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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

Communist supporters to turn away from
it with deep sense of revulsion over
the way its leaders have defended and
praised the terrible Soviet crime against
the HungarianS.
So it is not surprising that Sundays
Paris vote, wholly apart from the blow
it has dealt the Poujadist movement, has
gone heavily against the Reds. It may
indicate only temporary shift in the
French political wind, but there is some
reason to think otherwise. Communist
totalitarianism has lost lot of face.
Many things have made it look worse
than unsavory to large numbers of peo-
pie, in France and elsewhere, who were
once gullible enough to see virtue in it.
And the chances seem better than even
that these now-awakened ones will have
sense enough not to fall asleep again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
GOODMAN Casualty

Senator Humphrey, one of the lead
ers OF band of Democratic Senators who
have been trying to pull the rug from
under Secretary Dulles, has made an in
tereSting comment. He says there is a
growing feeling that Mr.. Dulles may well
be casualty of the cold war, Just as
MIR. Eden was"
We have no doubt that Mr.. Dulles
Will become casualty If the Democratic
Senators who have been cunning for him
can get him in their sights But we are
at loss to understand the analogy with
Mr.. Eden's case.
Sir Anthony became casualty. not
OF the cold war, but of the ill-advised
hot war which he launched against
Egypt. Mr. Eden would be popular hero
IN Britain today had that venture sue
ceeded. He became casualty because it
turned out to be dismal failure.
But what has this to do with Mr..
Dulles? He warned against an attack on
Egypt, predicting that it would lead pre-
clSely to the result which ensued. He
tried to diSSuade Mr. Eden from taking
the disastrous step. When the then Brit
lsh Prime Minister, misleading the United
States as to his intentions, plunged
ahead, Mr.. Dulles did the only thing he
could do. That was to support the United
Nations in its condemnation of this act
of aggression and join in the demand
that the attack be halted Do the Demo-
cratic Senators think the United States
should have supported, or perhaps Joined
IN. the attack on Egypt? If not, what
is the reason for equating Mr.. Dulles
performance in the cold war" with that
of Mr. Eden?
Through long week of narrowing
croSs-examination, We have not seen one
fact developed which fixes Mr.. Dulles
with responsibility for what has hap
pened in the Middle East He has been
challenged for canceling financial sup
port OF the Aswan dam by Democratic
Senators who ignore the fact that
Democratic controlled Appropriations
Committee voted last July to bar aid for
the dam project without prior approval
OF the committee. Democratic Senators
who seem to hold Mr. Dulles personally
responsible for our impaired relations
with Britain and France are demanding
that he produce the documents detail
ing our relations with those governments.
How do they know that publication of
this record would not further impair our
relationship because of the disclosures
which would be made as to the British
French performance?
We do not doubt that Mr. Dulles has
made his share of mistakes. Nor do we
think that he is entitled to any special
immunity from senatorial heckling. We
do feel, however, that this business is
being carried to dangerously irrespon-
sible extreme. The tactics that are being
employed, if carried to their logical con-
clusion, could gravely injure vital inter-
ests of the United States, and if that
comes about we trust that the Demo-
cratic Senators will not try to evade
responsibility for the consequences of
their conduct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

