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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

new bill has been rushed through the Assembly.
Perhaps the most serious aspect of the out
look is that the action of the French Communist
leadership seems to be part of general pattern
dictated from Moscow. The Italian Communists
threaten similar action when American military
supplies reach there, while the Dutch and
Belgian parliaments have just witnessed demon
STATIONS by their small yet vociferous Com
munist delegations toward the same end.
The precise aim of these Communist actions
is not yet clear. 1t may be doubted that even
in France they would precipitate an about
struggle at this time. But they might hope to
play upon the growing popular apprehension
OF third world war and longing for neutrality.
Anything that would dramatic the war danger,
weaken the government, and disturb economic
life would be grist for the Red mill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
By Herman w. Steinkrous

THARGES have been widely circulated
~ that the Hoover Commission pro-
gram would deprive war veterans of
benefits, dismember the Veterans Ad-
ministration, and take hospital beds
away from disabled veterans or even
send them to prison hospitals.
These charges are erroneous.
In all fairness to the veterans and
to the country, we must recognize the
fact that the Government has an OBJ
legation to treat the veterans right. But
the Government also has an obligation
to spend the taxpayers money wisely
and not waste it by inefficient methods,
which weaken the financial strength OF
the Nation and do veterans no good.
The Hoover Commission made the
most thorough study of Government OPP
erations that we have seen In our life
times. Government departments have
grown so complicated. and are still
growing SO rapidly that, If this effort
to increase administrative efficiency fails,
there probably will not be another
chance like it again. In q few more
years, Government will be 50 big and
so complicated that it will ruin our fu-
ture. We must not let this happen.
The sections of the Hoover Report
dealing with veterans are vitality i'm
portant to the reorganization program.
If they are rejected. the whole project
will be severely set back.
The Hoover Report does not recon-
mend cutting out single one of vet
Grams benefits. If the veteran will read
exactly what the Hoover Commission
did propose and why, he will see for
himself that these proposals do not take
anything away from him or any other
veteran. am convinced that when he
understands these Commission proposals,
he will support them and help to put an
end to any false statements which he
hears about them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
ChurchiiIion Christmas Cards

1t is pleasant to think of Winston Churchill
as greeting-card artist. The thought that his
work will be reproduced on millions of Christmas
cards next year brings him much closer to home,
makes him seem less redoubtable. What his
advent to their ranks has meant to greeting-card
artist circles can only be imagined. They are
probably overcome with the same thrill of pride
that swept the walkers of the world when they
discovered that President Truman was one of
them.
The arrangement whereby there can be
Churchill under every Christmas tree is an in
stance of AngloAmerican relations operating
with silken smoothness. 1t is possible to think
that the Hallmark people who bought eighteen
of Mr.. Churchills canvases tactfully timed their
purchase with the British election, so that no
matter what the fate of Churchill the party
leader, Churchill the painter would be insured of
the greatest possible popular success AS it
turned out, of course, this delicate consideration
was just barely necessary. At any rate we have
art and technology going hand in hand Ameri-
can mass production throbbing away to produce
the best for the most
The only flaw in this amiable business,
according to some onlookers, was the failure of
the firm to contract with the eloquent Mr..
Churchill for the Yuletide sentiments as we'll
They feel that any one babe be merry by that
great master Of living English prose would
hardly dare to do otherwise and probably cele-
brate clear through to Easter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

The music hall parodies have been
legion. Here again, oddly enough, some
have remained in the repertoire.
The true heart of this music, however,
stays with the work of such men as King
and his imitators
Fortunately, today there are many
hundreds of excellent Hawaiian tunes on
records, mostly played and sung by
natives of the islands. The old Decca
blue 35-cent records contained scores,
and probably many of them still can be
found.
The writer here has some 300 Hawaiian
records, total of 600 tunes, ranging
from the fast and slow hulas to the over
built-up and over-decorated attempts by
some jazz musicians.
The heart of the matter is the simple
theme.
One Hawaiian theme is made with just
two hottest
Beethoven himself might have envied
this economy.
If one tries to whistle such theme
it may seem inadequate.
Sung properly by the voices of the
islanders, it instantly takes on something
reaching into the very heart of people.
Slightly varied from verse to verse.
the simple theme sings it's way into ones
heart. That is the way with such
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
Hey, Cub, Look This Way

