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As volunteers. The Air Forsc
men, had merely refused" IN
general pointed out TO do some
thing no man IS forced TO do" On
the other hand. ar asserted, Lieu.
tenant Gilbert was guilty Of ms
behavior before the enemy, one
Of the most serious offenscs pos.
siblc for q military man He does
not seem 10 have been overcome
by psychological inability TO act
as he was ordered, but rather to
have reasoned that the dangerous
situation which D. vas ordered 80
enter might leave Mrs Gilbert a
widow
Recognizing that officers In the
Air Corps are volunteers, NJ.
Marshall in his reply asked -
it not true that once they volun
trcr and cntca The Air Corps, they
Sec GILBERT-pigc eight
Evening star., 1952-01-06

turbers of it's slumber cranks and
heretics. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that every folly, delusion and iniquity
that has blotted the human record has
been embraced, sanctioned or condoned
by local, if not a universal, majority.
Revelations come not to masses, but to
individuals. In every realm the truth
which at last triumphs was first fos-.
tered by minority, which was the
guardian of creative ideas destined to
remake society. AS the president of
Yale recently declared: 1.-THE spark from
heaven falls. And who picks it up? The
crowd? Never The individual? Always"
In every gain humanity has made in
the realms Of education or invention, or
for the pushing out of medical or sci
entific horizons, the majority has
blocked the way. A hundred years ago,
when the first abdominal operation was
performed, frenzied mob surrounded
the house threatening to lynch the
surgeon if the patient died. We think
OF the Revolutionary period as a time
when the passion for independence
swept like prairie fire up and down
the Atlantic Seaboard. Not so! It has
been truly said Our Revolution was
won, the Government established and
the Constitution put in operation by
compact, highly intelligent and loyal
minority"
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Civil Defense Show

The local aspect of National Civil Defense
Week, opening tomorrow, will, center in an
exhibition at the Departmental Auditorium.
Each of the displays to be shown has been
designed to Alert America" not only to the
danger of sudden air attack but also to what
thus tar has been worked out in the line of
protection against such assault and for the
salvage OF lives and property from its effects.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan had no
opportunity to prepare, either physically or
psychologically, for the atom bombs of 1945.
Perhaps we Americans really can do very little
to avoid still greater disasters from the bombs
OF 1852 If they should fall upon our strategic
cities. But any preparation that is feasible ought
not to be overlooked. We owe it to ourselves
and to our neighbors to study the patterns of
procedure devised against potential aerial inva-
sion. 1t is for that purpose that the exhibits
at the Departmental Auditorium have been set
up. Every Washington family should visit the
show. The Alert America" campaign is an
educational endeavor which should not be
ignored or neglected.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

The Star on December 16, 1901, quoted
an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer
in part as follows:
A New Executive ST h Presidents
Monsion house was originally
erected as private
residence When Jefferson became the
first tenant for full term it was more
than adequate for the purpose. The Ma
ton was small and executive business
light, so that but single secretary was
needed to conduct all the business in
yclved Since his (JefferSon's) day the
Nation has grown and the necessary
officials have increased until the rooms
allotted to the President and his family
are few and not comfortably arranged.
The proposal to build an Executive
Mansion is not new one. In one shape
or another it has been discussed in Con-
gress ever since the (Civin War. but now
it is an imperative matter. 1t is pro-
posed to put up building that shall
accommodate the Presidents offices and
those of his clerical force and be used
for all Official purposes. while the pres
ent mansion will be used as home.
This is sensible and perhaps more
practicable than the former plans to
enlarge or extend the White House. since
it would permit of the separation Of the
official and social features of an admin
istration. It is certainly incumbent on
the country to give the Chief Magistrate
a comfortable home. which at present
he has not"
On the last day of 1901, The Star
reviewed the events Of the past IL
months and men
Personalities OF toned the disap>
Losfino Eminence pearance of many
eminent persons
from the world scene. Among those who
died during the year were: Former
Resident BENJAMIN Harrison, Qgeen
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Fifty Years Ago in The Star -.

