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Evening star., 1950-08-26
Toxicob Situation Called Troeic

There is something very unfair, if not
cruel about the taxicab situation here.
There are so many cabs-the number is
not far under 10,000-that it is very diff
f1cult fo' the operator of cab to make
a living Many of them with families
to support are driving as many as IL or
IA hours day to obtain sufficient reve-
nue.. This is not good from safety
viewpoint.
There is no effective regulation of the !
number of cabs. Almost any one of good
character who pays the $25 fee can get
a license The situation is aggravated by
a large number who have Government
jobs or other employment and who drive
cabs on. week ends in competition with
men VINO have no other livelihood. For
this reason it is doubly hard for the
regular operators to make living week
ends. This does not seem like fair COM
petition When it is too hard to make
an honest living there always is the
temptation to driver to engage in boot
logging or other unlawful activities to
supplement the n1eager income.
The operators are not effectively or
ganized. Attempts at organization have
failed in the past because of incapable
or dishonest leadership. There is crying
need for efficient organization under
honest leadership, and also for an aware
ness within the community of a gro
tesquely unfair situation which is hurt
ing several thousand families.
Wilbur La Roe, jr.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

Miss C.. w. P. of Upper Sixteenth
street wrote to The Star recently:
ut will be appreciated If you will see
that this letter gets into the hands of
the gentleman who writes about birds
and their habits in your paper.
Cannot remember his name, but
begins with T, am sure"
Well it is now in the hands of one
whose name begins with T, so let's
continue:
II am writing to ask if you could tell
me what to feed young birds-wild ones.
My sister has had four brought to her
at her cottage in Connecticut that fell
from their nests or were knocked down.
1.-THE one she has now seems to be
thriving but she feels if she knew just
what kind of food to give them, 1t would
help.
"She gives it hamburger, fruits.
cracker and bread crumbs, egg yolk.
also regular canary food. believe she
also got some dried bugs.
.She does not know what kind it is
but it has a long bill. is light brown on
the top of the head, full white tummy,
with a little brown beginning to show
from the shoulder part under the neck
like bib-but doesn't go all the way
across.
Lots of yellowish tinge. Yellow at the
end of his tail. Legs and feet were flesh
colored when brought to her but seem
Evening star., 1950-08-26
U. NJ, Not Only U. S. War

Gibb Crockett seems to be suffering
from misplaced sense of loyalty to the
American CT. His cartoon carried in
the Tuesday edition august 22) struck
me as aistaStefully jingoistic.
Surely Mr. Crockett and the editors
of The Star realize that Australian air.
craft as well as our own have been sup
porting the American and South Korean
ground forces in the fighting to date, and
that British, Canadian and Australian
warships are fighting side by side with
our naval vessels.
The implication of Mr.. Crockett's car
toon-thst the Korean action is exclu-
sively "yank" and South Korean-is not
only naive of fact but foolhardy.
Isn't this suggestion that the Korean
war is an American war just what Mos
cows Malik has been preaching to the
four corners of the earth?
Robert E. Nichols.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Wants Reol Fighting Machine

David Lawrence has worked up good
case for the aircraft carrier from the
fact that our carriers are now working
efficiently in Korean waters. But we
must not overlook the fact that in Korea
our forces have total air superiority. 1t
is this air superiority which has enabled
our carriers and other naval craft to
operate unmolested.
OF course, the airplanes from the car
riers have contributed to our air SUI
periority. The fact remains, however.
that if the enemy forces had the air
power which our forces enjoy, the posi-
tion of carriers off the Korean shores
would be untenable.
In Korea. we are engaged in United
Nations police action. The action must
be carried on mainly with ground police
forces Fighting of this type has little
relation to the kind of operations in
which we would be compelled to engage
in an aI-out war with the Soviet Union.
Our principal concern, If we are to sur
vive as free nation. is to prepare our
selves adequately to assure us victory
in such an all-out struggle.
In preparing for probable war with
Russia. we must first realize that we
are vastly outnumbered. AS Walter
Lippmann recently pointed out, the idea
we seem to have that our ground forces
are sufficient Cor ever can be sufhcient)
to contain the ground forces of the
Soviet Union, is nonsense. When We
fully realize that we cannot hope to win
by pitting one of our soldiers against
ten or twelve of the enemy's, we can
begin in earnest to build chronological
fighting machine that will compensate
for our lack of manpower.
1t is better to win by "push-button"
methods than to go down in defeat in
the old conventional way!
III. III. HI.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
God Help America

