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face of skyrocketing operating costs"
The commission, set up here to
regulate rents and prevent mass
evictions, said before the investiga-
ton that the tentative" permission
for rent boosts was granted because
of rising wages.
1t said yesterday that under pres
ent circumstances "the best inter-
ests of tenants and the hotel owners
alike will be served by resembling the
tentative order"
The commission, being investi-
gated at the direction of Mayor
William O'Dwyer. said cancellation
of the increase permit had the ap-
proval of Mayor O'Dwyer and John
Murtagh, investigation commits
sioner.
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Moyer to Give Lecture

Milton Mayer, writer and lee
turer, will speak at 2::30 pm, to-
morrow in Friends Meeting House,
Pill Florida avenue NV, under
sponsorship Of the Washington
Pacifist Fellowship. The lecture
will be free to the public.
Evening star., 1948-11-15

them and the henry MeLemore.
amazing men who handle them, we
would give the same advice to any
one planning q trip to Japan.
The river has q fairyland appear
ance even before the fishing boats
appear. About 9 O'Clock at night the
sightseeing boats take of from docks
all along the narrow river. They
are open launches, decorated with
willow branches, flowers, and Japan
ese lanterns. They are poled to .
meeting place in the shallow river
where they are Joined by fireworks
boats.
The experts on the fireworks boats
light the sky and the water with all
sorts of rockets, Roman candles,
and device which, when thrown IN
the water, breaks into many multi
colored fish which zigzag among the
boats.
Timing Is Perfect.
The fireworks display is perfectly
timed. Just when the last light has
fickered away and the river Is dark
the fishing boats, four abreast, come
around the bend. For a minute OF
two the fishing boats, with their
huge firebaskets swung out over the
prows, look like four blazing setting
suns approaching.
The firebaskets are as big as laun-
dry baskets, and are filled with
flaming firewood. They furnish the
light for the cormorants to fish.
Soon the outlines Of the boats be-
come clear and you can see the
eager cormorants perched on the
rails, Tapping their wings and shril-
ling in their eagerness to get to
fishing.
In the front Of the propelled
boats stand the head fishermen,
known as ushos. It Is no easy task
to become an usho. There are no
short cuts. An usho must spend
something like 70 years at night
school-usually under the tutelage
Of his father or grandfather-as the
art of cormorant fishing is handed
down from generation to generation.
If an usho does not have q son he
always adopts one to carry on the
line.
One Of the boats we watched work
had as its usho, KANT Yamashita,
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to make one VIC Dorothy Thompson.
tor the master of the others, 1t lays
the basis for the next war. The
passing of q great power, therefore,
demands such q reorganization OF
power relationships as to assure that
no one victor Is inflated by its
heritage into q position where 1t
might destroy the others.
Germany, by history, tradition
and language, belongs to Europe
What role she should play In q re-
organized Europe is a matter for
the European states to decide. She
again can become q world menace
only If continued tension between
East and West makes 1t possible
for her to assume 4 position where
both will WOO her and she can call
the terms.
That happened after the last war
The Versailles system destroyed q
great power-Austro-H -Hungary-and
out of the residuary set up q series
of states in alliance with France
between Germany and Russia,
charged to contain both. Divided,
internally and amongst themselves,
they were weak. The structure, weak
at the point of greatest stress, failed.
Collaboration Needed.
The Allies, to support the East
European structure, needed either
the collaboration OF the new Ger
many, or of revolutionary Russia,
with adjustments to the reasonable
interests of one or the other. Failure
to integrate Germany into the east
ern power structure prevented an
overall settlement at Locarno. Un-
willingness to integrate Russia into
it led to the failure Of the Cripps
mission.
Throughout her lifetime. the Ger
man republic, in the situation blind
ly provided for her by her late enc
mics, was able to play both sides
against each other. When she
wanted concessions from the So
viets, she glad-eyed the West. When
she wanted concessions from the
West, she glad-eyed the SoWets. She
goG loans from the West and illegal
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mittee posts according to seniority
is commonly known on Capitol Hill
But senility rule and cloture, like
the weather, are apparently un-
manageable by human hands and
party regularity this time can be
an effective weapon.
The pattern as it emerges from
present studies indicates that the
price in the Senate would be incon-
sequential.
Only two Senators would be af-
fected: Taylor of Idaho who ran
for Vice President on the Wallace
ticket and Eastland of Mississippi,
q less crude but scarcely less vulgar
edition of the late Senator Bilbo,
who is an avowed Dixiecrat. It is
improbable that either one could
rally a great rescue party Of his
colleagues, certainly not Senator
Taylor, though some of the South
erners might feel obliged to try to
help Senator Eastland.
Senate Could Set Example.
CClldtC oAtAOlo w VOL tAA1c >0A4
could set an extmple to the House
which would enable it to:
/. Retrieve the Rules Committee
at long last, thereby removing the
greatest single obstacle to progress
sive action by the House.
2. Remake the Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee.
3. Reclaim an important chair
manship Veterans Affairs-for 4
loyal Democrat.
The cost of the House leadership
would be only II members, most Of
whom never vote their way any
way. They can spare this number
easily from their comfortable ma
jority.
Representatives who openly -four
ished the States Rights banner in
clude Cox and Davis of Georgia.
Rankin and williams Of Mississippi:
Boykin, Hobbs and Battle Of Ala
bama, Hebert of Louisiana, and
Simms, Hare and Rivers OF South
Carolina.
Cox Is on Rules Committee.
Representative Cox is on Rules
This committee is topheavy with
Republican reactionaries and Rep
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the master Of them all. He is the
18th usho in his family line, and
two Of his seven sons ride his boat
as apprentices.
Sport Not Cruel.
Cormorants like to fish even more
than bird dogs like to hunt. When
the usho is harnessing them they
fight to get out Of his hands and
into the water. 1t Is not a cruel
business at all. Although a light
rope is tied around the cormorant's
throat to prevent him from swallow
ing his catch, he knows that when
his nights work is over, he'll be fed
until he can't eat any more.
There is trem en- d US rivalry
among cormorants. Each one some
how keeps track OF the number oi
fish the other birds are catching
In a fishing boat there is q basket
for each birds catch, and he views
it before hopping on the rail at the
end Of the nights work.
His place on the rail is deter
mined by his ability to catch fish
If his place on the rail has been
No. 10, say, and he outfishes cor.
morant No. 8, the next time out he
takes No. 9's place and shoves No
9 to place No. 10. If the bird who
is being denoted puts up a squawk
all the other cormorants who, fol
some good bird reason, know what
has happened, will pitch in and
make the denoted cormorant accept
his drop in rank,
The only cormorant whose DO.
sition is never questioned Is the
senior bird by age. He occupies the
No. l slot as long as he is able
to fish. He may be outfished every
night, but the other birds respect
Evening star., 1948-11-15
On the Record
Peace Might Be Built on Determination
To Survive if War Risk Is Too Great