Not much remains to be said of the Judith
Coplon-Valentin Gubitchev conviction for at
tempted espionage. Federal Judge Sylvester
Ryan summed it all up when he commended the
jurors for conscientious performance and told
them their guilty verdict was justified by the
evidence.
Miss Coplon, who first had been convicted
individually in Washington, now stands doubly
branded as betrayer of her country. She is an
intelligent, well educated young woman. She
was trusted employe of the Department of
Justice, holding responsible position. Yet she
chose to betray her trust and her country Curl
ously enough, she seems little troubled by what
she has done. And that, perhaps, furnishes a
key to the deficiencies of character which some
times lead person into the path of betrayal.
With her co-conSpirator, the case is some
what different. Gubtchev was an agent of the
Soviet government, though serving at the time
on the staff of the United Nations. His duty, as
he undoubtedly saw it, was to spy for the Rus
slams If opportunity offered
Gubitchev was entitled to nothing more than
fair trial. And he got it, in notable contrast
to what he could have expected, with the tables
reversed, in his country It is idle to suppose
that this experience with American justice will
have any favorable influence on Gubitchev or
his compatriots. If anything, they probably think
we are little soft in the head.
Still, the record is there for all to see-the
evidence to support the charge, the balanced
rulings of the judge, the impartial deliberations
of the jury. At the end, as Gubitchev was being
led, handcuffed, into the patrol wagon, there also
were the photographers, shouting: "Hey, Gubi,
look this way"
Even the poker-faced Kremlin man could
not quite smother smile at this. When the law
has finished with him and he returns to Russia,
this may be the memory of the American scene
that will live longest with him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
The GAO and the Hoover Commission

From the tenor of Controller General War
ren's testimony before the Senate Committee
on Expenditures in the Executive Departments,
one might think that the Hoover Commission
had recommended adjustment of the General
Accounting Office. Mr.. Warren told the COM
mittee that the GAO stands today as the last
great bulWark for the protection of the American
taxpayer against the illegal and erroneous ex-
penditure of the public substance" He asked the
group for a ringing Endorsement" of the GAGS
work.
The controller general and the GAO deserve
the Endorsement of the committee and of the
public at large for the fine job they have done
over period of years in guarding the Treasury
against waste and fraud. Every believer in
better government wants the good work to go on.
The Hoover Commission made it plain that it
wants this watchdog agency to continue to
function as it always has functioned-as an
Independent office acting as the representative
OF Congress in Scrutinizing Federal expenditures
In the course of this scrutiny, Mr. Warren
testified, the GAO has recovered for the Treasury
$3.50 million which would have been spent by
the executive departments irregularly Illegally
or enormously. That is ample justification for
the existence of the GAO. 1t is also justification
for the assertion of the Hoover Commission that
executive accounting procedures responsible for
these irregularities and errors are in need of
drastic overhaul. The theory underlying the
Hoover proposal for a modernized accounting
system under a central co-ordinator in the
Treasury was that it is better to prevent the ir-
regularities and mistakes before they occur than
to try to correct them after they have done their
damage. That might mean less work for the
GAO, but the controller general should not
object to that happy development.
Mr.
for reorganization of executive accounting
methods. He has made good Roadway in i'm
proving conditions through an interdepartmental
committee of voluntary nature. The Hoover
Commission thinks that legislative compulsion
would accomplish even more 1t is too bad that
MIR. Warren and Mr.. Hoover are not working
together to effect permanent Improvement of
the system, for both of them are agreed that
there is a lot of room for improvement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

