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Evening star., 1952-05-25
In This Ring =

The big show begins in blaze Of
multicolored glory, and continues
almost interminably. In the course
OF its three hours or so, 1t gives the
spectator more, really, than he can
stand.
And why? Solely because the
public demands it. The public has
been demanding it in this country
for more than a century, and
abroad, in one form or another for
hundreds of years.
There is little community of spirit
between today's circus and that Of
the Romans-except in the sense
that both were gala affairs ar
ranged for the public delectation.
But the circus of today has par
taken of almost all the artifices of
other Western civilizations. The
jongleurs and the rowing entertain.
ers of the Middle Ages probably
are the great-granddaddies of the
circus performers of today. Mishka,
the little bear that danced for the
peasants in the days of the Tsar.
gave his heritage to the modern
performing beasts. The clowns are
the goth century common mans
equivalent of the medieval court
Jester, whose idiocies were paraded
for the delectation Of royalty.
The girls? Well, girls are girls,
and one probably could trace their
significance back to Adam.
Managers Mistake
There are more girls in the circus
these days than there used to be,
and this has been the subject Of
some complaint from circus-lovers.
Feminine pulchritude, one might
think, is unexceptionable. The cir
Gus managers thought so, anyway.
But their surprise at the public's
unfavorable reaction to the new
accent on beauty proves that even
these experts do not fully UNDER
stand the mysterious nature of the
institution they supposedly control.
They 60 to great lengths to
change the show little every year
yet the only thing any fan ever
objects to is the changes that are
made. They think up any number
of fancy new actS-but the only
thing the public asks is, what
became of the seals?" Let them
drop the men-in-the-car routine,
and the howl of protest will be
heard around the world.
Perhaps the real reason why so
many people like the circus is that
it doesn't change essentially-and
shouldn't change. That is not a
bad thing in this day and age.
At the Greatest Show on Earth, in
time to come, it is somehow COM
forting to think that a lot Of men
viii be children again for q few
hours each year, just as they have
been In so many years gone by.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

''Never, never throw away VIM.
ming program!"
This sage political advice came
recently from a sage political adviser,
President Truman, in an address to
the national convention Of Americans
for Democratic Action. In the con-
text of his speech. Mr.. Truman was
identifying himself with that liberal
band that flourished in the Roosevelt
era and recently appeared to be on
the outside looking in.
Much of the winning program to
which Mr.. Truman referred could
Justly be credited to the liberals to
whom he spoke. If the program
really Is q winning one-and five
straight presidential victories indi-
cate it is-why does it win? And,
more important. will It win in 1852?
The liberals contend that the win
ming program" was victorious because
it offered the voters what they
wanted in their day-to-day life. BY
the same token. they say, the pro-
gram will win again-as long as II
is not adulterated by a sort OF re-
verse me- -tooism, by compromise with
the extreme right.
BIoody-but Unbowed
The liberals themselves are frank
to admit thai their philosophy IS
somewhat bloodied as result Of re-
cent developments. But, they insist.
however bloody liberaliSnn's head may
be. it lis unpowed. Senator Humphrey.
Minnesota Democrat and Sparkplug
of Americans for Democratic Action.
believes the liberals with renewed vi
tality can recapture what they have
lost.
Times have changed. Senator
Humphrey says. They have changed
SO much that the political liberal
must alter his entire orientation. He
believes the way Of the liberal is far
harder today than it was in the
panic-stricken early sos when
one bright young man after another
trekked bravely to washington to
pick up the pieces"
Liberalism in the early days Of
the New Deal was q young mans
faith. Consequently, its leadership
was young. Subtract 20 years from
the ages Of ADA's present leaders
and you have the age croSs-Section
Of 1933-model liberalism.
1852 Is Different
But 1861 Ii different, Humphrey
and his fellows emphasize. The prob
lens Of the t930s were mainly do
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Canvas and Tonbork

