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Evening star., 1953-06-03
COOP NURSERY.

The Bethesda Chevy Chase
Cooperative Nursery School
will consider applications for
3 and { year-olds Monday
through Friday. 9:15 to HAS
am, from now until June II
for next year. Mothers are in.
vited to inspect the operation
Of the school at this time and
meet our stan, who will be
happy to answer any questions.
The school Is located in the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Recrea-
ton Center, 4700 Norwood
drive, Bethesda. For further
information please call Mrs.
Sturc, Oliver 4-7484.
(H. p. w., LG1IdoUer HillS)
"Preschool Activities" Q CO.
operative kindergarten, will
have registration day on June
S from 9 am. to 3 pm. in the
Youth Services Building, To-
Gated on the grounds Of the
Landover Hills Elementary
School. Both kindergarten and
nursery classes will be held in
this newly completed building
beginning in September. Ex-
perienced teachers. For in
formation, call Warfield 7-2209.
In January, 1852, when pre-
school activities was just in
the formation stage, your
column carried q registration
notice. The response was most
interesting. The kindergarten
grew all that spring and by
June the parents realized the
need for larger, permanent
quarters. Plans were made
then for a building that could
house two classes simultane-
ouSly and could be used for
miscellaneous youth activities
after school hours. One year
later by the extraordinary
efforts Of many parents, we
now have our building.
X y X X
CRACKED CEILING
Mrs. r. E. S., Prince Georges
County,
To Mrs. K. c. L., University
Park. I would like to say that
I was confronted with the
same problem Of q cracked
living room ceiling. I have it
now covered with white celo-
tex 12x12-inch blocks, it can
be painted any color. A first
class carpenter can install it
but first there are light beams
put over the old plaster which
saves lnuSs and dust. The car
penter told me it would last
q lifetime. The blocks are
tackled up on the beams. 7
liked it so much I had my din
ing room ceiling fixed, also, as
they are connecting rooms.
There is a molding put around
to give it a nice finish. Hope
this will help Mrs. E. c. L.
X X X X
SAUERKRAUT.
MRS. E. N. H., FGirfGT)
For H. A. D., Washington:
Sauerkraut is made from raw
cabbage and doesn't neces-
sarily need cooking. We like
ours both ways though. I
usually heat meat drippings
Il tablespoon) in skillet and
just put kraut in and fry
slowly for about IS minutes.
Don't think there is any
remedy for the odor except
not having sauerkraut. I hope
to make about 8 or 10 gallons
in q big jar this year and can
it later in jars. Hope this
helps you.
Evening star., 1953-02-26

Most charming of the birds and
small animals shown in paintings at
the recent exhibition Of japanese art
at the National Gallery was the rabbit.
Such roguish bunnies are seldom
seen anywhere-except in nature. The
Japanese artists somehow, through the
centuries, caught their spirit.
It is this sort of thing, felt regardless
of time or place or nationality, that
makes for true and harmonious rela-
tions between peoples. Nature lovers will
continue to think that it is sad that
politics cannot catch up with humanity.
The rabbit has a proper place both
in paintings and gardens.
It is in the suburban yard that many
persons know it best.
This may sound slightly on the ri
diculous side to country persons who
find they have too many rabbits. But
the city person, or the city person
who has moved to the suburbs, has a
different outlook He finds pleasure in
contemplating all the small wild things
that come to his garden.
These are many. They include the
rabbit. occasionally an opossum. at
very long last a racoon, some mice,
perhaps rat or two. shrews (mice-
like creatures) and. Of course, the vari-
Gus wild birds.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
By Charles E. Trocewen

French poodle, and cocker spaniel,
taffy colored.
It is such dogs as these that keep the
rabbits on the run.
And that is why it is not much use
in trying to feed them in the winter or
spring.
They always manage to find enough
food.
Alfalfa pellets may be purchased for
them at pet stores. but it Is always a
question whether they will eat them.
Even lettuce and carrots, traditional
foods, will be passed up, If they man
age to smell humanity. And usually, of
course, they do smell, since few animals
have better noses.
Those long ears are among their
most appealing features to the garden
watcher.
Nature gave them such ears for
purpose. and in doing so she managed
to endear rabbits to artists everywhere.
When you like rabbit, you really
like the rabbit ears. They are so flex-
ible, so appealing as they show second
by second the animals reactions.
Even the sensitive antenna Of the in
sect is not as responsive as the rabbit
ears.
1t is interesting to find the Japanese
artists casting an appreciative eye at
the rabbit and enshrining 1t in their
beautiful, to US peculiar, art.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
This and That

