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Evening star., 1949-10-09
Who Won in Hawaii?

After 159 days the Hawaii dock strike
has come to an abrupt end. As head OF
the International Longshoremen's and
Warehousemens Union, Harry Bridges has
settled with the stevedoring companies on
the basis of compromise that could have
been reached long ago had there been
reasonableness or a real sense OF pubic
responsibility on both sides.
Under the compromise, the striking dock
workers will receive an immediate 14-cent
hourly wage increase. This figure, when
recommended last June by special terri
torial fact-fnding board, was rejected by
the union and reluctantly accepted by the
employers. In the ensuing stalemate, the
union offered to arbitrate the issue, but
the employers refused. Now, after a
months-long display of mutual obStinacy,
both sides-within a matter of hours
have come to terms. On the one hand,
the HWU has accepted the 14-cent boost
until next February %; on the other, the
companies have agreed to grant an addi-
tional 7-cent raise thereafter, on con-
tract that will run through to June IS,
1851.
1t may be that one side or the other
can hail this compromise as victory.
But Hawaii itself, though less severely af
fected than indicated by antiunion state
ments early in the strike has, suffered
losses estimated as high as $100,000,0O0.
Now that the trouble is over, one can only
wonder whether labor and management
will ever grow mature enough to settle such
disputes before they become, as usual
economic defeats for practically every
body
Evening star., 1949-10-09

by the department is the delivery to the
Soviet Foreign Office by our Ambassador
of an extremely stiff protest against what
is described as the Shocking" treatment
meted out to Americans who had innocent
ly wandered into the Soviet sector of Ber-
lin and other points in the Russian occu-
patton zone We demand that the Soviet
local authorities be instructed by Moscow
to stop such conduct, and we further "in-
sist that the elementary rights of (our
citizens be observed in the future in &C
cordance with the international comfy
which governs the conduct of all civilized
states"
Taken together, these three moves,
coming as they do on the same day, add
up to diplomatic initiative of notable sig
niicance They indicate that our Govern
ment does not intend to be pressured by
any Soviet tactics over the forthcoming
East German puppet regime and that we
are not disposed to tolerate Soviet mis-
conduct or provocations.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

while modish, the hat is not the least
becoming. New shoes offer particularly
handy weapon. After long study, she
will be told with great enthusiasm, '"They
look so comfortable" sowing the suspicion
that only her corns could have guided her
choice.
If, however woman makes a trium-
phant entrance in fine feathers and some
kind friend, her eyes momentarily glazed
with annoyance, comes over to tell her,
with the greatest show of solicitude, that
her left stocking is just the tinieSt bit
twisted, then she knows that her outfit
is a complete success.
Madame Schiaparelli undoubtedly has
a case.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Letters to The Star

jury. just discharged, has recommended the
establishment of a State lottery This
jury has been justly, and stingingly, re-
buked by one of the leading judges of our
State, Circuit Judge Charles Marbury. AS
The Star reported, he suggested a review
of the history of the United States to "see
whether this country became great by fol-
lowing gambling practices
If those juries, by any chance, represent
the views of the top political figures in Prince
Georges County. then the time ought soon
to be ripe for good house-cleaning, with
both a Charter movement and a citizens
drive for better schools. There are lessons to
be learned from Montgomery and Airing
ton Counties. DISGUSTED VOTER
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Keep 1t Noncommerciul