Probably the one thing that most
makes the circus what it is is it's
aura of utter unreality., Coupled
closely with this feeling of never
neverishness is the appeal of the
circus to the five senses. It Is a
postscript to the message of
spring-a loud, tawdry, smelly
harbinger of summertime's make
believe; an invitation to the
hard-boiled to be a little credulous
for a change. In 80 cases out of
100, the invitation is readily, almost
gratefully, accepted.
Only the most hard-bitten are i'm
mune to the circus assault on the
senses. The first sense to surrender
is that of the ear, as the strident
notes Of the air-calliope reach far
beyond the limits of the circus
grounds. The calliope sings sort
Of siren-song. Had Ulysses been
sailing last week down the flooded
Anacostia, all the wax and rope in
creation would not have kept him
safe aboard his vessel.
Then come more subtle assaults,
on the sense of smell. Not the
jungle odors that emanate from the
elephants, tigers and apes; those
come later. These are the varied
smells of the indigestibles purveyed
along the midway-the sweetish,
sticky odor Of pink cotton candy;
the sizzling, meaty reek Of franks;
the fruity aroma around the
orangeade stand that convinces
one that an orange must have been
involved some way or other.
5 Cents Worth Of condy
This second attack on the senses
makes a third assault inevitable
and resistance impossible. Though
a nickeps worth of candy floss sells
for Is cents, though a hot-dog costs
two dimes, even the most impover-
ished circus-goer can hardly keep
from eating unwisely, and not too
well.
And all this time, the other two
senses-touch and sight-are being
assailed necessarily and unmerci-
fully. The first hint that the sense
of touch is involved comes SO.
subtly that even the most aware
of men hardly realizes it. It is that
soft, somewhat resilient feeling Of
''tanbark" against the soles Of the
feet. Actually, it is not tanbark at
all-merely untreated wood chips
but "tanbark" is as much a part of
the circus legend as anything else,
so tanbark it Seems-and is. Later
come the more obvious raids On the
sense of touch. The frozen GUS
tard dripping down on to the heel
of the hand. The mucilaginous
consistency of hot-dog mustard on
the chin. The affectionate wetness
of an elephants trunk, reaching
out to plead mutely for peanut,
The spine-crushing pressure Of q
hard circus chair.
ToiIored for the Eyes
But when all is said and done
it is the eyes for which the circus
is tailored.
A man with cold could 60 to thu
circus, smell nothing, and still en-.
JOY himself. A deaf man. maj
with deadened taste-buds ever
a paralyzed man who could fee
nothing still would get his money
worth under the big top. But th
circus, to a blind man, would b
q total loss.
That the eyes see, and yet be
lieve, is perhaps the greatest won
der Of the circus. At the entranc
to the midway, q man sells chame
Icons for SO cents. Every one know
that q chameleon changes color !
match It's background. Yet her
are brown chameleons on gree
cloth. And people buy eagerl
and walk away. their natural sker
Evening star., 1952-05-25
The Back Lot

BY rights, the back lot of the
circus should be the repository of
all the surplus hamminess and
theatricality that cannot find an
outlet under the big top. But the
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Fondom Personified

s. j. Dunn went to the circus last
week. Standing by itself, this is
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Southern Publishers
To Survey Problems
BY the Asseciefed Press

