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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-19

LANAHAN, JOHN j. In loving memory OF
our beloved husband and father, JOHN j,
LANAHAN, who passed away three years
ago today. July 10, 194S.
July brings sad memories
OF loved one gone to rest;
You will never be FORGOTTEN
BY those who loved you best.
LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN.
METTLER. PFC. WILBUR J. In loving
brother, Pfc. WILBUR J. METTLER, who
lost his life overseas eight years ago to-
day, July 10, la43.
God is good He gives US strength
To bear our heavy cross,
He is the only one who really knows
How bitter is our loss.
There are sriefs that cannot find comfort
And wounds that cannot be healed;
There are sorrows so deep in the human
heart,
That cannot be revealed.
They would not want the ones they loved
To grieve for them today;
We must not say that they are dead,
For they are Just away.
God grants to US the gift Of memory,
And as the years go on We find
Our dear ones are forever near,
For death not only parts. but truly
DEVOTED MOTHER AND SISTERS.
WHITE, EDWARD tMIKE). In memory
OF my beloved grandson. EDWARD
(MIKEI WHITE, who passed away one
year ago today. July 10: 1850:
GRANDMOTHER, HELEN NORTON.
WHITE, JOHN. T. In loving remembranct
who passed away July 10, 1915.
YOUR LOVING WIFE, ELIZABETH K
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-19

mORGAN, MARGAkEI LOUISE. On WeQ-
ne56hy I iGls n of 1885, s5d F aAReAfa
Silver Spring, Md, wife of the late Will
liam Albert Morgan and mother of Harold
r: Morgan and Mrs. Bertha Holmes Of
interment at Boston, Mass. on Friday,
July 90. Arrangements by the Takoma
Funeral Home. IL
MARY 7. Suddenly. on We'd
nesday, July IS. 1851, MARY T. MUEL-
Mueller and mother of Mrs. May, Stsck-
liam A., THOMAS c. and Ernest J. Mueller
s on Flner Sn H s6e w. 5sa
NV, on Saturday, July 81. at am
Requiem mass at st. Mary's Catholis
Church, 5th and G SITS. NV, at $50
torment St. Mary's Cemetery. 90
July Is, 1851. CHARLES j. oRTLIP. be.
loved husband Of Charlotte J. Ortlip. IA,
Their of Annie ,ortlip and Mayme Bairt
the Robert A. Mattingly Funeral Home
131 18th st. Sc, where services Will b.
held on Friday, July 20, at 1890 am
Relatives and friends invited. Entomb
ment at Abbey Mausoleum.
PARRACK. RUTH KITNER. On Wednes
day, July Is, 1851. at the washington
Sanitarium and Hospital, RUTH kIINEl
PARRACK, beloved mother Of T. Dayit
Parrack OF IL Long1eIioW ST.. NV. MTs
Parrack rests at the Warner E. Pumphre
Funeral Home, S434 Georgia ave, Stlve
Spring, Md, where services will be he'll
| on Friday, July 20. at IL am, Intermen
| Rock Greek Cemetery. pittsburgh. Pa
| papers please copyO
POTTER, THOMAS X, 3rd. On Tuesday
| July II, 1851. at Prince Georges Hos
| pital, THOMAS K. POTTER, 3rd, believe
| son of Mai. Thomas z. Potter. jr.. U.
! A. F., and Abby H. Potter; brother G
| Abby H., Jennifer T. and Denise D. Pot
| ter. Remains resting at the w. K. Hunte
1 mann e. Son Funeral Home. 1872 Geol
gia ave. NV. until ~ noon Friday, Jul
| 30. Services at Fort Myer Chapel. For
4 Myer, Va, at pm. Relatives and FRIEND
/ invited to attend. Interment Arlingto
National Cemetery. Please omit flower
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CFMFTERr LOT; 2 grave sites, in Fort
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Evening star., 1951-09-29
Aviation-Product of Foresiqht

