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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-06
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MT. and Mrs. c. R. Harrison and Oliver A. Colby of Sitka are guests at the Gastineau.
Evening star., 1949-11-09

circling trafic of private planes which
might be diverted to other landing fields
The association contends that regularly
scheduled airline traffic should be given
priority in the use of such busy terminals
as the one across the river.
And the prospect is that the National
Airport will become buster and more con-
gested until an alternate or secondary
airport is established somewhere in the
area. Until this long range relief meas
ure comes into being, the present airport
should be placed under strict regulations
as to the type of planes permitted to use it..
Military aircraft certainly should be ex-
cluded for there are military fields where
such planes can land and take off con-
veniently. And all other non-airline traf-
fic should be routed to other fields in the
vicinity whenever possible. These are
emergency precautions which are only
reasonable in the light of the tragedy last
week.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Substitution

When you pulled on your helmet blus
(The shade aUas most becoming, tooD 81
And dashed across the field,
But then, I'd haze you understand,
My heart outblared the college band,
Though loud its trumpets pealed!
And ,phen you thre,o their quarterback
THE ,Dtole BoiDl echoed tDith the smackU
Ten yards behind the line, 4s
Then died my gods of stage and screen o..
You Uere nay paragon, mean,
Too utterly diUine! ~
But ,uhen you missed that and d-aronnd
While sprawHng helpless on the ground
(Sonae small frv took you outtJ
Then let their center block tsDo kicks
(Was he their center, Number ST.,
felt a little doubt
And when you dropped that touchdown
heaUe,
-A pertect pass, zoe all belieUe-
Our one remaining chance
The spell aoas broken-and k'aetD
The gIee club man wlo took me t0hsJ
tn game auns Ny Romance!
HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Letters to The Star
Exonerates Ex-President Hoover Of Blame
For Bonus Army "Plot"

Exonerates Ex-President Hoover Of Blame
For Bonus Army "Plot"
To the Editor Of The star
Gen. Patrick Hurley recently gave the lie
to those who insist on blackening former
President Hoover's character in connection
with the bonus army" episode of some II
years ago.
"underdog," Mr.. Hoover was such one. He
stood almost alone during the dark days Of
the depression. The victim of the vile bonus
army plot, he had no powerful veterans
organizations to fight for him; the minds of
the veterans had been poisoned against him.
The power Of the press did not rally to his
defense. Slanderously branded "a tool Of
Wall Street." neither big business nor labor
gave him support. A Quaker, he had no in
fuential religious groups to give him moral
aid and comfort. Nor were there any great
fraternal organizations to stand behind him.
Only few staunch friends, his faith in
God, and honesty and integrity that were
indestructible sustained him In his hour of
trial. But he never despaired. He was
greater in defeat than any conquering hero
at the peak Of his power.
Regarding the bonus army affair, Mr.
Hoover handled that situation in the most
humane way possible. won't go into the
details, because have written on the sub
ject repeatedly. only add that it is disgust
ing to hear the voices of politicians repeat
that slander in every election campaign.
w. B. COVERT.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Fair Deal Triumph

There may be significant aspects of the
New York election which do not appear on
the face of the returns. If SO, they can
be weighed and balanced some other. day.
The important thing, for the moment. is
that Mr.. Truman's Fair Deal has survived
a critical test at the polls.
The margin of victory certainly was not
overwhelming On the basis of a count
nearly completed, former Governor Leh-
man had 2,565,0O votes to 2,357, 900 for
Senator Dulles. In appraising this. it is
necessary to consider the tendency toward
machine and bloc voting in New York City,
which gave Governor Lehman majority
OF better than 100000 votes. In the light
of this, there should be some caution in
interpreting the Statewide result as a
true indication of national sentiment
The fact remains, however, that the
victory will be heartening one for the
Truman Democrats. In this race the voters
had a choice between two exceptionally
able candidates. And the main issue was
Squarely drawn. Governor Lehman
pumped for the Fair Deal without res
ervation. Senator Dulles charged that
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lead to "statism" and an all-powerful
central Government, maintained at the
expense of the liberty of the people. On
the basis of the New York results, the
people will accept big Government" and
take their chances on loss of liberty
Where does this leave the Republicans?
Their defeat in one national election after
another has been blamed ON "me-too"
campaigns-on tendency to embrace the
Democratic program, but promising to
administer it better. Now the admins
tration policies have been squarely chal-
lenged and the Republican candidate
emerges the loser. There must be many
strategist in the COP high command
who today is asking himself: Where do
we 60 from here?
Evening star., 1949-11-09
ArIinqton Bourd Upset

