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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11

told me about the girl who sits In front
Of her, the girl with yellow curls. and
the boy across the aisle who makes
funny faces. She told me about her
teacher, who has eyes in the back Of
he& head, and the trees in the school
yard. and about the big girl who doesn't
believe in Santa Claus. We talked about
lot Of things tremendous vital, un-
important things; and then we studied
spelling. reading. arithmetic and then
to bed.
She's back there now--back In the
nursery sound asleep, with Princess
Elizabeth Chats her dolly cuddled In
her right arm.
You guys wouldn't hurt her, would
you? YOU see, I'm her daddy. When
her doll is broken or her finger is cut
or her head gets bumped, can AK
it--but when she starts to school. when
she walks across the street, then she's
in your hands.
"She's nice kid. She can run like
deer and dart about like q chipmunk.
She likes to ride horses and swim and
hike with me on Sunday afternoons.
But can't be with her all the time;
have to work to pay for her clothes
and her education. So please help
me look out for her. Please drive slowly
past the schools and intersections
and please remember that children run
from behind parked cars.
Please don't run over my little CIR"
T. David Gates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11

MI. Fisher soon thereafter had the income
Of q millionaire. Money rolled into his pock-a
cts from the movies and the novelty trade
as well as from hundreds Of daily papers.
It was necessary for him to defend his
rights ii the courts. but he won most Of his
legal battles.
Mutt and JEFF" are destined to survive
their inventor, and 1t Is to be hoped that
they always will be as clean and free from
propaganda and partisan feeling as they
have been under Mr.. Fishers control. No
present member Of The Star stair is able to
recall exactly when his strip first appeared
in this newspaper, but It IS believed that the
date was sometime IN 1910. Certainly, IT
was prior to March 5, 1911, when The Sum
day Star FIRST included comics. More than
43 years later "Mutt and Jeff" still have q
following land that IS q long time for pop
ular feature to survive.
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his and hat

aspects. Is the dirtiest animal in the
world.
An old porker in stye is pretty dirty.
it is true. but it does not make the
mess that thousands of humans make
day by day.
The pig is confined. the people are.
on the loose.
In an era Of juvenile delinquency, and
perhaps as an adjunct Of it, the elders
build up to supreme carelessness.
Saw man the other day, standing
few feet from an official trash recep-
tacle, drinking cold drink out Of q
paper cup. ~
We watched him, knowing full wen
what he would do, and he did it,
He threw the empty cup on the
ground, of course.
Where else did you expect be would
put 1t?
1T is this sort Of carelessness and
indifference that Is tending to make;
Washington, pride Of the Nation, much
less clean than it used to be.
The newcomers do not know the diff
ference.
They have no measuring rod. as it
were.
The old timers, who were here when
the Million Dollar Bridge was built
ct Is called the Taft Bridge. now,
know how clean the city used to be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11

" wish you could tell me one good
thing about pigeons. aside from their
pretty feathers.
So writes an irate person who feeds
the smaller birds and rather resentS
the intrusion Of the larger ones.
The assignment is eaSy--the one good
thing about the pigeons is that they are.
Scavengers.
Without their help, our beautiful city.
would be q great deal dirtier than it is.
Not that the fat birds can help dis
pose Of whisky bottles, scraps Of paper.
etc.
They are not wonder workers. but
hearty birds that require great deal
Of food.
To find this necessary food. they are
forever on the move, grubbing around
In the street, risking their lives minute
by minute.
They stop ii the cutters to peck at
an old banana peel that somehow the
street cleaners have overlooked.
They pick away at 4 bit OF stale
bread. carelessly thrown down BY q
running child
they consume an that Is edible Of 3
decaying apple.
In this way, the pigeons are valu-
able asset to the Districts hard working
street-cleaning department.
The human animal. Ia SOM Of it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
In After Years
BY Gould Lincoln

