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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
On Retaining Germany

The so-called statesmen of the free
world have been, for nine years, study
ing the problem of Germany. The fruits
of their labor have continued to be a
series of policies having little or no
relation to the requirement of strength
and harmony outside the Iron Curtain.
Most Of these policies have, in fact.
reflected state of mind which has
Jagged atomic development by several
years. They have had little relevance
to present situations and no bearing at
all on such future situations that might
be predicted by any intelligent person
not blinded or exhausted by emotions
and by the subtleties Of day to day
diplomacy.
The latest of these policies is the
slogan: West Germany must be
armed" At no time since 1945 has such
a proposal been more contrary to our
interest in survival. In 1947, 1t was
discovered that the Russians were
maintaining and continually increasing
the largest land and air forces in the
history Of the world. In this situation
West Germany and Continental Europe
were regarded as power vacuums, yet
at the same time they were protected
from external aggression by the fact
that Britain and the United States were
armed with atomic weapons and Russia
was not. Under these circumstances the
creation in Europe Of an army capable
of stopping the Russians was totally
unnecessary. The blasting of several
major Russian cities would certainly
have been sufficient to Immediately stop
any aggression.
Today, however, the atomic defense
and offense of the West probably has in
most aspects, been equalled or exceeded
by Russia. The most remote parts OF
Britain, France, Germany. Spain, Italy,
Turkey and Japan lie less than 80 min
utes from total devastation by plane or
guided missile. Five H-b0mbS could raze
all of Britain and for this cogent reason
Britain would have nothing to do with
the recent situation in Indo- China. In
10 minutes, 10 outdated A-bonbs could
demolish Denmark. With this clearly in
mind, Denmark, by recently reducing
her armed forces, has In effect with
drawn from NATO.
It is in this context, with even the
most outstanding conventional" arma-
ments actually constituting a power
vacuum" that we wish to rearm Ger
many. 1t follows that we must give to
peoples who, 10 years ago, would con-
quer all Europe and Asia by force and
genocide. the atomic weapons needed
to devastate any large nation that OPP
poses them It follows also that this
tremendous economic burden of modern
ornaments will drive a people with
totalitarian instincts into Fascist or
Communist dictatorship committed to
union with East Germany and "lebens-
raum." Fortunately for the world, how
ever, West Germany is now divided into
British, French and United States Sec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
Bureaucratic Medicine

Local Physician" applauds the vir-
tues OF bureaucratic medicine. He
claims socialized medicine has worked
well In the Army. Navy. VA and Pub
lie Health Service. Local Physician"
believes its alleged success is due to
migrating and co-ordinating all COM
ponents Of the healing arts irrespective
Of income levels. Strangely, organized
labor advances the same arguments.
We must admit bureaucratic medicine
is an accomplished fact to an alarming
degree. In 1858. Government controlled
l,Il3,004 hospital beds out Of the Ma
tion's grand total of 1878, Ola. Govern
ment controlled hospitals provided the
1865, 061 patients admitted to all our
hospitals in 1853 with 1868, 491 900 Of
the 486.381.115 days Of patient-care.
Government already Is in dictatorial
control Of the most important segment
of the healing arts. the doctors work
shop.
Whenever patient enters Govern
Uncontrolled hospital. he forfeits
all right to free choice and unqualified
veto enjoyed by those in non-G Govern
mept hospitals Last year about one
in nine Of our Nation was admitted to
a hospital. The cost of hospitalized
illness is approximately half the total
cost of all medical care. would ask
Local Physician" this question: Should
control of the essential facilities which
serve collaborating (3.307, 1872 births in
1859 and catastrophe illness be in
the hands of bureaucrats or the tax
paying patients who eventually pay the
bill for all forms of health security?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
A Pair Of Champions

Few victories on the tennis courts have
been more popular than those scored on
Labor Day at Forest Hills when Victor Seixas
and Doris Hart won the national singles
championships. For both Of these athletes,
popular and attractive in their personalities,
had been trying for a long time in terms OF
a tennis career to win the big one" in their
home country. Ironically, each had won
the British championship and other inter-
national titles without being able to capture
the crowns at home.
In Miss Harris case there is the extra
accolade due her for overcoming q child
hood injury that once threatened amputa-
ton Of leg. AS in the case OF Ed Furgol,
whose crippled arm failed to keep him from
winning the National Open Golf Champion
ship this year, Miss Hart has adjusted her
game to her own physical abilities. At For
est Hills 1t was good enough for the title.
And when she and Mr.. Seixas went on to win
the mixed doubles championship their pop
ular triumph was complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
Encouraging News

