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Evening star., 1953-11-03

over that the reward for earning more
and paying more taxes is more take
home pay.
However enviouS some, who earn less,
are of those who earn more, it is fair
and just that those who earn more have
more. But when we see Republican
campaign promise being honored in a
manner that in effect will give more to
those who already have more and take
from those who have less, then who
can deny that the tax cut this January
is deception designed to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer?
However bitter this may make some
of us, it won't shock any of us, for
it isn't the first time Republicans used
a deception to win an election. A
wonderful thing about this country is
the way the little guy in the dog house
can kick back. through the medium of
the ballot, at the big guy in the White
House.
Another guy who should be kicked
is the guy who gripes but doesn't vote.
Get out and be heard at the polls.
Rudy BerdauS,
Glendale, Ohio.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Tux Cut Deceptive?

When the Democrats were voted out
OF the White House last January. a
trust was placed in the Republican
Party which this JanuaryS tax cut
will show was ill-advised.
A tax that will make the rich richer
and the poor poorer is actually what
we are going to get. Here's how it will
work. Take man with a wife and two
children earning 5000 a month. Since
his deductions equal his earnings, he
doesn't have to pay any tax. After
January /, however, his take-home pay
will be 81 less month because of a
one-half per cent social security in
crease. Now to some people dollar is
lust the price of an after-dinner cigar.
But to such man as this, it means
three less pairs of cheap shoes for his
children year. On the other hand, a
man earning $500 month will find his
take-home pay up the magnificent sum
of 10 cents month! Between 5000 and
$500 month can be found half of all
wage and salary earners-the lower
paid half. The other half, the better
paid half, will receive tax cuts from 48
cents to $3.50 month. To argue that
the more we earn the more tax we pay
is misleading, for it attempts to gloss
Evening star., 1953-11-03
TeIevised Court Proceedings

An exceptional opportunity of offer
ing a service to the public which could
do much to protect the liberties OF the
citizens in this area, as well as
throughout the country, has presented
itself in the action being taken by the
Radio -Television News Directors ASso-
citation to obtain approval for planned
televised programs of actual court
proceedings.
Civic minded individuals along with
radio and televiSion representatives
ought to urge acceptance of the pro-
posed televising procedures, especially
in the traffic courts, tax courts and the
nearby circuit courts. where actions of
immediate Importance to the people
in the surrounding areas daily trans
pire.
Action along the lines proposed by
the association are of especial impor-
tance in the Washington area because
the newspapers in this area have not,
Evening star., 1953-11-03

devised by man on chosen targets in
the United States" Representative w.
Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy, is of the
same opinion and calls for an increase
of $40 billion for air defense alone.
Apparently the annual $5-billion for
eign aid is also to be continued. If
misunderstanding assault on our cities
by Soviet Russia is so imminent, and
if we are to avoid conf1Scatory taxa
ton or national insolvency and eco
nomic chaos, then the foreign-aid pro-
gram should be completely discontinued
at once and, while maintaining sound
economy, every available resource de-
voted to perfecting the defenSes of the
United States. In realistic approach
to this question of domestic defense
versus foreign aid Donald r. Reichberg
has recently said:
"As long as the Government Of the
United States diSSipates it's energies and
wastes it's economic power in trying to
save other countries that are not doing
all they can to defend themselves it
will be hard to convince millions of
Americans that we are in grave danger
of aggressive devastating attack.
"It is difficult to believe that our
Government is so foolish that it cannot
see that, if our position is so imminently
dangerous, we should devote all our
energies to assuring the safety and
freedom of those within the fortress of
the United States.
But if we acquit our Government
of inexcusable folly, are we not forced
to the conclusion that it has been in
credibly unpatriotic in making the
safeguarding of our freedom and Sc
curity secondary to an effort to save
the rest of the world from communistic
aggression or deterioration?"
Had our leaders since 1945 been ca
pable of such realistic thinking they
would not now be voicing their fears
of our destruction at the hands of
Soviet Russia. Like charity, the defense
of America should begin at home.
Old ReactiOnary,
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Backward, 0 Backward

