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Evening star., 1949-12-06
Thou Shalt Not Coyet-

Nop ,o'to ,oiU enuy her trim oabardine,
The tailored chic, and money IN the
bank?
Efficiency is such an easy screen
From nine till fue. What matters II
her rank -.
Makes typists tremble? And what II her
lunch ~
Is on account? Brisk on the telephone,
Cleuer IN conference, sharp NTH a lunch,
When uork is done she still goes home
alone. {s.
Clustered like gems in the dark OF the
heart
Lie tears unshed, and silence is q storm
70 shake long, lonesome evenings and start
Old chilly ghosts. No house u,,shased
Is trarm, y = @Sss
No fire Is friendly, and no meal Is swset
When altDavs there Is only one to eutse z
MARY MARGARET MILBRATH.s
assssSs
Evening star., 1949-12-06
RIGHT Of Way for Firemen

It Is surprising that 1t should be neces-
sary for the Arlington County Firemen's
Association to issue public appeal for
cooperation of motorists in giving fire.
fighting vehicles right of way. Not only
the law but common sense requires that
such emergency vehicles have clear road
to their destination. Yet, according to
John Paul Jones, president of the asso-
ciation, Arlington's firs companies on sew
eral occasions have been seriously impeded
in answering alarms by failure of cars to
pull over and stop.
Police have tried to enforce the State
code rigidly, but many offenders escape
notice of any one but the fremen involved
and the latter. are too intent on reaching
fires to record license numbers. Offenders,
when caught, should be dealt with severely
AS an example to others. And the police
should crack down, too, on Arlington
motorists who seem to delight in chasing
after fire apparatus. Some of these private
cars may contain volunteer hremen, but
II all the automobiles which follow Arling-
ton f1re engines on their runs carried
authorized members of the department,
there would not be enough equipment for
everybody. The fre-engine chasers not
only are violating the traffic laws but are
unnecessarily risking their own lives and
menacing the lives of others. Police should
give these violators q forceful reminder
in the form of q court summons-that
Arlington County no longer is q rural COM
munity where such foolishness might be
tolerated,
Evening star., 1949-12-06

record. It is an important aspect Of the
antitrust problem however; one that Mr..
Sawyer will have to take into account. It
will be interesting to see what, If any,
thing, can be accomplished by him In con-
verting the antitrust division to more
reasonable point of view
Evening star., 1949-12-06
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
Q. Was President Arthur born In
cabin?-F. McC
A. President Chester A. Arthur was born
in a cabin near Fairfield. vt. His father was
Baptist minister and at the time of the
future Presidents birth the parishioners were
building a new parsonage, which accounts
for the family occupying cabin. 49,.
@. What people first used nets to catch
dsh?-B. B..
A. The Jews. who started fishing about
500 B. c.. first used the woven net to catch
fish in quantities. Until that time fish were
caught singly. -.-= =.
@. How many automobiles were deliv-
cred by factories last year? How many
were shipped by rail and how many over-
land?-L. S. =.
A. According to the Automobile Manu-
facturers' Association. in 1948, 3,289,641
motor vehicles were shipped from factories
or assembly plants overland and 331 ,8l5 by
boat. Overland figures are not broken down
to show the number by rail and by highway
carriers.
Q. Please name some noted men and
women Of history who committed suicide.
r. T. s.. a..
A. The list Of suicides goes back to
ancient history. Empedocles in the 5th
century B. c. took his own life. Demos
themes committed suicide in 1922 B. c., Soc
rates by compulsion in 399 B. c.. hannibal
in 1873 B. c.. Cato the Younger in 46 B. c..
Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 30 B. c.
Other notable examples are the English
poet, Thomas Chatterton. who drank arsenic
in his attic in ITO at the age of 18; Van
Gogh, the celebrated painter who shot him.
self to death in 1890, and King Ludwig II Of
Bavaria. Biblical suicides include Saul and
Judas Iscariot.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Would Prefer Bridge Between d. G.
And Rosslyn, Va, to Freeway

Would FREEZER Bridge Between ID. ..
And Rosslyn, Va, to Freeway
TO the Editor Of The Star:
i Referring to the freeway over K street
NV, extending to and from Key Bridge to
Washington Circle it appears to me that
the money expended for this project has
proven an engineers nightmare and the
publics disappointment What should have
been built was. bridge over the Potomac
River between e street NV. and the Me-
mortal Bridge. from D. C.. to Roosevelt
Island, thence to Rosslyn. Va. with feeders
to Lee highway, Wilson boulevard and Lee
boulevard. Progress demands It!
HERBERT q. MURPHY.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Says Republicans Need
An Old-Age Pension Plan

