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THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1947
GOOD MORNING
What is the best government? That which
teaches us to govern ourselves.—Goethe.
Upward Price Trend
No question is heard more fre
quently or in more places than, “Why
are prices so high ?” And no question
has more diverse answers.
Perhaps one answer, by the Long
Island Builders Institute, will help ex
plain the general upward trend. The
Institute claims that bricklayers lay
only one-half to two-thirds as many
bricks per day as they did in prewar
years.
The Institute cites the case this
way: A bricklayer working before the j
war at an $8 a day wage put in place j
from 800 to 1,000 bricks daily. Now'
he receives $18.03 a day and lays 400
to 500 bricks per day.
We are quoting an authoratative
organization, and assume that its fig
ures are accurately compiled. If they
are, the difference between prewar pro
duction and wages and wages and pro
duction now, applied to other trades,
would seem to account in some meas
ure at least for higher prices.
Britain’s Plight
Winston Churchill, past master of
the resounding phrase, once said that
he had not become the King’s First
Minister to preside at the dissolution
of the British Empire. It is too early to
say whether that unenviable task will
fall to conscientious, uninspired Mr.
Attlee — but it is clear that England
is now in the midst of one of the bit
terest crises of her long and turbulent
history.
The roots of this crisis go deep. Be
fore the war, England was hard put to
maintain her dominant position in the
world. The war placed an almost unen
durable strain upon her resources and
energeis — and, of every great impor
tance, practically exhausted her Amer
ican financial credits. The people of
the Dominions, as in India, have long
been dissatisfied and restless. And in
the more advanced Dominions, such
as Canada and Australia, the influence
of the United States has rivalled and
in some ways exceeded that of the
Crown.
You can find a dozen opposed rea
son for the victory of the Labor Party
over Mr. Churchill’s Conservatives in
the last British elections. The most
reasonable is that a weary people
wanted a change, and Labor promised
that. It received heavy popular en
dorsement of the most sweeping pro
gram for socialization of industry ever
seriously proposed in a democratic na
tion. And, at the same time, the people
approved an “austerity” program, de
signed to regain and expand England’s
foreign markets and to rebuild her
world economic prestige. This program
was also, urged in most of its essen
tials by the Conservatives.
First move of Mr. Attlee’s govern
ment was nationalization of the coal
mines — long one of the sorest trouble
spots in the British domestic economy.
During the war, coal production was
kept up by what amounted to draft
labor. Since nationalization, production
has been inadequate, and the miners
seem no happier than before. Labor
spokesmen attribute the recent emer
gency, in which coal shortages result
ed in a temporary shutdown of almost
all industry, to some of the worst
weather in English history. However,
even if this factor is given maximum
value, it is evident that Labor has not
found a solution to the coal problem.
And many authorities think that sim
ilar ill effects may result when Labor
socializes the electric industry, which
is scheduled for the near future.
The American loan was, of counse,
a life-saver to England. It gave her
dollar credits she had to have. Our
reasons for making the loan were man
ifold — perhaps the most important
: being the hard fact that England is
one of the very few friends we have
abroad in a world torn between con
flicting ideologies. But English econ
omists are greatly concerned because
much of the loan is being spent for liv
ing purposes which do nothing to solve
the trade and export problem. This,
too, has been the subject of much
angry debate in Commons.
Some observers have forecast the
collapse of the Labor Government. The
best authorities do not agree. It is
significant that Mr. Churchill, despite
his strong criticisms, has not introduc
ed a measure of censure against the
government. It is felt that Labor will
continue in power at least for the time
being — that the British people will
give it every chance to solve the prob
lems. The British lion, which once
proudly dominated half the world,
fights for survival.
Car Inspection
Many American cities, exclusive of
Wilmington, maintain thorough sys
tems of vehicle inspection. One city
in particular deserves notice because
of the exceptional record it has made.
The city is Evanston, Illinois. Evans
ton started its inspection program in
1933. During fourteen years Evans
ton has won eleven safety awards in
national competition, and in 1932, 1933
and 1935 took the grand prize among
cities of all classifications for its
safety record.
