings of the COM
mission" and the unanimous recommended
ton Is against It, The statement removes
the equivocal attitude of the commission,
as represented previously by some Of its
members, and leaves it in the clear.
Where does 1t leave the President? 1t
leaves him responsible for change in the
appearance of the south facade Of the
White House, made against the advice of
the agency set up by Government to pass
on the esthetic propriety of such altera-
tions. As first citizen, he is not following
an exemplary course.
There Is little question about the Pres
dent's legal authority to satisfy his per-
sonal inclinatons in such matters so long
as the public funds at his disposal are
sufficient. The powers of the Fine Arts
Commission are pretty strictly limited to
those of advice Such advice can be and
has been disregarded in the past.
But the principle involved is very clear.
"The height, color and design" even OF
private buildings in certain areas of the
District-including the White House area
are subject by law to the advice of the
commission under the Shipstead-Luce Act
of $780, Several executive orders since the
commissions creation in 1910 have ex-
panded its duties in relation to all Federal
buildings in Washington. And tradition
has made it more or less the referee as
regards artistic design and location of all
public buildings and monuments in the
Capital.
President Truman's adaptation to the
White House of type of column-inclosed
balcony, said to have been suggested by
what he saw somewhere else, may not be,
In itself, conspicuously Objectionable. But
1t changes the appearance of the White
House and the Fine Arts Commissions
opposition ito any change in the design OF
the central element of building OF such
historic significance" is well taken and
will be shared by others.
The contemplation of changes made and
proposed by President Truman and his
predecessors, together with the prospect
of others that may occur to successors
who disregard the advice of the Fine Arts
Commission, Is not conducive OF much
confidence in the preservation unimpaired
of one of the Nations architectural land
marks
Evening star., 1948-01-06
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

O. What was the shortest time in which
commercial ships were built during the war?-
w. S.
A. At the beginning of the war the record
was held by the Joseph N. Teal, Liberty ship
that was completed in 10 days by the Kaiser
shipyards and launched at Portland, Greg, on
September 23 1912. These shipyards subSe-
quently lowered the record to three days.
O. What Is considered to be a healthful room
temperature in the home from the standpoint
of preventing cods?-I. M. H.
A. The United States Public Health Service
says that heathful room temperature is not
higher than 68 degrees or 10 degrees F. Bed
rooms should be even cooler. Proper ventilation
is important.
O. How many children attend Roman Cath
olic schools?-S. C. L.
A. The number OF pupils in elementary
schools, high schools and colleges of this de-
nomination is approximately 100000, Accord
ing to the National Catholic Education Associa-
ton.
@. Is it fact that the early Venetian glass
makers were deprived of their freedom so that
the secrets of their trade would be preserved?
H. AY.
A. The valuable men were exiled TO the
neghboring island of Murano so that their
trade secrets might not be passed on TO others.
Gassmaking was an important industry and
the Grand Council of Venice granted special
rights to the glassmakers.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
Industry and the Atom

significant partnership has just been
formed between the University OF Chicago
and seven large industrial firms whose
future-like that of industry as whole
will be greatly influenced by the develop
ment of atomic energy.
Under terms of the partnership each OF
the firms will pay substantial fee for
membership in the university's special
institutes dealing with various phases OF
atomic study and research. In return for
this, the industries will be free to partic-
tpate in, and will have access to, abstract
academic work for the purpose of keeping
themselves fully informed on any new
developments that can be applied
practically.
Thus, the University of Chicago will
make available to the seven member"
firms advance reports on every type of
research conducted by its institutes. In
addition, the firms-Pittsburgh Plate Glass,
Westinghouse Electric, Standard Oil of
New Jersey, Standard Oil Of Indiana, Sun
Oil, Shell Oil and the Aluminium Company
of America-will have the right to place
their own experts in the Institutes labora-
tories, and to attend quarterly meetings at
which the latest developments in nuclear
science will be thoroughly discussed. All
this, of course, will have to be subject to
the security restrictions set forth by the
United States Atomic Energy Commission,
but the participating industries will never
theless be in position to learn much that
may be of great value to them and to the
public served by them.
Wholly apart from it's far-reachlng
potentialities in agriculture and as new
source of power comparable to coal, oil
and falling water, atomic energy promises
to lend itself to numerous important in
dustrial uses According to the best author
tiles on the subject, the radioisotopes
manufactured in our nuclear piles are
likely to play highly significant role in
synthetic rubber production, in chemical
engineering, in the petroleum business, in
metallurgy and in many similar fields.
They may lead, for instance, to the manu-
facture of improved steel and other vital
metals. They may open the way to great
advances in dealing with the problem of
friction-advances that would increase
the efficiency and lengthen the life of all
types Of machinery, from automatic dish
washers to aircraft engines Finally, as
a further example, they may bring about
outstanding gains in such enterprises as
producing and refining oil.
These and similar possibilities make clear
that the experimental partnership at the
University of Chicago Is founded on hard
headed business sense. Arrangements of
much the same sort, under the overall
security supervision of our Atomic Energy
Commission undoubtedly will multiply as
Evening star., 1948-01-06

