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Evening star., 1950-02-14
Virginio's Judge Shortage

It Is encouraging to learn that joint COM
mittee of the Virginia General Assembly Is giving
serious study to the need for more judges In
nearby Virginia. Conditions have been bad for
some time not only In the Circuit Courts, but In
Alexandria's Corporation Court. AS State Senator
Fenwick told the committee, the situation Is
disgusting" to the public and unfair to the
overburdened judges.
While conditions have been relieved from
time to time by the loan Of judges from other
circuits, the dockets continue to increase and
, the machinery of justice continues to slow up.
1t is an imposition on Judge Mccarthy, for
example, to expect him to handle all the court
demands Of a growing community the size of
Arlington. The Arlington Bar Association points
out that when Norfolk's population was the size
of Arlington's-140,0 ,000-the city had five courts
of record. The business of the Sixteenth Circuit,
comprising the City of Alexandria and Fairfax
and Prince William Counties also has grown
beyond the capacity of one Judge to handle
adequately.
Large and articulate delegations from North
ern Virginia have petitioned the Assembly to
provide additional judge for each of the
nearby Circuit Courts and for the Alexandria
Corporation Court. The request is amply justified
by the evidence presented to the House and
Senate Courts of Justice Committees in joint ses-
sion. Prompt legislative approval will help to
restore prompt administration of justice across
the Potomac.
Evening star., 1950-02-14
Bishop Hughes

The whole life of Edwin Holt Hughes was
spent In the service of the Methodist Church.
But his career was not limited to any single
branch of the universal Christian fellowship.
He was worker in the entire vineyard and
his influence reached families and individuals
who were benefited by his labors without ever
having heard his name. The world was his
parish in terms of the number of the interests
which he developed and the enthusiasm and zeal
which he put into even the least of his endeavors
So there was nothing narrow in his concep-
tion of the Wesleyan philosophy. Bishop Hughes
preached the inclusive Gospel. His mind was big
and his heart was equally large. Nothing human
lay beyond the grasp of his questing spirit. He
literally sought the lost sheep for which the
Master longed. Back of his success there were
O wealth of faith and devotion and an ardent
optimism which nothing could discourage. Per-
haps it was his conception of his vocation as
primarily a teaching profession that gave him
his power to instruct people. Possibly it was
simply an instinct to follow the logic of nature
that was responsible. In any case, he was an
educator in the best meaning of the term-one
who learned by doing and, having learned, con-
veyed the knowledge so acquired by being an
exemplar OF 1t.
But BishA Hughes also was great builder
Evening star., 1950-02-14

Joseph Haydn, famous composer, once
made statement to shame those per-
sons who like to express flash judgments
on musical matters.
In his last hours, he said, "An to die
now? Why, have just begun to under
stand the wind Instruments"
Here was man who had written so
many symphonies that few persons to-
day know just how many.
He composed scores and hundreds of
things in all the known musical forms.
He lived music, he talked it, and almost
might be said to have eaten it, and
drunk it, too.
But he was still learning, and even in
his mastership did not think he knew
enough. He was just beginning to un-
derstand!
So let all music lovers, especially those
who know their symphonies mainly
through recordings, refrain from too
drastic likes and dislikes.
Most music lovers, indeed, really know
very little about music.
Many of them-and they may be true
music lovers even read music.
AS for writing music, they are COM
plete ignoramuses.
"Ignoramus' is an interesting word.
Today we use it as sort of epithet.
almost, but it's original use was as COM
plete sentence.
In the Latin. 1t means. simply. I'VE do
Het know."
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just itching to fight In the old days
every one carried weapon in his pocket.
Political opponents were threatened with
sake and beer bottles.
The sale of rice wine in the Diets
dining rooms is now forbidden, but 1t
continues unabated. Toward the end of
the legislative session when the govern
ment pushes must" bills through in all
night sessions, the drinking is heaviest.
Americans will remember the sad fate
of Finance Minister Sanroku Izumiyama.
Under the influence of liquor, Izumiyama
made passes at Miss Harue Yamashita,
a woman Diet member. To her protest
that the house was debating the vital
budget bill. Izumiyama replied: Estate
finances are small compared to my love
for you" Miss Yamashita answered with
q slap that was heard around the ma
ton. Izumiyama resigned his post, and
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This and That

