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Evening star., 1950-12-12
Marshall Urges Jobs
For Handicapped
By the Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Marshall
called today for wider industrial
employment Of the Nations physi-
Ically handicapped as an essential
to the national defense effort.
"The physically handicapped
can contribute to the economic
and military strength of our coun-
try" Gen. Marshall said in a
statement for the Presidents Com
mittee on Employment of the
Physically Handicapped.
Their capabilities are strong
weapons in our arsenal of democ-
racy and reliable tools in our pro-
ductive economy which we must
exploit fully"
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Telephone Tuneup

VIENNA. (P).-Your violin OF
key? Your oboe fiat? II you were
in Vienna, you could discard the
old tuning fork and call the tele-
phone company. Since Vienna is
the traditional capital of the
music world, the state telephone
system has arranged so you can
dial A-69 and get by phone a
standard A-pitch Of 440 vibrations
of a tuning fork per second.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Key NepaIese Town Falls To Insurgents India Hears

wants Tribhuvana back on the
throne. 1t claims he will give a
more democratic government than
the present one.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Reasons for Failure

The announcement in The Sunday Star
that Federal officials are puzzled and
worried by the failure of the Railway Labor
Act invites few suggestions.
In the first place, the law has not been
working successfully for some years. Rail
unions discovered during the war that they
could fiout the processes of the act and get
away with it. That discovery was made
early in the war when President Roosevelt,
trying to head off threatened strike,
overruled wage award under the act, and
gave the unions more than the wage board
thought they were entitled to have. Since
then the unions have been increasingly
hard to live with.
Another, and perhaps more fundamental,
reason grows out of the tendency to be-
ieve that organized labor cannot, or should
not, be required by law to meet proper
standards of responsibility. The Railway
Labor Act does not require either the
unions or management to abide by its
processes. The expectation was that both
parties would voluntarily abide by the act.
And this myth persists despite the fact
that the unions have repeatedly flouted
the law.
When an effort was made, in the Taft
Hartley Act, to compel unions by law to
meet certain standards, what happened?
The President, aided and abstted by the
unions, threw himself unrestrainedly into
campaign of shameful Misrepresentation
OF the intent and purpose of the law. The
President, except in two minor areas pub
licly cried out against any legal restraint
on the activities of unions He even op-
posed and still opposes that section of the
law which gave him power, in national
emergency, to seek an Injunction to protect
the public from union excesses His posi-
ton falls little short of arguing that any
thing done in the name of union cannot
be wrong.
Why, in this climate, should Federal
officials be surprised if union members
will not voluntarily abide by the Railway
Labor Act7 Why, when it is necessary to
enact laws to compel business and industry
to operate in ways not inconsistent with
the public interest, should unions be ex-
pected to conform to that standard on a
voluntary basis?
It is time that those Federal officials
who are concerned at the breakdown of
the Railway Labor Act should brush the
scales from their eyes. It is time to
abandon the politically inspired pretense
that organized labor should continue to
Fave privileged status In our soeiaty. The
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Full Airing Needed

The public, properly concerned over the
Sousa Junior High School principalshlp
impasse, will welcome the opportunity to
learn all the facts in the case at a special
session of the Board of Education. Chair
man Lee of the boards Personnel Com
mittee has proposed such an open meet
ing, in order that he may explain his oppo-
sition to Miss Eleanor p McAuliffe, Super
intendent Corning's choice for the Sousa
post.
Mr.. Lee should be given the chance to
make public any information bearing on
Miss McAuliffes nomination that he may
have. He is quoted as saying that only
one side of the case has been disclosed so
far. If there is another side that will
Justify the boards 1ve-to-three rejection
of Miss McAuliffe's appointment, it should
be given a full airing, in fairness to the
board and to Miss McAuliffe. AS things
stand now, the veteran teacher and ad-
ministrator is under cloud, the nature
of which apparently is as much of mys-
terry to her as to parents and teachers
generally.
Diligent efforts by The Star have failed
to reveal any facts tending to disqualify
Miss McAuliffe for the Sousa appointment.
Mr.. Lee himself declines to tell the "other
side" if there is one, pending a special
session of the board at which he would
not be bound by secrecy rules governing
personnel matters. Miss McAuliffe has
made it plain that she is willing and eager
to have the whole matter discussed pub
licly. The board has an obligation to the
people of Washington to lift the GUS
tomary executive secrecy prevailing in
personnel discussions and give the puz-
zled public full explanation of it's drastic
action in the Sousa School case.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Aquinst the Hour

