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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
LIBRARY NOTES

On the Boolmobile's trip to
Hatteras last week, Mrs. Horn
stein of Buxton presented the
Library with sixteen recent books,
eight of them were not yet on our
shelves and eight were duplicates.
Duplicates are, however, a neces-
sity since we have the Bookmo-
bile for we have nineteen COM
munities to serve and one book Of
a title is very often quite made
quate. SO we are very grateful for
the gift, all of the books being
Immediately disable. Anyone else
who has too many good books OF
the shelves is hereby invited to
follow suit.
We understand that Dare Coun-
ty communities are organizing
community programs. Don't for
get the books in the Library can
be of use to you both on organi-
cation and on games and enter
tainment. Here are a few of them:
Coyle, Group Experience &
Democratic Values; Fiske, So
You're Publicity Chairman; Col
cord, Your Community, It's Pro-
vision for Health, Education, SAT-
ETY., Welfare; Dahir, Neighbor-
hood Unit Plan; King, Organizing
for Community Action; Fisher,
Our Young Folks; Yurchap, Club
Leaders Handbook; Tracey, Fun,
Incorporated.
Bancroft, Games for the Home;
Bailey, Games and Pastimes for
All Occasions; Breen, Children's
Party Book; Carlson, Junior
Book; Daley, Party Fun; Mulac,
Game Book; Wrenn, Time On
Their Hands, Year Round Party
Book; Depew, Cokesbury Game
Book; Fisher, Good Time at Your
Birthday; Fisher, Good Time At
Your Party; Fisher, Good Time
At Your Picnic; Fite, Cokesbury
Shower Book; Geister, Fun Max
ers for Small Groups; Geister,
New Icebreakers: Mason, Social
Games for Recreation; Van Rens-
selaer, Fun with Stunts; Wood
ward, Let's Have a Party; and
many others.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Strict Enforcement Saves Lives

With fatal traffic accidents on an ominous
upward trend this summer safety authorities are
urging States counties and cities to join in
Nationwide breakdown on reckless drivers. The
drive is justified by findings of the National
Safety Council and other groups which are
studying accident causes. The chief killer on
the highways is the reckless motorist-the
drunken driver, the speed demon, the wrong
lane trespaSser and the other types so familiar
to every car owner. The courts generally have
been too lenient toward such dangerous offend
ers 1t is encouraging, therefore to note decided
reaction in favor of sterner enforcement of the
traffic laws.
Virginia is the latest of the States to swing
into line. Governor Battle has just called on
the traffic magistrates of his State to hand out
stiff sentences to fragrant vioators of highway
laws and safety rules. Governor McKeldin re-
Gently made similar request to magistrates in
Maryland. Governor Battle addressed the trial
justices at conference in Charlottesville, dur
ing which it was brought out that virginia's
traff1c fatality rate last year was 90 persons
for every million miles of travel, as compared to
the national rate OF 7.5 Supporting the Virginia
Governor in his plea was an official of the Ma
Evening star., 1951-08-01
This and That

and in time will set up such noise
about the whole thing that something
has to be done about it.
In the worst event, the professional
insect exterminator must be called in.
Sometimes the home folks may man.
age it for themselves. but either way it
is a great nuisance. Mostly today the
expert uses DOT or similar preparations.
and these are dangerous to cats.
The house must be fumigated, and
kept closed for at least three days, with
out being used either by humans or ami
mails.
This is pretty bad, and it is far better
not to let things go that long.
Sometimes homes with dogs or cats are
closed for vacation, and when the fam
lilies get back they find that the f1eas are
running rampant in every room.
In such cases, there is nothing to do
but call the exterminator.
X
In the usual household, where there
is at least one person who may be called
sensitive" the thing to do is to heed
his demands, and do something before
the fleaS get too numerous.
It is. after all, the flea egg that is to
blame. This miracle of nature is very
small, white or creamy, much like
pearl. It is seen only when deposited ON
a hard bright surface, such as a mahog-
any chair or table.
Evening star., 1951-08-01

