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Evening star., 1950-05-14
No Argument for FEPC

Senator Benton's appeal for adoption of
compulsory FEPC bill was not based entirely
on the fact that Russian propaganda plays up
racial discrimination in this country. But the
Connecticut Senator's argument to the extent
that it was based on this ground, is unworthy
of serious attention
1t is true, of course, that there is racial
discrimination in the United States. It is also
true that the Russians are doing their best to
make capital out of that fact. But it hardly
follows that we should try to combat Russian
propaganda in other parts of the world by
passing law which can be expected to do a
great deal more harm than good in this country.
In this newspapers opinion, a compulsory
FEPC law, wholly aside from its dubious con-
stitutionality would be thoroughly bad in its
effect on race relations in this country. Because
the Senate bill does not cover employers of
fewer than fifty persons, Senator Benton makes
the curious secondary argument that it Is
unobjectionabe because it would not apply to
SO per cent of the enterprises in this country.
What does he think the Russians would say If
we were to pass law oStensbly safeguarding
the rights of people in per cent of our business
establishments and ignoring those in 98 per cent?
The real ground for opposing the FEPC BILL
however, has nothing to do with the number OF
enterprises that would be affected by it. If the
bill is passed it will have to be enforced and it is
ridiculous to suppose that it will not be enforced
But in the South and perhaps in some other
sections of the country it could be enforced only
at price of dissension and bitterness far ex-
ceeding anything seen in this country for many
long year. That is not the way to improve race
rela..onS. If we want to wipe out the progress
that has been made and foment racial hostility
the way to do it is to pass the Senate FEPC bill.
And if Senator Benton is worried about the
Russian propagandists, he ought to think of what
they could do, not only before, but after the
FEPC bill became law.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
High Street Signs

This I remember. now, seven years
since last visiting this city of magnificent
distances: A step-ladder still is needed
to read the too-few street signs 20 feet
high, way up there. Many streets have
now been renamed, curiously enough all
called "One Way"
Philadelphia has established system
Washington authorities might well copy.
Street signs throughout the city are
placed only foot or two above eye level
Taxi drivers may oppose the proper
marking of streets as bad for business.
There are many visitors, however who
like to walk around and know where they
are. Considering how the folks up at the
money mill are daily converting millions
into billions of appropriations, it would
seem few thousand might be well spent
to put up some readable street signs.
Frederick Griffiths.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Spires OF the Spirit
Honor Thy Mother

Today for untold millions. one Of the
ancient Ten Commandments is changed
from a statute to a song. Honor thy
mother" becomes sermon in the pulpit,
a theme on the radio, an editorial in the
paper, a flower in the lapel and prayer
in the heart.
But this hallowed second Sunday in
May, of the year of our Lord 1850. is no
time for mere sentimentality and pretty
little verses about motherhood We can,
at least. try to forget the obnoxious COM
liberalization of the day if. somehow.
there can be sounded the trumpets for
mobilization of all that American mother
hood at it's best means. 1t means nothing
less than the very life of the Nation. 1t
symbolizes the precious things we are
fighting to defend and preserve in the
global struggle which is now calling for
all that we have, all that we are. to pre-
vent malignant pagan pestilence from
blighting our fair and free land.
This Mothers Day is no hour to Groom
nostalgia lullabies from safe yesterdays
This is day of danger. of crisis. of
alarm, of destiny. AS we battle for
survival, we see now, and are aghast at
what we see, that we face an utterly
alien Zoe winch wars against our
religion, our culture. our ideals, our
heritage. and which is plotting with
diabolical cunning to wipe them from the
face of the EARTH
At this festival of sacramental devo-
ton, what more appropriate time could
there be for an undivided Nation to
make unmistakably clear to the mad
masters of the Kremlin that the steps
which America with her Allies, is
progressively taking means that, at any
cost. we are vowing to defend our dearly
bought heritage, with all our material
and moral might. and will tie to us. in
the holy crusade, freedom loving peoples
who pool their strength with ours?
X
Mothers Day is a searching time for
our spendthrift, gadget-fascinated gen.
Grafton soberly to appraise anew the
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

