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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-09-09
School for Citizens
Starts 33d Year

The Districts Americanizatior
School tomorrow starts it's 33e
year of help to prospective citi-
zenS.
Glasses in English and citizen
ship will convene from $3.50 am
to 3:15 pm. on school days and
from 1880 to $3.50 pm. on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Thursdays
The school also offers instruction
in homemaking artS--handloom
weaving. sewing and nutrition
on Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday mornings. There Is a
free counseling service on irnmi-
grafton and naturalization prob
lens.
AS part of the public school
system it's classes are free. James
T. Gallahorn, jr., is the principal,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-09-09

The word modern" in Risley's
name doesn't mean what it sug-
|gests, Miss Gardner cautions. In
England, modern" schools are
those that give more practical
work than do the academic
schools that prepare for college
Girls at Risley do lot of do
nestle science, less with languages
and literature. It's typical in this
respect, the English visitor says,
of the schools attended by the
great majority of British children
At home, despite the influence
of American movies and maya
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-09-09
Columbus Schools
Sturt 18th Yeur

Columbus University schools OF
law and accountancy will start
their 29th year on September II.
Both schools provide evening in
struction only. the law school from
$50 to 800, and the accountancy
school from 6 to 8, Mondays
through Fridays. Registration is
now in progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-09-09
Foreign Service Pupils Fewer,
But Languages Grow at GU

A marked enrolment decline in
two of Georgetown University's
principal divisions-the Foreign
Service School and undergraduate
colleges expected this fall.
But the universities 2-year-old
Institute of Languages and Lin
iguistics will raise its enrolment
limit nearly 40 per cent.
This was disclosed as the uni
versity prepared for the opening
of the new academic year, Oc-
tober /.
The cost of living, the draft and
last July's deadline on CT bill en-
rollments were blamed by univer-
sity officials for the expected stu
dent declines.
Undergraduate enrolment may
drop is per cent, and the Foreign
Service roster will dip even more
drastically, sprobably as much as
one-fourth, a spokesman pre-
dicted.
But the language students will
help make up for it.
The Institute of Languages,
which caters chiefly to Govern
ment personnel preparing for
overseas assignment. is in the po-
sition of having to turn down
many applicants. its director,
Leon Dostert, said.
Russian Tops Languages.
The institute had 125 students its
first year and 240 last year. This
year, the limit will be increased to
around 375, Mr.. Dostert said. and
even then demand will be untitled.
Russian is the most popular
language, the director reported.
It was studied by 100 of last years
enrollees. French. German and
Spanish followed in that order. :
This fall "by request" the insti-
tute is adding three more IRON
curtain languages, according to
Mr.. Dostert-Finnish. Czech and
Slovak. Modern Greek and He
brew also are being added.
It takes a year to master Rus
sian for everyday situations" Mr..
Dostert said. Most students take
courses geared to such practical
use, but the institute also has a
|five-year course leading to a de-
gree.
AT Officers Assigned.
Among its students this fall
will be 40 Air Force officers as
signed by the Government, the di-
rector said. The institute starts
classes September II, ahead Of the
other schools.
Foreign Service School enroll
ment this fall is expected to be
about 900. or 300 less than last
Evening star., 1951-03-28

to take bone from Mack, aged 6 weeks.
he bit clear through my finger and went
stomping upstairs. He was discovered
some minutes later pacing back and
forth under a bed muttering something
that sounded suspiciously like, "They
can't do this to me-" He was absolutely
right. as it turned out.
Mack was cocker spaniel and a very
comely creature. to give the devil his
due. But under those toffee-colored
waves beat the heart of Storm Trooper
quick to anger and slow to forget.
Before he was year old, he had snapped
at all Of us. According to an aunt who
was social worker at heart and adored
him for the Dead End Kid he was, "our
hands got caught in his teeth"
It was quite obvious from the first
that Mack had roughly the same regard
for US that Senator Mccarthy has for
Dean Acheson. We got used to that, but
what baff1ed us was the fact that he
couldn't bear to let us out Of his sight.
He made 1t an absolute rule that he was
to be first in the car. The mere sight of
a suitcase in the front hall was enough
to throw him into an agony of suspicion,
and he would patrol up and down snarl-
ing and growing.
Evening star., 1951-03-28
BY Charles E. TroceweH
Thomas e. Mattingly, MD.

