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Evening star., 1948-01-09
information Program Boost

The varying fortunes OF the state De-
partment's Voice of America radio pro-
gram have taken a decided turn for the
better as result of two new develop
ments The first was the unanimous ap-
proval by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee of bill to provide basic legal
authority for the broadcasts. The second
was the appointment of George v. Allen,
now Ambassador to Iran, as Assistant Sec
retary of State for Public Affairs
The bill reported by the Senate COM
naittee is a substitute for the Mundt bill
which passed the House. last year. The
proposed legislation reflects the views OF
the Joint committee which toured Europe
the past summer and found urgent need
of a well-considered and well-rounded
eign-information program. 1t will pro-
vide the statutory authority which the
existing program lacks and which Repre-
sentative Taber of New York insists on as
a prerequisite to further appropriations
The measure would set up two advisory
commissions, appointed by the President
to recommend general policies governing
broadcasting and exchange of students be-
tween this country and other nations
Passage of this authorization would pave
the way for consideration of appropria-
tions to effect the program. Opposition
to the information plan has dwindled no
ticeably as result of flrsthand observa-
tions by the congressional travellers.
Mr.. Allen is good choice as successor
to William Benton, who had number OF
congressional critics. The youthful diplo-
mat (he is only forty-four) is career
man in the State Department with a
background of newspaper experience, after
graduation from Harvard. He proved to
be an intelligent and resourceful foreign
service officer in difficult wartime assign
ments. There is good reason to believe
that his appointment will meet with ap-
proval at the Capitol and elsewhere and
that the tagging foreign-information pro-
gram will derive a real lift from his
leadership.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Speaks Up for Civil Service

10 the Editor Of The Star:
wish people would stop picking on the
Civil Service Commission. Last Saturday, you
printed letter under the caption Plight Of
Career Employees" The author Of the letter
was bitter because he had not gotten job
under the commissions program to help dis
placed career employees. That writer said that
other agencies circumvent the commissions
orders with respect to hiring does. Evidently
he was unaware Of the limit to which the COM
mission can go to get does back on the rolls.
The commission has not land never had) the
authority to order any one to be hired. 1t can
land does) see that agencies do not retain
nonstatus people in jobs for which there are
qualified and available does 1t has set up
a procedure to help the unemployed careerists
and to get agency cooperation in the place.
ment program, and it is enforcing the displace-
ment of temporary workers from jobs which
does are qualified for and available to fill.
The commission cannot interfere with re-
assignments made within the employing
agencies. If internal personnel adjustments
are made within the agencies, even though they
be only devices to circumvent the dee pro-
gram rules, why blame the commission for
that? The appointing officers who take such
steps df any do) are the ones to glover at.
The writer Of the January letter apparently
was discouraged at not being re-employed; he
suggests there are many like him. That is
quite likely, and it may remain that way, for
among the does for whom the commission is
trying to find jobs are many construction en-
gineers, naval architects, auditors statisticans,
administrative officers, and industrial special
disqualified and available for jobs paying
$4,000 to $1,000 in the Washington area. Such
persons avidly were sought and greatly appre-
ciated during the war, but who needs such
specialists and technicians now-and at those
salaries? Would the complainant have jobs
invented for these does? If vacancies in
specialized work do not exist is it the COM
missions fault?
I am told that about 20 per cent Of the
does seeking work In the Washington area
through the commissions program now live
In distant States; when they were separated
from their jobs here they went back home It
seems to me those people are not Washingtons
problem careerists now. If Dee Susie chooses
to return to Oregon or New York, should she
expect Washington appointing officer to
be much interested in hiring her-by mail?
There are many angles to the situation and
embittered attacks by disgruntled individuals
who don't know the whole story are not helpful
to the general welfare. I think the Civil
Service Commission honestly is doing every
thing In its power to help those who are de-
serving Of, and available for, such help
BETSY DEKEMA.
Evening star., 1948-01-09

they were supposed to use them also for pick
ing up papers.
1t is by now common knowledge that main
tenance is not being carried or. in darlington
according to minimum standards of health and
decency. Our hot water supply has been short
and sporadic, heat is supplied in spurts and
then the apartments become cold again, our
Easements are full of uncollected garbage and
vermin. our grounds are constantly messy and
unkempt. All these things we have endured
SO far, but this business Of armed thugs pa
trolling our lawns and standing guard beside
our back doors is the last straw. MRS r.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Seek What Is Possible

