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Evening star., 1954-10-06

No doubt thel pigeon Is wrong,
though. He has all the brains he needs
for his purposes.
1t is curious thing, then, that a
1ikings for cats and birds often seems to
go together.
Those who may not have thought
any about the matter think 1t strange,
but each such friendship is based on
admiration, that is all.
When one admires something. he
is very apt to like it, and sometimes
immensely.
The cat, with it's beautiful coat
bright eyes, and 1.-the actions, makes a
special appeal. it would seem, to the
artistic temperament.
This temperament includes vast
numbers of persons who are no artists,
in any real sense. Perhaps they are
frustrated artists, as some one has said
all newspapermen are.
The artistic temperament sees the
beauty in living things, and in dumb
things such as mountains, trees and
statues, many of which have received
the impress of man, others Of nature.
Man has an impress all his own. Too
often, in the past so years. it is an im-
preston made for the worse. But at
his best, man can take q good impress
sion, and give one forth.
The loves of lifetime may be very
quiet loves.
People do not 60 around shouting.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
By Charles E. TroceweN

II love orchids" but many do. Here Is
man who runs great financial insti-
tuition, and he has more orchids in his
home (and upon occasion in his bank
than the forests hold.
Cats and birds are not as antagonis-
tic as they sound. They get along very
well together If they are trained. Per-
haps there will be some slipups, but
when we stop to think how many Of
these there are among human beings,
we cannot blame the lesser creatures.
The point is that it requires some ad-
ditional handling, and this means that
the brain of man must come into the
picture. Take bird feeding in the
garden. Some cats simply watch, 9TH
ers spring, with the well known results.
But the situation is not as hopeless as
might seem at first sight. especially to
those persons who grow red in the face
when they contemplate an intrusion
into their little marked-off paradise.
It is here that Artifex's words are
needed, For love is good even if its
only for an animal" If God is love, as
4 we are so widely told, then some little
portion Of that love will find its way
into the smallest relationships of the
everyday. The man who goes wing1ng
from continent to continent. always
with great words on his lips and great
deeds in his briefcase. rather worries
US. We wish he would stay home for .
time. and feed the pigeons. That way.
we might love him.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Mccarthy Mild by Comparison?

The recent hearings involving the
conduct Of Senator Mccarthy touched
on the alleged improperly of some of
his remarks to the Army's General
Zwicker. Without regard to the merits
of the present case, submit that the
junior Senator from Wisconsin is but
an anemic scion of old-time American
political stock. The art of official calum-
ny has so atrophied that the language
of bureaucratic censure mimics the pol
itic phrases of the diplomatic corps.
Harking back to the earlier days of
this Nation, it can be seen that the
Senator is neither original nor par
ticularly outspoken. For a case in point:
In 1882 the Navy made move to alb
Sorb several civil service bureaus, in
cluding the Revenue Marine, the Coast
Survey, and the Life Saving Service.
This effort brought on, from the con-
cerned civil servants. torrent of Off
cial rebuttal in which words were not
minced. I quote:
1.-THE Navy descantS with earnest
eloquence on the melancholy ruin of
naval affairs, and pleads for several
provinces to add to this dilapidated
empire. Is it rule that officers who
have brought the Navy to confusion
and decay are thus qualified to try
their skill on the Treasury?"
"The Navy -. is naturally unre-
publican being an imitation of
the British Navy, which is an organic
outgrowth of the feudal monarchy"
''The life-saving crews have the
truly American hatred of masters. They
would never submit to the iron rule
which naturally issues from the des-
potic habitudes of military officers"
80. Employment must be had for
the surplus Navy officers, else large
reduction will be made :. of the great
horde of idlers on Navy rolls"
&C.. One of the most difficult kinds
Of smuggling against which the vigi-
lance of customs officers has been di-
rected, is that of goods in the bag
gage of officers returning upon vessels
of the Navy. If naval officers >. can
Evening star., 1954-10-06
SuIute to Firemen

