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Evening star., 1952-10-28
Some Good in Korea?
w. G. Ridgway.

On October 16, Senator Brewster made
some statements about the Korean situa-
ton which appalled, me. First he sug-
gested that we blockade by water all
vessels carrying war material to our
enemies.
To do this would involve blockading
neutrals and be an open act of piracy.
We went to war on Germany because
she dared do this when we were supply
ing England during the last official war.
Then Senator Brewster suggested we
classify any airfields which send planes
against us as military targets. If this
be the case, then we should also destroy
the plants that build these ships. That.
however. is not the principal danger OF
this suggestion.
We operate from bases in Japan. I
am sure the Japanese would not take
kindly to retaliatory bombings on their
homeland.
The Korean situation, like an i'll wind,
has some good points. It showed how
poor our weapons were at the beginning
of the war. This Korean war is a costly.
but coldly efficient training field. The
scientific knowledge we have gained
there in medicine, ballistics, logistics
and thousand other problems may pay
dividends in saving untold millions of
lives in the future.
We've got to stay in Korea until the
other side quits. I know parents with
sons over there will not agree, but I'm
thinking of the kids of generations to
come.
Martin Buxbaum, Editor.
The Middle Atlantic Association Of
Industrial Editors.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
This and That . .

feature. of listening, as decreed by the
Supreme Court, is extended to the use
of the new anti-sneeze helmets
BY that time the Public Health Service
would get in the act, and through the
combined efforts of both the transit
company and the health service. every
man, woman and child alive could be
compelled to wear them.
This would be just starter, accord
ing to Jones, who thrilled at the idea
of mere compulsion.
"Compulsion," he believes, is the
catchword of the future, just as power"
has been in the days now coming to
an end.
Everybody will. in time. be able to
compel everybody else to do something
or other, it makes little difference what,
just so it compels some one to think,
do, get or be something other than he
naturally would.
Once the anti-sneeze helmet is firmly
clamped on every head, young and old,
the company can lie back with a sigh,
and figure out the next move.
1t ought to be easy, according to
Jones.
Why not compel each bus driver, and
operator of a street car, to check the
breathing capacity of each passenger.
and then charge according?
Picture the bus with the passengers
firmly locked into their seats, their
helmets on tight, their air tubes ad-
juSted.
All the driver will have to do is to
avoid collision with 96 taxis a block,
watch for passengers standing on COR
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Soviet Industrial Dispersal

In addition to it's direct military prepara-
tions the Soviet Union has made important
progress in two respects in its behind-the-lines
build-up for war Revealing data on this post
World War II progress was laid before the recent
meeting of the Communist Party Congress in
Moscow.
The first measurement was contained in
statistical report on the increases in Soviet in
dustrial production; the second in a breakdown
of these figures that revealed the extent to
which the basic industries and their production
centers have been dispersed. For example, steel
production in European and Asiatic Russia
combined was about 1874 million tons in 1910.
For 1851 this total had reached 314 million tons,
with the present annual rate estimated at 35
million TONS The clue to the dispersal, however,
is in the fact that the European Russian pro-
duction had risen from 12.4 to only 1874 million
tons while that turned out east of the Ural
Mountain range had jumped from 6 million
to 16 million.
The story on pig iron is similar, and one of
the Congress speakers declared that Chelya-
binSk Province alone, in the UralS area, is now
producing more iron, steel and rolled metal
than all of Czarist Russia did in 1918. The value
of this disclosure is in the fact that total Russian
production in these categories in 1918 was only
AZ million tons, leading to the belief that the
present Magnitogorsk works in Chelyabnsk has
become a major producer.
Equally significant are the comparative sta
tstics on oil. In 1940 the Baku- Caucasus area
produced almost q million tons of OIL rated as
80 per cent of total Russian production. Today,
this area is reported producing less-about %
million tons-but 1t constitutes only so per cent
of total production Most productive of the
newly expanded oil regions is that between the
Volga River and the Urals where 19 million tons
were produced in 1851 as against only million
in 1940
The Importance of these dispersions, of
course, lies in the decreased vulnerabity to
military attack. The theoretical center of
Russia's heavy-industry production is now ap-
proximately 1000 miles farther east than it was
during World War II. During that period the
important Ukraine and Donets basin region was
overrun by Axis troops, cutting off coal and
metal production and forcing shutdown of the
threatened Caucasus oil fields The eastward
movement of the industrial center and the
scattering of facilities add substantially to the
safety Of Russia's increasing potential for
making war.
1t is a development which should have
high place in the calculations of those attempt
ing to evaluate Soviet plans and capacity.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Price of Prosperity Too Hiqh

