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Evening star., 1949-01-23
News of VideO and Radio
Alice Faye Likes Radio Setup; in no Hurry
to Resume Role on Screen
By Horry Macarthur

Among the more specialized prob
lens of children is that affecting
the lives of the two daughters
aged six and four of Mr.. and Mrs
Phil Harris (Alice Faye, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris, as you hardly need be
told, perform a weekly comedy show
WRC-Sunday, 7:30 p.m), on
which their daughters are imperso-
mated by pair of young profess
sional actresses.
The children, fictionally on the
air, are continually becoming in
volved in complications that are
funny as fiction but which would
call for reprimands in real life. This
keeps the Harris young confused
Whenever they bother to listen to
the program-which isn't as often
as you might eXpect-they become
bemused with the notion that they
are in trouble for doing something
they know they didn't do.
The other Sunday night the script
of the air show called for comedy
disaster in the form of destruction
of all of Mr.. Harris phonograph
records. When the Harrises arrived
at home that night, Daughter Alice
greeted Mother Alice Indignantly.
Mother" she said firmly, you
know very we'll that I never even
touch daddys records"
Old fans of Alice Faye. the movie
star, will just have to continue to
do without her cinematic presence,
Mrs. Harris. the radio star, likes
things the way they are.
Preparation Of the Faye-Harris
radio show require Miss Faye's
presence at the NBC studios In
HOLLYWOOD only on Friday, for the
first rehearsal, sometimes on Satur-
day for second, and all day SUN
day for the final rehearsals and
broadcast. This leaves Miss Faye
four days a week for the practice of
the arts of housewifery and mother
hood, which she feels Is a fine way
to arrange career.
Let others, if they will, arise with
the dawn to rush to movie studio.
That's not for Alice. of course, she
does owe her old studio, goth Gen.
tury-Fox two more pictures and II
she happened upon the right script
:" She sounds, though, like a
young woman happy with the
thought that she doesn't have to
care if no writing genius ever turns
I'D with the right script" Acting
in the movies is something she
never misses bit.
Television is another thing that
doesn't figure in the immediate
plans of Miss Faye, or of her band
leader husband, both Of them ad-
mitted separately while here last
week for the Inaugural Gala. One
reason is that West Coast television
is considerably further back than
Eastern video. 1t consists largely OF
fights, rassles, Western movies and
elderly film comedies.
Right now I'm just watching
television to see what happens
said Mr.. Harris. when it moves,
I'll move with it. I guess I'll have
to do it sooner or later. It's hard,
though, to figure the right kind of
show. Maybe they'll have to do
most of it on film. How else can
Benny and Hope do all that wild
stuff they do? On the radio they're
all over the place, but in televiSion
studio they won't be able to get
away with that.
"On the radio you can say you're
sliding down a mountain and the
Evening star., 1949-01-23

i Ills, OIL WlllCll
p a r t | C l p ants
identify excerpts
from newsreel
and other films
dating back 20
y e a r S. II k a
C h a S e, Jo h n
Daily and Emily
Kimbrough are
the other con-
teStantS.
900, WNBW-
Madge Evans Is
starred in Jane
Austen'S Pride
and Prejudice" "
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Evening star., 1949-01-23

exposition OF IIe
theme.
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IS h oul d w e
A d pit Federal
Health I n S u r.
a n c e?" consid-
cred by p Prof.
Alton Linford,
DR.. Morris Fish
bein and Nelson
CruikShank.
ZOO, WQQW-
Senators McLel-
Ian and Malone,
Robert r. Ma
than and Rep
Evening star., 1949-01-23
HIGH LIGHTS TODAY
Radio.

1890, WTOP-A discussion of
education as an important social
ideal with John Dewey's Democracy
and Education" as a prime literary
Evening star., 1949-01-23

Actor William Eythe, Patsy Kelly;
Bob Nixon and Gloria Hamilton,
singers; the June Taylor Girls en-
tertain.
Evening star., 1949-01-23

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Evening star., 1949-11-10
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Evening star., 1949-11-10
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Evening star., 1949-11-10
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Evening star., 1949-03-09
The Right Approach

