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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY

Congratulations to our princi-
pal, Mrs. Clora PearSall and her
husband, Johnny Pearsall, who
celebrate 10 years of marriage to-
day, March rs. The Pearsalls
have one son, Johnny Jr.
We are happy that our Miss
Geneve Bethel was member of
the mixed glee club that again
won top honors at the Florida
State Teachers Association held
last week in Orlando.
Officer Calvin Mapp spent two
and a half days with us giving
safety instructions. The display
was set up in the lower hall and
classes came to- look, listen, ask
and answer questions concerning
safety. Officer Mapp is assigned
during the month of March to do
this special and vital work with
the schools within the city limits.
"King Coal" a science play
let, was offered by Mrs. A. B.
Smiths fifth grade class at the
Monday assembly. Fred Hudson
led the devotions and Norris
Brown sang "Count Your Bless
ings." The skit told about coal,
its usefulness and its many by
products. Pupils participating |
were Joe Alexander, Barbara
Brown, Jesse Cunningham, Theo-
lore Gibson, Willie Graham,
Dorothy Hollis, Douglas Mitchell,
Lorraine Mobley, Reginald VAL
entine, Lenora Walker and Theo-
lore Williams.
Tuesdays assembly given by
he fourth grade class of Mrs.
Jealy, was also science Skit,
Let's Take Walk, and con-
erned the flowers, butterflies,
,rees, graSshopperS and squirrel
hat children saw. Charles WeS-
ey Mitchell served as master of
and Clarence Cutler
ed the devotional section. Rodney
Taylor and his committee of Rob-
ert Drisdom, Eunice Jones, jam
lie Lee Hill, Willie Hopper and
Nilous Talley were responsible
for decorations and costumes.
Other participants were Jessie +
Bessent, Ellsworth Collie, David
Cooper, Herbert Cox, Peggy Gray,
Catherine Harrell, Samuel Henly,
Annie Lewis Jones, Roosevelt
Levison, Betty Jean McClinton,
Sarah Manning, Brenda Nurse,
Madeline Roach. Lebron Roberts, |
Arthur Sneed, Barbara Sheffield,
Emma Smith, Willie Smith, Ro-
berta Thompson, Douglas Watts,
and David White.
The children in Mrs. Jollivette's |
second grade class gave a play,
whats A Penny" on last We'd
nesday. The class was featured in
singing, March Wind" Pupils
playing roles were Cain Ballard,
Katherine Bethel, Robert Cherry,
Lenward David, Arnetta Gator,
Vera Lee, Leila Reid, Robert
Lillian Thompson, Glor-
shine Walker and Richard Will
liamS.
Doris BrookinS of Mrs. FolSon'S
third grade class, celebrated her
birthday on the first day of
spring, March 81. Her class mates
designed birthday cards for her
and all enjoyed the cake and
punch which the teacher provid-
ed. Doris will long remember her
ninth birthday.
Some 200 parents will visit the
80 teachers on this Friday, March
25, to hold conferences concern
.ng their children. This is the
bird of such conference days set
aside by the Dade County Board
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26

of Public instruction. Visiting
however, is the rule and not the
exception at our school for our
parents frequently drop in to see
us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25

stock market, synthetic rubber
plants and reciprocal trade
have only academic interest.
The White House squirrels
that have failed to respect the
Presidents passion for golf
are, as Senator Neuberger
pointed out, a Washington ira
dition. Tourists and their
children may fell to meet or
see an important politician but
with a handful of peanuts they
have long made the acquaint-
ance of residents of 1900 Penn
Sylvania Avenue whose tenure
antedates Mr.. Eisenhower's.
He is not the first to find
them something of a nuisance.
Mrs. Roosevelt used to get
letters complaining that if she
didn't travel so much she
would see that right there at
home the family squirrels
looked NANCY. She obediently
instituted a program of So
cialized medicine to improve
their coats.
The country-bred Harry S.
Truman laughed off the COM
plants of gardeners about the
squirrels and appointed a five
year-old boy as their official
feeder.
Animal lovers protest that
the present deportation system
releases in woods household
pets that are much too domes-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
First u. S. Patent Shown Here,
Signed by George Washington

