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Evening star., 1952-06-26

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city's worst health problem.
This. he says. is somewha,
paradoxical. because tuberculosis
incidence can be reduced.
Although the death rate from
tuberculosis here, as everywhere
else, is on the decline. District
health officials feel there are as
many tuberculosis cases In the
city today as there were years ago.
Because of a stepped-up case find
ing program. there were 316 more
new cases discovered last year
than in 1949. And the District
tuberculosis death rate is still the
second highest among the Ma
tion's larger cities.
No Effective Cure.
The wonder drugs have a strik-
ing and encouraging effect In
|prolonging life-but an effective
"cure" has yet to be found. In
fact, the most effective tubercu-
losis therapy-a combination OF
streptomycin and para-ami-osali-
|cylic acids actually complicatine
the tuberculosis treatment prob
lem here.
This is because the District does
not have enough beds for treat
ment Of the known tuberculosis
cases needing immediate hospital
ization. This is not a new situa-
ton. There has always been q
shortage of beds for tuberculosis
patients.
But, bluntly speaking. in the
past there were some beds vacant
from time to time because of the
death rate. Today, in the words
of DR.. Vernon M. Padgett, direc-
tor Of the Health Department.
bureau for tuberculosis, rapid
death is being replaced by pro-
longed life"
Some Remain at Home.
Because of the overcrowdeG
hospital situation, active cases
persons with highly : Infection:
SickneSS-muSt remain at home
until room can be made for them
The victims are warned to re.
main in bed and to isolate them.
selves from their families and
friends. DR.. Padgett ruefully ad-
mits this is a situation something
less than satisfactory. Many ol
the victims live in overcrowdeC
areas where isolation is virtually
impossible. There is nothing ex.
cept a patients own will power
to keep him from visiting friends
returning to work. mingling with
healthy persons.
The Health Department has 3,
public health nurses available fo1
home visits to persons awaitin.
disqualification, or those needin,
occasional check-ups after hos.
pitalization.
The schedule calls for thes,
home visits once a week. Actually
the overworked nurses get aroun,
to each case under Health Depart
ment supervision once every thre,
or four weeks.
I Because no doctors are availabl
for home visits, medication mus
wait until the dangerously infecte,
cases get to the hospital.
Immediate Action Needed.
DR.. Seckinger warns the Distric
has reached the time when some
thing must be done about tuber
culosis Immediately.
I'VE must eliminate tuberculosi
so we can have the funds to con
lcentrate on other other chroni
diseases which are increasing tire
mendously as our population grow
lolder." he says.
An Executive Committee Of
Health Department Citizens Con
ference on tuberculosis is working
ION q long-range program to com
Ibat tuberculosis here. The com
Imittee will present the program
to the Commissioners well ahea,
Evening star., 1952-06-26
lOur Worst Health Problem
tuberculosis Still Biggest Killer
|Of All Communicable Diseases
BY Wallace {. CIoyton

deaths District last year from all
communicable diseases, except tuberculosis.
tuberculosis however. took the lives of 293 residents.
The white plague" the only communicable disease that still
definite public health problem Daniel Secknger District
officer the point
Evening star., 1952-06-26