The Connecticut Avenue Citizens Associ-
alton has taken preliminary but hopeful
step toward the improvement of race
relations in Washington
This association, like many others has
been troubled with internal disSension on
this question. And it has recognized that
these differences, If not composed. will
tend to harden into irreconcilable conflicts
So at its last meeting the group adopted
a resolution stating that steps should be
taken to ease tension between the races
and putting the members on record as
being ready to do all they can, both in
dividually and as an association, to pro-
mote better understanding and feeling
of brotherhood.
OF course, this may turn out to be just
another resolution. But a committee has
been appointed to study specific problems
arising out of race relationships and to
seek the broadest area of common agree
ment This is hopeful move in the right
direction. If it should produce results in
this instance, and If that were to set a
pattern for other civic groups, there would
be reason to look for substantial progress
in an admittedly difficult field
Evening star., 1949-03-09

bomber" OF more than 1000 turned
out by the Douglas Aircraft Company
between 1886 and VI day in 1945, a sur
prising number are still in operation
judging from the orders for replacement
parts.
The new s15oo,O0O stratocruiser chris
tened here last week. can carry seventy
five passengers on its two decks. But it has
nothing on the DC-3. One of the two
engined work horses" got away ahead of
the Japs in the last war with seventy-seven
Chinese coolies. How they packed them all
inside is still mystery, but, as the pilot
explained, they probably knew each other
awfully we'll"
For these and other reasons the CAA
has extended certification from time to
time for the "obsolete" DC-3. The present
extension expires in 1852, but it is a good
bet that the planes will earn another
renewal.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
From Cradle to Grave

Medicinal preparations with which to
anoint the newborn babe and caskets
In which to bury the dead are taxed
alike at per cent in the sales tax bill
introduced yesterday. Cradle grave
taxation it surely is, with nothing over
looked in between.
The bill has been written with mini
mum of exemptions. 1t is, in this respect,
far sitter than versions of the tax which
have preceded it. 1t is modelled, in struc-
ture, on the Maryland tax. But in its
lack of customary exemptions, especially
In medicines, it departs from the Mary
land pattern and is based on the most
stringent laws in some of the States.
This philosophy of no exemptions would
be more strongly supported if it were
applied all along the line. But in elimi-
mating exemptions in the sales tax bill,
the subcommittee was able to make
exemptions elsewhere. One example is
the exemption against higher liquor taxes
Liquor taxes could be doubled here with
cut bringing them up to the Maryland
scale But instead of placing a higher
tax on liquor, sales tax is placed en-
medicine. According to all the prelimi-
nary discussions of the sales tax, medicine
was to enjoy the same exemption as food
bought for home consumption. 1t should
be exempt.
Another exemption is found in the sub
committees failure to recommend an in
crease in the Federal payment. The
payment now does not represent as much
as what the Federal Government would
pay in local taxes If it were treated as
local taxpayer on its real estate. With the
local taxpayer being asked to pay increases
of nearly 20 per cent in new local taxes,
In addition to the heavy increases OF the
past few years, simple equity would require
ut least a proportionate increase in the
Federal payment Failure to recommend
this increase is disappointing and should
be reconSidered.
The subcommittee handling of the local
income tax exemption problem has been
realistic. But in deciding to exempt men,
bers of Congress the subcommittee found
It necessary to exempt the secretaries
Of members who retain legal resi-
dence in the States. The difficulty here
Ia that if secretaries of members OF Con-
sress are exempt their colleagues in the
executive departments will likewise demand
such exemption. If the subcommittee
recommendations are adhered to the
income tax would be a relatively fair one.
If, as in the past, the demand for exemp-
ton of all Federal employees who maintain
State residence is granted because some
of them are exempted, we shall have
continuation of the discriminatory tax
which makes our local income tax law in
defenstble. In that case it should be
repealed.
Evening star., 1949-03-09

offers no relief for the immediate dilemma
of the Air Force. To advise on this prob
lem and to study broadly the educational
needs of the three service branches Mr..
Forrestal has appointed board headed by
DR.. Robert L. Stearns, president of the
University of Chicago. 1t is to be hoped
that this board will find way to CO.
ordinate the academy work of the armed
forces in accord with what Mr.. Symington
aptly calls true unifcation." The spirit
of unif1cation should be inculcated in
young officers of the three services at the
academy level, not as postgraduate
after-thought.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Passing of the DC-3

American Airlines has retired almost all
its DC-3 work horses Several other big
carriers are replacing theirs by degrees.
Yet at least a thousand still travel the
skyroads in this country, and nobody
knows how many more are In harness
abroad. And for good reason.
What other clunker in its class, new or
old, has 2,500-mile range? The young
sters flying the one-way "sky train from
California to Honolulu during the war
did not believe it when the fellows who
buttoned them up with eight extra gas
tanks said: Just remember what teacher
told you, Junior, and you'll see Diamond
Head in the morning"
The Japs were skeptical, too, until the
island-hoppers arrived in force with para
troopers, gliders, air-borne units, light
bulldozers, guns, ammunition, food and
even Missouri mules. Plenty of DC-3s,
cannibalized to the last stout spar, wound
up in jungle bone yards. Others are still
island hopping.
The work horse got zebra stripes for the
cross Channel invasion. Many "stripers'
were resurrected from junk heaps last
summer to start the Berlin air lift in a
hurry This was no surprise to men who
had tied them together with baling wire
for one more "fat cat" mission to Sydney,
or free loading" run on Paris or Cairo.
The Air Force calls the plane the CAT,
the Navy the Rad, the British the
Dakota, the Russians a Soviet invention,
and the travelling public the DC-3 Even
the Greeks have q name for 1t, too
Evening star., 1949-03-09

