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Evening star., 1948-10-27
Sympathy for Mercy.Speeder


To the Editor OF The Star:
Have you been deluged with letters of pro-
test concerning the treatment Of the poor
man who was imprisoned and fined for ex-
ceeding the silly District speed limit while
rushing desperately i'll child of a neighbor
to a hospital? I hope so. I consider his pun
ishment the most outrageous abuse of police
power I have ever heard Of outside of the
Soviet Union.
The District attitude on speeding does not
make sense. have held drivers license since
1926, driven thousands of miles each year on
volunteer motor corps work and my own busi-
ness. Only twice during the % years have
been spoken to for speeding, both times on the
rural end of Sixteenth street, burning up the
road at all of 38 miles an hour. Both times
my license was suspended with considerable
hardship, yet there was no charge of reckless
driving or danger to any one either time. e
The driver Of the sick child exceeded the
limit at 40 to As miles an hour and could have
menaced no one-a parody of justice and
mercy. Gould pay the fine?
T. McSHERRy
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Our Price Outlook

Last August, in a statement defending
the Republican anti-inf1ation program,
Senator Taft took the rather cheerful view
that there were many reasons to believe
that we are reaching a stabilized price
level" and that the next Congress probably
would not have to legislate new measures
to curb rising living costs
The moderate optimism thus voiced by
Mr.. Taft two months ago is still very much
open to question: but figures on the con-
sumner price index-the latest available
suggest at least the possibility that time
may prove him to have been right For
the index, as compiled by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, shows that in the monthly
period ended September IS the overall
cost of living stopped rising after having
climbed continuously for five months
In fact, despite the usual seasonal boost,
food prices dropped a bit during the
month, and were it not for the fact that
this was offset by slight increases in such
other items as rents, fuel and electricity,
the index as whole would have shown
a decline, instead of merely hating its
upward trend. In other words, as of Sep
Is, but remained at the same level, stand
Ing still for the first time in almost six
months.
But although this tends to support Mr..
Taft's view, Americans would be we'll
advised to keep their fingers crossed. Ger
tain factors in the picture serve as
warning signals against too-hasty or over
hopeful conclusions that we may now be
entering a period when consumer prices
will not only fatten out on "a stabilized
price level" but actually will begin to drop.
That is real possibility, of course,
especially because our exceptionally good
crops and tremendous industrial produc-
tion are bringing the supply situation more
and more into line with demand. Never
theless, look at the world fcene should
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Who Are These Men?

It Is hard to realize that Mr.. Truman's s
Chicago speech was delivered by a Presi-
dent of the United States. For 1t Is the
sort of speech that one would expect only
from man who had plumbed the depths
of irresponsibility and panic.
Mr.. Truman would have us believe that
there is Republican conspiracy against
our free society. He would have us believe
that Mr. Dewey is merely front man"
for sinister figures in the background, and
that Republican victory would install in
the White House, not a Hitler, not a
Mussolini, not Tojo, but all three rolled
into one.
Who are the architects of this plot
against the Nation? Or as Mr.. Truman
himself put it, who are the men behind
the forces that threaten our way of life"?
Needless to say, having posed the question,
the President did not answer it. Like
Henry Wallace, when he was going about
the country ranting against unnamed
American Fascists," Mr.. Truman is con-
tent to call names, but Is not willing to
name names.
The chances are that this sort of thing
is not going to do us irreparable harm, for
the American people have too much sense
to be taken in by it. But it is bound to do
some harm, and in that connection there
Is one thing Mr.. Truman would do we'll to
keep in mind. Back in the depths of the
depression, when many people feared for
the future of the country, Mr.. Truman's
predecessor in the White House made q
statement in which he said that we have
nothing to fear but fear itself. That was
statesmanlike comment, and Mr.. Tru-
man would do well to reflect upon its impli-
cations as he goes about the unworthy
business Of trying to manufacture fear for
the sake of votes.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
These Things | Love

