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Evening star., 1950-03-28

it's back upon the rest of the world
after the first world war" the
Presidents letter stated. Some
20 years later we found that we
had to fight another war"
The facts contradict this asser-
ton. Soon after the end of World
War I we invited the major Euro
pean nations, together with Japan
and China, to a conference in
Washington and as a result of
that conference two treaties were
concluded dealing with China and
the political situation in the
Pacific.
Fear Of Japan Created.
The Washington conference
grew out of the fear that Japan
might try to expand territorially
by aggression, and the limited in
ternational parley initiated by the
United States was supposed to es-
tablish peace in the Pacific.
While it is true that we did not
join the League of Nations and
made separate peace with Ger
many at the conclusion of World
War I, it is equally true that at
no time during the 81 years of
truce did the United States relax
it's efforts to maintain world peace
and did what it could to help its
wartime associates.
American private capital flowed
into Europe throughout that pc
riod. Two prominent Americans,
Charles G. Dawes and Owen D.
Young, headed committees which
were named to settle the German
reparations question when it be-
came obvious that the Germans
could not live up to the economic
provisions Of the treaty of Ver-
sailles. Both men took part in
this work with the tacit approval
of the American Government.
Nearly So Billion Lost.
Between 1921 and 1924 Ameri-
can money poured into Germany
1t was a speculative investment
for American money-lenders and
the spectators lost nearly So bill
lion. This investment in Germany
cost American capitalists no more
than UNRRA cost American tax
payers after World War II and
the results were about the same.
The difference was that loans to
Germany hurt only those who
could afford to get hurt while
UNRRA hit the pocketbooks of
all American taxpayers.
When in the spring of 1925
the French government headed
by Edouard Herriot. came to the
verge of bankruptcy and the
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11S p" SO41Ot4CAN
ton for the whole nation, this
then to be accepted or rejected
by a national referendum.
It is safe to predict that no such
elections will take place in any
foreseeable future, because the
Russians and their East German
puppets. will not Cooperate. AL
though German unity" is their
perpetual slogan, their unity" is
exactly equated with the triumph
of communism. Communism.
however, is not to be achieved by
free elections in Germany or any
where else. The Russian concept
Of unification can be achieved
only by beating down German
morale and making it impossible
for any non-Communist govern
ment or economy to function, thus
inheriting chaos and collapse.
Iniative Given to West.
Nevertheless, the Bonn plan
gives the West the initiative in
move to translate the slogan of
reunif1cation into the proposition
of an actual deed. 1t puts the
East German government on the
defensive.
But the Western political offen-
sive Is gravely weakened by the
attitude of the French. United
States observers have already
suggested that Western Germans
may be taking too much for
granted If they anticipate un-
qualified French approval for
measures that could lead to Ger
man unity.
The shocking thing is that the
Western Allies do not have, them
selves, firm common policy on
the German question, and the
American warning publishes the
fact to Germans and the world.
Nor is the French government
united on Germany within itself.
Foreign Minister Schuman is re-
ported not to have the same view
as Mr.. Bidault, and In the irritable
company Of incompatible bedfel-
lows, which the French govern
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the main building at Lake Success
and when Vishinsky was vetoing
right and left and calling us bad
names, have someone suggest in
a friendly manner that he take
seven strolls around the tree atop
Faery Knowe and cool off. What
a sight Gf a man disappearing
into the nowhere can be called a
sight) that would be.
And what wouldn't the taxpay-
ers chip in and pay me for rent
just to have the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, marching 100
abreast, go seven laps around this
pretty but lethal bit of Scottish
real estate?
I will have to cable home for
money to buy Faery Knowe. but
I figure it is worth it. OF course.
I am going to test it out before I
hand over any cash. I am going
to 60 the seven full laps tomorrow,
so if you don't hear from me any
more you'll know that I didn't
waste my money on a bad thing.
Distributed by MeNausht Syndicate. Inc.)
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abOutS is that II nenfs McIemore'
man Cor a woman or child, for
that matter) climbs to the summit
and walks around the tree seven
times he will disappear into thin
air.
Never to Return.
1t has to be seven times. Six
times around and a fellow is as
safe as can be, but let him make
seven full circles and he will take
off into the air as if jet-propelled,
never to return.
The magic powers of Faery
KnoWe have been in existence for
centuries, and you couldn't get an
Aberfoyle man to risk seven trips
around that fir for all the money
in the bank of Scotland, and you
know what Scotsman will do for
the old cabbage.
The last man to brave seven
trips was a minister and they'll
swear by the beard of Ben Lomond
that he disappeared just as if the
earth had opened up and swal-
lowed him. It was here in Aber-
foyle that Sir Walter Scott wrote
a great many of his novels, and
the story goes that Sir Walter once
made six and half trips around
the tree and was just beginning
to take off when an admirer of
his work grabbed him by the coat
tails just in time.
Strange Voices Heard.
Against the advice Of Mr..
Nicholson, of the Scottish Travel
Bureau, who was with me when I
arrived in Aberfoyle, I climbed to
the top of Faery Knowe, deter
mined to give the legend the old
school try.
This is fairy tale of the high
est order, I told myself, and I quit
believing fairy tales when 1 was a
|youngster. So I took off, walking
with what I hoped was firm and
manly step. After six round trips
LII swear that I started to feel a
little light in the head, and could
hear strange voices singing to the
music OF what I took to be harps.
I was just beginning on my
seventh lap when the idea Of buy
ing Faery KnoWe came to me. It
struck me all of a sudden how
valuable this bit Of Scottish land
scape would be If I could get it
back to the States.
How much do you think the Re-
publican Party would pay me to
set it up in Washington and not
tell the Democratic Senators and
congressman anything about its
magic powers? I figure $40 mil
lion a conservative estimate. pro-
vided the Republicans could fool
the Democrats into marching
laround the tree seven times. a..
A Walk for Vishinsky. ~<
And what a blessing the tree
would be at the United Nations
meetings! Put it up just outside
Evening star., 1950-03-28
This Changing World
Facts Show u. S. Did Not Turn Back
On Rest of World as Truman Remarks

