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Evening star., 1950-12-01
Mr.. Trumon's S Helpers

There are those who think that the Presi-
dent should pay more attention to advice from
the Senate in time of great national crisis like
the present. So for whatever they may be worth,
The Star has culled from the news columns the
following offerings of senatorial opinion:
Senator Connally, who is too old hand to
venture out on limbs that may be sawed off,
thinks that the Security Council should be called
upon to take Inappropriate action" to bring about
a quick showdown in Korea. Senator O'Mahoney
would serve the Russians with an ultimatum to
get the Chinese troops out of Korea.
Senators Brewster and Bridges believe that
General Macarthur should be given full authority
to use the atom bomb if he thinks it is necessary
Senator Cain says the Senate should demand that
General Macarthur be given authority TO send
troops (he didn't say what troops and planes
across the Manchurian border. Senator Ferguson
urges that the United Nations give General
Macarthur authority to wage all-out war, and
Senator Smith believes Chang Kai-shek's troops
should be thrown into the fight.
The chances are that the President will not
find these suggestions very helpful. 1t might be
simpler for him, though the result would be
somewhat chaotic, if he could adopt all of them
and then wash his hands of the whole business
But as President he cannot escape responsibility
for the consequences of his judgments The fate
of the civilized world may well hang on the
soundness of the decisions which Harry Truman
will have to make, and, in the last analysis, he
will have to make them alone, in consultation
with his God and his heart and his conscience.
He will have the sympathy and support of all
thinking people, but there will be none to envy
him.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
Anti-FIuoride

see in The Star that plans to use
f1uoride in the District of Columbia water
system have been discussed by Public
Health Director Daniel L. Seckinger and
officials of the Water Department. All
the officials stressed that f1uoride is
especially good for children's teeth as
we'll as adults in the prevention of decay.
Personally my reaction to the use of
sodium huoride is against it, and ap-
parently there are many others not in
favor of it's use. 1t is generally used as
an insecticide to kill reaches, and comes
colored standard Nile blue as designated
by laws of certain States and cities to
avoid being mistaken for food product
Instead of using chemical like this
to any extent. believe it is safer to
Evening star., 1950-12-01
Censoring Statistics

In directing that Federal statistical infor-
nation be subjected henceforth to a system of
surveillance" in the Budget Bureau, President
Truman has taken sensible precautionary
step in the interests of national security. The
objective he has in mind is to withhold from
general publication any data-such as figures
directly or indirectly related to vital military
production-that might be of value to enemy
agents.
The projected surveillance" system-a
limited form of censorship considerably less
sweeping than the type applied to the statistical
field by President Roosevelt in 1942-is to be
directed by Frederick j. Lawton, director of the
Budget Bureau, in cooperation with the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Defense and State
Departments Mr.. Lawton is the logical man for
the job because his organization serves as the
clearing house and co-ordinator of great part
of the Governments statistical studies and
surveys.
Such studies and surveys are constantly
being made and most of them can be published
with safety. In these days Of international ten
sion and crisis, however, certain pieces of in
formation-taken either by themselves or in
combination with other data-can be of real aid
and comfort to the forces now plotting against
us. It is that kind of material that the Budget
Bureau is to withhold from publcation-but
not from authorized Government personnel
II consultations with the CIA or the Defense and
State Departments indicate that it should be kept
under wraps for security reasons.
In the Soviet Union and elsewhere behind
the Iron Curtain, statistical information is one
of the most closely guarded of all secrets. BY
way of contrast, with very few exceptions, the
United States has been releasing the same sort
Of information in vast volume for the whole
world to see. It will do us no harm if now we
become bit less helpful in that respect to
people who would like nothing better than to
undo us.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
Stop, Look and Listen

