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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17

happy representative American" abroad.
In private business, management con-
sultant firms are reporting that the most
successful career men are those whose
wives are endowed with such virtues as
intelligence, understanding and poise.
Business firms, 1t seems, are inclined to
screen out of their future planning the
men whose wives show signs of being too
fiirtatious, overambitious, overSolicitous,
too critical or too gossipy. On the other
hand those who have the right kind of
sit" can be worth, in the words of one
authority "a cool quarter of a million
dollars" to husband
OF course. Government and business
are just finding out what most husbands
have known all along-that the little
woman" really is the better half of the
family. STILL it is something of a blow
to the normal male ego to have this fact
so widely recognized And goodness
knows what it will do to the ego of the
wives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17

committee of top-fiight public
relations executives made the
selection for the Army's fast
moving, well-conceived pro-
gram that achieved real results
in a limited time" in publiciz-
ing the RIA.
Credit should be given. in
particular, to 1t. Col. P. L.
McPherran, Chief of Informa-
ton for the Office of Army Re-
serve and ROTC Affairs. and
his assistants, Maj. C. j.
Bennett and F. S. Otis. They
had primary responsibility.
under Gen. Lindeman, for set
ting up the RIA information
project that won the Silver
Anvil.
This award is another ex-
ample of the efficient. little
recognized but vitality neces-
sary and important job that
Army information personnel,
military and civilian. are doing
to keep the American people
informed about their Army.
John V. Hinkel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Taxes Brain, Too

Since the District govern
ment has requested Congress
TO increase practically all our
taxes for us. and has espe-
cially made the income tax
much tougher. why can't some
official in the tax collectors
Office do something about re-
vising the present form?
have Just completed filling
out District of Columbia in
come tax form. AS every other
sufferer knows. the present
District of Columbia form is
a mess. II is announcement in
ARRANGEMENT. hard to handle
and confusing in formal.
Since the District govern
ment refers in its income
tax form to the Inter-
nal Revenue Service, and is
known to cross-check with IRIS,
why can't it copy the Federal
style and form? AS bad as the
latter is, it is ten times more
convenient to handle than the
gosh-awful document the Dis
trict government sends out.
Tax Sufferer,
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SoIutes the Army

Congress should be happy TO
learn that the Department of
the Army has won the Silver
Anvil Award of the American
Public Relations Association
for having the best informa-
ton project in Government.
The Star of April 7, listing
the 1856 APRA awards, mad
vertently omitted the Army as
a major awards recipient.
APRA's Silver Anvil is the
equivalent of the Motion Pic
ture Academy's Oscar"
1t was Congress that last
August ordered the Army to
implement the Reserve Forces
Act OF 1855 as quickly as pos
slble. The dissemination OF
adequate information was es-
sential. Working swiftly, and
with brilliant planning and
execution, the Army has done
a praiseworthy job.
More and more young men.
aged II to 1919 years old. are
signing UP for six months &C
tive service, followed by ia
years in the Army Reserves.
They realize the Reserve Forces
Act provides a minimum OF
interruption to their educa-
ton, employment. etc.
Specifically. the Silver Anvil
Award was made to the ONCE
OF the Chief OF Army Reserve
and ROTC Affairs, headed by
Brig. Gen. P. r. Lindeman. A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Wives Wide World

Government and business apparently
are approaching meeting of the minds
on one subject, namely, wives. They not
only are prepared to accept them as some
thing that goes along with most men;
they are increasingly inclined to prefer
men who have them. At the same time
rhey are applying some exacting stand
ards to determine the kind of wives they
want men to have
The United States Information
Agency for example. likes to send mar
ried men overSeaS--but only after it can
safely establish that the diStaff side Of
a team has the educational and social
qualifications TO make her a good and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
THE POLITICAL MILL
G. O. P. Zeroes in on Truman
BY GOULD LINCOLN

