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Evening star., 1953-06-17
Community Chest Thanks

With this week, June 1920, set aside
in the National Capital area as
Thanks to You-Red Feather Week."
we who are executive directors of Red
Feather services in Arlington County
want to add our personal thanks for
the excellent support which the COM
munity has given our agencies through
out the years. We refer not only to
the financial support from contribu-
tors, but also to the time and devotion
of all who have worked as solicitors or
who have served on our boards.
AS professional social workers closely
associated with the thousands of peo-
pie who have used these health, well
fare and youth character-building Serv-
ices, we are keenly aware of the indi-
vidual and community benefits which
Red Feather dollars constantly are
yielding. So our own Thanks to You"
is sincere expression OF continuing
significance, extending beyond this
week to years past and years to come.
Sarah M. Eigen, Arlington Hospital
ization Fund; Martha E. Flynn, r.. N,
Instructive Visiting Nurse Association;
Ann F. Stone, Children's Home Society
of Virginia; Bernard Russell, Family
Service Of Northern Virginia. Mary
Griffin, Catholic Charities Of Northern
Virginia; Robert ]. Mcbride, Arlington
YMCA; George w. Hancock, Veterans
Memorial YMCA; Elizabeth GOrlich,
Arlington Girl Scouts; Ruth Dodge, Ar
lington Camp Fire Girls: Samuel
Scruggs, Arlington District, Boy Scouts.
Evening star., 1953-06-17

Lost parakeetS come dime a dozen,
or at least half dozen every day.
It seems as If every one who owns
one loses it, sooner or later.
Then comes the wild dash outdoors
to find it, with friends and others
called in to give aid.
"Lost-Blue parakeet."
"LoSt-Green parakeet."
So the ads go, and in the meantime
the owners run here, there and every
where trying the find the elusive flyer.
How can one help wanting to get
back small creature that pulls the
blind cord, cocks it's head on one side,
and says, "Nicky. bad boy?" Then.
twisting its head over, "Nicky, good
boy"
Not every story of lost parakeet
ends as well as the following:
In the Northwest section. an owner
had blue one. It was the pride Of the
household, and loved to ride outdoors
on the shoulder.
One day, while engaged in this sport,
the bird became frightened, and few
high into tree.
No lure could make it come down.
The standard practice of flashing
mirror at it failed, because there was
no sunshine.
The parakeet few north. and search
was instituted in that direction.
The owner didn't realize at that time
Evening star., 1953-06-17
New Fields for the Graduate to Conouer

years has made more progress than in
the previous $500 years.
Titanium, If researchers can find .
cheaper way to refine it, could be the
basis for an entire new industry.
Among other things, it would, cut in
half the weight Of q jet engine.
.ElectronicS. with recent inventions
such as television, radar and the tran
sistor. is still in its early stages.
The chemical industry has never
stopped growing.
Agricultural implements improve
ments are needed to feed our growing
population.
Mining and oil. already operating at
a peak, need greater expansion and
more effective operations.
Transportation, although it has
grown rapidly in the last 80 years with
the perfection of the automobile, the
Diesel locomotive and the airplane, will
increase operations with future tech
nical advances.
Home appliances. which have taken
the drudgery out of housekeeping and
have provided greater comfort, offer a
wide field for further development.
Atomic energy, the baby Of them all,
is just being turned to peacetime use
fulness.
Education has made great strides.
with a bright future in store. There
are now so college students for every
one student IS years ago.
Evening star., 1953-06-17
School Architects Fees

Margery M. Manny's letter saying
that u Of per cent Of all school
architects fees in Montgomery County
is given to Columbia University is a
complete misstatement of fact. The
truth of the matter is this: DR.. Engle-
hardt, top school design architect at
Columbia, is occasionally consulted by
our architects on problems involving
secondary schools only. He has never
been consulted on elementary schools.
When his services are used, he is paid
u Of per cent, which is deducted from
the regular 6 per cent architects fee.
Thus, his services represent no extra
cost whatever to the county.
A simple telephone call or letter to
the proper authorities in Rockville
would have given Miss Nanny the an
swer to her $64 question" 1t Is pity
that she did not see fit to check on
her information before making public
statement.
Mrs r. r GSladHin1
Evening star., 1953-06-17

