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Evening star., 1952-06-30
Hope Is the Stoff

Neuer, the old man said. Never the time
When peace and truth the ttDo. are not
ideals
Dangling like plums and yelloD pears
before
Pursuing runners. hungry. covetous.
ThinE of it as a picture In a dream:
The knee-bent runners fight-tuH at
titudes;
Their outheld arms; their anguished
sunlit faces;
Pursuing the held Of fruit them
selUes pursued.
Foreuer the fabulous heart such hope
conceiueS!
Though scentleSS the fruit. loved picture
but trance
And motionless the runners!-stM the
sound
OF mortal breath their sure accompdni-
ment. 4
= Dorothy Horrimon. J
Evening star., 1952-06-30
RoseduIe Drowning

Could anything be more absurd than
for the colored people of Washington
to attribute the drowning of Negro
boy in the Rosedale pool to the POOLS
segregation status?
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People sent wire
of protest to the Recreation Board to
the effect that had the pool been open
to all children, Kenneth Carroll, 13,
would not have been forced to enter
the pool after hours. Since the NAACP
admitted the boy did enter the pool
Illegally, then it would seem that his
illegal, entry and not segregation was
the cause Of his death. Certainly if
he had not gone into the pool in viola
ton of the law he would not have been
drowned.
Nish Showers.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
Drive Foster-but Carefully

Motorists who drive in Virginia should not
be misled by the increased speed limit which now
is in effect in that State. There was a catch to
the 55-mile maximum speed approved by the
General Assembly While enabling careful drivers
to go faster, Virginia from now on is prepared to
crack down severely on reckless motorists. Man.
datory penalties will leave the courts no dscre-
ton in certain involving repeated violations
endangering life or property.
The Legislature gave lot of thought and
much debate to the question of making virginia's
highways safer. Spurred on by Governor Battle
and State safety experts the Assembly passed
number of laws intended to reduce an accident
toll which the Governor called diSgraceful. The
raising of the speed limit for passenger cars was
accompanied by lowering of the speed limit for
trucks from so to As miles an hour One argu-
ment for these changes was that the wider mar
gin between paSsenger-car speed and that of
trucks would permit passing of large trucks with
out risk of exceeding the speed limit. It was
tended that with the limits the same for both
types of traffic, it was not only illegal but dan
gerous for passengertcar to pass truck moving
at maximum speed. It will take lot of rigid
enforcement to bring compliance with the lower
limit for trucks. Interstate truck drivers gen.
orally are in the habit of making up downhin for
time lost in climbing steep grades.
The new laws provide for mandatory sus-
pension of drivers permit on conviction of Sec
ond-offense speeding within IL months, manda-
tory Today jail sentence for driving with
revoked permit, mandatory re-examination of
any driver involved in two moving accidents
within year, discretionary suspension Of permit
for 10 days on first-offense speeding and discre-
tionary revocation of permit when drivers ac-
cident record indicates to the Motor Vehicle Divi-
sion that public safety is endangered by his
driving.
Governor Battle has urged State and local
police and traffic courts to enforce these laws
sternly. The States growing toll of dead and
injured on its public highways especially the
hazardous and congested U. S. Route between
Washington and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS drastic
corrective action. Motorists in Virginia will find
that while it is all right to drive little faster
than in the past, they had better drive carefully
if they want to keep their permits and stay out Of
jail. The net effect likely to be good for all
who use the States Lkhways.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
Atomic Aviation Engine
Difficulties Explained
Expert Tells Of Generating
Small Amounts of Power
By Thomos R. Henry

