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cile this with the economy of truth
practiced in regard to the infor-
nation given to the public about
external affairso
Chinese Marx-LeniniStS accept
Lenin's thesis that plausibility is
more important than truth in
propaganda. The belief in the use
and power of the lie springs from
a conception of special progress
as class war. The majority every
where consider it fair and even
highly commendable to lie and to
spy for their own country in time
of war, and deception then be-
comes a special duty.
The Communists regard revolu-
ton as continuing process in an
unceasing war, and deception
therefore is an important weapon
Theoretically (although in Chi
nese practice good nature keeps
breaking through they don't ad-
NIT the possibility of continuous
social progress throughout the
world without revolution.
The idea that freedom can
broaden down from precedent tc
precedent without violence and
that there may be some essential
goodness in human natures that
can quicken the social conscience
and make the haveS gradually
share their cake with the have
nots is ruled out. This, it is true
| involves some contradictions.
Working Glass to Lead.
Chinese Communist Chairman
Mao Tze-tung says that only the
working class can lead and main
tain a successful revolution "be-
cause the working class is the most
| farsighted, the most impartially
Just, and the most imbued with
revolutionary thoroughnesS ard
consistency" That the working
class has a Shrewd idea OF justice
is true. And the peoples tribunals
in Communist China in civil suits
where emotion is not worked up
show an admirable impartiality
and have rejected many exorbitarr
claims that dismissed employees
have hopefully put forward.
| But if the working class--in
which, of course, Mao includes the
peasants on the land-are the
most farsighted as well as the
most impartial persons, how does
| it come to pass that. as he insists
in such countries as the United
States, Britain and France where
adult suffrage exists and the
working class therefore have al
the ultimate power in their owr
hands, they nevertheless take
/ the wrong road pointed out to
them by reactionarieS"?
The "imperialists" are able te
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Behind the Bamboo Curtain
By Arthur Moore
North American Newspaper Alliance

HONG KONG, Feb. IL De-
layed) II have already written
about the manifest honesty of pur-
pose that the Chinese Communist
government displays in its internal
administration and to which many
foreigners living in the country
bear witness. How do We recon-
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cile this with the economy of truth
practiced in regard to the infor-
nation given to the public about
external affairSo
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Lost of a Series
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Last Law Glass 10 Get
Degrees Wednesday
From Terrell School

The Robert H. Terrell Law
School will hold its last COM
mencement at 8 pm. Wednesday
in the auditorium of the Banneker
Junior High School.
The Rev. George A. Parker
dean of the school, said the 20
year-old institution would close
after the graduation because of
insufficient funds. The school is
at 1922 Thirteenth street NV.
and has trained many colored
lawyers during its existence.
Dean Parker said that when the
school was opened. 1t was the only
evening law school in the District
available to Negroes. In the last
few years, he said. many of the
law schools in the District have
opened their doors to colored stu
dents with the result that enroll
ments have fallen off at the Ter
|rell School.
The mission Of the school has
been completed" he said.
District Court Judge Walter M
Bastian viii deliver the address al
the commencement exercises al
which ten students will get Law
degrees. They are:
Herman T. Benn, Moses Camp
bell.s jr., Tally r. Holmes, jr.
lClyatt McBrier, Jeanne B. Miles
Raymond G. Rykowski, Emory II
Smith. Marie c. Thornton, Russell
|B. Washington and William E
White.
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Washington News
Shoe Used to Kick
Youth Is CIossed
AS Deadly Weapon

A shoe can be a deadly weapon
| if it's used to kick someone, po-
lice decided last night in the case
of 16-year-old boy who kicked
another when he was refused a
ride on a motor scooter.
Police charged the 16-year- old
with assault with a deadly weapon
in the kicking of Robert Tobin,
16. of 2,315 Wisconsin avenue
NV. Another boy, Is. involved in
the fight, was charged with simple
assault. Police said charges also
would be filed Monday in Juvenile
Court.
Police said the youths attacked
young Tobin after he refused to
allow them to ride his motor
scooter. The Tobin boy suffered a
conclusion and a broken collar
bone in the attack in the 2100
block of Wisconsin avenue Friday
might. He was admitted to George
town University Hospital.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Navy and Marine Bands
Give Park Concerts TODAY

