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Evening star., 1951-06-24
Acheson's Testimony

II there had been no criticism of Dean
Acheson before the present inyestiga-
ton. Mr.. Achesons conduct during this
investigation is quite sufficient cause for
impeachment He showed how able he is
at distorting facts and how cleverly he
can prevaricate.
He and Marshall both stated they
did not ever think the Chinese Com
munists were simple agrarian folk. Then
why was that part of the indoctrination
propaganda carried on by Messrs. John
P. Davies, Vincent, and Gen. Stillwell.
Chiang,s chief haters? Why did they not
deny statements made by newspapers
at the time that this was the opinion
Of our officials? Even such fact was
stated in school magazine, which we.
as social studies teachers. used in all
our classes when the general returned
from China.
Mr.. Acheson stated that Chang was
"not. unhappy" over the Yalta agree
ment and that it was necessary to make
all those concessions in order to bring
Russia into war against Japan. This has
been proved not to be the truth, and
any one with grain Of sense knows
it is not.
His entire testimony, stated in best
British accent, was compilation OF
Misrepresentation, distortion Of fact.
and insidious prevarication
I. Ward.
Weayerville. N c.
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the disparagement Of the metal which
lies hidden in other lives There Is that
danger. There are times when we must
let fall upon us the benediction Of i'm
significance, as We see ourselves q tiny
fraction Of the whole There are times
when we pour contempt on our con-
temptible pride, as we think of ourselves
and our universe as but the murmur
of gnats In the glare of a million. mil
lion suns. However. we actually live our
lives not under the vast dome Of an
incomprehensible universe. but under a
much lower ceiling which shuts in a
world of which we are not just a neg
ligible fraction but, rather, in which
we are the center. Now, that Is net
obnoxious egotism That is personal
responsibility That is what Daniel
Webster. with his great intellect, meant
when. being asked what he considered
the most important thought which his
mind has ever entertained, instantly
replied MY personal responsibility to
Almighty God" That is the basic truth
of the religious life, the personal rela-
tion Of each individual soul to, God.
The soaring thoughts that sing and
sob and sigh through the Psalms are
summed up in one glorious sentence:
"The Lord is my shepherd. shall not
want"
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Streets Are Public Property

The State Departments absurd request that
several blocks near its headquarters be closed to
the public for parking and security" reasons
has received the treatment from the Comisson-
ers which it deserved-hat rejectiA If the
Commissioners and the public were befuddled by
the departments support of the request, it was
only because the department itself seemed to be
befuddled about it. Spokesman for the depart
ment are on record as saying that the closing
of the public streets was necessary primarily to
provide adequate parking for department en-
poyes and visitors and also primarily for security
reasons The Commissioners could take their
choice.
When the parking idea was soft-pedalled in
The face of unanimous objection from traffic
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Spires Of the Spirit
The Metal in Ourselves
Spires Of the Spirit

On of the strangest tricks our minds
play upon us. If we don't watch out. is
to focus our anxious concern on the
perplexing world about us, to the neglect
of the world within, which is ourselves.
A typical modern, scorning what might
be called mysticism, had been so cap
tured by the social passion that, to him.
religion became solely matter OF help
abundant life. One day this man was
asked by another. more ''pius" individual.
how matters stood with his own soul.
He replied in an annoyed way by blurt-
ing out: Really, ] have been so busy
thinking of these multitudes. wounded
and exploited by our unjust social sys-
tenn. that I have had no time to think
about my own soul, or even II ] have
q SOUL"
The long years have taught many OF
us who care deeply for humanity that
that attitude is not as sound as 1t seems.
The fact is that 1t is increasingly ap-
parent that what we can do for others
depends largely upon what we are our
selves. II. for the improvement Of
human conditions we are to be the
instruments of the Divine Power-and
without that conviction humanity is
left simply trying to lift itself up by its
own boot-straps- certainly, our
chief concern must be to become the
fittest channels possible through which
that saving grace may flow for the heal
ing of the nations. We can never lift
society higher than we lift ourselves.
At long last, the quality of our socialism
is determined by our indiyidualism.
What man is determines what he has
to give. Our contribution without grows
inevitably out Of our cultivation within.
In letter to youth. Ibsen. the fam
Gus man of letters, says pertinent
thing which might well be taken to
heart by all young people, and older
folk, too Wrote the dramatist: THE
best way you can serve society is by
coming the metal in yourself" That
advice is more golden than gold OF
course. 1t must not be followed in such
a way as to make one overestimate
the valuable metal that is in him, to
Evening star., 1951-06-24
We Pay for Rubbish, Too

