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Evening star., 1954-10-07
AWord to the Wise
By Mrs. fronk Colby

Pittsburgh: On q quiz program
it was stated that George Wash
ington was not born in the
United States. How can that be
true?-L. G.
Answer: George Washington
was born in Westmoreland
County, Va, in 1882. But the
United States did not come into
existence until 40-odd years
later.
Santa Barbara: To settle a
dispute. please tell us how the
20" is pronounced in the word
coffee. Is it short as in cop, or
like the law" in cough?
Answer: Dictionary opinion is
somewhat divided. Some die
tionaries show only the short 20"
as in cop; some show the "aw'
sound as in cough; others show
both sounds. My own opinion
agrees with Kenyon and Knott's
Pronouncing Dictionary: In
coffee, 'aw' (KAW-fee) clearly
prevails in all regions of the
United States" In the East the
Short 20" is quite common, but
not universal.
Kansas City: A comparison Of
the words wind" and window"
brings up the question: What
does the low" of window"
mean?-R. P.
Answer: Window evolved from
the Icelandic vindauga, mean
ing "the winds eye." Another
familiar "eye" word is daisy"
from the Anglo-Saxon daeges
cage, "the days eye," an allu-
sion to the sun, which the flower
resembles.
Boulder: Exactly what do the
Greek letters Phi Beta Kappa
(the fraternity stand for?
Anything?-J. D.
Answer: Yes; they stand for
the motto of the fraternity:
Philosophia Biou Kybernetes,
PHILOSOPHY, the Guide to Life"
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest
Greek letter society in the United
States. It was founded at Will
liam and Mary in 1776.
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Evening star., 1954-10-07
Famous Fables
By {, (. Edoor

FAVORS - During his
early days in the theater,
when he was broke more
often than not, John Barry
more frequently availed
himself of the generosity of
Frank Case, owner of New
York's Hotel Algonquin, who
would put him up on the
cuff.
Once Barrymore confided
to Case that his trunk was
being held by a Philadelphia
hotel, because he owed a bill
for $35. Case loaned him
the money to retrieve it.
A few weeks later, Barry
more checked out of the
Algonquin without paying
his bill or the $35. Case
didn't mind letting the bill
ride, but he was peeved that
Barrymore had neglected to
repay the $35. He decided
to sue. A process server
located Barrymore and
handed him the summons.
A couple Of days later, the
Great Profile walked into
the Algonquin lobby.
Frank" he said, you're
the best friend I have. I
want you to do me a favor"
He pulled a paper from
his pocket and tossed it on
the table.
Some fellow gave me this
the other day. I think it's
something legal. You know
how little I know about
these things. Take care of
it for me, will you?"
When Case looked at the
paper, he saw that it was the
summons he had authorized.
Evening star., 1954-10-07
Breed Strung on Poles

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
q favorite bread in Sweden, is
made principally Of rye meal
and sour milk. The bread,
baked in thin disks with holes In
the center, is strung on long
poles and kept on racks near the
ceiling.
Evening star., 1954-10-07

SASAAS SSNhAsSA
nos S oo-
K A r -noh }
rash action in
marrying a
second wife
without hav-
ing consulted
his first wife.
as required by
MoSlem law.
AS a conSe-
quence, wife
No. /. Fatma-
watt (Fatt-
m a h " A H
faaN ond fhn
Evening star., 1954-10-07
Answers to Our Presidents
THE FLlBBERTYS
BEETLE BAILEY
THE JACKSON TWINS
MUTT AND JEFF

LIN 1896, when President
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated
Alfred M. Landon.
2-CNster A. Arthur. In
1883. the remains of Payne
were brought back from Tunis
where he had died In 1852.
3-Theodore Roosevelt, 1906.
Evening star., 1954-10-07
Names in The News
land how to pronounce them.)
By Constantine Chekrezi

Indonesia is in the throes of
what may be called the battle
of the sexes, because of Presi-
Evening star., 1954-10-07

