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The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-09-03
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Dear EulLOrs
 This is the most beautiful little town. in fact, in Alaska. so all sf- fort should be made on the part of everyone 10 keep it that way. It is a painful eight to see our pretty post office grounds filtered with scraps of paper as well as on FronE Street. Now that the mills are com ing in. our population is bound to increase along with the necessity of more rigid law enforcement.
 Since training begins in the home. which should at birth, par euts will act wisely if they will CO., operate with our U. s. Marshal Krepps. U. s. Commissioner Wing, City Policeman Marshall, Superin- tendent of Schools Anderson, Doc toF Bangemau and Public Health Nurse Mrs. Adams. The above are to be commended for their excellent work in keeping conditions we'll in hand
 MARJORIE McCOLLUM
 Kindergarten Teacher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
IIVCE!!ES?

Youngsters who live with the
circus have the best life i'm
the world, they think. Their
big goal: the center ring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
by Juliet Bridgman
Photographs by George Le0rens

TIME most wonderful thing about being circus
Il kid is that everybody in the circus loves kids.
No man who has the heart of great clown. or who
performs death-defying feats on the high-wire for
the delight of the kids who food the big tent every
day, could be anything but lover of children.
The luckiest ones are not the thousands of kids
in the audience but the children of circus person
mel They actually experience the universal dream
of almost every American kid to run away with
the circus. They live with the show and, nine
times out of 10. their futures are entwined
with the canvas and savsd,lst. with the trum-
peting of elephants and of lions.
For circus kids. geography is simple: there are
two places in the world. One is Sarasota Winter
quarters and the other is THE road" This might
be Washington. d. c., or Dallas, Texas it still
1.-The road" Some of the younger kids are on the
road all season. while their less fortunate brothers
and sisters of school age must remain behind in
Sarasota and can only join the show during sum-
mer vacations. Tots or school kids, they all have
the same goal: the center ring
Ome-Wheele9s
In THE show-folk community known as Circus
City" in Sarasota. you'll never see football or
catcher's mitt. The baseball bat is replaced by
jngglers pins. bikes are usually one-wheelers and
tag" is played on practice wire. Even on the
beach on Sundays the kids are tumbling perfect
ing the hand-to-hand.
Work and play are closely related. What once
was play becomes work only when the huge spot
lights turn young apprentice into seasoned
performer. Seven-year-old Iona Fredonias last
year became full-fedged member of her parents
acrobatic team. Gloria Bale, nine, aspires to be
bareback ballerina. but meanwhile she's with it"
in the Big Spec on the Candy Land Float. Her
father trains the tigers.
Even though elephants and ponies, zebras and
CRATES are part of their daily lives circus kids are
still irresstibly attracted to animals. But there
has never been "a mishap between the kids
and the wild beasts. They quickly learn to
keep their distance from the tigers cages.
With two performances day, loading and
unloading and travelling almost every night, circus
parents have little time to teach their youngsters
Continued on page Is
Evening star., 1954-06-03
The Board Acts Wisely

The Board of Education is to be commended
for its unanimous vote yesterday accepting the
report of the superintendent of schools on
integration of the school system while instruct
ing him to take certain steps for the boards
consideration later this month.
The significance of this action lies in its
reputation of precipitate measures which would
produce unnecessary confusion and demoraliza-
ton within the school system. The board has
wisely given itself, and the superintendent,
more time to consider the details by which an
orderly reorganization of the school system
may be accomplished.
The Star is printing the text in today's
paper, of DR.. Corning'S statement to the board
yesterday explaining the nature of some of the
problems to be overcome, and why some of the
changes cannot be made overnight Parents
of school children should read it. There is no
argument here for foot dragging. There is an
argument, and sound one, for effecting de-
segregation without disorder.
If the people of the country are looking
to Washington to set good example in inte-
grafton of the schools, they are more apt to
find it under a system which leaves admins
trative details. of the change to experienced
educators and administrators than under a
system which operates under the steam
generated by statement-iSSuing pressure groups,
who bear no responsibility whatsoever as to
the educational results.
Evening star., 1954-06-03

