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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25

ute-in IL hours one day. 1t is
believed to be a record. The
earth was moved into the valley
ahead.
The magnitude of this operation
is suggested by reference to the
fact that it is not so very long
ago that earth was moved in
horse drawn dump trucks which
held exactly / cubic yard.
The 24-foot wide, 10-inch con-
crete lanes we're built with the
big road building machinery de-
veloped before the war.
| With this equipment. the
Rea Co. of Charlotte, = N. c.,
laid 1900 lineal feet of concrete
in one day. 1t is not known
whether that is a record, but it is
good going.
Concrete Bridges Used.
Secondary. gravel-top Virginia
roads are carried across the new
Shirley highway on beautiful con-
crete bridges with clover-leaf in
| tersections. There are to be 10
of these over the Virginia. built
section of the road. Six are COM
pleted. The only entrances to the
new highway are at these inter-
sections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
Health and Jail Reports
Filed in Baltimore
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July 25.-Mayor
Thomas D'Alesandro had two
more reports today from his Adj
visory Committee making an eff
ciency-economy survey of city de-
partments.
Reporting on the health depart
ment, the committee said the
agency ranks high among the
large cities of the Nation" in scope
of public health services rendered
Another report was offered or
the city jail, which the commit.
tee said requires no major changes
to bring it to peak efficiency ane
economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
You and the D. {. Sales Tax
Shoppers Are Expected to Alter
Buyinq Habits After AUGUST !

article separately. providing him
with memorandum sales tax
slips" to be paid on leaving the
store.
Conversely, where a store makes
many such sales for less than IA
cents, it will pay the storekeeper
to insist that customers follow
this same procedure. He cannot
reimburse himself if the customer
pays separately for each item
costing less than IA cents.
The fact that the regulations
provide for one bill to a customer
for all purchases he makes in ali
establishment on a single occa-
sion may mean, incidentally. that
persons drinking draft beer at a
bar cannot save the tax by pay
ing for each drink individually.
Early published articles 'ndica-ed
this would be possible, but the
regulations make it clear a res
taurant or bar should protect it
self against this loss by presenting
the check only after a customer
has finished eating and drinking
his fill.
Difference to Be Small.
No one is quite sure, though,
how much sellers and buyers
actually will change their present
habits to meet the new situation.
In most cases, the difference will
be so small as to matter very little.
Here are some questions and
answers on the tax of general in
terest to the consumer:
@. Is real estate subject to the
tax when it is sold?
A. It Is not.
@. What about hotel rooms?
A. Charges for hotel rooms are
taxable when they are provided
for "transients." Other things be-
ing equal, the ledger is transient
if he pays at a daily rate. This
applies also to accommodations in
tourist camps and cabins, and any
other establishments engaged in
the business of putting people up.
@. Suppose a person buys some
thing simple in order to sell it
again. Does he pay a tax when he
buys it?
A. No. But he must give his
supplier a certificate of resale for
the article, the supplier's proof
that he need not pay a tax to the
District for that sale. The assessor
has these resale certificate forms.
@. What happens when Q mer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
Shirley wqy Speedy New Route From District South VIII Labor Day
By George Kennedy

