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The guardian., 1952-06-07
Dolby Homer
Rated Longest

DETROIT, Larry Doby's tre-
mendous homer against Ted
Gray of the Detroit Tigers is be-
ing called one of he longest ever
hit in the park. For no slugger
has hit as far out or as high UP
as Dolby did in connecting for
his sixth homer of the season.
Doby's blow with one on went
in near the AIS foot mark and
landed about 20 rows up in the
upper deck.
The guardian., 1952-06-07
SPOR s

tour. The doctors had wanted the
cast to stay on for two weeks
but a week is all Roy can take.
He was hurt in q game with the
Phillies when their Jack Mayo
crashed into him in a play at the
plate.
Evening star., 1952-01-01

give the Districts water supply the proper
amount OF f1uorine and the special order cannot
be filled for several months. Even when the
equipment has been put in operation, it will re-
quire period Of testing to determine whether
1t will be adequate The initial installation will
be put at Dalecarlia, but it may develop that
additional feeding of the chemical into the water
may have to be done at the Mcmillan Reservoir,
near Soldiers Home. Only an actual sampling
of the fiuoridated water in various parts of the
city can determine what changes, if any, are
necessary.
This trial-and-error approach Is inevitable
In pioneering any new process. That was one
reason why there was some opposition to hasty
application of the method to Washington's, Ar
lington's and Falls Churcf's joint water supply.
Another reason was the possible harmful effects
of the long-continued use of the chemical, as
discussed at the scientific symposium It would
have been better If Washington had waited until
there had been enough experimentation to prove
beyond the shadow of any doubt that the process
is without danger.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
This and That

Red hips on the rose vine
And a common sparrow, so placed,
that one of the hips looked as If belong
ing to him.
Then how he stood out in the snow.
a thing Of beauty, any one would swear!
Just that extra dash and color, and
there was an old plain sparrow, quiet
blend of grays and browns, suddenly
transformed
Maybe transformations in this world,
for men or sparrows, are no more than
that, good juxtaposition.
It is the accent that calls attention,
that makes the plain. different, and the
different, superlative.
1t was Winston Churchill who said Of
q famous general:
"In defeat, he is magnificent; IN VIC
tory, insufferable."
Our plain birds have no such eloquent
advocate. They must go down in the
book of most observers as just plain,
nothing more.
\ Among humans. there are these out
siders, too, people who refuse to stand
up and be counted, and to them is credit
ed bad manners, when all the time 1t is
no more than realization Of their own
difficult role.
Common sparrows must be that way.
Eat fortunately for them. there ID no
Evening star., 1952-01-01
By Charles E. Trocewen

plain. They are bright, eager, happy,
firm In the conviction of the universe
that there is something good here, after
all.
Evil men may challenge this, may at
times make us all-and the sparrows,
too-doubt the vision Of hope.
The devil has his own ways of arrang-
ing these things, and they are not the
ways Of the writer's of the Bible, of the
good poets, the honored women of all
races and creeds, the happy, laughing
children.
The birds on their branches help hold
us to the good. They have sampled this
world for countless centuries. millions
of years before man appeared; they do
what they do, and sing as they sing, be-
cause the realities of existence, the
glory Of action and the splendor of
beauty. are interviewer into the very
fabric of their little beings. Shame upon
us. so much larger. SO much more wise.
having tasted of the Tree of Good and
Evil, If we cannot find as much in life,
and be sure of it, as the common spar
rows. The glory Of the spot of red
against the coat Of the plain bird IN the
vine tells us another beautiful old story,
and bids US: ook wen. therefore. to
this Day.
Evening star., 1952-01-01

