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Evening star., 1951-12-04
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweH

ten, Of course, is without a guide, how
ever celebrated.
Just take up one Of her plain stories.
about ordinary people, whose adven-
lures are not much, and read it.
If the December mood is upon you,
and the day is chill. as it probably will
be "a prophecy almost any one can
make) the fragrance of these old stories
will enter your blood through the mental
circulation.
1t is impossible to read these novels
without smelling things. the growing
shrubs of the English countryside, and
seeing the birds, too, though as far as
we can recall she never spoke of birds
The birds are there. because they had
to be there, in the scene In which her
characters walked. And they were always
walking, when they weren't riding in
the carriage.
What carriage riders they were! This
was Jane Austen's way of making them
good folk of some standing. She had
little regard for other kinds. Maybe
she had something there. The revolt of
the masses, as Ortega called it, has left
something lacking. What 1t is the
reader will find in Jane Austens novels.
Today we have the universal idiocy
In our novels Of the too plain word.
Some good stories are spoiled by
many readers by close adherence to
language as 1t is spoken by roughnecks.
The stage went through this period,
now it Is the novels.
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James Farrell was way ahead of them
on this. In the pages of Gas House
McGinty" he poured it on. A far cry
from gentle Jane, indeed!
One of the finest things about her
pleasant novels is just that, that they
are pleasant, in scene and character
and talk.
Any one can hear smutty words, and
too many put them down in novels.
There is no need for it. Dumas told
as good story as ever was told, and
SO did Dickens, to say nothing Of Henry
James.
Art draws the line.
Where the line is drawn, We have art;
where it is not, we have vivid docu-
ment, but 1t is not art. It is something
else.
Jane Austen is art, in a simple way,
and there is no need for any reader to
be ashamed of her because she did
not fly too high. She stayed on the
ground, and wrote about what she knew
best. No doubt that is why her books
are still cherished and read, and when
literally hundreds of thousands of "best
sellers" have had their day and are
forgotten.
Today there is growing movement
to make criminals of us all. Every one
feels it, and the public records testify to
it. We can counteract this II we read
good books, and when we speak Of good
books we must speak Of Jane Austen's,
because they are good.
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Time for q Chance
Franklin T. Miles.

1t seems that the time Is right for a
change from politics to an era of right
eous justice. But the proper change, I
think, will require change Of men. Did
our country ever produce men who held
Righteousness above paltry personal in
terests? Have we never had men who
were convinced that they must be loyal
to two worlds? am sure that we have
had and do now have such leaders, if
we will but call upon them.
From parental instruction and from
history, know that the first Governor
of Ohio was that type of man. Soon
after the State was formed there were
more colleges and universities within its
borders than there were in the remain
der of the United States combined.
Duncan Macarthur made good start
for the State of Ohio as its first Gov
ernor. And Douglas MacArthur-well
you have heard him speak often in 1851.
If invited. he might accept. Try him!
It was Lowell who wrote: Truth for
ever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on
the throne: Yet that scaffold sWays the
future. and behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow, keep
ing watch above his own" THIS.
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To Meet q Coal SHORTAGE

With the winter coming on, not the least
OF Western Europe's problems is a shortage of
coal. Even Britain, which in times past has
produced enough of the fuel for profitable ex-
port, has seriously inadequate supply. The
result is that all the countries affected must
import from us. Otherwise their defense pro-
duction would have to be curtaled and large
segments of their populations would shiver in
heatless homes. ...
To meet this situation provisions have
already been made, in connection with the
Mutual Security Program, for the export of mil
lions of tons of our coal in the weeks ahead.
But this total in the opinion of some experts,
will not be sufficient to fill the prospective gap
between supply and demand in both the civilian
and rearmament fields. According to mixed
committee representing the United Mine Work.
ers Of America and the operating companies,
heavy additional shipments are needed for that
purpose7an increase that cannot be handled
Evening star., 1951-12-04

