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Evening star., 1954-06-08
Virginia Earned Its Safety Award

Virginia's traffic safety record for 1858 was
so outstanding that it comes as no great sur
prise that the State has won first honors in the
National Safety Councils annual safety con-
test. It is gratifying to residents of the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area that Arlington tied
for second place with Sacramento, California;
among cities of from 100000 to 100000 popula-
ton and that Washington won honorable men
ton among cities of comparable size.
The Virginia achievement is the culmina-
tion of a two-year effort, begun under the per-
sonal leadership of former Governor Battle and
carried on by Governor Stanley It has been a
cooperative enterprise to save lives credit for
which must be shared by the State administra-
ton, the General Assembly, State and local
police. prosecutors and judges. The stop-the-
slaughter campaign gained momentum after a
series OF conferences among State officials, city
authorities, magistrates and others interested in
making the States highways safer The Leg
islature Joined in by enacting, a number of laws
designed to crack down onnspeeders and other
reckless drivers. One of the more effective of
these laws was one to suspend the permit of any
driver convicted of speeding twice within the
same year. This law was tested in the courts
and finally was upheld by the State Supreme
Court.
The records show that last year nearly 1000
second-offense speeders were barred from the
highways for varying periods. More than 400
Of these speeding drivers had been convicted on
previous occasions of serious traffic offenses-
some OF them as many as dozen or a score of
times. But for the new permit t-suspenson law
these flagrant violators might still have been
operating their cars. AS the reckless motorists
were ruled of the roads, serious accidents began
to decline. Whereas there had been alarming
increases in trafic deaths in recent years, the
1858 rate dropped per cent. Arlington shared
in the benefits of the new law and, in addition,
waged its own concentrated war on trafic vio-
lators, to good effect. Washington meanwhile
was doing its usual good safety job on this side
of the Potomac.
To all recipients of the 1858 awards there is
more than the natural satisfaction of winning
national recognition for effective traffic cam
paigns. The real reward is the knowledge that
human lives have been saved and much sorrow
and suffering averted.
Evening star., 1954-06-08

for the project. having been a news
paperman, printer and politician.
Sholes' first model had handsome
black walnut piano-style keys lettered
in white. A reporter was present when
the inventor, an eye cooked toward pos
terity, wrote: &C. LATHAM SHOLES,
SEPT. 1867" It was all caps. there
being no lower-caSe characters.
The reporter was properly impressed.
For his paper, in longhand, he wrote:
"They let the funny thing 90.
And by lingo!
1t prints the lingo
OF a red fanlingo,
A Greek or 0ringo
A monk or minoo
Great Dane or Dingo."
That was only the beginning of
six-year headache for Sholes. He re-
vised his machine nearly so times be-
fore he got on the right track in 1870
and constructed one that marched
along at an impressive clip, writing
neatly and quickly. True it suffered
and jumped and the hand-inked rib
bon was mess. But at that period
when the current political slogan sug-
gested that Republicans forget their
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Welcome COMPROMISE

~ There are encouraging prospects of a salts.
factory compromise on the issue of whether the
executive or the legislative branch of the Gov
eminent is to administer the proposed lease
purchase public buildings program. An unsatis-
factory plan would be one extending legislative
authority so far as to put Congress in the
administrative field. President Eisenhower al
ready has vetoed one bill under which Congress
would have shared with the executive branch
the responsibility of awarding certain contracts
to private firms. There have been hints that
he would veto the Senate plan to make Con-
gress an actual participant in the letting of
lease-purchase building contracts. The tenta-
tive compromise worked out by conference
committee apparently would meet administra-
tion objections to any invasion of its authority
by Congress.
News of the compromise proposal Is well
come. The legislation, passed by both houses
has been in danger of being wrecked on the
rocks of interchamber disagreement over the
extent of congressional control of the vital
Federal construction program. The purpose of
the legislation is to permit the Government to
buy or erect buildings on the instalment plan
using rent payments to acquire title. AS passed
by the House last year, the measure would
limit congressional supervision to review"
Of major building contracts by appropriate
objections to any project, Federal admins
traitors would be authorized to 60 ahead with
the contracting. If any committee registered
an objection to any proposed contract, it would
be held up indefinitely or revised to suit the
committee This arrangement was agreeable
to administration officials. But the Senate
tackled on an amendment that would require
formal approval in each case by the Senate
and House Public Works Committees before any
building contract could become legal. Attorney
General Brownell protested that this would
project the legislative branch into contract
making duties that properly are the sole re-
sponsibility of the executive branch.
Under the tentative compromise, the Senate
and House committees would have the right to
approve or disapprove any proposed contract,
but responsibility for letting the contract would
remain exclusively with the General Services
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Groups Thot Hang Together

