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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1949 PAGE 10 painters and sculptors will have their place on the program, and so will the architects. Lessons Of Berlin Airlift In brief, by the time the meetings are over Letters To The Editor nearly everyone who has some concern with art in any of its manifestations and who To Affect War, Commerce From A Window In Fleet Street By JANETTA SOMERSET has not? will get some answers to the questions that such concern always promotes. By WILLIAM J. PERKINSON I Sun Staff Correspondent Yet we venture to say that there are two tures has a certain amount of well-earned pride in her work. And there is at least a suspicion that many of the women who blame their sloppy housekeeping on the fact that they were meant for the "bigger things in life" are, as a matter of hard fact, just plain inefficient, and probably would be equally so in any other profession.

But woe unto the husband who suggests such possibility What Dr. Horton seems to be saying, to sum it all up, is that there is a difference between the sexes, that on the whole the difference deserves approval, and that anyway, it is here to stay. Wiesbaden, Germany, Jan. 19 By affects other flight characteristics of the aircraft. Airmail Airmen over here with a Other examples can be readily I London Bureau of The Sun A Disgraceful City-Owned Lot flair for history liken the Berlin airlift to Paul Revere's ride or the storming of the Bastille.

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JANUARY 25. 1949 cited of how intricately tied up in the design of future freight planes To the Editoh of The Sun Sir: 40 Fleet Street London, Jan. 24. Taken strictly by themselves, is the problem of materials both of the two latter events shows of current painters and sculptors. Pity the man who has the temerity to invest in a highly desirable while highly dramatic were merely As noted before, the freight is historical episodes.

Their real im Allow me to commend you for your stand on the city's responsibility for cleaning up its own vacant property. I refer to your editorial entitled "Resolved, That The City Stop Breaking The Law." building lot. suitable for offices, in The first is, as compositely phrased: 1. W7hy do so many modern artists de placed into the. plane piece by-piece, a time-consuming task.

the heart of the West End of Lon- portance sprang from the revolutions that followed those episodes. If the load could be palletized. So it is with the Berlin airlift, humanize their work? Or, to put it another way, why have they abandoned representa that is, moved in and out of the plane as a unit, time could be saved. these airmen claim. Residents of my block have been tion of living things for the vague whorls, don.

He pays out vast sums in pounds sterling and then tries to take possession of his land, only to find that he is regarded by the local inhabitants much as the first white settlers on Manhattan Island must have been regarded by the Is Training Ground Long after the airlift is passed. Can't Stand Weight But the floors of the present air trying for years to have something done about a tax-sale lot in the rear of the 2400 block Frederick ave angles, polygons and prisms which today dominate so many of their masterpieces? the lessons learned here will craft cannot take the weight of a furnish the basic information nue. This lot once contained an ice 10-ton pallet. It has been tried. It Indians wTien the Indians had needed for development of air-cargo operations and of a logistic also has been found that it takes The second question grows out of the first: 2.

What are the advantages of unintelli- drunk up the whisky. 1.500 man-hours to replace the system for airborne armies. The building, house or hotel or floor in a C-54. gibility that so many artists seek it so office block, which is already on What are the lessons that have house and a row of garages, but now all that is left is a row of roofless, crumbling concrete walls and a pile of litter. It harbors rats and is the source of most of the cuts, bruises and broken bones of the At present there are three ap the site must come down.

Its new been learned in nearly seven feverishly? owner intended all along that it proaches being made to this problem of "unit" loading. months of operations during which If these questions are answered at the nearly 900,000 tons of supplies At Hagerstown, the Fair- Western Union: Latest Setback Delegations from France, Great Britain and the Benelux countries (the Brussels powers) met in Paris early last week to continue the search for a political basis for European unity "WTestern "Union," as Mr. Bevin, the British Foreign Minister, once called it. The meeting did not last out the week. It met on Tuesday and adjourned on Thursday, having failed to reach agreement.

The French are blaming the British for this failure, and the British are blaming the French. WThat the French are working for is a kind of parliament an all-European legislature capable of doing everything a legisla coming meeting of the College Art Associa have been flown to Berlin? children of the neighborhood who play among the ruins for want of tion in words that intelligent laymen can Lieut. Gen. John K. Cannon, should.

