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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Home Town Said He'd Go q Iona Wov
By WiIIiom A. MiIIen

WORLD travellers seldom agree on
w favorite spot, one that meets GER
tain utopian specifications. Some prefer
Paris in the spring. or any other time.
Others find what they seek in yet I'M
spoiled South Sea islands. All of the
top brands of paradise have been
sampled by DR.. Maynard Owen Williams,
a -than-average traveller who has
averaged $4,000 miles year for more
than quarter of century. And of
them all, he'll take Russian Turkestan
as it was, of course, before the Soviet
took it.
He remembers this stored land and
its queen cities of Samarkand and
Bokhara as something of a cultural
preserve, unchanged from medieval
times. This was in 1917, before the
Red revolution. Tmkestans costumes
were dazzling, much gold brocade and
purple and plumage. It's rugs were
magnificent, its tapestries rich-like you
see in the National Geographic. And
why not?
Dr.. Williams does his travelling for
the National Geographic Society as chief
OF its foreign editorial staff He likes
to travel but hates getting ready for it.
Packing and arranging visas are espe-
clally distasteful. But he has combined
business with pleasure by contributing
$3.50 self-illustrated pages to the notable
journal that has employed him for over
80 years. That adds up to better than
five fat volumes.
Clear-eyed, ruddy, erect and stalwart
at g., he has talked with kinds and
peasants. rubbed shoulders in places no
other gazetteer records, travelled lonely
as pilgrim and at times on crowded
ship, as any other tourist.
He has the reputation of picking I'D a
foreign language fast in the country he
is visiting. He speaks French f1uently:
handles German we'll: speaks and reads
some Russian and is familiar with
Arabic.
Rugged. he is able to rough it in lands
far from the comforts of civilization, but
has never carried firearms of any kind,
although often in remote places with
strange peoples. alone
His hands still bear marks of the ter
rife cold in China, encountered on the
trek across Asia with the French
CitroenH aardt Expedition in 1881,
They went by automobile across the
roof of the world" Temperatures
varied from 100 degrees above zero to IS
below. In such cold. to bend the fingers
caused them to bleed at the joints, and
the hands to peel His still peel.
Every means Of transportation has
been used by DR.. Williams except sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Explain the Expiunotion

The Defense Department owes the public
more than an explanation of the conflicting
reports on arms shipments to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, What is needed, in addi-
ton, is an explanation of the explanation given
The Senate Preparedness Subcommittee by Major
General Olmsted director of the Office of Military
Assistance.
Chairman Lyndon Johnson of the subcom-
n1ittee says that when General Olmsted was
asked to explain why he gave to the press an
optimistic picture of NATO deliveries after giving
the subcommittee pessmiStic view, the general
said he used two different schedules as bases for
his conflicting comments. That Senator Johnson
was shocked by this explanation is only natural.
If the Pentagon has two schedules for NATO
shpments-the original one that shows an
alarming lag in deliveries and a revised attain
able one for public consumption-t is deceptive
If not outright dishonest not to let the public
know that the original schedule has been
abandoned.
Senator Johnson says that General Omsted
gave to the subcommittee recently disturbing
account of slow arms deliveries to General Essen
hower's forces. The secret figures supplied to the
group, he said, demonstrated conclusively that
arms shipments to Europe are tagging far behind
the original programmed schedules" The situa-
ton Is said to have been one of the main reasons
Tor General EiSenhower'S recent trip to Wash
mgton. Yet last Wednesday General Olmsted
told press conference: Were we'll ahead of
where we told Congress we would be at this time"
and I'VE are not attempting to be SNUG about
the accomplishments but the rate of shipments
Is actually ahead of the ability of NATO members
to activate ground forces"
The subcommittee chairman said that when
he read newspaper accounts of the press con-
ference he directed a staff member to ask the
general how he could reconcile his press state
ments with the secret information he gave the
subcommittee only few weeks ago. General
OlmSted told our staff member" he said, that
the information we had received was correct and
the information he had given to the public was
correct. He said the only difference was that
he was discussing different schedules in each
instance" Senator JohnSons conclusion was
the Defense Department apparently made new
schedules which it knew could be met and then
blithely announced that everything was ahead
of schedule"
This is a harsh judgment, but one which
certainly is justified on the basis of the known
facts. If the NATO delivery schedules have been
revised to bring the goals closer to our ability to
deliver the material that is being realistic. But
there is no excuse for failing to tell the people of
the changes when making reports on progress of
the NATO arms program The public is entitled
to the truth and 1t expects the whole truth, not
Just a vanished version of it, from Defense
Department officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
If Major Barrett Retires