publican majority, has the backing Of the
high-tarin group and Is written into the bill
now bearing House approval.
It seems clear, however, that the President
is seeking sound and long g-term answer to the
foreign-trade question through his proposal for
a bipartisan legislative-executive study. After
20 years in which the principles Of the recipro-
cal trade agreements have provided the founda-
tion for our trade policies it is an opportune
time to review the picture. 1t is a wisely
cautious approach and one that carries no
new risks to American industry The Congress
would be equally wise to accept the interim
legislation and to give the projected study its
support and encouragement.
Evening star., 1953-06-17
Labor Talks of Arrogance

The thinly yelled threat of CIO United
Auto Workers local to sabotage the products of
the International Harvester Company because
of a contract dispute is outrageous.
The company informed the union several
days ago that it was prepared to reopen its
dve-year labor contract-effective until August
1955-for adjustment of the cost-of-living pro-
visions to fit the new Bureau of Labor Statistics
index. At the same time, management said it
did not feel called upon to renegotiate other
portions of the agreement, asserting that to
do so would nullify the entire principle and
value of having long-term contract. The
Big Three automobile companies had agreed to
other interim changes in their contracts with
the UAW. But the Harvester management
contended that its profit margin is smaller than
in the automotive industry and that its economy
is tied to an already declining agricultural
income.
The answer of the UAW local, in letter
circulated to its membership, was to point out
that Chrysler workers had turned out inferior
products in 1850 as an expression of their bitter
ness over a long strike, and to threaten that
similar resentment by Harvester workers will
inevitably reflect itself in the quality of Har-
vester products across the country"
Labor is protected by law today in its right
to organize, to bargain collectively and to strike
if necessary. Certainly there was no intent on
the part of those who wrote these protective
laws to encourage threats of sabotage as
bargaining tactic, or to condone such repre-
hensible standard Of workmanship. The ma
tional officers of the CIO and the UAW would
be serving the best interests of labor by "clean-
ing up" local where such philosophy prevails.
Evening star., 1953-06-17

During most of the nearly so years
I have resided in the District Of Co
lumbia, have lived near Rock Greek
Park and have been a habitual tramper
Of it's roads and trails. Rock Creek
Park is to me Washington's most valu-
able natural asset.
I am therefore profoundly disturbed
at the threat of the construction of a
six-lane highway through the park. as
indicated by the full-page advertise
ment in The Star of June IL. To me,
this would be an intolerable desecration.
Why should the speed mania of these
days be permitted practically to ruin
this od-given thing of beauty? Who
ever would perpetrate such an enor-
nifty deserves the execration Of all
lovers of beauty.
George F. BOwerman,
tChief Librarian. D. C. Public
Library, 1904-19400
Evening star., 1953-06-17
Combodiun in Exile

Cambodia's King Norodom Is talented
young man whose original musical compositions
have been played in Washington by the United
States Air Force Symphony Orchestra. Educated
mostly in France, he is described also as an
accomplished linguist and an excellent horse
man. Norodom assembled his throne in 1941
while his country was under the actual rule of
a japanese occupation army; he became King
in fact in 1947 and during the next two years
was instrumental in pushing through series
Of constitutional reforms and gaining for his
country semiSovereign status within the
framework of the French Union.
After subsequent interlude of preoccupa-
ton with his music and his stable of racing
horses, he resumed an active role in government
in 1882 His first action then was to dismiss
a nationalistic cabinet that had been ignoring
the growth of a strong Communist movement
while concentrating on its antagonism toward
French influence. During the past year much
of the Communist political effort has been
driven underground while Norodom has been
negotiating a new treaty relationship with
France and trying to build up his ceuntry's
military strength. Now he has chosen sud-
denly to go into exile in neighboring Thailand
as a gesture dramatizing his demands for COM
plete independence from France. At the same
time he has declared that Cambodia would be
willing to remain within the French Union If
granted freedom comparable to that given
members Of the British Commonwealth, or that
it would be agreeable to military alliance with
France.
Whatever the result, however, the Kings
behavior does serve to dramatize the political
turmoil which prevails in the three Associated
States of Indo-China, and which the French,
pinned down militarily in Wet Nam and i'm
mobized politically by their government crisis
at home, seem powerless to resolve. Unless
some Unexpectedly strong craftsmanship ap-
pears soon in Paris or in some native Indo-
Chinese quarters the situation is being set up
most favorably for Communist control.
Evening star., 1953-06-17
New Weapon Against Crime