Two concerts in the park are
scheduled for today, both featur-
ing service bands.
The Navy Band, under the di-
rection of 1t. Comdr. Charles
Brendler, will play at pm. in the
Carter Barron Amphitheater in
Rock Creek Park. Selections from
South Pacific" will be featured
and another highlight will be a
solo by Ben Mitchell Morris, tenor
who will sing an aria from
Martha"
The Marine Band, under Maj
william F. Santelmann, will give
a concert at pm. at the Thomas
Jefferson. Memorial, opening q
regular Sunday evening summer
series there.
The concerts were arranged by
the National Capital Parks Office
and the National Capital Sesqui-
centennial Commission.
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School Board Member Soma Carries BOYS AppeoI
Voices Concern Over For Training School Sponsors

E. Hegstrom. superintendent of
the school; Roland S. Fletcher and
A. M. Draisner. co-presidents of
the society, and Donald D. Brewer,
newly appointed assistant District
director Of public welfare.
Shortage Of Sponsors.
What they had to say followed
a sort of pattern. The main point
was that there aren't enough spon-
sorS to go around. Some of the
speakers pointed out that being a
sponsor isn't thing you can take
on with f1ippant attitude. If you
start you have to follow through.
If you do a bad job. it's worse
than not doing it at all.
But other speakers emphasized
the sponsors get at least as much
out of it as the kids themselves,
which is plenty. They say there's
more to helping a boy get his feet
under him and stand up straight
than just knowing you've done
some good.
The Society Of Sponsors is look
ing for new volunteers. They'll be
looking harder than ever after the
show put on by the kids yesterday
When the show started off, the
boys choir came on and its con-
ductor stood up to make a little
speech.
"These boys" he said, shave
agreed to sing for you today on
just one condition. They don't
all have sponsors. They'll do their
best for you if you'll see that they
each get one"
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Sales Tax Collections
Are Down in District

District sales tax collections for
April dropped to $1,187,706 from
81, ,300,684 the previous month, it
was reported yesterday.
The April figure was only $3.50
more than the amount collected
for that month last year, Sales
Tax Administrator Allan F. Brooke
noted.
The March collections, on the
other hand, were about 100000
more than the returns for the
same month last year.
Mr.. Brooke said he couldn't ex-
plain the drop-"it doesn't make
sense"
Total receipts from the 2 per
cent levy on sales so far this
fiscal year, with one more month
to go, are $13,680,O0O.
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make a trip to the District Train
ing School at Laurel, Md.
He has dates to see the District
Jail June 20. the Receiving Home
for Children June %, and Glenn
Dale Sanatorium June 27. Various
other agencies are in for an in
spection, too.
NeWsmen's end-of- -the-day visits
to the Commissioner frequently
find him there we'll past the Dis
trict Building closing hour.
And as often as not, reporters
are greeted with mock despair by
Mr.. Donohue's assistant, Law
renee Duvall, and secretary, Miss
Rosemary Koval.
Make it fast" they implore.
We're trying to see him our
selves
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excited. no matter how rushed. He
drives himself to his evening en-
.gagements. In the brief periods
he spends at home, he answers his
own telephone.
Mr.. Donohue admits he is blessed
with good health-"otherwise I
could not carry out the program
I have begun.
Its not just to take advantage
of fast start and then coast.
I expect to maintain this pace as
long as I am in public Office"
He is so busy that he must turn
down about three engagements
for every one he accepts. But he
accepts such invitation that CO.
incides with blank space on his
calendar. Right now he has dates
as far ahead as September.
| From top ofacials to citizens
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cletleS, graduations, queen crown
ings. conventions of all types,
sororities, and fraternal organiza-
tionS, to mention a few types.
Il learn lot, too," he says.
To familiarize himself a little
more with the various District
institutions under his supervision
Mr.. Donohue now is engaged on g
tour.
He already has visited Gallinger
Hospital and Lorton Reformatory
Tomorrow afternoon he will see
the Home for the Aged and Inflrm
and the Industrial Home School
for colored children.
Wednesday afternoon he will
visit the Industrial Home School
for white children and its annex,
and the National Training School
for girls. Friday afternoon he viii
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Man, 81, Dies;
Wife Says Pair
Assaulted Him
z Held for Coroner
Soy Victims Death
Was Due to Fall

