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Evening star., 1951-01-05
Dividing the IndivisibIe

1t seems only yesterday that standard ency-
clopedias and dictionaries agreed that the atom
was indivisible. Such had been the opinion of
had the authority of law. Then, on August 6,
1945, President Truman announced "a harnessing
OF the basic power of the universe" and mankind
learned that the atom actually had been split
in terms of dynamic force comparable with
that of the sun. The implications of such
development naturally were not appreciated fully
at the moment. Even now they still are COM
pretended only imperfectly.
For example men know little as yet of those
aspects of creation which are inf1nitesimal The
current meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science at Cleveland has
been reminded of this by Dr. Ralph w. G.
Wyckoff a member of the staff of the National
Institute of Health at Bethesda, Maryland. He
has pointed finger at another ultimate frontier
Of life" which eventually may turn out to be
simply another gate into still vaster prospect
The submicroscopic forms never seen until the
electron microscope was devised are at least as
real and as important in the whole terrific
scheme of conceivable things as the dinosaurs
ever were or the whale and the elephant are
in our own present experience. What gives the
average mind pause is the fact that there is
constant, unceasing activity in this new infinitely
tiny plane of eXiStence-thiS ilimtable micro
cosm which really is not microcosmic at ALL
And the boiling and sinmering of life beyond
the reach of ordinary human eyes is the result
Of the principle of division at work. The in
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Again the Locusts

Associated Press reports from Cairo tell Of
q plague OF locusts in Africa and Western Asia
and warn against the worldwide consequences
OF destruction of vital food and cotton crops in
those areas. Millions of people, they say, are
threatened with famine caused by swarms of
voraclous acridids. Abnormal rains in Saudi
Arabia encouraged the breeding of the insects
tnere. Now they are spreading through Egypt,
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Libya, Ethiopia.
somaliland, Kenya, Tanganyika, French Eoua-
torial Africa, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, Iran,
Pakistan and India Scientists who have studied
the phenomenon predict the worst plague of
locusts in quarter of century,
What can be done about the problem? An
international conference recently met at New
Delhi to discuss ways and means of fighting the
pests, and a similar meeting soon will be held
at Teheran Meanwhile, 1000 specially-built
desert trucks, carrying Insecticides sprayers,
mechanical pulverizers and other anti-acridid
equipment, have been sent into the breeding
grounds. But such procedures are relatively in
effective against swarms so thick that they
seem to blot out the sun. When hundreds of
millions of bugs" settle on single terrain even
for few minutes, they strip it bare
Periodic locust marauding of this type is
one of the Oldest of historic facts. The eighth
prague of Egypt referred to in Exodus, x4, was
OF Foreign origin. 1t did not start in the Valley
OF the Nile. Other incursions of the same gen.
eraI sort are mentioned in Deuteronomy, the
Psalms, Isaiah and the Proverbs Their connota-
tions were hunger and death. like pattern of
disaster has prevailed in the Dakotas, Nebraska
Kansas, Montana and Saskatchewan as recently
as 1940 The American technique of counter
attack features plowing and burning over known
breeding territories. Wheat fields are guarded
by strips of rye sown around them and sprayed
with paris green. An African fly, called Ida
fasciata, helps in the Eastern Hemisphere by
laying its eggs where the emerging young will
eat the eggs of the locust. Birds coincidentally
are useful in our half of the globe when they
destroy invading acridids. monument'in Salt
Lake City commentaries the saving of the early
settlement there by sea gulls who came to the
rescue when the colony was assailed by armies
of grasshoppers just about 100 years ago.
Evening star., 1951-01-05

divisible is being divided infinitely It likewise
is being multiplied and added to incessantly!
Perhaps the theory of atomism set forth as far
back as 460 BIC. is being demonstrated by the
researchers with the electron microscopes.
Leucippus and the cheerful Democrtus of
Abdera believed that every living form was
composed of living particles. But their atoms
were indivisible, while ours are divisible-and
dividing!
Nobody has any idea where the processes of
division and multiplication achieve vanishing
point. Maybe, they go on and on and on forever.
The searchers of the skies have proclaimed stars
beyond stars. Now comes DR.. Wyckoff with his
report of microcosms beyond mcrocosms.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Doctored History

