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Evening star., 1952-04-30

A love-making woodpecker, rapping on
metal, annoyS many sleepers.
What he is doing is singing his love
song or, rather, rapping it out. drum
wise.
Even the sleeper fond Of birds. how
ever, sometimes does not appreciate this
mating song.
Why can't the bird start later than
o'clock?
Woodpeckers, of course. have a very
fine sense of time.
Daylight saving. by which humans
fool themselves every summer, means
nothing to a woodpecker.
The bird gets up early. according to
the sun, and never gives thought to
others.
He just raps away, loving the fine
sound he manages to make.
Often he selects downSpout. or a
metal gutter. Occasionally he chooses
a bucket left in the yard. The bucket.
sometimes a garbage can being summed.
Is real drum. The rolling sound the
bird achieves thrills his lady love. She
hears it from afar and comes a-hying.
So do not be too angry then. a
woodpecker ! deprives you OF some
precious sleep. \
You ought to get up early, anyway.
these fine spring mornings.
Initiate the actions Of patients IN
hospitals. who are told to close their
Evening star., 1952-04-30
This and That .

eyes and keep very quiet, even if they
can't sleep.
The old ideas of the harm of sleep
4lessness are going by the board.
At one time, it was believed that a
human being would die, almost, if he
lost too much sleep.
It is known now that if he gets real
relaxation, along with keeping his eyes
closed, he will do very well and may. in
fact, sleep q bit without really know
ing it.
We do not pretend that the wood
peckerS, as a group, understand all
this. Fortunately for them, they do
not know much that we burden our
selves with; they have their own little
ideas of how to live. Sleeping is some
thing they have no difficulty with; all
creatures but man sleep perfectly, even
when sick.
Poor old Penny, Templeton Jones'
oldest cat, Snuff1es and Snorts and
dreams all day and night long. She
catches mice" in her dreams, but she
always sleeps.
The happy woodpecker on the loose
0et us say on the downspout) had done
his dreaming for the day. He wants
to call Jane to his side, as any happy
lover might.
So what does he do?l5
He does a little plain and fancy
drumming, that's all.
The point is that when he succeeds.
Evening star., 1952-04-30

County, chairman Of the board of the
Suburban Trust Co., and long civic
leader in his county, and Col. E. Brooke
Lee, former Montgomery County Dem
ocratic leader, saw the need for planning
to prevent the area from developing into
hodgepodge of wild growth.
Mr.. Duckett became member of the
first commission, and served throughout
its formative years and until 1941. He
had pi eviouSly been interested in water
supply and sewage disposal problems in
his area, and was instrumental in the
creation in 1918 of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission, which
serves much the same area served by
the planning commission.
Col. Lee, while active in the formation
of the commission. did not become
member until 1912, and was succeeded
in 1949 by his son, Blair Lee III. A
brother of the colonel, P. Blair Lee how
ever, was a member of the first commits
sion This Mr.. Lee is at present con-
necte6 with the banking business in
Philadelphia.
No other member of the first COM
mission is alive today. The others
were Robert G. Hilton, a Rockville
banker; George P. Hoover, the first
chairman, was an attorney who lived
in Chevy Chase; Irving Owings, Hyatts-
vile banker and real estate man, and
George N. Palmer. Seat Pleasant
contractor. j. Bond Smith, commission
general counsel. has dDNSA throu nout
Evening star., 1952-04-30
By Charles E. TroceweH

he will quit his drumming.
How long will this take?
That is the question the drowsy
human being, resentful of being walked
up, wants answered.
The only possible answer is that It
all depends upon the woodpecker.
If Jane is in the neighborhood, she
will hear.
If she isn't, he will drum away until
she is.
It is as simple as that. Usually the
continuous roll will die down after an
hour or two! Cor day or two)
The reason is simple and it may
not be the female at all. The wood
pecker must eat. He. no more than any
other bird, can 60 too long without food.
If possible, one may wrap with cloth
the particular spots on metal where
he usually drums. If he is smart, as
he probably is, he will simply move to
one side. But the idea may be tried.
Or the attic fan may be turned on
in the hope that its hum may drive
him away. We are awaiting reports
on this one. Perhaps it will work, per-
hapS it won't.
The thing for the sleeper to do is to
be philosophic about the matter. The
woodpecke. is enjoying himself He
thinks his rat-tat-tat-tat is as pretty as
Beecham does his symphony.
Here forbearance is a great virtue.
Evening star., 1952-04-30
Suburban Maryland Didn't Just Grow
By jones +. BirchfieId

