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Evening star., 1953-09-30
Setback for the Bevonites

Although former Prime Minister Clement
Attlee recently has had some rather harsh and
muddled things to say about United States
foreign policy-particularly our attitude toward
Red China-he and his big following in the
British Labor Party have just demonstrated
they still we'll aware of the basic need for close
Anglo-American cooperation and for continu-
ing allied preparedness against the threat Of
Communist aggression.
The demonstration has taken place at the
expense of the minority faction of LaboriteS
headed by the ambitious, radical and more or
less anti-American Aneurin Bevan. At the
partys annual conference, which is now in
session at Margate, this left-wing group-some
of whose members echo the Soviet propaganda
line-has tended to be most kind toward the
Kremlin while at the same time lambaSting the
United States as If it were the cause of the cold
war and everything else that is bad in our
world. The Attlee-led moderateS, however, have
bought none of this. Instead, they have re-
soundingly slapped it down with a show of
hands representing about two-thirdS of the
party's entire membership.
This satisfying and reassuring display has
been staged in the form of vote on two left
wing resolutions proposing that the Labor
Party demand Cd that the Churchill govern
ment act unilaterally to bring about an i'm
mediate reduction IN British ornaments, and
(2) that the United Kingdom move at once for
big expansion in both strategic and nom
strategic trade with the Soviet Union and Com
muniSt China. In effect, in overwhelmingly
defeating these reckless pro-Red measures, the
strong Attlee majority has reaf1rmed the party's
established foreign policy views-views holding
the Kremlin responsible for the cold war and
declaring that Britain, as long as aggression
threatens, must cooperate militarily and other
wise with the United States and the rest of the
allied world in sharing the burdens of common
defense.
The moderates thus have shown that Mr.
AttleeS criticism of certain aspects of our for
eign policy does not mean that the Labor Party
has reversed itself and is now in disagreement
with the essentials of that policy as they bear
upon vital things like Anglo-American CO.
operation, allied rearmament and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization. 1t is only the
BevaniteS who are negative in that respect, and
judging from their latest intra-party setback
as we'll as from their unpopularity among the
rank-and-file trade unionists they seem too
weak minority to come to power in the fore
Seeable future Which is all to the good for
Britain, the United States and the West as
whole
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Southwest SIums

am Southwest dweller-a pioneer
in development which is being re-
modelled in sight of the Capitol, in
what is reported to be "the worst Slum
on the Eastern Seaboard" From my
window can see the Capitol dome,
and can also see IA alley dwellings
with no inside water, no electricity, no
inside toilets. At the side of my house
are six more dwellings, facing the
street, none of which have inside
toilets.
These dwellings are not owned by
their miserable occupants-living six
to eight to a room. They are owned
by wealthy Washington residents, able,
but unwilling to remodel them into
decent living places. Instead. they are
satisfied to rent them to the under
privileged and avoid the expense of
restoration. This attitude is not only
morally unsound; it is economically
unsound At present, I understand,
these houses rent for $40 a month.
When rent control was in force a
ceiling of $100 was granted to restored
houses of the same size and in similar
location.
recently have returned from abroad.
have been living in the Far East and
Middle Eastern countries which we are
supporting heavily with Government
grants in an attempt to improve living
standards, and l have never seen sani-
tary conditions in any country worse
than those which now exist at my
back door.
Nj, j. L.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Let the Parents Go

There is little in the news from Korea to
suggest that the % American soldiers who have
embraced communism want to return to this
country. In fact, their greeting to American
OfhcerS-a greeting consisting of shouts of GO
home, Yankee imperialists!" and the singing of
the Communist Observation-Disclosures quite
the opposite.
Nevertheless, the most sympathetic consid-
GRAFTON should be given to the reported wish
of some of the parents of these boys to go to
Korea in an attempt to persuade their sons to
come home. Presumably most of these POW's
were drafted for service in Korea. Those cap
tured early in the war have been subjected to
long and intensive propagandizing. 1t is deplor-
able that these % succumbed to the propa-
ganda, while most of the American prisoners
resisted it. Those of us who have not been sub
jected to their ordeal however, should be slow
TO condemn them.
Perhaps a visit by the parents would not
change their minds. But certainly the parents
of these youngsters who we're called to fight
in a far-aWay war are entitled to consideration.
If they want to make the effort to persuade
their sons to come back it would be little trou-
BILE for the Government to see that they are
given the opportunity.
Of course, the armiStice terms do not pro-
vide for such an undertaking, and it might be
blocked at the last minute by Communist
objections 1t ought not to be blocked, however
by any unWillingnesS on the part of our officials
to assist in the effort If the parents are to be
denied an opportunity to talk to these prisoners,
let the onus of that denial fall on the
Communists.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
On Trinity Campus

