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Evening star., 1951-03-04
Conserving Departmental Monpower

Robert RamSpeck, chairman designate of the
Civil Service Commission, has enunciated sound
policy for stating expanding defense agencies
during the present emergency. He believes that
most of the personnel needs of defense agencies
from now on can be met by temporarily trans
ferring employees from non-defense departments
If that plan is carried out the defense program
will obtain experienced workers. the housing
problem will be simplified and substantial payroll
savings will be effected.
howl always goes up from old-line de-
partments when it is suggested that they could
spare few employees on a loan basis, but a
House subcommittee which investigated over
stating in the departments did not sympathize
with this attitude In its recent summary report
the committee bluntly said that "in general
executive agencies could do better job with
fewer employees" The report charged that
elaborate stating requirements" of the World
War II period still exist, although the work in
many offices has greatly relaxed" The COM
mttee found: Functional duties have not been
altered in conformance with postwar conditions
Improved methods and labor saving techniques
have not been placed in general practice. Re-
organization to eliminate duplicate and over
tapping activities has not been completed. Over
head administrative costs have increased sharply
The retrenchment from peak period of wartime
employment has not been fully carried out The
cost consciousness which prevailed in the prewar
period has not been restored. The full capacity
and myriad talents of the Federal work force
are not properly utilized"
The advent of a new emergency is no excuse
for further delay in placing non-defense agencies
on a more efficient more economical basis If
the new chairman of the Civil Service Com
mission can make better progress than others
have done in securing the earnest cooperation
of personnel officials in reducing overstaffing,
he will have made major contribution to the
defense effort.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

years ago. He says of it: 1.-THE display
Of some ridiculously modern works by
theological but totally untalented paint
ers was not credit to American art.
Nor were Italian and French architects,
with centuries of tradition behind them,
impressed by the lessons in art and
architecture given them by the Amer
ican propaganda agencies"
With your permission I should like to
address few questions to Mr. Brown:
l. Where and when did Mr. Brown
pursue the art studies that qualify him
as so outspoken a critic?
2. When did Mr. Brown purchase his
last original work of art? Or visit an
exhibit?
8. Just what does theological" mean
when applied to miscellaneous group
Of painters?
4. Did Mr.. Brown see that particular
exhibit? And mean the exhibit, not
photographs Of it.
Just one last question for the editors:
Do you really pay Mr. Brown?
Editors Note: Yes)
RidiculousIy Modern Old Subscriber.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Working VA Patients

In the so-called Rusk report submitted
September %. 1850. Of the Presidents
Committee on Medical Care and Treat
ment Of Veterans In VA Hospitals, the
President is advised that aged and sick
veterans be put to work "in-institu-
tion." OF course. no pay would be given
for this work If the aged veterans could
be induced to undertake the tasks as
signed. suppose the inducement is one
Of those 'or else" types.
The writer is very near Sc years Of
age. BY reason of long standing tb
involvement. now arrested, entered
one Of these VA domiciliary homes.
Despite my age. the doctor who admitted
me found chronic tb.. arthritis in the
back, arms and legs, and an undisclosed
vertigo. none Of which was treated.
was assigned to barracks detail. When
told the domiciliary oficer that was
nearly 66, he replied. II don't care Il
you are nearing 80 years. II the M. D.
assigns you to work. you work or else!
AS did not care to mar a good
record Of years standing in the VA,
thought it better to sign out, which
did at once. I think the Rusk report
needs closer study.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

The 10th Continental Congress of
the Daughters of the American Revo
luton assembled at the
OAK Grand Opera House on
Congress February Is. 1901, and
The Star for that date
contained an extensive report of the
proceedings Mrs. Daniel Manning,
president general, was in the chair, but
proved unequal to the task for con-
trolling the delegates when they warmed
up" to the business Of the convention.
The first session ended in q recess oc-
casioned by a tumult Of objections to
q count of votes on q resolution relating
to official announcement Of the number
Of members participating in the meeting.
Apparently Mrs. Donald Mclean was a
leader among the rebels. She became
president general in 1905 and held the
Office until 1909.
The Star, under date of February 81,
1901, printed picture of Mrs. Carrie
Nation, the temperance
Corrie Nation crusader, in her cell at
in lo;I Topeka, Kans She
had been arrested for
smashing a saloon and gambling hall
known as "Murphy's Joint" and was
being held for trial in April. OF course,
she might have been released on bail if
she had been willing to agree to bond
being given for her good behavior. Her
prefefnce, however, was to stay In
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Film Censorship

