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Evening star., 1953-11-04
Arlington Schools Approved

Apart from the substantial Dalton victory
in Northern Virginia'S tenth district, perhaps
the most newsworthy development across the
Potomac was the strong vote of confidence
given the oft-criticized Arlington School Board
Although the Arlington Independent Movement
(AIM) had succeeded in gaining control of the
County Board in the 1852 election, its nominees
failed by wide margin to gain two hotly
contested seats on the School Board. In electing
E. r. Draheim and L. Clark Keating, nominees
of the School Board Nominating Convention
the voters of Arlington have made it clear that
they approve of the spending and administra-
tive policies which have given the county some
of the finest schools in this area.
The voters rejected for the County Board
Nonpartisan candidate who had vigorously
defended the School Board against attacks by
the AIM school nominees. Glen BayleSs, the
NonpartiSan, had included in his campaign
literature Endorsements of both Mr.. Draheim
and Mr.. Keating. He lost, however, to Demo-
crat Wesley w. Cooper, with Republican Richard
L. Parli running third. Apparently many Dem
ocrats and Republicans who had helped to give
the AIM control of the County Board last year
supported the School Board Nominating Con-
vention's candidates yesterday. This can only
be interpreted as an expression of satisfaction
with the achievements and the program of the
School Board.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Sendinq the News Overseas

The new ground rules for the United States
overseas information program offer some genu-
inc promise that this much debated Govern
ment activity will soon be established on a
sound foundation.
For Director Streibert, in his letter to
President Eisenhower, stresses his own belief
that the primary function of the Information
Agency should be the dissemination of news
and truth His statement of intent for his
organization disavows at once the propagan-
distic tone and a Strident or antagonistic
note. Facts, he concludes wisely, are more
compelling than accusations and there will
be a concentration on objective, factual
news reporting. Within this framework of
accuracy and truthfulneSS, Mr.. Streibert pro-
poses that the accompanying commentary and
analysis should be aimed at explaining the ac
tions and policies of the United States Govern
ment. The subsequent directive issued by the
President accepts this concept as an instrument
for the correlation of American objectives and
the legitimate aspirations of other peoples of
the world.
Certainly the truth-a fair and durable
thing as Plato once described it's the
strongest weapon in the arsenal of America and
the free world. 1t is not the people who respect
the dignity of mankind and who have fought
Evening star., 1953-11-04

hercely to preserve individual liberties who are
trying today to enslave others. There is reason
to believe that there are millions of people
living in the dark countries behind the Iron
Curtain, undernourished on a diet of vitriolic
propaganda and deceit, suppressed and im-
prisoned in mind and body, who are hungry for
the food of truth. That the conspirators of the
Kremlin recognize this threat to their own evil
designs has been demonstrated by the fury of
their denunciationS and the vigor OF their
efforts to keep the news and the truth from
their subject peoples.
program to carry truth to captive popu-
lations may be dramatic in its concept without
being so in its operation. The success of our
overseas information program will not be found
in some single, bold stroke. 1t will be found
instead in steady and consistent application
of the sound principles stated by Mr.. Streibert
and approved by the President. To this type
of program Congress should lend its Endorsement
and support.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
By Charles E. TroceWeN

