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Evening star., 1953-11-14
Temperinq Security With Sense

The decision of the Defense Department to
release more information to the public about
the secret air-defense project being carried on
in the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology represents a sensible
change of policy. There is much that the press
and the public can be told about this major
research undertaking without divulging mat
ters that would benefit potential enemy. In
the absence of any enlightenment, great deal
of fantastic speculation, especially as to cost
of the project, has been published in the recent
past Sponsors of the enterprise have resented
the incorrect publicity, but they might have
foreStalled it had they been less adamant IN
their mo comment" attitude
President J. r. Killian, jr., of NIT COM
planned of the exaggerated estimates OF costs
of the Lincoln Project in an of -the-record talk
to members of the National Conference of Edi-
torial Writers in Boston recently He referred
particularly to a critical editorial in Boston
newspaper mentioning an estimate OF $15O
billion for an air-Warning system reportedly
recommended by the scientists Actually, ne
said, the group is working on continental
security plan that would cost not billions but
millions. The author of the editorial reminded
Dr. Killian that his efforts to learn the approx
mate cost of the project had encountered
stone wall of secrecy at NIT. DR.. Killian ex-
planned that under Defense Department dlrec-
tives nothing at all could be given out without
prior approval from Washington-not even the
transcript of what he was then saying.
Belatedly, at the request of the National
Conference of Editorial Writers, DR.. Killian's
remarks, as we'll as those on atomic energy by
Dr. Karl Compton, chairman of the NIT board
have been made public. The release should
tend to inject more realism into newspaper and
magazine articles on what the Lincoln Labora-
tory scientists are doing in the interest OF air
defense Now it can be told without qualifica-
ton that the Lincoln Project has to do with
the design and development of experimental
models of certain weapons primarily intended
for the defense of continental North America
against air attack" that these weapons will
constitute only part of complex defense
system being developed by many agencies, that
the problem is to make the weaponS-guns and
airplaneS-"e defective by providing devices and
systems which will enable them to be efficiently
employed" and, most important from budg-
etary standpoint that mo multibillion- dollar
estimate" is involved in the work. This cer-
tainly reveals no secrets. And in the interest
of less confusion it could have been made known
long ago. had the security conscious military
authorities used little common sense in deal
ing with inquiring newspapermen and magazine
writer's.
Evening star., 1953-11-14

This is, or at least ought to be,
oculist week, if Templeton Jones had
anything to do with it. which. of
course. he hasn't.
Amid the plethora of weeks" this
one. he believes, ought to be observed
with special favor in honor of the eye
sight.
Washington has always been a
favored city, as far as oculists are
concerned. It was here that the late
and famous DR.. Wilmer worked.
The old red sandstone house he oc-
cupied still stands on I street.
It was here that Jones, as a boy of
eight years, was operated on in the
long ago.
1t was not DR.. Winners fault that
the operation was not an entire sue
cess, because part Of the treatment
was glasses, and young Temp simply
would not wear them.
An occuliSt, no more than any
other type of doctor, cannot make his
patients do as they are told.
If they will not, they will not, and
must suffer.
This was young Jones first ex-
perience with ether, and it was not
happy one.
The yawning gulf into which he
gradually slid. with much wailing. was
not to his liking, then or since.
Yet medical men insist that too
many other anesthetics are being given
today. and that they should all return
Evening star., 1953-11-14
ENCOURAGES Chest Workers

