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Evening star., 1951-12-30
Vote No
By Bruce Borton

At the election last November, New
York's citizens were confronted with
eight proposed amendments to the
State constitution. All eight were ap-
proved by large majorities.
Amendments almost always get q big
"yes' vote. not necessarily because the
voters really favor them, but because
they (a) cannot read the very small
type at the top of the voting machine;
(b) do not understand the legal Ian
guage, and Co get nervous and embar-
rassed by the long waiting line outside
the booth. So the average man just
pulls down the "yes" lever and hurries
away
voted mo- on those three of the
eight amendments that proposed addi-
tlonal expenditures by the city and
State, though the projects involved were
all meritorious. did it because I be-
leve that, until the American people
call halt on their Governments fam
tastic and criminal extravaganza abroad.
they must make up their minds to do
without any major public improvements
at home.
States and cities just can't boost taxes
any higher. Improvements can be paid
for only by more debt. More debt means
more imitation, still higher cost of living
still more help to Stain in his program
OF wrecklng the economy of the United
States.
If you want to be wholesomely
shocked and scared, just consider these
two happenings in the last session of
Congress-:
1t took 10 months to pass the new
tax bill to raise five and three-quarter
billions IL per cent hike for every
family.
But the new foreign dole bill of nearly
eight billions galloped through the
House in one day.
Does that appal you? I hope so. Does
1t make you wonder whether we are in
imminent danger of national economic
suicide? The answer is: We are.
Bismarck, very canny politician,
said: Politics is the doctrine of the
possible, the attainable." But our poll
ticians don't ask what is possible or
attainable. They just have the vague
hope that if they keep on pouring out
the billions something good will happen
somehow. If you ask them what or how,
you are an iSolationist.
The 1852 election well may be our last
chance to preserve our country's SOL
vency. A good way to begin to get in
training for that crucial showdown is
to start right now voting NO
tcopyright 1851. King Features Syndicate. 1ne.)
Evening star., 1951-12-30
'Innocents Abroad

Some days ago the wife Of our newly
appointed Ambassador to Turkey gave
an interview to the press, and your re-
porter apparently got her share of Mrs.
McGhee's news and views. rather wish
that either of the two good ladies in
volved had cleared the matter with Nc
Ghee pere before the story hit the pages
of your paper. Perhaps it might be in
order to wish that he had told the good
lady where they were going.
For to Judge by her remarks. Mrs.
McGhee seems to be under the impress
sion that she is headed for rough and
rigorous life in some place resembling
Tibet or the less cultured parts Of Outer
Mongolia. She will take years supply
of shoes and clothing so that the chill
dren will not have to run ragged and
barefoot. There will be cases of canned
goods so that the specter of famine will
not haunt the household, and there will
be drugs to beat off the onslaughts of
disease. A titillating thought, this-the
family McGhee taking off for distant
shores, resembling tribal migrations,
laden with amenities so that the little
McGhees will not soon be deprived of
shoes, pants, panties, or fodder.
OF course we all know under Just what
demands and structures a society re-
porter operates. We know that her COPY
must be bright and gay and cute and
that everything must just simply SPAR
kle. Sure We know it. but don't believe
that you should forget that your paper
is read by people who may not realize
how much salt to sprinkle on what they
read in the society news. I don't think
the Turks are going to like the implica-
tions of that little item.
And I can't say that blame them. I
have seen a number of photos lately
dealing with Ankara and Istanbul and
other spots in our new ally's country.
and I haven't noticed many naked or
barefoot children. even among the OBJ
viously poor. One of our great travel
magazines lately published a rather
good article on the country-and I wish
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Spires Of the Spirit
Clocks and Calendars

