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'HoIf-Cnizens'

/ wonder If 1t has ever
dawned on the good gentle
men on the Hill that the
citizens Of the District OF
Columbia are only half-citi-
Zens.
They have the freedom and
safeguards Of all Americans.
but are not allowed to vote;
are taxed by the local govern
ment, and have no elected
representation.
Goodness knows that the
Federal Government does not
intend to give up this lush
plumb, for it is a real chal-
lenge to a country farmer
sitting in the House to be able
to say, II ran a large metro
politan city" but, Of course.
that does not mean he was
qualified or how well 1t was
done) 1t is a well-known fact
that the least experienced and
new members Of Congress are
dumped" on the District Com
mittee.
One definite change for the
better would be for the Fed
eral Government TO pay It's
fair share Of the support Of
the District, since IT is The
largest real estate holder.
Former Half Citizen Eho
Moved 70 virginia.
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Cultural Center

It looks now as II the Capital
may at last get a cultural CEN
ter. AS I glance over the pro-
posed plans and list Of activi-
ties to be covered in this huge
project, there seems to be no
mention Of one Of the greatest
forms Of culture known to
man, which is art. Although
there are several galleries for
painting and sculpture in
Washington, none of these
has apparently been available
for small. temporary exhibit
tions. For instance, the Dis
trict Recreation and Welfare
Department has in recent years
held exhibitions Of work done
by people so years Of age and
older, under the title: Golden
Age Hobby Show. These shows
have been held in the large
lobby Of the Commerce Build
ing. which has been barely
adequate for the display Of
hand-crafts. Pictures. how
ever, have been hung in an ILL
lighted. narrow hallway. Such
groups as this should be con-
sidered in the planning Of the
center. If its primary purpose
Of furthering culture is to be
OF general value to the public.
Roy l.. BarrOws.
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Fairfax Dilemma

Those Fairfax residents who are
concerned over the county's financial
future, and there must be many Of them,
ought to take another look at the Burke
airport potentialities.
The County Board last week rejected
proposed business and professional tax,
which would have produced about $780,
600 year. No alternative plan was put
forward, despite the urgency of the
county's financial situation. The busi-
ness and professional tax was rejected,
although such levies are in force in Ar
lingtpn, Falls Church and Alexandria. It
was rejected despite the fact that the
Fairfax credit standing is such that the
county has had trouble marketing school
bonds at reasonable interest rates. 1t
was rejected even though studies indi-
cate that the county's school population,
now $4,000, will rise to 100000 by 1860.
Unless additional revenue sources are
found, the county faces very substantial
increase in its tax rate. Is the Burke
airport one feasible alternative?
In Richmond, land values adjacent
to the airport have doubled. Roanoke
reports 4h-fold increase 1t has been
estimated that a Burke airport would
employ about 1000 people with total
annual payroll of $32.5 million--some
S29.l million of which would be received
by employees living in Northern Virginia.
FairfS would henef1t di4stly from in
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theological Whip

Despite having been subjected for
decades to party-line propaganda and
indoctrination, many Russians still APP
pear to be unconvinced that MarxiSm-
Leninism is blessing. Indeed, although
describing them as only negligible
handful" of people, Pravda-which re-
fleets the Kremlin's theological hopes and
fears-has found them sufficiently nu-
merous and worrisome to publish long
piece shrilly demanding that they be
brought back into line before they en-
danger the Soviet system.
These delinquentS, according to
Pravda, have been contaminated" and
poisoned by the influence of interna-
tional reaction" and bourgeois, capitalist
ideas. AS a result, they try to exploit
Russia's "still existing difficulties and
shortcomings for their anti-Soviet aims"
And the most shocking thing about them,
from the Kremlins viewpoint, is that
they include educated young persons and
even some Communist Party officials who
have become bored with Marxism-Lenin-
ism. Accordingly, as Pravda has pro-
claimed, the USSR must now crack down
on all such backsliders and subject them
again to the most intensive and militant
kind Of party-line propaganda and "iron
discipline"
This call for about use Of the ideo-
logical whip is the latest in a series OF
developments indicating that the Krem-
lin is seriously disturbed by the spread OF
restiveness and Communist conduct
inside the USSR, especially among stu
dent elements. We can be reasonably sure,
moreover, that these dissident groups are
not just negligible handful" and we
may doubt that mere indoctrination
drive-no matter how vigorous-will re-
convert them Actually the more edu-
Gated the Russian people become in nom
Marxist matters, and the more economic
progress they make, the more they are
likely, in ever-growing numbers, to chal-
lenge the tyrannical nature of the Soviet
system. Red totalitarianism, after all,
appeals chiefly to the impoverished and
the ignorant, not to those who have
learned to think for themselves in a
country that is capable of great indus
trial and agricultural growth.
All of which constitutes a kind Of
dilemma for the USSR. AS it advances
economically, and as its population &C
quires schooling, the men of the Kremlin
must reckon with constantly mounting
pressures for more and more liberty and
less and less tyranny May their troubles
on that score continue to increase sAd
multiply ar the faster the better.
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Women Advance in State Legislatures

