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Evening star., 1950-05-21
Size of the Gambling Problem

Congressional committees investigating
crime in general and gambling in particular
should be interested in the latest findings of the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science. The academy has published in it's
official organ the results of an exhaustive study
OF gambling and its relation to organized crime.
OF special pertinence to pending legislative
inquiries is the research organizations conclusion
that "big-time gambling cannot operate without
political or police protection"
When this charge is weighed in relation to
the academys estimate of $12 billion annual
take" by bookmakers, slot machines and num-
bers operators in this country the size of the
enforcement problem becomes apparent. How
much of this income finds its way into the
pockets OF political or police protectors of the
racketeers cannot even be guessed. But 1t is
obvious that professional gambling could not be
so widespread and so prosperous for its promoters
II there were vigorous enforcement of State,
county and municipal laws against gambling
And there would be better enforcement if the
public demanded it.
The report asserted that organized gambling
els facilitated by channels of communication
which are necessary to carry on legitimate
business" and that elimination of wire services
to bookmakers would reduce race gambling from
"a major national racket to a petty local nui
sance." There is nothing new, of course in this
discovery 1t was this reliance by gamblers on
communications that prompted the Department
of Justice to sponsor bill to outlaw transmission
of information useful to bookmakers. But there
would be no requests for such legislation if State
county and city police were sincerely determined
to crack down on gamblers. Local authorities
already have an effective weapon for use in such
a war, if they were disposed to use it. 1t is a
Federal Communications Commission regulation
requiring telephone and telegraph companies to
deny line service to any subscriber designated
by police or other law enforcement agencies as
making illegal use of the facilities.
If local authorities employed all the legal
weapons now at their disposal for anti-gambing
warfare, there would be no $12 billion gambling
rakeioff, no need for congressional Investigations
and little demand for extension of Federal con-
troll into field properly reserved for local law
enforcement.
Evening star., 1950-05-21
Communism in Chino

There still are people in this country
people who should know better-who
cannot or will not recognize the origin
and present trend of events in China.
There is still confusion of cause and
effect in the Chinese tragedy, and OF
the tags and labels which should be
applied to the players. For all the les
sons of the past, there are still proml-
nent Americans who talk about what
is happening in China in terms Of
social revolution" and "agrarian re-
form
We should know by now that this is
nonsense. The record of the Russians
in the UN, on the Chinese issue. is
enough by itself to make it clear that
Russia, not China's social and national
ASPIRATIONS, is the instigator of chaos
and bloodshed in the Far East.
Any one who carefully examines the
doctrines held by the Chinese Commu-
nists, studies their tactics, observes the
changes of their party line in relation to
those of the Soviet Union and, particu-
larly, scrutinizes their unabridged proc
lamations to the Chinese people, will
find that. they are completely Marxlst
and consequently Communist, regardless
of whether or not they are formally
affiliated with the U. S. S. r.
There is nothing new about the fact
that the majority of Chinese cannot ex-
pound -intelligently on Carl Marx S
"Dialectic Materialism" But they cer-
tainly can recognize its ugly manifesto
tions OF these they have had ample
personal experience They would be the
last to say that all their bloodshed is
merely evidence of social revolution. y
1t is appalling that we will not see that
any one who finds the aims of commu-
nism attractive, appreciates the meaning
and appeal of class struggle, makes gods
of Lenin and Stain, and so on, can be
readily transformed into militant Com
munist. whether he is one of the intelll-
gentsia or not.
In the initial stages of every Com
munist development, something must be
found to oppose. Capitalism and religion
are the targets usually selected in the
light of prevailing circumstances. In
China, however, there is no capitalism
in the Western sense of the term; most
Chinese are either poor or middle class
people. Confucianism is not religion.
Buddhism is dead Professionalism is an
Indifferent point of attack, and Cathol-
icism is a minority. So the farmer be-
comes the villain.
Wherever the Communist army pene-
Evening star., 1950-05-21

