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Evening star., 1948-12-09
LIQUOR Toxes Are Too Low

Commissioner MaSons proposal that the
city's tax and license revenues from alco-
holic beverages be increased substantially
is a sensible one, as far as it goes AT
a time when the District is sorely IN
need of additional revenue it is illogical
that the District should have liquor tax
less than half of the national average.
Taxes on distilled spirits, beer and wine
should be adjusted to a fair level. In
Washington the liquor taxes could be
doubled, as Mr.. Mason suggests, without
bringing them up to the national average
of $121 a gallon. Washington's tax of
fifty cents a gallon on distilled spirits is
the lowest in the country. Maryland's tax
is SIPS; New York's, $3.50 The tax in
most of the States is a dollar or more
a gallon.
Mr.. Mason is said to feel that beer
should be exempted from any tax rise.
He told reporters that beer is the poor
mans drink" But there is evidence in
every tavern, roadhouse and night club
that beer drinking no longer is confined
largely to any one economic class. Ger
tainly beer is not necessity that entities
1t to any special tax favoritism. The pres
ent District tax on beer is only fifty cents
a barrel, even when sold in bottles. That
means that the tax on each bottle of
beer is just a small fraction of a cent.
1t Could be doubled without adding more
than fraction of cent to the tax per
bottle.
Doubling of the tax on liquor would
produce s4,0O0,000 year in revenues,
rather than the $2.000000 collected this
year if the same volume of sales is main
tanned If the tax on beer were doubled,
100000 would come to the Districts
depleted Golfer instead of 100000. In
addition to these taxes, the District derives
nearly 100000 year from license fees.
There are possibilities in this field of tax
collection that should be thoroughly
explored along with other revenue sources.
Evening star., 1948-12-09

at the. time Of the original Communist
revolution in Russia, when the new Bolshe-
vik government summarily confiscated such
foreign assets without compensation. That
was one of the reasons why, for many
years, the United States and other Western
nations refused to recognize Soviet Russia.
And despite subsequent recognition, the
issue has never been settled in interna-
tional law and comfy. According to Com
munist theory, private property, even
though foreign owned, is an intolerable
anachronism which must be done away
with. But the capitalist" world has never
acknowledged the validity of this theory,
and in our treaties with Hungary and other
Moscow satellites the legitimacy of Ameri-
can properties in those countries has been
maintained. The action of the Red regime
in Hungary in seizing such properties on
baseless sabotage charges is therefore an
illegal and lawless act which our Govern
ment must vigorously denounce, even
though for the moment it may not be able
to obtain redress and restitution for the
aggrieved parties
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Box Score for Chest

To the Editor Of The Star:
The press reports the appalling figure of
100000 less contributors to the needy through
the Community Chest Federation campaign
than heretofore. Result: Goal shortage of ap-
proximately 81, 100000.
The writer is loath to feel that there are
that host Of folks hereabouts enjoying the
blessings OF homes and jobs in the United
States who do not care enough to share. 1t
would seem there must be legion willing who
have not been reached
Recalling the signal success of the daily
box score published by The Star two or three
years ago on behalf of the Children's Hospital
Fund campaign (Which accounted for several.
hundred thousand dollars, this writer makes
a plea and prayer that this same thing be
done now on behalf of the thousands whom
the Chest agencies serve, at least through the
balance of December and hopefully January.
Thus may the needy be succored and the
spirit of Christmas be observed in life service
instead Of lip service.
JOSEPH D. KAUFMAN.
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Help for Northwest China

