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Evening star., 1951-01-23
Q STREET.

0lREE1.
Dear Sir:
What has become Of that kitten
whose rescue from the street you de-
tailed some time ago?
You did not say so but feel sure
that you were the rescuer, so ought to
be in a good position to tell its subse-
quent history.
do such kittens fare well, even with
the best Of intentions, or had they best
be left in the street?
'I have heard this matter discussed
by cat lovers and no two Of them seem
TO agree.
yours truly, ]. NJ"
The kitten In question soon got the
name Of Mindy.
She ds now about four months old.
She had beautiful eyes, happy dis
poSition-and worms.
It is said that almost all kittens have
worms, q further argument against them
by cat haters.
They say nothing about the fact that
many children have worms, too.
Small creatures, living low to the
ground, run much more chance of get
ting them.
Small creatures that do not wash
their hands before eating, run extra
chances.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
More on Old Dominion R. R.

Referring to a recent letter from Gus,
the Office Boy, at the headquarters Of
the Old Dominion Railroad. will add
the following comment:
The Old Dominion, Of course, must
abide by all pertinent regulations, in
cluding those governing the sounding
of horns, etc. Engineer Willard Fox is
quite competent in this regard, as can
testify from my own daily auditory ex-
perience. and I take off my hat to his
strict adherence to the regulations.
However. there is room for questioning
the desirability of continued existence of
the Old Dominion. which once served
highly useful purpose but which readily
can be supplanted nowadays by other
more efficient modes of transportation.
Some persons contend that no self-re-
specting community would endure the
nuisance to which it is daily subjected
by this relic of the days of the French
and Indian War and would bring about
legislation to eliminate the Old Dominion
Railroad. Others contend that the situa-
tion is a reflection upon the competence
Of the county and State authorities of
Virginia in looking after the welfare Of
the residents of the very thickly pop
ulated districts through. across and
around which the Old Dominion tracks
meander. However. I am told that the
authorities have attempted to bring this
about, with the hearty concurrence of
the Old Dominion owners themselves,
but have been estopped by the walls of
very few oldtimers who insist upon its
continuance as required under certain
clauses of the franchise.
Could Gus, the Office Boy. throw some
light on this question?
william F. Friedman,
Evening star., 1951-01-23
The Satin Box

MementoS pluck the tender chords
Which span the years from c1tildhood's
lore.
This satin boz adorned NTH shells
Contains the theme. the tunes, the
score.
A pretty stone found by the brook
Was Floras gift ,Dhen aDas eight.
These gay blue beads and storybook
Recall a boy / used to date.
A campfire ring, an honor pin,
A recipe for fudge, a leaf
Each one melody of thought,
Some gay, some sad, but all too briet.
Here near the bottom of the chest
With tear-stained smile. my thoughts
reclaim
A small red heart NTH lacv trim
And great bold prtnt-ny lost Iores
name!
Marsarst I. Mccasi
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Letters to The Star

sponsored by the United States Public
Health Services, earnestly advocates i'm
nlunization of all children against teta-
nus. Immunization against typhoid OBJ
viously must be added in this unpre-
dictable age of total violence and de-
struction. AS a former military surgeon
I ask why our Civilian Defense Author
ity believes civilians in likely target
area can survive without the same pro-
lection that is mandatory for all mill
tary personnel? Will tetanus and typhoid
be less lethal in an unimmunized civilian
holocaust?
If we admit the need of immunizing
civilians in likely target areas against
tetanus and typhoid. such project de-
mands top-level direction. Those who
were in the armed services will need
only booster shots. Children previously
immunized against tetanus will need
booster plus typhoid protection. Those
opposed in principle to all vaccination
should be allowed to exercise individual
election. But for those who wish to
increase their chances of individual sur
vival in event of atomic holocaust. it
should be the policy Of our civilian
defense to make this elementary pro-
lection available.
Exiled Military Surgeon.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
ArIinqton,s Negro Doctors

