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Evening star., 1949-03-09
Treason Against Tyranny
To tn. Editor Of The Star:

TO tn: Editor OF The Star:
Many people seem to see nothing but
true democracy in countries behind the
Iron Curtain. and Observer in The Star
of March 4 is no exception. Do such people
think we are naive, or are they?
Selden Chaplin, American Minister to Hun
gary, said in Paris on February 18 that
mo one today. except the blind and the
twisted can fail to see that the Hungarian
people are under the complete. total dom
nation of group of Moscow-trained COM
munists whose sole allegiance is to the
Kremlin" This from man who, it may be
assumed, knows whereof he speaks
What kind of person. then. is Observer.
who deems it wise, therefore, to temper
our criticism of the Communists, and to
realize that they, too. are acting consistently
with those principles which exist in most
countries?
What principles? OF freedom of speech
to denounce tyranny? OF freedom OF religion
and education? OF freedom of the press?
OF fair and impartial trial?
On "the testimonies reported in our news
Evening star., 1949-03-09
This and That
By Charles E. Trdce1Deu

DO you know anything about books?"
we asked Templeton Jones.
That good man looked sad.
DO I know anything about books?" he
asked.
l never see you with any"
Jones looked sadder than ever.
That is the trouble with this age" he
said. Unless one f1aunts what he knows,
no one knows he knows it.
If I had gone around with book in my
hand. all my life. every one would know
like and know books.
Short of that, even my friends regard
me as low brow
We shortly got the idea that Templeton
Jones knows more about books than anybody
else in the country.
DO I know books?" he snorted II GER
tainly do I have known and loved them
all my life.
In fact, at times. think books are the
only things 7 do know"
Jones then revealed a chapter of his
childhood.
1t seems that in the old days all he did
was read. While other boys were out run
ming 100-yard dashes, and playing football
little Temp Jones was ensconced on
couch with bag Of animal crackers and
book.
What book?
Well. at one time it would be Prescott's
Conquest of Mexico" and at another time
Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic"
At the next reading it might be Frank
MerriWell and the Lost Game"
This would be one of the famous nickel
novels.
Not dime novels Jones was emphatic
about that. The books, bound with a bright
colored cover each about 80 pages, cost 5
cents.
The real dime novels" were of an earlier
era
The books Jones and his pals read cost
but nickel, and were simply good stirring
stories of action, though the good mothers
OF that era, with the lack of discernment of
good mothers of all eras, refused to believe
this.
Hence it became necessary Jones recalls.
for each reader to hide the scent works in
some larger book. Usually geography" did
very well.
1t was not this secretive reading, how
ever. that led young Temp Jones to conceal,
at last, his friendship for books.
What happened was that he read so much
that he was in danger of being regarded as
"bookworm.''
That he AYERS, was the equivalent OF
sissy" today.
Just as the kids now shrink back in horror
of being called sissy so in Jones child
hood, when America was emerging from the
pioneer days, small boys shrunk from being
regarded as "bookworms. 4
What worse designation?
The young Jones stopped being seen with
books.
He no longer carried them in his hand,
or even beneath his coat.
The habit, formed in youth, has stuck to
him to this day.
But sometimes, Jones declared, II wish
had not formed the habit.
Il think if had to do it over again I
would make it rule of my life never to be
seen in public without a book of some kind.
In this way. I would become known as
the man with the book No one would ask
me if I knew anything about books
An attempt to solace him seemed to do
little good. We suggested that no matter if
no one knew, he still had all the pleasure
and profit of reading.
But in this age" Templeton Jones
| grinned, what good is it what you know, If
others do not know you know it?"
After all. maybe he has something there.
Evening star., 1949-03-09

