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Evening star., 1950-11-16
This and That

"What happens to you,' he asked.
when you are reading. and try to get
up, and find your right knee hurts?"
you are getting old, brother" the
other replied, not unkindly. cts just
part of the penalty you pay for living"
Getting sore knees. and elbows, and
fingers is popularity called arthritis.
Heat lamps, heat pads, unguents to
rub on and in
These are some of the simple home
remedies, and If used at the very first
sign, usually do some good.
There are many theories. Not even the
doctors seem to know which is which.
or how is how.
The best the individual can do is to
thank God things are not worse, and
try so to live that troubles will lessen.
A whole school of thought believes
that FOOD or its lack is the cause of most
diseases.
Perhaps more persons have this
thought, unconsciously, than any other
If anything wrong happens to them
in the physical line, they iIstinctively
wonder what it was they ate.
One prominent fellow recently stayed
in bed all day, on finding something
wrong with him, and refused to eat.
He applied the old standard eat and
Evening star., 1950-11-16
The Missing TOT, 900

With more than 100000 former subscribers
to the Community Chest still on the unreported
list, Chest campaigners have no time to relax
their efforts The chances are that most of the
missing 100000 are waiting only to be asked.
That so many potential givers remain unsolicited
at this late stage of the 1850 campaign is surprs
ing. The existence Of this large block of possible
contributors constitutes challenge to the cam
paign organization that, if properly met could
bring the drive close to its goal of $4,260,000.
Especially encouraging is the fact that many
new contributors are being added to the list of
Chest supporters. Also gratifying is the news that
many of the gifts larger this year than last.
These factors have been important in bringing
collections to nearly two-thirds of the goal,
despite the delay in reaching about 100000 of
the $4,000 persons who gave last year. There is
good cause for hope that when all of the former
subscribers have been approached-as they must
be if the drive is to succeed-the fund total will
have arrived within easy striking distance" of
the goal. Thorough campaigning is hard work,
as the tired solicitors already have found out,
but it pays off in the end
Evening star., 1950-11-16
Letters to he Star

ardent fan. in spite of his disclaimer,
because I notice he has been watching
all four of the televisions shown in
Washington. and apparently has been
doing so for some time. I, too, watch all
four shows and enjoy them immensely.
also go to Turner's on occasion to see
them in person, although I never paid
any attention to wrestling before !
bought teleyision set.
have no doubt much of what. we see
is staged; in fact, there is little question
but that it Is true. And of course, as
Mr.. Cheseldine states, sit is purposely
staged to attract people who want to see
it." So are the movies or grand opera
for that matter. If Mr.. Cheseldine
doesn't like wrestling, all he has to do
is to find some other program. Person.
ally. like it and intend to watch it.
Please, Mr.. Cheseldine, don't get be-
tween me and my television set You
distort the picture.
-s-. ..s.. G. r. Simcox.
Mr.. Cheseldine implies that some re-
fer to wrestling as sport. Now that he
has focused attention to the classifica-
ton of this occupation, would like to
ask if acrobats can be considered as ath-
letes and acrobatics as a sport. Maybe
acrobatics fall into the category of art
and, if so. good case can be made for
calling wrestling an art
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. fifth
edition, defines art as systematic appli-
cation of knowledge or skill in effecting
a desired result" Certainly wrestling is
not sport, because the same dictionary
defines sport as "amorous play" I doubt
that any one would consider that La
verne Baxter or Mr.. Moto are partici-
pating in amorous play when they are
striving for fall, but they are applying
lot of knowledge and skill.
Well, call it what you wisl-chicanery.
strength and skill, or grandstanding on
a grand scale-I find it amusing and 7
enjoy amusement.
William j. Bowen.
There is no other sports attraction T
can think Of more free of the taint Of
gambling, racketeering and vicious in
fuence than wrestling. The only shady
characters ever seen at the wrestling
ringside are there for the laughs. And
that is wrestling-strictly for the laughs.
Once in while the sameness gets
boring, but know when go to wrest-
ling show that will get these things:
l. full evening of entertainment.
2. No one-minute knockouts to send
me home before I sit down.
8. An honest laugh at the people who
still get excited enough at the villain to
forget that they know it's all fixed
4. A sense of appreciation for the
actors who know their cues, whose
tumbling ability is of the best-and who
can take 1t and still can come back for
more.
E H. s. Rosenberg.
Evening star., 1950-11-16

