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Evening star., 1951-01-24

A Spring Valley correspondent speaks
Of turtle doves. as well any one might,
for there are few better birds
Usually there are a few in every
suburban neighborhood in winter.
Over in Arlington sometimes they
have as many as 40 doves at time.
The wonderful thing is that two to
four are just as good to see.
Here is a fine creature, with face
rather on the stupid side, but with plenty
of brains behind it.
After all, there is no law requiring a
song bird to be beautiful.
Song bird, the fat old dove?
OF course! It is simply classification
of birds with a certain number OF
throat muscles.
The turtle or Carolina dove is not
much Of singer, perhaps, but he does
have voice, and pretty one, too.
Rather on the mournful side, the
doves voice, but one blending into the
home landscape.
Just how or why this plaintive "coo,
90, 90, oo'' seems to combine so well
with the landscape is something left to
each individual hearer.
That it really does so is attested by
thousands of listeners over the years.
It is q voice which, though ON the
plaintive side. also combines undertones
OF affection.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
This and That
Louise Haskell.

Yet the birds are not very loyal to
each other, except at mating time.
The nest is rude affair, and yet
it manages to do.
The young birds are cared for with
respect and are made happy by their
father and mother.
Doves on platforms, in large cages,
were among the pioneer pictures.
Since that day people have stopped
caging them. The world does get better,
in some respects.
It doesn't seem to make much diff
ference to these birds. They go right
ahead living around our homes, seldom
seen in summer, but always heard, es-
pecially at evening.
If one wants to see as well as hear
the dove, feeding station will draw
them to the ground.
Other species, and smaller, fly up at
their approach. but there is no real
fear. All return quickly.
Blue jays seem to be afraid of the
dove. and are often driven away by the
latter The idea that doves are gentle.
as songs say, gets setback with this
native American specimen. He is any,
thing but gentle, a fighter, if need be.
running with his head stuck out at jays,
and sometimes at starlings.
The head Of the dove is stupid look
ing, but evidently 1t is large enough to
hold all the brains It needs.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
By Robert T. FolIon

First Lieutenant. 18th Infantry Combat Team
T WANT to tell you something about
a war.
I want you to imagine for moment
that it is a very cold. wet. wintry even
ing at about 10 o'clock You have been
sitting very comfortably by your fireside
reading the evening paper. It's been q
pleasant day, dismal outside, but warm
and restful by the fire. You decide to
step out on the porch for breath of
air before turning in. I'm sure you've
done it often. But on this particular
evening, strange sight greets you.
There's a great hole right in the
middle of your front lawn, and the dirt
has been thrown up all around it, out
lined sharply against the white, even
snow. Squatting in the hole is a
hunched figure.
Let me tell you something about him.
He's been in this area now for about
three weeks. living in dozen holes just
like this one on your front lawn. The
most apparent thing about him is that
he is cold, and that's because out on
your lawn it's about 20 degrees colder
than where you're standing. Every now
and then he'll grab his shovel and dig
q llUCle deeper III Lille IlOlc Juot W hCCP
warm. That's the only way he has. be-
cause he'll be seen If he builds fire,
and he may bring mortar fire into your
living room.
He's been cold for long time-and
wet. He can't feel his feet, and he's
getting worried because he's afraid they
might be frostbitten. It's going to be a
long night, and it's going to get colder.
He's very dirty. The grease from a
hundred &C" rations is frozen to his
parka and gloves, coating the two weeks
beard which covers his face. SCOT from
the small fires he dares to make during
the day is all over his pants and boots.
But he's dirty all the way through.
He hasn't changed his underclothes in
over a month and he doesn't intend to
for some time to come. It's too cold to
go down that far. You can smell him.
and it's bad.
He's pretty hungry. too. They didn't
get his rations up to him until after
dark and he couldn't build a fire to
thaw them out. He'll have to wait until
morning A cup of hot coffee would sure
taste good He looks old with that beard
Evening star., 1951-01-24
The Voice of Wilson College