The $26,000 the city has invest
ed in plant and equipment obviously
has been money well spent. It is not
too much to think that many times
this sum has been saved to motorists
through avoidance of accidents by
keeping their vehicles at par. How
many lives may have been saved can
only be guessed.
At stated intervals motor car own
ers are required to put their autos
through a testing lane. The building is j
a quonset hut unit some two hundred |
feet long. As the motorist enters he
is halted by an attendant who checks
license plates, horn, mirror, windshield
wipers and windshield, rear and side
glass, turn signals, tail lights, stop
lights, parking lights, at the next stop
the driver has his headlights tested
for candlepower, vertical aim, horizon
tal aim and defects of the lens.
Next is the wheel alignment check,
where the car is driven over treadles
which show either a “toe-in” or a “toe
out” of front or rear wheels. Then the
car is lifted on a hydraulic hoist for in
spection of the steering mechanism.
Finally the brakes must show their
stuff.
If the car gives a good account of
itself in these twenty-five items, the
driver is given a sticker, good until
the next inspection time. If it fails to
pass, the driver is given ten days in
which to have the fault or faults cor
rected, and is forbidden to drive the
vehicle beyond home and thence to the
shop for repairs.
We could use a program like this to
a good advantage.
Presidential Amendment
The Constitutional Amendment re
stricting the election of a President to
two elected terms, which has been
adopted by the Congress, is now in the
hands of governors of the forty-eight
states, to be submitted by them to
their respective legislatures.
Thus the nation takes one more step
in the highly desirable prevention of
dynastic government, and the resump
tion of a tradition which existed from
the time it was created by Washing
ton until the third administraton of
President Franklin D._ Roosevelt.
Naturally, its course will be slow.
Legislatures ordinarily do not act
quickly. They have seven years to act
on this amendment. But long as this
period of time may seem at first glance
it is brief indeed in the life of the na
tion.
Thirty-six legislatures must ratify
the amendment to make it effective.
The single exception to the two-term
presidency would be in the case of a
vice president elevated to the top po
sition and holding the office for not
more than two years of his predeces
sor’s unexpired term. In these cir
cumstances, and if the voters so will
ed, a President might remain in the
White House for ten years, but no
ilonger.
Mass Movement
Of G erm ans
By JOSEPH E. EVANS
In Wall Street Journal
BERLIN — M. Bidault's proposal at Mos
cow to end the transfer of Germans from
Eastern Europe into Germany and to permit
mass emigrations of Germans from Germany
into other countries, including France, is wel
come insofar as it suggests a somewhat more
reasonable, not to say more Christian, ap
proach to Germany than up to now has been
apparent on the part of any of the four
powers.
It is true that the motivations of M. Bi
dauit’s proposal are admittedly to be found
not so much in reason or Christianity as in
basic fear of resurgent German might; a
Germany with too many people in it, that
is, a potential threat to France. It is a pity
that the {proposal had to be made in this way;
that it could not have been made on the
basis of human rights and dignity; that mass
deportations of peoples could not have been
denounce^ as strongly when undertaken by
Allies as when undertaken by Nazis.
For there is little moral justification to be
found for the theory and operation of the ex
pulsion of four and one-half million Germans
from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary,
an expulsion agreed to by the Big Three at
Potsdam with the proviso that “any transfers
that, take place should be effected in an or
derly and humane manner.”
The words sound now, as they should have
sounded to their framers then, like a mon
strous joke. The very fact that four and one
half million people have already been moved
in a year and one-half is sufficient indication
of how -it was done. You cannot uproot that
many people in that length of time in an or
derly and humane manner. For verification,
one needs only to meet the box car trains at
Anhalter Bahnof in Berlin bringing the
refugees from Pomerania. Silesia and East
Prussia, or to drive through the deserted vil
lages of the Sudeten mountains in Czechoslo
vakia.
