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Evening star., 1953-07-09
The Farmer Makes His Fields Sov 'Hov
By Robert J. Lewis
Star star COrPesponaemt.

POTOSI, PATHS is haymaking
time. and there is hardly q field on
any farm where the job has not been
started. Every breeze brings the sound
OF q tractor from neighboring farm
or from some field farther away-a
mechanical note that, for some reason,
doesn't seem too much out of harmony
with the persistent song Of the wren
behind the summer house or Of the
Baltimore oriole in the pear tree.
Looking across the field behind the
house, the vacatiOner sees butter-yellow
and chalk-white butterflies lodging
above the gray-green windrows of dry
ing hay. tedded twice and so far spared
damage from rain.
This rich mixture will be baled to-
morrow if all goes well, and be put in
the barn to cure. Day before yester-
day, the one field of golden barley was
combined, and within another two weeks
the wheat will be ready for harvest
ing. too. bringing an end to one of the
most pleasant parts Of the growing
season.
Mrs. May, who now lives in York,
but who was born and reared in the
country during the old days, used to
say she never liked her husband to
harvest the wheat. Once the rolling
billows were gone. she said, the fields
looked so plain"
True enough, though to some eyes
even wheat stubble has beauty, and
it's not long before the timothy springs
up, and soon after the field turns alert
and green again. though never so pretty
until another winter has passed and
spring has come once more.
To wish a crop to stay beautiful in
the fields had no appeal to Mrs. Mays
husband, nor would it for any farmer.
Such q thought would be much the
same as wishing that kittens never
would grow up to be cats. It might,
indeed, be a wonderful thing to have
wheat fields billowing and touched with
gold forever, if we could make it so.
Certainly it would be a boon to the
eyes, though of doubtful benefit to our
StomachS.
When the barley and wheat are gone
and the straw lies baled in the barn.
the oat fields are light blue green, and
the corn has reached the kitten stage
in this part of the earth-jaunty and at
the turning point when the first good
rain will send it shooting up, full Of
fight, till it's tassels stand outlined
against the sky and the silk is lush and
yellow.
Ahead of the field corn and taller at
this time of the year, is the sweet corn.
You can identify it by its height as you
ride along, for it was planted earlier,
and already is sprouting suckers that
should be pulled off if the ears are to
be fat and full of juicy kernels.
AS soon as the hay is in the barn,
it will be time enough to think about
the need for rain. You don't want rainy
days before the sun has dried the hay
as it lies mown in the fields. But when
the hay is made, the earth is bound to
be dry and dusty if you scuff it under
foot Then all weeds are two-handed
weeds. especially burdock, one Of the
meanest of all.
The farmers work, after all, as Thor
Evening star., 1953-07-09
BETHESDA, MD.

Dear Sir:
"Now that the cicadas have gone. and
the birds no longer feast on them,
hope you will write something about the
return of the songsters.
I'm my yard the thing has been al
most miraculous.
For days on end we did not have q
single bird.
Where before we had dozens Of
them, not a one, not q sparrow, not
even pigeon.
THE squirrels, too, were away, gorg-
ing on the poor cicadaS.
Nov they have all returned, and
I am glad to have them back.
II put out the biggest and therefore
the most expensive Sunflower seeds !
can find, and also the plumpeSt raisins.
I'm my garden the raisin eaters, as
you call them, are favorites.
I'VE have the catbirds. mockers wood
thrush and song sparrow. Among these
raisin consumers. Of course, must be put
the common sparrows, of which we
have sufficient number.
my husband has protested the large
amount of seed and grain buy weekly.
Tons. he say. but it is not that much,
by any means.
when I took your advice, and be-
gan feeding the year around, 1t natural
ly ran up the food bills.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
In the Public Interest

