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Evening star., 1953-08-22
This and That

Since then. the world has had war.
atomic power, and plenty in some
places, lack of it N others.
Still, the world pines for peace. Old
Chamberlain, the Inflated man with
the umbrella. wanted peace in our
time" but didn't get it.
X
A man who wants to write can write
anywhere, and under any handicap.
Newspapermen get into the habit of
working under the noisiest conditions
One even wrote the lead to his article
while standing on the running board
of one of the old-fashioned open street.
cars
There can be no doubt, however, that
better work can be done under better
conditions.
This is not yielding to mood, which
has little standing any more.
The point is that writing takes think
ing-or at least it should-and think
ing demands quiet
Good thinking, as it goes, can be
done in inimical surroundings, it is true
Good thinking can be made better
thinking if quiet prevails.
So the first rule. and the hardest, is
to get quiet.
And, with all your getting, get some
common sense. too.
Actually, home or downtown may
yield bad working conditions for q
writer.
Evening star., 1953-08-22
Ice Box TRAGEDIES

In the interest of our children and
our neighbors' children we urge that
ice boxes and refrigerators be made
with interior handles, thus permitting
opening doors from inside as well as
from the outside. We feel that the
very slight loss of storage space is in
significant by comparison with the
greater safety thus afforded.
We further indorse any legislation re-
qulrlng purchasers to remove outer door
handles or otherwise destroy all dis
carded ice boxes and refrigerators or
be liable for permitting a public hazard.
Harry Traub,
Safety Council. American Legion
Post 139
Evening star., 1953-08-22
Encouragement on Koshmir

Although the official announcements on re-
suits of the India-PakiStan conferences on
Kashmir in New Delhi are lacking in detail, it
appears certain that some solid progress was
made by the two prime ministers on this
tricky problem.
The long-Standing agreement, in principle
at least, on plebiScite by which the KaShmiri
population would have its first opportunity to
say whether it wishes adherence to India or to
PakiStan-or possibly independence or parti-
tion-Was reafirmed. United Nations efforts
to mediate this explosive controversy resulted
in such recommendation originally but the
two principals have never yet agreed to the
conditions which would surround such refer
endum
One of the main stumbling blocks has been
the question of how many troops of each power
should be maintained in the country under the
cease-1re agreement which was reached more
than four years ago. Another has been the
Identity and nationality of neutral plebiscite
administrator. Admiral Nimitz, United States
Navy, retired, has been designated for this
task but the Indian government has indicated
dissatisfaction with the choice.
1t appears now that representatives of the
two countries will continue to discuss these
two, and other problems in the hope that con-
crete plans for the plebiScite may be completed
by next spring. If this effort finally bears fruit
it should be a long step toward greater tran
guilty in South Asia and represent an i'm
portant achievement for Prime Ministers Nehru
and Ali. The latter, who has proved himself
energetic and imaginative since assuming lead
ership of the Pakistan government, has taken
the initiative in efforts to solve this outstanding
problem and will be deserving of great credit
if the current negotiations succeed.
Evening star., 1953-08-22
AnqIo-British Responsibility

Great Britain's recognition Of the
Sovietized- Chinese regime was made
for the sole purpose of safeguarding
the remnants of British commercial in
tereStS in China. What shocks Ameri-
cans over and above this traffic with
the Reds is the Fabian indifference with
which Her Majesty's government takes
diplomatic steps to legitimize this re-
lationship.
Hardly had the ink dried on the
"armistice" documents at Panmunjom
when Britain's ministers for foreign
affairs" rose in Lords and Com
mons to state that British delegates
would press for admission of the
Chinese Communists to the U. N.
Going further, in support of India's
policy to reward the Sovietized Chinese
for their acts of aggression against the
peoples of China and Korea, the British
strongly express their intention to work
for the ending of present restrictions
against trade in strategic goods with
Red China.
But Americans have not forgotten
Pearl Harbor. We know now that it
exploded in our faces because we had
continued to trade scrap iron and oil
for the most obvious false promises of
peace with the Japanese aggressors
Nor have we remained blind to the fact
that while we slept fellow travellers"
and subversives stole and gave to the
Soviets untold amounts of American
wealth and strategic materials. We re-
member and we intend to profit by
those hard lessons. We have no desire
again to close our eyes while gotherS
work to compound our past errors for
the sake of momentary profits being
collected from the common enemy. In
Evening star., 1953-08-22
Juvenile DeIinquents

