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Evening star., 1951-11-18
MeIIett Offside?
Regular Navy.

In his column November 10, Con
slider the Football Coach" Lowell Mel
lett deplores the football situation in
the United States and manges to get in
another dig at Gen. Macarthur, ap-
parently just as an impromptu gouge
during the half He ridiculesr the gen.
erals statement. '' In war there is no
substitute for victory" and wistfully
suggests that an excellent substitute
might be settlement leading to mutual.
understanding and lasting agreement
which doesn't always result from
victory"
After brilliant analysis of the prob
lens OF collegiate athletics, including
what hope is facetious suggestion
that we import Russian or Czechoslovak-
ian football players. Mr.. Mellett ends
with this profound observation: IF We
could find substitute for victory In war
that would be finding a substitute for
war"
Please inform Sir Lowell that the Holy
Grail has been found! Any Czech foot
ball player could tell him that there is
a,substitute for victory as we'll as sub
stitute for war. How unobservant of
Macarthur not to notice that Cechslo-
vakia has discovered a perfect substitute
for victory. The people there have made
"a settlement leading to mutual under
standing and lasting agreement" and
isn't that what Mr.. Mellett advocates?
What dreamer he is and what hogwash
he dispenses. If he spent as much time
fighting Communism as he spends fight
ing Macarthur, your good newspaper
would be lot better.
Mac Cook.
Evening star., 1951-11-18
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church; 4
Chaplain United States Senate.

Chaplain United States Senate
and unWeaves rainboWS. The last stage
Of spiritual blindness is to cease to
wonder, even at the things that one
has for which one cannot pay-and that
includes most of the riches we call ours.
Even without acknowledging our debts
we live on them and by them. For what
have we that we have not received?
To the end of the way, our hands are
full Of unpaid bills made out in GRIM
son by vanished hands now dust.
; To inherit all this wealth which is
our heritage, to take it all and to take
it all for granted is to betray sensibil-
tiles which put one on the side Of the
swine, rather than Of the angels. What
revelations would startle us, and shame
us, too if we could see the hurt, the
pathetic hunger for appreciation-not
for praise-on the part of those who
mean most to us, who have done the
most for us! Yet we take them for
granted. Alas. how often we take for
granted even those who are the molders
of our own character.
Some time ago, a good friend of
mine, a noted writer and preacher, was
one OF group talking about causes for
thanksgiving. They were mentioning
people for whom they had cause for
gratitude. My friend said: We'll, /
am grateful to an old school teacher
who 80 years ago taught me Tennyson."
A listener asked: Does she know that
she made such contribution to your
life?" I'm afraid not" he replied. I've
never taken the trouble to tell her"
why don't you write her?" He did.
and little later, in the feeble scrawl
OF an old woman. came back this note:
Dear Willie: I can't tell you how much
your note meant to me-. am in my
80s living alone in small room, cook
ing my own meals. lonely and, like the
last leaf of fall, lingering behind You
will be interested to know that I taught
school for so years and yours is the
first note of appreciation ever received.
1t came on blue. cold morning, and
1t cheered me as nothing has in years"
Such appreciation has upon it the
scent Of courtesy and Is the blossom
on the plant of gratitude. Seeing its
beauty Jed one to give it as his final
judgment OF life:
"Ot courtesy, it Is much less
Than courage of heart or holiness:
Yet, in my ,0dlks, it seems to me
That the grace of God is In courtesy"
And one who is really courteous never
can take things for granted.
Evening star., 1951-11-18

not have been what it was without our
trained reserves. The fact that these re-
servists give voluntarily much of their
own free time Is to their great credit.
1t is estimated that regulars would
show very poorly in comparison if the
amount of time they put in on civic af-
fairs were calculated. There are inef-
flcient performers in every organization
and it is generally assured that they
will be eliminated Both Navy Wife"
and Recalled Reserve" do wrong to
generalize. based on only narrow ex-
perience.
Regular NAVY
Evening star., 1951-11-18
Spires Of the Spirit 49,
Taking Things for Granted