An Old-Age PENSION Flan
To the Editor Of The Star: .e.
News reports out Of Washington tell us
that Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson
is polling SO all Republican governors,
State chairmen, county ehairmen and vice
chairmen and members Of the Republican
National Committee" to define what the
COP stands for.
What the Republican party needs most OF
all is a sound, adequate pay-as-you-go Fed
eral old-age pension program as matter Of
right. This would not be gravy train" >"
. hand out" or me too" policy. Nor Is
1t buying any votes. It Is 4 sound, vitality
necessary program.
Our older citizens proved during the war
that they are willing and ready to work.
However, in our modern mass production
age, our senior citizens are neither wanted
nor needed in industry. A sound, adequate
old-age pension program as matter Of right
is the only solution for this problem. The
Republican party has no such program. The
80th Republican Congress had a chance to
provide such program but didn't. Results:
The COP suffered last year one of It's worst
defeats In its history.
CHARLES r. MARTIN.
Minneapolis, MINI.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Lobbying For State Medicine
By "Bureaucrats" Condemned
scituate Harbor. Mass.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Many of the bureaucrats lobbying for
state-medicine monopoly are officers in the
Reserve Corps. To keep their commissions
active and to qualify for ofiicer reserve re-
tirement benefits at so they must earn re-
tirement credits. Some elect to do this by
short tours Of temporary active duty. But
when doctors already on the Federal pay
roll 60 on active duty they receive double
pay. The Government continues to pay them
their regular salary plus all the emoluments
and allowances OF their regular rank. II
their tour Of temporary duty does not ex-
ceed is days, they do not suffer any loss
Of their annual leave. just think Of It!
Double pay from the taxpayer while quality
ing for an additional pension! Double pay
for double pension Awith triple jeopardy
for the taxpayer! No wonder they lobby
for the Truman share-the wealth plan
through compulsory health. Our American
Medical Association should register indig-
nant protest In the name Of weary taxpay-
ers.
Mr.. Truman knows veterans preference
makes our whole Government service top
heavy with former servicemen who hold re-
serve status. II he had any mercy on tax
payers, he would condemn double pay that
qualities for An additional pension. But
Major General Harry II. Vaughan Is prime
sxample o6 Mr.. Truman's double standard
Evening star., 1949-12-06

Public reaction to his romance has been
gratifying revelation to our popular Weep.
Every one, even Republican, loves Z
lover.
Evening star., 1949-12-06

when the interests Of taxpayers and the
veterans lobby come to conflict. The Tru
man gang screams It's pious indignation at
our ANAs lobbying on its own money
raised by voluntary subscription against his
scheme to regiment doctor workers into his
share-the- wealth state. Let our ANA Of
flcially remind Politico Truman that he can
save weary taxpayers millions by stopping
the cynical lobbying Of bureaucrats on Fed
eral payrolls
THOMAS f. MATTINGLY, M. D.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
yriter, although it Is permissible for
q 1Driter knotDn to The Star to use
q nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1949-12-06

Another sigh, in passing, for the g. o. P
Where it thought it was through with
that tribe, it finds that younger Roosevelts
are busting out all over.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer To any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau. 316 Eye st. ne, Washington 2, D. c.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Honor Code Held to Oblige
Admiral DenfeId To Return To Duty

TO the Editor ofThe Star:
The code of honor Of the professional
soldier is crystal clear and cannot be
CLOSED over.
The compelling and overriding obligation
Of the professional soldier, If below the max
imum retirement age and in reasonably good
health. is to remain on active duty in the
armed forces or equivalent governmental
services. 50 long as the security Of the Ma
ton is In peril.
The Nation confidently expects Admiral
Denfeld to uphold the honor Of the profess
sional officer corps Of our armed forces by
reporting for active duty at the expiration
Of his leave. JOSEPH P. POLOWSKY.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Wants Mr.. Stann To Apologize
For Reference To Galiffa As Pro