Their land lay sohere the thirsty summer
sun
Would often drain the moisture from
the soil.
Then crops bent to the earth and there
iDere none
TO harvest as recompense tor toll.
And aplieTe In 1Diltertime sftoio wrapped
the land
In icy sheets and night on bitter
night,
Beyond the door the ,0ind-ioolues made
their stand
And hopled until the coming OF the
light.
But here it pas In Iong-oone pears
tIey set
Their home and In each heart high
courage burned.
The failure of a crop tOrs brdDeiy
Another year Mould proUe their luck
had turned.
And NON in after years they pause 20
look
With deep content upon lies rich
DESIGN
These acres are become naucE-re0d
with beauty m each remembered
lf1ei
Inez Clark Thoron
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Civil Defense at d Price

The privilege Of being on the mailing
list Of the Government Printing Once
has kept me appraised Of the avail
ability Of many interesting and inyal-
liable Government releases to the pub
lie. However, / am disturbed by bro-
chure received from the printing
Office recently. entitled. sStay Alert!" In
it are listed SO pamphlets and books
under the classification "Civil Defense
Aids. which are offered for sale at
prices rAneing from 10 cents to so
cents. TILES include what You Should
Know About Biological Warfare"
Methods for Determining Shelter
Needs and Shelter Areas" and Home
Shelter for Family Protection in an
Atomic Attack. 4
The idea Of charging for these publ
cations is appalling. The urgency for
the need Of widespread dissemination
of such information throughout the
land is so obvious that to charge for
this vital information is incredible. It
is alarming that the general man In
the street Is apathetic to the danger
of atomic warfare. These publications
should be distributed to every member
II every household in the United States:
to every man, woman and child who is
able to read. There should be no charge
for this kind OF educational material.
Jessie b. solomon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11

ports on such subjects as Communists
in Guatemala. the Harry Dexter White
case, the Pan American Union, or the
government of Argentina? gave
these and many other reports last
year as a sixth-grade pupil.
The subjects varied from histories of
various countries to the history of the
beans used in making chocolate. I
admit that not every one in the class
gave these types of reports. But every
one in the class did reports from a
magazine packed with news of the
world or from our social studies. So
you see we are learning to think for
ourselves. 7 figure Il may be wrongly
that it is more important to learn to
think for ourselves than to have an
extra thousand words drummed into
my brain I forget very quickly.
Pamela Ellen Procuniar.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Northwest Passage

In the calendar OF noteworthy human
achievement a new triumph was chalked up
few days ago namely, the navigation Of
a practical northwest passage. Navigators
believed in the existence Of such a connec-1
ton between the Atlantic and the Pacific
as early as the 18th century. It was to dis
cover this channel that Columbus sailed
from Palos in the summer of 1892. The
CabotS, Frobisher, Henry Hudson, Cook,
NanSen and AmundSen were only a. few
Of the polar explorers who subsequently
attempted to solve the problem. Point by
point, evidence accumulated to the effect
that northwest passage really did link
the two oceans, yet there always have been
doubters.
Now, however, former Arlington, Vir-
ginia, naval off1cer-C Commander Everett A.
Trickey-has demonstrated that ship can
be driven through the vast ice fields of the
Arctic Circle from one side Of the globe to
the other. Earlier men had shown that it
is feasible to cross the north polar zone
afioat, but they followed easy, oblique
courses. Commander Tricky, aboard the
United States Navy icebreaker Burton Is
land, went through dificult Mcclure Strait
from east to west, August II-16. Captain
~. VA ocyc1tkCy
New York, on the bridge Of the United
States Coast Guard icebreaker North wind,
traversed the same hazardous waters from
west toNeast, August 1921.
Both Of these modern Arctic trail
blazers contended with ice from four to ten
feet thick, and both reported better than
normal. weather conditions, without which
success might have been impossible. One
of the results Of their enterprise WIN be
that Of making obsolete the dicturn Of
William Scoresby, set forth IN 1870 and
accepted BY many scholars ever since. The
existence Of northwest passage Is not vet
either proved or refuted. Another outcome
of this summers activity iii the neighbor-
hood Of Banks and Melville Islands IS the
suggestion that continental defense meas
ures may be taken pragmatically on the
level Of the universal sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11