The Arlington County Medical Society has
taken commendable step toward opening its
membership to Negro physicians practicing in
the county.
At session last week, the society voted
unanimously to amend its constitution to admit
Negro doctors. Final action awaits two-thirds
vote by the membership, and It is expected that
This will be forthcoming at the March meeting.
The effect Of this final action, when taken,
viii not be felt IN the day-today practice OF the
Negro doctors. They enjoy full use Of Arlington
Hospital, and are not Disseminated against IN
Evening star., 1951-01-23
The Growing Federal Colossus

Strong evidence of the urgent need for
retrenchment by non-defense agencies of the
Government is contained in the startling report
Of the Senate-House Committee on Non-e essential
Federal Expenditures. With civil service employ
ment already past the million mark and new
defense employees being added to the payroll at
the rate of 1000 day in recent months, 1t be-
hooves every non-defense branch of the execu-
tive establishment to resurvey its personnel with
a view to reducing n-essential spending At
time when the Government is planning man
power controls for industry, the Government it
self should not overlook opportunities to con-
serve manpower within its own domain
Senator Byrd's committee calls for "check-
rein" on use of manpower by the Federal depart
ments and agencies. The checkrein should be
applied at once, for the figures released in the
report indicate that the rate of build-up already
is nearing runaway velocity. Just before the
outbreak of the Korean war there were less than
2 million employees on the Federal rolls The re-
mobilization and rearmament programs have
brought an upsurge Of employment that put
more than 1000 new civil service workers daily
on the payroll last September and that has been
continuing at this rate ever since. The cost of
the payroll now is in excess of $75 billion year
and is expected by next June to exceed the World
War II peak of $8.S billion, although the number
PSooAbAS,
ployment total in the present emergency reaches
the World War II peak of more than 8 million
persons, the civil service payroll will reach the
staggering total Of $13 billion, at present pay
rates.
The rapidly expanding departments pose
serious problems aside from the salary bill Space
is at a premium in Washington-and that means
office space, living space, parking space and
transit capacity. There are, the committee re-
ported, about ESQ Government-occupied buildings
In the Washington Metropolitan Area, with more
than 81 million square feet of Office space. The
annual bill for rent and utilities for the whole
establishment is more than $500 million, and this
does not include, of course, buildings owned by
the Government.
The whole outlook is a dismaying one, con-
sidering the long range implications of the de-
veloping defense program. The gloomy picture
calls for far more belt-tightening than such
watchdog groups as the Byrd committee and the
Williams committee on Federal overstaff1ng have
discerned in their recent studies Of non-defense
agencies. The situation calls also for completion
by Congress Of the economy moves recommended
by the Hoover Commission-moves which would
save millions OF dollars through elimination of
wasteful methods, consolidation of Offices and
abolishment Of non essential activities.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Parks and Porkinq

As the Government grows with the expand
ing defense program, 1t is becoming harder and
harder TO resist further encroachment on Wash
ingtons park areas. The latest suggestion in this
direction is that more parking space be provided
on the Mall for cars of Federal employees. That
would mean an additional contraction of the
greensward between the Capitol and the Potomac
River-already occupied by so-called temporary
buildings and parking places left over from two
wars. The American Planning and Civic Asso-
citation is justified in denouncng in strong terms
these periodic invasons of park reservations, as
1t did in resolutions passed at its meeting here
last week.
But the blunt truth is that the planners must
do something more than deplore the situation if
further of parks for parking is to be resisted
successfully. There has been too much talk about
Washingtons parking problems and too little
remedial action. The result is that the new ma
tional emergency is bringing thousands of new
employees to the city and imposing heavier traf-
fic loads on already overloaded streets and park
ing spaces The pressure for fewer restrictions on
parking and for transformation of some grass
areas into emergency" off-street parking lots
Is natural development. While other cities
have been building off-street surface and under
ground parking facilities, instituting fringe
parking plans and otherwise coming to grips
with the parking problem, Washington has made
little or no headway toward such relief meas
ures. Parking structures, either above ground or
beneath the surface, admittedly are expensive.
But fringe parking has proved to be satisfac-
tory alternative in several cities. Fringe parking
never has received an adequate trial in Wash
ington. Another effort to employ the system here
is worth trying. now that the parking crisis is
threatening to become worse.
Certainly, unless some relief is found in other
quarters, the demand for more parking space
for automobiles in the downtown section will be-
come so acute that parking in the parks cannot
be long averted And experience has shown that
a foothold once gained on the Mall or in Potomac
Park is more permanent than temporary, re-
gardless of promises and understandings at the
time of invasion.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Our New AbnormoIity

