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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Club
Activities

The National Capital Dahlia So
ciety will meet Thursday at 8:15
pm. at the New National Museum,
Tenth street and Constitution ave-
nue. NV. DR.. Henry c. Parker
will talk about the dahlia trial
grounds located at the University
of Maryland. L. L. Pollak, presi-
dent of the American Dahlia So
ciety, will be present to tell about
the ADS and the forthcoming
show.
Final judging in the National
Memorial Park Zinnia Show will
be held at the main building,
west of Falls Church, Va, next
Saturday.
The Park distributed over 1000
packs of giant zinnias to men,
bers of garden clubs in the Metro
politan Area as the first step in
determining the best varieties of
ANIMALS to be planted. Originally
the contest was limited to mem
bers Of garden clubs, but so much
interest has developed that there
will be classes for gardeners who
are not members of clubs.
Beltsville Grange, 179, is spon-
soring a vegetable and flower show
next Saturday from to 8 pm.
at the Beltsville Firehouse. The
event is open to all oranges and
the Metropolitan Area. There will
be four classes for flowers, with
II subdivisions. Vegetables, canned
goods and baked goods composes
the other sections. Judging will
be at 4 pm. and exhibits open to
the public at 5.
Mrs. w. P. Martin, flower show
chairman for Shenandoah Dis
trict, Virginia Federation Of Gar
den Clubs, announces that flow
er show will be held in Staunton,
Va. September 81 and % at the
Coliseum on the fairgrounds.
Hours are to be 3 pm. to 9 pm.
the first day and 10 am. to 4 pm.
the second day. The show COM
mittee is under Mrs. r. N. Line
weaver'S direction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Life in the Country
Vicious Mocking Bird Reported Chasing
Black Snake Across the Lawn

Did you ever see a bird chase
a snake? never did. but Margaret
Guerling, next door, watched a
hooking bird drive black snake
to cover the other day.
Margaret said she was sitting
on the front porch when she saw
something dark flash across the
lawn. The dark streak turned out
to be a black snake, and there
was a hooking bird diving at the
snake as it streaked over the grass.
The bird, she said, would dive
at the snake and try to peck its
back. The snake never once
stopped or tried to get the bird.
but made straight toward a pile
of grass at the other side of the
yard.
Margaret said the snake finally
made the grass pile where it took
cover. The bird. she said, perched
on a nearby post and stood watch
for about half an hour before it
finally flew away.
I've heard of bluejays and cat
birds being quarrelsome, but I'd
never heard before that hooking
bird would Outright snake. I
told Bob Pickens the story, and
he said he had never heard of a
vicious mocking bird, either.
He thought as I did, that there
must have. been some young birds
about that were being molested by
the snake. Margaret didn't see
them, however.
| \ \ y
7 have the assurance of a
qualified mountain man that
we are going to have mild, open
winter this year.
William Bennett has a farm on
the upper edge of Maryland-up
in the western section where it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Plan Knot Garden

Directors of the North Carolina
Garden Clubs meet at Chapel Hill.
IN. c., August 1913 to consider
plans for an Elizabethan garden
on Roanoke Island. Mrs. Roy
Homewood of Chapel Hill presi-
dent, says that Mrs. x M. Tyler,
chairman of the clubs Elizabethan
Garden Committee, is at Wrights-
Vile Beach doing extensive re-
search in the English "knot" gar
dens Of the Elizabethan period.
Assisting her is Mrs. Kenneth
Sprunt of orion. A "knot" gar
den, Mrs. Fletcher explains, is an
English flower garden, intricate in
design.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
STAFF Photo.

unusual success with grating.
One Of the pear CRAFTS was made
without the aid Of grating wax.
IT wrapped the graft with tire
tape" he said, land 1t grew
right along"
Mr.. Hancock hasn't been too
lucky with Strawberries. One
variety he planted bloomed, but
bore no fruit. He Is trying again,
however, with a new variety and
is counting on a good crop next
year.
You know" he said, "a ma
tive of Maryland's Eastern Shore
ought to be able to grow straw
berries"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Field Days Slated
At MARYLAND II.