In response to D. O.'s letter, which
states that the Catholic Church has in
Inundated censorship boards and theater
owners as to what the American people
should be permitted to see, thus trampl
ing on the rights Of over 100 million
non-Catholics. want to point out one
salient fact:
As Of recent years there has been a
sharp rise in the number of films which
are filled with sins of Illicit love. i'm
modesty, impurity. crime. and so forth
How many organized groups have stood
up against the glorif1cation of sin in
the defense of God and have tried to
make the American people realize that
films which desecrate His name should
not have to be tolerated in Nation
which we like to call Christian?
may be wrong, but it seems to me that
the Catholic Church alone has had the
courage to come forward and inform
not intimidate-the people of America
that films as we'll as books and periodi-
Gals. which are anti-Christ, should have
no place in our culture.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
'PerpetuoIIy in Favor Of War
By Bruce Barton

Abraham Lincoln liked to tell about
a political friend in Illinois, man
named Butterfield, who was asked at
the beginning of the Mexican War if
he were not opposed to it. mo-" ex-
claimed Butterf1eld Il opposed one war.
That was enough for me. I am now
perpetually in favor of war, pestilence
and famine"
That story deserves to be much better
known. The good people of America,
the haters of war, should cut it out and
paste it in their hats to remind them
daily that, in their thinking about war
and how to prevent it, they too often
proceed on fundamentally unsound
assumption. -z
You can see our politicians already
casting themselves in the brave role
of war Governors and war Senators.
To them war comes as kindly wind
from heaven to blow away all discomfort
and criticism with their mismanage-
ment of domestic affairs.
War means full employment, millions
in dues for union leaders, and plenty
of dough in the take-home envelope.
It means big crops for farmers, at guar
anteed high prices. To all sorts Of
routine bound business and professional
people it means a tingling release into
the wide world of adventure and ire
Sponsibility. Doctors and surgeons at
the front have. in few months, a
variety of experience that would not
come in years of ordinary practice. plus
the tremendous satisfaction of giving
relief where it is most bravely deserved
and urgently needed. College professors
have a wonderful chance to rush to
Washington to be all sort of important
persons" at much more money.
War is imitation and a booming stock
market. 1t is a black market from
which the unrighteous garner billions.
It can be blessed escape for the man
in the dreary job, for the husband with
the nagging wife. Such men would be
heels for turning their backs on their
jobs and their homes in peacetime; in
wartime they are heroes.
Like Lincoln's obscure and long for
gotten friend, I. as an obscure member
of Congress, opposed one war. I am
now doing my feeble best to oppose
another. But have no delusions. I
know how deep-seated and powerful are
the hidden forces that often with ut
most sincerity and even in the nams
of peace. help to make broad and smooth
the downward path.
lcopyrisF, 1851, King Features syndicate. lneJ
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Spires Of the Spirit raasA6Ss ~ aasaa
A Plea for Simplicity
Spires Of the Spirit

. Like the scent of lavender on old lace
came recent rhapsody in great
metropolitan daily. It was an excursion
to the yesterdays. Framed with nostalgia,
it pictured an Smile adventurous trip
from the farm to town and return under
the one-horse power of Dobbin hitched
to the old buggy. with two children sit
ting enthralled at the fathers side. After
delightfully."- describing the simple joys
OF those days that come not back, the
article ended, "Oh, road to town! If you
could only return once more to bring us
your unhurried miles, then we could
claim that promise given by the prophet
Of old: My people shall dwell in a peace
able habitation. in sure dwellings and in
quiet resting places"
1t surely Is not sign that one has
pushed his way into the already over
crowded seat of the scornful If, in the
midst of the bewildering perplexity of
these days, he heaves sigh of deep de-
sire for the simplicities of day that is
gone and in some quiet nook opens an
old album, which recalls the horse-and-
buggy days and the less artificial con-
tentmentS of Auld Lang Syne.
In these very ides of March, jibes and
cartoons make vivid the nerve-racking,
exasperating attempts OF harried and
puzzled citizens Of Uncle Sam to wrestle
with the complex tax returns. What
symbol Of the intracacy of the maze Of
modern existence is this dread yearly
compulsory journey into the realm Of
frenzied mathematics! It all suggests
that in fields once complacently tranquil
and easy-going life is now an enormous
ly difficult and complex ordeal.
OF course, simplicity never can be
found simply by return to other days:
there is no road back. The fact is that
the new day. with all its subtle dangers
to things that matter most. does have its
compensating advantages. Yet who can
doubt, as we watch our tense day chas-
ing delusions. that something of dignity,
something of great steadfast simplicity
has been stolen from us by this hurrying,
complex age? And that they are not to
be harshly blamed who feel that there a
glory has passed away from the earth?
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Our Wartime Dictotors

