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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-20
No Use Complaining
Is MacPhai Reaction
10 New Racing Dates

whats the ?"-That's Larry
MacPhail's reaction to the racing
dates assigned yesterday by the
Maryland Racing Commission
Those are the dates" the presi-
|dent of the Bowie track said today
They are final. There's no use
|yelping about it,"
But MacPhail isn't pleased with
the commissions action. which
has Bowie opening the season with
its spring meeting March 27-
April II and closing the season
in the fall with its meeting from
November Is to December S. These
are almost the same dates Bowie
had in 1852.
It's not that Bowie opens and
CLOSES both meetings that dis
|pleases the former owner of the
New York Yankees baseball team.
It's when" that bothers Mac
Phail.
There was general agreement
among all three tracks to open in
April and close in November" he
said. That's when the Maryland
season ought to be-"
Pimlico Dates Puzzle MacPhail.
Laurel follows Bowie in the
spring. running April Is through
May 2, while Pimlico will run May
4 through May Is. That May 1e
date is a puzzler. MacPhail said
particularly since all three tracks
agreed the spring meeting should
close later. Closing May Is leaves
almost two weeks of dark days
before horsemen at Pimlico car
race again at Delaware Park. Gar.
den State will be running-it open.
in late April-but horsemen will
not be in time to get stalls at Gar.
den State after riding at Pimlico
Bowie and Laurel both wanted
the Maryland spring season tt
close May 80. Pimlico, which ira.
ditionally closes the spring session
because of its annual May classic
the Preakness, agreed to run tx
the 23d.
Many horsemen wintering II
Florida will be inclined to bypas.
the Maryland tracks because Of
the extra two weeks of inactivity
MacPhail said. That gap also ex,
tends Bowie's fall meeting through
the grst five days of December.
Dislikes December Dates.
MacPhail doesn't like the De.
cember dates. The weather is to-
uncertain and he had full dos
OF bad weather last month. Rai1
closed Bowie for week after tn,
scheduled big opener" turnet
into a nightmare for MacPhail
who had invested 81 million IL
improving the track. Two race
were run before the track wa.
closed. Veteran jockeys refused
to ride on the water logged track
Later Bowie missed another da!
because of snow.
MacPhail believes all thre,
tracks should be given considera'
ton in dates. If one track get
first choice in the spring-Pimlict
traditionally gets it because CT tn,
Preakness-another one shoull
get first choice in the fall. TIL,
third track. he says. should ge
second choice in both meets.
But we made no request To-
dates" MacPhail said. I'VE baset
our argument largely on wha
ought to constitute the Marylant
racing season."
The 100 days are split up 1888
"a, with each track getting it
turn at the extra day. Bowie get
the added day in 1853. The dates
Bowie-March 27-April ~ and Novem
Der 1S-December 5.
"a t ISoTsm1!lD is-Ma, . and oetobe
Pimlico-May 4-1e and October LA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-20
District Girls Set Mark
In New York Swim Meet
SpseiuI Dispatch 10 The Siar

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-There's
a new American record for the
150-yard medley relay, and it's
owned by a trio of swimmers from
the Walter Reed Hospital Club OF
Washington.
Mary Freeman, Gail Peters ano
Shelly Mann set the mark al
1913 in an Aforementioned
meet here last night at the New
York AC pool. The old mark OF
1915 was set by the Lafayette
Swim Club Of Indiana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-20
Kansas State Adds to Status
With Defeat of Notre Dame

Methodist. 1866, as B. H. Born
tailed 20 points; Washington
tripped California, $3.50, for the
Bears first defeat of the season
and Brigham Young won its
seventh in a row at the expense
of Oregon State, 1896.
In the South. Auburn crushed
Georgia, 71-49; Alabama edged
Georgia Tech. COST; Florida
downed Mississippi State. 1915
and Richmond swamped West
Virginia. 1866.
The scheduled double header at
the San Francisco Cow Palace
involving st. Mary's VS.. Southern
California and La Sale VS.. Santa
Clara was called off because the
court was too slippery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-20
Howard Faces Hampton

