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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
By JOHN w. STEPP

A $34,500 contract award to
build a sewage pumping station
near Bladensburg yesterday
launched the final step in the
38-year drive to end pollution in
Maryland streams of the close-in
areas Of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commission awarded the
job to Canova Bros, Inc, of Col
lege Park. low bidder.
When the new station is COM
pleted later this year, it will
pump the sewage of about 300
residents and a public school 10
Gated In Colmar Manor into the
new AnacoStia River line that
carries into Washington's sewer
system. These wastes now flow
raw into the Anacostia.
The project is but a small FLIP
to the commissions $40 million
clean-the-streams expenditures
since 1852.
Tie-in Ranks High
Biggest single measure in rid
ding Anacostia of its incredible
filth of recent years was the ex-
tension Of WSSC's sewer system
to connect to Washington's near
East Capitol street. Although
completion of this line last Octo-
Der 20 was attended by no fan
fare, it ranks even ahead OF
Alexandria's new sewage system
as the most important accom-
plishment in Metropolitan area
pollution abatement since con-
struction Of Washington's treat
ment plant at Blue Plains nearly
20 years ago.
The connection enabled aban-
donment of the WSSC treatment
plant and raw sewage outfall al
Bladensburg, where an average
of "a million gallons of conta-
mination had been spilling into
the Anacostia every day.
When built in 1910, this plant
was designed adequately to han
die rs million gallons daily. In
five years. with suburban Mary
land population exceeding en-
gineerS' widest fears, it had be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Maryland Auto Inspection
Passes House by 1919
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star Staff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS. JAM 1.-THE fate of the compulsory motor
vehicle inspection bill rested today with the Maryland state
Senate where has been killed in the last two sessions
The House yesterday passed the bill 80 to There little
debate consisted mostly of questions about how the
would work The Montgomery and Prince Georges delegates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11

traffic fatality of the year in
Fairfax County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13

action stands as an unusual request from
the House to the Chief Executive. From
the other end of the Capitol, Senator
Byrd, Virginia Democrat and always
powerful figure In economy fights, has
written Budget Director Brundage re-
minding him that the Executive Branch
has the first responsibility" to restrain
excessive public spending. Expressing his
belief that the pending budget should
be reduced by SIS billion, Mr.. Byrd also
referred to the public reaction. For the
first time in my "a years of service in
the Senate" he wrote, II see the people
themselves aroused and demanding
retrenchment in Government spending"
The President and Mr.. Brundage
already have asked Government depart
mentS to review their spending estimates
1t is late, perhaps, to do this on budget
that has been in the making for the past
year. But 1t is not too late, in the light
OF public opinion and the reaction on
Capitol Hill, for the Executive Branch
to come forward with some concrete
economy recommendations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
ProdiqoI's Return

1t is good to know that Samuel David
Hawkins has returned to America and
that small crowd at Oklahoma City has
welcomed him back with show of kind
illness. He is only %, just six years older
than he was when the Communists cap
tured him In Korea. Although he gravely
discredited himself as a soldier and citi-
zen when he refused repatriation and
elected to stay in Red China, 1t is
mitigating circumstance that he was
callow youth at the time. After all, when
one Is so young and immature, certain
allowances must be made for emotional
alterations and outlandiSh conduct.
Anyhow, repentant now and declar-
Ing himself anxious to help others from
making the mistakes he made, young
Hawkins has come home to face whatever
he may have to face. He has seen the
error Of his ways, and he has had the
courage-having grown up some since
his capture at the age of ito act
accordingly. So 1t is fitting that his well
corners, including an Oklahoma indus
trialist who has offered him a job, have
greeted him with understanding. Such
understanding is probably what he most
needs at this stage, especially since he
seems genuinely intent upon rehabilitat-
Ing himself as good American.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Curse of Equality

