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Evening star., 1950-11-12
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children. It's Just a short
delightful drive to Marjory
Hendricks other restaurant
NORMANDY FARM, in the
country. This enchanting spot
is open all winter, closed Mon
days, except Christmas and
New Year. There, Thanks
giving dinners are 81 and S4.25
(children S2.25). Reservations:
former, DI. 1856, the latter,
WI. 9421.
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your child is
just as inn
pOrtant. So
if you are ex-
p e C t in G a
baby, you are
elig i b | e. to
re We a.
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never visited
anything like
THE KITCH-
ETERIA, t h e
S elf = service
re S t a II r a n t
which is 0p-
Grated on a
profit - Shar-
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pair. They feature shoes i'm
sizes up to IL; in widths from
AAAA to C.. Prices start at S.
and you'll find every type Of
shoe: casual, spectator, sports,
daytime, afternoon and even
ing. ALI colors, feathers and
materials. 1922 CONN. AVE.
Phone Elk. 9587.
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S m a r tly shod
than the young
w o m e n w h o
shop at THE
SHOE FAIR.
This "Cancella-
ton" shoe store
S ellis Famous
Name" shoes at
savings of SIS to
SIS on eVery
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+" DOES UNWANTED
HAIR make you
self-c0nsciouS?" Remember
shaving, tweezing and waxing
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ing basis with their em-
ployees, permits no tipping,
and specializes in delicious
foods at modest prices. They
serve luncheon, dinner and
Sunday dinner. Entrees in
clude: SirIoin Steak, Ham and
Fried Chicken-from 35c to
CSC. Vegetables, salads and
deserts, 10c and 15c. Located
in Harrington Hotel at 11th
and E SITS. NV.
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" SOLOMON WAS
WRONG - when
he said: There's nothing new
under the sum" He had
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FHE1NU n NIVAHLIN-
81 is more than a
matter of eating spinach"
Knowing something about
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History and General Marshall

man is entitled to decide for himself
whether or not to write his memoirs. Never
theless historians will regret that General
George c. Marshall has made up his mind not
to undertake such a project. The reason he
gives is that he cannot do the job without saying
things that might be misconstrued or exagger-
ated in way that could do "irreparable harm"
to the regulations of living individuals. Accord
ingly rather than be party to anything like
that he is determined to leave his personal story
untold-an attitude compounded of charity and
fair play, spirit characteristic of him.
STILL the fact remains that historians have
reason to regret his decision. After ALL as
Army Chief of Staff from 1889 until the end of
the war; and later as Secretary of State executing
unprecedented policies aimed at establishing a
decent peace, General Marshall-one of the gen.
timely great men of his time-has been at the
very center of tremendous world events and has
himself been maker of history. In historical
sense, therefore, his personal story told at
length in his own words, would surely throw
valuable additional light on the dark and COM
plex record of our troubled age.
Of course, in his reports as Chief of Staff,
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This Is Getting Monotonous

If logic will not work, the monotony of it
all ought to persuade Congress to pass the day
light saving bill just approved by the Senate
District Committee. Year after year both houses
60 through the tiresome routine of enacting
special legislation authorizing daylight saving
for the District.
The bill favored by the Senate committee
would settle the question once and for all, so far
as Congress is concerned. The measure would
grant the Commissioners permanent power to
proclaim daylight saving as long as the people
of Washington want it. Such bill was passed
by the Senate last year, but the House baked
at even this small degree of "home rule" AS
result, the authorization was limited to 1949.
Now the legislative cycle is starting all over again.
One of these years Congress will wake up to the
fact that this time-consumng procedure is silly
In the extreme. Why not now?
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ut Was Just a Dog
OF No Particular Breed"
This and That

