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ton, the able Secretary continued to hold
fast to his decision even after the Foreign
Operations Administration had stepped
into the picture with another clearance
and another important job for Mr.. Lade-
jinsky. Not until now, months later, has
Mr.. Benson seen fit to accept the findings
of State and the FoA on the ground that
these two agencies are more experienced
In security" than the one he heads.
But better late than never As Mr..
Ladeiinsky himself has said, the Secre-
tary's new decision constitutes "happy
yindication Of the principles of justice
and fair play" Beyond that, apart from
all its sorry aspects, the past handling of
this case has at least had the virtue of
dramatizing the need for safeguards
against further bureaucratic misappn-
cations of our Federal security program.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
A Place to Begin

Immediate impact of the transit
strike was softened by the holidays, and
today we shall begin to count the cost
that everybody in town must share. The
cost becomes heavier each day that a
settlement Is delayed.
The atmosphere is not conducive to
quick settlement. A Senate committee
Is planning to tar-and-feather Mr.. Wolf
son, as soon as he can be persuaded to
return and cooperate in the ceremony.
The union Is not apt to come forward
with any constructive suggestions that
would interfere with this interesting
spectacle. The Public Utilities Commis
sion and Congress, having delayed deci-
sions and legislation of benefit to the
company before the strike, are unlikely
to proceed now with actions that might
be interpreted as appeasement. The
company, having decided to take the
strike on the theory that the laws Of
arithmetic establish the difference be-
tween profit and loss, is not apt to amend
them on its own motion.
All the elements of continuing dead
lock are present.
In the circumstances, somebody
must make a move to remove some of
these elements. AS the community of
Washington is going to be chief sufferer,
its leadership should consider independ
ent action. This could take the form of
finding and stating certain key facts that
in the end will be necessary for settle
ment.
Do the company's earnings as now
estimated permit higher pay and more
benefits to the union? The company
says no. The union says yes. What are
the facts?
Is the union entitled to pay and
other increases, measured by the stand
ard OF prevailing rates in this and COM
parable industries? The union says yes.
The company does not argue the point
on that basis, but sustainS its position
by plea Of poverty What are the facts?
Is the company entitled to higher
fares, certain tax concessions and an
upward adjustment of school fares? II
so, what would such benefits cost the
public, to what extent would they i'm
prove the company's position, and how
far would they go in meeting the unions
minimum demands?
The facts are available, but they
should be verified and announced by
some source that commands public con-
fidence, such as a committee of repre-
sentative Washington citizens.
The unbeatable fact is that Wash
ington must have public transportation.
If 1t cannot be provided by prof1t-making
private enterprise paying fair wages to
its employees, some other system must be
devised that will provide it. The sooner
we get down to the business of finding
out what must be done, and how it is to
be done, the better for Washington.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Stinqinq Rebuke

The House Post Office and
Civil Service Committee has
really been busy this Congress-.
Twelve times this august body
has conceived. and a bill has
been born. In one instance,
with great beating of drums,
they passed a bill providing
for the transportation of live
scorpions. Webster states a
scorpion to be an arachid with
a venomous sting at the tip Of
its tail. Now that these ara
chids have been so we'll taken
care of, perhaps Mr.. Murray
will condescend to permit a
group Of $50, 900 human beings
some consideration in connec-
ton with H.R. 3792-or are we
farther down in his scale Of
thinking than the scorpionst
Glen r. Simcox,
President, Arlington Chap
ter No. 7. National Associa-
ton Of Retired Civil En-
ployes.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Peoce-ot a Price

