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Evening star., 1949-03-18
Farley Today Takes Up
Problems Of Families

New problems confronting
average American families will
figure in discussions OF board
members and executives from
about 81 family service agencies
in the Middle Atlantic States,
meeting today in the Hotel
Statler.
Some of the matters of concern
to families and family service
agencies to be taken up include:
The immediate drop in employ
ment and its effect on family
security and stability, the urgency
Of reinforcing social security and
public assistance programs, in
creased demands on private
family agencies for help in diff
culties other than basic main
tenance, how to meet these de-
mands in view Of personnel short
ages and failure of the public to
subscribe total goals Of Com
munity Chests in many cities.
Representatives from Washing
ton will include Mrs. Charles s.
Baker, Mrs. Hopewell Darneille,
jr.. Mrs. j. Blaise de Sibour. the
Rev. r. Edward Dowdy, William
j. Flather Sd, Mrs. D. P. Gaillard,
Ira Gibbons. Mrs. John Ihlder,
Canon G.. Gardner Monks. Charles
Carroll Morgan, Mrs. E. K. Morris,
Mrs. William Stuart Nelson, Mrs
James Farr O'Hanlon. Miss Hilda
Smith, the Rev. Stephen Spots
wood, Benjamin w. Thoron. Win
field Weitzel, and Mrs. Mildred
Kilinski of the Family Service
Association.
Executives and board members
will lunch jointly at 1890 pm. to
hear DR.. Eveline Burns, economist
on the faculty of the New York
School Of Social Work, Columbia
University. Mr.. Thoron. president
Of the Washington Family Service
Association, will preside.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
| News Photographers
Ito Dine With Truman
For Exhibit Opening

President Truman tomorrow
night will open the sixth annual
photo exhibit of the White House
News Photographers Association,
after being the groups honor
guest at a dinner in the Hotel
Statler.
Flanked by stage, screen and
radio stars, Mr.. Truman will press
button to unveil the exhibit of
500 black and white prints and
an elaborate display of more than
$50 color transparencies made in
the past year. In addition there
will be a special exhibit Of inau-
gural pictures, going back to the
administration of President Lin
coin.
To Present Awards.
The dinner itself, at 1880 pm,
will be in the hotels President al
Room, and the exhibit, in the
adjoining Congressional Room.
Pressing of the button will raise
a sliding wall between the two,
to reveal the display.
Prior to this duty Mr.. Truman
will present awards to cameramen
for pictures adjudged the best of
the year.
The exhibit will be open to the
public Sunday through Friday.
Admission will be free.
Stars Begin Arriving.
The Hollywood stars slated to
entertain the Chief Executive and
the TOO lensmen and their guests
will arrive in Washington starting
today. Billy De Wolfe and Marina
Koshetz were due in at Union Sta
ton on the Capitol Limited this
morning, and Betty Hutton, Dick
Haynes and Stanley Richardson
are scheduled to arrive later by
plane.
Gertrude Niesen will arrive to-
morrow morning on the Liberty
Limited, and Liberace and Red
Shelton are to follow by plane in
the afternoon.
The stars who arrive today will
be guests of Eric Johnston, presi-
dent of the Motion Picture Asso-
Evening star., 1949-03-18
BAcKACHE,
LEG PAINS may
BE DANGER sign

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stays IN the blood. These poisons may start
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pains, loss Of Pep and energy, getting up
nights, swelling, pufiness under the eyes.
headaches and dizziness.
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b. millions for over so years. Doan's give
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epsa yopr blood. Get Doan's Pilh.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Rabbi Cohen to Preach

Rabbi Hymen Ezra Cohen will
preach at the regular service Of
the Northeast Hebrew Congrega-
ton at $50 o'clock tonight in the
basement assembly room Of the
Sherwood Presbyterian Church,
1902 Twenty-second street NE.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

citation Of America. at q cocktail
party. Later In the evening the
stars will help the lensmen set up
the Photographic exhibit in the
hotel.
In addition to Mr.. Truman,
cabinet members, justices of the
Supreme Court, members of Con-
gress and high ranking officials of
the armed services will attend the
dinner.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Another T. v. Regan

