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Evening star., 1955-09-15
THIS AND THAT
.1@ By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

This is particularly obnox-
'ious. it seems. to many of the
older folk.
Some Of them try to get
around it by pretending they
do not see the draped arms,
appearing over the back of the
seat.
Others make noises vaguely
reminiscent Of 'tsk," supposed
somehow to represent the odd
sound produced by a censo-
rious mind working at high
pressure behind a withered
pair of lips.
We have always thought old
ladies were vaguely slandered
by such a combination as
"tsk."
1t grew into prominence in
the more sophisticated New
York magazines, where it was
regarded as indicative of things
not quite right with the older
generation, curious bipeds
which still liked Longfellow
and Whittier.
"Tsk. tsk," they whispered.
watching Jimmie and Mary
holding hands at the corner. as
if they had never seen such a
thing in their lives. Maybe
they hadn't, that was the sad
part of it. But perhaps they
had. too, and never once even
dreamed of saying "tsk" at
such a sight. g 30
The old ladies, Heaven, bless
them. knew a thing or Two in
their day. and know a thing or
two still. y
The dry dust Of time may
corrode, their bones, but not
their minds and hearts; and
that is a very fine thing to re-
member, especially. when you
see a very young couple start
ing out on the journey the old
ones have almost completed.
The road is remarkably plain,
and, the first part of it is
sunny and bright. Who would
want to take a ray of it away
from the beginners?
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Ad and Administration

Gen. Eisenhower and his
Secretary of Labor recently
came out with some beautiful
phrases in regard to the hiring
of people past 40 years Of age.
On September Z, a classified
ad in The Star invited ap-
plicants to apply for the posi-
ton of "stockroom clerk
messenger" starting at a
reasonable. salary, with the
stipulation that rs years was
the top age limit.
Readers will be interested to
learn that the employer in this
case is Gen. Eisenhower's own
Army and Air Force Motion
Picture Service.
I made an effort to apply for
this job but by the time I
ascertained who the employer
was, explored the possibility Of
waving the age limit Il am a
veteran, aged Al and filled
out the necessary forms. the
Job had already been filled.
Joseph p. Savage.
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Keeps Up With Jones

The September Star car
ried a letter by Lloyd w. Jones,
staff director Of the Republican
Policy Committee, which at
tempts to revive the discred-
tied Policy Committee report
OF last March.
Mr.. Jones claims there were
no security violations in that
brochure, saying "just be-
cause Democratic Congressman
Melvin Price Of Illinois charged
this report contained security
breaches doesn't make it So"
I noted with interest that
The Star itself followed the
Jones letter with an Editors
Note" which pointed out Presi-
dent Eisenhower himself la
beled the pamphlet a security
blunder. And that "he de-
clared that at least he would
not have disclosed some of the
material in the pamphlet"
I write this letter because I
am fascinated by the minds
of the Republican propaganda
people. Certainly, Mr.. Jones
knew that the charges I made
on the floor of the House were
proven: proven by the Presi-
dent of the United States him.
self.
Yet Mr.. Jones, imbued with
this Republican philosophy of
"if you tell it often enough
the people viii believe it," at
tempts to whitewash the Re-
publicans' use of security ma.
terial for political purposes.
A review Of the Republican
1852 presidential campaign
will disclose ample evidence Of
this Republican keep on
tellin' 'em and they'll believe
it" technique. And we are now
about to see this system put
into high gear for the 1856
campaign.
MFR. Jones letter tells the
people more about Republican
tactics than he thought it
would. Melvin Price,,
Representative from Illinois
Evening star., 1955-09-15

@. Are underground water
ing systems for lawns prac-
tical? Isn't the hose likely to
rot?-G. U. N.
A. These systems are prac-
tical if properly installed. and
they are not hard to install.
They are flexible plastic or
rubber pipe. which is likely to
last considerably longer than
ordinary garden hose, since it
is not walked on. bent, or sub
jected to the rays of the sun.
@. What does it cost a truck
in tolls to travel the full length
of the Pennsylvania. Turnpike?
%. L. A.
A. For 4Ae most commonly
used size of truck, tolls now
come to about $23. The
State has recently raised tolls
on these trucks by about SO
per cent. Under previous rates
the cost would have been about
$l7.50.
Evening star., 1955-09-15
THE POLITICAL MILL
G. O.,P. Cunning for Hartman
By GOULD LINCOLN