the volume he looks at so casually. in
moment of rest chosen from the hurry
and worry of the day.
Some of the good care such books have
received is evidently due to the fact that
no one has read them!
Yet it is equally true that if those
same books had come into good hands.
as well they might, nobody could tell
about it from the books themselves, ex-
cept through the fact that that famous
back bone has remained unbroken
through the years.
1t is one thing to laugh at too much
care, quite another to give a fair VOL
ufne decent preservation. housing and
cleansing, from time to time.
Even little children often treat books
well. It is just as easy to teach the
rudiments of care as to let child get
into the habit of being careless with
books. No doubt many good book
handler got the idea as little child
from mother or father who could not
bear to see book defaced. 1t was
sign that to them book was not just
a book. but also an outpouring of the
human spirit, an architectural freez-
ing of mind and heart deserving more
than Indifferent treatment. Looked at
in such a manner. no book can be
sprinkled with cracker crumbs because
books are to be read, not eaten. Our
correspondent should revise his ways of
looking at books. What he needs Is not
0 library but q pantry. ~~--
Evening star., 1951-03-28
Scientific Research

/ found him as he crept among the
foWerS,
A tiny insect, ne,D and STANCE to me,
And took him to microscope Whose
Would search beyond ,ohat eyes alone
can see.
So small so trail. yet on his back he
1DOTe
A cloak of teathery shreds. erect and
bright,
A burden or a shelter that he bore
With pride. perhaps. or euen NTH
delight.
Yet heedlessly, stripped his plumes
Wisp after wisp. At last when none
1DaS left
I gased at him with pity and dismay-
A naked dot, of all but life berett.
dot 1Dith eyes, infnitesinaal.
= And threadlike CLAUS outreGcting In
despair;
No hidden knowledge had / gained at all
By the despoiling OF thing so fair.
Too late,,I laid him on shining leaf
Among his fotDers again, atpare that
Would long remember Uith remorse and
The helpless mite that had caused
to die. 900
So lnez Boreloy Kirby.
Evening star., 1951-03-28

Dear Sir:
II see by your paper that you and
others like to coddle your books, but
as for me, throw mine around any old
way and they are none the worse for
1t.
1t seems to me that books are for use,
not for ornamental purposes. like to
curl up with book. as some say, and If
my cigar burns a hole in the page it
makes no difference to me-
Just a book rough-neck, I suppose
you would call me. have not been
able to make myself believe that books
are much different from newspapers or
magazines.
"The same sort of people, in fact the
very same people, write them all, and I
for one don't think readers should be
rude to any form of printed matter.
LAS for me, I am going right ahead.
treating my books like people; if like
them, treat them nice, and if don't
like them so much. I sprinkle cracker
crumbs down their spines.
Breaking the back of a book may
seem terrible sort of offense to the
properly raised book. Good books es-
pecially, must resent having their backs
broken.
bad old books, on the other shelf.
deserve to be dog-eared and, horrors of
horrors, have saliva drooled over their
pages to get them apart.
"As you can see. don't 90 In too much
Tor this super
Evening star., 1951-03-28
Trouble in Iran

The fact that other regions besides Teheran
have now been placed under martial law
indicates that tension in Iran, far from having
diminished, has grown since the recent assassna-
ton of Premier Ali Razmara. With Red-inspired
strikes threatening to create new turmoil in the
country's oil-producing areas, all signs suggest
that the situation is serious enough to have fully
warranted last weeks proclamation from the
Shah warning against "the continuation of this
anarchy" and against "gangster elements and
opportunists who disturb the peace" and who
have created an atmosphere that "day after day
has increased the public's worry" Obviously,
wholly apart from nationalistic zealots and re-
hgious fanatics, the Communist-controlled Tudeh
Party has been busy stirring up as much trouble
and unrest as possible.
In addition. through full-dress editorial in
Pravda, the Soviet Union has helped to agitate
events still further by circulating the colossal
lie that the Razmara Staying appealed to people
closely connected with American influence" We
can be sure, and so can the Iranians, that the
men of the Krenlin will spare no effort to inten-
sify the present uneasiness. 1t is precisely the
kind of situation that they always exploit, and
since they are right next door to it, they can be
counted upon to squeeze whatever advantage
they can from it. The decree of martial law is
the newly chosen Premier, needs to act as firmly
and as resolutely now as he did in the United
Nations when he played major role In blocking
Moscow's 1946 attempt to grab Azerbaijan from
Iran. ....- ...-.7
Evening star., 1951-03-28
This and That

