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Evening star., 1953-04-12
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Evening star., 1953-01-28

It is this poise that permits the
householder to drive them away, in
many cases.
The marauding hawk. after his
breakfast, sweeps over the yard, then
away, then down to a vantage place at
one side.
If there is maple or other tree there,
he takes his place, watching the birds
covering In the vines across the way.
# he is not stopped. he will suddenly
ny. as straight as an arrow, to one
victim.
The rest Of the birds mean nothing
to him, at the time: he is after one
bird, and his chosen one seldom escapes,
once he starts his fight.
He seized the victim with his talonS,
relatively weak. and strikes repeatedly
at the breast with his powerful neck
and bill.
It is this movement that tears out
the feathers, and leaves them in q
small pile in the grass.
Any movement from the house, or
any noise. will scare the hawk away
just prior to the fight toward the prey.
Once in motion, the bird cannot stop
himself.
So the best thing the householder
can do, once he sees this bird of prey,
Is to come to the window and wave Q
handkerchief. or newspaper.
Usually this win drive the bird away.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
By Charles E. TroceweN

The next best thing-it is slower
is to walk out the back door with UNI
brella raised as gun.
This is motion understood today
by all birds.
Man has taught them that over the
last three centuries.
A rolled newspaper makes very good
"gun."
Firing q real gun in builtup neigh
borhood is not good thing to do, and
in most places it is or should be
strictly against the regulations.
There is no need to kill the beautiful
hawks. Even persons who specialize
in killing say that only q few species
Of hawks should be taken. The rest are
a benefit to man.
Occasionally, hawk will try to carry
away a pigeon. but the latter is heavy,
and offers some trouble to the marauder,
so that the watchful bird watcher has
time to enter the scene.
His sudden presence in the yard
frightens the hawk, which is only too
glad to give up his heavy burden. Tin
this case. at least, 1t should be spelled
"birden.'')
After q hawk enters the picture, the
smaller birds may be expected to stay
away for q time, usually for half an
hour. but sometimes for several hours.
or all morning. Be sure they win be
back.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
This and That ;.

The hawk few in on farf1ung wings.
He was after his breakfast, but the
breakfast" had all flown away.
Smaller songbirds have wings. too.
! They usually see the bold hawk first,
and secrete themselves in vines and
evergreens. s-
This is the reason the watcher will
not find many stray feathers around
his home bird feeding station. Now
and then. it is true, but not very many,
over a year.
This incursion was the first in our
own yard for many months.
4 4
The silhoutte of the hawk-any hawk
lis its own.
No other bird really resembles it. On
poised wings, without a dutter, he
comes over target
Small or large, it looks every inch a
hawk.
The finely poised head, the strong
neck. the beautiful wings
These mark him, and be sure they
mark him for the other birds.
It seems that universal suffering has
its place in their kingdom, too.
*.s*
Hawks and falcons have been q part
Of the bird picture for all the time there
have been birds.
These Hitlers Of the feathered world
strike, and strike quickly, but first they
always poise.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

less We are to have contradiction and chaos In
fact, persuasive argument can be made for
bringing all of these activities even closer under
the control of the State Department and per-
haps entrusting their administration more COM
pletely to the established Foreign Service.
Such an arrangement could serve to elimi-
nate the need of special ambassadors, or an
ambassador at large, except in extraordinary
circumstances. Mr. Dulles himself served in such
a circumstance when he was given the rank of
ambassador while negotiating the Japanese
peace treaty. It is not unlikely there will be
other tasks requiring the prestige and freedom
Of movement which accompany the rank of
special ambassador. In such circumstances
however, it would seem wiser to designate in
dividuals who have particular qualifications for
the particular tasks than to keep permanent
ambassador at large on the department rolls
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Remarkable, My Dear Watson

As If we didn't have enough of our own
peculiar variety, our British cousins are now
proposing to export some London fog to the
United States. There is, as everybody knows,
a surplus over the good, gray city"
The whole thing, it seems, is plot that has
been brewing for some time as one British
government after another groped its way
through the misty problem of how to step up
the United Kingdoms dollar earnings. The
basic challenge, aside from how to interest any
cash-paying customers on this side of the
Atlantic, has been to devise some way of pack
aging the ethereal commodity. Suggestions
that fog of words might be more marketable
were rejected, presumably on grounds that we
are already suffering from overproduction OF
our own.
The Sherlock Holmes Society, band Of
ingenious deducers, tackled the matter first by
swishing empty bottles in foggy Baker street
The experimenterS ended up with nothing but
empty bottles-no captured fog. Their second
effort started with full bottle-a decanter Of
wine to be exact-which they emptied carefully
into two glasses, duly consumed. A passerby
then testified that he detected certain amount
of fog-not only around the whole affair but
more Importantly in the decanter.
Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd George, who
announced the latest step in efforts to sell
British" is now believed working on price
schedules-to vary, of course, between light
everyday fog and the traditional pea-soup
product which 50 completely bears the London
stamp.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
One Cost Of Wars

