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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-22
BY FRANK sARTwELL

The glacial freeze on streetcal
and bus transportation here be-
gan cracking up with a wei
of late night phone calls, yawns
and hard work.
Behind the solid-ice appear
lance of the Capital Transit
strike. many had been working
during the 81 days of the
strike to make a quick thaw pos.
sible.
| The thaw struck at l:12 am
yesterday. as the union and COM
pany signed a contract.
BY 3 or $3.50 am. every mar
who could be Immediately USE
full had been routed out of bed
Autos Taken OF Tracks
The Police Department calico
lin crane operators and motor.
Icyclemen to deal with automo'
Ibiles parked on the tracks. By
1880 am, all had been removed
/ Crews Of workers appeared ii
1.-THE night at the transit com.
Ipany's Georgetown Office. wert
ISSUED tools and equiment, anc
began walking the streetcal
tracks. ......, a
All switches had to be cleaned
and oiled. Curved track ant
]third-rail slots pushed together
by heat-expanded streets had Il
be creased. Deposits Of dirt anc
gravel had to be cleaned from
some trackage.
/ Spikes, driven into the third.
rail slots to keep them oper
against the summers heat. hac
to be removed.
l Vehicles Get Checkup
And all buses and streetcar'
had to be checked to see If the!
were still capable Of taking III
where they left of 50 day
before.
With iron bars. brooms, can
of oil and buckets Of grease, II
lfour-man crews marched dowI
the miles of tracks. taking OH
the worst Of the debris, lubricat
ing tight spots and switches.
The workers were supervisor.
employes. inspectors and instruc
tors. They reported finding re
markable little trouble. Som
lin radio-equipped cars, dragget
hooks along the third-rail slo
to dislodge anything wedges
there.
: In the garages and carbarns
workers reported for duty to fin'
most Of the equipment in goo'
shape.
He Wakes Them Up
Paul DiMarzo. foreman Of tn
bus garage at Wisconsin avenu
and Ingomar street NV. hear
the news by phone at 3 am. A
6 am. he was waking up tn
other workers. BY 7 work started
, The buses had been maintaine'
throughout the strike by super
visors. Il discovered muscles
never knew I had" Mr.. DiMarz
| said.
Motors had been run 4 or
= hours apiece each five or six day
to keep UP the battery charge
Four buses that had been jam
med together so workers couldn'
/, get to them, went without. The,
ftgot new batteries yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-22
Crews Pitch in Happily
To Get Cors Moving

/ Workers cleaned the buses
checked oil and fuel, checked
brakes and doors. checked the
destination signs, which had be-
igun to rust. Then the silver
buses were run through a big
washing machine and road
! tested.
Happy to Get Back
Did It feel good to be back in
operation again?
"Oh, mani" said Mr.. DiMarzo
In the car barn adjoining
Foreman George T. Flaharty was
all alone. He creased the tracks
in front.
Called at $40 am, Mr.. Fla
harty had tried to reach two
other workers to tell them tc
come in. One had no phone. the
other didn't answer.
It didn't make much differ
ence, he said, the cars were ready
to go. They had been cleaned
over the last couple Of days. theil
batteries were charged, all they
needed was drivers.
! In similar scenes across town
the morning passed in activity
land waiting. ss.sss s'
First Car Moves Out
| At noon precisely. the frs
streetcar seen on Washington
streets since July nosed out o
the barn at Fourteenth and Eas
Capitol streets.
/ It's job. and that Of the other
that followed, was to ride owe
ALI the city's tracks, and max
sure they were passable. Tn
ears moved in groups Of two il
case one got stuck.
! No. /. driven by c. D. Hess
5808 Twenty eighth avenue
Hillcrest Heights. rolled slowl,
to Mt. Pleasant. Pedestrian
and automobile drivers stared a
it. Some cheered. Others wave,
and smiled.
/ One man walked up to tn
car as it stood at Seventh an,
IF streets NV. and said, "Wha
is this?"
/ "A streetcar," Mr.. Hess replied
/ II thought perhaps it was
strange beast and I should shoe
it," he said.
Mr.. Hess and Austin McRobie
Ia transit instructor who rod
with him. kept their eyes on tn
slot that let's the streetcar TAX
power from a conductor rail be
meath the street.
Several times they stopped t
remove Instructions. @
Switches failed to respond t
the equipment operated fror
. inside the car. Some 80 per cen
of the switches IN the city,
. was belived, would work for tn
. second car that came along. The
were just out of practice an
i perhaps a little corroded.
The drivers of the pilot car
found that areas where car
, had been allowed to park o.
the tracks were rougher wit
debris than others. but that tn
J cars had blocked of sunlight
. cutting down on heat, and thu
had lessened the squeeze Of tn
; third-rail slot.
i None of the pilot cars "pulle,
Ia plow'-ripped of the link be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-22