both private and Federal agencies become
more and more active in the great effort
to exploit nuclear science for beneficial
peacetime purposes.
Actually. American industry as whole
cannot afford to do less than keep up to
the minute with nuclear developments.
Although much of 1t must remain yelled
for security reasons, new economic
frontier has been opened up by the atom,
and no private business of consequence
can ignore it without taking the chance
of losing out to more entefprising
competitors.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

they know full well that the strength Of the
battle line will depend on the amount Of sup
port which the church receives from It's laity.
The battle line will continue to be weak II we
continue to give Christ second or third place
In our lives.
As church people see the two great battle
lines Of paganism and Christianity lining up
today, they are naturally restudying the
church's ability to cope with the task con-
fronting 1t.
Teaching Lacking Clarity.
The frxt thing that they discover Is that
Protestant goals have not been clearly defined.
The average Protestant boy or girl, even after
spending several years in Sunday school, can
not make q clear statement as to why he is a
Protestant. Our Christian education in this
respect is far inferior to that of the Roman
Catholic Church.
The second discovery is that the church In
some degree is ineficient and one wonders
whether inefnciency is the price we must pay
for democracy.
Taking my own Presbyterian Church rs an
illustration, it has no president, no real execu-
tive, no continuity of executive policy. Our
moderator is elected for one year and may not
be reelected. He has very little authority,
being merely the presiding officer of the General
stand the problems Of the church, q successor
is elected. We are great religious corporation
without president.
Another serious problem which Is not alto
gether peculiar to the Presbyterian Church Is
our inability to transfer ministers from pulpits
where they do not fit to other pulpits. Often
have wished that might borrow Methodist
bishop for about q week. Some Of our min
listers have been in the wrong pulpit for q
decade or more, while the church declines. I
estimate that this condition applies to nearly
20 per cent Of Our pulpits.
Equally serious Is the pitifully inadequate
salaries paid to many Of our ministers. Salaries
around $2,4O0 with rnanse' are very common
and some are less than that. One minister
had to stay away from dinner In my honor
because he could not afford the price, and
another was prevented from attending by the
cost Of gasoline. Many ministers cannot afford
to buy badly needed clothes, much less educate
their children.
Democratic Procedure In Church Work.
Still another weakness is allowing the church
to be q one-man institution, the minister doing
most Of the work. More delegation Of work and
responsibility is an urgent need throughout the
Protestant Church.
Nevertheless, Professionalism is moving for
ward at rapid rate and cooperation between
the denominations is increasing We have q
great battle to fight together, and dare not
make too much of point of small differences
In creed, for we know that when we are on the
defensive and the enemy troops are moving up
we had better be careful about asking too many
questions as to the creed Of the fellow next
to us In the battle line.
But the big point is that our religion and the
church take on a new significance as we realize
that they, and they alone, can give the leader
ship that will avoid war and rescue our world
from its present chaos.
WILBUR LA ROE Jr,
Moderator OF the General Assembly, Pres
byterian Church, U. s. A.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
FIyinq Can Be Made Safer

The recent series of fires aboard COM
mercial air liners led the Presidents
Special Board of Inquiry on Air Safety to
give emphasis to the fire problem in its
final report. The findings of the board
leave no doubt that flying can be made
safer If greater attention is paid to fire
prevention and fire control in. the design
and construction of passenger planes.
It is evident that the board feels that at
least one major air disaster might have
been avoided had crew members had
access to the baggage compartment of the
plane. In one fiery crash few months
ago the pilot reported by radio that a
blaze had broken out in the baggage COM
partment. The compartment was equipped
with automatic fire detection and extin-
gushing equipment, but there was no way
for the pilot or his assistants to inspect
the compartment to see if the equipment
was functioning or to use hand eXtin-
guishers. The compartment was below the
fuselage, completely cut off from the
interior of the craft
The board, after an investigation of this
fatal accident, has recommended that
such compartments be made accessible If
structurally feasible, or that, at the least,
fire axes be provided so that entry can be
forced in an emergency. Some planes now
carry axes, but these should hereafter be
mandatory equipment. An additional safe
guard, the board said, would be f1reproof
portfolio through which conditions in the
baggage or other compartment could be
seen. These are relatively simple measures
that should have been adopted long ago.
A phase of the fire problem more diff
cult of solution is that Of explosive fuels
Gasoline is a constant fire hazard in
aviation, not only when fires break out
in the air but in crash landings. Progress
Is being made in development of less dan
gerous fuels than aviation gasoline, but
the more immediate remedies seem to lie
Evening star., 1948-01-06
RuroI Mailman

