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Evening star., 1953-08-30
Boy cyeIist Hi, Driver !.
Gives Dollar, Goes On |

A hit-and-run driver who
gave dollar to young bicyclist
after the car hit him was being
sought by police last night. X
Police said Robert Hayden, IA,
of 616 Bonifant street. Silver
Spring, was pedalling in the 6700
block of Georgia avenue NV.
when the bicycle was hit by a
green sedan.
The driver got out, asked the
boy if he was hurt, and then
gave him the dollar, police said.
They called it a hit-and-run
case.
Robert was taken to Emerg-
ency Hospital. He was released
when no injuries were found.
Evening star., 1953-08-30
Registration Continues

Registrations of children 4
years of age who wish to attend
the Morningside (Md0 CO.
operative kindergarten next
month will be accepted up to
September 6 by Mrs. Logan
Koch. 305-A Boxwood drive.
Evening star., 1953-08-30
Airmun FulIs to Death

TOKYO, Sunday. Aug. 80 up
The Far East Air Force said
today airman 1ic Kenneth D.
Larkin of Aurora, Ill. fell from
the bomb bay of a B-29 and was
lost in the East China Sea.
Rescue units searched the area
for Is hours, the Air Force said.
Evening star., 1953-08-30
Showdown Next Session
On Issues Seen by Johnson

limit-from $275 billion to
$290-and for increases in the
postal rates, Senator johnson
commented. were de-tracked
by Congress as too controversial.
Among the important issues
which have been postponed until
the next session of Congress,
Senator johnson listed a long
term foreign trade policy, an ex-
panded social security program,
basic farm legislation, revision
of the Taft-Hartley labor law.
a bold, new foreign policy" a
long-range tax program. a bal
anced budget and statehood for
Hawaii and Alaska.
1T may be predicted" john
son continued, that the next
session of Congress will have
to face most, if not all. of these
issues-and will be a much more
controversial session"
Praises Democratic Stand
The Democratic leader said
that probably the outstanding
feature of the first session of this
Congress was the responsibility
displayed by the minority mem
bers of both houses"
"It is doubtful" he said.
whether any minority party in
the past history of our Nation
has worked so hard and SO dill
ligently and has rejected to such
a great extent petty and obstruc-
tive partisanship.
"The great majority of the
Presidents program was put
through only because of Demo-
cratic support. Most of the op-
position which he encountered
was opposition from within the
ranks of his own party. Many
of his programs could not even
have been brought to the floor
of either house without Demo-
cratic aid"
He undoubtedly had reference
to the bill extending the excess
profits tax for six months, which
was resisted by Republican mem
bers of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
On the other hand, Senator
Johnson pointed out, the Demo-
Gratis in Congress had opposed
the President ION principle" !"
when they disagreed with his
policies, as in the case of the
cuts in Air Force appropriations
and an unlimited grant of au-
thority to. Secretary Benson to
reorganize the Agriculture De-
partment.
Skeptical on Korea.
While Congress was not active.
Senator johnson said, important
events took place in the execu-
tive agencies. He mentioned par
ticularly the truce in Korea, fol-
lowing lengthy negotiations ini-
tiated in the Truman adminis-
tration.
"It may not be a lasting
truce" Senator Johnson said,
"and certainly it cannot be con-
sidered a durable peace. Never
theleSs, the shooting has stopped
for the time being and if the
negotiations are handled wisely,
there is always the possibility
that the truce may develop into
a peace. 1t is far too early to
be joyous over the Korean de-
velopments but We can be thank
full that our men are no longer
dying on the field of battle"
Senator Johnson looked
askance at the administration
fiscal and money policies-par-
ticularly the hard money" pol
icy, with increased interest rates,
Disturbing signs in the Nations
economy, he said, included fall
ing farm prices and inventories
pilling up.
ITO sum up" he concluded,
this is a Congress of few &C
complishments and a few re-
| treats"
Evening star., 1953-08-30
Mccarthy
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Continued From First PageO
the charges of Communist activ-
ity on four occasions since l948.
In a letter to printing office Off
cials, Mr.. Ford said Mr.. Roth
schild asserted his constitutional
privilege under the Fifth Amend
ment at the open hearing only
because he had been threatened
Evening star., 1953-08-17
Letters to The Star

