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Evening star., 1951-12-02
A Presidents Advisers

OF late there has been much editorial
comment on the unsuitability of a mill
tary man for President. Some episodes
of public dishonesty in Grants ad-
ministration have been advanced to
bolster the argument. The losses of
BLACK Friday" and other scandals of
his time represented mere chicken feed
when compared to the effects of the
treacherous devaluation of the dollar IN
1882. form of dishonesty that Grant.
who. incidentally, left the country on a
sound financial basis, would have viewed
with scorn.
What permanent or long continuing
liabilities were inherited by the American
people as a hangover from Grants
tenure in office? On the other hand
history records long list of successful
accomplishments and progress made
There was much talk of a third term,
and his successor was selected from the
same political party, which remained
in control until 1885.
1t is admitted that the Presidents
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Spires of the Spirit
Selling Horizons

Whats Your Line?" is a popular
television~ program having to do with
guessing peoples occupations. Tt repeats
a ubiquitous question. Whenever men.
are thrown together as casual travelling
companions before conversation goes
very far they have a way of asking, one
of the other, What firm do you repre-
sent? What do you seH?"
One of the UNIQUE personalities OF
the last generation in all America was
Bishop William A. Quayle of the Method
ist Church. In his sense of oneness with
nature he was like modern st. Francis
of Assist. His personality radiated kind
ly charm. He was saturated with the
best in literature, and his moral and
spiritual insights flashed like summer
lightning. There never was anything
about his attire which suggested his
calling. No wonder, after having listened
fascinated by his scintillating comments,
even chance acquaintances would in
qujre what sort of business he represent
ed. Certainly, listeners would be likely to
say that whatever it was he solda he
must be superlative salesman. On a
certain day came the inevitable question
from salesman. representing we'll
known firm. Turning to the bishop,
whose identity was unsupported, he said:
whats your line? What do you deal
in?" Instantly. Bishop Quayle replied.
Horizons" He could not have used a
more appropriate word to sum up the
ruling passion of his life. Wherever he
went he extended the range of what men
and women saw.
Some one has said that IAN horizon
is but the limit of our sight" There
fore, any one who deals in horizons in
creases the distance included in the
optical sweep of those whose lives he
affects.
The brilliant essayist Hazlitt ex-
panded horizons for a multitude who
followed him to enchanted realms which
their circumscribed, treadmill existence
never before had known. Bishop
Quayle himself received the gratitude
of many because he led them across the
fields of literature to Hazlitt's door. But
Hazlitt dealt in horizons because some
one early had opened his own eyes to
glories he once did not see. When he
was young lad. his mind was listless.
his faculties unawakened. his attitude
one of boredom. Then it happened one
dav that Coleridge came to visit his
father, and that evening young Hazlitt
Evening star., 1951-12-02

Eighteenth street, ranks among the
most spacious in the West End and is
especially well-adapted to large enter
tainments. It's greater size gives
opportunity for the display of the in
Vulnerable objects of art gathered dur
ing the travels of Mr.. and Mrs. Foster
in recent years. A dynasty of experts
on foreign affairs is represented in the
words quoted. Mr.. Foster had been
Minister to Mexico. Russia and Spain
and Secretary of State 1892 1899; Mr..
Lansing was destined to be Secretary
of State 1915-1920): and the Foster
Dulles of half century back is the
John Foster Dulles of today-a former
American member of the Assembly of
the United Nations. now a rowing am
bassador personally representing the
President The building at 1928
Eighteenth street has become the CO.
lumbus University School of Law. but
the beautiful library and ballroom. still
are beautiful.
There was no dearth of theatrical
entertainment in Washington half
century back. The Star
Theoter of November %. 1901.
Offennas contained advance notices
for the Lyceum Theater
tNew York; production of Maurice Hew-
let's Forest Lovers" starring Bertha
Galland, at the National; Joseph Ar
thurs Lost River" with Paul Gilmore,
Edith Fassett. John E. Ince, jr.; Eliza
beth Woodson and Harry McRae Web
ster, at the Academy, and Mark Trains
"Puddd 'nhead wilson," presented by the
Bellows Stock Company at the Lafay-
ette: also. Miss Bob White" with Ethel
jackson and beauty chorus, at the
Columbia, and the American debut of
"the Great Ten-Ichi and his troupe of
seven Oriental wonder workers." at
Chase's. Lili lehman was announced
in song recital and Josef Hofmann also
was coming to town to show once more
how he could 1make piano talk"
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Taxpayers Loment
V. X. Y.