and presidential e1ector. He died in
1929. His nephew, Maj. Gen. U. S.
Grant III, long executive officer of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, married Edith, daughter
of the same Secretary Root upon whom
U. S. Grant, jr., called on May %, 1900
&
The Star on May a. 1900 announced
that charter had been issued at Albany,
N. Y, the pre-
New Associated Press vious day pro-
Incornoroted viding for the in
corporation of a
news-gatfering organization to be called
"the Associated Press Listed as spon-
sors of the new enterprise were: Stephen
OMeara. Boston Journal; Adolph S.
Ochs, New York Times: st. Clair Nc
Kelway, Brooklyn Eagle; William L.
MCLEAN. Philadelphia Bulletin: Frank
B. Noyes, Washington Star A. H. Belo.
Dallas News and Galveston News. THE
membership of the corporation" it was
set forth, sis to consist of and be limited
to the proprietors of newspapers. 1t is
to be purely mutual and cooperative, to
make no profits and to declare no divi-
dends. Thus began the AP of today, an
outgrowth and expansion Of the now
distant past.
"The United States Government" an
nounced The Star for May 25, 1900. has
taken hand in the sup
Boxer Trouble preston of the Boxers,
Coming Up the famous Chinese Sc
cret society which is en-
gagged in the massacre of native Chris
tians in China, and to which are at
tributed numberless outrages upon
foreign missionaries. United States
Minister Conger has been instructed by
the State Department to inform the
Chinese government that the Govern
ment of the United States expects it to
promptly and thoroughly stamp out that
Evening star., 1950-05-21
Criticism and Segregation
Citizen.

Last evening, having been invited by
two friends to go with them to see the
play "On Approval" at the Shirlington
Theater, I read Jay Carmody's review
in your paper. I was puzzled by the
lengths to which he went in saying he
did not like the play There was
strange tone--almost one might say
malicious tone.
When my friends and found the "On
Approval really delightful entertain
ment and when a very good audience
called Mr.. Horton back for four curtain
calls, felt even more puzzled.
But when we left the theater, and
saw the kind of audience it was, light
began to dawn on me. To please drama
critics. nowadays, an audience must OF
course be completely segregated
The Shirlington audience. in Virginia, is
still segregated. And I observed that 1t
was not only racially segregated but was
drawn from a well-bred, quiet, and
courteous part of the population. I
strongly suspect that the people we saw
belonged to the one minority which 1t
is righteous to hate-namely, the Anglo
Saxon minority.
When Edward Everett Horton played
at local summer theaters which are not
segregated, he was uproariously funny.
But when he plays before a group Of
people who ask only to be allowed to
stay by themselves and enjoy themselves
innocently, then he rates scathing re-
view.
UnrecOnstructed.
Editors Note: Mr.. Carmody says:
II have never reviewed a play on the
basis Of whether the audience was seq
regated, non-segregated, liberal. con-
servative or wore Harry Byrd buttons.
Can the author of this letter say he
attends them in the same untram-
meled spirit?')
Evening star., 1950-05-21
Spires of the Spirit
Are You an American?
Spires OF the Spirit

This is a day for the examination Of
your American passport. Let us see 1t.
please. But who has a right to so
precious a credential? What Is an
American?
An American is not just one whose
forebears came to these shores at any
definite time and on any particular YES
sci: not one who happened to be Graded
among New Englands tempted hills and
white steeples; not one tracing ancestry
back to the 13 Colonies which, defy
ing the unjust exactions of the British
crown, forged their freedom; not just
one who halls from some great State
carved out of the expanding West. with
its towering peaks and sweeping prairies,
or one who was nurtured amid Dixie's
gentle and gracious culture, scented with
shores on whose mighty sea Balboa first
in wonder gazed.
America Is a thing not of the earth,
but of the heart. 1t is a way Of thinking
and a way of acting. 1t is not bounded
by oceans, rivers or degrees of latitude.
but by principles, ideas and attitudes
more precious than life itself. America,
sweet land of liberty, is an unbarred
thoroughfare for freedom. 1t is Stalr-
way of opportunity open from the first
step to the top. 1t is a classless society
whose aristocracy is based not on pedes-
tails, but on personality, not on birth,
but on worth, not on who you are, but
on what you are. America is the good
natured vehemence of an argument out
side an election booth: it is the righteous
anger of the pulpit: it is the rush of a
train over the continent and the un-
afraid faces of people looking out the
window; it is the absence of apprehension
at the sound of approaching footsteps
outside your door,"
In the humbling assertion. II am an
American" is stored power greater
than the atom bomb, treasure beyond
the price of gold or rubies challenge
which makes tyranny tremble, voice so
potent that, at last, it will leap every
fence. topple every wall, pierce every cur
tain with the emancipating message of a
liberty which desires nothing for itself
that it does not passionately covet for all
the earth. The voice of true Ameri-
Evening star., 1950-05-21
Fifty Years Ago in The Star =.

