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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
An IlIoqicoI DeIetion

Beyond understanding Is the action OF
the House Appropriations Committee In
denying the request of the District Sesqui-
centennial Commission for 81 500 900 with
which TO carry out It's mandate from
Congress and the President. That man
date was implicit in the legislation Great
ing the commission. 1t was explicit In
President Truman's statement 10 the COM
mission at its FIRST meeting more than q
year ago.
The President, speaking as q member of
the commission, set the pattern for the
observance when he declared that the
15oth birthday anniversary Of the National
Capital Is - matter Of importance TO all
the citizens of the United States and .
symbol to freedom loving people every
where" He called for q celebration next
year "in keeping with the high importance
of the occasion" Under this authority.
commission officials have been making
plans for what they hoped would be an
adequate, but not extravagant, centennial
program. In accordance with Mr.. Tru-
mans expressed wishes, all the States have
been invited to participate. A national
exposition, q pageant and similar events
have been planned, with suitable tempo
rary buildings to be erected in West Poto-
mac Park. Only last week New York
State appropriated $4,000 to finance its
participation and created a fifteen-mem-
Der commission to make preparations.
Many other States have advised the Dis
trict group of their desire to take part in
the exposition and other phases Of the
program
All Of these preparations will be futile
If Congress should fail to grant funds
with which to plan and stage the Wash
ington celebration. The commission 50
far has been struggling along on
preliminary grant of $4,000. The COM
mission had asked for So 900, 900 additional
as a minimum appropriation, but the
budget provided for only half this amount
And now the House committee, without
explanation, has knocked even this sum
from the pending deficiency bill. Against
the background Of legislative and pres
idential authorizations for the sesqui-
centennial, the deletion Of the item does
not make sense. The Star hopes that the
Senate Appropriations Committee will re-
store the appropriation and that both
houses of Congress will 60 even further
and grant the full amount sought by the
commission. without adequate funds there
can be no adequate observance-and an
inadequate one would be a discredit to
Washington and the Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
To the Editor of The Star.

10 the EnltoT OF Inc star,
I was very much interested In your edi-
torial relating TO the inconsistency of having
Congress pass a special bill every year 10
permit the District Of Columbia TO change It's
time. I agree with you 100 per cent The
method is not only inconsistent but also
expensive. Roughly. 1t costs the Federal
Government about $4,000 to pass this bill.
And how? Here 1t is: About $50 Senators
and Representatives will take about FIVE days
Of their time to work the thing out. Based
upon their salary at $50 a day each. the
grand total is $75 900.
Silly way of wasting time and money.
L. H. PASQUALICCHIO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Man and the Suber-Tooth Tiqer

Eighty two ear-old DR.. Robert Broom, a
celebrated Scottish paleontologist, has just
arrived in this country from South Africa
to lecture about some apelike people who
lived there a million or more years ago.
With him he has brought plastic cast of
the skull of one of them who apparently
was devoured by saber-tooth tiger in a
cave near Pretoria-a fate typical, as q
New York news story has put 1t, "of those
unhappy times when man had not yet
learned to rule the animal kingdom"
But how unhappy were those times,
really? Were they any worse than ours, or
were they possibly better? According to DR..
Broom, the prehistoric people who lived
around Pretoria were not as evolved as we
are now, which means they were not very
bright, not equipped with tools or weapons
worthy of the name, not masters OF their
environment, and hence constantly afraid
Of being made meal Of by bigger and
stronger animals, especially saber tooth
tigers. Yet, even though 1t must have been
depressing to worry all the time about
being eaten up by one of the latter, there
Is at least some reason to doubt that DR..
than we are in our own day.
Happiness, after all, is relative thing,
and so is unhappiness. Early man, regard
less of such threats as the saber-tooth
tiger, enjoyed certain compensations. Not
having much of mind, he did not think
q great deal, his Imagination was restricted,
the world around him was comparatively
simple, and his capacity for worry was
thus sharply limited. We, on the other
offsetting physical comforts in the refine
ments Of what we call our advanced civili-
cation, have built ourselves an environment
which in many ways Is more to be dreaded
than ferocious beasts. We are so smart, so
inventive, so good at making life more and
more complicated, SO brilliant in atomic,
meteorological and other fields, that worry
for us and our age seems to be growing to
the point of inf1nity.
To say the least, therefore, it is doubtful
that we are any happier today than DR..
Broom's prehistoric people. They may have
found it unpleasant to think OF the saber-
tooth tiger and to be unable to rule the
animal kingdom. But what about us? Leav-
ing aside constantly nagging nuisances Ike
taxes and snarled traffic, we have things
like the A-bomb to brood over, and al
though we may be the masters Of our four
footed jungle friends. we are not yet the
masters of ourselves fact that makes
this stage of history the most perilous In
the evolution of the human race.
For modern man, with his awesome ma
chimes and annihilating weapons, Is In
himself the danger he must most fear.
Certainly, until he learns to rule his own
kingdom - well O. he has learned 70 rule
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Armed Aid to Europe

