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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
Attoche to Attoche

Brigadier Hassan Mustafa,
Armed Forces Attache at the
Embassy of Iraq. is not sure
that documents exist proving
that Arab refugees left their
homes at the command of
their leaders. Permit me to
refer him to the following
statements taken from docu-
ments I am certain are already
in his possession.
The Near East Arabic Broad
casting Station commented on
April 8. 1913 "a week before
the Deir- Yasin incident re-
ferred to by your correspond
ent and six weeks before the
official Arab INVASION of
Israeli: 1T must not be for
gotten that the Arab Higher
Committee encouraged the
refugees flight from their
homes in Jaffa, Haifa and
Jerusalem"
On August l6, 1913, Msgr.
George Hakim, the Arab Greek
Catholic Archbishop Of Galilee,
in an interview given to the
Lebanese newspaper, Sada al
Janub, said: The refugees
had been confident that their
absence from Palestine would
not last long. that they would
return within a few days
within q week or two. Their
leaders had promised that the
Arab armies would crush the
Zionist gangs and that there
was no need for panic or fear
Of a long exile"
On September 6. l948, Emil
Ghouri. Secretary of the Arab
Higher Executive. told a repre-
sentative of the Beirut news
paper. Telegraph: THE fact
that there are these refugees is
the direct consequence Of the
action Of the Arab states in
opposing partition and the
Jewish state. The Arab states
agreed on this policy unani-
mously and they must share
in the solution Of the prob
lem"
A British eyewitness wrote
in the London Economist on
October 2. 1913: Various fac
tors influenced their (the Arab
refugees. decision to seek
safety in flight. There is little
doubt that the most potent
of these factors were the an
nouncements made over the
air by the Arab Higher Execu-
tive urging all Arabs in Haifa
to quit"
H. Y. Orgel,
Information Attache, En-
bassy Of Israel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
THE POLITICAL MILL
Gov. Herter Grows As Foyorite Son
By GOULD LINCOLN

cies and programmed If the
country is unable to have the
continued services of Presi-
dent Eisenhower In the White
House, it could rely on Gov.
Herter to carry on. Like the
President, he is a moderate
and a progressive at the same
time. He is no wishy-washy
kind Of man. no appeaser, and
he has a thorough under
standing of the Communist
determination to govern the
world. In Massachusetts,,
where the Democrats OUT
number the Republicans, and
the Independents outnumber
both of them, Gov. Herter has
a record of excellent service
as GOVERNOR good execu-
tive.
Friends Plan Drive
Immediately, should Presi-
dent Eisenhower decline to
run, Gov. Herter's friends in
the Bay State and elsewhere
will start a large and intensive
drive for him for the presiden-
tial nomination. If they are
unable to land the first place
on the COPS national ticket,
they are likely to try to have
him nominated for Vice Presi-
dent. This is not a year OF
many important Republican
Governors, and Gov. Herter is
outstanding. And should Presi-
dent Eisenhower decide to run.
and any change is to be made
IN the second place on the
ticket. in the opinion of his
friends Gov. Herter will be
available. and also, in their
opinion he would add strength
to the ticket. Senator Salton-
stall, senior Massachusetts,
Senator. expresses a very high
regard for Gov. Herter. MAS
sachusetts Republicans are en-
thusiastic about him." Senator
Saltonstall adds.
Gov. Herter will be 81 years
old March %. His health is
good. despite an arthritic con-
dition which he has had for
ten or Is years. He is better
today than he was three years
ago. when he left Washington
to become Governor. Arthritis
has not crippled him in any
way for service as Governor
and it is apparently not pro-
gressive with him. The coun-
try. in recent years. had a
demonstration that a man who
suffered infantile paralysis
could and did serve as Presi-
dent for II years-the long
est period any President has
ever served.
Sometimes. the question of
Gov. Herter'S birth-in Paris,
Francis raised as a possible
obstacle to the constitutional
provision that a President
must be a natural born Ameri-
can. His parents. however.
were both natural born Amer
lean citizens. which it is urged
makes him eligible. It's an
issue the Supreme Court could
decide quickly, if necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
Smooth Salesman

Our school, Mclean High
School. Mclean, Virginia. is
starting a campaign February
20. through March S. Every
year many high schools in the
Metropolitan Area hold maya
zine drives. This activity is one
of the most profitable money
making projects held by the
respective schools.
1t is a recognized fact that
the tax money budgeted for
schools is not sufficient to meet
their incidental needs. There
fore, the difference has to be
made up by organizations such
as the PTA or the Student
Government.
In this type Of project we
contact a magazine distribut-
ing company, which gives us
a sales list of the various mag
azines. We then set a goal and
use all types of publicity
stunts to promote sales. 1t is
important to the school and
to the community that this
campaign be a success. We are
a new school and lack many
items of equipment such as
uniforms. band instruments,
bleachers and classroom sup
plies. However, our school
spirit is recognized through
out the county. We have a
good school and are striving
for an even better one.
We are now appealing to
The Star which has helped
improve our schools and COM
munities by educating the
people Of this area about the
various campaigns for these
purposes. We. therefore. ask
for your help in publicizing our
magazine campaign. You can
help us by informing the sur
rounding community that the
students Of Mclean High
School will call on them and
enlist their aid during the
weeks of February 20 to
March 5.
Mike HOrwatt,
Student Publicity Commit
tee, Mclean H. S. Maya
zine Drive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