Token System Tax Advocated
To the Editor of The Star
It is noted that q 90 sales tax is being
considered for the District of Columbia.
No one should complain about this, as 1t
means that any one who can buy pays IN
proportion to what he has to spend. How
ever. one might justly complain about. the
manner of collecting the tax if the same
system is put into effect as exists in Mary
land where one pays 1c tax on any article
under Soc
In the States of Washington and Colo
RADIO, tokens valued at mill each are avail
able for use in collecting the sales tax. Thus
if one buys, for example. 20-cent article
he pays 20 cents and tokens. In Mary
land he would pay 20 cents and an addi-
tional 1c tax which means so rather
than a 90 tax-neither exact nor just.
Could not the token system be put INTO
effect in the District SO that individuals
would not have to pay more than ~ tax
on their small purchases? BETHESDAN.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Southern Senators Not Liberals

To the Editor Of The Star:
Few could disagree with the description of
the elder La Toilette which appeared in
your editorial on the f1libuster, March l..
Senator Robert Marion La Toilette was a
true liberal and one of the greatest in the
history of American politics. To place such
a man. however, in the same category with
the Southern Senators who are opposing
the change in the filibuster device and to
state that they are liberals" seems strange
misuse of the English language.
According to the oxford Dictionary the
political definition of liberal is favorable
to changes and reforms tending in the
direction of democracy" description
which hardly could be applied to those
gentlemen opposing the proposed change
Of rules in the Senate.
Whilst democracy is word which can be
interpreted in a myriad different ways, the
attitude of the Southern group hardly can
be termed Favorable to changes and re-
FORMS" It Is indeed curiously reminiscent
of that of the British House of Lords during
the 10Th century, an attitude which even
tually led to that body being deprived of its
obstructive power. No one seriously could
assert that Britain today is less democratic
country than the United States as the re-
suit of the impotence Of the House of Lords
to prevent the passage of legislation intro
duced In the House of Commons. or for that
matter. that the Scandinavian countries.
Switzerland or the Low Countries. which
do not enjoy the privilege of unlimited de-
bate in their respective upper houses. are not
genuine democracies.
To term the practice of unlimited de-
bate, Systematically abused as it has be-
come by certain group in the Senate, an
asset to American democracy, makes strange
reading. President Truman, instructing the
administration leaders to carry the cloture
fight to the finish is proposing to end a sit
uation which for years has made mockery
of our American form of democracy and
seriously jeopardized the position of the
United States in world affairs
JAMES H. WHYTE.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
For George, Who Is Twelve

Once sa1D a ta1Dn
Stop by the lou stone DaH
Beyond our la1on,
1ttentive eyes and listening ears
That panish, kno1utng all,
Pointed up,oard to the lift
OF tree and branch, of days and years,
That, like strange pollens, 'sitt
Gold into bro,Dn, secret 1ponder there.
So you ,oere bent above our book,
Your eyes filed Nth chtld-knotDing
look,
And wonder creeping eDen
70 the co,pltck in your hair.
JANE MORRISON.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

ny lhE dAShAN SEnV1CC.
O. Should eggs be packed with the small
or large end DOWN.. v. M.
A. Poultry authorities say that eggs packed
small end down arrive at their destination
with much smaller number of seconds and
lower grades than those packed with the
large end down or hit-or-miss.
O. How many basic shoe styles are there?
-C.B.T.
A. The is basic shoe styles of American
manufacturers are sandal. balmoral,
blucher, gore, jodhpur, monk. ghillie,
brogue, d'orsay, shawl tongue. mule. straps.
moccasin boot. oxford and pump. On these
all shoe fashions are based.
Q. Did Edmund HALEY, the English
astronomer, live to see the return OF his
comet?-K. NICK.
A, He did not. HALEY died on January
IA, 1742, in his 86th year; the comet which
he discovered reappeared on Christmas Day.
1883, as he had predicted.
@. How did the expression. mind your
P's and Qs." originate?-B.S S. s.
A. One of the several explanations Is that
in ale-houses in olden times, when chalk
scores were marked upon wall, or behind
the door of the taproom, it was customary
to put the initials "P" and @" at the head
of every mans account to show the number
of pints and quarts for which he was IN
arrears Another is that the abbreviations
stand for the French "pieds" (feet and
queues" (wigs) which the mobiles at the
court of Louis XIV were admonished to
mind in bowing before the king.
O. Approximately how many persons in
the United States are interested In model
railroads?-M.B B.
A. The number of model-railroad hobby
lists is estimated at 100000, according to the
Association of American Railroads. They
own and operate enough trackage to reach
from New York to San Antonio.
Evening star., 1949-03-09

