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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
Grocery Slump

I read with deep concern
the article in your paper rel
lative to possible repeal of the
d. c. grocery tax because
grocery sales have deterio-
rated. possibly due to the tax.
II d. C, people are crossing
into Maryland and Virginia as
charged, and are spending
millions for groceries alone,
not to mention gasoline, cloth
ing, etc, 1t is possible trading
stamps are Turing them.
We have an old d. c. law
prohibiting giveaways here.
However, everyday 1t is being
violated by the sale of such
items as cigarettes with cou-
pons on the back, coupons
with a particular kind Of cof-
fee and tea. baking powder,
soap, macaroni, milk, marga-
rine, dog and cat food. This
coupon company maintains a
store in town to redeem the
coupons.
In addition, newspaper ads
offer free this and free that
with purchase Of something or
other. Even our own invented
park and shop plan violates
the spirit Of the law as written.
Congress has two alterna-
tives In order to place the
District on an equal basis with
Maryland and Virginia COM
petitive-wise, so as not TO lose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
Dangerous BUDGET

Senator Harry Byrd has launched
his formal attack on the Eisenhower
budget for fiscal 1858 with a proposal
that 1t be cut by Sos billion. In state
ment to the Senate, he broke this pro-
posed reduction down as follows: SIS
billion from national security activities,
50 billion from foreign aid and inter-
national affairs, and So billion from
domeStic-civilian activities. This would
bring the $73.3-billion budget Tin re-
queSted appropriations and authorize
tions) down to $668 billion, and if this
is done the Virginia Senator thinks we
will be able to see fair weather" ahead.
We do not know whether the cuts
proposed by Senator Byrd can be made
without danger to the national security
and essential national programs Nor is
1t clear to us that budget of the size
proposed by the President cannot be
supported, under existing conditions, by
the economy
Senator Byrd makes one point, how
ever, which certainly is true, and which
is unquestionably threatful
After President Eisenhower took
office in 1853 he cut the proposed Truman
budget by $40 billion and he made a
further reduction of So billion in spend
ing in the following year Since then,
however, his budgets have been rising,
with sharp increases in the domestic
civilian area. Furthermore the President
has said that he favorS this high spend
ing as long as the country deserves and
wants it. The essential point which SEN
ator Byrd makes is that this budget
is dangerous in the extreme because it
entrencheS wasteful spending and en-
banks on many new projects which will
compel larger and larger budgets as the
years go on" If this is correct, and we
think it is, it is this continually rising
trend in expenditures which poses the
great threat. Unless the trend is checked,
more imitation and higher living costs
are inevitable, and in the end we may
find ourselves deep in the hair-curling
depression to which Secretary Humphrey
has alluded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
Zhukov's Absurdity

Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhu-
kov has repeated himself in declaring
that the Red Air Force would use atomic
and hydrogen bombs in the event of war
with the United States. He said essen
TALLY the same thing year ago, echoing
views often expressed by Nikita KhruSh-
chew and>other men of the Kremlin. So
nobody should be surprised by his re-
marks. Actually, they amount to little
more than "a MoScow-Style version of
what many American authorities have
had to say about what our own country
would do If Russia attacked.
Similarly, there is nothing startling
about Marshal Zhukov's assertion that
1t is mistake to suppose that opposing
forces in future conflict would not
employ and H bombs simply because
such weapons "can mutually destroy both
sides" American officials agree with him
on this, and they also agree with his
statement that "such weapons will in
creaSingly replace conventional arma-
ments" and are bound to be used as
the main striking force in case of major
war" That is one of the big reasons why
the disarmament problem is so difficult
and why President Eisenhower has pro-
posed strict reciprocal aerial inspection
to guard against the menace of surprise
attack.
But Marshal Zhukov has made at
least one absurd observation in the
course of his latest remarks. He has
said this: I'm organizing their military
bases -. the American imperialists obvi-
ouSly calculate that in case of a war in
Europe or Asia they will be able, as for
merly, to sit 1t out over the ocean and
avoid destructive and deadly blows. There
is no place in the world where the agrees
Sor could find shelter. The Soviet Air
Force is able to strike Shattering blows
at any enemy no matter where he is
hiding" This is silly statement For
Marshal Zhukov ought to know, If he
does not, that our newspapers almost
daily have something to say about Amer
lean officials warning that the United
States, although capable of giving a
double nuclear dose to the USSR, could
be devastated by Russian air assault.
1t is for this reason, of course, that
our Government is striving SO earnestly
for effective disarmament and a trust
worthy world peace. Too bad that the
Russian people do not have free and in
formative press to tell them the true
story. If they did, then they could appre-
ciate the absurdity of what Marshal Zhu-
kov has said about our "imperialists,"
and maybe they could pressure the
Kremlin into cooperating with our
country for real arms control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23