Kurt Chaser says American papers,
including The Washington Star. are
read and their content noted in Ger
many" This is very encouraging news.
Let us hope that maybe in this
way certain democratic ideas will pene-
trate those Germans who still dream
about conquests and teach them that
peaceful work and good relations with
their neighbors will bring better results
for the Germans, for their neighbors
and humanity as whole, than attack
ing these neighbors as the Germans
did twice in such short period of time.
and as Mr.. CHASER predicts they will
attempt for the third time.
T. Paul.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
Blue Velvet Bows,

LAM has puppy
That follotDs phere she goes.
But Cuthy has bonnet
With tho blue Deluet botDsi
Arlene has dolly
That dances on its toes,
But Cdtty has bonnet
With ttc0 blue DeIuet botDsl
BuDie has rooster
That flaps his tDtrgs and crotrs,
But CGtty has a bonnet
With tho blue Delpet boiDsl
Linda has a garden
With rddislies tn rotDs,
But Cathy has bonnet
With t,po blue Delpet boiDsi
Sunbedms scatter treckles
Upon Miss CGthy's nose.
But CGthy doesn't mind them,
She has ttoo relUet boicsi
Emily Corey AlIemor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08

heritage which has been completely
forgotten by our Government in the
time of our most desperate need. Only
yesterday the sacred sovereignty of
Britain and France wrecked the EDO
and today we raise cry for absolute.
unlimited sovereignty for West Ger
many.
Progress in government and its ex-
tension are seldom effected except in
times Of chaos. At this time there are
throughout the world signs Of an awak-
ening to the fact that our small spheri-
cal community is faced with the alter
native of cataclysm or the institution
within the u. N. of the limited world
law necessary for the control of arma-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
undermining an Old Bridge

Virginia's agreement to pay half the
cost Of an extra ramp at the Rosslyn end
OF Key Bridge clears the way for an over
all reconstruction program at this busy Po-
tomac River crossing. Regardless of what is
done elsewhere to expedite the flow of traf-
hc across the river, relief for the bottleneck
conditions long existing on Key Bridge and
its approaches is overdue.
The proposed ramp to channel Virginia.
bound traffic onto the westbound lanes of
the George Washington Memorial Parkway
should have been built when the parkway
was extended beneath Key Bridge to Spout
Run. AT that time, however, Federal park
authorities were not disposed to encour-
age use Of the new parkway as traffic
relief outlet for weStbound motorists. Only
one ramp now connects the parkway with
the bridge at Rosslyn. This ramp enables
passenger cars to enter the southbound
lanes Of the parkway, en- route to downtown
Washington, Arlington boulevard or Shirley
highway. One leg Of the ramp also permits
cars from the Spout Run section to enter
the Rosslyn circle.
The new ramp is needed to reduce con-
gestion at the circle and to relieve condi-
lions on Lee highway, the three lanes Of
which are dangerously overloaded during
rush hours. The State Highway Commits
sion has promised to- allot $105000 toward
the ramp, with the Federal Government
paying the remainder. Meanwhile, the Dis
trict Highway Department will proceed with
plans for widening Key Bridge so as to
provide two additional traffic lanes. This
would be done by eliminating the present
sidewalks and building new walks onrcanti-'
lever structures outside the bridge. Thus
modernized the old bridge, built Of rein
forced concrete, should continue to render
useful service for many years to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

return postage.
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
G. Is there any index or catalogue which
tells what folk songs have been re-
corded?-K. K. T.
A. About 1000 folk song recordings
are included in 176-page book pub
lished by the Archives of American Folk
Song in the Library of Congress. and
available for so cents (no stamps &C
cepted) from the Superintendent Of
Documents, Washington IS. d. c. This
lists folk song records manufactured by
"a companies. but does not include all
minor labels. The book Is fully indexed.
@. When was Cataract House built at
Niagara Falls, and when did Abraham
Lincoln stay there? What happened to
the building ?-J. Nice.
A. The Cataract House was built in
1925. Abraham Lincoln stayed there on
July "a, 1854. The building finally was
destroyed by fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
Hurricanes Are Unreliable

