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The guardian., 1951-02-10

| Society Tor the Crippled ana
Handicapped, Inc, will be held
Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the Cop
ley Plaza Hotel, it has been an
| nounced by Charles wilson, the
| Society's' executive director.
Each year the Bay State Society
for the Crippled and Handi-
capped, Inc. conducts its Easter
Seal drive to raise funds which
make possible year-round pro-
gram of administering its serv-
ices without regard to race or
creed and without duplicating
the work of any other agency,
public or private. Chairman Of
this years campaign is Mrs. Ed
ward L. Logan Of Cohasset,
widow of the famous general.
History Week celebration by
Aristo Club, Sunday, Feb. ii,
1851 at 3 P. M. at international
House, 1872 Beacon st., Boston.
James GOss, speaker-tribute to
DR.. Carter G. WoOdson. Fine
musical program. Public Is in
vited.. Silver offering.
William A. Howard, Jr., son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. william A. How
ard. attended the banquet in
honor of his father, which was
held in Masonic Temple, Mon
day night of last week. Will
liam Jr. is employed in the Navy
Yard dispensary and has been in
that service. since 1910. Other
member of the Howard family
are Frank Howard, residing in
New York City and Mrs. Mabel
Howard Hand of Handsboro,
Miss.
The Liberia College Club Of
America will present Mr.. Samuel
Ojo, as guest speaker at the
Coffee Hour to be given on Sum
day, February. Is, at 4:S0 PM.
at the international Institute,
100 Beacon street, Boston. Mr..
ojo is q native Nigerian and is
a student in Business Admins
tration al Harvard Busin ess
School. His subject will be
aAfrica's Hope, which will
cover a brief history Of Africa
and the present situation. Carle-
ton Lewis, accomplished pianist
will be guest artist. The public
is invited.
The Delta Sigma Theta So
rority presents its annual Jab-
berWock, May IA, in Hancock
Hall. :,
The Carter Post Auxiliary will
hold its annual tea, Sunday
| April 29. The tea committee
serves dinners every Saturday
evening at headquarters, 4Ol
/ Massachusetts avenue.
You and your friends are cor
daily invited to attend the
Twenty-Seventh Annual Inter-
racial Goodwill Dinner under the
auspices of the Boston Area
/ Council of Churches, Tuesday,
February 20, 1851, at $50 P. M
at the Old South Church, Copley
So., Boston. Chairman: Robert
liz. Segal, Executive Secretary
Jewish Community Council Of
/ Metropolitan Boston. Invocation'
/ The Rev. Samuel L. LaViscount
Student Representatives from
country of origin, Bolivia, Den
mark, Holland, Siam. Curtis Hol-
land. baritone; William Krout
accompanist. Address: DR.. Ed
win o. Reischsuer, Professor of
Far Eastern Languages at Har-
ward University. Subject: In
terracial Relations" Tickets, SITS
\ zinc. tax an dtip). May be OBJ
tanned until Friday, Feb. is.
Game Night by the Wisteria
Charity Club Friday, Feb. is, {
P. M, at 55S Mass. Ave. Useful
prizes. Benefit Of Camp fund
| Donation soc.
The guardian., 1951-02-10

and may be secured by calling
the President of the Association,
Iames H. Jones, Garrison 7
597O. Musical critics state that
MISS Maynor has one of the
outstanding voices of the CEN
tury and during her latest tour
of Europe and South America
audiences acclaimed her as the
international soprano of the age.
Musical Bostonians have agreed
that this is to 10 the musical
treat Of the season. 9
Evening star., 1951-03-19

Seeing pair of doves in the yard, the
small son of Mrs. I. c. H. of Takoma
Park, Md, said:
"They look so motherly and fatherly."
Not a bad description of our doves,
so much part of the suburban scene
Nearby Virginia usually has more of
them, from time to time, sometimes as
many as 40 in flock.
In our section of Chevy Chase 1t is
unusual to see more than five or six at
time.
Usually there will be neat pair to
a garden, but not every year. Most Of
the time the call of the bird can be
heard someplace in the neighborhood.
1t is a peculiar sound, striking some
listeners as mournful. Others profess
to hear nothing plaintive.
Probably the idea of mournfulness is
associated itself with the fatness of
the bird. There are many humans who
feel that being fat is sad idea.
Mrs. H. wants to know about wax
wings.
Bohemian waxwings are seen here at
times.
They love to perch in a row on
branch, and now and then may be seen
passing bit Of food from one to an
other.
They do not remain here. but pass on.
Spring brings US about Q hundred
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Jack Of All War Trodes-the HeIicopter
By W. H. Shippen