worth, last Friday laughed merrily when
this quotation was read to her over the
telephone. but she was unable to remem-
ber which one of the younger children
was the impromptu pianist. The Star
said Of her on that unforgettable night,
Miss Roosevelt was in pure white
mousseline de sole, and wore the pearls
and diamond ornaments that were her
fathers Christmas gifts"
X
On January 4, 1902. The Stars society
columns were devoted almost exclusively
to report of Miss
OF iSUZ. ball in the White
House the previous
evening. Again the Marine Band fur
nished music. The list of dances played
went as follows: THE Debutante." waltz
by William H. Santelmann, father of the
present leader of the band; "Voila les
Soldats, two-step, Ellenberg; There
SEN waltz, Faust: THE Bride Elect, -
polka, Sousa: THE Strollers." lancers.
Englander: The Little Duchess, waltz,
De Koven; "Russe," two-step, Came;
"The international" lancers, Moses:
TALES from Kiffhauser." !" waltz, Opitius;
Tourists Souvenir, polka, Bergenholtz:
wiener Blut," waltz. Strauss; THE
Burgomaster." lancers. Luders; Hop
Long Sing" two-step, Armand: Flora
DORA" waltz, Stuart; Dem Goo-Goo
Eyes" polka. Chattoway: Sycamore
Hill," waltz. Groebl; THE Foxy CUTLER" :"
lancerS, De Koven; ITO Thee" waltz,
Mueller; "Frangesa," two-step, Costa,
and Beautiful Blue Danube" waltz,
Strauss. MiSergt. Theodore Roth, libra
rian of the Marine Band. says: I'VE
still have all those dances in our files,
but only three of them are used nova
days - The Debutante. Wiener Biut'
and, OF course. Blue Danube
Evening star., 1952-01-06

Victoria, the Dowager Empress Fred
erick of Germany; Ii Hung Chang, the
Chinese statesman: giuseppe Verdi the
Italian composer of grand opera; Prof.
John Fiske, the historian; Charlotte M.
Younge, writer of historical beSt-sellers;
Edward Moran, landscape painter; the
impressarios. Col. j. H. Mapleson and
R. D'Oyly Carte, and John H. Haverly,
father of minstrelsy." Perhaps the
most nearly immortal 'of these celeb
rites was the musician who created
aida" III Trovatore," "Rigoletto,"
"Ernani," Traviata" and many other
music dramas which are as popular
today as they were when our grand
parents were young.
The Star for January l, 1902, featured
a story of President Theodore Roose-
velt's first public
President Rooseyelts reception, say
Reception ing: THE White
House was brave
in its New Year dress, and the most
interesting spot in the United States
while the Chief Executive, his wife and
official family received hearty con-
SAoUOAoOAoAAS' LAC oScAAC WAeAAin tliC LAo-
toric mansion was one of extraordinary
beauty and brilliancy, and there was an
added touch of interest in the occasion
-. from the fact that this was the
first official function Of magnitude with
MFR. Roosevelt and his interesting family
as the central figures" Both the Engi-
neer Corps Band and the Marine Band
played during the evening while the
musicians were taking their places. the
Roosevelt children were having a merry
time through the corridors, and one of
them could be heard playing the Kan
garoo March in the private apartments
of the presidential family" Mr.. Roose-
velt's daughter. now Mrs. sAlice Long
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Voters Plea

Voters Plea
Since I was not a resident of your
fair city at the time Of the last presi-
dental election and was not then o
regular subscriber to your excellent
journal, cannot say whether The Star
in 1948 included pollster among its
features. For your sake. I hope not
Too many people, newspaper pub
fishers and just ordinary voters, were
taken in by these poll-takers and are
again apt to fall under their spell If
the short-memoried public is not Jared
by reminders, such as this, of how fool
ish man is to suppose he can tell which
way another man is going to jump when
caught between the devil and the deep
blue sea.
That was the case in 1948, and that
is the sad situation again in 1852. To
my way Of thinking, there was little
choice between Truman and Dewey.
The fact that Truman had no facial
adornment probably was in his favor
and possibly swung some votes. Some
people insist that q man with a mus
tache is hiding something. Otherwise.
Truman and Dewey were from the
same mold; not Lilliputians perhaps,
but aSsuredly below average.
But the beaver on the upper gum
flap was what tipped the scales against
Tiny Tom, and the poll-takers, ounces
that they are with their sample ques-
tionS, never got around to asking their
stooges the most pertinent question of
all: Do you like your politics with or
without fur? Obviously they liked their
politics raw-because that's what they
voted for and got.
The mustache apparently will not be
an issue this year. Indeed among those
candidates already announced, there is
not even a o'clock shadow. While
there has been fur elsewhere In his
administration, the President, still
champion until he is defeated or de-
faults, certainly is not going to dim
his flashing smile behind veil of
scraggly whiskers.
So with this factor eliminated, the
pollsters in 1852 are without anything
tangible to work upon. That, naturally,
will not stop them. They'll 60 Fight
ahead fumbling with their stethoscopes.
tirelessly trying to determine for whom
the voters heart beats fastest-and
then. too late, we will learn that they
tuned in too low and picked up the
erratic thump Of the voters dollar
watch.
What have tried to say in my
rambling way is that-please-d let
these pollsters loose in the land again.
Eric L. Lindstrom.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
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The Might Of Minority By 5sssssz &c. s.ds f
Spires of the Spirit 1852

