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Evening star., 1950-01-14
Pine Trees

Pine trees are made for moonlight, each
green bough
Shaped for the touch OF those unearthlv
rays
Whose ghoStly stream paints Dhtte the :
htps rough broD, -. .........
: Whose dreamy magic haunts the forest
nays.
See ho,0 each pointed branch, each needed
spire
Is cut to capture midnight sorcery,
TO clothe itself In ,DaDes of crystal fire,
TO bathe itself In blue-DIite n1ysteryl-
Pine trees are made for moonlight. When
they sing, ,.,,Y
Their song Is one OF darkness and tau
hills, sst
Witchcraft Is in their iDind-borne tss
whispering, - -
That is the sound of star enchanted rs,ls..
Wherever pine trees n.nrntur there ts ,ss
A land OF siluer light, and fragrant shads.
~r = BEATRICE raw.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Insists That Franco and Stain
Are "Poles Apart"

To the Editor Of The Star:
Question: Who won the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: Spain under frances leadership.
Question: Who lost the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: The Communists.
Now that the world is awakening to what
the. Catholic Church has known and made
known all along-that communism is dia-
bolical menace which is coiling its tentacles
OF hate around the world and slowly crushing,
1T to living death-one James Loeb ir.,- In
letter criticizing The Stars editorial. "The
Spanish Fraud" tries to stir up new trouble
against Franco by saying that laid to Franco
equals aid to Stain"
After so much blood was shed by Frances
people IN conquering the Communists and
RIDING Spain Of them (under Frances able
leaoerShlp). 1t is contradiction to say that
alo 70 Franco equals aid to Stain. They are
poles apart. The real issue here Is the fact
that Spain is Catholic country and Ca
tholicism is the only real bulwark against
communism In the world today. Those who
are opposed to Catholicism will resort to any
trlckery to suppress it and to make it look
like threat to freedom in the eyes of those
who do not know any better.
Meanwhile, to aid Franco Is to aid the
cause OF those who are opposed to COM
munlsm and are interested In true freedom
for all people.
ALICE C. KOERBER.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Integrity Is the Issue

The real issue to be passed upon today
by the National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
ton is not whether the University of
Virginia and several other schools have
violated the associations so-called sanity
code. The schools admit the violations.
The only real question is whether college
athletics, especially football, are to be
conducted in an atmosphere of integrity
or hypocrisy.
Under the code, athletic scholarships,
which usually provide room, board and
tuition, are banned. One of these scholar
ships Is roughly equivalent to 1000 year.
Some schools have sidestepped the ban
by creating "clock-winding" jobs for
athletes-jobs in which the boys are paid
approximately $1,000, and in some cases
much more, a year for doing little or
nothing.
Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Military
Institute, The Citadel, Boston College and
Villanova have said that they will not be
parties to this subterfuge.
Their position, as summed up by Colgate
Darden, president of the University of
Virginia, is that colleges and universities,
especially those where the honor system
is IN effect for students, should not resort
to devious, underhanded methods of sub
sidizing athletes. They say, and they GER
tainly are right, that few if any boys can
play football, keep up with their studies,
and also do enough work to earn $1,000
a year. So they want to get away from
the business of creating phony jobs and
establish athletic scholarships on an open
basis and under conditions to which all
schools can subscribe.
This is the honest and the only work.
able way to regulate the subsidization of
college athletes. The NCAA may insist
upon its unrealistic sanity code, with which
very few schools can comply and keep
their integrity. But If it does So, If it
refuses to recognize facts, its influence on
the American collegiate scene will be a
corrupting one, and Virginia and the other
schools are right in saying they would
rather get out than be parties to it.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Labor Bourd Explosion