Splendid they come, and beautiful and
1.-THE
As the slim, 10indS that twirl their
Short-cropped hair;
The halls and hills lnte-SWept By June's
sure Scythe
Bloom once again with freshmen
eUerylDhere.
Girls they are yet atDhile, but Women.
too,
Seeking the undiscovered song, the
dream
Stiu to be plumbed for loneliness, and
netD
UnmedSured uiSdom to define lies
theme.
So for this little time may all their
days
Be brightly minted. May their laughter
ring
Caretree along these old Well-trodden
1DdyS-
Autumn to Spring, four times, Autumn
to Spring:
And Dhen at last they ledue may each
one find
The porld can still be bountitul and
kind.
Mary Margaret MiIbroth
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Chinese Family Model
M. j. L.

A number of proposals are being
made for reducing juvenile delinquency
and roWdyiSm in the District OF Co
lumbia. Some of these proposals have
merit. one in particular: parental re-
sponsibility for the actions of children.
The Chinese-American family is an
example of the effectiveness OF strict
parental control. Obedience is para
mount. Sociologists report that the
Chinese ghettos of several large West
Coast cities are as deplorable as other
slums in any large city. The sociol-
ogists also tell us that such blighted
areas are breeding places for crime.
Yet, criminologists and SociologistS find
the incidence of juvenile delinquency
among Chinese Americans in these
areas is almost negligible!
From birth these Chinese Americans
are taught respect for the elders in the
family. This respect borders on un-
questioning reverence. Even as young
adult the Chinese American conforms
to the desires and wishes of his elders.
When a Chinese youth runs afoul of
the law the deep shame and embarrass-
ment is borne by the family, particu-
larly the elders. The parents are held
responsible for the conduct of their
youth.
Many of our parents, especially
mothers who must work, are too quick
to look to the school, the church, and
the social and recreational agencies to
share the responsibility of building
good character in their youngsters. If
these parents assume their full re-
sponsibilities for the rearing of chill
dren and carry out their other duties
as parents, major part of our Juvenile
delinquency will be obviated.
Theodore X. Hudson,
Evening star., 1953-09-30
This and That

littlest shoes they could find. Now
they ask for-and get-size 7.
They wore high heels. and tip-toed
around in acute pain, in the old days.
So they got cornS, both hard and soft.
They came up with bunions, fallen
arches. and the like. but they grinned
cheerfully and bore it all for fashions
sake, as they thought
Nowadays, people are just more
sensible, the foot man says.
They know what they want, in shoes,
and get it.
They like their heels low, and they
often go barefooted, too.
The modern cult of suntan has had
something to do with it.
This is partly offset, the man says,
by the vogue for bathing.
In the old days, it was corns; now it
is athletes foot.
Too much bathing has washed away
the sweaty acids which in the gay '90s
protected everybodys tootsies from the
fungi that cause this popular malady.
Now we use remedies with sweaty
acids in them, in an affort to replace
what we have washed away in the
shower.
The corn is still very much with us,
though.
Corn remedies are still sold, but
there are hundreds of remedies for
athletes foot to one corn cure.
Times change. and with them men,
and some illnesses. and remedies, too.
The vogue for the house slipper, once
Evening star., 1953-09-30
CotIin Exhibition