A 67-year-old man died In Gal
linger Hospital last night about
two hours after he suffered in
juries his wife said were inflicted
by two men welding a plank and
q stick.
A coroner's Jury will be asked
Tuesday to decide whether the
death Of Robert Feltner Of 233 E
street NV. was due to a beating
or q fall down three flights of
stairs.
His wife, Susie Mae, "a, was
under treatment at Gallinger for
two broken ribs, but police said
their information on how she
was hurt was vague.
Argument Reported Renewed.
Detectives last night were hold
ing two men for the jury. They
are William Howard Wilson, a
house painter, and Edward Mi
nard, both of the E street address,
where Mr.. Minard is the landlord
Homicide detectives said police
were called there Friday night
when an argument started be-
tween Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Felt
ner, but that the men were quieted
and no charges filed.
Mrs. Feltner told police the
argument was renewed about G
o'clock last night. Mr.. Minard
who lives in a basement apart
ment. said he heard the noise and
rushed upstairs to halt the argu-
ment.
Lying on Sidewalk.
Police quoted Mrs. Feltner as
saying that when Mr.. Minard ar
rived, both men started beating
her husband with a stick and q
plank" Detectives said a stick
and a plank found in the third
floor apartment were taken as
evidence.
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Minard told
detectives Mr.. Feltner stumbled
and fell down the three flights
OF stairs after the argument.
When police arrived, they found
MI. Feltner lying on the sidewalk
near the front door of the build
ing.
Mrs. Minard told a reporter
that after her husband went up
stairs, she heard some one stumb-
ling down the stairs. When she
opened her door and looked out,
she saw Mr.. Feltner on the side
walk outside, she said.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Johnson, Damon Honored
By Traffic Institute

Pyke Johnson. president of the
Automotive Safety Foundation
and Norman Damon, vice presi-
dent. will be honored by the Traf-
fic Institute of Northwestern Uni
versity in a special ceremony at
Evanston, H.. today.
Mr.. Damon is member of the
District Commissioners Traffic
Advisory Board.
With James S. Kemper, chair
man of the board of Lumbermens
Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago, and
H. G. Kemper, president, they
will receive diamond-studded keys
from Franklin M. Kreml, institute
director. The Kempers organized
the Kemper Foundation for Traf-
fic Safety.
The four men represent the two
organizations which helped founc
and develop the institute Is years
ago. The dinner today marks the
graduation of 80 police officers ir
the Institutes spring traffic police
administration class.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Hearing Slated on Move
To Close Van Ness Street

The Commissioners will hold a
public hearing on the move to close
Van Ness street between Connecti-
cut avenue and Reno road NV,
through the National Bureau of
Standards grounds, at 10 am.
tomorrow in the District Building
boardroom.
Legislation proposed in Congress
would direct the city heads to
close the street. Secretary of
Commerce Sawyer sent Congress
a proposed bill for the move. thus
Joining a succession of Federal
ohclals who have tried to get the
highway closed permanently.
1t was shut off during the war
over the strong protests Of Dis
trlct residents, and reopened after
more than four years in 1916.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Grandpa TumbIes
Off StIts;; Breaks
Several Ribs

A 62-year-old man fell and
broke several ribs while demon
Istrating to his grandson how to
walk on stills last week, the Dis
Itrict Red Cross Accident Preven-
ton Service reported last night.
-Four persons were killed by
falls during the week in home &C
cidents. One man. 72, broke leg
when he fell from a ladder while
repairing his roof.
A classification of injuries
showed 81 falls, eight persons
burned. six accidentally poisoned,
six suffering injuries from for
eign bodies in the eye, % cut and
Is hurt in other accidents.
Learning to smoke sent one IA
Iyear-old girl to the hospital to
have tobacco removed from her
throat.
Listed injuries totaled 1879 to
date. as compared to 2.794 in 1850
for the same period. Accidental
deaths totaled 106, as compared
to IS In the corresponding 1850
period.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Commissioner
By Harriet Griffiths
.L0
How does he do it?