The United States Court of Appeals has stated
sound doctrine in its decision upholding the
granting of operational permits to four small
air-freight lines. AS summed up by Judge Pretty
man. the doctrine is that the development, pro-
motion and encouragement" of commercial avia-
ton are matters of foresight, not products of
unblended hindsight." The ruling thus brushed
aside contention of eight large airines that the
Civil Aeronautics Board had gone beyond its
statutory authority in granting the air-freight
lines permits on the basis of estimated possible
future business of the lines.
The CABS philosophy had been vigorously
contested in the courts by the larger airlines.
The board had refused to be guided in its de-
cision "solely upon the basis of past and current
facts but insisted on taking into consideration
the potential benefits to the public from the all
freight operations of the war-born air-freight
lines But the appellate court pointed out that
the law creating the CAB requires it to consider
not only past and current aviation problems but
to encourage the development of the industry.
"The development of the movement of prop
erty by air." the court said "iS not to be
thwarted by the fact that nobody can demon
strate with mathematical precision how much
of a specified type of property would move by
air facilities not yet developed and at unknown
rates." Aviation would not have progressed to
its present big business stage if the pioneers of
the industry had been restricted by governmental
decree to narrow f1Ad Of development.
Evening star., 1951-09-29
For the Sake of AiIing Children

When Gallnger Hospital last year requested
funds for stating its new pedatricS annex. con-
Struction of the new addition was still pro-
crossing. That may have been why the item was
drasticaly reduced in the Health Department
budget Whatever the reason, completion Of the
annex this summer found the hospital without
sufficient staff or funds to open all of the So
million building Only one wing of the structure
is in service today. Against this background the
hospitals reiterated request for enough money
to operate the annex at full capacity is reason
able one. The benefcaries will be aiing children.
The annex was opened recently with an
undersized staff, confined to the crippled chill
dren's wing of the new unit. The hospital origi-
nally planned to house crippled children in
special wing apart from the routine pediatric
cases. but that has been impossible with a re-
duced staff of nurses and attendants. All are
now in the crippled childrens wing. 1t will take
more nurses, attendants and other employees
to open the whole annex and separate the two
groups of patients as good hospital practice
requires.
Hospital authorities say they will have no
difficulty in securing the additional head nurses,
staff nurses, practical nurses and other needed
personnel if funds are made available. Their
request, if granted, will permit full use of a
building which is an important addition to the
city's hospital facilities The city will not gain
proper return from its investment in this fine
Child-care center until it is permitted to serve
the community as completely as It's equipment
warrants
Evening star., 1951-09-29
Senote's Poor Aching Bock

Never has the Senate been more gorily
hung over the horns of a dilemma than
In the full page advertisement inserted
by the American Home Laundry Manu-
facturers Association which. with much
pathos, protests the effects Of pro-
posed excise tax on washing machines.
If the Senators persist. they will be ac-
cused of setting back the hands Of time,
enslaving American womanhood to the
back k-breaking, backwoods drudgery OF
washboard hands and house maids
knee If in chivalry, they delete this
tax, the Senators will be belabored by
organized labor, the NAM, the laundry
and cosmetic interests.
Laundries, for a price. still offer to
save womanhood from washday drudg-
cry This failing, lovely hands are still
available at the drugstore.
Whether laundries, cosmetics and the
tax on cosmetics cost more than the
ultimate tax on washing machines
ESTIMATED at $25-$35). wouldn't ven-
ture to say not wishing to get into
an argument with anyone.
7 will say this to the Senators: Don't
get the women down on you because
comes election day, you'll be on the line.
Lost Button.
Evening star., 1951-09-29
Postmosters and Politics

It is worth noting that the convention of
5000 postmasters held here recently heard good
bit about politics. but very little about taking
politics out of the Post Office Department Two
high officials of the department reminded the
poStmasters that they owe loyalty to "the man
who appointed" them. 1t was made plain that
the department expects every postmaster to do
his duty come election time.
The word was not passed as badly as that
of course. Deputy Postmaster General Lawler
put it this way: There is no law which would
prevent you from making contribution to
political party. There is no law that you cannot
exercise your right to vote. There is no law to
prevent you from supporting the man who ap-
pointed you and wherein your loyalty lies. !"
Jack Redding assistant postmaster general, told
the postmasters the Republicans are vilifying
those in power and asked the delegates what
they are going to do about it.
1t is also worth noting that President Tru-
man, in calling attention of the postmasters to
a number of postal reforms advocated by the
Hoover Commission. made no mention whatever
If one of the key recommendations Apf that
Evening star., 1951-09-29
Place to PIuy

