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Evening star., 1954-06-07
On Being Against Money

Even as on our own Capitol Hill, there Is
mild crisis in Britain's House of Commons cur
rently over the issue Of increasing the salaries
of the nations legislators.
In Congress, a measure giving pay increases
to Federal judges, district attorneys and men,
bers of the House and Senate has been handled
very gingerly in the apparent fear Of bad
political reaction during next falls campaign
Prospects for passage at this session do not seem
bright.
In Parliament, one Conservative Party vet
eran of 10 years in Commons has formally ere
pudiated" the party leadership of Sir Winston
Churchill because of the latter's support Of a
pay increase that would bring the members up
to salary of $4,000 annually. The dissident
veteran, John Nellor of Warwickshire, has
rallied passive resistance" movement for
himself and others who will join in refusing to
accept any increase in pay.
This particular form Of reluctance is not
found often, of course. in any line Of endeavor.
That it should crop up simultaneously on both
sides of the Atlantic Ocean may be just another
sign of Anglo-American kinship-at least in
the political sense.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Bethesda Bombinos

: Within the past month in the Bethesda
Chevy Chase area, five crude bombs have been
set of and one attempt has been made to burn
down home. Certainly, as William G. Pyles,
principal of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
says this is a criminal matter.
Two of the offenSes have been directed to
members of the high school faculty-frst, Ray
o. Zimmerman, assistant principal who is in
charge of discipline and now Miss Ann Fuller
ton, biology teacher. This encourages the sus-
picion that few students are responsible and
it is gratifying that student leaders are CO.
operating in the attempt to identify the vandals.
1t should be noted that Mr.. Zimmerman
blames newspaper publicity for the outrages,
which began April with an attempt to burn
down his home after he and his wife had retired
for the night. He tried to huSh-up the affair,
his idea being that if there was no publicity the
guilty students would talk about what they had
done and would thereby be caught
1t may be doubted that the offenders would
have been apprehended by such tactics. It may
also be doubted that the huSh-huSh approach
will be effective in dealing with any phase of this
kind of juvenile viciousness It should be pos
sible, however, with diligent police work and
student cooperation, to catch and punish the
guilty parties. When this has been done the
next effort should be to find out what has caused
the cause or causes. Certainly there is some-
thing radically wrong when presumably normal
youngsters engage in such outrageous vandalism.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Measure of Days

Since this as the legacy you hare
bequeathed me.
This is the pattern of days, With
you gone:
see you before me; / hear your bright
laughter
Break on my heart like the first flush
of da,0n.
In startled awareness / hear your sDitt
footsteps
Yet, UIlen the knocker is poisino to
talI,
fling the door Wide pith a glad CRY
of tDeIcome-
No one is standing there. no one
at all!
The telephone rings and hurry to
dnStDer,
Thinking your uoice Diu come ouer
the Dtre. :.
And alUays another is speaking. and
neUer
You Dho are fame and the fuel OF
desire!
And this is the legacy you haze be-
QueGthed me,
KnoUino-dS you must hare knolon-
the 1Ddy
iDould 90 eagerly. blindly, to find you;
Seeking you al,oays, by night or day!
Bonnie EIizobeth Parker
Evening star., 1954-06-07
By Charles E. TroceweN

of the staff. Lower it slowly and with
dignity
when the flag is displayed from
staff projecting horizontally. or at any
angle from a window sill, balcony or
front of building, the union of the
flag should go clear to the peak of
the staff
when the flag is to be displayed
in manner other than by being flown
from a staff, it should be displayed fiat,
whether indoors or out.
when displayed either horizontally
or vertically against wall, the union
should be uppermoSt and to the flags
own right, that is, to the observers left.
When displayed in a window it
should be displayed in the same way,
that is, with the union or blue field to
the left of the observer in the street.
Take every precaution to prevent
the flag from becoming Soiled.
1T should not be allowed to touch
the ground or floor, nor to brush against
objects
Templeton Jones said, Mighty fine
rules. Where is our flag?"
Everybody looked blank. until some
one finally said, I'VE have no flag"
What no flag?" asked Jones. Il
wonder how many families there are
without flag?
I'VE will all have to remedy that
there is still plenty of time"
And he put his hand at salute, and
led in the beloved pledge:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands, one Nation
indivisible, with Liberty and Justice
for all"
Evening star., 1954-06-07
No Puzzle for a Princess

