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Evening star., 1952-11-28
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Won't Get in Line

Won't Get in Line
In a recent editorial, The Star wants
Maryland to set up compulsory auto
inspection. and to require its people to
buy another drivers license every year
or so. The reason The Star gives is that
Maryland ought to "get in line"
Do you think auto inspections in the
District of Columbia with their frequent
scandals. are so good that you should
urge the same thing on Maryland? Do
you think the Districts license require
ments for drivers are so good in view Of
frequent news items telling how easily
they are circumvented; Of how one man
poses as another and gets him license,
ETC.? In States where the neighborhood
garage acts as official" inspector, we
all know the whole thing becomes a
farce also.
Most accidents are caused not by
handicaps of the driver, or his car but
by the drivers emotions; anger, haste,
greed. etc. Reflect and you'll see L'lis
to be true from your own expert
ences. No amount of car inspection,
driver inspection, or fee collecting will
remedy this
It Is, therefore, suggested that the
compulsory requirements of auto and
driver inspections in the District and
in Virginia be eliminated at once as a
part of the peoples return to the use
of their own judgment without legal
treats as club over their heads.
And 1t is especially suggested that The
Star refrain from forcing Maryland
Into line" until such time as 1t has
something to line up for.
James w. Tierney.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
This and That . .

The right to be kind should never be
forgotten.
The famous bill of rights is wonderful
to think of. but the right to be kind is
one we must not overlook, either.
This seems to be an age of cruelty.
The last great war (great through size)
led to unspeakable cruelties and horrors.
There is every fear that another war
would far surpass them in all that causes
the human mind and heart to shrink.
One of the best things the average
person can do is to be kind.
# enough persons did this, the world
around. there would not be any war,
perhaps.
That is, however. too good and too
simple to hope for. It is an age of the
complex, and the plain simple thing is
too simple, too easily understood by
all. It will not do.
We demand complex tables statistics,
elaborate machines with 5000 tubes.
Instead of making the income tax blanks
simpler, we always manage to make
them longer and more complex. Why
is that?
So start of being kind today.
It takes no more than a polite good
morning to the bus driver.
Evening star., 1952-11-28

Often this so surprises the guy that
he forgets to answer but why let that
worry you?
Speak right out, say Good morning."
and let the words fall where they will.
or not fall at all.
After all, the main thing, in saying
good morning, when you don't have to.
is the way 1t makes one feel.
1t is good morning, in most cases,
no matter whether the sun shines or
the rain falls.
Take that morning recently, when rain
was coming down for the first time in
days.
Every householder who raked leaves
knew how dry it was.
The birds found it difficult to locate
bathing places, and in the woods the
small animals rustled in fear of fire.
X
Rain was welcome, then, and every
sensible person knew it. Not all persons
are sensible. when it comes to such
matters. Some lament the rain because
it interferes with date"
It is necessary for every one, II he
desires to live sensibly. to get himself
In the mood when rain and sun are
always welcome to him.
The best way to do this is to plant
something.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
BY Charles E. TroceweN

It need be no more than a window box
Of petunias.
It means that one suddenly becomes
kind, If to no more than q plant or
two.
Kindness to plants?
Why not? They are alive, too.
There is such a thing as coddling
plant too much, but sensible care
means kindness.
Kindness in the strict everyday may
be extended easily to insects.
Insects are nuisance. no doubt Of
that. Sometimes they are pest, an
economic loss. just as rats are.
There is no need to be silly about
either insects or harmful rodents. but
still they do offer an opportunity In
everyday for simple kindness.
Thoughtless children, now and then,
needleSsly step on ants.
Sometimes small boys, thrilled with
war stories. burn them out Of their
dens.
In these and many other matters,
adults can at least set good examples
Of kindness In action.
The right to be kind must never be
forgotten. It Is real right. but one
that takes knowing, and doing.
Evening star., 1952-11-28

