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Evening star., 1951-02-17
Why Pick on Providence?

Providence Hospital symbolizes the
humiliation and helplessness of a vote
less community. As an economy measure
our bureaucratic masters have dropped
her from the list of those receiving
partial tax aid for the care Of INDECENT
patients.
Providence Hospital has been out
standing for its charity. Like all pri-
vate hospitals. it is fighting to survive
imitation and deficit spending. Its train
ing program for doctors and nurses is
vital to our Nation. That training pro-
gram depends upon fair quota of
certified INDECENT patients.
Providence has bi-racial policy on
admissions. Like Gallinger, it is stated
and supervised by learned teachers of
surgery and medicine. These indigents
are only charged the cost of hospital
overhead-X-rays laboratory costs, nurs-
ing care and doctors services are COM
munity donations from the medical
profession
Providence Hospital loses heavily on
each INDECENT it serves. But it is willing
to do this to maintain a high-quality
training program. Gallinger Hospital
admits per diem cost of $1175 per
INDECENT patient. Yet the District allows
only SO per diem to private hospitals
performing similar public service. Now
Providence is denied the right to service
indigents for taxpayers, even at the con-
siderable loss which the SO payment
occasions.
This arbitrary action by our local gov
ernment is crime against voteless tax
payers. The District refuses to tighten
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Mr.. Foy's Achievement

United States Attorney Fay'S prideful eX-
uberance over his clearcut victory in the Will
liam (snags) Lewis gambling case is pardonable.
Mr. Fay has reason to do some Growing For
Snags Lewis is the first big-shot gambling figure
in Washington to be convicted on gambling
charges since Sam Beard went to Atlanta Peni-
tentiary in 1885 And Snags was snagged at
last solely through the efforts of the United
States Attorneys ofice-not by any police action
Some of the better-known gamblers in the
Washington area have run afoul of the Federal
income tax laws in years past-the late Jimmie
LaFontaine being a prime example-but, as
Beard himself expressed it at a congressional
hearing in 1916, few have had any serious
brushes with the police" Sam told a Senate
committee at that time that he had been in the
professional gambling business here for 80 years
(Last year he told reporters he was in the pickle
business) The Davis subcommittee on District
crime expressed amazement and concern over
"the apparent ease with which notorious char
acters, known to the police and to the COM
munity to be professional gamblers, go about
unmolested." The committee reported that gam
blers who have had brushes with the police"
were "such small fry that the grand jury for
time declined to ndct more often than not and
referred the majority of such offenders to the
Municipal Court"
It was against such background of police
inactivity with respect to the so-called. kngpins
that Mr.. Fay launched his surprise grand jury
investigation of gambling and the series OF raids
in which Lewis and a number of his colleagues
were arrested. Lewis first trial gambling
conspiracy ended in hung jury. He interrupted
the second trial by pleading guilty to one count
of the indictment against him.
Perhaps the changed atmosphere since the
first trial had something to do with his decision
to throw in the sponge. The disclosures of wide
spread collusion between gamblers and law en-
forcement authorities in several cities by the
Kefauver committee have brought public de-
mands for breakdown on racketeers everywhere.
It is to Mr.. Fay's credit that he undertook his
anti-gambling campaign long before other cities
started their cleanup operations and he pressed
1t almost single -handedly. He has earned the
commentator of the community for his success.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
what is the something else"s Sheer muddle-

what is the something else? Sheer muddle-
headedness?
member of the Supreme Court is entitled
to respect. But MIR. Douglas, by injecting himself
into field that is really none of his business
as justice, and by doing it in way that does
not appeal to the intelligence, has invited some
thing less than an admiring reaction. The
propriety of his off -the-bench remarks would be
seriously open to question even if they were
sound. They certainly have added neither to
his own stature nor to the stature of the Ma
tion's highest tribunal, which is supposed to
hold itself aloof from the hurly-burly of domestic
and world politics. In some ways, his conduct
in this instance is family reminiscent of the time
when Henry Wallace, while Secretary of Com
merce, tried to uppercut and rabbit-punch the
State Department.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Justice Douglas on Foreign Policy

