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Milford chronicle., 1950-12-22
BUSINESS OUTLOOK

They all are agreed that 1851 will see the nations
greatest National Income with full employment and
large retail sales. AS to profits they will vary much
with different industries. Investors should be very
choosy in 1951-selling stocks and buying
others. Imitation will surely continue to help the
stock market, especially stocks of companies with
their assets underground and chain store stocks
with a constantly rapid turnover Stocks of public
utilities in big vulnerable cities and the bonds of
such cities should be avoided. The only bonds ad-
vised are "COnvertibles."
Although New York now looks for a good in
vestment market in 1851 the wise do not over
look the smash which will come with a revolution
in Russia anything else which will end the cold
war or the hot war whichever we may be in at that
time CBy the way, general feeling is that upon
declaration Of World War III, the stock market
Evening star., 1950-07-27
What Fools We MortoIs Be-!

Some people might think that Max Rosen-
thai manager of the Thrifty Market in Southeast
Washington, is profiteer He deliberately upped
the price of sugar by almost 100 per cent, sold
800 pounds of it in four hours to greedy customers
who stood in line to get it.
But Mr.. Rosenthal is not prof1teer He is
psychologist and teacher He demonstrated
how easily people make fools of themselves when
they combine their gullibility with self1shness.
He made his experiment in the open, and proved
his point. And if more people would consider
it's implications, fewer people would be making
asses of themselves in the panicky buying that
is taking place all over the country and in
Washington today.
AS Mr.. Rosenthal told the story to The Star,
he had been selling sugar for 40 cents for five
pounds. He put some bags of sugar in his shop
window and labeled it-"Special, pounds sugar,
&c." That started the rush. But across the
street, two other groceries, selling sugar at soc
for five pounds reported no unusual demand.
II there are any rationing and price controls in
the near future, the people responsible for these
nuisances will be the thoughtless and selfish
hoarders who are making ugly spectacles of
themselves.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
By Charles E. TroceweN
Talbot M. Wright.

main was not so likely to be good" at
reading or writing.
Sometimes these trends hold good all
through high school and college.
The born reader is one who SeiZeS
the opportunity to read. He will read
anything at any time, and call it good.
Call it good, that is, only if it seems
to him good piece of writing.
X
The opportunity to read today. de-
spite the inroads of other amusements.
is greater than ever before.
That reading is an amusement, too,
ought not to be disputed. That it car
ries with it the power to instruct, to
help, to inspire, is but added grace. The
fact that books, magazines and news
papers are easily loaned-though not
easily collected again-gives them added
value in the minds of their best friends.
Few persons loan their radio sets, and
none, evidently, their television receivers.
The best way to discourage mildew on
books is to put them in the attic. Molds
are earth born and borne, and usually
do not get as high as the average attic.
loves to gather.
Attic bookShelves offer the best Stor-
age of beloved volumes, also the best
of browsing places. The best points of
the modern one-story rambler" houses
cannot offset the fact that they have
no real attics, in which books may be
stored, along with many dreams.
Books may be called dreams in storage.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
Assignment of Mobilization Functions

Every one should welcome Mr.. Symington's
assurance that the President intends to assign
mobilization functions to existing departments
and agencies of Government
In our industrial mobilization during the
past war new agency was created for almost
every new assignment that came along, with
the resulting assortment of senli-independent
bureaus reporting to the President directly under
titles which seemed at times to have been chosen
almost at random from available letters of the
alphabet. The resulting administrative chaos
with hazy or underlined chains of command
added to the difficulties of mobilization by con-
fusing Implications of effort and rivalries for
power.
While the extent of mobilization now being
planned is not to be compared with what took
place when the country was being geared to
Evening star., 1950-07-27
This and That