Lillian Large's recent letter on juve-
nile delinquency obviously was written
without much thought of the prin-
clpleS involved. Did it ever occur to
her that there may be very good rea-
sons why the State is not permitted
to step in and punish misguided little
children until they reach certain
age? Has she any idea as to how any
self-respecting parent would feel when
told that his little Johnny" had been
picked up and booked for making off
with couple of watermelons? And
how would the child take it? I should
think he would be scared half out of
his wits. To allow police jurisdiction
over such young children is to usurp
and destroy the rights of parents to
bring UP and educate their offspring.
1t is not only their right; it is their
responsibility
The system of bringing an offending
youngSter home to his parents is the
best solution even though it admit
tedly is weak insofar as it depends
entirely upon the sincerity and integ-
rity of the parents. However, this is
where the pioneer and crusade work
should be done. Parents must be edu-
Gated as to their role in the commu-
nifty. and taught the simplest and best
methods of playing the role. Prin-
ciples of common decency, neighbor-
illness and Christian charity are needed
much more so than bigger and better
juvenile laws. Laws are made for the
laWless. and it's up to us to educate
our offspring on their part in the
community and thus reduce the num-
ber of lawless citizens. I'm certain
the police department would rather
have law-abiding citizens than more
laws John p. Dahl.
Evening star., 1953-08-22
Sports Column Joqs Memory

A word of praise for Sports Writer
Francis Stann's article August IL on Ed
Delehanty We hear much of Ruth,
Cobb, Williams. Mantle. ETC., but little
indeed of this great batter. 1t is time
for the younger generation to know of
him and Francis Stann has done good
Job. saw Delehanty hit the longest
ball ever saw hit. It was in Pittsburgh
in the late '90s. and wonder what he
would have done with the modern. more
lively ball. In my rating he tops them
all. i ]. ID. Patch,
Maj. Gen., U. S. A, Ret.
Philomont, Va.
Evening star., 1953-08-22
To Know by Heart

Nobody knoUS road by heart these
days:
Nobody pauSes for the simple pleasure
OF ponderino stick or stone. or the
strange 1UdyS
OF branches on tree. We nerer
measure
A road By all the little fond delights
OF common foi0er and bush and zine
and 1Deed;;
We are impatient. so we set our sights
On some point far a,U1y. We do not
heed
The roadside pondermentS Which Uould
hare SeTUed
As landmarks to US. back a genera
ton:
Alone, dtoot, l1e find ourSelveS unnerued,
Mouing like strangers, and Dtth trepi-
ddtion
Though near to home. t0here surely ,re
should start.
IT anytOhere. to know, road by heart.
Minnie Hite Moody a
Evening star., 1953-08-22
Unworthy Of 'Mr. Republican,?

DR.. Thomas E. Mattingly suggests
naively that with Senator Taft gone,
President Eisenhower can become Mr..
Republican.
Does DR. Matting1y realize that the
mantle OF Harry Truman has fallen
upon Ike and that the Democrats are
tlckled pink with him? Ike will have
to earn the title Mr.. Republican by
working for it, just as Taft did.
M. B. Shea.
Evening star., 1953-08-22
New Turqets'

The Star has already published at
least one letter, that Of Dewitt o.
Burke. criticizing your editorial. New
Targets" of August 6, therefore I will
eschew the critical tone. propose
merely to ask if The Star won't join me
in hoping that Senator Mccarthy will
not precipitately turn his back on the
State Departmental least not until
he has induced the State and Justice
Departments to render to the American
people an account of the facts. and
nothing less than all the facts, concern
ing the Infamous "AmeraSia Case"
Let us lift our voices in unison and
cry out to the Senator that the time
is not yet at hand for him to turn his
back on the State Department. The
"old Acheson crowd" is far from being
a played out, Improbable subject for
inveStigation-especially today. in an
atmosphere" possibly more tolerant of
fact-finding.
Frederick L. Freeman.
Evening star., 1953-08-22
Letters to The Star !.