"If book wants to be around me, 1t
has to take its chances.
Sincerely. S. Mem. Arlington. Va"
The f1nicky person is always looked
upon as odd by persons who do not hap
pen to be that way.
In handling works of art, good care
is essential.
Since books come or at least should
come, in the art class, there can be no
argument about how they should be
treated.
1t is every ones privilege to do as he
pleases in art. until he learns better.
An old maxim says, There is no
disputing in matters of taste"
Taste has field day in books
There are books and books, and all
Of them deserve normal good care, and
usually get it. except from some hard
hearted persons.
This is proved on every second hand
book stall the world around. Stop by
the tables some day. here or in Paris,
or London, it makes no difference, at
least as far as the books are concerned.
Despite the open air situation, the
chances are 100 to l that the book
picked up will be in good condition.
This could only come about through
proper care from many previous owners.
When book gets on such tables, its
history must be long. Many q browser
has lonsed to know the true history Of
Evening star., 1951-03-28
The Dog That Saved Nobody From d Fire

These crises became so acute that we
took to asking luggage-bearing guests
please to leave by the backstairs. If
they had spent any time in Macks COM
pany. they realized that appeasement
was the only sensible course.
Mack's manner to us was hateful in
the extreme, except for brief intervals
when he indicated that we might scratch
his neck. With strangers, however, he
was the misunderstood husband with the
chorus girl. He would insinuate himself
into visitors laps, all melting eyes, f1ow-
ing ears and "only you can understand
me" looks. If any one of the family
suggested that his attentions were be-
coming burdensome, he would stand
astride the guests lap. hackles rising
while he roared defiance.
At moments like this the procedure
was to get out the vacuum cleaner-the
only object in the world that gave Mack
pause.
He loved the limelight like life itself.
So keen was his hunger for attention
that in summer at the lake he used to
leap onto the raft, rush around tapping
the sunbathers' faces and then. when he
had them all up reused and blinking,
dive off. This was piece of exhibition
ism that evoked the squealing adulation
Of all the little girl campers roundabout.
To such grandstand-p player. the lack
Of an audience was unbearable. If you
persisted TOO long in giving him the
frost treatment. he would stalk over, lay
his head in your lap and growl until you
responded. You couldn't win.
Mack didn't just suspect us of trying
to give him the slip. He was positive
we were going to steal his food. and
anybody who so much as mentioned his
name while his head was in his dish
risked his sharpest displeasure. He
seemed convinced that. given half
chance. we would beat him to death.
Actually, we never raised hand to him,
although I say in the teeth of the
SPCA we certainly would have if
we had dared. This morbid fear of his
was most dramatically illustrated one
evening during disagreement over
whether he should 60 to bed or not. AS
usual. he was getting the upper hand.
A hasty council was called and it was
decided to try the deep-freeze strategy.
We all went elaborately about our busi-
Evening star., 1951-03-28
Lawrence on MARYLAND

