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Evening star., 1949-10-06

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Evening star., 1949-10-06

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familiar pattern asserted itself, the four
papers publishing higher ratio Of favor
able statements than did the five others.
The researchers also found that In the use
of background material-material pub
lished in new stories to recall what had
been printed before-Dr. Condor got the
worst of it. The score for all of the papers
showed that general denunciations of Dr.
Condor were repeated six times as often as
general statements in his favor.
This is sketchy and oversimplified
resume of the study. But 1t is sufficient
to indicate that the reporting techniques
employed in the Condor case, and espe
cially those of the five papers whose re-
ports were on the unsympathetic side, are
deserving of serious thought by the news
paper fraternity
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Paid Labor LEGISLATORS

1t is hard to believe that there is any
truth in the report that the American
Federation of Labor is considering a
scheme to pack State Legislatures with
prolabor members by paying them supple
mental salaries
The regular pay Of most State legisla-
tors is small. This, according to the report,
discourages men who would be sympa-
thetic to labor from seeking those offices.
So the AFL, again according to the report,
is planning to get around this obstacle by
picking candidates who will vote as labor
wants them to vote, and then arranging
to pay them enough out of union funds,
in addition to their official pay, to make
service in the Legislatures attractive.
Any such project as this would be little
better than outright bribery of the State
Legislatures It would mean return to
the days when the State Legislatures were
alleged to be the property of the railroads
and other financial interests, credited
them with a power that the labor unions
seemingly would assert for themselves.
1t is true that in many States the pay
is too small to attract the best men. But
the remedy lies in higher State pay, not
in the purchase of legislators by labor,
industry or any other special group.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Moyinq in the Wrong Direction

As our Metropolitan Area continues It's
development there is greater need for the
closest sort of cooperation between agen-
cies that have to do with planning and
coming.
It was with that thought in mind that
Virginia's legislature authorized the crea-
ton of Northern Virginia Regional Plan
ming Commission, embracing the counties
at this end of the State. The same con-
sideration is evident in the plans OF the
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission for future legislation which would
include in the membership of that body
representatives from the States of Mary
land and Virginia. And it was that thought
that led originally to the creation OF the
bi-county Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, which exercises
the planning functions for Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties in close CO.
operation with, but Independently OF, the
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
It is therefore disconcerting to find that
Montgomery County representatives in the
Maryland legislature are pressing for legis-
lation which would strip the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission of its legislative and administra-
tive authority and vest it in the new
County Council There are political
backgrounds in the proposal, rejecting the
feeling among some of the residents of the
county that the existing commission is not
as responsive as it should be to local senti-
nert, and that it is subject to domination
by such men as E. Brooke Lee, who hap
pens to be Democrat. The plan also has
the respected backing of the Brookings
Institution.
But some day this whole area, surround
Ing Washington, will have to be treated as
one If it is to develop along the right lines.
A new Montgomery County agency, di-
vorced from Prince Georges, still may be
able to work out practical methods of close
cooperation with other agencies. But
taken at face value, the move for separa-
ton is one that goes against the trend and
is therefore to be regretted.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Zionism Fulfilled?


The State of Israel now has been accorded
full recognition by the United States and
de facto recognition by many States of West
ern Europe, etc. AS an independent sover-
eign nation, Israel should be freed from any
political arm operating within the boundar
les of other sovereign nations.
American organizations should not be per-
mitted to interfere in the affairs OF the
sovereign state of Israel, and likewise Israel
Through affiliated political organizations in
the United States) should not be permitted
to interfere with nor alter the status Of
Americans of Jewish faith.
Humanitarian support of Israeli, and
economic support of Israel, can and should
continue through appropriate, philanthropic,
investment and official American (and
other) channels.
Thus would the new state enjoy fore
square opportunity to stand (and grov) ON
its own feet.
This being so, it would appear that the
role of political Zionism World Zionist
Organization and Zionist Organization OF
America) has been played to its final cur
tain call and should gracefully bow out.
JOSEPH D. KAUFMAN.
Chairman, DC. Chapter. American Coun-
Gil for Judaism.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Marshall Plan Test

