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Evening star., 1951-01-07
4O-Doy Hio|euh
Meet Timed to
Peak Season

MIAMI.-Since South Florida
particularly Miami and Miami
Beach-became a favorite winter
vacation spot, its season and the
40-day horse race meeting at
Hialeah Park have conceded.
Again this winter, while Hialeah
is in operation from January II
until March 3, South Florida will
be the mecca of hundreds of thou
sands of tourists.
In 1881, when the late Joseph
e. Widener reconstructed the
track into modern Hialeah, he had
In mind "a park where racing is
conducted" His successors have
carried on his idea and now, even
when the horses are not racing,
the grounds are open year-around
for sightseers. Visitors are per-
mitted, too, on racing days during
the morning hours.
The track has become interna-
tionally famous as the home of
the pink f1amingo. Mr.. Widener
imported the original flock from
Cuba and now the colony exceeds
800. The f1amingos reside in the
infleld lake, which has also be-
come the home of migratory birds.
In the off-season the track is a
regular stop for several sight
seeing buses daily, in addition to
the hundreds who come by car.
1t is not unusual for 5000 persons
to visit the track daily. "
Stake races are run every We'd
nesday and Saturday at Hialeah.
Evening star., 1951-01-07

committee asked participating
communities simply to make a
poll at meetings of at least five
civic, cultural or patriotic clubs
on how many members had never
been to Florida. The community
having the highest percentage
would be selected as the honor
city.
Then. each club in the honor
city could select the member it
believed deserved the free holiday,
on the basis of service to the
club and the community.
Evening star., 1951-01-07
Ski Season Beqins

JACKSON, Wyo.-The skiing
season has officially started in
Jackson Hole with the recent
opening of the rope tow on Teton
Pass.
Although the tow itself is only
1900 feet long, the slopes it serv-
ices offer a Smile downhill
stretch with a drop of 1900 feet.
Evening star., 1951-01-07

tIouple W make 1urUler inquiries.
A couple was selected from one
of the five communities. They
were flown to Lake Wales for a
free two-week vacation. They
were wined (on orange Juice in
dry Polk County, and. dined at
Central Florida's finest hotels.
Lake Wales Sunshine Holiday
Committee thought things would
be different in 1850, so it limited
the offer to So communities in
Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and
Missouri.
What happened? Not a single
entry was received by the dead
line. The committee met and
sadly called it off. unable to un-
derstand why Yankees were so
Evening star., 1951-01-07
Ambassador Flights
Inuuquruted by WA

NEW YORK.-Adding new
de luxe service to it's regular
schedules to London and Paris,
Trans World Airlines has inau-
gurated it's Ambassador" flights
to the two cities, providing fast
overnight service to the two Eu-
ropean gateways every week end.
Luxury features will include a
limited passenger capacity, favors
for women passengers and a full
course dinner. Complimentary
cocktails and canapes will be
served before dinner. cham
payne with dinner and liqueurs
after. Tickets for the AmbaSsa-
dor carry a surcharge of $40.
Evening star., 1951-01-07

SUSPICIOUS Of Lake Wales hOSpi-
tality.
A few days later, however, one
entry did show up from Kinks
vile. Mo-, which isn't in Yankee
land. The entry had been mailed
the day before the deadline, but
arrived late. The committee met
and voted to proceed to bring a
couple here from Kirksville.
The Sunshine Holiday idea was
originated by the Lake Wales
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
but other clubs pitched in to help.
In sending out invitations, the
Evening star., 1951-06-17

called him. was revealed by what he
often said to his closest associates re-
garding the motto. He explained that
1t suggested to him that it is well to re-
member that criticism and praise are
transient phenomena of public office,
and that by keeping the motto in mind
the twin dangers Of deep depression
because of hostility, and excessive ex-
ultation, because of praise, may be
avoided. Gazing gratefully at the little
motto on his broad desk over which
moved such knotty problems, he de-
clared to friends that the almost unen.
durable pressures and tensions of the
present were relieved by the ultimate
wisdom OF the words, This, too, shall
pass"
The experience of ages is crammed
into that little word "too." It is saying,
this present experience will pass just as
unnumbered similar ones have passed.
AS each crisis sweeps across the stormy
today the little motto seems to gaze with
ageless eyes and to whisper, This, as
other tempests, will pass! Wise, there
fore, is the man who refuses to be brow
beaten by the clamorous present and
who, even when the skies are yelled by
the frowning harbingers of storm, be-
lieves that the clouds are lies and the
blue sky is the truth.
In a thousand troubled eras when the
hearts of men turned to water In them
for fear, always the outcome has been
a new epoch, with larger prospects and
new hopes. In no generation has the
future ever belonged to the blatant, the
Evening star., 1951-06-17
To End the Paris StoiIinq

