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Evening star., 1951-04-06
Voice in the Wilderness

In Prof. Edman's article appearing in
This Week Magazine last Sunday, he
said: ITO live at all is risk and to
act an adventure In the crisis of
the present age some brave and ad-
venturous vision is needed. or we may,
indeed, be lost"
That brave and adventurous vision
is in our midst-a voice has been cry
ing in the wilderness since before the
second World War, which, had we needed
it. would very likely have avoided that
war. That lone voice has been joined
by many others who agree with Clar-
ence Streit that only a world govern
ment will ever bring about community
OF nations based on law rather than
the present state Of world anarchy.
How ironic it is that we would rather
risk the known death and destruction
Of war than the unknown, imagined
perils Of world government We prefer
to bribe other governments to be on
our side. rather than put some cement
into our relationship.
We are wasting our substance, throw
ing it away. and hoping the world will
be grateful. Instead, we are losing its
respect: in the light of recent dis
closures, our self-respect is on the wane
as well. While we still have some posi-
ton of world leadership, we could be
using it to build strong world gov
ernment based on the proposition that
all men are free. and open to all free
men everywhere. Given such an in
centive. how the people of Russia and
its satellites, Of China, Argentina and
Spain, would strive to throw off the
shackles Of tyranny! People everywhere
long for peace, but more than that
they long for leader who will inspire
them to fight for the rights and dignity
Of free men.
How curious it is that Senator Ke-
fauver, who year or more ago intro
duced into the Senate resolution which
would authorize our Government to call
convention to explore how far other
free peoples would be willing to go to-
ward forming world government, had
to wait until he dug up the sordid facts
about crime and corruption in high
places to attract nationwide audi
ence.. If we are reused out of our
apathy only by sensationalism rather
than good sense, then we are indeed lost
-as was Nero, who fiddled while Rome
'io' Gertrude Gebel.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Logging Civil Defense

The public apathy which is hampering local
civil defense preparations is not confined to the
Washington area So widespread are the COM
plants of public indifference that Federal Civil
Defense Administrator Caldwell has called ma
tional conference here on the problem. news
story in today'S Star discloses the disturbngly
slow progress being made in the District and
nearby counties in organizing the Capital region
for mutual aid in event of attack The plain fact
is that Washington and its suburbs are not ready
for such an emergency and are not likely to be
ready any time soon. Will the emergency wait
until we are ready?
Various reasons are given for the disinter-
ested attitude of the citizens in civil defense but
lack of patriotism is not one of them. Undoubt-
edly the major factor is the improved situation in
Korea in recent months, which has resulted in
cutting of draft calls and a general easing of
tensions If conditions suddenly took turn for
the worse, the present trickle of volunteers for
civil defense undoubtedly would become steady
stream And if Congress evidenced a greater
interest in civil defense by speeding up appro-
priations urgently requested, the machinery
for carrying out the alarm, rescue, first aid and
other parts of the program would be much further
advanced both here and throughout the country.
While it may be comforting to believe that
the citizens could be counted on to volunteer in
large NUMBERS II Ine emergency conIronGlng the
Nation were at critical stage, there is no
security in that expectation. The very nature
of civil defense requires that volunteers be
organized and trained long in advance Of an
actual call to duty Right now, when there
seems to be a breathing spell between crises,
is the proper time for citizens to cooperate
with civil defense authorities in recruiting
wardens, auxiliary police and other workers.
What the public must be made to under
stand is that it may be too late to volunteer their
services after bombs begin to fall. This is an
educational task that must receive more atten-
ton from civil defense leaders if the vital pro-
gram is to be rescued from its present state of
suggiShness.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Congressional Poy


