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500, WRC-Railroad Hour: Min!
Benzell joins Gordon MacRae In
the musical Nina Rosa" BY
Romberg.
$780, WTOP-Star Playhouse
William Holden stars in ride with
a Stranger"
500, WRC-Telephone Hour
Furruccio Tagliavini, as guest solo.
Evening star., 1951-05-14

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Evening star., 1951-03-22
By Charles E.'7roceweN
6. j. B.

Dogs. being at heart and mind rough
creatures take to beach life. becoming
veritable beachcombers. Digging for the
crabs engaged them every day. A lively
dog, no matter how small, would start
after a large one, which, seeing him
coming, would Immediately run for
its den.
Once down, the crab retreated
through his tunnels, but the dog had
got the scent, and would start to dig.
Dachshunds were the best at it, with
their splay feet. being equipped by
nature with veritable shovel paws.
The deeper the dog dug, the more
the sand would slide in after him, until
at last he was out of sight, but still
digging furiously for the crab He
must have been able to smell the salt
on the fiddler, sort of iodine smell.
inseparable from the sea side.
Sometimes small dog would dig him
self out of sight and be in danger of
soffocating. The canine sapper would
be hauled out by his hind legs, his ears,
mouth and eyes, as we'll as his nose
filled with sand.
Today, the fiddler crabs are rarely
seen on the beaches, having Succumbed
to the presence of so many people-and
their dogs.
The scientific name of Gelasimus is
from a Greek word meaning to laugh,
or laughable, referring to the odd
spraddling legs, eyes on stalks, and all
over appearance Of the crabs.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
This and That

Probably that odd specimen of the
sands no longer exists at Ocean City.
But in the old days, just before the
first automobile was seen on the streets
of Washington, which must have been
around 1900, the fiddler crabs disported
themselves by the thousands along
every Maryland beach.
They came in all sizes, some small,
some very large, with eyes stuck up on
stalks at least an inch high.
These hard, dry -shelled crabs could
run sideways, and backward, as we'll as
forward, one way as easily as another.
The eyes seemed to be able to turn,
too so that locomotion in any direction
was accomplished in the best possible
manner.
These creatures could regenerate
leg or even an eye. If torn off by
dog, or otherwise injured, the crab
managed to make it back to its lair,
hole in the sand, and there rest up for
time. In few days, the leg would
begin to grow out again, and if the
thing were fortunate, inside of a week
or so 1t would have an entirely new one.
Digging after the sand crabs, or
fddlers, was sport much enjoyed by
the dogs on the beach.
There were always dogs, seldom cats.
The cat does not get as much pleasure
out of sea shore life as the dog. The
cat does not like the wind rumpling
his ears. or blowing sand into his eyes.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Gee. and haW---

1cc, dIlU lldW-
Odd words, and perfectly respectable
ones, to be found in all the larger die
tionarieS.
They are words heard wherever oxen
are still driven
Gee, according to the big dictionary.
is word of command used in driving
animals not guided, or not wholly guild
ed, by reins.
"As oxen" continues the definition,
"to turn to the off side"
Haw, its companion. indicates to the
animal to turn - to the near side, or
toward the driver.
X
Thinking of oxen takes us back to
Ocean City, Md. where many years ago
these trustworthy creatures were used
on the sands.
Probably still are, since they manage
to get through drifts better than any,
thing, except, of course, an automobile.
The OK cart. driven by gigantic COL
ored man by the name of Elsie (honest), =,
was used to carry ice around the sum-
mer colony.
Elsie was distinguished by broad
grin and -brimmed straw hat.
Oxen are patient creatures, but can
be goaded once too often. When they
turn nasty.
Another sea shore memory is of
Gelasimus. the generic name for the
fiddler crab.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Operation Killer

With regard to the fighting and the
advance of the United Nations forces
in Korea, is it necessary to give this
operation such a primitive and un-
civilized name as "Operation Killer?
Does it raise the morale of the United
Nations forces in Korea to be known
as killers" and not just fighters for
the cause of freedom and justice? Does
it help morale at the home-front
level, for the mothers and fathers who
have brought up their children to be
humane and decent to know that their
children are now being referred to as
"killers"2
I am fully aware that people get
killed in wars. I am also aware that
the war in Korea with its horrible
destruction of life is not of our choosing.
But / suggest that we do not degrade
this righteous action with gangland
Technology. Whoever thought this one
up has done disservice to the cause of
the United Nations and has performed
a very bad public relations job for
the United States.
From all evidence available, peoples
of Asia deplore the use of this termi-
nology. and it has not helped to raise
the moral standing of the United Ma
tions or of the United States in the
eyes of the Asians.
I hope that the church groups and
other civic organizations all over the
country will make forceful representa-
tions to the press and the radio to
discontinue using this jungle era
expression.
]. J. Singh,
President, India League of America.
New York.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Labor Shirks Its OBLIGATION

