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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-12-07
PAST MATRONS WILL
HAVE XMAS PARTY

Husbands of Past Matrons Of
the Eastern Stars will be guests
at the annual Past Matrons Christ
mas dinner party Monday night
December 10th, at $50 in the
Masonic Temple.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-12-07

Purple raspberries taste better
after freezing than do red o.
black raspberries.
Evening star., 1951-11-04

the Germans had sometimes sent production
mb, even while bombers blasted" an indus
trial area!
So many of Our highest ranking military
men, as they have studied the cold figures of
production by our enemies in the last war,
have come to this double -barreled conclusion:
~ Mass bombing is not nearly so efficient"
as we once supposed. ~ Its brutal destrue-
ton of lives and property creates moral and
political problems for the winner as well as
the loser.
The British, who had been bombed bitterly
themselves, went in for area" bombing much
more than We For example. their Chief of
Evening star., 1951-11-04

Strategic Bombing once said that in their
bombing campaign in the Ruhr industrial
district they never aimed specifically at one
factory the aiming points were usually
right in the center of town."
~We Destroy Ourselves"
Bur today many of the British command
would be more inclined to agree with the
British expert, Major General J. F. c. Fuller
(retired), who writes in military journal,
by annihilating an enemy we destroy our
selves should such bombing be resorted
to in the next war on the scale it was in the
last -. the enemy may be defeated, but
Evening star., 1951-11-04

Europe will be economically destroyed and
America morally, mortally wounded -. the
high ideals she stands for will be pulverized." J"
Now the new weapons hold promise OF
making mass killing of helpless civilians un-
necessary even in the military terms of total
war.
In the US. civil defenses would still be
vital, and in themselves deterrent to attack.
But a desperate, defeated enemy might re-
sort to anything. War would still be hide
GUS, wasteful, cruel. But the city-dwellers
of the world could cease to look half-fearfully
at the sky whenever plane roared over.
Continued on page 23
Evening star., 1951-11-04

not destroyed - for. as in most cities, they
were on the outskirts of town. The official
report of the Bombing Survey said that three
touyths of them tVere unhnrt and could have re-
sumed production within 80 days OF the attack!
In the great mass raids we carried out on
Europe before the development ofthe atomic
bomb. more than Is per cent of the total ton
mage of bombs was aimed not at specific tar
gets but at "areas" At wars end the Allies
inherited a ruined Germany but the fac
tory records showed that production had not
been hurt by raids nearly as much as we had
thought
With grim determination to fight back"
Evening star., 1951-03-29
Worth Trying

Secretary of State Acheson has argued per-
suasively for favorable action on the proposed
congressional resolution proclaiming the friend
ship Of the American people for the Russian peo-
pie and all other peoples in the Soviet empire
The Kremlin has erected wall between us and
these hundreds Of millions of human beings
Worse than that, using every means to keep
them from learning about the thoughts and
deeds of the outside world it has sought to poison
their minds with a never ending diet of vicious,
hate-inciting fear breeding lies accusing us of
plotting to unleash new war upon them. This
conSciencelesS propaganda is so dangerous in its
potentialities that we must counter it to the best
of our ability in as many ways as we can.
The proposed resolution is one of the ways.
introduced by Senator Mcmahon and Represent
ative Ribicoff of Connecticut, it would place
Congress on record as formally declaring that
the United States, far from wanting war, is
earnestly striving to prevent it and is rearming
only because the Kremlin has refused to CO.
operate for peace. Further, In addition to af-
frming the American peoples friendship for the
Russian people, the resolution would request the
President to challenge the Stain government to
let the Soviet public know all about these senti-
ments Senate House action along this line would
certainly do no harm. On the contrary as Mr..
Acheson has indicated, it conceivably could do
considerable good as move placing Moscow's
propagandists on the defensive
Evening star., 1951-03-29
This and That

