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Evening star., 1952-09-03
Isolated Community
Maurine Waechter.

When you live in the country, trans
portation is always problem. If you
live in the southern part Of Prince
Georges County, it becomes an almost
insurmountable obstacle to normal liv-
ing. Residents Of this part Of the
county scan the newspapers in vain for
any news Of q forthcoming improve
ment in their sad lot. From T. B.
Junction south to Aquasco, q distance
Of some II miles. there is no public
transportation Of any kind.
Families in this forgotten area are
forced to own cars whether or not they
can afford to maintain them. Very
seldom can q family afford two cars
which means that after the man of the
family goes to work, the lady of the
house stays at home unless she is
fortunate enough to have q neighbor
who has the use Of the car during the
day.
I wish that someone Gin the know"
about this situation would make some
sort Of statement to account for it.
This Is an area which has built up
great deal during and after the war.
Many people have moved into it, ex-
pecting some sort Of improvement in
the transportation situation, only to
sell out and buy elsewhere.
Louise B. Thomas.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Letters to The Star

my children's safety and not to the re-
mote possibility Of their premature
death by one Of our planes.
Plane noises and crashes can be COM
pletely eliminated today only by ground
ing all planes and hating the build-up
OF air power so vitally necessary to our
national security.
One other point is "who was there
first airport or r. M? Obviously
II r. M. moved into q house near an
already existing airport. he has no room
for complaint. If, on the other hand, he
lived there before the airport was built,
why didn't he exercise his inherent Am
erican right to get up petition to pro-
test the construction OF such an airport?
In all fairness, cannot see how r. M.
has any justification of his complaint.
The airlines have already modified
their operations out of Washington con-
siderably since the New Jersey incident.
On recent flights in and out of Washing
ton Airport. was made aware Of the
sleeper rate Of climb and descent, indi-
eating real effort to ease the noise fac
tor. This indicates that the pilots keep
as much altitude as they safely can, as
long as they can, before gliding down to
the runway for landing. Similarly, on
take-offs. they get up" as soon as pos
sible.
John r. Mueller.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

They are very nice down at the Ma
tional Geological Park about taking In
and caring for wounded or helpless baby
birds.
This Is q free service to the people Of
Washington unknown to most persons.
u
They have cages down there, in which
the birds are placed. Surgical and medi-
cal care are given, II needed; mounds OF
special food are offered.
At the proper time. the birds are set
free in the Zoo grounds. Robins. in
particular, need to 60 with the crowd.
They join other migrating robins, and
fly back with them to the South.
Recently, young robin was found in
nearby Chevy Chase.
He was put in q cardboard box. and
given the best food. including round
steak-and you know what that costs
as well as liver. Not beef liver. either,
but calls liver.
He thrived, or throve, as one chooses.
but it simply would not learn to eat for
and by itself.
Now, there are two things every robin
must learn-to fy by itself and to eat
by itself.
The fiying comes naturally. rs the
song said, but the eating is sometime
else.
Some baby birds keep On demanding
to be fed. both by their natural parents,
Evening star., 1952-09-03

II and when the Soviet dictatorship ever decides
either from desperation or other causes-to
make the gamble, the gamble will be made
That is why we cannot afford to rely excessively
on the deterrent influence Of our strategic air
power. Although it undoubtedly has played key
role in averting war up to now, it is by no means
a sure guarantee Of continuing peace, and we
must therefore build up and maintain balanced
military strength, including whatever is needed
to defend our cities against A-bomb attacks.
General vandenbergs statement. though reas-
suring, does not warrant the slightest degree of
complacency on that score.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Scoreerow

With tCildly pointing arms he fails
At birds and passing tourists eyes,
Regarding each encroach upon
His green domain NTH shocked sur
prise.
But croiUs are crafty things: they knoiD
He cannot run. and 50 they eat;
Munich unpeYturbed Nth Taucous ca,us:
BelsltGzzGr's feast In ,Dinter wheGt.
And children find the company
Ot ScarecToto Is not really bad:
Despite fierce eyes, strGtD face, he looks
Somehow familidrly like Dad.
Frederick EbFisht
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Where's the 'DiIemmo'?

