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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1948-03-13

constance Ounn. mrs. tucker
Mary Louise Hamilton. Robert
Gum. Oracle Roger, John Ween,
the winner. Phyllis Hamilton,
and the alternate is Rosa Gil
lian.
The Sixth grade team mem
bers are Judith Bronston. Betty
Eason. Ruby Bell. Shirley Troy.
Luther Chimney. Jean Parker
Carol Fullwood. Clinton Har-
rington, the winner. Virginia
Sanders. and the alternate is
Dentist Dukes.
BOXING TOURNAMENT
WINNERS
The winners in the Boxing
Tournaments held last week
were John Craig. Charles An
derson. William Price. Louis Me
Giants. Robert Price. Donald Eat
on. Robert Johnson, Arthur Gas
sawav Lester Jackson. Evcrette
Griffin. Leonard Woods. Melvin
Hall, Ronald Anderson. James
Bel Jr, Levi Williams. Delphert
Smith, Norman Hall and King
Griffin.
The runner ups were Hcze-
kiah Mcdonald. Bobby Myree
David TouchStone. Roosevelt
Henderson. Allen Turner. Jerry
Wiley Larimer Ramsey. Levi
Burgess. Herman Sanders Je-
rome White Jr.. Mathew Robin
son. Elton G Fowler. Bernard
Harrington. Johnnie Redd. and
Harry Lee Jackson.
The winners will receive GER
tificates and sweat shirts with
the lettering signifying they are
champs and the runner ups will
receive certificates and a silver
medal showing they we're runner
ups
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1948-03-13

fldllkiN y HeANN
coonerative Frankie helped
me photographers get their PIC
,"rel by asking the cooperation
~ the youth. In the process
he nut his hand on one Young
isdy who elatedly cried. Oh.
he touched me. over and over
asa,n Wonder II she was really
Nat thrilled. Disc Jockey Leroy
q White and Master OF Cere-
n,on,es Billy Carter were with
frankie and his managers
The James (Grayce) Apper-
SON are at home on kenll-
worth. Their apartment is mod
ern yerv cute and fits their
Inewspaper) personality. They
didn. take the Eddie Cummings
apartment.
al Benson. well known record
nusher from Chicago, was I'M
town last week to take over
nromotions for the record. II
I Should Lose You by De-
troit's finest tenor, Emil Jones.
Benson predicts il will 60 great:
heard the tune and agree with
him :,
In the possession Of Estella
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1948-03-13
River ncugc 8r'ees
By Ethel TUCKER

The nth and sixth grade
Spelling Bee. sponsored by the
Detroit News. was held on
Thursday. March 4, in the North
rup School
The winner OF the fifth grade
was Phyllis Hamilton, daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs James Hamilton
of 40 Frazier The runner up.
Adam Adolphus, missed the
word local
The winner of the sixth grade
was Virginia Sanders, daughter
OF MIR and Mrs r. Sanders OF
358 Holford. The runner-up
Betty Ross misseC 81 Mora
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1948-03-13

Robinson is the first Negro
paper ever published. She is
eighty years of age and mem
Der of st. Peter AME Zion
Church on Yemans
Found out that radio top-sal-
aired Jack l.. Cooper OF Chicago
is tn. former husband of Billie
Green secretary TO Atty. Charles
II. A. Smith. She used TO write
his script and such.
There's a lull in Paradise Val
ley's mite spots They attribute
il to unemployment. Made all
the places the other mite (wasn't
Summing ether; found the
whitest. emptiest table cloths
since before the war.
Flora Hawkins. sales manager
Of Hawkins Apparel Shop Will
liam L. Carter. D. ]. T. student
of accounting. David Murray
business manager of downtown
concern. have been elected TO
assist YOURS truly in counting
votes for the Child Popularity
Contest the TRIBUNE is now
sponsoring.
Evening star., 1948-05-31

