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Evening star., 1948-06-10

JUO II Ell
In lovely Silver Sp, .lg, this most attrac-
tive 1-year-old, detached, center-entrance
A. lavatory, large screened side porch
10x20; on a wooded lot, very convenient
to schools, stores and transp. Owner NOV
ing, wants immediate sale. Cali ME.
YT1roT ivy rrr~rr rAHYaHy
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American University Park
$50. .95O-Group of new det. brick homes,
loo. near shop. and transp. Recep hall,
liv rm. din. rm., kit with it. refgr. and
electric garbage disposal and " bath on
lst floor 3 bedrms. and modern tiled bath
on End floor; full basement with gas a.-c
heat; Venetian blinds throughout; nice,
level lot. Must act quickly sold.
Edgar L. Webster, OR. 5700
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American University Park
Only S13.750. semidetached brick home.
Living rm., fireplace, dining rm., kitchen,
3 bedrms and bath, 2 porches, h.-w.h.
Reasonable terms
L. G. WHITE, WI. 1000
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Monsiqnor Buckley

The people Of Washington today are
saying good-by to Monsignor Edward L.
Buckley. He was friend to all classes OF
men, women and children during nearly
half century of service here. st.
Matthew'S was the only parish he ever
held, but his ministry was broad in
application. A pastor essentially, he prac-
ticed the science and the art of charity
with skill as we'll as devotion. The enter
prises he initiated organized and directed
were intended to help the whole community
by helping individuals. He had great faith
in the capacity Of human nature to change
for the better, and it was major part Of
his vocation to assist the improvement.
Monsignor Buckley lived to. see rich
fulflllment of his dreams and his labors.
He watched the growth of st. Matthews
physically from mere chapel to cathedral
proportions and status. Meanwhile, he
witnessed the development of Its outposts
homes, schools and a convent. The
money to pay for the buildings was OBJ
tanned by his solicitation. It yielded
abundant dividends, both material and
spiritual. His foundations will be durable
monuments to his endeavors.
The honors which came TO Monsignor
Evening star., 1948-05-10
All Thut GIitters

Fashion reporters are agog over new
line of 24-karat gold bathing suits created
by a Hollywood designer named Mabs.
The suits can be used either for swimming
or Just for lolling around and glittering
on the beach. They are meant for females
who are beautiful and who hate being in
conspicuous. Amy such person can buy
one if she has the money for it, or If her
husband or swain is giddy enough to put
the cash on the line. Then she can 60 to
the nearest seashore, WOW everybody and
put on show of righteous indignation
when the wolves whistle.
Sober-sided people with a social con-
science cannot be blamed too much If they
greet this development with biting COM
ment or heots of derision. A 24-karat gold
bathing suit is wide open to criticism with
a class angle or with tocsin-like undertones
of collapsing civilization. One can see, for
example, how the poor working girl, upon
beholding another of her sex arrayed in
1t, might soon become dissatisfied with her
own silk swim suit and be driven into
Evening star., 1948-05-10
Czech FLIGHTS to Freedom

Another Czech airplane has landed on
an airfield in the American occupation
zone of Germany, bearing passengers who
had escaped from their homeland by fore
ing the pilots to alter their regular routes.
These repeated incidents have real
meaning. They are eloquent testimony to
the desperate expedients' employed by
liberty loving Czechs to escape from the
new despotism suddenly clamped down
upon what was until recently, land OF
freedom.
It should be emphasized that none of
these fugitives by air is Of special promi-
nence or an outstanding opponent of the
Red regime. Seemingly, they are just
ordinary citizens with money enough to
buy a commercial airline ticket for do
mestic flights. In two outstanding cases,
the ringleaders Of the plan are former
wartime pilots who served with the British
Royal Air Force to help liberate their
country from Nazi rule.
These escapes by air likewise indicate
the growing difficulty Of crossing the land
borders. Immediately after the Red coup,
hundreds of fugitives successfully made
their way over the frontier into the Amer
lean zone Of Germany. That frontier is
mostly heavily-wooded mountainous
country in many places thinly inhabited.
But the Red police and frontier guards
have now set up so efficient Gordon that
escape by land has become risky in the
extreme, while the penalties for failure
are severe. The airways are thus the sole
remaining alternative. But this method is
so exceptional that it is logical to assume
the existence of multitudes who would be
only too glad to 60 into voluntary exile
even at the cost of leaving behind them
their relatives, their earthly possessions,
and their careers.
The tales these refugees tell have
melancholy sameness. They describe q
virtual reign of terror wherein no one is
safe who does not belong to the ruling
Communist minority. Individual freedoms
have been abolished, the economic life of
the country is demoralized, and the situa-
tion is rapidly worsening The Czecho-
slovakia of the elder Masaryk, once a
laboratory of liberalism, is being ruthlessly
transformed into a prison house. Red
totalitarianism is doing its deadly work
In Czechoslovakia, as in every land where
it gains control communism produces its
poisonous fruits.
Evening star., 1948-05-10

