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Evening star., 1953-08-12
Visit to the Green Mountain Country
By Jessie Font Evons

BRANDON, Vt.-The smell Of new
mown hay Is In the air Of this Green
Mountain country where Calvin Coolidge
was born.
Stone fences hedged with wild roses
and tiger lilies divide ancient farms,
some of which have not changed hands
since the original owners defled Indians
and other hazards Of wilderness to
hew homesteads out of primeval forests.
Everywhere are grazing dairy herds,
lending support to the jest that "ver-
mont has more cows than people"
A plain frame house on Brandon's
elm-shaded main street is the birth
place Of Stephen A. Douglas, the "little
giant" who debated with Lincoln. The
State D. A. r. maintains it as q shrine.
Sugar naples are lush green now,
but soon autumn viii paint them. "Wine
glass" elrns bear their graceful foliage
like slender ladies with heads high.
Mellow days and silent nights make
life tranquil in these parts. One can sit
In the sun and enjoy just being alive.
The nearest telephone is at Select
man Reginald Hooker's farm, half q
mile in the direction Of beautiful Lake
Dunmore. Hooker has a salty sense Of
humor and his fairness and incorrupti-
bility are a byword. His wife's cooking,
especially her cakes. pies and molasses
cookies, are eagerly sought at church
suppers, which are so much a part Of
the Vermont summer scene.
We called on Laura Hooker to pick
up the keys to the Stoney Fields Farm
Of Paul and Harriet Howe, Washing
ton nutritioniSts. where we are vaca-
tioning. That was our introduction to
Vermont'S wildlife. Within the space Of
q few minutes we helped Laura chase a
doe, fawn and porcupine from her
tidy garden.
At dusk that evening an antlered
buck scared me by peering in the living
room window as lighted lamp. Dart
ing to the kitchen came back waving
q broom and shouting, "Shoo, shoo!"
With that he pranced OF.
We learned Of the death Of "Mr. Re-
publican" from flags flying at half
mast or suspended from windows in
farm houses in villages as we travelled
$50 miles through Vermont on an
overnight trip to Montreal In this
granite State people admired and
venerated the fearless political and
personal honesty of the late Senator
Taft.
We stopped for gasoline at a general
store in East Orange, vt. Harold
Richardson, the owner, estimated his
place was founded "more'n q hun
Evening star., 1953-08-12
By Charles E. TroceweH

For thinking is our glory. our right
and our duty in the universe.
Our President has said we must not
burn books wantonly. That is just
another way of saying that we must
safeguard our right to use words. to
think with them, and ultimately, such
is our hope, to achieve with them.
In all this, human personality is
the essence.
We cannot think except as indi-
vidual human beings. Students should
be proud. They are on mankind's road.
To be bound down by the orthodox
too much is to give over the very thing
that has helped us climb out Of the
original slime.
We never climbed until we thought.
And we never thought until we made
words and used them with some system
and order.
Thus the past is combined with the
present, and in all this the human
personality is the great thing, even
greater than the word.
So let us not be afraid of dealing in
personalities, even in the smallest
sense Of the term. The man who said,
II always do" was nearer right. we
what might happen.
The human personality is strange, it
is always kicking over the traces. but
out Of 1t comes all we have. Let's deal
IA personalities. and b happier.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Consistency on Taxes

President EiSenhower's memorandum Of
disapproval of the legislation which would have
removed the 20 per cent tax on admission to
moving picture theaterS is a persuasive sum-
nation Of the arguments against this special
relief measure. 1t would have been thoroughly
inconsistent with the Presidents past express
sions on the tax and fiscal situations Of the
current year for him to approve the bill.
This is not to say that the industry did not
make a good case in its complaint Of injury
under the tax-in fact, it did an aStoniShingly
effective job of selling its story to Congress.
But, as the President said most of the industry's
distress arises from new forms of competition
(television is blamed primarily rather than
from taxation. Furthermore, it was not IN
tended uniformly within the industry TO seek
Evening star., 1953-08-12

greater patronage through reducing admission
prices by the amount Of tax removed: instead,
the theater operator would have had the option
Of pocketing the extra income.
In any case, by Government estimates
challenged by the Industry removal OF the
tax would cost more than 500 million net loss
to the Treasury in the current fiscal year. The
President and his administration have taken
the position that no tax relief costing revenue
should be granted this year but that there
should be a constructive overhauling of the
tax structure next winter. The movie-theater
industry, only one Of those affected by the
admissions tax, which In turn is only one Of
many excise taxes, will now have to take its
place with the others in waiting for relief from
this particular burden.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
James w. Wells.
New Turqet'