AS the current years Community
Chest campaign passes the two-thlrdS
point I should like to give a word Of
warm encouragement to the thousands
of volunteers who are working for its
success, and as president of Family and
Child Services. the agency charged with
spending the largest single ALLEGATION
of Chest funds, to pass on to the public
my observation on the operations OF a
Community Chest.
Family and Child Services, originally
known as Associated Charities, served
Washington for SO years before the
establishment of Community Chest,
conducting an appeal for support inde-
pendently. This was also true of many
other local agencies now supported by
the Community Chest. Those of us
familiar with the former independent
campaign remember the terribly heavy
costs in time and money of financial
support solicitation; then too the citi-
zen boards responsible for agency oper-
alton, the service program, were in
evitably distracted from this important
activity in their preoccupation with
problems Of support. Nor should 1t be
forgotten that the agency most skilled
in promotion and fund raising could
secure support without regard to the
needs served bys sagencies less vocal in
their appeals. None of us would return
to those days of wasteful, inefficient
competition.
We should never lose sight of the fact
that the Community Chest does not
exist for itself. It is useful as the agent
of all the agencies which directly serve
the people. Any one of them could
present convincing appeal for support
in human services which are of basic
concern to all of us. Through a central
appeal under the red feather the pub
lie has the opportunity to support all
services without the impossible task OF
weighing the appeal of each. The weigh
ing of one need against another comes
in the scrutiny of budgets and pro-
grams to which each agency submits
itself.
Family and Child Services is the nom
sectarian agency charged with the serv-
ice of family counselling, foster care
and adoption of children, individual
services to the blind and summer camp
ing for underprivileged children. Day
in and day out, year after year, people
come to us for these services in num-
bers greater than we can adequately
serve. We have deep conviction Of the
value of these services to people. We
also believe that the community must
have Judgment in its investment in
these services and in services to other
human needs.
We are convinced that if all realized
the Community Chest is no more or less
than a convenient, efficient and eco
nomical vehicle created for the sole
purpose of supporting services such as
we are dedicated to, such support would
be forthcoming to the extent that no
one who needed the services would be
denied.
Charles T. Penn,
President, Family and Child Services.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Public Works Impetus

The Districts much-dScusSed public works
program, launched in the face of threatening
obstacles, is making good headway at last on its
course toward legislative approval. Having sur
Vived the Budget Bureau shoals, albeit with
few scars, the city improvement program has
weathered another potential hazard-Chairman
Case of the Senate District Committee. Senator
Case, who was anything but enthusiastic about
the plan in its original form, now has given
wholehearted Endorsement to the revised pro-
gram and has promised to "do all I can to get it
enacted" That is good news to the Commits
sioners and to the civic groups which have
worked so hard to formulate an acceptable pro-
gram, including the knotty problem of financ-
ing it.
Particularly welcome is Senator Cases
expressed willingness to have his committee sit
with the House District Committee in joint
hearings on the amended bill This plan would
save lot of time for all concerned, Congress as
we'll as the witnesses. And time-saving is very
important, in view of the fact that approval OF
the program by the legislative committees must
precede budgetary action to carry it into effect
In other words Congress cannot intelligenty
pass on the new District budget until it knows
exactly what the public works plan is to cover
and how it is to be financed. The raising OF
revenue to pay for the $300-million, 1O-year
undertaking will have to await the outcome OF
the proposed Joint hearings.
There will be efforts, undoubtedly, to fur
ther reduce the works program and to shift
more of the financing burden onto the District.
But, as Chairman Case stressed in formal
statement, the modified plan represents long
study by the Commissioners and their advisory
groups and by the Budget Bureau, all of whom
are in agreement that the program is the abso-
Lutte minimum required to bring the citys essen
tial service facilities to reasonably adequate
state. With both the Budget Bureau and Chair
man Case lending active support to the scaled
down program and to the joint District-Federal
financing arrangement the prospect of fair
sailing for the legislation is considerably
brighter. --.--
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Where Is the Patronage Grab?