This is the month of my dear Jane"
as some one called the author of Pride
and Prejudice"
Somehow her old stories of simple
people go better in December than any
other month.
They are quiet tales. they read well
by a fireside.
They come down to us from quieter
age, when people seldom prided them
selves on their pep"
They still have something to say to
us, and say it best this month. perhaps.
On the market now are excellent
editions of Sense and Sensibility,"
Emma" and Mansfield Park"
Not every one liked them when they
were published, but Sir Walter Scott
did. Sir Walter said that this young
lady can do better than all of US"
Theodore Roosevelt as might have
been expected, had no use for the gentle
Jane.
Perhaps such an advocate Of pep"
could not have had the right mental
approach to stories that did not depend
upon swashbuckling.
At any rate, he did not like Jane
Austen's stories, and said so.
So take your choice. Believe Scott.
who could turn a good tale himself,
or believe Teddy" whose Winning Of
che West" still remains a splendid af-
fering.
The best way to approach Jane Aus
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around the front and two sides of the
house. This door was thick. six-paneled.
and had a square glass transom above
it. This was the home of the head mas
ter of private boys school. We never
knocked unless our older sister was with
us. She sometimes called on the school
masters young lady daughter. The
family owned large mastif and he
seemed always to be lying in the front
hall when we called. The young lady
and her mother would show us into the
musty parlor. where we would sit quietly
staring at the dog, who stared back.
blinking slowly as if he were bored.
Occasionally Mrs. Roller would ask us
a question and we would politely answer.
"yes man," or mo man." as the case
warranted. After the servant brought
in little cakes and tiny glasses of home
made blackberry wine, we would take
our departure. The big dog, getting up
very stiff1y and scratching his toe nails
on the polished floor, would follow us
to the front steps and watch us until we
were out of sight.
Next was another paneled. window
bordered door, with little porch and
inviting benches on the two sides. This
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unless action Is taken now to arrange for such
things as more cargo vessels.

unless action Is taken now to arrange for such
things as more cargo vessels.
The mixed committee-whose membership
includes John L. Lewis, the UNIV chief-has
therefore taken the initiative in approaching the
Government with plan designed to solve the
problem. Aimed at increasing the projected
shipments to minimum of SO million tons, the
plan apparently depends chiefly on whether or
not enough vessels can be made available on
time. If they can-and Mr.. Lewis is reported to
be weighing the possibility of having the UNIV
invest in Liberty ships-then there should be no
great difficulty in supplying Western Europe
with the coal it needs while it strives to step up
its own output.
Up to now the plan has not been revealed
in detail, but its broad outline is persuasive.
If it can be made to work, it will have the double
virtue of Cd providing the miners and operators
with more employment and sales and (2) en-
abling our friends abroad to satisfy civilian
needs and prevent cutbacks in defense produc-
tion. Certainly, If it will do that. if its opera
ton would be practical and economically sound,
it should be adopted without delay.
Evening star., 1951-12-04
To the Editor Of The Stor:

e. EVERAL weeks ago, as was driving
~ through the country, I saw house
by the side Of the road which had rec
emily been remodeled. was impressed
with the doorway which was draped
with little white stoop with two small
pillars. 1t gave pleasing and an in
viting appearance to the otherwise plain
building. Later I began to think of
doorWays and how important they are
to any building. A modest house or an
ornate mansion; the neighborhood store
or a great business building; bank or
a cathedral-for whatever purpose a
house is erected. it would be only
tomb or monument to the dead with
out doorway. My mind travelled back
over the years as thought of the doors
I was familiar with in my childhood,
and the experiences which were ours
when we entered those doors.
Our nearest neighbors were an elderly
couple, and Mr.. Sullivan was tall, quiet
man. We children fetched their mail
from the mile-away post Office each
day when we went for our own. They
lived in big, white house with a very
large, four-paneled door painted a dull
yellow and full of tiny cracks. Mr.. Sui
livan would answer our knock, take the
mail and invite us in with great dignity
We would sit stiffly in high-back chairs,
ask after Mrs. Sullivan's rheumatism
and how many flies Mr.. Sullivan had
killed that day with his handmade
swatter. The Sullivans always kept a
paper bag of peppermint lozenges and
we were rewarded with two each. After
this we would leave, trying to be as
dignif1ed as Mr.. Sullivan.
The next door was in the big, red
brick house on the hill two farms away.
In the center of large porch with
steps, banisters and heavy posts, 1t was
six-paneled with semicircular fan lights
above. It was sure to be opened by one
of the rollicking twins. Bruce or Bernice.
our playmates. Their mother would
give us homemade cookies and ask us
what time our mother said we must
return home. After respectfully telling
her we could visit for 20 or 80 minutes.
we would look at some picture books.
slide down the winding stair rail in the
hall and play with the twins, perhaps
counting the horse chestnuts they had
picked up in their front yard. We would
hear Mrs. Jordan's rather stern reminder
that it was time for us to bring our visit
to a close.
The next door remember was in a
great. sprawling. yellow house with a
tree -bordered lane leading to the porch
which was two stories high and was built
Evening star., 1951-12-04
New Gambling Squod

