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Evening star., 1952-12-05

made at Pearl Harbor and never
before shown publicly.
Ground and air shots made dur
ing the attack have been blended
|skillfully to make o highly dra-
matte sequence. It's grim, but it Is
a most effective bit Of documen-
tary movie-making.
X 4 X Il
SKY PHOT-The Capt. Fuchi-
ida, who will appear on Evangelist
Billy Graham's ABC-Tv program,
has been brought to this country
by Sky Pilots International, mis-
sionary arm of the Evangelistic
Church. He will study here, then
return to his country to teach
Christianity to his own people. A
Japanese navy flyer, he is q vet
eran of Pearl Harbor. Midway
and dozen other major Pacific
battles.
There were three major steps
during the last eight years, he
says, which led him to Christian
ity. An American girl he observed
while in the Philippines started
him off.
"Her missionary parents had
been executed as Spies and yet
she repaid hatred with love-" says
Fuchida. "She worked for or
phans and war refugees and even
had kindness for Japanese occu-
patton troops. could not under
stand it. I puzzled over it."
| The next step came when Fu-
chida heard the story of Jacob D.
Deshazer. A flier on Gen. Doo-
Titles Tokyo raid. Deshazer was
captured. imprisoned and tor
tured. After the war he returned
to Japan as a missionary, which
puzzled Fuchida so much he went
out and bought a Bible. Reading
that was the third step in his con-
version, the full story of which he
will tell Sunday night.
REALISM-Another Pearl Har-
bor Day special will be Search, "
an original documentary play by
Evening star., 1952-12-05
Lucille Balls Buby
Gets Into the Act
By HoI Humphrey

11SA314 "ooD.
Next Monday will be a red letter
day on the IT Love Lucy" show.
It will be the episode in which
Lucille Balls forthcoming blessed
event is announced and worked
into the plot for the first time.
For the next several weeks Lucy
plays the role of an expectant
mother. In real life her baby is
due in January. but the new series
has been filmed ahead and will
run until the middle of March.
Husband Desi Arnaz and Lucille
wound up on shooting the shows
last month. So far they've found
it necessary to repeat three Lucy"
programs. but hope that the tim
ing will work out so that Lucille
will be back in harness by March.
When her doctor told Lucille
the time had come to quit film
ing until the baby arrived, she
looked at him menacingly and
cracked. Man, you'de better be
right about this time schedule"
(Copywright, 1859, Mirror Enterprises
Syndicate.)
Evening star., 1952-12-05
There's Variety, at Least,
In Tvs Pearl Horbor Doy
By Harry Macarthur

There is variety in the approach,
all right. You must say this,
whatever else is to be said Of
the special attention television
will be giving to the Sunday an
niversary of Pearl Harbor. At
3 pm. Sunday NBC-Tv will re-
peat the chapter of Victory at
Sea" which covers the sneak at
tack in 1941. One hour later
a pm, naturally the same net
work and station (WNBW) will
send viewers the "Kukla, Fran
and Ollie" version of 'The Mika-
do" At 10 pm. Capt. Mitsuo
Fuchida, one of the planners and
leaders Of the Pearl Harbor at
tack. will appear on Billy Gra-
hams Hour of Decision" (WMAL-
ITV).
This is covering a lot Of terri
tory. The Victory at Sea" seq
ment is a factual camera report
in which the japanese, in their
own films. look like Hollywood
movie villains. The performance
by Oliver j. Dragon and company
will be a spool of a spool of the
Japanese. The Billy Graham pro-
gram will present man who
hated the United States for As of
his so years, until he was con-
verted to Christianity, in "a mes
sage of love and faith"
There is some significance in
this odd sequence, but it is proving
too elusive. VIII just have to
sample the programs as they turn
up and. find out what happens to
us.
GRIM, BUT EFFECTIVE - II
you missed the Victory at Sea-
chapter titled "The Pacific Boils
Over" incidentally, you'd better
correct that error now when you
have the chance. You won't find
much Of it familiar. A great deal
of 1t consists of official japanese
films made before and on Decem-
her 7. 1941, and Of service films
Evening star., 1952-12-05