Building an atomic aviation engine Is
Job of almost unbelievable difficulty"
This was stressed before the American
Society of Engineering Education by
Commissioner T. Keith Glennan of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Still, given sufficient time and money.
Mr.. Glennan said. it is his personal
belief that the job is possible.
There are. now. he said, only few
skeptics left as to the feasibility of an
atomic marine engine which. many
seem to think, already has been ac-
compliShed.
Perhaps even further away is the
feasibility of industrial use of atomic
power. Said Mr.. Glennan:
I'VE have generated small amounts
of uneconomical electric power incident
to the main experimental purpose of
reactor. What the future holds only
time itself can tell. If reactor develop
mentS turn out successfully and cost
can be reduced there will be an in
creasing demand for stationary nuclear
power plants"
Agreements With Industry.
The commission has made agree
nents with four large industrial groups.
he said. to carry out studies on how
industry can take large share in the
developing and operating Of such re-
actors. One-the Dow-Detroit Edison
combine-has agreed to help finance
research: Others are considering SIM
liar arrangements.
II am certain in my own mind" Mr..
Glennan said, that industrial partici-
patton and the results of competition
in accordance with our normal indus
trial pattern will hasten the day when
the generation of power through the
use of nuclear fuels will become an
economic reality"
Tobacco" means "shut-eye."
It comes from the women'S language
of the Carib Indians, the group inhabit-
ing the West Indies who first greeted
Columbus.
These Indians had two languages
one used exclusively by women and the
other by men in conversations among
themselves. This has resulted in good
deal of the confusion according to Doug
las Taylor, ethnologist of the island Of
Dominica, in report to the Journal OF
American Anthropology.
Up to now the commonly accepted
derivation of the word has been from
"cohaba," the general Carib word for
"cigar," the form in which tobacco was
most frequently used. Taylor derives it
instead from a combination of "tabu,"
meaning dipping" and "ako," meaning
"eye"
Compared to Rot-Gut.'
1t was a word intended to convey
about the same meaning. he says. as
"rot-gut" applied at the present to bad
whiskey. 1t occurs in various forms. he
points out, like "bitabacou." 'tita-
bacou' and "natabacou." but all come
from the same origin
He quotes an early report on the
Caribs: "They have powdered tobacco
of which they put pinch between the
lips and gums. 1t is so strong that it
often makes them swoon or else intoxi-
Gates them. Most of their living de-
scendantS now retire with pipe, with
out which, they declare, they could not
Sleep"
The "shut-eye" apparently was not
approved for the Carib braves by their
squaws. and the term used for 1t was
in no sense intended as complimentary,
Evening star., 1952-06-30

time in other words, for anything but quick
compromise.
The House bill carried some unwise and even
unworkable reductions in funds for municipal
operation. Most of these reductions have been
made up by Senate increases, and the Senate
increases are apt to prevail. The most important
dispute between the two houses relates to the
amount of the Federal payment The House
Appropriations Committee recommended the full
payment of $12 million. Members of the House
committee who handled the bill on the floor
strongly defended the full payment, on grounds
of equity as well as necessity. But on motion
of Representative Taber, senior minority member
of the Appropriations Committee, the House
itself cut the Federal payment by 20 per cent,
bringing it down to less than 8 per cent of the
funds provided by local taxation for general
revenues-the lowest percentage payment in
history.
There will be proposal from the House
conferees no doubt, to compromise the Federal
payment reduction, even though the confereeS
themselves will be the same people who sup
ported and defended the full payment But
any such compromise will be most unfair wholly
devoid of supporting facts, contrary to what
the Congress has gone on record as promising to
appropriate in partial compensation for services
received from the District by the Federal Gov
ernment The Senate Committee made strong
argument for the full payment of $12 million.
1t should stick to its guns. Any reduction in
that amount will be repudiation of an obliga-
ton, without reason and without honor
Evening star., 1952-06-30
PorodoxicoI Politics

report that Republican Senator Ives of
New York is reluctant to stand for reelection
If Senator Taft heads the party's presidential
ticket serves as reminder of the interest, and
possible influence, which a bloc Of Republican
Senators has in finding and following Novem-
ber winner.
Twenty Republican seats in the Senate are
being contested this year. Eleven of them are
now filled by members of the freshman class
of 1946-1ves, Bricker of Ohio, Cain of WASH
ington, Ecton of Montana, KEN of Missouri
Mccarthy of Wisconsin, Malone of Nevada, Mar
tin of Pennsylvania, Thye of Minnesota, Watkins
of Utah and Williams of Delaware. With the
exception of Mr.. Ives, this freshman band has
been ultra conservative on domestic issues. SuS
picious of the bipartisan approach to foreign
policy and more iSoationist than otherwise.
individually they have reflected more of Taft
than an Eisenhower philosophy, particularly on
foreign affairs.
Republican prospects of gaining control of
the next Senate require presidential winner
who can help accomplish net switch of three
seats to the G. o. P. side of the aisle. The best
start, of course would be to hold the 20 seats
already Republican. The 1916 election was an
off-year contest in which the Republicans made
substantial gainS taking over control of the
Capitol for the first time since 1885, The record
of the 80th Congress, attacked successfully
by the Democrats in 1948 as "do-nothing"
Congress- was contribution of the "class of
1946." Several of this bloc are considered politi
cally vulnerable this year-unless a Republican
landslide develops on a national scale.
An Eisenhower landslide, if that should be
the case. would produce a paradox, however, if
It returned to the Senate the 10 Republican
freshmen who have compiled voting records
almost diametrically opposed to many of the
generals views.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
Suucers Fact or Funcy?

