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Evening star., 1950-10-08
FOUNTAIN HELP

GENERAL CLERK, must be good with
figures. high school educ. nee, some
bookkeeping exper. desirable but
not nee. Apply Room 800. S1t
GENERAL oFFIcE WORKER for den.
tai office. Reply to Box 226-Z, Star
GEN. OFFICE WORKER. 1885. 6
days s, wk; Can olympic S222: lie
4552, Ext. 105.
GROCERY CHECKER
Experienced only. Excellent working
conditions. 5A-day week, excellent
Apply IF? 1727 CONN. AVE
HOSTESS. part-time for tea room
Sa5s sSaaays 70 eti Mxefddaas'' Mehdsss' cal e %o
HoUsEKEEPER COMPANION. white
for widow; suburbs, good home, me-
dium salary; refs: Box 2S2-A, Star
HOUsEKEEPER. for widower. some
Box 296-A. Star.
HoUsEKEEPER. white; main duty
planning and cooking meals fol-
three priests. Nice living quarters
Maid to do heavy work. Write:
PASTOR; iAsrIs 25oo Cypress ave-. Alex 6
HOUSEKEEPER-NU white, nom
smoker; elderly couple. wife requires
some nursing care. good salary and
board; pleasant apartment. Box
31-A, Star.
institution: Protestant. white: live
in. ~6291 Greentree rd.. Bethesda.
HOUSEWoRKER. plain cooking, fond
of children, experienced; own room
SI23 monthly. Write MRS. S.
HORNIK, $50 Derby ave-, Wood
mere, Long Island, N Y.
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TELEPHONIST
Telenhnne Qneratnr

For collection work. no experience
necessary. Apply Mr. Hannoch,
MARVINS CREDIT. 734 7th st. NV.
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CLERK

General clerk. white, age 2o-3O: per.
manent position, with Opportunity
for advancement; good salary. Ap-
ply personnel Office, MANHATTAN
CO, 1928 Florida ave-. NV, S-Ig
noon Monday, q
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only: high pay; steady. all-year-
around Job. Apply EXQUISITE
CLEANERS, 3700 Georgia ave. NV.
SILK FINISHERS and wool pressers.
exper.; good pay. SAFEWAY CLEAN
ERS. rear 1928 Ga. ave.
permanent employment in Hayre de
Grace. Md. Contact Mr.. Speer, LU.
4-3700, or address inquiries to CAR
ROLLS LAUNDRY. 14th and r
SITS. Sc. B
SNACK BAR ATTENDANT, perma-
nent position for active young wom-
near Navy Dept; must be #. 8,
prefer experienced; 5-day week,
7:30 to 4. GOVERNMENT SERV-
ICES, INC, 1135 els: st. NV. 3
Evening star., 1950-07-24
By Charles E. TrocewaI

Of giving them a demonstration Of
cleanup, paint-up."
After the brood has been raised, and
the nest deserted, the watcher should
take down the house and remove every
thing from inside.
II possible, all bird houses should be
50 built that they are easily taken apart.
They may be left to air and sun for sew
eral days.
Even if it is impossible to take them
apart, it Is easy to take them down and
clean them out. then put them back
again.
After that, the houses may be left to
their own devices.
It is not good thing; to keep peering
at them, on the old kitchen theory that
a watched pot never boils.
While wrenS are not shy, and will build
almost any place, at amy time, they do
seem to have some sense OF privacy, and
do not want their home lives supervised
too closely,
After the eggs are laid, if q human
comes to the nest, the parents often re-
fuse to return as long as any one is seen
to be watching.
A nest Of eggs may even be believed
deserted, when all the itime the parents
are merely waiting for imQuisitive humans
to stop poking their noses into their
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whether he should 60 out on the town, run the
risk OF falling among evil companions and per-
haps never go home at all.
In the early days of his new freedom, he may
quite frequently fancy himself as retreaded
man-about-town. Several hours In jovial COM
pany may lead him to imagine that he is as
dashing fellow as he ever was, and soon he may
be seen making his way to the phone booth and
shakily dialing the number of an old fame But
his performance as a gay blade is not very con-
vincing to either one Of them and is soon given
up.
In time he realizes too that all the talk
about the rush given an extra man in the Capital
is just that. The best that happens to him is
that compassionate friends invite him to dinner
He goes thankfully, bearing gifts for his hostess
and showing an eagerness to help with the
dishes that would cause his wife acute concern.
BY the time the family is due to return, this
poor ship without sail is counting the days He
cannot wait to escape back into the chains that
bind him.
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This and That

