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Evening star., 1951-10-04
Fletcher Knebel:
Potomac Fever

The White House exploded
another atomic bomb It's getting be world
wake up every morning surprised it's still here
Senator Nixon charges Democratic Chairman Boyle
RFC official and deducted it from his
Boyle deducted special medical because
later he's going to be mighty sick of this whole thing.
United States Governors resolve that the fight
the prime responsibility of local officials Another prime
sponsbiy of local officials Governor
local officials what they ought to do.
Commissioner Dunlap orders review the
all Bureau of Internal Revenue employees There's
that somebody made mistake favor of the Government
Gov Williams of Michigan that if he Eisen-
hover he'd be "oath President Hes nothing
Gen Ike. If Ike Williams. he'd be loath,
President Truman there's mo good reason why
shouldn't have everywhere in the world The Kemln.
Moscow the present mailing address fo' the nogood
Senator Lodge claims that Gen Ike only being shipped
fifth of the scheduled for him Trouble
shipping crammed with politicians rushing back
for exclusive interviews with him.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Constdntne Brown:
'Huntinq Season On In Far East
Reports From Korea, ndoChino and Hong Kong Indicate
Reds Are Ready to Launch Major Fall Offensives

the mainland, the agitation
among the Chinese residents Of
the crown colony and the
gathering of troops on the bor-
der in larger numbers than ever
in the past are considered as
definite signs that there is some
thing unpleasant in the offing.
The defeat suffered by the
British in Iran, in which the
Teheran government has had its
own way all along, is believed to
have decided the Peiping pup
pets to give the British lion an
other kick. If the Abadan de-
feat were followed by the force
full expulsion of the British from
Hong Kong the repercussion in
Asia, and particularly in South
Asia, would be such that the last
vestige of Western influence
would disappear. The Russians
would have a completely free
hand to dominate that entire
continent with over one billion
inhabitants and possessing un-
limited quantities of basic raw
materials.
Thus the contention of many
American observers that Mos
COW is far more interested in a
relatively easier and more re-
muneratiVe victory in Asia
than in Europe would be fully
confirmed. We have been led
to believe that Europe is Amer
ica's main line of defense while
Asia is of only secondary i'm
portance. We are spending bill
lions to strengthen Europe. The
recent developments in Iran and
the prospective all-out military
offensive in Eastern Asia would
belle this. diplomatic-politica
estimate.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
David Lawrence:

The reporters who were clus-
tered around television set in
the preSsroom of the White
House, watching the Dodgers
Giants baseball game, didn't
want to be disturbed-but a
super sensational piece of in
formation was given them of
f1cially and they had to scamper
to their telephones to flash the
news that the Soviets had ex-
ploded another atomic bomb"
This incident ybe said to
be symbolic of the reaction of
the American people-nobody
in free America wants to be
disturbed by the unpleasant
prospect of an atomic war.
If the truth were known.
probably nobody in Russia
wants to see atomic bombs
dropped there either.
Yet neither the Russian peo-
pie nor the American people
are doing the things that have
to be done to avert an atomic
war.
About the only concrete re-
action here was among mem
bers of the Senate and House.
who began urging that our
atomic program be stepped up
with increased funds and that
particular attention be given to
the hydrogen bomb which, it is
assumed, the Russians haven't
yet learned how to make.
With billions being spent for
defenSe-and properly so-it
might be thought that the most
important task that would be
under way in Government would
be program to reach the
hearts and minds of the Russian
people. For the atom bomb it
self is harmleSS-it is the hand
that throws the bomb that must
be persuaded not to throw it.
For years now the American
Government has known that the
Russian government does not
reflect the wishes of the Rus
Evening star., 1951-10-04