: ly trained her troops in the Soviet
Union.
1t is the custom Of states to take
advantage of the opportunities pro-
vided.
Germany might be a menace only
if this opportunity were revived. II
the Soviets aim to make Germany
. spearhead against the West, or the
West aims to make her a spearhead
against the Soviets, she might again
hold balance Of power to throw
to whomever promised ner most.
The solution Of the German ques-
ton. therefore. demands her inte-
grafton into Europe under condi-
tions where she cannot successfully
dominate Europe or attach herself
to either of the great powers ex-
telnal to Europe.
Protection Required.
The first is a European problem
which Europe is competent to solve
The second demands q settlement
with the Soviet Union, under which
all Europe would be protected
against aggression from either the
United States or the U. S. S. r., and
both great powers would be pro-
tected by each other against aggres-
sion from Europe.
This proposal takes no account of
good" or bad" "peace-loving" or
"warl!ke," democratic" or "dicta-
torial" nations.
Leaders Of nations are likely to
choose peace when the arrange
ments of peace are compatible with
their security and the risks Of war
are too great for q solution of griev-
ances. Governments Of all kinds
have waged aggressive wars; war
like nations have, under changed
circumstances, become peaceable
and vice versa. The problem of poll
tics is to create a power condition
favorable to peace and unfavorablc
for war.
States and powers are all guided
whatever their domestic forms, by
determination to survive, and all
are belligerent when their survival
comes in to question. The will to
survive is, in fact, the only ideal
that all states hold in common.
Upon 1t might be erected a structure
to satisfy that minimum ideal. Be-
cause we have failed to erect one,
the world is in imminent danger.
But perhaps it is not altogether
too late.
tReleased By the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Picking Committeeman
Choice of Democrats by Voting Record
Would Help Presidents Program