David Shaw, on "Television Play
house" (WNBW-9 p.m0. Pro-
ducer Fred Coe decided about q
year ago that he wanted to do q
play about a group Of men down
at sea. He tried to get the rights
to "Kon-tiki," but failed. Later
he got rights to the Eddie Ricken-
backer story, Seven Came
Through" but was unable to
reach all seven survivors for per-
sonal clearanceS.
That was when he decided on
the original documentary and
called in Shaw. Later he assigned
the direction to Delbert Mann and
the three began a long series of
Evening star., 1952-12-05

conferences with Naval officers
here.
The setting for Search" Is
Korea and. in addition to films
and technical advice, the Navy
has provided equipment to give
the play full authenticity. There
will even be a real life raft in
some scenes. bobbing on a real.
If junior size, ocean in the NBC-
TV studio.
Evening star., 1952-12-05

After ! AM.
tomorrow morning %.
If there is a yellow mask on the mum.
ber plate of your telephone, please
remove it. 1t can easily be lifted with
your fingernails or a fngernail file.
Your ne,o telephone number will be
underneath.
Evening star., 1952-08-18

In her care. Each Of the dresses Is pictured In
full natural color each Is described in meticulous
detail. Biographical sketches and portraits Of
all the White House hostesses in the Smithsonian
list are added The volume constitutes not only
a guide to the display but directory Of a
sort to the outstanding American chatelaines
represented.
First among the gowns shown in the book Is
a silk dress worn by Martha Washington with the
lace cap which she affected for all social func-
tions. Not far distant is the inaugural gown Of
Emily Donelson, protege of Andrew Jackson.
The eff1gy of Mrs. John Tyler is arrayed in gown
which she wore when presented at the Court Of
France. Last of costumes entirely hand-sewn is
one which belonged to Betty Taylor cambridge,
daughter of Zachary Taylor. The wedding dress
Of Harriet Lane Johnston, niece Of James
Buchanan, always is much admired; and like
observation applies to gown which Mrs. U. s.
Grant wore at the inaugural ball of 1873, the
silver and white brocade for it having been
presented by the Emperor Of China.
Each of the dresses has a romantic story,
and Miss Brown has caught their spirit in her
handling Of them. The resultant book has been
wanted and is sure to be welcomed.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
This and That
BY Charles E. TroceweH
Consumer.

most hardware stores. My birds love II.
Sincerely yours. M. M. p"
Bird feeding will bring out the rats.
Surely nobody can blame them for
trying to get free lunch.
They are already in the neighborhood.
The feeding station simply brings them
to light, reveals them to the day--and
the neighbors. Attracting those old
awful rats" etc. He who feeds birds de-
serves thanks for showing up the rats.
After rat has got used to coming to
station, he grows bolder. finally ap-
pearing In daylight hours.
From nocturnal operator, he turns to
working In daylight hours, lured on by
the apparent freedom Of birds and
beasts, including his cousins, the squir-
relS
If the watcher is not too squeamish,
he viii do well to observe the habits of
the creature for several days.
The rat is, after all, capable living
thing. And capable living things are
always interesting. The brown rat. the
prevailing kind, is one Of the great
roamefs OF history. 1t has taken advan-
tage of mans trade routes to travel and
colonize all over the world.
Despite the fact that every mans
hand. literally. Is against him, he and
his families have thrived.
Despite the fact that avery germs
"hand," flguratively. Is as9Nst him. he
Evening star., 1952-08-18
By George Kennedy

