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Evening star., 1954-04-13
Teachers and Inteqrution

The superintendent of schools and
the Board Of Education merit the ap-
proval and support Of the community
for offering the teachers workshops on
inter-group relations.
If the Supreme Court rules segregation
unconstitutional, this preparation will
be most valuable in providing the under
standing leadership needed for smooth
transition to q racially integrated school
system. Even II the Supreme Court
does not rule segregation unconstitu-
tional, these efforts will not be wasted.
An appreciation of the various racial,
religious, social and economic groups
which constitute the local and national
community is essential in the growth
of citizenship responsibility in a de-
mocracy In addition. a segregated
school system here is becoming less and
less feasible and will be eliminated
eventually.
We join the Vice President of the
United States in commencing school
officials for this constructive action.
Mrs. John r. Latimer,
President, League of Women Voters,
District Of Columbia.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Abuse Of Lnyestiqutiye Powers

Please allow me to protest what has
become the general use by some mis-
guided individuals of the misnomer
"left-winger" or pink" for any one
who opposes McCarthyism. Would
those who feel that it is allowable to
hurt few innocent ones in order to
uncover one Communist be willing to
be innocent victims of character assas-
sination themselves? If not, why ex-
cuSe and condone this abuse of others?
No innocent person need be touched to
expose the real offenders It is time
to recall the Master Christians admo-
milton, "All things whatsoever We would
that men should do to you, do We even
so to them: for this is the law. :"
The great majority of us stand solidly
for principle and find any unbridled
acts OF bullying quite offensive.
Let it here be said that proper and
legitimate congressional investigating
committees are necessary and wise. But
1t Is up to the American people to see
that Congress brides the gross abuse
OF such power. To deplore such abuse
does not make the individual anti
anything except anti-evil or pro-justice.
Regina Jacobs.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Dancers From Japan

When the Japanese works OF pictorial art
were here at the National Gallery last year,
the hope was expressed that the dance art
of Japan someday might be represented in
Washington. Last night this aspiration was
fulfilled. The Azuma Kabuki company of
dancers and musicians appeared at the Ma
tional Theater under the sponsorship of Prince
Takamatsu and the Japanese Ministry of
Foreign Affairs with the opening performance
designated a benefit for Unofficial Ambassa-
dors, Incorporated a. non-profit educational
organization promoting good neighborliness on
the cultural level.
To say that the beautiful paintings and
drawings shown in this city in 1853 came
alive" through the interpretations of the
Azuma group is to set forth in single phrase
the essential fact involved. The classical dance
art of Japan began with religion and folklore
Just as the graphic arts did. Watching the
Kabuki program, the spectator is afforded an
insight into the sources of modern Japanese
civilization The timeless principles of beauty,
Evening star., 1954-04-13

smooth for modern stockings, they
soothe male feet just as well.
The name of popular cowboy singer
is coupled with one brand of foot lotion.
This is the first care for feet. The old
idea that the soles and heels should be
/ Iugh has been exploded. The feet feel
better when the soleS and heels are
kept smooth.
This can be attained by rubbing them
each morning with one Of these lotion
preparations. In few days, the
cracked, rough surface is replaced by
pleasant smoothness.
It is question whether soap should
be used in bathing the feet. This may
strike few sensitive souls as terrible
idea, but it is keeping with modern sci
entific research.
Normally. the feet are acid in char
acter, Too frequent washing with soap
causes an alkalinity which is highly
pleasing to the minute forms of life
that cause the various types of "ath-
lete's foot" so called.
It is believed that using running
water, but no soap, is better all-around
foot care, and in case the ubiquitous
itching occurs. anyway, the best remedy
is one Of the mild acids allied to the
sweaty acids which too free use Of soap
removes. These are incorporated in cas-
lily used creams and powders. The
creams are the quick-drying "oil in
water" type, far cry from messy old
fashioned ointnents.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Play Ball, Again

