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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Nurses for Schools

The time fast approaches when the
Prince Georges County Commissioners
will not approve. once again, an ade-
quate health program for the county
schools.
A school system as. large as Prince
Georges lover $4,000 is woefully lack
ing in health facilities and personnel
Can you imagine schools with as many
as 1000 students not having single
nurse or physician in attendance?
There are once-a-month visits by visit
ing nurses, but with such huge num-
Der Of children their jobs are over
whelming.
There are schools (newer ones)
equipped with beautiful health rooms
fully furnished. but no one to staff
them. What happens, in this case?
Teachers are assigned to infirmary
duties during so-called planning pc
RODS, or parents volunteer to help in
the infirmary. or the infirmary is
locked UP and Ill children report to
the Office to sit.
Some child may die in school be-
cause of this inadequacy. Accidents
happen and often: a child could die
while awaiting medical aid.
Don't blame the situation on the
school board. For several years there
has been placed in the school budget
funds for school nurses. Each time the
fund Is slashed. Why? Because the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Mccurthy's Objective

Senator Mccarthy is now conceded
to be one Of the most controversial
figures Of these times, meaning that
his technique in investigations has
come to include more struggles than
mere debates. These apparent con-
flictS are supported by some of the
opposition which has attacked the
Senator's mode Of dealing with Com
munists. Nearly every one will agree
that his detectives are acceptable to a
patriotic public, but his methods of
treatment are not popular. It is not
unusual to find Communists who also
disagree with Senator McCarthy'S
methods and who likewise claim a
degree of comfort in the same fifth
amendment Of the Constitution as do
loyal Americans.
Senator Mccarthy has undertaken
to analyze the philosophy Of those who
have certainly twisted the original in
tentions of the Founding Fathers as
presented in our Constitution, for it
has not been proven yet that COM
muniStic movements are necessary to
ease the so-called burdens Of the COM
mon man. In his design to halt the
influences Of those who attempt to
change our form Of government, the
Senator is authorized to approach
Communists through the channels Of
congressional hearings and by direct
questioning, to which honest answers
are expected from all loyal men and
women. I am satisfied that Senator
McCarthy's committee has been made
permanent one.
Native Virginian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
BY Charles E. Trocewen

who would not murder even a fly, will
spend hours pering over the police
romance" as the French call it.
The detective story Is sort Of chase.
and every one loves a chase story, call
it what one, will.
The solving Of the crime, however,
degenerates in some Of these stories
into an elaborate show piece, both I'M
true to life and firing to read.
One version, and popular one, is to
call all the possible perpetrators into q
room, and then have the detective
coolly present his evidence until the
criminal Is cornered.
Then, according to what might be
called the standard whodunit, the
culprit does one Of two things:
l. He commits suicide before the
detective" can prevent him.
2. Or he confesses and is led away in
triumph.
The whole thing is silly. No one
corners criminals that way in real life,
not even the best Of detectives. Why
should he? All he has to do is grab
him.
The ending Is too elaborate, but it
probably will adorn such stories for
years to come. It all makes q rather
CHEEKY and theatrical climax. no matter
how untrue. Even real detectives (who
used to use q rubber hose. and who now
step on the criminals toes to make him
confess) probably like such endings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
This and That

who was acquitted Of using an ak on
her mother and father would not have
a very high standing in today's stories.
With modern blood-type knowledge.
she probably would not have got OF so
easily, but they couldn't really prove
her guilty in those days.
Addicts of crime fiction prefer simple
murders.
They are not sold on elaborate and
too fancy crimes.
In this they are close to human
nature, because most such crimes are
committed on the spur Of the moment.
One theory Of scientists Is that GER
tain persons really attract to them
selves those who are to murder them.
One university preSs-and have you
noticed how the university press idea
has expanded In recent months?-pub-
lished an elaborate work attempting to
prove this thesis.
Undoubtedly there is touch of truth
to it, since humanity is involved. and
where human beings are concerned
there is seldom just one side, there
often are two.
The English creators of crime stories
handle them with just little more
common sense. perhaps.
They present the crime. perpetrator
unknown, and the rest Of the story is
the unraveling Of the puzzle.
This puzzle aspect is the real basic
reason why millions Of honest persons,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