An old lady is worried over some
pigeons she has been watching.
In a world of many grievances. this
is hers.
These pigeons, she says, used an attic
as their home. increasing as the years
went by.
Last week she noted one evening how
they beat their wings against the small
opening, repeatedly, and realized that
their loft had been closed against them.
80 each evening"" she writes, "they
continue to beat against their former
door, until dark, when they congregate
into a valley of the roof for the night.
How long do you think these poor
creatures will keep this up. are they
trying to locate elsewhere?
''They must be starved. Where can
they goq No one owns them, no one
wants them" @
Common wild pigeons are much bet
ter off in and around Washington today
than ever before.
There are hundreds more people feed
ing them.
Pigeons are wise birds, well able to-
care for themselves, SO with them, as
with all other of the feathered folk.
beings take care of them or not.
We have noticed many places in the
down town areas fairly covered with
bread. and from 20 to so Of the big birds
eating away.
Evening star., 1951-03-29
BY Charles E. Trocewen

pigeon is thing of beauty. In flight
they become speedy and alert, and can
see far and wide.
They do not actually spot food, as
such, but see other birds flying in and
out. That means just one thing to the
observing pigeon. It means that there
is food where he sees the other birds
He flies to the place, and sure
enough. there he finds food-in bird
feeding station, usually.
So no one ought to worry much about
the pigeons.
They take life as they find it, as we
all must do nowadays. The state of the
world is such that not even philosopher
can do more.
Birds of all species may be regarded
as natural philosophers. They have
seen nations come and go. They have
seen races of men appear and vanish.
They are among the oldest OF living
things. Natural enemies have not been
able to kill them off: Even the Hitlers
of their own tribes, the hawks, make
scarcely dent on the hosts of the air.
Mans guns and electricity and poisons
and gases have not as yet made more
than dent in the whole number of
birds. If the birds of the air have man
aged to "get by" as we say in our mod
ern slang, it may be that humanity, so
often tried. will not be found wanting in
the present crisis, and in time may
emerge into saner air and relationship
with life. At the present moment. hu-
manity In the large is far OF the beam.
Evening star., 1951-03-29

We watched one bread wagon driver
lean several stale loaves up against
tree.
He had not gone half block before
the pigeons began to arrive, and within
a few minutes there were at least a
hundred tearing the loaves apart.
Naturally our kind hearted corre-
spondent feels upset at seeing her pets
beating their wings in vain at their old
housing unit.
Actually, pigeons are very capable.
When they make up their minds that
their old home is no more, they will seek
quarters elsewhere, as any sensible
creature would.
The point to bear in mind is that the
common pigeon is sensible bird.
He may look clumsy, on the ground.
Certainly his head is not large. He
seems silly, at times, as he prances rings
around his chosen mate.
Really, he is nobodys fool.
He is adept at finding food. All birds
are, and the pigeon no less than the
! sparrow.
Those beady little eyes are marvellous
instruments. They take in everything
near ana far. just how much the eyes
are used in finding food differs with
species. All birds see well. some better
than others. The pigeon eyes, while not
as sharp as those of the ugly vulture,
or turkey buzzard. are very good.
Once OF the ground, the fattest
Evening star., 1951-03-29
Rotten Apples in the News

Being fully in harmony with the dem
ocratic freedom of the press and its
privilege to print anything and every
thing, must however admit that have
felt deeply distressed when opening the
papers during the recent weeks. Pages
and pages are filled with crime probes.
election scandals, frauds in Government.
etc. I am sure the reporters do per-
fectly correct job. and perhaps the pub
lie has right to be informed about such
things in the minutest detail. But have
you ever stopped to think what an i'm
preston you create outside the United
States, when the papers of the Capital
of the leading Nation of democracy are
full of scandal and playing it up to such
an extent?
We are told that we are engaged in
life and death struggle with Commu-
nism, and that we want to sell democ-
racy to all who are not yet engulfed by
the Red tide. We even wish to win back
those who are already behind the Iron
Curtain. Do you really believe that the
most effective way of achieving this
goal is by giving prominence to scandal?
Are there not hundreds Of features Of
American life worth selling? Is there
Evening star., 1951-03-29
National Education Boord?
E. w. B.