When he got back, he found Jenny still
looking around for the house.
Evidently she had given over her origi-
nal idea Of using the clothespin bag.
Hastily installing the wren house
again, the carpenter went indoors to
watch from the window.
Sure enough, the wren few to the
house, looked in, then disappeared bodily,
sticks and all, into the cavity.
The new wren house was success.
"Will you please enlighten me as to the
use Of q wren house hung in q tree?"
writes II. F. Of Carolina place.
II put one out this spring-a pair of
wrens occupied it, and raised their young.
Nov will wrens occupy it again?
Should the house be cleaned out
now?"
It is best to help the wrens by doing
little housecleaning for them.
Sometimes they work at it themselves
but mostly seek another house.
Animals and birds. not having our type
of minds, fail to clean up after them
selves, either in housing or any other
matter Members Of the cat family may
be said to have the closest approximation
to mans ideas of sanitation.
Birds are beset by lice and other
parasites.
If an observer wants to keep his wrens
happy. he will go to the slight trouble
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Here is wren story, true to life.
A householder found wren carry
ing sticks and putting them in bag
of clothespins left hanging on the line.
What to do?
One didn't want nest amid the
clothespins. One did not care to disturb
Jenny Wren.
The disturbed householder went in
doors, and quickly threw up an i'm
promptu wren house.
He installed the house on the post
few feet from the clothespin bag.
y X
When Jenny Wren flew back, she was
much excited over the house.
She looked at the bag, then looked at
the fresh new house.
Some people think birds will not nest
in a. freshly made house.
It ought to weather, they say.
Mrs. Wren said, ''Nonsense!"
She tried her best to poke her small
sticks through the new house door, but
found it too small.
She pushed her head in, tried to gel
the rest Of her through, failed and backed
out.
The householder decided on some more
quick action.
He removed the house from the post,
took i indoors and bored the entrance
large1S q
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Congress Deserves q Ruise

Retired Federal Employe" makes a
very definite complaint against an in
crease in Congressional salaries. Isn't
that silly? Is man mendicant be-
cause he is an Ambassador or member
OF the United States Congress?
We elect. or are supposed to elect, the
most capable men in each State or Dis
trict to the Senate and the House. Our
country's security depends on this.
We are supposed to appoint the most
capable men available to our embassies
This determines the success of our for
eign policy.
disagree with Thomas E. Dewey on
many things, but. he has been a mag
niflcent Governor of New York. Even
the Democrats admit this He is re-
firing. mainly, because he just can't
afford to hold the job.
believe that most Of our members
Of Congress are fine and capable men.
If didn't, would say: "The hell with
our form of Government" But, are these
men supposed to sacrifice their families
and careers for a pittance?
They should form union. The coun-
try would be amazed at the amount of
overtime pay they would collect.
Let's give our Congress and diplomatic
corps a decent break and stop gripping.
Why should they spend their own money
to pay for the privilege of doing a job
for our benefit?
Andy Larman.
Baltimore.
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Guns-But Little Butter