In an article dealing with the "Biograph-
ical Directory of the American Congress-" which
appears elsewhere on this page, there is evidence
that Congress is attempting to make liar of
Omar Khayyam, whose maxim was that: "The
Moving Finger writes; and having writ, moves
on nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back
to cancel half Line, nor all your Tears wash
out a Word of it,
BY directing the publication of document
containing doctored history, Congress has made
itself party to bit of petty immortality the like
OF which has earned for Soviet arts and letters
the scorn of free world
Congress has long undertaken to edit its
proceedings as they appear in the Congressional
Record Perhaps this is just as we'll It is a
different matter, however, for Congress to
attempt the erasure of facts from the pages of
history in an official book about ITSELF
Nor has Congress done itself any service
In laboriousy concealing the fact that only four
or seven-or dozen of its nearly TO- 900 mem
bers and former members have been rogues
and ]ailbirds. An informed person reads the
ostenSiby clean record of Andrew Jackson May
Is he not then justified in wondering what
rascality may have been erased from the
biographies of Daniel Webster, John c. Calhoun
and Abraham Lincoln?
No one would suggest that the directory in
clude listing of all peccadillos to which legisla-
tors have been party; this would simply expand
the directory to unwieldy, encyclopedia pro-
portions. But certainly the major crimes of
Congressman are as much part of history as
their major virtues and achievements.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
'FooIhordy and fnexcusobIe'

The House Committee on Un-American
Activities has used the right language to de-
scribe the handcapS imposed on American
countereSpionage agents by the anti-wire-
tapping provision of the Federal Communications
Act. 1t is indeed "foolhardy and inexcusable"
to continue to give spies and saboteurS the
protection they now enjoy under Section COS of
the law establishing the FEC. That section
forbids "interception and divulgence" of COM
municationS. The Supreme Court has ruled
that this bars the use in court of any evidence
derived from overlapping.
The committee, in its year-end report to the
House, cites an anonymous case to illustrate
the absurdity of permitting this legal restriction
on prosecution of known spies and traitors to
remain on the statute books. "The committee
knows, the report states "as do the intelligence
agencies OF the executive branch, the identity
OF an individual who has turned over secret
and confidential information for the use of the
Soviet Union. Proof of this traitorous act,
together with proof that this individual perjured
himself when he denied the accusation, is con-
tanned in the form of evidence which cannot
be used in court because of prohibition con-
tanned in the Federal Communications Act
The committee is aware that this is not the only
case in which prosecution is affected by the
act" (The report indicated that the case re-
ferred to is that of the mysterious Scientist
K" said to have passed atomic information to
RuSsia9 The committee expressed its horror
at the Immunity from prosecution conferred on
such suspects by the much debated Section 6O5
Congress has diydallied too long with the
vire-tappng problem. Surely there has been
enough evidence of fifth-column operations
within the past several years to convince any
reasonable person of the grave risk of allowing
spies to 60 free because of an ill-advised legal
restraint on law enforcement. The cause of
national security demands immediate amend
ment of the FEC law to enable the FBI and
other intelligence agencies to listen In on spy
communications and to use what they hear
in court.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Leadership

In your paper Of December 80 there
is an editorial under the heading Con
fusion" and John A. Thompson has a
letter to the editor under the heading,
price Controls"
Both these articles go straight to the
heart Of the cause of our troubles: We
have no leadership. The President Is
first on one side Of a question and the
next day-or hour-he is on the other
side; maybe In week or a month he is
back again on the first side. And any
proposition he takes stand on, one or
more of his top aides takes the opposite
view.
Albert d. Rust.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Employment Discrimination

At Forty ninth and Jay streets NE q
certain firm is constructing a 200-unit
apartment project for occupancy by Ne
groes. Now this is the sort of thing that
should be cause for acclaim, for there
are far too few decent places for Negroes
to live in this city. The bad phase of
this work is that, in an area of abundant
qualified technicians, and where the
population is 100 per cent Negro, there
Is only one Negro employed in any
capacity other than labor or labor super
vision. This condition has existed since
about the start of the Korean war. There
is even reason to believe that the lone
technician was not willfully employed.
In these days of high rents as con-
tributing factor to an all-time high cost
of living. and when Moscow daily tells
the world that Americans in the middle
and lower income groups do not have
money for doctors and other essentials,
these men are denied the right to work
and earn money to pay the rent in places
they must occupy. An important waste
of manpower and potential takes place
in transporting men from points in
Maryland and Virginia IS to 20 miles
away, while men in the immediate vicin-
ity are unacceptable.
One who has no regard for his fellow
man might say that an individual has q
right to do with his money as he pleases.
But what if the construction is possible
only with FILA or other Government
aid? Is the Government then financing
discrimination? And does not this de-
feat the basic Government doctrine?
Another aspect of this is the position
of the bricklayers' union. This organiza-
ton. into which thousands of dollars are
poured by technicians yearly, should
offer better protection for its members
than the passive stand the writer believes
has been taken so far.
John 8. Woodson.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Traffic Law

