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Evening star., 1953-11-04
Veterans and Druftees

trusted for accurate information
if they're more than a year old.
Congress and the VA make
changes in vets benefits from
time Ito time and with the
changes the booklets go out-of-
date. There's a date of printing
on the front of each booklet so
you shouldn't have any trouble
with this. If the booklet be-
comes more than year old, find
out, if you have the most recent
benefit roundup.
In addition to these booklets,
the VA also has a number of
others which detail specific bene-
fits. One of the most popular
these days is a question -and-
answer type on the Korean CT
bill education and training
rights. It tells you exactly the
amount of training you're eli
gible for, the type of training,
how much money you can draw
from the Government while
you're taking the training and a
lot of other useful information.
incidentally, it's the only book
let the VA puts out which is
completely devoted to Korean
vets education and training.
Books on Insurance.
The VA also has available two
booklets on Government life in
surance. One booklet, II pages,
thoroughly details the World
War II type of insurance and
the new Servicemen's indemnity.
It also describes the special
Korean vet insurance.
The other booklet on insur-
ance covers the World War I
United States Government life
insurance.
Both these booklets go into
such matters as whom a veteran
may leave his insurance to when
he dies, how much the payments
to his beneficiary will be, how
much the insurance premiums
are, etc.
Another booklet, "To the Home
Buying Veteran" looks at all
angles of buying a home. It de-
scribes how the vet can make a
good choice in buying home,
what to be wary of, the financial
responsibility of buying home
and almost every other imagina-
BILE aspect of home buying.
A second booklet on home buy
ing describes for the veteran how
to get CT loan.
If you want to keep up with
veterans benefits, picking up
these booklets at your nearest
VA Office is one way to do it.
(You may Urite Maj. Mai,
in care of The Star, about
your SerUice-connected prob
lens. Please incloSe a stamped,
Selt-addreSSed envelope and 20
cents in Stamps.J
CFrom AP Newsfeatures)
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'Syriu Todoy' Is Topic

"Syria Today" an illustrated
lecture by Harvey P. Hall, editor
of the Middle East Journal, will
be given at $3.50 o'clock tonight
in the Library of Congress. The
lecture is sponsored jointly by
the Oriental Club of Washington
and the Middle East Institute.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

cooks have appreciated this secret.
And here's another one. Slow
roast your meat to get more serv-
ings-and broton it by brushing
with Kitchen Bouquet before cook
ing. Do the same for hamburgers,
steaks and chops to give 'em that
charcoal-broiled look. See direc.
tions in every package.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

e. Nichols. Edward o. Poole,
Charles Rideout and Attilio Di-
Giulian.
Livingston T. Goodman, di-
rector of the Arlington Commu-
nifty Chest, was elected by the
new officers and directors to
serve as the clubs secretary.
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a long with
change purse
and clean han
kie. So. if I get
a headache or
neuritiS or neu-
ralgia in the
middle of a busy
d a VI & e t
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The Call For BrOsC1s GrGvW
is heard even oftener in fall and
winter so better check your supply
of Kitchen Bouquet today. With
its help you can make tasty brown
gravy every time so easily. Pan
browning alone can defeat you but
Kitchen Bouquets blend of IA veg
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Club, succeeding DR.. Robert Det--
wiler.
Other new officers are Everett
Demarest and Dr. Grover c.
Starbuck, jr., vice presidents; w.
Walter Vaughn, treasurer, and
the following directors: DR..
Harry C. Bates, Homer G. Bau-
serman, George D. Fisher, Waldo
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Store Manager 10 Head
Arlington KiWanis Club