Your front page of November % fea-
tured an article based on an Agriculture
Department poll of mems preference for
suits with or without vests.
think it would be interesting to us
male suckers-commonly described as
taxpayers-to know just how much the
Government spent of our dough to COM
pile this momentous and astonishing in
formation. don't understand how we
managed to get along without it,
r. A. KOontz.
Atlantic Beach, Fla.
Editors Note: The survey apparently
was made for the benefit of the clothing
industry, to show future market pros
poets for wool and other f1bers)
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By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister. Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain,
United States Senate

Minister. Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain.
United States Senate
which is not utterly utilitarian is to deal
in far horizons. Every true home deals
in horizons.
What a sacred task is that of parents
to push out horizons, step by step, until
little, adventurous feet stand at last
where the brook and river meet! John
Hay, one of our great statesmen. said:
TO take a>little child by the hand and
lead it to its own, is better business
for men and angels than swinging cen
sers and loafing around throne" The
most sacred task that earth knows is
to start boy or a girl walking toward
horizons.
That was pre-eminently what Jesus
dealt in. horizons. He drew circle that
took all men in. Just now. after 1000
years, Christianity is catching up to the
breath taking meaning of what really
is involved in what we have called the
story of the Good Samaritan. That par
able practiced smothers every type of
isolation. That tremendous pronounce
ment might well be renamed, Bound
less Horizons 1t is a commission TO-
brother all the sons of earth. He who
uttered it rubbed out all lines between
neighbors, based on proximity or geog-
raphy or racial background. In that
final. ultimate putting of mankinds
pressing problems. He showed the way,
and the only way, by which men can
live safely and happily together on this
spinning island in the sky that we call
Earth. 1t is because His followers really
have not dealt in vast enough horizons
that we see the chaos and catastrophe
which blight the world today at the
very time science has brought the secret
as to how all Gods children can be
lifted above the sWamps of penury and
pain, pathos and human tragedy
A Goth century social scientist
puts the mission of Jesus succinctly,
when he says: He came to widen man S
horizons, to break down all barriers,
to bring men out of their little selfish
backyards and to teach them the ideas
of brotherhood and love" This great
est expert in horizons the world ever has
seen declares: Il am the Way" And
that way leads straight out to earth S
remotest bounds. 1t knows nothing of
curtains, iron or otherwise. Any fenced
in. privileged inclosure is a spurious
GRAND of Christianity. The Way is
tied to the horizon. And on it are the
footprints of that One who still says:
THE field is the world"
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Fouquier Tackles Relief Waste

Fauquier County is setting a good example
for other counties in Virginia in its decision to
put its relief setup on "businesS-llke basis
That means, in brief, that the County Welfare
Board has determined that the cy-shrouded
welfare system ought to be run as efficiently
and with as much regard for the taxpayers
dollars as any other branch of the county gov
ernment This may be novel idea to some OF
the States welfare authorities, but it is an
eminently sound idea, nevertheless.
story from Warrenton in yesterdays Star
by James Birchfield staff correspondent, reveals
how the county has been victimized in the past
by chiselers bent on taking advantage OF the
too-casual attitude of county welfare authori-
ties toward mounting welfare budgets. Fau-
ouiers board is no longer Indifferent as to how
the countys money (and that of the State and
Federal Government as welD is being spent on
public assistance It's attention called to
number of questionable relief cases on the
county rolls, the board conducted an inquiry
which has led to elimination of a number OF
unworthy benefciares The inquiry is being
continued, with salutary results.
One of the boards interesting discoveries
was that the cost of administering relief IN the
county was higher than the cost of collecting
the taxes which made relief possible There is
manifestly something wrong with system which
makes the act of giving away money more costly
than that of collecting it from the taxpayers
The board has corrected this situation by re-
ducing the administrative staff OF the welfare
office-without, it believes adversely anectlng
the administration of the welfare program.
The board has encountered some obstacles
in its efforts to rid the program of chiselng and
waste. It has found that State welfare authori-
ties on being appealed to by persons ordered
off the rolls do not always agree with the county
welfare board. And the State has the power to
overrule the county and order the restoration
to the relief rolls of persons found by the local
authorities to be ineligible for aid. The board
feels that local officials in far better posi-
ton to Judge the merits or demeritS of an
application than any one in Richmond. It plans
to ask the General Assembly for legislation to
vest final judgment in local authorities, rather
than in State officials. The proposalnis based
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Lessons of Koreu
By Bruce Burton