Mothered by misconception,
fathered by fallacy. Graded by
compromise and christened as
Equality" l am the deadly
doctrine that "All men are
created equal"!
And as such, I am the curse
OF all equality contentious.
I am the hoax of human
equality. the hypocrisy of racial
equality. the compromise of
social equality and the con-
f1scation Of economic equality.
about which the half has never
yet been told.
Equality turns brothers
against brothers, friends
a gainst friends, neighbors
against neighbors and nations
against nations.
Equality is the source cause
of every blood-soaked battle
field on the face of the earth,
and the end is not yet.
Equality is the false face of
highly paid preferred public
servants who preach equality"
and practice inequality"
Inequality is the versatility
of individual creative human
genius. without which all man.
kind would perish from the
earth.
Well do ! know that never
In human history were any
two men created with equal
comprehensions or capabilities.
and none ever will be. But
what to me are truth and tran
guilty? am the curse Of
equality. A. G. Narrower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Person to Person

In q letter headed Three
Cents WORTH" C. A. Nolan
states that the Post once defi-
cit has previously been taken
care Of by the Congress: that
1t has been a governmental
service vital to the country.
What is this magic Congress"
that pulls money from the
air to take care Of deficits?
Where do they get the money?
From his pockets-and ours?
Isn't this governmental service
really service to each Of us?
Doesn't he believe in paying
his way? Or is it just that it
seems easier to pay it In in
come tax and thousands of
other hidden taxes? Could he
run a business annually incur
ring the deficit as the Post
Office does? Why shouldn't we
pay a nickel to write Grandma
II a nickel will put the Post
ONCE ON a business-like basis.
stop the deficit. reduce Federal
debt and improve postal serv-
ices? A great big thank-you
from this citizen to Mr.. Sum-
'merf1eld for facing the facts
and telling the people in a
fortnight way just how we
should set about to stop this
absurd. non-businesslike oper-
alton. II 1t is 5 cents we need
for a first-class letter, for
heavens sake let's not COM
promise for 4 cents!
Don H. Shriner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Choice for Mr.. Beck

James B. Carey, AFL-CIO vice presi-
dent, has suggested clear and forth
right choice to Dave Beck, president of
the currently embattled Transfers I'm
ion. Il think" Mr.. Carey told television
audience. Dave Beck should be required
to subscribe to the code of ethical prac-
tices or give up his position of leadership"
Adding that union officers should be held
responsible for "tolerating corrupt activ-
ities," Mr.. Carey went on: That's what
has to be done with Dave Beck"
Mr.. Carey was one of the sponsors
of the ethical practices code recently
adopted by the AFL-CIO He has been
critic before of Mr.. Beck and some of the
teamSter activities now under fire before
the Mcclellan committee. Mr.. Carey told
the same television audience he does not
know that Mr.. Beck "can be considered a
crook" but he made 1t clear that there
is no place in organized labor for rack
eteering and corruption or for those who
overlook such practices. Presumably, Mr..
Carey is interested primarily in the well
fare of the labor movement and he is
on thoroughly sound ground in suggest
Ing that Mr.. Beck should concern HIM
self likeWise-or quit. Mr.. Beck finally
has returned from Europe. He should
come, or be brought, to Washington at
the convenience Of the Senate committee
and be required to testify under oath con-
corning his personal financial affairs and
the abuses within his union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Love and the Iron c urtoin

Everybody with tender heart must
feel sorry for pretty Olga Fikotova of
Czechoslovakia and the ardent Harold
Connolly of America They are young
Olympic stars in love with each other,
and they want to get married right away.
But the Communist government in
Prague won't give its blessing to the
match. Instead, as II intent upon frus-
trating Cupid and souring all sweet devo-
ton, it has turned a deaf ear to Olga's
most fearful pleas, and it has declined
to renew Harolds visitors VISA So the
two are now parted, disconsolate amid
the fragments of their once-joyous
dreams.
What have we here but another
measure of the nature of Red totalitari-
anism? There stands the all-powerful
State! See how 1t can master everything!
See how its hard heart remains unmoved
when boy meets girl See how strong and
stern it Is! How nonsentimental! How
immune to romantic, bourgeois bab-
blings! Alas, poor Olga and Harold! Still,
dark as the day seems, let them hold on
to hope. The puppet Prague regime has
yet to issue a final Marxist-Leninist-
Stalinist decision on their wish to be
married; and since love is said TO be
capable Of conquering all, maybe 1t will
triumph In this case, too-especially If
the Czech Communists think twice and
come to realize how ridiculously grim
they've made themselves look.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Sharpening the Revolt