Word from London that Princess Margaret
Rose has won first prize in a crossword puzzle
contest, an genealogical feat of no ordinary
dimensions, is as provocative piece Of infor-
nation as has come out of Buckingham Palace
in years.
The Princess unwonted skill with the verti
cal and horizontal morphemes of the crossword
puzzle quite properly has Britons agog, state
of mind not infrequently induced in the recent
past by Queen Elizabeth's lovely younger sister
Margaret Roses unabashed adventuresomeneSS
has more than once frightened the atmosphere
of fog bound, fogy-ridden London Town, city
where dignity has taken on the trappings of an
institution.
If Her Royal HighnesS in some little way
has leSSened the burden of Londons war-born
austerity, it is surely because she Is possessed
Evening star., 1954-06-07

and Salaried Professional Workers."
says this:
"Ofice work thus tends to become
more and more assimilated to factory
work and liable to measurements by
corresponding standards"
Mechanization in offices, the no
says. is moving at a faster tempo in
offices than in the factories where
machine sales in the United States
were about $270 million worth, and by
1948 it had risen to 81 billion worth.
Not only are white-collar workers
changing the color Of their shirts, some
are losing their shirts altogether. They
are being dismissed to make way
for Office machines. For example, one
American company reduced its staff by
80 per cent while it increased the vol
ume of work by 40 per cent.
Some experts, ILO says, believe that
30 per cent Of Office jobs can be mecha-
nized. But this dire prospect has not
affected the desire for such jobs. Watt
ing lists for white-collar jobs through
out the world are large. AS persist
ing problem, unemployment in the
salaried occupations is surpassed only
by that of unskilled workers.
The clean hands and supposed clean
white collar of government Office work
is eXerting a stronger and stronger
appeal internationally. This is particu-
larly true in the underdeveloped ma
tions, such as India and Ceylon. This.
says ILO, 'is at the root of serious
unbalance" with an oversupply for Of
fee jobs and serious shortage OF
scientific and engineering applicants.
In. India for each four clerical jobs.
there were 100 applicants.
In the United States and Western
Europe many young people are at
tracted to Office jobs because of the
reputed prestige" of the white collar.
Chances of advancement. with the in
PRODUCTION of the all-wise machine. are
very slight. And once the person gives
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Fossil Traces Found
Of EorIy Life Forms
Blue-Green AIgue Moy Have
Existed z Billion Years AGO
By Thomos R. Henry

Fossil traces Of the earliest known
Structurally preserved life on earth In
rocks of Southern Ontario have just been
reported to the American Association
for the Advancement of Science here by
DR.. Stanley A. Tyler of the University
of Wisconsin and DR.. Elso S. Barghoorn,
botanist of Harvard University.
These fossils of blue-green algae, such
as cause much of the green scum of
stagnant water. and of primitive fungi
far pre-date the Cambrian geological
period of half billion years ago when
the first animal fossils appear in the
rocks and which until recently has been
considered the beginning of life in the
world.
A few weeks ago DIR. K. Rankama.
Finnish paleontologist. reported that
carbon deposits in Canadian rocks
more than billion years old were un-
doubtedly of plant or animal origin
but contained no indication of the
form of life from which they came.
The present report fills this gap.
Five Types Recognized.
Fragments of the original plant parts,
especially spores OF the fungi and long
er fllaments, can be released from the
stone in which they are imbedded by
dissolving it in a powerful acid the
two American scientists report. Thus
far five distinct entities have been rec
ognized. Two are algae, two fungi,
ana one is indeterminate.
One of the algae forms is described
as colonial aggregates of short fila
ments embedded in what appears to
be the Silicified remains of globular
mass of jelly" This globular aggre-
cation, they say is not unlike certain
algae species still extant.
The ages of these fossils is estimated
as approximately 2 billion years. They
are found at the base of a geological
complex upper portions of which. tested
by the diSintegration rate of radioactive
materials, have been assigned ages UP
to 1,650,000.000 years.
Evening star., 1954-06-07

