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Evening star., 1951-08-04
Share and Share Alike

BY approving amendment to the Hospital
Center Act of 1946, the House has sought to
correct an injustice done local hospitals that
were excluded from the benefits of the act. The
original legislative proposal for hospital center
here would have extended the special Federal aid
not only to the three hospitals joining in the
center project but to other private hospitals as
we'll However the House amended the 1946 bill
on the floor so as to restrict the financial help to
Emergency, Garfield and Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospitals These institutions are part
ners in the plan for great medical center here.
The amendment just passed by the House
is designed to restore the legislation to its orig
inal scope 1t would enable such hospitals as
Sbey, Casualty Providence, Children's and
Homeopathic to obtain Federal aid beyond the
Hill-Burton funds for remodeling or expansion
of their present plants. AS approved by the
House, Federal advance of up to so per cent OF
the cost of a project would be authorized, the
remainder to be paid by the institution itself
But the District would have to repay 80 per cent
of the Federal advance within 33l5. years. with
out interest.
This is Just an authorization bill, not an
appropriation measure. The 1946 act authorized
total of $35 million for the center, but not all
of hat sum would be needed for that project.
1t is estimated that about $12 million would be
available, when appropriated, for hospitals out
side the center This is share e-and-share- alike
bill that merits favorable action by the Senate.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Brumidi Bum Artist?

When will some qualified critic come
right out and tell us just how bad
are the paintings done in the Capitol
by the italian Brumidi?
There's no word on the subject from
a man or woman of the stature in art
of the curator of the Mellon Gallery,
John Walker
Instead we have to take the word
of an Arizona Congressman'S wife, who
appears to have wasted a lot of time
becoming a specialist on Brumidis
works. II nothing else, she has pointed
out for all to see just why the world
hastened to forget the man who mutt
lated our Capitol with bum art 70
years ago.
A real sense of shame comes over
any American who sees the paintings
in England's Parliament and remembers
what he has at home.
I say let's get a proper art commission
to pass judgment on the paintings. My
guess is the commission would recon-
mend scraping down to bare mortar
and starting all over again. Although a
Republican, this is one expense / would
cheer.
Citizen.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Petitions

Fer1rl0nS
The bright idea Of Bill Evjue, editor
of the Capital Times. Madison, Wis.
deserves more than the lofty rejection
given it in The Stars editorial. THE
Right to Be Let Alone" July 80.
1t is startling to discover a modern
newspaper so casual with it's denuncia-
ton of the sacred right of petition. as
if this cornerstone of Western civiliza-
ton and modern democracy as we know
it suddenly had lost its usefulness.
The right of petition is the founda-
ton of the initiative and referendum
process, used by many States for so
important task as amendment Of the
State constitution. So closely associated
with citizen participation in village,
county, and city government is the
right of petition that it is difficult to
imagine responsible Americans in these
local areas who have only a limited
means Of protest. The vote in periodic
elections is based upon the premise that
other means are available to enlight-
ened individuals to make their opinions
felt. The recall Of elective officials and
the impeachment process also rest upon
the determination to make popular
action the ultimate test of republican
government.
believe the fundamental right Of
protest to be firmly rooted in experience
and belief and find little difficulty in
choosing it over the passive, impotent
right" to mind my own business.
Wisconsin Citizen.
You say that people are becoming
"tardily skepticar' about signing petit
tiors, and give this as the main rea-
son which you feel justified their action.
But I think we need to go much
further than that. It seems to me you
munist threat goes. What a great
chance you had to point out that
the American people are becoming wise
to the deceptive, underhand tactics of
the Communists. What q chance to
commend them for their good sense and
wise patriotism if. knowing there was
Communist peace petition being circu-
lated in the same crowd, asking fer
removal of American troops from
Korea" they refused to be the dupeS!
1t was not just that they are tired of
petitions; the point is they were alert,
they used their heads. And they used
them better than the President did in
making his point, and better than the
fellow did who wrote his copy for him.
for they did not think at ALL or if they
did think. were doing so in pink haze.
But please don't be myopic yourself.
as I have noticed that you are some
times in your editorials on the possibility
of making satisfactory and lasting
agreements with the Soviets.
Horace c. LukenS.
Vienna, Va.
The editorial, Right to Be Let Alone"
seems to me 100 per cent good, sound
common sense. If some strange char
acter accosts me in park or anywhere
else and asks for my name on a petit
ton, would unfailingly tell him to
scram. So would any other average re-
sponsible individual who is careful
where he puts his signature.
L. ]. Kiernan.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
By Charles E. TroceweN