HOW does ne 90 II!
It's good question, consider
ing that Commissioner F. Joseph
Donohue chalked up his 135th pub
lie speech in 10 weeks through
yesterday.
Not to mention a succession of
appointments during Office hours
which gives his outer office the
appearance of a busy doctors
waiting room-and the various
meetings he must attend as Com
missioner.
II don't have any tricks to keep
going" he says. II just take each
thing as it comes. What you can't
do you don't worry about. I never
look at tomorrow until it comes. "
It must work. His Office staff
reports he never appears upset or
Evening star., 1951-06-10
By Crosby S. Noyes

1t takes a lot of courage to
stand up in front Of a crowd Of
people and sing.
Especially If you're about II
years old and you have to sing
without the help of a piano or any
other accompaniment. It's a job
that you would expect to be a
nightmare for the boy and pretty
embarrassing for the audience.
The boy who got up and sang
for the annual meeting of the
Society of Sponsors at the Ma
tional Training School yesterday
wasn't the usual kind. He didn't
look scared and his voice sounded
fine and sure. The audience of
about $50 didn't mind it. either.
They brought him back for a sec
ond number.
Both the numbers were popular
love songs. One was called Would
I Love You?" The other started
out eff They Made Me King. -
The way the boy sang them you
got the feeling that he was really
asking for something from the
audience.
What the boy wanted, along
with most of the other kids at the
National Training School, was a
sponsor. He was asking the audi
ence to get him one.
Boys Helped To Find Selves.
The audience knew what he
was talking about. The members
of the society make UP the group
Iof men and women who have
taken a part of the boys prob
lens onto themselves. They have
volunteered to take on one boy at
the school and try to meet him
informally as an individual-to
get to know him and try to help
him find himself.
The things they do are the
things the kids families would do
if they could. But most of the boys
are sent to the school from other
States and their families are toe
far away to help them much. It's
things like taking the boys out
to ball game now and then;
having them into their homes:
thinking of them as people instead
OF as cases in an institution. Since
it got started. the sponsor program
has done a lot of good.
Before the singing started yes
terday. four speakers talked to the
society members about the spon-
Sor program. They were Harold
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Safety Talks
Mansfield to Visit
Schools This Week

Inspector Richard Mansfield
will conduct Safety Circus talks
in metropolitan area schools this
week. Schedule Of this weeks
programs follows: q
Monday-Langley Park (Prince
Georges County, 9::30 am.
Tuesday - Charles Young ID.
c., $50 am.
Wednesday - Camp Springs
prince Georges County,, $50
a m.
Observation-Disclosures Hebrew
Academy, 10 am.
F'riday-Pied Piper (Montgom-
cry County,, $50 am.
Evening star., 1951-06-10

Some Board of Education mem
bers have experienced concern
over the "undiplomatic way" Dis
trict Court judges handle appoint
ments to the board.
A board member, who asked
not to be quoted by name. said
yesterday the community and the
School Board itself would benefit
if the judges would change their
procedure so that members COM
ing up for reappointment would
know where they stand. The
member is not one of the three
whose terms expire June 80.
These three are c. Melvin
Sharpe. president, who has IL
years service; Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, % years service, and Wool
sey w. Hall, the freshman men,
ber appointed last october to an
unexpired term.
Terms Are Staggered.
The nine School Board members
are appointed by the District
Court judges. sitting in general
session. The terms are so ar
ranged that three are named each
year, keeping continuity to the
boards work.
The complaining member said
a person up for reappointment
does not know until the announce
ment is made by the judges wheth-
er he has been reappointed. In
addition. the secrecy surrounding
the appointments prevents citi-
zens and citizen groups from pre-
senting candidates for the board,
this member added.
This board member suggested
that each year the judges call in
the three members whose terms
are expiring go days before the
terms are up, to determine wheth-
Ter they are interested in reap
pointment. Then the judges
should ask the public to make
nominations for appointees.
Nominations Considered.
This member said the judges
now consider nominations made
to them. but they have not &C
lively sought to build up list of
candidates.
The final suggestion the men,
ber made was that the judges
change their method of announc-
ing the new appointments which
now amount to summary dis
missal' of a member who is not
renamed
Evening star., 1951-06-10

with minor problems, people who
want to see Mr.. Donohue get a
hearing when he can fit them in.
He has attended two luncheons
in one day, and appeared at as
many as three meetings in one
evening.
Except for his appearance at the
Il Am An American Day observance
last month, he always speaks off
the cuff.
He decides what he will talk
about just. before he is introduced.
1t depends on the type of meeting
he is addressing, what its purpose
is, and what he thinks would be-
interesting or beneficial to its
participants.
He has spoken at meetings of
citizens, religious groups OF various
denominations, professional 60
Evening star., 1951-06-10

barber Tor haircut.
Eddie E. Oliphant, 35, colored,
of 1119 Trinidad avenue NE,
driver of the truck, was not held.
The corporation counsel is ex-
pected to hold a hearing.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
U. 5. Building Buying
On InstaIIment Plan
Proposed in House