Howard University's basketball
team meets Hampton Institute at
$3.50 tonight at the Banneker gym.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-20
Fights Last Night
BY the Associofsd Press

I NEW YoRK-Billy Graham. 149 New
York. outpointed joey Giardello. Isl q
VEST Plk.M BEACH. Fla.-Bnly Lau-
dsTdSle asheah aa S grew wig
Evening star., 1952-09-02

ment Of a supranational economic community
whose coal and steel resources will be merged
and exploited in way that will create vast
new producing and marketing area in free
Europe. Numerous administrative and other
problems will have to be solved before the
project can function smoothly and with maxi
mum effectiveness, but there is no doubt that all
objectiveS can be achieved If the member coun-
tries live up to the obligations they have
assumed and do not let their collective will be
weakened by temporary Illustrations or disap-
pointments. The fact that the United States
has Joined Britain in associating itself with the
undertaking should do much to prevent any such
weakening.
Since our country has played key role in
advocating the Schuman Plan, the decision for
American representation at the plans head
quarters is both right and logical. The sooner
the coal-and-steel merger is in effective opera
tion, the sooner will free Europe attain the kind
of economic strength and unity that will bulwark
not only its own security but the security of the
entire Atlantic community, including the United
States. The bright potentials of the enterprise
are tremendous, and our own national interests
will be well served by whatever we do to help
make those potentials materialize.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
By Charles E. TroceweN

The answer is, and he takes little
that you are not doing very well.
He had expected, he intimates in his
secret fashion, that you would do great
things In the world, write famous books,
and such, and here all you have done is
hold down a job. like a--like truck
driver, although he wouldn't say 1t. be-
cause truck driver makes good money,
after all, and one doesn't speak lightly
of such modern exponents Of the urge
to power. One may speak smugly to
Jones, because Jones hasn't any organi-
zation to slap back for him. He is just
a misguided individualist, who somehow
ought to be where he isn't.
Smugness is overpowering because It
gives so little opportunity to others.
Life is still run on the "eye for an
eye'' basis, despite the honest happiness
to be derived from turning the other
cheek.
The SNUG person hits below the belt.
and there is nothing that can be done
about it. The victim must writhe in
silence, often fully believing that moth
ing is happening to him, or that he.
himself, is somehow doing something
not quite right. Thus he becomes the
double victim of something that finally
amounts to double violence.
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The only defense there is against
smugness Is to laugh at 1t, and often
this is poor fun. Perhaps there is
special hell for these persons. but II
there is, its location is not known. May
be it is just this side Of paradise. and
has been called purgatory. Candidates
line up 1T the 3ft.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Not Rising to the Occasion?

It has really been pitiful reading your
editorials and columnistS trying to ex-
plain what is wrong with Eisenhower's
speeches and his campaign.
Editorially you state that Eisenhower
will have to do better If he wants to
win and that he will do better when
the real Eisenhower gets started. One
OF your columnists states that "Eisen-
hover reSembled the average man-his
unexciting words have profound sin
cerity rare among political leaders"
Another states that Eisenhower must
abandon lofty principles. and swing with
both fists" and still another writes that
Eisenhower may be able to get his
campaign started If he gets out of
New York and on the road shortly"
wish to say that Eisenhower is still
the great man that he was during
World War II and that we are hearing
the real Ike in his speeches. But the
trouble is that mediocre man sounds
great when he speaks the truth and a
great man sounds mediocre when he
speaks lie and Eisenhower is trying to
prove the same lie that Landon, Willkie
and Dewey before him tried to prove,
and that is that the Democratic party
of the past 20 years through its domes-
tic and foreign policies has been a yoke
around the necks of the American
people.
Independent.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
The KremIin on Eisenhower

