davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1951-03-07

working and, With surprising
agility, ran around and got in
front of the camera.
Working fast, he pulled out
the brandy, poured himself a
drink in a shot glass, lifted it
and toasted himself with a
Here's looking at you, big
boy!" Then he downed the
drink.
Three-quarters of the way to
Capri he repeated this maneu-
yer every time a different back
ground presented itself. In the
bow, in the stern, on the port
side. on the starboard side and
on the second-class deck. And
all the while paying no more
attention to his fellow passen-
gers than if. they hadn't existed.
Curiosity would have killed
me If I hadn't asked him what
he was doing.
Glad to tell you. fellow" he
said. Have a little drink and
lissen."
This was his story.
Having worked hard for a
living ever since he was in his
teens, he awoke one morning
two months ago to find himself
independently rich. Some rela-
tives he had forgotten about,
or didn't know about, left him
an income of something like
$25.000 a year.
II took right off, just as soon
as could. Always wanted to
see Europe. Wanted to visit all
the famous places. Been see
ing 'em, too. And if anybody
ever doubts saw 'em I'll show
'em my movies"
He's my choice for the 1851
Oscar.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate,
Trn
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Doris FIeeson:
@. G.O.P. Avoiding Cho||enqe
Troops-for Europe Resolution Begged Down
In ProceduroI QuorreI Along Pqrty Lines

However there is politics in
volved in the present quarrel for
the Democrats, too. They have
to consider how much the unity,
which they greatly desire on
the troops issue, will cost Presi-
dent Truman both in terms Of
face and in the power to act
swiftly and decisively in the
future.
The Democratic policy COM
mittee decided that the joint
resolution which some Re-
publicans are demanding costs
too much. 1t would. they
thought, concede or at least
imply powers to both Senate
and House in foreign policy
which would seriously impede
the Chief Executive. It would
also serve up to Mr.. Truman a
very large dish of crow since
he has strenuously denied the
existence of any such Constitu-
tional powers for the Congress.
They are cool also to a con-
current resolution of the type
which Senator Smith of New
Jersey is suggesting. This is.
however, the area in which some
compromise might be possible.
Their present efforts are be-
ing directed toward some re-
Evening star., 1951-03-07

writing of the Connally- Russell
Senate resolution. They hope
it will appease the Republicans
who are sincerely isolationist
and, that being accomplished.
put most of the rest into line,
however grudgingly.
Passage of a resolution as
soon as possible is being urged
on all hands by spokesmen for
General Eisenhower. The Gen.
eral understands Congressional
delays, however much he may
dislike them, but his problem
is that Europe may not and
valuable momentum be lost.
All hands are declaring that
no question now exists of send
ing troops, 1t is only a problem
of whether the Senate alone
shall approve.
Democrats defending their
efforts to appease the critics
recall that once upon a time
Woodrow Wilson might have
got America into the League of
Nations had he accepted a few
reservations in time. They admit
that the day may soon come
when they will have to put
limits on the degree to which
they can help Republican inter-
nationalists conciliate Senators
Taft. Wherry and company.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Issue Of Good Government
License Given to Friends Around Throne Offers
Openings for Snpinq at Reform ObieetNes

in the present instance, the
RFC.
This is illustrated in the great
hue and cry now to abolish that
lending agency.
No President can possibly
know at all times what goes
on in every agency of Govern
ment. The sprawling mechanism
is too big. But, when he dis
covers that something improper
is going on, he can speak out
and can correct it, instead of
merely bristling up as if he were
being criticized personally.
1t is the comparatively trivial
matters that make the head
lines and attract public atten-
tion-the deep freezes, the au-
tographed photographs of Of
f1cials, the smuggled perfume,
as it was back in the investiga-
ton of the five per centers"
who posed as influential with in
siders in getting Government
contracts. Now it is fur coat
and free bed and board at smart
Miami hotels that stir up talk
IN the r. F. c. inquiry.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Constantine Brown.
New Center Of Infection
Mosems From Indian Ocean to Atlantic
In Stute Of Ferment Due to Red Propaganda

