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Evening star., 1951-08-18
Footnote to Confusion

It's mad world. Philosophers know that.
And children-boys and girls who as yet have
not learned about logic and expedency and the
everlasting quest for perfection-agree with
them. The youngsters realize that two and two
do not always make four. Once in while they
make something much more interesting, some
thing to laugh about.
So, only the adults will be troubled when
they go to see Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonder
land"
1t is Waits by the way; nobody else's.
Yet at the start of the picture there is that
very disturbing credit line: Adapted from Lewis
Carol"
Papas and mamas cringe They can hardly
believe their eyes. Walt Disney's name is prop
erly spelled. And long list of other names.
All perfectly spelled.
Everybody's name correct except Lewis Car
rolls. For him is reserved the honor of being
unsupported, misrepresented even misspelled.
Lewis Carol, indeed! There never was any
such person, not even in Alice's mad world.
There only was Lewis Carro-and two rs!
The children don't care They know it's a
mad picture, anyway. They wouldn't care if
Walt Disney were misspelled. 1t would make it
tunnier if it read: Volt Dosney or Dolt Wosney
or something equally ridiculous.
Perhaps the adults should remember that
Lewis Carroll himself had fun with names. His
own baptismal designation was Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson.
Evening star., 1951-08-18

sequently negotiated with Japan treaty
that displayed a lack of originality.
This treaty differed by only one word
from the famous treaty of Kanagawa,
negotiated with the japanese by Com
modore Perry on March 81, 1854.
Perry arrived back in the United
States in 1855. He had accomplished an
outstanding feat of diplomacy. Invited
to speak before the American Geograph-
ical and Statistical Society in New York,
he decided to hit back at the intriguing
Russians who had tried to scuttle his
mission and to warn his Nation against
them in the future. His topic was inno-
cent enough-"The Enlargement of Geo.
graphical Science, a Consequence to the
Opening OF New Avenues of Commercial
Enterprise" But Perry made it the
vehicle for prophecy. He said:
1T requires no sage to predict events
so strongly foreshadowed to us all; still
westward will the course of empire take
It's way. But the last act Of the drama is
yet to be unfolded; and Notwithstanding
the reasoning of political empires west
ward, northWard and southwark, to me
Evening star., 1951-08-18
Brace for q Broodside, Commodore!
By Edword Boykin

THE Soviet navy magazine that re-
Il Gently fired a salvo at John Paul
Jones may be reloading for broadside
at Matthew c. Perry.
If, at this rather late date the Rus
slams deny credit to our naval hero,
Jones. for the victories he won for them
in their war with the Turks in 1888,
then woe unto Commodore Perry when
these same editors come across his
chapter in history
1t was Perry, they will find, who
opened Japan's gates to world trade in
1854-thus outsmarting the Russians
who tried and failed dismally to achieve
that end.
Perry topped off his mission with a
prediction that unfortunately is stand
ing up well under the test of time. He
forecast nearly 100 years ago that Rus
sia and America would one day meet
in an Armageddon on the eastern
shores of Asia"
Perry had good reason to distrust the
Russians. In 1853, before embarking on
his mission, Perry virtually handpicked
ms ofncers, sailors and civilian person.
mel. For interpreter, he was about to
engage one Won Seybold, reputed au-
thorlty on Japan, when he discovered
that this man apparently was an
agent employed to make confidential re-
ports to the Russians, who were Jealous
OF the Perry expedition. In his memoirs
Perry charged Won Seybold with being
Russian spy.
Whlle Perry was on the first leg of
MS Journey to the Far East. the Rus
SLAMS tried to steal a march on him,
lhey sent four warships to Nagasaki,
where they threatened to shoot up the
place unless given a treaty and other
concessions. The japanese were not in
undated. They told the Russians to
get out and stay out. Smarting under
this failure and fearful lest Perry should
succeed where they had failed, the Rus
SLAMS set out to jeopardize Perry's sue
cess by competition.
On reaching Shanghai, Perry found a
Russian fleet awaiting him. The Rus
sian admiral gave Perry to understand
that the Russian and American govern
ments had agreed that the Russian fleet
should accompany Perry and cooperate
In opening the doors of Japan. Perry
turned the proposal down fiatly and
slipped of to Japan while the bewil-
dered Russian admiral was thinking up
another.
The best the Russians could do was
to follow in Perry's wake. Russia sub
Evening star., 1951-08-18
This and That