Judging by the number of letters ap-
pearing recently denouncing and con-
demning modern progressive" educa-
ton, many parents and others are eyi-
IDENTIFY waking up to the destructive
potential Of such haphazard method
OF wasting time in modern public
schools. The education Of our children
is by all means matter that should be
fully and openly discussed on q logical
and sensible plane above the low level
OF trite educational gobbledygook. In
view Of the obvious aversion of leading
educators to any kind of open and
honest discussion Of their methods, it
appears almost impossible to arrange
fair forum on education. However, this
objective could well become the prime
parental objective of the year.
Very few parents will agree with lead
Ing educators who arrogantly and die
tatorially pronounce that, Educators
know best what the child should be
taught and how to teach it." We, in
America, have never believed in any
kind Of dictatorship-politi eco
nomic. religious, or educational-and,
therefore, cannot agree with leading
educators who propose that the solely
advisory ONCE Of Education be made
into a national Board Of Education
which would eliminate local boards
throughout the Nation. This proposal
for National Board of Education, when
coupled with the demagogic concept Of
leading educators, should fash a warn
ing to all right-thinking parents.
Franklin T. Miles.
Evening star., 1951-03-29
Red Gross Needs

With only IS per cent of its 1851 goal
achieved, the District of Columbia Red Cross
campaign has been extended to April Is. This
was inevitable in view of the fact that all of
the ST. 100000 objective-not merely little more
than half of its needed to carry on the i'm
perative work of the Red Cross in Washing
ton. The budget of the local organization was
trimmed to the bone before it was announced.
No allowance was made for possible failure of
the drive.
few words of explanation of why there
can be no trimming perhaps may help in the
prevailing stringency. In effect, so far as the
Red Cross is concerned the Korean war is
universal emergency 1t has made demands upon
the Red Cross facilities which can be met only
by program of emergency character. "The
would be adequate in normal period simply
will not suffice today. What is wanted is an all
inclusive effort. That means that every citizen
should be a collaboration with the Red Cross in
its present activities.
Such cooperation would pay handsome
dividends in practical results. 1t would help to
win the struggle in the Orient and to hold the
line in Europe; it would serve to strengthen
the home 'front.' it would give the Red Cross
chance to prepare for a still greater emergency,
If one should develop suddenly and without
warning. The amount still short" locally is
relatively small sum-$525 900. If those who
have not contributed at all will do so and If
those who have given less than they are able
will give again, the goal will be attained as it
certainly should be.
Evening star., 1951-03-29
Letters to The Star
Pen-nn11es may be used IT letters carry
aOriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters subject to condensation.

been appointed engineer Of the Board
of Public Works, was to play an i'm
portant part in the 1874 investigation
1t was his testimony regarding the
faulty measurements made by surveyors
of the board in work executed on be-
half of the Federal Government which
proved to be deciding factor in the
committees condemnation of the Ter
ritorial Government. Though CluSs
lost much of his own reputation as
result, and was relieved of his pos:-
tion by President Grant. his revela-
tions of the boards procedure proved
too much for the committee to ignore.
In these days. when home rule for
the District has focused attention
once more upon the Territorial Gov
ernment Of 1871-1874, it seems pity
that the K street houses should be
torn down without some reference TO
their colorful past. It is to be hoped
that any new building on the corner
Of Connecticut avenue and K street
will at least contain plaque to COM
memorate the residence Of Gov. Shep-
herd a man who, for all his faults.
did more to rehabilitate the National
Capital than any one who was born and
brought up in Washington.
James HI. Whyte.
Editors Note: The National Pro-
duction Authority last Thursday
denied a permit for construction OF
the new building at Connecticut and
Evening star., 1951-03-29

and carried it to the prison to supple
ment the army rations he received.
At the end Of the year, again heavily
guarded. Mr.. Auriol was transferred to
Vals-les- Bains in Southeast France,
modest rival of Vichy as watering
place. He became seriously Ill. Later
he was allowed to return to his home at
Muret. a small town in : Southwest
France. which had elected him Mayor
for 80 years, and where he was known
as ''Our Vincent.
There Mr. Auriol worked the family
farm of three hectares-about 7l2 acres.
Mrs. Auriol took vegetables and fruit to
market on her bicycle.
1t was not freedom, for there were 16
policemen as guards assigned to the
place. Despite this handicap. Mr.. Auriol
managed to establish connections with
the underground. When the Germans
moved into Southern France in the fall
of 1912. after the American and British
landings In North Africa, there was no
doubt that the Gestapo would arrive
with the German army and that Mr..
Auriol would be collared
Under such circumstances, even l6
guards were not enough; some of them
helped Mr.. Auriol and his wife escape.
They became Mr.. and Mrs. Andre Viaud.
The new name. 8 newly acquired beard
and the loss of so pounds helped hide
Evening star., 1951-03-29
MocArthur's Statements

