proposal for a 1954 mid-term convention—was by-passed with equal facility. The committees The Political Mill Jilting j&fas considering this matter simply voted it down. He Talks Back to the Russ ions With Sunday Morning edition So the prospect is for Democratic harmony, By Donald Michael Rauh Democratic Courage ' WASHINGTON 4, DC, not only in Chicago, but for some time there- HEAD of the United States dele- ASgation to United Am- Is Becoming Published by after. 'lt should not be supposed, however, if the Nations, Bullish may employe atrociously confused met- bassador Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., has . The Evening Star Newspaper Company one an Party Chiefs Feel Ready aphor, that the Democratic donkey has locked horns on a* number of occasions SAMUEL H. KAUFFMANN. President. with Vishinsky, man changed its spots. It is easy to harmonize Russia’s Andrei a To Take On Eisenhower with a monumental gift of gab. In while chanting hopeful funeral dirges for the I. M. McKELWAY, Editor. ' most of their forensic roundelays the By Gould Lincoln Republicans. But wait until the chips are former Republican Mas- MAIN OFFICE: 11th St. and Panntylvania Ave. Senator from Democratic courage is on the increase. NEW YORK OFFICE: 420 Loxington Ava. down and the scramble begins for control of sachusetts has made the splenetic CHICAGO OFFICE: 435 North Michigan Ava. At a low ebb following Gen. Eisen- the next national convention. That is when Kreiplin lawyer look like a callow high hower’s thumping victory last Novem- Delivered by Carrier. the assembled delegates will begin to behave school debater. Vrl ber, the party leaders are beginning Evonlng and Sunday Evoning Sunday like real Democrats. Take for example his recent stinging to take pot shots at the President him- Monthly 1.75* Weakly 30t Monthly 65< self, Republican Congress Weekly.. 40c Monthly... 1.30* Weekly ...15c rebuttal to the Soviet representative’s as well as the *loc additional lor Night Final Edition. boycott the U. N. political con- and Gen. Eisenhower’s administrative Rales by Mail—Payable in Advance ference on South Korea. Declared officials. Only a few weeks ago, the Anywhere In the United Stater Peiping's Maneuver Ambassador Lodge: Democratic cry was “Elect Democrats to Evening Sunday Sunday Congress year If you want end Evening “No filibustering, pettifogging and next the I year 25.00 1 year 17.00 I year 10.00 In a typical trouble-making maneuver, un- President’s hands upheld! 4 month* 13.00 4 month* 9.00 6 month* 5.50 hairsplitting on how we of the free 1 month 1 month doubtedly inspired by the Kremlin, the Chinese Harry 2.25 1 month 2.00 1.25 world have decided to set up our own Former President Trumah I Telephone: STarlina 3-5000 Communists have called upon the United Na- doesn’t believe in any tactics. He Entered Port 6ide will fool any one, and the world such at the Office. Washington. 0. C is as much at a dinner meeting on a* tecond-clas* mail matter tions General Assembly, which just begin- right said will place the responsibility where Detroit. He took a poke ning its eighth annual session, to reconsider, I not Labor Day in Member of the Associated Press it belongs—and am pointing to in true Truman style, too, at the Eisen- redebate and reverse its recent decision on the Sir Gladwyn (the repre- The Associated Pres* I* entitled exclusively to the use for Jebb British hower administration when he called republication of all the local news printed In this newspaper as makeup of the projected Korean political con- sentative). only well as all A. P. news dispatches. it the “stacked deal.” This was ference. “To paraphrase an old American the beginning of the Truman fusillade, saying, representative, WW night at the big fund- A-6 ** TUESDAY, Soptombar 15, 1953 As finally approved last month by an As- the Soviet when Jpgß continued last raising dinner given by the Democrats sembly vote of 43 to 5 (the Soviet bloc alone he talked about a master race in America, missed another one of several in Chicago, and sponsored by the Dem- dissenting), that decision upholds our official great opportunities in his life to keep ¦Hr || ¦ A-g®; ocratic National Committee. American contention that the conference, in- quiet.” Senator Douglfis of Illinois, a candi- for next year and the Now It's 'Mr.' Bullock stead of being a “round-table” affair open to Lodge not date re-election Ambassador has wasted at the dinner, opened relative “neutrals” like India, should be limited on Mr. Vishinsky. principal speaker The decision of the Commissioners to dis- his caustic ripostes up both at big Inspector to the following opposing