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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
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CHURCHES FOR RENT
HOUSES WANTED TO RENT

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DRUG STORE
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2701 18th ST. NV.

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Evening star., 1954-12-09
By Charles E. TroceweH

made themselves free with the small
island, no point of which is more than
20 miles from the sea. The Danes had
brought their 'law" to the land, the
very word surviving to this day. where
as the Anglo-Saxon doom" and the
Roman 'lex" are lost. r
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Trevelyan's History Of England"
tells about such matters.
The entire work is an essay, without
any attempt to pinpoint dates and
places.
1t presupposes that the reader has
some small knowledge of English his
tory, and so devotes itself to justifying
the ways Of man to man, and showing
in relief the great story Of the rise of
English common law, down through
the ages, and its precious cargo Of in
dividual freedom.
There win always be an England"
they said during the war.
There must be an England, and the
long roll Of history. as enumerated by
G. M. Trevelyan, shows why, as we'll
as how it was achieved. It is not just
Englands history. alone, but every
body's history, if the individual free
dom so painfully won is to be kept by
Western man. He has his back to the
wall, at last, whatever he calls him
self, or from whatever land he came;
the bells are ringing in his ears. and the
lights Of freedom dimming; it Is high
time that he knows what his heritage
is, and how it came about.
Evening star., 1954-12-09

For the booklover on your Christmas
list, the man who has everything, try
the three-volume edition of G. M.
Trevelyans History of England"
This set, which sells for IS cents
books, is still an unknown quantity to
many.
Terribly British, of course, but not
too much so, these are guaranteed to
please the bookman who has not read
them, and many have not, because
somehow they have been missed by
even the intelligentsia, so called.
There Is a nice cloth bound, single
volume edition at $6 the copy. but the
paperbacks are more chummy, easier
to hold. and nicer to carry around.
Make sure. in advance, that the per-
son to whom you may want to present
these books has not read George
Macaulay Trevelyan's fine work.
This can be done by the simple ex-
pedient of asking him bluntly.
The chances are, 10 to /, that he
will say he has not. even though this
set has become something of best
seller in bookstores, drug and other
marts.
The name of the author is not as well
known in America as it is abroad. and
the title Of the book is somewhat stufiy.
just plain old History Of England"
Note that we speak Of "he." as the
proposed reader of this Christmas book
set. Men viii Like it best. although a
Evening star., 1954-12-09
This and That

woman here and there may find it
satisfying.
The point is, as We see it, that men.
as group, have more interest in his
tory.
History is, after all, combination
of factors worked out in making liv-
ing. making war, and politics.
Modern life and living have become
very complicated, with women entering
the lists in all fields. so that no hard
and fast lines can be drawn, perhaps.
but nevertheless the factors named are
still confined, as a group, to men.
History is, to men, thing Of immedi-
ate interest. One does not have to be
a politician, or warmaker, to want 70
understand how what happened In the
past happened the way 1t did.
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how, to sum up what has happened to
all Of us.
One does not even have to have Eng
lish blood in his veins to appreciate
this viewpoint. The work mentioned
shows better than any other, we be-
leve, the large number of human fac
tors and races that swept into and
over the island during its long history.
Trevelyan shows how, before Colum-
bus, England was situated on the very
outskirts Of the world. as it were, and
how suddenly, with that discovery, 1t
became the very center Of it.
Succeeding waves Of Angles. Ro-
mans. Danes and others already had
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Worth Trying

I couldn't help but be impressed to
read in The Star. December 4. that
woman had received SO award and
flowers after being arrested" for care
full and courteous driving. Men, take
notice, it was woman driver!
Just before Christmas, this seems like
very practical idea took the car
out Saturday and made my way care
fully down to Fourteenth and G (scene
of the "arrest'9. stayed in my traf-
fic lane. watched all traffic lights.
bowed to all pedestrians and gave them
the right of way, didn't use the horn
once and didn't do any window shop
ping on the way. The result was ar
rival at destination in state of calm
and with plenty Of time. felt that
meritorious service in the face of
traffic temptation had been rendered,
and had left plenty of room in the
front seat for flowers.
OF course, it didn't happen that way.
But the feeling of calm and well-being
was rather a good reward on its own
merits. If you are suffering from
frayed traffic nerves. this is one way
to unfray them. Besides, with the ac-
cident rate up in the high figures every
year, why should be another statistic?
Eileen Glass.
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Abhorrent to Whom?