past who came in with his sights trained
on an ambassadorship, and ended up
satisfied. or at least eating. in a post
as doorkeeper.
Then the President always will find
himself being importuned to have role
probably Photographic in various
and sundry movements, whose sponsors
recognize the value of publicity with
White House background. If the Presi-
dent will accept some of whatever is
being handed out, if anything is, the
hackers have hit the jackpot.
The idea of having the President make
the awards for one thing or another
also is part of the picture.
White House occupants-and this goes
for the distaf side, too-always are glad
to help out in worthy causes where
their participation attracts attention to
needs the community or Nation should
meet. This is particularly true where
charitable or cultural ventures are con-
cerned.
Roosevelt and Truman administra-
tions enforced one ban. There was no
meeting with the President for the vari-
Gus Miss This and That's who ferry
through Washington in the course of
year. miss Turnip Week." or such
like, have made it to the White House
if properly accredited, but the outer
offices have been their limit
A new President also will learn that
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Library of Congress.

he has friends" and acquaintance of
whom he never dreamed. Traffic be-
tween Kansas City and Washington
really doomed after President Truman
was sworn in.
The White House calling list is an
ancient institution, which fell into dis
use under the ailing Woodrow Wilson,
but was revived by Warren Harding
and has since f1ourished.
Reverting to the plan of earlier days,
President Harding held noontime hand
shaking soirees in the executive Office
and even the hardly-gregarious Calvin
Coolidge continued these. The increas-
ing influx of Washington visitors, espe-
cially around Easter, finally got too
much for Mr.. Coolidge, so he cut out
the handshakes, but permitted the
tourists to wander by his desk and
watch him at work.
That setup was a bit on the order
of going by bier for look at the late
departed and President Hoover dropped
it quickly. But he. too, had his daily
calling list and the system has con-
tinued
Ordinarily. Presidents tried to get
through this chore by lunchtime, so
their afternoons would be unhampered
by visitors, but. it doesn't work. Even
after nearly eight years in Office, and
on his way out President Truman still
must see late visitors almost daily.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Twilight Of q DiIettonte

Ten years or tDeuty years. three score
or more,
You haze been building your cerebral
coTdlS:
Flowers OF Soptocles and Donne. q
Haydn score,
A taste for Chinese olazes and
Spinozd's morals.
But ,DKen at night you die. as die you
must.
You cannot confscate these borro,ced
toys;
Egyptian dynasties again wiH taH to
dust:
A slender legacy that morning trtnG
depLoys.
Cherish this euening then, and not 1or
long:
Earth wiu not be less rich the morning
after:
Some other ear pi1 listen yet to Sapphos
song,
Some alien eye rejoice IN dead Cer-
vGntes' laughter. ,
Frederick Ebrisht \
Evening star., 1952-11-28
BEING President Has Its Drawbacks
By Joseph A. Fox

ONE Of the facts of life that will catch
" up with Gen. Eisenhower when he
enters the White House is that his time
no longer will be his own.
AS he will find out in short order, the
new Presidents waking hours will be
subject to the demands of an endless
stream of individuals and organizations
whose claims to attention often will rest
on no f1rmer foundation than the fond
hope of using the executive office for
exploitation. There is no sounding
board like the White House, as any top
fight promoter knows.
Careful screening can control this to
some extent, but there is lot of trivia
that goes along inescapably with the
business of being President, as Eisen-
hover predecessors in this brightest of
spotlights have discovered. For the in
coming President, the experience will be
just about the same as though he had
held open house for the troops when
he wore five stars.
A President, naturally, has a raft of
official and personal callers, whose mis-
sions are legitimate. Then there also
are the time consumers. At the outset
Of an administration, officialdom may be
expected to predominant. Republicans
- largely from Congress will be
in the vanguard looking for jobs, just
as were their Democratic brethren 20
years ago.
Republicans Democrats-will be
around to push pet projects. The job
supply eventually wears out, or almost
does But the possibilities for dams. new
post Offices and myriads Of other "capi-
tai improvements" are endless.
The new President also will have to
see lot of his top administrative Off
cials, as they fit into their assignments,
and in all likelihood, at the outset of
the Eisenhower administration, heads of
diplomatic missions will be coming by
to pay respects.
Under ordinary circumstances, Pres
ident has but few contacts with the
ENJOYS of other countries from the day
they present credentials, until it is time
to say farewell. They come to the White
House for the annual receptions, but
that is about all, since their business
generally Is with the State Department.
After these official blocs come the
citizenry.
There will be the lone-wolf job-hunt-
ers who trust their own powers of per-
suasion more than they do any outside
political backing. This is hardy race,
of high aspiration. There is a story
whose truth is not guaranteed-about
one OF these individuals in the distant
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Segregation in Africu

