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Evening star., 1951-10-17
This and That

Old magazines have their uses.
They have a way of cheering the
reader up in an amazing fashion.
Attics hold many such volumes, and
their perusal from time to time is whole
some.
We know one local man who never
reads new ones. He simply piles them
UP in his attic, where they stay for
years before he gets around to them.
Then he finds that their woes and
alarms have settled themselves.
What worried the world in 1887, for
instance, means little to it now.
Some problem. large then, has settled
itself by 1851.
Or it is now seen not to have been
such problem as was thought then.
II have had many troubles" wrote
wise man, most Of which never hap
pened."
It is good state of mind to get into.
that what worries one now will either
tend to resolve itself, or later will be
seen to be far less troublesome than was
feared.
The problems of the present
How large they loom. but how will
they look 10 years from now, 20 years?
In the well-stocked attic there will
be many old copies Of book reviews.
How memorable they seemed then,
how forgotten now!
The names Of best sellers have given
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way to new "best Sellers" which have
their moment in the publishing sun,
and then fade from view.
What is deader than last years "best
seller" usually?
Attic reading is at it's best when there
is chair there, comfortable one,
where the browser may settle down for
a session.
We mean an unheated attic. of course.
Those that are heated are more like
rooms. We like the very smell of the
real unheated attic.
This means that it is at its best In
the fall. All summer it ran tempera-
ture of 100 degrees more.
One was afraid to take thermometer
up there.
Never thermometer, then, but al
ways barometer.
Templeton Jones' barometer hangs
above the west window.
It has been rising and falling for 20
years, with more to read it ordinarily.
But when Jones goes UP, to find some
old book or magazine, he reads the
barometer.
That barometer, with its glass face
and brass barrel, was a high spot In
Jones quiet ife..
This particular instrument showed
him at his most stubborn level. too.
He had ordered it frqm New York.
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the expected struggle and to weaken
us by every means short Of full scale
war.
6. The United States is the only ma
tion strong enough to organize an effec-
tive defense against Soviet Imperialism.
z. BY itself. with Europe in Russian
hands. the United States wouldn't stand
much chance OF survival.
8. The Soviet system can't last. II
its expansion can be halted at about the
present line the structure Of Stalinism
will collapse, in time, Of its own accord
and without war.
Starting from there, the problem was
to draw the line at which the Soviet
Union was to be held. Military aid to
Greece and Turkey and economic aid to
Greece, then seriously threatened by
Communist guerrillas. were the first
steps in 1947. Today the line has been
pushed almost all the way around the
Soviet Union. backed by interlocking
alliances and commitments of various
kinds. Some Of them, like the North At
lantic treaty. represent specific obliga-
Evening star., 1951-10-17
October Scene

Color has brushed the maple and the oak
With lapish hand. The Woodland brook
runs cold
At early morn: and TeGpeTs harvest gold
II, meadows that are blurred NTH
autumn smoke.
The dog1Uood repels In Its scarlet hour.
Each roadside Gster iDears her purple
go1Dn
Where ragged sun,ac faunts crimson
crotDn;:
And dusk is cool NTH fragrant earth
and fotDer.
The stars break through the blue-black
Del OF night,
Forming jeDeIed necklace IN the sIy
Around a golden harvest moon on high
That sToiDs the fetU stacked sI,eGpes In
mellon light.
Tranquility Is here to play its part,
And this Is beauty NON to break the
heart.
~ WiIliom Annette WcffoFd. !,
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Supreme Court Docket