Thanksgiving never can be decreed
by proclamation. 1t is a fragrant
flower that grows only in the garden of
appreciation. No matter how official
and how pious the phraseology, proc
lamation may be only the signal for q
day of cessation from toll and for obliv-
ion to all but physical comforts. For
multitudes Thanksgiving is a couch,
rather than an altar. It is gluttony
rather than gratitude. 1t is a day for
playing rather than for praying. 1t Is
time for turning on all the gadgets,
rather than of turning to the Source
Of all good. 1t is pageant of possess
sions. instead of rosary Of counted
blessings. II any day should be kept in
the pattern of the grateful Pilgrims, it
is this day when we are asked, not to
look out but, to look up in the spirit of
Addison's great hymn:
"When oil Thy mercieS, o my God,
Ny rising soul surveys,
Transported apith' the pieU I'm lost
In Donder, loUe and praise"
That ought to be the paean of praise,
as every church is thronged to over
flowing. But. alas, for the vast major
lty, Thanksgiving is not a holy day at
all; 1t is simply holiday. This is not
because people deliberately plan to
paganize the day designed for such a
devout acknowledgment; it is because
they are guilty of that which, in reality,
is an objectionable sin: Taking things
for granted
No wonder, watching these easy going
pensioners of other peoples toll who
saunter into the opulent fields of today
as though all its treasures belong to
them in fee simple to possess, with no
sense of Indebtedness for the peril and
pain through which its crimson benefits
have reached them. one of the greatest
Americans of this generation exclaims:
How much one wishes that he could
back them into corner. from which
they could not escape, and talk to them
like this: You are taking for granted
what you have no business to take for
granted, You act as though it was a
negligible matter that for innumerable
generations Ward-looking men. pay
ing the price in sacrifice which no
imagination can compute, have been
building up the decencies, sanctities
and opportunities of civilized life"
But the plain fact is that no corner
would be big enough to hold those in
any community whose ruling passion
seems to be grab and grasp what others
have provided. with not so much as
Evening star., 1951-11-18
Novy's Muscle

Navy Wife" in her answer to "Re-
called Reserve" does grave injustice to
Navy reserves in general 1t is well es-
tablished that one of the principal
sources Of muscle to strengthen the
Regular Navy skeleton during wartime is
its reserve organization. The Navy's
performance during the last war could
Evening star., 1951-11-18

Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carry
aOriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
Atomic Umbrella

RlOlIilC QI1pTetlQ
DR.. Vannevar Bush. wartime head
of the Office of Scientific Research
and Development which cOordinated
the work of 10000 scientists in atomic
research, believes continued Ameri-
can development of the A-Bomb
should avert World War III.
. He saw no danger of immediate
war because if Russia were to open
hostilitieS now she would be de-
stroyed without question" by Ameri-
can atomic bombs.
DR.. Bush, president of the Carnegie
Institution, was the first of series of
speakers sponsored by the Committee
on the Present Danger, a nonpartisan
group formed to support strong de-
tense for this nation in cooperation
with other free countries.
Nevada Tests
DR.. Bush said the recent atomic
tests on Frenchman'S Flat near Las
Vegas, New, presumably were of new
types of atomic bombs.
He pointed out that the free worlds
problem was to maintain the military
stalemate now possible because Of
U. S. superiority in atomic develop
ment.
He noted that defenses against
strategic bombing had been improved
since the war and predicted that
eventually Russia could be able to
protect her key points with radar, Jet
lnterceptors, anti-aircraft artillery
and perhaps guided missiles.
DR.. Bush discussed tactical possibili-
ties Of the atomic bomb and related
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
Gift
White Elephant

There's a weighty problem at the
White House and State Department in
connection with the offer of a sacred
elephant to President Truman.
The gift has been proffered by the
King Of Cambodia, -one Of three Indo-
chinese states which on January l
received grants of substantial indie
pendehce from France.
The President is summing himself
at Key West, Fla, so White House
aides and Secretary Acheson's ad-
Visers are sweating it out alone.
They are searching for a diplomatic
way Of saying ''No" without hurting
royal feelings That may be difficult
if not impossible to do.
Republicans, of course, are of no
help. Ttey would like to see an ele-
phant in the White House, even a real
one.
# the diplomats decide they can't
say mo-" an even more weightv
problem arises. The White House has
garage facilities but no stables-and
you can't send a sacred white ele-
phant to the bone yard.
Nothing of course is ever new, as
the historians say. A study of history
shows Indian Prime Minister Nehru
once sent an elephant to Washington
school children. 1t wound up in the
capital zoo.
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16