parade, held day early out Of Difference
to the spiritual meaning of Sunday, but
a kosher Irish brunch to put his Honor
and friends in good mood for 1t all.
Even the weather had fresh green look,
but the Lord Mayor said that was to be
expected when 1.-TWO great communities
=. get together in harmony" At last
reports, Mr.. Briscoe was not seeking any
new mutual security understandings or
worrying about the delicate balance of
world power. He was having fine time,
and lot of people were just plain glad
to have him on hand He will be well
come in Washington next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
Enforcement Pays off

The high praise given Montgomery
County law enforcement authorities by
a county grand jury was we'll deserved.
AS the jurors indicated in their report,
the effective war on crime in this sub
urban Maryland area has been the result
of good teamwork by all agencies con-
cerned with law and order. Included in
this team are the police, the prosecutors
and the judges.
While the grand Jury cited no Stats
tics, 1t commented on the general abb
sence OF crime relative to the increased
density OF population and the general
Increased development of the county"
It said that this record is highly COM
plimentary to the government and man.
agement of the county," and especially
commended the work of the Police De-
partment and the States Attorney and
his staff. One of the cases which undoubt-
eddy impressed the jury with the eff
cheney of the police was that of David
V. Hall, the l5-year-o student whom
the jury indicted for the Staying of his
shedding companion, Georgette Hentgen,
last January Persistent and intelligent
investigation by county detectives quickly
solved this murder
We think the Montgomery County
Courts are entitled to large share Of
credit for the county's bad reputation
among underworld characters For some
years the judges there have been handing
out stiff sentences to gamblers, robbers
and all the other criminals who have been
caught in the county. 1t is we'll known
that numbers operators have evidenced
their dislike for the county, and particu-
larly for its courts. All of which confirms
the oft-repeated statement that GER
tainty of arrest, vigorous prosecution and
stern punishment are formidable COM
bination against crime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
The Weather Was Green

While our Vice President Nixon was
of shaking the collective hand of Africa,
another international ambassador of good
will has come to the United States to
win friends and influence people. Rob-
ert Briscoe, Lord Mayor of Dublin, has
been piling up votes with the greatest
OF ease in the New World cities of New
York and Boston. Irish by nationality
and Orthodox Jewish by religion, the
Lord Mayor had all the best of 1t in
New York over the week end For OF
course Sunday was not only st. Patricks
Day but, by coincidence, it was also
Purim, one of the most festive of Jewish
holidays. And there was not only the big
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Would it not be glorious, il
all the good in the entire hui
man mind could be gathered
together. for one last drive on
the pits of iniquity. sin and
ignorance?
This is the dream of the
dreamer, now as then.
1t has come down to every
last one of us by means of the
printed word.
This is the glory of the
writer.
Good or bad or indifferent.
the writer has preserved this
great hope, this inner gleam
that leads on and UP and out
into the future.
No one can do it alone.
The momentous happening
that leaves others immune to
its secret charms or sorrows
can give this flip to the mind.
No matter what the happen
ing is, a right hook to the jaw,
or a mental pinprick delivered
by a secret messenger. it
points directly at the wonder
of mind.
Minds together
This is the true hope of the
world, which, if directed, might
lead to the education for real
ity which Freud envisioned.
So it really makes no differ
ence to any of us If nobody
else seems to know what we
know
The inner vision sees, and it
is part of the glory and the
dream that no one else does,
necessarily.
These riders, these walkers,
these strangers we see every
day and call friends, will never
know any more of us than
they can see with their two
eyes. They are the police cap
tains of life. and we mean no
disrespect to policemen, be-
cause they are right, where
they are. These others, how
ever, have no right to use
police methods on men of
brains. That they do it. some
times. is sample of their
despair.
AS for us. the dreamers, let
us continue the good fight to-
ward the glory Of the life to
come, sure that our combined
brains in decency, kindness
and honest effort will yet lead
to the stars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
ON THE RECORD
Cyprus Is q Beautiful HeII-on-Eorth
By DOROTHY THOMPSON