THE HELICOPTER is proving itself
l. in Korea as vehicle whose utility
can be expanded almost indefinitely.
In other words, the windmills are
here to stay Anybody in doubt on that
score can take it up with the United
States Marines.
Moreover, the present production race
to catch up with military demands may
build an industry capable of extending
the uses of the helicopter into many
new commercial fields The manufac-
turers are sold on this idea. They
point out that war duty is developing
sturdier, more practical aircraft, and
these improved types can be turned out
for commercial or private use with rel
atively few changes.
The Marines who trained in hell
copters at nearby Quantico have learned
plenty about the behavior of the craft
in combat since they landed at PuSan.
Korea. early in August Their duties
were many and varied from day to day
Reconnaissance. liaison, removal of
wounded, rescue of downed flyers, tao
tical transportation and resupply of
troops. and administrative flights.
Capt Victor Armstrong, who COM
manded the first Marine helicopter
squadron to land in Korea, recently
told Washington audience that many
of the answers to our questions OF few
months back have now been found"
The windmills, in his opinion, are
must" for all types of military opera
ticns in the future.
The Navy, too, has come to rely upon
helicopters, especially in carrier opera
tions. A primary duty is the quick res
cue of downed pilots. And the helicop-
ters are spelling destroyers and lesser
vessels on anti-submarine duty as well.
Hundreds of men critically wounded
in Korea owe their lives to Marine and
Air Force 'copterS which lifted them
out of the firing line. In almost every
instance, the wounded man could have
survived no other type of transportation.
Battle experience taught that even
small helicopters could be modified to
carry stretcher cases. Fighting men who
saw their wounded lifted to safety re-
ceived a terrific boost in morale. This
also went for fighter and bomber squad
rons whose doWned members had been
rescued. sometimes far behind the
enemy lines.
Several successful rescues were made
more than 100 miles within enemy ter
ritory. Capt. Armstrong says. One was
at night, although in the past the use
of the helicopter has been confined
largely to conditions of good visibility.
Pilots are now being trained in in
strument flight. and newly developed
automatic pilot for helicopters is in
production.
During the operations around Seoul.
heicopters were frequently under small
Evening star., 1951-03-19
BY Charles E. TroceweN

it is very easy to call another human
being dummy" but it is not possible
to prove it, except in certain instances
When it comes to the songs of the
birds, there is wide latitude for like
and dislike, and this is always associated
with ones life, ones reading, ones ex-
perience, ones education, ones training.
It is impossible, in other words, to dis
associate ones self from what one
hears, and this will mean that no two
persons will ever hear a bird song in
the same way. or get the same charm
from 1t. or the same dislike, for the
latter may be a part Of every musical
utterance. A hearer has right to dis
like what he hears, even if it be Bee
thoven, although some purists would not
allow this.
So don't permit any one to bulldoze
you in the matter of what you hear,
whether it is bird song or a symphony.
Try to listen fairly, and then make up
your own mind. Music is not thing
apart, as some would like it to be, but
very much a part of life. Music means
life. There is plenty of noise from
action and reaction of inanimate objects,
but the living ear hears even them.
Music means life; music means mind, of
some sort and degree. And where there
is life. and mind, we find the right to
like, the right to dislike, the right to
agree. the right to disagree, at least in
our favored land Cat least so far).
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Prince Georges Should Think Twice