A favorite topic of columnists is the
behavior of the so-called independent
voter. Since most of them are biased,
there is little wonder that they throw
more heat than light on the subject.
There are just three types of voter:
The party faithful. He made up his
mind five years or more ago. He just
blindly follows the party line. Issues
mean nothing and who the candidate
will be means less. The word has come
down the line. He votes all the time.
Then there is the largest segment:
The disinterested voter He is the rea-
son for all the advertisements, slogans,
etc. They hope to get him out. To
stir him up you must promise him some
thing; have a car to get him to the
polls and take him home. He believes
all politicians are alike anyway so it
doesn't make much difference who wins
Then comes the So-called independent
voter. I have been one all my life. He
watches the combinations of possibilities
at convention time, and after the can
didates have been selected, it takes him
about one week to make up his mind.
This idea of people waiting until the
last minute to make up their mind is
nonsense. The polls show fair per-
centage undecided. This is nothing
more or less than a polite way of telling
the pollSter that it is none of his buSi-
ness.
For my own part I must choose be-
tween Stevenson and Eisenhower. I take
into consideration the relative expert
ences and abilities Of the two individuals.
The platforms mean nothing. They are
designed to be for everything that will
pick up a vote and against everything
that might lose vote.
Now 1 take the main issue Of the
Democrats-proSperity and the main
issue of the Republicans-Korea. Then
conclude that if the price I must pay
for this so-called prosperity is the death
of my son, or the boy down the street
for that matter, then the price is too
high.
How can possibly live with myself If
I have fine home, a fine car and money
in the bank, II it has been obtained by
the exchange of the life of young boy
fighting against some far-off goddess
oaf?
The present administration has had
20 years to prevent these things and yet
things are far more worse than when
they started. Stevenson agrees with
what has been done and indicates he
will follow through with the same proc
ess. Eisenhower disagrees with what has
been done and in the past has proved
he can do something about these things.
Since the basic concept seems to be
to vote for what is good for me person.
ally, then I vote to keep my son alive If
at all possible. Therefore I vote for
Eisenhower.
w. G. Ridgway.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Montgomery School Boord

I take this way of pointing out to
your Montgomery County readers fact
omitted from the otherwise fine coverage
your paper and others have been giving
the campaign for the countys first
school board election
-Four posts are to be filled on the
school board in this first election. A
group of forward-looking citizens, to in
sure well-qualified persons running for
these offices, formed committee last
summer and Endorsed four candidates,
whom they are actively supporting.
However, 10 persons actually qualified
as candidates. Despite the fact that all
10 are appearing at many civic meet
ings so that the voters may hear and
see them, the erroneous impression has
circulated that the four candidates in
dorsed by the committee must be voted
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Strange Honeymoon

