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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22
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Veterans Administration listed
some common-Sense rules that
Korean CT Bill veteran-trainees
and their schools and establish
ments can follow, in order to pre-
vent delays in veterans monthly
CT allowance checks. They are:
First, both veterans and their
schools should take careful
second look at the monthly certi-
fication of training they are re-
quired to send to VA after the end
of every month of training COM
pleted.
They should make sure il has
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22
4H Members
TO Attend Camp

Columbus County All members
will 90 to Camp Schaub August
lois, for their annual summer
encampment. The Camp is located
in Haywood County near Waynes-
vile.
Some of the highlights of the
week will be: classes in recreation.
swimming, handicraft. and electri-
city; swimming and games in the
afternoons: group RECREATION at
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22
service in Japan.

Members of the second platoon
gave instruction in the MI rifle,
the recoilless rifle, the machine
gun and the automatic rifle to the
cadets. They also serve as imagin-
AIRY enemy during field exercises.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22

Fourteen states, including North
Carolina, now have laws requiring
that all new cars be equipped with
turn signal devices, the Carolina
Motor Club reports.
The nations motor vehicles
consume 40 billion gallons of gas
oline every year, with the average
passenger car using about $50 gal
Ions of this amount, according to
the Carolina Motor Club.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22

stir in nuts and whipped cream.
Serve on above fruit salad.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22

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Evening star., 1953-07-15
This and That

Is it all right to garden with gloves
on?
This is the question that came
through the mail, and the answer is:
Perhaps.
There are some gardeners who insist
on wearing 'em because thorns get in
their fingers. And who can blame them?
Many dirt farmer, however, will
disagree, and say vehemently that no
real gardener, large or small, ever
wears gloves.
How can one feel the earth properly
through gloves?
Love of soil, and its consequences,
makes the whole world minded.
It is a question whether the handling
of tools such as hammer and saw has
done as much for the race.
It is question whether humanity
is more e-minded than hand-minded.
Perhaps the two together have made
us what we are.
Certainly many persons must take
special care. if they want to garden
without gloves.
These are the hin-skinned ones,
whose epidermiS has, for one reason
or another, not been hardened by
manual toll or sports.
Today there are more OF these people
in the world than ever before. They
do all manner Of work, and do 1t very
successfully. They range from the
'fve-rercenter," perhaps. to the wr1tsr.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Letters to The Star
Pen-nanaeS may be used if letters carry
UriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

tiers in support of the State Department
press hand-out. If they did, they were
misguided.
AS the CIO pointed out in its letter
to Mr.. Dulles. the State Department
document. in reviewing the 1852 steel
case, did not even give former President
Truman'S own reasons for not asking
an injunction in the 1852 steel strike
II the document had any value, it
should, for instance, have cited all the
facts in the steel case-rather than a
series of ex post facto speculations.
about Mr.. Truman's motives.
The Star carried a quite accurate
news story about the CLOS detailed
objections to this hand-out, at the time
our protest was lodged with Mr.. Dulles.
There is no need to report them again
except to reiterate that CIO is against
thought control, and for freedom of
expression. Neither was involved in this
case.
The CIO at no time asked for the
dismissal of the employe involved in
the incident. We did not know who it
was. We did feel that his product on
Taft-Hartley was shoddy and of mega
tive propaganda value for the United
States Government. The effort to make
martyr out of the person involved,
and to paint the CIO as a proponent of
book burning" has no basis in fact.
Henry C. Fleisher,
Publicity Director, CIO.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Mr.. Condon's Answer

When Representative Condor got up in
the House yesterday to make a speech there
was series of questions that only he could
answer: Would he demand an investigation by
the House into the circumstances under which
he, an American citizen, member of Congress
elected by the people of the sixth district of
California, had been barred from witnessing an
atomic bomb test to which he had been
invited? His trustworthiness having been
impugned, his loyalty having thus been ques-
toned would he demand the right to testify
under oath and thus obtain an opportunity to
clear himself of all suspicion? Having indicated
that the whole incident was the result Of some
faulty evaluation of his record by somebody in
the executive branch of the Government would
he demand that the person guilty of this mis-
take be brought to book, and required to correct
the mistake in public?
That was the series of questions in the
minds of many people, including Mr.. Condons
colleagues in the House, when he got up to
speak. The answer was No.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
BY Charles E. Trocewen

