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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29

it asked for $40 million and was given
Still million.)
DR.. Eells relates that at New Delhi
he was shown the list Of Soviet books
and periodicals obtainable from the
Peoples Publishing House at Bombay
or from its branches In other cities
In India and Pakistan. OF the 1863
bound volumes and pamphlets listed.
two-thirds could be bought for less
than rupee (21 cents), and 80 for
less than eight annas Go cents) each.
They were in English or In the princi-
pal languages native to the country.
In contrast, there was relatively little
literature rejecting life In the democ-
racies. He named several American
magazines which, with British maga-
zines, were available In limited quanti-
ties and at 10 times the price of So
Wet magazines.
The most important publication
from our side which DR.. Eells encoun-
tered in India was an eight-page week
" newspaper, well-written. and called
American Reporter" Published by the
USIS in editions Of $4,000. it was dis
tributed free to q select mailing list.
A testimonial to its value was the ef-
fort Of Communists to get copies. so
they could destroy them.
At Karachi the vice chancellor Of the
university called attention to the NUM-
Der Of Communist publications on news
stands available to students at nominal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29

More than half century ago she was ac-
cepted In the capitals Of Europe as dele
gate Of all Americans. not merely those Of
her specific race or sex She possessed the
democratic philosophy In It's full flower Of
inclusive progress. Here in Washington she
was good neighbor, generously sharing IN
all constructive social work.
Mrs. Terrell lived to see the Negro CONF
munity achieve advances unmatched by
any other people. In many Of It's accom-
plishments she played commanding part.
But what pleased her most was the conf
dent belief that gain for any group IS profit
to all. She represented In herself noble
faith In one worldwide fellowship Of Gods
children without regard to any arbitrary
limitation Or handicap. SO she should be
remembered.
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District Flog Ceremony

On July IS. q ceremony was con-
Quoted to enlighten the populace con-
corning the existence Of a District Of
Columbia flag.
AS q native Of the b. c.. to put it
mildly. my emotions relative to the
ceremony remain mixed. wanting to
be proud Of my city and its nag but
being embarrassed at the treatment
Of citizens Of the d. c.
Upon viewing the nag one wonders
what 1t stands for. Does 1t stand for
freedom, justice. equality for all. rep
resentation in government or is 1t
merely piece Of cloth with bars and
stars representing the buildings. parks
and other material features Of the city?
It is conceded that the Nations Cap
ital should be governed by all the
citizens of the Nation. However, as ]
look at the D. c. nag it somberly
reminds me that the citizens Of the
D. G.. are excluded from any say in
the government of their Capital or
OF the Nation itself.
A nag which represents material
things only or indicates form Of gov
eminent which denies It's citizens q
vote in the operation Of that govern
ment Is hardly worthy Of being flown
along with the National emblem.
At the ceremony reference was made
to the faith Of our fathers" Such
reference is quite trite when one re-
calls the expression taxation without
representation is tyranny" which APP
plies to the citizens Of the D. c.
Until the citizens Of the D. c. are
accorded rights such as are accorded
citizens Of the various States. that Is.
elected and proportionate representa-
ton In Congress and q vote for the
President Of the United States. the
nag OF the D. c. can have no worthy
significance to any one.
Fractional Citizen.
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BY Charles E. Trocewen

Quincy suffered great indignity Is wen
as sharp pain.
The former came from being cor
nered by q creature 50 very much
smaller, the latter from the sharp pecks
delivered time and time again ct his
spine.
quincy held on grimly. now and then
uttering feeble n1eows.
At last the bold Jay new away with
q tremendous squawk Of triumph
The Joke was although old Quincy
couldn't zee it--that the cat had never
caught bird In his life.
But the jay, Of course. didn't know It.
We believe yellow cats remind birds
Of the jungle. or something.
It Is probable that the reception o
cat gets at the hands-or. claws--of
the bird population has no relation
whatever to the degree to which TO the
individual cat threatens them.
Our guess Is that birds. as well IS
humans, make very gross misjudg-
ments as to the friendliness or ugliness
Of living creatures they meet. In other
words, bird win let q real killer creep
up on It, but make great fuss over
some innocent old tomcat which asks
nothing better than to live-and-let-live
IN this We al may End . lesson.
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This and hat