bit of incidental intelligence which came
to light during House hearings on the District
Appropriation Bill is the involuntary but patr-
otic part performed by taxpaying residents of
Washington in disposing of Government rubbish.
There are, of course, various classificationS
of Government rubbish. But the rubbish under
discussion here is the sort that is burned up and
disposed of as trash. 1t is not the better-known
kind of Government rubbish that is put out as
speeches, statements etc., and for which there
has not as yet been devised any effective means
of disposal.
In Southeast Washington the District main
tains an incinerator, and one of its five big
furnaces Is devoted exclusively to burning about
$4,000 tons of Government trash each year at
an annual cost to the District of 500 600. The
Governments payment to the District for this
function might be computed as that part OF the
Federal lump sum which goes into this 100000
cost. 1t would represent approximately per
cent or $4,000, with the local taxpayers furnish
ing $4,000.
Some of the rubbish consists of classified
documents which are no longer needed. Secrecy
must accompany this type of trash to ashes, so
Federal guards are present when the material
is consigned to the flames, thus preventing any
leaks to spies at the incinerator-the approved
method being to let the leaks of classified ma
terial occur through congressional hearings and
columnists.
Why the people of Washington are called on
to pay $4,000. to the Governments $4,000, in
disposing of governmental trash is best ex-
planned by the tons of unburned rubbish issued
in congressional speeches about why the Federal
payment in the annual District Appropriation
Bill should be reduced.
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on the battlesiip Indiana and was
carried to Manila. Next he rode
an Army transport to Nagasaki, Japan.
II was another troopship that brought
him to San Francisco. He Jumped"
freights coming East. Only is at the
time, Kemp already was famous for his
hardihood and daring. But his literary
career still lay far ahead. The first OF
his plays" Judas published in
1910, the first of his poems" The Cry OF
Youth"--in 1914, the first of his novels
"Tramping on Life"-in 1922. Now, 68.
he makes his home at Proyincetown.
Mass, and still is as much an individual
list as he was in his boyhood.
Advertising copy published by The
Star OF June 90. 1901, covered null
tiplicity Of subjects.
Advertisements Thomas w. Smith let
In Variety it be known that he
had in stock at First
street and Indiana avenue one million
seasoned spruce laths which he would
sell at So per M. The Union Trust &
Storage Co, 1414 F street NV, publi-
cized its "burglar-proof storage vault
where "valuables are safe during sum-
mer." Riggs National Bank, with capital
in amount of 100000. announced ex-
change of England, Ireland. France and
Germany and letters of credit avail
able in all foreign parts The Sorrento
Hotel at Sorrento, Me-. explained that it
was situated on Frenchmans Bay oppo-
site Bar Harbor and its table and service
will be of high standard" under the
watchful eye of =. r. Grabow, manager.
Hudson's Variety Store. 423 Seventh
street NV, proclaimed great sale of
Mason's fruit jars at AZ cents each and
Jelly tumblers with tin tops at cents
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Iran and the KremIin