do not take more active interest in the
important matter Of law enforcement
is beyond me.
l am a native with clean driving
record here and in many other parts
OF the country, but that is because nv
luck has held long time against the
so-and-sos who recognize no law but
their own desires. Henry C. Morris.
Toxing the Military
Every once in while some one comes
up with the claim that the serviceman
should be taxed to help pay for the
schools that his children are attending.
Lately, Representative Broyhill has been
sounding of on this theme regarding
the situation in Arlington To the
caSuaI observer this is all fair enough
out wonder where the good Congress
man was last year when the Defense
department asked for "cost of living
mcrease" which was ignored, or the
year before that when 10 per cent cost
OF living increase was asked of Congress
and per cent increase was allowed.
It's all well enough to say ''tax the
serviceman" but for goodness sake why
do pleas for pay increases for them get
such a kicking around? If the Gov
ernment would pay them decent SAL
aries perhaps they would be better able
to pay higher taxes but it surely hurts
TO see every one else getting their 10
per cent cost-of-living increases fire.
quently but nothing for the serviceman.
II Representative Broyhill is really in
tereSted in seeing Justice done, then he
should put forward his bill to tax the
servlceman (make them pay State
property taxes) but at the same time.
call Tor corresponding increase in the
take-home pay of service personnel.
Serviceman.
Evening star., 1953-08-22

Pen-nGnaes may be used If letters carry
10TtterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
The beacon of Dillingham., 1953-11-12
uTHTN ICEs ALMOST C1AIlTs LIFE

Tragedy was narrowly averted when
Emily Knudson, nine year old daughter OF
Mrs. Louise Knudsen, was rescued from the
icy waters Of the Pond by alert fellow
skaters when she fell into an openin in
the partially frozen lake on the event ng
Of October 26th.
Everyone ASST sting in the rescue is
indi sposed to be hero, SO the facts
as sifted to the Editorts best ability
applaud August Nelson who jumped into the
ice-pe cked water and grabbed the body
viii Oh then f1oe ting under the ice
the surface; to young Emil sorensen
who admi nj stored arti Fl cia1 respiration
consinuously for several minutes; and
for Lars Nelson who tore off his skates
after he found the girl still living
and raced to the school for the Health
Nurse but barged into PTA meeting and
cot Ar. a1lenbere who rushed the UNI
CONSCIOUS ch1lo to the hospital.
Em1l b0,r
, 1953-05-09

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, 1953-05-09
News

The SIS "ALCOA ROAM
Err" is scheduled to sail from
Norfolk May End, Baltimore
May 4th, New York May 9th,
and is due at FrederikSted
May 18th, via Puerto Rico, &
St. Thomas, accepting freight
for Venezuela & Paramaribo
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, 1953-05-09
BOOKS WANTED

I want TO buy old books
maps. prints. letter and letter
books. account books. stamps.
documents, etc.
Call C'sted l4s before 10
am. until Thursday l4th. or
write Than Combs, ST. Thorn
as. I will pay well.
, 1953-05-09
PROGRAM
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The Little Station With
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2:30 "
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, 1953-05-09

Looking ahead to summer, Har-
ford Frocks has whipped up q sun
dress of white marshmallow pique,
topped by fern fronds that spray
out over bodice and skirt. Cord belt
and slip-on jacket are Of dark green
broadcloth to match the ferns.
, 1953-05-09
NOTICE

This corporation is offering for sale approx
mately $4,000 Brown Bottles, measurements AS a
quart, which were originally required in connection
with the rum operations of the Virgin Islands
Company. @'t.s ..-.-s
These bottles are unused and offers will be &C
cepted at the Field Office, Bethlehem Factory, before
May 18th.
VIRGIN ISLANDS CORPORATION
, 1953-05-09

THE OLD FASHION CHRISTMAS
CELEBRATIONS OF 1852
AS photographed with 8 nm, Movie Kodaks on Kodachrome
by
EGIL KLINT and OTIS H. BROWNE
will be screened for the General Public
THE PARISH HALL, christiansted
on Monday, May II, 1858 at $3.50 PM.
ST. PAUL.s SCHOOL HOUSE, Frederiksted
on Tuesday, May IL, 1858 at $3.50 PM.
Admission fee for everyone rs cents
Evening star., 1953-08-09

