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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Why Servicemen Quit

Much is being said and written about
the fact that experienced soldiers, sail
ors and airmen are walking out when
their service time expires. The cure-allS
proposed are more pay. allowances and
benefits While these would amount to
some measure of inducement, they
would not appeal to the majority, and
they would be temporary at best.
A wide and honest canvass OF service
men, believe, would disclose the real
reason why most Of the boys choose to
return to civilian life. That reason is
uncertainty of status, regardless OF
rank or grade.
Reserve officers on active duty and
enlisted men, who might otherwise stay
in the services, live in constant state
of uncertainty as to whether they will
be permitted to stay in. or be forced to
get out because of cuts in the total
military strength. 1t has not been long
since thousands of reserve officers were
dropped from active duty. Many were
World War II veterans, with families,
and had chosen to remain in the service
and make it their careers. They had to
relocate in civilian life. scramble for
JOUS ollO SOAAktNgC WttAk JOAAA6osSAS' SAoV
a few months ago, thousands OF young
men in the Air Force were given the
opportunity to get out. Many did. while
the getting was good, and many who did
not so choose were forced out. At the
same time, the Air Force was advertis-
ing for men, with all kinds Of induce
ments, and taking them in as fast as
they could be processed.
Men in the services are becoming
determined in greater numbers to estab-
lish themselves in private life before
they get much older. and they know
that their service experience will be of
little value, if any, on an application
blank. The armed forces should realize
this. It means nothing to the regulars
when men are yanked out of private
life and later tossed back, but it is
rough on those who get that treatment,
especially men who want to have homes
and families.
While men are needed to tight wars.
their productive years should not be the
subject of indecision and unstable poll
cies on the part of policy-makers and
legislators. Young men can always leave
their jobs to help fight war. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
IndiqestibIe Column

The writer of your editorial. "Dupes
and Genetics," was not the only one
impressed by the fantastic rashness
shown by David Lawrence in his coll
umn of March Is.
When scientists are labeled Commu-
nist-inspired because they try to
warn of the very real danger to the
germ cells of the Nation from the
effects of indiscriminate radiation. then
we are in a sad state of affairs. Mr..
Lawrence'sN statement that the evidence
from Hiroshima is negative means
exactly nothing. Human fecundity is
low and intricate; controlled breeding
is required to uncover insidiouS, small.
recessive changes. We are not dealing
with laboratory mammals. Moreover,
it is not Just a question of sterility,
which is the face put on 1t by Mr..
Lawrence. The question is pollution
of the hereditary stream with defective
genes which will reproduce exact like
nesses of themselves from here to
eternity. They don't necessarily kill
they may merely MAIN. discolor or dis
figure. There are, without doubt, ge-
netic time-bombs in Japan dating from
Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It may take
few generations for them to explode
when homozygosity provides the oppor-
tunity. Meanwhile, they spread like
subthreshold infection.
Mr.. Lawrence might be convinced Of
the radioactive facts of life by reading
a book published in 1947, entitled SAC
tons of Radiations on Living Cells" by
D. E. Lea. DR.. Lea demonstrates clearly
the very real effects Of ionizing par
ticles on genes and chromosomes. Mr..
Lawrence's chest X-ray analogy is base
less as criterion of harmlessness. The
germ plasm is not carried in the chest.
w. M. Hooper.
In his March Is column. David
Lawrence displays a regrettable atti-
tude which strikes me as dangerous for
our country if it were to become wide
spread. This is the strange illusion
that whatever the Communists may be
for, we must be against and whatever
they oppose. we should support.
Surely Mr.. Lawrence knows that the
Communists have no morality, and will
indiscriminately use either lies or the
truth or any mixture. as may serve
their purposes of the moment. II they
say black is white. we may well dis
agree; but if they later find it con-
venient to assert black is black, 1t would
be fantastic for us to deny it.
I am emphatically and thoroughly
weary of having people like Mr..
Lawrence Tin at least this instance)
rely so heavily on the current Com
munist line. so that they may then
oppose it. What a way to arrive at
truth!
There is more than one good reason
to regard an increase in the radioactive
level Of our planet as a potential
hazard. True. the danger is quite small
at present, but this is no reason for
writing it off as nonexiStent. Scientists
differ on the extent of the hazard: and
Mr.. Lawrence seeks to decide the issue
by opposing the side that Communist
propagandists happen to support at the
moment. I call it ridiculous. and sug-
gest that Mr. Lawrence and the rest
of us pay less attention to the unrelia-
BILE Communist point Of view In dis
cussing matters Of interest to Ameri-
cans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Give 1t Tools for the Job

