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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-09-06
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT CIVIL DEFENSE?

It's easy, these days, when we
are besieged by all sorts of
weeks" and "days" ranging from
Put the Cap on the Toothpaste
Tube Week to Save the Doughnut
Hole Day, to lose sight of the
more important special events
which every good citizen should
Observe. These special events are
necessary for they focus our at
tention on many worthwhile en-
deavors.
Such an event will soon be upon
us the White House-designated
second annual National Civil De-
tense Week September 10
through 81.
1t is good for America that pub
lie attention will be once again
directed to the disaster-prepared-
ness program named Civil Defense
for two reasons.
First, every year some 400 ma
tional disasters take their toll in
lives and property in these United
States.
Second, as a nation, the threat
of thermonuclear war still remains
very much with us. The fact that
a single enemy bomber carrying
single nuclear weapon could de-
molish any community any place
in the United States is as true to-
day as it was this time last year
It would be foolish, in the face
of these two merchants of de-
struction, not to make every in
dividual and collective effort tc
be prepared.
"Being prepared" for threats Of
this magnitude will require a ma
tional total non-military defense
effort. 1t requires conscious dis,
aster-preparedness thinking anc
action on the part of all our gov.
ernments, industries, organiza
tions. It requires your participa
ton and support.
What is called "civil defense" is
basically a government-coordinat.
ed effort for making the best pos.
sible use, during disaster, of its
existing resources (police, fire de.
partments, etc.), of all forms Of
communications and transporta'
ton, of utilities, or service organi
cations such as the Red Cross
all supplemented by trained volun
,teers. 1t has been defined as the
organization of the "total re
sources" of community, State, Oh
nation, to minimize loss of life
and property in the event of 8
major disaster.
Yet no one person or one depart
ment of one government-be il
State, local, or national-can dc
all the things which must be done
to save lives and property anC
protect our nation in time of dis
aster-alone. This is where you
come in. Non-military defense aft
er all, ultimately reduces itself to
people acting individually and col
lectively to protect themselves in
times of emergency.
Make a conscious effort during
this coming national Civil Defense
Week to appraise your personal
and community disaster readiness.
Without your assistance, it would
be impossible to strengthen and
regulate government departments
to meet the problems we would
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-09-06

Henry Hazlitt writes in News
week: MARX had genius for de-
struction. He knew that capitalism
could not long survive a system of
confiscatory taxes which dry up
incentives and the sources of pri-
vate capital accumulation land in
Vestment.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-09-06

or more each day at power cost Of
less than 10c.
Another electric pump supplies water
to a reservoir for irrigating 80 acres of
permanent pasture. Mr.. McCrery lists
these advantages of his irrigation
system: About go more grazing days
year. Grazing for an additional Is
animals on the same acreage. Insurance
against drought.
AS Mr.. McCrery's father says, with
out water under pressure, we would
have no dairy"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-09-06
ELECTRIC ''HEARTS"
FOR DAIRY FARM

Franklin McCrery could well describe
the two key electric pumps on his
Colerain, N. c., farm as the hearts"
of his modern dairy operation. These
hearts" furnish running water in the
McCrery home, in the milking parlor
and milk room, and to an irrigation
reservoir.
Water for the McCrery's modern, well
equipped home and for the dairy is
supplied by an electric water system
which pumps the required 1000 gallons
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-09-06

spending his vacation here with
his parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
BY EASLEY BLACKWOOD

GdSI OOutIl west North
IA 80 Pass 3NT
Pass SO All pass
There are other and simpler
forms of the safety play. Any
play YOU make which increases
your chances OF making your
contract falls. broadly, into the
SAFETY play classification
There was such a play in to-
days deal but Mr.. Muzzy over
looked it-poSSibly because of
its very simplicity.
Mrs Keen opened the eight
Of spades in response to her
partners opening bid in that
suit. This card did not particu-
larry look like a singleton. Mr..
Meek had bid spades but he had
never rebid them. There were
only three spades in dummy and
two. in Mr.. MuZZy's hand-a
total of five. If the eight we're a
singleton, then Mr.. Meek had a
seven-card suit. Very unlikely
But however unlikely, there
was a play MI. Muzzy should
have made which would have
practically guaranteed his con-
tract,
What he actually did was to
win the first trick in his own
hand with the ace of spades and
la down the king of diamonds.
Mr.. Meek took the second trick
and returned the ten of spades,
which Mrs. Keen ruffed. Now
a club lead to Mr.. Meek's ace
defeated the hand.
/ tried to get trumps out as
fast as I could" Mr.. Muzzy
walled.
TOO fast" commented Mr..
Abel wryly. You should have
done something else first. Win
the first trick with dummy's
king of spades. Lead the ace of
hearts and discard your ace of
spades. Then when Meek gets
in with the ace of trumpS on the
next, trick and returns a spade
YOU could ruff high and pick up
the remaining trump"
Mr.. Able was so right. 1t was
not 90 unlikely that Mrs. Keen
had lone spade. But the odds
were overwhelming that she had
at least one heart in her hand.
DisFibuted by McNausht Syndicate. Inc. )
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
ON THE AIR
Why Did
CHS Fade
Sevureid?
BY BERNIE HARRISON

