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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30

that mo more detailed records viii be
required for 1857 than have been needed
in the past" Auditors, as well as tax
payers, who breathed heavily over the
first announcement breathed easier over
the second. Later, Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue Russell G. Harrington
explained. by interview with U. s. News
and World Report, that expense account
income must be reported-and that 1t
will be deductible only II itemized on
Line 6 (a).
This was not new policy, Mr.. Har-
rington explains further, but only "a
change in emphasis" And now, latest
of all even though not necessarily the
last word, the Revenue Service says the
whole business may be forgotten until
1858. Even so. Mr.. Harrington "empha-
sizes" that "this decision does not
change the long-standing rules" The
rules may have been standing long
time, but the trouble is they never seem
to stand in the same place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
Sensible Procedure

The new procedure in Arlington for
Summoning minor traffic violators to
court will insure the public against
another bedroom arrest. incident Of
the type that occurred recently in the
Stephens case. Under an agreement
reached by the county court judges,
warrants will be dispensed with in over
time-parking cases. 1t was under au-
thority of such a warrant that Arlington
police recently invaded the home of Mrs.
Roy A. Stephens and arrested her as
she lay in bed.
AS result Of a subsequent storm
of protest over this high-handed affair,
a conference was held between the
judges and county officials in an effort
to avert repetition Of such reckless
intrusions on the privacy of parking
offenders. An arrangement was worked
out whereby summonses will be issued
in these cases, instead Of arrest war
rants. A summons confers no power Of
forcible entry in a home by officers
serving the paper This is a much
needed and sensible reform that meets
the requirements of justice without
invoicing improper tactics by the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30

1t may well be that eventually the
Metropolitan Police Boys Clubs will be
operated on an integrated basis. There
is persuasive evidence, however, that
forced Indignation, under court order,
would wreck the clubs and destroy the
good work for boys of both races that
the clubs now are doing. Dismissal by
District Court Judge Burnita Matthews
of suit designed to compel integration
OF the clubs offers greater opportunity
for eventual indignation on voluntary
basis than had the ruling gone the
other way.
The suit, filed on behalf of Negro
boy who had been refused membership
in white branch of the welfare organi-
zation, charged that the clubs, while
purporting to be privately operated,
actually were arms of the District gov
eminent. 1t was pointed out that
municipality buildings were used
for the clubs and that policemen solic-
tied funds for the operation of the clubs.
Judge Matthews held, however, that this
aid from city sources has mot changed
(their) private nature" and that the
court therefore was powerleSs to inter-
fere with the segregated operation of
the clubs.
In % years of operation in WASH
ington, the organization has grown from
one club with membership of 200 boys
to nine clubs with more than $1,000
members-of whom more than 10000
are colored. Boys of both races have
benefited from the social, athletic, crafts,
recreational and educational programs
available to all members. In short, the
clubs have been an important influence
In developing good citizenship and as
time goes on their good work will con-
tinue to improve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
Bypossed BottIeneck

1t is hard to realize that what
motorists have aptly called the Baltimore
bottleneck no longer Is traffic problem.
Beginning today, there will be no need
for north-South traffic to wend its way,
slowly and carefully, through Baltimore's
congested Franklin and Mulberry streets
TO name two of the more CONSTRUCTED
thoroughfareS For this is the day that
motorists will have available for the first
time a means of bypassing downtown
Baltimore. In other words, the long
hoped-for tunnel under the Patapsco
River is now open for business
Residents of Baltimore undoubtedly
welcome the new $130-million tunnel as
happily as the motorists who no longer
have to cope with the traffic-laden
streets of their city Although city
traffic engineers had done their best to
speed up the movement of through
traff1c, the trip through Baltimore still
consumed As minutes to an hour, de-
pending on conditions. The tunnel and
Its approaches will enable drivers to cut
their passage time down to about IL
minutes. 1t will all be clear sailing, with
cut fear of croSS-traff1c Interruptions.
Washington's motorists now will be
favored by expresSway facilities all the
way to New York, thanks not only to
the tunnel but to the Baltimore
Washington Parkway and the Washing
ton links to the parkway the New York
avenue and East Capitol street bridges.
We congratulate Maryland on its tunnel
and-expreSsway projects. They will
make life brighter and safer for hG-
raised drivers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
HommorskjoIFs Mission

