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Girls

HBarbars Twiehaus defeated
Aorma AvIla--6-0, 81.
Theresa Bardwell defeated
ndrey Richardson-6-l, 6-3.
Barbara Adams defeated Ger
dine Weakley-8-6, 8-6.
Eleanor Cato defeated Gale
Glrry-6-0, 81.
June Yates defeated 10 Ann
ktwell-6-l, 60
zCarol Caruthers defeated Dom
q Willians-6-0, 81.
1Grace Fernandez defeated Car
enc Moo $50, SO, Ga.
Lynn Sellers defeated Marie
EendueIes-6-2. 1913.
The city is proud of those
Youngsters who, though just
arting their tennis careers. had
De fine craftsmanship to say.
I'm a beginner bat I'll be happy
O play"
HOutstanding Girls matches saw
Little Marie Rendueles carry fav-
Cite Lynn Sellers to 6-2, 1913 be-
Re bowling. Supporters in the
4 andstand shouted, You can do
d Mariel" and Marie almost did,
He led Ga and held two set
I&ints, and at 81 she again need
one point to win the set. Lynn
Id herself together like a vet
can to withstand the attack.
Barbara Adams and Geraldine
~eakley played a match so long
took two days before Barbara
ueezed through at SO, 8-6. She
0wed a fine early anticipation
81 the balls direction and it was
4 lis that won over a determined
4 ponent who never gave up
HGrace Fernandez emerged tri-
nphant from 60, SO, Ga bat
q with Carlene Moore who ran
6 Face all over both tennis courts
ID the second set and held 4
mes all in the third.
In the Boys division Harry
thel played his balls straight
own the sidelines to win at 3-6,
I Ga from Robert Parrot with
gallery Of so odd teenagers
4 eering thei rfavorites.
George Haskins outfought the
vorite. Peter Knight with great
badness with the first set rs
lore Peters greater speed took
istolL
4Siuart Yates held leads Of AZ
d So IN the first set of his
4 tch with Johnnie Sellers and
once needed only two points TO
3 the set Johnnie's greater ex-
Eience played a part in his fine
1868 win.
Little Danny O'Briant carried
By Jimmy Solomon to SO, Ga
IRE and made a couple dozen
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he WON'T

Don't let me miss my train.
said the weekend visitor 10 the
chauffeur on Monday morning.
Don't worry, sir. The missus
said if did it would cost me my
job"
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Rear Admiral Joseph r. Red
man, retired chief of Naval oper-
atoms, born in Grass Valley, Cali
fofnia, 50 years ago.
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Boys

Bobby May VS.. Don Cruz.
Lonnie Shiyer VS.. Peter knight
Johnnie Sellers vs.. Jimmy Solo
mon.
Harry Bethel VS.. John Cruz.
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SECOND ROUND MATCHES
Girls

Barbara Twiehaus vs.. Theresa
BardwelI
Barbara Adams VS.. Eleanor
Cato.
June Yates vs.. Carol Caru-
theirs.
Grace Fernandez VS.. Lynn Sell
lers.
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SOUTH ATLANTIC
LEAGUE

Greenville 2, Columbus l..s
Charleston Al, Augusta lis.
Macon 5, Columbus 3.
Savannah 2. Jacksonville 3,
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SOUTHERN
ASSOCIATION

Birmingham 8. Atlanta 6.
Memphis 8-l4. Little Rock SCI.
Nashville 1T, Chattanooga 6-l
first game 10 innings).
New Orleans Z, Mobile l.
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FIRST ROUND

Boys
Don Cruz defeated Exiquio
Ildal-6-2, 6-3.
Bobby May defeated Joseph
sarbonell-6-2, so.
Lonnie Shiver defeated Joseph
'arb0nell-6-2, go
Peter knight defeated George
askins-5-7. 6-l, 6-3.
4 Jimmy Solomon defeated Dam
n O'Briant-6-2, Ga
4 Johnnie Sellers defeated Stuart
sates-7-5, 6-3.
Harry Bethel defeated Robert
arIot-3-6, 6-l, Ga.
Julio Hernandez defeated Bob
aFes-6-2, Cd.
John Cruz defeated Julio Hem
9uez-6-2, Ga.
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SIIUFFLEBOARL
HaYYiaW PARK

