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Evening star., 1950-08-31
This and That !.

Slowly and circuitously he approached
my open hand which had laid upon the
log. and the next thing knew he was in
my hand nibbling his sweetmeat.
Tt was really thrill to have this little
wild thing treat me as friend.
"I longed to stroke his beautiful fur
but was afraid to make any move that
might frighten him.
HE feeds from my hand every day, or
rather takes food, for he doesn't always
He stuffs his jaws until he looks as if
he had bad case of swollen glands, and
then he dashes off to his tunnels to store
the food away, generally returning for
more.
II sometimes stick a piece of peanut
brittle high on my arm and he goes right
up for it. I have given him also bread
graham crackers, nuts and small grapes,
all of which he apparently likes.
There are two chipmunks, but have
only seen them together once. I cannot
tell them apart, but judge they must take
their sun baths at different times and
that one is more timid than the other, as
sometimes Chippy Boy, as call him, re-
spends fairly readily to my overtures. and
at other times is excessively shy and
takes long time to decide to partake of
the feast.
IF you can offer any suggestions as to
tanning these little wild creatures and
also give me diet list for them will
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Federal Aid Has a Limit

Although there are differences to be ironed
out, both branches of Congress now are on record
in favor of helping the States control the SLOT
machine racket. The legislation favored by the
Senate and House is the first to emerge from
recommendations of the Attorney Generals
Crime Conference of last spring. The plan is
the least controversial of the recommendations
The advisabiity of projecting the Federal Gov
ernment any further into the local law enforce
ment field than is proposed in the slot-machine
bill is questionable. The chances are that
demands for greater Federal intervention in
local crime control would subside if local author
tiles did a better job of enforcing State laws
already on the books. This applies to gambling
and many other crimes
The House slot-machine bill would not affect
Nevada, where slot machines are legal, or any
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Letters to The Star /.
A pseudonym Is permissible only
aOhen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Driter. Please be brief.

ing their American heritage of freedom
Labor Day symbolizes the American
way of freedom and opportunity for the
worker This is the time when all sec
tions of the public pay tribute to labor.
In many lands labor groups are class
set apart and exploited. Here labor.
under our freedoms has achieved dig
nifty. recognition, strong unions. indus
trial rights, the highest standard of liv-
ing in the world. prosperity and oppor-
tunity for advancement.
The preservation of our basic individ-
ual rights has brought our Nation to
its present high status. Fruits of this
freedom can be lost unless we all work
together-labor and management and
every individual citizen, by voluntary
and effective active participation in all
the duties of good citizenship.
This Labor Day let us resolve that we
will do all within our power to maintain
and preserve our way of freedom.
James X. Hall.
Evening star., 1950-08-31

within easy motoring distance of down.
town Washington.
The highway connection with the
center Of the city will be a vital factor.
Any additional time required to reach
the new airport would place airlines
using it in bad competitive position
with those assigned to National Airport.
The Annandale area, given access
roads, could be reached almost as
quickly as National Airport, now that
Shirley Memorial Highway is available
A possible site.in Fairfax County farther
to the north and west would be acces-
sible to Lee boulevard
Representative Smith said it is his un-
derstanding that the Fairfax Board of
Supervisors has no objection to an air.
port being located in the county If the
board is consulted first to insure that
the site is not too near residential areas
Many airmen believe. however, that
Annandale. about nine miles west Of Ma
tional Airport. is too close for safety in
view of the fact that Nationals traffic
pattern must take into account that of
Andrews 10 miles to the east, as well
as that of the two military bases across
the Potomac.
They want to see new airport located
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Senator Byrd's Critic Criticized

Readers of The Star letter column
may be interested to learn more con-
corning T. D. Shumate jr.. whose letter
criticizing Senator Byrd appeared Thurs
day.
Mr.. Shumate, graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia. was the head of
the dissident political faction termed
Straight Democratic Ticket" (Truman)
in the 1948 political campaign at the
university. His group arose in opposi-
tlon to the more popular States Rights
Democratic Young Democratic group.
Mr.. Shumate's political activities seem
somewhat limited to the rather negative
approach of attacking Virginian and ma
itonally prominent conservative Demo-
Gratis. 1t is to be hoped that one day
he will declare outrightly his pro-Tru-
man pro-Socialist feelings. AS for Sena-
tor Byrd, find his views quite clear.
Warren Keith Salisbury,
President, University of Virginia
Young Democratic Club.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Increase the Droft-Now

