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ABRAMsoN's TAXI SERVICE
Now makes daily runs to and from christiansted
THE SCHEDULE rs AS FOLLOWS.
Leave Frederiksted 900 am. Return at 1870 am
CARRYING back in time for lunch).
Leave Frederiksted 200 pm. Return at 4:3o pm.
Tin time for supper).
Persons DESTROYS of making trips should meet
the car between the Post Office and Ovesen's in
Frederiksted. And in Christiansted around the
wharf area.~~~~
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS THE DAY
BEFORE WHENEVER POSSIBLE
You can look forward to Prompt, Courteous
and Dependable Service
Reach US by Tel. 5l-7l. Frederiksted.
A.. & r. ABRAMsoN. Managers
, 1950-01-13

/. Which amendment of the US
Constitution cancels a previous
amendment?
2. How much does a persons
, 1950-01-13

ANSWERS on back paqe)
Evening star., 1950-02-12
WHAT MAKES YOU
MAD?

Here's q test to measure the
chip ON your shoulder. 1t can
give you the key to success
in your job and at home -.
Evening star., 1950-02-12

you will probably, in the course of several
long talks, get you talking about your pet
peeves. They'll reveal lot about you that
you probably don't know yourself.
One of the firms which use such tests as
part of their tool kit is Dwight Palmer and
Associates, well-known consultant to large
corporations in Los Angeles. DR.. Palmer
was formerly consultant to the National
Resources Planning Board, and before that
faculty member at Stanford, M. I. T., and
California Institute of Technology. His asso-
ciate Robert Snowden, who designed the
miniature test reprinted on this page, was
Evening star., 1950-02-12
by Keith Monroe
Photograph by Joe CouelIo

WTHAT are your pet peeves"? How many
w do you have?. And how much do they
get you stirred up?
The detailed answers to these questions
are partial map of your personality, as well
as clue to the kinds of work you'll do best,
modern psychologists have discovered. Now
adays if you 60 to vocational-guidance
counselor for help in choosing life work,
one of the tests he's likely to give you is
list of some common irritations of everyday
life; then you indicate whether they bother
you lot or little.
Similarly, psychiatrist who is examining
Evening star., 1950-08-02
Combat Vets and the Druft

Although I know there has been moth
ing official, there have been rumors that
World War II veterans are being con-
sidered as draftees. If that should ever
come to pass, want to go on record
as saying that there is one place where
discrimination should be shown in the
method of selection.
Veterans of World War II" is a
blanket designation. Why should the
officers and enlisted men who never left
their desks after donning uniform. and
at the same time rose periodically in
rank, be put in the same category as
those honest-to-g goodness veterans who
spent months or years overseas-facing
the enemy in mortal combat?
Why should the boys who matured
overnight be again subjected to such
horrors and indignities and dangers?
Why should those who suffered in dug
outs and kill-or- bel killed proximity to
the enemy be made to experience such
cataclysmic catastrophe more than once
in lifetime?
say veterans of World War II should
be the very last to have to be drafted
and then each war record should be
thoroughly screened as to the candi-
dates factual right to that title-and
his eligibility or non-eligibility by way
of actual fighting service and length of
absence from these shores
Mother of an ETO Veteran.
Evening star., 1950-08-02
The Hour Is Late

There is little love lost between Governor
Dewey and those in the Republican Party who
dislike his tendency to support the administra-
tion's international policies But even the most
confirmed of the Dewey y-haters should be inter-
ested in the speech which the New York Governor
has made to State gathering of the American
Federation of Labor.
1t was speech characterized by a note of
terrible urgency. No other public man COM
parable to Governor Dewey in stature has spoken
publicly in such terms.
IT am not attacking the administration or
the Congress-" Governor Dewey said II have
not the slightest interest in how we got in the
position we are in. I am desperately concerned
with where we are and where we are going"
Declaring that the whole concept of human
freedom is in danger of being wiped off the face
of the earth, the Governor, appealing for an
understanding of the danger which hangs over
u.s. declared: "I do not ask total mobilization
now I do ask total planning, which is now
absent vastly accelerated production of arms
and trained cadres to operate them, so that If
and when ne do mobilize we will be whelly
Evening star., 1950-08-02
Young Doctors Needed

