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Evening star., 1949-09-24
Postpone the DeudIine

Inc september IL QedQllIle Oll dppllCd-
tions for changes in or renewal of G1
training courses was an illogical choice
and should be withdrawn. 1t was Illogical
because it was retroactive date with
which it was manifestly impossible for
students not gifted with prescience to
comply It should be withdrawn in favor
of later deadline as matter of simple
Justice to thousands of veterans who
failed to apply prior to date they knew
nothing about. These veterans, if their
belated applications subsequently are ap-
proved, will be penalized to the extent OF
tuition and subsistence costs up to the
time of formal acceptance. Few of them
can afford these unforeseen costs.
There Is nothing in the law designating
September IL as the deadline for applying
for resumption of dropped training or for
changes in courses or schools. The date
was picked by the Veterans Administra-
tion not long after passage of the VA
appropriation bill on August "a, but every
body there kept it dark secret until three
days after it had become effective. First
announcement of the deadline was made
in press release on September 15
Officials have, indicated that the early
deadline was chosen with view to cutting
of CT enrollments in fy-by-night courses
not likely to qualify under the ban on
educational" training. This ban was
instituted on July l, 1948, and was extended
In the new appropriation bill. Congress
adopted the restriction to meet criticism
OF GI courses in dancing, personality de-
velopment, recreational flying and the like.
But in slapping an early application dead
line on such courses the VA inadvertently
has administered severe blow to CT
students who wish to resume worthwhile,
approved training or who wish to take up
new line of study or switch schools. And
70 add % the difficulties sof SilcR students,
4bme field representatives of the VA are re-
ported to have ruled in effect, that the
mere seeking of degree is not necessarily
proof of vocational objective.
The american oet@tnm uncaiidnsns
been besieged with protests from students
and from university officials over the twin
subjects OF the passed deadline and the
Interpretation by some VA representatives
Of what constitutes educational training"
Council officials are planning TO confer
with VA policy makers in an effort to
have the application deadline postponed
until more reasonable date, perhaps
November l. In the meantime, the council
will seek from the VA definition of "avo-
cational' that will not prevent bona fde
students from striving for degrees, even
though they are unable to prove that this
higher learning is essential to getting
Job. The councils proposals deserve favor
able consideration by VA officials.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

she could create 50 much of q private
life for herself under such circumstances.
Like her Washington-born mother, she
chose this community as the scene of her
earnest apprenticeship. During most of
two summer seasons, she was a member
of the resident company of Olney Theater.
There, to the Joy of her parents, she was
known as Mary Macarthur, small, in
tense creature steadily increasing in her
skill and promise as an actress, and doing
1t on her own and in her own right.
In her death, something precious has
been lost to those who knew her, to the
theater, and, above all, to the parents
who were SO wise in their love for a
gifted child,
Evening star., 1949-09-24
1t Sounds Sensible, Anywoy

School Board Member Adelbert Lees
suggestion that children in overcrowded
schools be transported by bus to schools
that are running under capacity evoked
no favorable response at recent meeting
Of the Board of Education. Superintend-
ent Of Schools Corning said he was "funda-
mentally opposed" to the idea and no
action was taken.
But before the suggestion is dropped,
the Board of Education should take some
pains to explain why 1t has no merit Our
problem in Washington, which is reflected
in diversified and part-time classes, is not
wholly the result of lack of schools. It is
due more directly to lack Of schools in
the right places. No matter how generous
the appropriations might be to build new
schools in newly developed parts of the
city, many years will intervene before
overcrowding and part-time instruction are
eliminated by adequate permanent facil-
tiles.
This situation is not peculiar to WASH
ington. Detroit Is one Of the cities now
spending substantial amount of money
on bus transportation, designed to relieve
precisely the same sort of condition.
DR.. Corning made no elaborate explanation
OF his fundamental opposition But he
seemed to be thinking more of the prob
lem Of pacifying all the parents who
thought their own children should have
bus rides to and from school than Of
what might be done by such an expedient
to give children in crowded schools a
full-time day of instruction.
After the First World War the school
authorities found that construction of
so-called portable schools was the only
quick answer to overcrowding. One COM
plant with the portable, or temporary
school buildings, was that they became
relatively permanent. Years passed before
the portables were replaced by perma-
nent buildings. If detailed study Of
the problem today showed that use of
school buses could alleviate conditions that
otherwise would remain until permanent
buildings are erected, Mr. Lees suggestion
makes sense. If not, the suggestion should
be dropped, but only after a showing Of
why 1t lacks merit.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
'Operution Lookout