On the face of things, it is difficult to see
why General MacArthur'S weekend statement
has caused lot of Nervous Nellie reactions. The
statement outlining the enemy's many weak
nesses in Korea, proposing cease-fire talks and
implicitly warning Red China that its continued
aggression might lead eventually to heavy allied
punitive action against its coastal areas and in
terror bases-still adds UP to good deal of COM
mon sense, and for that reason the unfavorable
response to it in our own country and other
Western countries seems a bit Surr>-i~''"~
Yet, if it is true-as it apparently is-that
General Macarthur issued the statement without
any prior consultation with higher authorities,
then there is good reason for the reported dec-
sion by the Defense Department, the State De-
partment and the White House to instruct him
to inform Washington in advance of making any
similar statements in the future Such an ar
rangement is altogether reasonable and neceS-
sary. As supreme military commander of the
U. MS Korean forces he has considerable free
dom Of action, but when he speaks out on i'm
portant matterc-eSpecially when those matters
involve political or diplo. ctic issues that may
be in the process of comr,-z and delicate nego-
tiation-it is essential that he concert his views
with those of his superiors in the Government
General Macarthur is hardly free to say
anything he pleases whenever he pleases. He
himself probably would be the last to claim such
right The simple fact is that he is thousands
of miles away from Washington and from the
seat of the United Nations, and if he were to
make practice of speaking out without refer
ence to either the worst kind of International
muddle could result Plainly enough if he really
has been neglecting to do so, he ought to consult
with top responsible officials in this country be-
fore issuing any new statements involving mat
ters not covered by his own authority.
Evening star., 1951-03-29
By Froncis ?. DoueIos<

nUR distinguished visitor. Vincent
~ Auriol, is stout fellow when the
going gets tough. He is known for his
smile. Even when seriously facing the
photographers camera he appears to be
on the point OF smiling jovially. He is
also known as a peacemaker in French
politics.
But when it comes to opposing the
enemies Of France, Frances President
is no smiling peacemaker. There is
iron in his backbone.
After the fall Of France, in that bitter
summer of 1910, Mr.. Auriol was one of
the 80 members of Parliament who
voted against dissolving the Third Re
public and turning over dictatorial
powers to Marshal Petain. Losing there.
it appeared to Mr.. Aurioi that the fight
for France might better be carried on
elsewhere. What happened next he has
told in his book. "Yesterday-Tomor-
row."
He went to see Leon Blum, former
Premier, under whom he had served as
minister. Let us prepare our valiseS,"
he said. ''It will soon be your turn and
then mine and then that of the
others
"Oh, Vincent" was Mr.. Blum's aston
ished reply. "Why?"
"Why not?" Mr.. Auriol asked in turn.
He pointed out that Pierre Laval and
his accomplices hated Mr.. Blum and
needed scapegoats.
Mr.. Blum was not persuaded. Ten
days later he was in Jail.
Two weeks after that. Mr.. Auriol him
self was taken into custody. He records
with a bit of pride, and with the en-
phasis of an exclamation point, that Is
policemen were assigned to guard him
as he was taken to prison at Pellevoisin,
in the south of France.
There he was placed in solitary con-
finement in cell by 9 feet with small
barred window. For is minutes in the
morning. and again In the evening. he
was allowed to walk in small court
yard surrounded by barbed wire and
guarded by six men. four OF whom were
gendarmes with fixed bayonets.
Mrs. Auriol is Of the same tough fiber
as her husband. (They were married
when she was 16. She is now SIS. he is
66) She followed him to Pellevoisin
and took hotel room facing the prison.
Every day she walked back and forth
under that barred window hoping to
catch glimpse of him. She was the
one visitor he was allowed, once week,
and police inspector stood by. She
bought food from farmers of the area
Evening star., 1951-03-29
Shepherd 'sHouse
Mrs. W. L. Hall.