When the Columbia Broadcast
ing System took Eric Sevareid
of the air last Wednesday for
"editorializing" when he should
have been "analyzing," a wave
OF curiosity swept over much Of
the listening public - including
this segment. What did he say?
Here direct from Mr.. Seva-
reid's offlce) is the portion of his
prepared script that caused it to
be kept off the air:
Mr.. Dulles present argument
and this caught the President
by surprise today at his news
meeting--is that the Chinese are
trying to do a deal-will release
the 10 American prisoners they
Illegally hold II he lets the Amer
lean reporters go in; that this
is blackmail and that he won't
submit to 1t. Now this statement
was pursued by questions all
right, but If time had permitted
1t might have been pursued
much further. Among others,
there would have been q few
questions like these.
"Is this not The third distinct
argument used for withholding
these passports2 First, that the
Government Is unable to protect
the reporters, which they did not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
NEWS OF MUSIC
Two Unusual SONGS
Brighten Program
BY Rouson

showed signs OF all OF the short
comings OF a group of friends
sitting around a table with the
will to sing but without the
training.
informally is a characteristic
OF madrigal singing. but unfor-
ltunately the genuine informality
Of a gathering of amateurs be-
comes something precious and
out of place in a professional
public concert.
Two unusual and interesting
numbers we're the Like as the
Culver on the Barred Bough' of
Halsey Stevens, and THE Staff
Necromancer" of Randall
Thompson both pieces from the
concluding group of contempo-
rary American music. The Ran
dali piece. to words from the old
Mercury's Americana" is a
pungent and witty setting of Sc
lections from an advice to
readers newspaper column. On
the other hand. the settings of
four funny epitaphs by Robert
L. Beckhard evinced virtually no
ability in musical composition.
and were robbed of even the ap-
peal of surprise by the fact that
Mr.. Randolph, doubtful of the
ability of his singers to project
words UNDERSTANDABLE, read the
epltaphs before they were sung.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09

expect, anyway; second, that the
men could not go in until the
prisoners were let out-this was
the Presidents last argument:
now. that the men cannot go in
because then the prisoners will
be let out and this smacks of
Communist blackmail.
Since the Secretary admits
the reporting from China would
not necessarily be favorable TO
the Red regime. what quid would
they get getting for their quo?
II this would be paying a price
as the Secretary puts it, how do
you get the prisoners released
without paying any price? No.
where In all the discussion has
the humanitarian aspect been
mentioned; what is the prison.
ers' attitude as they rot in their
cells? Do their families have any
say in all this?
If this would be yielding to
blackniail, what did the United
States Government do when it
paid a ransom to the Hungarian
Reds for the release of the
American businessman, Robert
Voeeler? In that one, the pris-
oner was prominent and had
powerful friends who kept fierce
pressures on the State Depart
ment until a deal was arranged
While we're on the subject. when
does a diplomatic agreement rep
resent respectable bargaining
and when does 1t represent an
unsavory deal?
THE Secretary said that II
The prisoners are released lie
would then review The question
A letting The reporters go IN:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
WORD GAME
Find 40 or more words in
E @ u MINT

meaning, "evenness. serenity"
Average is 43; time limit, IS
minutes.
Rules Of the game: Words must be
OF four or more letters. .. Words which
IS" such as bats" cars" are NOT used
3 Only one form OF a word is used, 4
Proper names are not used
Answer 10 VOLATILE
vale. valet. veil. veal. veto violate vial
vile. vital, villa, viola. VOL. violet. violet.
volt, vole, yoile, vote, volta ola olive,
oval. oyate. late, lave leal, live. lit.
love. allot, ALT. alto. aloe aIive, atoll,
tael. tall, tale, tail, teal, tell tile,
till. toll. toll, iota, evil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
OUR PRESIDENTS
BY HONORE NJ. CATUDAL