groups of participants: Delegate with barrels business miss Bullock, thereby relieving him of Last March, when, Russian in government under the Eisenhower his status as a policeman, was manifestly right. (1) North Korea and Red China, plus the Soviet Andrei Gromyko accused the American leadership. All of which is reminiscent so (2) Army of committing atrocities in-Korea, Among the derelictions eharged to Inspector Union if the Communists desire, and South of that merry quip of Adlai Stevenson Korea and representatives to be chosen from the Gibraltar-like Mr. Lodge excited last winter—the Eisenhower adminis- Bullock, the most serious was his failure and applause an- among the 16 nations allied under the U. N. spontaneous when he tration, he feared, might become the refusal to explain how he obtained more than charge cutting sar- many big-busi- banner in actively, fighting South Korea’s swered the with “Big Deal,” because so $15,000 in excess of his income over a three- on casm: ness men were being placed in office and year period. When brought before a special side. “The United States Army you seek would give a trend to the whole Eisen- trial board, he offered no explanation and, However, despite the fact that this formula to smear is the same United States hower regime. really, no defense. He was content to remain has been agreed upon by an overwhelming Army which stood behind the Russian Natural Course. Europe. silent and let the obvious inferences drawn, majority of the General Assembly—an agree* Army to defeat the Nazis in This renewed courage on the part of be good while his attorney offered nothing better than ment reached only after exhaustive debate at The United States Army was the Democrats is a natural. Obviously, enough for you in 1942, 1943, 1944 and it would be impossible to gain votes for an irrelevant attack on the members of the last month’s special meeting—the Chinese Com- 1945. It would same today had - Congress next trial On U. N. argue be the —AP Wirephoto. electing Democrats to board. the basis of these facts, it munists want the to the matter all not the of the Soviet govern- if the purpose were to support a policies Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. year would have been unpardonable to have per- over again and do an about-face. Echoed by ment so tragically changed.” Republican President. That is an im- partners mitted Inspector Bullock to remain on the force their junior in North Korea, and in- Suave as tradition a dip- possible argument to put before the dictates sky, Lodge “Certainly Re- in any capacity. sisting that they should be invited to New York ought to be, Mr. Lodge—like Mr. retorted, Soviet bloc’s insistence that Red China voters. The logic would be to elect lomat not. Don’t you House If to state their case, they have come out for es- his predecessor Warren know there is a new be seated in the U. N. Mr. Lodge publican members of the and the Commissioners were clearly right in no-nonsense Washington?” He their sentially the same proposal as the one already Austin —can rise to towering heights of administration in has said repeatedly the United States Senate, and so make sure of Eisenhower decision to fire the inspector, however, relented not long ago at a dinner will do everything to keep the Mao support. there is defeated—the advanced by Soviet Delegate dignity whenever the need crops up to considerable doubt that they will suc- one sophistry prop- party given by Mr. Visinsky as retiring regime out of the Security Council, The Democrats are feeling cocky at Vishinsky. say, they come exorcise the political ceed in their effort to deprive him of his That is to have out agated delegation. Young- head of the U. N. Security Council and even to the extent of resorting to the present, with the voices of Mr. Truman in a by the Soviet and Stevenson, titular head of the pension. favor of conference whose participants looking as he is—Ambassador Lodge is drank a toast to “friendly collabora- veto. Pointing out that the U. N. Mr. would tion for peace now and forever.” Charter specifies members must be party, ringing in their They be- Inspector Bullock was eligible to apply for be made up not only of the belligerents 53—he presents an imposing figure in ears. on “both sides” but also Vishinsky, whose Grand On the U. N. floor, Mr peace-loving nations, he has declared: lieve they have something to talk about retirement with pension, and ,had applied, of “neutral” Russia, contrast to Mr. however. Republicans imme- Guignol histrionics Lodge has been a consistent burr in “Red is not peace- in the failure of the before the charges which led