The person who is cat lover must in
time become flea hater.
This ubiquitous pest not only tends to
make life miserable for the cat, but it
may make whole household of people
unhappy unless they are careful.
Here let it be emphasized that not al
human beings suffer from the dog and
cat flea. Un this country the human flea
is not frequently met; it is the dog and
cat flea that causes trouble)
Sensitive, thin-skinned persons are
most likely to be bit, and then must suf-
fer the smiles and laughs of those whose
skins do not attract heas. 1t seems
unfair.
In every house where there is a dog
or cat there is usually at least one who
is meat for the fleas.
Bites on him are small, red and very
itchy; rather, they burn, which is worse.
Not only do they burn, but they keep
on burning, and often the entire medi-
cine cabinet fails to help much.
1t is, therefore, much the best pro-
cedure to rid the pets of fleas before the
house gets overrun.
No doubt In some homes fleas abound
without any one knowing it, because no
human is bitten.
But in the house where there is at
least one fiea-sensitive person, no such
immunity can exist.
He or she will scratch In desperation.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
BY Charles E. TroceweN

Most of the thousands Of eggs fall on
carpets or rugs and go unseen.
Daily use of the vacuum sweeper will
DO great deal to end their existence.
When matters become bad, a daily
sprinkling of flea powder on rugs and
carpets is necessary.
This powder should be allowed to re-
main for "a hours or longer.
The animals must be treated with
powder, but no form of DDT should be
used.
Baths are not so good for cats.
BY keeping at it. home may be
ridded of these unwelcome pests which
besides high nuisance value also offer
some danger. since such flea eggs may
carry the eggs of various parasites.
Eternal vigilance is the key note. Some
may think pet animals are not worth all
this bother. Even at the best there will
always be some fieas. since nature is
wonderful, here as elsewhere.
This is personal matter, of course.
Opinions will always differ The person
who does not like animals finds it easy
to advise others to have none in the
house. But the friend of animals wants
to have some of his friends where he can
enjoy them most. This will mean that
he will have to put up with some of their
lesser features. He will at the same time
remember that sanitation Is necessary.
and that in his home it is more than
usually necessary because Of the particu-
lar problem involved.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
The Delay Is InexcusobIe

The cloud OF uncertainty which has been
hanging over the Subversive Activities Control
Board has been only partially lifted by the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee. While the committee
has reported favorably on three nominees for the
board, it still has failed to act on the nomination
OF Charles M La Toilette, acting chairman of the
agency. This inaction prolongs the state of sus-
pense which has plagued the board ever since its
creation last fall and which paves the way for a
possible challenge in court of the boards pro-
ceedings in the current Communist Party regis
tration case.
1t is unfair not only to Mr. La Toilette but
to the entire board to have this strange situation
continued indefinitely. The only explanation
given by the committee for its failure to report
on Mr.. La Toilette was that the subcommittee
on the nominations was not ready to make a
recommendation. The nominations of Mr. La
Toilette and his fellow members have been be-
fore the committee since last November When
the last session of Congress adjourned, President
Truman renominated the group. The board
members are acting under the authority of the
interim appointments, pending confirmation or
rejection by the Senate. Why it took the Judi
ciary Committee eight months to make up its
mind on the nominations of Peter Campbell
Brown, David j. Coddaire and Miss Kathryn
McHale is hard to understand Equally puzzling
is the inability of the committee to make up its
mind, one way or another, regarding Mr. La
Toilette.
The delay places Chairman La Toilette in
the uncomfortable position of presiding over the
registration hearings while his ultimate status
remains uncertain. That this is serious matter
from the Governments standpoint is obvious
The pending case is the most important of any
that will come before the board for decision. All
subsequent cases must await the outcome of the
attempt by the Department of Justice to compel
the Communist Party to register as a foreign
controlled organization. If that attempt should
fall there is little chance of compelling the
lesser Communist-front groups to register.
Nothing would please the Communists more
than to have the boards initial case collapse
because of controversy between the President and
the Senate Judiciary Committee over board
membership. Apparently the committee intends
to scrutinize the conduct of Chairman La Toilette
at the hearings while holding Damocles sword
over his head. This is not conducive to objec-
tivity, to say the least. Either Mr.. La Toilette
Is qualified to serve on the board or he is not.
The Senate Judiciary Committee should come to
decision on the question without further delay,
in justice to Mr.. La Toilette, the board and the
Government
Are we wrong in saying that Citation and
Shirley Temple are the only 6-year r-olds who
earned a million dollars?
Evening star., 1951-08-01

