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Evening star., 1949-04-25
This Changing World
Macarthur Steps Up Security Methods
In japan After Chinese Red Victories

in fact, on q sort Of dole from the
United States. Unless there can
be free exchange Of goods between
Chinese and Japanese economies.
the chances Of changing this situ-
alton are very slim.
From experience We must have
learned that Russia does not per
NIT any kind Of intercourse be-
tween countries she dominates
and the Western world or nations
which are attempting to follow the
political and economic pattern OF
the West.
The most conservative japanese
industrialists and businessmen
now admit privately that. since
China is going to be dominated
by the U. s. s. R., there can be
no salvation for Japan but joining
that growing Red power. even II
1T means that they themselves
have to be sacrificed.
Victory Il Factor.
What makes the situation i'm
mediately critical is the most
recent victory Of the Red armies
and the huIniliations suffered by
conquerors Of Japan at the hands
of Red forces which 18 months
ago were only guerrilla bands.
Both these factors have rendered
the work of Communist agitators
much easier and more productive.
For nearly IL months Russia
has been sending selected Japa-
riese prisoners, one-time members
of the Kwantung army, back to
Japan after thorough indoctrina-
ton courses in Siberia. These men
have returned to their native
provinces and have become Mos
cows ardent spokesmen.
SO long as the Chinese Reds
made little headway in their ac-
ton against the allegedly Ameri-
can-supported Nationalist govern
ment their progress was slow in
Japan. But now that their previ-
GUS local successes have become
spectacular major victories. the
agents Of Moscow are finding
many more willing listeners than
heretofore.
Under these conditions there is
a real threat that within q short
time q powerful underground
movement may be organized in
Japan and Korea. and q situation
may arise IN which American
forces may have to act.
At the present time American
forces in Japan are sufncient to
maintain order. But If the move
ment becomes mass rebellion a
grave situation would result.
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a long way, planting many i'm
portant milestones en- route. But
he suggests also that much re-
mains to be done until the new
courts philosophy is consistently
applied to the whole body OF its
doctrine. =.
Broadly speaking the new court
has been strengthening the Gov
ernments power to correct the
economic and social Ills OF mod
ern life. In doing It,. the justice
said, it has rejected the often
vigorous contention that Congress
ought to correct mistakes that
the court has created and also
the view that the silence OF Con-
gress on court doctrine gives con-
sent to that doctrine.
Change in Roosevelt's Time.
Justice Douglas began by sup
porting. in effect, the old Roose-
velt horse and buggy indictment
of the courts thinking prior, TO
the New Deal. In those days. he
said, constitutional decisions
rested at the level Of the economic
and social principles that pre-
vailed, in the period between 1850
and 1890 when unbridled indus
trialism was at It's height. That
level. itself. he contended, repre-
sented a reversal of court prece-
dents obtained prior to 1860.
But in the period from 1897,
when the Roosevelt influence be-
gan TO be felt. until the present
the court in 80 cases has over
ruled earlier decisions. In 81 OF
these, the reversals were on con-
stitutlonal grounds. In the great
majority. those cases overruled
had been decided only within the
previous 20 years.
OF the 80 cases, the largest
group-eight-related to the tax
ing power. Others enlarged the
regulatory power Of the States in
economic affairs. A judicially
created restraint on the power OF
Congress over commerce was re-
moved. Civil liberties. admiralty
law. divorce and naturalization
are also included among the
court induced changes.
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nlZeu tll6 COIl~
troyersial nature of health insur-