All things upon this earth loDe:
Weed and to1Dering hollyhocks:
Raucons crotD and gentle dope:
Nocturnal skunk and tDary for.
My heart is like the ambient sky
Curuing to the fertile ground.
My thoughts are skimn,ing birds that fy
Abope still aoaters Without sound.
These humble Derities / prise-
All lotoly things that Hue and grotp-
Lifting song and laughing eyes
As tuH OF stars as sparkling snoc.
HARRY ELMORE HURN.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE,

@. Where is the headquarters of the Reor.
Saints?-G. G.
A. This denomination has headquarters in
Independence, Mo. 1t was founded in the 1850s
by members of the original Mormon church
who would not accept the leadership of Brig.
ham Young and the idea Of polygamy and
other alleged innovations.
@. Which Is the largest city of the South9
H. j.
A. The Bureau Of the Census says that
Baltimore Is the largest city In the South,
the population at the last census (1940) being
So, 100. Nearly half the people Of Maryland
live in the city Of Baltimore.
Q. When q person attempts to swim across
the English Channel may he rest at intervals
by floating or by hanging on to q boat?-
G. D. r.
A. The swimmer is permitted to float when
he is tired but he may not hang on to q boat.
Q. Was John Paul Jones originally buried
In France?-C. M. T.
A. After long search instituted by Gen.
Horace Porter, American Ambassador to
France, the burial place of John Paul Jones
was discovered In 1905 In the old st. Louis
Cemetery in Paris. In 1906, the body was
conveyed by United States squadron to An
napolis, Md, where 1t was buried with naval
honors.
Q. Is one end Of an orange sweeter than the
other?-E. Med.
A. The blossom end Of an orange Is sweeter
than the stem end.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
The 'Catatonic' to Blame

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t is pity that DR.. Addison Duval' Of st.
Elizabeths Hospital, when classifying the vari-
Gus types Of hornblowers, neglected to classify
the driver of the car in front Of the horn
blower.
am referring to the catatonic who sits In q
trance long after the light has turned green.
The only therapy that can remedy the situa-
ton is the loud, Juicy blast Of horn which
will shock him back into reality.
JOHN r. EDRDQE,
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Barred From Teaching in D. G..

To the Editor OF The Star:
I have been greatly interested in recent
articles concerning the scarcity of teachers in
Washington schools and the subsequent articles
putting part of the blame on the examination
as a means of selecting Zone might say ex-
cluding) teachers
Once was enough for this writer. Previous
to the war had spent is years in school work
IN Ohio. the last eight Of which very as prin
Evening star., 1948-10-27

cipal Of a respectable school system. hold
the master Of arts degree from great uni
versity Returning to civilian life In 1916, after
40 months OF service in the Navy, decided to
try to teach in the Washington schools.
I was offered a job, teaching in a junior
high school. The salary was not enough to
live on, but that is not my point here. The
point would emphasize is that I was to be
given temporary job, and further that
could not even .take the examination until I
had gone to school and taken two-semester
hour course in Methods in Junior High
School," 1t 50 happened that I had neglected
to take course by that particular title when
doing my undergraduate work, so was barred
from teaching in the city schools, in spite of
the fact that had had eight years expert
ence supervising the same kind of school, to
say nothing of several years Of successful
teaching in the same field.
I submit that so long as the local school
system operates on its present system Of Sc
lecting teachers there will continue to be
shortage of good teachers. J. Ed.
Some Senators Dixiecrats?
To the Editor of The Star:
Which political party will organize the
Senate OF the next Congress is a most prom
lnent question of the present election cam
paign. Speculation about whether Democrats
or Republicans will be elected to the Senate
from Kentucky, Montsna, Oklahoma, West
Virginia and other doubtful States is running
strong. Always the discussions assume that
the Republicans must win at least enough
Senate seats to make their total Senators not
less than 48 in order to control the Senate.
One important point is never mentioned.
We are SO accustomed to only two political
parties in the Senate that no thought is given
to the possibility of half-dozen or more Sem
ators in the S1st Congress being neither Demo-
Gratis nor Republicans.
Suppose the Republicans as result of the
election November have only 46 Senators.
The Democrats then would not necessarily
have so and so control the Senate The Sem
ators from Alabama, Mississippi, South Caro-
lima and perhaps other States might refuse
to be classed as Democrats. States which
elect Senators and presidential electors on
States Rights tickets scarcely could be claimed
by the Democrats.
Then with only As or fewer Senators the
Republicans still could have majority in the
Senate. This factor of third-party Senators
should be considered in all speculations on the
control of the Senate in the 81st Congress
GEORGE F. MILLER.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
,oriter, although it is permissible for
,oriter kno,Dn to The Star to use
q nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Pensions for Needy Only