papers, because the truth was that he
was a free-loading phony who had not
worked for years.
In our little conversation, that day at
the Raleigh. Oscar said it was not the
Bradley Martin costume ball that made
the biggest impression on him. That was
the turn-of-the-century shindig that
seemed so extravagant as to its costumes
and its terrapin- land -canvasback menu
that 1t was pulpit topic for months.
Oscar said the Randolph Guggen-
heimer dinner was the top party. Guggen-
heimer was Virginia-born attorney
(not to be confused with the Guggen-
helm smelling family who became presi-
dent of the city council The dinner was
held in 1897 and cost $3.50 plate. I'm
ported nightingales sang in the rose
trees, and hothouse grapes were ripe
on the vines growing from potted roots
and winding on an arbor that surrounded
the dining room.
I had something to tell Oscar-how
much I had enjoyed his 1896 cook book.
1t was about to be thrown out in the
1930s, when my late mother -in-law was
moving to smaller apartment in New
York. Now find the book is even more
of collectors item than I had supposed.
The Library of Congress original edition
Evening star., 1950-11-16
Oscar Of the Wo|dorf-in Menorionn ~
By George Kennedy

OSCAR of the Waldorf died on Tues
" day. November z. It was election
day and there was not much room in
the papers of the following day for
lengthy obituaries. That was a shame,
because Oscar was good story
last saw Oscar in April, 1943. the
year he retired after so years as maitre
d'hotel of the Waldorf Astoria. He came
to Washington on one of his infrequent
trips out of New York. Col. Curt C..
Schiffeler. manager of the Raleigh, had
named one of the Raleigh's corner room
combinations the Oscar Of the Waldorf
Suite,' and the famed hotel man had
come down for a little ceremony of
dedication.
He looked much the same as he did
when first worked in New York in 1928.
Age had not withered him. Except for
Queen Victoria, John d. Rockefeller and
Connie Mack. it would be hard to name
a person who had been in the public
eye~So long.
Oscar was visibly pleased at the honor,
as he had been to every expression of
appreciation that came his way, whether
it was the ribbon and medal of royal
order from king or the thank you" of
departing guest who had enjoyed him
self in Waldorf dining ROOM
He had not known the young reporter
for the New York Herald Tribune who
considered every luncheon assignment
at the Waldorf break. But he had
greeted him frequently. and the nod
from Oscar was as thrilling as the presi-
dental smile is today when encountered
on Pennsylvania avenue on one of those
early morning walks.
With his short clipped hair and his
air of command among his walters, he
had seemed something of Prussian. He
was not. He was born in Switzerland.
Memory recalls those Waldorf luncheors
all at the press table of some organization
that paid the check in hopes of a para
graph in the papers.
There was the old gentleman who
said he represented finapcial paper
downtown. He attended all of them.
1t was pleasure to lunch with him,
because he would send back the wiener
schnitzel If it were not pink inside and
hot. He would make the walters hop.
He never tipped, which was all right,
because walters who revealed any dis
satisfaction about the tip. or lack of
it, just did not play on Oscars team.
My friend never got anything into the
Evening star., 1950-11-16
By Charles E. TroceweD
H. s. Rosenberg.

dog remedy, and remarkably enough it
seemed to work for him, too.
The next day, he felt much better.
Perhaps most of us would be the bet
ter off for days fast once week.
One popular food lecturer (who re-
Gently struck it rich in the best seller
lists has advocated day without food
for years.
The late President Wilson's remedy for
arthritis of the fingers, sometimes called
deformans, was to extend the arms and
hands, then snap the fingers rapidly back
and forth into the palms.
A little of this goes long way, espe-
cially at first.
Some hardy souls can make real
swapping noise, as they 60 through this
simple exercise
Others rely on gentle massage of the
sore fingers with the fingers of the other
hand
Some first afflicted have found that
a little exercise every now and then. in
this simple massage line, does more
good than high powered stuff.
The theory of applied warmth and
gentle massage, with or without the
prior application of some unguent con-
tanning methyl sa1ycilate, occurs to most
persons. rightly or wrongly.
And exercise.
The confirmed enthusiast will feel
Evening star., 1950-11-16
Wrestling and Mr.. CheseIdine