Even cursory reading of the draft Of the
bill to authorize a civilian defense program In
Washington reveals that it would invest the
District Commissioners with powers that
Stain might envy.
One of the proposals in this bill is that the
Commissioners upon declaration of war or in
event of a presidential declaration of special
emergency occasioned by threat of an attack,
be empowered to decree that the people of
Washington-an or all of them-be removed
from the city under police guard and deposited
at any other place in the country which the
Commissioners may select.
The authorization of such compulsory
evacuation of masses of people raises some in
teresting speculative possibilities In event Of
threatened attack, the Commissioners might
decide, for instance, that 100000 washingtonians
should be shipped to Baltimore. Presumably
however, the authorities in Baltimore would
have comparable powers, and they might decide,
at the same time, to ship 100000 Baltimoreans to
Washington. What a mess that would be!
The Star does not seriously suggest that the
Commissioners would do anything as silly as
this. But the point remains that the absolute
powers proposed in this draft bill should receive
a great deal of very careful scrutiny. There is
no doubt that in event of an atomic attack on
Washington, the Commissioners, the Army, or
some one would have to take over and run things
with an iron hand. carefully -thought-out
grant of power, prepared in advance ought to
contribute to intelligent planning for such an
emergency. But this does not mean that every
civilian defense official in every community
should be given all of the power he thinks he
might need, or would like to have, without regard
either to rational ver-alf plan or to the needs
and interests of the people who would be affected.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
How Europe Feels

Paul-Henri Spaak, the distinguished Belgian
statesman who heads the Consultative Assembly
OF the Council of Europe, has effectively summed
up the European reaction to our Great Debate
on the issue of sending American troops overseas
to become part of the Atlantic Pact Army under
General Eisenhower. Wholly apart from the
many things that can be said against the essen
TALLY defeatist do-it-byair proposals of Senator
Taft, former President Hoover and others of
like mind, Mr.. Spaak's views-as expressed the
other night in New York-deserve careful atten-
ton in this country as a measure of how our
allies abroad feel in terms of what is vital to
them as well as to u.s. His words on the subject
are worth extensive quotation:
What is the great fear of Europe? That
America might refuse to declare if Europe
is attacked by Russia? No. The great fear is
that the United States will decide that to defend
Europe on the ground is impossible, that the
United States will accept the idea that Europe
must inevitably fall to the Russian conquerors
IN the first phase of war, and eventually be
delivered by the victorious Americans after two
years three years. ten years of occupation.
But I ask you: What would be left of
Europe after years of Soviet occupation?"
What we hope in Europe is that the United
States will reject this fatalistic conception and
that, from the very beginning of war, they will
be with us. with all their strength and with the
precise objective of preventing the conquest of
Europe.
There is for Europe only one hypothesis on
which the chance of victory is great: It is that
aid from America is given from the very begin
ming and completely; that the United States will
engage itself without limit.
Is it not now the time-now or never-to
repeat the immortal sentence that you have
placed in stone on one of the most beautiful of
your monuments?
Let us have faith that right makes might
and in that faith let us to the end do our duty
understand it."
Defeatism at this stage is surely as unwar-
ranted as it was before Pearl Harbor. In fact, in
some ways-especially in view of the actual and
potential might of America and the rest of the
free world-it seems far more unreasoning now
tkan,it was then. The future of Western Europe
is of vast Importance to our own future. We
simply cannot afford to write it off-even tempo
rarily. Mr.. Spaak has spoken timely words on
that score
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Juvenile Court

