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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
MARYLAND Tax Plan
Your April 8 editori

Your April 8 editorial. en-
TITLED while Washington
Worries" seems to congratu-
late the State of Maryland for
acting promptly and effec-
lively to meet just such a
financial dilemma as that now
confronting the District"
This laudable 90 action of
creating a highly artificial So
called windfaI by "telescop-
ing" regular income tax pay
ments for 1854 with new with
holding requirements and adj
vance installment payments
for 1855, may look very de-
lightful in theory. But in the
everyday realistic language of
those who are being arbitrar-
lily "telescoped" it means that
during one year we are to pay
income taxes for two years.
Not many citizens will see
anything commendable in the
fact that our elected author
tiles have allowed such a
serious financial dilemma" to
develop in the States budget
that they must throw a diff
cult dislocation into the per-
sonal budget of every income
tax-paying citizen in Mary
lands Moreover this nonre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Our Friends at Bonduno

It is heartening to note how the
United States and the West as a whole
have been defended, and how communism
has been assailed both directly and indi-
rectly, by several of the leading partici-
pants in the Asian-African conference at
Banding. Certainly, If the Red totalitar-
ians have had hopes of converting this 20
nation meeting into great propaganda
victory for themselves, they must now feel
more than little bit disillusioned
For men like Foreign Minister Fadhil
Jamali of Iraq, General Carlos Romulo of
the Philippines and Premier Mohammed
Ali of PakiStan have made clear, with UNI
common vigor and eloquence, why the
countries represented at Banding have far
more to fear from communism than from
the fast-diSappearing remnants of West
ern imperialism" Mr. Jamali, while
sharply criticizing all such remnants, has
been particularly explicit and emphatic
on this point. AS he has put it, the total
itarianism of Moscow and Peiping, besides
being prime source of international
tension, "confronts the world with a new
form of colonialism much deadlier than
the old one"-a menace grimly demon
strated by what has happened to the Baltic
states, Poland, CZechoslovakia and numer-
Gus other once-free lands now living in
terror and Subjugation behind the Iron
Curtain.
Premier Chou En-lai of Red China
has listened to all this with show of
outward calm and polite impassiveness.
Moreover, surprisingly enough, he has re-
sponded to 1t with a personally unchar-
acteristic address, rather soft-worded
al fn;% ofr Ia
ness and Cancellation not heretofore
observed in him. Thus, although accusing
the United States of trying to overthrow
the Mao Tze-tung regime and of being re-
sponsible for increasing war dangers, he
has told the Banding conferees that Pei
ping is anxious to coexist peacefully with
everybody. To that end denying that the
Chinese Reds have subversive or aggressive
designs on neighboring countries, he has
declared his governments readiness to
"normalize" diplomatic and economic re-
lations wherever 1t can in Africa and Asia.
And at the same time, in deliberate
manner, he has refrained from ranting
threatfully-aS is his custon-about Glib
Grating" Formosa
In resorting to this somewhat concili-
atory tone of speech, Mr.. Chou may have
been only play acting. Conceivably, how
ever, the change may reflect desire in
Peiping to be less unreasonable about
lot Of things. And If that is the case, then
the development is a significant one at
tributable at least in part-as General
Romulo has said-to the fact that there is
"a strong prodemocratic alignment" at
Banding. Accordingly, to that extent,
there is reason to hope that our friends
there, by holding fast to the line they have
taken, will make an important contribution
to the cause of peace and freedom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20

Democracy can go no
farther. Templeton Jones
thought.
He was reading an ad of a
record music society, Offering
40 immortals of jazz or clas-
sizes"
Pay your money and take
your choice.
The immortals of jazz and
the classics were presented in
parallel columns.
In jazz, Coleman Hawkins,
Art Tatum, Eddie Condor, Sid
ney Bechet, Enroll Garner,
Dizzy Gillespie, Teddy Wilson,
Pee Wee Russell, Jack Tea
garden, Charlie Parker.
In classics - without first
names - Mozart, Beethoven,
Brahms, Berlioz, Vivaldi,
Wagner, Bach, Dukas, Nous
sorgsky and Chopin.
y y X
The tables of immortals
were so placed that the fol-
lowing paired.
Hawkins and Mozart.
Tatum and Beethoven.
Condor and Brahms.
Bechet and Berloz.
Garner and Vivaldi.
Gillespie and Wagner.
Wilson and Bach.
Russell and Dukas.
Teagarden and MousSorgsky.
Parker and Chopin.
X 4 X X
If this grouping seems bit
strange, consider how it would
look in just first names:
Coleman and Wolfgang.
Art and Ludwig.
Eddie and Johannes.
Sidney and Hector.
Enroll and Antonio.
Dizzy and Richard.
Teddy and Johann.
Pee Wee and Paul.
Jack and Modesto.
Charlie and Frederic.
4 n X X
Take your choice of the i'm
mortals. and have good list
ening time.
Everything complete to the
last note.
The leveling power of de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Triple Tuxotion