Congress is facing serious obliga-
ton this year to enact a Federal aid
to education bill. Repeatedly during his
first administration President Eisenhower
directed special appeals to the legislators
to recognize-and to do something about
"a nationwide need that has been stead
lily increasing, and will continue to in
crease in the near future. In Congress
itself the need has been widely acknowl-
edged, but an unusual combination of
partisan and regional differences has
served to defeat every legislative effort.
In his message to the 85th Congress,
the President has urged again that the
legislative branch authorize "a compre-
henSive program of Federal assistance"
with greatest emphasis on financing
construction to meet the critical shortage
of claSSroomS. Referring specifically to
the year already '1oSt" through failure
of Congress to resolve its differences in
1856, the President has recommended a
program to accomplish in four years what
he previously estimated might safely be
stretched over five years. In brief, his
plan calls for a total of $1.3 billion in
Federal construction grants to States, for
Federal purchase of $3.50 million in local
construction bonds when school districts
may be unable to market them at 'rea-
SOnable" interest rates, for $40 million in
matching grants to States, and for adj
vanceS to help provide reserves for local
bonds.
The President also met head on three
questions which have figured largely in
past defeats for education legislation.
First, was reaffirmation of the principle
that education is baSically a local reSpon-
sibility, that Federal aid should be ex-
tended as an emergency measure only
and without any shadow of Federal con-
troll over school systems. Fears of Federal
control, or of surrender of responsibility
by local communities, were believed to
have been factors in defeat of a bill in
the House last year. Second, was his re-
peated recommendation that funds be al
located on combined formula of school,
age population, local ability to meet needs
and total effort within the States. Last
years bill would have distributed funds
on basis of school-age population only
"a formula that would tend to concen-
trate aid in the larger and more wealthy
States. And finally, he expressed the
hope that the legislation would be en-
acted on its own merits, "uncomplicated
by provisions dealing with the complex
problem of indignation" BY motion of
Representative Powell, New York Demo-
crat, last years bill would have barred
Federal aid to prosegregation States-an
amendment that prompted a heavy adj
verse Southern vote on the ballot on
which the legislation was defeated.
There is little doubt that all of these
issues will be fought out again this year.
But the President has made a perSua-
sive case for action in 1.-The national
interest" Congress should not fail to
meet it's responsibility.
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REFUGEES

After seeing Jim Berryman's
fine cartoon in The Star on
January % picturing Miss Lib
erty reading the controversy
concerning the Hungarian ref
ugees. I am moved to write.
President Eisenhower in his
inaugural address stressed that
the world is where our full
destiny lies and in regard to
the refugees fleeing strife-torn
Hungary. our country has will
ingly given them publicity
sympathy and. for many, a
home. OF this We may well
be proud.
However, through all the
Juror. one cannot help but
think of those forgotten people
of whom We hear so little,
those thousands of homeless
refugees whose oppressorS have
not been the Russians, and
whose names have only been
mentioned on the back pages
Of our newspapers. The pa
athetically tragic story of South
Africans involuntarily moved
from their homes and Jobs be-
cause their only crime is be-
ing native African has received
so little notice in comparison
that our citizens know little
about the facts. The protests
of a few writers, doctors and
missionaries and their SUISSE
quent arrest or deportation is
drowned in the loud condem-
nation poured out against the
Communists. But no political
capital can be made for the
West from their story or from
speaking out against the ter
rible conditions of refugees in
the Near East. One cannot
help but wonder, also, if the
Hungarians would be well
coined with open arms if they
were of a darker color.
This is not to censure the
noteworthy effort being made
in behalf of the Hungarians,
but only written in the hope
that some day our great ma
ton will champion fair play
and justice in all situations
not as a matter Of expediency
but because our people feel a
true sense of brotherhood with
all peoples.
CarOle j. Bayer.
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VIEW Activities

The week of January 1925
was National Veterans of For
eign Wars Week. AS adjutant
of one Of Maryland's Posts in
Prince Georges County. Kent
Memorial Post No. 1910. I
would like to bring to the
notice of John Q. Citizen that
the VFW has grown with our
country and is not just a group
of veterans out for a good
time.
Our VFW District for this
area is No. IT. We are the
youngest Post mo. 5370) in
the youngest district (No. III
within the State of Maryland.
There are over 100 other posts
in Maryland.
I attended the last Depart
ment (State) Council of Ad-
ministration at Union Bridge,
Maryland, on Sunday Is Janu-
airy, and heard the reports of
community service discharged
by post after post. You would
have a warm feeling, as I did.
to have heard the details of
assistance. job finding, vista
tons to hospitals, flag dona-
tons to Boy Scouts, particle
patton in community activities,
blood donations, and more.
and more.
Generally the press has been
cool toward all veterans
groups. Perhaps that feeling
has grown because the WV
has been very outspoken on
car of aged veterans and
maintenance of preference for
those who acted when the need
arose.
The man in uniform is never
popular until our skins depend
upon him.
You can rest assured. Mr.,
John O.. that ectivity for vet
Grams will be tempered with
consideration for the general
good by the youngest post in
the youngest District Of the
Maryland VFW, Kent Me.
moral Post No. $3.50!
Stanley Hughes.
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THE POLITICAL MILL
By GOULD LINCOLN
Only Eisenhower Can Answer This One