AS a career Government worker who
knows and appreciates the great need
for an increase in the salaries of
Senators and Representatives, should
like to go on record as advocating
forceful movement by all Federal en-
ployes and their organizations to get
behind bill to provide adequate pay
for our legislators. We all know of
the many unusual and extra expenses
forced upon Congressman, such as
the necessity Of maintaining two resi-
dences. the need for travel back and
forth between his home and Washing
ton and similar items. Nor will any,
body question that the pay of persons
of comparable qualifications in labor.
business, professions or other private
pursuits is considerably higher. than
$12,500 a year.
The difficulty, of course, is that most
members of Congress are reluctant to
vote themselves an increase because it
may be misunderstood by the voters
back home. suggest, therefore, that
those OF us who appreciate the problem
get after our newspapers back home,
the organizations to which we belong,
such as unions, veteran and farm
groups, and our local chambers of
commerce, in an attempt to get their
support for q concerted effort to in
crease the take-home pay Of Congress
men to a point where it is commen-
surate with the responsibilities and
qualifications Of the job.
Adelbert C. Long.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Cow on the Boulevard

She PAGES our Gstonished boulepord
With graue, seddtely pitying disdatn.
The smooth concrete she ,Ddlks upon Is
hard
As she has neper kno,On a country
lane
or any luscious pasture lot to be.
Our small attempts at grass hold no
temptation,
Nor is there space. beneath a single tree.
For nunching cuds In cosn1ic con-
temptation.
Our neat. trim houses. eIbotDs ,oeH tucked
in,
Quite obviously afford no ample store
OF hay or ensilage that might serDe to
Din
Approval, and persuade her to deplore
Conditions less She gdses, n1ellosu-eyed.
About her 1Dith q kind. solicitons
Concern, then hastens honre,card to her
iUide G
Uninterrupted meadows. leaning US
Considerably unnerUed at seeing HON
Profoundly ,De are pitied By cotu.-
Jcne H. Merchant.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Custine Knew Russia, and Still Does
By Mary McGrory

"WHoEvE171R VEL m has really seen Rus $
live anywhere else
The statement of DIP? No, the line
comes from a journal written 100 years
ago by French nobleman, the Marquis
de Custine, kind of l9th-century Ar
thur Koestler who journeyed eagerly to
Russia in 1889 in search of arguments
against representative government
came back an ardent advocate of con-
stitutions.
The journals of the Marquis have
recently been published in this coun-
try, under the title Journey for
Our Time" Pellegrini and Cudahy.
$4) Translated and edited by Phyllis
Penn Kohler, wife of Foy Kohler. head
of the Voice of America, the book has
an introduction by Gen. Walter Be-
dell Smith. former Ambassador to Rus
sia. now director of the C.I.A.
Although Gen. Smith wrote his own
story of disillusionment on the Don IN
"My Three Years in Moscow. he
recommends the Marquis account as
giving the clearest possible explanation
Of Russian foreign policy today-"in-
tense nationalism combined with dy-
manic expansionism."
Both the Kohlers were assigned to
the generals staff in Moscow when
they unearthed. through Russian
friend, a copy of the journals in So
Wet second -hand bookshop. An abridged
edition of the journals had been pub
lished by the Soviets in 1880. It was
withdrawn when some commissar sud-
denly realized that life under Car
Nicholas I wasn't so very different as
they had previously thought.
The Marquis, whose family had suf-
fered cruelty at the hands of the French
revolutionists. was scarcely beyond
the Iron Curtain of his day before he
began to have doubts about the true
worth of an absolute monarchy. He
was searched, grilled. spied upon. Soon
he was wondering whether it is the
character of the nation that has made
the autocrat. or the autocrat who has
made the Russian character"
Substitute communism" for "auto-
crat," of course. and you have the sig
nificance of his observations for the
tense western world Of today.
''The Russian government" Custine
observed quite early in the game, "is
the discipline of the camp substituted
for the civic order"
AS pre-Freudian national psyche
analysis which has stood up for q
century, Journey for Our Time is fas-
cinating. It is hard to know. however,
whether the Marquis brilliant and un-
cannily apt observations were based on
instinct or on carefully culled evidence.
Few details support his generalizationS.
Whether the present editor deleted
them, or whether he was a man who
needed to see but corner to know
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Boswell Gets Slapped