provement in the process of
making potash.
The Patent Office said that on
July 80, 1890. when the old let
ter of patent was issued there
was no formal patent Office and
the patenting process operated
pretty much out of Thomas JEFF
ferSon's hat.
There was a patent commit
tee of which Jefferson-himself
an inventor-was chairman. Re-
quests for patents went to JET
ferson. who was Secretary of
State. He took them home with
him. looked them over and de-
cided whether there was some
thing new and patentable.
If Jefferson decided a patent
was in order. he drew up the let
ter of patent and it was then
signed by President Washington.
Attorney General Edward Ran
dolph and by Jefferson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Constantine Brown

President Eisenhower might
have been well advised to fol-
low the lead of his predecessor
in the White House in discuss
ing the possibility of a meet
ing Of the Big Four heads OF
states.
When President Truman was
asked at press conferences
about his position on this mat
ter he replied that he would be
delighted to spread the red
carpet from New York to
Washington or meet our war
time associates anywhere in
the United States.
Mr.. Truman knew, as Mr..
Eisenhower's counselors should
have, that the Kremlin wanted
to humiliate the West by COM
pelling its top men to go either
to Sovietland or some "neu-
trail" spot of Soviet choice.
American Presidents and
Secretaries of State have been
linked every time they went
abroad for high-level confer
ences. Teheran, Yalta and Pots
dam are shining examples OF
such failures. So were the
many lesser parleys attended
by our foreign secretaries from
George c. Marshall, who went
to Moscow in 1947, to the re-
cent European trips of Secre-
tary Dulles. 1t was realization
of these misfortunes that
prompted MI. Truman to say
that he would meet his col
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Constontine Brown.
ct the Russians Come Here
Eisenhower Should Have Followed Trumon's Example
BvWeIconinq Big Talks in u. S., but Nowhere Else

leagues in America and no.
where else.
Realists in the administra-
ton feel that Mr.. Eisenhower
slipped when he said that no
place would be too distant for
him if he thought that by
such a trip he could bring
peace to the world. Rhetori-
cally it was good statement.
But factually it may. create
the impression among the Red
dictators that we are so anx-
ious for peace that we will be
willing to bargain-that is
yield some more ground either
politically or territorially.
Throughout the 10 years
since the end of the war. the
Muscovites have never shown
the slightest sign that they
wanted a settlement of
strained world relations on the
principle of live and let live.
They know that regardless of
some talk in the United States
about the freeing of the en-
shaved nations "by peaceful
means" neither We nor our
present allies will insist on it.
Moscow is fully aware that her
present boundaries are safe.
Any indication of honest
good will on RuSsia'S part would
end the present world tension
and lead to an unprecedented
economic and political recov-
cry. This, however. might be
fatal to the Red dictatorship.
It is essential for the militant
Communists in Moscow and
Peiping to keep the pot boiling.
The Communists present
policies, with the possible use
of what we like to call
small" or limited war, con-
template at least bankrupting
the United States and causing
subsequent political chaos in
the remaining free world. This
strategy is more satisfactory to
them than riSking an all-out
war with an aroused America.
Under these conditions, it is
pushing wiShful thinking too
far to imagine that a confer
ence for a general settlement
of the present world problems
can succeed.
In the past, before we be-
came deeply enmeshed in in
ternational matters, Uncle
Sam was considered a strong
silent mainland was respected
as such. Today. in our anxiety
to prove to the outside world
our great love for peace, we
give the impression of behav-
ing like a garrulous old woman.
This new concept of us was
well illustrated in a televiSed
interview granted by Burmese
Prime Minister U NJ to Sen
ator Margaret Chase Smith.
Republican, of Maine. for the
Columbia Broadcasting SyS-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25