Fire parades have become almost as
traditional in Southern Maryland as
tobacco growing Should I suddenly
become millionaire, which seems ur-
likely, know I would still find time
to go to the annual fire parade in my
home town.
I am not entirely sure why go, for
1t seems with each passing year. the
grandstand seats grow a bit harder,
the noise during the speeches more
distracting and the wait for the parade
to come into sight, bit longer.
But when the parade does come into
view, always experience the same old
thrill. Seeing the engines creeping
along at parade pace is like seeing speed
and force in check. How different these
engines appear racing along highway.
sirens screaming. on their endless err
rands of mercy In the minds of the
men on these engines are knowledge
and power, and strange endurance
without which hate to think how we
would manage when the panic of fire
strikes.
Have you given the firemen Of your
town much thought? Do you realize.
for instance, how varied and exact
their training is? Did you know that
they are specialists in rather special
way? They are thoroughly informed
about many things. They are informed
to a fine point on matters of rescue
and first aid This knowledge includes
using resuscitators and inhalers. They
are taught to operate and wear all
types of gas masks. They are well
educated as to fire prevention and sal
wage methods They know how to
install and operate portable lighting
units when electric power fails during
emergency operations in hospitals, for
instance). They know how to inspect
buildings for and protect them against.
fire hazards. They know the proper
way to ventilate a building when in
flames. They are taught and required
to keep their persons and their equip
ment in top form at all times. They
renew all this knowledge periodically,
keeping abreast of any new method
which will expedite or improve the
service they give.
also hear that these men in their
firehouse life. can cook meal that will
match any woman'S in excellence.
Remember that your firemen, who
are never mentioned as the principal
victims in fire where lives are lost,
leave widows with tears as real as the
widows of the principal victims. And
they leave children who will be just as
lonely. Be grateful to these f1remen
who are not only devoted but dedicated
to job, the very thought of which
frightens me profoundly
This, then, is salute to these men
who are more than just men who fight
fires. Since they are an unassuming
lot these firemen, they will probably
claim I am making big production
over what is simply their job. OF such
as this is greatness made, no matter
what they say. know that every one
shares my feeling of gratitude and ad-
miration. Show that you do by sup
porting your fire department, not just
financially. but with support that will
make them realize that theirs is
respected following, and one that is a
symbol of mercy throughout the world
Dorothy Beecher Artes.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Answer to Fringe Parking Critic

AHSWST 10 TfiH9e TuTNtHy SIttiC
r. B. Sleight. in a letter published
October 2. accuses The Star of biased
reporting in favor of fringe parking"
Since he affirms that "I won't ride a
bus If can help it," it seems fair to
wonder If Mr. Sleight would not regard
as biased any reporting of maneuvers
in favor Of fringe parking.
In any event. so long as he is willing
and able to pay the price OF driving
his auto downtown and parking it In
privately owned lots, he is entitled to
do so. He is not, however. entitled to
ask the taxpayers of Washington to.
foot his parking bill by providing free
space along curb.
So long as Mr.. Sleight speaks as an
individual in his preference for down.
town parking, this is also his privilege.
However, If one extends his position
to that of generality, it would seem
fair to assume that he feels the city
should make it possible for every one
to drive downtown in his own car.
If this is so, then he lays himself
open to these questions:
Does he favor scrapping the public
transit system? Can Washington do
without one? (Some smaller towns are
doing without themo
If the Capital can't afford to scrap
it's transit system, how is it to be
maintained?
Is it to be subsidized-presumably by
the public-merely for the benent OF
those citizens who can't afford their
own cars? Un which case Mr.. Sleight
will help pay for it in taxes)
Or is it to be kept healthy enough
in private hands so that whichever
company owns it will pay its own taxes?
If transit is to be abandoned, is Mr..
Sleight willing to pay the taxes needed
to provide free downtown parking space
for all corners?
He complains of standing "jam
packed" in buses. Does he prefer sit
ting Jam packed in his auto-stalled
on overcrowded streets during rush
hour?
When Mr.. Sleight drives, he takes
up about 81 square feet OF public space.
Public transit vehicles take up two or
three times as much space, but carry
about 80 times as many people.
If all of them drove, like MIR. Sleight,
it would almost be necessary to raze
all the buildings in downtown Wash
inaton and convert the center Of the
city into one vast parking lot.
No big city can absorb unlimited
numbers of automobiles, as they are all
finding out-even Washington. Some
thing else has to be done, and fringe
parking is part of it.
HI, M.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Bevon on the Wdrpoth