The District Commissioners and the Fed
eral Mediation and Cancellation Service have
acted in the public interest in arranging for
appointment of fact-finding board to investi-
gate the Capital Transit pension dispute. And
the public interest must come first in consider
ing means of averting threatened strike that
would paralyze WaShingtons major mass trans
portaton system.
The public will gain in two ways from the
decision to resort to the fact-findng method
in the current case. First, and most important,
of course, the unions conditional acceptance
of the plan will postpone indefinitely any tieup
of local bus and streetcar services. Any such
strike in Washington inevitably affects the
Federal Government as we'll as local public
and private business. An intolerable situation
would result Every one including the strikers,
would stand to lose. Second, the public will
have the benefit of the findings of an unbiased
third party respecting the issues in controversy
specifically adequacy of the company pension
plan, the right of the union to call a strike
under the no-strike pledge of its present con-
tract (Which covers wages but not penSions),
and the obligation, if any, of the company to
submit the pension squabble to arbitration. So
far the public has been given conflicting views
on these points by the union and the company.
An objective report by the proposed fact
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properly concerned public and in resolving the
issues for all parties.
Capital Transit officials have said that they
do not feel that the pension dispute is proper
matter" for fact-f1nding board. But neither
the company nor the union would be legally
bound by the boards findings. And, as public
utility obligated by its franchise to give due
consideration to the public welfare, the company
should welcome any reasonable Intervention
that will forestall breakdown of operations.
CTC would be well advised to cooperate fully
in the fact-fnding move.
Evening star., 1953-07-09

eight and twelve years hence, while the con-
troversial section OF 24O would be built now.
Is 1t impossible to juggle Maryland's
schedule Of priorities for the belt highway and
the west leg of 240, and put them ahead Of the
controversial part of 240 that seems to depend
on use of the parks? Is that not a reasonable
basis for series of around table confer
ences and discussions between the Maryland
Roads Commission and the National Planning
Commission? Certainly the National Planning
Commission and the roads commission should
arrange such conferences now and keep at 1t
until they are in substantial agreement. They
will reach agreement by such discussion much
more quickly than by letters and press state
ments directed to and at each other.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
CoImness in Egypt

There was a tone of encouraging calmneSS
and good judgment in the informal press con-
ference remarks of Egypts President Naguib.
Briefly, the military dictator emphasized to
correspondents that his preoccupation at the
moment is with his countrys economic problems
and that there are no thoughts now of a
solution by violence of the Anglo-Egyptian
dispute over control of the Suez Canal Zone.
In saying this, General Naguib made 1t
clear that withdrawal of British troops from
the area and the establishment of full Egyptian
sovereignty are still unqualified objectiveS of
his government, but that these political prob
lens take second place to the more fundamental
need of strengthening the economic and social
structure of his country. hint of this change
in emphasis had come several days earlier when
the Naguib government outlined an austerity
budget program that might lead to some genu-
inc reforms and economies in the conduct of
the state
1t is not a new departure for General
Naguib and his colleagues of the revolution
ito express an understanding concern about the
internal economy and the social standards of
their country. 1t was, in fact, these very
problems that led them to drive Farouk from
the throne and finally. to proclaim the first
Egyptian republic. The protracted and bitter
dispute with Britain, however, had become so
much public issue and had been employed
so often as distraction from the basic ills of
the country that it has continued in this role
in the past year. Indeed, General Naguib him
self seemed at one point to have taken refuge
in "British-baiting" as diversion from more
important matters and there were grave fears
within the past two or three months that out
right military conflict was near.
Regardless of the merits of the Egyptian
point of view on the Suez issue-and they are
substantial-it is obvious that solution can
not be found by test at arms. The Naguib
government and the country as whole will
be in far stronger position to resolve their
troubles with Britain, and to exercise Egypt's
rghtful role as the leading Arab power of the
Middle East, If the extremes of wealth and
poverty, the low standards of health and edu-
cation and the level of governmental integrity
and responsibility can be overhauled and read
justed. If President Naguib can implement his
expressed intent, he can bring to his country
finer future than it can boast in its modern
past.
Evening star., 1953-07-09

Work at this for day or so and you
are surprised to find-if you can think
at all after such exertions-youve been
wrestling with 10 or IL tons of weight
that has natural desire to lie down
and not be lifted.
Yes, there have been many changes
on the farm. But it can be said that
the more the change, the more it is
the same thing-hard work and lots of
it.
In way, the farm treats the ad-
vanceS of the age a bit as China Is
said to treat her conquerors. The farm
absorbS progress. as China has alb
sorbed those who sought to subdue
her in the past, and remains, at the
same time, not too much. changed a
place, after ALL For farm is wide and
far, and the things that must be done
are many and heavy.
The kittens are piled on the green
pillow. sleeping together, even as the
land stretching out in the shadow be-
yond the yellow light of the electric
lamp on the porch seems to sleep in the
darkness. A dog barkS. A lazy breeze
drifts in from the woods. On the tele-
vision, Baron Witherspoon has just
body-slammed Lord Fauntleroy with
bone-cruShing drama.
You know Clyde Hare will drive his
new baler over tomorrow afternoon to
bale the hay. The Gazette said warmer
and showers tomorrow" If it rains, you
wonder whether Clyde will be able to
come around Monday, instead.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
For q Woods Lover

