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Evening star., 1949-12-12
They Need to Be Spanked
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him Uhen he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy.
Because he EnotDs 1t leases.

Ana OeUL ntHI UHeU nc SHcSScS.
He only does it to annoy.
Because he knotDs 1t teases.
In Wonderland, in startling Alice with
this celebrated dictum on how to bring up
children, the Duchess may have carried
things bit too far, particularly because
of the way in which she kept tossing her
baby violently up and down while rasping
out her somewhat unusual and slightly
non-sentimental lullaby.
Nevertheless in fairness to the Duchess,
it must be said that her child-rearing
philosophy may be described as having
been at least as sensible as the one fol-
lowed within recent years by all too many
modern" parents. For the latter, mud
died by a lot of so-called progressive"
psychological theories, have gone to the
opposite extreme of letting their offspring
get away with practically everything up to
and almost including murder.
So it is good to have man like DR.. Ber-
nard A. Cruvant-who teaches psychiatry
at Georgetown's medical school and who
practices it at st. Elizabeths-come out
strongly in favor of a modified version OF
the Duchess baby-raising methods. He
is against the idea of being too indulgent to
the "little darlings" He does not want
them to be allowed to do anything they
please. In his opinion, because of lack
of adequate parental discipline we have al
ready reared "a generation of the damned
est brats ever seen," and he therefore Is
pleased to report land The Star shares his
pleasure) that there is new trend back
ward toward the old-fashioned practice OF
restraining, inhibiting and otherwise polic-
ing youngsters in way that will stop
them from being rude to their elders,
smashing furniture, committing mayhem,
and growing up without manners or civil
tongues in their heads. To that end, DR..
Cruvant places particular emphasis on the
Importance Of spanking them-with mod
Grafton, of course-at the very instant they
are found guilty of wrong -doing.
E 1T is true enough, as every one knows,
Evening star., 1949-12-12
To the Editor Of The Star:
Suggests That Bishop Oman
Should Visit Catholic School

To the Editor Of The Star:
The statement of Methodist Bishop g.
Bromley Oman, made at the annual meeting
of the Board Of Missions and Church Exten-
sion of the Methodist Church. on December
7. to the effect that the Roman Catholic
Church threatens American liberty. was one
apparently made spontaneously and wholly
lacking in supporting evidence or even cir
cumstantial evidence.
Bishop Oman forgets the sacrifices made
by the Sullivan family who lost five sons IN
the late war, as well as the thousands OF
other Catholic American families who suf-
fered in that conflict by their loved ones
supreme sacrifices for our great country. He,
likewise, ignores the fact that the Catholic
Church today is the strongest and most
ardent foe of communism and the group
suffering most from the Communist tyran-
nical plans to destroy mans right to worship
God.
The Bishop, before making such state
ments, should pay visit to an average
Catholic parochial school classroom. There
he would be enlightened by the fact that,
next to love, loyalty and obedience to God.
our church teaches love, loyalty and obedi-
ence to the ideals and laws Of the United
States of America. invite Bishop Oman to
question my own children, pupils Of paro-
chial school, regarding their lessons IN loyalty
and citizenship as Americans. He undoubt-
edly is playing politics to defeat Federal AID
for education to Catholic schools. However,
it is unbecoming of q man Of God to resort
to defamation Of the Church OF God IN order
to attain his ends
We Catholics do not expect our Govern
ment to support our schools. We. however. DO
expect our children. as children OF taxpaying.
loyal Americans. to benefit from tax funds
for such accommodations as free bus rides
and medical attention along with other
American children.
Are we threatening American liberty by
requesting our inalienable rights as American
citisens3 J.eEORoE GATELY.
Evening star., 1949-12-12