tory. sniping from the side
lines at one of the best. Mr..
Truman is disgruntled, frus-
trated man who is jealous OF
President Eisenhower and will
do everything to try to tear
down his great record and his
great popularity"
The Republican high COM
mand will shoot, too, at cor
ruption in Government, which
developed during the Truman
administration. Its research
division has produced a list of
cases of corruption which, it
claims. were exposed. Truman
"cronies" in the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation doled
out ''multimillion dollar loans
on the basis of political favor
itism and pay-offS." 1t in
cludes charges of "Scandalous
cheating" in the storage OF Gov
ernment-owned grain. and the
cases of dishonest tax officials
from coast to coast-from the
lowliest clerks right up to the
Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue himself"
Mr.. Hall charged that hard
~ a Government department
escaped the faint of the Tru-
man-era scandals. Over 200
different incidents were ex-
posed in Agriculture, Atomic
Energy. Commerce. Defense,
Federal Security Agency, Hous-
ing, Interior. Internal Revenue,
Justice, Maritime Commission.
Post Office, Price Administra-
ton. RFC. State. Treasury,
Veterans Administration and
the White House itself"
scandals" on Display
Another indication OF the
G. o. P. determination to make
the Truman administration a
major point of attack was the
prominent display at the Re-
publican strategy conference
of a larse number of copies
of book entitled THE Tru-
man Scandals. by Jules Abels.
Alongside of these books were
placed copies of a Senate COM
mittee document published in
1855 entitled THE Communists
in the United States"
The mudslingine in the COM
ing campaign. Hall has made
clear, will not be all on the
side of the Democrats. They
are to be held responsible for
all the mistakes of the Tru-
man administration Repub-
lican speakers will be supplied
with all the ammunition
needed for the counter attack.
The part that Mr.. Truman
will play in the campaign is
matter which the Democrats
will have to determine for
themselves. whether Stevenson.
Kefauver. Hartman or another
becomes their nominee for
President. Mr.. Truman has ex-
pressed a willingness to do
everything he can.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Soviet Farm Headache

Agricultural deficiencies still consti-
tute major and perhaps even critical
problem in Russia. This is plainly i'm
piled in the 10,000-Word appeal recently
addressed to all Soviet farmers by Mos
cows collective leadership" In effect.
the appeal makes clear that food produc-
ton over there is woefully inadequate and
that it must be drastically increased be-
fore there can be any appreciate rise in
the country'S mass standard of living
standard that continues to be miSerably
low compared to that of the United States
and other advanced Western nations.
This is not news, of course. But the
fact that the Kremlin has felt impelled
to issue an exceptionally long and en-
phatic statement on the subject strongly
suggests that the situation has a large
measure of urgency in it. Although the
Soviet Union has made great progress in
heavy industry in recent years-progress
contributing formidably to it's military
mlght-it has not yet been able to over
come its agricultural backwardness. For
Russian farm collectivization, as has been
known in the West for many years, has
fallen far short of its goals Indeed, by
destroying incentives to individual initia-
tive. it has had the effect of holding down
some of the countrys food output-such
as meat-to the volume prevailing in
pre-19l8 Czarist days.
Yet. during the almost 40 years that
have passed since the Bolshevik revolu-
ton, the Soviet population-which is
growing now at rate of around million
annually-haS increased enormously. SO
the markings of potential crisis are in
herent in the fact that Russian agricul-
tural production. instead of expanding
proportionately has remained largely on
dead center. Figures indicate, for ex-
ample, that the country has only about
the same amount of grain per person
today as in 1925, and it apparently has
no more head of cattle, possibly even
fewer head, than in 1918 AS for Nikita
khrushchev's virgin lands" program-a
program under which hundreds of thou
sands OF young people have been moved
to Siberia in an effort to establish new
farming territory-it seems to have
achieved little or nothing.
Considering the Soviet Unions i'm
mense and continuing population growth.
considering also its plan to move mil
hon workers from its western cities in
order to carry out vast induStrialization
OF ASiatic Russia. its food output is self
evidently thing of utmost Importance.
Unless it is stepped up on a large scale,
the masses of the country-while having
10 keep on suffering a lack of manufac-
tured consumer goods-will have to put
up indefinitely with short rations and
bleak diet. This is hardly conducive to
general contentment or good national
morale and in time-unlesS corrected-it
could create internal unrest of an ex-
ploSlve kind. Small wonder that Mr..
khrushchev and company seem to find
the situation little bit worrisome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17