to India, Pakistan, Burma and Indonesia. frequently provoke China certainly a diately reduce taxes and balance his dismissal much as gravity among the the Russian delegation’s saddle. loving nation. No nation that to the In its initial response to all this, State as mirth main- They believe that the resigna- were brought against him. In these circum- our delegates. With the reconvening of the General tains large armies on foreign soil can budget. stances, Judge Holtzoff, pointing out that Department has indicated that our U. N. dele- Assembly today, Mr. Vishinsky will be considered tion of Secretary of Labor Durkin, ac- the Once, when Mr. Vishinsky had peace-loving nations.” by charge he had been police pension plan is on a gation will do everything it can to dissuade have to reckon with the American Mr. has his work cut companied a contributory basis, harangued the U. N. for 2 hours and 15 Vishinsky out doubled-crossed on an agreement to indicated grave the Assembly from giving Peiping’s proposal a Ambassador on the matter of the for him. doubt that Inspector Bullock’s minutes in a bombastic attempt to dis- amend the Taft-Hartley Act, has given pension place could be withheld. The court did not on the agenda of the current session. But credit the American-backed plan for them plenty of ammunition to fire at hand down a final ruling at the time, but Judge the unfortunate fact is that Mr. Vishinsky and atomic control, Ambassador Lodge took the G. O. P. and Gen. Eisenhower him- Holtzoff said; “Even if Mr. Bullock is found his collaborators in the Soviet bloc can be the floor and demanded to know self. They are going after the adminis- guilty a and counted make rafters the whether the Russian delegate was tration —whoke prices have been drop- by trial board is dismissed from upon to the ring with . . frightened, and suggested bitterly that Letters to The ping. In a kind of way they And Star backhanded the force, I he can issue. another unfortunate fact is that still doubt that be deprived Mr. Vishinsky stop being "conspiratorial criticizing the Korean more a few in are truce—al- of his pension.” than of our friends the free and childish.” The face of the raffish though they don’t quite dare attack it. world—notably Supreme Court Vacancy Mr. Mellett's 'Old-Timer' Despite this, the Commissioners have dis- Britain—are at heart out of Russian turned a brick red. They remember for nearly two years sympathy with us this of chief American delegate There is little doubt, considering Lowell Mellett’s interviews with “Old- sought to missed Mr. without pension, merely in matter despite having The job recent disclosures, that the leading the Truman administration- Bullock gone to the international Timer” are consistently the most enter- and directing that his own payments into the along with us, after preliminary dissent, assembly, which Nation now is com- taining and penetrating whimseys since make a truce failed. places of 200 delegates, question before the pension fund be in last month’s final 43-to-5 vote against in- him head about munism and its effect on our lives. Finley Peter Dunne’s “Mr. Dooley.” Fund Cut Hit. returned to him. As a further advisers, technicians and clerical work- step, they have, in effect, asked Judge Holtzoff viting India and other “neutrals” to participate There also is little doubt that increased I am sure many of your readers Alongwith Gen. Eisenhower's handling in ers, has assumed even more importance emphasis will be put on the question to change his mind on the ground that because the political conference on Korea. today in the Eisenhower administration would appreciate your trying to induce of the truce and of foreign affairs, the in the decisions of the United States Mr. Bullock has been fired, the factual So it seems clear enough that Peiping’s in the late Democratic setup. Mr. Mellett to make them a regular Democrats are criticizing the cut of $5 situation than Supreme Court in future sessions of billion the Air Force estimates materially Soviet-inspired it Where former U. N. Ambassador War- feature of his column—say, once a week. in sub- has changed. maneuver, even though can that great judicial body. by Truman to Congress just ren Austin chiefly as an Harold Jacobs. mitted Mr. The result of this, as a practical hardly win out in the Assembly, is likely to stir functioned Therefore, it to me that Duane before he office last January. In- matter, implementer of foreign policy, Mr. seems Md. left up a lot of noise propaganda weigh Pikesville, used that is that the Commissioners have passed on to and calculated Lodge is one of the Republican admin- President