To many, the rabbit makes the most
appeal of the small animals.
This is utterly outside its reputation
for being a nuisance. To these sub
urban dwellerS, this animal is no
nuisance, but a pleasant unlimited
guest. It is one time such guest is
assured of a warm welcome. :
Some of these persons want to know
how to feed such wild creatures.
AS a rule, there is no real way, be-
cause of the way the rabbits live. They
do not stay put, but are nomads, made
so by reason of dogs.
Our suburban sections abound with
dogs, as every one knows. They come
in all breeds, and many of them are let
roam, despite the dangers from traffic.
to say nothing Of the other troubles
that may meet wandering dogs.
That dogs wander as much as rabbits
is not always realized. Most suburban
dogs have fixed routes of their own.
over which they travel as regularly as
the poStman.
These lines of travel may go for
blocks in all directions.
Only the early riSers will see these
wandering dogs.
Often there is just one at time. but
more often they go in small packs. or
groups.
The latest one in our neighborhood
is composed OF two. q large brown
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Budqet-BoIoncinq Problem

The gloomy story on budget balancing
prospects given to congressional leaders by the
top fiscal SpokeSmen of the Government-and
confirmed in effect by President Eisenhower at
his press conference-iS not a surprising one.
The United States is engaged in the gigantic
undertaking of rebuilding its defense establish
ment, fighting a costly war in Korea, and
assisting other nations of the free world to
strengthen themselves both defensively and
economically. Sixty-nine per cent of the Tru-
man budget for fiscal 1854 was earmarked for
our own military needs and for foreign aid.
The financing of past wars, either in terms of
direct services to veterans or in continuing
collateral costs, took a substantial slice of the
remaining 81 per cent.
While ways to reduce these burdens may be
found there are two Immediately difficult con-
ditions to meet. The first is that saving at
cost to military security would be foolhardy
and infinitely more costly in the long run.
The second is that a careful scrutiny of the
budget left by the outgoing administration
and the preparation of alternate budget provi-
sions, are tasks requiring months of work.
These problems by themselves make budget
trimming for the coming fiscal year difficult
enough Pressure to reduce taxes, and revenue,
adds to the difficulty.
Existing tax laws provide for expiration or
reduction of levieS between now and April l.,
1854 that would cut revenues by an estimated
$8.5 billion After allowing for these cuts,
former President Truman estimated 1854
deficit of 500 billion. This means that if the
tax changes become effective the dates
specified, the Eisenhower administration must
trim 500 billion from the estimated eXpendi-
lures to bring the budget into balance.
Complicating this problem is strong Repub-
lican-sponsored move in the CongresS-legisla-
tion already has been approved by the House
Ways and Means Committee and is awaiting
action in the full HouSe-to force an even more
precipitate cut in revenues by reducing the
individual income tax rates on June 80 rather
than next December 81, as now provided.
Budget Director Dodge has been quoted
as telling the congressional leaders that If all
possible cuts in expenditures were made it
would still be questionable whether the budget
could be balanced-and that it would be out of
the question if even the present scale Of tax
reductions is allowed to become effective.
At his first presidential press conference,
General Eisenhower described it as sheer neces-
sity that there be balanced budget before we
are again on sound ground in our economy.
He made it clear then, as he had done before,
that in his opinion the proper approach to this
objective should be- first, to review and con-
troll Federal expenditures and, second to
make such tax reductions as can then be
effected. 1t is clearly the most rational ap-
proach to the overall problem, and the diff
culties now reported in finding safe ways to
Evening star., 1953-02-26
The Back of His Hand

