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Evening star., 1949-03-18
N. Y. Subways Interracial

To the Editor OF The Star:
For years. now, it has been an accepted
fact that in New York City Negro dis
patcher is likely to be responsible for the
complex schedules and intricate movements
of many of the 1879 trains roaring through
out the subway system In all probability we
get dimes for fares from some one OF the
many Negro women and men cashiers as
signed to any one of the 525 subway stations
uptown, downtown. in the Bronx, Queens or
over in Jamaica. Like as not, many Negro
platform man squeezeS some OF the slower
of 1000, 900 daily riders into the cars during
rush hour. Often Negro motorman is at
the controls of the new or older trains. His
conductor may or may not be OF the same
race when the underground carrier moves at
high speeds over its run in total OF 73O
miles of round-trip trackage.
More simply stated. the worlds largest
intra urban railroad system, and the largest
municipality owned railway in the United
States is primarily interested In maintaining
its high record of efficiency and passenger
mile safety at nominal profit. Neither the
Board of Transportation nor most OF the
7000,0 900 daily subway riders have The time,
adde- -mindedness or interest to question
such irrelevant factors as the race, color.
creed or national origin of any one of the
80 900 qualified persons employed in our
fabulous underground. The board is inter-
ested in it's high standards of merit and fit
ness which govern the employment of work.
ers on the citys 81 subway lines. The pas
sengefs are interested only in getting there,
right now"
The logical, if not fair employment policy
of our transportation system also includes
some $50 Negro bus drivers on municipal and
privately owned lines. This same logical en-
ployment policy might be we'll simulated by
Washington's own Capital Transit Company,
for it Is all too obvious that the company's
mental equipment needs to be displaced by
goth century unadulterated, democratic
thinking and action.
Not only in the field of transportation. hut
in other public utilities. business enterprises
and industries, State, city and private en-
ployers find a logical employment practice
pays dividends. DUTTON FERGUSON.
New York.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
ii. '5sas Letters to The Star
Opposes Pensions for Veterans

Opposes Pensions for Veterans
To the Editor of The Star:
Representative Rankin has introduced a
bill to pay veterans of the First World War
pensions. wish to register in The Star my
objections. Here they are:
l. Veterans all are American citizens.
2. About 100000 were National Guard
troops in 1916 on the Mexican border sup
porting General Pershing's invasion. Privates
were paid SIS a month They should have
saved their money.
3. We have to keep the socialist govern
n1ent going in England.
4. More than two billions will be required
to keep up the price of farm products so
that the high cost of food may be maintained.
S. The Army Engineers and the Reclama-
tion Service need few billions to bring more
land under production SO that there will be
more money required to keep up prices on the
food the people in the United States buy.
6. Money is required for projects in Africa
for the British, irrigation, roads, hospitals,
dams, etc.
7. The 4Oo,Ooo,oo0 people of China are
calling for aid from the United States tax
payers.
8. All South America is clamoring for
United States dollars. They have been our
friends and must have some Of Santa Claus
bag.
g. Germany and Japan, our enemies few
years ago, must have help.
TO- The last reason why the Rankin bill
should not be allowed to pass is that it Is
against the policy of the United States Gov
ernment That policy is: Everything for
everybody who is not citizen of the United
States" FRANK j. MULKERN.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
No Middle Way

This Government should make 1t clear
that Sweden cannot expect military aid
from the United States If it remains out
side the proposed North Atlantic security
pact.
There is simple reason for this. The
purpose of the pact is to organize, in
advance, a system of defense against
aggression. To that end, this country
proposes to furnish arms to the partici-
pating nations. But the available supply
will be severely limited. There is little
prospect that there will be enough to
satisfy the needs of the participating
countries, which must be taken care of
first. So Sweden, and others similarly
situated, will be at the bottom of the list,
and the strong probability is that there
will be nothing left for them.
This is not an attitude which implies
lack of sympathy for the Swedes. For gen.
erations neutrality has been their shield,
and those who can remember our own
feverish efforts to find security in neu-
trality a decade ago should be able to
understand what Sweden is going through.
With Norway and Denmark moving in the
direction of adherence to the pact, Sweden
finds herself standing alone-expoSed and
isolated. The old Swedish tradition of
the middle way is being severely tested.
Obviously there are Swedes who realize
that there is no real security for their
country in trying to avoid an alignment
with either East or West. One of these,
General Swedlund, Swedish chief of staff,
said as much last week. But public opinion
in Sweden continues to be the controlling
factor and the final decision has not yet
been reached.
While this debate continues, there is not
much that we can do. But we ought to be
frank about our own position. We ought to
tell the swedes, If We have not already
Evening star., 1949-03-18
'Paternalism' REDEEMED