Robert N. Denham has charged in effect
that the National Labor Relations Board
Is not doing fair and honest JOB OF
administering the TaftHartley Act.
Mr.. Denham does not say this in so
many words. But no reasonable person
can draw any other inference from his
address to building trades group IN
New York, and since he is general counsel
to the board the accusation is an extremely
serious one.
Some background is necessary to an
understanding of this explosive rupture
between the Labor Board and it's general
counsel Under the original labor law,
the Wagner Act, the Labor Board served
as prosecutor, judge and jury. 1t was fire.
quently charged, and this newspaper has
never doubted the accuracy of the charge,
that both the law and the board were
f1agrantly biased in favor of unions and
against employers. An attempt to correct
this condition was made in the Taft
Hartley Act. In addition to leveling out
some of the inequities in the old law, the
office of general counsel was created and
made independent of the board. This led
to a kind of feuding between the board
and the counsel, and accusations from
either side should be weighed accordingly.
The gist of Mr.. Denham's complaint is
that majority of the present members
of the board and the personnel in the
lower echelons are philosophically devoted
to the religion of the Wagner Act" and
that this, plus their continuing belief that
the Taft-Hartley Act will be repealed, has
made them incapable of doing, fair Job
of administering the latter statute Mr..
Denham does not go all out in this indict-
nlent. He says that the board may have
honestly held" opinions that conflict with
his own, and that cit is entirely possible
that in the present political climate"
decisions of the board in conflict with
his own may represent correct line of
thought and mine may be insupportable."
Nevertheless, when the speech is read in
It's entirety, 1t is evident that Mr.. Denham
is saying that the board and its subordi-
mates are too welded to the philosophy
OF the one-sided Wagner Act to do a fair
and honest job of administering the Taft
Hartley Act, which was designed to balance
the law as between workers and employers
and to give the public the protection it
needs against abuses by either side.
The important question is whether Mr.
Denham's accusation is true or false If
1t is true, he should have access to facts,
by virtue of his position, to prove his
charges. And if he can prove them, it will
be clear that the offending members of
the board, as well as the offending sub
ordinates, are unfit to hold their positions.
If he cannot prove them, Mr.. Denham
should not continue in his position as
general counsel to the board and its advo-
cate before the courts.
Presumably this matter will not be per-
mitted to die with Mr. Denhams speech.
Any further action, however, should be
dictated, not by political considerations,
but by determination to dig down to
the truth.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
The Army Needs Equipment

The Armys new chief of staff, General
Lawton Collins, has issued a timely warn
ing against "oversimplification of the
Army's requirements for war, either of the
cold or hot variety. Whereas 1t is custom
ary to discuss the Navys needs in terms
of ships and those of the Air Force in
terms of airplanes, the Army's require
ments usually are referred to in terms of
rnanpower rather than equipment. Yet an
Army without modern tanks and armored
cars and guns would be as useless as a
Navy without feet or an Air Force with
out wings.
General Collins told the Society of Auto
motive Engineers in Detroit that reports
of salvage progress at supply depots in the
European and Pacific theaters may have
created the erroneous impression" that
the ArnlyS transport and other needs have
been satisfied by repair of vehicles and
other equipment left over from the war.
While vast quantities of such equipment
have been put back into service, at great
savings to the taxpayers, there is still
urgent need for new and better tanks.
artillery and other weapons.
The equipment problem, especially Wltn
regard to tanks, has become of major i'm
portance since we have committed our
selves to Join with Western Europe in hold
ing back on the continent any aggressor
who might attack our allies there. Such
European defense strategy involves
mobile warfare on a grand scale. This
means armored divisions ready to strike
back with tanks capable of matching or
bettering the performance of the enemy's
But, according to General Collins, our
potential enemies have a substantial lead
over us in the field of tank warfare. While
we have been developing prototypes thai
we consider better than, for example
Russia's tanks, production of these new
tanks has been stalled by lack OF funds
Meanwhile Russia is reported to have beer
building up her armored forces relent.
lessly.
General Collins does not advocate tn,
launching Of an all-out program for pro
Evening star., 1950-01-14

duction Of the new types Of tanks, since
he realizes that budgetary limitations are
necessary to a healthy economy. He Is
sponsoring, however, balanced tank pro-
gram which will carry on prototype de-
velopment, provide enough of the new
types for peacetime testing and training
and insure maintenance in peacetime of
limited production facilities as nucleus
for quick expansion in an emergency. This
is sensibly realistic program that is surely
the minimum of preparedness consistent
with national safety
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Evasion of Supreme Court Decisions
Regarded as 'Callousness' Toward Law


