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0 0 V' 4 if 4 No- IF Ir IV IP 11 11 1110 16 I THE KANSAS CITY STAR SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1953 ON THE ROAD TO SCENIC GRANDEUR FAITH THE KANSAS CITY STAR "nx primmilg162r4amt A -171 FOUNDED SEPTEMBER 1 1880 PT TVIELLIAM ROCKITILL NELSON THE KANSAS CITY STAR COMPANY Owner and Publi8her Before the dawn breaks in the akitv It stirs within the larks trait breast Who 'while the gloom of night still IIPP upon the world forsakes 111411 nest To soar into tenebrous graY And waken with a song the day So hsppiness and hope deferred The shades of deepest night tiII drawn The thought that in your own heart stirred May be the hsrbinger nf dawn Then like the lark arise and sing Perhaps the light Ls on your wing --From "Seasons and Days" 114 Don Bloch (waghlnaton Co 11170 Press Takoma Park Md) Address All Letters: THE KANSAS CITY STAR 1729 GRAND AVYNUE KANSAS CITY 8 MO TELEPHONE HA 1200 (WANT AD DEPT ONLY TELEPHONK BA 5500) The treaty mentioned none of our war aims and they were not attained immediately Yet the outcome of the war was such that Britain became more reconciled to the independence of its former colonies As it turned out the disturbing threat that the results of the American Revolution might be undone were disposed of In the fighting from 1812 to 1814 That war like America's other embattled struggles was fought in behalf of strictly national policies and national objectives The Korean war was different We entered it in declared accord with an international policy to repel aggression wherever it might develop Our membership in the United Nations committed us to such action We were not seeking clear and decisive military victory as in our other struggles Our basic goal of turning back Communist aggression was actually achieved In this way the idea of collective security passed its most important test SUBscIrrnom Bar's: Morning evening and Sunday (thirteen papers a week) delivered by carrier in Kansas City 40 cents a week $174 a month By mall postage prepaid in Missouri and Kansas 45 cents a week elsewhere in the United States and the United States possessions 55 cents a week In foreign countries $100 a week The Word That Is Never Said Entered as second class matter at the postoffice in Kansas City Mo under the Act of March 3 1879 POSTAGE FOR SINGLE COPIES: 6 to 14 pages 3 cents 16 to 24 pages 4 cents 26 to 32 pages 5 cents 34 to 40 pages 6 cents 42 to 50 pages 7 cents 52 to 58 psges cents: 60 to 66 pages 9 cents 68 to 74 pages 10 cents: 6 to 84 pages 11 cents 86 to 92 pages 12 PrILIE 94 to 100 pages 13 cents: 102 to 108 pages 14 cents 110 to 118 pages 15 cents 'T rril' 9 (2:1 1 1 4001 1: I a AleIffs--- -145 GI 1 i 1 vi) 4:: 17Mr rs7A-4r4 0 a- 0 $o35! e)) st -Ai 17'''' V' '''N -t4 t-- i I 'v4g' 4 a -r-1-- I iio ov'gtViols' 1 -b I 0 1 itl- CI 1 e9 4' Ss kl i i 0 t''''' 6 74 41''': k) irtril ti s- 0 4:9 -it 4rlovg -dits 11' Js i aietiollgH4F' 4 I ttis -bEiiiiiek C'': 1 1 ty i 4 Or I 'WO ht 'I: A'fr" v) -1 i ''7? 45egr3 Ifil FItAlt lei' 'Itit iViii-i fr: If -k rs 6iii ---1 --4-1iq) orr 4' t7 IS 'r 3''''-- -T or THE ASSOCIATED Palm's Tha Associated IR entitled xclusivelv to 4hob ttse for reproduction of all the local rews printed in this newspaper as well as all Associated Press news dispatches All rights of publication of special dispatches are also reserved Copyright 1953 The Kansa! City Star Company The contents of the Sundae star are copyrighted Permission is granter! however for the reproduction of any article not otherwise copyrighted or credited provided credit to The Star be given Also exception 13 made to those special articles to which is attached notice of prohibited reproduction Permission should he requested for the reproduction of these particular articles Er MORLEY CASSIDY rLISABETHVILLE BELGIAN i about ten minutes the slowest-witted visitor to this part of the Congo discovers that there is one word he must never whisper It is There is a good reason for it of course This is the center of the world It was the produced at Shinkolobwe proximately miles from here here in a certain direction that made it possible to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima But anyone who thinks he is going to pick up some odds and ends of information about in the Congo will have his think ing straightened out in a hurry "I hope" said Thomas Murdock the American consul here "that you are not going to ask me any questions about a certain subject we are all interested in" He cocked an eye to make sure that I got it I got it of course The