This Is the day that chit and run" doesn't
automatically mean trouble with the police.
For the "hit and run" that is drawing most
attention today is on display in eight baseball
parks as the major leagues open the 1854 sea-
son. There have been some changes since last
October, and this season might easily become
the most interesting big league campaign since
the war.
Even the opening is different with all
teams scheduled to swing into action on the
same day. rather than having our own Senators
play host in an exclusive ay-earlier inaugural
And the American League, taking its cue per-
haps from what happened last year in the
National League, has added new 'face" to
its lineup. In the first American League fran
a famous name in baseball history-have taken
the place of the st. Louis Browns. For Wash
ington, the switch may provide a local"
rivalry For the league in general, it may end
the steady decline in attendance that has been
uninterrupted since 1948. Last years shift of
the Boston Braves to Milwaukee had that effect
on National League attendance.
There have also been more than the
usual number and kind of player trades. The
Yankees, co-openerS here today and taking
aim on their sixth straight championship en-
gagged in furry of trading with the National
League Cardinals of st. Louis. The Senators
did some dealing and figure they got more than
they gave away. This is the day we begin to
find out.
Evening star., 1954-04-13

conflict, aspiration and creative achievement
are displayed in tableau and movement, pos
ture and dramatic action. Westerner has
little difficulty following the stories" offered.
So as Katsuo Okazak Minister of For
eign Affairs at Tokyo has put it: "The dance
art is truly universal language" and ut can
most easily awaken mutual understanding"
Madame Tokuho and her company are work.
ing in grand tradition to which the Greeks,
the Indonesians, the American Indians and
practically all later peoples also have con-
tributed. The Azuma dancers certainly are
welcome to Washington. In effect, they are
guests of our entire community.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
1t Can Be Mode-But

Assistant Defense Secretary Donald A..
Quarles has given voice to an understatement
in declaring that it is scientifically possible to
produce cobalt bombs. Actually, it is not only
possible but certain that these things can be
made-which is another way of saying that
man has within relatively easy reach a de-
stroyer that could unleash enough radio
activity, theoretically at least to wipe out all
life on this planet.
The reason for such certainty is the fact
that hydrogen bombs are now being produced
in quantity and that they can be readily con-
verted into cobalt bombs. This is so because
the H-bomb-which exists in Russia as well as
in our own country-contains all the essential
deuterium- -tritium ingredients that would be
needed to manufacture the C-bomb. The only
real difference between the two would be the
metals encasing them.
Thus, the production of C-bomb would
require practically nothing more than the
replacement of the H-bomb's steel casing with
casing Of cobalt. Given that, then there
would be destroyer that would be capable
OF doing two things: CD Exploding, like the
hydrogen weapon, with force equivalent to
tens OF millions of tons of INT, and (2) letting
loose, in addition, vast cloud of tremendously
lethal radioactive dust-a cloud that would
travel thousands of miles and rain slow but
sure death, with it's "fall-out," on all those
caught beneath it.
For If cobalt were used to encase an H-bomb
in fssion-fusion explosion, it would be filled
with gamma radiation 800 times deadl.r than
that OF radium. Indeed, single C-bomb could
be made big enough to unleash death cloud
loaded with radioactivity of almost unimagi-
nable concentration and intensity. And that is
why some of our most learned scientists have
estimated that if sufficient humber of such
destroyers were set-off in a longitudinal pattern
in certain parts of the world-as in the Pacific
and Central Europe-the whole of humanity
could be annihilated
1t is because of that very fact, however,
that the C-bomb, Mr.. Quarles has said is
mot feasible" as war weapon. For no coun-
try could put it to use against an enemy with
out gravely endangering both itself and its
friends with what might be called boomerang
type of radioactivity delivered by variable and
unpredictable winds. That consideration, plus
the consideration that such killer might bring
about the end of the world, is good insurance
that the thing will never be produced or set
OFF. This assumes, of course, that nations and
their governments will not go berserk like
Samson, and commit suicide by pulling down
all the pillars of civilization.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
By Charles E. TroceweN

