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Evening star., 1951-11-17
Top-Heoviness at the Pentoqon

The disclosure that there are almost as many
generals and admirals in Washington today as
there were at the height of World War II is sur
prising to put it mildly 1t is hard to understand
why the ratio of high-ranking officers to total
armed strength should be so much higher now
than it was il. i945. when we were engaged in all
out warfare in Europe, Asia and the Pacific
Ocean areas. Then, with more than II million
men under arms, there were 397 generals and
admirals stationed in Washington and vicinity;
today there are 361 generals and admirals here,
although our armed strength is under 3.5 mil
lion men.
Chairman Lyndon Johnson of the Senate
Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee,
citing the ratios in an interim report, has called
on Defense Secretary Lovett to review the stua-
ton and report his findings and recommended
tions. The subcommittee suggests that the study
be extended to include the number of civilian
employees of the Defense Department in WASH
ington, which also is approaching the 1945 peak
of 9S071. The inquiry will be worth while if it
results in the transfer of even small numoer
of top-evel officers to duties more in accord with
command rank
There are several possible explanations for
what Senator johnson calls the administrative
top-heaviness" at the Pentagon. The end of
World War II and the subsequent rapid demob-
ization of the combat forces left the Army Navy.
Marine Corps arc Air Force (then the Army Air
Corps with disproportionately high number
of generals and admirals, to say nothing Of
colonels, Navy captains and lesser officers. Uni
fication with its creation of separate Air Force
increased the number of air generals. The return
of most reserve officers to inactive duty eased the
overload in all the services but the problem Of
finding suitable assignments for regular officers
of high rank-especially those whose combat
achievements merted recognition rather than
demotion-was d tough one. There were good
many retirements-but Congress itself discour-
aged this pruning method in the case of younger
officers. Furthermore, the developing cold war
which grew hot in Korea, and the resultant
demands for substantial increase in our armed
forces raised question as to how much further
the reduction in the list of high-ranking officers
could wisely be carried. ALI these factors must
be considered in studying the "top-heaviness"
described by the subcommittee But whatever
the causes oil the condition, serious effort
should be made to bring the ratio of top officers
to men into more realistic proportions-or else to
justify the unprecedented peacetime concentra-
tion of higher officers in Washington.
Evening star., 1951-11-17
Censorship in Korea Atrocious, Too

ours. Almost invariably, our Official
spokesmen" give detailed accounting of
enemy losses-while they either report
"al United Nations planes returned
safely" or are strangely silent.
The tragic fact is that such reports
are as false as they are improbable. The
old field artillery claw of probable er-
ror" repudiateS such fabrications, and
common sense denies them credence.
One bold land apparently brash) radio
correspondent broadcasting recently
from the scene of action in Korea has
stated unequivocally that our air losses
for some weeks have exceeded those Of
the enemy. Whether this can be SUBJ
stantiated or not would not say. but
it stands to reason that American read
ers are not getting accurate casualty
figures from the front.
What could be the reason or excuse for
such reprehensible tactics and such lack
of regard for the American people, who
are furnishing 80 per cent of the man.
power and bearing almost all of the (So-
r-undisclosed) cost of this sorry effort
to justify an already discredited policy
of Communist containment" viii it
help our "policymakers" to win their
point by carrying American boys on Of
fetal lists as missing in action" for
months on end-and then suddenly re-
veal that they were "atrocity victims"
long ago? Does it soften the blow for
worried loved ones back home, to give
them false hopes-and then crush them
with one blow?
Why is the United Nations so strangely
silent and inactive, when any one with
common sense knows the only way to
win an<armed struggle is to strike with
enough force to bring victory? Why do
our peace ENJOYS" argue for weeks on
end about agendas and "cease-flre lines
while daily more American youths
climb among the barren Korean hills
never to return? Will we win anything,
. above all, by brazen censorship, which
f1outs the very principles of democracy
we are supposed to be defending?
Edword R. Eeeer
Evening star., 1951-11-17
irresponsible Motorists