Robert w. CoX's victory over Basil M
De Lashmutt in the Arlington County
Board election contest is symbolic of the
growing strength in Arlington Of new class
Of voters in an era which comedies with
the tremendous influx of new residents
across the river during and since World
War II. These newcomers have brought
new problems to the county-overcrowded
schools and overburdened public services
and new demands for costly improvements
These demands. in turn, have brought con-
hict between those who favor greater
spending now and those who, contem
plating heavier and heavier tax burdens,
favor a go-slow policy, keyed realistically
to the county's revenue capacities.
The election of Mr. Cox means that the
newer group of independent voters finally
has gained control in county govern
mental affairs. Mr.. De Lashmutt was the
old-line Democratic Party nominee, backed
by the powerful Democratic organization.
He called Mr.. Cox the "high tax" nominee.
Mr.. De Lashmutt's opponents, on the other
hand, criticized him for casting what was
In effect the deciding vote in the County
Board against the full budget asked by the
new School Board. The School Board,
itself creation of the Independent voters,
was given 4783 per cent of the total tax
dollar, but wanted higher tax rate than
the County Board allowed. Failing to
obtain what they wanted, the progress
sives" lined up solidly against Mr.. De Lash
mutt and for Mr.. Cox
The new County Board lineup gives the
independent voters of Arlington three
to-two advantage over the proceed-with-
caution faction. But the Old Guard or
ganization in Arlington was able to hold
out against the Independent vote in the
other contests yesterday. Overwhelming
majorities were registered for Governor
Battle and the two other Democratic NOM
inees for State executive posts, and
incumbent Democratic Delegates Damn
and Magruder were reelected by safe
margins. 1t was only in the purely local
governmental arena that the independents
were successful. How permanent their
control over county management will
prove to be will depend on how wisely
they use their new-found powers.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Pay Tables Not Simplified
According To This Reader

So they were going to simplify the Govern
ment pay tables. simply consolidate and
equalize. or so I read in the papers.
Simplify? Wow! Brother, I used to be
able to tell what to expect in my next pay
check when a raise was due. but I'll be a
double -jointed pecker wood if I can now
and I'll bet you can't either
Look at that G. A. o. table you published
October 81. We. are told to find our old
rate In the first column and see the new
rate in the next column. Wow again!
had rate of 4855.S0. so find it in the first
column, and what is in the next column?
Why, find that I'll get 1850 or 4975 or
5000. Now can you tell me which?
All of the old rates were contained on one
sheet Of paper. learn it takes 16 sheets to
contain the new rates. That's what the
printing Office says. Simplif1ed. my eye.
j. A. p.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Catholic JUDGES