easy for you to bring delicious
variety to your table with the
least amount of effort.
CHICKEN AND OTHER FOWL
Move just a few short steps to
JAVIN'S POULTRY STAND NO.
430 operated by Mr.. and Mrs. e.
Clark Jones. They sell only
select chickens, having a country
fresh flavor you cannot obtain in
chickens purchased through mass
distribution centers. Once you
taste the difference, no other
chicken will come to your table.
Telephone Mr.. Jones at MA.
8-2672, and they will have your
order ready for you upon arrival.
GIVE Always
When you are In the Market,
pick up at the office, with our
compliments, pamphlets on cam
ming and quick freezing Of foods,
and recipes for preparing de-
lightful pickle and vegetable
relishes and picked fruits.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Remember that Center Market
awards $500 for each home
making idea selected for publi-
cation. Please make them brief
and concise. Those of you who
have submitted ideas that have
not been selected, please try
again.
When storing potatoes, keep
them dark . they like a black
out, so cover well with cloth or
paper. Light gives them green
bspots that are harmful to eat,
and must be cut away.
In the spirit Of adventure, alter
your shopping routine this week
end and drive your car to the
free AMOCO STATION LOT ON
X st. q few doors from the
market, pick up your cart from
the attendant and discover
HAPPY SHOPPING AT
CENTER MARKET CITY
5th and x SITS. NV.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Farley 10 Combat
De|inquency0p

A national conference to COM
bat juvenile delinquency will be
held in the Commerce Depart
ment auditorium Thursday and
Friday.
Golden B. Darby, supervising
sociologist for the Institute for
Juvenile Research in the Illinois
Department of Public Welfare is
national chairman. Honorary
co-chairmen are Mrs. Irene Nc
Coy Gaines, president of the Ma
tional Association of Colored
Women, and DR.. w. H. Jernigan,
chairman of the National Bap-
tist Sunday School Congress.
Members of the Washington
Planning Committee include
Mrs. Geraldine Rhodes. chair
man: Miss Mayme Mehlinger,
co-chairman, and DR.. Victor j
Tulane.
Senator Hendrickson, Repub-
lican, of New Jersey, chairman
of the Senate Juvenile Delin-
quency subcommittee, is sched-
uled to address the conference
dinner sponsored by the Howard
University Social Service De-
partment at the university's
Baldwin Hall on Friday.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Geneva Pessinnism Premature
This Could Be the Lost international Meeting for Years.
So Possibility Is Seen for Some Tangible Results

year was an attempt to tackle
European problems, and it
wound up with the realistic
decision that nothing could be
done about a European settle
ment until something was
done simultaneously about an
Asian settlement.
All this is but another way
of saying that the peace of the
world is not regional or sec
tional but global and hence, If
there is to be an era of peace.
every important cause ot anxi-
ETY. must be tackled, If not in
this conference, then in those
conferences which inevitably
must come after this one if
there is the slightest evidence
of even a partial success here.
What, it might be asked,
would be the motivating rea-
son for Soviet Russia to give
ground since there is no mil
itary pressure at the moment
powerful enough to threaten
a victory of arms and since
the Western world has been
fought to a stalemate in Ko-
rea and French opinion veers
toward another stalemate in
Indo-China? There is only one
pressure on the men in the
Kremlin - the fear that
worsened situation in the
world could lead to the down.
fall of the Moscow regime,
especially as the internal eco
nomic situation would then
grow more dangerous. Every
bit of information coming out
of Soviet Russia indicates that
no warlike sentiment or pas
sion exists there and that a
third world war could loosen
the bonds between the people
and the government, just as
it did when a separate peace
with Germany was negotiated
by the revolutionary govern
ments of Kerensky IN the
middle of World War I.
This conference at Geneva
is probably the most important
since the Versailles conference
of 1919-Which. incidentally,
this correspondent reported
Although those meetings lasted
over a period of several
months, there were less than
half-a-dozen sessions at which
Evening star., 1954-04-26

J0kesters Don't Bother President
But Advisers Are Believed to Have Persuaded the 0enerot
To limit His Vacations to Augusta and Colorado

the Presidents Palm Springs
(Calif.) vacation. for example,
was a mistake. They have per-
suaded him to concentrate on
Augusta in the winter and
spring and on Denver in the
summer and early fall.
This way, they reasoned.
they could set up Little White
Houses where the work OF the
Office could go on and a stan
be maintained. The Eisen-
hover stories then. they said.
would have a strong flavor OF
work as well as play.
It is to be expected there
fore that the President will
stay put, making brief forays
by air for his political chores
and passing up the giided re-
sorts.
The President at all times
prefers to operate through
channels and to delegate au-
thority. This would in anv case
give much authority to his
head housekeeper," Presiden-
tial Aide Sherman Adams; with
the President often absent. Mr..
Adams power is very great in
deed.
The system has its draw
backs as the confusion over
Indo-China policy showed last
week. It encourages the Sem
ators to play by ear. Old asso-
ciates. however, say it has
always been the Eisenhower
system and they do not expect
him to alter 1t despite comedi-
ans, cartoonists and politicians.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Constantine Brown