President EiSenhoWer'S announced deter
mination to preserve the sanctity of the civil
service system should serve further to reaSSure
Federal employees who feared patronage raid
on the Government departments by the Repub-
lican administration. The fears were aggravated
in recent months by disclosure OF new &c"
category of workers deemed ripe for replace
ment by picked administration appointeeS.
But the President indicated at press confer
ence that the patronage pickings SO far have
been so small that G. o. P. leaders are concerned
with the possible election effects of the "spoils"
scarcity. And Representative Miller, Nebraska
Republican, is demanding the scalp of Chair
man Philip Young of the Civil Service Com
mission, himself Republican, for allegedly
blocking the administrators &C" program.
AS matter of fact, the records do show
that more than half of the 1,800-odd requests
for category requirements Covering only top
policy-making jobs) have been turned down
by the Civil Service Commission. General Ell
senhower told reporters that it is difficult to
draw line between key jobs properly subject
to political changes and those which should
remain in the career classification. He has
backed the csc in its judgments SO far, to the
discontinue of G. o. P. officials under fire from
patronage-hungry Republicans in the States.
It is interesting, in this connection to learn
that the only Democrat on the Civil Service
Commission has seen no evidence of a break
down of civil service safeguards since the
advent of the Eisenhower administration.
Commissioner Fred Lawton so informed the
National League of District PostmaSters at its
Chicago meeting Mr.. Lawton declared that
fears among Federal workers of sweeping
turnover of personnel for patronage purposes
had proved to be completely baSelesS. Ger
tainly," he said, many observers of the Gov
ernment scene, and good part OF the general
public, believed that patronage with capital
would be the big story of 1858. Some of the
observers got the patronage idea so firmly
fixed in their heads that they started seeing it
where it did not exist. OF course, the widely
predicted patronage grab never materialized."
Part of the misconception undoubtedly arose
from the reduction-in force program ordered
by Congress as an economy measure. Actually
this retrehchment was Setback for the
patronage seekers. 1t meant fewer, not more
Federal jobs. There were even complaints that
temporary workers taken on by the Fair Deal
regime were being retained while veteran career
employees were bumped" The csc has taken
steps to guard against further Irregularities of
this sort and to find new jobs for careeristS who
were victims of the "RIF" program. In general
there is abundant evidence that the Civil
Service Commission is on the alert against
encroachments on the career service by patron
age dispensers or any one else.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
A Republic of Pokiston

It is fully in keeping with the evolution of
PakiStan as an independent state that its Con-
stituent Assembly should decide that the coun-
try is to become an Islamic republic.
The division of the subcontinent OF Asia,
formerly the Indian Empire, into the autono
nous DominionS of India and Pakistan within
the framework of the British Commonwealth
took place in August of 1947. The Indian ma
tionalist movement had been developing slowly
since 1885, with its greatest impetus coming at
the end of World War when Indian leaders felt
that native officialdol had demonstrated its
capacity for civil and mitalJ administration
of the country. The basic incompatibility
between Hindu and Moslem blocs of the pop
ulation came to the fore during the next decade
and the plan for an independent Moslem state
to be known as PakiStan was first suggested in
1888. BY 1910, the Moslem League had adopted
a resolution proposing that "the areas (of
India) in which the Moslems are numerically
in majority, as in the northwestern and east
ern zones of India should be grouped to con-
Stitute independent states" When the Indian
independence Act was passed by the British
Parliament in July of 1947, it provided for the
partition. India became republic in 1850, but
PakiStan, in greater need of British personnel
in it's civilian and military administration, has
continued it's dominion status while working out
and permanent form of government
The draft constitution now being consid-
cred in Karachi the Pakistani capital calls for
a two-house legislature, cabinet primarily
responsible to the lower house and head OF
state to be chosen by the two legislative
branches. 1t is a formula more closely follow
ing the French system than the American.
Although minority proposals have been made
to break away from the Commonwealth there
appears to be no substantial backing for such
an effort and the other Commonwealth coun-
tries are expected to approve the transition
from dominion to republic.
It is not surprising, in view of the Hindu
Mosem cleavage, that the Hindu minority in
the Pakistani Assembly should be apprehensive
about the requirement that the head OF state
should be a MoSlem and that the government
should be designated of1cially as Islanic.
Assurances have been given, however, that the
rights of the Hindu minority of some million
out of rs million population will be protected
by specific legislation. The PakiStani govern
ment has demonstrated responsible qualities
in the past six years and there would seem to
be no reason to doubt its good faith in this
matter. In its relation to the rest of the Isamic
world, Pakistan likewise has displayed mod
crate and statesmanlke behavior which augurs
well for its standing in the international COM
munity Of the free world.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
New Driver.