The recent party season has provided ample
opportunity for the young and dashing to air
their "new-look" frocks. An old quirk Is, that
to the middle -aged observer this new" sill
houette seems so very familiar, recalling as 1t
does early memories OF watching Mama dress.
Indeed, many q young girl in her up-to-the-
minute long full skirt with its breathe-in waist,
displays striking resemblance to the photo OF
Grannie in the family album One girl ut
fancy-dress dance added black crepe bonnet
tied under the chin with ribbons, and tiny,
sequinned cape tauthentic relics Of 1890 label
ling herself New Look 1950?"-and indeed 1t
would not be at all surprising to find ourselves
looping up our skirts to board buses-or would
it? Another interesting bit of fashion news Is
that we are promised = glimpse Of the material
patterned with Photographic designs, such as
already is available in America. We look for
ward to seeing this remarkable product,
although it will probably be beyond the purse
and coupons Of the majority of English women
During some very deep trenching in this
locality; during, in fact, excavation for build
ing council houses, discoveries were made OF
much interest to archaeologists. Roman coins
pottery and tiles were found. This is no new
result of excavations in the Darent Valley,
WHICH lS kIOWu W lhFC UCCA AAce WiC poVcAS~
field OF Roman and Danish invaders and
later their habitation. There Is q Saxon
burial ground nearby, where skeletons, jewels
and armor were found few years ago, and
here also several dene holes, into which un-
suspecting cattle have sometimes fallen when
grazing on what appeared to be solid meadow
land. These holes, which honeycomb the land.
are covered with varying depth Of soil which
occasionally subsidies owing to weather con-
ditions. They are held to be either refugees
for fleeing Danes or food-storage caverns for
early inhabitants. The controversy on these
points of view is perennial, the final word
almost annual. However much one values
progress and modernity, here in England one
Evening star., 1948-05-10

the arms of communism. Or II not taat,
then Mabs' shining brain, child must Ger
tainly make q, lot of us brood over the
poets lines about the accumulation of
wealth and the decay of men.
But maybe one should not take the thing
too seriously. After al in times past,
wonderland men as well-have garbed
themselves in outfits quite as extravagant
as the Mabs creation. In fact, even our
most extreme clothesherses still have q
long way to 60 before they can match what
the showoffs. and 'extroverts wore in
ancient Egypt, or in Europe after the Black
Death. AS far as bathing suits are con-
cerned, perhaps it is enough to say that
all that glitters is not gold-meaning, Of
course, the people wearing them.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
PROTECTING the Public

