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Evening star., 1954-11-28

routine developed over his military years. His
secrets: ID Deciding the night before what
he's going to wear. e. Having things he
needs close at hand. grouped together ready
for use. Each minute spent getting things
ready at night, the President has found, is
worth three or four in the morning
Two plastic ice-cube trays have solved
truck-trailer manufacturer Roy Fruehauf's
morning problem of where to find all the
things men must carry He has the trays in
top dresser drawer; dumps in change. car
keys. cuff links, tie clasp - all neatly, yet
automatically, compartmented by the tray
itself A similar tray keeps Mrs. Fruehauf's
costume jewelry = especially earrings
sorted and instantly spottable.
1seaI<fass: No need to feel pressed if you fol-
low the minute -minders worked out by Mrs
Margaret Rudkin. She finds time to run her
household as well as head the nationally
known Pepperidge Farm bakeries this way:
a. Set an individual breakfast tray for each
member of the family as evening dishes are
put away. This avoids am. rush; entire break
fast goes to and returns from table in one trip
per person, saving steps, linen and time.
(2) Study and systematic your preparation
routine to make only one circuit round the
kitchen. For example, instead of keeping like
objects together - coffee and tea in one cup
board, pots elsewhere - store things together
where they'll first be used.
(3) Have an extra set of gay, inexpensive
dishes so all can be done later at one time.
Studies show many housewives conscientiously
wash and dry after a meal, even though it's
more sanitary and faster to scald and let air
dry. Savings: serving two, up to 10 minutes;
four, Is minutes.
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cluded that many of these annoying trivia
were of no real consequence.
Nov deliberately toss such items into
special 'procrastination drawer When it fills.
go through, find that seventy-five per cent
of the problems have solved themselves Some
times judgment errors produce squawks. The
trick, however, is to gain time by determining
what you can skip
]. Wilson. Newman. president of Dun &
Bradstreet, suggests: Never undertake what
you can delegate; never do anything someone
else can do better and faster. It's personal
vanity, business folly and tnne-wasting to
imagine you have to do everything yourself"
Still another view comes from Alonzo Flack.
partner, The Emerson Engineers. leading man.
agement counseling firm:
u plan ahead on paper the things you
have to do. Pencil jotting and thinking
through can often cut actual work time in
half. And top-notch workers are usually those
who follow planned and relaxed, rather than
an efficiency decreasing, pressurized pace.
(2), Study your own repetitive tasks. Then
develop improved routines and teach yourself
to follow them. Truly efficient routines are
comfortable - they help keep your mind free
for more important ideas.
(3 Write down the things you want to
Evening star., 1954-11-28
YOUR WORK DAY

Schedules: One vital factor in getting more
done in less time is developing schedule.
Not one so ambitious that you feel obsessed.
Rather. plan that lets you accomplish most
Evening star., 1954-11-28
By Ray Josephs

to best advantage" Savings: up to 60 min
utes daily.
James E. Robson, youthful. highly success
full president of Indian Head Mills, takes the
opposite viewpoint: Il once thought had to
settle every matter then and there, but in
struggling with individual situations, often
missed really important things. Then con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
This and That .

There is romance and adventure in
your corner or midblock grocery store.
They have the grains there that built
civilizations.
Wheat, for the ancient world: corn,
or more properly maize. for America,
and rice. for Asia.
Cornmeal was the great staple food
of the American Indians before Colum-
bus came.
The Pilgrim Fathers bought it from
them to live on during their first hard
winter at Plymouth.
The word corn and its derivatives
occupy an entire page or more in the
large dictionaries.
You may be surprised to see there
that the real meaning is simply a hard
particle, or grains, in general.
In England the word corn" means
wheat.
In Scotland 1t means oats.
In America it means, of course, the
Indian corn. or maize.
When a city housewife makes pan
cakes. or griddle cakes, with cornmeal,
white or yellow, she is going right back
10 pioneer America.
Pioneers, o Pioneers!" sang Walt
Whitman.
He didn't say anything. however,
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Military Aid for Pokiston