The active support being given by nearby
Virginia communities to the proposal for a Joint
study Of regional sanitation problems indicates
wise determination to "stop, look and listen"
before going too far with independent, unco-
ordinated sewage treatment plans. Such study
could do no harm. It might avert costly mis-
takes that would be hard to correct in later
years.
Particularly welcome is the leadership in
the movement taken by the Northern Virginia
Regional Planning and Economic Development
Commission This recently created group is
composed of representatives of the various plan
ming agencies in Arlington and Fairfax Counties
and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church.
The commission has made special plea to the
Fairfax Board of Supervisors to approve the Joint
inquiry at its meeting next Tuesday. Fairfax
County is the only community in the nearby
Virginia area which has not officially indorsed
the study plan. But Fairfax was an early pro-
ponent of Joint sewage disposal and treatment.
Although the county's efforts to interest other
Jurisdictions in joint sanitation system failed
when first proposed, the plan as revived in
broader scope now has attracted intense interest
in Arlington County, Falls Church and Alexan-
dria. All of these communities have approved
the plan for a general study to determine the
feasibility of establishing a regional authority
to handle water and sewage systems in the area.
1t is true, as member of the Fairfax Board
Of Supervisors reminded the Northern Virginia
Commission, that Fairfax has f1oated a bond
issue for sewage disposal in one drainage area.
Arlington, too, has voted to issue bonds for an
addition to it's present sewage treatment plant,
and Alexandria is moving to hold referendum
on bond issue for its first treatment facilities.
But none of these programs has progressed so
far that reconsideration of present plans could
1ntN ha a
include not only the possibility of combining
facilities but of piping Virginia sewage under
the Potomac River to the Districts treatment
plant. The prospect of substantial savings for
the counties and cities affected should be enough
to Justify thorough investigation before any
thing else is done toward carrying out present
independent plans.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
For q Cleaner City
]. Wilbur Potherby.

In your weekly "Civic Problems"
column Of November IL. brief report
is made of the gigantic task" the
Sanitation Division performs in street
and alley cleaning. Your figures, in
yardage of streets cleaned and in cubic
yardage Of sweepings removed annually,
are indeed commendable. However, be-
tween Sweepings, trash of one kind or
another is usually in evidence, at inter-
walls, on the majority of our streets.
It may be assumed that there is little
or no willful littering of our streets and
sidewalks. and that violations of police
regulations are due generally to thought
lessness and ignorance of the law. Prob
ably very few householders have read
the police regulation which states:
Trash, such as paper, bottles, tin cans,
ETC., must not be permitted to blow or
fall on public space" and that "any one
violating this regulation shall, on con-
viction, be punished by a fine of not
more than $780,"
In his neighborhood, the writer has
observed that on certain blocks paper
litter appears regularly, at or about the
same spots, every windy day. Such viola
tions usually occur because papers are
thrown into open containers, are not
weighted down. and are promptly scat
tered by the wind.
In order that the law may be more
widely known and that cooperation in
outdoor cleanliness may be encouraged.
it is urged that the police be instructed
to give more attention to unlawful trash
accumulation, and that, wherever litter
is seen to be recurrent, the police shall
inform neighboring householders of the
police regulations, while pointing out
the violations at their doors. Such action
could be taken by the policeman while
patrolling his beat and would not seri-
ously interfere with his other duties.
The above suggestion is indeed mild COM
pared to measures for clean streets taken
by other cities.
F. I'll. Brooke.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
How Red China Came to Lake Success