intelligence? How shall we insist that
the underprivileged among us respect
the law when they read on cards on the
automobile windshields of very import
ant persons-some of them only i'm
portant because they know a police
captain-that "Mr. x :. . is entitled to
the courtesy Of the Metropolitan Police
Dept?
And in our private lives: Who can keep
strong his confidence in our capacity to
survive as a nation when he sees our
children brought up without discipline
or respect for either morals or manners,
our merchants grasping for the last
dollar, our advertising clarifying it's lies,
our artisans lying down on the job, as
sured that their unions will see that,
however i'll their performance, they will
get theirs?
1t is dreary picture that I suggest
but an inevitable one where a whole
nation has gone back in its ideals of
public and private morality. With the
knowledge within ourselves that we are
abandoning the practice of ethics both
In our public and private lives, we have
lost faith in our integrity. The profit
motive. or personal gain, has superseded
the Ten Commandments in our Ameri-
can way of life and robbed us of that
freedom Of spirit we once boaSted and
the courage we once had to look every
Evening star., 1951-08-01

oppressor in the eye and tell him to 90
to hell.
Oswald Spengler wrote that mans
civilization had developed within itself
the seeds of its own destruction, and was
doomed. Americas democracy, too, t1ur-
lures within itself seeds of its destruc-
tion: A greedineSs that chafes against
restraint, cowardice of the spirit, syc-
ophancy in the face of oppression, a
taste for and pandering to the cheap
and the gaudy, shifty morality.
Why are BolshevikS? Bolsheviks are
many kinds of hapless folk; sometimes
idealiSts. more often themselves greedy,
or deprived, or ruthless. But they are,
in the long run, those who have long
endured conditions of corruption, and
oppression, and hypocrisy, and have
abandoned hope for despair. They rebel
because any change, they assure them
selves, could only be for the better. They
are menace, no doubt, to the order in
which we live. But they are not our
greatest menace. Communism, however
fostered and organized, will never infil-
trate and disintegrate our American So
ciety in any degree comparable with that
which we are already undergoing from
the vicious seeds we are cultivating
within ourselves, and which will surely
destroy us unless we uproot them.
ChorIes K. Moser
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Letters to The Star

picture Of democracy, its ideals and
meanlngtulneSS. and in stark practice
we support those very elements in the
political life of Asia which the Asiatics
themselves have repudiated. We have
shown consistent unawareness Of their
oaSlc problems, have succeeded in alien
atlng them from us and then wonder
why Red Uncle Joe seems to win almost
ef1ortless victories among them.
Franco has subjected the people of
Spain to the same kind of oppression
and tyranny to which Stain has sub
Jected the Russians. Hunger want. a
simmering hatred against everything
that his regime stands for, have beea
commonplace in Spain from the day
Franco seized power
And in the name of security your edi-
torialiSt thinks that by pouring monsv
and arms into the hands Of Franco we
can win valuable ally. And Constan-
tine Brown wonders why England and
France also cannot soften" their atti-
tude toward Franco.
It seems to me that the reason is
obvious. The leaders of those countries
are decidedly more responsive to the
mood, the feeling and the will of the
people. They have lived in closer
proximity to Spain. They have seen the
results of Francoism. They have not
nor are they likely to forget the role
of Franco in the last war. And they
have learned the paramount lesson
that to win against Stain and what he
stands for. one must enlist the support
not of leaders" of the stripe of Franco,
but rather the invincible and intransi-
gent support of the people, the plain" :"
the common" people of Spain.
Do you think for a moment that
strengthening the arm of Franco will
strengthen our security at home? Will
it not rather strengthen an already
tottering regime, brutal and cynical to-
ward its own people? viii it not create q
feeling Of enmity and distrust toward
America by the tortured people OF
Spain? And, finally, is there any assur-
ance that Spaniards. if ever they are to
use or proffered guns and tanks and
bullets. will not point them first in the
direction Of their own enslavers?
Maurice L. H0lIOd.
Evening star., 1951-08-01

honal Safety Council who declared that stricter
enforcement could bring the death rate down to
deaths for every million miles.
Unless something is done to arrest the trend,
the death toll from automobiles this year will
come close to $780, nearly 5000 above last years
total. June's toll of 5000 dead was 10 per cent
above that OF June year ago and not far under
the al-tme June record of 3,114 killed in 1941
These are SOLDERING statistics for any one who
will take the trouble to ponder them. They are
statistics which ought to be read by every judge
who handles traffic cases. For experience in
Detroit and other cities where reckless drivers
are dealt with harshly shows that Jail sentences
are an effective deterrent to road maniacs
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Tip to the Rude