Ever since May 8, 1896. when the car
of Henry Wells collided with a bicycle
ridden by Evelyn Thomas, automobile
drivers have been trying to prove that
two things can occupy the same space at
the same time. Sometimes the sun is
said to be at fault for maliciously having
blinded the driver. Again, the street
covered with ice is the culprit. And, of
course, there is the driver who attempts
to pilot his car while sound asleep.
In spite of manifold laws, rules and
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Gopher, Or Eagle?

I would like to register my total dis
approval of Mr.. Hoovers policy of max
ing this country the battlefield of any
future war. Since when has Americas
national symbol been the gopher run
ming for his burrow - and not the
mighty avenging eagle?
Does any one think for one minute
that If we renege on Europe, any Of our
other friends in this hemisphere will
throw in with us?
AS Barron's so aptly put 1t. Brace up.
Americal It's time for Reveille-not for
Taps"
Bill Rogers.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Too Many Zeros

Congratulations on your New Year.
1851" editorial. which acknowledges that
this Is the beginning Of the second half
Of the twentieth eentury-that we are
'at the halfway point of this centennial
era" And this despite 50 many Jumps
Of the gun one year ago!
OF course, 1t Is easier now than then
to realize that the end Of the year 1850
completed the first so full years of the
century. and that today we begin the
next half century. Nevertheless, 40 years
hence there will be many who will assert
that January l. 1000. is the first day of
the twenty-first century. These people
will be more intrigued by the appearance
Of the naughts in the numerals Of that
year than by the fact that it takes 1000
full years to complete 20 centuries
Some one else will then have to dig up
this comment out Of the past. I shall
not be here then, as was 81 years ago,
to see history 40 years hence again re-
peating the assertions Of q century
earlier and again those Of one year ago.
VIM. H. Cheesman.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer to
any question of fact by either writing The
NV, Washington 5. D. c.. and inclosins cents
return postage. or by telephoning ST. 5000.
Extension 35S,
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Albert d. Rust.
Greeting to q Senotor

The highest award the United States
can give should 60 to Senator Joseph
Mccarthy Of Wisconsin for unveiling the
prophet, Drew Pearson. who was unable
to predict what was In store for him
at a recent banquet.
Happy New Year. Senator, and re-
member, the old saying: Sticks and stones
might break your bones, but the smears
and names of the columnist writer's will
never hurt you.
Deborah C. Coleman.
Greeting to Secretary
Here is a thought of the new year,
with apologies to Rudyard Kipling:
If you can keep your head when all
about you are losing theirs and
blaming 1t on YOU
Then you're a man, Acheson!
Merritt C. Bragdon.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
A. He was years and 6 months.
Cinquoin
The shore

The shore
Is the seas brotD,
Sedgy hair brushed backward,
Combed by the tndolent 11estt1ind's
Fingers.
lnez Barclay Kirby
Evening star., 1951-01-05
Letters to The Star
Pennames may used letters carry s0rters correct
and addresses AL letters subject to condensation.

regulations. the useless, wasteful and
criminal carnage of the road will con-
tinue until motorists realize that bring
ing two bodies together with force will
cause collision. And that Is the only
law one need know to prevent traffic ac-
cidents. Like all other major problems
of our civilization, the solution Is quite
simple. Ora Pro NObis.
Evening star., 1951-01-05
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Dy 111L nASh1N SEhF4CE.
@. Why is there a projection at the
southeast corner of Missouri's boundary?
v. r.
A. The peculiar jog between the Mis-
sissippi and st. Francis Rivers is said to
be the result Of efforts of a prominent
property owner who lived south of the
parallel of 36 degrees 80 minutes to
have his plantation included in the new
State.
@. How old was Admiral Farragut
when he joined the United States Navy2
M. G.
A. He was 9 years and months.
@. Is it a fact that high hats once
were taxed in the United States?-
w. E. r.
A. In North Carolina owners of high
hats once paid an annual State revenue
tax of 81. A similar levy was made on
those who carried gold-headed canes.
Evening star., 1951-11-26
Uncle Rays Corner

