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Evening star., 1953-03-05
Taft, Lehman 10 Speak
Al Israel Defense Rally

Senator Taft, Republican, OF
Ohio. and Senator Lehman,
Democrat, of New York, will be
among principal speakers at a
Rally to the Defense Of Israel" /"
to be held in the Mayflower
Hotel from tomorrow through
Sunday.
Others who will address the
meeting include DR.. Dow Joseph.
Israel Minister of State; Abba
S. Eban. Israeli Ambassador to
the United States; DR.. Nelson
Glueck, president Of the Hebrew
Union College; DR.. Arieh Leon
Kubovy. Israeli Minister to Po-
land and Czechoslovakia; Theo-
dore Kolleck, director general of
the Prime Minister'S Office in
Jerusalem, and Henry Morgen-
thau, jr., chairman of the board
of governors of the Israel bond
organization.
The Israeli bond issue, which
has already raised more than $3.50
million, is the main source of
investment capital for develop
ment Of the infant republic.
Evening star., 1953-03-05
Lowell MeNett:

Things are just a little bit
confusing here in Washing
ton. The new administration
doesn't seem able to get its
program on the track or, for
that matter, to agree as to
who is the engineer. Some
thing described by one of the
candidates in the recent elec-
ton as "fumbling and bum
bling" appears to be taking
place. The members of the
Presidents team aren't all
pulling in the same direction
and the Congress elected with
Or blythe President is dis
posed to prove 1t isn't even
a member of the team.
For this unhappy situation
Congress naturally is getting
most of the blame, but this
may be unfair to the members
of Congress or, at least, those
of the party in control. They
won their control through a
campaign of assertions and
promises, and most Of the
present trouble results from
their efforts to make the as
sertions and promises good.
They resent the .unwillingness
of the President and his team,
in Office by grace of those
same assertions and promises,
to support their present ef-
forts.
The ruckus over the Yalta
agreement is an instance. Dur
ing the campaign Yalta be-
came a word to conjure with.
Yalta was responsible, if you
could believe the Republican
orators, for all that was wrong
with the world. AS the cam
paign progressed and the aver
age voter-and some of the
orators-learned that Yalta is
a town and not a drink like
vodka. it was fixed as the
place where Roosevelt and
Stain conspired to enSlave the
free peoples of Europe and sell
China down the river. That
Churchill also participated in
this deep-dyed deviltry was.
for the most part. generously
overlooked.
So the voters were given
reason to believe that as soon
as the Republicans came in
they would undo the dirty
work done at Yalta; they
would repudiate that agree
ment in no uncertain terms.
Evening star., 1953-03-05

an opinion from the State De-
partment's law officer suggest
ing that satisfying the States
in this matter could get us into
trouble all over the world.
Then there is the farm
problem and who has upset
Congress most? None other
than the new Secretary of
Agriculture.
And tax reduction. Nothing
doing. says the Secretary of
the Treasury in the face of
overwhelming sentiment in the
House. Budget balancing? Not
right away, says the Secretary
of Defense, chief spending
agent.
Taft-Hartley? Well, the new
Secretary of Labor is a Demo-
crat and maybe he will be
more cooperative.
Evening star., 1953-03-05

dom. opportunity to live their
lives in a world where all
men and women and children
can dwell in peace and COM
radeship."
Beamed no doubt by. radio
to the Soviet Union and
doubtless published in the
Russian press, this message
has presented an opportunity
to reflect American purpose
accurately in contradiction of
the diatribes about the war
mongering" of the United
States which have been ap-
pearing so often in Soviet
newspapers.
The word from the Vatican,
too, where the Pope prayed
for the conversion of Stain to
repentance for his evil deeds
and for "a better future for
the oppressed Russian people,"
is of profound Importance.
Events in Moscow will furnish
an opportunity, especially in
the solemn mood in which the
Soviet people will be living in
the next few days, for the
spokesmen of free institutions
to re-emphasize the spiritual
side. It is significant that
the Moscow censors permitted
news dispatches to tell of the
prayers in the churches Of
Jews and Russian Orthodox
Catholics in the Soviet Union,
beseeching God to restore
Stain to health.
The sudden change in the
Soviet Unions top command
will not bring an immediate
crisis. Most Of the stir for the
time being will be on this side
of the Iron Curtain, where the
tendency will be to exaggerate
the significance of the occur
renee and to assume that the
removal of one evil man sud-
denly makes the other IL in
the Kremlin virtuous. It will
take a little while for the disil-
lusionment to come-but it
will come.
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Evening star., 1953-03-05
Doris FIeeson:

Not even the most con-
cetted Congressman claimed to
know what changes Stalin's
death might bring. The White
House, feeling some comment
was called for, compromised
on kind words for the Soviet
people which obviated hypoc-
risy.
The State Department de-
cided that even confidential
briefings Of trusted reporters
would be out of place. The
prospective Ambassador to
Russia. Charles E. Bohlen, was
unavailable. This was viewed
as good judgment on MI. Bob
lens part, since he must be
acceptable to the new rulers
of Russia as we'll as to the
United States Senate.
Diplomats generally were in
clined to agree with the opera
tor of the Senate elevator who
commented after a few hours
of steering the Senators back
and forth: "It'S anybody's
guess about Russia, isn't it?"
Roughly speaking. one can
take his choice between shar-
ing the worry with Winston
Churchill or finding grounds
Evening star., 1953-03-05

contenders for the supreme
leadership in the U. S. S. r.
have never had any personal
contact either with the West
ern world or with Western
individuals.
Stain built up and extended
the Russian Empire from the
Elbe River to the Pacific Ocean
by diplomacy. He took every
advantage of the weakness
and lack of perspicacity of his
Western partners during and
Immediately after the war.
This is a fact that we must
deplore but must also admit
to be true.
None of Stalin's likely sue
ceSsors has that ability. And
since they are all determined
not only to preserve this vast
domain but to extend it fur
ther, they will have to rely on
brute force rather than diplo-
macy.
There is little likelihood that
the U. S. S. r. will crack up
from within because of the
struggle for succession. It is
possible, however, that the dis
content which is suspected to
exist in the U. S. S. r. and
definitely does exist in the
satellite countries may force
the man who will preside in
the Kremlin to adopt a war
policy in order to establish
firmly his own prestige.
The Russian general staff is
believed to have advised Stain
in the past. within the limits
of its influence. to avoid q
showdown with the West until
the chances of final victory
against America were better
than so per cent. But in view
of the present weakness Of
Western Europe's defenses that
portion of Europe may appear
as a tempting morsel for Sta
Inns successor and the mill
tary may agree to a quick war
in the West while the United
States is engaged single
handed in global commit
mentS.
Evening star., 1953-03-05

Members of the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants developed
over the years the cold detach-
ment of professional anti
quarians, as they duly recorded
the passing of many of Wash
ington's old landmarks.
Now that old age is creeping
up on their own meeting place.
they are desperately trying to
look the other way They just
don't want to believe their 116-
year-old hall is beginning to
show signs of wear.
"A Misrepresentation" they
say. "Unfounded fears"
A few grimly proclaim the
place is in bad shape and that
something should be done
about it.
The two-story brick building
at Nineteenth and H streets
NV, known as the Old Union
Engine House, is beginning to
show at the seams, they say.
Time and the weather are
doing what generations of rum
ming firemen, unmanageable
horses, clumsy fire wagons and
broken hoses couldn't do.
Evening star., 1953-03-05
Oldest Inhabitants Quake
As Age Strikes Engine House

A District building inspector
may condemn the building, one
member said plaintively. when it
was suggested a competent opin-
ion be gotten. Several visitors
f1dgeted nervously during the de-
bate and surreptitiously eyed the
joiStS.
The association has had Off
hand inspections made and may
Shore-up the second floor meet
ing room. Some minor repairs
already have been made to the
north wall.
The group decided to refer the
matter to its Executive Commit
tee for further study.
In its business session, the
group opposed Senate bills to
grant the District a congressional
delegate and to transfer the pow
er to fix school children's transit
fares from Congress to the Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
Fred Emery. vice president,
conducted the meeting.
Evening star., 1953-03-05
Mrs. Bermun Named
To Hospital Post