What are the Capital Transit
Co.'S financial prospects under
the new fare increases thai
went into effect today?
Only time will provide the full
answer to this question, both
company and District official:
said today. but there are three
points Of general agreement:
/. The fare boosts drom 16 tc
10, cents in tokens and from rs
to 80 cents in the weekly permit
were designed to produce a small
profit--or at least the chance
for one.
2. ANY actual profit will de-
pend entirely upon the accuracy
OF the Public Utilities Commits
sion's estimates Of revenues the
new fares will produce and ex-
penses the company will have to
bear.
3. II a deficit rather thar
a profit does occur, Capita
Transit will be back for still an
onther increase in fares-proh-
ably no later than the end Of
October.
Mclaughlin Optimistic
Most optimistic among Of
ficials qeiried about the pros
poets was Commissioner Roher;
E. Mclaughlin, who predicted
the company would turn out
pretty well-nothing like a S Oh
6 per cent return, but pretty
we'll"
Most pessimistic, of course
were Capital Transit officials
who adopted a wait-and-see at.
titude on the accuracy of the
utilities commission estimates.
Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Lane
who wears two hats as Distric
Engineer Commissioner and a.
a member of the District Public
Utilities Commission, said tn,
fares recommended by the utiIi.
ties commission definitely con
templated an operating profit
Under the new transit law uset
in setting the fares, the com,
mission had to recommend tn
fare schedule before the cit,
heads could approve it.
Gen. Lane said the commission
had mo basis for figuring tina
the company was not entitled T.
some profit" in considering fare
and gave this rundown on how
profit might result:
Under the old fare schedule
but not including new labor cost,
Capital Transit would have abou
broken even" for the next year
operation. Therefore, any exces
in revenues ever expenses shoul
produce figures in the black.
S1,3S0.O00 Expected
The new fares, he continued
are estimated to produce 81, $50.
900. This exceeds by $3.50, 90
the estimated $1.2 million In
creased labor cost. Any increas
in school children's fares an,
on Capital Transit lines il
Maryland would swell this fig
ure.
The Public Utilities Commits
sion was to take up the schoo
fare issue today. The most com
monty cited prospect, propose,
by a commission expert witness
was an increase from the pres
ent 3 cents to 7l2 cents a ride
Gen. Lane said this would pro
duce about 100000 more.
Gen. Lane pointed out. how
ever, that any return realize,
by the company would be sub
ject to taxes-amounting t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Too Much Talk?

Dwight D. Eisenhower is not the first
President who has concluded that little
silence might indeed be golden.
This yearning goes back at least as far
as Franklin D. Roosevelt's yearning for as
Sistants with passion for anonymity"
But executive scolding, and even edicts,
never served for long to still the clamor in
the noisy New Deal family.
President Truman had his full share of
similar troubles. And he had equally small
success in putting the quietus on his more
loquaciouS subordinates. And so it will go
with President Eisenhower.
If it is true that the peace of the world
is not being served by too much speculative
talk, that is serious matter. But where and
how is the line to be drawn? In country
like Russia any one who talks too much can
readily be disposed of. So it is possible there
to conf1ne public information more or less
to that which the government thinks the
people should have. But it is not so easy in
any free society. A President might be able
to silence his subordinates by firing everyone
who talks out of turn. But would this really
be desirable thing to do?
In our country, government must
ucpcIlO 4OI ouppOIG VII OH 1Il1OIHCu pup11C
opinion. And this can only be accomplished
if public officials can talk to the people. Is
there remedy in having the officials clear
everything they say through some central
authority? If so, who is going to do the
clearing, and how? 1t is worth remembering
that President Truman personally read and
cleared the celebrated speech by Henry
Wallace in Madison Square Garden-the
speech which outraged Secretary 'Byrnes
and led to the custer of MIR. Wallace from
the cabinet If this proves anything, 1t
merely shows that no busy public official
can possibly serve in clearing house ,capac-
ity for speeches and statements by Govern
ment officials.
All of which adds up to the conclusion
that our real choice lies between too much
and too little talk. 1t can hardly be seriously
commended that the latter would be the lesser
evil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
New Search for Local Taxes

