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Evening star., 1954-05-29
Your House Needn't Be Dingy to Be Cool lin Summer
By Betty Lenohon

Keeping q house cool for the
summer does not mean that the
rooms must be dark and cheer
less.
There are many things that
the homemaker can do to avoid
a sultry. uninviting atmosphere.
First, there are tricks with
Venetian blinds. Keeping them
down during the hours when the
sun is high can reduce a room
temperature as much as II per
cent. Using blinds to defect the
suns rays harmlessly to the CELL
ing will not only keep the room
cool, but will. keep the furniture
from sun-fading.
Let the curtains and draperies
take a rest for the summer and
try these economical eye-catchers
on the blinds. Use the same
cheerful fabric of the slip covers
up and down the tapes Of the
blinds; sew a 7-inch-deep rufile
long enough to go across the top
of the window.
II the slip cover fabric features
roses. daisies or a lily-of-the-
valley pattern, use artificial
matching flowers to twine up and
down the tapes.
One bad mistake made by most
homemakers in the summertime
is to remove all plants to the
great outdoors. There is enough
cool greenery outside; why not
keep some indoors where it can
have a psychologically cooling
effect? One-inch lath boards.
painted white. can be fashioned
into charming windowside trel-
Uses. They can be placed at the
sides of a window. then be given
a lavish treatment of favorite
ivy or philodendron plants.
Colors that look cool are bound
to make a room feel cool. Lime
and grass green's. soft sky shades
Of blue or the increasingly popu-
lar range Of browns and earth
tones relax the indoor heat Of
summer.
White pique right from the
dress yard-goods department is
a good. crisp pickup for summer
izing pillows: touches Of white
are just as refreshing to a home
as they are to the summer ward
robe. Avoid the hot range of reds
and yellows.
Floral patterns have long been
the most popular fabric for slip
covers, but actually solid colors
are much more reStful for sum-
mer living There Is another good
reason why solid colors for slip
covers are good idea: not only
do they wear well season after
season, hut they can take on a
different look every summer II
they change the buster fabric
used on small throw pillows.
Answers to Questions.
Question-The furniture in my
den is maple. The slipcovers all
have a large leaf pattern in red,
green and chartreuse, one chair
on a black background, another
chair a light gray background
and the sofa agreen background.
I would like to paint the walls a |
deep rose; do you think that
would be all right or would you
suggest another color? Also I
would like color suggestions for
draperies and a rug.
AnSwer-With red in the slip
cover pattern would not advise
painting the wall Of your den
rose. Forest green would be a
good color as well as an excel |
lent background for the maple |
furniture. Get gray rug and
red draperies. i
QueStiOn-The walls and CELL
ing of my little girls room are
painted a medium blue and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Whut Is the American Way?

According to an article in The Sun
day Star (January 24), Senator Nc
Carthys subcommittee has found that
many Voice of America employees are
mot dedicated to the American way OF
life" It is a sad commentary on our
times that such fatuous remark is
today more alarming than amusing.
One doesn't have to know anything
about Voice" employees to realize that
such charge is vague and intrinsicaUy
meaningless. But many people will
think they know what it means and
staff.
What on earth is the American way
of life? Cam any adult seriously main
tain that there is any one way that
characterizes even tenth Of us, at any
one time, let alone majority Of us
over a span of $50 years? This phrase
is frequently used by writer's of letters
to the editor, many Of whom assert that
we are a Nation Of drunkards and sex
ual pervertS whose moral fiber has been
thoroughly undermined by 20 years of
the New Deal. Could it be that Senator
Mccarthy suspects that many Voice"
personnel live by strict Victorian
code? That they frown on divorce. cock
tail parties and women smokers? Prob
ably not Could it be that the Senator
thinks that Voice" employees, charged
with explaining America to the world,
with the Soviet prison state their chief
opponent. do not have deep enough
respect and love for American tradi-
tons of law; that they are too hasty
to accuse without proof; that they dis
approve of due process of law and
Anglo-Saxon concepts of the rights of
the accused?
Certainly our legal system is one OF
our chief ornaments, and one could
expect a Senator to take this pretty
seriously. Or perhaps Senator Mccarthy
thinks Voice" personnel too conform
list in their attitudes. In a Nation so
proud of such men as Thomas Jeffer-
son. Abraham Lincoln, Henry Thoreau
and Mark Twain. this would be dam
aging charge. Probably not enough ir-
reverence in their attitude toward pre-
vailing modes of thought. Perhaps his
charge is occaSioned by the thought
that Voice" does not brag of how a
powerful and essentially conservative
labor movement has grown here from
foundations constructed by tough and
frequently radical-minded men. Maybe
by ignoring our often violent and
bloody labor history they lend credence
to Communist charges that all we have
is company unions.
AS a Nation, we've tanned down con-
siderably, and it could be that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
By Charles E. TroceweN