Proposed park appropriations approved
by the House Appropriations Committee are
gratifying insofar as further development
of the park system in the Washington area
is concerned They fall short of require
inents in the administrative and planning
fields, however, if the job which Congress
has laid out for the National Capital Plan
ming Commission and other agencies is to
be done.
The committee wisely has provided for
continuation of park and parkway improve
ment and extension under the Capper-
Cranlton and related acts. Resumption of
work on the George Washington Memorial
parkway on both sides of the Potomac River
was included in the construction program
favored by the committee. This project has
assumed added Importance because of ten
tative plans of the Central Intelligence
Agency to build huge headquarters near
Langley, Virginia. The parkway would be a
major approach to the installation. An
other improvement of traffic-relief value
would be the ramp approved for the Vir-
ginia end of the Key Bridge, affording Vir-
ginia- bound cars access to the upriver sec
ton of the George Washington Memorial
parkway.
While the committee granted the Plan
ming Commission the same. amount as last
year for general park and planning needs,
it disapproved request for $4,000 addi-
tional to enlarge the commissions tech
meal staff. This staff Is essential to the
carrying out of coming studies, neighbor-
hood urban renewal and regional plan
ming under previous congressional man
dates, the agency says. Congress increased
the responsibilities of the commission under
the 1852 reorganization law 1t would be
unrealistic now to deprive the commission
of the tools needed TO undertake the new
assignments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22

How does Civil Service Commissioner
Philip Young know that per cent pay
raise is all the Nation can afford for
the Federal worker? Is he such great
economist? If he is, the stock-market
question should be an easy one for him
to answer. Stocks are only part Of
the Nations economy. and here Mr..
Young has assessed the entire economy
Of $50 million people. All the Govern
ment employees want is enough money
to live on without going into debt-like
Congressman II Mr.. Young doesn't
understand that. he should get first
hand information from his Congress-
man-any Congressman. All the people
around here could use an extra $40. In
fact. some have even been trying to
borrow it from me.
Ralph Stuart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
BY Charles E. TroceweH

Especially when the sun shines on
them. they take on new dimension.
Then the glory Of the handiwork of
the Lord is seen, despite the prejudices
of man.
Starlings come dime q dozen. with
few takers, but they have their place
in our world, maybe to take the place
Of the lamented passenger pigeons.
Starlings were brought here, they
did not ny over.
Once here, they have made the best
Of conditions, q good American Gus
tom, and have prospered and waxed
fat. as the Bible says, though they
might have to revise the statement
today a bit.
Starlings do good by eating japanese
beetles and other obnoxious insects.
Claims have been made that they do
not eat as many beetles as we think
they do. But just because an observer
watches them for q few minutes, and
does not see them eat the beetles.
though o profusion Of them may be
present, means little. Maybe the star
lings had inst dined on the best bread
and who wouldn't prefer bread to bee
ties? a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22

smoothly then. What reasonable objec-
ton could there be to a constitutional
amendment which would prevent such
monkey business in the future by requir-
ing that executive agreements, like other
treaties, be valid only when ratified by
the Senate?
Horace p. Hobbs, Jr.
That publication Of the Yalta docu-
ments produced British howls is not
surprising. But the fact that for once,
the British tail was unable to wag the
American dog is pleasantly surprising
to America -Firsters. Why not continue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Middle Eust Conflict