ton to him than they had to Julius.
Maltie, a gray, showed up then, along
with Amber, a yellow striped cat.
Little Gray, very much striped. poked
an inquiring face through screen of
fading day lily leaves.
Last Of the feline population to come
watch the robin family eating (and being
fedD worms was Possum, so named be-.
cause OF his general overall resemblance
to that animal of the woods and
meadows.
At this point that cat hater, Of whom
there are few about, will rise up to ask:
We'll, how many of the robins did
those brutes catch?"
The answer is:
Not one Of those brutes caught .
robin"
The cats watched the proceedings for
several minutes, then one by one de-
parted to the mysterious doings Of their
tribe.
The robin parents huShed their sharp
warning calls, the babies chirped for
more worms, the mother and father obe-
diently dipped their strong bills into
the earth and pulled up wriggling offer
ings to their offsprings' greed, and the
twilight began to gather.
It was a page out Of nature, and a
good page, the kind it Is easy to see,
sometimes difficult to remember when
We see the opposite and grow red In the
face over 1t.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Six cats and six robins

Six cats and six robins
Not a good combination, some might
think, but the robin family didn't feel
that way about 1t.
Nor did the six cats, as far as any one
could tell from the outside.
After ALL watching the natural crea-
lures is special act, and no participant
can be sure of much.
He simply takes what he sees and
makes the best of it. Usually it is very
good.
Those who put too much stress on the
perhaps even do some harm.
The good in nature, as in life, out
weighs the bad.
The grass was green where the six
robins came out for an evening Of eating.
Father and mother, and four young
This was the simple bird family.
All the members were of size, except
the parents had slightly deeper chests
and color.
The babies were larger. even, than
their parents, and were far hungrier.
They were at that interesting stage
where though they could rustic up food
for themselves they still preferred ITO
have paw and NAV do it.
In birdland, they have no names for
anything.
Father is not father, mother Is not
Evening star., 1951-08-04
By Edword J. Nicholson

THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
l. has acquired a husky eX-Marine
with extensive diplomatic, military and
industrial experience as director of the
So billion public works construction
program at home and abroad.
Edward T. Dickinson, 40-year-old
secretary to the little cabinet group of
Army, Navy and Air Force secretaries
has been assigned to oversee the
building of new ipstallations from New
Hampshire and Newfoundland to the
Middle East and the Western Pacific.
Mr.. Dickinson's job, expected to last
year. is the latest in a career that
started with cafeteria dishwa$hing
job in the Bronx, New York, in June
1882, the month he was graduated from
Yale.
From the Bronx and dishwashing,
Mr.. Dickinson moved to a Brooklyn
bank whose responsibilities included the
finances of the Brooklyn Dodgers base
ball club. Then he sold insurance for
two years in Manhattan, going on to
the United States Steel Corp. as execu-
tive assistant to the late Edward r..
oCClL1llIuS, JI., JIICIl UUdlQ CIldA IlldLl
to take charge of research.
Il guess that I'm the only Yale man
who received his degree and a certif1-
cate from the New York City govern
ment qualifying me as dishwasher
in the same month";" Mr. Dickinson
observed
Furthermore, I landed in govern
ment as the result of a task assigned
to me by the steel company"
That was in 1939-40. when Mr. Dick
inson was sent to Washington to report
or the New Deals temporary National
Economic Commission. Mr.. Dickinson
encountered such prominent New Deal
economists as Leon Henderson and
Robert r. Nathan.
The next thing he knew, his employ
ers in Pittsburgh were asked to lend
lease him to Donald NJ. Nelson, director
OF the War Production Board, for a
planning assignment This led to Mr.
Dickinson's appointment as chairman
of WPB's Executive Committee, which
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Increasing Federal Pay