unlimited service and pay $475 a month
will be charged 1907 per cent increase.
Business lines will be charged an even
lower percentage. Yet, five or six people
may be using the private line and the
business phone may be used extensively
day and night.
In my case, I alone will pay S4.25 plus
81 cents tax, making total of S489. For
this charge am permitted to make so
calls, which means will be paying at the
rate of almost 10 cents per call. True,
1 realize that I have the service of re-
ceiving incoming calls, but these are
paid by the caller at the rate of 5 cents
to 10 cents.
The public should consider the in
equalities and injustice in the fiat So
cent increase that the Chesapeake and
fotomac Telephone Company Is about
to levy. MERE TATE,
Youth and New Deal Philosophy
American youths. Is years of age or
under, know very little of the fundamen-
tai principles of Americas democracy.
For more than Is years they have read
and heard little except the New Deal
philosophy, called liberal democracy. 1t
has been presented to them as the social
and industrial order of America, yet wit
ness the lack of faith in the people it
would lead
Today, American youths are beginning
to lose confidence in the sincerity of this
philosophy. They are doubling whether
those who lead really believe what they
preach. Impelled by their fears and
deeply dissatisfied with things as they
are, American youths, future men and
women OF tomorrow, may reject dernoc-
racy as presented to them by the New
Deal And in so doing. they may imbibe
the totalitarism that they seek to escape.
NISH SHOWERS.
Critic of Columnist Stokes Accuses
Star of Printing Fair Deal Propaganda
In your issue of Friday, March 3,
the article by Thomas L. Stokes is GER
talnly political Fair Deal propaganda,
and should be labeled Political Ad-
vertisement." I do not know Senator
Mccarthy but I feel that the American
public is indebted to him for instigating
the investigation of the State Depart
ment. have felt for the past four years
that the State Department should be
AA1FCoolSd1CO, especially Lllc HdSSpOIG
Division.
A columnist can best serve his coun-
try by writing the truth. and he should
feel it sacred duty to thew to the line
and let the chips fall where they may"
We are now at the cross roads-the
turning point in our history. The COM
ing year may decide whether we are to
continue to be free people, as free
dom exists only where the people take
care of the Government-not where the
Government takes care of the people.
have been a constant reader of your
paper since February, 1888, and I be-
lieve you should endeavor to give your
readers an independent press, indie
pendent of political or Government
coercion. He who keeps back the truth
or withholds it from men, is either a
coward. criminal or both. "Ye shall
know the Truth and the Truth shall
make you free" John 8, 32d Chapter.
PEARL w. NORMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
The Ayes Have 1t

No question presented to the Board of Educa-
ton in recent years has caused so much contro
versy as the proposal to transfer Central High
School to the colored divisions.
Now that the question has been answered
in the affirmative by a vote of 5-to-2 several
things are to be borne in mind. One is that the
fundamental question was the relief OF disgrace
full overcrowding at the Cardozo High School and
the most practical method of achieving it. The
purely statistical evidence in the relative facilities
available to white and colored high school
students, supported the transfer of Central The
basic difference resolved itself into a matter of
opinion as to the long-range interests of the
school system The four white members who
voted were divided equally on this question, with
the three colored members voting together and
swinging the balance.
AS far as the long-range interests of the
schools are concerned, no one can say now
whether the decision was wise or unwise. For
that must be determined by the future. AS for
the immediate effect of the decision, it will end
for many years to come the acute conditions of
overcrowding in the colored high schools it will
doubtless eliminate two and maybe more plans
for new high school buildings and perhaps affect
plans for junior high schools. And it will do
this without burdening the capacity of the white
schools.
The question has been decided fairly, with
members voting their convictions after long and
careful study. That being the case, the answer
should be accepted as final thus ending the long
and sometimes heated debate which preceded
the decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