A democracy too often is thought
OF as the aScendancy of a majority.
The question as to whose hands are
upralsed, voting yes or no, is not vital
consideration; the ayes have it. That
is democracy. But it isn't. There can
be no true democracy unless those who
dissent have the same right as those
who affirm. To stifie the minority is to
pull down the curtains on new revela-
'tions. It is out of minorities that the
might of the future comes.
No wonder novelist makes one Of
his characters blurt out: II hate the
very word majority It is the few, the
very few, that have always kept alive
whatever of good we see in the race"
AS the years pass, even loyal demo-
Gratis find their once firm faith in
statistics and majorities weakening.
Certainly one of life's most vital be-
liefs comes to be that no majority of
a day can permanently roll the stone
against the tomb of truth. To know
Who wins an election in this year of
our Lord is not half so important as
to discover, what Gladstone declared
was the first task of a statesman,
where God Almighty is going in the
next so years"
A blind loyalty to a cash-register
type of democracy is deadening. In a
certain case before a court, a lawyer
was citing mountains of figures. 1t was
like the pricking of a numerical balloon
which hot, legal breath had vastly in
Hated, when the judge quietly interpo-
lated: Two and two do not always
make four. You could scarcely say
that two candles plus two tons Of coal
make four" It is one of the weaknesses
OF democracy that often we are COM
PEELED to add together Judas and John.
as If one and one always made two.
That is. it gives the ignoramus. the
lawbreaker, the moral leper and the
scoundrel the same voice in the af-
fairs Of state as the man of intelligence
and of integrity to whom the whole
community looks up with respect. The
undeniable fact is that in matters of
fine taste and sound judgment majorities
nearly always have been wrong.
The world usually has discounted and
resented and prosecuted it's greatest
oenefactors. It has called these dis
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Man Against the Sea

There is a lesson for all of us in the story
of Captain Kurt Carlson and his long, lone fight
against the raging sea. Here is a man who
stood up against the elements and refused to be
conquered by them. Removing every one else to
safety from his broken, storm-toss ship, he
stayed on to save it, Day after day, night after
night as it listed dangerously and while others
feared for him, he held frm-cheerfully, un-
f1inchingly, unshaken in his faith in himself
against the unceasing violence of the winds and
the towering menace of the waves hungering
for him.
And now, at this writing, it appears almost
certain that Captain Carlson has emerged tri-
umphant from his great struggle. Who can fail
to profit from the example he has set? Who
can fail to be inspired by it? In our own time,
as in his case free men everywhere are caught
in raging sea. The ice-cold winds of tyranny
and the savage waves of aggression are threat
enlng so many ships and so many shores that
the faint of heart, the languid of spirit the
torpid and weak -hbered fatalists of the world
are half wallowing in despair. These are the
people who are nearly ready to surrender to the
evil without fight. These are the people who
regard that evil as kind of inevtability-an
inescapable part of an onrushing future made
up of forces beyond the control of human beings.
AS if the future were in itself shaper of
destiny! AS if it were not a thing that we
ourselves shape and determine by the wisdom
or unwisdom of our thinking and the bravery
or cowardice of our deeds
In its own way, this is what the story of
Captain Carlson really teaches. He has drama
tized Dante's exhortation that we BE steadfast
as tower that doth not bend its stately summit
to the tempest's shocks" Courage of his type
which is the secret of freedom, which is in turn
the secret of happiness what all Of us need
in our world in these Soul-trying days. With
it, with unShakable faith in human liberty and
a rocklike armed resolve to stand firm against
the worst of evils free men can be sure that
they will triumph in the end over the dark and
them.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Clock Against U. S.?