To the Editor OF The Star:
Your attention is directed to the letter
appearing on the editorial page Of the issue
of The Star of February II. under the cap
ton, "Mr Warrens Views 1nconsistent?"
The purpose of this communication to you
is to forestall possible embarrassment to me
in confusing my name with that OF the
writer of the aforementioned letter. and to
venture the suggestion that it might be ad-
visable in the future for persons writing for
the public press to properly identify them
selves by the use Of at least one OF their
Christian names.
My name is Timothy v. Regan, and am
not identified with "T. v. Regan." nor am
related to, nor acquainted with, the gentle
man.
Since have been associated with the
General Accounting Office for approx
mately IA years, you can understand the
embarrassment that feel in the publica-
ton of the letter in question~so signed.
TIMOTHY v. REGAIN.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
No Reasonable Alternative

The JOINT Fiscal subcommittee mas dp-
proved local retail sales tax in principle
because there was no reasonable alter
native.
Some of the sales tax opponents argued
otherwise. They presented estimates to
show that the yield from local income
tax, with higher rates and touching every
body living here six months or more in
year, would be even higher than what is
expected from sales tax.
But If the estimates are correct, the
proposal is not realistic. Substantially
the same sort of income tax has been pre-
sented to Congress a number of times in
the past ten years and each time it has
failed of approval. The reason it has failed
is that Congress is unwilling to tax the
locally derived income of Federal workers
who maintain voting residence in the
States.
Perhaps the opponents of the sales tax
are right in saying that If this were self
governing community the sales tax would
be killed and the broad income tax would
be approved. They might argue also that If
the people of this city had control of local
taxes they would tax all income at the
source, through payroll tax, as is done in
Philadelphia. This would catch the resi-
dents of Maryland and Virginia who work
in Washington and would produce lot
of money.
But this is not self governing COM
munity. And if it were it might look on the
sales tax as the voting residents of twenty
six of the States have looked on it-as
relatively painless and very productive
source of revenue Seventeen of these
twenty-six States have combined the in
come tax with the sales tax, as it is pro-
posed to do here. And it is ir~this con-
nection that the income tax advocates
should fight their hardest for an income
tax that will not discriminate, as in the
past, against the voteless Washingtonian
in favor of the Washingtonian who votes
elsewhere. ..
The sales tax is i nuisance tax It col
lects something from everybody who buys
anything, with such exceptions as food
for home consumption and medicine. But
1t is not an unfair tax and it has the merit
of collecting something from everybody.
Washington's large transient population
makes that consideration an important
one.
The Joint Fiscal Subcommittee has acted
promptly in beginning its consideration of
new taxes. There is every reason to get
the completed bill up for consideration in
House and Senate as soon as possible. The
appropriations committees will be work.
ing under handicap in trying to decide
on the wisest expenditures until the
amount of expendable revenue is decided.
And the District has suffered every time
the tax bill has been brought up for con-
sideration in the closing days of the session.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Policeman's Plight Not Happy

To the Editor OF Tne star:
When is Congress going to do something
about that pay raise for District employees?
AS a policemans wife, think am quail
fed to ask such question. Policemen work
82 hours day six days week. Each week
they have different shifts. which makes 1t
difficult for the rest of the family to have
a regular routine. They aren't even sure OF
their regular days Oft. because often they
must appear in court. If they are working
the Alp pm. shift and there is going to be
a parade at 10 am, they must be there In
addition to the regular shift They never
receive any overtime pay regardless Of how
many hours they work. For example. In
auguration Day, my husband started work.
ing at 8 am. and was not relieved until mid
night. AS compensation he was given day
of the following week, only to be notified
the night preceding it that he had to be
in court in the morning. He does all this
for $2,s16 q year (minus income taxi.
Firemen have q similar plight, but am
not qualified to speak for them.
Come on, Congress. let's see some action.
MRS. MILDRED WHITE.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
No Discrimination in Chicago?

