Evening star., 1950-03-01
Burlington Liar Complains
Star Didn't Tell the Truth

LIdF CUNupAdHlS
Star Didn't Tell the Truth
Mention was made in your Sunday
Magazine Section of 1000 Desert Liars
who held a convention and told tall
stories while sitting on pile OF rocks.
This is interesting even If everything
they said was untrue. However. you
accidentally made an untrue statement
when you mentioned Liars Club with
headquarters in Burlington, Iowa.
There are no liars In Iowa. This is
unfortunate, but true. All good liars
come from Wisconsin to Washington.
I did.
I attach my membership card, which
does not state that the Liars Club is
located in Burlington, Wisconsin. You
will just have to take my word for it.
The Burlington Liars Club would not
like it If your misprint about their
location is not corrected. Should any,
body send important lies to the wrong
address. the Sunday Star might get sued.
There is no telling what might happen
should a bunch Of liars get together
and decide to prosecute. The amount
of damages claimed would be enormous
If they testified.
Iowa may be the State where the tall
corn grows but not where the tall tales
originate Wisconsin is a dairy State.
It is full of cows. When these COWS
feed on Iowa corn, one merely has to
twist their tails to get full bucket Of
milk
Please return my membership card to
the Burlington Liars Club. Until
get it back, I will have to tell the truth.
GORDON H. SIMMONS.
Who Is the 33rd President?
On Washington's Birthday. The Star
stated that the 33rd President had paid
homage to the first. You failed to state
his name, however, which would seem
a newsworthy item, whether Eisenhower,
Stassen. r. Taft. Byrnes. Byrd. or Alben
Bariley by mortal accident.
Could be, of course, that you were con-
tinuing the historic error of Theodore
Roosevelt, who nominated himself the
26th President, apparently confusing
Presidents and presidencies, or else re-
garding Cleveland as double-headed
twin. That numerical confusion was
long ago resolved by Herbert Hoover.
however, who correctly named himself
the 30th President-a proper ordination
which Franklin D. Roosevelt continued
by calling himself the 31st President.
And Mr.. Truman calls himself the 32nd.
JOEL TOWNSLEY ROGERS.
Editors Note:-The Star style au-
thority on this controversial point is
the Congressional Record, which re-
Gently changed its mind and listed Mr..
Truman as the 33d President)
A Different Proposal for a Solution
To the Cardozo High School Problem
In the course of the Central High
School, -Cardozo controversy. the Board
of Education and Superintendent Corn
ing have been subjected to so much pres
sure and intimidation by racial, political
and real estate interests that it now is
obvious that the adoption of any plan
thus far suggested to relieve the situa-
ton would make them the object of Bit
terest criticism.
If Senator Neely, who holds our purse
strings, maintains his stand that exigen-
cies of economy justify the dissolving OF
q white junior and senior high school.
the destroying of traditions and ideals
and the scattering of students, and II
Gardner Bishop of the District Branch
of the NJ A. A. c. p, Paul Cook, WoolSey
Hall and the CIO representatives. honestly
believe that conditions at Cardozo can't
wait but merit the sacrificing of the
Boards longrange building plans which
would equalize school housing for both
white and colored children, then the
logical solution is clear Transfer the
Mckinley High School and the adjoining
Langley Junior High School-with play
grounds, stadium and outdoor swimming
pool-to the exclusive use of Divisions
X-XIII.
Both sides studiously have been avoid
ing this recommendation, but the time