There are very lew citizens, 0OuDCleSS,
who can escape some kind OF reaction
to the Federal drive for complete aboli-
ton of racial barriers. But those who
approve it give offenSe to large white
opposition; those who disapprove 1t
hesitate to offend the large, loyal, and
completely American minority making
up our colored population.
However, there are several points
which today's abolitionists ignore. One
of these is the instinct which racial
groups inherit, to hang together. This
accounts for the Little Italys OF the
American cities, the English and Scotch
settlements in our mining communities,
the European areas in the towns and
cities of foreign lands. as for example,
Tampico, Cairo, Calcutta. 1t accounts
for Harlem.
Several years ago the Washington
Hebrew community launched a Hebrew
academy. A friend pointed out to one
of their leaders that continuation OF
Jewish children in the public schools
was desirable in the interests Of homo
geneity. The reply to this objection
was that the Jewish people sponsoring
the separate school wanted to pre-
serve the culture and traditions OF
Jewry and disliked to see their race
merged into the American pattern.
Probably this minority group is di-
vided on that point. But the Washing
ton Hebrew school is fiourishing.
In one of the California cities and.
believe, in Chicago, have read that the
Chinese leaders are not content that
their children are furnished with free
American education: these Chinese send
their children to an after-hours school
where they are taught the mores and
customs of their race. The American
Indians are dissatisfied with the white
mans education and crave nothing else
but their own schools with Indian
teachers.
Again, there is the matter of clasSifl-
cation of students in the schools. Con-
trary to this writer's opinion, your
modern schoolmarm believes she can
teach most effectively If her wiggly
victims are sorted out in advance and
sent to her in groups having the same
or nearly the same composition from
every standpoint. Psychological tests
are resorted to, to separate the sheep
from the goats. In my day. the separa-
tion was simply on the basis of sex.
Even today. people who have ex-
Evening star., 1954-06-08
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this late date, we still don't know who
promoted fifth amendment" service
man and gave him an honorable dis
charge, OF if anything has been done
about it.
Mamie M. Steabner.
It must be amazing to many others,
as it is to me, to observe how aggres-
sively the Democratic Senator'S are
pursuing the tactic of trying to dis
credit the investigation and exposure
of Communists. To paraphrase the
alleged criticism of Senator Mccarthy,
when he is quoted as saying general
in the Army who knowingly promoted
a Communist was unfit to wear the
uniform of the United States, am
persuaded to assert the Democratic
Senators who have adopted such
tactics are themselves unfit to sit in
judgment in the controversy between
the Senator from Wisconsin and the
Army.
John T. ParkersOn.
do not agree with Constantine
Brown tnat TOO many Americans are
focusing their attention upon the wrong
issues. The avid interest in the Nc
Carthy- Army Investigations is due. I
think, to disappointment in the work
of the United Nations, the Korean
peace conference and now the Geneva
Conference.
People are keenly aware Of the Rus
sian danger, but what can they do?
When the u. N. was first formed
Americans followed its activities with
joyous enthusiasm. But the U. N. has
not lived up to its commitments. People
feel frustrated when they read Of too
many cancellations toward Russia, just
as they feel frustrated at the lack of
progress at Geneva.
Louise L. Hennigan.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
letters to The Star. .

perienced both co-education and the
other kind, are apt to favor "the other
kind" And yet today's abolitionists
are contending that all. barriers should
come down and all classification be
dispensed with.
And then, there are the Catholic
schools. How do the abolitionists ac-
count for them if not to admit that
groups of people with similarities of
one kind or another like to hang to-
gether? Does this make this segment
of the population feel like second-class
citizens? I think it doesn't.
Questioner.
Evening star., 1954-06-08

Administration or the Post once Department.
This plan would preserve the separation
powers principle embodied in the Constitution,
while giving Congress considerable influence in
the letting Of contracts. Congress always has
exercised control over such transactions, any
way, through appropriation channels. It is
right that it should do so but Congress would
be taking an unnecessary and questionable step
If it required committee stamp Of approval
to validate an executive contract.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Flanders Speech
Louise L. Hennigan.