"The outdoors is calling and I can't
answer" writes Mrs. A. S. r. The neigh
bors have gone on vacation and she
feels lonely. and besides her feet hurt.
What should one do, in such a case?
You seem to write about just any,
thing and everything and am going to
be so bold as to ask a favor of you,"
she continues.
would you please write an article for
those of us who find we must go on
straight through the summer without
the benefits of vacation or trip?
Surely there must be some here in
Washington who, like ourselves, be-
cause of illness and financial troubles,
must keep on just as we are. But who
are they? don't know them.
"Our neighbors on the north Of us
have gone to the seaside, on the south
of us they have gone to the mountains,
in back across the alley they have gone
to visit homefolks, and across the street
they have taken their noisy but lovely
children and departed for parts un-
known.
Our home which has been such a
haven in many storms has suddenly
taken on all the cheerfulness of the
morgue.
II am not one of these housewives
who spends great deal of her time
talking to the neighbors. In fact. I
scarcely ever talk to them but I know
they are there. I hear the rattle Of
their dishes. I hear them calling their
children to lunch. hear them calling
Evening star., 1951-08-18
BY Charles E. Trocewen
Impatient.

do not take vacations, for one reason
or another.
The annual vacation is a state of
mind. they think
1t is the mind that must be changed.
How to do this is every ones personal
problem. We know one man who spent
a two-week vacation in the National
Geological Park
Every morning at o'clock he went
there. and remained until 4 in the after
noon.
He said afterWard that he never had
such pleasant vacation, with his own
bed and where he knew everything was
nice and Clean
After all, ones home is ones home.
1t is usually as good as one can make
it, and it is still there, no matter how
the neighborS come and go.
Reading in summer is admittedly diff
f1cult. That is where the radio and tele-
vision come in, if they come.
Think of all the good things about
home. and refuse to be upset because
others like to leave their homes. The
annual vacation is sort of tradition.
on the whole good one, but really not
as necessary as some think.
The essential thing is to be happy, but
how one does that is entirely up to each
one OF us, in the last analysis. Those
who pretend to advise on such matters
are just takers.
'The outdoors is calling and can't
answer" it is good sentence, and
the person who phrased it is perfectly
able to answer her own puzzle. All she
needs to do is count her blessings, as
the old folks said.
Evening star., 1951-08-18
FotoIism and Civil Defense

The House Appropriations Committee, which
sets the pace in Congress on money matters, has
shown once more that it has no intention of
going the whole hog on civil defense Civil
defense as the term is used means preparations
for dealing with the civilian catastrophe of an
atomic bomb attack on the United States.
The committee has just reduced in the sup
Elemental appropriations it approved, the $535
million requested by the Civil Defense Admin
istration to $65 million. 1t cut the request of
the District of Columbia civil defense authorities
from 900 to 1924 900. The reductions are
In line with what Congress has done before
The committee point of view is that the
Federal Government should undertake no more
than financing a program limited pretty much
to training and education of the public in matters
of self-protection, and co-ordinating civil de-
fenSe efforts in the States and cities 1t seems
to have reached the conclusion that there can
be no such thing as adequate preparation to
deal with the calamity of an atomic bomb attack,
and it is impractical to attempt it.
Take as an example some of the estimates
that have been made in Washington as to what
should be done in order to be prepared. One
estimate exceeded 50 million. Congress has been
willing to appropriate less than half million.
Medical preparations, including the stoCkpiling
of drugs and equipment, were estimated to cost
30 mlIlOn alone. Yet, II all tnlS money were
spent, there is no certainty that the city would
be much better off with than without all of the
things provided in advance Stated conserva-
lively, casualties from one bomb might reach 120-
900, with 10000 dead. The maximum capacity of
local hospitals would not exceed 10000, if they
were left standing. Everything that money could
buy in advance would fall short Of dealing with
such chaos.
In Washington the preparations do not
extend much beyond the building of alarm
and communications system, and equipment for
much of that is in such short supply that it is
unavailable. The recruiting program for civil
defense workers has been a disappointing failure.
for the people are not responding. They are
not interested.
Congress is probably rejecting the sentiment
of the people in adopting a fatalistic attitude
toward complete civil defense, for there seems
to be no practical or attainabe alternative.
Evening star., 1951-08-18

