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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1951-08-02

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Evening star., 1951-11-14
Falls Church School Report

Very few, if any, opinions will be changed
by the findings of the Falls Church City Council
in its investigation of charges brought against
the former school board.
The council considered five complaints. It
found in favor of the school board with respect
to three of the accusations, and its conclusions
were adverse to the board in the case of the
two others. In the main, however, these findings
were stated in general terms. The evidence
supporting them was not set forth in the report
although transcript of all testimony taken is
available for those who may wish to examine it,
What this means is that for most of the
people in Falls Church the record consists of the
charges the answer and denial by the school
board and the councils conclusions Most minds
were made up one way or the other some weeks
ago, however, and it is hardly to be expected
that the report of the council will have any
marked effect on public opinion About the
most that can. be hoped for is that the work
which remains to be done on the school program,
and there is much work to be done can now
be carried forward with fewer of the distractions
that come from active controversy
Evening star., 1951-11-14

several other factors peculiar to Wash
ington. One is the migration Of the
white population to the suburbs and the
increase in the number of colored fami-
lies living in the District.
School officials in the nearby counties
certainly must have been conservative
in their estimates Of future school en-
rollments as evidenced by their great
need of new schools at the moment.
Prince Georges has had an increase
Of 12,778 since 1947. Montgomery school
erollments increased 15,647 in the past
five years; Fairfax schools jumped 12.037
pupils in that period and Arlington added
1900 in the same period.
The Districts increase of some 5000
since 1898 seems small compared to
these figures. Yet, IN the District mil
lions Of dollars have been spent for new
buildings to meet overcrowded condi-
tions and the situation of the colored
pupils is bordering on the desperate.
In fact. DR.. Strayer early in 1949 rec
commended q building program totaling
more than $37 million. The long-range
building program of the District school
officials agrees substantially with DR..
Strayer's. Both programs include much
Evening star., 1951-11-14
This and That
ByChorles E. TroceweN

The very title helps, does it not?
It may have been picked for that
reason. in part, or perhaps the selection
was based solely on content.
At any rate, it is helpful title, just
as title.
1t will bring power to many who just
see it on the book.
Survival is something always threat
ened. especially nowadays. with swift
motor cars, wars and threats of wars.
One prominent official rises in his
place to say that nobody will ever ex-
plode an atom bomb again.
Another prominent oficial-quite as
prominent as the other-cries: Non
sense. we will be bombed tomorrow, and
we have no way Of stopping it!'
Surely, the average citizen is dismayed.
and well may find refuge behind the
comforting doctrine that there is no use
to worry about it.
Forces against survival, however, are
many and mighty.
The atom bomb may loom large. but
little virus invisible to the eye can strike
one down just as surely and completely.
We need assurance that there is such
a thing as science of survival. and that
some one has invited us to work at it.
The modern science Of psychosomatic
medicine has been doing something
along that line for several years.
Maybe Mr.. Hubbard has been reading
one or more Of the good books on psy-
chosornatic medicine.
At any rata. his title - food.
Evening star., 1951-11-14

Science Of Survival is a good title to
put alongside "The Conduct Of Life"
Away back there in the famous '20s
the late Lothrop Stoddard wrote book
with prophetic title, THE Rising Tide
of Color"
Surely the tide is rising today the
world around.
What the true content of that book
was not many readers will know, now.
Perhaps Of one thousand persons who
recognize the title. not more than two or
three will have read the text.
The book makes little difference now,
the title still remains.
It was q good title, causing many to
think. The trouble was that not enough
thought well and hard enongh. mixing
the thought with commonsense and
kindness. , ~.. -.'..
Book titles have a way of making
themselves known. Some of them even
speak language all their own.
It is impossible to say how much of
what we owe to books is due their titles,
but every author and every publisher
works hard at coming up with a good
ona.
How much of the success of Rachel
Carson's 1.-THE Sea Around Us" is due to
it's title? Would the '"The Sea" have
done as we'll?
One of the most felicitous titles was
Margaret Mitchel's Gone With the
Wind" Il is question whether it would
have made such . "hit" II 1t had been
given the titld Scarlet oHara."
Evening star., 1951-11-14
Election Post Mortem