France Britain and the United States in
their latest notes to the Kremlin, have made
clear that the Atlantic Pact and American over
seas bases can be discussed by the Russians when
and If they agree to take part in the Big Four
Foreign Ministers Conference that they them
selves first proposed as far back as last Novem-
ber. At the same time the three Western Powers
have indicated that unless there is favorable
response they will move to put an end to the
agenda- a-framing Paris meeting that has been
drearily getting nowhere ever since March s.
The thing that has deadlocked the Paris
meeting has been the Kremlin's insiStence-
through Andrei Gromyko-that any agenda for
a Big Four Conference must include the
Atlantic Pact and American bases as major
items of business. That is to say, the Russians
want these two matters dealt with as If they
were causes of international tension. The
Western Powers, on the other hand have re-
peatedly rejected this demand on the ground
that both the Pact and the bases threaten
nobody, are legitimate measures of defense
against the menace of aggression, and cannot
therefore be formal or substantive part of
Foreign Ministers get-together aimed at reduc-
ing dangers to Europe's peace and at promoting
lasting improvement in East-West relations
Nevertheless as emphasized in their new
notes, France Britain and the United States hold
Conference for two reasons: "a Because enough
agreement already exists to permit such meet
ing without further attempts at Paris to arrive
at complete unanimity on an agenda, and (2)
because the items already agreed upon include
general heading under which the Soviet For
eign Minister could speak at length on the
Atlantic Pact and American bases. In other
words the West, while ruling out the specific
listing of these subjects causes of international
tension, are ready to listen to Mr. Vishinsky
talk about them. This may seem to be a tech
nical quibble, but it Is designed to make clear
in advance that the Western Powers do not
concede that either the Pact or the bases, no
matter how much the Russians may discuss
them, are causes, rather than effects, of what
ailS the world
What ails the world, of course is the Soviet
policy Of direct and indirect aggression. If the
Russians really desire Big Four Conference to
lessen tensions, they will respond favorably to
the Western notes. If they keep on insisting that
the Pact and the bases must be formally listed
on the agenda-even though they can discuss
them as matters now stand-the free world will
have evidence enough that they do not actually
want conference. In that case, France, Britain
and the United States will be amply justified
in calling for an adjournment of the Paris meet
ing as something that amounts to little more
than terrifcally boring Soviet stalling act.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
MoryIonds Crockdown on Pollution

Maryland's impending breakdown on river
and stream pollution is an encouraging indica-
tion of the growing interest in cause that has
been tagging for too many years throughout the
Nation. Maryland has had an anti-polluton
law since 1914, but little has been done in the
past to enforce it, Meanwhile the States water
ways have become the dumping grounds for
increasing amounts of raw sewage and industrial
waste. The disgraceful condition of the Potomac
River in the Cumberland area is an example of
this dangerous neglect. i att
Belated as it Is, the decision of Maryland
authorities to enforce compliance with the anti
pollution law is most welcome George L. Hall,
chief engineer of the State Department of Health,
has warned municipal officials that they are
going to be held responsible for an immediate
start on Statewide cleanup of contaminated
streams. Virginia has set good example for
other States in the enforcement field. It's Water
Control Board is using its full authority to
compel towns and cities to stop making sewers
of the States water resources.
Conpulsion should not be necessary to end
such an obviously insanitary practice, of course
but experience shows that constant pressure is
required to get results.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Socialist MoruIs' in Iran