cessors, corporation farms, absentee
landlords. suitcase agrarians and spec
ulatorS.
The bottom two-thirds of American
farmers accounts for but one fourth of
cash sales Of farm produce. Many are
on bare subsistence. Family-sized farm
cultivators are seriously handicapped by
acreage restrictions on money crops.
How can family make out on a to-
bacco allotment of less than an acre?
Many do. Every acreage cut lowers the
living standard of the small farmer,
and takes food of the city workers
table. but 1t fattens the bank accounts
Of the big farmers.
The ultimate consumer-none too
prosperous city workers mostly-pays
for it all. He pays not only in terms of
higher prices, but also in taxes to A.
nance q Government-buying. policy
which keeps showing prices beyond his
reach. With more and more ultimate
consumers out Of work. or On part time.
the probability that the present farm
program will collapse becomes a GER
tainty. Then it will be necessary to
devise q farm program with checks to
limit Government assistance to bona
fide farmers operating family-sized
farms.
Giles Cooper,
Lexington, KY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
A Stotue by Phidios?

Reports suggesting that a marble statue
by Phidias has been found at Pompen have
stirred the world of art. OF course, any work
by the man who may have been the greatest
sculptor would be a sensational find. Nothing
definitely known to have come directly from
his hands exists. His reputation Of outstanding
eminence traces back not to figures which he
certainly carved but only to what contempt
rary writer's said Of his achievements. The
noblest and most famous Of these were the
colossal Zeus at Olympia and the Parthenos
Of the Parthenon. They were created Of ivory
and gold over stone or bronze armatures. Coins
OF Ellis may preserve the outlines Of the head
OF the efagy of the ruler Of the Greciane gods
and a torsal fragment in Paris is believed by
some scholars to be relic OF the eff1gy of his
daughter, the patroness Of Athens
But these are only theories. Nobody can
prove any statue to have been executed by
.Phidias himself He was the supervisor OF the
Identification of the Attic metropolis under
Pericles about 444 B. c. Laboring with him
were other sculptors, painters and engravers
as well as architects and engineers. His per-
sonal pupils probably continued the embel-
lshment Of Athens after his death In 49,
Conceivably he made the drawings for the
pediments, the metopes and the frieze Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

Of the Soviets to destroy freedom on
earth.
Moscow knows very well that the
Eisenhower administration cannot carry
out its policies without a substantial
majority in Congress and in the Ma
ton. They know about the movement
to weaken the executive in foreign afs
fairs through the PROPOSED amendment
to the Constitution. So do our friends
abroad who are watching to learn how
reliable In an emergency this country
Is likely to be.
The Kremlin is looking for the an
Swer to these questions: Will the
American people support the program
announced by Secretary Dulles? viii
Congress give 1t full and hearty sup
port. regardless Of politics, like the
support accorded to President Tru-
mans decision as to Korea?
The writer believes that we are in
vitality important and brief period in
foreign relations. We must ourselves
know that we stand together behind
the President now. We must let our
allies and our opponents know that we.
as a people. are aware of the risks of
firm policy and. by an overwhelming
proportion of the Nation and its Con-
gress. accept them as preferable to
those of any alternative course.
Nothing could help more than the
adoption Of strong bipartisan reso-
luton by Congress concurring In the
administrators position A host of
supporting letters to Congress from
the people would be heartening.
Eugene w. Burr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Coincidence Of Dates

