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Evening star., 1953-04-14
By WiIIiom Hines

TT WAS sad day for the race, that
l. day 40 years ago when Ambrose
Bierce called it quits and disappeared
into the wilds of Northern Mexico.
The reason one mourns an oldster
like Bierce-he would be Ill if still
around-is that the world could use
such a man right now. He would be
taken in by neither the skullduggeries
nor the inanities that plague modern
man. What is more, he undoubtedly
would be able to define for us precisely
what the Russians mean by truth"
and democracy might go
long way toward solving the problems
of the cold war.
AS it was, Bierce-self- educated son
of a Midwestern farmer with the i'm
probable given name of Marcus Aure-
lius-did pretty well in pinning down
the eternal verities. Toward the end of
his life he compiled a cynical work
called 1.-The Devils Dictionary" which
is nowhere near well enough known
today.
The fact that human nature is
immutable-at least over such short
haul as half century-gives many OF
his definitions piquancy and aptnesS
today. Some samples:
Alliance: In international politics.
the union of two thieves who have
their hands so deeply inserted in each
others pockets that they cannot sepa-
rately plunder third.
Battle: A method Of untying with
the teeth political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.
Common. inctrI1nnonf nVonlouod
in the rectif1cation of national boun-
daries.
Deliberation: The act of examining
ones bread to determine which side
it is buttered on.
Exception: A thing which takes the
liberty to differ from other things of
its class, as an honest man, a truthful
woman.
Gunpowder: An agency employed by
civilized nations for the settlement of
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Trunsit Radio
E. M. Dawson.

A recent news item stated that radio
broadcasting in the public vehicles of
St. Louis had been discontinued, but
the patrons of Washington buses and
streetcars still must suffer from this
nuisance.
How much longer will it take the
Capital Transit management to realize
the mistake it made in signing a con-
tract that foisted upon the travelling
public such an outrage? How about
turning off the juke box now? It could
be that good manners on the part of
transit officials would pay better divi-
dends than higher fares will produce.
]. Fred LaiSe.
Evening star., 1953-04-14
A Crop Of Dreams
By Gould Lincoln

The natiue farmers shook their heads
and smiled;
This neiohbor, lately come. they
counted strange;
The sturdy barn he built Dds oddly
styled,
Not Just for lowly use, but utston
range
Appeared to him to be OF equal need:
With loft built out to form deck
sDuno high,
His barn waS used for housing stock
and feed,
For reverie, for scanning earth and
sky.
His dreaming deck, as much as seed
and soil,
Was country-Shaped to hail the
summer sun,
To grow crop. he mingled dreams and
toll
Until the ttDo ingredients tDere one,
And natiue farmers smiled again to see
Ho1D fine thing a crop of dreams
could be.
Florence Pedieo Jonssoa
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Red Hair, Too?

Red Hair, Too?
Mary o. Ruth suggests in a letter
that Senator Mccarthy investigate the
housewives.
Housewives of America, unite! Let
us join with Tovarich Ruth and claim
our just share of the headlines with
that rich capitalist, Mccarthy, and
make him richer.
AS pot-walloper who loves Russian
dressing, demand an investigation.
To begin with, my living room has a
red carpet (woven by Far Eastern
expert-maybe owen Lattimore), five
pairs of red draperieS, and a Samovar
that would please commissar.
My bloodstream shows a suspiciously
high count of red corpuscles. McCar-
thy'S are all Witches a good Amer
ican. Furthermore, belong to an in
ternational organization whose exist
ence depends on the work of members
and sympathizers all over the world. 1t
acts quickly in disasters and has a red
symbol. Sh-h-h-it's the Red Cross, a
liberal, internationalist scheme, if
ever saw one!
But more than anything else, I must
confess that am a congenital left
Winger. I belong to the largest group
of non-conformiStS on earth-the left
handed.
Well, what are you waiting for, Sen
ator?
Katarina EagerenSki.
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Letters to The Star

