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Evening star., 1955-03-07
Mr.. Sam Should Speak Up

Representative Walters continuing at
tack on Edward j. Corsi, special aide to the
Secretary of State for immigration matters,
can be viewed only with surprise and disap-
pointment.
AS chairman of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities, Mr.. Walter had a
choice between the right way and the wrong
way of handling the Corsi matter He has
chosen the wrong way. He might have
called Mr. Corsi before his committee for
questioning, under oath, about his alleged
connection some Is years ago with groups
subsequently put in the Communist front
class. Instead of proceeding in this orderly
fashion, Mr.. Walter has preferred to indict
Mr.. Corsi without hearing. And he has
done this, apparently, on the basis Of no
better evidence than letterheads and PAM
phlets in the unevaluated files of his COM
mittee
In one instance, Mr.. Walter has been
obliged to admit that he was in error. Mr..
Corsi has denied membership in any of the
other organizations, and, beyond this, he
. has been cleared by the State Department
under the stringent provisions of the Eisen-
hover security program.
In these circumstances the continuing
attack upon him by Mr. Walter, without a
hearing, is painfully reminiscent of the
tactics of Senator Mccarthy. Speaker Sam
Rayburn, when his party took over the Con-
gress. said he would repudiate any Democrat
who reSorted to politically inspired accusa-
tionS of communism. The time has come,
1t would seem, for Mr.. Rayburn and other
Democratic leaders to speak up in Mr. Corsi's
behalf.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Iowa and the Russians

It would require particularly fanciful
mind-one expert in the art of seeing dan
ger in everything-to figure out precisely
how the security of the United States could
be gravely menaced by visit of Soviet farm
people to Iowa to get the 'low-down on
raising high quality cattle, hogs sheep and
chickens" Such visit has been proposed
by the Des Moines Register, and the Rus
sians-replying through one of their agri-
cultural publications-have promptly in
dorsed the idea. President Eisenhower has
Endorsed it, too, although he has pointed to
"a dozen different difficulties
our immigration law-that tend to bar
action on it.
The law, however, is not inflexible. On
the contrary, it authorizes the Attorney
General to make exceptions in matters of
this sort If the State Department so recon-
mends. Up to now the department has given
no clear indication of how it feels But the
President, while qualifying himself to the
extent of saying that there are "a number
of things to be studied and looked at" be-
cause Of "the inhibitions and the limita-
tions" caused by the world situation, has
voiced the firm personal opinion that only
good could result from having Soviet farm
ers spend little while in Iowa to observe
some of the wonders of American agricul-
ture.
Accordingly, the State Department
could do worse than give serious considera-
ton to the possibility of inviting party Of
Russians to take look at our farming and
our farmers. Perhaps a closer inspection
of the idea will reveal that it involves Sc
curity risks but such risks certainly are
not discernible at first glance. Actually, a
Soviet visit to Iowa and the Midwest in gen.
eral might have the effect of impartng to
the USSR not merely little bit of American
agricultural know how, but also wholesome
example of our country's free and peaceful
enterprise. In any event, it is difficult to
see how the venture, even though it might
not accomplish great deal of positive good,
could be harmful to US. And II 1t would not
be harmful what have we to lose in under
taking 1t? 4
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Low-Cost Schooling

They said it couldn't be done-but
he did IT."
While our President, the National
Education Association, the school au-
thorities and the bleeding hearts who
consider the taxpayer a turnip to be
bled white on the altar of palatial edu-
cational edifices grow hysterical over
classroom shortages The Stars Robert
]. Lewis uncovers the Rev. Paul r.
CauWe.
Rev. Cauwe undoubtedly is no super
man. He had a problem and job to
do His parish needed a school; the
available funds were limited. He prob
ably looked about Arlingtons marble
hailed institutions of progressive learn
ing and lost heart. But he still needed
the school. So, without single news
paper interview or television appear
ance, he set about building it. The re-
suit: A good school at halt the average
cost of our public schools.
True, he substituted asphalt tiling
for terrazzo. windows for glass brick,
dry-wall construction for triple plas-
tering. But there is now school where
there was none before and no bonded
Indebtedness to outllve its uSfulneSS.
The most important ingredient IF any
school is the commodity dispensed
within. Impressive exteriors may and
often do surround inferior teaching
Educators have lost sight of this fact
in their frenzy for rich luxury, and the
taxpayers. overburdened by excessive
demands for building funds, are un-
willing or unable to meet competition
for capable teachers.
1t seems to me that Arlington and
much of the metropolitan district could
take lesson from the Rev. Cauwe IN
sacrificing some material luxuries to
gain educational Improvement. And we
in Arlington would do we'll to seek three
such resourceful men as the Rev. Cauwe
to fill the School Board vacancies in
next November's elections.
Charles w. Carter.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Letters to TheStur.