No money whatsoever should be
wasted trying to patch up antiquated,
inadequate buildings at Loughboro road
and Macarthur blvd, now being used
for the Industrial Home School and Ma
tional Training School, for the use OF
dependent children. Instead. this high
priced property should be sold and the
money used to buy lovely piece of land
in the country where modern equipment,
including vocational and academic school
rooms, athletic and recreational facili-
ties, swimming pool, ETC., could be ar
ranged. 1t is inexcusable to allow present
conditions to exist because of lack of
money, when this could easily be done.
Every one having the children's best in
terests at heart should work for this
instead of trying to make the best of
the present setup. In.
Evening star., 1951-09-29
This and That

"steel" guitar, with its peculiar sliding.
wailing note
You can do things with the guitar if
you are strong enough.
Not that playing it can be called
athletic. exactly.
Still, it requires capable hands. and
the stronger you are the better you ought
to be able to play it.
The guitar records excellently.
Modern phonograph records of it are
very good
Every owner of an instrument ought
to have some of these records, some
made by world-famous men.
After all, this is no toy instrument.
1t can be handled to give the effect,
almost, of an orchestra.
In the hands of the Spanish gypsies,
the Flamenco, it becomes a wild sort of
thing, urging the high, strange voices
of the singers on to new peaks of excel
lence.
Thumping with the fingers on the
wooden part of the body of the guitar
gives the gypsies an added note, as it
were.
The gutteral murmus of the players,
from time to time, in approval of the
singers, add q campfire note found in
no other music.
Our own hillbillies and Western gui-
tarists play the instruments straight"
As an accompanying instrument there
Evening star., 1951-09-29
Meant Some Other Loofers

In reporting a hearing in the House
Rules Committee on the application for
rule on bill providing increase Of pay
for postmasters, your Joseph Young.
on September 20, in his column quoted
me as having said that most Govern
ment employees are loafers and malin-
gerers."
This was tortuous piece of reporting
that tended to create an impression the
exact opposite of what was intended.
The committee was discussing the
waste of manpower In the Army, par
ticularly in defense plants. One mem
ber called attention to so-called standby
employees who had drawn pay for Is
months without having hit lick OF
work. In this connection ! called atten-
ton to a case where work done by the
Post Office Department with one con-.
tract enploye, using his own truck, was
duplicated by the Army using nine men
and nine Government-owned trucks, at
a cost of around 90 to /. 1t was in
this connection that said that most
of these employees are loafers and malin-
gerers. was condemning waste and
supporting the contention that there
was none in the postal service and that
increase in pay should be granted.
do not make it practice to condemn
newspaper people or to complain about
what might think to be unfair report
ing. but my position has been SO badly
misrepresented, though unintentionally,
I am sure, that thought it proper to
write you this letter.
E. E. Cox,
House of Representatives, Democrat,
of Georgia.
Editors note: The Star and its care
full reporter, Mr. Young, regret any mis-
understanding that may have occurred
in reporting Representative Cox's re-
marks.)
Evening star., 1951-09-29
The Rent Gouqers