Your reporter, William J. Elvin. in a
summary Of the Arlington elections.
stated:
THE school board received vote of
confidence with election Of Mrs. Eliza
beth Campbell and Barnard Joy. in
cumbents. and strong board supporter.
Warren Cox. Federal Housing Admin
istration attorney and former president
Of the County Council Of Parent Teacher
Associations"
My analysis Of the election returns
raises considerable doubt in my mind
that there was actually a vote Of con-
fidence in the school board. Partici-
pating in the election were 16.318 voters.
Mrs. Campbell received 8.098 votes or
49.6 per cent; Barnard Joy, $3.50 or
42.8 per cent, and Warren E. Cox, 5,875
or 36.6 per cent.
Since each voter could cast three votes
for school board members. potential
votes in the school board election num-
bered 1884. Campbell, Joy and Cox
between them received 20.954 or only
42.8 per cent. Opponents Carlston. Hig-
gins and Funston received 13,425 or
27.4 per cent. A total Of 1866 votes or
29.7 per cent were not cast at all.
In connection with the high percent
age Of voters not participating in the
Evening star., 1951-11-14

vancement Of all the Middle Eastern lands. At
any rate, since it would act as a deterrent to
aggression from the outside. it would at least
tend to create conditions more conducive to
such progress than the conditions now prevailing.
II they study it carefully with that objective
in view, the Arab countries-together with Israel
are likely in time to be persuaded to join the
command for their own good. Meanwhile, hav-
ing taken the initiative in blueprinting it. Turkey,
France, Britain and the United States should
60 about In their missionary work for the project
The stakes involved are very high not only for
the Middle East but for the non-Soviet world
as whole.
Evening star., 1951-11-14
A Job for Teachers

read with much interest A. p Writer
Relman Morin's article CThe Star, Mo-
vember q about our armed forces in
formation and education program.
I fully agree with the view that our
boys should know why they are drafted
before they go into the service. I also
agree that the home. the school and the
church each has part in informing our
young people about national and inter-
national issues and dangers that face
our country today.
I firmly believe. however, that the
main responsibility for the enlighten-
ment of our youth rests with the schools,
lie. with our educators. II the parents
and the religious leaders could do the
Job, there would be no need for sending
the young folks to school and spending
millions of dollars every year on public
and private educational institutions.
Teaching requires years Of training and
learning. both in method and In subject
matter. Not everybody can be teacher.
+ The church, by its nature, must en-
phasize the spiritual values Of life,
though of course these values tie in
with other values vital to our security
and survival.
Since the birth of our Nation our
educators have been considered the Gus
todians of our freedom. Their job tradi-
tionally has been to imbue the younger
generation with the conviction that
there are things dearer than life and
that liberty sometimes must be earned
on the battlefield to be appreciated.
For the past quarter century. how
ever, our educators. by and large, have
abandoned the intellectual leadership
they had exercised. They have failed to
inspire the youth of our Nation with
the deep sense Of personal responsibility
which is so essential to the vigorous de-
fense of our country.
Instead, hiding behind the skirt of
academic freedom, many of them have
preached the dangerous doctrine of
peace at almost any price. They have
lectured ponderously on the need for
American disarmament, while other
powers armed to the teeth. Starry-eyed,
they have babbled for the moon and
"a new social order"
Indeed. some of them, infected with
all sorts of unworkable theories
theories which on paper appeal to the
simple minded and the chronically dis
gruntled. but which actually cause moth
ing but slavery and misery wherever
they are enforced-have tried to con-
taminate the intelligence of their audi
ences. They have showed the American
heritage out of sight. Here, in sober
fact, lies great tragedy of our time
If what is said here is untrue. how
can we explain the assertion, confirmed
by the observations of Mr. NORM and
others, that ''it is rare man who un-
derstands why he had to be brought into
military service?" Who is responsible
for this appalling lack of understand
ing?
Certainly not our military leaders. In
Evening star., 1951-11-14
Britoin's Scrambled Steel