To-day is the l84th ami
versity of the birth of a Presi-
dent. whose grandson also be-
came President. Who?
because there was no ma
jority, in the electoral college, a
President was elected by the
House OF Representatives for the
second time in our history, 1872
years ago today. Which Presi-
dent?
3--The last names Of seven of
our Presidents begin with letters
found in the word FLAG" Can
you rame six of them?
ANSWERS on Next Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
NEWS OF MUSIC
ACROSS
BY DAY THORPE

The Randolph Singers, David RAN
dolph conductor. Anna Louise Kautz
and Martha Milburn SOPRANOS MIL
ored oreenbure. contralto: Georrey
Moore ,S tenor; Bert spero, bass Al
Faurora Gaprielh: Perche spess a
vedei, Frescobaldi: Itene mfei sos
piri, GeSualoo. Come Gentle SWANS,
Gayendish: No. No. Nigella, Morley;
Eusca IN thy. Starry Ewes. Tomkins:
Francion Went iautre Jour. Bonnet:
Sonnet a Mesme. Lawrence, gn iour
le m en- a,lai. de Vert: Matnna mia
cara l.asso; II est bel e. bon, Pas
seran; Like as the Culver Hslsey stew
sign for the Atomic AGE ciafin:
MadriRal, Pinkham: The Starr Necro-
maneer, Randall Thompson
The Randolph Singers gave a
concert of midrigals. chansons
and other unaccompanied vocal
chamber music last night at
the Library of Congress. The
five vocalists were conducted by
David Randolph, who also acted
as an expositor of the music
interspersing the numbers with
spoken commentary.
The music sung was, in gen.
eral. of good quality. but the
program was made up of too
many short selections of too
many styles. The singing itself
did little to redeem the lack of
individuality of the proceedings.
Faulty in pitch. bury in en-
semble and tending to be on a
single monotonous plane of emo
tional expression. the group
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
By WILLIAM MORRIS

Today's word game is designed
to test your ability to recognize
words similar to one another in
meaning. Below you will find
two, groups of ten words each.
The first group is numbered /. 2,
3. etc. The second group is let
tered A. B. c. etc.
Fbr each word in the first
group you will find word of al
mo9 the same meaning "a syno-
nyrh) in the second group. Thus
the iword numbered may mean
practically the same as the word
lettered F. Write this down as
If When you have written
down all the answers. check the
correct pairings at the bottom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09

Note: Score 10 for each cor
rect answer-l00 is excellent: 90.
good; 70 or 30. fair. If you score
below 10. better look up the
words you missed in your die
tio4ary. Answers: la, 2-F,
3-H. Al, Sc, 6-B, TIC, 81. 9-E.
lob.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09

but later he indicated they still
wouldn't be allowed TO go In
because we don't recognize Red
China; so the next question
would be, then why was this
matter of the prisoners ever
brought into the argument at
all?
There would be other ques-
tions; how does the Secretary
answer private legal opinions
that his prohibition violates the
First Amendment? Would the
Government be willing to have q
judicial finding on the constitu-
tional question of the American
peoples right to be informed
about other parts of the world
by their fellow Americans?
"Well, there would be lots of
questions, and, no doubt lots of
answers; under present handi-
caps both are intermittent and
incomplete"
k#
An interview that should be
interesting, in view of the above,
will take place Sunday on MIR.
.5evareid's News Roundup at $3.50
pm. WTOP--9 He will talk TO
William Worthy. the Baltimore
Afro American correspondent
who went into Red China a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
A-22 THE EVENING STAR

y Washington, D c.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY o. 1857
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-09
Why We Soy !.