I don't expect sports writers to be COM
pletely unprejudiced, and have overlooked
Francis Stann's continual sniping at Army
as simple manifestation Of his unexplained
football team.
But his crack about Galiffa being Z pro is
one can't charge of to prejudice. It strikes
. contemplate low that is completely out
Of keeping with The Stars standard Of
journalism.
I suggest that Mr.. stann might redeem
himself somewhat II he apologies not only
to Galiffa and the Military Academy. but
to the Naval Academy. too. I'm sure the
midshipmen resent the obvious implication
that Zastrow likewise is q pro.
WALTER j. WELLS.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1949-12-22
KINDERG ARTEN GROUP
HEARS FINANCE REPORT

Progress made by the Cham
paign- Urbana kindergarten az
ISOLATION was outlined at a meet
ing Tuesday evening in Douglas
Park community center, 510-12
East Grove street.
Mrs. Ruth Marshall, curriculum
supervisor for the kindergarten.
which is open to the pre- school
children Of the Douglas park
neighborhood, explained the pro-
grams emphasis ON preparing the
child so that he is "a Wholesome,
expectant six" when he is ready to
enter school.
The budget report showed the
cost is s3,970 a year of which ST.
400 comes from the Community
Chest. Mothers Of youngsters en-
rolled pay So monthly bu. the act
ual cost per child Is $3.50 monthly.
A number Of persons have donated
Scholarships to make IL possible
Tor more youngsters TO be enroll
ed.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1949-12-22
DIR. BuSEY TO VISIT
wITH NEPHEW

ur. Garreta HI. Busey. who Is
on a years leave Of absence from
her duties as assistant professor
Of English in the University Of
Illinois. is at present in Amster-
dam, Holland. where she Is work
ing on book she In writing dur
ing her leave.
In writing friends here, DIR. Blu
egey said that she expects to spend
Christmas with her nephew Dou-
we Yntema, who will be vacation
ing from the school In which he is
taking post graduate work. He is
the son Of Prof. and Mrs. Leonard
Yntema who live In Waukegan.
Professor Yntema was formerly
member Of the University OF II
linois chemistry staff. Mrs. Ynte-
ma Is the former Jean Busey.
From Amsterdam. DIR. Busey
plans to go on to Luxembourg
where she will continue her work.
She left the United States, sail
ing from New York last July.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1949-12-22
WATCHORN- DEFEATED BY
MORE THAN 2 to in
BIG VOTING TURNOUT

Republicans surged back into
the eenter Of the urbana city po-
liiieal scene Tuesday with an over
whelming victory in the special
city election In which Attorney
Glen f.. Chapman captured all
seven wards by heavy pluralities
: Defeat for the brief. tenuous
Democratic fling at city control
was UNDERSIGNED by the fact that
Chapman not only trounced Dem
ocrat Ray G. Watchorn by better
than two-to-one vote in the turn
out of 3,s42, but he also rode high
In what were supposed to have
been Democratic wards.
Chapman won 1900 10 Wat
shorn's .233. This II his first ven.
ture into politics.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
civil RIGHTS CONGRESS SENDS
STATEMENT TO HARRY 5. TRUMAN

investigations hghlghted inhumar
brutality punishment for the South well the
dubious methods of Southern Justice" at trials
Barbar practices Virginia shocked investigators the
Tate Albert Negro who
with extraditon Virginia California On chain
times thousand men work and sleep chained together
Steel tipped whips frequent Solitary confinement cells
often filthy eubces wndowless and unventaed where prisoners
90 days Loahesom food and lack sanitation
produce disease ridden prisoners unfit living should
live to be released Yet when accused trial with such
punishment facing them they found guilty defendants
often denied the right to have lawyer
Assembqnan Fitzpatrick chairman California egs-
ures Committee Crime and Correction his report
Virginia penal code after visiting the asked what kind
thinking is it when treat and animal basis
them react like humans? We unfit for physical
when we their bodies"
prisoners condemned as
and nhuman punishment by the United States Court Appeals
Circuit Johnson Negro was being
exradion by the State Georgia proved that
Georgia treated cruelty
oparde their health and lives and that prisoners
with "a greater degree brutality" ers lynch
sometimes attack prisoners before they
sons extradton trial. proved that witnesses
against him his original trial in Georgia compelled
by police authorities of Cobb County Georgia.
had not been allowed to have lawyer
In the Charles Tacoma facing
tradition Florida former guard of Florida prison
this statement Il wish of
cruel and nhuman punishment for its especially
escaped The sweabox and erons popular today
together with hose and black jack beatngA sub
e corporal punishment and the death quiet and
PARTIALLY unknown Northern receive treatment
than Souherners and God help Negroes and Jews Sebr
white Other witnesses Florida revealing
the nhman treatment accorded prsoneon saying "A facing
exradon Florida would do
turn"
Meanwhile government Republ
parties put the position of having call for
civil legislation protection Negro people against
injustice and terror
u S Attorney General Howard McGrath said last month";
speech before the Connecticut Association
great tasks of the u Department of Justice he protection of the
cvthe human rights of the American people bill rights
belief freedom
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
this week.