Neither the news reports OF the Pope S
admonltion to Catholic judges nor the
interpretations offered by Catholic spokes-
men in this country convey clear picture
of the significance of his remarks. Yet the
address, made to an assembly of Catholic
lawyers in Rome, is in need of Qualification.
And unless this is forthcoming there will
survive an impression, quite probably un-
warranted, that the Catholic Church asserts
kind of veto power over any law, accord
ing to It's concept OF what is just and un-
just, and that the Pope has called upon
Catholic judges throughout the world to
govern themselves accordingly.
The interpretations which have been
offered in this country are confined to the
Pope's comments on divorce, and their
essence is that a Catholic Judge, in the
absence of compelling reasons, cannot
grant a decree of civil divorce in a mar
riage valid In the eyes of the church, and
especially in cases where the Judge has
reason to believe there will be remarriage.
It seems evident however, that the Pope
was addressing himself to much broader
field. The dispatch to the New York Times
from its correspondent in Rome suggests
that the Pontiff's remarks, while intended
for Catholic judges everywhere, may have
been designed especially as a guide for
judges in such countries as Poland and
Czechoslovakia when they are called upon
to preside over trials resulting from reli-
gious persecution.
Whatever the actual intent, however, the
need of Qualification is self-evident. The
American Catholic judge of good con-
science may not be confused. His religion
is deeply personal matter, which need
not conflict with or impinge upon his
solemn oath as judge to apply impair
TALLY the laws of the land. But to the nom
Catholic layman, at least, there is a dis
turbing implication in the Pope's remarks,
which on its face disregards the principle
in this country of separation Of church
and state. This provides new opportunity
to the critics of the Catholic church to
capitalize on the confusion surrounding
the question of what was said and, more
important, what was meant. A full and
authoritative Interpretation is needed, and
the sooner the better.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Second Airport Needed

The air disaster at the National Airport
has given impetus to movement which
needs expediting-the proposal for sup
Elementary national air terminal for
Washington. Philips Moore, director of
the Office of Airports for the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, summed up the
views of many aviation authorities when
he told the American Society of Civil En-
gineers that second airport in this vi
cinity for air passenger transports Is
needed fright now" John Nolen, jr., of
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission Joined in this CAA stand at
the society's annual meeting here.
Although the CAA officials urgent state
ment of Washington's airport needs was
made shortly after the fatal crash of the
Eastern Airliner last Tuesday, the decision
to stress these needs at this time was not
hastily made. As matter of fact, the
CAA for some time has been making a
series of exhaustive studies to find solu-
ton for the growing congestion of air
traffic over Washington. The National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
has been cooperating in some Of these
inquiries, with view to recommending
possible sites for one or more additional
airports in the Washington Metropolitan
Area. Some possible locations already have
been tentatively picked, but the commits
sion naturally has been secretive about
such sites.
The CAA studies were undertaken after
numerous recent occasions when planes
had to be stacked up" over the National
Airport during periods of poor visibility.
Airline pilots long have complained about
the increasing congestion here: The Air
line Pilots Association is particularly criti-
cal of the fact that stacking" conditions
are aggravated by the presence In the
Evening star., 1949-11-09
The Poll Tax Stoys

There can be but one reasonable explana-
ton of the overwhelming margin by which
the proposal to repeal Virginias poll tax
has been defeated by the voters of that
State
During day which saw the Byrd organ
ization candidates coasting to easy victory,
the poll tax repeater. supported by Senator
Byrd and Governor Battle, was rejected by
a three-to-one vote In other words. d
large number of Byrd organization sup
porters, as we'll as those who regularly
oppose the organization candidates, Joined
iorces to smite down repeal Of the poll tax
They were not Influenced by Identical
motives In the anti-Byrd camp there was
fear that the Legislature, under the terms
OF the proposed amendments, might impose
even tighter restraints on voting. In the
other camp there was positive preference
Tor the poll tax, an active opposition to
the liberalization of voting requirements
which would have come about if the poll
tax had been repealed and if the substitute
recommend of the Campbell Com
mission had been adopted by the Legisla-
ture.
The ultimate consequences may be dis
appointing to both groups. It is unlikely,
In the face Of the vote, that another
effort will be made any time soon to
repeal the poll tax by State action But
the poll tax may be banned in Federal
elections by Congress. In that event Vir-
ginia would be left in a curious situation.
The residents could vote for President
and members of Congress without paying
a poll tax. But in order to vote for Gov
ernor and State officials the tax would
have to be paid. One effect of this, in
the short run at least, probably would be
to strengthen the control of the organiza-
tion over State elections, and to weaken
1t in Federal elections. And If, as q result
of Federal ban on the poll tax, there
should be later change in the State
voting laws, the prospect is that such a
change will be controlled by State Legis-
lature more strongly intrenched than is
the case today. -s~@ a5
Evening star., 1949-11-09