was opposed by group of Latin Ameri-
can delegations. Chile tried to have the
invitation so framed. at least, that the
Red Chinese representatives could an
swer questions before the committee but
not make speeches. This proposal got
nowhere. The committee even turned
down a proposal that it put itself on
record with the statement that the in
vitation to the Chinese Communists "in
no way prejudices the question under
discussion"
The general feeling seemed to be that
since no one knew what China really
wanted to accomplish at Lake Success
and since her intentions in Korea were
not so clear then as they seem now-the
important thing was simply to get the
Red Chinese to sit down and talk. The
technical phrasing Of the agenda didn't
much matter. Even if nothing could be
done with Macs men in formal confer
ences, at least two delegations, Britain
and India, thought they might get
somewhere in private talks with the
Chinese Communists.
Speculation on possible deal settled
on proposal that buffer zone, in
cluding the North Korean hydro electric
plants which feed power to Manchuria.
might be set up along the Korea China
border. conditional on Macs pulling his
troops out of Korea.
And so it was, in this atmosphere of
anxious hope. that the stage was set
for Gen. WI to speak his piece When
the Chinese Communists arrived, Rus
sia's Jacob Malik proposed that the
political committee postpone its discus
sion of the Red charge until whole
new delegation could be sent over from
Peiping, since Gen. Wu's group was ac-
credited only to the Security Council
to talk about Formosa. But Mao cabled
credentials for Gen. WI and party to
the political committee, and everybody
agreed these were acceptable
The rest is this weeks headlines. On
Monday. the news of Red China's Ko-
rean offensive broke, and the delegation
from Peiping appeared in the political
committee in time to hear Russia's Mr.
vlshlnsky blast America as an aggressor
IN Formosa. The Security Council
agreed to hear the Korean and For
mosan questions together. This meant
that the whole question of Korea was
opened up. which was what Mao had
wanted in the first place.
And on Tuesday, in the Security
Council the great debate took place
Ambassador Austin accused Communist
China OF open and notorious aggres-
sion" In Korea. And Gen. WI. in his
reply. refused even to discuss this
charge. Instead, he accused the United
States Of the same thing.
1t was as If he had never heard of
the q. ~, to which he was speaking
Or that American soldiers were in
Korea as the soldiers of the world or
ganization.
1t was hard speech. vitriolic, vicious
ly false. 1t seemed to crush like pile
driver the last, smallest wishful hope
that Red China had come to Lake Sue
cess to seek way out of war.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
letters to The Star

stick to a best-quality bristle toothbrush
and use one of the excellent tooth pow
ders or pastes obtainable at reputable
drugstores, and to be a faithful scrubber
every day. especially after meals and at
bedtime always. It is wonderful to feel
you are in the safe zone.
The chlorinated drinking water we
now are using, by the way. does not
agree with all delicate stomaehs, and
many people are switching to the use
of pure spring water for relief.
Ell R.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
Undertaken Ads

the undertaken ads found on all our
streetcars and buses. Why should i'm
pressionable youngsters, riding to and
from school. be subjected to the visual
hawkings of obituary hucksters, who
offer to dig grave for $50 and to bury
the passenger for a slightly higher fee?
Can't our children be spared the in
delicacy of having to stare at an open
casket. flanked by two somber-faced
morticians looking for new business
at least during the holiday season?
Eli Appelbaum.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Q. Who invented the film that is used
In making motion pictures?-E. B. j.
A. This flexible film was invented by
minister, the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin,
in 1887 in the attic of the rectory of
the House of Prayer in Newark, N. j.
Evening star., 1950-12-01
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
q TACT by g5itins The Evening Star Information
.. e. Please enclose three t3) cents for return
postage.
Evening star., 1950-12-01

troits, whose hysteria Is driving us into
government of paid informers per-
jurers and malcontents. am an Amer
ican before am Southerner, and I
believe we are sufficiently intelligent and
strong not to have our public or private
lives regulated by crackpots from the
lunatic fringe of politics.
j. Wilbur Potherby.
Evening star., 1950-12-01

@. What use is now being made Of
SAINT Angelo in Rome?-F. C. N.
A. SAINT Angelo is now a museum.
Originally, tbis great structure was a
mausoleum. In the fifth century it be-
came fortress. Later it was barracks,
Evening star., 1950-12-01

Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carru
7or1ters' correct names and addresses.
AU letters subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1950-12-01