Clocks and calendars are the measur-
ing contrivanceS by which every man
and woman keeps track of passing time
The constant ticking Of watches and
clocks reminds us every second that
"tempus fugit." The calendars with their
today SO quickly to be put in the
category Of the yesterdays always are
proclaiming, from desk or wall: Time
flies!
Never are we more clock-conscious
and calendar conscious than when there
approaches the last "a hours of year
When comes the final tick, then and
there all the current calendars of the
year are rendered obsolete.
The faces Of watches and clocks never
change their expression. They seem al
together unperturbed that the tick-tock
OF moment ago was the death gasp
of an old year. and that all the time
pieces OF the globe are now vocal with
the first whisperings of "a new face at
the door," To remind him. each time he
looked at his timepiece, of the flight of
time. DR.. Samuel johnson had inscribed
on the face of his watch the words, "The
night cometh.''
Now, as one year ends and another be-
gins it does no good to indulge In nos
talgic poetry. such as "Old year, you
must not die" 1t is quite easy to wash
out with sentimental tears the deep
meaning of times passing. Clocks and
calendars always are set to the music
of that deathless phrase of a great
hymn. swift to its close ebbs out life's
little day" But the vital question is not
what time is doing. but what we are do
ing with time.
DR.. Joseph Fort Newton called his
autobiography THE River of the Years"
That is an apt and suggestive title. 1t
is not lament that life is q moving
steam, instead of a stagnant pool 1t
really is Jubilate that life has cur
rents, sometimes swift. THE River of the
Years" is the account of differing shores,
of daily adventures. of a panorama of
new scenes, and the part these all play
in the enrichment of life. To anchor
in any one place and revel for evermore
in the static scene it frames is to forfeit
the wealthy experiences that wait fur
ther down the stream, as the flowing
river winds its way. to the sea- What
pathos and tragedy when the last SEN
tence of an obituary is Mr.. So-and-So
retired 20 years ago.! His biographer
says that Gladstone. when he had almost
reached 80. still kept himself on the
line Of discovery"
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Centennial of the American YMCA

One hundred years ago yesterday the first
Young Mems Christian Association in the United
States was established in the chapel of Old
South Meeting House in Boston. A similar organ
ization had been set up in Montreal "a days
earlier. Both were Independent branches of the
original YMCA, founded by George Williams
and eleven of his fellow-cerks in the drapers'
trade in London in 1874. They represented an
interdenominationa movement among the
Christian laity of the Engsh-speaking nations
of the world. Specifically, the enterprise aimed
at protecting boys and young men from the vices
and evils of cities and towns to which they had
been drawn from their original homes in rural
areas by better opportunities of employment.
But the ideals of the movement obviously
were not limited to any single social group. They
were significant to girls and women also, and by
1855 Young Women's Christian Association homes
and Institutes were being started. Gradually,
the YMCA expanded until today it operates in Sc
different countries. In the United States alone
there are 1700 Y's, with nearly two million
members and $3.50 million In real estate holdings.
The American associations have 10 degree
granting colleges, 400 college branches, almost
10000 Hi-Y's in high schools from coast to coast
and border to border.
The YMCA however is not content to serve
It's own members exclusively Rather, it col
laborates with long list of other religious
cultural and recreational agencies. In World
War / and II it played an important part on
the home front and overseas. The centennial of
the movement therefore is a matter of interest
to all Americans. That aspect of it with which
Washington is most familiar certainly is an asset
to the whole community. The first local was
founded on June o. 1852. It will celebrate its
one hundredth anniversary little more than
five months hence.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

The Stars editorial comment on
Christmas nifty years ago concluded:
The Christmas spirit
Christmas. should prevail throughout
1901 the year. not for the day
only. It should stretch
forth to the smallest details of living,
to the slightest relationships, to the most
trifling performances. A life ordered out
OF sincere understanding and accept
ance of the great truths which today
gain vital. positive force through the
universal celebration of the Savior's
birth will become in its turn a power for
the helping Of the world to even higher
planes of purity and righteousness"
X
The Star on December u, 1901, re-
ported from New York: 1.-The house
of Nine. Legrain at
Nine. leeroin's Mamoraneck has been
Costle in state of siege for
days. Defending her
castle against deputy sheriffs with legal
papers and those who. she says, would
take her home from her. Nine. Legrain,
who is nearly IS years old. sits in the
drawing room of the old house sur
rounded by the relics of day of wealth
and society Of the long ago. The daugh-
ter of court chamberlain of Louis
Napoleon, a leader in Washington So
ciety during the administrations of
Presidents Pierce and Buchanan, Mime.
Legrain. the widow of wealthy French
man. /. is forced. as she declares. to
fight for the possession Of home that
is tumbling down over her head. The
old yellow, weather-stained house, which
stands on rocky spur that is almost
cliff, :. is hedged about with a legal
tangle that Is unusual
A series of letters written by young
woman missionary in Korea were
reviewed in The Star for
Missionary December %, 1901. The
In Koren author was Sadie Har-
baugh, a former resident
OF Washington. She said in part: CO.
ing out to the houses in town with
Lois, the Bible woman, is really the
most trying part Of the work This
place where / am staying is perfectly
Evening star., 1951-12-30
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain,
United States Senate.

