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Evening star., 1950-07-26

Chance to study q wasp's nest should
not be passed UP.
Unless the construction is in such q
place that close contact with the insects
is inescapable, 1t Is best to let the nest
alone.
Watching the work for a period each
day Is well worth any ones time.
Since communism has come to be an
everyday topic, it is easily watched in
one of it's most interesting forms, the
ant or wasp nest.
Fear of being stung is great, but usu-
ally one is in no danger, if willing to keep
a safe distance, and let the creatures
alone.
Use of binoculars will bring the lives
of these communists close at hand.
X
z. B. G. of Olney, Md, writes:
1--WE remember your interesting OBJ
servations of the wasps' nest built out
side your window last summer, SO we
feel you can give reliable advice about
the hornets nest being built on the ceiling
OF our front porch, to 10 feet overhead.
"It is growing rapidly, now about
the size of a large canteloupe. The
hornets look smaller than the usual
variety. also with less white on them.
ut is most interesting to watch them
adding layer upon layer on the outside of
the nest, as many as six or eight at
time going in and out of the round hole
in the bottom, and working around the
top where it is securely anchored to the
tongue and groove ceiling.
They have 50 far, In the weeks We
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Mr.. Truman Presents the Bill

The Presidents recommendation for IS
billion tax increase, as an interim measure to
meet mounting military costs, is step in the
right direction. 1t is not a pleasant step to
take, but it is a necessary one to protect the
national economy.
In all probability, Congress will adopt
promptly the essential features of Mr.. Trumans
program. In it's details, it may not be the best
program that could be devised. But there is
hardly time now to do more than enact stop
gap program to tide the country over the
immediate emergency. Later, when the COM
prehensive revenue program to which the Pres
ident refers is submitted, Congress should give
1t most careful consideration.
The primary aim of higher taxes should be
to restrain imitation This can best be done if
the increased bill for defense is settled on a
pay-as-you-go basis, and if the burden of pay
ment is distributed in such a way as to raise
the needed revenue from the sources that would
contribute most to inflationary pressures. It
is not clear that the Presidents stopgap pro-
posals do this and when the comprehensive tax
program is submitted, Congress should make
certain that its provisions are designed to reach
this objective.
If the pay-as-yo basis is to be attained,
the prospect is for much heavier taxes than those
which the President has recommended. He has
nearly sos billion additional military funds
for the coming year. The plain indication is,
however, that this will not be enough; that
substantially larger military appropriations will
be required each year, perhaps for many years
to come.
The Government probably could finance this
program with borrowed money. That, in the
short run, would be the easy and the politically
expedient way But in the end it would almost
certainly ruin us. We have to expect that the
Russians, even though they may not want an
about war, will try to bleed this country by
forcing us to devote more and more of our re-
sources to military purposes. They are in a
position to do this, and there does not seem to
be anything that we can do, short of war, to
prevent it. Consequently, we have no choice
except to make the best of very bad situation.
Our basic weapon in this economic struggle
must be higher taxation. The greater the pro-
portion of the added cost that can be paid cur
rently, the better the chance that our economy
will be able to survive. But we should be pre-
pared to face the possibility that higher taxes,
alone, will not be enough. There seems to be a
marked inclination in official quarters to shy
away from consideration of other controls-from
such things as manpower regulations, wage and
price controls, rationing, etc. If these can be
avoided without wrecking the ship, well and good.
But we must be realistic and hardboled about
the matter. It will do us no good to adopt a
courageous tax program it, for lack of firmness,
we are going to permit some other controllable
factor to destroy our economy.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Opening the Books

If an employer in bargaining negotiation
pleads that he cannot afford to grant a wage
increase, he must furnish enough data to satisfy
the union that he is telling the truth. This is
the essence of the ruling announced by the
National Labor Relations Board in a case involv-
ing the Southern Saddlery Company of Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
The union had demanded a 30-cent hourly
increase The employer said he couldn't pay any
increase, and after protracted negotiations the
union demand was scaled down to a flve-cent
increase. When the employer still insisted that
he could not afford any raise, the union asked
position, and this also was refused on the ground
that it was contrary to company policy to make
such information available to any one. That
brought formal complaint from the union that
the employer had refused to bargain in good
faith, and the Labor Board has ruled in the
unions favor
The company, the board said, "by maintain
ing the intransigeant position that 1t was fnan-
cially unable to raise wages and, at the same
time, refusing to make any reasonable efforts
to support or justify its position, erected an
insurmountable barrier to successful conclusion
of the negotiations"
In other words, where an employer claims
inability to pay, his company records, generally
opened to a union To what extent is not clear.
For on that point, the board, with remarkable
ambiguity, declared: "The extent and nature of
such information depends upon the bargaining
which takes place in any particular case"
Evening star., 1950-07-26
New Orleans Battle Site