When the Grim Shertr serues his sortt
on me,
Beyond the black Star Chamber there
Uiu be
Three sptrits-schoIar, soldier, pioneer
To lend a ki1sn,an courage, still his fear.
Vastly unIiEe-yet each endured the aDorst
OF mortal traDnils:: loneliness, doubt, thirst,
Wounds, aoeartness-ther brdped this thing
obscured
By superstttious terror-dnd endured
The scholars quiet faith, the soldiers ,ohE,
The pioneers endurance through that chill,
Sharp struggle, shadoso-shroQded, shah
ertend
Their deathless strength to me, son,
to lend
Strong aid, sure comfort, though the flesh
be trail:
With them and God to stead, shall not
sRoLD WILLARD GLEASON. I
Evening star., 1950-01-23
This and That
By Charles E. Trace,OeH

Templeton Jones was holding some flowers
from bush of the Towering ounce.
Quite sight, for January" he said, "but
don't let it fool you.
1--WE have plenty Of winter left.
ITO listen to some optimists, spring is here.
''The fact is, February and March can be,
and often are, the worst months of the
winter.
'It is good, however, to know that Decem-
Der and half of January have gone by with
out snow.
Maybe am getting old. but I have lost
all desire for snow.
THAT song about white Christmas left
me cold.
II got my wish, too-a nice green Christ
mas. Snow around big city is just nui-
sance, to say nothing of being a traffic
hazard.
These little flowers on the bush tell us
nothing but that the bushes and trees have
functioned bit.
'They are willing to act like spring, and in
this multitude Of human beings join. It
is one Of the links between all living things.
II believe in optimism. The best attitude.
though, is one of doubt, when it comes to the
weather.
***
comes.
"A few flowers do not make a spring.
when I was a child, and had just come
to Washington, I sat on seats, or tried to
perch on them, which had two feet of snow
on them.
"That was the Taft inaugural.
I'm those days few persons hereabout be-
lieved in early springs.
'They knew too we'll from experience that
March could be the worst month.
"It had snow, and sometimes floods, and
always winds.
To-day it seems as if the weather is grow
ing tame. Perhaps such things run in cycles,
and no man lives long enough to get onto
them"
Templeton Jones threw down his flower.
'T would like to be able to catch on to
some of the cycles in human affairs.
There are more of them than just have
to do with money.
"The cold cycle, for one.
I mean the malady, the cold
'I am convinced that these things run
in cycles.
"At one time I went five years without
having cold.
'"That is where these antihistamine pills
strike it rich
II you pop one III your LloutLl, aI Tile
first sneeze, and don't come down with a
cold, you are inclined to give the pill the
credit.
Maybe you weren't catching cold, after
ALL
Let US keep close tab on the weather.
because it is interesting and human to do
So, but let us not expect too much," con-
tinued Jones'
Sometimes real spring is not sure thing.
even in April.
Sometimes we have no spring at all, but
only sudden transfer from sullen sort of
winter to hot summer.
THAT has been the style, in recent years.
People tend to forget such things, but the
plants and the shrubs and the trees have
memories like elephants.
Their cycles run back over the centuries.
What they know, they know. They do not
have minds and so cannot fly off at mental
tangents, as humans do. It is good thing
to consider the plants, and not to be rushed
into believing it is spring just because few
| little flowers showy Their flowers do not fool
the plants In the isast."
Evening star., 1950-01-23

plain fact is that organized labor, having
attained great power over the economic
life of the country, is repeatedly abusing
that power And human nature being what
it is these abuses will continue until the
politicians make up their minds that the
time has come to deal even-handedly as
between labor and industry-until they
decide to enact legislation which will
punish both industry and the unions when
either tramples on the public interest.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Give Reasons for Passing
Kefauver Home Rule Bill Now.