authorized Pan American to discontinue
their service on the same routes.
This action would seem to indicate q de-
emphasis on Washington as "a focal point
OF world air commerce"
The article mentions CAA discussion Of
cost to the arlines for three months during
1949 as being something in excess of $780,
900. Was this cost the entire cost Of can
cellations, as we'll as the cost of holding
over at Washington National Airport and
re-routing. or was 1t simply. as the CAA
would have you believe, the cost for delayed
flights? Does the CAA think the air carriers
could provide better service to Washington
with half as many flights at each of two
airports. where complicated connections
would be inevitable If passenger arrived
at one airport and left at another, attempt
ing to make a continuous fight? Does the
CAA further, believe that second airport
could be maintained by them and the air
carriers without any additional cost to the
public?
1t is hard to believe that the limited
number Of days OF rather hourly periods
when Washington traffic cannot be handled
wholly at Washington National Airport
Justify discarding Friendship. We believe
any inconvenience the CAA has suggested
for the overflow traffic to be handled at
Friendship is more than offset by the
additional expenditure of public funds.
ALBERT H. HARGREAVES.
Aviation Director, Baltimore Association
of Commerce.
EDITORS NOTE: Mr. Shippen's article
was based on Civil Aeronautics Authority
Committee report. Facts he cited were those
reported by the committee. AS for 40
minute trip between downtown Washington
and Friendship-are no traffic policemen in
the pictureD
Evening star., 1949-12-12
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact By WHITING The Evening Star Information
bureau. $40 Eye st. ne. Washington Q. D. c.
Evening star., 1949-12-12

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
Drtter, although 1t Is permissible for
a wrtter kno,Dn to The Star to use
q nom de plume. Please be brieJ.
Evening star., 1949-12-12

A Lancaster (Pa) centenarian eats an
ice cream cone a day-not for the ice
cream, she says, but the cone. Small boys
who fill up on unwanted breakfast oats
to get secret decoder badges will under
stand
Evening star., 1949-12-12
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

Q. What does Saudi mean In the name
Saudi Arabia?-B. r. H.
A. Saudi is the adjective of the word saud.
which is the name of the King. King Ibn-
Saud is the absolute ruler Of the country.
He has no ministers Of state and there are
no legislative bodies, although the constitu-
ton provides for advisory councils.
Evening star., 1949-12-12
Readers Dissent from Editorial
On Jordan Lewis "Dud Of the Decade"

To the Editor Of The Star:
For many years have read with interest
the accurate, factual and fair reporting of
news by The Star. However, the question:
able attitude expressed in some Star editor
ials is quite puzzling-when such editorials
tend to suppress newspapers main stock
in trade-the truth.
Parents of school children may recall the
factual disclosure Of subversive textbooks in
the District Of Columbia schools just few
years ago. At that time The Star editorially
ridiculed those active in bringing these facts
before Congress. However. Congress COM
pelled Superintendent Corning to remove
several subversive textbooks and to revise
others to make them proper for use by
American children.
The Stars latest editorially suppressive at
tempt appeared December under the title
Prize Dud of the Decade" This editorial
ridiculed the charges placed against certain
wartime officials by Fulton Lewis, jr. We
all will know in few weeks whether these
charges are founded In fact. Although The
Stars editorial exuded sarcasm and cynical
belittling. there was not one constructive
idea In the entire piece. It will be interest,"
ing to see II, once again, a Committee Of
Congress will concretely confirm the wrong
ness Of editorial writer's for The Star.
Because The Star is to be regarded highly
as q frst-class newspaper In every other
way. the total lack of anything constructive
in the 'Dud" editorial leads me to suggest
that your editorial writer's step up their
thinking to higher standards.
FRANKLIN T. MILLS
To the Editor Of The Star:
Your editorial Prize Dud of the Decade"
in the issue Of December 8, reads more like
the plea of an attorney for the defense than
like the usual reconciliatory editorials in The
Star. In ngurative language you state that
"the latest effort by Messrs. Lewis and
Jordan to produce an atomic explosion has
hzzled out rather miserably" ex-
pressed literally, means that the evidence
advanced to show that some of our officials
were sending Government secret documents
and atomic bomb materials to Russia during
the war. has turned out to be false or Of no
Importance.
That conclusion is premature. because the
investigation is not yet completed. Your
readers. or some Of them at least, are sur
prised to see you as an advocate instead OF
in your usual role as judge or referee. No
referee pronounces decision at the begin
ming of the contest: but at the end Of the
first indeciSive round you hold up the hand
of the defendant and shout "Winner!"
GEORGE FREDERICK MILLER.
To the Editor Of The STAR
am a regular and interested listener to
Fulton Lewis jr., and was very much sur
prised at your editorial regarding the recent
disclosures made during his broadcast by
Major Jordan
Don't you think it would have been more
fair and just to reserve decision as to
whether these disclosures are the "Dud of the
Decade" until q full scale investigation is
made? And. when I say full scale" I do not
mean few Democratic members of the COM
mittee asking few slanted questions.
CORA NJ LAWRENCE
Evening star., 1949-12-12
Would Have Other Ancient Languages
Than Latin Taught and Studied