Your March editorial on the Israeli
attack in GAIA seems to lean over
backward to favor the Israelis, in spite
Of the fact that they have been con-
demned in this case as well as in other
cases Of government-sponsored raids
on neighboring countries. More in
formation and less propaganda about
the Palestine conflict would do more for
American understanding.
The main problem in that area is the
$4,000 DPS from land now occupied
by Israel. Although your editorial did
not even mention this subject, these
displaced Palestinians have been living
in misery and poverty since the end of
the war, some six years ago. Although
they own 80 per cent of the land Of
Israel. including over two-thirds of the
arabic land. they cannot return, nor
have they even been compensated for
the appropriation of their land.
This mass misery is the reason for
the unrest. and I see no hope for inn
provement until Israel takes q more
humane attitude toward these hun
dreds Of thousands Of Arabs 1t has dis
placed.
American interest should be directed
toward just solution of the problem,
as the refugees and all other Arabs
justly regard the United States as the
creator and sustainer Of Israel, hence
responsible for her acts, whether in
keeping refugees homeless or in re-
peated border attacks.
Paul ID. Arthur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Monkey Business at YuItu

America never lost a war nor won a
conference" was the way viii Rogers
put it.
The Yalta papers make 1t only too
clear that the winner Of the Yalta con-
ference was none other than that
loveable. pipe smoking, poker faced,
ruthless tyrant. Uncle Joe Stain. All
he had to do was to accept with appro-
pirate magnanimous gestures, the lib
eral slices of Asia and Europe which the
so-called liberals contrived to give him.
without the consent of the peoples
concerned. Co-existence was working
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Stormy Night

Those raftidns, tDitd and rain.
are abroad In the hills tonight,
shaking the toindowpane,
trying to blotD out the light.
The ,Dind is pushing a ra5ter
high In the cTedktng house,
shouting NTH crazy laughter,
soaring the attic mouse.
The rain has attacked the yard
and is trying to Jimmy the door.
II ldsltes the aDindoDs hard,
and the iDtnd runs ouer the floor.
The cats hidden under the bed,
and iDe ask those wild ones, please.
leaue us the roof of the shed
and one OF the apple treest"
Frances Frost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Maybe 1t Would Help

Committee, Senator Walter George has
spoken from an authoritative background
and position in advocating that the major
powers hold a top-level conference some
time this year. OF course, whether any
thing will come of the proposal, or whether
it will just die aborning, remains to be seen,
but the State Departments broad indorse-
ment of the idea strongly suggests that
both Secretary Dulles and President Eisen-
hover are willing to try it in some form If
suitable conditions can be fixed.
Mr.. George, for his own part, has made
clear that he regards such conference as
an undertaking needed to lessen interna-
tional tension and head off the danger Of
another general war. Accordingly, he would
have France, Britain and the United States
meet in talks with the Soviet Union-on a
heads-of-government leveIas soon as prac-
ticable after full ratification of the Paris
accords on West Germany. Further, al
though he seems to share Mr.. Dulles view
that Peiping may now be imperviouS to
counsels of restraint from either the Krem-
lin or any other quarter, he feels that get
together of this kind could help to promote
peace despite the bleak history of similar
gatherings in the past Thus, as he has
put 1t, II believe we have reached a point
where there is real hope of making some
final adjustments, of moving toward more
normal world"
Perhaps this is an excessively optimistic
view. But If Mr.. George-who is not dis
posed to be wishful thinker and whose po-
sition in the Senate is highly informed
one-haS substantial reason to feel that
real hope" actually exists in the present
situation, then his call for full-dress meet
ing OF the big powers certainly should re-
ceive the most serious attention. True, as
he himself has conceded, the record of all
postwar negotiations with the Communists
serves as warning that such a meeting
would expose the West to a number of pit
falls. However, in his Judgment that is
risk that would be well worth taking because
the proposed talks-at which our side would
surely be alert enough not to fall for the old
Red tricks-could be genuinely helpful in
decreasing the threat of war. In any case,
it may be assumed that the conference, If
the Kremlin agreed to take part, would not
be held without thorough advance prepara-
ton and some evidence of Soviet willingness
to play constructive role instead of merely
propagandizing.
IL CoIulIlOHS OF tIllS SOrC can De met
satisfactorily, the State Department, as it
has just indicated, would welcome favorable
action on organizing some kind of meeting
with Russia. And that is as it should be.
For although such meeting would fall far
short of ending all tension, and although it
might bog down In futility, it could hardly
worSen the present bad situation, and 1t
might even result in agreements sufficiently
encouraging to Justify the real hope that
Mr.. George feels. In any event, the idea
deserves careful consideration as one of the
possible ways of making today's peace at
least a little bit less precarious than it is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
YoIto Politics