Your August editorial New Target"
on Senator Mccarthy turning his at
tention to some Of "the old Wallace
crowd" in the Department Of Agricul-
tpre did nothing to further the good
name Of your newspaper. As Chairman
Of the Senate Investigating Subcom-
mittee It Is Senator McCarthy's Job to
hnd corruption, graft, and communism
wherever it Is. It will be q sad day
for America when we have no interest
In corruption, as you seem to imply
when you hope" that the people Of
the United States will have no interest
In his investigations.
The editorial also had a flavor Of
no criticism of "the old Acheson crowd"
If you think there has been a great
change in the policy makers at the
State Department. you are sadly mis-
informed. A nationally known radio
commentator recently stated that a
thorough investigation of the present
policy makers of the State Department,
not Of just regular Civil Servant en-
ployes, showed 90% Of the Acheson
regime still on the job. Even If you
don't think 80, the American people
voted for change in the State
Department.
Dewitt o. Burke.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
This and That

structures, or cleaning miles Of white
roads.
All these things, too, speak in our
behalf. but they are not and never
have been what makes us No. l in
the universe parade.
It is the fact that we think with
words, in words. by means of words,
through words, and in and out Of words.
"The thoughts of turtle are all
turtle" said Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Whatever may be the wrongs en-
countered in thinking, and especially
faulty thinking. the glories far outweigh
them.
A man is no snake, not because he
has legs, or arms, but because he thinks
with words.
He is no buffalo, not because he has
no great body and shaggy fur, but just
because he tries out his brain cease
lesSly with words.
It is the word that is our glory.
The word stands for a million things.
The differentiation of the word is what
holds us true to mans destiny, though
a thousand worlds shall fall by the
wayside.
In all our regret over the terrible
bombs, we must keep clear that they
were arrived at by means Of words and
thinking.
Let us hold fast to the basic idea,
that ultimate good must come from
thinking.
Evening star., 1953-08-12

II never deal in personalities" said
one friend, and II always do" said the
other.
Which was right?
Here is fundamental split in human
conduct.
They might be called the personalists
and the non-personaliSts.
Or better, the personalities. and the
non-personalities.
We rather believe that the former
have the best Of it.
Is not human life all personality?
We even tend to perSonalize the ami
mails. We call the pooch Bozo. and
the cat Tom.
It is almost impossible for us to
look at them. or the pet parakeet.
Dicky, without feeling that they think.
Think they do, in some rudimentary
way, but it is pretty certain that they
do not think with the use OF words,
even if, as in the case Of the parakeet,
they use them.
Thinking without words, like music
without words. is not human. 1t is the
word, above all, the differentiated word,
which enables mankind to take its
place at the head Of the races Of living
things.
Sometimes we forget just why we
have q right to assume this position.
It Il not our bombs, nor our armies,
not our plane, o. telephones, OF mighty
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Pentugon Appreciated

I. among many Of your readers, was
amused by the article from the pen of
Jenkin Lloyd Jones about the Pentagon,
in The Star Of August 6. Nevertheless,
10 it quite fair? don't think 50!
Having worked in the Pentagon dur
ing the war Gin o position definitely
lower than Mr.. Lloyd Jones', but never
theless not to be equated with that of
charwomen, typists, and file clerks) I
can testify that the average employe
at that time had no complaints. He
had to stand in the humble cafeteria
lines (of courSeD but at the end of the
line he could buy meat-at time
when beef and ham took so many ration
points that the average housewife
couldn't buy them.
suspect that lower -echelon en-
ployes at the Pentagon now do not re-
sent parking places halfway to Rich
mond or Baltimore" but consider that
they'are lucky to have assigned parking
places.
And, for heavens sake-aside from
cripples-who better deserve parking
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Iron's Dangerous Game

