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in low 40s this afternoon. Mostly
cloudy tonight. Lowest near 80.
Tomorrow, cloudy and continued
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Maryland-Considerable cloudiness
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morrow, cloudy and continued cold
with snow beginning west portion in
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Virginia-Considerable cloudiness
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morrow, cloudy and continued cold
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Evening star., 1948-12-23

nployeS have been appre-
their future status, de-
S general announcement
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-05-08

National Women's AAU Indoor
Track Meet, last weekend in the
Amos Alonza Stage Field House
the University of Chicago, ran the
80 Meters Hurdles in 11.9 to better
the meet record of 1871, establish
ed by Lille Purifoy (Tuskegee)
in 1916.
Then in the 200 Meters Run,
Audrey Patterson, of Tennessee
State College, who also eclipsed
the American record in that event
in the National Women's AAu
Meet. was clicked at 25.4 to blot
out the old record of 26.0 held by
Jean Lane (Wilberforce) since
1910.
In the junior division, Doris Hill,
of Tuskegee High, shattered the
meet record in the 80 Meters
Aurdles; Arlene Pugh' Charlton
Pollard High School, Beaumont
Texas, lowered the mark in the
200 Meters Run; and Wardell
Brooks, Monroe High, Albany
Georgia, bettered the mark in the
Discas Throw.
In the most thrilling event OF
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-05-08
WOMEN'S SPORTS DAY
CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT TUSKEGEE

ly in the field events to pile up
a cLean-cut verdict. The Camden
girls edged Monroe High, of AL
bany, Georgia, and Booker l..
Washington High, of Atlanta, Ca,
for second place, with Il points.
The Two Georgia high schools had
81 points each.
Coach Nora Smith, of Camden
Academy, had the satisfaction of
seeing her well-balanced foursome
uncover some smooth baton-pass-
ing to win the 400 Meters Relay
for the fourth consecutive year
and she also watched with intrest
her contestant in the so Meters
Run become a four time winner in
that event.
In the first event of the after
noon,-the so Meters Run-Mary
Hardaway, Tennessee State Star
streaked down the ciderpath in
Ga seconds to lower the meet
record of 6.5, set by Lula Hymes
in 1888, and tied by Jean Lane
(Wilberforce) in 1910. She also
tied the world mark, held jointly
by Alice Coachman, (Tuskegee) ;
and Claire Isicson, (Long Island
University.
Theresa Emanuel, Tuskegee's
new hurdles sensations, who clip
ped a 15-year old so Meters mark
by two tenths of a second in the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-05-08

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
April 80, 194S-The fast field of
women track and field stars, in
Guiding several Olympic conten-
ders. competing in the Twentieth
Annual Tuskegee Women's Spourts
Day Championships held here Fri
day in the Alumni Bowl, erased six
meet records and tied a word
mark.
Rolling up 81 points, Tuskegee's
brilliant array of AAU stars re-
taine their crown in the senior di-
vision. The Gold-clad lassies scored
first in three of the track events,
the sc Meters Hurdles, 100 Met
;ers Run and the 400 Meters Re-
'lay-and captured two of the jump
ing and weight events.
Tennessee State College took
second place with victories in two
track and two field events, to
chalk up % points. Also scoring
points in the meet were Arkansas
A. NJ. & N. College, 10; Gambling
College, 10; and Prairie View A.
and M. College A.
Last year the Tuskegee Insti-
tute High School and Camden
Academy thin-clads tied for first
place in the junior division with
3 points each, but this year the
Tdskegee spikesters scored heavi-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-05-08

boys of Alabama, won an award
recently as the owner of a $50
pound calf that was acclaimed the
Grand Champion at the West Ala
bama Fat Stock Show at De
nlopolis, Ala, for farm boys and
girls reports the Alabama State
Extension Service.
Lewis champion won out in
competition with 80 other calves
The animal sold for 55 cents per
pound, bring a total of $544.50.
The show was sponsored by the
Demopolis Chamber of Commerce,
and is one of two annual shows in
whic colored farm youngsters of
Alabama show off their prize ami
mails. The other show is held at
Montgomery.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-05-08
Joe Lewis, Al Boy,
Wins Award With
Grand Champion Calf

Joe Lewis, 1l-year-old Al club
day, the Camden Academy 400
Meters Relay combination beat
the Charlton Pollard speedsters by
a step.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

near future-much nearer perhaps than
the twenty years usually cited by most
other experts atomic energy may be able
to compete economically and otherwise
with coal and oil as source of power for
large-scale peacetime projects. Should
that prove to be the case, the agriculturally
arid and industrially primitive regions OF
the earth will be within reach of revolu-
ton profoundly beneficial to the whole
of humanity.
Although covering only small part OF
the atoms good -and-evil potentialities, DR..
Wigner's report serves as an excellent re-
minder of the imperative need for rigid
international control. In the light of Rus
sia's past and present conduct, the appeal
for such control may be as futile as it is
repetitious. Yet, If the point is made often
enough, even the men of the Kremlin may
come to appreciate that they are not deal
ing here with comic-strip matter but
with reality that can be either an inde-
scribable disaster or blessing for adj man.
kind. Everything depends on how the
peoples and governments of the world
handle it, So far, because of Soviet policy,
the handling has amounted to little more
than a drift toward catastrophe.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Hyderubod CopituIotes