Your paper stated recently
in an editorial concerning CHA
headquarters that: Certainly
Prince Georges and Montgom-
cry Counties should not be
ignored If some suburban site
is to be selected"
I am sure that any employe
living in the District would say
that they should be utterly
ignored by all Government
agencies so long as the State
of Maryland imposes an in
come tax on District residents
who are so unfortunate as to
have to cross the line to work
in Maryland.
Considering the inter-rela-
tionships between Maryland
and the District, which should
be cooperative and reciprocal,
this tax constitutes not only
triple taxation for D. C. resi-
dents, but is an un-American.
unfriendly, unneighborly. and
strictly unsportsmanlike act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Federal Hoordinq

The Hoover Commission, for the Sec
ond time, has called attention to the waste
and absurdities that can develop in the
Federal Government when one arm does
not know what the other is doing. Both
the first and second commissions have
found inexcusable examples of stockpiled
SURPRISES far beyond the practicable needs
of the hoarders. The excuses are more
inexcusable today than they were several
years ago, when the situation first was
criticized by Hoover task force.
The latest report to Congress on this
subject complains of mountainous accu-
mutations" of supplies, especially among
the military agencies. 1t is natural and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Freedmen's Situation

Inc plgnL OF The OlSLrlCL OF
Columbia General Hospital,
which was described in The
Star of April IL, appears to
be an expression of the lack
of interest which the commu-
nifty. and particularly the
Commissioners, have concern
ing the adequate care of the
INDECENT and the medically in
digent in the District.
Two years ago the District
of Columbia Survey of Medical
Care for the INDECENT and Re-
lated Services. headed by Will
liam E. Leahy. recommended
that a comprehensive program
for the care of the INDECENT
should be developed for the
District. using all the hospital
facilities in this area. Thus
far nothing has been done and
many of our hospital facili-
ties are not being adequately
used. The situation at Freed
mems Hospital lis a case in
point. as may be seen from
the following:
Cd Although Freedmen's
Hospital has an emergency
service open "a hours a day.
the Commissioners have re-
quested that no ambulance
cases be taken to Freedmen'S
Hospital;
(2) Although Ere e d mems
Hospital has some 81 out-pa-
tent clinics, the Commission
ers have requested that no new
District INDECENT patients be
treated in any of these clinics,
and have even requested that
INDECENT patients who have
been coming to these clinics
for a number of months or
years be transferred to the
D. C. General Hospital;
CD Although there is a list
of tuberculosis cases awaiting
disqualification. approximately
40 beds in the tuberculosis
annex at Freedmen's Hospital
are empty and not being used.
I should like to recommend
that the District Commission
ers make an effort to use all
existing hospital facilities in
the District Of Columbia, to
the end of providing adequate
comprehensive and continuous
medical care for the indigents
in the District.
Paul B. Cornely, MD,
Medical Director, Department
Of Health. Education ant
Welfare, Freedmen's Hos.
pital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Young Girl

Not yet a Won,an, scarcely
stal a child.
She has the charm OF both,
the loneliness
OF dark eyes tender to each
least distress
OF little creatures, either
tame or Wild;
And dark. abundant hair In
shining fail
Upon her shoulders and her
blossom cheek
Dark hair With olinting
gold. but straight and
sleek,
Without a iDaue or any curl
at all.
And she is merry as a mind
tedsed foDer,
Mysterious as a faint, sDeet
crescent moon,
DelriouS, dionifed, each In
an hour,
Her moods stpitt-ristng. and
SubSidtng soon.
April tncarnate, beautiful and
feet.
With tossing hair and Swiftly
flying feet.
Moro D. Cunningham
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20