The first patent known to
have been issued by the United
States, a long-lost document
signed by George Washington
and Thomas jefferson, is now
on display at the Commerce De-
partment.
1t turned up in a trunk full
of old papers given to the Chi
cago Historical Society about a
year ago. Historians recognized
it for what it was, and informed
the Patent Office.
The Patent Office. which was
organizing a display to show how
the chemical and synthetic in
dustries had been helped along by
the patent system, asked the
Chicago society to lend it the
document.
1t fitted in particularly we'll
with the display. because the
patent was issued for an i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Doris FIeeson-
Plenty ofSquirre| Lovers Left
Eisenhower Has His First Experience With the Little
Thinos That Count q Lot With the Little People

ticated to flourish wild. Others
insist the operation is futile
because deportations can't
keep up with squirrel capacity
to breed.
Senator Neuberger caught
the Republicans offguard with
his decision to celebrate Ma
tional Wildlife Week by an
offensive in behalf of the
White House squirrels. AS he
began to speak they decided
instantly that discretion was
the better part of valor and
vanished from the floor, leav-
ing only Senator Kuchel of
California to hold the fort.
Senator Kuchel did not permit
himself to smile but he did not
answer back either.
Perhaps no immediate re-
tort presented itself. The Eli
senhowers have no household
pets to be f1ouriShed as proof
of their great love for animals.
Senator Neuberger is dis
playing a talent for publicity
which will come as no surprise
to the folks back home in Ore
gon. His opposition has COM
planned of it for a long time.
He can at least claim in this
case he was acting in char
acter He is one of the coun-
try's leading conservationists
and it was a main issue of his
campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Mar. 25.-
Prime Minister Churchill of
England may become a citizen
of Maryland.
Delegate Edward j. McNeal,
Democrat from Baltimore S
Sd district, is ready to intro
duce today in the General
Assembly bill making Mr..
Churchill "a natural born citi-
zen of Maryland"
This would entitle the Prime
Minister Ito all the immunitles,
rights and privileges of natural
born citizens"
Delegate McNeal has precedent
for his action. The Marquis de
La Fayette of France and his
male heirs were granted citizen
ship by the Maryland Legisla-
ture in 1874. Virginia did like
wise the next year.
Since this was done before the
United States had constitu-
ton, the Marquis also became
a citizen of America. There is
legal doubt Maryland's extension
of citizenship to Mr.. Churchill
would go that far.
Mr.. McNeal stated he wants to
make Mr.. Churchill citizen of
Maryland because of his cour-
age, inspiration. leadership and
devotion to the allied cause in
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Ldv7enCe
Era of Strange Contradictions
Democratic Senators Accused Of Turning Their Attention
To Such TrMo!ities as Squirrels and Leak on Yoto

revealed just a few months
ago in Senate debate.
AS for confidential inform
ants. the newspapers could
hardly print all the news ar
ticles they do each day if the
persons who are the sources
of their information did not
rely on the reporters to with
hold their names. The courts
have for the most part upheld
the right of the press to con-
ceal confidential informants.
Day by day Government Off
Gals give out information
with the explicit understand
ing that it isn't to be attrib-
uted to them. This happens all
through the Government-es-
pecially on Capitol Hill.
Yet today the American
Civil Liberties Union, which
has a tendency to uphold most
of the left-wing attacks on
the security system. is de-
manding that all confidential
informants of the FBI be dis
closed in any personnel hear
ingS inside the Government.
A concerted effort by various
organizations is under way to
try to accomplish this. Anyone
who presents any information
that could be regarded as de-
rogatory must be willing. if
such a program is ever
adopted, to have his name
used in a formal proceeding,
or presumably such informa-
ton will not be available to
the Government.
This is about the cleverest
scheme yet devised to break
down the whole system of fer
reting out subversives in the
Government. Yet there are
sections of the press which
insist on protecting conf1den-
tial informants for their own
use but would deny such a
device to the Government it.
self as a guide in employment
practices. It's an era of
strange contradictions.
Reproduction Right ReServed)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Doris FIeeson