with all their perverted. spineless
whimpering. carry on by the hour:
purpOrted SongStreSSeS initiate the
whine and howl of maniacal, absolute
women, doped to the eyebrows Then
come those moronS of morons, the
self-created shill-billies' who are living
insult to all rural America, and whose
hour-long, wOlf-pack meanings are the
sounds, the awful sounds which are
supposed to reproduce but never do
the tuneful singing of our once
untutored countryf0lk.
Also there are the numbskulI quiz
programs, and more sheer tWaddle for
feeble minds. all put over under the
guidance OF announcerS with the same
fruity. gushing. simpering voices Of
those who plague us at home
1t is bad enough to have that stuff
within our own borders. 1t is terrible,
It is sin against patriotism. to have
1t broadcast, and at the taxpayers, ex-
pense. into the very spheres where we
are trying to implant strength of char
acter and nobility of purpose in some
reluctant draftee so that he win not
get too frightened and ilomesick In
wide world where chocolate sundaes
are few, and humankind is grooming
under loads Of reality and grirnly trying
to meet tomorrow's hunger with the
handful Of rice Of today. Is.
From Germany to the Orient our
stock has dropped within the last year.
was in Germany year ago. ] was
there again voyage before last, and ]
saw sharply the lessened regard--I was
about to say, respect--for Americas and
Americans Perhaps our newly Wanted
self Indulgence, our penchant for ease
and comfort. the almost complete dis
appearance Of pioneer and puritannical
simplicities, may also be a factor. But
one feels that we are guessing wrong:
that the world outside is not seeking
to have its ribs tickled: that the prime
search out there Is not so much for
security. as for significance.
We make no appeal to the thinking
CLASSES. We seem bereft of spiritual
appeal or 1T least, Of ability to express
spiritual appeal.
We have a great, fair, good hearted
honest country wonderful country
Why let 1t be represented by thu
guffawing, insipid vulgarities Of olIl
radio entertainers as II 1t were hot
spot for the breeding and perpetuatinl
of silliterates. Of bawdies. and loud
mouthed vulgarians?"
Jean West Maury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
'slur' on Philippines

In a recent Star article by Irene
CORDIALLY Kuhn statement was made
that Ramon Magsaysay. President Of
the Philippine Republic, has been
under powerful pressure from polite
clans who advocate moving into the
orbit of Red China"
This statement is slur on the
philippines and the Filipino people.
10 begin with, no pressure Of what
ever kind, shape or form has been
exerted on President Magsaysay to
move into the Communist orbit. All
the political parties in the Philippines
are staunchly anti Communist.
Gould it be possible that Miss Kuhn
based her charge on Information"
gathered from careless sources? If so,
the writer would not be at all SUR
prised. AS newspaperman, he has
been aware over a period Of years of
the insidiouS and corrosive influence
on news and information exerted on
this side Of the Pacific by such sources.
AS a Filipino and as q member of the
Nationalist Party which nominated MIR.
Magsaysay, the writer is not unim-
pressed by Miss Kuhn's interest in the
Philippines. But any American writer
must know that you cannot glorify
people.
There Is at times wide divergence Of
opinion In political circles in the Philip
pines as to the conduct of Philippine
foreign policy. But II such state Of
affairs can be logically interpreted as
powerful pressure" from politicians to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Comments Firemen

May I bring to the attention of you
and your readers the exemplary work
Of the District Fire Department. Every
one is acquainted with the fine work
they did in the recent hotel conf1agra-
ton, when two firemen risked their
lives and ended up in the hospital.
Then, about 5 am. September 5. they
responded to call near Fourteenth
street and Park road near where live.
BY the time / was up and dressed it
seemed half the engines in the city
were at the fire. Fortunately, it was
only small one. but the way they we're
organized and alert was impressive.
When it was over they drove on as
quietly as possible without any bells
changing or sirens shrieking or lights
flashing to bother the neighbors. They
are to be commended for their diligence:
and ability. Because Of them, taxpayingi
is ALMOST q pleasure,
John G. Barmby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Inteqrotion
\ r.

I have been reading q lot about inte-
grafton in your paper recently. wonder
why the big scare. We live In q Chris
tan nation, and the only type Of school
that would meet the approval Of the
founder of Christianity would be an
integrated school. Is 1t that the great
majority Of people do not like the plan
Of Jesus? We go to church Sunday
after Sunday and pray that "His King
dom will come on EARTH" then we re-
turn to our various clubs and commit
tees and fight the very thing we pray
for.
Samuel r. Manning,
Minister Of Brookgrove Methodist
Church, Laytonsyille, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Off the Beum?