the cat in at night and hear them
Scolding the dog for barking.
ut is all life and activity and now
it has all stopped. Not just gradually
one at time but suddenly and COM
pletely and I have the feeling that I
am in the center of the Mojave Desert.
"It isn't that I don't have enough
work to keep me busy have more than
I can get done. I am great hand
to read. In the winter I can settle
down in a chair with good book and
forget everything else. But in the sum-
mer it is different. My thoughts wander
away from my book and can't seem
to get interested in it. The outdoors
is calling and can't answer. We have
no car and I am crippled in the feet.
I am sure there must be others in the
same boat who would appreciate an
article"
Now what can one reply to such, an
honest letter?
1t would be easy to read a little
lecture, about how one should get in
terested in the birds in the yard, study
the insect population therein, and so On.
Zone man several years ago put out a
book on how he found 5000 different
species in a home lot 50x150 feet.)
1t would be easy to say that one should
not be so dependent on the neighbors
and their activities, so as to miss them
when they go.
Every one misses them, even the
noisy ones. But they will come back,
and then one may even curse them q
little, at least under the breath.
There are thousands Of persons who
Evening star., 1951-08-18
DefouIt in the House

It is discouraging to learn that only IS
members Of the House were willing to support
the President in his veto of bill to boost
pensions to certain veterans disabled from causes
having no connection with their military service.
The members of the House are always willing
to make speeches demanding economy, deploring
the declining purchasing power of the dollar
and protesting the burden that has been imposed
on the taxpayers. They are quick to denounce
the extravaganza of the bureaucratS and to
insist that the President cut down on the money
spent by the executive branch But on the clear
cut test posed by this pension bill-a bill est-
mated to add $400,O00O0O a year to the tax
burden within so years-318 members voted to
override Mr. Truman's veto. That was a dis
graceful performance.
It should be remembered that the bill had
no application to veterans whose disabilities grew
out of military service. They are not affected
in any way. What the bill proposes is that
pensions paid for non-Service disability, subject
to certain income limitations be approximately
doubled. If it becomes law veteran who drives
his car off the road and hits tree would be
eligible for pension of $120 a month if he is
sufficiently disabled to require full time aid from
another person. Under existing law his pension
would range from $50 to $72 month.
There is not the slightest justification for
saddling the people with this additional load.
possible economy ought to be made, should never
should not have been re-enacted by the House
the veto The Senate ought to display
higher regard for the national welfare.
Evening star., 1951-08-18

it seems that the people of America will,
in some form or other, extend their
dominion and power, until they shall
have brought within their mighty en-
brace multitudes of the islands of the
great Pacific, and placed the Saxon race
upon the eastern shores of Asia.
And I think. too, that eastward
and southwark will her great rival in
future ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Russia) stretch
forth her power to the coasts of China
and Siam-and thus the Saxon and the
Cossack will meet once more, in strife
or in friendship on another field. Will
1t be in friendship? I fear not. The
antagonistic eXponentS of freedom and
absolutism must thus meet at last, and
then will be fought that mighty battle
on which the world will look with
breathless interest; for, on its issue will
depend the freedom or slavery of the
world-despotism or rational liberty
must be the fate of civilized men.
think I see in the distance giants that
are growing up for the fierce and final
encounter; in the progress of events that
battle must sooner or later be fought"
Evening star., 1951-08-18
Communist Menace
Robert d. Eaton.