TO the Editor Of The Star
A novel argument advanced against the
Kefauver Home Rule Bill and the petition
to discharge it from the House District Com
mittee made an appearance last week. Pro-
ponents of self-government in the Nations
Capital have long heard the threadbare con-
tention against home rule based on the fear
of control by a racial minority. Now comes
a Representative from a large Middlewestern
city and uses the argument In reverse. The
gentleman obviously fancies himself as a
serious proponent of civil rights or even
second Emancipator. However. he derided
proponents of home rule for caring little
about the Negro. as wanting to take from
the Ntgro ''the only agency In the Federal
Evening star., 1950-01-23
National Parks Policy

The National Parks movement has come
a long way since that evening in 1870
when group of Montana citizens gath
cred around a campfire and discussed the
desirability of reserving an area on the
upper Yellowstone River "for perpetual
public use" Perhaps there should be
periodical reappraisal of the purpose of
this aspect of conservation. Anyway,
Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman
seems to think so. Speaking at a dinner
given in his honor by the American
Planning and Civic Association and the
National Conference of State Parks last
week. he took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to set forth his own conception of
the work to be DONE
Experience, he said, has convinced the
American community that there is wis
dom in not permitting the destruction
and loss of "the scenery, the natural and
historic objects, and the wildlife" of terri
tories that merit preservation against
such dangers and in providing for the
enjoyment of them Gin such manner and
by such means as will leave them unim-
paired for the enjoyment of future gen.
! erations." The National Parks and Monu-
ments supply the :. people with many
things that they require If they are to
live rather than just exist-increased
vigor of the body stimulation to the
mind, and inspiration to the spirit 4.
The very fact of our possession of them
contributes greatly to our pride in and
our love for our country"
Granted the values Mr.. Chapman listed
are intangibles and cannot be measured
or weighed or sold over q counter, they
still are precious to free men, women and
children. But the Secretary did not avoid
the pragmatic issue involved in his atti-
tude. II recognize" he conceded, "that
conflicts have arisen and will continue
to arise as to the best and highest use to
which any lands should be put. I am
sure, however, that the long-term ma
tional interest must govern the decision
on any proposal that would destroy, i'm
pair or even modify any part of the
natural scene in any part of the National
Park system or that would injure or
destroy any historic or prehistoric land
mark that has been set aside for preserva-
ton"
In these words, Mr. Chapman puts his
faith. He challenges those who disagree
with him to set forth more constructive,
more persuasive goal If there be
better target, it may be wondered what
1t is. If the alternative to conservation is
lack of conservation, the Nation never
yet has preferred nothing to something
gs@ U.t'
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Advocates Naturalization
OF Coal Industry
m. ~. rd,ko~ - m, a ctar.


Seems to me the time is more than ripe
for the Government to take over the whole
coal business and run it as public utility.
This would get rid of the despot John L.
Lewis, who can dictate to the Government
when coal can be mined and when the coal
business must stop.
When public utility is managed by
despotic rule, it is time for the Government
to step in and take change.
The Government has entire charge Of our
mails. Suppose despot had charge and
could decide when we should get our mail
and when it would be stopped for month
or sol
Are our Government officials asleep, that
they tolerate this intolerable state of
affairs? II. B. BRADFORD
Evening star., 1950-01-23
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Q. What was the weight of the largest
single item shipped overseas by the United
States during World War II? A. NJ
A. The Department of Defense says that
the Navy shipped hydraulic dredge, weigh
ing $1,000 tons, to the Philippine Islands via
LSD. Overall measurement of the main
body of dredge was about $50 feet by 40 feet
by 40 feet.
window? B. T.
A. The best place for the cage is near a
window that lets in plenty of light At night
the cage should be covered with cloth to
keep out cold and light without shutting off
air. 1t is good plan in summer to screen
out some of the glare Of the sun.
@. Were there any Protestant players on
the Notre Dame football squad last year?
A. z.
A. There were two Protestants on the
Notre Dame football team, both BaptistS.
@. Did Abraham Lincoln ever say, bad
promises are better broken than kept? w.
PL.
A. Abraham Lincoln used these words in
his last public address in Washington on
April II. 1865.
O. Why is the race track where the Ken
lucky Derby is run called Churchhill Downss
M. K. r.
A. The land was purchased from family
Of that name, interested in horse racing. At
first the track was called the Louisville
Jockey Club but some years later the name
Churchill Downs was given to It by a writer.
The first race was run on May II, 1875.
@. Must patented article bear notice
that it is patented?-N. v.
A. U. s. Code Title 35, Sec. 1900, states it
is the duty of all patentees to give notice
that an article is patented, either by affxing
the word patented and the number or. If
this is impossible. by af1xing label stating
that the article Is patented and giving the
number. No damages for recovery for in
fringement can be claimed II the article is
not so marked.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
1Driter, although it is permissible for
t0riter knolOn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Another Pogo Fan Speaks
For His Whole Family.

