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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
Special Local
Election Set
For July 27-28
Continued from Page 1

mitted, presumably, in his own
defense.
"As Mr.. Molik knows, he was
permitted to give the statement
orally and was then permitted
to submit it formally in written
form. The state m ent was
promptly incorporated in the
official minutes of the meeting.
''The statement itself contains
the assurance that I intend to
exhaust every r e m e d y / may
have within the union b e O e
considering any other action.
This is the sta te m n to
which he refers when he vio-
lates 1t himself. if he was cor
rectly quoted in the Blade, by
releasing a completely false re-
port to the newspaper"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
Another Cigarette Firm
Promises To Behave

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
Brown and Williamson Tobacco
Corp. of Louisville, Ky. has told
the Federal Trade Commission
1t will stop advertising that Life
cigarettes are safer to throat
and lungs than other brands and
can be smoked without irrata-
ton or Ill effe c is. The FTC
pointed out that Lifes are made
from the same tobacco as other
cigarettes.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
Coz. Williams Calls
1850 An ON Year.
AtPACD Detroit Rally

DETROIT QPA) - CIO Political Action Committee
played major role in getting Democratic candidates
on the Michigan ballot in 1850 than in the past 30 years.
State CIO President August Schoe told Wayne County
PAC rally kicking off the fall campaign.
Scholle said the Democrats had candidates in every
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
'FPC To Ride Herd
On Gas Prices> Is
Break For Consumer
T aft Opposes Pike
But Nation Wins Out

COLUMBUS Ohio-Senator A. Taft put profits
before the safety of America when
confirmation of extremely important presiden
ial appointment.
Taft didn't stand UP of the Senate
Evening star., 1950-10-27
AIexondrio's Open Sewer

Alexandria has chosen an easy way, but not
the best way, to dispose of it's sewage. The city
council has authorized the dredging of two chan
nels in Hunting Creek to carry away the offensive
backwash of raw sewage which the city dumps
into the sluggish stream. This $4,000 project will
help Alexandrians to abate the major nuisance
of an open sewer in their front yard-but at the
expense of others living farther down the Po-
tomac River.
What Alexandria sorely needs is sewage
treatment plant. Other river communities south
of Alexandria, such as Fort Belvoir, Quantico,
Colonial Beach and Glymont, have processing
plants for their sewage. 1t is unfair to these
munities to have untreated sewage emptied into
the river farther upstream. Alexandria is the
only Virginia shore community in the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area that is not actively en-
gagged in doing something about the river-pollu-
ton problem. Arlington already has one treat
ment plant and will vote on bond issue for a
second plant on November 7. There is strong
support in the county for this improvement.
Evening star., 1950-10-27
BY Charles E. 7roceweU

into immobility, the very worst thing he
could do, but he does it just the same,
because it is instructive for him to do So.
It is standard idea of living things
but like so many such ideas, not good
under certain conditions.
Happy is the man or centipede or
other living thing, that balances instinc-
tive actions with proper reflections, and
always comes up with the right answer
at exactly the right time.
Other birds with happy autumn and
winter voices are the cardinals, although
they will not use them so often: the jays,
always squawking and yelling; the
starlings; with strange whistles; the
grackles, making for time a creaking
noise, reminding the listener of nothing
so much as a squeaky wheelbarrow
In the cold there are few bird sounds
in this vicinity more cheering than those
from pack of we'll fed common sparrows.
When the sunshine~hits the climbing
rose on the fence, the sparrows fly up and
perch along the canes, and then, in the
gladness of hearts and stomachs, sing
together their praise of universe that
still suits them.
Unhappy man, not to find his universe
to his liking, after all these yearsl
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Apportionment System
Soterios Nicholson.

appreciate your editorial in the Sat-
urday Star which states in effect that the
Civil Service Commission is doing the
right thing by employing people close to
their communities which is ''in direct
conflict with the apportionment system"
Unfortunately this is true only of lin
tied number of jobs. have been on two
professional registers for about three
years and am told by the commission
that I have practically no chance of ever
being employed by the Government as
am from one of the nine over-quota
States In effect if an applicant makes
100 on an examination, he is passed over
and the one making 70 from an under
quota State has chance of being Sc
lected. This is certainly not the merit
system.
The apportionment system causes a
great deal of unemployment in Wash
ington as check of the United States
Unemployment Office will probably show.
Why not abolish the apportionment sys-
tenn and give the jobs to those making
the highest grades, regardless of resi-
dence?
Vona EoSdick
Evening star., 1950-10-27
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.