u
was shocked and outraged at the
stand David Lawrence took on the
Maryland campaign and its attendant
probe. which stand he reiterated in his
column Of March 49, Strange: Almost
paragraph for paragraph. If not word
for word. Senators Hickenlooper, KEN
and others gave rendition of the same
on the Senate floor the week before.
The issue Of the Maryland campaign
Is whether persons from outside State
shall run that State. From the way they
have run Mr.. Butler to date. I'd say
those people can-if they are allowed
to get away with it. And such thing
is not only against the spirit of the
Constitution, it is against the law of
the Constitution.
The most ridiculous argument pro-
pounded by Mr.. Lawrence and those
who think like him is that a photo
graph and a cartoon belong in the same
category. Common sense tells me that
when look at cartoon I am simply
looking at product of the artists
imagination. On the other hand, when
I look at photograph, am looking at
person. place or happening that is
naturalization can't tell me any diff
ferently
have read The Star for 20 years.
and David Lawrence for almost as long.
When Mr.. Lawrence can remain i'm
pervious to the indignant protests of
sincere and well-meaning readers, can
only think of that saying: While you
think you're green. you're growing. but
when you think you're ripe. then you
are beginning to be rotten. Mr.. Law
renee should remember he can influence
readers only to the extent that they will
let him; that is, read him.
Lucy Coverstone.
I have been a resident Of Maryland
for number of years, and have taken
part in number Of campaigns. and
do not hesitate to say that the cam
former Gov. Lane was the worst have
ever experienced.
Mr.. Lawrence says there Is no testi-
mony showing excessive use Of money
in this campaign. Has Mr.. Lawrence
forgotten, or does he not know, that
the Butler campaign headquarters ad-
mitS spending approximately $820 900, OF
which amount $4,000 was very recently
reported? This latter item is strictly
against the law in Maryland, which
plainly states that candidates must
make full report within 20 days after
election. Does not Mr.. Lawrence take
notice of the fact that large part of
the Butler campaign fund came from
without the State? He surely has heard
of the money given from the States Of
Texas. Oklahoma, New York. and last.
but not least, from the owner Of Wash
ington newspaper. Yes, we people in
Maryland know how to vote. and we
would like to be let alone by outside
interests. We do not interfere with
other States voting.
If another election was held and Mr..
Butler ran against any good Democrat
from Maryland, can assure you that
Evening star., 1951-03-28
Letters to The Star
Pen-nan1es may be used If letters carry
a0riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters subject to condensation.

Mr.. Butler would not be In the United
States Senate. hope this investigation
committee has backbone enough to do
that which should be done in this
instance.
Frank L. Warfield.
Annapolis. Md.
David Lawrence has written another
column attacking the Maryland cam
paign investigation. The first time he
cried. Pore loser!" This time 1t Is:
Politics at its worst" 44s
He writes: THE real issue OF the
investigation of the Butler election is
whether the people of a State cannot
be trusted to make up their own minds
on the fairness or unfairness of printed
material used in campaigns, but have
to be protected against such things"
But the issue goes much deeper than
printed material. The people of Mary
land. a pretty intelligent lot. can be
trusted to make up their own minds
when given chance. But they were
bombarded with fakes, frauds, outsiders,
high-pressure salesmanship. sound ef-
fects and McCarthyism.
Marylanders are just finding it out.
This revelation to the people, made by
. bipartisan committee of Congress, is
In fact politics at its best. It's America.
Kathryn O'Neill.
Chevy Chase. Md.
X
Whether or not this hearing results in
the barring OF Senator Butler from his
Senate seat. the activities of the COM
mittee are far from useless or unneces-
sary. I believe that if, in future cam
paigns. candidates for political Office
were aware that their methods and
statements would be held up to public
scrutiny, they would be more scrupulous
In their selection of campaign man
ayers and other assistants. It might
eliminate such phenomenon as the
election of political nonentity through
the efforts Of group playing very
unsayory game; a group headed by
from the scene Of the campaign.
william Carl johnson.
Greenville, Md.
Doesn't it seem q bit ridiculous that
after losing an election such an egotist
as Mr. Tydings should belittle the in
telligence of his former electorate by
saying that the only possible way he
could have been defeated was by means
so low that even his own corrupted
party would have gagged at their use?
Voter.
Bethesda, Md.
Evening star., 1951-03-28
1t Is Our Business