Eisenhower must with deed, Mr. Truman himself great filling the principal theme a Labor the court the responsibility of finally deciding to embarrass the United States and aggravate, principal advisers in care his choice in cut as a of istration’s the vacancy the highest judicial Day The effort to make it whether the Bullock pension should be if possible, the divergencies existing between formulation as well as the conduct of current on U. N. Includes Communists address. is paid. bench. appear that the President and the Re- Perhaps, all things considered, this was a us and a number of our friends and allies American foreign policy. One of the lessons we must learn if My personal recommendation to the we are to remain a member of U. N. is publican Congress are endangering the sensible thing for them to do. In event Judge abroad. Certainly, at least as far as India is Ambassador Lodge, unlike Mr. Austin, order to aim has been to attend cabinet President is some one of the caliber to submit to decisions that we don’t safety of the country In Holtzoff adheres to earlier view, however, concerned, our position has had much less than invited for a budget. Democratic his the meetings every Friday, of Justice Medina of New York or Judge threatening balanced the free wholehearted support, and the first time like. We must refrain from including Stevenson, have Commissioners should be prepared to move world’s by a permanent representative to the U. N. Irving Kaufmann or Pennsylvania Su- to secede when such action the re- leaders, Mr. as suggested that Senator Joe McCarthy without delay for a revision of the law, so that, continuing to hammer away at it the Commu- inside preme Court Justice Michael A. Mus- employes has had contact with the White tention of of whom we do not and “McCarthyism” be made issues in in the future, a policeman who is fired under nists can generate a lot of ill will against us, House. manno. approve is taken. Tom Coll. the coming campaign. They like to be- the circumstances surrounding Mr. Bullock’s especially in relation to public opinion in Asia. Mr. Lodge’s experience in foreign af- posi- * * The situation is similar to the lieve that McCarthy, as an issue, will dismissal will be ineligible for a pension. After This probably is the prime purpose of Red fairs is considerable. His grandfather, of States in our country before be helpful to them. Henry Lodge, Do we need Gov. Dewey on the tion all, the taxpayers put up most of the money China’s proposal. Cabot sr., was a member the Civil War. Various States from Republican leaders are willing to What remains to be seen is of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- Supreme Court? I don’t think we do for these pensions, and there is something whether the move also that the Com- twice for the ume to time previous to 1861 threat- admit that the items raised by the means mittee in the Wilson administration. After all, he was defeated national decisions will be issues in the 1954 peculiarly repugnant in the thought that they munists will boycott the political conference if and now appoint him to ened to secede when Democrats Young Lodge followed in his grand- presidency: to displeasing them were reached. campaign—but they believe that most may be called upon to help support Mr. Bullock life job on the court—that would be to the General Assembly—as expected—refuses to father’s footsteps two decades ’ater on a of will help the G. O. P. in its drive for the rest of his life. the just too much to ask the American The prevailing misunderstanding of them reverse itself. In any event, the effrontery of same committee. to keep control of Congress. If the Kor Lodge to swallow. our position in U. N. is illustrated in a their demand for such a reversal is another After finishing Harvard, young people rean truce is followed by a satisfactory worked for eight years as a newspaper- M. B. Shea. letter in The Star, September 6, “U. N. sobering indication of why it is foolish to be Policy and the in which peace, they believe that Gen. Eisen- man with the Boston Transcript and Constitution,” be impregnable that The Tax Collector at Work optimistic about negotiating with them for a is the statement: “No Communist can hower jwill and the New York Herald-Tribune, both as they will win congressional elec- decent Korean peace. Washington correspondent Refugee Relief Act at one and the same time remain a the The decision of the Internal Revenue a and a tions. They point to a cut of sl3 writer in international affairs. R. W. Scott McLeod, administrator, Communist and also be loyal to the Service to undertake a Nation-wide field