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Evening star., 1953-07-07

MIS- happens day family getting along making ends
meet planning for the future Then suddenly
or accident brings pile doctor and hospital bills
will take them quite time before they again
Don't let this tragedy happen Under WHITE CROSS
wcos
bills for just few pennies
No wonder turned to WHITE CROSS
health
alone Bankers Life Casualty Company policy
holders r'
Compare WHITE CROSS by
heard Of You the complete plan
at bottom fuller details
CROSS low rates for individuals and family group&
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Operations to reduce
dislocations Of hip, knee,
shoulder, jaw, finger, etc.
Removal of shoulder or
hip joint or removal Of
diseased portion Of
the bone
Mastoid operations
Tonsil removal
Adenoid removal
Sinus operations
Hernia, single or double
Hemorrhoids (Piles)-
cutting operation for
radical cure
Eye operations for re-
moval Of cataraets, etc.
Fractures, simple or
compound, to legs, arms,
wrist, finger, nose, skull,
etc.
Gall Bladder operation
Spine operations
Circumcision
Removal Of Uterus
-. and many more
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It is impossible here to list all the opera
tions which the Plan covers. Virtually every
known form of surgery is listed :. from
stitching simple wound Cat the doctors
office or in your honey to the most compli-
Gated forms of brain surgery. And to allow
for unique or new operations, it is provided
as follows, For any operation not specified,
the Company will pay the fee provided for
any operation of comparable gravity and
severity" You see, the widest possible pro-
lection at low cost is always the aim under
the WHITE CROSS PLAN.
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F0IIs on iee-coIIeefs $4,000

FoIIs on lee Collects $4,000
This will acknowledge the $4,000 re-
Gently paid me by your company. was in
the hospital for several weeks due to my
having been injured by fall on the ice.
must say that this $4,000 helped me an
awful lot in my time of need"
Gertrude L. Becker, Springfield, I'LL
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Just Few Of The Operations for Which
Payment is Provided Under The Plan

Cutting into abdomen for
diagnosis or treatment
Abseess of the brain
Amputations of legs
arms or fingers
Appsndix removal Of
Brain tunaor
Breast renioval or re.
moval Of cyst or tumoP
on breast
Kidney removal
Removal of stone or
tumor from kidney or
urinary tract
Prostate operation
Removal Of tube or
ovAry
Goitr0 operations
Lung removal
Cutting into chest for
diagnosis or treatment
'Tumors (eancerous and
benign) - removal Of
Earieose Veins, treat.
ment by cutting or
injection
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paid direct to you for treatment of female
disorders or urinary ailments CATER six
months), varicose veins, and other quite
common treatments that can run up size
able doctor bills.
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POLIO

With new treatment, many patients can
look forward to recovery with no Gripping
after-effects. You can also get WHITE
CROSS protection that provides money for
this modern treatment, use of iron lung, etc.
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FEMALE DISORDERS

WHITE CROSS protection
is wide and varied. Under
the WHITE CROSS
PLAN, you can get cash
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items you did not anticipate >. items that
run up hospital bill Under the WHITE
CROSS PLAN, every effort is made to
cover these items Not only is there money
allowed for ambulance service, iron lung
blood transfusions, oxygen {. but there
is even cash allowance up to SIS for ANY
other necessary hospital expense"
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PROTECTS YOUR
WHOLE FAMILY FOR
A few PENNIES ADAY
Under the WHITE CROSS
nY AAY

you can protect your whole family against
doctor and hospital bills for just a few
pennies day. That's for everyone-the chill
dren and all.
Although low in cost, the WHITE
CROSS PLAN represents good cash bene-
fit, and good service. Claims are paid quick
ly and without any attempt to quibble or
"whittle down." This low-cost, quick-pay
policy has helped make it the fastest-grow-
ing health-protection plan in the entire
world.
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Under the WHITE CROSS
PLAN, you can get $500 to
$25O.OO for operations -. -.
for each member of your
family for each different
SickneSS or accidan+
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fore you paid me $4,000 for a minor illness
of my son and $111.OO benefits for short
illness of my wife. We wouldn't be without
the White Cross Plan"
Willard G. Wells, Boulder, Colo.
Gets Quick Payment Of $S35.00
II wish to extend my sincere thanks to your
company for the checks totaling $835.5O.
1t was certainly quick reply to the claims
/ sent you. May your company continue to
help people in their time of need!"
Junior Day, Forest Lake, MINI.
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You May Choose Any Doctor or HospitoI