Time for books is an elusive thing.
Theodore Roosevelt probably read
more books than any other hundred men.
and did it while attending to affairs of
state.
He found time.
And that, of course, is what every
reader must do. Some people can read
in buses. or while riding in the back of
wagons. It is mostly a matter of de-
termination.
Despite the high powered appeals of
radio, television and international af-'
fairs, some persons still find reading the
most engrossing occupation.
These are the natural born readers It
is difficult to think of an invention that
would make them turn from their first
love. Nor is it possible to look upon this
phenomenon as determined solely by
early training.
being trained for lifetime reading, there
were many who hated reading, as they
said. Usually they were the ones who
hated writing, too.
1t is an odd thing how liking for
one sort of mental adventure almost in
variably means a liking for related
thing.
Thus. in grammar school, the child
who was good" in reading usually was
good in writing, too, and mostly had a
fondness for history.
The child good" in arithmetic in the
Evening star., 1950-07-27
CAMP LEJEUNE, N. c.

'CAMf LEiJ EUNE, N. y.
Dear Sir:
Via mail subscription, last Saturdays
Star reached us here today. and just
prior to reading your column I had
been foraging in cartons filled with
dusty, musty books.
".Their owners never seem to have
the privilege of enjoying the comfort of
their society, due to restricted home
space, particularly when one is affiliated
with the military.
"I'd been searching, to no avail, for an
old volume of E. Phillips Oppenheims
to lend to hospital patient here.
so often envy those who stay put
in their very own homes long enough to
revel in the company of their preferred
choices in literature. wonder fire.
quently if they realize how fortunate
they are.
eve have learned that this base. is
exactly where the robin goes when he
leaves Washington, D. c., Maryland and
Virginia.
HE comes right down here and dis
ports himself for months. We have
seen him, literally, by the thousands,
here on this reservation.
1--WE watched the robins depart in
mid-February, and timed their speed by
your correspondents reports on their
arrival in your area, via The Star.
Respectfully, H. L. L."
Evening star., 1950-07-27
Portrait of q Boy

Stretched full-length upon his side,
Deep in the summer grass,
For golden century he matched
An ant procession pass.
Then he tollolDed t1ith his eyes
A lizards 1Dirding 1Day;
And spent bright Geo1,S ponderind
What crickets haze to sag.
A bulltrog called him to the pond:
And SQuatting do1Dr, he sat
For a cool, green generation there,
ObServdnt as q cat.
And so he spent the sun that day.
As one might spend dime,
Indifferent to the ticking hours,
A plutocrGt of time!
VIRGINIA MORAN EVANS.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
Hourders

Very probably it is human nature to get
while the getting's good. But President
Truman properly characterized as foolish
those practical patriots who already are
frantically boarding.
During the hectic days of the Pearl
Harbor incident, was working as chauf-
feur for fairly wealthy retired district
attorney and his wife in California. My
employers were plenty patriotic, but the
mistress had me to get out the limousine
("hearse,' called it, and we proceeded
to drive to various super-markets in
metropolitan Los Angeles. The mistress
prudently bought enough staple groceries
to last family of IL indefinitely, but
there were none to eat it except the wife
and husband, the cook and myself.
The morning following the Japs' attack
upon the pearl of the Pacific, was in
the library busting the bookshelves. In
the adjoining entrance-way, the mistress
Evening star., 1950-07-27
A National Responsibility

An agreement has been made between
the City of Philadelphia and the United States
Department of the Interior whereby the Nation
will become custodian of Independence Hall and
other structures associated with the basic
charters of American freedom. This means that
the movement toward Federal guardianship of
the meeting place of the Continental Congress
and the Constitutional Convention begun in
1943 is reaching its natural objective Such relics
of the Nations birth should be in the Nations
care.
independence Hall, where the Declaration of
Independence was signed in 1776, obviously is the
most important of the buildings involved in the
recent proceeding. Beginning January l next
the National Park Service will be in charge of
its preservation and display. The agreement
with the Philadelphia authorities also covers
Congress Hall, Old City Hall and other historic
structures and SITES It includes three city blocks
of land in the immediate vicinity of Independ-
ence Hall. Part Of the land was occupied in
Revolutionary times by the home and print shop
of Benjamin Franklin Some portions of the
stipulated area still are to be acquired The
State of Pennsylvania is providing a mall from
the north and the Federal Government is supply
ing funds for other improvements of the same
general character.
When the whole terrain has been assembled
and put in order, the Park Service will have
in its control the surviving background of the
tremendous drama which George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding
Fathers acted out to it's grand conclusion in the
last quarter of the eighteenth century. million
persons already visit Independence Hall and it's
environs annually. The number is bound to
increase, if only because Americans of today
themselves are making and living history on a
monumental scale. 1t may seem far cry from
Philadelphia to the battlefelds of Korea, but
actually they are just across the street in the
minds and hearts >of all who love freedom.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
AIoof From Quemoy

