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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-11-19
MINNEAPOLIS BIRTHDAYS

Nov. GOV. II. Martin, 2207
Fourth Av s. Mr.. Augustus
Owens. 5000 Clinton Av.: Albert
Mcclure. 1917 Fifth st. S; Mrs. J.
F. Stevens, 1924 Fourth Av. S.
Nov 21-Mrs. II. Macarthur
1406 Eleventh. Av. N.
Nov. 22-Mr. Shelby Cox, 404s
Fifth Av. s.: Johnnie Mae Hadley,
5000 Fourth Av. S.
Nov. 23-Mrs. Jane Mcintosh.
720 Humboldt Av. N; Mrs. Ever
EFT Johnson, 404S Fifth Av. S.
Nov. 24-Mr. c. f. Beck, 3705
Fourth Av. s.; Mrs. Bessie Harris,
70S Girard Av. N; Mrs George
Young, 1000 Emerson Av. N; Mrs,
Plummer Willis Sr., 1856 Third
Av. s.
Nov. 25-Mrs. Bebecca Harde-
man, 2I0 Irving Av. N; Claudia
Ruth Sanders. 242O Fourth Av S;
Joe f. Oliver, 416 f. 25th St;
Shirley Hills, COS Eighth Av. N;
J. L. Nellie, 3945 Third Av. s;
William Reed, Sal Girard Av. N;
Miss Era Walls. 1881 Chicago Av.;
Elma Grout. 1881 Bryant Av. N;
Jacqueline Wallace, 1918 Clinton
Av
Nova 26-Mrs. Sarah Vaughn,
1920 Fourth Av. S: Mrs. Kathryn
Elliot, 400 f. seth St; f. Russell
Wright, 900 Bryant Av. N; Mrs.
Marion Loretta Williams, 1851
Portland Av.; Donald Dillon, 91f
Bryant Av. N
Out of Town Birthday
Nov 20--George Christopher,
Alameda Calf.
Nov. 24-J. T. Morgan, Ogden
Utah.
Nov. Natalie Norman. Ar
lington, Va.
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BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
ST. PAUL BIRTHDAYS

Nov. 2o-Mrs, Lee Gwynne, 500
N. Chatsworth; Johanna Stokes,
6SS Aurora Av.; Ted Allen. sTS
Iglehart Av.; Raleigh Humburd,
72S Rondo Av,; Mr.. William NJ.
Brown. POI st. Anthony Av.; Her
bert Commodore, s2l w. Central
Av.
Nov. 21--Donnen E. Erwin, TIT
Rondo Av.; Walter Mcfarland Jr.,
l0l6 Rondo Av.; Reginald Clark,
So st. Anthony Az; Richard
Parker, Cos st. Anthony Av,
New. 22--Bertha Boyd, S97 St.
Anthony Av.; Ventress Jackson,
7S9 Rondo Az; Portia Jean Rus
sell. 63S Iglehart Az; Miss Gloria
Williams, 525 Rondo Av.: Mrs. Ben
Moore, 90 w. Lawson: Mrs.
Wyatt Cooper, 4sS w. Central
Av.: Mrs. Ben Moore, 90 tB6S2R
Av.; Garland Hunter Jr., 413 w.
Central Av.; Sylvia Hunter. 413
w. Central Av.
Nov. 23-Doris Louise Massie,
932 Iglehart Az.
Nov 24-Ruth Mae Johnson,
400 Dale St; Mary Manning $50
Iglehart Av.; Mrs. George Tillman.
9s3 Iglehart Av.
Nov. 25-Mrs. Mary Perry, 967
st. Anthony Av.: Mrs, Laura
Bradford, 524 Carroll Av.: William
T. TENDED Jr, 500 st. Anthony
Av.; Annabelle Berry, sos w. Cen
trail Av.: Mrs. Clyde Gilman. e95
Rondo Az; Mrs. Pearl Mcintosh,
635 St. Anthony Av,; Mr.. Martin
Brookins, S67 w. Central Av.: Re
nee Sayles, $50 st, Anthony Av.
Nov. 26-Mrs. Cecilia Lewis
222 Rondo Av.; Alexander r. Jor-
dan, 675 Iglehart Av.; Herman
Haskins, 6S7 St Anthony Av.;
Daryl Smith, SAT Rondo Av.
Out of Town Birthday
Nov. 25-LeRoy Gardner, Mex
leo: Robert Williams, Manhattan,
Kans.
Nov. 26-MiSs Gloria ONeal,
Washington. d. c.
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COules-Ka's VIII Meet: The
Coules-Ka's will meet at the home
of Miss Barbara Allen, 3517 Fifth
Av. s., on Saturday, November 20.
Evening star., 1954-04-20
ARLINGTON Report Cards