The Fairfax County Board of Super
visors deserves a vote of commendation
for its vigorous stand against any COM
mercialization of the new Henry G. Shirley
Memorial Highway. This scenic boulevard,
connecting the Pentagon road system with
the old Richmond highway at point near
Woodbridge is an outstanding example
of modern highway engineering and land
scaping-a model for other road planners
to follow. 1t was designed as sign-free,
hot-dog- -stand-free memorial drive and it
should be kept that way.
AS Board Chairman G. Wallace Carper
remarked in urging rejection of an appli-
cation for commercial rezoning OF an I'M
portant intersection, relaxation of the
no-business rule in any part OF the high
way would make it difficult for the board
to resist demands for similar rezoning of
other sections II think we would be
defeating the very purpose for which the
highway was built" the chairman said.
1--WE don't want it to look like U. S. High
way No l." The Star concurs heartily
with these sentiments.
Furthermore, it would be unfortunate
If there were truth in published reports
that State highway officials are consid-
ering a proposal to open the boulevard,
when fully completed, to heavy trucking
traffic. Trucks at present are banned
from the road. This ban imposes no
hardship on commercial vehicles, for the
nearby No. l route remains available.
This is the logical route for trucks. The
old road is lined with service stations and
eating places catering to the trucking
trade. There are no places to serve
vehicles or drivers on the Shirley Highway.
Why clutter up this fine thoroughfare
with trucks that would be better served
on an already commercialized highway?
Evening star., 1949-10-09
A Bird's-Eye View
There Is World of Truth and Beauty Never Seen by
People Who Have a Vulture Outlook
tha ederickR Rrnun Hnu u
Bv the Req. Frederick Bro,On Harris, DID,. Lit.

, That bird'S-eye view Is as revolving IN a
person as it is in a nation.
When the primary question about life is,
What can we get out of it for ourselves?-
When we treat other people merely as means
to our ends, when we even value friends for
what we can make of them-we have birds
eye view, and that bird is the vulture. But
there is world that the eye of the vulture
completely misses. How true 1t is that
1.-The poem hangs on the berry bush
Till there comes the poets eye.
And all the worlds a masquerade
When Shakespeare passes by
Shakespeare's myriad-minded eye is one
of the miracles of literature. What pity
it is when in the field of literature one has
the vultures eye.
In recent novel a girl turns scornfully
from that sort of bird's-eye view as she
comes to salacious scenes in modern fiction
where pages offending good taste and all
the proprieties reek with smutty descriptions
labeled Realism" Referring to certain books
of this school she remarked: ITO read them
is like washing spinach. One has to put it
through so many waters to wash the dirt
out-and I do like clean spinach"
Many fed up with the current prostitu-
tion of art by leWd eyes on circulation
figures applaud this modern girls wholesome
st. Francis of Assists eye is one of the
miracles of religion. Chesterton vividly de-
scribes the world that was opened to this
simple saint after he ceased to chase bodily
pleasures and the endeavor to appease with
the greed of vulture his hunger for sensual
satisfactons. The new world. he found was
one beautiful as sunny meadow starred
with bright flowers, where the birds and the
beasts became his friends and the poor, the
depraved the lepers, became his brothers
and sisters He lived gayly in the world that
the voluptuous eye can never see. It is
realm forever yelled to those who attempt to
harness all life to the chariot of their own
pleasure.
But the vulture eye sees no more beauty
in that sort of world than a blind fish in
Mammoth Cave sees in a sunset Com
mented woman in gallery, staring at one
OF Turner's sunset views with its mystic
symphony of blended color, II never saw
sunset like that" The great artist whose
genius had seen that very sunset and whose
brush had spread its glory on enduring
canvas, happened to be standing near. To
the woman's censorious remark, Il have
never seen sunset like that" the artist
quietly answered, Don't you wish you
rou1d9n
Evening star., 1949-10-09