Picture some ancient Roman asking
another question.
I'VE do not know" replies the other,
honestly.
Too much honesty, however, some
times fails to pay off.
Those worthy ancients who were hon.
est enough to admit they did not know
finally had their admission thrown back
in their faces.
They had admitted they did not know
so often that they began to be called by
the set sentence they spoke so often:
"IgnoramuS."
Let us remember that today, when we
tend to call some honest person an ig-
noramus. Maybe his not-knowing is
something to be proud Of, especially his
admitting it.
The honest music lover, especially II
unframed in music, will do well to re-
frain from holding too fiat opinions
about works he hears, whether he likes
them or not.
Liking, in music, is based upon so
many things!
In listening. we are the children of our
age, above all.
We also are as we have trained our
selves to be In listening.
There is vast difference between
kicking ones feet In time to tune and
appreciating the various orchestral
forms.
10 Astsnsr,' No matter he7 snthus,as-
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a great organizer great leader He contributed
of his talents to many constructive secular activi
ties as we'll as to religion and religious progress.
Methodist unifcation was predomnantly his Gre
alton. He gave the address which brought the
three long-separated Methodist groups together
in the Wesleyan ideal of one people. Again and
again he sought to retire. only to be called back
to work because he was the best person available
for the duty, despite the increase of his years
Now he has died in harness as he would have
wished. Yet surely his light still will shine from
every pulpit in which he ever stood and from
every altar before which he ever raised his hands
in benediction.
Evening star., 1950-02-14

questions or to be stampeded into action.
The committee then met in closed
session and drew up resolution, unani-
mously approved at the Federation
meeting of January 81, authorizing it
lin the name of and on behalf of the
Federation to intervene and participate
in such proceedings as may be held
before the Public Utilities Commission
concerning the rates, fares, and charges
OF the Capital Transit Company"
The resolution further directs the
committee "to use its best efforts to keep
any fare increase that may be allowed
to the minimum amount"
In addition the committee discussed
at length the Company's proposal to
eliminate the weekly pass, and decided
to defer action until it could ascertain
the views of larger number of member
associations. When the committee re-
ported to the Federation, delegates were
asked to have their associations 70 on
record on this subject.
The above action can hardly be called
"unrepresentative and arbitrary" to
quote Mr.. Vincent. who seems primarily
interested in obtaining personal publicity
regardless Of the method or the un-
warranted damage he may do.
MRS. EDWARD B. NORRIS
Acting Secretary, Federation of
Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1950-02-14
They Can See the Welcome Mat

In his capacity as chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, Senator Connaly-echoed
by Assistant Secretary of State Hickerson-has
given voice to the obvious in declaring that the
United States has in no way closed the door to
international agreement for the control of the
hydrogen bomb, the atomic bomb and other
weapons of mass destruction
The door has been open ever since Hiroshima.
1t has been open ever since the So-called Barucn
Plan was first presented to the United Nations
more than three years ago. 1t is still plainly alar,
with the welcome mat out in full view. NOBODY
in this country has shut it. Any one can walk In
who wants to. AS a matter of fact, all members
of the u N have already walked in-all, that is,
except the Russians and their coWed satellites.
And that, of course, is the heart of the problem.
If the Russians were willing to walk in, If they
were not insistent on standing outside, the world
could control the atom and use it for the good of
peoples everywhere. But in this field, as Mr..
Connally has said, 1.-The United States alone can
not determine international policy, not even when
it has the Support-as it does haVe-of the over
whelming majority of the U. N. The point is
beyond dispute. Obviously, as long as the Soviet
Union remains aloof, stubbornly refusing to
cooperate with what the nations inside are
trying to do, A-weapons and H-weapons, and
all other weapons capable of annihilating man
kind, will continue to be uncomfortable.
In other words, terrible as it undoubtedly is,
we shall have to learn to live with the prospect
of a continuing and ever -accelerating nuclear
armaments race unless and until the Russians
show some convincing evidence Of wanting to
put an end to it.. "At an appropriate time in
Mr.. Connallys words, "the United States may,
through the United Nations, make another
attempt" to establish effective world control OF
the atom But that is something that cannot
be determined by either us or our friends abroad.
The Kremn is the primary decider.
No American should delude himself on this
score. AS far as atomic control is concerned,
little or nothing can be done without asSur-
ances from the Russians that they really want
something done To think otherwise, to suppose
that we can change matters simply by making
formal new appeals to them, is to be naively
wishful They know the door is still open. II
they ever walk in, it will not be because of fresh
invitations from us but because of a basic policy
revision on their own part
That fact cannot be emphasized too often
or too strongly. The simple but grim truth H
that we cannot have genuine control of the
atom (let alone9a supranational world govern
ment of the sort vaguely proposed by the dis
tinguished DR.. Einstein) without profound
change in Russia's thinning To imagine that
we can is merely to engage in a senseless flight
from reality.
Evening star., 1950-02-14
Major Operations Necessary