The Presidents acidulous Reputation of JON
athan Daniels article in Golfers Magazine con-
tains no denial that the President said the things
attributed to him by Mr.. Daniels. Furthermore,
no such friendly interpreter of the Presidents
state OF mind as Mr.. Daniels has proved himself
up to this time-to be, would deliberately mis-
represent what the President had to say.
But the reader of the article will sympathize
more with the President than with Mr. Daniels.
Mr.. Daniels was writing the article for money.
Golfers Magazine was promoting the article in
order to sell more magazines Mr.. Daniels, in
order to make his story more interesting, embel-
lished Mr.. Truman's observations on limiting
Congressional service to IL years with comments
OF his own, so that the reader is slightly puzzled
to know precisely where the President leaves off
and Mr.. Daniels begins or vice versa. The
reader Of the article is left with the impression,
obviously sought by the editors of Golfers Maga-
zine, that MIR. Truman, in hope of adding to the
constructive thinking of the American people,
confided certain views to Mr. Daniels for publi-
cation in Golfers But, as Mr.. Truman has indi-
Gated, that amt necessarily So
If Mr.. Truman was out looking for more
trouble, he might have planted Mr.. Daniels
article in Golfers. But one doubts that he wants
or needs any more trouble than he has now. And
while Mr.. Daniels is an eloquent sympathizer, in
prnt, Win the FreSluenCS great puruenS OF ONCE,
the article and the atmosphere in which it ap-
pears do little to ameliorate them The President
is an entertaining converSationalist His observa-
tions on men and events make interesting read
ing. But the President should stop spreading
temptation before writers. He should say nothing,
or he should insist that he read copy on what
they write. Had the latter procedure been fol-
lowed, one doubts that Golfers Magazine would
have run the article-by "his close friend and
adviser, Jonathan Daniels'--on what Mr.. Truman
would like to do to solve the problems of "sen-
iority and senility" in Congress.
Evening star., 1951-04-06

In an admirably prophetic paragraph
about world revolution tactics, Custine
describes Russia's 19th-century mach
inations, when there was no NATO to
give her pause: Russia sees Europe as
prey which our dissensions will sooner
or later deliver up to her; she foments
anarchy among us in the hope Of profit
ing by corruption she promotes be-
cause it is favorable to her views"
Custine could hardly be expected to
have a perfect score as a prophet. He
thought any attempt to overthrow the
government would come in an orderly
way, village by village. He thought
religious dissension might set it off.
But here is a thought for the Voice
Of America: This exorbitant power is
hurting itself; Russia will not submit
to it forever; a spirit of revolt smolders
in the army. I say . +. the Russians
have travelled too much; the nation has
become eager for enlightenment. The
customs has no power over thought:
armies cannot exterminate it, ramparts
cannot stop it; it goes underground:
ideas are in the air: they are every
where: and ideas change the world"
To Custine. the Russia of his day
was IAN absolute government and ma
tion Of slaves" And while 1t Is some
how encouraging to learn from him
that "it was ever thus" it is profoundly
dispiriting to know that we must win
through to people who not only have
been in bondage for centuries, but who
love their chains and cherish their
captors.
Like most other travellers before and
since. including Gen. Smith, Custine
found that everything reveals to me
the real worth of this oppressed people"
He spoke for free people everywhere
when he wrote, in 1899: "The idea of
what they could do if they were free
provokes the anger feel when I see
what they are doing today"
Evening star., 1951-04-06
The Board Acts Wisely