Senator Flanders speech was one of
the most insidious attempts to fan the
fires of religious hate that the Senate
has heard in many year. 1t was un-
justified, unnecessary and un-Ameri-
can. The Know Nothings" of yore
have found a new champion in Flan-
ders-and all under the cloak Of this
phony love of Righteousness that the
administrations hatchet-men affect.
A. N. b.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Questions and Answers

A. reader can get the answer to any question
OF fact by writing The Evening star Infor-
nation Bureau, 1900 Eye St. NV, Washins-
ton ;, d. G. Please inclose three 80 cents for
return postage.
Evening star., 1954-06-08

Q. Do all birds have eyes on the sides
Of their head?-M. c. w.
A. All except the owl This is the
only bird whose eyes look straight
ahead.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Q. What town lies closest to the
North Pole?-D. MI.
A. Hammerfest, Norway. This sizable
town, where over 5000 people live. Is
only 1913 miles from the Pole as the
crow flies.
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Disappointed Citizen.

When the Stevens McC Carthy hear
ings started, had the impression that
it was a grievance between the two
parties on specific charges. Now. with
the presidential directive involving
secrecy, coupled with the story of
Potters letter. a radio report that
Gov. Dewey masterminded this con-
troversy, and few other reported con-
versations from both the Republican
and Democratic parties, am wonder
ing If this whole affair is not a con-
spiracy to just get Mccarthy" At
Evening star., 1954-06-08
Reactions to Nee urthy

In letters that already have appeared
on The Star editorial page. Senator
Mccarthy has been rather well de-
scribed as q result Of his recent per-
formance so disgraceful to our august
body of Senators.
I cannot believe the intelligent citi-
zens of Wisconsin had McCarthy's pres
ent kind of representation in mind
when they returned him to the Senate
the last time. Certainly, they cannot
think he can do better job than the
FBI in protecting our country from
the Communists. wonder just how
many of them are proud of him and
of the impression he gives the citizens
of other States. We want no dictators
in this country, regardless Of their
origin.
The reaction in my own home is
such that we have adopted the idea OF
a friend to register our objection to
such a person in Congress. Until the
good people Of Wisconsin unseat
Mccarthy from any national repre-
sentative body we shall not buy any
product grown, made or processed in
Wisconsin.
a .
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-09-03
Labor Does Not Support
U. S. Middle East Policy,
Leader Says

HAIFA - (JTA) - American
labor does not support the State
Departments policy on the Mid
die East, Roy Siemiller, of Chi
cago, ALL labor leader, declared
here last week. Mr.. Siemiller is
one of seven prominent Ameri-
can trade unionists-representing
unions in both the ALL and CLIO
who have been touring Israel
as guests of the Histadrut, the
Confederation of Jewish Labor
here.
we assure you that, upon our
return home, we will explain the
situation here to millions of
workers." Mr.. Siemiller declared.
The labor leaders were guests
here of the Haifa municipality.
More than 1000 guests attended
the reception in their honor.
Among the speakers who greet
ed them were Mayor Abba Hush,
and David Pinsky, well-known
American-Jewish writer now re-
siding here.
During our tour Of the borders
of this land" Mr.. Siemiller said
at the reception, I'VE saw that
your enemies are ready to attack
Israel at any moment. 1t is tragic
that your peace-loving settle
ments must dedicate part of their
energies, so badly needed by the
land, to purposes of defense"
Another of the labor leaders, a
CLIO man, Albert Lunceford of
Chicago, spoke Of the favorable
impression upon the visiting trade.
unionists made by the work of
Histadrut. One of the purposes of
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-09-03
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyright. 1854, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Incl