1t Is apparent at the Capitol that the
chief problem facing the Economic Co.
operation Administration in winning con-
gressional authorization for $3.50, 900
to carry on the Marshall Plan is not going
to be about money. The problem will be to
fight off a rapidly forming effort to turn
the Marshall Plan into bailing-out
operation for mounting American agricul-
tural surpluses.
ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman put
the point very bluntly during hearing. If
Congress wants to make the European
Recovery Program IAN American recovery
program he said, then say SO specifically
in the new legislation.
The original act provided that half the
ECA goods going to Europe should be car
ried in American bottoms When Mr..
Hoffman tried to interpret this to the point
of saving ECA dollars, the shipping in
terests landed on him with both feet ECA
estimates that this provision, strictly in
terpreted, cost about 100000 last year,
and will cost S25,0OO00O in the coming
fiscal year.
Like shipping, American millers also man.
aged to work their way into the Marshall
Plan last year. The law says fourth of aR
wheat sent abroad had to be milled into
-four here first.
A year ago wheat, meat and other foods
were in short supply at home and prices
were sky high. Congress required ECA to
buy as much of these and other foods out
side the United States as it possibly could,
a laudable effort to hold down inflationary
pressures at home. Now the situation is
almost completely reversed.
Wheat is flowing out of our ears. There
are rapidly mounting surpluses of cotton,
of fats and oils and of other things, down
to dried fruits. Growers of each of these
crops are pressuring their Congressman to
get ECA to export more Of them.
The commodity market break in recent
davs has snowbaled the drive. The Com
nerce Department, after day of criticism
bv the two banking committees ip Con-
gress, hastily removed export controls over
inedible fats and oils. ECA Is quickly
shifting ground and there are not likely to
be anv new food purchases abroad of items
now so much in surplus at home.
But the danger is that this alone will not
satisfy the representatives of agricultural
areas facing surplus problems and lower
wholesale prices. The danger is that they
will write into the new foreign aid act
provisions forcing ECA to spend too much
of the IS $50, 600, 900 it needs to carry on the
Marshall Plan for agricultural products
instead of for raw materials machinery
and other badly needed recovery items.
In the first year, the approximately
$4,000 100000 ECA allotted went $1,000 OOO,-
600 for food, 50 OOo,O 100000 for raw materials
and s1ooo,OoO,Ooo for machinery. The
ennhasis on food should be decreasing IN
the years ahead, not increasing.
It is not yet clear that those who hope
TO dump agricultural surpluses abroad, via
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Trial by Newspaper

The February issue of the magazine
Scientific American contains an article en-
titled Trial by Newspaper in which an
attempt Is made to measure the treatment
of the Condor case in New York City'S nine
daily newspapers. One is left in some
doubt as to the significance of the findings.
But there is no doubt that this is an impor-
tant and interesting study for those In and
out of the newspaper business who are
concerned with complaints that the press
Is biased in its news reporting.
The study covers the eight-month period
beginning last March when subcommit-
tee of the House Un-American Activities
group accused DR.. Edward U. Condor, di-
rector of the Bureau of Standards, of ap-
pearing to be "one of the weakest links in
our atomic security" Only material ap-
pearing in the news columns, as distin-
guished from editorial treatment, was
studied. The method used is known as
content analysis" and the study was con-
Quoted by the Bureau of Applied Social
Research of Columbia University.
A total of 5000 statements appearing in
the news columns of the nine papers were
analyzed. 1t was found that Is per cent
were sympathetic to DR.. Condor, 10 per
cent unsympathetic. More significant was
the finding that in four of the papers there
was marked preponderence of sympathe-
tic statements. One paper divided evenly,
and the four others were preponderantly
anti Condor. It was also found that the
same four papers which published more
pro-Condon statements also published a
higher proportion of statements critical
Of the subcommittee.
In July Dr. Condor was cleared by the
Atomic Energy Commission. Again the
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Meat Diet Harmful?