The Smithsonian Institution is staging an
exhibition of the pictures of George Catlin, to
open on October and continue until Octo-
ber 20. This means that Washingtonians of
this present period of history will have an
opportunity comparable to that of their
great-grandparents to know one of the most
interesting and successful creative workers their
country ever has produced. Both as an artist
and as an author, he was a sensation in his
own time.
Born July 26, 1896 Catlins good fortune
began with the fact that he arrived on the
American scene at psychological moment. His
mother had been a captive of the Indians as
a child, and she could tell him about them from
personal knowledge of their customs and pro-
cedures. He also had the advantage of
acquaintance with Revolutionary soldiers, ex-
plorers, trappers, hunters, travellers and others
who could instruct him about great ventures
and great achievements of the past as partici-
pants therein. While he was yet boy he de-
veloped phenomenal skill as painter. From
1924 to 1929 he earned his living as portraitist
in the District of Columbia.
But the West was magnet which he could
not resist. In 1880 Catlin set out on tour of
the frontier territories during which he visited
so Indian tribes and captured on canvas 600
realistic impressions of Indians of both sexes
and of Indian life as it was lived. He neces-
sarily was objective in his work. Frequently he
was in danger of assassination because of mis-
understandings of his motives and activities.
But he stayed with his sef-appointed task until
it was completed to his satisfaction. Eight
years were required for the doing of the job.
Catlin'S gallery" was displayed in dozens of
American cities and abroad. In 1852 it passed
into the possession of Joseph Harrison of Phila-
dephia whose executors transferred it to the
Smithsonian in 1879. Only q of the present
collection of $50 pictures have been chosen for
the forthcoming show, but they are representa-
tive of the finest of the Catin treasures. The
masters fame certainly should be revived by
their exhibition.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
D'Annuncio's Coup

In reference to Dorothy Thompson's
article Trieste, Tempest in a Teapot, !"
published September 18, wish to cor
rect Miss Thompson's statement that
Gabrielle D'Annuncio's attempt to seize
the city of Fiume, after World War L,
failed.
On the contrary, his coup, executed
with the help of his legionnaires On
September II, 1919, succeeded and the
city together with the islands of Arbe,
Carnaro and Veglia were annexed to
the kingdom of Italy in 1924. Yugo-
slavia in the same year recognized
Italys claim.
I believe these historical facts quite
significant, the more so since similar
event could lead to a decision of Trl-
estes now disputed fate Any one in
terested may look up Fumes ami
versary postage stamps of 1920, show
ing the hand and sword severing the
Gordian Knot.
Frederick X. Rabel.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Relief for ArIinqton Schools

Purchase by the State Retirement Board
OF SIS million worth of Arlington's school bonds
has relieved a financial crisis that impered the
countyS urgent school construction program
Work had come to halt on one big project and
unpaid contractors bills had been piling up as
result of litigation questioning the right of
Federal employees to serve on the school board
Sale of the bond issue on the open market was
impossible as long as the boards authority
to act was under consideration in the courts.
Governor Battle took a personal interest in
Arlington'S plight and much credit is due him
for the favorable response at Richmond to the
county'S plea for aid.
The most serious effect of the financing
dilemma was the stoppage of work on the
Jamestown Elementary School, a building whose
IA claSSrooms are badly needed to relieve over
croWding in other schools. More than a million
dollars in contractors bills have accumulated
during the period of litigation begun by John
Locke Green, former Arlington treasurer. His
latest of series of suits is awaiting appeal to
the State Supreme Court. That court ruled in
a previous suit that membership on the school
board was not barred to Federal employees.
When private bidders refused to make offers
on the bond issue until all litigation was ended,
the Arlington delegation to the General AS
Sembly made direct appeal to Governor Battle,
on behalf of both the Arlington Board and the
school board. The Governor agreed that
extraordinary measures were justified. He OBJ
tanned from the State Attorney General
ruling that the State Retirement Board legally
could buy the bonds, provided the State Treasury
Board granted permission. Red tape was cut
to a minimum and soon the way was clear for
the Retirement Board to bid on the Arlng-
ton bonds. Actually, the board had no compe-
tition. While the interest rate to be assessed,
3.5 per cent, is higher than that customarily
paid to private purchasers, the county was in
no position to quibbe about the rate. Quite
properly, the county feels that the welfare of
the school system is of paramount Importance
right now.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Ernst Reuter-