Men grow up When they come to knop
What best is held and best let go,
And winnotOing the good from III
Then seek out what Is possible:
Then learn to take 1otat lone Is gtDen,
TO steer the course Dhence they are drtoen
And dream but dreams that are not strange
TO faculty and touktng range
ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Stars, Men and Atoms
Areas of Bruin Churted
For Euch Muscle Of Body
Control by Specific Cells Found And
Current Effects Are Noted
By Thomas X. Henry

ny HonDdS N. II enfy
NEW HAVEN, Conn, JAN s-Accurate plot
ting out Of the role Of the forward part Of the
cerebellum-to show how each muscle in the
body can be speeded up or inhibited by elec-
trical tmpulses-has been performed by Yale
Medical School Psychologists here.
The cerebellum Is located In the hind part
OF the brain and its essential function Is to
control the stability OF the body and co-ordi-
nation Of movements.
The major section Of the brain associated
with movement is the motor cortex Of the
cerebrun or top Of the brain Here specific
groups of brain cells control the movements
Of each muscle Of the body. When an electric
current is applied at one point a finger. or per-
haps only one Joint Of . finger, will move.
Stimulation Of another point will cause an eye
lid to move, while another point stimulation
will move toe. Thus it is for the entire body.
Responses Mapped.
When the parts Of the body responding are
mapped on the brain areas which caused their
movement. there results figure Of little man
standing on his head.
Precisely the same situation now has been
found in the cerebellum of the dog, cat and
monkey, and the figure obtained is that of
short, fat man standing on his head.
Sucn l0callzaCiOn Is not EVIDENT from Stln1u-
lation Of the cortex of the cerebellum alone.
When. however, a current was applied to a
specific point on the cerebral motor cortex-
for example, the group Of nerve cells which
move the first joint Of the little finger on the
left hand-it was possible to find q specific
point on the cerebellar surface where stimuli
taneous stimulation would greatly modify the
movement.
Current Frequency Tests
It was found that when . current with .
frequency Of about 90 cycles second was ap-
piled to the serebellum the movement on
stimulation Of the motor cortex was consider
ably decreased or might disappear altogether.
Between frequencies OF $50 and 1000 cycles a
second, however, the effect was reversed and
the movement caused by stimulation of the
cerebral cortex was greatly exaggerated on the
addition of cerebellar stimulation.
It Is believed that in actual life such varia-
tions Of frequency arrive in the cerebellum to
slow down or speed up muscular contractions
so as to permit co-ordinated movement.
The Yale work is being carried out by Drs L.
r. Minis, F. E. Nulsen, s. P. W. Black, and c.
q. Drake.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Pint-for-Pint Blood Credit
70 the Editor of The Star:

70 the Editor Of The Star:
Mr. Buchanan's article on the Washington
Blood Bank was both timely and informative;
but am wondering If those who are promoting
this worthwhile project are not missing the
subtle point back of Washington's lack of
blood reserves.
When people refuse to support worth while
project-whether it be local blood bank or
their Community Chest-something needs cor
recting. In this case think people resent the
idea OF being asked to give pint Of blood
for everybody's use but their own-while they
are to be charged double if they should ever
need some. That kind of feeling doesn't
make sense, and it doesn't fill blood banks.
Why not, then, credit every donor on a pint
for-a-pint basis and let the costs of processing
1t come from the blood banks we'll filled Golfers?
That would make sense, and am sure it would
fill the local bank in short order.
At least 1t would bring in another pint
mine! P. E. T..
Evening star., 1948-01-09

and serves to promote that balance and
stability among nations that will insure
to each the right Of self-determination."
In sum, until there is genuine disarma-
ment and collective security, our Navy
must remain pre-eminent for the sake of
our own peace and the worlds as well.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Artists Prosecution Regretted