Gov. Ayerell Hartman of
New York is getting ready to
run for President. according
to all reports. Some of his
supporters are saying that
Averell will defeat Adlai-the
1852 standard bearer-if the
latter seeks denomination in
the 1856 Democratic National
Convention. They say, too,
that Gov. Hartman is encour-
aging his own buildup-while
temporarily saying publicly he
is for Mr.. Stevenson's renom-
nation that he has informed
Mr.. Stevenson he will listen
to a demand for him to run.
With all this in mind, New
York Republican leaders are
getting ready to cut Gov. Har-
riman down. They say they'd
love to have Gov, Hartman
bob up as the Democratic pres
idential nominee next year.
Republican State Chairman
L. Judson Morhouse. energetic,
hard-hitting . and youthful
G. o. p. leader in the Empire
State. opened up on Gov. Har-
riman with both barrels at
barbecue meeting Of the farm
ers Of Delaware. Ulster, Sulli-
van and Orange Counties, at
Woodbridge. last Sunday, He
compared the record of the
Eisenhower administration in
the national field to the record
of the Hartman administra-
ton in New York, declaring
that never have the people
Of New York been so quickly
disillusioned as they have been
by the return of New Deal So
cialism in the Hartman ad-
ministration--it Is the States
most ineffective administra-
ton in 40 years--42 years to
be exact"
Hits Democrats
Chairman Morhouse added:
President Eisenhower inher-
tied a scandal-ridden, demor-
aiized Federal Government
that was reeling under the ac-
cumulated deficits Of the New
Deal and Fair Deal and suffer-
ing a political hangover from
the widest spending spree in
history. President Eisenhower
cut Federal spending by $40
billion reduced taxes by. 81
billion, expects to reduce taxes
next year, has brought the
budget close to balance and
has given the people clean,
efficient government that
knows definitely where it is
going and what it must and
will do for the people,"
Turning a critical tongue on
the Hartman administration,
Mr.. Morhouse continued; Gov.
Hartman was bequeathed by
the Republicans in New York
a State government that had
one-third of a billion dollars
in the bank and had provided
broad, new social services with
reduced taxes. Gov. Hartman
scarcely had taken the oath of
Office before he demanded a
record tax increase of $127
Is
Evening star., 1955-09-15

Every city has its hand
holders. as well as its Office
holders.
Few cities have as many as
Washington.
= For this has become the
great sightseeing town of the
country, and toward it lovers
seem to gravitate.
They hold hands walking
along Pennsylvania avenue, at
the Capitol and in the Senate
gallery.
They hold hands while
watching the monkeys and
bears at the National Zoolog-
ical Park.
They even drape their arms
around each other in public
vehicles, and what goes on
on benches in the parks
is another story.
X X \
But what do honest lovers
do when they come to one of
these revolving doors folded
back in warm weather to make
a dividing panel in the middle?
Templeton Jones was stand
ing on the steps of The Star
Building the other day, when
he saw a hand-holding couple
come along.
They held hands shamelessly,
at least Jones thought so,
being a product of the old days,
when hand holding was done
in the parlor mostly. not on
the public streets.
He watched them. and re-
joiced as some Of the old do,
at today's days and ways.
After all, it is only doing
what comes naturally, as the
song goes.
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They were starting to go
through the door.
Would they both slide
through one side, still holding
onto each other, or would they
reluctantly. part, for two sec
ondS? .. ,.sat
Templeton Jones watched
with bated breath for which
he is famous: A'@
For 30 years he has been
watching such small events,
in part through being a curious
individual. and partly because
he is a student of the major
biped of this planet.
He likes the minor bipeds,
the birds, but when it comes
to a real interesting species,
give him Homo Sapiens, every
time. .... s.n s~at
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Well, to hold the suspense
no longer, here is what the
loving couple did.
They uncoupled hands for
two seconds, and one went
through the north side, and
one through the south.
Jones breathed easier, and
went his way, having once
more made a small but never
theless interesting observation.
Perhaps not all young cou-
Piles do the same.
No doubt the next time this
phenomenon occurs, the units
thereof. siblings in some family.
will squeeze through one side
Of the door together.
What irks Templeton Jones
the most in today's brand of
loving couple is when they are
on q bus.
Evening star., 1955-09-15