Governor Stevenson, in his speech at Ham
tramck, Michigan, has made much of what he has
called General Eisenhower's impossible dilem-
ma" in the field of foreign policy. The dilemma,
however, seems to add up to something good
deal less than solid campaign issue, either
major or minor.
The point made by Mr. Stevenson is that many
Republican Congressmen-"a large proportion
Of his party's members in the Senate, and more
than half of them In the House"-hav consist
entity opposed the foreign policy favored by Gen.
eral Eisenhower and that therefore the general.
IL elected President, would be hard put to carry
out that policy effectively. Accordingly, because
the Democrats are relatively one in this field.
the Governor, if the victor in November, could
count on legislative support that would enable
him to do better job internationally than the
former supreme military commander OF the
Atlantic alliance:
In presenting this argument, Mr.. Stevenson
Is right only up to point, and the point is not
very well taken. It is true of course, that General
Eisenhower like his partys platform, does not
differ with the essentials (the principles as dis
tinct from some of the methods) of the foreign
policy that the Truman administration has been
following 1t is true too, that numerous G. O. P.
Congressman have repeatedly voted against that
policy But to cite these facts is not to tell any
thing like the full story. To tell the full story
requires the citing of this additional fact That
such historic projects as the Greek-Turkish aid
program, the Marshall Plan and the North At
lantic Treaty Organization have been the work OF
q great bipartisan coalition including most Re-
publicans in the Senate and very large percent
age Of them in the House.
Given such circumstances, it is altogether
reasonable to assume that General Eisenhower,
II he becomes President, will have at least as
much Republican support (probably considerably
more) as Mr.. Truman has had in the interna-
tional sphere It is also altogether reasonable to
assume that the overwhelming majority OF Demo-
cratic Senators and Representatives will con-
tinue, as in the past, to favor the substance OF
the foreign policy favored by him. In other words,
If he wins in November, it is about as certain as
the coming of tomorrow that he will have the
legislative backing needed for effective world
action to safeguard the Nations vital interests.
To argue otherwise is to suggest that many
Of the Republicans and Democrats who have
long been firmly committed to projects like the
NATO alliance will reverse themselves after the
November elections, q prospect that is about as
unrealistic as the impossible dilemma" dreamed
up by Governor Stevenson.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Huzurds of Aviotion

I sincerely sympathize with "R. NJ"
whose son was awakened recently by q
plane flying low over Arlington and hope
he may soon find some comfort in the
thoughts am jotting down here.
The reference to Elizabeth. N. j.,
should be looked at fairly. This airport
had operated successfully for over q
quarter Of a century since its last fatal
accident Of similar nature involving
small two-passenger plane. And this is
only one of thousands Of similar airports
throughout the world with similar ex-
cellent records.
The number of takeoffs and landings
during that time is probably in the mil
lions including many bombers which our
men and women ferried to Europe dur
ing the war-all without incident. Fur
ther, I doubt il the insurance cost on
homes covering such accidents was in
creased any as a result Of the New Jersey
accidents, for the arithmetical probabili-
ties Of similar occurrences are millions to
one.
On the other hand, look how automo-
bile insurance rates are climbing. Think
Of the millions who have been killed or
crippled for life by automobiles. There
is where would direct my concern for
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Democrat Switches
John p. Cowan.

Although am a trade unioniSt and
q lifelong Democrat, shall not vote for
Adlai Stevenson. have many reasons
for considering him an unsatisfactory
person to be President.
His nomination was stolen for him.
He did not steal it himself. But It was
stolen for him. The choice Of the Demo-
cratic people Of America, Estes Kefauver,
was brushed aside by Truman and Arvey.
Stevenson has never yet said that he
favors outright repeal of the Taft
Hartley Act. He has merely urged
notifications" But the CIO leaders
back Stevenson anyway. I am a CIO
member myself Why has Philip Murray
sold out to Truman and Stevenson,
after Murray has told me and the other
CIO members for more than i've years
that the Taft-Hartley Act must be re-
pealed?
AS father. don't want to see the
White House stamp Of approval on di-
vorce. It is q bad example for children.
Stevenson Is in the Dean Acheson
"rich boy" tradition. He does not have
the common touch. He does not truly
understand the problems of ordinary
citizens. nor does he have real respect
for democratic procedures. II he had a
respect for the democratic way, he would
have tried for the nomination in the
manly, democratic way, by entering the
primaries, as Kefauver did.
shall cross party lines on election
day for the first time in my life and
cast my vote for Dwight Eisenhower.
b. C. Swanson.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Mothers at School Crossings

am often amazed and indignant at
mothers who have taken the time and
consideration to haul their own chill
dren to school entrances In the rain, but
who have no consideration for children
who are not so fortunate as to have a
ride and are collected in groups at
corners near the school, and near the
hour when they will be marked tardy.
have held out my hand and stopped,
and called to the patrol boy that will
wait. and while he is getting 10 or IL
started across the street Che has to make
sure first that the way is clear on the
intersection street some woman whom
I have seen letting her child out min
ute before will honk impatiently for me
to not block her way. Shame on such
women!
Marine WaAchter
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Welcome in AtIonto !.