builds home of its own. 1t is always alert
for the chance to appropriate the toll and
skill of others for its selfish concerns. But
if the bird is vulture with keen eyes which
go to and fro over the earth, the magnet
that draws it is carrion. 1t Is at home in the
realm of decay. That is its world, and it
sees little else.
In the matchless old drama of Job the
restricted vision of this bird of prey is sug-
gested by striking sentence: There is a
path which the eye of the vulture hath not
seen" This means that there is world the
vuture knows nothing of just because it is
vulture. That suggests a pertinent truth
about humans. What we seek and what we
see is a revealing reflection of what we are.
A man's-eye view depends not so much on
where he stands as what he is. What is
before the eyes is determined in large degree
by what is back of them. Our character
masters our eyes and declares our kinships.
1.-TWO men looked through prison bars. The
one saw mud, the other stars The diff
ference was, one had eyes for the mud, the
other for the stars.
X
There is such thing as the vultures eye.
History is stained by the record of individuals
and of peoples who have been characterized
by the predatory outlook. Their ruling pas
sion has been to spy something upon which
they could pounce, to appropriate for their
own use. to appease their won appetite to
serve their own purpose. Gangsters have the
vulture's eye. So do gangster nations. Whole
countries are in ruins today as the harvest
of following false leaders who fired them with
ruthless zeal to cultivate the eye of the
vulture. Even Tito has been alienated by
the vulture eye and has revolted against it.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Why Women Dress

We have it now from no less fashion
authority than Schiaparelli, who probably
hears what they say in the fitting rooms,
that women dress to annoy other women.
She may well be right. Some girls try to
maintain the pious fiction that they choose
their clothes just to please the men in
their lives. But this policy is too devious
to be taken seriously. For instance, If
John does not like her in black, and black
Is the thing this season, she will in
evitably be found wearing black before the
season is out. She rationalizes that since
everybody is wearing it, he will get used
to it. Or she quiets her conscience COM
pletely by assuring herself that he will
never notice Many men make it point
never to offer voluntary comment on
"Oh, yes, it makes you look tall'; or, per-
haps, "Is that new?" There is hardly much
percentage in playing to such an audience.
A man may appreciate, sometimes to the
extent of whistling, generally harmonious
or spectacular effect, but the fine points
escape him.
On the other hand, no slightest waver-
ing in a hemline, no fall of sleeve is lost
on other women. This is quite obvious
from the disconcerting comments they
offer to sister who has been taking
trouble with her appearance. II long
haired lass has her crop shorn, her friends
will eye her critically and brightly, and
then say, "It looks so much better" This
leaves the poor cropped one wondering
what infinitely eye-jarring spectacle she
presented before the scissors fell. II she
wears a new hat, her complacency can be
shattered by a cool, 'It's very smart" a
thrust which leaves her to think that
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Anti-Soviet initiative

That our State Department is getting
ready to meet the challenge inherent IN
the setting up of Moscow-sponsored
German Democratic Republic" In the
Russian occupied Eastern Zone Is indi-
Gated by three moves.
The first and most important OF these Is
a statement by Acting Secretary OF State
James E. Webb in response to protests by
the Soviet government that the creation
of the West German Federal Republic at
Bonn had violated the Potsdam agree
ments and had delayed the writing OF
German peace treaty.
While Mr.. WebbS statement is not tech
nically reply to the Soviet protests, 1t
undoubtedly reflects our Governments at
titude and foreshadows our policy. Far
from contenting himself with a denial OF
Moscow's allegations, Mr.. Webb went on
to denounce with unusual severity the en-
tire Soviet policy in Germany since the
war, indicting it for Systematically blocking
and wrecking the Potsdam agreements, and
for setting up an Oppressive police state"
in the Eastern Zone which is sad car1ca-
ture of the liberal, democratic regime es-
tablished by the Western Powers In their
consolidated occupation zones. Indeed,
Mr.. Webb went even further by denouncing
Soviet policy in Europe generally as aggres-
sive and declaring America s wholehearted
opposition to it. This clearly indicates that
our diplomacy will not recognize the forth
coming East German regime as valid, but
will regard it as a phony puppet OF Mos
cow.
The departments second move in this
field is the calling of a special meeting-to
be held in London in the next two weeks
OF all our diplomatic heads accredited to
the seven "Iron Curtain" countries OF East
ern Europe Such a regional conference,
while not unprecedented, is unusual and
presages thoroughgoing review OF the
overall situation, presumably for the
concerting of new diplomatic tactics.
The third Of these simultaneous moves
Evening star., 1949-10-09
The Continuing Burden

