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Evening star., 1953-05-23
BY Charles E. TroceweN

benches in front of the Jones home for
the Saturday morning excursion to the
Zoo. they decided on the direct route up
Sixteenth street and then to the left,
down Snake road.
They went past the high red clay
bluffs, where Macmillan Park now
stands. Today huge towering battle
ments OF concrete hold the red clay
back from the street. but in the old
days the clay came right down to the
roadbed.
Usually the boys had to take q slide
or two down the bank. often to the
detriment of their short pants. as the
garments were called.
They finally got, in the usual small
boy Slowpoke fashion, to Snake road.
Down the winding narrow street
they went. when suddenly q very large
and very mean-looking dog came from
behind an old-fashioned frame house.
one of the few along the almost deserted
way.
The dog barked. showed his teeth,
edged closer and closer.
All this time, Templeton Jones, 10,
and his companions were getting nearer
the Zoo. when suddenly two more dogs
appeared and Joined the first.
Then Jones and pals took to their
heels, outdistancing the running. bark
ing dogs Nobody got bit and everybody
had a good time, both boys and dogs.
They had simple pleasures In those
DAYS.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Opponent>for SuItonstuII

Charles Coulter's letter (May l9)
shows keen insight into Massachu-
setts political affairs. He is right when
he states that an excellent candidate
will be put up to oppose incumbent
Leverett Saltonstall.
1t may well be one Of the outstand-
ing new faces" in the Bay State Demo-
cratic Party: Foster Furcolo. While a
member Of the House of Representa-
tives Furcolo won editorial praise from
The Evening Star and other metro
politan newspapers for his valiant ef-
fort to get an honest Federal appropri-
alton for the District of Columbia.
Running Statewide for the first time
last November. Furcolo proved to be
one OF the States biggest surprises, pill
ing up a huge vote for Treasurer de-
spite the defeat Of Governor Dever who
headed the State ticket.
Should Foster Furcolo represent Mas
sachusetts in the United States Senate,
no Bay Slater will ever say, why can't
we see our Senator face to face when
we come to Washington" as Mr.. Coul-
ter comments on Senator Saltonstall.
Furcolo's record in Congress proves
he is interested in people and the needs
of people. j. M.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Toxpdyer to Toxpoyer
Reader.

The May 16 letter from "Homebuy-
ing Taxpayer" makes a number of very
broad and emotional statements which
do little to clarity the basic facts on
the Montgomery County school budget
situation.
don't know where the author got
his information but there are at least
three statements in 'Homebuying Tax
payers" letter which are so patiently
in error that they should be noted and
answered:
Cd The Parent-Teacher Associations
obviously propelled by the Board of
Education are campaigning for unlim-
tied and disproportionate school funds"
(2) ". Many of the active PTA
campaigners for unlimited funds are
apartment or dwelling tenants. They
are not concerned with the size of the
real estate tax bill"
90 1.-THE PTA is glaringly ignorant
Of factual financial data concerning
county school requirements.
It is because the Board of Education
is so modest and retiring in getting the
facts about school needs before county
residents that the PTA has attempted
to do what is essentially Board job.
If the Montgomery School Board
showed the get up and 60 of the
Arlington School Board, in publicly
standing UP for its budget recon-
Evening star., 1953-05-23
This and That

Thinking about his contemplated Zoo
vacation. Templeton Jones remembered
his childhood adventure with three
dogs.
In the old days. before Sixteenth
street was built up, the most interesting
way to get to our National Geological
Park was out Sixteenth street and down
Snake road.
Today Jones doesn't know exactly
what Snake road, as everybody called it,
is named, but it makes no difference.
It was Snake road then, and 1t is
still Snake road in Templeton Jones
memory.
Memory is, after all, magic.
We remember things we shouldn't,
fail to recall what we should.
Jones has often been astonished at
the number Of faces, occurrences, things,
doings, happenings, sayings he has for
gotten.
Others recall them and say, Don't
you remember"
Sometimes Jones smiles assent, but
even then he fails to remember what
is SO vivid to the others.
He feels that this is often a very
good thing, occasionally not so good.
What is the use Of keeping the memory
life. what so-and-so said so years ago.
how the sun looked on the Sd day of
June, 1882. or who knocked home run
Evening star., 1953-05-23