of inefficiency before the same
State official. The case was re-
manded to the county for a set
tlement which was not effected.
Instead, the trouble developed
into a series of complications
which so far have defied solution.
Four years ago. Miss Hendricks
was accused by eight Of her staff
workers who had the support OF
the director Of the State Welfare
Board. At that time, she was
backed by the county welfare
board and virtually all county Of
ficialS.
Testify Against Her.
The situation yesterday was
somewhat different. Three county
Welfare Board members testified
against her. as did several staff
workers. County officials con-
tinued their support. The State
welfare director took no part.
Commissioner Davis noted the
shift on the part of the county
Welfare Board and the fact that
none of its employees spoke for Miss
Hendricks.
Something has happened" he
observed. "Yes," said Mr.. Pum-
phrey, land we don't know what
it is"
Miss Hendricks yesterday faced
four specific charges filed against
her by the County Board when she
refused to resign after her Suspen-
sion March II. One was that last
January IS she used physical
force against Miss Madeline Nc
Cough. an employee"
Another was that for the last
two years organizations and
agencies having business with the
Prince Georges Welfare Board
were unable to obtain normal busi-
ness decisions from Miss Hend-
ricks." The other two alleged that
for more than two years she has
been unable to maintain the con-
fidence of board members and staff
workers in her ability as ar
administrator.
:. Charges Defended.
John w. Sharper. chairman o1
the county welfare board, and hi
colleagues, Harry T. Jenkins ant
Mrs. G.. w. s. Musgraves, testi.
fed that the charges they flee
were well founded.
Mr.. jenkins said he was par.
ticularly disturbed when HI
learned of the tiff between Mis-!
Hendricks and Miss McGough
Miss McGough did not testify yes.
terday but other employees present
when the affair occurred at Hy.
attsville tried to relate what hap.
pened. So did Miss Hendricks.
AS they told it, door slammed
suddenly struck one or both WON.
en- in the back. There was a brie
silence. then screams. One Of tn.
two shouted, you're q liar
Miss Hendricks seized Miss Nc.
Cough and pumped her in :,
chair, from which she vainly trie,
to wriggle. Calm yourself,
commanded Miss Hendricks.
Evening star., 1952-06-26
July 5 Holiday in Vireinio

RICHMOND, June 26 R.-
Governor Battle yesterday pro-
claimed July a legal holiday.
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Common-Sense News Policy

The revision of the rules regarding release
Of names of military personnel involved in acci-
dents is one that was long overdue. In the
past it has been the policy of military informa-
ton officers to withhold identity of Army, Navy
or Air Force accident victims until the next of
kin have been notified. Delays of up to IL
hours have occurred in identifying victims of
train wrecks, airplane crashes, automobile acci-
dents and other mishaps. Meanwhile, needless
anxiety has been caused families of military
personnel who may have escaped death in a
disaster but who were unable to communicate
with their relatives
Under the modified rules announced by
Defense Secretary Lovett, names of military
personnel will be released as soon as possible
after any accident, whether it involves civilian
or military vehicles, aircraft or trains. The rule
will apply conditionally, however, in the case
of military planes which crash in remote places.
If there is no appreciable damage to civilian
property in such crash and if no civilian
casualties are involved, names and addresses of
military victims may be held up until kin
have been notified. The rules do not, of course,
change the sound regulations against release
of combat casualty lists until next of kin have
been notified. But they do apply a common
sense policy in the Identification of soldiers,
sailors, Marines and airmen who are casualties
on the home front.
Evening star., 1952-11-01

The closest you can come to reviving
the old Washington is to go down to
work on Saturday morning.
To work, on Saturday. except in few
instances, is to be strictly behind the
times
It is badge of the work-a-day world
not to work on Saturday,
Men are secretly guaged by whether
they do or do not work on the magic
day.
It is all right. in certain circles. to
cut the lawn on Saturday, even on SUM-
day. but you lose face" if you do what
is regarded as real work.
For one thing, going down on Satur-
day morning gives you little extra
room in bus, not much, but little.
You at least have room for your
toes.
Before that. however, the very face
of ones neighborhood is changed.
There are no roaring cars, zooming
at you in an apparent effort to run
you down.
There is no neighbor afoot, either.
You, and you alone. have the whole
street and all the sidewalks to yourself.
You can step on all the iron covers
in the street without evoking any smiles.
Once aboard the lugger (bus) you find
the man at the tiller (wheeD just
dragging along.
We have never been able to figure
out whether no starts early, out Of uni
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Letters to The Star. y