Prince Georges County would be taking
backward step if it should throw open its doors
to slot machines and certain other gambling
devices. 1t is strange that there should be
serious drive in the county in behalf of egalized
gambling at time when the newspapers are
full of sordid disclosures concerning the cor
rupting influence of professional gambling on
State county and municipal governments Al
though yet to be proved the Arlington grand
jury's charges involving pinball and slot
machine distributor ought to cause Prince
Georges to think twice before playing into the
hands of the slot machine interests.
The county's delegation in the General
Assembly would do well to avoid being stam-
peded by the avalanche of o-slot-machine
letters at Annapolis. 1t is significant that many
of the letters are remarkably alike in content.
It taxes creduity to believe that the more than
5000 letters which have poured into the State
Capitol reflect a spontaneous, unorganized de-
mand for legalized gambling machines. con-
certed letter drive of this kind in behalf of
particular bill does not necessarily reflect the
wishes of a majority of the countys citizens.
Undoubtedly many good citizens have been
attracted by the rosy assertion that the devices
will bring the county an estimated 100000 in
revenues each year. This would be nice wind
fall, of course. But it would be a disastrous
windfau if it should enable racketeers to become
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Pressurinq the Courts

The recently developed tactic, often Commu-
istic-inspred of trying to coerce the judgment
of the courts has received Welldeserved rebuke
from Supreme Court Justice Black.
Justice Black had been asked to stay the
execution of a Mississippi Negro, Willie MCGEE,
and the request was granted MCGEE was con-
victed of criminal assault six years ago, and his
case has been continuously in the courts and in
some headlines ever since. The Communist paper
The Daily Worker, has taken the lead-as it in
variaby does in such caSes-in pressure cam
paign to Save Willie MCGEE"
One result of this effort was the sending of
q large number of kilograms to Justice Black. In
denouncing the practice he said: "The courts of
the United States are not the kinds of inStru-
ments of Justice that can be influenced by such
pressures."
Happily this is true. 1t would not remain
true for long, however, if those who seek to sub
titute pressure tactics for the judicial process
could have their way. Some of the people who
take part in these demonstrations may do so
without fully realizing just what it is that they
are doing trying to do. If So this rebuke from
Justice Black should have a salutary effect For
he, to degree unsurpassed by any man, is
champion of the right of the individual to fair
trial, no matter what his race, creed condition
may be. Justice Blacks denunciation of the
pressure technique should carry weight with all
persons except those whose minds are closed and
their cousins whose real aim is to squeeze the
maximum propaganda value for communism
from our racial problems.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
This and That

species, including the favorite catbird,
the wood thrush and the house wren.
Every suburbanite has his own pets.
A householder of Belle Have, near
Alexandria, Va, is thrilled at the sight
of two handsome fox sparrows, feeding
with flock of white -throated sparrows,
the first to visit the feeding station since
November.
Some will get real kick out of well
coming back the common wren.
This is one Of our smallest species.
large compared with the ruby -throated
hummingbird, but small when seen near
a jay or cardinal.
Wrens have unusual voices. They
make sound resembling water in
motion. It is persistent sound in sum-
mer, and perhaps this is the reason it
is offensive to some listeners.
Those who love the wren's song may
wonder how any one can dislike it.
1t is here as with all music, not every
ear hears sounds in the same way, be-
cause sounds are more than mere sounds.
They are heard by ears, and that means
by brains. The way anything strikes
the mind-ah, that is the thing! No
one else can set himself up as judge,
because he cannot know what sound
means to another. Yet nothing is more
common than for one listener, whether
in symphony or bird music, to say that
what he likes must be liked by another,
or else the other is dummy" Now
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Deadlock in Paris