Leon H. Logan. manager of
Sears Roebuck & Co.'s Arlington
store, has been elected presi-
dent of the Arlington Kiwanis
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ECd DItS, A6TDS
and spices al
ways browns
g r a v y a n d
brings out its
natural meat
taste. For over
rs years good
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It's Routine With Me to keep
Anacin@ tablets in my handbag
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New methods start
with hair condition.
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permanent shampoo
and drying time!
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Complete Charles Antell Home
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Fast, datO7ndtte curl.
control means roll
up, check curls, take
down! Result: per-
feet waves and curIs
sOhsve voa sCont heml
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Complete after per.
manent conditioning
(including fmmedidte
shampooD givesyou
q permanent that
grows lovelier da1
by day'l
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(You may iUrite MAJ. Mai,
i'm care OF The Star, about
your SerUice-connected prob
lens. Please incloSe a stamped,
self lf-dddreSSed enUelope and 20
cents in StampS.J
(From AP Newsfeatures)
Evening star., 1953-11-04

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Evening star., 1953-03-28
American Aggression and the u. N.

Just as it did last year, the overwhelming
majority of the United Nations has once again
voted down q Soviet-bloc resolution calling
upon the General Assembly to condemn the
United States for engaging in aggression"
against the world behind the Iron Curtain.
Only Russia and its four satellite members
have supported the nove-a move too obviously
phony to win backing from any other source.
BY way of supporting their accusations,
the Communists in the U. N. have done exactly
what they did last year. That is to say, they
have called special attention to our 1851 Mutual
Security Act for military and economic aid to
our friends abroad. More specifically, they have
concentrated on that section Of the act ear
marking the sum of 500 million to help "se-
lected persons" living In or escaping from Rus
sia or any satellite state to form elements OF
military forces supporting the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization" or for such other pur-
poses as encouraging people behind the Iron
Curtain to hberate themselves from Red Op-
preston This has been cited as proof positive
that the United States has been committing
aggression" by financing espionage" and
"subversion" within the Soviet empire.
Admittedly, the section In question: sec
ton adopted by Congress despite the fact that
the executive branch never asked for it--lends
itself to easy distortion and Misrepresentation
the phony Communist Interpretation of it can
be readily refuted by two facts, among others:
(1) Our country, if seriously intent upon pro-
noting subversion behind the Iron Curtain,
would not openly appropriate. funds for the
project, but would instead try to keep the whole
thing very much under cover; and t2) 1t would
not try to do the job with mere 500 million
a sum much too small, ahsurdly smaIl, to carry
out the expensive kind Of misunderstanding that
Russia and its satellites have accused us OF.
Certainly, that sort Of work calls for lot more
money.
But it is not only for these and similar rea-
sons that the United Nations has overwhelm-
ingly rejected-for the second time-the Red
effort to have the United States formally con-
demned. The U. NJ, after all, can stand Just
50 much of Soviet hypocrisy and brazenness.
Recognizing that these charges against our
country have come from the worlds chief
practitioner Of dominance seeking subversion
and aggression, 1t has acted accordingly with
. certain measure Of contempt for the accusers.
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Wise Decision

Wesley Roberts has bowed to the politically
inevitable in resigning as chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
He says that he has been destroyed by "a
carefully. contrived and thinly yelled plot,
growing out of fierce factional fight in Kansas
State politics" Kansas legislative committee,
after investigating Mr.. Roberts role in the sale
of hospital building to the State concluded
that he had deliberately and Intentionally
frustrated" a State lobbying statute. There
was violation of at least the spirit of the law,
according to the investigating group.
1t is not necessary to attempt to pass
judgment on these conflicting claims. The
essential fact is that Mr.. Roberts had become
a liability to the Republican Party, and he
had to go. The voters last November turned
to the Eisenhower crusade" to clean up the
'mess" in Washington. And the G. o. p. could
not afford even the appearance Of substituting
one mess for another.
The President, accepting the Roberts resig-
nation, said that the national chairman's deci-
sion was wise one. 1t was also politically
essential.
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Harold L. EIsten.
The length is II inches.