We are likely to think Of an ad-
vertisement as a public notice in
newspaper or magazine, put in with
the purpose of selling goods.
That describes a great deal Of
advertising. but there are other
forms as well. Signs are advertis-
ing of a kind, and public notice
may be for some other purpose
than to sell goods. For example,
it may be a notice that something
has been lost or found.
When we speak of advertising,
we may want to go back to the
beginning-but where did adver-
tising start?
The suggestion has been made
that some of the pictures drawn
or painted by Stone Age artists
were signs" which gave public
notice of some fact. To tell other
members of his tribe that there
was good hunting in certain area,
an artist may have made pic
ture of men shooting deer with
bows and arrows.
It would be hard to prove that
such a meaning existed in any Stone
Age picture, but the idea Is in
lteresting.
Evening star., 1951-11-26
Romon Coffmon

reward offered for the return of .
runaway slave.
Printed advertisements came in
to use soon after the printing
press was first operated in Europe.
William Caxton, pioneer English
printer, put out a small poster IL
years before Columbus made his
first trip across the Atlantic. The
poster told of a book which was
for sale at place called the Red
Pole in a suburb of London.
After newspapers were started,
small advertisements soon appeared.
Some of these told about lost arti-
cles. Others described things for
sale.
The razor strop was important
in advertising during those days,
when men used long blades to cut
off their boards. A good strop was
needed to keep razors sharp, and
men who made such strops often
used public notices to tell about
what they had to sell.
True adventures of aviators. ex-
plorers and big game hunters are told
siote Il ss eas A., casd a be raf Mailed ySo1s
and incloses stamped self-addressed
envelope. Address your letter to Uncle
Ray In care Of The Star.
Evening star., 1951-11-26
Take Nv Word for 1t
By Fronk Colby
working some of the wires then,

working some of the wires then,
too.
From L. M. L., Culver City: We
have the single word. parents, to
describe mother and father" And
we can refer to our sons and daugh-
tiers as our children" But there
is no one word for brothers and
sisters" How about my coinage,
''brosters"?
A. A seldom used but quite legiti-
mate word is: sibs. In genetics
lit means "brothers and sisters; Off
spring of the same mother and
father" The singular is: sib, "a
brother or sister," Shilling is an
other form of the same word.
Washington: Please explain and
pronounce the word migrane.-
V.A.F.
A. Migrane is a french loan-word
strictly speaking it designates a
severe headache on one side of the
head only. But the word is used
often in the general meaning OF
any sick headache. The customary
American pronunciation is: MY
grain.
distributed by MeNausht Syndicate. 1nc.l
Evening star., 1951-11-26

From M. L. W.: Not long ago
you mentioned "3O" as the sigma
ture meaning that's all for now"
Your readers may be interested in
knowing that when the telegraph
was new, several numerals were
given meanings, and used as time
savers, thus:
5 Wait minute.
l25 Busy (on another circuit.
80 The end Il have nothing more
to transmit.
78 Best regards.
SO Love and kisses (they had girls
Evening star., 1951-11-26
Word Game
Find % or more words in
T0S H0TH

meaning, explanatory CLOSES on
the Talmud." Average is 27; limit
Is minutes.
Rules-Words must be Of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letter!
by the addition of IS" such as bats,
cats" are not used Only one form of q
word is used. Proper names are not used
a list will be published tomorrow.
Answer to ORTH0GoNAL.
oath, oolong. organ, orans, oral, rant
rang, root, rota, roam. talon, tango, tang
tarn, taro, than. throng, thong. thorn,
torn. tong, tool, tonal, toga. halo, hart,
hang, halt, horn, hoot, hoar. gaol, CHAT
Eloat. gnarl, gnst, goat goal, groan, groat,
grant, north, alto, along, argon, argot,
lagoon, largo, lath, loath, long, loot, lorn,
loan, loon
Evening star., 1951-11-26
Contract Bridqe
by Eos1ey BIockwood