Last January. when President Tru-
mans police action" had been under
way about six months, one of my in.
quisitive readers, with time on his hands,
set forth to ask his neighbors, What is
the war in Korea about?" He kept
on until he had 1,001 answers More
than out of 10 expressed ignorance or
Indifference.
Here are examples: Policeman
something about a parallel" Milk
wagon driver-"Ask me something easy"
Housewife-"To kill off our boys"
Architect-"A series of blunders."
Plumber-"Like the last two World
Wars, we'll find out when it's over"
Pressman-"Something about United
States rule in Korea" Auto parts
dealer-"A war to keep politicians in"
Helper-"I think we are war crazy"
Colored worker-"Sin is the cause" In
structor-"Used by War Department to
cover up its blunders." Bank Official
For no good reason. Truman wants to
be popular" Lawyer-"An a diplomatic
mistake" Student-"I hope they know
before I CO."
dead, wounded or missing. The home
folks should know by now what the war
is about. And they should have learned
these four bitter lessons:
l. This first United Nations" crusade
against aggression has been 80 per cent
United States money and 80 per cent
United States blood Fighting aggression
"all over the world" appeals only mildly
to our "allieS.'
2. There are billion and half dark
skinned people in Asia. To them Korea
means white-skinned men shooting a
million and half dark-Skinned men.
1t has not made us friends: we need
friends.
3. "Liberating" country is bad news
for the liberated" The South Koreans
are homeless. hungry and hopeless. They
may well be saying of us Americans, in
the words of TacituS: when they make
a wilderness. they call it peace"
4. In our other wars the boys went,
forth singing, and the folks at home
kept the blood banks full This war has
no Yankee Doodle" no John Browns
Body" no Keep the Home Fires Burn
ing" And the blood banks are clroni-
SoAAJ AoW. arc GIic UOyS 10 DldIQe! Or
the folks at home? They are the same
breed of boys and home folks who sang
and sacrificed cheerfully in the wars
their Congress voted for.
The administration has released the
inside story OF those hurried night
meetings at Blair House when Mr.. Tru-
man made his momentous decision to
send our boys into battle 1000 miles
away. All that the "true story" proves
is that he and Secretary of State Ache
son had absolutely no idea of the size of
the forces the boys would be up against.
They thought it would be Just little.
short, easy, popular war.
There must be no more of these secret
President-made wars. If democracy
means anything, it means that the
mothers and fathers of America have
the right to debate and decide where,
and when, and for what their boys must
fight and die.
Copyright. 1851. KinE Features Syndicate. Ins) 4
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on the reasonable assumption that local relief
is essentially local problem and that local
authorities should have full responsibility for
seeing that it is dealt with humanely and efi-
ciently. The question, involving county State
relationships, is one which the next legislature
should consider thoroughly-along with the
State Welfare Boards wise recommendation that
relief rolls be made available for inspection by
the press and other appropriate investigating
agencies or individuals.
Evening star., 1951-12-02
Do'id Luwrence's Allegations

David Lawrence's November % COL
umn states "One out of every five per-
sons actually in the Government serv-
Ice who were investigated by the FBI
has a background of questionable cir
cumstances involving either disloyalty
or security"
Such a fiat statement is quite dis
turblng, if not shocking. Furthermore,
Evening star., 1951-07-27