Washington is not alone among the
cities of the country in the new search now
underway for additional sources of local
revenue. Washington is alone, however, in
the severe limitations it faces in the choice
of such sources.
The proportion of taxable area in the
District continues to shrink. There are eS-
Inmates of population loss as high as 10000
in 1854 Much of this population has moved
across iniexible District boundaries into
Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Local taxes
which tend to increase the competitive ad-
vantages enjoyed by our neighboring coun-
ties may accelerate this move to the
suburbs. While Maryland withholdS State
income tax from salaries paid in Maryland
to residents of the District, any move by
the District to apply the same principle in
reverse is in effect foreclosed by purely
political considerations. The same block
applies to. sources of revenue, available to
other self taxing jurisdictions throughout
the country, but closed to the District. In
any clash of interests between people repre-
sented in Congress (Which imposes the
taxes) and those who are not represented,
the people who hold the votes always come
out on top.
In seeking new sources of revenue to
finance pending pay increases for municipal
employees, and to meet rising operational
costs of local government, the Commission
ers hope to secure Budget Bureau support
for an increase in the Federal payment
They have the facts and the arguments,
and it is likely that they will succeed. But
any increase in the Federal payment will
be more than matched by an increase in
local taxes. Some of the sources of higher
local taxes are discussed in a series of cur
rent Star articles. The sources are not new.
They were all hashed over last year in
deciding how to distribute a tax boost ex
ceedng $12 million. But the situation re-
euires another review, and the sooner it
starts the better. The more time there is to
study the problem, the greater the chances
for relatively fair solution.
Any new local tax program must orig
mate In the House District Committee. We
are fortunate in having Representative
Howard Smith as chairman of the fiscal
subcommittee He knows the local picture.
The Star hopes, however, that Judge Smith
will invite the Senate committee to partici-
pate in joint hearings Experience has
shown that the joint hearings are productive
of the best Results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

decorating everything, from chests and
walls and back again.
But still something may be said for
just plain wood, implanted.
The aroma of good wood is something
to keep. And perhaps the best place Of
all to keep it is the attic, high above
the roadway.
A great deal has been said, too, about
the one-story house. Undoubtedly it
has its value and place in the modern
community. 1t is nothing new, except
that formerly it was called bungalow.
But did you know that there are
towns in New England not too far from
New York City, where no one-story
house may be built?
Every lot must be two acres, and
every house must be two-story
Here in the attic is the pile of old
magazines.
Honest firemen say it is a bad place
to keep them. and no doubt they are
right. as f1remen always are.
But, who, owning an attic. fresh with
wood smell, would want to miss finding
the pile of old magazines?
Looky here
Here is one of the first radio maya
zines!
Here, pictured, one finds complete
diagrams for the greatest Of all tnven-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
This and That

1t is the fashion today to put fancy
names to old things.
A young girl holding her first job in
business is no longer a clerk. Not on
your life.
She is an editorial assistant"
Let us call prying around in the attic
research" for that is what it really is.
A good attic is something more than
just place to hide chairs with broken
legs. old coffee tables, and broken down
lamps.
A real attic is storehouse of mem
cries.
Even an editorial assistant may find
much of value in the old books, papers,
trunks and whatnots kept there.
We speak of an unfinished attic.
Somehow, the carefully plastered and
papered one, complete with radiator, is
not the sort we speak of; only the I'M
finished one has the proper smell of
wood, the tang Of the implanted.
Much has been said these days about
painting.
Spring is "paint-up" time. and
great time 1t is
Modern womenfolk' have taken over
the interior painting job.
They put rag around their heads,
when they think of 1t. seize paint bucket
and brush, and have high old time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
BY Charles E. TroceweH