Two field days have been sched-
uled at the University of Mary
land.
Field crops and soils research
will be inspected August Is at a
field day al the university'S plant
research farm near College Park
At a swine producers field day
August Is, progress report will
be made on feeding trials using
antibiotIcs in the ration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
Bowie Farmer Wins
Pasture Award

Eugene B. Roberts, Bowie (Md. }
farmer, won first place in the
Southern Maryland division of the
Maryland Greener Pastures COM
petitions. according to Joseph H.
Blandford, chairman of the State
Production and Marketing Ad-
ministration.
Mr.. Roberts was State cham
pion in the competition last year.
Second place was won by Benja-
min Parran, st. Leonards, CAL
vert County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
PooIesviIIe Show
Set for SATURDAY.

Maurice c. Ward, agriculture
teacher at Poolesville High School,
is to be director of the 18th PooleS-
willie livestock show to be held
next Saturday, sponsored by the
Future Farmers of America, the
Maryland State Fair Board and
community merchants and farm
Iers.
Other departmental directors
are: The Rev. Charles Michael,
swine: Fred Campbell, sheep;
Earle Nicholson. horses; Charles
Fritz. dairy cattle; Leland Clark,
beef cattle. Edgar Grub will head
the machinery display.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

Herman F. Hancock, a retired
druggist of 116 Grafton street.
Chevy Chase, Md, has learned
the secret of gardening on a city
let.
In Mr.. Hancock's back yard,
every inch of ground is used.
grow in beds along
with flowers, an apple rec bears
three kinds of fruit and two pear
trees have been grafted-one to
provide two pear varieties and the
other to bear pears and apples.
There are figs, pears and dates.
Grapes climb along the fence that
the yard and garden
where corn, beans and other vege-
tables grow in tidy rows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

Mr.. Hancock is particularly
proud Of his figs. One tree is
AIDED with fruit this ye; and
one fig, picked a few days ago,
4 inches in length.
This one was exceptional, how
ever. and not indicative of the
average size of the figs.
The fig is a dwarf, everbearing
variety and has to be protected
during the winter.
II tie the limbs together and
then wrap burlap and paper
around it," Mr.. Hancock said.
TITS quite a job, but, then. we
like the figs"
Mr.. Hancock said he has had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05
BY james BirchfieId

sign of a mild winter. When they
are high in the trees, he said. you
had better start getting out the
old red fannelS.
Bob Allen also lives up in the
mountains near Aurora, w. Va.
He lives in a house that is a copy
of Swiss chalette, and he raises
geese, daylilies and iris.
Bob said the mountain climate
is ideal The temperature has
never been over 81 degrees this
year, and the relative humidity
stays at about SIS per cent. After
Washington, he said, you can ap-
preciate the mountain climate. I
think he has something, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