papers," Observer would have us believe
assumptions of reasonable conduct are
plain facts. He presumes to know more
about what happened at the trials than the
free press Of the world admitted it knew.
William Pitt said, Where law ends.
tyranny begins" Tyranny" is defined by
Webster as the exercise of power over
subjects and others with rigor not author
lied by law or justice. or not requisite for
the purposes of government
To any one who has followed the course
Of European history, it ought to be obvious
that law and justice as known in truly demo-
cratic nations ended long ago in the lands
Of the Soviets. Since law and justice had
ended. the defiant citizens, in choosing to
obey God rather than men-in the form
of tyrannous, enslaving, immoral govern
ment-were doing what has been done patri-
otically before in history and what was done
by those who little less than two centuries
ago laid the groundwork for the greatest
government of free men on earth.
With those of that day, these modern
men of conscience, courage, and bravery
could well say. If this be treason, make
the most of it." FRANCIS JOSEPH,
Evening star., 1949-03-09
PointIess Discourtesy

There is no good reason for the ATTORNEY
Generals discourteouS treatment of the
District Bar Association in connection with
the nomination of Milton S. Kronheim.
junior, to the bench of the Municipal Court.
The president of the association had
requested Mr.. Clark to defer action on the
nomination until the bar could submit its
recommendations, and the associations
Committee on Judicial Selections was in
process Of polling the membership when
the nomination was announced. For the
Attorney General to have done this seems
pointlessly discourteous. He is under no
obligation, of course, to follow any recon-
mendation from the bar. II Mr.. Kron-
helms name had not been on the bars list,
Mr.. Clark and the President would have
been entirely free to nominate MIN any,
how. But to have acted in the face of the
bars request without giving that organiza-
tion an opportunity to be heard in a mat
ter in which 1t has legitimate interest
amounts to an affront which Is both dis
turbing and surprising, the more so in view
of the fact that Mr.. Clark in the past has
generally been inclined to consider the
VI Gllc legal
fraternity. Mr.. Clark says he sent the
nomination to the President on Saturday,
before receiving the request from the as
sociation. This is not impressive. The
association, as matter of respect, was
waiting until after the funeral on Satur-
day of Judge Mcmahon, whose death
created the vacancy on the court. And
the Attorney General knew, of course, that
the bar would want to be heard.
The nature of the action taken is also
regrettable in the light of the reasons to
believe that Mr. Kronheim will make
good judge. He Is a man of excellent
character and while less experienced in
the law than some other aspirants he has
shown that he is lawyer of ability and
enjoys the respect Of the other members
OF the profession. This being so, 1t Is too
bad that the nomination has been made
in circumstances that will lead many to
believe the choice was governed by some
other consideration than the merits of the
nominee
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Single Tax Philosophy

70 the Editor Of The Star:
1t would seem that the miracle victory
of our man-of they year from Missouri has
made him somewhat reckless in the matters
of getting and spending. Perhaps he needs
to be shown how much of those extra billions
he demands from the upper brackets would
sift down to the ultimate consumer mostly
in the lower brackets. Should Congress ap-
prove. this ultimate taxpayer would doubt
less be forced to take up more holes in his
belt toward collapse of the boom that looms
in the optimistic presidential eye as pros
perity.
From our squirearchial beginning as Brit
ish colonies we have been much more than
kind to the landgrabber. permitting him to
absorb all or most of the social values given
his holdings, that increase with the growth
of population and to capitalize on that
growth by pricing them far beyond their
economic value for use.
The founding fathers, mostly OF the squire
caste and avid for more Indian lands to swell
their estates had no thought of disturbing
this old-world aristocratic privilege. In
abolishing titles, some of them may have
had the naive notion that plain John
Smith in privileged possession OF many acres,
could be no such exploiter of his felloWmen
as Lord Smythe under like conditions. So.
in difference to this most ancient of easy
of nonproducers or more aptly. taxeaters,
to ferret out and appraise every last item OF
personal property bearing the mark OF labor.
including houses and other structures mis-
takenly classed as realty. as measures for
annual and other penalties to be imposed
on the possessors without distinction as to
legitimacy of their pursuits. The result,
we'll known is that all of them who can do
so shift all possible of such levies to prices
with mostly some addition for profit Such
shifting makes them virtually adjuncts to
the tax collecting machinery. But to stint
them in that role by price fixing can be no
incentive to greater production and flow OF
goods in legitimate ways.
The speculative greed that holds land be-
yond reach of slender means has large
share of responsibility for the birth and
growth of labor unionism The unions in
striving to surmount rising prices by forcing
more pay for less work. find only Illustration
in further rises to bear heavier on them than
the rest of the consuming public through
loss of employment. So We have imitation.
and the heavier the tax burden the more 1t
swells toward the bursting point.
The only reaction thus far to this Gcubly
predatory mess. public and private. has been
a rash of subsidizing and socialistic pallia-
tives of the New Deal order. that, so far from
helping the undermost to help themselves,
tend to make them more helpless and de-
pendent under increasingly heavier bI1dens
for the support of expanding powers and
functions of government.
WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Merging Commerce Functions