In reference to your editorial "War Pen
sions for Everybody" October %, why is it
that there never is a peep out Of your editorial
staff when well-fxed financially, higher
bracket military and civilian pensions are
handed out, some at full salary after only 10
years of service?
am for economy in all branches of Gov
ernment service, and think there should be
no pensions for any one unless proof of
financial need is shown to exist often have
wondered just what these near -millionaires
do with their pensions.
Why does The Star criticize the action OF
the American Legion in helping these World
War vets who are getting along in years?
Your editorial should have been entitled
''War Pensions for Everybody Except World
War Veterans" HAROLD j, OLIVER,
Evening star., 1948-10-27

Mother love Is that which restrains the
sorely tempted parent from chucking the
eight-year-old, muddy football suit and
all, into the washing machine.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
u. N. and Russia Subversion

-. ~. ana Russia SuDVerSlOn
To the Editor of The STAR
There Is primary weakness in the United
Nations setup which hitherto has been ignored
or overlooked. That weakness owes Its origin
to the naive ideas concerning Soviet Russia
held by some Of our policymakers at the end
of the last war.
To begin with, the success of any interna-
tional body depends basicaly on the freedom
of action of the individual nations that are
members; there must be no coercion on the
part of larger units; there must be complete
freedom of decision; there must be complete
freedom of discussion, press and individual
decision inside the member nations in order to
have free and democratic international body.
This was ignored or overlooked by our policy
makers at San Francisco. To make matters
worse, they played into the hands of Russian
strategy by the implementation of the veto.
This in itself showed their inconsistency
They spoke during the war of unity of pur-
pose; repudiated nationalistic ties and isola-
ZIONIST arguments by castigating all doubts Of
sovereign nations culpability and international
justice, then they legalized these doubts by
the retention of the veto power by the members
of the permanent council.
To add insult to injury, they proceeded to
make deals; jockeyed for political advantage
and temporary prestige for the United Nations
and themselves by giving the Russian satellite
states two votes in the Assembly, knowing or
being naively unaware that independent
thought and action were completely shut off
for these two units of the Communist world
state.
Your cartoon of october "a reiterates the
present fallacy of that idea in the democratic
nations of the world: That the United Nations
Is the hope of peace. My contention is that
Russia wants talk until by subversion in the
permanent member nations Of the Council Of
the United Nations de France and China, she
will be able to control the vote of their dele
gates; then by deception, coercion and subver-
sion, the Communist conspiracy will 60 to work
on the members Of the Assembly gradually
through economic measures, political and inter-
national elnbargoes, subversion from within,
plus the financial and economic strains upon
the economy of the United States from the
Marshall Plan military commitments and just
ordinary dehation inherent in the capitalistic
system, our economy will fall and we will be
prey to the Communist legalistic maneuvers in
the United Nations. These will come in the
nature of press censorship, atomic energy con-
troll, race questions, etc. The United States
and those democracies that will be left will
have to accept these or veto It will not be
like the veto of Russia. 1t will have moral
calumny attached We will either have to
accept or leave the United Nations. Then
Russias Communist leaders will have the
reason for Communist holy war to wipe out
capitalist aggressors with the legalistic sanction
of the United Nations. We will have repudi-
ated our child. E. NJ WARNER.
Evening star., 1948-10-27