more Attlee's remarks and cheer on
Bevan. Bevan is not an American; he
perhaps does not see the whole picture;
but he has a persuasive and logical
mind. and plenty OF intestinal fortitude.
If England had to defend Ireland
during World War II, while Ireland re-
manned neutral. we must face the pos
sibility that in some future war (hot
or colO we must defend ar England
which remains neutral. There can be
no question Of compulsion; we cannot
follow the British example into the
darker corners of Irish history; we can
not wash our hands of the whole thing
and say that there are simply too many
people on too little land, because we
remember when we were on the re-
ceiving end.
Let 1t never be said Of us that we
sullied Irelands triumph of spirit over
might by ourselves attempting to crush
the Spirit of weaker nation.
Matthew Francis O'Donnell III.
Evening star., 1953-05-23

and treatment problems Although all Of
Alexandrias sewage now is dumped raw, into
the river, the city has joined with Arlington and
Fairfax Counties in Joint engineering survey
OF the sewage situation, with view to building
combined facilities. The State Water Control
Board is pressing for prompt measures to abate
pollution on the Virginia side. All of this is
encouraging to those who appreciate the po-
tential value of the Potomac River as a scene
of national power-boat and rowing races. The
day even may come when the river once again
will be safe for swimming. Teamwork by the
communities on both sides OF the river will
hasten that happy era.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Ruise for CONGRESS
Horse Sense.

Members Of Congress have intro
duced a bill proposing to increase their
own salaries to $25, 1000 a year.
There is no doubt that number of
these servants of the people are worth
$4,000. Unfortunately. there seem to
be many coat tail riders worth only
small fraction of that sum. This really
is the problem of those people such
men represent. Perhaps for such SAL
ary the people will be more careful in
their selection of Congressman.
1t does seem ironic that the same
men who bluster for days as to wheth-
er the salaries of executive Govern
ment employees should be increased 3
per cent or per cent can calmly dis
cuss their own advancement in terms
of around so per cent.
Before we allow Congress to estab-
lish $25 900 salaries, urge few Stipu-
lations be required before they reach
for the check
/. Let this $4,000 job be considered
a full time job. taking precedent over
time devoted to sideline business.
2. Let it be required that Congress-
men serving on pertinent committees
divest themselves of all stocks, bonds,
Evening star., 1953-05-23

parison is significant. We have had
over twice the number of tornadoes in
the first four and one-half months of
1853 as the 35-year average referred to
above: 174 to SO.
His study has caused him to project
theory which directly associates the
atomic explosions with the cyclonic
calamitieS of this year-exceSsive rain
fall, extremes of temperature, poi
soned" hailStones, green snow that
burns. winds of hurricane velocity, and
last but not least, the great loss of life
occasioned by these possible man-made
calamities.
The theory-in layman's language
is that an atomic explosion is of such
frightful intensity that it pierces and
plays hob with those 60-mile-a above
the-earth mysterious layers known as
the ionoSphere. The earth, hurtling
through space from East to West there
after is peppered with disastrous storms
in widely separated localities as it alb
serbs, in varying degrees, the rebounds
OF the cosmic disturbances.
Is 1t not a singular thing, he asks,
that virtually all Of the storms have
been east of the Rockies? Were the
explosions confined to the far Pacific,
he contends. the atomic collision with
the ionosphere would be absorbed,
with minimum loss or property damage,
in the vast expanse of waters.
The Star, with so many readers of
scientific attainments. might wish to
invite opinions either in support Of.
or against, my friends theory
Jay Jerome williams.
Evening star., 1953-05-23