Minister. Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain.
United States Senate
comes to realize that "the secret Of
perpetual youth is to grow old. The
fruit of the new phase is always fresher
than the withered blossom. Life can
only keep young by always advancing"
It was man who had learned how
with increasing joy and usefulness to
glide down the river of the years grace
fully and eagerly who wrote, in his
mel1owed wisdom: youth is not time
of life. It is state of mind. It is
not e. matter of red lips and supple
knees. 1t is temper of the will, a
quality of the imagination. 1t is the
freshness of the deep springs Of life.
You are as young as your faith, as
old as your doubts; as young as your
hope, as old as your despair"
A story is told of missionary in
Africa who, returning from England to
his field after a furlough, took back
with him sun dial, to help the folk
in the African village to tell the time
of day. The natives were so full of
wonGer and reverence for the object
that they built roof over 1t. to pro-
tect it from the sun and rain. They
knew not that when they shut out the
light of blazing world the dial failed
to register anything; it was meaningless.
And so clocks and calendars, even in
our advanced" civilization, are robbed
of their chief meaning if there falls
upon them no light from another world
Without faith in spiritual verities and
an escape into eternity which gilds with
glory the most commonplace task, clocks
and calendars are only the symbols of
an existence of diminishing zest. But
to write at the top of the page of each
new calendar Enter God" as Robert
Louis Stevenson declared, changes every
thing. For, after all, no one can really
live who knows nothing but figures on
dial 9
There is no more majestic new day
and new year prayer than so teach
us to number our days that we may
apply our hearts unto wisdom
But that prayer cannot be answered
without time for God:
"No time for God?-
What fools we are 49,.
No time for God?
AS soon to say, no time
To eat, to sleep, to live, to die.
Take time for God,
Or poor. misshapen thing you'll be
To step into Eternity
And say,
I had no time for Thee"
Evening star., 1951-12-30

Calendars rightly interpreted are but
timetables for journey whose deStina-
t1on is known. Characters are more
meaningful than calendars. Alas, how
often men with no valid appreciation of
time SQuander it, while at the same time,
by burglar alarms, they guard boarded
money which is as dust in the balance!
What startling revelation it is when
one with surprised eyes sees that the
only true wealth is time, even as did
the famous queen who, dying, offered
her fabulous riches for IAN inch of
time! I'VE may talk glibly and un-
thinkingly enough about the transience
of life, but, inevitably, there comes
day when we begin to realize that lifes
transience is now desperately real fact
for ourselves The boundlesS time which
once seemed at our disposal Is reduced
to narrow span, and there are so many
things which we once hoped to achieve
will never now be DONE"
Now that, so far as years are con-
cerned, the calendar is catching up with
him, the amazing record of John R.
4'AoSS' ocoCNoAAoII VI CilC n1llSuOIIl, Cali
be explained to some extent by his early
APPRAISAL OF the value Of time. He de-
clares: Even a misspent week end is
irreparably gone. Time Is sacred, hence
the great rule Of conduct is: Next to
God, respect time"
To keep pace with the years is life's
greatest secret. Real beauty is not for
sale in so-called beauty parlors. No
one need be made mournful or panicky
because time is passing, If he once
Evening star., 1951-12-30

Pen-n0n1es may be used If letters carry
1OriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Drama News and Reviews
blue Lamp Spins Warm T ale
Of Scotland Yard at Work
J News and Reviews
By Joy Cormody

British frankly sentimental about most of their intu
tons. especially Scotland Yard
attitude inspired number of the better English
"The Blue Lamp which yesterday
Dupont The full cooperation of the famous fighting
the making Of this film which
Evening star., 1951-04-12

