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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Successful Police Experiment

When Police Chief Murray instituted his
new district system of crime investigation more
than year ago he announced that it was to
be an experiment, confined at first to several
picked precincts. AS the experiment began to
show good results, he extended the plan
cautiously His decision now to broaden the
system so as to cover all sections Of the city is
well justified, on the basis Of study of crime
clearances before and after the change.
Police records show that the number of
cases cleared has risen steadily as the district
inspection procedures have been expanded and
improved. From last october through January
of this year the department achieved the re-
markable record of clearing approximately half
of all serious crimes in the city. The national
average of police clearanceS is about q per cent
The So-called "Shimonizing" experiment
took its name from Lieutenant Joseph Shimon,
who headed the first field investigation squad
under the district Setup. There are now five
inspection districts and each is to have it's own
expert investigative unit, led by veteran detec-
tiveS. The squads concentrate on crimes oc-
curing within their districts, but are in close
touch with Investigations in other districts and
maintain constant liaiSon with the Detective
Bureau at headquarters. The plan has had the
Salutary effect of stimulating rivalry among
the precincts and districts in the solution of
major crimes. And it has helped to end the
old tendency in the precincts to pass the buck
to headquarters when a particularly difficult
case developed.
Right now all the squads are concentrating
on two unSolved murder mysteries, the Preinkert
and Lindstedt cases. The killers Of Miss Alma
Preinkert, Maryland University registrar and
William ]. Lindstedt, former Marine are still at
large. These vicious crimes constitute grim
challenges to the effectiveness of the reor-
gained force. The departments record, i'm
pressive as it u.s. needs these two additional
solutions to make it completely satisfactory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
CondIegIow

He might hare been the scarecrow from
his patch OF corn.
This farmer Flooding Spindle-legged
through the night.
So dour and bent he tUaS In grGceless
overallS,
Beating across shorn fields tolUdrd
1DindotDed cGndleligtt.
Yet tDhen he nedred the porch and
through the easement Sd1D
His oreying Uite. bent-kneed, before
the oUen door,
Turning iDith gnarled and anxious
hands the oGten lodDes,
Her head in candleglo,D relimned In
gold once more,
Something tDithin him made him plunge
his tDeGthered face
Deep in the icy trough until his skin
Stung red
And comb his rough dun thdtch to its
once creSting tDaUes
Before he tDent to her. tDarnling to loue
thought dead.
Gertrude Robinson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
On Grading Junior
George b. WatrOus. Jr.

notice that the controversy as to
whether children are to be graded ac-
cording to effort or accomplishment
is being renewed. According to &C
complishment, Of course. So we are
rated in the adult world. At least
we are rated according to what we
can convince others we have accom-
plished. However, decidedly not &C
cording to effort. How would you
like to have your appendix removed
by a surgeon who had been graded
according to effort? Such a nice man.
but, oh, my aching side!
Children are marked on effort. so
it is claimed. to keep from hurting
their feelings. Lay it on the line and
you will find that the true reason is
that If Willie gets lower mark than
neighbor Johnnie. Willie's mother will
come tearing over to school to give
teacher and principal bad time.
Willie keeps getting bad marks in
arithmetic. So what! If he is weak
out about it the better. Then he can
be guided along other lines where his
strength lies. Honest failures are more
VALUABLE LIldu SUCCCooCo 41lCy d4C WIG
straws in the wind for guidance. I
have blind spot for mathematics. but
I've done all right. This deficiency
never made nle feel futile. In fact.
I got the feeling that there was some
thing screwy about mathematics (and
mathematicians, too) and still think so.
Children don't care about what
grades they get. It's the parents who
care, especially the mothers. re-
member a 5-year-old with his first
report from kindergarten. He was
weeping because his parents were weep
ing. He had got D in blocks and
sandpiles. The end Of the world had
come for this family. Left to himself.
junior would have thought. ITO heck
with blocks and sandpiles."
Mark according to accomplishment
and let the chips fall where they may.
Laura X. Pollock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Equal School Facilities