What is the matter with Americans
that we are so impolite-even rude?
No one says Thank you" any more for
a modest tip, given generally for poor
service.
Are Americans really the rudest peo-
pie in the world. as our enemies abroad
would have us believe, or is 1t that am
perhaps too sensitive to the niceties that
were once considered part of everyday
living?
I am told that there is a sort Of new
religion-a cult of Rudeness"-with
headquarters in our Capital. After three
unnecessary. unpleasant and uncalled-
for samples in my tour of this fair city
from the wilds of Fairfax County, am
prepared to admit there is a possibility
Of some fact to this fiction.
Let us start crusade for Kind
Word Society in public. 1t is high time.
Catherine Fielding.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
That Double STANDARD Aqoin

An admitted lapse from certain ethical
standards has cost Brigader General David ].
Crawford his command of the Detroit Tank Arse
nal and an official reprimand. General Crawford
accepted favors from representatives of manufac-
turers who are doing business with the Gov
ernment.
Secretary of the Army Pace, who announced
the punishment, had only one alternative
He might have announced instead that while
General Crawford was weighed and found want
ing, it would be inconsistent with current prac-
tce to take official note of such deviations from
the CODE
For Secretary Pace might have said one of
Brigadier General Crawford'S superior officers
Major General Harry Vaughan, now on duty as
the Presidents military aide was defended by
the Commander in Chief after being named by
another investigating committee in Congress as
the man who made possible the "nefarious &C
tivities" of an outright fxer" by the name of
John Maragon and that General Vaughan is still
riding high, wide and handsome, with no official
reprimandS or relief from office
He might have gone on to say that a Mr..
Donald Dawson aide to the President and ad-
wiser on personnel matters, also accepted free
hotel accommodations Zone of General Craw-
fords deinquencies) from hotel which had
secured an RFC loan, and was charged by an
other investigating committee with having ZAP
parently exercised considerable influence over
certain directors of the RFC." But Mr. Dawson
remains in high favor at the White House
Therefore Secretary Pace might have said in
rounding out his statement in defense of con-
Sistency, it ill becomes me, mere Secretary
of the Army, to set myself up as judge of
when man crosses the line from ethical to un-
ethical standards. My hands, therefore, are tied
I shall await the Presidents final disposition of
the White House cases mentioned before I do
anything to establish double standard of eth
ical conduct in the United States Government
Mr.. Pace, however, preferred not to choose
that alternative
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Sowing Seeds of SeIf-Destruction?
To the Editor Of The Stor:

w TTH increasing frequency. some
disheartened compatriot asks me
doubtless with the idea of tapping
the reservoirs Of knowledge I am pre-
sumed to have gained from five years.
residence in Russian areas-"Why are
Bolsheviks?" have much difficulty in
answering him, the question has so many
complexities.
The core of the matter, however, is
suggested by a glance at the editorial
page of your issue of July S. Note the
contents of the eight Letters to the
Editor. Every one of them voices some
dissatisfaction with things as they are
in our Republic. They imply that our
citizens are unhappy with the way we,
and they, manage our lives; whether it
be in the political field, on a national
basis, or in the handling of community
and municipal affairs, or even in our
social mores. They feel insecure, and
they want a change.
And they have reason. Who now can
defend with sincerity the pranks of the
New Deal as it has degenerated in these
latter days of the present administra-
ton? What loyalty or trust can that
administration expect from the small
Salaried man. or the ex-employe on a
retirement allowance, when it crushes
him with taxes by its fallacious program
to stay imitation by "siphoning off the
surplus" df we could only find oneD
instead of bringing that result about
oy reducing Government expenditures
and other proved measures of sound
economy? Who can continue to feel
that, despite its defects, a democracy
is the best form of Government when
its leaders almost arrogantly betray our
broad national interests-as evidenced
by the present CongresS-for the bene-
fit OF special" interests?
But the fault is not all with our DO
litical leaders, it is equally with our
selves. How can resident of the Dis
trict retain his faith in a Public Utilities
Commission that seems at every test to
side with the utilities at the expense of
the public? What hope may one main
tain for people who have so far lost
their courage and independence of
spirit that they may be herded into
streetcars and buses and there, against
their will and their lawful rights, be
compelled to listen to music" that
shocks their sensibilities to the false
drivel OF advertisers that affronts their
Evening star., 1951-08-01
Like Taking Candy From a Baby

