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Fairfax Zoning Battle

The outcome of pending litigation
in Fairfax County will determine the
nature of future development in the
county's remaining rural section. The
legal battle is important for that reason
and also because the extent to which
Fairfax County can control building in
conformity with overall planning will
affect the entire Metropolitan Area.
The court fight is the outgrowth of
the adoption by the County Board of
Supervisors Of new coming amendment
restricting homesites in the rural dis
trict to a minimum Of two acres. The
amendment is being contested in court
by a group Of landowners who, appar-
emily, foresee extension to the northern
part Of the county of the construction
boom enjoyed in the more urban sec
tons. The county board has employed
Armistead Boothe, Alexandria lawyer
and legislator, to fight the suit
The countys move to protect the
upper county from congested develop
ment of the sort that has created traflc,
sewage and other public-service prob
lens In the built-up areas is in line with
general plans for controlled expansion
on both sides Of the Potomac River above
Little Falls A recent report by a con-
sultant for the Mass Transportation
Survey recommended against small-lot
subdivisions in the upper river valley.
largely because Of a potential pollution
threat to Washington's water supply.
The intake for the water system, which
also serves parts Of nearby Virginia, is
above Little Falls. The conSultant's rec
concentrations, in general outline, have
been approved by the National Capital
Planning Commission and the National
Capital Regional Planning Council. And
the Army Corps OF Engineers has warned
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER is, 1856
Appeal to Reason

The United Nations has now heard
from Acting Secretary of State Herbert
Hoover, jr., definition OF American
policy that amounts to an appeal to
reason in diStra1ght and crisis-ridden
world. In effect, as set forth before the
General Assembly, the appeal calls upon
all powers to strive together-"with a
sense of the posSible"-in a determined
effort to abate the present grave tensions
and find peaceful solutions for problems
that might otherwise become so unman-
ageable as to plunge mankind into an
about global war.
Perhaps the most pressing of these
problems at the moment is the crisis in
the Middle East. AS Mr.. Hoover has sug-
geSted, if all parties concerned really
want to pacify the situation as first step
toward working out satisfactory and
durable settlements of the Suez Canal
issue and the Arab-Israeli impasSe, then
those parties will refrain from doing
anything likely to undercut the U. MS
peace-making role. In that connection,
the Acting Secretary has pointedly re-
stated the Presidents recent admonition
that If Soviet volunteers" were sent to
intervene in the area, "the United Ma
lions would be obliged to take action"
and "the United States would fully sup
port such action" Coincidentally, judy
ing from the way in which the Russian
press has suddenly de-emphaSized the
subject, the Kremlin seems to have
backed away bit from its threat to
resort to that kind of intervention. If
this is So then it is a moderately en-
couraging sign. And there may be some
promise, too, in the new disarmament
plan announced by Premier Bulganin,
though at this writing judgment must be
reserved, especially because the first re-
ports on his message to Mr.. Eisenhower
leave number of very important queS-
tons unanswered
Mr.. Hoover, in any case, has left no
room for doubt about our own country's
desire to cooperate with all other pow
ers for good peace. Thus, speaking Of
the U. N. as whole, he has had this to
say: "Our goal must be world in which
nations and peoples can live side by side,
whatever their internal political, eco
nomic and social systems, without fear
and with real hope for self fulfillment.
The United Nations can be Of inestimable
value in helping to work toward this
goal. We cannot ask if it will succeed
in its job. We must make 1t succeed.
Let us join together here to build bridge
from the past to the future, across which
we can walk together in a new spirit Of
confidence"
Surely, if men and their governments
are reasonable, that bridge will be built;
war in the atomic age is too terrible an
alternative.
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In October. 1919. John
Foster Dulles uncle. Secre-
tary Of State Robert Lansing,
prepared a lengthy. docu-
mented report on the Bolshevik
tCommunist) regime in Rus
sis. He addressed it TO Henry
Cabot Lodge, chairman Of the
Foreign Relations Committee
Of the Senate. and grandfather
Of our present Ambassador to
the y. n. His summation read:
-. The purpose Of the Boil
sheviks is TO subvert the exist
ing principles Of government
and society the world over.
They have built up . political
machine which. BY the con-
centration Of power in the
hands Of . few and the ruth
lessness Of is methods, sug-
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FrykIund Commended