In The Stars Sunday editorial section
of September 80 John Gerrity comments
upon the fall term docketS Of the
Supreme Court. After noting that more
than 500 cases are on these dockets, Mr..
Gerrity says: "Of these. not one now
even brushes a politically controversial
ISSUE"
Among the cases listed Of national i'm
portance is Land ct al VS.. Dollar ct al.
This is the case in which, as security for
a loan. the Dollar Steamship Company
pledged its stock to the United States
Maritime Commission with control and
operation of the company, the name Of
which was forthwith changed to Ameri-
can President Line, with the top jobs
going to a succession of men notable for
their influence in the New Deal Ad-
miniStration.
This seizure of the Dollar Company's
property was deliberately contrived by
the New Dealers in 1888 by driving the
company to the verge of bankruptcy by
Cd cancellation of the lines mail con-
tracts, CD refusing to grant operating
subsidies or to pay subsidies already due
and Cd rejection by the Maritime Com
mission of proposals for settling the
debt, which would have left the line in
private operation. OF course, the Dollars
were not New Dealers.
BY the end of the war the debt. with
interest had been fully paid off, but
when the owners demanded the return
of their property the Maritime Commits
sion refused and blatently asserted that
the Government now owned the stock.
After six years Of continuous legal war
since 1945 by the Government and two
decisions Of the United States Court Of
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carry
10riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

Appeals, confirmed in effect by the
Supreme Court, Commerce Secretary
Sawyer was ordered to return the
pledged property to its rightful owners.
When Mr.. Sawyer refused to obey the
first order of the court, his contemptu-
GUS attitude was approved by presiden-
tial directive, in which Mr.. Truman
wrote: impairment Of the Govern
ment's title to this stock will seriously
affect the public interest. Accordingly
you are directed to continue to hold this
stock on behalf Of the United States" !"
This reference to "the Governments
title" suggests that Mr.. Truman really
believes that possession is nine points
Of the law"
When this letter was presented to the
court, Justice Bennett Champ Clark
said: IF you have any idea that letter
from the President has any weight in
this court you are mistaken. He has no
more standing in this court than any
other citizen. He has no right to inf1u-
ence litigation"
The San Francisco Chronicle said we
have seen such actions "by Adolph Hitler
and Joseph Stain and we have seen the
results. The results have been the end
of the rule of law and the beginning Of
systematic cynical prescription Of indi-
vidual rights"
In other words, by his directive to
Secretary Sawyer, in the effort to bring
the scheme of his predecessor to fruition,
President Truman, like Boss Hague, pro-
claimed 'I am the law
Therefore. this case presents to the
Supreme Court for its decision the most
momentous question since the Civil
War and from this decision, the people
may learn how far they can rely on
their Government, as now constituted,
Tin the words of the San Francisco
Chronicle) Gin preserving the rights of
the individual against capricious and
arrogant administration"
Will ownership rights to private prop
erty be recognized and protected from
the Vaccinations of socialistically
minded administration-or will the
argument that political expediency justi-
fies the appropriation of private property
prevail?
Not politically controversial issue!
Tut-tut, Mr.. Gerrity.
Lettus Pray.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
BY Belmont Fories

nNcE upon time, Americas foreign
policy was somewhat alien,
striped-pants business involving intan-
gibleS that the average citizen could
and did ignore.
To-day 1t involves two years OF military
service for every healthy 18-year-old
boy, taxes such as earlier generations
never dreamed Of. imitation that melts
our savings. and billions to aid for
eiRners We scarcely know and don't
especially like.
Members Of Congress receive letters
by the hundreds from worried constit-
uents; our Allies abroad talk about
preventing "the wild men in Washing
ton" from plunging the world into an
other war. A great many people seem to
doubt that we have any foreign policy
at ALL
The fact is. we do have a foreign
policy master plan, put together with
considerable skill and thought. There
is no secret about 1t. It has been ex-
pounded in dozens Of speeches and in
testimony before congressional COM
mittees.
But somehow, it is hard to find the
whole plan explained in terms that
any one can understand In book
published today, Master Plan U. s. A."
(Harper; $3), John Fischer has at
tempted to do just that.
Nearly all Americans, he says, would
agree that we expect our foreign policy
to defend the United States, if possible
without war; il we have to fight, to
make sure that we win, and to work
toward the kind of a world in which
everybody, someday. can live In peace
and freedom.
The real argument is how to reach
these goals in the particular set of
circumstances we are UP against right
now.
Just what are we up against? Here
Is the situation as our policy makers
see it:
/. The men who run the Soviet
Union are determined to bring the
whole world under their dictatorship.
2. No permanent peace settlement"
can be negotiated with them. They
neither want one. nor believe one pos
sible.
8. But they don't want a full scale war.
They are convinced that capitalism will
eventually collapse as a result of its
own internal decay, and they can pick
up the pieces. Meanwhile. touching off
an atomic war is too much OF a gamble.
4. Nevertheless, the Russians believe
war is inevitable. They expect us to
attack them.
S. The immediate aim Of the Kremlin
Is to strengthen its own position for
Evening star., 1951-10-17
UNIT Progress in Slow Motion

