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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Arms and the Russians

Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob A.
Malik has been acting as expected at the current
New York meeting of the United Nations Dis
armament Commission. That is to say, he has
been doing his best to insure that the meeting
will make no perceptible progress toward break
ing the years-old deadlock over the issue of
Subjecting armed forces and arms of every kind
including atomic-to a genuinely effective
system of international control.
The Disarmament Commission is in session
in keeping with a decision approved in Paris
last December by the overwhelming majority OF
the U. N. General Assembly. Under the decision,
the eleven nations making up the commission are
supposed to exert every effort to work out an
agreement on a step-by-step procedure to put
into effect sweeping and unprecedented regula-
tory plan whose acceptance by all the major
powers would be the worlds SureSt guarantee OF
an enduring peace.
This plan-which would attain its full force
and authority with universal effectuation of
treaty establishing ironclad control of atomic
weapons and other instruments of mass deStruc-
tion-would proceed by separate stages to make
working realities of the following: % A perma-
nent corps of expert u N. inspectors; 60 thor
oughgoing inventories by those inspectors of the
armed forces, arsenals, military output, etc., OF
each of the major countries; and 81 UetoleSs
and continuous international verif1cation-and-
policing system designed to guard against the
dangers of violations or evaSionS-a system, in
other words to guarantee that the Iron Curtain
could not be used to cover up clandestine prepara
tons for a surprise war of aggression.
In an effort to get this subject out of the
talking stage, the United States-again with the
backing of the overwhelming majority-has sub
mitted to the Disarmament Commission a
tentative working paper" proposing that
definite start be made with a searching census
of military power throughout the world. The
census, which would be carried out by an inter-
national inspectorate, would proceed from less
secret to more secret areas on a continuing
basis. Right at the beginning, however, it would
require the disclosure and verifcation of such
things as each nations atomic plants. The
country is already matter of public record,
but in the Soviet Union all information of that
kind is super-secret, and there is every reason
to believe that the Russians intend to keep it
that way.
Thus, besides mounting poisonous lies &C
cusing our country of wagng germ warfare In
Korea and China Malik has scoffed at the census
idea as nothing but an American move to spy
into Soviet affairs and pave the way for control
system that would organize the worlds atomic
power into a super-monopoly completely domi
mated by the United States. AS for counter
proposals, all he has had to offer the Disarma-
ment Commission is the usual, threadbare Rus
sian plan" which is little more than worthless
melange of loophole-fled provisions that pay
lip service to the idea of strict regulation while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
ARLINGTON, Va.

- AfIA1NG xON, va.
Dear Sir:
ut was just year ago that wrote
you about Hawaiian record after read
ing your column on the death of Charles
E. King, the composer. I realize now it
was kind Of nervy of me to ask. to borrow
your recording of Hula Lolo.'
"Since then have found q Hawaiian
teacher who has been teaching me hula.
We have entertained in all the service
hospitals in the surrounding area. It
has been lots of fun.
MY friend. who is out in Hawaii now.
found some of the many records we
needed and one Hula Lolo.' 1t has given
me great deal Of pleasure to learn the
art. E1&F
Il always enjoy hearing the end of
a story. so thought you might just re-
member my request and be glad to hear
the end of my story. .......-......
- aloha. wv"
The music Of Hawaii charms by. its
very simplicity.
Its song patterns are easy to catch,
but often have subtle modulations.
The end result is clever. interesting
music of q sort halfway between hymns
and folk songs.
It Is no wonder that there has been
q great deal Of misunderstanding, in the
popular mind, about this music.
Unfortunately, some persons still re-
gard 1t as not worth listening to. A little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
A Few W-Chosen Words