With another hurricane in the of1ing,
the Weather Bureau has little time to an
swer the criticisms which have blown its
way since Hurricane Carol passed off the
map. Most of the complaints have come
from hard-hit Rhode Island, where resi-
dents had inadequate warning of the vi
ciousness of the impeding blow. Senator
Green of that State has called on the bureau
for an explanation. The trouble seems to
be that hurricanes are unreliable. This be-
ing so, hurricane forecasting is a decidedly
tricky business, often fallible- las the
Weather Man learned during the 1888 hur-
ricane and, with respect to Rhode Island,
during the recent storm.
According to bureau officials, Hurricane
Carol was trickier than most Of her ilk. After
building up slowly of the Caribbean area,
this storm remained virtually stationary in
the Atlantic for about four days prior to the
destructive movement northward. Carol
meanwhile was whirling in the usual coun-
terclockwiSe direction. When she hit the
coast she was revolving at go to 10 miles an
hour. She decided to start her northward
trip on Monday night of last week, bad
time for the bureau, since few observations
are received at night from ships at sea. The
first word of the movement came from
bureau radar operator at Norfolk early
Tuesday morning. A subsequent report
warned that the movement northward was
increasing rapidly.
On the basis of these preliminary radar
reports, the Washington bureau put out
storm warnings along the New York-New
England coast, forecasting so to go mile
northeasterly winds. These forecasts were
AZ hot yu
storm hit the Rhode Island coast 1t struck
inland farther than bureau experts thought
it would, so that the eastern edge Of the
whirling mass of wind was brought to bear
on the land To the 70-mile wind Of the
cyclone itself was added the 30-mile-an-
hour forward movement of the mass north
ward-with devastating results.
1t is true that Rhode Island had no adj
vance warning that such severe hurricane
was about to strike. In this respect the bu-
reau fell down. But, in fairness to the
Weather Man, 1t must be considered that
Hurricane Carol moved like thief In the
night and the bureau itself had insufficient
data on which to base more accurate esti-
mates of intensity and direction. The bu-,
reau emphatically denies that the Navy had
more or better information on Carol. The
Navy Just decided to play 1t safe by flying
its planes out Of the area.
It is to be hoped that Hurricane Edna,
beginning to pick up force off the Florida
coast, will be less coy with the hurricane
crackers than her destructive predecessor.
These tropical storms often follow north
easterly path that takes them away from
the Atlantic Coast But every once In q
while they wander from the usual path In
q quite unpredictable manner. Unfortu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08

1t Worked Here

New Yorks Operation u.s." crime
suppresSing tactic involving a concentration
of patrolmen in the city's most troublesome
precinct, conforms to a pattern that is IA
miliar to local police. New York authorities
call the plan an experiment in intensified
police work. It is no longer just an expert
ment in Washington, however. It has been
demonstrated beyond doubt here that more
policemen patrolling the streets, especially
at night. results in less crime
The Manhattan test is being conducted
in crime-ridden East Harlem, long blot on
the city'S law-enforcement map. Police
Commissioner Adams has ordered the num-
Der of patrolmen tripled in that area, part
of New York's big 25th precinct. Extra po-
lice cars and additional plainclothe
also have been assigned to the district. The
commissioner said the program is intended
to show how adequate police coverage of an
area can reduce crime.
That the plan will get results is evil
denced by the success of similar tests here.
When crime was rising at an alarming rate
in Washington, Chief Murray placed the
whole force on non-paid overtime duty and
increased the strength of patrols in the Sec
ond precinct and other danger spots. With
the restoration of funds to pay for overtime
work, the extra assignments were made
permanent. In addition, special crime-in-
vestigating squads we're established in each
precinct under veteran crime fighters and
all the squads were co-ordinated with one
another and with the Detective Bureau at
headquarters. The new system Of vigilance
has paid of well, as falling crime totals at
test. It is safe assumption that New York
will reap similarly salutary results from Its
adaptation Of the plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
Shooting Incidents and the u. m.