The indications that Major Barrett will ap-
ply Tor retirement on grounds OF physical dis
aollity-although the police chief has not said
that he intends to make such an application
have prompted furry of activity in behalf of
prospective successors.
There is certain difficulty in discussing a
matter of this kind in advance of any announce
ment by the individual most directly concerned
II Major Barrett is not going to retire any dis
cussion is meaningless But if he submits
retirement application, and if his physical condi-
ton is such as to warrant retirement, the
Commissioners will be faced at once with the
highly important matter of naming successor.
That the Commissioners have been exposed
TO q great deal of volunteered advice if not
pressure, in this connection is no secret. Some
OF it has come from influential political sources.
But this appointment, if it is to be made is
too important to the community to be dictated
by political considerations The investigation of
the Police Department by Senate subcommittee
and the unsuccessful court appeal by Major
Barrett have had adverse effect on the
morale of the department and apparently on the
commence repoSed in the department by some
elements of the community. Since this inveSti-
cation will continue indefinitely if the Senate
extends the life of the committee an early I'M
proVement in this situation is hardly to be
expected.
1t follows that if Major Barrett retireS the
greatest care should be taken to choose as his
successor the best man available. In The Stars
Judgment, there are several high-ranking police
officers whose records in the department are such
as to inspire confidence in their integrity and
their ability. If there is to be vacancy at the
top it should be filled on the basis of these con-
siderations, and not on a basis of political
sponsorship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
This and That

Mary Louise Cardinal, very fine bird,
watched the cats eating salmon on the
back porch
"And to think" shifted Mary, 'they
do not even live there!''
She wrinkled her bill at the cats.
There was a gray one. very sleek, and
tiger. very fat.
Sleek and fat, they came every day
for breakfast and dinner.
Change from daylight saving time did
not make them miss but once. They
adjusted nicely as the inside" cats did.
X
Mary Cardinal had been watching
that pair of outside dishes for a long
time.
She had never tasted salmon, but felt
it must be something good.
Her concealed nose, inside her feath-
ers. told her so.
IF that sleek gray one would only
leave few crumbs" said Mary to her.
self.
To a listening ear, what she said
sounded more like click, click"
LAS for that tiger" she lamented, "he
eats and eats"
Songbirds like meat and fish.
Sometimes they will be seen to pick
at old fish heads.
In some gardens. paattess OF ground
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Franklin T. Miles.
Julius LuIIey

BY curious coincidence, the noted res
taurateur. Julius Lulley of Harvey's, died
100 years almost to the day after his,
grandfather, Emmanuel Lulley, arrived
IN America with the famous Hungarian
patriot. Louis Kossuth, who came here
as guest of the Nation. There were
about SIS people in the encourage of
Kossuth, all exiles after the unsuccessful
Hungarian uprising in 1848-49, who were
1nterned by the Turkish government in
Kutahia, Asia Minor. The Russians had
demanded extradition of Kossuth and
his followers, which demand was refused
by the gallant Turks.
When Congress sent Americas most
modern Warship, the steam frigate
mississippi 1892 tons, lat personnel.
destroyed at Port Hudson, March IA,
1859 to the port of Gemlik in the
Dardanelles to pick up the Hungarians,
Lulley managed to have this entire fam
lily there. Kossuth, who, VIGOROUSLY
soft-hearted man, consented to include
them in his encourage.
The Mississippi" arrived in New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Georgetown Citizen.