Basic care of feet calls for properly
fitting socks and shoes.
In this, every wearer must be his own
judge and jury. Hence, the multitude Of
brands, shapes and types Of shoes.
A few persons will insist that high
shoes are better for them, and probably
they are right.
Most men today wear low shoes. as
they used to be called. Fortunately, the
urge, for small shoes seems to have
passed away, since the modern average
size for women's shoes Is said to be
size z.
The enormous feet Of modern chill
dren probably arise from incessant out
door running, much as their large
hands come about through play in
games such as football, basketball,
handball and baseball.
The modern foot is a healthier foot,
since open-air shoes and stockings
have come into their own, along with
better hygiene. The foot is no longer
the ugly duckling of the human anat-
omy, but stands on its own feet as the
proper foundation for all the rest.
The famous barefoot boy of song and
story had to work up tough callous on
his feet. but the modern well-shod boy
or girl needs to think of cleanliness first.
But here it is water, rather than soap.
that is needed most. Water. careful dry
ing, rubbing with q lotion, and use of
powder, II necessary-such Is the for
mula for modern healthy feet.
Evening star., 1954-04-13

not brand me a demagogue If I also
call attention to his grossly false state
ment that never at any time during
the 20 years of Democratic rule did we
hear Democrat demand increased ex-
emptions." If he would take the trouble
to analyze the legislative histories sof
the 1947 and 1948 Republican tax bills,
he viii find that there were five sep
arate attempts to increase the personal
income tax exemptions above the $500
level All were offered by Democratic
Senators and Representatives. All were
rejected because of almost unanimous
Republican opposition. The roll calls
may be found in the Congressional
Records for May %, 1947, July 8, 1947,
July IA, 1947, and February 2, 1948.
The 1854 Democratic attempt to in
crease exemptions is thus jewel of
consistency.
Could it be that it is really "Old
Reactionary" who is gullible and un-
informed?
Young Liberal.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Never Had 1t. So Good?

In This Week" of March %, Col.
Oliver G. Haywood ir., and Marguerite
Higgins collaborated on "a blistering
message to the Nation" entitled stop
Driving Our Best Soldiers Out of
Service"
The colonel seems to think that our
services will attract and hold capable
young men instead of mediocrities"
only by guaranteeing special advan-
tageS We think this is fallacy, be-
cause it may we'll be, and in some in
stances is. true that higher pay and
preferential treatment draw persons
who have only their selfish interests at
heart. Also. it is for these better"
jobs that more political pressure and
favoritism are exercised. II the military
is getting mediocre leaders, the cause is
more likely to lie in the possibility that
they are being promoted through favor
itism rather than through honest per-
formance.
Col. Haywood also seems to believe
the Nation is imposing conditions OF
second-class citizenship on its profess
sional military force" If this be true,
then the average American who sup
ports the military is citizen Of several
classes lower status. For lack of space
we will look at only one example noted
by the colonel-that of the West Point
graduate who must begin at "only"
.$33858 per month. In the first place,
the cadet more than likely got his ap-
pointment to the academy through po-
litical pull or favoritism. While there,
he had the best of everything at public
expense to the tune of $4,000 to $40,-
600. Is it any wonder some graduate
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Jefferson's Birthday

Today we quietly and without osten-
tation celebrate the birthday Of Thomas
Jefferson. Jefferson undoubtedly was
one of the most profound scholars
and thinkers that ever occupied the
White House. His library formed the
nucleus of the present Library of Con-
gress, portion of which was destroyed
by fire during the War of 1872. JEFF
ferson was also practical man and
designed the Capitol at Richmond, his
home at Charlottesville and supervised
the construction of the University Of
Virginia with it's adorable serpentine
walls.
Before he became President, JEFF
ferson served as diplomatic minister
in France and saw the horrors of the
French revolution with his own eyes.
The Sage of Monticello became thor
oughly familiar with the racial and
ecclesiastical intrigue prevale n t
throughout the courts of Europe. which
essentially has remained unchanged to
this day.
The founders of our republic includ-
ing Washington, Franklin, Jefferson
and Madison were all thinkers and did
not believe in becoming embroiled in
foreign entanglements. Times have
changed and our Government. educa-
tional institutions and labor unions
have become infested with screwball
economists, crackpot theorists and raz-
zle-dazzle erudite dreamers, many of
whom have four or five degrees but
not even "a hours of practical experi-
ence in their respective fields of en-
deavor. They apparently are striving
to create global utopia.
A. TIoIand
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Deoth Penalty for Drunk Drivino?