@. Who was the subject of Gilbert
Stuart's first full-length portrait?-
B. N. T.
A. 1t is thought that "The Skater"
was Stuart's first commissioned full
length portrait. The subject was Mr..
Grant of Congalton. The painting is
now in the Mellon collection at the
National Gallery.
@. What Roman Emperor likened life
to the flight of butterfly?-E. H.
A. This simile was coined by the
Emperor Hadrian.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-04-14

pid Transit company held "Best
Looking Back Yards" Contests
and Chicago, which has never had
the reputation for being too clean
a city, had a much cleaner front
and back yard.
But since the war, this spirit of
civic pride has dwindled and died.
This is more noticeable in the Ne
gro Community because of the
fact that there are more people
packed into it per square mile
than in the average white COM
munity. The streets are filthy.
The houses are r~amshackle. There
is no longera demarcationbetween
good neighborhoods and depreciat
ed areas
The community and the city
have grown so big and fast that
they are unmanageable, expen-
sive and difficult to run. Many of
the men who are in public offices
of responsibility are there not be-
cause they are qualified to handle
these jobs but because they are
being rewarded for their facility
| of getting votes. If this is true of
the city in general, then it is
doubly true about the Southside
Black Belt.
Surely visitors tothe city observ-
ing all ofthis squalor and apparent
indifference and lact of communi-
ty pride onthe part of the inhab-
itants of Bonneville, if they were
not p%rejudiced toward Negro
people on arriving would surely
be after they left.
I am not trying to lay the blame
Continued on page three)
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-04-14
University May
Admit Negroes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. CAMP
Negroes may attend the University
of Louisville both at a graduate
and undergraduate level if an in
depreciation ofthe Kentucky's new
amended law by the university's
law dean is approved by the board
of directors.
The schools board will meet
April 10 to discuss whether Ne
groes will be admitted and if ad-
mitted, to what schools.
AS understood by Dean A. c.
Russell of the law school, the day
law permits white universities to
admit Negroes if they choose when
IAN equal, complete, and accredit-
ed course is not available at the
Kentucky State college for Ne
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-04-14

airy education compared to ~ ma
jors offered by the University of
Louisville. According to Russell's
thinking, Negro students could
study the % majors not offered
at Kentucky State.
DR.. John w. Taylor, president
of the university, said that this
CONTINUED on page 81
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-04-14

groes Dean Russell said this meant
that Negroes could study any
major not offered at Kentucky
State at a white school.
For example Kentucky State Of
fers a B. A. four courses, history
and government, sociology and
economics, English, and element
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-04-14
Progressive Chicago's Southside
Longs For A Good Race Washing

CHICAGO (ANP)- Chicago's
Southside is a typical Negro COM
munity. All that is said here in
relation to the Black Belt, that
six mile section of teaming hui
manity along Chicago's lakefront
is directly applicable to any Ne
gro community anywhere in the
United States.
Chicago's Bonneville boasts OF
having some of the largest
churches in the country, more and
bigger Negro owned businesses,
the home of "the worlds great
est weekly, it prides it's self on
having the largest number of pri-
vately owned Negro homes. This
is all fine and something indeed
to be proud about but on the
other hand. Chicago's Bonneville
is a community of contrasts.
1t is festered with some ofthe
country's worst slum areas, some
of the most blighted and deterio-
rated property and the largest
number of dives, joints, and store
front churches. Take a walk down
State street or any street for that
matter. You will find human
being living in the most appalling
squalor, numerous st%orefront
churches tothe block interspersed
with taverns, beer joints and liq-
uor lounges barbecue joints,
chicken shacks and sandwich huts
and cheap restaurants few of
which would pass health inspection
laws.
Years ago, drug stores were
usually found at the corners or
intersections. But today, a drug
store on a corner is a ace sight.
On several streets in Chicago's
southside all four corners of an
intersection are habited by a liq-
uor store or a bar. Aand even the
drug stores which you have to
walk several blocks to find have
added to their stock, a supply OF
wines liquors and beers to keep
up with the competition.
And it is a noticeable fact that
neither the business men or the
home owners seems to take much
interest or civic pride in keeping
their establishments or property
clean and respectable looking
What has happened to the civic
pride of our war years? In those
days the community was much
cleaner. Victory gardens once
grew where today vacant lots
reek with piles of garbage and re
fuse. Alleys which were secured
for scrap and salvage materials
were kept fairly clean. Block or
CARNATIONS cleaned up severa
places where the names of those
at war were posted. Organization
such as the Urban league hello
Block Beautiful contests. The Ra
Evening star., 1950-10-22