have just read your November II
editorial on "Malan and South Africa's
Court
The Malan government is standing on
the ground that all segregation stands
on; it is by no means, however, solid
ground. The denial of human rights
by segregation, whether in Africa or in
D. c., never stands on solid ground. The
solid appearance is always a ghastly
mirage. Your columns have frequently
spoken Of the denial of human rights in
Communist countries. Is that purely
domestic affair."" standing on "solid
ground? If your argument here can
justify Malan, then pushed to its ulti-
mate implication, it can justify any
wrong by the verbal legerdemain Of call
ing it domestic"
j. w. Haywood.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
To BRIGHTEN Drub Lives

May make a plea to our city gov
ernment occasioned by remark made,
think, by Gerald Shea, regarding the
hoped-for removal of the Industrial
Home and the Children's Village to
Laurel, Md? If am quoting him cor
rectly, he stated that because the build
ings used by the Children's Village on
Loughboro road were so very old it
would not be worthwhile to spend money
repainting them.
While I agree with him on the age
of the buildings, I'd like to plead with
all my heart for new paint, even cheap
paint, especially on the interior of the
buildings to make them more liveable
and attractive for the people working
there, and the children who are living
there temporarily. Even If the Chill
dren's Village should be moved in two
or three years to Laurel, the paint would
have served its purpose in Frightening
the lives of the 100 or so children who
must live there. and it surely would be
worth the money it cost. The interior
walls are now dingy and depressing
with cracked and dirty paint, and new
paint job would give the buildings
tremendous lift. If paint were bought.
perhaps there might be volunteers from
church groups to help the city apply it.
I make this plea on behalf Of the chill
dren there, with whom have had the
opportunity to work every few weeks,
for they are extraordinary and wonder
full people, as are all of us whom God
has loved enough to send His Son to
die for us. Mrs. Dean L0ngfellow.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Woman in q Mon-Size Job

There is no longer any novelty in the ap-
pointment or the election of women to positions
of great responsibility in Government. But ir
entrusting the affairs of the Federal Security
Agency to the capable hands of Mrs Oveta Culp
Hobby, General Eisenhower has assigned to her
the biggest Government job ever given to
woman. The closest thing to it may have been
the position of Secretary of Labor, held during
the Roosevelt administration by Frances Perkins
But the Office of Federal Security Administrator
in scope of responsibility and in terms of public
funds administered exceeds in Importance that
and number of other cabinet posts.
Under the Federal Security Agency are
grouped the agencies of Government which are
most concerned with the health, education and
social security of the people. 1t embraces such
agencies as the Food and Drug Administration
the Office of Education, the United States Public
Health Service and the Social Security Admin
Neutrality-suspicious. with such institutions as Co.
lumbia Institute for the Deaf, Howard University,
the Office Of Vocational Education and st. Eliza
beths Hospital It's appropriations for the cur
rent year exceed billion and a half dollars, and
most Of these funds are expended in grants for
public assistance and hospital construction. Os-
car Ewing, the outgoing administrator, has lden-
titled himself so conSpcuously with political
cruSading that his talent for organization and
administration, with which he is credited by as
sociates may have been obScured. But the Fed
eral Security Administrator is in every respect
the boss of the important services grouped under
the office
General Eisenhowers evidently high opinion
Of Mrs. Hobbys capabilities is not the result, of
course of what she, a Democrat did for his cause
In Texas during the past campaign With others
who directed the Army during the past war he
probably based his estimate largely on Mrs
HobbyS achievement in organizing the Woman's
Army Corps-a man-size job if there ever was
one-in which she acquitted herself with distinc-
ton. She is a lawyer a recognized authority on
parliamentary law, a successful newspaper
woman and newspaper publisher, as we'll as a
successful wife and mother. Washingtonians will
welcome her back to town.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
disqualification for Druq Addicts

