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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
On Policing the World

After making an analysis Of the mill
tary strength and the economic cir
cumstances Of the free nations, Of
which the United States is university
recognized as the leader, it seems to
me that the Indo-C China armistice pre-
sents an opportunity for the free ma
tions to act in q concerted movement
to police the world against further
military aggression. In this endeavor
the United States should sponsor q
union of all the free nations, or as
many as would concede to the PROPOSE
ton. for the explicit purpose Of insti-
eating military police action against
all governments that hereafter resort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Explains Stund on SIums

So the writer who signed himself
"A Rooseveltian Democrat" wonders
what manner of man I am because !
oppose levying tax on food to augment
slum clearance In the District Of Co
lumbla.
Well so-called Roosevelt Democrat"
am all for helping the needy and de-
serving people and, although I was
always a salaried worker, have helped
many needy people in my time, per-
haps as much If indeed not more than
the Roosevelt Democrat" AS I have
said before. the vast majority Of slum
jewellers are not deserving people, be-
cause as long as they are taken care
of with taxpayers money they will not
turn hand to help themselves. This
has been manifested since the birth
of the Roosevelt New Deal. He was
also great one for helping the world
as long as it didn't cost him one penny
and he gained votes.
Too often we find that people so
eager to help others, do so either be-
cause they hold down nice paying posi-
tons in some charity organization, are
cutting in on the handout or gaining
politically. I wonder how many of
these people who sound so charitable,
President Eisenhower included, would
lift their hands to help the slum
jewellers if it were not for, personal
political and financial gains.
Personally, am "Jeffersonian Gov
ernor Talmadge Democrat"
Nish Showers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06

not suffer from rabies. as squirrels
sometimes do.
Walt Disney, true genius, often
shows Thumper. the rabbit. eating
clover blossoms
Bun-Bun seems to prefer the leaves
We have only caught him once with
white clover blossom in his mouth
Mostly he chews away gravely, with
the peculiar chewing motion of his
tribe, on the leaves.
The eating habits of rabbits has
not changed in the least in the past
six million years. Maybe before the
Ice Age-it doesn't sound so bad In
summer-the wild rabbits ate tundra,
or whatever it was rabbits ate then,
but ever since the big thaw, wild
rabbits have eaten tree bark, vegetables,
and wild flowers. Irate gardeners who
find some hungry bunny has eaten
their precious flowers should recall
that once all flowers were wild, and
the rabbit doesn't know that they are
now what is called cultivated.
Pet rabbits will eat alfalfa pellets,
as they are called. but it is waste
of time to put them out for the wild
specimens. Maybe 1t is the smell Of
man, the slayer, which is on them,
but at any rate the wild ones will not
eat them.
Carrots and lettuce are held to- be
paramount rabbit fodder, but Bum
Bun win not even snin at Them
He prefers raisins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Noble Gesture by U. S.

A most unusual event, of unpredict-
able consequences If followed up, has
just occurred-and in world whose two
great giants clutch hydrogen bombs,
each hoping should worst come to
worst to get in the first and mortal
blow.
It Is the offer by one giant Of aid and
comfort to the other. No Trojan horse.
No strings attached. Genuine, sincere
offer of help.
In the spirit Of which every Ameri-
can can be proud, the administration
has offered relief to the victims of
devastating Danube floods on the other
side of the Iron Curtain.
No finer example of what this Ma
ton stands for has confronted our
atheistic opponents since power went
to their heads in 1917. And example
Is ever the best teacher: let the forth
coming ecumenical conference of the
worlds great religious leaders take
note.
Whether cynically or hesitantly ac-
copied, or churlishly or nervously re-
fused, this offer will remain a truly
noble gesture in these faltering times,
an augury Of better things to come.
Robert s. Field,
Vineland, N. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Those Sirens in the Night
Sidney Koretz.

This is in reply to the gentleman
who wrote he disliked hearing sirens
In the middle of the night. Isn't it
q good thing we don't depend on
people like him for volunteers? What
would we. do II we had FIRE and no
volunteers? II his own house were on
fire. would he let it burn because he
didn't want to hear his dog howl and
feel q cold nose at his feet?
am the wife Of a volunteer fire.
man, also the mother and sister of
volunteer flremen. hope he never has
the need to call for help from these
civic-minded men who work all day
and sometimes spend half of the night
fighting fires usually started by some
absent-minded nincompoops who fall
asleep with lighted cigarettes, leave
burning trash unguarded and drop
lighted cigarettes along the road. These
volunteers receive no reward for their
work; they only have the satisfaction
of a job we'll done.
! also hope that this one who is
so quick to criticize never is hurt or
has any Of his loved ones lying torn
and bleeding along the road waiting
for one of these ambulance crews to
take them to the hospital. I have
seen these crews work on the injured;
they are quick and efficient.
One day recently our company had
10 brush fires, most Of them started
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06