Upon learning that Harry Bridges had been
ordered released on bail, F. Joseph Donohue,
Government counsel exclaimed: God help
America" The Star is unable to share the alarm
implicit in this remark.
Mr.. Donohue Washington lawyer of re-
spected ability, prosecuted and convicted Bridges
of lying when he denied being a Communist.
Bridges was released on $25000 bail pending
appeal. Mr.. Donohue's next move was to ask
the District Court in California to revoke bail
and commit Bridges to JAIL and In this, too, he
was successful The Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals now has reversed the. lower court
ordering Bridges released on bail, and it is this
which fills Mr.. Donohue with foreboding for the
country's future
In The Stars judgment the reaction should
be quite the opposite. Bridges probably is
Communist, but that is not yet sufficient legal
reason in this country for jailing a man. If the
Government could have shown that Bridges,
while at liberty on bail, had done anything
which threatened the security of the country.
it would have been entirely proper to jail him.
But the Government did not make that showing.
Bridges had opposed armed Intervention in Korea
and had refused to dsavow the World Federation
of Trade Unions. But these things, of themselves,
did not make him a menace to the country and
a precedent fraught with danger would have
been set if the court had approved the revocation
of Bridges bond merely because the prosecuting
arm of the Government believed him to. be a
Communist and thought that therefore he should
be in Jail.
The majority opinion Zone judge dissented
said that the Governments action was "as
startling as it is novel," and concluded that
judicial acquiescence would make the courts the
effective instruments of executive expedlency."
Recalling an unadmirable period in English
history when "high judges prostituted themselves
to the role of mere instruments for carrying into
effect the arbitrary will of the Crown" the court
summed up this whole matter by saying: "It is
one thing to refrain from interference and quite
another for the courts to become themselves the
tools of military expedience; and we say now,
with all the emphasis we are able to command,
that however hard and disagreeable may be the
task in times of popular passion and excitement,
it is the duty of the courts to set their faces like
flint against this erosive subversion of the judicial
process"
With that view, The Star is in complete
accord. When Communist or any one else is
guilty of violation of law he should be prosecuted
and punished. But if the day ever comes when
the courts can be used to impose punishment by
indirection when it could not be imposed directly,
then we may well say: God help America!"
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Fighter Plane Guides Back After Training
By w. H. Shippen

UIDING fighters into contact with
NJ hostile or unidentified aircraft is
the highly specialized job of the Dis
tricts 1l3th Aircraft Control Squadron.
now returning home after two weeks of
intensive field training.
The local Air National Guard unit,
composed largely of World War II vet
Grams employed in radio, radar and COM
munications work here, is headed by
Mai. Arthur e. Kimberly who landed
in the Philippines ahead of our troops
to guide fighter and bomber strikes at
the Japanese invaders.
Maj. Kimberly, chemist who stud
led radaf and communications early in
the war and set up an aircraft warning
and control group intended for the COM
bat landings on Japan, is in charge Of
the work of restoring historic documents
at the National Archives here.
For the last two weeks the squadron
has been in camp on Long Island. train
ing with regular Air Force personnel at
an active control center. Their job, de-
tails Of which are restricted for security
reasons, is to spot questioned aircraft by
radar and direct fighters to points of
contact.
The unit was in communication by
radio. teletype and "hot" or direct tele-
phone lines with ANG fighter squad
rons on training alerts at Andrews Air
Force Base, the field at Newcastle, Del,
and Byrd Airport at Richmond. The
field exercises are being concluded today.
In an emergency. the unit would either
supplement personnel at a permanent
control center or set up mobile radar
equipment to track hostile planes and
monitor friendly fighters seeking to
close with the enemy,
In the unit are, telephone linesmen,
installers and technicians, television re-
pairmen and engineers. electrical engi-
neering students, teletype operators and
code operators in civilian life.
Maj. Kimberly said the training has
been accelerated this year by an oppor-
tunity to work with new equipment, the
close support of regular service groups,
and the feeling among the men that
their services might be needed badly in
an emergency.
Mai. Kimberly served as forward con-
troller with guerrilla troops in Mindanao,
Cebu and Mindoro prior to United
States landings. His job was to set up
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Death on Virginio's Highways