Publication of the request from our North
Atlantic allies for military assistance, and
the assurance to them that the President
will ask Congress to provide such aid,
brings us up against the thornier side Of
| the project for bolsterins the Western
| World against Communist aggression.
1t does not seem to The Star that there
will be, or that in good conscience there
can be, any serious difference among our
selves over ratification of the North At
lantic Pact. That pact Is simply a device
| for mutual aid in the face of threatened
or actual aggression. It marks an effort on
the part of the subscribing nations to
stand together rather than fall separately,
! and this Is an undertaking so obviously
sensible that 1t surely will have the over
whelming support of the American people.
The supplementary arms agreement,
which will call for American assistance in
rebuilding Western Europe's military
power, is different matter. There can
hardly be any doubt that some such agree
ment is essential If other programs, like
the European Recovery Program and the
security pact, are to have their intended
effect. But when 1t comes to the details of
an arms agreement, its character and its
scope, there are bound to be wide differ
ences of opinion.
In his statement accompanying publica-
ton of the exchange of correspondence
with the other pact countries, Secretary of
State Acheson sheds little light on the
kind OF program the President has in
mind. He would not venture even an lin
formed guess as to its cost, but Specula-
ton, possibly not well informed, has
ranged from something more than bill
lion dollars to somewhat less than two bill
lion for the first year. The President has
indicated that he wants the cost of the
program met through an appropriation
that would be in addition to scheduled
OUTLAWS. On the other hand, his chief eco
nomic adviser, Dr. Edwin c. Nourse, has
made statement which suggests that he
Is opposed to any increase in the budget
without new taxes, and that as an alterna-
tive he favors "reworking the whole opera
ton and financing plan"
Other questions which will arise are
whether the arms program is aimed pri-
marily at psychological effect, and
whether the United States, within the
limitations of its own resources, can hope
to finance the creation of any military
force in Western Europe that would stand
up under the impact Of, a full-scale Russian
attack. ,e-
ssTnereis EM much to be gained, however,
from speculation on points like these until
the details of the proposed program are
released. About all that can be said now
y that it kessential9to create a sense of
security infMestern Europe, and that If we
are going to Err in the matter Of American
aid 1t will be better to err on the side of
too much rather than too little-provided
always that we do not destroy the ef-
fectiveness of the over all program by Sc
riously weakening ourselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Achievement

A bog must learn to make q kns =
OF paper. glue and string:
To fashion II nth deep Delight ~
A fragile. pointed thing. s
And then, some day spon AN
To let his kite ascend
ADORE the trees 10 climb NTH skfB
The ladder Of the tcfnd.
For. seeing thus the thing ne raa0s
Become q fras success
That bog shall not forget no piots4
Yet pcrke6 for hcpptnsss.
DOROTHY HARRfNU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09