Than Latin Taught anG StUd1e0
To the Editor OF Ihe Star
Your editorial Of December 8. Revival OF
a Dead Language" referring to the study
Of Latin in washington schools. strikes an
other note with some Of US.
What about The study Of Greek. Egypt
ology and Assyriology in Washington colleges?
Some Government workers might find such
study a fascinating hobby and eventually
they might become experts in transsating
ancient tablets thousands of which now lie
undeciphered. Few persons can translate
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Assyrian cunei-
form. and these are confined to three or four
colleges
Strange and exciting stories might be dis
covered in these ancient records. ana the
present scholars cannot live long enough to
translate them.
AS to Greek and Latin. anybody who goes
into the professions is handicapped unless
he has had at least two years Of Latin and
one Of Greek. Fortified with working vo-
cabulary in these languages. one can inter-
pret technical terms with greater ease and
confidence. Doctors. lawyers and engineers
know this. anybody with such knowledge
CAN get more oat of what he reads.
Assuming tsist everyone around Washing
ton who really wants to be educated will take
Latin before going to college. what about
local colleges setting up courses in. the other
ancient languages?
Greek scholars may not be hard to find.
but Egyptologists and Assyriologists are
scarce indeed. However. Europe has them,
and it might not be hard to induce Ger
man or French professor 70 come here.
Also. let us note that fame awaits those
scholars who can find keys to the Etruscan
and Cretan languages.
CORIEY McDARMENT,
Evening star., 1949-12-12
Letters to The Star
Comments on Little Girls Appeal
For the Prayers of Friendly Strangers

Comments on Little GIFTS hppcSI
For the Prayers of Friendly Strangers
To tbs Editor Of The Star:
I was much interested in the account IN
Tuesdays Star of the little girl in Tennessee
who is in danger of losing her hand.
Her original appeal for prayer was pup-
lished in the Memphis Commercial Appeal
One touching part of her letter to the paper
was the statement that II there were any
charges her father would pay.
To this the paper. responded: THE
charges for publishing your letter were
prepaid long ago and far away on hill
called Calvary"
Then the paper offered its prayer:
20 Lord, who healed the leper and raised
up Lazarus from the dead. heal. too, and
protect this believing. gentle child"
c. H. B.
Evening star., 1949-12-12

@. How much salt is needed by the aver
age person a day?-M. A.
"A. Nutritionists have estimated that
adults require about " ounce Of salt q
day, or IL pounds year.
Evening star., 1949-12-12

@. Did George Pope Morris have any
particular tree in mind when he wrote
"Woodman Spare that Tree"?-D. K.
A. The tree about which this poem was
written was an oak in st. Pauls churchyard
In New York. T.
Evening star., 1949-08-18

all over Holland dressed alike
until 300 years ago. Out here in
Marken. we just haven't changed
ut started when the Spaniards
were here" a lady from Amster-
dam said. THE Spaniards had
decided to take all of the boys
away, SO the people of Marken
fooled them by dressing the boys
as girls"
Nobody knows the real answer.
Whatever it is, the effect Is still
just as bad on the small fry.
Some Unpleasant Changes.
Elsewhere, the windmill country
is going through some unpleasant
changes.
The windmill. symbol of Hol-
land, is a goner. You only pass
one of them on the road from
Amsterdam to Volendam, and it
is the only one you can see stick
ing up over the dikes when you
scan the horizon from Marken.
Electric pumps are more reliable.
Likewise, the wooden shoe has
not long to stay. They still wear
them all through this country but
rubber boots are gradually taking
their place.
The tourist price for mems
wooden shoes in Marken is $1.20.
Women's fancy wooden shoes are
$3.50.
A violent effort is being made
to preserve the cheese market at
Alkmaar, the biggest tourist at
traction in Holland.
Gasoline has made 1t eco
nomical for farmers to send their
cheese right into Amsterdam and
the other markets instead Of go
ing through the weekly Friday
cheese market in Northern Hol-
lands cheese center.
To prevent a tourist tragedy,
the government has ordained that
10 per cent of all cheese from the
region shall continue to pass
through Alkmaar.
A nice round Edamer cheese,
bought in Edam's leading cheese
store. costs 81. roughly IS cents
a pound.
Evening star., 1949-08-18