The latest report from Senator Johnsons
Armed Services subcommittee does not make
pleasant reading. For it deals with most rep
rehensible kind of exploitation-the gouging of
serVicemen and their dependents by greedy
landlords.
This is the second report from the committee
on this subject, and it takes note of some i'm
provements The armed services have been trying
to alleviate the housing shortages. And in some
areas-notably at Columbia, South Carolina, and
Lake Charles Louisiana-the local communities
have eXerted themselves to provide decent hous-
ing at reasonable rentals.
The broad picture, however is disgraceful.
1t is unreasonable to expect that good housing
should always be available to servicemen and
their families when a rapid expansion of the
armed forces is under way. In many areas,
where thousands of men suddenly are sent for
training, there is little or no available housing.
Nor can private sources be expected to provide
such housing. Since private builders cannot
know when military posts are going to be acti-
waited and deactivated-that is. when the need
for housing for dependents will arise and when
it will cease to exist-they cannot be expected
to make a substantial investment in new con-
struction.
This, however, does not in any way excuse
the outrageous gouging that has been going on.
In many of these suddenly congested areas
chicken coops, tool sheds and shacks of all kinds
have been converted into housing for service
men. Sanitary facilities generally are of the
most primitive sort and utilities grossly in
adequate If this were the best that could be
provided, and If men called into the service
nevertheless insisted on taking their dependents
with them, they would have little basis for COM
plant if rentals were reasonable. But when
landlords, and there are some servicemen among
them, take advantage of the distressed situation
to push the rent for these novels to unconscon-
able heights an entirely different situation is
presented.
Senator Johnson's committee has been we'll
advised to expose these disgraeeful conditions,
and it should not ease up until everything pos
sible has been done to restrain the chiselers and
to provide, so far as possible. decent accommoda-
tions for the men who may be spending their last
days with their wives and children.
Evening star., 1951-09-29

"She hasn't large enough hands to
play the guitar" he said, casually.
When Templeton Jones says some
thing, you can be sure that he is speak
ing from experience.
Jones tried to play the guitar for years,
then gave it up in favor of the mandolin.
Each is charming instrument, with
the guitar taking first place, but it is
much more difficult to play, and largely
on account of those chords.
Holding down the guitar chords, to say
nothing of playing the tune, is hard
job
1t takes long and strong fingers. and
supple wrist.
There are some excellent women
guitar players, of course, and in each
instance the artist has strong and
capable hands.
mo small hands need apply" might
well be written over this famous instru-
ment, popular now around the world.
No less musician. than Beethoven
was fond of the guitar.
Down the years from Spain there have
been countless enthusiasts, and few
great artists.
The Spaniards, rightly or wrongly,
are credited with the invention Of the
popular music maker.
From Portugal it went around the
world with sailors, was seized upon by
he Hawaiians and transformed inip the
Evening star., 1951-09-29
Letters to The Star .

upon last years budget, as may be gar
nered by the Welfare Departments
problem of having to house delinquent
and homeless girls within the same Ma
tional Training School setup.
Those best acquainted with particular
needs are the department heads whose
intimate knowledge of current problems
within their sphere assures full con-
sideration of finance for fixed services
and additional services deemed urgent,
necessary or highly desirable.
There is nothing inmutable about de-
partmental estimates but they are a
starting point in the mechanics of
budget making. Impartial evaluation
Of "bill of requirements, as to what
is urgent, necessary or merely frosting.
takes judicious planning scope and fore
sight. But department heads must have
some problems when it takes approx
mately four years to get traffic light
at school crossing on heavily traf-
f1cked highway.
To slash budget requests without re-
lation to social, economic or moral i'm
plications of such cuts" merely to arrive
at neat balance would require more
than child's mathematical ability to
add and subtract. There are occasions
when the merit of services is so great
that tax increases are considered vital
to community well being.
1t is hardly economy to slash budgets
and increase juvenile delinquency. to
talk about sound budgets" that are all
sound, if District children must be
limited to half school days because of
previous shortsightedness.
In the terms of economy, it is utterly
untealistic to dictate budget totals to
department heads. Some departmental
needs are temporary or homecoming;
so the figure in last years budget might
be an overstatement of budget. !. :.
in any case, the figure, of itself, is
meaningless without re-evaluation.
In terms of imitation, of tagging gov
ernmental contributions. of population
increases and Metropolitan growth, it is
somewha unrealistic to howl" that the
budget is increasing. Would you spank
your son because he outgrows his suits?
Budget making is not nut and bolt
mass production operation; it can't be
performed in six easy lessons or by some
simple formula. Such oversimpliflcation
sounds well, it doesn't work well.
There may be better way of prepar-
ing District budgets. Being private
citizen unconnected with Government,
too, will welcome any realistic sug-
gestion for improvement. Your sugges-
ton, however, has one commendable i'm
plication. 1t may induce more con-
sidered thinking about budget devised
for voteless Americans.
Milton A. Mandei.
Evening star., 1951-09-29
By Mark l. Gnerro