There is strong and not unnatural sus-
picion that the decision by John L. Lewis to
order his miners back to work has more than
a purely coincidental connection with the fact
that the election lies but one week in the future
This cannot be proved, and one stabilizaton
official has denied there is any IDEAL" with Mr.
Lewis According to Sterilization Director Put
nam, Mr.. Lewis has not been promised the full
$19O wage increase for his miners after the
election if he gets them back to work now.
Taking this at face value, however, it by
no means follows that this strange honeymoon,
which finds the President guiding Mr. Lewis on
personally conducted tour of the White House,
is thing apart from political considerations.
The coal strike-a strike in open, blatant
and abusive defiance of the Government-was
bad politics for the Democrats. The President
had given no public sign he was aware that
strike was in progress, and in yesterdays an
nouncement he referred delicately to the "con-
tinued inactivity of the mines" But the voters
knew about the strike and some of them were
not pleased with the spectacle of this trucking
attitude the part of a President who has
made career out of beratng the selfish inter-
ests" on the other side of the political fence.
An even more serious political consideration,
from the Democratic viewpoint, was the attitude
of the miners With their families, they cast
in important States where the issue is close. If
even few thousand miners were to stay away
from the polls in spirit of pique denial
of the full wage increase, the effect might be
disastrous for the Democrats
So it is asking too much to expect that either
the Truman statement or the Lewis statement
be taken at face value The lion of the coal
fields has not suddenly become lamb, and, deal
or no deal, his roars will be heard again through
out the land after the election If the full wage
increase is not forthcoming in one way or
another.
The thing to watch is the exact nature of
such settlement of this issue as may be made.
The chairman of the Wage Sterilization Board,
Archibald Cox, has said that the miners are not
entitled to the full amount under the existing
stabilization formula, Should the full amount
be granted, Mr. Cox said, 1--WE would know and
the American people would quickly perceive, that
we had used f1imsy excuses to justify wage
increase actually greater than any consistent
with an honest stabilization program" This kind
of stabilizaton, he added, would be fraud"
Mr. Lewis retorted that this was "attempted
thievery" by flour agents of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers (the industry members
of WSB), aided by professor from the Harvard
Law School (Mr. Cox and his tmid trio of
dilettante associates Ohe other public men,
bers)"
Here it would seem, we have the makings
of a showdown battle between Government,
on the one hand and Mr.. Lewis on the other.
The winner will be announced-but not until
after the election.
Evening star., 1952-10-28

days; that persons of low degree-prat-
fall comics. ladies of the chorus and
feature burlesque beauties-exercised
their peculiar talents for patrons of
equally vulgar taste.
Professional do-gooders. pseudo-reli-
gious groups and embittered old maidens
alike, must have bleated with pleasure
over that article. as they no doubt did
over the demise of burlesque shows in
Washington. Presently. folks of low
taste have only the dime peep shows
in the Ninth street arcadeS to turn to
for their kicks. These too are soon to
60 by the board-so reports show. This
may be just as well, for the dime
movies play up sex and ignore comedy.
The Gayety at least made an attempt
to balance the two.
Yes, score another point against those
who get more Of kick out of a low
brow evening than a cultured evening.
The pool hall gang and others of their
vulgar ilk had better take up culture
and stop their swearing, knock off their
double negatives and tear down their
pin-ups. When they do so they'll be-
come proper hammered Washingtonians
and better Americans all-around.
Such a condition will be especially
appropriate under the present world
conditions. AS every one knows. when
it comes to fighting war nation Of
playwrights and string quartet musicians
can bat the tar out of nation Of
roughnecks.
think we've got rough parallel to
this in the history of China some TOO
years ago. Old, illiterate Ghengis Khan
rode into North China on horseback.
leading a conquering army. His great
grandson, driven out by another Mongol
army, rode gentle-gaited donkey, COM
posing sonnetS. Curly Bill.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Objects to Headline

am disturbed by The Stars presenta-
ton of the last report of the Chelf COM
mittee on liquor companies. Milton S.
Kronheim and Commissioner F. Joseph
Donohue were seemingly linked in
headline with an alleged attempt to in
fluence the Department of Justice. The
headline produced reflection by grada-
tion upon two worthy citizens. On the
other hand, the story did not support
the inference.
With respect to Mr.. Kronhem, the
subcommittee showed only that he him
self contributed to the Democratic
Party, and that as a member of the
Democratic National Finance Commit
tee of the party he solicited funds for
the party. These facts have been amply
publicized over the years. Mr.. Donohue
is mentioned only in a very brief man
ner and merely as a contributor, with
out reference to specific contributions.
The Star has q deserved reputation
for handling news accurately. I feel
that on this occasion it has hurt its own
reputation, and has wrongly injured two
of the Districts leading citizens.
In passing, it would seem almost un-
necessary to 60 into the merits, as had
been done by the subcommittee. But in
any event we must agree that many
companies and corporations of numerous
legitimate business fields make such
contributions to political parties. In
fact, I thought that we had repealed
the 18th Amendment to our Constitu-
ton.
John B. Duncan,
D. c. Federation of Civic Associations
Editors note: The Star does not
agree that the story failed to support
the headline. The head stated: "Kron-
helm, Donohue Mentioned in Report of
Chelf Group" Both were named, Mr..
Kronheim being given more space than
MIR. Donohue.)
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Silent Purtner