Tenn pleton Jones was
groaning.
Nov what's the matter?"
We asked the old fellow.
1t turned out that he had
just read a piece by a doctor
who said that an older person
requires regular exercise more
than a younger one.
What is wrong with that?"
we asked.
THE guy suggests that a
period of calisthenics be intro
duced into the geriatric regi-
men,"
Might not be a bad idea"
We replied reluctantly.
But" roared Templeton
Jones. here / have been glad
to escape calisthenics since I
left school. and this fellow says
I ought to take them up
again."
Most elders will know what
Jones meant.
hose drills" held in the
corridors OF schools. with long
rows Of boys and girls, swing
ing arms to the tune of "One.
two. three. four; one. two.
three, four"
1t was all nightmare to
many. and they were all glad
to get rid of it at last. Some
left by the football route. 9TH
ers took to track and baseball,
and still others used the simple
device of sneaking around the
corner to get a soda.
The soda, usually chocolate
favored. really became for a
time the great grammar school
exercise. a sort of daily calls
themes.
Didn't one have to walk
there. and walk back?
All in the open air, too. with
plenty of oxygen, after the
stuffy classrooms.
In the old days. you really
got a fine chocolate ice cream
soda for a nickel.
One sat in the little room,
but still large enough to hold a
few tables and chairs.
The windows were slightly
steamy. in winter. but still
transparent enough to give you
glimpse of old Squirrel Tooth.
the professor with the preda-
tory eye.
The old man loved to catch
students eating ice cream
sodaS on school time.
He prowled the block. now
and then. to surprise them
at it.
English literature Is full OF
pictures Of harsh school,
masters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21

It's SO years since the slo-
gan-"Have Faith in Massa-
chusetts"-was coined to ad-
vance the candidacy of the
then Gov. Calvin Coolidge for
a presidential nomination. Mr..
Coolidge wound up that year
with a vice presidential cleo
ton, and later became Presi-
dent. Today Massachusetts,
Republicans-and lot of in
dependents-have faith In an
other Governor, Christian A.
Herter. If they have their way
about it. that faith will be
spread to the rest of the coun-
try in this year Of presidential
decision. They have been de-
TERED, to date, only BY the I'M
certainty of an Eisenhower
decision to run for a second
term.
Gov. Herter has not been
entirely under wraps-al-
though he firmly and pleas
antly denies he is a candidate
for any Office this year-par-
ticularly since his recent an
nouncement he will not seek
q third term as Governor. De-
mand for him as q speaker has
developed in many parts Of the
country. as reports have spread
that Massachusetts, has an
outstanding Governor. Last
week. Gov. Herter came to
Washington to address the
National Press Club-and an
swer questions of newsmen
from every quarter Of the
country. His visit, his speech,
and the manner in which he
handled the press conference
were all successes. He is a
friendly man-and he made
more friends.
Inspires Confidence
The Massachusetts, Cover
nor-all 6 feet and AZ inches
of him-conveys and inspires
a feeling of confidence. A quail
ity possessed by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower to the
Nth degree. Like the Presi-
dent, Gov. Herter speaks well
"off the cuff" In this year of
international tensions, he mas
a long record Of study and in
terest in foreign affairs. reach
ing back to his service as an
attache of the American En-
bassy in Berlin in 1916, soon
after his graduation at Har-
ward. and his later two
months stint as charge DAFT
flares Of the American Lega-
ton in Brussels, when the
first World War was soon to
engulf the United States. This
interest persisted. when he as
sisted Herbert Hoover in his
efforts to feed Europe during
and after the close Of the
war, and later still when he
became a member of the
House Of Representatives.
During the 80th Congress he
was a member of a select
committee on foreign aic
Gov. Herter is an ardent
Eisenhower supporter. He be-
lieves in the Eisenhower poll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21

