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This and That

the subject. there can be little doubt
that in the past 10 years feeding birds
In the home garden has increased mani
fold.
1t is pleasant pastine, helps initiate
children into love of nature, encour-
ages and sustains invalids, gives the
busy man of the house something to do
at home besides smoke, affords the
lady of the house something to watch
while she stands at the kitchen sink.
Where there is food, as they all have
found out, there will be squirrels.
Now and then some one grows red
in the face over the squirrels barging in
on the brides food.
But how can anyone blame them?
If you were out there in the cold, you
would eat what you could find, too.
Our gray squirrels do not hibernate, as
bears do, but most of them live on scanty
rations in the winter.
They do not like soft snow, and are
seldom seen on such days.
This means that they are up there
in the trees somewhere, taking it easy,
their metabolism working at low speed.
Neighhorhood squirrels soon spot the
bird feeding places.
They rake through the mixed seeds
and grains for their favorite sunfiower
seeds. but will eat many others, in
Guiding both watermelon and canteloupe
seeds.
They will tackle suet, if nothing else
offers. 4
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priority for major security reasons. In Mr.. Deans
words-words that must be guarded and pur.
posely vague lest they reveal too much-the
truth is that these and similar operations are
of top significance and cannot be held up with
out adversely affecting the whole highly inte-
grated program for the production of nuclear
ornaments, which constitute our best insurance
policy right now.
So it is understandable that Mr.. Dean,
voicing grave concern" over the work stoppages,
has called for immediate labor management
action to resume construction on basis that
will rule out another round of strikes The con-
struction should not have been interrupted In
the first place. In an enterprise as overshadow-
ing in its importance as our atomic program,
there should be no such irresponsiblity. Some
how, and quickly, we must have procedures to
insure that our production of A-weapons will
not be dealt with as if 1t were the same as the
production of automobiles or cap pistols. Quite
literally, the Nations survival may depend on
that.
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BY Charles E. Tfocewen

They ego" for slices of bread. old
doughnuts, all sorts of breakfast foods.
They will eat peanut butter with
relish, but should not be given much OF
it, since it is too concentrated and
clogs their windpipes i eaten hastily.
(Who is there that hasn't had that
sensationO
Apples, fruits, and above all nuts
These are some of the things to put
out for the squirrels.
And peanuts, as our correspondent
suggests. The bad jays may take them
away, but they hide them very poorly.
so they are easily found by hungry
squirrels. -
Squirrels from the forest areas, once
they become hungry, will come closer
in and join their suburban brothers at
the bird feeding troughs.
With prospects of squirrel starvation,
every nature lover should start feed
ing station early this fall, and keep it
filled all autumn and winter.
In this way not only birds are fed,
but their allies, the gray squirrels. These
animals should not be confused with
the red squirrels of the Midwest and
West. which are real enemies of bird
life.
Our gray squirrels are mischievous.
but on the whole get along very well
with the birds that winter with US.
To feed the birds is to feed the sQuir-
rels. It is as easy % that.
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etters to The Star E.

wants to make me completely happy, He
will grant me the joy of seeing six or
seven OF my enemies hanging from those
trees"
There is gruesome truth behind
Heine's joke. Most of us would like to
see our enemies defeated and punished.
and it is ironic that many Of us even
entertain the same feelings about some
of our friends. For there is a curious
duality in the human soul; 1t can love
and it can hate the same people at the
same time with almost equal force.
Society half realizes that civilization Is
always menaced because of this, due to
the hostility of men towards men. There
fore culture has to summon every pos
sible reinforcement against these aggres-
sive hatreds. Vicious name-calling and
race discrimination should be strictly
self controlled. AS Joshua Lehman said.
the command ''love thy neighbor" is still
the strongest defense against human
hatred, and men cling to it yet. for they
realize that If the golden rule was swept
away, the world would be place OF
chaos and desolation.
J.H.B.
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/. Atomic Strikes Are IntoIerdbIe