EXACTLY what is going on in Tibet,
~ which Red China claims to be in
vadlng, is still something of mystery.
This is hardly surprising, for Tibet has
been something of a mystery to the rest
of the world since the beginning. Ac-
cording to Tibetan mythology, it all
began when the Compassionate Spirit
entered into the body of a monkey and
formed liaison with she-devil. thus
producing the first Tibetan.
There may be a tendency on the part
Of some Americans to think of Tibet as
sort of democratic Shangri-La in the
Communist-d dominated Asian wilderness,
which must be defended at all cost
against any invasion. America is likely
to go slow. however, about accepting
this thesis.
Tibet. for about 800 years, has been
what the political scientists probably
would call dictatorial theocracy-th
only state in the world, except for the
Vatican, which is wholly under &C.
clesiastical control. It is run by Bud
dhiSt monks in the name of the Dalai
Lama, currently 16year-old boy. The
people are about as backward as can be
found. So is the country. hinged by
the worlds highest mountains, it has
remained pretty well untouched by what
goth century Westerners like to think of
as progress. Tibetans have no railroads
and very few roads. They still navigate
in yak-skin boats on the Brahmaputra
and Indus rivers. When the first Tibetan
trade mission came here in 1948, about
the most interesting thing it had to
nffpr nf fro
of yak tails.
Whatever else Mao Tse-t -tung's Gin
vasion" of Tibet may turn out to be, it
Is not surprise. He has been threaten
ing to "liberate" the area for year now.
In recent months. there have been re-
peated rumors that the attack was
actually in progress. Tibet has been
appealing all along for aid against the
impending march, and has even sent
emissaries from its capital, Lhasa, to
try to negotiate solution with Mao.
There isn't much doubt that if Red
China really is moving seriously to take
over Tibet. Red China can do it. No one
knows how big an army the barren
monkdom can fleld-it has been reported
as anywhere between 10000 and 100000
men. But we do know that this army is
equipped with nothing more potent than
rifles, India having turned down Tibets
plea for military aid. So Mao undoubt-
edly can take Tibet, if he wants to.
The relationship between Tibet and
China has always been hard to pin down.
China gained vague sort of allegiance
from Tibet in 1858, when it confirmed
the temporal power of the first Dalai
Lama. Some of the scholars think that
in the early days it was China itself
Evening star., 1950-10-27

Fairfax County has approved a similar bond issue
and is proceeding on a construction program.
Alexandria has drawn up plans for plant, but
that is as far as the city has gone The delay is
said to be the result of uncertainty over annexa-
tion plans
The dredging of channels to facilitate the
movement of raw sewage into the Potomac prob
ably is necessary expedent, but it cannot be
considered as an adequate substitute for modern
disposal system. Under the State Water Control
Act Alexandria eventually will have to stop using
the Potomac River as sewer. Money spent on
interim half-measures might better be spent on
beginning construction of permanent sewage
treatment station.
Evening star., 1950-10-27
This and That =.

bird mechanism are much the same
Throat muscles vary, it is true, but
basically it is the same plan.
Some day some one is going to write
book on the standard ideas" in life
Consider the pattern of staying still"
when danger threatens some living form
All the way from the centipede on the
wall to the householder in his bed, "stay-
ing still' is standard practice, under
certain conditions.
If the home owner thinks he hears a
burglar, he remains very, very still.
He hopes to find out soon if he has
been mistaken, and it is only creaking
board, after ALL
At the worst, he may remain very
quiet, if the burglar catches him mapping
and actually comes into the room.
The centipede on the wall "stays still"
if bright light is suddenly flashed on
him.
He is one of the speediest of living
things, and could dash to hiding place
before any human could catch him.
Instead, he remains as still as mouse.
Evidently his tribe has learned. or thinks
it has learned, to stay quiet for moment,
when danger threatens
The light strikes him. and he freezes
Evening star., 1950-10-27