For the first in my life I have
been moved to write a letter TO
the editor. My congratulations
On the superb reporting Job Of
your staff correspondent Rich
ard Fryklund from Port Said
in The star Of November ~.
In this story we caught
glimpses Of traditional char
acteristics OF the British.
French and Egyptians. How
ever, the real point Of the
story. at least to me. was the
eloquence Of what was not
said. II it we're not for the
Nassers, the Edens. the Mollets,
the Ben-Gurions. and the
Kruschcheys. and yes. even
the Nehrus. people Of all ma
tionalities probably would get
along very well together, and
the ironical thing Is that we sit
here and there wringing our
International hands while
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Executive Office Problem

Chairman Robert v. Fleming and
other members of the Advisory Commits
sion on Presidential Office Space have
been handed difficult problem by Con-
greSs. They must report by next Febru-
airy on ways and means Of relieving the
Office congestion that is hampering the
President and his staff in conducting the
constantly growing business Of the White
House. Experience has shown that pro-
posals for enlarging the executive offices
involve controversial factors Of concern
to many organizations and persons out
side the administration.
President Eisenhower wisely asked
Congress to seek the advice of a special
commission on this touchy subject. Mr..
Fleming, prominent not only as a banker
but as leader in promoting a greater
National Capital, was named head Of the
commission at recent meetir.. The
advisory group includes members of Con-
gress and two members of an earlier
commission that supervised reconstruc-
ton Of the White House itself.
The former commission was con-
cerned only with undermining the Execu-
tive Mansion, which had fallen into a
dangerous state Of disrepair. That group
advised against any major alteration in
the appearance of the White House or its
setting In its report, the former COM
mission called attention to the need for
more Office space for the President and
his staff-4but warned that "a structure
adequate TO meet the needs could not be
provided on the White House grounds
without great detriment to the beauty Of
the building and its surroundings" The
American public apparently shares this
view, for 1t was the public's adverse reac-
ton that killed plan by former Presi-
dent Truman for $1.6-million addition
to the executive offices in the White
House grounds
The new advisory commission Is COM
posed OF men who are fully aware Of the
difficulties inherent in devising an ONCE
plan that will meet presidential needs.
and, at the same time. preserve the tradi-
tional appearance Of the White House
and its grounds. An executive building
outside the grounds may be the answer.
In any event, the recommendations Of
the Fleming commission should receive
respectful consideration, in and out Of
Congress.
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THE GAME OF POLITICS
Democrats Lost Vital Voting Groups
BY FRANK R. KEN