=. Governor Baltic of Virginia is justified in
taking drastic steps to reduce the rising death
toll from automobile accidents in his State. A
series of shocking crashes on Virginia,S i'm
proved and increasingly popular highways this
summer has brought the total of fatalities to
more than $40. Before the summer touring
season began there had been an encouraging
drop in the accident rate, but in recent weeks
the rate has scared sharply especially on U. S. /,
connecting Washington with Richmond. Some of
the more serious tragedies have occurred between
here and Fredericksburg.
If the rash of accidents continues at the
present rate, Virginias fine safety record of
recent years will be badly marred. Last year
the State received number of national awards
from the National Safety Council and other
organizations for its success in saving lives
on it's city streets and rural highways. Governor
Battle has been properly proud of this record.
Under the circumstances his latest order on the
safety front is a reasonable emergency measure
which should receive wide public approval. He
has decreed ten-hour day for all State troopers,
with instructions for greatly increased vigilance
against speeders and other reckless drivers.
One of the reasons for the order is the shortage
of troopers resulting from calls to military serv
ice. Deferment of these patrolmen would seem to
be in the public interest, for they are engaged
IN an essential occupation, by any standard.
To be really effective, the new drive against
traffic accidents must be Fundamentally sup
ported by county and municipal police authorities
and by the courts. Many of the States deaths
and injuries take place on roads not within the
oatrol jurisdiction of State troopers. A co-ordi-
mated enforcement campaign is necessary if the
whole highway system is to be adequately pa
troled. And arrests will accomplish little unless
the offenders are vigorously prosecuted and
adequately sentenced Statewide cooperation
by all law enforcement agencies in Governor
Battles safety efforts will produce results.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Yet We Cry Words

/ DaS alone, as man must be
While Dalking toiUard eternity,
And get / shaped quick iDordS to say
About the treetops and the day,
About the snails track. bright as glass,
And three broaUn c1ipmunks in the grass
For, though ,De truuel lonely here,
The eager uoice must seek an ear.
We strike the match OF sound to find
The hidden passage to a mind.
Strange to each other, and alone.
Yet tDe cry words to n,oue the stone.
ANOBEL ARMOUR
Evening star., 1950-08-26

radio communications with the Air
Force, and help to direct strikes at Jap
anese troop concentrations and supplies
in his area.
The local unit won Federal recogni-
ton in October of 1946 as the first of
its kind in the ANG. The squadron orig
inally was organized to give early warn
ing information of approaching air.
craft, as well as to direct its own
fighters.
Recently the outfit was reorganized
to specialize on aircraft control, while
the function of warning was assigned to
a Pennsylvania unit of the regional ANG
Wing.
The squadron's work on Long Island
during the last two weeks put Maj.
Kimberly back on familiar ground. In
the second year Of the last war he had
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Helping Servicemen

An article appeared in This Week
Magazine of The Sunday Star, entitled,
Are You His Friend?" The cover page
stated that the article would "shock
you" Did it? 1t did me.
was shocked that veterans organ
izations were lax in this important
phase Of their work. Servicemen wear
ing the uniforms of this great Ameri-
can Republic are treated as outcasts.
The lepers of Molokai are not more
isolated than the serviceman on leave
from his post of duty. Not only vet
erans' organizations, but other groups
are equally guilty. Every citizen, young
and old. is part of groups which have
influence in our social and public life.
He belongs to church or a union or
a veterans society or civic club or q
school class or a nationality organiza.
ton; most citizens belong to number
of groups.
Let a Communist into a club or a
union or an Office or a school or a
fraternal society, and he'll go right to
work. His first job is to convert some
other member of the group to his view
point. Then there will be two of them
and their next job is to try to convert
two others-thus making four. They
have done it over and over again. They
are paStmaSterS as evangeliSts-aS
seekers of converts.
AS for the average American, he en-
joys the greatest privilege, but also the
most dangerous one, which democracy
can offer-the privilege of complete in
difference. And he enjoys it overtime.
Americans are great joiners but poor
participants. Remember this. then,
that the servicemen can tell in an in
slant whether you intend to help them
and guide them, Or only want their
help when you need them. The sin
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Boxer Rebellion Anniversary

