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Evening star., 1950-06-27

Even after they got the old brick side
walk repaired, nobody could walk along
it easily, because Of trees and shrubs
that looped down low.
Why are human beings so? Is it be-
cause people ride in cars today. few
walk, and they make no difference?
After the last man had gone away,
there stretched the walk, for the first
time in 20 years in state that made
walking easy.
Every time the walker came to Ger
tain places, however. he had to duck his
head or get slapped in the face by an
evergreen bough or limb of dogwood.
Sidewalks have an honorable lineage.
They come to us down through the
ages. either from footpath or a cow
path.
The former was made in the woods
by man. the latter by mans faithful
ally.
Even today every walker delights in
paths.
There are some excellent and inter-
esting ones in Rock Creek Park and in
the grounds Of the National Geological
Park.
The latter title. while correct. is too.
too much, as the ads say. Just Zoo"
is enough around here. Everybody knows
what you mean.
Walking along q path, even q tow
path. instantly takes one back million
Evening star., 1950-06-27
PUG Ieniency'

Regarding your editorial. 1.-THE Court
Went Too Far" in The Star of June IA,
it is quite likely that many District gas
users shared the judges opinion that the
Public Utilities Commission Is more
inclined to favor the gas company than
the public.
Last Christmas, the gas company in
serted full page Christmas greeting
card to the public or its customers in
the Washington papers, meaningless
gesture which made some patrons Of
the company feel it was unduly extrava-
CANT. One time my gas bill for cooking
was only 40 cents a month, and when it
increased to IS cents month didn't
mind. But when it was subsequently in
creased to a minimum of a dollar a
month, for the little use for cooking,
felt the PUG was unreasonably liberal
In granting the increase.
How is it that the PUG does not require
the Washington, Marlboro and Annapolis
Bus Company to give free transfers to pa
Evening star., 1950-06-27
DueIing Dud

Ladies who stand up in buses, glarlng at
seated gentlemen, have often been heard to COM
plain that the age of chivalry is dead The debate
as to who killed it still RACES The men have held
that it is the women who have administered the
coup de grace to knightly practices, and an AsSo-
ciated Press dispatch from Argentina rather
holsters their stand. For the dispatch tells how
two Argentinian congressman, having fallen out
over politics, took to the field of honor, pistols
in hand, only to be stayed from satisfaction by
a mother who shooed them away on the grounds
that her children were sick
The scene can be imagined. 1t is dawn, or
perhaps shortly thereafter NostrilS aquiver, eyes
blazing, the lawmakers stride onto the green.
The seconds begin to pace off the distance be-
tween them. But what is this. Caramba A woman
appears shouting, waving her apron as at cows.
They must go, she says. Her children are i'll.
Mumps. But, they explain, it is matter of honor,
Sonora. Vengeance must be taken. Vengeance,
bah! she retorts. If those shots wake my children
they have not slept for nights shall be
avenged The dueliStS look at each other and
shrug. Women-what can you do? The ruff1ed
mother stalks off, muttering of the eternal fool
ishness of males who cannot settle their political
squabbles in the Congress. Now, if it had been an
affair of the heart, one might understand. But
some silly bill. -.
The Associated Press goes on to say that the
two duelists-and it is easy to imagine how fool
ash they felt-picked up their pistols and skunk
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Speeding Buses

The traffic accident at Twentieth and
K streets again focuses attention on the
reckless and excessive speed of buses,
and less frequently of street cars, which
seems to be completely ignored by our
local police.
Our laws should not allow such pom
derous vehicles as buses and street cars
to be driven through our streets by
'fledgling" operators, who seem to lack
both the judgment and the self-control
which are indispensable to safe driving,
Some one has aptly called the prevalent
recklessness "slam-bang" driving, and
it is q fitting term. The operators, many
of them, might as well be robots, for all
the consideration they manifest for the
comfort, convenience and safety of their
passengers. Probably the fault lies part
ly with the Company's system. which
puts the schedule above everything else
in the mind of the operator and causes
him to indulge in excessive speed.
In all my years of riding local buses
and street cars, only once have wit
messed the halting of vehicle by
policeman on account of excessive
speed, although there is constant need
for such check-up. The almost chronic
red-light running by these vehicles also
should be checked, and proper fines i'm
posed.
Vera E. Adams.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
BY Charles {. TroceweN
West Reading. Pa.