When the District Appropriation Bill was
before the House subcommittee earlier this year
considerable testimony was taken to support the
figure of $12 million as lump-sum payment to
the District. motion was made in the full
Appropriations Committee to reduce the figure
by 10 per cent. 1t was defeated. But when the
bill reached the House floor, comparable
amendment was offered and it won out, reduc-
ing the lump sum by $1.2 million.
Subcommittee Chairman Bates of Kentucky,
Yates OF Illinois, Furculo of Massachusetts, Stock
man Of Oregon and Wilson of Indiana, who had
gone over the District bill with fne-tooth
comb, protested vigorously against the cut. But
Mr.. Yates was not particularly surprised by the
House vote. He recalled, in House debate, that
when the same amendment had been offered in
the Appropriations Committee, a member re-
marked, "ThiS is just like taking candy from
baby" Mr.. Yates added, "I think that is true
because the District has no representation. This
being the case we must be fair with the District"
The Senate Appropriations Committee and
the Senate resisted the cut, restoring the lump
sum to the original $12 million that Congress
had written into the District Revenue Act of
1947 calling for heavy increase in local taxes.
In the report on the bill, the Senate committee
called attention to the fact that while local tax
payers have increased their payments for main
tenance and operation of the District by $89
million since 1922, the Federal Government has
increased it's payment by only $6O7,737.
In conference between the two houses yes
terday, compromise was reached reducing the
lump sum by 5, instead of 10, per cent There
is nothing to justify this reduction save expe-
diency 1t is unreasonable to believe that House
or Senate or their conferees would lock them
selves-n this weather and in these times-in
disagreement over a matter of 100000 for the
District of Columbia. But the compromise be-
comes another repudiation by Congress of an
obligation, an economy" effected by ignoring
bill for services rendered, compromise without
merit and without honor.
Evening star., 1951-08-01
August

August Is a gypsy lone,
Warm skinned, SUeet, whose golden
laughter
Ripping through the ripe cared corn.
Leaves it Sighing, StrGining after.
Not for such, lone affection!
Ardently her heart embraces
Lusty roads and bearded fields.
Flirting boldly in tD1Ste places.
There you see her dark eyes dance
In black-eyed Susans. nodding
brightly,
Hear the Dlurmur of her Doice
In bees and locusts hunming lightly.
Morning glory calico
S,Dishes by and you tDiu find her
Footprints Debbed in cltnotng detU.
Turning into gold behind her.
Lucille Jones Streocker
Evening star., 1951-08-01
House Concurs
G. r. SimcOx.

AS member Of the House of Repre-
sentatives, may congratulate you on
MIR. Berryman's cartoon of July %
(Which made reference to the fact that
many Senators are busying themselves
away from the sweltering Capital?
Under the Constitution, the Congress
consists of the United States Senate
and the House Of Representatives. How
ever, particularly in recent years, the
practice has developed Of referring to a
member Of the House as, Congress
man" Actually, Senators are Congress-
men just as much as House members.
The result has been that when news
papers, radio commentators, and car
toonists criticize Congress, the House
gets the blame; the Senate remains free
from criticism even though that body
may be the one wholly to blame.
In his cartoon Mr. Bergman pointed
UP some of the Senate activities. He is
to be commended for so doing; and for
not referring to the Congress as being
absent, or on junketS, or making
speeches.
House members have faults, too. but
they should not be called upon to an
swer for the faults of Senate, under
general condemnation of Congress"
Once again, to you, and Mr.. Berry
man, congratulations.
Errett p. Scrivner,
House of Representatives, Republican,
Kansas.