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Evening star., 1950-09-26

istrative officer with the Atomic
Emery Commission at Richland,
Wash.
The ordinance appointing Mr.
Woodbury. will have its second and
final reading, required by the city
charter, Friday night. Mr.. Braden
is scheduled to present his final
report at that time.
Mr.. Braden's resignation is to
be effective Saturday and the new
manager will take up his duties
Monday.
% Apply for Position.
Appointment Of Mr.. Woodbury.
was recommended by a council
committee headed by Karl Ander-
son. Mr.. Anderson said that %
applications were received for the
position and four candidates were
interviewed.
Mr.. Woodbury. was born in Ken
lucky and studied civil engineer
ing and business administration
at the University of Virginia. He
has been city manager of Alta
Vista, Harrisonburg and Williams
burg, as well as Suffolk.
The city manager post was Of
fered to Mr.. Braden at a salary of
$4,000 a year after Roy F. Dunn
was replaced by City Clerk Harry
E. Wells. A court injunction pre-
vented Mr.. Wells from carrying
out his duties, including signing a
100000 school bond issue. The
bonds were signed by Mr.. Braden
after his appointment.
Bypass to Be Urged.
The Council accepted Mr.. Brad
ems resignation with great re-
gret."
In other action last night, the
Council voted to ask the State
Highway Commission to study
construction of a proposed bypass
to ease the traffic load on Lee
highway.
The council suggested that the
"belt-line highway" might be built
after State authorities consulted
the governing bodies of Fairfax
and Arlington, as well as Falls
Church.
Councilman Lee M. Rhodes
warned that I'VE don't want traf-
f1c diverted so far that Falls
Church will die on the vine" Mr..
Braden termed the bypass lone
of the city's greatest needs"
Assessments Up.
A. Burke Hertz, commissioner
of revenue. reported that total
assessments this year are up $685.
485 over 1949. The figure for 1850
is $8,016,910, compared with ST.
653, 400.
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Women Crossing Guards
Considered in Alexandra

Alexandria Is considering the use
OF women to guard school cross
1ngs.
City Manager Guy Ancell said
the plan would be similar to the
system recently started in Mont
gomery County. Mr.. Ancell said
some other Virginia communities
also have started using women at
schools.
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The Expanding Capital
Loudoun Fears u. S. Agencies
Would Change Rural Character

! Government purchase Of land
would mean a loss in taxes and
the growth Of an adjacent town
would mean supplying a lot OF
county services. ~
I'VE would have to build
schools: ours are overcrowded
already" he said. "The town
would have to take care of its
own water supply and sewer sys-
tenn. In the case of an unincor-
porated town, the county would
have to supply police protection" ."
On the plus side. he said the
county has a good planning board.
as good as any In the State, and it
has done "a wonderful job in
planning and zoning." It also has
a good health department and an
adequate hospital.
The roads are good but, accord
ing to Mr.. Baker. the Federal
Government would have, to widen
any highways or do other addi-
tional highway work it believed
necessary.
Low Tax Rate.
The county tax rate is $1.55,
and Mr.. Baker said that low fig
ure attracts lot of people.
Dairying is the county's main in
dustry. It also produces hogs and
some sheep. One of the important
crops is orchard grass. That pro-
vides pasture for the animals, hay,
and the seed, when threshed out,
sells for 50 or more a bushel. The
yield is about Is bushels to the
acre.
People from "the city" have been
buying or building homes in Lou
doun County and, as a result, real
estate prices have been going UP.
Mr.. Baker mentioned that Gen.
and Mrs. Marshall are among
those who have acquired homes in
Leesburg.
OF the prospect Of a Govern
ment agency in the county he
summed up:
Most people I've talked to feel
the same way. We want to Coop
crate; we don't want to be sell
fish. But we don't want 1t unless
lit is absolutely necessary"
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Fairfax Schools Head
Denies Joining Hands
with '0bstructionisfs'