Jones' favorite always has his wait
ing room full, but when one finally
gets in, he is the only person in the
world. apparently.
No hurry, no impatience, time for
little chat, and the state of the
weather.
The eye man has difficult time Of it
with reStive patients, and the very
fragility of the human eye adds to his
problems.
An oculist is an M. D.. medical
doctor. He should be able to catch
signs of other illnesses which show up
first in the eye.
The diabetic patient makes difficult
case, and there are many others; the
good doctor will not prescribe glasses
for certain persons.
An oculist is patient man.
He must be.
The daily grind of fitting eye tests
alone would-wear out an average man.
He must stand at his work, in most
cases. He must listen to the gar
rulities of old ladies. and the platitudes
of their youngers. He greets the walls
of little ones with smile. and tries not
to let his knowledge creep into his
voice when he views hopeless case.
If this were oculist week, as it
should be (and is in the Templeton
Jones calendar), it would be greeted by
millions Of persons whose world is a
brighter and more colorful one because
of the work these men have done.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
On Closing c Commissuries

l am writing in regard to the at
tempt being made to deny commissary
privileges to the service member. I
have been in the active service for over
IA years and feel that the morale in
the services and their attractiveneSs
as a career has descended to new low
as a result of this unwarranted and
unjustif1ed attempt to take away an
other part of our pay. The commits
sary privilege is part of our pay and
was recognized as such by Congress
when it adopted the Hook Commission
recommendations in 1949 1t must be
added that at that time the Hook Com
mission recommendations were reduced
by five per cent by Congress. Commis-
Sary privileges were taken into conSid-
Grafton in establishing the rates. The
1949 rates have been increased in 1852
by the to IA per cent increase in
pay but they still leave us from 20 to
80 per cent behind the cost-of-living
increase as compared to the average
factory worker, and about IL per cent
behind the increase granted to civil
service workers.
Repeated attackS-Some unSucceSS-
fully Congressman and selfish COM
merclal interests against other fringe
benefits have resulted in decrease in
service compensation since 1949 rather
than an increase as has been received
by other segments of our population.
Just because the service member is not
politically represented by pressure
groups in Congress why must he suffer
economically and in prestige just be-
cause he is in the service? Must mill
tary service result in becoming a second
class citizen and life of austerity and
denial? What sort of defense force
can this Nation muster when the volun-
teers in such a force must love their
country and the service comparable
to the love of service that exists in the
heart of monk when he is willing to
give up the economic compenSations
received by the average American in
order to serve? Love of service and duty
to ones country are not justifably to
be asked of only one segment of the
Nations citizens. Why should the
service member be the subject of the
economy ak and the selfish CONNER
cial interests to the exclusion of all
other citizens?
It appears that sense of devotion
Evening star., 1953-11-14
The Last Leaves

The last leaves clingino to the pilIaged
boughS
When all their host, like refugees.
haze fed
InUGSion, as NoUember'S Grntor ploiUs
A path OF desoldtion and of dead,
Are loy1liStS that raise their banners
still,
With their last strength, Dithtn the
Shrouding haze
EnUeloping the uu-dutumnaI chill,
Whose frosty fingers calculate their
days.
They are the ualidnt-thoSe last leGues
that fall
They are the dedicated, giving al
To keep inUiolate, Without surrender.
The pertectneSs of tUtich they are
defender:
To guard tUith their liues, till thev tdH
to dust,
The summers beauty oiUen them in
trust.
Frances Goss.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Suspected Professors