New and heavy pressure has been
put on the Executive Branch to assume
leadership in cutting the controversial
$7l.8 billion budget for fiscal 1858. This
pressure comes from influential quarters
in both House and Senate, and 1t cannot
easily or safely be ignored. For behind it
Is most unusual volume of protest from
the public against spending plans that
seem certain to preclude any tax relief
and which pose the obvious threat of
stimulating an already dangerous infla-
ton. Chairman Cannon of the House
Appropriations Committee, veteran of
many budget battles, describes the public
protest as the greatest he has ever
known. On the Senate side, Chairman
Bridges Of the Republican Policy Com
nittee said the public demand for econ
omy is coming from all sides, and warned
that members of Congress will have
lot of explaining to do If the demands
are not met.
1t Is against this background that
two specific challenges have been directed
at the Executive Branch from Capitol
Hill. In single-sentence resolution
drafted by It's Appropriations Committee,
the House has asked President Eisen-
hover himself ito indicate the places and
amounts In his budget where substantial
savings may best be made Although
passage Of the resolution was almost
strictly on partisan basis, with the
Republicans ridiculing the maneuver, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Beyond the Pole

"------- but thou,
Heroic sailor soul,
Art sailing on thy heavenly uoyaoe now,
ToDGrd no earthly pole"
Tennyson'S epitaph on Sir John
Franklin, lost in the wastes of the Arctic
a century ago, comes strongly to mind
with the passing of Admiral Richard E..
Byrd.
The place in history of the first man
to fly over North Pole and South Pole,
the first man to look on more than a
million square miles of the eartr's land
surface, is secure. He joins the company
OF Franklin and Peary, Livingstone and
Stanley, Magellan and De Soto. Admiral
Byrd had established himself firmly in
this position years ago. But the poles
OF one little planet were far from his
ultimate goal. One of his most frequent
expressions was beyond the POLE"
This was no mystical concept
although above all he was mystic. He
referred to the vast unknown between
the South Pole and the Weddell Sea
which no man ever had entered or flown
over. 1t was an entirely hard-headed,
practical idea. Admiral Byrd ever was
hard-headed and practical in his explora-
tons. His greatest boast after flying to
the Pole in 1947 was that he had gone
about so miles into the Beyond"
The expression, however, takes on a
special and mystical significance now.
1t was an expression of his eternal con-
Germ with all "beyonds"-so familiar to
those who knew him, and his favorite
topic with chosen and sympathetic
friends. He was concerned with the Be-
yonds OF the earth, the Beyond of Crea-
ton, OF space and time-most of all the
BeyondS OF the human spirit across the
bournes of birth and death.
Into those Beyonds the explorer has
gone. His spirit, if that of any man,
will reach their poles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Trees

Crest oaks from little ucornS
groD."
We learned this proverb long
ago.
But first, as anyone must see,
The acorn rtpened on a tree.
And only birds, or squirrels, or
Fate
Determined tDhich should
terminate.
With AID OF mater, air and
A neD lite-cycle Is begun,
And "us the tDio Is bent" NC
find,
So Is the mighty tree inclined.
One may groD dwdrted; one,
straight and toll.
To trees. II matters not at all.
GenettctStS, remember, please.
The same u true OF family
trees.
n. c. Kineoid, MD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Frontier of Freedom

In inducing Israel to with.
draw its forces from the GAIA
Strip and from Aqaba Gulf.
we are expecting too much Of
the United Nations. We are
virtually proposing that the
society of nations make and
enforce the foreign policy Of
the United States. The fallacy
OF this move can readily be
seen II we suppose that the
United Nations should adopt
a policy to which we could not
agree. Nothing in the charter
would require us to do so.
While the United Nations is a
means to substitute negotiation
for war, no single member state,
by adhering to 1t, surrendered
It's right to make war. And I
suggest that no member state
will ever agree to give over to
another state or to all Of the
other states, the right to deter
mine its life or death. Neither
the United States, Britain,
France, Israel, nor Egypt can
call upon the United Nations
to make and enforce its foreign
policy. Each nation, and GER
tainly the United States, must
make its own policy. We hope
other nations and the United
Nations will agree with our
policy But Russia and its
satellites, and now Egypt, do
not agree with us, except as
to Israel. On Israel, and per-
haps on the Middle East, we
have been forced into a strange
alliance with Russia and Egypt.
The recent visit of Ibn Saud to
Washington, for all of its show
Of good will TO us, was In the
same direction. The Arab coun-
tries make a bid for our agree
ment with their hostility to
Israel, Britain and France, as
the price of their friendship
with us. With hands reeking
with the blood of Hungary,
Russia would join us in forcing
Israel of a strip of land which
1t feels that Egypt claims only
to harass and destroy Israel.
The Arab nations have raised a
modern chant which calls to
mind Cicero's Grafton on
Carthage. and which says,
Israel must be destroyed
Russia Joins the chant and
threatens the whole Western
world by landing Its feet amid
the fabulous oil reserves Of the
Arabs. For Ave years now we
have taken a posture on the
brink. From there we speak In
various tongues, some Of them
unknown. At long last, we an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
The Answer Is No