Congress has given District laW-enforce-
ment authorities a potent new weapon with
which to attack the rising crime rate in
Washington. The omnibus anti-crime bill
actually is multipurpoSe weapon, capable of
striking effective blows in number of direc-
tionS simultaneously. It's use will be shared by
the police, the prosecutors and the courts
Much credit is due members of the Senate and
House Crime Committees whose Investigations
and recommendations led directly to the legiS-
lation just approved by the Senate
The many and varied provisions of the
legislation are, for the most part, opposed by
nobody but those who constitute the prospec-
tive target of the strengthened laws. The most
controversial part of the program is that having
to do with mandatory minimum sentences. All
Of the judges of the local courts the United
States attorneys Office and many lawyers
testified in strong opposition to the placing of
any restrictions on the discretionary powers of
the courts in individual cases. But Congress
was greatly impressed by disclosures of in
explicable leniency evidenced toward hardened
criminals in some instances. Congressional
inquiries and newspaper studies confirmed the
TACT that many criminals in years past have
escaped severe punishment, only to resume their
outlaWry as though in mockery of the whole
system of local law enforcement. Washington
as result has become known to the under
world as an easy spot for racketeers and hood
lumS in general
AS broad principle it is unwise to limit the
discretion of the courts in giving weight to
special circumstances that often alter cases.
The Senate'S modified version of the mandatory
sentence provision therefore is far better one
than the more extreme House provision The
House approved clause would compel judges to
impose Jail sentences of at least one year in
specified list of aggravated offenses, without
benefit of probation or parole even for youthful
frst-ofenderS. The Senate properly held that
this would be going too far in cramping the
administration of justice. The Senate approved
bill would apply the mandatory sentence proviso
only to adult second offenders, would exclude
simple houSebreaking from the list of crimes
calling for compulsory jailing, would specify
armed" robbery instead of plain robbery as
one of the crimes, and would permit operation
OF the Youth Corrections Act in the case of
criminal under 81. These are sensible modifica-
tionS that the House ought to agree to in
conference without quibble If so modified,
the Districts anti-crime act of 1858 will be
valuable addition to the arsenal against law
lesSneSs in the National Capital.
Evening star., 1953-06-17
Charmed Existence

For the third time, Harry Renton Bridges,
left-wing West Coast labor boss, has survived an
attempt by the Government to deport him.
His latest triumph comes about by virtue
of four-to-three Supreme Court ruling based
on technicality rather than on the merits of
the case. Bridges had been found guilty Of
conSpiring with two others to defraud the
United States The essence of the conspiracy
charge was that Bridges had lied In denying
that he was Communist when he applied for
citizenship in 1945 He was indicted and con-
victed. The United States Court of Appeals
upheld the conviction. But four of seven
Supreme Court justices (two had disqualified
themselves) voted to reverse the conviction on
the ground that the statute of limitations had
run before Bridges was indicted.
The argument on this point is complicated.
In substance, however, the four judges held
that the normal three-year statute of limita-
tionS applied, and that the conviction could not
stand because few months more than three
years had elapsed between the commission Of
the alleged perjury and the date of the indict-
ment. The three minority judges (and the
lower courts) thought that the Wartime sus-
pension of Limitations Act which extended the
statute of limitations in certain cases to five
years, was applicable. The difference Of
opinion turned on whether the special law, as
the majority thought, applied only to cases
where the fraud was of a pecuniary nature, or
whether, as in the minority view, it applied in
the case of any fraud against the proper exer-
else of governmental functions.
To the layman, this is a hair-splitting dis
tinction. The one-vote margin makes the law,
however, and Bridges, who entered this country
as an immigrant seaman in 1920, who did not
take the trouble to apply for American citizen
ship until 1945, and who has been found guilty
of lying about his Communist affiliations when
he finally did apply, goes free. And yet some
people say that the individual rights protected
by our Constitution and laws are being smoth-
cred and destroyed by new kind of American
totalitarianism!
Evening star., 1953-06-17
No Civil War in Korea?