fore, have nothing to do with the end
result that we are seeking. The differ
ences apply to method"
Peter L. Gilsey.
You speak editorially of Gov. Steven
sons attempt to hold Gen. Eisenhower
personally responsible for the Nixon
Mccarthy type of campaign, and to
imply that they had the generals bless
ing" In indorsing Mccarthy and Nixon,
there is no question that Gen. Eisen-
hover is personally responsible for their
despicable tactics. for if he is the leader
you claim that he is, can he not control
them?
He tries to avoid acceptance of this
responsibility by saying that his goals
and those Of Nixon and Mccarthy are
the same: that the only difference be-
tween them is in method" You must
realize that very great difference be-
tween democracy and dictatorships,
such as those in Russia and in Nazi
Germany, is difference in method"
Their methods deny freedom of speech
and opinion to their citizens. Their
methods also mean that those who
disagree with them and say so publicly
may land in concentration camps. We
don't want those methods" in the
United States.
Alice McA. Lee.
Evening star., 1952-11-01
BY Charles E. Trocewen

thoroughfare, and there you stood, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, long ago,
realizing that you were seeing some
thing you would never see again.
Times change, and with them men,
and buildings
On Saturday mornings, today, persons
who use their own cars on no other day
venture out with them, and park them
behind the old Post Once Department
building.
It is melancholy sight that greets
one who knew the old days.
The back platform, where mail was
received for the City Post Once, then
part Of the building, is now o junk
filled place.
There Is a certain satisfaction in going
down to work when most other people
stay home. It lies in just being different.
: To be the same. today, seems to be the
be-all and end-all Of humanity, both in
America and everywhere else. We
should beware Of priding ourselves on
our freedom. when we hedge ourselves
in with herd instincts, herd ways of liv-
ing and thinking. and acting.
About the only way one can be in
dividual any more is to 60 to work on
Saturday.
II you pride yourself on not going.
nisIn, are catching up with you. and may
even have caught you. though you do
not know 1t. and may not admit 1t.
Evening star., 1952-11-01
This and That

versal impatience. or just manages to
on.
However it is, you poke down town
at a rate reminiscent of public vehicles
in the good old COS.
Your usual misfortune holds good.
The fat lady, draws a bead on your
seat. She threads her majestic way
through the passengers, and even passes
two vacant places, to throw herself
down beside you.
You are crushed
Squirming to one side, you manage
two more inches of space for her, but it
does no good. She lops over the edge
as much as ever.
Even Saturday morning cannot pre-
vent this.
When you dismount from the 1um-
ber wagon, you find the face of down
town Washington changed.
There are people, of course, but few,
so few that you, as an old timer, in
voluntarily think of the day some As
years ago-a Saturday afternoon it was
when you stood on the steps Of the
Old Post ONCE Department and dis
covered that there was not a vehicle
in sight up or down Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
II is unbelievable, to recall it; you
doubt the evidence Of your senses Of
recollection. But it was true. Not q
vehicle In sight, UP or down the famous
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Books Byrd
Alice McA. Lee.

think that we will all agree that It
is due to the able leadership of Senator
Byrd that the State Of Virginia is debt
free and financially stable. feel that
Senator Byrd. in his address, was being
as honest and sincere with the people
OF Virginia as could be expected of any
man. Here was man speaking from
his heart, one who could not indorse a
party which has failed it's people miser-
ably by poor administration. I am proud
that it is our Senator who hits so hard
at the waste and extravaganza in our
defense program which I. as a vet
eran, have witnessed.
Let me cite an incident of this ex,
travagance which occurred while was
attached with salvage unit in the
South Pacific. We were instructed to
destroy 60-odd Pratt Whitney airplane
engines which still bore the Grating and
preServative coating which they were
shipped in. These were supposedly OBJ
solete. However, just yesterday I saw
one of our planes, Curtiss observation
type, which I am certain is propelled
by one Of these engines. This type of
waste is inexcusable yet it occurs every
day and is costing the taxpayer millions
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Consummution

