Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-18

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the Communists stall for time. They bite and
snap at our representatives but retract quickly.
as do wolves if we seem to turn on them. They
will continue these tactics as long as necessary.
When they are certain, when they have
planned the thing through, they will attack.
And who is foolish enough not to believe that
it will be as a thief in the night only? Unlike
the Jap at Pearl Harbor, they will be armed
with the atom. And next time he who strikes
first strikes not only first but last.
Hence, Senator Wiley is not alone in his
belief. Why can't the planners and schemers
see the light?
As voice in the wilderness but still
citizen cry, Abandon the project of building
the vast, square buildings in the area selected"
1 refer especially to the new General Account
ing Office Building at Fifth and g streets
NV. and the new Judicial Building on Jul
dietary Square. To build these buildings on
the sites indicated will only compound the
traffic problem, create new eyesores and make
Washington more attractive target for future
atomic wars.
This is no un-American idea. Senator
Wiley is right as any CT who witnessed
the destruction in Europe or Japan will attest
There is nothing to be gained by Jumping
bureaucrats together They merely lose them
selves in the crowd are harder to detect, find
analyze and figure. Isolate them and far
better government will result.
JASPER NICOILY.
A Simple Plea for Five Cent Coffee
To the Editor Of The Star:
With prewar ten-cent beef sandwiches SELL
ing for four times that figure, with soups that
have lost their one-time meaty SAVIOR and sue
culence, and with pies that presume but two
feminine bites to the portion, rise, sir, orac-
uarly to declare and declaim that what our
country excruciatingly needs in this hour Of
travail is good five-cent cup Of coffee.
I maintain that nothing will 50 fully atone
for current price abortions and other social
misfeasances as the bringing back Of the ma
tutinal cup within proletarian means and its
pristine glory.
True, many of the lesser refectories still
carry five-cent price tag, but the product
bears only sinister and hypocritical resem-
blance to the genuine product In truth, it is
but proclamation and sacrilege of the august
national beverage to refer to the liquid palmed
off on us at five cents as coffee
It was Vice President Marshall who, about
IS years ago, made himself famous by pro-
claiming that what the country needed was a
good "fve-cent cigar" So sapient and states
manlike was this announcement that forth
with all problems of state lost their terror;
taxation debt, war, relief and like burdens
forsook their gravity, and all Of us quickly
found boon and balm for our disturbed seren-
ity and rufned equanimity by immersion In the
whirling and swirling cloud-wreaths Of the
aromatic, beatiflc and lulling weed.
And 50 in these equally headachy stressful
and parlous days, venture to aver that
nothing else would give US the stimulation, the
zest and the upsurge for the days beginning,
and deliver us from the enervating days
cares and alarms, as a nickel-priced, unadul-
terated and undluted cup of Mocha and Java!
Nothing less than this bit of liquid Joy will
enable us so well to catch the glean of the
mornings first BEAM" with its resulting urge
and incentive for the trek or ride workward
and the return homeward!
In no way can editors display their wonted
omniscience to greater benefit for the common
veal, and craftsmanship its high emprize
wisdom and concern for the public welfare
than by Fastening the return Of the shame
faced nickel to its ancient primacy and pre-
eminence as a quid pro quo for the mornings
first cheer.
60 further and venture the assertion that
nothing has so woefully drained life Of all its
plan and purpose and bereft labor Of its &C
customed scope and energy as the lack of this
upbuilding heart-warming and noninebriat-
ing morning refreshment
may add pontifically that with the renewal
OF the daily visits of this properly priced bey-
tn re 1,,fio,
all our vexing problems soon will be found
The poise and tranquility inherent in every
grain of the Brazilian sedative will not only
bring back lost vigor but drive communism
from its rudy lair into the abyss of futilty,
deprive Russian intransigeance and implacable-
ness Of its potency, and usher in happier
dlspensation.
BY all means then, give us back the Good
Morning Visitor, with its al-day smile that
spells efficiency and self-sufnciency, so much
so as to make even the cherubim envy US
worldlings. HERMAN FELTER
Wanted: Help for Town in France
To the Editor OF The Star:
I have hesitated very long time before
sending this letter to you, but now think it
is my duty to send 1t.
live in town Of nearly 1000 inhabitants
called Bernieres- n-the-Sea in the Department
of Calvados. It was in this township that at
dawn on June s, 1914, the first Allied soldiers
landed to form the first bridgehead to the
southeast of Caen.
Bernieres-on- the-Sea was greatly tried by
this landing and by the German occupation; .
large amount of property was destroyed and
an even greater amount greatly damaged.
More than IS per cent of the community's
property was affected.
In particular, our church, an historic monu-
ment and one Of the most beautiful Of the
country around Caen, was greatly injured.
The first repairs for restoring this building,
certain parts Of which date back to the 18th
and 18th centuries, have been begun, but no
one knows when all the repairs can be finished.
The other part the school Of girls, which
included two classes, has been totally destroyed.