President Truman must have had his tongue
in his cheek when he told the American Legion
that the so-caled universal military training law
passed by Congress last June was "a notable
advance" toward the UNIT goal. Many persons
concerned with the national defense regarded
that legislation as maneuver to stall of effec-
tive UNIT action at this session Actually that is
what the law is about to do-pass the buck to
the next Congress
Mr. Truman himself has abandoned hope of
getting an effective UNIT law from this session
of Congress As sponsors Of the legislation un-
doubtedly intended, the appointment of another
commission to study the subject and the prepara-
ton of a report to Congress have consumed SO
much time that the chances of further UNIT
legislation before adjournment are NIL The
report, under the law, must be submitted by
October 20. The President said the commission
win present its findings and recommendations
within few days.
Whatever the commissions dndings% and
however urgent its recommendations for action,
nothing is likely to be done now until next year.
Yet Mr.. Truman told the Legion that 1--WE must
lose no time in placing on the statute books a
sound system of universal training" He asked
for support of the LegionnaireS in securing such
legislation. The reasons which he cited for the
urgency are the same good reasons that were
pertinent last June and which Congress saw fit
to ignore, despite the critical military manpower
shortage then prevailing. VIII Congress next
year be any more courageous in facing the issue
than it was this year?
The answer may depend largely on how
10 the legislators. Another factor wip be the
Evening star., 1951-10-17
The Bar Gets Kicked Around Aqoin

Although there is no reason to quarrel with
the appointment ITSELF there is plenty of reason
to criticize the abrupt and diScourteous way in
which President Trumans choice of a new
United States attorney for the District was made
and announced. Charles Morris Irelan, nomi-
mated to succeed George Morris Fay, is q
respected long-time member of the District Bar
Association and has the qualifications OF char
acter and legal experience that contribute to
making good prosecutor. The method of his
selection however, was an affront to the Bar
Association on the part of the President and
Attorney General McGrath.
This is not the first time, Of course, that the
District Bar Association has been kicked around
by the President and the Attorney General Mr..
Fay's appointment, like that of Mr.. Irelan, was
made without consulting the local bar and with
out awaiting the proffered advice Of the asSocia-
tion. In the case of Mr.. Fay the nomination was
announced at the White House while a committee
of the association waited on Attorney General
Clark with a. petition in behalf of another candi-
date The Irean nomination came in the midst
of bar association poll to determine a pro-
spective slate of candidates for the vacancy caused
by Mr.. Fay's resignation. 1t came only few
hours after Senator Wiley, a member Of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, had made a written
request to Attorney General McGrath that the
appOluCuleuC Dc uelQ up uHtu lie TeCOHlIneuoa-
tions of the Bar Association could be considered.
Results of the associations poll were to have
been compiled at meeting of bar committee
today.
The attitude which Mr.. Truman has mani
tested in the past toward bar association efforts
to assist him in picking good Judges and prosecu-
tors Is incomprehensible and inexcusable. He
has spoken out strongly at his press conferences
at bar association criticism of some of his judici
ary appointments. He has bluntly served notice
on such organizations that he has the sole power
to make such appointments. But no bar asso-
citation has contested this power. Bar associa-
tions are in an excellent position to be helpful
to the executive branch, however, in choosing
qualified lawyers for the bench and for prosecu-
tive posts. When the Attorney General and the
President deliberately turn their backs on such
authoritative counsel they do a disservice to the
appointees, for the suspicion naturally arises
that political or other considerations than fitness
for the post were primary factors in the choice.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Refresher Course for Amateur Statesmen