She reached up to take dead leaf out
of hanging flower pot, and found it was
not leaf" at all, but Carolina wren.
The leaf" flew Immediately at her
touch.
It was hard to say whether the lady or
the bird was the more surprised.
These large wrens stay here all winter.
sometimes living in rolled-up porch
screens and the like.
They are the birds with the large,
CHEEKY voices, so often heard in the cold.
The little song sparrow has wonder
full voice, too.
He may be heard in the snow, some
times, singing from fence post or the
garden gate.
The song sparrow is said to have more
than 1000 variations of his principal
song.
Many variations have been written
down, so that if any one has the patience
he may play them all, best done with the
violin, although of course no mechanical
instrument can get the exact bird way of
doing it.
It is for this reason that a human
whistle can reproduce bird song better
than record can give it.
Human voice-making mechanism and
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Theodore Roosevelt Remembered

1t is more than 80 years since Theodore
Roosevelt died, and his fame undoubtedly has
oeen ecl1psed to some extent by that of his
distant cousin. But the Roosevelt Memorial
Association is faithful and true to the twenty
sixth President, and each year on the anniver-
sary OF his birth it reminds the public that he
still deserves attention.
The point certainly is well taken r. R. in
fact has many valid claims to remembrance He
was man OF many gifts, personality of many
dlderent fascinating qualities. The variety of
his achievements perhaps is best indicated by
review OF the books he wrote. If he had lived
only to be "a. he would have been recalled as
naval historian. At 27 he was winning celebrity
as rancher, hunter and interpreter of the
western half of his country-then much in need
of such service. In 1886 he entered politics anew
as reform candidate for Mayor of New York
At 81 he was member of the United States Civil
Service Commission at 81 he was head of the
Board of Police Commissioners in New York, at
SO he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, at 40
he was colonel of the Rough Riders in Cuba, at
Al he was Governor of New York, at 43 he was
the youngest Chief Executive the Nation ever
had, at 81 he left the White House to hunt lions
in Africa and to explore Brazil. Each of these
steps in his progress was marked with books
from his pen-books eminently readable even
now.
In illustration of his durability, Herman
Hagedorn, director of the memorial association
cites the following passage from speech de-
livered by Theodore Roosevelt at Forest Hills,
July 4, 1917: 1--WE fighting this war for Others
But we are also and primarily, fighting it for
ourselves. We wish to safeguard to all civilized
nations which themselves do justice to others,
the right to enjoy their independence, and there
fore to enjoy whatever governmental system they
desire. But rightly and properly our first concern
is for our own country. Our own welfare is at
stake. Our own interests are vitaly concerned
We are fighting for the honor of America and
for our permanent place among the self-govern-
ing nations of mankind. We are fighting for
our homes, our freedom, our independence, our
self-respect and well-being. We are fighting for
our dearest rights, and to avert measureless
disaster in the future from the land in which
our children's children are to dwell when we
are dead"
T. R. was referring to the Germany of Kaiser
Wilhelm in this expression of his patriotism, but
he prophetically might have had in mind the
Soviet Russia of Josef Stain today. His purpose
would have been the same.
Evening star., 1950-10-27

highest land in the world. The average
altitude is about 10000, at which point
most -Tibetans start putting on the
oxygen masks. Its 100000 square miles
Gas big as Texas, California and New
York combined) sustain a population
of only about 3 million. This number is
decreasing rapidly each year, partly be-
cause of the large proportion of celibate
monks. One-fifth of the males in Tibet
are Buddhist priests of one sort or
another
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says the
Tibetans are cheerful, fun-loving
people" They have a reputation, how
ever, for tending toward violence in
their pursuit of pleasure. In 1947, one
Jechenz, former regent who had pro-
Chinese leanings, was charged with plot
ting to overthrow the Lhasa govern
ment. The dispatches have it that his
eyes were gouged out before he was
poisoned to death.
Tibet's chief Importance in the current
world struggle is, of course, religious.
The Dalai Lama. also called the Living
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Tibet: 1t Isn't Exactly Shonqri-Lo