million, allowed State services
and many vital programs to
bog down and set the tone of
his administration by indeci-
sion, and inaction or inability
to cope quickly and effectively
with the problems that con-
front the chief executive of
the most populous and progress
sive State of the Union"
Tax Increase
In a bill of particulars. Mr..
Morhouse said that Gov. Har-i
riman, overriding Republican
opposition, had increased the
personal income tax by II per
cent and the tax on small, un-
Incorporated businesses by 25
per cent; that State revenues
are running $50 million ahead
of estimates, proving that his
tax increase was unnecessary.
Even so," added Mr.. Nor
house, Mr.. Hartman has in
dicated he will call for a
second round of tax increases
next year." He said that Gov.
Hartman had gone off to Eu-
rope when Democratic Con-
gressmen from New York
were defeating Mr.. Eisen-
hower's Federal highway bill
which would have provided
New York with 81 billion more
than the Democrat Gore bill,
and would have reimbursed
New York at least $500 million
for "througi1way" costs. He
charged the New York water.
front strike could be "attrib-
uted largely to the gangster-
influenced LAS confidence it
could make a deal with the
Harr imam administration"
And he charged, too, that Gov.
Harrinlan's Public Works De-
partment was firing all nom
civil service employees over 20
years of age, while Hartman
was expressing sympathy for
the oldsters' plight.
Mr. Morhouse, while in
Washington for the recent
meeting of Republican State
chairmen, expressed. never
theless, an opinion that Gov.
Hartman was the "likeliest"
presidential nominee of the
Democratic Party. I'VE de-
feated Adlai Stevenson in New
York in 1852" he commented.
giving Eisenhower a lead of
$4,000 votes. In eight short
months, the people of New
York have seen enough Of Mr..
Harriman's kind of botched-
up government to give Presi-
dent Eisenhower a plurality of
more than million votes over
Hartman next year"
Mr.. Morhouse was confident,
too, that the Republicans
Would defeat Senator Lehman,
Democrat. who is up for re-
election next year. He men,
toned a half dozen potential
nominees for the Senate, in
cluding Attorney General Jaw
its-who defeated Franklin D.
Roosevelt. jr., last year. And
he added, Don't forget we
have Tom Dewey"
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Greek Protest

In your editorial OF sep
tember 8. you attribute the
unprecedented violence against
the lives, property and reli-
gious institutions of the Greek
minorities in Istanbul and
Smyrna to retaliation" and
vengeance" over purported
attacks against Turks living
in Greece.
I would like to state most
emphatically that at no time
has there been any violence
whatever against Turkish ma
tionals or Turkish minorities
anywhere in Greece. Quite to
the contrary. extraordinary
measures were taken by the
Greek government to insure
that no Turk in Greece would
come to harm either in his
person or in his property. The
only regrettable incident re-
corded occurred in Salonika
during the night of Septem-
ber 6, when an unknown per-
son threw a stick of dynamite
in the gardens of the Turkish
consulate. The explosion shat
tered a few window panes
which were promptly replaced
by the Greek authorities.
You will agree that, in all
fairness, neither the Greek
government nor the Greek
people as a whole can be
blamed for the criminal acts
Of one individual. 1t is yet to
be proved that this individual
was a Greek. An investigation
was Immediately started and
five persons are now being
held for questioning. The
Greek press was unequivocal in
its condemnation Of the in
cident and the Turkish consul
at Salonika repeatedly ex-
pressed his satisfaction for
the promptness and thorough
ness Of the Greek govern
ment's action.
/ now ask you to compare
this incident to the wholesale
destruction and terrorism in
Istanbul and Smyrna, where
over 35 million dollars worth
of damage was inflicted on
Greek property. 80 Greek Or
thodox churches were sacked,
IA churches completely de-
stroyed and over 300 persons
injured. Two orthodox bishops
are on the casualty list, one in
critical condition.
There Is no excuse for such
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Autumn Sonnet

God has giDen US another
autumn,
Time to harDest each apple,
pear. and plum;
To vie,o the Woodlands techni-
color ShoD
And haze hearts Uarmed by
cl,rySGnthemuns' OloD.
The mountains are tOearino
their misty ueilS;
AsterS and ooldenrods trim
SylUGn trails.
Cornshocks standing are
Indian tepees
In punpkin-StreDn fields like
oold-broipn tapestries.
After eDening has come tUith
a frosty tread,
A moon OF Furnished SilUer
CLEANS o'erhead.
Stars ti1inkle their lullabieS
all night long
And somewhere near sounds a
tDhippoor,Dilrs song.
So much magic beauty noD
greets the eues
OF all those souls tDho are
autumn -UiSe.
EorIe J. Gront
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Beneficial Delay