From the standpoint of trying to keep
the record straight, our Government prob
ably has made sound move in requesting
the United Nations Security Council to hold
a special meeting to consider the situation
arising from last Saturdays "wanton and
unprovoked" attack in which Soviet fighter
planes shot down one of our Navy patrol
bombers A miles OF Siberia.
Since the beginning Of the so-called
cold war, there have been no fewer than six
such Russian attacks on our military air.
craft in Europe and the Far, East, but here
tofore we have not carried our protests to
the Council. The reason for doing so now
for the first approximately is to utilize
this prime agency Of the q. N. as forum
in which sort Of global airing can be
accorded our country's version Of the Incl
dent and the accompanying indictment OF
the Kremlin.
In terms of countering Moscow's prop
aganda, this procedure can be useful. Thus,
for one thing. it can help to make clear to
the world at large that the United States
for reasons Of mutual defense-has right
and duty to patrol in appropriate areas
over the high seas around Japan. And by
the same TOKEN assuming that our Govern
ment has all the facts well in hand, the evil
dence presented to the Security Council can
serve to put the spotlight on the Krenlin
as a deliberate and callous violator Of inter
national lava violator guilty of not one but
several lethal attacks on American planes
flying legitimate and peaceful missions.
These and similar considerations leave
little room for doubt that the requested
meeting can have worthwhile effects, even
If not sensational ones. For vigorous pres
entation of the American case-wllich will
be handled by Ambassador Lodge, our chief
delegate to the u. N.-Should at least have
the virtue Of making 1t harder for Moscows
propagandists to befuddle international
public opinion with gross misrepresenta-
lions Of the incident. Further than that,
the councils proceedings ought to have
some educational value in the sense Of
pointing up the contrast between the Krem-
Inns belligerent deeds and its honeyed words
about peaceful co-existence."
With all that said, however, it would be
naive to suppose that the Security Council
can take any concrete action capable Of in
surfing against the repetition of attacks like
last Saturdays. At most, because of the So
Wet veto, there can be only talk about the
matter, and although that can be service
able to us in the propaganda field, it can
hardly guarantee the safety Of our planes
patrolling the skies close to the Iron Curtain
in Europe and Asia.
4 Actually, as long as such air operations
are deemed essential to our own and allied
security, we must accept the risk of getting
involved In shooting incidents precipitated
by trigger happy Soviet pilots, by deliberate
orders from the Kremlin or, possibly by a
venture over Russian territory by our own
flyers. That Is one of the hazards Of the
times we live in, and mere u. N. discussion
will not end 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08

nately, their whimsicalities are not easily
traceable far at sea. Then the Weather
Bureau and often the coastal regions are IN
for trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-08
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star Infor-
ton 5, d. G. Please inclose three t3l cents for
return postage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09
Feast or Famine?
Nee orthy Backs p
Probes With Steak
BY The Assoeioted Pres.

TUCSON. Ariz., April o.
Senator Mccarthy, Republican.
of Wisconsin says he will give
steak-a T-bone steak-to any
innocent person hurt by his in
vestigation of communism.
He made the offer in a No
gales (Mexico) cafe yesterday
when a Tucson reporter asked
if the probes had ever injured
the wrong people.
Let me put it. this way" said
Senator Mccarthy. IF I've hurt
any innocent party in my inves-
LEGATIONS. let my opposition pro-
duce this party"
The vacationing Senator
looked down at a big T-bone
steak on the table. and added:
If ] have hurt any innocent
person. I'll give him a T-bone
steak"
Senator Mccarthy and his
wife, Jean. plan to leave the
Tucson ranch of columnist
Westbrook Pegler. where they
are staying, for Washington this
week end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09
New York Prober Asks
Firing Of IS Teachers
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April d
Board of Education trial exam
liner has recommended the dis
missal Of Is teachers and a
teacher-clerk accused of failing
to cooperate with the board in
its drive against suspected sub
versiveS.
All had been charged with in
subordination for refusing to
give full answers regarding al
legged affiliation with the Com
munist Party.
Trial Examiner Arthur Levitt,
who started hearing the accused
last October 26, made the rec
concentrations to the board yes
terday. He is a member of the
board.
The anti-subversives drive by
the board started in July, 1851.
Prior to the trials recently COM
pleted before Mr.. Levitt, Is other
persons were dismissed after
trials.
Board officials estimate that
191 employees have left the
school system through dismissal,
retirement or resignation while
under investigation.
Normally, $4,000 to 10000
teachers are employed in city
schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09
Woman, 20, Is Fined SIS;
ShopIifted Gifts for Easter