of the Confederate army, they ceased
to exist, and they we're not entitled to
carry, as regiments of the armies of
the United States, battle honors for en-
gagements in which they opposed the
United States.
Now Mr.. Donnelly says that the
l76th Infantry of Virginia does carry
these honors.
If this is so, it is my studied opinion
as former recorder of the War Depart
ment's Battle Participation Board, and
as a former executive officer of the
Historical. Section of the Army War
College, that history has been distorted,
honesty has been discarded and honor
has been sullied and held up to shame.
Charles Coulter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06

by the aforementioned nincompoops
My husband and son fought fires
along with the rest in 103-degree
heat.
Our German shepherd doesn't like
the noise either, and he also howls.
Does my husband lie in bed with a
dogs cold nose at his feet? No! He
grabs his clothes and runs to see what
he can do for his fellow man. The dog
will have to howl, because as long as
we have our homes and property that:
need protection we will have firemen.
I like to hear their noise; know
they're on the job.
So, let's have little less criticism
and more volunteering.
Dorothy Talbert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Federal Fringe Benefits

Passage Of the administrators life
insurance program is gain for civil service
workers, some of whom have felt that their
interests were being neglected by President
Eisenhower and his personnel advisers. It
is true that the White House has been cool
toward pay legislation, for economy reasons.
But the President has been an ardent advo-
cate of fringe BENEFITS" to improve the lot
Of Government employees. The life-insur-
ance plan is a key benefit proposed by the
administration in its program to make ca
reer service more attractive.
It is bargain-rate proposition similar
to group-inSurance plans prevailing In pri-
vate industry. It is not Government in
surance" in any sense. The policies will be
written by private insurance companies,
just as they do for large corporations which
have adopted like system for their en-
ployes. Each employe who wishes to take
advantage Of the offer-and most Of them
are expected to do so-will pay only $3.50
a year for each $1,000 of insurance, with
payments deducted biweekly at the rate OF
Is cents thousand The amount of each
policy will be limited approximately to the
employees salary OF particular interest to
the older employees is the provision continu-
ing the insurance in force after retirement
at no cost to the employees. All employees
will be eligible to participate in the program
without taking physical examinations.
A companion of the life-insurance pro-
gram is the administrations health-insur-
ance plan, which has no chance Of enact
ment at this session of Congress. Under
this program Government employees would
be offered private company disqualification
and medical service policies for themselves
and their dependents, at half the usual
rates. The Government would pay the other
half Of the cost. The plan was sent to the
Capitol too late for action before adjourn
ment. The two insurance plans are designed
to appeal especially to employees with FAM
lilies and thereby to curb the exodus Of
career workers into private industry, where
such benefits are widespread. # Congress
in addition raises Government pay, the
worries Of Federal personnel supervisors
over the turnover Of experienced workers
should be materially eased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Homage to the
Murmunsk Run
(1941-1o45)

The sky is clear tonight. The sun sinks
red
To stain the quiet mater. With me
HotD
You are, my comrades: pho shall san
the dead
LtUe not? again the spuD,e-htd
treighters ploD
That northern route tDhose floor is laid
NTH keels!
Nor tDould ne see the dawn: our light
t01s gun
And bomb and burning deck, the ,uiH
that steels
Our hearts, the songs OF what our
sireS haze donei
Some sag our names gTei0 iporthy, to
be spoken
While free men rule the sea. Wen,
you may sleep
Content: loped ones tUill pass a night
unbroken,
For peace Dns wrought: the Quilted
ships lie deep.
Salute. my dears, icho came not home
from iCGT.
As on me breaks the tranquil evenfn0
start
John Ackerson
For Capt. G. r. Sullivan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Juvenile DeIinquents
A. J. Potter.

It is my opinion that better results
could be obtained in coping with
juvenile delinquency by having parents
take over responsibility in the bringing
up of their children. Call criminally
inclined delinquents by. their right
names-"hoodlums," not "teen-agers,
youths" Juveniles" etc.
am member of many societies to
aid the young. I believe the courts. the
press and the public have been coddling
too much. Publish the names and adj
dresses Of these "hoodlums";; this is
about the only way to bring home to
the parents the fact that the public
feels they-the parents-are respon-
sible. You can shame them into doing
something, and something should be
done, and done soon.
w. G. Ross.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Message for New Dealers