Omissions from Mr.. Churchill's Story
To the Editor OF The Star:
In the second volume of Winston Church
Ills war memoirs. as published in the Mont
real Standard, Mr.. Churchill tells at the
very outset the scale and force of the con-
tribution which Great Britain and her EN-
pire. whom danger only united more tensely.
made to what eventually became the Com
mon Cause of so many great States and
nations"
His summary is brief but illuminating:
Until July, 1914, Britain and the Common
the enemy than the United States Britain
and the Commonwealth lost Az 900 men
killed. the United States 1893 900; that's
without counting $4,000 British civilians and
10000 merchant seamen who lost their lives.
Until the end Of 1943, British discharge of
bombs upon Germany exceeded the Ameri
can by eight tons to one.
This is all set down." said Mr.. Churchill
mot to claim undue credit. but to establish
on a footing capable of commanding fair
minded respect the intense output in every
form Of war activity OF the people of this
small island upon whom in the crisis OF
the worlds history the brunt fell"
It seems unfortunate that in the con-
densation carried to American readers by
Life Magazine. the 10 paragraphs contain
ing this information have been omitted.
This particular passage runs to only l28
lines of type. Surely, in seven installments.
1t might have been possible to find room for
a set Of facts which would be most valuable.
because least sfamilisr. to Life's $780, 900
American readeFss%~~sS4 ~4@ssa- A READER. y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Questions ond Answers

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE

O. In what year did the last graxshopper
plague occur in the United States7-EA,S 9.
A. The last great infestation OF grass
hoppers occurred In 1885 and 1897. -Four
species were concerned In North and South
Dakota. Nebraska. Kansas and some neigh
boring States Some authorities believe that
from present indications the summer Of
l949 may bring another grasshopper plague.
O. Why Ia the fog dispensing apparatus
installed in some airpors known ~ FrDof
H. e. 8.
A. FrDo now stands for fog intensive.
dispersal Of" This system OF clearing fog
was developed for Use at air bases In Eng
land during World War II.
O. Who owns the ice-breaker Mackinaw7
S B. w.
A. The Mackinaw Is a ship Of the United
States Coast Guard. and the only one Of
her size and type The Mackinaw 10 $50
feet In length. She Ia stationed at Che
boygan. Wis. breaking ice In the Great
Lakes
@. Where Is Chang Kai-shek living al
present7-C. o.
A, After his retirement as President Of
China Oeneraiissimo Chang new 70 his
ancestral home At Fengnwa In the north
east Of Chekiang Province. with the idea OF
proceeding later to Forrnosa.
@. Does the temperature 60 above freer-
ing point in the Antartic IN any months OF
the year7-~L. z.
A. The Antarctic Continent proper has not
one month Of the year In which the ATerass
temperature rises even 10 freezing point
@. What was the inscription on the sspTd
presented TO George Washington by Fseo-
erick the 0reat7-cMcK-
A. On the golden scaoosrd were the ioi-
lowing words In Latin: Prom the osoeat
general tn Europe 10 the greatest senfF@
tn the world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09

A Nebraskan of n now finds himself
married to a woman lawyer, bewildering
experience If all he wanted was habeas
corpus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09

the animal kingdom, II win seem slightly
silly Of him TO sympathise with his prinni-
tive forebears for having had TO live In
those unhappy times" when the relatively
mild saber-tooth tiger was the big worry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Inter.Racial Courtesy Observed

To the Editor Of The Star;
Coming down on the train from New York
recently I noticed an incident worth COM
menting upon with reference TO inter-racial
relations
A chap In his thirties boarded the train
at North Philadelphia and sat across from
me- Negro lady was arranging her bag
gage. and this fellow graciously lifted her
grips to the racks
Arriving in Washington our friend ar
ranged again for the colored lady's bag
gage, and carried 1t to the porter for the
lady.
NV only clue TO the identity OF this era
cious chap Ia that overheard him say that
he was q law student at Catholic Uniyer-
sity under the CT program
ANONYMOUS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Senator Lancer Mistaken