Nothing is more important, in terms OF the
Nations security, than our atomic program. Yet,
since the beginning of the year, that program
has been thrown off schedule and slowed down
by a rash of construction strikes over relatively
inconSequential issues between contracting
companies and unions belonging to the Aneri-
can Federation of Labor. The situation adds
up to glaring example of sheer Irresponsible
ty-irresponsibility of kind that our country
simply cannot afford to tolerate in this period
of grave world tension.
After all, these work stoppages are not like
work stoppages delaying the completion Of an
apartment house or an ordinary office building
As Chairman Gordon Dean Of the Atomic Energy
Commission has declared in urgently worded
kilograms to the companies involved and to
President William Green of the AFL, what is
threatened here is time schedule of vital i'm
portance to the safety of the United States and
the rest of the free world. On two of the key
construction projects-the gaseous diffusion
plant near Paducah, Kentucky, and the special
chemical plant at Dana Indiana-upwards of
$4,000 manhours of labor have been lost beyond
recovery In the past few months. The serious
ness of the loss rests in the fact that the
Paducah facilities-where the latest in long
series OF strikes has just been settled-must be
built as fast as possible to increase the output
of fashionable material for A-weapons and that
the undertaking at Dana has an equ3lly high
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Food for squirrels?

Most people think OF nuts. and they
would be right, but these pleasant AMI
mails eat almost anything.
Lack of acorns this fall and winter.
due to the drought in many places.
need net harm the squirrels if their
friends will keep them supplied with
other foods.
HID. A. of Takoma Park, Md, asks:
What in the world will the squirrels
do this year?
after a bumper crop of acorns last
season, my trees have none on them at
all this autumn.
II have gone down into the woods
and find the oaks there have no acorns
1.-THE squirrels around here have eaten
apples as long as they lasted. but now
are running to the end OF each limb
searching for the nuts that do not
seem to exist.
what can do for these poor hungry
little creatures?"
IF I throw out peanuts the blue
jays snatch them all too quickly.
"Can squirrels exist on anything else
but nuts?"
The best way to feed the squirrels is
to feed the birds.
Thousands of Washingtonians and
residents of the Metropolitan Area have
found this out in recent years.
p While there are few hard dgu1ss on
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EvoIuutes Eisenhower

DR.. Mattingly, in his letter. Septem-
ber IS, says that either political party
nominating Gen. Eisenhower is guar
anteed victory. He gives as his prlnc1-
pal reasons: The general has no polltl-
cal leanings, and has been used to dis
cipline. The two qualities mentioned.
together with the fact that the general
Is a New Dealer, spell defeat for the
party he adopts.
A man who has no opinions OF his
own concerning important domestic and
foreign questions of the day, or If ne
has any, has not nerve enough to tell
the people where he stands. would be
out Of place in the White House. AT
no time in history has there been greater
need for an Andrew Jackson or Theo-
dore Roosevelt than today.
Gen. Eisenhower was present when
Roosevelt, at Yalta, sold the country
down the river" He was also present
when Gen. Patton was ordered not to
take Berlin at the proper time. He has
said nothing about either. Lucky will
be the party that will have nothing to
do with the general next year.
John Barber.
DR.. Mattingly gave me great deal Of
encouragement to hope and believe that
we are soon to reach the end of long,
rough and improbable road, the road
toward bankruptcy ever since F. D. r..
attempted to deficit-spend us into pros
perity in 1888.
wish DR.. Mattingly's words could be
printed in letters foot high and pasted
on every billboard in the United States,
and am quite willing to make quite a
substantial contribution toward doing
just that. I don't think that message
would need any editing or amending;
just publish it to the world as 1t ap-
peared in The Star.
II, on election day. I am confronted
with a choice of voting for either Taft
or Truman, just don't know what I
would do Not to vote at all Is not much
of an answer; would have q very diff
cult time to make up my mind what
to do.
So far as I am personally concerned,
it would make no difference what party
nominated Eisenhower, but do think
1t would be easier for him to unload the
dead wood, the rotting, fostering mess
that has held over from Roosevelt and
been greatly added to by the Missouri
gang" under Truman, If Ike was NOM
mated by the Republicans.
Albert d. Rust.
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Brother Act in the Federal Spotlight
By WiIIiom A. MiIIen