1t is somehow cheering to hear that the
British Royal Air Force is doing its best to-
develop the worlds slowest plane. In an age
when practically everybody, including the RAF,
is trying to fly far faster than the speed of
sound, this is news with fine reverse twist
1t is pleasant and heartening twist. 1t en-
courages the hope that maybe we are seeing
the start of trend that may persuade the
world to think seriously about the virtues of
abandoning so-called progress in favor of ad-
vancing backward with new policy of forward
looking retrogression.
Anyhow, for reasons that are not quite
clear, the RAF has built itself little plane
aptly called the "Prestwick Pioneer"-that can
fly slower than 80 miles an hour, and apparently
there is going to be continuing effort to make
1t fly even slower than that. May the effort
succeed. And may it inspire other people in
other fields to undertake similar progress
reversing experiments. OF course, this probably
is vain hope. Still, few will deny that it
would be a nice thing-very reasSuring, very
relaxing, very conducive to peace of mind-if
all the geniuses of our time, including Russian
geniuseS, would now dedicate themselves to the
task of accomplishing great deeds like building
atomic and hydrogen bombs. with a super
inefficient destructive force equivalent to an
ounce of TINT or the explosive content of
Juniors cap pistol
Samuel Buffers "Erewhon"-a splendid
book that should be required universal reading
these dayS-ShowS how such retrogression can
be an immense blessing and how man can
achieve it if only he sets his mind and heart
on it. The RATS "Prestwick Pioneer" is a good
beginning. The world can go on from there,
step by step, to complete dismantling of the
machine age-carried to a point, as in Ere
WHOM" where all nations would establish Uni
versities of Unwisdom to unteach everybody
everything he's learned about the black art of
mechanical gadgets Why not? Who can doubt
. that the human race would be lot safer, and
perhaps lot happier, if it were lot less smart?
Certainly, in times like these, when potential
catastrophe is the price we pay for knowing too
much, nothing could seem more desirable than
. progressive backward march into blisstul
global ignorance.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
This and That

Though true rodent, member of
the largest group of animals, he is
much better to have around than rats
and mice. He also is a more pleasant
yard companion than the red squirrel,
the form most commonly found in the
middle West.
The red squirrel is bird catcher and
egg eater. It also causes much dam
age in buildings and barns, and is
pugnacious fighter. 1t seems to lack
the humorous quality which somehow
the gray form manages to capture.
No squirrel, however, makes good
house companion except under terms
of strict pethood.
At this time of year the suburban
resident may find q baby squirrel
which needs care.
It can be taken in and brought up
on a modified milk mixture, graduating
thence to crushed nuts and then to
whole ones.
1t needs a cage of some sort. maybe
nothing more than large cardboard
carton with a screen over the top.
piece of an old sweater or woolen
sock should be put in the bottom of
the cage, with section of branch.
The sweater gives the creature a
place to cuddle down and hide, as it
would in the large leafy nest its mother
built for it high in some tree.
She uses locust leaves, by preference.
but will use other leaves if she cannot
get locusts.
In such a mild fall as this some
squirrel babies are found very late.
They become pleasant pets, but those
sharp teeth must be watched, and
usually they are returned to the out
doors as soon a. they have shown their
Evening star., 1953-11-03

Newcomers to Washington often are
puzzled by the black squirrels.
In many other sections of the coun-
try the only known form is the red.
Are there three squirrels here? they
want to know. The gray one, the black
one and occasionally the white one?
The answer is, no; there is just one
specieSt the gray squirrel
The others are color phases ranging
from albino, or all-white, through pale
pearl gray. to the melanistic, or black
phase.
Our simple old friend, the gray
squirrel, is seen to be a creature of
parts, then.
He is capable of turning out soft
black squirrels, and these live a life
apart, usually Stunned by the others,
even their own fathers and mothers.
The albino form is much rarer. While
there are no statistics kept on our local
rodent life, a good guess would place
the squirrel population at 100000. with
about 1000 melanistic or black speci-
mems, and maybe SO albino ones.
The fur of the black squirrel is very
beautiful, soft and pleasant to the eye,
yet with enough sparkle to make it
stand out in the sun.
Sometimes there is touch of reddish
in the black, as is often seen in black
animals. especially house cats.
Few black cats of popular super
stition are really. truly black. Seen in
the sun, the undercoat is usually red
dish. now and then real rust color.
-
Our gray squirrel, in any phase, is
a capable four legged citizen of our
city, and over the years has won the
liking of thousands of residents and
visitors.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
New Cathedral Guide Book