merit there is no other place to put it
than in the back.
At present, the garage is often in the
garden, taking too large slice out OF
it, and in a sense hiding the family
motor display. Since the automobile is
the modern god, it's hiding under any
sort of bushel is kind of crime which
no automotive god can forgive.
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One great danger of such backward
looking development would be the temp
tation to make the interior Of the block
a gigantic play space. But lack OF
fences, as some one has said, makes
bad neighbors; the necessity for fences
would be more in such development
than in the standard sort. For here
would be the place where the picture
windows would expand, and to give
their best they should look out on
beauty, not motion and emotion vita
lized by proteins, vitamins and minerals.
Our house-backward project must
specialize in garden pictures. static,
perfect, blooming and overf1owing from
the fresh heart of nature. The neces-
sity would be to have fences, but the
idea would be to cover them all up with
roses. Every art and artifice of exterior
decoration, as it were, would be brought
into play, aided by the natural placing
of the foundation planting at the front,
or, in this case, at the back. A few
bushes could be planted on the alley or
street side. for the mailman, the maga-
zine salesman and old Fido on his
rounds Such a development as this,
of course, would need wider and deeper
lots, and none should be sold less than
100-by-200 feet.
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Why not turn around all the houses
in a block?
This was the thought that came to
Templeton Jones, after his first shock.
The new home had been built facing
the garden. The street was used, in
effect, as back alley
If every house were turned to face
gardenward there might be something
to it, he felt
One house so faced made all the
rest wrong. or all the rest made it in
error, he did not know exactly which;
but if they all faced inward. the ar
rangement would have its good points.
Many suburban streets are, in effect.
nothing but alleys.
A width of 18 feet for instance, is
exactly alley-SiZe.
BY turning all the houses around, on
both sides of the street, true garden
arrangement would be achieved, and
the utilitarian side would be devoted to
motor cars, tradesmen, etc.
This would be sensible, Jones figured,
after a fashion. Today's man puts such
stress on the functional that here would
be good chance to put it to work
again
All the cars would come in the back
way, as it were, and would remain
there.
Deliveries of all sorts would be where
they properly belong. not at the front
door, where they often are.
Trash and other collections are
along the streets, anyway, in many
suburban communities.
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so smugly say parents are to blame"
have ever been in a crowded tenement,
or in a dark, dingy basement room
where, in many instances, a working
mother is trying to keep her family
together? Even if there is recognition
of the child's need, there is neither
the space nor the facilities for con-
structive, creative activity. ut wouldn't
have happened" said boy in trouble,
"if 1 had had some place to blow
my horn" Every child needs place
to "blow his horn," to beat his drum,
to build his model plane, or express
whatever may be his God-given talent
or skill.
Perhaps we do not have the money
to build and equip youth centerS and
creative workshops. But there are
many unused rooms and assembly
halls in schools and churches in every
community which could be, and should
be, used for this purpose. A minister
recently stated that the spiritual re-
sources of the church are our only
hope in these fateful times" With
which we agree. But churches also
have many material resources which
could be used to combat juvenile de-
linquency. Gandhi once said that God
Himself dare not appear to hungry
man except in the form of bread"
Perhaps if churches make available
their material resources, youngsters
may come to realize a greater need
for the churches spiritual resources.
I recently heard teen-age girl play
an organ on a television talent show.
Later she told of the difficulties under
which she studied. To practice two
hours, she must travel two hundred
miles. could not help wondering how
many church organs this talented girl
passes on the way-organs that stand
idle most of the time.
We do not drive out evil-we crowd
it out Crowd it out with finer ambi-
tions, nobler thoughts, higher desires;
crowd it out with activities that are
constructive and creative, activities
that are interesting, inspiring and re-
warding. Juvenile delinquency is a
serious problem for which there are
no simple remedies. But we will be
making progress when the teen-ager's
stick has become a tool, or the kind
of horn he wants to blow. and his
stone has been replaced with "a lump
of dull metal" which he can trans
form into something beautiful and
precious"
Elsie King MOreland.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Our Unworthy Opponents