7
Senator LANCER never opens his mouth but
he puts his foot In it. Take his attack on
Winston Churchill: We know that al the
time he states that Mr.. Churchill was fight
ing with Spain against the United States
that Mr.. Churchill was in South Africa acting
as a correspondent for London newspaper.
He was on an armored train which was
mined and blown up near the Tugelg River
in Natal. when the Beers took him prisoner.
That was long way from the Spanish
army. EILERY.
Evening star., 1949-02-08

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23

Action Seen

= Indications were that despite OPP
position from many quarters, the
administrations big new housing
bill would get out of committee and
60 to the house floor for action.
THE RULES committee. which
twice last year killed similar legis-
lation. had refused to clear the ur-
rent bill. But Rep. A. J. SABBATH
3D., Il.1 was predicting the COM
mittee would act to clear the meas
ure.
SABBATH was on fairly safe ground,
for under the new house 'anti-
bottleneck" procedure adopted in
January, the multibillion = dollar
housing bill could be put to a house
vote over the rules committees
objections.
THE housing program, n of
President Truman's major cam
paign promises. was approved by
the senate April 81 on a 81 to Is
vote. It then begged down in the
house.
The bill calls for a vast program
of slum clearance. low-rent hous-
ing and farm housing aids. :
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23
PRICE SUPPORT:
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke

Arrangements for new price sup
port programs for tobacco were
announced by the federal depart
ment of agriculture.
THE government viii make loans
on flue-cured tobacco at 80 per cent
of the parity price-as it was June
Is. Loans on hurley and other types
of tobacco would be at the Septem-
Der is parity price, except fire.
cured tobacco, which would be IS
per cent of the hurley rate, and
dark air-cured tobacco $685. per
cent of the hurley rate.
(Parity is a price based on the
relationship between prices Of the
things the farmers have to buy and
prices of the products they sell. The
government uses a basing period
during which this relationship Of
prices gave the farmer what it con-
siders a 'fair profit').
THE RATES a pound at which
the support prices will be paid was
to be announced in July for flue-
cured tobacco and for other types
in October.
The full loans will be made only
to tobacco growers who do not
grow more tobacco than they are
permitted under marketing quotas.
These quotas have been set up for
flue-cured, hurley, fire-cured and
dark, air-cured tobaccos. There are
no quotas on other types.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23
TRUMAN:
DroDs Curb Bill

There was one thing about Presi-
dent Truman-he was beginning to
develop the ability to recognize a
hint when he saw it. There have
been times when the President
seemed to suffer from an ability
to do that, but now it's different.
The President, obviously with an
understanding ear to the ground,
has decided he won't press con-
gress to give him standby war
powers.
THAT'S not only wise Of the
President, it's good strategy, par
ticularly since it would have been
impossible for the administration
to convince the 81st congress that
any such powers are needed.
However, there was an official
reason advanced for the change in
detectives. One authority described
the revision of plan as a ''quiet
Standardization" of the national
security resources board on White
House orders. In other words, the
emphasis would be away from keep
ing the people agitated and alerted
for possible future war.
THE war powers bill would have
provided a detailed mobilization
act covering priority and seizure
powers, controls over prices. man
power; production and transporta-
ton. It would. if enacted, 60 into
effect automatically on the declara-
ton of war emergency by congress.
MI. Truman was said to have
decided it would be inappropriate
to try to get such a law passed in
peacetime.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23