You enjoy the utmost freedom under the
WHITE CROSS PLAN. You are not lin
tied to few doctors or hospitals. Any &C.
credited physician may treat you and you
may use any hospital, large or small, and
receive full benefits under the plan.
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BENEFITS

penses up to 10 times your daily hospital
rate for childbirth or any complication of
pregnancy.
Collects for Premufvre Childbirth
MY wife gave birth to son three and a half
weeks premature-6 days before the effec-
tive date for coverage of childbirth benefits.
According to the letter of the policy, it ap-
peared that could recover nothing. was
pleasantly surprised when received check
for $4,000 which covered the entire hos
pital biH."-John J. Pyne, WASHINGTON, D. c.
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x-RAYs, DRUGS,
CARDlOCRAMS

low-cost plan, you can also get cash for
many other hospital expenses for which you
might not expect to be covered. You can get
paid for operating room charges, anesthetics,
X-rays drugs, dressings. And you are even
given an allowance for electrocardiogram
for heart examinations as provided in policy.
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MONEY TO live ON
when you're laid up and cant work

Perhaps you've said this to yourself: Il wish
1could be sure of certain amount of money
each month even when I'm laid up and un-
able to work." This 10 we'll worth thinking
about. For, after all, at such times even
though your earnings do not continue = you
still have to meet payments for rent, food,
clothing, gas and electricity, time payments
on the car, and so on. Very often these bills
become mental burden to the person who
is laid up and it makes it hard for him to
concentrate on getting we'll.
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each member of your family and for each
different sickness or accident, where the doc
tor treats you, at your home, his Office or
the hospital.
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While CROSS Sending Out information in Nation Wide Drive
Are You Protected Agains'
Doctor and Hospital Bills
...as completely and at such lou cost as the
$ million people under the WHITE CROSS PLAN?

INDIVIDUALS AND
IN EXISTENCE |
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FIRST AID & OTHER
0UT-PATIENT BENEFITS

Under the WHITE CROSS PLAN, you
DON'T have to be bed patient or stay
overnight to receive disqualification benefits.
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WHITE CROSS saves you this worry

VbH1bH@ WHNWDW "WV~~ yVV ''s1S WV11Y
Under the WHITE CROSS PLAN, you can
get up to $4,000 month while in the
hospital and up to $4,000 month while
you're at home getting we'll. In cases of
extended illness or serious injury, this
money often spells the difference between
family saved and a family deep in debt.
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AMBULANCE, BLOOD
TRANSFUSIONS

If you have had to pay a
hospital bill recently, you
know that there are manv
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Collects Three Times In
Few Months

Recently, apulleysnapped,
struck my leg, put me in the
hospital for a solid month.
Your company paid me
Sass S0 A feuy months ha-
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DOCTOR VISITS

Under the WHITE CROSS
PLAN, you get up to
$4,000 ( depending on the
Evening star., 1953-08-16
In Event Of Truce TreueherY

The American people today are deep
ly concerned as to the future of our
country. and are greatly disturbed by
the attitudes of some of our so-called
allies in the United Nations.
We have just concluded truce with
a puppet regime in Korea that has no
authority except that which is invested
in it when Peiping and Moscow leaders
pull the strings. 1t is negotiated truce
that appeased our enemies and caused
us to lose the respect of the free peo-
pies in all parts of the world.
The treacherouS Communist leaders
never give any consideration to the
right and honorable thing in their deal
ings with other peoples. They are a
goddess horde whose only plan is to
dominate the world and place under
bondage the free peoples Of the world.
believe that the majority of the
thinking people of this Nation think
that we should Immediately notify the
Chinese and Russian Communist lead
ers that if this truce is violated, we will
not only blockade the entire China
coast, but we will also use atomic
weapons to destroy their war industries
in North Korea, Manchuria, and China
proper. We should also notify Red
China and Russia that we will do all
within our power to keep Red China,
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Britoin's Qualified Pledge