hand that they would have been hit
hard with atomic bombs and mustard,
Lewisite and chloropicrin gas, it is very
doubtful indeed that they would have
invaded South Korea on June Is, 1850.
And even if they had committed their
act Of aggression despite such warn
ing, their enormous casualties would
have caused them to sue for peace
in short order.
War is never a kind-hearted affair
and casualties must be expected. The
lives of our boys, however, should be
our first concern. We should end war
quickly and keep our casualties down.
Unfortunately there are fake hu-
mapitarianS (moStly abroad who feel
that murderous savages deserve as
much sympathy as civilized men. These
people, with twisted and distorted
minds, need to be Strengthened QUITE
educated-lest civilization, as we know
and enjoy it, perish. Reason and de-
cency are as alien to foreign barbarians
as these virtues are to microbes or the
savage beasts Of the jungle.
Walter Fielder.
Evening star., 1953-08-17

mandates won via the state lists, Sc
that votes are not effective twice.
The great amount of work which the
last Parliament was faced with, es-
pecially as regards committee work,
has made it necessary to increase the
total number of members from 4O2 to
at least 484.
In addition there will be % repre-
sentativeS from West Berlin. Owing
to the four-power agreements about
Berlin these, however, cannot be elect
ed directly by the population, but will
be appointed by the Berlin House of
Representatives. They have only a
consultative voice in Parliament.
The new Parliament is elected for a
four-year term.
AT the election to the first Parliament
on August IA. 1949, the Christian
Democrats received 81 per cent, the So
clal Democrats 29.2 per cent, the Free
Democrats 11.9 per cent and the Com
munists ST. per cent of the votes polled.
The remaining votes were divided
among a number of smaller parties.
The new electoral law provides that a
party must receive at least five per cent
Of all votes polled or must have at least
one representative elected directly in a
constituency otherwise all votes cast for
the party will be of no value. This five
per cent clause, which was the cause of
bitter rhetorical battles in the last Par
lament, is directed against the spread
OF splinter parties" which in the
Evening star., 1953-08-17
Equal Chance for All

General Eisenhower's decision to name a A.
member committee, headed by Vice President
Nixon, to enforce job equality under Federal
contracts is further evidence of the Presidents
determination to use his legitimate powers to
combat racial discrimination
There is ample evidence in the Presidents
statement creating the committee and in his
choice so far of members that this is not q
mere lip service project. And if more evidence
is needed, it may be found in the fact that the
move has been warmly approved by Walter
White, executive secretary of the National As
soc1at1on for Advancement of Colored PEOPLE
There is nothing new in the idea, of course.
and the Eisenhower group replaces an LINEN
Der committee appointed by President Truman
STILL much remains to be done in this field and
the new committee will have ample opportunity
to demonstrate its serious intentions, especially
II an economic showdown should increase the
competition for jobs.
1t is consistent with President EiSenhower's
stated views that his committee will emphasize
education as an anti-discrimination tool, and
that it will not seek to expand it's work beyond
the realm of Federal authority The committee
Will not be limited to mere preachment, how
ever, for Federal contracts can be denied to anv
bidder who practices discrimination in hiring
or firing. Thus, an effective sanction is avail
able, and the committee presumably will invoke
1t should need arise
Evening star., 1953-08-17
This and That

Common waSpS can sting as well as
the fancier breeds, and they are just as
stubborn.
The mule has been held up as the
type OF the stubborn, but when it comes
to the really obdurate, we commend
the wasp.
Here is a creature that, once it has
decided on nesting place, never gives
up
Let it and its mates select mailbox,
for instance, nothing the householder
can do will deter it except death.
Use of DDT may do the trick, but
really there is no need to kill them,
despite their persistence.
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What the belligerent wasp has its
eye on is not so much the mailbox, as
that tempting space between the front
door and the screen door.
You can just see the creature-can
almost hear him-say to himself: "Well,
now, If I could only get in there, what
a nest I could build!"
In the meantime, he takes second
best. the mailbox.
That is why it does no particular good
to empty the receptacle.
He will be right back In again, in the
morning.
II he finds q place in the screen
where he can enter. in he goes, along
with his family, all ready with the
stingers.
Ordinarily. q wasp is well behaved
enough.
Evening star., 1953-08-17
By Charles E. TroceWeN