The Star published on February 25
a news item regarding certain facili-
ties In the District public schools. The
article quoted Robert R. Faulkner
member Of the Board of Education. to
the effect that ut "a report from the
Office Of Buildings and Grounds) dem
onstrateS there are no Inequalities in
facilities available at the junior and
high school levels in the two divisions. !"
The report Of the Office of Buildings
and Grounds, on which Mr.. Faulkner
based his Judgment. was limited to
certain specified facilities (shops. GYM
nasia. swimming pools, stadia and au-
dltorla). AS the Strayer survey clearly
pointed out. there are many more
elements that go to make an educa-
tlonally adequate school plant These
other features do not appear to be
within the scope Of the report sub
mitted to Mr.. Faulkner. If they had
been. it should have been clear that
substantial inequalities do exist. At
the senior high school level, every one
OF the seven plants in Division One
Is at least adequate (the lowest Strayer-
Englehardt score was 606). Two Of the
four schools in Division Two (Arm-
strong and Dunbar) are inadequate
(scoreS Of less than 5000.
Even in the limited area covered by
the report Of the Office Of Buildings
and Grounds. very serious inequity
passes without any comment by Mr..
Faulkner. This factor strikes at the
validity Of Mr.. Faulkner's conclusions
and shows its fatal weakness. At the
junior high school level. all schools in
both divisions have gymnasia. How
ever, two of them do not have facili-
ties for both boys and girls. They are
both schools for Negroes browne and
Elliott. Another fault in Mr.. Faulkner'S
reasoning derives from the fact that
he gives no consideration to the load
put upon the buildings. Only one senior
high (Anacostia) out Of seven and two
junior high schools out Of eleven for
white students (Kramer and Paul.
have an enrolment in excess Of capac-
ity. One senior high (Spingarn) out OF
four and eight Junior high schools out
Of eleven for Negroes (Banneker,
Browne, Douglass. Eliot, Garnet-Pat-
terson, Miller, Randall and TerrelD
are overpopulated.
Marie w. Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10

have noticed that those persons
whose blood pressure goes up and who
flguratively froth at the mouth over
Senator Mccarthy never display good
craftsmanship in that they wholly
ignore and do not acknowledge nor
publish the fact that persons who ap-
pear before his committee and come
clean" and do not evade, pussyfoot,
commit obvious perjury, evoke the
nth amendment and the like, are
treated just great-as finely as by any
other congressional committee. A per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Republican Heroes

Senator Mccarthy, asked to comment on
Senator Flanders critical remarks, said: II
haven't got time to answer Republican heroes"
This is response which may be more signii-
cant than it seems. For it's contemptuous
character indicates that Senator Mccarthy
knows the battle is going against him..
The speech by the Vermont Senator while
hardly of heroic proportions was vigorous at
tack on Senator Mccarthy. I'm this battle of
the age-long war against communism what
is the part played" asked Senator Flanders, "by
the junior Senator from Wisconsin? He donS
his war paint. He goes into his war dance. He
emits his war whoops He goes forth to battle
and proudly returns with the scalp of pink
Army dentist"
This does not greatly exaggerate the pic
ture. For Senator Mccarthy, his theatricals
notwithstanding, is doing more harm to his
party and to his country than he will ever do
to the Communists. And the belief that this
is true is spreading. It was implicit in the
Presidents statement at his press conference
last week. It is the main reason why Republic
can National Chairman Hall moved so fast to
present Mr.. Nixon, and not Senator Mccarthy
as Republican spokesman to answer Adlai
Stevenson. It Is the reason underlying Senator
Flanders speech, and it explains why one Re-
publican-Senator Cooper of Kentucky-stood
up on the Senate floor to commend the YER
monter for his remarks.
Senator McCarthys slurring allusion in
dicates that he is well aware of this. When he
took the step which brought him into open
conflict with the President, and which still
poses the threat of further split within the
party, he overplayed his hand He cut across
that most sensitive of all political instincts
the instinct of Self-preservation. And If it
70 Avail
licans, by and large, will have to stand with the
President and against Senator Mccarthy No
one knows this better than the Senator from
Wisconsin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Too Lenient With Bad Drivers?

According to an article in your paper
for March 8, the District Commits
sioners are studying whether to adopt
q strict or lenient stand against motor
lists whose driving permits are sus-
pended under the point system"
II there is any doubt in their minds
they had much better give up the
whole system and any attempt to en-
force the traffic laws In the city.
# excessive speed and ignoring stop
signs, some of the violations charged
against the taxi driver in question, are
dangerous they should be condoned far
less in a taxi driver who Is on the
streets all day and has numberless
opportunities for causing injury and
death, than they should in an ordinary
run-of -the-mill driver.
This man was not an ignorant first
offender. He had his license SUSPENDED
only last August and If his living de-
pended on being able to drive he
should have exercised more care.
Neither of the offenses in question are
things that "just happen" even to you
and me.
Perhaps you read in a recent issue
of Life the astonishing results obtained
in a western city when the authorities
really cracked down on traffic Offend
ers? It is about time Washington
authorities and those in other cities
really got tough and eliminated some
of this sob-sister emotional attitude.
Why should the driver be babied.
given another chance and so forth?
Do we warn burglar when we hear
of his plans and set trap for him?
Until our Commissioners and Police
display some nerve the situation here
will become far worse than 1t Is even
now.
Gnnrwa n WafPOuR IP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
BY THE HASKINs SERVICE.