ance, conceding there are differ
ences about details Of the pro-
gram, but said these differences
should be threshed out with hon.
.esty and tolerance in the demo-
cratic fashion and that I'VE should
enact the best possible program
and then all of us should get be-
hind 1t to make 1t work"
His conciliatory approach should
mislead no one, however. about
the Presidents absolute sincerity
and. determination on this issue.
Those who know the man in the
White House; who has such a close
understanding Of the day-by-day
problems Of our people. know that
to him this is one Of the achieve
ments he hopes confidently to
leave on his record for history.
along with the civil rights pro-
gram. He is very much in earnest
and he will be found fighting for
lit in his characteristic. straight
forward way, buoyed by the con-
viction that q majority Of the
people In the country support him
on health insurance despite the
expensive and deceptive propa-
ganda that has been going on
at high pitch for months.
Public Support Awaited.
He can afford to wait until the
public reacts behind his program
as it reacted behind him in the
last election. It surely viii even
tually because Of some very plain
facts that the President recited
| to Congress, among them:
"As medical education and prac-
tice have become better, they
have become more specialized
and at the same time more ex-
pensiye. AS treatment has become
more expensive. families have
found 1t more and more difficult
to meet the extraordinary costs
Of accident. serious illness or major
surgery. Thus, at the same time
that our knowledge of how te
provide medical care Is at its high
| est point, more and more people
are unable to afford 1t.
'It is no longer just the poor
who are unable to pay for all the
medical care they need-such care
| is now beyond the means Of aH
but the upper income groups"
That last sentence should be
underlined. The truth Of it Is
known to any one who sits about
with his friends talking about the
Presidents health insurance pro-
posal, and that Is going on al
over the country today. There
tine personal experience stories Of
families gradually come out. and
there always Is the fear expressed
In such words Is these:
81 don't know. what we'd dc
II there were q major illness OF
operation In our family today
And this is not from so-called
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reSs report on
how far the Su-
preme Court
has come since
its horse and
buggy stage
against which
P re s / d e n t
Franklin Roose-
velt inveighed.
Divorced from
footnotes ana
legal verbiage,
the Justices
verdict seems
to be that the
an,1rf haS come
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compete OloAA
tegration of the remaining Ma
ltionalist armies and the flight OF
high army and civilian oniciai'
the Nanking government.
Since the summer Of 1916, when
Washington adopted its "do-noth-
| ing" policy with respect to the Chi
nese Nationalists' arms needs
Gen. Macarthur has been re-
porting regularly to Washington
about the ultimate effect OF the
Nationalist collapse on, the situa-
ton in Japan.
The Allied Supreme Commander
who is recognized even by his bit
terest critics as the foremost mill
ttary man in our times. has warned
| In lengthy dispatches to his su-
periors in Washington that the
seizure of the Chinese coast by the
IRussian-dominated Communists
was bound to make the job OF ao-
ministering Japan very dificult.
Recovery Necessary.
He has pointed out repeatedly
that Japan can hope to become
a. useful member in the commu-
nifty of nations only If it can get
back on its feet politically and
economically. And Japan, he adds
must Of necessity rely on the raw
materials and markets Of q free
China.
Gen. Macarthur has advised
Washington in his reports, and
told those who saw him In Tokyo
that II both Manchuria, with its
vast resources. and the Chinese
coast fell under U. 8. s. r. domi-
nation. Japan eventually will be
compelled to enter the Red orbit
Japan's economy has improved
on the surface, but that country
and its $4,000, 900 inhabitants are
Evening star., 1949-04-25