What does it take to awaken the people
Of this country to the Communist plague
that threatens us?
Why are we playing into the Kremlin's
hands by becoming more and more di-
vided in our political squabbles and
chickering's and losing sight of the real
danger?
What are we waiting for? What further
warnings do we need to jolt us out Of
such an ill-timed state of apathy into
a realistic cognizance of the plain, ugly
facts?
Can we not profit from the tragic and
horrible fate suffered by millions of mis-
cradle people throughout Eastern Europe
and Asia or must we finally experience
for ourselves a similar fate in order
to realize too late what it means to
live as slaves under the barbarous So
Wet system?
Impatient.
Evening star., 1951-08-18
Building Pacific Security

The American-Filipino mutual defense treaty
to be signed in San Francisco next month
represents key part of the security system
being built up in the Pacific area to safeguard
the free world against the threat of Asia based
Red aggression. The system is still pretty much
in its formative stage but it has already taken
on the essential aracteristics-though on a
relatively small scale-of the Atlantic Pact
against the threat of Europe based Red aggres-
sion.
Thus, like our kindred treaties with Aus
tralia and New Zealand-treates which also are
scheduled for signing next month-the new
agreement with the Philippines pledges that our
two countries will maintain and develop their
individual and collective capacity to resist armed
attack" In addition. it provides that any such
attack upon one will be regarded attack
upon the other if the attack is or metro
politan territory of either of the pc IS, or on
the island territories under its jurisdiction in
the Pacific or its armed forces, public vessels
or aircraft in the Pacific
Under the terms of the treaty-and in this
it is essentially the same as the l2-nation At
lantic Pact-any attack of that kind would auto
maticay obligate our own Government and the
Filipino government to act together in accord
ance with their constitutional processes to meet
the common danger Ever since 1947, of course.
for mutual security on the basis of agreements
under which we have been extending military
assistance to the Filipinos, while they in turn
have given us rights to air and bases in their
territory. The new understanding, however, not
only strengthens those agreements but also
serves to make them integral part of the
much broader defensive system now in the
process of development in the Pacific area.
That system obviously is beginning to take
shape in a concrete and impressive manner.
With Australia and New Zealand linking them
selves with us for the same purpose, and with
bascally the same treaty commitments as the
Philippines, the groundwork has been laid for
an effective program of mutual security over
a vast eXpanSe of the Pacific world. Further,
this developing defensive pattern will acquire
great additional strength from the agreement
scheduled to be put into operation by Tokyo and
Washington after the signing of the Japanese
treaty-an agreement providing for the station
ing of American military forces "in and about"
Japan for as long as may be needed to guard
against Red aggression.
AS far as number of nations and scale of
operations are concerned, all this falls consider
ably short Of what is being done under the
Atlantic Pact to protect the Western world.
Nevertheless it is far better than nothing In
deed, considering how the Pacific Asia powers
represent a complex of heterogeneous interests
that greatly impede progress toward an all
inclusive security treaty, there is good reason to
hail what has been accomplished thus far as
long step forward toward safety in that part
Of the globe. Certainly, even if they mark only
beginning, the arrangements being worked out
between us and New Zealand Australia, the
Philippines and Japan are decidedly reassuring.
Evening star., 1951-08-18
McCorthy's Methods

Frederick L. Freeman directs a TRADE
against Liberals" and Mccarthy smear
ers." I should like to ask him three
questions.
Does he really believe, for example,
that Gen. Marshall is a traitor, as is the
only possible Interpretation of any care
full reading of Senator McCarthy's
speech of June IA, delivered under i'm
munity of the Senate?
Does Mr. Freeman believe that Sena-
tor Mccarthy believes it?
Does Mr.. Freeman recall that the type
of indiScriminate and irresponsible
charges of communism introduced in
this country by Senator Mccarthy were
used not quite 20 years ago in a Euro
pean country now in part under our
occupation, by group Of gentlemen no
more scrupulous than Senator Mccarthy
to secure their accession to power, and
that their continued ambition and lack
of decency led to some very sad develop
ments?
Mr.. Freeman states the Communists
want Senator Mccarthy eliminated from
the American political scene" This I
challenge. Why should they? What
better cover have they than the man
who charges his every political enemy
with being either a Communist or a tool
of Communists? Would a man who
really wanted to defeat communism.
rather than to misuse the issue as a
means to power, behave so?
You may publish my name after Sena-
tor Mccarthy begins to repeat his
charges outside the immunity Of the
Senate.
Liberal
In your editorial August II, you
Could Be on McCarthy's List" you
point out the rights of person charged
with crime, say that communism Is
not crime and infer that it is unfair
to publish the names of Government
employees charged with subversive con-
nections. based on unevaluated informa-
ton. You ask whether I, as citizen,
would welcome publicity that such a
charge. based on unevaluated informa-
ton of anonymous informers, was re-
ported to my employer. You state that
if believe that this would be fair to
me, agree with Senator Mccarthy.
My answer is. if had been sappy
enough to join front organization, with
or without knowledge of its real purpose
or its affiliations, would expect the
publicity if I were Government en-
ploye, but would not welcome it. If
there was doubt of my loyalty after a
hearing would expect to be fired or
put in a position where I could do no
harm. Therefore, I agree with Senator
Mccarthy, but not simply for the reasons
Evening star., 1951-08-18
Exalted Moments