Buddha, commands the reverent awe of
millions of Asias Buddhists. He is chosen
from among male children born at about
the time the old Dalai Lama dies. The
names are put in golden box and one
Is drawn out. This is supposed to be the
name of the child into whose body the
spirit of the Living Buddha has passed.
There have been indications that the
present Dalai Lama and his court might
flee to the bordering independent princely
Indian state of Nepal in case of Com
munist invasion. There he could be pro-
tected by Gurkha warriors who, in ad-
dition to being among the worlds best
fighters, are also fanatical Buddhists.
But the situation is somewhat COM
plicated by the fact that there is a
rival lama in the picture-the Panchen
Lama. A quarter century ago, this lama
tried to set himself up as a rival to the
Dalai Lama, and was banished from
Tibet. The current Panchen Lama, who
is 13, has never been to Tibet Last No
vember. his seat at Kumbum lin China's S
Tsinghai province) was overrun by the
Chinese Red army, and since then he
has been making propaganda statements
in Red China's behalf. The Panchen
Lama, however, seems to have few fol-
lowers except in narrow strip of Tibet
bordering China and Chinese Turkestan.
India's Pandit Nehru is said to be con-
cerned lest Tibet, in the hands of the
Peiping government, might serve
as convenient base for Communist
agents inflltrating India's northern
provinces across the Himalayan mountain
passes. This is possible although it
would seem there might be easier ways
for Communist agents to infltrate India.
In any event, there is little likelihood
that a military invasion could be launched
across those mountains. No one has
ever accomplished that, not even Genghis
Khan who, on his way down from Mon
golia, took long detour by way of
Bokhara and Afghanistan.
There might, however, be clue to the
military significance of Tibet in Red
Chinese hands in the fact that there are
said to be untapped uranium sources in
the Tibetan mountains.
If Mao and his men do take over Tibet,
it will not be the first time this ancient
land has experienced communism, and
there may be food for thought for Mao
in what happened to MUM Tsan-po, the
pre-Marxian ruler who made the initial
experiment That was in the eighth CEN
tury AID. Mum was a share the wealth
advocate He was determined to level
all his subjects; there was to be no dis
tinction between rich and poor.
The first time he tried it, according to
the history books, all the Tibetans were
back in their original circumstances
within two years. The second time he
tried it, the result was the same. The
third time MUM tried it, his mother
poisoned him.
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Planning and States Rights

1t is hard to see how any real issue of States
rights is involved in the proposal to expand the
membership and authority of the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission. Representa-
tive Fallon of Maryland is said to fear that the
pending legislation will curtail the planning
powers of his State in the area near Washington
in which the commission would operate On
the contrary the bill will give to Maryland and
Virginia official representation on the commits
sion which they now lack. These representatives,
each with full voice in commission affairs, will
be named by the Governors of the two States.
Present law already gives the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission authority to
plan the orderly development of the Nations
Capital, not only inside the District of Columbia
but in "its environs." This authority has been
used in the planning of many Federal projects
in the nearby counties including the Federal
buildings in Arlington Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties, the George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway along the Potomac River and
the Washington National Airport, present and
proposed. There has been fine cooperation by
Maryland and Virginia planning groups and
governmental agencies.
The proposed law would insure Maryland
and Virginia place at the planning table in the
even more important development era ahead.
Under the gradual dispersal program, the next
decade will see the start of number of new
Federal buildings within a greatly enlarged
perimeter of what is now called the Washington
Metropolitan Area. Whether the pending bill
is passed or not the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission will have much to do with
the choice of sites, the laying out of approach
roads and similar planning.
1t would be far better to have the planning
done by commission on which both States and
the District of Columbia are represented than to
continue the present system of voluntary co-or-
dination. If there is any question of States
rights at stake in this proposition it is the right
of Maryland and Virginia to take part in the
planning of Greater Washington as it spreads
ever outward. That right is guaranteed in the
National Capital Planning Commission bill
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Turn About