The utter fatuousness, the stupidity ap
proaching madness, of this part of the Pots
dam declaration is implied in M. Bidault’s
proposal. Why were those people to be re
moved in the first place? Because, in the
case of Czechoslovakia, they represented a
potentially dangerous minority which had in
fact to a certain large degree — but by no
means unanimously — demonstrated its dan
ger by supporting Hitler: a minority which
nonetheless had lived in the Sudetenland for
long periods, generations in some cases, cen
turies in others. In the northeast, it was a
question of removing Germans from terri
tories temporarily placed under Polish ad
ministration pending final establishment of
Germany’s eastern frontiers — and for this
removal, because the boundaries were not
fixed, there was not the slightest excuse.
Aside from the moral stench of these mass
deportations, anyune nugiu nave anuwu nuw
fantastically uneconomic they were. What
was to be expected from the dumping into
a foreshortened, industrially and agricul
turally woefully un-self - sufficient Germany
with a tremendous housing shortage of these
millions of homeless refugees? M. Bidault
has provided the answer: other millions of
Germans must be gotten out of Germany.
It seems really not too much to expect
that the Big Three at Potsdam might have
had enough basic perception to foresee this
obviously inevitable result. It puts them back
just about where they were at Potsdam, ex
cept that millions of people have suffered ter
rible hardship and the rich agricultural lands
of the East, 24 per cent of pre-war Ger
many’s total land area and 28 per cent of its
arable land, is and for years will be all but
useless to a food-hungry world.
M. Bidault's proposal shows the tragic
short - sightedness of the governments of
Czechoslovakia and Poland (the Hungarian
German-minority question is by no means
comparably great) and the vicious inability
or refusal to understand of the governments
of America, Russia and Britain in still anoth
er way. The proposal means that Europeans
and Germans are going to have to learn to
get along, for only on that basis is it possible^
to <hink of Germans emigrating on a large
scale into other countries, particularly one
like France.
This being the case, it would seem that
it might have been understood from the be
ginning: that, with regard to Czechoslovakia
especially, the German minority might have
been assimilated into that nation as M. Bi
dault would now have German emigres as
similated into other nations. It is by no means
absurd to imagine that the time may come
when Czechoslovakia itself will agree to re
accept. for economic reasons, part of the very |
minority she was so passionately eager to 1
evict. This would, of course, be the final
crown to the idocy of that section of Pots
dam entitled “Orderly Transfers of German
Populations.’’
Good as M. Bidault’s proposal thus was in
suggesting a dawning light of reason on this
sad piece of Allied policy, it nonetheless im
plies something ' which is not at all good:
that the present temporary eastern boundaries
of Germany are to become permanent, for if
they were not, a large part of the refugees
from the ceded provinces could be allowed
to return there and mass emigrations else
where would not be necessary.
i*ll. U^iUCh at uuiu^ai C wiuuc il V.1V.U1 mat
the U. S. regards those boundaries as tempo
rary (as Potsdam referred to them! and Gen
eral Marshall will certainly support that point
of view. But in allowing the German popu
lations to be expelled from those regions,
the U. S. made a grave error which will be
difficult if at all possible to remedy. Mr.
Molotov was quick to point out that our agree
ing to these removals was de facto evidence
of our agreement to make permanent the
temporary boundaries as they now stand.
It is a point on which the U. S. should
be prepared to exert all possible pressure.
The permanent loss to Germany of the lands
east of the Oder-Neisse would be economically
catastrophic, ethnically intolerable and
as politically dangerous as anything imagin
able. Such a loss would mean that Germany
would never be able to rise from its condi
tion as the slum' of Europe. These territories
—again it must be stated. 28 per cent of
Germany's arable land — comprised 14 per
cent of pre-war Germany’s population, 13 per
cent of her employment, 11 per cent of her
national income.
More importantly, they gave employment
to one-fifth of all workers in agriculture and
forestry, produced 26 per cent of Germany’s
bread grains, including 32 percent of her
rye, grew 30 per cent of her barley and
potatoes and accounted for more than 20 per
cent of her cattle, swine and sheep popula
tion.
Politically such a loss could not fail to
have disastrous, consequences — from the
point of view, that is, of ever educating the
Germans along peaceful and democratic lines.