this week.
Conventions called by Negro In
terstate and state organizations for
l949 totaled asa, according to the
census survey Virginia, with
thirty-three conventions scheduled
this year, ranks first, and Texas,
with thirty-one, ranks second.
Major Negro convention centers
for the nation are Houston, Texas,
Chicago and Detroit, each with
thirteen meetings on their 1919
dockets. Next to Houston, Dallas is
the most popular Negro conven-
ton city in Texas, with four be-
ing held there during June and
July. Other Texas cities chosen as
convention sites this year were
Austin Fort Worth, Greenvlle,
Prairie View, Refugio, San Angelo,
San Antonio, TeXarkana, Tyler and
Waco. The census bureau keeps a
record in Washington, d. c. Of all
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

Negro conventions and in what
cities they will meet. The releasing
of this information to the Press
from Washington may be propa-
ganda from the lobbyist group of
the States Rights or some other
Southern information to attract
Negro conventions south.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

John Foster Dulles Republican nominee
recently OF what he called the national
record such anyneh poax fair employ
men legislation"
President Truman his speech Paul. Minnesota
urged passage of the civil rights program reng protection
all citizens from fear and discrimination"
We demand that government officials these expressions
practice ON national and state levels We call
To institute investigation penal methods of all Southern
states to be undertaken by qualified nonparan group orga
cation.
To order the u Justice Department hearings
and trials on exradon and in behalf
unconstitutional judicial and penal practices prevail
questng extradition.
10 issue statement of his policy regard these proposals.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

tenders.
Delegates to the NAACP youth
conference, in letters to the Day
ton newspapers, Governor Frank
Lausehe, the states attorney gen.
eral, Mayor Lohrey. and the city
manager, expressed indignation
over the incident and demanded
corrective action. ut Is indeed a
sorry bit of irony" wrote the con-
vention delegates, that we assem-
bled here from all corners of the
nation to plan for furtheranee O.
such civil rights legislation as
passed by the State of Ohio
should turn the corner and be .e-
fused a sandwich in the State of
Ohio"
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
Demand Arrest OF
Men Who Attacked
Na'cp Youth Group

DAYTON, Ohio-Arrest OF TWO
bartenders who refused to serve
an NAACP attorney and her three
companions and forcibly evicted
them from a downtown Dayton
restaurant was ordered this week
by Police Chief Kirkpatrick fol-
lowing vigorous protest OF the IN
cident by the National Assoc'a-
ton for the Advancement of COL
ored People. Hearings in the case
are scheduled to be held this
week.
Mrs. Constance Baker Motely ~
AACP assistant special counsel
accompanied by three delegates to
the NAACP youth conference
meeting here last week, was struck
and physically elected from the
Four Aces Restaurant by barten-
ders Robert Gallagher and Carr
Latotas. when she complained that
her group had been refused SER
vice. W. F. Fox, a policeman sum-
moned to arrest the attackers
refused 10 make any arrests and
in profane language attacked a
white members of the group for
associating with Negroes. PATROL
man Fox has been severly repri-
handed by Police Chief Kirkpat-
rick and temporarily suspended
from the police force. pending
hearings.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

branch, demanded action of May
or Louis Lohrey after the attack.
Mayor Lohrey ordered a complete
investigation Of the incident and
directed the police chief to issue
warrents fer the arrest of the Of
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
Thinqs That Interest Women
BY Bessie F. Bell