He crossed his knees once more and
closed his eyes
To bring in closer that far enterprise
Tracking the red for in an early snotUi
"OutSndrtin' hin's the only 1Cdy knoW;
He's keen and darin'-eaoer fer chase
Through wooded land. across an open
space,
His rusty color bright agin the day.
OutSmartin' himS the dad burned only
tDdy!"
The old man lived the tor-hunt from
his chair
Forgetting in his recount I Uds there
Acclaiming silently the tors trim
Stream-lined ability to outsn1art hirni
Helen Boxer Adoms
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Land Grub' From Viroiniu

Far be 1t from me to cast any asper-
sion upon the legal attainmentS of Com
missioner Camalier. He is a lawyer and
l am only an engineer. But fail to see
how he can possibly construe the word
ing OF Article l. Section 8, clause II Of
the constitution to cast any doubt upon
the power of Congress to retrocede to
Virginia, as it did in 1846, that portion
OF the original District of Columbia
which lay south of the Potomac River.
The aforesaid portion of the Consti-
tuition does not say that Congress shall
exercise exclusive legislation" over the
area to be ceded for "the seat of the
Government of the United States" It
says Congress shall have power to do
so. 1t does not say that this area shall
be ten miles square. It says it shall not
exceed ten miles square. 1t does not say
that Maryland or Virginia, or any other
State or States shall cede such an area.
1t says that an area or district may be
ceded by particular States" for this
purpose.
This provision was inserted in the
Constitution to provide place for "the
seat of the Government" where Congress
would have all the powers of a State,
would, in fact, be the State. This was it's
sole purpose. Since every State has the
power to create municipalities exercis-
ing local self government" in the words
OF the Supreme Court in the case of
Stoutenburgh v. Hennick (129 u. S. 141),
1t was clearly not intended that Con-
gress would deprive the people who in
habit this area of the rights of citizenship
which are guaranteed elsewhere by the
constitution, nor relegate them to the
status of colonial peoples whose sole
junction is to provide revenue for a gov
ernment in which they have no part.
Yet that is what Congress has done to
us, and is the main reason why our mu-
nlclpal facilities are deficient, outmoded
and IN bad repair. Congress has no re-
spect for people who refuse to stand
up Tor their rights because some of them
think they benefit by the present situa-
t1on and others are afraid of democracy
in local affairs
It would better become the Commits
sioners, who have repeatedly asserted
their belief IN home rule for the District,
to press for that goal rather than at
tempt to grab additional territory for
taxation purposes.
Kenneth p. Armstrong.
Would the Commissioners hold that
Congress having accepted cession of
land for fort or navy yard but no
longer recognizing need of it for that
purpose, could not give it up without a
constitutional amendment? Federal con-
troll over such land is in the very same
clause of the Constitution, covered by
the very same terms, as the land ceded
for the seat of government.
With the expansion of the Capitals
metropolitan area, it is open to argu-
ment that the Act of 1846 was unfor-
tunate, and even that a separate po-
litical unit for the seat of Federal Gov
ernment should nowadays have a still
larger area than the ten-nile square
the trainers of the Constitution con-
sidered ample. But the problems of
the Districts inconvenient boundaries
will have to be met in some better way
than forcing a probably unwilling seq
ment of Virginia back into the District
by constitutional fiat.
George w. Hodgkins.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Letters to The Star

for as sort of package deal, and that
no two candidates from any one district
may be voted for.
The election board has ruled that all
candidates in this first election are to be
elected at large, not by districts. Voters
may mark their ballots for any four
or lesS-of the candidates. whether or
not they have committee Endorsement.
E. p. Bielefeldt.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Shocking Cartoon

The october 20 cartoon showing Eisen-
hower's picture smeared with the
Swastika was the most shocking thing
have seen in the campaign-including
the TRADES and histrionics of Nixon. To
me, no mud thrown has approached the
blackness represented by that cartoon.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
The Passing Show