Like all thoughtful American citizens.
the students Of Wilson College have
been acutely aware of the great danger
in which our Nation and our world now
stand. They have felt that the danger
to America is as great from within as
from without, if not greater. Believing
that it is high time for us all to act with
courage and unity and to cease express
ing our poor little fears and indulging
in disputes, the students of the college
have Endorsed this statement:
America is the strongest Nation in
the world. materially and spiritually
America must now act accordingly
America must at once proclaim her
position before the world, unafraid an5
undismayed, as ready to sustain any
shock that circumstances may bring.
1--WE have announced to the world our
military weakness. our fears of wars,
our hesitation before Soviet power,
our vacillations, our fear of the unknown
This is wrong. We must now announce
our strength-the strength of our pro-
duction lines, the strength of our broad
and fertile fields, the strength of our
unequalled natural resources, the
strength of our educated and reSolute
citizenry.
Let us have done with disputes be-
tween Democrats and Republicans.
between labor and management. Let us
have done with name-calling, with
selfish motives, with villiication, with
jockeying for position, and with the
pursuit of personal advantages. Let us
now be worthy of our greatness and
the crisis that is upon us.
I'VE proclaim that we, as American
citizens. are ready to stand up and be
counted on the side of freedom and
justice. We are ready to do so even if
the consequence be war. We know that
war is terrible but we believe it is not
so terrible as 'appeasement,' so terrible
as cowardice. We are prepared to face
the consequences of courageous action,
whatever they may be- but we are not
prepared to condone policy of expedi-
ency or of weakness. We are ready to
accept an institutional life of mere sur
vival or to accept extinction if need be
rather than to continue to prosper
temporarily under a policy of weakness
which cannot but end in the moral and
material destruction of the Nation.
This is where we stand. We invite
others, citizens and educational insti-
tutions alike, to take their stand with
us-noW"
Paul Swain Havens,
President, Wilson College.
Chambersburg, Pa.
Evening star., 1951-01-24

and sort Of hunched over posture. But
he's only about 10, though not like any
19-year-old you've ever seen.
You may wonder what he's thinking
about as he sits there during those long
solitary hours. Well it's not much. Just
how cold it is and again how nice that
coffee would be. Maybe every now and
then he thinks of home, but that's q
long ways off and the cold, his feet
and his hunger are much more I'M
mediate. You'd be surprised how those
three things can fill your mind.
You notice that he's cut a hole
through your hedge and his rife is
sitting on the pile of dirt pointing in
readiness through the opening. That's
another thing he's thinking: When are
they coming again? He gets little
scared out there all alone. He'd like to
60 over and talk to his buddy in a
similar hole about two houses up, but
it's not good idea to go crawling
around at night. He wishes they weren't
so far apart but it seems they always
have a big sector to cover with never
enough men to cover it. It doesn't help
being so far apart.
What would you like to do with this
man? Ask him in to your flreside. get him
a cup Of coffee? Would you like to loan
him your razor and let him take hot
shower? Give him a bed to sleep in
instead of the dirt and cold of his fox
hole? Sure you would! You wouldn't
think twice about it. But I'm afraid you
can't. There's some one on that hill over
there who wants to get into your front
door, and the man was told by his pla-
toon leader that he's supposed to take
care of your house and the one next door.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Male Nurses Handicapped