The length is II inches.
Color above Is cinnamon -rufouS.
This Is the smallest Of our hawks.
The sharp-shinned hawk is II inches
long. but the upper color is dark bluish-
slate. The female of this species is
from IL to IA inches long, with wing
spread of from % to ~ inches
The Sharp-shinned hawk is a relent-
less demon included with the Coopers
: hawk and the goshawk as species de-
serving destruction.
This is the hawk that is often called
the pigeon hawk, or chicken hawk.
Occasionally it is called sparrow hawk,
too, thereby causing confusion. In
some sections it is called the little
blue darter, a good descriptive.
The true sparrow hawk is sometimes
called the Short-winged hawk, and only
occasionally takes songbirds. but when
it does; it does so as ruthlessly and
completely as any hawk. The great
authority, DR.. A. K. Fisher, said of this
species: "At times it attacks small birds
and small chickens. but these irregular
tiles are so infrequent that they are
more than outweighed by its good
service in destroying insects and mice.
During the late fall and winter meadow
mice form large part Of its food
Two hawk depredations in 20 years
are not too much to bear, perhaps. The
only way to prevent them is eternal
vigilance. II the watcher succeeds in
soaring them OF a couple Of times, they
will not come back. Sudden disappear
ance of small birds is q sign, and by
issuing forth from the house with a
rolled newspaper. and smacking it
vigorously on the hand, the bold hawk
win be intimidated, let US hope.
Evening star., 1953-03-28
The CoIumnists
E. p. Strong.

There has been evident for some
time in the writings Of many Wash
ington newspaper columnistS an uncrit-
ical attack on the American conSti-
tutional system Of checks and balances.
The attack is directed against congress
sional exercise of the powers it has
for the purpose of compelling reSpon-
Sibility from the executive branch--the
powers Of the purse or appropriation,
investigation and publication. The col
umniStS view with foreboding the in
creased congressional use Of power to
make law and policy, to control appro-
priation for it's execution, and to in
vestigate and report to the people on
fidelity and quality of execution by
the executive branch. They view with
alarm, as If these powers were the
prerogative of the executive branch in
stead of the power to administer or
execute the laws as intended by our
constitutions, system. Thomas Stokes
column, Senator Taft's Clique Clicks"
March 19), is typical of this trend.
Mr.. Stokes speaks of forecasting
"that the center of gravity, the focus
of power, would move rapidly to Con-
greSS unless the President himself rec
ogniZed his enormous prestige and in
fluence with the people and began to
exert it, as he had never :. eXerted 1t
in the campaign" His partisan bias is
openly directed against "Middle-West
oligarchy" that Rilegedly controls Con-
gresS because of the seniority system.
But the columniStS inveighed just as
heavily against congressional exercise
of power when the previous Congress
was allegedly controlled by the South
ern oligarchy." They want, apparently
to perpetuate the substitution of presi-
Dental government to which we acqui-
esced during the long nightmare Pc
riod of national emergency and war
which ended in 1916. Some. like Walter
Lippmann in q recent column, recon-
mend English precedents to us as mod
els. despite the obvious differences be-
tween an American President and the
Prime Minister in the English parlia-
mentary system.
Surely it is time now to take long,
second look at the conversion Of the
executive branch from the executive
to the all-encompasSing role Of law
maker. administrator and judge. Should
we not now reconsider whether it
is the permanent intent of the people
to reduce the Legislature to the role
of rubber stamp body existing only to
ratify the policies and administrative
acts of the executive branch and un-
questioningly appropriate the peoples
money for its use. Do we really intend
to limit our means Of assuring execu-
tive-branch responsibility to preSi-
Dental election every four years? Or do
We intend to maintain our traditional
system whereby in the interim the
elected Legislature shall continue to use
the constitutional powers. as our rep
resentatives, Of assuring responsible ad-
ministration through control Of appro-
priations. investigations and publica-
ton? This is something over which
the columnists rs well as we. regardless
Of party bias, should ponder long.
Harold L. EIsten.
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This and That
BY Charles E. TroceweH