French in the secret wartime
SykeS-Picot agreement had been
promised Syria and Lebanon.
FeiSal retreated to Bagdad, in
1raq, second in rank of the Arab
capitals, and became its British
sponsored King.
Abdullah got as a consolation
|prize-together, it is rumoFed, with
|unrecorded personal assets-the
arid, sparsely settled desert end of
Palestine which Churchill named
Transjordania. Ibn Saud, mean
while. took Mecca, Medina and
Arabia proper, ousting the heredi-
tary Hashemite dynasty from the
Hejaz, leaving Abdullah with what
he called "a few buckets of sand, !"
and feeling cheated all around.
Abdullah's career has been con-
|centrated on re-creating and re-
claiming Greater Syria, his lost
kingdom, of which he thinks him.
self robbed. like Esau. by his
brother. And in this ambition the
Arab masses believe he was willing
Ito accept British, Jewish, French,
American-any aid.
Throughout Palestine, by mem
bers of the Arab Legion and even
by his own son, now King, he was
suspected of having accepted Zion
iSt bribes to halt the Arab Legion
at the Latif line, during the Arab
Jewish war, when. they believe,
he could easily have marched
them TO the sea.
am here neither accusing nor
defending Abdullah. do not know
what is practically universal opin-
ion, and what cause, his death.
Though it shocked me, it did not
surprise me in the least.
The wider truth is that the
partition of the Arab world after
World Wars I and II let loose
Evening star., 1951-07-27
By Dorothy Thompson
(Second of Two ArticleS.J


In the Middle East today we
have all sorts of secret societies
with murder as an instrument OF
policy. The assassination of No
krashy Pasha, Prime Minister OF
Egypt CLOSELY followed by the
suppression of the secret Moslem
brotherhood") was followed by the
assassination of the Prime Min
lister of Iran, of the ex-Prime
Minister of Lebanon, and now. in
the gates of the Mosque of Omar,
of King Abdullah.
The whole official Arabian
world is denouncing his assas-
sination. But we wonder whether
their pronouncements will be more
effective with the Arab masses
than the official Israel denuncia-
ton of the murder of Count Ber-
nadotte and his aide was with the
Jewish masses.
For individual violence is a
weapon which once released can
seldom be brought under control.
Secret societies are increasing.
Results Not FOreseen.
Those in Arab Palestine are be-
lieved to be under the guidance or
control of the Mufti of Jerusalem.
It is possible that the Mufti Great
ing, as he thought, an instrument
of resistance in what, to his mind,
was a national and religious
struggle against an alient invader
British or Zionist made no diff
ference-did not foresee what
would come out of it all, namely
la mounting condition of anarchy
Abdullah in the minds of the
Arab masses was a traitor, COL
llaborator with zioniSm. Zionism
in their minds, was an outpost
first of British imperialism ano
now of American. with boundless
ambitions in the Arab world
Whether any of this is true is ac-
tually beside the point. Any
widespread conviction is a politica,
reality. My impression of Abdul
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lah when he granted me an au-
dience in December was Of a
moderate and very shrewd man.
with other things on his mind be-
sides Isreal.
Convictions Sustained.
Unfortunately, many American
moves have sustained this wide
spread conviction. When, some
months ago. it was rumored that
Abdullah intended to bolt the
Arab League and its boycott OF
Israel. the American Minister in
Damascus was instructed to
launch a formal protest at the
Syrian foreign Office. He did Sc
(under his own protest. and was
shown the door. The publicized
incident lent credence to Arab
mass opinion that Abdullah was
a Zionist and an American agent
1t may easily have contributed
to his end.
Abdullah'S state of mind has al
ways been complicated by his
personal experiences. He was the
Oldest son of the Hashemite King
HuSsein, sheriff of Mecca and
ruler of the Hejaz, claiming direct
descent from the prophet Ma
homet.
When. following World War I,
the Arabian world was broken
up into completely arbitrary
states by the then Secretary OF
State for the colonies, Winston
Churchill, his principle adviser
was T. E. Lawrence who preferred
Gas we know from his Seven
Pillars) Abdullah's younger and
unbelievably handsome brother
FeiSal.
British sponsored King.
Lawrence wanted to make him
Emperor of Pan-Arabia, with
Damascus as its capital. But the
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forces of evil and violence which
no one has mace any real effort
to curb by the exercise of i'm
partial justice. The -ast Ameri-
can President who even tried to
understand the Arab world was
Woodrow Wilson. His successors
have been at the mercy of par
tiSpris advisers and the vote of
the great cities.
Trickling out $40 mill from
Gibraltar to Karachi is no cure.
George C. McGhee of the State
Department appealed to Congress
for this sum on the very day,
nearly at the very hour, when
Abdullah was struck down in
Jerusalem because he was be-
lieved to be a stooge.
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Evening star., 1951-07-27
Miss Washington Girls Face Judges Tonight