subject was Well" I said "I thought It might be intereistinz to tell something of the precautions taken to prevent spies from learning about Nn" he said quickly just in the nick of time to save me from using the word "The less said about the subject the During June 1953 the net paid circulation of The Star was as follows: Evening (daily average) 344668 Morning (daily average) 336979 Sunday (average 361720 Weekly Star Farmer (average) 468955 SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1953 THE XIND OF WAR IT WAS I -o "704444 4 -4101 --04 r-- 4 40: 0-- It is incorrect therefore to say that the deadlocked outcome On the battle front meant a failure of or policy We did what we set out to do The aim of stabilizing conditions throughout Korea by military action was a secondary aim that had to be given up in the Interest of avoiding the risks of a world avar with Russia and Red China Nor is it correct to speak of the war as having been a useless venture even though it came to be widely unpopular It was directly resppnsible for causing the United States to rearm We had let ourselves become so weak that by the summer of 1950 we had only ten under-strength divisions and forty-gight partly equipped air wings Now we have the equivalent of twenty-six army and three marine divisions Soon we are going to have a force of 110 air wings with modern equipment It Is now possible to conduct our foreign policy from a position of strength instead of the weakness that invited the contempt of our Soviet rival in the cold war In one way the Korean war was disappointing from our standpoint Fifty-two member states of the put the brand of aggressor on North Korea and Red China But only teen contributed troops to fight alongside the Americans and South Koreans and these were mostly token forces Yet the is still a going concern that has met its first major trial Failure to act when the Reds overran South Korea would have been the end of the as a peace-enforcing organization It also would have given the Communists a strategic peninsula representing a dagger pointed at the safety of Japan Thus we fought in Korea because not to have done so would have yielded that country to the Communists who then would have been free to attack the rest of unconquered Asia Instead there have been no new aggressions since Korea The United Stafes and its allies had to fight In Korea since there was nr) alternatix were ready to accept This war could prove to be the turning point in the course of resistance against Communist imperialism History will be the final judge of whether this was the case Meanwhile America can take satisfaction in the role that saw us come of full stature as the leader of the free world in this era of complex international relations The Grand Canyon of the Colorado river in Arizona Is the high point of many a summer vacation trip In this picture a group of tourists pauses to rest on the trail to Bright Angel point on thP north rim A hint of the great panorama of the canyon is seen beyond them The tourists are ReginaM Miller 5347 Knox AVP1111P Aterriant his daughter Mrs Anderson 6741 Riley street Overland Park and Mrs Anciers(sl's IWO sons Billy 6 years old and Regzie 3 The picture was made by Mr Anderson a member of the Associated Press Wirephoto staff in Kansas City Ye Ed Says: The Fish of -Minnesota Begin To Show Some Signs of Life Remnant flocks survive in the East Resonant booming calls of prairie chickens are one of the unforgettable sounds of the plains Cock birds gather on traditional courting grounds side is the Duna and when it reaches Romania it becomes the Dunarea There is not and there never was a place that its inhabitants called Greece In ancient times the name of the country was spelled Hellas and pronounced with the silent Today since the people are economy-minded they spell the name the way it is pronounced: Elias I thought that Murdock perhaps was just the least bit fussy So I dropped the certain subject thinking I might learn more from Colonel Rickman De Bets Colonel De Bets is director of in formation for the Union Miniere due Haut Katanga which owns the big mine at Shinkolobwe as well as some of the worlds richest copper mines I spent a couple of days with him looking at Union Miniere's copper mines and smelters At the end of the second day I said casually "By the xvav how far is it to "Have you seen our milk station?" said Colonel De Bets "You know we distribute milk daily Cr) every baby at the mines You must see that" For the rest of the trip We talked about the milk station Already there is a tendency to think