In its special background" bulletin on the
Iranian situation the State Department has
emphasized a point that should receive over
riding consideration in the dangerous London
Teheran impasse. The point is simply this:
That the Soviet Union, through the outlawed
Communist Tudeh Party, is exploiting the oil
crisis in an effort to "maneuver Iran back of the
Iron Curtain
1t need hardly be said that this is menace
full of grave potentialities. Wholly apart from
the war dangers involved, what must be reckoned
with is the fact that if the men of the Kremlin
were to attain their objective, they would be in
position to deny Trans oil to the free world
even though some years would have to pass
before that oil could be pipelined or otherwise
transported to Russia. Such a development
would be serious economic blow-and indirectly
military blow--to Britain and the Western
European countries that have been dependent
on this source for the bulk of their petroleum
imports. BY the same token, it would place
additional strains on our own American output.
Beyond that, as far as the IranianS themselves
are concerned, it would mean their enslavement
under puppet Red regime, and that in turn
would mean that the balance of power in the
strategicaly crucial Middle East would be tipped
heavily in the Soviet Unions favor.
It is clear therefore, that only the Kremlin
will be the gamer if the Teheran and London
governments fail to ride out the current crisis
and arrive in the safe harbor of a satisfactory
negotiated settlement. The present situation
cannot be allowed to drift much farther without
opening up the prospect of great and irreparable
injury to the vital interests of the entire free
world including not least of all the interests
of Iran itself In the circumstances, it labors
the obvious to say that the United States should
spare no effort to promote an understanding;
that Britain-which has made fair and reason
able offers-should bend over backward to be
patient and conciliatory even in the teeth of
what may seem to be altogether excessive de-
mands and that Premier Mossadegh and his
Nationalist Party should strive to abate popular
passion and curb their own emotionalism for
the sake of a common-sense agreement-an
agreement that can be helped along by the
World Court if the Iranans reconsider their
hard-to-defend refusal to have anything to do
with the courts forthcoming hearings on the
issue.
Certainly, not less than the British, the
Iranians owe it to themselves and to the rest OF
the non-Soviet world to bring reason to bear on
this crisis and to explore, in good faith and
with good will, every possible avenue toward an
amicable and just settlement. Unless all parties
to the dispute proceed in that spirit the KremIin
will be in an excellent position to snatch great
victory for itself out of the present infamed
situation.
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Prayer Of the Ancient Lupp
By Bruce Borton

Emil Hurja on his recent trip to Fin
land said to wise old statesman: IF
you were given just minutes to talk
to President Truman, what would you
tell him?"
The old man tugged at his beard and
pondered deeply: 1T think should
repeat the prayer Of the ancient monk
of Lapland," he said. "'Oh Lord, bless
all of the peoples of the earth, and
according to their deserts give to each
their hearts desire. But, please, Lord.
leave Lapland alone.
Dispatches from foreign correspond
ents indicate that large part of the
world is beginning to feel like this old
monk.
The Canadians, our most important
friends, recently served notice that it is
time for the United States to stop telling
them that until we do one-twelfth or
ne-sixteenth or some other fraction
as much as they are doing, we are de-
faulting."
The New York Times correspondent
In Hanoi reported that "the French ap-
pear to want United States aid, but
without Americans. =. They complain
that there are too many Americans lin
Indo-C -China) and wish some of them
would go home"
Anti United States feeling is high in
England, India Arabia, Egypt almost
everywhere. There must be some reason
for this. And, since foreign policy
now has become everybody's business,
venture my own suggestion as to pos
sible remedy:
I should like the State Department to
create and appoint me to a new and
unpaid position. would ask for no
desk, no telephone, no secretary.
would make no reports, dictate no mem
oranda, fill out no questionnaireS, sit in
no conferences. draw no overall pic
lures, attend no cocktail parties.
But whenever the secretary. or any
other official, felt moved to issue
statement or deliver speech. the manu-
script would be brought to my quiet
little room. 1t would be my job to say:
Suppose were Russian, Chinese.
an Indian or Frenchman. how would
this utterance sound to me? What
would be likely to say in reply? And
then what would you say?"
Our big trouble is that we have too
many officials talking too loosely. med
ding in too many situations, promising
and threatening too much.
honestly think that I, or some other
fellow who has had to spend his life
thinking in terms Of the customers
reaction, could guarantee to reduce by
something like rs per cent the volume
of this terribly dangerous irritation.
(copyrisht. 1851. King Features Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Fifty Years Ago in The Star !.
A Mother.

