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FEPC Questions
]. ]. Sperry.

7 have read a good deal about FEPC
and have listened to number Of radio
discussions on the subject.
Several questions have arisen in my
mind concerning this proposed law.
wish some one would give me the answers.
The questions are as follows:
/. The proposed law would attempt to
prevent discrimination because of race.
religion, or color. Its main objective
obviously is to protect the Negro. the
Jew and the Catholic. Does this go far
enough? Would it prevent discrimina-
ton against any person because of his
theology? Would it, for instance, compel
the employment of man by an industry
even though the man refused to belong
to labor union?
2. The proposed law would apply only
to those employing so or more persons.
Can discrimination be measured by the
number of persons one hires? Is it pos
sible to determine that an employer Is
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Movie Censorship

Some of our city governments, &C
cording to latest reports, are appointing
censors to determine which motion pic
lures are good and which are bad for
public consumption. Already 80 cities
have established one-man censorship
boards to pass judgment on all film pro-
auctions before they are shown. There
are ten other national organizations that
preview films and pass Judgment upon
them.
No doubt a great deal Of harm is
wrought where acts of immortality and
crime are glorified before potential
criminals and vice-mongers, who witness
such: portrayals on the screen. But CEN
sorship Of speech and of the press is
dangerous business, when such author
ity is vested in one man or few men.
Many American citizens are disturbed
over the potential danger couched in
censorship when centered in the preju-
dices and preconceived opinions of one
or two men. clothed with absolute au-
thority to tell 150,000.O00 people what
they may listen to or behold for their
good.
May not this censorship be extended
to other things besides the radio and
television broadcasting? Will it not grow
into censorship of the magazines and
newspapers. the literature that may be
sold to the public, and the sermons that
may be preached for the general welfare
and safety of society? These are serious
questions which are disturbing people as
they see this censorship rapidly spread
ing throughout our municipalities.
G.. S. LOngacre
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Parting Shots

There is not much in the parting exchange
between President Truman and Senator Taft at
the end of the first lap of the 1850 political
which promises the voter an inspiring choice
Mr.. Truman says he is dreaming of better
country and that only the Democrats can make
that dream come true. Senator Taft says it is
not dream that the President is having, but
a nightmare
The President is still trying to make the
people believe that labor is, being beaten down
by the Taft-Hartley Act and that it should be
repealed. He is sticking by his guns on the civil
rights program including compulsory FEPC,
although some of his best friends are beginning
to tell him that it gives off an unpleasant odor.
He complains about the obstructionistS in Con-
gresS meaning those who oppose his program,
and he says he hopes the voters will retire
them in November. But apparently Mr.. Tru-
mans shots were aimed at Republican obstruc-
tionists alone, for he urged the reelection of
Majority Leader Lucas, who is no supporter of
that latest Fair Deal pipe dream-the Brannan
plan
When Senator Taft got up last night to reply
he sounded very much like Senator Taft With
that stubborn political courage which no one
challenges, he met the President squarely on
the issue of the Taft-Hartley Act The Ohio
Senator is not man to be intimidated by the
threats of the union bosses, nor will he pervert
the truth IN bid for the labor vote.
But his audience also found him attacking
the socialism" of the Fair Deal, and heard him
promising that the Republicans if elected, will
insist on the elimination from Government
and particularly from the State Department
policy-making group of every man who thinks
that Communism has about it any of the ele-
ments of true Americanism." Note that no
names are named and we are left in the dark
as to who it is in the State Department that the
Senator suspects of being unable to tell the
difference between Communism and true
AmericaniSm.
1t is this kind of campaigning, on both
sides OF the political line, which makes the voter
who does not wear party label wonder in which
camp he belongs. 1t looks as though this is
another election year in which he will not have
clear-cut choice. AS he has done before he
will have to balance up the good and the bad
in each party, and make his choice accordingly.
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Scars on Woshington's Beauty