The wage agreement reached IN the
steel industry, following that negotiated
in the automobile field, virtually assures
there will be no major interruption,
through strikes, of this years record
business pace. For these two industries
not only contribute heavily to the eco
nomic indices that reflect good or bad
business year; they also are pacemakers
in labor relations for the whole range OF
mass production industries. The pat
tern they have set for this year, in each
case, has been to make generous settle
ment with labor rather than risk a pro-
longed shutdown.
There is reason for both manage
ment and labor, as we'll as the general
public, to feel gratif1ed at such solution.
Strikes in steel and in automobiles have
been costly in dollars and deeply damag-
ing in other respects in past years. 1t Is,
therefore, tribute to the Judgment and
the good will of both the management
and labor negotiators that they have
been able to reach agreement without
bitterness and with only brief interrupt
tions of production.
After acknowledging this benefit OF
uninterrupted production, however, there
does arise question of what impact the
actual terms of these unusual contracts
will have upon the national economy.
Steel, for example, already has an
nounced it is passing on to consumers
including the automobile industry-its
increased costs. 1t has done so on each
occasion of granting wage increases
since the end of World War II-nine
times now-and the infiationary effect
has been noticeable on most occasions
throughout the economy. Costs of living
have been relatively stable for the past
year or so, with the inflationary spiral
seemingly halted. But if this summers
pattern of relatively costly concessions
to labor is to be translated directly into
higher consumer prices-for automobiles
or for other products in which steel is
a major component-a qualified evalua-
ton of the steel settlement may be
justified.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Memorial to Taft

I yield to none in my ad-
miration for the late Senator
Robert A. Taft Of Ohio.
But ! must protest strongly
against the proposal to erect
an outdoor memorial to him on
the grounds of the United
States Capitol. I am convinced
that Senator Taft himself
would have been the first to
raise his voice against such q
dangerous precedent.
There can be and surely are
wide differences of opinion as
to the artistic quality and ap-
propriateness Of the memorial
which has been proposed.
But it does seem to me that
there can be, upon reflection,
few differences of opinion as
to the obvious improperly of
opening the Capitol grounds to
individual memorials.
Such a precedent would
quickly destroy the unity, the
dignity, and above all, and
most important. the national
character of the Capitol
grounds-which now stand as
a monument to no one person
or group of persons but to our
Government and country as a
whole.
BY all means let us erect a
memorial to Senator Taft in
Washington. There are many
proper places for such q me-
mortal. "
But let us not make the
grave error. which we and our
descendants are sure to regret.
Of placing 1t within the Capitol
area. That would establish a
precedent which inevitably
would plague Congress and the
nation for generations to come.
Spencer Netherland.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Children at Sunset
A great rock, alien on a strip

A great rock, alien on a strip
OF sand.
Where. motionless upon its
granite shoulder,
Three children gaze across the
n1rroiD strand
To the seas rim t1here fires
OF sunset shoulder.
They sit trdnsfred;; they make,
no sound or cry
So lost are they IN iuonder-
ing contemplation,
Each little face intent upon
the sky
In mingled iDisttulness and
eTult1tion.
A stranger passes, but the
watchers knoD
Naught OF the beauty of the
picture burning
Itself upon his heart - the
west 1olop
And, t0tD1rd its Splendor,
three young faces turn
ing.
Night deepens now and of
across the sea
Ashes OF cloud blot out the
suns last ember.
Down leap the chdaoelings,
shouting lastily,
Letting the startled passer-
by remember.
Inez Boreloy Kirby
Evening star., 1955-07-05
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES (. TRACEWELL
Gone With the Wind"

"Gone With the Wind"
It comes from Ernest Dow
sons "Cynara," which contains
the words, gone with the
wind. Cynara.
The title, alone, has cast q
spell over reading America.
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One would not recommend
just reading titles to books, Of
course; but there must be. in
every readers life, many titles
he simply cannot get around
to. as he says.
Take "The Decline and Fall
Of the Roman Empire"
How often have how many
thousands said how many mil
lions of times. II will read
Gibbons masterpiece or bust?"
1t still reposes behind the
glass doors of countless old
fashioned bookcases, secure in
the possession of the little real
book worms that leave their
castings behind.
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Have you ever read Faust"
clear through?
Many persons, no doubt,
have read the first part, but
how about part IT.?
Our guess is that there
aren't two people in the United
States who have read Faust"
from first to last.
The Faust idea, however, has
come over to many millions Of
people.
So it may be said, without
stretching, we believe, that the
good great books do is not
confined solely to their words.
Indeed. the titles, in many
instances. influence lives and
make friends. One Of the
most intelligent persons we
know has not yet read Alice
in Wonderland" And he
would be placed by those who
know him among the group Of
these who would get the most
out OF this book, with its odd
relationship both to childhood
and maturity.
Joseph Mazzini's Duties Of
Man." considered here recent
ly, is another book whose very
title says something.
Dante's frightening Infer
no." holding up the awfulness
of evil may have Influenced
thousands Of lives just by its
title alone. Whether "Purga-
tory" and Paradise" have ex-
erted such an influence may be
questioned.
LIE us keep such books
around, even If we have not
read them, and have a sus-
picion that we never will. They
will do us good, anyway.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
THE POLITICAL MILL
De Sopio Warns Stevenson Bockers
By GOULD LINCOLN