An invitation to make a speech often will
do strange things to a man.
In his official capacity as counsel to the
Senate District Crime subcommittee, Arnold
Bauman has shown balance and restraint He
has not sought to try his case in the newspapers,
land he has not attempted to smear individuals
against whom proof was lacking.
But then he was invited to make a speech.
Appearing before the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, he said that the Police
Department is moving slowly in cleaning house.
The justification for the criticism implicit in that
remark depends upon how speedily one thinks
police department should move in taking
disciplinary action against its members
AS Mr.. Bauman should know however, the
fact is that the department is moving A de-
partmental group is investigating the evil
dence against every policeman who has appeared
In questionable light before the committee.
And in due time if the evidence warrants,
disciplinary action will be taken. If MIR. Bauman
thinks the process should be speeded up, he has
right to that belief But in The Stars opinion,
the responsible officials of the department are
fully justified in refusing to be stampeded into
taking hasty and possibly unwarranted action.
Mr.. Bauman also talked about former Police
Chief Barrett and Lieutenant Carper suspended
head OF the narcotics squad. What he said was
factual as far as it went. But it invited in
ferences that were unfair to the Police Depart
ment and perhaps to Mr.. Barrett Mr. Baumans
recital of the Barrett cash transactions certainly
encouraged his listeners to think the worst. But
he did not tell them that he and the committee
have gone over those transactions with great
care, and, to this time at least have not come
up with any published evidence-or even a claim
that there was anything crooked about them.
He also neglected, in reciting the ugly details Of
the Carper case, to tell the editors that this
matter now is in the hands Of the grand jury.
The editors, not knowing the facts quite possibly
think that nothing is being done about that
Sordid scandal.
In short, Mr.. Bauman in making speech,
has managed to convey to an audience whose
judgment of Washington is important seriously
distorted picture of conditions in the Capital
Citys Police Department. In all probability, he
did not mean to do this for the talk was not in
keeping with his previous performance But the
speech has been made and the damage has
been done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18

toned more smoothly than they are
functioning today.
1t is quite true that we are tagging
in aircraft production, and we will con-
tinue to lag as long as we adhere to the
gums and butter" psychology Of de-
tense planning. But there are two major
reasons for this. neither comfortable by
the Joint Chiefs.
The aircraft industry has long been
trying to get across to the public that it
takes time to build an airplane, from
two to four years from the time the
money Is appropriated until the plane
joins an operational unit of the Air
Force or Navy. But this fact appar-
emily has not penetrated the ivory walls
Of Mr.. Browns tower. There still seems
to be the impression that buying an air
plane Is similar to putting nickel in a
machine and getting soft drink in re-
turn. Planes ordered prior to Korea are
just now becoming operational and those
we order today. even more complex, will
not be operational until 1854 or 1856.
The second factor is the administra-
tons unwillingness to spend the money
required to keep pace with the Russians
in aircraft production, or in fairness,
the inability to spend it and maintain
balanced national economy. The. vast
amounts" Mr.. Brown mentions are not
vast at all considering the complexity of
modern aircraft and their staggering
cost. A single prototype Navy fighter to
be ordered this year costs over S. mill
lion: an Air Force B-52 bomber costs
about the same; the long range B-36
and the Jet Bat run about $3.5 million
each; and single piece Of equipment,
the XII bombing computer, costs more
than did complete Flying Fortress.
- James J. Haggerty, Jr,
President, Aviation Writers Associa-
ton,
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hat we don't pervert this great secret

that we don't pervert this great secret
of nature?
In July. 1851, an astronomer out on
Mt. Palomar wrote: LESS than one
tenth Of the total truth so far has been
publicized. Education must precede the
truth. That is why many books and
periodicals are coming out. pro and con,
as well as movies-in order to enlighten
the people gradually. Once this is &C
complished, the truth will be known
and the shock has been cushioned"
Perhaps we better start looking up"
for more reasons than one. Perhaps it's
time to ask ourselves wherein lies value?
And to look beyond mink coats and
power-lusting and get new sense of
proportion-or else!
Interplanetarian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Buzzinq on Ivory Tower

OF late there has been an unfortunate
trend among the syndicated armchair
Strategists to turn out columns on mill
tary matters apparently written from
hastily assembled facts and based on
little or no background knowledge of the
subject. A prime example is Constan-
tine Browns column April Is in The
Star. in which he charges that the
major reason the United States is lag
ging behind Russia in aircraft produc-
ton is the chickering's" of the Joint
Chiefs Of Staff.
I take violent issue with this conten-
ton, which Is a serious one because it
may contribute to undermining of pub
lie confidence in the Joint Chiefs. Fac
tually, the Joint Chiefs have never func-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Ike Out Of His Element?

