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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-04-10
Hints For Her

GAY EASTER EGG feathers
IN HOLIDAY SHOES
Leather shoes, gay and festive
as Easter eggs, are Frightening up
the shop windows as Miss and Mrs.
America begin their annual pre-
Easter shoe buying spree.
You'll see fine leather pumps and
sandals, spectators and casuals in
a dazzling array of colors, includ-
ing Parakeet, Sweetheart Pink,
Honey, Butter Yellow, Sweetheart
Blue, Basque Red, Coral Sand,
Benedictine, Panama Ca creamy
BEIGE, Camel Tan, Moonstone and
host of others.
No matter what your preference
IN leather-be it calf or kid, suede
or glove-finished cattlehide-you'll
find it in the hue you like best and
in the style that will give a lift
to your Easter costume.
To aid in your Easter shoe shop
ping, here is birds eye view of
the four main groups-pumps, SAN
dals, day-long shoes and casuals
for country and relaxing.
Pumps - Open and Closed
This Spring you have tremen-
dous selection of pumps in smooth,
suede, patent and reptile feathers
high fashion or the more casual
type. In the closed toe pump, you
can choose from the round, the
tapered, a new modified tapered
and a square tapered toe.
Throat lines are either round or
square, and the latter come in mar
row, medium and wide So you're
almost sure to find what you want.
In open toes, there are coolies of
new patterns with spotlight on the
wide throat line.
Heels are causing quite a stir in
leather pumps this Easter They
range all the way in height from
the verify tall to the almost
flat pancake. When you hear the
word key, don't think of beer this
spring. Together with pyramid and
barrel, they are terms for the vary
ing heels, and they look just as
you would think from the name.
The built-up leather heel is at the
pinnacle Of its popularity. So much
so that you find it not only in
the medium and low heights, but
in the slim heels as well.
And if you like little frou-frou
on your pumps, you can have APP
pliques in one or two colors, varied
lacing, jewels, embroidery. buttons,
buckles and so on.
Sandals Stripping and Strap
ping
If you're the gay and airy type
and prefer leather sandals, this is
the year for you. The T-strap, a
high fashion hit last year, is hot
news in all lines this Spring.
You can get it in all colors Of the
rainbow with bright pastel leather
shades predominating. One very
interesting version we previewed
features a T-Strap which forks
about half way down-with each
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-04-10

Generous Americans contribute
well over four billion dollars an
nually to charity and religious or
CARNATIONS. OF this amount nearly
200 million dollars goes to the fund
raisers themselves.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-04-10

Permanent farm prosperity will
not be found around the corner but
around the contour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Our Attitude Toward Asia

We are being rather hypocritical IN
our condemnation of the peace treaty
between France and Indo-China, in
deed. with all our attitudes and rela-
lions towards the Asiatics.
This country was sired in revolution.
We destroyed the British government
by might of arms and took over the
country, for which we had no more
claim than the French had on ndo-
China. We were UNLIMITED trespassers
in O strange land and we took over,
showing the Indians into reservations
and exploiting the South by an i'm
moral use of slave labor imported by
money-mad Christians. We swept from
New England to the South, from the
South to the West, from the West to
Alaska. Always restless, always moving.
Later we added the Philippines apd
Hawaii. Recently we took Guatemala
under our wing, changing the pro-
Communist government for military
junta more friendly to the United
States.
Our empire building has not always
been in the interests of liberty and
democracy. The WITHDRAWING Puri-
tans were matched by intolerant Catho-
lies of Maryland and Louisiana and
Jewish slave dealers of our Civil War
period. Unfortunately, all new citizens
did not come to America in search of
liberty and religious tolerance-they
came in search of wealth and power,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
BY Charles E. TroceweN