1t is only since the days Of concrete
and cement that brick sidewalks have
become usable II laid on bed Of con-
crete. with more of the mixture brushed
in, they became At even for the feet Of
the ladies.
In time the gray look will wear of.
and there will be nice level walk, with
no cracks to catch heels. and yet re-
tanning the rich look Of the brick side
walk.
Even In the days of fancy fat cars.
when almost every one rides, there are
still some obdurate souls who insist on
walking.
It is better for their state Of health.
they declare, and also gives them more
time to be observing.
A man In a car rushes in and rushes
out, and sees little of his own neighbor-
hood or any other.
1t is his loss,
The habit Of not missing anything in
life, as one goes along, received severe
jolt on the invention of the motor car.
One cannot see well at 80 miles an hour.
The very desire to see is lost, to a GER
tain extent; 1t is one Of the penalties we
pay for the motor age.
Those who walk insist that sidewalk
should be free from small sticks and
stones. They ask that overhanging
branches and boughs be cut back for
free walking. 1t Ia not too much TO ask.
Evening star., 1950-06-27

of to new field of honor. With the heart COM
pletely gone out of the meeting, they both fired
a shot in the air and went home
One can never take exception to the mater
nal instinct Everybody will agree that the Argen-
tinian mother did entirely the right thing. STILL
such an attitude is distinct damper on the
ancient form of seeking satisfaction Probably the
decline of chivalry began way back in the 14th
century when tender-hearted ladies with no
particular penchant for widowhood began rush
ing down from the stands just as the jousting
was getting under way to ask If maybe the oppos-
ing knights couldn't just talk it over.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
By Hal Boyle


rs THIS the start Of Third World
L War?
That is the question that touches most
American hearts today. 1t is being
asked again and again, as news pours
in Of the fighting in far Korea, the IRE
land of the Orient"
believe the answer is: mol" be-
lieve that the answer would still be the
same even though the United States
dispatched troops, ships and planes to
back up the cease-fire decree Of the
United Nations.
Why? My conviction is that Soviet
Russia isn't yet ready to plunge the globe
into another international conflict.
She stretches across 1000 vulnerable
miles that aren't ready for war. Both
her frontiers and her wide open heart
land are unprepared for war-if we can
believe what our military authorities say
about her.
Let her own RuSSian-trained forces
in Korea sweep through the opposition.
as they have been doing. Or let them
fail. Soviet Russia isn't yet ready to
tie her own dreams of world conquest
to the Northern Korean troops.
She yet expects to take Korea by the
inaction Of the Western world.
Again why? Because at present the
Soviet military and political aim is to
try to take the countries on its vast
borders by their own interior revolutions.
Greece yesterday. Korea today. South
east Asia tomorrow. And where the
day after tomorrow? Wherever poverty
and interior political disaffection makes
country ripe for picking.
Russia backed down in Greece, is
graphing in sudden bold grab for
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Propaganda in the Courts

Judith Coplons latest effort to have the
courts set aside her conviction on spying charges
has aroused the ire of the man who prosecuted
her, John M. Kelley, jr, special assistant to the
Attorney General.
Miss CoplonS latest effort is based on the
claim that FBI agents tapped her telephone.
Mr.. Kelley said that none of the evidence OBJ
tanned from the taps had been used at the trials,
and that two juries had found the former Justice
Department worker to be traitor to this coun-
try. Then he added: "It is high time to put an
end to the practice of using our Federal courts
as sounding boards to create headlines for the
Daily Worker and propaganda used by the Sow
cts to undermine this Nations position abroad"
It is easy to sympathize with Mr.. Kelley's
evaporation. But it is hard to see how the
courts can be closed to appeals from Miss Cop
lon or any one else. It would be easier, and, in
this newspapers opinion, much more sensible
to enact legislation which would permit the FBI,
subject to appropriate supervision, to tap the
telephones of suspected spies, and use the evi-
dence so obtained in the Federal courts
Much of the opposition to legalized wire
tapping is either dishonest or sentimental non
sense 1t would not lead to the indiscriminate
tapping of the telephones of innocent people.
BY obtaining warrant, the FBI today can search
a suspects home and use against him any evi-
dence found in that search. There is no sub
stantial difference between this and the tapping
of a wire, subject to restraints comparable to
those imposed by the search-warrant require
ment AS long as we refuse to permit this, we
are simply making it easier for enemy agents
and harder for our own counterespionage forces.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Cornerstone OF Justice