victory or loss of victory, but just an
everyday living.
It is the best lesson they have for us.
If only we could get their pretty idea
into our dumb heads, and live as If to-
day were all, we might have fewer COM
plexes, less naladjustment, more honesty
with ourselves and others.
The "Salutation Of the Dawn" by
Kalidasa, puts it this way:
Listen to the Exhortation of the
Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life. the very Life of Life
In its brief course lie all the Verities
and
Realities Of your Existence:
The Bliss Of Growth,
; The Glory Of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty.
For Yesterday Is but Dream,
And Tomorrow is only q Vision;
But Today well lived makes every
Yesterday
A Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow Vision Of Hope.
Look well, therefore. to this Day!
Such is the Sa1utation Of the Dawn"
It might seem strange. at first glance.
that little birds. and plain little birds
at that. know all this 50 well.
But common sparrows ake mot Just
Evening star., 1952-01-01

writers have judged and chosen with
care the most important of the years
news. it is equally urgent that those
stories which passed with a flicker of
memory also be recorded.
They remain as fresh as last weeks
pineapple and cottage cheese salad, as
steady as a drunken penguin, as per-
manent as shooting star.
There was no lack of candidates for
the years most unimportant, what with
Frank Sinatra taking on new bride
and King Farouk getting married
That's the kind of thing that made the
job difficult.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
This Sort Of Thing Made Headlines

The parade OF trivia got under way
early in the year. On January IL, the
British Cutter and Tailor declared edi-
torially that President Truman has q
public duty to dress well. Quite telling
blow to man who once dealt In
clothing!
Two days later. Walter Fowler, the
Districts director of the budget, pre-
posed free concrete parking strips on
the Mall He said they could be built In
80 days. But the grass on the Mall Is
still there.
In March, a dispatch from London
reported that Princess Alexandra, IT.
year-old daughter of the Duchess of
Kent. and niece of the King, underwent
successful operation for the removal
of adenoids.
In April a 2-year-old boy swallowed
the insignia OF his Naval commander
father, and two fishermen rescued an
pregnant doe from the Potomac River.
When the medical men met in May,
DR.. Russell s. Fisher, Maryland's chief
medical examiner. declared that plain
boric acid is peril in the treatment
Of diaper rash.
In June royalty again made valiant
bid for recognition. Countess Ellen Won
Hohenau announced that she would ride
horse to the Holy Land from Cor
Observation-Disclosures, Germany.
In September. the Hopeville, Ca, city
council became concerned about dogs.
The members passed an ordinance. A
dog which howls or barks 60 minutes,
the ordinance said in effect, is just
loveable pet. But let him howl 81 min
utes and he becomes nuisance, with
his owner liable to a fine.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
New Yeor

The old year dies. Its 1Dorn and tDeary
days
Slip into darkness, carrying the pain
OF past mistakes; of dreams tDe dreamed
tn rain,
And hopes that uGnislsed from our eager
gaze,
Like bTo1Un and aDithered leGues bloaDn
through the haze
And scattered back across the Winding
lane
OF yesterddyS-of hours of little gain.
Let the past 90 into its tangled npGzel
Greet the NetD Year, nop breaking into
da1Dn!
Press tor,card toDard the Hight that
cheers US onl
Forget the failures: seek the npward
Toadf
A line OF i0Giting days Diu bear our load.
A future rich Dith promise, fun of hope,
Lies Just beyond the gloom through
aCFich ne gTope.
II MoEgaFet O. Benedict
Evening star., 1952-01-01

On September s. the Iroquois Indians,
pointing to 157-year-old treaty with
the palefaces. asked for an increase in
the annual Federal allotment Of cloth.
In October. Harold Stassen told
Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee
that plan was afoot to give India to
the Communists.
And later that month, Representa-
tive Kennedy. Democrat. of Massachu-
sets. arrived by plane in Singapore. and
the event was duly recorded on the
front page.
The Russians kept right on making
headlines, too, and perhaps the award
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Let Us Strive On