Gen, Macarthur went to Seattle to
help blow out the 100 candles on that
city's birthday cake or to blow every
Democrat out of the State of WASH
ington.
The shindig was billed as Seattle's
centennial celebration. But it seemed
more like a massacre of the Truman
administration. OF course, the general
might have interpreted the R. S. V. P.
on his invitation to mean Republican
Seeking Vice Presidency.
While the general was labelling the
administration "a carnival of special
privilege Seattle Democrats were
thinking the same thing about the birth
day blowout which seemed like a carni-
val of special privilege for Republicans.
Remember that old adage, general:
Don't bite the hand that's feeding you"
especially at a so-called "non-parti-
san" birthday party where the Demo-
cratic hand that's feeding you is not
permitted to bite back.
IT, Another r. S. V. p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Our Ruined Pocketbooks

Although the national elections are
still year away the political grist mills
ALREADY are hummlng. At the recent
Southern Governors Conference, Mary
lands Gov McKeldin very properly
walked out during Speaker Sam Ray
burns false and misleading political
propaganda spiel. Even South Caro-
lma's Gov. Byrnes could find nothing
agreeable in the Rayburn presentation.
Speaker Rayburn's views are typical
OF those Of administration Democrats in
Congress. whose distorted sense of
loyalty and duty to foreign countries
supersedeS their obligations to the
United States. Confirmation of this ap-
palllng fact may be found in the adj
mlmstratlons ECA grant of our tax
money to highly questionable foreign
purposes. One such dubious grant is
found in the Marshall Plan Mission to
Greece to rehabilitate the centuries-old
classical ruins on the mainland and
Islands OF Greece-while these admins
tration Democrats leave the west plaza
of our Capitol building in such disrepair
that the people of America are barred
from use of their own Capitol for fear
the plaza area might cave in. Thus.
with their own back steps practically
falling apart. administration men and
women vote to send our tax dollars to
brush up, paint up and fix up Grecian
ruins.
Such blatant misuse of our tax
dollars may become particularly mean
lngful to Americans next March Is when
the time comes to turn our pockets
inside out for the unnecessarily and
waStefully high tax bill voted into effect
by these same administration Demo-
Gratis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
By Charles E. TroceweN

beef are put out for the birds at nesting
time. at least they used to be put out
before meat began to cost so much.
Mary's husband, old John Cardinal,
had tasted hamburger several times.
He said it was pretty good.
Mary had carried to the nest many
beakfuls, but had never eaten a one. All
Of it went to her four children. 50.
"You should not eat it, john" she
demonstrated.
John whetted his bill on a branch.
What they don't know, they won't
miss" he whistled. .--. .,.
You sound like a cowbird," said Mary,
with pretty scorn.
But now nesting time was over, and
John no longer let Mary get to the sun
flower seed. even.
He chased her away, time and time
again.
Poor Mary Cardinal had to sneak in.
when her mate wasn't looking, and
sometimes even her sons pecked at her.
Cardinals are that way.
They are loving birds, but have this
regularity. that they chase each other
away from the food except in the
springtime, the happy, happy ring time.
as the human poet said
Mary knew that time brinss all things,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20

and that in another year John Cardinal
would side up to her someday with a
big sunf1oWer seed in his bill.
For you. Mary, he would chirp
Mary Louise Cardinal would accept it
happily, for wasn't she cardinal, too?
The sleek gray cat and the fat tiger
cat finished their breakfast on the back
porch.
The gray one stretched, the tiger one
stretched. ~
Then both went down the steps and
away, on one of those mysterious er-
rands cats always find to do.
1t was Mary Louises chancei
Straight up the steps she hoped, her
gray and soft red dress rustling family
as she hoped
Had those pigs eaten it all up again?
Mary stuck in her bill, and rejoiced.
There was plenty of salmon left.
She tasted it ref1ectively, rolled it in
her bill, then swallowed it,
Not bad" she said, as she took an
other bite.
She had finished every crumb in both
dishes when swish! I'm flew John Car
Get out of here!" said John, roughly.
II want to eat"
Help yourself. dear" smiled Mary
Cardinal. sWeetly. Help yourself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Need for New BRIDGES
Charles Jehries.