IL there Il a.
ways that mo-
mentary b o p z
that Il viii read
something like
this.
Dear Mr..
II c J. c N ore
Naturally you
W o Mt remem-
Der me. ut
many years aso
when you were
an usher at the
Biiou Theater
you were very
rtrA III an NtH
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there by the re-
newed offensive
of the Chinese
r ed armies,
which are ex-
pected now to
aim not only at
Shanghai b u t
much farther
south; by the
Amethyst Incl
dent and the
failure Of the
British warships
to rescue its
crew; by the
zlG
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Iitow ould b e
| a m on g tn e
Lit e m s. missing
| when the legis-
lative record Of
t h Is session is
closed. -
As. q matter
of ia t, the
President him.
self anticipated
Sucn a G n ] lty
re ion by
the conciliatory,
tone Of his mes
sage. He recog-
3~~L 49,. 1850
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Mclemore
Still Volts for Letter
Telling Him He's Rich
By Hs~ry MeLrmess

Like erery one else ] surely Do
like 10 ret etferx When ! open
a letter In . strange handwriting
with a .strnnKe return address or
Evening star., 1949-04-25
By Constantine Brown

Gen. Macarthur has begun TO
accelerate security measures in
Japan.
A new tension has been created
Evening star., 1949-04-25
By Thomas l.. Stokes

As had been forecast. President
Truman's health insurance pro-
posal to Congress was met with
the, pessimistic' response that
Evening star., 1949-04-25
By Doris Fieeson

In q recent highly technical
lecture delivered to lawyers, AS
sociate Justice Douglas has
wrapped up an interesting prog
Evening star., 1949-04-25
Am | glad | tried it,"
says Mrs. Clarence Frock

Nothing could change me
from my old wax til | saw
what . little Cellowax did for
my own living room and
kitchen hoors. Now arm l glad
/ tried it. l like Cellowax
better than anything I've
ever used. II dr,es quicker than
any I've tricd. Leaves q 6ns
lustre right away and it ssays
on lots longer. Sure keeps the
aheen. l notice that especially
with the children. With three
boys I used to have TO wax my
doors about every week. Now
they don't need waxing for
twice n long"
Evening star., 1949-04-25

THE EVENING STAR Washington. p { Al
as&4 a3s
Evening star., 1949-04-25

phAn~, And ~ easily i,ast
possr . beautiful hoos. Try Q
can and ~se how different il 10
from your old waK. How much
higher gloss Cellowax gives ~-
how much longer lasting II
you're not delighted and es-
cited over the nsse glamour Of
your hoor, Cellowax guar.
sntees return of your full psar-
chase prioel
Evening star., 1949-04-25

It's true! New High Clos
CELLOWAx makes floors
sparkle ~ il wrapped in Gallo
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I'd Student Tackles High School Despite Lack Of SghtSong Glass;

Ienough students to justify setting
up a special class.
Some Use. Maryland School.
Some students with sight difn'
culties, however. are sent to thu
Maryland School for the Blind, al
Overlea, Md, for high school in
struction under a contractual ar
rangement between the District
and the school, she said.
At the school near Baltimore
some students are sent to regular
classes in city schools, but return
to the special school, where they
live, for further instruction IN the
evenings.
Up to the high school level, Miss
Taylor said, she feels the sight
saving classes are adequate in the
District program. Two Of the
special classes. for elementary stu
dents, are at Bancroft. where
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There are no such classes at
high schools here.
His teacher at Langley Junior
High School said Alec was bril-
liant student. He has q retentive
memory which offsets much of his
sight failure. His sensitive touch
is attested to by the radio sets he
works on in a basement room
Within a few years. he hopes to
qualify as a ham" broadcaster.
Scientist Offers to Help.
One of the brightest events in
Alec's life was the recent offer of
a young Washington scientist to
help Alec with his school work
three evenings a week. Alec is
especially pleased because of his
interest in science.
At Washington and Lee High
School In Arlington, Alec will be
studying biology. Spanish, plane
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
Music Will Be Given
New Emphasis in
Schools This Year
By james G. 1eale