Henry Cabot Lodge, jr. did not get of to
good start in his new assignment to the United
Nations when he made point Of refusing to
shake hands with Russias Andrei Vishinsky.
There is no very good reason why the chief
of our mission to the U. ~ should 60 through
the phony routine of shaking hands with the
unadmirable Mr.. Vishinsky. It was not so
much the refusal which gave rise to faint mis-
giving, however. Instead, it was the explana-
ton offered by Mr.. Lodge when he said: Don't
you know there is new administration in
Washington" This carried the unimpreSSive
suggestion that the new administration might
be hoping to tame the Russians by refusing to
shake hands with them
That inference was diSpelled, however,
when Mr.. Lodge took the floor before the u N.
Political Committee. There, he displayed an
unexpected willingness to give Mr.. Vishinsky
the back of his hand With a vigor which
must have taken the Soviet Foreign Minister
by surprise, he bluntly accused the Russians
of actively assisting the aggressors in Korea
and challenged his adversary to disprove
1O-count indictment charging the Kremlin with
aiding and abetting the North Korean and
Chinese Communist armies. He also accused
the Communists of not wanting to end the
war in Korea, and said that he, as spokesman
for the new administration, sees little point in
reformulating at this session Of the General
Assembly the truce proposal which was rejected
last December by the Chinese Communists.
This kind of hard-hitting attack will not
change Mr.. Vishinsky from lion to lamb.
Nor is it to be expected that it will serve to
tame the Russians. The Communist world is
not apt to change for the better until the free
nations are both willing and able to apply
enough pressure to convince the Kremlin that
it is DlaVinQ a losing game Meanwhile hOW-
ever, there may be some real prospective ad-
vantage in striving to wrest the initiative from
the Communist Spokesmen in the U. N. They
have been altogether too successful in using
that forum as sounding board for their hate
filled propaganda.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Give the States a Chance

In these times of expanding Government
1t is news when the head of Federal agency
asks Congress to reduce it's authority and
activities Chairman Paul M. Herzog of the
National Labor Relations Board has made such
request before the House Labor Committee,
which is studying proposed changes in the Taft
Hartley law. Mr.. Herzog believes that the
Federal Government, through the NLRB, is
concerning itself with many labor management
disputes that the States could handle more
effectively and more expeditiously.
The NLRB chairman complained, specif-
cally, about provision of the present act which
has prevented the Federal board from waving
jurisdiction in favor of State agencies in cases
that have little national significance. Section
10 OF the law authorizes such waivers, but
under conditions which have proved to be
complete block to any ceSSion of cases to State
agencies. This section empowers the NLRB
to cede to State authorities any local case that
can be handled under State law not "incon-
Sstent' with the FederaElaw. The trouble with
the restriction, Mr.. Herzog Sad is that NO
State has a labor law that seems to meet the
condition. Consequently no NLRB cases have
been referred to State boards since 1947.
eve believe" Mr.. Herzog told the commit
tee, that the NLRB has more than enough to
do, without dissipating its energies upon pre-
though Federal jurisdiction may attach as
matter of constitutional law, the impact upon
interstate commerce is negligible in practice;
that the States should not be inhibited from
experimenting with labor relations legislation
where local enterprises are concerned; and
that there should no longer be a no mans land
in those borderline trades where the NLRB, in
spirit of -abnegation, declines to exercise
jurisdiction but where the States do not dare
proceed because of the present limitations con-
tanned in Section TO-"
Such diversion of local disputes to State
boards would give the Federal agency more
time to devote to major cases touching the
national interest So would the suggested
transfer to some other Federal authority of the
task of dealing with the threat of communism
in labor unions. Mr.. Herzog advocated repeal
of the anti Communist oath provision of the
act, largely because it has failed of its purpose
of eliminating Reds from unions. He recon-
mended several Qualifications of the present
law which would help in enforcing it. some
who has had firsthand experience in admin
istering the act, his suggestions should receive
careful consideration.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Too Many Inspections