81, One feels impelled to agree with Senator
Bridges that the Republicans are at liberty
10 discuss the mistakes" made at Yalta,
and that "by studying the mistakes Of the
past and trying to avoid them in the future
we can help our country"
1t is not so easy, however, to reconcile
this high-level pronouncement with the
news that Senator Bridges has instructed
the Republican Policy Committee, which he
heads, to compile information from the
Yalta documents for use by G. o. P.
speakers.
This has all the earmarks of an attempt
to pounce upon the Yalta texts for partisan,
ivote-getting purposes. If so, the move is
one which should and which probably will
meet with little success.
OF course, mistakes were made at Yalta.
They ought to be studied at responsible
level with view to guarding against repe-
tition in the future. But this Is no Job for
stump speakers armed with vest pocket edi-
tons Of oversimplified speeches lifted, in
all probability out of context by vote
conscious policy committee.
After all, the mistakes at Yalta were
made 10 years ago in the closing stages OF
the worlds costliest war. This, of course,
does not excuse the mistakes. But it does
suggest that the Republicans are not going
to be able to squeeze much political advan-
tage out of them at this late date-espec-
tally since there is no apparent way of recti-
flying the errors except through another
war, which the G. o. P. is not likely to adj
vocate.
It is to be hoped that responsible Re-
publican leaders will balance the slim pros
pect of political gain in this business against
the potential injury to the national well
fare If the Yalta agreements should become
the subject of cat-and-dog partisan fight.
Nor should the possible extent of this injury
be undereStimated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Not q Presidential Problem?

In my opinion. recommendation
from the White House regarding pro-
posed locations for bridges and tunnels
connecting the District of Columbia and
adjoining States should not be taken
too seriously. for such is not matter
for Presidents to become involved in.
The Washington Board of Trade and
the States concerned should be most
carefully considered and not those who
are temporary residents.
n I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22

the good work and publish the papers
of Casablanca. Teheran, and elsewhere?
Why should the whisperings Of Roose-
welt, Churchill, and Stain any longer
be kept secret from those who have had
to pay. and will continue to pay for
generations, the cost of the deals and
double-crosses Of those three cronies?
w. III. Shields.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Questions and Answers

reaoer can get the answer TO any
question of fact by writing The evening
Star Information Bureau. 1900 Eye st.
3 cents for return postage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Quotes

Fletcher Knebel states that Senator
Fulbright wants to put I'm God We
Trust" on our paper money.
When the same suggestion was made
to President Lincoln, he told the sug-
gesters that if they wanted something
suitable from Holy Writ for that pur-
pose, they should use that portion of
the 9Th verse of the Sd chapter of Acts
which reads: "Silver and gold have I
none; but such as have I give thee"
Norris c. Bake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
Lettersto The Stor..

cannot always leave the service. after
years In it. and walk into the level of
civilian life they would otherwise have
attained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22