To the Edltor o. The star
Everybody agrees that China must be saved
from the Communists. whether in the interest
of the Chinese nation or in the interest of
the United States; but everybody wonders how
to save China-whether under the program
of all-out aid to Chang Kai-shek's govern
ment (Which is the main aim of Nine. Chiang's
mission) or something else.
It is an iron conclusion that the United
States may buy every Chinese from the Reds,
but the American taxpayers do not have so
much money. Conditions have changed since
1943 when the Chinese nation was engaged in
resisting foreign invasion No Chinese darcs
to. say that Nine. Chiangs mission in that year
was for her own interest. Today a great
number of Chinese people, tired of Chiangs
dictatorship and fearful of the terrorism
which is the Communists traditional tactic,
have lost hope of self-salvation and are long
ing for peace, no matter how much the cost.
While they see Nine. Chang and her clique
dressed in fur coats and they are barefoot in
the snow. they give up their arms to the other
side. Why should they fight for somebody's
dynasty?
There is plenty of time and enough op-
portunty to help the Chinese people to Or
ganize themselves in their own interest. That
would mean direct help for those regional
leaders or groups which are independent of
Chiang's government. Now is the moment to
consider the political situation realistically.
1t is not too late to foster the new movement
for self-salvation. The United States should
proclaim its willingness to work for the cause
of true democracy and the welfare of the
whole Chinese nation. Northwest China still
is unconquered by the Reds Why not give
aid to that regions people in their resistance
to the Communists? am a citizen of that
region, and I wonder what my American
friends think of my suggestion.
TSUNG I. DOW.
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Greece and Our Security

There is nothing surprising in President
Truman's latest report to Congress on the
results achieved to date by our eighteen
month-old Greek-aid program. The un-
cheerful facts are we'll known. Despite
the delivery of $17000O,0O0 of American
arms and supplies and the advice OF our
military mission, the Athens government
has not succeeded In establishing internal
security, without which Greece cannot
hope to achieve political and economic
stability.
The Presidents report-which covers the
three-month period ending last Septem-
Der 30-does not varnish the facts. When
our aid program began, the kremlln-
serving Greek rebels numbered an eSti-
mated $4,000 or $4,000. Today, after all
the military drives to shatter them, they
are said to total about $4,000. In Mr..
Truman's words, the situation adds up
to military stalemate" between them
and the governments forces, with the
result that they are still in a position to
"spread ruin and decentralization in an
attempt to prepare the way for ultimate
Communist domination of Greece"
In commenting on this discouraging
state of affairs, the President places part
of the blame on the Greek military estab-
lishment, whose officers and men'in active
service total 1853 00O-several times the
number of Communist guerrillas In spite
of such superiority, however, and in spite
of the supplies and advice we have ex-
tended, the governments forces have
failed to make the most of their oppor-
tunities. Thus, according to Mr.. Truman,
they lost zip after their spring and summer
victories and did not make determined
effort to exploit those victories to the full.
But the main reason for the stalemate-
as has been clear for a long time, and as
the President now re-emphasizes-is the
fact that Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
have been lending aid and comfort to the
guerrillas. They have been doing so in
their capacity as Soviet puppets making
1t possible for the Greek Communists to
seek refuge across the frontier, refresh
and re-equip themselves, and then sally
forth again on renewed military opera
tions aimed at overthrowing the Athens
government and placing the country in
Moscow's pocket under satellite regime.
All this has been made drearily familiar
by the record of the United Nations effort
to get Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
to stop what they are doing. But though
the General Assembly has overwhelmingly
condemned them for threatening the peace
Shey are not likely to change their ways
aSless and until the Russians abandon
heir obvious desire to make puppet out
If Greece and thus dominate the entire
Balkans in way that would give them
new strategic power in the Eastern Medi-
terranean. The real villain of the piece
is the Kremlin; If its policy were not
what 1t is, the Greeks today would have
chance to recover with our aid program.
Disheartening as the situation may be,
however, that program has been anything
but O. total failure. Had it. not been
adopted, the Russians in all probability
would now have O puppet government In
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Wastebasket Art

To The Editor Of The Star:
Seeing the third annual exhibition of WASH
ington artists at the Corcoran has helped dis
pei the sense of outrage felt upon hearing
that the esteemed sages, Stuempfig, Wood and
Crafty, had selected but 20 pictures for exhibi-
ton out Of more than 1000 submitted.
I know now that these esthetes in making
their selections, were guided by the premise
that "doodling" is the highest form of art.
How unfortunate for me to have lacked the
foresight to save those scraps of paper upon
which customarily scribble when my mind is
complete blank Alas, to know that all that
stood between me and being graced by the
divine touch was a wastebasket!
MARK GLADSTONE.
Evening star., 1948-12-09
A Breed of Bruts?