TT IS HARD to realize that Mark Sllli-
! van Is gone. He seemed to be as per-
manent part Of the Washington scene
as the Sherman statue.
It was always bit gallant. the way
he got around despite his years. In q
white suit at this time of year and q
stiff sailor straw with gay boat club
hat band, he Sported q cane more for
appearance than for support.
He was always ready to help the
younger reporter with his marvellous
memory Of things past. He immortalized
himself to degree. For q long time to
come, the decades he covered in his
"Our Times, which grew to six volumes,
probably will be known to historians
as the Mark Sullivan years. They won't
have to do any digging for items Of
"social" history for those years. He
served it all up to them,
Thomas Beer. whose "Mauve Decade"
was the best book on the nineties, had
to 60 to Europe for some Of his color.
Sullivan's chapters were all American,
the period 'When Knighthood Was In
Flower" by Charles Major and David
Harum" by Edward Westcott were best
sellers and the beaux in blazers were
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Down Her Back"
He used the newspapers, those diaries
of history" and his own living through
the period for source material. He had
the newSpaperman'S interest in what
happened?" His acquaintance with the
principals enabled him to get items for
history from incidents that were mys-
teries in their day, such as what went
on in the smoke filed room in Chicago
on that summer night in 1920 just be-
fore the Republican nomination was
given to Harding.
He had the newspaperman's way Of
telling story. Young DR.. Charles
Wardell Stiles, lecturing on the hook
worm before the Sanitary Conference
of the American Republics in 1902, was
disturbed by a young man asleep in
the front row. He feared that snores
were going to interrupt his lecture.
Suddenly the young man awakened and
started scribbling. DR.. Stiles realized
the man was reporter and wondered
what he could have said that so in
terested him.
He found out from the New York
Sun the next night at dinner at the
Cosmos Club. The headlines over the
report of his talk was Germ of Laziness
Found?
Mark Sullivan was never able to find
who was the reporter and the name
Of the copy reader who wrote that
famous head. The germ of laziness"
tickled the cartoonists and the humor-
lists. They gave it a ride that lasted
more than a year. Despite this, hook
worm was finally eradicated.
Mark Sullivan missed the great
significance Of the Armory Show Of
Evening star., 1952-08-18
INAUGURAL Gowns

One of the most popular displays in the
Smithsonian Institution. is that of the dresses
of wives of the Presidents of the United States.
Hundreds of visitors see them daily, and their
attraction is not limited to women and girls by
any means They engage the attention of the
masculine contingent also. Perhaps someday
there will be similar exhibition Of costumes
once worn by the Chief Executives. The task Of
assembling such collection might be difficult
one, yet it is reasonable to believe that it would
not be beyond the possibility Of achievement.
Meanwhile. Margaret w. Brown, associate
curator of history in the National Museum.
has brought together fascinating book on the
IS gowns Of the First Ladies which currently are
Evening star., 1952-08-18
SILVER SPRING.

SILVER SPRING.
Dear Sir:
1--WE, as family, enjoy your column:
and I, as neWvcomer at this bird watch
ing business. have learned a great deal
from you.
"Our feeding station has attracted the
usual sparrows, cardinals and others.
But our latest visitor was huge rat.
Remembering your interest in all ami
mails. I watched him through the binocu-
lars while he gobbled all the suet had
put out there.
''Never having been that close to rat
nor having any desire to be any closer
II found his table manners most in
triguing.
Both pink hands were used to cram
the food into his mouth. and after the
suet he started on the seeds or maybe it
was the peanuts he found out there.
Occasionally he seemed to give his
face q good scrubbing with his paws.
I'm sure II 1t weren't for the tales
I've heard about the diseases carried by
rats, could have enjoyed his antics
without the shudder had to suppress.
"Any suggestions about how to get rid
Of him?
II suppose all your readers already
Hnow about the wild bird feed which ]
Neve Just discovered can be bougA at
Evening star., 1952-08-18

1918 and its cubist sensation, Marcel
Duchamp's "Nude Descending Stair
case" He was no highbrow. The re-
markable reception accorded Edwin
Markham's poem, 1.-THE Man With the
Hoe," was a more interesting story to
him. He confessed he had no use Tor
George Bernard Shaw. But he wanted
to be fair to the IriShhan. He got his
friend Walter Prichard Eaton to write
a footnote explaining what Shaw had
done for the century.
Sullivan was q cyclist. He believed
that the nation goes through cycles OF
radicalism to conservatism ended by
emergence of another radical movement.
But there is only one cycle in the life
time of the individual, as he illustrated.
A Theodore Roosevelt radical, he be-
came one of Hoover's medicine ball
cabinet-they used to toss the heavy ball
at one another to keep in shape. He
could not go along with Franklin D.
Roosevelt's radicalism. One cycle Is
enough for lifetime.
In these days when most copyboys
are a years old and have two children.
it is bit thrilling for the newspaper
man to read how Mark Sullivan sold
out his initial venture In newspaper
publishing for $1,000 at % and used the
money to go to Harvard.
One cycle is well illustrated by an item
in his first volume published in 1926. It
is a picture of whisky ad with this
caption: Liquor ads in newspapers and
magazines in 1900 were as common as
those of any other business"
Important happenings are recorded:
How Maude S. trotted the mile in 2:08:
Lou Dillon in 2 minutes fat and Dan
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Keep 1t cIeon-lf Possible