Our 7th Fleet according to the State Depart
ment, will not intervene if the Chinese Commu-
nists attempt to invade Quemoy Island. This is
q sensible policy for several reasons, not least of
all because such intervention seems much less
than essential to the effective execution of the
Presidents decision to prevent an amphibous
Red expedition against Formosa.
Quemoy-located just off the port of Annoy on
the southeast coast of China-is within an almost
literal stones throw of the mainland. It is
occupied by the Nationalist forces of Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek Last October those forces
succeeded in shattering Red effort to take the
island, and if that effort is renewed now, they
may succeed in doing the same thing all over
again. But even if they cannot hold it, its
Importance to the defense of Formosa seems
altogether too minor to warrant any intervening
action by the 7th Fleet.
For between tiny Quemoy and Formosa, as
between Formosa and the mainland, are 100
miles of sea. Accordingly, if the Communists
seize the place, they will still be as far as ever
from what they seek. With their deficient
shipping, with the big water barrier, with the
7th Fleet ready to block them, and with Chiang's
large Formosan force equipped for an all-out
defensive battle, they will continue to be hard
put-with or without direct Soviet assistance
to invade Formosa. Quemoys possession can
be of Scant help to them in that sense.
In the circumstances, the 7th F1eet-which
also has job to do in Korean waters-has good
reason to remain aloof from action involving
Quemoy. The common sense of such aloofness
probably accounts for the fact that the National
lists have not asked us, and apparently do not
expect u.s. to intervene to help them hold the
little island.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
You Lose for Keeps

AS a leader of the Republican minority,
Senator Taft has right and even duty
to take critical look at the Presidents request
for emergency powers over the national economy
1t is entirely proper that he should want to
know the justification for any particular author
ity that is requested.
This function of the minority should not
be permitted to degenerate, however, into
mere quibbling opposition. There is no virtue
but there is a very real danger, in opposition
for the sake of opposition alone. And it will
be an evil day for this country if the Republican
opposition lapses into that role The President
has asked for certain very limited powers. For
instance, he wants authority to allocate mate
rials and facilities" This has disturbed Senator
Taft He has a vision of this authority, once
granted, being used to shut down industries,
impose the Brannan plan on agriculture, etc.
This implies fear that the President, if given
the powers he wants, would abuse them by using
them for purposes not essential to the security
of the Nation.
When we are in state which Senator Taft
describes as semiwar, and when there is threat
of an all-out war, this attitude can be danger
Gus. It is imperative that we use such time as
we may have to prepare for the worst. And that
can only be done by giving the President needed
powers and trusting that he will use them
lnCelllgenLy ana IN the naClOnal interest. 10
do otherwise, to quibble and haggle over the
meaning of one word or another, is to take
the road to ruin
If the President has gone to any extreme,
he has, in The Stars opinion, asked for too little
rather than too much In the latest report of
his Council of Economic Advisers he takes the
view that full controls will not be necessary
provided consumers, business and labor exercise
moderation and restraint
That is big off" It is a view which depends
for its validity on information available to the
President, but not to the rest of us. If, on the
basis of that information, he has concluded
that we are not threatened with general war,
then his position is justified But If the President
has reason to believe there is substantial danger
of general war, and if he is still relying on the
thin hope that this menace can be met on the
basis of voluntary restraints and moderation,
then he is taking hazardous gamble with the
life of the Nation.
Bernard Baruch an advocate of full controls,
says that we are moving too slowly and reminds
us that, in a major war, when you lose, you
lose once and for ALL" Let us hope that we will
not find the proof of that statement in the
devastated cities of America
Evening star., 1950-07-27

total war, the President and Mr. symington will
be fortunate if they can place all new assign
ments within existing departments. If the ad-
ministration of the departments proves made
quate, the best remedy is more apt to be found
in finding more capable administrators than by
retaining incompetent men within the depart
ments and then by-passng them by the creation
of new agencies under new men.
Some problems, such as the World War II
problem Of synthetic rubber manufacture, may
call for separate agencies to perform vitaly
important task. BY and large, however, agencies
now existing should be able to absorb new func-
tionS
Evening star., 1950-07-27
Our Milk Questions