search Bureau of Security and Consular Af- is billion in the Truman recommended He was the first United States Sen- U. N.” The absurdity of that notion appropriations for fiscal year 1954, for tax evaders appears to be paying off not fairs, Department of State, substituting evident. establishment, N. ator to enter military service since the From its U. made by and to big only in money but in an encouraging display of in The Star for September 10 for Con- has number of the Republicans, Bid From Red Sofia Civil War when he took leave of his included a Communist savings made by the Eisenhower team ingenuity on the part of the field directors. Senate seat in War stantine Brown, regular Star columnist, nations and is not and never was an Department good World 11. When in administrations. They are making Indeed, Commissioner Andrews has ordered a The State has reason to he resumed his place in the upper invited interested groups to write to organization for the promotion of some slowly in dealing Communist him personally regarding sponsorship the most of the fact that business is “slow-down” until some of the methods devised make haste with chamber Mr. Lodge, a member of the kinds of governments and the suppres- exceedingly good employment of refugees to the United States under and that Bulgaria’s bid for a resumption of diplomatic liberal wing of the Republican Party, sion of others. wages high. can be restudied. the Refugee Relief Act. Such an ap- and are relations with the United States. Since the bid identified himself with the late Senator Harmony and tolerance among na- The split in the Democratic Party, Up in the Boston area, the collectors favored peal amounts to an invitation to do tions should be sought until all will undoubtedly is in keeping with instructions Vandenberg, with whom he collabo- in which sent four Southern States into the personal “touch” of ringing household door- closely bipartisanship for business, a rather new concept our be required to belong to U. N. and se- from the Kremlin, it may be regarded as a kind rated to build diplomatic affairs. the Eisenhower camp in 1952, continues bells and making polite inquiry as to whether such programs as Greek-Turkish aid, cession will not be tolerated. Then to hang over the Democratic scene like of Soviet olive branch, but it certainly calls for Mr. McLeod obviously has sight returns were being filed. In San Francisco, the Marshall Plan and the North At- lost there will be no more war. But judging a dark cloud. Democratic National something less than a festive reception even of the intent of Congress. For that the doorbell approach was applied to business lantic Treaty Organization. from such sentiment as expressed in Chairman Mitchell speaks of improved though a sound argument can be made in favor actual intent, I refer him to page 10 the quotation above, establishments. But out in Denver they fig- Ambassador Lodge was among the long years of edu- relations between the Democrats of the of acting on it affirmatively. first Republicans to back Gen. Eisen- of the Conference Report where it ex- cating our citizens will be required North and the South, but when the ured out an easier way—just by using the states: is the unanimous hower the presidency and served pressly “It before that goal will be reached. question of a Federal FEPC is brought A large measure of American coolness is for of the conferees that classified telephone directory. Interestingly, his campaign manager his consensus .no up, he offers solution the justified in this instance because of the past as after efforts should be made to induce aliens George Frederick Miller. no for diver- out of approximately 20,000 listings of business nomination. When Mr. Lodge was de- gence between the South and the North. establishments in- conduct of the puppet Red regime in Sofia. to seek entry to the United States issue will and classified professional feated for re-election by Massachu- under this bill.” inter- His great hope is that that After all, that regime is basically the same as Congress was Bus be raised in dividuals the Denver office found about 7,000 setts’ young John Kennedy, he was re- ested in quality and not quantity. Mr. School Wanted not the congressional elec- the whose shocking tions. names for which there were no income tax one and insolent violations warded with the U. N. ambassadorial McLeod says nothing of quality. In- Children of the Templeton Knolls of most standards decent returns. the fundamental of post by President Eisenhower. He had stead hq speaks of drumming up busi- area are in great need of transportation international intercourse