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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
H-Founded Opposition

It has become apparent that some OF
the strongest opposition to extension OF the
building code in Prince Georges County was
based on a misunderstanding as to its pur-
pose and cost. This is unfortunate, for an
adequate building code and inspection sys-
tenn are protection for home owners and
tenants that progressive communities can
i'll afford to dispense with.
Until the County Commissioners, re-
spending to plea from the Friendly Citi-
zens Association, voted to apply the county
code throughout the Piscataway and Oxon
Hill areas, only the northern part Of Prince
Georges had been subject to modern build
ing regulations This northern section also
is under jurisdiction of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, with strict zoning and planning
rules. In advertising public hearings on the
proposed extension of the building code the
commissioners made reference to the plan
ming commission in a way that led some
citizens to believe that coming and planning
reforms were involved In the code plan.
This was not the case. Nor was 1t true
that higher taxes would follow adoption
of building code-a fear expressed in GER.
tain civic quarters.
The commissioners were taking a step
in the interest Of property owners when
they extended the building regulations to q
part Of the county that Is growing rapidly.
and that needs protection against possibly
shoddy building practices by some builders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
A Compromise Is Necessary

The conflicting views expressed at the
housing-code hearing were similar to those
which have marked every serious effort in
years past to revise District housing regula-
tons to conform to modern requirements.
Always there has been a tug Of war
between property owners, who fear the
economic effects of code enforcement, and
organizations and individuals intent on slum
clearance and social improvement. There
are extremists on both sides Of this issue.
Caught between them are many owners OF
buildings erected in compliance with then
existing regulations and which could not
be rebuilt to meet the new code except
at great cost. The code recently drawn up
with the aid of an able citizens committee
took into consideration all interests con-
cerned. It has the virtue OF not being
weighted toward any extremist view.
Experience has shown that it is difficult
to arrive at a satisfactory compromise in
such controversial field as housing control.
But the task is not impossible. It must
be done soon, If the District is to qualify
in all respects for further Federal funds for
slum clearance and redevelopment in Wash
ington. modern housing code Is one Of
the prerequisites to Federal release Of
housing money. The Code Review Commit
tee, headed by Charles B. Dulcan, ST., has
shown commendable public spirit, therefore,
in agreeing to restudy the code draft, with
view to revising it in accordance with some
of the suggestions made at the public hear
ing. Every effort should be made to effect
compromise that will meet with wide
spread approval while protecting the
interests of tenement jewellers, property
owners and the general public Obviously,
this will not be an easy task. But unless
some reasonable compromise can be
worked out, the whole community will
suffer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03

the odd looking squirrels are not
wanted.
So the black specimens move on, and
thus may be seen here, there and
everywhere, seldom staying long in any
one location.
In our own yard. in 26 years. we have
seen but one black squirrel, and he re-
manned in the yard only about three
days, as we recall.
The others chased him away from
the feeding stations, and in other ways
made life miserable for him.
He was glad to leave, evidently, and
never came back, whereupon the 20
gray fellows settled back to their sun
flower seed again. It was just simple
demonstration Of the fact that even
the brute animals, so called, prefer the
completely normal. Living things are
so, and what can be done about 1t?
As far as our casual observation
went, the black squirrel did not seem
as chummy as the gray ones, but this
may have been due to nothing more
than that he had to live on q more
warlke basis.
The ordinary squirrel, In the fun
pride Of looking exactly like his fellows
tthey say high school juveniles are
the same way managed to give the
observer q full sense Of the happiness
Of life, the joi de vie, as the French say.
The black one. on the other paw,
was SO filled with fear, and SO deter
mined to get q bite to eat, that he
seemed sly. furtiye creature. BY COM
parison.
Who can believe that this was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
By Carter Brooke Jones