HE so-called weaker sex takes it
i grimly, but takes it nevertheless.
when males are drafted for the armed
services, but would the men grin and
bear it if it came to drafting women?
Perhaps that won't happen, but there
has been talk about conscripting the
ladies in a showdown.
Some legislators and a few organiza-
tions have been agitating for plan for
an equitable and effective draft of Wom-
en- for industry and housekeeping mill
tary chores we'll behind the lines
To allay fears that such a scheme
might already be in the works, Gen.
j. Lawtcn Collins, Army Chief of Staff,
told the Women's Advisory Board about
a week ago that the only current plan
is to build up from 10000 to 10000 the
number of women in the services, and
to accomplish this entirely by volun-
teerS
The Assistant Secretary of Defense,
Mrs. Anna NJ Rosenberg, also recently
took cognizance of the rumblings by
stating that no registration or draft of
women is planned "in the foreseeable
future"
IFCi oO 4CLlillli4c 4Caueio nave B4oWA
increasingly concerned with the pro-
found changes taking place in the Amer
lean concept of woman power. One
thousand influential representatives of
womens colleges. clubs and Govern
ment agencies met this week in New
York in a two day Conference on
Women in the Defense Decade" A high
light was discussion of women in the
armed forces under Craftsmanship of
Mildred McAfee Horton, World War II
commander of the WAVES, who had
previously made known her support of
a female draft.
A conference committee voted for a
national registration Of women between
Evening star., 1951-09-29
Threat of Greater Air War

The increasing tempo and ferocty of the Reds
air attacks in Korea tend to substantate re-
ports that the rapidly expanding Chinese air
force may be preparing to launch a major air
war in the Far East The fact that the Reds
were able to throw 120 jet planes into one en-
gagement the other day-described by cores
pondents as history's greatest jet battle-indi-
Gates that the Communists have built up for
midable air force in Manchuria Just few
months ago the Red flyers made only cautious
and sporadic sortieS Lately, however, the raids
nave become almost daily occurrence.
In the early days of the Korean war the Red
troops had little or no air support Our Air
Force, Navy and Marine flyers had things pretty
much their own way. They bombed and strafed
without much serious opposition from the air
fields across the Yalu River. In contrast, our
fighters have had their hands full this week.
They tangled Tuesday with 80 MICS (Russan-
type jet fighters, said to be better in some re-
spectS than our own jets and shot down five of
them. Wednesday there was a series of dog
fights, starting with an attack by 100 Red jets
on U. N. bombing group. They were fought
off by n American and Australian jets When
the days score was totaled IA Communist planes
were listed as destroyed or damaged, with none
of our own planes lost. Thursday the air bat
ties roared on The Air Force claimed three
day bag of 26 MICS at cost of one American
jet plane lost and one Australian jet damaged.
Despite the one-Sided score, our flyers say
the enemy is using better planes, better pilots
and better tactics than in the past. That fact
is in line with a dispatch from Formosa by AL
bert Ravenholt, foreign correspondent of The
Star and the Chicago Daily News. Mr. Ravenholt
reports that there are indications on the Chi
nese mainland that the Chinese Reds, with Rus
sian assistance, are almost ready" to launch a
major air war from Manchuria to Indo-C China"
Fragmentary intelligence paints picture Of
frenzied airfleld building, pilot training and
muShrooming air strength in Communist China.
Counting Soviet planes at Dairen Port Arthur
and elsewhere, Red air forces in Asia may aggre-
gate more than 1500 combat planes. If these
forces were to be thrown into battle suddenly
in Korea, allied forces would be in grave danger.
Our own air strength in Korea is a military
secret, of course but we have been outnumbered
in some of the important jet fights recently.
Whatever the odds against them, our flyers are
making a valiant record for themselves over
Korea.