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Evening star., 1950-11-12
ATTEMPTS TO GROW
SPICE IN AMERICAS
SHOWING PROMISE

began again In June, 1947.
Since that time Indonesian
pepper exports have been
distressingly low. Internal
conditions there have natural
ly hampered rehabilitation
attempts. A United States
foreign service officer re-
ported last August that pepper
cultivation In the Lampongs,
main black pepper producing
section, appears to cover only
Is per cent Of prewar acreage;
he added that since the pep
per Is grown in forests far
off the roads and away from
rivers, harvest and transport
are exceedingly difficult. He
fears that unless highways
are improved there Is real
danger pepper production not
only will not increase, but
may even decrease to the
point of disappearing.
AS for India, pepper pro-
duction there Is so scattered
that it is difficult to estimate
accurately the size Of any one
crop. The 1949-50 crop,
though, Is known to be con-
siderably smaller than that
of the preceding year. Less
favorable growing conditions
were largely to blame for this,
so the trend for 1950-5l Is
hard to predict. It appears
that no real increase from
year to year Is to be looked
for, however. A foreign serv-
ice officer reported In August
that he saw no signs Of seri-
Gus long-range planning on
the part of the growers or the
government. And India's
current export figures, while
far ahead of any other coun-
try's, still represent less than
q third of IndOneSia'S prewar
output.
As much as II years ago,
specialists in the Department
of Agriculture's Complement
tary Crops Division-Claud L.
Horn, chief-began expert
menting with pepper In the
Western Hemisphere. These
efforts still have not met with
commercially-m e a surable
success. AS DR.. Arthur G.
Kevorkian ruefully puts 1t:
Sometimes, the plants grow
beautifully and we get our
hopes up-then, when the
three-year maturing period Is
over and they should begin
fruiting, they just keep on
looking healthy and growing
nicely, but don't fruit. Then
again, we have occasionally
had scraggly looking plants
which we all but gave up on
and they surprised us by
fruiting. We really can't tell
what we have at the time OF
planting. but we keep on
trying"
Experiments now are IN
progress in Puerto Rico and
Ecuador and future plans call
for similar work in Colombia,
Costa Rica, Ell Salvador.
Evening star., 1950-11-12

Page 2-THE SUNDAY PICTORIAL MAGAZINE
Evening star., 1950-03-04
BY Charles E. TroceweU

better creature when we hear some one
call him Spot.
Our longing for names dies hard.
It is, perhaps, mark Of an every
day philosopher to be above name ASK
ing.
The little creature that flies by our
window is a philosopher, too, if one in
sistS on it. He has no names, wants no
name. calls his wife and children by no
names.
He is just living. He is just eating.
He Is just flying.
Somehow going without names tends
to make living things more like us.
Awful thought: Can it be that our de-
sire for naming things is what has led
to the confusion and hate Of the world
Of humans? Would we all be better off
If there were no Russians, but only hu-
mans; no Americans, but only humans;
no English, but only humans; no white
pie, but only humans?
Our desire to name, to classify, to cat
alogue has set up an amazing and at
times appalling system of differences and
differentationS We do not have one
race, but hundreds OF races; we do not
have, one government, but thousands of
them; we do not have one religion. but
scores of them. Names, names. names,
when what we need is the real thing,
the essence within. the heart of the mat
ter, the soul OF life, not Its externals.
Evening star., 1950-03-04
"GAITHERSBURG, Md.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
Again am appealing to you to iden-
tify q bird which has been q regular
feeder at my station every day Of late.
'It is in size slightly larger than the
chipping sparrow, with brownish black
bill and very slender black legs and toes
capable of grasping the sides Of trees.
"It occasionally feeds at the feeder
but prefers the suet nearby. At this
time the yellow rump. above, and white
side tail feathers are very conspicuous.
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'"The head, back and tail are dark
brownish. gray streaked, with an OBJ
scure path of yellow on the top of the
head. The breast and under parts are
lighter gray, streaked with patches
Of yellow on either side.
1.-THE wings have two more or less
whitish wing bars, the lower ones being
the brighter. Sincerely, s. p. T."
Again the myrtle warbler.
It is perhaps the first OF the warblers
to come this way from the South.
It won't be long now until they all
fly through on their annual way North,
some 80 species. most of which few home
watchers will recognize.
It is just as WELL
There are too many things in the
world now to. worry about to permit
quarter Of an ounce Of feathers, blood
and spunk to upset the digestion.
Accept the birds a. pictures on wings.
Evening star., 1950-03-04
Mr.. WoIIoce's indigenous" Party