Sldlzed transportation medium, as their
support Of the project is conditioned
upon making the Seaway self-liquidat-
ing by charging adequate tolls.
Furthermore, these steel companies
are and will continue to be large pro-
ducerS Of ore in Minnesota as well as
Labrador, and Minnesota open pit ore
will always be more economical than
Labrador ore, because of higher trans
portation cost and tolls on the ST.
Lawrence route which these companies
are willing to pay. There is really no
problem of competition between Mime
sofa and Labrador, because the total
amount of ore the country will need is
so much larger than the capacity of
Minnesota to supply that we should con-
slider ourselves lucky to have found this
supplementary source in Labrador. In
fact. two of the companies interested
in Labrador are investing some $16O
million in Minnesota on development
of low grade ore, without any thought
that the two are conflicting or COM
petitive.
It is typical of the arguments of the
opponents that they don't take the pub
lie quite completely into their conf
dence. They say to Congress and to the
public-let Canada build the project
but in fact, the United Mine Workers of
America is a party in the proceedings
before the Federal Power Commission
opposing the construction of the ST.
Lawrence Power Project,a condition
of the Canadian governments all-Cana-
dian st. Lawrence Seaway plans The
fact of the matter is, as presented by the
United Mine Workers before the Fed
eral Power Commission, their concern
is that loW-cost hydro-electric would be
competitive with coal. They have little
or no justifiable interest in the Seaway,
as no foreign coal will ever come to the
Midwest via the st. Lawrence, any
more than it comes in quantity to the
East coast. The United Mine Workers
happens to be in coalition of interests
opposed to the dual-purpose power and
navigation project who are scratching
each others backs-the railroads ap-
pearing before the Federal Power Com
mission to oppose the power project,
and coal people opposing the Seaway
construction in Congress.
F. Hugh Burns,
Vice President, Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence Association.
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Advice on Indo-Chino

Reports that the Communicated Wet Mimi
forces are poised for big spring offensive in
Indo-China lend timeliness to Secretary Dulles
comments before House Appropriations Sub
committee on the war in that Southeast Asian
country.
Pointing out that we already are carrying
approximately one-third of the cost of that
war; Mr.. Dulles added that it would in the long
run be more economical to spend more for
another year or 18 months if we could thereby
prevent that conflict from going on intermi-
nably. The danger to avoid, he warned, is that
of being "penny-wise and pound-foolish."
In making his case, the Secretary was not
simply proposing greater American expendi-
lures without some word on how French policy
should develop in Indo-China Miltarily, he
gave new support to the thesis that the French
should make greater effort to train and to
utilize the native forces. Not only would such
practice ease the drain on French manpoWer-
highly important to Frances military RESPONSE
biities in Europe-but it also would be less
expensive financially
1t was on the political side, however, that
Mr.. Dulles made most pertinent comment.
"It is important" he said, that the people
there also should appreciate the extent to which
in reality they have been promised and think
are assured of, large degree of political inde-
pendence once the struggle is over. If the
native peoples are still under the impression
that all they are fighting for is to keep the
French there as their colonial masters, they
will not put much spirit into that kind of a
fight"
It is, of course this very charge of French
colonialiSm that has provided the backbone of
the Communist propaganda line. If the United
States is to give France increasing help in
trying to wind up war that already has lasted
nearly seven years, Mr.. Dulles words should
be needed carefully by the French as well as
by the Indo-C Chinese
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Who's Who in Seowoy Dispute

In letter April 7. Thomas Kennedy,
Vice President, United Mine Workers
of America, makes certain misrepre-
Sentations about the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence Association which hope you
will take steps to correct.
First, Mr.. Kennedy states that 80
per cent of the financial support of our
organization "comes from small group
of Midwest steel companies headed
by the M. A. Hanna Co." This is mac
curate. We do not receive 80 per cent
of our support from any such group, be-
cause the group of>Steel companies sup
porting us are not small and they are
not headed by M. A. Hanna Co. The
facts are that our organization is sup
ported by the State of Minnesota. the
State of Wisconsin, the City of Mil
waukee, the City of Detroit and the
Wayne County Board of Supervisors,
certain automobile companies, certain
steel companies, in addition to many
individuals and companies in diverse
lines. In this years budget of our Or
ganization, the steel companies sup
port will be nearer 33 per cent. And
these companies are not small as they
represent six companies having about
80 per cent of the steel ingot production
capacity of the country. I am sending
you herewith photostat copies of checks
received from the City of Detroit and
Wayne County Board of Supervisors to
show that contributions of public bodies
is not inconsequential.
Mr.. Kennedy says, in the second
place, that these steel companies have
invested in Ollehec- Il "A bradOr "and want
the subsidized waterway in order to get
a competitive advantage in the move
ment of their ore" This is inaccurate
because the steel companies concerned
do not want to have to have a sub
Evening star., 1953-04-14

disputes which might become trouble
some If left unadjusted.
History: An account mostly false, of
events mostly unimportant, which are
brought about by rulers mostly knaves,
and soldiers mostly fools.
Idiot: A member of a large and
powerful tribe whose influence in
human affairs has always been dom
inant and controlling.
Immoral: Inexpedient Whatever in
the long run and with regard to the
greater number of instances men find
to be generally inexpedient comes to
be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
Malefactor: The chief factor in the
progress of the human race.
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Problem in Burmu