am delighted to learn from your Letters
to The Editor column that at least three
persons in Washington are as pleased with
Pogo" as our family is. We all read it,
send it regularly to st. Louis, and are espe-
cially fond of Porkey-Pine.
Please do not let 1t g as you did Jasper
Jocks" - ! M. II. RATTT.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

It suggests, too, that in coping with Soviet
moves in Asia, the United States and the
rest of the free world may be able to wage
rather effective war of propaganda
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Questions and Answers

A reader get the answer to any question
9i fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau 316 Eye st. ne, Washington 2, D. c.
Please inclose three (3) cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

~, Middle age is a time OF life when one
keeps putting back the time when middle
age sets in
Evening star., 1950-01-23
Lacks Enthusiasm for Bucky Harris
And FavorS a Break for the Fans


And Favors Break for the Fans
To the Editor of The Star:
The latest news along the baseball rialto
is that Rae Scarborough is holdout He
probably was the only man on the club to
give the Washington fans thrill last sea-
son by his brilliant performance against
the Red Sox in the fag end of the season.
Pregame notices played up the fact that
Scarborough was ready to give repeat
performance of his victory of 1948 which
knocked the Red Sox out Of the pennant.
Instead of 800 fans on hand. the attendance
was in the thousands enough to pay half
season salary.
At the expense of the stockholders and
the Washington fans, he is bringing Bucky
Harris back to pilot the club. His record
in baseball from 1924 to the present time
is one that would be considered complete
failure in any other business During his
last term here there never was a more un-
popular manager. You can bet that this
condition was not caused by the press, but
by the fans themselves.
Harris would never win popularity poll
in this town. The ballyhoo that Mr.. Griffith
was fighting to get his name on a contract
is lot of bunko. Harris was through with
the Cleveland organization as he apparently
has been through with every club he has
been associated with after short span.
Mr.. Griffith will not look out for the
Scarboroughs, but will look out for the
Harris. How about looking out for John Q.
Fans who make the turnstiles click?
B. ]. G.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

Q. Did Abraham Lincoln ever say, bad
promises are better broken than kept? w.
Evening star., 1950-01-23

O. Were there any Protestant players on
the Notre Dame football squad last year?
A. z.
A. There were two Protestants on the
Notre Dame football team, both Baptists.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15
Johnson Resigns, Marshall
 NewaDefenSe Chief

said that Marshall was man "of such stature that the very act of naming him to be Secretary of b. fense will promote national and international unity"
 The. President heartily agreed, and most Congressional leaders ex- pressed accord, but there was a leg al hurdle.
 The law which created the uni fled Defense Department contains a clause prohibiting the appoint ment as Defenae Secretary of any man who within ten years has been on active duty as a commissioned officer of the armed forces.
 Marshall left the Army aS Chief of Staff soon after the end of the last war, in 1s45. but it is expect ed Congress will act speedily to pave the way for his appointment.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15

AIR LINE TICKETS may be bought here in Wrangel for transporta- ton from or to any point served by air. AIR OFFICE, phone 6,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15

FASCINATION = george Cat lat. sssrsaan, soldier by profsssloN .,,s | sinlomat by experience is head "a nosh ,e Iho Psntsgon ts become Secretary Sf DSSsASs'
 President Truman turned to ehs sa-year-Old. five star general Ano former Secretary of State 70 l .lsa. Loaa Johnson who rsslSAeu this wS@A. ,.,Aan+i.1 will aud the ''snsmaSs nave ov,rea during ths Is months | hsws served e . member of your o"ht,at" snbnittsd his resignation Tusuaas. Ar. Truman accepted II with official regret - su1 "A'A alaoEasv.
 Rnaasnly. iA c siREls day, there war. vacancies pending 1n the two tou civilian pOaAs of the huge ana complsx aataShAl military SstsnliSA- msnt.
 Early Cut AlSO
 For what appeared to be entire ly personal reasons stephen Esarly rssisRsd as Deputy Secretary Of DStSnas, aAs had rsmainsd well past the years leave granted him by the PsllmaR Standard Car Man utaetsrfnS Go, 60 th&t he could re- tura Co government work. None of the sEitAsAGm that had WSllsd uP around Jshns0n had touched Early.
 JOhnson's resignation Is effective next Tuesday, Barly's Sept. SC.
 JohasaA, AR haa resignation letter
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15
SHELDON JACKSON COLLEGE
 STARTS FALL TERM SAT.