When this country was rearming for World
War II the theme song of the period was that
we were going to have guns and butter, too.
OF course as we began to turn out the guns
and the other tools OF war we found that there
was less and less butter But the fiction that
war need not cut deeply into our comfortable
American living standards continued to be pop
ular with the politicians and with many of
the people.
Because this has never been true, and be-
cause it will be even less true this time than last
Senators Taft and OMahoney have rendered
something Of service in their candid discus
sion of some of the things we can look forward
to over the next decade or So
The danger of war with the Russians is
0orcing us into what Senator Taft describes
as a "semimilitary" condition of partial mo-
bilization-a condition that we should expect
to accept as normal" over at least the next
10 to Is years. This new state of normalcy Is
going to require that about 20 per cent Of our
production be devoted to- military purposes and
is going to add from 10 to Is billion dollars
year to our present $13-billion-a-year military
budget.
Both Senators were emphatic in their as
Bertions that much heavier taxes are essential.
Senator Taft thinks that the whole additional
bill should be handled on a pay-as-you-go basis;
In OEner WORDS, CnaC taxes must DC upQeQ Dy 1EOn
$40 billion to SIS billion. Senator OMahoney
says "it will be great mistake to assume that
additional economic controls placed in the
hands of the President can be any sort Of
substitute for increased taxation"
The thought behind both of these views Is
that the best way to check imitation is to boost
taxes so high that the people will not have
enough money to bid up the prices OF goods.
Such a tax program, of course, would also tend
to prevent prohteering and keep the Federal
deficit picture from getting more alarming than
It already is.
We would be something less than clear
headed about this business, however, If we
did not recognize that even more drastic meas
ures may be necessary, and that, at best, it Is
going to be very difficult politically to induce
the American people to accept such program
as normal over long period Of time. Perhaps
the greatest danger is that we will lapse back
into a state of unpreparedness because Of the
political risks inherent in keeping such q pro-
gram in force Another possibility is how
ever that the people will get thoroughly fed
UP with this slow bleeding process and decide
that they would rather have the real war
and get 1t over with.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
By Phillips Talbot

A MERICAN police action" against
n aggression in South Korea will not
by itself gain complete support for United
States policies of resisting communism
in other sensitive areas of Asia.
The opinion of many influential Asians
that the United States is still blundering
in the Far East rests on their conclusion
that We are backing horses that can't
run. By supporting 'repudiated" leaders
and European imperialism in Asia. they
argue, America purSues a self-defeating
course in the battle against other ideol-
ogies. American policies toward Formosa
and Indo- China rate the strongest op-
position.
The differences arise over long-range
goals. On that immediate issue of aid to
South Korea, the u. N.-U. S. military
action was supported by India, Pakistan,
Burma. Thailand and the Philippines.
From my tour through South Asian
countries this last winter and spring,
I believe that Americans rightly see
India'sA Endorsement Of the Security
Council resolution as particularly vital.
1t gave an Asian verdict that the Ko-
rean conflict is q moral issue of oppos-
ing aggression.
But despite this support on the central
Korea issue, rumblings of basic dissent
to Americas policies are growing in
South Asia.
Specifically, India and other nations
have refused to associate with American
Endorsement Of Chang Kai-shek as
China's leader on Formosa or with fur
ther military aid for the French and
ex-Emperor Bao Dai in Indo-C China.
On China, Pandit Nehru has argued
that any realistic Asian policy should
recognize that Communist Mao Tse-
tung's government is in control. AS Mao
is there and cannot be wished away,
Nehru's spokesman urge that continued
support to Chang, "who has been repu-
dated by his own people" is just thorn
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Bottle Futique'
F. L. Freeman.

The Capital Transit Company won
ders what is the secret Of the steady de-
crease in patronage atteSted by It's dimin-
ishing receipts. Certainly one Of the
main causes, which is by no means q
secret. is the total lack Of decent regard
for the comfort of its patrons, particu-
larly with reference to the infection Of
unlimited and unwelcome advertising and
so-called music upon them.
Recently the company has INDUCED in
an added imposition upon unwilling rid
ers. It has extended the time Of its
broadcasting on its vehicles from to
10 pm, and this without any notice Of
its intentions,-slyly, as it were. and ap-
parently soft-pedaling this extension Of
intrusion upon our rights as citizens.
This is imposition by inSinuation.
Granted that real music might not be
Objectionable to many who are opposing
this forced entertainment, we insist that
the mess Of jazz. swing, blues. and mis-
cellaneous carousel racket which is pre-
dominant in our musical vehicles is some
thing that would appeal naturally to no
one more enlightened than an aborigine.
We are suffering from a sort Of domes-
tic battle fatigue" imposed not by war
for justice, but by the whims Of COM
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Primuveru