In Difference to Henry Wallace-whose atti-
tude toward the organization seems to have
cooled some-the so-called Progressive Party has
adopted ringing statement of policy conceding
that the men of the Kremlin are not 100 per
cent right all of the time In effect, with kind
of grudging squirminess, it has admitted that on
rare occasions-very, very rare-they may be
one tenth of one per cent wrong.
AS for the United States, the "Progressives"
have gone so far as to say that it is not abso-
utey and totally villainous It is only villainous
about SO times out of every one hundred. Mr.
Wallace's noisy and tatterdemalion little party
Is willing to grant that much. Otherwise, how
ever, it stands four-square on platform accus-
ing this country of being chiefly responsible for
the cold war; particularly because of such devil
ish enterprises as our program to help Greece
save itself from being dragged behind the Iron
Curtain, the Marshall Plan for European recov-
cry, and the Atlantic Pact to enable the West
to defend itself against the threat of direct and
indirect Soviet aggression.
This statement-wtich gives the Kremlin an
sver-so-gentle tap on the wrist while bludgeon-
Evening star., 1950-03-04
This and That

Let them fly into your hearts, not give
you ulcers.
After all, to most of us, it makes lit
tie difference whether we know the
name Of bird or not.
The tiny Maryland yellow throat. he
with the black mask, is just as interest
ing with no name as If he had big
long scientific name, which he has.
Names are human, not natural.
In nature. there are no names.
No hawk in the sky calls down to q
junco:
eli. there. Jim. am going to eat you
for my dinner!"
SWoosh!
That is all the hawk says, as he flies
in straight as an arrow, on his unsus-
pecting victim. II.
There is no name in the sky, no name
in the earth, no name in the depths Of
the seas
Names are 50 human.
Somehow we. as living creatures, are
better satisfied II we give everything
names. We have been doing 1t since
the garden of Eden.
We feel better when we know some
ones name.
The nameless leaves us uncomfort-
able.
We feel better, meeting a stranger,
after we are introduced.
The very dog In the gutter seems
Evening star., 1950-03-04
By George Kennedy

UT>H1RTY-FoUR years" said the
l. Minister. It's but half a mans
lifetime. It's very short period in the
life of nation.
when was in the Dublin Post ONCE
on Easter, 1915, firing at the British
troops, / never thought I'd live to see
Ireland come as far as she has"
Sean Nunan, the Minister, was curl
ing himself on a sofa in his Office, the
drawingroom of the old Dick mansion at
2234 Massachusetts, avenue NV, which
is the Irish Legation.
His first name starts with "sh"
sound, and rhymes with John. He Is
going back home at the end of this
month to become assistant secretary Of
the Foreign Office. Here, he will be
sadly missed.
Let ME tell you how I came to
America" he said. 1T was during the
trouble. Dev was on the run and I
was on the run. I was his secretary,
you know. I was staying with Michael
Collins. He was on the run too. Collins
and I were at the house of one Of the
members of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood.
"One night about 1870 he said, Sean,
let's go for walk
$50 we walked down to police head
quarters. Ed Broy was in charge of the
detective bureau at that hour. He was
one of us. He opened the safe and we
spent two hours in it checking the
reports of the detectives checking us.
The next day we sent warning to all
the detectives with political assignments
to leave Ireland. Most of them did"
"The others were assassinated?" I
asked, the Irish in me making me try
the man with the word.
They were shot, said the minister
firmly "It was war;
you were going to tell me how you
came to America I said.
Il was coming to that" said the min
lister patiently.
Harry Boland came out first as q
stoker. Then Dev was shipped out as u
stowaway Then it came my turn to go
as a stoker.
II was taken over to Liverpool. It was
Evening star., 1950-03-04
No One Sympathized With
The Leopard, Reader says