The women Of America really
60 to town on election day
they have been given credit
largely for the huge majorities
by which President Eisenhower
carried the country in 1852 and
1856. However, they continue
to cast their votes for men
candidates for legislative and
executive Offices, rather than
for women candidates. This
is largely true because men
candidates vastly outnumber
women candidates. It's been
some 81 years since national
suffrage was granted women
by constitutional amendment.
Yet today the number of
women in Congress is one fewer
than it was a year ago. 16 in
stead of (which is not a
large proportion of the COM
bined 531 membership of the
House and Senate.
In one field the women are
at an all-time high. They have
314 members Of the 1857 State
legislatures. Miss Bertha S.
Adkins, Assistant Chairman of
the Republican National Com
mittee. today made public the
annual survey of the State
legislatures made by the
women's division of the ma
tional committee. Miss Adkins
and the Republicans point out
that this is an increase of six
over the previous high total in
the 1855 State legislatures.
And they take pride in the
fact that Republican women
far outnumber the Democratic
women lawmakers. The politi-
cal lineup is Republicans 204,
Democrats lot, Liberal /, and
without party designation 2.
A detailed count shows that
there are Is Republican wom-
en- State Senators. IL Demo-
cratic State Senators, and
with no party designation
% in all. In the State Assem-
bly, or House of Delegates
there are 189 Republican
women, IS Democratic women,
l Liberal and / of no party
designation, a total of 286.
More Democrats in Congress
When it comes to the Ma
tional Legislature-the Con-
gress-the Democratic women
members slightly outnumber
the Republicans. The only
woman Senator. however, is
Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith
Of Maine, a Republican. who
served for several terms in the
House before being elected and
reelected to the Senate. The
Democrats have nine women
members of the House in the
new Congress, and the Repub-
licanS six.
The D e m ocratic women
members are Mrs. William T.
Granular of Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Edna F. Kelly of New
York, Mrs. Elizabeth Kee
of West Virginia, Mrs. Leonor
K. Sullivan of Missouri, Mrs.
Oracle Pfost of Idaho. Mrs.
Iris F. Bitch of Georgia, Mrs.
Martha w. Griffiths of Michi-
gan, Mrs. Coya Knutson of
Minnesota. and Mrs. Edith
Green of Oregon.
On the Republican side of
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWELL

The figure in the carpet,
they once called it.
Henry James wrote story
with that title.
Every one. as child or elder,
has speculated on the face
that suddenly appears in a
pattern.
You may have walked over
it for years, and the thing
was just scrawls and curlicueS.
Now. in a glance. it turns
into an old man in a queer
hat.
There is mis- nose. see his
eyes. and look at that ridicu-
lous topper!
It's a figure in the carpet
no more; it will always be an
old man in a funny hat from
now on.
In the old days. clothing
hanging on the wall from a
peg (they had no closets them
seemed in the gaSlight to rep
resent animals, or castles.
Cloud formations over the
coastline could be counted on
to turn up some pretty pictures.
1t has remained for Tenn
pleton Jones to be the first to
have an effigy of Alfred the
Great on his typewriter table.
This battered old instru-
ment, which has two great
distinctions, is covered with
an even older cloth covering,
Today's typewriter covers
are plastic, thank you.
No modern typewriter cover
can give the effect Templeton
Jones cover gives, because 1t
won't wrinkle as we'll.
4 4 4
First. to give the two dis
tinctions of Jones' old machine.
/. 1t never does anything
right.
2. 1t never does anything
wrong.
Now, to the typewriter cover.
since the machine itself is
hopeless.
Through years of usage and
the effects of winter and sum-
mer. the covering has taken
on certain dents and creases
which are more or less per-
manent.
Jones can throw the cover
on carelessly and still have
it come UP with Alfred the
Great on the right side.
Here is how 1t works.
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Ever Yours-the Sky
Be sure to remember to look at
fhe SkU