The Republican high COM
mand has determined to carry
the fight to former President
Harry S. Truman-if Mr..
Truman is to be a chief. or
the chief, campaigner for the
Democratic Party and its ma
tional ticket next fall. Indeed,
whoever is the Democratic
nominee for President, the
G. o. P. intends to raise the
record of the Truman admin
iStration against him.
Republican National Chair
man Leonard w. Hall fired the
first anti-Truman barrage in
his address at the opening
meeting of the Republican
strategy conference here yes
terday. With Mr.. Humans
recent attacks on President
Eisenhower in mind Mr.. Hall
said: "Mr. Truman, who was
repudiated by millions of his
own party in 1852. has made
half a dozen major speeches
this year and has been in
creasingly active in recent
weeks. His role in the coming
campaign is clear-it's to drag
it right down to the level
learned so well under Tom
Pendergast in Kansas City"
Six Lines of Attack
Mr.. Hall laid down six lines
OF attack which the Republic
cans will use against the
Truman record. % The Pots
dam agreements. which Hall
said resulted in the biggest
glve-aWay program in history
with free nations and millions
Of people handed over to Com
munist domination" % The
China betrayal when Mr..
Truman urged a coalition
with the Communists and
then Withdrew support of the
Chang government-showing
his lack of understanding of
the threat of worldwide COM
muniSm.
81 Defamation of our
armed forces and weakening
of our national defense under
his cutback program just be-
fore the Korean police action"
"a THE fateful Truman
Acheson policy telling Russia
and the rest of the world that
Korea was beyond our peri
meter of defense. thus EXTEND
ing an open invitation for the
attack on South Korea. /"
81 Indifference to the threat
of Red inf1ltration at home as
eXemplified by the Alger Hiss
and Harry Dexter White
cases. t6) "Discharging a
high military officer Gen.
Douglas Macarthur in star
chamber proceedings"
Adding a few more bitter
words in his anti-Truman
statement, Mr.. Hall said: The
Democratic strategy has its
ludicrous aspects, with MI.
Truman. one of the worst
Presidents in American his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Matter of Etiquette

More or less like Mr. and Mrs. Mono
Better IN Emily Posts etiquette book.
Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchey
do not seem to be blessed with a bound
less amount of good taste. At any rate,
although they are scheduled to be Brit
AIMS house guests for about 10 DAYS.
they have not heSitated to complain in
advance about their prospective hosts
hospitality. Thus, according to an inter
view with the Tass news agency. they
feel that there are certain forces" in
London who are determined to prevent
more widespread contacts" between
them and the British people.
This fault-f1nding has come on the
heels OF Georgi Malenkov's spectacular
three-Week tour of Britain. Apparently
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Mr.. Khru-
shchev-alwayS with propaganda objec-
tives in mind-would like to duplicate
Mr.. Malenkov's jolly-good- fellow routine,
Including gay kissing encounters with
pretty English girls. But the Eden gov
eminent, their host. has responded coolly
to their hints about wanting to lengthen
their visit for transforming purposes.
And SO they have grumbled a bit and
voiced regrets about being denied an
opportunity Ito become better acquainted
with British life"
Such an attitude falls far short of
being impeccable etiquette After all, as
Emily Post has written, Everyone is
always asked for specified time. Even
a near relative comes definitely for a
week ;. or whatever period is selected
This is because other plans have to be
made by the owners Of the house, such
as inviting another group Of guests, or
preparing TO go away themselves :. The
laws governing the behavior of the
ideal guest are by no means easy to
follow-at least for some people Whether
easy or net, you as a guest must conform
to the habits of the family with which
you are staying . And no matter hoio
much the hours or food or arrangements
may upset you, you must appear bliss
fully content"
Moscow papers, please copy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
THIS AND THAT
'HARLES {. TRACEWELL