But cries arise frm clubs, from the letter columns of the Times, from gossip paragraphs, from historical societies, all of whose writers and members are firmly convinced that London be commanding USAFE, states that child Company is working on designs for a plane with a detachable fuselage the so-called' "pack plane." That plane is still several years away. an adequate playground. the question can only be answered understand, the meeting will more than justify itself. The spot itself would make an in general terms. Specific answers excellent play lot if cleaned off, will have to come from Government levels after the mass of data gathered here has been evaluated.

Detachable Floor Tried Boeing engineers here say that Where Mr. Walter Reuther since it is almost an acre and is protected from the street on every side by houses. But the only re Agrees With Sir Stafford Cripps From Yeast To Iron General lessons learned from the It is necessary to set Mr. Walter Reuthers sponse that we have been able to they are working on a plane with a detachable floor. In this case the bottom of the fuselage would be lowered, detached from the plane and carted away, to be replaced by pension demands for his auto workers into get to inquiries to various city departments is, "That's not in our de airlift, according to General Cannon and Maj.

Gen. William H. Tunner, commanding the combined British-American airlift, fall into five categories. a luiiy-loaded floor. partment," or "We have- no funds Again that plane is still several for clearing such property." Yet if such conditions existed on private years away.

their broad context to appreciate just what is going on. To state it quite briefly, Mr. Reuther seems to be doing his best to parry one of the major dangers in an economic system dominated by labor-union economics. The airlift has; Current compromise is to use ture can do except to legislate. Like the General Assembly of the United Nations, their parliament would be capable of influencing national decisions only through debate and the passing of resolutions.

ramps wherebv trucks, tanks and 1. Proved beyond dispute the property, the law would have been on the owner's head long ago. other vehicles can be moved direct theory that aircraft can transport ly into the aircraft. The Southwest Community Coun in large quantities any and all ittms Theoretically, this danger was never better That method is all right where The British argue that such a parliament ranging from vials of medicine to you want to transport the vehicle chopped-up bulldozers; from yeast as well as the goods, but hardly cil is heartily in accord with Mr. Buckler's resolution that the correction of such conditions should be undertaken by the proper city stated than by the late Dr.

Charles O. Hardy, who was, at his death, chief economist of the joint congressional Committee on the Eco cakes to coke and pig iron. adaptable to commercial opera 2. Pointed out the urgent need tions. for aircraft designed primarily as Seaplane Proposed cargo carriers.

longs to them. Come, come, sir, don't you know that Nelson once slept in that room? Are you quite unaware that the shop on the corner (albeit a bombed ruin) is the one at which the Prince Regent bought his snuff? Undesirable the building may be from a practical point of view, but, sir, it is history, and one cannot see history destroyed by the acre without some sort of protest. Granted that ttfe portico is architecturally revolting. that bombs have damaged much of the building and neglect has done the rest, that the suite occupied by Lily Langtry has been gutted by the Ministry of Circumlocution, it would not be at all the thing to pull it down. The Latest body to buy a block in London West is the Government of New Zealand, which intends to build a new office for its High Commissioner on the corner of Pall Mall and the Haymarket, when times and Sir Stafford Cripps permit.

To the ordinary spectator, the purchase would seem a normal real -estate transaction although the price about $2.200,000 is large. The block consists of an ugly theater, a rundown hotel of which only the bar and grill are functioning (the rest has either been bombed or filled with government offices) and a decaying arcade of shops. Terrain over which planes are 3. Emphasized the need for ap would be hardly more than another debating society. WThat they propose is a council of ministers of the participating countries which would have some real authority to reach joint decisions on various questions.

To this council they would couple a "consultative assembly" whose function, apparently, would be chiefly to let people blow off steam on the subject of European unity. designed to operate is another im officials, and we will be interested in seeing that the Board of Estimates does not allow this resolution to die without reaching the City Council chambers. nomic Budget. You could have, said Dr. Hardy, a strong union movement.

