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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
By Charles E. TroceweN

of sunshine, even better. the experts
said
The birds in Jones' ark lived happily.
against the day when those at large
would all be gone. 1t was great mystic
from the East who had induced the
World Congress to undertake hree-
point program Since birds were filled
with germs, the mystic asserted. the
best thing for humanity was to kill all
the birds.
The second step in the Great Rid
dance was to get rid Of all the cats.
then all the dogs
In this way, the Antiseptic World
was to become more Antiseptic as it
rolled on down through the ages.
Only Templeton Jones VI stood in
the way Of this program.
Jones ark was doing all right, until
one day Global Inspector. in pass
ing in his jet car, heard an unmistak-
able cheep. What was that?
'Cheep, cheep, cheep-"
It was the end of Jones' ark. The
culprit, himself. was banished to the
South Pole. but as that place had
grown warm by that time, Templeton
Jones VI didn't mind too much
He had been made international
Custodian Of PenguinS. The World
Classification Office. Familiarity xnowp
as the woo. had classified penguinS
as human animals" and as such they
we're permitted to live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
This and That

time about 1850, T. Jones VI wanted to
save the remaining songbirds.
In the Purified World. birds had too
many lice. germs and whatnot, as some
legislator playfully said.
Birds, along with dogs and cats, had
been abolished, but the Congress was
finding it difficult to catch them all, it
was true. because
1t was at this juncture that Temp
Jones conceived his brilliant idea of
establishing an ark to hold selection
Of birds for posterity.
Jones' ark. unlike it's counterpart of
so many centuries ago. before religion
was abolished, too. was not boat, or
even an atomic ship.
It was just big garage, with fake
windows (through which no one could
See) containing an assortment of cages
In these the good man had collected,
by stealth. hundreds Of choice species.
There were catbirds, cardinals, chick
ADDE'S, brown creepers, nuthatches. wood
thrushes, even a sparrow hawk or two,
and scores of blue jays, along with star
lings and common Sparrows.
AS possession was punishable of
tense, Templeton Jones maintained the
greatest secrecy.
He crept in, after dark, and fed the
birds, who found only daylight inside,
due to the very latest atomic candles,
two of which gave perfect imitation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
Letters to The Star

political persecution, although she has
never been interested in politics, and
asSerted-without the slightest expla-
nation-that certain death would face
her if she returned" This is pure non
sense, but of course had to serve the
transparent attempt to get the Immi-
grafton Service hearing delayed.
While it is, of course. up to United
States authorities to grant a stay in
this country to anybody they wish, !
find most regrettable such a misrepre-
sentation Of facts and the statement
attributed to Senator Hendrickson and
his aides "the public hearing is to set
the YugoslavS allied with the
United States in opposition to Russia
back on their heels for their attempts
to harass Miss Petrovic. He wants to
make them leave her alone until we
can get Congress to do something about
it," This. not only because it supplies
the American public with false data
but as feel that they can only harm
the development of good relations be-
tween the two countries that we con-
slider so important both to the benefit
of the nations concerned, and in gen.
eral for the strengthening of better
understanding and sincere cooperation
to consolidate peace in the world.
DIR. Mirko Bruner,
First Secretary. Embassy of the
Federal Peoples Republic of
YugoSlavia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11

Templeton Jones VI tore of the page
for August, the year of $500.
Calendars were still permitted, but
almost everything else was gone.
There were no germs, no "inimical
animals" no mosquitoes, no onions or
spinach. The High Authority of the
year 1000 had ended all that, and in its
place had set up germicidal world.
BY $500 1t was going strong.
There had been some talk at the time.
of doing away with Republicans, too,
but they had been permitted to live, as
an example to the Liberals.
The Liberals had been so successful
for decades that they owned everything.
and ran everything.
They had been so liberal with other
peoples money that nobody had any
left. Dollars were extinct, just like
buffaloeS and mice.
Even 10 o'clock morning coffee had
been abolished.
So many things had been extermi-
mated, as a matter of fact, that the
Purified World, as it was called, held
few vices, no germs or rats.
X
It was September, and Jones had torn
of the page for August.
No one knew it, yet, but he had just
established. secretly. Jones ark.
AS descendant Of Templeton Jones
I, who was said to have fourished some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
By lsobeIIe Shelton