What are we waiting for?" asks Senator
Lodge. I'VE should not leave Washington" he
told the Senate, until we have amended the
Selective Service Act so it can provide an Army
of at least 80 divisions and armed forces totaling
at least 100000 men,"
We have gone to war against aggression in
Korea. We have undertaken the prevention of
any attack on FormoSa. We have announced to
the world that we are prepared to resist aggres-
sion wherever it shows itself. Congress is giving
the President controls over the economic life of
the Nation and is appropriating some $42 billion
for defense expenditures.
Yet we are fixing our sights, under the
selective Service Act on an increase of only
$4,000 men for the armed services in this fiscal
year. adding only five or six divisions in the Army.
BY the end of this fiscal year we shall have
something more than million men under arms.
The present Selective Service Act, as Senator
Lodge interprets it, is designed to procure only
about 2,500000. It's limitations, in this respect,
evidently are governed by exemptions of law and
of regulation. Senator Lodge wants the draft
law amended, and amended now, increasing its
procurement capabilities to at least 5000 OO0-
as compared with 100000 men under arms at
the end of World War II.
It may be that the armed services cannot
absorb more than the draft is now supplying.
Through September Selective Service will have
called up about $4,000 men. Another $4,000 may
be called up in october and like number in
November. AS facilities and training personnel
are increased these drafts no doubt will be
increased. But in the meantime, thousands of
men who served in the past war are being called
up for service at the front, while exemptions
written into the existing Selective Service Act
restrict the number of young men, without
previous service, who can be called and put into
training.
Senator Lodge is correct in demanding that
the Selective Service Act be amended now to
provide the men who are going to be necessary
to fulfill the minimum of commitments we have
made for the next several years, at least They
cannot be drafted faster than the Defense De-
partment can absorb them. But it Is unrealistic
not to act now to increase the potential draft to
what future need demands
Evening star., 1950-08-31
New Airport Site Maybe III D to T truman
By w. H. Shippen

DRESIDENT TRUMAN, like the late
u President Roosevelt. may have to
step In and determine the site for Wash
ington's new airport.
At least six locations are still under
consideration, now that Congress has au-
thorized $14 million for the project.
Moreover. the current problem is more
complex than it was when Mr.. Roosevelt
decided to build National Airport on
Gravelly Point
While the choice seems to be narrow
ing down to nearby Fairfax County, Va,
locations in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, Md, are still being
weighed by a committee headed by Rob-
ert P. Boyle, deputy general counsel OF
the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
For obvious reasons no official decision
can be announced until land acquisition
is well under way, and this must be based
on detailed surveys after requirements as
to acreage, access roads. traffic separa-
ton, ETC., have been determined by the
planners. Congress has yet to appropriate
money to buy the land.
The new legislation requires that the
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission be consulted. Members recently
visited Baltimore's new Friendship Inter-
national Airport in quest OF ideas. The
commission is known to favor q site in
Fairfax County as part of a long-range
plan for the development of the Wash
ington area.
Representative Smith. Democrat, of
Virginia is convinced the additional
airport will be located somewhere near
Annandale, in Fairfax County, possibly
In a large wooded area between the
Southern Railroad and the Alexandria
Fairfax highway" Mr.. Smith said he
did not know the exact location, but it
probably will be beyond Annandale and
this side of Fairfax.
1t was known, however, that the CAA
committee has one other site in mind
near Chantilly. Va. along with one in
the general area of Congressional Air
port this side of Rockville, Md. and
three more in Prince Georges County.
The possibility still exists, it was
learned, that deal" can be made with
the military to give up Andrews Air
Force Base to commercial use and move
into field which could be constructed
under the current authorization at a
somewhat greater distance from Wash
ington.
In the years since the war, the CAA
repeatedly has recommended that
start be made toward land acquisition
because of expanding residential areas.
and the increasing cost of real estate
Evening star., 1950-08-31