After two weeks of tedious hair-splitting
discussions in Paris, the deputies representing
the Foreign Ministers of France, Britain, the
United States and the Soviet Union have made
little or no perceptible progress toward agree
ment on an agenda for the Big Four Conference
that the Kremlin has been clamoring for ever
since last November.
Acting in unison, the Anglo French Amer
ican deputies have proposed that such confer
ence-if it is to be held-Shoud deal specifically
with three broad issues in order to examine the
causes of present international tensions in
Europe and to search for means of promoting
real and lasting improvement in relations be-
tween the free world and the world dominated
by the Soviet Union. The three issues would be
placed on the agenda as follows: () The existing
level of armaments in relation to (al its effect
on the question of German demilitarization and
(b) ways of bringing about general disarmament.
(2) Measures to end the fear of aggression.
And 90 fulfllment of treaty obligations.
Each OF these issues covers great deal of
ground, and if Big Four meeting acted ear
nestly and sincerely on them-if the Soviet
Union took part in good faith-then the outlook
for peace could be made considerably less dim
than it is right now. But Deputy Foreign Min
lister Gromyko, speaking for the Kremln has
rejected the Western proposal. He has done so
on the ground that it would bury, subordinate
or deal only incidentally with the question of
demilitarizing Germany and the problem of
working out program to reduce the armaments
of all the great powers. His demand that these
two matters be treated as separate agenda items,
in no way dependent on other matters, is what
has brought the Paris meeting to virtual
deadlock.
Indeed, in view of Mr. Gromyko's insistence
on this point, the British deputy has raised the
question whether the Kremlin really wants
Big Four Conference, and our American repre-
Observation-Disclosures dor-at-Large Philip c. Jessup
has said that the Russians seem to be inter-
ested only in making propaganda. In any case,
it is clear that German demilitarization and
general disarmament cannot be discussed real
istically, or even intelligibly, unless they are
linked with kindred issues. AS matter Of fact,
any meeting of the Foreign Ministers will be
futile if it is not governed by an agenda that
goes to the real source of today's tensions,
which is the aggressive, treaty-violating nature
of Soviet policy
It may be that another week or so of dis
cussions in Paris will end the present deadlock.
But nobody should entertain false hopes about
the Big Four Conference that would be held on
the basis of an agenda agreement. For the
simple truth is that the peace outlook will con-
tinue to be dim unless and until the Kremlin
effects a basic change for the better in the
course it has been pursuing ever since the end
of the war. Unfortunately, Mr.. Gromykos
approach to the situation hardly suggests that
such change is likely.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Personality Test

School authorities at Manassas, Va, have
said that their controversial personality tests
have lost their value because of publicity, and
the indications are that they will be discontinued
This would be good way to close an
unwise experiment. In the tests the children
apparently are asked questions bearing on in
innate details of their home and family lives.
The exact nature of the questions is not known,
however, since school officials have refused to
let protesting parents see the tests This is rea-
son enough in itself to discontinue the tests. A
public school is not psychiatric hospital, and
the officials have no business probing the children
with questions that they are unwilling to let the
parents see.
Evening star., 1951-03-19

entrenched in the county. The Kefauver COM
mittee currently is exposing some of the evils
which result from allowing gambling rackets to
flourish in our cities and counties
Fortunately, majority of the Prince
Georges delegation in the Legislature is opposed
to legalized gambling The legislators have
been worried, however, about the flood of letters
asking them to change their minds. A hearing
on the slot machine bill is to be held at An
napolis this evening. Citizens who favor clean
government in Prince Georges should make
their opposition to the bill plainly evident at
the hearing If the citizens fail to do their part
they can blame nobody but themselves if the
slot machine interests win their fight for an
unmolested take" in the county
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Republican Battle Cry

In his address to the Eastern Young Re-
publicans at Charlottesville, Senator Taft has
sounded what evidently is going to be the key
note of the COP campaign to take over the
White House in 1852. The echoes and under
tones are not at all reassuring.
The President of course, has given the
Republicans a generous supply of perfectly
legitimate ammunition Mr.. Trumans unwill-
ngness to clean house, despite the disclosures
affecting some of his close associates that have
come out of such things as the five-percenter
probe and the RFC investigation, is legitimate
campaign issue, and the Republicans not only
can but should make the most of it,
Senator Taft, however apparently is not
going to stop with these issues. He said at
Charlottesville, for instance, that "there is no
confidence that Communist influence has been
eliminated in strategic Government positions"
Does Senator Taft believe that Communist in
fluence still exists in strategic Government po-
Sitions? In his speech he stopped short of such
an assertion, and If he does not believe it him
self, he certainly should not be feeding the
spreading fires of suspicion and distrust that
were lighted by Senator Mccarthy, and which
tend to destroy confidence in all phases of Gov
ernment-the good as we'll as the bad. Senator
Taft, although implying belief that Senator
Mccarthy may have gone too far, picks up and
adopts as his own the false charge that the
TydingS' investigation was complete white
wash"
The TydingS committee gave Senator Nc
Carthy one opportunity after another to prove
his reckless and baseless accusation that the
State Department was riddled with card-carry-
ing Communists, and Senator Taft knows it.
Senator Mccarthy did not then prove and has
not since proved, that he has any evidence that
there is even one card-carrying Communist in
the State Department. Yet Senator Taft, while
properly deploring "a dangerous decline in po-
litical morality" proceeds to adopt to some
degree the Mccarthy theme song as his own
From all Of which the inference may be
drawn that the decline in political morality is
not confined to any one political party or to
any one political hopeful.
Evening star., 1951-03-19