Secretary General Dag HammaF-
skiold of the United Nations now has
undertaken another trip to the Middle
East In an effort to promote peace there.
Within the past couple Of weeks, the
Israelis and their Syrian and Jordanian
neighbors have. been mixed up in new
border incidents of an explosive kind,
and so there is need for special measures
aimed at heading on the possibility Of
a renewal of full-scale hostilities.
To that end, apart from his brief
stop in Lebanon, Mr.. Hammarskiold will
visit Israel, Jordan and Syria for con-
ferences with their high officials. One
of the sensitive items on his agenda has
to do with the Jordanian charge that
American Marine Colonel Byron Leary,
acting head of the U. N. truce super
visory organization, is biased in favor
of the Israelis and ought therefore to be
removed. Another delicate matter for
discussion involves the Ben-Gurion gov
ernment's continuing refusal to let the
United Nations Emergency Force deploy
some of its troops on Israels soil Just
as they are deployed on the Egyptian
side of the GAIA Strip.
In addition, while visiting Syria, Mr..
Hammarskjold may have an opportunity
to play a constructive restraining role
in connection with that country's
bathing off-again- on-again propaganda
campaign-aided and abetted by the
notwithstanding Turkey of conspiring
with the United States to unleash a war
of aggression. This campaign, which is
entirely lacking in factual justification,
seems to have been fostered by the
Soviets solely and simply to create ten
sion in the Middle East. Accordingly,
the U. N. Secretary General will be rem
dering great service If he manages to
persuade the Damascus government to
abandon such incendiarism.
Similarly, If he also visits Egypt, as
he hopes to do, Mr.. Hammarskjold may
be able to enlist the active help, or at
least the good will, of the Nassergovern-
ment in renewed attempt to break the
deadlock responsible for the Middle
East's continuing instability. In that
respect, although 1t guarantees nothing,
his latest trip to the area has promising.
potentialities, and every friend of peace
must wish him the greatest measure of
success on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
Line 6(o)

There comes time In the year OF
every income tax payer when he sees
lines before his eyes-uSually on what Is
labeled Form 1910, Internal Reeve
nue. Service. BY diligent application,
most taxpayers figure out eventually
what each line Enthusiastically what It
costs, sometimes what 1t saves. I'm
fortunately, interpreting last years liaes
seldom helps in interpreting next years
They change. This years Form 1040,
due back where it came from by next
April is, will provide no exception to the
rule of change. This will be so, If for no
other reason, because it will have Line
6 (a) where there was no Line (a)
before. On Line (a), or some attached
sheet large enough, one may enter
amount received from employer for
business expenses on which taxes were
not paid" These amounts are, in palmer
language, the "Swindle sheet" items
the reimbursed expenses for taxis, tips,
ct cetera.
Some few weeks ago, the service
announced that this expense account
income must be reported and itemized.
A few days later, the service announced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30

Connecticut avenue and
Woodley road is the cityS
most congested corner traf-
fic-wise. 1 know because /
live there. I have never
seen a traffic patrol in the
six months ! have lived in
my apartment, and this in
tersection needs one.
st. TIL omas parochial
school and the oyster public
school are in this vicinity
and hundreds OF children
pass this intersection to and
from school four times a day
without any measure Of
policing.
We have already witnessed
one horrible death at this
intersection.
Having been a member Of
the Trafic Advisory Com
mittee and also chairman
Of the Keystone Automobile
Club, I have some knowledge
Of traffic conditions.
There are many aged and
infirm people who live in
this section and 1t seems i'm
possible to cross the corner
in question without running.
/ trust that some solution
may be found.
G. Melvin Sharpe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
Badly Needed