Administration prefers and which the
company had agreed to build. Actually,
the council-approved stacks would be only
thirty-thre feet higher than the 150-foot
stacks urged by the CAA and the Air
Transport Association for safety insur-
ance. It is hard to see how thirty three
foot difference in altitude would make any
appreciable difference in the smoke or
noise situation.
What this controversy boils down to-,
therefore, is a choice between a slight
threat of added discomfort for some Alex
andrians and the safety of human lives.
For the CAA and aviation interests are
unanimous in warning that stacks on the
waterfront higher than $50 feet (or 1876
feet above sea leveD will constitute a
grave threat to planes using the main
CAA approach zone-especially in bad
weather. Safety of planes using the Ma
tional Airport certainly should come before
the dubious nuisance" considerations ad-
vanced before the council. It is to be
hoped that Alexandria will reconsider it's
stand against the lower stacks at the next
meeting of the council.
Evening star., 1948-05-31

restore the old mansion comes from the
Peoples League, citizens organization
active in the improvement Of downtown
New York. Sketches Of the edifice in its
palmy days indicate that it would har-
monize with the suggested Alfred E. Smith
housing development and the transfor-
nation OF the business district of that
portion of the East Side soon to be started
Funds for the reconstruction would be
raised by the league. The ground already
is owned by the city. When the restora
ton has been completed, the structure
would be available as civic center and as
a temporary home for any President visit
ing the metropolis. In effect, the real
White House in Washington would have
an annex on the site of its forerunner and
in its architectural form as much as that
form could be approximated after more
than a century and half The idea
undeniably is interesting.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
RESTORING West Potomac Park

Interior Secretary Krug's impatience
over the reluctance OF, the Navy to evacu-
ate the barracks still cluttering up West
Potomac Park is understandable. The
wartime invasion of the Mall and adjoin-
ing park areas was justified as an emer-
gency measure. But, just as many persons
feared, what happened after World War I
is happening again. The invaders are
loath to leave, although the war is long
since ended.
For about year Interior officials have
been trying to effect removal of the bar
racks by next October /, date tentatively
agreed to by the Navy. Now, however,
Navy Undersecretary Kenney has asked
for an extension of the "deadline" to June
80, 1949, at the earliest The Navy is
using the barracks to house approximately
fourteen hundred enlisted men and
women. Mr. Kenney says that plans are
under way to move these sailors and
WAVES elsewhere by October /, but that
1t would be more convenient to allow them
to remain.
If there is some other place where these
men and women can be quartered-and
MI. heHHey HlulCd8S IHdI CIleIe Is suCa
a place or places-the Navy should make
an earnest effort to accomplish the re-
moval, even If some inconvenience is in
volved. If the Navys convenience is to
be the deciding factor, the barracks will
stay where they are indefinitely. There is
no location more convenient to the Navy
Building than West Potomac Park
But that park belongs to all the people.
Right now it is urgently needed as the
site of large rose garden to replace the
one destroyed by construction of the ap-
proaches to the new Fourteenth street
bridges. This scenic area so close to the
Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials should
be the first of the park areas restored to
general public use.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Blames Navy for Propaganda

To the Editor Of The Star:
Lest The Star be placed in the position of
printing only one side OF controversial issue.
Should like to make reply to the eloquent but
highly inaccurate statements of c. T. Force,
who, in the May "a issue of The Star, lampooned
Gen. Spaatz for his attitude on saddling the
country with two air forces.
Gen. Spaatz has displayed "a sad lack OF
understanding as to what the Navy can
contribute toward survival in the air age"
said Mr.. Force, thereby himself displaying
sad lack of understanding of Gen. Spaatz
opinions in this matter. To say that the gen.
eral. who has been called, and rightly SO I
think, the greatest combat air strategist Of all
time, is not aware Of the necessity of naval
aviation is too ridiculous to take seriously.
would venture to say that there are few per-
sons Navy air admirals included, who are
more aware Of it.
However, my understanding of the employ
ment OF naval aviation, and the understand
ing OF Gen. Spaatz and everyone else who is
familiar with the subject, is that it is to be
used as feet support, with carrier-based air.
craft maintained as fleet defense units pri-
marily, and with some specialized units as
signed as attack groups for support Of amphib-
ious operations or for antisubmarine warfare
in addition to the necessary shore based pa
troll squadrons.
In the proposal for the 65O00-ton carrier,
which fortunately appears as though 1t will
never get beyond the proposal stage, the Navy
Is definitely attempting to encroach upon the
basic assignment Of the Air Force, strategic
bombing. This assignment was given the Air
Force as part Of the implementation of the Ma
tional Security Act Of 1947 and was fully con-
CURED in by the Navy at that time. The 65,-
000-ton carrier would be designed to carry air.
craft of the size OF B-29 Superfortress for
which the Navy has absolutely no use in fleet
Gen. Spaatz opposes the Nays latest bid for
separate empire-and I, and every intelligent
taxpayer, also oppose it.
Mr. Force also states that the Navy has been
gagged" for almost two years, prohibited from
speaking Its mind on controversial subjects.
This statement is just slightly more ridiculous
than the preceding one. True orders were
issued. to Navy and Air Force alike to avoid
such controversy in public utterances. The
Navy definitely and continuously has ignored
that directive and has waged a propaganda
battle for the maintenance of its air arm on
a large scale. The Air Force, on the other
hand. has respected the gag, not through any
great sense of virtue, must admit, but simply
because it was the smartest politics, as events
and appropriations have borne out. Gen. Spaatz
now is privileged to break the gag, for he now
is private citizen. taxpayer like the rest
of us, and if he thinks the country is being
"saddled with two air forces" 1t Is his right
and even his duty to say so.
JAMES J. HAGGERTY.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Memorial Day Reflections