With the Nation faced with partial
mobilization the nursing profession again
is being asked to contribute its skills
and services to the military. Nursing
schools throughout the country by means
of an intensive radio campaign are seek
ing $4,000 student nurses to enter schools
of nursing this year.
But the military services at the present
time are not utilizing potential source
of nurses-the registered male nurse
group. Through technicality OF the
one word female" male nurses are not
given commissions in the military serv-
ices, yet the male nurse has all the train
ing and knowledge required OF the
female nurse and is required to pass the
same rigid test for registration, and as
q group male nurses have exceeded the
scholastic average Of their fellow work.
ers Of the opposite sex.
All male nurses in service during
World War II entered the services as
enlisted men, but some did not divulge
the fact that they were registered nurses
because they felt that their chances for
advancement to officer rank were much
better if they were not confined to serve
in the medical branches. A high percent
age of male nurses served as infantry
first-aid men or served in medical units
which did not fully recognize and utilize
their skills and potentials.
In 1945 Representative Bolton Of Ohio
introduced bill which provided for the
granting of commissions to male nurses;
in 1850 Representative Bolton introduced
another bill which contained the same
provision. The 1945 bill was not passed
and in 1850 the bill "died' in commit
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Plantation Ritual

All morning solemn dusky lines had
passed
Along an Avenue of cedarS, up
Betwee7, the tall ap1tite columns for last
VieaD of the sailor, done 1uith sea and
ship.
ON visits home. returned from distant
ports,
His nature, like flame, ,oarmed spery
Within his radius. Noio griepipg hearts
OF friends and kinsn,en k1aow that
1parmth is gone.
Dark forms sidestep the sunken mounds
that mark
GraueS OF their torbears, buried long
ago
Beyond the fence inclosino marbles dark
With centuries. Dark n1ourners io1tch
the SloD,
Sad ritual as old as man. their faces
Rising aboue the palings. The leaven
of sorroa0
Blends into one. children OF alien races
Bound by the past. the present and the
morroD.
Louise crenshow Roy
Evening star., 1951-01-24

So he can't come in and you find that
you can't reach him. He's very far away.
But you come out in the morning and
he's still there, huddled over his little
fire, thawing out his hands and his ra-
tions. trying to get the feeling back into
his feet. BY this time the hole is pretty
deep from all the digging and he's cut
down little more of your hedge. He's
there again when you come home from
work. While you are greeted by COM
Portable fire in a living room. the soldier
Is getting ready for another cold night.
I have told you about this soldier.
and placed him on your front lawn, be-
cause I want you to realize that every
desolate hill that soldier defends in that
far-off land is in reality your front door.
There are people who want to get in to
do you harm, and it's his job to keep
them away. He's going to do his job and
he's not going to ask you to do it for
him. If he has to sit on your front lawn
in the cold, that's just the way things go.
He's not going to begrudge you the COM
forts of your f1reside or your dinner
table, but he'll be mighty bitter if he
finds out that you're not doing your
part of the job
What is your job?" Well, it's not
really important what happen to think
your job" may be. But think it is i'm
portant that you find out soon what it
is and start doing it, for whatever it is,
it's a vital part of a country's struggle
for existence. Perhaps it would be more
clear to you what your job is if you
returned home tonight to find that
hunched. shivering figure sitting in a
hole on your lawn.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
AustroIion Anniversary