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
W. Va, Nov. 20.-The Southern
Newspaper Publishers Association
opened it's 49th convention here
today.
A variety of publishing prob
lens came under study in the
presentation of committee re-
ports in discussion groups.
President Frank A. Daniels of
the Raleigh IN. c. News and
Observer presided at the meeting.
A feature of the morning ses-
sion was presentation Of an award
of merit by the American Associa-
tion of State and Local History
to A. w. Neville, an 88-year-old,
115-pound columnist for the Paris,
Tex, News. A native of Salem,
Va. he started his column after
working as printer until he was IS.
Newspapers proposed for elec-
ton to membership in the asso-
citation To-Day were:
Sarasota (Fla.) Journel, Nor
ristown (1ennD Sun. Strasburg
CVa0 Northern Virginia Daily.
Hazard (KyD Herald, Roanoke
Rapids IN c. Herald, Jackson
vile IN c. News and Views,
Washington IN. CO. News, Weir
ton (W. Va.) Times, Port Pleas
ant (W Va) Register, Corinth
CMiss.) Daily Corinthian, Crest
view (Fla) Daily Globe, Sayre
(Okla) Headlight-Journal. and
Corpus Christi (TexD Caller
Times.
Election and installation of Of
hcers will be held tomorrow.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Final Counting Shows
Ro,4OO in Maryland
Voted for Eisenhower
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 20.-Final
Official records showed today that
400 400 of the 902,041 Maryland
voters who went to the polls No.
vember 4 cast their ballots for
Gen. Eisenhower.
Gov. Stevenson, the Democratic
nominee. received 395. $3.50 votes,
and Vincent Hallinan. Progressive
Party candidate. got 1911 votes.
There were 1,084,00 registered
voters. which meant that SO per
cent of those qualified cast their
ballots.
Gov Stevenson led Gen. Eisen-
hover by 1884 votes in tradi-
tionallly Democratic Baltimore.
The official count in the other
races included:
Senate: Beall (R), 449, ,872;
Mahoney CD, 403, 500.
u. S. House, First District-Mil-
Ter (R), 47,144: Roe Cd, 30.053.
Second District - Devereux (R),
95.811; Boone CD, 60.121. Third
District - Garmatz Cd, 60,659;
Toula CD, 24,879. Fourth Dis
|trict-Fallon CD, 54.215; Hopkins
(R), 44,974. Fifth District-Small
R), 68,405; Lankford CD, ST.
366. Sixth District-Hyde (R),
"a .603: Werner CD, 69,050. Sew
enth District-Friedel CD, 63.652;
Laukaitis (R), 60,277.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Industrial Pollution
OF Potomac Is Less,
Symposium Reveals
By james Birchfield
Sser Sfcff Correspondent

SIot SfuII SoTESSPonooHI
WINCHESTER. Va, Nov. 90
Industrial pollution is on tn.
decrease in the Potomac River anc
its tributaries.
This was brought out here yes.
terday in a one-day industrial
waste symposium sponsored by the
Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin.
Edwin r. Cotton, commission
director. said that during the last
five years industrial pollutio- has
decreased by 38 per cent over the
basin.
Mr.. Cotton said this has been
brought about by the efforts OF
industry generally to clean up its
wastes.
Specifically. Mr.. Cotton said
industry has changed processes,
resulting in a lesser pollution load;
has improved waste treatment
facilities. has instigated better
Housekeeping" methods.
Cites Greater Efforts.
He explained better housekeep-
ing as greater efforts on the part
of plant managers and personnel
in preventing pollution from flow
ing from plants into streams.
Mr.. Gotten listed three trouble
spots III the Potomac Basin-the
Washington metropolitan area
where the problem is one of mu-
nicipal wastes; the Cumberland
area wnele the problem is one
both of industrial and municipal
wastes, anG the Shenandoah VAL
ley area where the problem is one
largely of planning the placement
Of industry
In the Shenandoah Valley area,
Mr.. Cotton said, the problem is to
place industries where there is
the greatest stream dilution.
Thus. he pointed out. the valley
problem is one of planning, rather
than of correcting a previous con-
dition.
Acid Waste Solution.
In discussing the Cumberland
area, where acid mine pollution
creates a problem that has been
beyond engineers, Mr.. Cotton said
q research program sponsored by
the commission at Johns Hopkins
University looks as though it may
provide the answer scientists have
been looking for.
If this program is successful,
he added. it is likely that engi-
neers will be able to control the
pollution from coal mines.
DR.. Charles E. Rem. Johns
Hopkins professor of sanitary en-
gineering, said that in its increas-
ing development throughout the
South, industry should aim to
utilize. the full recovery power of
streams.
Roy Weston. sanitary engineer
for the Atlantic Refining Co., said
great savings often have been
made by plants searching for ways
to reduce their pollution load.
Julian G. Patrick. chief chemist
for the West Virginia Pulp g.
Paper Co.. and chairman of the
commissions industrial commit
tee. presided at yesterdays ses-
gionS.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Major Farm Groups
TASK COP. 10 Aid Sale
l0f Products Abroad