Be sure to remember to look at
the sky,
For beauty'S dlott. floating
silently By
In billotDino clouds changing
shape as they blop,
To form silhouettes OF soft
white in the 0loD.
Look often to see iDhat goes
By overhead
For spirits need beauty as
bodies need bread.
You MAY see a mdckerel sky;
mottled NTH tDhite.
Just changing to amber while
sunset s dlight;:
or loD-dyinp clouds rushing
In from the sea,
With tDind in pursuit as they
hastily fee.
Whatever pour fortune, ,Dher-
eUer you are.
The night sky StM holds a
familiar star
And beauty s dloft. moving
silently BY
Be sure to remember 10 look
at the SKY A
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the aisle are Mrs. Florence P.
Dwyer Of New Jersey. Mrs.
Edith Nourse Rogers of Massa-
chusetts, Mrs. Frances P. Boil
ton of Ohio, Mrs. Katherine
st. George of New York. Mrs.
Cecil M. Harden of Indiana,
and Mrs. Marguerite Stitt
Church of Illinois.
Two ways have been open to
women to gain places In the
National House and Senate.
One has been to obtain nomi-
nation and election to fill the
places of deceased husbands.
The other has been to knock
out men candidates in pri-
mary and general elections.
A new Republican member of
the House-Mrs. Dwyer of
New Jersey-defeated a DEM
ocrat, Harrison A. Williams,
to regain for the G. o. P. a
seat lost to the Democrats in
a special election in 1858 and
again in the 1854 elections. s
Have Come a Long Way
AS a matter of fact, women
have come a long way in poll
tics and in their part in elec-
tons in the last 81 years. The
first woman member of Con-
gresS, Miss Jeanette Rankin
of Northumberland in 1916
before national suffrage-was
a Republican. The Democrats
have had a woman or two
elected to the Senate-for ex-
ample, Mrs. Caraway Of Ar
kansas. who was elected to
succeed her husband. and re-
elected in her own right, and
several appointed for short
periods to fill vacancieS-as
in the case of several Republic
can women Senators. Back in
1920-the year national wom-
an suffrage came into effect
the number of women in State
legislatures was only 29-and
it has now grown to 314.
In the opinion of Miss Adj
kins-and of leading women
in the Democratic Party. too
not nearly enough women
have places in State or ma
tional legislatures. Miss Ad-
kins said the women have a
right to be gratified that their
number in the State legisla-
lures has increased. She added
that this reflects the ii1creas-
ing interest of women in gov
eminent. However" she said.
"women's representation in
State legislative halls this year
is not commensurate with the
possibilities for women'S pub
lie service and their contribu-
tons toward efficient govern
ment." She thinks that in the
search for able candidates for
Congress next year the women
should be considered as well
as the men.
Miss Adkins called attention
to the fact that nine States
have no women State legisla-
tors. They are Alabama, Ar
kansas, Georgia. Iowa, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, North Caro-
lima, Oklahoma and Wiscon-
sin. There are 80 States.
however. that have no women
representatives in Congress
including both Senate and
House.
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frustrated II. N.

