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NEW STORE; 3rd and Sheridan sts.
Plenty of parking space. RA. 9605.
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COMM. GROUND FOR SALE

ALEXANDRIA, Mt. Vernon ave
50x11O to paved 20-ft. alley: S1.1O
4orf 81 f. 'FRONT.' 4 N Roda daxnspwn re- ssa throuss
to . sts.: 8.10o 50. ft.: 1st comm.
Call Mr. Fischer. with DREYFUSS
p BROS, MA. 05s2: ewes. AID. 1904.
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SILVER SPRING. MD.
Commercial lot. nr. high school: cor
ner with alley on side; -s,490 So. it.;
price. $4,000; ideal for neighbor-
hood-type store or store and apts
F. ELIOT MIDDLETON, Rea,tor,
1Rn2 z n u Pc 1S1
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STUDEBAKER 1947 coupe: beauti-
fully equipped; 3D.; $3.50; $50 down.
SOUTHERN CAR WHOLESALERS,
2l2O Bladensburg I'd. ne. =
cpe.; equipped with climatizer. htr
and defroster: like new; Sl.1S5; as
low as $50 down. SOUTHERN CAR
WHOLESALERS. 2150 Bladensburg
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623 and $40 H st. NE.
AT 1900: Eyes, AT. 2l25.
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$25 PER MO. for an ONCE, mr.. 18th
and K sts. NV: modern Office bldg.
parking available nearby. Also
larger offices available in same
bldg. and at 5505 Ga. ave. NV,
KAY REALTY CO., INC.
Evening star., 1950-08-25
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweN

Zone evening while returning to my
fiat, small group of these noisy birds
attracted my attention.
water pump.
"A milkman was engaged in the an
cient and exacting art of diluting his
commodity.
LAS he turned to obtain water, the
birds drank heartily from the open milk
pals.
"It is commonplace to observe the
crow perched upon the backs and even
noses of the bullocks and buffaloes, in
which position he serves as an eradicator
Of parasites.
$50 accustomed are these animals to
the presence of the birds that they
make no effort to unseat the intruders.
"In the agricultural districts the crow
is destroyer of the precious food of
India, but he compensates for this by
eradicating termites, locusts and other
injurious pests.
AFTER busy day of thieving, scav-
enging and general food gathering, this
town-dwelling bird seeks its communal
roosts, where large numbers foregather
when the abrupt sunset occurs.
THE breeding season varies in differ
ent parts of the country. In Calcutta
they nest between April and June. The
nest is an untidy platform of sticks,
twigs and a collection of trash lined
with fiber.
"It is placed in the fork Of tree,
usually about 10 feet up. have OBJ
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India's babies may not get milk, but
her crows do.
A Washingtonian over there watched
an old crow steal milk from pail while
the milkman was putting water in his
product!
M. D., writing from Calcutta, says:
II entered India through the Calcutta
airdrome. The first bird saw was the
common house crow.
ut was perched upon the outer wing
tip Of plane, and was scrutiniZing pas
sengers as they disembarked in antici-
patton of retrieving stray bits of food.
This crow is intelligent. bold and
animated, and has the capacity for
scenting and avoiding danger. His food
gathering is a day-long process.
HE will take dead rat, or any refuse
from the roads and lanes, steal from
the grocery basket, and enter a home
and make off with anything that strikes
his fancy.
'At the crack of dawn, as lay within
my mosquito netting, I heard the voice
OF this gregarious Species cawing, groan-
Ing, squeaking and initiating other avian
sounds.
Their voices are audible through the
day, and during the midday they do
not nap, but continue their activities
until dark.
Il have even observed group OF
crows during the early morning hours
gathered around the gas street light de-
vouring particles of precious rice that
has been split ON the sidewalk.
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what it was for. how 1t was handled.
what it was worth.
All that has changed. Family ties
are looser, and the family lives less by
producing it's own stuff and more by
buying. The young child sees money
spent every day. 1t seems to have a
thousand different values, which is the
same as no real value at all.
And yet today. more than ever. chill
dren must learn about money-for 1t Is
both a source of confusion and an in
dispensable tool they must learn to use.
How do you go about teaching child
to know and appreciate the value of a
dollar? How do you teach him to handle
money wisely, to be neither spendthrift
nor penny grubber? How do you
prevent family money quarrels?
Here are the commonly accepted foun-
dation stones for child's money educa-
ton. Shape them to At family circum-
stances, personalities and children's ages,
but follow the basic, tested principles
laid down If you would help your child
grow into money-wise adult
l. Examine your own money habits
More than anything else. your own
attitudes toward money will shape your
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teaching Children the Value of Monev