HENRY PITTIER Ma
TIONAL PARK, Venezuela
Giant moths whose green
wings have a spread of
ten inches flutter in the
pale moonlight of the mist
shrouded jungle. They beat
against the windows of the
ghoul-haunted old Spanish
fortress, headquarters Of this
jungle biological reserve, where
they are attracted by the
lighted candles inside; and
they seem to detach them
selves from the moonlight out
side-bits of the moonlight
itself suddenly given bodies
and wings.
These moon moths lead
precarious lives. At least five
species of bats live on them.
But their numbers seem never
to diminish.
Here are a giant grasshopper
with an eight-inch spread of
scarlet wings, great white
cricket that lives in treetops,
a spider that spins cobwebs
in mango trees that are
camouflaged to look like bird
nests, presumably as a protec-
ton from birds that feed on
spiders; brown tarantulas with
ten furry legs attached to
bodies as big as a silver half
dollar.
And here are giant beetles,
dynastes Hercules, with a horn
half again as long as it's body,
vicious creature which fights
like a japanese wrestler; a
brown, black and white mantis
with legs more than six inches
long, and beetles that wear
overcoats of green lichen.
ALI Sorts of Insects
This jungle in the clouds
is full of all sorts of fantastic
insects. To the casual visitor
they are the most conspicuous
forms of animal life. They
hover about everywhere in the
jungle gloom or leave evil
dences of their presence, such
as the holes, almost the size
OF northern woodchuck holes,
which are found in earth
banks and house one species
of giant tarantula.
In few places is there a
greater abundance of the
universally dreaded army
ants whose militant raiding
columns kill and devour all
living things in their paths not
alert enough to get out of
their way. The old slavery
times in this part of the world
were very evil days indeed
when one method of executing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES (. TRACEWELL

mocracy can go no farther, or
further, take your choice.
In some ways, Jones thought.
this is a good thing.
After all, music is music
or isn't it?
But to put such dissimilars
on a sort of level, is some
thing else, he kept thinking.
Music isn't as simple as all
that.
To really know music takes
more than just listening to
photograph record. or even
sitting at a concert.
u + X Il
To actually know something
about music, not just to write
it. one should study music, in
. Guiding that great basic in
'gredient, counterpart.
If we have some modern
music that many listeners do
not understand, it may have
been written by men who do
not know anything about coun-
terpoint.
So, take the music of the
masters, or the freer, IMPROVE
sational expression of the jazz
immortals, the man says.
Take the whole bunch, one
way, or the whole gang Of
classic immortals.
Both are immortal, aren't
they? 1t says so, right here.
OF course, Templeton Jones
thought to himself. music is
wide, music is wonderful, and
it is basically fine to be able
to make a choice. Probably
the poor people of Russia can't
make such a choice. It's Sho-
stakovich, with them. or MOTH
ing.
Here in gloriously free Amer
lea. one of the things we are
free to do is to like jazz, or
classics, or both.
We can play something by
Hawkins. King of the Tenor
Sax" one minutes and a few
minutes later put on a mas
terpiece" by John Chrysostom
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
"the boy wonder"
He knew something about
improvisation, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20

personal envoy to the United
States, to head the Philippine
delegation to the conference
of Afro-Asians at Banding.
This is of great significance
to the Western powers, espe-
cially the United States.
President Magsaysay, whose
crusade against the Commu-
nists in his country was highly
successful, chose another cru
sader in selecting Romulo to
go to Banding. He made his
choice because of the brilliant
and keen mind of Gen. Rom
ulo and his native and intel
ligent appraisal of Asian prob
lens.
Having Romulo at Banding
could very we'll result in
better understanding between
the East and the Western
powers and, much to the con-
sternation of the Communists,
bring about a pattern for bet
ter understanding Of mutual
ideals. Andrew X. McKelvie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Menace of Road Gangs