human intruder on the back OF the
neck at nesting time.
The catbird, being gentler, Is not 30
often seen chasing the feline popula-
ton. but does sometimes, as our cor
respondent points out.
Catbirds generally build their nests
too low for the good Of their fiedglings.
This permits the bird-catching cat
to make an easy haul.
Not all cats are bird catchers, BY any
means; some Of them seldom, II ever
catch birds. and the latter mostly seem
to recognize this.
There is q certain type Of cat eand
good feeding has nothing to do with It,
which rather specializes In catching.
This killer-cat as it may be called,
is well known to the bird population,
and Is generally set upon BY the jays
and Others the moment 1t appears.
The clamor serves to warn young
birds that something very much 70
their undoing is afoot.
The yellow cat is regarded ny All
birds as q special Toe.
our old quincy, d beautiful yellow
specimen, was chased up tree BY q
blue jay. and then out to the end Of .
branch
There, holding on By al four feet.
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prices. In contrast. publications from
the democratic countries were scarce.
But also In Pakistan there was q a.
page magazine. Free World" put out
by the USIS. DR. Eells said it was the
best counter to Soviet efforts in It's line
he had found anywhere. Unfortu-
nately it was necessary to price 1t at
eight annas, or about twice the price
charged for similar Soviet publications.
The significance Of the Soviet ac-
tivity at Adds Abaha lay in the fact
that the Russians were credited with
directing the Communist propaganda
aimed at the rest of Africa lying to the
south.
In Upper Egypt DR.. Eells visited
Assault College. The president showed
him half dozen copies Of an attrac-
lively illustrated magazine, students
Of the World. They had come addressed
to the Captain Of the Football Team"
Since the college had no football team.
the president opened the parcel and
found the magazines which he de-
Scribed ais sheer and unadulterated
propaganda" They were samples Of
the Arabic edition Of publication is
sued at Prague.
These incidents Others are cited, too
may seem long way OF, but DR..
Eells quotes Lenin's line: 1.-THE road
to Paris leads through Peking. Shang-
hal and Calcutta" Communism is
well advanced along that road.
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Last Letter to Mary
Daughter Of Helen Hayes and
Charles McArthur)

Daughter OF Helen Hayes and
Charles McArthur)
Haptng Just read those lopely notes
Addressed to yoif.
From one iDho guided glorious bloom.
And then Uithdrep;
But one tDho still mould hare you kftotc
The heritage
One day yours for the taking. dear.
That honest mage:
Having Just read those letters. stDeet.
And learning OF
Grandmother's hand IN Mothers hte.
And an the lone
Stored up to bless you. iChose earth
0roiDth
Stopped at nineteen:
] think the blossom OF such hope
Keeps He1Uen green.
Alma Roberts Giordoa
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"KENsINGToN, Md.

"KENSINGTON, Nd.
Dear Sir:
NOW, here is new one on me:
.'The neighbor's cat can't come out
hut two birds (SorAe call them cat
birds) fly around her and peck ct her
back and this keeps UP the whole
evening
.They Just follow this cat around
and hiss and call and fly right over
her. She's q young cat. ] fear for
their lives. she may get one OF them
one Of these days.
NOW, do you think she may have
caught one Of their young that they
do this to torment her! Every one
that sees this performances marvels
ct It.
.Tell me il you have ever seen the
Respectfully. / >.
Some cats strike some birds as being
very bad creatures.
The birds gang up on such cats. CRY
and call. nv down and peck them. try
To drive them away.
The hluejay Ii most often seen flying
1t cats.
The mockingbIrd. next
These. Of course, win even peck =
d
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Souets Aheod in Information Contest?

-
n INDIA AND RAAlS1A ~ me Com
munistS make y possible % naiy
Soviet books and periodicals for FAM
tastically small sums. Among the
popular magazines available Ii Soviet
Land an attractively Illustrated fort
nightly Ia English. At the other end
Of the scale are selected works Of Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels ii thick
cloth-bound volumes at . cents .
volume.
Such Ii the competition the United
states information Service faces IN the
Indian peninsula.
The soviet information Services III
Adds Ababa occupies several large
ground moor rooms and has huge pic
lures. some iii color. attractively dis
PLAYED. Magaxines III variety Of
LANGUAGES lie available. The USIS, on
the other hand, has srnall, though
excellent. library In second-iloCr guar
ters. Its pictorial display. important
where there are Language difdculties, Ii
nleager.
These are come Of the observations
of DR.. walter Crosby Eells In re-
Gently published volume. Communism
il Education IN Asia, Africa and the
PAR pacific (American Council on
Education: $3).
DR.. Eells was Adviser on Higher
Education to the occupation forces In
japan from 1g47 to 1851. Before that
~ was an officiai Of the Veterans ADJ
n,inistration and now he Is on the fac
nItv 81 Catholic University. Leaving
Tnlkyo ii the spring Of 1851, he and his
various countries on their way home.
The chief interest Of DR.. Eells was
in the penetration or communism into
education. HE found that In many
countries there is ample evidence that
the sinister influence Of the Kremlin Is
increasing in the schools. colleges and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Tribute to Judge Moves