The armed forces are in the process
of enlarging by about 100000 men. This
means that they will need about $500
medical officers, preferably young and
of company grade-lieutenants or cap
tainS.
When the fighting of the last war
ended, there were approximately 5000
ATSP or Viz men who received their
medical education in whole or in part
from the Government, but who had
never spent day in actual service. A
few of these accepted reserve commits
sions and are now subject to call; the
great majority did not and were re-
leased by the Government with no
strings attached.
Although these men are not legally
obligated because of the shortsightedneSs
of the Government. they have a great
moral obligation to volunteer in this
time of national emergency. So far. of
the several I know personally, not one
has volunteered.
If these men do not come forward to
fill the need in the next 80 days, there
will be no choice except for the Congress
to pass legislation to force them to do
their duty. American boys simply are
not going into battle without adequate
medical care.
John o. Nest0r, MD.
Evening star., 1950-08-02
First Objective-the Right Man

The civil defense bill for Washington will
become law with the Presidents signature. The
House yesterday agreed to the changes written
into the bill by the Senate. But the Commis-
soners cannot act under the legislation until the
required funds are appropriated. The Commits
sioners requested 10000 and the House Appro-
priations Committee has it under consideration,
along with many other items based on the war
in Korea.
But there are some things the Commissioners
can do, before they receive the funds They can
make a thorough canvass of the field for the best
man available to administer civil defense. The
Star recently suggested a retired military man,
and one of the changes in the legislation made
by the Senate will enable retired officer to serve
in such capacity without losing his retirement
pay status. An able administrator of civil defense
is even more important than the precise terms of
the legislation. poor administrator can make
a mess of civil defense, no matter how good the
legislation or how plentiful the funds.
Evening star., 1950-08-02

effective. We will never again have months and
years to prepare. We must be physically ready
at all times and-even more Importantly
spiritually ready to resist a peril we really
understand"
Declaring that the Soviet Union now has the
means of bombing our cities, Governor Dewey
wound up his appeal for action on this note:
"The hour is very late-I do not know how late.
Whether we still have day or year or three
years or ten years, not second should be lost.
Our Government, our people, the United Nations
and the spokesmen of the free world should rally
now. If we do-all of uS-I do not know how
much We will save, but at least we will save our
consciences our souls, and we may have an even
chance to save human liberty
This is indeed somber view but it is not
an exaggerated view if one believes, as does
Governor Dewey, that the menace of Stain is
greater than that of Hitler, and that the
threat to us '"s immediate, urgent and perhaps
desperate"
Evening star., 1950-08-02
By Don Whitehead

A CHUNKY, hard-jawed Texan, who
n led Gen. George PattonS famous
ghost corps" on it's rampage through
Europe, promises his Army will drive
the North Korean Reds back into their
northern hauntS.
The promise came the other day from
1t. Gen. Walton H. Walker of Bolton,
Tex, at the headquarters of his 9th
United States Army in Korea.
"Well have our st. Lo," he said.
"We'll build up our strength and then
the day is coming when we will break
through and drive them north as we
drove the Germans back after the ST..
Lo reak-through in France"
Walker made the statement as a calm
and unvarnished declaration of pur-
pcse-a goal which he has set for his
army in the months to come.
l asked him: Can you build up this
army into the same kind of fighting unit
which Patton had in the Sd Army? Can
you give it the same fighting spirit?"
The general opened a drawer in his
desk and pulled out sheaf of papers.
He leafed through them until he found
the one he wanted. Then he said:
Here is the first order which Gen.
Patton read to his troops in March,
1874, when he took over the command
Of the Sd Army"
The general began to read slowly:
Each, in his appropriate sphere, will
lead in person. ANY commander who
fails to obtain his objective. and is not
dead or severely wounded, has not done
his full duty"
Walker placed the paper on his desk
and leaned back in his chair. That's
the kind of spirit we must have-and the
kind Wen get"
Walker is a Solid hardmuscled man.
He is 60 years old-and looks 10 years
younger He comes from lighting Texas
stock. Both his grandfatherS were Con-
federate Army officers.
He stands 5 feet 61a inches in his
stocking feet. Right now he weighs 100
pounds, 10 more than his fighting weight
in Europe, but he predicts he'll get back
to $50.
He went to the Wednemeyer Military
Academy in Belton as a youth. Then
he spent year at Virginia Military In
stitute before entering the Military Acad-
emy at West Point. He was graduated
in 1912. just before the famous West
Point class that included Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower and Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley
During World War I. Walker COM
Evening star., 1950-08-02
ALEXANDRIA, Va.