There is no occasion for surprise in the fact
that Britain has seen fit to serve notice that
1t would not be bound by the recent 16-nation
pledge" to resist renewed aggression in Korea
If the armistice should be preached by "our
side"
In the first place, the 16-nation statement
was so equivocal that it can hardly be called
pledge. Furthermore, the British have already
made it clear that even if the enemy should
breach the armistice they would not be bound
to any specific coures of action.
Beyond this, however, is the fact that
renewal of fighting by our side, meaning Syng-
man Rhee and his ROK troops, would auto
matically release all of the u N. countries from
any obligation, express or implied, to go to his
aid In our own case the situation would be
complicated by the fact that we have large
army in Korea, and in any resumption of
hostilities that army conceivably might be
forced to fight in its own defense. Neither we
nor the British nor any one else is pledged,
however to aid and abet Mr.. Rhee in viola
tion of the armistice, and anything which
serves to impress this fact on his mind is all
to the good.
Evening star., 1953-08-16

Jim. Pluto, Steed. Lottie L., Abby,
Patuxent. Union Belle, Room Mate.
Hardy H., Paul Kruger, Roberta, +,
Meadow Maid, Sappho, His Sister, Miss
Blank, McFonso and Mollie Rozier.
X
On August II, 1903, The Star printed
an appreciation of horse -whiSperers
which may not mean
Horse much to modern readers
Whisperers who never see a horse
except on TV but which
still may, have appeal to oldtimers.
The best of equine trainers in the by
gone days, it seems, were natives of
Ireland and the far north of Scotland
Their methods were mysterious, and
they deliberately kept them so. Part
of the legend surrounding them was
that they were lonely fellows by choice.
little given to talk. When they we're
asked about their methods of training
horses, they were apt to reply to their
queStioners as Samson did to the PhiliS-
tines "deluding them with various
unsatisfactory answers" James Sui
livan of Dunhallow in County Cork was
"the most famous whiSperer of modern
times according to the Golden Penny.
But "a successor &. named O'Hara
became almost equally famous" He,
too, kept his secrets to himself. But folk
who knew them well appear to have
agreed that kindness was the principal
factor in the proceedings of both
trainers. Some animals, of course, were
more difficult to teach than others
"A horse whose temper has been spoiled
by chronic bad treatment looks on all
men alike as tyrants and bullies."
X
Half a century ago. very much as
now. young Washingtonians were pre-
.. pairing for new school
Schools year. The Star of August
GoIore II, 1908, gave then
plenty of choices of in
stitutions of instruction to attend.
Among the advertisers in the paper
that day were: Bliss Electrical School,
Louis Denton Bliss. president. 219 G
street NV; Olney School, Virginia
Mason and Laura Lee Dorsey, 1906
Eighteenth street NV; Spanish
Language School. Gomar brothers. 1881
New York avenue: st. Johns College
Brother Germanus, president. Vermont
avenue and Thomas circle; Colum-
bia School of Art, l708 P street
NV: Columbia kindergarten Training
School, Misses Lippincott and Baker,
Evening star., 1953-08-16
On Admitting More Aliens
Taxpayer.

It is indeed strange that in the
arguments to allow some zoe, 900 more
immigrants from Europe to come into
this country, no mention was made of
certain patent points or factors of vital
Importance to our country
The first point is that i'm view, Of our
limited resources, our complex eco
nomic structure which can be very cas-
lily oyertaxed and dislocated to the in
jury and discontinue of thousands and
maybe millions of our citizens by the ad-
dition and intrusion of comparatively
small numbers of immigrants, and our
rapid increase in population, we just
cannot afford to take in more immi-
grants. It is argued that we should be
humanitarian in opening our doors to
deserving foreigners who are seeking
freedom, opportunity and security. The
answer to that is that charity begins at
home and that we have plenty of needy
and unemployed people in our crowded
cities and even in our small commun-
itiess who should be taken care of
first. AS an example there are around
800, 900 persons in need of help and in
destitute circumstances in New York
City who are on relief and living on
the bounty of the city at a cost of
almost $500 million a. year. These
people need attention first in putting
them in positions which will enable
them to sustain themselves before we
admit more foreigners who will only
create more problems and complicate
those already existing.
Our own self-interest and self-pres-
f1nR O..
selves that we have. Otherwise we
shall go the way of other over-popu-
lated nations and lose ali that we have
gained politically, economically and
spiritually. Pro Rono PubI;co
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Tox Reduction imperative