Gas ! got right up to the glass he
took off and saw he was carrying
something in his claws. Apparently
a hawk Of some kind, which would
solve mysterious happening Of about
a month ago. When went to fill the
tray in the morning that day, instead
of seeing seed all I saw was bed of
gray feathers, including five tail
feathers.
"The birds would come to this tray,
take look and beat it: even the blue
jay landed and Immediately took off
This went on for an hour when I de-
citied to bring the tray in.
upon examining it closely I saw
blood spattered. seed and matted blood
and feathers on the wooden base.
put the, whole thing in the bath tub.
secured It out with suds and Scalding
water and put it out again. The birds
finally drifted back and gradually
things got back to normal, and then
this instance on Friday afternoon.
Don't you think it was very daring
hawk 10 come right to a house like
this? He evidently injured his wing
when he came through the bars so
swiftly. would judge him to be about
10 inches long and the wing I saw could
easily have spread out to about 10
inches.
In all the years have been feeding
the birds this has been my first such
happening. I trust you can enlighten
me as to this bird and is there any
thing I can do to discourage such
happening In the future?
Sincerely, L M. D."
This was probably q sparrow hawk,
sometimes called mouse hawk, kitty
hawk and windhover.
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MYRTLE AVENUE NE.

'Dear Sir:
Being a feeder of birds for at least
90 years. and knowing your interest
and knowledge of the birds, am turn
ing to you for an answer.
II have q 10-by -GO-foot glass-win-
dowed back porch and outside one
window attached to the house is
platform on which. my feeder is placed
This feeder has three sides and q
sloping 'reof all of clear plastic. Across
the front end and attached to the
wooden base by hinges is row Of
bars about 4 inches apart which can
raise and lower.
This arrangement Is necessitated by
the number Of pigeons hereabouts
which I refuse to feed.
Yesterday afternoon ] was sitting
at my dining room table about 90 feet
view Of 1t when heard great scatter
ing Of seed against the sides Of the
station indicating the birds were taking
OF hurriedly.
II looked up and saw this large bird
and thought it was blue jay. 1t being
about that size. It didn't seem to make
any motion so got up to see.
II walked slowly out on the porch
and beheld a strengthening bird;
quite large. in fact, it was larger than
the jay and dark brown color.
1T had its back turned toward me
and one wing was half spread out and
Quivering as II it had been hurt.
II noticed it had an orange-colored
band Of feathers just about the shoul-
der about " inches in depth.
HE was pecking at something at his
feet which I couldn't see.
Evening star., 1953-03-28
Questions Foreign Policy

American stupidity in setting on
Communist-planted BOBBY traps GER
tainly confirms Barnum's sucker
minute" theory.
A recent headline says:
American Investment Abroad Should
Be Increased to Encourage the Fight
Against Communism"
American investments abroad have
been partly responsible for much Of to-
days world unrest. When conflicts
start in foreign countries, American
capital is threatened. American husi-
nessmen Immediately cry for protec-
ton. American Intervention causes re-
sentiment. American investments are
Evening star., 1953-03-28
After Long Absence

HotD sNllenly the cold crav sur0es break
Along the little islands lonely shore.
Bleak tUir,ds among the tDithered sedoes
make
A stbildnt aDtiSpeT. At the cabin door.
So long unopened nop. the scrubby
pines
And unn.olested holly trees haze
OTotUn.
Around the paddock, tan0lino trumpet
Haze knotted fast and claimed tho
camp their DUN.
Within, the place of nnforgotten joys.
Spider and mouse groD bold and dust
u preUGilS.
Old khaki shorts of ttDo lon0-Gbsent
boys
Hang. limp and faded. on their rusty
nails. f
Oh, come GiDGv iollile bright In memory
shines
The pictured past 90 dear to you and
me- aoe
The little sons, the camp, the pines,
The river iOideninr asst neays the sea.
lnex BoreIoy Kirby
Evening star., 1953-03-28
For Better Federal Management