In the four fiscal years beginning IN
July, 1945, and ending last June 30, the
United States extended $13,260, 100000 in
gifts and grants to foreign lands. In
addition, according to the Department OF
Commerce, it extended repayable credits
of $40, 100000. This total of $25,34o,-
100000 was poured out in the ex-enemy
; countries of Germany, Italy and Japan,
on urgent postwar projects in places as
far apart as Greece and China, and on
such great enterprises as the Marshall
Plan for European recovery. In the cur
rent fiscal year, we are making comparable
outlays. The figures are not simply
measure of American altruism. Atruism
is involved in them, of course, but the
major reason for them is the ripped-up
condition of the world and the fact that
our own self-interest our own security,
our own long-range well-being demand
that we invest heavily in the effort to put
things to rights again.
OF all the free nations, we are by far
the richest and strongest, and we cannot
dodge the attendant compulsions and
responsibilities. If the Soviet Union were
not q totalitarian tyranny seeking DOM
nance everywhere, If instead 1t were
genuine democracy cooperating to build
a better world, our burdens would not be
so heavy and there would be near-future
prospect of being relieved of them entirely.
But there is no such prospect now. AS
matters stand, in the midst Of titanic
power contest between East and West, we
must steel ourselves to the probability that
we shall have to continue extending vary
ing forms of aid-even though on dimin-
ishing scale-to our friends abroad for
some years to come That may be bleak
thing to contemplate, but the alternative
is bleaker still. We cannot abandon what
we are doing without giving green light
to the Kremlin. We must hold firmly to
the present course in the hope that 1t will
lead eventually to the kind OF peace we
ourselves need to be reasonably prosperous
and safe.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

him to college, 'after which he became q
physician" But the doctor and his wife
were not happy. Trouble appeared in the
Smith household" The physician was shot
and dangerously wounded at Marshall, Ill,
and Mrs. Smith and son by previous
marriage were indicted for attempted mur-
der. Mrs Smith then returned to Ken
lucky, looked up an indictment which had
been found in 1877 against her husband.
charging him with the murder Of Craig.
and had DR.. Smith brought here Owens
ville) for trial. The jury was out but
few minutes, returning verdict OF not
guilty. The case against Mrs. Smith and
Seward Cher SOM is still pending at Mar
SHALL"
Quoting Simon Kent in the New York
Sun, The Star of October 6, 1899, set forth:
Some people say that rat
Rottlesnoke tlesnake won't commit suicide.
Suicides say that they are wrong.
I've seen rattlers put an end
to themselves dozens of times, but never
when they were in captivity. Why that is
I am unable to say. If you have rattle
snake Gagged up. you may put all sorts Of in
dignitieS upon him, and, while he will work
himself into rage, somehow he won't let
his feeling overcome him so far that he
will turn to and bite and kill himself. 1t
is entirely different when he Is met with
on his native barren and cornered. He
won't as general thing. put an end to
himself until he has exhausted all means
at hand in trying to get out Of the trouble
he is in. Then sometimes his rage seems
to get beyond his control. and he twists his
head around and sets his fangs in his body.
right over his heart, and in less time than
you could kill him with club he stretches
out still I have known rattler to kill
himself from disappointment, and. strangese
Of all, from disappointment in love-"
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Toward European Unity