1t may well be that Secretary AcheSon in
his report on foreign policy before the Jewish
War Veterans, was putting the best face on
bad situation. There is as much, if not more,
reason to believe, however, that our situation
would have been great deal worse than it is
had it not been for the results of the policies
which he has espoused.
This is simply another way of saying what
has been said before-that in our time there is
no such thing as an easy choice between attrac-
tive and unattractive foreign policies. If
particular policy seems onerous and unrewarding,
that is something that has to be measured against
the prospective rewards of whatever alternative
policy may have been available to U.S. And if
this test is applied to the policies discussed by
Mr. Acheson it is only fair to ask his critics what
other policies they would have recommended
with any rational hope of greater rewards.
AS we put 1851 behind us and look to the
new year, there are, as the Secretary of State
said, both gains and losses. There have been
undeniable gains in Western Europe and east
ward through the Mediterranean area as far as
Turkey. AS against this, ground has been lost
in Iran and Egypt. In Korea, when all of the
elements are weighed, the fact remains that the
military disaster of year ago has been retrieved,
the aggression has been stopped back of its
original starting point and there is at least some
hope of an acceptable settlement Certainly
there is no happy ending there in sight. But
who can say, honestly, that things would be
better now if the fight against aggression had
not been made? In Japan and in few other
spots in Asia there may be hopeful trends under
way. But in that area, taken as a whole, there
is little visible evidence that the situation, from
our point of view, has improved. If anything,
it has worsened.
Still, it does not follow from this that our
essential policies are wrong and should be
abandoned. In Asia, as in the other troubled
regions, the policies inaugurated by this country
are still in the testing stage. It is too early to
say that they have succeeded, or that they have
failed. The decisive test, however, may come in
1882 and for this reason Mr. Acheson was well
advised to stress the point that what is needed
is not some sudden burst of patriotic effort, but
steadineSs, perseverance, maturity and under
standing.
Our national character has not been marked
by predominance of these qualities, for as
people we are new to the responsibilities which
have been thrust upon us. We might decide
in moment of irritable Illustration or in the
partisan heat of the coming political campaign
that we are tired of the burdens imposed by our
foreign policies and that we should therefore
abandon them before they can be decisively
tested As a reasonable people, however, we
cannot do that without asking ouSelveS what the
alternatives are. If we repudiate our present
policies, to what can we turn? When the alterna-
tives are weighed. there is powerful persuasive
ness to the quotation which Mr.. Acheson adopted
from Abraham Lincoln: =. let us strive on to
finish the work we arekn."
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Preface for 1852

Inc literature OF New Year is repetitiouS
Each new calendar begins with regret for the
past and hope for the future. Charles Lamb
declared: mo one ever regarded the First of
January with indifference" and he was correct
in that opinion. The date has legal commercial
and social connotations which are observed
among all civilized peoples
But New Year is not Merely pragmatic con-
venience. Millions of men and women feel that
it has important ethical involvements They NAV
jest about their resolutions but many such
promises are kept, and they cannot be casually
broken with impunity. DR.. Samuel Johnson
suggested as much when he wrote: "I have now
spent SIS years in resolving, having from
the earliest time almost that can remember
been forming schemes of better life have
done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is
pressing since the time of doing is short o God,
grant me to resolve Alright and to keep my reSo-
lutionS, for Jesus Christ's sake Amen"
Many of us must sympathize with the author
OF those words. person looking back over 1851
without sense of failure must be rare, indeed.
Most of the evils which have afflicted humanity
within the experience of living generations have
had their sources in human shortcomings and
human wickednesS None of the wars and revo-
lutlonS, the panicS and famineS the greed and
dishonesty, the sordid betrayalS of the common
welfare which have stained the pages of
the press in the first half of the goth GEN.
tury have come upon us from outside our own
nature. The appraisal of Shakespeare Is more
truly accurate now than it was when he uttered
it. Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault dear Brutus, is not in stars, but in
ourSelveS!"
We realize our duty to live as brothers; yet
in practice we act as if we were enemies. The
annals of the five most recent decades have been
rife with shocking treasons against the one great
obligation which we all should rejoice to share
the fellowship implicit in our common destiny.
No knowledgeable man or woman can be in any
doubt of the need for reformation of the whole
pattern of prevailing behavior. None of us is
guiltless of some part in the spectacle of misery
and suffering which blankets the earth at the
opening of 1852 We stand in urgent need of
constructive changes of heart and mind
What is the alternative? Unless we can make
our Christian democracy law for ourselves,
how can we expect to persuade its foes to accept
it? We exist today on the razor edge of disaster
far more terrible and costly than any calamity
our planet ever has known. Like DR.. Johnson,
we aware that "the time of doing is short"
The intensity of our effort should be commen-
surately earnest and sincere New Years Day
this year may be our day of rededication, if we
will it So
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Letters to The Star