Your recent editorial on bridges. and
the conclusion that bridge to Alexan-
dria was not urgent, was interesting but
did not convince me.
Every day have to use South Capitol
Street Bridge and Fourteenth Street
Bridge on my way to and from work,
and there is no comparison as to which
is the biggest bottleneck. Every morning
a line of cars between z mile and two
miles long stands waiting to get on
South Capitol Bridge into Washington.
whereas one seldom has to even stop
on Fourteenth Street Bridge going to
the Pentagon.
A bridge to Alexandria would actually
cross both Anacostia and Potomac rivers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
There Is q Reason

One does not have to look far for the reason
why only one out of six categOres of public
assistance has decreased since 1899. Every type
of welfare aid except so-called general relief has
gone sky high in the past IL years, according to
a striking tabuation prepared by the North
American Newspaper Alliance. 1t is significant
that general relief is the only kind of public
assistance to which the Federal Government is
not contributor All of the funds for this local
relief put up by the States counties and cities
concerned. And the States, counties and cities
have shown that they are more frugal with their
own funds than with handouts from the Federal
Treasury.
The MANA article, published in yesterdays
Star, pointed out that it is logical as rule to
expect relief payments to decline as employment
increases and economic conditions generally i'm
prove. Yet. with the Nation in the midst of an
extraordinary boom that has brought almost
full employment and that has raised the national
income to about three times the 1899 total the
Nations welfare bill last year was $2.3 billion
more than twice the cost of relief in the depreS-
sion year.
The relief categories supported in part by
Federal funds are old-age assistance, aid to
dependent children under 10, aid to parents of
needy children aid to the disabled and aid to the
blind. Two of these classes, aid to the disabled
and aid to parents of needy children, were added
to the welfare rolls last year. The number of
benefciaries of other types of aid has increased
since 1889 as follows Old-age assistance, 80 per
cent; aid to dependent children, 80 per cent; aid
to the blind, 80 per cent
Purely local relief, on the other hand, is only
one-third its 1889 proportions The MANA re-
porter, delving into the reasons for this decline
told that the general relief rolls are policed
fullv by
is need for policing of all relief rolls, including
those for which Federal aid is available has been
indicated by disclosures of chiseling activities in
several States. That is why Congress very wisely
has lifted the ban on relief publicity and why
relief authorities in many States are planning to
make the rolls available to agencies the press
or individuals seeking to expose chiselers. There
has been too much secrecy in the handling of
Federal relief money-a secrecy which has en-
couraged free spending without adequate safe
guards against fraud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Atrocities in Korea
Edmund Vasvary.

The atrocities committed by the Reds
In Korea should be the final convincing
argument against further attempts to
negotiate an honorable peace with these
barbaric atheists.
In American civil law, murderers are
not bargained with. but since the u N.
is conducting affairs in Korea, we may
expect continued policy of concila-
ton appeasement in the face of over
whelming evidence that the Commu-
nists are completely lacking in good
faith.
The President continues to warn us
that the Kremlin is intent upon de-
Stroying our civilization but hopes, in
the same breath, that may yet dis
cover some way to reconcile Democracy
and Communism. This is impossible since
there is no common ground between
the two.
Charles Jeffries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
The PubIic's Right to Records

Recently an auditing firm employed by the
Arlington County Board submitted report
criticizing certain of the countys budgetary and
accounting procedures and recommending basic
reforms. The report, paid for by taxpayers
money, contained important suggestions on how
to handle public funds in more prudent, bust
nesslike manner Obviously this was document
In which every Arlington taxpayer had an
interest and which deserved the widest publica-
ton.
Yet the report was received by the board in a
closed session at which there was serious dis
eusson as to the advisability of giving it to the
press. A transcript OF the proceedings, which be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20

marine. With Admiral Byrd on the
North Pole Expedition in 1925, he took
his turn as helmSman in the ice fields.
He recalls the vessel humping up against
icebergs as he struggled to keep a steady
course.
He has ridden yak-an experience he
does not wish on his worst enemy The
yak is built like beer barrel, and after
20 minutes on one, Your pelvis will
never be the same" The camel on the
otner hand is fine mount-and he has
gone to sleep riding one.
Slow travel is wonderful thing" DR..
Williams said. 1T gives one time to
observe"
Naturally he has acquired his share
of souvenirs, some of them art objects
OF museum caliber. But many things
he wanted in his early travels he had
to pass up. when I could get bar
gains he sad, Il had no money. Now
there are no bargains. You can buy
a better rug on Connecticut avenue for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Boy in Deep Woods