A move to give music a larger
place in the curriculum of Wash
ington's public schools will be
launched by school officials this
fall.
Branded by one authority as a
"stepchild, music in the present
curriculum is an admitted weak
spot. especially on the elementary
level, where educators agree it
counts most.
AS a first step on the elemen-
tary level, officials have disclosed
plan to start several CONSOLE
dated grade-school bands, organ
lied in different parts of the city
to draw children from surrounding
schools. Four or five of these bands
they hope. will get under way dur
ing the fall term.
Only 70 Teach Music.
To explain present shortcom-
ings, school officials point first to
simple statistics. For the school
systems 10000 pupils there are
some 1850 teachers. But only 10
of them teach music, and most of
these are assigned to the junior
and senior high schools.
Only 10 itinerant music teachers
are available to give nearly 10000
elementary school children the all
important early experience they
need if music is to be of maximum
value to them in later life.
This means, in most of the city's
grade schools, that the children
for their first six years of educa-
ton get only 20 minutes to half
an hour of formal music instruc-
ton per month. In the colored
elementary schools they get no
direct instruction by a trained
music teacher at all - the three
teachers must devote full time to
coaching regular classroom teach
ers as their substitutes.
There are a dozen instrumental
instructors who spread their time
over all the schools-elementary,
Junior and senior high. But here,
too, the staff is insufficient, &C
cording to responsible administra-
tors.
Shortage Insoluble Now.
The teacher shortage is at pres
emit insoluble, according to DR..
Carl F. Hansen, associate super
intendent in charge of elementary
schools. Hundreds of oversize
regular classes, rejecting. the
shortage of regular teachers, must
be cut down before more music
(See DEANE, Page E-7.)
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geometry, English and music ap-
probation. Il
Arrangements have been made
for him to sit up close, but he has
some apprehension about the size
Of the blackboards unless the
teacher writes awfully large"
Arlington school officials said
arrangements are being made this
year for the first time to begin
a sightseeing class in an ele-
mentary school, if there is enough
need for it. Details, with the
help of the Lions Club, are still to
be worked out, but officials hope
the program can get under way
this autumn.
In the District, where a program
has been in effect for years, sight
saving classes do not extend to
high schools. Miss Bertha Taylor.
in charge of special instruction
classes, said there has never been
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ton, the lanky. 14-year-old moves
up and downstairs at "breakneck
speed. He also rides a bike in
safe areas. ss
Type Is Only . Black Line.
But rows of type in a textbook
are just "tiny black lines" Even
with his plastic" a powerful
maginfying lens. following printed
words, letter by letter, is q slow,
tedious process.
The reason high school is a
landmark in Alec's life is that in
District elementary and junior
high schools, he was enrolled In
special sightseeing classes. There.
trained teachers gave him special
aid. There were books with huge
type. special maps and adjustable
desks, large blackboard chalk and
instruction was geared to his prog
ress.
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Productions Tripled.

| braille instruction is given, and al
Tyler. The Langley class serves
Junior high students.
A greater problem at times, Miss
Taylor said, has been the difficulty
of locating students with sight de-
fleets who could benefit from spe-
cial classes.
There would be no difficulty in
spotting a pupil like Alec. Miss
Taylor said, "but borderline cases
which might really need help are
more easily missed"
An opthamologist for the benefit
of school children now is on duty
two and a half days week at an
eye clinic at Is D street NV.
But the initial responsibility for
spotting faulty vision falls on
teachers, Miss Taylor said. It's
up to the teachers to refer such
children to one of the 80 school
medical inspectors. who refer them
to the opthamologist. II necessary.
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By GEORGE Beveridqe

Like thousands OF other Wash
ington area high school fresh
men this month, Alec Hamilton
gtahers his armful of books every
morning and boards a bus to
school.
But unlike his classmates. he
gets his knowledge from the books
by hearing them read to him.
Alec was born with cataracts on
both eyes. Five times surgeons
have done what they could to COR
rect the defect. But even through
his thick-lensed glasses his vision
is only 22/200th. That means
With normal vision.
It means that Alec can dis
singuish large objects: he can see
to get around. In the familiar
rooms of his home at 4664-A
Thirty-sixth street, South Airing
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seems to be almost a reallty.
School officials said bids for the
construction of this $3,600,000
structure at Twenty-fourth street
and Benning road. NE. probably
will be asked this month.
Bids for the new Oxon Run
Elementary School, Third street
and Mississippi avenue Sc, are
being received at present. The
school should cost about 1925 900.
Another construction job expected
to be advertised for bids this
month is the $270,000 addition to
the Banneker Junior High School.
Six Other Projects Listed.
The six projects which are we'll
under way-but will not be ready
for use this fall-follow:
Sousa Junior High School.
Thirty fourth street and Ana
costa road Sc. cost $1,688. 900.
about SIS per cent completed, ex-
pected to be ready in April.
Addition to the Beers Elemen-
tary School. Alabama avenue and
Thirty sixth place Sc, cost $433,-
220, about 70 per cent completed,
expected to be ready in December.
Nalle Elementary School, Fiji
tieth and c streets Sc, cost $697,-
400, about As per cent completed,
ready in February.
New Birney Elementary School,
Nichols avenue and Howard street
Sc, cost $4,000, about So per
cent completed. ready in January.
New Walker-Jones Elementary
School, Third and K streets NV,
cost $647 1875 about 20 per cent
completed, 4dy In April.
New Stanton Elementary School,
Naylor road and Alabama avenue
Sc, cost $624,982, about Is per
cent completed. ready in June.
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Three District School Projects
ToBe Readyfor Use Tomorrow