When it is time for me to le1Ue
The surface OF this much loDed land,
Let evening sparrow sing song.
Let friendly locusts bring their band.
Then DIG the grave upon a hill,
A Dttdy hill 1D1,ere gray squirrels Play
And Uhere the moon leans close against
Dark trunks OF tDater oak and bay. &
Here let me sleep among the things
That brought me Joy unnnired toith
toll.
/ shall be one Uith mother earth,
A part of this beloUed soil.
On nights Uhen WilloU leaUes are lace.
Made so By magic OF the moon si'
Let furry creatures cross my orGUe.
The grave OF one 1Uho left too soon.
Emory c. Phor
Evening star., 1953-07-09
Tribute to Dr.. Evuns

When DR.. Luther H. Evans was elected
Director General of UNESCO, the Lii
brary of Congress lost an able and
popular administrator. He is the
broad-minded, practical sort of scholar
Thomas jefferson would have been
pleased to have in charge of his books
He practiced Jeffersons principles of
democracy in his relations with his
employees and will continue to do so
in his wide relationships with other
governments. Two Former Employees.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
Sides with School Board

In 1851 the people of Arlington
County voted for bond issue for the
construction of schools in the county.
Now, two years later, this construction
is halted and thousands of young chill
dren are threatened with part-time
tuition because John Locke Green has
not been able so far to obtain from
the State Supreme Court a decision
to unseat three members of the school
board.
An editorial suggestion has been
made that to enable the new schools
to be completed without delay the
Federal employees on the board resign
and clear the way for sale Of the bonds
voted on in 1851. To the writer this
appears almost as blackmail. since
naturally the welfare of the children
should be paramount. However, as the
mother of a child about to enter the
school system, I would beg the three
members concerned not to resign. Even
if there ensues long drawn -out litiga-
ton during which our children would
not receive the kind of schooling to
which our taxes entitle us, I would
prefer that to the alternative of seeing
ousted those who have so faithfully
and conscientiously worked to improve
our school system.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
He Says He's Sorry

Referring to your editorial of June
q, He Says He's Sorry" thoroughly
agree with you that the facts in this
case should be brought before the pub
lie and I, for one, would never have
known of the meager sentence imposed
had not seen reference to it in your
editorial. do not think you have, in
any sense of the word, arrogated to
yourself the task of supervising the
courts-I feel that you are rendering
a public service. Thank you.
It is we'll and good for Mr.. Horowitz
and Mr.. Ferrell to uphold the judge,
but did either of them or any of their
loved ones ever lose an eye at the hands
of vicious killer? believe If they did,
each of them would want the criminal
to be punished much more severely
than he was in this case.
Please, Evening Star, continue to
keep us informed. and let us hope and
pray that some day we again will be
able to walk on our streets without fear
Of losing our eyes or being otherwise
msimed.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
Pruise for the Judge

When the little boy, Thomas Edison,
at the foot of his class, heard the
teacher say HE seems added" he
burst into tears and went straight home
to tell his troubles to his mother. In
half an hour his mother, who had been
a school teacher herself, was back
with the boy you don't know what
you're talking about" we're her first
words to the teacher. This boy has
more brains than you have" The
aroused mother lion knew her cub.
Something like that occurred when
the clever smooth-over of reZoning
was up about the hospital on the Amer
ican University hill. The judge went
meticulouSly through the verbiage and
came out with the reality and some
indignation. The school and the hos
pital must not be blocked in lawful
and vastly important work. Just that.
Justice has a way of coming clean.
A lot of the same might be tried all
around town. Samuel Irwin.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
Dope PeddIers
p. F.