In the fight over Washington's milk produc-
ton, the question of health regulations cannot
be completely isolated. These rules, for better
or worse, have created certain economic pattern
for Washingtons milk supply. They should not
be changed without consideration of how such
changes will affect the economic picture.
The biggest factor in this economic picture
is the existence of the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association, milk farmers
cooperative which controls about IS per cent
Of the city's milk supply under the present setup
It is an admitted fact that rigid requirements
for milk distributed in Washington have played
an important part in letting the association
reach its present, nearly monopolstic position.
On the record the association has not abused
its advantage. 1t has greatly improved the lot
of local dairymen by guaranteeing them sure
market for their product. 1t has provided District
consumers with an excellent milk supply at prices
that compare favorably with those of other large
cities. The association claims that lowering
of health standards would open up the Washing
ton milk market, and end in the ruin of the local
dairy industry.
There is justice in the plea that the District
Commissioners and members of Congress, in
considering revision of WashingtonS milk code,
should keep in mind the welfare of nearby milk
farmers It would seem hardly fair that dairymen
who have, at considerable expense, complied with
all the rules of our Health Department for Is
years should suddenly be forced to compete in
a market laid wide open to milk from anywhere
in the country.
However, the association is faced with
dilemma in fighting every proposed change in
our present milk CODE 1t shows up most clearly
in the controversy over proposals to change
requirements for sterilization of equipment On
dairy farms. The association insists that the
present law, requiring sterilization with live
steam, be retained-in spite of the fact that
sterilization with chemicals is cheaper, almost
universal, and meets with the approval of District
health officials.
1t seems perfectly proper that the District
Health Officer should set the requirements as
high as he may think necessary to insure a
healthful milk supply. 1t also seems proper that
the local milk industry, in meeting these require
ments, should reap the benefit, as long as the
public is not made the goat.
1t does not seem proper, however, that the
association, in order to maintain its advantage,
should rely on a health regulation that does
not stand on its own feet. This seems to be
the case 'in the matter of steam sterilization.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
Sochsenhousen-The Modern Dochou
BY Judy Borden

u ERLIN.-They are broken men.
- every one of them-with missing
teeth, hollow eyes, sunken cheeks and
tuberculosis. They are the men who
have been held as prisoners by the Rus
slams in the notorious Sachsenhausen
camp.
It's all very well to think of Dachau
and other camps of brutality run by the
Gestapo in the past, but it doesn't stop
choking sensation to see this still goes
on. That the world is not better place
even though so many died for it's bet
terment is proved frustratingly by these
wrecks Of humanity whom the Russians
have released.
The Reds have their rules. Any Ger
man who speaks well of the West is
first warned. Any German who tries to
escape to the West is imprisoned.
We talked to some of these men today.
Outside. in the dark hallway. sat dozens
OF men and women waiting for word
that one of their relatives had been
released. Inside. the one-time prisoners
gratefully accepted cigarettes. coughed
and put them out. Every one Of them
had T.B.
SAAC yoA14SctCA Va go, WAiOOC ldCC was
as gray as local laundry, was affected in
both lungs. Four years ago. he was
healthy kid who decided to visit his
sister in the West Zone. He was caught
crossing the. border. Today was his
first day of freedom since then. He is
fit for nothing now but sanatorium
where all he can do will be rest and die.
Another lad of 81 with red hair and
red-rimmed eyes was picked up on sus-
picion Of espionage. His father and
mother were in France. He tried to
follow them. He had been behind barbed
wire for three years. "I'd rather be shot
than go back to that hell" he said.
Saddest of all was 44-year-old fam
lily man with wife and six children. He
worked as machinist. One day the
machine jammed. On the spot, he was
told he must pay $4,000 rubles for the
damage he had caused. He was with
out such money. Work it out in
Sachsenhausen," he was told. He has
been doing just that for two and half
years and contracted T.B. in the process.
His wife is now in Bavaria-but he.
like all the others. will not risk the train
ride through the Russian zone. They
all want to get as far away from the
Russians as possible, but they all want
to fly. Their terror Is natural. Whilst
coming into Berlin, two of their number
who had already been released were
again arrested by the Russians.
Evening star., 1950-07-27