can certainly hand it to The Star
Tor presenting a fair cross section Of
reader letters-even where they don't
agree with your editorial policy. This
fact, and David Lawrence, give me
hope and confidence in your paper.
notice that a lot Of people, such as the
man who signs Senate Servant, - are
still sniping at Mccarthy and taking
f1endish delight In COINS resignation.
Above mentioned .signer sounds like
some left-wing Senator's servant. I
nope he Is not q public servant on my
tax money.
have little message for those who
have been duped into flirting with the
New Deal left wing philosophy and
feel sense Of guilt in their diluted
Americanism. have known number
OF these people, many of whom look
upon themselves as intellectuals. OF
course they do not realize a cleverly
prescribed Communist salve was used
to soothe them into a state of pseudo
intellectual complacency. Now, with the
error Of their ways becoming perfectly
obvious, they frequently develop an in
ward guilt complex which they vainly
struggle to suppress.
In trying to justify the past they
withdraw into an unrealistic world of
their own and become completely i'm
pervious to logic. They actually de-
velop an aversion to it.
With few exceptions they oppose
Mccarthy, Cohn and congressional
investigation to the point Of appearing
ridiculous, and here any methods are
justified. They seem to feel that de-
feating congressional Investigations
into Communist infiltration will some
how remove what they have been led
to envision as contrary to the better
way Of life-that such action will some
how absolve them and remove the fear
Of having their poor judgment exposed
in cold logical terms.
The era Of New Deal-Fair Deal adj
ministration has left a particularly
large segment of these frustrated
people in the Washington area.
Regardless of how they may feel
about Mccarthy or Cohn personally,
they should realize that these men
alone are not behind the relentless
anti-C Communist drive It is q great
majority Of the American people who
are demanding the facts and are will
ing 10 let the chips fall where they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Our Presidents

I wish to tell you how much our
family is enjoying your daily column,
Our Presidents" by Honore NJ. Ca
tudal. It is most interesting and in
formative. In this age it is soothing
and restful to have some one devote
his efforts to such an educational sub
ject, to the benefit and pleasure Of so
many readers.
The public would do well to indulge
In such cultural subjects and historical
knowledge. Mr.. Catudal and The Star
are giving the public something solid,
something enlightening and something
to look forward to from one day to the
next. trust that Mr.. Catudal will not
run out Of material.
A. ]. Potter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Oft to a Good Start

There will be little disposition to doubt
Senator Watkins statement that there
were no volunteers for assignment to the
committee which will investigate the
charges against Senator Mccarthy. On
the contrary, many prominent Senator's,
knowing that the chore would be a hard
and thankless one, refused to serve on the
committee. In view of this, those who have
undertaken the job-Senators Watkins,
johnson OF Colorado, Stennis, Carlson, Case
and Ervin-are all the more entitled to
commentator.
1t is important that this job be done
right. The charges which have been made
against Senator Mccarthy by those who
seek to censure him must be sifted and
reduced to specific form. Competent evil
dence in support of them must be weighed.
Senator Mccarthy, in his turn, must be
given full opportunity to present his de-
tense. And, finally, this is task which
ought to be carried forward in the open,
but without the three-ring circus charac-
teristicS of the recent Army-McCarthy
hearing.
Spokesman for the committee have in
dicated their full awareness Of the prob
lens and difficulties which await them. and
they are settling down, at considerable per-
sonal sacrifice, for long, hard summers
work. Certainly it Is right that they should
have full freedom to proceed as they see At,
and as circumstances may require. It
would be wrong to attempt to dictate how
they should proceed, or what form their
nnal report to the Senate should take.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Political Expediency

President Eisenhower, In coming to
the support Of Joseph r. Meek. run
ming for the Senate from Illinois, has
administered a good lesson to the Citi-
zens-for- Eisenhowe Committee, which
had refused to take Meek. The lessen
is that the President is not in the Army
now, nor in ctusade-he Is in politics
Fiorello La Guardia, who knew his
politics, used to say: "a politician must
placate his enemies with the favors he
owes to his friends"
Sidney KOretz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Il Refuse to Answer