This country, Soviet Russia and other
major powers have agreed on, January
Is as the opening date for multi
national conference that could change
the course of history.
Coincidentally, January IS is date
that has been reverently observed for
over a century throughout the literate
world as the birth date Of the poet
who penned the challenge prophecy
Its comm yet. for a. that,
That man to man the world Ger.
Shall Brothers be. for a. that"
The beloved Bobbie Burns worked
hard for long years at low pay ESQ
pounds q year, as an excise ofdcer in
q Scotland incredibly unworthy Of his
genius. He died In this service Of q
heart condition described as "rheu-
matte" after long illness. In grinding
poverty.
Is there something In the bard's po-
etic thought, when coupled with the
above too-little-known facts Of his
life, that would seem to augur . PRO
pitiousness Of the stars" for the CONF
ing multi-national conference?
We may judge Of its likelihood by the
fact that Burns forever-glowing lines
are banned as virulent poison by the
Soviet thought-engineers.
Donald c. Keith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Surplus Crops

The President is to be congratulated
on his proposal to quit stockpiling
wool. but rather permit 1t to be placed
on q free market and set its own price
and substitute the wool growers after
wards. It would indeed be a good
thing to have an overall farm policy
Of this type. This type Of policy would
relieve the Government Of its current
concern Of the growing stockpiles Of
farm products.
Surely 1t is far better to adopt this
kind Of program than to continue to
let nourishing food products pile up,
while thousands Of families throughout
the country actually need them for
better nourishment and cannot pay the
current prices. This type OF program
would result in happier families and
leSsenirfg Of crime and delinquency.
It is about time we recognized that
as Nation we have reached adulthood
and stop labelling any and everything
good for the people as a whole as
being either socialistic or communistic.
It seems that this is the only sensible
policy for the country in view of the
growing unemployment during this
REIMBURSEMENT" period.
G. e. Malone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

Talking about old and famous
murders Is often the order Of the day
when newspapermen get together.
Not as everyday discussion. Of course,
but solely when some one starts the
conversation that way. And usually
there is one there with marvellous
memory, who can give the names and
dates and places where the crimes were
committed
One victim had q pajama cord tight
around her neck1 and another was
sliced with butcher knife. and third
hit over the head with an Indian club.
The ways to achieve this lethal pur-
pose are myriad. and not even the
writer's of detective stories. so-called
crime fiction, can Guido real life in this
respect
In the old newspaper days, long
before the linotype came into opera
ton, the head. or headline" as 1t is
commonly called by readers, had not
reached today's. perfection.
It was common in the gay eos to play
up a big murder with Hammer and
Saw as the bannerline. After the
reader got down in the story. and only
then, he found that some one had been
murdered Nith a hammer and saw
as the weapons.
Modern detective stories. "whodunits. !"
as they are widely called, rather fancy
all sorts Of unusual weapons.
The FAN River lMass.) young woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Showdown on the Nile

Egypt's President Naguib appears bent on
real showdown with the Moslem Brotherhood
Hundreds OF the top leaders Of this extremist
organization have been taken into custody In
the past few days and the dissolution Of the
group has been formally decreed.
It Is showdown that probably was inevi-
table, and one in which General Naguib and
his associates must prevail or stand in con-
tinuing danger that their own revolution in
Egypts political life will be washed out. Mem
bers Of the brotherhood, fundamentally no
more devout in their religious faith than the
mass Of Egypt's Moslem population, have
preached extreme nationalism and have played
a leading role in encouraging anti-Western
and anti-democratic sentiment in their coun-
try. The organization took on a semimilitary
and semifascist character In World War II and
has dealt often in violence In the years since.
It supported the overthrow Of King Farouk
but has not been content to accept the adj.
ministration Of the army group headed by
General Naguib.
The new government OF Egypt has faced
monumental job, involving major. domestic
reforms social, economic and political
the dif1cult task of readjusting It's relationship
with powers outside the Arab League, pafticu-
larry Britain On the whole, its record has
been one of achievement but any progress
would be jeopardized by internal strife with
such group as the Moslem Brotherhood. 1t
viii be service to Egypt and, in the long run,
to the free nations which would like to establish
cooperative relationship with the Nile coun-
try, II President Naguib Is successful In his
current efforts to end the influence Of the
brotherhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
EIegy