Will the people of so-called Christian
nations ever voice or show pity for the
poor beasts brought from their peaceful
jungle homes to be imprisoned and
harassed in ZOOS and circuses? Will
mankind ever try to realize freedom as
a Godgiven right of both man and
beast? Shouldn't man be prepared for
the consequences and blame only him
self when some great jungle animal
succeeds in escaping from the bars and
moats between it and liberty?
saw not word of pity for the poor
Oklahoma leopard which made its leap
for freedom thousands Of miles away
from it's home. To the Oklahomans
and to most of the rest of us it was a
ferocious beast. maliciously tearing
forth upon human destruction, instead
of a pitiful misplaced jungle denizen
seeking a return to its native haunts
even without its mate. He might later
have become potential killer inflicting
injury or death upon women and chill
dren not guilty Of cleverly trapping him
and hauling him in cramped anguish
from the home he loved. Too often
it is true that our cruelty to Gods
creatures boomerangs hurt upon our
own human kind.
The radio had Just announced the
leopard's death. I was glad-glad that
the effects of the drugged meat that
temporarily relieved his hunger had at
last released him forever from imprison-
ment, and cheated the human public
which would have kept him hopelessly
pacing behind grim bars for heart
rendering years. His exiled heart is free
again in the Great Beyond which the
Creator has prepared for His creatures
spirits, unknown to and far from human
interference.
I would that every other bar that
jails guiltless victim be battered down
and every innocent heart in exile gain
its freedom. Then might human hearts
recognize the kind one Of the Maker
Of us all. and be willing to leave His
creatures where His love and wisdom
have placed them.
VIRGINIA W. SARGENT.
In Defense of Secretary Acheson
And in Criticism Of The Star
BY its editorial entitled "Mr. Acheson
Gets in Deeper" The Star has done the
people Of this country a disservice. It
has given help and support to the poll
ticians, the headline seekers and the
professional "smearers," while raising
unmerited doubts as to the judgment of
one of the country's ablest public
servants.
Mr.. Acheson's second statement, made
just after the conviction of Alger Hiss.
was purely and simply an assertion of
his belief in the principle of Christian
charity as applied to his ex-associate.
No one who did not deliberately and
maliciously choose 70 misinterpret his
remarks could have seen in them a
reason for doubling the discretion or
integrity of the Secretary Of State. It is
astonishing to find reputable paper
criticizing a statement Of human SYM
pathy instead Of rebuking those who
Evening star., 1950-03-04
Letters to The Star .

have used it as an excuse for making
political capital and gaining publicity.
The Star says that: "Mr Acheson does
not make an appropriate distinction
between his obligations as Secretary of
State and what his obligations would be
as private individual" 1t also remarks
that he "has made too many statements
with reference to his personal feelings
about Alger Hiss" In view of the fact
that Mr.. Acheson made two of his state
ments in reply to the question of con-
gressional committees and one in answer
to the questions of reporters, The Stars
comments appear unjustified. 1t was
the congressional investigators who orig
inally and repeatedly claimed that Mr..
Achesons private feelings for Alger Hiss
were public matter, and forced him to
explain them accordingly. There is no
reason to believe that the Secretary
would ever have made public his private
feelings in this matter, any more than
he has in other matters, if Congress
had not required him to do so.
The Star claims that Mr.. Acheson
should have gone all the way and said
that he condemned those alleged Of
fenses." One Of the absurd criticisms
made after the Secretary's second state
ment was that he "condoned" the Of
lenses with which Alger Hiss was
charged. In saying that he does not
condone them "in any way" he answers
that accusation Squarely and completely,
and we fail to see why more should be
required.
Every reasonable person recognizes
tho r,oeI for conversational iroVo tiorS
where Government employees or Govern
ment actions require explanation or
clarihcation. But the tendency of the
congressional inquisitors to criticize and
smear for purely selfish personal or
political ends has been one of the plaques
which has driven so many able men out
of Government service. Mr.. Acheson is
one of the few remaining public serv-
ants of exceptional ability. BY its
editorial The Star has done its bit to
strengthen the second-raters in Govern
ment. and to confuse and disparage
courageous statement of moral purpose.
CATHERINE N. YERKES.
DAVID NORTON YERKES.
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Middle East Gets the Brush-off
From Everybody But Miss Thompson
No area Of the world seems to be
more neglected than the Middle East,
which is becoming more important every
day in the struggle between the Soviet
forces and the Western democracies.
Dorothy Thompson, in recent column
entitled Worlds Refugee Problem Called
More Deadly Than Atom Bomb" has
been one of the few correspondents with
the courage to discuss this volatile sub
ject.
Each observer returning from the Mid
die East with whom this writer has
talked has related the story of Com
munist inroads. With nearly one mil
lion sick, starving and shelterless peo-
pie, it is obvious that anti-Democratic
forces should be finding fertile hunt
ing ground in this area.
When are We going to wake up? Are
Evening star., 1950-03-04
A Settlement in Coal