F. J. H of Cheverly Circle objects to
the branding of English sparrows as
pests in an adm national mag-of a
trap designed to catch them.
"This infuriates me, to say the least"
says this correspondent and that is say
ing the most.
Common sparrows have been called
such harsh names as rat, rodent, nui-
sance, vermin.
None is very apt, some all wrong: at
best, only indicative of way of thinking.
Actually. in itself, and of itself, the
common sparrow Is a very nice little bird.
1t has neat feathers, happy ways and
tidy habits.
To this may be stated, as has been
stated:
"It drives away our own native birds,
it has harsh voice, it has dirty habits"
Unfortunately, some of this is so.
One authority wrote:
"The English sparrow, among birds,
like the rat among mammals, is cunning,
destructive and filthy. = It's natural
diet consists of Seeds but it eats a great
variety of other foods. While much of
its fare consists of waste material from
the streets, in autumn and winter it
consumes quantities of weed seeds and
in summer numerous insects. The de-
struction of weed seeds should unde-
niably count in the sparrow's favor. Its
record as to insects in most localities is
not so clear"
This was written in the days before
AUTOMOBILES japanese beetles.
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By Mary MeGrory

M OST tributes paid by Congressman to
4f1 each other are so foridly vague that
they might apply to anybody from Daniel
Webster to an ailing Dixiecrat. But on
March 7, something refreshing and abso-
lutely non-transferable in the way Of
congressional bouquets was tossed by
Representative Dingell, Democrat. of
Michigan. He was saluting Representa-
tive Norton, Democrat, of New Jersey.
who was celebrating her 18th birthday
and her 25th anniversary in Congress.
MARY Norton" said Representative
Dingell. "can do anything any man of
this House can do and frequently do it
better-except perhaps stick her hands
in her pockets"
The accolade was no more unorthodox
or direct than the caustic humanitarian
who inspired it. The ability of the gentle
woman from New Jersey to take care Of
herself in the hurly-burly of the House
has become a legend. Her philosophy
about the place of women in politics
I'm no lady, I'm member of Congress,
and we'll do business on that basis
has become classic retort to Scofhng
males.
Mrs. Norton's quickness to give the
back of her hand to fractions fellow
members seems to have inspired no deep
smoldering resentment on their part. On
her birthday, which she spent in Be-
thesda Naval Hospital recovering from
an attack of flu, rs per cent Of the mem
bership sent messages of mingled con-
cern and congratulation. Later in the
day, when word of her impending re-
tirement got around, they expressed
genuine regret at the decision.
known variously as Battling Mary"
for her frequent floor fights. and Aunt
Mary" for the succession of nieces who
have served her as clerks, Mrs Norton
came into politics through the back
door of welfare work"-under the ban
ner of Frank Hague, the longtime Mayor
and political boss of Jersey City. who
has always enjoyed her unblushing and
outspoken loyalty. In 1924. she became
the first Democratic woman sent to Con-
greSs.
As early as 1928, while other members
were still warily skirting the issue, Mrs.
Norton stood up in the House and de-
manded the repeal of prohibition. Two
years later she challenged women dry
leaders to radio debate. These ladies
declined to cross swords with her, as
have stronger men since.
It was as chairman of the House Dis
trict Committee and Washington's first
and only lady mayor" that Mrs. Norton
Evening star., 1950-03-17
By Charles &. TroceWeH

the best Of their ability, reforming.
They no longer are town birds, but
have taken to the immensely growing
suburban sections and there eat along
and nest along with others.
If a sparrow family chases blue bird
family away from one site, what hap
pens? Why, what you would expect
the blue birds 60 to another locality,
that is all, and there set up housekeeping.
Native birds are not as stupid as some
OF their apologists try to make them out.
They. too, must suffer from increased
population and competition. We all
do! That Is America: in fact, it is the
world today. The native birds have to
bear their share OF it.
English sparrows are capable, hustling
intelligent bits Of life. not at all pests,
and no more are they rats than Pogo,
the comic possum, is rodent. Certainly
they do not deserve to be trapped and
killed.
It is probable that persons who trap
them do not always know the difference
between a common sparrow and the
native sparrows, all of which feed
together amicably, and in this way hun
dredS OF strictly native birds have been
killed along with the unwanted species.
The desire to trap common sparrows
indicates, we believe, state of mind
which should be changed, rather than
any real need for a trap. After all,
trap can be an expensive thing. If it
ends up by trapping ones mercy and
sense of fairness, too.
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Today the common sparrow is not
forced to take his food from filthy places.
He eats at suburban bird feeding sta
tions.
The japanese beetle-a real pest
has become favorite food of the spar
rows, as we'll as of the starlings, also
importations.
1t is charged against the bird that 1t
reduces the number of some of our best
native species, such as bluebirds, house
wrens, tree swallows, purple martins and
barn swallows.
It does this, it is alleged, by destroying
eggs and young and by usurping nesting
places.
Yet Jenny Wren, herself, does the
very same things!
In years of watching, we have seen
far more house wrens indulge in these
nefarious practices.
In fact. there Is nothing charged
against the bird that also is not done by
some other of our famous native species.
To listen to some of the sparrow haters,
one might think that the hands-er,
bills-of our native birds" were all as
clean as pins, when the fact is that jays
eat the eggs OF other species, the grackleS
tear off the heads and legs Of cardinal
babies, the brown thrashers chase other
smaller birds out of their nesting sites
and so on.
To set the record straight, let 1t be
said that the common sparrows are. to
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Congress, the Czechs and ECA