The 293-to-55 vote by which the House
passed its so-called immunity bill is fair
measure, one might say, of popular revul-
sion against the abuse Of the Fifth Amend
ment by I-refuse-t answer witnesses.
Only few years ago no one was seri-
ously concerned with the right of person
to refuse to incriminate himself The plea
OF self-incrimination was invoked infre-
quently, and then, as rule, only in cases
IN which there was some substantial reason
to fear standardization.
OF late, however, the abuse has been
fragrant. Too many witnesses before con-
gressional committees, especially when
questioned about Communist aff1liation,
have refused to answer the simplest cues
tions. And the courts have gone far-too
farm protecting such witnesses. The re-
suit has been to create widely held i'm
preston that the Fifth Amendment is being
used, or rather misused, to protect, not the
individual witness, but his fellows in the
Communist conspiracy.
The House bill is compromise between
the Senate bill and the version originally
sought by the Attorney General (IIe now
approves the House billy It's application is
strictly limited to cases affecting the ma
tional security. In such case, if COM
mittee Tor prosecuting attorney thought
it desirable to grant immunity to particu-
lar witness, the matter would be brought
before Federal judge. The Attorney Gen.
eral would have the right to object II he
wished to do so. But the judge would make
the decision.
Some arrangement of this sort is desir-
able. II a committee had exclusive author
ity to grant immunity, it might do SO under
circumstances which would ruin case be-
ing worked up by the Department of Justice
Similarly, if the Attorney General had final
authority to make the decision, and If he
happened to be ideologically opposed to
waiver Of immunity, he could tie the hands
of any committee. The House version is
compromise, designed to strike a sensible
balance, and it appears to do so.
Once granted, of course, the immunity
would be absolute. The witness thereafter
could not be prosecuted on the basis of any
testimony he might give in response to ques-
lions, or on the basis of any leads obtained
from such testimony. This would appear
to satisfy the Fifth Amendments bar to
standardization
On the other hand, witness granted
immunity would have to testify truthfully.
If he refused to testify he could be sent to
jail for contempt. And If he were to lie he
could be sent to jail for perjury
It may be becoming little trite to say
that people who are out to destroy our con-
stitutional system ought not to be permitted
to hide behind the Constitution while en-
gagged in their wrecking maneuver. Never
theless, that is what they have been doing.
This bill is designed to make it possible to
strip away this Immunity" and 1t ought
to become law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
A Good Deal in Iran

Settlement Of the three-year Iranian
OIL dispute should be hailed with genuine
relief and qualification in the free world
To Iran 1t promises return to a status
In which the nation once again will have
revenues Of its own sufficient for the opera
ton Of normal government functions.
national economy that admittedly is prim-
tive one at best has slowed down during
these past few years to point Of almost
complete immobility. Desperation borrow
Ing, currency tinkering and foreign aid have
supported the bare essentials of govern
ment. Estimates of $500 million revenue in
the first three years Of the new oil agree
ment-with advances likely-should serve
to eliminate the need for these emergency
measures. In turn, this clearing of the finan-
cial atmosphere should have stabilizing eff
fects on the country's political situation.
After forcing the aged and historical
Premier Mossadegh out Of office, the Shah
and successor Premier Zahedi literally
staked their own and their governments
future on negotiating an acceptable agree
ment on the oil impasse. The accord now
reached-with eight companies Of four ma
tionalities-appears to be such an agree
ment. The danger Of Communist or ex-
hcAI4eI pU1lI1Cdl IcUclllOl Is lGSSeueo rs b
consequence.
To Britain, the agreement means that
one of its greatest worldwide money
making companies once more will be earn
ing something on its costly investment in
Iran. Although compensation for national
ization of the company properties and can
collation. of its lease is limited to the modest
amount of about $85 million, the Anglo
1ranian Oil Company will receive 10 per
cent Of the earnings of the new operating
conSortium. While there is an obvious prob
lem today in migrating up to 100000
barrels daily of crude oil into an already
oversupplied market, the eight companies
involved in this agreement are in posi-
ton to influence most of the necessary
adjustments.
AS in the case of last weeks Anglo
Egyptian agreement American Intervention
as friend to both parties has played
great part in resolving the Anglo-Iranian
controversy. Ambassador 10y Henderson
and Special Envoy Herbert Hoover, jr., were
the leading figures in recent months and
their efforts deserve particular common
dalton.
Resolution of this oil dispute clears the
way, too, for a further determination Of
Trans role in the East-West struggle. Amer
lean military aid has been going to the
country for number of years and there
has been speculation that Iran may join the
Turkish Pakistani alliance. The Teheran
government consistently has refused to be
cowed by Russian threats, open or implied,
and the prospects are improved today for
a more active partnership In resistance to
Communist expansion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Our Navy Officers Sweat 1t Out

Unifcation Of the armed forces is in
complete in at least one sector Here In
Washington the Army and the Air Force
authorize their ofncers to appear IN public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06
Questions and Answers

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By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Q. How many books has Sir Winston
Churchill published? Blk.
A. When the Copyright Office in the
Library Of Congress recently had oc-
casion to check on copyright claims en-.
tered In Sir Winston's name, the i'm
pressive total was $50, representing 1879
principal titles. A list of these registra-
IONS was presented to the British
Prime Minister during his visit to
Washington in June 1854.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-06

y. what was the most violent earth
quake Of modern times?-H. III e,
a. Inc earthquake which struck the
Assam-Iloet region of the Himalayas
on August is, 1850, set new record for
damage and desolation, in about
minutes. 1t Is likely that this earth
quake will rank as one of the worlds
greatest catastrophes.
Evening star., 1954-05-06

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