With President Truman preparing to retire
to private life, the men of the Kremlin now face
the problem of electing somebody to succeed him
as chief American "warmonger" and main target
of their biggest propaganda guns. OF course, for
their purposes, that somebody" must be the
next occupant of the White House, and at the
moment they seem inclined to believe that it
will be General Eisenhower.
Anyhow, although they have had some un-
pleasant things to say about Governor Steven
son. they have cut loose against the Republican
presidential candidate with such extra-Special
violence as to suggest that they regard him right
now as the odds-on favorite for victory in the
November elections. So, in line with their ex-
traordinariy vicious anti-American campaign
both at home and abroad, they have lost no time
in launching a "hate-Ike" offensive with their
typical incendiary mixture of unrestrained Will
fication and colossal lies.
Thus, speaking through Pravda editorial
and through Jacob A. Malik, their mouthpiece
in the United Nations the men of the Kremlin
have made propaganda field day of General
Eisenhower's recent address to the American
Legion Completely distorting its meaning, they
have interpreted it as evidence that he is cam
paigning for the presidency with the bloodthirsty
promise that he will, If elected, guarantee "a
mad armament race" and the "unleashing of
third world war" Neither Pravda nor Mr.. Malik
has hesitated to attack him in the most extreme
terms: He is just another Hitler who loves "hor-
ror and fear" and who is determined to lead the
United States on march of conquest aimed at
crushing the Soviet Union and dominating the
entire globe.
This tremendous lie has been manufactured
by deliberately misrepresenting what General
Eisenhower has had to say Cd about how the
United States, while adhering to peaceful means
will never rest until the captive lands of the
Soviet empire are free again and (2} about how
our country and its allies must have security
forces whose destructive and retaliatory power
is so great that it causes Nightmares in the
Kremlin whenever they think of attacking Us"
In short, characteristically, Moscow's propagan-
dists have made "warmonger" out of man
who advocates the independence of nations and
who wants to avert global catastrophe by
building up enough Western power to deter
Communist aggression.
The fact that the Kremlin must resort to
such propaganda against General Eisenhower
Governor Stevenson probably will receive the
same sort of treatment in due course) suggests
that the Russian people still tend to remember
how much America helped them during the war
and that the Soviet dictatorship therefore finds
it necessary-for reasons best known to itself
to feed them constant diet of bigger and big
ger lies The thing looks more like measure
of weakness than (easure of strength.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
America and the Schumon Plan

Just as Britain has done, the United States
has taken step that should help to promote
the success of the Schuman Plan The step
consists of a decision to establish permanent
American representation at headquarters OF the
plans chief administrative agency, the High
Authority of the European Coal and Steel Com
munity. What such representation implies is
that the six nations formally Joined in the
enterprise-France Italy, West Germany Bel
gium. the Netherlands and Luxembourg-will be
able to look to us as well as the British for
cooperation and support now and in the years
ahead.
This development is bound to encourage the
six signatory nations as they move forward to
convert the Schuman Plan treaty into an
operating reality. The first steps are now being
takenA The goal to be reached is the e3abiish-
Evening star., 1952-09-02

My book is the 18th edition, printed
in London in 1853, of 'The Compleat
Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentle
woman'S Companion. Being Collection
of upwards of Six Hundred of the most
approved Receipts in Cookery .. to
which is added, A Collection Of above
Three Hundred Family Receipts of Med
icineS, particularly Mrs. Stephens
Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and
Gravel, and DR.. Mead's famous Receipt
for the Cure of Bite of mad Dog .
fit either for private Families, or such
publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would
be beneficent to their poor Neighbors." +"
I wish I knew something about the
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Constitution Porty
E. s. Johnson.

As q prime mover in the recent con-
ference in Chicago on August 7-8. which
resulted in the formation Of . new party.
feel impelled to reply to some letters
to The Star-in particular to one written
by Roy M. McCloud and Gertrude G..
McCloud which appeared August IL.
Since the movement is so recent. it
is not strange that the writer's Of this
letter were not aware Of the conference.
but it should be made known that
creation Of such party-a Constitution
Party-is under way. It is certainly heart
ening to read this expression of opinion
and thank the writer's for their ex-
preston Of views, because apparently
they are moved by the same ideas and
concern for their country which has al
ready stirred thousands Of others in all
parts Of the country.
There has existed in Texas for several
years . Constitution Party which has
placed candidates on the ballot in at
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Housewife or General Practitioner?