Mrs. Grace Berman has been
appointed public relations di-
rector of Emergency Hospital.
DR.. Warwick T. Brown, admin
istrator, announced today.
She succeeds Mrs. Lee Lorick
Prina, who resigned on March /.
Mrs. Berman was formerly an
information specialist with the
National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda.
Evening star., 1953-03-05

success without committing a
single regiment of their own
to the "cold war;? There are
rumors, of course, that reck-
less members of the Politburo
might try to start a march
across Europe, which would
mean the beginning of large
scale war on an atomic level.
But since Stain has proved to
his colleagues how Superfluous
such a step is toward winning
a victory over the West, 1t
seems illogical to believe that
any such chances would be
taken to arouse the Russian
pcpulace. The Soviet people
are as pacifist-minded today
as are the people of most Of the
Western countries. There is
in the Soviet population no
will to fight unnecessary wars,
especially when there has been
no attack requiring a defense
of the homeland. Memories of
five million dead and many
more wounded are still vivid
in the Soviet Union.
The Western allies will, of
course, do their utmost to
capitalize on the apparent end
to the unity of the Stain die
tatorship. Efforts will be made
by propaganda and govern
mental policies to drive a
wedge between the Soviet peo-
pie and the Moscow govern
ment. Now is the time to
hammer home to the Russian
people facts about the men
ace to peace which has been
developed by Kremlin policy.
President Eisenhower must
have had something like this
in mind as he issued his mes
sage of sympathy for the
Russian people-a masterful
expression-in which he said:
Regardless of the identity
of government personalities,
the prayer of us Americans
continues to be that the
Almighty will watch over the
people of that vast country
and bring them, in His wis
Evening star., 1953-03-05
Beekeepers to Meet

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Mar. 5.
The Albemarle Beekeepers' AS
sociation will be host to the an
nual spring meeting of the Vir-
ginia organization tomorrow at
$3.50 am. at the Monticello
Dairy.
Evening star., 1953-06-28

Here's how to get the
most for your money
by taking advantage Of
the new service .extras''
Evening star., 1953-06-28
III YOU STOP AT A HOTEL
by Jhan and June Robbins

into a big city, the management
viii often arrange parking facilities
at a city-limits lot.
VyOU sCapt q package sCrapped,
message carried across town, or
your dog walked, call the desk.
Some hotels operate their own
kennels to make Rover feel at
home. A Cincinnati hotel once was
able to supply a rooster to wake a
visiting farmer.
To sGre telegram money, use
the Hotel Association Code when
wiring for reservations. MEDUL
ABABU RAzEM. for example, means
to the hotel clerk, Reserve me-
dium-priced single room with bath
late tonight" " Complete code is IN
the Hotel Red Book, available in
every hotel, public library. and
on all Pullman cars and most air.
liners.
II you sUast 70 nap between
trains but not sleep overnight you
can get a special day-rate at con-
siderably less than the overnight
room charge.
To cash checks easily, get a
hotel credit card. Next best identi-
fication is a drivers license or a
personal letter with Cancelled enve-
lope addressed to yourself.
The linen room Is aIsCgys open
and the attendant win supply extra
towels, spare pajamas. a tooth
brush or razor. and even sew on
button. Many hotels even have
an emergency zipper-repairing
service.
II you sCnnt q complete record
ofyour travelling expenditures your
hotel win gladly put everything -
but everything ~ on the bill, IN
cluding theater tickets, orchids for
the clients wife and the cost Of
your after dinner cigar.
If you want to ask for these or
other special services, the hotels
assistant manager (the manager Is
nearly always busy) is the man
to see.
The Hotel Associations final bit
of advice: If you call the bell boy
the bell man you'll get better serv-
ice out of him, too!
Evening star., 1953-06-28

spectacles fall on the bathroom
floor, they can be sent out for quick
repair.
You can get a studio room,
which looks like a living room by
day and is useful for entertaining
friends or customers. If you want
to keep busy, you can ask room
service for a typewriter, dicta-
phone, ironing board or in some
hotels even a piano or sewing
machine.
IF you are feeling athletic a
hotel guest card win open the doors
Of exclusive golf clubs, swimming
pools. gymnasiums and help you
obtain swimming trunks, tennis
racquet or a chess set.
~ you sC0set 20 40 the tOsUgs, the
hotel win suggest what to see and
where to 60, reserve seats, pick up
and pay for tickets and even have
the best store in town send you up
a aselection Of new bonnets for your
wife or half a dozen bow ties for
you.
Your car can be scrubbed, serv-
iced or repaired while you sleep.
Most hotels now have their own
garages. At many, tourists no
longer have to traipse through an
elegant lobby but can register at a
special desk in the garage and take
an elevator direct to their rooms.
II you'd rather not bring your car
Evening star., 1953-06-28