Undoubtedly there are many fine
boys at Harvard and it is a shame for
their college to cast a shadow on their
futures.
Inasmuch as we are all judged, with
logical reason, by the company we keep,
Harvard and all other colleges should
dismiss any professor or instructor who
will not answer questions forthrightly
on his past or present connection with
communism. On the other hand, if
professors or instructors declare them
selves to be Communists, the individual
college can decide whether or not it
wishes to keep admitted Communists
on its staff.
No university or college that is truly
dedicated to education and academic
freedom would protect the academic
freedom Of the professors at the ex-
penSe of the students academic free
dom to know whether or not he is being
lectured to, and required to pass the
course of, a person intent on the sup
preston of Christianity and the de-
struction Of an independent United
States.
Educators and the public have to a
large extent lost sight of the students
rights in his university. Colleges were
designed for the education and training
of those who attend them-they were
not meant to be havens for Sinecurists
or sanctuaries for professors
Any educational institution that
keeps concealed Communists on it's
faculty should prepare itself to be ac-
cused of heavy Communist inflltration
with the attendant loss of honor and
standing which will affect it's students,
its staff and it's graduates.
Elaine lady
Evening star., 1953-11-14

seat has been effected at what will cer-
tainly prove to be an extremely heavy
price to the prestige of the COP. and
to President Eisenhower, personally.
Republican orators expounded at
great length during the campaign
about the mess in Washington" What
do we have now?
T. X. johnson,
Whatever the truth is, Mr.. Brownell
has not only degraded to a serious
degree his own high Office, but he has
by involving two Presidents-de-
graded the Office of the Chief Exec
utive.
The best amends President Eisen-
hover can make is to ask for the resig-
nation of his Attorney General.
Kathryn T. Eager.
think that President Eisen-
hover should call the whole thing of
as badly botched job, apologize to
Mr.. Truman and fire his Attorney
General.
William M. White, Jr.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
A Voters Obligation

In the wake of the strong Republican show
ing in the Old Dominion last week. some Vir-
ginia Democrats are saying that the party plan
imposes moral obligation" on any one who
votes in the Democratic primary. This obliga-
ton, it is claimed, is to vote for the party
nominees in the general election, whoever they
may be.
There is no doubt that the party plan
attempts to bind Virginias Democratic voters
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Unfinished Spy Business
T. E. X.

The American people are entitled to
much more than brief glimpse of the
abysmal treachery which has been
practiced upon them. Let the peo-
pie now be told the truth. the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth-not
for any partisan reasons or motives,
but because it is their lncontestable
right to know the truth. And let the
revelation of truth not be permitted to
degenerate into multi-ring political
circus. with every Tom, Dick and Harry
showing to "get into the act"
Frederick L. Freeman.
In her column of November II, Dor
othy Thompson says:
'The most extraordinary statement
in the controversy -. /. is that attributed
to Gen. Vaughan, who said he had never
heard of Harry Dexter White until Mr..
Brownen made his accusation. From
this one must assume that an aide and
White House intimate Of the President
never read newspapers and was,
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Questions and Answers

The stars readers can get the answer to any
question. of fact by either writing The Evenins
Star information Bureau 1900 ! street NV,
Washington 5. D. c.. and inclosing cents re-
turn postage or by telephoning Sterling 3-7363.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Was Nine. Syngman Rhee born
In Austria? What is her religion? c. B.
A. Madame Rhee is the former Fran
cesca Donner, member of we'll
known Viennese family. She is Meth
odist
Evening star., 1953-11-14

After reading Funk & Wagnall's def
milton of a "snollygoster" I am con-
vinced that Mr.. Truman, himself.
qualities quite well as a snollygoster.
Furthermore, history might well refer
to his administration as the ANY
thing Goes Administration" So long
as Mr.. Truman and his hotheaded tao
tics dominate the Democratic Party,
favor the Republicans.
Evening star., 1953-11-14

in short, as uninformed as a creature
from another planet :"
Was Mr.. Eisenhower also as "unin-
formed as a creature from another
planet?
l. A lewis
Evening star., 1953-11-14
B. S. U.

Brownell's political blackmail has
paid off to the Republican Party by
victory in the California election. But
the winning of this one congressional
Evening star., 1953-11-14

c. Which is the busiest airport in
Europe?-N. v. A.
A. London Airport is the busiest ter
minal. When the new buildings are
completed, it will be one Of the worlds
largest.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Letters to The Star

and the desire to serve ones country
results in deprivation of ones right to
the thing we are sworn to defend-the
American way of life!
n
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Airline information Service

Edward c. HOdSOn.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Observing Speed Limit

Robert L. Stern.