tions. the one tube set. burning brightly
in the night.
Perhaps the crystal set was greater,
1t is difficult at this date to decide.
Certainly no thrill ever equalled that
of the crystal. bringing in Station
KDKA as clear as bell.
Here is photo of an English scene
There are several curious looking
cylindrical towers, with curious slanted
chlmneys.
"Oast towers" says the caption.
CAST?
One has never, in lifetime, heard the
word
What a wonderful word to run onto
in an attic!
Fortunately there is a dictionary
here, too. Now let us see
"Oast-a kiln to dry hops. malt and
tobacco"
So there you are. No matter where
one can learn something, either on the
street, or in Office, in the living room,
or in the attic.
CAST, what a word!
1t comes from the Middle English ost,
akin to Danish eest, and Latin aestus,
meaning heat. OF course. of course!
See aestival," say the dictionary.
No, sir, that's too much trouble; look
it UP yourself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
GAIA and q Continuing Threat

Having examined all the evidence be-
fore it, the United Nations Security Council
now has formally condemned Israel for last
months grave outbreak of armed violence
in Egyptian-held GAIA. And what makes
the condemnation particularly impressive
in way that should have decidedly sober
ing effect on the Tel Aviv governments
that the Councils II members have voted
unanimously for it.
1t is very seldom, of course, that the
Council displays such unanimity The fact
that it has done so in this instance leaves
scant room for doubt that Israel must bear
full responsibility for the incident as an
indefenSible outrage committed in cold blood
in keeping with prearranged plan executed
by regular troops on government orders.
So the Tel Aviv authorities can hardly COM
plain effectively, or reasonably, against the
vote of condemnation, and they would be
well advised to bear in mind that any repe-
tition of such an offense conceivably could
lead to economic and other sanctions against
their country.
Yet, with that said, the fact remains
that this U. NJ decision does not end the
threat of further strife Actually, because
the Palestine truce has been repeatedly vio-
lated by mutual acts of violence, there is
not the slightest assurance that an incident
comparable to the one at GAIA will not
occur at any time, in WHICH case Egypt or
some other Arab state might well be the
guilty party meriting the same kind of
judgment as has just been handed down
against Israel. In short. the tense and fear
laden situation prevailing over there acts
as constant Indictment to serious trouble
making by both sides, and the blame in that
sense must be rather equally shared.
This is problem that cannot be solved
with condemnatory IN. resolutions or
merely by tightening border controls to
safeguard the truce. What is needed above
all, in addition to an effective answer to the
tragic plight of the refugees, is Arab will
ingness to negotiate with Israel for defini-
tive peace settlement. Quite obviously, as
long as such a settlement is lacking, the
danger of new Observation-Disclosures that
could cause a renewal of full-scale war
will be ever present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

demonstrating the Missing Link"
cabinet. More than this, its existence
was denied. How binding the moral
engagement was soon became clear.
The fact that it was not signed
treaty had nothing whatever to do
with the binding nature of an under
standing come to as result of military
and naval conversations conducted pri-
vately"
Winston Churchill, in a memoran-
dunn to the Prime Minister, on August
%, 1912, wrote: Everyone must feel
who knows the facts that we have the
obligation of an alliance without its
advantages and, above all, without its
precise definitions"
This secret agreement was eventu-
ally to embroil the whole world in war.
There can be no question. therefore,
that the deliberate denials and subter-
fuges, kept up till the last moment and
fraught as they we're with consequences
of such magnitude, constitute a page
in the history of secret diplomacy
which is without parallel and afford
a signal illustration of the slippery
slope of official concealments. There
fore, it behooves England and, Sir VIM
ston Churchill to look to their own
laurels before they bite the hand that
is feeding them.
j. X. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Vowed by Cartoon
L. B. S.