There are many persons today who.
if accused of it. would deny it, but
basically at the bottom of their minds
they rather fear and despise the writ
ten word.
They prefer deeds.
But he who does not fear words, but
rather loves them, as making human
beings what they are at their best,
will naturally prefer in some cases
reading about thing rather than
doing it.
The novel. the short story, the mar
rative of any sort, is just an extension
of conversation. the telling of facts
and fiction. by one person to another.
1t Is more than that because 1t allows
for selection, plotting, stream-of CON
sciousness, and so on.
A novel is nothing to be afraid OF.
but something very much to be praised
as giving vicarious life and extension
of reality to millions of persons who
would not otherwise have such expert
ences. Radio and television are no
other The written word has various
advantages over spoken words. and
perhaps some shortcomings In the
main, the story is beloved Of mankind;
and q book presents it to us in its
best form, many will think. These
viii prefer to use their eyes on books.
rather than on television shows or
other spectacles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
This and That

Templeton Jones. who is great
reader. sometimes wonders at some of
his friends.
They do not read.
Especially they do not read fiction,
novels, short stories, or the like.
Now, story. to Jones, is story
1t is q story if it tells story, no mat
ter whether it is spoken or written.
It seems, somehow. that the written
words frighten some persons away.
Why? ,.y
They seldom are caught with novels
in their possession, and Templeton
Jones wonders If this does not show
childhood training 81
AS amazing as it may be, there were
millions of persons living around 1900
who feared the word novel"
The book itself. was sort of devil
sent by the powers of darkness to cor
rupt the youth of the land.
No worse charge - well. almost -
could be brought against an otherwise
good housewife than that she remained
on q couch reading novels.
In one small town of America, where
Jones was born. q doting husband pur-
chased and brought from the nearest
city hundreds Of novels for his be-
loved, wife.
This was regarded. by the stern
morality OF that. day and place. as al
most sinful. II not quite so. j
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31

While other housewives were working
their hands to the bone for the bene-
fit of their husbands and children, this
lazy person, so the gossip went. was
lying about and reading. Tsk, tsk.
In a farming community, used to
getting up at o'clock in the morning.
and going to bed with the chickens.
reading was worse than just wasting
time. -
Reading was, in that day and place.
something to fear. It meant that a man
could not pillow and hoe and rake, that
woman could not bake and wash and
sew.
1t was an economic question, then. as.
plainly as it was a moral one.
Playing cards, too, was regarded with
the. deepest suspicion.
But the narrative tale. in some form
or other, is as old as mankind. 1t
reaches back through the bard who
wrote the "Iliad," and forward to the
drinking halls of the Anglo Saxon
kings.
In these days, a clerk fclark. as he
was called was the only reader and
writer
The lords and fighting men deemed
it unworthy of man to read or to
write.
Perhaps some of that idea has sur
vived In q basically Anglo-Saxon world
such as the. United States Of America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31

zerland GAG, France 278 and Italy 37l.
Now, one would suppose that our
great baking industry, with the above
figures before them, would make some
effort to find out why the average
Frenchman eats 278 pounds of flour
while the ordinary American grum-
blingly eats only ITO. One would
suppose that the industry, with po-
tential market for double present pro-
duction, would move with energy to
seize the golden opportunity. In the
absence of any concerted activity on
the part of industry to provide this
country with first-claSs bread and at
the same time settle the problem of
the wheat surplus, two alternatives
suggest themselves: Cd One of the
great national trusts might plan an
educational campaign involving the
creation of number of model bakeries
in which the bakers art would be
taught, or ca Mr.. Benson's depart
ment might do the same thing.
Obviously, we cannot deal with our
surplus of wheat by storing it, The pos
Sibilities of expectation are strictly
limited. We must and we can con-
sumo it.
Robert p. Skinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
-Haynie, Greensboro Daily News
"Hold Your Coat, Friend?"