The State Of Louisiana has given the Federal
Government SO acres of land over which the
Battle Of New Orleans was fought This means
that Chalmette National Historical Park has been
enlarged to approximately double its former size.
An intervening area still is to be acquired. Even
tually, it is hoped, the entire scene of the last
great clash between American and British troops
will be included in the protected reservation
The site is as important as Yorktown and Gettys-
burg. It represents an incident of supreme i'm
portance in the annals of the United States.
Joseph r. Darby writing in the 1s4s edition
Of the Americana, contradicts long standing
misconception when he says: Ear from being
needless or vain .. the campaign and battle
OF New Orleans were decisive and indispensable" I"
Had Andrew Jackson been defeated, the Treaty
OF Client never would have been ratified by the
Senate. Britain's attitude toward our acquisi-
tion of West Florida and the Louisiana Purchase
was that we were guilty of ''unwarranted aggres-
sion" and "usurpation." In support of the Crown
contention, Major General Sir Edward M.
Pakenham was placed in command of fleet
and 5000 soldiers to capture the mouth of the
Mississippi The British expedition arrived at
Chandelier Island on December 10, 1874, two
weeks before the signing of the treaty intended
to terminate the war.
OF course, the conflict between Pakenham and
Jackson could have been called off. Both gen.
erals must have understood that peace was
possibility, if not actually probability. Never
theless, the campaign was in full swing by De-
cember IA. Pakenham's principal mistake seems
to have been in believing that he would meet
with little opposition. He did not realize Jack
sons strength or skill until January l. when the
Americans replied effectively to British bonn
bardment of their half finished breastworks on
the Rodriguez Canal Pakenham waited until
January while Major General John Lambert
brought up two additional regiments. The
Showdown" came on January 8, when Paken-
ham vainly tried to drive Jackson from the west
bank of the canal and was mortaly wounded in
the endeavor. Total British losses were 2,036;
American only II.
What the victory at New Orleans meant to
the United States may be exaggerated, but there
can be no question about its influence upon the
world at large. 1t proved American determine
ton to defend any and all territory within the
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Back to GOOD Old Days" in FIedeIberq?
By GouIt MocGowon

HEIDELBERG.-The University stu
IL dents here-most of whom were too
young for Nazi activities and have been
under Allied educational infiuence-are
demanding q return of the old dueling
dated from Hohenzollern days.
Graduate members of the university,
who in their various professions and COM
mercial activities are now the last Gus
todians Of the old traditions, have been
under pressure from their sons and their
friends, for some time, to aid in rebuild
ing these institutions.
This year. with gatherings and assem-
blies free again, and restrictions of eat
ing and drinking, the old graduates have
reinaugurated their annual "alma mater"
get-togethers. Almost all have agreed
to dip hands in their pockets to help the
youth re-establsih the corps and fra
ternities that existed under the Weimar
Republic.
Five are dueling corps; nine are fra
ternities for fostering an academic spirit.
The duel1ng corps were the preserve of
the old aristocracy and military classes;
the fraternities were mostly composed Of
professional and business aspirants.
DR.. Erich Armbrust, q local medical
man and former member Of pre- Hitler
dueling corps and fraternity, told me:
I'm the immediate postwar years, most
Of the students were ex-officers, many
married. They were more interested in
qualifying quickly for professions than In
university life as such. Moreover, they
had lost their ideals. They had no zest
for the corporate spirit
"But the newcomers of 1850, all too
young for the war or for any real activ-
ity under Hitler, want to get together in
groups outside the classroom, the mess
hall or the local inns.
"They want to see the good old days
come back that they have heard about
from their older friends and relations.
They have been astonished to find that
Evening star., 1950-07-26

We lost most Of our fraternity houses
under Hitler because we refused to &C
cept the Fuehrer principle. The NaM
Youth leaders insisted that we accept
fraternity leader nominated through the
party-or close.
"Only few of the student bodies ac-
cepted the Nazi diktat, which meant the
abrogation Of their constitutions. Some
Of us surrendered or sold our fraternity
houses to the state; others transferred
them to private ownership on the under
standing that they would be returned
when times were more propitious. Some
bodies may have to take court action to
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Defeating Communism