The Shirley highway, new route
from Washington to the South.
will be opened soon after Labor
Day.
Starting behind the Pentagon
with two wide ribbons If concrete.
it will end with about mile of
single lane macadam construc-
ton at its jucture with the old
Route
1t has been termed "the most
modern length of road construc-
ton IN America" but it will be
disappointment to the south
bound motorist, after a thrilling
start.
And no contracts have been let
for its completion. Six and half
miles of concrete surfacing is to
be laid on the southern end Of
the project for the northbound
lane.
What has happened is this:
Virginia has run out OF money.
The State has been in the posi-
ton of a poker player with win
ming hand in a table stakes poker
game. 1t has only had to put up
81 for every SO put up by the
Federal Government for the con-
struction of the highway. Vir-
ginia would like to rake some
more of Uncle Sans money. But
now with s5.O00.000 in the pot
which calls for another $4,000
900 for completion, the State Just
hasn't the funds to go on with
the costly venture.
! Virginia isn't actually broke.
It's highway department spends
about 100000 annually, $46,-
900 900 from gasoline tax and
license receipts and about $14.-
900 900 from the Federal Gov
eminent.
Won't Borrow Money.
Other States might make special
appropria lions or pay for it out
of bond issues. But since Harry
Byrd of Winchester came into
power Virginia has been a pay
as-you-go State.
How Virginia got itself involved
in this major expenditure is an
interesting story. AS every one
who has travelled Route knows,
the bottlenecks are Washington
and Baltimore-especially Balti-
more-and not Alexandria. The
pleasure car driver has the broad
avenues of the George Washing
ton Memorial Parkway and Wash
! ington street, Alexandria, and the
trucker has a good road on the
Jefferson Davis highway alongside
the Potomac Yards. And Route
l south OF Alexandria to the Oc-
coquan is a 50-foot highway on
which several millions have been
spent.
Those championing the Shirley
highway venture point out that
so many cut-ins have been made
south of Alexandria on the old
Route l for gasoline stations,
tourist cabins, hot dog stands,
frozen custard machines and tav-
ems that it has been necessary
to reduce the speed to the point
where the highway cannot handle
increased traffic.
The Shirley highway project
was born before Pearl Harbor
when the commandant of the
Marine Corps base at Quantico
protested that congested traffic on
Route was a hindrance to the
defense effort. He recommended
a four-land highway from the
Occoquan to the Potomac that
would bypass Quantico and the
Engineer Center at Fort Belvoir.
His recommendation went to
Secretary of the Navy Knox and
to Thomas H. Mcdonald, then
head of the Federal Public Roads
Administration.
Conferences Held on Traffic.
There were several conferences
on Route l traffic. At one the
commanding general of Fort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
Milk Price Rise
ByProducers
To Be Weighed
Fraction of q Cent
Boost Would Mean
Increase Here

The Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association will
meet this week to consider raise
in the price of milk to local dis
tributors which will mean at least
fraction of a cent" increase
in the cost of quart to the
housewife here.
A spokesman for the association
said the meeting had not been
set as yet but it would be this
week.
The milk producers want to in
crease by so cents the cost OF
100 pounds of milk to the dis
tributors, the spokesman said
This would restore the producers
milk prices to the level of last
April.
On April l the milk producers
reduced their price by so cents
per 100 pounds of milk volun-
tarily because of prime pastures
and ideal growing conditions.
Retail Price Raised July /.
Following that voluntary cut
in April, retail prices to the
housewife dropped from 81 cents
a quart to 20 cents in most
stores. On July l, the Virginia
Milk Commission authorized
plants serving the Arlington-Alex-
andria area to increase the re-
tail price by a half cent, raising
home delivery prices to 2012 cents
Although there are no milk
regulatory bodies in the District
or Maryland, the price of milk in
the Washington area is controlled
by the Virginia Milk Commission
since Virginia is the source OF q
large part of the city's milk sup
ply. The increase of a half cent
was put into effect in the District
on July l.
The spokesman for the Mary
land and Virginia Milk Producers
Association said the exact addi-
tional cost of quart of milk to
the Washington housewife was
something for the individual dis
tributors here to decide II the
so cents per 100 pounds of milk
increase is put into effect.
Any increase in the producers
price in milk always is reflected
in the retail price, he explained,
adding that it probably would be
only fraction of a cent"
Producer Deliveries Drop.
The producers association. rep
resenting more than $500 dairy
farmers, said the increase in the
price of milk to the distributors
was necessary because lit now
appears it will be economically
impossible to much longer adhere
to the current price to the dis
tributor." ~
The spokesman said that pro-
ducers' costs have decreased only
in one major item, feeds. This
decrease rapidly is reversing itself
due to recent drought conditions
in the grain producing areas
Wages paid labor have not de-
clined and many members of the
association report that highe,
wages are being paid than at this
time in 1948
Lack of sufficient rain since the
latter part of May has, created
unusual concern" for the dairy
farmer who now is going into q
period of lowest production. the
spokesman said. Producer deliv.
cries have dropped % per cent
since the years highest produc.
tim In Nav he added
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25

