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Evening star., 1952-01-02

all Of us would ask today about
this new application Of atomic
energy?
Right you were the first time.
In short will it help in the
production of military weapons?
So. naturally, that question
was asked. And, sure enough,
there came an answer from q
spokesman" Of the Atomic En-
ergy Commission laboratory at
Chicago which supervised the
Idaho project-What is called q
follow" in newspaper parlance.
Yes, he said when asked, it
would help in expansion of our
weapons program.
That's enough, sir. That satis-
fies. That's the way we think
these days.
And, as for the new chemical,
scientists at the Philadelphia
meeting also got inquiries re-
lated to the menace in the
world today, international COM
munism. against which we must
protect ourselves. and wherefore
we are so concentrated on guns.
Yes, they replied, this chemical
will assist in the fight against
communism, perhaps even more
than the atomic bomb, because
it will help make fertile and
productive now arid lands in
undeveloped areas, so that peo-
pie there can get food enough
out OF their own earth and be
healthy and content instead OF
desperate. hungry and i'll which
is what makes people easy prey
to Communist Establishments.
That also is an objective of
our so-called Point Four Pro-
gram, the agricultural aims of
which obviously could be greatly
EXPANDED with this new chemi-
cal.
But this enlightened and also
very practical concept gets so
little encouragement today, and
very little emphasis, because our
minds are attuned to guns,
which are so much more costly
and get obsolete SO quickly and
make nothing grow. This gun
psychology will be manifest, of
course, in the coming Congress
Evening star., 1952-01-02
Thon1os 1. Stokes:
Will It Hell . to Make More Guns?
MorDld and Desperate Psychology Of World illustrate
BY Pubics Reaction to New Scientific Discoveries

The morbid and desperate
psychology that dominates us
and all the world today-as we
begin Q new year - becomes
grimly clear in a reaction from
two items in our newspapers at
years end which, in them
selves. should nourish enthu-
siasm and hope.
Perhaps, in the press of other
affairs, you missed them,
One told how, in q modest
brick and concrete building on
the Snake River near Arco.
Idaho. a handful Of persons saw
the first successful use of atomic
energy to produce electricity
which was transmitted to op-
crate various facilities in the
building. There is the story Of
a miracle offering boundless
blessings for the future-or so
1t once would have been.
The other news item told Of
another miracle new syn
thetic chemical devised by the
Montsanto Chemical Co. which
can do. in few hours, what our
tillers OF the Soil-including us
amateur gardeners - take
months and sometimes years
doing to improve our fields and
gardens with fertilizers and
humus and peat moss. This new
chemical, which in effect opens
up the pores Of the dirt so it
can take in more freely oxygen.
water and nutrition, was an
nounced at the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science convention in Phila-
delphia.
So far, so good, for the ad-
vancement Of the human racel
But that Is not the whole story
so far as regards our mental
state today.
It is the function of our en-
terprising fraternity to get the
whole story, meaning newspa-
pers. In the pursuit Of that we
ask the questions that would get
at what everybody wants to
know. and thus we reflect the
curiosity. the hopes and the
fears Of all Of us.
What Is the natural question
Evening star., 1952-01-02
Dovid Lowrence:

The year 1852 may be the
year Of the big war.
A month ago such a contin-
gency would not have been re-
garded as plausible, largely be-
cause OF a deep-seated belief
that Russia was not strong
enough to attack.
Today it has become plausi-
bic for an entirely different rea-
son-the prospect that a situa-
tion can develop in which Rus
sia, really not desirous of war,
miScalculates American patience
and brings on a dilemma that
cannot be settled without war.
For in just a few weeks the
whole face Of things interna-
tionally has changed. The de-
mand for a big ransom for the
release of American flyers lost
in Hungary was no casual or
minor outburst but unquestion-
ably the result of q carefully
Evening star., 1952-01-02