Writing from the West Coast be-
tween voyages to the Far East. my
sailor nephew refers to our cargo ships
on the Pacific as floating warehouses;
carrying the necessities of life and Of
material progress To cpuntries greatly
In need Of these things. IN contrast
he refers. with bitter emphasis. to the
adverse impressions our Armed Services
Radio broadcasts give of our morals,
manners, and ways Of living.
ne writes: 81 wish you knew some one
In Washington to voice this criticism.
These are powerful stations. and. ais
they are not concerned with propa-
ganda. must create in the minds Of
foreign listeners far more erroneous
impression Of us than even Voice Of
America managed ia. do.
These programs. he asserts. pander
to the lowest moronic tastes. "Crooners,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Control Of the New Bridge

The Commissioners are on sound ground
In insisting that all Potomac River bridges
In the central area should carry full share
Of the regular daily traffic between Wash
ington and Virginia. Plans for relieving,
traffic bottlenecks on existing bridges will
be seriously hampered IL Federal park or
other authorities are to be given the power
to dictate how new bridges shall be used
Implicit In President EisenhoWer's
statement when he signed the bill for a new
central-area bridge was the idea that some
/ sort OF veto power over traffic plans for this
span should be given to the Secretary Of the
Interior. More specifically, the President
held that trucks should be barred from the
new bridge and that buses now using the
4 Memorial Bridge should be rerouted across
I the new one. The effects of such reStric-
tions would be tWofold. The Memorial
Bridge would lose much Of its passenger
carrying capacity, becoming chiefly cross
ling for sight-Seers and other visitors. And
the banning of truck traffic from the new
structure would tend to place it in the same
monumental category as the Memorial
Bridge and hence of limited value to the
District as trafic-relief project.
The sole reason for proposing new
bridge between the Memorial and Key
Bridges was to ease congestion at present
bridge bottlenecks. II the new span is to
be so restricted as to general use that it will
serve more as park adjunct than means
of expediting the flow Of traffic across the
river, then the purpose for which Congress
authorized it will be at least partly defeated,
Federal park officials certainly ought to be
fully consulted in the preparation of plans
for approaches on each side Of the river, so
that the practical .usesa0f than bridge can
be properly tied in with Federal parkways.
But to give the Interior Department final
say-so on approaches and how they are to
be utilized would be mistake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Revival Of Rocket Warfare

Ten years ago this week allied ordnance
and intelligence investigators were examin-
ing fragments Of mysterious bomb"
which had exploded In the village Of Chis-
wick-on Thames, near London. The noise
OF the mighty explosion had been heard In
the big city itself. There had been no en-
envy aircraft overhead at the time and no
evidence OF the approach Of q vi missile.
This was something new. the experts agreed.
They were right, for ChiswickianS had be-
come the target for modern warfare's first
true rocket weapon, the German W..
Within the next few days, more than
two dozen Of the huge V-2s fell on or around
London with frightening effects, albeit
without catastrophe damage to the city.
They were fired from rocket launchers In a
secret emplacement near The Hague, Hol-
land. Each carried ton Of high explosives
in its warhead as it roared some 60 miles
into the air and then dropped across the
Channel with a surprising degree Of accu-
racy. This was Hitler'S secret weapon that
was to lombard England into submission,
despite allied successes on land In Europe.
It was to be followed up by a tremendous
barrage of superrockets, the V-3s. But the
war was over before single VS. could be
launched. The explosion at ChisWick on
Thames clearly signaled the opening Of a
new era in rocket warfare. But rocket weap-
ons were many centuries old before World
War II, although they had been neglected In
recent times. Nobody knows just when crude
rockets first were used against an enemy,
although most authorities credit the Chi
nese with pioneering in this field, early in
the 18th century. They were used in Eng
land in the Scottish war In 1927. AS guns
came into popular use, rockets fell into dis
favor. But the British again became inter-
eSted In rocket weapons as result Of ex-
periments by Sir William Congreve, who had
seen them In use in India. Congreye rock
cts were used by the British fleet in Its siege
of Boulogne In 1906, with some success.
It was only few years. later that the
Washington area became a target Of the
flrst rocket weapons ever directed at this
country. The British fleet that came up the
Potomac to Bladensburg routed American
troops with barrage Of rockets on August
"a, 1914. The capture Of Washington fol-
lowed. And the rockets which cast their
"red glareaover Fort McHenry the following
month were not Of the signal variety. They
were missiles with explosive warheads Of
the type developed by Congreve. Americans
used some rockets during the Mexican War,
without nauch success. After that rockets
were virtually abandoned as military weap-
ons-until development of the German Va.
All nations have engaged in feverish
rocket research since World War II. We
have perfected a number Of types. large and
small, including rockets capable Of carrying
atomic warheads experimentation is pro-
ceedings relentlessly, behind rigid security
screen. There is every indication that the
rocket finally has taken permanent place
assuming that the human race is not CO.
ing to destroy itself in the arsenal of mod
ern warfare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Worth Repeating