The resignation" of Foreign Minister Vlado
Clements of Czechoslovakia is symptomatic of
the seething unrest, the enfevered political stu-
alton and the -hysterical suspicious and ten
sions that exist everywhere behind the Iron
Curtain.
Clements is Communist, but for some time
past he apparently has been out of favor with
the Kremlin. There have been whispers against
him. He has been said to be too moderate" too
"Western-minded" too "Titoist" in his outlook.
The chances are therefore that his resignation"
will be followed by treason trial. and purge
of other doubtful comrades.
This sort of thing has become too familiar
and too frequent in every satellite country to
reflect anything but fear and division among
the Kremlin-serving Communist puppets. On
the one hand, with Moscow desperately intent
on checking the Tito contagion," they have
their orders to liquidate any comrade who is not
totally subservent to Soviet policy. On the other
hand as mere Russian marionetteS ruling over
people Overwhelmingly opposed to them they sit
on an explosive situation at home-deep and
widespread public resentment that would blow
up in their faces if their police-state power
slipped from their hands during the course of
their purges and intramural intrigues.
There is a direct connection between all this
and current congressional consideration of the
Economic Cooperation Administrators request
for $295O,0O0,000 to finance the third year of the
Marshall Plan Of all the satellite countries,
Czechoslovakia is by far the most Western
minded. In the days of it's freedom, it's basic
traditions were identical with ours and it's pre-
Red economy was geared to the Vests. Indeed,
when the ECA was being born and before the
Kremn ordered them to boycott it, the Czech
Communists publicly proclaimed their desire to
participate. The people of the country remem-
ber that fact. They are aware, too, that the
boycotting act has done grave injury to their own
living standards, and so we have here one Of
the important reasons why the Prague regime
sits on volcano
The same holds true, in varying degrees,
for all the other satellite countries The Iron
Curtain cannot hide from the people behind it
the unhidable fact that the Marshall Plan has
enabled Western Europe to stage a remarkable
recovery. The Poles, the Romanians, the Hun
garians and the rest of the Eastern Europeans
are conscious that this has happened while they
themselves have been reduced to economic vas
salage. The police state, despite its thorough
ness, cannot prevent the resulting bitterness. It
by making examples of people like Vlado
Clements.
In its own way, the ECA thus has been the
most important single weapon employed by the
West in the cold war. It is still very much
needed. To abandon it now, or to decrease it's
effectiveness by drastic economies, would be to
make things much easier for the Kremlin when
actually we are in position to make them much
harder. Opportunity is knocking. Let us make
the most of it.
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ever to head major committee, she
had a certain amount of masculine
resentment to contend with. She over
came this at the beginning by taking
vote on the most controversial
measure before them. She won, and
managed the committee vigorously for
the next years.
Her solidest achievement was the VIC
torious battle for the bitterly contested
Wages and Hours Law. 1t had to be
petitioned out of the Rules Committee
twice. The first tirne;s signatures were
slow in coming. The day before Thanks
giving, her cheeks burning with the
two little red spots that always meant
"Mary's mad" Mrs. Norton scolded the
House:
II do not see how any member of this
House can enjoy his Thanksgiving din
ner tomorrow If he fails to put his name
to that petition this afternoon" Amid
jeerS and laughter, she continued: ooh.
you gentlemen may scof, If you please,
but how are you going to face your
constituents and say you refuse the
workers OF America living wage when
you yourselves are living in comfort?"
The bill was recommitted, reported out
the following spring and petitioned out
of the Rules Committee after 219 sig
natures had been secured in the record
time of two hours and 20 minutes. 1t
passed in June, 1888.
As head of the comparatively peace
full House Administration Committee,
Mrs. Norton has raised her voice less
often of late in the din of battle.
But her black eyes still snap with
the old fire, and her Irish temper
remains intact. She is still an Ad-
ministration stalwart. Dean of women
of the House, she has organized the
ladies for successful action, once in the
case of a wartime day nurseries appro-
priation, and more recently in march
ON the Speakers Office to have Re-
publican appointee retained as ladies'
cloakroom attendant, and to have the
job taken off patronage.
Most of her battles have been on her
own, however. For strength and
warmth the House is not likely to see
her like soon again. To go back to Repre-
sentative Dingell's salute: "She asked
no quarter, concession or handicap be-
cause of her sex. She never conceded
that it was a mans world, although she
realized the rules were written largely
by men. Under these rules she could
give and take"
lot of those to whom she gave, as
we'll as the ones from whom she took,
are wishing Mary Norton many happy
returns of this st. Patricks Day.
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were marked by one-man hlibusters and
bitter wrangling.
Finally Mrs Norton took the floor and
read her rival out. You have cost
thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of
this country for hundreds of pages in the
Congressional Record" The members
rose and cheered. Mr.. Blanton asked
her to withdraw her remarks from the
Record. She declined, and so became
an issue in a Texas Congressional race.
Mr.. Blanton's rival, Judge Garrett,
brandished reprint of Mrs. Norton's
tongue-lashing the length and breadth
of his district. Mr.. Blanton in vain
protested that she was a machine-made
politician, and Boss Hagues right hand
woman" Judge Garrett defended her
as an outstanding, humanitarian with
an impeccable record Of progressive
legislation. He won.
Mrs. Nortons greatest trials and
triumphs, however, came in 1887, when
she became chairman of the House
Labor Committee. AS the first woman
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Lewis Carroll, Photographer

