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Evening star., 1948-06-06
Action on the DPS

The important thing to keep In mind
about the displaced persons bill which has
been passed by the Senate is that 1t would
admit 100000 Of these homeless people to
the United States during the next two
years.
1t is by no means an ideal BILL In some
respects the Fellows bill, which has been
approved by the House Judiciary Commit
tee, is more desirable. But those who
denounce the Senate measure on the con-
tention that it discriminates against the
Jewish DPs-a contention of very dubious
validity-should remember that time Is
running out in this session OF Congress.
If any bill to relieve the plight of the
DPS is to pass, it must be passed quickly.
This being so, it would be tragic If time
consuming dispute over whether the Senate
bill discriminates against the Jews or dis
eliminates in favor of the Balts, should
serve to prevent the enactment of any
legislation.
If any bill authorizing the admission Of
100000 DPS to this country becomes
law, long step will have been taken to-
ward solving the problem of the displaced
persons. Other countries-notably Britain
have already admitted substantial num-
bers, and more countries are preparing to
let some Of the DPS come in. If the United
States will now do its share, it is entirely
reasonable to expect that the task of find-
Ing decent homes for the 70O,0 900 to 800, 900
people who are lodged In the detention
camps will be disposed OF within relatively
short time.
Certainly, there is room in this coun-
try for 100000 DPS. Nor need any one
fear such a limited influx on economic,
social, political or other grounds. Like
the Fellows bill, the bill passed by the
admit only carefully selected individuals
Immigrants whose skills are needed in
this country and whose qualifications to
become good American citizens are out
standing. Not the least point in their
favor is that most of them are from lands
behind the Iron Curtain and cannot go
back in safety because their antitotali-
tartan views would expose them to the
danger OF persecution.
Such people merit the opportunity to
begin life anew in our own and other free
lands. They have suffered much. They
have languished long time in the DIP
camps. There should be no more unwar-
ranted delays in letting them establish
themselves in the democracies of the
world. BY acting now to admit at least
100000 into the United States, with rea-
sonable safeguards, Congress will be fol-
lowing the compulsions not merely of
humanitarianiSm but of common sense
as we'll For after all, in the narrow terms
of dollars, why maintain them at great
cost abroad when we can have them as
valuable contributors in our midst?
Evening star., 1948-06-06
full nacks. ohstacle COURSES and the nike.

full packs, obstacle courses and the Ike.
Hard, yes, but generally quite effective.
None OF that physical torture Is neces-
sary under the new plan; nothing but
gossypol. Gossypol, according to testi-
mony at the Capitol by an Army food
expert, Is drug derived from cotton seed.
A dash of gossypol in drinking water has
a remarkable effect on the appetite Ex-
periments with animals being conducted
jointly by the Army and the American
Medical Association have shown that a
gossypol- appetite is quickly sat
isfied with moderate amount OF food.
BY judicious use Of the drug, 1t was stated,
food consumption-and hence weight
may be restrained.
Further tests are planned before
gossypoi is tried out on soldiers. Whether
the hunger regulator eventually will be
made available to civilians has not been
indicated. Thousands OF oversize men
and women who detest the thoughts of
exercise or cutting down on potatoes and
pastry would welcome an easy way to re-
duce Bending and dieting are not easy,
for soldier or civilian.
Even If the Army adopts the gossypol
system Of regulating girth, there is no
assurance that the day of push-ups, knee
bends and cross-country hikes is past,
however The Army may be going soft in
lot OF ways, but not that soft, surely.
The chances are that gossypol will never
replace the drill sergeant-and as long as
there are drill sergeants the Army Is likely
to continue to do things the hard way,
and stay thin.
Evening star., 1948-06-06