fallacious argument. The report shows
that instead of there being an increase
in the Negro population In Virginia
there has been tremendous decrease.
The report shows that in a period of
120 years u830-1950). the population
in Virginia has gone from 47.9 per cent
to 222 per cent. And even today. five
years from the period covered by the
study. it is evident that the Negro pop
ulation has decreased still further
The Virginia Education Association
and the University of Virginia should
be commended highly for these truth
revealing reports am convinced that
they are welcomed additions to those
constructive forces ana the progressive
instruments being employed to help
make the Old Dominion much better
place in which To live. The truth, it is
shown, will help make US all free.
Leonard Brown, Jr.,
Student, Howard University.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Tribute to Mrs. Cross

Those Of US who work in social well
fare programs and strive for better
community have reason to note with
sorrow the death Of Mrs. Whitman
Cross. pioneer organizer Of District So
cial welfare work.
Among other things she was one Of
those far-seeing citizens to whom the
community owes lasting debt of graft
tude for organizing and launching the
Community Chest.
Mrs. Gross was imbued with that
spirit that moves one to want to help
his fellowman: and to help make the
world better place in which to live.
Her life was a wonderful example of
self1ess service; truly a benediction to
the Community.
The Community Chest and other
programs which she was instrumental
in organizing will endure as living
memorials to her.
Our acknowledgement of her contri-
button and tribute to Mrs. Cross will be
reflected in giving of our time, talent
and energies to carrying on the work
to which she devoted her life.
Herbert C. Blunck,
President, Community Chest Federation.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What is considered the finest va
riety of rose in this country?-E. T. Y.
A. The Peace Rose was rated higher
than $50 other varieties by growers all
over the country in the American Rose
Society's second national survey. No
variety has ever attained so high a
rating on SO large number Of reports.
Called the Rose of the d-Century."
the Peace Rose was named among ALL
America Selections in 1916.
@. When we're Negro newspapers
first published in the United States?-
D. H. H.
A. The history of Negro newspapers,
which by 1854 had a combined circula-
tion of million copies weekly and
numbered 200 weeklies and one daily.
dates back to before the Civil War.
The North Star" founded in 1847 by
Frederick Douglass in Rochester, N. Y,
was the most famous of the early news
papers. The New York Age dating
from 1879, is the oldest in continuous
publication
@. Will there be any brick in the
stainless steel covered building now
under construction in New York City?
E. D. E.
A. Yes, to satisfy requirements Of New
York building and fire codes. there will
be a Ain. thick masonry wall to back
up the stainless steel skin. Approx
mately 100000 ID. of steel will be used
in the sheathing Of what will be the
worlds largest metal-covered building.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Viroiniu Schools