to the outstanding American who wrote
that strong and patriotic editorial PAY
of to Gangsters" in The Star Deem
ber ~. We wish he would visit our club
for we know he isn't one of those rash
youngsters Of SO to go who wants this
country to stand up for its rights every
time little ransom is demanded. lest
we might endanger the peace.
We hope he and The Star will con-
tinue this policy and use all pressure to
placate the foe in Korea, SO We will have
an armistice there and not have to en-
danger any more of our boys. What out
standing characters you all must be!
lima Peaser.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Delay May Be Advantageous

Ordinarily the fact that Washington's water
huoridation program is tagging behind that of
Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties would
be matter of regret. The nearby Maryland
areas served by the Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commission already are being supplied with
fluoridated drinking water as a measure of re-
ducing tooth decay. Slow progress in obtaining
needed equipment and chemicals will delay the
Districts installation until April or later. 1t may
be that the delay in undertaking the experiment
here will be advantageous in the long run, how
ever For it will give Washington the benefit of
any additional information that science may
discover about a process which one expert has
termed "a calculated risk"
It is remarkable how the fuoridation plan
has spread in popularity throughout the Nation
despite the fact that scientific opinion is not
unanimous in favor of its immediate adoption
A symposium on the subject last week conducted
by the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science revealed that communities with
an aggregate population of 81 million scattered
in As States are drinking 1uoridated water and
the total is expected to reach 40 million by 1853
Opposition to the program was voiced by DR..
r. S. Harris of the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology who declared that fluoridation is a
calculated risk that is mot without its hazards
and who cautioned against haste in adopting it
without further study of the poisonous effects Of
considerable quantities Of fluoride in the human
body. Not enough scientific study has been
DONE" he warned. Five other scientists agreed
that fluoride was harmful in large Doses but did
not think there was any risk in drinking the
small amount involved in the huoridation for
mula now being tried.
Congress authorized fuoridation for District
water because of reports by many authorities
that it would reduce dental decay by up to SO
per cent. There seems to be substantial proof
of this. But the process has not yet been tried
long enough to bring unanimous approval Of
scientists. It has not even been tested as yet in
a city as large as Washington which is one
reason for the delay In starting the program
here. Special feeder equipment is necessary to
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Made Your Resolutions?

Now that the New Years binge is
over, maybe it is worth noting that it
was sober philosopher who said the
only difference between the barrel of
q gun and a barrel of whisky is that
one goes off with bang and the other
with a bung.
Moralist.
Recently I read an article in the
Hampshire Review, published in Rom
ney, w. Va, which believe should be
retold in The Star and other leading
papers. Each week the publisher of the
Review, John Cornwell, former Gov
ernor of West Virginia, has his say on
topics of interest and Importance. FIRE.
quently as in the case of the article I
am quoting. the topic is of national i'm
portance and should reach beyond the
scope Of a county weekly.
Mr.. Cornwell writes, Some Govern
ment statistics coming out of Washing
ton deserve more publicity than they are
getting. This for instance: Alcoholism
today afdicts more people than tubercu-
losis, cancer and infantile paralysis COM
bined' Most of us contribute money to
groups and to organizations for research
and to combat the dread diseases of
cancer tuberculosis and polio, but were
you ever asked to contribute anything
to a society or an organization to COM
bat alcoholism? The only organization of
which L know that is doing anything
effective in the way of combating alco-
holism is Alcoholics Anonymous. It and
its members do not ask for contributions.
They work unobtrusively but diligently
and they have worked effectively, but
. the size of the job ahead of them can be
better understood and appreciated from
the statement just quoted.
"It is estimated that the direct cost
to the Nation of this alcoholic disease
the immediate out-of- -the-pocket cost to
Governments more than billion dol
lars. But the cost to society. of lost time,
lost wages, broken homes and wrecked
humanity cannot be estimated"
How appropriate it would be II all
those who drink out the old year and
drink in the new would first count the
cost of this intemperate custom to them
selves and to the country!
Mrs. ]. w. KingbOrne.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Hunqory's Holdup