Material relating to the relief of the British
Legation in Peking so years ago recently was
displayed at the Library of Congress- It is i'm
portant historically and because it illustrates the
principle of international cooperation in time of
international need The Boxer rebellion to which
it refers, was popular rising against foreign in
reference in China 1t began with misconcep-
ton of the chemical processes of photography.
The natives believed that extracts made from the
eyes and hearts of infant children were used in
preparing camera plates. When babies disap-
peared, the suppoSition was that they had been
kidnapped by missionaries working in association
with photographers Out of this horrible notion,
riots developed, Christian churches were wrecked,
nuns murdered. A great wave of belligerent
nationalism was the principal result of foreign
demands for indemnities.
Much of the resentment of the Chinese
masses, however, accrued from the trade policies
of the foreigners. The scramble for leases and
concessions by England, France, Russia, Ger
many, Italy and Japan was objected to. When
the central government, headed by the empress
dowager, Tsu-Hsi accomplished nothing effective
in the line of resistance various secret societies
and local gangs of rowdies went into action
Official consent to the revival of village train
bands or militia gave color of authority to these
volunteers. They took the name "I Ho Tuan,"
meaning Righteous Harmony Bands" Gradual
ly, the word Boxers was adopted as their proper
designation. Their slogan was: Protect the
country, destroy the foreigner" Christians were
prosecuted with increasing bitterness. When
the powers attempted to throw additional troops
into Peking to protect the foreign community
there, the storm broke. Allegedly, the empress
ordered all foreign devils" killed. The German
minister was murdered. More than $500 people
took refuge in the legation of Great Britain.
What followed was a nightmare. For Sc
days and nights the beleaguered men, women
and children were in constant danger of slaugh-
ter They fortified themselves with 10000 sand
bags. Food and water, scarce from the start
were rationed to the vanishing point. Mean
while, cosmopolitan relief force" was being
organized at the coast It started for Peking
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Letters to The Star
A pseudony,n Is permissible only
1Dhen letter carries correct name
and address of aDriter. Please be brief.

suddenly and Mrs. Roosevelt moved out
of the White House. the entire class
felt that she had been thrown out of
her home. And that age group still
feels the same and they will go to the
polls and vote for Roosevelt.
This attitude has nothing to do with
the qualifications of the candidate.
Note the ease with which Franklin, jr.,
was elected to his seat in Congress.
What George Washington feared when
he protested against repeated returns to
the same Office has happened, and for
the reasons have given. We now have
royal family!
Laura~K. Pollock.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
I'm Defense of the Meat Ak