hour, or to declare an earlier curfew II one did
not Immediately set about the job Of scrubbing
the floors.
The spotlight on juvenile delinquency and
teen-age escapades has brought lot Of talk
lately that the present high-school generation
is pretty worthless crew. But we have hunch
that the mothers of these students, despite their
initial surprise, have known all along that the
talk was somewhat exaggerated. Their faith in
the children they reared has been vindicated
once more in the splendid job done at Junior
Village. We imagine, however, that some of the
mothers are making mental note-for future
use around the house-of the experience gained
in washing, sweeping and painting.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
This and That !.
By Charles E. TroceWeH

"Ha, ha, hal" roared the man. "do
we not. do we not? That's what tell
everybody that comes in here.
1T is grass we are after, and here
we have all the appliances, new and
old. to do the job. Now let me show
you-"
Templeton Jones brushed him aside.
II think will put off getting a
mower for a time" he said. ''I can't
make up my mind about which type I
want. value my toes, and also my
heart. Let me see your best pair of
pruning shears"
The pruners the man brought out
were dillieS.
England. where they do such things
right.
Snap went the clippers, and of
went the tip of q rose bush. The
clerk pretended he hadn't seen the
deed.
Jones bought the clippers.
At home he found many uses for
them. The box they came in said they
would cut anything up to half an inch,
and Jones found that to be true.
At some distance from Jones home,
on his way to his bus. there is stretch
Of sidewalk heavily overhung by dog
wood branches.
At the slightest raip the branches
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Cleanup at Junior Village

There must have been some surprised
parents in the Wilson High School neighbor-
hood the other day when it was realized that
their offspring spent school holiday washing
windows, sweeping floors and welding paint
brushes. The boy who at spring housekeeping
time had not demonstrated any particular apti-
tude for such household chores seemed to be-
come an expert overnight as he Joined his fell
lows at the Districts Junior Village to help
clean up the building and grounds.
The students demonstrated keen domestic
insight into how children under foot can inter-
fere with the housecleaning by getting into
buckets and under ladders and asking questions
which wiser heads find difficult to answer
And so, to obviate this, they took $10O from the
Student Council treasury to buy ice cream and
delegated some of their members to take the
youngsters to Rock Creek Park for picnic
while the task was being done.
The surprise of the parents must have been
even greater when it became known that this
housecleaning was done on a voluntary basis,
without any threat to cut OF the allowance II
the windows were not washed BY certain
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Impression of Cohn

An intellectual flair and an especially
glib tongue have obviously spoiled"
Roy Cohn from an early age, building
up an extremely willful and contemptu-
GUS temperament. The current cam
paign against Communist influence ap-
pealed to him as big chance because
he could give free rein to his talent for
ridicule and stand in little danger Of
like retaliation-his comparative youth
making impossible any associations with
prewar liberals. And most of all, this
field would give him power-and the
chance to demonstrate it in his circle
of friends. 1t gave him little or no
chance, however, to broaden personally.
do not mean to condemn him for
lack of years. Regardless of youth or
age, before most other men reach
position like Roy COINS they have had
many lessons in the necessity for re-
Spect of and tolerance for the opinions
and situations of their fellows. It is
hard to imagine them, whatever their
personal views or positions of power,
blithely moving down regulations on
the basis of one hearsay report or one
chance acquaintance, one social occa-
sion or one slip on the job, and equally
Evening star., 1954-06-03

droop into pedestrian faces. especially
eyes.
1t is no light thing to be smacked in
the face by wet branches. Templeton
Jones tried the simple expedient of
walking in the street until a small
child reprimanded him. You should
not walk in the street." she said, in
the best juvenile manner. You are
quite right" agreed Templeton Jones.
What else could he say?
The last time a swinging branch
nearly put out his right eye CHS better
one) he decided to do something about
it. Jones believes, with major psyche
logical opinion. that thought without
action leads to disaster.
So you know what he did?
He took his new pruning shears
along on his next walk, and as he came
to the part with the swinging branches
he unlimbered their sheer chromium
beauty.
Snapi Snap!
Soon a neat array of small fallen
branches Uttered the sidewalk.
Templeton Jones looked back along
his path of destruction.
Good" he said to himself. Nov I
can walk without getting my eyes put
out"
And to this day. so good was Tenn
pleton Jones pruning skill, any one
can walk that sidewalk in safety.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Creature of Congress