Templeton, Jones, private citizen. was
very much flattered the other day to
receive an official looking letter from
the Marine Air Detachment, Marine
Air Reserve Training Command. United
States Naval Air Station, Anacostia,
D. c.
Pointing out that this year the Ma
rine Reserve ir-Ground Team of the
Capital area is conducting campaign
to encourage all residents of the great
er Metropolitan Area to display the
flag on Flag Day. June IA, the letter
stated.
1--WE believe that If Mr.. Templeton
Jones we're to give some mention of it.
the importance of the day would be
driven home with considerable impact
to many Of the areas citizens.
Here in this particular locality we
are in q position to illustrate to the
many representatives of foreign gov
ernmentS that the Nation remains firm
ly united in its belief in what is popu-
larly known as the American way Of
life
ANY mention that could be made
relative to our flag observance campaign
would be greatly appreciated by the
citizen Marines, and would greatly as
sist in the success of the drive"
Every one. Templeton Jones thought,
should have an opportunity to read
the leafiet which accompanied this
letter
He read it out to the family aloud:
"Once again this year the Capital
Areas Marine Corps Reserve Air
Ground Team is conducting a cam
paign to encourage all residents of
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Truvel Leaves Its Mark

I see where a California saddle
leather advertiser has been Dragging
about the natural markings on the
steer hides he sells to luggage manu-
facturerS.
There may be a certain romance
about the life history of steer as
revealed by the branding-iron burns,
the battle scars, barbed-wire scratches.
etc., on their kind of leather. but I'm
darned if can boast about the mat
ural' markings on my luggage.
refer to the compound fracture of
my week-ender in New York railway
depot, the abraSions of my fortnighter
in an Oshkosh baggage room. and the
cigarette branding of my brief case at
our national airport
It's too bad more people in the lug
gage handling end of transportation
can't be a little more considerate of
the other fellows property. know
these people have to work fast, but
they could be more careful.
Roland Weigel.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Parents FureweII to Teachers

There is q sadness to all farewells.
But when community says bon voyage
to faithful teachers, beginning their
well-earned retirement. that sorrow is
sweetened with gratitude. We are
deeply grateful for that part Of their
noble selves they leave in the hearts
and minds of our children. A teachers
business is the making Of character.
Like master potters they mold fragile
but responsive personalities. All teach
ers do not have the gift of patience and
love which overcomes all obstacles OF
encouragement. Some are no better
than ourselves. But Mrs. Marian New
man and Miss Katharine Donahay. to
whom Woodbridge wishes the fondest OF
farewells upon their retirement. possess
these virtues in their most gracious
form. BY precept and example they
taught truth and discipline. They are
teachers in the great tradition which
makes the school supplement home and
church to become the trinity which ges-
tates fine character. The Woodbridge
community, says THANK you" and
Bon voyage" Marian Newman and
Katharine Donahay!
Helen p. KeSecker,
u President, woodbridge PTA.
Eleanor G. Robey,
Chairman, Reception Committee.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Here They Come Again

Flying saucers are again being seen in
many parts of the world. and especially
in the United States-yet, what is al
most as mysterious as the unidentifiable
objects. is that nothing is said about
them in the papers.
How about the recent sighting over
Washington Airport. and the similar
one near Dayton. Ohio. which was
chased by Jets? We would like to read
about this fascinating subject. This
summer, with the planet Mars coming
nearer. may solve the mystery.
If we do have space visitors, they
don't seem to mean us any harm. Re-
ports say they have been around for
centuries, and we are still here. Peo-
pie want to know about it. if it can be
proven. Shirley Watson.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
This and That

