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Editorial
QUALIFIED NATIVES CAN BE FOUND

The RELEASE from the Virgin Islands Corporation re-
Gently seeking a number of young men as trainees in the Trac-
tor Program is revealing, and should make both the Corpora
ton and the public sit up and look themselves in the face. If
the request is genune-that there is a real need and that the
Corporation is willing to shoulder the responsibility of train
ing young men-then this island has failed in its efforts to
help make home the best place for our people. If the release
was issued because it was known that no one would respond,
then it isa successful, yet nevertheless subtle attempt to prove
aPoint-that natives qualified, or even willing to perform Ger
tain Jobs are not available.
, 1950-01-24
THOUGHT

Your sole contribution to the
sum OF things is yourself.
Frank Crane
, 1950-01-24

WE HAVE been told that there was once a Vocational
Institute located at the Experiment Station, and that it did
an admirable Job. But that school was allowed to pass from
the picture, and our people must now subject themselves to
the mercies of those who would sparingly give whatever
chance is left. With such a school as the Vocational Institute
still going, the Virgin Islands Corporation would not have
had to seek trainees, but would only have had to turn to-
graduates who not only could handle tractors, but repair and
maintain them. But that is another story, and we mention it
only to show that we have allowed some of our most glorious
opportunities to slip through our fingers, and today we are
suffering for it. Perhaps it might not be too late for the Coms
Gil or other interested groups to make a study, with a view to
developing a school meeting the needs of this Island.
BUT BACK to the Corporation. 1t knows that if it is to
Junction. it must maintain a large fleetof tractors, and should
long before this have worked out some sort of program which.
would keep on hand the adequate personnel. Perhaps it is be-
cause our native young men see no opportunity whatever
why they do not remain long enough to be trained. They pro-
badly reason, and rightly enough, that even if they acquaint-
ed themselves with all phases of the work, still promotion, or
even recognition of their ability would never come. That Isl
a point which the Corporation might do well to ponder.
WE BELIEVE that human beings should be permitted
to make a living wherever they will and can, and that the
only ~criterian should be their ability and qualification. How
ever, that does not mean that the natives of a place, whose
very life blood went into building and maintain a community,
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handing out apples and per-
simmons.
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and other believers in freedom
have worked with Americans to
lower existing barriers to the free
flow of information and to pre-
vent the raising Of new barriers.
Latterly the believers in free
dom have had to devote so much
effort to protecting such freedom
as exists that it has not been pos
sible to do much about widening
the area of freedom.
Never in modern times has il
been 50 difficult to report what
is going on in so large a part OF
the world. Never has it been so
important to know what is going
on Those of us who have assum-
ed some responsibility for the ad-
vancement Of freedom of infor-
nation urgently need and solicit
the support of readers and listen
ers everywhere for the cause we
champion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-10-03
Women Today
q The Associaied pes

It isn't often that a woman
just with the wave of her hand
has a hundred men at her
beck and cali. Still, that's the
kind of attention Hama Fiserova
gets She's %. vivacious and
pretty-but the secret of her
power is IN her work.
Miss Fiserova lives in Prague
and is the only woman conduct
or of symphony in opera in
Observation-Disclosures in all
Europe. For six years now shd
has conducted her orchestra and
never has she used a woman
instrumentalist in the group.
Presently. Miss Fiserova viii
enter contest, competing with
thirty or forty men to see who is
the best conductor in her home
land. She viii direct The Kiss
-an opera by the Czech composer,
Sedrich SmetaDa. The outcome
of the competition won't be known
until January.
That isn't all in the wind for
Miss Fi5erova- She viii take
over her first permanent job al
so. A new group is being formed
at the Prague opera to tour the
bigger cities of Czechoslovakia.
Miss Fiserova will have charge
Rehearsals start IN October and
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Foes OF Freedom Seek To Stop
World Flow OF information
By CARROLL BINDER