Premier Malenkov, in his bold and COM
prehensive address to the Supreme Soviet
appears to have made his expected but ominous
bid for rapprochement with Iran.
In three brief paragraphs, opening with
the bland miSStatement that mutual friend
ship and collaboration" have existed between
the two countries during the past IS years,
the Russian dictator asserted that such a
"stable basis" now prevails that their common
problems may be settled to their mutual
satisfaction. Specifically, he expressed hope
that talks currently under way will resolve "a
number of frontier problems and mutual
financial claims" but there was a more cynical
tone to his warning that "it depends upon the
Teheran government that Soviet-Iranian rela-
tions develop along the path of good neighborly
relations"
From the Soviet standpoint, probably no
better opportunity ever has existed to drive
q hard bargain with an Iranian government
that is in desperate financial straits, is at
political loggerheadS with Britain and the
United States and is ruling at home only
through q despotic form Of one-man dictation.
The lure OF any substantial concession to the
1ranian financial claims on the Soviet Union
involving II tons Of gold and 50 million of
Russian incurred debt during World War II
is obviously a tempting one to the regime Of
Premier MoSsadegh.
What price Premier Malenkov and his
associates in the Kremlin will ask for what
actually is small but badly needed sum of
money was not revealed by the Red dictator.
That it will be price calculated to draw Iran
into the Communist net, eventually If not at
once, is reasonable assumption. Unfortu-
nately, it is not so reasonable to assume that
DR.. Mossadegh will have either the determine
ton or the power to refuse it.
Already, semiofficial sources in Teheran
have expressed pleasure at the Russian bid
while simultaneously expressing hopes that the
Kremlins gesture will force the United States
into some countermove such as a switch from
q "pro-British" line in the Anglo-Iranian
controversy. While something of this kind
may result, DR.. Mossadegh is playing danger
Gus game in forcing the East and West into
what may become a showdown over his
strategically important but highly vulnerable
country. No responsible Iranian government
could be under any illusions as to the nature
of the Communist designs south of the Caspian
Sea or be so blind as to think that mutual
friendship and collaboration" with the big
neighbor to the north could lead to anything
but tragedy and disaster.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Unfoding Roses

Sdw the little yelIoD roses 0YoUin0
One summer day IN a garden near the
sea,
But I hurried By on my Journey. little
knotDinQ
That the delicate doDerS mould rise
and folloW me.
Untaded stal, those starry blooms are
bloDin0
Each petal stirred By the Di,tds Of
memory,
As bright as ,Ohen sdU them lightly
f0tDilG
Like ripping gold through the garden
by the sea.
lRex BoreIoy Kirby
Evening star., 1953-08-12
What Is So Rare?

In Washington's August, q night Of cool
breeZeS, making blanket comfortable al morn
ing approaches, is uncommon enough to evoke
comment parallel in volume to that which
springs from the seasonable heat. Four such
nights as we have had recently, might well
have the opposite effect of rendering us speech
less, if it were not that weather Is always the
thing to talk about.
Such an occurrence as cool weather in the
midst of August, of course, takes away basis
for common complaint, and the company found
in misery and the excuse for waiting until to-
morrow to NOW the lawn. But its benefits are
so great that these insignificant losses fade. 1t
puts us in better temper. It gives us store OF
energy to face the day-to-day problems which
are always mountainous when first they are
faced. 1t does away with the necessity of seek
ing place to cool oh-a place which usually
turns out to be just as hot as the one we left.
1t gives us something to write home about
Instead of sitting on the side porch, tanning
ourselves and complaining of our lot, we can
sit there with the cool air flowing over us and
make great plans. A cool evening spent on the
side porch, after the screen has been mended
and the table leg glued more firmly in place, is
time for thinking.
That, perhaps. Is the best thing of all about
cool weather in August 1t gives us q respite
in which to plan something more far-reaching
than the best ways to escape the heat. The
plans will be forgotten when it gets warm again,
but at least they will have been made, and will
be there to recall when another respite from
the heat appears and gives q man time to
think again.
Evening star., 1953-08-12