B. M. Miller has dug into his noun
tain, no doubt, of extensive f1leS and
has come UP with a molehill. He ap-
parently knows the modern techniques
of Recommendations confound your enc
mics with a quotation. However, am
somewhat old-fashioned. want clear,
demonStrative, scientifically admissible
evidence that the Arlington school sys-
tenn is advancing the cause of commu-
nism. I do not accept a secondhand
quotation of recollection of a witness
before some State investigating commit
tee as proof that Arlington County, Vir-
ginia, children are becoming commu-
nized. Nor do accept bogus definitions
of communism, or the indiscriminate
Jumping of communism" Socialism" !"
progressive" and liberal" or emotion
al handwringing every time an Arling-
ton school child INDUCES in some kind
of democratic, collective action in the
schoolroom, or the preposterous notion
that narrative reporting is an invention
of Karl Marx.
Mr.. Miller has such penchant for
labels and slogans that he sees the
reporting system discussions as argu-
ments between liberals and 'conserv-
atives." think, rather. that the issue
is between those who think that they
alone are the arbiters of all that is
good and patriotic, and those who give
publicly elected officials chance to do
a conscientious job without contemp-
tible harassment. To Mr.. Miller rec
Evening star., 1954-04-20
r. L. j.

In violation of a ll-established
press tradition, your columnist, David
Lawrence, predicts April Is that the
board convened to consider the charges
against DR.. j. Robert Oppenheimer
"is about to declare" that DR.. Open
heimer Is q security risk.
Mr.. Lawrence goes on to assert that
"the Oppenheimer side" knew that the
board might soon render an unfavor-
able Judgment" and therefore released
the correspondence between himself
and Gen. Nichols in an effort ito re-
verse the trend Of official thinking"
The truth is that the board had not
even convened on April IL when the
New York Times was setting the cor
respondence in type. Further, as the
New York Times reported in publishing
the correspondence, DR.. Oppenheimer
acted only when the Times informed
him that it possessed and intended to
print a detailed summary OF the
charges.
Is Mr.. Lawrence prepared to prove
that the findings of the Gray Board
were determined before it convened
and that the New York Times was act
ing as an agent for DR.. Oppenheimer?
If not, I suggest that Mr.. Lawrence
owes your readers and all concerned
a public apology.
Michael Straight,
Editor, New Republic.
Evening star., 1954-04-20
A Student Views Segregation

This year the problem of segrega-
tion in the public schools is coming
to head. Granted that it is the
democratic thing for whites and Ne
groes to mingle freely together, it still
would be foolhardy to permit this
change to take place all at once.
Speaking from the standpoint of a
student inside the school system look
ing out. rather than from that of law
yers and psychologists outside looking
in, can foresee only steep rise in
vandalism and juvenile delinquency
Friction between the two groups of
children. which for so long have been
so far apart, would increase, causing
an overload on the disciplinary circuits
of the school system. Gangs and mobs
would form and fight for supremacy
of colored over white or vice versa.
With these degrading effects in the
public schools, parents would refrain
from sending their children in favor
of private and parochial institutions,
thus lessening their childrens chances
Of social intercourse with children of
other races and religions and creating
more antagonism than before.
If segregation in schools is to cease,
it should cease in degrees. The first
three grades could become mixed, for
at young age racial antagonisms
haven't developed, and be allowed to
work through the schools.
Stanley MilObsky.
Evening star., 1954-04-20

The city probably never leafed out
so quickly in all its history.
One afternoon. dry and dull, there
was little green.
You could see over into a neighbor's
yard easily.
The very next morning
A million small leaves had sprung
into being on rose vines, in the grass.
on a variety of shrubs and trees.
Down at the bridges across Rock
Creek a green velvet appeared as If
by magic in the very air, the tops OF
trees lifted to the gaze of passersby
in buses and cars.
The iron curtain is only a fgment
of the imagination, but this good green
curtain of growing things is very
real, very important, and Supremely
beautiful.
They talk of the days when humans
Will feed themselves from proteins
taken from the sea. air and heaven
knows what heady mixture of strange
sounding chemicals.
Still remains the good earth and
its green color, the badge and sign Of
photosynthesis, which so far keeps the
world Of living things alive.
Every person has a part to play in
keeping our city green.
Washington, the Green City
So might be its name, as it is re-
membered by thousands of visitors
every year.
They have plenty Of green back
Evening star., 1954-04-20
The CoboIt Bomb