The matched boy set his cap doaDn on
his ears
And squared himself to face the
1otnter Ui7,d
Which pufed the snoD like popcorn on
the TRAIL
Farm chores aUere done and, as the
daylight thinned,
There aOaS this rambling hour to call
his DUN
For though White drifts bouoh-bent
the leaJfeSs trees,
He liked to tUdlk where snowfakes tell
like stars
And mystery 1Uas close on days like
these.
In spring and summer he could fish
and slDim
Where the road cured to a reeded
trog-loud pond
But no1O the Uater Uds piece of
frosted glass
And needs ,0ere ferns Nth ice-trinoe
on each trond
In autumn he could run and scuf
leaves under
But NON he Wolked IN deep sDoods.
deep in tnonderi
AnobeI Armour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Star staff Photo.

the money than you can in Damascus"
And just as every world traveller has
his faVorite spot. so does he have what
he considers the pesthole of creation.
To DR.. Williams that means any place
plagued by malarial mosquitoes II am
more afraid of a mosquito he says,
than l am of tiger"
DR.. Williams even found wife in his
travels. He married the former Martha
Daisy Woods of Natick, Mass, in 1922
when they were both teaching school in
H&ngchoW, China. One of their five
children was born in Turkey, another
m France. third in Lebanon. When at
home, they live at 108 West Woodbine
street, Chevy Chase. Md
Practically everything about this edi-
tor has an international flavor except
his rthplace-Montour Falls, N. Y.
And while it's not a matter of record,
the t0WnSpeople there undoubtedly sized
him up as promising young man and
predicted he'd go long way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Grant Stellhorn.
M Street Again

I was born in Georgetown and on NJ
street, but when L was a boy NJ street
never was like it is today. 1t was nice
paved street, but today it is a rough
stone street that was laid 26 years ago
When We have a light rain the stones
are just like a sheet of ice. which is not
only dangerous to motorists but also to
pedestrians.
I agree with Mr.. Pruett that this
street is expensive. The electric light
company worked last month on section
near Thirty-frst street, which was about
Is feet long and two yards wide. 1t
took three men three days to lay the
stones.
appeal to the District Commissioners,
the AAA, the Georgetown citizens and
business associations TO arrange to re-
pave NJ street.
GEORGETOWN Citizen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20

and serve thousands in Southeast Wash
ington who work in Arlington. as we'll
as those living in the Alexandria area
who work in the Southeast section of
Washington, such as at the Gun Fac
tory. Boiling Field and Naval Air
Station.
M. ]. Ross.
Why not Potomac bridge from the
Parkway vicinity of Virginia avenue and
the old gas docks via Roosevelt Island?
The river is narrow here: there is good
access at the District end. and the Viz
ginla side would connect with Washing
ton Parkway away from the commercial
area. This would make possible the de-
Velopment OF Roosevelt Island either as
a park or would make excellent close-in
fringe parking Of now inaccessible and
unused land.
Grant Stellhorn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

Q. How many counties are there In
Texas?-F. F.
A. Texas has 254 counties. 50 Of them
larger in area than the State of Rhode
Island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Questions and Answers

The stars readers can get the ansver IA
any question OF fact by either writing Ths
EV9ains star information Bureau, 1900 street
n W, washington 5 D. C.. and incIosinR 8 cents
return postage or by telephoning 81 SaRa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20

Q. Has an American horse ever won
the British Grand National steeple-
chase?-J. c.
A. The only American-bred horse to
win this race was Battleship. son of Man
o. War. in 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20

Q. How long was the United States
at war with Germany in World War
II?-M. E.
A. From December II, 1941, to Octo-
Der 10. 1851, exactly years. 10 months,
8 days. hours. 40 minutes.