To the Editor OF The Star:
The recent prosecution of the artist Hans
van Meegeran by the judicious and prudent
Dutch is blot on the Netherlands. To me
such action Is typical Of all Europe-living too
much with the past
I am Of what my Grandmother called
'ePennsylvania Dutch" descent. These United
States are larger and greater than Pennsyl-
vania. I am hllmbly grateful
FRANCES TOWNSEND TRAAdA6EIL.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Another Complaint from darlington

Another Complaint from darlington
To the Editor Of The Star:
Having just returned to my darlington home
from the hospital I believe you will under
stand my CONSERVATION when my welcome con-
sisted in the scene described below which took
place the following morning:
We were awakened by cacophony Of yells
and shouting and upon looking out OF our
front window saw first q line Of peaceful and
unarmed pickets marching up and down the
sidewalk. Beside them in the street were
parked three police cars. Crossing the lawn
were group of approximately 80 men carry
ing axe handles brooms sticks, etc. From the
rear window we saw gathered around the cell
lar entrance, which is right next to OUR back
door, a group Of about eight men all dressed
In white coats, and standing approximately four
feet apart. Each Of them carried stick about
as long as cane tipped either with . weight
or q nail We asked them what was going on
and were told that on the record" they were
the guards for the new maintenance work.
ers." Their sticks were to be used In case OF
trouble, although for purposes Of appearance
Evening star., 1948-01-09

Add to things that, might better have
been said another way: 1.-The War Assets
Administration is unloading 375,0OO pairs
of dice as surplus"
Evening star., 1948-01-09

The Soviet discoverer of a new kind of
gravity may only have encountered this
strange development in prices: What goes
up, stays there az.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
This andThat
By Charles E. TraceUeU

Dear Sir
IT thought you and your many readers would
be glad to hear how our sparrows behaved on
that rainy New Years Day.
my wife and always have catered to these
little birds, though many people seem to hate
them.
"As you have stated many times, common
sparrow is as hungry in the cold as the finest
chickadee.
1--WE have built up daily attendance of
perhaps 100 English sparrows Their numbers
give something not afforded by any other
species
with them freely feed the song sparrows
and the beautiful cardinals and chickadees, and
titmice dash in from time to time.
There is absolutely no question of keeping
other birds out If the latter do not come, it
Is their own fault.
'The sparrows on that rainy day put on a
real songfest.
"They sat in the bushes and sang and sang,
all together boys, in intervals between eating.
1.-THE chirping became louder and louder, in
pleasing contrast with the increasing gloom of
the day.
This was the first time this winter that our
sparrows had put on such a singing lesson. I
know that some of the books have spoken of
their harsh notes, but listening to them could
hear nothing harsh or unpleasant about them.
quite to the contrary this sparrow music
was soft and beautiful, each chirp pleasant in
itself, and the combination as effectively
blended as that of the notes of some good
human quartet
There was no gloom in our house that
gloomy day, because it was entirely surrounded
by sweet chirping.
Sparrow music frightened our home.
Yours truly, w. M. p"
The effects Of weather on birds and small
animals are pronounced.
T.. H.
effect will be, since the unknown factors are
so many.
Old tales said that it would rain when cats
slept on the back of their heads, but modern
observation cannot confirm this.
The very sort of day which might seem dismal
to human being may affect birds and animals
in just the reverse.
rain in the least From our own observation,
we think such a day rather pleases them.
They are perhaps more inclined to sing in
chorus on such day.
gloomy rainy day will make house cats
curl up to sleep all day, while it may make
dogs restless.
The effect of weather on birds and animals
is partly the effect of variations of temperature.
House cats like q cool house. They are on
the side of heat conservation. Much of their
lethargy is due one may believe, to too warm
q home.
Let the house cool off to ss or TO degrees,
and watch Tom or Tabby come to life.
The animal will leap and run. This Is not
to be wondered at, since fundamentally they
are outdoor animals and are furred to take
the coldest days and nights.
Let us hope that in the new year more
and more persons interested in nature will
begin to accept birds and small animals as
they come to their yards, putting aside as far
as possible dislikes and concentrating more on
likes.
In this way, We believe, they in time will get
more pleasure and happiness from their OBJ
servations, and come to wonder how 1t ever
because some one animal or bird they thought
they did not like was 80 bold rs to be hungry
IN the cold.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star formation
Bureau 316 I street NE, washington 2. D. c.
Please ipclose 8 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1948-01-09