This will be memorable day in local court
annals. The laying of the cornerstone OF the
new District Courthouse signifies the approach
ing end of an era of handicapped justice The
new court building which will rise over the cor
nerstone should bring to Washington a more
businesslike administration OF justice IN sur
roundings commensurate with the Importance
and dignity of the courts. The overcroWded,
outmoded facilities of the past have made 1t
difficult for BENCH bar, jurymen and witnesses
to perform their roles efficiently. That justice
suffered at times was inevitable.
There have been numerous occasions, for
example, when prospective jurors nave had 10
wait in public corridors for lack of adequate
jury rooms; when witnesses before the courts
or the grand jury have been similarly incon-
venenced, and when jury deliberations could be
heard by persons outside the jury room. Such
conditions have been denounced by judges, law
yers and laymen alike-and by a number OF
congressional and other inspection groups. Chief
Judge Laws of the District Court has been par
ticularly outspoken-and much credit is due him
and his associates for the successful outcome OF
the long campaign to get new building.
The imposing building which is to be built
between and Third streets and John Marshall
place and Pennsylvania avenue will provide
proper home for the machinery of justice. With
its seven stories and basement, it will be among
the larger courthouses of the Nation. 1t will
house both the District Court and the Court of
Appeals. In addition to courtroomS there will
be judges chambers, comfortable jury rooms,
plenty of witnesses rooms, grand jury rooms,
lawyers consultation rooms, cells, law library
and, of course, pressroom. The planners prop
erly have kept in mind the desirabilty of meeting
not only the needs of the judges and court staff
but those of the general public, too That is an
important consideration for the courts cannot
function effectively without the support, respect
and good will of the public. The new court
house will help the local courts to maintain their
rightful prestige.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Opposes Ruciol lnteqrution

The security of this Nation depends on
the fighting strength Of the armed forces
and the fighting strength of the armed
forces depends on the morale of its OFF,
GERS and men. To reverse our established
policy Of 100 years standing and force
the military integration of white and
Negro troops is course of action which
certainly will create resentment, if not
open dissension, among vast numbers of
our Army, Navy and Air Force personnel.
And not all of them are from the South.
According to the newspapers, Secretary
of Defense johnson recently stated that
integration of whites and Negroes was
going to proceed despite the "mumblings
and grumblings" from the military.
Hardly the proper kind of atmosphere in
which to secure our national boundaries!
Reader.
Evening star., 1950-06-27

ing Of the Bible and the recitation of
Our Father" have since learned from
Central student that the King James
Protestant) version and the Protestant
rendition of Our Father" were given at
the assembly; also that this was done at
all Of Centrals assemblies.
think that this is dangerous, prece-
dent. I am surprised that members of
the organization known as "ProtestantS
and Others For Separation of Church
and State" has allowed this situation to
exist. especially in the same city that
their main Office is located.
1t seems strange that such a situation,
whereby the Protestant religion is fos-
tered by the public school system as
against the religions of Jews, Catholics
and others. should be allowed to exist.
But, as Dorothy Thompson has said
this is Protestant country" I used
to believe that all persons in this coun-
try were given the same benefits and op-
portunitieS. Now that am old enough,
can see that the public schools are really
Protestant parochial schools with the
Protestant Bible and "Our Father" i'm
portant parts of the compulsory assembly
programs An ingenious method Of in
doctrination.
b. M. LangfOrd.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Bad Manners on the Rood

can remember just prior to the war
there were stringent laws prohibiting
unnecessary horn blowing, and no ex-
cuse at all was accepted after midnight.
Passing on the right of another vehicle
was strictly against the law. Now it is
an everyday occurrence for some dizzy
motorist to dash madly along the right
side with blast Of his horn in robust
accompaniment. One very often receives
a very obnoxious remark from the Of
fender as he breezes by.
Bus Operator.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Dirge for One Living