r. M. Cheseldine in a recent letter
to The Star, wants to know when we
are going to rise up in righteous wrath
and put an end to professional wrestling,
Who does he mean by "we"? Certainly
it is only small minority of us who
dislike this, mayhem ala -hippodrome
or 1t could never be the success 1t is.
What right have we to abolish it even
II we could, when such vast numbers of
people get real pleasure out of it?
Having wrestled myself Qegitimately)
know what good clean scientific sport
wrestling can be. But let's face it-as
a show straight wrestling can be pretty
dull. Those who avidly watch these
shows want to let off steam; they want
to commit mayhem by proxy. and thus
avoid for few moments the dull routine
OF their daily lives. They want to be
entertained and stimulated they may
even come to sneer. thus deriving little
negative pleasure from the spectacle.
Please Mr.. Cheseldine, don't appeal to
the ethics of the few magnificent
physical specimens" and try to shame
them into some honest contests. They
are not engaged 4 in the game for
aesthetic principles: they are engaged
in the pursuit of the Elusive dollar, Just
as you or I. If you can guarantee the
winner more than he could get in Madi-
son Square Garden, am sure that Mr..
Rocca and Mr.. Stanlee will put on an
all-out performance for you in a private
gym.
Aside from the pecuniary angle, why
be so technical about whether wrestling
is really wrestling? After all, how much
of the foot is left in football? Both of
these sports could be labeled "scrim-
mage" without losing their crowd
appeal
To sum up: Pro wrestling is a pretty
good diversion. in this neurotic age, for
millions of people. There are also many
other diversions for the Cheseldines and
the Wickums.
Carl Wickum.
Congratulations on printing the fine
letter on wrestling by Mr.. Cheseldine.
May I add that if the referees would
disqualify contestant at the first sign
Of foul play and dirty wrestling, the
wrestler would soon realize that he must
wrestle or else? The result of this en-
forcement might be that we would see
some good matches, and those that can
only wrestle the dirty way might be
selling apples. There are plenty of good
men left who, am sure, want to keep
wrestling on as high plane as other
sports.
The referees, feel, are responsible for
much of this; especially the two gentle
men we have to put up with each
Wednesday evening at Turner's Arena
Oliver C. Zinsmeister.
Mr.. Cheseldine seems to be quite an
Evening star., 1950-11-16
The Long View

OF late have noticed a number of
discussions in all the Washington papers
regarding the advisability of permitting
or requiring the mixing of the races in
schools, pools and various other places
where the public meets. :
In each such argument, each writer,
regardless of color, seems to forget that
people and their attitudes are the result
OF a combination of various and varying
conditions and influences.
When I was a child all colored men
were porters on trains, as we had no
colored people in my home town at all.
Now that my life is more than half over,
and have met the colored man in 80
OF our States and seven other countries.
gone to school with him, taught him in
school, worked with him and slept in
the same room with him in the Army,
believe know him little better.
/ think it is a crime that the colored
men Il teach will not have as good a
chance as the white men teach. I
honestly believe his chances should be
equal to mine. Yet ] would hesitate
to work under supervisor that was
colored. would move out of neighbor-
4iOOd ~ d COlOACu L1OfCu LII. J.
would send my child to school where
colored children attended. as they did
when I went to school. but would OBJ
ject if she were taught by a colored
teacher. Sure I'm wrong, but so are
millions of other white people.
What are we going to do about it? We
are going to continue to grow gradually
more tolerant of the minority groups.
Negro, Oriental, Jewish and others. The
Negro must partly raise himself by his
own bootstraps. In this world it isn't
enough to earn what you want, you must
more than earn what you get.
If we all work toward better under
standing. but keep our heads. maybe the
time will come when. as guaranteed by
our Constitution, all will have equal op-
portunity, even some of us of the So
called superior race"
Yankee.
Evening star., 1950-11-16
AustroIio's Memorial to America