Robert Louis Stevenson in lifting lines,
speaks of summer glories that beat upon the
heart in vain" There is a story of one who.
looking at a sunset, gazed with unresponsive
heart and stolid eye he only knew the sky
was red. What we see and what we feel de-
pend not so much on our environment but
upon our capacity. Our character masters
our eyes and declares our kinships and our
afinities
There always Is danger of looking without
seeing. A yellow flower to Peter Bell Is
yellow flower, and nothing more; but to Words
worth that same lifted cup of yellow gold sug-
gests thoughts that wander off into eternity.
Seeing the invisible Is the principal business
Of life. And, always,
"The poem hangs on the berry bush
Till there comes the poets eye;
And all the worlds masquerade
When Shakespeare passes by"
Deity hangs the sign "To Let" in the window
OF every star, on the summit Of every hill, on
the leaf of every tree, on the face OF every
flower Each may be had-but there is no
price set. The only rental fee Is the capacity
to enjoy God leases the universe to all who
can pay for it in the invisible coin of appre-
citation. That is why even the golden wealth
of June may be had by the poorest conner.
Beauty cannot be possessed by any attempt
to explain it. Even June may not be had
simply by analyzing it. 1t is more than the
inclination of the earth's axis, infinitely more
than the angle at which light strikes this
speeding, spinning planet. The tilt of the
earth does not explain the lit of the lark, nor
the gilt of the daffodI why here is unrolled
a rug OF matches green and here a cloth Of
Evening star., 1948-06-06
June May Be Had
The Sixth Month Viewed as GodGiven Glory
Free to All for the Taking
By the Rep. Frederick Bro yn Harris, d. d., Lit.

glorious gold, why this spot purples into velvet
volets and this bush waves back crimson
banners to the soft bending blue.
Who can explain the quickened pulses Of the
soul or the emotions that surge when framed
by June we see poem lovely as tree. The
vociferous argufler cannot explain 1t. for he
is never within sight Of beauty. You can't
debate June. The nteralist and the liberalist
alike stack their weapons and take OF their
shoes on holy ground. One cannot climb to
it on the rounds of syllogism. Nobody with
trowel or test tube ever gets within celestial
hailing distance A whole convention Of scien-
fists met to measure color rays and compute
petals could not tell why one flower is beautiful
But where can beauty be found and where
Is the place Of understanding? Botany says,
"It is not in me-" Geology and Chemistry de-
clare 1T is not in U.S." Astronomy signals
that: while there is part of the flaming
Pleiades in every leaf that grows beauty is
not in me- Surely the chemistry Of life might
have been arranged without the green glory
Of the spring or the crimson pageantry of the
dying day.
Where then, shall we look for beauty's secret9
Shall we say simply that beauty is always a
reaching out for completeness. Wherever
there is completeness there is beauty. that is
the quintessence of 1t. Art is beauty in con-
ception and expression. Architecture is beauty
in proportion Culture Is beauty in mind and
manner. Eoquence is beauty in speech. Grace
is beauty in motion. Character Is beauty In
motive and conduct
Charles Kingsley lover OF the beautiful
beyond most men, declares in q memorable
sentence:
Beauty is Gods handwriting. Welcome It,
therefore, in every fair face. every fair sky.
every fair flower and thank Him for 1t who is
the fountain Of all loveliness."
The beautiful is essentially the spiritual
making itself known through the senses When
God would lead to the beauty Of holiness, He
maks stairway to 1t by the holiness Of beauty.
But beauty without can only reveal itself to
those in whose lives there has been answered
the ancient prayer of Socrates, Lord, make
me beautiful within" 1t Is the pure in heart
who can see God and the godlike everywhere,
in a universe where the Master Musician is
beating out His symphony in stars and flowers,
in birds and babes, in saints and sages.
And no wonder it was June which was
saying to the poet:
I" 'Tis heaven alone that is given away;
IT'S only God may be had for the asking"
Evening star., 1948-06-06

concerned, the Kremlin does not have to
worry. They are completely servile. But
the same does not hold true for the popu-
lations behind the Iron Curtain. Great
reservoirs Of resentment and hidden oppo-
sition exist there, and to cope with such
situation things like reparations cuts
can be useful. In effect, far from being
generous just for generosity's sake, the
Soviet Union is simply trying to win friends
and influence people in a region where
Its power controls but where it has no
genuine popular support.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Hit-or-Miss Budqetinq