society, and to provide proper guaran-
tees for the maintenance of peace and
order and the protection of the life
and property of Americans in China. all
threatened by the operations Of the
Boxers. There is no indication in the
instructions as to the course that will be
pursued by the United States in case the
Chinese government ignores or fails to
observe the warning conveyed in this
communication. The situation in China
was much more serious than appears
to have been realized in Washington
"A concerted movement" of Boxers upon
Peking was starting. In effect an insur-
rection was in progress. Foreign troops,
including American, soon were to inter-
yene.
At the climax Of dedication services at
the National Cathedral School for Girls
at Mount st. AL
NotionoI Cathedral bans, May "a, 1900,
School Dedication as reported in The
Star Of the next
day. Lois Adelaide Bangs. principal.
presented to the trustees an immense
American fag-"the largest, she said.
that could be bought" had been
provided by girls of a school in New York
over which she formerly had been the
chief authority. The Right Rev. Henry
Yates Satterlee. first Bishop Of Wash
ington, called attention to the fact that
the dedication was taking place on the
birthday Of Queen Victoria and asked
Lord Pauncefote, British minister. to
convey to her majesty the congratula-
tions of the audience. Celebration of
the golden anniversary of the school
has been in progress since last January
and viii center in a series of events
planned for the period beginning June
and closing June 6. Many alumnae
are returning for the occasion. The
school has more than l,500 living gradu-
ates. A
Evening star., 1950-05-21
Stund Alone
By Bruce Berton

The other night attended q lecture
by famous scholar who should have
drawn full house The hall was more
than half empty. People looked around
at each other self-consciously: 1t was
easy to read their thoughts-"How dis
appointing! We understood this was
to be something good. But such a small
audience! We must have made q mis-
take"
The same psychology Of self-doubt Is
at work in our political life. Insid-
iously. we are drifting toward one party
government. After each election you
hear more people say: I'm tired Of
never voting for a winner. Everything
used to think was true. politically and
economically, seems to be labeled old
fashioned The majority against me is
too great. I must be wrong; they must
be right"
To this defeatist thinking I say: Dis
trust majorities. Have faith in your own
mental processes. In many Of the most
tragic crises of history the majority has
not been right.
A majority crucified Jesus. A ma
jority backed Napoleon in the wars that
bled France white Hitler had huge ma
jorities; so did Mussolini.
In every war truth Is the first casualty.
Government propaganda concentrates It's
gunfire on independent thinking. And
after the war the forces Of propaganda
are not demobilized The party line"
of thought control in respect to Amer.
ica's foreign policy, for example. is fear
fully powerful today, and sometimes
shockingly intolerent.
It would be good for the United States
II every citizen who wants to do his Own
thinking. but Is finding the odds against
him almost too much, would spend some
time with Henry Thoreau and Ralph
Waldo Emerson. ..
Emerson said: "It is easy in the world
to live after the worlds opinion; 1t Is
easy in solitude to live after our own:
but the great man is he who. in the
midst Of the crowd. keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude" !"
And Thoreau: IF a man does not keep
pace with his companions perhaps 1t Is
because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step TO the music which he
hears, however measured or far away"
tcoDyrishh 1850. King Features Syndicate 1as1
Evening star., 1950-05-21
| letters to The Star