In his annual report as president Of Harvard
University, DR.. James B. Conant has voiced the
belief that there will be no global war "for many
q year to come" Although admitting that he
may be completely wrong and that the explosion
may occur at any moment, he has cast his per-
sonal vote for the idea that the Nation will be
partially mobilized 'for an indefinite period in
in kind of half-peace which in some ways,
unless we make sound adjustments to it, could
prove to be as bad as no peace at ALL
This is unique prospect for most western
countries, particularly the United States. The
thing is normal for the Russians of course, but
for the American people it is abnormal. Never
before after great war have we been obliged
TO transform our peacetime society and economy
Into the society and economy of semi-armed
camp. Never before has anybody like Dr. Conant
found 1t reasonable to assume that the Nation
must regard such an outlook as probability
q condition under which we must look forward
to years and years of large-scale military pre-
paredness, even though there conceivably may
never be globa1 conflict.
How are we to deal with this new abnormal
ity in our national life? In of uncertainty,
in an explosive period of armed truce, what
can be done to make the best of things? DR..
Conant, speaking both as university head and
q scientist, advises that we must guard first
of all against the twin dangers of indecision and
defeatism. In the field of education and every
other field, the American people-individually
and collectively-will have to develop a new
frame of mind and work out new patterns Of
action and planning to deal aff1rmatively with
the problems that are bound to flow from a.
short-of-war situation involving long-term
semi mobilization.
In all probability, the United States is Ca
pable of making the necessary adjustments. But
II DR.. Conant is right-if we must live in a
semi armed camp for long, long time without
ever being able to arrive at good and peaceful
settlement-a lot of Americans are going to
grow increasingly impatient. They are not going
to be willing to sit around for couple of
decades just waiting for things to get better
Sin world full Of hate and fear" Sooner or
later. there will be mounting demands and
pressures for decisive action, with or without
resort to arms. against the source of the evil.
The thing will not be tolerated forever. It is
poison to our way of life.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Wor Powers Of Congress

Your recent editorial entitled Troops,
Congress. and Mr.. Truman" rather too
glibly dismisses a question of the utmost
Importance. It is shocking. indeed, to
learn that you have little doubt that the
President has the right i. +. duty
and power to order. without the prior
consent of Congress, the dispatch Of
American military forces to foreign areas
=. .. to protect what he alone con-
ceives to be the interests and security
of the country. Presumably you hold
that by the device of calling war police
action, one man may decree that we
engage in battle with the North Ko-
reans, with the Chinese, in Indo-C China.
Iran. Tibet; in fact with anyone any
where. If he and he alone sees fit. In so
holding, you not only ignore the plain
words of the Constitution. but the es-
sential meaning Of our representative
form Of government.
The Commander-in Chief has the
power to direct the movement of the
armed forces, but only after the war;
making powers of Congress have been
exercised.
You refer to precedents and Supreme
Court decisions, but I challenge you to
cite one which has application to the
existing situation.
We don't avoid war by emitting q
formal declaration of war. We are pres
entity engaged in a major war which
may suddenly or by degrees become a
world war. To suggest that such q
course may be pursued without action
by Congress is to reduce its authority,
and hence the authority of the people,
to debating society, with some limited
function of approving the appropriation
Of money demanded by the President
To so limit the Congress and exalt the
Presidency, is. of course, to abandon
democracy and surrender to dictator
ship.
On January Is, Senator Taft said:
"The basic liberties of the people :.
are imperiled unless we can retain in
Congress the right to pass on policies
affecting (their) very life and being -"
I agree. Evidently you do not I am
not prepared to surrender in whole or
in part the power of the people exer-
cised by their elective representatives.
Neither am I prepared to deliver the
fate of this country solely into the
hands of President Truman.
Are you?
T. Millet Hand, M. c.,
Second District, New Jersey
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Typhoid, Tetunus Immunizution