Published last week. the new Guide to
Washington Cathedral" reflects at least 10
years of building progress on Mount st. Alban.
Both in text and Illustrations it shows many
changes in the overall picture of the great
religious, cultural and social center at Wis
conSin and Massachusetts, avenues started in
ferent aspect because of the work done recently
on the south tranSept Missing are the small
temporary Offices which formerly clustered
around the apSe, now replaced by the admin
istration wing, adjacent to the College Of
Preachers. The library has been enlarged con-
Siderably deanery is in process of construc-
tion on the southern slope of the hill.
Meanwhile, the ernamentation of the
cathedral proper has been going forward with
out intermiSSion. The beautiful monument to
the Right Reverend James Edward Freeman,
third Bishop of Washington, is in the north
tranSept. Nearby is whole series of magnif1
cent stained glass windows representing Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison as authors of the
Declaration of independence and the ConStitu-
tion of the United States; Florence Nightingale,
"the Lady With the Lamp" who pioneered mod
ern military nursing; the Puritan John Eliot
the Jesuit Father Druillets, the Indian girl
Sacaiawa, Champlain, Wolfe and others famous
is the annals of Canada; Simon Bolivar San
Martin and Baron do Rio Branco, leaders in
South America; Louis Pasteur and Sir Wilfred
Grenfell, as good physicians; Horace Mann and
the Moravian bishop, John Amos Comenius as
modern teachers of the young.
Obviously encyclopedia in its wealth of
detail the new guide book makes the Cathedral
Evening star., 1953-11-03
In Defense of the Merit System

There is no evidence of collapse of the
Federal civil service system to be found in the
figures on policy job" replacementS during the
first 10 months of the Eisenhower administra-
ton. There was wave of alarm throughout
the Federal establishment when plans of the Re-
publican regime for putting its own men in key
posts were announced. Fears for the future of
the merit system were voiced by employees or
ganizations, members of Congress and others.
But now most of the complaining is being done
by those who formulated the policy job shakeup
program and who have been trying to carry it
out. They have found that the Civil Service
ernmentS career system.
The policy-job program has been designated
as Schedule c." Administration leaders wanted
all top-level positions dealing with govern
mental policy placed in the &C" category, which
would mean that Republicans or other known
friends of the administration could bump"
Job holders suspected of New Deal or Fair Deal
leanings. The csc conceded the right of the
administration to be sure of the loyalty Ito the
administration, that Isl of key officials charged
with carrying out the Eisenhower program. But
the commission has baked at extending the
&c" humping privileges as far as some of the
Republican leaders would like to have them
extended.
For example, Of 1881 requests made for
policy group requirements, only 731 have been
approved by the commission. In other words,
more than half Of the requests have been re-
jected because the csc was not convinced that
the additional substitutionS were warranted.
This has been painful experience for G. o. P.
officials who have been concerned not only
with administration loyalty but with meeting
the mounting patronage demands from all Sec
-
mission Is resisting any changes dictated more
by patronage considerations than by sincere
desire to insure an efficient administration. 1t
is good to know that the commission is on
guard against improper political inroads on
the merit system-and that President Eisen-
hover is supporting the commission in its
determined stand.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Uniting Aouinst Communism

Methodist Bishop c. Bromley Oman
has frequently hammered on the theme
that communism has made no serious
inroads in Protestant countries, but
just look at its progress in Catholic
countries. OF course, if it's logical to
blame Catholicism for communism in
Italy and France. perhaps it's equally
logical to blame Professionalism for pow
erty. race discrimination and illiteracy
in the United States South. Both prop
ositions are silly.
Apart from this, however one would
be interested in learning where the
Bishop got his statistics. Standard ref
erences such as the Americana Annual
the Britannica Book of the Year, the
World Almanac and others, do not sup
port the bishops generalization.
The great centers of communism,
Russia and China, are neither Protes-
tant nor Catholic. There are Catholic
countries imprisoned behind the Iron
Curtain and with Communist govern
ments imposed upon them, among
them Poland, Hungary and CZechoSlo-
vakia. But there are Protestant coun-
tries similarly imprisoned and with
Communist governments; for example,
Estonia and Latvia.
No. Bishop Oxnam's theme doesn't
stand analysis. But even If it did. 1t
would be diSservice to American unity
to keep repeating it. The important
thing is not to say: See how the Prot
estantS fight communism or see how
the Catholics fight it. The important
thing is to fight it. And even more i'm
portant is to live and act so that the
common enemy will be forced to say
of us all, See how these Christians
love one another" GLE.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
By Charles E, TroceWeD