Dear Sir:
"The last few days we have been
watching something very interesting
near our house.
"It seems that some coWbird laid two
eggs in song sparrow's nest.
Nov the two baby cowbirds which
are much larger than the song sparrow.
are following her around chirping until
she feeds them.
"They seem to be the only babies she
has.
Sincerely, BARBARA NJ"
You can read about such things in
books, but when you see it with your
own very eyes, in your own yard, it takes
on new Importance.
In this way the many old stories of
bird life become new with each observer.
People who were born and brought up
in the city, and then move to a suburban
section, find themselves interested in
birds, flowers, vegetables, animals, even
insects
Many hard boiled business man,
intent only on making living, or at
least SO he thought, realizes some fine
spring morning that he is watching d
redbird
This is something new in his life.
The bird has impinged, as may be
said, upon his life. "Impinge" means to
thrust or strike against.
That is really what happens to many
persons. They have no desire to know
the birds. or to have any interest y
Evening star., 1950-08-02

I had no other choice. Those green
troops won the time we had to have.
II don't believe that combat veterans
could have done much more than those
troops did. We would have had more
casualties than we have had-becauSe
the veterans would have stood and
slugged it out against hopeless odds.
More of them would have been killed"
Walker said he agreed with Gen.
Douglas Macarthur that the North
Korean Reds have lost their chance to
overrun Korea.
IF it hadn't been for those green
troops of the Oath Division" he said
then I believe the Reds would have
driven right on to Pusan, and we would
have had no beachhead in Korea"
Patton, in all his campaigns, never
had tougher job than Walker is up
against now.
Patton took command of the Sd Army
in Britain in 1914, with full-strength di-
visions which had been we'll trained in
the United States. Then he had five full
months in which to give them further
training and weld them into fighting
force.
Walker has started from scratch-and
has had to build his army while it is
in combat. That alone is king-sized
job
I asked Walker about open fanks on
q thinly held line-open spaces through
which the enemy can infiltrate and at
tack from the sides.
THAT reminds me of situation we
had in Europe" Walker said Gen.
Manton Eddy had the 9th Division on
my right, with only the Loire River be-
tween him and tens of thousands of
Germans. The Germans were retreat
ing before the American landing in
Southern France.
Eddy came to Patton and said: How
much should I worry about those Ger
mans on my flank?'
Patton said: That's according to how
nervous a man you are Then he
grinned. Hell, Manton,' he said, ignore
it,"
Walker looked at me and smiled.
when I think about those flanks, I
just remember what Patton said to Gen.
Eddy-'Hell. just ignore it,"
The other day, Walker got letter
from his 80-year- old mother in Bolton.
Here is what she wrote:
"Son, there's no use for me to beg you
to take care of yourself. I know you'll
not do it. Write me if you have time,
but don't worry about me-"
1t was letter that might have been
received by any CT in Korea.
ASSOCIATED Pres0
Evening star., 1950-08-02
Farm Wife

What do you kno1D OF loneliness iDI1o see
A road tUind By on ,ohtch the Hvtng
pass?
Shut in by heuuy trees tDeU might be
Among the shades. Leaf shadotDS on
ON the grass
Are all / see, the men are far afeld
Sowing for grototh that has become
TOR me
Symbol of things that can no longer yield
Me joy. But barren autumn sets me
free
From ny sick thought-leSS sadly do
| roam
The tallo,o land that rests ,Dith folded
1DipgS;
For this / kno1D-the brotDn and tram
gull loan
Stirs and is pregnant tDith remembered
springs,
And may some day giUe that brooding
earth
Out OF my tired heart glad rebirth
- BARBARA PALMER.
Evening star., 1950-08-02
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweH

them, but in time they find the birds
making themselves felt, either through
their beauty, or life habits, or maybe as
a sort of mild nuisance.
In any event, the city person who has
moved where there are more birds finds
himself little by little becoming inter-
ested.
To see, with ones own eyes, the song
sparrow mother take care of the big cow
bird babies, to the neglect of her own, is
to realize vividly what parasite is.
Parasitic means to live off another
Originally the word meant in Greek,
eating at the table of another and re-
paying him with Jokes and fun.
In biology 1t means a creature living
at the expense Of another, like holly on
an oak tree.
Thus we see that the cowbird, laying
it's eggs in some other birds nest, is not
parasite, herself, since she does not
eat at the hosts table, in any sense.
She merely puts her babies in place
where they can do exactly that!
The young cowbirds are the parasites,
though they had nothing to do with it
themselves. Here we see how compli
Gated everything in this world is.
We call cowbirds parasites, and yet
the father cowbird is off in the meadow
all the time. The mother is not para
site, except in a way of speaking. And
the baby cowbirds are as innocent of
any wrong doing as can be.
So we must keep this in mind, In
watching the little song sparrow mother
feed the big cowbird babies. ~
Evening star., 1950-08-02
Native Alaskan Lund RIGHTS

Extending statehood to our territorial
populations in Alaska and Hawaii is
wise and just move which will undoubt-
edly prove a gain for American democ-
racy in the eyes of the world. Unfor-
tunately, however, if statehood for
Alaska involves an assault upon the
land rights of the aboriginal population,
the prestige of our country will not gain,
but will in fact suffer serious blow.
There is danger that that is about to
happen. The current Alaska Statehood
Bill, H. R. 331, in the form in which it
is being considered by the Senate. in
cludes this provision in Section 5.
Part L:
Pending action by the people of
Alaska and the Congress as provided in
this act, no reservations for use and oc-
cupancy by the natives of Alaska shall
be designated in the Territory by au-
thority of any law of the United States"
This repeals an act of 1895 under
which our Department of the Interior
was authorized to negotiate with the
Aleut, Eskimo and Indian people of
Alaska combinations of title to posses
sion of their lands and resources. This
was in fulfllment Of a promise of the
United States made SO years earlier, in
the 1857 treaty of cession by which we
acquired Alaska.
Such a repeal at this time is an out
right default in our commitment to a
defenSeleSs non-Caucasian minority. Ii
the bill it is phrased as temporary but
temporiZing, postponement, and delays
have been the weapons used since 1867
to prevent confirmation of Alaskan ma
tive land rights.
The question Of Alaskan native res
ervations is solely matter of native land
rights. A land area is reserved" to
native ownership by mutual agreement
between the native group and the United
States Government.
Confirmation of Aleut, Eskimo and
Indian people Of Alaska to ownership
: of the lands they now occupy and use
is just, and it is very long overdue
The price of full democracy for all Alas
kans-including the natives, now 40 per
cent of the territorial population-must
not be a sellout of native land rights.
Those of us who are jealous of the
honor of our country and proud of its
high principles must demand of the
Congress that it strike out this vicious
anti-reservation clause and make the
Alaska Statehood Bill vehicle of true
democracy for all Alaskans.
Eduard C. Lindeman,
Vice President, Association of Ameri-
can Indian Affairs, Inc.
Evening star., 1950-08-02
Too Much Is Better Than Too Little