Competition which has developed
over the Area B reconstruction project in
Southwest Washington Is highly encour-
aging. 1t means that the District Rede-
velopment Land Agency will have a wider
choice of plans and can afford to be dis
eliminating in its selection of contrac-
tor. The Southwest slum-clearance and
rehabilitation enterprise should benefit
from the contest among the bidders.
There are now three groups of private
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Torture School,

Our whole Nation has been
shocked to learn Of the Air
Force torture school," for pos
Sible future POWs.
After the explanations Of the
officers in charge have been
heard, some seem to think the
treatment of the men is not
as barbarous and cruel as it
had been painted il. the article
which brought it to the Ma
tion's attention. But here is
the fact to which this writer
cannot give his assent.
BY establishing such a school
in our armed service, and set
ting up a code Of conduc. for
POWs. they are acting as
though they expect to allow
future enemies to violate every
rule of civilized warfare.
Have we learned nothing
since the horrible treatment of
our own POWs, that we must
revert to the tactics Of the
Communists? Isn't it high
time someone taught these
barbarians a lesson in civilized
manners?
Today, ambassadors Of all
countries are treated courte-
ously. even when diplomatic
relations art severed and war
is declared between their ma
tive land and the country
where they are stationed. Ju-
Illus Caesar brought that
!, about. After the Veneti, a CAL
lie tribe. had imprisoned and
enchained ENJOYS he had sent
to them. He built a feet, raised
an army. invaded their coun-
try, defeated them in battle
and made them pass under
the yoke" "the symbol of be-
coming slaves, in order that
the name Of a Roman ambas-
ador might be respected"
II we are forced into war. let
us end this 1855 barbaric treat
ment of civilized men. by de-
claring any nation that par
ticipates in such horrors as
our returning POWs have re-
ported will be made outcasts
among nations. Stop all trade
until they have learned their
lessons. and when they feel the
pinch Of trade, it will hurt
more than placating them with
good American dollars. and &C
cepting them in the United Ma
tions with only a slap on the
wrist.
Walter b. HaiSlip.
Evening star., 1955-09-15
TonsorioI Lament

Now that they've increased the price
Of haircut to $1.50, BARRIERS hereabouts
are likely to find more than few of
their clients disgruntled. One of The
Stars bald-headed friends, for instance,
is certainly not gruntled. In fact, he's
indignant almost to the point Of bitter
ness. Blessed with only a few wispy
locks in the vicinity of his ears, he in
Weighs against the idea Of having to pay
so much to have so little trimmed, and
he mutters darkly about buying some
do-it-yourself tonsorial instruments.
There are other men, too, who feel
this way-men who have not yet reached
even the first stages Of alopecia. Maybe
they're not being reasonable, but lots of
them ere saying that from now on they'll
go to the barber shop much less fire.
quently, refuse to order a shampoo or
tonic after the trimming job and cut
down on the size Of their tips. And they
apparently won't care If their locks grow
so long that they look like characters
out of the Dark Ages. Presumably they've
heard of the ancient observation that
"a large head of hair makes the hand
some more graceful and the ugly more
terrible"
Finally, any male who is really bitter
about having to pay $1.50 for haircut
will find 1t fitting to recall that medieval
BARRIERS, acting more or less as surgeons,
often literally bled their customers. That
is why we have today's BARRIERS pole, the
red part of which symbolizes a bandage
wound around a bleeding white arm.
Somehow, in view of the decision taken
by our local barbering fraternity, this
interesting little historical fact seems
pertinent.
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Picking q v. P.

During the last Is years 1t
has become more and more
apparent that the Office of Vice
President is equally as im-
portant an Office as that of the
presidency. and that any man
with questionable political
leanings occupying that Office
would repres sent a definite
threat to the best interest of
this country should the Presi-
dent die in Office. For this rea-
son. no man or group of men
should be permitted to pick
the man to run for this posi-
ton, but instead it should
come about as the result Of the
expressed will Of the people. as
is done for any other vital
Office. Today the Vice Presi-
dent slides into office on the
coat tails of the man elected
President, and not by the con-
sent of the voters. a practice
contrary to the best democratic
principles of this country.
We can therefore see how
imperative it is to return this
privilege to the people, where
it rightfully belongs, to pre-
vent future mistakes of judg-
ment that might be detrimen-
tai to this country.
My plan is this: Let dele
gates at both conventions
select three or four man
slate for Vice President which
will appear on the voting bal
lot. The others will vote for one
man on each slate. Regardless
of who wins the presidency,
the man receiving the most
votes for Vice President on that
slate is the winner. Thus he
will have been selected for the
Office by the popular vote of
the people. Irving Edinger.
Evening star., 1955-09-15