The prospect of Government seizure and
operation of the coal mines seems to have been
more potent medicine than court orders, exhor-
tations and the distress of the American people.
At any rate shortly after the President had asked
Congress for seizure powers word came out OF the
negotiation session between John L. Lewis and
the operators that an agreement on "funda-
mental principles" for settling the strike had
been reached.
Both parties evidently made concessions to
reach agreement, and it is indicated that the
operators have accepted 7O-cent daily wage
increase and boost of 10 cents a ton in the
welfare fund royalty payment. Previously the
operators had said they could not agree to any
thing that would increase the price OF COAL The
Presidents message to Congress, however, asked
authority to fix "fair and just compensation" for
the miners working under Government direction
and the operators had ample reason to assume
that this would mean a wage increase which
they eventually would have to accept.
What the pressures on Mr.. Lewis may have
been are less obvious. He may have feared that
Congress would insist on seizure of the union
as well as the mines, although the President did
not ask for that. Perhaps Mr.. Truman's request
for broad grant of authority which could be
adapted to changing circumstances rang an
alarm bell in Mr. Lewis inner being. Still an
other possibility is that the boss of the miners
realized that he had gone the limit, that he
could not subject the country to further suffer-
ing without risking grave consequences for him.
self and his union. -
In any event, the strong probability is that
next week will see the end of the strike Out in
the coal towns, John L.. Lewis is being hailed
as "the champ" He is credited with beating
the operators, and the Government, too
There may be room for some argument
about this. But it can hardly be denied that
the American people have taken quite beating
at the hands of Mr.. Lewis. How many more
beatings will they have to take before Congress
decides to curb the monopolistic powers of this
arch monopolist?
Evening star., 1950-03-04
Evans Pictures on View

People who are old fashioned in their esthetic
preferences will find at the National Museum
during the next several weeks exhibition of
pictures which should please them. Thirty five
canvases are being shown. They come from the
collection given to the Nation in 1907 by William
T. Evans, silk merchant who then lived at
Montclair, New Jersey. The paintings he selected
have stood the test of time in such manner as to
confirm his judgment of them. The composition
entitled "Musa Regina" for example, is as beau
tiful, as attractive, as it was when Henry Oliver
Walter created it in 1904. Few craftsmen or
colorists of this later age have matched his
achievement. He was an authentic melodist of
the palette and brush.
But if visitors would rather see impression
istic endeavor there are two magnificent
productions by the tragic genius, Ralph Albert
Blakelock, awaiting their attention-"At Natures
Mirror" and Sunset, Navarro Ridge" George
Inness is represented in study labeled Georgia
Pines," John H. Twachtman with "The Torrent
and Fishing Boats at Gloucester" Alexander H.
Wyant in Autumn at Arkve" and Spring"
There likewise is characteristic MOONLIGHT by
Albert p Ryder Equally engaging are Horatio
Walkers Sheppard Under Moonlight" John
Francis Murphy's Indian Summer" Homer
Martins Lower Ausabe Pond" and Benjamin
R. Fitzs Pool in the Forest"
Evans pictures which more definitely tell
stories which have not lost interest in half
century are: "Circe" by Frederick S. Church,
"Ariadne" by Wyatt Eaton, among the Old
Poets" and Water Lilies" by Walter Shirlaw and
"The Blockmaker" by Edgar Melville Ward Each
of these paintings has charm and grace, is skill
fully executed, leaves friendly impression on
the beholder's mind. Yet the works which are
most apt to be recalled with pleasure are two
relatively simple unpretending portraits of little
children-compositio which make no claim to
eminence but nevertheless have vast appeal to
the heart One of these is George Fuller's like
ness Of his son, Henry Brown Fuller, who grew
up to be first-class artist himself the other is
Mrs. Kenyon Coxs May Flowers" a girl perhaps
five years old, dressed in bright blue and sitting
against bright-blue cushion with vase of
antique design containing spring blossoms in the
background. =,
The National Museum has many other SINH
lar canvases stored away. If the Evans show is
a success, it may be followed by additional
exhibitions of pictures which ordinary people can
understand without being lectured.
Evening star., 1950-03-04
Special Delivery