Those labor leaders who have set themselves
up as self-apponted champions of the people
in a fight against the mobilization program are
doing nothing but harm to themselves, to the
people and to the best interests of the Nation
1t seems to be case in which every one
connected with mobilization is out of step except
the union bosses, and they won't march at all.
In his latest blast, William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor, says that
Congress has failed the people. According to
Mr. Green, it is virtually impossible to stabilize
the cost of living" under the Defense Production
Act, passed last year.
But this is not what labor or that section
of labor which speaks through the United Labor
Policy Committee, was saying a short time ago.
In statement released when all labor repre-
sentatives were pulled out of the mobilization
Setup, the union leaders voiced only incidental
criticism of Congress.
In that statement Charles E. Wilson was
the big bad businessman who was running the
country, and the second man on labors list of
public enemies was Eric Johnston, Mr.. Wilson's
chief stabization aide. It was not Congress-
but Mr.. Johnston who was blamed for signing
the wage stabilization order, and for approving
price order that allowed business to write its
own ceiling prices"
The real truth of the matter is that these
laDOr leaders are pehaVlng ike SpQlIed children.
They predict in doefu fashion that the stabiliza-
ton program is headed for the rocks. But they
never say that their responsibility for this
is greater than that of any one else. Instead,
by extravagant denunciaton of Congress, Mr..
Wilson, big business, etc. they strive to divert
attention from the fact that the main weakness
of the stabilization program, the big threat to
it, consists of their own refusal to cooperate
in the national interest.
The Defense Production Act Is undenably
inadequate in many important respects. There
certainly should be revisions in the law which
will replace it after June 80. If these labor
leaders had an ounce of the craftsmanship with
which they so generously credit themselves they
would be working, within the framework of the
stabilization setup, for the necessary changes.
They are not going to accomplish anything by
Sulking in their tents when they are not
bombarding the men who are carrying the load
with vicious propaganda statements which have
no foundation in fact. The technique they are
using now is the same technique which proved
to be such a dismal failure during the years
when they were denouncing the Taft-Hartley Act
as "save labor law" That was not true, and,
as the Ohio election indicates the people, includ-
ing union people, knew it was not true. The
labor leaders should have learned something
from that experience, but apparently they learn
very slowly.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
1t Twas Sad Day, When Decatur Died

said. II am mortally wounded, I think.
wish I had fallen in the service of
my country"
Everything has been conducted in
the most honorable manner" said Bar
ron. II am mortally wounded. Com
modore Decatur, forgive you from the
bottom of my heart"
AS they lay on their cloaks and the
surgeons worked on them, Barron, who
was mistaken in thinking his wound
was mortal, proposed they make friends
before they died. Decatur once again
said, II have never been your enemy"
He added: II freely forgive you my
death, though I cannot forgive those
who have stimulated you to seek my
life"
To this Barron is supposed to have
said, Would to God you had said this
much yesterday"
Home in the carriage. supported by a
surgeon and a friend Commodore
Rogers, they brought the dying De-
catur. At 1890 they bore him into his
house, where beloved Susan" tainted as
the appalling news broke upon her. For
IL hours, he fingered in agony. He re-
fused to see his wife. He wished to
spare her the pain of seeing him suffer.
All day, crowds of grieving citizens stood
in the street outside. At 1890 that
night, Decatur died.
Next morning the National Intel
ligencer voiced the country's sorrow in
these words: Mourn, Columbial For
one of thy brightest stars is set A
son without fear. and without reproach!"
Such was Stephen Decatur.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Tough Job for the Planners

Changing conditions in the Washington
Metropolitan Area are threatening to make
considerable part of the so-called master plan
for Washington and vicinity obsolete or obsoles-
cent even before all of the plan has been pub
ished. The latest section of the plan to be
released indicates the difficulties of trying to
prepare an overall guide that will fit new
developments. The fifth monograph issued by
the National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission is based largely on traffic surveys made
in 1947 and 194S The data are so out of date
that new survey already is being made And
todays picture of traffic trends may be far diff
ferent from that presented when the Govern
ment'S dispersal program is worked out.
The Comprehensive Plan for the National
Capital and Its EnvironS" went to the printer
many months ago-before the dispersal program
now before Congress had taken form. At that
time dispersal and decentralization were synony-
NOUS. Now dispersal-referred to in the traffic
and transportation report as decentralization
means the distribution of Federal buildings
around the Metropolitan Area Decentralization
now means the transfer of some Federal Offices
to other cities. In preface to the fifth report,
which is titled Moving People and Goods" the
planners frankly admit that a comprehensive
regional highway plan cannot be prepared until
further studies have been made "All of the
proposals shown on the plan," it is explained,
"have not had as yet the benefits of full and
final analysis"
Thus the cobWeb-like network of radal and
ring expressways. parkways and other new
traffic arteries sketched on the maps are purely
tentative suggestions. 1t is impossible to place
such desirable future highways accurately until
the pending dispersal program is more definite
and until the site for the new alternate National
Airport is known. The location of the proposed
Federal office centers, with their satellite resi-
dental and business communities, will have an
important bearing on routes for outer traffic
rings of the type advocated by the planning
group. The best location for future bridges
also hinges on dispersal and airport plans
Generally speaking the traffic and transit
plans discussed in the report are not new The
commission long has been in favor of circles of
expressways around Washington of through
traffic channels radially, of more buses and fewer
Streetcars of additional bridges across the
Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and of fringe
parking lots to relieve parking congestion in the
downtown area. The broad pattern is good
one, but it will have to be adapted to developing
Federal and private projects in the Greater
Washington region. The projects, in turn, must
be carefully planned so as not to conflict
seriously with the major pattern. In short the
planners have plenty of work ahead of them
in the critical era of growth confronting the
Metropolitan Area
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Victory for Clean Government