No thinking person could disagree
with the heading of your editorial They
Should Be Held Accountable" But the
text advocates only partial remedy in
dealing with irresponsible motorists. The
whole approach in Maryland, Virginia,
and the District Smacks completely of
latching the proverbial barn after the
pilferage, The crying deficiency in the
plan under consideration is that the en-
tire question Of financial responsibility
in accidents does not arise until after the
happening Of an accident. Obviously,
it ought to be settled before the accident
happens. D
The only State, to my knowledge,
handling the personal injury problem
properly is Massachusetts,. There, as to
personal injury, they have what is called
the compulsory insurance" law. The
automobile cannot be registered until
the owner files proof. as part of his
registration application, that he is COW
cred by insurance in an approved COM
pany for five and ten limits. Constitu-
tionality is maintained because he is not
actually compelled to buy insurance; he
may put up $4,000 collateral instead.
Bad drivers are thereby eliminated by
refusal OF insurance companies to write
the required certificate. The owner,
when refused insurance. has an appeal
to board of insurance appeals: if de-
feated there, he has judicial review by
single justice of the equivalent of our
Circuit Court; but no jury trial. The
insurance companies, Of course Coop
crate with one another by means of
central index of bad drivers: or owners
whose cars are customarily driven by bad
drivers. Those companies which try
to grab easy premium money by under
writing the subStandard risks soon see
the error of their ways in their claims
payments Rates are uniform, promul-
gated by the insurance commissioner
after due notice and public hearing.
Property damage is handled differ
emily. more like it is locally The in
jured party must sue and win. If his
Judgment is not paid within go days,
he files it, and form of complaint with
the motor vehicle authorities. Notice is
sent. allowing another specified number
OF days Upon its expiration, the de-
fendant's license is suspended, and can
not be returned until the plaintiff files
a release or acknowledgment of salts
faction.
In case the District fathers consider
ing this matter are unfamiliar with the
Massachusetts, law, it would be well worth
their careful study, before merely patch
ing up weakness in the present law.
/ submit that the situation needs some
thing more radical than mere mending:
1t needs scrapplng. and the enactment
OF new and genuinely protective law.
The present law permits too many death
and serious injury cases to 60 unrec-
ompenSed.
Thoughtful.
Evening star., 1951-11-17
New Approach to KremIin

The price of peace is intelligent sacri-
flee. Part of that price is obvious: We
can finance the huge arms expansion
necessary to deter aggression only by
heavy taxes shortages, postponement
of legitimate wage demands
Part is less obvious but equally essen
tial. We must sacrifice all hope of quick
results in the struggle for human rights
President Truman stated: "If the gov
ernment of the Soviet Union wants to
make progress toward peace :. it can
refrain from employing force to main
tain in other countries regimes which
Evening star., 1951-11-17
Letters to The Star

do not command the support of their
people"
Inevitably the twisted minds in the
Kremlin interpret this as an implied
threat that if they refuse to dismember
their huge empire and free the satellites.
we may when fully armed force them
to do so.
This redoubles their temptation to
strike before we can be ready At the
very least it makes them less amenable
to disarmament. Our unequivocal dis
aVowal of any such threat would con-
stitute an intelligent sacrifice of some
immediate aims in the interest of peace.
1t would not prejudice our ultimate aim
OF freedom and justice for all
Robert S. Field.
Vineland NJ j.
Evening star., 1951-11-17
Official Junkets

A stranger scanning our newspapers
would form the opinion that our country
is in tip top shape. otherwise our leaders
could not desert their posts to go junket-
ing all over the world-from the Presi-
dent down the line. Bradley, Lovett, Pace,
and the majority of Congress All are
Vacationing under the pretext of business
A new procedure has been inagurated
recently. the better halves accompany
their husbands, doubling expense on the
taxpayer.
Would Lincoln have found time for
vacation while the cream of our youth
was under fire? No indeed. The Great
Emancipator would not have slept until
he found solution and had control of
the situation.
Fashioned American.
Evening star., 1951-11-17
Closed Amusement Park

All haue departed; noU there is no sound
Where recently rang cEildren's shouts
and laughter.
No,o silence. ,otere feet sang along the
ground
With friends or parents trailing closely
after.
The carrousel lies pale beneath its top,
The horses frozen In their apooden
track
Mid-air, their journey halted as they
stop
Bet,Deen the going and the turning
back.
1'he ferris wteel, the dip, loom still and
dark, arr
Their fhgree etched on the moon-
1UGSted sky,
ere phanton,s now. The closed
amusement park
Sleeps like the Cyclops ioith a single
eye.
FIere is ghost totpn, desolnte and stark,
Where epen the Dt1d shudders and
hurries by.
Moe WinkIer Goedmon.
Evening star., 1951-11-17
Questions and Answers
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