Drastic though the Hoover Commission S
proposed reorganization of the Department
| of Commerce may seem to be at first
| glance, closer study shows that the plan
| follows in general outline previous pro-
| posals of such agencies as the Presidents
Air Policy Commission and the Presidents
Advisory Committee on the Merchant Ma
| rine. Executive functions which logically
| should be exercised by the Commerce De-
| partment are now scattered over a dozen
different departments and independent
| Offices. Duplication of work and conflict
| in authority have been inevitable under
such confused system.
The law creating the Department of
Commerce gave it the responsibility of
supervising and promoting foreign and
| domestic commerce in general. More
specifically, it REQUIRED the department to
foster, promote and develop the
mining, manufacturing, shipping, fishery
industry and the transportation facilities
of the United States" Yet Congress
has authorized numerous encroachments
in this field by other agencies. This
is especially true with regard to trans
portation.
The Hoover Commission agrees with the
Presidents Advisory Committee on the
Merchant Marine that all executive func-
tions of the Maritime Commission should
be transferred to the Commerce Depart
ment-leaving the commission only its
quasilegislative and judicial functions.
Similarly, the Hoover group concurs with
the Air Policy Commission in the view that
the Civil Aeronautics Board should be
relieved of executive duties and left free
to concentrate on its regulatory activities.
Whereas the Air Policy Commission sug-
gested ultimate creation of a new Depart
ment of Transportation, the Hoover report
recommends establishment in the Depart
ment of Commerce of transportation
service, which would include civil aviation,
the merchant marine, highway transporta-
ton, railroads and aids to navigation.
The Coast Guard is good example of
an agency whose duties have changed to
such an extent as to warrant it's transfer
from the Treasury to the Commerce
Department. Originally charged with
enforcing the revenue laws-a logical
Treasury activity-it now devotes most of
its time to promoting safety on the seas
a logical Commerce function. The Hoover
Commission would have it join the Coast
and Geodetic Survey and the Weather
Bureau within the new transportation
service.
AS with many other Hoover Commission
proposals, there will be strong opposition
to some OF the Commerce report recon-
mendations. But the commission has
presented Congress with reasonable argu-
ments for the changes advocated. In short,
the report would do no more than
vest in the Department of Commerce the
administrative powers which Congress
apparently intended it to have in the
trade and transportation fields Unless
these powers are centralized in one de-
partment, waste and confusion are bound
to result
Evening star., 1949-03-09
An Air Force Academy?

One of the anomalies OF defense unln-
cation Is that it has brought increasing
demands for more instead OF fewer faclll-
ties for the training of officer personnel.
Although the merger law gave the Air
Force an independent status, no provision
was made for creation of separate
academy to train Air Force officers. In
stead, the Air Force continued to use West
Point as it's training school-aS ithad done
when it was part of the Army. But this
arrangement has not been wholly salts
factory-at least to the Air Force. So
Defense Secretary Forrestal has thrown
his support behind Air Force proposals for
establishment of an Air Force Academy,
on par with the Military and Naval
Academies.
Under temporary agreement which the
Air Force has with the Army and Navy,
West Point is to allocate to the Air Force
up to 40 per cent and Annapolis up to
per cent of the current graduating
classes. West Point supplied approx
mately 40 per cent of last years graduates
to the Air Force, while Annapolis supplied
none. Air Secretary Symington, in his
annual report, complained that the Air
Force still lacks an adequate supply OF
men trained as professional Air Force
officers from the beginning of their col
lege careers" He said that in an effort
to promote true unihcation," he had pro-
posed that hereafter the Air Force should
receive one-third of its regular second
lieutenants from West Point, one-third
from Annapolis and thes remainder from
ROTC units in civilian colleges Unless
such a system is instituted, he said, the
Air Force probably will have to establish
its own academy.
Apparently the Symington proposal for
q regular supply of West Point and An
napolis graduates was not we'll received
by the Army and Navy. MIR. Forrestal said
the present temporary arrangement does
not furnish the basis for permanent So
luton To keep the Air Force supplied
with all the academy-trained officers it
will need in the future, the Defense Secre-
tary said, would require expansion of the
present Army and Navy training facilities.
Substantial expansion of the two existing
service academies is not feasible because
of physical limitations of the plants, he
announced. He therefore believes that the
only satisfactory solution is to build
separate academy for the air arm.
But that is long-range solution that