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The frontiersman., 1954-10-07
FIVE VALLEY WOMEN ATTEND UNIVERSITY SNORT COURSE

Homemakers from all over AL aska are to meet on the Univer- sity of Alaska campus October 8-16 for the fifth annual Home
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Why Grow Oid7
Some Tips To
Look Good
At Beach
By Josephine Lowmon

There is a style bathing suit
for every figure. It is truly sur
prising what q difference q suit
can make in the way you look
on the beach, or on the river
bank. Here are a few things to
remember.
/. If you are short or over
weight do not wear q two-piece
suit. This makes you look shorter
Of broader Just as q wide belt
will. Use a one-piece suit. II you
are tall and slender the two
piece suit is flattering to you.
Skinny Skirt
2. Swim suits with skirts are
attractive on many women Of all
ages. However, If shortness or
overweight are problems / sug-
gest one of those types which is
beltless but fitted through the
torso. The skirt should not be
too full, in fact it should be so
skinny that 1t does not really
look like skirt.
8. Remember that shiny ma
terials make you look fatter.
4. OF course, black is slimming
and this is one time when you
can wear it without feeling older.
5 Take advantage Of water
proof lotions and creams and
mascara. Remember the little
trick Of wrapping q piece Of
chamois about your head at your
hairline before putting on your
bathing cap. This helps keep
your hair dry.
Leg Exercise
6. The upper inner leg line is
one Of the first places q woman
shows her age, 11gurewise. The
leg motion In the breast stroke
is wonderful for firming this.
Also hang onto the float or raft
and do the following: Separate
your legs as far as comfortable.
Bring them together. Continue
separating and bringing to-
gether. Keep the knees stif
throughout this exercise. The
resistance Of the water makes
this a splendid exercise for cor
recting bullying thighs and O
habby inner leg.
If you would like to have my
exercises for reducing the thighs
send q stamped. self-addressed
envelope with your request for
leaflet No. 4, Reducing the
Thighs" to Josephine Lowman
in care Of The Evening Star.
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At Summer Home

DR.. and Mrs. Robert South
Barrett Of Alexandria are at
their summer home at Ocean
Citl, N. j. Their son. Read Ad-
miral j. P. Barrett and his fam
lily will go to Waterford, near
New London, Conn. where they
built q summer cottage.
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Gopt. Powell Returns

$, 8. Capt. Roy Powell, with Mrs.
81 Powell and their two young chill
dren, has returned from the
philippines, where he has been
stationed for the past two years.
Capt. Powell is the son Of Mrs.
Myrtle Smith OF the Hunting
Towers Apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

use Rubbermaid Dish
Drainer. large plate
partment. 9 glass holders,
soften or peel.
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Puzzled by CoIumnist
d. C. Teacher.

have read Constantine Browns
column of August 28th wherein he pre-
diets Red feint at Formosa, further
saying that nothing could pay of more
automatically than large-scale feint
against Formosa at the time when the
admission of Red China to the United
Nations is being considered by the Gen
eral Assembly in October
do not understand Mr.. Browns
reasoning. The Chinese government is
already a member Of the United Ma
tons. Admission of Red China, so called,
would involve expulsion Of the Chinese
government, which is not within the
power of the Assembly, even if ma
jority Of Communists and their sup
porters could be found in that body.
If the question should be presented
to the Security Council, it would. as
sumo, receive prompt veto by the
United States.
We have all heard the fiction that
substitution of Red China for the Chi
nese government in the u. N. would
be merely a procedural matter for the
Assembly to get around
veto, but that cannot be taken seriously
Oldster.
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This and That !.