forms the creatures have assumed over
the l7-year period in the ground These
changes take place roughly over three
years.
BY the time the complete period is
up, something prompts the new locusts
to come to the surface.
They are cautious. however. They
do not bore up from below the front
line and come right out, as you might
expect, but dig their tunnels and look
the land over. They show the innate
caution of living things When they
do emerge (the date probably will be
May IA, 1870 they shed their skins,
which remain behind on shrubs or trees,
and then ascend as quickly as possible
to the heights.
Their life in the sun is only about
month, but in that time they sing
tremendously, enjoy the world to the
full, and then start the cycle all over
again. The old ones die, and the new
ones float to earth, to dig in below the
frost line and to remain there for
another II years.
In all these changes, they eat only
sap. The grubs eat the sap of roots.
and the matured eat the sap of trees
and shrub branches. No real damage
is done. If you are alive in 1870. re-
member this. and do not yowl about
the damage" the locuSts do. They do
so little it is not worth considering.
What they bring is sense of wonder
at Gods creations, which the people
of 1910 will need as badly as we need
it TODAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Hardly a LoophoIe

It is surprising that Attorney General Brow
nell should now be saying that he is going to
ask Congress to close "loophole" in the statute
under which Herbert A. Bergson, former Assist
ant Attorney General, was indicted, tried and
acquitted by directed verdict. For Mr.. Bergson
was not cleared as result of any loophole in
the law He was acquitted because he was
brought to trial under an erroneous interpre-
tation of the statute, made by Mr.. Brownell.
The law in question is known as the con-
dict-of interest statute. 1t makes it unlawful
for a former Government lawyer, within two
years after leaving the Federal service, to prose-
cute any 'claim" against the United States con-
corning any matter with which he was directly
connected while working for the Government.
In an Interpretation issued last August q, Mr..
Brownell said that any "claim" should be inter-
preted broadly enough to encompass any mat
ter in which the United States has any interest
whatsoever"
It was this Interpretation which led to the
Indictment Of Mr. Bergson. And it is this inter-
probation which now has been rejected, by Fed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
This and That

IA, 1910, when the peridocia cicadas
will again come up in the Washington
area.
But first they will have made their
observation tunnels, exits, gateways to
their new world of light and sound.
It will be easy for the knowing to
rejoice with them. but all too many
will revile them, and set up the old
cries, that they are destructive, unclean
and pests of the first water.
Actually, the seventeen-year locusts,
as they are mostly called, even by
scientists, are not in the least destruc-
tive, eat only sap, and are the cleanest
of all insects.
AS for being pests, they are not in
any sense, but are very close to mir
acles.
The observation posts often resemble
little towers of hard baked mud. which
may be lifted whole and kept as
souvenirs.
Others are simple holes in the ground,
which might be made by many insects,
but If they are seen in May. 1910,
will be Of locust construction.
No one knows exactly what the
strange creatures are up to in building
them. so probably the idea that. they
are observation centers is as good as
any.
These holes and towers of mud will
begin to appear early in May. and
may be seen. both in lawns and in bare,
earth, especially in terraces and the
like.
They are the climax of five different
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30