81 President Humans SeSquicentennial mes
sage to the National Citizens Conference on
Planning urged the mapping now of programs to
Z ensure "the beauty of Metropolitan Washington
~in the year 2O00" The message was received
I as the conference considered plans for Kidding
,sthe Capital Of the temporary buildings left
8 over from the two World Wars. 1t is easier,
however, to demand the removal of these eye
sores than it is to accomplish their demise. At
the rate of their disappearance since World War
l. it is even possible that the planners fifty years
from now will be wrestling with the same old
problem. j,
AS Ralph Walker, president of the American
Institute of Architects, commented at the con-
ference one of the troubles lies in the fact
that some of the buildings were constructed
too well. He cited the Navy building on Consti-
tuition avenue as an example of this construction
mistake. This building intended for destruction
after the first World War; was built of REIN
forced concrete. 1t will probably be with us
for many more years, even if the time ever
arrives when all its Office space is not occupied.
Tearing it down would be an expensive PROPOSE
ton, for few of its materials could be salvaged.
But even the less substantially constructed
"tempos" have way of clinging to their park
sites on the Mall and elsewhere. There always
seems to be a shortage of Office space when
more of the wartime structures. The same
attitude has developed in connection with the
so-called temporary barracks for servicemen
and women in Potomac Park and across the
Potomac river in front of Arlington National
Cemetery. Invariably howl goes up from the
occupants of such barracks and from service
officials when evacuation is suggested.
Similar outcries of protest arose when the
city tried to get rid of the unsightly Federal
dormitories which faced Union Station Plaza
after World War I, but when the showdown
finally came, years after the war; no actual cases
of hardship resulted from the wholesale razing
job The chances are that the adoption of a
similarly firm stand against the new crop of
dormitories and Offices would achieve good re-
suits without any really grave effects on Federal
services or personnel. Unless this problem Is
met squarely eventually, Washington's temporary
buildings will continue to mar the landscape
for long time to come.
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Literary Memorial to Thomas Jefferson :

he saw. apparently he did not stop to
think of its importance.
The importance is not only the kind
that would be attached to ii by an anti
quarian porting over dusty papers. The
Declaration is as vital today as when
jefferson. with his pen. transferred the
mantle of divinity from the King to the
common man.
Think of the effect. il these words
could be spread throughout Russia:
We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created equal.
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted
among men. deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed. That
whenever any form of government be-
comes destructive of these ends. it is the
right of the people to alter or abolish
it, and to institute new government :"
The task Jefferson's editors have un-
dertaken is prodigiouS. II is estimated
he wrote about $4,000 letters, and it is
believed only third have been printed
heretofore. The letters received by him
are even more numerous. Forty volumes
are planned-to include. either in full or
in summary. every known letter by JET
ferson or to him. There will be an addi-
tional ten volumes grouping Jefferson's
writings according to subjects such as
architecture. farming and gardening. re-
cipes. etc. Finally, an index in one or
more volumes.
The work had its inception in the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission
of l943. which Congress directed to pre-
pare a new edition of the writings Of
Jefferson. at the same time limiting the
editorial costs to $4,000. The commits
sion appointed DR.. Boyd as its historian
His report on the project was followed
by the New York Times gift and the
publishing arrangements with Princeton.
The second volume will appear in the
fall. and then it is planned to issue four
volumes a year. For all their fascina-
ton, the Jefferson papers are hardly
candidates for the best-seller list. The
volumes are priced at $40 each, though
there is 10 per cent discount to sub
scribers to the whole series.
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++~n - L. A is onL
esSOfu vue Please be brf

or is not criminal by the fact that he
employs so persons or only 40?
8. The law would apply to discrimina-
ton where the applicants for employ
ment have equal qualifications. Is it
possible that two or more applicants can
ever have identical qualifications, capa-
bilities and potentialities? Assuming
that three applicants for the same job
all have identical qualifications, the ap-
plicant who is Catholic is hired and
the other applicants, one Jew and the
other a Negro. are rejected. Have the
Jew and the Negro the right to claim
discrimination? Would the Catholic have
a claim if he were rejected and the Negro
hired?
Reader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
More Evolution