Two major farm organizations
today urged the incoming Repub-
lican administration to encourage
sales of American farm products
abroad.
This implies that the United
States also should import more
from Europe.
The pleas for greater interna-
tional trade came from American
Farm Bureau Federation and the
National Grange.
Gwynn Garnett, director of in
ternational affairs for the Farm
Bureau, said, IAN out-moded
United States foreign economic
policy is enabling Russia to gnaw
away at western European trade
and steal the United States farm
market bit by bit"
Nations badly in need of food
and fiber but without dollars to
buy them are being forced to bar
ter with Russia and iron curtain
countries for products they might
otherwise buy from American
farmers" Mr.. Garnett said. 1T
mot only opens up a lucrative mar
|ket for Russia, but enables her
to acquire materials vital to build
ling the Soviet war machine which
may some day be hurled against
luS.
Maintaining and expanding ex-
port of United States farm prod
|ucts is a problem of utmost ur-
gency and deserves the attention
of all farmers"
The Grange, in the current is
sue of its national monthly, said
"Why has Western Europe been
compelled in the current year to
buy a majority of her feed grains
from our mutual political enc
mics behind the iron curtain?
1--WE. as a Nation, cannot aban-
don the idea of being commercial
allies and expect to be successful
as political or military allies. We
must sell food to Western Europe,
but if we do, then we must i'm
port the things she has to sell"
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Concert Centers on Menuhin,
David Diamond and Mitchell

and distinguished itself further ir
Tschaikowsky's '"The Tempest,
given only once before In this ciN
by the Philadelphia Orchestra
The Mendelssohn left nothing tc
be desired in delicacy of execution
in stressing of details and ir
beauty Of tone. The dramatic de-
mands of TSchaikowsky's sym
|phonic fantasy were superbly met
by DR.. Mitchell whose musical dis
cernment and authoritative di.
recting creates artistic results oi
note at each concert.
The program. to which the audi
ence responded with enthusiasm
will be repeated tonight, with Mr.
Menuhin as soloist, in the Coli
scum of the University of Mary
land. The only change will be the
substitution of Tschaikowsky's
Swan Lake" for the Diamond
symphony.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
District Court Drops
z Contempt Cases at
Government Request

Two contempt of Congress cases
were dismissed today at the re-
quest of the Government, which
expressed the view the men in
volved could not be successfully
prosecuted in view of formal rul-
ings in other similar cases.
The action by Judge James r
Kirkland of the U. S. District
Court for the District of Columbia
freed Anthony j. Accardo and
Joseph Scalleat.
Accardo, who has been de-
scribed as a successor to AL Ca
pone as a Chicago racket kinS,
was charged with contempt of
Congress for refusing to answer
questions before the Senate Crime
Committee. He appeared before
the committee on January S, 1851.
Scalleat, of Hazleton, Pa, was
accused of refusing to answer
questions before a subcommittee
of the Crime Committee on Au-
gust 7. 1851.
Both men had refused to answer
questions on grounds of fear of
possible self-incrimination. In ad-
dition. Scalleat also was accused
of failing to produce certain of his
papers. books and records.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney William Hitz, who asked dis
missal of the two cases, did not
go into detail, as to court opinions
which previously had cleared
others of contempt of Congress
charges. He was known to have
had in mind. however, court rul-
ings which have upheld the right
of defendants to refuse to answer
questions before Congressional
committees on grounds of fear of
possible standardization.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
views OF Music
By Alice Eversmon