The cold-blooded killing of Montgomery
County policeman by dope-crazed traffic Of
fender is the latest evidence of the need for
legislation to take drug addicts off the streets
and confine them for treatment. The inadequacy
of District laws in dealing with addicts was en-
phaszed by Police Chief Murray and FEEDER |
Narcotics Commissioner Anslinger in statements
to The Star Both favor law to authorize hos
pitalization of addicts in Federal institutions.
AS pointed out in a Star story by Miriam
Gutenberg this week. dope addicts have nothing
to fear from the police in Washington, as long
as they do not commit crime. The Senate Dis
trict Crime Committee was informed that there
are more than 500 addictS in the District all
potentially dangerous. "Since such persons" the
committee reported "are rarely able to afford
the cost of maintaining their addiction, it is
quite common for them to resort, at the outset
to petty criminal activity to meet their needs
Male addicts not infrequently become pickpock-
etS and female addicts, prostitutes and shop
Ifters. Quite often, too, their income is supple
mented by the illicit sale of narcotics to other
addicts. Not infrequently addiction fosters major
crime by its victims"
The Citizens Advisory Council is holding
a hearing today on a proposed needle law"
designed to deal with the addict problem by
making it unlawful to carry hypodermc needle
without license or a physicians certificate
There are sound objections to such plan, how
ever 1t would tend to stigmatize the use of
hypodermic needles generally outside of doctors
Offices and thus might prove embarrassing to
diabetes or other victims of disease. It would
provide no protection for the public from drug
craving potential criminals. And it would afford
no curative treatment for the addicts
Several States and cities are handling the
addict problem successfully through laws calling
\or hncv i+o11 of
treatment law here should be equally beneficial
from the standpoint both of the public and of
the addict. Mr.. Ansnger says that the hospitali-
cation program would involve no cost to the
District as Public Health Service hospitals at
Lexington, Kentucky, and Forth Worth, Texas,
are available for local commitments. Adoption of
this proposal would 60 long way toward reduc-
ing the threat to the community of hundreds OF
dope addicts on the loose.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Benedetto Croce

1t was said of Benedetto Croce that he was
the most influential literary personality in italy
since the death of Carducci" and that he was
more widely known outside his own country
than any italian thinker since Calico" But he
is not explained by such compliments There
even is some question as to whether he was
entitled to the title philosopher" Yet there can
be no question about his power or his popularity
He was indeed world figure with considerable
impact upon his times What will intrigue his
torians is the fact that he was thinker whose
thoughts were not organized understandably He
can be quoted to almost any purpose. At differ
ent times he was conservative and a LIBERAL
a fascist and democrat, romanticist and
poslt1v1St an agnoStic and an optimist.
OF course essential value in any appraisal
of Croce must be remembrance that he lived
and worked a long while-dying in harness at &c.
Likewise, it is fair to mention that his career
developed in dangerous times From childhood
onward he constantly was being challenged by
conflicting forces over which he had no control
He was troubled by science and materialism, yet
necessarily he accepted them. AS early as 1900
he clashed with Marxist theories, yet he found
he was obliged to tolerate degree of socialism
If only so that he might argue for "resolute
conservatism"
Reading at random in his monumental books
a junior contemporary of Croce discovers him
to have been cropping lbertarian-"one who
advocates liberty, especially with regard to
thought or conduct" And the evidence of his
writings proves that he was free. Wealth pro-
tected him from poverty, capacity of felicitous
expression protected him from mediocrity of
position, fame protected him from political foes.
He was himself, and as himself he was i'm
portant. His achievement is durable though
dated to "the age OF confusion" his ideals will
last even though they are tangle.
Evening star., 1952-11-28