There are many clear evidences In ma
tional budget of the lingering costs Of war but
perhaps none is more tragic and appalling-in
terms of the human element more than in
dollars-than the recurring item for veterans
services and benefits.
For fiscal 1854, President Truman esti-
mated expenditures for these purposes at $4.6
billion, slightly above the current fiscal year
but 38 per cent below the peak of STA billion
in 1947 Mr.. Truman warned, however, that
the outlook for the future is for increases
rather than decreases. He cited two main
reasons for this trend. One is the tendency
toward extension and liberalization of veterans
benefits; the other-and most basic-the rapid
growth of the veteran population. Since 1910
this population has increased from 43 million
to 1913 million, with new veterans now being
discharged at rate of approximately one
million year.
No responsible authority would advocate
the curtailment of a genuinely adequate vet
eranS' program. Mr.. Truman offered con-
Structive suggestion, however, that recognition
should be given to the development in recent
years of general welfare programs, such as
social security, which serve both veterans and
non-veterans, and where overlapping already
exists. AS the veteran population becomes an
ever-higher proportion of the national COM
munity it will be increasingly to their interest
to keep these services within balance.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

avalanche and toot his little whistle
when anything goes wrong. Had it not
been for an alert tower man a serious
tragedy might have occurred.
feel strongly that voice communica-
ton should be made available to both
the engineer and the conductor as soon
as it is practical to do so. Even a
"walkie- talkie" on the front and rear
end of each train might do world of
good. I doubt that rear end collisions
and many other types of accidents will
be eliminated unless voice communica-
ton is made available. What a COM
fort 1t would be to the conductor Of a
stalled train to be able to call the en-
gineer Of following train and say,
Take 1t easy Joe, we're stalled just
around the bend on the south side of
Podunk" and then hear Joe come back
with, 20. K. Dick, we're slowing down"
Radio Amateur.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Morse Blocking Cabinet

was somewhat puzzled by your edi-
torial OF January 81 regarding Senator
Morse's blocking of the Senate's
blanket, unanimous approval Of the new
Cabinet.
It would seem to me that Senator
Morse'S insistence on knowing the quail
if1catlonS of each proposed Cabinet
member before giving his blanket ap-
proval is an excellent policy that ought
to be indorSed and adhered to by every
member of the Senate. I fail to see it
as triumph" petty" or otherwise,
unless one might call it a triumph of
good government.
should think that the fact that Sem
ator Morse's blocking of the Cabinet
approval could be only temporary is
beside the point, since matter of
principle is involved. Senator Morse's
record in the Senate shows that he
firmly adheres to his policy of thor
oughly understanding every important
issue before voting. Therefore, don't
see how he could have compromised his
policy on so important an issue as
Cabinet approval
Rather than condemning him, find
myself fervently wishing that more of
our governing officials had the intelli-
gent approach to government, the per-
sonal integrity and the flrmness of
conviction that Senator Morse possesses.
May the citizens of Oregon repeat many
times their fine contribution to the
United States Senate.
Marian L. Barb.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Letters to The Star
Pen-n1naes may be used If letters carry
i0riterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

we have collected this information, a
population analysis can be made
through which better plans can be set
up for recreation. welfare, health and
general county improvements.
The county planning division asked
specifically that the school census in
clude question as to whether or not
each home is of masonry or frame con-
Struction. This was done to assist the
county in maintaining efficient fire.
lighting services, both for normal times
and in case Of bomb attack.
The school administration deeply ap-
preciates the help of teacher
association members who took the CEN
sus. Also. we wish to thank the thou
sands Of residents who willingly an
Swered the census enumerators' ques-
tionS. Through this united effort, data
is now available to make possible i'm
proved districting of pupils for the
immediate years ahead, and for better
general planning for Arlington.
Elizabeth p. Campbell,
Vice Chairman. Arlington County
School Board.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Never Not Diplomacy