50th anniversary together at their home.
. 9408 Louis avenue, North Woodside, Sill
yer Spring, Md. With them on this
happy occasion will be their three
daughters-MrS. BriSka Jones, Mrs.
Alma Gatewood and Mrs. Leona Rush.
They also have four grandchildren
Barbara and Mary Lou Gatewood and
Sally Lee and Bobbie Rush, the last Of
whom is a West Point cadet. Mr.. Zwiss-
Ter, having been in the business Office
of the Potomac Electric Power Co.
until regarded as eligible for retirement.
now is associated with Thomas g. Slye.
florists, in the New Center Market.
The Star for May 81, 1900, featured a
report of a mass meeting at the Grand
Opera House in honor OF
Pro-boer visiting commissioners of the
Meetino South African Republic and
the Orange Free State. A
capacity audience greeted the guests OF
the evening when they arrived and took
seats in box. Representative William
Sulzer of New York was chairman and a
principal speaker, demanding victory for
Boer independence. Il glory in the spunk
of grand old Paul Kruger. He is one
of the immortals," the orator declared.
Every reference to the Boer President
was followed by prolonged applause.
spokesman for the South African COM
missioners told the assembly: I'VE have
come here to see whether the spirit OF
l25 years ago is still alive in America"
Quoting the Philadelphia Press, The
Star for May 16, 1900. explained: "One
of the greatest problems
Miles or besetting the trustees Of
Newsnoners the British Museum is
the enormous encroach-
ment which in recent years has been
made upon the space at their disposal
by the accumulated piles Of newspapers.
both London and provincial. as well as
foreign and colonial. An effort is now
being made to grapple with this diffi-
Guilty, and Viscount Peel's bill au-
thorizes the trustees to deposit with local
authorities copies of any local news
papers which have been received by them
at Bloomsbury since the year 1887, or
which may be hereafter received, and
also to make rules respecting the dis
posal. by destruction or otherwise, Of
Evening star., 1950-05-14

A cable from London to The Star OF
May 10, 1900, reviewed an article in the
Spectator on "the alleged
Hatred OF hatred of America by the
America continental powers. espe-
cially Russia" saying: The
main cause of this, no doubt, is the fear
of the enormous resources of the people
of the United States and the willingness
the people have revealed to use them
for forcible expansion of trade and ter
ritories." The Spectator further ex-
planned: 1.-The statesmen of Europe do
not exactly know what course America
will pursue in her new greatness. and
besides recognizing clearly that she is
stronger than any single state on the
continent. they doubt in their hearts
whether if all who speak English stood
together it would be possible for any
coalition, even if it covered all the other
civilized states, to raise up sufficient OBJ
stacles to American designs. They can
not conceive that such a mass Of power
can ever be used. but for selfish ends.
therefore, they are genuinely alarmed"
Cable dispatches from Copenhagen
tn The Star of May II. 1900, told how an
unidentified man had
Multiple Tragedy gone insane on board
A. G.. the steamer Prins
Carl and killed seven
persons and wounded five. The lunatic
used a revolver and dagger in his mas
sacre. Finally at Koping. Sweden, ne
Jumped into lifeboat, rowed ashore and
disappeared. 'The murderer is being
pursued" it was affirmed. but chances
of catching him seemed slim. suspect.
however, was arrested at Eskilstavna.
On May Is, 1900, The Star society
column said: Invitations have been
issued by Mr. and
Schneider Zwissler Mrs. A. Schneider to
Invitot;ons the marriage of their
daughter, E m m
Schneider to Leo F. Zwissler. The mar
riage will take place at Trinity P. E.
Church, Third and c streets, Monday,
June 4 at pm" Then followed details
about the arrangements for the wedding
with the names of attendants who were
to participate in it. The zwisslers espe-
cially referred to will celebrate their
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Sunday at the Zoo