speak of the Korean war as an event that belones to history Yet the armistice is not quite one week old And at this stage it is a somewhat precarious condition that could be disrupted either by the Communists or by the South Korean government which has placed a 6-month time limit on the truce unless the Chirese are out of North Korea by then But even in these circumstances it is correct to use the past tense in referring to the war as long as the guns on both sides remain silent Our own commanders are convinced that the state of truce can be protected against violation by the plan of inipections behind the lines and other safeguards Certainly there Is every reason to expect that the armistice will last through the political conference taking up the objectives of unity for North and South Korea If that can be worked out the truce most likely will be converted Into a peace with implied permanence So at this point it makes more sense to treat the Korean war a something in the past than otherwise The results of this conflict in terms of history cannot be appraised accurately until many ears from now It is possible however to size up the general characteristics of the Korean war At least one of use of the collective security unique Other qualities of the fighting had a strong resemblance to previous events The nature of the fighting itself was not at all revolutionary The biggest innovation was the aerial duelling of jet fighter planes at speeds of around 600 miles an hour But the "pushbutton" warfare and "wonder" weapons of which we had heard so much since 1945 did not become a factor Resort to atomic bombs was spurned partly because targets were not suitable But there were larger considerations The stockpile of A-bombs is our ace-in-the-hole if Russia ever attacks nor could we afford the loss of prestige from killing Asians In this manner Then there was the humanitarian motive of trying to minimize casualties ULL LAKE BRAIN-Ithe sophisticated scientist He each spring to fill the air with ERD are'will believe anything anybody thunder produced by sudden beginning to prepare tells him and every ourselves to take back an thing that VP rl violhent deollatloen of alr sacs on author writes especially eacvhillpdedrfulh Ir inneaclt-h-e bird a few things ave said about inewsPaer cuttings Pas lcd away g' raise neck a the state of Minnesota fishing 1 for future reference 10 which spread their tails which earlier in the season ihe frequently refers in verbal feathers into horn-like tufts nd allow wings to droop They a disgrace considered a disappointment and laigtme iinrnotsm pFlipe tebelpierevpeasr preparedness sis 1111 spring it' into the air then Various reasons were given and when going on fishing va shuffle a it in grotesque for this situation but we had cation he takes two of every- dances Plains Indians imitated judged it to he the fault of the thing even neckties HP never their pattering steps golfer it being Nvell known that has worn even one necktie but The dance ends in violent if a fish lake is allowed to lie he feels you never can tell when combat as th corks settle the matter Of who is real master of fallow for several seasons as Marilyn Monroe or Dinah Shore the golfers allow it to do the will invite you to dinner the "booming grounds: and fish give up an who may court the hens that die from lack Mr Mason was deeply dis- watch the show with seeming of attention and loneliness But tressed when Ye Ed recently indifference the last few days the fishermen was dimmed out by breaking his Rivals bested and mating at Island View have been an- glasses and had no spare He done the cock bird calls it a noying the fish a good deal and produced four extra pairs of year' He wanders away to laze the fish are showing signs of glasses announcing that such a in the sun molt and grow new relentment Some of them disaster could never happen to finery strike fiercely at the plugs and him The other night he invited nest and lays from 7 to 17 eggs The hen meanwhile builds a minnows tossed at them Don us over to his cabin to see a Purcell of Wichita and his wife "great and comprehensive edu- While her husband idles she brought in their limit of wall- rational exhibition" which prob- hatches the eggs and raises the brood until the day when they eyed pike the other night the ably would if we properly ab- prettiest string of fish we have sorbed it influence our life The can fend for themselves xvhich earlier in the season we ihe frequently refers hi i'erbal considered a disappointment andiarguments He believes devout-a disgrace ly in compete