For many years local businessmen have
been complaining that they are harred by too
many inspections by too many different depart
ments of the District government The COM
plants have been duly noted and filed but the
inspections have gone on and on. Sometimes
the inspectors cannot agree among themselves
on their recommendations, leaving the property
owner or manager in utter confusion. Now,
however, there is hope of some relief, thanks
to the current reorganization of District
activities.
survey by The Star has disclosed that
local businessmen have good cause for COM
plant. There are a dozen varying types of
District inspectors and as many as half dozen
of them may appear at the same store hotel
office building, restaurant or laundry. The
owner or manager is apt to find two or more
inspectors covering the same ground and asking
the same sort of questions, for the benefit of
different departments. AS The Star pointed
out in an article last Sunday, inspectors from
the Fire MarshalS office and from the District
Department of Inspections have lists of Is
almost identical points to check when visiting
hotels and rooming houses. These range from
the number of stories to type of heating plant
and condition of storage rooms. There is no
such thing as teamwork among the various
inspectors in the interest of saving their own
time as well as that of the property owners and
managers One inspector will note whether
there is light in a stairway and another will
check to see whether the light is bright enough
for safety There are health inspectors, license
inspectors, plumbing inspectors, electrical in
SpectorS, elevator inspectors, smoke and boiler
inspectors and food inspectors, to mention a
few.
No one seriously contends that these many
types of inspectors are unnecessary. They all
have the good purpose of protecting the public
in one way or another. But there is reason to
believe that the inspections could be done
without overlapping and conflict by some con-
Soidation of municipal inspection services. It
may be that certain kinds of inspection work
can be done properly only by specialists The
Stars study indicates, however, that there is
room for an effective reorganization of the
District inspection activities. It is good news
that attention already is being given to this
neglected field during the reorganization in
progress at the District Building. The objec-
tive should be to merge inspection work when
ever and wherever feasible, both as an economy
measure and as a means of affording relief for
inspection plagued business interests
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Public Service Awards

program to encourage outstanding public
service by career civilians in the Federal Gov
ernment has taken its first significant step with
the naming of II recipients of the Rockefeller
Public Service Awards. The awards totaling
900 and designed to finance a year of
advance study in fields related to governmental
problems, are being administered by Princeton
University as national trust under grant
from John D. Rockefeller III.
In announcing the first winners President
Dodds of Princeton said that approximately $50
applicants and nominees had been considered
and that virtually every agency of the Federal
Government had been represented in this
group. He praised the cooperation of these
agencies and the high level of achievement
and conduct reflected in the records of the
individuals. Paying tribute to the intellectual
maturity, leadership, character and competence"
of those finally chosen, Dr. Dodds added that
they give particular promise of future useful
ness to the Government"
It is in the latter respect of course that
a program Of this type can be of greatest value.
A truly constructive career in Government is an
exacting occupation, less rewarding financially
than many others of comparable requirements
and responsibility. That it brings profound
and warranted satisfaction to many Is for
tunate aspect And that those who already have
brought particular distinction to such career
should also have particular promise of future
usefulness" is even more fortunate. The records
of the II chosen in this instance, nine men
and two women, support DR.. Dodds high evalu-
alton. They are deserving Of congratulations
and an expression of confidence that their
great promise will be aided by the opportunity
now being given them and by the further
opportunities which will be afforded them in
the continuance Of their Government careers.
Evening star., 1953-02-26
HoIf-Fores for All Children

The Star has advocated editorially
the passage Of legislation which would
permit the Public Utilities Commission
Of the District of Columbia to set fares
for school children, not to exceed one
half the adult fares. thus recognizing
that the three-cent fare set by the Con-
gress In 1891 Is unrealistic in the light
of present-day costs and present adult
fares.
School fares are not only discrimina-
tory in that they force adults, many of
them living on pensions or other small
incomes, to subsidize school children
by paying higher fares; they are also
discriminatory in that children who
walk to school must pay full fare for
all transit rides they do take.
therefore believe that a campaign
should be started to obtain rates not to
exceed half the adult fare for all chill
dren of school age, the practice prevail
ing in many other cities.
Educational facilities are not con-
fined within the walls of our schools.
Our school system is embarrassingly
far behind others in its provision for
instruction in music, yet those who wish
this education must pay adult fares to
reach music schools.
Fairgrounds and swimming pools pro-
vided at taxpayers expense are not
easily accessible to all children. Chill
dren OF loW-income families, who need
them most, are unable to pay high
fares and are thus denied the advan-
'tages Of supervised group play.
Likewise, the zoo, museums, concerts,
and programs planned for civic cele-
brations are within walking distance of
relatively few. Yet all of these things
enter into the development of normal
childs personality. Groups of children
accompanied by teachers or other chap
erones on educational trips cannot even
travel at reduced rates. Washington
offers advantages available nowhere
else. but transportation costs keep
many children from enjoying them.
Health facilities, too-dentists, doc
tors. clinicS-often are not available in
the immediate neighborhood. A single
round trip, using tokens, adds 80 cents
to the doctor bill, and if there is no one
with whom other children may be left,
they must go along at additional ex-
penSe.
With a uniform fare. all children
would receive equal opportunities, prob
ably without any additional loss to the
company.
Mrs. Edward B. Morris,
Evening star., 1953-02-26