DR.. Mann, the director of the Zoo, has made
many additions to his brood in the past few
weeks. The widely heralded baby elephants from
India, Ashoka and Shanti, are already firmly
established matinee idols; and many lesser
creatures have followed them. But stroll
through his domain on one of these sunny Sun
day afternoons brings home the fact that this
blithest of Government officials has achieved his
greatest -eminence in the dazzling and be-
wildering collection of children, which he calls
forth as surely as the Pied Piper. The animal
lover is constantly distracted from his contem-
plation of the barred beasts by the never ending
stream of little people which pours over the
sidewalks and parks of DR.. Mann'S preserve. All
sorts and sizes and shapes, colorS kinds and
conditions of childhood are on fluid view. Piggy
back or in strollerS tugging on parental hands,
or darting wickedly into the nearest tangle of
adult legs and feet they proceed in ever-chang
ing parades Awake and asleep, shrieking and
silent, cross and pleased in pnafores and diapers,
in cowboy garb or Eton suits, in party best and
dungarees, dwarfed behind giant lolypops or
mammoth cones of spun sugar, they pass,
gladdening the beholder. Sometimes they are
shepherded by bored older brothers, by their
grandmothers or simply loosely herded together
on their own. The walls of the momentarily dis
placed ring out at regular intervals. There are
little toughs pelting peanuts at the monkeys and
midget marksmen delicately aiming popcorn at
the rhinoceros' mouth. Their official badge seems
to be the balloon tied to the wrist. They may
stand unmoved before the Gagged power of the
king of beasts, respectfully regarded by their
elders and scream with delight at the sight of
the interloping squirrels and pigeons they could
see on any city street.
Obviously the Zoo belongs to them They
preside over DR.. Mann's wooded acres as if by
right of eminent domain So Dr. Mann is re-
warded. He has secured the far places of the
earth for the noblest and strangest of the animal
world And we in turn show them humankind
at its best, in the charge of its children, who
make the Zoo happy place to be on Sunday
afternoon.
At Albany, Ga, small white hen lit into
dog, hog, a horse and COW. Sounds like the
old-time 95-pound schoolteacher of boys in the
eighth grade
A cold which if left alone would 60 away in
week can. by the timely application of the
latest treatments be cleared up nicely in 10 days.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Drastic Deficit Cure

There is every reason to believe that the
House, in slashing deeply into Government per-
sonnet rolls last week, was acting in harmony
with public sentiment.
great many people are worried, and
rightly so, when they see the direction in which
our fiscal policies taking us. They feel, and
again they right, that firm economy meas
ures must be adopted if this Nation is not to
drift into bankruptcy.
A recent report of the Senate House Com
mittee Internal Revenue Taxation predicts
that the deficit for the 1850 fiscal year will be
$67 billion-the highest of any peacetime year
in our history and $1.2 billion in excess of the
Presidents estimate last January. Worse still,
the committee forecast $73 billion deficit for
fiscal 1851 if spending continues at the rate
provided in the administration budget Only
twice in the past 20 years-in fiscal 1947 and
1948-has the Federal Government been out of
the red, and the present prospect is for con-
tinued deficits in future years.
OF course there are number of areas in
which the budget cannot safely be cut back In
these dangerous days no rational person would
cut deeply into national defense spending. Our
foreign aid programs are part of the larger
defense picture. There is the interest on the
national debt, ETC. STILL the feeling is strong
that spending cuts can be made and it was in
Nresponse to this feeling that the House acted.
1t moved along two main lines One move
was to adopt the Jensen amendment to the
omnibus appropriation bill This prohibits Gov
ernment agencies from filling 80 percent of the
job vacancies that occur each year through
normal turnover processes. Since the normal
turnover is around 225,000, this would produce
in one year an estimated reduction in force of
about 100000. The other move was to approve
the Taber- Thomas amendment which commands
10 percent reduction in non-military agencies
and 2 percent cut in the defense establish
ment. The estimated reduction under this
amendment would be $4,000.
This drastic bid for economy has caused
CONSERVATION in the executive establishment and
an unidentified White House spokesman is quoted
saying it will be fought to the last ditch This
means of course, that every effort will be made
to induce the Senate to wipe out or modify the
action of the House. - - '~'3' -f'
The question is whether personnel cuts of
such nature and extent can be made without
actually crippling essential functions of the
Government This newspaper believes that cuts
and should be made, and of the two methods
approved by the House, it prefers the Jensen
plan, or some modification of it. But the matter
is which should be explored with utmost
care before final action is taken. The problem
is to ascertain how deep cut can be made
without real injury to the necessary operations
of the Government. If the Senate will undertake
this task, having uppermost in mind the neces-
Sity for economy, it will be rendering a real
service.
Evening star., 1950-05-14