the greater Metropolitan Area to dis
play the Star and Stripes on Flag Day,
June IA.
1T was on that date in 1777, when
the new Nation was in the midst of its
struggle for freedom, that the Conti-
mental Congress passed the resolution
that resulted in the adoption of the
Red, White and Blue, as the colors to
be designed in a flag that would take
it's place with those of the nations of
the world.
I'm our time we are seeing freedom
once more being jeopardized by those
forces seeking to refute the basic prem
Use of America, the dignity of the in
dividual.
I'VE have the opportunity on the
14th of June, to show the world that
the spirit of unity that prevailed in
the initial years of our country. re-
mains constant factor in the America
of today.
ION June IA. Old Glory will be lit
years old.
by displaying the national colors in
front of your home or business estab-
lishment on the anniversary date, you
are adding to the message of all Amer
leans:
Happy Birthday, Old Glory-Long
May You Wave"
4
In a booklet on how to respect and
display our flag, Jones selected the
following items to read aloud:
The national flag should be raised
and lowered by hand. 1t should be dis
played only from sunrise to sunset. Do
not raise the flag while 1t Is furled.
Unfurl, then hoist quickly to the top
Evening star., 1954-06-07

neva. An international Labor Organ
ization group has become alarmed over
world desire to avoid getting the
hands dirty" There are, it seems. more
white-collar workers available than
there are jobs for them.
There is an ironic twist to all this,
however. The white-collar worker who
wouldn't be caught dead in a factory
is fast becoming the brother, or at least
first cousin, of the industrial worker.
He is becoming machine watcher.
All the new-fangled machines being
installed in offices are gradually turning
the white-collar workers collar to
shade of blue usually associated with
the factory workers.
The ILO in a study entitled 'Un-
employment Among Salaried Employees
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Yoshido's Position

Despite the country'S serious and poten-
TALLY explosive political strains, there is some
reason to believe that the recent rioting in
Japans House of Representatives will tend
to strengthen the position of Premier Shigeru
Yoshida. At any rate, although it has forced
him to postpone his trip to the United States
and other nations in the free world, the in
cident has stirred up an initial reaction-even
in number of antf-government newspapers
indicating strong public support for his flrm
declaration to "forge ahead for recovery Of the
Diets prestige by repelling violence"
Last weeks outbreak-suspected by Mr. Yo-
shida as IAN attempt to destroy parliamen-
tarism"-occurred as a result of action taken
by his conservative and pro-American Liberal
government to extend the Diets present session
for 10 days in order to enable the upper house
to vote on bill that would centralize Japan's
police system Although the bill had already
passed the lower house, the Socialist repre-
SentativeS-bitter opponents of the measure
sought to kill it off by bringing about an i'm
mediate legislative adjournment with a shock
ing show of physical force. However, in doing
this, they failed to gain anything but large
measure of diScredit for themselves.
Japan's Socialists, like Britain's are divided
into moderate and extremist wings, but they
have been united in opposing the centraliza-
ton bill, their chief argument against it being
that it would convert the country into police
state, as in prewar days. Actually, in making
that argument, they have taken a defensible
though highly exaggerated position. But by
going outside the realm of orderly parliament
tary debate by resorting to violence in an effort
to thwartthe majority will, they have not done
themselves any good with the voting public.
This is the more true because of the solid sus-
picion that their violence was aided and abetted
by the Communists and that thugs were i'm
ported from the outside to raise havoc in the
Diet.
AS result given such an alarming display Of
parliamentary force, Japan's conservative
elements have reason to become f1rmer than
ever in supporting the present Tokyo govern
ment, and many former political fence -sitters-
in a country generally devoted to principles Of
order and dignity in public life-should now be
inclined the same way AS for the police bill,
which is primarily designed to insure effective
action against the internal Communist threat,
it's passage has just been voted. Accordingly,
in view of this decision and the Diets recent
approval of his recommendations to build up
national armed strength with American help,
Mr.. Yoshida does not seem to have lost ground.
On the contrary, he may well have gained
little.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Chonqe of Command