glance at traffic increase statistics OF the
Department of Vehicles and Traffic is sufficient
TO show why the only hope OF real traffic relief
In Washington lies in o comprehensive and
costly highway and bridge construction program.
With automobile registrations In the Metropolitan
Area up about 45 per cent In the past ten years,
1t Is obvious why streets and bridges which were
crowded decade ago are even more dangerously
congested today
The figures showing the rise in automobile
ownership in Washington's suburbs are particu-
larly impressive. For example, automobile
registrations in Arlington increased from 20,306
In 1899, to 52,363 in 1949, in Montgomery County
from 9,460 to 41633 and In Prince Georges
County from 1886 to 30,254. Yet the same
number of bridges connects Arlington with Wash
ington today as in 1939-with new Fourteenth
Street Bridge still in the making-and virtually
the same highways bring the increased Maryland
traffic into the city.
In the face of such statistics, any proposal
that planning of more Anacostia bridges be
suspended in favor of work on existing bottle
necks leading to the old bridges is wholly un-
realistic. 1t is reassuring to learn that the
National Capital Park and Planning Commission
has withdrawn from that untenable stand
Instead of feuding over prospective bridge SITES
the planners should be getting together on ways
and means of providing more bridges over the
Anacostia and the Potomac, more freeways, more
grade separations and more off-street parking
space for the rapidly growing number of We
hicles in the Washington area The piecemeal
method of trying to keep abreast of the city's
traffic needs has proved utterly Inadequate The
patient requires major operation, or a series
of major operations-and soon
Evening star., 1950-02-14
It's the Live|iest Show in Tokyo

The immediate erection of statue to
General Macarthur.
Gonroku Takahashi Of the Conserva-
tive, Liberal Democrat Party, doesn't own
a suit. He appears at all sessions in a
kimono and wooden clogs. He is the
Diets Bad Boy. He sneaks up behind
members and whacks them over the
head with the copy of bill. He is a
great noisemaker.
When the boys get excited enough
they rush up to the speakers chair and
fist fight breaks out. Then the guards
step in and break up the gladiators-all
to the amusement of the newsreel
cameramen recording every minute of it
for the nation.
The Diet is full of local toughies. A
number of legislators are former body
guards to cabinet ministers. They are
Evening star., 1950-02-14
Gambling Is Big Business