1t is currently the practice
in Fairfax County, Va, to en-
ploy so-called road gangs" for
various types of street repairs
throughout the county. There
are, SO the police advise me,
no restrictions on where in the
county such road gangs may
be used.
Fairfax County has grown
rapidly, is heavily populated,
and embraces numerous and
large residential areas. Yet the
primitive custom of employing
prisoners to do county work
persists.
On April II, in a heavily
populated section on the out
skirts of Falls Church, the
county was using a road gang
to smooth out the shoulders
of a narrow curve on West
moreland street. There were
between Is and 20 prisoners,
in special garb with numbers
on their shirts, watched over
by a uniformed guard holding
a shotgun across his chest.
I passed this crew early in
the morning as left my home
for work in Washington. With
a wife and three small chill
dren at home, one block away,
it was not comforting thought
that such potential danger
lurked in the neighborhood.
don't know which was the
greatest menace. the convicts
or the guard himself, who APP
parently would be helpless to
prevent an escape save for US
ing the shotgun in an area
alive with small children.
That afternoon one of the
convicts escaped. He robbed
some clothes off a clothesline
in the neighborhood and was
on the loose in the area. Of
ficers on motorcycles and on
foot were combing the area.
Mothers had called children in
from play and all doors were
locked.
The felon was finally cap
tured. No harm came from
this one instance, except for
the taxpayers money spent in
tracking him down. But the
insecurity of life in an area
where such practice is fol-
lowed should not exist in these
civilized times. Fairfax County
prides itself on it's high per
capita income. Certainly it
taxes well enough to accom-
plish, through contracts with
private concerns, the civil Jobs
1t now entrusts to prisoners
who, according to the law,
should be properly confined
and from whom society should
be adequately protected.
william v. Henzey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20

curing palliative will bring
no permanent relief from the
principles which are causing
the disease.
Collecting taxes in advance
is really an old Chinese Gus
tom which may be even now
in the process of unsupported
revival in Maryland. In the
Middle Kingdom. although
current taxes may have been
paid, Chinese warlords short
of cash are said to have de-
scended on LEGAL communities
and demanded advance pay
ment of taxes for the follow
ing year. In certain commu-
mites this process was repeated
so frequently that the finan-
cially exhausted citizens were
ultimately paying taxes SO or
60 years ahead.
However, there was at least
one form of minor tax relief
which the Chinese could exert
on their own initiative. Among
other levies there was a heavy
tax on each window in a house,
and thus a thrifty family
could automatically reduce the
expense by boarding up a num-
Der of their windows so that
these openings no longer ex-
listed for tax purposes.
Unfortunately no such easy
and immediate methods are
available to Marylanders. We
can't nail up the windows. We
can only punch the ballot, act
ing upon the distinct impress
sion that present Maryland
politicians appear to be trying
to drive her citizens elsewhere.
Alan r. McCracken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20

in California and the upper
Midwest. 1t is similar to high
grade Bible paper.
@. How does the sale Of
foreign cars in the United
States compare with sales of
domestic models?-O. B. P.
A. In their best year since
the war-1952-sales Of foreign
makes did not go over 10000.
In 1854, only about $4,000
foreign cars we're sold. COM
pared with 5la million domes-
tic makes.
@. What year corresponds
to 1855 in the Chinese calen-
dar? When did 1t begin?-D.
L. w.
A. The 4.653d Chinese year
THE Year Of the Sheep
began January %. 1855.
@. How many men enlisted
in the armed forces last year?
w. NICK.
A. Voluntary enlistments in
1854 we're as follows: Air
Force. $4,000; Army. 100, 900;
Marine Corps. $4,000: Navy,
$1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Reasons Are OverwheIninu''

A strong case for United States men,
berShip In the Organization for Trade Co
operation, newly proposed administrative
agency for the General Agreement on Tar
ifs and Trade, has been made by President
Eisenhower in a special message to Con-
greSs
Emphasizing that the organization
would have no supernatural powers-a
fear that has been widely expressed by it's
critics in Congress-the President declared
that membership in OTC would lead to
removal of discriminatory restrictions
against our exports, broaden our foreign
markets, and lead to more favorable con-
ditions for investment of capital abroad.
The United States has been party to
GAIT for the past seven years under au-
thority granted the President in the Recip-
rocal Trade Agreements Act. Neither the
agreement nor our participation in 1t has
been reviewed and approved by Congress,
however, and critics on Capitol Hill have
raised questions concerning the constitu-
tionality of our participation. In It's study
of foreign economic policy the special
presidential commission headed by Clar
ence Randall took note of this line of
criticism. For this reason, 1t recommended
that the organizational provisions of the
agreement, after renegotiation which has
Just been concluded at Geneva, be sub
mitted to Congress.
The issue cropped up most recently
during Senate Finance Committee consid-
Grafton of the House-approved bill to ex-
tend and liberalize the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act. Chairman Byrd, friend
Of the reciprocal trade principle, urged
administration spokesman at that time to
expedite presentation of the renegotiated
agreement and to clarity the proposed
obligations Of the United States If it as
sumes membership in the OTC. The Presi-
dent now has done this and has described
reasons for our membership as "over-
whelming." AS part Of the administra-
TONS long-term program for expansion Of
international trade, extension Of the Trade
Agreements Act and approval Of the &C.
neva agreements appear essential.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
I say unsportsmanlike be-