The explosive Hyderabad issue has
been abated by the capitulation OF the
Nizam, the ruler of that refractory princl-
pality The completeness of his surrender
is indicated by his agreement not only TO
call off fighting by his supporters but also
to withdraw his appeal to the United Ma
tions. The chances are that this will eno
the international phase of the matter.
India, u. N. member, contends that Hy-
derabad is not a sovereign state and there
fore has no right of appeal. The Security
Council has expressed interest in the issue,
though without deciding upon Hyderabads S
legal status Now that Hyderabad has it.
self changed it's mind, India's contention
will be strengthened, although conceivaoly
some other u NJ member might take up
the case.
In any event, the Government of India
is now in full control of the situation, and
the outcome of its policy is foregone con-
clusion Presumably, some sort of provi-
sional regime will be set up pending
plebiscite by the inhabitants on the ques-
ton of joining India. Since four-f1fths OF
the population is Hindu, majority in
expected.
Thus, in all probability, ends the resist
ance of the only native state to merger
with the new order established by the
withdrawal of British rule from the sub
continent 1t should be remembered that
the other contentious issue, that of Kash-
mir, stands on different footing. There
the ruling prince, Hindu, has applied for
admission to India and been accepted. The
trouble has been caused by his Moslem sub
jects, many of whom want to join Pakistan
and started a rebellion aided by outside
Moslems which is being fought by Indian
troops as we'll as by the princes local Hindu
forces.
Thus far, the brief war between India
and Hyderabad has caused no open reper-
cussions between India and Pakistan. The
Indian intervention into Hyderabad came
simultaneously with the death of the PAX
istan leader, Jinnah, which threw that
Dominion into confusion and uncertainty.
The quick end of the struggle renders ac-
ton by Pakistan unlikely.
The chances are that India will there
fore confront all interested parties with
the hard logic of an accomplished fact.
Regardless of the somewhat complex
legalities and equities of the issue, India
Is now in full possession. And possession
is proverbially considered to be nine points
of the law.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

best weapon-the element of surprise.
Nowadays the long, sweeping gown the low
neck, the stylish hair-do and the golden
slippers are commonplace. On a bright
day their effect on F street is dazzling
They can be seen parading in and out of
every supermarket and they are installed
behind every office desk. In the old days,
when women dressed as women should for
marketing and Office, they could hope to
take an awary male by surprise with a
sudden appearance in ultra feminine eve
ming attire. But the opportunity has been
thrown away.
The modern male, his senses dulled by
constant exposure to femininity and his
eyes blinded by the sparkle of gold shoes
in the sun, has become too jaded to be
easily shared and led away. Or at least If
still single, he likes to think that this is so.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

many ways Wonderland. But it is not an
enchanted land where everything is possible.
There is nothing our bewildered day needs to
be told more sternly and solemnly than that
we are living in universe where certain propo-
sitions automatically are vetoed AS Gilbert
Chesterton whimsically put it: When you
decide to draw a giraffe you must draw him
with long neck. If in your bold creative way
you hold yourself free to draw giraffe with
a short neck, you will find that you are not free
to draw giraffe"
We glory in our democratic freedom But
one of the fundamental tenets of freedom, If
it is to be kept, is that there are some things
one is not free to do without colliding with the
universe. That was what Amos, the fearless
social reformer of long, long ago, was sensing
as he lifted up truth for his own day. He had
diagnosed the ills of an ailing social order, shot
through with trickery, bribery, exploitation and
injustice.
1t was day so much like ours that we would
not be surprised to find 1t dated 1948. The
leaders back there were endeavoring to do
some things that cannot be done. The old
prophet coined haunting phrase to suggest
the ultimate in futility. Speaking to farmers
he said as you gaze at the numberless acres
within the bounds of possibility, you cannot
plow the sea with oxen. Amos was declaring
that any attempt to build a stable nation when
the individual citizens of the nation are feath-
ering their own nests through methods of in
justice and dishonesty, defrauding their fell
lows and degrading the dignity of the individ-
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Golden Slippers