At long last the Air Force lets it be
known that they are taking flying sau-
GERS seriously and they. propose to hunt
them with specially built cameras. The
Air Force says until they can determine
what the flying saucer is, they cannot
move to counteract it. Why want to?
Over period of years the Saucers have
shown themselves friendly despite their
self-evident superiority. Must every
thing be judged by our own standards
and by our earthly lust for power?
Many saucer researchers are begging
that we try to signal or broadcast to
them in hopes of a contact. Such a
thing would be more likely to happen
after we have divested our mass atti-
tude Of hysteria, ridicule or Indifference.
The rationale of the saucer question
would presuppose that we Of earth who
now seriously contemplate space travel
have simply been beaten to it by intelli-
genceS more evolved than ourselves.
Interplanetarian.
note with some disgust that the fairy
tales about flying saucers continue to
persist. have felt right along that
only a few people really believed they
existed and was able to scoff and dis
miss it from my mind very easily. Don't
we have enough scare words in the
world today without manufacturing
more? I, too. have seen these so-called
flying saucers." but here is my true
story.
Last November I was standing on a
vacant lot within the city limits of Tue
son, Ariz. It was beautiful. sunny day.
BY chance, I looked into the sky First
saw what appeared to be a ball of fire
flying through the skies. It already was
very high. but as it Travelled higher it
made slight turn. The suns reflection
changed the shape Of the ball Of fire
into the shape of the flying saucers de-
scribed and drawn by those who claimed
they saw them. It was round in the
center, with a halo showing from each
side. stood fascinated as watched it,
my eyes never leaving it. At last had
to believe in flying saucers. Now could
go home and tell all my friends had
actually seen one. AS it travelled higher,
expected it to vanish at any moment,
but to my surprise it made another turn.
and what did it turn out to be-a real
honest-to-goodness plane. Very small,
but plane. The suns reflection merely
had given it different shapes. I am so
glad was able to keep my eyes glued
on it before it vanished, or I too would
be believing in flying saucers."
r. w. X.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
In Cuse Of Emergency

would like to suggest that the tele-
phone company in the District might
set aside a special number, similar to
that now used for obtaining weather
forecasts and the time Of day, which
could be called during an emergency for
information on what to do and how to
act.
We dial Weather 1912 for the latest
weather forecasts, so why not dial WAR
1852 for the latest air raid instructions?
Such a system would enable the popula-
ton during an attack and afterwards to
obtain prompt and accurate information
on what they should not do.
This system would eliminate great
many unnecessary calls to police, fire,
and other departments which would be
actively assisting in the abatement Of
the emergency. The District Air-Raid
Waning Service could provide accurate
and prompt telephone reports to the
people in this way.
In times Of emergency when other
communication services are diScon-
tinued, the telephone service very often
continues to operate. During an attack
and for some minutes thereafter. radio
stations would naturally be off the air.
but the telephone system might continue
to operate, giving out vital instructions
in this manner. Sudden changes in plans
of the Air-Raid Warning Service, made
necessary by changed conditions. could
be quickly relayed to hundreds Of per-
sons by telephone, and they in turn
could pass the information along by
word of mouth.
If such system were put into opera
ton. instructions could be repeated at
regular intervals, and telephone sub
scribers notified to dial again in an hour
to receive new instructions.
John Charles Hogan.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
Mans Future
Nish Showers.

After having read DR.. Carter's ar
ticle in The Star. on the possibility of
the degeneracy of man in the distant
future. would like to say this: 1t
has taken the forces of evolution a
million or more centuries to produce
the genus homo, develop him, and bring
him to the state he is in now. What
evolution will do with him the next
million or so years we don't know and
have no possible way of guessing, with
this exception: We do know that the
forces that produce the peacock and the
rose, as we'll as the human, do not go
backward but simply eliminate the unfit,
and the fit are constantly being devel-
oped higher and finer
Samuel Shepard.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
Who Said the Supreme Court Is Stuffy?