There are sound reasons for
the opinion that the incredible
destructiveneSs of hydrogen
weapons may in itself effec-
lively forbid their use in war.
The recent experiments in the
Pacific have demonstrated be-
yond doubt that man has in
his possession the most tre-
mendous destroyer ever known.
a weapon theoretically capable
of almost unlimited size and
power. But they have also
shown. by logical inference.
that such a weapon, unleashed
without most rigid controls,
could be as dangerous to its
user as to its target.
On the outbreak of World
War II in 1899 it was common
knowledge that all the worlds
MAJOR powers possessed huge
stocks of poison gas. Most
people took it for granted that
those stocks would be put to
lethal use at the first favorable
opportunity. Gas masks were
distributed in London at the
time of the Munich crisis in
1888: the declaration of war
following the Nazi attack on
Poland found the British well
prepared for an early gas at
tack from the air.
But the attack never ma
terialized. in Britain or any,
where else, despite the unbe-
lievable bitterness and unre-
strained destruction Of nom
combatants that took place in
the following five years.
Even when the Nazi back
was to the wall, and the fren-
zied Fuehrer cast about for a
miracle weapon to save his
staggering nation from total
defeat. he did not order the
use of the immense stocks Of
gas found intact by the in
vading Allied armies. We may
be certain that humanitarian
motives played no part in the
Nazi decision not to use the
gas in a last-ditch effort to
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

No wonder the Army cutting out two divisions doesn't
need much manpower this that it
peed the task of not giving commission
Democratic Senator Hennings the Republicans
tearing their What frightens
nngs fact that the Democrats
kept getting elected.
Joe Mccarthy has made lot of headway political
third party. Every he telephones cabinet
ngton there's the other end of the line taking
Unemployment Insurance Boss Goodwin says the
ment being cheated of millions unemployment
Some fellows think they jobess
tellectualshey quit thinking about looking
There's chance of sending American troops to Indo
China for couple OF monthsa the officers tied
witnesses in the Mccarthy hearings.
House Democratic Leader Rayburn the voters
had enough of the Republicans Rayburns right
voter in tough He's had the Republicans
and too much of the Democrats
Chinese Red Chou Enai he hopes for Eastern
settlement All he half doesn't belong
Evening star., 1954-04-26

all the delegates faced each
other in actual conference. The
real work was done in informal
meetings of four men-the
heads Of the allied govern
ments-and the decisions were
then submitted to the enemy
for approval "
While the circumstances of
Victor VS.. Loser are absent
now. the technique here may
be expected to be the same.
Unless in the first two or
three weeks there are indica-
tions informally given to the
top ministers Of Britain and
France and the United States
that something tangible can
be negotiated. the conference
will drag on and the princi-
pals. like Secretary Dulles and
Anthony Eden. will go back
home leaving deputies to carry
on indefinitely
It is precisely because the
Communist diplomats know
there is a sort of "now or
never" urgency about this
conference that it may be con-
fidently assumed that the Rus
slams will not let the Geneva
meeting collapse and thus per-
init the whole world to look
upon the Communists as OBJ
structionists. There will be,
for propaganda purposes, the
usual public statements, at
first with impossible demands.
But. in the privacy Of informal
meetings between the heads OF
foreign Offices. the real nego-.
tiations will proceed as the
effort is made to find out
whether or not there Is a
sound basis of compromise on
a plan which involves mutual
concessions To be acceptable,
there would have to be a dra-
matte manifestation OF sin
cerity accompanied by for
mula for guaranteeing the
pledges given. The fundamen-
tai question here is how to get
a guarantee of good faith, but
nevertheless it would be well
for observers generally not to
write off this conference be-
fore it begins. It could bring
a surprise.
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Evening star., 1954-04-26
H-Bonnb Fear May Prevent Use
Retaliation Threat Could Ban Weapon in New Battle
Just as Poison Gas Was Cast Aside in World War

dual nation does not. itself,
possess an atomic stockpile, the
prevailing system OF alliances
and alignments makes certain
that it would get prompt
atomic support from its big
power associates. Thus Red
China can depend on Soviet
atomic support in the event Of
an attack by the United
States; Turkey would get
United States support If the
Reds hurled an A-bomb at
Ankara.
Unless an agreSSor were able
to mount SO overwhelmingly
a surprise attack as to prac-
tically obliterate not only the
target nation but the means
to resist of that nations al
lies, swift retaliation would be
certain and catastrophe. The
very lack of any adequate de-
fense against atomic or hy-
drogen attack serves to en-
phaSize the stark realities Of
the situation.
Some military strategists
even see a safety sanction on
the use of small tactical"
atomic weapons because of the
reprjsal factor. Such small
weapons, they say. would be-
come larger and larger as the
wars intensity increased; the
considerations that inhibited
the use of poison gas in World
War II would come into play
almost at the outset if a be-
ligerent were to employ limited
atomic devices.
Poison gas was perhaps the
first modern weapon of war
to point UP the dangers in
volved in the possession of too
much power. Atomic and hy-
drogen weapons have only
made the paradox more OBJ
vious. We may yet see a strange
sort of lasting peace in the
world. made not only possible
but inescapable by the indis-
criminate and limitless final
ity of modern instruments Of
destruction.
Evening star., 1954-04-26