licly, wiz be drawn into the
open IS q candidate. Mr.. De
Sapio maintained the pres
idency Is too important q Job
for anyone to play q cat and
mouse game for q nomination.
Politicians, however. are cagey
about announcing their plans
long in advance Of an election
campaign.
Potential Candidates.
The New York Democratic
leader mentioned q string Of
possible and potential candi-
dates for the presidential NOM
ination Of his party-starting
with Mr.. Hartman. He gave
the list to demonstrate that
the nomination has not neces-
sarily been foreclosed for Mr..
Stevenson. In addition to the
New York Governor, Mr.. De
Sapio named Senator Lyndon
B. johnson of Texas. majority
leader of the Senate: Senator
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
runner-up for the 1852 NOM
ination; Gov. Frank j. Lausche
of Ohio; Gov. Robert B.
Mcyner Of New Jersey; Mr..
Stevenson; Senator Stuart Sy-
mington of Missouri; and Gov.
G. Mennen Williams Of Mich
igan.
Senator johnson only q few
hours earlier had suffered a
heart attack which will, it Is
reported. keep him away from
the Senate for the remainder
Of the present session. What
effect 1t will have on his fu-
ture political plans 1t is too
early to say. But the Texas
Senator, because of the re-
markable success he has had
as Democratic leader Of the
Senate, has been more and
more in the talk for either a
presidential or vice presiden-
tial nomination. His leader
ship in the Senate win be
sorely missed ~ although that
body really has accomplished
nearly all its work under Sen
ator johnson that was ex-
pected Of it.
1t may be that Mr.. De Sapio
has spoken out at this time to
give clear warning the, 1856
presidential nomination is not
to be pre-empted by the Adlai
Stevenson supporters. The
Tammany leader is a shrewd
operator. If he is able to
gather support for his man in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Connecticut. Ohio, In diana
and some OF the more Western
States, the 1856 Democratic
National Convention may turn
out to be anything but a
Stevenson ratification meeting.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Opposes Reserve Bill

I have just read H. r. 5297,
under consideration in Con-
gress. 1t proposes to make uni
versal military training a
reality for a generation Of
Americas young men. This
National Reserve Plan" will
affect eight years Of q mans
life.
This system is entirely OPP
posed to the traditional Amer
lean concepts Of freedom and
liberty. Without 1t, America
has a better prepared peace
time Army than it ever had
before. Americans have always
opposed large standing armies
and 1t is important that now
when we have in our power
the greatest energy ever con-
trolled by man. that the day
of the foot soldier is over.
Please notice that for three
centuries the various nations
of Europe have had UNIT and
it has not been enough to
keep them undefeated. Ger
many, Austria Hun g ary.
France, Italy and Russia have
all been beaten in battle de-
spite their large scale, pre-
war preparations.
Add to these objections the
moral ones of having young
men from q so-called Chris
tian, civilized Nation taught
to fight and kill. Above all, the
ethical considerations should
be important ones.
America became the strong
est Nation in the world by
holding onto the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights. To give
the economic planners and lib
erals unprecedented regimen
tation over the American peo-
pie is the purpose of this bill.
American.
Evening star., 1955-07-05

@. What has become of the
ancient land Of Palestine?
w. w.
A. The greater part is now
divided between Israel and
Jordan. A narrow coastal
strip near GAIA is held by
Egypt. and there is a demili-
tarized zone along the south
ern border which serves as
U. N. armistice headquarters.
@. Is the divorce rate much
lower in Canada than in the
United States?-C. F.
A. Yes. In 1858 the Cana
dian divorce rate was 0.41 per
1000 population compared
with 2,5 per ], 900 in the United
States. Thus the United States
Evening star., 1955-07-05

