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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-12
Potomac Fever
Fletcher KnebeI-


Most Washington politicians have decided to quit calling
each other names in the present csand down to the
main job OF blaming each other for it,
President kes announcement that he regards himself
non-partisan Republican reminds of the teevon who
is sponsored by the product for yearsbut every
time he hears the commercial.
Senator Joe Mccarthy he won't let the
despite 1keS warning to Joes theory: All
guilty until proved incompetent.
Democratic candidate for pays taxes
IN silver dollars covered with blood The only time
Gratis content with high taxes when their party collecting
them.
The State Department considers bid a Russian track
team to run here The comrades like slightly different rules for
speed events The starters of the
aimed at the last man
The House gets the Senate have the Govern
ment regulate trading in coffee Republicans promised to get
the out OF busnessand already they've gotten
out OF the business of keeping promises
Leaders try to speed approval of Chief Justice
Warren II the Senate doesn't approve soon Warren will
start labelling himself insecurity risk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-12
Dorothy Thompson
If Russia Denies Austria Peace
Answers to the Fate Of Much Of the Rest of Europe
Depend on the Conditions of KremIins Attitude

even by adopting a neutral
military position.
Germany is a much larger
problem. The Soviets have no
tangible reason to fear Aus
tria. as they-and not only
they-do fear a reunited Ger
many. But the question is still
what they fear, and what, if
anything, they would pay for
German armed neutrality,
which they have actually ad-
vocated. For. of course, a de-
fenseless neutrality is incom-
patible with any settlement.
1t is no position at all.
The Austrian example will
not be without an effect on
German public opinion. If
Austria does, at long last. get
a peace treaty. and if the So
vietS do respect it, those Ger
mans who put national unity
ahead of the EDO will be for
titled in their arguments. If,
on the other hand. the Soviets
continue to hold out in Aus
tria, no German will believe
that a military neutral posi-
ton is compatible with free
dom.
Can Russian troops leave
Austria and set the country
free?
The impact of such a move
would not only be felt in all
parts of Germany but even
more in the East European
states. that. share with Aus
tria a long common history.
and until the First World War
had been. in whole, or in part,
within the Austro- Hungarian
union.
Why should Austria be privi-
Evening star., 1954-10-30

owner, dWell1ng on. Gather
street. Hillcrest Heights: cost,
$4,000.
Eastcrest Homes, Inc, "a
Pierce street NV, Washington,
owner; dwelling on Avon place,
West Hyattsville: cost. $4,000.
A. F. Wilson, II Sycamore
lane, Suitland. owner: dwelling
on Suitland road, Suitland; cost,
$4,000.
H. w. Gilbertson, 1906 Fifty
second street, Bla d e nsburg,
owner; dwelling on Fifty-second
street, Bladensburg; cost, SIT 500.
Edward Walter, 5l21 Fifty
third avenue. Camp Springs,
owner; dwelling on Sharon road,
Camp Springs; cost, $4,000.
Joseph M. Wilmington, Dun
bar avenue, Randolf Village,
owner: dwelling on Dunbar ave-
nue.. Randolf Village; cost. $10,-
900; architect, r. P. Keif1in.
Albert NJ. Elksnis, 1904 How
ard avenue, Beltsville, owner;
dwelling on Maple place, Belts
Evening star., 1954-10-30

Recent building permits issued
by Prince Georges County in
clude:
Alphonson Procopio. Seat
Pleasant. owner: four dwellings
on Porter avenue, Suitland; cost,
$4,000 each.
S & S Building Corp. 2723
Keating street, NARROW Heights.
owners: rs dwellings on st. Clair
drive, Twenty-eighth avenue.
Kenton place, NARROW Heights:
cost, $4,000 each; architect, v.
Scuderi.
Mildred C. Scheungrab, Wall
drof, owner; three dwellings on
Druid place, District Heights:
cost, $11, 900 each.
Lester Homes, Inc, 500 Riggs
road, Hyattsville, owner: dwell
ling on Thurman avenue, Hyatts-
vile; cost. $4,000; architect,
Lester PoretSky.
Harry Poretsky & Sons, Inc,
500 Riggs road, Hyattsville.
| owners; two dwellings on Thur
Evening star., 1954-10-30