To the Editor OF The Star:
The "ismaticians" are hard at work today
coming new "isms' to bounce off the thick
skulls Of other 'isms.' The latest model Of
this verbal weapon is "paternalism." 1t be-
hooves some one, therefore, to attempt to
define and analyze "paternalsm."
As see it, the word is term applied to
the belief of those who think that the Gov
ernment should direct and protect its people.
It's intent. however. Is to castigate those
people advocating such doctrines. 1t Is
another ism to instill fear in the gullible.
Apparently, its inventor was himself moved
by the fear that our people would have
tendency to become lazy, and. like many OF
the sons of wealthy parents. try to sponge off
Of "pater." Life may become too easy for
the people and they would lose individuality
aggressiveness, and cease to progress as
result" thet say.
Certainly on the surface, the fear seems
plausible, but let us examine it more closely
to find out whether it is justified fear.
The trend of mankind always has been
toward leisure and an easier life. Let us
recognize this trend as existing. 1t cannot
be disgraceful to want an easier life. AS
matter OF fact, the same people who most
frequently will use the word diSparagingly
will be the very ones who are engaged in
making and selling those products which
lOSCeT CIe easier lie. IL Is SIId dISe tlley
should fear the thing they foster. What in
fact they are asking is that we entrust our
economy to their hands so we don't have to
worry about tin other words, Papa knows
hest"-and they want to be Papa" That is
paternalism!
At least we democratically could choose
our governmental pater.
What is more. we could control him. II
we didn't like him, we could throw him out
of the house and get new one. To claim
that the people would live off the Govern
ment is utter nonsense. for the Government
can be no better wealthier nor more power
full than the people make it. Its own life
depends upon the wealth, happiness and
security of it's people.
Why should not the people invent device
to assure their security? 1t may be very we'll
for the privileged to be against all measures
designed to benefit the less privileged. but
the one thing they never will be accused of is
"fraternalism" under the fatherhood of God.
VIM. H. REYNOLDS.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.


@. Can a race horse be trained to pace
faster than it can trot?-R N. B.
A. The United States Trottimg Association
says there is very little difference between
the speed of trotters and PAGERS, although
more PAGERS have achieved the select two.
minute list than trotters. There are twice
as many PAGERS in the two-minute list as
there are trotterS. The worlds champion
PAGER is Billy Direct with a record of 1.55
and the worlds champion trotter Is Grey
hound with a record of 1854.
@. Why is Delaware nicknamed "Dia-
mond State?"-E. C.
A. Delaware gets one of it's nicknames.
the Diamond State, from the fact that 1t is
small in size, but great in Importance.
@. Are there any noted sculptures of the
Madonna?-R. E. B.
A. Most studies OF the Madonna and
Child" are paintings, but there are numerous
fine sculptures. one of the finest being the
"Medici Madonna" by Michelangelo. Luca
della Robbia executed some fine terracotta
figures of the Madonna in blue and white
glaze.
@. For what purpose does the Red Cross
spend the most money?-E. K.
A. The expenditures of the American Ma
tional Red Cross for the year ended June 80.
l948 mot including income and expenditures
eral purposes and $672, ,90741 for restricted
purposes The largest expenditures were for
services to armed forces and veterans, and
disaster preparedness and relief. The
excess of expenditures over income totaled
$7674 1916
Evening star., 1949-03-18
More on Miss Coplon's Evenings
q the Editor of The Star.