CRIMINALS who have tripped crossing
~ the path Of Clyde A. Tolson. asso-
ciate director Of the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation. can hardly be blamed for
contemplating bitterly that lone Tolson
in Government service is too many" But
actually there are two. and brothers at
that. and their careers have followed
quite similar patterns.
While Clyde operates in the Justice
Department. as second in command to
j. Edgar Hoover, his brother, Hillory A.
Tolson holds down an executive desk
in the Interior Department. serving as
assistant director Of the National Park
Service. The brother act is not unusual
in Federal service, but seldom do
brothers climb the same ladder so
nearly in cadence.
Pre-Truman MiSSourianS on the
Washington scene, both served in the
War Department. both got large share
Of their education at night while in
Government jobs and both served in
the FBI. Both were admitted to the
United States Supreme Court in october,
1885, Stanley Reed, then Solicitor Gen.
eral, now q Supreme Court Justice,
moved their admission.
Hillory studied 10 years at night to
obtain bachelor and master of arts de-
grees from George Washington Uni
versity and bachelor and master Of
laws and master Of patent law degrees
from National University.
Clyde attended night classes for seven
and half years to get his bachelor
of arts and bachelor Of laws degrees
from George Washington
The brothers were born near Laredo,
Mo-. Hillory on October "a. 1897, and
Clyde on May %, 1900. They spent
their early years in Iowa. when the
family home was shifted to Cedar Rapids.
Soon after he was discharged from the
Marines in World War I, Hillory entered
the War Department in 1919, assigned
to the war plans division. For time
he was in the Panama Canal organiza-
ton here. He was with the FBI in 1882.
but transferred in 1888 to the National
Park Service and has been there ever
since. He Started in the legal division
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Science Marches On
J.. H. b.

I have followed your space Cadet
discussion with interest, and agree Wit"
your correspondent c. L. John ae0ut
keeping an open mind even towaro the
subject of flying saucers. Progress has
always had to lift its head amid the
ieers of those who hug precedent! May
I add couple more observations OF the
type to make the lower jaw drop open?
What about the DelaWarr camera OF
oxford, England? According to a re-
cent English publication the revelation
of it was first given out early this year
before meeting of the London Psyche
somatic Research Association. 1t is
claimed that behind and supporting all
material or "seen" things are "traceries
and radiations" invisible until this
camera has revealed them by, in the
words of its inventor George DelaWarr,
"a modulation of cosmic energy" The
result is when such things as lily seed,
for instance. are photographed X-ray-
like Outlines Of bulb, roots, stem and
flower also appear In the picture"
The astounded audience was shown
photographs taken of ordinary tap water
which, after a religious ceremony had
been performed over it, revealed clearly
a bright cross of light on the water.
invisible except to this camera. A re-
cent letter from DR.. Corte, one of the
staff scientists, states that its greatest
use is expected to be in the medical
field "for Photographic confirmation OF
a diagnosis"
And now--hold onto your bucket
seats-a group in Northern England.
which has been working for about three
years under the name of the Spirit Elec-
tronic Communication Society, believes
it will be possible to make mechanical
hookup with the next plane of exist
ence, with the so-called dead. Science
is pushing far up into ultra-high fire.
quencies, and who is bold enough to
say where our discoveries will stop?
There are, in fact a number OF groups
in a number of countries who are work.
ing on this fantastic thing but they
Evening star., 1951-10-01
By THE HASKN SERVICE.