mellow twilight of springtime, and one
Of their songs is entitled Where, Oh
Where?" with the final chorus:
Where, oh Where are the craze old
Seniors?
Safe nolU in the tDide, ,Oide 1Dorld
They're gone out from their Alma
Mater,
Safe noD in the luide. aUide 1Uorld.
One of those seniors is your own
David Lawrence, safe now in the upper
left-hand corner Of the page opposite.
But, ah. some Of the others ;. as safe
as high-octane gas in immediate range
Of an electric spark! I call a partial
roster John Foster Dulles, Allen w.
Dulles, Don B. Lourie, George F. Ken
nan, Livingston T. Merchant, Charles
D. Jackson. William H. jackson, H.
Chapman Rose Emmett j. Hughes, first
string on the first platoon Of the new
administration. Safe now in the wide,
wide world! Oh yeah?
Gaze upon their photographs taken
in senior year at Old Nassau, and pom
der well, ye who read, and, mayhap, get
out those old photographs of the we'd
ding party and Johnnie and Susie when
they were children. Relax for a few
minutes the trying tension of these
times. and even say prayer for these
grave old seniors of Princeton safe
now in the wide, wide world" Because
rather suspect that no inconsiderable
part of our own individual and the Ma
tion's safety rests with them.
And what may we, we who charged
these men with their new hazards by
our votes in November. expect. yes even
demand of them? Let me answer from
page of Princeton history, which was
an immediate living document to two
Of them, and vital. inspiring expert
ence and tradition to the others. 1t
Is something known as "the Princeton
spirit =. and none said it better than
Woodrow Wilson:
1T is this community. of feeling and
action, this sense of close comradeship
among the undergraduates not only,
but also between the undergraduates
and the faculty. that constitutes the
spirit of the place and makes it's ideals
and aspirations part of thought and
action. 1t naturally follows, too, that
graduates never feel their connection
with the place and its life entirely
broken, but return again and again to
renew their old associations, and are
consulted at every critical turn in its
affairs. Such comradeship in affairs,
moreover, breeds democracy inevitably.
Democracy the absence of social dis
tinctions, the treatment of every man
according to his merits, his most Serv-
iceable qualities, and most likable traits,
Is of the essence of such place, its
most cherished characteristic. It lives
Evening star., 1953-02-26
Truman Memorial

was startled recently upon picking
up the paper one Sunday morning and
reading about few stooges of the adj
ministration busying themselves in get
ting together a committee to raise
money to build memorial to one Harry
S. Truman.
It is shocking to think that men Of
apparent good repute would interest
themselves in such project as me-
mortal to Truman. 1t is hard to under
stand why men like Fred Vinson.
George Marshall and Sam Rayburn.
among others, who from all appear.
ances are good citizens, would interest
themselves in such farce to a man
who has been schooled in one thing only
and that is rotten politics. unless it is
through stupid, ignorant, blind devo-
Evening star., 1953-02-26

and grows by conradeship and COM
munity of thought, devotion at once
ideal and touched with passion. It is
the genius of the place"
In the field of public affairs, it is
summed up simply and quietly as
Princeton for the Nations service"
They probably will be going back
in Junes to come to their class re-
unions. and facing a congressional
committee across table is as nothing
to the swift leveling down of that class
encounter, and leveling up by their
judgment.
Thomas Quinn Beesley.