Morning. Afternoon and Night
Daily and Sunday play.
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Your Horoscope

sMONDAY, APRI LIT. 1850
Today gives commanding ma
ture and tire native viii probably
attain to some influence and
dignity. If this can be attained
by the individual force Of charac-
ter, it viii be more lasting than
if aided by circumstances of birth
or the influence Of others. For
there IS an element that threatens
loss of reputation or reversal OF
fortune that sometimes over
whelns.
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fine running gets. while Julio
Henriquez matched favorite John
Cruz, stroke for stroke for eight
games of their So, "a encounter
Lynn Sellers is preparing a
huge cardboard tournament line
up with latest scores which will
be displayed on the backstop.
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ISLAND CRY LEAGUE
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Thornton n. Wilder, noted
noveliSt-ag y T., born in Madison,
Wis, IS w. ago.
Evening star., 1950-04-05

James took advantage of that situation
to settle Ulster with large colonization
from Britain. Many of the coloniStS
were English. but even more of them were
Lowland Scots.
The Scots were the dynamic in the
combination. Fervent Calvinists and
fanatical haters Of "Popery." this tough.
dour breed. hard-working. thrifty, and
with keen business sense, was temper
amentally opposed to the native Irish in
every way. For so refractory an element.
assimilation was impossible. So the
Scotch Irish" maintained their identity
through all the vicissitudes of subsequent
native revolts, wars and other disturb
ances. And they prospered economically
first through the establishment of the
linen industry. peculiarly suited to Ulster.
and later from a development of business
and other industry which tended to set
Northern Ireland apart economically
from the rest of the island
Meanwhile. the native Irish continued
their opposition to British rule and
worked for independence. During the
10th century, the British themselves be-
gan to tire of the endless controversy
and increasingly considered the granting
Of at least a large measure of home
rule" to this recalcitrant people. But
home rule. to say nothing of eventual
independence. at once raised the question
Of Ulster. Members OF the Protestant
Evening star., 1950-04-05
Negligence the SIoughterer

The price of careessness-broken bones,
high in America. According to figures reported
to the recent annual convention of the Greater
New York Safety Council, accidents killed no
fewer than 900 persons in this country last
year. Standing by itself, the statistic may seem
to be just bit of cold arithmetic, but what it
really represents, in human terms, is vast
amount of family grief and hardship caused by
a slaughter that could have been avoided had
there been no negligence.
Half of last years accidental deaths were
deaths of wage earners-45,500 industrial work.
ers, most of whom might still be working today
if they had exercised care. Some $4,000 of them
killed at their places of employment, the
balance at home, in traffic or elsewhere away
from their jobs In strictly economic terms, this
toll of lives, coupled with occupational injuries
caused loss of 275 900 man days of output
or the equivalent of a production loss greater
than if 100000 individuals had been removed
from the Nations labor force for all of 1949
These figures speak for themselves. In effect
in their own way, they admonish all who read
them to follow the common sense rules of safety
first. Yet, since pretty much the same kind of
toll is reported year after year, there is reason
to wonder whether people in general do not take
perverse delight in living dangerously or assum
ing that the law of averages exempts them from
crippling or fatal mishaps, regardless of their
carelessness The statistics have grimly in
structive lesson to teach If only we pay attention
Evening star., 1950-04-05
To Tobithu Piuskett
(circu 1720)

(Tabitha Pldskett. OF Plymouth, Mass.
Is reputed to haze been the first American
school-teacherJ
Were you. Dame Plaskett. quite immune
to shock
Or able. Uhen fssure yapned. to
span it
As pupils. little chips of Plymouth Rock.
Displayed the less endeartno traits OF
granite?
And did your eyes. at odds NTH prim-
pursed lips.
T,Dinkle at times. Nth sympathy
beholding
The childish peccadtlloes, drollish slips
That from q despot might haze drawn
scolding?
Did you present the awesome rule OF
three
With something moro than dry-as-dust
precision
And temper to your flock, in some degree.
DistresstM northeast gales OF long
dipision?
Apprecidtiue today OF your endedDor.
We hail you. Mistress Plasketti Ltps
toreuerl
HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON.
Evening star., 1950-04-05
Hints from an old gardener: !:

Hints from an OLD gardener:
81. Keep a small box Of gravel handy
pea to small marble size, to use on bird
bothering cats
"A small handful thrown at Puss soon
makes him quit.
Birds and squirrels duck aside a
few feet and are not hit; the cat crouches
at the arm motion and gets it.
Cat owner only sees your arm mo-
ton and not the gravel, also it does
not need to be picked up afterward
Old trick Of mine.
90 The helicopter or lowering stunt
observed in certain birds seems to be
a wing strengthening trick of starlings
IN the spotted age. Have seen it a
dozen times, and no other bird nor other
age startling does it.
"3. Dope this one out. Old friend Of
mine at Cherry Hill, Va, has martin
house, 80 nests. seven in row, two
rows on a side and an attic opening in
each end
THE birds used 20 nests for years,
never using the north-facing attic.
When painting the house. it was ac-
cidentally turned making that hole face
east, and it is still vacant.
mo visible difference to human eyes,"
X
Thanks, A. c. w.
Most birds do not like to nest in boxes
with the opening facing north. Cold
east winds are none too good. either.
Most bird houses do best when the
! openings are on the south. There is no
exact explanation of such things. be-
cause birds have as much right to their
individual likes and dislikes as humans.
While in the main they all do the same
things in much the same way, every
now and then some bird becomes IN
Evening star., 1950-04-05
Safer Air Races

Officials in charge of the National Air Races
have shown good judgment in dropping the
dangerous closed-course speed contests from the
1850 race program. 1t was during these pylon-
grazing thrill spectaces that noted flyer
Bill Odom and two other persons were killed
last year. Public demands for an end of such
races were made not only in Cleveland but in
many parts of the country after the fatal Odom
flight.
The decision means the abolishment of a
long standing feature of the races the Thomp-
son Trophy dash. Back in the days when plane
speeds were far less than those of today the
Thompson Trophy race was safer and more
practicable. With the advent OF souped-up
high-speed military-type fighter craft, however
the dangers of closed-course racing have greatly
increased
The committees action does not mean the
death kneI of speed at the National Air Races
Jet planes and high-speed propeller-driv craft
will compete again this year, but they will not
have to bank around pylons marking circular
course. They will be flown over straightaway
courses, where accident risks are at minimum
The only closed-course races will be for small
planes that easily maneuverable. There Is
no reason to believe that the races this year will
be any less interesting or less popular than they
have been in the past.
Evening star., 1950-04-05
In Need of Improvement

Having signed the new farm bill with
reluctance" President Truman, in special
message to Congress, has once again come out
In favor of the so-called Brannan Plan. He
has not mentioned the plan by name, but he
has left no room for doubt that he still wants
to see it enacted, even though bipartisan ma
jorities in both the Senate and House have long
since made clear that they are against it,
The Presidents main objection is that the
new legislation, although it corrects some in
equities in cotton acreage allotments and is "a
step in the right direction" toward common
sense supports for potatoes, has several "unde-
sirabe" features and merely patches up
number OF basic shortcomings in program that
needs thoroughgoing overhaul. Accordingly
he has asked Congress ito consider fundamental
improvements in our agricultural legislation to
make it more efficient, less costly, and more
conducive to abundant production of farm crops
yielding fair return to farmers, and selling at
prices consumers can afford"
To that end, for the third time since last
January, the President has urged Congress to
authorize, among other things, "a system of
production payments for potatoes land other
perishable commodities) so that unavoidable
surpluSeS can be sold to consumers and used
Instead OF taken off the market and largely
wasted" Such a system constitutes one of the
main features of the Brannan Plan. Involving
acreage and marketing controls, it would be
aimed at ending the present practice under
which the Commodity Credit Corporation
holsters farm prices by buying up surpluses and
storing them away or dumping them The
theory of production payments" on the other
hand, is that the perishables, instead of being
purchased by the CCC, should be moved into the
open market to seek their natural price level
and that the producers should then receive
Federal subsidy to make up the difference
between that level and what the Government
calculates to be fair price"
In response to all this however, key agricul-
tural legislators representing both parties have
re-emphasized their GOODNESS to the idea, indi-
eating that they think it would be anything but
an improvement over present legislation. In
the circumstances, at least as far as this Con-
greSs is concerned, the Brannan Plan seems very
definitely to be what Chairman Cooley OF the
House Agriculture Committee has called it
namely, "a dead duck" Nevertheless the fact
remains that the President even though his
own recommendations may add up to the wrong
answer is right in declaring that the farm pro-
gram has numerous serious defects and that
the whole problem of surpluses and price sup
ports calls for new approach.
good Illustration of this can be found in
the two price" system under which producers
are eligible for price support on peanuts raised
for the regular market but not on peanuts
which they are allowed to grow in extra acreage
Evening star., 1950-04-05
But How About the District?