It comes as something of a shock to
read about the trouble Santa Claus has
had down in Burlington, North Carolina.
1t seems he was riding along Main street
on float when suddenly he found one
of his trouser legs aflre. Then, as soon
as he had doused the flames, he espied be-
meath him a little boy trying to put a
match to the other leg. At this point,
caught in the act, the wretch of
youngster took out a pocket knife and
cut hole in the jolly old fellows shoe,
almost nicking toe.
These are horrid facts to read at this
season of the year. Wholly apart from
the picture they suggest of Santa suffering
anguish of flesh and spirit, they make one
wonder about the breed of children at
large in our world these days. BY tradi-
ton, in the pre-Christmas period, little
boys and girls have always made a special
point of being exceptionally good and
mannerly. But here we have the case
of moppet who has profaned custom
and done things which none of us adults
would ever dared to have tried, or ever
wanted to have dared, when we were his
age and lived in pleasant awe of Saint Nick
and dreamed such nice dreams of gifts in
our stocking and under the tree.
Is it possible that the boy in Burlington
is not an exception? Could it be that he
is typical of a new breed of impudent dis
believers in the existence of Santa Claus
breed full of utter irreverence for the
ancient faith of childhood and grown old
before its time from being exposed too
much to the manners and morals of the
comic books? Perish the thought! This
world would be an insufferable world, would
be world hardly worth saving, If ever
the children in it-bless their little hearts!
were bratS like that.
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Rebuke to Hungary

Once more a Moscow satellite regime
has been called upon our diplomatic carpet.
Former protests of our State Department
have been concerned mostly with satellite
violations of their treaty obligations to
respect the basic liberties of their own
nationals, coupled with false accusations
against American representatives for al
legged completely with the victims of Satel-
lite persecution. That was notably the
case in our recent note to Bulgaria This
time it is Hungary which is involved, the
reason for our diplomatic protest being
fragrant transgression of American prop
erty rights and misconduct against the
persons of American citizens.
The case arose over the seizure by the
Hungarian government of certain Ameri-
can-owned oil and gas corporations, they
being subsidiaries of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey. The ground for
seizure was industrial sabotage" alleg-
edly committed by the two Americans who
managed these subsidiaries. Arrested and
held incommunicado for week, they were
released and sent out of the country only
after they had signed confessions" die
tated to them by the Hungarian political
police. AS soon as they reached the Ameri-
can zone of Austria, these company officials
repudiated those statements, wrung from
them under duress, and explained that
their alleged sabotage" consisted in cut
back of production which Hungarian eco
nomic officials had earlier recognized as
needed to conserve the oil and gas wells.
This explanation has been substantiated
by technical report of Standard Oil on
the matter.
In view of these facts, our State Depart
ment has sent the Hungarian government
a note couched in the strongest terms. It
charges that the seizure of the properties
was wholly arbitrary and unwarrant-
able"; that such action is IAN encroact-
ment on American rights and interests in
Hungary for which the Hungarian govern
ment must bear full legal and financial
responsibility; and that the sabotage
charges against the American managers
were not only false and malicious" but
also politically motivated to serve the
purposes of Communist propaganda and to
feign grounds for bringing the companies
under Communist state control"
This note raises an issue which applies
not merely to Hungary but also to every
country which adopts Communist re-
gime. The Communist pattern toward
privately owned foreign properties was set
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Retiring Too Soon

To the Editor Of The Star
see Capt. Hamilton will retire from the
Navy at high retirement pay to take $4,000
a-year job. He served rs years ip the Navy
and is ~ years old. My taxes helped to pay for
his education and gave him nice job during
the rs years-except of course, the war years.
But the risk of the war was what we trained
and paid him for.
He says his aim Is the development of youth.
What does he think the Navy is, bunch of old
men? Why not make him stay and develop the
youth of the Navy? At the present rate we will
be retiring officers. Navy as well as Army,
when they leave the academies. You may
Judge from the above that am disguised.
Well, an. LOUIS r. JOHNSON
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Nv THE HASKIN SERVICE.