ested parties to let the question be
handled in the U. N. Other positive
accomplishments of the U. N. are the
peaceful withdrawal of Soviet troops
from Iran, and of British and French
troops from Syria and Lebanon. There
are many more.
Perhaps the most solid accomplish
ments of the United Nations have been
in the fields of health, medicine. and
child welfare. Medical aid has been
given to many countries against
malaria; more than SO million children
have been tested and Is million inocu-
lated against TB; millions of children
are every day receiving supplemental
food, including milk. Ten specialized
agencies carry on international pro-
grams related to economic, social, and
cultural problems. programs that reach
to the hearts and minds of people.
Imperfect as it is, the United Nations
is the only machinery we have for
international cooperation. Surely it is
more in the American tradition to try
to do everything we can to use and
improve this machinery than to simply
give up and say Its no use."
Robert E. Mclaughlin,
President, Capital Area Association
for the United Nations, Inc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
U. N. Accomplishments

DR.. Verbrycke's letter on July 26 ex-
presses feeling Of Illustration which.
many Americans share because the
United Nations has not solved many
OF the problems confronting us in our
search for a peaceful world. However,
DR.. Verbrycke makes the, common mis-
take of blaming the United Nations
for problems which would surely have
existed whether there had been an
international organization or not, and
indeed might well have been much
worse.
The United Nations Is not world
government. so it scannot accomplish
action by legislation orr decree; it can
only furnish a forum where the worlds
statesmen can talk out their problems
and try to reach agreement. Surely DR..
Verbrycke would not argue that it
would be good idea to stop talking
and start shooting. He challenges DR..
Shirley to name even one positive
accomplishment of the United Nations.
am sure DIR. Shirley does not need
any help from me or any one else to
do so, but wish to point out that
talk" in the United Nations has led
to many positive desirable actions and
prevented many undesirable ones. For
example, working with the Netherlands
and the Indonesians, the United Ma
tions found the way to give full in
dependence to the rs million peoples
inhabiting Indonesia. Many people
believe that If that same formula had
been applied to the French and the
Indochinese the present unhappy situa-
ton there might have been prevented.
That failure was due, not to the
u. N. but to the refusal of the inter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Portugal VS.. India

There is possibility Of SenSeleSS blood
letting III the dispute over Portugal's three
little colonies on the west coast Of India.
The colonies-Goa, Daman and Diu-are
remnants Of the golden days Of the Portu
guese empire In the 18th century Rela-
lively speaking, with their population Of
$4,000 and their total area Of 1900 square
miles, they have only minor significance.
But the feelings on both sides Of the con-
troversy about them-feelings that seem
to be made up largely of hurt pride--have
grown bitter to the point Of violence.
The Lisbon governments view, as ex-
planned by President Salazar, is that Portu-
gal must retain the colonies because they
are economically important to 1t, because its
citizens have populated and developed them,
and because they should continue in their
present status as monument to "Portu-
guese discoveries and a small hearth of the
spirit of the West in the East" Prime Min
lister Nehru, however, has made clear that
he will not agree to the existence of such
foreign enclaves on the soil Of independent
India, and he has demanded that Lisbon
negotiate for their return to his country
demand that has been ignored for some
years past.
This unfortunate dispute has now
reached stage where shooting trouble
could develop at any moment. Although Mr..
Nehru has said that his government will
not use force to get what he has demanded.
Indian nationalist have seized number Of
Small Portuguese settlements and pro-
claimed their intention to "liberate" the
three colonies, whose people are said to be
preparing for armed resistance. The danger
of bloodshed thus appears to be very real It
is situation that can have tragic conse-
quences unless Lisbon and New Delhi act
promptly to bring it under control with wise
craftsmanship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Annuitunts' PLIGHT
Robert p. Skinner.

I read the letter signed "Annuitant
for Six Years" with much interest
am also in the class of Federal an
nuitants limited to an annuity of
$3.50. When 1 retired in 1945 an an
nuity around $4,000 appeared to be
enough to take care of myself and wife
for the remaining few years of my life,
provided 1 lived scrupulously, or so 1
thought. But the cost of living began
jumping, and I am unable to make
ends meet.
Il held a position in the Government
during World War I. I never thought
the position was so important 1t is
true that there was great demand
on the outside for employees doing the
class of work in which was engaged.
Also the Government requested me
several times by letter not to leave it
at that time. Now the tables are re-
versed. I need help but the Govern
ment has deserted me. There must be
some honor in the Government.
B. J. ID.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Catherine Not Our Friend