men is OF the borders of Indo-
Chir,3 ready to move into
battle. The French and their
Viet-Nam associates have been
marking time since last year
when the Chinese Communists
made the Korean war their own
and were compelled to send
large numbers of troops to that
area If the French intelligence
reports are accurate. the re-
grouping of the Red masses has
now Deen completed.
The French position is i'm
proved compared to last years
by tire arrival of large quantities
of American equipment and an
improved high command under
Gen De Lattre de TasSigny.
The main difficulty of our
French friends is that the troops
are tired. Their losses. par
ticularly in officers. has been
terrific. The bulk of the 10000
French troops are Foreign Le-
gioLnaires Senegalese, Moroc-
cans and Algerians. They are
good fighters only so long as
they have good officers to lead
them Some so per cent Of
Frances professional officers
corps has been sent to Indo-
Chira and the casualties of this
corps have been far greater than
in any ether war fought by
Fraree.
The Indo-Chinese people are
far more sympathetic to Ho-
Chi-Minh than the Koreans are
to the Communists. This causes
sabotage and espionage and a
portion Of the French army
must be used as an internal
security force.
There are reports that the
Chinese Communists are pre-
pairing a coup against Hong
Kong as well. 1t appears that
the Peiping government has for
sometime been planning to
take over that British crown
colony but there has been some
hesitation principally because
Hong Kong was a useful door
through which much strategic
material was coming into China
from the West.
The recently reported infil-
trations into Hong Kong from
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Baseball or the Atomic Bomb?
Nobody S. Wants to Be Disturbed Prospect Of New War
Yet Little Has Been Done Reach Hearts of Russian People

it is just a piece of incidental
governmental machinery. In
stead of a representative on the
new board from the Defense
Department and another from
the State Department to rec
ommend and suggest programs
of action in the psychological
field, the board should consist
of at least a dozen prominent
Americans who are qualified by
experience in these matters to
undertake the direction of this
tremendously vital counter-ef-
fort against an atomic war, The
board should by statute be an
integral part of the National
Security Council.
The American people are
helpless to speak to the Russian.
people except through agencies
set up here for that purpose.
But the agencies thus far set
up are inadequate and cannot
do the job that has to be done.
The State Department. for in
stance, with bureaucratic zeal
still insists on controlling the
entire propaganda effort. Hence.
the most important counter
move that could be made to
prevent World War III fails
even to get started on the COM
prehenSive basis that it deserves.
There is enough ingenuity in
the world to persuade the peo-
Piles of the satellite countries
not to tolerate tyrannical gov
vernments, but evidently there
isn't enough imagination and
boldness in the American Gov
ernment to put that job at
the top of the agenda today.
Maybe another atom bomb will
have to be exploded by Russia
before there is a Shakeup here
of the complacenoy that prevails
inside the Government and be-
fore advantage will be taken
of the many opportunities aris-
ing every day to reach the peo-
piles of the satellite nations.
Reproduction Rights RessrVed)
Evening star., 1951-10-04

hesitatingly. other things being
equal. United States command
erS prefer to let the men have
their dependents with them.
Gen. Ridgway, for example,
has reopened dependent travel
to Japan. He tries to equaliZe
the Korean sacrifice by fire.
quent shifts within his COM
mand.
But the 43d Division which
is going to Europe will not be
allowed dependents. And they
may find forces there, which
antedate the change in the de-
fense climate, quite plushily es-
tablished.
1t is matter for the most
conscientious determination but
few observations may be in
order.
First of all, the people in
volved must be told the truth
that new hazards now exist, that
with the need for guns. planes,
bases, ships, the frills must 60.
1t is new problem and a new
kind of service for Americans
but there is no reason to sup
pose the women can't take it.
After all. their grandmothers
went West with their men
knowing that their houses
might be burned, their men
scalped and their own fate a
grave question. But they went.
They didn't ask to have Bos-
ton transplanted with them
either; they put the cherry
chest and some garden seeds in
the covered wagon and set forth.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Constantine Brown:

Fau and winter are the best
"huniing seasons" for the Com
munists in Asia
Reports from Korea, where a
heaIv military censorship has
peen established, from Indo-
China ard from Hong Kong
indicate that the Communist
armies backed by Russia with
expert military advisers and
large quantities of material are
ready to launch their major fall
offenSives.
The going will remain tough
for them N Korea where we are
prepared for everything. Under
the sKillful command of Gen.
James Van Fleet our forces have
engaged IN offensive operations
intended principally to blunt a
probo ole enemy attack in force
along the entire l40-mile front.
The Chinese Communist buildup
has been proceeding for several
weeks and there is every sign
that they will deliver major
blows on both the eastern and
western fronts.
The size of the enemy's air
power is still guessing matter.
Since the middle of September
there have been more Red
sortles than at any time since
the outbreak of the war. The
quality of their planes is excel
lent out that of their aviators
varies Sometimes they show
themselves to be experienced
combat flyers; at other times
they appear timid. The Chinese
anti-aircrafC shows surprising
improvement and leads our
command to believe that the
guns are manned by "Cauca-
slams"
In Indo-China the Viet-Minhs
under the command of Ho-C Chi
Mini are on the march
again. French intelligence re-
ports suggests that during the
lull which has existed on the
front since last winter the Wet
Mimi troops have been re-
equipped with modern war
material and strengthened by
the arrival of some new forces.
The most worrisome report is
that at least one Chinese Red
army estimated at some $4,000
Evening star., 1951-10-04

sian people and that only a pro-
cess of coercion keeps the men
in the Kremlin in power.
For years. too, the world has
known that war itself never
settles anything and that. when
the armies cease their fighting,
the problems of reconstruction
and the economic chaos that
has been generated are bigger
than the problems of war it
self. Armies can be vanquiShed
but peoples cannot be destroyed.
Knowing now that neither
World War l nor World War II
settled the problems that had
arisen among the rapidly grow
ing populations of the various
countries involved, it might be
thought that the No. / objective
today would be to devise ways
and means to prevent another
war. But the idea of reaching
the hearts and minds of peoples
now caught temporarily in the
trap of Communist imperialism
has been banded about in the
Democratic countries as if it
were just side issue. Thus the
Voice of America" has been
relied on to do this job. The
theory of such a voice" is
good, but the basic concept snd
the execution are faulty. What
is needed is not more transmit
ters and buildings to house the
Voice of America" apparatus
and personnel, but new concepts
of policy that are tuned to the
realism of the situation in which
the peoples of the satellite coun-
tries find themselves.
Not long ago the President
showed his awareness of the
problem to the extent that he
set up a Psychological Warfare
Board under Gordon Gray.
president of the University of
North Carolina and formerly
Secretary of the Army. Mr..
Gray is an able man. but the
setup will never work because
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Doris FIeeson:
Family Problem on New Frontiers
Question of Service Dependents at Nations Bases Abroad
May Bring Family Separations Three Years Out of Four

PARIS, October 4.-Shall the
the American men who are de-
veloping the nations new from
tiers of collective security have
their wives and families with
them as did their pioneer fore
fathers on the American main
land? If so, under what condi-
tions?
This In bureaucratic langu-
age is the problem of the de-
pendents. In human terms it is
the problem of maintaining
American family life. The in
creasing flow of United States
forces Of all kinds to the Far
and Middle East, Europe and
North Africa makes it a very
urgent one.
A national magazine recently
called attention to the difficult
ties, hazards and vast expense of
keeping families together in the
mushrooming defense effort. The
Little Americans" established in
the relatively easy-going days of
the German Occupation were
described and the question raised
as to whether some sort of guns
or butter decision was not due
the heavily burdened United
States taxpayer.
A wave of pessimism swept
through the forces and theater
commanders had to consider in
their own minds whether they
would be ready to say that the
morale factor outweighed the
hazards and expense.
Dependent policy is handled
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Lowell WeIIett:

A lot Of politics will flow over
the dam before anything fun
nier occurs than one incident of
the past week end. That was
the publication of a pious pro-
test by 25 Republican Senators
against the alleged smear tao
tics" Of the Democratic admin
istration.
This has been the year of
the big smear. No question
about that. But the desperate
Democrats have been on the re-
ceiving end of it, not the Re-
publicans. This is perfectly
natural and normal. The Demo-
Gratis are in; the Republicans
are out. The ms always are
attacked by the outs. That's
how the outs get in. That's
how we preserve our two-party
system.
So the Republicans cannot be
blamed for attacking wherever
they see an opening. RFC loans,
Internal Revenue favors, deep
freezes, mink coats, anything
they can put their fingers on.
And nobody expects them to
lean over backward in an effort
to be completely fair.
The administration has to de-
fend itself the best it can and
one method of defense is the
counterattack. 1t is seldom an
effective method, for, whereas
the administration is a fixed
target, the opposition is a NOV
ing, shifting guerrilla-like oper-
alton, with one band popping up
here and then fading back into
the hills while another pops up
over there. They don't stand
still long enough to be shot at
or smeared, if the administra-
ton were foolish enough to at
tempt smearing.
That's the way it has been in
recent years and in all the
Years of our political history.
This year, however, has pro-
duced one new thing and bids
fair to produce another. The
first is the utterly reckless and
irresponsible one-man cam
paign of character assassination
which has added the term Nc
Carthyism to the language. The
second is the development OF
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Dorothy Dix
Grandmother Should Not Demonstrate
Preference of One Child to Another

DEAR MISS DIX: I have two
little girls. aged and 4. My
mother-in-law is always buying
gifts for the 6-year-old but never
gets anything for the younger
child. It breaks my heart to see
the A. year old stand by and
and watch while her sister looks
at her gifts. I never have a cent
to call my own so can't buy things
like that. My husband has noticed
lit too, but is afraid to say any,
thing. I have asked my mother
in-law if she would buy either for
both or none, but she still con-
tinues this practice. M. B.
Answer: Your mother law
exhibits a spiteful type of favorit-
ism that is one of the lowest hu-
man traits. and she is also going
out Of her way to spoil both chill
dren for you.
If this practice is allowed to
continue unchecked, the sweet dis
positions of the little girls will
suffer, and their entire mental
attitude may be warped. The older
and favored child will regard her.
self as the queen who can do re
wrong, while. the younger one will
soon feel completely unloved and
unwanted.
Your husband should definitely
step IN and have serious talk
with his mother. It's much, much
better to hurt her feelings than
to hurt his daughters lives. If he
lacks the gumption to take stand
in the matter, you'll have to insist
on equal rights for both children
If your girls are of the right tenn
perament, and sensible, you might
enlist their aid and have the Older
one refuse her gift unless her sis
ter also shares grandma's bene-
f1cence. This is the only way the
sisters will grow up to share
things, both with themselves and
others.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: A few
weeks ago, my boy friend Dick
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Emily


A reader explains: "It would be
helpful to a number Of people II
you would express, in print, your
opinion of an otherwise thought
full person who almost continually
either huns or sings softly at her
desk in a crowded business Office
1t is impossible to escape aware
ness of this sound and to some OF
us it actually has become a tor
turing interference with our work. u
The only thing I can suggest is
that you write a note saying, 1--WE
know that you have no idea that
your really low voice reaches us
plainly and handicaps our work."
SoeioIIy Mrs. John
Dear Mrs. Post. How should the
the members of our Ladies Aid be
referred to? AS Mrs. Jane Doe or
Mrs. John Doe? They seem to pre-
fer the former but several Of the
older members insist that 1t is
wrong.
Answer: For the social world the
wife of Mr.. John is Mrs. John
Mrs. Jane is either the widowed
mother of a son having his
fathers name, or a divorcee, or q
business woman whose profess
sional name is better known than
her social one.
Tipping
Dear Mrs. Post. Is everyone at a
resort hotel tipped at the time OF
departure or may some of them be
overlooked?
Answer: ALI those who have in
any way served you should be re-
membered.
High or Low Heels
Dear Mrs. Post: Are low heels
ever as dressy as high ones? I'm
very tall; hence my question.
Answer: The objection to low
heels is that they are not as fat
4tering to the foot. 4
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Arlington
Visitor