Fred w. Robinson, Fairfax
County School Board chairman
denied before a civic group last
night that he had joined hands
With any "obstructionist = organi-
zation.
Speaking before the Jefferson
Village-City Park Citizens Asso-
citation, Mr.. Robinson said he had
been in favor of the county -execu-
tive form Of government 10 years
ago and was still in favor of it.
He said this did not mean, how
ever, that he had allied himself
with those who had attempted to
block the sos million school bond
issue recently voted in the county
Refers to Hirst Statement.
Mr.. Robinson referred to a
statement last week by Omer L.
Hirst in which he was aligned
with Charles E. Gardner in a
newly organized group supporting
county executive government. Mr..
Gardner is one of the plaintiffs in
a suit to block the school bond
issue.
Mr.. Robinson said he had been
informed of meeting to form the
Fairfax County Federation OF
Civic Organizations. but because
of previous engagement had not
been able to attend. He said he
had not known of his election as
vice president of the group until
he saw the report in the press
He said he had told the group he
would be unable to serve as an
officer.
He said this does not mean that
he does not favor the county
executive plan, and that he can
see nothing unusual in the fact
that both he and Mr.. Gardner
favor the executive government
plan.
Questions Validity Of Stand.
Arthur Holmaas, president OF
the citizens association, said the
group backing executive govern
ment had questioned the right OF
the county Federation of Citizens
Associations to speak for it's mem
bership. He said it now looks like
the new group is not able to speak
for it's officers.
The citizens association, which
met at the Lee Boulevard Baptist
Church, voted unanimously tc
back the county manager plan ir
the November Z referendum.
Speaking of the school situation
which he had been invited to
discuss. Mr.. Robinson said there
are SIS classes in the county now
on halliday schedules. OF these
he said, 26 are in the Oak Street
Graham Road Schools.
These schools, he said, were de.
signed for $40 students, but now
have 1926 pupils.
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Lee-Jockson PTA to Meet

j. H. Rice. assistant superin-
tendent of Fairfax County
Schools, and c. N. Cockrill, men,
ber of the Fairfax County School
Board. will address meeting OF
the Lee-Jackson School Parent
Teacher Association at 8 pm. to-
morrow.
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Alexandra Hot Shoppe
Suffers One-Hour Fire

A blaze in the Hot Shoppe
restaurant, Alexandria, kept fire.
men busy, for more than an houl
this morning.
Most of the damage was be-
lieved due to smoke. It started
firemen said, when grease spilled
out on a stove burner. Heavy
smoke poured from ventilators in
the upper part of the building and
f1remen said they had the flames
confined to the kitchen.
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Montgomery Alumni Elect

Thomas B. Hill. jr., has been
elected president of the Mont
gomery Junior College Alumni As
sociation. Other new officers are
Jean Gross, vice president; Betsy
Canada, secretary. and Dick
Wisda, treasurer.
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Cancer Society Meeting

Leigh Ore. national representa-
tive of the American Cancer So
ciety for Federal Employees. will
address meeting of the Arlington
Chapter at 8 pm. Thursday in
the Health Department.
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a year.
Mr.. w d.
bury, who re-
signed thr r e e
months ago as
city manager of
S uffolk, Va,
succeeds Roy S.
Braden.
Mr.. Braden
accepted IN e
pOSlGlOu OH n
temporary basis
August IA. He
is leaving to
accept a posi-
ton as admin
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R.Woodbury
Named Manager
ByFa||s Church
New City Official
To Take Bruden's Job
At $4,000 Salary

w. Rhodes Woodbury., 43. last
night was appointed Falls Church
city manager for an indefinite
period. His salary will be $4,000
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|McLen1ore-
Busy in Paris
Getting Well
By Henry Mel emo