turesque as they can be in tht
quaint and colorful Dutch cos.
tunes which everybody wear.
here. And the cruelest thing vol
can do on this island is to remark
on the fact to one of the yount
men in question.
Nav" says a pint-sized indi.
vidual with long blond curls, 6
lace trimmed cap and pretty little
skirt and apron, clomping along
in wooden shoes.
II am no girl. I am a boy" HI
clomps on in huff.
They have even learned to say
this in English. The place Is in
tested by tourist pranksters from
the other side of the Atlantic who
like to kid them.
Full Emancipation at 8.
Up to the age of 5, boys and
girls are dressed identically except
that the boys wear little white
bibs and a round patch on theil
bonnets. Then they change Their
skirts for pantaloons. but keep the
skirt and bonnet of embroidery
and lace. At 8 they reach tul.
emancipation.
Your heart goes out to these
little gentlemen. They may be
pretty, but they look mean. and
they feel mean.
Its all matter of economies
says the young lady at one OF the
towns curio shops. Its easy tt
lengthen a skirt when a child is
growing. It's harder with panta-
looms. And, of course, they are all
poor"
Its the tail end Of an old Gus
TOM" says an old man. children
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Boys Under 8 Dressed
Like Little Girls on
Dutch Isle Of Marken
By WiIIiom H. Stonemon
Foreign Correspondent Of The '.tor md
the Chicago Dolly News

MARKEN, Holland. Aug. 18.-
If young Willy has been producing
a lot of back-chat this summer
you can always threaten him with
a trip to Marken.
The Isle of Marken, out here ir
the Zuider Zee, a few miles north
of Amsterdam, is the land where
little boys are dressed like little
girls until they are 8 years old.
They are just as pretty and pic.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Dry Province in India
Gets Wetter and WetteI
BY ths Associotsd Press

by ms %StOClOISo FtoS8
MADRAS, India-Prohibition Of
fenses are increasing in Madras,
India's most completely dry prov
ince. In July. there were 5,581 Of
fenses in all Is districts of the
province. Nearly half Of these were
cases of Illicit distilling Of spirits.
The French Indian settlements
adjoining the Madras Province are
convenient bases" for liquor
smuggling, government reports
said. Bottles of liquor are being
brought into Indian territory con-
cealed in tea chests.
The government blamed public
apathy for the increase In prohi-
bition offenses. 1t said that when
prohibition police raided "Suspi-
cious" village in Kurnool district.
They were received with barrage
Of stones. Even the village prohi-
bition committee failed to cooper
ate in the detection of offenses.
The Valley settler., 1949-02-25
FINANCIAL STANDING GOOD

Foll owing the report of he Score tary the Financial report uas given by Clayton 5s- slinger, c icf Accountant for thu A,ooc ia ion. T>c report showed that tho AcGcc-a-' ion is in the best cond ion that it has ever been. Cop ies 7of thq report vero P4ssod out to na1bars Io that they Icquld follo1 through the report Fh ne it uas being n.ad, lfonbors were free t3 ask questions aBcc any part of the report which vas not ,c7- to then. However; before tho report uas finished, coffee, sandwiches, cake ,a,.4 1c2 croan arrived and proved to be more o--Cl,' '' than the report for the tire being. Tn noet ing vas therefor recessed for 1u1ch> Tho Creamery and Trading Post cooporato1 in providing 1unc oh for the 'oc cas ion--th2 Creamery furnishing coffoe, croan and al assortment of f1avors in Tee Croan; vhjI' tho Trading Post completed tho ronu ri tn sandwiches, potato salad, calro, cookies ar pickles. Cont. on pp. 5
The Valley settler., 1949-02-25
SORRY 70 BE LATE

Fo nurposely held the paper over in order to print the news of the meet ing of this Friday. IT the paper is to appear on Fri day it must be all ready to print by Fri day morning at the latest, but as it seerlet more desirable to get the news of the neet- ing in this ueek'a issue, re held it over for that purpose. Since none of the adver- tisers were offering Saturday special $, it vas not nperat i've that it be out by Fri day. Hc hope the delay has been worth while.
The Valley settler., 1949-02-25
CASH clVIlEMDs DECLARED