The Reverend Mr.. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
lo32-1o98 was not merely the author of the two
most frequently quoted works in the English
language this side of Shakespeare Long before
ne became famous under the pen name Lewis
Carroll" he was well known as man of science,
Alice in Wonderland" and Through the Look
ing-Glass" came relatively late in the list of his
publications. Much earlier he brought out "a
Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry" and
The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry," both
still considered valuable in the circle for which
they were intended. These books represent the
mathematical side of Mr.. Dodgson's mind
But only a small public would remember
Lewis Carroll if he had not invented Alice. The
hundreds of thousands of people who are familiar
with bis name as that of her sponsor probably
care little about where he got the ideas which
became universally and durably popular because
of her association with them, yet it is q matter
of more than casual interest that she was real
little girl, daughter of an eminent Greek
scholar who was Dean of Christ Church at
Oxford She and her sisters were among Mr..
Dodgson's child friends, All through the major
portion of his life he preferred junior to senior
company. The wonderland" and Looking
Glass" stories were created not for adults but
definitely for youngsters Lewis Carroll existed
in this world sixty-six years, but modern psychol
ogsts have discovered that he himself never
truly grew up. He sought the company of chill
dren because mentally and emotonally he was
a child.
And it was through toy that he met his
little friends and kept his friendships with them
alive. The plaything referred to was heavy
cumbersome, primitive wet-plate camera which
he lugged around over large part of England
between 1856 and 1880. This fact was mentioned
in the official biography produced by his nephew
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, in the year of Mr.
Dodgson's death. Some of his pictures were
reproduced in that volume. Still more of them ap-
pear in Lewis Carroll, Photographer" edited by
Helmut Gernsheim-the latest item for collectors
of Carrollana, published last week. Alice is one
of the subjects portrayed. Mr.. Dodgson's sisters
son OF Lord Tennyson, the daughters of George
Macdonald, son of Taylor the editor of Punch
Ellen Terry and her sisters, the children of
Arthur Hughes the artist, the children Of John
Everett Millais and many other small fry" are
included, as well as their parents and other
adult relatives. The book is fascinating for the
insight it affords into the heart of great per-
sonality Perhaps it will lead to the release Of
other pictures equally engaging.
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Old Irish Goblin