Recently the papers told of the elec-
tions in Belgium, Russia and Yugoslavia.
In Belgium there is a 50 fine for the
voter who fails to go to the polls, and
practically all went.
In Russia there is only one way to
vote, and yet with over ITO million
eligible to vote, 1895 per cent Of the
registered Soviet electorate cast their
single party ballots"
In Yugoslavia over 95 per cent cast
their ballots.
In our last Presidential election, only
a little over half Of those eligible to
register and vote did so. and only 70 per
cent Of those actually registered, voted.
Phillips Brooks said: The man who
fails to vote is bad citizen. no matter
what other virtues he may possess"
We are indeed disgraced by the ap-
palling number Of bad citizens" who
fail to perform their absolutely basic
duty of voting.
Delcevare King.
Evening star., 1950-04-05
This and That
BY Charles E. TroceweV

innovator This is in no sense muta-
ton.
Our correspondent is quite right about
the cat crouching at sign Of danger
This habit stands him in better stead
in the jungle than in civilization In
deep grass lack of motion blends his
fur pattern with the blades, and so
tends to give him chance to get his
bearings. In a small yard where there
is no concealment, the hereditary crouch
merely makes him q good target.
Yet cats still do this. 1t is, perhaps.
an almost universal animal trait Even
the centipede stops instantly on the
ceiling when a light is flashed on. #
the long tube OF the vacuum cleaner is
lifted toward it, the motionless cent?
pede remains inert until too late. He is
swept away to his doom, whereas he
might easily have used his jumping
powers to make his getaway. or at least
to give himself another chance.
The cat in the garden is one thing,
the cat in some one elses garden quite
another thing.
Even persons who like cats sometimes
find themselves angered when a wan
dering feline crouches to spring near
a bird feeding place. Iet us say we
like the word feline" as a noun, al
though others say it should not be used
so. The usage is so prevalent as to
make it acceptable)
Those who resent wandering cats
should realize that during fall and
winter the average domestic cat is much
more interested in squirrels than in birds.
With the advent Of spring and nest
ing. however. the situation is reversed.
Many cats seem unable to resist the
temptation Of the dedsling. The cat Is .
Evening star., 1950-04-05
Irish Partition Debate

Your editorial, Practical Jokes Are
Dangerous" is gross insult to Ameri-
can-Irish in these United States who love
liberty and freedom for their relatives.
The Indians and the Palestinian Jews
wanted their freedom from England-not
to mention our own beloved America in
1776. Do you think that our Revolu-
ton was a practical joke?
Sometime. sir, 60 to the files Of our
Defense Department and see the names
of Irish that fought and died for our
beloved country You will see the ma
jority are of Irish decent. Is that
practical joke?
81. Would you advocate that England take
. fifth of our States and rule them
the divide-and-rule method-which is
being done in Ireland?
Sir. what has Ireland done to you?
Irish support your paper. and the ad-
vertisements that keep it going. and
there are many Of them in the District.
Anna E. Burke.
When Senators try to influence the
British government to interfere between
Protestant and induStrialized Ulster, and
Roman Catholic Ireland, they are push
ing aside the principle by which Ireland
was permitted to withdraw from men,
bership in the British Commonwealth
of Nations; namely, "the self-determi-
nation of smaller nations"
British Ulster was our ally during the
war against Hitler but a thousand miles
of submarine Infested sea was added to
the route across the Atlantic by the
neutral and partly antagonistic attitude
of the leaders of Fire against the British
and this 1nfriendliness did not help
the armed forces of the United States
when crossing the Atlantic.
It may be that a candidate has to
claim he is Irish and Knight of Colum-
bus to become an alderman in New York.
but surely the time has not yet come
when United States Senator has to
take a pro-Irish, pro-Catholic, anti
Protestant, anti-British attitude, in order
to hold a seat in the Senate and keep
the votes of his countrymen.
David s. Christie.
The recent action of the House was
not "a practical joke" as some Of our
commentators think. It was the result
of an upsurge of indignation which has
moved this Nation from shore to shore.
The American Federation of Labor con-
vening at ST. Paul, Minn., and the Con-
gress Of Industrial Organizations con-
vening at Cleveland, Ohio, passed reso-
lutions that the border of the six coun-
ties be abolished. These organizations.
Evening star., 1950-04-05
DeIcevare King.