Descending a marble balustrade the girls
in pastel dresses
Accompany the sailors IN their binding
summer 1Dhite;;
In the park the tridescent pigeons preen
and moan,
Fountains erupt In Jets of sparkling
diamond light.
Students expand from Information to
sunshine
And stoIid nursemuids put forth
tentative NotDer;;
Euen the shabby INDECENT on paint scaled
bench
Becomes trGnsfgured nop IN this
Shtn1mering hour.
And brightly gay as magenta bloom on
the Judas trees
The organ grinder and tOizened
monkey, the ancient pair,
Collect their pennies in impIoring cap
or cup
And scatter Puccini and Verdi on the
brilliant air.
q FREDERICK EBRIGHT. J
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Mackenzie King

whole generation of Canadians looked to
william Lyon Mackenzie King for leadership in
public business. He was Prime Minister of the
Dominion through 81 years OF drasticaly chang
ing times. Canada under his administration
altered little. In that single fact his services
may be summarized. He set an example Of con-
Structive liberality in doctrine and policy,
steering middle course between radicalism and
conservatism. Again and again Canadian citi-
zens approved his procedure He might have
been "colorless" and "a born compromiser," as
his critics said, but he was what his countrymen
wanted.
Intimately acquainted with Frapklin D.
Roosevelt and repeatedly associated with him in
different activities of Importance to the whole
English-speaking group of nations, Mr.. King very
well might have followed him into Canadian
version of the New Deal. There were many per-
sons in his circle who would have approved such
a move. But Mr.. King did not make the expert
ment. Instead, he resisted the trend toward
socialization, with the result that Canada today
is one of the least socialized countries in the
world. However, it certainly Is not reactionary or
unprogressive. The old-fashioned liberalism
which Mr.. King symbolized was not a sterile
force. It encouraged individual initiative which
was immensely productive of humanitarian
gains, cultural advancement and security
For people on this side of the border the
Dominion's principal elected officer was above
all else good neighbor. Mr.. King gave himself
unreservedy to the proposition that Canada and
the United States possess o common destiny He
knew that his country could not survive in
freedom without the friendship of our country,
and he knew likewise that we need the goodwill,
the sympathy and the fellowship of the Domin-
ion Whenever opportunity offered he took ad-
vantage Of it to bind the two continental COM
munities together in mutual solidarity The
Quebec conferences Of 194s and 1914 were but
two cases in point.
1t should be emphasized, though, that Mr.
King was an authentic world figure. In the
imperial councils in London he spoke for the
principle Of democracy as a bridge between the
past and the future He recognized communism
as O menace and urged cooperative measures of
defense against it. Dying at rs, he had lived to
witness the fulfillment of his fears; but he also
had lived to see his basic faith in freedom justi-
fed. A compelling crisis prevails at the moment
Of his departure and much that was dear to him
In civilization admittedly is imperiled yet he had
not despaired and neither do we who are left to
face the challenge. r
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Reds, Teachers and Dictionaries

r. c. Kraft in his letter Of July IA,
accuses the National Education AsSoci-
alton Of intolerance" towards Commu-
mist teachers because "these people think
differently from the majority"
Such superficial application of the
principle Of freedom Of speech and
thought granted to us by the American
Constitution is based on ignorance of
the nature of the diabolical doctrine of
communism.
Communism is not just a different
idea. Had Mr.. Webster known what
communism really is, in practical appli-
cation, he certainly would have revised
his definition quoted in Mr.. Kraft's let
ter: "The doctrine Of having property
In common-SocialiSm."
There are no socialists" in Russia.
If there are any alive. they can be found
in the slave labor Concentration camps
among the 10 to IA million of other
enemies of peoples democracy"
The American Communists adhere i'm
plicitly to the Russian Communist Party
line. Therefore the National Education AS
sociation has very truthfully and clearly
defined the reason why members Of the
Communist Party should not be employed
as teachers:
Communist membership involves ad-
herence to doctrines and discipline COM
pletely inconsistent with the principles
of freedom on which American educa-
tion depends.
"It is because members of the Com
munist Party are required to surrender
the right to think for themselves, as a
consequence Of becoming part Of move
ment characterized by conspiracy and
calculated deceit, that they should be
excluded from employment as teachers"
Irving Alexander Zaret.
With the trend Of events today so
clear-cut, how can any person who claims
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Letters to The Star