French treasury was unable to
meet its current obligations, New
York banks came to the rescue
and advanced the Bank of France
$500 million. 1t was a strictly
commercial transaction-with the
approval of the State Department
and the money was repaid after
Raymond Poincare succeeded
Herriot and devalued the franc.
In 1881, when the European
financial structure showed signs
of collapse after the French had
bankrupted the Austrian and
German banks, the United States
ntervened Immediately and Pres
dent Hoover obtained a morato-
rum on all war debt payments.
Refusal to Pay Accepted.
The effect of the moratorium
was negligible, it is true, because
France delayed too long in &C
cepting. but it is not correct to
say that America turned its
back" on Europe in those days of
stress. Finally we settled the war
debts of our associates, incurred
both before we entered the war
and afterwards, at 10 cents on
the dollar. All of them-except
Finland-reneged on payment of
even this small sum. We philo-
sophically accepted their refusal
to pay.
In the political field, although
we did not become a member of
the League of Nations, the Amer
ican Government initiated and
sponsored more than dozen dis
armament conferences. They all
failed because the nations of
Europe refused to accept honest
and genuine disarmament at a
time when Russia was still a weak
military power and Hitler had
not yet taken over in Germany.
When the British began to wor-
ry about our naval potential we
met with them, the japanese, the
French and the Italian in London
in 1881 and agreed to naval parity
with Great Britain in the hope
that such a commitment might
smooth the path to peace.
Paris Pact Signed in 1928.
Finally, it was on the initiative
of the American Government in
1928 that the Paris conference
was held and concluded the pact
which was to outlaw war forever
as an instrument of national
policy. The Kellogg-Briand Pact
also known as the Pact of Paris
was signed at Versailles in Au-
gust 1928 by all the civilized ma
tions.
On the basis of the solemn
pledges contained in that pact we
further reduced our armed forces,
while the others increased theirs.
When the Japanese invaded Man.
churia in September, 1881, we
brought the matter before the
League of Nations in an effort to
prevent growing military aggres-
sion. The League did nothing ef-
fectiye, merely deciding to investi-
gate the matter on the spot. But
we earnestly endeavored to COL
laborate with the world powers,
at least to attempt to prevent the
the actual beginning of World
War II.
This is the record of American
cooperation with the rest of the
world. The facts disproyed Presi-
dent Truman's statement that
"the United States turned its
back upon the rest of the world
after the first world war"
Evening star., 1950-03-28
On the Other Hand
There's No Reason to Be Annoved
By Questions of the Census Takers