The Federal pay-increaSe bill approved by
the House Civil Service Committee has an i'm
portant advantage over the plan favored by the
Senate Civil Service Committee. The House bill
would require non-defenSe agencies to absorb
the cost of the increases by reducing their pay
roll lists. Experience with a similar requirement
in 1948 shows that this reduction can be done
painleSsly and without serious impairment OF
governmental functions. Most agencies should
be able to compensate for the increase by the
simple method of not filling vacancies as they
occur during the normal attrition processes
The scooe of the absorption program would
depend on how many agencies are classified in
the -"defenSe" category. The bill would leave
this decision to the President. A great many
bureaus outside of the Pentagon have defense
work of one sort or another. AS a matter OF
fact, few would be willing to admit that their
operations have no relation to national security.
If any substantial part of the pay cost actually
is to be absorbed the President would have to
draw a firm line between bona hde defense
activities and the fringe variety.
The House measure also would include Dis
trct employees in the raise, an act of fairness
not provided for in the Senate bill
In one respect, however the Senate bill is
to be preferred to that reported to the House.
Whereas the House bill calls for straight $400
across the board increase, the Senate measure
would apply an "a per cent raise to all grades.
The effect of the percentage plan would be to
preserve the balance Of the pay structure as
adjusted so painstakingy in the Redistribution
Act. $400 increase for all grades, as the
President and the Civil Service Commission have
pointed out, would give the lower grades
greater raise, percentagewiSe, than the upper
grades and thus would tend to upset the balance
so recently established. The House committee
defended the fiat sum as a coSt-of-living bonus
merited by all employees. But if this is to be
cost-of-living grant it should be a temporary
raise, keyed to present conditions. 1t would be
mistake to grant permanent "cost-of-livng"
increase as the House committee proposes to do.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Loss to Cleveland Park

The death of Julian B. Boiling re-
moves from our midst the last Of the
three persons who played conspicuous
part in securing the branch library for
the Cleveland Park community. He was
the first chairman of the Library Com
mittee of the Connecticut Avenue Cit
liens Association, when the movement
to raise $4,000 for purchase of the Ii
brary lot at Macomb and Newark streets
and Connecticut avenue was initiated.
In that endeavor he was ably assisted
by Mrs. Catherine Coblentz, affection
ately called the mother of the library
movement. who recently left us. When
Mr. Boiling, due to illness, laid down his
Office, it was taken up by Dean w. c.
Ruediger of George Washington Univer-
sity, who carried the campaign to a
successful end. DR.. Ruediger was the
first Of the trio to die.
Congress has just passed the District
appropriation bill. which carries an
item of 1896, 5000 for the construction of
the Cleveland Park Branch Library
building. This sum will provide build
ing with library facilities only. Mr..
Boiling, Mrs. Coblentz. Dean Ruediger
and the Citizens Association, as we'll as
the Cleveland Park Community Com
mittee, of which Mrs. Cazenove Lee is
chairman. all united in the movement
to raise funds for a community and Ii
brary building. Such building was
promised the officers of the Citizens
Association when they turned over to
the District Commissioners the $4,000
they had raised.
No community in Washington stands
more in need of community building
than Cleveland Park, and it is the hope
of all who live in that area and in
Woodley Park that eventually the build
ing will be enlarged so as to provide the
promised community facilities-an au-
ditorium, rooms for community activi-
ties, and so on When that comes, the
building will be monument to the un-
selfish and energetic community spirit
of the three persons who did more than
all others to bring it into existence.
Harry c. Grove,
President Emeritus. Connecticut
Avenue Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Letters to The Star .