I have read with progressively i'm
creasing nausea the disturbing reaction
Of certain obtuse members Of the gem
eral public to the omniScience Of Judge
Alfred d. Noyes In connection with
juvenile matters. am forcefully re-
minded OF Shakespeare's heart-search-
ing ejaculation, you rocks. you stones,
you less than senSeleSs things!' and Of
his curt observation, Lord, what fools
these mortals bel" II ever pearls were
cast before swine. Judge Noyes Is cast
ing them now.
Bud" as Judge Moves is affectionately
known to his fellow lawyers, among
whom he enjoys the highest esteem.
admiration and respect, Is consistently
regarded in juristic circles of this
county and State as "the indispensable
man." What the enlightened, Who
would presume to censure him. do not
know, is that he abandoned an ex-
tremely lucrative law practice In order
the better to serve youth, with whose
welfare he was charged. This writer
has no hesitance in asserting that q
peer to Bud Moves cannot be found
anywhere at any salary. His conScien-
tious and meticulous attention to de-
tail, his understanding and sympathetic
approach to juvenile problems, his self
less and unwavering devotion to duty.
all place him singularly in category
by himself. Such men cannot be p,ir-
chased like so many beans over the
counter at the corner grocery store.
Busy bodies. with little else to occupy
them than the public venting Of their
indiscrimination through their unwar-
ranted and baseless attacks upon an
eminent jurist. would be Of infinitely
greater service to their fellow man by
combining their venomous utterances to
the back fence, where their acrid
mouthings may be thoroughly glutt0n-
lied by sordid gossip mongers Of their
own ilk.
william s. Stanley.
President Kensington Chamber Of
Commerce,
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Reorming Germany

H +
The question Of German rearmament
is to the fore. Italy is ready to APP
prove. France must soon decide.
Why does Germany want to rearm?
For self-defenSe, Of course. Yet Korea
and the Berlin airlift prove that we
would defend her. II need be.
Gernnany.s aims include not only self
defense but reunification and recovery
Of some lost territory. She has already
waged two terrible wars for what she
considered just cause. Should she
have q third chance?
We strive to build good will among
the peoples behind the Iron Curtain.
But this generation Of Russians can
never forget the devastating German
invasi0ns. Our support of German re-
armament only makes them more hos
tile toward us and reader to sacrifice
for their own war machine.
will the net result Of German re-
armament be to increase our deterrent
strength, and thus serve to prevent
war--or will it furnish additional In
centive for those who, fearing our In
tentions to liberate the satellites and to
instigate revolt that might spread to the
very doors Of the Kremlin, favor ale
out assault upon the West before the
Ruhr arms plants and German milf
tary might could be effectively
organized?
Robert S. Field.
Yfx>AI Ia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Curling Senator Mccarthy

Senator McCarthy'S defense Of himself
as q committee chairman and the resolution
Of censure which Senator Flanders Is ex-
pected to call up tomorrow are not birds OF
the same feather. But neither can they be
treated as two entirely separate and distinct
things.
The Mccarthy statement was submitted
to the Jenner subcommittee, which Is con-
sidering proposal that the Senate should
adopt code of "fair procedures" to govern
committee hearings In essence, the Wis
consin Senator's position is that he has
not been unfair to witnesses, and that
there is nothing wrong with the present
procedures.
vermont's Republican Senator Flanders
has offered resolution censuring and rep
rimanding Senator Mccarthy, in connection
with his committee hearings, for conduct
"unbecoming member Of the Senate" The
conduct, according to Senator Flanders. has
tended "to bring the Senate into diSrepute.
A resolution of this sort impales many
q Senator up for reelection on the horns OF
q painful dilemma. And some Of them are
much better than average Senators Fur
thermore, it Is the kind of resolution which
even If adopted, would not necessarily have
any restraining effect on Senator Mccarthy.
The real objective Of both the proposed
code Of fair procedures and OF Senator
Flanders is to bring about climate IN
which Senate hearings will be conducted
with integrity and in which witnesses and
accused persons will be treated fairly The
best way to accomplish this. as far as Sena-
tor Mccarthy Is concerned. would be to
remove him from his Craftsmanship. Il this
cannot be done, The Star believes that the
only effective alternative Is to adopt rules
which will compel him to conduct fair and
decent hearings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
End Of the Central Bridge Battle