a Republican Governor in his
own State, Massachusetts, and
failed. That being SO, how
could Herter have brought
about the election Of Repub-
lican Senators, Representatives
and Governors in other States,
Simpson asked.
Democratic leaders are get
ting quite a lot of amusement
out of the Stassen-N
feud. Representative Mike Kir-
wan Of Ohio, chairman of the
Dem cratic Congressional
Committee. commented to this
writer: Its not my quarrel.
But my personal belief is that
the people elected a Democratic
Congress because they have
faith in Democratic Congress-
men. So far as these congress
sional elections are concerned,
my own belief is they didn't
know Nixon was running"
Kirwan recalled that in 1854
the Democrats won control of
both houses of Congress-and
Nixon's name was not on the
Republican ticket.
Stassen's View
Stassen, however, takes a
different view. He contends
President Eisenhower took the
Republicans along to a VIC
tory in the congressional cleo
tons in 1852. And in 1856.
when. Eisenhower did better,
himself, than in 1852, he
should certainly have carried
the Congress with him again.
He needed Herter-not Nixon
to help in the congressional
races. The former Governor
of Minnesota is tenacious in
his beliefs. He said his televi-
sion comment was no more nor
less than what he said when
he was trying to nominate
Herter for Vice President last
year. Il never said then that
President Eisenhower could be
defeated" StaSsen told me.
But I did say at that time
that if Herter was nominated
in place of Nixon, it would
help elect Republican Con-
gress."
Asked if his statement meant
he was against Nixon for a
presidential nomination in
1860, Stassen demurred. mo
one Knows" he said, what
will happen in the next four
years. or what Mr.. Nixon's
position will be before the
American people"
Some of Stassen's critics
feel he is trying to knock Nixon
down, to improve his own
chances for a presidential
nomination in 1860. In the
meantime, Stassen is consider
ing running for Governor Of
Pennsylvania. He has been
asked, he said, by Republicans
and Eisenhower Democrats, to
seek the nomination for Gov
ernor. He cannot, he pointed
out. make such a race and re-
main in the administration. In
1854 the Republicans lost the
Pennsylvania governorship, and
in 1856 a Senate seat, largely
because they have been split
into factions. Stassen's idea
is he might unite them. Simp-
son, a Pennsylvania doesn't
go along.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
Dogs Day in Court

/ find it hard to agree with
Alexandria Police Court Judge
Colasanto, who ruled recently
that a dog has a right to bark,
even to the point of disturbing
neighbors who are trying to
sleep. In our crowded neigh
borhoods. we must have con-
sideration for one another.
If this is lacking. life can
become miserable. Rest is es-
sential to good health and
morale. Neither do / agree
with the judge land the law :,
that a dog is entitled to the
first bite. / think that mail
men, newspaper boys and vari-
Gus other people who must
come into our yards and homes
will agree with this. l have
a son who delivers newspapers.
who has been bitten several
times by dogs. And we, too,
have had the barking dog
problem. as / am sure have
many others.
Mrs. Robert Mills.
y
Judge Colasanto's ruling is
ridiculous. Equal Justice I'M
der law" has become an empty
maxim. Dog owners will, of
course. applaud the decision
ana continue to, let their pets
disturb their rIeighbors.
Judge Colasanto remarks,
"A dog is entitled to the first
bite" That is as foolish as
saying every man is entitled
to his first murder or robbery
Dogs are a serious problem
in suburban neighborhoods
where families live close. A
barking or vicious dog can
annoy many people. and the
owner usually is oblivious to
the fact. even though it may
be called TO his attention. The
general public apparently has
no protection from owners who
maintain animals which make
nuisances of themselves.
Citizen.
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Budqet Items