People say give us the facts"
The hard facts. These are the
realities. But are they always?
Sometimes the facts are somehow
not true.
/ imagine Bernard Baruch is as
good an example of man who
searches for facts as anyone. He
doesn't fly off the handle in any,
thing. He is man who goes all
around a subject, looking for
every detail, before he arrives at
a conclusion. It is perhaps be-
cause of this very quality that the
country has sought him out in
periods of crisis.
The facts are necessary. They
are wonderful. And yet, some
times, they are deceiving. Again
point to Mr.. Baruch.
He has just reached his 84th
birthday. When we think of a
man Of "a, we consider him in his
dotage. He is senile, no more to
be trusted. He is in his second
childhood. Infantile.
The fact is MIR. Baruch is "a,
but the fact somehow is deceiv-
ing. Years can be deceiving. how
ever factual they may be.
Some people, when they are
old, they are old. The Jewish his
torian, Leopold Zunz, who also
reached great age, might be
cited as case in point. The story
is told that, once the Russian
Jewish poet, j. L. Gordon was
introduced to Zunz.
Il have heard" said Zunz to
Gordon, that you wrote Hebrew
poetry. Tell me in what century
did you live?"
Happily, Mr.. Baruch is not in
this category. He is very much
aware of the world about him
one of the men most aware.
Philanthropists have way of
living a long time. John D.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-09-03
Bernard Baruch's Birthday

Rockefeller lived into his nine
ties. Mr.. Baruch will have to 60
long way to reach the age mark
of Sir Moses Moutefiore, who
lived beyond the century mark.
When he died, over 100 years old,
an English newspaper comment
ed: 1T is hard to appraise the
life of such man in a phrase"
mo such thing" wryly COM
mented the English humorous
publication, Punch" There is
one phrase that sums him up:
"Bon Mot" good Moses.
But we have strayed a little
from our point. We were speak
ing of the fact of age; and what
we meant to bring out was that
age like the Einsteinian world
about us, is relative. A beloved
rabbi of Montreal, some years
ago, who also reached venerable
age, when asked, in his eighties,
how he felt, would reply: II
should feel no worse when / grow
old"
1t is not our years so much that
makes us grow old. It seems to
be rather our interest in life. The
delegate from Georgia, Mr..
Pierce, at the convention which
framed the American Constitu-
ton, thought Benjamin Franklin,
the oldest of the delegates at the
convention, the youngest mental
ly. 1t was Franklin who chuckled
the most, who made the other
delegates chuckle with his humor-
Gus stories, who displayed the
most resourcefulness. These are
the manifestations of a youthful
quality. Why should we Judge a
mans age only by the whiteness
of his hair? There are other quail
tiles of youth-these which have
referred to-and it. is wrong to
base a mans age simply by his
hair or the texture of his skin.
1t was said of Thomas Jefferson
that he grew handsomer as he
grew older. Franklin once said a
very wise thing about one of the
aspects of aging. can old young
man," he said, will be young
old man."
Franklin's own life, it seems to
me, proves his point. The man in
France-during the American
Revolution-about VIII o m the
ladies gathered, who told many
stories and about whom all
France told stories was not the
young Franklin. It was a Frank
lin already venerable with years.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-09-03

the visit here was to study Israeli
labor practices and labor manage
ment relations. Mr.. Lunceford
said that the Histadrut work
could well serve as an example
not only to the Middle East but
to American labor as we'll"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-09-03

The Mizrachi Women's Organi-
cation of America is a member of
the Co-ordinating Committee for
Youth Aliyah in the U. S. Hadas-
sab, Pioneer Women and U. ]. A.
are the other three organizations
represented.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-09-03

National Planning Commission composed Of officials The Israel Ben!
Organization Jewish U4
State: ard Canad. departing last week from Iewa Airport aboard
AL Israel AlneO toweek study deveopmn
ia Israel The Comicn win es.fsr n Jerusalem With Prime Mini
Iaers expansion program which being By Ia
Development Bond Philip zman Of Camden N j. noted bu:s
leader who New Jersey heads 10
National Panning Coson6 survey Of Iaaes developing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-22
Our Presidents
By Honore M. Cotudol