is another of those actions more easily
advised than done.
In some half dozen wasp "bites" in
recent years, we have never been able
to find the stinger.
Disregard it, then, and turn to
sanitation.
Immediately wash the place with
soap and water.
Then cover it for a time with am
monia, or a paste made with bicarbon-
ate of soda.
After the hurt has subsided little,
wash off again with cold water, dry,
and apply a good antiseptic.
Let the first coat dry, then apply
another. Let that dry, and put on a
third.
After that, you are in the hands of
nature, the great mother. She actively
starts the system to absorbing the
poison and virulence, which is the re-
suit of the ingestion of what the medi-
cal men call foreign protein.
Antihistamine lotions. calamine To-
tions and others may be tried, but often
they do little except make the patient
think he is doing something. Com
presses of cold water help. The swell
ing and itching may last for three days.
Except in certain cases, there seems to
be little danger of real infection, but
the swelling and itching are bad
enough.
In the meantime, the wasp and his
group are happily trying to get back
into the mailbox. That's what we call
stubbcrnness.
Evening star., 1953-08-17

He is willing to mind his own busi-
ness, If you will let him.
He asks nothing more than to be
let alone to build his paper nest, one
of natures Oldest examples of pure
invention.
A little mud, and a wasp has as
much as he longs for in this world.
Surely. it is shame, one may think, to
begrudge him this little.
The truth is that nobody, even the
meanest person, would resent his nest
if it were not for that little dagger he
carries with him.
The worst part of the whole thing
is that it is extremely difficult, if not
impossible, to get into the head of q
wasp and understand what he thinks if
he thinks at all. Probably he does not
think, in our sense Most of his actions
and reactions are ready made. given to
him at birth. He has no more to do
with them, really, than you have.
Therefore, he does not actually sting
you-maybe you sting him! (ThiS
would be in line with the modern idea
that somehow it is the offended, not
the offender, who is to blame0
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The wasp Stabs quickly with his
stinger, which is one of the marvels
Of nature. too.
In doing so, sometimes he loses it,
and then the receiver, if he can, finds
it in his flesh and removes it.
That is why the doctor always ad-
vises the stung one to find the stinger
and get it out. In actual practice, this
Evening star., 1953-08-17
The Austrian Outlook

With an uncustomary display of cordiality.
the Soviet representative on the Allied Control
Council in Vienna has joined the Anglo French
American representatives in voting to end CEN
sorship in Austria. In effect, coming after long
years of persistent and harsh Russian nay say
ing on the ISSUE his action amounts to another
conciliatory gesture from the Kremlin. There
Is little reason to believe, however, that it is
the forerunner of policy changes basic enough
to pave the way for an early break in the stale
mated negotiations on an Austrian treaty.
Nevertheless, as far as it goes this new
Soviet move Is welcome one. What 1t means
Is that the Kremlin has reversed itself by
agreeing at last to yield to the position of the
Western powers and abolish all censorship of
letters and wire communications of every type.
In addition to relieving the Vienna government
of an expensive and extremely distasteful
shopping" task, it does away with restrictions
that have Inundated and embittered the Aus
trian people as a whole. To that extent, it
serves to effect at least some improvement in
the countryS atmosphere.
But this change for the better, like the
Kremlins recent decision to unburden Austria
of Soviet occupation costs, is far from being
enough to justify optimism regarding the treaty
Stalemate. Conceivably, just conceivably, such
conciliatory acts may mean that the post-Stalin
Malenkov regime is preparing to make genu-
inely fundamental policy revision directed
toward an effective four-power agreement on
pact restoring to the Austrian people the full
sovereignty and independence pledged to them
in the Moscow Declaration of 1943. But real
evidence to that effect is still very much lack
ing; moves like ending the censorship are at
best only dubious straws in the wind.
Actually, if the Kremlin were seriously in
tent upon working out sound and just Aus
trian settlement, it could easily demonstrate its
good faith by replying aff1rmatively to the
standing Anglo-French-A American offer to re-
open negotiations whenever the Soviet Union
plainly indicates that it is ready to abandon
its past obstructionism and arrive at an honest
agreement. Despite the conciliatory gestures,
there has been no such plain indication up to
this time. Until there is, the free world will
have reason to assume that Russia's leaders
for economic political and military reasons
do not really want to live up to the 1943 Moscow
pledge but are determined instead to hang on
as long as possible to their position in sorely
tried Austria
Evening star., 1953-08-17