From letter written by the wife of
one OF our scientists helping Burma
through Point w, I learn that all
American personnel in this work are to
be withdrawn from Burma at the re-
quest of the Burmese government after
June 80 next. Burma is incensed, she
says, because the United States espouses
the cause of Chang kai-Shek and his
10000 troops stationed along the Bur-
mese border. Burma hence refuses any
more American help or funds and is
turning to Russia for economic aid
This is dangerous, for Russia may not
stop at economic aid
Since Communicated Tibet adioins
Burma on the north, there is distinct
danger Of Communist attack and
absorption of Burma, which is wedge
(shaped like one) between India and
Thailand, both rich prizes for Russia
if she can take them
1t is hard to say whether we should
keep these troops there and incur
Burma's anger, or withdraw them and
leave the way open for Red aggression
Our diplomats have hard nut to
crack.
E. M. Dawson.
Evening star., 1953-04-14

toward creating better health and economic
conditions. Such an effort might be helpful,
but more fundamental diagnosis and treatment
are necessary if the dangerously unfavorable"
drift of which he warns is to be reversed.
The Secretary is planning to visit the Near
and Middle East next month, for "f1rsthand
impression of conditions there" His most prom
Using statement-from the viewpoint of both
American and area interests-is that eve may
have to try to develop some fresh policies for
that area"
Evening star., 1953-04-14
Writer With a Lonquoqe All His Own

Optimism: The doctrine, or belief,
that everything is beautiful, including
what is ugly; everything good, eSpe-
cially the bad, and everything right
that is wrong.
Passport: A document treacherouSly
inflicted upon a citizen going abroad,
exposing him as an alien and point
ing him out for special reprobation
and outrage.
Plunder: To take the property of
another without observing the decent
and customary reticences of theft.
Politics: A strife of interest mas
querading as a contest of principles;
the conduct Of public affairs for private
advantage.
Pocket: The cradle of motive and
the grave of conscience.
Positive: Mistaken at the top of
ones voice.
Projectile: The final arbiter in in
ternational disputes.
Quorum: A sufficient number of
members of deliberative body to have
their own way and their own way of
having it.
ANSoA AL 1dtL6ES,
that exposed part of the Army that is
nearest to Congress.
Tariff: A scale of taxes on imports,
designed to protect the domestic pro-
ducer against the greed of the con-
Sumer
Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last
demand before resorting to concessions.
Vote: The instrument and symbol
of freeman's power to make fool
of himself and wreck of his country.
WaShingtonian: A Potomac tribes
man who exchanged the privilege of
governing himself for the advantage of
good government. In justice to him it
should be said that he did not want to.
Yes, it is pity that Ambrose Bierce
had to be born so long ago and had to
60 off and lose himself in Mexico. We
could find a place for him-perhaps
as an observer at United Nations Sc
curity Council sessions.
Evening star., 1953-04-14

Pen-nan1es may be used If letters carry
1Oriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28

tor}ng '953. ta >m@ Bnte~ Foundation
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28

H T Flippin, Jr.. took his sun
day School class on picnic at
Goodwin Lake. Wednesday
Mrs W Francis Wright is visit
ing relatives. IN Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Larson
and Miss Dallas deKrafft have re
turned from a visit With Mr.. ana
Mrs Harry Smith and Mrs Ed
Richardson, at Warrington. w Va,
The Rev r. D. White visited his
sister MIS-, John Dornln, IN
Lynchburg last week
Mrs p b Childress has return
ed after spending several weeks
in CreWe with her mother. WI ]
has been H.
Miss Judy ONeal spent la t
week at the 4-H Camp, at Virginia
Beach
Mrs. L l.. Jennings and Mr.
John W. Ingram spent Tuesday IN
Richmond
Mr. and Mrs q S. Hall and son
Stanley have returned from a
months motor trip to the Yves
/ Coast
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28