the new service ssextras''
TyHs year US. travellers win
curl up for the night 258. .60Os
600 times in the / .44O, ,OcO rooms Of
the country's 5,327 hotels. Lodg-
ing in these homes-away-from-
home viii cost them one billion
twenty eight million dollars and
while on the premises they win
spend an additional $685., 900. COO
for food and drink.
This, ct any rate, IS the optimis-
tic forecast Of the American Hotel
Association: All patrons, presum-
ably. VIII get their moneys worth.
But many Of them. says
Charles A. Honworth, Executive
Vice. president Of the Association,
''can get a great deal more for
their money if they only know
what to ask for
He reports that our nations
hostelries are engaged IN an earnest
effort to cater to every whim, rea-
sonable or otherwise. Hotels have
always, Of course. offered extras
like shoe polishing. free ice water
and taxi : whistling. But today
many of the nations hotels are
tossing in new special services:
TrGUeling sUith young children
is cheaper and easier than ever.
You usually can get a crib at no
extra cost, or ask for a family room
with two double beds. Many hotels
set aside q wing for family groups.
If you want to sleep late IN the
morning. you can make arrange
ments to have the children's break
fast sent up.
"A bGbv-sitter list, all with ref
erences carefully checked, is
usually available. Some hotels also
operate nurseries and Fairgrounds
where you can leave Junior while
you see the sights.
II you hare a health problem,
you can get a bed board, an allergy-
proof pillow and mattress, or spe-
cial-diet meals. If your teeth or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-04
No DoubIe-TuIk by Dulles

It was pleasure to read what might
be called a straight from the shoulder"
talk about Americas foreign policy
from our new Secretary of State. From
the very content of the address as well
as the phraseology. it was obvious that
the message was intended to be under
standable to the average American, not
just to the expert in political science.
Moreover, Mr. Dulles address, although
containing one accidental double mega
tive, was notably free of double talk,
for Americas aims, her problems and
a part of the solution were stated with
remarkable clarity.
The Stars editorial on MIR. Dulles
address, however, revealed that at
least one person failed to digest the
great constructive suggestion which Mr..
Dulles made; that is, that we average
citizens can do much toward making
America and the democratic way of
life attractive to other nations by being
good neighborS and bearing more
charity in our hearts. In sharp contrast,
the editorial was most uncharitable
with regard to every part Of the address.
Although criticism of the grammar may
have been in order, because of the way
our enemies would distort the meaning
by exploiting the mistake, the re-
mainder of the editorial certainly ap-
pears unduly harsh and fails to recog-
nize any good at all in the talk Would
it not be better and more effective to
temper adverse criticism with q little
kindness and understanding?
John H. Reaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-04
This and That
BY Charles E. 7rocewen

and species than they commonly
realize.
This is because there is no fixed
rationing at this free lunch. now so
happily established in so many yards.
No species come exactly on schedule.
Even after the sparrows arrive, the
titmice and the chickadees and the
Jays and the towhees and others come
for seed or two.
One will have to be there to see
them do it, however, for they do not
arrive in numbers. and may be thought
not to be there at all by the Indifferent
watcher. or the observer with less time
to spare than he might wish.
What to do" about English SPAR
rows?
Well. one thing to do is to work up
an interest in them. by watching their
antics for. q time,
Then 1t will be seen that o feeding
station full Of common sparrows Is a
station fun Of monkeys in feathers
And monkeys are always fun.
They push, crowd and joStle, because
If they do not, individually, they will
not get anything to eat.
At the best. there is always some
bully in the crowd.
He is a past master at keeping the
others out.
We were watching the other day
and spotted one bully that had the
whole shelf to himself for half hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-04