tAHG WIIeTS HSuU OF CHG German
Net0S SerDice at Bonn, Is totU on a
Distt to the United StGtes.)
an September 6. some 80 million
~ citizens Of the German Federal
Republic will be entitled to record their
vote for the new BundeStag, Germany's
second postwar Parliament dover
house,.
All German men and women over
81 who have been resident in the Fed
eral Republic at least three months
are enfranchised. All German citizens
of at least IS years of age are eligible
for Parliament, as long as their eligi-
bility has not been withdrawn by
court decision.
The Importance of these parliamen-
tary elections is great, as they will be
decisive at the same time regarding the
formation of q new government and,
with it, the policy of the German Fed
eral Republic during the next four
years. The basic law, which takes
the place of constitution until Ger
many's reuniflcation, provides for the
government elected by Parliament q
very strong position viS-a-viS this same
Parliament. A government can be
overthrown only If parliamentary op-
position can simultaneously provide
sufficient votes to elect q new Federal
Chancellor. Frequent changes Of gov
ernment, such as in other countries. are
therefore not possible in the Federal
Republic, and the position of the
Adenauer government was never Seri-
ously endangered during the past four
years..
The old Parliament, whose four-year
term has just come to a close, was
charged by the constitution with work.
ing out new electoral law. So much
time was, however, taken by prelimi-
nary discussions that a new law was
passed only during the last days of the
term, and then not q final one, but
one that is valid only for the election
of the second Parliament. The question
at issue was direct vote versus pro-
portional representation. Numerous
Germans outside the parties are in
favor of the direct vote according to
British usage, while the parties, with
the exception Of the Christian Demo-
Gratis, are hoping for more mandates
through the proportional representa-
ton system. In the end a compro-
mise was found. On September 6, 242
representatives will be elected directly
in the same number of constituencies,
while at least another 242 members of
Parliament will be elected via the So
called "state lists of the parties.
(There are 10 Federal States in the
German Republic). Every elector has
two votes. With one of these he re-
cords his preference for a candidate
in his constituency, the second vote he
gives to party via the state list. The
total of such votes recorded IN the
state lists will be considered in COM
putting the additional at least 242 man
dates. The mandate won directly in the
constituencies will be deduced from the
Evening star., 1953-08-17
To Prod Congress on Home Rule

1t was great disappointment to the
vast majority of District residents that
Congress adjourned without passing
the Home Rule Bill giving the District
local self government.
Both the Republican and Democratic
parties adopted planks in their plat
forms calling for self-government for
the District.
If sincere intention to carry out
the party pledges existed among the
majority of the men and women elected
to the Senate and House, this legisla-
ton could already have been enacted.
The Central Suffrage Conference is
organizing a program which will force
fully bring to the attention of the Con-
gress, when it convenes for its next
session. that the people of the United
States expect pledges in party plat
forms carried out and that these
pledges are no longer something to be
forgotten or ignored after an election.
Herbert p. Lehman,
President, Central Suffrage Confer
ence of the District Of Columbia.
Evening star., 1953-08-17
FoIIs Church Fire Department