Our peacetlme budget should
be pegged at $50 billion.
Government warehouses are
reported bullying with surplus
Office equipment while the
budget is filled with requests
to buy new. There are also
BUDGET requests to buy newer
cars to replace the fine, sleek
cars now used by bureaucrats.
Why not strike from the
budget this year all items for
the purchase of Office equip
ment and automobiles, and re-
duce all other non-defense
items by 10 per cent?
Taxpayer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

That is why they keep a
watch on Jones back door, be-
cause they know a friend when
they see one.
The human shape appearing
there. now and then. carries
a small red box in the right
hand.
1t is this box, above all.
the startling boys have their
sharp little eyes on.
For from its magic depth,
they know. come raisins.
Now. as smart as they are.
the starlings don't know they
are raisins. really.
They have no language. no
words, therefore precious few
ideas.
Such ideas as they do have,
however, are very good,
One is that a small fruit
that come out of a red box
is good to eat.
1t tastes good, the first req
uisite in any food.
And it does good, which
surely is the second, in any
language. among dogs. cats.
pigs. men and birds.
The startling boys keep their
beady eyes fixed on that door.
The click of the latch
sounds forth, and down fly
the birds.
They are on their way to
something good to eat. a
mighty fine thing in the cold.
They fly in as one. and
perch in the Jones tree, and
on the Jones fence.
They set up a soft whistling,
their black bodies shining in
the sunlight.
Who says they are not fine
birds?
Who dares say they are UNI
wanted?
Not in the Jones yard. at
any rate. and they know it,
and act accordingly. and so
does Templeton Jones.
Why does he call them
starting boys? Aren't there
any startling girls in the
group?
We asked Jones these ques-
tons, and he grinned.
Il can't tell one from
t'other." said he.
Neither can anybody else.
Well have TO leave that to
the experts.
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No Complaints

Thank you for the delightful
article about Adlai Stevenson
by John F. Sembower in The
Sunday Star of January 10.
Nothing could have been in
better taste or more appropri-
ate. 1t was also pleasure to
read Gould Lincoln's column
OF January 5. His intelligent
and unbiased political COM
mentS are most informative
and dependable.
AS a constant reader of The
Star for more than 40 years, 1
appreciate your fairness and
high-mindedness and your eff
forts TO maintain high stand.
ARDS of journalism.
Johanna HensOldt.
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The strange-and imperson-
al - feud against Vice Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon which
Harold E. Stassen, special as
sistant to the President on dis
armament. started last sum-
mer seems to have broken out
again. This time. however,
Stassen was crowded into a
corner by questioners on a tele-
vision program and apparently
took as the only way out a
repetition of his last years
assertion that Nixon would
weaken the Republican ticket,
if renominated. and might
cause the loss Of Congress to
the, Democrats.
At the same time Stassen
was trying last summer to
eliminate Nixon as a G. o. P.
vice presidential candidate, he
sought to have Gov. Christian
A. Herter of Massachusetts,
nominated for the second place
on the ticket. What he said in
his Sunday television appear
ance on the American Broad
casting Company's college
Press Conference" was: Il do
believe sincerely that if Her.
ter had been nominated (for
Vice President) the G. o. P.
would have won a major
ity in both houses of Con-
gress." He added that Herter
would have helped the Repub-
licans win governorships of
States which they lost, too.
An immediate question in
political circles was: How long
can this kind of thing go on
and StaSsen continue to hold
his job in the Eisenhower ad-
miniStration? Stassen has been
given cabinet status. When the
cabinet meets, he and the
Vice President are both there.
Only President Eisenhower,
himself, is in a position to
crack down on Stassen-and
only the President, himself.
can say how he feels about
Stassen's sniping at the Vice
President. The President kept
him on, it must be remem-
bered, after Stassen had con-
Quoted a kind of last-ditch
campaign against the renom-
ination of Nixon.
Assailed by Simpson
Representative Richard NJ
Simpson, chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional Com
mittee, has virtually called for
the ouSting of Stassen. He is
sued a statement. referring to
Stassen as "Harassing Harold
and expressing extreme sur
prise that a man with a high
White House job should con-
tinue "sniping" at the second
ranking member of our party
Its most unusual in American
politics." Simpson added. He
pointed out that during the
1856 campaign Nixon had been
deluged with hundreds of re-
quests to speak in congress
sional districts and States, by
Republican candidates; and
that StasSen, SO far as he
knew. had been the recipient
of only six such requests. He
pointed out, too. that Herter
now holding an important post
in the State Department, pre-
sumably did his best to elect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