The Commemorative Attor-
ney Of Massachusetts,, Mr.. Ed
ward D. Hassan, arrived from
Boston over the week end to
visit his son and daughter in
law, MIR. and Mrs. William j.
Hassan, in Arlington. The
younger Mr.. Hassan is a candi-
date for the Democratic NOM
ination for Commonwealth's S
attorney Of Arlington County.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
|WCTU Meetinq
Set in Boston

Mrs. Guy F. Glossbrenner
president of the District Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, and
Miss Sarah Sutherland of the
Stella Clayton Union will repre-
sent Washington at the 77th an
nual convention of the National
WCTU opening tomorrow in
Boston.
Miss Elizabeth A. Smart. ma
tional legislative director. who
maintains an Office here, also
will attend the week-long meet
ing.
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, national
president, will preside at the
sessions. Program highlights will
include an address by Roger W.
'Babson on the topic, Economics
on the Liquor Problem" and a
talk on Korea by Mrs. Induk
Pahk of Seoul.
A reception will be held in the
Hayden Memorial Auditorium of
Boston University, where the dele
gates also will visit Marsh Chapel
to see the stained glass memorial
window honoring Frances E.
Willard.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
By Katharine M. Brooks

The Vice President and Mrs.
Alben w. Barkley came back
yesterday from Valley Lee, Md,
where they spent the week end
with the formers son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Max
O'Rell Truitt. The Truitts have
a place on the Cove near Valley
Lee, the Cove being formed by
the Potomac River at one of its
widest points. The water there
is salty; oysters. crabs and fish
~abound, and, in addition, there is
{. sandy beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truitt call their
country place "Andover," and
spend most of the week ends there
throughout the summer, making
longer visits when the weather is
very warm.
Senator Robert A. Taft also
returned yesterday. but from a
more distant point. He accom-
panied Mrs. Taft to their sum-
mer home at Murray Bay. Can
ada, where she will remain until
the autumn. Joining the senior
members of the family and stay
ing on with Mrs. Taft are their
sons and daughters-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Taft of New
York and Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd
Bowers Taft of Mariemont, Ohio,
near Cincinnati. Murray Bay has
been the Taft summer home since
many years before the Senator's
father, the late former President
and former Chief Justice William
Howard Taft, came to Washing
ton as Secretary of War in the
Theodore Roosevelt administra-
tion.
Gorden Holds Chorm
A charming small garden at
their home on Woodland drive
keeps Senator and Mrs. Tom
Connally comfortable through a
summer session of the Congress.
They were hosts Saturday eve
ming to a small group at supper
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Francis X. Bushnnon to Address Club

Francis X. Bushman, former
movie matinee idol who appears
in the current technicolor film,
David and Bathsheba," will speak
before the University Women's
Club at tea to be held at 4:30
pm. Monday at the clubhouse,
1708 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Miss Lucy Hunt will be hostess
for the afternoon, assisted by the
following representatives of the
Motion Picture Council: Mrs. F. F.
Evening star., 1951-08-07

and I had an argument and broke
up. He is 10, and I am year
younger. He hasn't talked to me
since, and I have discovered that
the argument was all my fault.
I want to go back with him. How
can I get him back? GLORIA.
Answer: A sincere apology is
your only recourse. If he won't
speak to you. write him. If he
doesn't accept the apology, there's
nothing further you can do ex-
cept bide your time. However.
since you acknowledge the fault
was yours, he is probably nursing
a bad case of hurt feelings and
will be only too happy to grab a
chance at reconciliation.