Petticoats return to fashion, though 1t
is doubtful If today's chic miss will have
to do as her great-grandpother did
husk herself before retiring.
Evening star., 1948-01-09
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,0riter, although it lis permissible for
,oriter kno,on to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1948-01-09

hey were supposed to use them also for pick
Evening star., 1948-01-09

@. Under what conditions is the Soldiers
Medal awarded?-A. p.
A. A Soldiers Medal is awarded for heroism
not involving actual conflict with the enemy
This medal entities an enlisted man to So a
month additional pay The pay is given while
the man is on active duty only.
Evening star., 1948-01-09

@. Was Beethoven big man?-W. H.
A. Beethoven's height was not more than
feet S inches. He was broad across tf
shoulders and firmly built.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
Sweden's Political
Course Defined
In Four Points

GOTHENBURG { A ir MaiD -
The Swedish people observes the
cleavage of the world into an East
ern and a Western bloc with great
anxiety" said the Swedish Prime
Minister, Tage Erlander, in a
speech in Gothenburg. 1T is i'm
portant to make clear. at home
and abroad, Sweden's independent
political course, in order to avoid
any misunderstanding. 1t can be
defined in four sentences" the
Prime Minister said: IF g h t
against the enemies of democracy
at home; defense of Sweden's ma
tional independence; freedom from
alliances and engagements which
would make Sweden a pawn in
the international struggle for
power; and, finally, wholehearced
participation in the collaboration
for the economic reconstruction of
Europe
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
Norway Returns
Borrowed Rifles

NEW YORK, N. Y. = NorWe-
gian hunters and sportsmen who
volunteered their rifles to the Ner-
wegian armed forces at the time
of that country's invasion by the
Germans in 1910 will soon receive
compensation. According to a re-
cent decision by Norway's ministry
of Defense, everyone who gave
his weapon at that time will re-
ceive a high-powered Krag Jorgen-
sen army rifle. Ammunition vol
unteered to the Norwegian forces
will be repaid with doners receiv-
ing the same number of cartridges
that they gave.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
Norway To Extract
Insulin From Whales

NEW YORK, N. RMS :
Aboard Norway's newest whaling
factory ship, the 'ThorshoVdi'
launched in Denmark in mid-April,
will be a modern hospital and lab
oratory designed by the D n S h
physician William Sterling. TO-
gether with DR.. H. c. Hagedorn
the Danish insulin specialist who
has just returned from 3 months
of research in the Antarctic, DR..
Sterling has been investigating the
possibility of extracting insulin
from the pancreatic glands of
whales I'm the Wrale," notes DR..
Sterling this gland reaches a
weight of rs ky. while the pam
create gland of pig, from which
insulin is normally extracted,
weighs a mere rs grams Though
insulin content of the whole glad
is 500 lower, it will nevertheless
provide over 500 times more insu-
lin than the present source as it
is over 1000 times larger "Ex-
traction will be fairly expensive
continued DR.. Sterling, but money
cannot be decisive when it is q
matter of saving human life. In
many countries people are dying
each day due to the present high
cost of insulin.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
Swedish Exhibition for
Pioneer Centennial
In Middle West

STOCkHOLM,-(By wireless)-
An exhibition of photographs, de-
p!cting modern Sweden in many
different phases as a tourist
country and as a progressive ma
ton in the realm of social well
fare - will be shown in more than
twenty cities in the Middle West
in connection with the Swedish
Pioneer Centennial this summer.
The exhibition, which also high
lights Swedish business, industry,
trade, labor, transportation, as
we'll as the country's cultural life,
consists of twenty-six folding
screens which can be transported
easily on, a truck and be put up
in varying combinations, depend
ing upon the space available. 1t
has been devised and designed by
Anders Beckman, who was re-
sponsible for much of the statisti-
cal and pictorial data about Swe-
den shown in the Swedish Pavilion
at the New York Worlds Fair,
and is being arranged in coopera-
ton with the Swedish Institute
and at the request of the Pioneer
Centennial Swedish Committee
The way in which Mr.. Beckman
has solved the difficult problem
of the portable screens is praised
in the Swedish press, Svenska
Dagbiadet, emphasizing that it
constitutes fine example of mod
ern Swedish exhibition technique.
There are two hundred photo
graphs in all, enlarged to heroic
dimensions. each picture accomp-
anied by an explanatory caption
in English. When the show arrives
in the United States, several color
photographs, taken by Goran AL
gard, will be added Mr. Algaard,
one of Swedens foremost color
cameramen, is now in New York.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01