William O. Douglas associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, has sounded off
again in field where he has shown-at least
once before-an extraordinary lack of good
judgment Last summer, while touring the
Middle East he stirred up a lot of il-wil both
for himself and his country by presuming to
tell the Iranians, in sort of know-itall manner,
that they ought to wake up, make every peasant
landlord, and work out Trans destiny accord
ing to its own genius perhaps 10 per cent COM
munism, Is per cent capitalism and IS per cent
something else" And now, out in Tucson,
Arizona, he has taken it upon himself to cut
loose against American foreign policy.
Thus, as reported by the Associated Press,
Justice Douglas has told his Tucson listeners
that "if we continue our present foreign policy,
especially in ASIA If we continue in our present
direction, we are doomed to disaster" He has
told them that the Far East is in revolution
similar to our own American Revolution-"a
revolution that cannot be bought off with
dollars" He has told them, too that the people
out there have "a catalogue of specific COM
plants" (such as the absence of schools and
medical care) and that the United States never
has addressed itself to those complaints. Finally,
as free gift to the Kremlin propagandiStS, he
has had this to say: eve talk about democracy
and justice and at the same time we support
regimes in those countries whose object is to
keep both democracy and justice out of the reach
of the peasants for all time"
Justice Douglas remarks are so sweeping
and non-speciic that one must ask him some
questions. Precisely what kind of foreign policy
would he substitute for the one we are now
following in Asia? When he refers to buying
off revolutions with dollars, what is he talking
about?, How does he square that seemingly
Snide remark with the fact that the United
States played leading role, but not necessarily
wise one in Fastening the independence OF
lands like India, Indonesia and the Philippines,
and then lending or giving them money and
other types of aid? AS for the specific catalogue
of complaints" does he hold us responsible for
the conditions that have led to those complaints,
and has he looked twice at the Point -Four
program? And just what does he mean when
he says we support anti-democratic and unjust
regimes?
Does he mean that we should wash our
hands of the Bao Da government in Indo- China
and let Ho Chi-minh's Communists take over?
Does he mean that we ought to give up Korea
so the Reds can drag it behind the Iron Curtain
for the Kremlin? Does he mean, as far as
China is concerned that we should forthwith
dump Chang Kai-shek and cuddle up to Mao
Tse-tung, that great and non-aggressive "agrar-
ian reformer"? Does he mean, in short, that our
foreign policy "dooms to disaster" because
we have made up our minds not to permit the
Soviet Union to dominate and tyrannize the
whole of Asia? What is he talking about? II
he were running things, exactly how would he
run them? Would he run them with his formula
OF 40 per cent communism, Is per cent capital
Ism and rs per cent something else? And
Evening star., 1951-02-17
To the Editor Of The Star:

" Tie kUtUI VI US StOts
TN CONNECTION with the visit of
i Capt. Knight from England to this
country with his falcon, have wondered
why the revival of that sport would not
prove feasible and entertaining.
While falcons are not exactly house
pets, there. is no reason why they could
not be kept at golf clubs and country
clubs where their owners might find
pleasant exercise in walking over certain
fields with them. In proper season. it
seems to me, sport might be had in the
hunting of quail and rabbit.
I remember, years ago, being in Muk-
den in the autumn Walking in the fields
out of town one day. came across an
elderly Chinese who had a leather cuff
on his left forearm, on which was
perched medium-size bird Hanging
at his side was rabbit which his falcon
evidently had caught. should have
liked to have asked the old man many
questions about training and keeping
falcons, and on using them But un-
fortunately he could not talk my Ian
guage. nor did I know enough OF his
tongue to ask questions.
However, have for years retained the
idea that it seemed too bad that falconry
was permitted to disappear.
c. A. Seoone
Editors Note: The Star cannot, of
course, speak for Col Seoane's Chinese
falconer. But John M. Kaufman, one
of our reporters. has studied up on the
answers to some of the colonels ques-
tions. Here they are:
Once the sport of every European
gentleman-and still widely practiced in
the Orient and North Africa-falconry
has dwindled in Western lands to be-
come the hobby of handful of OUT
doorsmen. But Col. Seoane is mis-
taken-the sport has not disappeared.
Today's falconers are men with enough
leisure and patience to go through the
painstaking process of catching and
training hawks to respond to a human
master. They also are men with enough
financial means to maintain the equip
ment falconer needs, and to provide
the fresh-killed pigeons and other spe-
cial food hawk must eat.
Falconry-or. more broadly speaking,
haWking-dates from the dawn of history
as one Of the skilled methods man de-
veloped to hunt wild game. Hawks
OF various types have been used to hunt
everything from larks to deer. The
hawks pursuit of game from its masters
wrist is sport in which Scottish chief
tains. maharajahs and hungry Arab
tribesmen alike have delighted.
Falconry has been called the sport of
kings. One Of the leading works on the
subject is book by the Holy Roman En-
Evening star., 1951-02-17
ItWos Known as The Sport Of Xmas

