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Evening star., 1953-01-13


As you will have gathered from my previous remarks
the Group Is fully alive to the need for general
kes and commercial products at the same time as IL
is convinced that there must be relaxation defence
requirements In the coming It will Continue with
its efforts to achieve both objectives.
We are still very conscious of the need to export
Although import and currency restrictions have net
up barriers against In many countries we are
vigorously exploring every possibility of overcoming
them During the year have exported products TO
France. Holland Belgium. Denmark and Irao and
there Is every to anticipate that needs
Of the Royal Air been met we shall be able
to export many of our super-priority aircraft and
engines to NA.T,O. countries.
Our relations with the Royal Navy. the Royal Air
Force. the Ministry of supply, and the Air Ministry
continue the best possible footing enabling max
imum efficiency to be achieved in our joint task.
for their continued loyalty and support.
And finally, / would like to make brief references
topic that has been in the recently refer
Labour Partys threat nationalze the aircraft
industry at future date.
There are three things that have brought the ar-
creft industry to its present peak Of Reinforcement
Courage enterprise, and enthusiasm Let me assure
you, ladies and gentlemen-and this most solemny
that there thing which would this virile
progressive industry surely and completely That ons
thing Is naturalization -
Naturalization inevitably means mediocrity And
n,edtocrity the dopnfa o5 the BYittsh aircraft
Industry, the downfdu Of Britain a. Hrst-cless cir
pouer. H..
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-03-18
. SIDELlNE TOPICS.

few Ne fans who pulling underdog
Chefans quite upset.
local police departments homicide
Hukes convincing
triumph
April successful
Dojo promotion staging
lar larger gym year
among keglng the al-Japanes
setting with second-spot
prizes definitely the improved golfers the Nisei
locally TAX Tachyama shooting join
handicap baseball players usually tabled
sood poor fortunately have
powerful columnt
phrase old timer" remember
Sammy rakahashi Kmyuki
Ara, Johnny okmoo few. sta
speaking dominate bowns Big TO-
Seattle; Nsei Commercial (six married four sin
ge Ne Merchants sngle), SNGBOhree
ried single). Seattle Chetans and the
night Vikings found in their battle
asnst Everett the oppoon height which
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-03-18
Fuzzy to Try His Skill in Abe Meet

Fuzzy to Try His Skill in Abe Meet
SAN FRANCISCO Dispatcho-
Fazzy shmada average pro-
badly kegler participate
Chicago April
industry
schran frank Giovanni and Lee Mitchell
Nisei Battler Wins Sixth Army Fist Title
Camp Obspo Army bogng
the 1epomd Friday
to at Camp Atterbury
Australia Changes Mind, Oks Furuhashi
MELBOURNE Australia,
japanese swimming
pon Fuuhashi
Thursday gave
holder permission four club charity
January study wooassing
associations president
Swimming il a precedent by inviting
TO n Sydney.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
BY Charles E. TroceweN
E. B. Henderson.

He knows, then that Persia is at
hand.
He goes back to the refrigerator, and
takes out pink paper Of meat.
Persia gives small meow.
Not pleading. just reminder that
1t is cold out there, and viii he kindly
hurry with the breakfast.
Templeton Jones scoops up some
meat. puts it in a special dish, and
saunters forth.
AS he puts the plate down. Persia
raises on his launches, and clasps the
bowl in his front paws.
It Is this simple movement that
charms r. Jones.
It is amazing how little it takes for
a cat to please human friend.
Persia bows his head and it Is at
this point that he permits Templeton
Jones to bestow q pat upon him.
Jones wishes that his owner would
take better care of him. He needs q
combing. and his eyes. In particular.
should be cleaned up bit. Persian
cats cannot take as good care Of them
selves as the short-haired common
cats. They are beautiful, pleasant
creatures, not as contrary and stub
born as just plain cats. They deserve
the best Of care. and If allowed to run.
should receive better care than the
house bound cat.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