The time is here for a thorough IN
vestigation Of the handling of juvenile
delinquency in the District of Columbia.
Hardly a day passes without our reading
new instances of serious crime on the
part of juveniles. What Is especially
alarming is the large number of "re-
peat cases." often by juveniles under the
care Of the court.
Many Of us who have endeavored to
secure what light is available on the sub
ject are seriously beginning to question
the competence Of the court. This court
pursues its work in secret fashion
which can readily cover up its inability
to deal with its responsibility, save for
the embarrassing recurrence of incidents
involving children who have been placed
under its probation. Generally, the
courts supervision seems to involve
nothing more than few superficial in
terviews and. occasionally, psychiatric
counselling of an utterly inadequate
type. So lax and incompetent do the
processes Of our Juvenile Court appear
to be that 1t is hardly worthwhile to re-
port cases involving juvenile delinquent
cy, knowing that no constructive steps
or creative effort will be taken by those
in authority when the offenders are
caught.
Let us bring the work of our Juvenile
Court out into the open and see whether,
under its present set-up, it is really ac-
complishing the responsible task which
has been committed into its hands.
Concerned Citizen.
Editors Note: 1t seems to The
Star that this correspondent has far
over -simplified the problem he is deal
ing with In printing his letter, as an
expression of view which has consid-
cradle currency in the city. we invite
comment from persons familiar with
the Juvenile Courts work.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Ainasssr, FOUNDRY Msthodiss church;

nsping innocence OF little children IS
very faulty petition. It betrays q mis-
conception Of one Of the most golden
attributes Of childhood Listen, perhaps
you will see yourself bowing at your
mothers knee:
Gentle Jesus. meek and mild.
LooE upon little child;
Pity my simplicity.
Suffer me to come to Thee"
Why apologize for the very thing
which Is the shining pathway to God,
simplicity? That is the one quality
about q little child really sublime.
Rather, pity the one who loses it: for.
without it, God Is not clear and near.
Christs secret for never losing this sim
plicity, no matter how complex an age
may be, Is that we never lose our child
likeness.
One Of the ugliest experiences that
can happen to an adult Is to be childish.
But "childlike" is something else; with
out that we cannot even see the kingdom
of God. For Jesus took little child
and. setting him in the midst of His
disciples, said: "Whosoever shall humble
himself as this little child, the same Is
the greatest in the kingdom of heaven"
know q preacher father who did not
want his child to pray that in the eyes
Of the Divine Father she might be pitied
for her simplicity; for, as he said Of that
sweet little, white-robed creature: "She
shames me by her very sublimity and
simplicity. That simplicity of hers leaves
me far behind: 1t flies while I creep"
How significant 1t is then that the
Crystal Christ points to the simplicity
and sincerity of an unspoiled child as
the open sesame to His kingdom of love
and light. and that with all the deep
mystery of redemption He lifted up just
cup Of wine and piece of broken
bread to be forever the seal and symbol
Of His presence and remembrance!
PITY my simplicity" Nay, rather pity
my artificiality. pity my complexity! o
Thou Crystal Christ master of simplic-
ity. with little child on Your knee and
the bread and wine in Your hands, grant
me Thy simplicity.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
This Is America

With three letters. ism, they have
made America into an ugly word. This
is j. c. Americanism Week." the radio
announcer says. The Junior Chamber
of Commerce sponsors Americanism
Week. Remember, think and talk Amer
icanism"
Isms are narrow things filled with
prejudice, ignorance and hate. Why
faint our way of life with that trash?
How much better it would be for
the radio announcer to say: "This is
America. The Junior Chamber of Com
merce sponsors This Is America Week
Remember. think and talk as you
please"
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Letters to The Star

bels. Stain and Malik, we set poor
example to our gangsters and give them
little inspiration for the sacrifices that
we call upon them to make.
I am not important. just a disabled
veteran, 81 years old, whose country
awarded him the Silver Star, Legion of
Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple
Heart. Victory Medal with three Bronze
Stars, Asiatic-Paciflc Campaign Medal
with three Bronze Stars. Philippine Lib
Grafton Medal with Star, and other as
sorted ribbons known as fruit salad"
But I have stake In these United
States. and want to keep it clean.
r. e. r,
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Art Critic Brown
H. A. r.