Prime Minister ChurchillS Conservative gov
ernment faces no easy task in undertaking to
fulfill its campaign promise to denationalize Brit
aims iron and steel industry. Although 1t has
won its first parliamentary skirmish on the issue
by comfortable majority of 80 votes-all signs
indicate that it will have to wage long and diff
fcult battle before it finally accomplishes what
it has set out to do for the sake of greater ef-
fciency and in order to uphold the principles of
free enterprise
This is so because the Labor Party-which
pushed through the naturalization project under
the Attlee government-has served notice that it
intends to fight bitterly and tenaciously against
every legislative step taken to remove the indus
try from state ownership and hand it back to
private management and control Many such
steps will be required, and the battle may there
fore drag on for the better part of the year, dur
ing which the Conservatives, with their slim
margin of seats in the House Of Commons, con-
ceivably could be toppled by vote of no con-
fidence.
Moreover, even assuming that the Churchill
government gets over all the legislative hurdles
AS seems probable-it will still have quite Job
on its hands when 1t starts putting the dena-'
tionalzation into effect. Before their recent de-
feat at the polls, the Labortes had already set
in motion the transfer to state ownership. Ac-
cordingly, besides having to enact law repeating
that transfer the Conservatives will have to fol-
low up the repeater with concrete action roughly
comparable to unscrambling half f-scrambled eggs
On its face III setup as complex as Britain's
iron and steel industry, such an operation can
hardly fail to involve numerous administrative
financial and other difficulties.
The situation is further complicated by the
fact that the Laborites have solemnly vowed that
if the industry Is ionalzed-Whch Is fairly
certain, barring the sudden downfall of the
Churchill government-they will nationalize it
again just as soon as they are voted back into
power. In addition, they have implicitly warned
that in that case the non-governmental owners
probably will find themselves offered compensa-
ton too low for their liking. Obviously, since
there is no guarantee that the Conservatives will
enjoy long tenure of Office this creates uncer-
tainty of kind that may make private British
capital bit reluctant to get back into Steel
These and similar factors indicate that de-
naturalization when and If enacted and en-
forced is likely to be far from smooth. OF course,
the process may prove to be considerably easier
than the unscrambling Of scrambled eggs, but
still the chances are that 1t will be difficult
enough. One can only hope in the circumstances
that it will not interfere with the industrys pro-
duction at time when that production is much
needed for Western defense.
Evening star., 1951-11-14
On Standing Too Pot

AS usual you can always depend on
The Star for its unbiased opinions in
reporting the news and also for its con-
servatiye editorials.
Your editorial comment. 1.-The Com
missioners Stand Too Pat" is a honey.
1t really covers this entire controversy.
I agree with The Star. The Commits
sioners should draft a reasonable ques-
tionnaire which they can legally require
the police to answer.
My belief-this will save face for every
one commemorative Nicely Committee,
the Commissioners and the community.
It is a wonderful feeling to have
conservative paper like The Star write
editorials like this one. Keep up this
fine policy.
Hirsh de La Viez.
Evening star., 1951-11-14
By Colt HendIey. Jr.