The Association Of American Col
leges and the American Association of
University Professors have done a con-
structive thing in coSponsoring the
establishment here of a new agency
designed to cope with the Nationwide
shortage of college teachers.
Set up with the help of grant from
the Ford Foundation, the agency is
called the Retired Professors Registry.
Its prime function will be ~ to draw
up sort of availability list of former
faculty members now in retirement, but
ready, willing and able to return to
teaching and (2) to maintain constant
liaiSon between these men and various
colleges and universities in need Of
additional staff
The potential value of this project
has been we'll explained by Dr. Theodore
A. Distler, the AAC's executive director.
AS he has put it, Retired college
teachers constitute a significant man.
power resource badly needed to meet
mounting student enrollments. Utili-
cation of this group of highly trained
individuals will be a contribution to the
general welfare of the United States
in period of world crisis"
OF course, the new agency cannot
solve the shortage problem all by itself,
but it can do much to promote impor-
tant progress in that direction. The
AAC and the AAUP are therefore to be
commended for the initiative they have
taken in bringing 1t into being.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E TRACEWELL

This creature does not hi
bernate.
He is much too vital and
active for that method of
getting through the winter.
Rather, he is on the 60 all
the time, like a typical Amer
lean.
This ones search is for
food. and naturally enough he
favors places where seeds and
grain and sometimes bread
are put out for him.
Traps baited with cheese
are not the best, for this one
is no mouse, though he be-
longs to the same family.
The brown rat prefers
meat.
Once Templeton Jones put
out red squill in hamburger,
and had no success.
When he tried top Of the
round, the rat ate.
All the schemes to end the
forays of the rat have their
drawbacks. especially to the
sensitive mind.
Our correspondents final
course is perhaps the best
one. after all, for this same
sensitive mind.
AS for the rat. he, without
doubt, prefers it, since his
blood runs warm, and he en-
joys life, too. in his ratty
way.
Though it may be regard
ed as treason to say it, a rat
around a place is not too bad,
unless he decides to come
indoors.
A rat inside is ten times
as bad as one outdoors, so the
householder should see to it
that there is no way, posi-
lively no way. for one to get
in.
In the open air, where he
belongs. a nice brown rat is
not to be feared. and may
even become a sort Of pet, If
the watcher is tolerant and
at the same time an admirer
of brain powell on the go.
Make no mistake, this is one
Of the most intelligent of ami
mails. If you don't think so.
try to trap one!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
THE POLITICAL MILL
1882 Political Scene Looks FomiIior
By GOULD LINCOLN

Inc people were ready Tor a
change. Reconstruction days
in the South had brought
disgust IN their trail, too. So
in 1884 the country went for
Cleveland. the first Demo-
cratic President elected after
the Civil War. Even so, the
Democrats were able to hold
on for only four years-and
then the Republicans took
over with Benjamin Harrison
as Presfd emit. Cleveland
surged back four years later.
however, for another and
second term. In more recent
days. the Democrats, after
holding the White House for
20 years. were turned out and
the Republicans put Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower in the
presidency. He is serving his
second term and under the
latest amendment of the
Constitution cannot run
again. The Democrats are
breathing down the COP.
neck, with high hopes of
electing their candidate three
years hence.
G. o. p. Problem Unchanged
The Republicans chief diff
ficulty today-as back in 1882
-is with party boilers as
well as with finding the kind
of candidates who appeal
most to the American people.
The senatorial election in
Wisconsin and the guberna-
torial election in New Jersey
last summer and this fall
demonstrated the fact that
voters in these Republican
States simply would not go
for the party candidates. All
Of. which seems incredible
when it is considered that
the Eisenhower administra-
ton got this country out of q
shooting war in Korea, has
kept the peace, and prosper
ity, business and employment
in the United States have
been at all-time highs. Party
boiling. in addition to the
fact that the Democrats in
many States are more nu-
merous than Republicans, is
the pain in the neck for the
G. o. p. leadership.
The Journal was at pains
to point out that rs years
ago the Republicans suf-
fered reversals in a number
of States because the party
and its candidates supported
prohibition" measures of
various kinds. 1t said, in
editorial comment, that the
Republicans had lost in Ohio,
mot for proposing a license
system, but because this meas
ure was put forward in an
offensive way, accompanied
by prohibition for Sunday
and unnecessary penal re-
strictions prescribed for liquor
dealers" 1t went on to say
that in Indiana the Demo-
Gratis swept the State with
the aid of the German vote,
because the Republicans
were committed to the
scheme for a prohibition
amendment to the Constitu-
ton" Another prophesy for
the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
To Defeat e Communism
Believer.