@. How much does it cost to produce
a postage stamp?-H. S. L.
A. The Post Office Department says
that this depends on the number and
size of the stamp. The latest cost for
commemorative stamp of special-de-
livery size was 248 cents per thousand.
@. What were Abraham Lincoln's last
words?-M. T.
"A. Lincoln never spoke after he was
shot. His last words were, "She won't
think about it," spoken to his wife in
reference to Miss Harris, daughter of
the Senator from New York, who was
with them in the box at Ford's Theater.
Mrs. Lincoln was seated close to her
husband and had leaned upon him, and
this led to her question, What will Miss
Harris think Of my hanging on you SOP"
@. What is Theon's tooth?-M. G.
A. The bite of an ill-natured or car
ping critic. so called from the mordant
writings Of Theon, satirical poet Of
ancient Rome.
Q. What was the largest whale ever
captured?-F. "
A. During the summer of 1882, a
blue whale was taken in the Antarctic
which measured 106 feet in length and
weighed more than 100 tons. The blue
whale is the largest species and it weighs
roughly ton for every foot of it's length.
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One-City Series

Not content with monopolizing the main
event, New York has opened World Series
sideshow that rivals the big show itself as an
end-of-the season baseball attraction. The
play-of for the National League pennant be-
tween the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York
Giants may have an anticlimactic effect on the
final showdown for baseballs championship.
Certainly baseball, being crowded from the
sports scene by collegiate and professional foot
ball, has determined to bow out in blaze Of
excitement Interest of the fans outside of New
York would have Jagged if each league had pro-
duced an easy winner, each from the big city.
But the Yankees were forced to fight until the
last stages of the American League campaign
and the National League battle turned into one
of the most breath taking in baseball history
Only last August the Dodgers seemed to be
safely out in front of all contenders in the older
circuit, with lead of 1871 games. Then things
began to happen. The Giants began to win
games with amazing regularity and the margin
separating them from the Buns dwinded.
Yesterday came the crucial test for both
contenders. Each needed win to remain in
the race. If both won, tie would result The
Giants took close one from the Boston Braves
and Brooklyn fought 1t out with the Phillies
for IA nerve-racking innings before home run
by Jackie Robinson gave the Dodgers the deci-
sion, 9-6. For many sports lovers the struggles
of the New York teams overshadowed the tele-
vised football game of the Redskins, who lost a
lively contest to the Detroit Lions, and the final
games of the luckless Mats, who divided a
double header at Griffith Stadium The play-off
in New York will be -out-of-three affair.
Chances are the little series will draw crowds
as large as the inter-league playoff, which
begins next Thursday. Any way one looks at it,
the Yankees are sitting pretty. Already favored
for the championship, they can rest while their
prospective opponents use up their energy in
trying to beat each other.
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GAIT and the Czechs

The United States has now received what
might be called a special international clearance
for intensifying its economic squeeze on Com
munist CzechoSlovakia The clearance has come
in the form of favorable vote-at Geneva,
Switzerland-by the overwhelming majority Of
the Contracting Parties to the General Agree
ment on Tariffs and Trade.
Under this agreement, which is popularity
known as GAIT, more than score of countries
are obligated to refrain from discriminatory
trade practices against each other. Like the
United States, Czechoslovakia is signatory,
having been brought into the organization before
the Red satellite regime seized power in Prague.
Accordingly that regime has put on quite
propaganda show at Geneva in an effort to make
the obligatory clauses apply to Czech American
commercial relations.
The show, however, has failed. With four
absentions, GAIT has voted, "a to the Com
munist Czech delegate being the lone dissenter-
In support of the American thesis that Czecho-
slovakia has long since nullifed the agreement,
that total incompatibility exists between that
country and our own, and that therefore the
United States is at liberty to suspend its obli-
cations as regards trade with the Czechs. In
effect this authorizes us to discriminate against
them in the export-import field.
Presumably, with this legal sanction, our Gov
ernment will act accordingly. At his press con-
ference here the other day, the Czech ambas
sador gave the impression that his Red bosses
In Prague might be willing to discuss the release
of William Oats if we made trade concessions.
But the fact that our representative at Geneva
argued for action to the contrary-and got it
indicates that increased economic pressure is
likely to be the American answer to all such
suggestions of blacknlail from Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Recorders-of Votes and Deeds