Regardless of whether the
news from Egypt about the re-
bellion in Morocco and repres-
sions by French troops is exag-
gerated or net, the Moslem peo-
Piles from the Indian Ocean to
the Atlantic are in a state of
ferment today.
Popular meetings have been
held from Karachi to Cairo,
protesting alleged drastic French
methods of reprisal, and de-
manding freedom for the Moroc-
cans.
Normally this would be a
symptom of a minor condition.
which could be cured with tact
and patience. Unfortunately, in
the present world tension the
addition of another potential
center of Infection" could have
serious repercussions on West
ern preparations against ag-
gresSion.
The Muscovites are playing
a cagey game. They do not at
tempt to propagate Communism
among the millions of Arabs.
They represent themselves as
the torchbearers of nationalism.
freedom and equality among
peoples. The Arabs have not
had the same chance as the
peoples of Europe to see the
Soviet brand of freedom. They
resent the French and British,
whom they accuse of con-
tinuing a policy of colonialism.
which has been abandoned in
other parts of the world, par
ticularly the Far East.
Russian propaganda shows
that the Mohammedans of In
donesia. for instance, have their
own national government, with
out interference of any kind on
the part of their former
masters, the government of
the Netherlands. They also
are reminded that another
overwhelmingly Mohammedan
country, Pakistan, is as. free and
independent as the free Western
nations.
The rulers and leaders of the
Arab kingdoms can see easily
through the Soviet game. But
the people themselves-and
particularly the young intelli-
gensia-are SO anxious to EMU
late their brethren who have
obtained complete independence
that they are inclined to speed
up the move for complete po-
litical and economic liberty,
even at the price of physical
struggle. This Is bad news for
our military men in the pres
ent crisis.
Military forces of the Euro
pean nations are dependent on
the oil resources of Iran, Saudi
Arabia and Iraq. In the event
of conflict with the U. S. S. r.
in Europe. it will be almost i'm
possible for us to provide the
Allied air forces, navies and
mechanical units with needed
gasoline and oil from the United
States. This not only would be
difficult physically. but Western
Hemisphere supplies would not
be sufficient for the enormous
requirements Of a military cam
paign in which gasoline and oil
will play a preponderant role.
Moreover, although this mat
ter Is seldom discussed in pub
lie. top military strategists be-
lieve that If Russia starts an
aggression much earlier than is
expected, North Africa will play
a far more important role
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Doris FIeeson:

The trops-for- Europe reso-
luton is momentarily begged
down in a procedural quarrel
along strictly party lines.
The gloss of principle on it
Is the ancient question of the
consultative rights of Congress
with the President in foreign
policy.
The politics in it is that the
Republicans are deeply divided
on the current crop of foreign
policy issues. so they want to.
find some compromise for which
all factions can vote. Their
leaders deplore the advertising
which the recent hearings gave
to the party differences; they
hope for a protective cloak to
throw over them.
Hence their efforts to avoid
the kind of challenge and roll
calls which will force their
members into opposite camps.
Some Democrats are SYM
pathetic on the question of
principle. Members of Congress.
especially the more opinionated
and forceful ones, hope to take
part In the great decisions; they
have always tried to enforce a
share In them: they always will
try. This situation is perma-
nently bipartisan.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Henry WcLen1ore:
Finds Choice for 1851 Oscar
On Steamboat Ride to Capri
Henry McLenore:

CAPRI.-The hero of this
story will be nameless because
I have no dreaming idea what
his name is. but he'll be long
remembered by passengers of
S. S. Epemeo.
The S. S. Epemeo plies be-
tween Naples and Capri and
she had barely cleared the
Naples breakwater when our
hero made his appearance on
the upper deck, which is so tiny
that one would have to walk
around it some 500 times to put
in mile.
He was wearing a well-cut
and well-slept-in suit, and from
his hip pocket protruded a we'll
used bottle of brandy. He wasn't
too tight not to know what was
going on-just tight enough not
to care.
This American, for so he
turned out to be, appeared to
be about % years old, was tall,
very nice looking. and not at
all bothered by the rolling and
pitching of the S. S. Epemeo.
His walk was perfectly attuned
to the unsteady bay.
Under his arm he carried
AN expensive movie camera
mounted on a tripod and, max
ing his way to the bow, he set
it up. shot the sun with one of
those gadgets camera nuts
carry. and did a lot of fiddling
with the focusing devices of the
camera.
"Confound Vesuvius," he said
to himself and the seagulls,
"confound Vesuvius. Half
cred with clouds. That'll make
a rotten shot"
But he aimed at Vesuvius
anyway. which loomed off to
port. set the mechanism to
Evening star., 1951-03-07