It is splendid illustration Of the fairness
OF The Star to print, as it does. the vital
prohibitions against the so-called welfare
state"-informatio that the people should
have against the time when they rise in
their wrath and sweep away the usurpation
and notification of the most precious pre-
server OF their reserved and retained rights.
Evasion and circumvention Of and dis
obedience to the plain decisions OF the
United States Supreme Court exhibit
shameful callousness toward what should
be fully respected and obeyed by all.
No longer can Thomas jefferson be their
patron saint for he too, protested against
acts of the Government that exceeded con-
stitutional limitations nor now or in the
future may Andrew Jackson be their i'm
mortal paragon, for he denounced secession
from the Union, declaring that "the Union
shall be preserved!" and surely he would
not have condoned usurpation and nullif-
cation Of the safeguards of the peoples
basic rights.
1t will be a sorry day for all If Karl
Marx comes to be the successor of those
better and truer guides to our country's
oestlny. JOSEPH w. CHENEY.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

have torn his hair and run to phone to
reveal to Moscow the existence of this noto-
rious spy ring in Geneva.
At least the girls have good story to tell
over their teacups now. After all, the Rus
sians remembering that Lenin Matched
revolutionary plans while exiled in the CAL
whistle city. probably felt that if Lenin
could do it. so could the United States with
the cooperation of the Smith GROUP!
JOANN REID.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Tells About Smith College Girls
Russians Say Are Spies in Geneva
he nf

Russians Say Are Spies in Geneva
To the Editor Of The Star:
One of Moscow's latest points of attack
In the propaganda war centers on the Smith
College Junior Year of International Studies
in Geneva. The girls indeed must have been
surprised to read in the Journal de Geneve
that the stalwart boys of the Kremlin were
accusing them of being in training as
United States espionage agents. In that city
of milk and patisserie, where unruf1ed swans
glide by the lie de Rousseau, it Is difficult to
imagine any secret and harried project en-
visaging the use of bobby college girls
as United States spies in Iron Curtain
countries.
Nothing could be more unpretentious than
the work and activities, of the Smith girls
in residence at the Hotel de Russie for their
year of international studies. From their
patient attendance at the lectures OF Pro-
fessor Rappard on post war economic prob
lens to their social curfeW of midnight, the
girls are models of exemplary behavior The
Russians must have thought they had good
story in supposing that the very innocence
of the whole operation would add to the
plausibility Of this audacious American
undertaking.
Several factors about the group might
have annoyed them and caused them to
think that their accusation could gain &C
ceptance. The Hotel de Russie is directly
across the street from the American Con-
sulate in Geneva: American officials could
be close at hand to supervise the training Of
these feminine spies. And in the hotel itself
no male foot ever is allowed to intrude on
the two floors occupied by the students A
Russian reported on being repulsed from the
female inner sanctum might have pictured
intense and highly secretive instruction
being given Filled with suspicion he might
then have gone to the aula Of the University
of Geneva and been disguised by the vulgar
display of capitalism by the Smith girls
there, for to raise money for the long desired
student restaurant the group organized a
not dog stand where they sold weiners for
franc apiece and contributed all profits
to the cause.
AS if this weren't enough, the poor Rus
sian might then have gone for encourage
ment to the evening Communist student
rally at the Crocodile Cafe. His face would
brighten up when he heard his friends de-
nounce the Plan Marshall as United States
Imperialism and accuse the Western powers
of splitting Germany in half But alas and
alack, what to do when the Smith girls
present leapt to their feet to defend their
country and counter er-attack2 He must then
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Sees No Need for Spinning Wild Tales
To Explain Founder of Christianity.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor OF The Star:
The leprechauns in Ireland are known to
trip even 200-pound man on his way home
from long bout with the cup that cheers
But I am sure that even the leprechauns
couldn't be blamed for the tripping exhi-
bition which reader O'Connell gives in his
letter to The Star January IL. He speaks
of Jesus Christ as highly evolved ego Of
our planetary system.
But reader O'Connell doesn't have to spin
any wild tales to explain who Jesus Christ
is. Let him be satisfied with the New Testa-
ment and the very well developed history
of the early Christian church and spare
himself the preposterous business about
Roman priests perpetrating hoax on
Constantine. ess& Z. RYAN.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Objects to Citizens Federation
Sighting Public Utilities Commission
tn the Editor of The atar.