More on Miss Coplon's Evenings
To the Editor of The Star:
I disagree with Tim F. McCarthy's inter-
probation of the comment made by the
'neighbors of Judith Coplon. The remark
was not intended to condemn her for ap-
pearing to be intellectuaE nor was it in
tended to cast a reflection on the residents
of Mclean Gardens. The fact that she
carried newspapers and typed in her room
was all they knew about her.
Miss Coplon is under indictment on
chargesof espionage and does not deserve
commendation for engaging in a seemingly
more educational pastime than spending
her evenings in a taproom.
ANNE K. HANLON
Evening star., 1949-03-18

Epiphany Church on G street NV, where
crowds daily at noon hear leading clergymen
of various Protestant denominations give
prophetic messages. have heard no word
from any of them on politics, nor have I
heard pessimistic sentence fall from their
lips. What light on confusion and what
wisdom on our ignorance would come, if
more of our political and civic leaders voln-
tarily could stop to be "quarantined" for a
spiritual checkup so that. with more assured
and hopeful spirits. they might. with conf
dence in the outcome of right, press for that
objective? JOHN o. KNOTT.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
,Oriter, although it Is permissible for
writer known to The Star to use
a nom de plume Please be briet.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
A Weather Bureau for D. C..

A Weather Bureau for D. c.
To the Editor Of The Star:
When we can find nothing else to squawk
about. we always can turn to the ofnclal
weather forecasting. On the ides Of March,
for example, at am. the weather man
could see no precipitation as lar as ne coulo
look into the future; or if he could, he was
too kindhearted to break the bad news to
us. Three hours later snow and rain were
dampening the skins and ruffling the spirits
of many who had dressed by the morning
weather prophecy.
BY IL am. the weather man, running
from behind, had caught up with current
events and without the trace of smile
announced solemnly there would be snow
f1urries. He should have explained that the
snow was what had been predicted for De-
cember Is and was only three months late;
so it all averaged up exactly right That law
of averages is often invoked Not only on the
ides of March and Christmas Day is the
face of our local Weather Bureau red. We see
it that color so often that we would not
recognize it in any other form.
But we should not "shoot the boy behind
the bar; he's doing the best he can," to use
an old wild West expression Not only the
best he can, but probably as well as any one
could do. Meteorology simply has not ad-
vanced any further. Improvement can be
made, however, IN weather observation ana
reporting, if net in forecasting. 1t seems that
records of rainfall, temperature. and the
like are not made for the District. but for
some place over in Virginia called the Ma
tional Airport, and that those readings are
reported for the District. That explains
why the official figures do not agree with
the weather we actually have here. At times
a temperature of five or six degrees above
freezing is reported when splinters OF ice are
forming on street puddles. One summer
afternoon the skin of big cloud over us
split and at least two inches OF rain fell.
The official report was: "A trace Of rain"
Washington is large and important enough
to have at least one Weather Bureau station
which would record the weather of the Dis
trict. Or if such records are not kept, the
observations taken at the airport should not
be reported in form to give the false i'm
preston that they are for the District.
GEORGE FREDERICK MILLER.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

Affected most by statehood for Hawaii
and Alaska would be the songsmiths who
have been rhyming state" and forty
eight" Somehow, tying fifty" to nifty
hardly fits, in the solemn, patriotic type
number
Evening star., 1949-03-18

The Senate is to consider bill for the
relief of distressed owners of gold mines.
These are the new 4sers. And the rush
this time is east.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

Through the prevailing dark cynicism,
there appears an occasional ray of the
naive. Some one in Kansas City has got
up a fx-proof traffic ticket, he thinks.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

done 50, that the countries which come
into the North Atlantic pact will have first
call on such assistance as we are able
to give. /
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Questions. and Answers

reader get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau. 316 I street NE, Washineton Q D. c.
Please nclose three go cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Destroying Western Market