These are days of disheartening frus-
tration for the United Nations. It is try
Ing hard to promote peace in the Middle
East and elsewhere, but its efforts have
produced only meager results so far. And
the primary reason for this, of course, is
that more than few of its members
simply refuse to cooperate in carrying
out its recommendations and decisions.
At the moment, the chief case in
point revolves around the attitude of
the ISraeliS. With Egypt Offering them
little or no encouragement as regards
working out an enduring live-and-let-
live peace settlement, they continue
supported only by France-to reject the
General ASSembly'S 74-to-2 vote calling
upon them to withdraw without fur
Their delay" from the GAIA Strip and the
Sharm Ell Sheikh sector on the Gulf of
Aqaba. They insist that they cannot
safely do this without first receiving firm
guarantees that the Egyptians will not
again use the two areas to launch hit
and-run raids and blockade shipping vi
tai to their country
AS the IsraeliS see the situation.
theirs is a justiflable position, the more
so because Colonel NaSSers government
has been anything but reaSSuring as to
Its future policy toward them Yet the
fact remains that they are in defiance
OF the overwhelming majority of the
Assembly. Further, by declining to with
draw as completely as have the British
and French, they have added to the ten
sions OF the region and thus greatly COM
pl1cated the peace-making task In these
circumstances, the U. N, which might
well be able to get adequate guarantees
Tor Israel II Israel would cooperate, has
Scant reason to hope that it can achieve
much with mere moral suaSion But
what other power does it have to enforce
compliance? At most, since military
measures seem out of the question, it can
and Imprisonment that economic
sanctions be imposed. Judging from past
experience, however, such action would
not necessarily be wise or effective.
But the Israeli attitude is merely
one OF the many things that have made
life hard for the United Nations. For
other peoples and governments have been
similarly homeopathic ever since the
founding of the organization. In the re-
cent past, for example, we have seen
the Soviet Union and its puppet Budapest
regime contemptuously ignore the Gem
eral ASsembly's repeated appeals in con-
nection with the Kremlin'S savage repres-
sion Of Hungary's rebellion for freedom.
And only within the past fortnight, India,
which is prone to lecture the rest of the
world on the virtues of abiding by u. N.
judgments, has fatty rejected the Sc
curity Councils 10-to-0 vote reaffirm-
ing that plebiscite should be held to
settle the Indian akiStani dispute over
Kashmir.
The list of such examples runs long,
and the obstructionism it represents, the
lack Of cooperation, is what has wrecked
so many Of the U. MS efforts to make this
better and more secure world. Clearly,
this sort of thing cannot continue indefi-
nitely without doing irreparable harm to
the international organization, which can
hardly survive If its members refuse to
let 1t work.
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AS shameful violence in the
face of Federal desegregation
orders continues in the deep
South, Virginia can feel a
small measure of pride that
this State has not yet stopped
to such lawleSSnesS. A few
crosses have been burned. but
no homes, no bombs. Every
legal" effort has been made to
resist the courts school edict.
and it remains to be seen
whether these special session
laws will pass the test of con-
stitutionality. If they do not.
will violence here be the next
step?
The NAACP does not act
through violence. Through a
half-century history Of fight
ing for civil rights it has used
only educational and legal
methods. Its series Of great
victories in the courts has
helped to define American de-
mocracy and so to create the
standards to which the nom
Communist nations Of the
earth have rallied.
DR.. Martin Luther King Of
Montgomery. Ala, the bomb
ing Of whose home is only
the most recent Of the lawless
acts of deep South segrega-
tionists, has made emphatically
clear his stand for nonvio-
lence. Let us not get our
guns" he said to the Negro
community, because that will
not solve problems. Through
our suffering. we are going to
transform the hearts Of those
who are cowardly enough to
throw bombs and shoot pis-
tolls"
Even though these wise and
gentle words have not yet been
needed in Alabama. let US hope
that in Virginia they can find
response. Lawlessness is not
a solution: it has not stopped
the Negro claim to dignified
treatment. and it aSsuredly has
not convinced anyone that
segregation is right. 1t will not
prevent the eventual desegre-
CATION of public schools in Vir-
ginia. Nor will it stop the &C
tivity Of the thoroughly re-
spectacle NAACP.
Unlike several States which
by now have made notable
progress toward the solution
Of racial problems, Virginia has
taken the hard way in respect
to the courts school decision.
Now the area Of legal contro-
versy is narrowing, and soon
Virginia will have to face a
real accommodation to the
decree itself. Let us hope
that this great State - where
Thomas Jefferson started pub
lie education. where John Mar
shall defined constitutional law
will not follow the benighted
example Of Alabama and Geor-
gia citizens. but will honorably
face the problems Of adjust
ment and begin to obey the
desegregation law.
Virginia will not be sorry.
Its Negro citizens have already
contributed Loyalty TO its
growth: given a fully demo-
cratic education. they can be
expected to bring further cred
it to the State.
Mrs. Albert Z. Hussey.
Chairman. Education Com
mittee, Virginia, NAACP.
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The lamp by the table has
to be on, and then the viewer
has to lie down on the bed and
turn on his right side.
The lower. or left. eye must
be closed.
The right eye is held slightly
closed. in order to dim the
light from the lamp.
Then Alfred appears, in all
his glory.
The folds and dents in the
right side of the battered old
cloth fall into place to give
a real presentation of Alfred
as he lay on his back in one
of these effigies you sometimes
see in old cathedrals.
There is the long brow and
nose, the moustache. the lips.
the sunken cheeks and the
high cheekbone.
Even the left eye, closed, is
easily seen.
II must be confessed that 1t
is best seen when the rea,
watching eye is kept half
closed.
The painters eye. in fact,
Is necessary.
The painters eye often
closes, in just that way. to
try to see what is the real,
the inner aspect of his SUBJ
ject.
Temp Jones often wakes in
the night to look at his Alfred
the Great.
1t is an austere face, as be-
fits a thing of oilcloth and
rubber, made in the image of
a typewriter without keys.
But somehow, in the drowsy
state, with the lamplight
softly playing over the scene,
the cloth and rubber become
something else again. They
are transmitted, by a certain
magic. into the very image of
the great king, under whom
England first became England.
There he lies. on his back.
his eyes closed forever, an
emblem and symbol of the
people who gave the world
the habeas corpus, still our
greatest protection in a
worsening world.
Magma Charta hovers over
the scene.
1t is a great deal to have
an old typewriter cover.
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find your way back to where
you want to go.
I have mapped out routes
through the District to some
specific point only to find my
self on a wrong street due to
absence Of signs that can be
read from q distance.
Would it not be to the in
terest of all motorists to have
highway intersections and
turn-offs marked well in adj
vance, and street signs in the
city well enough designated
that a tourist or new resident
could at least find his way
around with a map on his
knee?
Harvard n CPnwuOveP
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Washington should surely
number among its beautiful
attractions a suitable memorial
to Theodore Roosevelt, one of
our greatest Presidents. And
what could be more fitting
than a carlton tower on
Roosevelt Island, of the shores
Of both Virginia and the Dis
trict, to house the carlton
bells, that magnificent gift to
this country from the native
land Of Roosevelt's ancestors,
the Netherlands?
w. II. Cheesman.
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Driving Aids