The lifesaving activities of the Federal
Food and Drug Administration may not be
so spectacular as those of some other
agencies, but they merit public attention
and acclaim, nonetheleSS. The latest Of
the administrations undertakings in this
field is under way. It Is a Nation wide
effort to collect every remaining ounce
of contaminated glucose solution which
already is blamed for possibly four deaths
and for numerous serious reactions" in
various hospitals.
AS in previous cases of this kind, the
American Medical Association, the Amer
ican Pharmaceutical Association and many
local medical and drug organizations are
cooperating in the intensive race to pre-
vent any further use of the condemned
shipments. The solution commonly in
jected in the veins to feed shock victims
and other weak patients, was manufac-
tured in California. While the immediate
objective is to round up all OF the solution
as soon as possible, a secondary investi-
cation will seek the cause Of the con-
tamination
The current case is reminder of the
doIlillllohdIloNS Ulk tdSk IcIl years ago
in collecting scattered shipments Of
death elixir" which caused more than
seventy-1ve deaths. The poisonous medi-
cine was an unauthorized "sulfa elixir"
manufactured by Southern firm. The
Sulfa drug was in glycol solution used as
commercial solvent. When first reports
of fatalities came in from Dallas, Texas,
the Food and Drug AdminiStrat tion aoents
began countrywide hunt, during which
they traced every vestage of the elixir"
to its ultimate consumer. Sometimes they
arrived too late to prevent death, but they
succeeded in saving many men, women and
children from agonizing deaths.
The agency has played an important part
in averting numerous other tragedies.
Protecting the public against fraud or
injury is its round -the-year job. It is
job which 1t has done without benefit of
much publicity, but withal, very effec-
lively.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
A Needed AGENCY

Last year. when he vetoed legislation
to create National Science Foundation,
President Truman cited as one of his major
objections the fact that Congress had
denied him the authority to name the
director of the enterprise This objection
a sound one from the administrative
standpoint-now has been overcome in the
new bill that has just won unanimous
Senate approval.
The bill-which Is expected to encounter
little or no trouble in the HouSe-would
set up board of twenty-four members to
be chosen by the President from among
individuals eminently qualified in the fields
of the fundamental sciences, medical
science, engineering, education or public
affairs In addition-unlike last years
legislation-the bill provides that the Pres
ident is to appoint the overall director,
with the consent of the Senate.
Assuming that the House will act favor
ably and that there will be no veto, the
Nation for the first time in history, thus
should soon be equipped with permanent
agency dedicated to the task of mobilizing
our scientific talent for basic research and
development. The main purpose of this,
as envisioned in the Senate bill, is to keep
us from tagging behind the rest of the
world in exploring and exploiting the
frontiers of knowledge in order to promote
the health, economic well-being and mill
tary security of the United States.
To that end, the projected foundation is
to be active in every field of research and
development, including medicine, physics,
engineering, biology and national defense.
Among other things it is designed to serve
as central clearing house for informa-
ton, maintain register of our specialized
talent and establish a system of scholar
ships and fellowships to help young men
and women gifted in science Above all, it
will be expected to cooperate closely with
qualified universities and other public and
private institutions by supporting their
fundamental experimental work with
loans, grants and other types of assistance
During its first year of operation. the
National Science Foundation will involve
an outlay estimated at upward of $40
100000 The money will be we'll spent It
will represent an investment that promises
to yield rich dividends in the form of ad-
vances of vital Importance to us in our
intensely scientific age. This is one field
where penny -pinching would be false
economizing of the worst sort.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
PARALYSIS of Do-Nothinqness

The effort to improve conditions at
Gallinger Hospitals psychiatric division
evidently has run smack up against
blank wall of inaction.
There seemed to be general agreement
last winter on the desirability of at least
one simple change in procedure. Patients
afflicted with a chronic condition requir-
ing extended treatment at st. Elizabeths
were to be sent there direct, instead of
OBTAINING them at Gallinger. There are
inadequate facilities for the care and
treatment of such patients at Gallinger.
This would require some amendment
of the law. But that was not regarded
then as a difficult undertaking. 1t was
the understanding that the amendment
would be prepared for submission to
Congress, where no trouble was antici
pated in obtaining approval. One direct
result would be to reduce the number
of mental patients at Gallinger by per-
haps third. That would relieve con-
dtions attributed to overcrowding.
But what has happened? Nothing The
Commissioners have never been asked to
approve the change. The Corporation
Counsel has never been directed to pre-
pare the amendment. The effort to remove
disgrace to Washington" has begged
down, not through opposition but through
simple failure to act.
That is a pretty sad state of affairs.
Reasonable men could agree within a
short time on what should be done and
then go ahead and have 1t done.
There is no excuse for what seems to
be an unreasonable attitude of do-noth-
ingness at the District Building.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
Every Objection Outweiqhed

