Evening star., 1950-03-13

including top officials, for Government
sponsored automat with Government
installed dietitian supervising to see that
real food is available. at low-profit
figure to encourage better eating and a
would be definite drop in needed hos
pitalization if more attention were given
to proper diet
HOSPITABLE HETTY.
Readers Disagree in Their Views
OF Mr.. Lewis Activities
Once I believed The Star stood for just
and true reporting. but after your at
titude during the recent coal strike am
forced to change my opinion. There is
bias for the operators that i'll becomes
you. Unwillingness to see both sides one
might expect in other dailies, but is
pretty disappointing in The Star.
There was never a sympathetic word
for the miners, or the thought expressed
that they might be in the right; never
hint of admiration for Mr.. Lewis who,
at TO- can't enjoy trying to win hope
OF security for his men from group who
have only contempt for him and what he
stands for. No. all we ever read was that
Lewis is causing another threat to ma
tional economy by reason of coal Short
age"
In my opinion, the coal operators are
disgrace to the country and their indus
try. They have never, willingly, i'm
proved either their mines or safety condi-
tions therein, or co-operated in any at
tempt to better conditions for the min
ers. Then, to top it all, when Mr. Lewis
girds himself for another showdown they
play the Oldest trick in the game-they
skulk in the background, gathering close
their cloaks Of anonymity, leaving John
l.. In the limelight to garner abuse and
villif1cation for trying to make them do
what they should have done long ago. 7
The press seemed rather chagrined, in
patronizing way by the miners loyalty
to John. Why shouldn't they be loyal
to the man who cares enough for their
welfare to be ever ready In their cause?
They can still remember how bad the
mines once were, and they fear that
even in these modern, enlightened times
the same things could happen again
without constant vigilance.
So here's to Mr.. Lewis and the miners
for constantly and valiantly fighting a
lonely battle that, in decencys sake,
shouldn't have had to be fought. and for
continuing their fight when almost all
hands were raised against them.
DOROTHY THOMSON.
In recent article, Lowell Mellett lauds
the genius" of John l.. Lewis but says
that the excess number of miners fore
stalls solution of the problem. Why
should there not be an excess of miners
when the Lewis monopoly enables them
by working half time to earn as much as
the average worker working full time?
c. D. BLACHLY.
Those Caves Could Get Very Lonely
have just heard that the Congress
men intend asking us poor taxpayers for
more money to pay their telephone bills.
wonder what would happen if we poor
taxpayers had the power to refuse extra
allotments to them as readily as they
refuse us, for example, the allotment
that was requested to build swimming
pool for the colored in Southeast Wash
ington.
OF course. we are considered as "vote-
less Washington" But if the hydrogen
bomb is ever dropped on the United
States. destroying nearly every one ex-
cept the members Of Congress who have
hidden out in bomb-proof caves. then