There has been a great deal OF talk
about proposed United States military
aid to Pakistan. AS explained by PAX
iStani Prime Minister, Mohammed Ali
this proposed aid is no different from
indirect economic aid, but Indian Prime
Minister Nehru refuses to see it as such.
In taking his stand against the United
States and Pakistan. Nehru has en-
ployed few of the Communist tactics
IN creating hatred and apathy. He has
lectured his people to mobilize anti
American and anti-Pakistan demon
STATIONS. He accuses PakiStan of be-
coming an aggressor if she enters into
military-aid pact with the United
States. On the other hand he threatens
to take aggressive action against PAX
isran if such a pact is concluded.
AS American citizens. I think we
should seek to analyze why the ques-
ton of giving military aid to Pakistan
has arisen.
Our involvement in Korea has very
clearly shown us that we should form
new defenses wherever necessary and
feasible. Pakistan. lying on the south
ern borders of the u. S. S. r., is an
obvious area where defenses should be
strengthened. Since the inception of
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about what they ate, and there he
missed it. because their diet was in
tereSting.
The flood Of emigration that went
into Kentucky, Tennessee and other
Midwestern States after the Revolu-
tionary War lived, basically. on corn
meal.
They had coffee. but only about 10
pounds per family per year.
They had little salt, and less sugar.
Mostly they used maple sugar when
they could get it.
In pioneer Indiana and Ohio, for
instance, they often used coffee" made
from ground and baked roots or the
large seeds of the Kentucky coffee tree.
Corn was basic.
Today's housewife who prepares
griddle cakes for her family might like
to know that in the pioneer cabins,
mostly one room, Is by 20 feet, the
pioneer housewife made pancakes, too.
She first used corn to make mush,
served with milk, and to make a variety
of cakes"
She mixed the cornmeal with water,
and covered the preparation with hot
ashes. This was aShcake.
She, placed the batter on piece of
board and put this close to the fire, and
the result was called the journeycake,
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Source Of Revenue for D. c.

News stories indicate that commit
tees OF Congress are considering raising
the tax rate for real estate and aban-
donment Of sales tax exemptions on
meals. groceries and drugs as means
of financing the city's improvement
program. 1t has been argued that rails
ing the real estate rate would tend to
drive business into Maryland and Vir-
ginia. 1t has also been argued that the
imposition of sales taxes on food and
drugs would operate most disastrously
on the lower economic classes. One
thing is certain and that is, for persons
OF low income money spent for taxes
reduces purchasing power to the same
extent which in the long run will hurt
those businesses depending on those
groups for support.
There is one area of possible tax
income which has not been discussed
with any fervor if at ALL 1t deals with
those hundreds Of persons who earn
their living in the District but who
live, spend their money and pay taxes
in nearby Maryland and Virginia. In
solar as District revenues are concerned
they are virtually parasites, living of
the community but making no sub
stantial contribution to its economy.
With these few ideas as a focal point
it Should be the concern of Congress
to explore a payroll tax as a source
for revenue.
Charles S. Brown.
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It Can Be Done

1t has become perfectly clear, despite the
stallng of the administration, that a break
down of the 1900 security risk dismissals can
be made public.
In fact, through testimony released by
House Appropriations subcommittee, three
major departments already have given break
downs of their dismissal figures. The results
are interesting.
Eleven loyalty cases among 534 security
risk separations last year were listed for the
State Department, although this total has been
disputed; the Treasury reported four loyalty
dismissals in 131 cases, and Justice said there
was one loyalty discharge in total of eight.
In other words, of some 673 security risk sep
arations in these three departments, 16 involved
some question of loyalty.
If breakdowns can be given by these de-
partments, others can do the same. And it can
be done without identifying any one who has
been dismissed on loyalty grounds. The only
reason it has not been done is that break
down is going to be embarrassing to those who
have been falsely implying that all, or nearly
all, of the 1900 were traitors. But these mis-
representers of fact are not entitled to any
special protection. And the longer the admin
istration tries to cover up for them, the more
embarrassing will be the eventual disclosure
Of the truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
By Charles E. TroceweN