Q. What is the significance of the
name Nike" as applied to the new
guided missile?-F. I. c.
A. Nike was the goddess Of victory
Of the ancient Greeks: the Romans
knew her as Victoria. In ancient art
she is represented as a winged maiden
usually just alighting from flight.
Probably the worlds most celebrated
statue Of Nike is the Winged Victory
of Samothrace. fragments Of which
were found on the Greek island Of
Samothrace in 1862. 1t is now in the
Louvre in Paris.
@. Are fraternal twins as likely to
resemble each other as identical twins
do?-F. Mem.
A. Now and then they are strikingly
similar in appearance but as rule they
differ in so many ways that they are
easy to distinguish. Fraternal twins
are related in the same way as are
brothers and sisters born at different
times, and they differ like ordinary
brothers ard sisters except that they
are of the same age.
@. How long does the ice-fishing
season last? Do fish bite better in
winter than at other times of the year?
C. F. A.
A. In most States ice fishing is legal
as soon as the ice season starts, gener-
ally about Thanksgiving time. and lasts
until March or April, according to re-
StrictionS on various kinds of fish. With
ice covering the surface of the water
and insects not available. food is
scarcer and thus fish are more easily
tempted and seem to bite better in
winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Long Count on Subyersives

Your able writer Thomas Stokes on
February 10 stated administration
Spokesman tried to create the impress
sion they had fired 1900 "subversives,"
Communists" and such. Terming this
big hoax" Stokes then gave credit
Tor exposing it to three newspapers in
washington. I, too. think the newspa-
pers deserve credit for this.
But. if I remember newspaper head
lines, one of the first II not the first
protest against labelling innocent Gov
eminent workers as "subversives" was
from James Campbell. national presi-
cent OF the American Federation of
Government Employees; and Mr.. Camp
bell has been fighting for q correction
since that time.
How about it?
James Richard Conner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
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 8. D. c. Please tnclose three (3 cents for
return postage.
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to The Star.

son who has nothing to hide certainly
has nothing to fear in appearing before
Senator Mccarthy.
Oscar E. Lancaster.
+
The Objectionable cartoon by Glib
Crockett. showing Senator Mccarthy
with big stick Of intimidation and q
bucket Of smear tactics. in connection
with his dispute with the Army and
Secretary Stevens. is just another indi-
cation Of poor reasoning power.
OF course. the investigation would
not be so diStasteful If the questions
were not so embarrassing. Any one
who has nothing to hide, or cover up
for superiors. need not fear Senator
McCarthy's questions. / am sure this
so-called rough treatment is brought
about only by evaSive answers and an
intention to tell less than the whole
truth. In an unsuccessful plan to fool
Senator Mccarthy.
Remove the Communists from posi-
lions Of danger to us. and there will be
no cause for investigations.
Phyllis r. Buckingham.
IN the course OF barking back over
the years came across your lead edi-
torial for June 4, 1919, headed Action
Is Necessary" One typical paragraph
OF it reads as follows:
Action is needed. action that will
give the Governments defensive safe
guards. real potency. 1t is said that
knowledge is had of the existence of
certain Red centers' in various cities.
They should be cleaned out as moral
pestholeS. It is unsafe to wait for
specific proof of individual criminality.
1t is dangerous to delay until jury
proof cases can be found. The detec-
ton Of the guilty makers and shippers
Of bombs is difficult but the detection
OF those who are preaching violence is
not difficult"
Was that not anticipating the rea-
soning of Mccarthy by some 80 years?
And can it be that nowadays The Star
privately resents the bold Senator's in
trusion into these matters and there
fore finds fault with this Johnny Come
Lately?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10

tAhCc ~ N6SCAs
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD, makes
the statement that "McCarthyism j.. . E.
degrades human dignity by a presump-
ton Of guilt by association"
In the State of New York not long
ago. the Feinberg law was passed max
Ing membership in a SubverSive organ
lzation prima facie evidence of dis
qualification to hold job as teacher
in the public schools. The law was
attacked on the ground it established
an unconstitutional presumption of
guilt by association" The Supreme
Court of the United States ruled the
law constitutional. and Justice Min
tons language may help clear DR.. Mat
tingly's thinking with respect to guilt
by association:
"One's associates, past and present,
as well as ones conduct, may properly
be considered in determining fitness
and loyalty. From time immemorial.
ones reputation has been determined
In part by the company he keeps &.
We know Of no rule. constitutional or
otherwise, that prevents the state
when determining the fitness and
loyalty OF persons, from consider
ing the organizations and persons with
whom they associate" (Adler v. Board
OF Education, 342 U. S. 485 Q952).
Senator Mccarthy can hardly be
criticized for presuming that those who
associate with known subversives are.
themselves, suspect. He is simply ap-
plying the law as determined by the
highest court in the land.
Carl L. Shipley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10

true and understanding supporters.
Long live Senator Mccarthy and the
spirit of Nathan Hale!
Alice G. Nagel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10

Pen-n1n1es may be used If letters carry
wrtters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Just Curious.
r r