wonder are we to read these Korean
accounts of torture and agree to go easy
with those who have had our soldiers
captive?
We Americans are shaken to our in
most being in reading of fellow-Amer-
leans, never met, probably never to be
met, who have been the target-mind
and body-of practiced bullies. Target,
yes. for they would not lay down
Americanisml
What of those who succumbed? In
fancy, read yourself into those accounts
-. there is One who will judge; not
you.
1t would seem that we civilized people
are trying to batten aside with our
cudgel of innocent until proven
guilty" long centuries of sadiStic re-
search and finished torture so recently
coupled with Pavlov reflex psychology.
found myself strangely unable to
join in our official incredulity when the
first hint of atrocities came through.
I believed soldiery's horror -fraught ac-
counts; I believed the emaciated
frames, the inability to smile for the
photographers. And - now come pic
torial accounts
In the Museum of Natural History
on Chicago's Lake Shore was an ex-
hioition which terrified me as a child,
yet every time I visited the Museum
I was drawn TO that horrible thing as
iron to magnet. 1t was miniature
torture rack complete with victim (gory
and diSemboWeledD and Chinese SOL
diery. I never thought my life-span
would be contemporary with that pa
ganiSm.
We at home have really known only
the comfort of war; Great is our debt
to the dependable men-and women
Of the late war and this Korean con-
f1ict. That debt, was it thrust upon
our countrymen by history? BY cir
cumstance? By fate? BY we at home?
Hardship we had too? What hardship?
Less meat, fewer shoes; desk Job at
military post or Pentagon? What hard
ship? Loss of limb, loss of mind, family
tie torn aSunder?
Mr.. Diplomat. Mr. Negotiator, let me
let you in on little secret: It's gotten
into Mr.. Average Mans head that the
United States has diabolical bully to
deal with in this item of war and peace.
This bully rants, raves, pounds desks.
Americans are furious at having been
outraged and badgered by an unworthy
opponent at the truce table and in the
u. n. Let us pull together in one great
spiritual force-we are right in our
defense of the down -trodden; we are
Evening star., 1953-11-04
This and That . !.

In the turned-around block, all sales
men would have to ring the back door
bell, which is where they belong, and
that is too good for them. CFew, if any,
would walk around to the front door.
It would be too far)
In some city developments. notably
Georgetown, the backs of the houses,
with their small gardens, become the
focal site of the area.
Here the typical Washington alley
is the real street, and the street itself
is used less than the alley.
The garden, then, is the focal point,
as it should be.
Facing all the homes backward would
put the front in the garden, situation
devoutly to be wished; many a home
owner has sighed to ind high small
windows cutting off the garden from his
view
Facing the home into the garden
would have many good points, then, II
all the homes we're similarly faced.
Some individualist, of course, would
insist on placing his sideWlse, or at an
angle. But if there were an autocrat OF
housing. as some insist there should be,
he would take care of all that.
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Using the street for the alley would
put the telephone and electric wires
where they belong, too.
Such an arrangement would make it
incumbent on all property holders to
work up their gardens into things OF
beauty.
The compost pile, for instance, would
no longer be in the back, but in the
front. In the standard home develop
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Election Portents

Those who scan local election results for
portents of national significance will find little
to reward their efforts in the returns from
Virginia.
Ted Dalton, G. O. P. candidate for Governor
put on the best Republican show in the States
history. Although Democrat Tom Stanley was
the winner, the Dalton vote was by far the big
gest ever recorded for Republican in guber-
Material contest 1t would be mistake however,
to assume that this means that the Republican
tide which swept the State into the Eisenhower
column is still running strong. For the contrary
probably is the case.
The Dalton showing was matter OF per-
sonalities rather than partisan politics. He was
well liked throughout the State. Mr.. Stanley
on the other hand, was not strong Democratic
candidate. In addition, he aenated a good
many voters by his reluctance to take clear
cut stand on several issues The results in the
nearby tenth district serve as an illustration
Mr.. Dalton, the Republican, carried the district
by comfortable margin But all of the House
of Delegate seats at stake were won by Demo-
Gratis. When this is taken with Democratic
gains throughout the State in House of Dele
gates contests, the fair inference is that Mr.
Dalton's good showing is no evidence of G. o. P.
party strength. Indeed one might almost say
that the results as whole indicate that real
two-party system has not yet materlahzeo at
the State level in Virginia.
If there is little or no national significance
in the Old Dominion voting, however, the same
thing cannot be said of the New Jersey results
There, in addition to losing the governorship-
which may or not be particularly significant
nationally-the Republicans took licking in
the sixth district congressional race. And this
is not only significant; from the Republican
o;,o& of vic ho
is the first time Democrat has carried the
district since it was created 20 years ago. Last
year the Republican candidate won by $4,000
votes But this year, in a special election to
fill the vacated seat, the Republican candidate
an Eisenhower backer-went down to defeat
When 5OOOO-vote victory margin diSap-
pears in years time. something is wrong. The
G. O. P defeat in New Jersey, coming on the
heels of the defeat in Wisconsin, spells trouble,
and Republican Chairman Leonard Hall is well
advised to recognize that fact.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Loose Atomic Talk