He was expert at it, all right. AS
each other bird arrived, he simply
moved toward it, beak open, and some
times wings outStretched.
He was not hasty, just capable in his
movement toward the other.
No sooner had he driven one out,
than another slipped in behind him,
but the moment he saw the second, he
moved toward it.
It was all nice and easy, without q
harsh movement Of any kind, but 1t
got results.
The incursions Of the others, how
ever. kept him from eating too much.
The whole sparrow strategy is based
on keeping all from eating too much.
This means that no member Of the
flock is going to get fat, but all, in the
end, win get fed. Has mankind devised
any better scheme?
English sparrows are regarded by
some as no sparrows at all, but weaver
birds. To call them English sparrows
Is something of a misnomer, for really
they are European Sparrows, or house
Sparrows, more properly, since they like
to nest in caves.
They are called English sparrows be-
cause the English people are more in
tereSted in bird life than any other
Europeans. and have paid more atten-
ton to them. The Startling Is not prop
erly the English startling, but the
European starting, or blackbird.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-04
Culture in Arlington County

1t would seem from the tone Of his
letter published in The Star on Janu-
airy %, that Warren French does not
like Arlington County. We do not know
at whom Mr.. French is mad, and we
hope that he is not living in Arlington
County under duress. If he is so I'M
fortunate, he still has the privilege Of
going TO the polls and expressing his
opinion Of our attempts to improve the
community.
When he speaks of our lack of cul-
ture. he surely "clobbers" us. We admit
with shame that we have no symphony
or philharmonic orchestra. We will
admit that such communities as Phila-
delphia and Boston have gotten ahead
Of us, We have no slums, and I under
stand it is quite difficult to place bet
on the ponies or play the numbers, and
our police department has not as yet
gotten around to running a dope
racket"
We have probably spent too much
time, effort and money in building
schools, churches, ETC., to really get
busy with higher culture.
w. b. Gilmore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-04

An Alexandria resident wants to
know what to do about English SPAR
rows.
Il have nothing else at my feeding
station" he writes.
II am not one of those who hate
them, but I would prefer other birds,
and so far do not seem to be able to
get them"
He wants to know II there are any
steps. as he says, to take to get rid of
the sparrows and substitute chickadees,
for instance.
Chickadees. undoubtedly. would be
good birds to get in their place.
The truth is that our correspondent
already has chickadees, titnice and
others, but so far, evidently, he doesn't
know 1t.
Most persons, in this busy world, do
not have time to glare minute after
minute. hour after hour, at the birds in
the cold.
It is a matter of stealing a glimpse
now and then. and making the most of
it. The trouble with this, however, Is
that it overlooks so much.
The chickadee, for instance. They
fly in early, take Seed and fly away
with 1t. For minutes. perhaps, they keep
this up, but they soon give over when
the sparrows arrive.
The point is, we believe, that most
persons who have feeding stations al
ways have . great many more birds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-04
Words Of Caution for New President

I'm MAY 10, 1871, a citizen OF Ph1la-
~ delphia, who had spent part OF the
day reading history in the library, went
home, put on his SpectacleS, and wrote
out some observations on what he had
read-observation that are now pre-
served in his autobiography. These
thoughts may serve our new President
as guiding cautions, easily overlooked
in the surging confidence of q new adj
miniStration.
The citizen of Philadelphia wrote, In
part, that he had observed:
the wars, revolutions, ETC., are carried
on and affected by (politicaD parties.
THAT the view of these parties is
their present general interest, or what
they take to be such.
THAT the different views OF these
different parties occasion all confusion.
THAT while party is carrying on a
general design, each man has his par
ticular private interest in view.
That as soon as party has gain'd
its general point, each member be-
comes intent upon his particular in
terest; which, thwarting others, breaks
that party into divisions, and occasions
more confusion.
THAT few in public affairs act from
a mere view of the good Of their coun-
try. whatever they may pretend: and
tho their actings bring real good to
their country. yet men primarily con-
sidered that their own and their coun-
try'S interest was united, and did not
act from a principle Of benevolence.
THAT fewer still. in public affairs,
act with a view to the good of man
kind"
Benjamin Franklin, were he now
living, would in all likelihood have
written these same words again last
Monday-to President Eisenhower, after
watching and hearing the President de-
liver his first state of the Union" mes
sage to Congress. But despite his eau
tioning thoughts, Franklin's pulse would
have quickened as he sat here writing
this other man of great strength and
principle. He would have felt, as others