THERE was time when children
i learned the value and use of money
as naturally and simply as they learned
the value and use of peck of potatoes
or head of cabbage.
But today it's different, according to
an article in Changing Times, The Kip
linger Magazine. Life was less compli-
Gated then. Families were close-knit,
and family living was genuinely CO.
operative venture
Children were in the thick of it all.
They had chores and household duties,
and thus contributed directly to the
family's welfare. They saw how every
one else in the house contributed. They
saw the cash spent carefully. They
helped spend it when they ran errands.
and they knew the long study that
went into purchase of any size.
There were clear lines between things
that had money value and those that
didn't, between luxuries and necessities,
between store -boughten" and home
made. BY the time youngsters needed
money of their own, they had oppor-
tunities to earn it,
And SO children grew up knowing
first-hand how money was acquired.
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served several nesting sites erected in
the iron cross pieces of a traffic signaling
tower at busy intersections.
THE normal clutch is four or five
eggs, pale blue-green, speckled and
streaked with brown. Both sexes share
in the notification (nesting) and the
nestlings mature to the general black
color Of our American crow, with the
exception of the ashy brown head and
underparts.
Probably the only bird that gets the
better of the Indian crow is the koel,
the common parasitic cuckoo, for 1t ha-
{ bitually lays its eggs in the crows nest.
yet I prefer the American crow, the
black bird of the Virginia woods. AS a
boy, I walked the pine forests with my
father, seeking the nests of the crow
We would listen to the voices of the
young and my father would estimate the
number of f1edglings to nest. This in
cident was my introduction to orni-
thology."
Writer Of the above letter is NAL
colin Davis, in charge of birds at our
National Geological Park, now on leave
of absence in India.
It is interesting to know that India's
crows and Americas crows are so much
alike, and that we can find rs much
amusement in watching our own as Mr..
Davis can in observing the habits OF the
Indian crows.
"A crow is q crow, evidently. wherever
you find him, capable, intelligent fell
low, not above little thieving, II 1t
serves his purpose.
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Finds Liberals DepIorubIe

It Is amazing. how, without any
thought police" nearly every one In the
United States is beginning to think alike
and express similar opinions, especially
in regard to such touchy subjects as
modern art, canasta. local climate. wom-
ems dress and the Korean war Our
most noted corn-fed liberal, Henry Wal
lace, has seen the light" according to
all the learned columnists and editorial
hacks; another Sir Galahad from left OF
center, o. John Rogge, tacks gracefully
back to center without losing too much
face, and that great ghost writer Of the
New Deal, Robert Sherwood, offends the
Scots by injecting Tory politics into
what was destined to be q purely cul-
tural gathering.
But we refuse to be Stampeded by the
antics of a few liberals who probably
were never liberals in the first place.
If the human brain is worth anything
at all, it should be worth using to sift
all questions until there are no doubts
as to what are facts and fancy or what
are truths and lies. The tragic history
Of Italy under Mllssolini and Germany
under Hitler reveal the utter immortality
of so-called liberal" citizens.
We have become Nation of hysterical
witch hunters, until hardly q citizen
dares to express himself for fear of los
ing his job or being branded q Red.
This Is not the kind of Nation such men
as Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Paine
envisioned.
fSsS..
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8. Encourage him to plan and keep
track. You shouldn't try to force fancy
budgets or double-entry bookkeeping
down child's throat. But you should
encourage him to put things down on
paper as soon as he's old enough. You
can set him an example with family
budgeting and accounts. You can help
him write down lists Of projected ex-
penses when allowances are being set.
8. Let him earn money when he can.
1t is almost impossible in today's world
to avoid letting q child have money
before he earns 1t. The alternative is
to get across the idea that the family's
money, and all money. must be earned
at some stage. Then encourage him to
earn when he can, let him when he
wants to, help him when he is trying to.
How about letting him earn money
around the house? Fine, but use caution.
Pay child only for jobs that you
would conceivably hire some one else to
do. and pay what the job is worth.
Keep these paid" tasks separate from
any allowance that he gets-for an
allowance should not be earned. Let
him quit. If he wants to, without
recriminations.
It's not much different really from
teaching good manners or anything else.
Recognize the need for training-then
use practice, example and instruction to
help your child learn the value of a
hard-earned, easily spent dollar.
tNorth American Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1950-08-25
More Power for the B-36