It Is interesting-and reassuring-to read
in the news that General Eisenhowers aides were
startled" by the size of the turnout and the en-
thusiasm Of his welcome in Atlanta.
It is interesting because it tends to confirm
the impression that the Eisenhower strategists
have been too ready to write of the South; re-
assuring because it may lead to serious effort
to bring some Southern States into the Republic
can column. The reaction of an Atlanta crowd
to a Republican candidate can be quite diff
ferent thing, of course, from the reaction OF the
voters in Georgia's red clay hills. But General
Eisenhower does have chance to break the solid
South this year, and if that should come to pass
it would do as much anything else to revitalize
the two-party system in this country.
General Eisenhowers Atlanta speech also
marked the beginning Of his real campaign. It
was the first of the promised speeches in which
he would take on the gloves and really 60 after
the administration.
On this score the speech was no disappoint-
ment. He decried the "clatter of the propaganda
mills and the clamor of the crisis factories oper
ated in Washington by the present administra-
tion." He lashed out at corrupt government by
"too many men who are too small for their jobs,
too big for their breeches and too long in power"
He refurbished Rooseveltian phrase to pledge
himself not to rest until "the peddlers of privi
lege and the destroyers of decency are banished
from the Nations house."
This is not deep stuff and it is not high-level
campaigning. The Democrats can be expected to
view it with the simulated disdain Of men who
have caught some one stealing their own thunder.
But it is good rough and tumble politics-tne
kind of thing that many voter has been waiting
for.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
'Dred Scott Decision

President Truman rose to new heights of
irresponsibility in describing the Supreme Courts
ruling in the steel-seizure case as "the modern
Dred Scott decision those six justices put OUT
1t is not clear just what was meant by this
presidential aside. Mr.. Truman himself probably
doesn't really know. But the implication is plain
enough. It was a slurring remark, designed to
picture the six justices as favoring a modern
system of slavery.
The President told his audience that he
would have something more to say later about
the steel case, so it may be that he intends to
pursue this crude and disingenuous attack on the
court. If this is the case however he will find it
difficult to sell this particular piece Of dema-
goguery to even the most gullible listener.
Some people think that the Dred Scott
decision was one which upheld slavery. That,
however, was not the question before the court
It's precise ruling was that Scott, a slave under
the laws of Missouri, had no constitutional right
to sue in Federal court to obtain his freedom.
Had the court stopped there the chances are
that little would have been heard of the Dred
Scott case. But majority of the bench, led by
Chief Justice Taney, went on to say that Congress
had no power to exclude slavery from the terri
tories. This interpreted as supporting slavery,
and it hurled explosive fuel on the controversy
that was leading the Nation to the Civil War.
But what has this to do with the steel
decision? Where is the analogy?
In the first place, the six justices who joined
in the majority opinion were Justices Black,
Douglas Jackson, Frankfurter, Burton and Clark.
What could be more preposterous, more fantasti-
cally irresponsible, than for a President OF the
United States to suggest that they are advocates
or defenders of any system of slavery? In the
past decade or so we have seen truth butchered
in other lands-and the ultimate toll in blood
and suffering was frightful one. This expert
ence should have taught us at least to be careful
of truth in our own land.
Secondly, the courts stand in the steel case
was the very opposite of that which Mr.. Truman
implies. It was stand in behalf of freedom and
against the first step along the road that leads
to the slavery of dictatorship.
Mr.. Truman seized the steel mills under his
I-am-the-law concept of his constitutional pow
ers. The court held that, without authorization
of Congress, he had no power to do this. In other
words, the six justices were reaf1rming the old
doctrine that this is a Government of laws and
that no one-not even the President-could take
the law into his own hands in an attempt to
settle strike.
1t is almost incredible that a President would
allude to this as a modern Dred Scott decision.
That Mr.. Truman did so Is more than mark Of
responsibility. It Is also measure-an ominous
measure-of the extent to which shabby politics
has come to serve in our country as an excuse
for subverting truth and venting personal spleen.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Questions and Answers
By Thomos R. Henry

any question Of fact By either wyiting The
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Evening star., 1952-09-03
HeckIes Ike

Although am q Democrat, I find
myself in almost complete accord with
all the declarations of Candidate Eisen-
hover.
I suspect that soon he will give his
unqualified approval to the. Ten Com
mandments. Then we can all go along,
call of the election with the expense,
fuss and bother Of presidential cam
paign and everybody would be happy.
Ladies and gentlemen. the line will
form on the right for those who desire
to contribute to the great National Me.
Too Memoriall
John p. COwan.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. Why has India's prime minister,
Nehru, dropped the title Pandit?-B. G.
"A. Because titles are forbidden by the
new constitution. The prime minister.
since November 13. 1850. is Shri Nehru.
the Indian equivalent for Mr.. Nehru.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