II man iDere only furnished ,pith ken.
The chest might be unlocked and
hope, long dead.
ReUired-tor buried In his memory
There Is faith he has inherited.
II once his heart Were Quickened, as
lrith spring,
He could not then be satisfied with
less
Than all the splendor of its bur-
0eoning-
With lore supplanting hurt and Bit
ternesS.
Who knotus-the treasure In the chest
could be
The lonoed-tor tDish OF many barren
yedf-
II It were granted and mans spirit
free,
He pould escape the tyranny Of tear.
Helen Carson Jonssen
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Question Six in Virqiniu

Common sense. economy and the prin-
ciple OF State rights dictate that all
voters in Virginia vote against Question
on the November 4 ballot.
This proposition would empower the
General Assembly of Virginia to appro-
pirate and pay over to the Board Of
Control Of Southern Regional Educa-
tion such funds as may be required for
the establishment, acquisition operation
and maintenance of such regional edu-
catlonal institutions as may be author
lied under the terms of a compact en-
tered into by IA Southern States.
The Congress in 1948 refused to give
its consent to the compact on regional
education entered into by Southern
States at Tallahassee, Florida, February
8, 1948.
Regional educational institutions will
not solve the problem of equal educa-
tional opportunities for Negroes on the
graduate and professional levels.
The United States Supreme Court has
settled the issue by making mandatory
the admission of qualified Negro appli-
cants to State-supported universities
If the courses such applicants seek are
offered at the white institutions but
are not available to them at the cor
responding Negro institutions.
1t is legally questionable whether any
State has the power to spend money
outside of its own boundaries for the
maintenance and operation of regional
educational institutions.
Instead of attempting to maintain
and operate triangular system of high
er education-white, Negro and regional
it appears that it would be wiser for
the Commonwealth of Virginia to put
all of the taxpayers money it is spend
ing for higher education into one sys-
tenn, making it comparable to the best
in the Nation.
Louis r. Lautier.
Chief, National Negro
Press Association.
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Gets Out the Voters

In November, 1948. only 81 per cent
of the eligible voters in the United States
exercised their personal right to vote.
while countries like Australia, with 96
per cent in 1851, and Canada with "a
per cent in 1949. put us to shame.
Surely we owe it to ourselves to raise
our percentage considerably this No
vember 4.
Let us not forget that Hitler first came
to power in legitimate election. All his
followers took great care not only to vote
but to get others who thought the Nazi
way to vote. The millions of good Ger
mans who didn't bother little realized
they were helping Hitler and bringing
death and destruction to themselves by
their very neglect.
So make your choice to the best Of
your ability and cast your vote, one
that is as important as any ether. If
your are satisfied with the present state
Of affairs: stalemated war in Korea,
the third such conflict to be credited to
Democratic administrations. the other
two being World Wars I and II; Fed
eral program which consists of spending
more money than the amount Of revenue
received, and centrally controlled gov
ernment that usurps the constitutional
rights of the individual States. then you
will very likely wish to vote Democratic.
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Dancers From Bali

Because Of the seating limitations Of the
Lisner auditorium, only 1902 persons could wit
ness the first Washington performance Of the
talented dancers from the island of Bali in what
once were known as the Dutch East Indies. Sun
day evenings audience was assembled by courtesy
of the Ambassador of Indonesia in aid of the
United Nations international Chidren's Emer-
gency Fund. To say that it is to be hoped that
the troupe may return here is but to express the
wish of hundreds, if not thousands of people,
including many who do not pretend to know any
thing about the art of dancing, as well as many
who are capable of critical judgment.
The Balinese dancers certainly are artists.
One of them is little girl about II years old
a child so graceful that spectator referred to
her as Giving musc.R Fight other children ap-
pear with her, all of them notable for the per-
lection, not merely of their training but likewise
Of their natural, Unborn facility of dramatic ex
preston. The adults in the company whether
dancers or players in the Pliatan gamelan Or
chestra, share the youngsters delight in working
on the stage, their earnestness, the religious
solemnity of their approach to son1ber themes
and the zest Of their collaboration in comic
mimicry when it is required.
Washington's first view of the dancers from
Bali naturally raised more questions than it
answered. Where did this distant culture origi-
nate? Has it ties with Egypt and ancient Mexico
in addition to those with India and Ceylon,
Burma, Siam and Indo-China? What will it
come to in another half a dozen centuries? OBJ
viously it is an expanding art It is growing at
pace that merits world recognition. There will
be limitations of it. A new flame has been lit in
the hearts of Westerners to whom Indonesia, the
newest Of nations, Is as yet only name.
Evening star., 1952-11-01