preparedness given and when going on fishing va- Various reasons were for this situation but we had cation he takes two of every-judged it to he the fault of the thing even neckties He never golfer it being Nvell known that has worn even one necktie but if a fish lake is allowed to lie he feels you never can tell when fallow for several seasons as Marilyn Monroe or Dinah Shore the golfers allow it to do the will invite you to dinner fish give up and die from lack Mr Mason was deeply disof attention and loneliness But tressed when Ye Ed recently the last few days the fishermen was dimmed out by breaking his at Island View have been and had no spare He noying the fish a good deal and produced four extra pairs of the fish are showing signs of glasses announcing that such a relentment Some of them disaster could never happen tc strike fiercely at the plugs and him The other night he invited minnows tossed at them Don us over to his cabin to see a Purcell of Wichita and his wife "great and comprehensive edubrought in their limit of wall- cational exhibition" which probeyed pike the other night the ably would if we properly abprettiest string of fish we have sorbed it influence our life The ly in corn plete prepa redness and when going on fishing vacation he takes two ni everything PVen neckties HP never has worn even one necktie but he feels you never can tell when Marilyn Monroe or Dinah Shore will invite you to dinner Mr Mason was deeply distressed when Ye Ed recently was dimmed out by breaking his glasses and had no spare He produced four extra pairs of glasses announcing that such a disaster could never happen to him The other night he invited us over to his cabin to see a "great and comprehensive educational exhibition" which probably would if we properly absorbed it influence our life The each spring to fill the air with thunder produced by sudden violent deflation of air sacs on seen on this trip And last night exhibition consisted of his vast Ed Keller and A Popham jr collection of two of everything brought in a black has that On the bed he has laid out his took the two of them to subdue vast fly rods two Recent light rains and a cold casting rods two full complesnap have led to the prediction ments of fly and casting reels that the fish are back from two flashliglits two pairs of hip their vacation and are now boots two raincoats two sets of ready for business car keys two otithoarri motors exhibition consisted of his vast collection of two of everything On the bed he has laid out his vast wealth--two fly rods two casting rods two full complements of fly and casting reels two flashlights two pairs of hip boots two raincoats two sets of car keys two outboard motors I must say I rather approve of this attitude After all at last reports some 45 per cent of the worlds supply of was coming from Shinkolobwe Every ounce of it Nthat's more is sold to the United States Atomic Energy Commission Men whose business has taken them to Shinkolobwe report that they were stopped by armed guards 20 miles from the mine At 10 miles they were stopped again At one mile they were stopped again At the mine they fared a small army equipped with polire dogs Inside the mine they were passed from hand to hand like sticks of dynamite Probably everyone NV sl that there is nn such country as Russia in spite of common tme of the name Actually there never was such a country When what is now fife was an empire under the czars it was called Rossiya The country that we call Switzerland is in French 'Suisse in German Schweiz in Italian Swizzera But all unite on the Latin name made famous by Caesar in the first book of his "Gallic Wars" Helvetia In ancient times there was a province named Hispania which the people contracted to Espana The English were not content with that but dropped the and ended up with Spain Centuries ago the people of Lusitania wanted to get a wine monopoly in England and since the wine came from Oporto the English applied the name to the whole country So as not to offend their best customer where the men were perfectly willing In suffer the gout caused by their wine the wise men of Lusitania struck a compromise and renamed their country Portugal which even the English accepted Portugal is not the only country to change its name to please its English-writing neighbors Mexico did the same for the original name was Mejico pronounced "may-hee-co" as it still is Early settlers in Texas headed their letters Tejas and pronounced the name two electric razors two fishing hats and so on But he had only one gas tank for his car and only