To the Editor Of The Star:
Meat is not necessary in the diet and
definitely should not be eaten" A number
of doctors in good standing subscribe to
this belief. despite the captiousness Of many
of their fellows. For centuries men have
been divided on the issue.
Is it beyond the power of medical science
to establish incontrovertible proof as to
whether meat is harmful in the average
diet? Since some lay minds are uncertain,
what about the members of the medical
profession getting together and thrashing
out the problem so conclusively that all
rational minds will be convinced?
ROBERT L. BURCH.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
j.. Letters to The Star ~%
Investigation of Prices Useless :

Investigation of Prices Useless?
To the Editor of The Star:
According to an Associated Press news
item on the front page of The Star of Feb
ruary 8, the Senate Banking Committee is
Ito investigate what is keeping retail and
consumer prices so high" The good Sem
ators could save the time and expense of an
investigation by using little common sense.
The reason for high consumer prices OF
any commodity at any time under conditions
of free enterprise is simply that customers
will pay them. When the price of wheat
and flour drop one third, for example, and
the price of 10-cent loaf of bread remains
Is cents, the reason is that the retailer can
get Is cents for it. Why shouldn't busi-
nessman take all he can get for what he
sells and buy it at the lowest possible price?
If you were in his place. would you sell bread
at 10 cents loaf if you could get IS for 1t?
Led by politicians angling for votes. we
have gone so far along the road of social
gains" and the attempted substitution of
statutes for the law of supply and demand
that we almost have forgotten that man
still is free to refuse to pay prices that are
too high. If flour is low and bread high, buy
flour and bake your bread. If baker can
make more money selling bread at 10 cents
loaf than at IS. he will be quick to make
the discovery and change his price. But who
in this boom town would take the time and
trouble to bake bread. not to mention buy
ing the wheat and grinding 1t Qike Henry
Wallace? All right, then, If consumers
prefer, let them pay the prices demanded
for bread and other products, but don't
blame the dealers and don't expect an in
vestigation to help.
The announced investigation by the Sem
ate Banking Committee might serve the
purpose of politicians, but so long as we have
free enterprise the sensible businessman will
sell at the most profitable prices and con-
sumers will continue to decide for themselves
what they will pay.
GEORGE FREDERICK MILLER.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Prescription From the Doctors

Probably the most significant thing
about the American Medical Associations
plan for the extension of medical care Is
that the ANA has offered one.
Up to this time the doctors have found
themselves in curiously untenable posi-
tion. In the face of growing popular de-
mand for some governmental program that
will make medical care more generally
available and mitigate the financial catas-
trophe of illness, the doctors have relied
too strongly on purely negative opposi-
ton. Now they have come forward with
positive plan of their own which they are
willing to push as vigorously throughout
the country as the proponents of so-called
"socialized medicine" have done in Wash
ington.
This is a sound approach, from the
standpoint of the doctors own public re-
lations and from the standpoint of the
spublic that in the end will decide what 1t
wants. 1t should lead to debate that will
get down to details and present to the
people an opportunity to judge between
the advantages to themselves of such
schemes as compulsory health insurance,
administered by the Federal Security
Agency and financed by another payroll
tax, and the voluntary insurance method
advocated by the doctors with public as
sistance reserved for those who cannot
help themselves.
Thus far the doctors have been con-
ducting a sort of orderly retreat In l946
they were able to support the Hill-Burton
Act for assistance to The States in hospital
construction, while centering opposition
to the much broader Murray-Dingell
compulsory health insurance measure.
They have favored Senator Taft's bill, for
aid to the States in providing medical care
for the INDECENT, which was not approved
but which lessened pressure for the COM
pulSory insurance plan in the S0th Con-
gress. This year Senator Taft is coming up
with a new measure. But in the mean
time the administration is pretty well COM
mitted to the Murray-Dingell bill and now
the doctors, under great pressure from the
AMA's own membership, have brought out
the plan announced yesterday in Chicago.
Its governing philosophy is encourage
ment of voluntary health insurance, which
has come to assume substantial proper
tions, instead Of a payroll tax-supported
compulsory system. The Federal Govern
ment, through new department under
the professional administration of doctors,
would assume direction of aid to States
in other particulars as a substitute for
administration by the Federal Security
Agency.
The doctors are also active in the States
and have lent their prestige and influence
to numerous State plans which are being
written in the legislatures. They will go
further and faster If they drop such smear
terms as "socialized medicine" and sprawl
ing bureacracy" and get busy educating
the general public on how the public in
terest, not merely the interests of the medi
cal profession, will best be served by taking
what the doctors have now prescribed.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Askino for Trouble