TNHERE's place within the largest city in
Il the country which is the home of about
thousand different kinds of animals. People
like it, too, to the tune of about two and
half million visitors year. Sometimes as
many as 10000 people wander through its
$50 acres of land in single day It's quite
a place. Its name is the Bronx loo.
Those of us who run it like animals as much
as we do people. Sometimes, when nobody
was around to hear, some of us used to say,
Give me the animals" We always said it
half-fooling, because actually our job - after
making certain the animals are all right is
to make sure the public is having good time
and learning about the wonders of the animal
world.
Lately our eyes have been opened about
people. We've found out that they are all
right, too. And that has given us new point
of view toward what is the worst problem that
any place like the Bronx Zoo has to face -
vandalism.
Worst segment of vandalism for us is trash
and litter. It's hard to figure out why we
Americans are so untidy As rule. people in
Europe treat their parks and public places
Evening star., 1953-08-09

improvement and modernization, we went to
work on the pool. We put in attractive rock
work, covered up the ugly pipes. planted ivy
and other nice plants around the border so
that pretty soon it was good enough for any
turtle to live in.
Then the near-miracle happened: the
public, altogether of it's own vOlitiOn,
stopped throwing litter into that pool -
that is, practically stopped. Of course,
occasionally, visitor would fall into the old
habit and forget his manners to both turtles
and scenery. But all in all the changeabout
was remarkable, and it has kept up ever since
little while later we ran into another
example of the influence of beauty.
Along what we call Times Square," which
is the main thoroughfare in the heart of the
Zoo, we had constructed delightful out-of-
doors restaurant and on the wall at the edge
of the terrace we had installed line of boxes
with Towering plants - pansies in the spring
and later on petunias or begonias
In our fear that the public would pick the
flowers we put up wire fence to protect them,
which, of course, did not look good at all One
Continued on next page
Evening star., 1953-08-09

about as well as they do their own homes For
some reason we haven't grown up to that yet,
but think we're getting better.
In the Bronx Zoo we think we've found
part of the answer We have discovered that
people respond 10 beauty.
That statement sounds pretty hifalutin'
and fancy but actually it seems to be the case
We discovered this several years ago almost
by accident.
Tough ON Turtles
/ HERE was an exhibit in one of Our buildings
which was about as ugly as a thing of this
kind could be. 1t was pool in which we
were exhibiting turtles and small alligators,
but instead of being attractive and nice
looking it was real horror - just plain con-
crete with ugly water pipes showing so that
even the turtles must have felt bad to have to
live in it. About its worst feature was that it
was treated by the public almost as if it was
a trash receptacle and on Monday mornings,
after the big Sunday crowds our attendants
would have to spend hours cleaning the
place up.
One day, as part of our overall program of
Evening star., 1953-08-09

distinguished civic official tells how unexpected weapon
touch beauty helped public
BY FAIRFIELD OSBORN
Preadeu NeUY York Geological alSoiety
Evening star., 1953-04-09

to Combat Command B Of the
1st Armored Division, Fort
Hood, Tex, for basic training.
They are:
Walter G. LOckard, son of Mrs.
Mabel Lockard of 4727 Eighth
street NV.
Michael J. Benton, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Lee L. Benton of GIL
Twenty-second street south, Ar
lington, Va.
Charles N. Green, jr., son of
Mrs. Alice L. Green Of 342 M
place S.W.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Airman Brown.

former emploYe of the Rexaire
Division, Martin-Parry Corp,
who lived at $40 E street NE.
Airman John Mckinley, jr.,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Nc
Kinley of 2401 Fifty-ninth place,
Cheverly, Md.
Airman Walter A. Fox, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter A. Fox of
442l3 Jefferson street. Hyatts-
vile, Md.
a. 4 X \
Three men have been assigned
Evening star., 1953-04-09
News of Area Men and Women
Servinq in the Armed Forces

1t. ID. Allen Johnson, nephew
Of Miss Elinor johnson of 1705
Rhode Island avenue NV, serv-
ing with the End Shoreparty
Battalion, a unit of the End Ma
rine Division, stationed at Camp
Lejeune, N. C.
COrpl. Edwin Fink, son of Mr.,
and Mrs. william Fink of 913
Fourth street NV.
HOspitalman 1/c Orville C.
Pelkey, husband of Mrs. Jean
Pelkey, 3100 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV. q member of an
artillery unit of the I'd Marine
Division.
~ ~
Marine Sergt. Elvin r. Cava-
naugh, jr. husband of Mrs. Mary
Charlotte Cavanaugh, of 124O
Pennsylvania avenue Sc, has
been awarded the Letter Of Com
mendation with Combat "V" for
excellent service during opera
tions against the enemy in
Korea.
Marine I'd 1t. Daniel M. Will
son, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald
M. Wilson, 1920 Fairfax road,
Bethesda, Md, has been awarded
the Air Medal with Gold Star for
meritoriouS acts while serving
with the 1st Marine Air Wing in
Korea.
Two men are receiving Air
Force basic indoctrination at
Lakeland Air Force Base, Texas.
They are:
William Coleman, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Coleman of
670O Piney Branch road. NV.
william Brown, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Brown, 4615
College avenue. College Park, Md.
X X \
Three airmen attached to the
113th Aircraft Control and
Warning Squadron have been
awarded the Air Forces Safe
Driving Award for outstanding
safety achievement on the high
way. They are:
Sergt. Harold C. Simmons, a
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Here and Abroad