which in time became the johnnycake,
of course.
She baked EN- on hoe, and this was
the hoecake.
She formed "pone" and baked it.
The pioneer housewife called smaller
cakes dodgers"
It is said that corn likker was I'M
known to the pioneers. The whiskey
they drank came from distilleries in the
East. The use of corn in a still came
later.
The person who today makes and
eats corn pancakes is forging culinary
link with the past of his own country.
This is a good thing to keep in mind.
Today we have so many distractions,
political and otherwise, some of which
are even aimed at making us all think
that the old days were just "horSe and
buggy" days, good to be forgotten. We
should never forget them. Anything,
even simple corncake, that makes us
remember. is good, in a very good way.
We must not forget the brave men and
women who faced the red Indians, the
bandits Of their own color, the heat and
the cold of the seasons, and above all
the great uncleared forests, with their
dim mystery and lurking dangers. We
may think of them today every time we
see sack of cornmeal on the grocer's
shelves or eat corncakes at home.
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Most Cherished Gift

No other gift in all this ,Dondrous land
Could be more Delcon1ed than your
Uoice today >.
As ii you heGped star -Sdpphires in my
hand:
As if the dearest dreams / ever planned
Came true; as if perfumes from
SGmGrdk1nd
Were flung before me In sweet
bouquet!
Ny heart became a GREATNESS runaway:
or else a hearth Whose Sluntbering
fires 1Oere famed
To sudden Splendor; or star flung
spray
OF joy that shimmered through the
interplay
OF words and laughter, shaken by the
StUGu
OF memory and all the years it Spannedi
No gratitude su6ices but / give
NY deep devotion all the gears ,De livei
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
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OF Ships and Shipyords

The Senate Commerce subcommittee study
ing the Governments maritime subsidy pro-
gram has made an excellent start toward di-
-rectng public attention to a neglected segment
Of the national economy.
: In it's first preliminary report, based upon
q relatively brief series of hearings and quick
study of foreign shipyards and operating meth
eds, the subcommittee warns that both in
transport ships and in the facilities to build
them we have dropped below the preparedness
level of pre-World War II days. 1t finds that,
as potential military auxiliaries, there is an
immediate deficiency of 214 merchant type
vessels. 1t finds that 80 per cent of the active
merchant marine will become obsolete between
1925 and that much of it already is qualita-
lively deficient And it finds that the ship
building industry had no orders for ocean-going
commercial vessels of more than 1000 tons in
1858 and has none in prospect for 1854.
The fact that the United States still leads
the world in active merchant tonnage does not
by any means offset the shortcomings noted
by the committee. Ships of obsolescent design
and lacking in speed are of limited value for
wartime needs and often uneconomic in peace
time. Yards that are employed only irregularly
Tor the building of modern commercial vessels
lose the SkillS and facilities needed for this
type of construction.
e In 1947, presidential advisory commission
recommended an orderly program for construc-
ton of As passenger and combination type ships
over four year period. Only six ever were
started and of these only three big liners are
in commercial service. Other studies have been
made complete with recommendations. Chair
man Potter of the subcommittee points out that
the 1885 Merchant Marine Act is still the basic
statute for our national maritime policy but
that revisions over the past 10 years have been
OF an emergency or patchwork nature. It will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
By Crosby S. Moves