It looks as though the long and frus-s
trating battle of the bridges" is over at
last. The news is as welcome in this area
as a drought-relieving shower. The an
nounced agreement among the feuding
authorities on a new central-district bridge
across the Potomac River comes in time for
possible last-minute approval Of Congress
before adjournment Chairman Case of the
Senate District Committee, who played
leading role in bringing the diSputants to-
gether, has promised to try to maneuver
the compromise plan through Congress as
an amendment to the House-paSsed Jones
Point bridge bill. It is to be hoped that the
tactic will be successful, so that planning
for the new span can be started at once.
The proposed bridge would cut across
the river downstream from the debated and
abandoned e street and New Hampshire
bridge sites. BY so doing it would bypass
Roosevelt Island, any encroachment on
which has been bitterly opposed by the
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
On the District side the bridge would be
tied in with Twenty fourth street, which
would be rebuilt as a major link in the So
called inner loop around the city. The
street would tunnel under the Mall west Of
the Lincoln Memorial, to avoid conflict with
Mall traffic and park plans The agreement
on this site was announced by Chairman
Case after breakfast attended by Engineer
Commissioner Prentiss, Chairman Barthol-
omew of the National Capital Planning
Commission and Director With Of the Ma
tional Park Service.
There also was an interagency agree
ment about the Reaches Run bridge pro-
posal of the NCPC STAFF, with proviso
that is questionable, to say the least. The
proviso was that the Reaches Run structure
(which previously had been rejected by the
District Highway Department as unwise)
should serve as substitute for the long
authorized twin Fourteenth street bridge.
This phase Of the peace pact" between the
District and the NCPC calls for more care
full study than obviously has been given to
1t so far. Congress some years ago vetoed
the idea of single bridge at fourteenth
street In favor of twin bridges, one Of them
to replace the present Highway bridge. The
Reaches Run proposal would run counter to
congressional intent.
Congress should look with favor on the
settlement Of the central-area bridge dis
pute, however. Chairman Case deserves
praise for his mediation services And the
parties to the controversy have shown good
sense in sitting down together and working
out solution to one of Washington's more
pressing traffic bottleneck problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Pentogon Misrepresented

Cornelius Brodersen's letter to The
star Of July a., states that the hexagon
is defined as a solid having six angles
and six sides"
For the sake Of correctness. 1t may
be useful to recall that the hexagon Is
not solid and Is nowhere 50 defined.
It Is only plane figure having no
thickness. and only two dimensions.
8. 3.
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Mory Church Terrell

Dead at 80, Mary Church Terrell passes
into history as one Of the truly great
women Of her time.
No one acquainted with Mrs. Terrell
could have supposed that she sought only
the advantage Of her own particular group
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
PTAs in Montgomery County

Charles L. Fauver and q. William
Simonds have written to The Star APP
proving Montgomery County's elabo-
rate school budget. It takes for schools
$145 out Of the $500 tax on Q small
home.
. This scandalous extravagance al
ready has driven many tome-owners
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Nj. Knowiond Really Leads

Majority Leader Knowland, In The
Stars opinion, deserves communication for
the methods he used to break the hlibuster
against the atomic energy bill.
There have been anguisi1ed complaints
from some Of those who felt the majority
leaders heavy hand. Mr.. KnoWland was
likened to Louis XIV. He was accused Of
parliamentary b1udgeoning. When he
cracked the whip to expedite final vote,
there were those who said that he was the
"real obstructionist." These protests and
others like them, one ventures to say, will
fall on millions Of deaf or indih ears.
The job Of the majority leader Is to
lead Mr.. Knowland tried to be reasonable.
He did not try to ram the bill through with
out adequate debate. The hlibustering OPP
ponents were deciSively beaten on the key
test more than week ago. Yet they con-
tinued to talk and talk and talk, hoping,
apparently, to talk the bill to death Mr..
Knowland tried to obtain voluntary agree
ment to limit debate. He failed. He tried
cloture and that failed Meanwhile, the
key measures in the administrators leg
islative program were being backed up and
seriously threatened by the fllibuster.
What was the majority leader supposed
to do? He might, Of course, have yielded to
the phony protests that this was give
away measure, bill which betrayed the
public interest He might have conven-
iently forgotten that the detectives sought
in the bill had been unanimously Endorsed
by the i've members Of the Atomic Energy
Commission, three OF whom were Demo-
cratic appointees. He might, In short, have
withdrawn the bill. Or he might have let
the fllibusterers go on at leisurely pace,
talking by day and sleeping by night, until
it would be too late to get anything done In
this session of Congress.
But Mr.. Knowland did not take either
of these courses Instead, he took the po-
sition that he was not going to permit a
"willful minority" to dominate the Senate.
He kept the pressure on until the final vote
was taken. And the outcome Of that vote
28 Senators against the bill, 81 for it.
pretty well speaks for itself. Mr.. Knowland
deserves praise, not censure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
By TINE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. What Is the estimated cost to the
radio-t elevision networks for the cover
age Of the Mccarthy hearings?--
L. p.
A. The total time value, based on
network hourly rates. equipment, and
incidentals, Is estimated at over 50
million for the television networks. and
$1h million for the radio networks, for
10 days.