In all this hullabaloo about draft
ing veterans, I haven't read one line
about the possibility of drafting men who
were given industrial deferments during
World War II. With the veterans back
home now Chose who haven't been
drafted again) to take over the reins,
can't see why those same fellows should
be so ALFRED indispensable now We
all know fellows in our home towns to
whom their fathers turned over a few
acres for farming when it looked as if
they were going to be drafted-or other
men who raced to Government work in
order to be deferred. Sure. they're mar
ried and have kids now--so do lot of
veterans who are being re-drafted.
am in no way limiting that we could
have won the war without the tools of
industry-far from it. But those former
indispensables are the men who should
be drafted first. I think that lot of
veterans would feel less bitter about
being called back if they knew that those
men were being asked to go also.
Veteran.
Evening star., 1950-10-27

of its rightful statistics but there
would be no additional expense to the
United States in maintaining collectors S
Office here, because the personnel and
Offices already are in operation classed
as Deputy Collectors Office of the Bal
timore District of the Internal Revenue
Bureau
In Washington is located the United
States main office of the bureau; here
are the responsible employees; here is
the whole machinery for collecting in
come tax returns and yet, after the
filing is made here, everything has to
be settled in the name of the Baltimore
Office.
It seems to me that there is a dupli-
cation of work back and forth between
Washington and Baltimore. The present
arrangement delays action for settle
ment and entails additional travelling
expense to the citizens when questions
in their incometax returns are involved,
plus inconvenience.
Soterios Nicholson.
Evening star., 1950-10-27
A Place in the Sun for Us

Your editorial entitled why Single
Out Washington" should be read by all
the people residing in the Capital and
Metropolitan Area.
Why should Washingtonians be obliged
to go to Baltimore or mail their income
tax returns to that city when Washing
ton is large enough to have it's own
collector of internal revenue? This city,
as you mentioned, pays more taxes into
the Treasury than some % other States
and Territories"
If a collector were appointed here not
only the District would not be deprived
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Warning

Your issue of October 9 reported the
presentation of an award to Secretary
of State Dean Acheson by Freedom
House, the Wendell Willkie Memorial.
This award serves to call attention to
Mr. Wilkes prophetic abilities
On pages 106-107 of "One World" he
wrote:
Suppose, for instance, that India
should fall. Suppose that China, cut off
from all aid, should be strangled and
conquered. -.
IF all this were to come about, we
should witness the creation, not merely
of great empire, but of perhaps the
biggest empire in history; an empire
composed of about billion people living
on approximately Is million square miles
of land; an empire occupying one-third
of the earth and including one-half Of
its total population. :.
Moreover, this empire would include
within itself almost every resource that
can be imagined. 1t would be self-suffi-
cient, whether for peacetime industry or
for war. :.
II have unbounded faith in the cour-
age. the enterprise and the destiny of the
American people But believe that if
Americans were forced to live hereafter
face to face with an empire of such
dimensions, our way of life would be little
better than, an armed camp, and our
vaunted freedom would be little more
than fond hope. We should live in
continual alarm, in endless war. under
crushing ornaments which 1t would be
our constant endeavor to increase.
Evening star., 1950-10-27
This Was My Dream

This yas my dream, that the full moon
had opened
And spilled like seed each past moon
/ had kno1Dn.
They fell about my feet like pearls, like
rGinbOzUS
Rounded i'm crystal, tangible as stone.
Oh, it 1Uas SUeet to find June of child
hood
Beside one tinted sadly as doue,
A blue sphere made in tar-of louely
places
Against the opal of last gears love >.
thought to steal some, keep them in my
pocket,
My olDn bright taliSmans, but on my
soul
could not choose between them, they
1Dere all
So beautiful 10hen could see them
Dhole.
YETZA GILLESPIE.