A behind-the-iron-curtain analyst says
the Kremlin will never forgive Tito. For
turning Unexpectedly, that is, instead of
backing into the knife.
Evening star., 1948-10-27

The word from Tokyo tells Of Jap
liqueur distilled from onions. So much
for science, and its stand that there is no
reply to the atomic bomb.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Washington Star Information
Bureau, 316 street NE. Washington 2, D. c.
Please incloSe 8 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1948-10-27

Candidates are people who, once united
on the need for unity, thereupon proceed
to go their separate ways.
Evening star., 1948-01-25

general trade weak to lower: average good
ana choice steers and yearlings closed so
to LOO lower after losing Mondays ad-
vance; medium to low good kinds steady
to so off; choice heifers steady to so
lower: all others $3.50 down: beef cows
20 TO 90 lower; Gamers and cutters
25-50 down: bulls and vealers steady.
oSet nd fG5 ssed to low ehoiee h0s
very scarce; top 1000. but next highest
price $3.50: best heifers 100, but mixed
offerings sold as high as $500: good to low
choice steers and yearlings closed at
2S.00-33 90; comparable heifers 26.50-
81 90: demand continued fairly broad for
common and medium steers and heifcrs
selling at 19.00-26.00; mostly 21.00-
rs 90; high good cows 24.00-25.0O, but
snspDest ss5 decline fell on medigm %e cows
week; cutters closed at 100. mostly
1880 down; heavy sausage bulls all week
sold up to $3.50: vealers $500 down
fairly active, steady, on good to choice
stockers and feeders at 23.00-2S.50.
Salable sheep, 500 Estimated: total
not given; compared week ago: Down
ward trend in slaughter lamp prices not
halted until late. market mostly LOO lower
compared last weeks close; yearHngs fully
20 lower; slaughter ewes fully % higher:
top $500 early and 25.00 late; week S
bulk good and choice fed wooled lambs
4.75-25 so; several loads, grading mostly
Y II Do,;ad 50s4 20; ..s Load common and medium,
ehoice clipped lambs. fall shorn pelts,
25.25: good and choice yesrling wethers,
II .00-22. so; common to choice slauehter
ewes, 1850 to 1925.
Evening star., 1948-01-25

Matthew Williams, jr.. 81, 1922 sth st
NV. and Margaret wyatt, II. $50
ST. sw..
Edward Wachholz, a5. Pittsburgh, Pa. ane
John Coleman, 25, 1910 9th st. ne, anc
Doris De Vaughn. 20. 3644 New Hamp
shire ave. NV.
Joseph Guslielmini, 20, 1909 I st. ne.
Robert Lewis, %, Cleveland, and Dori
johnson, 25, 5108 ard st. NV.
and Elsie virkler. 3s, Long Island, N Y
| Maurice Mulcahy, 81, 144O Rhode Islant
ave. NV. and Mary Bish. 20, Whining
George Cliff, IS, and Margaret warne,d
Rasr Frimer, 2s. New York City. an.
At2sa Gsa hmSrasio ks1; H. sss 18th M St me-
Nelson Jones, jr, 20, 3022 Sherman ave
NV. and Ida Jackson, 20. lilo st
'4sS airline If Eues e. ss 1904 1sth r. ST. nm NV ant
RICHARD Whiting, rs, Belmont Mass. ant
| Violet Nash, "A, 1917 Holmead pl. Nv
Aaron schoolcraft, 22. Naval Receiving
Station, and Jean Lesser, 81, 207 r st
Robert Haase. SO. 2712 31st st. s.e., an,
Camilla Gillette, 90, 2S14 31st st. sc
Joseph Mccain, %, Naval Research Lab
and Florence Delisle, %, 1910 18th st
| Sc.
Howard Templeton, %, Boiling Field, an,
Dorothy Greene, 25, 1437 14th st. NV
Frank Driscell. %. College Park, an,
Beverly Cole, 20, 534 11th st. Sc.
Eugene Jonsson, .22, 752 Westminster st
NV. and Roberta Motley. 23, 116.
| Morse st. ne
Junior Shelton, %. Patuxent River, Nd
and Shirley Blanks, 1S, 1403 18th st
julius Bahmann. 50. New York City, an,
Louise McKibben, "a, 1920 Ciydesdal
| pl. NV
Charles Moulden. jr., 90, Takoma Park
| Md, and Marjorie Mason, 20, 400
| 5th st. NV.
John chadbourne. SO. 1446 Irving st. NV
and Elsie Alias, 35, 1923 14th st. NV
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Price Drop Expected
On Canned Foods;
inventories Heavy
By J. B. WoIIoch