or if a mother suspected that her child
had worms. here's what she could do:
Let the party that is troubled with
the tooth-ach lie on the contrary side,
drop three drops of the juice of rue into
the ear on that side the tooth acheth,
let it remain an hour or two, and it
will remove the pain.'
To Know If a Child Has Worms or Not.
Take piece of white leather, prick
it full Of holes with your knife, rub it
with wormwood, spread honey on it.
and strew the powder of succotrine aloes
on it; lay it on the child's navel when
it goes to bed: and if it has worms, the
plaster will stick fast: and if it has not,
it will fall off,
Finally, there was something for the
boys who were losing their hair:
An Ointment to Cause Hair to Grow.
Take of oarS-grease two ounces, ashes
of burnt bees, ashes of southernwood,
juice Of white hly-root, oil of sweet al
monds, Of each one drachm; six
drachms Of pure musk; and according
to art make an ointment of these; and
the day before the full moon shave the
Evening star., 1952-09-02
This and That f..

II any one wants to flabbergast, do in.
completely thwart, Templeton Jones.
just let him be SNUG.
Smugness is something against which
this good man has utterly no defense.
Erudition he can stomach. Pride he
takes in his stride. The great everyday
sin, where he came from. was being
stuck up." as It was and no doubt stu
is called back there.
These make no dent on Jones. He
was brought up on them. A small-town
boy can be as big an ass as city slicker.
But Smugness. whatever one wants to
call it, a superiority assumed where
there is no Superiority-
This simple thing leaves Templeton
Jones with all his defenses down. He
doesn't know how to handle it. All the
steam goes out of him. He is helpless
before the Snug Johns OF this world.
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We would like to be able to help
Jones. in this respect, but must confess
to a somewhat similar feeling OF help
leSSneSS.
Perhaps many other persons do. It
isn't, after all, that the smuggies are
bad persons. Not at all. Many OF them
are supremely clever. very interesting.
fine providers, as the old folks said.
It is just that they do take the steam
out of one.
The average person. regarding him
self as honest, Intellectually, feels unable
to answer back. He doesn't in the least
know how to take what is offered him.
The pretense before him is just too
much. He needs to walk out In the
open air and shake himself good.
4 The amazing thing is that tho Of
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Letters to The Star .
Pen-n01,es may be used II letters carry
UTtters' correct names and addresses.
Ali letters are subject to condensation.

as they always do-the strikers are TAX
ing upon themselves the direction Of
the use Of the property, debating how
it shall be run and when, and how it
shall be financed. This is plainly a
denial Of the right Of ownership to the
man or men who pay the taxes on the
property. When the state aids or con-
dones this miscarriage. perhaps it for
feits the right to collect taxes on the
property; perhaps it should even in
demnify the owner for the expropria-
tion.
You can't eat your cake and have it,
too. Either man owns property, or he
doesn't. Either he is entitled to the
use OF his property. or he isn't. Either
the government protects its citizens in
their property rights as government
historically has done; or it denies prop
erty rights and is socialist government.
As long as the strike is endured in
the national picture we will have to
recognize it as one of the claws of
socialism, ciutching at our way of life,
a brazep step in a process whose end
can only be your loss and mine of our
traditional right to have possessions
we can call our own.
Richard L. Feldman.
Evening star., 1952-09-02

fender never has the slightest idea that
he is not as other men. He Is so intent
on talking down to you that he does
not realize what he Is doing. He can
thank you in q way to make you want
to knock him down.
This is a gift. In certain occupations
it seems to be necessary. It goes with
greatness, perhaps. For ordinary every
day life it sourS all who come in con-
tact with it.
It works under disguise, so that many
persons, especially those Of naturally
kind heart, never In the least suspect
what has happened to them. They
believe that they, the ones injured, are
the offenders. This is carrying Goals to
Newcastle with vengeance.
&
To act SNUG is not at all difficult.
Even the dumbest persons can adopt
the attitude, and do quite as well at it
as the experts.
There are, of course. two classes. those
to the manner (not manor born. and
those who achieve 1t for themselves.
The born smugosity is sometimes
very lovable person.
He is as he is because he was born
that way. a sort of spiritual lameness
which most of his friends tend to over
look. They pretend, for their part. that
he just is not that way.
The achiever Of smugness puts it on
as a robe, and wears it regally. After
all, there is something to admire in the
way he asks you Tin this case Templeton
jones' how you are coming on, as II he
already knew the answer. but is willing
to bore himself with asking. just the
same.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Iran Candles Its Security