one set of teeth For these he fell back on his Lord will provide" An interesting and yell furnished gent is Mr Mason of Mason City Ia but his car is a mess when he loads it up He really needs a couple of trailers Strange Doings of Anglicizers Roadside Life Today The house by the side of the road has become a much more difficult place to live in the years since Sam Walter Foss wrote his pleasant little poem about it a half century ago The men who went by in Foss's day were traveling on foot or on a horse or behind one They could respond to a friendly hail from the roadside It was easy for them to stop for a chat They were seldom strangers people weren't traveling much by road at the start of the twentieth century But look at the scene today The man stepping out to his box for the daily mail can scarcely identify a friend or wave before he disappears in the distance Of the people roaring by in small cars and big panel trucks and huge semi-trailers 99 per cent do not know the man by the side of the road Should one decide to stop on seeing a sign advertising fresh eggs there is a screeching of brakes echoed in a chain reaction all down the line of traffic and the stopping car swings into the driveway like an airplane coming in for a landing Sometimes a car drops in quite unintentionally plowing up the front yard or plunging into the living room But mostly the traffic just rolls by and the man by the side of the road can only watch the stream listen to its roar and hope that it continues to flow smoothly Of course Mr Foss was thinking allegorically when he wrote his poem The house he had in mind would stand beside the great rod of life which all men travel from cradle to grave The allegory it seems to us is still valid On the highway of life too men move today with greater speed intent on getting somewhere in a hurry Each is encased in his own little specialty shut away from understanding and neighborliness Whether we stand beside the road or travel in the traffic stream we can suffer greatly if one of the men in a hurry makes a mistake in his driving It is evident we have forged ahead in the direction of easier and faster living in the last half century We look to atomic power to accelerate our speed toward one destination or another 1Pao A spy might have A grtni time speculating thontzh on production He could start with a bit of common gossip which says that the Union Miniere is making more money from Its mine than from all Its other activities put together The Union Minlere's other products according to the balance sheet amounted last year to 71 million pounds roughly 200 million dollars So a spy might figure the United States got worth more than that But how many ounces wal that? Let him guess Nobody here or in Belgium or the United States is saying how much an ounce is paid The only IPP1 entitled (or a ble) to give out about production in the Congo Is that security measures are practi cally perfect There is just one flaw Since I couldn't see Shi nkolobwe went to the Elisabethville museum The curator met me at the entrance -Keep away from that rock" he said as we entered "You'll ruin the film in your camera" lie pointed to a 200-pound black rock in the middle of the entrance A card on it read: -Sample ot uranimum ore from the mine at Shinkolobwe" No doubt the curator will be fired as soon as this is re ported to the authorities Even in a museum he shouldn't be talking about (From f7Pnroa Mathew Adams bip) BY BAR- MAY THE William Nightingales named their daughter Florence because to their way of thinking she was born at Florence Tuscany Ital Actually she was born at Firenze Toscana Italia By the same reasoning we should call Arturo Toscanini Arthur Tuscan In common with other Englishmen living in Italy Mr Nightingale called Livorno Leghorn and Venezia Venice at the same time omitting a from Genova and calling it Genoa As a matter of fact Mr Nightingale's name really was Shore but that was not romantic enough for him According to American papers this year's Olympic games were held at Helsinki Finland whereas Helsinki is in Suomen Tasavalta shortened by the Finns to easily spelled Suomi We engaged recently in a war with Germany to hear it told but actually the war was with the Detaches Reich Tacitus wrote of a tribe he called Germania or kinfolk of the Gauls who lived beyond the Rhine so we have corrupted the Latin and applied it to Deutschland We all think we know Vienna there is no such place The place we mean is Wein Osterreich The sausage which originated there we call "weinnies" and in that we are almost correct