There has really been astonishing.
and vet significantly revealing, news
coming from the Commonwealth OF
Virginia.
The Virginia Education Association,
in a report to Virginians, shattered one
of the prime arguments used by those
forces opposing progress and the lmple-
mentation of the Supreme Courts
ruling against segregated, dual educa-
ton.
In its survey relative to the quail
fications of Virginia's public school
teachers. it appears that the YEA
found that "a per cent of the States
teachers have substandard qualiflca-
tions. But, mind you. less than l per
cent of the 5,772 Negro teachers en-
ployed in the State have ssubstandard
certificates.
It is evident that in proportion to
the number of white and Negro teach
ers there are more colored teachers
qualified to instruct in our public
schools than there are white Ones
Furthermore, it is even more evident
that the Negro instructors in Virginia
are more qualified to teach white stu
UCkltS, llOt JuSI olOliC GAAS SOAoASN OAASo'
than the white teachers are to instruct
white or colored students.
1t is interesting to note that both
the white and colored teachers were
surveyed by similar standards. And
thus the YEA report gives one more
point in the direction of speedy imple-
mentation of the assimilated public
educational system in Virginia.
But still another point in favor of
an assimilated society in the Old Do
mlnion is revealed in the Virginia
Negro population report by the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Anti ationists. racial bigots. re-
dictionaries, segmentationists and the
like have spread the propaganda that
the Negro people should be feared be-
cause of their birth rates. They have
contended that the colored people are
increasing in population so rapidly that
they, the colored people. will soon con-
troll everybody and everything.
The University of Virginia's report
retutes so admirably this vicious and
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Continuing Threat in Korea

It is not hard to understand why our
Government has now indicated its agree
ment with the long standing Swedish Swiss
proposal to do away with the so-called Neu-
trail Nations Supervisory Commission in
Korea. For the proposal is based on a
realistic, common-sense recognition of the
fact that the commission-which is sup
posed to police the armistice-has been re-
duced to impotency and uselessnesS by the
Communists.
Theoretically, of course, as set up by
the Panmunjom truce agreement, the four
nation commisSion-consistingo Of represen
tatives of Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and
Observation-Disclosures be genuinely neu-
trail and capable of acting effectively against
any and all violations of the armistice on
either side Of the Korean dividing line.
Actually, however, only the Swedes and the
Swiss have been faithful to their obliga-
tionS. BY way of contrast, characteriStically
and to the surprise of nobody in the free
world, the Polish and Czech members
since they are satellite Communists serving
as willing tools of the Peiping- Moscow
axis-have from the start made a mockery
of the commissions solemn peace -preserv-
to obstruct and rule out the possibility of
conducting policing operations real and
thorough enough to prevent treachery of
sort that could prepare the way for further
Red aggression and renewal of full-Scale
hostilities in Korea.
In these circumstances, with its Red
members deliberately imposing a paralysis
upon it, the commissioners the SWedeS
and Swiss have rightly contended-iS a
powerleSS and meaningless thing tn a t
amounts to a waste of time, money and
personnel. So its abolition, if finally agreed
upon by all parties concerned, would not
be regrettable, nor would it make any diff
ference in the situation as it stands today.
AS for keeping watch on what the Com
munists are doing in North Korea, the
United Nations Command seems to have an
intelligence service sufficiently effective to
uncover evidence indicating Q) that they
have increased their artillery strength by
more than third since the signing of the
truce; ~ that they have at the same time
built about 40new airf1elds of type banned
by. that truce; and (3) that they have
acquired an appreciable additional number
of Soviet-manufactured fighter and bomber
planes, including jets
All this leaves little room for doubt
that the Reds have been fagrantly violating
the truce terms. AS a result, the situation
is an ugly and potentially dangerous one
that shows, once again, why signed Com
munist pledges can never be taken at face
value and why the U. N. Command must be
on constant alert-day and night-against
the threat of renewed aggression in Korea.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Longer Fight Against Polio

While listening to the radio and
reading the newspapers. there came to
mind an idea about the March Of
Dimes. Beginning January 81 are the
door-to-door campaigns for the fight
against polio. But this campaign is
one that should be active at all times,
not just at one particular time of the
year. The stands in front of stores and
theaters should operate at least six
months of each year. This is a very
worthy cause. Fight polio
Janet Smith.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Music Lovers QuorreI

was amazed to read the letter from
Bainbridee Crist deploring the judg-
ment of Patrick Hayes for his choice of
stale opera" In the opinion of a
music lover. there is no stale opera
Opera. to be thoroughly enjoyed. must
be heard again and again. fear that
MI. Crisis appreciation is somewhat
superficial.
BY all means, let Patrick Hayes ex-
ercise his judgment. and those operas
he chooses are sure to please the sea-
soned opera -goer and those hearing the
opera as new experience.
Opera-Lover.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
stonds Educators in the Corner

