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Evening star., 1947-08-04
King Haakon's Birthdoy

The people of Norway yesterday told
their sovereign that they consider him
"tf1e most popularity beloved" monarch
they ever have had His seventy-fifth
birthday was the occasion of the demon
stration Both Haakon himself and the
subjects over whom he reigns have come
long way since 1905, and they have
learned to appreciate each other in times
that were dark as well as in those that
were bright Perhaps the fact that he
was popularity elected and did not achieve
the throne by the accident of birth has
been the controlling influence in his career.
He knew from the start that he must
merit the trust of the common folk if he
were to enjoy their affection. On the
other hand, they realized that he could
quit at his own convenience if he felt that
they were not faithful to their specific
obligations.
Give and take, in brief, has been the
principle involved in the Norwegian Kings
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Letters to The Star

traffic and holding pedestrians at street corners
for the green light when there are no ap
preaching vehicles overcrowds the street
corners with walkers.
Although New York has no pedestrian trafic
control regulation, walkers who persist In
crossing the streets against a policeman's
orders are given court summonses This strikes
me as more sensible than Washington's crude
effort to control walkers, sometimes supervised
by officers lurking in store doorways to spot
walkers crossing en- the red, instead Of being
out in the open protecting walkers from turn
ing vehicles as is done by traffic officers in
some other communities.
In view Of the indignites pedestrians expert
ence at the hands of drivers who fail to give
walkers the right of way when entitled to it
at uncontrolled crosswalks, it is inconceiyable
that certain Trafic Court judge should take
such a severe view Of the conduct Of walkers
as to increase the collateral or fine from 81
to S. for disobeying the regulation.
1t would be better if the traffic law were
changed to conform to traffic trends as evi-
denced by the inclination of drivers to assert
the right of way on cross walks when turning
and of the tendency of walkers to cross on
the red signal when there is no approaching
traffic to menace their safety subject always
of course to the orders Of trafic officers con-
trolling intersections. LEWIS L. YOUNG.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
More Soviet Vetoes Coming

Announcement by the Soviet delega-
ton at Lake Success that Russia will
oppose membership applications from
various nations and will use its veto in
some instances comes as an aggravation
of the already tense situation in the United
Nations precipitated by its veto on the
Balkan issue.
The veto threat came in regard to the
renewed applications for U. N. member
ship of Ireland, Portugal and Trans
Jordan, thus foreshadowing a repetition
of RusSia's action last year, when it black
balled their entry into U. N And the
reason is the same-because none of them
has diplomatic relations with Moscow.
This arbitrary attitude evoked much criti-
cism last year. It will doubtless cause
still more this time.
Soviet tactics regarding a second cate
cory of applicants for membership are
equally specious Russia has moved to
block even consideration of applications
from Austria italy, Hungary and Romania
because the peace treaties of the last three
have not yet been ratified and because the
Austrian peace treaty has not been written.
But, in all four cases, the fault is Moscow's.
Russia has delayed ratification of the three
treaties already negotiated and has refused
negotiation on the Austrian treaty except
on terms which would convert Austria into
a satellite of the Soviet Union. These
matters have all been so thoroughly
thrashed out before the U. N. and else
where that the Brazilian delegate to the
Security Council interjected with bored
impatience: IT wonder If we need con-
tinue this discussion? The decisions are
already made We are always listening to
the same arguments, and no one is con-
vinced by them"
However, this is not quite the whole
story. In sharp contrast to its blocking
or delaying tactics regarding the seven
applications just mentioned, Moscow is
pressing vigorously for the admission to
membership of two of its satellites
Albania and Outer Mongolia. Albania is
In the diplomatic doghouse because of its
obstreperous conduct on several counts,
Evening star., 1947-08-04