forced our Govern- previously served in the U. N. as a mem- to and from school. The school is lo- Charitably, for an income tax collector, ness in order to fill a large quota before ment to suspend diplomatic contact with it back ber of the United States delegation along the three-year deadline. cated a good mile and a quarter away and Answers the Denver director pointed out that some firms February, with fellow Republicans Warren Austin and in the winter months especially it Questions in 1950. The immediate cause of the The fact is that Mr. McLeod has any question too to be the tax roles, others passed and John Foster Dulles. will be hazardous for them to walk. A reader can get the answer to are new on break was the regime’s demand that Donald R. failed to grasp America’s approach to of lact by writing The Evening Star Informa- Sometimes imperious of manner. It is along a well-traveled road that tion Bureau, 1200 I street N.W., Washington 6. out of existence before they got there and immigration—an which was D. C. Please Incloae cents Heath—then our Minister to Bulgaria—be re- Mr. Lodge to shake hands approach they must travel on foot and is very three 131 lor return others may have filed under different or refused repudiated as Mr. Mc- postage. names called on the ground that he had engaged in with Russian Delegate Vishinsky at reaffirmed—not dangerous. Please do what you can for in different regions. He still figures, however, Leod would have us believe—with the By THE HASKIN SERVICE. espionage and other activities aimed at the opening of the General Assembly the children here to get them bus trans- he 2,000 evaders, or over- passage of the Walter-McCarran Act. Q. Which flag was supplanted by that has about intentional throwing the Communist authorities. Actually, earlier this year. When pressed by a portation. otherwise. M. E. Dutko. the flag of the United States when wa however, the attack on Mr. Heath—an attack photographer to pose with Mr. Vishin- George Salina. took over the Louisiana Purchase— Over in la belle France, where tax collecting compounded of colossal lies—merely climaxed a French or Spanish?—J. L. bought traditionally has been more of a “sporting” long series of insufferable events that seemed A. Although we the land from Spanish had proposition, a similar search for evaders is deliberately goad severing France, the remained in calculated to us into By Charles E. Tracewell the territory as governors, so it was displaying great ingenuity on both sides. The . . . relations. This and That the Spanish flag which was replaced inspectors there have been checking yachts, on Thus, for months prior to the break, the by our own. automobiles, villas, race horses and other signs “BETHESDA, Md. doubtedly removes a veritable larder should be thought about now, before Kremlin’s Bulgarian stooges engaged in a sys- ordinarily connoting a good supply of folding “Dear Sir: for small living things, both birds and it begins. pay tematic program of insults, harassments Q. How do the British for their coming to studied “I like to have your opinion *knimals. Much of it is wasted, because it is national health service, and what does francs. One Parisian thus official and acts of ill will designed to ridicule, belittle would attention had three cars, three servants and a as to cleaning up the yard this fall, Many small creatures eat insects. unnecessary. it cost the nation?—B. K. and vilify the United States. Further, besides go into the To bugs would be to The leaves are a nuisance, in away, luxurious apartment—but no reported income. or letting it be, that is. kill off all the A. The service is paid for out of subjecting our representatives to crude indig- winter unswept and raked. end the lives of some animals, and there can be no doubt of that. taxes. In 1952 it cost nearly 439 mil- Another supported, by his own return, two cars, questionable their nities and the meanest sort of personal incon- “Most of my neighbors go in for a most of the bird species. Yet it is whether lion a little over billion. four servants and a fine home for lavish enter- One winter would not be sufficient to best disposal is through the bonfire. llV* veniences, they did not hesitate to terrorize perfect frenzy of raking, burning: they taining on $930 annually. The French Ministry sully the air of their home neighbor- do this, of course. It would require a Some persons feel that picking com- the Bulgarian employes of our legation in Sofia. years, post of old leaves is the best thing of Finance is taking care of these cases by hood for hours at a time. term of but in the end, if all In fact, more than one