To the surprise OF nobody, our Gov
eminent has now formally rejected the
February II Soviet note calling for a.
Big Four policy declaration on the Middle
East. Britain and France also have said
no, and for the same good reason
namely, that the proposal cannot be
viewed seriously in the light of Moscow's
past and present actions.
These actions have included massive
Soviet arms shipments to Egypt and
Syria. The shipments, which apparently
are being resumed now, have had much
to do, deliberately so, with the creation
of tension and crisis in the Middle East.
Similarly, the Kremlin and its agents
have been bombarding the area with a
virulent hate-the-West propaganda cam
paign full of lies calculated to discredit
the Eisenhower doctrine and keep trouble
brewing. And at the same time, of course.
Nikita KhruShchev and his colleagues
have continued in defiance of the United
Nations resolutions on RuSsias savage
repression of Hungarian freedom.
So the February II proposal rings
terribly hollow. Among other things, it
would have France, Britain and the
United States join Russia in reciprocal
refusal" to deliver arms to the Middle
EaSt-at time when there is mounting
evidence that Moscow is once again Ship
ping in weapons to intensity tension.
Further, the proposal would require the
breakup of the Baghdad pact and liqui-
dation Of American base agreements with
countries in the area-at a time when
Soviet policy is relentlessly intent upon
winning domination over the entire re-
gion. In short, what the Kremlin has
asked for is that all parties concerned
render themselves defenseless in ex-
change for paper promise.
In its note of rejection, our Govern
ment has cited numerous other points
against this typical Soviet mixture of
propaganda, cynicism and bad faith.
Needless to say. the Kremlin has received
the kind of answer it deserves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Tolerance

The essence of the American
system, born Of necessity from
the pluralistic nature Of our
society, is that, within a frame
of reference Of tolerance and
respect for the next fellows
views, we have agreed to dis
agree. Those who consciously
or unconsciously promote in
tolerance among individuals
and organizations weaken our
democratic public philosophy
and our ability to resist COM
munism. We can never be too
much aware Of this.
Bruce Mac Master.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
Unionized Stand

The purpose Of this letter is
not to deprecate the distin-
guished members of the State
legislatures who support right
to-work laws but rather to
point out the simple truths
concerning this misnamed.
misguided. sugar-coated piece
Of legislation.
These morally wrong anti
union statutes have passed in
a score of States and for OBJ
vious political reasons are on
the legislative agenda of a
dozen others. This law does
not guarantee the right to
work. as presumed by many
members Of the State legisla-
tive assemblies: it only pre-
vents the exercise Of that
right.
Right to : work legislation
places the individuals claim
OF fair employment over that
OF a majority Of employees in a
given firm or shop. The or
ganized worker who seeks and
desires union security does so
because he is consciously
aware that his local union,
through its elected representa-
tlves, can negotiate with an
employer for wages, working
conditions. health and welfare
provisions without fear Of the
individual being separated
from his or her firm or shop.
This method of employe-em-
ployer relationship is good for
all concerned. It helps to
maintain the dignity Of the
individ on the same
level with the employer across
the good old American bar
gaming table. Union member
ship is a guarantee of that
right.
Labor unions In America
have been Of tremendous value
TO our Nations industrial re-
lations.
RiRht-to-work laws make a
mockery Of the constitutional
right to organize for the COM
mon good and welfare of man
kind.
Right-to-work laws are de-
signed to destroy labor unions
and the inevitable result would
be low wages and industrial
unrest. When the proponents
OF the right to work law
framed these bills, they COM
ri1itted one Of the most dis
graceful acts ever enacted in
the history Of any State leg
iSlature since the poll tax.
Thomas r. Knott,
Financial Secretary, Central
Labor Union, Alexandria, Ar
lington and Fairfax Counties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13
THIS AND THAT :
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