the Potsdam pact is a useless basis for
negotiation because the Russians have
consistently violated it.
Parallel to Korea
In line with his suggestion to dis
cuss demilitarization of Germany bv
the Potsdam yardstick, Gromyko also
proposed discussion of Four Power
disarmament and withdrawal of oc-
cupatlon forces from Germany.
That is one issue the west will ex-
anime very closely. Withdrawal of
occupation forces from Germany
could create an identical vacuum to
the one in Korea when American
garrisons pulled out.
American sources insist that if Big
Four talks are to be renewed all
causes of European tension must be
examined. These include a peace
treaty for Austria and a study of re-
armament in Soviet satellite states
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16

that were, German allies in World
War II.
Russia, in a recent diplomatic note
to Britain, claimed its armed forces
were no more than 2,5OO,OOO men
while it put the combined western
strength at more than 5,OOOO 600. West
ern intelligence reports place Soviet
armed strength at 100000 men with
better than 100000 more in the Red
satellite states, not including Com
munist China.
Another Red Boycott
Washington reported last week that
Russia had broken off talks on terms
for a Japanese peace treaty because
OF its demands for veto power The
State Department declared in
statement: "The United States win
persist in seeking an overall peace
for Japan but it comedies to no one
the right to veto peace"
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
SCIENCE: Hope Of the Free

them to the current problem Of de-
fense of western Europe.
Tactical Weapon
In the event of war three to ave
years from now, he said, the Russians
might be. confronted by a line held ia
depth by outnuTpbered but well-dis-
ciplined and weJl-artned divisions.
The Red Army could break such a
line. he declared, only by huge con-
centration Of men, artillery and tanks.
Because of the atomic bomb. he
said, such concentration would not be
feasible. For example, an A-Bomb de-
livered on a massive group of forces
such as the Germans gathered to
make their break through in the Bat
tie OF the Bulge would be devastating.
Tanks as Traps
DIR. Bush fOresaw the heavy tank As
q liability rather than an asset in
due time because of the development
OF reeoilless weapons. He said a new
type Of recoilless anti-tank gun.
by four men, was more than
a match for the heaviest tanks vet
developed. Tanks and n1assed artillery
have long been q strong point around
which Soviet military thiqzing re-
volved.
The scientific leader backed the idea
OF sending American troops to Europe
TO join those Of the Atlantic Pact
allies. He suggested the training Of
l8-year-olds for two years and keep
ing them available for service in the
reserve branches.
pr Bush predicted that young men
trained now would not see any fight
ing for several years at least.
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
Crime
Probe Deudline

The Senate committee investigating
organized crime throughout the United
States will open what may prove to
be climax hearings Monday in New
York.
The committee, headed by Sen.
Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) says there
are two major crime syndicates in the
nation. One, directed by the Fischetti
brothers, Rocco and Charles who are
heirs Of the old Capone mob, operates
from Chicago through the south, ac-
cording to Investigators.
The committee says the other,
headed by Frank Costello and Joe
Adonis, had headquarters in New
York and operates down the east
coast to Florida.
March 81 Deadline
The New York hearings may last
two weeks but by then the life span
of the Senate committee will have
just about run out It is scheduled to
expire March 81 and chairman Ke-
fauver has said repeatedly he will not
ask for an extension. Other commit
tee members, however, have urged
that it stay on the job and be given
FBI men to speed effective inquiries.
In preliminary report recently,
the committee said: ''The most shock
ing revelation is the extent Of official
corruption and connivance in facili-
tating and promoting organized
crime" It found corruption extending
to all levels of government-federal,
state and local.
Incidents cited by the committee in
its report:
Two state governors received CAM
paign contributions from organized
criminals.
One sheriff had a bookmaking busi-
ness in his Office.
The report said gangsters and gam
blers brazenly faxed income tax re-
turns and charged there was serious
doubt that the Internal Revenue Blu.
reau made real effort to check.
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
Labor e
Defense