printed matter deposited in the museum.
which is not of sufficient value to justify
its preservation" London newspapers
alone filled more than 1000 yards of
shelves, while provincial and foreign
newspapers used 5000 yards. The Library
of Congress has similar problem in
1850.
The Star for May Is, 1900, gave a
comprehensive account of q concert pre-
sented by the Dam
Domrosch Society rosch Society at the
Concert Columbia Theater the
previous evening. Ed
mund A. Varela was the director, and
he was praised for the excellence of his
endeavors. THE most ambitious selec-
tion :. was The Farewell of Hiawatha,'
Arthur Foote's setting to a portion of
Longfellow's beautiful poem. In this the
society did some Of its best work." Senor
Campanari, baritone, was soloist. He Of
fered the prologue Of II Pagliacci," the
toreador song from Carmen" and the
buffo Figaro aria from "The Barber of
Seville" Archibald Olmstead was the
accompanist.
The Star of May II. 1900, reported
that Oscar Florence. allegedly steward
with Gen. U. 8. Grant dur
0ronfs ing the Civil War. was
Steward dying in st. Luke's Hospi-
tai, New York. He had
been a caterer there after Appomattox
Court House and also had been on the
house stats Of the old Metropolitan and
Grand Union Hotels. When in military
employ. he had accompanied Grant in
the field His comment on the general was:
He was the greatest man ever knew, but
he was o very poor feeder. don't be-
lieve he had any favorite dishes, except
perhaps pork and beans. He didn't care
a rap for poultry or game. He wouldn't
eat lamb. He was simple in all his
habits I never heard him complain of
q single thing during the four years I
was with him. ! served him up TO the day
he went into the White House and even
afterward frequently went to the Ex-
ecutive Mansion and prepared a meal
for him" Florence, it seems, bore q
marked physical resemblance to Gen.
Robert e. Lee.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
By Frederick Brown Harris
Pastor, Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain.
United State Senate.

destiny We are not the architects Of
our heritage. That was fashioned by
other hands than ours.
As we turn wistfully to the mother
whose protecting arms was our Young
Age Security" We are proclaiming our
attitude to our inheritance.
A man Is largely known by the lenses
he keeps. Mothers Day is grateful
salute to the past. Some modernS are
so suspicious of the dead hand Of the
past that they turn from it in disdain.
and in discarding the droSs leave un-
claimed the gold.
In the sight of such iconoclastS. even
the Puritan emerges as a ridiculed car
feature. But. alas. with better plumbing
has often come shallower living. When
there is no shrine of memory today be-
comes as empty and futile as the revolv-
ing cage of a squirrel. To be abundant
and significant. life must have an escape
both into the opulent past and the
beckoning future. So far as our heritage
is concerned. I'VE can be grateful for it:
live up to it; rejoice in it. and be
worthy of it: or we can forget it. be
lITeNcIcut COIlCcIulIlS IL dIlu uIdpplcSl-
ative of it" We must. of course. live in
the present: but not to be gratefully
aware of the past is to be pauper.
On Mothers Day women's rights are
emphasized in the highest and holiest
sense For let us remember lest We for,
get that there is one kingdom where If
woman does not rule as queen no man
may ever rule as king. There is one
scepter which. If women let fall, mems
hands are powerleSs to grasp.
This. then, is day not for maudlin
tears. but for the deepest concern and
care regarding the moral welfare of this
Nation. Listen to John Ruskin on the
downfall of Venice. as he declares. The
decline of her political prosperity was
exactly coincident with that of her
domestic, individual religion" The
wrecks of the ages suggest for whom
the bells toll.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
SIovenIy City

Mr.. Barretts letter on "Dandelions
and Chickweed" will strike an answering
chord in many heart here. The same
theme has been in my mind recently.
with emphasis upon one added attrac-
tion-traSh.
Sightseers were out in throngs over
the week end. could not help wonder
ing what they must think OF some OF
our beauty spots; for instance, the IA
nous Botanic Garden plot just south
west of the Capitol, where scarcely a
decent blade of grass is to be seen. but
a splendid crop of onion grass. chick
weed and various other weeds is choking
the landscape. What flowers are there
present a neglected and unloved ap-
pearance, and the whole place is any
thing but attractive. The glass globes
around the fountain are so griny that
the intermittent lights which are func-
tioning are scarcely visible.
The grounds around our Capitol pre-
sent similar appearance. The whole
lawn is patched with chickweed, onion
grass and various kinds of trash, in
cluding paper scraps, old bottles, beer
cans, etc. In fact, the grounds around
all of our public buildings, especially
over week ends, have become repositories
for refuse, and our fair city presents its
worst appearance on the days when it
is most visited.
Why does not our Public Buildings
Administration make some sensible ar
rangement, by staggering working days
of it's labor force, so as to have some
L,,kxy - ~ cn%
to keep our building grounds and parks
in respectable condition? Why spend
millions to put up fine buildings, and
then surround them with space which
is Uttered like country dooryard?
This whole situation is the result of
the city's "stepchild' status. It has no
one to keep its face clean. 1t has no
real government. no native sons" in
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Letters to The Star
A pseudonym is permissible only
When letter carries correct name
and address of aDriter. Please be brief.