The "iffy' District tax program now
awaiting congressional approval obscures
the serious condition with which it Is
supposed to deal
If Government salaries-including mu-
nicipal salaries-are boosted this session,
this tax program will go into effect i'm
mediately. There is no other way to meet
the cost of the pay raise.
If Government salaries are not boosted
the tax program will not go into effect
until mid1949.
Thus the tax BILL providing as it does
a substantial increase in the local tax
burden, would appear to be necessary now
only II Government pay scales are raised.
As a matter of fact, there Is no real ad-
vantage to the taxpayer or anybody else
in delaying its application for another
year.
The Budget Bureau submitted District
budget in January which exceeded revenue
by about $6,O00000. BY cashing the bal
ance of the Districts war savings and by
postponing a number of expenditures
planned for the fiscal year 1949 (Which
begins in JULY the Senate has brought
this budget into approximate balance,
without tax increase.
But within two months the municipal
authorities will have~to begin preparing
their estimates for the fiscal year 1850,
which begins in July, 1949. If these esti-
mates are precisely the same amount as
sent to Congress last January and no new
taxes have been put into effect, there will
be deficit of about $9,5O0,O00.
If the new taxes were made effective
now and no salary increases approved, this
deficit would be reduced but not wiped out.
If the salary increases are approved and
the new taxes made effective, most of the
paying the salary increase and the deficit
will be increased.
It seems to The Star that this situation
calls for energetic research by some citizens
group this summer and next fall to find
out, first, what means may be applied to
check the enormous increase in cost of
municipal government; second, to work
for revision of the local tax structure.
Both costs and the taxes required to
meet them are advancing too rapidly.
Something effective must be done to bring
hit-or miss system OF taxation and mu-
nicipal financing is dangerous thing, not
merely because of the bulging tax burden
1t imposes but because it is getting us
nowhere in meeting some of the most
essential local needs
We have no voice in raising or spending
our local taxes. But if local citizens do
not assert the right to speak with some
authority on the Districts fiscal muddle
while leaving the imposition of taxes to
the whms of few members of Congress-
we shall be in a bad way. Comparable
activity by citizens groups in the past
notably the Board of Trade, have been
effective. When Congress meets next
January some definite program of taxing
and spending and long-term borrowing
should be presented and supported by care
full study. Congress probably will be willing
to go along If properly impressed by the
s0In6neSs of sIch r,roproo,
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Soviet Repurutions Cuts

Now that 1t has granted a substantial
cut in It's reparations claims against
Finland, the Soviet Union apparently is
ready to do the same for Romania and
Hungary At any rate, the Communist
governments of those two satellites have
fled requests to that end and it may
safely be assumed that they have done
so at the Kremln's suggestion, with prior
assurances of favorable response
In the case Of Finland, the request did
not come from the government itself, but
from three Finnish Communists who
appealed for the cut in a letter published
In Russian newspapers. The Kremlin
promptly replied with an announcement
that it would cancel half the debt still
owed out of the original bill of $500 ,OOO,-
000 OF this sum the Firms have already
paid $160,000000, so the actual relief
granted will amount to $7O,00O,O0O
This slash may not seem to amount to
much to Americans, but in an economy
as limited as Finland's it means a great
deal, and the Finnish Communists who
appealed for it can be counted upon to
make political capital out of it, In this
connection, it is noteworthy that the
Soviet announcement of the cut was at
pains to emphasize the names of the three
Reds. 1t is noteworthy, too, that the Krem-
lin has granted a $5,O0O00o loan to Hell
sinki and that all this has been arranged
just four weeks before Finlands general
elections.
The prospective cuts for Romania and
Hungary will have similar propaganda
and political value for both the Kremlin
and the Romanan and Hungarian Com
munists. In these two countries, as in
Finland, substantial slaShes in reparations
payments are bound to make life a bit
easier, and the popular reaction to them
must therefore create an additional degree
of good feeling toward the Soviet Union
and It's Bucharest and Budapest puppets
As far as the puppets themselves are
Evening star., 1948-06-06
A Timely Wurninq