The deportations of the German populations
from these regions have created an
ineradicably bad impression on Germans con
cerning the democratic ideals of their con
querors; permanent separation of these terri
tories would give any future nascent German
militarism the best peg there could be on
which to hang an appeal that no German
could resist.
Ye* th®re is little t0 suS§est the hope that
the Russians will agree to altering the bound
aries. no matter how much they may want
to appease the Germans. It is especially un
likely that they will do so within the frame
work of Allied cooperation. If the Russians
whereUthey d*Clde that h°ldi^ the
where they no ware is too big a price to pay
w^v aW 1 um°Stlv,CertalnIy give to in such a
Tod ,Sih°W thS German People that they,
, *y alone, gave back to Germany the
I territonei It had lo*t. y me
BEGINNING TO PINCH _
JTRUMAN
The Book Of Knowledge 1
Department: —
WONDER QUESTION
HOW IS THE DATE OF
EASTER FIXED:
In early times, all countries did
not kep Easter on the same date.
The churches of Asia Minor cele
brated it on the same day as the
Jews kept their Passover, while
Ihe churches of the West, remem
bering that Jesus rose on a Sun
day. kept Easter on the Sunday
following the Passover day. Then
the Council of Nicaea passed a
decree that everywhere the great
feast should be observed upon the
same day, that day to be tne Sun
day following the Jewish Pass
over. Four rules were laid down
for the fixing of the date.
It was decided that March 21
should be regarded as the spring
equinox—the time in spring when
day and night are equal: that the
full moon on that date, or the next
after that date, should be taken
for the full moon of the Passover
month; that the Sunday following
full moon should be Easter Day;
and that if the full moon happened
cn a Sunday Easter should be the
Sunday after. This plan has been
observed ever since.
In carrying out the arrangements
for the fixing of Easter, various
difficulties have arisen during the
centuries owing to the fact that
the moons do not correspond ex
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You may not agree with the bid
ding on today's hand, but that
was the way it went when I kib
itzed the hand in the world cham
pionship Masters individual tour
nament. Of course, when North
aid two spades, he was inviting
a slam. As a matter of fact, some
players treat that bid as a slam
demand.
North s jump to five hearts over
three hearts should show a solid
heart suit. Perhaps North thought
that three to the king-ten would
solidify the suit. In my opinion
the king of spades or jack of
hearts were much needed cards
for a slam demand, but several
pairs did reach seven-odd. and
those who counted their tricks
made it.
The county showed six heart
tricks, the ace-king of diamonds,
ace of clubs, two club ruffs, ace
of speades, and maybe a spade
trick would be established for
thirteen.
The first trick was won in dum
my with the king of diamonds, the
ace of spades was cashed and a
small spade trumped. A small
club was trumped in dummy with
the three of hearts, and another
spade ruffed by declarer. Another
club was ruffed in dummy, the
king of hearts was cashed, and a
spade led. There was no use for
East to ruff, so declarer ruffed
with the seven of hearts, and
cashed the ace-queen of hearts,
picking up East’s trumps. He
cashed the ace of clubs, and still
had a diamond to get over to
dummy to cash the good nine of
spades.
This was just a matter of count
ing up to thirteen, and then plan
ning the play so as to cash all
thirteen tricks.
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actly with the calendar. A series,
or cycle, of 19 years has therefore
been taken and numbered from 1
to 19, the numbers being known
as Golden Numbers. Then to each
of these years has also been given
a number which is the age, reck
oned in days, of the moon at the
beginning of the year. The num
bers in this second series are
known as Epacts, and from the
Golden Number and Epact the full
moon for deciding the date of
Easter in any year may be work
ed out.
It is curious that in arranging
the date of Easter according to
rule, the spring equinox is a cal
culated date and not the actual
rpring equinox; the moon referred
to is not the actual moon shining
in the sky, but a mathematically
calculated moon; and full moon
does not mean a complete
circular moon, but a suppos
ed full moon according to cer
tain averaging over a course of
years. All this is due to the im
perfections of the calendar, which
never corresponds exactly with
the real movements of the sun and
moon.