Aneurin Bevan, the able, ambitious,
radical and thoroughly demagogic head of
the left wing of the British Labor Party, has
now made clear that he intends to engage
in unremitting warfare against the party's
majority membership moderates led
by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
It may be doubted however that the war
fare will succeed in doing anything but help
the Conservatives in the next general elec-
ton.
This is so because Mr.. Bevan, who has
ceased to be part of the executive Laborite
leadership and who has suffered defeat
on his proposals to have the party condemn
the Southeast Asia defense alliance and the
program to rearm West Germany, seems to
have overreached himself in way that can
hardly fail to deepen and widen the split
between the moderates and his left-wing
followers. Although he has called for the
overthrow of the Attlee ruling group, he
himself apparently has no chance of be-
coming the party's top boss-certainly not
within the foreseeable future. Actually,
according to seasoned British observers, he
has passed the peak of his political popu-
larity and is now on the downgrade-a
decline attributable in part to the fact that
a lot Of Britons who were once impressed
by him have grown more than little dis
enchanted. His extremiSm, in short, has
begun to pail, and although he is not
Communist many of his erstwhile sup
porters have taken dim view of him be-
cause his gn-policy views sometimes
seem anti-American enough and anti
defense enough to be indistinguishable from
those of the Kremlin. * s8
Accordingly, in doing battle against Mr.
Attlee and the moderates, Mr.. Bevan, far
from winning new followers, may well lose
some old ones, and he must know, In any
event, that It is improbable in the extreme
that such warfare will give him control of
the party. All it is likely to do is decrease
the possibility Of Laborite victory when
the national election is held. But he eyi-
IDENTIFY has a rule-or-ruin mentality, and
that prospect does not seem to bother him.
In his own odd and truculent way, he is
becoming fine campaigner for the Con-
servatives whom he processes to hate.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
MARYLAND Miners Forsuken

The citizens of Garrett County.
Maryland, feel that they have been by
passed by their State government and
ignored by their representatives in the
Federal Government. Harold Stassen
of the Foreign Operations Administra-
ton recently announced that 10 million
tons of coal would be purchased by the
Federal Government for shipment to
Korea, and that this coal would be pur-
chased largely from Kentucky, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois. We
cannot begin to understand why we
and our neighbors in Allegany County
were ignored when these allotments
were made.
The annual reports of the Maryland
Bureau of Mines show that coal pro-
duction in Garrett County has declined
from total of 1,004 900 tons, in 1946
to 221 900 tons in 1858. Allegany's pro-
duction likewise decreased in the same
period from 1,028,000 to 325,000 tons
The production of these two counties
taken together represents drop OF
"a per cent in those years. This drop
in production has been steady and sure
each year during that span.
The annual report of the State Plan
ming Commission shows that Garrett
is the only county in the State where
a population decrease is anticipated in
the next decade.
But these are only so many statistics
and SO much conjecture. The impor-
tant consideration is that during a
seven-year period. 592 Garrett Coun-
tians and 797 Allegany Countians, or a
total of 1889 Marylanders lost their
only means of livelihood. It means that
employment in Garrett County has
dropped from 1900 in 1916 to 1,400 in
1854. This means one in every three
persons employed in 1916 in Garrett
County is now jobless or has moved
away.
An allotment to Garrett of only one
twentieth of the total shipment to
Korea would mean enough for all of
Garrett County's miners to work full
year. This would fill the gap until ac-
ton could be had on the results of the
Singewald Study and would feed all of
our coal miners dependent families in
the interim.
We do not know whether it is too
late to be included in the Korea order,
nor do we know what future orders for
coal might be in the offing. Governor
McKeldin should be informed on these
matters. What we do know is that we
have been given the "brush off" and
now are expected to be pacif1ed with a
study. We will not!
d. M. Watring,
President,
South Garrett County Democrat Club.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
The QuorreI