Pollce Inspector LutZ, new chief of the gam
bling squad, is right. The headquarters gambling
squad needs new ideas, methods and faces"
Promised free hand in his difficult Job, In
spector Lutz wisely has decided to start out with
complete new slate of Investigators With old
Ideas, old methods and old faces he might have
1ouno himself making no more progress than his
predecessors. Failure of the old squad to dis
tlngulsh itself in the field of anti-gambling en-
1orcement does not, of course, mean that its
members were corrupted or lazy Inspector Lutz
mas done well to make that clear But the
fact is that the old squad has had little success
at the task 1t was assigned to do and hence it
should not be surprised that another squad will
be given chance to see what it can do.
A number of the former members had been
attached to the squad for long time Some of
them mad done good work in digging up evil
dence against gamblers. Most of these had been
small fry, however AS the Davis Crime Com
mittee pointed out, there is need for effective
police action against the big shots behind the
numbers and race rackets in Washington Some
OF the big shots, the committee noted, have been
on too-friendly terms with some police officials
MAJOR Murray and Inspector Lutz are not among
the latter. They undoubtedly will take pains to
NIL the gambling squad with men whose faces are
not familiar to the professional gamblers and
whose methods of operation also are unfamiliar
10 them. Such squad, under aggressive leader
ship OF the type that Inspector Lutz may be
expected to give it, should be able to shatter the
charmed existence which the House committee
said some notorious gamblers have been enjoy
ing here.
Evening star., 1951-12-04
Pen-nan1es may be used if letters carry
Ur1ters correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Linda Mcclure Woods

the control of it's school board elections
by leading educators" however, Arling-
ton has clearly shown a disabling de-
feet in the elected school board plan
which may or may not become similarly
true of school board elections in Mont
gomery County.
1t seems that the National Education
Association stepped in and assumed die
tatorial control of nominations for Ar
hngton's school board. This NEA outfit
is pretty firmly entrenched in Montgom-
cry County, SO the question naturally
arises-Will the NEA also be able to
make mockery Of the intent and pur-
pose Of county control of its own schools
by elected board members? This ques-
tionable National Education Association
will do it's utmost to see that only one
worlders. socialist do-gooders and other
spineleSs and doubtful individuals are
nominated. OF course, Montgomery's
Superintendent Broome, a majority of
the present board members and the
NEA-controlled PTAs will cooperate in
MEAS plan. Whether or not such a ne
farious scheme succeeds will depend
upon the informed voice of sincere and
determined parents and voters of Mont
gomery County.
Montgomery County's educational fu-
ture may well be determined by the
forthcoming school board elections,
which will definitely establish whether
MEAS political action committee shall
dictate board members or if county
voters will assert themselves by electing
reliable and capable members to their
own school board.
Franklin T. Miles.
Evening star., 1951-12-04
More Steel for Schools

The increased ALLEGATION of structural steel
for schools for the first quarter of 1852 will
greatly accelerate the tagging school construc-
tlon program in the Washington METROPOLITAN
Area. While the total additional tonnage which
Will come to local school systems is still un-
determined, there are evidences already of
generous allotment of steel to this area
Washington for example, has Just been noti-
ned that all of its six applications for steel
for school construction have been approved by
the Defense Production Administration The 20
signal was given for six additions to present
schools to cost total of over 81 million. Latest
applications approved were for steel needed
10 ould additions to the Francis Junior High
and Keene Elementary Schools.
Arlington County has received word that
1t can 60 head with it's S25 million Wakefield
Junior-Senior High School, badly needed in the
southern section of the congested county The
ALLEGATION of steel necessary for this project was
made by Federal authorities concident with the
announcement of the decision to increase the
national ALLEGATION of steel for schools from
$4,000 to 111,000 tons for the first three months
of next year Arlington previously had been
granted steel for four new primary schools This
leaves only two pending school construction
projects in Arlington without steel. Both involve
small additions to present schools. More schools
are planned, however, and more priorities will
ne needed later to carry out this program
Fairfax County has just been notified of steel
ALLEGATIONS for two more schools bringing to IS
the number of projects for which steel priorities
have been granted. This leaves only one old
application untitled, but four new applications
were filed yesterday-hopefully There are
nearly 80 more school projects on the countys
long-range program, but some are still only in
the planning stage. Future availability of steel
for schools will determine the actual progress
made on this program Alexandria needs steel
for an elementary school TO replace two old
buildings. Falls Church is said to have the steel
needed for pending projects Montgomery
County has received steel for 26 new schools or
additions and for IL out of 13 jobs already
begun. Prince Georges County has enough steel
promised for nine immediate projects, but will
need good deal more for buildings still being
planned.
On the record to date, DPA is giving due
recognition to the fact that Greater Washington
Is an emergency area" deserving of special
attention in the apportionng of scarce structural
steel among the Nations schools. For their part
school authorities should use great care in
stretching the allotments as far as possible
through wider use of reinforced concrete con-
struction and similar measures. It must be kept
In mind that the steel shortage may grow worse
before it grows permanently better.
Evening star., 1951-12-04
Explanation