each. Tophams, 1891 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., offered steamer trunks ranging
from $3.50 to SO with mo charge for
straps or lettering Turkish bath es-
tabliShment at 1929 G street NV. rec
tisrn, declaring: Sometimes a single
bath makes radical change in the
system" Guide & Bros, 1924 F street
NV. proposed: Make your arrange
mentS with us to decorate the house or
church for the wedding. We can assure
you artistic and original results" Sta
lees, photographers at HOT F street
NV, please hard-to- please people" A
non -alcoholic beverage known as "Mox-
ie'' was advertised extensively in those
days. Wonder what became Of it?
The society column Of The Star for
June Is, 1901, was headed by a report
of the wedding of
Dorsey-Liehtfoot virginia Dorsey and
Weddino James Hernd On
Lightfoot at Trinity
Episcopal Church. Takoma Park. D. c.
Rev. DR.. David Barr oficiated. The
church was decorated by the Daughters
Of the King. A vested quartet Of young
women from the choir of st. Andrews
parish led the bridal procession. sing
ing the wedding march from "Lohen-
grim BENJAMIN S. Minor. Wallace
Anderson, Clarence e. Dawson and John
Turner Lightfoot were ushers. The
flower girl was little Virginia Wynkoop
and Virginia Carter was maid of honor.
G. Chaplin Lightfood. brother of the
groom, escorted the bride. The best man
was Peter Kemper. jr., OF New York. Miss
Dorsey was the daughter Of the Rev.
James owen Dorsey. q famous ethnol-
ogist and philplogist. who died in 1895.
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Comp Pickett
/. Ward.

The Star has given little space to
Camp Pickett conditions. but probably
you will be interested to know that now
Gen. Cramer has ordered that all out
going mail must be checked as to whom
1t is going This is violation of Ameri-
can freedom and the boys morale can't
be built up with this type of dictator
ship.
Gen. Cramer will announce soon that
all his men have received A passes.
They have received A passes. but these
give them less time of than the old 80
hour pass. A passes are picked up when
the boy returns to camp and are not
available until the following week end
This nullifies the privileges of the A
pass entirely.
A Mother.
Evening star., 1951-06-24
By yFrederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain. United States Senate,

1t is Of deep significance that Jesus,
when His time was SO short, expended
himself not mostly on masses, but on
cases. He was always coming the metal
in individuals. singing out a man like
zacchaeus. With that despised tax coll
lector He walked away from the crowd.
arm in arm: and, going to dinner with
him in his own home, revealed precious
metal in his personality that he never
suspected was there.
OF course, we are concerned with
society, with the race, with linked and
leagued world of human relationships,
with the state, with the city, with all
that has to do with the tangled tragedy
where cross the crowded ways" But
who is it, across all the years, who has
gone out with Christlike pity to those
waiting social tasks? Answer: Heralds
who have had something happen first
of all in their own souls. Some one like
William Booth who. with eyes Of COM
passion looking on the seething mass of
the poor and downtrodden in Londons
East Side, gave up the cushioned
church, OF which he was pastor, and
said to his wife, II have given myself, I
have given you, have given the chill
dren, for the healing of these hurt
souls" But any one who knows any
thing about Gen. Booth and of the
movement he started knows that his
conservation came out of a flaming ex-
perience in his own heart.
No matter how much metal is coined
In that inner mint. always so much is
left uncompleted and unfuldlled when.
at last. ebbs out life'S little day We
think of Phillips Brooks. who in the
height of his marvellous powers said he
felt he might come to something if only
he could have 500 years in which to
grow. think and toll; but the metal he
coined in himself in less than three
score years immeasurably enriched the
lives Of multitudes. For those like him
whose goal is ChristlikenesS, the para
mount priority is to go on from strength
to strength and from glory to glory,
until we attain unto the measure Of the
stature of the fullness Of the Christ, who
declared: "For their sakes I sanctify
myself"
Evening star., 1951-06-24