Only recently an autobiog-
raphy shows a picture of q
professor who had his own
private brand of slavery in
talking to his charges.
Old Squirrel Tooth wore a
black round cap, made of fur.
1t was this the boys watched
for. as he sped along the block.
Here comes Old Squirrel
Tooth " went UP the cry.
There was a convenient side
door, though. through which
the students disappeared as if
by magic. leaving a frustrated
man to look impotently at the
half-consumed glasses on the
tables.
Nobody hungry today"
growled the professor.
"Ha, ha," laughed DR.. Emer-
son, the old owner and phar-
maciSt.
Templeton Jones sprinted all
the way back to class and got
there before the roaming
teacher.
When Squirrel Tooth saun-
tered in the missing scholars
were snugly in their seats.
This was the sort OF exer-
else Jones INDUCED in. in addi-
ton to the calisthenics (an
ugly wor0 held every morning
at 1890 O'Clock in the long
corridor.
By some quirk of fortune.
known only to schools. the
leader in these commissions
was Miss Handy.
She was a little old maid
with a gray bun on top of her :
head and the thinnest arms in
the world.
No amount of daily leading
the pupils in exercises would
ever have put meat on them.
One. two. three, four"
Templeton Jones can still
hear that rasping voice.
He can still see those fall
ing arms, up. down. side, down,
up, down. side, down, front, 2
up. down.
Heavens, was this exercise?
Then Templeton Jones .
wanted no exercise, then or
now. and that was why he
groaned, and writhed in mem
DRY the other day.
THE DOCTOR" said Jones.
firmly, sis barking up the
wrong tree.
There isn't a geriatric
patient in the land who will
take up calisthentics, and I
know why. Yes" he added,
with a grin, II think know
why. Her name was Miss
HANDY"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21

President Eisenhower has made q
good humanitarian gesture In Offering to
send American surplus food to Western
Europeans hard hit by the cruelest winter
In their memories. Bitter cold, excep-
tionally heavy snowfalls, and even floods
in some areas have combined to cause
widespread human suffering and death.
Upwards of TOO lives have been lost thus
far, and the specter Of hunger has begun
to loom large as result of what has
happened to anticipated harveSts. From
Paris, for example, come official reports
that the entire wheat crop of Eastern
France has been destroyed
The Presidents response to the situa-
ton is in keeping with one of our coun-
try's best and oldest traditions. In
people Of the AFFLICTED regions, he has in
formed the interested governments that
the United States-blessed as it is with
abundance-is ready to make food sup
plies available wherever they are needed
in free Europe. He is fully empowered
to do this under the law authorizing him
to dispose of surplus farm products either
through sales, bartering arrangements or
outright grants, and there can be no
doubt that he has spoken for the over
whelming majority Of us in declaring
that "the people Of the United States will
deem 1t real privilege to put these agri-
cultural commodities to the great service
of relieving the suffering of our Western
European neighbors."
There is only one question to be asked
about this offer Might 1t not also include
the Eastern Europeans? Last year, acting
through the Red Cross to cope with the
distress caused by the 1854 Danubian
floods, Mr. Eisenhower arranged for food
shipments to Hungarians and others be-
hind the Iron Curtain, and now many OF
these people apparently are finding the
current tooth-and- weather Just as
hurtful to them as to their Western
brethren. In the circumstances, why not
prefer aid to them II they can use 1t?
Such move would be In accord with
traditional American humanitarianism.
Moreover, besides easing the severity of
the cold winter, 1t could also be of some
value as propaganda designed to abate
the nastiness OF the cold war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21

The campaign for removal
of the temporary buildings be-
tween E street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue. bounded by
Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, has finally realized
success. The "tempos" have
been removed, and the tasks Of
clearing debris and resodding
remain only. Yet. when study
ing the comparative pictures
depicting nov" and "then"
in your issue Of February l6,
one wonders whether 1t really
was the temporary building
that obstructed the view of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21

Gen. Sherman's statue from
the District Building.
Both photographs are from
the same approximate position.
The before" picture contains
trees that have their full foil
age. The generals statue is
barely visible above their tops.
The "after" picture, on the
other hand. contains the gen.
eral in full view--but with
barren trees in the foreground.
What will happen when
these now barren trees receive
their summer dress: Will a
campaign be initiated to re-
move them?
Stephen Gerachis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
Down

Patterns OF tDhite clouds
against ceruledn blue.
Intricate bare trees Nth March
minds bloiDing through.
Returning OF birds that the
equinox lends
And In the QuiDerino past, my
soul aScendsi
Margaret Speer Edwords
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
Exhibit Badly Named?