Jay Carmody finds great joy in con-
sidering the fact that refurbished
Gayety Theater is providing acts of high
degree and that gentle thespians now
trod the stage of time degraded
Striptease center" He also indicates
that this theater had once known hard
Evening star., 1952-10-28
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer "a
any question Of fact by either writing Tho
NV, Washington 3, D. c.. and inclosing 3 cents
return postage or by telephoning ST. 1868.
Evening star., 1952-10-28

Why hasn't similar cartoon appeared
depicting hammer and sickle over
the portraits of President Trumen and
Gov. Stevenson, with bucket of mud
in front labeled "Nixon and Ike?
G. B. Y.
Why this mud-slinging cartoon when
the Republican candidate started his
campaign by calling the whole adminis-
tration robbers, scamps, Communists,
etc. AS long as only few speeches in
the campaign are worth preserving. we
may as we'll enjoy the brawl. I am not
100 per cent for Truman. but somehow
I admire this punching little fellow who
does things in his own inimitable way.
even if he doesn't always keep step with
the striped-pants brigade.
Egbert Van Doom.
Evening star., 1952-10-28

Pen-1dn1es may be used II letters carry
tDriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1952-10-28
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Where did the term dude ranch"
originate?-L. M. D.
A. The origin of the term is at
tributed to Howard Eaton, who began
to use his horse ranch in South Dakota
to entertain guests about 35 years ago.
Later he moved to Wolf, Wyo.
@. Is atomic radiation harmful even
in very small quantities Y.
A. No, it is not harmful below a cer-
tain small amount. and its effects are
not cumulative over long periods Of
time. The body easily repairs any
slight damages resulting from small
amounts of radiation.
@. How many dollar bills does It take
to weigh pound?-E. E.
A. About 493
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23
ANNUAL BANQUET

Salem Baptist Church held its
annual banquet in it's lower par
lors. Mrs. Lille Lamson, Mrs. M.
Caldwell Mrs. Z. Johnson were
chairmen with ushers as walters.
MRS. A. Watson presented Ed
Payne, deacon whose birthday
falls on Goth, with a purse from
the circles. Rev. II. w. Donald
son is pastor.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mrs. N. Jamerson Of Ellis Ave.
was dinner hostess to Mr.. and
Mrs. Chris Copeland and Sharon,
Mr.. and Mrs. John White and JAG
queline, Mrs. Ella Williams and
Mrs. Leslie Jamerson and Mr.. w.
L. Marian.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

T-Sgt. Harry Morans and wife
visited at home with Mrs. Moran's
mother and Sgt Moran's mother
in Cincinnati, before returning to
Tampa. Fla. Mrs. White, Mr.. Fill
more Headley and the Morans mo
tored to Bloomington.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mrs. Anna Watson and Mrs. H.
J. Wells spent Xmas in Chicago
with family. Miss Harriet Wat
son is attending Washington Uni
versity at ST. Louis, Mo.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mrs. Agnes Giles, of North
Poplar St, on Xmas. her birth
day, was hostess at dinner to Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Lewis. Mr. and
Mrs. bowl Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Will McDuff.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Nelson and
family returned from Fla, and
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mrs. Anna Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
NJ J. Hall, Mr.. Billy Lilly and Mr..
Sylvester Steele motored to Car
bondalt, over the weekend.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23
MARRIED

NJ ARRIED
Mr.. Phillip G. Wilmot, of New
Jersey and Mrs. Margaret Avery
of Dayton, Ohio, were married
Nov. 22nd. Sgt. Wilmot is sta
toned in okla.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mrs. Elizabeth Uptegrow spent
a few days in Chicago with Mr..
and Mrs. Pete White.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23
Harris.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Aughtry
and daughter, Mrs. Virginia Rod
gers. were hosts to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Smith and family and
Mrs. Ellen Smith of Danville
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

T-Sgt. John A. Barnhart and
Mrs. Barnhart were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. John White, Of
Ellis Avenue.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mr.. Emory White spent Xmas
at Providence. Ky.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Mcneil
of Chicago spent Xmas with par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Cozy Mcneil
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1952-01-23
GOALS
V - ''@

Mrs. Lucille Foster visited in
Chicago.