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changes nave occurred-partIcuIarIy the
development Of practical sound tracks;
but every film manufactured in the past
thirty-four years has been indebted to the
original spectacle which Mr.. Griffith put
together out of his own Imagination, skill
and Judgment.
Perhaps the most important element of
his success was his excellence of taste. He
was an intellectual aristocrat in the con-
structive meaning Of that phrase, and he
possessed the power to educate others to
a similar capacity for fine discrimination.
A whole school of young actors attained
stellar status through their association
with him. Mary Pickford, the Gish sisters,
Mae Marsh Owen Moore. Alice Joyce,
Richard Barthelmess Blanche Sweet,
Robert Harron, even Lionel Barrymore rose
to fame through his guidance. The list of
the features" he sponsored reached al
most five hundred. Many of the best Of
them carried poignant social messages
'1ntolerahce," Broken Blossoms" "Or-
phans of the Storm" America, j" abraham
Lincoln" and "The Struggle" among the
number.
Mr.. Griffith himself was a dramatic
story. His career was marred by tragedy
on repeated occasion. He felt his losses
keenly, and as he grew older the pathos
of human life in an era of confusion de-
pressed him profoundly. But he kept his
appreciation of the beauty of the world
to the last, and it must have comforted
him to remember that he had contributed
to it as distinctively as any other member
of his generation
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Koreu's First Citizen

1t is not surprising that DR.. Syngman
Rhee has been elected the first President
of the Korean Republic by vote Of
1870 to 16 in the newly organized National
Assembly at Seoul For the greater part
of his adult life, he has been foremost
among his countrymen in the struggle for
independence. Educated largely in Amer
lean schools, and particularly well known
here in Washington, he has done more
than any OF his compatriots to advance
the cause of democratic self-government
in his native land. The presidential Office
is fitting reward.
But DR.. Rhee, who Is "a years old, as
sumes his new duties under heavy handi-
caps. Because of the policy of the Soviet
Union, the Korean people have not been
allowed to establish themselves politically
or economically on a countrywide basis.
Those living in the Russian zone of occu-
patton were denied the right to take part
in the elections staged recently under the
supervision of the United Nations. The
vote was therefore limited to Southern
Korea, the American zone. To make mat
ters worse, the Kremlin dominated puppet
regime to the north, branding the freely
elected National Assembly at Seoul as
"traitorous," intends to hold a rival vote
next month and thus do its best-on orders
from Moscow-to keep the Koreans divided
and in chaos.
Under the best of circumstances because
OF great multiplicity of political parties,
President Rhee-who advocates relatively
progressive program despite being loosely
criticized as an extreme rightist"
face difficult task even if his country
were united and the occupation troops
Withdrawn. Soviet policy-a policy aimed
at total dominance-has made that task
many times more difficult But he has
certain advantages. To begin with, the
overwhelming majority of the Korean
people-two-th thirds of whom live in the
American zone-regard him as their first
citizen. Above all, the overwhelming
majority of the United Nations, having
helped to bring it about with free cleo
tions, recognizes and supports his govern
ment as the only legitimate Korean
authority-a recognition the northern
Communist puppets will never enjoy.
These acknowledgement personal popu-
larity and the backing of the United
Nations-should be of more than little
help to President Rhee in coping with the
handicaps before him. Certainly no Korean
is as we'll equipped as he to guide the
country through the first stages Of its
independence. Militantly anti-Communist
and wide-awake to the threat of Russian
dominance, he can be. counted upon not
to spare himself in the effort to unite his
the U. N. gives him unfiagging support,
the Kremlin may yet be persuaded to
abandon its wrecking tactics and begin
playing, at long last, good neighbor's
role
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FOR example, that fewer women were In
volved in accidents because men drivers
saw them coming and took proper pre-
cautions? Could 1t be that this tendency
at times amounting to frantic urge-to
stay out Of the way of women drivers
caused any of the accidents attributed to
men? And could back-seat driving have
had anything to do with the mishaps
which befell so many men? It Is safe to
assume that men will be inclined to take
the Virginia survey with grain of salt
until such man-like questions as these are
answered to their satisfaction.
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ing glimpse of Goshen brought flooding mem
ories of days that come not back.
There, nestled among untrimmed trees, was
dilapidated house, once the home Of q re-
markable woman whom knew in those early
years She lived there in Goshen which, in
that horse and-buggy day, was far more iso-
lated than now in this age of motors and
radios Long since that woman has gone from
this mortal stage. The only reason her face
and form are framed forever in my boyhood
album Of memories is that while she lived in
Goshen she lived at the same time in vaster
world. If as individuals we are as large as our
interests and our sympathies, then she was big
person. In all that country and beyond she
was spoken of as "a missionary woman" That
little white church near her home was place
where before the gaze of the oncoming, fresh
generations a map of the world was unveiled
and where q message for the world was pro-
claimed.
Words cannot express what our Nation owes
to its churches, great and. small, city and coun-
try, which, in spite of unhappy divisions, have
lifted from the beginning the conception Of
one world and one worldwide brotherhood of
all humanity. Politics has just caught up with
what the church has always taught, that any
doctrine Of provincalism ends at last in dis
aster.
This Goshen woman gave her time and
talent to carry the light of the Christian way
of living to those who half world away from
her little home sat in darkness. All that part
Of the State knew her as a flaming evangel
whose passion and vision belted the globe and
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IN the neighboring
village. Most of the
scattered h ouses,
weather-beaten and
forlorn, seem to be
crying out for re-
freshing paint to COW
er the wear and tear
Of the hostile ele-
ments. The modern
highway along which
we sped was an invi-
tation to get through
all that stagnant Sec
ton as quickly as pos
sible. But the fleet.
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Falkland Islands
Fifty Years AGO