no pressure from the Republi-
can party to alter its peace-at-
any price policy in Korea. The
U. N. strategy there is to re-
cover its prisoners from the
Reds and call it quits.
1t is logical after a Korean
armistice for the Reds to start
trouble in and around Formosa.
An air bomhardment from the
Chinese mainland and attempts
at invasion Of the island would
certainly embarrass both the
U. N. and the United States. For,
although the U. S. Navy is pro-
tecting Formosa, neither the
U. N. nor the European allies
have endorsed the American at
titude toward defending the
remnants of the Nationalist re-
gime there. Russian submarines
flying the Chinese flag undoubt-
edly will be used if the q. S.
Navy lnterfereS with a Red in
vasion Of Formosa.
It seems natural for the Com
munists to exploit that area as
the next basis for trouble.
The Communist leaders, in
Moscow may make the same
mistake that Hitler did - they
may believe the United States
is hamstrung by her allies and
is herself unwilling to meet the
big challenge. Then war could
come because there would be
no other honorable way out.
Thus the chances of America
being dragged into war to re-
sist aggression are increasingly
dangerous for 1852. The war
would in all probability not
start with any aggression by
Russia but by an aggression on
the part of one Of the smaller
states which the United States
and her allies would really be
compelled to resist. Then the
fat would be in the fire.
The answer to all this is to
let Russia know that the ran
som paid Hungary for the
American flyers did not mean
Illustration or timidity or ac-
quiescence, and that the next
Communist move will actually
be resisted. That's probably the
only way now to prevent Amer
lea from being dragged into
a large-Scale war.
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Evening star., 1952-01-02
Fletcher Knebel:
Potomac Fever

Leap year begins This the that an extra day in
memory OF the bachelors who taught the no such
word mo-"
Senator Tafts presidential managers report that he's winning
most OF the polls Taft admired his intellect He exhibits
the senates best brand Of logic in reaching dilemma
Kefauver-for President club started in the Nations
Capital Senator Keauver works miracles Senator could
spend year trapping mink and with coonskin can
his head. -
Chairman Cannon House Committee pre-
dlcts cut in military spending The world
Feos haven't kidnapped single American this year.
Gen. Esenhowers hackers hint more that Ike will run
They're determined to yank Ike back country they have
to do it On a manslaughter charge-hint- -and-run
Old North Church Boston refuses plea to
hang two lanterns in the bery Chuchs approach
LANCER would have duplicated ride himself except
that nowadays there easier than riding horse at mid
night to get your in the papers,
Premier Stain sends New sympathy" to japan for
the foreign troops her soil Sympathy Stain are
oerentheyre gentle reminders that there haven't been
enough deaths in the family.
Evening star., 1952-01-02

session, where more billions
win be voted for military weap-
ons Of all kinds. and q COM
parative pittance for our Point
-Four type Of aid.
In what happened in that
building in Idaho, in the am
nouncement from Philadelphia
gone now is the wonder-the
wonder still remembered when
electric lights replaced gas jets
and mantles in the boyhood
home, the first telephone at
tached to the wall on the stair
way landing, the first airplane.
The successive dazzling miracles
OF science are only routine to.
day to the younger generation
and the older generation has
forgotten and all, in one voice.
only ask:
"Will it help to make more
guns?"
To point a moral is superfu-
GUS. We are able without
prompting to just take a look
at where we all are in the second
year of the second half Of the
10th century when it is,
whether we like it or not, neces-
sary to concentrate, on guns,
though no answer really is there.
A new tyranny and a new bar
barisn are loose in the world,
as we have just seen in the luna
tic seizure and Imprisonment Of
four of our young men, aviators,
IN Hungary. and we value our
freedom and liberty above all
else. If it takes guns, then guns
1t must be.
Science can do that for us. In
TACT science has done every
thing but show US all how to
live together as human beings.
, 1952-08-12
NOTICE

Sealed proposals for carry
ing the us. mails between the
post Office at Christiansted,
Kingshill and Frederiksed,
VI, are requested by the Post
Office Department.
Proposal blanks and all in
formation can be secured from
the Postmaster. Christiansted,
until August IA, 1852.
, 1952-08-12
SCHOOL LUNCH !.

Code by a representative from
the Health Department,
The Workshop is being con-
Quoted at the Annex Building
Of the Christiansted Grammar
School. It began at zoo o'clock
today.
, 1952-08-12
N. Q T / c E
of Registration Of Electors