What England Is doing In the Iranian
oil crisis shows a similarity between So
cialism and gypsy religion. A gypsy be-
lieves it is sin for him to steal from
another gypsy but that he has reli-
gious right to steal from any one who
is not gypsy. AS soon as Socialists
are in power they seize. by force if nee
essary, private ndustry-sometimes all
at once, sometimes one industry at
time as they are doing in England. The
last seizure there was the steel indus
try, although they called 1t rationale
zation."
Now the Socialists in Iran want to do
the same thing with that country's oil
industry. which is, for the most part,
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., So per
cent owned by the British government.
Evidently the English Socialists think
that Socialists are doing wrong only
when they seize the property Of other
Socialists; the Iranians haven't yet
learned the morals of Socialism.
A proper settlement of the dispute, If
Socialist morals are to be used as
guide, would be to give Iran that part
of the stock at per cent? of the Anglo
Iranian Oil Company that Is privately
owned. There would be nothing wrong
about that whatever.
But Socialist morals should not pre-
vail. The Conservatives soon will be in
power in England. If Iran is left to it
self, Stain soon will be down there. We
should take the lead. not merely back
England, and see that Iran is the deci-
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Letters to The Star
Pen names may be used If letters carry
wr1ters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

sive loser. Oil is the work Of nature, not
OF man. Enormous deposits are under
that part OF the earth's crust which the
1ranians inhabit, but they did not know
1t and probably never would have known
1t had not outsiders made the discov-
cry Even then they didn't know how
to get it. nor have they ever had the in
telligence and ambition to develop a
way of life that would have or could
have any great amount Of use for it.
Those who have that should have pri-
ority.
Whose fault is it the Iranians, and
most other Asiatics, are such backward
people? Their own. and none other.
They should not now be allowed to turn
Socialistic. nullify the agreements they
previously had made and go to seizing
the property of others. especially when
1t Is Kremlin propaganda that is incit-
ing them to action. They are entitled
to square deal according to Christian
morals and the economic facts and
principles Of capitalistic countries. and
that's all.
Troy G. Knifin, Jr.
Kansas City, Mo.
Evening star., 1951-06-17

tive industry as public service. The District
must pay only for instructors and for mainte-
nance.
The rising death toll on the roads of America
makes it imperative that no means Of reducing
the number Of accidents should be sighted
There were $4,000 traffic deaths in 1950-ar
increase of II per cent over 1s49. The number
of vehicles has risen 66 per cent since World War
II until now there are more than so million cars.
trucks, buses and other motor -driven convey
ances on the road The picture is a challenging
one that justihes the serious thought being
given to it by safety experts from all the States
attending the local conference. The consensus
of these experts is that the annual casualty list
of the highways can be substantially reduced by
adequate training of youthful drivers in the
schools. The funds necessary for this training
represent worthwhile investment in accident
prevention.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Investment in Traffic Safety

President Truman has stated the case for
driver-training courses in the schools very
effectively. He told the annual Highway Safety
Conference that tests have shown that youths
who have received this instruction have half as
many accidents as those who are unframed
What better incentive for wider adoption of the
plan could there be than that finding? Yet many
cities have no driver-training program at all in
their Schools-and Washington is tagging in this
important safety field
The President gave proper emphasis to high
way engineering and other phases of the acci-
dent-reduction crusade of Federal, State and city
authorities, but he gave special emphasis to
instruction of "our high school boys and girls"
About one third of the Nations high school stu
dents now are being given traffic training of
some sort and about half of these are being given
actual driving lessons behind the wheel
Mr.. Truman said that every boy and girl in high
school deserves the opportunity to get that
training"
The Commissioners, on recommendation of
Commissioner Donohue, belatedly have decided
to approve the request of the Board of Education
for $4,000 with which to expand the driver
training program here. That is a step in the
right direction, although the courses stin would
be limited. Only four schools have the courses
at present-McKinley and Armstrong High
Schools, and Bell and Phelps Vocational Schools
The increased appropriation would permit adding
ten dual-instruction cars to the four now avail
able and would provide training for 200 students
IT, GO -. 49, = the schools by the automo-
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Fifth Freedom Again

was heartily encouraged to read in
the June Star two letters protesting
the showing in District movie houses of
something, in technicolor. called THE
Fifth Freedom"
A week earlier addressed similar
protest to Warner Bros. Theaters, which
are displaying this obnoxious cigarette
pitch around here, with copies to
the Motion Picture Association and to
another Washington newspaper. My
protest has not been given the recogni-
ton Of an acknowledgment anywhere.
So. may please second the letters by
Marvin L. Madison and M. G. K. in
your June 8 issue? I think that "The
Fifth Freedom" playing without any
warning as it does on American patri-
otic impulses, is an advertising obscenity.
Wilbur H. Baldinger.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Fifty Years Ago in The Star -.