drumming from left to right W
new road separates North an
adjoining South darlington ne
River in the background.
Belvoir threatened to shut off
that road where it went through
his post. Whether he legally
could do this is doubtful, but the
threat stimulated the Virginia
highway department in the mat
ter of bypassing the Army's prop
erty.
A survey was started on June
80, 1941, with C. M. Smith OF
the department as chief of party
Mr.. Smith, now 81, can hardly
connect today's wide vistas OF
Handicapped highway and the ter
ritory he then traversed. 1t was
an almost unbpoken forest. The
only thing it had ever produced
was ties for the R. F. & P. railway
Then the defense effort turned
into the war effort and Gen
Brehon P. Somervell was build
ing the Pentagon. The Defense
Homes Corp. and the Metropoli:
tan Life Insurance Co. were
building the darlington ano
Parkfairfax apartments and ST.
$4,000 of strategic network
funds" was allocated to build the
Arlington County link of the pro-
posed Fort Belvoir bypass" It
would reach the apartments and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
Fenwick to Address Rotary

Members of the College Park
Rotary Club will hear DR.. Charles
G. Fenwick, director of the Pan
American Unions Department of
International Law and Organiza-
ton, during their regular month
ly dinner meeting at 6 pm.
Wednesday in the University OF
Maryland dining hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
Dr.. Meta Glass to Beck
miller in Talk Tonight

DR.. Meta Glass, president emer-
titus of Sweet Briar College and
sister of the late Senator Carter
Glass, will speak in behalf OF
Francis Pickens Miller, candidate
for the Virginia Democratic gu
bernatorial nomination. at tbs
O'Clock tonight over Radio Station
WPIK.
DR.. Glass, who is head Of the
State Women's Committee for
Miller, will speak after a, recep-
ton at Gadsby's Tavern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25
Mrs. Woodhouse to Speak

Representative Chase Going
Woodhouse. Democrat, of Con-
necticut will speak on What a
Connecticut Yankee Congress
woman Recently Saw in Europe
at a luncheon meeting of the Alex
andria Rotary Club at 1890 pm
tomorrow in the George Mason
Hnfo1
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two billion dollars into CHINA but
we are not going to be able TO buy
China.
There Ia q popular, mass revolu-
ton going on throughout Asia,
springing right from the grass
roots. But much of the American
policy Is still based on the old pre-
war colonial status quo. The Asia
tic people were very enthusiastic
about the United States at the end
Of the war, They expected Ameri-
ca to support their demands for
freedom and nationhood. They suf-
fered a terrific let down when they
decided the United States was
lined up on the side Of the Euro
pean colonial powers.
The Indonesians claim Amer
lea betrayed them and support
ed the Dutch. People In Indo-
China say Il Ia better 10 have
Indo- China ruled by n native
Communist than to have It ruled
by the French.
At the start the Chinese Com
munists got lot of free guns and
ammunition left by the Japanese
which the Russians neglected to
turn over TO Chang Kai-shek.
But now 10 per cent of the Com
munist equipment is American. In
one case the Communists sur
rounded a Chinese Nationalist
Army and took equipment for 60,-
900 men. In Mukden Chinese Ma
tionalist soldiers were selling
their guns on the street. The Chi
nese Communists cannot be crush
ed. They have too much popular
support. They are too strong.
The Philippines are suspicious
that we are building up n reac-
tionary Japan as q military
base. The president Of the Phil
lpplnes fears q resurgent Japan
more than he fears Russia.
Right after VI day we talked
about reforming Japan and maxi
ing 1t a democracy; but now we
have abandoned all efforts to
break up the big Japanese monop-
olies, and the military men are
recommending that all Of Japa-
nese pre-war industrial power be
retained. This was much more
than the Japanese ever needed for
their peace-time needs. II we are
trying to build up Japan as a mil
itary base, we win never get the
cooperation Of China, or the Phil
ippines, or Australia because they
win not go for a militaristic ia
pan.
The Japanese would be very
doubtful allies II a war should
come. The way the political trend
is now going, in the next five
years the Japanese working class
win probably be violently opposed
TO America and to the small group
Of politicians and former war
lords on the side Of the United
States. 1t is extremely question
able whether the Japanese would
fight for US, In the recent cleo
tons the Japanese Communists
made a relatively spectacular
showing. The trend started quite
q while ago.
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01