Congratulations on Glib Crockett'S
cartoon of Senator Knowiand in your
March 26 edition. 1t was WOW! It
takes me back IS or more years to the
days when. as a grammar school boy,
l aspired to be cartoonist.
I made "a drawing of Jiggs, labeled
it Senator Stanley" and pinned it on
the wall of my fathers office in the
Senate Office Building. Good old Cliff
Bergman, an ardent admirer of Dad,
happened to drop in to visit him that
day and saw the cartoon. Shortly
thereafter I received letter from Mr..
Bergman which included cartoon of
his well-known bear presenting Car
toonists' Union Certificate to a kid in
knee pants. The bear was saying;
Good work, William. Flatters the Old
Man. but you'll get over that true-to-
life stuff as you grow older"
Crockett's cartoon flatters Senator
Knowland, but then Glib is restricted
by the high standards of your news
paper. The fat USSR bear could GER
tainly use more like the gentleman
from California. He and the notorious
Junior Senator from Wisconsin make a
fair pair.
william S. Stanley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
As Iona as There's a Chance

The "Secret" fve-power disarmament
talks in London still continue, but most
signs indicate that they are headed for the
same futile end as marked the same sort Of
talks in the same place last year. And
the reason for this discouraging but not
unexpected situation is that the Soviet
Union-up to now at any rate-has shown
no evidence of good faith.
Instead, almost from the very start OF
these talks some weeks ago, Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko-the Soviet dele
gate, who now has been succeeded by Jacob
Malik-has "leaked" distorted versions of
the discussions to such propaganda outlets
as the London Daily Worker and the Tass
press agency. The latest and worst of his
offenses in that respect has been his "inter-
view" deliberately and grossly rhisrepre-
senting the western disarmament position.
All this has been rightly described by
the other delegates-despite the formal de-
NAL by the Russian Foreign Ministry-as
a premeditated libel and fragrant VIOLA
ton of the secrecy rules to which the five
powers, acting as subcommittee OF the
United Nations Disarmament Commission,
pledged themselves before undertaking the
current talks. Moreover, while thus break
ing his word, Mr. Gromyko has insisted on
the Kremlin's old and clearly unacceptable
plan under which the Soviet Union, after
the outlawry of atomic-hydrogen weapons,
would be insured great superiority over the
West in terms of mass armies.
In such circumstances, with the "leaks"
obviously designed to spread false propa-
ganda, and with the Russians apparently
determined to keep on blocking progress to-
ward an agreement, there is ample reason
to suspect that the present Soviet aim is to
goad the western powers into breaking off
the London talks and thus enable Moscow
to make phony charges accusing them of not
wanting disarmament. But they are not
falling for any such possible trap; on the
contrary, they have emphasized their in
tenton to keep the discussions going in the
hope that maybe the Russians can be per-
suaded to grow a bit more reasonable.
AS matters stand, Of course, that hope
seems to be altogether forlorn. Yet, In view
of Premier Bulganinls interesting response
to President Eisenhower's recent comment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
william S. Stanley.
Good Book

would like to express my apprecia-
ton for the front-page display The Star
gave to the Yonan Codex New Tesla
ment of the Bible.
There seems to be general move
ment throughout the country for people
to read and study the Bible, the one
safe and sure guide in religious matters,
and to the extent that we study this
Book of Books and follow its teaching
we will be approved by the God of High
Heaven Solomon said, righteousness
exalteth nation: but sin is reproach
to any people," proverbs xiv, 34.)
One of the main reasons the United
States is such great nation is because
the Bible has such wide circulation and
is loved and respected by so many
people Of our country. The Word of
the Lord is for all people, individually
and collectively. Jesus told His apostles
to go into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature. Mark xvi, $50
In this connection it is worthy of
note that where the Bible is not circu-
lated freely among the people at large,
there is spiritual darkness over the land.
May the time never come when we will
be forbidden here in America to make
a careful stlldy of the Oracles of God
or be too busy in ether matters to do So
Most all of the great statesmen of
this country have regarded the Bible
as the one book for all people to study
and make part of their daily lives, and
l am exceedingly glad that the Presi-
dent 0f 0Jlr Nation t0ok time ont frnm
his many other important duties to
view this outstanding copy of the New
Testament Truly, the Bible is the light
of the world.
Bible Student,