The Communist enemy in Korea is
gettlrg all the planes, tanks, locomotives
ana most OF the ammunition from the
kremlin and the inexhaustible supply of
manpower from China. The Commu-
nlsts like such an arrangement and are
ready to continue it until we are bled
white, and they still have millions of
men to put to the front; at the same
tlne protecting Stain from the danger
OF employing genuine Russian troops
who have already had too much of the
Communist paradise" and therefore
are prone to desert to the Americans en-
masse, as they did to the Germans at
the beginning of the Second World War.
before they found out about Hitler's
brutality.
The Communists in Korea are using
the productive capacity of Soviet Russia
to do that which, for the time being, pre-
vents them from starting aggression in
ndo-China, or Formosa, or any other
place. But they are nearing the time
Wher they will be able to produce good
atomic bombs to destroy our centers of
production and supplies. When that
point is reached, the Kremlin will let us
and the West Europeans have it, or de-
mand surrender without fight. All in
dictations forecast that in such case
Western Europe will surrender, unwill-
ing to submit to the kind of protection
we have given to Korea. Time does not
seem to be on our side.
Meanwhile, our prestige is going down
because we demonstrate that we are un-
willing or unable to eject the enemy
from the whole of Korea which belongs
to Koreans; and millions of them suffer
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Letters to The Star .

death and destruction without the hope
OF ever restoring peace and elementary
security OF a free and decent life. In
spite OF the overwhelming contribution
OF the Korean people to our common
military enterprise, Korea is still re-
1used the status of an ally; it was given
10 Australia and New Zealand, which,
unfortunately, at present can contribute
very little to the stability of the East.
Why not? Up until recently it was be-
cause the Socialist Government of Brit
ain objected to strong Pacific pact
consisting of United States Korea, ia
pan, Nationalist China, Ir1do- China,
Malaga, the Philippines, etc., similar to
the Atlantic pact in the West. But now
that the government of Winston Church.
Ill Is in power, all excuses for these
follleS are gone.
At least half of the 100000 Chinese
Nationalist soldiers now on Formosa
can be used to strengthen our forces in
Korea and elsewhere in the East. Mil
lions of other Chinese, present and po-
tential guerillas, are anxious to supply
the manpower on our side, because they
have already had a foretaste of Com
munist misrule and slavery. Just now
they are doing practically nothing on
Formosa-even without guns and air.
planes. while our boys are brought to
the Far East to do the fighting and dy-
ing that the Chinese Communists
themselves are anxious and capable of
doing.
.... S. Sidney Bromberg.
Ridgefeld Park, N. J.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Ike
By Bruce Borton

An old soldier who was an instructor
at West Point in Gen. Eisenhower's
student days was asked: "Is there any
thing you remember about him that
gave q hint Of his future fame?"
1.-TWO things" the veteran answered.
Whenever We assigned his class q
particularly tough problem, he always
came through with an answer and 1t
was the right answer. And he had Q
wonderful gift Of gab."
The wonderful gift Of CAB" Of the
cadet became, in the man, a genius for
spontaneous and felicitous expression
which is surpassed by few living leaders.
I have heard Gen. Ike In big meet
ings, small meetings, across the con-
ference table, the bridge table and on
the golf course. studied him through
out the war, from the point Of view Of
one who has had some experience in
public relations" He never made a
Slip: never said the wrong thing; never
for one minute lost the confidence Of
the press.
II Ike is not nominated for the presi-
dency by the Republicans. it may be,
curiously enough, because of a dead
man. Wendell Willkie, the Republican
nominee in 1910, seems to have had
many of Ike's talents. He, too, was
gallant, articulate and charming But
those of his supporters who believed
they had his assurance that he would
try to keep the country out of war
discovered, very soon after the nomina-
tion, that an equal number of red-hot
interventionists believed they had his
assurance that he would put the coun-
try into war. And when Mr.. Willkie
finished his anti Roosevelt speeches.
which became more and more 'me-too, -
no supporter knew where he really stood
on anything.
The Republicans never again will take
chance on nominating candidate,
however appealing. who has not made
it crystal clear that he has powerful
convictions which are diametricaIly
opposed to the policies and practices of
the present Observation-Disclosures as
well as domestic.
Every days newspaper gives the
American people more shocking proof
of the wholesale corruption of their
government at home and, in spite of all
efforts to hide and color the facts, it
is becoming clearer every day that there
Is little to show for all the meddling
and muddling abroad but death, debt
and Ill will. viii Gen. Ike come forth
with this blunt truth? Will he give us
his sacred promise that his first con-
Germ will be to make sure Of the eco
nomic as we'll as the military security
and survival of the United States?
That kind of fighting truth might
well make him the answer to q desperate
peoples prayers
tCopyriRt. 1852 KING Features syUdieate. 1ae.l
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Good Men Not Hard to Find