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
Driter, although it is permissible for
1Driter knopn to The Star to use
non, de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Al ~Letters to The Star ! ~.*,.,..
Wants Yellow Margarine Now

Wants Yellow Margarine Now
To the Editor Of The Star:
As housewife who is sick and tired of
mixing color into margarine-in bowl. or
bags that burst-I am hopeful that Congress
will take some action that directly and
Immediately means something to the con-
sumer.
hear that the House Agriculture Com
mittee may report out a bill which repeals
the taxes on margarine but bans forever
the manufacture and sale of yellow mar
garine. In other words. the committee
will give us something with one hand and
take away more with the other. 1t will
tell us: Get back to the kitchen and mix
the margarine
There is talk Of deception in the sale of
margarine. Buncombe! I buy margarine
regularly in the grocery. There is no danger
that will be fooled, nor is there any danger
that other consumers who buy and consume
all but fraction of the margarine used
in this country will be fooled.
To Congress. say along with many house.
wives: Give us. please. something that
should cause little trouble and that I can
grasp thoroughly: The privilege of buying
yellow margarine at no extra COST"
Or am I asking something too easy, too
simple and too fair? ERMA B. MASON.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Teachers Many Duties
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
So teachers only work five hours day. eh?
What taught I would be interested to
know just how Harold j. Oliver, whose letter
appeared February 21, dreamed up this gem.
1t is quite apparent he has spent little time
around public school since childhood days
or that he knows few teachers personally
He should drop around some time near the
end of an advisory period, for instance, and
observe. He would see that only the actual
formal teaching lasts the alleged five. hours.
Perhaps the writer is unaware that =
teachers job consists of something more
than merely arriving at 8, taking the roll,
hearing few lessons, then dashlng of home
at 3. All of the following things occur after
school Officially" is ended for the day, and
for none Of them do we draw overtime: Les
son and course planning. checking Of pupils
work, attendance at various kinds of meet
ings and functions, helping with or attend
ing all of the extracurricular activities for
pupils, such as plays, dances, athletics; hours
of extra coaching in school work for pupils
who need it. maintenance of discipline, piles
Of clerical work. and so on. All of this does
not include the college courses teacher may
be taking in an effort to improve his teach
ing ability. Incidentally, teachers pay for
such courses out of their own funds and
time. Last. but by no means least for some
OF the married man teachers, there are out
side" jobs after school hours which they hold
in order to make ends meet.
Now, don't get me wrong Teachers enjoy
working with and for the youngsters at any
time If they didn't. our school system would
have more trouble getting teachers than
they do have. Only we like little appre-
citation occasionally. And we definitely don't
like statements to the effect that We have
sinecure.
Ill match my aggregate hours of work
against your correspondents any time he
wishes. Certainly. school is over for the
children at 3. But teachers often work at
school until after Government quitting time.
Or they work at home. Or both. Many
Government employees draw much larger
salaries than we, yet most Of them are all
through at 4:30-done for the day! Their
evenings and week ends are their own. Not
SO we teachers AS for the three month sum-
mer vacation, I think you'll find that it Is
for the accommodation of the pupils-not
the teachers. Our salary has to last us IL
months just the same, and there are no pay
checks in July.
Anyway. what if we only worked two hours
a day? Isn't it the importance Of the work
that counts rather than the number Of
hours you can put in? Maybe I'm wrong,
but think the education of our youth is
little more important than many of the reg
ular 8-hour-a day, 50-week-a-year jobs.
It is just such short-sighted and unin-
formed attitudes as the one held by your
correspondent that, more than anything else.
keeps teachers salaries in the same class as
unskilled workers throughout the country.
MIR. CHIPS.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Politics Above Other Considerations