Light the t0H candies
At her feet and head:
Bring sCdreH Yosebnds
For sDdreR dead.
You soho neper plHcked !
A toGysids pimpeynel
To bring her Huin0.
Toll hoiloto bell.
You tDho neper Udlked
A block from your tDdy
To see her living.
Mourn her and pray.
We do not need to
ProDe our grief 90:
We tpiu remember
And she DiIl knofp.
DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Moral
B. M. LangfOrd.

1t is to be hoped that the students OF
Central High School who recently felt
the pains of becoming orphaned from
their alma mater, are able to see what
the truer and deeper tragedy is. It is the
false premise that supports the condi-
tions that make color the determining
factor as to who shall use, and who shall
not use the school.
AS schools. are the property of the
whole community. so they ought to be
available to all in the community.
Ex-Centralites. particularly the young
ones, in order that others may not suffer
their hurt, should take a strong, silent
resolve to strike down racial discrimina-
tion In all its falsity and foulness where
ever they find it,
]. w. Haywood, r.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Pruise for the High Folk

Those Of us with children between the
ages Of two and five found this past milk
strike exceedingly difficult, especially
with youngsters who love milk.
My heartfelt thanks go to the High
Stores for the splendid effort they made
to take care of this situation and for
the efficiency and courtesy they displayed
in their dispensing of milk at the plant
ID. G. Mother.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Thunks for Tuximun

Please insert this brief but grateful
message of renewed thanks to the taxi
operator who did not pass by. but stopped
instantly to put out the fire in my auto
mobile last Saturday night on the Geor-
gia avenue route near Rockville. Also to
others who came to assist, all Of which
proves there are many who consider and
act when danger threatens in our higher
and advancing society.
F. X. Gindhart.
West Reading. Pa.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Is Russia Ready to Fight Over Koreo2

The author of this article has been
1riting a personalized column for the
Associated Press since the days iChen
he serUed as 1Dar correspondent NTH
American troops in North Africa. He
expresses here a sort of average mans
pieD" OF the meaning of the Korean
explosion.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Church and .Stote

read letter sent to your column by
Central Teacher" and it was very NOV
ing indeed. There was an interesting
thing about the letter, apart from Gen.
trails plight. This concerned the read
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer 70
any any, question @ Q; fact by either ,yTisins Tho
NV. Washington s. D. e.. and inciosing esnts
return postage or By telephoning ST. 5000,
Extension 358.
Evening star., 1950-06-27

Korea, hasn't yet made its main bid for
Southeast Asia.
Why doesn't this mean war right now?
For a deep. and basic reason inherent to
Russia's approach to its own predica-
ment.
In Russia's very strength-its great,
sprawling, contiguous reach of land-lies
its great weakness. 1t can be hit from
many angles, and to keep itself from
being approached it has endeavored to
surround itself with buffer extensions of
itself.
Whether or not it really accepts these
satellite states into the pattern of it's
being, its leaders are trying frantically
to protect the main body of Russia from
possible enemy blows.
Russia lost the first battle for Berlin
Evening star., 1950-06-27

Wnen ltS attempt TO Starve the German
population was countered by the great
Allied airlift. which few in food. fuel
and medicine.
That was a substitute for direct force
and it worked. The Russian propa-
ganda failed. The Allies delivered.
1t is my conviction that even stronger
measures can be taken in Korea thar
were employed in Greece-if the Allied
command decides it is worth the gamble
= Russia is still barking in Korea-just
another test of her pressure-and isn't
ready to bite. She'll stil stand for her
bluff being called. And I'd call Joe
Stain now. just as Adolf Hitler should
have been called when he marched into
the Rhineiand.
Remember?
ASSOCIATED Press)
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Crime Exploitation