The capitulation Of the Spanish forces in
Santiago was announced in The Star Of July
IA, 1898. All of the eastern
Sontioqo end of Cuba, 1t was ex-
Surrendered planned, fell into American
hands with the surrender of
Gen. Toral. Terms drawn up by Maj. Gen. W.
R. Shafter had been approved by officers Of
the War Department, and it was agreed that
Spanish troops would be returned to Spain.
This transportation Of prisoners represented a
considerable problem. Ships of foreign gov
ernment, The Star learned on good authority,
might be engaged for the work. Meanwhile,
peace rurnors were numerous. The war ap-
peared to be drawing to close.
In the society column Of The Star for July
Is, 1898, 1t was mentioned that Prince Victor
Emanuel, Count Of Turin, was ex-
Itolion pected to arrive at Newport. r. l..
Prince shortly. He would be accom-
panied by his aide de camp, Sgnor
Carpeneto and would be the guest OF Mrs.
John Thompson Spencer, who would give a
reception and dinner for him. The royal
visitor could not know that in few days more
than two years he would be King Of Italy-by
the assassination of his father, Humbert I, by
an anarchist.
on July 16, 1898, has been hidden to Windsor
to see the Queen and made
Mrs. Johnston the call last Monday. Mrs.
Al Windsor Johnston, as Miss Harriet
Lane, the fair young mistress
OF the White House for her uncle, President
Buchanan, entertained the Prince of Wales
during his stay, and naturally her name is re-
tanned in the memory Of the Queen as that
of most charming woman" References in
this item, Of course, are to Queen Victoria and
her son. later King Edward VII Mrs. john
ston, one OF the celebrated hostesses of her
time, is remembered in Washington today espe-
cally for her bequests of artistic treasures to
the Smithsonian Institution and her gift Of
the bronze monument to her uncle in Meridian
Hill Park.
cable from Paris, printed in The Star Of
July 10, 1898, chronicled the conviction of the
novelist Emile Zola and Perreux,
ZoIo publisher of the Aurore, ION the
To Jail charge of libel brought against
them by the officers of the Ester
hazy court-martia1." The proceedings grew
out of their activities In behalf Of Capt Alfred
Dreyfus, famous victim Of racial prejudice.
sentenced to Devils Island for alleged treason
In 1894 Zola had appealed the whole case to
the President of the republic in letter en-
titled "J'accuse" Opinion in France gradu-
ally was changing and the novelists campaign
had much to do with the alteration In senti-
ment Though condemned in absentia to serve
a year in Jail, Zola emerged from the trial
hero. Dreyfus was pardoned in 1899 and COM
pletely rehabilitated" in 1906. He survived his
benefactor 80 years.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the American
Federation of Labor, was sitting in judgment
on District suffrage half q CEN
Mr.. Gompers' tury ago. The Star for July
Heorino 10. 1898. reported that he
would hear AL persons either
favoring or opposing" votes for residents Of
washington. individuals desiring to express
their views wers to 90 before Mr.. Goznpers ct
Evening star., 1948-07-25