Politics Above Other Considerations
To the Editor Of The Star
Again the voteless citizens of Washington
are being made the victims Of politics in
which they have no part Advocating the
appointment of Thomas P. Morgan. Jr.. as
Commissioner to replace John Russell Young
his friends and the Democratic organizations
supporting him stress foremost that he has
been a lifelong Democrat and that Mr.
Young is a Republican. although he was ap-
pointed by Democratic President, primarily
on the basis of friendship, If memory serves
me right.
Whether Mr.. Morgan is the best man for
the position seems immaterial political
debts must be paid Whether Mr.. Young
should be ousted in the best interests Of
the District also is immaterial; he is Re
publican.
Inquiries among many long active in civic
work have failed to find any among the rank
and file who have ever heard Of Mr.. Morgan.
He may have lent his name to such activities
as the Red Cross, Community Chest, etc.. as
believe one paper reported, but most busi-
nessmen do that as a matter of policy.
Maybe he has fought, too, for the little"
things that would bring him no personal
prestige. as better street lighting, better po-
lice protection, relief of traffic congestion.
adequate ScnOOlS, 1ar LdXaGlON, eCc., II SO,
we should like to know about it, for those
are the things important to the average
citizen.
Why can't Commissioners be chosen on
the basis of ability and previous record of
interest in District affairs-the best men
available, without regard to party afhliation.
or preferably with no party afdliation? We
cannot otherwise expect that they will be
more than figureheads, prominent at func-
tions where they may be given newspaper
publicity but lacking in a sense Of devotion
to duty, if I am right in believing that their
duty is the most effective administration of
District affairs.
AN INTENDED VICTIM.
Evening star., 1949-03-09
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau 316 I street NE, washington 2, D G.
Please inclose three (3) cents for return postage
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
SECRET SERVICE. MEN
PREPARE OR VISIT
OF PRESIDENT II 4 IMAM
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23

Development Squadron ONE
-(Vx-l) at Boca Chica Field.
Chief Barter and Sonarman
Peterson reside at Boca Chica.
Civilians Aid Aviafors
Two unidentified Negro evil
ians in a rowboat witnessed the
landing and furiously rowed a
mile to the scene Of the crash to
pick up th& downed aviators who
had By then been supported by
their inflated lifejackets for
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
TRUMANS
ENJOY
SHOW
SnaU NeaU MOUie.
Samson and
DeIiIah Last
Night Il, Capital

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. Up.
President and Mrs. Truman
went to the movies last night
and had a fine time at least it is
believed they did.
Newsmen couldn't be too sure.
For the movie the Humans went
to had only II seats. and radio
and newsmen had to park out
side.
The show was Samson and
Delilah." starring Hedy Lamar,
Victor Mature and George San
ders, plus a news reel featuring
CONTINUED On Page SIX
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
Cook Book In
Battle With
Harry Truman
Woman's Club Edition
Said To Be Island
City's Second Best
Publicity Medium
81 EARL 4. ADAMS

BY EARL Il. ADAMS
Tor the Key West Woman.s Club
A Cook Book VS.. President
Truman
This is nothing political. It is
about a Cook Book running sec
ond to the Nations Chief Exc
cutive as Key Vests best publ
city medium.
Since President Truman dir
covered" this sub-tropical Island
thousands Of words have been
written by the nations top flight
reporters about Key West. Most
of his publicity however, is con-
fined to the time the President
is in Key West.
Giving Key West year round
publicity is the Key West Cook
Book which was published BY
the Key West Woman's club in
I948.
If one would have turned in to
radio station WQMA a few days
ago they would no doubt have
heard Osborne Putnam Stearns,
the Food Magician" starting his
Wednesday broadcast as follows:
To-day I'm going to talk about
the only place in the United
States where the bread fruit tree
will grow, a place whose streets
CONTINUED ON Page Ski
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
ICE
KILL
Chill
ELeDen Others
Are Injured
In ReU0It
liz Panama ,it
IIl Panama fl1tgf