in Chicago. and Mr.. Moore was jour-
nalist and historian who had been as
sociated with the Mcmillan movement
for the Identification of Washington
from it's start. Out of the excursion
abroad came many helpful suggestions
for the, improvement of the Capitals
parks and recreational areas. The ex-
pense of ''the junket" was little COM
pared with the good results OF the money
thus invested.
Some well-intentioned friends having
put forward the suggestion that Presi-
dent Mckinley should be
No Third candidate to succeed him.
Term self when his second term
expired in 1908, the Presi-
dent took notice of the proposal in a
special statement published in The Star
on June II, 1901. He put his views III
these words: Il will say now, once Tor
all, expressing long settled conviction,
that I not only am not and will not
be a candidate for third term. but
would not accept nomination for 1t If
1t were rendered me. My only ambition
is to serve through my second term to
the acceptance of my countrymen,
whose generous confidence SO deeply
appreciate. and then, with them, do
my d4ty in the ranks Of private citizen
ship President Mckinley. however.
was destined to fail in his "only am
bition." He succumbed to wounds in
fiicted by an assassin trif1e over three
months after his remuneration OF further
political Office was released to the press.
The President. in effect. was dying
man when he wrote it.
X
A legal ''notice" in The Star Of June
12, 1901, read as follows: "Mrs. Carter,
wife of former Senator
Mrs. Corter's Thomas H. Carter of
Bees Montana, recently
made the interesting
discovery that their residence, 1882
Staughton street, contained a large bee
hive of original character. The number
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Stephen BonsoI

Stephen Bonsal, dead at Sc, has left legend
that seems destined to survive for long while.
He was one of the great journalists OF his time,
a newspaperman's newspaperman. But he also
was a soldier world traveller, a diplomat,
historian, statesman In the best sense OF the
word He made news as well as reported news
1t was part of the business of his life to know
on intimate terms the themes with which he
dealt. The list of the famous men and women
he met on an equal plane was veritanle
who's Who of distinction. He personally went
to the scene wherever events were developing to
a crisis Much of his work was profoundly
analytical He watched trends and influences
until they became realities. During more than
half century he was ceaselessly active He
started with the Bulgarian Serbian War of 1885
and jumped from one conflict to another until
the beginning of World War II in 1859, when he
retired, not to rest but to put together in books
the great lessons he had learned One OF the
group brought him a Pulitzer Prize in 1914.
washington was Colonel Bonsals stamping
ground whenever he was not at the lighting
front Scores of his junior colleagues here had
the advantage of his counseling. Up to few
weeks ago he still was to be seen at the Metro
politan Club, an "ancient" who never really had
grown tooold to care about what was happening
around him. His mind was clear to the end, and
he was keenly interested in prevailing issues
even at the last He kept his sense OF humor
also-and his optimism Humanity, he under
stood, has the habit of making tragic mistakes
over and over; yet its fate is not hopeless, he
believed Someday, 1t seemed certain to him,
mankind would master the problem of living by
tolerable patterns and routines.
Evening star., 1951-06-17