'Literalness." Justice Douglas wrote,
"is no sure touchstone to legislative pur-
pose."
"Juries," Justice Jackson stated. "are
not bound by what seems inescapable
logic to judges"
There is always possibility" Justice
Black observed, that a judge may be
honestly mistaken. Unfortunately. his
tory and the existence of our Bill of
Rights indicate that judicial errors may
be from worse causes"
There is good deal of shallow talk"
Justice Frankfurter said, that the judi
cial robe does not change the man
within it. It does
Any assortment of figures of speech
and epigrams from the bench would be
relatively mild without examples of
dissent or disagreement. These fire.
quently give the broadeSt opportunity
for minority Justice to chide his
brethren.
II dissent" Chief Justice Vinson ex-
planned on one occasion, because
would read this section of the law as
it is written"
IF this is what the court means to
do." Justice Frankfurter protested, lit
OuSI1I 1lOL W Dc GOO ullllCulG 1Or CQo
opinion to say so very simply"
The Constitution. and more particu-
larly its Bill of Rights brought out some
of the most trenchent phrases at the
recent term. Any such list would
include:
"The right to be left alone is indeed
the beginning of all freedom" (Justice
Douglas.) THE Constitution requires
more than a bad guess to make a
criminal" JuStice Black) 1--WE can
not afford to take liberties with liberty
itself" (JuStice Jackson) "The pur-
pose Of the Constitution was not only
to grant power but to keep it from get
ting out of hand" (Justice Jackson
"So-called constitutional issues seem
to exercise a mesmeric influence over
the popular mind" (Justice Frank
furter) Absolute discretion, like cor
ruption. marks the beginning of the end
of liberty" (Justice Douglas.) Men
are more often bribed by their loyalties
and ambitions than by money" (Justice
Jackson0 "The accordion-like qualities
of this philosophy must inevitably i'm
peril all the individual liberty safe
guards" Gustice Black)
But. when all is said and done the
shortest but most lasting words the
justices wrote were those that ended
the written opinions: Affirmed d.
Reversed :. is so ordered"
Evening star., 1952-06-30
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer -
any questions Of fact by writing ~he
NV. Washington s. b. G., and inclosing ce, g
return postage or BY telephoning ST 1868.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
| L. carry
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to Qtnn

as water, heaven sent. is lacking in
health-giving substance.
Edward T. Smith,
Member. Citizens Committee on
Fluoridation, Inc.
Evening star., 1952-06-30
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.


@. When did Chinese immigrants first
come to the United States?-K. E. E.
A. immigration began after the acquiSi-
ton of California. The comparatively
higher wages lured Chinese workmen,
who were generally imported by labor
contractors. BY 1915 there were $4,000
Chinese in the Pacific region. mostly in
California.
@. What is the largest order Of
mammals?-E. N. r.
A. The rodents, which embrace some
20 families and several thousand species
widely distributed throughout the world.
They range in size from the mouse to the
capybara, somewhat smaller than hog.
although fossil rodents as large as an
OK are known.
@. Did John Paul Jones admit that
he was the first person to hoist the Stars
and Stripes at sea?-O. H. P.
A. In letter to Robert Morris, he
wrote: 1T was my fortune as The senior
of the Lieutenant to hoist myself the
Flag of America the first time it was
displayed"
@. How many persons in the United
States reach retirement age every day?
ID. K.
A. 1t was estimated a few years ago
that about 2,700 persons reach the age
of IS every day. This is the usual re-
tirement age, although no one knows
exactly why this particular year was
selected.
@. When and where was the piano
piece "Chopsticks" devised?-A. r. Y.
A. This quick waltz tune was first
published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1877.
and although thousands of two-finger
piano pieces were written as parlor tricks
in the 10Th century. only this one sur
vived.
@. What controls the breathing process
in the human body?-V. Mob.
A. Tiny cells at the base Of the brain.
Evening star., 1952-06-30

O. What controls the breathing process
in the human body?-V. McB.
A. Tiny cells at the base Of the brain.
Evening star., 1952-06-30

Samuel Shepard.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22

Europe: Our debtor half.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22
Steel Strike Averted Until March 23