Inc Stals reaoers can get the answer TO
any question Of fact by either writing The
Evening Star Information Bureau. 1900 street
NV, washington D. c.. and inclosinR cents
return postage or by telephonnE ST. 1853.
By THE HASKIN SERVICE
@. Who posed for the young Christ
in Hunts Finding of Christ in the
Temple?"-M. r.
A. Hunt visited all the Jewish schools
in London. He finally found lad in
the school at Red Lion Square whom he
used as the model.
@. President Wilson accepted but one
foreign decoration. What was It?
e. P. B.
A. The Order of the White Eagle, Of
Poland.
O. Is the word contents" singular or
pural?-M. N.
A. 1t is plural. If a container holds but
one thing. one should say "the content
is;" if more than one. "the contents are."
Evening star., 1951-11-17

opera companies and other chamber
groups and increase public apprecia-
ton of music, so that more people will
venture into "classical' composition.
This, not suppression Of enemy"
music is the American way.
Wilfred G. ROuleau.
Evening star., 1951-11-17

Pen-nanaes may be used if letters carry
1Driters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
FISHERS DISTRICT
Mrs. Nora Rust

The W. S. c. S. of Todd's Church
will serve a fried chicken with es-
callOped oysters supper on We'd
nesday evening, October II, from
5 to 8 p. m. in Todd Community
Building for donation of $1.25 for
adults and Csc for children. Every
one come out and help the w. S.
C. S.
We wish to correct a misprint in
last weeks issue which stated Staff
Sergeant Robert L. Baker expected
to come back to the States in Jan
uary 1851. Staff Sergeant Baker
hopes to return back home in jan
uary, 1862. A big welcome, Rob-
ert.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Kratz were re-
cent Wilmington visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Faulk of Phil
adelphia spent the last two weeks
vacatiOning at their home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. GOotie Brown and
Rev. and Mrs. Alden Hopkins spent
Saturday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Elwell of Milford, to
help Mr.. Elwell celebrate his 18th
birthday. All enjoyed the delicious
birthday cake, ice cream and can
dy served by the hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Morris are
entertaining relatives from Virgin
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
DAGSBoRo
By Mrs. EssIe Hickman

Cynthia S. Reynolds returned to
Hackensack, N. J., on Saturday af-
ter spending two weeks at her
home. She was called home because
Of the illness of her mother, MIS-.
Stella B. Reynolds.
Mrs. Sanford Thomas accompan-
led her mother, Mrs. Stella B. Rey-
nolds to Bridgeton, N. j., on Sun
day. Mrs. Reynolds will spend the
winter in BridgetOn and Hacken-
sack, N. J.
Bennie E. Timmons returned
home the past week after under
going an operation at a hospital
in Baltimore. He is much inn
proved and able to be out.
The community extends its sim
cere sympathy to the family of
Lonnie Adkins in the loss of their
wife and mother.
Mrs. Wilson McCabe is i'll at this
writing.
Misses Deana and Ruthann Hitch
ems of MillsborO, spent the week.
end with Mr.. and Mrs. William E
Gray.
Weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar L. HOrner were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Hill, Sr., and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Hill, Jr., of Salem,
N. J. Sunday guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Mitchell and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lambert Newkirk of Bridge
ton, N. j. Mr.. and Mrs. Ward F.
Daisey of Bayard called Sunday
evening.
Little Sharon Long, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Long is
improved after being very i'll the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Hudson spent
the past week in Philadelphia with
their daughters, Mrs. Christ Weiss
and Mrs. George Westerman.
We extend our deepest sympathy
to Mrs. Woodrow Steen in the loss
of her father, George Cannon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Millard West and
daughters were dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. William West OH
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Jackson
left Saturday morning for a ten
day vacation in Tennessee.
Mr.. and Mrs. OrVille Dukes were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. YOlley John
son last Sunday.
John M. Hudson met the misfOr-
tune Monday morning while paint
ing for his ladder to slip, causing
him to fall and break his collar
bone.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12

ia for an indefinite time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Holliger
and children Of wildwood, N. j.,
were weekend guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Stubbs and family of
Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dearman
and mother, Mrs. Margaret Dear
man and Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Rust
spent Saturday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Willis Rust of Farming
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Rhodes and
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Faulk were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Lun-
dell on Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Russell were
supper guests of their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Neil
Russell of Harrington on Tuesday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Rust were
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgell
Coates of Harrington on Sunday.
Don't forget the date, October IL,
on Wednesday-delicious fried chic
ken and escallOped oysters. Sounds
good, doesn't it? Well, just come
on out and help yourself!
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12