Templeton Jones, sturdy old gar
dener, rather sneers at these effete
souls.
mo man ought to be afraid of a
little dirt" he said, the other evening.
as he sailed out to do some trans
planting.
He watched the bees-it was not too
late for them-and then forgot about
them in the joy Of his task. Not so
the bees.
They spotted Jones and his lily white
hands and made bee line for them.
"Ouch!" cried he, as one bee got in
his stinger.
"Ouch!" he yelled, as o second bee
attacked him.
He was slapping bees and jumping
up and down in what seemed to be
some sort of dance of the dervishes
when his wife discovered him.
What on earth is the matter with
you?" she asked, not seeing the
culprits.
Bees" he replied, and went on
slapping.
Where did they get you, Temp"
Fright here on the thumb"
At told you to wear gloves, you
know" came the helpful reply. You
said nobody ought to be afraid Of q
little clean honest dirt"
1T amt dirt am afraid Of" sighed
Templeton Jones, "1t'S bees"
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Book Burning and the CIO

David LaWrence's column, Some
Book Burning by the CIO," in The
Star Of July 7. seems to have departed
far from the facts in the case under
discussion.
What were the facts? A mimeo-
graphed press hand-out, for BACKGROUND
information use, was issued by the
Foreign Journalists Liaison Staff Of the
State Department. It dealt with the
Taft Hartley Act, and was intended
presumably to brief foreign correspond
ents in this country about that impor-
tant and controversial law. The CIO
and the AFL took objection to certain
inaccuracies and misStatementS of fact.
and to demonstrably anti-labor bias
IN the body Of the hand-out and in the
one magazine quotation used to bear
out the authors viewpoint. The CIO
protested, and asked that this docu-
ment be withdrawn. The Secretary of
State. after investigating. found that
this mimeographed hand-out had never
been properly authorized, that it should
not have been issued in the first place,
and that it should be rescinded.
Readers of Mr.. Lawrence's column
received rather flamboyantly decor
ated version of this incident. His COL
umn referred to the press hand-out
variously as booklet" q pamphlet"
brochure" It was none of these.
Nor does Mr.. Lawrence strengthen his
case when he writes that two corpora
ton lawyers. Mr.. Theodore Iserman,
and MIR. Gerald Reilly. have written let
Evening star., 1953-07-15

A whole range Of jobs and works
accounts for soft hands, and there is
not much to be done about it except
to safeguard ones precious skin.
The epidermis needs care, especially
in summer. Just handling a grass
clippers for half an hour will cause
abrasions.
The protection afforded by a pair of
gloves is real help. and in no sense
need be looked upon as sissified.
Yet there will be many who rather
look down upon such aids.
They might still help themselves by
applying one of the new creams, which
form sort Of invisible glove, as the
ads say, and to that extent give some
protection.
The question of dirt. too, is a real
one
There are many finicky persons who
simply do not like to get their hands
soiled. Others may not understand
this, but it is very real for the person
involved.
There is no need, either, to regard
such persons as mental cases. They
have, through long experience, found
that their hands need some special
protection.
Almost any hand lotion will be a
big help to these, and they may benefit
by applying it before gardening and
after they have washed their hands on
coming In for the day. =.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Patronage and Civil Service

With growing amazement I have
been following the sophistries OF your
paper. eliminating in your obfuscatory
editorial, Patronage and Civil Service"
June 20. concerning the Presidents
order on Schedule A employees.
know a representative sample Of
Government lawyers who, like myself,
hold Schedule A jobs obtained solely
on the basis of merit, and in competi-
ton with many other applicants, by
virtue of their school records and of
their performance on written and oral
examinations given directly by the
hiring agencies. While, depending on
the work required, different agencies
use different standards of selections.
The main reason for the n-uniformity
of such standards was a rider first
attached to a civil service appropriation
bill some II years ago prohibiting the
use of funds to pay Civil Service Com
mission law examiners. Deeming itself
thus unable to give uniform COMPETE
tive legal examinations, c. S. c. deter
mined that lawyers hired in the future
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Cost of the Federal 'Impoct'