Sighting Public Utilities Commission
To the Editor OF The Star:
AS a member of the Brentwood Terrace
Citizens Association, wish to protest the
action taken Saturday night by the Fedora
ton Of Citizens Associations with respect to
the recent Washington Gas Company rate
increase. While I feel that the higher rates
are logical and reasonable, this is not the
issue. am amazed at the dearth of good
taste and lack Of confidence shown toward
the Public Utilities Commission. Here is a
group OF citizens-voteless. to be sure-but
purporting to represent the rank and file
OF us. which presumes to upset the consid-
cred judgment of deliberative. body duly
appointed by law to represent that same
rank and file. There was an earlier oppor-
tunity to protest. but this appears to me to
be going far af1eld. There are too many
subjects crying for constructive action to
justify the Federation's front-page squab-
bling over something no longer it's concern.
x
Evening star., 1950-01-14

In sports heavyweight division, this
seems year in which man might build
himself for title bout on the basis that
he isn't much of fighter and is virtually
unknown
Evening star., 1950-01-14

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
soriter, although 1t is permissible for
a0riter k7.o10n to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

As to whether the new Einstein theory
covers everything, time alone will tell.
Mysteries like that of the fellow who set
up in business with $1,000 of his own and
$37,5o0,000 in Government dough may be
beyond solution.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Questions Fairness Of FBI System
OF Evaluating Loyalty Information

VI EVaIuatng Loyalty Information
To the Editor Of The Star:
Let's suppose the FBI comes around to do
routine loyalty check on you-or me- Sup
pose I'm working up on the Hill in minor
administrative job. So Mr.. Hoover's alert
young men begin investigating in my neigh
borhood. live in pleasant residential dis
trict. but two doors down, my neighbor
started to turn his basement machine-shop
from hobby into a business. Our local
Zoning law says no, and was one Of those
who protested the machine-shop.
Now when the FBI knocks on my neigh
boris door to ask him about me, where on the
record they take down will there be a nota-
ton Of the fact that my neighbor still Is
pretty sore at anyone who kept him from
running business in his house? Maybe my
neighbor will lie or distort, maybe not-but
who will ever suspect from the "unevaluated"
FBI record?
And now let's add one more neighbor This
one lives up the street and across from our
side of it. She is not purposely inaccurate
person-she simply loves to brighten up
story. They say she knows everything that
goes on in our block, and what she doesn't
know, she makes up. When the young men
from the FBI have finished asking her about
my loyalty, where on their record will appear
the fact that this woman is a well-inten-
toned prevaricator?
The Star and other newspapers recently
have been congratulating the FBI on its fine
job Of loyalty y-checking. We don't make judg-
ments about anyone's loyalty, says j. Edgar;
we simply gather information. But who nor
mally checks the accuracy of that informa-
ton or the motives behind some Of it? The
loyalty boards or the Un-American Activities
Committee? suspect that normally no one
really checks it. Yet you or could be fired
because of those neighbors just mentioned.
Where is the FBI to be praised for that?
=" DISTURBED.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