I say unsportsmanlike be-
cause I believe that Maryland
never would have imposed
such a tax if it had thought
the District would ever be al
lowed to do likewise. But
knowing that District resi-
dents are voteless underdogs
cat the mercy of Congress- /,
it can kick us around and
get by with it, while the Dis
trict gets in ever greater f.
nancial difficulties.
Your series of articles on the
tax structure and financial
plight of the District of CO.
lumbia was most enlightening,
but made me wonder why any
one lives here.
Dorothy Allen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Showing the Way

The Commissioners, properly reSpon-
sive to public sentiment, have made the
sensible decision to conduct once-for-an
charity campaign among District en-
ployes. They are thereby setting an ex-
ample that other large employment groups
may follow. If the plan gives impetus to
the developing movement to unite all or
most of the charity, health and similar
drives into one city-wide or Metropolitan
Area-wide campaign, so much the better.
The District government will hold
one-shot drive for combined causes in
September of each year. The uniflcation
is designed to reduce the amount of time
heretofore devoted by District supervisors
to a variety of solicitations for worthy
organizations and activities, as well as to
relieve employees of the almost year-round
succession of appeals. The District move
follows closely the adoption by the Amer
lean Red Cross Of new policy permitting
participation by local chapters in Com
munity Chest campaigns It also comedies
with referendum being conducted by the
Community Chest Federation on the adj
visibility of further unifying the Chest
program in Washington and its suburbs.
Questions being studied in this survey
include not only the pros and cons Of
creating an overall Metropolitan Area
Chest but of merging Chest, Red Cross and
health-research fund drives.
The supporters of the various fund
raising efforts will await hopefully the
findings in current studies The multi
plicity of drives has become confusing to
contributors and wasteful OF community
efforts. A consolidation Of campaigns and
Of the teamwork involved is long overdue
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
YoIto Leak Story

Secretary of State Dulles has sub
mitted to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee his version of the leak" of
the text of the Yalta documents to the
New York Times.
1t is a version which does not fully
jibe with other official statements on the
matter. So an unpleasant issue either Of
veracity or accuracy is raised. This cannot
be resolved, however, and it may as well be
passed over.
What remains is a clear picture Of
ineptneSs in handling a matter of more
than ordinary Importance.
According to Mr.. Dulles, he was "sur-
prised" on March 16 to learn from two
Senators that the Times was going to
publish the Yalta documents on March II.
When he got back to his Office he received
a phone call to the same effect from White
House Press Secretary James Hagerty. So
MIR. Dulles issued instructions that the
Yalta documents should be released to all
publications on the afternoon of March 16
What Is wrong with this? Simply that
the Secretary, according to his own ac-
count, learned only by chance that his
assistant, Carl w. McArdle, had given
this important document exclusively to
one newspaper. Only by accident did all
media of public information get something
approaching an even break.
Mr. McCardle was influenced by the
fact that the Times was going to publish
the full text of the ocuments-something
that very few papers could or would do.
He did not want the Yalta story to come
out in bits and pieces, and possibly in
garbled form. That Is laudable aim.
But the trouble with 1t is that the ex-
elusive release to the Times would not
have accomplished the purpose. For on the
day of publication there would have had
to be either general release or the other
papers, the magazines, and the radio and
TV broadcasters would have been forced
to pick up the documents from the Times.
So, except for one publication, Mr.. Nc
Cardle would have run the same risk Of
garbled presentation, and would have let
the State Department in for a large meas
ure of bad public relations to boot.