Evening star., 1948-12-11
Rats Get the Food

Kats Get the Food
To the Editor OF The Star:
I have just finished reading letter by Vir-
sinia Sargent of the Animal Protective Asso.
citation, printed December 8, In which she
urges people to leave food around 50 that the
stray dogs and CATS birds and squirrels may
eat BY implication she suggests that the
covers be loosened on the garbage cans. This
is q very humane letter and is well-meant.
But the writer has neglected to take into
consideration . very important fact. Rats are
the animals that get most Of the food which
is left about. was requested not to put bread
on my window sill for the birds. The birds
knocked some Of 1t of onto the ground and the
rats came running. This is too bad. but 1t Is
fact. LAURA Il. POLLOCh.
Three STAGES in China's Progress
To the Editor o; The star:
As q near 50-year resident of China and
lifetime student of her political evolution. let
me warn that American thinking Is making
a cardinal mistake in 'hesitating to act upon
the obvious logic that in Americas own in
interest, China must be saved against COM
munism, such hesitation being due to the
purely American political misconception that
what China most needs Is democracy and that
the increasing practice Of democracy by the
government would persuade the Red armies to
lay down their arms.
The so-called China experts" who have 80
misled public thinking about China can know
little OF Chinese history and even less Of that
universal law of national growth which pre-
scribes, as an American historian has well said,
that there are times when the great need
of q people is not more individual liberty but
greater national unity"
These misnamed experts fresh from their
college textbooks about the democratic birth.
right Of every American, assume that every
Chinese child Is Cor should be- born into a
democratic environment, even at this very
youthful date in China's modern history And
when Chinas predominantly medieval en-
vironment prevents this, then the experts
blame Chang and his government for de
priving" the people of democracy!
ANY one dixie MYSELF who has lived with the
Chinese for q lifetime knows that the uni
versal process of national growth from .
medieval to . modern stage occupies three
successive stages: l. National unity founded
on a single national army; q. Economic bet
tsrment through nationwide agencies; 3. And,
only after and q political democracy.
Since 1t is only stage that China today
has reached, and since the National govern
ment, and particularly Chang himself, have
for 20 years been the supreme agents in build
ing Chinese national unity, America obviously
would be morally right in assisting that gov
ernment against the Communist despoilers Of
China's national unity. ERNEST r. NASH.
Woodland, Calf.
Inaccurate Shooting Protested
To the Editor Of The Star:
Scarcely day passes without . news item
concerning some local policeman firing q
number of shots ut individuals suspected Of
some crime or violation, The names and
occasions differ, but there are always three
never-ehanging facts:
l. Washington policeman does the shoot
ing. H.+ w..
2 Two or more shots are fired and
g. None of the shots are known to be
effective.
1t is to be regretted that these men can't
use better judgment and fire their pistols only
when they know they can do so effectively,
Just as it ID to be regretted that they can't
be trained to shoot more effectively. But it
is high time something was done to stop
menacins innocent people who may be In their
line of hre.
Less than q week ago q woman was struck
by the bullet fired by an Arlington Cemetery
guard. Only q merciful Providence can be
thanked that this was not fatal accident.
few months before, y rookie cop, without any
justification whatever, shot another civilian
and crippled her for lfe-and from this in
cident we have seen q completely calloUs dis
regard for the safety of civilians expressed
by the oficials of the Police Department.
Shortly before that Washington policeman
shot at q boy who was doing nothing more
serious than walking across his property.
Must We wait until some prominent person