vile: cost, $14.650; architect,
Shermans Friend.
o. d. Hutton & Son, Inc, 4515
Branch avenue. Silver Hill;
owner: two dwellings on Morris
street. Camp Springs; cost
$4,000 each.
Anthony Scarcia, 6107 Madi-
son street. Riverdale, owner;
two dwellings on Kenesaw street,
College Park; cost, $4,000 each,
Albert L. Luddepe. 6713 Four
teenth street NV, Washington,
owner; two dwellings on Edge
wood road, Hollywood; cost, $8,-
500 each.
Claude E. Branner. GIT Fiji
teenth street NV, Washington,
owner; two dwellings on Sew
enty fifth avenue, Carmody
Hills; cost, $4,000 each.
Harry A. Boswell Co.. Inc, 37l8
Rhode Island avenue, Mount
Rainier, owner; four dwellings
on Karlson court. Hyattsville;
cost, $4,000 each; architect,
John Samperton,
Evening star., 1954-10-30

Umberto Cognoni, 2l9 r street
NE, Washington, owner: dwell
ing on Sixtieth avenue. Capitol
Heights; cost. $4,000.
Raymond L. Brown, Clinton,
owner: dwelling on Sharon road,
Yorkshire Village; cost, $4,000,
j. E. and S. p. Beavers, 1912
Taylor street, Bladensburg, own
ers; dwelling on Ninety-fourth
avenue, Lanham: cost, $4,000;
architect, Paul Farley.
j. E. and S. p. Beavers, 1912
Taylor street. Bladensburg, own
ers; dwelling on Van Burne
street, Lanham: cost, $4,000;
architect. Paul Farley.
Harry L. Durity. Upper Marl-
boro. owner; two dwellings on
Armand avenue, Camp Springs;
cost. $4,000 each.
Claude E. Branner, GIT Fiji
teenth street NV, Washington,
owner; two dwellings on Con-
necticut avenue, Columbia Park;
cost, $4,000 each.
Evening star., 1954-10-30

man avenue. Hyattsville; cost,
$1,000 each.
Russell Tazelaar, 6753 Allen
town road. owner: dwelling on
Middleton lane, Camp Springs:
cost. $4,000; architect, T. H.
Kendall, jr.
Byron P, Pope, 4473 Fort drive,
Suitland, owner; nine dwellings
on Skyline drive and Clayton
drive, Morningside; cost, $13,500
each; architect, Batson Pope.
C. A. Strosnider, 3209 Bunker
hill road, Mount Rainier, owner:
dwelling on Bunkerhill road.
Mount Rainier; cost. $4,000.
r. M. Bradshaw, 1901 Thirty
eighth street. Brentwood. owner:
dwellings on Twenty ninth and
Taylor streets, Mount Rainier;
costs. $4,000.
G. E. Royalty. Is Maryland
avenue, owner; two dwellings
on Kipling parkway, District
Heights; cost, $4,000.
Counts & Smith, 3700 South
ern avenue, Hillcrest Heights,
Evening star., 1954-10-30

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Evening star., 1954-10-30

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Evening star., 1954-10-30

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Evening star., 1954-07-11

to his aide Bring n some tea he sighed.
When Zheltovs temper was restored. the two
generals went back to work.
It took good many days and a good many
conferences. but eventually all outstanding
problems were settled and a detailed agrce-
ment was drafted. But stil the Russians
wouldn't sign. Wen have to get Moscow's
okay." they explained. but it only take
day Or two.
A week dragged by. but nothing happened
Gruenther decided It was time for sharp
thrust. Choosing me as the swOrdpoint, he
sent me to Vienna with message to ZheltOv
that if the agreement wasn't signed promptly
General Clark would ask President Truman
to intervene with Stain.
MAmy Essuhae9ss
IT WASN'T exactly the kind Of message you
send to fOM-star general via lieutenant
colonel, which was my rank at the time. When
Zheltov had heard what Ihad to say he didn't
merely explode he fissioned He threat
ened me with everything from firing squad
to cOurt-martial for diaespect Of superiors.
When reported ZheltOv's reaction to
Gruenther. he hurried to Vienna to smooth
the rh1ied feathers. Zheltoy greeted him very
cordially but ostentatiously refused even to
shake my hand.
Gruenther noticed the slight and turned to
the Russian. I. Amy trouble between you twos"
he asked, innocent as child
Evening star., 1954-07-11

