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sMsqr. Smyth

Victor H-,go might have used the Right Rev.
erend Thomas Gibbons Smyth as the model for
his sanity Bishop of D., the benefactor of
Jean Valjean. A dynamic spirit motivated the
pastor of Blessed Sacrament. He was forceful
in his purposes and in his objectives. There
never was any question in his mind about what
his work should be- He went to Chevy Chase
to build witness to Christ at new entrance
to the City of Washington, and he accomplished
I his vision Mere statistics are poor index to
the achievement he sponsored. His own flock
was but part of the community he served. II
ever there was universal man in the neighbor
hood in which he labored, he was that person
He knew-and he esteemed everybody for many
blocks around his church and home. The range
of his memory was phenomenal, and like
!, observation may be made with regard to his
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Silent Generals

= General Bradley has testified in the course
Of the Macarthur investigation that he would
not speak out publicly against political policies
which, in his Judgment were adverse to the best
interests of this country from military stand
point.
The questioning was by Senator Bridges. He
asked General Bradley what he would do II the
time should come when he thinks that political
decision is affecting something he believes to
be basically right militarily If his advice should
be rejected several times. General Bradley said.
he would resign But he would protest only to
the constituted authorities; he would not make
any public statement of his views.
This is an attitude which may be in the
best military tradition. But it decidedly is not
an attitude which is necessarily in the best
interests of the country.
In the last analysis political policies in this
country are the product of public opinion. But
public opinion cannot assert itself intelligently
unless it has the benefit of informed judgments,
and on military questions this of course includes
military judgments. A few years ago we were
told by civilian authority that this country could
not stand military budget in excess Of $12
billion. An attempt by the House to enlarge the
Air Force was beaten down. That, as events
have shown, was very costly error of judgment
on the part of the President and his advisers.
We are trying to retrieve that error. But it is
costing us billions of dollars more than it would
have cost had we acted in time. And, much
worse, thousands of American boys are being
killed and wounded in Korea because, first, our
military weakness encouraged the attack there,
and, second, because, as the experts now are
saying, we lack the strength to accept the risk
of attacking the enemys bases in Manchuria.
i This is but one illustration of what can
happen if our top military men are going to
take the position that they will not appeal to
the public against political policies they know
to be wrong man in General Bradley's posi-
,tion, if he feels that the issue is important
,enough. has not only right but duty to re-
sign his official post and then publicly state his
reasons for believing that a particular political
policy is militariy wrong. To resign and then
keep quiet would merely make it easier for the
authors of an erroneous policy to prevail A
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff is not
responsible to the President alone. Where vital
matters are at stake, his ultimate responsibility
lis to the people and the country.
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Judqe Cockriirs Decree

Judge Edith Cockrill's latest Interpretation
Of the Juvenile Court Act of 1888 both arbitrary
and absurd.
The effect of the Interpretation and Judge
Cockrills accompanying order is virtually to
freeze out all other agencies concerned with
juveniles who have been in trouble. BY denying
these agencies access to essential information
Judge Cockrill has made it very difficult if not
impossible for them to perform their functions.
At the same time she has assumed for the Juve-
nile Court responsibility which it cannot effec-
lively discharge. Police Captain Rhoda Milliken
of the Women's Bureau whose duties bear close
relationship to the work of the Juvenile Court,
has summed up the situation in these words:
"This (order) ties our hands completely in giving
any intelligent service We can't even have a
conference with court workers to find out what
is the best thing to do for child. Apparently
It is now a violation for members of the court
staff to discuss with another agency from whom
they expect to get help any OF the factors in
volved in the child's case"
Judge Cockrill says that this result is re-
quired by the language of the Juvenile Court
Actin other words, that this was the intent
of Congress in passing the act.
That is a ridiculous position for her to take
In the first place, no such Interpretation has
been put on the law during its 13 years OF opera
ton What are the real reasons for the fantastic
about-face? Secondly, it is absurd to contend
that Congress intended to impose any such
handicap on other agencies agencies whose
work is just as important as that of the Juvenile
Court-in dealing with wayward children
In The Stars opinion, there is nothing wrong
with the law The difficulty arises from Judge
Cockrills application of the law. 1t is true that
the statute endows the Judge of the Juvenile
Court with broad powers. But Congress certainly
intended that those powers should be used with
some regard to common sense. The trouble IN
this instance is that Judge Cockrill has used or
nisused, her authority in way that is anything
but sensible.
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Rugged Training Is YitoI