long tenure. He came to his task with a
solemn determination to succeed in the
performance OF the duties implicit In it..
Less conspicuously, yet no less scberly, his
people assumed their share of the contract
Two World Wars devastated Europe during
Haakons era-one which touched the
Morse land only indirectly and a second
which brought to 1t armed invasion, mill
tary occupation for half a decade, all the
bitter sorrows of conquest by ruthless
foe. The King and his family were driven
into exile, and a rump parliament declared
them mo longer able to function"
But Haakon nevertheless remained the
constitutional head of the legal govern
ment Of Norway. From his refuge in
England, he contributed to the victory of
the Allies by tireless day-to-day labor.
His name was the symbol of Morse in
tegrity throughout the struggle. 1t shone
transcendantly when Hitlers slave empire
collapsed and the Oslo regime of the trail
tor Quisling fell. Then came the moment
when the Norwegian people might have
chosen a new leader had such been their
wish. Their elected sovereign OF 1905 no
longer was young. He gladly would have
stepped aside to make room for youthful
successor had the slightest hint to that
effect been conveyed to him. Instead, he
was welcomed home with manifestations
of national confidence which were patiently
sincere. Yesterday the whole Norwegian
community repeated its former displays of
respect and love with emphasis.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Old GristmiIIs

Progress rolls on with resistless mo-
mentum and year by year the old grist-
mills grow fewer Those that are left are
part OF Nations heritage memorials to
yesteryear, when life was less harried and
an overshot or undershot wooden wheel
furnished power to turn the upper stone
against the neither.
Long years ago men and women with
dreams of new homes in their hearts left
the security of coastal towns and headed
over plateaus and along river valleys, to
establish outpost settlements. One of the
essentials was brook or a dam site for
gr1stmill. At first men or boys came with
bags OF grain across the saddles; as narrow
trails were widened to rough roads, two
wheeled jolting carts brought the grain to
be ground into grist. Custom" mills served
the surrounding countryside; merchant"
mills sold the grain to the cities eastward,
AS one looks at q weather -grayed,
picturesque mill with its old dam. moss
covered wheel and massive wooden pulIeys
ne thinks OF the scenes of long ago. Here
was center of community life, a central
spot from which men took news and gossip
TO their women folks in lonely, isolated
cabins on new farms, where blackened,
stark stumps marked mans conquest of
nature The fine dust from corn, oats and
wheat made silk-soft covering on floor,
ceiling and walls. Here was a clankinp
roar when the miller threw the lever and
the great stones began their grinding.
whole grains poured into the central hole
or the top stone; gray, yellow or white
meal trlckled from the v-shaped grooves
OF tne lower stone. On tree-shadowed
brooks and below old dam sites few
mills stand browsing through the years
reminders of the days when a people were
blazing a trail that was to lead from
ocean to ocean.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
The Rudioisotopes

A year ago at this time, the Clinton
Laboratories at Oak Ridge made the first
sale ard shipment of a radioactive isotope
from uranium chain-reacting pile. Since
then there have been more than 1000
such, shipments to about ITO different
institutions throughout the country There
will be thousands more. The output and
distribution are continuing at an ever
accelerating pace. The prospect is one
whose significance can scarcely be exag-
gerated. In terms of pure scientific
experiment, in terms of it's bearing on
medicine, biology, industry and agricul-
ture, ut opens up new world in which
the beneficent potentialities of the atom
may yet come to outweigh the fearsome
meaning of A-weaponS.
In its special weekend report on this
subject, the United States Atomic Energy
Commission has been careful not to hold
out any extravagant promises of wonders
coming overnight. But it has left no room
for doubt that the kaleidoscope phase of
nuclear science is tremendously rich in
possibilities. These isotopes are variations
Of common elements like carbon, iodine,
iron, PHOSPHORUS, etc. They have the
same chemical properties as the stable
elements, but their atomic weight is
different and they are radioactive What
makes them especially significant, apart
from their value in the direct treatment
OF certain diseases, is that they are new
research tool of the first Importance
AS the Acc has put it, just as the
microscope opened up hidden fields of
scientific endeavor, 80 will radioisotopes
further expand the vista of fundamental
knowledge"
Only few years ago. before we har-
messed atomic energy, these great new
tools were extremely rare and extremely
costly. For example, to produce one
millicurie of Carbon IA Kaleidoscope of
carbon would have required the con-
tinuouS operation of five cyclotrons for
full year at cost of $1,0OO,OOO. But
now, at Oak Ridge, small uranium
graphite pile can turn out Carbon IA in
such abundance that the selling price is
only $50 per millicurie. The same holds
true for all the hundred or more other
varieties of radioisotopes being mass
produced by the Acc. AS far as research
scarcity to great plenty represents a
revolution bound to yield rich results. It
means that science is armed as never
before to wage war on dread diseases and
to promote developments - industrially,
agriculturally and otherwise - likely to
have a far-reaching effect on our living
standards.
Some evidence of this is already indi-
Gated in the reports from the universities,
industrial laboratories, hospitals, govern
ment agencies and other research units
that have been working with the Aces
radioisotopes during the past year. Impor-
tant new advances are to be expected.
They may come slowly, but they will
certainly come. The atom is not all evil
by any means; If mankind exploits it only
for good ends, the world may yet enter
upon an epoch happier and more wonder
ful than any it has ever known.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Worked Out

