Evening star., 1949-07-13
Daily Collection of Garbage
Advocated as "Clean Up"

Daily Collection of Garbage
Advocated as 'Clean Up"
To the Editor Of The Star:
Collection Of garbage twice a week is not
enough. 1t should be collected every iay
from the first of May until the first of
October every year. Why not ask for ap-
preparations to take care of the garbage
collections? Put some of these unemployed
people to work, and clean up this filthy
condition that now exists around garbage
cans.
Our District officials should ask for APP
preparations to collect garbage every day
in summer and for more inspectors I am
sure we citizens could help the District Of
hcials to get the appropriations they need
for garbage collection. They are doing all
they can with so little money for trucks and
help. This is dangerous, filthy condition
in our Nations Capital
MRS. B. G. McnWEE.
Summer Camp Program
OF Recreation Department Commended
To the Editor Of The Star:
vote Of thanks Is due the District Rec
reation Department for its fine summer
camp program.
The children have been having a fine
time; mothers. too. knowing their young ones
are supervised by trained and responsible
staff.
I hope this program can be continued and
that in the future years children can spend
more than two weeks SO happily occupied.
Hail, Fort Dupont Camp! M b K,
Differs With Columnist Brown
On Naturalization in Britain
To the Editor of The Star:
After reading Constantine Browns COL
umnS of July and 7, cannot help wonder
Ing whether this gentleman is paid by The
Star or by the National Association of
Manufacturers. Mr.. Browns explanation of
Br1tain's economic predicament reads like
something written by vintage Tory of the
10th century. It is because of such anti
quated writing and thinking that all through
Western Europe one hears over and over
again the cliche, In industrial development
America is generation ahead of the world,
in political and social progress a generation
behind"
To take one example from Mr.. Browns
naive analysis: He lays the blame for the
much lower per capita production of coal in
Britain upon state paternalism'' This is
rather pitiable. One would think that by
this time every literate American who ex-
tends his or her reading beyond the Luce
publications and the popular Republican
weeklies would know that the reason for the
deplorable condition of the Britain coal
mines is that under private ownership no
attempt was made to introduce new methods
OF mining. The Tory Party itself has stated
that If returned to power it will leave the
mines under national ownership. 1t is hard
to understand by what cock-eyed reasoning
Mr.. Brown finds the Labor government re-
sponsible for shortcomings inherited from
good old free enterprise.
Mr.. Brown goes on to say, "a similar stu
alton exists in many other fields" You bet
1t does, if by similar situation" he means
lnehcient means of production, and for the
same reason-self1Sh, Short-Sighted owners.
But the most dangerous implication in Mr..
Browns maunderings is that almost all
British industry has been nationalized.
Where does he get this stuff? Does he never
talk to other journalists who have visited
Britain and know the score? The only other
industries I can think of which have been
nationalized are civil aviation, transport and
gas and power. There is no clamor for
naturalization of such industries as the
automotive and textile, and there are good
many men IN the Labor Party who are
opposed to the pending measure for nation
alization of steel.
Just before the 1945 British election, was
talking with tolerant old Conservative in
London pub. He said "Old boy, if your
sympathies are really with the Labor Party,
you will pray that they will lose this elec-
ton. Whoever gets in, the country is going
to suffer such privations in the next five
years that that party will be blamed for it,
The plain fact is that in order to win the
war we had to spend every penny we'd saved,
and now. in spite of your help, we're just
about broke.
That's about the size of it. When you're
almost broke, you plan and budget: The cut
throat laissez faire system will work only in
such countries as the United States and
Canada, blessed with enormous natural
wealth.
AS for Mr.. Browns croakings about
dictator-well, such an idea is ridiculous to
any one who knows the British people,
people whose most outstanding and char
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