of honey making insects lowering about
the house for the past three years led
to an investigation few days ago. It
was found that the bees entered and
emerged from a hole in the outside
wall, where wall support cap was miss
ing on a line with the third story.
Mrs. Carter sent for carpenter and
had him remove a section of floor in
a front room and found the spaces be-
tween the joists absolutely packed with
honey. The bees were smoked out with
sulphur fumes and several hundred
pounds of their delicious product were
removed. A large quantity still remains
and the bees have resumed their work
in making more of it,"
Editorially, The Star for May 81, 1901,
said: "A Government printers mistake
;. has just caused great
Inverted furry among philate-
Locomotive lists and has perhaps
incidentally furnished
an inspiration to the 'get-rich- quick
fraternity. It happened that by in
advertence an unknown number of
sheets of the new Buffalo exposition
2-cent stamps were printed with
the locomotive which forms the central
vignette in an inverted position. OF
course, the mistake was corrected speed
lily, but enough of the sheets had gone
forth for the topsy -turvy locomotive to
make its appearance in postal circles.
to the amazement of the non-collector
and the joy of the collector. For there
is nothing the philatelist loves more
than a postal freak. Twenty-Five years
ago a similar accident occurred in the
printing of revenue stamps and the
tokens Immediately commanded pre-
MUM, the rate Of these rare prints
now being $25. But the present demand
for the inverted locomotive issue is
likely to beat all records. Already this
scrap of paper, costing the original pur-
chaser cents, is selling for as high
as $50. profit Of $29.98 or 5000 per
cent on the transaction"
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Security-or More Parking Space?

The State Departments gyrations on its
proposal to close several blocks in the vicinity
of Its building have added to the absurdity OF
the whole plan. First the department said Its
primary reason for the extraordinary request was
the need for parking space for its employees and
visitors 1t tossed in security" as an incidental
factor. However, when the parking argument
ran into unanimous opposition from District
officials, the press and public generally, the de-
partment changed its approach. Now it says
that security" is the paramount" consideration.
1t is no wonder that the whole project gets
phonier every day.
A representative of the department told the
Commissioners that the barring of public traffic
from two blocks of Twentysecond street and
one block of D street (the original request had
been for the closing of two blocks of D street,
would eliminate 27 guard posts in the area. How
these guards could be dispensed with unless the
whole area-streets as well as sidewalks-were
barred to both pedestrians and motorists is not
clear. Unless a fence is built around this
restricted zone more guards, rather than fewer,
would be necessary to enforce the restrictions.
The department has not yet explained why
its security suddenly has become imperiled by
traffic near its buildings Are its secrets more
exposed to the public than those of other agen-
cies on public streets which have secret work
to do?
the security issue is manufactured one, used
to cloak an indefensible special privilege park
ing scheme.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Miss Hennock's Qualifications

The New York City Bar Association has
raised a question as to Miss Frieda Hennock's
qualifications for the Federal judgeship in New
York to which she has been appointed by the
President. The association has refused to specify
its objections pending Senate hearings on the
appointment However, it is only fair to Miss
Hennock to point out that her service as the
first woman member of the Federal Communica-
tions Commission has been such as to merit
presidential reward. And if her FEC service is
any criterion of her abilities, she ought to make
q good Judge.
For example, Miss Hennock, being of an
inquisitive nature, has insisted on learning all
she could about complex problems of wire and
wireless communications before making up her
mind in any case before the commission Her
craving for enlightenment as to all the facts
bearing on any given problem is trait that
should stand her in good stead on the Federal
bench. Miss Hennock occasionally has differed
with her colleagues on major questions, but she
has been respected dissenter The Supreme
Court took cognizance of the dissenting opinions
by her and another FEC member in the
debated color televiSion case. While upholding
the right of the FEC to rule in favor of an
incompatible" system of color TV, the court
majority conceded that compatible" system,
favored by Miss Hennock, was desirable" The
court majority pointed to the FEC dissents as
evidencing that "the wisdom of the decision
made (by the FEC majority can be contested"
Miss Hennock failed in an attempt to induce the
commission to delay the color TV decision until
compatible method had been perfected. Miss
Hennock also differed with her FEC associates
on the ALLEGATION of bands for educational tee-
vision. She has held that larger number of
channels should be set aside for universities
and colleges. even though few of them are ready
to make use of the channels
If confirmed Miss Hennock will return to
the scene of her former law practice in New York
City, where she long was the only Democratic
member of prominent law firm. She left the
firm in 1948 to become an FEC commissioner.
Her friends in Washington are convinced that
she would serve as creditably on the bench as
she has served on the commission.