The announcement by the United
States Military Government in Berlin
that German war prisoners returning from
Russia are incapable of doing any work
is interesting, not because there will be
but because of the insight it gives us into
the use which the Soviet government Is
making of available manpower
The logical inference from this an
nouncement is that the Russians are
squeezing the last drop of usefulness from
the prisoners of war in their hands. If
other reports are to be credited, many
prisoners are being literally worked to
death. And on the basis of the AMG
statement, it seems fair to conclude that
no one is being released until he has been
worked out, until the processes of fatigue
and underfeeding have reached a point
where the prisoner can contribute nothing
more to the Soviet Union.
This is indicative of two things. One is
that economic conditions within the
Soviet Union are bad, worse perhaps than
in any of the western countries The other
is that the Russians are overlooking no
bets in the grim struggle for economic
recovery that is under way throughout
most of the world. We read reports from
Britain, for instance, that recovery Is
tagging because the people simply will not
produce to the utmost In France and
Italy much the same thing is true But
not in Russia. There the last ounce of
energy is wrung from the prisoners of
war. And the Russian people themselves
are working and working hard for the
simple reason that they know they must
either work or starve.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
The Bean Grower

I sop her by the road, her shoulders square
AGAINST the hills-sunbonnet on her head,
Her arms bo looking at her bed
OF golden podded bean, her broad feet bare.
she tossed smile as lightly as her care,
rue plo,oed three times NTH this gray
mare, she said.
The horse I had last year? o, he is dead!
But this beast is the best found any,chere.
I'm So merit March and good as ne,c,
Nh old-aqe pension aoiH be coming soon.
NM son aoas killed in 1oar-there is no one
But me, but look-ths sunset peekino
through
The hills. my crop Is good and what boon
Is Hfe uhen in Gods lore ,De carry on.
MONICA WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1947-08-04

notably In the Corfu mines matter. As for
Outer Mongolia, China charges fragrant
aggression against its province of Sinkiang,
and indicates it will oppose membership
on that ground.
So it looks as though all nine of these
applications will be turned down for vari-
GUS reasons. The one candidate which
seems likely to run the gauntlet is little
Yemen. Nobody appears to object to that.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
$1,000 Teachers Pay Minimum