in which he is, himself. on
trial, and as he interrupts
constantly with silly points
of order" to get into the act.
The sly trickster in him, so
we'll known here, comes out as
he seeks to divert the teSti-
mony from the issue and as he
smugly resorts to innuendoes
and half truths to cast sus-
picion. How his tactics have
become stamped with his own
trade mark was no better
exemplifled than by the snick-
ers that ran through the audi
ence in the hearing room when
he objected solemnly to "hear-
say evidence"
Seeing the MCCARTHY en-
tourage" on televiSion is illu-
minating. and so is finding out
more about their activities.
Such. for example, as the
boast of Roy Cohn, as quoted
by Secretary Of Army Stevens.
that 'I have access to FBI files
when I want them" The COM
mittee-and the public--is 60
ing to want to know If he was
speaking truthfully there, for
that Is strictly forbidden.
Evening star., 1954-04-26

light before a major general.
The Senator managed slyly to
suggest that the generals
views and conduct might be
motivated by the fact that
his brother, once high COM
missioner for Germany. re-
signed under the charges that
he was a bad security risk,
the result of the whirlwind
tour of the worlds most publi-
cized sleuths who play a criti-
cal role in this case: Messrs.
Cohn and Schine. The veteran
general impotently struck his
fist into his hand and hotly
denied the charge. The Ques-
ton crossed my mind whether
the abolition of the duel as
the resort of inSulted honor
was, after all, such a good
thing, while across the visage
of the dark figure passed a
shadowy smile.
A surprise witness entered:
Former General Walter Bedell
Smith, Undersecretary of
State, former chief of Ameri-
can counterintelligence, once
Ambassador to Moscow. The
proceedings were interrupted
to permit him briefly to testify,
for he was on his way to
Geneva, in the encourage of
the Secretary of State. The
two departments he has served
also are under fire by the Wis
consin Senator as promising
further pay dirt. The Under
secretary spoke and departed.
The word Geneva" had not
occasioned a solemn pause.
Nobody mentioned Dien Bien
Phu. That would have been
out of order.
Diem Bien Phu is falling
falling. Perhaps before Geneva
convenes it will be over. Odd
its defenders name: General
Christian des CaStries. Christ
ian is falling before Ho Chi
Mini - what no! Christian
civilization? 1t dissolved
Austro-H Hungary. 1t crushed
and partitioned Germany. 1t
has the H-bomb.
Headlines: Britain cautious
on Indo-China aid unity
Evening star., 1954-04-26

avert final disaster. Only the
certainty of prompt and over
whelming retaliation spared
the world this added horror.
The two-edged sword nature
of poison gas as a weapon OF
war was demonstrated almost
Immediately after the Imperial
German Army first employed it
in France in April. 1915. The
first attack on the allied lines
was mounted with a compli-
Gated system of pipes. with the
wind doing the rest. But the
wind tended to be undepend-
able; Germans were felled by
their own weapon. BY the time
efficient gas-loaded artillery
shells were developed. the
allies had them too, and the
effectiveness of gas warfare
was largely neutralized.
In the period between the
two World Wars, tremendous
advances were made in the de-
velopment of new and more
deadly gases to supplement
the chlorine. phosgene and
mustard of World War I. The
new gases were colorlesS, odor-
less and tasteless, therefore un-
detachable until their deadli-
ness was effective. They ignored
masks and coverings. Some
were developed to attack the
nervous system and the blood
stream. All were lethal and by
all military standards COM
prised weapons Of conclusive
power. But they were not used
when the world went to war.
While the potential destruc-
tiveness of poison gas is as
nothing compared to that OF
the H-bomb, many military
leaders point out that the con-
siderations which prevented
gas warfare in World War II
are even more applicable to
the tactical use of atomic and
hydrogen weapons. It is GER
tain that all the potential an
tagonists in a new war either
have or will soon have such
weapons. Even if any indivi-
Evening star., 1954-04-26
WHeorinqs Unvei| Mccarthy
Writer SAYS Senate Inquiry Shows People How Powerful
Senator Became but Also May Diminish His Influence