Is it not true that a great deal of the
enthusiasm for Gen. Eisenhower for
President is due to the glamor attached
to military hero? Our experience with
military heroes as statesmen is none too
good.
Then. too. Gen. Eisenhower has had
no experience in legislative procedure
or in practical politics. Herbert Hoover
had perhaps the greatest executive
ability of any President We have ever
had in the White House, but lacking
knowledge of practical politics he was
not successful President It is possible
that the result may be the same with
Gen. Eisenhower.
There is another point Just as i'm
portant. We will now get rid of Truman
but it is just as necessary to get rid of
the So-called economists, fnanciers and
statesmen who have developed in WASH
ington in the past 20 years. Gen. Eisen-
hover has been so close to both the
Roosevelt and Truman administrations
that there is grave doubt whether he
would make the general cleanup that
is necessary in Washington I have the
greatest respect and admiration for Gen.
Eisenhower and would dislike very much
to see him discredited by entering a
field in which he was inexperienced.
E. ID. Nice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Stirring Up a Teapot Tempest

1t may be that Air Force General VAN
denberg was correct in describing the @stay-
down" strike of some AT flyers as q tempest
in teapot" So far as is publicly known, the
number involved is relatively small But the
fact that evena teapot-types tempest has artisan
over involuntary recall Of reservists and their
assignment to undesired flight duties is serious
enough, from the related standpoints of service
discipline morale and recruiting. It Is too
serious to be brushed aside lightly, as General
Vandenberg was inclined to do at q press con-
ference. In fact, the suspicion grows that AT
officials have helped to stir up the tempest by
inept handling of the situation
1t is true that the flyers who have baked
at certain flying assignments (some but not all
OF the assignments involving possible combat
peris) entered the reserve voluntarily after serv-
ice in World War II. Having signed up for
flying duties they are in no position now to
refuse to obey orders to fly anywhere their
services are needed including Korea. The fact
that they did not expect to be called back to
active duty so soon after establishing them
selves In their homes and businesses is not q
valid excuse for refusing to do what they volun-
tarily agreed to do when they joined the Air
Reserve. They could have resigned for hardship
or other good reasons before Korea, If they had
harbored any ideas about avoiding active duty
as flyers in time of war or other emergency.
Regardless of these factors, however. there
will be lot of public sympathy for men who
already have risked their necks for their country
in great war and who charge that regulars"
are discriminating against reservists in combat
and other assignments, that family conditions
have changed since they volunteered for the
reserve, that enthusiasm for flying has waned
or been displaced by actual fear. If there are
only few in this general category the problem
could have been kept to teapot proportions by
quietly transferring the discontinued flyers to
other duties-including, perhaps, ground duty
abroad. Apparently this was done in some cases.
but not in all. Court-martial proceedings, with
two-year prison sentence for the first recall
citrant tried, are poor way of avoiding the
publicity which General Vandenberg seems to
think has exaggerated actual conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18

In your editorial Of April II, "Airports
Up in the Air" you criticize Congress for
its failure to appropriate funds necessary
for completing the purchase of land in
the Burke area. where the Civil Aero
nautics Authority recommends estab-
lishment Of q new airport for Wash
ington.
You state that If the Senate goes
along with the House, still unsolved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Prods Congress on Floods