I think your wholesome editorial OF
August 8, entitled, Keep It Clean-n
Possible" needs a little modification with
respect to Gov. McKeldin's effort to
make political capital out Of Gov. Ste
venSon's role as o character witness for
Alger Hiss.
Gov. Stevenson seems to have been
one Of that distinguished company who
allowed themselves to be deceived by the
plausible Hiss. Although, as you point
out, his testimony was given before Hiss
had been convicted. it was after enough
evidence was publicly available to point
strongly to his guilt. II Gov. Stevenson,
who is a lawyer, had given due and
proper heed to this evidence and to the
established reputation Of the FBI for
not going into court unless it had the
goods, he probably would not have gone
to bat for Hiss.
For this lapse-call it heedlessness.
gullibility, lack of discernment. mistaken
Judgment-it seems to me that he is fair
game for honest criticism. On the other
hand. any attempt to exploit it as a
smear" by insinuating that it denoted
Communist afiliation or sympathy
would be unfair and reprehensible.
incidentally. the manner in which
Hiss succeeded in impressing people in
high places brings to mind the conclud-
ing line OF Bunthorne's song in Gilbert
and Sullivan's Patience:
what most particularly pure young
man this pure young man must bel"
J. M. p.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
'AdIui the Just

Gov. Adlai Stevenson was asked the
origin of his first name. He explained
it as an Old Testament 'begat" mean
ing, The Just. Since then he has been
plagued trying to disown the evil yet
inherit the good Of modern Adlai's
political begats.
Did Harry beget Adlai? Then by the
laws of political primogeniture he in
herits Harry's debts of accountability.
Naturally Adlai wants no parts of
Harry's dismal record Of cronyism, cor
ruption and spendthrift bureaucracy.
So he piously denies Harrys political
paternity by publicly severing every tie
with Truman's SpoilS system. Scornfully
he insists upon purifying exile in
Springfield. With rebuking deliberation
he picked political neophytes to lead his
purging pilgrimage back to the for
saken affairs Of honesty. solvency and
integrity in government. The LuStron
Swindle Is the only link between Fair
Deal plundering and Adlais hair-shirted
priesthood. When the loot has been bill
lions, few of-millions are beggar's
pennies.
But to win,. Adlai must inherit the
assets Of Harry's gerrymandering spoils
system. But how can you deny the
father. yet inherit his substance? In the
habitual miscegenation of modern poll
tics that is easy: You conjure the myth
of political immaculate conception.
Lawyer Adlai will argue thusly on the
hustingS: While Franklin D. was my
grandsire. Harry s. was not my father.
But, nevertheless. am the heir of the
good things my revered grandsire be-
queathed Harry S. This Is because my
grandsire created the social security
system. sound banking. full employment.
labor dy11asties and an ever-filled
Treasury for the deserving. But the
crushing national debt, imitation, and
rampant communism is q devilish con-
spiracy Of Republican opposition. All the
evil of Harrys reign was due to Republic
can reaction and do-nothingism. Why
should !, Adlai The Just, inherit Re-
publican sins? In any event. politically
speaking, am an immaculate concep-
ton.
Thomas e. Mattingly, M. ID.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Soner Military Buying