In the eralted moments such as those
Wherein one sees the gull aboue the
main,
Or sights the distant sail approaching
port,
In steady progress coming home again.
Or in the calm that tollo,Ds in the 1Ddke
OF the tempestuous breakers rolling
rO1rS,
One senses for the time the sight and
feel
OF great UaUes on the spirits nativs
shores.
Edward D. Corner.
Evening star., 1951-08-18

investment of So billion in exploration drilling,
new facilities, etc, calling for steel and other
materials in great quantities. Given that,
plus congressional action to clear the way for
full development of our offshore oil resources,
the industry should be able to meet all the
needs of the Nation-civilian as we'll as military.
Otherwise the possibility of shortages will have
to be reckoned with.
Evening star., 1951-08-18
By THE HASKIN SERVICE,

=. Please explain how the "humming"
strip on roadways functions?-T. R.
A. The device consists of a 24-in.-
VIDE strip OF white concrete separators
with scored surfaces lying fiat between
the trattlc lanes of the highway. When
the tires of car come in contact
with the scored surface, a loud hum is
produced, warning drivers to get back
into their own lane. Particularly useful
at night and in foggy weather, the
''humming" strip is being widely adopted.
Evening star., 1951-08-18
Questions and Answers

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Letters to The Star ,

stated in your editorial You have
omitted some OF the pertinent facts.
have been reading your paper for
over 20 years and have decided your
political policy has changed in recent
years. You are posing as the old.
politically unbiased, democratic Evening
Star. but actually you have swung over
to the socialistic New Deal-Fair Deal
crowd. More and more you are get
ting the Melletts and Fleesons, on the
theory that you are being very demo-
cratic and fair by giving both sides Of
the story, yet you are slanting heavily
TO the New Deal side in your editorials.
II you want to be real democratic, why
don't you employ a Daily Worker COL
umnlst and give three sides?
Subscriber.
Editors note: Subscriber" lodges the
question asked in the editorial: Would
you, a citizen convinced of your own
loyalty to your Government. welcome
publicity If the FBI turned in a report
to your employer based on the unevalu-
ated information of anonymous in
formers to the effect that you were a
Communist, and If it were publicly an
nounced that you were under investi-
cation for disloyalty on the strength OF
FB1 Investigations"
Home Rule
The so-called home rule bill now in
the Senate District Committee is a
strange and wonderful production. Seri-
ouS-mlnded D. c. residents do not want
thino hilf -
to Whoop it through because of certain
political potentialities both inside and
outside the city. The bill proposes to
subject us to good. old-time ward poll
tics, with an appointive mayor and is
councilmen elected from wards, empow-
cred to tax and tax, and spend and
spend"
But the worst feature of the PROPOSE
tion is its rank unconstitutionality: a
fact that will not down regardless of
efforts to cover it up. The Constitution
provides that the Congress shall "exer-
else exclusive jurisdiction in all cases
whatsoever" over the District. This Ian
guage is clear, as is its purpose, to keep
the Nations Capital free from the mire
OF politics. One proponent of the scheme
says the purpose of that language was
to prevent Maryland and Virginia from
moving in on us. Another vaguely re-
ferred to implied powers of Congress to
delegate municipal powers of legislation,
when the quoted language shows an ex-
plicit intent to cut off such powers.
Another says the bill provides for full
concurrent" jurisdiction over the Dis
trict by Congress. whereas the Constitu-
tion places ell jurisdiction in Congress.
Finally the bill includes two jokers