by the three hunted humans, the
best of these a climax in which
the gunman seeks to escape in the
crowd at a popular dog track in
the outskirts of the city.
1t is all managed with the mex
orable calm Scotland Yard itself
might show, which indeed is pre-
cisely what is intended in "The
Blue Lamp"
There will be a nostalgia touch
in the presentation of "Trelawny
of the Wells" at Roosevelt High
School auditorium tomorrow night
1t will be provided by the pres
ence of a number who were in the
cast of the same play when it was
produced in 1924 by the Dramatic
Association of Central High School
These will include Harry S.
Wender, Mrs. Margaret Boaz
Manton M. Wyvell, Mrs. Maray A
Pierdon, Wilmington Barto, T. Leon
ard Mikulas, Leroy Bendhein
and Mrs. Yvonne Levy Kushner
The present production, under
the direction of Pauline Eator
Oak. will be given by the Masquers
of Roosevelt Center. Curtain time
is $3.50 pm.
y Il X X
A duplicate of the Queen Vic.
toria medallion which figures 81
prominently in the Plaza's endur.
ing ''Mudlark" is the proud pos.
session of Washingtonian. He i:
Tom Toone, 70 years old, 1908 A
street Sc. Mr.. Toone received his
medal as an English schoolboy
when he was eight years old anc
long before it entered his head tt
emigrate to America where he
worked a lifetime as a stonecut-
ter.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
HOLLYWOOD.

Richard Carlson is going to get
the build-up he should have had
years ago. Wald and Krasna are
starring him in High Heels" and
"Size H." For the latter they still
hope Joan Crawford will say yes.
For High Heels" 1--WE want a
young Lana Turner" says Jerry
Rita Hayworth called Director
Charles Vidor on the long-dis-
tance phone and they discussed
two scripts Charlie has. But if
she does come to Hollywood" j"
says Charles, between takes of his
current Rage of the Vulture. "
It'll be just to visit, not to work.
I'm sure she will go back to Ali"
Charles Boyer will take his
family to France this summer for
a long stay.
X X X
Alan Ladd tells me that he has
signed that 10-year deal at war
ners. He'll do one picture for
them annually. He didn't tell me
this, but I understand the money
for the deal adds up to $4,000 900.
Corinne Calvert shows me her
new waistline at Paramount. Il
lost 2 inches in 'Peking Express
says the French beaut-the tape
measure now says 19 inches. Cor
rine adds, John (Bromfield) and
I have bought a new house-the
swimming pool is bigger than the
house. Babies? We hope fol
twins"
Betty Hutton's laryngitis turned
out to be an allergy to steak and
all high-protein food. So Betty
Evening star., 1951-04-12
HoIIyWoodDiory
Richard Carlson Will Get
Lonq-DeIoyed BuiId-up
BY SheiIoh Groho

has to give up eggs as well as
meat. That's tough. .....
X
David Selznick will be glad to
hear that the actors company
tour of 1.-The Country Girl" is to
raise the $1,000 the company still
owes him.
Esther Williams found a way
to swim in "Texas Carnival" She
"swims" around Howard Keel's
bedroom while he dreams of her
You meet such nice swimmers in
dreams!
Louis Jouvet, great French
actor now in this country, has in
vited Helen Hayes to Paris this
summer to star in Much Ado
About Nothing" In English, of
course.
(Released by North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Baltimore Symphony
Gets $4,000 Grant
By the Associoied Press

BALTIMORE. April 12.-The
city board of estimates has ap-
provede a $4,000 grant to the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Symphony officials had reported
to Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro
that the orchestra would have to
disband unless it received finan-
cial aid.
President Robert o. Bonnell OF
the symphony organization told
the board the season which ended
last March 81 resulted in a deficit
lof more than $4,000 and that
income was "startlingly below
estimates"
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Where and When
Current Screen Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
Arena-"The Glass Menagerie";;
$50 pm.
New Gayety-"The Guards
man; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
MISUNDERSTANDING Strikes
Twice; 1875, 3:35, 5;35, 7:35 and
9:35 pm.
Capitol - Royal Wedding;
II am. las, 4:30, 7:15 and 10
pm. Stage shows: 1855, $40, 6:25
and 9:10 pm.
CoIumbia-"The Mating Sea-
SON.; 10:45 am. and 1870, AIS,
ZOO and GAS pm.
Dupont The Blue Lamp;
100, 2:45, 4:3O, 6:15, 800 and
$50 pm.
Keith's THE Thing; 1870
am, 1885, 3:35, $40, 7:45 and
9;45 pm.
Little Stairway to Heaven;
2:3O, 900 and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan "Valentino";
1870 am, 1870, $3.50, 5:35, 7:40
and 9:45 pm.
National - "Branded"; 11:20
am. 1:O5, 2:45, 4:25. 6:1o, 7:50
and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"Father's Little Divi-
dend";; HAS am. LAS, 3:45, 5:45,
7:45 and $50 pm.
Pix-"San Francisco; 2:25,
600 and 9:25 pm.
Playhouse - Fourteen Hours;
11:2O am. 1:25, $50, 5:35, 7:45
and 9:55 pm.
Plaza - 1.-The Mudlark';; Hoo
am, 1:10, 800, $50, TAO and 10
pm.
Trans-Lux - mo Orchids for
Miss Blandish"; HOO am, 12:45
2:3o. 4:2O, sos, 7:50 and $40 pm
Warner - lightning Strikes
Twice; 11:40 am, lao, $40
$40, 7:40 and 9:40 pm.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
THE CAST.