Vermont. and intact to the patent med
icine posters on it's rafterS.
Preserved within the village are many
fine examples Of 10th century life in
Vermont. Still standing is the White
Stage Coach Inn, dating back to 1874,
when Vermont was an independent re-
public. And remember the vast tribe
Of cigar-Store Indians who dotted the
main streets of America? They are
far from extinct at the Shelburne Mu-
scum.
VermonterS have a brusque, frank
manner that is refreshing. Take the
experience Of Lanier McLachlen, the
Washington banker, who fishes here.
He was buying groceries in Dalrymple's s
General Store at Vergennes when Mr..
Dalrymple stopped without q word and
started waiting on another customer.
Patiently. Mr.. McLachlen bided his
time until the proprietor had filled the
other order and the customer had gone.
There must be some good reason why
you did that" said the Washingtonian.
DO you mind telling me what it WASP"
Nope" said the storekeeper. "He lives
here the year around" To that the
vacationer conceded: well you have
something there
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Wants Hero Honored

According to the news reports, the
Communists In Korea tried to convince
prisoners Of war that we used germ
warfare. When they were not con-
vinced they brought as proof the bugs
they captured in the field, supposedly
full OF germs. One Of the American
captured soldiers looked at one of these
bugs, and put it in his mouth and ate
it in front of the Communist propa-
gandists and other soldiers. Nothing
happened to him in spite Of the warn
ings Of the Communists.
believe that this soldier, who by
his utmost faith in AmericaniSm told
the Communists that they were lying,
should be identified. and given the
highest Medal Of Merit. The entire
Nation should honor this great soldier
and call him "Mr. American"
George Haig.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Fact Finding and Capital Transit

The fact-nnding- board idea was advanced
by the Commissioners and the conciliation
service as device to stave of q threatened
transit strike. Final refusal by the transit
company to have any part of the fact-inding
investigation presumably renews the threat of
q strike.
But surely it would be the part OF wisdom
Tor the employees to sit back while longer and
watch developments before starting a strike
While the transit company has declined to have
anything to do with the Commissioners fact
finding, it cannot decline to have anything to
do with the fact-hnding investigation that the
Senate is about to begin. That investigation
may produce facts about Capital Transit that
would never be available to any inquiry de-
pending for its fact finding on voluntary in
formation. Among the facts to be produced
by the Senate investigation will be the COM
panys financial condition-and that is a fact
that has direct bearing on the actual ability
OF the company to meet union demands for q
more nberalized pension plan.
The union won from the company pay in
crease of S cents an hour on July l, 1852:
another cents an hour and 8 cents additional
in fringe benefits on November l. 1852; another
cents an hour on July !, 1858. On July 1, 1854,
the employees will receive another cents an
hour plus cents in fringe benefits. The cost
OF these increases is in excess of 81 million a
year. Since April 3 last the company has been
seeking an increase Of fare to meet these in
creasing costs. And the company knows as well
as anybody that fares may become so high
that revenues decline instead Of increase, for
more passengers are lost than gained. That
point may be reached in the next fare increase
wise union would wait for the facts to be
dug up by the Senate committee before starting
strike that nobody can really hope to win
but which may cause everybody to lose.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Rents
Alarmed Resident.

I find The Stars attitude on the end
Of District rent control disturbing. You
blithely assure all that supply and
demand" between landlord and tenant
will make for satisfactory adjustment.
but you overlook the fact that, with
many landlords indulging in an orgy
of greediness, there is little the middle
or low-income tenant can do-except
eat less and struggle a bit more with
the budget.
Maybe the well-to-do can absorb an
increase from $40 to $170. but for
some an increase from $72.50 to &97.50
means just that much less milk and
food for the children and parents.
Tenant.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Praise for Miss FIeeson

should like to take issue with the
petty sniping at Doris Fleeson's excel
lent portrait Of the late Senator Taft.
Surely. those who knew and admired
the Senator for his many fine traits of
character need not blind themselves
to his faults. Like other humans, he
was not quite a saint and thus was
prone to human weaknesses like the
rest of us.
Miss Fleeson should be complimented
for her unbiased and honest appraisal,
and this goes for her efforts in general.
Reader.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Favors Using A-Bomb