Senator Neubergers plea to
President Eisenhower to spare
the White House squirrels
made only the late editions
of the afternoon newspapers
that day. Yet the Oregon Sen
ator's mail the next morn
ing contained more than
hundred approving letters with
$50 in small contributions
toward his fund to build a
squirrel-proof fence around the
Presidents putting green.
The President was reported to
have ordered the squirrels de-
ported because they scratch
up his putting green at the
back of the White House. But
he told Bernard Baruch he first
learned about it from the news
papers. Nevertheless, somebody
seems to have made an effort
TO scare the squirrels away
with electronic shocks but it
failed. Then they were box
trapped and taken off to
the West Virginia woods
and released. The theory was
that they would not be able to
find their way home.
Operation Squirrel is Mr..
Eisenhower's first experience
with one of "the little things
that count" Like that pastel
mink coat, a squirrel is an
easily comprehended symbol to
many people for whom the
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the internal freedom of such
states can only be secured by
general recognition of a pre-
dominant great power interest.
The East European states will
never become truly free and
independent until or unless
it is universally recognized
that Russia has a legitimate
security interest in the area
as does Germany. whose con-
flict with the Russian interest
has been the immediate cause
of two world wars.
No world order such as that
envisaged by the United Ma
tions can come into being
unless the great powers can
achieve a reasonably satisfac-
tory arrangement of interest
among themselves. Pacifica-
ton is not synonymous with
appeaSement.
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Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

fellow says why Ike put Harold Stassen
charge of dsarmamento negotiate armistice with the
White House squirrels
Republican Senate Knowand disagrees with Ike
papers says Knowland isn't loyal to Ike?
He's leader of the loyal opposition, isn't he?
Russia disarmament plan It's one OF those
fool-proof pans-nobody is fooled by it.
Barney Baruch discusses White House squel-removal
with Ike Democrats deny they plan to unleash bunch
of moles the White House putting
committees begin operating under code OF fair
play" No abuse, no insults. heckling-no news.
The Department refuses to reveal how it leaked the
newspaper It's cinch it wasn't Secretary
Dulles He's country long enough to his
phone.
Army Counsel John Adams faces Senator Joe Mccarthy
hearing matter what happens in Washing
ton you be it better the first time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
David Lawrence

These are strange times in
MISUNDERSTANDING because.
with the world in a worried
mood, there are Democrats in
Congress who seem to be wor-
ried only about trivialities.
Thus, one Senator. a promi-
nent Democrat, wants to raise
a fund to build a fence so that
the squirrels which. he says.
were ordered off the White
House grounds could return
and the President still be able
to practice golf on a smooth
putting green. But it turns out
that Mr.. Eisenhower didn't
know a thing about the squir-
rels until he read about them
in the newspapers. Maybe the
groundkeeperS of the White
House lawns should consult
Congressman hereafter before
trying to keep animals of all
kinds, large or small, out of the
grounds.
Then another Senator. also
a prominent Democrat, says he
wants to see an investigation
begun to discover how the
Yalta papers leaked" to a
certain newspaper - the New
York Times. But it turns out
the documents were actually
released on the same day last
week to all the newspapers
simultaneously. Nobody had a
scoop. So there was only a
hypothetical leak after all.
But assuming that the Times
Or any other newspaper gets a
scoop hereafter. is the reporter
to be investigated and is his
informant to be declared a
security risk? One Democratic
Senator solemnly hands down
a decision that whoever gave
the Yalta papers to any re-
porter in advance is a security
risk.
The Times hasn't told who
Its informant was, but it wasn't
the Secretary of State and the
documents were never formally
classified as secret, either.
They were just pieces of his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Dorothy Thompson
Todoy's spheres Of Influence
They Are Unavoidable When the Interests of Great
Powers Clash Over the Role of Smaller Powers