SZ,WU L eacherS ray Minimum
To the Editor of The star:
In last Sundays Star I was reported through
a survey conducted by the Arlington League
of Women Voters, as advocating $4,000 mini
mum teacher salary for the State of Virginia
Apparently this story did not carry the full
league release, no doubt because of lack of
space
The statement that favor $4,000 mini
mum, standing alone. does not present an
accurate picture of my views. I advocate
$4,000 State minimum 'as first STEP because
of wide diversity in the cost of living"
throughout the State 1t Is unfortunately true
that we do not have State minimum teacher
salary scale, and the situation is such in many
of our rural counties that it will be task of
the first magnitude to achieve even $4,000
level. This, however, should not deter us from
trying to reach this minimum "as first STEP"
HARRISON MANN.
New York Traffic System Better?
To the Editor OF The Star:
During recent two weeks stay In Gotham
which has no pedestrian traffic control ordi-
nance found my way around the overcrowded
big town afoot with more ease than In Wash
ington where the police bawl out walkers for
attempting to cross the streets on. the red
signal when there Is no approaching traffic to
endanger pedestrians.
In New York, as In Washington many
drivers operating on turn show little or no
regard for the rights Of walkers, but New
Workers prefer to give the turning vehicle the
right of way In exchange for the right to
cross the street unmolested on the red signal
when there is no approaching traffic.
This is as it should be since drivers Of
turning vehicles are disinclined to slow up for
crossing pedestrian traffic, and cautious walk
ers are loath to dispute the right of way on
crossing with turning vehicle, even when
the walker has the right Of way.
Slowing UP turning vehicles retards vehicular
Evening star., 1947-08-04
BIZ THE HAsKIN SERVICE


q. Do fish suffer pain when they are
hooked?-M. r. Y.
A. Scientists are of the opinion that fish
suffer little If any pain when they are hooked.
for there are few nerves about the jaw which
could cause that sensation. Fish have a
sensation of discomfort. probably but not so
great as that OF the higher animals.
@. How many yards of spaghetti are there
in a pound?-K. M.
A. There are approximately 1o6 yards in
pound Of uncooked spaghetti, standard size.
O. Which is greater the number of Ian
guages in use today. or the number OF dead
languages?-H. B. M.
A. Louis H. Gray in Foundations of Lam
guage" says that 1t is safe to say that the
number of languages dead and vanished IL
far greater, from the times when speech be-
gan, than the number Of those which are liv-
ing or which, II dead, are still remembered
@. OF what does protein consist?-C. Z. w.
A. The term protein does not signify an In
dividual compound. There are innumerable
proteins differing from one another chemically
and physically. They may have identically
the same percentages Of carbon, hydrogen.
oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur and still have
very different properties.
e..
displayed for the national colors, how should
the three colors be used C. S. r.
A. The bunting must be arranged with the
blue on top, or to the left. Blue the color
of the union of the flag, is the honor color.
The white and red follow in that order.
q. What Is the lowest altitude from which
a person can safely parachute from an air
plane?-D D.
A. The lowest altitude at which parachute
may function depends on the speed and the
direction of the airplanes travel at the time
of Jump Any jump from 500 feet or less Is
considered hazardous.
@. What caused men to abandon thss
breeches they had long worn and change to
trousers9-H. P. r.
A. The change is traced TO the effect Of
the French Revolution Trousers were the
costume of the working man as contrasted
with the breeches and hose Of the aristocrat.
with a grain Of salt"?-P. o. W.
A. The use Of the phrase dates back to
Pompey, the Roman general, who added
grain of salt to his suspected drink, an anti
dote for poison.
O. Who invented soda pop?-W. r.
A. In 1907 DR.. Philip Syng Physick, Phila-
delphia physician induced a chemist Town
send Speakman, to prepare carbonated water
for his patients Speakman added fruit juice
as flavor and the soft drink industry was
started in this country.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Hawaii and Statehood

To the Editor Of The Star: f..
Your excellent editorial Call for Senate
Action" in The Star on July 2, is sincerely ap-
preciated by the people of Hawaii
Following passage Of Hawaiis statehood bill
in the House of Representatives on June 30 the
Nations press. in characteristic style, once
again showed its staunch support Of Hawaiis
50-year struggle to obtain statehood Editors
in all 48 States backed statehood for Hawaii.
GEORGE H. McLANE,
Executive Secretary. Hawaii Statehood COM
mission
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Questions and Answers