ID LANNING comes Of age in neigh
l. boring Maryland this week with
observance of the 25th anniversary of
the Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Newcomers. to the District may find
it hard to believe that such short time
as Is years ago, much of the thickly
settled suburban area in Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties could boast
of only few scattered settlements.
Such highly developed sections as
Bethesda and Silver Spring, for example.
were but villages.
In fact nearby Maryland was an area
of estates and farms. From the District
one went northwest into adjoining
Montgomery County, or southeast into
Prince Georges County to be in the
country.
Driving into the suburban areas of
either of these crowded Maryland coun-
ties today, it is still possible to have the
feeling of getting into the country. And
this in itself probably is one OF the
greatest tributes to the effectiveness OF
the work of the planning commission.
For the Maryland areas bordering
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the last quarter century in an orderly
fashion. Many of the farms have gone.
it is true, and some of the estates have
been carved into smaller units. There
are apartment houses, commercial prop
critics and housing developments.
But there are parks. too, and recrea-
ton areas There are well-deflned
residential and business districts and
highway system. In word, there is
evidence of longe-range viewpoint in
the development Of the area.
The nearby Maryland communities
were among the leaders in planning in
the Washington area. The creation Of
the commission followed by but year
the formation of the National Capital
Park snd Planning Commission in the
District, and preceded by more than 20
years any similar organization in the
Virginia communities.
Twenty-Five years ago. when this 800
square mile area of nearby Maryland
mad a population of only 10000, not
many could predict that in a quarter
century its farms would vanish, its mud
roads become paved highways and its
population climb tn 100000.
There were two men, however, who
visuailzed development of the area, and
whose efforts resulted in the passage Of
a bill by the Maryland Legislature in
1927 creating the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Commission.
T. Howard Duckett Of Prince Georges
Evening star., 1952-04-30
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10riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

However, today Wall Street seems to
be finding out that there is quite
difference between a turkey gobbler and
a Missouri mule.
I am capitalist-one of the small
investors who have made the develop
ment of this country possible and
owner of a few shares of stock Of one
of the Truman-seized steel companies.
never expected to see my private
property confiscated without due proc
ess of law. But that is exactly what has
been accomplished by this So-called
Fair Deal" administration. First, under
the influence of the labor lobby and the
pressure Of the administration. Congress
was bulldozed into passing grossly un-
fair so-called "exceSS profits. tax in
which the tax base was not actual
profits in previous years but these
profits reduced by over 20 per cent. In
other words, it was considered that any
profits above 80 per cent of prior earn
ings were unfair and should be subject
to a supertax. This tax law has re-
suited in reduction of profits after
taxes amounting to an average of about
20 per cent Dividends to the investors
are being reduced corresponding de-
gree All this while the wages (prof1ts)
of union labor are being increased
through administration pressure from
10 to Is per cent every year and the
value of the dollar is decreasing by an
amount of about the same order. Unfair
taxes are in effect confiscating invest
mentS.
Now the unfair Deal" President has
physically seized the properties Of the
steel companies. He has ordered his
agents to pay the increased wages to
the steel workers which were recon-
mended by his labor-packed wage
stabilization board while at the same
time ordering his price stabilizer to pre-
vent steel prices from rising to compen-
safe for the cost Of the increased wages.
Observer.
When the head of the government de-
liberately ignores the law enacted to
meet a certain situation, and, with the
arrogance born of unbridled egotism,
assumes authority positively denied him
by the Constitution, can such an act be
considered less than a misdemeanor,
therefore not grounds for impeachment?
This one stroke of the President has
done more to accomplish Stalin's pur-
pose to destroy Constitutional govern
ment and liberty of the people. that we
have shed oceans of blood to defend,
than Stain has accomplished by years
of cold war and deception. The lives Of
thousands of our boys have been made
useless sacrifice.
Inherent powers! A written contract
admits of no Interpretation except as
written.
E. r.. Lynch.
Evening star., 1952-04-30
Candidate With Winning Ways