The enemy" plane-detection tests con-
Quoted last week over ten-State area
by the Continental Air Command have led
to some important findings They have
exposed the shortcomings of our radar de-
fense system-a system which admittedly
is inadequate both as to nature Of equip
ment and number of stations. And they
have shown the indispensability of q civil
ian air raid spotting corps Of the type
organized during World War II.
Operation Lookout" was the name given
to the joint exercises by participating
Army, Navy and Air Force officers. More
than thousand civilian observation posts
were set up, most Of them at points where
volunteers watched the skies during the
war years. Although the late wars vigils
were in vain, a third world war probably
would produce real and deadly threat
OF air attack. Even If our radar defenses
were more widespread and of greater depth,
the tests have indicated that radar is not
infallible. One officer pointed out that
radar stations generally failed to detect
planes approaching behind obstacles, like
mountain ranges, or at certain attitudes.
But the civilian spoilers who volunteered
for Operation Lookout" detected nearly
every plane that radar missed.
Onicers evaluating the tests were unani-
nous in saying that civilian spoilers to
augment radar will be absolutely essential
in another war. They spoke Of the advisa-
bility of planning in peacetime an organi-
zation of perhaps a hundred thousand
spoilers. Thousands of observation posts
would have to be selected and numerous
Alter centers and master control bases
designated. The preliminary organization
of such system cannot safely be delayed
until an emergency is imminent. Federal,
State and municipal authorities ought to
join in working out a program now, as q
part of the over-all national security plans.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Sanity Triumphs

Those who see the dark outlines of
statism looming ahead will be happy to
know that one Federal agency, of its own
free will and accord, even though by the
narrowest of margins, has refused to in
tervene in labor dispute.
It was not; to be sure, very important
labor dispute. Down at White Sulphur
Springs the Chesapeake g. Ohio Railroad
operates the Greenbrier Hotel, an upper
bracket resort center. Twenty policemen
and firemen employed by the hotel ap-
pealed to the National Labor Relations
Board for collective bargaining election.
There followed the usual processes OF
investigation, and hearing. Finally the
case came before the full board, and on
September al. 1949, q date for which a
small place in history should be reserved,
Chairman Herzog and Board Members
Houston and Gray voted against taking
Jurisdiction. A strike by the Greenbrier's
police and hremen, the board majority
concluded, would have such remote and
indirect effect on interstate commerce
that to assert Jurisdiction would not effec-
tuate the policies of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Members Reynolds and Murdock, dis
senting, were of no mind to acquiesce
docilely in this recrudescence of the horse
and-buggy philosophy. Sheer non
sense, they said. OF course the National
Labor Relations Board, presumably with
the aid, if need be, of a Federal Circuit
Court and the Supreme Court, should take
over this dispute between the Greenbrier
and its 20 employees. Might not a strike
close the hotel? And might not that mean
fewer passengers, and therefore smaller
revenues forsthe c&o? "We perceive no
reason" the minority members declared,
"for rejecting jurisdiction on doctrinaire
grounds or simply to follow custom and
sterile precedent which lacks merit in
relation to aparticular case. No reason is
apparent to us why we should refuse to
assert Jurisdiction in case of the kind
before us, merely because the hotel indus
try is, involved, when the board asserts
jurisdiction over SO many other employers
in other industries where only very small
number OF employees are employed and
where the effect OF the employers opera
tions on interstate commerce is far less
substantial than in this case"
There may be more truth than charity
in this last thrust. But one can always
hope that we have come to a turning, even
small turning, In the road. For the
Evening star., 1949-09-24
No More Alone