Marshall Lambert, curator of the museum, with
specimen gradually being Clipped out Of its stone
It moved into the high school basement before
unless the wo we're torn down.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-10-15

The American Tractor Corp. announces
ITS new Model GT-25 Terratrac crawler
tractor. Powered by 4-cYlinder Con-
tinental Red Seal engine. it provides
over 20 drawbar horsepower and IS
belt horsepower. II has 20 inches crop
clearance and track gauges to fiji all
row crops.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-10-15

The Knoedler crop-drier is a weather
PROCEED crop drying fan capable of
delivering 10000 cubic feet of air per
minute. Completely portable. ii can
be used no dry hay. sar and shelled
corn. small grains and all forage crops.
Made by Knoedler Manufacturers.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-10-15
Devices and Equipment
For Farm and Home

Extra fire protection is provided by
the J-K faucet which permits year
around use of the outside water. The
faucet never freezes. since the handle
operates a valve through the stem and
inside the building. The handle can
be easily detached and used as key
in turning the faucet on and off. thus
preventing children and vandals from
operating the faucet. Made by The
James knights Co.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-10-15

The Nite-Master. new multiple pur-
pose farm light. has two powerful
sealed beam units. one of which can be
reeled out IS feet in any direction.
May be mounted on any vehicle. Made
by the Creager Mfg. Co.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-10-15

MO MATTER how much batteries look ali
IN you'll have the answer when you inst
Auto-Lite ~Sta-ful," the battery that ne,
water only 5 times year in normal car use a
gives 1920 longer average lifes than batter
without "Sta-ful' features. And you'll he
the right answer when you select the pho
graph at the bottom as Betty Hutton, star
the Paramount production Lets Dance"
top is Vicki Janis of New York. Rememh
car batteries may look alike, but be wise i.
be sure -. buy an Auto-Lite "Sta-ful."
AUTo-LTTE BATTERY CORPORATION, Tole
sns In "suspsn.s.. css Radio Thursdays =. CHS TeIe
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Weather Aids MeteoroIogists
Setting Up Antarctic Base

house is crammed full of instru-
ments-and it ticks more than a
watchmaker's shop. Four daily
meteorological reports are broad
cast to Capetown. and our con-
necions with Bergen, Gothenburg
and San Francisco are also good
Depending on the success of our
work here, We may be able to
transmit radiophotos by the end of
the month.
Sledge Party Returns
The first sledge party of two
dog teams returned recently from
a 12-day journey covering about
100 miles. The party made topo-
graphical observations on higher
ground to the southeast and south
OF the base. In the southeast
there is an ice-covered peninsula
over 500 feet high and to the
south the barrier edge inclines
upward to height of better than
$50 feet. whence it continues south
on level. Cape Norvegia is prob
ably an ice-covered island with a
wide, fiat surface and a low shelf
of ice running southeast.
We are now busy plotting the
routes Of the sledge Journeys in
land planned for the spring. In
course, Of preparation also are
seismic observations, southern
lights stations and shorter sledge
journeys for examination of bay
ice and new ice on neighboring
fjords.
DR.. Owe Wilson. our physician,
is fully occupied with blood tests,
assessing expenditure of bodily
heat, acclimatization tests, etc.
The days are becoming shorter
and colder, with strongly defined
"mirages," and the nights are
brilliantly starlit over this lifeless
desert of ice. For the meteorolo-
giStS, the dark winter season now
closing IN is. no doubt, a profess
Sional challenge; but the nom
scientific members of this expedi-
ton prefer to listen to weather
reports from England and Scan
dinavia, with their talk of spring.
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United States production Of
tung nuts increased more than 10
Evening star., 1950-04-30

United States production of
tung nuts increased more than 10
times between 1943 and 1949.