''Thayr insulted me. " ZheltOv grumbled
He gave me very rude message.
But that was what he was told to do. old
boyl Does the Russian Army get mad at
people Tor obeying Mders?" He slapped Zhel-
tov on the back Don't be 50 touchy!' For
moment Zheltov ailIred in his chair. Then
he rose, came around the table to me and
stuck out his hand.
I'm sorry. " he muttezed.
Dli1 P1pes
Two days later the agreements we're signed
and soon afterward We had Victory Parade
Of the troops Of an four nations. From the
reviewing stand where was hidden behind
the commanding generals and marshals, inter-
pUeting their words Of wisdom. saw two
other generals standing inconspicuoualyo on the
curb among the crowd. ZheItOv was smiling
down benignly on his companion. Gruenther.
The trim American was watching the troops
marching past. his jet-propelled mind already
far ahead Of those hard-WUn agreements he
had delivered to his Chief
And heres postscript to the whOle story.
Three years after the above. General Grucn-
ther and were both back home when he
called me long-distance from Washington.
The Russians have hlociaded Berlin. be
said. Our people IN Vienna are getting woc-
ried because they can't find those damn agree
ments We got Zheltov to sign Have you any
idea where they might be?"
thought back to the day in General
Claks Office when he had passed the precious
documents to his aide for top-secret handli1g.
l reminded Gruenther Of the circumstances.
Next day the General called back.
They found them, !" he said, '.just where
they should have been in Clarks files.
They'd been looking IN ny filesl' Ths End
Evening star., 1954-07-11
eRuEnTEER lef ond 1so, Is OF Iron M do.uae du.l

through the Soviet zone. food supplies for the
Viennese, and dozen other items Zheltov
was like an enormous bear trying to dismiss
Gruenther's doubts with sweep Of his paw.
.Gruenther. like an agile fencer. moved about
him, deftly parrying the paw and occasionally
iabbing his adversary lightly.
Evening star., 1954-07-11

At first the bear was s,lpercilious but then
he saw what he was up against. His verbal
llmges got wilder. and Gruenther had to fence
back more sharply The bear got annoyed.
Gruenther lowered his weapon, slapped his
adversary On the shoulder and said, ''Ollay,
pal Let's rest !" Zheltov relaxed and turned
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
Lack of Education
Our "Trojan Horse
To the Editor and readers of the

To the Editor and readers of the
PEOPLES VOICE:
Some of these days, you will hear of
successful politician getting on the
band wagon and riding into office on
the strains of school Days" The time
is fast approaching for political cru
sade to improve the schools of this
nation.
School men have fought the battle of
the bulging class rooms for years. De-
feat is their reward unless they can
recruit two fisted parents and states
men in the fight to strengthen and
preserve democratic morality in this
country The hack-saw which will al
ways cut the bonds of slavery is edu-
cation, but it must be sharp.
Increasing teachers salaries to even
half what a baby-sitter commands,
would raise most teachers salaries to
nearly $4,000 per month. Obviously,
this great an increase would cheer the
teachers, but it would not solve the
problem. The classroom teacher who
has six and one half hours a day to
answer the sincere and legitimate ques-
tions of even thirty vivacious minds is
more frustrated than the voter on cleo
tion day. The student soon dispairs
of getting a hearing, and the police
dom because of this.
The answer to the dilemma unequivo-
cally is this: Thousands of school houses
are needed now; tens of thousands of
teachers are needed to bring them to
life and purpose; millions of text books
need to be printed, and the costs be
damned. The internal strength of this
country is at stake. Lack of education
is the Trojan Horse" of our time.
LongfelloW concluded:
Were half the power, that fills the
world with terror,
Were half the wealth, bestowed on
camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from
error
There were no need for arsenals nor
forts"
P.S.-How does your Representative
represent you on this ?-Sincerely,
KEITH B. HAMILTON, Elko, New.
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
COP "RE-RUNNIMG" ON 1862 CAMPAIGN
PROMISES TO LABOR, SAYS ANDERSON