Encouraging Improvement In the military
training program has been noted by the Senate
Preparedness Subcommittee, but there are still
sporadic complaints coming to the group from
parents and relatives of recruits. In its latest
series of reports to the Senate Armed Services
Committee, the watchdog" subcommittee has
made it plain that not all the complaints are
out, there is such thing as making the training
program too soft for the welfare Of the new
soldiers and for the security of the country.
Many parents have criticized the toughness
of some phases of the training and particularly
the hardships of exercising or marching in cold
or rainy weather. After personal inspection of
the principal Army, Navy and Air Force training
centerS the subcommittee is convinced that most
of such criticism Is ill-founded Where faults
have been found in the training setup Mr.. john
son and his colleagues have not hesitated to ex-
press their objections publicly. Thanks largely to
the subcommittee, overcrowded and other bad
conditions at several bases have been corrected.
At the same time, the Senators have drawn
line between such obvious faults and rugged
conditions that have proper place in any we'll
organized program for making efficient fighting
men out of green recruits.
"In fairness to the armed services" the sub
committee said in its report on complaints of
hardships at Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1--WE feel that
it cannot be too strongly emphasized that
realistic field training is absolutely essential.
We cannot predicate our training on the illusion
that the enemy will choose to fight in balmy
climes and cease hostilities for each passing
rainstorm. We do not feel that Congress
should be expected to serve as a clearing house
for every complaint that Army life is more
rugged than life at home. It is disservice to
the men themselves for parents to insist that
the boys escape in basic training the conditioning
experiences which may ultimately save their
lives if they enter combat"
That is sensible view to take of the ad-
mittedly rugged" experiences which the young
men of our remobilized armed forces are under
going in various training camps throughout the
Nation. It is view which makes due allowance
for the fact that war is a dangerous and deadly
business, in which the fttest fighters have far
better chance of surviving than those who are
poorly prepared for 1t.
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affection. No one was stranger or an alien
in his heart

affection. No one was q stranger or an alien
in his heart.
Such character does not perish under the
touch of death. Monsignor Smyth will live at
Blessed Sacrament as long as Blessed Sacrament
does. He was not merely the founder Of the
parish, its first missioner and its first priest.
From him it took the very essence of its being.
He created the enterprise of religion, education
and social service which crowns the height where
Connecticut and Western avenues meet. Every
structure there he planned and launched Only
one of the number was unfinished when he
passed away at n. His people have something to
do in his name, final monument to raise in
his memory, and his presence will be with them
as much as ever it was when he himself had not
yet gone to his rest.
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Pen-1aan,es mag be used If letters carry
Writers' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

of the danger, not only to those who
now must use them, but to their neigh
borS as well.
We have sent the following letter to
the Commissioners:
1.-THE Washington Housing Association
fully endorses the regulation proposed
by Fire Marshal Roberts, which would
outlaw the use of portable oil stoves :.
We hope the Board of Commissioners
will find it possible to pass this regula-
ton early enough to permit change to
safer heating equipment before cold
weather next fall.
However, it is our opinion that this
regulation, If passed alone. will impose
serious hardship on low-income tenants.
=. Tenement House Regulations pro-
posed by the Health Department con-
tains Section 2404. which reads in part.
where central heating facilities are not
provided, the operator shall provide and
keep in repair fiue-connected heating
facility capable of maintaining a
minimum temperature of TO- F. within
each tenement; provided that such heat
ing facilities shall not be of a portable
type :.
"These two regulations belong to-
gether and should be passed concur
rently.
1.-The Housing Association has long
been eager to see the entire set of Tene-
ment House Regulations passed. We
respectfully call the Boards attention to
the fact that they were first proposed
in october, 1948. Two and half years
are surely sufficient time to deliberate
such urgently needed measures ="
> ~ a. HiIda Cloud. So
Executive Director,
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Did Man First Shave to Please q Dame?