NICOSIA, Cyprus. - Cyprus
is the worlds most beautiful
hell-on-earth. There is
temptation to forget one is
here as a reporter and linger
dangerously on this lotus
eaters isle. doing a bit of re-
search into its fascinating an
tiquities, admiring the ancient
olive groves of its craggy
mountain slopes. eating rouget,
for my taste the best of fish,
in tavern overlooking the
sea, or just basking in the
hotel garden watching the
play of pretty British chill
dren with their nannies. Il
admire the British for not
evacuating their dependents.)
Fuchsia and narcissus say
that spring is here. One Won
ders idly how come that they
bloom simultaneously with
calendula and other summer
ANIMALS.
After nearly four months of
incessant travel and research
this would be, one thinks, a
delightful place to rest--or so
1t seems at the Ledra Palace
Hotel.
No Shots Heard
Actually we never heard a
shot fired in Cyprus nor en-
countered anything more haz-
ardous than motor rides over
the mountains to the shores
in a tiny car whose tires
screeched on hairpin turns as
excruciatingly as a dentists
drill.
But it becomes nerve-rack-
ing to see soldiers everywhere,
on foot. in military trucks and
jeeps, their bodies lumpy with
arms. and always atop the
drivers compartment a Tommy
with a tommy gun poised to
shoot.
At dinner in the hotel, Brit
ish officers wear civilian
clothes. One of them enters
the sedate dining room with a
rolled copy of the London
Times. AS he lays it down it
opens a bit and one sees that
it contains a pistol. The "in-
cidents" in this guerrilla war
in Britain's crown colony are
not SO frequent now, but one
never knows.
With ones breakfast tea one
reads the Times Of Cyprus.
Laborites in London are de-
manding the return of the de-
ported Archbishop Makarios:
British journalists are pro-
testing infringements of free
speech in the Cyprus press,
and the Cyprus press protests
they haven't been saying any,
thing dangerous anyhow. In
the bar, in the late afternoon.
British and American journal
lists air their own views of the
Cyprus problem. the British
somewhat colored by the
papers they represent.
In November, in Greece, from
where l reported at the time,
only "enosis" union with
Greece would be acceptable
to government and people. But
that will certainly not be the
solution-say the newspaper
men.
One wonders why Greece,
poor and overpopulated, wants
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23

this poor and overpopulated
island from which every other
family is seeking to emigrate,
and not to Greece! OF the
5000 who have left in the last
months, only one went to
Greece-an uncle had left him
some money. Most went to
Britain where there are jobs
and social security. When and
if Britain leaves they will no
longer have free entry.
Its a triangle in Cyprus,
for the Turkish minority won't
relinquish the island to Greece.
If Britain pulled out without
a Greek Turkish settlement
the now quiescent organized
Turkish underground would
rise, and Turkey would GER
tainly invade. In that case
Greek Cypriots would. I fear,
wish they had never been born.
In Athens, they are still. in
siSting the British melted the
Turks to their intransigence.
divide and rule" But one
cannot confirm that in Turkey
and it's really irrelevant.
Whoever started it. that's the
way the Turks feel.
Independence and the reten-
ton of a British base seem
the most likely outcome. But
when? Everything awaits
Gen. Sir John Harding's re-
port that he has cleaned up
the last terrorists and his
mission is over. Then the
diplomats can take over. But
when will that be? Three
months-flve years?
Military Occupation
The effect of an outright
military occupation is to oblit-
crate normal civil administra-
ton. Signs in the airport
terminal warn visitors to get
exit permits and register i'm
mediately with the police. But
no one can say where to do
so. Eventually we get the
former and find the latter, for
our length Of stay, unneces-
sary.
On starting for Cyprus, we
were warned that we'd be
stripped to the skin and
searched-for weapons. bombs,
secret communications and
what not. That didn't seem a
dreadful fate, but what hap
pened was immeasurably worse.
On arrival our suitcaSes we're
seized by a strong, silent mill
tary Gust m S official and
hustled without explanation
into a large black box which
turned out to be an X-ray ma
chine. So some 35 rolls of film
taken in places none of us are
likely to see again. and in
valuable for my artist-husband
as memory joys. were totally
ruined in a few seconds. Higher
officials were ever so sorry,
grave and regretful. OF course
We should have been warned.
1t was all most unfortunate.
But tacitly their gaze said,
After all there's war on"
At that moment I was in
clined to join the terrorists
and take pot shot at just one
Of Her Majesty's forces.
But it's lovely island, whose
only economic future seems to
be tourism, and even that is
not to be recommended for the
time being.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23