Lines. Philip ]. Kelly, jr.
Tariff Barriers
I was greatly interested in an article
entitled Tariff Barriers" by A. B. Spar
Doe, vice president of Pillsbury, Inc,
well-known wheat flour manufacturers,
in The Sunday Star editorial section of
November %.
Mr.. Sparboe speaks out bravely. He
says &c. . the time has finally come when
we must make certain painful economic
adjustments, even If 1t means having a
few of our domestic industries decline
and die"
We may assume that Mr. Sparboe does
not include the wheat flour industry
among those marked for slaughter It
happens that since 1912 we have main
tained rigid import quota on wheat
flour. This quota is fixed at an absolute
amount of million pounds per year and
is imposed under the authority of Sec
% of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
The duty on wheat flour was reduced
from $1.04 per 100 pounds to $052, or
by 500, under GAIT General Agree
ment on Tariffs and Trade). However
the ceiling on imports pretty well nulli-
f1es this liberal concession.
Very few import quotas are maintained
by the United States although the import
quota is used extensively by other coun-
tries. Mr.. Sparboe's industry is one of
the favored few. It Is therefore not diff
cult for this executive to say of other
American industries as he did: "If they
(American industries) haven't anything
better to offer us than merely a desire
to continue operating behind tariffs and
other restrictions at our expense as con-
sumers, it is hardly in good taste for
them to refuse us the customary bene-
fits of healthy competition that we ex-
pect from our domestic economy"
What Mr.. Sparboe ignores entirely in
his displeasure over tariff protection is
the great gulf that separates our wage
levels In this country from those prevail
ing in many other countries. He seems
to think that our productivity In all
industries is as high as In flour milling.
It is not. Other countries have mechan-
lied plants and automatic processes as
well as ourselves. Their lower wages give
them unit costs we'll below ours in many
industries. The latter Mr.. Sparboe would
kill off.
The principal exporter of wheat flour
to the United States is Canada-the
highest wage country beside the United
States in the world, only about $50
below us. What does Mr.. Sparboe's dou-
bly-protected industry fear?
o. r. Strackbein, Chairman.
The National Labor Management Coun-
Gil on Foreign Trade Policy.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
For the Inner Circle

In his quest for the country's wisest
and ablest minds, we hope that our
President-elect will not overlook Doro-
thy Thompson's superb intellect her
unique grasp Of the complexities re-
flected in the international arena, and
her profound concern for all the op-
pressed peoples of the earth wherever
they be found!
Catherine I. DOnnelly.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Questions and Answers

The stars readers can get the answer TO
any question Of fact BY either writing The
Evening Star Inform9tion Bureau Zoo Z street
return postage or by telephonina ST 1893.
Evening star., 1952-11-28

@. get the Badger State. the Gopher
State, and the Wolverine State mixed
up Can you straighten me out?-F.B.
A. The Badger State is Wisconsin.
the Gopher State is Minnesota, and the
Wolverine State is Michigan.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Bv THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. What caused Tchaikovsky's deathf
Up.
A. He died Of cholera in st. Peters,
burg on November 6, 1893, at the age
Of SO.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Letters to The Star

While the Capital Transit Co. may be
entitled to some increases, it is beyond
understanding that they would have to
double the fare of the weekly commuter
in order to obtain fair return from
their operation of the Montgomery Bus
Lines. Philip j. Kelly, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-28

fewer and fewer cavities, by regular, daily use.
Remember-your present toothpaste did not
prevent the cavities they had in 1862. Don't de-
lay Change now to Amm-i-dent Toothpaste or
Powder for fewer cavities in 1853.
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AMIM-l-DENT AND
YOUR DENTIST

See your dentist regularly. Amm-i-
dents anti-cavity action is no sub
stitute for the skill and knowledge
Of your dentist. No toothpaste, no
home care Of any kind, can replace
his experienced care.
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ANY CAVITIES IN 1852.
CHANGE YOUR T00THPASTE
CHANGE TO AMM-I-DENT
AMM0NlATED T00THPAsTE TO
REDUCE TOOTH DECAY IN 1853

How cavities did your family get in 1852? How many fill
ngs required? And y using the kind of
tOOthpaste you used when those cavities occurred?
Others changed from ordinary toOthpaste Ammdents
reduced tooth decay The mothers of
these families and happy because they bought the
right tOothpaste for their family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-28

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