North American Newspaper Alliance)
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.--Cheering
news for housewives and wage
earners Is coming out of the Atlantic
City convention of the National
American Wholesale Grocers' Asso-
citation. It was the consensus this
week Of the Nations Gamers and
packers that foods, other than meat
and dairy products, are due to dip
in price.
The two most influential factors
are strong consumer resistance and
a piling up of inventories. The close
connection between these factors, of
course, needs no remarking.
Since high food prices have con-
tributed more than three-dfths OF
the increased cost of living, and
consequently been the core Of wage
demands. it will be interesting to
observe what effect receding food
costs will have on labor's third round
of wage demands. Wholesale food
prices are ITO per cent above mid
1889 levels and have risen Is per
cent since last year.
Peas Surplus Grows.
Advertising columns soon will
break the news of ood-price changes
because carryovers of some items
have reached the glut stage, and
Gamers and wholesalers logically
may be expected to resort to ener-
getic promotional efforts to liquidate
excessive stocks. The carryover in
peas is said to be nearly 5,000,0 900
cases above last years, and ma
tional advertising campaign is re-
ported to be imminent.
Pressure also Is said to be exerted
by banking quarters which are evil
dencing growing caution in extend
ing credit to wholesalers and can
ners who require time loans to carry
bulging inventories. The credit
pinch is being aggravated by the
fact that retail collections are slower
and retail grocers are no longer
showing their boomtime promptness
in meeting bills. The resultant in
ventory trimming is reflected in a
widening spread of price cutting.
Eating Habits Affected.
Drastic price cuts at wholesale
levels and competitive price cutting
by retailers have not overcome sales
inertia in every instance. Once de-
mand for an item dwindles, price
concessions do not Invariably reac-
tivate its market. On the other
hand, food merchants are aware,
price appeal may influence eating
habits and divert consumers from
higher-p priced edibles to those carry
Ing more popularity priced items.
More worried by heavy operating
costs than what may prove to be
temporary slumps in particular
numbers, food merchants do not
anticipate serious or far-reaching
break in prices.
Nevertheless. it is apparent that,
item by item, supply is overtaking
demand. A downward revision of
food prices would have an immedi-
ate impact on our national economy.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Births Reported
{From District Of Columbia Bu
Vital Statistics.)