During the month Of August, 1852, the Registration Board
will meet for the registration of qualified electors in each dis
trict as provided below:
At the Court House Police) Christiansted every MON
DAY for the residents of Christiansted Town and Suburbs
from pm. until 6 pm. beginning August 4, 1857.
AT the Court House (Poice) Christiansted, every
WEDNESDAY for the residents of Christiansted Country
District from 4 pm, until 6 pm. beginning August s, 1852.
At the Court House, Frederiksted, every TUESDAY for
the residents of Frederiksted Town District from A pm. until
s pm. beginning August 5, 1852.
At the Court House, Frederiksted, every FRIDAY, for
the residents Of Frederiksted Country District from 4 pml.
until 6 pm. beginning August 8, 1852.
The meetings during the month of September will be
announced subsequently.
AL those persons previously registered need not register,
except in cases Of change of residence, or continuous absence
from the Virgin Islands in2excess of one year.
H REGISTRATION BOARD, St. croix, vi, UsA
tn July AID. 1852.
A WILLIAM F. MonR1gEAD,
Chairman Reqistrst w -oard
, 1952-08-12
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certain medical supplies such
as s~treptomycin, for use in
UNICEF-assisted campaigns
for the control Of tubercular
meningitis, and DOT for mass
control Of malaria.
, 1952-08-12
THANKS and APPRECIATION

We take this opportunity to gioe our heartfelt thanks to
the doctors, nurses and other personnel of the Medical De-
partrnent for the oery prompt and kind assistance gtOen tOhen
our beloved father, Christopher George ras fatally injured.
Especially do te tOish to thank also, Nj. Laurence Mer-
rH and his staff at Estate Longford for their extreme kind
nesses in reHeOng US Of OirtuaQy all expenses and problems
that confronted us.
Finally our thanks to the seoeral friends and acquain-
tances tpho offered sympathy and sent tokens Of appreciation.
~z#~x.2 @r-. Nh; and Mrs. Valdenar. George
Chriddnsted
, 1952-08-12
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I'VE trust that this informa-
ton will be helpful in assist
ing your applicants to obtain
the maximum in working con-
ditions and rates. Of pay com
parable #o othef job seekers
seeking employment on the
mainland.
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Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
N&O&G
IT'S YOUR BUSINESS

The first principle of the Republican
Party is the preservation of this Repubic.
we pledge our full resources to see that this
vital fortress of the free world shall not
crumble away through mismanagement or
moral decline"
With these words, Chairman Guy George
GabrielsOn of the Republican National Com
mittee issued a call to the electorate to ioin
the Republican Party in cementing anew the
solid foundations of Americanism upon
which the state must rest if it is to endure.
Never before have the American people
stood IN such position of world responsible
ity.
They, and they alone, can defend the free
nations of the world against Communist
domination They have by their productive
capacity set the nOn-COmmunist nations of
the world upon the path to economic recov-
cry.
1t is staggering burden that the Amer
lean taxpayer has ShOuldered. In the per-
lOd 1945-1951, the American people paid out
IN taxes more than S36,000,000 900 in for
elgn grants and loans. In this fiscal wear.
the American taxpayer will pay out more
than SJO,O00,O00, 600 in foreign economic aid
and IN defense of this nation and the nations
of our allies.
Each American now is paying more than
S4OO year to stem the spread of Commun-
ism throughout the world.
The defense of the free world has become
a buSlnesS-an American business, with
every single American citizen, man, woman.
and child, S400 stOckholder.
The Republican Party offers stockholders
chance to repudiate an inefficient, corrupt,
ssocialistic, bungling Administration It's up
to you.
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
Use Driving Caution
During Winter Months
continued from first pagsl

"You have probably noticed" he
said, THAT drivers find it necessary
to turn on their car lights by o.
clock in the afternoon. This early
darkness creates a danger to pc
destrians that cannot be Overstat-
ed"
We have heard the frightened
driver of a death car say, 1 didn't
see him step into the street at all, -"
Mr.. Jamison said. "At no other
time of the year is this more likely
to be the case than in wintertime,
Dark winter clothes, a dark back
ground and the haste that J have
mentioned earlier on the part of
the pedestrians combine to make
the high death rate among walkers
at this time Of year understand
able"
The Delaware Safety Council
urged Delaware's pedestrians to
slow down, look both ways before
stepping into the street and to re-
member the drivers limitations.
'In wintertime especially" Mr..
Jamison said, I'VE pedestrians must
remember that, while we can see
the lights of an oncoming car sew
eral blocks away, the driver can
not see us until he is just a few
yards from us--and by then, ii may
be too late!"
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
THE GREAT DEBATE
BOUND TWO