u. S. Member. United Nations
srkcommission On Freedom Of
Information and of the Press
and Editorial Elitor. Minneapolis
t1ainn-l Tribune
Newspaper readers and radio
listeners the world over would
benefit by the free flow of infor-
nation throughout the world. All
totaiitarian governments and some
governments protesting to be
democratic believe they would be
injured by the free flow Of infor-
nation Governments of that turn
Of mind exercise their. sovereign
powers to restrict the publication
Of news and opinion which they
consider damaging TO their inter
esfs. They try to prevent such in
formation from reaching other
countries as well as prevent its
publication within the area they
control.
These governments do not stop
there. They try to make people
believe that such controls make
for peace" and good relations
between nations They try TO
make people believe that those
WIN insis. on reporting what act
ually IS going On instead OF only
what governments wish publish
ed are ''WarmOngers. tmOnopol-
ists'' and efascists." If they can
persuade enough people that con-
trolls and censorshipS promote
peace and freedom OF information
breeds war they viii shackle the
press and radio of the countries
in which if IS still free as they
have shackled the press and radio
Of their own countries. If they
can prevail upon the United Ma
tons to write the principles of
government control of information
into international law they will
have a sanction for their inter
ferenees with the free flow of
news at present found only in
their DEGREES.
The foes of freedom operate on
two levels in the international
sphere They are trying in the
United Nations assembly to con-
vert draft treaties which were in
tended to increase the flow of in
formation into limitations of free
dom In the United Nations Sub
commission on Freedom of Infor-
nation they try to influence world
public opinion against freedom
and in favor Of restrictions In
both The assembly and the Sub
commission British, FiIipino
Dutch, Canadian, Scandinavian
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Maximum Expenditure

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was the need for the grader
to do other city work. Also
that the city was handicap
ped in securing mari. 1t is
estimated that between ten
and fifteen loads will be
needed before the seeding
of the infield and outfield
can be done.
No Funds Budgeted
For Widening
]. M. Watson, district en-
gineer of the State Road de
partment, has informed
City Attorney NJ. Ignatius
Lester that he is working
on plans and exerting all
effort toward the widening
of Truman avenue.
Watson told Lester that
no funds were budgeted
for the project. And that
the county authorities
should make the request
for the improvements, and
the State Road department
would adopt the budget.
Ketchum Wants
Changes Made
Attorney Ben Ketchum
has written a letter to the
commission recommending
certain changes in ordi-
nanceS. Ketchum recently
acted as judge of municipal
court.
Ketchum suggested that
in order to avoid embaraSs-
ment to the city judge, or
dinance l through 6 should
be revised to meet modern
conditions. And that or
dinance sc and those COM
plementing should be re-
vised to enable police de-
partment to properly and
legally stop public nuis-
anceS.
Concluded Ketchum.
Until these ordinances are
revised, the city judge will
find himself in the position
/ was in. He will be asked
to remedy conditions which
are not prohibited by ordi-
nance.
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ZAP Wirephoto).