have been reading with interest the
letters from parents who are deeply
q disturbed by the whole modern educa-
tional process.
am another parent who has been
coming to slow boil. have tive rea-
sonably intelligent children in public
school. But to them spelling is some
strange druid rite and the simple arith-
metic tables are an impenetrable mys-
terry.
For this depressing state Of affairs
cannot find it in my heart to blame the
teachers. They, in turn. are products Of
schools operated by an educational cult
that has crept out from under the rocks
to capture our schools
These professional diploma chasers
who have climbed the ladder Of sue
cess, thesis by thesis. are not teachers.
They are administrators" They are
the priestcraft of American illiteracy
and their cathedral is the National Ed
ucation Association here in Washington
where they burn joss-sticks to the sa-
cred memory Of John Dewey.
These articulate and well-groomed
persons are now shrieking for thousands
upon thousands Of new classrooms.
I'm sure there is need for new class
rooms, if only to replace the thousands
that became obsolete during the war
years when the carpenters hammers
were stilled. But question the wisdom
Of erecting glossy. multimillion dollar
educational plant that will be dedicated
to the production Of mental cripples.
Further, I'm inclined to drag my feet
on this construction program when I
examine the specifications laid down
by these educational bureaucrats. We're
told that no teacher should be expected
to handle more than Is pupils in q
classroom.
AS I recall. when I was in grammar
(Oh, blessed, obsolete wordD school
several hundred years ago, the average
class numbered something like 48 or so
students. We didn't realize it, of course,
sand neither did our parents, but we
were terribly underprivileged.
We were poor, lost victims of a
primitive educational system. We didn't
listen to Mickey Mouse phonograph
records and we never baked a single
cupcake. We managed to adapt our
selves to our social environment with
out making a project Of 1t.
We never enjoyed the luxury Of
creating our own concept of a word;
we had to learn to place the letters in
their proper sequence in the classical
manner. That was known as spelling" !"
and there was right way and wrong
way to spell. We learned to read by
reading, not by being read at We
learned that mastery of the multiplica-
tion table was a piece of unrelieved
drudgery, shared by teacher and pupil
alike.
Perhaps the lighting in our over
crowded classrooms wasn't scientifically
perfect, particularly on winter AFTER
moons. and perhaps 1t never occurred
to anybody to ply us with nutritious
lunches.
But, somehow, we managed to learn
to read and write and spell. We learned
to conjugate verbs and parse sentences.
The end product was literacy. suppose
I'm just quaint, but like to think this
is the primary function of grammar
school.
OF course, my elementary education
was derived in Catholic parochial
schools where, presume, they are still
teaching and not experimenting And
where, know. the 48-pupil classroom
is no serious impediment to learning.
g. G.H
Evening star., 1955-03-07
BiIIion-DoIIur Bubies

Jim Berryman's February a cartoon,
Turn About Is Fair Play" proves he
inherits his fathers genius for giving
chuckles without malice: Congress di-
vides the spoils. a $500 pay boost for
Congressmen and a $40 tax cut for
unloved, unhonored j. @. Public. It
is estimated that this $40 tax cut will
unbalance our budget over 81 billion.
Congress could help poor browbeaten
j. @. Public without upsetting the
budget a cent. ]. @. Public is also
the daddy of future taxpayers, pro-
ducers, consumers and defenders.
Census reports that the number of
births in 1854 passed the million
mark for the first time in our history
Babies are everybody's business. yet
all the other crops have higher con-
gressional priority.
Let's see what 81 billion would do
for the baby crop: Under Blue Shield
contracts, our Nations doctors have
agreed that a normal delivery with
hospital care shall cost family making
less than $500 year, $50. Such an
agreement would blanket over 80 per
cent of our Nations families. The
average cost of disqualification for nor
NAL childbearing approximates $170.
(Six days of disqualification at SIS per
day, $40 anesthetic, $25 delivery room
charge, $25 nursery charges and $40
for laboratory and drugs) The $50
doctors fee under Blue Shield contracts
plus $l70 minimal fair cost of hos
pitalization for the average maternity
case equals $3.50. Four million times
$3.50 is exactly 81 billion.
But j. @. Public doesn't want q
handout even though billion-dollar
one would pay the total cost of hos
pitalized childbearing for one year. He
knows that handouts are inflationary
and he eventually pays for them with
compound interest. All John @. wants
is a solvent, low-cost. self-help method
of prepaying for our baby crop. In
stead of an inflationary tax cut, why
not a low-cost noncancellable, nonse-
lective, self-help Federal Health Sc
curity Plan to insure childbearing?
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. ID.
Evening star., 1955-03-07
D. G. Had q Heart