in the last half of the ninth inning on
August II, 1902?
Templeton Jones, as small boy,
loved the Zoo.
Most boys do.
The difference seems to be that the
boys nowadays seldom go.
In Jones boyhood, the Zoo was q
sort of standard Saturday fun
They didn't have movies in those
days. didn't have radio and, certainly,
no television.
If a boy wanted some fun. he had to
rustic it up for himself.
Usually he had few pals, real fell
lows who liked the things he did.
Templeton Jones liked two things
above all else, books and animals.
Among his beloved books was one by
a Rev. DR.. Wood Woods Natural
History" it was called.
Many an oldster will recall 1t, but you
seldom see it anymore.
Probably it is not held to be scientific
enough. Science has swept the board,
almost to the point Of the obliteration
Of mankind, If they aren't careful.
In Jones' childhood, even science had
not come into its own. The boys of
that day knew nothing at all about
vitamins-even their parents didn't.
The word, even, had not been thought
up.
When the bows ratheredAat the green
Evening star., 1953-05-23
HOW ABOUT tbs AE6W6 WITH

etc. pertaining to such interests in the
same manner as required Of cabinet
members.
3. Let it be required that some per-
centage of time over so per cent be
mandatory for appearance at roll calls
or in some way attending to the busi-
ness to which they were elected rather
than enjoying the fragrant absentee
ism practiced by some.
4. Let the $4,000 be full payment
without any special deductions for in
come tax purposes and require Con-
gressmen to enjoy only those tax privi-
leges enjoyed by the people for whom
they work.
1t has become a little tiresome to
always be the whipping boy of con-
gressional loudmouths by remaining
within the Federal civil service. The
Federal employe. is smothered with
dos" and "don'ts" so let us obtain
few reasonable work requirements
from the boys Of special privilege.
Career Employe and Taxpayer.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Atomic Weather?

The current extraordinary weather
conditions have aroused widespread
speculation about their possible rela-
tionship to the nine atomic explosions
in the present, series on Yucca Flats.
Nevada.
A lawyer scientist friend in Wash
ington. disdaining Mark Twains re-
mark that Everybody talks about the
weather, but nobody does anything
about it" has done something about it.
He has obtained from the Weather Bu-
reau a 35-year average (from 1916
1850 inclusive) of the frequency Of
tornadoes in the United States for the
months from January to the middle
of May. Then. he has contrasted it
with the number of tornadoes, actually
identified as such by the Bureau, in
the similar period this year. The COM
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Auducious Witnesses

There is such thing as making too
great fetish of freedom of speech"
The Communists make no secret of
the fact that they will seek the de-
struction of what they are pleased to
call our "capitalistic" Nation, when
ever they feel themselves strong enough
to be assured of success.
When we analyZe the attacks upon
Senator Mccarthy and his committee
We find that his opponents want no
investigation of subversives and no
interference with the continued activi-
ties of those who oppose individual
initiative in business.
1t is bad enough that we have to
harbor a nest of rats in order to give
them their constitutional rights but
it is intolerable and unreasonable that
we should be forced to finance them
while they are trying to destroy our
Nation. One of their slogans is "Audac-
ity and more audacity" and they are
sure pulling out the stops on that
slogan when they demand that we sup
port them as teachers in our schools
ministers in our churches and en-
ployes in our Government departments
while they fight every effort to insure
loyalty in those positions.
Horse Sense.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
District of Columbia Crime

What are we going to do about the
crime-wave that has descended upon
THE City Beautiful? Are law-abiding
citizens going to stand by and see men
shot down and robbed. and women and
girls assaulted. It has come to the
point where women cannot walk in
the parks or on the streets day or
night. without being molested. In fact.
they are not even safe in their homes.
Much Of this is the work Of idle men
and women.
Why should the taxpayers have to
support these idlers? Why not find out
how many men and women are living
here without visible means of support
and send them back to their own
States? If this were done, there would
be less crime and Washington would
be safer, cleaner, better place in
which to live.
Bertha Custer.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
France in Disorruy