generals to become the absolute boss Of
Polands military establishment. Much
the same thing, in one form or another,
is to be expected in all the satellite lands.
Shocking though 1t is as an example Of
dominance-seeking Imperialism it Is alto
gether in keeping with the character and
aims of the Kremlin. To shout against it
is to waste ones breath, but it needs to
be noted as another warning sign that the
West had better keep fully prepared
against continued Russian aggressiveness.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Tightening the Iron Grip

MANY speculative UledIllIlSS Cdu DC IcdQ
into the fact that Soviet Marshal Kon-
stantin X. Rokossovsky has become
Defense Minister of Poland and top
commander of that country's armies. But
the chief significance of the event seems
to be that the Kremlin, with the ready
acquiescence of President Beirut's COM
pletely subservient puppet regime in
Warsaw, has decided to make sure, in an
open and unabashed manner, that its
Polish satellite is kept tightly under its
own military control.
OF course, since Marshal Rokossovsky
was born in Poland when Czarist Russia
ruled it, the Beirut regime has hailed him
as q Pole and has sought to sell the idea
that there is therefore nothing unnatural
about his assuming command Of the
country's armed forces and taking over q
vital Warsaw cabinet post. Informed ele
ments among the Polish people, however,
are not likely to be fooled by any such
poppycock. They know that the man was
one of the Cars officers in the First
World War, that he fought for the Boil
shevik Revolution in 1917, that In all the
years since then he has been 100 per
cent Soviet citizen, and that from 1914
onward he has been one of the foremost
Of the Kremlin's military commanders.
In other words, in moving into his
powerful new position in Poland, Marshal
Rokossovsky is not moving in as a. Pole
but as key agent of the U. s. 8. r.
One can only speculate over the exact
reasons why Moscow has seen fit to resort
to this extraordinarily brazen example Of
how it exercises control over its satellite
empire of so-called independent" and
sovereign" peoples democracies." A
plausible guess, however, is that the
Polish people-who are overwhelmingly
Catholic, congenitally independent-mind-
been restive enough to disquiet the Krem-
lin; that the temper of their armed forces
has been less than violently pro-Red that
their frame of mind has made them sus-
ceptible to the contagion of ''Titoism";;
and that therefore the Soviet Unions iron
grip on them must be made tighter and
more iron than ever.
Thus the news about Marshal Rokos-
sovSky suggests that the Kremlin is taking
rigid measures to prepare against the
possibility of an anti-Red Polish rebellion
comparable to Yugoslavia's. The news
suggests, further, that similar steps may
be taken elsewhere in the satellite empire.
There can be no doubt that that empire
which Is founded on terror and oppres-
sion and which is bound hand and foot to
Russia against the popular will-seethes
with unrest and resentment Certainly, in
case OF some great convulsion like war, it
would be place where the Stain govern
ment would look in vain for mass loyalty
and support
Hence, it is not surprising that the
Soviet Union has sent one Of It's best
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Removing 500 Students
No Solution to Cardozo Problem