THE diplomatic world is watching
i with fascination as the angel-taced.
barb-tongued glamorous Republican.
Clare Boothe Luce. takes her consider
able talents into new arena as Amer
lean Ambassador to Italy.
Mrs. Luce already has achieved
legendary success In several fields. Best
known as a one-time congreSswoman
(1943-46) and the author of several
hit plays, particularly 1.-THE Women"
an acid-etched commentary on her
sex, she also has been magazine editor
Vogue and Vanity Fair. foreign COR
respondent (for her husbands Life
magazine). newspaper columnist, book
and magazine author, lecturer and
earnest proselytizer for the Catholic
Church. to which she was converted
in 1916.
A recent poll showed her to be the
fourth most admired woman in the
world. trailing only Mrs. Roosevelt,
Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Eisen-
hover. ia
Now the 49-year-old blond dynamo
is embarking on still another career
If she hits Rome with anything like
the impact with which she struck
Washington 10 years ago as a fresh
man congressman, even the sophiSti-
Gated Italians, concerned about their
crucial elections, will receive quite jolt.
Mrs. Luce has keen sense for the
words that draw headlines. Her sallies
are the more devastating because of
the ridiculous disproportion between
her pale, beautiful face with it's per-
fectly-coiffed halo of golden locks, and
her singing phrases. One writer OBJ
served: '"The effect is like being dyna-
mited by angel-cake.''
If she can't find the right word she
makes one up, as in the case of "glo-
baloney," term she coined to char
acterize the then Vice President Henry
Wa4ace'S postwar theories.
The word was contained in her
maiden speech on the House floor.
Delivered about six weeks after her
arrival, the speech launched her Con-
gressional career with the force of
an exploding SHE'LL Mr.. Wallace and
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt issued sharp
rejoinders, and heated debate was
waged in Congress and in the news
papers.
Even before the last editorial writer
had had his say on "globaloney" Mrs.
Luce was in the news again, this time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
School for Shirley Homes

This is in answer to your article of
February Is entitled "Arna Valley Resi-
dents Protest New Brandon School
Boundaries"
Why is it Arlington County residents
look upon the Shirley Homes Project as
housing something" quite removed
from human beings? Do they actually
believe, in their hearts, that we and our
children are different? We breathe
we live, we suffer and we die; we live in
the best way that we can, limited. as
every one is, only by our financial re-
Strictions. Within our limitations. we
maintain decent, pleasant homes and
we ask of the county only those rights
and privileges which are granted all
residents of Arlington
Now. we are attempting to gain better
school facilities for our children. Are
we to be turned down because we live
in a Government project and not in an
apartment or a semidetached home?
Does this make our children so
ciologically" different from the children
of these other families
We believe we are Arlington County
citizens, although we are denied
recognition by other residents and Off
Gals. This, in spite of the fact that we
are paying personal and property taxes
each year.
We are not monsters; we are people
living under the United States Constitu-
ton and trying hard not to remain
outcasts of Arlington County.
Shirley Resident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
New Delays on European Army

The much tormented European Defense
Community treaty received two more Setbacks
during the past week end
At Karlsruhe, West Germany, the Federal
Constitutional Court rejected a government re-
quest for a ruling on conStitutionality OF the
treaty, and also on the Bonn peace contract,
prior to their ratification by the German Par
lament. Chancellor Adenauer. firm supporter
of the pacts, had hoped for an affirmation OF
the constitutionality as weapon to use against
the political opposition which has been grow
ing in strength.
Actually, the whole legislative judicial
wrangle is of the "cat and mouse" variety in
which Socialist members of the Parliament and
Socialist appointed judges of the court are
delaying or blocking action in first one and then
the other of the two branches of government.
A final reading of the ratification measures is
now scheduled in the lower house, the Bun
destag, next week. Even if approved there, the
pacts would then face new legislative hurdle
in the BundeSrat, plus the danger OF Socialist
contest before the court on the constitutional
issue. The best prospect is one OF delay for
at least another two months, with perhaps the
necessity then of seeking constitutional
amendment to make the treaties valid.
simultaneously, the Italian government
set aside its plans to push for ratification this
month The poStponement decision was made
on the ground the Chamber of Deputies would
not have time at its present session to complete
proceedings The next session comes in the
latter half of 1858. Premier De Gasperi, mean
while, has gone to Strasbourg for another
round of conferences with French and German
authorities.
There is no gainsaying the fact that the
Edo idea-which would create a six-nation
single uniform army-is such a revolutionary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
America and the Arab States