The distinctive characteristics of the Korean
war have produced kind of publicity eclipse for
the B-S6. 1t is not the kind of war for which
the Air Forces intercontinental bomber was
designed. The smaller bombers-B-29S and
B-50s-operating from bases in Japan have
ample range to reach any target in North Korea,
and, consequently, there has been no reason to
send the biggest of all bombers into action. This
naturally enough, has evoked some caustic
criticism from those who have never had much
faith In the B-36 and even less understanding
Of what it is supposed to do.
But this does not mean that the experience
in Korea has in any way deprecated the i'm
portance Of the giant bomber. If anything the
Korean war has rather tended to emphasize and
enlarge our dependence on the B-36
The fighting qualities of the North Korean
puppet troops, RuSsian-trained and Russian
equipped, should have thoroughly dissipated any
wishful thinking as to our prospects in con-
ventional ground war with the Russians and
their allies and puppets. We simply cannot
undertake to fight that kind of war with any
hope Of success American ground forces will
be needed. of course, for certain operations, as
will the Navy. But we would be doomed in
advance II we should try to conduct against the
Russians the kind Of war that Hitler waged
Despite the detractors of strategic air power,
be, to very large degree, an air war. We will
have to look to our longrange bombers, and any
other means of effective attack over great dis
tances, to 60 in and destroy the Russian centers
of war production. If that can be done, there
would be some reasonable prospect of dealing
with the Soviet ground forces which, meanwhile,
will have swept into Europe. If that cannot be
done, If we cannot knock out the vital centers
OF Russian power in Russia, then we will surely
discover that there is very little we can do
anywhere
It is against this background that the
announcement of the delivery to the Air Force
Of its first jet-equipped B-36 assumes special
interest. This Is a project that has been long
in the making, and there were skeptics who said
1t could not be done. But 1t has been done. The
remodeled plane in addition to its six reciprocal
ing engines, has four Jet engines mounted under
the outer wing panels. This means greater
power and greater speed especially over target
areas, where speed and altitude can be the
difference between success and failure
With all of our B-36s scheduled for similar
renovation, the strategic bomber fleet should be
both more effective deterrent to war and q
more effective striking weapon If war with Russia
should come. In any event, this latest announce
ment is gratifying evidence of the effort being
made to improve this cardinal weapon in our
armory. Te
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Delay Would Be Wiser