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Listen carefully to the bidding
You can get a lot of help in play.
ing hand by remembering who
bid what and under what condi.
tions. Miss Brash'S brashness anc
Mr.. Meek's meekness combined te
make 1t possible for Mr.. Dale to
count out this deal and make the
winning play.
East dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
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The bidding:
East South West North
club 1spade Pass 3spades
clubs Pass Pass 4spades
All pass
Mr.. Meek should have jumped to
four spades on his first chance to
bid. That probably would have shut
Miss Brash out of the auction. But
when he did bid only three spades,
Miss Brash made one more try with
a bid of four clubs.
This made it pretty sclear that
Miss Brash had at least six clubs.
And that information was helpful
to Mr.. Dale in the later play of the
hand.
Mr.. Abel opened the ten of clubs.
which held the trick. He then
shifted to the queen of diamonds
and Mr.. Dale won with the ace. He
played the queen of spades and let
1t ride. Miss Brash won with the
king and returned a spade, which
was won in the closed hand.
Mr.. Dale noted that each oppon-
ent had started with two spades.
Now he led a small diamond to
dumrnys king, returned diamond
and ruffed it.
Had Fair Picture.
He had a pretty fair picture of
Miss BraSh's hand by this time.
Six clubs, two spades and at least
three diamonds. Surely not more
than two hearts. And who had the
king of hearts?
The odds greatly favored Miss
Brash having that card, as even she
would find it hard to justify bid
of four clubs with only a good club
suit and one king on the side.
On this reasoning, Mr.. Dale dis
dained the heart f1nesse. Instead,
he led a heart and went right up
with dummy's ace. He came back
to his hand by ruf1ng another dia-
mond and here Miss Brash dis
carded a club.
Mr.. Dale then led a second heart
and ducked on the board. Miss
Brash had to win with the king.
Note that if Mr.. Dale had finessed
the queen of hearts on the first lead
of the suit he would have lost two
heart tricks-and his contract.
(Copyright. 1851. General Features Corp)
Evening star., 1951-11-26

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Evening star., 1951-11-26

Closer to the direct line of ad-
vertising seems to be poster, pre-
pared by hand, which is about
5000 years old. This poster was
made by an Egyptian and was
found among the remains Of the
city of Thebes. It tells about q
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-11-16
IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK
1941-TEN YEARS AGO-1941

1941-TEN YEARS AGO-1941
Nov 9Fathe Gager assistant pastor OF St atrks Church Lon
don 1888 breaches before going to St Ed
Church Cincinnati
Cincinnati Conservatory
OF Music, to have Diamond Jubilee at Conservatory
Nov. 10-First snowfall in London and Vicinity
Nov 1Seveneen youths to leave Madison county Nov 10
to enter army.
per 1912 AAA wheat program
raising price to 105 according of p Overtu
Nov Nfr and Mrs " Dement, South Soon celebrate 55th
wedding anniversary
Jefferson Post American Legion party
funds for kiddes ward at Dayton
Nov. 12-Canaan Girls 4H club sponsors $3.50 dance.
Nov of Isabella London celebrates seventh anner
sary
Nov 13-Food Institute Company,
newspapers opens High School auditorium London.
Nov 14Gts of chimes ST Johns Lutheran Church
don by Mr. and Mrs Herbert Keye, of parents.
Nov 15-Amos Cordle elected head of Oak Run Grange
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO-1926
Nov 9Repubcans lost but office in election; Harvey Ed
wards Democrat reelected women Catherine
SHALL elected recorder Miss Ella Blizzard auditor both Republicans
Nov 9Samue night City drops dead
OF stroke while making arrest street
Nov l0orse hched to buggy of Glenn London codes
grocery truck of Clint Hayman head through windshield and
has to be killed
Nov 10Fmore Jackson pioneer resident 53d
secutive year for Republican party
NOV Moses Bentze pioneer London painter celebrates
birthday.
Nov Mens Bible Big Church plan for annual do
nation sale.
Nov 12W Borland West jefferson Civil War veteran casts
Grant, lost vote then by moving
NOV l2Eght
Nlc1uire farm GeorgeSvle road.
NOV lNadehne Trees 6-yearold daughter
Trees Plain City dies of black dphthera Ogden Tfngey
9yearod Mr. and Mrs Charles ngey spinal
az nome on Fish Hatchery Road, London
Nov 13S Hughes Democrat of Mt Sterling an
pointed mayor of village after resignation Clark
NOV 4-Wlam Webb wins London Prince contest Jane
Robinson wins at Plain City - ~ $50
5ATmistc Fairfield a,d
township "A Centralized . - ~