to have an interest in our democracy
continue to quibble about words and
keep his eyes searching a dictionary!
What do we care what Mr.. Webster's
definition of Communism" Is? Every
body knows that the word, as used in
your timely editorial Of July 8 and as
generally understood in present day
speech, refers to the ungodly situation
stemming from Moscow and reaching
into our own beloved land: A theory of
government in which property is not
held in common, but rather one in which
the majority work to support the few,
even to the extent Of human degrada-
ton below the level of dumb animals.
IF Communists believe in communism,
let us bear with thern," writes Mr. Kraft.
Well. we have long and patiently tried
to bear with Communists almost too
long and patiently.
You can't bear long with somebody
whose ultimate purpose is to dominate
or destroy you. believe In freedom Of
thought, speech, and action, but freedom
must be governed by the laws Of justice
and right, not of intrigue or might. And
we certainly must guard our children
from this evil influence.
John A. Lacy.
Mr. Webster's (and Mr.. Kraft's, in case
any one cares) definition Of communism
Is an insult to the intelligence Of any
one who can read. The first thing that
communism (and fascisn) is, is die
tatorship. What either of them may
purport to be, beyond that, is wholly
immaterial to me-
Dictatorship and freedom Of thought
are mutually exclusive concepts: Where
dictatorship prevails. there can be no
freedom of thought-where freedom Of
thought prevails. there can be no dicta-
torship.
I reject dictatorship; I reject any
creed which proclaims the establish
ment of dictatorship as It's goal, and I
reject all the adherents Of such creed.
individually and collectively. We can
not have both dictatorship and free
dom of thought"
F. L. Freeman.
Coral Hills, Md.
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in the flesh which prevents an Asian
settlement
For this reason, India holds that Mao
Tse-tung's Communist regime should get
China's seat in the Security Council.
Nehru Is no Communist. His govern
ment has stuffed many hundreds Of
home-g grown Communists into It's jails.
These facts reinforce the impact Of his
views on nationalists in Burma, Indo-
nesia and elsewhere. While they do not
reflect official thinking in Thailand and
the Philippines, the United States can
ignore them only with great risk in
advocating its own different non Com
munist policy.
AS to Indo- China. another strong
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The Joint Defense Secretaries

Unified civilian control of the armed services
will be strengthened by the formation OF the
Joint Secretaries new top-level co-ordlnating
committee at the Pentagon. Why someone did
not think of this plan earlier is surprising, for
such an arrangement is q logical development
under the unif1cation program. Just as the Joint
Chiefs of Staff coordinate plans and policies in
the military field so the Joint Secretaries will be
able better to coordinate plans and policies Of
the three defense departments in the administra-
tive field.
The plan calls for the Secretaries Of the
Army Navy and Air Force to meet regularly at
frequent intervals to discuss not only interde-
partmental relations but problems having "broad-
scale international political implications" Dur
ing the present crisis the group has been meeting
as many as two or three times day. Subjects
already discussed at these meetings include the
military aid program, ALLEGATION OF defense
funds among the three branches, recruitment Of
manpower, censorship problems, disqualification
needs and the like.
The organization evolved from series of
informal irregular conferences among the
secretaries prior to the outbreak Of the Korean
war. The need fer closer integration of ad-
miniStrative functions had been pointed out by
the Hoover Commission in it's report on national
security, but no specific recommendation was
made for such an executive committee as now
has been created. Instead, the commission urged
Capitalization of civilian authority in the Sec
retary of Defense, with the heads of the three
departments working harmoniously under him
as team Nor did the National Security Act,
which effected unification of defense activities.
provide for the Joint Secretaries setup, although
1t directed reorganization of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
II the Joint Secretaries plan continues to
work out as well as it has to date it ought to be
given permanent status by legislative enactment
For coordination of overall political policies
related to warfare is no less important than uni
ned military action.