I resentatives Cox and Smith of Vir-
ginia co-operated happily with them
in the 80th Congress. In the 10th
Congress, ostensibly Democratic,
Representatives Cox and Smith
formed a coalition with the like
minded Republicans, usually pulling
in former Representative Slaughter
Of Missouri, and effectively blocking
the President.
Speaker-prospective Rayburn can
reshuffle Rules when he takes over.
But unless he seizes the chance to
bar Representative Cox, he can
hardly avert danger from the old
coalition unless the Republican
members suffer an improbable con-
version to the New Deal.
Representative Rankin Is in line
for chairman of Veterans Affairs
unless it is decided that he meant
it when he claimed to be a Dixie
crat. He and Representative Hebert
are both on Un-American Activities
and have been uncommonly active
there in the true Dies Thomas ira
dition.
That committee always has been
highly unpopular with Representa-
tive Rayburn. Northern Democrats
consider it poison and refuse to
serve on it, so he has been forced
to draw on Southerners for It, With
Representatives Rankin and Hebert
out, he could remake it completely.
Actually precedent exists in the
House for forcing those who claim
other allegiance to stand aside.
Representative Marcantonio, Ameri-
can Labor Party, Of New York, has
not had q committee assignment
since New York Democrats broke
with the ALP.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
This Changing World
Action Expected on Franco Appeal
For $2OO,OOO,OOO American Loan

cember 4, 1914, and in its original
form did affect only commercial
companies. But on February IL, 1945
the two governments concluded an
additional protocol which gave the
American Air Transport Command
the status Of a commercial air car
-rier which, according to the earlier
agreement, could use Spanish fields.
The Madrid-Barajas airport was
most convenient for the use Of the
ATC, which simply added the
words Commercial Service" to its
official name.
The Madrid-Barajas airport was
not completely suitable to the needs
Of the ATCCS in carrying out the
evacuation Of the Western front as
Germany went down to defeat. Ac-
cordingly certain expansion work
was started Immediately after the
protocol was signed.
Revocation Not Sought.
The protocol provided in its Ar
ticle II the means for its revoca-
ton. It was to remain in force Tor
II months, at the end of which
time either party could notify the
other in writing of the desire to
revoke. This revocation was to be
preceded by a consultation period
Of not less than 80 days.
To date there has been no formal
revocation by either the United
States or Spain, and the latter gov
ernment considers the agreement
still in force. A secretary of the
American embassy in Madrid and
the American military attache did
visit the Spanish Ministry of For
eign Affairs to inform it that Amer
ican personnel was being withdrawn
from Spanish airports, but Article
II has not yet been complied with,
in that there has been no formal
notification In writing of desire
TO revoke the protocol.
The means thus are at hand for
the resumption Of American use Of
Spanish air bases at any time this
country desires to do so, without
going through the motions Of nego-
tiating q new agreement. Inasmuch
as the American government al
ready Is strengthening its air sup
ply lines with the Mediterranean
countries 1t is well to keep in mind
this entree which we have to Span
ish airports.
The availability Of Spanish air
bases for American military use
would take on great Importance If
q Russian thrust. through Western
Europe to the English Channel ever
forced the Western Allies to take
their stand behind the Pyrenees in
Spain.
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week, when he Constantine brown.
appealed for 5000, ZOO, 900 loan from
the United States for the purchase
Of machinery and equipment with
which to revitalize Spanish indus
try.
The revival of Europe's industry
as q whole is now an established
policy of this country. and the Eu-
ropean Recovery Program is achiev-
ing certain progress in that direc-
ton, although Spain Is not included
in the benefits in spite of her dire
need for such aid.
Whatever may be done in this di-
rection certainly will not be IN the
proportions which Gen. Franco sug-
gests. Nevertheless, any assistance
will be better than none and
even If the sum Is cut in half 1t
can be expected to provide certain
stimulus to Spanish industry. That
stimulus in turn will be felt in the
general results accomplished by
ERP.
Air Agreement Exists.
Along with the possibility OF
economic aid to Spain there is
being discussed the fact that the
United States already has the basis
for q full-f1edged air agreement
with the Franco government any
time it wishes to take advantage
of it.
In the latter stages Of World War
II the United States signed with
Spain an agreement regulating in
ternational air carrier services. This
agreement, which still is technically
ii effect, although not being utilized
at this moment, was more than q
commercial arrangement whereby
American operating companies
would be permitted to use Spanish
fields.
The agreement was signed De-
Evening star., 1948-11-15