August is planting month for
many gardeners. Evergreens may
be set out toward the end of the
month-both the broadleaved
and the narrowleaved. Prepara-
tons for the new lawn should be
expedited so that the soil may be
well settled by the end of the
month, the best time for seeding.
And, of course, this is the month
in which to plant Madonna lilies
and the oriental peoples.
The vegetable grower already
has his fall garden started and
many more crops will be planted
during August. TurnipS, garden
peas, winter-keeper beets,, kale,
spinach and several others should
be sown soon.
It is not too late to start a
cutting bed for azaleas and other
evergreens. They root readily in
a mixture Of peatmoss and sand.
Place the cutting frame in light
shade and protect from drying
winds. An old window makes a
good cover and retards evapora-
ton.
The Jap beetles are making
serious inroads where not con-
troled through the use of dusXs
Ior sprays. If not already pro-
tected, the foliage should be
given an application of meth
oxychlor. DOT. lead arsenate or
some other poison, because if I'M
checked, the loss of foliage will
weaken the plants and they will
be stunted.
Mulch the flower beds and veg
etable garden before going on
that vacation if you would have
the grader in good condition
when you return. A thick mulch
will keep down the weeds, con-
serve moisture and prevent the
soil from crusting. Weeds, grass
clippings. corn stalks, ground
corn cobs, straw, sawdust and
many other kinds of plant ma
terial may be used for this pur-
pose.
House plants may be kept in
good condition while the family
enjoys a vacation if they are
placed on bricks (common) in a
fiat pan or tub. Fill the container
with water to the top of the bricks.
The bricks act as wick carrying
the water to the pots which will
absorb enough to keep the plants
in good condition for a week or
more.
If the pots have a considerable
layer Of drainage material in the
bottom, a wick will be needed to
carry the moisture from the bricks
to the soil. A cotton wick may be
pushed into the drainage hole
with nail or a piece of wire
push 1t far enough to reach the
soil.
To avoid short stubby flower
spikes on gladiolus give them
plenty of fertilizer and water. Ex-
cess nitrogen, however. will cause
the spikes to be weak and willowy.
Regularity Of watering is essential
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

Removal of the spent flower
stalks of many perennials may
stimulate a second blooming. This
is true of hollyhock, delphinium
land many others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

is about 5000 feet high. Bill said
he farms so close to the sky that
he can tell more about the weather
than most people-he stays closer
to it.
Anyway, Bill said he had been
burning hornets nests. and that
they indicate an open winter. He
said the nests this year are built
close to the ground-always a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

To avoid short stubby flower
spikes on gladiolus give them
plenty of fertilizer and water. Ex-
cess nitrogen, however, will cause
the spikes to be weak and willowy.
Regularity of watering is essential
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-05

to keep the spikes from crooking
Good culture is usually rewarded
with tall straight spikes with the
buds well distributed. Poor bud
placement may be the fault of the
variety but careless feeding and
watering may also be a cause.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Iran ExpeIs British Writer
For False Story on Riot
BY the As.ocioied Pres.

TEHERAN, Iran, Dec. IA
The Iranian government yester.
day ordered Leopold Herman
correspondent for Reuters, Brit.
ish news agency, to leave Irar
within 4S hours. The government
charged him with false report
ing. He denied the charges.
The announcement was made
by Deputy Premier Hossein
Fatemi, who last week ordered
the expulsion of Michael Clark,
correspondent of the New York
Times.
Fatemi, at a news conference,
said Mr.. Herman sent a news
dispatch last Tuesday saying
that Premier Mohammed Mossa-
degh escaped by a side door OF
the Maljis (parliament) under
protection of guards armed with
submachineguns during a fight
among deputies inside the build
ing and demonstration outside
Mr.. Herman, in a statement
said he reported the Premier
walked out under heavy armed
protection. Everyone knows
that" he added.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Chapel Is Model Type

LONDON.-The chapel of Henry
the VII in Westminster Abbey
is generally regarded as the finest
example in England of Tudor
Gothic.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Seek Purodise Isle in Africo

An Australian couple are visit
ing Africa in a ketch on their
quest of paradise isle where
they may forget the strain and
stress of modern living.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
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Evening star., 1951-01-21

Is Russio's Military Strength Being Overroted?