The sudden death of Ernst Reuter- robs the
free world of one of its strongest voices and
most StalWart leaders. AS Lord Mayor of West
Berlin, he was the civic head of a little island
of liberty entirely surrounded by the threaten
ing Soviet sea- During the darkest days of the
KremlinS Infamous blockade, he stood there
rocklike and unafrad-With a kind of con-
tagous courage that impaired itself to all
the beleaguered inhabitants. Here was his
toric drama of truly heroic proportions, and
he was the chief actor in it, inspiring every
body to hold firm against tyranny. No man
did more to insure the ultimate success of our
American and allied airlift.
But this was not all that Ernst Reuter- did
Before and after the blockade, as we'll as during
it, he worked constantly in behalf of freedom,
and the fervor of his effort Stemmed in large
part from his own early experience. For at
one time in his life in his youthful years just
after the First World War, he was Communist
of considerable importance-a phase of his
career that ended abruptly in 1921. BY then,
having acquired an intimate knowledge Of the
true nature of Red totalitarianiSm, he was so
revoted by it that he became dedicated to an
intense personal crusade against it. Nor did he
lose sight of its evil during the period of his
flight from Hitlerism. AS he rightly saw it, the
Soviet tyranny was no better but perhaps
much worse, than the Nazi tyranny.
So Ernst Reuter- seized upon every oppor-
tunity to preach the virtues of genuine demoe-
racy and expose communism as system
Evening star., 1953-09-30

SHINING against God and human nature, and
hence a monstrosity bound to perish if met
with resolute physical and spiritual resistance.
AS he once put it, "It is not external force that
decides, but the spirit which is stronger than
any force. ;. We are not so naive as to think
that aggression can, be met without arms but
we know that the mightiest weapon of all is
the weapon of the spirit"-the kind of spirit,
his kind, that played a decisive role in breaking
the Soviet blockade. AS long as freedom has
a history, the name and deeds of this man will
surely be written large in it.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Arlington Spenders Confounded

Despite the reputation last Novem-
ber, locally and nationally, of the Fair
Deal and it's aX-spend-elect philos-
ophy, its sponsors still stalk the nom
existent sidewalks of Arlington County
seeking new ways of dredging tax dol
lars from the empty pockets of our tax
payers. Their latest is public swim
ming pools and the inevitable bond
issue. Swimming pools, they claim, are
duty of the county the same as parks,
Fairgrounds and schools.
The Civic Federation, which prob
ably never originated a constructive
thought, at least one detached from
bonded Indebtedness. is combing the
county for two thousand signers to a
petition to force presentation of a pool
and bond proposal to the voters next
November. Since we have many nom
property owners, they will undoubtedly
succeed
But all is not sweet harmony with
the spenders. An inconsiderate indi-
vidual, one Ernest j. Holcomb, who
has perhaps accomplished as much
for the good of Arlington as any other
single resident, has brought forth from
mis- executive committee of the Way
ft-Woodlawn Citizens Association,
a plan for an unbonded pool. His
group would subscribe the necessary
funds build a pool to be open to the
public Admissions would liquidate the
costs and the pool then turned over,
without bonded Indebtedness or strings,
to tha county
Now this infiltration into the Nom
Partisan confines of this area is
disturbing the spenders no end. It
is foul body blow to their proposal.
1t is an evidence that individual ini-
tiative, which they thought they had
Evening star., 1953-09-30

The prevalent conception of polite,
civilized wars in which both sides will
observe prescribed rules is unreasonable.
The purpose in war is to kill and de-
stroy; and no umpire can be used to
call fouls and enforce penalties.
Poison gas was not used in World
War II because it was impracticable-
not because it was outlaWed. If Hitler
could have won the war by that means,
would he have hesitated to use it? If
we could have shortened that war by
years or even months with gas, We
would have done so. The same is true
of germ warfare, atomic bombs, and
every fiendish weapon available
Talk of abolishing certain kinds of
weapons is helpful only as far as it
calls attention to the necessity of abol-
ishing war itself.
George Frederick Miller.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
ARLINGTON.