eral Judge Charles F.. Mclaughlin In effect.
the Judge said that the meaning which the
Attorney General tried to distill from the word
claim" was "unrealistic" and devoid Of "com-
mon sense"
Perhaps there are sound reasons why q
lawyer leaving the Government service should
be forbidden for two years to handle any matter
In which the United States "has any interest
whatsoever" This cannot be accomplished,
however, by plugging nonresident "loophole"
in the statute. The law itself will have to be
largely rewritten and If that is to be done it
should be done by act of Congress. not through
some process Of Interpretation in the Attorney
Generals Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Labor Politics

CIO President Walter Reuther is indulging
himself in a familiar type of partisan dema-
goguery in charging President Eisenhower with
"a deep-seated anti-labor prejudice"
Criticizing most of the Presidents program
for revision of the Taft-Hartley law the labor
leader profesSed to find the most damnng evil
dence of prejudice in the proposal that the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board should supervise
a worker vote on each strike CALL Behind this
and other suggestions, Mr.. Reuther charged, is
the approach of the National Association OF
Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of
Commerce and the "anti-union employers"
Actually, the Presidents strike-vote pro-
poSal has been received without enthusiasm in
most quarterS-businesS or labor-and it stands
a very good chance of being abandoned before
Taft-Hartley amendments finally are enacted
At best, it probably would be an administrative
nightmare to the NLRB and require large
expansion of the agency. On the whole how
ever, the Presidents proposals would tend to
make the Taft-Hartley law somewhat more
favorable and acceptable to labor, fact which
hardly squares with Mr.. Reuther's exaggerated
complaint of a deep-Seated anti-labor prejudice.
It was clear in the election results of 1852
that most of the rank and file of organized
labor did not support its leadership in anti
labor charges against General Eisenhower. The
renewal of these charges on such flimsy grounds
as produced by Mr.. Reuther is not likely to be
any more effective, or damaging, politically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30

One of the brakes on human progress
is the tendency on the part of many
to know" what they do not know
at all.
No one, however, could be more
positive.
Last spring three persons were look
ing down at small holes which had
appeared in the yard since the evening
before.
What are they?" asked one.
"Seventeen-year locusts," said the
man who knew.
The third laughed scornfully.
"Ha, ha," he chortled, seventeen
year locusts! Why, they are not up
yet"
EFT is true they are not up yet"
answered the other. ''They make these
holes for lookouts. and"
"Ha, ha" scornfully laughed the
other.
The one who had originally asked
the question looked nonplussed.
Here was a man who made twice as
much money as the other, and he said
the neat round holes in the ground
were not made by locusts, or cicadas,
more properly.
The second man was right, but he
argued no more about it. He knew.
from long experience, that there was
no use.
X
In May. 1870. look around you for the
locust observation posts.
This will be about two or three
: weeks before the magic date of May
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Mr.. Boyor Talks BIuntIy