You could have full employment. You could have control of inflation. But, said Dr. Hardy, you could not have all three at once. portant factor and for that reason plying modern materials handling systems to aviation to speed up The Legislators Have Eeen Idling The first-quarter mark for the session of the General Assembly will be reached tomorrow.

The passing of that first quarter has produced no action of consequence except for the advancement of the bill to avoid a scheduled 25 per cent jump in the tax rate on earned income. The enactment of that biU, however, was a cut-and-dried proposition before the legislators converged on Annapolis January 5. It is Impossible to understand why more work has not been done at the meeting. The organization of the two houses was carried cut with dispatch. Senate committees were appointed promptly.

There was a delay of i few days in comparable action in the House, but that delay could not be raised as a reason for the lack of progress. The day after the session began, 144 bills and two resolutions were dropped into the legislative hoppers. Those measures were the carefully processed product of the Legislative Council. included proposals of wide interest and of great importance to the State as a whole. Few, if any, of them have been given more than cursory attention.

But they were all in order far full-dress consideration on January 6. While the legislators have marked time, Governor Lane has been working oh the program which he will sponsor. The budget is expected to be presented tonight. Mr. Lane's proposed capital-improvement plan should be along soon, and his other promised special messages on selected suhjects will arrive in due course.

If the Legislative Council bills had been pushed in the last twenty days, there would have been a more open stage for the receipt of the Governor's proposals. It is earnestly to be hoped that the legislators will get down to work this week. If real work is delayed much further, the State will flmost certainly witness a last-minute rush without recent precedent the kind of last-minute rush the prehensile politicians love so well because it disrupts the working of the legislative mill. serious air transport authorities do loading and unloading. not rule out revival of the seaplane 4.

Advanced the art of all For instance, one reason the If you had full employment and strong weather flying by more than ten C-47, which can carry twenty tons Alois E. Rimbach, Vice Chairman, Southwest Community Council. Baltimore, Jan. 23. unions, then the unions would push steadily years.1 for wage incleases.

These wage pushes would or more, is not used regularly on the Berlin airlift is that it cannot regularly land on all runways avail 5. Opened up new vistas for in The French criticize the British scheme as an evasion of the issue a stall. And it must be admitted that the cautious British dustrialists and military logis ticians. able here. Dr.

Byrd And Spiritual Values The brick-rubble runway at Called "Impossible" lead to a continuous and uncontrollable rise in prices. Such a push in our full-employment economy by our own strong unions is a major explanation of our present plan is a feeble response to Mr. Churchill's Tempelhof would take terrific To the Editor of The Sun Sir: The first point given by the gen Mr. O'Neill's article on Dr. Byrd pounding and soon wrould crumble if such planes were regularly used, arouses mixed feelings.

I could erals seems so axiomatic now that the airlift has carried these tons of supplies to Berlin that it is hard to believe that less than a half year inflation. In Britain, which is a teacher to all the air force engineers say. Have Landing Troubles only think of the story of the man that complained to the President Even the C-97, the workhorse of ago the airlift was considered "im the air-to-be, according to Stuart possible not only by transporta Symington, Secretary for Air, world in the economics of full employment, this problem is now reaching the critical stage. As Sir Stafford Cripps put it in a recent statement, "It is most unfair for those tion men but by high-ranking air that General Grant drank whisky, and the President's reply that we should find out what brand he drinks and buy it for the rest of our generals. might have trouble landing regu experts.

larly on airfields available here. The success of the airlift has workers who think they can bring some par caused transportation authorities, as well as the Government, to give Mr. O'Neill refers to Dr. Byrd as ticular pressure to bear upon society to demand increases which can only be at the cost the university's president and resi new consideration to the airlane not only as a civilian freight car dent political prestidigitator, a word one usually associates with of their fellow workers. If such demands rier but as a munitions and vehicle trickery, chicanery or legerdemain, carrier in time of war.

This renewed consideration nat were generally indulged in, it would wreck all hope of our recovery." and, as applied to Dr. Byrd, is a urallv enough takes in the planes blow a little below the belt. I went But informed Britishers like the editors of that are to be designed for future use. Must Be Easy To Load the London Economist have little expectation that the Labor Government will be able to turn back these demands. The reason is to hear Dr.