One really important thing
made clear by the recent cleo
ton apparently has escaped
most of the political pundits
and analysts. At least there
has been little or no comment
thereon. This can best be de-
scribed as the breakup Of the
great group support the Demo-
cratic candidates have had in
national elections since 1896.
For 20 solid years the Demo-
cratic Party rode to victory
not because of the personality
and popularity Of either Mr..
Roosevelt or Mr.. Truman, but
because of the solidarity with
which the three great groups
Of voters-the Negroes, the
farmers and organized labor
supported Democratic can
didates. No politically informed
man disputes these fundamen-
tai facts. Mr.. Roosevelt, in
1882, was easily elected because
of the depression Of the pre-
ceding four years, but after
that--in 1896. 1910 and 1914
he was elected partly be-
cause Of his tax, tax, tax,
spend, spend, spend, elect,
elect, elect" policies but largely
because of the manner in which
these three groups combined
behind him as a result Of those
policies.
Top Political Coup
It is all very well to talk
about the magic" of the
Roosevelt name (Which seemed
to have no magic at all when
his son and r1amesake ran
two years ago for attorney
general in New York;, but
the cold fact is that the
RooSevelts were, and are,
politically. wholly dependent
upon the three groups above
mentioned. In the 1886 cam
paign these groups were linked
together in an almost in
credible but extremely formi-
dable combination conceived
by James A. Farley and ex-Sen-
ator Joseph Guffey of PENN
sylvania, in which Mr.. RooSe-
welt calculatingly connivcd
and Fundamentally cooper
ated. In its success Mrs. Roose-
welt was used as an indispen-
sable asset. The details of this
have previously been given
in this space and need not
be repeated. except to quote
Mr.. Farley as saying the
scheme represented the great
est political coup in our his
tory, which is certainly a fact.
In 1852 Mr.. Eisenhower,
running against Mr.. Steven
son, notably weakened the
three Democratic groups.
drew votes from them all. In
the recent election he literally
wrecked the combination. 1t
is conceded that Mr.. Eisen-
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hover got many more Negro
votes than any Republican
candidate since the Messrs.
Farley and Guffey stole the
Negro vote, which had been
a basic asset of the Republic
can Party for more than 70
years. It is also conceded
that Mr.. Eisenhower got many
more votes from the rank and
file Of organized labor than in,
1862. Finally, it is conceded
that the Democratic expecta-
ton of a farmer revolt against
Mr.. Eisenhower and his Sec
rotary of Agriculture, Ezra
Taft Benson. proved baseless.
Actually the farmers appeared
to indorse not only the Presi-
dent but his farm policy as
we'll.
Labor Bosses "Alibi"
Thus, that three group win
ming combination which kept
the Democrats in power for
so many years has really come
unglued. 1t is doubtful, indeed,
that it can be put together
again. OF course, it is true that
while Eisenhower got nearly
100000 majority over his OPP
ponent, the Democrats con-
troll, by close majorities. both
House and Senate. But, to say
that this proves that the Re-
publicans are the weaker party
nationally does not altogether
follow. That idea Is proclaimed
chiefly by the union labor
bosses and the ADA, both of
whom were given a very Wig
orous kick in the pants by the
voters. The latter never
amounted to anything much
but now seem completely fiat
tened out.
AS to the labor bosses, they
advance the idea that they
concentrated their efforts upon
the local candidates for Gov
ernor, Senate and House and
paid little attention to the
candidates for the presidency
at all, which, of course. is COM
pletely untrue. 1t is a very
silly alihi. They spent their
money and did their utmost
against the Eisenhower-Nixon
ticket. and their total lack of
success in the Nation and in
such States as Ohio where
Gov. Lausche (who, though a
Democrat, "lilSes Ike") won de-
spite united labor-boss OPPOSE
ton, attests the total inability
of the labor bosses to control
the labor vote. There are a
good many reasons for local
Republican losses in States
where Eisenhower won and the
argument will continue a long
time. However. there can be
no argument about the great
RooSevelt-Far : Guffey Me-
gro, farmer-laborer combina-
ton. It just came unglued.
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deepest feeling, '"They hate it,
they hate it," The refusal
after the Korean arnistice of
more than "a per cent of the
released Chinese prisoners Of
war to return to their homes
and families in Red China
speaks for itself. In a dra-
matte demonstration those
prisoners who had been forced
to fight in Korea declared
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that they would prefer death
to a return to their homes in
the clutch of Communists.
They were remembering, some
Of them, the scenes they had
witnessed in Shanghai. "the
prisoners with cords around
their necks like dogs" being
driven to their slaughter by
the truckload-"the screams
of the accused-and the roar,
kill, kill, which could be heard
all day long" Thus on the
suffering and death of inno-
cent Chinese was being laid the
foundation Of the present Red
regime. 1t is that which is
now a leather-throated can
didate for admission to the
world society for maintain
ing peace-the United Nations.
The movement to seat Red
China is an insult to hon.
esty and decency, and is a
grave threat to all free ma
tons and to the U. N. itself.
To those who explain their
attempt to admit Macs re-
gime by saying I'VE have to
be realistic in a realistic
world" one daily newspaper
read round the world, and
which refuses to put on such
binders. blurts out: "In the
name Of all that is good and
decent and honest, what kind
Of realism is that? Isn't it
tantamount to accepting the
realistic fact of criminals in
every society in the world and
asking us simply because they
90 exist not to bother about
police forces or jails or the
normal laws Of human de-
cency and get along with them
on a live and let live basis?"
Now let us ask who is this
candidate" whose bloody
hands are now pounding on
the doors of the U. N. de-
manding to be let in. 1t is
the regime Of which in 1858
the Free China Labor League
estimated there were more
than 10 million slave laborers
in 5000 labor camps in China.
and in 1854 a United States
spokesman at the u, ~, in
speaking Of this outrage
against humanity, was sus-
tanned by another delegate
who produced documents and
statements from communistic
sources to support his esti-
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SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Flowers in q Graveyard
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United States Senate