The conquest of Iran and access to the
Persian Gulf have been traditional and nom
secret aspirations of Russian governments,
CzariSt and Communist alike.
They undoubtedly remain so today encour-
aged by Western inability to resolve the Anglo
Iranian oil deadlock and by the cynical Iranian
xenophobia which has been maneuvered first
against Britain and secondly against the United
States. At this point, however, there have been
no clear signs as to how or when the Kremlin
might be planning to take advantage of a situa-
tion in which political construction and economic
deterioration are combining to weaken the target
country.
The Communist Party in Iran, the Tudeh,
has more certain strength in terms of noise than
in members or assured backing from Moscow.
Still theoretically outlawed, it has, however.
increased its enrolment in these recent months
and represents convenient vehicle for infiltra-
ton and subversion. Meanwhile, despite the
primitive qualities of the Iranan economy, and
the fact that it might tick along slowly in
state of near-bankruptcy for another indefinite
period, its gradual disintegration under the
Mossadegh policies threatens both the military
and political security of the country.
It is rot easy to prescribe what Britain and
the United States can or should do in the face
of these circumstances. The Truman Churchill
offer for settlement of the oil controversy that
was rejected so summarily last week end
represented substantial concessions to the
so-called Iranian aspirations, and quick cash to
overcome the financial emergency. The manner
and tone of the rejection were such that there
is little reason to think higher price would
receive any better reaction, and yielding to
obvious blackmail would hardly establish firm
foundation for future relations
AS long as the Russians refrain from any
gestures of military aggression against Iran there
is no defenSible basis for use of Western force
And even If the Russians should make such
efforts there is grave question as to the practi-
cality or wisdom of Western military Intervention.
Except for scattered air and naval units between
the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf there
is no British-American military strength in the
area.
A Russian capture of Iran either political
or military, would indeed be serious blow to
the West hanking all the rest of the Near East
and its oil and cutting deep corridor between
Europe and South Asia. Whatever prospects
there are Of preventing this sad defeat would
still seem to rest in patient continuation of
exploring all possible alternatives to reach a
peaceful settlement with constituted govern
ment in Teheran.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
He Has No Answer

In his Detroit speech Governor Stevenson
marched up the hill of new labor legislation
and then turned around and marched right
down again
1t was speech which contained some brave
passages, but which also revealed that the DEM
ocratic nominee has no answer to the great
problem of labor relations-what to do about
strikes which threaten our national security or
our national economic life
The assurance that Governor Stevenson, if
elected, will not be labor's man was welcome
Gratifying, too was his reminder to his pre-
dominantly labor audience that a Presidents
function is to serve the interests of the whole
Nation, and that this is what he would undertake
to do.
The Governor was disappointing, however.
when he got down to the specific question of
labor legislation. He derided the Taft-Hartley
Act as tangled snarl of legal barbed wire"
although conceding that some 10000 collective
bargaining agreements are functioning Satisfac-
torily under the statute. He said he did not
agree that the law is "slave labor" act, but
nevertheless he would repeal it.
His principal objection runs to the injunc-
ton provisions of the actin short, the teeth
which make it effective He would do away with
the injunction. At the same time, he would
forbid certain labor practices and certain types
OF strikes. "We cannot . tolerate ShutdownS"
he said, which threaten our national safety,
even that of the whole free world. The right to
bargain collectively does not include a right to
stop the national economy"
But how is this philosophy to be enforced?
Under Taft-Hartley it would be enforced, up to
a point, by injunctions' obtained through the
Federal courts. Governor Stevenson says: 'I
have no miracle-drug solution for this problem"
he iS he haS at lie
program adds up to proposal to repeal the
only law dealing with the subject and then rely
on a pious hope that every one would behave
themselves and that there would be no occasion
to compel any one to behave.
That, however, is position which derives
little comfort from recent experience. 1t is also
. position which inspires little confidence in
Governor Stevensons ability to cope with this
most serious of domestic problems.