demands that the great powers
seek to localize such conflicts.
Great powers must not base
their relations upon theological
aff1nities. leading them to have
favorite or perpetually disliked
nations or governments, or
upon considerations of mutual
trust" Such considerations
lead to the injection of foreign
partisanship into domestic af-
fairs and make the pacification
of relations practically un-
achievable.
Pacification can only be
achieved and maintained by
great powers on the basis of
a mutual interest in providing
for their own security and
avoiding catastrophe war.
Where two. or more great
powers have. for security rea-
sons, an interest in a nation
actually or potentially power
full. whose addition to the
forces of either may appear as
a serious threat to the other.
peace demands that it be ex-
cluded from military alliances
with either-or comprised
within the military system of
both.
The function of great pow
ers' arrangements for the sake
of peace is to remove bones of
contention.
Nothing is, therefore. more
irrational or more conducive to
war than to rule out the idea
of neutralizing such countries.
In the world as it is. spheres
of influence are. to some ex-
tent, unavoidable. The inter-
est of a great power in imme-
diately contiguous small states,
from which in the past at
lacks may have been launched
in combination with other,
more powerful states, obvi-
ously exceeds the interest of
states situated thousands of
miles away. All great powers
recognize this when applied
TO themselves. Great Britain
does not wish a satellite
of another great power in
France; the United States
would not tolerate the SUBJ
lection of Canada or Mexico
by another great power: and
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torical literature. MesSrs.
Churchill, Byrnes and Stet-
tinius have all published books
with data in them from the
Yalta records.
The pot shouldn't call the
kettle black. Senators regularly
leak to the press information
that they get from the execu-
tive branch of the Govern
ment. Also. under the Truman
administration, the most SEN
sational leaks occurred, and
nobody on the Republican side
seemed to worry about the
scoops the newspapers got.
One conspicuous instance.
for example, was the leak that
gave a reporter for the New
York Times a copy of the
transcript made at the meet
ing between President Truman
and Gen. Macarthur at Wake
Island in 1850 shortly after the
Korean war began. A Govern
ment stenographer was planted
outside the door without the
generals knowledge, and the
notes were allowed to get into
print without consulting the
Far Eastern commander as to
their accuracy. Mr.. Dulles at
least consulted Mr.. Churchill
before making public the Yalta
papers.
Nobody at the time thought
there was a security breach in
the publication of the Wake
Island papers. though the
ethics used in planting a ste
nographer clandeStinely to
eavesdrop were questioned by
some critics.
Also, didn't President Tru-
man himself leak to a friendly
Senator in october, 1852, a
document written in 1947, re-
vealing Gen. EiSenhoWer's
recommendations while a
member of the U. S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff? Wasn't it the
plain purpose to try to en-
barrass Mr.. Eisenhower po-
litically when he was a presi-
Dental candidate? All this was
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tenn. Senator Smith asked the
Burmese leader whether he
had any criticism of America.
After a slight hesitation he
replied smilingly: only this.
Your politicians. talk too
much" Mrs. Smith readily
agreed. And indeed many Of
our political leaders seem to
have adopted as their slogan
the cry of the football team of
the old War College: When
in trouble, when in doubt. run
in circles. scream and shout"
A careful study of the Com
munist aims should prove to
us-and the rest of the free
world-that the Red leaders
are nowhere near ready to talk
business seriously. After hav-
ing temporarily consolidated
their boundaries in Europe,
their next main objective is
the conquest OF the remaining
free nations in Asia. Formosa
and its outlying strongholds
are the immediate target of
the MoScow-Su supported regime.
Our top military men are
convinced that the Muscovites
will not extend their aid of the
Chinese Communists so far as
to attack the United States if
the Peiping forces get trounc-
ing from the American-sup-
ported Nationalist. But there
is little doubt that the men in
the Kremlin will use every
available trick at a conference
table to compel withdrawal Of
our help. There they expect
the assistance of the British
and French whose interests in
the Far East appear on the
surface to be different from
ours.
1t seems strange to our dip
lomats that the British. who
know the Communists have
never lived up to their treaty
obligations, believe the Reds
will respect Britain's lease on
Hong Kong which runs for an
other 40 years. Yet this is a
fact and enters greatly in the
diplomatic calculations of our
ally.
Mr.. Eisenhower is strictly
constitutional President. He
does not make foreign policies
(Which is his prerogative) by
himself as Mr.. Roosevelt did.
He follows the advice of his
many counselors. These men
should have warned OF the pit
falls of another Big -Four con-
ference, particularly when our
political and military intelli-
genceS know that the present
principal goal of the Reds is
the conquest of Formosa.
PremierS Bulganin and Chou
En-lai would much prefer a
victory at the conference table
to an encounter on the battle
field.