Both the House and the Senate tried to chop
half billion or SO dollars out of the big omnibus
appropriation bill by what the critics described
as the meat AK approach.
In the House this effort took the form of two
amendments. One the Taber amendment
aimed at saving about $500 million by cuts in
personnel and travel allowances. Another was
the Jensen amendment under which only 10 per
cent of vacancies could be filled The amendments
were overlapping and nobody, evidently, could
estimate precisely what the result would be if
both were applied.
The Senate committee disregarded these two
amendments. But when the bill was passed by
the Senate, the Byrd-Bridges amendment was
adopted ordering 10 per cent reduction in all
but certain designated agencies. The savings
here were estimated at from $525 million to
$50 million
AS compromise between these proposals the
conferees have worked out what may be a better
method. They direct the Budget Bureau to save
$3.50 million, and leave it pretty much up to the
Budget Bureau to determine how this is to be
done.
This compromise may be hailed as victory
over the meat ak" approach. The point that
ought to be emphasized, however, is that If
somebody does not get rough in cutting Federal
expenditures using meat ak or any other sort
of instrument, the result can be disastrous Had
it not been for insistence in House and Senate on
meatax procedure, it is very possible that moth
ing would have been done to save the half billion
that will be saved.
It is true that the amount of our spending
makes even half billion dollars seem picayune.
Chairman Cannon of the House Appropriations
Committee reported to the House that this
current years budget will amount to about 1894
billion Later in the day it was revealed the
Defense Establishment will need another $40
billion soon, which would swell the budget to
$40 billion. Our revenues last year amounted to
about $37 billion. The Senate is working on a
tax bill now that may yield as much as ST billion
more-or total of $45 billion. Another tax bill
is in the ofing, but not until next year.
In the past IS years our Government has
balanced its budget only twice We resorted to
deficit financing to fight the depression in 1888.
We were forced to continue deficit financing to
fight the war. We have continued deficit financing
in the postwar period, including the most
prosperous year of our history And now on top
of a public debt exceeding $3.50 billion, we are
adopting the same method, in spite of taxation
that is already approaching the World War II
level, to finish the war in Korea and prepare
ourselves for what may be another and far bigger
war e....:.
To the revenue from higher taxes there must
be added savings through reduced spending. We
have not yet made dent in Government spend
ing for things that are unrelated to defense. We
!, have not yet begun to cut where it hurts. Con-
gress has not made a good record in economy
since the beginning of the war in Korea. With
the elections over it ought to swing the meat AK
in earnest
Evening star., 1950-08-26

served there as controller and senior
controller of the New York Defense
Wing. Later he participated in dozen
landings in the Pacific. \
Maj. Kimberly says we have learned
much from the British in control of air.
craft assigned to the interception of
enemy bombers. With the aid of radar
networks the English were able to spot
unidentified planes. estimate speed,
course and altitude and direct fighters
accurately to points of interception.
This was great saving in defensive
strength, allowing fighters to be massed
at the proper time and place rather than
dispersed on patrol duty over vast areas.
In addition, attacks can logically be
expected under cover of clouds or dark
ness, neither of which handicaps radar
eyes.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

on August T. Detachments of japanese English,
Germans, Italians, Austrians, Russians, regi-
ment of Chinese from Wei-hai-wei and the
9Th and 14th U. S. Infantry took part in the drive.
The international force" reached Peking on
August IA and occupied the territory around the
British Legation the next day Its performance
furnished precedent of a sort for what the
United States is trying to do for the United
Nations In Korea In 1850.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

cerity of your interest, the honesty with
which you speak their language. the in
offensiveness with which you air your
views and listen to theirs, will make for
their greatest happiness. and their
belief in American ideals. Invite them
to your meetings. make them feel as
though they belong. Segregation is
part of class warfare, we must do away
with class warfare if we are to have a
true democracy.
lanes Hall
Evening star., 1950-08-26
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer to
any question of fact by either vriting The
NV. Washington 5. D. c.. and inelosing cents
return postage. or by telephoning ST. 5000.
Extension 35S.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. How many operas did Verdi COM
pose?-C. r. G.
A. Fourteen His last, "Falstaff," was
composed in his S0th year and pro-
duced at Milan in 1898.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

@. What is the strength Of gorilla
to that of a man?-F. J. T.
A. DR.. William T. Hornaday, the
naturalist, once said that the fighting
strength of a gorilla with a muzzle on
is equal to that Of three strong men.
Gorillas are the largest Of living pri.
mates.
Evening star., 1950-08-26

Q. What countries have the most
earthquakes?-W. D. S. ~
A. Italy and Japan are the two cour-
tries most frequently visited by earth
quakes.
Evening star., 1950-08-26
lndorses Mission to Russiu

Not long ago Senator Robertson Va)
be sent to Russia.
Why is this not good idea? No stone
should be left unturned that might help
to prevent another world war. And
the cost of such a trip would be little
compared with that of another war.
Staunt0n, Va. T. Y. Steptoe.