It is a perilous thing for a man to in
trude himself into the world of Women's
fashions. Both instinct and experience
counsel against such rashnesS and tell him
that he should not rush in where an angel
endowed with even minimum of dis
cretion would fear to tread. But there are
times when the masculine urge to f1aunt
superior judgment, to indulge that weak
ness for the I-told-you-so attitude, is
Irresistible And this is one of them.
The New Look has come a cropper. 1t
has gone too far. 1t has become its own
undoing. And it is futile now to ask for
silence from a man who resisted the New
Look in the beginning, whether from solici-
tude for his pocketbook If already mar
ried, or, if single, from that sixth sense
which warns the animal of the lurking
trap.
The fashion lords. before whom all
women bow, have at last decreed that the
foot has come into its own. and that to
be a New Look foot it must be incased in
a shoe of gold They have baited their
hook with devlish ingenuity, telling the
feminine sex that this is Leap Year and
that the New Look in golden slippers would
demolish the last vestige of masculine re-
sistance.
But they have overplayed their hand
They have forgotten that there can be too
much of a good thing. And women have
slavishly given up what was once their
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Observation-Disclosures and After

When newspapermen visited the notorl-
Gus concentration camp of BuchenWald
after it's liberation by American troops
in April of 1945 they were shown an ex-
traordinarily gruesome exhibit. There
were some lampshades and other articles
made of human skin. The identification
of the material was assisted by the tatto
patterns The collection was represented
as having been the personal property OF
Frau Ilse Koch, wife of the prison COM
mandant. Eventually she was appre-
hended as a war criminal, tried and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment
Now it is learned that the life sentence
was commuted last June to four years
Imprisonment. Several Senators have
been quoted as protesting. In Frankfurt
General Clay explains that it was never
proved that Frau Koch had selected pris-
oners for execution, as the story went, or
that she had ever had in her possession
the articles alleged to have been fashioned
from human skin. That well might be
true. But full statement should be made
to explain not only the reduction in the
sentence but the grounds on which the
court found her guilty in the first place.
For while Frau Koch languishes in
prison, for four years or for life, the horror
camp at Buchenwald is still operating at
full tilt 1t lies in Russian territory, and
occasional stories that leak out from be-
hind the Iron Curtain hint darkly of the
conditions among its pitiable inhabitants.
Stories of the incinerator, the unspeakable
filth of its crowded tiers of wooden shelves
have been revived There can be no veri-
fication of the stories, for the Russians
permit no inspection.
But before we get ourselves worked up
over reducing from life imprisonment to
four years the sentence imposed on the
miserable wife of one slave master at
Buchenwald we should ask ourselves
whether it is equal justice under law (the
law newly made at the war criminal trials
to condone by our silence the continued
operation of Buchenwald under new tribe
of commandants who, no doubt have wives.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

ual Is like trying to plow the ocean with oxen.
It simply cannot be done. 1t Is as doomed to
disaster as 1t Is certain that ar ancient pillow
or a modern tractor would be buried In the
depths Of the sea.
Men by the latest architectural and building
techniques easily can erect imposing sky
scrapers to house representatives Of the nations.
But all that is but shell. These very build
ings may be megaphones of hate or they may
be conservatories Of cooperation and good
will. Any scheme Of external organization Is
itual regeneration.
Moral renewal of individuals is the absolute
presupposition of effective social change There
is no political alchemy, no moral gadget which
can transform Incidence into industry selfish
ness into atruism, hatred into good will. No
legislation TO regulate industry or to enforce
moral reform will. avail without inner attitudes
which are the expression of ruling passion
for united and juster world
One of our Nations leading scientists, presi-
dent of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, Dr. Sinnott Of Yale,
recently affirmed to a graduating class: mo
social mechanism, no economic system can
save us now; not unless man himself can be
improved can any social order now survive
As scientists we can no longer sneer at what
are called spiritual qualities, for on their
strength depends our own survival"
If the United Nations fails, it will not be
because the conception was not great enough
1t will be because human hearts were not good
enough. Crooked men never can be the agents
to make straight ways.
If Amos could see our present-day schemes,
our organizations our legislation for better
world all vitiated by our refusal to live by the
golden rule and by the fact that back of our
blueprints are our black hearts, he would say,
Where are your new men to make your new
order work? do men plow the sea with oxen?"
Who can doubt the seer would gladly accept
modern verse as part of his prophecy for
the Goth century?
I'VE cannot have Utopia now,
It's waste Of time to plan it;
For If we had Utopia now
Would we find the men to man it?
You cannot work the Utopian plan
Unless you have the Utopian man.
And to that the prophet would add his own
warning, You cannot plow the ocean with oxen
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Comic Strips and Dr.. Wigner