AS indicated in an unusual White House
statement issued after his meeting with Prince
FaiSal AL Saudi Foreign Minister of Saudi
Arabia, President Eisenhower intends to take
special steps in an effort to improve Arab
American relations. This is welcome news. It
is welcome because all qualified observers are
agreed that those relations are not nearly so
good as they once were, that the Soviet Union
is doing its poisonous best to make wreckage
of them, and that the United States should
therefore undertake to repair them without
delay.
The President apparently has been much
impressed by the need for action to that end.
At any rate, in his talk with Prince Faisal,
according to the White House statement, "He
expressed his concern over some evidence that
there had lately occurred a deterioration in
relations between the Arab nations and the
United States. He stated that it would be his
firm purpose to seek to restore the spirit of
confidence and trust which had previously
characterized these relations, and he hoped
that the Arab leaders would be inspired by the
same purpose" This plainly suggests that he
is planning to resort to affirmative measures
designed to strengthen Americas position
wherever it has been weakened in the Middle
East by neglect, mistakes, misunderstanding
Kremlin- directed Communist intrigueS and
propaganda, or comblnaJlon OF all Sucn
factors.
In that respect, it is gratifying that Secre-
tary of State John Foster Dulles has decided
to leave in May on an official trip to the Middle
East for direct face-to-face talks with the top
authorities of the Arab states, and presumably
with Israeli leaders as well. AS far as can be
recalled offhand, no American Secretary Of
State has ever taken such trip, and that fact
has tended to give the impression that our
country regards this strategically vital part of
the world as a region of minor consequence
compared to Europe or Asia. Accordingly, when
Mr. Dulles goes on tour over there, he will be
setting precedent that can do much to clear
the air of mistaken notions and demonstrate
that the United States-as is really the case
has deep interest in all the nations OF that
area and that it is anxious to maintain the
friendlieSt possible relations with them.
Of course, much more than trip by Mr.,
Dulles is needed to improve Americas position,
and the position of the West in general.
throughout the Moslem world. Among other
things, an active effort must be made-not
only by us but by Middle Eastern leaders as
well-to counter Soviet Vaccinations, revive a
spirit of genuine cooperation, promote economic
and political progress. strengthen the security
of the area, and arrive at a peace settlement
in which Israel and the Arab states alike can
have real confidence and under which they can
live and prosper together as good neighbors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
Absurdity of an Old Law

Evidence bearing on the abSurdity of
Virginia's 1887 law banning Federal employees
from State and local Offices continues to pile
up. Further proof of the need for repeal of the
outmoded statute is to be had in the case of
Stanley B. HaneS, Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration employe who holds a part-time job
as Police Court Judge in Herndon. The Fairfax
Circuit Court has ruled that Mr.. Hanes is
ineligible to serve in this town pos-or
presumably in any other local Office. If upheld,
the ruling, in effect, will bar Federal workers
from holding positions in Falls Church, Alex
andria or other cities and towns-a diSruptive
blow to municipal government in nearby
Virginia.
This is the latest of series of disturbing
court rulings sustaining the ancient anti
Federal-domination act and striking down ex-
ceptions granted by the General Assembly for
the benefit of Arlington, Fairfax and other
neighboring communities with large proper
tionS of Government employees The previous
rulings excluded Federal employees from the
Arlington County Board and the Arlington
School Board The Fairfax court now has held
that 1910 law permitting Federal clerks" to
serve in city and town Offices is discriminatory
and unconstitutional.
So Mr.. Hanes becomes another victim of
an 18th-century law based on the fear that
Virginia might be undermined by Federal
fifth column" of Government employees strate-
gically located in State and local jobs. What
ever the dangers that may have justified such
a fear in 1887, it is ridiculous to contend that
any such perils exist today. It is fantastic to
regard as a threat to sovereignty of the city
or State the presence on the Falls Church
School Board of six Federal employees or on the
Alexandria School Board of two such employees
It is nonsensical to contend that because Mayor
Kellogg and Councilman McCrary of Falls
Church are on the Governments payroll they
are unfit to serve their city in any official
capacity. The same observation applies to
Mayor Moore of Vienna and Mayor Elgin of
Clifton.
All of this Stiffness ought to be ended by
Virginias General Assembly at it's next session
It can be ended by the simple process OF
scrapping or drastically modifying the old
Federal-employe ban that is tending to upset
representative self-government in Northern
Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
CompIocence