By Henry McLemore
PARIS.-It has been my good
fortune to have been Ill but twice
while travelling in foreign lands,
and it has been my misfortune
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I would trail Henry McLsmore'
my doctor when he left his Of
flee to clear up a suspicion OF
mine. am sure he goes to a
theater and plays the part Of a
French physician as French physi-
clans are portrayed in American
music halls.
Looks, Acts the Part.
Certainly he looks and acts the
part. He Is diminutive, standing
little more than five feet. In his
f1fties, he sports q spade beard,
a pince-nez on a black grosgrain
ribbon, pointed black patent
leather shoes, a cutaway and
striped trousers.
The hotel recommended him.
and when I went to his combina-
ton home and Office he answered
my knock himself. Before I was
two steps In the hall he kissed
me on both cheeks, circled me a
few times like a lost pigeon. and
then bowed (but not much) and
put his head in the small Of my
back.
He said the French for respire
which is close enough to English
for me to understand, and I
respired.
Then he put his ear to my heart.
This. remember. while I was
still in the hallway.
"Magnif1que!" he cried.
He led me up spiral stairs to
his Office.
For the next ten minutes we
talked-he in pidgin English, in
pidgin French. I managed to make
out that what he wanted to know
was if I had any fever.
told him I didn't know
whether or not I had a fever. ex-
pecting all the while that he
would produce a thermometer and
see for himself.
He made me understand that he
couldn't proceed until he knew II
I were feverish or not, and that
I must find out. I swear I am tell
ing the truth when I say that he
wrote down the name and address
of drugstore (about 800 francs
distance by cab and told me to
go buy a thermometer. take my
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have to give up their exemp-
ton or deferment status-those,
that is, who can meet the 10
tests of Selective Service. And
the intimation of Maj. Gen. Her.
shey, head of Selective Service.
that it may be necessary to draft
again veterans of World War II.
The last group of young citizens
presumably have the required in
telligence, or education, or they
wouldn't be veterans.
Should Not Be Surprise.
The irony in this is that some
millions of Americas under
privileged" boys are having forced
upon them the privilege of staying
out of the war. An unintentional
working out of a curious kind of
justice, perhaps. The country.
having failed to educate them suf-
f1ciently. cannot use them as SOL
.diers.
Reports Of reflections by draft
boards have been truly depressing
as they reflect the condition. phys
ical and mental. Of the Nations S
manpower. In some localities, it
is said. six out of 10 of those called
up have been declared unfit. Sen
ator Byrd Of Virginia remarked on
this in a speech to the American
Legion the other day, but didn't
indicate that the State he rules
intends to do anything about It,,
although it ranks among the coun-
try's tail-enders in the matter of
education and public health ex-
penditures.
This state Of affairs may be a
shock to Congress. but 1t should
not be a surprise. It was revealed
by the draft in World War II and
Congress has been reminded of 1t
in every session since. 1t has been
the most compelling argument Of
fered in behalf of Federal aid-to-
education legislation and in behalf
Of various plans to improve the
Nations health. But it hasn't been
compelling enough. Other con-
siderations have seemed to out
weigh it.
Bill Hangs in Committee.
So as Congress now prepares to
adjourn there remains in a House
committee the one best bill ever
offered to meet the problem. 1t
lis a bill indorsed not only by the
President, but by virtually all of
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THE EVENING STAR Washington D. C. All
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temperature, and return with the
findings.
Returns With News.
I did this, and returned with
the news that I had little more
than degree of fever.
you must have penicillin." he
said. putting away on one of my
American cigarettes.
Then-and again I vow I am
telling you the truth-he asked
me if I had any penicillin. Asham-
edly, I had to admit that I didn't
that in my hurry to see him
had forgotten to bring along the
penicillin which every American
supposedly carries around in his
pocket.
He told me to go back to the
drugstore-after writing Il pre-
scription-and get penicillin.
There was nothing else to do,
so I went back to the drugstore,
had the prescription filled, and
presented 1t to the doctor.
I was ready to 60 back to the
Evening star., 1950-09-05
On the Other Hand
The Boys the Country Has Failed
To Educate Cannot Now Be Used

the country's educators: q bill
passed by the Republican Senate
in the 80th Congress and by the
Democratic Senate in the present
Congress. bill that is completely
partisan even In its author
ship. 1t is bill that would be
passed by a resounding majority
of the House If 1t ever reached the
floor.
But 1t hangs high and dry in q
committee. whose chairman has
contrived to make religious issue
Of it. The bill would appropriate
$500 million annually to aid State
educational systems, largely in
proportion to need and almost
wholly through the public schools
It would permit those few States
that assist parochial schools ir
such matters as transportation
and health services. however, te
follow their own laws in that
respect. The chairman in ques-
ton chooses to consider this ar
infringement on our historic sep
aration of church and State. The
dispute, ridiculous as it is. has be-
come SO warm that the House
leaders have been happy to set il
aside for another year.
Even If enacted now, of course
this legislation would not affect
the situation faced by Selective
Service this year or next year. But
we are doing many things now or
the theory that we may be in fol
a long war or. at least. a long
period of armed preparedness. Fol
that reason the present stupid
Istalemate over the education bill
should be ended and at once.
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and it now belongs to Mao Tse-
tung. because he took China from
Chang.
Under no circumstances has the
United States, who won control of
1t by the most bloody sacrifices.
any claim to it at all. For the
United States has abandoned all
claims herself. anywhere. in favor
of being a global policeman under
order of the U. N. We no longer
have any initiative Of our own.
Apparently, we may not decide
to let the people of Formosa de-
termine their own fate and with
draw, if they choose, from both
the Chang and the Mao govern
ments to the status of the Philip
pines. That would taint us with
imperialism, no matter how much
it might please Formosans And
anyway the decision lies with U. N
Mercenary Armies.
The members of u. N. who want
us to be policemen don't want us
to engage ourselves deeply in Asia
because tomorrow or next day they
will need our services in Europe. or
the Middle East, or the Mediter-
ranean, or Africa! For the world S
greatest power Is now up to fur
nishing mercenary armies of its
citizens to carry out U. N. orders,
with whose approval all wars are
noble (and for peace and without
whose approval all wars are evil
and aggressive.
Mr.. Matthews also doesn't
grasp the point. He thinks we
should go to war directly against
Russia and knock out the spider
in the central web. Thereafter
we could get another u. None
which would work.
This Is logical, too, provided Mr..
Matthews has a notion of how
to win war against 800 million
people occupying the vast central
land mass of Eurasia, and how
we could get the approval of the
free nations in between, whose
territory and populations would
be involved. For it is their ap-
proval that makes war good or
bad.
Military logic, strategical de-
fense. practical considerations
of calculated risk, and possible
victory or defeat-no longer de-
termine American policy. We
may not choose, extend, or limit
our objectives, because we have
abandoned American objectives,
in favor of war for peace-on any
ground chosen by the adversary.
That everybody. even in the in
ner circles of our Government,
has not fully grasped the impli-
cations Of this policy Is not as
tonishing.
We doubt whether the Presi-
dent has grasped them either.
Oeleased by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1950-09-05