John L. Lewis has lost another joust
with the Federal courts, but there is
nothing in that which has any significant
bearing on the basic issue which underlies
our industrial troubles.
The point in dispute In the latest Lewis
clash with the courts was trivial in the
extreme. Mr.. Lewis had refused to bargain
for new contract with Joseph E. Moody
as president of the Southern Coal Pro-
ducers' Association. But, said Mr.. Lewis,
he would consent to bargain with him as
the authorized agent Of the fourteen
operator groups that compose the associa-
tion.
Justice Goldsborough, after trying un-
successfully to get an agreed settlement
Of this ridiculous dispute, granted an
injunction ordering Mr.. Lewis to bargain
with Mr. Moody as president of the associ-
alton. And Mr.. Lewis, having made as
much unnecessary trouble as he safely
could, has announced that he will obey
the order.
But this acquiescence solves nothing of
consequence. For Mr.. Lewis and others
like him remain free to exercise their
absolute power to deprive the Nation of
essential goods and services.
Justice Goldsborough was referring to
this unrestrained power which has been
conferred on some union leaders and their
abuse of it, when he declared: when the
time comes that any group, whether it
is labor or not, undertakes to advance its
interests to the point that it will disinte-
CRATE society then it must be stopped 1t
can't advance its interests to that point %
This is timely and well-founded warn
ing These princes of privilege" in the
labor movement have used up about all of
the rope they are going to get. The really
astonishing thing is that intelligent men
like Mr. Lewis seem incapable of reading
the handwriting on the wall.
Evening star., 1948-06-06

June means that
whether we look
or whether we
listen,
We hear life muir
mur and see it
glisten,"
But what does that
"murmur" and that
"glisten" mean for
us? June may be
had, but that may
be" has the ominous
implication that we
may be in it yet
y>,iee ~
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Push-Ups and Gossypol

great many people besides GIs will
be interested in the news that the Army
has found an easy way to keep soldiers
slim. Every enlisted man and veteran Is
we'll acquainted, Of course, with the hard
way, which involves setting-up exercises
tr dawn's early light, forced marches with
Evening star., 1948-06-06

A classic of the classified sections; but
1t appeared again latsly in Missouri
weekly: "Wanted-a mule: must be rea-
sonAble.s
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Spires Of the Spirit

June is here and may be had" So declared
Lowell as he stood in deluge Of June lowell
ness It Is pre-eminently the month when
life is in the saddle For eyes and ears,
Evening star., 1948-06-06
One Root
French Radio TangIe

PARIS-Insiders predict a drastic shakeup
soon in the staff Of the French national radio.
two-hour dramatization last week of the life
of Danielle Casanova, feminine leader OF the
Communist resistance who died in concen-
tration camp, gave the idea she was national
saint several notches above Jeanne dare. 1t
also urged women to join the Communist front
union of French women. Danielle Casanova's
husband is top party. stalwart.
Evening star., 1948-06-06

It's getting to be a case Of Il don't want 1t,
you can have tits too heavy for me-" The
craftsmanship Of the Republican Platform
Committee, that Is Senator Ives New York;,
a Dewey supporter, has Joined Senator Mill
kin Colorado a Taft man, in pleading too
much work in Congress to take the lob.
Evening star., 1948-06-06

BERL1N.-After months Of complacently
taking it from the Russians, the Anglo-Ameri
can military governments of Western Germany
are opening counterofensive. Fed up with
Soviet criticism Of the way they have been
running their part of Germany, the British and
Americans publicly are charging Russian ex-
ploitation Of Eastern Germany and the de-
velopment there of a one-party police state
The campaign is expected to sharpen as the
weeks 60 by The British part is already under
way Many Britishers here believe the depar-
ture of Lord Pakenham as cabinet minister in
charge Of British zone affairs signaled Its be-
ginning.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Wafch That AHmony

Men who want to get income tax deductions
for alimony payments had better look up new
United States tax court ruling. This ruling
says that for alimony to be counted a. deducu-
hae It must bs paad under court order Or under
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Baeeine the Bag