Byrd speak; recently, and under his outward appearance of modest and jovial good humor there is concealed a deep inward Airlift planners say that cargo and tank-carrying planes of the fu ture should have three main lea sense of spiritual values that can not be overestimated. Further, he tures they should be easy to load and unload, be easy to maintain in But, like every other square yard of London, this site turns out to be bursting with history. Take the hotel: the Carlton Hotel has left its mark on every resort in Europe, and there is a Carlton in most of the provincial cities in Eritain. Once its kitchens were presided over by the great Escoffier, whose name is revered in gastronomic circles all over the world. He needed four assistants to help him make an omlette, and the results were so superb that the Carlton was often the scene of cosy supper parties given by Edward VII.

and attended by the brighter lights of that bright period. His Majesty's Theater next door it will be safe for 40 years, for the has a long time to run has a long and imposing history. The first theater on the site was also the first opera house in London, built in 1705 and the scene of the first performance of Handel's "Acts and Galatea." It was burned down and rebuilt in 1789, and tbi second house saw first nights in London of many of Mozarts works. Grisi and Tamburini and Mario sang there, and Jenny Lind made her last stage appearance there in 1849. has the more unusual faculty of im obvious.

The unions press steadily for wage increases just as the bosses push steadily for profit increases. The bosses are but an infinitesimal part of the electorate, and so profits can be limited at will with electoral impunity. But to reject the field and be adaptable to the terrain or airfields from which they buing others with the same sense. There is plenty of room for such are to operate. men in our public life today.

Find That is why only general answers another one like him to run our to the future of air-cargo operations can be given here. Specific the economic demands of dominant mass State mental hospitals and "we the people" will pay the bill and like It. decisions will have to be made in thrilling call for joint British-French citizenship and to Mr. Bevin's almost equally stirring call, a year ago, for a real union of the Western powers. On the other hand, the French plan for a legislature incapable of legislating is a hardly less feeble response.

Neither the French nor the British proposal stirs the pulse in the slightest. But are we to assume from this that all hope of a Western union collapsed with the collapse of the Paris meeting on Thursday? To do so would be to make as serious an error on the side of pessimism as was made on the side of optimism by those who expected immediate, tangible results from the meeting. To begin with, the Paris meeting lacked the power to decide. Its delegations were no more than deputies of the Foreign Ministers of the Brussels powers. The question now goes back to those Foreign Ministers, who meet next week in London.

But we must not forget that the meetings of the Foreign Ministers under the Brussels pact are in themselves an expression, however inadequate, of the drive toward European unity. European unity is not going to make its appearance in a neat and orderly fashion. We oversimplify the process of history if we expect disunity one day suddenly to become unity on the next. It will emerge, if it emerges at all, in a fairly disheveled and barely recognizable condition. For it will have emerged from an epic struggle.

There is great vitality in the resistance to it. There is the" vitality of the old nationalist tradition. There is the vitality of the newer brands of national socialism these latter, as we said on Sunday, being by definition hostile to internationalism. Furthermore, it is easy to be misled by the unfolding of events. What a picture of confusion confronts followers of the news! The endless comings and goings of European statesmen, the ponderous functioning of the Marshall plan and its subsidiary organizations, Brussels pact meetings, Atlantic pact meetings, squabbles among the Allies over the fate of the Ruhr, French-Italian negotia Washington or other capitals of the world.

For instance: With modification of its landing gear, it probably could, however. But as planes get larger and larger to carry heavier loads, then runways will have to get longer and longer and stronger and stronger. It is for that reason alone that thought is being given to developing a modern seaplane that can perform nearly as economically as a land plane and land on rivers or other water surfaces to save airport construction costs. Will Affect Retailers Such a plane still has to be built much less developed for production purposes. Packaging of goods for shipment by air is still in its infancy, as airlift men have learned to their sorrow.