From a military surgeons point Of
view the Civil Defense Health Services
handbook omits basic prerequisites for
individual survival in event of atomic
aggression. Anticipating maximal disor-
ganization and destruction, it yet as
sumes no aggressive leadership in i'm
munizing those in likely target areas
against typhoid and tetanus. The ter
rife mortality of these killers in past
wars proves active immunization to be
the only dependable guarantee of indi-
vidual survival. Whenever we have mass
disruption of sanitation and mass mutt
lation, there is terrible toll among the
unimmunized
This default Of leadership is mex
cusable in these days. No member of
our armed forces was allowed to 60 into
a target area without this basic pro-
lection. Our child welfare program,
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Moscow's Hote-Monqerinq

The Soviet hate America campaign has been
carried to new peak of violence and virulence
at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. There, in an
address commemorating Lenin's death-an ad-
dress of particular significance because of its
having been delivered in the presence of Gen.
eralissimo Stain and other key figures in the
Russian dictatorship-Peter Pospelov, who is
ranked as one of the Communist Party's chief
theological experts, has unleashed against the
United States the most vicious and most incen-
diary attack of its kind yet heard in the world
behind the Iron Curtain.
Harking back to the Allied intervention in
Russia after the Brest Litovsk treaty in the First
World War-an Intervention animated in large
part by angry reactions to Lenin's double-dealing
surrender-Pospelov has turned history upside
down in order to depict our country as a "ram-
pant beast that has been intent upon destroying
the Soviet Union ever since the days of President
Woodrow Wilson. Repeatedly likening the United
States to Nazi Germany and saying not
word about how our tremendous help saved the
u s. s. r. from being crushed by Hitler's legions,
he has thundered that the political madmen"
Of our ruling circles are now more determined
than at any time in the past thirty years to pre-
cipitate global conflict aimed at wiping out the
Soviets and enslaving the Russian people
As for our relatively small and definitely mild
role in the 1918 Intervention (our troops in ST.
IBERIA confined themselves to guarding railways
and trying to prevent atrocities by counter
revolutionary forces), here is what Pospelov has
had to say: "The hands of American imperiasts
are red with the blood of the Russian people.
People will never forget the bloody crimes and
executions made on our land by the American
interventionists." And he has gone from
there to charge that our Government, in keeping
with its decades-old "plot" to destroy the Soviet
Union, is now moving with mad rapidity' to
push the Nation to "the precpce OF third world
war;" According to Pospelov, however, our coun-
try will suffer exactly the same fate as Naz Ger
many because Of the inevitability of the final
victory of the proletarian revolution over the
wild beast of Imperialism
Why all this colossal lying? Why has it been
spewed forth in an elaborate stage setting? Why
have Stain and other Soviet bigwigs made a
special point of being on hand to hear it de-
ivered? Perhaps it merely represents further
intensfication in the war of nerves being waged
by Moscow. But there seems more reason to
suspect it as the beginning of Stepped-up cam
paign to eradicate whatever pro-American senti-
ment may still exist among the Russian people,
to make them fear and hate us to the greatest
possible degree, and thus to condition them psy-
adventure by the Kremlin. The thing is sufi-
GENTLY dangerous In that sense to lend consider
able point to Senator McMahon's proposal that
Congress take extraordinary action in an effort
to get the truth through to the masses of men
and women now trapped in darkness behind the
Iron Curtain.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
A Mon-Sized Man for q Mun-Sized Job