II Is most unfortunate that
the fine exhibit at Union Sta
ton should have been encum-
bered with the name, "Peo-
pies Capitalism in the U. 8. A."
The term capitalism is Dor
rowed directly from the spe-
cialized Technology of the
Communists. a Technology
which in itself carries a kind
OF concealed propaganda for
the evil and groundless doc
trines of Kari Marx.
There are q number Of
words and phrases which, al
though worthless for purposes
Of description. are loved by
Marxists because they bear
unpleasant connotations and
hence have smear effects when
applied to our economic sys-
tenn or to supposed features Of
that system. 'Bourgeoise" is
such smear term. as is also
the capitalistic system" or its
equivalent Capitalism" Com
munistic propaganda carried
on for q hundred years has sue
ceeded in attaching q great
deal Of odium to the word cap
italist lin spite Of q total lack
Of support from facts or rea-
SOM and has been able to
transfer that odium to our rel
atively free economic system
by the simple expedient Of ap-
plying the adjective capitals
tic to the system. That the
terms. the capitalistic system
and capitalism, are fraudulent
has been pointed out by many
students of Marxism. but so
little publicity has been given
to the matter that the terms
have been almost universally
accepted--to the great harm
Of the whole civilized world.
Writing Of the term cap
italism," A. j. Mock. in the
Atlantic Monthly February,
1880. branded 1t as an "im-
poster" term and stated the
case against it as follows:
THE implication Of this term
is that the use Of capital is
distinguishing mark OF our
economic system. a character
istic by which it may be iden-
tilted: and this is not the case.
Use Of the term therefore
causes that to be taken for
true which is not true. No eco
nomic system which is not
capitalistic ever existed any
where in the world or can be
conceived of as existing. The
extreme of collectivism Is as
purely capitalistic as our pres
ent system or any other sys-
tenn BY definition capital
is that portion of wealth which
is applied to the production of
more wealth: and an economic
system which does not con-
template this segregation and
employment Of capital is un-
imaginable"
It must be concluded that
since capitalism is a useless
and deceptive term, it should
not be used in any serious dis
cussion of economies; and 1t
should not be applied to the
economic system that has al
ways existed in the United
States. and should not be used
in describing the exhibition
sponsored by the United States
Information Agency.
Courtney COnOver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21
Warning to the West

There was little comfort to the West
ern cause In two political tests that took
place in Europe over the week end. In
Greece, Western Premier Karamanlis
retained only slim parliamentary ma
jority while many-sided coalition piled
up clear-cut popular margin in nation
wide election And in the Ruhr Valley
state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the
Christian Democratic Union of Chancellor
Adenauer was displaced in local control
by an unusual right-left coalition that
may undertake in the Federal Bundesrat
to block some of the West German rear
mament plans.
But while accepting both of these
pessimistic to consider them permanently
and dangerously so. There is little ques-
ton that the Greek vote revolved largely
around the Cyprus issue. Public senti-
ment has been running strong against
Britain for its unwillingness to grant the
CypriotS the clear right Of Self-determi-
nation-by which many had hoped Cyprus
would become joined politically with
Greece. Resentment has been equally
strong about the anti-Greek riots in
Turkey-also stemming from the Cyprus
issue-and the failure of the American
Government to denounce this violence
with greater vigor. The Karamanlis
government has been criticized for its
role in the middle of this situation. But
while the Karamanlis National Radical
Union has fallen from 214 to less than 100
seats in the 300-member Parliament, the
minority coalition itself is far from
solid front. Indeed, three former Pre-
miers who are joined in it indicated dur
ing the campaign that their association
with prof. Communist groups was tempo
rary only and would not be binding on
their parliamentary behavior. This pos
Sibility of detection from the opposition
particularly If some progress can be made
toward solving the Cyprus question
offers some promise that Mr.. Karamanlis
can continue to steer his country away
from new course of neutralism In the
cold war.
To degree, the Ruhr development
was more reflection of party politics in
the Federal Republic than Of disapproval
of the Bonn governments policies of close
Cooperation with the West. The Free
Democrats. who are part of pr. Adenauers
coalition in Bonn, have complained that
they are not treated as full partners in
the making of policy decisions. Largely
because of this complaint, their state
officials in the Ruhr joined with the
Social Democrats in ousting the Christian
Democrats from the local control 1t Is
not yet clear, however, whether they will
carry this rebellion to the point Of break
ing with DR.. Adenauer in Bonner
whether some compromise may yet be
worked out in the Bundesrat
In summary, there Is perhaps no
reason to feel that the cause Of freedom
is losing ground In these countries, but
notice has been served that overall pro-
Western policies cannot safely ignore
local considerations and croSscurrents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-21

@. In what countries do the
railroads carry the heaviest
passenger traffic?--G. H.
A. The railroads of Soviet
Russia. Japan. and India carry
the heaviest passenger traffic
In the world.
@. When did the great mi
grafton of people from Ireland
begin?-R. r.
A In l845. This was the
first Of the famine years fol-
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lowing the failure Of the pota-
to crop which started the great
flood Of emigration to the New
World. 1t is estimated that six
million people have left Ireland
since then.
@. Which city has the most
conventions annually, New
York or Chicago?-W. B.
A. In 1855 New York City
had 756 conventions and Chi
cago l.1l2.