DOTH New Dealers and opponents
- OF the Roosevelt years could ind
support in the voluninous record COM.
piled in the diary Of the late Harold L.
Ickes between September, 1899, and the
middle 81 December, 1871.
In THE Secret Diary Of Harold 1.
Ickes: Volume III: The Lowering
Clouds lSimon q Schuster), published
today, President Rooseveltts Secretary
Of the Interior set down an impressive
number of gripes at the administration.
at the President personally and at the
alter ego Of his later years. Harry Hop
kinS. On the other hand, Mr.. Ickes
wrote many passages glorying in the
achievements of the regime. especially
in those in which he had hand. The
technique of this diarist is familiar by
now, after the two previous volumes.
The so-called revisionists, who think
the history Of the last 20 years sprang
largely from concealed motives and
purposes. could find q crumb Of COM
fort In MFR. Ickes' assertion that. some
seven months before Pearl Harbor. Mr..
Roosevelt was hoping Germany would
us into thelwar. The entry for April IL,
1941. describing the return Of a presi-
Dental party from a fishing trip to
the Caribbean stated:
"It was while we were talking at
dinner that night that the President
made the significant remark that
things are coming to head: Germany
will be making blunder soon.' There
could be no doubt Of the Presidents
scarcely concealed desire that there
might be an incident which would jus
tify our declaring state of war against
Germany or at least providing conveys
to merchantmen carrying supplies to
Great Britain"
Regarding the tense situation In
Japan, the President wrote Mr.. Ickes
on July of that fateful year: II think
it will interest you to know that the
Japs are having real dragdown and
knockout fight among themselves and
have been for the past week-trying to
decide which way they are going to
jump-attack Russia. attack the South
Seas (thus throwing in their lot def
nitely with Germany, or whether they
will sit on the fence and be more
friendly with US. No one knows what
the decision will be, but, as you know,
it is terribly important for the control
of the Atlantic for us to help keep peace
in the Pacific. I simply have not got
enough Navy to go around-and every
little episode in the Pacific means fewer
ships in the Atlantic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
The KremIin's 'NATO'

Westerners must be pardoned If they
fail to see anything very disturbing or new
in the declaration adopted by the so-called
security" conference that has just come
to an unimpressive end in Moscow. For the
declaration out by the Kremlin and
the stooge "confereeS" representing it's
puppet regimes in East Germany, Czecho-
Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bull
garia and Albania-amounts to little more
than threat to create something that has
been in existence for a long time past.
The threat is that the Soviet Union and
its European satellites will integrate their
armed forces into coalition under single
overall command (Russian) If the Western
powers ratify and effectuate the Paris
accords to arm free Germany as a sovereign
member of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. In other words, the Moscow
"conferees" have decided to organize
'NATO" OF their overwhelming renili-
tarized East Germans-unless we and our
allies do violence to our common security
interests by abandoning those accords.
To put it mildly, few threats could be
less intin1idating, and for very obvious
reason-namely, the fact that East German
remilitarization has already taken place on
fairly large scale and that a Soviet-style
NATO, antedating the Atlantic alliance
but altogether unlike 1t in spirit, has been
in being for years. What it consists of is
the complex of bilateral defense" pacts
under which all the European satellites are
bound militarily to Moscow and tightly con-
trolled by the generals and others who make
up the high command Of the y. S. s. R.
Accordingly, the Moscow declaration
seems to add up to nothing but a threat to
put formal new dress on an old, long
existent coalition. So the Western powers
can afford to shrug their shoulders in
completely unintimidated mood. They have
answered the thing effectively enough in
their recent firm notes telling the Kremlin
that if it wants to meet with them in a
genuine conference on European security,
it must first resign itself to ratification of
the Paris accords, agree to sign an Austrian
treaty, and clarity its position on holding
free alderman elections. Meanwhile, it
should know that it's latest bulldozing effort
has fzzled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Mccorthy Condemned