The school OF thought to Which he
holds is briet:
Hard labor and sufficient sleep: all else
Counts for little in his sterile mind.
Arise NTH morning and retire with
night
His lifelong routine ctrcumscrtbes three
meals.
The daily chores, and lengthy hours
spent
Ploytng and planting. mendino saogin0
fence.
His cheeks are leathered. and his
shoulders bent
To ceGseleSs toll. Hts eyes, the blue OF
steel,
Clear and unUGuertnO, see each days
task
Completed Without waste OF energy.
He iDGlks contpldcently from sun to
sun:
His path is maroon. but his t0ork wev
done.
Billy 3. Coopss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
Teachers Job
Mrs. F. A. G.

Some of the points in the letter
Academic Good Sense" printed March
4, can be made clearer by better I'M
Outstanding of the terms used.
Socialism is not simple unit, some
thing in its own skin, which we have or
don't have, which can be pronounced
good or bad; but it is measure of
degree or amount of government, which
we always have more or less, and its
merits must be judged by specific stu
atoms.
At present We have various elements
of socialism in operation. The Post
Office Department is good example
OF public ownership of q public utility.
Others are: Rivers and harbors;
streets, highways and bridges; public
schools; Army, Navy and Air Defense;
police and fire departments, and in
most cities, water works. Which of
them, if any, should be returned to pri-
vate control? Should public ownership
and operation be extended to railroads,
telephones, hospitals and medicine?
More recently we have begun redistri-
button of wealth with social security,
farm subsidies, Federal housing, unem-
PAOy4nCkAt OOAAPCAAoo1AO1P
come tax, inheritance tax, old-age pen
sions and other aids.
Should teachers be forbidden to point
out such facts and to discuss argu-
ments for and against such practices?
If so. should teaching about evolution,
prohibition of the liquor traffic, free
trade and other controversial topics be
taboo also?
Failure to understand the difference
between teaching and preaching is
another cause of confusion. teach
er, as such. is not an advocate, an
evangelist. an advertiser or politician.
He does not attempt to convert STU
dents to a cause, to win proselytes, to
indoctrinate. He is concerned with
truth, facts, clear thinking; with help
ing students to suspend decisions long
enough to consider all sides of ques-
lions, and to re-examine previous
views.
George Frederick Miller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
liked at Bradley

am wondering just what Gen.
Omar Bradley means when he states
as he did recently that we are not in
World War III. He spends his time Sit
ting behind a desk in the Pentagon
Now, taking vacation at Winter Park,
Fla, he says we are not in World
War III. Evidently he goes along with
the last administration in calling the
war in Korea police action" Does he
ever think of all the fine young men
who have been killed over there? am
certainly hoping President Eisenhower
will get rid of Bradley at very early
date and assign Gen. Macarthur either
to the Pentagon or to Korea.
Mrs. F. A. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
She Always Keeps Her Wits About Her