to the north or northwest of Washington,
to enforce safe separation in instrument
weather-the time of greatest congestion
at National Airport.
Passenger transports are getting bigger
and faster, and require more room in
which to make procedure turns in periods
of poor visibility.
The difficulty of finding suitable loca-
ton in Montgomery County is increased
by the fact that the Maryland Park and
Planning Commission opposes an airport
there unless located beyond Rockville.
Prince Georges County already is pretty
well saturated with small airports, and
large section to the northeast of Wash
ington would be unsuitable because it
lies on the main air route to Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York.
Final selection of Gravelly Point as the
site for National Airport was preceded by
years of controversy. Mr.. Roosevelt finally
decided the matter by quietly ordering
Army Engineers to begin pumping gravel
behind retaining walls to build up run
ways from marshland.
1t seems probable President Truman
may be called on to take some such posi-
tive action in the present case.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Our Invasion of Formoso

Jacob Malik seems to have wound up his
month as president of the Security Council with
propaganda victory by obtaining approval of
his proposal to investigate what he calls the
invasion" of Formosa by the United States.
Actually, it is not much of victory. But it
possibly can be made to look like something when
the United States after trying futilely to get an
investigation of the invasion of South Korea,
suddenly turns up as defendant in the case of
Formosa.
This has come about as result of Mr. Maliks
obstructionist tactics in the role of presiding
officer. With the war more than two months old,
he has been able to prevent any investigation of
the North Korean aggression, not to mention
any inquiry into Russias probable guilt as insti-
gator of that aggression. 1t looks however, as if
Mr.. Malik has come to the end of his roadblock
tactics. In agreeing to investigate the FormoSa
complaint from the Chinese Communist regime
the Security Council stipulated that this question
be placed at the bottom of the agenda. In other
words our invasion" of Formosa will be taken
up after the Council, under the presidency of
Brtain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, disposes of the
Korean issue.
The Formosa investigation, of course, will be
exploited up to the hilt by the Communists for
propaganda purposes. But that cannot be helped.
In voting to take up the question, Mr. Austin
acted consistently with this Governments posi-
tion that it has nothing to hide in connection
with the decision to defend the island and that
it would welcome an investigation of what has
been done.
Needless to say there will be embarrassments
Such things as the political difference with some
of our Allies over recognition of the Red China
regime, and General MacArthur's recent state
ment, will be sources of ammunition for Mr.
Malik But we have no real choice except to put
our cards on the table, and strive to get across
to the world the true versions of what we have
done and why we have done it.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Civil Service for $4,000

Any time that Federal employees are blank
eted under civil service by Presidential order and
thereby achieve parity with associates who won
their status by the accepted method of competi-
tive examination, the factor of discrimination
necessarily enters the picture in some degree.
The current situation which finds about
$4,000 temporary and wartime workers-argely
the latter-becoming eligible for all the benefits
of the merit system, including transfer and pro-
motion rights, and equality in consideration in
reductions in force, is not wholly free of the
faint. The Civil Service Commission however,
in support of President Truman's covering order,
defends it as being dictated by the principles of
good administration and further, as recogni-
ton OF the past services of the beneicaries
Primarily according to the commission the
blanketing order will serve to stabilize Govern
ment employment at time when there are
increasing demands for manpower because of
the new defense program. Again, many of the
workers are in categories for which no examir1a-
tions have been held recently or for which
employment registers have failed to produce
sufficient eligibeS Others have risen from lower
grades to positions for which examinations are
not customarily held
In substance the matter finally resolves it.
self into one where individuals have rendered
efficient service for perhaps as much as eight
years; they still are needed and to hold large
scale examinations with the incumbents in many
simply establishing fitness for their jobs,
would put the Government to costly examining
process with no good purpose served. The same
situation developed after World War I, but the
employees blanketed in then were only fraction
of those now receiving coverage.
Had it not been for the new defense program,
many of those now getting civil service status
with its connotation of permanence-would grad
ually have been weeded out of the Government
in the force reductions under way since the peak
employment of World War II. But under the
new scheme of things, a civilian machine geared
to wartime needs is a prospect for long in the
future.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Macarthur UNo Commander