His feet are beautiful
Upon the mountain. Yea,
A MONDAY music is
His battered Chevrolet.
Faithful as the sun
Is his dtnr1lal race
Yea, taithtuller, for never clouds
His earnest face.
He makes d curious trade;
His daily barter Is
TO bring the mail and take u,pdg
The loneliness.
BLANCA BRADBURY
Evening star., 1948-01-06
Candidates Errors

To the Editor Of The Star.
Henry Wallace has presidential ambitions
But would any American vote for man who
had millions of pigs and useful crops destroyed
when people in this country needed food?
Senator Taft also has presidential ambitions
He talks about social program. But he pre-
vented action on Senator Langer's bill to help
retired United States Government clerks on
their small annuities, when butter has been
Al q Mound, BLANCHE c. HOWLETT.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
Murphy Case Churqes

The ruling by Fire Chief Murphy's Trial
Board that the charges against Chief
Murphy must be limited to alleged offenses
since he became head of the Fire Depart
ment severely narrows the scope of this
proceeding.
1t is the same thing that the District
Commissioners, for somewhat different
reasons, wanted to do at the outset. For
the Commissioners to have done this, how
ever, would have been to invite suspicion
that the case was being whitewashed.
Chief Murphy Is their appointee, and they
were wise In permitting the preferment
of any charge bearing on Mr.. Murphy's
fitness to hold his Office.
The Trial Board functions in different
capacity. It is quite proper for this board
to determine whether, as matter OF law,
the scope Of the case should be limited,
and 1t can hardly be suspected Of an
attempt to shield Chief Murphy in arriving
ut its decision.
At the same time however, the boards
ruling points to some disturbing possibih-
ties. It found nothing in local precedents
or in the Fire Department regulations
governing the question at issue, but con-
cluded that, under the general law, it
was bound to limit the charges against
Mr.. Murphy to offenses allegedly COM
mitted during the time he has held ONCE
as chief engineer of the department.
Presumably this means that municipal
official appointed by the Commissioners
could have committed the worst sort of
offense week prior to his appointment
but could not thereafter be tried or re-
moved from Office on the basis of that
offense. II this is the case, it follows that
the Commissioners ought to be extremely
careful in investigating the record and
character of prospective appointee. It is
significant that in the Murphy case the
Commissioners were unaware of the alleged
offenses antedating his appointment and,
OF course, made no investigation Of them.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

OF the saviors Of mankind there is no
end. Here in a ten-cent magazine are
three, with directions for stopping infla-
ton, the common cold and Russia.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
Questions and Answers
Bv Gould LincoIn

A reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Washington Star Informa tion
Bureau. 316 street NE. Washington 2. D. c.
Please nclose 3 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

We are again informed by Molotov that
we violate the Potsdam and other agree
ments, which Is bit like getting a legal
opinion from the old Capone mob.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,priter, although it is permissible for q
,priter known to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

spree stop. Thanks to Gould Lincoln's surmise,
which also appeared in The Star Of December
g. that: TT is time for both curtailment OF ex-
penditure and tax reduction"
H 8. HULFISH.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