The Star congratulates the Board of Educa-
tion on its decision-Adelbert Lee diSsenting-to
approve the recommendations of the Superin-
tendent of Schools and his professional teacher
advisers on certain textbooks used in the public
schools
1t is presumed that this approval was based
on study, by members of the board, of the con-
troversial texts. For the board shares with the
superintendent, responsibility in the matter.
But had the board been impressed by Mr. Lees
nonsense and gone along with him. instead of
supporting the superintendent and his educa-
tional colleagues the decision would have pro-
jected gloomy future indeed. IT would have
slurred the professional competence of the school
officials. It would have cast some doubt on their
patriotism, for criticism of the books is largely
based on the alleged subversive nature of the
texts. It would have meant the substitution of
narrow prejudice for objective Institutional value
as the criterion in choice of school texts And in
the end, 1t would have meant that Mr.. Lee was to
be thrust far beyond his depth and charged with
the selection of the books to be used by our chill
dren in the public schools thought that is
truly alarming.
The Board of Education, having given this
demonstration of backbone in supporting the
superintendent, may shortly be faced by another
test. Somebody has been telling members of the
the school books and the committee has author
lied subcommittee, under Representative Miller
of Nebraska, to do some checking up. Far from
challenging the exercise of this prerogative by
our lords and masters The Star welcomes it..
There is something intriguing in the thought of
DR.. Miller and his colleagues burning the mid
night OIL poring textbooks used in the public
schools. But surely 'it is better not to know SO
much than to know so much that amt so," as
Josh Billings observed.
Eventually the Board of Education may have
to decide, again, whether it will follow the die
tates (if any of members of the House District
Committee on the choice of schoolbooks, or
whether it will retain the right of such choice
for itself and the school officials. There can be
only one correct decision in the matter The
House District Committee cannot assume a
responsibility that 1t is not equipped to discharge
Evening star., 1951-04-06

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Evening star., 1951-04-06
JoIson Conteen?

/ have been reading recently that the
USO is to open up the old Belasco
Theater in Lafayette Park as service
mems canteen.
wonder if it is possible to name it
the "Al Jolson Memorial Canteen." or
''The Jolson Canteen," as fitting
tribute to the famous entertainer who
made so many of the GIs appreciate
what few minutes Of relaxation means
T/Sergt. John r. Carey.
Fort Myer.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
The buffers Case
Henry Gayens.


The Stars chess writer, Donald H.
Mugridge, in his review Of Edward
Lasker's new book, says:
"He Oasker) also grinds an occasional
ak, as when he hits at recent policies
and publications Of the United (States)
Chess Federation which have favored
mass chess by buffers instead Of en-
couraging Americas actual masters
but it is usually, as here, an ak which
needs grinding"
There are many who are deeply cha
associate himself with point of view
so snobbish and shortsighted. We
would wish him, rather. to applaud and
support the efforts of USCF, or anybody
else, to broaden the base of American
chess, and create mass appreciation of
the game-and of its masters.
These actual masters" doubtless were
buffers once themselves. Having be-
come masters they write books, publish
magazines, win prizes, give exhibitions
and generally flourish in the chess clubs
of the country.
And who buys the books, subscribes
to the magazines, buys exhibition tickets,
puts up the prize money? Why, we
buffers. How's the rent paid in the
clubs? With buffers dues. We also
answer the telephone. do the bookkeeping
and sweep out the place.
If the masters depended on clubs kept
up by themselves. they would soon be
displaying their mastery to each other
in old piano boxes.
Looking at this matter right here at
home. the 80 or 40 crack players in
Washington are hardly the audience to
justify The Star in carrying chess
column. Mr.. Mugridges large. devoted
and well-deserved leadership is made up
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Letters to The Star

mostly of the buffers whose encourage
ment by USCF Mr. Mugridge deplores.
Somehow it seems bit ungracious Of
him to bite the fan that reads him.
Jane Stokes,
Secretary. the Washington Chess
Divarl
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Porude Traffic

have noticed that whenever parade
is held in Washington, north and south
bound traffic across Pennsylvania or
Constitution avenue is stopped for an
hour or more. In New York City, pa
rades are run in sections-so that every.
little while break occurs and cross
town traffic is permitted to pass through.
Why is it so difficult for the WASH
ington police or whoever arranges
parades in this city to get similar
idea?
Henry EaveuS
Evening star., 1951-04-06

Pen-raun1es may be used If letters carry
loriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
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