This peace, following UNESCO'S consti-
tuition must be based on moral and
ethical responsibility among nations.
In the short range there stands out
UNESCO's work in educational rehabili-
tation: in coupon plans leading to self
help through books and materials; in
prompt educational assistance to coun-
tries devastated or newly formed; in
assistance to Japan and Germany; in
the exchange of persons needed to build
up the resources of friendly nations: in
the strengthening of schools, labora-
tories and libraries; in joint programs
with the Food and Agriculture OrganiZa-
ton and the World Health Organization.
In the long run, such massive chain
reaction programs as the education of
illterarcy and the popularization Of
science should make a tremendous diff
ference in populations partly dependent
upon us. We depend upon them to be-
come strong allies in the future. With
out education widely accepted and
utilized, especially in technology, much
of our technical assistance program will
prove barren.
UNESCO stresses self-help, maximum
cooperation, utilization of local re-
sources and exchanges of persons. It
does not rely on sizable aid in cash.
Hence, it should multiply its influence q
hundred or even a thousand fold
UNESCO is already a going concern
with high standards of efficiency in
program and administration. 1t is we'll
stated. Most of its support in the
United States is channeled through the
U. S. National Commission and it's
numerous afiliates representing a total
membership of over $4,000 900 persons.
In my judgment, UNESCO is one
of the best modern examples of the
ability of like-minded persons and
agencies to get together to do something
original and practical in the field of
international relations.
George D. StOddard,
Chairman, U. S. National Commits
sion for UNESCO.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
UNESCO

Regarding the article on UNESCO
Omitted Nations Educational. Scientific
and Cultural Organization) by Marcel
Wallenstein in the July IS issue of your
newspaper, would like to offer the fol-
lowing comments to correct any mis-
taken impressions which the article may
have engendered
The usefulness of UNESCO and its
ability to attack both immediate and
long-range problems has again been
demonstrated by actions of the sixth
session of the General Conference for
UNESCO. AS an arm of the UN,
UNESCO is winning friends for the free
nations of the world. 1t now has 81
members. There is no tendency to
spread out in cost or in developing
minor projects. The program is thor
oughly tested. It is devoted to the basic
ends of UNESCO, namely. to enlist the
support of education science, COM
munication and the arts in an all
out effort toward stable world peace.
Evening star., 1951-08-04

most good in terms of placing plane output on
an assembly line basis. The evidence shows that
a marked acceleration is needed to make a
95-group Air Force a reality in the months ahead.
Meanwhile, until we have that-and with it the
productive means for large-scale automatic
expanSion-all talk about building up to $50
or more groups will seem rather academic OF
course, such move, if 1t is to be made, must
be decided upon, and planned for now, but we
cannot expect vast increase in the size of the
USAF without great deal of hard and pro-
tracted work in the producing field.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
First We Need the IS

There has been a good deal of talk lately
about expanding the United States Air Force
on u gigantic scale aimed at building it up to
$50 or 200 groups of bombers and fighters OF all
types. But whether or not this idea is sound
and certainly a persuasive case can be made
for considerable expanSion-it seems at the
moment to be just little bit premature from
the standpoint of actual output, as distinct from
paper planning. This is so because of the down.
to-eartb fact that right now our production ma
chine is hard pressed to meet the needs of even
a 95-group USAF.
An Air Force of that size is the goal we have
been working toward as part of the Nations
overall program of limited mobilization and
stepped-up rearmament. But apparently we are
still quite a distance from the goal. In fact,
according to some unofficial but informed esti-
mates our output of military planes is far be-
hind the schedule set by the Office of Defense
Mobilizat ation-perhaps at least 20 per cent be-
hind AS a result lot of effort and special
measures-Such as the placing of production
orders with Canada-will be required If we are
to have a 95-group USAF nearly as quickly as
the country's security demands.
One of the big bottleneckS has been in the
field of machine tools. AS Defense Mobilizer
Charles E. Wilson has pointed out in his last
quarterly report to the President, these tools
are indispensable to aSSembly-line production,
but there has been lag in their output. The
shortage must now be overcome as fast as pos
sible The sooner it u.s. the sooner will the Air
Force together with the Navy, begin to receive
Jets and other new types of planes in the guam
titles needed to attain the present relatively
modest expansion goal. To that end, Mr.. Wilson
has called upon Harold R. Boyer to head Spe-
cial board charged with the task of getting
things rolling.
Mr. Boyer, Director of Engineering for the
General Motors Corporation, is mass-produc-
ton expert who knows how to smash bottle
necks In his new job he can be counted upon
to bring pressure to bear wherever it Wall do the
Evening star., 1951-08-04