trates, farmers in that locality who
happen to own a few acres Of land
large family groups that till and Craze
their holdings, sharing their real prop
erty-not only must leave their belong
ings for the Communists to- steal and
ship to Russia; they also must flee for
their lives. From Shantung to Kwan-
tung province, this has been the prac-
tice for over ten years. This knowledge
comes from those just escaped to this
country and from those now expert
encing first hand, the terroristic sad
istic practices of the Communists:
Chinese enslaved in work battalions:
families torn apart: children taken to
indoctrination camps; women forced to
labor at killing pace in the fields and
factories-and the men, through fear
of reprisals dragooned into the army
as expendables, where they must spear
head attacks upon their own govern
nent and those of their people who
still fight to remain free from Soviet
domination.
In the field of education and in busi-
ness, the use of the English language
is prohibited. In Shanghai it is now
mandatory to transact all business, for
eign or domestic, through the use of
the Chinese language. And, to make
sure we get their point. all Western
accounting systems are to be abolished
To forestal possible detection in their
own ranks, all Communists who are
suspected of harboring pro-nationalist
tendencies are being purged, exactly as
in the Soviet Union.
Such veritable avalanche of evidence
everywhere should suffice to prove how
grossly wrong it is to think of what is
happening in China as anything but
the out-and-out Communist power-play
that it really is.
Harold j. Thompson. 9
Evening star., 1950-05-21

Commenting editorially on the visit
of the representatives of the Boer re-
publics to President Nc
No Kinley and Secretary Of
Mediation State John Hay, The Star
on May %, 1900, said:
"The United States has done all in it's
power to stop the war by already, at the
invitation of President Kruger. offering
it's good Offices as mediator. which have
been declined by England. /. The
United States has no call to serve as the
universal peacemaker even between
empires and republics. When, however,
it may feel summoned to fill that oner-
Gus part in the worlds economy it should
proceed well in advance, unless it de-
sires to become ridiculous before all ma
tions, to multiply its military and naval
forces by 10 or 20, or even so. pre-
pare to buckle on the sword perma-
nently and leave the pursuits of peace
for the field of action and bid farewell
forever to the blessings of prosperity and
progress"
A single paragraph in The Star of
May %, 1900, explained that: "Mr. .. s.
Grant of California,
Mr.. u. S. Grant son of Gen. Grant.
In Town called on s cretary
Root at the War De-
partment today. He wears a full beard
and resembles strikingly the portraits of
his father at the close of the Civil War
The likeness is accentuated by the fact
that he generally has a cigar between
his lips. reference. it seems. was to
the civilian u S. Grant, jr., lawyer,
second son of Gen. and President
U. S. Grant and his wife. Julia Dent.
He was born at Bethel, Ohio. in 1852,
was educated at Harvard fand Columbia
served as his fathers private secretary
in the final 18 months of his administra-
ton, afterward practiced at the bar In
San Diego and was Republican delegate
Evening star., 1950-05-21
By Frederick Brown Harris
Pastor, Foundry Methodist Church. Chaplafn.
United States Senate

important minority any rights except in
democracies But minorities need 10 be
reminded that the majority also has IN
violable rights to be guarded.
Thomas Mann, an American though
not born in America. has coined tine
best definition of America that We know:
Democracy is the political name for
the spiritual ideals that Christianity
brought into the world" One thing that
is being discerned now, clearly, in the
tumult and shouting OF the present
attacks on democracy. is the indispensa-
billty OF the Christian faith in its pres
ervation. It is no accident that where
ever democracy is being attacked in the
world, plans are simultaneously made for
the elimination of Christian institutions.
Why? Because even the mad masters
of the Kremlin know that these two
things grow from the same roots: they
stand or fall together.
History fairly shouts that. in the long
run. without character there can be no
democracy. and that when character is
subtracted from democracy there fol-
lows as the night the day, demagoguery.
deSpotiSm and decay.
Somebody said. we can inherit church
buildings that our fathers erected: but
the disposition to sit in them. that IS
something else. The spiritual splendor
of democracy cannot be handed down.
With every generation. 1t must be re-
born, relived. reinterpreted That vital
process is illustrated in a foreign-born
American who. standing at his work
bench proudly producing his cre-
dentials of Americanism pure and un-
defiled to a fellow workman. who was
being poisoned by subersive propaganda.
with burning emphasis declared his
Il am an American" faith. Edgar Guest
puts his reply in verse:
I've had enough of this foreign stuff;
I'm sick as man can be
OF the speech of hate: and I'm tellin'
you straight that this is the land
for me.
I can't just say what I feel today, for
I'm not talking man:
But first an last. am standing fast for
all that's American.
So don't you speak of the Soviets-1ts
sick of that stuff I am
One God one Flag. is the creed brag!
I'm boostin' for Uncle Sam!"
Evening star., 1950-05-21
Who Pays for 1t?
Harold j. Thompson.