she hopes the tour viii begin by
the end of January
More than 25-hundred persons
turned out recently to hear her
give string concert The music
was presented IN the garden of
the 18th century Waldstein Palace
in Pragu. Thirty-five men of the
Prague radio orchestra responded
to her baton. On the pOdium, Miss
FIserova looked like a school
teacher with extraordinarily ODE
dent pupils. She was wearing
glasses and had on a long-skirted
black suit with white tie
Her attire varies In another
interview, she was bright and
smiling in a smart rose crepe
print with a straw hat decked
with flowers.
Miss Fiserova was born in Pra-
que, the only child of unmusicaI
parents Her father is an army
major now retired. Perhaps her
leaning toward music came from
her uncle, Anton Fischer. He con-
Quoted the Moscow Imperial opera
from 1900 to 1914 and toured both
Sweden and the United States.
Miss Fiserova started piano les
sons when she was five, was a
pianoforte teacher at 18 when she
started studying conducting. She
made her debut as conductor at
23-and then too her musical Of
fering was by Smetana. It was
the opera, The Bartred Bride. I"
Most persons respond TO music
of some kind so it's fortunate
compositions vary enough to meet
defenite desires. This IS borne out
particularly in veteran hospitals
The battle gun which mows down
a number of soldiers can bring
together infinite variations in
background and taste.
Efforts are made to level off
Inconsistencies of this kind. One
method is to have prominent stars
entertain the wounded. Such a
show was put on recently by a
dozen stage, screen and radio per
sonalities. 1t was repeated sew
eral times to mark the fourth
year Of their regular concerts for
LOG, 900 hospitalized veterans in
l42 veterans administration hos
pital throughout the country.
Jean Tennyson is national chair
man Of the artists veterans hos
|pital programs She applauds the
cooperation of many artists who
appear in hospital concert tours.
They include Mary Martin. Al
bert Spalding, Richard Rodgers,
Oscar Hammerstein, Hazel Scott
and organizations like the Yale
Glee club and the US. Navy band.
Ambulatory patients hear the
music in auditoriums Bedded pa
tients get the program by a pub
lie address system but these fell
lows too get look at the stars
who 60 through the wards later.
The celebrated Chicago opera
star, Mary Garden, gave veterans
the time Of their life once. She
got into a game Of billiards at Z
hospital and while she Justify
worked her cue, she cheered the
boys with a full program of arias
The vets liked best her ave
Maria and the @Whiffenpooi
Song.
Miss TennysOn explains con-
siderable help comes from persons
losltside the entertainment profes-
sion also-like the time the fire
lighters Association Of Buffalo
provided q piano for a hospital
which had none.
Even the veterans themselves
respond n kind Jeanette McDoH-
AIDS favorite offering was Don
key Serenade but she couIdn't
whistle with the boys-she didn't
know how-sO they taught her
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simmons.
Meeting Of
Commanders
Just south Of the border,
there was a meeting of
Allied commanders today.
Eighth Army Com
mander Lieutenant Gen
eral Walton Walker and
Fifth Air Force Com
mander Major General
Earl Partridge flew to
Koryo airfield at Kang-
hung. on the south side of
the 18th parallel. They
conferred with Major Gen
eral Kim PAX II, the COM
mander of the South Ko-
rean First Corps.
The reason for the con-
ference hasn't been given.
But it's believed it might
have something to do with
the small number of Red
prisoners taken in the past
few days
Only Troops
To Cross
The South Koreans still
are the only Allied troops to
have crossed the 18th par
allel.
To the west, United
States Marines are con-
tinuing their race to the
borderline. Today the Ma
rineS drove their tanks into
Uijongbu, II miles north of
Seoul.
The advance was made
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them and Stabbing A. then
one by one, with shsrpene5
bamboo spears
The attackers then WaE-
ed through the streets C
the town, singing ON h
dividuals and killing then
Eighty-two South Koreans
were murdered
Some Of the peaszn-s
sharpened bamboo sucks O
their own and Turned q
posse to chase the relA
gades-
United Nations invest
gators have told OF another
atrOcity- They sad =
bodies were found IN q
well near the west c0as1
port Of Kunsan-
Witnesses said some C
the South Koreans had
been thrown IN alive and
rocks hurled down O.
them.
Tells OF
Job Done
The American Air Force
Chief In the Far East Len
tenant General Ge0rge
Stratemeyer, told TODAY
about the big JOB Allied
planes have done IN Korea
He said that up until laSt
Sunday, Allied land-based
planes destroyed OF dam
aged 1,059 RuSsian-made
tanks.
Allied planes 50 far also
have destroyed or damaged
five thousand trucks, go
locomotives, 376 bridges.
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beachhead.
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against decreasing enemy
resistance. Yesterday the
Reds opened up with some
sharp artillery fire from
Uijongbu, driving Major
General Almond and a
party of Marines into a
ditch.
That stiff resistance, Up
TO today, caused some Of
ficers to believe the Reds
are covering the northward
withdrawal of other Com
muniSt units.
Farther south. the Sew
enth and Eighth South Ko-
rean Army Divisions
moved into the liberated
city of Seoul today.
They had driven all the
way from the Taegu area
of the old Allied southeast
beachhead.
New Atrocity
Story Told
Nearly every day we get
a new story of atrocities
committed by the fleeing
Communists. Today's story
tells of what happened in
the anti-COmmuniSt village
of Chungyong on Korea's
west coast.
The South Koreans say
former residents Of the area
who had joined the Com
muniSts slipped out of the
hills at dawn one morning.
They reused peasants from
their sleep and herded them
into a circle.
The Reds walked around
the peasants, leering at
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Montana Farmer-stockman Photo
Tests at the station are being made
to determine ways of rejuvenating
old stands of crested wheatglass. The
methods being tried include the use
of nitrogen fertilizer, deferred graz
ing, thinning or establishing a new
stand.
Animals on crested wheatgrass
pasture made about 50-pound gain
in first two weeks of May where
those on native pastures only gained
from to 10 pounds at most. Larry
Short, range conservationist, North
ern Rocky mountain forest range ex-
pertinent station, u. S. forest serv-
ice, says this does not mean neces-
sarily that crested wheatgrass ac-
tually came up any earlier than
western wheatgrass or other native
grasses but that crested had the
volume of growth early to fill up the
cattle and allow these phenomenal
gains.
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SLEEK, HEALTHY condition of
IL cows pictured here is living proof
that crested wheatgrass will put on
the pounds, and the knee deep grass
the cattle are standing in is further
proof that the grass ''can take it,
Photo was taken late in June this
year on 46-acre test plot at the
u. S. range livestock experiment
station, Miles City.
For IL years the grass has had
hard and early continuous grazing
from April 10 into July most years.
This year, the IL cows gained 1888
pounds in 56 days up to the end of
June for gain rate on this dryland
pasture of 81 pounds per acre. This
represents real recovery from the
drouth condition of 1949 when the
gain was only 35 pounds per acre.
For z years (1941-1947) pasture gains
were rated at 100 pounds per acre,
and in 1913 were rs pounds per acre
despite a dry spring.
Evening star., 1950-10-08
District Real Estate Taxes Yield
$3 Million More in Fiscal 1850