The downfall of Premier Mayer and his
cabinet brings to q total Of 20 the number of
French governments that have come and gone
since the end of the war. Nowhere in the free
world has there been q more unedifying, or
more disheartening example of the democratic
process at work. To be precise about it, Of
course, one should describe it as an example of
the democratic process not at work but default
ing on itself in Self-indulgent disarray and
disorder.
Mr.. Mayors defeat, which has come at
moment when France Is supposed to be pre-
pairing to send q Premier to take part in q
"Big Three" meeting with Prime Minister
Churchill and President Eisenhower, has not
resulted from any fierce dispute over any of
the great and fundamental issues Of these
perilous times. What has brought it about Is
cheap politics and the mean, relatively ignoble
and Self-serving demands Of pressure groups
far less interested In France than in themselves.
Through their parliamentary friends, these
groupS-diStillery lobbyists, relief recipients,
bureaucrats, etc-have tossed out Mr.. Mayer
because Of his attempt to cope with Frances
economic problems with such measures as re-
stricting the output of alcohol, increasing fares
on state-owned railways reducing social welfare
benefits, putting a bride on the government
payroll, and giving more power to the executive
branch, which has long been at the mercy OF
irresponsible factions in the National Assembly.
This sort Of thing can be found in every democ-
racy, but among the French-eSpecially in the
postwar period-it has been uniquely vrulent.
The major reason for this is the multiplicity
Of French political parties and a constitution
that initiates against the idea of a strong
executive ONCE similar to our presidency.
Clearly, until its constitution is amended to do
away with present deficiencies, and until It's
partisan tragmentationS are reduced to point
where clear-cut parliamentary majorities be-
come possible, France will keep on suffering
from governmental instability of type that
is hardly tolerable in this age of crisis
True enough, Mr.. Mayer will be succeeded
in due course, and the French will seem to get
along somehow both at home and abroad. But
soon, in a matter of weeks or months, another
Of their governments will fall, and this in
stability-unless they end it one of these days
with basic constitutional reforms-may well be
their undoing. The situation as it stands is
full of the most harmful potentialities not only
for France but for the free world at large
country that is supposed to be member Of
the Western big Three" ought certainly to
be more mature in its political conduct.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
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mendations. the PTA wouldn't have
to do the job.
Further. those working for adequate
school support are not campaigning
Tor unlimited and disproportionate
schools funds" What we are asking
for is restoration Of 10% ($1,O35 ,O0O)
cut in the Boards operating budget
and restoration Of q 44% ($3.2OO. .OOO)
cut in the Boards construction budget.
We are talking about teachers pay
raise averaging 80. budget to cut the
1909 plus turnover in custodial en-
ployees in less than six months (due
to salaries below the county scale), and
adequate housing as our school popula-
ton increases. These are specific and
limited requests to meet discernible
school needs. If the requests are to
be labeled "disproportionate," what are
the standards used?
Montgomery HOmeowner.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Rent Control

cannot understand why the local
papers are against rent control and for
its repeal. I thought the newspapers
were usually for the masses rather than
the classes. In this case they are for
the property owners or real estate
agents rather than "the people"
About two weeks ago there was an
article about one of President Eisen-
hower's cabinet members having finally
found a house after hunting two
months. In the meantime he lived in
local hotel. Even expensive apart
ments cannot be had. In this same issue
I looked at the classified ads and found
there were exactly IS apartments for
rent, Of which one-third were for
colored and the others not desirable.
So where do the papers get the idea
that there are plenty of apartments
available in Washington?
Reader.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Behind Closed Blinds

Her neiOhbors knotD that shs lves all
alone,
And pity her a. neichbors often Wiu.
TO them. her closed blinds add chcstly
tone
They think that crief Is torturtno her
still;
But close friends know this Is a fauacy;
That she Is like child In secret play.
The birds her husband loUed stu seek
his tree,
Not much Is changed since he has
gone GtD1y.
She sits contented near his lounging
chair
on iointer nights UIten bleak storms
roar outside.
Dressed in the Ooion he loped to see her
tuedr,
Alone, refusing to beliepe he died.
She might help Others caught In grief
and pain
II she could face reality again.
Josepho Murroy Emms
Evening star., 1953-05-23
One Down Lowdown