D4Ah4D ALL A4AAsu4 k4A A e
 sTTKA - Sheldon Jackson JuH- for College will open for the tall term on Sept. 1S, with rsgistra- tion followed by . tWo-day period for orientation and spiritual sm- phasis, Sept. IT and IS. Regular classes will begin on Sept. 1s.
 This opening day will mark the Bevsnty-second year since It's founding that Sheldon Jackson has been serving the youth of AlaSka the longest operating history of any Alaskan school.
 Courses of study have been az ranged for grade9 9 and 14 inslu- sivs, with all the work for the high school grades accredited by the Northwest Association of See ondary and Higher Schools since 1885. The currieula for grades 12 and 14 and in the process of &e- creditRtion.
 The faculty for the coming year is as follows:
 Leslie Yaw, general director; Harry A. Brandt, administrative director; Roland B. Wurstsr, dean and social studies; Gladys Whit ors, registrar and science; William Bullick, assistant engineer; Geor- gia Conlsy, librarian; Laurence T Doig, engineer; Mabel Downer arts and crafts.
 Jessie Frazer, dietician: Fern Gabel, guidance and supervisor of senior girls; Mrs Elizabeth Smith, English; Ruth Heron, nurse; Cora Houk. office assistant: Helen Me- Clurg, home economies; Joyce Mumby science and mathmsties.
 Dean Phillips, general worker; H. George Prescott, manual arts and carpentry; Mrs. Dorothy Rob inson, Bible an supervisor of sen for boys; Kenneth Smith, supsrvis- or junior boys and boys athlsties Mrs. Ruby Thomas, dining room and relief; A. G. Dexter, night Watchman Mrs. Blanche Waite, laundry supervisor
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15

who is q Commander in the U. s. Navy. Commander Voorhies visited ln Wrangell two years ago making many friends here. His parents wall spend Thanksgiving with him at his home in Norfolk, Virginia
 Christmas will be spent in Cen terville, Iowa, with other relatives un then Mr. and Mrs Voorhies will go on to California, dividing their time between Long Beach and Bak- ersfield until they return home in April or May.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15
FACE FIVE

very good, except in the NushagNk area, he said.
 Although e4capement surveys are incomplete, Kelez believes that "Gu in all. the Bristol Bay region gen- orally did have an improvement ia cycles. From the occurrences in l940, 1945 and 1850, 1t looks as though we have succeeded in im- proving the cycle"
 kelsG is Alaska fishery lnvesti- gation officer for the U. S Fiah and Wildlife Service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15

IN THE U. s. COMMISSIONERS
 OFFICE FOR THE PRECINCT
 OF WRANGELL, FIRST DIVI-
 SION OF ALASKA, IN PROBATE. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15
WRANGELL SEINER FINED
 $295O FOR SUNDAY FISHING

KETCHIKAN - WranEen sein- CT Kent was fined $295O for Sun- day fishing here this week, with the fine divided as followA: Skip per Charles Loftus. $500; Sam Kent, Charles Gaskill, Paul Msr- sckiner, Tom Hannah and Frank Carpenter. 3250 each. Comm ission- CT Gilmore contiseatsd s12OO in fish.
 Elmer Copstsad made the com plaiRt
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15
GIRL SCOUTS TO
 MEET ON MONDAY
 An nYTV HIATT

Local Girl Scouts will hold their first ssting of the fall season Mon day evening in the Scout room at City Hall. The meeting is Gdhed- ulsd to start at 7:30 o'clock.
 Mrs. Frank Webb, Scout Leader, an Mrs. Agnes Davis, Assistant Leader, will be in charge.
 A cordial invitation to all girls over 10 years old, interested in Scouting, ia etsndsa ts attend.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-09-15

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