It might bring safety to some Of our
children now that school has opened If
The Star repeated the following mes
sage, headed Daddy and His Little
Girl" which appeared recently In the
Dresden Enterprise and Sharon Trib-
une, a weekly of Dresden. Tenn:
To-day my daughter, who is I years
old, started to school as usual. She wore
q dark blue dress with white collar.
She had on black shoes and wore blue
gloves. Her cocker spaniel, whose name
is Coot. sat on the front porch and
whined his canine belief in the folly Of
education as she waved good-by and
started OF to the hall of learning.
Tonight we talked about school. she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Policy-ktoker

" 1AsNs @AVRN1 VI
Japan's Yoshida win shortly pay the
United States an official visit for the
purpose Of securing financial assistance
for his country's temporarily shaky
economy. AS g prelude to his visit, he
has successfully quieted the growing
segment OF the Diet which seeks to
throw OF the artificial restrictions we
have imposed upon Japan In the matter
Of trade with China. Whether or not
we accede to this final request for q
handout, Japan will thereafter follow
the only course which logic dictates.
Following the Premiers return, with
or without the dollars sought, Japan
will become more and more insistent
that we 4Yanks go home Moreover.
after they have properly accomplished
our departure from the home islands,
1t will then be only q question of time
before we are elected. politely or other
wise. from barren. wind-swept okinawa.
Upon reaching that point, we win
then have q Pacific defense line" con-
sisting of q gradually aging army Of
Nationalist troops on Formosa and q
lip-service allegiance with the grand
old man OF South Kort I. who must in
time be replaced by whom we know
not. It Is safe to assume that the
Philippines win. at this stage, be some
what guarded In their dealings with us.
Instead Of waiting for time, and not
too much Of it. to accomplish these
results. why can't we anticipate them,
and rearrange our Far East policy now
to our own best future advantage? Let
US call halt to this back-fence Nance
calling with Red China. recognize their
de facto government, and re-establish
trade relations before Britain and Japan
divide the China trade between them,
to our exclusion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
L etfers to / he Star

move into the Communist orbit, then
certainly the Philippines Is Iii dis
tingtlishei company. for there is even
wider divergence Of opinion In the
United States regarding the conduct
Of American foreign policy.
MeIchOr n. Aauino.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Bud Fisher

*
When the folk history Of the American
people finally Is written Bud Fisher will be
featured in 1t. His comic strip. begun in
1907, reflected the American scene, dealt
with subjects of interest to the American
community and gave expression to char
acteristically American sense OF humor.
Mutt and JEFF were so real that people
boosted OF being related to them. An office
supplies salesman in Pittsburgh made q
fortune out of pretending to be the original
of Mutt and vaudeville actor did almost
as well for himself touring from coast to
coast as the model for +Jeff. Both charac-
tiers were as natural as nature.
Their creator never thought of his work
as being a product Of genius, but he hardly
could have been blind to its popularity
when, as early as 1909, he learned that he
could make 500 week doing 1t. The Bell
Syndicate multiplied that figure by ten and
added percentage Of the sales ip 1915. and