One hundred twenty-five tic
kets we're sold at Selbyville
station on Sunday morning for
the excursion to Philadelphia.
SOS
]. Gideon Roberts of Ocean
View and Miss Elizabeth Gar
celOn of Plant City, Florida,
were quietly married on Sun
day evening by the Rev. C. c.
DerIicksOn.
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L. F. Hubbard of Bridgeville,
has recently completed the
erection of one addition to his
blacksmith shop, enlarging it
to about twice the original
size.
Mrs. Florence Banning,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. H.
Elliott and j. B. Fleming of
Harrington. were quietly mar
ried in Philadelphia, on Sep
tember 21st. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fleming will make their home
in Harrington.
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Deputized Deputy Great PO-
eahontas Lizzie Woodruff and
her team of 18 trailed through
the hunting grounds Of Milford
and raised the chiefs of Ionic
Council, No. 13, on Monday
night.
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The DOdson Cannery of Mil
ton, is labelling tomato pulp,
preparatory to shipment to city
markets.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12

William NJ. Foord has given to
Milton Gun Club a trophy to
be awarded to the member of
the club with the highest aver
age in six monthly shoots to
be started this month. To be
a contestant, one must be a
member of Milton Gun Club.
SOC
Miss Amy Culver of Delmar
has accepted the position in
the First National Bank of that
town, made vacant by the sesig-
nation of Mrs. William Draper,
who, with her husband, is now
living in Brooklyn, N. Y.
eos
Wilson SOckrider, a local
Milford schoOlboy, took a trip
to Florida with Clarence
'Welch and William Derrickson.
The boys visited many of the
southern cities, the farthest
south being Miami, Florida.
The. car in which they went
was owned by Mr.. Welch, a
bOOkkeeper for MulhOlland's
Spoon Factory, and a graduate
from the Milford High School.
James L. Polk, Of Merchant
vile, N. j., was a recent visi-
tor in Georgetown. He is at
present employed as the New
Jersey editor of the Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin. During
his bOynood he frequently visit
ed his uncle. the late Theodore
A, Polk. for many years a mer-
chant Of Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
Thirty Years Ago.

Taken from the October 7, 1921 lssu
Amos G. Bennett, of Milford,
has bought ten acres of land
located on the State Highway,
known as the Deputy Land,
and will build a bungalow for
his own use at once.
The Milford New Century
Club will resume weekly meet
ings on Monday at $3.50 p. m.
at the New Century Club house,
with the president. Mrs. S. C.
Evans, Jr., presiding.
Delaware will be represented
at the burial of Americas un-
known soldier in Arlington
Cemetery on Armistice Day by
a delegation including one Off
cial representative for the 10,-
600 men and women of the
State who participated in the
World War and representatives
of each of the veterans associa-
tions. Governor Denney will
make the selection for Della
ware.
The consumers of electricity
in Milford are paying for their
current this week by meter
system, for the first time since
the plant was built years ago.
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Lingo and Roach of Rehoboth
Beach have gone in the auto
mobile business and have Sc
cured the agency for the Ford
Motor COmnanV
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
Twenty Years Ago.

AIKEN from the October 9, 1881 lssu
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Webb of
Houston, left on Monday morn
ing for a trip through New
York State and parts of Can
ada. They expect to be gone
about ten days.
sos
Toledo Tingle, son of Con-
stable and Mrs. Lemuel d.
Tingle, of Frankford, cut his
foot with a fodder knife. The
wound was such that he has
been unable to work for sew
eral days.
Charles Aydelotte Of Phila-
delphia, is having a new mOd.
ern home built at the intersec-
tiOn Of the Selbyville and Mil
vile roads. Well, another new
home in the village of Clarks-
vile is welcome.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mitch
ell, of Laurel, are being con-
graduated on the birth Of a
daughter in Emergency Hos
pital on September Both.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mayhem
are being congratulated these
days on the birth of Harry, Jr.,
in Marshall Hospital on OctO-
Der 9Th.
A Forest Fire tower, 100
feet high, is being erected on
the John Lindal land about two
miles east of Glendale and
near the Ellendale-Milton Road.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
Ten Years Ago.