Right Now

ST regret" the senator from
Maine said, that we are now in a
state of depression. 1t is not a thing
Of the future. It is right now"
After thus evoking the spirit of
the 1905, Sen. Owen Brewster an
nounced blandly that senate Re-
publicans shortly would sponsor a
50-million-doIlar public-works and
relief-planning program ''to meet
the growing Democratic depres-
sion"
THE BILL to be projected along
these lines would not in itself pro-
vide funds for public works, but
merely would finance the planning
of a shelf of such works to be
started when deemed advisable.
Sen. Robert Taft tR., Ohio, who
also is in on the deal, said that
what he had in mind was a bill
that would establish the framework
for federal grants to states If their
relief cases should reach a certain
percentage of their total population.
Said Taft: what we Republicans
want to. avoid is the creation Of
another WPA like Harry Hopkins
ram"
Without trying to guess how much
relief spending might be necessary
under such a plan, Senator Brew
ster opined that would depend up
on just how bad this Democratic
depression gets"
Whether this relief bill" pro-
posal is sincere or whether it is a
cynical attempt to discredit the adj
ministration in the face of the COM
ing 1850 elections. only time would
| tell.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23
CONJURER:
Nume, Smile

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who
inherited a name and a smile to
conjure with and wasted little time
in conjuring with them, has been
duly sworn in as a member Of the
house of representatives.
The 34-year-old congressman from
New York's goth district, filling the
seat left vacant by the death of Sol
Bloom, ran as a candidate Of the
Four Freedoms and Liberal parties,
although he will operate as a work.
ing Democrat in the legislative
arena.
ROOSEVELT failed to get the
regular Democratic nomination
during the campaign so he ran on
the Four Freedoms ticket. In so
doing he scored a popular upset
over the regular CTammany) Demo
crat, a Republican and an American
Labor candidate.
The third o Of the late Presi-
dent took the oath from Acting
Speaker John W. Mccormack ID,
Mass.), while his mother beamed
happily from the gallery.
During his first day on the job
Roosevelt:
:. CHATTED briefly with President
Truman; denied a rumor that he
might run for mayor of New York;
allowed that he hoped congress
would repeal the Taft-Hartley labor
law, enact MIR. Truman's civil rights
program and put through a ma
tional housing act.
It all looked like a reasonable be-
ginning for another Roosevelt politi-
cal career.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23
RED CHINA:

Quiescent
Communism. like the worm In
the bud, was creeping swiftly
through China as the presence of
the Red conquerors began to make
itself felt.
At one village meeting in north
ern China. a man, bewildered and
dismayed by the use of the Russian
hammer-and-sickle flag in Chinese
Communist meetings and parades,
ventured to rise and ask a ques-
ton:
WHY IS THIS DoNE?n he said.
Russia is a foreign country and
we r Chinese"
And the presiding political COM
missar snapped, This subject is
not on the agenda."
About the only thing that did
show up on the agenda throughout
the country was the puzzled but
ready acquiescence Of the Chinese
to Communist rule.
As a result, the nation appeared
to be well on its way to assuming
q regular orbit as a willing satellite
Of Russia.
FOR THE MOST PART there
have been no signs Of coercion or
compulsion in the relationship.
There is every evidence that the
Chinese Communists are in fact
eager to follow the dictates Of
Moscow. And that revelation should
be enough to destroy any illusion
that the Chinese Communists are
just simple agrarian reformers.
They are whole-hearted, COM
pletely dogmatic Communists, fol-
lowing the doctrines laid down by
Karl Marx and adapted for Goth
century application by his disciples,
Lenin and Stalin-and by Mao TIE
tung, leader of China's Commu-
nists.
THERE IS as yet no conclusive
evidence that the Kremlin is giving
direct, active aid to the Chinese
Communists. But the affinity and
spirit Of cooperation that exists be-
tween Moscow and Peiping, capital
Of Communist China, is tangible
enough.
The application of China's in
ternal situation to the rest of the
world is disturbingly clear: Through
the rule Of Mao Tze-tung and his
party, China inevitably is becoming
a massive extension of the Soviet
power-bloc.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-06-23

Dwight D. Eisenhower. speaking
not as a military leader but as a
college president, again saw fit
to warn the nation against letting
the federal government get too
strong. It was the second time the
supreme commander of Allied for
ces in World War II had issued that
warning.
Declaring that he is opposed to
legislation which would make fed