Orrin G. Watkins, ir., is right when he
declares in recent letter that the Bible
is not textbook of science. He is wrong
when he writes, with what appears to be
pontiflcal assurance, that every science
is in conflict with the science of the Bible
zoology, botany. history. medicine,
philology, geology, geography, psychol-
ogy. astronomy, ETC."
Tut! Tut! That covers much ground.
Too much, indeed. It is not a comment
on the Bible. It is comment on Orrin
G. Watkins, jr. Such q statement in
stantly diSqualifies him as scientist. It
discloses, too, that his biblical knowl-
edge is sadly deficient.
No fact of science, clearly established,
has ever been demonstrated to be In con-
f1ict with any statement of the Bible.
rightly understood. The theories of SCI
entists and the teachings of the Bible
sometimes are sharply at variance But
as the theories of scientists are not sci
ence, we need be little disturbed about
their failure to agree with the Bible.
Carlyle b. Haynes.
1t IS hard to understand how the
tCIolOll VI CICdJlUH Is 1UQIlU W
be so greatly at variance with the "evo-
lutionary" one. as some Of your cor
respondents seemingly find 1t. Accord
ing to Genesis. creation occurred in the
following order: Light, earth, water.
division of water by land. plant life.
aquatic life, insect and fowl life, animal
life and. finally, man.
Is not that order fairly close to the one
L..
true that the biblical version gives the
impression that creation occurred in six
days, while the "evolutionists" contend
that it took millions of years. But then.
the biblical authors explain that "a day
is but as thousand years to the Lord"
which removes any grounds for conten-
ton as to an exact time element in
creation.
I Snerrv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17

themselves in class with people who refuse to
listen to ideas or facts that counter to their
own preconceived notions or pet preiudices
That is poor way to promote an understanding
of the complex and deadly serious German prob
lem. 1t is poor way to seek truth in any field
Mr.. Buttenwiesers censors have no reason what
ever to be proud of their act 1t clashes ironically
with the Americas Democratic Legacy Award"
which they handed out at the same dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
Small Good Sense
Reader.

One cannot think much of the shoot
ing down Of 14-year-old boy correc-
tion-school fugitive by Prince Georges
County officials. 1t seems small good
sense was used. and no good judgment.
These frantic officials did not have to
shoot to kill. and the boy could have
been easily caught in few days.
What will startled, shocked commu-
nifty think Of these men who shot and
killed George William Mooney?
The boy was shot in the back.
Thomas ]. Whitehead.
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Ex THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Sometimes Lake Mead Is spoken
of as the largest artificial lake and then
again Kentucky Lake. Which Of the two
is actually the larger?-M. H. T.
A. Lake Kentucky has the larger area
-408 square miles as against Lake
Mead's 246. However Lake Mead has a
far greater volume OF water, its capacity
being 3l.142,000 acre-feet as against
Kentucky's 6,O03, 900 acre feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star Informa ton
Bureau. 1900 street NV. washington B, d. C..
Please inclose cents for return postage.
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@. How is snuff made?-N. A. w.

@. How is snuff made?-N. A. w.
A. Snuff is made from a high-grade
hurley tobacco that comes from Tennes-
see, Kentucky and Virginia. The tobacco
is packed away for two or three years
and subjected to high temperatures be-
fore being cut into powder. During the
aging period the tobacco ferments and
acquires the peculiar strong aroma OF
snuff. Only a small portion of snuff is
nowadays shifted up the nose. Usually
1t IL carried In the mouth.
O. What kind Of feathers are most
suitable for making fish fiies?-L. F. B.
A. All kinds of feathers that are small
and light in weight land color. If they
are to be dyed are adaptable to the
making of fish lures. Aniline dyes in
any color desired can be used. Feathers
preferred for the lures. not dyed, are
those of high colored fowls such as
pheasants. peacocks and the fighting
gamecock.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-06