1t Is hard to see how any radio station
today could be so irresponsible as to repeat
the Invasion from Mars stunt which
caused so much panic in New Jersey in
1888. That ill-advised hoax showed how
susceptible large portions of the public can
be to mass hysteria in an age full of scien
tific miracles. Now that scientists talk
seriously about rockets to the moon the
possibility of invasions from other worlds
seems even less fantastic than it did ten
years ago.
The imaginative producers of the Mar
tian invasion" broadcast in Ecuador were
asking for trouble when they interrupted
a weekend radio show to report" the ap-
proach of the "sky monsters" So con-
vincing were the bulletins" that frenZied
crowds in Quito fled in search of shelter
and even the police rushed to the scene
of the alleged landings" When the spon-
sors of the broadcast learned how seriously
the program had been received, they sought
to undo the damage by reassuring the
populace. But the stunt backfired on the
perpetrators. Before the angry rioting was
over, a score of persons were dead and
the radio station and newspaper building
in which 1t was housed were destroyed.
The Quito broadcast not only was devoid
Of originality but evidenced that its insti-
gators were lacking in ordinary common
the lessons of experience and for the
sensibilities of the public has no proper
place in such field as radio.
Evening star., 1949-02-15

ECA, will succeed But If they do, they
will not only turn this unprecedented
American effort for European recovery into
just another relief program. They will
also lend support to the Russian conten-
tion, expressed from the day the Marshall
Plan was first announced, that all it really
amounts to is a gigantic scheme to dump
American surpluses in Europe, whether or
not. Ahe Europeans want them.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Records of Surratt Trials
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star.
In reply to the letter signed History on
the trial of Mrs. Surratt believe that full
reports of both the Surratt trials, that of
Mrs. Surratt by military commission and
the later trial of John Surratt by civil
court. were published many years ago. Cop
les were at one time, and probably still are,
In the library of the United States Soldiers
Home. and believe also in the library Of
the War Departments M. S. CAKE
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Geneva Aereements)

Before the Geneva cuts, which went into
effect last year, our rates on dutiable COM
modities had declined from Al per cent in
1908 to 10 per cent in 1947; the rate on
all commodities. free and dutiable, dropped
from 10 per cent to 7.6 per cent. The cur
rent rates are still lower.
While some individual rates are still high,
the average, whether calculated on "du-
table" basis alone. or free and dutiable"
basis, Is moving downward.
In the present state of the world, tariffs
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Bell

The shape of the bell and the sound o.;
the bell are one.
The rising call OF the bell is shaped
Like the metal curpe from Dhtch it comes,
The ,pider arc of sound struck once agatx
As the sides sing, as the bronze hams
The sound of the bell outsuretns, alUays
returning
Is ,uater from ntusic's tDell,
The cold tongue forever burning;
The wiater OF sound fo,uered before the
spring has begun.
The shape of the bell and the sound OF the
bell are one.
SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN.
Evening star., 1949-02-15
Questions and Answers

A leader can get the answer to any question OF
fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau. 316 / street NE, Washinston =, D. c.
Please inclose three 3I cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1949-02-15

Churchill's mighty memoirs move into a
second phase, 1.-The Finest Hour" and we
only hope we live long enough to learn
how all this comes out
Evening star., 1949-02-15

repairs would cost more than expected,
where's the news?
Evening star., 1949-02-15

All we have is the word that the five
cent cigar is back; nothing from those who
know tobacco best.