The recent Star editorial which de-
scribed the. very real possibility Of
world. determination through the ex-
plosion of one or more cobalt bombs,
was most thought provoking.
During World War II I found q
solution to a problem in the premise
that the victim of q holdup never
knows if the gun is loaded. In Africa,
the vehicles of a neighboring tank
company. despite repeated requests,
drove through my company area caus-
ing much dust and noise I had my
men lay a mine field, using every
mine in the battalion The mines
were fully charged and it seemed most
unfortunate that we missed" one
mine when the field was picked up
Word of this, of course, got around.
The field had stretched across the en-
tire front of my area, therefore no
more vehicles troubled us. OF course,
no mine actually was left there.
Suppose we do produce the C-bombs
and bury them. The locations known
and unknown might prove to be an
effective defense barrier.
The strongest argument against this
proposition would be the fact that the
Russians enjoy playing Russian rou-
lette and therefore might enjoy the
opportunity to destroy the world.
Donald L. May.
Evening star., 1954-04-20
By Charles E. TroceweU

he also may be major force for
good.
Rampant forces of evil swagger
around the world.
1t is time that forces for good, no
matter how small, assert themselves
before it is too late.
The city and suburban homeowner
may do a great deal to help keep
everything green.
He has the opportunity, often at
small price, to plant greenery of various
kinds.
BY using a bit of his brain on this
Job. as well as at the Office, he can
build green into the very fabric of his
yard, no matter how small. After all,
the small garden has place of its
own, an important one because it can
be handled.
Many ambitious persons buy large
places, and, failing to get ready aid
at a price they can afford, let the
whole thing go by default.
Green takes a little care, a little
patience, but it is so close to the glory
of the universe, so far above its sad
side, that every one who can should
take some part in its preservation. BY
so doing the simple work of the garden,
even by thinking about it for others
to do, one steps Immediately into the
great path of annual growth and re-
cuperation and beauty, all of which
are needed to Offset, if possible, the
terrible work of destruction, Joined
with the cult of ugliness, now sweep
ing the world.
Evening star., 1954-04-20
Sordid Side of News

do not agree with Nathan r. Rosen-
thai that The Star has detoured from
the high level of morality in its news
reporting because it reports sex crimes.
and that such reporting is nothing more
than tainted, catch-penny trash"
Certainly, it is immoral to commit
sex crimes but The Star is not immoral
when it bares these very lowest form
of human criminals. If the truth were
known there are too many sex crimes
committed that are never reported to
the authorities or newspapers, because
of public embarrassment they would
cause the innocent victims.
It Is the press prerogative and pub
lie responsibility to report facts on what
is taking place. Not to correctly report
would be akin to suppression of free
press which hope never comes to pass
in America. don't believe crime can
be curbed or a criminal reformed by
keeping his crime secret.
NiSh Showers
Evening star., 1954-04-20
This and That !.

where they come FROM but it always
strikes them as a happy feature here.
Most cities are not green.
They are dull gray, red for brick,
white for stone
Cities are colored, too, by particles
of SCOT, leaving everything inviSlbly
stained, even our lungs.
Cities are dabbed with bright colors
by political aspirations. by white
clouds and silver rain, by the emotions
of masses of people.
We never see a "go" light but 1t
reminds us that green is, after all, the
very pleasantest color of all.
Now we are to have it with us for
six months.
Each city resident. whether home
owner or not, can do his part to make
and keep the city green.
He can Che often does) resent
progress" which annually DEGREES the
destruction of a certain number of
trees.
If he feels that he has any "say"
at all, he can at least urge replanting
as soon and as wisely as possible.
Careless gouging of tree trunks by
automobiles is a lesser crime which
may be prevented by little thought.
The city man can be needless. but
his own perfection demands that he
think beforehand.
In this way he not only prevents the
hurting and destruction Of lives, but
Evening star., 1954-04-20
Anti-Crime Teamwork Pays