In an incredibly arrogant phrase, the
House Appropriations Committee
termed the Library of Congress the
creature of Congress" Apparently
these gentlemen must be reminded that
by the same token the Congress is the
creature of the public"
AS your newspaper has so justly
pointed out, despite the fact that the
Library was originally established as
the reference library of the Congress,
it has long since assumed much ex-
panded and far more important role.
Thanks to the vision of its administra-
tors and the understanding of members
of previous Congresses, it has become,
in fact, the reference library of the
American people, the national library,
and as such ranks with the finest re-
poSitories of knowledge throughout the
world.
Yet the committee is "displeased."
It's diSpleaSure seems to be directed at
the fact that the Library has presumed
to try to serve the people of the United
States as well as the Congress. In re-
taliation-and to put the Library in its
place, so to speak-a Gripping cut in
funds was voted and concurred in by
a majority of approximately fifth of
the membership Of the House of Rep
reSentatives.
Because-through accident of COM
mittee assignments handful of men
are momentarily entrusted with the
purse strings of the Nation. they are
given no license to damage or destroy
the Nations most valued institutions,
nor to deny to the people the benefits
of these institutions.
It is my hope, and am sure speak
for many, that there are in the Senate
enough men and women of broader
vision and greater understanding who
are aware of the difficulties under
which the excellent but already over
burdened staff of the Library has been
operating and who will see that the
damage which the House has done is
rectified.
Violet E. LOwenS.
Evening star., 1954-06-03

Templeton Jones stepped into the
hardware store to look at lawn mowers.
Mowers" said the clerk. "Yessir,
right this way"
He confronted Jones with the latest
gasoline monster.
Nov this" said the clerk, indicating
a big one
Templeton Jones held up his best
deprecating hand.
II am afraid of that kind" said he.
There is one sort that cuts your toes
of, and another that takes OF the
whole foot"
The clerk smiled in a wholesale fash
ion.
1.-The old-fashioned hand mower"
he explained patiently, ''is the real
dangerous weapon.
MANY men drop dead each year
while moving the lawn, and il you
look into each case you invariably find
-what?"
He paused for effect.
Templeton Jones whispered, "A
leaky heart, perhaps?"
The clerk smiled indulgently.
"A hand-powered mower. Of course.
And / have even seen people cut Of
a toe or two with one of these old
things"
after ALL" Jones replied, I'VE want
70 cut grass, don't we?"
Evening star., 1954-06-03
| ShoII Wear Dreams

shall tUear dreams like a CotDn
Some merry day.
And shall tiptoe up and dotDn
The suns ray.
With teathery step and breathless grace
The earth forgot
shall tie all of heauen's lace
In loDe knot.
And shall see you. heart of minee
As you are:
A spring Wind, steady pine,
A lake, q star.
And I shall fly as thistledotpN
Before your DotCS:
or If a pine, I'll nestle there
II. your green bou0hs.
And If a lake. Tn float like mist
Upon your breast.
And II a star, hoDeuer far.
There / shall rest.
MiIIe BuneA
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Modernizing Social Security