arms fire on rescue missions. They
proved they could take it. One was hit
seven times but returned safely. The
main rotor blades received four hits
without even developing noticeable vi
brations.
The 'copters were used frequently to
set up observation posts on high ground
overlooking enemy positions. These
were supplied from the air with auto
matte weapons, radios and other equip
ment. Hot food was delivered three
times daily. and sick and wounded men
lifted to safety.
In most cases, according to Capt.
Armstrong, helicopters could find some
place to land near the selected site.
When the terrain was too rough, the
machines lowered while the troops
jumped few feet to the ground The
time saved in planting these posts was
invaluable.
BY the same device, generals and
other officers were moved quickly from
position to position in rugged country.
On one occasion, the commanding gen.
eral was able to disengage front line
battalion and recommit it successfully
to an entirely different sector-on the
basis of information he obtained from
personal observation.
The general found he could hold spot
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Initiation Hits the Local Budget

Hearings will soon begin on the District
budget for the year commencing next July. But
since this budget was completed for submission
to Congress, the large program it contains for
new construction has been hit heavily by inf1a-
ton. A story in The Sunday Star estimates that
inflated construction and other costs may add
as much as IS million to the cost of projects for
which the Commissioners have asked approval.
The budget now under consideration would
have exhausted surplus funds, even before in
f1ation took effect In other words, if all of the
items in this budget were to be approved as
submitted to Congress, the inflated costs could
be financed only by another increase in local
taxes.
But the inflated cost of construction is not
the only threat to a balanced local budget.
There are indications that drive is beginning
for another round of salary increases for mu-
nicpal employees, of whom there are now some
$4,000 on the payroll. Higher pay for any of
them, such as police or fremen will mean an
increase for all of them. Any such increases,
without reduction in other parts of the budget,
will bring new taxes. Policy on municipal en-
ploye salaries should be determined only by the
policy Congress adopts for Federal employees.
Any increases in local taxes will come on
top of the increased Federal taxes now in effect
and those planned during the present session
or congress. ana the next pooSt IN local taxes
will take another large bite out of real estate,
which has borne a substantial share of the in
creases in recent years. Increased local taxes
should be avoided, especially during the emer-
gency, when rising Federal taxes are taking the
right of way.
In these circumstances, the local budget
must be trimmed. New construction and new
sources of municipal costs should be held down
to minimum requirements If, after feasible
reduction, the construction program still re-
quires new taxes Congress should review again
the possibility of long-term financing, which
will spread the cost over the years instead of
relying-as we usually do in Washington-on
current revenue alone. We have been fortunate
! in being able to maintain pay-as-we-go policy
in the District, but we cannot continue indef-
nitely to pile tax increase on tax increase with
out injuriously affecting the city's economy.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Packet of Seeds

Louely the pictured promise on the
torapper. of the fotuers to be.
And mysterious the small dry rustic
OF the seeds toithin;
Mysterious, yeS, almost onir,ouS, for
actually 1Dho knotDs
In this long gamble of the summer
,ohetaer you or time iDiH tDin?
ConceiUe if you can upon this hesitant
edge OF spring
The long and blazing Moons. slo,u
gro1Dth, the tebrile insect song;
Hot August Ueerirlg into dry September
and inevitable trostS,
When you must know the hour OF the
locust is not long. not long.
And picture if you wiu whatever happens
to the heart,
In this, the coming season tDI1en the
seed untolds its sheath;
But plant By favorable sign and nurture
hopefully
What might or might not be sotDifsg
OF the Dragons teeth.
Frederick Ebrisht.