No Discrimination in Chicago?
To the Editor Of The Star:
I have just returned from week in Chi
cago. where had my meals in variety OF
eating places from cafeterias to hotel din
ing rooms, all located in the Loop.
In all of these there were Negro diners.
No plaster fell from the ceiling, no riots
occurred, no one was embarrassed all, I
presume. enjoyed their meals and certainly
all meals were paid for.
Who is the first restaurant owner in
Washington to have the decency. if that
is what is needed: or the courage. if that
is required; or the good business sense.
which seems to be lacking, to open their
doors to all citizens: presuming, of course.
that restaurants are conducted for profit?
1t is not unlikely that those who conduct
eating places in Washington are mistaken
as to the attitude Of the general public in
this matter.
Washington will not deserve the title
Capital of the World" so long as 1t is so
provincial In its social practices.
RALPH K. MERKER.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
New Georqetown President

It is a long way down the years from the
days of 1884, when the soldier, Ignatius
Loyola, having studied at Barcelona, Alcala
and Salamanca, gathered his six COM,
panionS in Paris to found the great order
of clerks regular to which Georgetown
University belongs But the Society of
Jesus carries on the tradition of scholar
ship which its sponsor and his immediate
followers personified. So, in sense, there
is nothing novel in the elevation of the
Very Reverend Doctor Hunter Guthrie to
be administrative head of the oldest Cath
olic college in the United States.
The new president of Georgetown Uni
versity is a master in the field of higher
education. He comes to his larger duties
with the highest honors granted by the
Sorbonne. Previously he had been at Lou
vain, Munich, Freiburg, Berlin and the
Gregorian academy in Rome. With such
a background, he is notably prepared. But
quite independently Father Guthrie is an
interesting personality. His gifts are dis
tinctive The faculty and student body at
Georgetown know him as philosopher in
the Socratic meaning of the word. He
cares about ethics and esthetics as one
who loves wisdom in application TO God
and man alike. The same principles, as he
sees them apply everywhere. Creation, in
his view of it, is true and beautiful, marred
only as it is misunderstood, hurt only as
1t is uncomprehended
Under his leadership, Georgetown should
have six fruitful years of development.
Father Guthrie, taking over from the Very
peverend Noct0r Lawrence German who
also has been devoted servant of the
sciences and the arts, will want progress.
The university is expanding in response to
the challenge of compelling times. Its new
leader is young, ardent and well-endowed
with faith in that cause of Christian learn
ing to which his life is pledged. He likewise
has the advantage of experience as
world traveller The turmoil of the globe
is a condition which he has seen with his
own eyes. He therefore can be counted
upon to use his opportunities to the full
after the Loyolian example.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Soviet WoIkout on Health

The Soviet governments resignation
from the World Health Organization is
not only lamentable in ITSELF but also
causes disquieting interpretations. Com
ing suddenly and without warning, the
action of Moscow is emphasized by the
simultaneous resignation of the Ukraine
and White Russia, which somewhat
ANONYMOUSLY hold memberships in the
the Soviet Union. The crowning touch of
paradox comes out in the reasons given for
this withdrawal Moscow alleges that the
World Health Organization is not doing its
Job properly and is too expensive.
Judged by any reasonable criterion, both
allegations are nonsenSical. AS the Direc-
tor General of the health organization, DR..
Brock Chisholm, effectively points out, the
agency has barely emerged from it's Or
ganizational period and has been scraping
along on slender budget which even to-
day amounts to only $5,OO00OO. Since that
sum is prorated among more than fifty
members, the Soviet share is negligible
item in the budget of great power.
Since Moscow's excuses will not hold
water, the true reasons for its action can
only be surmised. But shrewd guess is
not difficult to make This walkout is
part of pattern of systematic withdrawal
into hostile isolation from the non-Com
munist world practiced by Moscow in
almost all other fields. To that ominous
pattern, the health organization has hith-
erto been an exception on which had been
based a hope of better things. Even
though Soviet Russia declined to join any
of the other specialized agencies set up
under the United Nations, here was one
agency where the Soviet delegates worked
harmoniously with their non-C Communist
colleagues, avoiding political or theological
wrangling and cooperating for common
ends. Indeed, such controversies are
logically absurd in such an organization,
devoted as it is to combating disease--the
common enemy of all mankind. And, de-
spite its limited capacity, the organization
already has brilliant record in handling
epidemic outbreaks such as cholera in
Egypt and malaria in the Balkans.
. Perhaps it is just because the organiza-
ton is so patiently noncontroversial that
Moscow finds in 1t no chance for those
Evening star., 1949-02-19

propagandist activities which are It's main
interest in all its external relations. An
other possible explanation is that Moscow
can directly benefit only if the organiza-
ton reveals health conditions within the
Soviet Union. But that would involve
peep behind the Iron Curtain which
Moscow could not tolerate.
So Moscow sewers virtually the sole link
of genuine cooperation with the outer
world. It's intransigeant isolationism be-
comes thereby logically complete.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Sticking by His Guns