The foregoing has been alb
stracted from an interview. con-
ference between the editors Of the
conservative business-organ, the
United States News & World Re-
port, and one Of their star repor-
ters who had just completed three
years of foreign service which
carried him from Japan all over
Asia and Europe. 1t has just ap-
peared in the March 25. 1949 is
sue.
The editor of the United
States News q World Report Is
David Lawrence, q conservative
who Is opposed to the Presi-
dents Civil Rights program and
to n Federal Fair Employment
Practice law. His sympathIes
were with the filibuster.
Mr.. Lawrence is worried about
the stoto 30 tho u,orId and Tho
lack Of a clear-cut effective Unit
"a states foreign noI,cv He makes
NO recommendation Annarentlv
he still believes the world can ex-
ist balf.free and ELECTROMAGNETIC.
the vhite noonIa fros ana ,ha col
ored neonle with lass than frae.
dom and less than ft,n manhood
dignity whether as citizens In the
United States or as colonial sub
jects abroad. Mr.. Lawrence can
not understand why a colored man
would want to be free OF the white
mans exploitation.
We might mint ont IN Mr. Iaw-
renee that all the nonev and all
the arms the limited states has
poured into Ho,land ana France
have not been sbIe 10 stsmn ont
the rsvolt In Irdoros,o os.,r.t
the Dutob and tbo ro.,.,orco ,r
Indo-ch,na AGAINST the Frsrch
The British are expact,ns trou,,le
in Malaya had 70 Give I'M India
and Rurma latin AmerIca h
moving 10 evict the E,,roy.or
mowers fron their color,es in tbs
Western Hemisnhsrs IN snIta ~
American pressure 10 Law off
ms iS .ne price "mch America
pays lor ilS hypocrisy ana pertdy
'o"alu i's ooioreo eluIeils. lu
moral standards are twisted; It's
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01

Last Sunday Rising listened to our
current favorte preacher early morning At $50
surprised hepmate preparing breakfast The bacon
slightly surprised at our industry that she
complained not
After that we devoured three Sinclair
piece of historical fiction The 1t was highly
for those who think anniversaries OF
states and nations are worth observing.
Finishing through 400 of
Oth titled "sOuth by Frederick Wight We bought the book
rummage years found the opportunity
wadng through it, however. concluded
read the last page much labor lost
Our reading experience forget Sew
ago neghbor showed book into
that powerful In
piece of fiction observed Cry the Be-
Country" novel Of South African life
great country smuts Malan
gted polite thanks and told Mrs Brown would get at the
book and read It
Later tonne showed up
Americans who just easily herded sheep interest In
which Brown had previously tried to stimulate took
nfe simply TIMES lists ndi
Gated that thousands Of fellow sheep reading the book
We finished up Sunday night reading by
number Of which powerful and
racial South Africa
long reprint character
in Cry the Beloved Country which strikes Of the most
descriptions American Dilemma" which this
respondent any contemporary Although quota
the book applies to South Africa read win
its striking similarity to the problem In the south as well AZ
the north of the U s.
The truth through
believe the brotherhood Of but
South Africa We believe that God endows with
that human life depends for its fness their
poyment in South Africa We believe in help
derdog him to under And there
compelled belief that Christian
Almighty Earth
created white black
gives Approval human action that designed to
black advancement credit Almighty
God with the intention of having created black to hew wood and
white that He besses
that designed prevent black from full employ
them Alongside Of these arguments
totally inconsistent that the accusation Of
may be refuted.
withhold education because the black child has
intelligence profit withhold opportunity develop
people gifts; justify action
thousands achieve advance
foolish suppose will black
any hurry
ground again
thing remarkable pity a
remarkable decide that Christian
not to let black
creature giving gifts denying
employment strange that civilization nded through and
through demma7 civilization
compound Of great ideal and fearful practice of
high desperate anxiety Of loving charity fearful
clutchng Of possessions"
indictment Who deny its truthfulness7-c NJ
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01
BY TED SHEARR