ability to crack and eat walnuts for
themselves.
One local resident found young
cardinal in october still being fed by
its mother
Another discovered bluebirds flying
in and out of a house in an oak.
X X
Mild weather in autumn fools the
birds and other creatures almost as
much as it does us, but usually they
sense the coming of cold weather, not
only by temperature, but also by food
finds Undoubtedly the birds and other
wild creatures have their own ways of
storing UP ancestral information; it
may be that they realize, when they
find certain well-ripened berry, that
winter is on the way.
Nobody can say with surety how
much the birds know. They have no
encyclopedias, or libraries, and yet they
manage their little lives very well, ex-
cept when they come into what might
be called hazardous occupation with
man of a certain territory. Undoubt-
edly they were better off, as tribe, in
the old Indian days of gigantic forests
and wind swept prairies. Think Of the
millions of passenger pigeons, now gone
to bird, not one left. The nearest
we have to them now is the dove and
its cousin, the pigeon, and that is why
many persons are interested in these
two forms. 1t is not eccentricity which
makes man interested in pigeons, al
though some would like to insinuate
that. 1t is better than average ap-
probation for life forms, and the
knowledge that they are all we have
left of the fabulous passenger species.
Even greed would have dictated saving
some of them, but no, we were both
cruel and Senseless In respect to them.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
The Vanishing Commissury

Don't let 'em take it away! But
that's what they've done. The 83d
Republican Congress has. legislated to
eliminate commissary stores from mill
tary installations. This short-sighted
yielding to retailer groups will work
hardships in many directions. The
elimination of these commissary stores
amounts to Is per cent reduction in
military pay. It also reduces the at
tractiveness of military service as ca
reer. But worse, it undermines the
morale Of thousands of capable officers
and enlisted men. Could any legisla-
ton deal worse blow to the basic Sc
curity of our country?
But as was to be expected in "busi-
ness administration" dollar values sup
plant human values.
Let every serviceman write back
home to his folks and ask them to vote
Democratic in the 1854 elections. The
Democrats will restore the commissary
stores to the armed services. Why?
Because the Democratic Party is the
party with a heart.
Fading Wife of an Old Soldier.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Letters to The Star.

in the past, shouldered their civic re-
Sponsibilities in connection with keep
ing the public informed of the "doings"
under the various courthouse domes,"
as is generally the practice of news
papers in the "grass-roots" parts of our
country.
1t the nod of approval given by At
torney General Brownell can be trans
lated into effective results, then a new
era of public enlightenment could be
inaugurated. John C, eager.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Show Ne q Hill

EndleSsly from uhere I stand
Stretches this too leuel land:
Miles OF meadow, brolDn and bare,
Stilled to all this autumn air.
ShoU me a hill to set me free
From this fiat monotony;
A hill to catch the StDitt refrain
OF mind across the yellop grain,
Where the spirit, reStIeSS-eyed
Reaches for the hidden side.
ShoD me hill to challenge time:
One hill to clin1bl
Catherine Hoydon Jacobs
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Equality in School

I have been waiting patiently for
some utteranceS pro or con concern
ing the observations of DR.. Margaret
Just Butcher read to the Board of
Education at a regular meeting (Oc-
tober 21) in the presence of all its
members and DR.. Corning, his staff and
the press. DR.. Butcher charged that
Negro children of Washington are not
receiving equal education and that the
Board of Education and DR.. Corning
have never made an honest effort to
provide the same.
This indictment of DR.. Corning and
the board came not from an outsider
but from member OF the Board OF
Education. To date no word from DR..
Corning or any other member of the
board Are the charges true or false?
Can they be answered by DR.. Corning?
Perhaps this silence can be interpreted
as approval or that the board members
are not concerned with the quality of
education given Negro school children.
AS proof that the citizens of Wash
ington are not silent, the Federation
of Civic Associations at its october %
meeting went on record as approving
the charges made by DR.. Butcher and
would so inform the Board of Edu
cation and DR.. Corning. Why was this
action taken? Because the Civic AS
sociations of Washington know first
hand that the charges are true, and
that the present school system is
violation of the Constitution of the
United States.
Charles T. Greene,
Vice President, Woodbridge Civic
AecOria ti0n
Evening star., 1953-11-03