tionS. Others, such as our support for
Yugoslavia. are less well defined. But
we have made it abundantly clear that
we win resist any Russian push into
Western Europe. the Middle East.
Southeast Asia or the Pacific.
The Korean war, the eloquence Of
Gen. Macarthur, and the frantic con-
gressional poSt-mortems into our role in
the collapse Of Nationalist China have
focused our attention for the last year
chiefly on the Far East. This. says Mr..
Fischer. is little like watching q snake
charmer on the midway while the main
show is going on IN the big tent.
Whatever happens anywhere else, the
main show Is still In Europe. Its skilled
manpower. industrial strength, air bases
and control OF strategic materials make
1t. acre for acre. more important to US
than any other piece Of real estate on
the globe.
The Marshall Plan. operated through
the Economic Cooperation Administers
ton, has made progress in restoring
Western Europe's war-ravaged economy.
Barring Russian attack the patient,
strengthened by TRANSMISSION Of Ameri-
can dollars, will recover.
Progress also is being made in the
organization, under Gen. Eisenhower's
command. Of an international army
which some day may be strong enough
to stop the Russians.
In Asia the problem is different. In
almost every country dark-skinned peo-
pie are in revolt against white domina-
ton, against hunger, hopelessnesS and
humiliation. It's revolution that can
not be stopped. The only question Is
whether it is to be directed from Mos
COW or the u. s. A. The point-four
program. so far only in the pilot stage.
and without adequate funds, is our poll
icy for helping the people Of Asia help
themselves.
There have been mistakes, of course.
Even though Chang Kai-shek made it
difficult, we might have played our hand
a little better in China. The military
decision not to defend Korea was a
realistic one. but we failed to foresee a
situation of naked aggression in which
we could not let the South Koreans
down without losing the confidence Of
every other small nation In the Com
munist path.
It is not q pleasant situation we flnd
ourselves in. To avoid an atomic war
that nobody can win, we face the pros
pect of long years Of heavy military ex-
penditures, and possibly other Koreas.
But we do have a master plan for seeing
1t through. AS Mr.. Fischer points out,
some Of the corners are rough. A few
key spots are weak. It hasn't always
been handled Skillfully. Even so, it
seems to be working rather well.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Letters to The Star

meritorious. she at least is apparently
unwilling to concede that a good or
timely offense is the best defense.
In condemning the waging Of defen-
sive warfare 10000 miles from our own
borders, she asks What would we think
If the Russians and Chinese were in
Mexico?" Let's rephrase that question
What would Miss Russell think If the
Russians and Chinese were in Cali
fornia? Getting back to her question.
I for one would think that my country,
rightly or wrongly. had UP to that point
been pursuing an unrealistic policy.
To an American. any policy or act Of
his country honestly directed or reason
ably related to the perpetuation and
preservation Of the democratic form Of
government which is my country"
evokes the espousal of Decatur's slogan.
If under the stated circumstances Miss
Russell or myself feels that the slogan
is inapplicable, then it simply isn't her
or my country. Personally, I'll buy De-
catur'S Sloganl Fred w. Turpen.
Evening star., 1951-10-17

world situation at the time OF congressional con-
sideration of the report. It Is to be hoped that
there will be no more notable advances" OF the
type which forestalled fortnight action this year.
Congress should have faced up boldly to this
problem long ago.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. How are jockeys paid?-A. A. g.
A. The Jockey Club specifics jock.
ey's fees in the absence of a specific con-
tract with his employer. and the terms
of all contracts between jockeys and
employers must be filed with the
stewards Of the Jockey Club.
@. Who was the first American to
drive an automobile? II.
A. Americas first successful gasoline
engine-propelled vehicle was designed
by Charles e. Duryea and driven by his
brother, j. Frank Duryea, September q,
1893, in Springfield. Mass.
@. In how many languages does the
Vatican radio broadcast?-H r.
A. Radio Vatican hroadcasts In "a
languages.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
NY Country, RIGHT or Wrong