canny fellow. and sees no sense whatever
in trying to catch q mature bird when the
young ones make easy picking. This is
not an altruistic attitude, even their
friends would be willing to admit. It
just happens to be fact of nature and
it is against such innumerable facts Of
nature that man has evolved his civili-
zation and his religion. Surely the last
two terrible wars and the shadow OF
an even more terrible one ought to make
US realize that tine depredations made
by cats are very little in comparison
with our own sins.
At nesting time all friends Of birds
and cats will try to see to it that the
young birds are protected from the cats,
and the cats from the deeds nature
prompts them to do
It may be some trouble to watch out
for kitty, and this watching includes
keeping ones own cat in the house In
the early morning and toward dusk.
If house cats are not allowed to run
at these times. the danger to young
birds will be greatly lessened
1t is not necessary to hurt q neigh
bor's pet in order to run him out of
the yard. It does take little time and
persistence in some cases because some
animals, like some human beings, are
a great deal more stubborn than others
Loud and sudden noises often frighten
the visitor away. A cup Of cold water
is sometimes effective. The traditional
pan is not necessary. A much smaller
amount Of water looks pretty big to .
cat.
1t is mostly the young cats. one or two
years old, that go in for bird catching
If owners Of these cats would pay a
little more attention to them it would
Be very helpful.
Evening star., 1950-04-05
By lothrop Stoddord

WHEN our House of Representatives
w even though fleetingly. passes an
amendment to the ECA appropriation
bill prohibiting funds for Britain so long
as Northern and Southern Ireland re-
main divided-and when the Mayor Of
New York City announces that the Pre-
mier Of Northern Ireland will not be
received officially by him on a forthcom-
ing visit to this country-we are again
made aware of how deeply Irish issues
stir millions of our fellow citizens of Irish
blood. Consider. for example, the spirited
exchange below, in today's Letters to
The Star
Irelands ancient quarrel with Britain
has echoed among US for full century.
ever since the first wave of famine ref
ugees reached our shores in the 1840s.
Much of that quarrel is now abated with
the ending of British rule over most Of
Ireland and the attainment Of full inde-
pendence. But one issue remains OUT
standing. This is the political separation
of Northern Ireland from the republic.
and it's retention of the British and i'm
perial connection.
For most Irishmen, including a minor
ity in Northern Ireland itself, this parti-
ton is intolerable. On the other hand,
the local majority in Northern Ireland
is dead set against union, and there seems
no likelihood that this aversion will be
overcome. Obviously. so stubborn dead
lock must spring from deep-seated
causes.
The present separatism Of Northern
Ireland is rooted in an event which oc-
CURED three and a half centuries ago.
This was the famous plantation Of
Ulster" undertaken by King James I.
For more than four centuries previously,
England had tried to conquer and assimi-
late Ireland but with no lasting success.
The Irish maintained their native culture
and way of life, and usually absorbed
into themselves the English colonists who
settled in their midst.
The upshot was continuous welter
of discord. The Irish were unable to
expel the English, but England was
equally unable to establish genuine au-
thority and win the loyalty Of its Irish
subjects.
Under Queen Elizabeth there had been
a series of native rebellions, especially in
the northern province, known as Ulster.
Those revolts had been put down and
the lands Of the rebels conflscated. King