Her laughter. sitting through the
morning mist,
Was as sun-spdrkled notes the breeze
had kissed ...
And tohisked across my heart: her
tranquil hand
On mine Gssuaged the scars of cares
deep brand.
Phe right and necessary ,Dord she chose
To iohisper-or perhaps no ,pord;; but
those
Clear. ste1dy foiDers of blue that tDere
her eyes -
Spoke soundlessly to me, both true and
Though she is gone, her absence is no
r cause
To see piston rett of human fatcs;;
These tender words, fotDing in ele0y
Were ever true of her. so dear to me
Who neuer thought that Time tDonld
cease to lDait-
Who neuer thought to speak until too
late.
Jeon Mergord
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
New Goodwill Building

When the Goodwill Industries came to
Washington in 1885, The Star said that they
would be "a definite asset against poverty"
Nineteen years later the prophecy thus ex-
pressed has been fulfilled. The original one
room store has become half block of stores
and workshops; the original working stan Of
two persons has grown to 20O More than 1000
aged and physically handicapped men and
women have been employed In repairing
renovating and merchandising clothing and
furniture donated by friends of the enterprise
Wages paid to the workers have exceeded 81
million The Goodwill Industries are both
practical and idealistic. They serve several
imperative social needs, and they give oppor-
tunity for constructive altruism on mutual
level-"no unhappy connotation Of charity
appeared in the circumstances; no violation of
self-respect occurred"
But the Goodwill Industries now themselves
are handicapped by lack Of sufficient housing
for their activities. They require new Ave
story annex, planned to be erected on the site
of obsolete brownStone houses now used as
Offices adjacent to their main workshops and
store on New Hampshire avenue at Twenty-drst
street Northwest. campaign to raise 100000
for this purpose has been launched. If the
drive succeeds, as 1t certainly should, the Good
will Industries can double their help to aged
and handicapped people who need and want
useful employment. The Washington COM
munity, having watched the progress Of the
organization with approval since 1885, surely
will welcome an invitation to contribute to its
further expansion and increased success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Out Of Captivity

This Is happy time for the anti-Commu-
mist prisoners Of war in Korea. After their long
years Of captivity. they have only to wait until
midnight tomorrow to be formally liberated and
restored to civilian status. The United Nations
Command has assured them Of that. Despite
midas objections and the rantings Of Peiping
Pyongyang radio broadcasts, they are very def
initely going to be set free without further
haggling or delay-in strict accord with the
armistice agreement.
India, as chairman Of the Neutral Nations
Repatriation Commission, has taken an utterly
strange and muddle- headed position In this
matter: While transferring the prisoners CAPT
Chinese and 1882 North Koreans) from the
commissions custody to the custody Of the U. N.
Command, it has warned that the United States
and its allies will be violating the truce il they
carry out the liberation as scheduled. Needless
to say from the standpoint Of the Communists
who want to impose indefinite captivity and
who have refused to take over the pro7Red
POWs from the NNRC-this Indian view can be
used to good effect for propaganda purposes,
but 1t does violence to the following armistice
provision: A
The Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission shall declare the relief from pris-
oner-of-war status to civilian status of any
prisoners Of war who have not exercised their
other disposition has been agreed to by the
political conference within 100 days after the
Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission has
assumed their custody.
The 100 days referred to will have come and
gone by midnight tomorrow, and the text Of the
truce thus leaves no room for reasonable doubt
as to the rightness Of the U. N. Commands
resolve to liberate the POWs at that time. It Is
a resolve that is plainly in keeping with the
letter and spirit Of the armistice. BY way Of
contrast, in arguing otherwise, with some show
Of moral indignation, the Indians have not only
given aid and comfort to the Communists but
have also shown a kind of blindness toward that
letter and spirit-a blindness that makes them
advocate course that would dishonor and vio-
late a solemn agreement too clear and specific
to be misread unless words themselves have lost
I all meaning.
But the U. N. Command need not fret nor
is 1t fretting, about such things. It has every
reason to be proud of its position. BY holding
fast to principle and by following the simple
dictates of humanitarianism, 1t has won fine
victory-a victory of high significance not
simply because of the welfare Of the POWs
Immediately involved but because Of the inter-
national example it has set It Is an example
that demonstrates the free worlds readiness to
guarantee refuge and protection to anybody
fleeing from Communist tyranny, Certainly, as
far as enemy armies are concerned that is a
fact that could be most helpful to our side in
the event of another war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Woman os President