Some Democrats think they may win control
of the Senate in November even If they lose
the presidency. They need only net gain
of four seats to overcome the present Repub-
lican lead Of 81 to 45 Only four Democratic
seats outside the solid Democratic South are
at stake. but 1S Republican seats are on the
election block.
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YET whose UNDERSTANDING ana loving klndneSS
made Goshen better and bigger place.
Many years have fed since them. But,
passing through Goshen and thinking Of that
world-minded servant Of humanity who made
that village the center Of q crusade of mercy
and help which knew no frontier. found
myself recalling the lines Of Edgar Frank:
How can you live in Goshen7'
Said friend from afar.
This wretched country town
Where folks talk little things all year
And plant their cabbage by the moon
Said I. I do not live in Goshen;
eat here, sleep here, work here;
I live In Greece,
Where Plato taught
And Phidias carved
And Epictetus wrote:
I dwell in Rome,
Where Michelangelo wrought
In color, form and mass;
Where Cicero penned immortal lines
And Dante sang undying songs.
"A thousand souls have left for me
Enchantment that transcends
Both time and place
And so live in Paradise,
Not here"
These lines appeared in a well-known church
journal. minister reading them wondered
how one could so easily lose the social vision
and join company SO complacently with those
who prefer Paradise to Goshen. He expressed
In letter to the editor his disapproval of that
aloofness Of attitude to the place where one
happened to reside
The Goshen poem was afterward answered
by one who sent lines which were printed in the
same weekly periodical which had published
the original Goshen poem:
mo! So you don't live in Goshen.
You eat there, sleep there,
Draw from there your life,
And live in sunny Italy and Greece.
Perhaps, if you should live in Goshen
Since you know Rome and Greece and
Paradise
The small talk might grow larger and
men come
To plant their dreams and not their cabbage
in the moon.
If you should live in Goshen,
They and you might see
New worlds Of life and peace
Now hid from them and thee"
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'Cuution' in West Europe

Whatever may have occurred in the
closely guarded discussions of its military
committee the meeting of the Consultative
Council of the Western European Union
disclosed one unmistakable fact. This is
that France the strategic linchpin on the
continent, cannot be depended on to back
a policy toward Soviet Russia which might
precipitate war in the immediate future.
It did not need the sudden fall Of the
Schuman cabinet to demonstrate this fact
Even before that disturbing event, Foreign
Minister Bidault had made proposals for
the creation of European Union which,
no matter how theoretically desirable, are
at present so impracticable that they con-
stitute sort of political escapism from
the grimness of current realities.
However unpalatable to us, the reasons
for French undependability should be
candidly considered and appreciated on
this side of the ocean. The French are
proverbially logical people. They know
only too we'll that, in war this year, the
Red Army could not be stopped by any
western power combination in its march
to the Atlantic and the English Channel.
This would be true even though they had
our unqualified pledge to fight Russian
aggression-which they do not now possess
And it is equally true that we are in no
position to rearm them adequately at the
present time The same holds true for the
Benelux trio-Belgium, the Netherlands
and Luxembourg.
France and the Low Countries thus face
the virtual certainty that they would be
engulfed by the Red tide in the opening
stages of war, no matter how that war
might eventually terminate. And the con-
sequences of Red conquest would be for
them so catastrophe that even the con-
temptation of this eventuality fills French
public opinion with paralyzing fear. Small
wonder that, under these circumstances,
the French seek desperately for some way
to avert, or at least to adjourn, a show
down In the crucial contest between East
and West.
Just how this reluctance of the conti-
mental members of the West European
Union can be squared with a policy of
adequate firmness on the part of the
entire western bloc to Soviet intransi-
geance remains to be seen Few unpreju-
uAI0o ooSeA'oiS WILL oeAy oAidt pdChooWu
by the West on the Berlin issue would
constitute a diplomatic disaster which
would eventually increase rather than
diminish the likelihood of war. Yet
France and its small associates on the
continent shrink instinctively from being
made the first casualties in such struggle.
Self-preservation, even for the moment,
Is a reaction as natural as it is inevitable
nF.....l...Ak. L.I..-
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By Gerard d. Reilly