Secretary OF Defense Lovett Is preparing to-
issue regulations demanded by Congress to put
military buying on businesslike basis.
A great deal has been said and written about
waste in military procurement. Some Of the
criticism has been well deserved and no doubt,
served to curb the tendency to go overheard
during these days of soaring defense appropria-
tionS But lot of 1t has been inaccurate and
of the pure headline seeking variety. This has
done an injustice to many hard-working and
honest procurement officer. It should be noted
that in this era of graft and petty corruption in
public Office the military has been comparatively
free of major scandal while spending billions.
Much credit is due to Mr.. Lovett himself. He has
moved in quickly and firmly where irregularities
have occurred.
Nevertheless, the service jealousies and the
inevitable military empire builders are always
present. The military brass has not been eager
to give up cherished prerogatives, or to improve
some of its methods Nor has it looked with too
much favor on the merging of facilities built up
over the generations.
The Army likes to have its own depots and
warehouses, even though they might be next
door to similar facilities controlled by the Navy,
or vice versa. The Air Force, since gaining
independence, has wanted to duplicate facilities
fully capable of serving 1t, but controlled by
another service.
Likewise Cnere mas Oeen no great ruSn 10
pool purchases of many everyday articles used
by all. minute difference in specifications often
has been used to get around single purchase
plans. The services simply have not wanted to
give up the privileges of purchasing separately.
It could mean consultations and elimination Of
some-jobs. In the Army the seven technical
branches have carried this step further by
each purchasing some items commonly used
by all
Recognizing all this-and perhaps wishing
to strengthen the Defense Secretary's hand
Congress moved in with rider to this years
appropriation act. It put responsibility squarely
up to Mr.. Lovett for the spending of all funds not
only for procurement and production but for
warehousng and distribution of supplies and
equipment as well.
Mr.. Lovett's new ground rules, to be effective
against which progress can be expected and
made. They will be broad. But no longer will
each service be able to build bakeries, laundres
and coffee-roasting plants at the whim Of a
general or an admiral. Facilities will have to be
used jointly where available. new inventory
of all facilities is planned And an accurate
inventory of what the depots and warehouses
contain will be ordered.
There will be no overnight miracles, but
precise procedures will be laid down under which
long-due changes will be brought about in
archaic military methods in this field In doing
this, Mr. Lovett and company will be leaving a
heritage to their successors from which the
whole country will benefit.
Evening star., 1952-08-18
rophy

She said, the day that dealt her
Desp1ir's relentless blosc,
"Noio though my heart 70 shGttered
No one shall euer knotc.
No one shall offer pity
And smile In secret spite.
For shall 90 In calm by day
And Quietness by night"
She lued. GusteTely 1ouely.
With grave pGtrictGn grace
OF cool, corrected manner
And pale, perfected face.
She armed her heart icith hGutenr
And hid her hurt tn pride.
And no one k11eiD; and no one
Wept for her ,Dhen she died.
Jane MeEchont I
Evening star., 1952-08-18
Near East Land Reforms

The governments Of Iran and Egypt are
attacking problem that is fundamental to their
social and economic troubles In their current
efforts at land reform. Whether the proposed
steps are the wisest and best is question that
can be answered only by time.
Iran and Egypt are primarily agricultural
countries. Ownership of the land and its util-
cation on terms that are highly profitable to
such ownership have spelled both political and
economic power. In each country the land
owning clique Is relatively small one but
concentrated in its hands has been most of the
wealth and influence Only in the urban centers
has there been any semblance Of middle class
tradespeople and few professional men-with
the great bulk of the population properly classi-
fed as poorest peasants.
The Iranian approach to the problem today
is two-way one. The Shah, whose power and
prestige have been sharply curtailed during
recent months of maneuvering with DR.. Mossa-
degh, Is initiating program Of dividing up the
great estates of the royal family among the
peasants who have lived and worked on these
acres. A government agricultural bank is to
be opened for the purpose of making low-interest
capital While the royal lands are vast in extent
this program is still limited in its impact to only
few thousands of beneficiary peasants.
More far-reaching in the Iranian picture is
the plan now before the Parliament and already
decreed by DR.. Mossadegh giving the tenant
peasants an added 20 per cent of the returns
from the harvests. Under existing circumstances,
the absentee landowner has normally taken from
60 to so per cent Of the harvest income-a division
which left the individual peasant with not only q
minority percentage but really meager return
for his years labor. shift Of 20 per cent, If It
can be enforced, would constitute a major reform.
Coupled with proposed new rates of land tax, it
adds up to drastic redistribution of the Iranian
income.
The Egyptian attack upon the land concen-
trations, at this point draft recommendation
handed by the controlling army group to the
civil government would appropriate all private
farming lands above 200-acre limit The lands
would then be redivided among the peaSantry
with the government serving as middleman In
paying compensation to the original owners and
collecting at low interest rates payments from
the new owners. On its face, 1t appears to be q
drastic and over-Simple solution that might
break up some Of the big fortunes but might also
ieopardize the normal production Of the land
. result that would be most damaging 70 the
Egyptian economy. 4