Cent . IeuVS Henry for security - only borrow
q hUekl"
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ALONG THIS
WAY
BY CHARLES H. HOUSTON

Washington D. c. If what follows had appeared in The
Daily Worker the House Committee unAmerican Activities
would be screaming abount communist propaganda Just listen
People everywhere think the American approach world
problems Of date The United could
buy nations and the goodwill of people thru We
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01

clans in the United States should
be determined by the number Of
Negroes, but II physician-popula-
ratio is considered on a racial
basis, there should be 1854 color
ed physicians today. assuming the
Negro population to be 14.000.-
ooo."- DR.. w. Montague Cobb.
A larger percentage of the
average family income Is spent for
food and clothing since the war
than before. Housing. furnishings.
and medical care take q smaller
percentage. Savings show the
greatest percentage increase.
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01
These Are She Greet

In this Centennial
hundred greatest living and Polls purpose
have been under way
It is wen top satisfaction and
Inspiration In II.
the Thousands and Of thousands
Of the living great
Many people who win be hOnored with the first hundred
much Of their and good
business leaders who have received life through
ofmoney position Others
Others win be those who especially
right the right sm politicians may
be dsced forgotten by the time another
We wish that there
seldom heard We wish that might
prairie and the homeseader the north
homes through tremendous struggle with smps with the
unenta While great teacher hundred
wish that Minnesota might offer appreciation the thousands
teachers who have left the imprint Of ncery
many young minds.
Many grades
the leaders win posi-
lions TO loyalty and intelligence those
and factories Back Of outstanding citizen viii be that mother
who worked hard humby the father
without that college bishop
be the hundred Mnnesoas spiritual progress
has rested with the ministers priests
churches
And list could greatest people
accompnshments
should not Minnesota looks its
past today Editorial In the Grand Rapids Herald Review
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01


ss, 'e,I"'s bsssS:: .. =, wide ipsa'0" The 'd"o''oI
Ieon,laVsd from Marsh sdhIOnJ
everything changed again America a cold
American busy stirring dsatectOn
penetrate bodies college
community organizations and Negro including
NAACP
purpose this build a better NAACP fight
effectively the American
stuton using legitimate methods operate
group Americans
government present contest deologies.
There mystery except to the unthnng and unniaed
Communsts the Negro Their characterize
NAACP reoms reveals the ne they do not be-
American democracy be reformed hence
alive faith the American Of hfe is
criminal and "berayr of the people, As long the NACP and
similar exist and push Of REFORM the Communist
slowly the nations minority
group captured destroyed
alarmed In 1881 bewIdered by the utterly
attacks which relation truth
that who he fighting for Negro rights Is
necessarily Scottsboro left doubts they
fight only for the Soviet Russia Tine and for
other contests which they to be engaged
merely land viii played played
down. abandoned altogether according to the party line Of the
hour.
membership therefore, should be against
campaign should remember that the Communists do not hes
win their purpose that they masters
Misrepresentation through msnpretaOn that they prate
procedure their and
Negro and his problems mainly in
port of Negro rights.
not fought
They political party rights under the Consu
parties rights
assembly for all Let them enjoy their
rights push their well they
in groups campaign nhraon disruption
organizations such the NACP be
prevented members will not be deceived by their words and will
officers committees choose the right delegates
faithfully and outvote the party
followers and that the resolutions and public statements adopted
by groups those
a group using for its political purposes
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01

Joseph Umien Milwaukee, banker says
there's somthng wrong with the wealthy right
aren't entirely poea. ehersepy Eye lnnl Despatch
St. Paul recorder., 1949-04-01

resolution calling outlaw segregation Negroes
the national recommended for state senate
committee week It should pass We win make small headay
trying friendly long Negroes
aent permitted equality fighting orcessoepy NInn)
Despatch