/ matched as you turned hostile eyes
From me to blue impartial skies,
And thought. ho,D strange he doesn't
knotD
That pride, not love has made him so.
I listened as the hateful words
Plunged through the air, like untamed
herds,
Impelled against their aDiu by force
Until your anger ran its course.
Then In the healing silence there
I suddenly became GtD1re
OF need that goes beyond all blame,
You turned to me and spoke my name.
viney Wilder
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Lioht Due on q Unique Agency

A long overdue official study of the Oft
criticized policies and operations of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
will get under way shortly, with the ap-
pointment by Governor McKeldin of spe-
cial commission of inquiry. The group, au-
thorized by the Maryland House of Delegates
In response to urgent requests by civil organ
tzationS in Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, is of bipartisan membership. 1t
will face the difficult task of making a COM
prehenSive non-partisan study of polit-
ically appointed independent agency of
great responsibility and power in the two
counties Such an objective appraisal of
the WSSC and the laws governing its f1nan-
cial and administrative work should be well
coined by both the agency and its critics.
The WSSC has had a relatively free
hand in nearby Maryland in the water-sup-
ply and sewerage fields since its creation in
1918. AS the population of the two counties
has increased the prestige and authority of
the commission also have expanded. That
the commission has done good job in ex-
tending water and sewer lines during more
than three decades of service is generally
conceded. But there have been rising pro-
tests in recent years over increased fees for
times without public notice or hearings
Citizens have complained that the commits
sion has operated behind closed doors in an
arbitrary manner and without any control
whatever from county authorities. Finally,
last year, a civic uprising led the Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges County delegations
to the General Assembly to sponsor reso-
luton for a study of the WSSC and the
various laws affecting it.
The WSSC is engaged in revenue-rais-
ing and engineering duties that should be
free from politics. Yet it's members are sub
ject, under present laws, to the whins of
political patronage. It's bonds are guaran-
teed by the two counties, yet neither the
Montgomery County Council nor the Prince
Georges Board of Commissioners has any
restraint on WSSC fiscal policies. Truly
this is curious setup under any system Of
representative, responsible public admins
tration. The public that pays the bills sub
mitted by the commission has right to
know more about it's operations and de-
serves some measure of control over its
management.
Evening star., 1954-10-06

Wisconsin. They knew his tendencies
long ago, and he was their RESPONSE
bility. They cannot even now take the
real credit for checking him, for al
though three of their group did ad-
mirable committee work in advising
censure. the courage to take the all
important initial step was that of Sem
ator Flanders. He is his own man.
outside both G. o. P. factions, at least
as far as this original action is con-
cerned.
If left to the party men, the Nc
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Americans Quick With Advice

We Americans, as Nation, are such
incorrigible optimists because we have
never been hungry-not starving, that
is.
The Chinese have proverb, "A hun
CRY man knows no ethics" A starving
man would be more accurate. I doubt
that we. who have never been hungry.
can really understand or undertake to
advise people who have never had
enough to eat in their lives. Whole
populations!
I cross my fingers, put my tongue in
my cheek and take with grain of salt,
reports by persons returning from flying
trips to far-away places, purporting to
tell what foreign people feel, think,
need and what they ought to do about
it. I do not know what my nearest
neighbor really thinks or feels or ought
to do under given circumstances. How
come these bright boys are able to
prognosticate what whole hemispheres
ought to do, with six lessons from
Madame La Zonga?
The answer. They are not able to
do so. What they say doesn't mean a
thing and just goes to show that fools
still rush in where angels fear to tread.
Laura X. Pollock.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Shocker in France