It is clear that President Truman, busy man
that he is, has found time to study history. He
thus has made himself familiar with the noble
traditions and precedentS associated with filling
the Office of Recorder of Deeds for the District
of Columbia, as shown by the appointment just
announced.
The first qualification for this job estab-
lished by long line of decisions in party head
quarters, is that the man chosen to fill 1t must
not be resident of the District of Columbia,
where the people have no vote The people of
the District of Columbia should be satisfied to
furnish, as they do the tax revenue which sup
ports the Recorder of Deeds in style to which
he soon becomes accustomed
The second qualification is that the person
selected for the job must meet the rigid require
ments of the merit system. The merit system
is one that has been devised to unload deserving
politicians onto the public payroll.
A desirable qualification is that the ap-
pointee come from Kansas City, Missouri That
was shown by a previous Recorder of Deeds who
distinguished himself by travel between Wash
ington and the Missouri region. He spent only
q part of his time recording deeds in Washing
ton. Much of his time was spent recording votes
in Missouri The immediate past Recorder of
Deeds did a considerable amount of travelling
between Washington and Philadelphia. Travel
is a broadening influence on Recorder of Deeds
and evidently it pays returns around election
time.
In this most recent appointment the Presi-
dent has selected man named Earl Wayne Beck
of Kansas City. He knew Mr.. Truman back in
the Pendergast days and has the reputation of
being a faithful laborer in the vineyard which
produced our President The President is fortu-
nate in being able to select one who not only
meets the requirements of Office, but is an old
friend as we'll We have in Washington, large
circle of the Presidents old friends from Missouri
and Mr.. Beck in rejoining them, will be pleased
to know that according to the papers they are
getting along just fine.
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of the chief counsel's Office. and later
took charge of the housekeeping aspects
Of the Park Service-fiscal. personnel
and other activities. Hillory has been
acting director of the Park Service OF
and on. He is one of those fellows who
really likes his work. and sincere love
for the Nations parks has resulted in
his turning down job offers in other
fields.
Clyde came to Washington In 1918 as
a clerk in the Office Of the Chief OF Staff,
War Department. A yean later he trans
ferred to the Adjutant Generals Once
and in November. 1920, he was moved
to the Secretary of Wars Office. where ne
served as confidential secretary to New
ton D. Baker. John w. Weeks and Dwight
F. Davis.
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To q Small Town, in October

A gypsy must haze Slunbered in your
heart
Without our knowing it until October
Came suddenly and 1Doke her tDith
start a.
For noao you laugh Dith US, ,Dho Dere
so sober,
And noto you dress ertrauaoantly. Uho
Dore
The quiet garb of little toiDns. Some
how
1t is as ii you had not heard before
A strain which sets your feet ndudnc-
ing noiD,-
And tDe ,0ho thought you lovely, euen
1Dhile
your gypsy slept, are properly en-
tr1nced
By color and sprigttliness and caretree
smile.
But oh, iDe should be lonely, If you
danced
And played this gayer role around the
year,
For the uery quietness that makes you
dear.
r Eloine Y. Emons. A
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Love Thy Neighbor'

The serious problems confronting
America and the human race as whole
today, should compel us to think deeply
and try to find ways to avert disaster.
The possibility Of cordial relationship
between ourselves and others should be
carefully considered. The command "love
your neighbor :" need not be a
pleasant dream.
Heine, the poet, was only half Joking
when he described his notion of happi-
ness. my Wishes" he said. "are a
humble dwelling, good bed. good food.
flowers at my window, and some fine tall
trees in my yard. And If the good God
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Later, due to his legal background.
he applied for appointment as special
agent in the FBI. After training in
1928 he was assigned to the Boston FB1
Office, but so outstanding was his work
that Director Hoover made him chief
clerk of the bureau. In 1929. he became
an inspector, the youngest in point OF
service ever named in the bureau, OH
cials say. He was made an assistant
director in January, 1881. He showed
marked ability as an organizer and par
ticipated in the solution Of many major
criminal and kidnapping cases. He has
had major hand in policy making, in
telligence. security. counter-espionage
and anti-sabotage, with worldwide i'm
plications.