Having loaded himself with the new
antihistamine pills, sulfa, penicillin, nose
drops and aspirin, the American with a
cold was quite prepared to agree with the
Pravda headline, "U. S. Plans Germ War"
Evening star., 1950-01-14
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Why are cranberries so called?-G M.
A. Cranberries are borne on slender curved
stalks resembling somewhat the neck Of
crane. From this comes the name crane.
berry. later modified to cranberry. t
Q. What is the highest mountain in Ja-
PAM. G..
A. Mount Fuji, which rises to q height of
1885 feet. It is volcano Of great beauty
with nearly perfect cone.
@. When and where was the first theatar
devoted exclusively to newsreels opened?-
w. O. A.
A. The Embassy Theater In New York
City which opened November 2, 1929, was
the first newsreel theatre In the world.
@. What is the origin Of the name Of Lake
Itasca?-R. H. A.
A. Lake Itasca, source of the Mississippi
River, was named by Henry Schoolcraft in
1882 from parts Of two Latin words veritas
truth" and caput head or source"
@. During what years does a child grow
most rapidly?-D. M. A.
A. Most rapid growth occurs In early in
fancy. especially during the frst year. -,
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question Of
1aet BY writing The Star Information Bureau, 3l6
Eye street NE. WASHINGTON 2, d. c. Please enclose
three cd cents for return postage, :
Evening star., 1950-01-14

two independent inches in the history of
the Nation.
The whole controversy has been rather
silly, and it well may be hoped that it now
is finished
Evening star., 1950-07-07

-baSsador to the United States, Is
quizzed by newsmen.
$3.50, WRC-Confidentially: Jack
Lait, veteran newspaperman. pre-
sents the first of series Of dramas
based on experiences cleaned IN so
years Of ews-gathering.
1850, WTOP-Capitol Cloakroom:
Senator j. William Fulbright Of
Arkansas is interviewed.
TELEvIsloN TODAY
1880, WMAL-That's My Baby:
A new series featuring children f.
years-old or less.
800, WOIC-Songs for Sale;
Songstress Joan Edwards, Music
Publisher Martin Block and singer
Johnny johnson are guest song
judges.
1880. WOIC-Capitol Cloakroom
Senator j. William Fulbright of
Arkansas is interrogated by news
men.
OF PROGRAMS AND PEOPLE.
Frederick Reinhardt, top Russian
expert in the State Department, will
be Sundays guest on the second
program Of the new CBS-TV series,
Diplomatic Pouch" (WOIC-5 PM
Mr.. Reinhardt, who Is deputy chief
Of the departments Division Of
Eastern European Affairs. will ex-
plain to the television audience the
economic, military and political i'm
plications Of Russia's position in
world affairs. Diplomatic Pouch"
is divided into two parts, the first
Is or 20 minutes being given over
to a "briefing" period of the type
used by the State Department to
acquaint groups Of newspapermen
and Government officials with cur
rent world problems. The remainder
OF the program Is a question-and-
answer session, in which the weeks
guest authority faces a battery Of
CHS correspondents led by Quincy
Howe.
Hollywood Movie Hits" (WMAL-
TV-Tuesday. $50 pm.) has a top
notch entertainment coming up next
week for the local televiewers. That
would be Foreign Correspondent, /"
the Alfred Hitchcock success, which
boasts considerable excitement and
cast headed by Joel McCrea, Lar
raine Day, Herbert Marshall and
George Sanders.
Art Linkletter will take on tele-
vision in the fall, but he wort give
up his radio chores to do IL. The
new TV show, to be filmed in Holly
wood, will be on the ABC video net
work on Friday nights. He also will
continue his daily House Party"
on CHS and his weekly People Are
Funny" on Tuesday nights on NBC.
Evening star., 1950-07-07
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