I read Henry De Young's article,
"Korea Looks Askance at America" !"
published on The Star editorial page
June 5. thought it was a splendid
explanation of the real Korean situa-
ton.
It has been difficult for our people
in the United States to understand just
what the fighting in Korea is about.
But we should keep in mind that no
Korean citizen from the northern part
of that nation participated in the at
tack in 1948 against South Korea-ex-
cept those few residents who were in
Inundated by the occupying Russians,
according to President Rhee.
The army that attacked south of
the 38th Parallel was composed Of the
trained troops that had fought against
the Germans at Stalingrad, DR.. Rbee
says. They were residents of Man
churia and lived north of the Yalu
River. They were of Korean blood,
some of them, and were farmers, most
ly, whose families had settled years ago
outside of their native land. They
spoke Korean dialect. and could be
taken for native Koreans, understand.
But they were not North Koreans.
The Korean people are not fighting
each other. north against south as in
our Civil War. The Russian Commu-
nists are sparkling this struggle to gain
a foothold in Korea for the purpose of
later taking over Japan and the Philip
pines, where Christianity has a strong
hold on the people. and where it is
growing. Nobody sees the picture"
better than President Rhee, the patriot
who tried to warn this country, at the
time the United Nations were being set
up in San Francisco, about Russia's in
tentions, and that our policies in the
East at the time would cause the loss
of China.
DR.. Rhee's predictions have all come
true with regard to Russia's future
plans for world domination. Not only
is his interest in his native land, but
he is interested in the real security Of
the free world and Christianity.
George H. Maines.
Flint Mich
Evening star., 1953-06-17
to The Star

reorganization study and plan was de-
signed to be an advisory board In the
many pages of testimony presented to
and by the citizens and experts, all
agreed that we need a Department of
Public Welfare with an advisory board.
Now the present Board of Public We'll
fare, which is about to be changed to
an advisory board. is whipping up pub
licity to remain as is. And the Com
missioners- least one of them, so far
agree with the board members.
Let's have home rule and reorganiza-
tion by an act Of Congress. Perhaps
then we can succeed in getting some
form of good municipal government.
N n
Evening star., 1953-06-17
Sound Approach on Trade Policy

The legislation enacted by the House for
q one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act at least provides the time and
the means for thorough examination of the
whole problem of this country's foreign eco
nomic policy. The instrumentality for such a
study-a bipartisan 17-member commission
is authorized in the pending measure and
Senate approval is expected soon.
AS a compromise, probably essential to it's
passage, the pending bill comedies something
to all viewpoints on the controversial trade
policy ISSUE and is fully satisfactory to none.
The basic conflict is deeply rooted In the
long-Standing difference of opinion over a
high protective tariff versus relatively free
trade, traditionally Republican versus Demo-
cratic division. At this point, however the issue
cuts across party lines. President Eisenhower,
supported by his cabinet spokeSmen looks upon
the question OF foreign-trade policy as vital
part of larger problem embracing "the need
to develop, through cooperative action among
the free nations, strong and Self-supporting
economic system capable of providing both the
military strength to deter aggression and the
rising productivity that can improve living
standards" iii
Several of our StauncheSt and most i'm
portant allies in the community Of free nations
have reached the point where direct economic
aid even If it we're available, is not the real
answer to their needs. The first reason is that
responsible foreign governments realized from
the beginning, and to an increasing degree in
recent years, that continued dependence upon
loans and grants from the United States did
not provide a sound basis for their own
economies. A second reason is that production
in many of these countrieS-notably Britain,
West Germany and Japan-haS reached point
where only through greater opportunities for
world trade can they keep their own industrial
systems at work, keep employment high and
have access to the foodstuffs and raw materials
which they need for a livelihood. New pres
sures for increased East-WeSt trade already are
building up in Britain, France and West
Germany.
The President has made clear that he
appreciates this double-barreled problem facing
our friends. He is aware, too, that the answer
does not lie simply in opening the American
markets to the uncontrolled importation Of
foreign goods. In several minor tests he has
favored Tightening, or at least not increasing,
the restrictions against imports, and the tenn
porary extension of the Trade Agreements Act
was one of his top-priority legislative recon-
mendations. At the same time, he has been
forced to recognize within the ranks of his
own party on Capitol Hill the existence of q
high-tariff bloc already pressing for more re-
strictive legislation. The proposal to increase
the size of the Federal Tariff Commission from
six to seven members, assuring q nominal Re-
Evening star., 1953-06-17
Old Woman Feeding Pigeons