Even at this eleventh hour there Is some
ground for encouragement in the changes made
by the French government in the top military
and political command posts dealing with Indo-
China.
..-, For the field command, General Paul Ely,
Chief of Staff of the French Army has been
named to the dual job of Commander in Chief
and High Commissioner in Indo- China. In
Paris, Edouard Frederic-Dupont has been ap-
pointed Minister for the Associated States of
Indo-C -China-a cabinet rank of higher level than
previously accorded to this political office.
Obviously, a mere shifting of officials will
not by itself improve the badly damaged French
military and political position with regard to
1ndo China On the military side, the defeat
at Diem Bien Phu did serious harm to French
prestige and to Wet NameSe morale: at the same
time, it fired the Wet Mini to greater conf
dence in their own military prowess and has
been followed by threatening drive into the
Hanoi delta On the political side, the Paris
government-by equivocating for SO many years
on the subject of genuine independence for the
three Associated States-has earned itself no
substantial public support or confidence in
Southeast Asia. Still, in the changes now made
there are possibilities at least of overcoming
some of these misfortunes.
General Ely not only is highly qualified
pTO1eSSlOIldl SOlQ1cr, he is ClOSely acquainted
with the precise problems facing the anti-Com-
munist forces in Southeast ASIA It was on his
ecommendation-after an on-the-spot survey
reeently-that the French government advanced
the Gallup of 10000 conscripts in order to free
regulars for service in Indo-China. Another Ely
recommendation was that defense of the delta
area be maintained, task which will involve
political problems as we'll as military ones. Cen
eral Elys double role may be an advantage in
this matter since Communist tactics of subver-
sion and inftration behind military lines have
been highly successful in Wet Nam.
Minister Dupont is a conservative, politically
speaking, who broke away from the Gaullist
movement in 1851. He has been considered a
specialist on Indo-Ch affairs and has served
there in official capacities. He is succeeding an
active Gaullst, Marc Jacquet, who had become
outspokenly critical of the Laniel governments
plans for seeking agreement with the three
Associated States on the political level.
Finally, aside from the qualifications these
two men possess there is psychological value
in the appointments. They will replace men
who have been in charge during the most dis
astrous few months of this long war. And there
is an implication in the command changes that
France intends to continue as fighting partner
in the resistance to Communist aggression in
Asia.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
To All White, Collar Workers: Beware!

up his job and then hopes to resume
it, he may find 1t filled with another
young person. Good machine watchers
viii be dime dozen and they will not
have any other skills to offer. To young
graduates this June. MO has def
mite message-don't take the first Office
job that comes along.
One way for the problem of white
collar unemployment to be solved,
ILO says, is a greater recognition that
the "shadowy line between clerical
tasks and unskilled factory occupations
tends to become more and more i'm
perceptible."
When more people know this, there
will be greater desire to train for
skilled manual jobs. engineering, scien-
tific farming and other jobs that
amount to more than just machine
watching.
Otherwise, no feels that the frus-
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Oppenheimer Decision
Alden Potter.

confess was one of the many who
believed that the highest-level learning,
integrity and presumed objectivity of
the special three member security
board judging DR.. Oppenheimer's 10y
atty was the answer to the judicial
hooliganism of Mccarthy traveSty on
Red hunting. Yet the boards unani-
nous loyalty clearance, with 2-to-1
denial that they meant it. makes me
agree with Mr.. Bundle. Seemingly
highest-level loyalty boards, like the
law, can be asinine.
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. d.
The decision in the Oppenheimer case
carries many impacts which will no
doubt re-echo throughout the entire
world for some time to come. There
seems to be one aspect which was
brought out at an earlier date, with
which I wish to take issue. Somewhere
along the way, newspaper editors and
scientists as we'll referred to DR.. Open
heimer's earlier years of political think
ing as naive" and wrongly directed. 1t
was even stated that the great phys
icist himself admitted" that he had
been in error in his primary delving
into mental politicking.
It seems to me that retrospective
analysis can bear validity only when
measured by the yardstick of time
space. To judge that which occurred
in 1910 as right" or wrong" by the
standard of thinking that is prevalent
and colored by present time, 1854.
seems in itself to be immaturity of
evaluative judgment. mo man steps in
the same river twice" and the man, the
time, the place have changed today
as they will be changing with all our
tomorrows. When retrospective analy-
sis. today, is evaluated by retroactive
gauge, any Semblance to logic is lost.
Jesse b. Solomon.