/ agree that we use the atom bomb
should war break out or should we find
ourselves engaged in defending other
areas like Korea under attack by the
1anatical armies of Russian inspired
Communists. Certainly there is some
thing baSically wrong with our intellec-
tualS who argue against the A-bomb.
They are so confounded that no longer
do they recognize the enemy.
Like insecure children these intellec-
tuals are terrified of what others
think
Nations that temporize to ask, win
history justify us, are usually forgotten
by history. Frederick II of Prussia had
"the Great" added to his name because
he was aware at the time that he was
being great" but because he strove
with might and main to. repell the
enemies Of Prussia, and afterwards to
rebuild his shattered kingdom. In short,
Fredrick was great" because he played
the man. Not for him were the weakly
doubts Of inferior intellects. His enemy
was an enemy, nothing more or less,
and the shortest way with enemies, as
far as Frederick was concerned, was to
defeat them; for Frederick knew, as all
great men know, that paralysis must be
paid for with future sufferings at Arma-
geddon.
James W. Wells
Evening star., 1953-08-12
By THE HASKN SERVICE.

Q. How many people are working on
atomic energy projects in this country?
IS. Y.
A. Currently about 100000 persons
are engaged in the work OF the Atomic
Energy Commission and its construc-
tion and operating contractors. Sew
eral hundred thousand more are in
directly employed by firms that render
services or furnish supplies to the
agency. Less than 1000 are employed
directly by the Acc.
Q. Why was u chosen to be the
legal voting AGES. r.
A. In Roman law q man came of
age and acquired full legal and civil
rights at the age Of IS, but In England
this was reduced to a. English COM
mon law divided the 81 years into ;
periods-infancy, childhood, and ado
lescence-and this conventional stand
ard was carried over into the American
colonies.
@. When did Berlin become the
capital Of Germany?-H. T. S.
A. In 1871 after the unification, Long
before that the city had served as the
seat Of government of Brandenburg
and then Of Prussia, formerly import
ant political units.
@. What is the leading butter pro-
ducing county In the United States?
W
A. Stearns County, MINI. The county
turns out over II million pounds Of
butter q year.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Drug Addicts

DIu9 AoolCtS
1t probably has puzzled many why q
limit Of so patients to take the cure for
drug addiction is feasible, when the
retlrlng assistant district attorney
estimated there were $500 addicts and
stated more than 800 are known to the
authorities in the District of Columbia
now. Initiates would more than re-
plenish the fold during the period re-
quired to rehabilitate these so.
The full extent of this scourge in
regard to the general public has never
been disclosed. Nor have we been told
what to expect in the future. The daily
cost, as published at different times. for
an individual addict, is exorbitant. It
is heartrending to realize the dilemma
they find themselves in each day. be-
twixt and between, exhiliration and
despair; yet devoid of the willpower
through entrapment to ever free them
selves voluntarily. If a rampant dis
ease as virulent was prevalent, people
would clamor for suppression immedi-
ately. A complete investigation through
public hearing should be made by the
Commissioners before Congress con-
venes. with competent authoritative
witnesses, in order to marshall the facts
to present them in an orderly fashion to
q congressional committee. With in
cessant prodding from the newspapers,
1t is incomprehensible how within a
whole session Of Congress, regulations
50 muddled could emanate. The petty
thievery attributed to dope addicts war
rants attention now, II crime Is to be
effectively curtailed.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Questions and Answers

The @tar'e readers can get the answef 10 any
question Of fast By either writinG Inc Evening
star Information Bureau, 1900 ] street NV,
Washington 3. d. c.. and inelosing cents re-
turn postage or By telephoning ST S-736a.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Letters to The Star

space close to their offices than the gen.
erals and highly placed civilians who
have the greatest responsibility in de-
fenSe?
Evening star., 1953-08-12

Pen-nGn7eS may be used if letters carry
aDr1ters correct names and addresses.
AH letters are subject to condensation.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-04-16
Spaghetti Dinner

Spaghetti Dinner
The wokerS for the West &C.
auga Recreation program will
appreciate seeing everyone al
spaghetti dinner they are serv.
ing on Thursday, April % al
the West Geauga school. Ad.
mission will be $125 for adults
and 75c for children.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-04-16

League Oh "OAhSh NSASs
The Evening Study Group had
an interesting discussion on the
TidelandS Oil Bill. They review
ed the bill from the point of :
view of the Federal government
and from the various States po-
sition. The discussion was led
by Mrs. Roger EmmonS.
The Nominating committee
met at the home of Mrs. Louis
j. Haberer on Monday, April 13.
They advise that they have some
interesting news in the near fu-
ture.