Furthermore Wein is not on the Danube as you may suppose but on the Donau which on the Hungarian Continuing our independent research on the life and times of Paul Bunyan Minnesota's leading citizen we have been able to establish about everything except the place and date of his birth and of his death Ordinarily these are important corroborative facts in a biography and it would be satisfying to be able to establish that PaulBunyan was born But when one credits enough of his later exploits the mere matter of his birth becomes less important and can almost be taken for granted As for his death We a re not convinced that he ever died He is still in the lumber business in Brainerd the restaurant business in Bemidji the saloon business in Minneapolis and he leads a dance orchestra at the University of Minnesota and xvears his name on his Joe College sweater In the face of such evidence Nye are not prepared to assert that Paul has yet passed to his reward But hp roust be getting pretty old even for an active man In our search for new facts about Mr Bunyan we have been assisted no little by Mr Jabez Jason Mason the big garage man from Mason City Ia As a scientific researcher Mr Mason has but one fault He is untiring and he concentrates completely but he lacks that innate skepticism that marks Losses on the two sides would not have been nearly so high had the Communists not fought a primitive style of war The "tidal wave" attacks of the enemy were responsible for the bulk of the casualties These came to more than a million for the Reds in excess of 140000 for the United States and perhaps 350000 members of the South Korean forces In addition several hundred thousand Knrean civilians were killed or maimed and millions were left homeless- Thus it was a major conflict and not the lice action" it Ac unfortunately called at first by the Truman administration Our own losses ere so high as to make it the fourth costliest war in American history Only the casualties of the two World wars and the Civil war were greater This vas not as some people been saying the only war that America failed to win The War of 112 also ended in a draw despite the anti-climactic victory of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans We got into that war to stop Britain from preying on commerce seizing American sailors at sea for impressed service and supporting Indian attacks on the northwest borders of the United States Some politicians were also hoping that we could conquer and absorb Florida and Canada But the war continued two years inconclusively until it became so unpopular that our people were glad to accept the peace brought by the Treaty of Ghent A summer trip to Minnesota Is a lot of pleasure if you don't mind mosquitoes deer flies and sand in your shoes but if you are looking for a vacation from Kansas City people go some where else Almost every new couple that joins the stampede to the dining room at mealtime is a Kansas City lawyer or banker and every canasta game is dominated by a Kansas City woman making up her own rules CLAD THOMPSON Prairie Chickens Gave Indians Dance Pattern Prairie chickens numbered by tens of millions in covered wagon days are down to a dangerously low 400000 The big grouse formerly was plentiful on all the grassy American prairie from the East to beyond the Great Plains reports the National Geographic society Now it lives for the most part only in Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma and the Dakotas Belgium is a bilingual country but as with Switzerland the English prefer to name the places themselves In French the name of the country is Belgique and in Flemish Belgie We are even more ruthless with the Nederland and if we fail to call the country Holland which is the name of two provinces we write Netherlands 's Gravenhage ''the Count's enclosure" becomes The Hague No Swede ever heard of country is Sverige and he spells the name of its capital Stokholm not Stockholm Norwegians come from Norge not Norway Poles come from Polska and not from Poland Bulgarians are from Bigariya not Bulgaria and the native land of Albanians is Shqipni So the English-speaking nations go merrily on changing geographic names all over the world so that they will roll more easily off English-speaking tongues a UNALTERED AI3t In South Fend mimeo MANY FINGERS IN THE FIE in Da lia NwJ I AND 275 BILLION FONDS OF PRESSUREI tn li4tpleaeol44 Var TWO BROOMS ARE BETTER THAN ONE ER?" --Shanks in Buffalo Neve "A LITTLE SHADOW THAT GOES IN AND OUT WITH ME" 01 Itiamt Harold A TIGHT MATCH ON A TOUGH COURSE in Washintem Stag t'''.