Parents have long been worried and
upset by reports of unprincipled people
selling narcotics to teen-agers. And
yet, with it all brought to the public's
attention, it hasn't been stopped. In
the past few weeks, we've read that
it's been happening in Bladensburg.
Why laws, strong enough to put an
immediate stop to it, haven't been
passed. I don't understand.
I'm firmly convinced if sellers of
narcotics to teen-agers received the
same punishment as kidnapers, mur-
derers and traitors, they could be
stopped Immediately.
Parent
Evening star., 1953-07-09
Sanitary Commission Series

We should like to express our appre-
citation to The Star and to Reporter
Gene Goodwin for the fine series of
articles on the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission.
The series and your editorial Curious
Public Servant" June 23) have opened
many heretofore closed eyes of the
commissions consumer public, and
through such publicity, perhaps enough
public opinion will be aroused to change
the laws under which the commission
operates-and it will become a public
servant no longer stigmatized as
curious"
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Marcus.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
Letters to The Star .

have been turned over to and tried by
the military courts.
Judges belittle and condemn them
selves by their mollycoddling of crimi-
mails. The offended lawyers who COM
planned about The Star editorial should
place themselves in the position of the
victims.
The Star is one newspaper that
prints news unprejudiced and unbiased.
M. E. ID.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
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 3. D. c.. and tnclosing cents re-
turn postage. or by telephoning Sterling 3-7363.
Evening star., 1953-07-09
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. How long does a thatched roof
last?-JU.
A. Properly laid, it will last from IS
to 25 years. This kind of roof is still
used in many parts of Europe.
Evening star., 1953-07-09

offer my sincere appreciation for
your efforts to arouse public interest in
our court proceedings. The Lewis case
smells. In the first place Lewis should
Evening star., 1953-07-09

@. What was the lowest balance
ever reported by the u s. Treasury
Wv.
A. The sum of $2s, 81. reported on
December 81, 1789
Evening star., 1953-07-09

Pen-names may be used it letters carry
UriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1953-03-06
School Cofeterios Get Breok-Free Butter

Office. Nearby public school sys-
TENS also are sharing in the
distribution, although only Mont
gomery County schools had re-
ceived any up to yesterday.
Institutions of other denomi-
nations also are benef1ting from
the windfall.
The same institutions also are
receiving turkey. eggs and dried
milk from the Agriculture De-
partment Public schools in
addition have been getting free
ham, cheese. canned beans.
peaches, tomatoes and peas. pea
nut butter. tomato paste. dried
beans and grapefruit sections.
under the national school lunch
program.
The total value Of the give
away food to the District schools
alone is several hundred thou
sand dollars, Miss Logan said.
Evening star., 1953-03-06
Here's How Reds
Probably Will Pick
St0Hn's Successor
By the A.soeiated Press

The obvious question is: How
will Premier Stains successor be
chosen?
And one answer can be given:
Certainly not by popular election.
A possibility seems to be that
the Central Committee of the
Communist Party will choose a
new chief and the Council Of
Ministers tcabinet) will elect a
new chairman or Prime Minister
all in due course. Stain held
both jobs; maybe they will now
go separate ways. The Supreme
Soviet, or Parliament, probably
will not have anything to say
about the selections. except in
perhaps a formal approval. The
party holds the whip hand.
Such selections may be a long
time in coming. There is a pos
sibility of rule by committee, or
junta, meantime.
Evening star., 1953-03-06
line MILES LONG PASSES STAINS BODY
U.S.. Weighs Propaganda Line
To Use During Red Transition
Experts Debate Plan Of Wotchfu Waiting
Or AIl-Out Attempt to Create Confusion

The administration is taking a
hard second look at a tough
problem in it's worldwide propa-
ganda war with Communism
how to pitch it's commentary on
the situation arising out of
Stalin's death.
The question is whether an all
out attempt should be made i'm
mediately to create a state of
confusion and chaos in Red dom
mated lands, or whether to wait
for confusion to develop before
attempting to exploit it.
Both approaches have their
adherents among top admins
tration advisers. The State De-
partment, where Assistant Sec
retary of State Carl McCardle
is in charge of propaganda ac-
tivities, inclines toward the
"watchful waiting" formula de-
Scribed yesterday by President
Eisenhower at his press confer
ence. Others, however, appar-
emily including c. D. Jackson,
the Presidents top "cold war;
strategist. favor a more aggres-
sive policy, though still a care
full one.
State Department spokesmen
today discounted published re-
ports that an all-out psychology
cal warfare offensive is to begin
immediately. So far United States
broadcasts to Russia and other
Communist countries have been
dlgnified and detached.
These sources said an overall
Evening star., 1953-03-06
John Allison Named
To Succeed Murphy
As Envoy 10 Japan
Eisenhower Appoints
Letter as Dulles Aide
or U. N. Activities