Walter Reuther of the CIO, who seldom
INDUCES in underStatement, has denounced
q questionnaire which he says is being sub
mitted to defense workers. Many en-
ployes," according to Mr.. Reuther, "will find
the QUESTIONABLE impossible to fill out and
abhorrent in principle"
The particular question to which Mr..
Reuther takes exception requires defense
workers to list the name of any one they
have known during the past five years who
belonged to any organization classed by the
Government as subversive.
The usefulness of such an inquiry might
be the subject of legitimate challenge.
Some workers might not remember people
they had known who belonged to subversive
organizations. Others might have been
unaware that acquaintances belonged to
such organizations. And the spies-if any
in defense plants could hardly be expected
to come forward and confess that they
associated with subversives.
Still, 1t is hard to understand why the
Government should not try to find out
whether defense workers had friends in
the subversive ranks. And it is even harder
to understand why such an inquiry should
be "abhorrent in principle" to any one who
Is loyal to this country.
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Attests to Hospital Feature

Please pin rose on John McKelway
for his article on the D. c. General
Hospital in The Sunday Star Of Decem-
ber 5. I became very enthused and
inspired as read it. It's what I've
been telling people for three years.
when I've defended its name from time
to time.
spent three year-the past three
as a general duty staff nurse in a
medical ward at D. c. General Hospital.
know that his statements are true.
It was good to see it in print.
The people who are constantly run
ming the hospital down must be those
who are ignorant of what actually goes
on there. Otherwise they wouldn't
utter some of the statements they make
about it.
True, it's not the pretty place few
of the other hospitals in this area are.
but you can't judge book by its
cover"
My experience there was both in
valuable and gratifying. I'll stand up
for D. C. General Hospital any day.
Judy McWhorter, r. N.
Evening star., 1954-12-09
For Accurate Reporting

More accurate reporting Of security
risk dismisSalS should result from the
revised system just adopted by the Civil
Service Commission. The immediate effect
will be to reduce the number of f1rings
reported under the general security-risk
heading, for only bona f1de loyalty-security
discharges will be listed hereafter in the
quarterly reports. That means that, begin
ming with the January IS list, no dismissals
under regular civil service procedures
(those not officially based on security con-
siderations) will be included. This is
move that should have been made months
ago, when The Star first disclosed that the
totals were padded with separations ef-
fected outside the loyalty y-security program.
Under the previous instructions from
the csc, the departments and agencies
have been including in their security Statis-
tics certain cases in which employees were
let out during reductions in force or under
other circumstances presumably having
nothing to do with security. Because these
employees had information of a derogatory
nature in their personnel files, however, they
were Jumped together with those actually
HreQ on loyalty or security SIOuIloS. Ooile
employees who resigned voluntarily and
without knowledge that they were under
investigation or suspicion also were included
In the fired" totals. This helped to swell
the statistics, but led to justifiable criticism
and charges of dishonest reporting. No
padding is needed to show that the Eisen-
hover administration is doing a good job
of ridding the Federal establishment Of
subversive and other undesirable workers.
Evening star., 1954-12-09

venomous anti-anti- Communist cam
paign to liquidate Mccarthy.
Had the Senator chosen to investigate
the influence Of the pro-Chiang China
lobby upon Congress, or to expose in
filtration of some suspected Fascist
group into Government, there would
have been no Army Mccarthy hear
ings, no speech for Senator Flanders
provided by the Citizens for More
Effective Congress" and no special ses-
sion of the Senate to condemn Nc
Carthy.
McCarthy's methods would have been
just as offensive applied to suspected
Fascists as they were, applied to sus-
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Yoshidu Out