push button to hear, or look through
ground glass to see.
But he would very much like to
know how things are going to turn
out and for that, there would be no
other way.
For such long haul. money would
come in handy. too.
4 4 E8 30 f8
You can find d book on almost any
subject today. If you suffer from
arthritis, here is big one which holds
out the prospect of relief through diet.
There are books and books, all of
them published with the hope, evil
IDENTIFY, that they would make for
tune for somebody or some small group
of somebodies.
Sometimes they do (see best seller"
. chart) and often they do not (see
publishers remainders" in drugstore
windows.
What burns Templeton Jones up. is
to find, one month after he has pur-
chased book at 81. perfectly nice
and adequate copy OF it in neat
paperbook edition at so cents, this just
two months after original publication.
This makes sort of sucker out Of
an honest booklover, he believes.
X
He has put those publishers down on
his black list.
Hereafter, when he sees one Of their
publications, he will wait little. and
who can blame him.
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Templeton Jones is a booklover Of
! the old school. That is. he reads what
he wishes, because he wants to read;
he does not belong to "book clubs" or
read because he fears some bright
soul will ask him, Have you read
SO and SOP
When Jones recently saw advertise
ments of two new offerings he de-
cided t0 purchase them. One is book
on how to get rich despite yourself.
and the other a work on how TO live
forever.
The mystery OF acquiring money has
always intrigued Templeton Jones. as
it has many another.
Some do, some don't, and the OBJ
server can't pin 1t down.
1T must be OIL he says to himself.
but 1t isn't oil at all. but just plain
merchandise.
No. the mystery Of making much
money must remain the unsolved
.'whodunit" for such souls.
AS for living forever. as the title
happily says. that is something many
! persons profess not to want.
To Jones. and all inquisitive per-
sons. it remains something desirable,
provided it could be achieved in good
health, or even fairly good health.
He would not wish to go Gripping
down through the ages. or have TO
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Europe's Fluid Boundaries

This is in reply to Kurt Glaser's let
ter which appeared in The Star OF sep
tember on the 18th anniversary OF the
German attack on Poland.
Evidently Mr.. CHASER believes that
what Germany seizes must remain Ger
man forever He ought to be reminded
that the places mentioned by him were
known by Polish names before they
were seized by Germany and were Ger
manized; also, that the Germans were
not driven out by the Poles but lied In
fear of what might await them for what
the Germans had done to the Poles, and
which on this anniversary is fresh IN
our minds.
Apparently Mr.. Chaser believes that
whatever tragedy and chaos the Ger
mans bring to the world must always
be to the German good and Germany
must remain unscathed.
Truly, the Germans are incorr1glble.
Sophia Grodzicka.
A man who lived in Germany under
Kaiser wilhelm or under Adolf Hitler
or who knows history only from Ger
man textbooks and from the German
point of view. may unconsciously ABSORB
features of the pangermanlc line, as
is in the case of Kurt CHASER.
81 Mr.. Chaser refers TO Polish names OF
Polish towns in Western Poland and
says that those towns should have Ger
man sounding names because-as he
puts it--"they were built and settled
by the Germans"
But he refrains from saying what
! the Germans did with the Polish popu-
lation in those towns and in this land
which was, Polish long before the Ger
mans came to Poland.
at that time they did the same to
the Polish population as they did to
millions of Poles and Jews and others
in 1899 to 4 they massacred them
'rhis Is the traditional way Of German
expansion IN Europe. Mr.. Chaser should
look up the history Of the Polish city
Gdansk and learn in what way the
original Polish inhabitants were exter-
minated and German colonizers settled
in this town.
Is it possible that Mr.. Chaser does
not know that long before the Germans
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the

The next day. Sunday, was the feast
of the Assumption of the Blessed Vir-
gin Mary Into Heaven. Before nine
o'clock scores of buses and hundreds
Of motor bikes had brought several
thousand people across the causeWay.
The French make great holiday Of the
feast, but only a few hundred attended
mass in the little chapel under the rock
which the monks built in the 18th
century for the people of the village.
During the mass priest with fine
voice walking up and down the center
aisle tried to bring the service to the
people by leading French chants-Some-
thing like Methodist hymn-sing.
All morning people kept coming
across the causeway. The Enthusiastically
narrow single street Of the village
only eight feet wide in some places
was damned like movie setting Of an
oriental bazaar.
My wife counted the steps UP to the
abbey. There were 1854. We learned
from Henry Adams that the pinnacle of
rock is $40 feet above the sea. Hildebert,
the first abbot, would not yield a foot
of the height for the floor Of his
church. Had he cut the summit away
about 80 feet he would have had a firm
foundation. But he built platform
of stone at the top, buttressed by piers
of masonry rising almost 100 feet. His
successors kept building and tower
finally collapsed about 1900. The re-
construction brought about the mar
riage in the church of the earliest
romanesque architecture and the lat
est gothic, very successful marriage.
st. Michel, the winged figure of
Byzantium. represents the church and
state, both militant. He stands on the
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Visiting q Fovorite Spot Of Henry Adams
By George Kennedy