In the society column of The Star for
June IA. 1901, there was an account OF
party given by Lacey
Western High Johnston at Broadview.
School Porty the home Of her
mother, at Ballston,
va. for her classmates at Western High
school. Among the guests were: Ruth
and Rose Wellman, Helen Beale, Bessie
Foster. Margaret Edwards, Ruth Gle
ments. Julia Ravenel, Lenora Rouzer.
Georgia Wunder, Edith Keyes, Louise
Arnold. Mary Morgan, Winifred Mason.
Bruce Canaga, Spencer Dickinson,
Charles Mcclure, Omar Conger, Leroy
Chamberlain, John London. Jesse Hirst.
Horace Winter, Dean Caldwell. Rufus
Darby. Gregg Custis, Charles Boggs, Ten
steven. Wardlaw Huck, Carlos Mirick.
Whitcomb Middleton, r. N. Garnett and
John r. Green, U. S. N.
on June 10, 1901, The Star printed q
dispatch from New York announcing the
return of Harry Kemp
Horry Kemp from a trip all the way
Returns around the world ION an
original capital OF SO
cents" He was described as the son
of a prominent resident of Arlington,
N. j., and it was in the Arlington rail-
road yards that he dropped of freight
train thus concluding his globe circling
adventure. He had sailed as cabin
boy on the Pestalozzi. March 20. 1900.
The ship went around the Cape Of Good
Hope to Sydney, Australia. where Harry
took French leave. Working as a cattle
man, he went from Brisbane to Tapu
In the Maori King and was in China
in time to witness the looting Of
.Tientsin and Pekin. Then he hid
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Pen-1aan1es may be used If letters carry
iUriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

retroactive. In instances, such as one
of mine now pending. where an appeal
is made from one of these findings to
the administrator himself, four or five
months may elapse before the landlord
receives his increase. And do not forget.
this situation exists when comparatively
few appeals for increases in rent have
been made.
Imagine the delay when every land
lord in the city will be entitled to an
increase.
Hannah Stone BargteiI.
Evening star., 1951-06-24

and highway officials, the security excuse was
ballyhooed. But the case for security was
woefulIy weak one, so weak that there was
ground for belief that security was not the real
inspiration for the petition. The Commissioners
are right in opposing the closing of any public
street without good reason. Streets are public
property and should never be turned over to any
agency as private parking preserve.
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Rents

Typical Of the average Washing
tonian's tiuidity or lack of civic con-
sciousness or cowed defeatist attitude
or all three of them-is the small articu-
late opposition to the proposed 20 per
cent increase in rents. A few representa-
tives Of what could be powerful organi-
cations make perfunctory objection at
formal hearings. That is all. Not one
brings out that blanket 20 per cent in
crease over past rents is unfair, not
only to tenants. but also to owners.
For property value, upkeep, tax as
sesments and all the other myriad
factors that should determine rent in
creaseS-or decreaSeS-certainly are not
uniform; they vary greatly. But, under
the proposed 20 per cent fiat increase.
If pay rent for modern, well-kept,
high-assessment property where the
owner pays high to keep his investment
in good condition. I pay only the rent
increase that Is charged the tenant liv-
ing in a squalid, poorly maintained,
cheaply built property.
Can MIR. Cogswell. or any of the others
suggesting this 20 per cent fiat increase,
rationalize it so it's fair for all types
VI l4OAoA4S. ~ WAC 6l0AlhGt ~ PC4 NCAAt
increase is fair. why doesn't Congress
make it national? Or are Washington
renters to be guinea pigs?
James r. Connor.
should appreciate the opportunity OF
addressing this letter to Congress. since
am without representation.
AS landlord and manager Of prop
erty for my widowed mother. have
watched with interest the proceedings
In Congress regarding extension Of rent
control Nowhere have seen any mem-
ton Of the procedure to be followed in
obtaining the suggested increase in rent.
The question want answered is what
method of obtaining the increase will
be announced: Will 1t be automatic, the
tenant simply paying 20 per cent more
as of June 80 when the rent control law
goes into effect. or will landlords have
to file with the administration for the
increase?
At present. this procedure takes any
where from 80 to 90 days for results,
since the law does not give the admins
trarion authority to make any findings
Evening star., 1951-06-24
Letters to The Star

streets jobless. especially from the build
ing trades, who would be glad to pay
for food and clothes If they had the
money. and would not try to dictate
the price.
Steak once week at $50 a pound
is better than no steak at all at 81 a
pound.
Government employees who want their
salaries protected should remember that
the rest of us are paying them, and
when we run out of money they will
lose their salaries eventually.
Bricklayer.