A correspondent says he
places a small kernel of food
between his lips and lets a
pet squirrel take it therefrom.
Well, that's all right. If you
know your squirrel, but for
general practice it is something
to shun.
The gray squirrel is a very
nervous fellow, and even when
tanned cannot be trusted.
His teeth are exceedingly
sharp.
He will bite at the drop of a
hat. as the expression has it.
His bite is deep, and hard to
heal.
Nobody should flirt with a
squirrel so close to his face.
Even when used to handling
these animals, one should be
on watch to make no sudden
or unexpected movement.
Such a movement almost in
variably results in a bite.
Surely the little rodent
means no harm!
1t is just a reaction Of which
ne actually knows nothing.
We were watching two OF
these creatures playing in the
snow.
Springtime, for the animals,
comes in the middle of winter.
Usually February is their true
spring.
These squirrels were playing
together, probably not without
thoughts Of spring in their
hearts. but without any par
ticular evidence to the human
eye.
They simply glided one after
the other, UP tree trunks, down
again, leaping to shrubs, pos
ing on the highest tip top.
They were having a splendid
time OF 1t.
49,
Their actions we're the very
poetry Of motion. as it has
been called sometimes. Most
times one simply calls them
quick.
The nervous system Of these
creatures is more extreme than
that of most animals. Any one
who has watched them knows
this.
The squirrel moves with
machine-gun rapidity. but can
at times slow down, as he does
in some OF his inimitable poses.
notably the one Of sitting up
and holding a nut in his fore
paws.
This pose is the one sculp-
tors like best.
Ceramic representations Of
squirrels mainly are for gar
den use, where they fool no.
body. but somehow please the
same human sense which goes
In for artificial birds. particu-
larry tlamingos
Handling the wild squirrel
may be summed UP in three
words:
Let 1t alone
In other words, de- not
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handle it, keep a good dis.
tance from it and let it 20
its way as it will.
This does not mean that
one may not try to lure it
with a bit of food. ao6
1t is both interesting and
rewarding to put down a pea
nut. II one wants to take q
chance, the food may be-, o. /
fered in the fingers. .s XII
If this is done. hold the /
peanut loosely. and do not !
move a finger. sen
Sometimes the slightest
movement will result in. .
bite. ~
This may seem untrue ctol
old time squirrel friends, but
we speak to warn the unwary !
Usually it is the person who
knows nothing at all about
squirrel minds who gets bitten.
The bite is deep, and must
be washed for long time with
running water, then carefully.
gone over with a staining anti
septic, and bandaged loosely.
If soreness or fever de-.
velopS, go to a doctor at once.
The best way to avoid this
is to let squirrels alone. They
are interesting, beautiful ami
mails, but are really wild
things, just as much as a fox,
although we are all used to
seeing them in our parks and
yards.
Familiarity need not lead to
unhappiness, If one remem-
beers that this Is, after all, q
true wild animal, which, de-
spite its antics, and apparent
friendliness, is actually afraid
Of us.
This fear is most easily
seen IN the way one will flee
UP a tree at the approach Of
a human, then soon peer
around the trunk.
Make no mistake, this is not
just playfulness. The creature
is afraid Of YOU. He is looking
to see If you have gone awayl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-13

@. What is a common trust
fund?-W. I.
A. This is a fund in which
the assets of individual trusts
are pooled. Each trust holds its
proportionate share In the
fund. which is managed by a
trust institution. usually a
bank. The purpose is to permit
wide Investigation on holdings
and spreading of costs.
@. What was the center Of
United States population in
the first and in the latest CEN
sus?-J o.
A. In 1890 the estimated CEN
ter Of population was q point
% miles east Of Baltimore,
Md. In 1850. It was 8 niles
north northwest Of Olney,
Eichland County, III.