Editorial opinion generally seemed to
support the administration in its oppo-
sition to Representative Reeds pro-
posed tax relief during the last session.
The administrations policy, however,
seems to offer little more than the
promise of token tax relief at some
future time. .
So long as these taxes remain, and
the money comes in, does any one seri-
ously believe that the Government will
fail to find means to spend the entire
income? Departments and bureaus have
become skilled in the practice of finding
emergencies" whenever serious econo-
mics are considered. Nor do they hesi-
tate, 1t would seem, to cut services and
necessities that will arouse public COM
plant. as means to restore cuts
in appropriation; ignoring economies
which could be effected in luxury and
noA-esSential areas of their operation.
It would seem that the only means
by which the public may expect sub
stantlal tax relief is by the reduction
of taxes first. thereby compelling Gov
ernment to effect economies and reduce
expenditures accordingly
"The power to tax is the power to
destroy" The tax burden can do to
this country what no foreign enemy has
been able to do. Every one is familiar
with the overlapping, frequently unjust
excessive and even confscatory nature
Of present taxes. 1t has reached point
where it is no longer a matter of Gov
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Ammunition Outlook

In its controversial May report-Which some
military men described as exaggerated and
excessively alarmist-the Senate Subcommittee
on Ammunition Shortages presented a grim
and almost frightening picture It was pic
ture, by and large, of bureaucratic administra-
tive backwardness resulting in seriously deficient
production and delivery of the wherewithal
needed by our forces in Korea to fire away at
the enemy.
But now, in its second report, the subcom-
mttee-which is headed by Senator Margaret
Chase Smith-has many reassuring things to
say. Thus, whether because of the groups
hearings, or in spite of them, the ammunition
situation has undergone marked change for
the better. This change began to show itself
very clearly in May, while the Korean war was
still going on, and it has naturally gathered
additional momentum since the signing of the
truce.
AS a result, the subcommittee new report
cites the following encouraging facts: 1) The
ammunition outlook is good in the Navy and
Air Force; (2) with our current stockpile and
output rates, the Army can meet any contin-
gency in Korea, satisfy all training needs and
make some ALLEGATIONS to allied countries; (S)
our contemplated production of critical rounds
in fiscal 1854 is expected to exceed the total
turned out in the past SO months, and a. our
OdoC 10 OCAAA5 ~ >~NP0N~ NAAN~U ~AA ."
year we should be in "a readiness posture never
heretofore attained"
The subcommittee, however, is by no means
entirely satisfied with the situation. On the
contrary, pointing out that the ammunition
stocks of the United States and its allies in
Europe are like our worldwide stocks, made
quate for an all-out war; its report puts spe-
cial emphasis on the need to build up the
supply here at home and in the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, which is suffering from a
deficiency caused by the diversion of shipments
during the Korean conflict
Nevertheless taken as whole, the latest
Evening star., 1953-08-16
An Expert Warns Us

One hardly has to qualify as an expert to
predict that the next great war, If it comes will
begin with an atomic attack on the United
States by Russia. This is almost foregone
conclusion, and if the experts want to be really
helpful they should tell us how such a war
might be prevented and how we might survive
the initial attack if efforts at prevention fail
There is no reason to scoff, however, at the
warning given by Jules Menken merely because
he was forecasting the obviOus. Mr.. Menken,
described as British authority on Russia, made
his comments in a talk to conference on the
problem of Soviet imperialism, the conference
having been sponsored by the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies
In Mr.. Menken's opinion, and also in the
opinion of many other informed people, the
Russians will attack the United States "if and
when they think the chances favorable" He
believes further that the attack, at least in it's
initial phase, will be aimed at knocking out
our strategic air bases, from which counter
attack would have to be launched, and at the
destruction of some rs key cities. He offers
no estimate as to the degree of success of such
a surprise attack and that, of course, would
depend on the magnitude of the effort made
on the number of planes and atomic and other
weapons which the Russians were willing and
able to invest in such an undertaking. 1t
should not be forgotten, however, that our own
authorities offer little comfort on this score.
At most, they say, Is per cent of the attacking
planes could be intercepted and knocked down.
This means that IS per cent would get through,
and the further meaning of this, assuming
massive Russian effort, is that many millions
of Americans would be killed and scores OF
American cities left in smoking ruins by the
initial assault.
What can be done to guard against
disaster of such magnitude? The answer, GER
tainly, is that that there is not a great deal
which can be done.
We can strive, as we have been striving, to
maintain our own strength at level which,
in it's prospective retaliatory power will exercise
a restraining influence on the men Of the
Kremlin. Here. again, however, the Russians
enjoy a certain advantage. For suitable tar
gets for A-weapons are heavily concentrated in
the United States In Russia, they are much
Russians could hope to achieve much greater
destruction with the same number of A-hombs
The remaining thing which can be done is
to strive for peace that will be real and mean
ingful. There is little in the current picture,
however, to encourage optimism on this score.
Actually if the evidence were to be added up
and a balance struck, one would almost have
to say that the Communists do not want peace
in any substantial SenSe-that while they may
play for time in order to gain strength, the
ancient goal of world domination is never out
of their minds. Mr. Menken seems to share
this view. At any rate, he told his audience:
IF the men in the Krenlin are to sleep quietly
at nights, the United States and all that it
stands for must be utterly destroyed"
Evening star., 1953-08-16
Toxinq Military in Virginia