The stone on the hearth is as cold as q
stone on the roadway,
A tDfite moon peers in through the
frightening hole In the thdtch,
Rain-sodden the earth floor once reelind
and tDhtrling ,Dith dancing,
The hGlt-door says drunkenIy;: gone 10
the green ribbon latch.
This cabin that kneD the bright fams
and the tang of the peat fire,
Where story and song speeded time in
its passing, is ToD
More chillingIy cold, more hopeless oj
Uoices returning.
Than the small empty nest that clingt
to the bldckthorn bouoh.
KATHERINE EDELMAN.
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A pseudonyna is permissible only
1Uhen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Uriter. Please be briet.

envenomed voices, and wildly banging
gavel, we could but marvel at the re-
markable freedom from inhibitions dis
played by some members OF the commit
tee. Perhaps the fact that this is an elec-
ton year may account in part for the
surging emotions and the intense acri-
mony of the wordy battle. Certainly the
hearings as conducted to date are not
calculated to inspire much public confl-s
dence or respect.
One cannot help raising the question,
If Senators have to quarrel so rudely,
would it not be better if they did so in
executive session rather than in public?
Further, in order to spare innocent per-
sons from injury. would it not be prefer
able to hold preliminary private sessions
on such charges as those in the present
instance; and only after the committee
had sifted the evidence and decided that
there were reasonable grounds for so do
ing. make the names involved public?
It might not be bad idea if the men,
bers of the Senatorial Subcommittee now
noisily engaged in wrangling over the
question of subversives were to obtain
copies of the recordings of their perform
ance and play them back, so that they
may hear themselves as others hear
them. E. M. JOHNSON.
The People Should Wage Peace
As Hard As They Waged War
An enduring international peace is
attainable, in my judgment, only if we
have the spirit and the will to seek it
with the same zeal and determination
with which we pursue victory in time of
war. War has never been the exclusive
business Of the King and his Minister
of Defense they invariably call on the
people to fight it and to pay the expense
of the struggle. In fairness, therefore, it
should logically follow that peace should
not be the exclusive business of the King.
and his Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs.
Surely free and sovereign people have
a right, even duty, to intervene in
peace-making and maintenance. They
should so organize and develop their
power as not to embarrass or weaken the
hands of their public officials, but rather
to sustain and strengthen their efforts
on an objective basis The bipartisan
policy in foreign affairs improved our
position in diplomacy as the block buster
improved it in the field of combat Like
wise, today, non-partisan and democrat
ic move by the people on a free enter
prise adventure for peace could produce
the diplomatic power to equal the A
bomb.
Statesmen will view these suggestions
with approval. Politicians will veto them,
because they lack headline appeal.
THE COMMONER.
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They'll Miss the Back of Mory's Hand

gave evidence that she was a formidable
foe. An ardent advocate of national
representation for the District she Won
appropriations for Glenn Dale SAM
tarium, streetcar merging legislation and
the alley-closing law. She was consis-
tently and vociferously opposed by Rep
resentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas,
who wanted no benefits for District res
idents not enjoyed by his own constit-
uents. District Days during those years
Evening star., 1950-03-17

General Marshall has already written kind OF
impersonal memoir Illuminating enough to stand
by itself as work of Importance. But that is
not the same as the complete story of himself
in relation to events and to the men who were
in the middle of those events along with him
Perhaps he may yet be persuaded to modify his
decision, so that he will write everything down
on condition that publication will be delayed
long enough to prevent injury to the reputation
of any one now living