Taxable-$1, 6,871 ,021, includ-
ing $55, ,800,080 in land and ST.
OBJ, ,070,941 in improvements.
United States-$824, ,467, ,781, in
cluding $409,899,4 ,436 in land and
$414, 4,568,345 in improvements.
District-$1O9,234,65o, including
$26.315,910 in land and $82,918,-
TAO in improvements.
Exempt-$146, ,OOS,4 ,454. including
$39, ,758,575 in land and $106,249,-
879 in improvements.
Tax Sale Income.
Property sold in the 1850 tax
sale for 1949 delinquent taxes, in
Guiding special assessments, in
cluded 1,476 lots to individual
buyers. $136,186, and 1,014 lots to
the District, $11,199.
Sold in the 1949 tax sale: 1,495
lots to individual buyers, $139,575,
and 1884 lots to the District, $19,-
PIG.
During the fiscal year, the Com
mittee on Special Assessment Ap-
peals considered 969 cases involv-
ing various kinds of taxes and
special assessments levied by the
Assessors Office totaling $2,957,-
561.63, plus interest, penalties and
costs of $215, 5,649.63.
Cleared from the records as a
result of findings by the commit
tee approved by the Commission
ers were:
Collections, including $15,240.87
penalties aRd interest. $2,s27,-
979.36.
Cancelled, including $190,193.88
penalties and interest, $213,696.0 .05.
Appeals denied by the commit
tee. $13,691.55.
Cases awaiting final settlement,
$17,844.30.
Evening star., 1950-10-08
Quock Doctors Maybe Punished
More Than Fake Veterinarians

Before long it may be as big a
crime here to practice quack medi-
cine on humans as it is on dogs.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay is taking steps to re-
wise the quirk in the District code
which imposes a 500 fine and or
90-day jail sentence for practicing
medicine without license and a
5000 fine and/or six months lodg-
ing in the Workhouse for treating
animals without a license.
Presenting the matter to the
Medical Licensure Board of which
he is a member, Mr.. Fay asked re-
vision of the code to make prac-
ticing medicine without a license
punishable by a maximum fine of
$4,000 and three years imprison-
ment.
Under the existing code, nurses,
BARRIERS. pharmacists, pediatrists,
Evening star., 1950-10-08

cosmetologists and optometrists,
as we'll as veterinarians, are sub
ject to heavier penalties than
medical doctors for operating
without licenses.
The board also asked the Cor
poration Counsel to prepare leg
islation requiring all who practice
medicine here to be American
citizens. Although all but four
States now have this require
ment, the District has been un-
successful in obtaining such law.
Health Director Daniel L. Seek
niger told the board that the
reciprocal agreement allowing Vir-
ginia doctors to treat patients in
the District, and vice versa, is
working out satisfactorily. SINH
lar agreements now have been
made between Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island.
Evening star., 1950-10-08
Children Gnowed
By Animals Lead
List of Accidents