II the frSt address by John Foster Dulles
as Secretary of State had been intended as a
bit of psychological warfare it might have had
the effect of keeping the enemy off balance.
In any event it is confusing, If not upsetting, to
find Mr.. Dulles saying: "Not only shall We never
not invoke war to achieve our purposes but we
shall try to the best of our abilities to stop the
wars now going on in the world ;" The
double negative in this sentence has Mr.. Dulles
saying the opposite of what he presumably
intended to say. But this and similar lapses
in the text of the speech appear to be nothing
more than an unfortunate result of trying to
handle an important address on the dictated
but-not-read basis.
OF more concern than mere Stylistic errors
is the failure Of this maiden speech by Secretary
Dulles to spell out anything remotely resembling
foreign policy that is new or different in any
significant degree The new Secretary told the
American people that he is their hired man,
and he was at pains to assure them that the
new team in the State Department will not be
working against the people of this country and
for Others
Then he took his audience on a kind of
television tour Of the troubled spots of the
world, explaining as he went along the nature
of the problems which confront us. This ex-
PLANTATION, if not new, was at least adequate.
for dealing with these problems, however, Mr..
Dulles had very little to offer.
He said he is absolutely confident" that we
can Illustrate the Soviet strategy of encircling
and then destroying the United States, but he
was vague as to the basis for his confidence.
The Secretary said he believes General
Eisenhower will find the ways" to persuade the
Communists that the wars in Korea and Indo-
China are not to their advantage, and that,
when they realize this, they will want peace as
much as we do. He talked hopefully of the
possibility that 200 million Russians, having
swallowed some 600 million slave people, will
have fatal attack of acute indigestion. He
said that every American has role in foreign
policy-a role that can be played properly by
{ conducting ourselves so as to set hopeful
example for others. If we do this, he said we
will make freedom so sought after throughout
the world that the Russian Communists will be
bound to fail in their strategy of encircling us
by swallowing up the rest of the world
Mr.. Dulles has too much stature as diplomat
for one to believe that this particular bit of
gross oversimplifcation and extreme wishful
thinking is the beginning and the end of his
program. It Is nevertheless disappointing
first effort-perhaps because too little work and
too little thought went into its preparation.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Yanqui From Europe.
For the Record

A front page story in The Star of
January 20 begins, For the first time
known, new President took his entire
official family to pre-inaugural church
services today to invoke divine bless
ing on his administration"
This is an error as can very readily
be, proved from the files of The Star.
On the morning of March 4, 1888,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. with his per-
Sonal and official family, had a private
prayer service in st. Johns Episcopal
Church to pray for guidance and bless
ing during his administration. Each
year thereafter on the anniversary of
Evening star., 1953-01-28
An Administrative Problem

One of the major decisions yet to be made,
or implemented, by President Eisenhower and
his advisers is that of how the various functions
and programs in the field of foreign affairs are
to be administered.
Under the Truman administration, the
State Department, for example, had jurisdiction
OF the Point Four program of aid to under
developed countries, and the program of over
seas information and propaganda in such eff
forts as the Voice of America. The programs of
economic aid and mutual security were inde-
pendent but theoretically in close coordination
with the foreign policy as baSically formulated
and applied by the State Department. In addi-
tion the department relied to a great extent
upon naming special ambassadors for special
tasks, including Point Four, and entrusted to an
ambassador at large, Philip c. JesSup, the re-
Sponsibility for a great number of important
missions.
over all, it was an administrative structure
that worked we'll at times and not well at others.
It served to keep certain amount of control
of foreign activities within the department, or
to assure a certain amount of liaison between
the department and the other agencies involved.
At the same time it resulted in great eXpan-
sion in numbers of our overseas personnel and,
very often, in duplication of effort or conflict
between the chiefs of diplomatic missions and
President Eisenhower has made it clear
that for the time being, at least, he intends to
continue the mutual security program under
an independent status and he has named Har-
old StasSen as director. The futures of Point
Four and of the overseas propaganda effort
have not yet been defined Mr.. Jessup has re-
signed as ambassador at large and Secretary
of State Dulles is reported planning to leave
vacant the $25, ,O00-a-year post, and also
to minimize the practice of naming special
ambassadors.
1t is an r-simplifcation in the light of
our international interests and commitments
to propose simply that the State Department
should divorce itself entirely from all foreign
affairs problems beyond the scope of normal
diplomatic relations Obviously any American
governmental effort abroad bears upon our for
eign policy and must be integrated with 1t un-
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Ancestors

Since am one-pGrt Quaker, shah
neUer
Escape old ilhibitions from the dust.
Shrno of responsibility, or seUer
NY choice from that tnpldcGble.
"Thee n1uSti"
Ny gay French forebeGrs broke their
tDord at pleasure;
MY Irish sires tUere sn1uDClers, rue
been told:
NJ Scots burned border toiUns for sport
or treasure;
. Ny English sold their souls for
Spanish gold
Ny Viking fathers Uore their honor
lightly:
Ny Welsllmen's eyes and hGir-Gnd sins
-iDere black;
Ny Normans lDere called deUils, and
that rightly.
But that one Quaker al,oGys holds
me back!
Dorothy Brown Thompson.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Unmoved by Donohue Drive