The Massachusetts, primaries add impress
Sive new evidence that General Eisenhower is
presidential candidate with winning ways He
not only has won an overwhelming victory over
Senator Taft in the Republican primary but
has rolled up remarkably heavy vote in the
Democratic contest.
Professional politicians are now in a good
position to assess the relative vote e-pullng pow
ers of the two leading Republican candidates.
The Massachusetts, test was the last of the series
in which voters had direct choice between the
retiring NATO commander and the battling Sen
ator from Ohio. In most of the previous con-
tests General Eisenhower has won ar-cut
victories. Only in Illinois was there an over
whelming preference for Senator Taft.
The general was favored to win in Massa-
chusetts by most competent observers, but few
expected him to run away with the race as
the still incomplete returns indicate he did.
At the halfway mark General Eisenhower had
more than twice as many Republican votes as
Senator Taft not to mention the fact that he
was second to Senator Kefauver in the Demo-
cratic primary. The general amassed more than
four times as many Democratic write-in votes
as Senator Taft.
The Taft campaign headquarters in the Bay
State said it attached no significance to the
popularity vote. The significance will not be
lost on other Republican politicos, however
After so many long and lean years of party
frustration the G. o. P. strategists are hungry
for winner Hungry politicians are apt to
be practical politicians as well. The results in
Massachusetts, ought to help them make up their
minds as to which of the leading Republican
contenders offers the best chance of victory in
November.
Evening star., 1952-04-30
Letters to The Star

terested in bringing this Korean war to
an end as quickly as possible.
Woman.
Since coming to Washington quite re-
Gently. have been mildly surprised that
most if not all Washington'S newspapers,
editorially and otherwise, are against"
the President. The latest uproar is over
the steel seizure. and again, if one reads
newspapers only, the President was
wrong in his decision. However. un-
biased, unprejudiced individual think
ers-Democrats and Republicans alike
do their own analyzing.
Just what are the national interests
at the moment? Basically, they are to
keep the steel mills rolling during the
emergency; to give the steel workers
wage adjustment; to give the steel own
erS further reasonable profits; to avoid
accelerated imitation, and to define more
specifically the powers Of the Executive.
A great hullabaloo has been raised by
editorial writer's crying for freedom and
hands off and down with dictators in
America. How hollow it sounds. Prin-
ciples are involved and the preservation
Of those principles constitutional issues.
This is fine in itself. But it is not fine,
If the first four objectives, as stated
very important ones-are stymied in the
process of achieving principles and
better definitions of what certain clauses
in the Constitution mean.
Bernard Wiseltier.
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In the many wars between capital and
labor, labor has had John Mitchell, John
L. Lewis, Samuel Gompers and William
Green to fight its battles and capital
has had Gary, Frick and others fight
ing for the cartels. However, it was
always John @. Public who was carried
of the field on stretcher.
But today. the President of the United
States is fighting the battle for Ameri-
can citizens. All true Americans should
rally to his support.
No one with q thimble full of brains
believes the poor mouth these giant
steel cartels are putting UP. Most of
us rememberGt was only yesterday that
Eugene Gary insisted the steel mills
must work 12-hour shifts. It was only
yesterday he wanted millions of
Chinese coolies brought into the United
States annually so that his blast fur
naces could be fed daily for mere
pittance. In those days we had the
Populist uprising against Wall Street.
We had the Cross of Gold speech de-
nouncing it. Today the American citi-
zens have man who not only has the
nerve but has the power to fight against
these ruthless, heartless ohslaughts of
Wall Street.
For generations it has been observed
that Wall Street didn't know very much
about the barnyard and cared less.
Evening star., 1952-04-30

the life of the commission with the
exception of 18 months.
The present commission is composed
of Robert M. Watkins, chairman; Rich
ard F. Green, vice chairman and park
commissioner; Donald E. Gingery, Her
bert w. Wells, Sidney M. Oliver and
Carleton E. Pyles.
Today the commission operates from
two centers-one in Montgomery and
one in Prince Georges County. These
two headquarters are indicative, in a
sense, of the commissions philosophy
of preserving the best in the community
without hindering progress.
For it's Montgomery Office is in the
county dispensary building, a modern
structure in Silver Spring, while its
Prince Georges office is in the old
Calvert mansion at 4811 Riverdale road,
Riverdale.
This old mansion. purchased by the
commission in 1949. was once the home
of George Calvert, son of the sixth
Lord Baltimore, and was the center
of a 2,0O0-acre plantation.
On pile of rocks, near the mansion
house, is an ancient cannon. This old
artillery piece is believed to have come
to Maryland as part of the armament
of the Ark. one of the two vessels that
brought the English colonistS to the
Free State in 1884.
So the commission can rightly say
that it's roots go deep into the heart
of Maryland culture.
Evening star., 1952-04-30
New NATO Commander