Approximately five per cent of overall tonnage carried to Berlin consists of cratings, boxes, cartons or bags. Once a lightweight container is available, shipping costs for commercial users will really drop, and according to experts the effect on retailing will be tremendous. Would Save On Warehouses For with the speed of the airplane, inventories can be kept low. which, in turn, may affect the amount of warehouse space and stockrooms needed by retail as well as wholesale houses. Those are only some of the problems and probabilities of future purely cargo-carrying aircraft.

They do not take into account the tremendous impact the airlift has had on strategic, tactical and logistical planning for military purposes. May Be Five Years How long will' it be before those probabilities are translated into fact? Airmen here don't know. They estimate five years at least. But they do know that whatever time it takes, that time will have been shortened by lessons learned on the Berlin airlift. Chas.

R. Gantz. Baltimore, 23. Equal Rights For Women To the Editor of The Sun Sir: At present, airlift planes are loaded from a ten-ton truck, whose groups whose patronage swings elections is quite another thing. Here is where, in the United States, Mr.

Reuther's zeal for pension and welfare schemes comes into the picture. Mr. Reuther is an informed and perceptive man. Naturally he sympathizes with the justified desire of his labor constituents for old-age security. And he knows as well as Sir Staf floor bed is roughly 4 to 5 feet be low the level of the fuselage.

Levels Must Correspond The desperate need of constitu That means that each parcel or "piece" of freight must be man tional protection for the civil rights of women of the United States was astoundingly emphasized by an amazing ruling recently made by a divided United States Supreme This, and a third house were also ually lifted into the plane, carried along the fuselage and deposited ford Cripps the utterly deadly dangers of an The Profession Of Housekeeping Dr. Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College, has not gone so far as to say that a woman's place is in the home. That would te too incongruous a remark for the head cf an institution that produces (among ether things) female scientists and business managers. Eut Dr. Horton has told some .1.500 college graduates that there is a place in the home for women and that she regrets the tendency among educated women to consider marriage a frustrating Mrs.

Horton holds the women's colleges partly responsible for the "guilt complexes" which she imputes to some college- women with family duties. The colleges teach women that they should use their education in a broader field, whereas "the family is entirely respectable as a sphere of activity." From a strictly male viewpoint, much could be added to Dr. Horton's remarks. Running a household efficiently is not only entirely respectable" but also as exacting a profession as anyone, male or female, could take on. Possibly men are backward in showing their appreciation, but few husbands can cease to wonder how their wives manage to burned down, and the present thea uncontrollable upward surge in wages.

by hand into place. Court, It actually upheld a Michi ter, renamed Her Majesty was built by Sir Herbert Ttee. most Obviously, one way to speed up gan law forbidding women employ So Mr. Reuther seems to parry wage demands by diverting them into pension the operation would be to have the famous of Victorian actor-managers, ment as bartenders unless the establishment is owned by a male floor of the plane level with th floor jof the claims. In effect, Mr.

Reuther is asking his followers in some part to forego present in But that, in turn, means either in 1893. He appeared there as Othello and as Hamlet like your Hamlet. Tree." said W. S. Gilbert kindly.

"It's funny without being who is her husband or father! Let it be quickly said that Jus completely redesigning all the trucks serving aircraft or redesign tices Rutledge, Douglas and Mur creases in purchasing power in exchange for future increases in purchasing power. And we may be sure that other wise labor leaders ing the aircraft. He called it "My beautiful thea phy refused to sanction this crass discrimination. The fact that the business concerned involves the sale of liquor has no bearing except ter, and his ghost is saia to nauni the dome, where he had his office. Again, it obviously appears easier to make the new aircraft suit the trucks than change the Even after Tree death His Maj will follow the Reuther lead.

Yet we should also be clear about the economic effect. In so far as immediate wage in trucks to suit the aircraft. If the fuselage of aircraft is low to becloud the sole issue which is esty's made theatrical history, for its production of "Chu Chin Chow- the equal protection of the laws. If ered, however, then the problem made a record Dy running iur creases are avoided by these pension diver the Supreme Court can rule that a 2,238 performances. arises of placing the wing high enough to allow the propellers to woman cannot work in a barroom sions, they are economically defensible.