Representative Broyhill has given Congress
some persuasive facts to prove his contention
that the policy of extending Federal aid to
schools in "federally impacted" areas is mot
a Santa Claus action" III connection with
House passage of bill authorizing $227 million
for school construction in such areas, including
nearby Virginia and Maryland communities,
ethe Virginia legislator inserted in the Con-
gressional Record a review of the Federal
impact" on his own county, Arlington. The
figures leave no doubt as to the Governments
obligation to aid in easing the burdens thrust
on local school systems by wartime expansion
of Federal activities.
During the memorable decade from 1910 to
1850 Arlington'S population increased from
$1,000 to $4,000, or more than 1877 per cent.
And the Census Bureau says the growth is
continuing at rapid rate. School enrolment
rose during that period about 1O2 per cent,
with an additional 80 per cent rise recorded
since 1850. The operating costs of Arlington
public schools rose from 1922 900 in 1910 to $35
million in 1950-51 or about TOO per cent. The
costs have continued to soar, as evidenced by
81 per cent increase since 1851. Mr.. Broyhill
blamed Federal expansion for most of the
additional enrolment and expenditures
To meet the school emergency during this
decade of phenomenal progress, Arlington has
draStically increased its tax collections from
privately owned real estate and personal prop
erty. The local revenues for school purposes
have risen about 762 per cent since 1910 and
payments from State sources have increased
about 795 per cent Approximately 81 per cent
OF the cost has been borne by the county and
the State, with about per cent contributed by
the Federal Government. AS Mr. Broyhill
pointed out, the Federal assistance rendered is
relatively small Other communities in the
Washington Metropolitan Area have experienced
similar growth of school demands and COSTS
Meanwhile, the Government has continued to
reach out for more and more land that must be
withdrawn from the tax rolls. In Arlington
for example, the estimated assessed valuation
of tax-free Federal property is $176 million. If
taxable, this property would add about IS mil
lion year to the countys treasury. With such
an additional source of revenue Arlington's
fiscal problems would be greatly eased Under
the proposed aid bill, Arlington would be
qualified to receive about $675, 900. This seems
small enough, considering the heavy load
which Federal personnel growth has put on the
areas around Washington in recent years.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
The Miniature

So much of beauty in so small space!
Though here she seems both lively
and denure
This ladys n1ien reDedls an inner grace.
Caught for the ages in this miniature.
One can but n,arUel that an artist could
be dett
Enough, could handle paint and mt
mute brush
So 10ell that not a telltdle stroke is left,
Only this pleasing portrait framed in
plush.
o cleuer hand to make truth true, that
truth
Is beauty! You haze cheated time
and notD
Old age can never dim her radiant
youth,
Unfading here-tair cheek and chin
and broW.
EIoiss Wode Hackett
Evening star., 1953-07-15

former Representative ran on business-in-
government platform and promised to work
for better schools. better public welfare condi-
tions and more industrial development.
The nearby races for nomination to the
House OF Delegates produced no upsets. Incum-
bent Maynard Magruder and Harrison Mann
and Mrs. Kathryn Stone were nominated in
Arlington. Incumbent Armistead Boothe of
Alexandria was unopposed and two new pros
pective delegates from Fairfax, Omer L. Hirst
and John c. Webb, were chosen. (Fairfax's
former Delegate resigned some months apo.)
About the only upset on the local scene was
the defeat of incumbent Commonwealth's
Attorney Howard w. Smith, jr., of Alexandria,
by Earl F. Wagner.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Our Foreign Libraries

On the subject Of book burning and
our foreign libraries set up by our
State Department overseas.
Do they have Bibles, Dale Carnegie's
'How to Win Friends and Influence
People," Peace of Mind, Christian
Science Monitor. Unity Daily Word,
and the many other fine publications
put out by the churches of all faiths?
I was told by friend who helped to
make out the lists of books for the
State Departments Information Library
in Seoul, Korea that they could not re-
quest this material.
In free world a person should be
able to have material that would help
him to understand the character of the
American people especially as this
material is what they live by. (The
American people that isl.
Dorothy Gatchell.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
VHqinio's S Primary

Like the liStleSS campaign which preceded
it, Virginia'S gubernatorial primary election
produced no extraordinary developments. About
the only surprising aspect to many voters was
the margin of former Representative Thomas
B. Stanleys victory over State Senator Charles
r. Fenwick of Arlington 1t had been generally
predicted that the race would be close, pro-
vided Mr.. Fenwick rolled up good vote in
Northern Virginia. The Arlington legislator
was given a three-to-one vote over his down.
State Henry County rival in the nearby 10th
district, but it was not enough to overcome Mr..
Stanley'S substantial returns elsewhere. The
power of the country boys composing the
dominant Democratic organization again has
been demonstrated.
Ostensibly both Mr. Stanley and Senator
Fenwick were members of the conservative
Byrd organization. Neither candidate received
the official Endorsement of this political fac
ton. But it was no secret that key members
of the organization, especially those in what is
known as the courthouse crowd" at each
county seat, favored the down-Stater against
the up-Stater. Northern Virginia. in its mod
ern era of urban growth, has become identified
in the minds of many voters with Virginia's
cities. A representative of that "outlander"
section therefore is what is regarded in the
General Assembly as "city boy" This was
handicap which hurt Mr. Fenwick in the rural
sections of the State. The Arlingtonian waged
a good fight everywhere, however.
Mr.. Stanley should make good Governor.
OF course, he must contest with Republican
State Senator Ted Dalton of Radford, in the
final election in November, but Mr. Stanley has
tradition in his favor Victory in the Demo-
cratic primary is generally regarded as tanta-
mount to election to the Governors once. The
Evening star., 1953-07-15