THE Census Bureau has ra-
4 ported that 58,9O5. 600 civilisna
held jobs in February, much the
highest rnid-winter job total ever
achieved.
E1t if the job picture was rosv. the
role of organized labor in the mo.
bllization program was not Union
spokesman without exception have
walked out Of Defense Mobilizer
Charles 2. Wilson's councils.
Charge a Freeze-Our
They charge a freeze-out at the
policy making level Of organized la
Dor, the farmer and the small bust
nessman. They say Big Business DOM
mates mobilization planning and there
IS no one to speak up for the welfare
OF workers and consumers.
The United Labor Policy Commit
tee, representing Is million CIO. AFI,
and railway union members. is plsn-
nlng a nationwide drive for reform
OF current price and imitation con-
trols. Seven hundred state and citv
labor representatives will meet n
Washington March 20 and 2I to chart
their strategy.
Philip Murray, CIO president. has
call!ed the present approach to a SO
luton of imitation '1opsided." In =
nationwide broadcast, he said it was
a basic defect that ran through all
defense mobilization planning.
1T IS not just a labor problem
when consumer prices go up, or an
lnequitable share of taxes are inn
posed on the lower income groups"
he said.
On the other hand, Murray said.
corporation profits are at an "astound-
ing all-time high" and nothing effec-
tive is beicg done to make super-rich
corporations bear their fair share of
the national burden.
All-Time Record
General Motors, the nations largest
private manufactures, announced net
corporate profits of 1884. .O44 O39 on
sales of 1881 ,086, ,846 in 195O-biggest
In the history of American free en-
terprise. The GIN net profit was q
psr cent higher than in 1919, the
record UP to that time.
GIN, along with other automotive
manufacturers, raised new car prices
last weekend by 3ls per cent, the
maximum permitted by the Office Of
Price Sterilization. Commenting on
the relation of prices and profits, GIN
officials said:
IF prosts were not to fuctuate,
prices would have to be increased in
periods Of low volume but would fall
IN periods Of high volume. Such a
policy would rot BE desirable nor
practical in an industry subject to
impact of both costs and competition"
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
Korea
Sitting Ducks

Sitting Ducks
The United Nations forces in Korea.
says an AP correspondent, are openly
cOntemptuous of enemy air power
despite the fact that Red China is
believed to have up to 5000 combat
planes, including fighters and medium
bomberS.
His dispatch, cleared by Macarthur
censorS, points out that World War
II lessons learned at Pearl Harbor and
elsewhere have been forgotten by
American air and ground forces in
Korea.
Spotted From the Air
These are some of the things he
noted on flight over the front lines:
Allied units camped brazenly along
river bottoms and in exposed valleys
-sitting-duck targets for air attacks.
Airdelds jammed with fighter.
bomber and transport planes, lined
up row on row, with no attempt at
dispersal.
American supply dumps, motor
pools and ammunition depots show
little or no camouhage and inadequate
anti-aircraft defenses.
U.N. transport conveys often travel
bumper to bumper on highways.
Headquarters units cluster their
tents in open fields with no attempts
at camoufiage.
Blackouts, except at the front, are
not enforced.
U.N. troops encamped in rest areas
often with no attempt at dispersal or
camouhage.
Chinese Precautions
The correspondent reported the AL
lied side beehive of obvious activity
while across the front lines there was
no sign of the foe.
Chinese and North Korean Reds
camoufiage everything G, including
trucks and troops. Guns are placed in
hidden defiles, or covered with straw
and tree limbs to conceal them from
strafng.
Surveys show American GIs at the
actual front do conceal themselves
and their equipment because there it
Is life and death matter.
But in the rear areas, he found a
strange apathy toward camouhage
and dispersal techniques. He said it
was enough to make veterans of
World War II shake with apprehen-
sion
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
The. WORLD This WEEK
PARIS: An 11th Hour Attemnt