Assuming that unihcation was intended to
bring about better understanding and closer
teamwork at the Pentagon, a strange sort of
unification was involved in the handling there
OF the controversial medical services economy
drive. Unidcation would seem to imply Joint
consideration of problems, with top-level de-
ciSions reached only after full consultation with
the services affected 1t is hard to reconcile this
concept of defense unity with the way the recent
hospital-cutback order was issued
According to testimony given to a House
Armed Services Subcommittee, the order closing
five military hospitals was promulgated by De-
tense Secretary Johnson without consulting
the surgeons general of the Army, Navy and Air
Force or Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, chief of
the JOINT Plans and Action Division Office of
Medical Services, Defense Department. If there
were joint planning and action in this matter
1t seems to have occurred wholly within the office
of the Secretary of Defense. It is undoubtedly
true that DR.. Richard L. Melting the Defense
Departments civilian director of medical services
already was aware of the views of Admiral Boone
and of the surgeons general in opposition to the
proposed cutback. But ordinary courtesy, to saw
nothing of the cause of good service relations.
would have justified more considerate treatment
OF these key officers in a matter so vitality con-
corning their services.
There is no question about the right of the
Defense Secretary to remove members of his
staff who are not in sympathy with his policies.
Admiral Boone has been attached to the Secre-
tarys office and if Mr. johnson does not want
him there the admiral should be replaced-and
will be. Coming so close in the wake of the
Denfeld custer, however, the unfortunate effect
will be to create a yes-man psychology at the
Pentagon that is not good for national defense.
The surgeons general who like Admiral Boone,
opposed the hospital-closing plan, are probably
wondering when the will fall on them too
AS for the merit or lack thereof of the hos
pital economy program, the House subcommittee
can render public service by airing the whole
controversy. Any economy plan which is so
strongly opposed by the services involved-as the
hospital cutback appears to be-should be scruti-
nized most carefully. Certainly the testimony
indicating that new veterans hospitals are
planned in areas where military hospitals are
being shut down calls for further explanation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
March Is A Boy

Boys are boisterouS;
They can't be quiet.
They 1Dere made to be tough
And rough IN, their play.
Their feet are heaDy;
They break things easily,
They Just can't help it.
They auere made that pay.
March is a boy
And one of the aUildest.
He takes things and breaks things
And shakes things like q pup.
He's ruined nsy hair,
My hat and my temper.
/ k'oU he can't help it,
But aUisF he'd orotu api
ALICE HARTICH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Is iodine needed in the diet for
anything besides prevention of goiter?-
E. c. j.
A. Small but steady quantities of 10
dine are needed by the body for normal
growth and development, healthy skin
and hair, alert mentality and physical
vigor as well as for preventing goiter.
The simplest, most practical and least
expensive way to make sure that all
people, especially growing children, have
the iodine they need is the use of iodized
salt. Vegetables and fruits grown on
iodine-rich soil, seafoods and some
drinking water contain iodine.
@. Is distilled water absolutely pure2
B. 0. E.
A. There is no such thing as really
pure water. Distilled water, according to
the Pharmacopoeia, may contain 10 parts
per million or about one-half grain per
gallon of dissolved solids.
@. How many children of George III
of England died without issue?-H. D. H.
A. King George III was the father of
is children, 8 of whom were boys. Ten
died without issue. One of his sons sue
ceeded to the throne as George " and
another as William w.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