Crime Exploitation
have just read LIPS letter deploring
the harm and influence to the child
mind resulting from the publication of
crime comic" strips. am certain that
every thoughtful person is of the same
opinion as L. P, and that they will also
agree the inexperienced mind usually
will not accept the fact that what hap
pens to others can also happen to them.
That type of mind justifies it's convic-
ton by labelling those who have been
caught" as suckers or stupid The in
experienced youthful mind has a pro-
pensity for believing that it is different.
smarter, cleverer than those who were
caught. ~rg~~~.. ese
Never was there more false state
ment than, Crime does not pay" Crime
does pay. 1t pays enormous returns and
profits to those who exploit it. Every
where one turns. one has crime forced
down ones throat. The radio, movies,
television and every other means of
dissemination are exploited and utilized
to propagandize the rack-brained in
vincibility and unbelievable cleverness
OF women-crazed private detectives, who
in real life wouldn't have enough sense
to get in out of the rain. Very little
credit. if any, is ever given to those hard
working men who form the only real life
bulwark between us and criminal depre-
dations, the police.
It would be wise for those in positions
OF influence to remember that all of the
aforementioned means of propaganda
dissemination could be made construc-
five inCtnaH nf doSfr1r0fiua a.,
difficult to sell democracy to world who
looks upon us as the home of crime.
Geo. d. Powell
Evening star., 1950-06-27

@. Do plants grow only in the dark
J.C. w.
A. The manufacture Of various chem
icals by the plants occurs when the sun
shines and the plants grow whenever the
sunshine falls Of. Probably. they grow
in the dark. using the chemicals which
have been made by the sunlight. Ver-
tical growth practically stops when the
sun shines brightly.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
Letters to The Star

irons boarding at Fairfax Village who
wish to transfer at Barney Circle to
Capital Transit Company street cars or
buses? The commission wrote me the
Maryland bus company issues free trans
fers only on buses from the Village to the
Circle running on 40 minute headway.
Who will wait that long for bus when
the Maryland bus company's other buses
run on more frequent headway? It
costs me so cents to go to Fairfax VII
lage and return from Columbia road
and Eighteenth street, NV, if I'm too
impatient to wait more than half an
hour for free-transfer bus, while two
or three other buses of the same line go
to Barney Circle on the way to Penn
sylvania and Eleventh street NV.
Lewis L. Young.
Evening star., 1950-06-27

@. At what rate does the population
Of the world increase?-H. J. o.
A. Between 1850 and 1850 the rate Of
growth Of world population was 029 per
cent year. From 1850 to 1900 1t ives
0.44 per cent. In the most recent period
the rate Of increase has been OTIS per
cent. q rate that would double the popu-
lation every 90 years.
Evening star., 1950-06-27
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Were dogs used in the first World
War?-A: G. B.
A. During the First World War dogs
were trained as sentr1es. messengers,
scouts, and ambulance dogs. They
searched the battlefields for the wounded
and missing. carrying TASKS Of brandy or
soup and rolls Of bandages.
Evening star., 1950-06-27

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and address of toriter. Please be brief.
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PAGE FOUR
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Shopping Habits
1f Women Told

Homemakers may not realize it,
5ut their shopping habits have
2 h an 6 ed radically, especially
within the last ten years.
According to a recently COM
pleted survey of housewives con-
Quoted by university research ex-
perts, most women now shop
for groceries only once a week,
and their favorite day is Fri
day. This is due largely to two
factors: the prevalence in both
small and large communities of
sthe supermarket, which stocks
all foods in one location, making
it unnecessary to shop from store
to store, and the influence of
foods advertising in papers to-
ward the end of the week.
But the Friday preference is
still mostly habit, and store man
ayers are willing to change all
that. They have been urging for
years that women avoid the
crush of weekend shopping and
market at the beginning of the
week instead. Any day now is
a good day on which to buy food,
since the automatic refrigerator