The Senate, in voting to condemn"
certain Of Senator McCarthy's conduct, has
done what it had to do. TO have voted
otherwise would have been to bow to the
abusive tactics of the Senator from Wiscon-
sin. And to have done that would indeed
have been q shameful thing.
It is matter Of regret that the count
based on the abuse Of General wicker was
dropped. As Senator M0nroney said, this
action suggests that the Senators are more
concerned with abuse of themselves than
with the abuse Of witnesses before Senate
committee. This is unfortunate, for SEN
ator has some capacity to defend himself.
A witness, and especially witness who
wears the uniform, cannot trade abuse for
abuse. He is obliged more or less to suffer
the indignitieS which a committee chair
man may choose to heap upon him.
This retreat In the wicker matter,
however, should not obscure the good work
that has been done. The vote of condemna-
ton was based on Senator McCarthy's de-
fiance Of 1852 committee investigating
his affairs and his recent abuse of Senator
Watkins and his special committee. It is
hard to understand Senator McCarthy's
SOA1OuGG, GOpGC4d4Ay cAA1O 411bC1 IG0pCGO
It was almost as though he was counting
cenSure, and certainly no member Of the
Senate could have held up his head If the
courage to vote the resolution of condemna-
ton had been lacking.
There has been some loose talk that
this vote heralds the end Of effective in
vestigation by congressional committees
and the squelching of effective investigation
of Communists in and out Of Government
This, in The Stars view, is the sheerest
nonsense. It would be tragic thing If
effective investigation were inseparable
from the tactics employed by Senator Nc
Carthy. But this, happily, is not the case.
The investigation of the Communists will
go forward, and, one may suggest, on a
sounder and more effective basis, now that
the man whose conduct was perverting and
discrediting the investigative process has
been properly rebuked by his colleagues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Penonce

It happened to me years ago,
And you may smile, and you mag sigh:
A common foul. thought at first.
Curious and bold came tnping By.
But then on second look sasD
It 1Dds iDounded pheasant hen,
Wing trailing tn my dtngy yard,
Hunger-tn1pelIed to the haants OF men.
Il did not ntoDe. I matched her cross
The road to find another field
Where she fDGs doubtless caught. or
starved,
Ny help withdrawn. sUlo might havs
healed.
It happened to me years ago.
And you may smile, and ron mag SCOT:
Though more important things By far
HaUe come. cannot shake II %.
AIma Roberts Giordon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Prince Georges Building Code

The Star news story Of November %,
pertinent to the extension Of the build
ing code in Prince Georges County, has
been read with microscopic scrutiny.
The writer of the article Is worthy
of every praiseworthy compliment for
his factual coverage of such dis
gushing travesty.
Only one correction is suggested. The
statement that Mr.. Abbott was con-
graduated by many, is debatable. The
great majority of the people present,
certainly, were not in congratulatory
mood.
The entire meeting was undemo-
cratic. The Commissioners, in their
premeditated eagerness, were content
to allow out-of -order questions and
discussions to any one favoring the
extension (the minority but requested
a dictatorial iron hand to any one In
opposition. George varsity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Diabetes Detection Program


We of the Diabetes Association Of the
District of Columbia wish to extend
our gratitude to The Star for the gen.
erous support it gave our 7th Annual
Diabetes Detection Program.
Close to 400 Wasl1ingtonians donated
their time, effort and expenses to pro-
vide this annual invitation, for free
diabetes tests to the residents of the
National Capital They represented
physicians, diabetes with the chronic
ailment under CONTROL, pharmacists.
nurses. ,technicians, hospital aidess Fed
eral, District and industrial health au-
liberties and several prominent wom-
ems organizations devoted to civic help.
The work of these lay and profess
sional volunteers in handling more than
$1,000 tests for sugar in the urine and
blood was a magnificent demonstration
of community health service. ~
william Kurstin, Md,
President (for 1954-55) Of the Dia-
betes Association of the District
of Columbia. Chairman Of the
1854 Diabetes Detection Program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
More Secrets From Harold Ickes' Diary