AS regularly as o'clock in the morn
ing comes land it comes pretty regu-
larly) a big black Persian appears on
Templeton Jones back porch.
Persia. as he is called, has bleary
eyes and green ones, fluffy tail, and a
remarkably hearty hiss.
He permits no foolishness, even to
the Joneses, who feed him as he arrives.
Persia groWlS, misses, greets the Jones
cats with diSdain, as they f1le out past
the held-back screen door.
-
No doubt his Kisses are merely pre-
cautionary. for he has never attacked
them. Persian cats. as rule, are not
fighters, though they are fine ratters.
The big black cat is after raw, req
meat.
Probably he never gets more than a
smell, at home.
Jones wonders what that home can
be. Surely not good one, from cat
viewpoint.
The cat wants just meat, no salmon,
no milk. no cream. no brewers yeast.
all usual cat favorites.
i Not Persia
He wants red meat. in hunks. not
ground
Jones. : friend Of al cats. tries 70
please.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
This and That

Accordingly, he purchases good meat
for the wandering Persian.
He does not want this to get around,
of course One is not supposed to cater
to such cat whims.
What right has Jones to spend his
money as he pleases?
There are many other persons in the
world who have very definite ideas as
to how T. Jones should spend his
money.
Despite that, Jones goes right ahead
spending it as he pleases, that Is, what
is left of it.
One Of his ways is to feed the birds
and wandering creatures. including
squirrels. Opossums. dogs and cats.
These four-and rabbits. mice. even
rats, for they come in the dark. and
take bit Of what is left over from the
others.
Jones, for one, would not dissuade
them He believes that hungry crea-
lures have right to eat when they md
a free lunch.
This animal philosophy of his helps
the black Persian, which waits pa
tiently until he comes down in his pa
jamas and slippers.
Opening the kitchen door. Jones
peers out into the blackness.
Two green uehts. not far apart. peer
n ct him.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Britain and Formoso

The President had no sooner made
his first decisive move to end the Ko-
rean war, by removing the blockade
Mr.. Truman had placed around the
National Chinese forces on Formosa,
than we heard great protest go up
from Britain. To the people in the
Middle West and the Nation as whole
this was a slap in the face. We are
good and tired of hearing this kind of
report from those who are always ready
for a "handout" but never ready to
cooperate.
The British say we should have con-
suited them first. How absurd. If they
don't want to win the war in Korea, is
that any reason for us to not want to
end it? Our men are doing 80 per cent
of the fighting and dying. Did they ask
our opinion in advance before they off,
cially recognized the Red Chinese gov
ernment? Or did they, wonder. 1t has
been my opinion a long time that the
Truman administration under Mr..
Acheson's State Department was fol-
lowing a program dictated by the Brit
ish and the Russians Isn't it about
time that we found out once and for
all just whose side of this fray the
Churchill government is supporting?
c. A. Nolan.
Seymour, Ind.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Dr.. Alexander Loudon

Washingtonians have lost respected
friend in the death of DR.. Alexander Loudon,
who served as chief of the Dutch diplomatic
mission here from 1888 to 1947
AS Minister first and later as Ambassador,
Dr. Loudon was Stdut-hearted ally during the
war years. Driving himself to breakdown OF
his health, in 1947, he made the cause OF his
country and of ours common one He was
married to an American, the former Elizabeth
Cobb of New York, and he considered America
almost as much of home as his native
Holland Since retirement from the diplomatic
service, he had served on the Council OF State
'uf his government and more recently as secre-
Evening star., 1953-02-07
By GouIt MocGowon

CROSS FIRES Of controversy over
~ the nomination of DR.. James B.
Conant, former president of Harvard
University, as United States High Com
missioner for Germany have ricocheted
from the United States to Heidelberg.
the headquarters of the United States
Army in Europe.
What seemed at first shrewd and
workmanlike appointment now Is seen
in some quarters as maybe tactless."
DR.. Conant has been typed by the
German press as a Puritan. People Of
Mayflower ancestry are not always easy
to deal with" declares the Deutsche
zeitung.
The present British and French high
commissioners are both Roman Cath
olicS; so was former High Commissioner
John j. McCloy. While creeds have
formed little part of occupation politics,
they seem to have helped good rela-
tions with Chancellor Konrad Ade-
nauer, Roman Catholic himself and
leader of the Catholic backed Christian
Democrats.
The Christian Democrats are the
most pro- American of parties and diff
CuAb1CS OtGA 0AAC PCnNC SOAAvAS1NV e+A10 eAAS
European army are foStered by the So
cialiSts, whose religious backing and
traditions are Protestant.
Were the allies working with the
Socialists, Dr. Conant's appointment
would be less controversial.
Bavaria, one of the largest and most
important states in the United States
zone, is Overwhelmingly Roman Catho-
lie and the whole OF Western Germany
is today more Catholic than ever before
because of the influx of Roman Catho-
lie refugees and exiles from behind
the Iron Curtain. Russian-o occupied
Eastern Germany-noW Communist
was the Lutheran and Protestant
stronghold of the nation.
Catholicism has been uniting in
fiuence since the war to fill the ideo-
logical vacuum caused by the erasure
of Nazi atheistic philosophy, and
supported by declarations from the
Vatican and the Roosevelt doctrine Of
freedom for faith.
Fear is that the arrival of DIR. CO.
nant may lead to a renewal of the 10TH
century kulturkampf, or quarrels be-
tween church and state, which ended
in complete state control of education:
but also with the establishment of
denominational or so-called 'confeS-
sional schools" and mixed schools with
religious instruction in special classes
for Catholics and Protestants.
The German press has reported
widely that Archbishop Richard j.
Evening star., 1953-02-07