@. When were public telephones first
set up outdoors in this country?
j. OH.
A. They were first installed as an
emergency facility in defense towns
during World War II. In 1854 the
Bell System alone reported over 10000
outdoor phone booths in operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What is meant by hidden hun
ger?"-F. r. I.
A. Vitamin deficiencies occur even
among well-to-do and well-informed
people who are apparently healthy.
and nutritionists refer to this condi-
ton as hidden hunger" Relatively
few people in the United States con-
sistently eat diets that are adequate
in all respects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-22

Pen-ndn,es may be used II letters carry
tDrtters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-05-05

of Ohioans for natural gas for
heating, year-round air con-
ditioning, cooking, refrigeration,
water heating, clothes drying
and incineration in homes, and
for processing in industrial
plants.
A sound movie in color,
Toughest Inch" will be shown
in connection with Miss Mag
ruder's talk.
Miss Magruder is native of
Owensboro, KY, She was grad
uated from Furman University,
Greenville, S. c., received a
masters degree from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, and has also
taken graduate work at Ohio
State University.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-05-05
Five People Involved
In Head-On Collision
Accident Occurs On
Route Il Near Elbo

Five people were involved in
a head-on collision, including
Harry Smith, %, of Summer
field, which occurred at Elba on
u. S. Route 81, Monday morning
at 8:45 o'clock.
A car travelling south and
driven by Russell Koehnlein, A,
of Belpre, collided head-on with
that driven by Harry Smith, who
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley
Smith, Summerfield. The Noble
Countian was returning to his
home from the B. F. Goodrich
plant in Marietta where he is
employed.
Russell Koehnlein suffered a
badly lacerated left knee, cuts
and bruises on the body and
face; Zelda Koehnlein, A, suf-
fered extreme decorations about
the face and body and a possible
conclusion. The children, Carey,
IL and a daughter, Sandra Kay,
9, were sleeping on the back seat
and were not injured except for
minor bruises.
Harry Smith suffered lacera-
tions on the face and legs. Both
cars were completely demolished.
All the above named were
taken to Marietta Memorial hos
pital in the McVay ambulance.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-05-05
Feeder Cali Sale
Brings Top Prices
VonFossens Sell
Top Lot OF Calves

The Spring Feeder Calf Sale
promoted by the Guernsey-Noble
Feeder Calf association was held
at the Coshocton Producers Live
stock Sales barn, Friday, April
29th.
Approximately 327 calves were
sold for an overall average of
$20.50 per hundred pounds.
Kenneth and Bert VanFossen
of Sarahsville sold the top lot
of steer calves. They averaged
490 pounds per head and brought
$3.50 per hundred pounds.
The top heifer price was paid
for two 375 pound heifers pro-
duced by Alva Watson, of Sar-
ahsville. They sold for $21.75
per hundred.
There were 43 steers that sold
for $24.00 or more per hundred.
These prices compared favor
ably with the averages of the
fall feeder calf sales. The aver
age for the sale on October 9th
was $20.59 and on November
4th, $20.33.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-05-05
BYesViIIe Youth Is
Struck By vehitIe
james Merry, Caldwell
Is Driver of Automobile

Donald, six-year-old son of
Mrs. Helen Harold, of Byesville,
was in serious condition Fri
day at st. Francis hospital as a
result of being struck by an auto
at Gas p. m. Thursday in Byes-
vile.
Encil Parson, Byesville mar
shall, who investigated, said the
boy ran out of an alley in front
of the vehicle. The driver was
James r. Merry, of Caldwell
route 2, who was enroute to
Cambridge at the time to visit
his wife, a patient at Guernsey
Memorial hospital.
Marshal Parson stated that
skid marks on the pavement
measured SO feet and that
Merry was cited for speeding.
When arraigned before Mayor l..
B. Skinner, Thursday night,
Merry was fined $40 and cost.
Hospital attaches said that the
boy sustained a fractured skull
and brain concussion, besides
bruises and abrasions of the left
arm and elbow and left side. His
father was killed IN the Korean
War.