She was so grateful to her plants for
bloom
Narcissus petals sending, day and night,
Unearthly incense, delicate and light,
Like bridal s1Deetness in the living room.
The patterns that her trailing iuieS made.
Sott-Shado,0ed on her kitchen t1indoaD-
sill,
These pere like melodies Which through
the still Sc,
Snow- laden hours were softly, gently
played.
1t sounded childish phen she tried to say
The place 1Uas old, she knep. but she
1DaS, too,
And she had started here. The children
greiD
To manhood here, and left-yet In a way
They stayed. 1t sounded foolish to
explain
These things But no ones purse con-
tanned sum
TO buy all this. She could not sell and
come:
As long as she could breathe, she must
virginio Scott Miner.
Evening star., 1951-12-04
Each Door q Childhood Adventure

was the minister's house and q knock
brought one or all Of the minister's four
children. The minister was usually away
or in his study, but the children's mother
welcomed us and asked after our mother.
We always had a grand visit with the
people who lived behind this door. The
minister's children would have lots of
interesting things to tell uS-perhapS
about their new sunbonnets and pima
fores. or that they had given some of
their outgrown clothes to the tenant
farmers children or that they had been
promised trip to the circus when 1t
came. When the big balm-of -Gilead
tree in their yard was in bloom we
could pick some of the lovely blossoms
or we could swing on Mr.. Garrison's big
wooden gate near the minister's yard.
Sometimes their mother would take us
to the springhouse and give us glass
Of cool, fresh buttermilk.
The next door we knocked on only
once each year. It was simple door
on the side of the house. for our play
mates mother was an invalid and could
tering by the front. This house was
far back from the road, and we, usually
walked through the church yard and
through fields to reach it. Juliet and
her big sister attended Mrs. Boards
Seminary with us and once a year
Juliet gave her schoolmates party. We
all dressed in our best and our mothers
each sent present to Juliet. Her father
and sister and their cook served US
cake and custard, ice cream and home
made candy. We would quietly play
London Bridge. or charades, or pin the
tail on the donkey. Then we would all
speak to the sick lady and ask after her
health. look at Juliet's dolls. and de-
part solemnly and quietly through the
same side door.
There are many other doors which I
remember, but the one of my dearest
memory is the plain little door of my
mothers room. When, in later years, I
grew up and would be away from home
for weeks or months and then return
for visit, knew that when knocked
and opened this door, would find the
dear, little lady, seated in her low rock
ing chair, reading her Bible or the daily
paper. If she was reading one, the
other was sure to be near at hand.
The greatest door of all, however, is
one which all Christians know. The
Christ said: II am the door: BY me
if any man enter in, he shall be saved
and shall go in and out and find pas
ture
Linda Mcclure Woods
Evening star., 1951-12-04
Another Incident

TasS the official Soviet news agency, has
now revealed that Communist Hungary is holding
the four-man crew of the American Air Force
plane-a CAT tranSport-that disappeared No
vember 10 on flight from Germany to Yugo-
slavia. In response to this, the State Department
has announced that it will take Immediate
action" to bring about the crews release, but
there is more than little reason to doubt
that the Kremlins puppet Budapest regime
will cooperate.
This is so because the Russian version of
the incident charges that the plane deliberately
violated Hungarian territory and that when it
landed, after having been forced down by Soviet
fighters, it was found to contain equipment de-
signed to help "spies and saboteurs" behind the
Iron Curtain. Wholly apart from evidence that
the Budapest puppets would like to blackmail
the United States into returning certain property
that they claim. the Tass charge suggests that
the crew of four Americans may yet find them
selves the center of big propaganda trial"
comparable to Robert Vogeler's.
At any rate. it seems significant that Tass
has raised the issue of Espionage" and sabotage"
on the basis of the fact that the downed plane
carried blankets parachutes maps and por-
table radio Actually, according to the State
Department, such items constitute standard
emergency equipment in our Air Force. That
consideration however is not likely to deter
the Communists if they are determined to stage
some sort of propaganda show Nor are they
likely to be deferred by arguments that the
CAT was off course by mistake and that the
United States certainly would not fly openly into
well-guarded territory, thus inviting intercept
ton, in any effort to help "spies and saboteurs"
In the circumstances, assuming that Moscow
wants to make big to-do about the matter,
it is improbable that the Hungarians will soon
release the captive Americans. If this is the
case, the incident-coupled with the Soviet
shooting down Of one Of our Navy bombers over
the Sea of Japan on November 6-is bound to
add further to the grave tensions now straining
the uneasy peace between our world and the
Kremlins.