: Although District grand juries are supposed
only to indict or ignore, it was definitely in the
public interest to release the long secret report
Of the special grand jury which investigated
gambling operations in the District District
Court Judge Holtzoff had withheld the report
because of the rule against irregular statements
by grand juries. But the rule was broken last
summer when another grand jury issued a report
criticizing leniency shown habitual criminals
That report helped to start the current House
investigation of crime conditions in Washington.
The special gambling report also should prove
of considerable interest to the Davis Subcom-
mittee.
The delayed report contains no sensational
revelations, it Is true, but it should aid in
countering the all-too- widespread public apathy
toward the gambling situation. For, as the grand
jurors forcefuly point out, professional gambling
has attained "big business" proportions in the
Washington Metropolitan Area. Thus entrenched
1t breeds many other types of crime Recently
we have had some disturbing samples of these
offsprings, including hijacking and jury tamper-
ing. Gang rivalries and warfare are other posi-
bilities.
The grand jury stressed the interstate
nature of most of the gambling activities in
Washington-a point already emphasized by
District Attorney Fay and Police Chief Barrett.
The jury suggested the need for legislation to
deal with the interstate aspects of the numbers
and bookmaking rackets, although it did not
specify the type of laws that would meet the
problem. The suggestion is worth special atten-
ton of the Davis Committee Also of interest to
the committee should be the iury's recommended
tion for police authority to confiscate automo-
biles regularly used for gambling operations.
Such seizures undoubtedly would put a crimp in
the numbers business whose runners need cars
for collection and delivery of receipts to head
quarters. Transportation is almost as essential
to the gamblers as telephones-and blow
already has been struck at communications
through the FEC tariff restrictions on use of
telephones The special grand jury on gambling
has rendered public service by reviewing It's
findings and offering suggestions for improving
local law enforcement. Judge Holtzof was wise
in ordering the report released.
Evening star., 1950-02-14
Central High School Editorial
Called pretty Unconvincing"

Central High School Editorial
Called pretty Unconvincing"
To the Uditor Of The Star:
Your lead editorial Of February 8,
Leave Central High Out Of It." seemed
pretty unconvincing and inconsistent
with The Stars usual policy, As under
stand 1t, everybody Is agreed that If the
Central transfer Is effected 1t would
make unnecessary the proposed new
Cardozo building, estimated to cost five
million. Nobody asserts that such .
transfer would cramp the existing white
school facilities: on the contrary 1t
would permit them to be used more
efficiently. Perhaps five million doesn't
seem like much in comparison to the
sums we're accustomed to see banded
about, but 1t is roughly the same propor-
ton OF the annual District budget as
the two billion spent for the A-bomb
Is to the National budget. More specif1-
cally 1t is something like So per person,
or thirty dollars for q typical family Of
four, which must be paid in one way or
another by Washington citizens.
The arguments in favor Of such An
obvious and absurd waste are not very
impressive. It Is claimed that transfer Of
SeAioi "a "oouo 0cPiNc tlIc "ilitc ulV1-
sions of an indoor swimming pool and
desirable stadium, and of the use of
facilities for evening classes and recrea-
tion But certainly alternative facilities
exist for the latter purposes, and it
shouldn't require much ingenuity to
work out arrangements for sharing the
use of the pool and stadium. The Citizens
Association spokesmen have done their
best to befuddle the issues in their ap-
peals to emotion and prejudice. but I
wonder whether they are willing to
volunteer to pay the extra cost that they
seek to impose on the District govern
ment Certainly, for one have no desire
to be penalized for their stupidity.
DAVID L. GORDON
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Valentine

Because you had handsome mouth
That smiled and laughed and kissed.
Ny heart feto like little bird
And perched upon your tDrist.
Because you aDere so quick to catch
The 1Dords could not say
Ny heart s1Dant like silver fish
Into your net to stay.
Because you are so kind, so kind
To all you chance to meet,
MY heart runs like hound 10 stretcA
Content beside your feet.
YETZA GILL LE6PW.
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Letters to The Star