ITO my way of thinking" as the late
AL Smith. many times Governor of New
York used to say there was absolutely
no warrant or justification for the Presi-
dent to demand the withdrawal of Gen.
Douglas MacArthurs statement to the
Veterans of Foreign Wars relative to the
protection of the island of Formosa for
American strategic military purposes.
To begin with, although Gen. Mac
Arthur is. in fact. military officer SUBJ
ject to the Chief Executive-our Com
mander in Chief of the military forces
of the United States-yet, so far as his
present extraordinary duties are con-
cerned, Gen. Macarthur, by express
action taken by the General Assembly
of the UNO, is commander in chief of
the latter's forces now operating in
Korea.
In that singularly peculiar capacity,
Gen. Macarthur is accountable alone
to the UNO, and the President has no
control over him or his activities We
all know full well. who have kept abreast
Of the carnage that is being waged in
Korea, that it is beyond the letter and
the spirit of our constitutional authority.
Congress-not the Presidents specif-
ically the war-making power in the
framework of our Government Article 7,
Section 8, Clause IL, of the Constitution
of the United States. in crystal-clear
language, provides: 1.-The Congress shall
have power to declare war"
Congress. neither by jot nor little, di-
rectly or indirectly. has made dec
laration of war empowering the military
forces of the United States to participate
in a war in Korea. We, the United
States, are engaged in the Korean war
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Labor Day Thoughts

Labor. like other groups in the United
States, has an enormous stake in all
efforts to make this Nation stronger and
better. and to promote our individual
freedoms.
Workers have had vital role in the
evolution of freedom in the United
States They have helped to maintain
and extend the liberties of the individual,
which we cherish so highly in this land
They have defended freedom, enriched
it and improved it. Their position as
workers and citizens in this great land
gives them proud reason for safeguard
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Natural Law and Taxi Drivers

Wilbur La Roe. jr., in letter to The
Star august 26) objects to competition
and part-time taxi driving by Govern
ment workers. He says that there IS
temptation to driver to engage, in
bootlegging or other unlawful activities"
when it Is too hard to make an honest
living. His whole letter is typical of the
times and of the attitude of many who
are unwilling to solve their own prob
lens but want Papa Government to do
1t or a union.
If enough men get fed up with driving
taxis, the field automatically will adjus.,
itself to higher wages. Controls and
unions are false elements working
against the natural law of supply and
demand. When we had no unions, we
had lower taxes. Think that over.
1t is hoped the police will crack down
on taxi speeders (who violate every law
in the book and elevate the examina-
tion standards to reduce drivers. De-
tectives should take occasional rides in
taxis to check up.
Taxi Rider,
Evening star., 1950-08-31

by virtue and in pursuance of our mem
bership in the UNO. It inevitably
follows. therefore, that Gen. Macarthur
is the sole military representative of the
UNO, and the President of the United
States has no control over his manage
ment OF that war. In the circumstances,
it was nothing short of supererogation
for the President to demand suppression
OF Gen. MacArthur's statement to the
convention of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. John E. Hoover.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Cornution Wind

Carnations tossing and lightly famed
Transform, the aDifld to a cinnamon ,Dind.
A 1oiud ,Oith breath OF mystery,
As though it bletD from across the sea,
From isles of fortune and isles OF spice
or isles of sugar or tea or rice
And not from gardens spiced tDith labors
OF you and all your nearest neighbors.
ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Opposes Mob Demonstrations

Congratulations on your editorial of
August 26. entitled God Help America"
In these times, it seems of the utmost
Importance that we still retain our equi-
librium.
In our zeal to protect the American
way of life, we may ultimately extinguish
our cherished freedom if recent incidents
in California and Georgia, in which per-
sons who refused to say whether or not
they were Communists. were beaten by
mobs, continue unabated. Once we give
way to emotional thinking and attempt
to suppress ideas. no matter how re-
pulsive or repugnant to us, without due
process of law, then it appears that we
are deviating from one of the great
maxims by which this Nation has pros
pered mo country can survive that
is not based on the supremacy of law"
Luther Davis Lee.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer 20
any question Of fact by either ,a TTisins Ths
NV. Washington 5. d. c.. and inclosinE cents
return postage or by telephoniEg ST. 5000.
Extension 35S.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
By THE HASKIN SERVICE,