The people of Australia, celebrating the
hftieth anniversary Of their nationhood, have
reminded themselves that their federal union
Is the result Of pressure from outside their own
continental terrain. Provincial jealousies kept
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia,
Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania
apart during the nineteenth century. James
Service, Henry Parkes and other wise statesmen
saw the need for unity, but their endeavors were
fruitless until foreign aggression gave them
dramatic significance. French criminals escap-
Ing from the penal settlements of New Caledonia,
raised the question of how to deal with "inva-
sions" of that sort Coincidentally, Germany
was reaching into the Pacific area in a fashion
to create concern in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne
and Brisbane. Fear of further interference of
the same variety was justified when the Germans
forcibly annexed the northern half of New
Guinea and moved to absorb Samoa and the
French manifested designs on the New Hebrides
Islands.
In those days, of course Japan had not yet
become a menace and Communist Russia still
was undreamed of. Yet far-visioned Australians
realized that they lived in a competitive world
and that there was need for them to present a
correlated front. Domestic considerations like
wise were consequential The elimination of
customs between the different states was
gain worth something in itself. But local issues
were not the principal subjects of debate when
dominion status was discussed at the meetings
of 1883 to 1893. The vital problem was common
defense. It was plain that none of the inde-
pendent governments could stand alone. There
was no strategic advantage in isolation. On the
contrary, majority of Australians gradually
came to believe that 1t was a handicap. Curl
ously enough, the farthest removed of the states
Western Australia-was the last to "join up"
In the commonwealth. Queen Victoria's procla-
nation of September II, 1900 gave the westerners
an "out," If they wanted it. They finally chose
to work in close association with their continental
neighbors to the east and confederation thus
became reality and no longer merely pretty
theory on January !, 1901.
Four times since then Australia has sent her
sons to fight for freedom on foreign SOIL Con-
sidering that the population of the entire nation
even now Is only 82 million, It's record as
military factor Is phenomenal. But there can
be no question about the commonwealth's need
10 guard It's civilization effectively. The cele-
heation Of the tiftieth anniversary OF Australian
Evening star., 1951-01-24

unity is shadowed by the Red menace creeping
over Asia. However, the people down UNDER
are by no means dismayed. They are pressing
forward their industrial expansion, their agri-
cultural and grazing enterprises, their use of
aviation, their hydroelectric program in the
Snowy River project. Events have brought them
into friendly aff1iation with the United States
and Canada. So they face the next half century
of their national life with cheerful confidence.
1t is their purpose to merit the best, and they
are busy toiling toward deserving 1t.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Sour Milk Order

The arbitrary action OF the Virginia Milk
Commission in giving Northern Virginia milk
producers and dairies an unrequested half-cent
increase in price calls for more than reconsidera-
tion as urged by the Arlington legislative delega
ton. It calls for an immediate and thorough
going inquiry by Governor Battle, who appoints
the commission and to whom it is required to
report.
When public regulatory agency, in the
midst of Federal preparations for price freeze,
suddenly and gratuitousy hands the milk
industry price boost it did not seek, the con-
sunling public is justified in demanding an
explanation. Among questions which need
answering are: Cd What, if any, connection did
the inflationary milk price order of last Wednes-
day have with the announcement that day by
high Government officials that price-wage
freeze was imminent? ~ Why was the order
rushed into being before all briefs in the recent
milk hearing at Alexandria had been filed?
(3) Why was an increase "forced down the
throats" of the industry (as one dairyman put
1t in expressing his surprise at the gif although
the industry itself testified at the Alexandria
hearing that it would be content with present
prices? "a If an increase in the minds of
the commissioners at the hearing, why was not
that possibility advertised, so as to give con-
sumers an opportunity to state their side of
the case?
There was no suggestion at the Alexandria
hearing that milk price raise was desired by
the industry or contemplated by the commission.
On the contrary, the hearing was presumed to
be the usual prespring consideration of a sea-
sonal price reduction, beginning April 1. Pro-
ducers and dairy interests confined themselves
to a request for maintenance of present milk
price levels after April /, basng this request
rising production and distribution costs.
The three-member Milk Commission is sup
posed to consider the interests of consumers as
we'll as those of producers and distributors. One
of it's members is producer, one a distributor
and one representative of the general consum-
Ing public. The producer-member disassociated
himself from the price order because he serves
the area affected. The consumer-member joined
with the distributor in issuing the order.
How the consumer member could act intelli-
gently without benefit of any testimony as to
the consumers side of the matter is mystery
State Senator Fenwick and Delegates Magru-
der and Damn are absolutely right in contending
milk should not be raised until there has been
q showing of need at public hearing at which
consumers as well as the industry are represented.
The Milk Commission should stay it's hastily
prepared order and call public hearing in
Northern Virginia at which all parties of interest
may have their say about any price increase.
And meanwhile the Governor ought to look into
the circumstances surrounding the extraordinary
action OF the commission last week.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
BY THE HAsKN SERVICE.