In land that claims to recognize
the dignity of the individual, every
citizen is an important person. The
police dispatcher's phrase, "One down."
however. suggests contempt for the
individual. I am glad to see that this
phrase has been banned. but I am
sorry to note that greater efficiency
was the reason. The phrase is chiefly
condemnable because 1t is inhumane!
Hamill Kenny.
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Tonque-in-Cheek Mediator

AS an American of Irish descent,
have always believed that when a small
nation. proud of its ancient traditions
and its modern poets and writer's.
stands up to bigger, more industrial
lied, wealthier, and stronger nation,
then the bigger nation should cheer
for the indomitable courage of the
human spirit, and should show decent
amount of chivalry 1t should do SO
even when the smaller nation actually
owes its defense to the larger one; even
when the smaller nations leaders are
unnecessarily and unfairly insulting,
and even when the smaller nation de-
faults, in the name of some rather in
definite principles. on the payment OF
large sums of money owed.
Therefore, feel that it is the duty
Of all of us Americans of Irish descent
to use our influence to see that America
behaves this way toward England.
America is only bigger island, ac-
cording to the geopoliticians. If the
English should have given up the SUBJ
ject of the repayment of the Irish
land-purchase loans, we had better give
up worrying about the various war
debts. If the English should have over
looked De Valera's reputation of their
king, and If many Englishmen cheered
on the Irish rebels in the time of their
troubles. then we should likewise ig-
Evening star., 1953-05-23
Congress Critical.

There have been criticisms in past
months from members of Congress,
who expressed indignation because,
first, they were not consulted about
some appointments and second, be-
cause appointments were not being
made fast enough, and not enough
jobs provided for their constituents.
Some of these criticisms were voiced
before President Eisenhower was in
augurated. and members of the cabi-
net were in the process Of selection,
along with other near-cabinet officers.
More recently, however. appointments
have been cleared with the Republic
can members of Congress, as we'll as
with other party leaders in their States.
Probably. there never will come a time
when members of Congress do not
complain because they have not enough
Offices or employment for constituents.
Sometimes cabinet officers, themselves,
have been intent upon securing ap-
pointmentS for men and women they
have personally seIected-and appoint
ments have been made. These, too.
have aroused ire, here and there on
Capitol Hill.
While all the scramble over jobs has
been under way. there Is one situation
which confrontS the dispensers of pa
tronage-to find men and women who
qualify as experts. It is vastly diff
ferent situation from that which faced
the late President Franklin D. Roose-
velt and his chief political lieutenant.
James A. Farley. the then Postmaster
General and chairman Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. when the
Democrats came into power in 1898.
At that time. highly qualified men and
women were available in numbers.
The country was in the midst Of a de-
preston and many were out Of jobs
entirely. Today, with employment at
its highest. 1t sometimes takes lot of
persuading to get men and women to
relinquish well-paid jobs to 60 to work
for the Government. They are the
kind Of people the Government needs.
Evening star., 1953-05-23

When the boys gatheredN1t the green
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
BROWNSVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. 0lin Dill and fam
lily Of Bowers Beach spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Cox and
family.
AIr. and Mrs. Ralph Pearson Of
Houston called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Anthony on Sunday.
Mr.. and MIS-. Jean Wirick and
family were Wednesday evening
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Colli-
son.
Louis Brown, Betty Cannon, jan
ct Collision and Norma Jean Brown
were at the Seaford roller rink on
Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bullock were
Sunday dinner guests at the home
Of Mrs. Lizzie Elwanger in Dem
ton, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Brown and
family were dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles ,Coverdale on New
Years Day. Other guests we're Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Coverdale.
Louis E. Brown has returned to
his school at cambridge, Nd, az
ter spending two weeks with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Brown.
Mrs. Catherine Fox and daughter,
Mary Jane, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Dayton Of Cambridge, Md, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Collins and family.