THE Paris conference of Big
L Four foreign minister deputies
is an l1th hour attempt of Russia
and the western powers to settle
their differences by diplomacy.
These differences, which began
even before the end of World War
II, have become known as the cold
war.
Almost year ago, Korea suddenly
became a hot spot in the cold war and
history may yet record it as the real
start of World War III.
But if that struggle can be isolated
and kept to the status of a local incl
dent-nO matter how sordid or
tragic-full scale war may be averted
or at least pushed back in time. East
west hare-ups over Trieste and the
Berlin blockade, diplomats say, were
handled in this fashion.
May Open a Door
The Paris talks, of course, will not
decide anything important. Actually
they are nothing but a meeting to
try and agree on an agenda for a
later conference in Washington of the
foreign ministers.
But Paris may afford the oppor-
tunity of opening another door to ne
gotiation on the crucial problem Of
Europe in the east-west tug of peace.
AS long as diplomats can keep open
ing new doors, they have reason to
hope the differences may eventually
be settled with words not bullets.
Western sources say the real issue
at Paris is whether Russia actually
means to seek diplomatic settlement
of cold war problems.
Andrei A. Gromyko, head of the
2O-man Soviet delegation at Paris.
proposed that the German treaty
question be discussed in line with
principles of the Potsdam Agreement.
The western position has been that
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
SideIiehts

Q In Pittsfeld, Mass, police stopped
a motorist for speeding and discov-
cred the number on his license did
not agree with the number "611-969"
on his car plate. They finally came
up with the solution. The plate was
on. upside down; it should have read
"696-119."
Q In Pearl River, N. Y, a hunter
took "a shot at a crow and blew up
a small fireworks plant, rocking COM
munities in two states. Fire depart
ments and anbulances responded
from six neighboring communities
but had nothing to do. Six frame
buildings. were blown to kindling but
the blast put the fire out. Plant
workers had quit for the day a half
nour earlier so no one was injured.
eau Rights ReserUed, AP NeDsfeat,resl
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
In Shor

Halted: BY the U. S., stockpiling of
tin until such allies as Britain, Hol-
land, Belgium and Bolivia cut prices
now more than $50 per cent higher
than when the Korean war started.
Granted: BY the Carnegie Fund.
$22,50O for study of techniuues to
aid native leaders desiring to revolt
against communist comination.
Proposed; BY the US, that the
United Nations recruit a volunteer in
ternational army to combat aggression
anywhere in the world.
Charged: BY Pakistan in the U.N.
Security Council, that Indian aggres-
sion is on the march"
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16
Quotes

British Field Marshal VisCount
Bernard L. Montgomery: q
would as soon think of going
into battle without my artillery
as without my chaplains."
Izvestia, Soviet government
newspaper: Since the first day
of American occupation, Gen.
Macarthur busted himself with
the Transformation of Japan into
a base of aggression by the
United States against Asia"
Milford chronicle., 1951-03-16

EAlI Rights ReseTDed. AP NelDsfeaturesJ
Evening star., 1951-05-24
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Arlington and
Nearby Virginia

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Evening star., 1951-05-24

loyal and patriotic Americans who
has ever lived is that stout ..
hearted man from Missouri, Harry
Truman. The good thing about
him is that most of the time he
lis right"
Senator Kerr went after the Re-
|publicans in hammer-and-tongs
style.
I'VE do not assemble here" he
said, "to meet a Republican
challenge; we are here to hurl a
Democratic challenge to the Re-
publican opposition. We lay down
the gauge of political battle on
the basis of what the Democratic
Party has done and will do. And
on the basis of what the Republi-
can Party has not done and can
not do.
They sought to exploit the
Macarthur episode for selfish
political purposes. That effort has
backfired. They are feeling sicker
every day.
MacArthuritis has set in.
The Republicans have developed
Ia formula for failure unparalleled
in the history Of American poll
tics"
Evening star., 1951-05-24

almost simultaneously with a
change in top air commands. 1t
Gen. o. P. Weyland, deputy COM
mander of the Tactical Air Com
mand at Langley Air Force Base
Va, was named to head FEAT
He will succeed 1t. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer who is hospital
lied with a heart attack.
Partridge to Return.
1t. Gen. Earle E. Partridge was
succeeded as commander of the
5th Air Force by Maj. Gen. Frank
F. Everest, formerly assistant
deputy chief of staff for opera.
tionS.
Gen. Partridge will return to
the United States as commander
of the Air Research and Develop
ment Command.
The FEAT said Allied planes
have inflicted more than 112,0OC
casualties since the war started
last June. That is about double
the losses the 9th Army says the
Reds sustained in their latest
offensive.
Pyongyang radio asserted 7,00C
U. N. troops were killed and 5000
captured in four days. The De-
tense Department has placed total
U. N. losses for the five-day Red
offensive at 1919.