@ What is the use to which the re-
fractometer Is put?-B. L. o.
A. The refractometer Is used TO iden.
tify oils and to test the strength Of So
lutions through system Of prisrns. Each
liquid refracts light differently thus
making it possible to determine its
strength as its identity.
@. BY whom was the picture Of WASH
ington, praying at Valley Forge painteda
ID. B.
A. The apocryphal story to the effect
that Washington was seer at Valley
Forge kneeling in the snow has been the
theme developed by a number Of sculp-
tors and illustrators. It was. however,
employed by neither of the painters
Stuart nor Peale. One familiar painting
depicting the episode (Which doubtless
did not occur Is by Henry Brueckner
O. When will the second refund be
paid to veterans of World War II on
their NSLI policies?-A. G. S.
A. A second dividend on National
Service Life Insurance policies will be
paid in 1851. No application will be
necessary. The checks will be mailed
out as soon as possible following the an
niversary date of the policy. It may be
early in March before the first checks
go out.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Poor Management Of Concert

I think that something should be
done about the poor management of
the Freedom Sings" opening concert.
Either the ushers at the door didn't take
tickets or the officials of the concert
issued too many tickets Those of us who
went to the trouble to secure tickets
should at least have had chance at
seats. My party arrived at the hall at
1925 and found it impossible to get
through the door, to say nothing of
seats.
Louise Haskell.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Blaming Press and Rodio

Two of the greatest contributing fac
tors to the spread Of boarding are the
radio commentators and the news
papers, who bring to the attention OF
the public the acts of boarding that
occur.
I recently listened to radio COM
mentator who mentioned two articles
that housewife had reported to him
were being boarded. What effect does
he think such statement is going to
have on his audience? The answer is
obvious!
Many housewives never would have
thought of boarding If the idea had not
been given them over the radio or il
the newspapers.
Jeanetta M. Wright.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Faith to Move Mountains

If we accept biblical teachings, we
know certain great truths: Namely. love
is stronger than hate; patience is greater
than anger; the just triumph over the
unjust; honesty overpowers deceit: SIM
plicity is better than complexity; good
overcomes evil. and. above all, faith in
God is stronger than anything: with
faith we can move mountains.
II we. as Christians, were earnestly
to practice these things on our enc
mics, could we not easily overcome
Communism?
Theodore G.. Clemence.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Its Happening on Your Own Front Lawn

The aDriter of this article. reprinted
from the Richmond VA NeWs
Leader, By special arrangement, is
presently in Walter Reed Hospital, re-
couering from fve bullet aDounds SUI
tered in action IN Korea. His mother,
Mrs. John Fallon, lives at 1882 Jefer-
SON place NV. He attended Wilson
High School and SulliDan Preparatory
School here before moping on to West
Point.
Evening star., 1951-01-24
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers lean get the answer to
any oestion OF fact by either with writing The
NV, Washington 5, D. c., and tnclosing 8 cents
return postage, or by telephoning ST. 5000.
Extension 35S.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-30
REQUEST FOR BIDS

The Board of Directors of the Ju- neau Independent School District invites bids for the furnishing of transportation to school children residing between the Lyle Johnson Home located on the Glacier High way and the Juneau city limits. Transportation is to be furnished from points along this route to the Juneau High School, Juneau Ele- mentary School, and Willoughby Avenue School each day that school is in session. Bids will be received until PM. August ', 1851 in the office of the Superintendent of Schools. Bids will be opened at 7:30 PM August 8, 1851. Detailed information of the services to be rendered may be obtained from the Superintendent of Schools. The Board of Directors of the Juneau Independent School District re- serves the right to reject any or all bids.
 Board of Directors
 Juneau Independent School
 District
 For the Board
 STERLING s. SEARS
 Superintendent. First Publication: July 23, 1851. Last Publication: August 6, 1851.