HOW DO YOU LOOKING still in the vitamn depart
menremember? doing bit of research the subject OF
vitamns learned that vtamn &c is closely related to Vita
min T in that it effects the appearance of the skim And
ask what important to beauty than healthy skin
lacking &c" subject to the skin disease
called pellagra which is certainly friend to beauty.
No many of you saying as you read-th
phoo-what food do with beauty Indeed it has every
thing way you look Are in doubt Then ask
your Doctor
Here is what may happen to you when there Is Wtamn
defeiency-botohty skim 1t this defcenty emeded with
vamn will change and the gloss rough
ness, hardness and under redness will disappear
will continue next week, but in the meantime II you
my send 10 cents for each and write Bessie f.
Bell in case of Globa Syndicate Inc p O. Box &c. Man.
haanvle Station NYC The leaflets Shining The Waist
ne Minerals Beauty, Your Measurements and Ten Points
On Being Attractive.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

A special committee on cases
involving police brutality, headed
by Attorney Morris II. Simmons,
former president and present
chairman of the legal redress CON-
mittee of the Dayton NAACP
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

held in New Jersey, Virginia, Ok
lahoma, New York and Missouri,
with the New England states hold
ing a regional meeting in Boston.
The Illinois conference is schedul-
ed for the weekend, in Chicago,
with Indiana in Gary, Dec "a.
The State meetings are ratifying
the program developed by the MA
ACP Emergency Committee on
Civil Rights and approved by 36
national organizations, Plans were
formulated for carrying out the
program on state and local levels
through a series of mass meetings,
delegations to call upon members
Of Congress while at home, ana
the sending of representatives to
the Washington conference, jan
uary 1917.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
Negro Firemen's
Injunction Upheld
By High Court

In unanimous decision issu-
ed last week, the United States
Supreme Court handed down q
ruling in support of three ques-
tons of law on petition of twenty
one Negro firemen on three major
Southeastern railroads" states A.
Philip Randolph. International
President Of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters Provisional
Committee to Organize Colored
Locomotive Firemen.
This action was brought on their
behalf and on the behalf of other
Negro firemen similarly situated
against the railroads and Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen. This action grew out
of a temporary injunction grant
ed the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters Provisional Committee
by Judge Alexander Holtzoff, De-
cember 8, 1913, which was later
set aside by the Court of Appeals
for the district of Columbia Cir
cult at the request of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen.
The Negro firemen complained
that the Brotherhood as sole bar
gaining agent of the entire class
of locomotive firemen, including
these petitioners and other Ne
gro firemen, had negotiated "a
greements and arrangements with
the railroads which Disseminated
against eolored firemen and de-
prived them from jobs and job
assignments to which their senior
ity entities them. The Provisional
Committees contention was that
this discrimination was illegal and
violative of the Railway Labor
Act. since decision had been
handed down in the Steele and
Tunstall cases abolishing the
Southeastern Carriers agreement.
In spite of this decision Negro fire
men were unlawfully displaced
and denoted by white firemen
having less seniority.
At the time of filing the COM
plant the Brotherhood moved
the District Court TO set aside the
temporary injunction on the
grounds that the warrents were
not properly served and that the
case should never have been
brought to the District Court IN
Washington. They further argued
that The Norris-LaGuardia Act
took precedence over this case
and on these three contentious the
Injunction vas set aside.
In this sweeping decision the
United States Supreme Court re-
primanded the Brotherhood and
upheld the Provisional Committee
for the Organization of Colored
Locomotive Firemen on all three
courts % that the warrents were
properly served 90 that the case
was properly brought (3) that the
Norrid-LaGuardia Act did not APP
ply to the injunction II is note
worthy that the Supreme Court
orders the restoration of the in
junction Immediately, which means
that within the course of the next
three days Negro firemen will
have the right to exercise their
seniority in the application OF
new assignments on passenger and
freight Diesel engines according to
their seniority rights.
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25

0SSuaiiy ASpl udSiitu
God for forcing
him into the minis
Try? How shall we
rate a man who In
time Of war urged
bis own nation to
Wrrender, who was
Believed by almost
nobody. who was
repudiated by his
OWn class and even
Ma NUN familv7
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
State Groups
Organize For Civil
Rights Campaign

New York-In response to the
call for the Civil Rights Mobiliza-
ton drive, statewide conferences
of NAACP branches and collabor-
ating organizations have been
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
Spokesman Of God
Lesson for November ~. ls49

nod MAKES USE of strange
~ characters. What shall we
1hink Of preacher who tried to
beg off from being preacher?
What can We make Of a man who
Arkansas State press., 1949-11-25
Qga9 and lIIa J,

Dallas, Texas-Next to Virginia,
Texas is the state where more Ne
gro organizations hold their con-
ventions, according to the census
bureaus report from Washington