Cushing Of Boston and other American
Roman Catholic leaders have denounced
DR.. Conant as attacking the Catholic
system of parish schools"
Nub Of the controversy is the war
time and postwar declarations OF
United States intentions to overhaul
and rebuild the German educational
system.
According to DR.. Wolfgang Kunkel
dean Of the law school Of Heidelberg
University, all that has happened is
that education has gone back to what
it was before Adolf Hitler.
This means that today. in the opin-
ion of many American and German
scholars, education in Germany is about
25 years behind the times. German
schools and universities are all con-
trolled by ministers of education. This
allowed Hitler to run away with ma
tional education between 1933-45.
Were Massachusetts, German
State today. Harvard never would have
been bossed by DR.. Conant, but by
State minister of education. The most
DR.. Conant could have expected, had
the minister of education put him on
the payroll. would have been to be
elected rector of the university by his
colleagues for one-year period, to
preside at their meetings and repre-
sent them as public figure.
DR.. Conant is regarded by the Ger
mans as protagonist of more state
control of schools, whereas advanced
German thinkers are cudgeling their
brains how to get less of it.
At Harvard, President Conant re-
vised the curriculum so that under
graduates would receive a more
Evening star., 1953-02-07
For Economical Government

ut is the policy to achieve progressive
reduction of Government personnel" That
plain statement by Budget Director Dodge will
be welcomed by every one-irrespective of party
allegiance-who has been alarmed at the enor-
nous growth of the Federal establishment in
recent years 1t was trend that seemed to
have no end and that carried the threat Of
er-increasing costs of Government.
There is now real hope that the people will
get more efficient and economical Govern
ment under the Eisenhower administration
The President indicated in his state-of-the-
Union message that he will seek to bring about
this improvement largely through two means:
Departmental reorganization and personnel re-
trenchment. There is more involved here" he
told Congress, than realigning the wheels and
smoothing the gears of administrative mach1n-
cry. The Congress rightfully expects the Execu-
tive to take the initiative in discovering and
removing outmoded functions and eliminating
duplication" He added: "Our people have de-
manded nothing less than good efficient Gov
ernment. They shall get nothing less"
The plan for gradual reduction of person.
mel through normal attrition is a corollary OF
the reorganization program, the extension OF
which without undue restrictions has been ap-
proved at the Capitol. Reorganization had got
ten off to bad start as a result of confusion
garding legislation. The program has been re-
turned to the main track and the go-ahead
signal has been given. Meanwhile Mr.. Dodge
has served notice on every department head
personnel administrator and lesser supervisor
that overstaffing and similar wasteful practices
will not be tolerated. President Eisenhower has
made it plain-CongresS please take note-that
he considers personnel reduction to be the re-
sponSibility of the Executive. He is determined
to accomplish by administrative action an or
derly reduction in force-without the aid OF
controversial legislative riders. This approach
has been hailed as correct by the National
Federation of Federal Employees.
The retrenchment program announced by
the budget director offers a relatively painless
method of effecting reduction in the big Fed
eral payroll There will be no wholesale dis
charges Instead vacancies occurring in the
routine way will not be filled unless failure to
do so would seriously impede Government oper-
ations. In that case, every effort will be made
to find requirements within the Federal ranks
without hiring new workers. There were more
than 100000 vacancies last year as result OF
normal turnover. The opportunities for an eff
fective reduction in the size of the Federal
Notwithstanding some new emergency
are clear.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Tribute to q Negro Composer