tFrom District Of Columbia Bureau
vital statistics.)
Claude and Dorothy Anderson. boy.
Paul and Florence Belts, girl.
James and Winthrop Boswell boy.
Daniel and Doris Breeden. boy.
Guy and Marjorie Calhoun, girl.
Milliam and Gertrude Carney: girl.
John and Bernlce connell. boy.
Earl and Dorothy cooksey, girl.
nn aas snFfz snd Mafy oSFs 0Gs boy
Paul and Jeanne Fournier, girl.
LOUIS and Mary Freehtline, girl.
Manuel and and sais poris aoTmane etl9ni Doy sirl
Richard and Dorothy Hamrick. girl.
Louis and Amalia Hardy. girl.
John and Martha Higgins. girl.
John and Anna Holloway, boy.
Wesley and Anne Horn, girl.
Richard and Harriet Hohing, girl.
Abraham and Ida Iroff, girl
Hazen and Aase' Jane kennedy. kAaneas.0e stri. tfi
Arnold and Anna Key. boy.
Irving and Elsie Kurasch, boy.
srockholst and Jean livingston. girl.
Gsalyert and Elda Marmaduke, giri.
william and Eva Marks. girl.
lame! James and Alice Morley. boy
Henry and Mary Nowak, girl.
Alvin, and Helen Greenland, girl.
Joseph and Mary Orsini. girl.
william am and Elizabeth Pearce, girl,
Harry and Bette Rorman. girl.
william and Ethel sabbagh, boy.
Leavitt and Anna Sco1eld, girl.
Erskine and Ramona Solomon, girl.
Earl and Doris Spiker, boy
Edward Edyna na,9,, and Gathering Sweeney. girl.
Jerome and Elizabeth Sullivan, boy.
Francis and Margaret TAFT, boy.
g. Chester and Elizabeth Thom, boy.
Edward and Helen Wallace, girl.
John and Dorothy Wright, boy.
Joseph and II, Helen Abraham, girl:
samuel and Sylvia Brook. girl.
Julius and Bernice Cohen, girl.
ss ssmnsl a1d ,nd MARY gsIs roreSsr; niG,+ssi girl
}stiSs sna Miidrsd EsaasssaR EosenfeEd, .a1l sirl
Salbert and Mary, Banks, boy.
William and Martina Butler. girl
Willie and .Lizzy cantIy, BOY.
Jimmie and liza Crump girl.
Eugene and Hermania Dasent. boy.
Abraham and Edith Davis, boy.
Earnest and Carrie Durant, girl.
Rufus and Marion Green. girl.
David and Evelyn Hall. girl.
Sylvester and Alice Hendricks, boy.
Russell and Madaline Henson, boy.
Joseph and Barbara Jefferson. girl
Frances and Pearl Medley, girl
William and Willie Mckenzie, girl.
Carl and Mary Newman, girl.
Ezell and Dorothy Philson, girl.
Wendell and Helen Rhinehart, girl.
Lewis and Corabelle Rhodes, boy.
James and Gertrude Stancil, boy.
Wilbur and Beatrice Wallace. girl.
John and Beatrice Wilson, girl
Lucius and Maggie williams, boy.
Albert and Ruth Woods, girl
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Deaths Reported
(From the d. C. Bureau Of vital Statistics }

Katherine Massino. "a, 103 st.
Marion @. Bohrer, o., 405 Rock Creel
Church rd.
Levi G. williams, SO, 1740 Upshur st.
Elizabeth Estep, SO, 2235 Chester st. Sc
augusta Berger, 70, 3O1, Madison st.
Elizabeth Clarke, 77. Takoma Park, Nd.
Alfred Sewall. 73. 212O 18th st.
Norman c. Weir, ~, 443 Massachusett
Asa 4. Keiser. 7a. 3s43 Military I'd.
Mabel A. Bickerton, II, 100 4th st. Sc.
Marie II. Pierce, 10, 510 3rd st. ne.
v. Louise zaugg, 66, 1740 Euclid st.
Willie g. Davis, SO, Arlington. Va.
Henry Mcfarland. SO. 1888 A st. ne.
Harleigh Hartman, SO, 1920 Iris st.
Jane 3. watson, SO. 1908 9Th st. ne.
Corinne Campbell, 46, ia 9Th st. ne.
Elwin Z. Dingmsn, 45. 1101 18th st.
Charles M. shifiett, Al, 3713 Mscomb st
Sharon Robb. infant, Arlington. Va.
Albert Muse, SO, 1857 Aster pl. Sc.
Amanda NJ. Edmonds. 66, 1910 4th ct.
David Fisher, 65, 1909 18th st.
Annie Brown, SO, Blue Plains, D. c.
Charles ". Brown. 80, 1914 9Th st.
Irnns Collins, 1S, 1855 Washington pl. ne
Roger Bryant, 2, 1410 Half st. s.w.