LIVINGSTON-As far as labor is
concerned, the Republicans are ere
running the 1862 campaign, making
promises they have no intention of
keeping" State Sen. Leroy Ander-
son said Tuesday.
"The President recently promised
the American Federation of Labor
that he would get rid of the "union-
busting provisions of the Taft-Hart-
ley Act" the Democratic candidate
for Congress in Montanas Second
fEastern) District told rally audi
ence.
"This promise would carry more
weight if the President had not made
the same promise in 1852, and then
failed to back up his Secretary of
Labor when Mr.. Durkin sought
just revision of the law.
The people's voice., 1954-10-01

''The promise would carry more
weight, too, if the President had not
personally appointed so many anti
labor members to the National Labor
Relations Board, men who have made
Taft-Hartley more Furnishing than
ever before.
"The President blames the Demo
Gratis for killing Taft-Hartley re-
vision" Anderson went on. "Now the
President knows, if he knows any
thing about labor laws, that fair
minded Senators had no choice but
to kill the bill by which the Republi
cans would have made Taft-Hartley
even more anti-labor."
Anderson came here from a noon
meeting at Bic Timber Wednesday
he spoke at Columbus and Nye.
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
Bankers, Bonds,
Bureaucrats and Peace

Strange to say, we are being saved
from war in the Orient, advocated by
Mr. Dulles, Gen Mark Clark, Senator
Knowland, Mr.. Nixon, by our public
debt.
Bankers always favor public debt. 1t
provides a safe place where they can
lend the money of their depositors.
The State of Montana has ready as
sets enough to pay all it's debts But
the bankers want it to remain in debt
to keep us paying interest. The insur-
ance companies concur.
While some few ordinary folks hoard
bond or two, the bulk of all United
States bonds is possessed by banks and
insurance companies.
But when the mortgage gets to a
certain size, the bank will not let the
rancher have any more money.
The National Debt, 281, 900, 900, 900 dol
lars, is so large that the bankers are
afraid of it. canadian dollars are above
ours-a serious symphony
War is the most expensive conduct
known. Besides the loss of our gallant
boys in Korea (this never enters into
the calculations of financiers) the Ko-
rean War cost SIG billion; not to men
tion the loss of what the men in the
war service would have produced if
in usual work.
SO, while greenhorns think our being
at peace is due to the good wishes of
the Administration, it is only because
the high financiers-the real power in
ashington-decided that they would
not let our Ostensible rulers in Wash
ington increase the debt by another war
Thus from the manure pile of public
DEBT springs the fragrant flower of
Peace.-LOWNDES MAURY, Butte
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
Education or Juvenile
Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency has been in
creasing alarmingly for some time
What is the cause and what is the
remedy? Some attribute the cause to
comic strips others to lack of parental
affection, lack of entertainment, brok en-
homes and numerous other things.
Everybody seems to be just guessing
\ recent news item credits Claude F.
Morris, Cascade County Chief Proba-
tion Officer, for the statement that his
records prove that poor (school)
grades and delinquency go hand in
hand" This is not surprising. Disci-
pline is not taught or enforced in
schools these days, or in the home be-
cause parents are opposed to it for
some unaccOuntable reason.
Although the cost has increased more
than ten fold, the standards of instruc-
ton have seriously deteriorated in the
last so years. Present day pupils would
have been flunked in every grade in
the little red school house of half a
century ago. They can neither read,
write, nor spell these days, geography
is seldom taught any more and mathe-
matics is largely acquired by osmosis.
Maj. Gen. Sturgis, Chief of the Army
Corps. of Engineers writing in Civil
Engineering magazine regarding the
low quality of engineering graduates
asks, How can they teach college level
engineering and scientific subjects to
classes of which only $3.50 can cor
rectly multiply 22x314. In a study of
100000 eighth graders, only per cent
could find 81 per cent of CO."
More and more money is being re-
quested all the time to teach less and
less. 1t is getting so the teachers prin-
cipal job seems to be just baby sitting
for irresponsible parents. Pupils are
not required to do home work any more
although study is still necessary in
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
These Were Not Communists