Perhaps this toll has some
thing to do with increased
pressures from all sides, so
complex is our modern way of
living.
All one has to do is look at
the national income tax blank
to see how something that
ought to be simple has been
made too complex. Shall we
say lawyer-complex?
We shall, and then there are
scores, even hundreds of other
complexities which we must
all face every day, which did
not exist in the departed gay
COS when death from heart
disease was way down in the
list.
One good and easy way to
divorce yourself from a little
complexity is to accept all the
birds that come to eat at your
place.
1t is a little thing, true. but
the daily increment of anger
and perhaps Illustration which
is built up every time one
growls at startling or a COM
mon sparrow or pigeon or a
cat or a dog, is just another
urge to the heart to beat too
fast and the mind to go BOOM
boom.
Hungry things do not UNI
derstand in the least that YOU
have made list. and that some
OF them are not in the pre-
ferred section.
They all think they are pre-
ferredi
That is one Of the small
glories OF being an animal
Man has so long ballyhooed
himself that he has actually
come to believe that he is the
greatest thing God ever made
Perhaps he is. but he
shouldn't shout so about il.
The animals and the birds
think they are pretty smooth
too. They know nothing OF
our lists, our predetermined
ways Of judging and casting
aside.
Each bird that succumbs to
the lure Of your food has as
much right as any other. at
least in his own mind.
He does not doubt his ac-
ceptance. The only doubt lies
in the mind of the reflector.
Maybe If we accept more.
and reject less. we will be bet
ter of, and so will the rest
OF creation.
An old black starting might
be the one 10 lead us away
from rejection TO the goal OF
greater acceptance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Montgomery Taxes

A recent news item in The
Star revealed a possible tax
rate increase of Is per cent for
Montgomery County.
l consider myself an average
homeowner in Montgomery
County and would like to make
known these facts. ! moved
into my home in late 1850.
In 1851. SHOT of my monthly
payment was for taxes. The
current tax payment is $17.44
per month. an increase of Sc
per cent in five years!
Should the reported Is per
cent increase be added this
year-it will total an 81 per
cent increase in five years!
How much more ridiculous
does the situation need to be-
come? Haven't we reached a
point Of no return" already?
1t is ludicrous to assume the
average wage has increased
even 20 per cent since 1851
so how are we able to cope
with tax increase Of 81
per cent?
Since the largest portion OF
our tax dollar is used to sup
port our county schools, how
miSmanaged are the schools?
Were it not for PTAs and
citizens groups making contri-
buttons of playground, health
and library equipment to the
schools. our children would be
lacking in a full school life
even with the already-in-effect
Sc per cent increase since 1851.
Many Of our neighbors. who
pay taxes TO support public
schools. send their children 10
private and parochial schools.
They are paying for a class
room seat that is unoccupied.
What happens TO this money?
Cheer Leader
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Kite High

In scufed old shoes and Jeans
rolled high,
His lips well smudoed from
blueberry pie.
He runs doiCn the field Nth
boy delight
His flying heart, NTH the neW
red kite.
Skirts the clouds on singing
tcino
And races along the tuooino
string,
TIL caught in a iudinut tree
so hioh
He could as Weii get the sum
from the sky
Angelo Coll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
"TAKOMA PARK, Md.

Dear Sir:
How can I keep the STAR
lingS from eating the raisins
put out for our pair of mock
ingbirds?
Il realize the big brutes are
hungry, but they want too
much.
Our Knockers are dainty
feeders, taking but two or
three raisins at time" the
starlings stand there and wolf
down dozens and dozens.
Il want to feed them all.
but it costs too much to shell
out half dozen packages of
the best grade seedless every
day
If I could keep the star
lings off. l could cut my ex-
penditure down to one. or may
be two boxes.
The starlings are not as
cute as the mockingbirds. One
Of the latter actually sings for
his dinner. his breakfast and
supper, too.
He perches on the trellis
by the kitchen door. and will
remain there while l put rails
ms on the railing.
The other one. I judge TO
be his mate. is more skittisE.
and waits in the shrubbery by
the driveway.
THE two of them manage
to get two or three raisins
apiece before the horde of
starlines descend.
Il must admit the latter are
clever. because not a one is in
sight. but the moment the food
strikes the driveway. one OF
them begins to call for the
others. and shortly there they
all are.
How do they do it?
Sincerely. Mary L. j."
There is no way to keep
startlings away. short OF
cruelty. and such actions react
on the other birds.
The best solution OF this
daily problem is to work up a
tolerance for the unwanted.
This actually helps ones
mind and soul, and also the
birds.
We moderns have too many
worries. as 1t is. Doctors and
others tell us at length TO cut
out worrying. if we can, and to
suffer high blood pressure and
worse. If we cannot.
Everywhere we look we see
people dying Of heart disease
at comparatively early ages.
the favorite being. for some
mysterious reason, 81 years.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