The earliest date oh which East
er Sunday can fall is March 22,
but that will not occur till the
year 2285. and the latest possible
oate is April 25, which last fell
in 1943.
The reason nineteen years are
taken to form a cycle for reckon
ing the Golden Numbers is that,
on a given day of the month, the
Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
THE BIRD ESCAPED, by Jon
Godden (Rinehart; S2.50).
Three men and a photograph,
and a secret, too, set off in the
crew of a small steamer across
the dangerous South Pacific in
late 1941.
They are Prince, the steward:
Jacko, the fearful, ugly first cook,
who keeps a falcon caged on the
deck: Sebastian second cook: and
a snapshot, at which Sebastian
steals a risky glance, of Prince.
Jacko and a beautiful girl.
Without Sebastian there would
be no secret, and for that mailer,
without Prince and Jacko there
would be none, either. But it is
the persistent, probing Sebastian,
newcomer to the high seas, rub
bing elbows with Jacko in the tiny
galley, who smells a rat.
It’s nothing. Prince says, forget
about it, don’t be sticking your
nose in other people’s business.
But curiosity keeps gnawing at
Sebastian. He hears the captain
talk about murder: he watches
Jacko tantalize the imprisoned
bird cruelly: he sees him make
painstaking entries in his myoteri
ov-, book; and he gets caught
reading it and, as Jacko flies ax
him w-ith a knife, barely escapes
with his life.
Their ship carries a little gun,
but they miss their one chance to
use it and we now catch up with
the lone survivor where we me
him on the first page, washed up
or, a tropical shore along which
ir.ore birds peck their way, leav
ing diamond - shaped footprints in
the sand. A man recovering con
sciousness in this deserted, for
saken spot couid, out of desper
ation, escape his terrifying loneli
ress by conjuring up a troubled
past. If he calls the names of
Prince and Jacko, he might hear
them answer: if he needs them,
he might make them out of the
wisps of mist which sweep in
from the ocean, or out of the birds
themselves, cocking their heads as
they stalk up and down. The an
swer that might be expected only
in Liverpool may be found here
on the opposite side of the world
in this clean white beacn one
might dig up the story of an ap
pallingly bestial and untamed na
ture.
The author handles her unusual
material expertly; the very sub
stance of her tale is imagined by
cne of the characters she has
imagined, and yet it stays eerily
close to credibility. Thii i« tha
kind of stuff Dali painta.
moon is approximately in the
same position in the sky as it was
nineteen years before so that
nineteen forms a complete series.
* » *
What Is The Nautical Almanac?
The Nautical Almanac is a book
prepared specially for navigators
and astronomers, with tables
showing the daily positions of all
the bodies of the solar system, the
places of the fixed stars, predic
tions of astronomical events, and
other similar information. Nauti •
cal almanacs are issued bv the
governments of Great Britain, the
United States and other nations.
* * *
How Much Is A Billion?
Tlie nations of the world differ
as to how much a billion is. In
the United States. Canada and
France, a billion is one thousand
millions—written 1.000.000.000. In
France, this number is sometimes
called a milliard, a term which is
always applied to it in Germany.
In England and Germany, a bil
lion is one million millions—
written 1,000,000.000.000.
(Copyright. 1946. By The Grolier
Society, Inc. based upon The Book
Of Knowledge)
(Distributtd by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
TOMORROW: — Early Indians of
the West.
Religion
Day By Day
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
“UP IN A MINUTE"
After meeting a Winter (rain,
which arrived at 5:30 a. m., we
repaired to an all-night restaurant
for breakfast. "What time does
the sun rise nowadays down here
in Florida?” I asked the attend
ant.
“A little before six,” he replied.
At six o’clock we were leaving
the restaurant in full darkness,
and I remimnded the man that his
appointed time had passed, with
no sun in sight.
"Oh, it’ll be up in a minute,"
he replied, confidently and care
lessly.
There are people like that,
whose sunrises will appear "in a
minute.” But the Lord of day is
more leisurely in his motions. Sun
rises are gradual. Daylight comes
slowly.