President Truman, never one to be
easily budged, has served notice that he
is sticking by his demand for $4,000 ,000, 900
in new taxes and his program Of economic
controls.
The President indicated at his Thursday
press conference that he is not at all dis
turbed by the price decline in some con-
sumer goods lines. This, he said, Is merely
the leveling of process that every one has
been hoping for. Mr.. Truman was sup
ported in this view yesterday by DR.. Edwin
G. Nourse, chairman of the White House
council of economic advisers. DR.. Nourse
spoke of the current trend as "disinfla-
ton" rather than a basic trend toward
depression. He said that it may even be a
healthy thing.
1t may very well be that the President
and his economic adviser are entirely cor
rect. Certainly, it is to be hoped that they
are Nevertheless, the economic outlook is
clouded with enough uncertainty to put
the Presidents tax and control programs in
considerable jeopardy. Influential mem
bers of Congress, including some of those
in the Democratic ranks, are enough in
doubt so that they want to wait and see
what happens before Tightening any eco
nomic screws.
The drop in agricultural prices is dis
turbing the Congressman more than any
thing else On the first of this month the
wholesale price index of the Bureau OF
Labor Statistics showed drop of 1872 per
cent in farm prices and decline of 16
per cent in food prices from the averages
L. T,,1x ftA iNN
index of other prices rose 1a per cent.
Raw industrial prices, however, dropped
almost per cent in the first nine days of
this month.
Another disturbing factor is found in
the unemployment picture. The serious
ness of this depends upon what standards
are used for purposes of comparison. Lay
offs are continuing, however, and with
about 5000, 900 people presently idle, men,
bers of Congress will want to wait and see
what happens in March and April. 1t is
then that important construction and
manufacturing industries begin rehiring
after winter cutbacks. If at that time
the total of unemployment continues to
grow instead of contracting, there will be
widespread fear that the country is going
into something of depression.
These and other elements in the eco
nomic picture can be used to bolster almost
any argument, including partisan politi-
cal argument, that one may desire to make.
But even in the most optimistic view of the
situation, q can no longer be contended
that there il reason for hasty action, as
the President asserted when he convened
a special session of Congress last year.
Given the prevailing economic climate,
Congress will be in no hurry to act on
either new taxes or new controls, and If
one had to guess that guess would be that
the President is going to get very little of
either
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Censorship of Things Russian

To the Editor Of The Star:
Reading the Letters to The Star column
of February 15 couldn't help but be struck
by the narrow -mindedness exhibited by
o. j. Dekom in his protest against the
showing of certain Russian film at local
movie house. He is appalled, that no pro-
test has been made. If this and other films
are banned simply because they are Rus
sian made, where is the distinction between
our democracy and the totalitarian state
which Mr.. Dekom emphatically says we are
against?
And why stop at barring movies? If We
allow ourselves to be motivated by similar
reasoning, wouldn't it necessitate prohibit
ing the playing of the music OF Russian
composers and burning the books Of Rus
sian authors? BY bowling to such childish
impulses we would be practicing the very
things we find so despicable in those coun-
tries behind the iron curtain.
Mr. Dekom also is disturbed about the
money which will go to Stain as result OF
showing the film. This money, he intimates.
will be used to undermine and destroy US.
It is hard to visualize the paltry sum gar
nered from exhibiting this film harming us
to any measurable degree. The chances are
that the entertainment derived by those who
see the picture will far outweigh any dam
age to our democratic way of life which. on
the other hand, would be endangered indeed
If censorship were imposed.
GEORGE E. HOLLAND.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
The Postal Service and Politics