It was believed when President Eisenhower,
last January sent to the Congress his special
message recommending broadening of the social
security system that this part of his legislative
program was reasonably sure of enactment.
Even So the expeditions handling of the legiS-
lation in the House Ways and Means Committee
and the overwhelming two-party vote of 355
to on the House floor constitute an impressive
demonstration of public approval and of BIZ
partisan political acceptance OF Federal respon-
sbity in this field. For while many differences
of opinion arose in committee hearings and
since then on details of the proposals there is
little inclination any more to debate the pro-
priety of the Federal Governments concern for
the basic economic security of the individual
citizen. The legislation, in the form, passed
by the House, would extend this concern over
an additional 10 million individualS-moSt of
them self-employed farmers or professional
people, farm workers, and State and local
government personnel on an optional basis.
It was in the raising of benefits and of
taxes that the House committee did enter con-
troversial area. In his message, the President
described as the two most important principles
of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance pro-
gram the following 0 1t is a contributory
SYSTEM with both the worker and the employer
making payments; (2) the benefits received are
related in part to the individuals earnings. In
defending the second principle, that of creating
a credit for higher benefits to those Of higher
earnings the committee accepted the Presi-
dents recommendation to increase the tax base
from the present $500 to $4,000 Republican
Representatives Mason of Illinois and Utt of
California filed a dissenting report directed
particularly at this provision and warning
OF the tax load that is being created for the
younger generations to carry.
There is reason indeed to guard against
election year after election year" proposals
for greater social security benefits and against
turning the social security tax into secondary
graduated income tax" At the same time, nearly
20 years of successful operation of the social
security system has tended to prove Its sta
bilizing effect in the national economy. Most
of the dollar changes being made here serve
only to keep the social security benefits and
taxes in their earlier relationship to purchas-
ing power The House bill has been promised
prompt consideration in the Senate and its
passage is expected. 1t can be scored on the
good side of the record Of the SD Congress.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Tees Off on Presidents Critics
Howard Wilcox.

The most heartening reading on Me-
mortal Day was Merriman Smiths ex-
cellent article in This Week magazine
on President Eisenhower's golf playing
and his need for it. ! hope Senator
Morse Of Oregon and other misin-
formed or malicious critics of our much
overworked President will thoroughly
digest it and remember it the next
time they take breather for their
favorite recreation-if they have any
that is not criticism Of their betters.
Martha C.. GundIach.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Inteqrutinq Schools

The Board of Education, in the prin-
cipleS it has laid down governing lnte.
grafton of schools, and the Superin-
tendent, in the plan he has proposed
for carrying out those principles, have
done the community service in pro-
viding the leadership necessary for this
historic task. They have shown that
the task, approached with courage and
determination, presents no unmanage-
able difficulties. They need and deserve
the good will and the cooperation OF
the community in carrying it out.
In one important respect. however,
the superintendent plan contains the
seeds of confusion, tension and diScord
which would defeat his goal of a
transition :. by natural and orderly
means" I refer to his proposal that
children now attending schools outside
the zone in which they live may con-
tinue to attend those schools subject to
the prior claim of children living inside
the zone to attend the zone school.
This will lead to long series of con-
f1icts, as children in the neighborhood
claim their rights in the neighborhood
school, displacing children already in
the school, 1t is easy to foresee the
struggles for space between children
who want to remain in the schools
where they are and children who want
to go to the school nearby. Unfortu-
nately, these conflicts will often involve
children of different races, in which
colored children, applying to their
neighborhood school, may be made to
appear as Invaders" and the white
children as victims" It is possible to
name number of specific situations
where this will surely be the case and
where the struggles will recur each year
for years The result can only be
as it has been in the past when schools
and Fairgrounds were conteSted-to
embroil the community in bitterness
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Letters to The Star

hard to imagine them believing that
their power might be used to exact
many. many hours and energy units
from high officials for personal favor.
This is man unusually advanced in
argumentative ability but unusually un-
developed In social Judgment. who has
had the final misfortune of association
with Mccarthy. The committee will be
doing him real favor to turn him to-
ward private practice and the chance
for wider background before he again
invades public life.
Howard Wilcox.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Surplus Butter