In letter signed Old Fogey in Mon
days Star. the following statement oc-
ours. the writer arguing in favor of adj
uniting Red China to the United Ma
tions: Suppose the Tsar of Russia had
refused to recognize George Washing
tons first administration because he
disapproved our republican form of
government, ETC., ETC."
THE fact is that Catherine the Great
was Empress of Russia at the time and
; she did refuse to recognize the new
revolutionary government of the Amer.
leans. - 49, Cora March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Not Just for Propaganda

President Eisenhower has acted in keep
ing with humanitarianism in offering to
send surplus American food to the people
of the food-stricken areas of Communist
controlled East Germany, Czechoslovakia
and Hungary. The puppet Red regimes may
Spurn the offer as propaganda trick, but
that does not alter the fact that the Danube
River has been on rampage that has in
ficted hunger and other suffering on many
men, women and children in the three
countries.
Actually, the same sort of aid-which
is authorized by recently approved legisla-
ton under which surplus food may be sent
in time Of emergency to friendly people
without regard to the friendliness of their
governments being extended to the
Danubian distress areas in Austria and West
Germany, and it has been offered also to
Yugoslavia. Accordingly, regardless of what
the Communists may say, the Presidents
gesture is not cynical move in the cold
war but sincerely sympathetic act de-
signed to alleviate human suffering on both
sides of the Iron Curtain. The propaganda
aspect is merely incidental and scarcely
avoidable.
Last year, when the President offered
relief to the hungry East Germans, the
Communist rulers answered with Surly
rejection and warned their subjects not to
accept any of the proffered food-a warning
that went largely unheeded. If there is
similar rejection now, the propaganda eff
feet is likely to go against the Reds, but that
will be a thing chiefly Of their own making,
brought upon themselves by their refusal
to respond affirmatively to gesture of
American good will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Unified Delinquency Fight

Police Chief Murray has given proper
recognition to the gravity of the juvenile
delinquency problem in his reorganization
Of police activities bearing on youth in
crime. The co-ordinated setup which the
Commissioners have just approved is pat
termed generally along the lines of modern
lied juvenile units in number of large
police departments. The trend in such de-
partments is to give greater emphasis than
in the past to preventive police work among
children-and it is good to know that this
will be one of the major aims of the new
program here.
There has been much criticism, and
UNDERSTANDABLE so, of the lack of co-ordina-
ton among the local Police Department, the
Juvenile Court and other official agencies
concerned with youthful criminality. Chief
Murray found that similar criticism could
be made of his own department., which has
had several divisions interested in various
phases of the delinquency problem but
often acting independently Of one another.
Thus Captain Ryan's Juvenile Squad ham
died cases involving boys, the Womens Bu-
reau was responsible for delinquent girls,
the Missing Persons Bureau hunted for lost
children of both sexes and the Police Boys
Club dealt with underprivileged boys in
need of supervised play to "let off steam"
All of these facets of the police Juvenile
program are to be brought together under
the overall supervision of an inspector who
will devote full time to the important job.
And the merged unit will be directly re-
sponsible to the Chief of Police.
Inspector John E. Winters, who was
promoted from captain to head the juve-
nile division, has had no academic training
in social work. But he has had some very
valuable practical experience in the field Of
juvenile crime control, as veteran pre-
cinct officer and more recently as COM
mander of Washington's delinquency "sore
spot" No. precinct Inspector Winters has
mixed efficiency with common sense in
dealing with some of the difficult juvenile
cases arising in the precinct. His deter
mined efforts to reduce crime and delin-
quency in notorious No. 2 precinct have won
approval of his superiors and of civic groups.
His prospective study of juvenile squads in
other cities and his enrolment for three
month course at the University of Southern
CALIFORNIA; Delinquency Control Institute
should contribute to the success of the re-
organization plan.
Now that the Commissioners Youth
Council is ready to tackle thesjob of bring
ing about better coordination among all
District agencies having to do with juvenile
problems, the efforts to combat the rising
tide of youthful lawlessness in Washington
should be far more effective than they have
been to date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Colt Meets Boy