I would like to comment on
the lack Of SUFFICIENT road and
street markings.
Many times l have had to
pass my turn by being caught
in the wrong lane with no
advance warning that I was
approaching the desired turn
OF When travelling on an
unfamiliar road this can
mean miles OF extra driTag 70
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Pans Planners

There's a bubblehead at
work. A Georgetown home
owner gets his knuckles raped
because he puts in two win
dows where the defenders Of
architectural purity say he
shouldn't: yet the Federal
Government is about to ruin
one Of the most beautiful areas
in Washington by tearing
down jackson Place to build
one Of its stone anthills. Why
don't they build q stockyard on
the south grounds Of the White
House? There's room for it.
George HaddOck.
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creased land value, personal property
taxes, auto license tags, and, judging
from experience elsewhere, an increase
in desirable industrial establishments
The possibilities are attractive enough,
we should think, for the people of Fair
fax, including the Board of Supervisors,
to take second look at the Burke
project.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry ipriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
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@. Is Fortisan a new fab
ric2--E. l..
A. Fortisan is not a fabric.
but is a saponified acetate fiber
developed during the war years
as a fine, high-strength yarn,
II is classified as n rayon.
Fortisan yarn is now being
made up into sheer curtain
fabrics and combined with
other fibers In q variety Of
curtain and drapery fabrics.
@. Outside Of New YORK
which Is the longest UEeted
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States stock exchange?-M.
M.
A. The Chicago-based Mid
west Stock Exchange is the
largest regional stock market.
The San Francisco and Los
Angeles markets recently com
bined to form the Pacific
Coast Stock Exchange, and
this is now second largest.
.. When was the first Amer
lean Jazz Festival held at New
port, r 40. Z.
A, l. july, 1854.
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