These s,uaying naked boughs, these thin
edged days
Seem far from ApriPs blossoming,
From fraa elusiDe fragrance OF the
Spring!
The sl1iuer OF brittle Difld delays
The stir OF sap through natures secret
tD1ys.
No ardent robins tDoo their mates. and
sing!
Late Feoruarys Sodden ledDes still cling
To pires and shrubs that tDear the
,Dinter's glaze.
Yet, suddenly, my garden blooms in
fODerS-
Delphiniun,, stocks and canterbury bells,
A bed of far trail as the bluest fog,
Deep purple lilacs in their Sunlit
bOtDerS.
This moment, beauty in my garden
The mail Just brought the new seed
catalogue. 81
HELEN BAYLEY DAVIS.
Evening star., 1950-03-04

decided should fire the Aquitania
across the Atlantic
Il weighed about l45 pounds and I
did not look like stoker but the head
OF the union was one of us and so was
the assistant engineer of the ship. In
two hours I was member of the union
and signed on.
II was in the middle of the boiler room
in a corridor, with IL fires on one side
OF me and IL fires on the other. 1t was
June and it was hot. The palms of my
hands came off. The other men knew
I wasn't stoker. but they were Irish
men. They knew something was going
on. And didn't want to go to the doc
tor. ! kept firing.
Evening star., 1950-03-04
Our New Loan to Tito

The second line of credit, to the tune of
$40 Million advanced by our Export Import Bank
to Yugoslavia indicates that the State Depart
ment's policy of giving limited economic aid to
Marshal Titos regime remains unchanged. De-
spite his recent criticisms of us and his diplomatic
recognition of Ho Chi Minis regime in Indo-
China, the department evidently continues to
regard him as calculated risk" to be supported
for his actual and potential nuisance value
against Soviet Russia and orthodox communism,
as dominated by Moscow.
There is seemingly no alternative to contin-
ued economic assistance by us if Yugosavia's
economy is not further to slump or even collapse.
All qualified observers in that country describe
the cumulative effects of the Cominform's
economic blockade as devastating. Before the
breach with the Cominform and Moscow, Yugo-
slavia's economy had been closely integrated
with its Eastern European neighbors, now under
Russian control, and the shutting of of that
trade has disrupted Yugoslav industry severely
The previous Export-Import Bank credit enabled
Yugoslavia's mining industry to revive through
new equipment, so that it is expected that Yugo-
slav trade with the United States during the past
twelvemonth might total $35 million as against
IS million in 1948. Most of those exports to us
are minerals such as bauxite, mercury, copper,
lead and zinc, all of which Yugoslavia produces
III qudIlIy. quill eApolIo dlSo so W o1llei iidlu-
currency countries, thereby helping in some
degree Tito's desperate exchange problem.
Nevertheless, these improvements together
with exports to Britain and other members of
the sterling bloc, by no means meet Yugoslavia's S
needs for almost all kinds of machinery and
transport, plus certain raw materials such as
cotton for its textile industry. The new Export
Import Bank credit will do no more than take
care of the minimum requirements for its present
needs. Yugoslav economy will thus be kept going,
but with scant margin to spare. The Yugoslav
people will still have to tighten their belts.
Evening star., 1950-03-04

ing the United States from head to toe-is
supposed to meet Mr.. Wallace's querulous
demand that the "Progressives" show they are
not Communist dominated They certainly are
not they say. They are really an indigenous
American party'-as indigenous, that is, as the
Volga boatmen, the droshsky and Pravda.