of those employes killed, there would to do. a figuring out how much income it takes to live impossible, when this is going insect life were re- I Heard Muted Prayer (nobody knows exactly how many) were ter- “It is sult a toll of birds inconceivable at Those leaves that blow into fence the way these particular Parisians enjoy—and on, to have a window open, for if you rorized to death—all innocent victims of a present. corners should be left alone, to / heard a prayer, so beautiful and sweet. do, every room in the house is filled * furbish is assessing them accordingly. * food for birds. Old annuals, with seeds, The message strong with faith and premeditated Communist effort to make it with smoke. * cleaning in any stick up above the snow, and support comforting appear that our Government was conspiring to “It seems to me absurd, to live eight Too good an autumn ripened yard works major damage to certain many species of birds during the As hills, and sun-kissed fields of destroy the Red regime. The Soviet Union’s miles out in the country, and then'to wheat; bird specimens. winter. Harmony in Chicago campaign was its height, make your community smell like a Leaving (no pun intended) doubt or wondering. hate-America then at Carrying over interior tidiness to the the old It left no room for dump. . . grass A great deal is being written about those and the puppets in Bulgaria did their vicious mistake, many will believe. leaves is a good thing, since it is less Trees lifted leafy arms . the “Aside from this, however, there is lawn is a otherwise knelt down, harmonious Democrats assembled in Chicago. best to revile us without letup. Some feel that even the lawn should work, and supplies food that the question of bird life, and I think might be missing during the cold. White daisies held their solemn faces that, by in cold if be permitted to go uncut. And it must be admitted normal Considered against such a background, the birds do better the all The untidy garden has much more up, Democratic standards, a degree of harmony has Sofia’s to the garden trash, as some call it, is Cleaning up fallen leaves with too The bunny his coat brown, move re-establish diplomatic relations vigor ends hiding places for in its favor than the too-well-swept little wore of achieved. left alone. great a one morning’s been with us obviously does not merit a quick or small insects and their eggs. one. And each drank from “What do you think? It is possible to be a fool in the golden cup. One threat of trouble—the so-called loyalty enthusiastic response. Os course, since there is * * “Very truly, A. V.” garden as elsewhere. There in the quietness of early dawn of 1952—was much to be said for maintaining a listening * * pledge neatly disposed of. This Any one who has seen a jay burrow- What is one person’s idea of-foolish- Before star-lighted candles flickered was accomplished through a Democratic varia- post over there and for having at least that There can be no question that the ing through old leaves will know that ness, of course, may not be another’s, out, tion of what Governor Stevenson, referring to much contact with the people of the country, garden left “as is” is better for the he is finding something good there. but there can be little question that The loveliness of earth and sky were the Republicans, called “Government by post- our Government may do well to end the present birds. In fact, the blue jay, in his turn, the annual leaf raking and burning, drawn Together, spilling beauty ponement.” The decision was to authorize break, but it should not do so in a hurry. In- Old stalks of annuals, berries on hides bits of food, and if the house- especially in the suburban commu- all about. shrubs and bushes, insects burrowing holder then comes out and rakes up has reached a peak of in- Chairman Mitchell to appoint a com- deed, it should not do so at all unless and nities, now National in piles of leaves— the leaves, and burns them, he destroys sanity, almost. A Nation as prodigal Istood upon a tree-lined hill and heard and receives firm assurances that the Bul- mittee to study the pledge report to the until it All these afford food of the perfect not only the insects there but also the as we are of leftover materials is The silence praising Him ... without a 1956 convention. garian Communists will not repeat their out- kind for wintering birds. food particles the jays hide there. heading for some sort of natural dis- word. Another looming source of discord—the rageous behavior of 1948-49-50. Cleaning up a yard too perfectly un- The annual frenzy of leaf burning aster, we don’t know what. Carrie Hunter.