No Solution to Cardozo Problem
To the Editor Of The Star:
The new proposal of DR.. Hobart Corning
as relief to the Cardozo situation is once
again an effort to appease the school popu-
lation of Divisions 1913 without in any
way harming or even in the least endanger-
ing the granite-like hold of Divisions 1-9
on its superior advantages. To the average
citizen reading the account in the news
paper, the solution seems satisfactory. for
it in no way reflects the subtleties and nu
ances in the facts as they have been dis
torted by Dr. Corning and his sub-servient
associates
AS Cardozo teacher, have not spoken
ever. far above any code is my obligation
and responsibility to those whom I teach.
It is for their sake that present the sit
uation that actually exists at Cardozo.
In the first place, DR.. Corning imagines
that 500 high school students could be
housed adequately in an elementary school
with 1876 other pupils Have not our Car
dozo students been subjected to enough of
this educational farce in "the triple shift"
Is their psychological. social and educa-
tional growth to be overlooked entirely just
to satisfy the demands OF those in Divi-
sions 1-9? This is the thing that is "edu-
CdGlO11dlly uUSOullO AIlQ udJOT adBcuy.
In the second place. DR.. Corning feels
that when 500 students are removed, facil-
tiles at Cardozo will be adequate. Remove
the 500 girls to Park View and we still
will have 1896 pupils approximately $50
over our capacity. We still will have an
auditorium seating 500 students cafe
terra accommodating $50. library seating
90. gymnasium for boys out on Eighth
street or in dingy corridor in the base
ment. Our remaining teachers still will be
bundled in makeshift rest rooms, sharing
lockers in the corridors with students. car
rying teaching materials from room to
room because there is not enough desk
space. teaching two and in some cases
three in a room. Our cadets still will drill
in the corridors; our athletes will depend
upon the kindnesses of others in lending
their practice space Our students still will
be studying in the auditorium.
/ am not signing my name for fear that
at some future time I might have to ap-
proach the Board Of Education and my
outspoken attitude might bring disfayor or
might even be branded by my superiors
as being unit for promotion since I can
not accept decision.
A cARDozo TEACHER.
Evening star., 1949-11-09
Chinese Philosopher Represented
Az Patient About the Ultimate Centuries

Chinese Philosopher Represented
Az Patient About the Ultimate Centuries
To the Editor Of The Star:
More than 80 years Of travel throughout
China has not dulled my appreciation OF
the philosophy Of the average Chinese.
. In the fall of 1882 spent an evening with
an English-speaking Chinese friend in
small village in South China. We discussed
my recent trip from Siberia through Man.
churia, which Japan had seized just the
year before. I told him of the Japanese
developments in Manchuria-new railways,
new steel plants and modern capital city
of Changchun.
He listened and then remarked: well
the Japs won't keep Manchuria.' I dis
agreed and cited all the defense works they
were building. "Oh yes" he said, "they may
build it up and keep it for while but in
a couple of hundred years, or less. We'll get
it back"
Last summer I met this friend again in
Hongkong. He was fugitive from COM
munism in his native province. This time
we talked of the Russian dominated Com
munist conquest which had replaced the
Japanese.
Again he predicted the Communists
wouldn't hold China long Not more than
100 years, he predicted, and perhaps less.
And in the meantime he thought mighty
World War would be fought between Ameri-
ca industrial giant and its allies, and the
Soviet Union (manpower giant) and its
satellites. He predicted the defeat of
America because of deficient manpower
If America backed the Republic of China
with arms as Russia is backing the Chinese
Communists" he, said, Chinese manpower
might turn the tide in World War III. But
America decided to let China fall to the
Communists, and maybe, after all, it was
best for China in this worst of all possible
worlds
For he said, China is the only base
from which Russias great industrial CEN
tiers east Of the Urals can be atom bombed.
In retaliation. Russia would atom-bomb
China (for. of course, Russia would not
start war at all until she had the atom
bomb"
But with China Soviet satellite her air.
fields are of no use for bombing America.
So America won't waste atom bombs on
China. Thus, China will survive the war
with only few million Of her sons lost on
far-hung battlefields"
"At the end Of the war, if both the Soviet
Union and the United States are sufficiently
destroyed. China will quickly regain her in
dependence almost undamaged. If Russia
should remain too strong to be overthrown,
it would take longer. but not more than 100
years." he concluded optimistically.
In spite Of my admiration for China's
timeless paciflst philosophy, I thought:
why not do something before it's too late?"
ALFRED KOHLBERG.
New York City.