These are the essential facts
concerning this phase Of the cen
sus, yet some politicians who pro-
fess to be the champions of busi-
ness and industry and who decry
what they call the hostility of the
Government to business, have
sought to make an issue of it.
They blandly ignore the part that
representative business organiza-
tions have had in setting up the
questionnaires to be used by the
enumerators.
Among the things the census is
expected to show Is an unprece-
dented increase in the total num-
Der Of married couples, substan-
tial increase in the number of
households and an upward turn
in the average size of young fam
lilies. Exact information with re-
spect to such matters is important
to manufacturers and distributors
of household goods OF all kinds.
That goes for the makers of furni-
ture. refrigerators, washing ma
chimes and radios. II goes very
much for the builders of baby
buggies.
Lincoln Remark Recalled.
AS Abraham Lincoln said, in
justifying the general census, "If
we could first know where we are
and whittier we are tending, we
could better tell what to do and
how to do it."
So. II the census-taker wants
to put down the kind of house you
are living in, its condition, the
number Of rooms, the number OF
occupants, the water supply, the
toilet facilities and provision for
bathing, the year the house was
built, the heating and cooking
equipment. the refrigeration, elec-
trio lighting, radio and television
installations; and, if you rent, the
amount Of your rent and any ad-
ditional payments for electricity
gas and water; or, if you are a
farmer, the number of your
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs. goats
chickens. turkeys; how much you
receive from the sale Of milk, eggs
and poultry; how many bees you
keep, how much honey they pro-
duce and how much you collect
for same-you mustn't be an
noyed.
He is not being nosy and is moi
prying into your personal affairs
for the benefit Of neighborhood
gossip. The facts you give him
will be just a few of the Is billion
facts that are gathered concern
ing the ISL millions of us and
they will be lost, so far as per-
sonal Identification is concerned
in vast compilation of imper-
sonal statistics.
Evening star., 1950-03-28
Long Chance Left
J. Edgar Hoover's Testimony Makes
Charges Against baltimore Look Flimsy

Congress, Mr.. Hoover, were a
closed corporation. Both argued
strongly from precedent and con-
viction that the great principle
of a citizens right to a confden-
tial relation with his Government
is involved.
Senator Hickenlooper tried hard
to make it appear that their re-
fusal to open the files reflected
upon Senators. The witnesses
ducked. Actually, as Thomas
Jefferson said of judges, Senators
are as honest as most men and
not more so.
Classed as Politics.
What they cannot be trusted tc
do, because it is to their interest
not to do it, is to keep political
secrets, Fortunately for the pub
lie they are in the habit of re-
vealing these. Those who cover
the present hearings, as of now
place the Mccarthy case in the
political category.
The Attorney General is the
Presidents lawyer. The President
can of course overrule him. AL,
that Mr.. McGrath will now say is
that he told the President he
planned to testify as he did and
got the green light.
Mr.. McGrath did not surprise
anyone: his present attitudes re-
fleet precisely the high level of his
career as a Senator. 1t is unusual
however, for Mr.. Hoover to deny
Congress anything-and vice ver-
sa. Congress has just raised his
pay to $4,000 a year, putting him
in the Cabinet and Supreme Court
brackets.)
Record is Shining.
But Mr.. Hoover has Just hung
up a record Of Is years of service
during which time he has won q
shining place in public esteem for
the FBI. It is tremendous
achievement for what is essen
TALLY a secret police. ...-.
The FBI director must be aware
that the country is sensitive te
the FBPs great powers. He testi-
fed in fact some citizens now are
refusing to help lest their com.
ments be made public. 81"
If Mr.. Hoover is concerned fol
his agency's reputation and hi
own place in history, he coulc
hardly be criticized for it,
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people that any
slicing of Mar
shall Plan ap-
preparations by
Congress would
create the risk
of a new world
W a r, slipped
badly in h / S
f a c t S about
what this coun-
try did for Eu-
between
World Wars I
and III.
"The United
States turned
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- oop ~.
I don't know
who owns it but
I am going to
find out and see
if I can arrange
for it's purchase
a n d h ave it
shipped to the
United States.
The little hill
is known to the
Scots as Faery
KnoWe and the
W e ii believed
legend h ere
ohoy,tc ic fhof If
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no proof OF
S e n a tor Nc
Carthy'S spy
charges against
o W en- Latti-
more.
External evi-
dence to this
effect had ap-
peared over the
week end in the
Democrats be-
lated attacks on
s e n a tor Nc
G a r t ny and
t h cir cham
piopcbir of Cac.
Evening star., 1950-03-28