There is little doubt that an excess profits
tax will be added to other methods to raise the
enormous amount of extra revenue required to
finance the war In Korea and to build up our
defenses. Certainly there is no inclination on
the part of the administration to resist such a
tax. But the Presidents tax program is more
sensible than the drive now headed by Senator
oMahoney to attach an excess profits tax, by
Senate amendment to the "quickie" tax bill now
pending in the Senate.
This bill is designed for quick passage, in
time to apply the higher personal income and
corporation taxes in the ANAL quarter OF this year
which starts in October. All the machinery for
collecting the tax is available But the perfection
Of q workable and fair excess profits tax win
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require more time both in the writing of the bill
and in preparing for its administration. The tax
Is o complicated one. The Government is still
cleaning up the leftovers of this tax levied in
World War II and its technicians are still trying
to improve on its form.
To attempt to attach an excess profits tax
provision to the pending bill, without benefit of
careful committee examination is apt to snarl
the works. It may delay passage of any tax bill.
The more reasonable procedure would be to
enact the stop-gap bill now, in the knowledge
that its provisions will be supplemented later
perhaps In January-by additional measures, in
cluding an excess profits tax.
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child's attitudes. If you play fast and
loose with your cash, you'll have a hard
time getting your children to be careful
with theirs. If you have to be pried
loose from every penny, your child may
grow up to be stingy too, or he may
swing to the opposite extreme.
In brief, before starting your childs
dollar education, check on your own.
2. Make your child junior partner.
That doesn't mean to tell 10-year- -old
how much you make and what you owe
on the mortgage. All that will do is get
the data broadcast around the neighbor-
hood. But do let him see how money
makes the home go, and do avoid the
impression that money matters are mys-
terious and secret.
3. Give the child an allowance of his
own. He can't learn the value of money
without handling it, An allowance does
several things. 1t makes the youngster
learn how to cover variable number
OF expenses with fixed amount of
money. It teaches him to plan his
spending. It breaks him In to the idea
of responsibility.
Give the allowance regularly, so that
he can count on it. Give it frequently
for a young child can't think ahead too
far. Define what it must cover. but be
sure there is some room for discretionary
spending. You can usually start an al
lowance when your child is between
4 and 6 years of age. Adjust it upward,
perhaps on each birthday.
4. Let him make money decisions. In
some cases you can let him help make
decisions on money that is being spent
for him, or even for the family in gen.
eral. For example, when he helps de-
eide whether this coin will go for white
bread or dark bread, he's learning that
1t won't buy both.
The most important decision-m making,
however, will be in the spending Of his
allowance. It will be a terrible tempta-
ton for you to stop him from making
foolish buy, or to bawl him out after
ward. But don't do either.
5. Don't use money to bribe or discip-
line. In the first place. it's bad way
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Letters to The Star

assertion that the very bad things that
go on in Russia today are not primarily
related to the fact that they own Cor
don't OWN things in common.
I hasten to assure Mr.. Freeman that
he is indeed mistaken If he assumes
that I am solely interested in clarifying
semantic problem. am interested in
stamping out the vicious and insidious
practice Of confusing issues by confusing
definitions. I am interested in preserv-
ing our constitutional guarantees to the
extent that If ever an Eskimo comes
among us he can revere the social system
OF his ancestors without fear of being
denied Government employment
T. ID. Perrine.
Evening star., 1950-08-25
Teachers Rights Are Restricted

It Is hard to make much sense out of the
latest action Of the American Federation of
Teachers (AFL) respecting the left-wing New
York City Teachers Union, Local 555 The fedora
ton, ut its annual meeting in Detroit, condemned
the New York City Board of Education for barring
the union from having official dealings with the
board. resolution opposed "the denial of the
individuals right to join organizations of his own
choosing and to be represented by them"
Yet the federation in 1s41 denied members of
the New York City union the right of continuing
to exercise their choice of the federation as their
representative in labor matters. This denial took
the form OF resolution expelling the union from
membership in the federation because of "anti-
democratic practices" Prior to that the union
had been ousted from the Joint Committee of
Teachers Organizations for "sabotaging' its
legislative program. Only few months ago the
union was kicked out of the CIO, with which it
had allied itself after being bounced by the AFT.
And last month the union saved itself from being
expelled from the National Education Association
by withdrawing as expulsion plans were under
consideration
The New York City Board of Education has
had trouble with this union for years After an
investigation the board banned the union from
the school system on the ground that it was
Communist dominated. At the same time the
Dodro suspended eight members OF the union,
including its president, for their refusal to tell
the superintendent of schools whether they were
members OF the Communist Party The New
York action has been widely applauded It is
true that individuals have the right to join
organizations of their own choosing, but it does
not necessarily follow that they have the right
to be teachers. Nor is their membership in
organizations not proper subject of inquiry by
school authorities. And If teachers rights of
membership are limited, it is not inconsistent to
limit the organizations which he may choose to
represent him before the school board
Evening star., 1950-08-25
Differs With Miss Thompson