Once again the Missouri River Is on
rampage. suppose we should be
getting used to its yearly antics by this
time. but when you actually see the
misery and suffering brought on by
these torrents every spring you cannot
help but wish that something could be
done. Women and children are left
homeless; prosperous farmers in their
declining years Of Nfe-too old to start
over again-not only lose all their
worldly goods. but have their land de-
stroyed as well by the sand left after the
water has receded: and months are
wasted rebuilding entire communities,
with the prayer that next year it won't
be so bad.p
These conditions will continue to
occur every spring until Congress puts
some kind of Missouri Valley Authority
into effect the Army Engineers have
demonstrated their inability to cope
with the situation. But Congress ap-
parently believes that the country as a
whole is more benefited by buying pork
and eggs to store in warehouses already
full with IL million pounds of dried
eggs.
Joe Helmet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
C. Manning Foster.
For the Record

was a guest speaker April 9 at a
meeting Of the Rhode Island Citizens
Association.
My subject was the Metropolitan
Police, surely a very live issue, which I
discussed at length.
During the course Of the evening
consideration was given to the Case
Bill having to do with the once Of the
Recorder of Deeds.
stated that since the ONCE has run
smoothly was Of the opinion it ought
to be left to the President to make the
appointment. I expressed doubt that,
with the Office being the only patronage
extended to the colored, q change would
be likely.
The report in The Star the following
day gave an entirely erroneous impress
sion.
Phillip w. Austin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Book 'Rookery'

Permit me to register my objection to
the type Of building proposed for the
new Central Library. s
From the illustration published in The
Star Of April II, it appears to be another
rookery Of an Office building with bare,
unitarian aspect. Why the multistory
building? Where are the spacious and
inviting rooms for the public? Where
the ennobling graciousness Of o suitable
encourage with greenery, sculpture and
fountains?
The building you illustrate seems to be
designed for the purpose Of housing job
holders with its several floors Of office
space. suspect that its main purpose
is to provide office space for the munich
pal government.
c. Manning Foster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
'Puppet President
Joseph POlowsky.

A neWScaster heard down here stated
The Star carried a headline America
Has q Puppet President" and you would
be surprised to know how many
Southerners heartily agree with you
That very accurately expresses our
opinion.
We object to our Government making
itself subordinate to labor union. We
object to any labor union using the
arm OF the Government of our country
to establish q closed shop union. Philip
Murray is asking the steel companies to
take money from every steel workers
pay envelope for him. If Murray thinks
that is legal. why doesn't he attach
each mans pay and take it himself? He
knows that would not be legal, and so
1t is not legal for the steel company to
make that condition of employment.
Murray should know that all worth while
support comes by conviction and not by
connpulsion.
We'object to our Government making
itself q party to wage agreement with
any union.
Praco, Ala.
>&sAAVOA lVOs 4I1C uC6Q IGISTIe0 TO
was not on news story but rather on
David Lawrence's column for April 10.)
The labor unions representing one
fourth Of the laboring people of the
country again show that they control the
Federal administration in the steel
strike.
Mr.. Truman, being disappointed in
the people not making an indispensable
man of him because of the Truman
war" in Korea-like they did in the case
Of Roosevelt ia the Roosevelt war
now doubtless thinks the labor unions
viii demand his denomination and cleo
ton for another four-year term. And
the type that follows Mr.. Truman would
be Ounce enough to vote for him. re-
CARELESS Of the damage that the country
would suffer should he be reelected.
II there were enough real American
patriotism in the party in power and in
Congress. that party would amend the
present labor law and delete therefrom
that harmful. infamous and socialistic
provision known as collective bargain
ing and everything pertaining thereto.
s. j. Oliver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Senotor Vondenberq's Views

April 10 marks q year since the passing
OF Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, one of
the noblest men Of our time. May the
principles Of q two-ocean foreign policy
for which Senator Vandenberg fought so
valiantly live on.
Joseph POlOwsky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Fast and Slow Fires
Are Burning in Stors
End Result is q Cos, Helium,
Two Scientists Report