when we saw this" said one, I'VE
didn't dare speak to each other again.
We didn't even look at each other in
case somebody was watching and would
interpret that look as a sign of some
sort"
Their freedom Is delicious to them.
Here and there dull eye sparkles at
the simple thought of going for walk.
But their troubles are not over. There
are hundreds Of people ahead of them
on the waiting list to travel to the West.
The magistrate does not have sufficient
money to help them. They are given
one mark by an organization called The
Fighting Group, and five marks by the
Evening star., 1950-07-27
War Is Not TiddIywinks'

From my understanding Of the contents
Of the Stockholm Peace Appeal, the ap-
peal can hardly be designated by the dig
nified name of peace" at all.
The appeal, as understand it. is
simply a demand for the outlawing of
atomic weapons. 1t does not demand the
outlawing Of war. but merely seeks to
Danish one of the weapons of war. In
other words, it appears to be a proposal
to prevent wars from becoming more
horrible.
Wars are not games of tiddlywinks.
They are not humane affairs, but ruth
less, brutal, murderous engagements. And
making proposals for their conduct GER
tainly in no way promotes peace, but on
the contrary tends to give approval to
wars themselves.
Real peace can never be obtained until
we have worldwide controlled militarism,
for individual nations have demonstrated
time and again their inability to prevent
wars when they are freely permitted to
provide for their own defense" National
defense has long been regarded as uni
versal prerogative, but the repeated abuse
of this privilege by aggressive nations
makes it imperative that the United Ma
tions, or some high international body,
should assume the complete responsibility
for the defense of all nations.
1t is unfortunate that dynamic action
toward this end was not taken by world
leaders during the past four or five years.
The fact that the flag of the United Ma
tions is the supreme flag in the defense of
Korea is hopeful sign. But it does not
remove the stigma placed on world
leaders, and particularly the heads of
the great nations, for permitting world
war conditions again to arise.
Robert Tabb Stewart.
Evening star., 1950-07-27
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Was the Constitution ratified unani-
mously by any of the 13 original States?
%. B. M.
A. Delaware, New Jersey and Georgia
ratified the Constitution unanimously.
The vote in the other States was: Penn
Sylvania, 43 to 49, New York, 80 to 27;
Massachusetts,, 1877 to 1853; Virginia, 80
to 70; New Hampshire, 81 to 46; Con-
necticut. 1913 to 40; Maryland, 63 to II:
South Carolina, 149 to 73; North Caro-
lima, 1874 to IT; Rhode Island, "a to 80.
@. Did Rossini compose any operas
after William Tell"?-D. Mob.
A. Rossini was 81 when he finished
civilian Tell' and it is one of the in
explcable mysteries of musical history
that although he lived almost 40 years
after, he composed practically nothing
more.
Q. How much weight can pack
mule carry?-G. B. r.
A. A fully loaded pack animal carries
up to 300 pounds.
@. When were gold dollars minted at
Charlotte, N. CA. r. B.
A. only TOUR gold dollars were struck
at the Charlotte, N. c., Mint in 1854.
They can be identified by the mint
mark &C."
@. In what country of the Orient is
there a counterpart of the Leaning
Tower Of Pisa?-P. w.
A. There is such a tower in Yangku
(Taiyuan) in Shansi Province of China
@. Why did the American political
parties adopt emblems?-C. Y.
A. Party emblems were originally in
troduced to help illiterate voters to
identify their candidates names.