NICE, France-The bartender at
Georges Place" behind the Hotel.
RuhF at Nice speaks English after q
fashion. and is patient listener. We
were telling him about our tour Of
France Chartres, Mont Saint Michel,
the ckateaux of the Loire. Carcassone,
the a0lleduct at Point du Gard,
the papal palace at Avignon, and the.
Roman ruins at Aries. He is q strong
man with soft voice. His eyes became
watery and his voice even softer as he
said:
sAh, but the greatest of these is
Mont Saint Michel. That great rock,
! out in the sea, and upon it they built
] stone upon stone without power tools.
only with. their hands. How they ever
did it viii never know"
We were in agreement with him.
Our approach to Mont Saint Michel
had been a fortunate one through
!. Ilappenstance. On our way from
Chartres we took the wrong road ct
Domfront and came to the seq. at
SAvrancfes. We turned to the left
at big monument to Gen. George
Patton. Avranches is at the western
: base of the Cotentin Peninsula where
the Sd Army made its famous swing
around the German left and then went
east to Paris. Omaha Beach and Utah
Beach are on the eastern shore OF the
wide peninsula.
From the Patton monument the road
goes downhill and we were not half
i way down when we saw 1t. High out OF
the water across the bay stood a great
rock. It's top was mass Of masonry
from which rose the needlelike splre
of st. Michel.
It was fully 10 miles away, but it
was always in sight as we went around
the rim of the bay and soon we were
driving straight at it along the cause
way. The famous silhouette OF the stone
buildings and spire upon the rock
doomed larger and larger.
Although it was a Saturday evening
and. hundreds of tourists had arrived
by bus, we were able to get a room at
Mama Poulard'S. This is where Henry
Adams stayed on his pilgrimages which
resulted in his book, "Mont-Saint-Mi-
chel and Chartres."
No one remembered Henry Adams at
Mama Poulard's. But the omelettes are
still made as they were in his day.
A blue-jacketed boy beats the eggs
in large tin bowl with q wire whisk.
AS the eggs foam he gets into an OFF,
beat tempo not unlike the drummer OF
a swing band. In the meantime. the
woman who is to bake the omelette is
melting lump of butter as large as
baseball over the long fire in skillet
with a handle four feet long. The boy
slowly pours the egg foam in. still keep
ing up the off-beat rhythm. Before the
onelette is done, the woman melts q
couple more Jumps OF butter the size
of golf balls around the edges, as she
keeps turning them up with large
spoon. Soon she puts IT on large plate.
folding it as it slides out Of the pan.
There is always some extra foam and
she puts that on top with her spoon.
The result is souf1le. Four eggs make
a huge omelette for two.
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Mr.. Dulles and EDc

There are few things which ought to-
be said about Secretary Dulles relationship
to the European Defense Community, killed
by vote OF the French Assembly.
Mr.. Dulles has been accused, either di-
rectly or by implication, of wishful thinking
because he chung to the hope that the
French would ratify the treaty. Mr.. Dulles
had never said, however, that he enter
tanned more than q hope Furthermore, he
can hardly be Justly denounced for wishful
thinking when switch of % votes in the
more than 500 cast would have brought
about ratification. And this despite the fact
that at the eleventh hour, and to the sur
prise Of most people, Premier Mendes-'
France came out openly and attacked the
treaty.
The Secretary of State also is being
belabored by some after he-event critics
on the ground that he should have known
the French would not ratafy EDO, and that
therefore he should have had some suitable
alternative all wrapped up and ready for
delivery. Leaving aside the point that no
one could have said with certainty which
way the French would vote until after the
vote had been taken. the fact is that Mr..
Dulles has consistently said that there is no
such thing as good" alternative to EDO
Something undoubtedly will be worked out
so that the West Germans can be given
measure Of sovereignty and rearmed. But
this something" probably will not have the
important safeguards contained in the EDO
proposal.
This leads to one final point. Some
commentators have said that the French
refused to ratify EDO because they were
afraid that France would be submerged by
resurgent Germany. It is hard to believe,
however. that this was persuasive reason
with many of the French deputies. For If
there was any reason for the French to fear
Germany within the framework Of Edo
there is much more reason for them to fear
a rearmed and revitalized Germany outside
of EDO.
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Funfue