Q. To what political party does
Trygve Lie belong? Has he changed
affiliations recently?-G. H. I.
A. The secretary general Of the
United Nations is lifelong member Of
the No wegian Social Democrat Party.
He has not changed his party loyalties.
Mr. Lie assumed his present post on
February /, 1916.
Evening star., 1950-08-31
experimentation of RooseveIts

SuPer-inVeSri9orion or kooSeveifS
In the August 26 issue of The Star
a letter signed Laura K. Pollock warns
the American public of the Roosevelt
dynasty-the Roosevelt royal family"
The winning of the war in Korea is
certainly secondary now that the threat
of the Roosevelt dynasty has been ex-
posed. We should demand that Frank
lin, jr., resign Immediately from the
United States House of Representatives:
that brother James withdraw from the
California gubernatorial race. and that
both give their solemn oath never to
again to seek political Office in the United
States. If they refuse to take sucn
action. then I propose that Congress
enact immediate legislation forbidding
any one bearing the name Roosevelt
from seeking or holding political Office
in this country.
If this isn't enough to satisfy the au-
thor of the August 26 letter to The Star.
then I suggest that James and Frank
lin. jr., be subjected to extraordinary.
super-duper Joe Mccarthy investigation.
That should fix their wagons!
Robert w. Ross.
Evening star., 1950-08-31

O. Are the chambers occupied by the
Senate and the House of Representa-
tives -conditioned?-M. w.
A. These chambers have, for some
years, been air-conditioned. New equip
ment was recently installed.
Evening star., 1950-08-31

@. Has the number of calories Of food
obtained each day by Latin American
been reckoned?-R. T..
A. It has been estimated that the
average Latin American receives 2,400
calories Of food in one day.
Evening star., 1950-08-31

@. Which dries the more quickly, or
dinary hay or crushed hay?-F. A. L.
A. One advantage In crushed hay is
found in the fact that it dries more
rapidly.
Evening star., 1950-08-31

@. In June. 1850. how long time
elapsed between the departure OF a
transport from San Francisco and its
arrival in Japanese port?-K. F.
A. Tie transport usually arrived In
Japan 13 days out from San Francisco.
Evening star., 1950-08-31

Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on
the afternoon of December 7, 1s41?
III. A. D.
A. Artur Rodzinski was conducting on
this historic occasion. Artur Rubinstein
was soloist.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1950-09-29
WEEK Off SONG

The Mccoy singers from Gary,
Ind. will appear at the Free Bap-
fist Church the week of the 9th
of October. The public is invited.
Corner of Romine and Eads SITS,
Urbana. Rev. Prince Williamson
is pastor. Help them in their
building program.
zee
Revival at Pilgrim Church -
Rev. Ward.
AMONG THE VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Paine and
son of indianapolis, visited their
mother, Mrs. LOW Busch, Of West
Maple st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester King OF
N. Walnut Street, have their bro
ther-in law in their home, Mr.. Clo-
die Casey of Fulton, Miss.
sss
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Bowles of
West Maple Street, have their
sister in their home, Mrs. Harri-
EFT Edwards. OF Henderson, Ky.
During her stay she has been
entertained by Mrs. Anna Wat
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Hattie Ander-
son and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Bureh and daughter Grace.
Mr.. Albert Mckinley, Sr., Wis
tied his son Junior in Chicago, I'll.
and Hines over the week end.
ENROLLS IN u. OF |.
Mr.. Samuel Mckinley of n. 4th
St., enrolled in the School of Cen
eral Education at the u. of l. His
parents and family extends many
good wishes to him.
MAINTENANCE GRANTED
Circuit Judge Chas. f. Keller
Monday ordered Cogle Robinson to
pay $50 a month to Mrs. Merdice
Robinson in separate mainten-
ance decree. At the same time the
court dismissed divorce suit
Robinson had brought against
Mrs. Robinson in January, 1949.