Communism is philosophy of life, an
inverted religion, the exact opposite Of
the philosophy Of Christ. Communism
is an evil force in the world today.
But when we send huge armies to de-
feat Communist armies, we are defeating
Communists, but not communism. Let's
not kid ourselves by trying to defeat
communism with force of arms, because
if we do we are as foolish as communism
is evil.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
As One Republican to Another

Did the reporter who did the story on
Seth Richardson and his conception of
his job as head of the Loyalty Review
Board report what he heard, or what he
thought he heard, or what he thought
he should have heard? If he reported
what he heard, one can only conclude
that Seth Richardson, for all of his 10
years of life, is incompetent to be en-
trusted with the responsibility of re-
viewing loyalty cases.
AS read Mr.. Richardson's statement,
he doesn't seem to know whether dis
loyal person Is disloyal or not. He plays
by ear. A dues paying Communist may
not be Communist, suspicious person
may not be suspicious, and while Gov
ernment employees have no constitu-
tional right to q job, &hey have some
other right that is equally strong. This
lofty philosophic approach to loyalty
problems may work at the lower levels,
but by the time case gets to Mr.. Rich
ardson the public is entitled to have y
man on the job who knows his own mind.
Carl L. Shipley,
Young Republican National Commit
teeman for the District Of Columbia.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

Q. what circumstances caused the ap.
pelation dark and bloody ground" to
be given to Kentucky?-E. G. G.
A. Various explanations have been
given. One is that early in IT'S, at Syca-
more Shoals, the Transylvania Land
Company negotiated treaty with the
Cherokees for their claim on Kentucky.
One young chief, Dragging Canoe, OBJ
Jected to the Shrewd bargain that was
made by the whites and predicted that
the land would indeed become dark and
bloody ground
@. Was 1t Charles Darwin who orig
mated the theory of the evolution OF
man?-T. w.
A. The idea Of evolution is much older
than Darwin, but as doctrine supported
by careful observation and generally ac-
cepted by scientists, the theory of the
evolution of mankind dates from the
publication of Darwins "The Origin of
the Species" In 1859.
@. Is there such q thing as q "bone
bank" similar to the "eye bank" now
maintained to supply hospitals?-W. r.
A. Several hospitals have "banks"
which accumulate bones to be used when
ever bone gratis are needed. Human
bone can be kept in q deep freezer for
about three months.
@. Was borax removed from Death
Valley at one time by 2O-mule-team
wagons?-B. N.
A. A man named F. M. Smith worked
out the famous 20-mule team to solve
the problem of transporting the borax
from Death Valley. He used specially
constructed wagons, 16 feet long and
weighing almost tons empty.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
SiIvio GeseII

My sincere appreciation of your pub
hcation of the letter Of our South Ameri-
can friend Otom Carlos Bauer. While
he mentioned such movements as theos-
ophy, vegetarianism and nudism, which
might tend to discount and belittle the
rest Of his letter, he nevertheless brought
to your attention and, through your pub
ncation Of his letter, to the attention Of
thousands Of your readers the master
work Of the greatest of all the unortho-
dox economists, "The Natural Economic
Order" of Silvio Gesell.
But you must be cautioned that this
writer. Gesell, was "the archheretic Of
all economic hereticS"-so named by
one Of those very same economic here
tics, Arthur Kitson. Therefore be
warned that mention Of the name Of
either this work or its author Is tabu
among all those who sing the reverberat-
ing paean Of praise Of our unadulterated,
pluperfect. exploitative capitalism. For
did not Gesell advocate the abolition Of
unearned income-of interest and eco
nomic rent? And did he not propose
and advocate, as one Of the two neces-
sary steps to that end, the adoption and
use Of depreciating. non-hoardable
money that would lose 5 per cent or /
per cent Of its face amount each calen-
dar month and that would be regulated
to maintain, by its volume outstanding,
an unvarying general level Of commodity
prices, and thus be both qialitatively
and quantitatively the equivalent Of the
goods for the exchange of which it would
serve as medium?
Why, sir. this is the most radical and
revolutionary proposal ever broached in
the field of economics, and you are CIV
ing publicity to the proposal! Do you
realize, sir, that this publicity is likely
to stimulate such demand for the
work at our public libraries that they
may at last yield to public sentiment
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Sunday School Building