Prince Georges County has taken stand
for clean government that is in refreshing con-
trast to the .unsavory Jimmie LaFontaine era of
not so long ago, The county's citizens have won
notable victory over legalized gambling with
the cooperation of five of their seven represent
atives in the General Assembly The setback for
the organized slot machine interests is gratifying
evidence of a salutary public reaction against
laWleSS elements that have given Prince Georges
bad name in years past.
Much of the credit for defeat of the proposed
Slot machine legislation goes to the Citizens
Committee for Good Government which, living
up to its name led the fight against legalized
gambling machines. The committee did good
job of debunking the well-disSeminated prop
aganda in behalf of an open-door policy on
pay-oH devices. The propaganda neglected to
say how commercial gambling machine Syndi-
Gates would profit by the legislation, so the
committee made it's own estimate of profits. On
the basis of the S637 900 which advocates of the
bill estimated would come to the county in
revenues, the "take" of the slot machine interest
was estimated at more than S. million a year.
Actually the Citizens Committee declared the
county's share of the returns probably would be
closer to 100000 than $SOOOOO. The effort to
enlist support of teachers for the bill on the
ground that the schools would deteriorate with
ou1 1lle SdIlUllliS Slice proved TO De QlSlnal
failure. The teachers were too intelligent and
too resentful of the pressure tactics to fall for
that bait
1t is heartening to find hundreds of Prince
Georges citizens sufficiently interested in the
issue to go to Annapolis on a rainy night and
make their wishes known to their legislative
delegation The presence of so many opponents
of the gambling bill was far more effective than
the obviously inspired letter barrage in behalf
OF the measure An aroused public opinion in
Prince Georges is serving notice on the gambling
interests that they no longer are welcome in
the county. That is bad news for the racketeers.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Revolt in Russia?

Coincidence accounts for the fact that
Senator Robertson of Virginia and George F.
Kennan, formerly Of the State Department and
one of our leading authorities on Soviet affairs,
picked the same time to express the belief that
there is reason to hope the Russian people some
day will rise against their Communist tyrants.
The point is an important one, however, and it
should be kept in mind whenever we consider
what our military policy in Europe should be.
Senator Robertson, who has announced that
he will support the sending of American troops
to Europe, said that if we did nots believe in the
possibility of new Russian revolution and had to
deal always with the Soviet state as it exists
today, our choice would be to meet it's threat of
world domination head on which would mean
war, or to retire into a defensive position
from which we would have to fight for our
existence when the onrushing wave of COM
munism reached u.s.
In his opinion, however, the possibility of
revolt in Russia offers an alternative-the
alternative of helping to create in Western
Europe enough strength to keep the Russians
behind their present borders In other words,
there would be kind of Stalemate during which
the internal pressures and discontents would
have chance to assert themselves in Russia
This hope may not be bright one, but it has
Mr. Kennan believe it should not be nullified
by our own action, as would be the case if we
followed the advice of those who want us to
withdraw to this hemisphere For the probable
result of that policy would be that Western
Europe would fall and the Communist tyranny
would be stronger than ever before.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
British A-Weopons?