planned the conversion of American in
dustry to all-out war mobilization basis
Once that planning work was COM
pleted, MI. Dickinson tried to get into
uniform, despite a White House order
freezing key civilian officials in their
governmental jobs. Mr.. Dickinson was
accepted by the Marine Corps commits
stoned a second lieutenant, and assigned
to Maj Gen. William J. Donovan's Office
of Strategic Services.
Much of what the young man did in
wartime is classified in the archives of
Central Intelligence, but it is known
that he went into France before the
D day landings in Normandy as part
of an Anglo American intelligence team
that achieved a distinguished record.
With his return to civilian life as
reserve lieutenant colonel, Mr. Dickinson
has had about years duty in private
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Green Hills

Sometimes I see ShadoD slip
Across dear friends face
When recall our youthtine joys,
or long-remembered place.
But young friends smile a knotoino
smile
No doubt they haze been told
1t is the sureSt sign of all
That one is grotoing old.
Nor seem to know that looking back
Is but to climb once more,
Green hills grown oreener still than they
Had ever seemed before!
Inez Clark Thorson.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Boss of Bases in the Wild Blue Yonder

life-as an executive of j. Arthur Ranks
international motion picture production
enterprises. He was called back into
Government in 1948 by Paul G. Hoff-
man, then organized the Economic Co
operation Administration.
Mr.. Dickinson quickly became known
to the press corps as head Of an ECA
division that did the banking" chores
of the multibillion dollar foreign eco
nomic aid program. He dealt with the
foreign technical and procurement mis-
sions sent to Washington to explain
how much they needed to rebuild their
national economies, how they would use
the money, and to what extent they
would restore their farm and industrial
production to prewar levels. AS a key
aide to Mr.. Hoffman, Mr.. Dickinson
travelled throughout Western and South
ern Europe, checking up on the use of
such Americna help.
More than year ago, as the empha-
sis switched from economic to military
aid, following ratification Of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mr.. Dick
inson's travels were extended to the Far
East. He was sent to Indo- China, Siam,
Burma, Malaga, Indonesia, Formosa and
India to report on the military needs
Of non-C Communist Southeastern Asia.
He also was one of the three-man inter-
departmental co-ordinatnig committee
set up to work out the military -aid-to-
Europe scheme known as MDAP, Mu-
tual Defense Aid Program.
Mr.. Dickinson also has been testifying
frequently on Capitol Hill in closed
door committee sessions on the justi-
fication for outlays to help countries
build up their resistance potential
against Communist aggression.
Mr.. Dickinson emphasizes that the
Defense Department is not seeking to
build an iron ring" around Russia, as
the new military public works program
has been described
I'VE found in ECA that the weaker
a nation is the more susceptible it is
to Communist penetration. What has
been accomplished in Greece and Turkey
is to strengthen the free world in the
Levart, not to put ourselves into a posi-
ton to attack any one"
North American Newspaper AlIiance)
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Questions 0nd Answers

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Of fact by writing The Evening Star Informa-
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Evening star., 1951-08-04
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. When was the Purdue football
team practically annihilated in train
wreck?-A. M. H.
A. In 1903 On the way to the Indi-
ana game, a train wreck killed or In
jured most Of the Purdue men.
@. Was Helen of Troy real person?
A. G. /.
A. She was not real person but
character of ancient Greek mythology.
Helen was the most beautiful woman
in Greece, and indirectly the cause
of the Trojan war.
O. Do more men or women suffer from
arthritis?-E. E.
A. Arthritis is said to affect more
women than men. 1t is said that there
are 100000 arthritics in the United
States.
@. How many eggs should be eaten
per day in a well-balanced diet? -
E. G. G.
A. One egg per day per person is
the allowance for an abundant diet.
Evening star., 1951-08-04

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