The realism and determination which
Turkey has demonstrated in postwar inter-
national affairs shine through the two addresses
made here by President Bayar For this dis
tinguished visitor, whose country has frontiers
against the Iron Curtain, didn't bother with
diplomatic words in discussing communism and
the deluSion that there Is pathway to peace
in collaboration with the Communist powers.
Turkey was the first to recognize and rebuff
the Communist threat when World War II
ended, Mr.. Bayar reminded his listeners. In
his opinion, the present inextricable situa-
tionS" have come about only because of "waver-
ing and appeasing" attitudes in other quarters
of the world. BY word and by implication the
visiting President made it clear, first before a
press luncheon in his honor on Thursday, and
then before joint session of the Congress
yesterday, that Turkey places its reliance on
strength of arms and spirit rather than on
"maneuvering on the Sidelines" or playing "the
hazardous game of neutraliSm" And, step by
step, he spelled out where this strength lies
from the Turkish viewpoint-and how it must
be not only preserved but increased.
1t lies first of all, in keeping Turkey strong,
because IAN ally who depends on others for her
defense is not an asset but liability" 1t lies
secondly, in the United Nations and "the prin-
ciple of collective security evolved under its
auspices" 1t lies next in the NATO, the most
powerful association for defense that has ever
existed" 1t lies, in further part, in the Balkan
alliance formalized last year among Turkey,
Greece and Yugoslavia pact which provides
military power "in a Strategicaly sensitive
spot"
That Turkey does not consider herself
silent partner or mere beneficiary in the
collective security effort was obvious in several
of Mr.. Bayars remarks His country sought
membership in NATO he said, to enlist aid, but
also to play greater part in the defense Of the
free world 1t sent troops to Korea, without
hesitation, to fight for a common cause and it
proposes that the United Nations continue Gin
full force" its pledge of prompt resistance If
the Communists renew their aggression. It
proposes, too, that wide gaps" on the common
defense front be "painstakingy and effectively
stopped"
Turkey has played leading part in closing
one of these wide gaps in encouraging and par
ticipating in the tripartite Balkan treaty Mr..
Bayar feels that the most dangerous defense
vacuum now exists in the Middle East with its
oil resources so alluring to the covetouS eyes
of aggression" There has been talk, since the
Middle East Defense Command proposal begged
down, of Turkey Iraq -Pakstan defense treaty.
Although Mr.. Bayar made no direct reference
to such an alliance, his emphasis on the i'm
portanee and the vulnerability of the Middle
East suggests that Turkey may be willing to
help forge another link in the defense chain of
the nom Communist world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30

Britain is following essentially the same
line of thought as the United States in develop
ing defense policy for the "long haul" The
changes involved are aimed at two major OBJ
jectives, among others: % Savings in the use
of armed manpower and ca the achievement
of more security at less cost.
To that end-like our own country, and in
concert with us-Britain intends to reduce the
size of some of its overseas forces and to create
mobile strategic reserves trained and equipped
to deal quickly with ANY serious emergency
wherever it may arise" AS indicated by Field
Marshal Earl Alexander, Defense Minister in
the Churchill government this revised program
reflects belief that the threat of an early
about war with Russia has markedly dimin-
ished and that the world faces protracted
period of uneasy peace-a period in which it
will be imperative for the free nations to remain
militarily strong but to make sure that they do
not wreck their economies in the process.
Accordingly, again like our own country,
Britain has decided to recaSt its tactical and
strategical planning-and modify its ver-all
arms policy-in keeping with the compelling
logic of the fearsome new weapons that are
now available or in the making These weapons
undoubtedly are having revolutionary impact
on the black art of warfare, and their con-
tinuing development obviously requires a far
reaching TeduJ III MILITARY tIlhA1lS dI!u
programming. 1t is with this reality in mind
that the British, as made clear by Earl Alex
ander, are as one with us in the basic concept
of serving their own and interallied security by
relying primarily on swift and massive retala-
tory striking power-power of sort calculated
to deter aggression and provide effective, long
haul" defense at a cost that will be economically
bearable.
Our other allies in the North Atlantic
Treaty rganization-which together with the
projected European Defense Community re-
mains as essential as ever despite the changed
emphasis on air strength and the new weap-
ons-are in accord with this so-called military
new look" For it is a new look" that
promises to increase the safety of the free
world while at the same time making the inter-
allied defensive effort appreciably less expen-
Sive. Thus for one thing, it will offer a
measure of security without trying to maintain
huge, land armies to match RuSSia'S. Indeed
such armies appear to be becoming so obsoles-
cent that the Kremlin, no less than the West
must now be engaged in a searching reassess-
ment of all its past tactical and strategical
concepts.
Actually, no major country today can safely
adhere to the military thinking of the Second
World War. A-weapons, the hydrogen bomb
guided missiles supersonic planes, ETC., have
profoundly modified the meaning of air, sea and
land power, and the nation that ignores that
fact, the nation that fails to adjust its armed
strength accordingly, is nation that flirts with
suicide. That is why the United States, Britain
and all the free Western allies are preparing as
they are now for Along haul"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Worth a Trial