applied: When the day comes that
have any spare time on this job, that's
the day that q new man better take
over"
Administrator Caldwell's day begins
at am, in the Wardman Park Hotel,
where he is making his temporary home.
II there is no breakfast appointment,
he takes the opportunity then and while
riding down Connecticut avenue in a
taxi to brush up on the news of the
day.
Before o'clock he is installed behind
the large mahogany desk in his Office,
debating one-paragraph letters to Miss
Lucy and going over the stacks of ap-
plications from people offering their
services and their wares in the name
OF civil defense. In handling these, he
follows an inf1exible maxim: To get the
best people for the jobs that need doing,
he Is willing to beg. borrow or steal.
The others, no matter who recommends
them, are out. Before I'm through"
he tells you. "I'll have the best organi-
zation in town."
Promptly at 9:15, division chiefs pre-
sent themselves at the Governors Office
for the daily staff meeting. Then fol-
lows solid day of appointments with
Government officials and military brass.
They come to talk about the thousands
OF questions that will have to be asked
and answered before Administrator
Caldwell and the rest of the country can
afford to relax. Problems of priorities
in critical materials and personnel; Of
translating blueprinted plans into work.
ing organizations: Of keeping Congress
impressed with the urgent need for
money to get started on national stock
pile Of food and medicine-all of them
take time.
That may be one Of the reasons why
Mr.. Caldwell has so successfully evaded
the public eye. He has not made a
single speech since he took over, and he
plans none. Speeches" says the Gov
ernor. consume world Of time with
precious little effect"
OF the fare served him in the course
OF working day. the toughest bites are
reserved for lunchtime or dinner. Dis
cussions go on far into the night. BY
bedtime, the Governor and the Ito men
and women who work under him know
they've done a days work.
No one who appreciates the destruc-
tive power of the atom bomb will tell
you that the progress made in civil de-
tense up to this point is something to
take comfort in. On both the local and
national level we have a long way to
go, and time may be desperately short.
But those who know him seem to feel
that one time track star Caldwell is a
good man to set the pace.
Evening star., 1951-01-23
Questions and Answers

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Evening star., 1951-01-23
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.


BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. What is the name of the new de.
vice for checking readioacticity after
human beings have been exposed to it?
M H.
A. 1t is the dosimeter. a small light
device resembling soldiers "dog-tag,"
that can be hung around the neck.
Q. How large salary does the chap
lain of the United States House of Rep
resentatives receive?-A O.
A. The House Disbursing Office says
that the basic salary of the chaplain is
$3.50; the gross salary $5,935.89.
Q. Where did the early English silver
smiths get their supplies of metal?-
L. B. r.
A. 1t was probably obtained from
Eastern Europe until the conquest Of
Peru and Mexico by Spain provided
them with all the silver they needed.
Evening star., 1951-01-23

Pen names may De used if letters carry
10riterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
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only be permitted but actually urged
and encouraged to complete their
program.
Frank GreenWalI
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-07-26
BRUSH CREEK

Winford Meade and family MIR.
and Mrs. Houston Meade and
Clercie Meade visited at the home
of Barlow Willis Sunday.
Myrtle Fleming of Fleming
town and Mrs Grace Rose of Bal
timore visited Mr.. and Mrs. Avis
Mullins during the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Houston Meade
and son were dinner guests of
Shelton Willis and family Sun
day.
Charles Meade and family spent
the night at the home of W. P.
Meade Thursday of last week.
Miss Patsy Hill, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe c. Hill of New
hall, w. Va, is spending several
weeks with her aunt, Easter
Meade, this summer
Holland Fleming and family
spent Saturday night at the home
of Anvil Meade.
Mr.. and Mrs Bob Mooney
were Sunday evening guests of
Mrs. Dallas Mullins
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Stanley Wis
tied Nelson Stanley and family
Saturday night,
Betty Stanley has been visiting
at the home of Estil Stanley for
few days