In his testimony last week Mr.. Baruch said
the people were ahead of Congress and Congress
was ahead of the President in the issue OF what
economic controls should accompany putting the
country on a war footing.
Events have shown that Mr.. Baruch was
right. The pressure for more, instead Of fewer
controls, comes from the people. All over the
country they are witnessing some of the economic
realities of initiation and boarding. Prices are
going up and the hoarders are trying their best
to create scarcities. The hoarders and panic
buyers are not confined to sugar-hungry shoppers
Builders report runs on materials by contractors
seeking to offset the shortages they anticipate
later on. In many other lines of business the
same sort of cycle is revealed. The people may
detest controls. But they deteSt even more the
vicious trends in prices and scarcities now under
way.
Decision to supplement the powers originally
sought by the President with additional authority
to impose ratoning, price controls at retail levels
and wage controls when and II these are neceS
sary is wise for two reasons:
First: It is Mr.. Baruch'S theory, which he
believes has been amply tested by past experience,
that controls cannot be imposed at some levels
without causing the distortions at other levels
that controls are designed to prevent. In other
words once controls become necessary, Govern
ment must be prepared to go the whole hog. To
be effective controls over ALLEGATIONS at wholesale
levels must be supported by controls of alloca
tions at retail levels; such controls must be
strengthened by price controls and price controls
become relatively meaningless without wage
controls.
Second: Mr.. Truman says that he asked
originally only for the basic powers-in such
fields as ALLEGATION of scarce materials requiSi-
tioning of certain types of property, limitations
on credit and authority to grant loans to war
contractors-with the thought of avoiding undue
delay But once these basic controls were granted,
he planned to ask for others, including powers to
ration freeze prices and wages. 1t is just as well
to get all these powers down on paper now,
rather than to seek them later on. They will
not be used unless it is necessary. But when the
necessity arises, the time to apply such controls
is Immediately, without the inevitable delays Of
the legislative processes
In his letter to the Senate Banking Com
mittee yesterday, the President emphasized the
need for haste in granting the powers that our
stepped-up arms production will require. His
only fear is that the additional controls
standby powers over wages and prices-will delay
this legislation.
That is possible. But the speed now shown
in committee preparation of the legislation ind-
Gates that Mr.. Truman will get what he needs
and will get it quickly. Our people know that
we are committed to long, hard pull. The
Korean war has already exposed too many weak
nesseS and the dangers they invite. Public
sentiment is to turn weakness into strength at
any cost and in the quickest time.
Evening star., 1950-08-02
Macarthur on Formosd

General MacArthurs flying visit to Gen
eraliSSimo Chang on FormoSa has been made at
a time when the Chinese Communists have big
armies and a makeshift but very large feet Of
invasion craft massed in the vicinity of Annoy
along the southeast coast of the mainland The
visit may therefore indicate growing concern
over the possibility that amphibious assault
may be attempted before the summer ends.
For his own part, General Macarthur has
expressed it as his opinion that such attack
carried out across 100 miles of water against the
combined opposition of our 7th Fleet and Chiangs
well trained defending forces on Formosa-would
stand little chance of success" At the same
time, however, he has recognized that the Chinese
Reds might be foolish enough to attempt it,
and they themselves, of course, have repeatedly
declared their determination to do so.
II the thing is tried without the help of
Soviet planes and submarines, it may we'll end
in smashing defeat for the Chinese Commu-
nists. Nevertheless, before its end it could place
critically heavy burdens on the 7th Fleet at
time when that fleet is committed to vital Ko-
rean operations as well. Conceivably in such
circumstances, large elements of the invading
force might succeed in making landings on For
mosa, in which case the outcome would depend
largely on Generalissimo Chiang's Nationalist
troops
It is for that reason-and presumably also
for the reason that he does not want to give
the Chinese Reds any kind of excuse to inter
vene directly in Korea-that General Macarthur
has declined the Nationalist governments
newed offer to send $4,000 of those troops to take
part in the Korean on the side of the United
Nations. AS he has put it, "Such action at this
time might so seriously jeopardze the defense of
Formosa that it would be inadvisable.'
BY implication at least, General Macarthur
thus has indicated that he does not discount
the possibility of near-future invasion attempt
Indeed although minimizing its chance of sue
cess, he has taken it seriously enough to make
plans with Chang to coordinate Nationalist
and American forces for defensive action and
he has been at pains to warn the Chinese Reds
that it is his firm purpose to enforce" the Presi
dents decision to prevent an attack on Formosa
Despite all this, however the invasion may
still be tried. In that case, even without direct
Russian participation, the battle might prove to
be extremely difficult, even though the Chinese
Reds might be shattered in the end. AS for the
possibility of Soviet air and submarine inter
vention, if that should materialize, then the For
mosa struggle could explode into a general world
war.
Evening star., 1950-08-02
1t. Gen. Walker Is q 7ardboied Eqq

manded machinegun battalion in
the st. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne
battles. He came out of that war a
lieutenant colonel.
Between wars, he followed the teach
ing and training path of other men who
rose to high position in the Army. When
the Sd Army was formed in 1914 for the
invasion of France, he was commanding
Patton's Goth Corps.
After the great st. Lo break-through.
Walker drove his Goth Corps across
France at breakneck speed. It was
one of the great campaigns of military