body. This Il typical Of Harry. In
the end he always agrees with the
President. He ID not going 70 run Pny
risk Of offending the President and
lose his place under the Presidents
bed"
Like many other liberals Of that
period. Mr.. Ickes felt the menace to
the free world was Fascism and Naziism.
not Communism. He revealed o pleas
ant acquaintance with Constantin
Oumansky, then the Ambassador Of
Russia, who used to 60 to see Mr.. Ickes
and complain Of cavalier treatment by
the President and the State Depart
ment. On July 5, 1910, Mr.. Ickes. re-
porting talk with Mr.. Oumansky.
said:
" said to Oumansl1y that while ]
would dislike very much to have to live
under Naziism or Communism, would
prefer the latter II I had to choose
between the two. He said that UNI
doubtedly would personally like many
OF the cardinal principles Of the Soviet
regime. Probably would in theory.
but hope that our own political ways
will never be so radically changed In
the direction Of Naziism that would
want to consider moving to Russia !. :"
These are some opinions Of his fell
low administration leaders which Mr..
Ickes wrote from time to time:
OF Secretary Of State Hull: 81. !
do not doubt Hull's sincerity. but the
fellow just can't think straight and he
is totally lacking in imagination"
Of Frances Perkins, then Secretary
Of Labor, and Louis Brownlow, director
of the public administration clearing
house: 1--WE would be able to get some
where with less work If Brownlow and
Perkins could be shut up in room to
talk each other deaf, dumb and blind"
OF Henry Wallace, Secretary Of Ag-
riculture, Vice President, Secretary Of
Commerce: .. the thought Of Henry
Wallace as President Of the United
States is nothing less than appalling"
OF Harry Hopkins: IT told Jane (Mrs.
Ickes) that we would not have to worry
any more about the war: that Harry
Hopkins would take it on as his re-
sponsibility and run it,"
Early in 1910, MIR. Ickes conflded to
his wife that he didn't care whether
he ever saw the President again. It was
another hareup Of the Secretary's year
long feud over his demand that the
forestry division be transferred from
Agriculture to Interior. Again Mr..
Ickes resigned. but he was easily per-
suaded by the President. as on other
occasions, to remain in Office.
The diary closes with reflections Of
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
To Perpetuute Weisz Exhibit

Countless visitors to the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art have felt deeply the rare
quality of the recent Eugen Weisz
Memorial Exhibition and many have
expressed regret that this exhibition OF
one of Washington's most distinguished
artists was shown for so short q period
of time.
In behalf Of these many admirers
OF Eugen Weisz, the artist, and OF
those interested in furthering the cul-
tural life of Washington, feel 1t would
be a fortunate happening II the Cor
coran Gallery would accept the trustee
ship Of selected group Of these paint
ings that may be available from the
collection owned by the artists widow.
Renee Weisz, and perhaps others which
might be borrowed from private col
lections. It seems fitting that siich q
memorial collection or q memorial room
should be located in the Corcoran Gal
lery, with which Eugen Weisz was
connected for the many years when
these works were produced.
If those who are genuinely interested
would direct a letter to Hermann w.
Williams, director of the Corcoran Gal
lery, perhaps some way could be found
for exhibiting this distinguished col
lection at the Corcoran Gallery so as
to have it available for all to see and
enjoy.
s. Thos. Saltz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Captive Americans

echo fervent "Amen" to your edi-
torial, Blockade Red China?" read
only with horror that Senator Know
land and others advocate measures
which could easily precipitate a war
far more terrible than any yet. war
which would end our civilization and
most of us. Do not these public OFF,
Gals realize that the Communists can
use massive retaliation too? Don't they
realize that we are camped at the east
and west gates of Asia in the home,
lands Of our present allies who would
be the. first to be blotted out by an
atomic strike? Their reasoning will
not add to our friends In Britain. Eu-
rope and Japan.
az Unfortunately. our choice has been
clearly marked by the hydrogen bomb.
We can co-exist or perish! Co-existence
will not be easy, but only the utterly
foolhardy would choose atomic ami
hilation in order to save face and pre-
serve "the honor Of our country" Isn't
time running out against us? Shouldn't
we stop foolish argument about the
"cold wsr' and instead begin to work
on the terms of the shot peace?
Roland Bieren, MD.
X
Wake up, Americans. and mobilize!
Thirteen Americans are held ca-tive
and sentenced by Red China-plus the
hundreds of American war prisoners
they still hold. If such outrages have
been committed while Senator Nc
Carthy has been using so-called out
rageous tactics, what would Red China
have done without Senator McCarthy's
constant work, regardless Of what we
think of his methods?
Let every American parent take a
good look at his son or sons. am
not often afforded the privilege OF
looking at my son. He's in the service
but my son. or the son of any American
parent could be one Of the 13 Americans
in the clutches of Red China. What a
different picture when your own son
is one of those condemned Americans!
Do we nrefer Red /Chinas methods or
Senator McCarthy's methods?
Ann McGarvey.
So Senator Mansfield of wild and
wcoiiy Montana wants to exert peace
full pressure" on Peiping for the release
of those 10 Illegally and unjustly inn
prisoned Americans! A silly Illusion.
The Reds would pay about as much
attention to peaceful pressure there
as they do to the peaceful part OF
peaceful co-existence."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
letters to The Star.