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Of fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau. 316 street NE, Wsshinston 2. D. c.
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1t over with. He started to talk,
almost blurted out, you're in trou-
BILE, Miss Bigelow. You need help.
You do. You came to me this
morning with 1t written all over
your face. You're afraid of some
thing-something that has nothing
to do with wedding gifts" He made
gesture as if he were waving them
away. "You are afraid. I know"
IT suppose you do" But though
her hand trembled, her eyes were
vacant.
"Tell me what it is. Give me
your confidence. If you want my
help, must have it. What do you
fear? Who is making you afraid?"
'Now I've done it," he cursed to
himself, for she threw him sharp,
haf-angry glance, and got up. He
stumbled to his feet, blind with an
ger at himself, but she was smiling
at two people who were entering
the room.
The girl was all gold. Her skin
tones were coffee and cream, in the
liquid sense of a Laurencin portrait.
She was not beautiful, but her face
had depth and a glow that was
curiously warming. That was it.
She was warm and golden, and you
knew at once that she was intelli-
gent and nice, as well as decora-
tive. Her hair was long, naturally
curly, and of FURNISHED bronze
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Gaudy Costumes
Intrigue Observer

Like every observer, I was i'm
pressed by the Seminole attire. Not
by the men's-they wear conven-
tional garments lightened by a gay
handkerchief about the neck when
they pursue their daily tasks, hunt
on the reservation or loaf in camp.
They have shortened the long skirt
like garment comparable to the
woman's cape) to sport-shirt length,
even in ceremonial dress.
I found only Sam Huff, reputed
to be a medicine man as we'll as
the handy man at the school, wear
ing the long skirt-like garment, plus
the blouse. Some say Sam clings to
this outfit merely because of his
love for the past; others say it may
have something to do with his spe-
clal function as medicine man;
there is whisper that it is a badge
of repentance or punishment for
some past sin. Sam is a grand
father today. He still lives in the
nearby camp with the rest of his
three generations.
The younger men save their CAV
shirts for dress up occasions (the
annual green corn dance and the
hunting dance), but they have
adopted modern trousers. Their
shirts are coverd with complicated
geometric tracery; their scarves
are bound by metal or wooden
clasp; they wear beads or other
brightly-decorated fobs.
The most striking piece of Sem
mole clothing is the womans bill
lowing skirt; next come the beads
which cover her neck from shoulder,
blade to ear tips; then her hair
dress.
Unlike the men, the Seminole
women Except those who have been
completely converted to modern
ways) wear their special garb and
wear it all the time. Consequently,
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server) asks. But they are practi-
cal, say the experts who have seen
them in operation. Through wet 60
ing and wading, they are "histed"
(there are no undergarments to COM
plicate matters). Travelling over
the dry and dusty fields, rife with
snakes and other annoying rep
tiles, they protect the bare feet and
shins. As Miss or Mrs. Seminole
moves forward, toeing in slightly,
according to good Indian custom,
she gently kicks the dragging rim
forward without barring the bare
feet to inquisitive eyes or any flora
or fauna that might obtrude.
The only other cloth garment is
the cape. This is usually a single
solid and bright color matching the
skirt.
The Seminole beads remain. a
mystery. So far, I have been able
to learn little concerning the ORIGIN
purpose or excuse for them beyond
the explanation offered by Agent
Boehmer and supported by his wife:
"They wear them because they
think they're pretty" And what bet
ter reason in any woman's lexi-
con?
1t does seem strange, though, to
see a comely Indian matron, her
skirt tucked high before roaring
fire on hot Florida day, or work
ing vigorously in a tomato patch,
or even strolling through a shop
among, sweltering whites in low cut
dresses or open sport shirts, with
perhaps rs pounds (they have been
weighed) of beads in solid collar
rising as high as the whalebone-
enforced "chokers" American girls
wore in the first decades of the
1905.
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they always look dressed up"
The hairdress, an innovation and
highly practical one, dates back
only some six or seven years. The
woman's smooth black hair is
brought forward over a semi-circu-
lar cardboard form like the wide
peak of a cap. This gives her the
appearance of peering at you from
underneath a wide, circular hat
brim, and is achieved easily with
out the aid of the beauty shop and
virtually without mirrors. Further
more, the couture is one develop
ment that has no connection with
the White Mans culture.