captivity. They either are captured as
fledglings in the nests or trapped as
adult birds. Only the females are used
for falconry, as they are larger and
stronger than the males.
The training of hawks, accomplished
mainly through controlling their ap-
petiteS, Is demanding of both time and
skill A hood shutting out all light is
placed on an adult hawks head as soon
as she is caught and the trainer carries
her on his arm for hours at time,
stroking her feathers to tame her. and
teaching her the association between
food and the human voice. Slowly.
starting with dim candlelight. the falcon
is accustomed to periods without the
hood. She gets used to people, horses
and dogs. Finally the hawk is trained
to fly to lure. an object made to re-
semble bird, with meat attached to it.
The hawk henceforth always feeds from
the lure and will return to 1t when it
Is displayed.
In training fedglings, these are first
allowed their freedom, but are fed reg
ularly. They are recaptured. often with
difficulty, as soon as they show a tend
ency to stay away from the roost.
The invention Of firearms robbed fall
conry Of its great popularity in Europe,
for firearms offered comparable sport
for far less effort and money. America,
developed in the era of firearms, has
never known falconry as widespread
outdoor pastime.
What is more, some States now forbid
falconry. Many more require special
permits. The peregrine, most adaptable
and widely used falcon, known in this
country as the duck hawk, is strictly
protected in number of States.
But despite all of the circumstances
: that make hawking in this day and
age q difficult sport to follow, there
is loyal and active group who are
thoroughly in love with the ancient art
and like to fly their birds even when
there is little to hunt. There are several
falconers In the Washington area, in
cluding one man well known in falconry
circles, Tinsley Cunningham of Poto-
mac. Md, who maintains his falcons
in spite of the demands of business
in town.
Falconers generally keep to them
selves. They are not chubby. And every
man who keeps hawk is not fall
coner; the sport is far too complex and
demanding for the casual to qualify.
Mr.. Cunningham points out that falcon
ers do not buy and sell their birds.
They must trap them for themselves
He has special jeep and trapping gear
to obtain his own. His method Is a
secret.
Mr.. Cunninghams estimate of this
country's total Of serious falconers is
about 1907
Evening star., 1951-02-17
More Than a Crumb

This is the hour of hunger In my heart.
The body has been fed
Abundantly with food ,DeH serDed
The meat, the bread.
The heart cries piteously because OF hours
Through iDElich it has matted long;
1t asks intploringly for Just
A crnnb OF song.
He aDho turned mater into tDine for those
Unto ,Dedding come,
In time aDiH oiue my heart much more
Than the asked for crunb.
Rose Myra Phillips
Evening star., 1951-02-17
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.


O. What was the WARS of the Roses"
campaign?-C. c.
A. The campaign for governorshlp OF
Tennessee in 1886 between the two
brothers, Robert L. (Bob) Taylor. Demo-
crat, and Alfred A. tAlf) Taylor. Repuo-
lican. 1t was hotly contested but
sood-tempered campaign which ended in
victory for Bcb. ALT became Governor In
1921.
@. Who was known as the Bismarck
of Asia"?-W. G.
A. The famous Chinese diplomat Ii
Hung Chang was called the Bismarck
of Asia He died in 1901.
O. Is the "full Nelson" legal in pres
ent-day wrestling Pr. M. c.
A. A full Nelson is legal in profess
sional wrestling but is barred in amateur
wrestling.
@. How many parts are there in a
watch?-J. s. D.
A. An inexpensive watch has about
$50 parts, an expensive watch may have
UP to 800 parts.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
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Uriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