N ISTRICT SCHOOL officials know it
IL is rash to attempt to forecast
enrolment figures and do so only after
much prodding. Looking IL months
ahead is risky enough, but estimating
at longer range is really going out on
a limb. Only the boldest educators try
it and invariably fall off when the day
of reckoning comes and the little men
and women refuse to live up to expecta-
tions.
Three years ago DR.. George Z. Strayer
of Columbia University was imported
under special congressional appropria-
tion of 100000 to survey school needs.
Among other things, he predicted that
District public school enrolment in 1851
would be 102,118. He overestimated by
1896, not exactly near miss. In the
white schools he overshot by 1927 in
predicting that enrolment there would
climb to 53,663. He was more conserva-
tive with colored schools, forecasting In
1948 that three years hence the rolls
would show 48,455 pupils-when actually
there are now 2,231 more than that.
Such forecasting is still subject to
certain vagaries, but Boise L. Bristor.
District school statistician, feels that
a system has been devised that will prove
fairly accurate, as long as predictions
are not made more than two years in
advance. Twenty-four months theoret-
ically is sufficient to allow for any con-
siderable upswing in the number Of
pupils.
Everybody has heard of the booming
birth rate since World War II. War
babies are entering school now and they
will be coming on in flood for few
years yet.
You can't tell it by looking at the
District public school enrollments, but
there is a boom in children.
Going back before World War II.
records show that in 1888 there were
$500 children enrolled in District
schools. BY 1914. this had dropped TO
87,268 but then 1t began climbing. En-
rollment now stands at 96,722. only .
little more than 5000 over 1898.
DR.. Strayer made a big mistake ap-
parently, In basing his predictions on
the birth rate Of the District. forgetting
that many mothers come here from their
homes in adjoining counties to have
their babies at the city hospitals and
then return home. And apparently he
did not give enough consideration to
Evening star., 1951-11-14
'Mr. Sam to the Governors

Speaker Sam Rayburn made a shrewd choice
of arguments in his appeal to the Southern
Governors to stay within the Democratic Party
fold.
He pointed out that many Southerners in
Congress- some being mentioned by name, would
lose choice committee chairmanships if a revolt
against Mr.. Truman should give control Of Con-
gress to the Republicans. He dWelt upon the
marked rise in national income under Democratic
administrations, while ignoring a corresponding
rise in national debt. And perhaps most effective
of all, he sounded the traditional call for party
regularity. I'm going to support the Democratic
nominee, whoever he isl said Mr.. Rayburn.
Governor Byrnes, himself a regular party
man in bygone days, came back later with the
comment that the South owes its loyalty to no
political party or candidate, and that true
Americans owe their loyalty to their country.
Governor Byrnes, Realistically speaking has
the better argument. People ought to vote for
the party and the candidate offering most for
the country. But too many generations of South
erners have been marching regularly to the polls
and voting the Democratic ticket for the habit
to be easily cast off. And Mr.. Rayburn knows it.
That is why he appeals to the instinct of party
regularity, and advances his arguments of self
interest to make that appeal more attractive
If General Eisenhower should be nominated
there may be a significant number of Southern
votes cast for him as an individual. But if the
Eisenhower name is not on the ballot. the only
substantial hope of the anti administration
Democrats is that the Southerners will be in the
mood to vote against some one-namely President
Truman And to state this is to sum up their
political problem, for in all probability it will
be summer before they will know the identity of
the Republican candidate.
This means that they will have little time
in which to organize an anti-Truman movement
after the conventions, and it explains why they
are hard put to devise an effective strategy
against the kind of campaign that Speaker
Rayburn is conducting.
Evening star., 1951-11-14
Truce Talks Drag On

Judging from what can be read between the
Lines, the U. N. negotiators are in no hurry to
arrange q cease-fire in Korea. Presumably there
are good reasons for moving slowly. The ap-
proach of winter is expected to impose severe
additional strain on the Communist forces.
Apparently the Red army is not strong enough
to wage successful offensive, and if the Com
munsts must maintain stalemated army during
the winter a heavy drain will be imposed on
their resources and supply facilities. If this is
the case the desire of the U. N. Allies to impose
a maximum strain on the enemy is understand
able, and that can best be done by keeping
military pressure on the Red forces until the final
armistice details have been agreed upon.
This probably explains why our negotiators
are saying that there can be no cease-dre until
such additional questions as those relating to
truce supervision machinery and exchange of
prisoners settled, although the original i'm
preston was that these questions were to be
taken up after the cease-fire had been arranged
The thought is, apparently, that if enough pres
sure can be kept on the Reds they will come to
an agreement on all questions, but that if the
pressure is eased they will STALL
Perhaps this makes sense to those who know
what is going on But if one may judge from
report to the New York Times from one of its
correspondents at the front, 1t is not making
sense to the troops in Korea. AS they see it from
the foxholes the Communists are striving for
a cease-hre and the U. NJ negotiating team is
the stumbling block.
This is an attitude that is not conducive to
good morale and it should be matter of concern
to the U. N. commanders. If there are valid
reasons for their go-slow attitude in the cease
fire negotiations they ought to make greater
effort to aequaint the troops with those reasons
Nor would it do any harm if the people here at
home could be taken into their confidence
Evening star., 1951-11-14
Why We Need More Bridoes