$120, ,000!-Once again we pay the
price of coWardice. This is far cry
from the patriotic Pinckney when he
exclaimed mot one cent for tribute!"
or Teddy Roosevelt when he brought
blackmailing bandits to their knees with
the threat of American might. Now, like
beaten slaves. we grovel in the dust.
Great God. who will deliver us from the
craven fools who pretend to lead us?
Alfred Lee Jones.
I'll say this whole business looks like
a pay-of to the gangsters. like the
expression in the editorial "Gone Are
the Days." Gift giving is loss that
most Of us will be able to endure man
fully. It looks SO easy to spend the
taxpayers money.
It is time to say Wake Up, America"
and realize what the Communists are
doing to us all over the world, like cat
playing with mouse until all the fight
is gone out of him. That seems to be the
whole purpose of the war in Korea, and
that ransom fee was another trick
Matched up by the Kremlin
1t is time for that phrase ANY waste
is TOO muCu waste GO US put 1uCO pTdc.
tice, beginning at the top of our Gov
ernment on down to the bottom. 1t is
time to do something about saving the
lives of our boys.
Mother Who Lost Two
Sons in the Last War.
The Old Women's Tiddlywinks Club
of Georgetown has unanimously adopted
a resolution Of thanks and appreciation
Evening star., 1952-01-01
Rereods Gibbon

Something that happened recently
led me to turn to the last chapters of
Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Ro-
man Empire"
Just preceding the fall Of Constanti-
nople in 1853. "cold war" was going on
between the Roman Empire and the
Sultan. Mohammed II. who consistently
refused to keep any word given an infldel.
The Roman Emperor decided it was
time to fight. but his political and &C.
classical advisers said: mo! Let's brand
him as an aggreSsor."
And Gibbon wrote while our Revolu-
tionary War was going on.
II. r. Smalley.
Evening star., 1952-01-01

can be surrounded and barraged by
truth. but if it does not have the humility
to receive it. it will remain closed. And,
quite naturally, such mind can never
know peace
Christ came on Christmas to save
those with good will. If we do not have
it. salvation is out of the question. And
II we refuse to cooperate with God, who
is to blame for that?
Patricia Smith.
Evening star., 1952-01-01

of the year goes to Andrei vishinsky,
who made this headline: "Vishinsky
Lays New Peace Plan Before u. NJ; Asks
Arms Cut and Ban on Atomic Weapons"
Anybody heard of that one lately?
There they are. In some ways it was
a frightfully uneventful year.
Evening star., 1952-01-01
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

return postage or By telephonins 81 SssS.
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Was tobacco known at the time
Christopher Columbus explored Amer
ica?-E. S. D.
A. The custom Of smoking tobacco
originated with the Indians Of the
Western Hemisphere, probably as early
as 100 AID. Originally tobacco was
used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
Europeans first learned of tobacco
smoking when it was observed In Cuba
by members Of Columbus crew in No
vember, 1892.
@. What countries are usually included
in the term "Orient"?-O. N.
A. The word is loosely defined as In
cluding the countries Of Asia and the
adjacent islands of the Pacific. Some
times it is restricted to the eastern part
of Asia, which is also called the Far
East. Orient comes from the Latin, and
refers to the direction from which the
sun rises.
@. How many bank entertainments
were reported last year? Is the num-
ber increasing?-P. r.
A. Bank defalcations have more than
doubled since the end of World War
II. In 1916 there were 270; in 1850.
555.