could not have regular civil service
status.
When job-hunting in Washington a
few years ago applied to at least 10
different agencies and was never once
asked about my political Affiliations,
administration support, or Hill in
dorsements, welcome contrast to the
undue concern shown by many private
law offices in my social and political
connections. So far as know my ex-
perience is typical, and hence resent
being transformed into political
appointee" by some muddled member
of your editorial staff.
To equate Mr. Truman's blanket-in
order with President Eisenhower's re-
cent hlanket-out is to equate day with
night. Mr.. Trumans recently much
maligned order was obviously designed
to right a wrong by restoring to the
career employe status rights he never
should have lost. 1t restored the vital
incentive to persons in the ranks to
rise to positions of responsibility with
out fear of then being left out in the
cold. That many Democrats as we'll as
Republicans may have benefited from
this order does not affect it's intrinsic
merit. Could General Motors recruit
and keep its executive talent under
directive providing that upon the at
tainment of the position of assistant to
a second vice president, the incumbent
is subject to immediate removal, loss
of pension rights, ETC., with any voted
change in the directorate?
Underlying the interpretations COM
monty placed on President Eisenhower'S
order, however is the premise that only
Republican lawyers can enforce and
administer the laws under Republican
administration, regardless Of whether
the substance Of these laws was enacted
by a Republican or Democratic Con-
gress. Aside from the naive misconcep-
ton of legal training and advocacy
implicit in this premise, perhaps you
ought not to be so eager to proclaim
that we have a Government of men
and not of law.
Let us determine the basic alterna-
tives: We are either going to have a
career civil service composed of largely
competent personnel attracted by a
sensible-though far from generous
merit and incentive system, or Spoils-
ridden bureaucracy of miasmal medi-
ocrity helplessly floundering in nets Of
political opportunism. And your papers
promise to support the present admin
istration surely does not require per-
sistent Misrepresentation to the public.
Albert HaddOck, Jr.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Are We Making Fools of Ourselves?
10 The Editor Of The Stor::

10 the Editor OF The Star:
T AM wondering il the State Depart
4 ment announcement that it has
issued master list" Of about fifty
prescribed authors and has returned
about $50 others to the list Of approved
authors will cause the concern over the
overseas information programs selec-
ton policies to subside. It may be
remembered that the original directive
concerning use Of materials in the
information program stated that the
content of the book was to be the guide
in determining its fitness for use. After
the attack on this directive it was re-
placed by hastily drafted and COM
pletely unworkable order banning the
use OF material written by Communists,
fellow travellers, etc. This order has the
effect Of paralyzing the information pro-
gram, since no one could be sure his head
would not be put-on the block if some
one disagreed with his Interpretation
of the phrase fellow traveller" and no
definition Of an "etc." was ever forth
coming. 1t was even impossible to
quote Stain against himself. Nothing
was done about it however, until several
thoughtful members of the press be-
came worried about the implications of
the directive. and the present policy
was instituted. A soothing statement
was issued to the press. Their fears
were quieted, and under the terms of
that directive the present mess devel-
oped.
Throughout this whole controversy
there has been no showing made, nor
any attempt to show that there were
actually any books in U. S. libraries
abroad which, in fact. advocated COM
munism or which contained material
detrimental to the interests of the
United States. The whole effort has
been to show that there were books in
the libraries which had been written
by persons who may or may not be
Communists, or have been Communists
at one time. This is entirely beside the
point. It is what the book says which
matters and not the identity of the
author. There are many situations in
which words in praise of the American
system, written by Communist, will
be more convincing to the fence-sitter
or the fringe Communist than the words
OF known Communist which the
fence-sitter writes of as "just propa-
ganda."
From moral point of view, it is Just
as wrong to burn the books of fifty
authors as it is to burn the books of
three hundred. From the standpoint of
an effective information program, it is
just as stupid to deny propaganda
weapons to your propaganda operators
as it is to deny rifles to your soldiers.
IT there is to be anV more of fhiS nop
sense about Communist inf1ltration of
United States libraries abroad, let it be
shown that there were books circulated