To the Editor of The Star:
The Western Market structure at Twenty
first and X streets NV. is one of the all too
few surviving landmarks of old-time Wash
ington.
1t has the melloY charm of beautiful old
teSSellated brickwork, now practically lost
art; mullioned, arched windows: dormered
roofs and excellent proportions Its fruit and
vegetable stalls, and most especially its open
air sidewalk flower stands, are, like the mar
kets of old New Orleans, tourist attractions.
They have become symbolic of the traditional
charm of Washington in the springtime. an
earlier Washington before the machine age
descended upon us.
To raze this fine old building now and
substitute a crude raw new structure would
be crime which would cheaper and degrade
this entire area and greatly depreciate all
neighboring property values.
There is an even more serious argument
against allowing the Safeway Stores. Inc
or any other group of private commercial
interests-to lease this publicly owned site.
as they are now requesting of the Commis-
sioners.
Our surviving public markets are the only
channels by which growers OF country prod
uce in nearby Maryland and Virginia can
bring their products direct and fresh to the
consumers If these individual stall holders
should be forced out. as they would be, by
the chain store, which already occupies half
Of the present structure, the livelihood Of
small army of hard-working. good citizens
would be destroyed.
We talk great deal about free enter
prise, individual incentive, ETC., as an inte-
grail part of "the American way Of life"
Whether "the little man" and the Washing
ton taxpayer have any real protection against
the encroachments of powerful corporate
interests will now be put to test
I have confidence. however, that our Dis
trict Commissioners will protect the public
interests and will not accede to any OF these
efforts to acquire public properties for pN-
vate exploitation.
There surely are enough other sites avail
able, empty lots and those occupied only by
inferior, tumble down shacks, ETC.. on which
the Safeway can continue to expand, with
out tearing down one of our best structures
and running the livelihood Of hundreds OF
persons. MRS. CHARLES E. RUSSELL
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18

Every section of the Yangtze
river has its popular local name
by which the natives call it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18
Employment Security
Board Moves Office

Mr.. William H. Mananey, Chair
man of the Employment Security
Board, announced today the re-
moval of the Department of En-
ployment Security administrative
offices from the O'Sullivan Build
ing to the 9Th, 9th, and 10th floors
of the Butler Building.
The staff offices. of the Unem-
ployment Compensation Division,
Employment Service Division, Vet
Grams Employment Service, and
the Appeals Division formerly To-
Gated at 300 Keyser Building, will
be located in the new quarters.
Entrance to the agency's new
location will be temporarily at 200
West Baltimore Street until such
time as construction on the perma-
nent entrance at 6 North Liberty
Street is completed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18
LONELINESS Is State Of Mind,
Psychiatrists Say, Advising On Poise

cultivate it assiduously, even when
she sees no grounds for it.
while the girls chief task is
the development of herself as an
individual, its corollary is that she
must be intelligent enough to
make the most of the looks she
has. No facet of grooming or
makeup that will help her feel
attractive should be neglected.
Healthy social contacts are es-
sential to a well balanced life.
Psychiatrists advise any girl who
would like social contacts to accept
invitations as they come along and
keep right on doing it no matter
how she suffers, until she has adj
justed herself on the social level.
Until she has failed and finally
succeeded she can never expect to
have confidence.
"Most psychiatrists believe the
girl who feels inadequate fares
best in small, coeducational coll
iege. They also advise the less
attractive girl is to be prepared to
play positive part in forming
friendships with men, to be brave
enough to take an active role in
her own courtship if need be.
MANY women who never marry
work out fine, satisfying lives. The
alternative to marriage is not
necessarily unhappiness, although
that doesn't mean girl should
reconcile herself to foregoing mar
rage unless she wants to-. But if
she is doing her best to develop
her possibilities she will find it
hard to be dangerously discon-
tented"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18
Poultry FlOcks Should
Be Culled Right Now

Culling the poultry flock right
now may make the difference be-
tween profit ard loss this summer.
A farm flock of 300 hens may be
losing as much as $500 or $500
per week unnecessarily if a good
job of culling has not been done.
c. S. Shaffner of the poultry
department at the University of
Maryland says that early moulting
hens should be removed. Hens with
lots of yellow color in their skin
and shanks should likewise be sold.
Those with hard, firm abdomens
are not laying and should be mar
keted or put in the home freezer.
More information about culling
poultry flocks may be obtained
from County Agricultural agents.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18

France narrowed export i'm
port gap Is per cent in first six
months.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18
LOch Raven, Prettyboy
Reservoirs RestOcked