Edgar Bergen is leaving in the
S Wv d i s h American motorliner
Stockholm" which sailed from
Pier 81, Mr., Saturday, June 5.
Travelling with a photographer,
Mr.. Bergen is going to film a
travelogue in Sweden which will
be the first of series. The mar
ratcT will be the world-famous
wooden star Charlie (AxeD Nc
Carthy. Mrs. Bergen is making
her first trip to Sweden. The Ber-
gems will also visit Denmark, Eng
land and France before returning
in the "Gripsholm, July 30.
Among the 395 passengers sail
ing are Hans Kraepelien, presi-
dent of l.. M. Erickson, with his
family; A. Sobolev, assistant sec
rotary general of the United Ma
lions, accompanied by his wife;
Mrs. Helen Nelson Englund, secre-
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01

tary of the Chicago Chapter Of
the American Scandinavian Foun-
dalton; Erik Handelin, director of
the Finnish Red Cross and secre-
tary of Mannerheim League of
Child Welfare; Miss Kay Marten,
free lance writer doing an article
on Sweden for Mccall and other
magazines; and the artist Michael
Werboff, who is returning to do
another portrait of the King of
Sweden, who will be ninety years
of age on June Is.
Others on board are r. A. l..
Eriksen, executive officer of Pub
lie Information at United Nations,
with Mrs. Eriksen Hedge S. Ploug-
mann, we'll known Danish tennis
player, Consul General Sven ka-
rell, Swedish consul in Lima, Peru,
and Mrs karell.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
Sweden Has Telephone
Contact With Most
Parts of the World

STOCKHOLM (SI.PB.) - Most
of the telephone communications
between Sweden and other coun-
tries that were severed during the
war have now been restored Dur
ing the last few months traffic
to Germany. Portugal, Japan and
Java was resumed.
The communication to Portugal
is maintained by wire to Switzer-
land and from there by radio tele-
phone, while there are direct lines
to Berlin, Hamburg and Frank
furt -am-Main. After this extern
sion Sweden has telephone con-
tact with all European countries
except Albania, Gibraltar, Greece,
Spain and Turkey. The communi-
cations with Eastern Europe go via
a direct line to Prague, and there
is also telephone contact with
Moscow and Leningrad, via Hell
singfors.
Many oversee countries can now
be reached from Sweden. There
is a lively traffic to North Amer
lea and, moreover. there are COM
munications with most of the Lat
in American countries. The traf-
fic to the Dutch Indies, just open
ed, goes via Amsterdam. and to
Japan by two radio connections
via New York. Sweden is. how
ever. still lacking telephone con-
nections with. among other coun-
tries, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa, owing to the fact
that the London station transmit
ting these calls is already being
utilized to capacity.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
First Jet Fighters To
Norway Air Force

NEW YORK, N. Y. Four
Vampire Mark 3's, the first jet
propelled fighters to be added to
the Norwegian Air Force, arrived
at Gardemoen Field, Oslo during
the first week of May Purchased
in England, they are to be tested
under Norwegian weather condi-
tons and if satisfactory will pos
sibly be followed by later orders
of the same model. The Vampires
are powered by Goblin jetmotors
and are armed with cannons.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01

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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01

At Easter the Swedish people
were again allowed hot water in
their apartments. The Fuel Com
mission decided that houses heat
ed with coal could use hot water
during the period March 1871
that is, about a fortnight. In oil
heated houses, the hot water pc
Rod lasted only one week, March
1925.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-06-01
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Bergen With Charlie
Mccarthy On The Stockholm" Gangplank

Famous Wooden Star AS AXel Mccarthy Among 800
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