oULtOTbs
outrages. But to make mat
ters worse. the Turkish gov
ernment had been warned well
in advance by parliamentary
representatives Of the Greek
minority in Istanbul that vio-
lence was likely to break out as
q result of the infiammatory
campaign carried on in the
Turkish press. consistently
over the past three months. To
these warnings Prime Minis
ter Menderes replied on Au-
gust 29 that the Greek minor
ity had nothing to fear: yet no
measures were taken tC pre-
vent the mass disorders and.
after their outbreak, the Tur-
kish authorities showed no
particular eagerness to repress
them. In Smyrna. for in
stance, seat of the NATO
headquarters for Southeast
Europe, no police action was
taken until the morning after
the riots on the flimsy excuse
that the provincial governor
could not be located.
1t is particularly regrettable
that such high Turkish Off
cials as Foreign Minister Fatin
Zorlou should have. considered
mob violence as "a natural re-
action Of the Turkish people"
to reports that the birthplace
of Kemal Ataturk in Salonika
had been damaged. It was
later established that these
reports were entirely false.
AS to the official Turkish ex-
planation that the riots are to
be blamed on a nationwide
Communist plot and incite-
ment. I can only share the
surprise of many observers. in
cluding the Yugoslav foreign
minister. who said that "he
did not know Of the existence
of SO many Communists in
Turkey"
John A. TzOunis,
Chief Information Officer,
Royal Greek Embassy.
Evening star., 1955-09-15
Bonn and Moscow

AS Tar as Germany'S reunification Is
concerned, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
lin keeping with expectations-has ac-
compliShed nothing spectacular on his
Moscow mission. But he has returned to
Bonn with gratifying oral assurances
from the Russians that they will act
promptly to release all German military
and nonmilitary prisoners still held in the
Soviet Union.
In exchange for this unwritten but
apparently Arm promise, DR.. Adenauer
has accepted the Kremlin'S proposal
subject to ratification by the Bonn Parlia-
ment-to establish diplomatic relations
at the embassy level. He has agreed, too,
that the two governments should soon
enter upon negotiations aimed at devel-
oping trade between West Germany and
Russia. He has done all this, however,
with certain important reservations, in
cluding one designed to make clear that
he does not recognize the legitimacy of
the puppet Communist East German re-
gime and that the Moscow agreement
is not to be construed as perpetuating or
legalizing the partitioned status of his
country.
What remains to be seen now is how
soon, and on what scale, the Russians will
liberate the prisoners they should have
liberated long ago. There may be fur
ther controversy over the matter. At any
rate, in connection with the Moscow talks,
Premier Bulganin has issued a strange
statement declaring that lover 100000"
Soviet citizens still are retained" in West
Germany and that Bonn should cooper
ate In repatriating them. Actually, of
course, this figure refers to displaced per-
sons who do not wish to return to the
USSR. But the fact that it has been put
forward at the present juncture suggests
that the men Of the Kremlin may intend
to use 1t as propaganda to offset Bonn's
claim that Russia holds far greater
number Of Germans than the 9,000-odd
cited by Marshal Bulganin.
Yet, even though the subject of pris-
oners thus lends itself to continuing dis
pute, DR.. Adenauer appears to be salts
ned with what the Russians have prom
ised, and his agreement on diplomatic
relations-an agreement In no way af-
fecting his country's adherence to the
Atlantic alliance-scarcely warrants the
view that he may have played danger
ously into the Kremlin's hands. He has
not given everything and taken nothing.
After all, until a relatively short time ago,
he and his government were constantly
attacked by Moscow's propagandists as
being too fraudulent to be recognized. But
now, turning full circle, the Soviet Union
has eaten crow and displayed the keenest
desire to exchange ambassadors with free
Germany-a fact that reflects respect for
the latter's growing strength and inde-
pendence.
Certainly, in such circumstances, it
can hardly be said that the Moscow meet
ing, even If helpful to the Kremlin, has
been blow to the Western cause. Indeed,
as both Chancellor Adenauer and Premier
Bulganin have declared, the talks may
we'll have contributed to the solution of
the problem Of reuniting Germany. And
II that is so-as the world must hope
then the Big Four foreign ministers
should be able to make real progesss
toward resolving the issue when they con-
vene next month tp Geneva.
Evening star., 1955-09-15
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