Tne darTiman Doom Tor
President is out In the open at
last. Carmine @. De Sapio,
Tammany boss and the man
who was responsible, more
than any other, for Gov. Aver
ell Harriman's nomination and
election last year. said. on the
National Rroadcasting Com
pany's program. Meet the
Press" that he was confident
that the New York delegation
at the 1856 Democratic Ma
tional Convention would sup
port Mr.. Hartman for the
presidential nomination. He
meant as a bona fide candi-
date, not just as a stalking
horse or "favorite son" can
didate until New York's big
delegation decided which way
to jump.
If the New York Democrats
60 into this fight swholeheart-
edly for the Governors they
are now expected to do-they
are likely to gather support
in other State delegations. II
they do. the idea often re-
Gently advanced that the pres
idential nomination is to be
handed Adlai Stevenson on a
platter will take q rude jolt.
Believed Available.
For months it has been
known that the New York
Democrats, under the leader
ship of Mr.. De Sapio, were
more or less quietly planning
to get Mr.. Hartman into the
presidential race. Further.
there has been more than a
suspicion that Mr.. Hartman
was perfectly willing to become
q candidate, Notwithstanding
his early statement that he
was for Mr.. Stevenson. If the
opposition to a second Ste
venson nomination-and there
is considerable in q number of
States-becomes more and
more cohesive as time passes
and turns to Mr.. Hartman
and it can be made to appear
there is a real demand for the
New York Governor. it will be
easy to argue he must dis
regard any early comment
made about Mr.. Stevenson.
Mr.. DeSapio made one state
ment in his Meet the Press"
interview that will bear watch
ing. He said he believed that
any and all candidates for the
presidential nominations-Re-
publican and Democratic
should not play coy, but come
out in. the open. It remains to
be seen whether Gov. Hartman
will follow this advice-and
also whether Adlai Stevenson,
who has so far coasted along
without saying yes or no pub
Evening star., 1955-07-05
rate was more than 8 times
the Canadian rate.

@. What is the name Of the
street In New Orleans where
blues singing Is said to have
originated?-R. Nick.
A. Basin street Is known as
the birthplace Of blues. For
merly a narrow, grimy street
lit by f1ickering gas lamps, it
echoed TO the tones Of saxo-
phone. trombone and drum.
Now it is a modern thorough
fare. but in difference to pub
lie opinion the old and WE'LL
known name has remained un-
changed.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
IN STREET.

N STREET,.
Dear Sir:
your promise to read War
and Peace sometime hits me
in the same spot.
IT, too. keep such books
stacked by my bed, just in
case. .
II. enjoy reading you, and
have for many years.
Sincerely, ]. H. NJ"
Great books that one intends
to read but doesn't get around
to come by the hundreds, the
thousands.
The fact that one does not
read them is no reflection upon
either reader or writer.
Even the best reader cannot
read everything.
There is a minimum list he
should?
This has been q favorite
idea for many years.
Today practically every
body has his own list.
The list makes little differ
ence. They are all very much
alike, with much the same
selections, starting off with
the Bible and Shakespeare.
You can 60 on from there.
Have you read Lorna
Doone?" Some have. some
haven't.
And how about "Black
Beauty?" And 1.-THE Swiss
Family Robinson" which many
youngsters Of the '90s pre-
ferred to Robinson Crusoe?"
The point is, we believe, not
so much whether one has read
or not read a certain book.
1t simply is this, that even
the title Of a good book is good
for something.
It has caught up an idea
out Of the ocean Of ideas,
and holds it up to us, no
matter If we have read it.
To go back to Tolstoy's
"War and Peace" a gigan-
tic, superfatted novel, written
years before today's crops Of
padded books.
The very title presents us
with the great choice.
Moses did it first, when he
said to his people. To-day I
place before you life and
death"
Consider Emerson's Con-
duct of Life" There you have
a whole sermon in a title.
Really. there is no need to
read "all about it." You Just
remember the title, when you
get in a tight spot.
The fragrance Of q good
book title often makes a best
seller,
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Hittinq Where 1t Hurts Most