A 70-year-old woman was
fined $25 today by Municipal
Court Judge Almond w. Scott
after pleading guilty to petty
larceny charge.
Mrs. Bertha Mount of the Ar
gonne Apartments, was arrested
yesterday. Women's Bureau De-
tective Pearl Phythian said Mrs.
Mount, frail and white-haired,
went to Woodward & Lothrop
department store with a $40
dress and asked for her money
back. Store officials, she con-
tinued. discovered the dress had
not been paid for but let her go
because of her age.
The policewoman said Mrs.
Mount was then followed by store
detectives who said they saw her
taking two pairs of mems shorts,
one mans tie and some beads
with a total value of 1894. She
was arrested as she left through
the F street door.
I'm very sorry" Mrs. Mount
said to Judge Scott. II didn't
mean to do it. All I can say is
I wanted some gifts for Easter. ="
II want to be human" Judge
Scott observed, because here is
a very old lady. I don't know
what motivateS her. Why this
is the third or fourth time she's
been here"
(Police records show Mrs.
Mount was arrested on petty lar
ceny charges in 1898, 1914 and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09
Catholic Bishop Hits
Mccarthy asHead|ine
Hunter, City SIieker'
By the Assoeioted Pres.

CHICAGO, April "a Roman
Catholic bishop today denounced
Senator Mccarthy. Republican,
of Wisconsin. fellow Catholic.
as headline hunter. The bishop
gave his description OF a true
anti-Communist.
A true anti Communist. Bishop
Bernard j. Shell said, would be
interested first in seeing that
people have enough to eat and
have descent homes.
The bishop did not mention
Senator Mccarthy by name in
his address, but referred to "the
Junior Senator from Wisconsin"
and a city slicker from Apple
ton" the Senator's home town.
Americans, he said. have been
the victims of a kind of shell
game" adding: 1--WE have been
treated like country rubes to be
taken in by city slicker from
Appleton"
Speaks AS Individual.
The bishop, an auxiliary pre-
late to Samuel Cardinal Stritch,
archbishop of Chicago, is the
founder of the Catholic Youth
organization and has devoted his
hfe as a churchman to improving
the lot of the underprivileged of
all ages.
He made it plain he spoke for
himself as an American citizen
and not for the Catholic Church.
He told a UAW-CIO Interna-
tional Educational Conference:
Although the church takes no
position, and will not, on such a
matter of public controversy, the
church does take a position on
lies. calumny, the absence of
charity and calculated deceit"
The prelate alluded to Senator
McCarthy's 1850 charges of Com
munistS in the State Department
and the Senator's row with the
Army, and said:
Excitement galore there is,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09

but precious few results as Com
munists, supposed Communists
phantom traitors and innocent
people are alike pursued from
headline to headline"
Sees Moscow Pleased.
Bishop Shell said the Krem-
lin would be pleased if this ma
ton were filled with hySteris
and suspicion.
He said that congressional
committees have done good work
and will do good work in the
future. and added:
But when they are .cynically
used to trap headlines rather
than spies, they mock them
selves and they mock us, too"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09

1949. The records show she was
released on personal bond in the
! first instance; paid $40 fine on
the second. No disposition is
noted in the records on the 1949
arreSt.)
And, your honor" said the
policewoman, sit was only a very
small amount"
Judge Scott, however, regret
fully" set the sentence as the
$25 fine or alternate of 80 days
in Jail. She paid the fine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09
Bird Watchers to Hike

A bird observation hike, spon-
Sored by the District Audubon
Society and National Capital
Park naturalists, will be held in
Arlington Cemetery at 7 am. to-
morrow. The group will meet at
the main gate to the cemetery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-09
Indiu to Sell Ore

India will permit sale abroad
Of 10000 tons of vanadium ore
this year, providing the ore is
certified to have no uranium con-
tent, New Delhi reports.