Wouldn't it be terrible shock if a
bill were passed by Congress making
the death sentence mandatory for
drunk driving in the District?
The time is not too far away when
punishment provided by law for major
traffic violations will have to be much
more severe, if we continue in our
wanton violation of the rules of traffic
safety.
OF course, mention of death SEN
tence here is merely hypothetical.
Death would obviously be too severe a
penalty to pay for a major violation of
the traffic laws. Yet the fact remains
that death sentences are imposed and
carried out regularly every year on
drivers. passengers and pedestrians in
the District.
Let's look at the record in the Dis
trict. Last year As of the II drivers
involved in fatal accidents were violat-
ing some traffic law. They were thus
responsible for imposing and carrying
out death sentences on pedestrians, on
their own passengers, and, in many
cases, on themselves. Last year lab
drivers involved in accidents were re-
ported as intoxicated or as having been
drinking to some degree. Eight of them
were involved in fatal accidents; in
other words, had imposed death SEN
tences on innocent persons.
A magistrate in one of our Midwest
ern States recently was hearing case
which involved a collision where both
drivers had been imbiding.
Said the judge: II wish to commend
you two drinking drivers for running
into each other instead of some inno-
cent person. If this sort of thing can
be encouraged, think we may have
hit upon the solution of one of our most
serious problems"
We just can't afford to wait for the
law of averages to bring about the
elimination of drunk drivers in this
way, however poetic the justice.
Actually. drunk driving can be ended,
any time the people really want to end
it. That is, when they make up their
minds to support drive to take all
drunk drivers off the road.
Anthony L. Ellison,
Traffic Safety Officer, D. c. Govern
ment.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Human Relations in Government

The Civil Service Commission has filled D
long-felt need by inStituting program de-
signed to keep Federal employees better in
formed about Government personnel policies,
including prospective changes. Had such a pro-
gram been in effect after the Eisenhower ad-
ministration began it's reorganization of the
Federal establishment, much of the fear and
confusion which swept through the Govern
ment departments and agencies might have
been avoided. 1t was only after employe morale
had Sagged dangerously low-mosty on the
basis of unfounded rumors regarding the fate
of the career Service-that Federal officials
spoke out reassuringly and quieted the general
unrest.
The new program, drawn up by Harold J.
Miller of the csc staff, is outlined in report
entitled Human Relations in Government"
President Eisenhower, concerned over the tur-
moil which followed efforts Of the administra-
tion to put trusted aides in key policy positions,
has expressed interest in the movement to give
employees better brief1ng on present and i'm
pending personnel policies and plans This
will be done by maintaining close liaison be-
tween the csc and personnel supervisors and
between the CSC and the employees themselves,
either through their organizations or directly
The aim will be not only to keep the employees
informed regarding their jobs, their depart
ments and their Government itself, but to
encourage interest and pride in their work
Similar human relations" programs have
proved highly successful and beneficial in pri-
vate industry. There is no apparent reason why
the plan should not succeed in the public
service.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Tuxpuyer's Burden

"Old Reactionary" states that erich
stockholders constitute a very small
minority Of the owners Of American
corporations" and infers that only
demagogues would disagree. If he
would lay aside his A. T. and T. stock
holders report long enough to read
factual study of "Stock Ownership
Among American Families" published
on pages 1916 of the Michigan Busi-
ness Review for January 1853, he would
be astonished to learn that less than
l per cent (O.64) of the American
families own 80 per cent of all pub
licly held stock in this country. His
crocodile tears for the poor little fell
low" seem to be ill-shed.
hope that "Old Reactionary'' will
Evening star., 1954-04-13