The morning glory's sal toGs flung or
blotDn
Some distance from the fence on
IDhich it gTeiO:
The old pine dried; IGsssedson's needs
tDeTe prone
When spring co1red uphrouoh melting
clod the sprout.
The fence ipGs there; Ilont kilotD how
it kneD;
When 1t ,Dds small It nny hare CROPPED
about
For some support. At ny rate 1t crept
Three feet along the round. as II 1t
held
A guiding compass. fo,ld the post. and
Its t,oisted buds. the ointed tips un-
furled,
Shook out their sky-die trumpets tn
the mind,
To greet NTH transfer fanfare a ne,c
iDorid--
Lifting the shades VI earth from
darkened mind
With notes unleard, b by some sense
dipined.
Ma 10 Closer
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Pen-1admes may be used If letters carry
a0riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
| Letters to The Star !.

came there, the cities known under
German occupation as Danzig, Stettin.
Breslau, Oppeln, Posen, Thorn. were
Polish towns of Gdansk, Szczecin, Wro-
claw, Opole, Poznan and Torun? Like
wise, the German name 'cPommern" is
a poorly Germanized name of purely
Polish word ''Pomorze'.
Charles Burke.
Let's not fight communism by adopt
ing the Nazi line. Polish names for
German cities" indeed! Let Herr Kurt
CHASER look back to 1918 first and see
that Danzig or Gdansk was created as
a League of Nations trusteeship yet
Adolf ran his COON boys in there and
the predominantly Polish population
was gradually eased out. But Poland
prior to that was forced to create her
own port with her own sweat and blood
in the corridor. It was Gdynia! And
where, pray tell, Herr CHASER, were the
Germans? And as for Szczecin or Stet-
tin let Herr Chaser look way back prior
to 900 AID, to see what lands and what
peoples were there. They may not have
been Polish but they were Slavs and
certainly were intermingled with the
PrusSiarS to such an extent that their
names live on today. AS for poor Mr..
Klimowicz, who escaped with the help
of British destroyers from the iron hand
of the Commies. is he supposed to know
that Szczecin is Stettin? Perhaps an
American should pronounce Garmisch-
Partenkirchen in the correct German,
or perhaps Herr Chaser never saw the
German war maps marked Warschau
Posen, Lemburg, ETC., ETC.! Ex-GI.
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Mr.. AttIee and Mr.. Mao


Curtain by top figures in the British Labor
Party has reached a climax of kind in the
disclosure by former Prime Minister Glenn
ent Attlee that he has asked Chinese COM
munist leader Mao Testing to attempt to-
change the ways of Soviet Russia.
Specifically, according to an Associated
Press story from Hong Kong Mr.. Attlee told
correspondents there that he had urged
Mao to plead the following points with Mos
COW: To give the Russian people more free
dom, to ease restrictions upon the Com
munist satellite states, to stop trying to
undermine other governments, and to re-
duce Soviet ornaments. Mr.. Attlee's APP
peals, he explained, were made at the time
that Mao was making some equally amazing
requests that the British Labor leader
should seek to persuade the United States
that It should withdraw the 7th Fleet from
Formosan waters, that plans for rearma-
ment of Japan and West Germany be ADAM
doned and that "more reasonable" Ameri-
can attitude should be adopted toward Red
China and the Soviet Union. n
Mr.. Attiee has had distinguished ca
reer In British politics. As postwar Prime
Minister, he was staunch and effective
advocate of the collective security effort
undertaken by the nome Communist West
ern powers He has been friendly toward
the United States, even when challenged
from within his own party by some who
seemed to feel differently.
From the beginning, however, there has
been an unrealistic quality about this La
borite junket to the Communist countries.
In themselves the winning and dining and
exchange of pleasantries are harmless
enough, perhaps, but there is disturbing
cynicism in even the suggestion that the
Peiping Communists and the leaders Of So
cialiSm in Britain can serve effectively as
"honest brokers" in settling the deep differ
ences between the freedom-loving world
and that which lives behind the Communist
curtain. The Red Chinese proposals would
lead, of course, only to disastrous weaken
ing of the Western position, militarily and
politically. No doubt Mr.. Attlee is as much
aware of this fact as is Mr.. Mao-and it y
highly unlikely that the former British
Prime Minister will make any serious effort
to urge these changes in policy upon the
American Government.
It is equally unlikely that Moscow's Pei
ping puppets are going TO submit the Att
lee contemporaries to the Kremlin--and
even more unlikely that the chiefs OF the
Soviet government would pay any heed to
them If they were submitted. Indeed, one Il
tempted to wonder II Mr.. Attlee may not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-07