While proposals to free the postal serv-
ice from the pressures of political patron
age are not new, it is encouraging to sup
porters of the merit system to have the
prestige of the Hoover Commission joined
with that of the Civil Service Commission
behind the movement. Considerable prog
ress has been made in recent years in
divorcing the Post Office Department from
politics, but the separation could and
should be more complete.
President Theodore Roosevelt started the
movement rolling when he placed all
fourth class postmasterships north Of the
Ohio River and east of the Mississippi
River in the classified civil service. Presi-
dent Taft broadened the order to include
all fourth-class postmasters, irrespective
of geographical distribution. He also clas-
sified all assistant postmasterships. These
steps narrowed the field of patronage op-
portunities, but they improved the quality
of appointees and hence the quality of the
service rendered the public. President Will
son tackled the problem of first second
and third class postmasterships in 1917.
He ordered that all future vacancies in
those Offices should be filled by presidential
appointment of the highest-qualified ell
gibles selected by the Civil Service Com
mission after competitive examination.
But President Harding Cancelled the order
and restored the old system of selection by
the Postmaster General from list of ELI
gibleS prepared by the commission. This
arrangement gave leeway for the selection
of a politically satisfactory" eligible.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1896
restored the requirement for appointment
of the Understanding eligible on the civil
service list.
The Ramspeck- o 'Mahoney Act of 1888
frightened up on civil service requirements
for postmasters. 1t ended fixed terms for
such appointments, thus tending toward
the career objective. But the authority of
the President to make appointments and
of the Senate to confirm certain of them
was not disturbed. The Hoover Comnis-
sion found that this system leaves the way
open still for political patronage. 1t recon-
mends that the requirement for Senate
confirmation of postmasters be abolished.
It also suggests that the Postmaster Gen.
eral should be some one not holding Office
in political party. The Civil Service Com
MISSION III lCS annual report JuSG released,
agrees with the Hoover group on the in
advisability of Senate confirmation but
has nothing to say on the ticklish subject
of political activity by the Postmaster
General.
The proposal to prevent Postmaster
General from holding office in a political
party has only an academic aspect at
present. President Truman, in promoting
Jesse M. Donaldson, career official of the
department, to Postmaster General, de-
parted from the old custom of giving the
job to the chairman of the party in power.
He has established good precedent for
other Presidents to follow. Getting Con-
gress to approve the additional plan Of re-
moving all postmaster appointments from
the requirement for Senate confirmation
Evening star., 1949-02-19

tie it in with fantastic bonuses for World
War II veterans? The latter demand will
and should kill the bill. Are the American
Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars so
hungry for memberships that they have to
jeopardize the legitimate and fair claims of
the World War I vets by combining World
War II vet raid on the Treasury? There
certainly is little comparison between the
bonus of the 1920s and the one granted to-
day. Then, it was granted to alleviate dire
distress. Today. in a prosperous and full
employment period it smacks of Hessian
soldiery.
Finally, wouldn't 1t be warming to
see the people themselves displaying real,
sincere desire to grant fair pensions rather
than the spectacle of disgruntled politicians
and selfish pressure groups competing with
one another to rob the Treasury under the
guise of patriotism? JOHN THORNTON.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
National Health as Topic

To the Editor of The Star:
In The Star Of February you print an
other tiresome letter from DR.. Thomas E.
Mattingly.
Don't you receive any letters on the sub
ject of national health from doctors who do
not advocate continuance forever of COM
mercialized medicine who do not degrade
the medical profession by threatening q
sit-down strike, or sabotage, if the Govern
ment's national health bill is passed, and who
do not condemn the British medical system
without knowing what they are talking
about? G. F.. QUINN.
Clifton, Va.
Evening star., 1949-02-19
Judte Binaham Not a Pauper

To the Editor of The Star:
quote from recent letter to The Star by
David Rankin Barbee. He says, John A.
Bingham died pauper living on the bounty
of his neighbors in Cadiz Ohio"
John A. Bingham was Judge Advocate
General at the Lincoln Booth trial. In his
later years, he was for 10 years United States
Minister to Japan; from which he retired
to Cadiz, Ohio. Instead of being pauper,
he was known for his kindness and benevo-
lence. I knew him when he lived inde-
pendently in his own residence. entirely
supporting himself.
MRS. EDWARD S. BUSBY.