hood Is S m a ! !
t hat anything
concrete will be
done toward re-
sumption Of am
bassadorial rela-
tions before the
first Of the year.
There is, how
ever, grow / n g
expectation that
something Will
be done for
Spain along the
lines suggested
by Generalissi-
mo Franco last
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AlcA1AIl6 OA trO
Niagara = gawa
river in Gifu
rates among the
first half dozen.
We couldn't
quite un d e r
stand it when
dozens of our
friends in Japan
told us that we
must not leave
t he coun try
without seeing
the cornorants
at work.. Now,
h q v ing S e e n
| them and the
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privately expressed views of politi-
cal managers on both sides and
the trend Of public-opinion polls
accurate in the past-caused a mis-
taken and regrettable deviation by
this writer from the lessons of polit-
ical logic expressed in previous
analyses. Failure to appraise cor
rectly the farm vote and its fear OF
a change in administration was the
principal cause of error.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1948-11-15

% ! r q S. o u Z u
W hole covey
with one stone.
This Is tn e
con clusion of
New Deal Sen
ators who are
s t u d yin 6 the
problem Of how
to get action on
President Tru-
mans program.
r hey " oul d
probably like to
q b a n on the
"senility rul e."
as the custom OF
awarding com.
Evening star., 1948-11-15

less RCWeeu CQe
contenders. This
was foreseeable.
For whenever
q great power
passes, as such,
out Of history,
an unbalance is
created " hic h
leads to frictions
between the VIC
tors over where
the residuary Of
the d ef-e q t e d
power shall flow.
If that poten-
tial Is sufficient
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his seniority and years of fishing,
and let him alone.
I'll have to do another story on
cormorant fishing. There Is too
much to tell at one whack.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Ine.)
Evening star., 1948-11-15
BvConsfanfine Bro,On

The question of improving Ameri-
can relations with Spain continues
to be discussed quietly in Washing
ton oficial circles, but the likeli-
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To Survive if Y
Bv Dorothy THOMPSON

In these essays no word has been
said Of Germany. This is because
Germany is not q protagonist. The
struggle occurs over Germany, help
Evening star., 1948-11-15
.cLennore
Describes Night
OF Cormoront Fishing
By Henry McLemore

GIFU. Japan.-Of all the magnif-
icent, spectacularly beautiful things
we have seen on this trip around
the world, certainly cormorant
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Bv Doris FIeeson

BY invoking party regularity as a
Prerequisite for committee assign
ments, the new Democratic major
ity tn Congress can kill not two
Evening star., 1948-03-23
STORES FOR Rent,

downtown LOCATION, / st commerc{ai-
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BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR RENT.

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LOTS FOR SALE.

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