In his radio and televisiOn ad-
dress to. the nation last Sunday,
former President Hoover reiterated
his belief of a year ago that the u.
S. should not maintain ground
troops in Europe, and expressed
the hope that the discussion touch
ed off then would be revived. Last
year, Mr.. Hoover said that Ameri-
can troops should not be sent to
Europe. Last Sunday he urged that
those now there be brought home,
except for the forces needed to
protect L. S. air bases outside of
the NATO nations.
by Monday noon, Mr.. Hoover
had at least a part of his wish,
with the Senate in an uprOar. Ad-
ministratiOn supporters (and Re
publican Wayne MOrse) charged
"isOlatiOnism," expect us to be left
friendless in a hostile world if such
counsel is needed Others remem-
Der the famous reply of Secretary
Of State Acheson to Senator BOurke
Hickenlooper Rep) Of Iowa, when
he was asked whether the North
Atlantic Treaty would commit U.
S. soldiers to fight abroad. Said
AchesOn: THE answer. Senator, is
a clear and absolute Mo-"
It is Mr.. Hoover's position that
we should regard the Western Hem
isphere as the final Gibraltar of
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01

/. He suffered five straight losses on
five key foreign policy votes: (a) to keep the
Macarthur investigation closed; (b) to linn
it the number of American troops to be sent
abroad; (c) to increase restrictions to the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; and (d)
to trim the Presidents economic aid pro-
gram for Europe.
2. The Truman forces lost three out of
five key appropriation votes when Congress
voted restriction on use of funds for public
power, and trimmed requests for funds for
public housing and for government hiring.
3. The Administration lost four out of
six key votes on taxes and economic policy
1t lost twice on its request for slaughtering
quotas, once on price rOllbacks and once on
excess profits.
The Administration has ignored the will
of Congress and of the people, In a little
time, it will be defeated by those same people
who are, after all, the government.
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
ANOTHER WHITEWASH?

PRESIDENT truman, who promised the ma
ton thorough housekeeping of his aro-
matte Administration, has turned the lob
over to Attorney General J. Howard Nc
Grath, one Of those considered a candidate
for the broom.
That appointment is absurd, tragic, and
wholely consistent with the Truman line of
whlteWashing the guilty and smearing the
innocent who have had the temerity to de-
mand clean and moral government.
McGrath now assumes the dual role of
prosecutor and accused. He must investi-
gate himself and his Department of Justice
On the record he must find himself guilty
OF misfeasancc IN office; of being negligent
in his duties.
McGrath testified to his own neglect of
duty as Attorney General when he told the
House Committee investigating tax scandals
that he had made no move to fire the TOP tax
prosecutor in his Office, T. Lamar Caudle.
Caudle was fired by President Truman after
his questionable outside activities" includ-
ing the acceptance of favOrs from persons
involved in tax difficulties with the govern
ment, had been disclosed. But McGrath
blandly testified he was not aware of any
Irregularities by his Tax Division chief.
So, the man who didn't know about the
Irregularities in his own Department and
took no action to correct them when they
were brought to his attention, is going to
supervise the Sanitation Squad. McGrath
couldn't find his own dirt; therefore in the
added reasoning of the Trumancrats, he is
the ideal man to seek and root it out else
where.
With McGrath welding the broom, it
it plain that wrongdoers in Government
have little to- fear. Few will be surprised if
McGrath swaps his broom for the white
wash brush used in the attempt to cover
up Communism in Government.
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Taylor
LOOK OUT FOR THE SISTERS
THREE" IN POLITICS

LOOK OUT FOR THE SISTERS
THREE" IN POLITICS
The quadrennial struggle for
"the biggest job in the world" is
often compared to three-ring cir
Gus. But the rumbling we are now
hearing in the distance suggests
Shakespeare rather than Ringing.
For, coming up is an epic that is
complete with signs and portents,"
the clash of armOr, Merlin the
Magician, a rash of soliloquies
... even the Three Fates and their
bubbling pot, to symbolic this
seething world and a suspense
no lion-tamer could produce.
Will Truman run? Will Eisen-
hover run? Could Taft beat Tru-
man . .. or could Eisenhower? Has
Chief Justice VInsOn, like Senator
BTien Mcmahon (but for different
reasOns) eliminated himself? viii
Governor Adlai Stevenson, of Illi-
nOis, get the presidential nod?
Last March President Truman
said he had made up his mind. Last
week he repeated the statement In
the meantime, of course it could
have been unmade, and made up
again. At the time of his State of
the Union address, we would have
said Mr. Truman wants no more
of the presidency Last week, he
told neWsmen he was not tired Of
his job, he considered politics the
greatest game in the world, and
loved playing the game. He also
said that he had never been elected
to a job he really wanted until 1948.
Last week Jim c. Lucas Of
Scripps-Howard (or maybe it was
one of the Fates) scOOped the press
of the nation with a story from the
cozy fireside Of a retired general
up in the snowy Maine woods, VINO
charged his messages to Truman
from Korea were blocked q. mes
sages which he felt would have
prevented differences with General
Macarthur and his subsequent GUS
ter. Assigned to Korea by the
President, for the purpose of keep
ing him personally and directly in
formed, Major General Frank f.
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
~
NO TAX INCREASE