He came up cluntstly. Nth hating gait.
To our young son, and paused to con.
template
Through analytical. refectiDe eyes
This treckled lad. not much beyond
colt-Size. ,+.-
In mutual trust. the tico stood dresmin0
there, .--.,
Each one entranced beneath the Others
stare:
And tDe could almost touch the bond
OF JOY 3.
Betueen the dwk,Dard fodl and prinninp
boy.
Virginia Moran Evons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31

Governor Gordon Persons of Alabama
cannot be accused of impulsiveneSs in de-
Gliding to invoke martial law in VIGOROUSLY
lawless Phenix City. The "gawdy bawdy"
gambling and general vice center long has
been troublesome problem for Army au-
thorities at Fort Benning, the big infantry
post just across the Chattahoochee River.
From time to time the Russell County town
has been "off limits" for SoldierS-aS it is
today. 1t was only after the gang-style
murder of Phenix CityS leading fighter
against corruption that the Governor or
dered National GuardSmen and State Police
to take over law enforcement there. The
sweeping cleanup now under way should
have been launched years ago.
The slain crusader was Albert L. Pat
terson, a lawyer who had Just won the DEM
ocratic nomination for State Attorney Gen.
eral-a victory tantamount to election.
Shortly before he was shot down by
unknown gunner in an alley near his law
office on June Is, he had announced that
he would continue his campaign to run
every racketeer out of town. He had also
charged that there had been vote frauds in
the efforts to defeat him. A Birmingham
grand jury two weeks after the killing sup
ported Mr. Patterson's charges with indict-
ments naming high Democratic figures.
Governor Persons ordered "qualifled martial
law" at Phenix City Immediately after the
Staying "to suppress the state Of lawless-
ness, intimidation, tumult and fear which
reigns in Russell County" The military
ousted all civil police officials, coniscated
their arms and proceeded to investigate the
murder and "other crimes" A specially
empanelled grand jury, organized under a
fudge imported from another county, began
an intensive inquiry.
1t is disgraceful, Of course, that any
American city could have become so de-
PRAYED as to require such stern action by
State authorities. But Phenix City had
shown its utter "unwillingness or inability
as the Governor put 1t, to do its own house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-31
Sounds in the NIGHT

A few nights ago, for the upteenth
time in recent months, was awakened
by the flendiSh doomsday wall of the
siren atop the Silver Spring firehouse
Awful as this sound may be, it seems
to take on new meaning when my
German shepherd contributes his howl
ing disgust to the incredibly powerful
screaming siren. I can tolerate an occa-
sional howl from my dog, but it becomes
utterly unbearable when the reason for
his distress is forcibly brought home to
me by a cold wet muzzle pressed
through the covers of my bed at 3 am.
am not alone in my misery. BY now
every one in Montgomery County is
aroused. say every one, because the fire
engines wall and screech their soul
soaring paths along Colesville road and
Georgia avenue. volunteer companies
from Rockville, Takoma Park, Bethesda.
KenSington, Gaithersburg, and Freder-
lex sneak into the area under cover of
darkness to join merrily in the ava
lanche of sound. Every ambulance
within twenty miles puts in an appear
ance. incidentally. this includes the
BCC rescue squad lately returned from
a brief rescue mission to the Okeefeno-
kee swamp where it heroically removed
tired polecat from its refuge atop a
eucalyptus tree while several alligators
looked on in considerable disgust.
So I toss and turn in the sitting
gloom, listening to the vile, Sleep wreck
ing sirens of fire engines, ambulances,
and scout cars laundering their noisy
way through the empty streets And as
plot the glorious day of revenge,
cold wet nose pokes at the soles of my
feet savoring small measure of canine
revenge against the intolerable state of
local Maryland affairs.
Sir, protest.
Robert f.. Steinlauf.