Evening star., 1949-01-20
Britain Criticized Again

To the Editor OF The Star
Regarding the sanctity of treaties which
Constantine Brown and Dorothy Thompson,
contrary to the facts, say Britain upholds:
Before Mr.. Brown perverted the facts, your
paper published an interview with British
flyer who admitted being shot down over Israel.
It should be remembered that Great Britain
was one Of the nations which carved Palestine
and the Arab states out OF the Turkish En-
pire and guaranteed their borders, and that
Britain reneged on its solemn obligations to
the Jews when it illegally tore Trans-Jordan
from the rest of Palestine
Britain never stopped supplying her Arab
stooges with arms while the United States
kept an arms embargo against Israel.
On January ., WMAL reported a shpload of
United States arms to the Arabs. The Deem
Der rs issue of the New Leader said that Arab
refugees left their homes at British orders for
the resultant anti-Jewish effect on the world.
perpetuated = reign of terror against its
$4,000 citizens of the Jewish faith.
The small countries of Western Europe must
remember how Britain kept its solemn obliga-
tions to Czechoslovakia when that state was
in need. JENNIE OKUM.
Lost Social Security Payments
To the Editor of The Star
For period of two years while I was work.
ing in private industry, regular deductions
were made from my salary to provide for
social security.
More recently have been q Government
worker under civil service.
I now am informed by social security per-
sonnel that have forfeited all money de-
Quoted from my salary for social security,
because my total period of employment was
less than the minimum six years required by
law.
Two other men in our office tell me that they
are in q like predicament and stand to lose
between $500 and $500 each.
Can 1t be possible that money deliberately
has been conf1scated from private citizens by
the Government with no possible recourse on
their part If 50. what kind of security is
this9 JOHN L. SW1NNERTON.
Oleo Replies to Butter
To the Editor Of The Star:
The anxiety to protect consumers evident in
Butter 1ndustry's Views on Oleo" deter to
The Star of January ID would be pathetic
were 1t not so comical
BY cunning confusion OF fact and inference
characteristic of advocates, the impression is
left that since the color of product causes
deception despite the label, the sale Of artih-
cially colored foods in general is forbidden py
laws and courts, and hence the sale of yellow
oleo should not be permitted No mention is
made OF the many artiicially colored foods
that are legally sold to the public. Artificially
colored butter and oleo also are regularly sold.
So there is only limited prohibition of artif-
cially colored foods.
The whole argument of the article rests on
the false assumption that oleo is inferior to
butter, which for many years was q popular
impression, and long ago probably based on
fact but now fast being dispelled by more re-
cent knowledge.
Item !. Dietitians and physioloeists have dis
covered that oleo is in no respect inferior in
food value to butter.
Item 2. Oleo is superior to butter in resisting
temperature change. Butter at room tempera-
ture on q hot day separates into curd and
liquid fat; whereas oleo on the same table re-
mains solid.
Item g. Unrefrigerated butter soon becomes
rancid Only the freshest butter Is free from
some degree Of rancid taste. Oleo under the