In his Economic Report to the Congress
on January 16, President Truman asked for
more than $5 billion in new taxes. His pro-
gram calls for expenditures of 1854 billion
in the next year.
Mr.. Truman's formal request strongly
crystallized opposition to any tax increase
within both parties.
The present session of the 82nd Congress
will demonstrate that the Truman element
of the Democrat Party still lacks the conf
dence of the Congress and the people.
The record shows how poorly Mr.. Tru-
man Jared in the last session of Congress.
Truman lost out ii times on 20 of the
most significant showdown votes in Con-
gress during the past year:
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
Cancer Detection
Clinics Down State
teontlnusd d from arst -aeel

Cancer in the early stages CAN
be cured in most cases, according
to DR.. George +. Campana Of the
Delaware State Board of Health
Will you be one of the thirty-five
percent of cancer deaths that could
have been prevented If medical
care had started soon enough?
Are you afraid? Fears delay
early diagnosis and a good chance
for cure. Cancer is not necessarily
fatal The danger comes after it
has spread through the body. The
cure depends upon early diagnosis
and treatment, the kind of cancer,
and the location.
Could you recognize the early
symptoms? The danger signals
are:
l. Progressive change in form or
color of any wart, mole or
biTthmaTk.
2. Any sore that does not heal,
especially about the mouth.
3. Persistent hoarsness lasting
more than a few weeks.
4. Painless lump or thickening,
especially in the breast, lip
or tongue.
5. Persistent changes in normal
bowel habits.
6. Unusual bleeding or discharge.
Z. Persistent indigestion or diff
Guilty in swallowing.
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
THberCuLGr Deaths
At NeU State Lou
CONTINUED from FIRST page)

Jersey. 243; New York, 25.5; Vir-
ginia, 27.5; Maryland, 1873.
"In 1850, Delaware ranked 18th
among the 48 states. The improve
ment in 1851 will no doubt place us
in a more favorable position. With
the application of present control
measures, it is estimated that the
rate should be in the vicinity OF 10
deaths per 100000 within the next
decade"
DR.. Hudson continued:
There was also a reduction IN
the number of cases of tuberculo-
sis reported. There were 273 re-
ported cases in 1851 against 315 III
1850. This is the first year since
the expanded case-finding program
was started in 1916 that there has
been a substantial reduction in the
number of new cases found. This
indicates that the control measures
which have been applied are eX-
tremely effective.
The decrease may be expected
to continue even though case-find-
ing activities are intensihed. For
example, there were 4,400 more
case-finding X-rays taken in 1851
than in 1850, yet the number OF
cases found was decreased by AZ
The mobile X-ray unit also took l.
100 large x rays for check-up and
diagnnstic service at the 70 clin-
les held during the year outside OF
Wilmington. The X-rays for the
12S clinics held in Wilmington were
taken at Brandywine SanatOrium or
by the X-ray department of the
Delaware Anti-TuberculOsis Socie-
ty.
Despite this rapid and crafty
ing progress, tuberculosis still re-
mains one of our important pub
lie health problems. The final vic
tory over the disease will require
even more vigorous action in the
years that lie ahead"
Milford chronicle., 1952-02-01
Come N Get It

WITH THE FIRST MARINE d.
VISION IN KOREA-(P)-Staff Sgt.
Roy l. Watson. Jr., q battalion
mess sergeant from Denison, Tex,
has hint for the housewife who
can't rouse her family for break
fast:
Just have a battery Of Marine
rockets fire at daybTeas.
Leathernecks who have stood a
fighting vigil all night usually
would rather sleep than attend
breakfast. But when Sgt. Watson
learned the rockets were going to
fire on a Communist-held hill at
daybreak he had the foresight to
scramble a full ration Of eggs. Five
minutes after the last roar Sgt.
Watson had the chow-line going. A
full complnmout Of wide-awake
Nar.nes va, there i. hungry. ta7.