AFL headquarters, 423 @ street NV. the fol-
lowing evening. He would give them ample
opportunity to state their opinions. Then,
after pondering the evidence, he would notify
the next convention OF his organization as to
his decision. The Central Labor Union already
had gone on record as favoring District sufI-
rage.
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Prices

Government price experts say they see little
light ahead on the price horizon They say
only few types OF goods have shown any
sign Of dropping recently and that the drop
has been very small The week ending July
10 these items were of slightly: Farm products,
chemicals industrial fats and oils, hides and
leather, building materials textiles. Even so,
they were all noticeably higher than a year
ago. And this past week the Bureau of Labor
Statistics disclosed that both its wholesale
price index and its consumers price index had
hit all-time highs.
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Spires of the Spirit
Where Do You Live?
Return to Goshen Brings Memories of
Woman With World.Mind


The vacation road, which ends at the edge
of the blue Atlantic, passed through Goshen
a sunburned. drowsy little hamlet, as small and
now as when was barefoot lad
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"A Massachusetts, pastor believes mar
ried couples would quarrel less If they
used the techniques of hypnotism." The
cautious experimenter will stand well back
as the little woman snaps out of the
trance.
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France.Germanv

PARIS-A foreign ministry spokesman says
there is no truth in the story" that France
is pushing the United States and Britain for
talks with Russia on Germanys future.
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VA Doctors

The Veterans Administration expects it will
take the American Medical Association at least
until 1850 to approve many OF its hospitals for
inferno training. Congress has authorized VA
to put young doctors all the way through in
terneshp, residency and finally speciality
training But large hospitals. at least, will not
allow doctors to practice if they haven't been
trained in an AMA-approved hospital. This
is for the protection of the patient. VA ex-
poets 70 out of its 126 hospitals to be approved.
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for AF Post

Representative Carl Hinshaw, Republican, OF
California, is under consideration as secretary
Of the Air Force If Mr.. Dewey wins in
November.
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Marine Flyers

The Marine Corps is moving two fighter
squadrons from the West Coast to the East
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Greek Police

LONDON.-Onicials say they expect Greel
request that British mission continue train
ing Greek police will be fulfilled.
Prices
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IOOk1ng Ahead Some Shadows of Coming Events
A11N'" Are Noted Here and abroad


Coast. Onicial explanation is to balance
forces on the two coasts.
A Marine jet fighter squadron led by 1t. Col
Marion Carl, world speed record holder, has
just completed an unpublicized tour around
the country's borders.
Pure Wafer
Army doctors have two projects under con-
sideration for testing Decentralization tablets
made Of an iodine compound. One is on the
entire water system Of some military establish
ment. the other on individual soldiers canteens.
Falkland Islands
LoNDoN.-Miles Clifford, governor of the
Falkland Islands, will give the colonial ofice
frst-hand reports on occupation Of British
ruled areas by Argentina.
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Pnshbuffons

BISLEY, England.-Field Marshal Lord
Montgomery, chief Of the imperial general
staff, doesn't think the time of pushbutton
warfare has arrived Further, do not believe
that the day of the rifle is done," he told the
National Rifle Association.
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Satellites