THE name of the very first gent to
i whack off his whiskers is probably
lost in the hairy haze Of history. But
the chances are he did 1t to please a
woman. sa&
Marc Antony Is said to have submitted
to the ministrations Of barber 10
times over before dating Cleopatra.
With feminine inconsistency. some
wives prefer their mates with beaverish
complexions. King Louis VII cut of his
wonder, his wife Immediately turned her
affections toward Saiadin. the Saracen
conqueror Of Jerusalem.
Roman mythology tells us of Mercury
shaving his father Jupiter. A character
in ancient Rome known as Silenus sang
songs and danced in the streets, open
razor in hand.
Ancient raZors have been found which
date back to 1000 B. c. Paintings de-
picting life in Mesopotamian prehistory,
dating back before 5000 B. c., show a
straight razor being used. The handles
were made Of slate with obsidian blades
fastened with bitumen.
Alexander ordered his Macedonian
soldiers to shave to prevent the enemy
from using their boards as handles with
which to capture them.
And times do not change much. In
January. 1851, another military COM
mander. Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner,
upon assuming command Of the I'd Divi-
sion in Korea, ordered his field troops
to shave off their 15-day-old boards.
The shaggy cheek and the hairy chin
have long been unmistakable badges of
masculinity. But these itchy boards.
dating from the days when men were
men. are as outdated as some of the
earlier torture" forms of shaving. Then
the main object was to get rid of the
wl1iskers-at the expense of the face.
American Indians used handy clam
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That Little Song

OF all the men she'd eDer knoaon
One aliodys stood unique, alone
The only one iDl1o held, apart,
A mystic shrine, deep in her heart.
In lite he played no royal role,
Yet he aDas strangely great OF soul,
And ,Dould hue on, though she uere dead.
This she discovered 1D1,en he said
A little thing that kept her young:
Out of his heart this song he sung.
1t aoas tiny thing. and get
Never can she that song forget:
"If ,ue ,piH aoander up this lane.
Delicious after summer rain,
A host of 1oildfosDers zoe shall see:
Composed By beauty you soiu be.
! fDant you to see them: and, too.
,pant the wildfoiDers to see you."
Archibald RutIedge
Evening star., 1951-05-22
Religion and Government

I was greatly distressed to read a
letter to The Star, titled Render Unto
Caesar" in which minister Of the
gospel stated that the Christian doc
trine could not be used in Government
or civic affairs. He stated that it
would only wreck chaos on the laws of
the land. AS / did not feel qualified to
answer him, I wrote to my father. the
Rev A. E. Cooke, D. D., the head Of
Presbytery in the United Church Of
Canada, for the Province of British
Columbia. Here is his answer.
about your clipping. He is evidently
one who thinks religion has nothing to
do with social and national life. But
that is altogether opposed to Jesus
teaching. Society must be saved as
well as individuals, or else Jesus is not
a sufficient Savior for the world. It
should be part of a mans religion to
see that his country is well governed
and that the VIII of God is done in
hear and obey the teaching Of Jesus in
their homes and business and industry
and politics, the Kingdom of God can
not come as it should.
There are times when we have to
defend the lives and liberties Of others
against brutality and tyranny at the
risk of our lives. But that must be
done in the spirit of Christ and for
His sake. AS long as evil despots like
Hitler and Stain try to- destroy liberty
and the rights of men and nations we
shall have to arm and defeat their evil
designs, but we must steadily work to-
ward freedom and brotherhood and
peace. At the same time, God is guiding
the world toward this and the more
the nations follow Him the sooner world
peace will come"
It is vital that experts in religion,
such as my father, help us keep the
torch of Christianity high. He car
ries Christianity into everything he does.
Sheila C. Mutt.
Evening star., 1951-05-22