The only reason buy your paper is
to read David Lawrence's column and
This and That" and your ad section
is one Of the best. Don't overlook the
fact that those who don't write and
defend Senator Mccarthy and his nee
essary methods are nevertheless his
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-28
Admirers Want
To Honor Coin

: NEW YORK Up - A testimonial
dinner will be given tonight for
Roy NJ. Cohn, and the sponsors
say there is room for only a frac-
ton of those who want to attend.
,Cohn, a key figure in the recent
Army Mccarthy earrings, re.
signed as chief counsel for the
Senate investigations subcommit.
tee after the hearings ended. Sen.
Joseph R. Mccarthy IR-Wis),
chairman of the subcommittee.
will be speaker.
Tonight's dinner had been
planned before COINS resignation.
The Joint Committee Against
Communism in New York, which
organized the Cohn testimonial,
said it had to turn down $500 ap-
plcationS for tickets.
About 1000 are expected to at
tend the dinner in the Hotel Astor
at 81 plate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-28
COMMUNISM GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE

Mrs. Eva M. Verber recently obtained divorce
from her husband, Otto Verber because the Austrian
born former u S. Army Intelligence officer had concealed
from her the fact that he Communist Verber is
serving term of three and half to ten years in
Federal prison.
He and his brother-in-law Kurt Ponger both natur-
allied Americans arrested in Austria last year and
sentenced on June Sh 1853 charge of conspirng to
spy for Russia.
Mrs Verber who has now assumed her maiden name,
sought annument of her thrteenyear-od marriage with
Verber from New York Supreme Court Referee Erie
Warner. She testified that her husband, the
their marriage had denied being Communist when she
questioned him this point.
She said he recently admitted to her-whle in jail
he Communist and explained that he would not ad-
init it to her in 1941 - the year they maried-be
he knew she would not have married him. Supreme
Court Referee Warner found this legal grounds for
annument and granted her custody of her two daugh
ters.
We hope all wives of lately-confessed Communists
will to the courts for annuments Perhaps the infection
of Communism would lose of it's charm if they did.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-28
HELIcoPTER PASSENGER SERVICE

British European Anyways announced recently hell
copter flights between London Airport and landing site
in the middle of the worlds largest city would begin
The landing site will be located next to Waterloo
Station, in central London. .
The Ministry of Civil Aviation altered its safety
quirements flights London to permit British
pean Anyways to begin the helicopter service.
The purpose of the helicoper service to cut down
the time required for transportation between London air.
port and downtown London. The helicopter flight will
take from the airport to the center of London
in about twenty minutes Although its cost will be some
six times much the cost of bus trip, the time
quired will be only about third of the bus trip.
The Inauguration of helcopter passenger service in
London follows the beginning of helcopter passenger
service in Holland by only year. The fact that the hell
copers the London airportLondon will land in the
middle of downtown London is significant fact which
probably foreshadows heicopter passenger service in
most of the worlds largest cities in the future.
is another step toward the eventual goal of vertical
flight by both private and commercial aircraft carrying
workers and passengers to their destinations metro
politan areas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-28

pyorrhea than from dental decay"
Congressional Hearings testimony.
"There is no disagreement about
the fact that fluorine is a proto-
plasmic and enszmatic poison"
v. o. Hurme, D. M. D., Forysythe
Dental Infirmary, Boston.
Too much emphasis has been
placed on acute huorine poisoning
and results of chronic fluorosis in
the last stages and too little on at.
tempts to determine diagnostic
symptoms in all cases of mild flu.
orine poisoning"
L find no record of any such
competent, medically studies but I
do find some reports which indi.
cate death in case of damage to
the kidneys" Congressional
Hearings testimony
"A prediction, all cities to be
fluoridated', was made in Miami
last October. The above predic.
ton was not based on the record
which shows that no Florida cities
were fluoridated in 1858; that one
city discontinued its use after two
years of fluoridation, that only one
waterworkS was fluoridated in
1852 - and that without the citi-
zens actually knowing what it was
all about; that two cities which
had already bought the machinery
- without knowledge of the citi-
zenS beforehand - TUNED down
fluoridation and returned the ma
chinery in 1852. Other cities have
refused it by actual opposition and
referenda. :"
Benefits Public Health Service
From this writer's point of view.
huoridation of water will create
more jobs for the public health SER
vice. Someone is going to have to
supervise the work. Next in line
to benefit are the manufacturers of
equipment. It has been estimated
that the cost of the raw materials
alone for Florida huoridation would
be $249,417.O0, exlusive of machin-
cry and labor. These same mater
ials could be administered as indi-
vidual medication for the purchas-
ing price of $1lO.
But the main emphasis should be
placed on the fact that the medi-
cal profession itself has shown no
indication of approval. For my
part, I'd rather lose tooth than
a kidney!