has been taken Constantine Brown.
as an indication of a definite ten
dency of the Japanese people to-
ward the Western mode of life
A letter from an American who
arrived recently in Japan throws
a different light on the matter
however.
Last night" he wrote, "we got
to Beppu and went to the hotel
for room and bath. 1t is fright
fully hot down here and I have
spent all other nights in my car
simply because we were travelling
and I could not get off. But last
night I knew I would get a good
bath and a grand rest. Like
Hades!
Smells To High Heaven
"Beppu is city of over a halt
million. 1t is strictly a resort city
having over 100 hotels, each with
it's own hot mineral spring baths
1t is truly majestic in its scenery
but smells to high heaven. Well,
so did I after hot dusty days of
train rides through these jap
anese mountains and tunnels.
when we got to the hotel they
put large Mickey Mouse style box
ing glove coverings over our shoes
These coverings were waxed and
slick and we had to walk through
endless corridors on the most
slippery floors I have ever seen.
when I got to my room, really
a large shrine Like cabin attached
to the hotel proper by the afore-
mentioned corridor, we had to take
off our Mickey MouseS and our
shoes and go barefoot. The room
was exceptionally nice, tastily
decorated except for an epidemic
Iof pot-bellied Buddhas thai
grinned at you from countless
cubicles.
''I looked around for the bath
room and couldn't find it. I asked
one of my three girl attendants
She took me through a long maze
of corridors again and we came
to room about 20 feet square
that was full of steam and hot as
Hades. In the center of the room
was a round depression about
feet in diamenter. I said That
she? The girl replied Hail. mean
ing yes.
"After my long trek back to
Evening star., 1950-09-05

Arthur seems to Dorothy Thompson.
think that the war in Korea is
fought for the strategic defense OF
the United States in the Pacific
1t is not odd that he should think
so, because he recently command
ed many Americans who fought
World War X in the Pacific, from
island to island, on the thesis that
those islands were essential to Pa
cifc defense against an American
enemy in Asia. That is why they
died on them.
If that was true from 1941 to
1945, then, Gen. Macarthur seems
to think, it is still true, since
geography is singularly free OF
theological prejudices. If it wasn't
true from 1941 to 1945, an explain
alton would seem to be in order as
to why we fought World War II
at all.
Macarthur Called Right.
Of course, Gen. Macarthur is
absolutely right-on the thesis o1
World War II. Formosa, in the
hands of a hostile power, would be
just what he says it would: "Ar
unsuitable aircraft carrier ano
submarine tender, ideally located
TO accomplish offensive strategy
and checkmate defensive or coun.
tel offensive operations based OF
Okinawa and the Philippines"
What the general apparentl.
does not realize is that the Unitee
States is not fighting nowadays fol
it's own defense. This time we arr
fighting against sin, for peace. ane
for the United Nations. These
United Nations without Russia,
want us to defend Korea agains
aggression. jbut don't want us tx
defend Formosa, which belongs tt
China. 1t belongs to China. be-
cause two men at Cairo took i
from the Japanese and gave it tt
the China of Chang Kai-shek
Evening star., 1950-09-05
On the Record
Macarthur and Matthews Statements
Reveal Confusion in the Administration