Within the past two years six separate
committees of Congress have examined
the merits of the, argument for new
building to house the Federal Courts in
Washington. Each has agreed unanimous
ly that the need is great and that the
building should be constructed The House
has passed the bill without objection
It is now on the Senate calendar. It should
be approved without delay.
The success thus far in obtaining ap-
proval is an implied tribute to the persua-
sive abilities Of the judges. Chief Justice
Laws has been the handspring of the
effort He has argued himself blue in the
face, convincing others Of the need. But
as eloquent as the judges have been, the
facts themselves speak with even greater
authority
A courthouse built over century ago
as city hail. reconstructed over thirty
years ago for six judges and some related
court agencies, is inadequate for court
that has doubled the number of judges,
increased its agencies to seventeen. The
increase has long since exhausted space in
the courthouse itself. The court now con-
ducts its business in nine separate and
widely scattered buildings. The crowded
conditions in the courthouse itself, in the
words of Chief Justice Harold.M. Stephens
of the Court of Appeals, are mot conducive
to public respect" or Ito confidence in the
courts"
One reason for the unanimous agree
ment reached so far is that many of the
members have inspected the conditions
for themselves. They have seen our own
BLACK Hole" one poorly ventilated cell
where as many as fifty to eighty prisoners
are jammed into small space on sentence
and arraignment days They have seen
jurors crowded in the corridors or draping
themselves on the stairways, for want of
waiting room. They have heard the stories
from the judges Of the search for missing
witnesses and jurors, ended half day
later with the discovery that they were
standing in a jammed corridor in the
wrong building.
other undesirable conditions Is new court
building and the needed authorization
should be given now, for many years will
intervene before it is completed. The cost
to the District Of Columbia is spread over
twenty-five years. As long as the District
is to be charged for any portion of the
building-a decision based on the func-
tions of local court discharged by the
Federal courts in the District-the division
of expenses is a fair one. The Senate
should approve the bill. For it has been
submitted to one test after another, and
in each test the facts supporting the need
have outweighed every objection.
Evening star., 1948-05-10

$375,o0O. The long hoped-for full days for
1rst and second graders disappear with the
cut.
Last year the elected school board was voted
into ONCE with two-to-one majority because
of the platform they presented. The people
of Arlington wanted better schools Now the
county board by withholding suficient funds
to finance the platform Of the new school board
prevents the fulhllment Of its promises, dis
regarding the wishes Of the people.
The League Of Women Voters Of Arlington
took education as its first local problem. Dele
gates have attended public hearings on schools
regularly. The league has worked for a more
democratic method of school board selection
and for larger appropriations for schools. We
shall continue to work for better schools.
MILDRED MARCY
President, League Of Women Voters Of Arling-
ton.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
Report From Britain
The New Look in Clothes Completes With Discovery
OF Ancient Ruins for islanders Attention

Is constantly being pulled back to the past
and given q little history lesson VIII the
council houses or even fragments OF them,
be objects Of interest 1900 years ahead? Well,
probably the Romans never anticipated setting
US that poser.
In railway circles, q new nationalised look
Is becoming evident. Is the porter (now
government servant) still tippable? Does the
$40 run in triplicate? Valiant, but Illogical
souls refuse to pay their fares because the
railways belong to us now!
Some cheering news for those wishing to
flap their wings after the constraint Of the
past years is that travel abroad soon win be
permitted-limited, 1t is true, by . paternal
government to those countries that are "bilat-
orally" good for us, but how glorious to see
even crack in the closed door.
Devaluation of the French franc raises new
problems in this field and we wonder II 1t
will create q precedent which other countries
may follow.
Our motorists, who have been looking for
ward to getting their cars on the road again,
are considerably depressed by the assurance
that the basic petrol ban is to stay. No tours
for them this summer: meanwhile, coaches
and private-hire cars are doing a roaring
trade in theater parties and weekend or shop
ping trips. 1t is nice to know that the Petrol
cum Board was human enough to grant 4
few coupons to lad who applied for petrol
for his motorcycle in order ito court my
girl friend who lives ten miles away"
4 4
Our newest look of all Is towards the Olympic
Games to be held this year in London and
environs. We hope this festival will be the
means Of promoting friendship and under
standing between the contesting nations 1t
certainly should enable many personal con-
facts to be made, and they are valuable.
MARGARET BANGER.
Enfin, Eynsford, Kent, England
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Knowing Nothing Deplored