have long been aware that Constan-
tine Brown is one of the most arrogant
and ignorant of political commentators.
but only now have become aware that
he is capable Of carrying these qualifica-
tions into art criticism. In his column
OF February %. he rakes up again
how often, o Lord. how often?-the
State Department art exhibit Of a few
Evening star., 1951-03-04
South African Focts

I read with interest your article in
The Sunday Star of February IS on the
racial problem in South Africa. To me.
as South African. the facts were not
new. But it certainly was a pleasant
surprise to find completely unbiased
article on that problem in an American
newspaper.
Surely that Is all we expect Of you,
just representation. It Is something
we, and all your readers, cannot but
appreciate. @
South African.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

Pen-nanaes may be used if letters carry
uriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1951-11-02
BY the Associated Press

It was hard to lay a bet today il
many cities across the land. The
numbers runners and horse race
bookies were shutting UP shop
temporarily at least.
The odds were against the pro-
lfeSsional gamblers-a tax miracle
worked out by Uncle Sam.
A new law, effective yesterday
requires them to register, pay a
$50 annual fee to operate and 10
per cent of their gross receipts in
Federal taxes.
And If they register, their names
are available for the police to see
The boys don't like that.
Which is worse, they pondered-
a Federal jail for failing to pay
the tax or local jail for violating
State gambling laws?
On top of that worry was the
tax bite imposed in the new law
Closing at Many Points.
Reports of bookie shutdowns
came from many places. among
them New York, Boston. Baltimore,
Los Angeles, New Orleans. Atlanta,
Cleveland, st. Louis, Miami, Maine
Rhode Island. --.
AS one Boston bookie put it:
THAT 10 per cent of the handle
Evening star., 1951-11-02

brother. that amt hay"
Some bookies in Rhode Islane
said they already were clearing
only s to 8 per cent. They sale
they were giving up.
In New York, few street book
makers were working. Even they
were lowering the odds for winners
Twenty-Five of Nevada's q
State-licensed bookmakers went
out Of business.
San Francisco's bookies weren't
bowing out so Quickly-and there
were indications that some in
other cities merely were laying
low to see which way the wind
was blowing.
Shifting to Dice.
In San Francisco, they operated
more quietly than before. The
Chinese lottery continued, eau
tiously. And it was said some
bookies were shifting to dice
games and cards.
Aside from taking professional
vacations, the gentlemen of the
fast buck crowd also proved to be
shy creatures about registering.
Across the land. they stayed
home. Few turned up at internal
revenue Offices to register. Some
were mailing forms. They had 80
Evening star., 1951-11-02
Man Admits Staying Wife.
Hiding Body in Trunk
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Nov. IA
house painter named John Kelle!
admitted to deputy sheriffs yes
Iterday. they announced, that h,
strangled his 39-year-old wife
Margaret, during an argument
last October 13 over money ane
another woman.
Inspector Garner Brown sale
Kelley, A, told how he stuffed
the body into a trunk and left il
in the bedroom of the couple.
two sons, Richard, 7, and John
jr., 10.
For five nights. Kelley related
the boys slept in the room with
their mothers body, never know.
ing 1t was there.
In his statement, Kelley sale
he finally dumped the trunk al
night in a nearby vacant lot after
the children had complained oi
"a strange odor."
Mrs. Hattie Bell Mcfarland, 70
had read about the Staying in the
newspapers. Not seeing Mrs
Kelley around the house for lC
days made her suspicious, so she
called the authorities.
Evening star., 1951-11-02
Divorce Frees Sinafra
To Marry Ava Gardner
BY the Associoted Press

LAS VEGAS, New, Nov. 2.-The
way is cleared today for Croonel
Frank Sinatra to marry Screer
Actress Ava Gardner.
Mr.. Sinatra appeared briefly ir
court here yesterday and won 8
divorce from his wife, Nancy, or
cruelty grounds.
With newsmen in pursuit, the
singer dashed into the courthouse
spent five minutes inside, then
ran out again, shouting back over
his shoulder:
"Everything's all right now"
Mrs. Sinatra, who also charged
cruelty, obtained California de-
cree october 20. but it won't be
final for one year. She was
awarded custody of their three
children and 80 per cent of his
annual income up to $150,000.
The Sinatras were married