By Dorothy Thompson
Gen. Macarthur message to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the speech of Navy Secretary Mat
thews, in Boston, revealed the
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This Changing World
Traditional Japanese Way of Living
Far From Changed in Past Five Years

my room I asked where the toilet
was and they took me on another
extended jaunt to place where,
thank Heaven, I found what /
wanted in the center of a large
room, the walls of which were
lined with mirrors.
Nov I journeyed back to my
room. undressed. put on my robe
Il am still barefoot) got my soap.
etc. and sailed forth to the bath
attended by the three girls. I
figured if they could stand 1t I
could. When I got into my big
room I disrobed, laid the soap
alongside and with dismay show
ing on the faces of the girls
eased myself into the tiled hot
spring bath.
Almost Parboiled.
IT soon found the reason for
the dismay. The cursed thing was
about 8 feet deep. smelled of sui
phur dioxide and was SO hot /
was almost parboiled. Too late I
learned that I was supposed to
sit on a bench, have the girls
dash water over me, fail me with
hot towels, and then, and then
only, I was to get into the tea
kettle. Then I found I had COM
mitted the objectionable sin of
taking soap into this cauldron.
But I am a Kentuckian, not a
Kyushuian.
"Well, finally, got back to my
room, got to bed and the girls
turned off the lights and left. I
had not even dozed when a swarm
of mosquitoes settled on me-
(They had no screens, only a
coarse netting on the sliding WIN
dows) Knowing I could not stand
that I rang for the sergeant who
had charge of my cabin. He came.
all right. but so did my girls. He
must have had an idea of what
was wrong. for he had two DDT
bombs. He cleaned out the mos
quitoes and to a degree neutral
lied the odor I had acquired in
the bath.
Again I went to bed and dozed
off. but shortly was awakened by
a sound like pellets of some kind
hitting the walls, the mating on
the floor and finally me. I let out
a loud squawk again, and again
in came the sergeant and the
girls. They were all apparently
genuinely astounded-and so was
for all over the room was a
swarm Of Japanese beetles. They
said that never before at this
time of the year had they seen
them in the hotel or the grounds.
I said. We'll, you see them now,
and I did not bring them with
me, but you do something about
them Out came the inevitable
DOT. We assassinated the beasts,
which were not the dainty, grace
full fellows who used to consume
my wife's roses in our Washing
ton garden, but were large ugly,
fierce thugs.
AFTER that I got to sleep, but
| it seemed like only a half hour
It'll my girls came in with break
fast"
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drugstore where the druggist
was calling me by my first name
at this time and get hypo--
dermic needle, but wonder Of won-
ders, the doctor had one.
He popped penicillin into me,
escorted me to the doorway, and
saw me off - all without asking
me my name or address. I told
him my name and where I was
staying and he said he would
come by and see me the next
morning at ten.
He was there on the dot and
so help me, I am honest-he said.
I needed one more shot of penicii-
lin. Without saying a thing, I got
up. slipped on a suit, and went
to the drugstore and bought some
penicillin. 3.s..
When I returned he, having told
Jean that he was tires fatigue"
was enjoying a half bottle Of wine
and making another dent In my
American cigarettes.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, 1ne)
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may have to be
lowered in or
der to bring our
fighting forces
up to the num-
ber now re-
quired. And his
further state
m e n t III a t
pending such
action. because
OF the 1mmedi-
ate need for
men, ou n G
t a t h erS and
others with de-
nandanfS naN
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to have both
illnesses come
in Paris.
Nothing seri-
Gus, mind you.
b u t sufficient
sickness to war
rant a phySi-
clan.
I want to tell
you today about
the Paris doc
tor who is at
t e n d in G me
now. If I felt a
little bit better
Evening star., 1950-09-05

confusion that
exists in the in
ner circles of
our GOV ern =
m e n t. G IN.
Macarthur had
to be told that
t h e w h i t e
| House was run
n in g foreign
| policy, and Mr..
| Matthews h a d
to be rebuked
by the State De-
partment.
Gen. M &C
Evening star., 1950-09-05

nve years nave
completely rev.
olutionized the
tr a d tion a !
japanese man
ner of living.
For instance,
the fact that
Emperor Hiro-
hito opens the
Diet wearing
striped trousers
and a cutaway
| coat instead of
the traditional
| japanese robes
Evening star., 1950-09-05
By Lowell MeHeft

What awful irony there is In
the statement of Chairman Vinson
Of the House Armed Services Com
mittee that intelligence standards