AS has been demonstrated on more than
few occasions in the past, the atom is an inap-
propriate subject for casual, off-the-cuff COM
ment by high officials. The latest in point
is that of Air Force Secretary Harold E. Talbot
and the furor caused by what he is reported to
have said, at press conference in Madrid,
about stockpiling A-weapons at our prospective
new bases in Spain.
The first important reaction to this report
has come from Secretary of State Dulles, who
has been at pains to declare that the United
States and Spain have no plans for such stock
piling and that when and if there is decision
to store atomic ornaments over there, it will not
be announced to the world and our potential
Soviet enemy. AS for Mr.. Talbot himself, he
has issued statement in Athens fatty denying
that he ever made the remarks attributed to
him in the news dispatches from Madrid.
Mr. Talbott's denial suggests that the
reporters involved gravely misinterpreted his
answers to their questions, but it is difficult to
see how competent and experienced news cor
respondents could have done this unless the
answers themselves were loose and imprecise
enough to invite loose and imprecise reporting.
That is risk every official takes if he shoots
from the hip, so to speak, at informal press con-
ferences, and the risk is doubly risky if the
conference has to do with delicate and complex
AS practical matter, of course what Mr..
Talbot has denied saying is not particularly
sensational. For the fact is that our big bases
abroad exist as launching sites for massive
atomic counterattacks against the Soviet Union
if ever the Soviet Union unleashes war against
the free world. In the event of such war,
these bases and their planes, if not previously
armed with A-weapons in keeping with special
agreements, would have those weapons dev-
cred to them with the utmost Speed-provided
that the President in concert with our allies,
decided on their use, which is a decision that
the President alone can make under our law.
Since all this is well known to the Kremlin
(the United States and allied nations have
never tried to cover it up), the remarks dis
avoWed by Mr.. Talbot are by no means out
landish. However, in jittery world they lend
themselves to alarmist interpretations, and for
that reason they are unfortunate even though
as he has declared-he never gave voice to
them. Certainly, if there is anything to be
learned from the incident it is simply this:
That officials should use the most careful Ian
guage-language that cannot be misunderstood
when they speak for publication about inter-
national affairs and the atom.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
When a Stick Becomes a Tool

A few days ago, watched group
of teen-age boys playing in the street.
Several of the boys had sticks in their
hands, and they were amusing them
selves by tossing small stones into the
air and hitting them with their sticks.
Aimless hitting, however, is not much
fun, so it was not long until the boys
moved up to the corner, where the
globe of the street light made perfect
target for the game they were playing.
These boys are not really bad-they
are just boys with nothing to do. They
represent tens of thousands of teen
age boys and girls living in crowded
urban areas. Bigger and better play
grounds may be the answer to- some
of their leisure time, but all play 6ld
no work can be as disastrous to
youngster as all work and no play.
We cry out against the delinquent
parents" But how many of us who
Evening star., 1953-11-04
'IsroeI's Compliance

I am puzzled by the Stars October 20
editorial, "Israel's Compliance"
1t says that "the Israelis have done
we'll to end their non-c compliant atti-
tude" toward U. N. request to stop work
on the controversial Jordan River prof.
ect. And it goes on to say that Israels
''past refusal to heed the U. MS views,
as expressed through the Palestine
truce supervisor" has acted against
her own best interests.
The reason am bewildered is that
Israel made the same offer to the U. N.
truce supervisor, Gen. Bennike, and
that he turned it down. When the offer
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Good-by

The days last light, drifting It's tender
gold
on limp gold leGueS. lying along the
path
Loss upon loss, fare1OeH so gently told
That it becomes not pain. but after
math
OF summer, Uarna and loUely, helps me
90
Into the empty room, the empty night
Folding the gold of loUe, holding 1t so
That it, too, is comforting soft light
And this good by, this ending, this dark
change
Is somehow healing, wonderful and
strange.
Geraldine Ross
Evening star., 1953-11-04
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