ARLINGTON.
Dear Sir:
Whats happened to corns? I mean
the rather painful ones that used to
grow on the toes.
when I was a boy the ads for
corn plasterS used to be constant in
magazines and newspapers. Every once
in while some one would rig up a
scare window in the corner drug store
showing dummy with one leg cut off
by using an open razor to cut off a
corn and incurring blood poisoning in
stead of using Humpty Dumpty's corn
cure.
"I used to have corns but haven't
had one for 80 years.
''Is it because we are better shod?
Sincerely, G. K"
Better shoes are one factor in the case
Another, according to foot doctor,
is that shoes are better fitted
This comes about both through the
desire of wearers and sellers.
Better shoes. built on better lasts,
closer to the human model, are big
enough, and long enough, to hold the
foot comfortably.
Bigger and better boys and girls
have resulted in larger feet and shoes.
Today's youth refuses to "look nice"
in little shoes.
He, and especially she, prefers COM
fort, first, and Clocks" second.
\
Contrast this with the old days,
when size was the ideal for a
woman's foot.
Then, the girls crammed 'em in the
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Opposes Sales Tax

Please put me down as being opposed
to the national Cor FederaD sales tax.
We have too much individual income
tax; we have sales tax wherever we
live; we have an excise tax and we have
enough tax to cause the average Amer
lean to give up and say, Uncle Sam,
come and take what I have Ieft?"
What does the Government do with
all the taxes received? That is what
1 would like to know. They howl about
balancing the budget and increasing
the debt. There must be something
wrong with the bookkeeping end of it
all. Look at all the revenue we get from
tobacco, alcohol and other items. To
add another Federal tax would be i'm
posing on the public too much indeed.
Daniel B. Felker.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Can Highland games like those
which are held yearly in Scotland be
seen anywhere in the United States?
F. r.
A. A number Of gatherings are held
IN New York, New Jersey and also in
the Pittsburgh and Boston areas. High
land games are becoming very popular
also in Seattle, San Francisco and
Pasadena.
Evening star., 1953-09-30

@. How long did 1t take to rebuild the
city of Chicago after the disastrous fire
of 1871?-M NICE.
A. The entire burned district was re-
built within four years. Five million
dollars was contributed from all over
the world toward reconstruction.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Questions and Answers

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Evening star., 1953-09-30
Letters to The Star.

disposed of and buried several years
ago, has been only comatose instead of
dead. 1t is again showing life and
energy which, if it continues to revive
may sink the Federation and its bond
issue under protest vote of land
slide proportions.
Charles w. Carter.
Disappointed in Eisenhower
Is the Eisenhower administration
deliberately trying to lose the next
election?
One is prompted to ask that question
after the day-to-day blunders in public
relations, from the President himself
and his trusted advisers on down the
line.
We learn from an important member
of the cabinet that a national sales tax
Evening star., 1953-09-30

is being considered; from another there
is talk OF increasing the rates on letter
mailing; from Mr.. EiSenhower's Boston
speech we hear more about possible in
creases in taxes, but nothing whatever
concerning the soaring cost of living
Does the administration expect to
carry another election by continually
throwing out such unpalatable and un-
welcome suggestions at time short of
actual open war when the public is
groaning under the heaviest tax burden
the country has ever known?
Many of us who voted for Ike
honestly believe that the administra-
ton itself is contributing largely to a
state of hysteria by dilly- y-dallying with
the Moscow bully, thus creating the
impression at home and abroad that we
must bleed ourselves white because we
fear the Reds may attack us.
When we were young struggling
country we had strong men at the helm
of state who stood UP like men for
principle. Now that we are the most
powerful nation the world has ever
known, We cringe before gangsters vino
would destroy everything we hold to
be dear. John T. ParkerSOn.
Evening star., 1953-09-30
Disarmament Talk

Now Russia's Vishinsky asks the
U.N. to abolish the production of
atomic bombs and to prohibit their
use in war. Why limit the ban to
atomic weapons? Why not include
rockets, airplanes. INT, gunpowder,
swords, and war clubs?
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