To the Editor Of The Star:
question for Rufus @. Fellers, who identi-
fies himself as "the product Of scientific edu-
cation" and concludes Eve do not know and
have no way Of knowing the truth"
The question-What is 1t he does know?
This is disturbing statement for one to
make who has accepted the findings Of science.
1t strongly suggests that If this-"no way OF
knowing the truths the end result OF
scientific education, then better kind OF edu-
cation urgently is needed.
There is something futile and pathetic about
a program which, after lifetime Of study, ends
in knowing nothing.
What . contrast to the teachings of the Bible
which result in every seeker for truth learning
the positive truth as well as knowing Him Who
is Himself the TRUTH
DONALD F. HAYNES.
Evening star., 1948-05-10

Buckley during his lifetime were given in
recognition of the efficiency Of his work,
but they likewise were acknowledgements
of his qualities Of mind and heart. With
the exception of few years, his entire
career was centered in Washington. He
will not be forgotten here in the city he
loved and to which he generously gave
himself
Evening star., 1948-05-10
Lost and Found Office

To the Editor Of The Star:
It seems to me that one thing this city really
needs Is q general lost and found office. The
project could be financed by charging certain
percentage of the value Of the object recovered.
Articles themselves need not be left at the
central ofnce, but merely the phone numbers
of the finders. M. l..
Evening star., 1948-05-10

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,Driter, although 1t is permissible for
Uriter knoDp, to The Star to use
non, de plume Please be briet
Evening star., 1948-05-10

In Congress couple of must" measures
are put quietly to sleep by referring same
to hostile committees, technique long
antedating the discovery of ether.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
The Woods Women

I pisited her home deep In the moods
And slipped my tea ,0hile she stood tn the
doorway
Scoldsng an unseen some one ON the poor
1Ddy
He offered sundry n1erchandtse ara eooaS'
"pu take a yard-broon, and little pack
OF needles-ptne ,osH do, and bird seed;
that
Blue feather ,oiH look lopely on my hat;
This patterns edge Is ragged. Put It back.
See vou october first, and bring me some
Frost-painted book marks; n,tlk-toeed ss*
to lay .
As background for my seed-and -ohtts'HS
tray.
Remember me In spring NTH fo'oertng
plum"
"Sdlesran7" Queried, acting nonchalant:
"The ,ptnd," she said. "He brings ne Dnss
luant." COsETTE MIDDLETON.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau 3l8 street NE, Washington 2. D. c.
Please inclose 3 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
Opposes Military Training and Taxes

To the Editor of The Star:
II our Congressman vote for military train
ing, we are certainly going to try to find others
to I'LL their seats next term. And II they can
not think Of an alternative to MT except
through bonus to boys who don't want 70
20 to war and thus burden us for years aneaa
with more millions Of dollars in taxes, we VII
look around for statesmen who DO not nave
that old idea Of going to war IN order 70
secure something for ourselves. It used TO De
gaining lands now it is gaining Markets
sndIor raw materials. In either case this idea
lets the devil take the other nations who also
want raw materials or markets and need them
more than We do.
want to see my Congressman solve these
dificulties- and high taxes. ] want otner
nations to have place IN the sun as wen as
ourselves. Live and let live Is the best motto
IN the long run probably even for the greedy
money grabbsrs. II they only knew It.
OUIA LOWRn