NEW YORK.-Cotton and paper are in
major struggle to capture the bag trade Be-
fore snow flies one or the other is expected to
show it can make the better bag at the lowest
price Cotton now has one advantage. 1t can
make bags in attractive designs that the farm
er's wife can use for dresses, tablecloths, ETC.
U~.,L TILT 1I:sua.,v
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Marshall Plan Hurdles


hurdles ahead for the men running the Mar
shall Plan when they get around to asking the
Western European nations what kind OF goods
they are shipping to the Russian bloc.
The law says definitely no aid will go to a
country that ships the Russians what the
Americans would refuse to ship-that is, goods
with war potential" There was congress
sional f1areup because the British shipped 55
jet engines to the Russians The British have
refused to ship any more. But what If the
United States decides locomotives have war
potential? Locomotives are big export item
with the British, and the Russians might want
them to get out timber the British need
Jingle. Jingle
A sample poll by the Federal Reserve Board
shows that of each 100 families in the $1,000
$4,000 income class, "a plan to buy houses in
194S and 20 plan to buy cars. Among those in
the s4,0OO-s5 900 class, Is per 100 families plan
to buy houses and II to get cars The expla-
nation might be that the $4,00o-s5,o00 group
feel better fixed for houses and cars already.
but it also could be that they're simply less
free with their money. The latter explanation
gets some support from data on the over 5000
group. OF each 100 families in this top money
SET "a plan to buy cars and % to buy houses.
Personalities
ROME-Look for Dwight Griswold, chief OF
the United States aid mission to resign soon
Personal friends now in Rome say he told them
he plans to step out by August-they assume
in order to be home in time for the presidential
campaign.
PARIS-Tuesday will be crucial day Tor
Foreign Minister Bidault. He is scheduled to
explain to the cabinet the concessions made IN
the London talks on setting up Western Ger
man government.
LONDON-Hugh Dalton, former Chancellor
OF the Exchequer, now back in the cabinet.
already has been assigned "foreman's" role
over the nationalized industries.
One Roof
The Navy reluctantly has decided to set up
house with the Army and Air Force in the
Pentagon Building. Top officers will transfer
across the Potomac to the old Army strong
hold Moving day has not been announced, but
100000 square feet of ONCE space already has
been earmarked
Evening star., 1948-06-06
T oo11;.,c A bod Some Shadozvs of Coming Events
AOOn111S 1A1A>@'A Are Noted Here and A Abroad
(By the World STAFF of the Associated Press)

written contract In effect at the time OF the
divorce decree.
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Evening star., 1948-06-06
Fifty Years Ago

From Chickamauga Park, Ga, q dispatch
to The Star for May %, 1898, reported: "Work
work, work Is the order OF the day
District for District boys at Camp George
Troops H. Thomas from early morning
t;li devy eve The regiment Is
Evening star., 1948-06-06

transmission lines. He has consequently be-
come the target Of all the interests which can
usually be lined up in = nght against public
power.
When the current appropriation bill was UP,
the amendment which was eventually adopted
on the floor was proposed to the subcommittee
on Interior Department appropriations. The
committee was not impressed, however. and
voted 1t down. In the subsequent floor debate,
at which less than fourth Of the House was
present, the proponents of the rider attempted
to conceal the factors which are at the root Of
the opposition to Straus' policies by citing o
preliminary report of a group appropriately
called the Subcommittee on Publicity and
Propaganda Of the Committee on Expenditures
in the Executive Departments.
When boiled down. the principal charges in
this report were that G) Boxes technical quail
ifications had not impressed Straus' predeces-
sors. t2) the bureau had propagandzed for its
program, 80 through some error in accounting
subsequently caught by the bureau the carry
over from q prior fiscal year was inaccurately
reported and a. certain Central Valley con-
struction was halted last December because Of
some corrupt design"-admittedly as yet un-
discovered.
As vet none Of these charges except those
relating to the rejection of Boxes prior appli-
cation, have been proved. The letter OF tns
chairman Of the subcommittee states that tnS
hearings on the matter would extend for sew
eraI more weeks. The incomplete character
of the Harness subcommittee Investigation
however did not deter It's chairman from
attempting to stampede the House IN tne
course Of q confused debate on m appropriation
bill, rather than presenting his evidence 70
the judiciary Committee. as The rules q thS
House require. =