When the Secretary Of Agriculture
announced that all plans to sell Gov
ernment-owned butter at bargain rates
have been reluctantly" discarded, inn
agination was inspired to set to work
with paper and pencil:
Three hundred and seventy-five mil
lion pounds would fill almost to the top
that fabulous money bin of Uncle
Scrooge, reputed to be one cubic acre in
extent.
Ten Washington Monuments, not
followed out, could be constructed of
solid butter, or Capitol complete with
dome and statue. But, in the super
heated air emanating from the nearby
Army Mccarthy hassle it is likely that
the whole works would be melted in a
matter of minutes.
Three hundred and seventy-five mil
lion pounds Of butter spread out to the
depth Of 1882 Of an inch would cover
the entire District of Columbia includ-
Evening star., 1954-06-03

ping on eacn OCKlerS 5 toes. Leu S enQ CnlS
farce before it is too late.
i. Cannon.
If it were not for the necessity Of
keeping the voters entertained, the
Stevens-McCa Carthy dispute might have
been settled quicker in the old-fashioned
way. The principals with their coun-
sellors as seconds, might have resorted
to the old Bladensburg site where Alex
ander Hamilton met Aaron Burr, and
had it out with water-pistolS.
Several matters associated with the
dispute bother me. One is the Nc
Carthy practice of excusing witnesses
from answers if they plead the Fifth
Amendment The old dog-earred copy
of the Constitution we have here reads:
". nor shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be witness against
himself" Obviously, legislative hear
ing is not "case," let alone Grim
inal case" Does the editor have any
news of the adoption of revised ver-
sion of the Constitution?
Richard L. Feldman
The Stars sponsorship of the Army
Mccarthy hearings in the interest of
public service is most certainly ap-
preclateo. Subscriber.
If it is true, as Dorothy Thompson
states, that the Constitution makes
the Army responsible only to the Pres
ident as Chief, the
people of this Nation would be wise to
elect no more professional military
men to the Presidency. An Army &C
countable only to itself is not in the
public interest. ..
The subcommittee of which Senator
Mccarthy is chairman consists of
elected representatives of the people.
appointed the task of investigating sub
version. They did not arbitrarily seize
the power to become iaquisitorS Private
David Schine has become a pawn in
the greater struggle which could be
rightly called the ARMY versus the peo-
pie.
NSenator McCarthy's noisy zeal as
Communist hunter is irksome. He may
well have been unWise in mis- selection
of aides. There may have been pressure
for favor for one of his aides, as there
has been pressure for favors to other
sons and friends. But all these things
can be corrected, whereas the prece-
dent which may be set of placing the
Army above and beyond the investiga-'
tive powers of the Congress and Senate
is a dangerous one.
The public, however ignorant Of the
Constitution. is well aware of the dam
ger. Orwell's frightening book 1894"
could upon the slightest emergency be-
come true in 1854.
Louise N. Wheelwright.
Evening star., 1954-06-03

and tension. This can and should be
avoided.
1t can be avoided by the simple ex-
pedient of assigning all children in the
fall of 1854 to the school in the zone in
which they live. This will move some
children this year, but the vast majority
would then be in schools where they
could stay until they graduated. Equally
important, there would be nothing to
struggle over. The transition would be
made cleanly and finally.
Edward ID. HOIIander.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
Army-Mccurthy HEARING

The issues before the Investigating
Committee are picayune as compared
to the safety and well-being Of our
country. and it Is about time that we
conclude them and become more at
tentive to the issues at hand: Regres-
sive foreign policy, recession, and the
rising cost of living. Let the Senators
and the Army go back to their jobs.
It is my conclusion that all the parties
involved are guilty =. guilty of STEP
Evening star., 1954-06-03
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

O. What is the total number Of AL
coholics Anonymous groups in the
United States? Are there any abroad?-
w. M.
A. There are over 5000 groups, In
nearly every city and town Of the
United States and Canada. The work
of Alcoholics Anonymous is also carried
on in 43 foreign countries.
@. What radio stations broadcast
standard time signals?-B. F..
A. MSS. WWV, and WWVH. The first
named Is the U. s. Naval Observatory
station near Annapolis, Nd, the others
are operated by the National Bureau of
Standards, WWV near Washington,
D. c., and WWVH at Maui, Hawaii.
@. Which is the smallest bone in the
human body?-F. F..
A. The tiny "stirrup" bone. which lies
deep in the middle ear.
Evening star., 1954-06-03
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