Oh, race of man, piH you never end the
story
OF war and battle? Will you forever
Your sons to alien fields for an empty
glory,
TO die for cause that reason might
amend?
They haze fallen again as cloud OF
petals failing,
As fakes of snow that light and
disappear
The laughter and the gay young rofces
calling
Only memory treasured and held dear.
From east and pest, the solemn ships
returning
CIeaue the great bilious into foDers OF
foam,
And again Ue lay the dead ,Ohere the
redbud burning
Lights the sUeet earth OF home.
May their spirit be uttered forth IN
nswer beauty,
The stubborn angers OF mans DtH
subdned,
That not again on the harsh, harsh feld
OF duty
These young, bright fotoers be streUed.
INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
A Universal Appeal

Early reports from the worldwide
campaign to raise funds to aid 230,000,00
undernourished children abroad prove the
truth of the campaign slogan: "You can't
say no to a starving child" And it should
be emphasized that this Crusade for
Children" is, in fact, of world wide extent.
The movement, under United Nations
sponsorship, is not an American relief
undertaking, in any sense. In nearly
every country of the globe, just as in
Washington and other American commu
mites, the people are responding gener-
ously and compassionately to the urgent
pleas in behalf of the young victims of
war and wars train of evils.
Fund-raising committees already have
been organized In forty three countries
and encouraging returns are beginning to
come in. Canada and Sweden have raised
the largest amounts to date-$5 100000
and $2,226,400, respectively-and their
campaigns are not ended. Icelanders have
contributed total of $430,000, which
means the amazing average of nearly four
dollars for every inhabitant. And even
citizens Of war-ravaged Czechoslovakia
amounts.
The American effort is being directed
by the American. Overseas Aid-United
Nations Appeal for Children, which has
set goal of sixty million dollars in
voluntary contributions. This voluntary
fund should not be confused with the
sixty million dollar grant which Congress
fba Y,,fo
Children's Emergency Fund. The congress
sional grant is largely contingent on
similar grants by other governments and
would not begin to meet the actual need.
Only voluntary supplemental aid can be
expected to save the more than two hun
dred million children now facing starva-
ton. Local citizens who wish to take part
in this campaign of mercy should get in
touch with Crusade for Children head
quarters at 1922 H street northwest.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
White House in New York

A plan for the rebuilding of the original
Executive Mansion in the Lower East Side
of New York City has been announced
The project calls for the reconstruction of
the house at 3 Cherry street, Manhattan
where George washington lived and worked
during the first ten months of his admin
istration. 1t was from that long vanished
residence that he went to be inaugurated
President at Federal Hall, Wall and Nassau
streets, April 30, 1789 To it he returned
after the ceremony. In it he continued to
make his home until the Government
removed to Philadelphia in February, 1890
The structure was three-Story Colonial
composition, about fifty feet square. It
stood in its prime on the top of little hill
looked out over the East River, and was
considered an ideal suburban establish
ment-the best available for the new
Nations Chief Magistrate wealthy mer-
chant had owned the property. Congress
ordered it prepared for the use of Wash
ington and his official family in resolu-
tion dated only two weeks before his arrival
from Mount Vernon. But the necessary
arrangements were completed in time and
everything was ready when the distin-
guished tenants appeared. Crowds of visi-
tors called upon them during the period of
their occupancy.
After Washington left, however, the place
declined in Importance until, having been
for while piano store, the building was
torn down in 1856 and string of shops
erected on the site. Further changes were
necessary when the west approach of the
Brooklyn Bridge was raised and again
when the Elevated Railroad was put up in
Pearl street. A coffee e-importing concern
and a filter manufacturer occupy the
premises at present. The proposal to
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Tzintzuntzun