is appreciative. So. too. did
other Senators on the Nc
Carthy investigating commit
tee stiffen their spines. They
no longer sit supinely by as
most of them did in months
past when Senator Mccarthy
was making a circus out of the
decencies and individual rights.
Firmly, but courteously, they
are insisting that the Senator
stick to his role Of cross
examiner. cutting off his at
tempts at stump speeches.
Perhaps the best job being
done on Senator Mccarthy
now is that being done by Sem
ator Mccarthy. He is being
himself, and a view of that
day after day on television
should. in time. fully reveal
him to the public at large as
he is known by those who have
watched him here.
The bully in the Senator
comes out plainly as he tries
to take over an investigation
Evening star., 1954-04-26

I watched the first round OF
the televised match between
Senator Mccarthy and the
Army with the feeling of be-
ing in a nightmare. In this
nightmare a dark and sinister
figure stood behind the table
but none of the participants
was aware of its presence.
And the name Of the figure
was nemesis, the impersonal
vengeance, who, in the mind
of the ancient Greeks works
infallibly against men and
nations who Willingly or un-
Willingly make errors so
formidable as to have the
force of crimes.
Senator Mccarthy was an
Cling for the floor and lime
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Dorothy Thompson-
Dark Figure Turks in Nightmare
TeIevised Match Between Mccarthy and the Army
Gives Feeling That Bad Dream Is Taking Place

lacking on Vietnam side In
contrast with tight Red grip
West still split on Geneva pol
icy-Bevan warns Eden-Nehru
bans American airlift from
India'S Skies-President urges
spiritual unity.
E. pluribuS unum. Much
pluribus. No unum.
Why do I care so much?
Why don't they? Aren't they
aware? Richard II: The words
of old John of Gaunt:
"This land ~ OF such dear
souls. this dear dear
land,
"Dear for her reputation
through the Dorld.
Els noW leased out, ! die pro-
noancing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting
farm,
"This land ~ bound in By the
triumphant sea,
"WhoSe rocky shore beats back
the enUiouS siege
"Of Watery neptune, Is notC
bound in Dith shame
with inky blots and rotten
parchment bonds
"That land (%r forever mont
to conquer others
Hath made a shameful con-
quest OF ITSELF"
I quoted the lines aloud.
"You changed some words"
my Shakespeare-knowing son
corrected.
"He spoke Of England" I
agreed. I was not thinking
of England. But he was very
old, John of Gaunt. I feel
old, too. just now. AS old as
nemesis.
(D In Shakespeare "this
land" reads England" At the
third asterisk THAT England
that was won't"
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Thomas L. Stokes

Outstanding among impress
sions of the Senator Joe Nc
Carthy-Army investigation is
the revelation in dramatic
form, day by day. so that all
now can see, of the powerful
and dangerous figure the Sem
ator from Wisconsin had be-
come.
The past tense-"had"-is
used purposely, even if pre-
maturely. For it no longer
seems risky to forecast that
his influence is likely to di-
minish henceforth. This is
because of the current televi-
sion performance before the
American people and that is
as much due to self-revelation
as through testimony of others
about his activities and those
of his staff.
It must be frightening to the
American people. and make
them shudder in backward
glance, to see how this one
man, recklessly exploiting the
power that the voters Of one
State conferred upon him. had
cowed the top civilian and
military command of the De-
partment of the Army.
It is unfortunate that We
had to learn the hard way
that is. by washing all the
dirty linen in public. It has
been disillusioning, indeed, to
learn in minute detail, in in
cident after incident, how the
Army, from the Secretary on
down, devoted hours and hours
to try to please the Senator
and his committee counsel.
ROY Cohn. It becomes ridic-
ulous because Of the picayun-
ish nature of the mission as
signed to Messrs. Mccarthy
and Cohn-firSt, to find some
way to commission a young
man on the Senator's staff
Who was about to be drafted
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Life in the u. S.
This Couple
ReoNyGets
The Bird
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, April 90
"The place looked like Capt.
strano," said Mrs. Ralph Calm
when she and her husband re-
turned home from a dinner party
yesterday.
Their seven-room home was
swarming with swallows.
"I guess there were more than
$50 of them," she added.
The Gahms called the fire de-
partment, but the department
replied it didn't handle such sit
uations. So, with the help Of
neighbors. the couple went to
work catching the birds and
shooing them outside.
IT think they came in through
the chimney" Mrs. Calm de-
cided. "There were no windows
open."