AS far as know-how is concerned the
British are fully capable of producing their own
atomic weapons The report that they are now
manufacturing their first A-bomb is therefore
altogether plausibe-the more so because for
mer Prime Minister Winston Churchill has
dragged the subject into the field of partisan
politics by attacking the Attlee Labor govern
ment for not having turned out any nuclear
armaments during the past five years.
During the Second World War, of course,
under Mr. Churchiils leadership, Britain
though in number of respects more advanced
than the United States in the atomic field
decided against undertaking to produce such
ornaments on its own SOIL Instead, it pooled
its scientific and other resources with ours and
Canada's in a great and history-making three
power cooperative enterprise that concentrated
the manufacturing operations here in our coun-
try-at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Los Alanos.
This unprecedented wartime arrangement
was based several important considerations,
among them the following: CD That it would
be an unWse and wasteful duplication of effort
If we and the British each undertook the actual
production of the bomb; (2) that the raw ma
terials, manpower and other things needed for
the project were too scarce to be distributed
among weapon manufacturing plants in the
three cooperating countries; (3l that the
United states was the only one or the partners
adequately equipped to handle the producing
operations; and az that Britain, both because
of its relatively small area and its nearness to
the enemy in Europe was much too vulnerable
to serve as a good site for the huge plants that
had to be built for atomic output
All these considerations, by and large are
much to the point today as they were during
the war years. and in some particulars they
seem even more to the point. AS key member
of the Atlantic Pact, Britain is contributing to
the defense Of the free world with prepared
ness program that imposes very heavy demands
on it's manpower and economic resources. Those
demands, coupled with the factor of its vul-
nerebility, raise the question whether it can
wisely take on the added task of atomic produc-
tion-a question suggesting that the plausible
report about its making an A-bomb ought to be
read with considerable reserve.
Actually, from the standpoint of military
security and an efficient sharing of defensive
burdens in the Atlantic alliance, there is great
deal to be said for the idea that Britain should
refrain from producing A-weapons in exchange
for ronclad American guarantees that it will
never want for such weapons when and II they
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Macbeth for All

On behalf of the thirty 12A English
students from Cardozo High School and
their friends who went with us to see
Macbeth" wish to express apprecia-
ton to the Mt. Vernon Players for
their marvellous performance and the
true Christian spirit exemplifled by the
Mt. Vernon Place Church in admitting
all persons to the play. Many of our
students last semester were denied ad-
mittance to the motion picture but
we are happy and grateful that this
church really illustrates true democracy
in action. Berthe Carter.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
On q March Day

The boiSterouS March ,Dind came
To the very edge of the tDood,
But halted as if in shame
At the silence and solitude.
Then, hushing its clan1orous din
To little whispering breeze.
Came tiptoeing softly IN
Among the cathedral trees.
As stood in that quiet place.
The tendereSt finger of air
Touched my upIifted face,
Wandered across n1y hair.
Inez BareIoy kirby
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Socialist Puruble?

An item appearing opposite your edi-
torial page the other day hit the pro-
verbal nail right on the head.
In four small pictures the creator of
Louie" has done more to drive home
the fundamental human fallacy of So
cialism than any 1000 words ever
written by your political experts.
Or do I attach an unintended sig
nificance to the little boys and the
candy?
Arthur ]. Williams.
Editors Note: Let readers judge
for themselves. Here Is the cartoon:
Evening star., 1951-03-22

are ever needed Regardless of Mr.. Churchills
views on the subject-views based on the un-
assailable idea that every nation has sovereign
responsibility not to neglect its arms-such an
arrangement would seem to be simple common
sense.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Q. How is it possible to determine the
age of a fossil?-R. l. B.
A. The age of fossil Is determined
from the position of the layer of rock
in which it is embedded. The oldest
layer would be the lowest one and the
most recent layer would be at the top
of the series.
@. What is meant by quartered oak
and fumed oak?-L. G. B.
A. CHARTERED oak is the result of saw
ing at angles which produce beautiful
granting effects. Fumed oak is given
its characteristic finish through expo
sure to the fumes of ammonia.
@. Is whalebone real bone?-C. r. B.
A. 1t is not really bone being more
like the materials from which finger
nails are made. Whalebone grows out
of the roof of whales mouth.
@. What is the usual length of a dog
leash?-W. j. H.
A. The customary length is between
and feet. 1t is considered most suita-
BILE for general use.
@. What is the origin of the phrase
"sardonic laughter" pr. j. P.
A. Sardonic is traced to Sardinia. the
island on which grew herb believed to
make all who ate of it die of laughing.
Evening star., 1951-03-22
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer TO
any question of fact by either writing The
Evening Star Information Bureau. 1900 / street
NV. washington 5, D c.. and inelosing cents
return postage or by telephonine ST 1853
Evening star., 1951-09-06
Oldest Inhabitants Thank
Home for Care Of Members

The Association of the Oldest
Inhabitants last night voted to
send q letter of commentator to
Miss Lillian Hamilton, director Of
the John Dixon Home for the
Aged. for her work with aSso-
citation members under her care.
In another action, the group
agreed to vote at next months
meeting on a proposed amend
ment to the constitution. limiting
the President and Vice President
to two consecutive terms, or to
a final third term only by secret
three-fourths ballot.
Fred A. Emery, senior vice
president. conducted the meeting
in the Old Union Engine House,
Nineteenth and H streets NV.