Public school construction is
booming in the District, with
three projects completed in the
summer ready for use tomorrow,
three others expected to be fin
ished in october and six more
we'll under way.
The cost of these II projects
will total more than $8,974,000
When students report to classes
at the Kimball Elementary
School, Minnesota avenue and Ely
place Sc. they will find $480,-
900 addition ready. At Taft
Junior High School, Eighteenth
and Perry streets NE, an
$822,574 addition has been COM
pleted. The new Tyler Elementary
School, Eleventh and G streets
Sc, finished earlier in the sum-
mer at a cost of $641, 500, also is
ready for occupancy.
School officials expect to move
into the new Kelly Miller Junior
High School. Forty-ninth street
and Washington place NE, some
time in late October.
Temporary Use to End.
When Kelly Miller is opened
the temporary use of four ele-
mentary schools for the overflow
junior high school students in
that area will be discontinued.
The new Montgomery Elemen-
tary School. New Jersey avenue
and P street NV, also will be
completed in October. The total
cost will be $537 ,889. The third
project to be finished next month
is the alteration of the Patterson
Elementary Schools assembly hall.
The much delayed Spingarn
High School for colored students
in Northeast Washington also
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Attendance Of 1880
indicated as Area
Schools Open Doors
By Robert c. RoIIinqs

Total public school enrolment
in Maryland and Virginia areas
adjacent to Washington will rise
to $500 tomorrow when classes
resume in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
Already in session are schools
in Alexandria. Arlington, Fairfax
land Falls Church on the Virginia
side of the Potomac. With an en-
|rollment approaching $500. the
Virginia areas have about $500
more pupils than entered last
term.
The increase tomorrow, when
1.-THE two Maryland counties start
the 1919 term. is expected to be in
the neighborhood of $500. Prince
Georges County expects $4,000
children. $500 more than last
year, and Montgomery anticipates
ian enrolment Of $4,000, an in
crease of 5000 students. .
With the largest enrolment in
1.-THE nearby Maryland and Virginia
areas, Prince Georges will use 20
war surplus metal buildings to
help take care of the record
classes. The surplus buildings will
be at II schools and will provide
a total of So classrooms and two
shop buildings.
Teachers Increased by IS.
In addition, Prince Georges will
use for the first time the new
junior senior high school at Oxon
Hill; a new vocational training
school at Bladensburg. and addi-
lions OF five rooms at the Ager
Road and District Heights Ele-
mentary Schools, four rooms at
Suitland Elementary and two
rooms at the Oxon Hill Elemen-
tary School for Negroes.
Eighty-f1ve more teachers than
were employed last year, total of
921, will be on hand to instruct in
Prince Georges.
While Montgomery County will
use no temporary buildings, there
is a possibility of double shifts
for the lower grades only at Oak
View and Somerset Elementary
Schools, officials said.
Montgomery's 81 schools include
one new one-the 10-room Forest
Grove Elementary School. Also
ready for use are four-room addi-
lions at Pleasant View and Sher-
wood Elementary Schools and an
eight-classroom. gymnasium and
library addition at Takoma Park
Junior High.
In Virginia, Arlington reported
the largest increase in pupils when
schools opened last week, although
the Fairfax figure was not far
below.
Arlington Rolls Rise by $500.
With $4,000 pupils, the Airing
ton rolls contain about 1900 more
names than they did in September,
1913. Fairfax reported 1880, an
increase of about 1900.
Alexandria attendance is up
about 400 over last year, with a
total of 5000 entered.
Falls Church, a separate school
district for the first time since
1912, has $50 pupils in the Madi-
son School and the annex, the
See NEARBY SCHOOLS, P. E-8D