II one didn't know Senator Mansfield
for a consummate politician, aware of
where the vote lies, one might suspect
that ex-Marine of never having heard
of the corps great battle-cry voiced by
one of its sergeants on the Marine in
1918:
"Come on, you so-and-so's, do you
want to live forever!"
have feeling that that cry is
swelling in American Threats every time
the Reds push Uncle Sam around.
Shouldn't our concern for plunging
the world into war be left for while
: with the Reds? We've waved it around
about long enough.
& Earl Scoop Shutz.
Relaxed Zoning .rs.g naa
7 was amazed at the decision Of the
coming board to adopt an amendment
to the present coming code at this time.
when a large sum Of money has just
been allocated for survey and over
haul of the zoning laws here. This is
particularly incomprehe as the
effects of the amendment have perma-
nent implications. I am deeply sympa-
thetic to the plight of the residents Of
Massachusetts, avenue NV. whose letter
appeared in The Star.
Relaxing coming restrictions may
eventually create situations which we
are presently fighting in the slum-
clearance program.
The Abe Board also seems prone to
ignore the protests Of neighborhoods
and citizens who oppose additional
LIQUOR stores in their areas.
Ruth T. Vanief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
By THE HASKTN SERVICE

@. lis 1t still true that only o very
small number of scientists have the
mental and educational equipment to
understand how atomic energy Is pro-
duced?-B. H. K.
A. Yes. In q recent speech, Thomas
E. Murray. Commissioner Of the United
States Atomic Energy Commission.
pointed out that even now only q tiny
handful Of men In all the world under
stand the mathematical physics and
other scientific disciplines involved In
the release of atomic energy.
@. Was the founder Of Moral Re-
Armament trained in the ministry
D. c. w.
A. Yes. Frank N Buchanan is q
graduate Of Mount Airy Gutheran
Theological Seminary. and member
of the Lutheran Ministerium Of Penn
sylvania. Deeply moved by a simple
sermon in an English village church
one Sunday, he was inspired to begin
the worldwide movement which first
was known as Buchmanism. 1t Is nom
sectarian, and includes people Of all
creeds.
@. What is corona cigar?-W. T.
A. Though there Is some confusion
about the term, it generally applies to
any large cigar that is squarely cut OF
at the lighting end. Originally. CO.
roma was a size marking for a popu-
lar Havana cigar, and simply meant
fine"
@. Do the majority Of students who
attend college remain to GRADUATED
B. D. Y.
A. No, more than third Of the men
and women who enter college fail to
graduate. Some are drafted, some leave
for financial reasons. for reasons Of
health or because Of marriage or other
personal matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-03
Questions and Answers

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question Of fact by writing The Evening
star INFORMATION bureau, LOO Eye 81
8 cents for return postage
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Pen-ud1nes may be used If letters carry
1Driters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1954-02-19
Mason Is Requested
By Manion 70 Retain
Post on Commission
BY The Associoted Press

Clarence Manion, dismissed as
chairman of President Eisenhow-
er'S Commission on Inter-Gov-
ernmental Relations. has urged
his former colleagues to stand
fast and carry on"
DR.. Manion sent a special plea
by telegram to one member
Representative Mason, Republi-
can. of Illinois, who quit yester-
day in protest against DR.. Man
ions firing.
He said he was grateful for
"your fine compliment to me"
but asked Mr.. Mason to recon-
slider because more than ever
before. this important commits
sion now needs your wise, patri-
otic counsel in the interest of
revitalized constitutional govern
ment for the United States"
"Stand Fast" He Says.
In a statement, DR.. Manion
also urged the members gen.
orally to stand fast and carry
on" He said their work was
"nobly advanced" and they
should give it every possible
momentum in the interest of the
preservation Of constitutional
government"
DR.. Manion had said he re-
signed at the request of Sher-