with Communist activities, and does not
dare to answer mo- for fear of trial
for perjury.
Senator Lodge was right when he
said it was shocking to hear such men
as Browder and Field claim immunity
under the fifth amendment.
w. G.. L.
Evening star., 1950-09-24
Holy Name Society
OF Virginia Meets

The annual diocesan conven-
ton of Virginia Holy Name So
cieties is being held today in
Alexandria.
The program opens with a mass
at ST Mary's Catholic Church
celebrated by the Most Rev. Peter
L.. Ireton. Bishop of Richmond.
The business sessions at the
Alexandria Armory have the fol-
lowing speakers scheduled: The
Very Rev. Harry Graham, ma
tional director of the Holy Name
Society: Judge Edward M. Cur
ran Of District Court; Bishop Ire
ton, and Philip F. Ogilvie, execu-
tive secretary of the Catholic
Committee of the South.
There will be a luncheon for
visiting delegates in the cafeteria
of st. Mary's Parochial School,
presided over by the Right Rev.
Msgr. Edward L. Stephens, pas
tor of st. Mary's.
The committee in charge of
convention arrangements consists
of Clarence F. Dyson, State presi-
dent; Billy Barrett, Emmett Law
Ter, Robert Swartz and the Rev
joseph SWartZ,
Evening star., 1950-09-24
By George Beveridee

District Selective Service Of
ficials have ordered the city's first
draft "delinquents" to report for
induction, and warned that the
names of those who fail to do so
will be turned over Immediately"
to United States Attorney George
Morris Fay for action.
None of the % men have re-
ceived pre-induction physical and
mental tests. Those who report. as
ordered, to the Army's Arlington
Farms station Wednesday will re-
ceive the examinations then and
be inducted Immediately if they
pass.
Frank D. Norton, District dep
uty draft chief, stressed, how
ever, that draft headquarters has
no specific indication that any of
the % "delinquents" are "pur-
poseful draft dodgers"
Names Are Listed.
"They represent the men who
have failed to report as ordered
for examinations and who we have
not been able to track down." Mr..
Norton said. I'VE can't say any
of them are dodgers, but those
who don't show up on Wednesday
will be turned over to the District
Attorney"
Names of the % men, as listed
by the draft official, were:
jeremiah E. Frazier, James S.
Lee, Andrew L. Glasker, Clarence
Moye, Chenyung Said, Robert P.
Swantner, Manfred L. Mann,
James O. Armstrong, Calvin H.
Murphy. Otis Waddy. James r.
Miley. James A. Wise. Lewis Dill
lard, Gerald A. Burke, William E.
Holmes, Joseph A. Cordero, Irwin
Ragland, Willie B. Lake, David L.
Murchison, Harold P. Miller,
James r. Butler, jr., and Prince
Small.
81 Others Ordered to Report.
The % men were in addition
to 81 other found acceptable after
passing pre-induction exams
who also were ordered for induc-
ton Wednesday. This group, the
fourth sent to the service by Dis
trict boards. will go to the Fort
Meade (Md) Reception Center
Wednesday night.
National draft officials, mean
while, said no figures were avail
able on draft "delinquents'
throughout the country, but added
that the number was mot large
enough to show any cause for
alarm
1t also was learned that District
draft officials plan to increase by
about so per cent the number of
men ordered for Undue
ton examinations, beginning next
month.
The move, officials said, is re-
quired to build up a sufficient
pool of available men to meet
draft calls through November. In
october. $50 men will be ordered
for examination each Monday
and Friday.
Men ordered for induction
Wednesday will be sufficient to