Little park-pigeonS, haze you seen
An old Jet bird NTH purple sheen
On its listing tDing?
Into my childhood the young bird fen
And perched on my shoulder as If it
kneU
The loneliness a small child knotps
When play is done
And the crimson of small heart foDS
West to the crimson sun.
II you hear futterinO
OF purple on the dark
Please guide the noU- uncertain iDin0
TO my bench here In the park.
LiIlion Grant
Evening star., 1953-06-17

hanna University, gets the prize for
usefulness.
It is useful because Mr.. Blough sug-
gests specific industries for the grad
uate to interest himself in.
He suggests the following examples
of industry that are new or compare
lively new and moving forward:
The plastics industry. an infant, has
expanded 600 per cent in the last 10
years.
The glass industry in the last Is
Evening star., 1953-06-17

more in the shadows Of doubt. despair
and diStruSt."
The steel industry still is in its swad-
ding clothes and there are thousands
Of opportunities for youthful. imagina-
tive, searching minds.
(Chicago Daily News servics)
Evening star., 1953-06-17

international affairs, at q treacherous
low ebb. has unlimited possibilities.
Medicine has increased the life span
from 40 years to 81 in the past IS years,
but the field still is faced with many
problems to be solved.
Religion has moved forward, yet there
still is an opportunity to reach many
Evening star., 1953-06-17
By Phil S. Homo

or ALL THE graduation class
~ addresses. the one given by Roger
M. Blough, United States Steel vice
chairman, to the students at Susque-
Evening star., 1953-06-17
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 g. D. Co. and inclosing cents re-
turn postage. or bv telephoninG eterlinR 3-7ao3.
Evening star., 1953-06-17

Pen-11an1es may be used ii letters carry
ariterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1953-06-17

@. Is Yogi Berra left-handed?-
S. p. H.
A. He throws right and bats left
handed.
Evening star., 1953-06-17
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. What is the title of the first book
set without type by the new photo
electric process?-L L. E.
A. 1.-The Wonderful World of Insects"
The machine used to produce the book
is called Photon.
Evening star., 1953-06-17
Threat to Rock Creek

Flint, Mich.
Evening star., 1953-01-01
Fifth RoIIback in Prices
Of Used Cars Takes Effect

The NTH rollback in used-car
prices becomes effective today,
District OPS Director Vincent A.
Holmes has disclosed.
The ONCE of Price Sterilization
issued regulation on November
Is, 1851. covering sales of used
cars, which set specific ceilings
for every make and model. It also
provided for 2 per cent rollback
every three months. Four pre-
vious mandatory rollbacks have
been made, Mr.. Holmes said.
Information about present cell
ings on used cars may be OBJ
tanned by calling the District OPS
Office, Fourth and Adams drive
S.W.
Evening star., 1953-01-01
THE EVENING STAR washington, D. c.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1858 A@

street NV, . Junior. who Is cadet
colonel. Ross B. McMullen, IS M
street NV. and Walter L. Seigel.
|l1O5 Kenyon street NV. are ma
|jors. Donald r. Gormley. 1920
|Forty-fifth street NV. is captain.
First lieutenants are Joseph M.
Conroy. 4549 South Dakota avenue
NE; Vincent ]. Scuderi, 3106
Lake avenue, Cheverly. Md, and
Robert j. Anselmo. 712 Buchanan
street NE.
Noncommissioned cadet officers
|are the following:
Master sergeants-John c. Bar
|rett. 3735 Kanawha street NE,
|and George p. Maggos, 1901
Spring place NV.
Staff sergeants-Joseph B. De-
IGroot, 1899 Morrison street NV;
Burton w. Harrell, 20 Kennedy
ldrive, Chevy Chase, Md; Donald