Am eX-PreSident Sug-
gested the following preceptS
to a young friend: adore
God. Reverence and cherish
your parents. Love your neigh
Dor as yourself and your coun-
try more than yourself. Be just.
Be true. Murmur not at the
ways of Providence" Who was
he?
(which ex-President was
the author of the book,
Through the Brazilian Will
dernesS"?
3-Which President con-
ferfed with Churchill and
Stain at Teheran?
ANSWERS on next pageD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-22
Famous Fables
By z. E. Edgar

CHALLENGE-To Thorn
as Edison, there was no such
thing as a problem that
could not be solved. Having
once accepted a challenge,
he would work ceaselesSly
until he had seen it through.
One night, when visiting a
friend, the latter invited him
to a game of billiards. Edison
had no taste for games OF
any sort, but at the urging
Of his wife, he consented to
play.
He attempted a difficult
shot and missed.
Don't be discouraged"
consoled his host. 1T takes
years Of practice to master
that shot"
Edison set up the balls In
the same position and tried
once more. For the next Is
minutes, he tried the shot
again and again. At last the
inventor made the shot.
Tossing his cue on the table,
he started to leave.
where are you going?"
demanded his host. Aren't
you going to play any long
er?"
NO" said Edison. ct just
wanted to prove to myself
that I could make that shot.
Now that I've proved it, I
have more important things
to do"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-22

Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1854
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-22

a
Mr.. Meek's opening lead was
the five of hearts. One look at
the dummy convinced Miss
Brash that she was probably
down one, with two losers In
clubs and one in hearts. One
of the opponents was going to
have to commit an error and 1t
was up to her to make that error
easy to commit.
Mr.. Abel won the first trick
and continued hearts. Miss
BraSh ruffed and Immediately
led a small club to dummy'S
ace. She figured that If the
player who held the king Of clubs
held only one other card in the
suit, there was still a chance.
Now Mr.. Abel had to drop his
king of clubs under the ace to
beat the hand. But would you?
Mr.. Abel thought he would look
pretty silly dropping his king If
Miss BraSh had started with two
or three clubs headed by the
queen. OF course, one way OF
looking at it was that if the de-
tenders couldn't win two clubs,
they couldn't beat the contract.
Anyway, Mr.. Abel didn't see it
that way. He played the jack
Of clubs.
Now Miss BraSh took two
rounds of trumps and followed
with the king, the ace and a
third round of spades, which she
ruffed in her hand.
At this point she had elimi-
mated all of the spades and
hearts from her hand and
dummy. Dummy still had a
trump and Miss Brash had
plenty Of them.
She next led a club and Mr..
Abel was in with the king. He
had nothing left to lead except
a spade or a heart and either
was ruinous. He chose a heart
and Miss Brash threw of her
losing club and ruffed on the
board.
Note that if Miss Brash had
taken out trumps and cleared
the spades before making her
first clue lead, Mr.. Abel would
have known exactly what was
going on and it would have been
much easier for him to drop the
king of clubs under the ace.
Copyright 1854. General Features Corp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-01

OWN foothills Of the Blue Ridge cavors four-year-
- that unlike other ly the Virginia hunt
country has
Mokus at the end of the long white blaze on
the mark Of perfect four-leaf clover
Glover for luck" might ask her owner former Hun
garian Countess Judith Barely Gyy Well maybe she mods
with she tells story of an unusual friend
horse that back centuries before
history of ASIA where Moks
ancestors until they brought to Hungary with
the Magyar hordeS
Legend it, countess explains that long as the
Monaghan breed horse with the wheelbarow head and
fiery spirit family stables, all will we'll but
their hands, the family will suffer tragic
misfortune and die out
The countess and her sisters are Barely line
and Mokus the last of the clover horses.
clover marking only rarely horse
that does explained the
legend the golden horse with mark OF clover Will per-
form remarkable feat"
The legends Countess Gyuy heard in childhood from her
family and filled with these remark
able feats."
Like its Mongo ancestors swift the wind
spirited that the heat Of battle it known to
fight enemy hoof In defense Of its rider