Twenty per cent of them will use elec-
tries
Whiskers have been researched by the
Philips Research Laboratories, which
comes up with these findings:
The whisker density of a mans face
varies considerably with the individual,
but the average chin-whisker crop is
$50 per square inch. On the cheeks,
the average growth is 800 whiskers per
square inch. The normal beard of
10000 hairs, with an average thickness
of 28/1000oths of an inch, grows in all
directions from the skin at the aver
age daily rate of 15/1000ths of an inch.
Getting rid of the face foliage elec-
trically has other compensations. No
longer need the man of the house talk
his way into the new feminine strong
hold, the bathroom, just to shave. He
can now shave in bed in comfort.
North American Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1951-05-22
CoIumnist Censured

In your issue of May IA, your contrib
utor, Constantine Brown. commenting on
the policies of the United States Gov
ernment in Korea. makes the following
statement:
'This same thought prevailed in Lon-
don and Paris between September. 1899.
and April. 1910. Throughout these
months of the phony war the civilian
leaders in Britain and France believed
that after Hitler had taken Poland, and
possibly some other small nations. ne
would call off the war If offered politi-
cal compromise which would save the
face of the British and French govern
mentS."
There is, of course. no evidence what
ever in support Of this belief Cor pro-
fessed belief Of Mr.. Brown which, with
his customary air of omniscience, he
states as fact. On the contrary, it was
Hitler who hoped he could make peace
after the subjugation Of Poland. and the
British government which stated there
could be no peace with Germany until
Poland was liberated.
On the question of the Allies allegedly
condoning the taking of some other
small nations" by Germany. the facts
are % Britain sent troops to the aid
OF Norway when it. was attacked; (2)
france and Britain sent substantial
forces to, the aid of Belgium and Hol-
land when, they were invaded; CD
Britain, primarily from sense of moral
obligation, sent substantial forces to the
aid of Greece when she, in turn, was
attacked by Germany; a. Britain re-
tanned striking force in Northern Ire
land to aid Fire should she be attacked.
Earlier, Mr.. Brown refers to British
and French troops "sulking behind the
Maginot Line during the phony war;"
Speaking as participant, would say
that the troops concerned regarded that
phase as preparatory period. There
was, in fact, considerable elation among
these troops when active operations
started. In any event, in the course OF
their long histories, the British and
French peoples have each given sufficient
evidence of accomplishment, vitality and
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Salute to ForrestoI

1t is two years since the passing OF
James Forrestal. a great and a good man.
So long as our republic produces men
with sense of honor and duty COM
parable to Mr.. Forrestals, our National
future Is secure.
May grateful Nation pause and
salute James Forrestal, and, Saluting
him, redouble its determination to keep
fighting the good fight until an hon.
orable peace is won.
Joseph POlowsky.
Evening star., 1951-05-22
Portable Stove Bon

The recent death of three children in
a fire caused by portable oil stove
underlines with tragic emphasis the haz-
ard created by these heating devices. In
the past 13 years. over 1900 fires have
been due to this one cause. Many deaths
have resulted.
Fire Marshal Ray Roberts has recon-
mended that such oil stoves be outlawed
by District regulation.
The Washington Housing Association
only too familiar with the extensive use
made by low-income families of these
portable and inexpensive heaters, agrees
that they should be prohibited because
Evening star., 1951-05-22
No Appeosement'