He has come back from, some far, tropic,o
shore, ->s.... g. 70
He that aoas mountain fruit and describe
bloom, ..-.. .,-. .s
Back from the noisy interim of aoar, st9
Locked in the silence of his narro,p roon,.ss
thought there aoould be sadness in that
home, So M
Old mounds reopened and old sornpDs
spilled, s&s sls
But now his clay could ningle tDtth hisos
lonn sb
Peace entered Nth him and uoid tDas
filed +'' ~
There yas no talk of death and no ONE
aoept; ~
His many friends had called to greet.S
their otpn
And he was there among US, though hes
slept, -.
No longer troubled and no more alone A
A gums high bark . taps rose and died,,
He that was lost to US is home to stay.
EVA WILLES WANGSGAARD.rr.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

moment, at least, the vast Federal Govern
ment machine can apply its energies to
such weightier matters as the coal strike
and the threatened steel strike. Thanks
to the NLRB or rather, to one member of
the NLRB, it will not have to 60 out into
the hills of West Virginia and settle the
dispute between the Greenbrier and its
policemen and firemen. Surely that is a
triumph of some sort for common sense.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Chino's Red Peoples Republic

Formal proclamation of new Peoples
Republic of China" is important for several
reasons. In the first place, it regularizes
within the area controlled by the Com
munists a regime which has previously
functioned on provisional and military
basis The announcement, by. the Com
munist chief, Mao Tse-tung, was made to
the Peoples Consultative Conference"
meeting in Peiping, designated as Red
Chinas capital This conference had been
summoned some time ago for the purpose
of drafting a constitution and otherwise
putting the proposed state on a full
fledged basis. 1t is of course overwhelm-
ingly Communist in composition but
number of plant Communist groups
have been included to give the body
truly popular" character
Besides proclaiming the new regime,
Mao gave clear indication of its foreign
policy by promising that the Chinese
Peoples Republic would stand in the
closest relations with Soviet Russia and
its satellites, which he described as "the
big family of peace and freedom loving
nations of the world" Asserting that the
Communists had "overthrown both foreign
and domestic oppressors" and that mo
Imperialism will again be allowed to in
wade our territory" Mao nevertheless
warned that the revolutionary task" was
not yet completed. "Imperialists and
domestic reactionaries certainly will not
take their defeat lying down. They will
put up laSt-ditch struggles" However,
he said, their Vaccinations will be de-
feated by the powerful army, navy and
air force which Red China is building up
While the announcement itself had been
expected, it came earlier than anticipated.
The general presumption had been that
1t would be made on October, 10, which
is an especially auspicious date in Chinese
eyes, The "double-tenth" Is traditionally
lucky in China, it being the tenth day
Of the tenth month in the calendar. Fur
thermore, it is the anniversary Of the
Sun Yat-sen revolution which Com
munists, as well as Nationalists celebrate,
both claiming to be its spiritual heirs.
Just why the Communist high command
chose to ignore tradition in this respect
Is not yet known, but it may well have
been for diplomatic reasons, especially
concerning China's status in the United
Nations. Under the u. N. setup, China
ranks as one Of the five Great Powers"
with a permanent seat on the Security
Council. That seat is now held by rep
resentative of the Nationalist government,
which is still automatically recognized by
virtually all nations, including Soviet
Russia. However. 1t is generally antici-
pated that the entire Soviet bloc will
INpst ,g1ptSdiateH extend recognition to
the new Peoples Eappblic and will press
for its recognition by the United Nations
as the lawful Chinese Government. The
gain thereby to Russia and its bloc would
be hptablH SThertsk@of course, virtually
no chance that taeaAssembly would &C.
cede to this claim, but its mere raising
would have propagandist value in Com
munist eyes. Also, 1t would bring in
question the status of the Nationalist
government. whose competence becomes
increasingly dubious.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
,oriter, although it is permissible for
Uriter knoDn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

@. Is the Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Government rganization?-G.Y
A. The Brookhaven National Laboratory
Is nuclear research center financed by
the United States Government. It is operated
by Associated Universities Inc, a group of
American universities, under the auspices of
the United States Atomic Energy Commis-A Ac
sion
Evening star., 1949-09-24
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. Are the majority of farms in this coun-e
try equipped with lightning rods?-L. P. ;!
A. According to trade estimates less than
onefourth of all United States farm and
village property is equipped with lightning
rods,
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Questions and Answers