The Australian News and Information
bureau IN New York has announced that plans
for AuStralias memorial to the American neonle
at Canberra are almost completed" cam
palgn for funds to pay for the monument.
launched last May, has been subscribed
This response" the bureau explains, demon
strated IN practical way the sincere gratitude
1elt by the people of Australia to their wartime
ailleS ana peace-tme friends and neighbors"
1t represents specifically the sentiment expressed
few months ago by Prime Minister r. G.
Menzes in the words: "A close association with
the United States is one of the great planks in
Australian foreign policy, second only to our
deep and ancient brotherhood with the other
nations of the British Empire"
But, OF course, the friendly relation between
Australia and the United States might have
existed without formal recognition in a new
landmark of the capital of the Australian COM
monwealth. What is happening is that the
people of Australia are setting up constant
and durable reminder of their association with
America in time of mutual peril following the
Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941. For months after that day of infamy
the survival of Australian civilization was a
question. The people of the United States
helped to answer that question constructively,
and they are proud of the fact. Australia's
monumental acknowledgment of it will confirm
the tie which already prevails
The monument is to consist of two lofty
pylons standing above a rejecting pool and
surrounded by green lawns reaching away to
distant hills Between the pylons will rise an
octagonal shaft of aluminium capped with an
aluminium eagle $50 feet from the ground. This
structure is supposed to symbolic a beam of
light pointing to the sky. 1t will be illuminated
at night. The pylons on either side will be
incised with the emhlems of Australia and the
United States and memorial murals showing the
combat areas of the Pacific sector. If peace has
not returned to that area it is not because the
victory of 1945 was not won honorably and with
unselfish purpose. America and Australia were
affiliated then, and they are associated now in
Korea. The memorial at Canberra then will
mark a continuing partnership, not simply q
cooperative effort concluded and past.
Evening star., 1950-11-16
Campaign Against Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association is spon-
sor1ng drive to find and to help people who are
suffering from a constitutional disability to use
sugar properly. They generally are not aware
of their ailment. All that they know about their
condition is that they are weak, tired hungry
sleepy. The sugar they eat is not being burned"
In their bodies. 1t is passing through their
systems without giving them the nourishment or
sustenance they need, Also, it is creating func-
honal problems of serious nature. Unless it
is corrected, the lives of the sufferers will be
shortened.
But diabetes definitely is subject to correc-
tion, and it is to teach the national community
that fact that the ADA is campaigning
Doctors and nurses in more than 600 American
cities and towns are giving simple diabetes tests
to all comers-tests by which the presence of
the disease in individuals can be established
without any margin of error worthy of mention.
To learn where to apply for such test one has
only to walk into drug store and ask: Where
can I be tested for diabetes?" If the druggist
does not know he soon can find out
What the man. woman or child tested will
learn is fragment of knowledge imperative to
living normal, healthy life. If no surplus sugar
is found, the prospective patient is not patient
at all. Rather, he is free of diabetes. But if
the test shows unburned sugar, the patient is
instructed in how to administer nsulin, how to
govern diet and other procedures necessary in
the circumstances. Applicants applying this
week are being tested without charge. Every
person who suspects that diabetes may be part
of his problem certainly should make it a point
to find out for sure. Insulin arrests diabetes.
Through learning the need for it and how to
take it, sick person can be relieved, his health
largely restored, his life heightened. The gain
to the Nation is obvious. In world emergency
such as that which prevails just now we all
should be as healthy as manage.
Evening star., 1950-11-16
More Coal for Britain

Although it may involve total expenditure
of almost So billion the Labor governments
projected program for a great increase in coal
production between now and 1865 is not likely
to meet with any serious opposition in the United
Kingdom. For expansion in this field is vital to
the Iong-term economic wel-being of the British.
What the new program calls for is the large
scale modernization of Brtain's mining methods
and equipment, which have Jagged far behind our
own. The objective is to increase the country's
coal output, over the next Is years, to total of
about $50 million TONS or some 40 million more
than at present-and7 with 10000 fewer miners
The plan is essential because British coal
output though rising slightly, has not been in
creasing fast enough to keep pace with the coun-
try's full and expanding industrial production.
As result. income earning exports of the fuel
have had to be cut down, though such shipments
are important to the United Kingdoms position
in international trade
Hence with miners steadily drifting away
from the mines to take easier jobs, it is impera-
tive for Britain to bring about much greater ef-
hciency and more productive mechanization in
this field Otherwise, besides losing it's trad-
tional coal surplus for profitable export, it will
lack enough of the fuel for its expanding in
dustrial needs in the years Immediately ahead.
Goals indispensability to Britain was grimly
dramatized in 1947 when an unanticipated short
age of it, combined with an exceptionally severe
winter, came close to paralyzing all industrial
activity in one of the worst economic crises in
the country's history. That situation is well re-
membered by the British. 1t is one of the reasons
why the new coal plan will be generally hailed.
Evening star., 1950-11-16