@. Does the number Of scales on fish
increase as the fish grows in size?--
x. L. T..
A. Although o fish grows as long az
1t lives. it always has the same number
Of scales. Each scale grows as the fish
grows.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

Then Grant turned homewardS, reaching
San Francisco September 81, 1879. after
an absence Of two years and four
months. He came through Golden Gate
in blaze Of glory to find himself al
ready plunged into the fight for third
term.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

didn't dance. Grant fought It out along
the reception line like seasoned dip
lomat.
The trip ended in Japan. Two Of
the most pleasant months were spent
chatting with the Mikado, enduring
endless ceremonials. admiring Fujiyama.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-16

peay Court Is convenient to shopping facilities in dowsowa
Key West Four laundry buildings with eonoperstea wablas
machines and dryers are conveniently located within the spaei
GROUNDS and there are three Fairgrounds for eldren
AZ Sssbee Park. beautiful modem shopping center viii
ample parking space has been provided Among the stoss VII b
iaunaefs large supefnasks with drug and suady depas
msnf . well as soda OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and filing s..o
lhsts are six Fairgrounds for ehidrea
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-16

BEAUTIFUL Comfortable Different
los will Ike both Peary Court and Sgbee Park which
garden type apartment Developments having curved streets with
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free circulation Of prevailing bfsezes,
These unusual, masonry buildings with wide overhangs
second aoor and roof designed especially for Key West climate
consist Of one two and three bedroom units il mufamy stfue
lures and dpexe and also and three bedroam single family
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toH
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Evening star., 1952-07-27
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Evening star., 1952-06-18
NEWLY DISCOVERED PUPIL
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Washington, D. C.-If you
need or wear glasses, you should
be interested In a Washington
Contact Lens firms offer Of their
newly discovered fluidless corneaI
contact lenses, they believe to be
$125.00 to $4,000 value, for only
5000. The reason they are able
to sell them at such q low price
is because they grind the lenses
themselves in their own large
laboratories. Budget payments
are available. These lenses are so
invisible your own friends won't
know you are wearing them.
Made Of plastic, they are so safe,
football players wear them. No
impressions or fluid are needed.
They are tiny-about half the
size Of a dime, featherweight, and
tissue thin. Call at once at D. C.
Invisible Contact Lense Service,
sos 14th st. NV, Suite 203
Westory Bldg. Phone Republic
1888. No. appointment Is neces-
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write for Free Demonstration, or
for Free Booklet. Open Q am. to
8 pm. including Saturdey.
Branches in many principal cities
OF U. s. and Canada.
Evening star., 1952-06-18
Senate Bill Would Permit Rebuilding Of Gas Stations Je

A bill intended to permit two
gasoline stations in Washington to
be reconstructed has been intro
|duced in the Senate.
Sponsored by Senator Clements
Democrat, of Kentucky the meas
|ure would have the effect of per-
|mitting the District zoning Com
mission to allow restoration or re-
construction Of buildings, such as
the two filling stations.
The stations, which the Zoning
Commission has ruled it cannot
permit to be rebuilt, are at Six
teenth and Taylor streets NV
Evening star., 1952-06-18
YugosIov Newspaper
AssoiIs Pro-Russiuns
By fhe Associcted Pre.s

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Yu-
goslavia may crack down soon on
political refugees - particularly
those from Italy-who shirk work
in this country or spread pro-Rus-
sian propaganda.
The Belgrade newspaper Politika,
refecting government views, re-
Gently denounced a minority" of
such refugees abusing this coun-
try's ''fraternal hospitality"
Evening star., 1952-06-18

and Wisconsin and Massachusetts
avenue NV. A bill already has
passed the House to permit re-
building. Hearing on that bill
have been held by a Senate Dis
trict subcommittee.
The new legislation was intro
|duced by Senator Clements, as a
more effective means of taking
care Of such cases. The filing
stations were built originally be-
fore the zoning law became effec-
tive. They now would be In vio-
lation Of the zoning where they
are located.
Evening star., 1952-06-18
BY the Associated Press

President Truman yesterday
called on the Nation to observe
the Fourth of July as day of
prayer at a time "of national
crisis when we are striving to
strengthen the foundations of
lpeace and security"
The President issued a procla-
nation under legislation enacted
in April authorizing a day of
prayer.
He said he deemed it fitting that
the day Of prayer coincide with