Court was about as far-fetched as
thing could be. A very large factor in
that decision seemed to be the alleged
psychological harm done to colored
children by being denied admission to
predominantly white schools. Yet, up
until now we've heard little about the
psychological harm done to white stu
dents forced to attend predominantly
colored schools.
It might be possible to bring about
de-segregation because that is purely
a mechanical thing, involving only
shutting students and teachers around
whether they like it or not. Integration,
however. is vastly different thing.
That cannot be ordered, compelled,
legislated because it is q voluntary
thing, springing from desire. Whether
Washington eventually has modified
integration or an immediate compul-
sorry de-Segregation will depend en-
tirely on the vision and common sense
of our school officials.
d. C. Teacher.
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Outstanding Record

Failure of Federal employees to receive
pay raise has tended to dull an unusually
bright record of legislation enacted for the
benefit of civil service workers. President
Eisenhower has tried to offset the general
disappointment over his pay bill veto by
recounting the fringe benefits" which he
has Just signed into law. He did not exag-
gerate when he said that the pro-civif serv-
ice program approved at the past session
far surpasses" that of any prior Congress
1t is not possible to measure accurately
In terms of dollars the value to employees of
the long list OF added attractions which will
make Government employment more profit
able and more pleasant. But 1t is certain
that all the new privileges, from bargain
rate life insurance to longevity pay, liberal
lied leave, incentive bonuses, promotions
and an improved overtime system, will add
up to a considerable sum-
The President summed up the obiec-
tives OF the legislation as follows: More
efficient and flexible personnel administra-
ton In the Federal service. Attractive en-
ployment conditions. In Government, more
nearly in harmony with practices Of pro-
greSsive private employers. better basis
for relationship between the Government
as an employer and its employees" The
new legislation will go far toward meeting
these detectives. Better management and
better employe relations are bound to re-
suit from the partial lifting of Written rider
restraints on permanent appointments and
promotions. This reform alone will mate
rally strengthen the career system.
While all these advantages are well
coined by the employees it is no secret that
they will not regard the fringe benefits as
substitute for pay raise. The campaign
for general increase in salaries will con-
tinue between congressional sessions and
will be stepped up to full volume next jan
uary. With elections behind them, the leg
iSlatorS then will be able to consider the pay
problem with more objectivity and with less
fear of political pressures. The chances
are that reasonable pay raise for postal
and civil service workers in general will
be adopted, with Redistribution provisions.
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pinnacle Of the tower, wings upspread
and sword uplifted.
Henry Adams was fascinated with the
date of the beginning of the abbey. It
was 1858, eight years before the battle
of Hastings. William the Conqueror and
his knights undoubtedly were enter
tanned at Mont Saint Michel before
they crossed the channel. From its very
beginning it was one of the most i'm
portant institutions of Normandy.
Adams liked to think that Williams
jongleur sang the "Chanson de Roland"
to the Norman knights in the old refec-
tory. It was the Chanson that inspired
them to such deeds as the conquest of
England and the first crusade.
A full moon came up over the shore
as the sun went down into the sea on
that August Sunday at Mont-Saint-
Michel. After dinner at Mama Pou-
lard's (another omelette), this visitor
strolled out. The narrow street was no
longer crowded, the last buses were
leaving for the shore. A newsboy was
still selling copies of France-Soir. The
main headline was easy to translate.
French opposition to EDO was rising.
I decided to walk to shore on the
causeway, SO I could look at Mont
Saint Michel in the moonlight on the
way back. The walk back was reward
ing. The mass of rock and masonry
became larger and larger until the
figure of the archangel could be made
out on his lofty perch. 1t was natural
to reflect on how strong the West was
when church and state and God and
man were one and the winged figure
with the sword was the symbol of their
unity and when a song could stimulate
10000 NormanS in the conquest of
most of Great Britain and Ireland.