Two kinds Of fires burn in the stars.
One is a fast fire-the so-called car.
bon cycle in which carbon and HYDROGEN
combine and in which helium finally is
produced. over very long period. This
proceeds only at Temperatures of sew
eral million degrees. Such is the CEN
trail temperature Of the sun.
One is slow fire-the proton- proton
chain Just reported to Nature, oficisl
organ Of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, by Profs. H.
Bondi of Cambridge and E. Z. Salpeter
OF Cornell University. In this fire only
the protons which form the nuclei of
hydrogen atoms are involved. They
combine and recombine. The end result.
as in the carbon cycle, is the gas helium
which may be considered throughout
the universe as the "ashes Of stars
At Lower Temperature.
This proton- proton chain, Profs. Bondi
and Salpeter say, proceeds at q con-
siderably lower temperature than the
carbon cycle. 1t can continue after the
temperature Of star has dropped 80
low that the first fire no longer can con-
tlnue burning. It also takes place over
much greater part Of the volume of q
star. -.
The more luminous stars, they point
out. probably burn predominantly by the
carbon cycle while the less luminous
are examples Of the proton -proton
chain.
In either event a star eventually
becomes chiefly helium. It is essentially
big gas clinker in the heavens. ac-
cording to old theories. Actually. it In
lar from dead. 1t will contract by CRAWL
tation and as it contracts its temperature
Will increase. Under such conditions
collisions between helium nuclei will
provide new source of energy for a few
million years.
Elementary particles of matter with a
lifetime Of less than q hundredth of a
trlllonth Of a second have Just been
reported by a group of British scien-
lists working at the University of Bristol.
These particles. they say, are electri-'
cally neutral and have a mass of about
$50 times that Of the electron. They
break up Immediately, according to the
report Of Drs. M. Danyse, w. o. Lock-
ard and G. Yekutieli. into the so-called
pi mesons each of which weights about
ESQ electronS and has q lifetime of
about fifty millionths of a second.
Theory Held Up to Now.
The physical theory generally ac-
cepted up to now. the University Of
Bristol scientists point out. has held that
all these pi mesons-sometimes de-
scribed as the "glue" which holds atoms
together-came into independent exist
ence for q fraction of q second because
OF the collision Of two other elementary
particles, q proton and o neutron.
Their own observations were on tracks
made on Photographic plates exposed at
an altitude Of $1,000 feet These tracks.
they say, give strong evidence of pairs
Of pi mesons-now called pions-which
can only have resulted from the disin-
tegration Of some particle and not from
the collision Of two particles.
Assuming the existence Of such q
short-lived neutral elementary particle,
they say, the evidence is also quite con-
elusive that there are q great many Of
them. .,s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
By THE HASKIN SERVICE


@. What is the legend of the Flying
Dutchman?-K. G.
A. The Flying Dutchman was the
name of a phantom ship said to be seen
in stormy weather of the Cape Of Good
Hope, and thought to forebode Ill luck.
The legend has been used in novels, an
opera, and motion pictures.
@. How many post offices were there
when Benjamin Franklin was appointed
as the first Postmaster General?-A. M.
A. There were only Is in the entire
country, and the mails were carried over
less than 1000 miles Of roads. Even as
late as 1912 there were but four clerks
in the Post ONCE at New York. and part
Of their compensation was board with
the postmaster.
@. Who was the first baseball player
to wear q glove?-K. N. F.
A. The first glove ever worn by
player was introduced by Allison, a Gin
cinnati catcher. in 1869. He had injured
the palm of his left hand. As the team
had no substitute catcher. Allison took
an ordinary glove, cut of the fingers.
and used 1t.
@. Which letter of the alphabet was
transmitted In Morse code when the
Atlantic Ocean was first spanned by
WirelesS?-N. N. B.
A. From a station at Poldhu in Corn
wall. England. the letter IS" was trans
mitted and received by Marconi at q
station on Signal Hill, Saint Johns.
Newfoundland
@. BY what other names was the
historic house, Dumbarton Oaks known?
ID. c. r.
A. In 1905 the Georgetown mansion
was named Acrolophos House by the
current owner. Many years later it was
enlarged and named Monterey. In 1891
it became The Oaks and finally. in 1920.
Dumbarton Oaks.
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