or as detached brigades. to REIN
force the striking power of the
ordinary divisions at critical
points. Another commentary Is
the way in which those infantry
divisions which are said to be
mechanical, or partly mechan-
ized, do not as rule allocate mo-
tor transport permanently and
on a fixed scale to regiments and
battalions. as in Western armies,
but keep the transport in a divi-
sional pool. with its own company
of drivers. This is due not only
to a shortage of vehicles, but also
to the fact that in the average
Soviet infantry battalion there are
very few men capable of the
simple care and maintenance OF
motor vehicles. Further, at least
half the infantry divisions rely on
horse drawn transport. These, on
the move, struggling over the
countryside with their little wood
en- cars, like large pig g-troughs on
spidery wheels, are, apart from
their armory of quick-f1ring guns
and rifles, indistinguishable in ap-
pearance, and scarcely distinguish
able in character, from their
ancestors of the Napoleonlc wars.
It is perhaps not too much to
saw that the Soviet Army depends
upon its infantry to frighten the
enemy by sheer weight OF num-
bers. and to dig in and hold on
in a crisis, and on it's tanks and
artillery to do the real f1ghtlng-
though, of course, there are elite
infantry regiments. too.
Just as the great asset OF the
Soviet Army is its unlimited men
and the powers of endurance OF
those men, so the great weakness
is the lack of intelligent and
skilled mechanics of the kind who,
in Britain, own motorcycles and
take them to pieces every week.
All the available men of this type,
or recruits capable of being turned
into men of this type, gravitate
into the technical and mechanized
branches or into the air force
(Which itself suffers acutely from
lack of ground staff. The in
fantry gets what is left.
Poor Communications
We are told a great deal about
the way in which the Russian
soldier knows how to rough it,
to go without rations for days on
end in his own country. and to
| live on the country when abroad.
This is very true: but it has its
other side. Certainly the admin
istrative tail of the Soviet Army
formations are a great deal less
than is usual in Western armies.
For officers and men below the
rank of major no records are kept,
which does away with a great
deal of paper work at one stroke.
When a Russian soldier says good
by to his family and goes away
to war, he simply goes, and that is
the end of him as far as his
family is concerned-unless, once
every year or two he manages to
get letter through-until he
turns up on leave or until one of
Evening star., 1951-01-21

frontier with China, cannot pos
sibly be fortified along their whole
length. but they call for spaced
concentrations of troops all round
the vast perimeter.
Some idea of the problems in
volved is given by the present
breakdown of the Soviet Army
into army groups. There are, it
Is believed, at present six of these
the northern army, based on
Leningrad; the western army,
based on Minsk opposite War
saw; the southern army, based
on Odessa, the Black Sea port;
the Caucasian army. based on
Tif1is, covering Persia and the
Baku oilflelds; the Turkestan
army. based on Tashkent and
Frunze. covering India; the Far
Eastern army, based on Chita
and Vladivostok, covering China
and Japan. to say nothing of
Korea.
Looked at on this scale, which
is the way the Kremlin looks at
it, the Soviet Army ic seen to be
covering a lot of ground. And in
addition to these metropolitan
commitments it has very consid-
cradle forces (still defensively dis
posed, as fai as can be known) in
Germany, Australia and certain of
the satellites.
Well Armored
The real strength of the So
Wet Army is not, as most people
seem to think, in its foot-soldiers,
but in its tanks and artillery.
About third of the existing divi-
sions are believed to be full ar
mored divisions and mechanical
formations with tank components.
Most of the tanks are the ex-
tremely good medium T-34s of the
last war, some of them equipped
with bigger guns. In addition,
there are a number Of the heavy
Joseph Stain Ills, which strike
terror into the hearts Of Western
military commentators. But these
are of little use in a break
through, since they can carry only
a very limited number of rounds
for the 122-mm. guns and the
Soviet supply system does not
show the Russians at their best.
They are, nevertheless, very fine
jobs.
Tanks, of course, are compare
lively new for Russians, as for
everybody else; but guns are not,
and the old Tsarist army had a
first class artillery tradition,
which has been carefully brought
up to date. It still seems to be
based on the 76-mm. gun. which
did excellent service in the last
war.
Infantry is another story
Equipment in small arms is good
Endurance is tremendous. But
skill is low. One commentary on
the offensive quality of the rank
and-file Soviet infantry, or rifle,
division is the practice whereby
army headquarters disposes of a
whole train of special shock units,
which may be used as complete
divisions, with tank components,
Evening star., 1951-01-21

fThe author of the tollo,Ding
eualuation OF the Soviet Army
is one OF Britain's leading au-
thorities on Russian affairs. He
was a member of the British
Military Mission to Moscow in
1941 and has travelled tDidely
through Russia and countries
Within her sphere OF infuence.)
Evening star., 1951-01-21