Last summer 1 visited a
United States cemetery on a
grassy hillside near Honolulu.
Many of the white stones mark
the resting places Of American
boys whose lives were snuffed
out on a dreadful day which
lives in infanny. There, again
and again. carved on those
speaking memorials. is re-
corded the fateful date, De-
cember 7, 1941. With thoughts
too deep for words on that
blue day and fair. gazing from
that quiet height toward Pearl
Harbor, l stopped to pluck a
bright wild flower blooming
there amid the solitude of the
cemetry in that mid Pacific
paradise. I was bound for Free
China, in the Far East. which
is as near the mainland as it
is safe for any lover of freedom
to go. Later on, in the Orient,
the more I was permitted to
know about conditions on the
other side of the Bamboo Cur
tain, the more that flower in
the graveyard seemed a par
able Of what Is happening in
slave China. Let no sane per-
son with any conception Of
true values call the present
regime there the Peoples Re-
public" It is in no sense a
republic and does not repre-
sent the will Of the people. Any
alleged social gains pointed out
to visitors are like flowers in a
cemetery. For ruthless despots,
who were once hailed even by
many duped WeSterners as
"a grarian reformers." are
turning that vast area into a
graveyard of all that makes
human relationships fine and
fair, and truly great. In that
now-manacled country, 6 mil
lion enrolled Communists are
enslaving 500 million Chinese.
It is the Nationalist govern
ment on Taiwan which repre-
sents the real China. In cap
tured China, with its party
control and its steamroller
conformity. age-old customs,
religion, art, literature. educa-
ton, the intellectuals. all have
succumbed to the combined
power of Communist organiza-
ton and theology with its hor-
rible weapons Of psychological
control.
Statistics, highly colored.
claiming somewhat higher
standards of existence. say
nothing of the cost in all that
makes life worth living. Such
social advances" are indeed
as flowers in a graveyard. No
wonder that an objective cor
respondent, with the British
Labor delegation to China in
1854, should speak of "the
drab, dull apathy" that has
settled over every one and
laments that "a horrible uni
formity is the order Of the
day. Everywhere there turks
the haunting terror of the po-
lice state. where the individual
fears to express himself. When
I asked a high-calibered Chi
nese businessman. educated in
America, and who fed from
Shanghai when the Reds took
over, what he would say, as in
the safety Of Hong Kong he
listens through a dozen holes
in the curtain. is the attitude Of
the masses Of Chinese now that
they see that their fate is but
letters, he replied with the
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mate of more than "a million
slave laborers in Red China.
This applicant" is the same
whose murderous attack
CAUSED the death Of millions of
Koreans and over a hundred
thousand casualties among
American troops fighting un-
der the U. N. banner. These
rough Red hands at the U. N.
door belong to a regime which,
knowing it was a deliberate
and palpable lie. spread over
the earth the charge that the
United States used germ war
fare in Korea and even started
the aggression there. Red
China still keeps that foul &C
cusation prominent in her
propaganda line to fan the
fires Of hatred for America in
all the mainland that she con-
trolls. This candidate for adj
mission AS a trusted member
is still an aggressor against the
U. N. it seeks to join. It. along
with its puppet North Korea,
has flouted every vital stipula-
ton Of the armistice it so SOL
EMMY signed three years ago,
and so quickly and completely
def1ed without scruples. It is
really Red China our boys and
the ROK army are facing on
that front line of freedom in
divided Korea. Every one of
our military leaders, including
very recently Admiral Stump,
has borne witness before the
world Of the open violation of
the armistice, amounting to
continued aggression. No won
der. speaking for our troops as
well as their own in Korea, a
Korean lover Of freedom cries
out: Are we to sit quietly by
with the dagger of the Com
munist buildup north of us at
our Threats while the red car
pet of welcome is rolled out to
welcome into membership Of
the world society a Communist
China that has done nothing
but thumb its nose at any pre-
tense Of purging itself Of its
world-bestowed brand as an
aggressor?" 1t is the same Red
China, torturer of Christian
ministers and missionaries,
which keeps our soldier boys so
far from home on the alert at
the front line only IS miles
from the capital Of Free Korea
and which is draining the re-
sources of the Republic of
Korea to marshal an army
now the fourth in size in all
the world. to meet with with
ering fire any attempt at a
new aggression.
In other words, Red Ch'nc's
guns are pointed at the U. N.
at the very time she and her
friends seek for her member
ship in the organization that
she fiaunts and defies. Such
action would of course be in
terpreted in both Peking and
Moscow rs proof of weakness
and capitulation and Of the
alleged historic ineyitability of
Communist victory in all the
world. And there can be no
question that If Red China is
thought worthy to enter the
councils Of the United Nations,
that the freedom loving people
OF the world. and especially Of
Asia, will be given a blow TO
their hopes and to their con-
fldence in the Wess which
may be fatal to their awaken
ing determination to be free.
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I have been listening for
years with real enjoyment 10
the Redskin band. I have been
hoping that some dsy-eyen
Just once. mind youl--the band
would remember there are
Northerners as well as South
erners in the stands. I al
ways like 70 hear Dixie" but
10 straight years without q
change Is q lopsided proper
ton. On that final counter
march. just before the ma
tional anthem. how about q
rousing Yankee Doodle" for .
changer
Redskin Pan.
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OF sewage-pcllution dangers in the open
spaces above the Dalecarlia water intake.
More is at stake in the pending nti-
CATION, therefore, than an effort to insure
orderly development of Fairfax County's
rural acres to the. north. The integrity
of the Potomac water supply for the
whole Metropolitan Area is involved, by
indirection
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