: punished for calling 1t into
use?
For clear examples of how
innocent men could honestly
employ the Fifth Amendment,
/ would refer you and your
readers to the book The Fifth
Amendment Today" by Erwin
N. Griswold. Dean of the Har-
ward Law School.
Colgate S. Prentice.
l am curious to know whether
the author of the editorial
mo Sinister Meaning?" would
think Federal statute of the
following substance unconsti-
tutional and, if so. on what
theory:
That a person charged with
Federal crime who refuses
TO testify shall be presumed
guilty and sentenced forth
with, without the necessity of
any further proof furnished
by the prosecution.
If the question OF unconSti-
tutionality is answered in the
affirmative, isn't some recon-
sideration of the basic premise
of the editorial in order?
Daniel r. Ohlbaum.
Editors note: The editorial
did not suggest that a person
who invokes the self-incrimi-
nation clause of the Fifth
Amendment shall be pre-
sumed guilty and sentenced
forthwith" 1t did say that
if the Fifth Amendment is
invoked IN good faith. If the
person availing himself of this
privilege really believes a
truthful answer would tend to
incrimlnate him. his employer
is not obligated to assume
that he is innocent OF any
wrongdoing.O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
Hot for Kefouver

! seek to correct misstate-
ment concerning me made III a
letter in your issue Of April 10,
under the heading. Last Time
He Saw Paris" and over the
pen name Eisenhower Demo-
GRAFT"
Your writer states Miss
Doris Fleeson could find out
Kefauver's Tennessee cam
paign manager is lukewarm
this season." and cites the fact
that Chattanooga daily F.
the Nashville Banner and both
Paris newspapers tin my home
town oppose Senator Ke-
fauver."
/ was the first and am the
latest Tennessee campaign
manager for Senator Kefauver,
and. instead of being luke
warm this season, ! am as hot
for my intimate friend of
many years as an atomic
reactor!
The Chattanooga Free Press
and the Nashville Banner tas
well as the Knoxville Journal
are as Republican as Capehart,
Jenner and Malone and, like
all the Republican media. seek
to tear down Senator Kefauver
because they recognize him to
be the one Democrat who is
certain to beat Ike.
AS to the Paris newspapers.
they have merged under the
same ownership and manage
ment since the last time your
embittered pen-pusher saw
Paris. and both use the same
editorial matter written ably
by my personal friend, the
Hon. w. P. williams.
nate communism, but love
democracy more. We are learn
ing. as the Paris editorial
points out. that the two-party
system is the foundation of our
Government"
There's no such animal as
an Eisenhower Democrat.
We are learning you can't vote
for the man" because with
the man you get his party
also. Wisconsin voters knew
that. for example. In 1852,
they voted for Ike. but they
got Benson: Tennessee bare
lyl voted for Ike, and got
Dlxon-Yates; and we got all
kinds of generals. Gen. Eisen-
however, Gen. Voegel and Cen
eral Motors: while the general
We need is the general well
fare of the general public.
The South will go Demo-
cratic in 1856 if Estes Kefau-
yer is the nominee. He is the
first Southerner with a chance
to become President since an
other Tennessean left the Of
flee 100 years ago. He is more
acceptable to the South than
Hartman. and more accept
able to the North. East and
West than Stevenson. Don't
think for a moment that our
Democratic leaders are over
looking the fact that this NOM
ination will go to the Demo-
crat who is the best second
choice of the most.
Estes Kefauver is going TO
be nominated and elected by
lot of little people, like the
writer. none of whom are
afraid to put their names to
what they write.
Charles G. Neese.
Nashville. Tenn.
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kept in good travelling condi-
tion?--C. l. I.
A. Yes, the road has been de-
veloped into one OF the finest
gravel highways in the world.
The Royal Canadian Engineers
have kept it open on a year.
round basis in spite Of biz
yards, 80 : degree below zero
temperatures, floods and wash
outs. Except during the spring
thaw. the Alaska Highway is a
smooth, hard-packed road
which now has all the necessi-
ties and amenities OF present.
day motoring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17

@. BY whom was the Geiger
counter invented9-L. Nick.
A. BY a young German,
Hans Geiger. who went TO
work IN Sir Ernest Ruther-
ford's laboratory in Man
chester. England, in 1906. The
discovery Of radium had opened
vast new fields in science. but
no instruments were available
TO continue the research. Gel
ger soon produced device
which would not only detect
radium rays but count them.
Q. Is the Alaska Highway