The new building which apparently is
and Connecticut avenue NV. would re-
move two of the most interesting land
marks in Washington, houses with
vivid associations of the post-Civil War
period. 1t was rather surprising to read
in your columns, describing the former
occupants of these mansions, no men
ton of the two men who had built and
first occupied them-eSpecially sine
Alexander Shepherd of 1705 K street
had been Governor of the District of
Columbia and at one time owned one
quarter of the stock of The Star.
The K street houses were erected in
1872, and each cost approximately $780,
O00-a vast sum at this period. The
architect, Adolph Cluss. who occupied
1703 K street, was one of the most
prominent in Washington, and the
Franklin School-now the Administra-
Schools-was considered in its day to
be so handsome that it won medal
in the Vienna International Exposition
of 1873. Shepherds mansion con-
tanned a private gallery. ballroom,
and in the basement was billiard
room and his private Offices, where
most of the business Of the Board Of
Public Works was transacted. In Janu-
airy, 1874 just before the investigation
which Congress made of District affairs
which was to result In the abolition Of
the Territorial Government, the Cover
nor and his wife held a masked ball,
one of the most elaborate functions
ever to take place in Washington. Pres
ident Grant was frequent caller at
the Shepherd mansion. Even when his
friend had become the most criticized
figure in the Capital, Grant did not
hesitate to be seen standing on his
doorstep.
Adolph Cluss. who had long been as
sociated with Shepherd, and who had
Evening star., 1951-03-29
Our Vincent las Fought tyranny Before

MI. AuT1OiS lQenLlty. he ana MIS-.
Auriol went from town to town, working
for the Resistance with Gen. de Lattre
de Tassigny.
AS 1943 wore on, it became apparent
the Gestapo could not be eluded much
longer. Mr.. Auriol and group of other
Resistance leaders-one of them was
Albert Gazier, now Minister of Informa-
tion-gathered at the village of Vii
levieux, in the mountains near the Swiss
border. They had been in communica-
tion with Resistance leaders in England.
One night there came over BIC the
cryptic radio message for which they
had been waiting. A little later We'll
lington bomber landed on field nearby,
tarried only long enough to take on Mr..
Auriol and his companions, and few
away.
At about that time. Mrs. Auriol-per-
haps known now as Mrs. viaud. perhaps
by still another name-appeared at
Lyons, the center of the Resistance net
work. One of her jobs was the DECIDING
OF messages broadcast from London.
The British broadcasts gave her some,
II scant. news Of her husband and his
activities in Britain, and later in North
Africa.
The following spring. there came a
message from Mrs. Auriol's daughter in
law. Mrs. Paul Auriol, telling of the
serious illness Of one Of the Auriol's two
grandsons Mrs. Auriol, of course, went
to the town in the mountains where
her daughter-in-law and grandchildren
were. On her return to Lyons a mem
ber of the Resistance met her at the
station with the news that all her fellow
workers in the underground network
had been arrested. Nearly all were later
killed.
Mrs. Auriol caught the next train back
to the mountains and remained in hid
ing with her daughter-in-la law until the
liberation. That brought Mr.. Auriol
back to France and a reunion with his
wife and son, Paul Auriol, who had
been an officer in the Resistance.
Mr.. Auriol served in the provisiona!
government after the liberation, and
then was president Of the Constituent
Assemblies that drew up the present
constitution. In the first elections to
the National Assembly his district elect
ed him deputy, and his fellow deputies
elected him president OF the Assembly.
Then both houses of Parliament, on the
first ballot. elected him President of
the Fourth Republic.
Mr.. Auriol takes the middle ground,
where France has learned that safety
lies But he recognizes no middle
ground when the blood-stained flag of
tyranny is raised on French soil. Then
the course is to fight, confident that the
day Of glory will come again.
Evening star., 1951-03-29
The Sanitary Way

New York City disposes of its garbage
by dumping it 80 miles out in the
Atlantic Ocean.
would like to suggest that the same
city use this same method of disposal
in getting rid of its human garbage in
the form Of political racketeers, crooks
and gangsters, whose filthy acts have
been 80 clearly brought to light by the
Kefauver investigating committee.
w. A. Power, Jr.
Evening star., 1951-03-29

no room in the papers for informing us,
telling us about their struggles and
their victories in keeping free and main
tanning their self-respect? Would it not
give those countries tremendous spir-
itual uplift when they would discover
that the greatest papers Of America
have a genuine interest in them and
that they are correctly represented?
Friends. limit the space you devote for
rotten apples and offer us good whole
some food.
E. w r.