Argentina's young Foreign Minister, In
Washington for the current Conference Of Amer
ican Foreign Ministers, told press conference
that the closing Of the newspaper La Prensa is
not the business of the United States or the
other American republics.
He said about the only thing he could say
in the circumstances and in sense what he
said is true. With other American republics, the
United States has pledged itself not to meddle in
the internal affairs OF our sister republics and
that is sound doctrine.
But in a larger sense, Argentina's Foreign
Minister is as wrong as he can be. For what
has happened to La Prensa-whose editor has
been forced to flee to Uruguay for safety-is very
much the business Of free people everywhere
in that it affects them wherever they may be-
The closing Of that great newspaper by the Peron
government in Argentina is merely one indica-
tion, though 1t happens to be a very precise one
that Argentina is following the dismal pattern
of every dictatorship and that 1t will go from one
extreme to another until its people are enslaved.
General Peron may regret what has hap
pened. But the grim fact may be that he is
unable to prevent what has happened. For once
the machinery of dictatorship is established, the
progression toward complete dictatorship is in
escapable and there is no turning back. The
suppression of free press is necessity for the
survival of dictatorship, and other steps will
follow that also are necessary for this survival
What happened to La Prensa is tragic. But more
tragic still is what has happened and is still to
happen to Argentina. country of rich resources
and of fine people. They may yet turn back to-
ward freedom before it is too late. But the time
grows short. When government moves in on the
press to stifle the news of what is going on, the
poison of dictatorship has already spread far
and deep.
Evening star., 1951-03-28
o'-the-Wisp

Senator Fulbright probably Is correct In
saying that our democracy is more apt to be
destroyed by abandonment or perversion of its
true moral principles than by armed attack from
Russia. He is chasing wil-o'the-wisp, how
ever, If he thinks that any report by COM
mission Of eminent men is going to cure the evils
OF which he complains.
The Arkansas Senator's advocacy OF such a
commission is based, apparently, on his belief
that our public officials and our people do not
fully understand the corruption of our moral
fiber that has been exposed by his own and other
recent Investigations He thinks that an expert
commission is needed "to draw forth meaning
from the mass of data"
But this is an assumption that does not hold
water. Any one who can read his newspaper,
listen to his radio, watch his television screen
understands" the meaning of the facts which
have been turned up The people know what
corruption is, and how 1t spreads throught the
structure of our society. They also know that
corruption survives, not because the people are
helpless in the face of it, but because too many
OF them tolerate 1t and all too often encourage 1t.
Senator Fulbright said that the values of
life which were clear to the Pilgrims and the
founding fathers have become dim and fuzzy
In outline. That undoubtedly is true. But 1t
is not enough to blame this on the "big lie" Of
demagogues and the professional political huck-
sters They have played part, but only part.
The corruption of our sense of values which
has occurred has not come about over night. The
process has-been long and cynical one. In
considerable part the fault is inherent in our
political system-a system which has produced
as the successful candidate the man who can
promise most to the greatest number of people.
We are told that this is progress-the more
abundant life. But 1t is not the kind of life
that gave to the Pilgrims and the founding
fathers their concept of values. This disinte-
grafton Of public morality has been accompanied
by impairment of our private sense Of values.
One need only glance at the degradation Of old
standards Of family life, at the futile pursuit
of material things in the name of happiness,
to see that this Is So
These conditions are not going to be remedied
by any report. The cure must be generated in
the hearts and consciences of men, Those in
public life can do much by setting worthy
example. which many of them have not been
doing. But in the last analysis the plain citizen
the little fellow who keeps the bookies and all
of the allied rackets gong-must be his own
healer. There will be real improvement in our
public standards of morality when he decides
that he wants Improvement and not before.
Evening star., 1951-03-28

desire to serve Russian interests at the expense
of their own lands. But this is not primary
consideration from our point of view. If war
should come, those earnest men in France and
Britain who now oppose any arrangement with
Franco would be only too glad to have the help
OF good Spanish army. When the chips are
down any one who will fight with us will be d
welcome ally. If allies are to be equipped and
trained for combat, however, that must be done
before-not after-the fighting starts. The logic
OF this applies to Spain as well as to our Pact
associates, and any news that preliminary steps
to this end are being taken should be welcomed.