In disclosing that Britain, France and
Italy are acting to lower trade barriers
between themselves and other Marshall
Plan countries, Economic Cooperation
Administrator Paul G. Hoffman has
rightly described the development as IAN
historic STEP" Although it constitutes
only a beginning on what needs to be
done, it certainly marks an encouraging
advance toward the goal of unifying Eu-
ropes numerous separate economies.
What the three countries have agreed
to do, according to Mr. Hoffman, Is to end
quota controls and other restrictions OH
as much as SIS per cent of their imports
from each other and from the Marshall
Plan area as a whole. The action-which
has been accompanied by a similar move
on the part of the Netherlands govern
ment-is in keeping with one of the key
principles of the European Recovery Pro-
gram and with a decision reached last
July at meeting of representatives of all
the ERP nations.
Mr.. Hoffman has hailed the news as
evidence that Western Europe has made
more progress toward economic union in
the last six months than in the last 900
ycdIo. Ildt llldy NC dll chCcSolVcly cIlGIlu-
siastic judgment, but he has not exag-
gerated in declaring that the development
represents practical move toward Great
ing within the overall community of inde-
pendent European nations 'the same sort
of free intercourse that has proven so
fruitful among the forty Eight States in
our own country"-an advance, in short,
that brings the ancient dream of CONT
mental unity one step nearer realization.
The development, moreover, is in line
with the views urgently expressed at the
recent strasbourg meeting of the Euro
pean Consultative Assembly. Those views
placed the greatest emphasis on the fact
that the Marshall Plan cannot end the
problem of Europe's long-term production,
commerce and employment and that there
can never be solution unless and until
the nations directly concerned abandon
their traditional ways and undertake radi-
cal measures designed to save them from
perishing in the wilderness of their own
claShing economies and sovereignties
To that end, many outstanding free
Europeans regard it as imperative for
Western Europe to take immediate action
toward economic integration. What they
have in mind is the eventual establishment
of an overall customs union under which
trade barriers would be abolished, single
currency put into circulation, more eff
cient mass production promoted, and
vast new continental market created for
free flow of commerce within itself, more
or less in the manner of the United States.
Such integration-which would pave
the way for political union-ob obviously
cannot be accomplished overnight. Never
theless, there can be no doubt that unless
the Western European countries start NOV
ing toward common economy, they will
face grim future promising little more
than depression, crisis and their ultimate
downfall. The fact that they are acting
now to lower trade barriers indicates that
they are well aware of the peril. The step
is a hopeful one. If they keep advancing
In the same direction, their long range
stability and freedom can be assured.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

matches its inner
nature. 1t is ever
true that a bird's-eye
view consists Of what
a bird is looking for.
For instance, if the
feathered creature Is
a cowbird it is
always looking for
some other birds
nest where it may
lay its own eggs to
be Matched by a
foster mother. 1t
accepts no RESPONSE
bility for its off,
cy,rinp and never
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Fireman's Widow Expresses Thanks
For Pension Bill Passage
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
On behalf of the widows and orphans OF
the District fremen and police, wish to
thank the press for its fair and full coVerage
of the pension bill recently passed.
I would also like to thank congress- tne
Senate and House District Committees, the
citizens associations, the flremen and po-
lice associations. To all we express our SIN
cere appreciation for their untiring efforts
in our behalf. ELIZA M. CALHOUN,
Widow Of the late 1t. Aubrey S. Calhoun,
D. c. Fire Department.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Spires Of the Spirit

What is a bird view? That depends
upon the bird What bird really sees is
determined by its natural afflnities. In the
external world it will seek that which
Evening star., 1949-10-09

revue new to Broadway is bearing up
cheerfully under adverse reviews. What
is this strange power of the critical
fraternity, that its veto pulls the multi
tude in?
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Verdict Of Disgust Brought
n.fxaaA GAnRAAa G4o n

Verdict Of Disgust Brought
Against Prince Georges Grand Juries
To the Editor Of The STAR
What shabby record at least two OF
our Prince Georges grand juries have made
recently! The one discharged last fall re-
ported then that there was no real need to
spend more money on schools-and the
passing Of time has certainly proved that
that jury was blind. Now the latest grand
Evening star., 1949-10-09

Half century ago the Hero of Manila
Bay returned to Washington. The Star on
October 2, 1899, produced
Dewey's 32-page paper in tribute to
Return nun ~ saiu , ;o,.n,s,, q,
Evening star., 1949-02-24
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