DR.. George M Foster of the Smithsonian
Institution has been making study of
what was the capital of a mighty empire
as recently as four centuries ago. The
name of the place is Tzintzuntzan. It
stood in its prime as rival of the Aztec
metropolis, but today it is little farming
town with about a thousand inhabitants.
All that survives of its ancient glory is a
trace of the Tarascan language in the
modern jargon of its people. Even its
legends have faded into nothingness.
But the fault is not exclusively that of
the Spanish invaders of 1919, still less that
of subsequent invasions violent or peace
able. The fate of Tzintzuntzan was decided
by its own elemental weakness. DR.. Foster
explains that it represented a fusion of
sedentary, agricultural folk who were con-
quered by nomadic hunters from the
mountains. Then came Cortez, who was in
effect another nomadic hunter. He found
all Mexico divided into hostile nations"
Had they been united and possessed of the
strength of their unity, they almost GER
tainly could have destroyed him.
Different in motivation but similar in
result was the work of the Franciscan
friars in the Tarascan country So jealous
and efficient in their mission were they
that DR.. Foster says the TzintzuntZanianS
have remained fervent Christians ever
since and there is remarkably little sur
vival of their old customs in church cere-
MONIES A like observation applies to
every other aspect of life in Michoacan.
For better or for worse according as we
look at it, one civilization has been i'm
posed upon another. The less strong
culture has been extinguished by the
weight.
Perhaps the same principle is operative
everywhere on earth in 1948. If it is true
as fanatical Marxists believe that COM
munism is essentially sturdier philosophy
than so-called capitalist democracy" then
eventually it will triumph. Again, if it is
a fact that Russia has resources of popu-
lation, natural resources and intelligence
superior to those of her global neighbors,
then sooner or later the Soviet Union will
dominate the planet These are not pleas
ant ideas. 1t just happens that they are
part of the picture of human existence
right now, exactly as Cortez was in Mexico
in the epoch of Montezuma
TZintzuntzan is a sermon of sort. DR..
Foster speaks of it as having passed into
oblivion" The great capitals this side of
the Iron Curtain, including even Wash
ington, could suffer the same pitiful destiny
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Hate.Fear Hysteria

To the Editor of The STAR
All the good that Franklin Roosevelt did was
not inferred with him, but much of it can
succumb in this lobby -smitten era.
The Democratic Party is in shambles, but If
the G. o. P. wants all of the votes it might
consider that many veterans, war widows and
Gold Star mothers will back Henry Wallace If
no one else talks of peace. Many State Depart
ment rainbows have Matched and died since
he began, but the foreign experts are not
stampeding to accept his challenge to debate
United States foreign policy"
Some people forget that Russia was battle
field and America was not. If we had known
scorched earth policy clear to the Rockies, would
we be attempting to salvage prestige by inviting
foreign inspectors in to cape at our open
wounds? There is certainly ample war mo-
mentum in this country to scare any one 1t
did not take us long to spread out in Al
South America, Greenland, Iceland.
Why should Stain knock himself out fighting
America? BY the time we get through tearing
ourselves to pieces there won't be much left
here to covet, and communism will have tri-
umphed, perhaps involuntarily, through default.
or Americas self-destruction.
With no thanks to the witch hunting Con-
gress and State Department which has about
cornered the blunder market we now arc
cursed with the old reliable hate-fear hysteria.
1t has ever been good psychology; Hitler was
Its foremost contemporary usurper. While de-
voting our time to hate and fear, we will have
none to poster the powers that be who have
forgotten, apparently, that even the home fires
need an occasional log.
DISCOURAGED DOUGHFOOT.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Safety Comes First