FROM A METER: The taxi
was named from the meter that
was used to compute the cost of
the ride. The fare originally was
called tax" and the meter was
called the yaximeter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19
Truman Speaks
Of 'Ruisinq He'll

KANSAS CITY. Kans.. Oct.
10 (P.-Former President Thu
man says he's going to raise
hell with people" If necessary
to help put the Nation back
under Democratic leadership.
He told Democrats from Is
Midwestern States at a lunch
con yesterday the Republicans
must be ousted from Washing :
ton If the United States is to
regain world leadership.
We've almost lost every
friend we had because we had
to have an agonizing reap
praisal," he said. We've got
the agony all right. but we
haven't got the reappraisal"
The luncheon climaxed a
two-day meeting at which Dem
ocrats Of the region made plans
for dislodging the G.. o. p.
I'm going to get into politics
and raise hell with people II we
don't get this job DONE" Mr..
Truman told the gathering,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19
Loon Applicant
With Gun FIees
With S1,002 Loot

A bandit posing as q loan
applicant held up two employees
at the Residents Finance Corp.
3225 Rhode Island avenue. Mt.
Rainier. last night and fed
with $1,000. Prince Georges
County police reported.
Arthur Z. Bowers, 1905 North
Pitt street. Alexandria, Va.
manager Of the ONCE, told
police the man requested a loan
application and filled 1t out
while waiting for two other
loan applicants in the once to
leave.
When the customers had left.
Mr.. Bowers said, the bandit
pointed a snub-nosed revolver
at Mrs. Dorothy X. johnson. a
clerk Of $3.50 Chillum road, Mt.
Rainier. and said Look here, /
didn't come here for a loan, !
came for the money" He
ordered Mrs. johnson to empty
q cash drawer behind q counter
and said Sister. put that
money UP there. I'm not kid
ding. Hurry up"
After Scooping up the money
he locked the employees in q
closet and fed. They forced
the closet door open and noti-
Ned police.
The men was described as
about 35. ITS pounds. brown
hair, ruddy complexion. wear
ing q light blue windbreaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19
BY ]. A. OTEARY

Representative Flood. Demo-
crat Of Pennsylvania, came
back from Europe yesterday
with a gloomy picture of this
country's position as a world
leader, partly but not entirely
because the Russians won the
race to launch an earth satel-
lite.
He said that when Congress
returns in January it should
set UP q joint House-Senate
committee to appraise Ameri-
can relations with its allies
and find out how 1.-The deteriora-
ton in these relationships can
be cemented."
The Pennsylvania said the
present situation has been de-
veloping for several years. and
that the launching Of the Rus
sian satellite merely brought it
to a head.
Our allies no longer regard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19
Russio Urging
Khrushchev Meet
With Eisenhower

LONDON. Oct. 10 [R.-Rus-
STA today launched an all-out
campaign for o summit meet
ing in an attempt to bring
President Eisenhower to the
conference table with Nikita
Khrushchev.
The Kremlin enlisted the
Communists in the West in the
campaign with the general Sec
Rotary Of the British Commu-
mist Party. John Gollan. calling
for the high-level conference
Ito stop war breaking out"
MOSCOW Radio. in an English
language broadcast, seized on
the impending meeting Of Pres
ident Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister Macmillan to
suggest that others-meaning
Russia-be brought In.
The Soviet radio commenta-
tor declared that Mr.. Eisen-
hover and Mr.. Macmillan alone
could not solve the Middle East
crisis that Russia has been
telling the world is developing
between Turkey and Syria.
IF they really want to bring
the Middle East back to nor
NAL. why don't they invite
other countries to confer?"
asked the Moscow commenta-
tor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19

that these warnings had been
"sloughed on" by Mr.. Eisen-
hover.
1T Is time Mr.. Eisenhower
and his administration face up
to realities. Mr.. Butler con-
tinued. 1T is time that the
American people be given the
truth and the whole truth about
this situation. We have lost
tremendous power in the
world"
In conclusion. Mr.. Butler
promised a full measure of
loyalty and devotion on the
part Of all Americans" II the
President will now provide "dy-
manic. vigorous and courage
Gus leadership"
At the same time, Republic
can National Chairman Meade
Alcorn took an answering shot
at the Democratic Advisory
Council and any statements
which 1t may issue.
It's announcements, Mr.. Al
corn predicted. will deal with
foreign policy and economic
policy. He said they have al
ready been written by former
Secretary Of State Dean Ache
son and DR.. Kenneth Galbraith
Of Harvard. He called Mr.
Acheson and his foreign policy
"discredited" and responsible
for the Korean war. DR.. Gal
braith. Mr.. Alcorn said, hai
been described by a leading
economist as "a most effective
enemy Of capitalistic democ.
racy".
The proposals OF these left
wingers," Chairman Alcorr
continued. will be designed u
make the American people for.
get that in flve years Of Repub-
lican administration peace hal
replaced war. government con.
trolls have been eliminated
prosperity has been unprece-
denied, and the influence ped
dlers and White House croniei
have been eliminated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19
BROWN
Red-Instigoted Row Over Syria