Taken from the October 10, 1s4t lssu
Margaret D. Sharpley, Presi-
dent of the Rebekah Assembly
Of Delaware, and her STAFF came
to Milford on Thursday eve
ming and installed the newly
elected officers of Margaret c.
Pyle Rebekah Lodge No. II,
/. o. o. F. Mrs. Huldah Willis
was installed as noble grand;
Edna Lynch as vice grand;
Maggie Derrickson, as record
ing secretary; Mamie Watson
as assistant recording secre-
tary; Ethel Warren as financial
secretary, and Pearl Stevenson
as treasurer.
Invitations have been receiv-
ed by Delaware friends to the
wedding of Miss Allie Lou Con-
ner of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to
Lieut.. Kenneth Wilson Collins,
U. s. A., which will take place
in that city on Saturday. Octo-
Der IS, at eight in Ross Chapel
of the beautiful Boston Metho-
dist Church. Lieut.. Collins is
the son of Mrs. George w. Col
Inns OF Magnolia. and grandson
Of Mrs. Cynthia Mensch. He is
1 a graduate Of West Point.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12

DR.. George S. Grier, lately
chief resident physician at WO-
mems Hospital in Baltimore,
reported for active duty as first
lieutenant in the medical corps
at Camp Eustice. Va, on Mon
day morning.
Don Comstock of Fishers
District, who has been employ
ed in Pennsylvania is now en-
ployed at the DUPONT plant at
Seaford as a mechanic.
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Rt. Rev. Arthur r. Mckins-
try. Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Delaware,
Officiated at the services dedi-
eating the newly erected parish.
house Of st. John at Milton on
Monday evening of this week.
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Congratulations are being ex-
tended to DR.. Oliver A. James,
who has been. notified that the
American College of Surgeons
has accepted his application
for full membership, and in
November, when the College
meets in Boston, DR.. James
membership will be confirmed.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12

Harry H. Prettyman of Farm
ington, who has been employed
by the firm of James T. Mullin
and Sons, of Wilmington, for
the past five years, has accept
ed a position in the clothing
department with Mcdonald and
Campbell at Philadelphia, and
will assume his duties there
October 14th.
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Two weekly papers are now
published for Delmar, the last
to enter the field of journalism
being that of The Herald, which
is edited and published by G. T.
Jones.
w. w. COnwell of Milton, is
having piling hauled on the
dock with the intention of ship
ping them via water to Cape
May. COnwell is always active.
and an important factor In
anything he undertakes.
The Italians left last week
for their homes in Baltimore,
as ]. Colby Smith has closed
his canning factory for the sea-
son.
soS
Among those who visited
Philadelphia last Saturday to
attend the automobile races
were DR.. S. M. D. Marshall,
B. B. TOppings, w. I. Cirwith-
en-, DR.. f. T. Williams, Stuart
Walton, Norman Shaw and
others. DR.. Williams went in
his automobile.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
The Past In Review
News AS II Was Reported In The Chronicle
orty Years Aeon

Taken from the October 1s, 1911 lssu
r. D. Hurd and Son, who
live about three miles West of
Milford on the farm known as
the Sunny Side Farm, have
been having fine success with
their pumpkins this year. One
day this week they presented
this office with a fine large
one, which weighed 9115
pounds and measured five feet
seven inches in circumference.
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The pear orchard on the
farm of s. ]. Abbott has payed
very well this year. The ten
ant, Mr.. Messick, has picked
about $500 baskets of the fruit
for which IA cents per basket
has been realized.
Miss Virginia Salevan and
G.. Marshall Townsend attended
the football game between Del
aware College and Lebanon
Valley, at Newark, last Satur-
day.
Wesley Jackson, who has
been on an extended visit
among friends and relatives in
EastOn, Md, DOylestown. Pa,
Jersey City and Newark, N. j.,
has returned home.
Herbert Griffith, of the town
of Greenwood, and Miss Eliza
beth Wroten. Of Milford, were
married in that town last Sun
day evening. On Tuesday, Mr..
Griffith brought his happy
bride to Greenwood, where
they will reside
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
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Milford chronicle., 1951-10-12
Buying More

Class I railroads spent 1,7S9,.
100000 for fuel, materials and sup
plies Of all kinds used in connection
with their operations in 1850, or an
increase of $98, ,5O2. 600 compared
with l949..