Col. John T. Axton, son OF
Mrs. John Axton. ST., Of 4514
Connecticut avenue NV, has
retired as chief of Armored Cen
ter chapiains at Fort Knox, KY
At the time of his retirement
he was the Army's oldest chap
lain. His late father organized
the Army Chaplain Corps and
served as its first chief from 1920
to 1928.
Pvt. John III. Bailey. son OF
Mrs. Mary S. Bailey, of 1881
Twelfth place Sc, has been
graduated from the Leadership
Training School of the Ordnance
Replacement Training Center at
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
He will train new soldiers for
top non-commissioned jobs in
the Ordnance Corps.
y X X X
1t. Page Marston Schmitt,
1921 Rosedale avenue. Riverdale,
Md, has been recalled to active
duty as a Naval aviator at Ana
costa Air Station. He will un-
dergo q refresher course there
prior to assignment to the oper-
ating fleet.
Il + 4 4
Naval Aviation Cadet Bennie
w. Summers, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. D. Summers of 1920 Fifty
eighth avenue Sc, has been
graduated from pre-flight school
at Pensacola, Fla, and is now
engaged in primary flight train
ing at Whiting Field, Milton.
Fla.
1st 1t. Robert F. WOOlIey, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William o. Wool
ley Of 613 Rolling road, Chevy
Chase, Md. was recently pro-
NOTED to his present rank at
Camp Lejeune, N. c. He is a
platoon leader with B Company,
1st Battalion, 9th Marines, a
unit of the I'd Marine Division.
His wife, Mrs. Frances A.
Woolley. resides in Jackson
vile, N. c.
Army Pvt. Eugene M. Maxim,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon
Maxim, 6127 Eighth street NV,
has been graduated from the
ordnance specialist course at
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md,
as an automotive fuel and elec-
trical system repairman.
Il II X X
Army Pvt. John v. White, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John C. White
of 10905 Wheatley. Kinsington,
Md. is receiving basic training
with the 47th Infantry Division
at Camp Rucker, Ala.
y X 4
Three area Marines are par
ticipating in maneuvers in the
Caribbean area. They are:
Evening star., 1953-04-19
Peninsula Show
For Rose Growers

DR.. H. M. Stryker, mayor OF
Williamsburg. and president OF
the Virginia Peninsula Rose So
ciety, affiliated With and char
tered by the American Rose So
ciety, has announced the fifth
Rose Show to be held at the
George Wythe Junior High
School, Hampton, Va, from 8
to 10 p M, May 16.
Mrs. Kenneth w. Wills, gen.
eral chairman, of Warwick, Va,
says the show is open to amateur
growers residing in the Colonial
District of the American Rose
Society. This district comprises
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, and the District
of Columbia.
Any exhibitor may enter be-
tween 8 am. and 1870 am. the
morning of the show.
Trophies and awards are to
be given to the winners, both in
specimen classes and arrange
ment classes. Those interested in
obtaining schedules and the rules
may obtain them from Mrs.
Wills,
Evening star., 1953-04-19

mulched with chips to further
increase the moisture penetra-
ton and also to reduce the dan
ger of washing.
The choice of rocks to be used
in the rock garden is of some
concern. The older and more
weather-beaten they are the
more likely they will have a nat
uralistic appearance - look as
though they belonged there.
White or light colored quartz
is considered least desirable.
Rounded boulders are not appro-
pirate for two reasons. They
seem to be hard to place and are
usually too round to be buried
deeply enough to provide the
root-run needed. Weathered
limestone gives the best appear
ance.
The choice of plant material
for the rock garden should be
guided by the exposure to sun
and wind, and further by the
size of the garden. Obviously, a
large garden can use larger
plants than one of small or mod
crate size. The larger garden
may use small shrubs to good
effect, both for winter time
values and for contrast. How
ever, both shrubs and plants
should be chosen so that their
size is in keeping with the size
of the garden.
Most rock gardens make ex-
tensive use of the smaller sized
early spring boomers. Where