Of numerous Soviet treaties specifically indors.
ing voluntary patriation-strongly suggests
that the new commission proposal is simply
propaganda move designed to obstruct, not pro-
mote, settlement. The wishful may think
otherwise, but the Stain dictatorship-if it were
really anxious to have peace in Korea-could
bring about an armistice overnight merely by
giving the word to its Pyongyang -Peiping pup
pets. As long as that fact stands as long as
the word is not given, the present deadlock will
continue and the danger of larger war will
have to be reckoned with every day.
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Ike, Mccarthy, ct al

Dorothy A. Stamford claims that be-
cause of the methods used by Senator
Mccarthy in securing evidence about
Communists in Government, that Gen.
Eisenhower Gin asking Wisconsin
(voters) to re-elect Mccarthy, is asking
them to give this man constitutional i'm
munity to carry on his witch hunts"
Mrs. Stamford has quite incorrectly in
ferred that Gen. Eisenhower approves
Of McCarthys methods whereas the
record proves that the very opposite is
true.
Ike on october in Wisconsin pub
licly stated that II want to make one
thing very clear. The purposes that he
(Senator Mccarthy and I have of
Kidding this Government of the incom-
petents, the dishonest and above all the
subversives and the disloyal, are one
and the same. Our differences, there
Evening star., 1952-11-01
Vishinsky's Latest

Taken at face value, Soviet Foreign Minister
ViShinsky's latest address to the United Nations
General Assembly holds out virtually no hope
for a near-future break in the deadlocked
Korean truce talks. Some U. N. diplomats
apparently feel that there may be more in the
text than meets the eye at first glance. What
meets the eye, however looks so diScouraging
that only the wishful will bank much on the
possibility that the Kremlin may yet surprise
everybody with a new line aimed at speeding
up an agreement at Panmunjom.
For the Vishinsky speech, delivered in reply
to Secretary Acheson's of last week. seems very
definitely to add up to nothing more or less
than just another repeat performance of the
worn n-out phonograph record that the Soviet
Union has been playing ever since its puppets
unleashed aggression across the 38th Parallel in
June, 1850 Black is white . evil is good
villains are heroes sinners are saints the
Communists are the attacked not the attackers
=. the truth, as firmly established by the over
whelming majority of the U. N, is an utter
lie . and so on, and so on for three hours
and 80 minutes Reality itself. in short. is
unreal; incontrovertible fact is sheer warmon-
gerng fiction; and only the Pyongyang Peiping
Moscow axis stands for what Is right and
humanitarian and is striving for an armistice
and free, democratic, unified Korean nation.
In Mr.. Acheson's words, all this has been
heard thousand times before. Conceivably,
as several observers have suggested, there may
be some slight element of newness in the
Vishinsky proposal that the General Assembly
create special commission to seek peaceful
settlement in Korea but the idea does not seem
to differ in any essential respect from past
Soviet proposals along the same line-proposals
that the U. N. has rejected as obstructive and
fraudulent. The commission envisioned by the
ho odo Of he
belligerent nations, but also of powers not
directly engaged in the war, including pre-
sumably neutral" Russia Why establish such
an agency? Why begin the truce negotiations
all over again by transferring them to an
Assembly unit? Since only the prisoner issue
is supposed to be blocking truce, why can't
an agreement be worked out at Panmunjom?
These are questions, of course, that the
Kremlin does not deign to answer. But the
Vishinsky speech-a dismal failure in defending
forced prisoner repatriation against the record