The Bureau Of Minor Research will look
into the word mediocre" to discover In
what connection 1t was used before there
were movies.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
Declines to Be 96
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I read with great interest your editorial
quoting q specialist DR.. Champion, as saying
we all have seven lives. He enumerates vari-
ous and sundry ills these poor old (or young)
hulks we call our bodies are bothered with on
our journey through the world. DR.. Champion
probably is a reader of Shakespeare and is
familiar with "As You Like It" in which the
Bard declares: "Al the worlds a stage and
one man in his time plays many parts. his acts
being seven, ending, "last scene OF all to
second childishness, and mere oblivion, sans
teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything"
If DR.. Champion has a remedy, please send
1t along. I have tried "this, that, and the
other and still have my "aches and pains. -
But someone has suggested: For every Ill
under the sun. there is a remedy or there is
none; If there be one find it, If there be none
never mind it,
So I grit my (false) teeth and carry on"
You see, was born october "a, 1851. and am
now. as a small boy said: "Six goin' on seven
Yet take your view of the whole matter-see
the Bihle-and believe that man is only as
old as he feels: Therefore, choose to be SO
gon' on 10.
+ have enjoyed reading The Star for nearly
so years. G. t. A.
Annapolis Merchant Complains
To the Editor Of The Star
On January Rear Admiral Felix Johnson
addressing the graduating class at the Naval
Academy told the midshipmen: I'VE should
give the public all the information we possibly
can within the realm of security. A good Navy
depends on having good public relations"
I am of the opinion that this officer has
something for as merchant in a Navy town
1 have given credit on numerous occasions to
naval personnel. At times these people are
transferred and then choose to forget that they
owe balances on their accounts. Upon writing
to the Navy Department for forwarding adj
dresses, so as to contact these men, invariably
get the same reply, "This information not avail
able for the reasons mentioned" Seemingly,
the Navy Department sanctions such actions
on the part of their men. At least 1t looks ike
1t to me- This naturally places the merchant IN
the position of not desiring the Navy business
All this in a town where the Navy rules. Ihey
can take your property. threaten to move the
academy and, as mentioned above. open &C
counts with you and defy you If they are trans
ferred, to collect them. Still our Government
expects the merchant to live, grow and sup
port this same Navy with his taxes. under sucn
embittering conditions /, for one. am DIS
gusted. u. o. hI-I'Di'
Annapolis, Nd.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

Know your America 1t is forbidden by
law in one Oklahoma community to adver-
tise on tombstones
Evening star., 1948-01-06

What the indianapolis thief does with
the manhole covers is not related. Under
imitation, however. these should pass for
money.
Evening star., 1948-01-06
Letters to The Star
Balcony Plan Opposed

balcony flAn opposed
To the Editor Of The Star
Mr.. Truman seems determined to 60 down
In history rs the President who spoiled the
historic beauty Of the White House.
Can nothing be done to prevent the proposed
erection Of 4 balcony over the south portico
Of the Executive Mansion?
That portico is the loveliest aspect Of the
building.
No previous President has complained Of lack
of privacy, which could only be remedied by
such Disagreement. ct considerable cost. The
privacy which Mr.. Truman yearns for will be
granted him by the voters in less than year,
anyway.
It is atrocious that such thing should be
done just to satisfy the personal whim Of an
accidental and temporary occupant of the
White House.
What has become Of the economy program
and the conservation Of structural materials?
DEMOCRAT.
Evening star., 1948-01-06

To the Editor Of The Star:
A deep conviction Of belief and sincerity
was apparent to those who heard the words
Of Henry Wallace.
The choice is given to all American voters
to analyze, reflect and sift the wheat from
the chaff.
Is any man who considers himself to be =
liberal and = progressive or who merely be-
lieves other than the Administration to be
considered as q Communist?
Let us not be stampeded into blind unthink-
ing and completely unjustified condemnation
of any man with the courage of his own con-
victions. When feeling runs high on the RED"
issue as it does now, the tendency is to con-
denim and 60 along with the mob No survey
of the actual facts is made; no unbiased eval-
uation of all the relevant issues or statements
il made: only the idea Of cruciixion Is para
mount in the minds of the great middle class
OF our population.
Merely because Mr.. Wallace does not believe
in universal military training or In the adop-
ton Of the European relief plan in its present
form; or simply because he has enemies who
call him Red or Pink, he is not Communist
or one who is endeavoring to modify our
fundamental precept of democracy.
He is an American who dares to challenge
those in power in both our old line parties.
DANIEL FARSON.
Question for Science to Answer
To the Editor of The Star:
Why doesn't the human race, instead OF ever
deadlier weapons initiate project to properly
heat their homes, so that broadcasters Will
not request them to keep their thermostats
at 10 degrees to preserve fuel Oil?
ESTHER M SWAIN.
No More Spending Taxing
To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Star of December %, Democrat
suggests that Congress re-enact the excess
profits and other taxes to reduce the national
debt. in order for the United States to keep
the dollar from declining In value below that
of the Russian ruble
Doubtless we might be forced to recognize
more tax-loading legislation If it were not for
the checks and balances of Republicans and
conservative Democrats.
Even a Republican President would suit
lot of Americans, and 1t is wicked propaganda
to assert that q right America should ever
cause catastrophes such as Communists might
view with satisfaction.
We should realize that it is not too late to
stop this forward-march of continual taxing
and spending. The public certainly Is inter
ested in having the national debt reduced. but
1t also Is interested in having the spending