Not many Americans know that the
official State song of the Old Dominion
was composed by Negro song writer
Many believe the song, Garry Me Back
to Old Virginny," Virginia'S official
anthem, was Stephen Foster produc-
ton.
The author of the States song was
James A. Bland, one-time student at
Howard University back in the 1870s.
Bland composed over TOO different songs
and ballads, So of which are copyrighted
and on record in the Library of Con-
gress. Among some of his most fondly
remembered songs are: I'm the Evening
by the Moonlight" I'm the Morning of
the Bright Light" and "Oh, Dem
Golden Slippers" The authorship of
these songs was authenticated in an
article of the Evening Star of June %.
1888.
In BANDS day it was difficult for a
Negro to receive recognition for artistic
effort unless it was in the area of buf-
foonery or the Spirituals. just as today
in the movie world, in general, his tai
ents are confined to the roles of sub
standard citizenship or domesticS, lit
tie more than a half century ago no
Negro could find place on the stage
unless he was buck and wing dancer
cake-walker, jubilee singer or an actor
in jazz type comedy. BANDS songs,
although sung all over America, brought
him little fame and little money.
The authorship of Negro spirituals is,
Of course, anonymous. These Sprang
49, 4 IS
gro, as did the Psalms from the sorrow
ing people of Israel. The popular Lis
ten to the Mocking Bird" was first sung
and whistled by Negro barber known
as ''Whistling Dick" in entertainment
about the streets of Philadelphia. 1t at
tracted the attention of Septimus Win
ner. young musician, who put the tune
to the music which bears his name as
composer.
A few years after the Virginia Con-
servation Commission recommended,
and the General Assembly adopted,
Garry Me Back to Old Virginny" as the
State song, Senator Byrd led a tlelega-
ton of Negro solons to the lonely grave
of Bland in Philadelphia cemetery,
and paid belated tribute to colored
American who charmed the lives of mil
lions by his talent.
Next week is designated as Negro His
tory Week in which thousands of chill
dren of all races in America will pay
tribute to the contributions of the most
native Americans Of color who by their
talents, work and loyalty have made
our Nation great. OF those who should
be honored, none deserves tribute more
than James A. Bland.
E. B. Henderson.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Unsolicited Report on Meeting

1t was interesting to read your report
of the Michigan Park Citizens Associa-
ton meeting in regard to the proposed
change in bus routes in the Sargent
road area. would like to congratulate
your reporter on making it sound as
nice as he did.
attended the meeting for the pur-
pose of joining the association but was
so shocked at the rude. noisy meeting
that left in disgust. There was abSo-
lutely no order to the meeting, with
about 20 separate conversations going
on at one time.
I felt sorry for the Capital Transit
representative who volunteered to try
to explain the transit company's stand.
One Citizen" In the front row was so
rude and inconsiderate that Mr.. Mall
lory did not have an opportunity to
complete the first sentence. do not
blame him for giving up.
Another citizen first requested a
sidewalk along Sargent road to Della
field street. Later in the evening he
asked the new route be amended to
make an additional ut-of-the-way
nanuever by going of South Dakota
to the left on Emerson to Sargent road,
then right to the station. told my wife
would wager months pay this "citi-
rem" lived close TO Emerson on Delafield
and Sargent road. AS luck would have
it. he was on the bus went home on
last night, and he got of at-guess
whefe-Sargent and Emerson!
OF the several proposals submitted
at the meeting, every one wanted the
I bus close to his house. / was surprised
they Gid not suggest the transit COM
pany have bus at their front door.
They want the bus to serve the edge of
their territory and to blazes with any
one else. The people at the meeting
represented only very small percent
age Of the people served by the bus. The
route proposed by the transit company
seems fair as 1t goes through the center
of the community.
The people on the south side Of South
Dakota are requesting the transit COM
pany's proposal be accepted. In today's
phone conversation with the transit
company. learned that several had
called up to complain of the rude,
childish, unbusinesslike, selfish attitude
Of the Michigan Park Citizens" AS
sociation.
Bob.
p. s. Congratulations to your re-
porter who covered the meeting. He
sure is diplomat.
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Chino Blockade