take exception to statements of
Theresa H. Russell in her letter October
II entitled "Our Side Always Wrong?"
The two columns she saw, one de-
nouncing Stalin's A-bomb, the other
praising our A-bomb superiority, did
not coincide with any of the press re-
leases / read, which told. with due en-
phasis, of the latest explosion in the
u. S. S. r. and included no note of de-
nunciation.
"Lip-seryice to peace" Miss Russell
says. has managed to get us into every
major conflict since 1897. People like
Miss Russell and owe our very lives
to the principle. practiced by America,
that peace without individual freedom Is
no life at all.
AS the veteran of q told Miss Russell
sit is the old war;" but the United
States of America has not changed
sides as he supposedly said. We are still
on the same side, Freedoms side.
Mrs. v. F. B.
Theresa H. Russell thinks the slogan
MY country, right or wrong" is unmeri-
torious sentiment, and decries the fact
that this country has managed to get
into every major conflict since 1897,
while not having had its own shores
invaded since 1912. While silent as to
whether any defense or our shores is
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the a6swer 20
any question Of fact BY either writing The
NV. Washington 5. D. C., and iriclosinR cents
return postage or BY telephoning ST. 1853.
Evening star., 1951-10-17
Nominees for Hall of Fume

Regardless Of what David Lawrence
or the other columnists say about them.
I think that Dean Acheson, Ambassador
Jessup, Senator Benton and our great
President are honest and sincere and
are among the great Americans of our
time or any other time.
j. Raymond Morris.
Cambridge, Mass.
Evening star., 1951-11-27
Wilson BIames Strikes
For Some Short Falls
In Defense Production

Defense Mobilizer Charles E.
Wilson said today that strikes
have caused some of the short
falls" to defense production and
pleaded that they be kept to a
minimum.
Mr.. Wilson's statement was made
before the House Defense
Production Committee. He said
that loss Of production due to
strikes cuts across many lines"
A rail strike, he said, may not last
long. but its effect is felt for q
long time.
Generally. he said, the overall
mobilization job is proceeding on
time. But he conceded that plane
production is not fast enough.
IF any one thing has held us
back from increasing the produc-
tion of aircraft" he said, ''it is
the tremendous difficulty we face
in increasing machine TOOLS"
Mr.. Wilson said no one in Gov
eminent is stating that there is
an overall steel shortage, but they
do assert there are shortages in
certain categories of steel. This
statement was in response to a
question by Chairman Maybank
concerning statements by steel
men that there is not only no
shortage. but that overproduction
is feared.
Mr.. Wilson cited structural
steel. He said there is a shortage
there and there will be one for
about a year.
I'VE have only a potential out
put of 1.3 million tons of struc-
tural steel a quarter and we could
use twice that" he said.
In answer to a question by SEN
ator Capehart. Republican, of In
diana. Mr.. Wilson said he could
not suggest any legislation now
needed in connection with the pro-
duction program.
Evening star., 1951-11-27
Ithaca Mayor Needles Truman;
Asks 81 Million Federal Loan

ance the United States would do
what it could to grant financial
aid to the Iranian government.
I'VE also have been informed" !"
the letter added, that Prime
Minister Churchill will be seeing
you for the purpose of getting
another loan for England. ]
rather assume you will give him
the same assurance as reported
you gave Mr.. Mossadegh."
The letter continued:
II would like to make a request
for 81 million loan for our city,
to be paid back with interest in
the very same manner as foreign
loans. You see, we have about 200
city employees and we are anxious
to grant them a salary increase
so they may meet the increased
Federal income tax that you Just
had the Congress enact"