that there is nothing human under the
sun that exercise will not help. (But he
may be wrong)
He not only will apply the massage
aforementioned, but will be willing to
try tennis, golf or some other well liked
sport.
No matter how much his doctor tells
him such exercise will not help, but that
he should remain quiet until the hurt
subsidies, he offs to the court or the links
and sweats his way to health and sanity,
or at least so he thinks.
The food crank is perhaps the worst
of ALL
No amount of medical degrees can con-
vince him that it is not something he
ate.'
He pours over his menus of the days
just past, in a effort to find out what 1t
is he has eaten which through some
strange internal chemistry has Settled"
in his kneecap, or his thumb.
He finally pounces on some perfectly
inoffensive food, warranted not to harm
a kitten, and just because it is the only
new thing in his diet 1t gets all the
blame.
Don't let me have any more of that"
he implores, as he plunges into his tea
and toast.
Evening star., 1950-11-16

absorbed as student and as teacher But perhaps
his greatest asset his ability to get along with
other people, an ability gained by his real desire
to understand an opposing point of view. He
brought this gift into the conference room
and his counsel was widely sought not only in
business affairs but in such community enter
prises as the National Symphony Orchestra, the
Community Chest and Red Cross. His rugged
character, his charming personality and his keen
observations on events endeared him to a wide
circle of friends in Washington and elsewhere
Evening star., 1950-11-16
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. What per cent of persons in
come is spent for food, clothing. rent
and each of the other necessary items?
C. G.
A. For the year 1949, the main per-
sonal consumption expenditures wee as
follows: Food-284 per cent; clothing
and ccessories-12.6; housing-9.6;
household operation-132; transporta-
tion-10.8; medical care-50; recrea-
tion-5.7; religious and welfare activities
10.
@. Is the ban against sending families
OF Navy men to the Philippines still in
force?-J. K.
A. The Navy has partially lifted the
restrictions, placed in effect on July IA.
1850. which suspended transportation Of
dependents to Pacific areas. The Philip
pines, Hawaii. Alaska and the Marianas
Islands are now open to the travel of
naval dependents when authorized by
the commander in chief, Pacific fleet.
or the commandant. Seventeenth Naval
District. The Navy also has given
authority for the shipment of household
goods under certain regulations.
Evening star., 1950-11-16
Lost Quarter; Autumn

This p1st-tuLl moon that ,DestDard rides.
Steel-sharp and coldIy bright In morn
ing's dark,
is not moon for loUers ,U7lo remember
A softer silDer light In season OF the
lark.
This is a moon TO light the yorker on
his lD1y
To factory or home at chilly end OF
night,
To keep a uiga ,Uith the silent frozen
leaf,
The cricket Dho no longer SINGS his
brief delight.
No, not moon for louerS, but a fading
phase
OF all that once Was beautiful and
dear;
Descending no,D in ragged scud of icy
cloud:
Moons end. nights end. the ending
OF a year.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1950-11-16
'SoIes Tax Was the issue

Your editorial in last evenings Star,
entitled ''The Sales Tax Was the Issue"
as affecting Maryland, is quite timely
and appropriate. 1t should serve as a
warning to politicians everywhere, ma
tional, State and local. This was DEM
onstrated in the recent gubernatorial
campaign in Virginia and again in
Maryland.
What with more Federal, State and
local taxes now in effect, home pay
severely curtailed and buying practically
nothing, everybody's going in the red
now. With so million voters going in the
red annually. you can look for some new
faces in Government in 1852.
Robert B. Murphy.
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1950-11-16
Dr.. William Mcclellan

Dr. William Mcclellan, who died yesterday,
gained high place in his chosen profession of
engineering. Before advancing age brought about
his retirement he had become nationally known
as an expert in utility management. He was
O genuine scholar, with the talent to apply prac-
tically the store of technical knowledge he had