Much is being said and
written every day by various
groups and individuals on
how we can best meet the
challenge of communism.
But it seems to me that our
very best weapon is being
overlooked. That weapon is
THE power of God" I don't
mean to imply that no one is
praying for Divine guidance
and help, because I am sure
there are plenty of good peo-
pie who are doing a lot of
praying. But 1 think we
should do more than simply
pray.
l think we should set a
definite goal and then go out
to achieve that goal, and if
the Christian people Of this
country will have the faith
and work and pray together
any goal they set can be real
lied. My idea Of a worth
while goal would be to defeat
and overcome communism by
evangelizing and Christianiz-
ing Russia.
Is that too big an under
taking for us to hope to ac-
complish? 1t isn't if we have
the faith. Because God has
promised, repeatedly. that we
could ask whatsoever we
would. believing. and it would
be done.
A Hunah HE Tavnan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30

AWO WcekS dBO-NOVekubcE
leone Of the great news
papers Of the Midwest, the
Milwaukee Journal, celebrated
its 18th anniversary. 1t was
born soon after the elections
Of November. 1882, when the
Democrats were swept into
power in the House of Rep
resentatives and Democratic
Governors in important States
(among them New York; were
elected. The Journal, in its
first issue four-page. five-
column affair-while declar-
ing its independence (Which
it has maintained to this
day. editorially supported the
d e m ocratic Party and
charged that the Republican
Party. in power for ~ years.
had been corrupt.
Politics had q major place
in the first issue Of the Jour-
nal, with the same kind of
problems confronting the Re-
publicans and the Democrats
as they face today, although
the issues are different. The
Republicans, apparently. were
at sea for q candidate for
President in the election in
1884. just as the Democrats
are in the next presidential
election in 1860. And the Re-
publicans were seeking some
how to discipline members Of
the COP. who had declined
to support the candidates of
their party in the preceding
elections. Two columns of
the front page Of the journal
were given over to discussion
of the political mess, and at
least three of the editorials.
COP. Considering Generals
Seventy-five years ago, the
COP. was talking about
picking another Civil War
general for the 1884 presi-
dental nomination. The par
ty had had Grant, Hayes
and Garfield in succession.
The assassination of Garfield
put Vice President Chester
Arthur in the White House.
but it was obvious he would
not be his party's nominee
for President. So the Jour
nal played up the names of
Gen. John A. Logan, then
Senator from Illinois; Gen.
Sherman and Gen. Sheri-
dan. Sheridan, it was said,
was a friend of Grant, and
could get the soldier vote, the
Catholic vote and the Irish
vote.
On, the Democratic side,
the party had just elected
Grover Cleveland to be Gov
ernor Of New York-and did
not yet realize that it had
picked its candidate for Pres
ident four years in the flu
ture. In that election of 1882,
the first real surge of 'in-
dependent" Republicans -
called mugwumps-made its
power felt. These independ-
ent Republicans refused to
go along with the COP
nominees in many of the
elections. AS a matter OF
fact. after 20 years of Re-
publican rule, abuses had
crept in, and corruption too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
Another Good Chief

With all due respect to
Lloyd E. Kelly, retired deputy
chief. Metropolitan Police
Department, and in refer
ence to his statement that:
Washington has not had a
better chief of police than
Robert v. Murray in the past
40 years." I don't think this
is quite fair or accurate. l
grant that Chief Murray has
done a very good job in ex-
tremely difficult times and
in conditions and situations
unmatched in any city in
the Nation. However, one OF
the finest men / have ever
known was chief of police
a few short years ago. and
that man was Harvey G..
Callahan. ! consider myself
most fortunate to have had
such a man as a neighbor
and to have been a friend OF
his family since childhood.
1t is my humble opinion
that Mai. Callahan was all
that men given public Office
should be. Both his public
and private life we're exem-
plary. l cannot fully express
the esteem ! held and yet
hold for the memory of this
man as an outstanding ex-
ample Of all that a father.
a public servant, or any man,
should be. Perhaps, since Maj.
Callahan had his office such
q short time before falling
Ill and dying, Mr.. Kelly
forgot about him in thinking
of the chiefs Of the past 40
years, and II such was the
case ! trust this will serve
TO refresh his memory.
E. A. Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30