President Eisenhower today
nominated John M. Allison
career diplomat, to be ambassa-
dor to japan and Robert D.
Murphy, now United States Am
baSsador in Tokyo, to be Assist
ant Secretary of State for United
Nations affairs.
Mr.. Allison, 81, served as dep
uty to the now-Secretary of
State Dulles in the negotiations
for the Japanese peace treaty.
At present, he is Assistant Secre-
tary of State for Far Eastern
affairs.
To Succeed Hickerson.
Mr.. Murphy, So, also a career
diplomat, will succeed John D.
Hickerson, who has been Assist
ant Secretary for U. N. affairs
since the post was created 3h
years ago. Mr.. Hickerson is
scheduled for reassignment.
A graduate of the University of
Nebraska, Mr.. Allison came into
the Foreign Service as clerk in
the Shanghai consulate in 1880
after teaching school in Japan
and being in business there and
in China. Most of his service
has been in the Far East.
He was consul at Osaka, ia
pan, at the time of Pearl Harbor,
and was interned by the Japa-
nese for six months. Later, he
served in the American Embassy
in London and came to the State
Department in 1916.
Murphy's Previous Posts.
Mr.. Murphy has been in the
Foreign Service IS years. During
and after World War II he served
in the North African, Mediter-
ranean and European theaters.
He achieved international
prominence in 1912 when as the
late President Roosevelt's per-
sonal representative, he helped
pave the way for the allied land
ing in North Africa.
Later, he served as political
advisor on the staff of the Su-
preme Allied Commander in the
Mediterranean theater.
Mr. Murphy has held a num-
ber Of other top posts including
that of United States political
adviser on German affairs. with
the rank Of ambassador, in 1914.
and political advisor at Frank
fort in 1913. He was named Am
bassador to Belgium in 1949.
Evening star., 1953-03-06
Satellite Ambassadors Pay
Respects at Soviet Embassy
SoIemn-Foced Stuff Also Receives
Spokesman for Diplomatic Corps

Ambassadors from the satel-
lite nations and spokesman for
the diplomatic corps called at
the Soviet Embassy today and
were received by solemn faced
members of the staff.
First Secretary E. Mangor of
the Norwegian Embassy arrived
to inquire when it would be con-
venient for the heads of foreign
missions to call in respect to
Premier Stain, leave their cards
and sign register. He was in
formed that tomorrow would be
an appropriate day, with the
hours to be determined later.
Soon after 10 o'clock the Hun
garian and Romanian Ambas-
sadors were ushered through the
doorway at 1925 Sixteenth street
NV. Shortly later, three wom-
en- from the Polish Embassy
arrived.
Little Activity Inside.
Callers included First Secre-
tary Kjeld Willumsen of Dem
mark. On leaving he told re-
porters there was little activity
within the embassy. Members
of the staff, he said, are prepar-
ing to send formal notification
of Stalin's death to the other
embassies later today.
The flags of Russia and her
satellites, Poland, Romania, Hun
gary and Czechoslovakia. flew at
half-staff today over Washington
Embassies.
At the Finnish Legation also
the flag was lowered. but other
embassies and legations for the
most part observed the diplo-
matte rule reserving this courtesy
for kings and presidents.
A spokesman for the diplo-
matte corps here explained that
Stain. being prime minister at
the time of his death. was not
the head of the state. technically
speaking.
Earlier, the only stir of inter-
est around the Embassy seemed
to be on the part of passing
motorists on their way to work
down Sixteenth street. Many
slowed down az they went by,
staring intently at the shuttered
windows and closed doors and
craning out to peer at the droop-
ing flag.
Scene of Solemnity.
The scene was one of contrast
to the stir last night. when Pre-
mier Stalin's death found the
Embassy a scene of solemnity for
callers inside and a source Of
Illustration for reporters and
photographers outside.
Shortly after 8 pm, when
word of the death was received
here, several staff members,