Changes in life and affairs—the
sunrises of the human soul—like
wise never come “in a minute."
We would enter into the patience
of God, and learn the gradualness
of the growth of the Kingdom.
Amen.
The Doctor Says—
HUMAN BODS HAS
PROTEIN NEEDS
By WILLIAM A. O BRIEN, M. I),
The body does not suffer from
temporary failure to obtain suffl
cient protein food, but over longer
periods of deprivation damage al
ways occurs. Meat, eggs, cheese,
milk, fish and certain vegetables
are good sources of protein food.
Vitamins are necessary to pro.
tect the body against disease, but
protein and mineral salts are
equally important. Normal blood
plasma contains a certain quantity
of protein which will be reduced
if there is insufficient supply 0r
excessive destruction of protein
in the body.
When the diet lacks protein,
anemia develops. In building
! blood, meat plays an important
I part as it contains both iron and
protein. Protein also mixes with
gastric juice to form stimulating
substance in bone marrow, which
is lacking in pernicious anemia.
Extra protein food must be
eaten during pregnancy as it is
an essential building material
Early in pregnancy the mother
starts to store protein in her tis
sues in the form of nitrogen, and
she continues to store it until
there is an excess. After her own
needs and those of her baby are
met, a certain amount is saved for
breast milk.
In some forms of kidney trouble,
protein passes through the blood
into the urine. To correct the
deficiency, these patients are
given extra protein food and in
jections of blood plasma.
In liver disease, it has been cui
tomary to feed the patients ex
tra sugar, but now it is known
that extra protein is equally im
portant. When the liver can ob
tain its quota od essential food
materials, it is protected from
damage by poisons which attack
it.
Protein also is of value in help
ing peptic ulcers to heal. Patients
with stomach and duodenal ulcers
are urged to drink large quantities
of milk and cream. Not only dot!
this overcome the acidity of the
gastric juice, but it also supplin
building materials for healing th«
ulcer.
QUESTION: I have high blood
pressure and I have been told that
there is an operation for this con
dition. Woull you advise m* to
have it?
ANSWER: Cutting the sym
pathetic nerves to the blood ves
sels may result in the reduction
of high blood pressure. Careful se
lection of patients for the opera
tion is necessary, and you should
consult your physician.
Star Dust
And of the Pocketbook!
“Oh, Harry,” cried the little wom
an, “I saw such an adorable hat
in Stacey's window this morning. 1
simply fell in love with it!”
"No, dear,” corrected Harry,
“not love. Love is a matter of the
heart—yours is strictly a matter of
the head!”
Who's Teaching Who?
Beneath a bumbling, apparently
aimless adolescent manner, young
Henry Simpson hides a shrewd
brain. How shrewd, even his own
father is now only beginning tc
surmise. The other day, Henry *
father gave his offspring 50 tents,
and by way of initiating him into
the great world of finance, counsel
ed: “Invest it carefully and wisely,
son.”
That evening rienry reported that
he had invested the sum in a fiver
in pigeon-raising in partnership
with his friend, George. His father
was disappointed and angry.
“But, father,” protested the
young financier, “George has guar
anteed I'll double my investment
in a few days.”
“Fiddlesticks!” scoffed the elder
Simpson. “The venture is absolute
ly worthless — you’ve lost your
money! ”
Henry's face assumed an expres
sion of utter dejection and futility.
His father was deeply touched.
“Here, Henry,” the elder Simp
son exclaimed reassuringly, “here
is a dolar. Take it and see what
you can do with it.”
"Gosh!” exulted Henry, suddenly
happy again, “George was right
after all. He said I’d double my
investment in a few days, and hert
I ve done it in only twelve hours.
What do you think of that, father?”
His father answered him not.
WHY WE SAY *T STAN l COLLINS ft L l SLAWfON
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ORANGE BLOSSOMS
, WEDDING
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Orange blossoms, today synonymous
with wedding bells, are frequently used
on wedding rings as a svmbol of fruit
fulness as orange trees are one of the
most prolific of all fruit bearing trees.