But in so far as the pension diversions load clear the ground, which, in turn unless it is owned by her husband or father, it can just as well decree the economy with blank checks which must that a woman cannot work In a fac bathe and feed children, do the marketing and mending, keep clean curtains on the win Oxford 'Blind Man's Butter' be honored in unforeseeable amounts at un foreseeable times in the future, they present dows and hot food on the table and yet be tory, department store or other business establishment unless it is owned by her husband or father or Lotidon Bureau of The Sun new problems fully as ticklish as and per tions for a customs union, reports of failure, reports of success the onlooker may be excused for wondering whether anything leady, hat in hand, when the time comes for haps even more ticklish than those of the that female owners of businesses the weekly night out. may employ only males. ever-rising wage level. The Fourteenth Amendment to can come of such confusion. There is a constant danger that the run No doubt Dr.

Horton knows whereof she speaks when she says that college-trained ference for British margarine is sold already colored and when both are warm it is hard to tell it from butter. What does make the test tricky is that the quality of British ration butter is often low and sometimes the Constitution of the United ning story of these successes and failures, Those Celebrities In Hagerstown's Election London. Jan. 24 Twenty-two-year-old Colin Prestige, an Oxford undergraduate, is in training for a contest in "blind man's butter." He sits in his room at Oriel College with a scarf over his eyes, trying to tell the difference between morsels of butter and margarine which solicitous friends and inquiring reporters thrust into his mouth. If he goes on being 100 per cent right he will be the richer by one States forbids the states to deny to any person the equal protection of the laws.

It also forbids the states to make or enforce any law conflicts and agreements, will obscure the larger movement beneath. They are surface Hagerstown is holding its primary election jt tastes of preservatives. The arcade next door, sun canea the Royal Opera Arcade after the defunct theater, is dejected looking, bombed and dingy. But even this fifty-yard stretch of shops has a history, it seems. Here Victorian and Edwardian dandies bought their haberdashery, and until last year one of the shops housed one of London's most famous barbers, who had cut the hair of rank and fashion for almost 60 years.

He gave Lord Jellioce his nautical crop and trimmed the elegant locks of Lord Curzon. At another shop in the arcade Gladstone used to buy his collars those formidable wing collars which, in their day. were as much of a trademark as Winston's cigars. It will be some time before any building can be undertaken on the site, and for the moment there are only sighs of regret to be heard here and there. But when sacri-ligious bands are laid on the fabric the air will tremble with protests from Pall Mall to Printing House Square, though they will not halt the drills.

Tommy Handley, at 55 Britain's today for mayoralty candidates. That elec abridging the privileges immuni eddies and crosscurrents. No one of them may be taken as a guide to the direction of tion is of State-wide interest for several rea sons and one of those reasons is the fact that ties of citizens of the United States. Nevertheless, the Supreme the main current. it might well be called a big-name primary.

Court has just said, speaking through Justice Frankfurter: Meanwhile, Dr. Summerskill must be regretting that she inadvertently let slip her office telephone number during the debate, for housewives from all over Britain are ringing her up and asking to be allowed to join in this game of "blind man's butter." U.S. Forces To Give Up On the Democratic side there is Mr. W. Lee Elgin, former Mayor of Hagerstown and for the last ten years commissioner of motor women are apologetic about being "just a housewife." But any woman who can plan appetizing and varied meals on a limited budget at today's prices, and rear, without rancour, a family of well behaved kids from formulas through fraternities, and keep a house looking clean and original without imposing too many restrictions on the family's freedom of movement, and maintain a schedule that has the husband and children out of the house when they should be and fed when they want to be, and meet the thousand end one family crises without losing temper or patience.

Such a woman need not apologize about Icing "just" a housewife. Such a woman is entitled to call herself a home economist, nurse, child psychologist, efficiency expert, interior decorator, diplomat and social force for good. If she can then go out for an eve vehicles for Maryland. He could only be a French Guiana Airfield man who has kept far away from newspapers, radios and all the other means of spreading information who has not heard of Questions On Art The Layman Would Like To Have Answered Baltimore has rarely been host to a more distinguished group of educators and learned men and women generally than that which will convene here on Thursday. The College Art Association is composed mostly of university teachers and its function is to spread knowledge of the history of all the arts from the beginning up to now.