Last March the Commissioners were
warned by their fiscal advisers at the
District Building that they would be
scraping the bottom of the barrel for new
revenue before the end of this fiscal year.
The usual committee of municipal Of
ficials was appointed to draw up another
tax-increase program. There were con-
ferences with the Budget Bureau and
conferences on Capitol Hill. The decision
that seemed to unfold was to wait and
see-wait and see what the cost Of the
salary increases would be, wait and see
what Congress would decide about the
size of the Federal payment, wait and
see whether current taxes might not yield
more than was anticipated.
Waiting, the Commissioners have
seen Congress increase the pay Of the
classified municipal employees and take
under consideration comparable addi-
tional increases for the police, flremen
and school teachers. They have seen Con-
gress reduce by So million the Federal
payment which was approved the preced-
ing year as the minimum Federal share
of a long-range works program. They
have seen this session OF Congress draw
to close, and they know that at the end
Of a session it is very difficult to get fair
and orderly tax bill studied, much less
enacted.
Having waited, and seen, the Com
missionerS are now considering an in
crease in the real estate tax rate. They
can do that themselves. The thinking
seems to be that this will solve emergency
problems until Congress gets back in
January.
The trouble is that 1t will solve little
of anything. The fraction of taxable real
estate in Washington-lesS than half OF
the untaxed real estate-is paying its full
share of the burden of running this city.
Although the assessors office has not
been able to keep all assessments up to
date, there is no proof that reasseSsments
would bring tax valuations much higher
than they are now. Already we are one of
the most strictly, and most highly, as
sessed cities In the country. There are in
dications that any substantial real estate
increase will tend to diminish rather than
increase sources of revenue, by encourag-
ing the move of business and residents to
the suburbs. For the past several years
every new tax that has been devised rep
resents an effort to keep the real estate
tax from being increased again.
A 10-cent hike in the real estate tax
now would almost equal the revenue lost
by reduction of the Federal payment 1t
would yield about So million. So the
prospect is that the real estate taxpayer,
who has only recently been saddled by
increased taxes for water and sewage,
will be called on again to meet the cost
Of congressional reputation of the Fed
eral Governments Just obligation in sup
port Of this Capital City.
The Commissioners may be forced to
this STEP We hope, however, that 1t will
not be regarded by anybody as solu-
ton, even temporary, of the citys fiscal
problem.
Evening star., 1955-07-05

munistic regime now function
ing in the Baltic States.
Since the Big -Four meeting
is nearing, therefore. the time
has come to apply the prin-
ciples Of the Atlantic Char
ter to these countries. The
Charter reads: ("The sigma
tory powers) =. respect the
right of all people to choose
the form of government under
which they will live; and they
wish to see sovereign rights
and self-government restored
to those who have been forcibly
deprived of them ="
The crime which the Soviets
are perpetrating against the
Baltic States and the other
satellites should be investi-
gated now. This Is the mo-
ment to request freedom for
these countries and free the
6 million Estonians, Latvians
and Lithuanians from cap
tivity behind the Iron Curtain.
They are suffering cruelty
under Russian occupation.
The tragedy of these coun-
tries and the other satellite
states should be adequate proof
to the free world that COM
munism will use force to in
wade other areas as soon as a
suitable time arrives.
Mr.. Molotov, the pigeon of
peace" from Moscow, and his
country now have the oppor-
tunity to fulfill the repeated
promise Of peaceful CO.
existence" The Russians have
the chance to cooperate with
the Western world at the Big
Four meeting and restore
freedom to the Baltic States.
C. Saarepera.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
Little 3 and Biq 4

Since occupation Of the
Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania) in 1910 and
reoccupation by the Russians
after the German defeat in
1914, the governments of the
United States, Great Britain
, and most of the nations Of the
world have confirmed their
nonrecognition Of the COM
Evening star., 1955-07-05

an employe, an officer or a
stockholder Of Capital Transit
Just one Of the victims.
william E. Spicer.
Evening star., 1955-07-05
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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