Sen. Mccarthy will not publicly sup
port the Republican campaign this fall
but he will continue his anti-subversive
diatribe.
OF the 3S men dismissed or suspended
by his charges against the Monmouth
Army post 21 have now been reinstated.
After the Chasonow investigation and
his reinstatement with full time back
pay and scathing comment by some of
the large dailies showing that these
investigations We're based on allega-
tions rather than the due processes of
law, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
admits his error and will revise the
rules governing such matters-Super-
thinking is often, another instance of
brain storm.
My time has been long which helps
me to believe that our people will
manage "to wabble right. JOHN
BARNARD, Poison.
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
The Readers Forum

order to learn. 1 can testify from my
own experience that the hardest work
in the world is to do nothing. 1t is also
the most demoralizing thing in the
world. The devil finds work for idle
hands to do. Give the pupils plenty of
home school work and see that they do
it. 1t will give them something to occu-
py their time, they will be getting an
education, and juvenile delinquency
will decline 500 Eliminate juvenile
idleness and comic strips can be for
gotten
In any case, for heavens sake, teach
them to read, write. and spell before
asking for more school money. Teach
them discipline while they are young,
instead of waiting until they are
grown UP and have to learn the hard
way-in the penitentiary.-E. J. PARK
INSON, Great Falls.
The people's voice., 1954-10-01
Young Farmers Face Rough Go of 1t
Under COP Income -SIashing Program

The million young families who have begun farm careers
since the face especially difficult economic plight in
period of high COSTS falling prices and Tightening credit
intensified by the Republican ncomeslashg farm program
The large capital ouay for land and equipment and the
agemen skill required in modern farm business reports
the Agriculture Committee of the National Planning Assoca
ton makes the beginning group farmers vulnerable
to economic conditions than in early days.
The people's voice., 1954-10-01

want to farm should stay in agri-
culture or should receive special edu-
cational assistance and credit arrange
ments, but they believe that every
year sizeable underestimate
at about 80,000-will be needed to
replace retiring farm operators, even
with the trend toward larger, more
highly capitalized units. These young
families can start on some kind of
farm with fairly limited capital, but
their major difficulty will be in OBJ
tanning the capital required to de-
velOp economic farm units.
The committee, noting a possible
argument that more credit for agri-
culture would mean larger farm sur
pluses, recognizes that loans to agri-
culture should be granted more freely
in some years or sets of years than
others. "The issue," it says, ''is not
more credit to agriculture, but re-
direction of credit towards the farms
that need it most, with provision for
particular adjustments that are most
needed, and the development of bet
ter arrangements for intermediate
credit" And such intermediate cred
it, according to the committee, should
be based on loan amortiZed over
period of three to seven years.
Most beginning farmers, Mr.. Buck
finds, can generally get short-term
credit for such annual operating
needs as feed, seed, fertilizer, or feed
er cattle. But "the traditional loan
for six, nine, or twelve months pro-
vides too short time to permit re-
payment from earnings of invest
ments in farm development and re-
organization. Moreover, it often is not
based on a sound program and, thus,
may be used for items of less than
Top priority"
What new farmers sorely need
for development of an economical
ly successful farm unit" he says,
'is termediate credit for acquisi-
ton of working capital with pro-
vision for repayment from earnings
over several years.
Local banks are urged by the COM
mittee to give more attention to the
loan needs of new farmers. Some are
already pioneering in such lending |
programs, but many do not have the
risk capital or personnel to assist in
developing farm programs which |
would warrant provision of adequate |
credit. To overcome this,
the committee recommends that laws
and inspection procedures regulating
banks be revised to allow and en-
courage greater extension of such
credit while protecting depositors'
funds, and that increased funds be
made available to banks for such
loans under mortgage insurance ar
similar to that used under
the Federal housing Act or under a.
arrangement similar to
that developed with the CT loan pro-
gram-in which some banks have
participated with negligible losses.
The NPA committee also calls
for revision of the procedures and
regulations of the Federal Inter
mediate Credit Banks and the Pro-
duction Credit Corporation so that
local Production Credit Associa-
tions will be able to make larger