FITTSBURGH, (E) - The na- ton will escape a steel strike Saturday but a walkout may come March 23 unless a bitter contract controversy is settled.
 Top strategy markers of the million member CIO United Steel workers did as expected Thursday in postponing their strike. They issued this warning:
 eve hope that a strike may be averted but the patience of our members is running out"
 The union decided to cancel it's weekend strike threat in order to give the Wage Stablization Board more time to recommend a settlement.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22
South Koreans Beat Off Red Ambitious Attack

SEOUL, Korea, (P) - South Korean marines beat off Com munist amphibious invasion of an Allied-held island off the north east coast of Korea in a 33-hour battle, the Allies announced to- day.
 The Korean army said its ma rineS sank 13 of the 20 invasion boats.
 Seventy invaders were reported killed and six captured. Prisoners included the commander of the amphibious attack.
 The assault was directed against Yang island, about 16 air miles from the Communist east coast port of Songjin. The island presumably is one that Allies would give back to the Commun- ists if an armistice is signed.
 Planes from the US. Carrier Essex swept into the Songjin area Thursday smashing every Red boat in sight.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22
Tax Probes Cause Former Tax Commissioner to Quit Law Job

NEW YORK, (P- Joseph .. Nunan, IT,, former commission | of internal revenue, has resigned from his Washington, D.C., v firm because of the criticism dl-- ected at him in tax case probes.
 Nunan's New York counsel, Richard J. Burke, announced t--e resignation Wednesday.
 The action was attributed .o fear that Nunan's partners migat suffer unjustifiable harm tenn porarily through his continued association with them"
 Burke said Nunan ''haS been subjected to the most vicious character assassination and un- founded villification, rumor and innuendo."
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22
.otary Remembers
 ,oroe Washington

Service Above Self" could lell have been one of the mottos
 George Washington, the boy
 was born on Virginia tide
 nd plantation, spent his teens
 ping 10 support his widowed
 by surveying the foreSted plands of Virginia, and fighting Or the Virginia colony. Young Ieorge, IS years old, came into
 5 own the day he stood in the irginia Legislature and reported hreatened encroachment from lle west by French forces coming in 0 the Ohio valley from the north. He was made a Virginia colonel, and dispatched as a con- crete evidence that the colonists had a vision for westward ex- pansion. Washington lost that en- gagement, but he lived to lead an aroused seaboard to a united defense that taught them the pos abilities for the future.
 Washington loved England-his ancestors had been the Crowns most loyal supporters, but when the short sighted policies of George III and his ministers sought to make the Americas a British dependency, Washington, the only man all the colonies would trust, led them, at great personal sacrifice, in defense of their rights.
 Only at the close of his mag nificent life was Americas first man, who refused to be called more than MT. President, able to live for any length of time at his own beloved home, Mt. Vernon. In these closing days, he personal ly supervised the grounds of what was to become one of Americas s most loved shrineS.
 Washington's last thought was to spare Martha-"Martha, please go into the other room a mo-
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22

ment .' and when she came back, Washington had gone :.
 *
 Rotarian Bob Treat gave the Washington memoirs for the club. Dan Jones was reported a guest at Highland Park Rotary Michi- gan) Feb. 12, and on that day John Cooley was representing Nome at Juneau Rotary.
 Guests Thursday noon were Wendell Kay, attorney, Anchor age; and Stanley McCutcheon, president of Alaska Airlines, Democratic committeeman for the Territory, Anchorage; and Frank Long, Arts and Crafts, Washing ton, DC.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-22
Men of Ottawa, HI. Get Hauled Into
 Powder Puff Court

OTTAWA, H., (R) - Ottawa men, married or single, will get fined in a powder puff justice court Feb. 29-Leap Year Day if they are found guilty of any of these offenses:
 l. Failing to agree with the
 judgment of a woman. g. Arguing with woman. 3. Planning to leave town Feb.
 Feb. 29 (and getting caught
 in advance).
 4. Making unkind remarks
 about woman drivers.
 5. Complaining about getting a summons to the powder puff
 court.
 6. Allowing their sons to re-
 main single.
 Members of the Ottawa Junior Woman's Club are mailing sum- monSes to OttaWa'S males.
 The only way the males can avoid their court appearance is to mail in a fine in advance.
 The Leap Year Day was plan ned by the club to raise funds for new first aid truck for the city fire department.