. 0 c e I I a ! II
m e m b ers Of
Congress W no
miss no oppor-
tunity to en-
barrass the ad-
m in | S t r alton
have been ex-
pressing con-
Germ over what
they term an
u u w a 7 T duUO
invasion of the
privacy of citi-
zenS.
One question
fn ho ockaI t,xy
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NSA AAACA4A A1l1tJ
o b v / o u sly,
if there are to
be alderman
elections they
cannot be held
to elect rep
reSentatives to
the two exist
ing and contra
dicto1y govern
ments. Th e y
must be held to
create a con-
Stituent assem-
ply to draft a
Evening star., 1950-03-28
Bv Constantine Bro,On

Whoever drafted President Tru-
mans letter to Chairman Kee of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, warning the American
Evening star., 1950-03-28
By LoweH MeHen

Politics being politics, it is not
surprising that an effort has been
made to turn the demonstrating
this year into something sinister.
Evening star., 1950-03-28
By Dorothy THOMPSON

The West German government,
acting on the lead in Mr.. Ache
sons San Francisco speech, has
taken the proper step toward
Evening star., 1950-03-28

Tree Of Disappearance
Would Come in Handy
Bv Henry McLemore

ABERFOYLE, Scotland.-Here
in lovely Perthshire County, almost
in the shadow of Ben Lomond, is
a modest little hill with a Douglas
Evening star., 1950-03-28
By Doris Fleeson

At the very end of his testi-
mony before the Tydings COM
mittee, j. Edgar Hoover strongly
intimated that FBI files contain
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-27

Nine hundred thousand square miles of Russia was plnated with mines and shells and booby-traps by the German invaders.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-27
SOviets Offer Peace Plan Prizes

MOSCOW, P)-The Presidium of the Supreme s oviet (parlia- menD announced yesterday the appointment of 12-man com committee to award the first an- nual international Stalin peace peace prizes "for strengthening the peace among peoples"
 The announcement did not say when the committee, made up of three Russians and delegates from nine other nations, including Chi na, would meet to choose their candidates for the ,OO0-ruble ($25,000 at Russian evaluation) prize.
 (The Stalin peace prize was set up by decree of the Presidium on the Soviet prime minister's 70th birthday last year. At that time it was declared the 1850 prize would be awarded on Stalin's 71st birth day, Dec. 21. But on that day, no mention was made of the prize, no possible candidates had been suggested and no committee had yet been named. There was no ex- plantion of the delay).
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-27
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
 SECOND DIVISION
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- TATE OF COLEMAN GRIFFIN
 Deceased.
 No. 84l
 NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the administrator herein has filed final report and account in this estate matter and that by Court order final hearing herein will be held on the 18th day of February, 1851, at the hour of 10:00 A. M. at the office of the Probate Court, Nome, Alaska, and that at such time and place the Court will determine and adjudi- cate the heirs of this estate:
 All objections to the report and account filed herein and proof as to the heirs of this estate will be heard at such time and place. DATED December II, 1850.
 MARGARET M. OLEARY
 Administrator Pub. Dec. 13, 20, 27, '5O, Jan. 3, '51
Evening star., 1950-02-02
Program Of Folk Song
To Open Annual Music
Festival in Virginia
Special pispo.eh 10 The Star

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Feb.
"A progra moi folk music will
open the fourth annual Virginia
Music Festival May II in Scott
| Stadium.
This will extend over four days
and will include three concerts
by the Norfolk Symphony Orches-
ira, with Edgar Schenkman con-
ducting. Evening concerts on
May II and May 13, and an after
noon concert May IA, will be given
by this group.
A 350-voice chorus drawn from
choirs and choral groups all over
Virginia, viii sing with the SYM
phony at the May IL concert.
High school bands and orches-
tras again will come to Chariot
tesville from all parts of the
State for a day of competition
This has been moved forward
from Saturday to Friday at the
request of the Virginia Music
Educators Association. A plan is
being worked out to have the
winning musical groups give a late
afternoon concert on May IL.
| Francis Pickens Miller, presi-
dent Of the Virginia Music Fes-
tival. explained the evening OF
folk music was added by the
Evening star., 1950-02-02
Progressive Party 10 Hold
Convention Here Saturday