setting up board and operating the
hospitals jointly.
Each OF those agencies now operates
its own nationwide system of hospitals
In some large cities there are hospitals
operated by all four agencies. A veter-
ans hospital may be overcrowded, short
OF doctors and nurses. while half a mile
away. an Army hospital may have hun
dreds of empty beds and dozens of idle
doctors. Yet under the present system,
q veteran cannot be moved to an Army
hospital bed. He has to wait for va
cancy in some VA hospital or 60 to some
other city where VA hospital space is
available.
The right Of veterans to disqualification
Is fixed by law and would in no way be
1nterfered with by adoption Of the Hoover
recommendations. There would be plenty
OF beds to go around, If the hospitals
were merged. In fact, there would be a
lot more spare beds than there are now
In many hospitals.
With the Hoover recommendations in
eject, the veteran would continue to
deal with the VA as always.
AS to the misconception that veterans
might be put into beds alongside Grim
1nals, this Is most emphatically not the
case. The Hoover Report on Federal
medical services specifically says that
hospitals run by the Bureau of Prisons
and the Indian Affairs Bureau should be
Kept out OF the United Medical Admins
tration and continued as they are.
When the VA was first established in
1921 under the name of the Veterans
Bureau. there were only 100000 vet
Grams in the United States. Now there
are 10 million. It makes sense, therefore,
that the best and latest methods are
needed to handle all those veterans
affairs.
We must remember that there are
only so million income-tax payers in
the United States, and nearly all the
19 million veterans are taxpayers, too.
Veterans and non-veterans alike have a
real reason for wanting better, more
economical, more efficient government.
tNorth American Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

That phase Of the Hoover recon-
mendations which seems to have occa-
stoned most misunderstanding relates to
the proposal to combine the Federal hos
pital systems.
The Commission said that hospitals
operated in this country by the Veterans
Administration, the Army the Navy and
the Public Health Service should all be
merged into one Federal hospital system,
to be called the United Medical Admins
tration. This would be a partnership
arrangement. with the four agencies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
Why Government Workers
Grow Old in the Service

Joseph Young's recent article on why
more Government workers don't retire
before reaching the official retirement
age hit the nail on the head. The bene-
fits simply are not enough to live on If
Congress would do little investigating
1t would be surprised at the thousands
trying to keep body and soul together
on 81 200 and less a year.
Out of this pittance you pay income
tax. sales tax. District or State tax and
df you own a few insignificant trinkets
paid for 40 or SO years ago. personal
property tax. There also are such items
as insurance and disqualification.
AS you grow older there are more visits
to doctors and dentists. You can take
your choice of eating with regularity or
receiving medical attention.
AS for the future, you have nothing
but hall room in a cheap boarding
house, if they will take you, or you can
live off your relatives land how they
love IT'D.
Would you retire before you reach
the stage of collapse under these cir
cumStances?
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE.
Argues Against Allowing Arabs
To Buy Arms in America
In letter which appeared in The Star
on February "a upholding the right of
Arabs to buy arms in the United States,
Nagene Campbell Bethune accused Rep
resentative Javits and Israel SYM
pathizers in this country of being both
unfair and Short-Sighted in urging that
an end be put to delivery of arms to any
Arab country and declared their position
unreasonable in that it ignores the
known facts
Miss Bethune states, as a purported
known fact: Instead of acting as a
buffer against it, Israel has been hot
bed of communism. 1t should not be
forgotten that a majority of her people
came from Eastern Europe. the home of
communism" 1t would seem that Miss
Bethune has forgotten that. until the up
heavals and dislocations of modern
times, Eastern Europe was the strong
hold of Orthodox Jewry; that Eastern
Europe, the home of communism, was
also the home of the pogroms; that 1t
was on this soil and in this atmosphere
that Zionism was born. She has for
gotten that the sole reason for which the
state of Israel came into being was to
provide place where Jews would be
freely admitted, home where they
could live freely and proudly as Jews.
She has forgotten that to be Jewish
means more than nationality or non
Aryanism; that it means, among other
things, a way of life as incompatible
with communism as is Christianity.
Miss Bethune goes on to say of the
people of Israel: "They not only feel
kindly toward communism, but many of
them have led Communist life in the
Kibbutz since their coming to Palestine"
If the inference here is that the KibbutZ
represents collectivization of farms after
the Soviet pattern. the statement is
based on less than known facts. True
the Kibbutzim are collective agricultural
settlements, but ownership does not rest
in the state. operations are not directed
by the state, and production is not ap-
propriated by the state. The members
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
The Veteran and the Hoover Report

The writer president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, is q veteran Of World
War. and was awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross for gallantry in battle. A mem
Foreign Wars. he was national commander Of
the Army and Navy Of