In regard to Mr. Donohue's resigna-
ton, trust our new President will act
promptly in accepting it. Further. I
think this is move that might well
be made without calling Smith" Car
thur Clarendon). who heads an organi-
zation called Citizens for Donohue, Z"
as well as trucking firm.
think it a sad commentary on the
last administration that a man who
merely did the job he was paid for
should be considered indispensable.
M. M.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
'Mr. Trumon's offshore Robbit'

It is regrettable that the writer Of
the masterful editorial, "Mr. Truman's
Offshore Rabbit" in The Star, Janu-
ary II, omitted one of the strongest
arguments in opposition to the Presi-
dents action.
The Republican platform last year
stated: I'VE favor restoration to the
States Of their rights to all lands and
resources beneath navigable inland and
offshore waters within their historic
boundaries" The Republican candi-
date. Mr.. Eisenhower, stood squarely on
that plank of the platform
The Democratic platform had q
plank that weaseled somewhat but the
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Likes Luwrence's STYLE.

After eight years in business in for
eign countries. venture to congratulate
The Star for the contributions to Amer
lean thinking made by David Lawrence.
If there is any fault to be found with
The Star, it is tendency to soft-pedal
unpleasant criticism of international
affairs. Your diplomacy seems to me to
make you guilty. at times. Of serious
omissions. Mr.. Lawrence can both criti-
cize and write mice" opinions. To me,
the former ability is the more needed,
the more rare.
YanQui From Europe.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Murchers From Georgia

The television announcer again and
again referred to the Georgia Hussars
as the Georgia Hussers- -rhyming with
cusSers. AS a native son of Georgia,
rejoiced that the parade did not include
any feminine counterpart of the Hus-
sars, lest the announcer refer to them
as "HusSieS.' Walter F. Boyle.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

that date, he and his whole family
official and perSonal-went again to
st. Johns for service of prayer and
rededication, excepting only the sue
ceeding inaugural years when the serv-
ice was held on January 20. The last
two services, March 4, 1914, and January
20. 1945, were held in the White House
They were religious services, attended
by the whole official family, conducted
by the clergy Of st. Johns and st.
Thomas Churches.
In 1949, President Truman followed
President Roosevelt's example end had
his pre-inaugural prayer service-at-
tended by his personal and official
family-in st. Johns Church.
Abigail Cooper Sabin.
Evening star., 1953-01-28

Democratic candidate did not. He was
directly opposed to the position of the
Republican platform and the Republi-
can candidate.
Thus the issue of the tidelands was
squarely Joined and Mr.. Truman, on
his extensive "whistle-stop" campaign,
told the American people repeatedly
that if they voted for Eisenhower they
were giving the States title to the tide
lands instead of the Federal Govern
ment.
When the American people voted,
they had the knowledge that Congress
had twice voted bill which gave the
States the tidelands as we'll as the
knowledge of Mr.. Truman's veto mes
sages; they had the knowledge of the
action of the Supreme Court, whose
members were mainly picked because
OF their ideologies and political aff1lia-
tionS, minority of which-by only
one in the Texas case-had declared
that the States already owned the tide
lands; they had the knowledge of the
stand taken by both party platforms
both party candidates, and especially
did they have the knowledge Of the
stand taken by Mr. Truman.
When the American people elected
Mr.. Eisenhower President by more than
six and one-half million votes, the
tidelandS question, under all precedents
of political morality and integrity was
settled. The "death-bed" finding by
Mr.. Truman that national security was
gravely involved, and especially his
holding that it was financially harmful
to the Federal Government, an un-
familiar and strange role for him, in
deed, does not alter the fact that the
issue has been settled by the people.
Brady Gentry,
Third District. Texas, House of Rep
resentativeS.
1t was great satisfaction to find so
impartial "a commentator as Lowell
Mellett in The Star of January II.
He not only lauded Mr.. Truman's
courage in saving tidelands oil for the
defense effort, but he also suggested
that Mr.. Eisenhower might, not have
understood all the needs Of the Gov
ernment when he committed himself.
during his campaign, to the Texas
claims.
bitterly resent The Stars preju-
diced and unfair editorial in the same
issue Of the paper.
Eunice Sawyer.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
Voice for the Engineer

The recent wreck at the Union Sta
ton brings up q question that has
bothered me for some time and no
doubt has bothered others as well. The
question involves communications. Con-
trary to an early report" in The Star
the engineer did not radio ahead to the
station and warn them of the impend-
ing danger. He probably would have
given his right arm to have had radio
available. He apparently had no way
OF communicating with the conductor
either to tell him to open the air valve
at the end of the train which would
have applied the brakes Whether this
train had telephone service or not do
not know but many of them do. If a
passenger wants to call his wife and
make sure that supper will be ready
upon his arrival he may do so but the
engineer with 1900 or so tons Of rail-
road equipment worth probably over a
million dollars and several hundred
lives under his responsibility can only
sit there helpless like an ant on an