I would like to take issue with edi-
torlals seen recently in your paper and
others on men retiring from public posi-
tions. Whether these men go as
matter of choice to more lucrative posi-
tlons in private industry, or whether
they go out like Caudle, these edi-
torials are to the effect that there are
SO few good men available that the
situation is almost tragic.
The aristocratic tone of these edi-
tor1als annoys me and, am sure, insults
many others who work and who find
1t not easy to locate new work from time
to time.
Just for whom this type of editorial
sheds tears is hard to say, but it might
well be for those who can find so few
good men in the ranks today. There are
in reality good applicants for all decent
positions in public life
Let's put them to work and stop these
admissions of failure.
Nathan Wald.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
At the Point of q Gun

There is no real basis for cheers in the fact
that the CIO United Steeworkers have consented
to postpone their threatened strike for As days.
This was done at the request of the President
and it spares the Nation the immediate calamity
of steel strike. But in the constructive sense
It does nothing more than that
The Wage Sterilization Board with gun
in the form of strike threat at its head will
turn now to scrutiny of the stabilization
formula 1t will be looking for a loophole
through which a settlement satisfactory to
Philip Murray and his steelworkers can be
Evening star., 1952-01-06

extracted. Perhaps it will find one; perhaps not
If it is successful. there presumably will be no
strike. If it fails, this 45-day delay will prove
to have been nothing but reprieve.
In either event, the fact will remain that
this procedure is form of compulsory arbitra-
tion, which traditionally is stoutly opposed by
both labor and industry. In this instance neither
side has tried to bargain collectively in the true
sense. Instead the dispute has been dumped
in the lap of the Government, and the element
of compulsion, instead Of being applied to the
parties to the controversy, is being applied to the
Government, and through the Government to
the public.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
BY Frederick Brown Harris
finister. Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States senate

The might Of a minority never was
more vividly put than by that first great
democrat. humanity's peerless Teacher,
Jesus Christ, when He said: "The king
dom OF heaven is like unto leaven
which woman took and hid in three
measures Of meal until it was all leav-
ened. This Master of men never counted
on majorities. He called to His side only
a handful of commonplace individuals
to be His witnesses to the world. He
intrusted the truth and the purpose of
God to the power and capacity of a
tiny minority. But He knew that to
them the future belonged, as He said
confidently: Fear not, little flock! It
is your Fathers good pleasure to give
you the kingdom
Even the Greek word for church,
"eclesia," means called out" The
church has exercised its mightiest
power when it has lived up to that
designation. 1t welded its greatest in
huence IN the early days, not when it
captured an empire, appropriated to it
self wealth and worldly prestige and,
compromising with the world, became
the defender of the status quo History
shows that the church gave UP some
thing very precious when, as perse-
cuted minority, it came up out of the
dark of the catacombs to be patronized
by the secular power in the seats of the
mighty.
Christ's conception Of the function of
His followers was not a scepter and a
throne. It was as yeast in the dough-
He cared not how big was the lump
so that the leaven was there, to
permeate 1t and have its way at last
The poetic Magma Charta Of our right
and our duty to belong to the mighty
minority has been given us by Bonaro
Overstreet in his lines:
You sag the little efforts that make ,pill
do no good;
They neUer tuiu prevaA to tin the
heavy scale
Where justice hangs In balance.
I do not think I eUer thought they
Would;.
But I am prejudiced beyond debate
In fGvor OF my right to choose which
side
Shall feel the stubborn ounces of my
tDeight. ..