QUESTION: Why is it that
with the beginning of this Sab
bath and for the duration of the
winter months the l04th Psalm is
read after Saturday afternoons in
the sYnagogues followed by the
fifteen psalms of the Accents
psalm l20-l34?)
ANSWER: A number of inter
esting reasons are offered for this
custom. 1t so happens that the
104th Psalm is quite similar to the
story of the Creation of the world
in the Book of Genesis. The
Sabbath being the token of the
fact that Cd created the world,
and the winter months being the
time of the year when we see
G-d's wonders at work changing
seasons-bringing rains, winds
and SHOWS and then removing
them-it was ordained that every
Sabbath afternoon be crowned
with this Psalm as an admission
of the power of the Lord in the
World of Man.
The fifteen psalms of the AS
cents were added because David
sang these songs as he beheld the
miraculous results of the creation
of the world when he dug deep
foundations into the earth which
threatened to bring the water
from the depths to the surface
and overflow the earth until he
used the name CD CTalmud
Babli, Tractate Succah, 53). The
Sabbath, being the reminder OF
the deeds of Genesis" serves as
the fitting place for the Psalms
which David sang when he real
lied how the Creator was at work
carrying on and protecting the
works of his Divine creation. The
Patriarch Jacob likewise is said
to have recited these Psalms day
and night in the House of Laban.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-06

QUESTION: Why is this Sab
bath called "Shabbos Bereishis?"
ANSWER: Traditionally on the
first Sabbath after all the fall
holidays the reading of the Torah
begins at the beginning of the
Book of Genesis again. The first
word of the Torah is "Bereishis"
Gin the beginning) hence the Sab
bath is called by the special name
of ''Shabbos Bereishis. In many
Synagogues it is considered a
special event and in many places
Kiddush reception is held hon.
oring the Sabbath. MoralistS have
explained this by the fact that
throughout the holidays of the
fall season man has prayed and
has been forgiven for his iniqui-
ties. He therefore starts the first
Sabbath after the holidays with a
clean states as if his world we're
beginning all over again for him.
Consequently, he is happy to be
able. to begin all over again I'M
burdened by the errors of the
past. Hense, a sense of celebra-
ton is in order for "Shabbos
BereishiS."
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COLUMBUS

Continued from Page Three)
to get somebody to take a chance
finding east by going west.
Most of the people when they
saw him, dismissed him with a
brief: 'The guy is nuts"
But he is a persistent fellow
and finally armed with docu-
ments from the learned men of
his day. he was granted an audi
ence before Isabella of Spain. The
court attendants referred to Co.
lumbus as the man with the
cloak full of holes"
1 suppose when Isabella was
listening to Columbus, she was
cycling his clothes, more than
thinking of his arguments. Any
way, she turned him down. :
But does Columbus give up?
How can he? He has seen a
whole new world. So he mounts
his donkeymobile and is off to try
his luck with some other king.
A Jew. Luis de Santangel. Fin
ance Minister of Spain. hears that
the queen has sent Columbus a.
way and rushes to see Isabella.
This de Santangel seems to enjoy
the protection of the queen. de-
spite the fact that his own cousin
was burned at an auto da fe.
According to historians. he gave
her Hail Columbia" for turning
down Columbus.
Doesn't she see all the possibil
tiles. 1t may be Columbus won't
discover anything, but again, the
possibilities of his making very
valuable discoveries are enor-
nous. The people who push 9TH
ers around can never visualize
new worlds; it is only the people
who are themselves pushed a
round who are granted these Wis
ions, so it requires Jew to make
Isabella see the light. So she re-
mandS her order, sends her cour-
iers to recall Columbus. So Co.
lumbus went and discovered a
new world!
So what if he did? From the
Jewish standpoint. that's just the
ordinary thing. Every day. we
say in our prayers. God creates
anew the works of Genesis.
Every day He creates new worlds
and if we are not discovering
new worlds every day. we aren't
truly Jewish-and if we are-we
can't help being Jewish. whatever
be our color or descent.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-06

PRESIDENT ADRIAN SACFAR of Brandeis University vel
incoming freshmen who registered this week at the
institution The than 240 entering
rs the nation bring the Brandeis
enrolment year o $50 young and
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