In answer to President Eisenhower,s
statement that he Knows Of no rea-
son why the mind and heart of o
woman could not be used in the office
of the presidency" would like to
quote scripture.
I refer him to the twelfth verse,
second chapter. first epistle of Paul
the Apostle to Timothy.
First from the King James version:
But suffer not o woman to teach, nor
to usurp authority over the man. but
to be In silence"
Second from the Revised Standard
version. commonly referred to as the
Nelson Bible: IT permit no woman to
teach or to have authority over men:
she is to keep silent"
t. I let the scripture speak for itself.
E. G. Jewell, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Adjusting Teachers Pow

Teachers salaries can be easily adj
justed 50 as to attract more people into
the profession. The method suggested
Is simple. direct, effective. Here 1t is:
Let Congress pass legislation to exempt
salaries Of public school teachers from
the Federal income tax.
This would constitute Federal aid to
education In form that should meet
with approval from parents and school
oflcials. It would give every public
school teacher salary increase In the
form Of increased take-home pay.
M. r. H,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Tito Cracks the Whip

The completeness Of Marshal Tito's control
over the Communist Party machinery Of Yugo-
slavia appears to have been reafirmed by the
Djilas incident
Milovan Djilas, PARTISAN associate of Tito
during the war and holder Of numerous party
and government posts since then, has been
dropped from the Yugoslav Central Commit
tee, stripped of all his Offices in the Commu-
mist League and warned that even his party
membership is dependent upon his future con-
duct. His crime, in brief, was that Of proposing
In series of newspaper articles that the Com
munist League be reformed and of charging
that the Communist bureaucracy has been
obStructing the achievement Of democracy in
YugoSlavia. At various times, Mr.. Djilas has
written and spoken in vehement criticism of
Soviet Russia; at other times he has been
equally critical of the West. On trial before
the Central Committee, Mr.. Djilas heard Mar
shall Tito accuse him of "revisionism Of the
worst type" in seeking to spread the Western
brand of democracy and perhaps to adopt capi-
taliSm itself. Mr.. DjilaS said he was sorry for
his wrong attitude" but swore that he is stil
true Marxist."
In addition to his party jobs the youthful
Montenegrin was elected last November as
one of four vice presidents to President Tito.
He did, in fact, make the most impressive
showing among the top five Office seekers
getting 1913 per cent of the votes in his district
as compared with 97.7 for Marshal Tito. On
this basis, Djilas had been considered by many
as the heir apparent to Marshal Tito but the
current development may amount to a perma-
nent curtailment of his political career.
Although the incident has been marked
by some uncompIimentary references to West
ern democracy and the non-Communist bour-
geoisie, there have been no clear signs in 1t
that the Tito government currently is reap
praising its policies of cooperation with the
West. In fact, Marshal Tito took occasion dur
ing his address to the Communist Central
Committee to note again the distinction be-
tween Yugoslavia's approach to the West on
foreign policy while rejecting the philosophy
Of Western democracy in domestic affairs It
would appear that he intends to stay on such
. course and that party rivals who may have
other ideas are not in position to dispute him
successfully.
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parthenon and his assistants did the modelling
-and cutting, with the master himself returning
occasionally to perfect the finishing up to the
moment Of his disgrace and imprisonment.
What really matters now is that the ex-
ample which he established still has force and
power. For Phidias sponsored the movement
which lowered In the finest representations Of
the human body ever developed by artistic
techniques and routines.