The Communist world has little or no
reason to cackle triumphantly over the
resignation of Prime Minister Shigeru
Yoshida of Japan. For the event, which is
the product chiefly of domestic politics, is
not likely to have any significant effect on
Tokyos strong ties with the West, particu-
larly the United States.
Actually, despite his excellent leader
ship during the past seven years, Mr..
Yoshida has been burdened with mounting
political woes over a period of several
months, and his fall as Prime Minister has
been expected for some weeks. But this
has not been because Of his strong anti
Communist, Western, pro-American
policies in the field of foreign affairs. His
troubles have stemmed primarily from
home front living conditions. AS leader OF
the conservative Liberal Party, he and his
government have been bedeviled with in
creasing economic difficulties caused by
number of complex factors, including
restrictions on trade with Red China and
the loss Of dollar exchange resulting from
the decline in American purchases OF Jap
aneSe goods and services since the end Of
the Korean war. Beyond that, at rs, with
his sharp tongue and hot temper, he has
irritated and estranged many of his former
parliamentary supporters in the Diet.
In these circumstances, confronted with
the certainty that the Diet would otherwise
have forced him out with a no-contidence
vote, Mr.. Yoshida has decided to step down
voluntarily. However, although his own
career as political leader thus appears to
have come to an abrupt end, all signs
indicate that there will be no substantial
shift in the international course Japan has
followed under his government. On the
contrary, his just elected successor as Prime
MiniSter-Ichiro Hatoyama, also conServa-
tive and key figure in founding the Liberal
Party-has long since made clear that his
foreign policy views are essentially the same
as Mr.. Yoshida's. That is to say, although
he favors the establishment of diplomatic
relations with Red China and the Soviet
Union "a development that would require
their acceptance of something comparable
to the San Francisco peace treaty., he Is
opposed to ''neutralism" like India's favors
strong action against the Communist
menace in his country, and is determined
to maintain close military and political ties
with the United States and the West in
general.
Accordingly, everything considered, the
free world as a whole can be reasonably
certain that the change in Tokyo does not
presage a change in Japan's international
position. Mr. Hatoyama, in any event,
sounds very much like Mr.. Yoshida when
it comes to foreign policy, and if he can
cope effectively with the current domestic
difficulties, his country will surely remain
firmly on the Western side.
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Enough Rope

Those colleagues who have supported
Senator Mccarthy on other occasions have
been notably unwilling to associate them
selves with his blast against President
Eisenhower. They want no part of it, and
for very good reason.
The Mccarthy star is setting. Such
national political power as he may once
have had has been largely dissipated by his
own excesses-and by the abundant oppor-
tunity which he has had to faunt those
eXceSSes.
Two years or more ago some people
were afraid that Senator Mccarthy was
going to become the American man on horse
back, that he was going to trample down
our traditional liberties. General Eisen-
hover was called upon to repudiate him, to
find some way-it was never clear just how
of squelching the Senator from Wisconsin.
Those who thought that the President
should declare war on Senator Mccarthy
were quite sincere. And, OF course, they
may have been right. It is possible, but
not probable that the Eisenhower prestige
could then have been used successfully to
lower the boom on the Wisconsin Senator.
There was the risk, however, that even
if the President could, in some way, curb
Senator Mccarthy, the latter would emerge
with a stronger rather than a diminished
following. Certainly he would have shouted
from the housetopS that he had been
thWarted and frustrated in his holy war to
save America from the Communists And
good many people, in those circumstances,
might have believed him.
The President didn't try it. Instead,
he fenced with the Senator, avoiding any
tit-for-tat comment, and letting Senator
Mccarthy throw his weight around almost
at will.
But the Senator, as he was almost
certain to do, overplayed his hand. He was
making progress by his own lights until he
jumped on General zwicker. That was the
turning point. The televised hearings which
followed exposed the real Senator Mccarthy
and alienated many people who had been
his supporters or who had been on the
fence. And now this latest deplorable
personal attack on the President has just
about finished the job. Only an inSignifi-
cant number of people will follow the Sen
ator down the road he has chosen to
political oblivion.
Senator Mccarthy showed some aware
ness of what has happened to him when he
spoke of his attack on the President as
possibly being his temporary swan song"
The probabilities are, however, that it was
anything but temporary. Once again, the
truth which is implicit in the old saying
about giving certain type of man enough
rope has revealed itself.
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Care About Mailing