is missing or dead. Certainly the
curtailing of the medical services.
and the total absence of every
thing which in the West comes
under the head of welfare, makes
for a tough, mobile and unde-
manding soldiery.
But the Soviet Army, for all its
magnificent achievements in the
way of tanks and guns, lacks other
things besides field kitchens. 1t
lacks. notably, communications.
It has not begun to catch up with
the development of short-wave
wireless communications in the
field; and this lack conditions its
whole approach to war. 1t is a
lack not confined to the infantry.
Tank formations and gunners are
short of wireless, too. which means
that they are at distinct disad-
vantage in highly mobile fighting,
cannot rapidly adapt old plans to
changing situations, and tend to
fall back on the old cavalry sys-
tenn Of follow-my-leader.
This problem OF communica-
tions is proving a tough nut to
crack for the Soviet high COM
mand. 1t is not merely a question
of providing suitable equipment,
which is proving difficult in itself,
but of finding enough men to work
and maintain the equipment even
when it is available. 1t is the old
story again of trying to educate
nation which only 80 years ago
was four -fifths peasant. and most
of them illiterate, into being able
to fight a modern war with mod
ern and delicate equipment.
Matter of Morale
No note on the Soviet Army is
complete without referring to
morale. When it comes to d
reasonable defense. this is high.
But when it comes to an offensive,
or to a forlorn defense, it is not
so high. Every army, every divi-
sion. every battalion. has its own
staff of political commissars-no
longer called commissars, but re-
sponsible. as the commissars were.
for keeping up morale. Behind
every unit there turks a branch
of the security police, known as
Smersh c'Death to Traitors!D
to control and smell out Sedition
and defeatism.
If have said enough to suggest
that the Soviet Army is not quite
the mighty phalanx of unified
power that it appears to be from
the outside, have said enough.
1t is a very powerful force, indeed,
and we, in Europe. as we'll as in
America, will need all our might
and resolution to match it. The
last thing intended here is to un-
derestimate the difficulty of our
task. All I have tried to do is to
indicate that it is not a hopeless
task-as it would be If we were to
believe all the stories we are told
provided we set about 1t the
right way. The Kremlin knows
this we'll enough.
Copyright. London Observer Foreign
News service.)
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Industry Signal for Restocking Democracy Arsenal
WurpIune Orders Must Await
Decision on Types Required
Procurement Specialists Facing Problem
Of Fitting Craft to Potential Missions
By Frederick R. Nicely

last persuaded after hve OF vac-
laion go along urgent recommendations of his expert
defense planners in Washington Ironically though it
his Communist aggression
him from his belief that such
would be too expensive
thoroughly aroused Uncle Sam only has bought the
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Arms for Only Immediate Needs
Is Defense Planning Objective
StockpIe of Weapons Not Contemplated,
But Production Lines to Be Kept Open
By L. Edgar Primo

largest peacetime" military budgeto total at least
billion fiscal 80 for twoyear OF SIP blonhas two
major behind it.:
through renascent armed force in
of aou enable swiftly and smoothly
production
Evening star., 1951-01-21

w lldt .
Yet the anxiety expressed lately
by some members of the aircraft
industry over the lag in produc-
ton contracts for new types which
they have successfully produced
under the Government develop
ment program, has been legiti-
mate in most cases and the pro-
curement officers not only concur
but are trying to get more orders
rolling. When q new type combat
plane built by reliable company
to Government specifications
meets those specifications in every
reasonable particular after thor
ough testing by Air Force or Navy
engineer-pilots, the okay usually
forecasts a production order. In
the three to five years between
drawing board and production,
past experience has shown that
tactics (and hence Air Force and
Navy requirements) have changed
or the procurement agencies have
neither funds nor authorization to
award production contracts. An
economy wave has often moved in
while the manufacturer was de-
signing and building to specifica-
tions.
The next economy wave Is not
Evening star., 1951-09-02
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