There is nothing mysterious about the
highly gratifying drop in the crime rate in
Washington last year-in contrast to the con-
tinued upward trend of awlessnesS elsewhere
in the Nation. There are several perfectly good
reasons for the marked improvement in the
local crime situation. They add up to relent-
less, effective law enforcement all along the
line
That teamwork in enforcement pays of is
attested by the comparative figures on crime
trends just released by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Whereas the national crime
total rose per cent last year, major crimes in
Washington declined IL per cent according to
the annual bulletin, Uniform Crime Reports
This is the first time in many years that any
decrease in the amount of crime has been
noted here. Yet the population of the city has
been increasing steadily. There were only two
exceptions to the general trend. The number
of murders and non-negligent manSlaughters
increased by two to IA and there was rise
of 1874 per cent in the number of automobile
theftS. The latter development may have been
related to the disturbing outbreak of juvenile
delinquency in 1858. "Joyriding," a polite
name for car-Stealing, is one manifestation of
youthful criminality.
While the FBI report covered the year as
a whole, the Police Departments own records
SHOW LldC Cne crime drop was even SEedCeT IOT
the last half of 1853. The decline approximated
IA per cent for that period Significantly, it
was during the last six months of the year that
Police Chief Murray was able to put more
policemen on the street, thanks to restoration
by Congress of personnel fund that had been
eliminated from the previous budget. The
statistics show clearly that the expanded patrol
work had much to do with the falling off in
such categories as street robberies, burglaries
and assaults.
But Chief Murray quite properly distrib
utes shares of the credit to other members of
the law enforcement team-to Congress not
only for appropriations but for strengthening
the local crime laws, to the prosecutors who
pressed the charges vigorously and intelligently
in court and to the judges who cracked down
on convicted defendants with sentences ade
quate to make other criminals pause and pom
der The net result has been to reverse the
crime trend which, in recent years, had
brought bad name to the National Capital
This is reassuring to citizens of the entire area
and bad news to those criminal elements that
had come to regard Washington as soft
touch"
Evening star., 1954-04-20
Man and His Homeland

The tenacious devotion of man to his home
land has been displayed often in history.
small chapter, perhaps, in this continuing story
is being written today in the return to the Island
of Heligoland of those Germans-in some cases
their children-who once called this rather bar
rem "rock" their home. During two World Wars
Heligoland has been naval fortress. In be-
tween, it had civilian population of several
thousand people who lived largely by the tourist
trade and by fishing
Heligoland was heavily bombed in World
War II-and even more heavily assaulted by
thousands of tons of air-dropped explosives in
Evening star., 1954-04-20

The British Labor Party is once again at
open war with itself for essentially the same
reason as the one that split it apart in the
spring of 1851. The reason is Aneurin Bevan-
the reckless Aneurin Bevan and his violent OBJ
position to vigorous defensive measures against
the threat of Communist aggression, the dema-
gogic Aneurin Bevan and his antipathy toward
the United States the able and radical Aneurin
Bevan and his driving ambition to wrest polt-
ical leadership from Clement Attlee.
Back in 1851, when Britain had a>Laborite
government under Mr. Attlee's premiership, Mr.
Bevan-leader of his party's left wing-resigned
from the cabinet in protest against the Attlee
rearmament program. The substance of his
position then, in period of grave world ten
sion, was that defense expenditures should be
cut back in order to dole out to Britons things
like free eyeglasses and free false teeth The split
he thus caused paved the way for the return
to power of Winston Churchill and the Con-
Servatives, but that did not effect any change in
him. Instead. during the years that have passed
he has become increasingly hostile to prepared
ness measures and he has intensified his efforts
to win control of the party from the moderates
headed by Mr.. Attlee.
Some months ago, for tactical reasons Mr.
Bevan aSSented to truce between the party's
warning wings, but now he has shattered it.
He has done so by reSigning from the Laborite
shadow cabinet" because Mr.. Attlee has re-
fused to condemn the Churchill governments
agreement with Secretary of State Dulles pro-
posal for NATO-like security pact against the
Red menace in Southeast Asia and the Western
Pacific. The proposal-which also has won
French backing-has been subjected to one of
MIR. Bevans typical distortions. AS he has put
it, the whole idea is "tantamount to diplomatic
and military encrclement of republican China"
(meaning Communist China) and Britain's in
dorsement of it adds up to nothing less than a
surrender" to America.
Mr.. Bevan and his left-wing followers con-
Stitute minority, but they have been gaining
strength, and they may conceivably be able to
win out over the Attlee moderateS. The net
effect of the struggle, however, can be an inter-
necine cleavage wide and lasting enough to in
sure big victory for the Conservatives if
general election is held in the fall. But that
consideration does not seem to bother Mr.
Bevan He apparently wants to rule or ruin the
Labor Party, and in the process of this bid for
power, though he himself is not Communist,
he is following line that must surely please
the Kremln.
Evening star., 1954-04-20
Moscow on Indo-Chino