Liberty's Champion

Americans celebrating the birthday ami
versary of Thomas Jefferson inevitably must
ask themselves: What does he mean to us?
What is his impact upon our lives? These
questions are less easily answered than might
be supposed Despite the services of historians
and biographerS well qualified for the task, he
Is a much less tangible subject than his great
contemporaries, Washington and Franklin. The
country at large knows him as the principal
author of the Declaration of independence,
Virginians remember him as the writer of their
statute of religious freedom and the organizer
of their university at Charlottesville, and
Westerners pay him homage for his purchase
of the Louisiana Territory. Here in the District
of Columbia we Washngtonians think of him
particularly as one of the founders of the Fed
eral City.
But President Woodrow Wilson made light
Of all these legitimate claims upon public appre-
ciation affirming: "The immortality of Thomas
Jefferson does not lie in any one OF his achieve
mentS, but in his attitude toward mankind"
Perhaps the thought thus expressed had been
prompted by an earlier appraisal by Senator
George Frisbie Hoar Of Massachusetts, to the
effect that Jefferson "had steadfaSt and abid-
ing faith in justice, righteousness and liberty
E. and that justice and righteousness were
sure to prevail where any people bear rule in
perfect liberty"
This was another way of saying that free
dom conduces to the welfare of a nation and
that coercion and dictation are hurtful to the
same. The doctrines of "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" which Jefferson empha
sized in Americas proclamation to "a candid
world" in 1776 must be as valid now as they
were then His Indictment of the tyranny of
a foreign despot in his own time applies with
equal logic to the alien despots of ours.
Jefferson, however, spoke not only to "the
powers of the earth" but likewise to his living
countrynien and their heirs. the Americans
of these latter times. He was libertarian--a
profound believer in freedom as practical force
in human society. 1t was Jefferson as Senator
Robertson of Virginia has pointed out at exer-
cises commemorating the birth anniversary
who proposed to swear upon the altar of God
eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man."
Evening star., 1954-04-13
A CoImer Voice

If one were to take at face value all of
the things said by Harry S. Truman and those
who speak the same language it might well
be concluded that this country is in the grip
of terror and hysteria. But Mr. Truman, in
his address at Fulton, fell again into the error
of overstatement.
He said, for instance that "crude and
sinister men are trying to destroy this concept
(that a man is innocent until proved guilty.
and to shake the very foundations of our free
dom based on due process of law" These
"bogeymen" or witch hunters" were accused
by the former President of feeding fresh mood
OF hySteria in this country.
1t may be doubted, however, that the
politician, or the two or three politicians, whom
Mr. Truman presumably had in mind are
possessed of either the motives or the power
attributed to them more rational estimate
is that they are headline hunters who may be
capable of browbeating a few Government
workers, but who fall far short of being able
to terrorize the country
calmer view has been expressed by DR..
Sidney Hook of New York University. "It is
simply not true" DR.. Hook told a Washington
audience, that Senator Mccarthy has fright
ened American teachers and professors into
silence. Those who assert that the entire
teaching profession of the United States is now
1ntimidated' are actually helping to produce
the very conditions they profess to report
irresponsible exaggerations of this order should
be left to Mccarthy"
DR.. Hook is no newcomer to this debate As
chairman of the Americans for Intellectual
Freedom, he has been fighting Communists for
long time And the things he says make
more sense than the extravagant assertions of
the professional viewers-with- alarm.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Eurly Morning Item

There is prayer, silent or spoken.
Which will bring the ott-destred
token
OF sDitt and needed answering;
Let consciousness become tDholly GtDdre
OF God-sent potDer and beauty
every,Dhere,
And then deuoutly, so declare NTH
Gll-Gbiding
Trust: such faith oroDs into answered
prayer
With thdnktulness for blessings of the
past,
The non. ahd all the days and nights
to come:
1t proUeS the Fathers lopinO and
continual
Gifts are dltDdys notD and dltDdyS ours,
To gratefully acknowledge and to
share.
Grace Meredith
Evening star., 1954-04-13

ting results. In sociology and criminol-
ogy. too, these principles are beginning
to come into their own. But in the
sphere of international relations. bar
barism until now has been the order
of the day, with one outstanding ex-
ception--the blessed existence Of the
United Nations organization.
With this organization lies the hope
for finally civilizlng the world as a
whole. This will only come about if
forward strides are. taken next year
toward revising the charter to give the
U.N. some concrete power for world
authority.
Mrs. M. G. CarbOne.
Evening star., 1954-04-13
Chdnce to Ciyilize World

It seems that the great powers are
coming to realize that the threat of re-
taliative violence is an uneasy protec-
tion against the H-bomb.
In dealing with our children we have
by now advanced to the point of know
ing that kindness and cooperation far
surpass threats of punishment in get