The strangest thing about
momentous happening in the
inner life is that nobody else
seems TO know about it.
They should. one thinks.
This is too great to keep. Why
don't these walkers. these
riders by. all these people,
know by instinct that this
great thing. or this bad thing,
has happened to me?
This is the secrecy nature
has implanted in the first
place.
This is the iron curtain
of the spirit. without which
we would all be naked before
our enemies, as the PSalmist
said.
This is the helpful healing
Of great waters. the sense be-
hind the sound and fury. the
inner protection Of our lives.
Because we have this iron
curtain, we can go through
the world as conquerors.
Every Man a King" was
the title of one of the older
inspirational books.
Kings are out, now, but all
of us can be builders of the
future.
Despite the threat of bombs,
the lure of foolishness. the at
traction of the facile and the
shallow, we can be. indeed,
conquerors, because we are
protected in our inner life.
This is the life of the spirit,
it is true. and more; it is the
life we all live in the inner re-
cesses OF the marvellous mind.
Whether you exist in pal
ace or in the slums of the
future; whether you live in
your own house or a nice coy
room in an insane asylum, you
are a poet of the everyday.
buffered by good alkalies.
4
1t is an ennobling thought,
to see the world of mind as
one great world, with both bad
and good cells in it.
We are all so inclined to
regard ourselves as the real
self, that it is amazingly
simple, once you get onto it,
to think OF all selves together
and as one.
Then the kinks of the world
Straighten out. One sees the
essence of reality. as some call
it, leading away from the pri-
NAL sea to the perfect heaven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
Mr.. BohIen to Manila

Charles E. Bohlen has been NOM
mated to be United States Ambassador
to the Philippines at a time when his
diplomatic experience and skill should
be OF great value to both countries. The
untimely death of President MagSaySay
has brought the young island republic
to political crossroads at which it's
devotion to democracy will be facing
new tests. Carlos Garcia, succeeding Mr..
Magsaysay, already has pledged that his
administration will carry on with the
policies of the late Observation-Disclosures
maintenance of the close relations with
the United States and unqualified oppo-
sitiOn to "atheiStic communism" There
is reason for confidence that the major
ity of his people will support him strongly
in this position, but there is also little
doubt that opposition elements will at
tempt to capitalize on any opportunity
to improve their own position. 1t will
not be Mr.. Bohlen's function to interfere
in Filipino domestic politics. But it will
be his function to report on and inter-
pref coming events in the republic and
to assure Mr. Garcia of our own continu-
ing interest in the freedom and stability
of the Philippines.
Still, the fact that Mr.. Bohlen's
Manila assignment has assumed unex-
pected Importance does not alter the
fact that in the periodic reassignment
OF career diplomats some of the major
posts In Europe are virtually closed to
any but persons of independent wealth.
Mr.. Bohlen has spent most of his service
in European affairs and has become rec
ognized as one Of our most highly quail
fed experts on the Soviet Union. Pre-
sumably, Mr.. Bohlen does not have the
financial means to serve in one of the
other major capitals Of Europe-but his
talents are no less needed there because
of this.
President Eisenhower acknowledged
this financial problem at a recent news
conference and said that he would sup
port greater representation fees" for
some OF these posts In recent letter
to the New York Times, Hamilton Fish
Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs.
wrote that the primary responsibility"
for correcting this situation rests with
Congress. 1t should he wrote, provide
sufficient funds for legitimate reprcsen-
tation expenses at all diplomatic posts,
both for heads of mission and their prin-
cipal assistants" This is done, he added,
by all other great countries-many of
them less able financially than the
United States
This is not newly discovered prob
lem, but it is one that neither the execu-
tive nor legislative branches ever has
tackled with determination. This is,
perhaps, good time to do something
about It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
Morse's Code