We are deeply appreciative of the gen.
erouS consideration of the press in our
problem with the Park and Planning
Commission relative to the construction
OF the Sunday School Annex of the
Hyattsville Presbyterian Church.
The matter of the sale or donation
OF Commissioner T. Hammond Welsh's
property next door tends to Sidetrack
the problem from the point in question:
The restoration Of our building permit
and the completion of our building. AS
we face the facts. our building stands
uncompleted, our building permit having
been revoked on the complaint of Mr..
Welsh that 1t violated zoning setback.
The problem. as it comes before the
Board of zoning Appeals for considera-
ton, Is one of granting an exception to
the setback that we may complete our
building-a matter entirely apart from
any consideration of Mr.. Welshs prop
erty.
Therefore. the sale or donation Of Mr..
WelShs property is of little value in the
solution of our problem. There is ac-
tually nothing concrete to bring before
the coagregation-the purchase of Mr..
WelshS property having been previously
brought up at his request and rejected,
and his offer Of donation of land at
no time being made specific in any
respect that would take it beyond the
stage of an illusion.
If all concerned are as desirous of
finding a solution to the problem as
they say they are. it would seem that
since the Park and Planning Commission
admittedly erred" thus leading the
church into the difficulty the Commits
sion should recommend to the Board
Of Zoning Appeals that an exception
be made.
William E. Roll,
Chairman, Building Council, Hyatts-
vile Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Letters to The Star

and purchase some copies of the book
and enter it in their card indexes?
It may be that thus, inadvertently,
The Star may become the precursor of
change in our economic thinking and
actions. to such an extent that our
economic universe is reoriented from one
centered on money and its gravitational
pull, interest, to one centered upon real.
worthwhile, material wealth and the
labor expended in that wealth's produc-
ton.
thank you from the bottom of my
heart for the publicity you have given
to this man and his maSterwork, which
earned from q Harvard economist this
tribute: THE greatest boon for hui
manity since the introduction of Chris
tianity."
" rro:I~..~
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Il. E. w.
Congressional BuIwurk

Let us support and pray for our Con-
gress. It is the last bulwark of our de-
mocracy. The executive and judicial
branches have fallen. The burden rests
on the legislative branch to keep control
of our liberty.
American.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer to
any question 1s Of fact By either writing The
NV, Washington 5. D. C., and inciosing 8 cents
Tsturn postage, or by telephontng ST. 5000,
Evening star., 1950-07-26

price and supply situations by boarding
Of goods and by simply marking up prices
on the pretext that the increases are nee
essary because Of general conditions"
George j. Burger,
Vice President National Federation of
Independent Business.
Evening star., 1950-07-26
Poyinq for Pensions

II we are to police the whole world
against the Hammer and Sickle, it means
a huge Army Navy and Air Force, hence
the need for a practical pay-as-you-go
pension plan for members of the armed
services.
> During the last war we had about
II million under arms. The money to
pay the pensions will have to come by
taxation unless the Congress adopts a
contributing pension system. And now
is the time to start same.
II monthly deductions start with 81 per
month with the lowest grade, with ap-
propriate increases for higher grades,
there will soon be a sizeable fund, pro-
vided 1t is not dissipated on other ex-
penses, to take care Of large part of
the pension COST Adjustments would be
made for those disabled in service.
While 1t Is true every male citizen owes
year or so of military service to his
country. yet there is an obligation on our
National Government to provide pensions
to members of its armed services who
are disabled thereby, or suffering from
infirmities of age.
Baylor.
Evening star., 1950-07-26

try TO get their former properties re-
turned.
I'VE feel that these student corpora
tions were strongholds of the old German
democratic spirit of free elections of of
ficers, and that the Allies should help us
to get them going again. I believe they
can help to build Heidelberg's liberal
spirit again and muster the students for
Western thought. Such institutions would
not be allowed in Russia without a kom-
missar in each. If they are reorganized,
they will be in modern spirit more on
the lines of American college fraterni-
ties"
(North American Newspaper Aniance)
Evening star., 1950-07-26

natural borders of the republic. And that is
historically important even now in the modern
era of atomic war.
Evening star., 1950-07-26

A pseudonynn is permissible only
Uhee letter carries correct name
and address of 1Driter. Please be brief.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1950-09-30

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Der Ginge, Die uns in Ser Gergangens
belt trennten, Dos Ginigenoe in SEN
Eprocrgrlno Itellen.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1950-09-30
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