Three children, gnawed on by
animals, were treated at hospitals
here last week. the District Red
Cross Accident Prevention Service
reported yesterday.
One little boys finger was
chewed off while feeding hogs in
nearby Maryland; a 21a-year-old
girl had the tip of her finger
chewed off by a cat and a 5-year-
old was bitten on the finger by
a rat.
The Red Cross reported three
fatalities in home accidents; two
of them due to falls and third,
an infant, to suffocation.
Injuries totaled 123-top-heavy
with falls. Children drank and ate
furniture polish, whitewash. dis
infectant, reducing pills and as
pirin.
Fatalities totaled 153 for the
year, but were 176 for the same
period last year. Injuries total
4.838 thus far this year compared
to 4,812 at this time last year.
Evening star., 1950-10-08
District Government
Buying 81 Million in
Goods Each Month

The District government is buy
ing about 81 million worth of goods
month, Roland M. Brennan
District purchasing officer, tolo
the Commissioners in his annual
report made public yesterday.
The city bought $11,316,256
worth of goods during the fiscal
year ended June 80, which was an
increase of $584,212 over the pre-
ceding year. By taking advantage
of discounts offered by bidders for
prompt payment, the District
saved $40,487.53 during the year
An additional saving was made
by the District in the exemption
it enjoys from Federal excise
taxes. During the year 1,679 ex-
else tax exemption certificates
were issued by the purchasing Off
Ger, 162 of them on motor vehicles
and $50 for typewriters. The ex-
else tax on the typewriters alone
amounted to $5,667.
Prices paid by the District for
goods in general were somewhat
stabilized, but marked rise was
notable following the beginning of
the Korean fighting.
The District purchasing officer
not only buys food for 1900 per-
sons. but buys nearly everything
from aluminium to zippers. The
city buys between $50, 900 to 30O,-
900 items during the year, the
only thing it does not buy is cos
tune jewelry, furs, airplanes and
munitions of war.
One of the important recon-
mendations made during the year
which the Commissioners adopted
was a new purchase order form
which streamlines purchasing pro-
cedures.
Evening star., 1950-10-08
By Horriet Griffiths

The assessed value of taxable
real estate in Washington for the
fiscal year 1850 increased $42, $685.
956 over the previous year, As
SCISSOR Edward A. Dent informed
the Commissioners yesterday in
his annual report.
Together with the increase in
the tax rate from So to $2.15 per
500, this brought in $3,307, 900
more taxes. Taxes amounted to
$35, ,192,8OO.
The increase in assessed value
was due chiefly to new building
construction but some was at
tributed to higher valuations in
certain districts.
But the District still was able
to collect taxes on less than half
it's land areas, or 48.5 per cent.
This was 0.2 per cent less than in
the previous year.
42.3 Owned by U. S.
The rest of the land, as &C
counted for on the tax records,
included 42.3 per cent owned by
the United States, 3.4 per cent
owned by the District, and 5.8
per cent exempt for other reasons,
such as ownership by religious,
charitable or other institutions or
foreign governments.
The decrease in taxable land
was attributed to acquisition of
property by the United States and
private non-taxable corporations.
The Districts percentage re-
manned the same as last year.
Mr.. Dents report put the as
sessed value of taxable real estate
and the estimated value of exempt
property at a total of $2,716,581,-
906. This figure was broken down
as follows:
Evening star., 1950-10-08
Dean Steinberg on Trip

Dean S. S. Steinberg of the Uni
versity of Maryland's College OF
Engineering was to leave today
for Chicago to attend the annual
meeting of the National Council
of State Boards of Engineering
Examiners beginning tomorrow
He will represent the Maryland
State Board of Registration OF
Professional Engineers and Land
Surveyors of which he is chair
man.