Leo E. George, president Of the National
Federation of Post Office Clerks, has asked
people to be careful in their Christmas use
of the postal service. Specifically, he ap-
peals to them to mail early, write addresses
plainly, post local and out-of-toWn mail in
separate bundles, refrain from putting holi-
day stickers on the address side of envelopes
and packages and put gifts in strong con-
tainers we'll wrapped. Compliance with
these requests, he believes, will save postal
employees and patrons millions OF head
aches"
But Mr.. George inadvertently omitted
another stipulation which, because OF
changes in policy dating back to April IL,
1850, is more important than it formerly was
namely, be careful never to mail anything
withoutsa return address. The Postal Man
ual published December explains that the
traditional directory service" of years gone
by lis not generally available" now. II
letter or parcel lacks detailed address-that
is, name, street and number, town or city
name and postal district, and name OF State
or Territory-it has two strikes against its
being delivered before it starts on its jour-
ney. Only registered, insured, c. 0. D.,
special delivery and special handling mail,
perishable matter, packages of obvious value
and international mail are accorded direc-
tory checking All other postal matter IS
returned with the Endorsement insufficient
address"-if a return address is given.
Otherwise, it goes to the Dead Letter Once
and eventually is destroyed or, in some rare
cases, sold at auction. Postmaster General
Summerfield reports that even though there
has been decrease in dead mail IN recent
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Mtchelangelos
Descent From the Cross

I'm the Cathedral at Florence. Italy)
Sadness and pain cut from this
chtseled stone,
Bredthed by the sculptor TO this
marble mass
And here transformed to beauty Of tts
ot1n
Which holds the snlolderiro sorroto
like a glass.
This piece of stone. unfinished, hardly
blocked,
Madonna and her Son pithtn her
arms,
Healing Nth loue the Man the Dorld
had Knocked.
Till euen noto the Hfeless marble
tCdrms;:
or. so 1t seems to the beholder's eyes
Struck to compassion by this tender
grief;
Out of the marble anguished pity cries.
And yet dedthless faith, deep
belief;
Stronger than marble Is this pain and
grace.
Unearthly beauty IN each pallid face.
Helen Rowe Henzs
Evening star., 1954-12-09

pected Communists, but there would
have been no protest, in that case, from
the ADA or from any other liberal
group.
While it is difficult to be objective
about Mccarthy, if we make an honest
analysis of the whole disgraceful affair,
we must admit that it was not how
Mccarthy investigated, but whom he
investigated that brought on the savage
propaganda campaign to destroy him.
r.. X,
Evening star., 1954-12-09

lion letters and cards month and about
$4,000 packages week which fail of delivery
or return because senders have not been
careful in mailing them. This loss in labor,
time and money is something that can and
should be prevented.
Evening star., 1954-12-09
Letters to 7 he Star.

the people thought the Communists
were going to be investigated, and run
out Of the Government. Instead we
find the committees investigating
communism being squelched; pro-
Communists being Endorsed as candi-
dates for public office; peaceful CO.
existence" talk, worse than the
Stockholm peace petitions, being pro-
mulgated in the White House: Taft
Republicans being fired as security
risks on trumped-up charges, and the
coddling of Communists being upheld
Evening star., 1954-12-09

Pen-uanaes may be used If letters carry
toriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1954-12-09

in the Senate-not to mention the
psychological warfare being waged
against all who protest.
It is time the American people began
wondering, What neXt?"
Pamela Steinlein.
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Anti-Soviet though we may be in
foreign affairs, there is a strange reser-
voir of tolerance for domestic Com
munists and fellow travelling groups
which has been the well-spring of the