The first group of nine Miss
Washington" semi -finalists will
appear in an elimination contest
at $50 O'Clock tonight in the
Glen Echo Park ballroom, where
three finalists will be chosen.
Participating in the contest to-
night will be Betty 10 Shull, l9,
of 1908 Lee boulevard, Arlington,
Va, Mary Manougian. 10. of 1901
Eighteenth street NV, Jacque.
line Childs, 81, of 4601 Lewis ave-
nue. S E., Bernice Mincher, 10, of
1735 Nineteenth street NV:
Joyce Mondron, 10, of 1926 r
street NV; Anna Cavaliaro, 26,
of 1916 Kenyon street NV: Alice
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(Pat) Fuller, 20, Of 2o31 North
Lexington street. Arlington; Diana
Wallace, 10. Of Bowie. Md, and
Edith Krisel, 10, of 3037 Clinton
street NE.
The judges will be Bill Bailey,
Washington correspondent of
Radio Daily; Miss Sue DeBruin,
of the Washington Times-Herald; ;
Paul Heron, night club editor,
the Washington Post; John Osbon,
feature writer, Broadcasting
Magazine. and Walter Wingo.
radio editor, Washington Daily
News.
The contest is being sponsored
by Radio Station WWDC.
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Democratic Club Picnic

The Young Democratic Club of
the District will hear Representa-
tive Boiling, Democrat, of Mis-.
souri,, at their picnic and monthly
meeting at 8 pm. Sunday in Ken
sington Park, Maryland.
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Childbirth is one of the main
causes of death among the Eski-
mos.
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able that island stronghold of the
Chineses Nationalist to resist ag-
gression,
Communist pressures in the
Pacific area have been very great,
and internal pressures are con-
tinNous," Mr.. AcheSon testified.
THE immediacy of the military
aid for this area is apparent. The
arms we are sending to Indo-
China and the Philippines are ur-
gently needed. With the concen-
tration of the Communist effort
in the last year in Korea, some
people may have forgotten that
the Communist pressures still are
being kept up elsewhere in this
region"
AS Mr.. AcheSon appeared. econ
omy rumblings were heard after
Senator Wherry, Republican, of
Nebraska said on the Senate
11OOI I1ldG OONCl 1l1l1Cl4L opCI1Ol1lS
in the current fiscal year might
climb to 500 billion.
Senator Wherry, the Republican
floor leader. said pending requests
total about $76 billion, including
the proposed $8.5 billion for for
eign aid.
DirkSen Backs Wherry,
Il hear another $40 billion may
be asked before October to ex-
pand the Air Force with related
expansions for the Navy and
Army" he added.
Senator Dirksen, Republican, of
Illinois declared that when efforts
are made to trim the amount
asked for foreign aid 1.-The Ratchet
will be pretty sharp and I'll be
right at his (Senator Wherry's)
side.
Senator Lodge, Republican, of
Massachusetts, said, on the other
hand, he will support the military
funds in the aid program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-26
Communists
Continued From First PageJ

the alternate committee was
formed to take over the leader
ship from the convicted II.
Shortly before seven of the con-
victed group gave themselves up
to go to prison, the department
said. Schneiderman was called to
New York City to act as the top
Communist executive in the ma
tional headquarters.
His arrest this morning was
made in New York.
Other Arrests Announced.
These other arrests were an
nounced:
Rose Chernin. 48, Los Angeles
executive secretary of the Los
Angeles Committee for Protection
of Foreign Born.
Philip Marshall Connolly, At
Los Angeles, Los Angeles editor
of Daily Peoples World"
Ernest Otto Fox, IS, San Fran
CISCO, waterfront section Organl-
ger of the San Francisco County
Communist Party.
Dorothy Ray Healey, 36, Los
Angeles, chairman of the County
Communist Party.
Carl Rude Lambert, 81, San
Francisco, chairman of the Secu-
rity Review Commission for the
party's district 10.