General Matthew B. Ridgway, named on
Monday to succeed General Eisenhower as su-
preme Allied Commander in Europe, is fighting
soldier.
1t is a qualification which all Of the free
world hopes never will be required of the Euro
pean commander but if events so demand, the
new boss of the Western forces is equipped to
deliver the skill and leadership needed
Born of an Army family, General Ridgway
had distinguished battlefield career in World
War II. He planned and directed the first
large-scale airborne assault In American military
history in the invasion of Sicily in 1943. In
1914 he led the 82d Airborne Division by para
chute into Normandy. He helped to stem the
German offensive in the battle of the Bulge and
drove beaten Nazi forces ahead of him across
Germany to a junction with Russian troops.
He was filling a command function in the
projected invasion of Japan when the latter
surrendered in 1945 In 1851, he took over
shaken 9th Army in Korea and led it back to
victory. Later, he was given the multiple COM
mand for the Allied powers in Japan, the United
States army in the Far East and the United
Nations forces in Korea. To all of these assign
ments he has brought energy, personal daring
and great competence.
A part of General Ridgways mission in the
Far East ended this week when the Allied occu-
patton Of japan officially came to close. His
field functions as commander of American and
United Nations forces are now transferred to
General Mark Clark, another battlefield veteran,
with General James Van Fleet presumably re-
naming as head Of the 9th Army
While the continuity of General Ridgway's
acquaintance with the problems of European
defense has been broken by his assignment in
the Far East, Mondays announcement of his
appointment specified that General Alfred M.
Gruenther, who has been chief of staff to General
Eisenhower and key man in the European
planning, will remain in the same capacity to
General Ridgway. This will be reassuring to
those who have felt that General Gruenther was
better equipped by frst-hand experience for the
NATO post To say this is not to question
General Ridgway's competence as commander.
But he will need, and 1t is gratifying that he
will have, the assistance of General Gruenther
in undertaking this new and delicate and
tremendously important assignment.
Evening star., 1952-04-30
Ny Doewood Tree

The leGUes upon my doo,Dood tree we're
rcd
As blood the morning that you came
to say
Good by, and left me there to 90 dUGy.
I smiled, and pished you luck and left
unSdid
All things but hope on Utich our hearts
Uere fed
Through months, until this message
came today.
I shall not see you notD again tn May,
For on Korea's shore your blood tDaS shed.
This spring my dog,Ooo6 tree blooms
pink and tDhite,
The bridal colors that shah not ,Dedr,
For you beloped are not here to see.
MY dospood tree turns green. then red
and bright.
Then branches like my heart are stqk
and bare.
As nothing seems the same again to me.
Kotherine M. Hopson
Evening star., 1952-04-30
Steel Seizure