@. What is the sacred pallium recently con-
ferred on the Archbishop of Washington
M. r. A.
A. The sacred pallium is circular band OF
white wool about inches wide with pendants
hanging down in front and back. 1t Is worn
outside the cfasuble and over the neck and
shoulders by archbishops, who receive 1t as
sign of their unity and loyalty to the Pope
@. Have all the States received land grants
from the Federal Government for educational
purposes?-C H. F.
A. Each State and the Territory OF Alaska
has received grants of land or land script from
the Federal Government for education pur.
poses In most cases these lands or the re-
ceipts from their sales serve as permanent
sources of yearly income for education in the
respective States.
Q. How long ago was the first night train OPP
Grated in the United States?-R. 7. u.
A. The first night train In the United states
was run through West Virginia on the 5alu-
more g. Ohio Railway In 1S4s.
@, Are there any fur seals in the vicinity OF
the Cape of Good Hope?-H. j. T.
A. The Smithsonian Institution says that
there are very few fur seals around the Cape
OF Good Hope; they are almost extinct at that
location.
@. What are still life pictures?-M. 6. r.
A The term still life Is applied to pictures
which have for their subjects frult, mowers,
vases and such other inanimate oolecN as
usually form the accessories rather tnan tne
main interest of pictures.
@. How many libraries were estaolisned oy
Andrew Carnegie?-C. T.
A. Carnegie during his lifetime Established
ash libraries all over the world at cost OK
e6o,0o0.0oo
Evening star., 1948-12-09

Athens and be in a position to extend
their dominance over the strategically
crucial Middle East. Accordingly although
its results have been disappointing SO far,
our aid must continue in the hope that
the Kremlin will eventually stop seeking
to drag Greece behind the Iron Curtain.
We must remain resolute on this score
for the sake of our own security.
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address. of the
,uriter, although it Is permissible for
Oriter kno,Dn to The Star to use
nom de plume Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Dispossessins the Arabs

To the Editor Of The Star:
May answer a letter from Leo Sack in The
Star for November 26? He complains that there
are 100000 Arab refugees in Palestine and only
1000 Jews This unfortunately is true. For
political reasons, we have taken Palestine away
from friendly people who have lived there
for 1000 years and have given it to a race
that abandoned it 5000 years ago.
ANDREW w. LARMAN.
Evening star., 1948-12-09

With the Reds taking charge of chess
in Berlin, one assumes the pieces will be
given new names. Take the knight, that
can't move ahead without moving sideways
that would be Molotov.
Evening star., 1948-12-09

To the clever high-school junior who has
been doing home lessons to the radios
purr, television offers new and formidable
challenge, unless he can grow a second
head
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to any question OF
fact by writing The WASHINGTON Star 1nformat'on
Bureau, 316 1 street NE. Washnston 2 d. C.
Please incose cents for return postage
Evening star., 1948-12-09
Strengthening U. N. Against War

OA " ~ AGAINST war
To the Editor Of 1he o.ar:
Your editorial "Genocide and War" in the
December issue of The Star, faces souarely
the central problem confronting mankind to-
day. That problem is the setting up of
supranational legal process to ban, not gen.
ocide alone, but war itself.
There are various approaches to the prob
lem, one of which is the program of the
United World Federalists. Starting with spe-
ciflc recognition of the vital question of Sc
curity. U. W. F. presents a pattern of approach
that is both concrete and precise. Aimed at
establishing enforceable law against the power
OF any nation to wage inter nation war,
through basic revision of the U. N. Charter,
1t maps, step by step, the essential procedures
which must be followed to that end. A logical
approach to disarmament is presented in an
article by Thomas K. Finletter, which first
appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and which
may be had in reprint from u w. F., and
presentation of the entire thesis may be had
from a study of Cord Meyers superb book
Peace or Anarchy"
Since the eolUo4s of The Star see so clearly
what is needed will they not put the services
OF their paper into action? Let them arouse
the business leaders of Washington, the
Board of Trade, the Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis
and other clubs, to the need for study
of the various proposals for arming the
presently powerless U. N with the essen
tial legal authority. If you balk at the
term world government say enforceable
world law. But won't you share with us in
U. w. F., and the other groups working in the
field, the task of informing the American peo-
pie of their stake in the matter and of the
role that they must play if the U. N. is to be
given the legislative, executive and judicial
powers it must have? The Star Building,
lying midway between White House and
Capitol, is at the head of the bomb rum
comes the Atomic War. Your editorial sounds
as though you might be ready and willing to
do something about it!
MARY STUART CHAMBERLAIN.
Evening star., 1948-12-09

help them to realize that they are not COM
pletely forgotten, especially invalids, old men.
all those whose poor health makes them in
eligible for resettlement.
1t should be remembered that these men
were our Allies and many of them have lived
on the edge of starvation in camps for more
than eight years. Once again they face a
long and hard winter of doubt, uncertainty
and no hope for the future. A. $40 contri-
button sent to the Washington CARE Once,
Dupont Circle Building, and marked for a
"Yugoslav Displaced Person." will bring the
sender much more than $40 worth of satisfac-
ton. I know this from personal experience.
HILDA B. FULCHER.
Evening star., 1948-12-09