ineligible to readers who, lacking its help,
might be puzzled by the symbolism and iconog-
raphy of the structure. Every fragment, every
constituent factor of the monumental House
of Prayer for All People" has meaning, but such
a dictionary as this is needed for comprehension
of the entire composition as well as its integral
parts.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
Questions and Answers

The Stars reader can get the answer to any
question Of fact by writing The Evening Star
Information Bureau, 1900 street n.wa WASH
ington g. D. c. 'lease inclose three ~ cents
for return postage
Evening star., 1953-11-03
New Policy on City Contracts

The Commissioners merit praise for
banning racial discrimination in city
contracts. The right to liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" is chimerical
without basic equality in job opportu-
nifty. This action marks a long, firm,
forward step.
j. w. Haywood, Jr.
Evening star., 1953-11-03
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Is water heavier at the bottom Of
the ocean than 1t is at the top?-H. I. r..
A. Water is very nearly incompres-
sible and at the bottom of the ocean
in the deepest places weighs only about
5 per cent more than an equal volume
at the surface.
Evening star., 1953-11-03

@. Was the national emergency.
which was declared by President Tru-
man in 1850. ended by the truce in
Korea?-P. c.
A. No, this national emergency was
not ended by the truce.
, 1953-05-27
1.-THE CAY
Christiansted. st. croix
U. S. Virgin Islands

announces
From April 16 until December
Daily Buffet Luncheons at l Pm. 5 225
Daily Full Course Dinners at Z Pm. $ 325
Including such speciaties:
Thursdays Roast Prime Ribs OF Beer
Fridays : Seafood Dinners
Saturdays Charcoal Broiled Steak
Sundays Roast Stuffed Turkey
COCKTAILS FINE WINES
- RESERVATIONS ADVISABLE
Few cool quiet rooms available on monthly basis
with or without meals.
Also housekeeping apartment nearby on main
land including Cay Beach privileges
LOW AMERICAN L HOTEL RATES
, 1953-05-27
JOB PRINTING

most productive years. Too
many of them are disillu7
stoned about agriculture Their
children are now looking to
other fields.
We have given considerable
thought to possible advice we
may present to these young
people, but before doing so we
would like to know how you
as parents, teachers, business
men, landowners or natives
of the Islands would answer
the points presented above.
Address any remarks to:
Extension Agent, Virgin Is
lands Agricultural Program,
st. Croix, v. |.
, 1953-05-27

SITUATION were summarized by
a group of teen-age boys who
are now in the junior division
of the Vocational Agricultural
Glasses at the Christiansted
High School. Although all the
boys claimed that they en-
joyed their classes in agricul-
ture, none of them considered
agriculture as a possible occu-
patton after graduation from
school. The following are the
reasons they gave:
III Parental attitude toward
agriculture:
Many Of the parents who
have spent the better part of
their lives unproftably en-
gagged in agriculture h ave
urged their children to seek
other means of livelihood.
~ Lack of Capital:
Whether the boys establish
themselves Independently or
in partnership with their pa
rents on the home farm, to
practice scientific agriculture
as learned in school, some
capital; and/or collateral is
necessary. Upon graduation
from high school the boys
have no capital; and the ma
jority of parents do not make
sufficient annual net income to
qualify for loans.
(3) Agriculture is Hard Work:
The present small financial
returns from local agriculture,
require extremely hard and
tedious labor.
(4) Lack of Local Recognition:
In St. Croix agriculture is
regarded as a lowest type oc-
cupation, and a farmer does
not command the same recog-
milton as a white-collar" or
industrial worker.
These points are of consid-
cradle Importance to all Vir-
gin Islanders. Finding answers
to them will determine who
the future agriculturists of
our Islands will be.
The new Government Adj
ministration has indicated that
the Virgin Islands must be-
come m e self-sufficient.
Agriculture's part in reaching
this goal will require future
farmers to help to accomplish
the job.
The majority Of our present