The Hoover Commission appropriately
described the Department Of Agriculture as "a
loose confederation of independent bureaus and
agencies" in urgent need Of better coordination
and of Capitalization Of authority. Reorganiza-
ton Plan No. 2, sent to Congress by President
Eisenhower, is designed to effect coordination
and Capitalization. The plan Is substantially
like that recommended by Hoover Commission
task force that studied the loose-coupled de-
partment in 1949.
The Department of Agriculture has grown
phenomenally in the past 20 years. Its per-
sonnel strength has increased from $4,000 to
more than SIS, 900 full-time employees, scattered
all over the country. It's annual budget has
jumped from $258 million to $12 billion, not
counting the billions available for loans through
the Commodity Credit Corporation. AS new
activities under new agencies have been added,
the lines of authority from the Secretary of
Agriculture to the various bureaus, corporations
and other agencies clustered within the de-
partment have become more tenuous.
Yet, as the President pointed out in his
letter to Congress, the Secretary is held ac-
countable by the President, Congress and the
public for everything done anywhere in the
field of Federal agricultural activities. The
reorganization plan will make this response
bility matter of law, not Just theory. The
civilian department where definite centralized
authority does not yet exist in law. The plan
would give the Secretary three assistant Secre-
taries, instead of one, and new aide, to be
known as administrative assistant secretary.
The assistant secretaries will be political ap-
pointeeS subject to Senate confirmation, while
the administrative assistant will be a civil
service employe. This top administrative Setup
is similar to that suggested by the Hoover
Commission. The various bureaus and agencies
now inadequately supervised will be distributed
among the assistant secretaries for immediate
supervision, with final authority residing in the
Secretary of Agriculture.
The Hoover group estimated that millions
of dollars could be saved by more eficient
management of the department.. President
Eisenhower told Congress that he, too, foreseeS
the possibility of considerable savings, although
he was unwilling to estimate just how much.
For one thing, there will be closer supervision
over the purse strings of the far-dung agencies
of the department Furthermore, some over
tapping of activities would be eliminated, with
consequent economies Of operation and clarifl-
Evening star., 1953-03-28
-7Seibel Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"AnOther Draft Call?"

the world against Communism. In
Roman days it was called barharism.
Seems like the same thing. If Rome had
not exhausted itself with the plan of
running the world, 1t might have sur
vived for many more centuries.
In Roman days, commanders in the
many armies came to Rome for more
financial support. more draft levies
Now we have the same thing in
slightly different dress. We have the
British, French, etc. coming to see our
President and our Congress for the
same reason that caused the fall Of the
Roman Empire: Money, men and
supplies.
"The future is but q prelude to
history.
Frank Mulkern.
Evening star., 1953-03-28
Tax Analysis

IA PAbubyS1S
c. E. Barber's letter cites figures
which show that taxpayers in the $4,000,
$4,000 and $4,000 income groups paid
SIS, 1916 and $2,022. respectively, to the
Government in income taxes in 1910.
The same families paid $486. $1,52S
and $3.50, respectively, In income taxes
in 1852.
This means, as Mr.. Barber points
out, that the income taxes paid by
lower income groups increased more
percentage-wiSe than the income taxes
paid by higher income groups. He,
therefore, concludes that the ability
to-pay theory of taxation is not working
out in practice.
This conclusion is obviously nonsense.
A tax is progressive when the per-
centage Of income paid in tax increases
as the size Of income increases. Ex-
animation of the above figures shows
that the $1,000 income group paid
9.7 per cent of its income in taxes in
1852 and that the $4,000 income group
paid 23.1 per cent.
The taxes paid by the 5000 income
group increased 883 per cent (from $55
to $486) in the period between 1910
and 1852. According to Mr.. Barber'S
Interpretation Of the ability-to-pay
theory, the taxes paid by the $4,000
income group should have increased at
least as much percentage-wise or from
$2,022 in 1910 to minimum of $17,850
in 1852 This would have meant that
the $4,000 income group would have
been left with less income after taxes
($2,150) than the $1,000 income group
($4,514.
Apparently Mr.. Barber wants to go
one step beyond Karl Marx. Marx
wanted to equalize income Mr. Barber
favorS a system whereby the higher
your income the less will be your in
come after taxes. He has introduced
a new principle into the American
economic systematic less work you
do, the better OF you are.
E. p. Strong.