"A reader get the answer to any question
OF fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau, 316 Eye ST. ne, Washington 2, D. c.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

@. Why are the riders in horse races called q
jockeyS?-R. S. S. III
A. Jockey is the diminutive of the com-ai
mon Scotch name Jock. AS boys were usu-
ally the riders, the diminutive was applied =
to them. 4
Evening star., 1949-09-24
TO the Editor OF The Star:

Reminder to Use Three Cent Stamps
Sent by Reader Who Didn't
To the Editor Of The Star:
Since many people Of the Jewish faith
who are sending out New. Years cards do not
know tfree-cent stamps are required, could
you please publish this letter? didn't know
three-cent stamps were required and several
OF my cards were returned for additional
postage, several others were sent on which
means the recipients will Nave to pay the
extra on them. It is very embarrassing.
MRS. MOLLE PEPPER.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

needed. The traffic at this intersection is
dangerous and heavy. PASSENGER.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Another Reader Complains
About Inferior Radio Programs

About Inferior Radio Programs
To the Editor Of The Star:
I. too. am disguised" It is to be regretted
that the Nations Capital must listen to such
crude radio programs as our local stations
present AS I checked the offerings listed
IN last nights paper i noted that between
the hours of and 8 am. we have no choice
but to listen to men who think they are
funny when they I'd lib for three hours
they take rest Those Of us who want to
hear the news while we are getting ready
for work or having breakfast must listen to
the most nonsensical gyrations in order to
catch something serious. The rest Of the
morning and most Of the afternoon are
given over to continued stories" which are
dragged out until they likewise are disgust
ing. OF course, there are few exceptions
such as Mr.. Baukhage and one or two Of
the womens programs, like Ruth Cranes
Modern Woman"
Like Disguised much rather would listen
occasionally to some semiclassical record
ings as a relief from the imitators of the
supposedly famous Arthur Godfrey. Instead
get bit Of music, Dorothy Dix dramatizing
an emotionally unstable romantic individual,
Bride and Groom" selling the glamour of
those few precious moments Of q wedding
day for q mess of pottage and person
talking his way out"
May I seek the considered Judgment Of
editors and readers? Do these programs
present true picture Of our people? Movies
are supposed to be built around the intelli-
gence Of l4-year-old. Perhaps my 4-year-
old. who is no genius, is right when she says
"Mommy, turn of that silly man."
I've written several stations asking for
better quality programs and they say they
are giving the public what it has indicated
it wants. For the past Is years have been
asking members Of all sorts Of groups both
here and in other cities If they ever have
been polled on radio programs and despite
the fact that this number runs into thous-
.ands, have yet to meet one person who has
been asked his opinion about radio programs
or has known any one else who has been
asked. ~
I. Isn't it high time some one does something
about the caliber Of programs offered listen
ers? Or are we content to let this medium
Of education mold the ideas and ideals Of our
listeners on level far below what we hope
for and need II we wish democratic govern
ment to survive? - -
ALSO DISCUSSED AND WORRIED. >,
Evening star., 1949-09-24

Calls Tor Loading Platform
. At Twelfth and Monroe Streets NE.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The Capital Transit Co. should build
loading platform at Twelfth and Monroe
streets NE. This is terminal and much
used. During the winter tits very dangerous,
getting of the trolley and over to the side
walk and hurrying to keep from being hit
by automobiles. +l-a
Not long ago car came dashing up just
as . woman stepped from the streetcar and
she was missed only by inches. Why the
transit company forces its passengers to get
on IN the middle Of the street at this point
Is more than can see. Before the bad
weather comes we should have loading
platforms In Brookland at Twelfth and
Monroe streets where they certainly are
Evening star., 1949-09-24

