Evening star., 1949-01-06
Imagination and Contentmen,


To the Editor Of The Star:
Reading the letter Of Mrs Naomi Jones In
your issue Of December a. 1t Is necessary
to have Imagination to understand the full
meaning Of the story Of the family in the
OZarks.
Humanity today In its mad rush for wealth,
power and fame bypasses q life that could
have much contentment and happiness on this
beautiful earth that our Creator has given
us to live on and enjoy.
Only death can relieve the Ill and wretched
bodies Of many men and women who have
suffered the major parts Of their lives to
gain power and fame and o few man-made
fancies.
How long will the human race exist, If
men and nations continue this mad rush for
power and wealth?
About the year 1915 I read poem in The
Sunday Star Magazine entitled Give Up
Some Of the Necessities Of Life and Have
Some Of the Luxuries Of Life" The advice
given in this poem, which I have put into
practice since reading 1t, has paid big dividends
ROBERT e. DORE.
Determination Against German DPS
TO the Editor Of The Star:
Last week Lowell Mellett took US for an
other ride. No wonder that one gets dizzy
about DPS
As secretary Of the Committee for Christian
Action in Central Europe, have assisted in
bringing displaced persons of various nationali-
ties to relatives and jobs in our area. So, on
larger SCALE has the American Friends Service
Committee. Our own supporters ask why their
displaced relatives requirements met and fares
often advanced, are kept out. Non-Germanic
DPS even get free ocean passage. These are
not victims of racial discrimination either by
the IRO, the State Department, the DIP Com
mission or by the DIP Act ITSELF And they
are not our real concern.
Our present effort is to have the truth told
about this DIP law and the way it is executed
or sabotaged In June we called attention of
Congress to a brazen discrimination against
all persons of German ethnic origin which Mr.
Mellett's pet lobby, spending $685. 900 in year,
schemed to put over as law. We were asked
not to block the partly meritorious bill en-
tirely, but to work for LANCER compromise
amendments. These allotted half the 273OO
German Austrian quota to the hushed-up sur
vivors Of 16,000,00 souls whom Stain and
Truman at Potsdam quietly had doomed to
expulsion from their eastward homelands. This
sharing Of quotas met no opposition from citi-
zens whose German relatives might be delayed
in favor Of victims of ''the most unhuman de-
cision ever made by governments dedicated to
the defense Of human rights" Congress readily
passed the amendments.
But the lobby, some honest and disguised
supporters dissenting, felt that the expelled
DPS had not suffered enough for the crime of
remote Germanic origin. Six million had died
during the expulsionS or met a fate In forced
labor camps behind the curtain. Ten million
reached the new borders Of a starving Ger
many, Truman directive granting German
nationality with full rights" and Clay adding,
ito make their way as best they can" They
and not the chosen DPS were herded behind
the barbed-wire camps-if lucky. Mr.. Melletts
story was denied by Gen. Eisenhower three
years ago. It was the expellees trek and
misery and garbage roofing, In the few pictures
ever made of them, which were passed of to
us as movies of DIP conditions This in spite
of Gen. Eisenhower's word that our so-called
scandalous treatment of DPS, of which Earl
Harrison complained, included double the food
ration of the working population, free cigar
ettes shoes, clothes, medical care and adequate
living quarters. Meanwhile, expellees got not
q crumb Of UNRRA relief, although their un-
suspecting relatives here were taxed to pay its
$2,000,000,000 cost They again were barred as
persons of German ethnic origin" by IRO
In its Annex clause. This, Senator Wherry
charged, would exclude every one Of the $500
German nationals whom we liberated at Buch-
enwald.
ALI this did not satisfy the bigoted mem
bers Of the lobby. Upon passage of our amend
ments Earl Harrison ragged at "Volksdeutsche,
the insidious Nazi fifth column" Representa-
tive Emanuel Celler, on the final Friday, moved
to kill the bill in committee; and Bnai Birth
demanded a veto. We heard of boasts that
'1aw or no law" our people would not come in
No one expellee authorized by Sec. u has yet
come in. Even the immigration of German