The power Of the press" again was
amply demonstrated in the recently
concluded Heart Sunday campaign
as was also its generous and civic
minded support of worthy causes.
Heart Sunday was financial success,
with over 100000 collected in a four
hour period and very probable total
of $4,000 when the final tabulation
is made. More than a mere financial
success. it proved without question
that there is deep. warm, quick re-
sponsiveness on the part of Washing
tonians when an opportunity is offered
to help others.
To the over 5000 fellow workers who
gave so freely of their time and effort
on behalf of the Heart Sunday cam
Evening star., 1955-03-07
Questions and Answers

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question Of fact by writing The evening
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Evening star., 1955-03-07

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-01-20
Gets Briefing On
Duties of Board
Members of P.-T.A.

Mrs. Kermit Glotfelty, recently
elected Rural Service Chairman Of
the Maryland Congress of Parents
and Teachers, attended a meeting
in Baltimore, January 8, 10, and
IL.
The meeting was primarily a
school Of instruction for new board
members and new chairmen. Miss
Dema Kennedy from National
Congress headquarters was leader
of the group meetings, assisted by
Joseph Hunter, former State presi-
dent, now regional vice-president
of the National Congress.
A planning meeting will be held
in February at the William-James
Hotel, with Mrs. Dorsey Griffith,
Field Service worker of Maryland
for a similar school of instruction
to be held later on in Garrett
county for both old and new lead
ers in the local P.-TA. groups.
An article on Rural Service.
written by Mrs. Glotfelty, will APP
pear in the February issue of the
Maryland Parent-Teacher Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-01-20
BIT1'INGER

Sub-freezing temperatures, ac-
companied by strong wind from the
west. carrying occasional flurries
Of snow, prevailed in this section
for the past several days and every
thing has the appearance and feel
of real winter.
Ebert Bucket, local mail carrier,
went to the Veterans Hospital at
Martinsburg, w. Va, for medical
treatment last Sunday.
Sarah Beachy, small daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Beachy, who
was taken to Cumberland a few
days ago, where she underwent a
minor surgical operation at Memo
rial Hospital, was brought back
home last Saturday and is getting
along nicely.
Mrs. Silas C. Beachy is visiting
her son, Homer Beachy and fam
lily, at Huntington, w. Va, for a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-01-20
Bloomington Firemen
Have installation

Newly elected officers Of the
Bloomington Fire company were
installed recently by Robert Wilde
sen, retiring vice-president.
They include, Ray Wright, presi-
dent; Charles Price, vice-president;
Richard Streets, recording secre-
tary; Thomas Kooken, financial
secretary, and Charles Pattison,
treasurer.
Charles Price was named chief,
succeeding Charles Pattison, who
declined reelection, after serving
over ten years; Robert Brendlen,
sergeant-at-arms; Harry Mitter,
captain; Charles Price, chaplain.
and Richard Streets, assistant
chaplain.
The directors include Kenneth
Kooken, Edward Bevers, Joseph
Rodriguez, Harry Mitter, John
Brandlen, Charles Riley and Viii
liam Smith, il. William, Smith is
retiring president.
The company recently received
two walkie-talkies provided through
the Civilian Defense program with
the company paying only one
fourth the cost. They will be used
for communication at fires or in
other emergencies. They operate
in a radius of two to four miles.
Refreshments were served at the
meeting.