One Reader Indorses, Another Scorns.
Letter From "Southerner"
70 the Editor Of The Star:
The letter by "Southerner" published in
Ihe Star OF September 81 was shot through
with fuzzy semantics characteristic of too
much OF our thinking recently.
a oellet IN the inherent worth of the
human personality is as eloquently voiced
IN the Declaration of Independence as in
any document of the 18th Century when
men were particularly stirred by the rights
OF man. The Declaration is an American
testimony. How then in 1949 has struggle
Tor Civil Rights become q Communist
line?
There are hundreds of Caucasians and
Negroes IN America who are enjoying rich
human fellowship with no thought for such
meaningless terms as social equality" It
certainly seems that faith in human brother
hood should be more characteristic of Chris
tian democracy than atheistic communism
It Is bad habit we are developing to
call everything with which we disagree COM
munistic." We may end up tossing over some
OF our most priceless aspects of the Amer
lean heritage. v. j. DOZIER.
TO the Editor OF The Star:
"Southerner" is not alone in thinking that
most Negroes are not interested in going
with white people, one reason being per-
haps that they can see nothing particularly
elevating about mingling with men and
women who cannot establish amity among
themselves. Negroes, like countless under
privileged white people. want chance for
better jobs and education and more COM
Portable homes, to all of which they are
entitled. It is my opinion that compara
/, lively speaking the Negro race of late has
made greater strides in this connection than
have white people. Unfortunately, however,
there is group whose main object is to
stir up strife and dissension (under the
guise Of helping) among people who have
made more progress in this country than
Evening star., 1949-09-24

Cites Lincoln and Jefferson
On Toleration of Radicals
To the Editor Of The Star:
In answer to letter appearing in The
Star recently. violently disagree with
the so-called Communists. but all who
know the Constitution know that Lincoln
held, "Accustom yourself to suppress the
rights Of others and you prepare your own
throat for the gag" and that jefferson said,
Il shall protect them in the right of lying
and calumniating. 1t is better to leave few
OF its noxious branches to their luxuriant
growth than, by pruning them away, to in
jure the vigor OF those yielding proper
fruit"
Now, who understands "the rights Of
man" as guaranteed? DON AMBURN.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-12-16
BUSY PREPARING $4,000
CHANUKAH AND
CHRISTMAS GIFTS

B'nai Birth workers in the
1900 lodges and chapters of the
organizations are busily engaged
this month in preparing some 25,-
900 Chanukah and Christmas
gifts for the disabled veterans in
U. S. and Canadian hospitals.
The gifts, holiday wrapped
with B'nai Birth labels, names
and addresses of the lodges and
chapters making the contribu-
tons, will be presented at spec
ial Chanukah parties sponsored
by B'nai Birth and community
organizations in the cities adj
jacent to the hospitals and at
Christmas parties held under
auspices of the hospital staffs
and the Red Cross.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-12-16

Among those whom HAS (HebreW
Immigrant Aid Society has been
able to assist In leaving Rumanla 10
Chaja Graft, 70, whose fading eyes
are dimmed with tears Of happiness
as she embraces her son, Max Graft,
for the first time In 40 years, on her
arrival In New York. Mr.. Graft i'm.
migrated to the United States with
an uncle In 1909, leaving his mother
In Rumania. After the cessation Of
hostilities he learned, through
HAS, that his mother and three
brothers, who had been subjected to
slave labor, had survived the war.
The Budapest office Of HAS ap.
piled for an American visa for Mrs.
Graft. When she learned that she
was about to become great-grand.
mother, she asked that her imml.
grafton be expedited, which HAS
succeeded In arranging. The race
with the stork was won, and MrS.
Graft arrived In time to plan for the
celebration Of the birth Of her great.
arandchiId In November.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-12-16

Inter-Organizational Liaison :
Irving Libowsky, Atlanta.
Jewish National Fund Harry
Stern, Nashville, Chairman; Os-
car Sokol, Charleston, Co-Chair-
man.
Life Membership Jacob B.
Cortland, Knoxville.
Membership Robert A. Per-
sky, Augusta.
Public Relations Jack M. Levy
Savannah.
Speakers Abe D. Waldauer,
Memphis.
Youth Mark Spector, Chat
tanooga.
20. A. House in Israel S. P.
Benamy, Atlanta.
In addition to the membership
goal of 10000 for the current
year, the Region adopted quota
of $4,000 for the American
Zionist Fund and $4,000 for the
z. o. A. House in Israel.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-12-16
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