Foreign Correspondent of The Star.
BERLIN.-The conference Of foreign
ministers may have failed to settle any
of the great and weighty issues of the
cold war. But the talks could still pay
off in number of quite practical bene-
fits to this hard pressed city.
Such. at least. is the earnest hope of
Mayor Walther Schneider of West Ber-
lin, the man who inherited the mantle
and the problems of the late Ernst
Reuter-.
I'VE believe that the conference may
help us in little ways" Mayor Schneider
says 1T may be that after it is over
the Russians will take of the travel
restrictions that keep people from COM
ing to Berlin in their cars or on the
train. And we hope that you will all
write In your papers that Berlin Is a
wonderful city to visit"
The chamber Of commerce approach
Is no joke in a city severed from its
economic hinterland, where 100000
people are looking for jobs and where,
to keep running at all. half the yearly
budget has to be piped in from the
outside.
Before the war we had $50 900 for
eign visitors in Berlin every year. Now
we have hotels that can take care of
5000 people day and there are very
few visitors. I think people are still
a little nervous about coming to see
U.s."
A similar lack of faith has held up
seriously needed rebuilding program.
Berlin is short on housing by some
100000 apartments. It's industrial out
put is only so per cent of prewar levels,
while West German industry as a whole
stands at 160 per cent. The problem
is to find money. and capital is hard
to come by.
What they don't seem to realize"
says the Mayor. lis that you can't do
better today than to buy in Berlin. Our
real estate prices here run about 20
per cent under the assessed values.
compared to 80 per cent over the
assessed values out in the zone. And
some day. when Berlin is once again
the capital of Germany, these timid
people will be sorry for themselves"
To top it off. the Mayor has an UNI
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Riqhtinq q Wrong

If the Senate approves the nomination Of
Charles A. Lindbergh to be brigadier general
in the Air Force Reserve will go long way
toward erasing one of the uglier injustces OF
the pre-Pearl Harbor era
Thirteen years ago Mr.. Lindbergh was
making speeches for the America First Com
mittee, opposing American participation in the
war which had begun in Europe and govern
mental policies which he thought might involve
us in the fight. He was right in some of his
contentious wrong in others. But the late
President Roosevelt, who only few months
earlier had been saying again and again and
again" that American boys would not be sent
to fight in foreign wars, denounced him bitterly
He said that Mr.. Lindbergh was not displaying
good Americanism. He recalled the appeasers
at Valley Forge. And he compared Mr. Lind
bergh to Clement Vallandingham and his Civil
War Copperheads who tried, in 1868, to incite
revolt against the Lincoln government. This
sort of thing was the equivalent of calling
man Communist today. But the analogy
was not true one. For we were at peace
when Mr.. Lindbergh was speaking against war.
At Valley Forge and in 1853 we were deeply
immersed in the dark days of bitter fighting.
Nevertheless because he chose to exercise his
peacetime right of freedom of speech, Mr.. Lind
bergh was forced to resign as colonel in the
Air Force Reserve.
When Pearl Harbor came he, like others
who had shared his views offered their services.
Although no commission was forthcoming, he
served we'll in the Pacific and elsewhere The
appointment which President Eisenhower now
proposes is belated recognition of the Lone
Eagles war record and correction Of the
injustice of 1941. AS such, it should be
welcomed.
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The Abused Democrats

More and more it appears that the
President is yielding the leadership of
his party to the McCarthys, the Jen-
ners. the Adamses and the Brownells-
those disciples of the big lie" who de-
nounce a substantial portion of the
American people as associated with
"sadiStS. pervertS. Communists and
traitors" What pitiable spectacle in
this 145th year of Abraham Lincolns
birth!
Mr.. Eisenhower, man of integrity,
honor. true humility and faith in God.
has expressed his natural resentment
of the tactics directed by the black
guards enlisted by Chairman Hall for
the current campaign of prevarication,
indecency and hate. But the Presi-
dents counsel of moderation thus far
has fallen on deaf ears while the
G. 0. P. rabble-rouserS continue AFRO
gantly to assail the intelligence Of rep
utable citizens. even to hurting insults
at the President himself.
Mr.. Eisenhower must have had the
conciliatory character of the humble
Lincoln in mind when he emphasized
the seriousness of the times and ad-
vised against violent partisanship. His
patriotic impulses and sense of pro-
priety dictated his appeal for a calm.
dignlfied program for Lincoln Day
orations. Perhaps too late the PreSi-
dent realizes that he is in bad company,
that the peddlerS of reaction and DEM
agoguery scorn party discipline in their
conspiracy to capture the presidency in
1856, and now are out of hand.
Faced by this situation, it seems that
the best interests of the country would
be served if the President would call
upon the more respectable elements in
the Republican Party to join Demo-
Gratis and other patriotic citizens in
workable non-partisan program for lib
erty and justice. leaving the hate
mongers to consume themselves with
their own f1rebrands.
John p. Cowan.
We see a switch in party strategy.
Democrats had planned to rescue" Ike
from his party. Fooled in this plan by
Republican cooperation in the Presi-
dents program, Democrats are now
calling loudly for the President to res
cue them from Republicans, else they
will vote the way they fully intend to
anyway.
Democrats may believe that the Pres
ident's "gentlemanly" response to their
plea may help their party. At least they
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happy political situation on his hands.
The coalition of Socialists, Christian
Democrats and Free Germans that
backed Ernst Reuter- has split wide
open since his death last September.
The Socialists, who control 81 seats
in the city parliament, wanted another
member of their party to succeed Mayor
Reuter-. A slim majority of 66 Christian
Democrats and Free Germans handed
the job to Deputy Mayor Schneider of
the CDU. In the fall elections. Mayor
Schneider hopes to collect the votes he
needs to re-establish the coalition, but
the outlook is not bright.
Considering his own problems. his
honor admits it would be nice to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Volunteers as Key Man