In her column Of August 81 Dorothy
Thompson speaks of herself, appropri-
ately. as being isolated in the stubborn
conviction" that the U. N. will fail.
Surely. no other state of mind than
that suggested by this phrase can ex-
plain the penning of so basically dis
torted and unreasonable an article as
her column of that day.
Miss Thompson seeks scapegoat for
the worlds troubles. Everybody blasts
the Russians, which makes original COM
ment on this score difficult But Miss
Thompson, by committing the grossest
of logical errors, extends this general
opprobrium to the United Nations, an
international agency which necessarily
has to accept basic political facts.
She writes, 1.-THE U. N. has thus been
only an arena of power politics." Ad-
mittedly these words were not in the
charter, but is not that essentially the
raison d'etre of the organizations exis-
tence? The fact that basic Communist
policy dictated that these power policies
could not be compromised makes the
open forum of the United Nations all
the more vital to those who direct our
side of the struggle.
Contrary to Miss Thompson's asser-
tion, 1t gives them chance to dramatize
the issues. It gives them opportunities
to initiate Point Fours and to displace
soap operas from television schedules.
Has not the Russian behaviour in the
U. N. made clear issues which would
otherwise have remained dim behind
Soviet silence?
AS one who has no afiliation with
any U. N. organization or any vested
interest in the issue, I feel that the
U. N. has gained immeasurably in pres
tige since the outbreak of the Korean
Evening star., 1950-08-25
Definitions Redefined

In response to the request of Frederick
L. Freeman august 14). will provide
specific answers to his five points insofar
as have knowledge of them.
1. Where does webster type" Com
munism exist?
I presume that some aboriginal So
cietieS extant in remote areas may ap-
proach Webstertype Communism. Some
Eskimo civilizations did in the past.
am unfamiliar with their present status.
2. Are there "Webster-type" Com
muniStS among the officials of the
United States Communist Party?
do not know. I am unfamiliar with
the views of these people.
3. Should not "Webster-type" Com
munists identify themselves?
1t depends on who makes the rules.
Can one distinguish Websterite from
Russophile?
1t is easily possible to distinguish. If
one relies on overt acts.
4. Did not Marx lay the groundwork
Of Communist thought?
No, Plato's Republic" antedates Marx
considerably.
Was Webster's editor New Dealer?
My opinion here would be valueless.
5. Is not "non-ownership" more ac-
curate than common ownership"
Possibly. do not think that it mat
ters much. Perhaps common usership"
would be more appropriate term, for
our lease on worldly goods is definitely
q short-term contract.
Now, If may be permitted to make
point of my own. I would like to ask
your readers to consider carefully Mr..
Freemans statement: 'I base this as
sertion not on sloppy dictionary def
nition,' but on observation of the thing
itself in action What is this thing?
Mr.. Freeman may prefer Russian spokes-
men as authority over Mr.. Webster, but
I believe most of us feel that this is
rather unorthodox. I wish to repeat my
Evening star., 1950-08-25
Mr.. K Bows Out

George r. Kennan is leaving the State
Department when his policy of containment"
"a policy based on the belief that the Russians
will move into areas that are weak and stay out
Of areas that are strong-is undergoing its
severest test.
It has been more than three years since Mr.
Kennan, signing himself Mr.. x, set forth his
containment policy in an article in Foreign
Affairs. Summarized and perhaps oversimplined
his thesis was that the Russians surely would
move into power vacuuns, and that If the United
States wished to stop the spread of Communism
1t must use its resources to strengthen countries
within the reach of Russia so that If the latter
should be tempted to move 1t would be confronted
with strength rather than weakness.
Most of the things this country has done in
recent years-Greek-T Turkish aid, the Marshall
Plan, the Atlantic pact, military aid, the defense
Of Korea etc.-have been consistent with this
policy. If one thinks of the objective of this
policy as being the prevention of war with
Russia, it is too early to say that it has been
successful The war may yet come. But it is
still In the future, and in The Stars opinion the
fact that we are not now at war with Russia Is
due in large measure to the Kennan policy and
the steps that have been taken pursuant to it.
If this policy is firmly adhered TO- If the contain
ment Of Russia proceeds with intelligence and
reasonableness, but also with determination,
there is reason to hope that war can be avoided
indefinitely. If this is not done, If we waver
or turn back If we permit weakness to invite
Russian infiltration, it will hardly be possible
to prevent war.
When one looks back over the past three
years. and especially when one thinks of the
futility of other policies that have been advo-
Gated, it cannot be doubted that Mr.. Remnants
contribution has been q very substantial one
He has earned the privilege Of leaving his post
as Counselor of the State Department for
period of study and reflection Yet The Star
would like to Join with those who hope that he
win return.