Yehud1 Menuhin, American viO-
linist; David Diamond, American
composer. and DR.. Howard Mitch
ell. American conductor, held the
center of interest in last nights
concert by the National Symphony
in Constitution Hall.
DR.. Mitchell was honored after
the intermisSion by the bestowal
Of the annual Conductor Citation
from the National Music Council
The award was made by Edwin
Hughes. noted piano teacher, first
president of the council and now
its executive secretary. The cita-
tion was given for Outstanding
and distinguished contribution to
American music" by the perform
ance of "the greatest number of
serious works by native-born
composers during a single sea-
son." Mr.. Hughes was introduced
by John Edwards, manager of
the National Symphony.
Mr.. Menuhin was the soloist of
the program, which featured Mr..
Diamonds Symphony No. 4" in a
first local hearing. The symphony
was chosen as the orchestra's
tribute to the Koussevitzky Foun-
|dation. which is celebrating its
10th anniversary. Nine. Serge
Koussevitzky came especially to
Washington to hear the perform
ance of the work commissioned
by the foundation in 1945.
The young composer writes with
a sure hand. The symphony is
very compact yet in spite of it's
almost constant use of the full
orchestra, it's lines are clear.
Diamond does not loiter in the
Andante movement, which has the
same drive as that of the festive
Allegro and the opening Allegretto
with its somewhat primitive at
moSphere. The brilliance of the
work seldom diminishes and it's
texture, though cast in a modern
mold. is soft and warm.
The youthful MendelSsohn's
Concerto in D Minor" for violin
and small string orchestra, which
Mr.. Menuhin recently acquired,
was the artists first Offering. It
will not crowd the famous E Minor
concerto from its place of esteem
by public and violinists alike, but
it IS a remarkable work from a
boy of 13. Mendelssohn's age when
he wrote it. Lighthearted through
out. its first movement races in
scale passages. the Andante has a
sweet, unaffected song, and the
concerto ends in somewhat of a
gypsy spirit, this portion being
the least distinguished of the
three.
The violinist played it with
devotion. his fine technique grac-
ing the charming runs of the first
movement. Mr.. Menuhin's excep-
tionally vibrant tone has grown
still richer and was at it's best in
the lovely Adagio of the Bruch
Concerto in G Minor" which he
played later. The beginning of the
Bruch was not so steady in rhythm
or intonation. but this passed the
further he played and an ovation
from near-capacity audience was
his reward at the close.
The orchestra surpassed itself in
the performance of the Overture
to "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
Evening star., 1952-11-20
More immigration 10 U. 5.
Recommended by Acheson
By the Assoeioted Press

Oy tHe ASSocIuteo oTeSS
Secretary of State Acheson said
yesterday the United States should
open the door to more immigrants
from the over-populated countries
|of Europe, and to more refugees
from Iron Curtain lands.
He also called for a general
overhaul of American immigra-
ton policies to get away from
discrimination" under the pres
ent quota system.
Secretary Acheson made his
recommendations to President
Truman's Commission on Immi-
grafton and Naturalization, which
lis studying the new McCarran-
Walter immigration Act with a
view to suggesting changes.
The act. which in general MAIN
tains the present quota system,
goes into effect December "a.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
New Trial Near for 81
Who Slept on Duty
BY the Asseeiafed Press

FORT MEADE, Md, Nov. 90
The Army said today it will start
q new trial "in the next few days
for Pfc. Warren Mcconnell, 81
year-old soldier from Alloway,
N. j., who previously was SEN
fenced to 10 years at hard labor
for going to sleep on his post in
Korea.
The previous conviction and
sentence was set aside by the
Court Of Military Appeals in
WASHINGTON,
Evening star., 1952-11-20
HyuttsviIIe Church Buzuor

/ The Ladies Aid of Trinity
Lutheran Church, Hyattsville, Md,
will hold its annual Christmas
bazaar and turkey dinner from 5
to 8 pm. Saturday in the school
cafeteria.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
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Evening star., 1952-05-27
Fight Fer Survival Justified

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Outcome Free Enterprise Victory
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the Company had lost this important round in its struggle for
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Evening star., 1952-05-27

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