tops! It is as true today as when it was
first written to the President Of the
Congress on April 8. 1882. General
George Washington we'll knew that the
rights of no nation are secure unless it
has the means to defend them.
Ellen Rogers.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Letters to The Star

the taxpayers burden for hospitalized
indigents. The average hospital stay for
indigents at Providence is Ill days. It
is 15.4 days at Gallinger. This means
Providence is denied the right to serve
indigents at an average case-cost Of
$99.90 to the taxpayers. The District
Building bureaucrats insist that GAL
linger monopolize the care of indigents
at an average case-cost of $180.95.
In any place but voteless commu-
nifty the taxpayers would thank Provi-
dence Hospital for saving of $81 .05 per
INDECENT patient. The arrangement would
help Providence Hospital to maintain
its high-quality training program. Is
it too late for us to serve both justice
and intelligent self-interest?
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. d.
Firmness in the Right
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln recognized
the hard and bitter fact that the state
of the Nation was that of war. Nom
recognition of the fact might have post
poned the most tragic conflict in our
history. that between fellow-Americans;
it could not have prevented it; it might
very well have postponed it to day.
when it might have ended in defeat Of
the American Union.
We may not be standing in 1851 where
we stood in 1861, but we are standing un-
comfortably close to it. Nor will evasion
of the fact that Soviet Russia is waging
war on the United States save us from
the day of actual conflict. Honest and
courageous recognition of the fact may.
Faced by such recognition of the cam
paign. Soviet Russia Is waging by every
means short of actual war. and not short
Of these means in her employment of her
satellites in attacking U.S. it is very pos
sible Russia might change her policy.
But evasion of that fact encourages her
in continuance in it, and this evasion
may postpone the actual conflict to
day when it may end in our defeat.
There need not be war; firmness in
the right as the God of liberty loving
peoples gives them to see the right can
prevent that calamity, believe even at
this late hour But infirmity in that right.
it is my conviction, makes actual war
inevitable.
Eds.
eff we are wise let us prepare for the
worst. There is nothing which will so
soon produce speedy and honorable
peace as state of preparation for war;
and we must either do this or lay our
account to patch up an inglorious peace
after all the toll, blood, and treasure we
have spent"
Read that again. Who said it? Would
that it could be shouted from the roof
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Questions and Answers

The stars readers can get the answer to
any QUESTION Of fact by either Gd gGitins stIees ns
n W Washington 3, D. c. and inclosing = cents
return postage or by teephoning ST. 1855
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Protest

In your editorial of February 10, Light
on Peace Appeal" you appear to assume
that the Governments contention is
true. and that the Peace Information
Center was acting as publicity agent
for a foreign power. The Peace In
formation Center was in fact an infor-
nation clearing house on peace efforts
in the United States and throughout
the world.
The Progressive Party of the District
Of Columbia is shocked at the indict-
ment of DR.. W. e. B. Du Bois and the
other individuals who were connected
with the Peace Information Center. This
indictment is part of the whole pat
tern of the wide suppression now taking
place in our Nation. There should be
an end to these prosecutions and re-
turn to the democratic traditions of our
country.
Gertrude Evans,
Executive Secretary, Progressive Party
of the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Graham Is Confirmed
As u. n. Kashmir Aide
BY the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS. May 1.-The
Security Council yesterday con-
firmed former United States SEN
ator Frank p. Graham as United
Nations representative to India
and Pakistan in the Kashmir
dispute, despite Russian objec-
tionS.
The vote was to 0 with India,
the Netherlands, Russia and
Yugoslavia abstaining. India did
not vote because it is a party to
the dispute. Yugoslavia abstained
because of the resolution under
which DR.. Graham was named
and not. Delegate Ales Beble,
said, because of the personality
involved.
Under the Council resolution
the post of U. N. representative
DR.. Graham has the task of de-
militarizing the princely state Of
Kashmir in preparation for q
plebiscite to decide whether it will
join India or Pakistan.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Jacob A. Malik asked why was il
necessary to name United
States citizen and not a either
Of small or medium power. Nc
one put up any other name ane
Mr.. Malik stopped after remark.
ing that the world does mo-
seem to turn around the name o,
Graham alone"
Evening star., 1951-05-01