THE BLUE LAMP" an Eagle-Lion pic
ture, produced by Michael Balloon, directed
by Basil Dearden screenplay by T. E. B.
Clarke At the Dupont
Evening star., 1951-04-12

agency WAS given W Illc Iudh1ilS Vi
ionally Cutlery effect, is a drama
tic specimen of how fundamen-
tally human is London's police
force.
THE Blue Lamp" is composite
work, the story of group of Bob
hies in their handling of a furry
Of murderous violence created by
a callow criminal band. 1t exam
ines not only the official duties of
the force but takes an affectionate
look at their home lives and the
recreational activities of their Off
duty hours.
It's producer, Michael Malcon,
has cast "The Blue Lamp" with an
acting group headed by Jack War;
ner and Dirk Bogarde, a compe-
tent lot which uses all the quiet
tricks necessary to tell warm
hearted story as it should be told.
Considerable point is made of
the fact that London's police force
operates unarmed in the protec-
ton of the worlds largest city
from those who would prey upon
its descent citizens.
1t is obviously point that
merits dramatic stress.
X X X
The script of the Dupont film
by T. E. B. Clark takes its SYM
bolic title from the light which
burns outside London's Scotland
Yard headquarters.
His narrative finds its central
figure in a veteran patrolman,
played by Warner. twenty-five
years this man has been on the
force and now is eligible for re-
tirement. He still is in good shape
physically. however, and as q
man who likes his job and is
proud of it, he decides upon an
other f1ve-year stretch of duty.
A factor in this decision. is the
attachment the older man, who
never had a son himself, feels for
a rookie officer whom he has
taken into his home as a boarder.
Shortly after this extension of
duty is agreed, young trio of
criminals takes it into his head
to get rich quick by holding up
profitable neighborhood business
operations. In one of these, the
veteran policeman is shot and the
rest of the story is devoted to the
solution of the crime by Scotland
Yard.
The quiet accent of this man
hunt, which also involves an ex-
citement-seeking young blond girl,
Is laid upon the fact that there is
no departure in the routine. The
wounded policeman is a beloved
figure who stands as high in the
affections of his superiors as in
those of his fellow patrolmen, yet
this is not permitted to alter the
line of the police pursuit.
TX
1.-THE Blue Lamp" goes about its
behind-the-scenes disclosures with
a thoroughness that Scotland Yaro
itself could admire. Its cameras
sweep the headquarters Offices
restaurant, recreation department
and locker rooms. They follow the
principal characters into theil
homes and through the teeming
daytime thoroughfares of London
They trail the unarmed protectors
of the peace through the mysteri-
GUS darkness of the city and pur-
sue the neurotic young criminals
to their tenement hideaway.
There is no haste whatever in
Basil Dearden's directional deter
mination to show how London's
policemen work even under the
impulse to avenge the death OF 8
beloved veteran officer.
The excited moments Of 1.-THE
Blue Lamp" are those dominated
Evening star., 1951-04-12
In Movies, q Dog
Has q Secretary
By the Associated Pre-

BY the ASSoclofed FfesS
HOLLYWOOD.
Can you imagine a German
shepherd dog having a race track
filly for a private secretary?
It's possible-in Hollywood.
Before you start lifting your
eyebrows, you should know that
Dick Powell plays the dog and
Joyce Holden plays the horse.
Here's the gimmick: The dog is
poisoned, goes to heaven and re-
turns to earth as private eye
CPowelD to track down his killer.
For a secretary he hires Miss
Holden. Later he learns she is
the reincarnation of a famous
turf queen.
The films title: "You Never
Know"
Evening star., 1951-04-12

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1951-02-25
BEAUTY TIP!

New Dreft IS so mild, and your hands
are in water 50 little. il leaves hands
beautifully white and soft!