read with interest the let
ter from Senator Morse of
Oregon entitled Power in
Northwest.
The cogency of Senator
Morse's remarks on public con-
struction of a high dam at
Hell'S Canyon cannot be de-
MED. but 1t may not be appre-
ciated fully by many of your
readers. However. to us who
live or have lived in the North
west. his comments set every
string in our hearts vibrating
to a common chord. / believe
that the elections of 1856
should prove to most people
that the citizens OF Oregon,
Washington and Idaho surely
demonstrated their feeling
about the Administration per-
hitting private capital to
spoil" not exploit the great
potential of Hell's Canyon.
/ subscribe Fundamentally
to the advantages that would
accrue TO the Northwest as
cited by Senator Morse; how
ever. there is another most
important advantage that he
did not cite, one of benefit to
every citizen of these United
States.
Every few years the North
west encounters a drought"
year when there is q scarcity
Of snowfall in the foothills
and mountains. and the mighty
Columbia dwindles to a mere
river during the summer
months. AS a result. the great
hydro-electric plants at Bonne-
vile. McNary. and soon The
Dalles Dams, are forced to
operate on a reduced scale.
When this occurs, the interest
and principal due on the loans
for the construction of these
huge facilities is likewise re-
duced. In addition, industrial
plants i'll the Northwest de-
pendent on power from the
dams must cut back produc-
ton and furlough employees.
Certain stretches of the upper
Columbia and Snake are
rendered unnavigable too.
The "A million acres OF
water-less than half Of the
normal annual runoff-that
would be impounded by a high
dam at Hell's Canyon would
provide sufficient water during
these drought periods in the
Columbia to assure that the
hydro-electric plants would
run at full capacity and that
the river would be navigable
too.
Maybe ! am biased a bit,
being an Oregonian, but per-
hitting private companies to
spoil the God-given potential
of Hell's Canyon is perpe-
trating a dastardly deed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-23
School Needs

When cfassrooms have to
be heated by ovens of cooking
stoves in home economics
classes; when elementary chill
dren have to play on a narrow
as-an-alley playground: when
a beautiful. new elementary
school has to have five of its
classes in nearby junior high
school because of overcrowded-
ness. when a school built Is
years ago to house $50 pupils
now has $500 it can be
clearly seen that the Board of
Education'S request for au-
thoriZation to borrow money
for a five-year school building
program is valid.
The League Of Women Voters
sponsored a bus tour Of the
District schools recently to see
for themselves why this build
ing program is a necessity,
and why the pay-as-you-go
system just can't cover the
needs of the overcrowded or
to-be-crowded schools.
We saw for ourselves the
need for constructing school
buildings as they are needed
rather than waiting for a crisis
to develop.
And, according to Superin-
tendent Corning, the annual
payments plus interest on the
proposed school bonds will
not be as much as the average
of the capital outlay programs
we've had over the past years"
Mrs. Daniel Stevens.
In the announcement of a
proposed study of the D. c.
public school health program
we have an example of an ur-
gent need arising from pro-
longed lack of coordination
and efficiency among District
agencies. Again, as in the case
of D. c. General Hospital. per-
sonnet from the management
Office are being assigned to
make the study and initiate
modern methods.
Inadequate appropriations
and consequent insufficient
personnel can reasonably be
invoked to account for the
magnitude Of the problem.
However, lack of an up-to-
date and efficient school health
program. the major RESPONSE
bility for which rests with the
Health Departments Bureau of
Child and Maternal Welfare,
is a significant factor.
DR.. Oppenheimer's autocratic
bureau has long been an OBJ
stacle to coordination of these
activities. The planned review
of the situation and subsequent
def1nitive action by the Direc-
tor OF Health should result in
considerable Improvement.
Local Physician.