Former Assistant Secretary Of State
Adolf A. Berle was charged with "arous-
ing mischievouS political hurry berle'
which might cause misunderstanding
with our allies.
Mrs. Luce for some reason brings out
the fiend in other women, perhaps be-
cause they inStinctively resent the fact
that so much brains. beauty and talent
are concentrated in one person.
Her entrance upon the political
scene, as an ardent supporter of Wen
dell Willkie in 1910, was punctuated
by running feud with ColumniSt
Dorothy Thompson, who was as ardently
for Roosevelt. Mrs. Luce called Miss
Thompson 1.-THE Molly Pitcher of the
Maginot Line" Miss Thompson re-
sponded by calling Mrs. Luce THE
Body by Fisher in this campaign"
Mrs. Luce, said Miss Thompson, ''has
everything everything to pull in the
orders. The Powers-model face that
you see on the magazines; the recon-
mendations of Lady Whosis and Ethyl
Neutrality-suspicious. = Clare is the
Snob copy"
AS they must. to all persons, few
failures have come along to mar the
beautiful Clare'S comet-like rise to
success. She ran a poor third in the
G. o. p. Senatorial primary in Con-
necticut last November. Her one fling
at acting, as Candida in a summer
stock production, was more noted for
the many celebrities in the audience
than for the enthusiastic critical &C
claim awarded the star. The show
closed at the end Of one week.
Her best-polished epigrams OCCASION
ally have bounced back. Her "glo-
baloney" speech, though it made many
headlines, generally was regarded as
having retarded rather than advanced
her career as serious legislator.
Whether Mrs. Luce can. curb her
penchapt for the wisecrack in the
heady atmosphere of international
diplomacy remains to be seen. Wit
ticisns have not rolled off her tongue
at a great rate since she left Congress
in 1916. Much of her time since then
has been devoted to religious writing.
Her campaigning for Gen, Eisenhower
last fall, while fervent. was restrained
in language.
She has expressed herself as aware
Of the heavy responsibilities she has
assumed in her new role-doubly heavy
because she is a woman and the first
American woman to be named Ambas-
sador to major power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
High Cost of Strikes

All America is bowling about heavy
taxes levied by Uncle Sam, and they
should howl. However, there is another
concealed tax, also heavy one, which
is little mentioned or complained about.
1t is the tax levied by organized gangs
which we call labor.
Every time strikers win a raise in
wages, or are given shorter hours, vaca-
tions. or other benefits, the manufac-
turer adds the additional expense of
same to his cost of production and
passes it on to the purchaser. He can
do nothing else and stay in business.
BY our system of paying other ham
dlers of the goods on percentage basis,
the distributor, wholesaler and retailer
all get their additional commission, so
when the goods reach the consumer,
every dollar added to the production
cost means an additional cost to the
purchaser of anywhere from So to SIS.
So the public pays.
The practice Of calling round after
round of strikes has been going on for
year after year until there is hardly
commodity on the market the price of
which has not been enormously in
creased by strikes against the manufac-
turer OF same, or against the producers
and transporterS of the material from
which it is made.
Stuart G. Wood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11

concept that it's birth pains are not surprising
Nor should it yet be assumed that the powers
involved will not eventually ratify the plan.
The series of delays which has plagued the
ratification efforts in recent months however
is not only having discouraging effect but is
also impeding seriously the entire attempt
to rebuild Western Europe's military defenses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11
Case Of Stoiko Petrovic

With reference to the story carried
in The Star, March 2, under the title
'Yugoslav Woman May Testify Before
Senate Committee" wish, for the sake
Of truth, to state the following facts:
Stajka Petrovic came to this country
as domestic of Yugoslav official in
New York. She got an entry visa in
that capacity and for that purpose.
Although it is wholly irrelevant for
the case itself. I wish to emphasize that
at no moment was she prevented in
whatever way from freely communicat-
ing with anybody she wanted to or from
exercising religious worship, and she
regularly attended church. Any con-
trary assertion is untrue. About a
year ago she pretended to have lost
her passport and, afterward, one dav
simply disappeared. Her employer
made report to the New York police
but they could not locate her. After
few months he heard by chance that
she was staying with a priest and
wanted to remain in this country. No
body, from the Yugoslav side, paid any
more attention to her, asher pass
port and visa expired-her further stay
was a business of the United States
authorities.
me what is happening She is obvious
ly not entitled. according to United
States law. to stay in this country and
faces deportation. To make it possible
for her to remain in contravention OF
the existing immigration laws, she or
her advisers invented the story Of her