the Nation that self-reproach, or rather,
repentance, can also be underdone; and
that our greatest danger is in independ-
ence of God, in public and private policy.
V.D. r.
Contends Alger Hiss Case Shows
Law Has Remedy for Every Wrong
To the Editor OF The Star:
AS one who has pondered upon the
quirks of legalistic thinking, admire
the specimen of such ratiocination given
by Frank Lyon in his recent letter to
The Star on the Hiss case. Mr. Lyons
argument is that Hiss should not have
been brought to account because the
statute OF limitations barred trial for
his prime offense
All thinking people, it seems to
me, rejoice that once again the courts
have demonstrated the truth of the
axiom that for every wrong the law pro-
vides remedy. In Hiss case it was
necessary for the prosecution to prove
that he was guilty of two offenses. He
escaped with light penalty because
the statute Of limitations kept him from
being tried for his major offense.
Mr.. Lyon, it seems to me, should be
81 ocS1d IlldG 111oS WAS SSuGGIlCGO Only
for being liar while under oath to
speak the truth
FLETCHER MACLARY.
Federation Secretary Says Mr.. Vincent
Is "Arbitrary"-Not the Federation
To the Editor Of The Star:
According to a story In The Star Of
February T. one Of the delegates to the
Federation Of Citizens Associations (Gil-
bert Vincent president of the National
Gateway Association) became incensed
over letter from the Federation's Pub
lie Utilities Committee requesting his
presence at q meeting on the transit
rate issue"
He therefore charged at his meeting
that "The Federation doesn't act as q
representative of It's member bodies
The individuals act on their own, and
many times before their associations
take action to guide them"
Mr.. Vincent has attended only one
Of the six meetings of the Federation
this year and, to my recollection, none
of the meetings of the Public Utilities
Committee, of which he Is a member.
His association can hardly, therefore, be
said to be properly represented, and he
is in no position to make any state
ments with regard to Federation actions.
Further, he has no way of knowing how
other delegates act.
Constitutions of most associations re-
quire delegates to take the position OF
the association in voting at the Fedora
ton unless the association has not acted.
in which case they are instructed to vote
according to their own best Judgment.
At the particular committee meeting.
notice of which melted MIR. Vincent, E.
Cleveland Giddings of the Capital
Transit Company presented the position
of the company and then answered
questions. He came at the request of
the committee, and the president and
second vice president and fifteen COM
mittee members thought it worth their
while to attend. These include account
ants, attorneys, and business men, not
likely to pull any punches In asking
Evening star., 1950-02-14

Representatives Of Government Agencies
Don't Belong in Congress- Press Galleries
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t is to be hoped that the Standing
Committee of Correspondents which gov
erns admissions to the press galleries Of
the two houses of Congress will unan-
lmously black-ball any applicant repre-
senting the State Department or any
other department Of the Government
no matter who submits the application.
In the first place the work of both
houses OF Congress is ably covered by
the accredited members of the House
and Senate galleries representing the
newspapers and other periodicals now
entitled to admission. These expert
enced and well-trained men and women
can be relied upon to give the Nation a
true and accurate word picture of the
work of our elected representatives
Allow representatives of Government
bureaus to report the work of Congress
and the public will get only what in
formation each particular bureau or de-
partment wants the public to know
about. reported by some inexperienced
news gatherer who doesn't know q
gravure section from comic paper
and thinks galley is only kitchen
in ship.
p" congressman are harassed too much
now by bureaucrats and their satellites.
It's about time that they woke up to
the fact that Congress Is running this
country, having been elected by the
people so to do. and Is not to be die
tated to. or told how, by some bureau
crat who wouldn't have a Job in the
Government If Congress had not given
him his job
The writer does not work for any
newspaper and has never been q mem
Der OF the Congressional press CORE
spondents' association, but for the sake
OF continued good reporting and Of get
ting the truth about the work of Con-
greSs to the people Of our Nation, he
sincerely hopes that the Standing Com
mittee of Correspondents will reject any
applicant submitted by any department.
T. G. ABBOTT.
"Of What Do We Reproach Ourselves?"
To the Editor of The Star:
You ask In your editorial "Of what do
we have to reproach ourselves?" Presi-
dent Lincoln gave an answer in his sec
ond proclamation Of national day Of
prayer and humiliation:
I'VE have been the recipients of the
choicest bounties of Heaven. We have
been preserved these many years in peace
and prosperity. We have grown In num-
bers. wealth and power as no other ma
ton has ever grown; but We have for
gotten God. We have forgotten the
gracious hand which preserved us in
peace and multiplied and enriched and
strengthened us; and we have vainly
imagined, in the deceitfulness of our
hearts, that all these blessings were
produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue of our own. Intoxicated with un-
broken success, we have become too self
sufficient to feel the necessity of redeem
ing and preserving grace. too proud to
pray to the God who made U.S."
The heart of Lincoln's philosophy of
humility is seen in this paragraph. and
echoed in his second Inaugural. He told