|ciation and gratitude to the many
countries which have helped us
in this matter. To the United
States of America, which has the
good fortune to have abundant
supplies and which has also pro-
vided us with ships for trans
port; to China. which, in spite
of its own needs. has already sent
us several shiploads and which
is going to send us more; to So
Wet Russia, which I hope will be
sending us wheat before long"
The Prime Minister did not spe-
Icif1cally mention the projected
United States grant, or loan, of
2 million tons of wheat, but OBJ
servers said he referred to it by
implication in saying:
While we welcome all the help
that we can get from foreign
countries. we have made 1t clear
that such help must not have po-
litical strings attached to it; any
conditions which are unbecoming
for self-respecting nation to ac-
|cept; any pressure to change our
domestic or international poll
icy"
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Senate Unit Approves
ID. c. Supplemental Fund

The Senate Appropriations
Committee. in acting on the pend
ing supplemental funds bill, yes
terday approved District Govern
ment items totaling 1922, 900 al
ready approved by the House.
The extra funds are for several
services, including care of District
patients at st. Elizabeths Hospital
and for various claims and judg-
ments and tax refunds.
The committee also wrote into
the bill new item Of 10000 tc
provide a coffee shop in the base
ment of the Senate office build
ing, to relieve the pressure on the
Senate restaurant.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
BY the As.eeiated Press

LOS ANGELES, May IA
cancer test claimed to be 98 per
cent accurate is near final de-
velopment after 16 years of re-
search says DR.. Harry S. Penn OF
the University of California at Los
Angeles.
DR.. Penn. in a report to the
Los Angeles Times, announced
that he and fellow researchers at
UCLA have produced a synthetic
extract which detects cancer when
put in a test tube with a persons s
blood sample.
UCLA has been conducting the
project in conjunction with the
Veterans Administration. In a
group of $500 patients at the
Sawtelle Veterans Hospital, the
test was reported negative for 99.5
per cent of normal persons and
positive for 98.6 per cent of those
afflicted with cancer.
DR.. Penn and his associates
would not disclose at this time
how their synthetic extract is
compounded, but it is known that
it is similar to the liver extract
with which previous tests were
conducted. Until recently the
test required a reagent depending
on the use of livers from person.
who had just died Of cancer.
The new substance, DR.. Penn
reported, can be produced from ar
organic compound of which there
lis an unlimited supply. and may
'|eyentually result in reducing the
.lextract cost of single test to 2s
lIcents.
The test consists mainly of plac.
sling a few drops of the synthetic
ltextract in a test lube containing
blood serum of the individual be.
ling tested. II the liquid turn.
milky, the person is cancer-free
Evening star., 1951-05-01

said the soldier was mot in any
condition to be moved when we
received him" They added they
doubted the family's well-meaning
efforts in bringing the soldier 450
miles in car had done him any
good.
Meanwhile, in Kansas City,
Mrs. Harry w. Petit. in an inter-
view with the Kansas City Star
said her son was smuggled from
Fort Leonard Wood by his soldier
buddies so he could get medical
treatment.
Mrs. Petit said her son. Pvt.
William Petit, 23. was so Ill he
could not walk when three buddies
carried him from his barracks
bunk and brought him to his home
in Kansas City last December o
Pvt. Petit was removed 20 Fort
Leavenworth. Kans.. Mrs. Petit
said, and received good treatment
On January 3 he was transferred
to the Army and Navy General
Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark,
where his condition has improved.
But he weighed only 118 pounds,
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Chinese Reds Accuse U. 5.
I0f Psychological War
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO. May 1.-The Red
China radio made the unsubstan-
tiated charge today that the
United States is waging bacteriol-
ogical warfare in Korea.
Peiping radio used the charge
in the Korean tongue on its prop
aganda broadcasts. It purported
to quote Allied war prisoners and
an American magazine. Weekly
Newspaper" as saying Chinese
Red prisoners were used for bac-
THEOLOGICAL experiments on q
small island outside Wonsan.
Wonsan. an east coast port, is
in Communist hands, but Allied
landings have been made in re-
cent months on offshore islands
The same broadcast, heard in
Tokyo. claimed that $4,000 British,
American and South Korean
troops have been "decimated" dur
ing the current Red offensive.