Did President Truman make mon
political tour to report to the people?
If so, what did he report? The facts
seem to prove his tour was political, and
that brings up an important point: Who
pays the expenses? Such expenses should
certainly not, in plain honesty, be paid
out of the taxpayers money.
If Mr.. Truman had something to re-
port--if he honestly felt the need to talk
to the people-he could have done so by
the most effective means of reaching
millions Of the people, the radio.
A report to the people delivered with
clarity and sincerity, completely devoid
of political bias, would have created un-
Evening star., 1950-05-21

told favorable reaction. Mr.. Truman
would have been credited at least with
noble purpose and honest effort. The ex-
pense involved and who should pay it,
could not have been questioned.
While the amount of expense involved
in the Presidents tour may be trivial
and unimportant, the principle involved
is highly important. If such an expense
is charged against taxpayers funds it
will prove again Mr.. Truman's complete
disregard for sound and honest spend
ing and will be perfectly in keeping with
the administration fallacious principle
of promise and spend"
Citizen,
Evening star., 1950-05-21
For q Fair Heorinq

The Kefauver interstate crime committee
has adopted set of rules and a statement of
policy which should prevent the smearing of
innocent people.
The statement of policy, while it cannot be
applied inflexiby in all cases, provides that Sin
those cases inAwhich public testimony Is given
Evening star., 1950-05-21

A pSeudonyn is permissible only
uhen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Uriter. Please be briet.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-06-22
State Has Fine Book
On Maryland Caves

A seventy-page book, describing
various caves in the state, has been
published by the Maryland Depart
ment of Geology, Mines and Water
Resources, that presents an account
of all the known caves in the state.
The report consists of two parts.
The first part discusses the geologic
and other scientific features of caves
and the significance of the geology
of Maryland in the development of
Maryland caves. The second part
describes the Maryland caves.
The explorations of Maryland
caves were carried out under the
leadership of William E. Davies of
the National Sociological Society
Speleology is that branch of science
which deals with caves.
The booklet calls the Crystal Grot-
toes, near Boonsboro, cave of "un-
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-06-22
"Y" County
Softball League
Standings

Sundays Results
Cali Double Headers)
Pinesburg City Service 5, 5; West
End 3, 2.
Charlton 7, 8; Friendly Market 3, H.
Dargan 3, II; Phillips Grocery 7, 8
Alpine Beavers 8, 10; st. Marks
7, 3.
Harrystown 8, 8; Fairview l, 8.
Schedule, Sunday, June IS
Cali Double-Headers)
Friendly Market VS.. West End al
Pangborn Park.
Charlton Cardinals VS.. Alpine Beav-
ers at Charlton.
Pinesburg City Service VS.. Fair
view Giants at Pinesburg.
ST. Marks Lions VS.. Dargan Aces al
Lappans.
Harrystown Turtles VS.. Phillips
Grocery at Harrystown.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-06-22
Safety Parade To Be
Held Here Tonight

A big community safety parade
will be held tonight, followed by a
one-hour program at the Hagerstown
High School auditorium.
The parade will form at Prospect
and Washington Streets and will get
started at 7 o'clock. 1t will travel
down Washington Street to Locust
after passing the judges stand in the
square. The parade will then &c
north on Locust Street to Playground
Avenue, where it will make a left
hand turn to Potomac Avenue, from
where it will proceed out to the
High School.
The program at the High School
auditorium will include the awarding
Of prizes for the best bands, drum
corps, decorated bicycles and chill
dren's wagon floats in the parade
and this will be followed by three
movie shorts-"The Safety Patrol,
"a Plan for Safety" and Behind the
Wheel"
In addition, w. Lee Elgin, former
commissioner of motor vehicles, will
give a short talk on Bicycle Safety, ,
Police commissioner M. E. Ellingel
will talk on "Traffic Safety" and
county agent Mark Miller will dis
cuss Farm Safety"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-06-22

A1IO AoSoO1 oOOWII IIIOIO IICdSUG II-
ceived fine write-up in the ma
tional bulletin of the organization
recently. The article stated that the
Hagerstown League might well be
the model Little League community
of the nation. The story gave full
publicity to the fine work being
done by the officials of the Little
League, particular mention being
made of the new Ladies' Auxiliary