gests the Asiatic despotism Of
the early Tears"
That was official State De-
partmentese 81 years ago. Did
we forget, or were we BRAIN
washed?
Alfred KohIberg.
New York CITY.
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Scandal

A big scandal over the ad-
ministration Of relief funds
following the disastrous San
Francisco earthquake and FIRE
broke into the headlines a
half century ago on Eovem-
Der ~, 1906. The Star re-
ported: President Roosevelt
Is said 70 be back Of . sensa-
tional investigation the partic-
ulars Of which have Just been
made public in San Francisco.
It Is alleged that upward Of .
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everything is quiet and peace
full in Port Said.
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Housewives a half q century
ago were worrying about the
same thing housewives are
worrying about this week-the
cost Of the Thanksgiving tur-
key. On November %. 1905.
The Star reported: Market
buyers are specializing upon
the prospective prices Of
Thanksgiving supplies. devot-
ing special attention to what
they expect to pay for turkeys
and what goes with them.
Dealers are unable to say just
what they will ask for turkeys
next week. and there is a diff
ference Of opinion among
them respecting what the con-
dition Of the market is likely
TO be at that time. There
seemed to be an abundance Of
turkeys in and about the Gen.
ter Market this morning and
the best Of them we're offered
at from 20 to % cents. Some
dealers we're asking % cents
for fowls similar 10 what
others were selling at 20 cents
Some Of the dealers
seemed anxious TO convey the
idea that the price would so
TO IS cents a pound by the
time the birds are needed for
Thanksgiving dinner. but
others seemed 10 feel certain
that they viii not sell for more
than % cents. Butter and
eggs arc high and are scarce.
Eggs are retailing at from
35 to 30 cents. :"
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Success

The world was enthusiastic
about another airplane flight
so years ago. On November
10. 1906. The Star reported:
Following the announcement
In The Star yesterday Of the
successful flight Of the Santos
Dumont aeroplane In Paris,
there have been received addi-
tional details Of the perform
ance. all OF which are OF great
popular and worldwide i'm
portance. Those people who
have been in sny way skeptical
with regard 70 the previous ex-
periments made BY NJ. Santos
Dumont In that domain Of
aerostation known as heavier
than air can no longer have
the slightest grounds for their
attitude after the marvellous
prolonged fight made By the
dauntless Brazilian this after
noon Just before dusk on the
field Of Bagatelle. IN twenty
one seconds the Bird d Prey
new 40 meters labout $50
feetl. At a height Of between
two and three meters fabout
10 feet from the ground. :"