@. Who were the five ply
sicians who signed the Dec
laration OF Independence? I
can find only four listed
c. j.
A. Oliver Wolcott Of Con-
necticut was trained in medi-
cine but had given up medi-
cine for law long before he
signed the Declaration. He
is therefore usually listed
only as a jurist. The other
four physicians were Drs.
Josiah Bartlett and Matthew
Thornton Of New Hampshire.
Lyman Hall Of Georgia. and
BENJAMIN Rush Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
WOODLAND TERRACE.

Dear Sir:
"A rat has been 'engrossing
my attention for several
weeks. 1t is the first I have
had at the bird-feeding board
for Is years.
while it was obvious he
was after food, my problem
was to get rid of him before
he began to hibernate under
my house or porch, as I could
see where he had established
a runway. \
Several suggestions were
offered by neighbors. One
suggested I should keep my
trap set and my fingers
crossed.
Remembering the heart
breaking experience of trap
ping a cardinal unintention-
ally, I carefully set a trap
baited with cheese and bacon
under crate near the run,
but had no luck; after two
weeks of this I broke down
the trap. fearing that a chip
munk might get caught, and
tried a suggestion of placing
red squill biscuits under the
box. They disappeared and
still the rat was not caught.
y 4
II hesitated to use poisons,
and even the product sup
posed to thin their blood to
extinction, because the word
kill is not in my dictionary.
Il reached the conclusion,
therefore, that ! would starve
him out. which meant with
holding bird seed for a while.
I put out just a handful or
so for the late feeding birds,
taking up the remaining seed
and keeping the board free
of all food during the night.
THE one bird that does
not allow the rat on the
board Is the dove, which
raises her wings at sight OF
him.
AT the end Of a week Of
this starvation plan / have
not seen him. so perhaps he
has found greener pastures.
Sincerely yours. o. E. c."
Few people stop to think
nowadays that the rats are
not as bad as they used TO be.
This is because the brown
rat took over from the black
rat.
1t was the black rat that
brought the great plaques to
Europe in the Middle Ages.
and clear UP to Shakespeare's
day and a bit later.
The supplanting OF the
black by the brown rat was
one Of the unheralded feats
Of history.
So today. when we dislike
rats, we must keep in mind
that there are rats and rats
Today's rat. II we may say
so. can be disliked but not
too feared.
He is by no means the viii
lain the black one was.
49,
Our correspondent speaks
OF her rat Undertaking" un-
der the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-30
Inside Russia

know nothing about Wal
ter N. Tobriner's proposal to
convert the District Teachers
College into a two-year
Junior college except what I
have read in the papers. Mr..
Tobriner is reported to have
also suggested for those de-
string to become teachers, the
subsidization of their train
ing at any approved uni
versity, provided the students
signed a contract committing
them to serve a specified
number of years in the Dis
trict school system.
The November IA issue of
The Reporter contains an
Article describing Soviet
education, entitled Russia:
The Scientific Elite" The
article is by Patricia Blake,
who spent two months in
Russia as a reporter visiting
universities and chronological
institutes.
Miss Blake tells of a young
married couple named Smir-
nov. both science students at
Moscow University. The hus-
band had been assigned next
year to a prize apprentice
ship at an atomic research
center. The wife was unhappy
over the prospect of a long
separation.
Then Miss Blake states:
THE trouble is, of course,
that the Smirnovs' intelli-
gence, skill and youthful
spirit are being exploited to
the limit by the state, and
that their personal lives are
being seriously disrupted.
After they graduate the state
requires that they spend
three years at jobs assigned
to them whether they like
them or not.
I. for one. believe there is
enough virility in our democ-
racy to solve our problems
without resorting to totali-
tartan methods.
RaIiaveP