more complicated. the u.N.
becomes more and more q
frustrated debating society,
concerning itself with trivia.
The resemblance In frustra-
ton to the long-collapsed
League Of Nations becomes
daily more apparent. There
Is nothing any one. no mat
ter how devoted 10 the princi-
Piles Of international CO.
operation. can do about 1t.
Out Of this hopeless sltua-
alton can come disintegra-
ton. even II world Wharf.-The
final showdown - does not
break out between the Com
munist block and the West.
The so-called "uncommitted"
bloc Of nations. much larger
and more powerful than
ever this year. is either un-
able or unwilling to AFFECT
the issue--probahly the form
or, since nothing they could
do would AFFECT the basic
struggle between the Soviet
and the West. But II there
10 any way to keep the U.N.
at least q debating society.
the Asian-African bloc Of un-
committed nations seems best
to find 1t.
At the U.N. sessions. there
appears to be general &C
ceptance Of the fact Of Soviet
gains in the explosive Mid
die East. There Is also q
tendency to accept. without
qualification. the protests Of
the Arab states that their
deals for Soviet arms and
technicians do not imply any
subservience to Communist
imperialism. OF course, such
an idea is impossible: the
Muscovites don't do any
thing like that. There is
always an advantage for the
Reds involved. or there Is no
deal.
II the Soviet Union really
thinks the U. N. Ii an ad-
vantage to them. even II
only for propaganda. then
the U.N. win continue to
exist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19

A friend reminded me the
other day that in 1889 / had
predicted that we were in for
q hundred years war--that
the fight with Germany
would prove only q stage in
q continuing struggle for
the world.
I did not recall the remark
but 1t was not, in any case,
original. Oswald Spengler,
early in the century, had
prophesied that it would be
q century Of revolutions and
world wars. and the decline
Of the West. Much earlier
Friedrich Nietzsche had fore
seen much the same and so
had the American brothers.
Brooks and Henry Adams.
Nor were they unique.
Among men of genius and
insight, 1t has been hard to
find q Western optimist.
During the conversation
about my own predictions, 1
was asked whether / antici-
pated general war. and some
persons more knowledgable
than ! were quoted as believ-
ing that 1t was imminent.
Were the Russians seri-
ously contemplating war l
should think 1t would in
deed be imminent now. when
they are out in the lead with
the latest decisive" weapon,
the guided missile, possess
ing the temporary advantage
we had with a monopoly Of
the atom bomb. The Rus
SLAMS then were thoroughly
frightened that we would
use 1t TO back and enforce
an ultimatum debating peace
terms.
One American who was
actually approached with this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-19
u. S. and The Facts of Life

what the great British geog-
rapher, Sir Halford Mac
Kinder Ito whom nobody
listened except the Germans
and Russians), called "the
World Continent" Of which
Europe Is but q sub-penin-
sula and off which the
Americas are only large
islands.
Europe Asia Africa are
one great contiguous land
mass, contain three-fourths
OF the worlds population and
most Of its untapped re-
sources Should one techno-
logically developed power
control it or be unchallenge-
able within it, America would
live by its grace, militarily
and economically. Our free
institutions would yield to
some kind Of dictatorship, as
always happens in prolonged
states of siege: our produc-
ton would be internally
bound and the standard Of
living would fall-among q
people with little endurance
for hardship.
But it is not necessary for
Russia to reach her aim the
costly way as long as Amer
lea continues to play a game
of threa t-bluff -brag-and-
bride. with no bold world
concept. no unity Of political
strategy, no unity, even, with
in the various armed serv-
ices, and q population all or
most Of whom are literate
but few Of whom are edu-
Gated in the exercises Of any
logical disciplines and are
being fed a continual diet Of
sales-talk anodynes.
What this country needs
is a Savonarola, a leadership
TO wake 1t up to the facts of
life. even though the awaken
ing hurts, and politicians who
would rather tell the truth
than be elected.