This objective is broad enough to include most of the activities which we include under the general term "fine arts." How inclusive it is may be seen by the circumstance that the Johns Hopkins University and the several museums in this city are acting as joint hosts to the meetings. Further evidence is giyen by San Juan. Puerto Rico, Jan. 24 (fp The United States armed forces said today Rochambeau Field in French Guiana will be turned over to French representatives tomorrow. The field, near Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, was built by the United States Army in 1943 and operated during the war as a United States military airbase.

The Air Force said the seacoast field was important because of its strategic location in relation to the northeast coast of South America. can of snoek next week. An Official Challenge It all started when Dr. Edith Summerskill, redheaded parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Food, told an Oxford Union debating society last week that the British people were getting used to new foods like snoek, whalemeat and margarine, and couldn't tell the difference between margarine and butter. There were cries of protest from all of her male audience and Dr.

Edith challenged anyone to tell the difference blindfolded. Colin accepted the challenge. Dr. Edith said she would submit him to a test in her kitchen next week, and offered a can snoek South African fish which is some relation to a shark and now one of the mainstays of British comedians) as a prize. Bets All Over University So Colin Prestige is in training and Oxford is quite wrought up.

Bets are being made all over the university and plans are afoot for a great celebration if the snoek is brought back in triumph. "Michigan could, beyond question, forbid all women from working behind a bar." This most recent ukase is an echo of the court's 1872 pronouncement that the Fourteenth Amendment could not be used to protect women against unequal laws which were a barrier against the right of females to pursue any lawful employment for a livelihood. In short, American women have been read out of the Constitution by the courts and it is necessary to amend that charter of liberty to give women its benefits. Immediate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment is necessary to cut out the cancerous sex discrimination that has been judicially grafted onto the Constitution. It should be the number one consideration of this Congress.

And the Congress should take particular pains to spell out this new amendment in words of one syllable to prevent judicial distortion. Helen Elizabeth Brown. Baltimore, Jan. 20. Mr.

Elgin. The other Democratic candidate is Mr. Edward Oswald, Jr. On the Republican side there is Mr. Herman L.

Mills, who in 1946 was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Mr. Mills was defeated by our own Mr. Theodore R. McKeldin, then Mayor of Baltimore, who later lost in the general election to the present Governor Lane.

Mr, Mills is in a three-cornered business man fight; his opponents are Messrs. John Dunn and Charles Mobley. We make no prediction as to the outcome of the balloting. We jump on no one's band wagon. But we hope that the next mayor of Hagerstow will serve as well as the present Mayor, Mr.

Richard H. Sweeney. top radio comedian, died suddenly this month. The program built around him is not to continue, but he has passed into folklore, together with the mass of curious characters who made up his entourage. He began "It's That Man Again.

in 1939. and with summer intermissions continued it until three days before his death. It-was unique among BriUsh radio shows. The highbrows called it impressionism and compared it with "Alice in Wonderland." The lowbrows just laughed with it. The catch phrases used by the characters have passed into common usage the "Can I do you now.

Sir?" of Mrs. Mopp the charlady. "I sell you feelthy postcard" of Aly Oop the dragoman, and dozens more. ning of social conversation and demonstrate to her husband's great pride that she has teen able to keep up with some of the current events in the world at large, she need te beholden to nobody. It is doubtful, despite Mrs.

Horton's foreboding, that many women who can successfully run a household are actually ashamed cf their achievements, college-trained or not. The woman who can turn out a formula with the diipatch of a biologist producing cul- Bus Plunge Kills 14 In Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 24. (JP) A press dispatch from Gravata. in Pernambuco state, today said fourteen persons were killed and 31 hurt yesterday when a bus carrying pilgrims to a church in Ramos plunged off a bridge into the river below.

the breadth of the announced program, which schedules round-table discussions ranging from archaeology to modern art and includes such matters as how to get primary-grade children into museums and the relation of the Federal Government to painting; Blindfolding will make little dif.