They arouse interest because
they are easily understood by
people who can never own a fur
coat and can never stay off the
cuff at luxurious hostelries along
Miami's shore. They are news. A..
the spicy stuff for gossip at the
ladies aid and the barber shop,
and set off the imagination to
conjure up many other fancy
goings-on down there in WASH
ington."
They are ready ammunition for
any wrecking crew.
But, more than that, they are
symptomatic of an attitude that
develops around here periodical
ly-that government more or
less belongs to certain people
who know their way around it's
mazes, a sort of special preserve
for profit and temporary fame,
a closed corporation.
AS now. And it's a good time,
it would seem, to do some house
cleaning and get the smell off.
President Truman owes it to
all of us.
Evening star., 1951-03-07

In judicial circles it is Gus
tomary for judge to disqualify
himself from sitting on any
case where a member of his
family may be a litigant or a
lawyer for either party. In
legislative circles no such prac-
tice exists.
In fairness to Senator Muir
ray of Montana, it should be
said that, if his intervention was
improper, then standards should
be proclaimed by the Senate it
self which makes the rules con-
corning the conduct of it's own
members. Maybe the time has
come for the Senate and the
House to draw UP rules of con-
duct - setting forth perhaps
whether members themselves
may represent clients in State
courts and then, without fee,
intervene in their behalf on mat
ters. which those clients have be-
fore the Federal Government.
Maybe the inference of lack
OF integrity is in itself too sweep
ing just because a member of
Congress intervenes for a con-
stituent or friend in a financial
transaction. Shall that con-
stltuent or friend be stopped,
too, from expressing his graft
tude later on in making a con-
tribution to the congressman's
campaign? These matters in
troduce many ramifications.
The all-important question in
the final analysis is whether
Government officials in the exec
utive agencies are themselves
men of integrity or susceptible
to political influence. Most of
them are beyond reproach. 1t
is, in every such case, a matter
OF simple honesty, and there are
many more honest than dishon-
est people hereabouts.
Members of Congress may ask
but members of the RFC should
refuse If a loan application is
without merit. Conversely, be-
cause an application has the
backing Of a member of Con-
gress doesn't necessarily make
it an unsound loan.
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Evening star., 1951-03-07

than any other part of Europe.
France, Belgium and the rest
of the continental Western Euro
pean nations may be overrun.
This happened in 1910. But
the aggressors would have as
hard a time as the Nazis had in
World War II to establish them
selves solidly on the southern
shores of the Mediterranean, so
long as the native inhabitants
continue to be friendly to the
West.
The fact that the Arabs in
Morocco, Algeria apd Tunisia
remained faithful to France in
It's direst hours and were friend
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Thomas L. Stokes:

The Truman administration
is in the way of getting on the
wrong side of the very plain
moral issue of good government.
President Truman, himself, is
much to blame through his
defensive, n-the-shoulder
attitude in respect to the at
mosphere of callous carelessness
about the simple proprieties
that has existed in some quar-
ters as disclosed in the current
RFC expose.
He can i'll afford to be. This
is not only because he is the
President and steward of 150,-
100000 people and not Presi-
dent of his friends. It is also
because he heads an admin
istration, as did his predecessor,
which, due to it's covenant with
the plain people, lives in a glass
house to a greater degree than
have many others. That i'm
poses a special obligation on
him and on those around him.
It would seem incumbent on
a President who is continually
storming the citadels of special
privilege-and Sincerely-that
he be very sure that special
privileges are not taken by
those around him to play loose
with the operations of govern
ment contrary to the best pub
lie interest. For that govern
ment belongs to the people and
must be protected from those,
masquerading as its friends, who
would exploit it selfishly, as it
must be protected against big
private interests that would ex-
plot it for their selfish ends.
In some cases around here now
1t is hard to see much differ
ence.
A failure Of stewardship that
gives license to friends around
the throne" offers an opening
for attacks by those who are
constantly sniping at Govern
ment for the many with its
praiseworthy social welfare and
economic reform objectives. The
result is to let down the rank
and file who put their trust and
hopes in Government admins
tered for their protection and,
likewise, to weaken instruments
Of Government designed to pro-
mote general public interests,
Evening star., 1951-03-07
David Lawrence:

There was nothing illegal"
about the fact that Senator
Murray, Democrat, of Montana
urged that a loan by the Re
construction Finance Corp. be
approved for a hotel company
which his son served as a lawyer
receiving a $4,000 fee.
The question will be raised,
however, as to whether there
was an "impropriety'' on the
part of the Montana Senator.
The answer will depend on how
much of an inference of impro-
priety there is in the action of
the members of the RFC-
whether they were really in
f1uenced by the congressional
approach.
This goes to the heart of va
rious forms of lobbying in the
National Capital. 1t isn't the
lobbying that's improper. It's
the receptiveness of an official
to unwarranted influence of any
kind which raises the real issue.
BY and large, officials are
honest. Those with discretion
ary powers given them under
the laws of Congress are always
under pressure to make this or
that decision favorable to an
applicant.
What Senator Murray did in
going to the RFC was what
some other members of Congress
have been doing. What his son
did was the same thing as any
lawyer or paid lobbyist does
his object is to get favorable ac-
ton. Like any lawyer here, he
Is paid to persuade. On Capitol
Hill every day, members of Con-
gress. besieged by their con-
stituents, write letters to the ex-
ecutive departments and agen-
cies and make a case for favor
able action or negative action.
Again and again lawyers come
to Senators and Representatives
and ask their intercession with
Governmental agencies both for
constituents and persons outside
their respective states.
The vice of the whole system
is not that efforts are made to
get Congressional support for
Evening star., 1951-03-07

ly to the American and British
forces in November, 1912. when
the invasion was made. was Of
great help to the American COM
mander, Gen. Eisenhower.
If they had been in the ugly
mood they are reported to oe
in today, there is no question
that things would not have run
as smoothly as they did. In
addition to these international
considerations, which can af-
feet the free worlds war effort.
the reported restlessness of the
Arabs in North Africa can i'm
pair greatly Frances own mill
tary preparedness.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
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, 1951-02-28
Jackie Robinson
To Head Group

-BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 28s
(ANP)- The Jackie Robinson
Garden apartments, low-cost CO.
operative housing project, will be
open for occupancy in the Flat
lands district by the spring of 49,
So if plans announced last week
are successful.
The Dodgers star said he had
long been interested in a housing
development to help slum children
and their families live in decent
houses.
A tentative committee has been
set up for the project with Robin
son as chairman. Preparatory to a
request for a loan, the FILA will
be asked to analyze the plot and
building plans.
Plans call for the first unit to
be erected on vacant land at East
102nd, East 108th and Flatlands
Tenth street and Avenue w. It
will have facilities for 500 fam
lilies. Ultimately, it is hoped that
the project will accommodate be-
tween 1000 and 5000 families,
making it one of the largest in
the country.
, 1951-02-28

supposed to lose, while LIU was
not supposed to win by more than
six points.
Hopes held by admirers of the
players faded when cofessions
We're obtained after long hours of
grilling. First came the City Col
lege breat last Saturday then fol-
lowed the other early last Tues
day.
Detectives found $500 secret
ed in an envelope pasted behind a
desk drawer in Whites room at
the Carlton "Y", and $1,000 in the
toe of a shoe in Smiths room at
the Colvin "Y" in Newark. They
failed to find $4,000 more White
said he hid in his parents home
in Englewood, N. J. They also
found $1,000 in a shoe at the
home of Warmers aunt with who
he lived in Harlem. The money
, 1951-02-28

"Montage of a Dream Deferred"
published Feb. 10 by Henry Holt,
is the title. 1t borrows literally
from the terms and feeling of
contemporary hot jazz and bop to
create a knowingly realistic picture
of Harlem as it is, with it's joys
and it's dreams deferred.
AS was the case with "Simple
Speaks His Mind" this is primari-
ly a book for Negroes. That, to
me, is a good thing for the tend
ency too often is to write about
Harlem primarily for the white
reader.
Like other of Hughes work, the
style is disarmingly simple so
simple that often the brilliant art
istry my be overlooked. Yet this
conversational simplicity makes
for the charm and reliability
that produces a wide audience. 1t
is only rarely that one encount-
ers the obscurantism that too Of
ten hangs like a heavy cloud over
the work of certain other highly
regarded poets.
, 1951-02-28