Charlie Crews Garland Grows. son
Of Mr.. and Mrs Charlie Crews.
who is with the y. s. Navy, has
been transferred from the U. : 81.
Manchester to the u S. S. New
Jersey He Will be stationed til
Norfolk
Rev James Allen brother Of D..
Margaret Pennln ton, gave a Won
derful message at Mulberry Grove
Baptist Church Sunday night
sunday Service
The regular morning service
Will be at Mulberry Grove July
IS, at II 4 N. There VIII also be
business meeting TO decide Oh
ground lor the new church All
members are urged to be present
Mrs. Nell Blanks has been in 4
critical condition in a hospita! IN
Richmond, she IS better at this
writing
Rolfe Wood is also better
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28
Moryen

Mr.. and Mrs. Shad acIck Faster
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Stro-
snider and sens. of Winchester,
recently visited Nj and Mrs. p
D Easter
Mr.. and Mrs. Verne Shrum
and daughters. OF North Carolina
visited MI. and MIS- VIII Shrun.
and Mr. and Mrs Crawford
Keener last week
Mi and Mrs Vesta Easter ana
Miss Mamie Hawks. Of Mt ATTY.
n c., visited the Burebans no
casters last week
Mr. and MIS- Bill Smith and
family, OF Newport News visited
Mr. and Mrs. Dick smith ana
family last week end
MI ana MIS- Fletcher Easter
Barbara and Fay Of WASHINGTON
D c. spent last Sunday with Me
and Mrs. p d. Easter ana Others
Of the family
MIS-, Jimmie Reld ana jerry 81
Waynesboro. are visiting MIS-.
Lewis Easter and Mrs VIII Shrum
Tor a week or two.
Mrs Bill Foster Of Kng WI
ham county is spending a Weea
With her grandmother Mrs n D
Easter, who continues. III
Mrs Lewis Easter and Mrs.
Edith Reid visited Nr ami Nta
Charles Dodson Frdar WA 1l
end Mrs Crawford Kcencr. Sat
urday
MI and Mrs. Wnle More
called on Mrs Dick SWIth ana
Mr. and Mrs. p d Easter AI9n-
day
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28
Vacation Trip

Miss Penultima johns spent the
week end at the Chamberlain
Hotel at Old Point Comfort
B j Perdue spent severed days
last week yisitir Petersburg.
William Ne III. vi wasuna ,on.
ID c. spent the week end with
Mrs. Naylor and children IN the
home Of c Y Hundley Chafin
Hundley. Jr. Of WASHINGTON VAS
also their guest for the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ingram and
.on, David, spent Sunday in
3Wrenceville.
Mr.. and Mrs, + b Gill have
returned from a visit 10 Nj. and
Mrs K w. Lindsay, at Hillsville.
Edward Barden. who is station
ed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
spent the week end here with Mrs.
Ba4 den
Mr. and Mrs II A Holmes and
son. Aubrey, spent Sunday in VIC
toria
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28

and Cumberland last Sunday
Nl and Mrs w A Mortimer
ana children and Mrs. r P cal
breath spent Sunday with Mr
Mortimer's mother, Mrs N p
L.pScomb. at SAKE
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-28
Manteo

Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot Gunter
nd family, Mrs Eliza Guntel
soent Sunday with MI. and Mr.
albert Wotten.
Mrs Kirby Crewes was a visitor
IN AppomattoX Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Swan spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G r
Paddock. in Madison Heights. Va.
Hugh Swan, of LynchbuWg,
spent Friday night with Mr.. an3
Mrs Bill Swan.
Eddie Raeland visited h.
daughter, Mrs. Clara Raglan1
last Thursday.
Mrs Charlie Taylor, Miss kat
Taylor MIS- Bill Swan visited NJ,
and Mrs Ebert Ragland. Satur-
day afternoon.
Ohio Visitors
Mr. and Mrs Frank Miha L
and son, CT Cleveland Ohio. visit
ed her parents. MI and MIS-. Ell
bert Rasland for the week enc
Mrs. Gertrude Nicholas. her
daughter and brother called On
Mr. and Mrs Bill Swan, Friday
night They have been visiting
Mrs w W Swan near Wngina
Mrs john w. Crews visited her
sister Mrs Mary Rosen, Mondav.
Sac is not well at this writing
Mr. and Mrs Earl Griffin Jr,
Of Richmond visited her parent
MI and Mrs, Role Gregory while
On'vacation last week
Mr. and Mrs II f Myers and
family Of Victoria, spent Sunday
Wlth her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
By Deborah Jaffa Metz
(The News Own COlumnist)