AleXandria's objection to a further low
ering of the height of the proposed
Braddock Light and Power smokestacks at
the company's new waterfront plant is
based on fears that two nuisances will
result-smoke and airplane noise. At the
council hearing on the stacks it was
argued that higher stacks not only would
result in less smoke but would force planes
so high that the noise nuisance would be
abated
These arguments might be more con-
vincing if there were more disparity
between the height of the stacks which
the council is willing to approve and that
Of the ones which the Civil Aeronautics
Evening star., 1948-05-31

we are moving toward bankruptcy.
When a democracy goes bankrupt, Dictator
receivership always is formed. Russia turned
her economy over to the workers. That DEM
ocratic system lasted about two years. changing
into an inevitable dictatorship.
The only hope for our country is to main
tain checks and balances that are capable of
disciplining democracy representing a long
term view as against the current short-sighted
demands Of the average voter.
Don't blame Russia or Germany. They
followed inevitable laws OF social behavior which
we also are following DAN BLACHLY.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Danser of Pure Democracy

To the Editor Of The Star:
think 1t would be better for the newspapers
to take some Of the space now tenanted by the
ephemeral chatter Of the columnists and use
it to set forth the fundamental facts of human
society General knowledge of these funda-
mentals could prevent many misunderstand-
ings and perhaps war itself.
For example, consider democracy In de-
mocracy the people decide the course that the
nation is to pursue. But the average person,
given free choice. is not sufficiently far-sight-
ed and disciplined to sacrifice present salts
factions for long-term well-being.
For this reason all democracies in the past
have voted themselves benefits and advantages
that they could not afford and have gone into
bankruptcy The only reason the United States
has escaped this 50 far is that certain checks
and balances have prevented the operation Of
Q pure democracy. With . purer democracy
Evening star., 1948-05-31
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE


O. Who owns the 2oo-inch telescope7-
K M B.
A. The Palomar Observatory and the 200
inch telescope are owned by the California
Institute of Technology. In the construction
of the giant telescope the institution was aided
by a grant of $6y0o0000 from the General
Education Board.
O. What was the first Capitol of the United
States after the Constitution was adopted?-
o. N. B.
A. Federal Hall in New York Previously
called the City Hall. the building was re-
modelled in time for George Washington's In
auguration in 1789 and named Federal Hall.
The national subtreasury now occupies the site.
@. Is Cape Horn the southernnost point
of South America?-P. G..
A. Cape Horn is on tiny island, $50 miles
south of the continental mainland. The
southernmost tip of the South American conti-
nent is Cape Froward in Chile.
@. What is the record for a sailing ship'-
D. M
A. Donald McKay's clipper The Lightning
sailed 436 miles In one day, worlds record
which still stands. The American clippers are
considered to be the fastest and most wonder
full sailing craft ever built.
O. What is the average proportion OF water
in vegetables?-N. s. D.
A. Most vegetables average between 30 and
30 per cent water but there is considerable
variation, dry soy beans, for instance, con-
tanning only rs per cent
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Art in the Market Place

L IdCC
To the Editor of The Star:
In our country, we have something which
we like to call THE American Dream''-the
bringing of the good things OF life to the
people. 8
I have just seen phase 81 this American
Dream in practice: Good art brought right
into the market place for all of us to enjoy as
we do our daily marketing. BY giving the pub
lie such ready access to good painting, the
merchants of the Center Market are doing a
truly commendable service. The student-artists
of the Corcoran Art School deserve praise, too,
for the fine work they have turned out
Here's hoping this idea sweeps the country.
FLORENCE JACKSON
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
priter, although 1t Is permissible for
Driter kno1on to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Mr.. Bevin "Mixed Up"

To the Editor of The Star:
British Foreign Secretary Bevin according
to The Star, states that only the UN may force
Britain to end the treaty whereby she furnishes
officers to Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion. Mr.
Bevin is certainly wrong here. It isn't neces-
Sary to break the treaty. The only trouble is
that Mr.. Bevin is mixed up In his directions.
British officers led the Arabs into Jerusalem
now let them lead them away It appears that
the United States should beware of any treaties
it may conclude with Mr.. Bevins government.
VERITAS.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Questions and Answers

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