The Government will buy build
lings on the installment plan to
house its permanent agencies just
as the average taxpayer buys a
lhome-if Congress gives its con-
sent.
Representative Trimble, Demo-
|crat, of Arkansas, has introduced
IA bill to authorize the General
Services Administration to enter
into lease-purchase agreements
for buildings to be erected for
Government use or already exist
ing buildings.
Under his measure, Mr.. Trimble
Explained yesterday, private en-
|terprise would build the struc-
lures the Government needs per-
Imanently and the Government
would buy them with money paid
like rent" as individuals do.
Hearings Are Scheduled.
Mr.. Trimble is chairman of the
Public Buildings Subcommittee of
the House Public Works Commit
tee. His bill, however, was referred
to the Expenditures Committee
because it Is in the form of an
amendment to an act the Ex-
Ipenditures Committee handled.
That committee is planning to
hold hearings on the bill.
Jess Larson, General Services
Administrator, said that at pres.
ent GSA can make leases for only
one year in the District and five
years elsewhere. Under the bill
however, GSA would be permitted
to make lease-purchase agree.
lnents for not more than Is years
The Government may not pay
annual rent in excess of Is pc!
cent Of the fair market value O.
the property it is renting. This
percentage would be continued
under the lease-purchase agree.
ment.
Could Pay Of Debt in IL Years.
Mr.. Larson said that where g
building is financed at 4 per cent
a IS per cent annual payment
would mean that the Government
would own the building in II
years.
New buildings to be acquired in
this manner would be put up ac-
cording to Government specif1ca-
tions. THE advantage would be
that we would get what we need
where we need It," Mr.. Larson
said.
I'VE visualize using this method
only where we can't satisfy our
space demands In any other way
and where we know the need viii,
last over the years." He cited as
an example of a lasting need
quarters for the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
Harry G.. Hunter, deputy COM
missioner of the Public Buildings
Service. said the law. if passed
would be applicable to buildings
in the District. but he would not
say whether 1t would be used here
for new buildings. He said II
would not be feasible to take ovel
old buildings under the plan.
Many Buildings Rented Here.
The Government has rented
some buildings here for so many
years that the rent money. If ap.
piled to purchase, would have
bought the buildings two or three
times over.
The Lemon Building next tc
Emergency Hospital on New York
avenue NV, has been rented
since 1908. Across the street is
the Walker-J Johnson Building al
1874 New York avenue, occupied
since 1918. It is now used by the
State Department. The old WPA
was there before.
Another building rented since
1918 Is one at Nineteenth and II
streets NV. At one time it was
the Commerce Department Build
ling. Later it was occupied by the
Reconstruction Finance Corp, and
now is used by the Veterans Ad-
ministfation.
Evening star., 1951-06-10

moving truck in
the 1900 block
of Fourth street
NV. The acci-
d e mt occurred
shortly a f t e r
noon yesterday
Police e said
the victim, Jo-
Sc p h j a m e S
Weeda. of 209
A S cot pl a C e
NE, W a S re-
turning to his
home with two
playmates after
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Boy, 7, Seriously Injured
When He Runs Into Truck

A 7-year-old boy was in serious
condition in Casualty Hospital
last night with injuries suffered
when he ran into the side of a
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Finqerprint Class Set

Policemen from four nearby
Virginia departments will begin a
tWo-week course in fingerprinting
at the Arlington Police Depart
'ment tomorrow.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Chi!dren's Hospital Fund

Work is already underway
on a large new addition to
over-crowded Children's Hos
pltal. Although the formal
drive for funds to complete
the construction is ended,
money is still needed to meet
the $545,000 goal.
Gifts reported yesterday:
$722.
Total received to date:
$469.740.
Still needed: $75,26o.