The motorists who. daily use the congested
Potomac bridges connecting Washington with
Arlington do not need statistics to convince them
that additional bridges are needed Statistics are
helpful, however in supporting pleas of the mo-
toristS for relief from present conditions. Some
eye-opening statistics concerning traffic loads on
the four main crossing routeS-Fourteenth
Street, Memorial, Key and Chain Bridges-are
contained in the Hoyt report on business
development in Arlington.
The report declares that the existing Po-
tomac River bridges in this area are carrying
more trafhc on daily average than any COM
parable bridges or tunnels in the world-not ex-
eepting those between New York and New Jer-
sey. Last August, 1t was pointed out, the average
daily two-way traffic over the Fourteenth street
twin bridges was l02,315 vehicles, heavier than
that OF any other bridge or tunnel anywhere.
District Highway Department officials say that
this average has risen recently to about 100000
vehicles) To carry the comparison further the
report said that the daily average of two-way
traffic over all the Potomac bridges during last
July was 2l1, ,76S Vehicles figure which exceeds
the combined daily traffic over the Hudson River
bridges tunnels and ferries.
The figures were cited in connection with the
reports optimistic survey of business expansion
in Arlington County. They are of equal interest
on this side of the river for they confirm the
contention of District traffic and highway en-
g1neers that one or more new bridges are urgently
needed in the area served by the present spans
Substantial relief can come only from a new
bridge in the immediate vicinity of the Four
teenth Street, Memorial and Key Bridges. The
proposed Alexandria bridge is desirable but
far less urgent than an additional crossing to
Arlington.
Evening star., 1951-11-14
To Strengthen the Middle East

The Middle East Command, which is being
sponsored jointly by Turkey, France, Britain and
the United States, is little more than a. paper
project at this stage. Before any real progress
can be made toward converting it into an effec-
tive operating reality, there will have to be
basic change in the temper and viewpoint of
the Arab world and of Israel as well.
AS matters stand, although some of the Arab
countries are favorably inclined toward the idea,
Egypt-bitterly hostile toward Israel and in
potentially explosive conflict with Britain over
Suez and the Sudan-is strongly opposed, and
Saudi Arabia apparently feels the same way. AS
for the Israelis, they cool to the plan because
they fear that it might strengthen the Arabs
against them. In such circumstances, it OBJ
viously faces tough shedding,
Nevertheless this is an enterprise that ought
TO be promoted with the utmost vigor. Patterned
after the setup headed by General Eisenhower
for the mutual defense of the free nations making
up the Atlantic Pact, the new command would
establish an integrated military organization for
the protection of the whole Middle East against
the threat of Communist aggression. AS the
four sponsoring powers have declared, this vast
region, with its 70 million Inhabitants is stra-
logically one of the worlds most vital areas, and
1t sorely needs cooperative, unified action to
be safe in this time of grave international
tension
Further, as the four powers have declared,
the command, by establishing common de-
tense capable Of maintaining peace and security
throughout the area, could do much at the same
tim % encourage the social and econ mic ad-
Evening star., 1951-11-14
By THE, HASKIN SERVICE =
High and Low

High in the minds ,Uide frmc cn,ent
Floats the singing bird,
But to the ,Uaittng heart is borne
Not singing 1Dord.
High in the tree-top of the mind.
Syllables of song
Made by the tedthered uaoabond
Only to him belong.
Lou on bending bough, the. bird
Marbles and eac1, feather
Seems to be song. IT'S noD ntdn's heart
And the bird sing together. ~ ;'@T
-. Rose Myro Phillips.