Dy EASNAN SGhVANEs
Q. Please repeat the names of the
men and women who were proposed as
world peacemakers by Rabbi Israel
GoldStein.-B. o. R.
A. Albert EinStein, Albert Schweitzer,
Bertrand Russell, Arnold Toynbee.
Reinhold Niehbuhr, Mrs. F. D. Roose-
welt, Nine. Pandit, Toyohiko Kagawa,
Edmond Fleg British philosopher),
jacques Maritain (French Catholic
philosopher and Martin Buber Usraeli
philosopher). 1t was suggested that
they meet in neutral country to save
mankind from dying Of Improve
ments," such as atomic energy.
@. Please explain the basic difference
between an A battery and B battery,
and why are two different batteries
needed for hearing aid?-G. w.
A. An "a" battery is designed to fur
nish a relatively large current at low
voltage, while "B" battery is designed
to furnish a low current at a high
voltage. Two different batteries are re-
quired because hearing aids are oper-
ated by electron tubes which require
these two types Of power.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Views on ireland

Francis B. Shaw's letter on "Ire-
land and Partition" reads like British
commissions report on Ireland in the
mid-19th century.
Ireland is decidedly more racially and
religiously one than the United States.
Canada, or. score of other countries,
including Great Britain itself!
What Mr.. Shaw calls northern"
Ireland actually is small northeastern
corner where the Protestant population
is concentrated around Belfast city.
Catholics number 1873 per cent of the
inhabitants of the separated six coun-
ties and are in a majority in four.
England at the Irish treaty in 1921
offered the whole of the Ulster Province
to the Protestants, but in an unusual
fit of modesty the latter decided they
couldn't hold Donegal, Cavan and
Monaghan AS for the republic gain
ing any wealth from the separated
counties, it is significant that England
has to pay a subsidy of several mil
lions pounds sterling to the Belfast
government annually to keep it's econ
omy from collapsing. 1t has higher
percentage of unemployed than the
republic, and its much-vaunted in
dustry was merely due to the fact that
the Protestants we're maintained in a
position of superiority by British army
of occupation over the Catholics for
centuries This industry has remained
static for so years, while the industries
of the republic have made tremendous
advances since the British were ex-
PEELED in 1921. The republics desire
for unity is purely sentimental one,
as the separated counties contain many
national shrines, like the burial place
of St. Patrick. the places associated
with the famous O'Neills and O'Don-
nells, Cave Hill in Belfast where the
Irish Republic was first proclaimed
(by Irish Protestants incidentally, and
many others. 1t also wishes to see
justice done to the half million Cath
olics living in the area.
Mr. Shaw apparently forgot to men
ton that while there are no Com
mun1sts in the republic, they are
numerous and vocal among the sturdy
Protestants of the separated area.
Thomas Vincent Pryor.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

right in our adherence of evil. There
should be no need of further bloodshed;
we were called upon to do a task and
we have done it without numbering
helpless humans into the bargain
somehow, we have to get that fact
across to that century-laden, ruthless
people. Mighty in battle our Nation
has proven to be; now let's prove she's
Just as mighty spiritually. Be strong
in the truce tents, for all America (and
the free world) is strong with you.
Eugene M. StechOw.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Intereroup Education

The Washington Area Branch of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom would like to COM
mend most highly the D. c. Recreation
Board for inaugurating a course in
inter group education for its staff
members. 1t is through such fore
sighted action that we can develop the
richest resources of our true democracy.
Sylvia Wubnig,
President Women's international
League for Peace and Freedom.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Questions and Answers

The Stars reader can get the answer TO any
question Of fact by writing The Evening Star
Information Bureau 1900 ] street nwa WASH
ington s. D c. 7lease inclose three (3l cents
for return postage
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Matter of Fact

Matter OF Fact
Dick Mansfield's Happy Days" car
toon November states enormously that
the U. S. S. Olympia was the ship which
made the record run from Pacific
waters to Cuba during the Spanish
American War. The Olympia was
Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay. The
U. S. S. oregon made the record run.
John L. Richards, Jr.