The centralized parking ticket and traffic
record system proposed by the District Man
agement Office is not an untried experiment
The plan has been tested in other cities, notably
Detroit with good results. 1t is in line with
standardized traffic ticket procedures recon-
mended by the American Bar Association. It
would have advantages over the present setup
that Justify serious consideration of the plan
by the Commissioners.
Actually the proposal represents combina-
ton of plans originating in the Police and Traf-
f1c Departments. Police Chief Murray for some
time has been advocating a radical reorganiza-
ton Of the parking ticket collateral system,
with a view to relieving the precincts of duties
that are quasi judicial and that take up lot
of time that might better be spent on more
serious police business. And Traffic Director
Keneipp long had wanted a central traffic
record bureau, where traffic officials police,
prosecutors and outside authorities could OBJ
tain quickly complete background of traffic
offenders
The new system would benefit motorists
who resent the inconvenience and indignity of
being booked" at police station on parking
charges. If they wish to forfeit collateral they
could do so either in person or by mail through
a central bureau at Municipal Court But one
part Of the plan would be unpopular with a
certain class of motorists. The section setting
up uniform traffic ticket" as suggested by
the American Bar Association in a recent study
of traffic fixing, would be very frustrating to
drivers who have found ways of having tickets
fixed" and also to Marylanders and Virginians
who find it easy to ignore summonses in the
District. The tickets issued to parking offenders
under the proposed system would serve the
threefold purpose of summons, central record
and court information. Ticket fixing always a
problem in a city with so many important
personages" driving automobiles, would be diff
f1cult. OF course. the motorist who wished to
protest ticket still could do so at the central
bureau, and, if unsuccessful there, could go
into court.
The centralized traffic file which later could
be expanded to cover all traffic offenses, would
enable the police to institute a follow-up ar
rangement. Tab could be kept on suburban
motorists who make a practice of throwing
away parking tickets and warrants then could
be served on the offenders at their places of
business here, police assert. That would pro-
duce more revenue from forfeited collateral,
which, with expected savings from concentrated
records, would result in substantial additional
income from traffic sources. The proposal is
certainly worth a trial in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-30
Slave Girl

The hot breath of sun still lies on the
desert night,
The call OF the jackdl echoes lonely and
far.
The little bro1Un SldUe girl sits IN the
1Deb of light
At the tent door and dreams OF an
island star.
Born of sea people, kin to coral rect.
A dark pearl caught in the sitting
desert sand
In long black hair she brG,dS Unite
moons OF grief
While hot tears spill and fall on her
slim bro,Dn hand.
The light goes out, on her goat skin bed
she lies
Under the stars. outside her masters
door,
She dreams of coral rect and ,Dindy
skies
And one lone gull Dingtng to an island
shore.
AImo Robson Hiebee
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Letters to The Star. !.

annual farm cash income is now In
excess of s. billion-or 2 of / per
cent Of the value of the product.
The National Milk Producers Fed
Grafton has proposed a elf-help pro-
gram Of dairy price sterilization and
surplus disposal under which the pro-
ducers themselves would bear the costs
through an assessment on all milk and
butterfat sold from the farms. This
would relieve the taxpayer and free
the producer from his present depend
ence on Government supports-sup-
ports which farmers must perforce ac-
cept today in order to stay in business.
E. Nj. Norton.
Executive Director, National Milk
Producers Federation.
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Safer School Hours

We all are cor should be- interested
In safety. have noticed that in order
for school children to reach school by
am. many of them leave home about
am. This means that more children
and school buses are moving in and
out of traffic in the morning work rush
hour
Therefore, in the interest of safety
and preservation of young lives as we'll
as easing the driving burden during
the rush hour. it is hoped that con-
Sideration will be given to the following
plan:
Open all public. parochial and private
schools at $50 am. and close them at
$3.50 instead of at three. In other words
open and close school one-half hour
later than is presently being done.
j. E. Hofmann.