Plans for action in 1850 will be
drawn up at the second annual
convention of the District Pro-
gressive Party at l pm. Saturday
at Inspiration House, 1867 Kalo-
rama road NV.
Harry Lamberton, acting chair
man TO the local organization,
will review the party's activities
during the past year. Officers and
Evening star., 1950-02-02
Mefeorite Never Hit Person,
Smithsonian Study Finds

Don't worry about being hit by
a falling meteorite.
This encouraging bit OF some
thing not to be alarmed about
comes from the Smithsonian In
stitute in a report issued yester-
day.
The Smithsonian says there is
no record of a meteorite striking
a person. More than l 400 meteo-
rites have been discovered over
the world and Sc per cent of these
Evening star., 1950-02-02

Board Of Directors La response TO
many requests.
I'VE want this to be the finest
program of folk music the South
can produce" Mr.. Miller added.
The "All Virginia" pattern for
the Virginia Music Festival.
worked out for the first time last
year, will be followed as nearly as
possible, but some soloists and
folk musicians and dancers from
other States are expected to take
part.
Evening star., 1950-02-02

are represented In the institution's s
collection Of fragments.
Only 1s Of the total have struck
buildings and IL have landed on
roads. The rest have landed in
uncivilized areas. THE risk of
being struck thus appears neg
ligible," the Smithsonian says.
In this country 535 have fallen.
Texas has been bombarded more
than any other State, with 49,
AS yet none have been found in
Delaware. Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island or Ver-
mont, the Smithsonian reports.
Tevfi1ee o1~+iy,,,a enor,~ AJax.
Evening star., 1950-02-02

Sac Paulo has become the can-
ter of a big Brazilian peppermint
cultivation and menthol produc-
ton project.
Evening star., 1950-02-02

members of the executive com.
mittee and delegates to the party's
national convention later this
month will be elected.
Evening star., 1950-02-02

Textiles continue scarce in Nor
way.
Evening star., 1950-02-08

noon newspaper did so for the
television programs listed in 1t.
But in the sharply altered pic
ture of family life, even the news
paper reader did not escaped. In
reviewers found many had shifted
reading times either earlier or
later to make room for their
favorite television shows.
The amazing effect on the home
was best delineated by these fig
ures: Since there television sets
came, wives are spending 39.7 per
cent more time at home, husbands
42.8 per cent more time and chill
dren 41.3 per cent.
A number of families reported
they had paid for their television
sets in a years. time with money
saved simply by staying home.
Perhaps more pertinent to long
range economic planning was the
surveys answer to the question
Evening star., 1950-02-08
TeIevision Survey Here Shows
Many Changes in Living Habits

Television is making telling in
roads into Washington's living
habits, reflected in sharply de-
creased attendance at movies and
sports events and proportionate
rehabilitation of home life.
This was revealed today in a
January survey of 400 District and
suburban homes where televiSion
has been introduced. The survey
was made by Charles Alldredge's
Washington public relations firm
for The Star, and certain movie
producers, theater owners and
broadcasting companies.
The questioners learned that
the new audio-viSual instrument
is having the most important in
fiuence on the habits of the Amer
lean family of any mechanical
device since introduction of the
maSS-produced automobile.
For movie producers, anxious
about falling receipts, they re-
ported: Families with television
sets had reduced average atten-
dance to movies by 72 per cent
Children, finding time when tele-
vision did not conflict, reported
only 46 per cent drop-of ir
movie going.
Big Drop in Sports.
For sports promoters. hopeful
that television would enhance
attendance, the conclusions were
A 40 per cent drop off in football
36.7 reduction in baseball fans
447 per cent slip in wrestling ane
boxing attendance.
For radio magnates, suspicious
| of an evolutionary trend, came tht
Evening star., 1950-02-08

stove from the urban living room.
the living room has a central OBJ
ject around which the remainder
of the objects must be arranged" !"
Finding present designing un-
conducive to best teleyision re-
.ception. the analysists predicted
that architects will take this in
consideration and that the living
room of the future will become in
design and equipment more thea
ter-like."
Participating in sponsoring the
survey with The Star were the
Washington Offices of Loew's and
Warner Brothers, the Washington
Motion Picture Theater Owners
Association, the Columbia Broad
casting System, the National
Broadcasting Co. and the Dumont
network