It is difficult to detect anv particular
significance in the Moscow radio broadcast on
the possibility Of a truce in Indo-C China.
Actually, the broadcast-made in the Russian
language for listeners inside the Soviet Union
seems to have been little more than routine
domestic commentary on the Forthcoming
Geneva Conference. Certainly, as far as
cease-fire is concerned, it has added nothing
new to what has already been said by Ho Chi
Mimi, leader of the Communist Wet Mini
forces.
In fact, the Soviet broadcast has made
only a passing reference to Hos November
statement declaring his readiness to negotiate
with France for an armistice in Indo- China
Both the Wet Mini and the Chinese Commu-
nistS have repeated that statement a couple
OF times since it was first addressed to Swed-
iSh newspaper, and the Moscow radio has not
gone beyond doing the same thing-with typi-
cal anti-American invective and the vague
assertion that an expression of good will on
the part Of French authorities would produce
a real possibility for the restoration of peace"
However, since all this has been said outside
proper diplomatic channels, the Laniel gov
ernment has rightly viewed it as mere propa-
ganda rejecting anything but sincerity.
Accordingly, although some people have
likened it to Jacob Malik's United Nations
speech that led to the Korean truce negotia-
tions, the Soviet broadcast does not appear to
have unusual meaningfulness. The Indo-
China issue will be discussed at Geneva, of
course. and if Moscow and Peiping have a
serious desire for decent .armistice, they will
have ample opportunity to demonstrate that
desire during the impending talks Mean
while, as past experience has shown over and
over again, their words are not to be taken at
face value.
Evening star., 1954-04-20
OrientoIist Retires

The Orientalia Division of the Library OF
Congress seems bereft these days The work
goes on. Everybody is busy. But one long
familiar face is missing. Old-tlmers among
the patrons of that branch OF the greatest
bibliographic establishment on earth quickly
discover that Dr. Arthur w. Hummel is gone.
Head of the division for more than quarter
century, he has retired and his place has not
been filled Indeed, it may remain empty quite
a while.
Of course, there are other scholars avail
able for the position Some of them we're trained
by Dr. Hummel and are schooled in his tech
niuues and ideals But few if any, of his junior
contemporaries have had his experience. The
story of his career reads like fiction. Born In
the hills of Missouri i'll 1884, he became inter-
ested in the Far East while still only boy.
Those were the days when the foreign mission
ary societies were recruiting young enthusiasts
to carry the message of Christianity to many
so-caed "heathen' countries. Arthur Hummel
heard the call. Having prepared for his voca-
ton at the University of Chicago, he accepted
an assignment to teach English in Japan. Two
years later he went to Fen-yang in Shansi,
China as an American Board teacher. Later
he taught in Peking. BY 1927 he was ready for
the main business of his life The Library of
Congress already possessed good collection of
Chinese books and manuscripts. DR.. HummePS
Job was to improve it intelligently. This he did
with commendable economy and efficiency. The
Orientalia Division now has more than 10000
volumes on its shelves
But the former boy missionary has accom-
plished more than a mere expansion of the Far
East section of the Library He also has Gre
ated an atmosphere there which is an indefn-
able but none the less valuable asset. DR.. Hum
mels retirement simply means the start OF
new chapter in the chronicle of the work to
which he has given his talents. He will continue
his researches and he likewise will continue his
teaching
Evening star., 1954-04-20
Winters Rust

At this point each year the dilapidated state
Of the garden tools becomes appallingly ap-
parent. The rake which last spring was deemed
just about good enough for another year. seems
to have borne out that prophecy The hoe was
stacked careesSly, caked with dirt after its last
use The dirt hardened through the winter,
and its removal will require herculean effort.
The blades of the lawn mower are dull and
ruSted. The hedge shears squeak a noisy pro-
test at each attempted use. The garden hose
has a leak which was not there before.
One who has gone with zeal to the garage,
in proper spirit to work on the lawn and gar
den, finds the zeal fading as he inspects the
tools. They are the victims of winters rust
and one finds that he must first get the tools
into shape before he can begin getting the
lawn and garden into shape. 1t is a discourag-
ing prospect, particularly when, back in the
house, there are books which can be read.
Temptation arises-temptation to chuck the
lot into the trash barrel and begin afresh, with
a trip to the hardware store, where cleaning
new tools give the proper inspiration to one
with lawn and a garden needing immediate
attention. This might be the year to buy the
back-easing power tools which one has tried for
years to fit into strained budget. Or, by proper
juggling, it might be possible to hire day-a-
week gardener.
But one firmly banishes these thoughts,
and gets to work on the tools at hand. And as
he works, the realization comes that the tools
are not alone as victims of winters rust. The
arms and back have fallen prey through disuse.
The muscles are flabby and the breath is short.
The man of the house finds himself one with
his tools, victims of winters rust.