Disguised Serviceman" and Navy
Wife" both have very legitimate COM
plants against Representative Broy-
hills proposal that service personnel be
subjected to personal property taxes in
nearby Virginia. So also have the tax
payers of Mr.. Broyhill's district an
equally legitimate complaint against
service personnel. ,
believe personal property taxes
would double-tax only relatively small
portion of such personnel. It is a mod
est tax. so the burden would not be
too great.
Service people should remember that
they are, in large part, our big problem,
for they constitute an unusually large
segment Of our population. In addi-
ton, another substantial group of civil
ians maintain residence in other States
for job reasons. A further disadvan-
tage is the large percentage of local
land owned by the Federal Government
close to one-quarter, believe.
Rising taxation is very real problem
In Mr. Broyhill's district and he is un-
doubtedly under pressure to find some
relief from the above mentioned condi-
tions. AS former serviceman, he cer-
tainly knows something of the service
mans problems. He probably also
knows that when demands are made
for bigger and better schools and bond
issues. the serviceman is far from in
conspicuous in numbers. This is true of
all those who do not expect to remain
here to help in liquidating the costs.
I suspect Navy Wife," who has lived
in her Louisiana home OY11v three wears
out of a dozen, has received rentals on
that home far in excess of the modest
cost of personal property taxes here.
And I am sure that the pay of service
personnel will average at least as high
as our local per capita average, and it
costs us about 1920 a year to educate
each of their children.
Mr.. Broyhill is representing his dis
Evening star., 1953-08-16

is &. /. booked for IS concerts in the
principal cities of the United States,
including -. :. Washington" The famous
artist thus referred to as preparing to
close her career on the concert stage
was then 43 years of age. She was
born in Prague in 1861 and made her
debut at Dresden in 1873 (as Azucena). &.
Successfully she starred at the Stadt
Theater in Hamburg, the Royal Thea
ter in Berlin and the Wagner Theater
at Bayreuth. Her first appearance in
America was in "Lohengrin" in 1898.
After several seasons at the Metropoli-
tan in New York she specialized in
lieder singing. her popularity increas-
ing as she grew Old When she reap
peared at the Metropolitan lin ''Das
Rheingold'D in 1926 at 64, she was
welcomed tumultuously. Her profess
sional travels brought her to Washing
ton repeatedly. Many local admirers
must remember when she finally bid
them farewell from the stage of the
Earle, now the Warner Theater,
saying: please don't forget mel" and
the audience rose and cheered her. to
the rafters. Nine. Schumann- -Heink
died in 1885, Her recordings still arc
classics.
The society column of The Star for
August Is, 1903, featured an account of
masquerade at Sum-
Fun at nit Villa the previous
Summit ViIlo evening. "A phantom
parade opened the en-
tertainment, followed by round dances,
Virginia reel and cake walk. Each
masker was numbered, and prize was
given to the one guessing the identity
of the greatest number" Mrs. j. F.
Anderson, dressed as a Spanish lady,
was considered to be wearing "the most
beautiful costume" Mrs. Byron Clark
appeared as st. Cecilia. Mrs. c. B.
Campbell as Priscilla and Mrs. Isabella
Bartholow as Lavender and Old Lace.
Leila Mengei was Mrs. Wigs Of the
Cabbage Patch and Mary and Webster
Abbott her children. May E. DaiSh rep
resented a gypsy fortune teller. Edith
Birch, Narcissus; Mildred Campbell
Little Boy Blue: Louise McGrath, Little
Lord Fauntleroy: Ruth Oldham, TopSy;
Anna Cox, a trained nurse; Alice Kins-
ley, a Red Cross nurse: Grace Manson,
Old Mother Hubbard. and Frances Bar
tlfolow, The Evening Star.
tised to take part in the races Of the
fair were these horses: Harry c., Gray