@. On how many different
items does the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics base its regular
Consumer Price Index?-G.G.
A. The Index is based on
the prices of about 300 items,
which were selected so that
their price changes would rep
resent the movement of prices
OF Ill goods and services pur-
chased by wage and clerical
families. They include all the
important items in family
spcndiny--food. housing, APP
parel. transportation, medical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

mill village in the old sense
disappear. Moreover, home
ownership has done a great
deal for the individual family
and the communities in which
this housing is located.
A fair reporter. however,
should not overlook the fact
that the great majority Of the
companies made themselves a
handsome and sizeable amount
of cash out of badly neglected
properties that intrinsically
were worth very little indeed
and the sale of which imposed
quite needlessly stiff burdens
on workers whose wages for
decades had been so low that
practically none of them had
savings with which to meet
down payments.
John w. Edelman,
Washington Representative,
Textile Union Workers of
America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

The starting boys keep a
close watch on the back porch
and back door of the Temple
ton Jones home.
They have a lookout high
in a sycamore tree half block
away, from which vantage
point they have a clear view Of
their favorite domicile.
There are about IS birds in
the group, and all of them
good and hungry in the cold.
Just why they do not perch
in a tree in the Jones yard
must be left to experts to ex-
plain.
Experts have so much to ex-
plain nowadays!
They have to tell us why
they invented something to
blow us and the world to bits.
They have to explain why,
with certain diseases decreas-
ing, others are increasing at an
alarming rate.
They have to tell why man.
kind grows meaner and more
vindictive while the gospel of
love is preached on every hand.
They have to tell us why
wars flourish despite education.
which has been held BY some
to be the be-all and end-all of
life.
X
Thomas Jefferson of blessed
memory would be puzzled, if he
could come back. to see how
education has failed to make
this a good world.
But these problems do not
worry the starting boys.
They have enough troubles
as it is, despite their lack of
books and teachers and school,
rooms.
Startling boys-and starting
girls. too-live in the great
outdoors, where things happen
all the time. If it isn't a
dog it is a mean human being
and if it isn't the creature
made in Gods image, as 1t
has been said, then it may
be a cat.
There is always something
or somebody worrying the
birds. especially the starlings,
Rut starlings fight back the
best they can.
They didn't ask to be brought
here and since coming they
have done the best they could
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Winter Trees

Black skeletons OF seasons
When all nature mas dliDe.
When all things grew, and I
In detached harmony did
thrive.
Brace against The minds that
nay.
Moue your Stifenino sap
That painful inch each day,
And guard the memory OF sun
In your Uarm core.
Till Qtiickening pulses reutue
And spring is conquerer.
Glenn Pntehord
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care. recreation, and other
goods and services.

@. Which American univer-
stiles have the largest librar-
ies?--D. C.
A. Harvard. with over 5ls
million books, and Yale. with
over A million, lead the list Of
the worlds university Libraries.
There are between 2 and 3
million volumes in the Libraries
at Stanford University, Uni
versities Of California and Hi.
nois. and Columbia University
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Cont You Get Your Arm Out Of Thut SIine?'
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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letters carry iDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
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