SSb&UbS
Allow me to thank you for the edito-
rial April 26. "The Threat Is Clear" In
deed the future Is dark for those of us
who read our paper religiously.
The past 20 years have brought new
meaning to ''. Constitution that I do
not believe :: mers intended-gov-
ernment largely ny executive order. Now
a representative Of the Justice Depart
ment attempts to convince us that q
President" is not required to proceed
under due process Of law" never
to any one. Never too old to learn.
.Delmer G. Wright.
Assistant Attorney General Holmes
Saldridge, in his argument before Judge
Pine, seems to have overlooked the
Tenth Amendment which reads: "The
powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohib-
tied by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the
people"
"The United States" means "the
United States Government"
1.-THE United States Government"
means the executive, legislative and
judicial departments thereof.
"The executive" means the President.
Therefore, the powers not delegated
to the President by the Constitution are
withheld from him by the States or by
the people, and he cannot deprive citi-
zens Of property without due process Of
1oxr without f,Ycf nnYnVNonSotiAn GN
there is nothing really to worry about
except the continual efforts Of politi-
clans to hout or circumvent the Tenth
Amendment, and to insist that the tax
clause Cart. I, Section 81 gives the Gov
ernment power to run the general well
fare" in spite of the Tenth Amendment
which was adopted later and would
have superseded any such ridiculous in
tention if it had ever existed.
w. Hipping Post.
I was all set to vote Republican until
seizure of the steel industry. After
listening to President Truman tell his
side of the story and Clarence D. Ran
dali, president Of Inland Steel tell his
side and lambaste the President, I de-
cided to vote for President Truman or
any other candidate who has not in
dorsed the Presidents impeachment.
President Truman had the welfare Of
the Nation and our fighting men at
heart; he had no Interior motive, be-
cause he had previously announced that
he was not a candidate. Thus the i'm
peachment demands of Senator Taft and
others are most certainly political.
An awful lot of us common folks do
not care if the steel companies fail to
make extra profits in 1852. We are in
Evening star., 1952-04-30
Questions and Answers

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@. Barabbas, who was released to the
Jews by PLATE in place Of Christ is
spoken of as "a notable prisoner" OF
what crime was he accused?-N. r. T.
A. It is not known. The gospels differ
in their references to him. One says that
he "for certain inSurrection in the city
was lying bound" another describes him
as a robber and brigand. "Insurrection"
may have meant merely a looting Of
housing rather than popular uprising.
@. Where do the Canadian Mounties
get their horses?-U. M. G.
A. The horses are bred and raised on
open ranges in the Canadian Far West.
They are a crossbreed of thoroughbredS
and local mares, stand about Is hands
and weigh about 1000 pounds. Since
these horses roam the ranges until they
are needed for duty, they become ac-
customed to all kinds of weather.
@. How large Is the gray wolf? Is 1t
q fast runner?-E. D. 2.
A. The average gray wolf is 5A feet
from nose to tail tip and weighs 80
pounds. In Alaska wolfskinS 8 feet long
have been reported. The gray wolf Is
not a fast runner his speed being Is
to Is miles per hour. but this Is offset
by the animals great endurance.
Evening star., 1952-04-30
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The KremIin on Japan

Speaking through Ambassador PanyuShkin
its mouthpiece here-the Kremlin has issued
a typical sour grapes statement to mark the
coming into force of the San Francisco peace
treaty and our special security pact with Japan.
Both undertakings, according to the statement,
are Illegal; they are in fragrant violation" of
international agreements; they are designed to
Cypress the Japanese; they perpetuate the occu-
patton; they aim at reviving militarism; they
have been put into effect by aggressive" Ameri-
can ruling circles; they are steps taken by the
United States "for the preparation of new war
in the Far East" And so on and so forth. The
distortions and lies are so hackneyed that one
wonders why the Soviet Union has bothered to
give voice to them once again.
Maybe the Russians hope to frighten some
body with this stuff; maybe it appeals to certain
elements in Japan. Such elements to one side
however, there is good reason to believe that the
vast majority over there are adult and knowing
enough to recognize reality for what it is-to
realize that the 48-nation peace treaty restores
full sovereignty and that the security pact offers
vitally needed protection against the threat Of
Red aggression. AS Premier Yoshida has warned,
that threat continues to be very real, and the
protection against it will be imperative until the
Japanese have had time to build up reasonably
strong defense forces of their own. Most of them
seem well aware of that it is only the Comnu-
niSts and the blind among them who argue
otherwise or parrot the Soviet party line
Aside from its propaganda objective and its
monumental hypocrisy, the Panyushkin state
ment probably reflects in part certain measure
of Illustration. Up to the time of the San Fran
cisco Conference where they did no better than
look foolish, the Russians tried in every way to
force through a settlement that would make
Japan easy pickings for them in the future. But
they failed miserably And now that the peace
treaty. together with the security pact, has come
into force, it is perhaps in character for them to
attack as Illegal the free worlds success in this
historic matter. The japanese nation is not
theirs for the asking. Its own master once more
it is in the non-Soviet lineup, with special guar
antees to help It wax strong against Internal