Frances National Defense Committee
is highly important government agency
that deals with top-Secret matters involv-
ing French and allied security. Yet this
agency, according to sensational charges
now being investigated in Paris, has had
on it's staff for many months past at least
two key members who have been leaking"
the most sensitive and significant kind OF
classified material to the Communists
It is not clear whether this material,
covering things said and decided upon at
a number of the committees meetings, has
included secrets having to do with the
United States, Britain or other allies of
France. But the mere fact that such body
has had faithless men in its top staff po-
sitions-men who have worked hand in
hand with the Communists in what has
all the earmarks of reasonable espionage
conspiracy-iS something that must disturb
every country that has joint defense plans
with the French.
After the lessons taught by our own
Alger Hiss case and the Klaus Fuchs case
In Britain and similar cases in other allied
lands, it is shocking that the same sort of
thing should turn up at this late date in
France, long after the exposure of the
worldwide Kremlin-directed effort to in
f1ltrate free governments The moral of
this alarming Paris story, which may yet
leaC to spectacular revelations, is only too
obvious: Eternal vigilance is the price Of
safety against the ceaseless plotting Of the
Communists.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Another Sore Spot Removed

Tne place IN history or the year 1904
as one in which some of the most syexing
and explosive of issues within the free world
were settled peaceably and to the advan-
tage of the non-C Communist community is
given new support by signing Of the Trieste
agreement.
For the nine years since World War H.
the Trieste territory, with it's approximately
so miles of coastline along the Adriatic Sea,
has been subject of bitter contention be-
tween Italy and Yugoslavia. It's occupa-
ton and administration, while efforts were
being made to settle its future, have been
costly in money and manpower to the
United States and Britain. And finally, it
has been another of the sore spots on which
Soviet Russia constantly played whenever
there was opportunity to increase the ten
sion or to jeopardize the otherwise tranquil
relationship between Britain and America
on one side and either Italy or Yugoslavia
on the other.
In this latter respect particularly, the
Trieste dispute has been comparable to two
others which were settled during the past
summertime two-year rupture between
Britain and Iran over naturalization of
the latter's Oil resources and the even
longer deadlock between Britain and Egypt
over the Suez Canal Zone and its military
installations. In each of these cases there
was serious danger that country nominally
friendly to the West might have been an
tagonized permanently, and the record
shows evidence of Communist maneuvering
and propaganda activities designed to bring
about that very result It is an interesting
fact that American diplomacy, utilized in
a niddleman's role in the Iranian and
Egyptian disputes and as an instrument of
an interested party in the Trieste problem,
has been given major credit for all three
of the settlements
Briefly, the Trieste agreement is a
compromise that for the most part preserves
the status quo. Zone A, which includes the
port city and has most recently been under
a combined British-American military ad-
ministration with partial Italian civil
administration, will go to Italy Zone B,
already under Yugoslav jurisdiction, will
remain so and Yugoslavia will have full
commercial access to the port city. Resi-
dents of the two zones will be permitted to
move to the other in cases where they wish
to do so, and will be compensated for prop
erty given up. British and American troops,
totalling about 1000, will be withdrawn
Although this settlement is considered
a final one, it is likely that Soviet Russia
will protest it as violation of the Italian
peace treaty. The Free Territory was de-
fined in that treaty and the plan was to
place the area under. a United Nations
governorship. When Soviet Russia and the
Western Big Three were unable to agree on
a governor, the two-zone system was &C
cepted as an interim compromise. The fact
that Rome and Belgrade each are welcom-
ing the present compromise leaves Moscow
little comfort to win from any protest. The
settlement is a genuine gain for the West
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Letters to The Star

thus unblushingly violate the laws !.
can they ask to have more delicate du-
ties assigned? Would the naval officer.
with his baggage plethoric with such
peculations, be the proper person to
guard the Golfers of the Treasury?
Would the department which -. seems
to wink at plundering the revenue, be
the proper one to superintend its pro-
tection?"
Where is the civil servant or solon
of today who would venture to sign an
official document couched in such
terms? In comparison to the distilled
vitriol of the past century, it seems in
deed mild to merely tell man that he
is not fit to wear his uniform. Senator
Mccarthy is only holding dim mirror
to political age which has already
passed on. Historian"
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Mccarthy Still q Compuien Issue

The contention that Mccarthy is not
an issue in the coming elections because
he is in diSrepute fails to consider one
very important aspect of the matter.
This is that the so-called liberal fac
ton, the Eisenhower faction Of the
Republican Party, through lack of either
vision or principle or both, never moved
directly to repudiate the Senator from