still technically belongs to the
players, but it is expected that
taxes and the cost of their trials
will take all of it.
The relatives and friends of
the players all expressed ex-
IRENE regrets over their
downfall, while the former
greats all cried like babies.
Some friends and campus fol-
lowers promised to do all they
can to aid them.
Floyd Lane, another CCNY Star,
elected co-captain of the team
after the expose. He promised to
play his heart out to vindicate
college basketball players. With
the discontinuing of basketball at
LIU, it is not known what will be
the fate of the promising center of
team, Ray Felix, six-foot sopho-
more.
, 1951-02-28

their brilliant futures for an esti-
mated $4,000 to dump IL col
lege games at Madison Square
Garden.
The CCNY plot started Dec. 2,
1949 and games were tempered
with against Missouri, Arizona,
Boston College, Washington State
and City College, it was charged.
The LIU players are accused in
games with North Carolina, Kan
sas, Denver, Idaho and Bowling
Green starting Jan. 7, 1850. They
became disturbed after the Man
haitian College expose and beat
Duquesne by a wide margin caus-
ing Sollazzo to lose an estimated
100000. The CCNY players were
, 1951-02-28

Concluded from page l
team which won the National In
tercollegiate and National In
v~itational tournaments last year,
was the mainstay of City.
THEY WERE LABELED as
gambling racket victims who sold
, 1951-02-28
BOOKS OF THE DAY
zangston Hughes Best
Reviewed By FRANK MARSHALL

For a quarter of a century, Langston Hughes has
been in the forefront of contemporary poets. And now,
with a world reputation that is almost legendary, he has
authored a new book that is easily his finest among a
series of fine volumes of poetry.
, 1951-02-28
Woman Boxer
Leaves Panama

PANAMA CITY, R. P, Feb. 70,
CAMP Gloria Jean Thompson,
the "female Joe Louis" and well
ter-weight oma boxing cham
pion of the world, said goodbye to
Panama early Saturday morning,
when she returned by plane to the
United States.
She had been here since Jan. 22,
ostensibly for a local engagement
which did not materialize, and
which caused a battle of words
through a daily newspaper be-
tween herself and Ernesto Esten-
or, president of the Colon Boxing
commission and Promoters Syl-
vester Beresford and Ramon Men
DEE.
Miss Thompson, in saying good
bye, thanked the Panamanian
people, particularly members OF
, 1951-02-28
1T SEEMS TO ME that

1T SEEMS TO ME that any
poetry woven out of the daily lives
of people should be written to be
read by the people instead of by
a small closed corps of intellectual
snobs. Apparently this is also
Langston Hughes belief, for
have yet to see anything from his
pen that could not be read and
understood by those whose formal
education ended in the lower
grade.
Consider, for instance, this IN
"Children's Rhymes"
"By what sends
the white kids
amt sent:
, 1951-02-28
| know l can't
be President"

Hughes has his ear attuned to
1--WE talk. and uses it for sharp
portraits, as in the conclusion of
dead In There" describing the
burial of a sharp cat:
Squares
Who couldn't dig him,
Plant him now -
Out where it makes
No diff no how"
The volume also contains Gree
dom Train" as we'll as a number
of other widely known poems not
previously available in book form.
The book is so uniformly excellent
that it should bring n of the
years top literary awards to
be made on pure merit without
any other considerations.
the staff Of the Hotel Internacion-
al, for the wonderful treatment
received"
Referring to the battle of words
Miss Thompson said:
"I want to state that | hold no
grudge agains t anyone. What's
passed is passed and charged to
experience"
Evening star., 1951-12-16
West Virginia Sells Bonds
To Pay Veterans Bonus
BY The Assoeioted Pres.

CHARLESTOWN, w. Va. Dec
15.-West Virginia completed to-
day what officials termed a "high-
" successful veterans bonus
bond sale. with the entire $751;
500. 900 issue sold out.
Gov. Patteson reported that at
the close of banking business at
noon today, the State had sold
$50, ,622 900 OF the bonds to the
public banks and other groups.
The remaining $6,87S.000 worth
Immediately was purchased by the
State.
The Governor said he believed
lit was the first time q State ever
has conducted its own sales cam
|paign. and used private banks as
selling agents.
The $37.500. 900 will be used to
start paying the veterans bonus
after January 2. when applica-
tons become available.