During the past yoor noro than $2o ,ooo.oo in cash dividends havo boon doclarod by the Matanuska Vclloy Farnors' Coopcrat ing As so- ciot ion. This Uook tho Dcirylon TOGO iVod' cash dividends in tho a-1ount of S9, ,7oo. oo, and the Egg Producers received $e53. % in cash. Patronage Dividend S..ar ing rlorbors as we'll as tho rest of tho rloribors will TO- coive 55ooo. % in cash and $5Ooo.O in Equity Certificates within tho noxt few days.
 Last sWTler tho dairTlCn received S5, 300 .OO in cash dividends yhich brings tho total paid out in cash dividends or returns to tho norlbors' S2l, ,453.oo.
 Tho Cert icotos of Ecuity nro retired in ton years. Tho 1859 issue will be duo this next Docorlbor.
 All dividends arc paid to tho nonbors in proport ion tho amount Of uso that member nai,os Of his Association. If a nonbors' amount of patronage is double that of an- other r1onbor, his returns in tho form of dividends will .bo :tutco as large. Er. Wilson statnd that patrons ahS arc not on tho Patronage Dd vidond .Shar ing Pl an can bocorao part tc ipating rlorlbors and bo granted numbers. Accurrul ated savings can be usod to purchase a sharo. Afr. Wilson explained this rock that "A Co-oporati ivo repays to its patrons a percentage of tho profit based on patronage"
 EtGF01E0C 101 MApCH' 70
The Valley settler., 1949-02-25
01VFCG "ElEC7EC -:THREE UREC CT0RS- REPORTED 6J00
 corpv 7o pr J17r JFEP

Tie Annual meeting of the Notanuska Valley Farr1ers' Cooperating Association uas cal1- ed to order shortly after HOO a.r. Friday February 18th, vh hon 42 voting rlens- bers were present and quorum could be declared. Other nerlbers arrived later,
 swell ing the total to about 2/3 of the vot- ing membership. Others present included a few patronage dividend sharing renbers, Probationa1 rorbers, Miss Louis Kellogg, who has entered the Dairy I-6ustry in the Valley the past year; CGp Be erlan, ran ager of the Anchor age Dairy; I.lT.C. Anderson, representative of the FILA; o.F.oh1son ,Pres- ident Of the Alaska Reral Rehabil itat ion Corporation Board of Directors; and C.T. PC ters, c, neral Manager of the AEG2C.
 TO meeting opened with the reading of tho minutes of last years A71aua1 meet ing by Curl Rasrms son. T 0 reading Of the minutes vas fo11ouod by report of t fp activities of tie Board of Directors for t he past yea ar. Tho report showed that the Boar had held 4o meetings during the year, According to this report thero arc at pr resent 9l votin norlbors a number have been suspended from vot ing until such tirlo as they again resup productio and market ing tlr ogh the Az soc fat ion. members have le it the Valley and ri thdravn the ir rlerlbe ship ,uhilo probattona1 members havo been added to 4
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-28
0bin's Paintings on
Haitian Exhibition

NEW YORK, April 28.-(AN
P)-Twenty-five paintings by
Philome Obin, Haiti's foremost
popular" painter, and his pupils
are the major attraction at the
second exhibition of Haitian art
under the auspices of the Haitian
Art Center of New York, which
opens with a preview at 5 o'clock
on the afternoon of May 9, at Car
lebach's gallery.
Also included in the show, which
is scheduled to close May 27, will
be a single outstanding painting
by each of the other leading
painters Of Haiti's current "ren-
Observation-Disclosures Bazile, Will
son Bigaud, Fernand Pierre,
Toussaint Auguste, and others.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-28

doctor Of laws at Rockhurst col
lege, a Jesuit school in Kansas
City, Mo.
The honor was made public by
Xavier university Wednesday. The
degree was presented to Shea on
the recommendation of many Cath
Ollie prelates for the work he has
done in the National Federation
of Catholic College students and
in the field of higher education
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-28

R. B. Ragsdale drove and the drive
carried the group fifteen miles
beyond Americas, Ca, to a little
country store known to neighbors
as Leslie, Ga. Leaving the gray
ell highway, the group travelled
about two miles down a little
mud lane which wound it's way
through a wooded section. 1t had
rained and puddles of water stood
in the bed of the red-clay lane,
making it impossible for the car
to travel further. The women
took-to-foot and after winding
their way through forest and I'M
derbrush for about a mile, they
arrived at a clearing where stood
to houses-an old dilapidated
shack in which the Ingram chill
dren are living and the neat, but
small, incomplete cottage which is
being constructed for the family
by the NAACP.