The spectacle of congressional committee
calling in some military of1cial for secret"
brieflng, only to have the beans spilled in
public few hours later by some committee
member, is not new on the Washington scene
1t is a practice. however, which does not i'm
prove with age, and which is capable Of doing
great deal of mischief
The latest case in point is Chairman Dewey
Shorts disclosure of things Admiral Radford
Pacific naval commander, is supposed to have
told Mr.. Shorts Armed Services Committee
AS Mr.. Short tells the story, Admiral Rad
ford favors blockade of China, and believes
such step would entail little chance of war
with Russia Furthermore, Mr. Short volunteers
the belief that President Eisenhower is listen
ing" to Admiral Radford, and is considering
imposing the blockade.
Presented in this light the business of
blockadings China sounds quite simple e-much
too simple, one is inclined to suspect.
In all probability, General Eisenhower is
considering blockade of China. No doubt he
is also considering various other means of
stepping up the pressure on the Communists in
Asia. A full naval blockade of China, however,
would be. an act of war on our part, and that
is not a simple little step to be taken against
a background of leaks of testimony supposedly
given in secret to congressional committees
General Eisenhower said in his state-of-
the-Union message: I'VE have learned that the
free world cannot indefinitely remain in a
posture of paralyzed tension, leaving forever to
the aggreSsor the choice of time and place and
means to cause greatest hurt to us at least
cost to himself
There is no reason to doubt that this is
meaningful sentence. The temper of the people
of this country being what it is, General Eisen-
hover is almost compelled to seek some new
means of breaking the Korean deadlock. In
the psychological sense at least, the decision to
free Chang Kai-Shek for such additional efforts
as he may be capable of making Is a move to
this end. The clamping on of naval blockade
would be another, and much more significant
move to the same end.
Before taking such drastic decision, how
ever, many factors would have to be weighed
and balanced. How would our allies react?
What might the Chinese Communists be ex-
pected to do in retaliation, and what prepara-
tions would we have to make to meet their
probable countermoves? Would a naval block
ade alone be effective in bringing the Com
munistS to terms, or should it be considered
only in conjunction with other measures? If
the latter is the case, what other measures
should be taken?
These are but few of the questions the
EIcSIOcut IuuOt Keep III dS 4lC u6sIcO
with the problem of breaking out of that
posture of paralyzed tension" They are suf-
f1cient however, to indicate how difficult and
how grimly serious this business is. At the
very least these are not the kind of decisions
that can be made in goldfish bowl, and when
ever Congressman Is stricken with the urge
to talk out of turn he ought to remember that
he is making things more difhcult-not easier
for the President
Evening star., 1953-02-07
Some Answer Must Be Found

! The implications of the letter from Budget
Officer Fowler to Senator Case are that the
District is going to be in such serious financial
condition anyway that it cannot undertake to
support even half the cost of an eight-year
public works program.
Mr.. Fowler may be correct. More about that
will be known when the public works program,
drawn up in tentative form last year by COM
mittee of citizens under craftsmanship of Francis
g. Addison is revised and put in shape for final
presentation to Congress The Commissioners
and new citizens committee, under John ].
Reilly, are attempting to perfect the eight-year
public works program by the middle of this
month
The financing of the public works program,
under the original plan, was to be undertaken
Jointly by the Federal Government and the
District, the Federal Government contributing
q grant and an intereSt-free loan The District
would pay for the remainder out of current
revenue The final estimates not yet available,
will indicate whether the District can under
take to do its part. What the Federal Govern
ment will be willing to do depends of course,
on Congress.
Regardless of the final details of the pro-
gram, we must not forget its real purpose.
That purpose is to discover practical method
by which this Capital City can prevent the
OeIerlofaI1on OF SO many OF ICS oVeTCaXeu
facilities by systematic attack on an accumu-
lation of unmet public needS-in highways and
bridges, water and sewage systems, school con-
struction and the provision of required munici-
pal institutions.
Congress has the definite responsibility in
final determination Of how these things can
be done. If the public works program is not
the answer, another one must be found The
future of Washington is very closely linked
with the decisions to be made this year in
Congress on modernizing Federals City that
is beginning to run down at the heels.