A heavy restocking program at
Prettyboy and Loeb Raven Reser-
voirs, has just been concluded with
the placing of 10000 largemouth
and smallmouth bass in these two
bodies of water, supplementing the
earlier placement of some 700
adult largemouth bass weighing up
to five pounds each and 100000
walleye fry in Loeb Raven. The
League of Maryland Sportsmen
and the Maryland Game and In
land Fish Commission cooperated
in the restocking program.
The lingering bass were Sc
cured from the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service hatchery at Lees
town, West Virginia, on applica-
ton made by the League of Mary
land Sportsmen a year ago, which
was endorsed by both Senators
O'Conor and Tydings, and ap-
proved by the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
The adult bass stocked earlier
were taken from the upper Ches-
apeake Bay tidewaters by the
Game and Inland Fish Commits
sion, while the 100000 walleye fry
were supplied by the Ohio Conser-
walton Department. All the fish
were transported by the Game and
Inland Fish Commissions fish
trucks, and were stocked by en-
ployees of the League and the
Commission. Stocking was in
accordance with the recommen-
dations of Mr.. Eugene w. Surber,
Chief, Eastern Fish Cultural In
vestigations, U. S. Department of
the Interior, Fish and Wildlife
Service, who surveyed the waters
last year.
Fishing in these waters is con-
Quoted by the League of Maryland
Sportsmen, as agent for the city
of Baltimore. Special permits
costing SOC per day are required,
and boats are available at $1.50 a
day. Receipts are used to defray
administration and restocking
costs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18

LONELINESS, like beauty, is only
skin deep. 1t is mainly matter
Of how a girl feels about her looks,
according to psychiatrists who
work a great deal with women.
The girl who develops herself as
an individual, making the most OF
what looks she has and achieving
self-confidence and self-esteem is
the girl who will sail triumphantly
through life, says Virginia Lee.
Writing in McCalPs for August,
she gives psychiatrists' advice to
the homely girl for leading good
and gay-life:
"Psychiatrists know that the
girl who is not beautiful has a
special hurdle to take, and they
recommend facing the situation
squarely, then working out a posi-
tive program of living.
"As an initial step in developing
good mental attitudes the girls
are advised to think realistically
- about themselves, about the
world they live in and about what
they want out of that world. This
includes learning to think objec-
lively, rather than emotionally,
about their looks.
Actually there is little or no
connection between how beautiful
q girl is and how effective her
marriage will be or what kind of
husband she will get. But there
il an unacceptable link between how
she feels about herself and these
things. Lack of self-confidence or
self-esteem in wife or husband
can ruin the most promising mar
rage. So it's every girls job to
develop the self-confidence and
self-esteem she needs.
"The girl or woman who has
settled on what she wants out of
life and is consciously heading
toward it is automatically de-
veloping the attitudes that make
for happiness.
"The homely girls job is no
cinch. In the words of one PSYCHE
artist: She has to demand the
most of herself in personality and
performance. She has to be stern
with her mind,
wedding out such gripping atti-
tudes as bitterness, self-pity and
martyrdom. Optimism will always
be her best friend and she must
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18

In 1853 the two sons of the EN-
peror of Japan wrestled to deter
mine which should have the
throne.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18
ATHLETES FOOT GERM
KILLIT IN ONE HOUR.
YOUR 4Oc BACK.

If not pleased. The germ grows
DEEPLY. To kill it, you must
REACH it. Get tai at any
drug store. A STRONG fungicide,
made with 900 alcohol, it PENE-
TRATES. Reaches More Germs.
Today at R. w. VINSON, Drug
gist, Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-08-18

Les, we know it looks like lot more money.
That stunning new front end - those graceful,
tapering fenders-those bigger interiors and high
visibility windows add UP to a car you'd expect
to wear pretty fancy price tag.
But come in and see for yourself how right we
were when said this new beauty was priced
right down your alley.
Come try the comfort-patterned seats, handle this
easily managed wheel, lift the hood and see the
bonnet-hlline valve.in-head straieht-eight power
plantyou command, measure the shorter bumper
to-bumper length.
hen do little hard boiled matching up of
price tags
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