AS soon as news of the atomic bomb
first burst upon the world, a great well
ter of speculation began. The speculation
much of it terrifying-is still going on
1t revolves around actualities and poten-
tialities capable of projecting mankind
into a Buck Rogers future that can be
either fantastically good or fantasically
evil.
A decade ago, all such talk would have
been ridiculed by most people as being on
a par with comic strips about the 25th
century. But today nobody with common
sense will ridicule it, Today the widest
and most lurid Of imaginings must be
treated with respect, for we are in an age
when fantasy and reality are scarcely dis
tingushable from each other and when
things that once seemed impossible or ut
terly unbelievable are now at least con-
ceivable.
Take space ships, for instance. Long be-
fore any one suggested the building of Oak
Ridge or Los Alamos, Buck Rogers and his
crowd were riding around In them among
the planets and stars of the Sunday funny
papers, The whole thought of them,
though entertaining enough to the comic
strip fan, appeared then to be altogether
absurd-mere escapist make-believe about
something that could never be done. and
hence a thing to be laughed at or kidded.
The other day, however, here in Washing
ton, the centenary meeting of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science neither laughed nor kidded when
essentially the same idea was seriously
presented to it by Professor Eugene p.
Wigner of Princeton University.
Professor Wigner, of course, is not to
be scoffed at He is not a comic-strlp
artist. "A key figure in the development OF
the A-bomb, he is one of the worlds top
nuclear physicists Accordingly, 1t Is a
fact of considerable Importance that he
does not belittle the possibility of space
ships Far from belittling it, he has
stated that the idea of mans breaking out
of "the gravitational prison OF the earth
is so challenging" that some of our best
scientific minds are now studying 1t. Ac-
cording to him, more than enough energy
for such a break-out is made available
when uranium or plutonium atoms are
split-a process in which the velocity OF
the hssion fragments "correSponos 10
temperature Of about 800 billion degrees
centigrade" If relatively small part OF
this power could be harnessed for propul-
sive purposes, the force of gravity could be
overcome and space ships made reality
"a reality capable of converting war into
an unendurable nightmare of pushbutton
annihilation on global scale.
However remote such development may
be. DR.. Wigner has plainly suggested that
its realization is theoretically possible,
even though man may never succeed in
achieving it for actual use in interstellar
space Considering the evil ends 1t could
serve, there seems plenty of reason to wish
that science will fail to get anywhere with
1t. On the other hand, by way Of contrast,
the world has good cause to be cheered by
| DR.. wigners belief that In the relatively
Evening star., 1948-09-19
American Prints

From the start of American history the
graphic arts were targeted to practical
purposes. The current exhibition OF prints
at the National Gallery proves that. John
White, for example, did not sketch Indians
at Roanoke Island for the fun OF IL. Inc
sixty.five water colors which he made ana
which still survive were intended to DEM
onstrate to Europeans the character ana
personal attributes of representative
aborigines. Modern students OF his work
believe that he was more strictly factuai
in his drawing than formerly was sup
posed. The Carolina natives really looked
as he testified they did
OF course, the methods and technlques
of early American delineation came from
the Old World. They were part OF the
cultural capital of settlers and travellers
from Spain, France England and other
countries far advanced in esthetics. The
great Milanese Luini, with all his fidelity
of craftsmanship and his marvellous un-
derstanding of color, was contemporary
of Columbus 1t even is conceivable that
he met and was acquainted with the
Genoan, navigator The vast dynamic OF
the Renaissance was stirring all conditions
of men in those days. 1t was bound TO
find expression in the multiplication OF
the useful fruits of the press The Ma
tional Gallery display explains how Ra-
leigh's teacher, Thomas Harriet, had the
engraver De Bry reproduce-and thus
democratize- Whites pictures for readers
who otherwise never could have seen them.
A like principle was operative IN such
prints as William Burgis' Prospect OF the
Colledges in Cambridge" manufactured
for sale at Prices shop in Cornhill, Boston,
about 1925. Paul Revere followed the same
custom in his fanciful Interpretation OF
the Boston Massacre in ITO So did the
popularizers of the paintings William
Penns Treaty With the Indians" and The
Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin
West of Philadelphia domiciled in London.
Currier and Ives Joined the procession
with their Autographs the first OF which
portrayed "The Ruins of the Merchants
Exchange"-in effect documentary SOU
venir of a big fire which was one OF the
major events of 1885
Each of these artists was seeking
numerous public, the more the merrier.
Especially during the nineteenth century
almost every household was adorned by
prints which cost little and yet were inter-
esting enough to merit positions OF honor
in parlor or dining room. Many Of the
best of the long series were done abroad
but reflected the formulas OF Americans
including Jacob Perkins and the Sartains.
Some disappeared under tidal wave OF
less worthy endeavors approximately fifty
wears ago. A few were touched up" to
their degradation. The examples exhibit
ed at the National Gallery were selected
from the collections of the Library of Con
gress and the Smithsonian Institution
which has a systematic demonstration of
the science of illustration on permanent
display in its oldest building-as well as
the Gallery itself.