PANAMA, Panama. Nov. 20.
tR.-Two men are claiming they
are president Of Panama today
following wild night of rioting
in which one child died and IL
other persons were injured.
Police gunfire accounted for
the victims. The police opened
fire last night to break up a
near-revolt led by DR.. Daniel
Chants. Junior. He's the man
busted as President Sunday in a
National Police coup.
Last night he tore up his forced
Continued On Page FiveJ
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
HeIieopter Makes Emergency Landing At Sea

Two Naval officers and two en-
listed crew members escaped
with only minor injuries when
the HRP-1 twin-rotor helicopter
in which they were riding de-
veloped mechanical trouble dur
ing the return from a routine
flight and crash landed in the
water one mile south Of the Na-
vel Station at 200 b. nj, Tuesday.
The pilot, Lieutenant Com.
mander dudley S. Billet, 3740
Duck Avenue; co-pilot, Lieuten-
ant (junior gradel Arthur E. Gro
foot, 3736 Duck Avenue; and
crew members, Chief Sonarman,
Richard T. Barter, of Summer
vile, Mass, and Sonarman Sec
ond Class, Lyle N, Peterson, of
Rockford, ILL.,, are all attached to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23

about IL minutes. The enlisted
men were hoisted into the row-
boat and the two officers chung 10
its side for 10 or IS minutes until
Commander J.. p. Conway arrived
with a Navy picket boat which
had been dispatched from re
nearby Naval Station immediate.
" after the crash.
The survives were immediate
ly taken to the Naval Station dis.
pensary fnr preliminary examin-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
Women ) Division
OF Chamber OF
Commerce Formed
81 Women Members OF
Local Chamber We're
Present Al New
Organizational Meet
nizational Meet

Thirty-one women members of
the Key West Chamber Of Com
merce met secretly at a luncheon
to discuss plans for the forma-
ton of the newly organized
Women's Division Of the Cham
Der here.
Mrs, Edward Graham, head Of
the group. introduced Mrs. L. E.
Matt, president of the Women's
Division Of the Miami Chamber
Continued On Page Fourl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
Thanksgiving
Services At 10
Tomorrow

The Union Thanksgiving Ser
vices viii be held at the Fleming
Street Methodist Church at 10,
A. M. on Thursday, November
"a.
The combined choirs Of the
participating churches will sing
special music.
The new pastor Of the church.
Continued Un Page FourI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-11-23
APPRECIATION

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estsa saf saanks to All those
Na ~ass se Ind and generous
As Eeaa1s blsod daring the IN
sa - ans aewed ere. the late
H9a4E EsfIa
Ass - - wiah 70 thank all
- mha denaiad the use Of
~ cess go re lovelv floral
Ns "a aha funeral.
THE FAMILY.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-10-21
PRESIDENT ASKED TO
REJECT NEW ARMY PLAN

NEW YORK - (ANP) --Presi-
dent Truman has been asked to
override the action Of Secretary
of Defense Johnson and disapprove
the new army program because it
is Intellectual in its elimination of
segregation.
Grant Reynolds and A. Philip
Randolph, co-chairmen Of the
Committee Against Jim Crow in
Military Service and Training, in
a letter to the Chief Executive,
denounced the new army policy,
and requested that he reject 1t.
The letter said, There is no.
thing in this allegedly new Army
policy to benefit the mass Of
Negro servcemen or to forward
the aims Of your civil rights pro-
gram"
Concluding their letter, the
leaders stated a belief that the
President was morally obligated
to reject the program because it
does not live up to the terms of
his executive order.
In defense of the new army pro-
gram, a spokesman has made 1t
plain that Negroes who qualify
may be assigned to white units
under certain special circum-
stances. This is to refute the
statement made when the order
first came out that Negroes
trained in service schools would
be assigned only to Negro units
or as overhead staff.