would like to correct misunder-
standing that apparently exists in the
minds of some persons regarding the
territory covered by the Falls Church
Fire Department in Fairfax County
and also the physical setup of the de-
partment.
The department consists of five
pieces Of modern equipment, includ-
ing an ambulance; 1t has 80 members,
including 10 full-time paid firemen.
These paid firemen, five on the day
shift and five on the night shift are
on duty at all times and respond to
alarms Immediately. There is no wait
ing at the fire station for volunteers
to arrive; members not already at the
fire house must respond in their own
cars to the scene of the fire.
Our first alarm district in Fairfax
County includes the following COM
munities:
North Willston, Buffalo Hills, Sleepy
Hollow, Belaire, Annalee, Jefferson VIII
lage. Westlawn. Woodley North and
South, Jefferson Village Apis, Tyler
Evening star., 1953-08-17
Reflection in d Quiet Pool

A gentle presence at the Wdter's edge
Has paused to see her image mirrored
there.
1t is the face of morning. And pledge
OF admiration oTeets her euerytDhere.
With parted lips, and clouds across her
eyes,
NarcisSuS-like she catches her reflection
And fingers on as If to dr1T,dtise
The immortality of such perfectton-
Knowing hoW briefly radiance remains
In nny quiet pool. oh let her stay.
Lost in selt-Donder, II 1t entertdins
And pleaSeS her. Keep jealous time
GtDdy.
But Uind and le1ves Utu crack the
looking glass,
And morning. like all lovely things.
must pass.
Donna Dickey
Evening star., 1953-08-17
Hard Rood Ahead

I have read with interest The Stars
thoughtful editorial, August ("Hard
Road Ahead"l on the flat-rate manu-
facturers' excise tax proposed by the
National Association of Manufacturers.
The point you make in regard to the
possible abuse of the flat-rate tax was
discussed in my testimony before the
House Ways and Means Committee.
The pertinent part of that testimony
was: "An argument especially ad-
vanced against flat-rate excise tax
Is that 1t would be new tax; and
hence would only provide an additional
source Of revenue to support additional
Federal spending. EXcises are not new,
but the uniformity and fairness Of a
general tax would be. There is every
reason to have a flat-rate excise tax
in the revenue system. It's uniformity
and universally would be safety valve
against excessive uSe-not present in
any other Federal tax. Since, as the
record demonstrates, 1t is easier for
Government to spend deficit dollars
than tax dollars. the provision of q tax
structure capable of supporting Gov
ernment should dispense with deficit
spending"
Emotional opposition to the flat-rate
tax would not. it seems to me, be an
important factor even in an election
year if the public is shown that, first,
the NAM proposal is not a new"
tax but simply replacement of present
excises to remove inequities by an
acroSs-the-board levy. and second, that
the proposal seeks to raise only the
same amount, approximately, as the
taxpayers are now paying out In selec-
tive exciseS.
Charles r. Sigh, Jr.
President, National Association of
Manufacturer.
Evening star., 1953-08-17
The AFL MoYes-but Slowly

The executive council of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor has taken a commendable
although ScrupulouSy cautious, step in recon-
mending the suspension of the racket-ridden
International LongShoremen'S Union. The next
decision, unless the union can clean its own
house in the short period remaining, will be
in the hands of the AFL convention when it
meets in ST. Louis on September 81.
While the Federation leadership may Justify
by the rules and precedents governing the
organization its deliberate progress toward
disciplining the waterfront union, it will be
failing in it's responsibility if it does not force
a cleanup of this unwholeSome mess There
have been few, if any, more sordid stories of
corruption and exploitation by a venal labor
leadership than that developed by the New
York State Crime Commission about the IIA
1t has been a story of the most cynical and
disreputable behavior of union officiaIdom-
preying upon its own membership, upon water
front business interests and, in the last analysis,
upon the public at large.
So hagrant have been the union abuses
that Congress during the recent session passed
legislation approving New York-New Jersey
Waterfront Commission compact by which
some of the racketeering procedures might be
rooted out President Eisenhower signed the
legislation in Denver on Wednesday.
More than five months ago, AFL President
Meany denounced the lila conduct and ordered
proof of reforms within the union by April 80.
The alternative he said then would be expul
sion from the Federation, and he warned that
the parent body would not sit by and "allow
abuse of autonomy to bring injury to the