Orchestra for Washington Specifically
To the Editor of The Star:
If such cities in our country as San Fran
cisco, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Den
yer, Kansas City, Mo-. Houston and New
Orleans can contribute to the support of their
symphony orchestras, why not We in the
Capital City of our Nation?
AS Washingtonisn and subscriber to all
concerts, I object to the merger of our SYM
phony orchestra with that of Baltimore.
DR.. Hans Kinder the creator of our Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, gave seventeen
years of his life to perfect it, an undertaking
not TO be underestimated by anyone who had
the great opportunity of attending all or most
of the concerts during his magnificent leader
ship.
We must and will make every effort in the
future to keep our own National Symphony
Orchestra in our Washington, D. c.
ANITA SCHADE.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-05-14
ATIDARE KOOPERATYVA

Detroite, Bal. %, atsidare
Ko-operatyviskas sandelis -
Warehouse No. /, 1855 East
Warren street, skersai Briggs
dirbtuve.
Joje parduoda valgomus da-
lykus, darbininkams rubus. au-
tomobiliu ratams gumas, moto-
rinius aliejus, prosus, lempas,
skalbiamas mazinas, ir kitus
namams reikalingus dalykus.
Kas nori gall priguleti prize
sios organizacijos, ir kas nori
gall pirkti, atdara visiems.
Pirkejas is sios krautuves
gall tapti jos dalininku, seras
po 500. Metu gale bus suves-
ia pelnas ir bus isdalinta pir-
kejams, jeigu bus pelno. Tai
panaujinimas kitados Ameri-
koje bandytQ isplesti koopera-
tyviniu krautuviu.
Vyt. Markuzas.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-05-14
PITTSBURGH
APRASYMAS APIE
GEN. CERNIU

Pittsburgh Press patalpino
platu aprasyma apie Gen. Jo-
ma cerniQ, buvusi Lietuvos &C.
neralinio stabo virsininka il
paskiau Lietuvos ministra pir-
mininka, kuris dabar atvykes
Amerika, apsigyveno Newark
N. j., pas zinomus veikejus A.
5. Treciokus ir dirba Mica
craft dirbtuveje.
Ia patti aprasyma turejo il
eile kitu Amerikos laikrasciu,
vieni ilgesni, kit trumpesni.
Gen. Jonas Cernius buvo ga
bus militariuose reikaluose ir
buvo pasiekes generolo laips-
nio turedamas vos 3S metus,
kas yra didele retenybe.
Jis taip pat yra bolsevizmo
auka, turejo apleisti' savo te-
vyne, kaip ir visi kit Lietuviai
tremtiniai. IS Vokietijos jis su
Selma buvo nuvykes j Anglia,
kur buvo neilgai, ir is ten at
vaziavo j Amerika.
10 78 metu amziaus motina
paliko Lietuvoje, apie kuria jis
nieko nezino. 10 broli bolsevi-
kai deportavo j Sibira.
Naciu okupacijos metu badu
mire viena jo dukte.
Kaip j taip ir kitus Lietu-
vius tremtinius Rusai visokiais
budais nori paciupti savo ma
gus. Kurie tremtiniai is Vo-
kietijos prasisalina tie lieka
saugQs nuo bolseviku.
Bet nei Gen. Cernius SUI sa-
vo Selma nei kitas jokis trem-
tinis negali j Amerika ivaziuo-
tt jeigu jiems nera pasiuncia-
mi affidavitai is Amerikos.
Ateinanti rudeni, kaip zinia
skelbia, Gen. Cernius stos mo-
kytojauti vienoje Minnesota
kolegijoje.
Gen. J. Cernius yra baiges
Briuselio Universiteta ir Pran-
cuzijos Generalinio Stabo mo-
kykla.