SQUARE DANCE enthusiasts
may want to look into a recent
column of israeli Folk Dances" /"
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09

bean revolt, whatever it eventually
became, began not as a mass up
rising but as the rebellion of a
handful of inspired men.
The majority of Jews in Pales-
tine at that time had succumbed to
the lure of Hellenism and were
willing to water down their Jud-
aism to conform with the relig-
ious practices of the invading
Greeks. But a few courageous men,
willing to hold fast to their con-
victions, saved Judaism for pos
terity.
AS ennobling as this thought
might be, it was frightening, too.
Have we, l wondered, enough men
of courage today? Have we not
too many who are willing to COM
promise away their Judaism in
in order to identify with a major
ity which nonetheless rejects them ?
There are compromises great and
small. One of them, which some of
US make at this season, is case
in point. We wish to spare our
children the pain of being different
from most of the neighboring
Youngsters who are Christians, and
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09

who therefore rightly celebrate
their religious holiday of Christ
mas.
And so we celebrate little too,
and provide the children with a
Christmas tree, nothing ostenta-
tious of course, but all in the
spirit of the season..
Unfortunately, neither the COM
promise nor the tree serves any
great purpose. For sooner or later
our children will learn - in fact,
they will be told in no uncertain
terms = that they are not Chris
tians, and that they are different
from the others.
They must, and do, adjust to
the situation. But we will not have
made that adjustment an easy one
if we have. not surrounded them
from their earliest childhood with
happy awareness of being Jewish,
and provided them with the beauty
and pageantry and inspiration of
such holidays as Chanuka.
Nor will we have given them the
strength to make positive adjust
ment if we ourselves are weak and
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09

record. Simplified step-by-step in
structions are included, and trans
lations of the songs make them
singable in English.
One item / should particularly
like to hear is a country square
dance, complete with caller who
sounds off in both English and He
brew.
The album is timely in view of
las tweek's festival of Israel folk
dances held at New York's Hunter
College, where 120 dancers pre-
sented creations of modern Israeli
photographers who based their
work on ancient Hebrew motifs.
LAST MONTH, during Chanuka,
l became aware that the story of
the Maccabees had implications ]
had never before explored.
1 learned, in re-reading the
story of Chanuka, that the Macca-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
Illness Is Fatal To
Elmer Harold Lukin

Elmer Harold Lukin, 43, of 326
E. Whitton, died Dec. 18 after an
illness of four weeks.
He was native Phoenician and
a graduate of Chandler High
School. He attended Phoenix Col
lege where he played on the foot
ball team. He also played varsity
halfback for the University of
Southern California. He was a
member of the Tau Epsilon Phi
fraternity.
For many years he managed and
operated grocery stores in Arizona.
Funeral services were held at A.
L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, with
Rabbi Morton C.. Fierman of
Temple Beth Israel officiating.
Burial was in Beth Israel Gene
terry.
Survivors are his wife, Sally; a
daughter, Judith Wynn, and his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Lukin,
all of Phoenix.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
THE WORLD OVER

vacillating. For our children it is
a cruel confusion which leaves them
sadly insecure.
The Maccabean story taught me
this: Judaism lives today because
in every generation there have been
Jews who had the courage to live
by their convictions. In the meas
ure of their self-respect, the world
has honored them. / pray that our
generation, sorely troubled as it is,
may number enough men = and
women of courage in its ranks
to keep alive our religion and it's
idealism.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
Holidays Bring Visitors

Two Phoenix servicemen = Jer-
ONE Siegel and Norman Alpert-
have been visiting their parents
here. Other recent arrivals include
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Whitefield OF
Chicago, visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Al
Whitefield of 1913 w. Keim Dr..
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wolpert
visiting the Nathan Hutorans and
Abe Hutorans. Marian Sobel, a
teacher in Hollywood, also has
been visiting her parents.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09

BONDS FOR ISRAEL. Build
American-Israeli bonds of interest.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
UJA Charts 1853 Plans

NEW YORK, (JTA)-More than
1000 leaders of American Jewish
communities participated in the
three-day conference of the United
Jewish Appeal which adopted plans
and programs for the 1853 cam
paign.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
Education Drive Starts

PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) = An
educational campaign on problems
in neighborhoods that are changing
in their racial and religious COM
position was announced here by the
Philadelphia Jewish Community
Relations Council.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-01-09
Drama Group Planned
(Photo by Robert Markow)

Arrangements were being made
this week by the Jewish Center for
the organization of radio drama
group, mainly among young people.
The group plans tentatively to meet
on Sunday evenings and work at
both the writing and production of
radio shows. It is hoped also that
performances may be given over
local stations.