The editorial, mo Appeasement," in
The Star for May IL, Is timely warning
of danger-a danger the more sinister
because concealed in the cloak of
innocence.
Those who recall the u N. appease-
ment offer to Red China last January,
to which our present administration
agreed, should have no illusions when
Government officials talk about being
unalterably opposed to seating Red
China in the United Nations and giving
Formosa to the Communists. Unless
and until those officials are forced to
pledge that they will use the veto power
of the United States to prevent such
treachery, there can be no assurance
that those dastardly actions will not be
taken.
It Is fortunate that the Senate Armed
Services and Foreign Relations Com
mittees are conducting an inquiry into
the Administrations Far Eastern policy.
It is to be hoped that they will demand
an unequivocal statement from the re-
sponsible officials as to whether or not
the United States delegates at Lake
Success will be instructed to veto any
scheme to unseat the legitimate Chinese
Nationalist government and seat the
Communist vandals in their place: or
to turn over Formosa-and with 1t the
security of the western defenses of this
country-to Mao Tse-Tung.
It Is further to be hoped that they
will countenance no subterfuge, no
sophistry of legalistic technicalities to
becloud the issue If this country made
it clear that it would withdraw from the
United Nations if that organization in
sisted upon appeasement OF the Commu-
mist thugs, there probably would be no
need to use the veto. Under no circum-
stances should there be compromise
with evil. E. Mclean johnson.
Evening star., 1951-05-22
Letters to The Star

force of character not to be labeled
chicken hearted" by an apparently
sitting in an armchair in Washington.
The foregoing observations are char
acteristic of distortions which have ap-
peared frequently in the long series Of
articles on these questions by your cor
respondent. May hope that he will be
invited to check his facts and to draw a
clear distinction between fact and as
sumptions in future.
Ex-Soldier.
Evening star., 1951-05-22
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Will the growth of vines on brick
chimney cause the bricks to disinte-
grate?-O. M. w.
A. Vines growing on a brick chimney
do not necessarily cause its disintegra-
ton if it Is well constructed. A careful
examination of the chimney from time
to time will disclose the effect Of the
vines growing on it.
@. Was Gen. Arthur Macarthur
awarded a Medal of Honor for his serv-
ice in the Civil War?-C. M. w.
A. He was awarded the Medal OF
Honor for Valor for his service in the
Union Army. He served with conspicu-
GUS gallantry at the battles Of Chicka-
mauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout
Mountain, for which he was promoted
to the rank of major at the age OF ID.
@. Is there loss of vitaminS when
bread is toasted?-G. o. v.
A. There is some loss Of thiamine or
B1. The darker the bread is toasted.
the greater is the loss Of this vitamin.
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Questions and Answers

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Evening star., 1951-03-12

um. potassium, calcium and
phosphorus in appreciable quanti-
ties. Dried apricots are one of
the richest sources of vitamin A
active carotinoids, comparable
with butter, cheese. cream and
spinach.
THE principal values of dried
fruits lie in their high energy
values, as the sugars in dried
fruits are simple sugars. They
require no digestive action in the
body are assimilable as is,
Immediately upon being eaten. All
dried fruits are high in iron and
all dried fruits are alkaline in
their end reaction. Dried aprlcots
and peaches are outranked only
by liver and kidney in their capa-
city for blood regeneration in
anemic conditions caused by
nutritional deficiencies, according
to DR.. George H. Whipple of the
University of Rochester"
Evening star., 1951-03-12

rich, deep tones of dried apricots
and the dehydrated product
doesn't turn out like this. 1t also
seems to be considerably more
tart than when sun-dried. There
is a possibility that apricots
allowed to dry in the sun may
continue to ripen to some degree.
Dehydrated peaches do not run
true to color either; the action of
the sun seems to intensity and
sharpen the color of the fruit. All
natural Thompson seedless raisins
and Muscats are sun dried, as are
figs. A few speciality raisins, like
the golden bleached" and soda
bleached" are dehydrated. Pears
are partially sun dried. Iechni-
cally, the finest colored fruit is
produced when pears are dried
in the sun for a short time and
then stacked in the shade where
the drying process is completed.
A great deal of patient ground