Perhaps some one could answer a
few questions for this ignorant writer.
What purpose will be served by a group
OF key governors going to Korea for the
President? Who will pay for this trip?
Is key governor one who has the key
to the problems in Korea? Would the
President consider sending a key group
of citizens to investigate the aptitude
of fishing in the Florida Keys and would
he consider this writer for his key
committee?
Joel r. Liebiing.
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Look Who's in Our Comp

wish to protest the tour" of United
States Air Force bases in Germany
by Won Kesselring and pilots of the
Luftwaffe. 1t is only few years past
that these Nazi criminals were engaged
in slaughter, concentration camps and
degradation on a grand scale. The
American memory must be short indeed
and there must be a great apathy
among us to sanction policy of frater-
nization with the men of Hitler.
A lot of good people in Europe must
be uneasy about our democratic camp"
these days. am.
ID. w. n. Pacey.
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Big Four Talks May Open Up Berlin

mayor Of some simple community like
New York and spend his time worrying
about how to keep the streets clean.
On the whole, however, he is not dis
mayed by what has been accomplished
here in the past few weeks.
1.-THE Russians understand nothing.
unless 1t is firm and clear" he says.
This time, the allies were firm and
clear. Russia must know now that the
West means to stay united and to stay
strong. And since they know it, they
might be willing to pay a high price
for peaceful settlement later on"
Mayor Schneider predicts that one
result Of the conference will be the
speedy ratification of the European De-
Tense Community.
1.-THE Russians fear the strength of
rearmed Germany. because in two
wars they have been shown that the
German army is better than theirs.
But there is no justification of this
fear under EDO. AS long rs we must
all move together, it must surely be
obvious that France will not permit
an attack on Russia. And actually, no
one in Germany wants war of revenge
VI COilQucSC. we WOULD TaCIlcr reDullQ
than buy soldiers and guns.
IF the Russians really wanted peace,
they would favor cooperation between
France and Germany. It was the lack
of this cooperation that caused all the
great wars for the last $50 years.
But Of course. the Russians don't
want peace. What they really want is
a divided and hostile world which opens
the way for their system. They had
the same policy when they signed their
pact with Hitler in the summer of
1889 and cleared the way for world
war. Now they are trying hard to cause
as much trouble between France and
Germany as they can"
Mayor Schneider has a high regard
for American soldiers who are cordially
welcomed in Berlin, and for American
policy as revealed in the course of the
Big Four conference. He also has, how
ever. some serious misgivings about
certain American institutions.
Cocktails" he explains, were I'M
known here before the occupation Now,
unfortunately, we drink quite lot of
them. It's not easy for a man who has
to go back and work in the afternoon"
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Letters to The Star.
Pen-nan1es may be used If letters carry
1OriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

won't be able to claim that this rescue
has any resemblance to New Deal-Fair
Deal policy. Any Republican calling
upon Truman to rescue him from DEM
ocratic innuendo and untrue charges in
1852 would have been laughed out Of
Office Mr.. Truman himself being
right in there singing mud with the
best of them.
Frustrated.