Russia may be having more trouble with
Its satellite states than has shown up 80 far
1t is now shipping them such heavy manu-
factured goods IS trucks, tractors and some
types Of airplanes Russia needs these things
badly itself, and the fact that it is selling
some to its neighbors indicates to trade experts
here that 1t Is having to treat them gently.
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Red Blockade

Talk of an economic blockade Of Russia gives
rise to caution from some Government trade
authorities. They point out that the Soviets
could retaliate by refusing to let Eastern Eu-
rope sell to Western Europe. Western Europe
then would have to look elsewhere for much
food and raw material.
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Flu Vaccine

Tae Army plans to discontinue vaccination
of troops against influenza at least through the
coming winter 1t says the vaccine needs
further evaluation However vaccine will be
kept on hand
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Latin Trade

Trade with Latin America should stay on the
upswing this year. Our buying around the
world jumped noticeably the first five months
Of 1s48, compared to the same period last year
and most Of 1t was from Latin-America-which
means the Latins have good deal Of where
withal to buy here.
Marine EInRrs
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Ambition and Ability

past, no memories to help weigh
what the experience means. To get
that power, they must live through
the actualities OF life; and these
are q far, far cry from what appears
on the screen, the stage or the bill
boards-a far more penetrating
thing than what they hear on the
radio.
This being so, many-too many
young people aim for things and
places in society, in industry or the
professions for which they are not
fitted because they have no ability,
no deep sense. They lack what the
Scotch kno was the Call" for the
task.
To have this Call for the stage,
for example, the young person must
not only have a sound background
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The Search
Isl On!

The search is on for Miss
Allegro, r. N" The American
Nurses Association, in co-opera-
ton with the Theater Guild, an
nounces a Nation wide contest to
select among the 100000 regis
tered professional nurses on
active duty in the United States
the young woman who "on the
basis of her appearance and
qualifications, best symbolizes the
ideals of the American nursing
profession"
The winning nurse will be given
a weeks stay at the Waldorf
Astoria, New York; will attend
four Broadway hits and 60 to q
back-stage party given in her
honor by the cast of Allegro.
She will be entertained at the
Stork Club and other famous
clubs, after being awarded q cita-
ton as Miss Allegro, r. NJ" in
a presentation ceremony to be
held Monday, July IL. at the
Waldorf Astoria. In addition the
winning nurse will be given six
nylon nurse uniforms patterned
after those worn by Lisa Kirk in
the Rodgers -Hammerstein musi-
cal.
Entry blanks may be obtained
at all State and District nurses
associations. Copies may also be
obtained by writing to. Miss
Allegro, r. N" Contest, p. o. Box
2S3, Radio City Station, New York
10, N. Y. The entry blank must
be accompanied by q 25-cent piece
and a photograph Of the con-
testant taken within the past two
years. The money collected will
be turned over. at the end Of the
contest, to the American Overseas
Aid-U. N. Appeal for Children.
All entries must be postmarked
not later than midnight june %.
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Of culture and reading. a gift for
dramatic Interpretation and pre-
sentation. He also must have an
astounding love for hard work and
abcunding energy to pursue 1t.
What chance, then, has boy who
never has been able to pass his ele-
mentary school grades. who dislikes
work, whose only self-chosen ac-
tivity is sitting in the movie house
got for the profession of Acting?
Yet there are some just like that.
Every profession demands the life
and soul of its professor. There Is
no easy road to the top of any
ladder. Each demands it's price,
and that price is forthcoming out
of the body and bones Of the cam
didate or it does not come.
The girl who would be a movie
star, an actress, singer first must
have fine health, high intelligence
and a sound education to at least
graduate from a secondary school of
recognized standing. College edu-
cation will help still further. She
must have, and this is essential,
q gift for the expression Of the art
she longs to profess. II she has not
these qualifications, has but the
wish, she might find herself a bet
ter place where she can earn her
living.
The same holds for boys and girls
aiming to enter any field of work.
First, they must be fit. Then they
should search for the gift, cultivate
it, work hard at it. One has to do
more than just wish for things. The
ambition should bear some relation
to the ability of the candidate.