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Evening star., 1953-10-25
Some Yen for Homers

The Japanese yen for American baseball
has been recognized for many years. Now, it
seems, the Japanese are going to give their yen
away-or more explicitly, they are offering
10000 yen ($25) to any Japanese ball player
who hits home run during 14-game series
with team of touring American all-StarS.
Actually, the japanese heroes of the dia-
mond have never been distinguished for hitting
that long ball. They are better known as slick
glove-men of the good field, no hit species
and their home run prospects do not look too
bright against such pitchers as Lefty Ed Lopat
the "junkball' leader of the Lopat Nomads-
Robin Roberts, Curt Simmons, Bob Lemon and
Mike Garcia.
An earlier delegation Of American athletes
led by Lppy Leo Durocher, the silent strategst
Of the New York Giants, already has sharpened
Evening star., 1953-10-25

touched the wire, "horses, buggy and
occupants were thrown in all direc-
tions." Lewis Liggett, farmer, hear
ing the explosion, ran to the scene in
time to see man take a valise from
the demolished buggy and flee across
the hills"
The Star of October 10, 1908, re-
ported "The express train on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
Long Bridge road known as the F. F.
Broken W that left the Sixth
street station last night
at 1922 o'clock put the Long Bridge
out of business. Because of the heavy
weight of the train, the north half of
the draw went down and part of the
train went with it. One man, Richard
j. Eckart, who was employed as as
siStant draw tender is missing, and it
is the belief of railroadmen and
policemen that he and several others
lost their lives. Three or four tramps,
it is stated, were seen riding on the
front end of the blind baggage when
the train reached the north end of
the bridge on its way West. Rail-
roadmen who have been connected
with the road for a number of years
also are of the opinion that there were
some boys riding on the baggage
bumper. They say that hardly a
Sunday night passes that several boys
from the vicinity of Alexandria do
not take the ride on the Chesapeake
& Ohio train. . 1t will probably be
about a week before traffic over the
bridge will be resumed and then the
trains will run on tracks laid on
temporary trestle." Meanwhile, The Star
observed editorially: Washington has
for years expected just such an acci-
dent on the Long Bridge. . The
weakness of the structure has been
notorious for a generation. >. II any,
thing were needed to hasten the work
on the new bridge, this accident should
supply the lack" The new bridge"
mentioned Is the Highway Bridge Of
today, dedicated February IL. 1905.
Evening star., 1953-10-25

hands of the people, who have been king
size so far as their personal lives were
concerned and so have endeared them
selves to their subjects" A recent
monarch of England, when the mourn
full news "the King is dead" re-
sounded over the land, merited this
tribute by one of the religious prophets
of the realm. "He was, to borrow the
lovely phrase about Queen Victoria,
loyal to the royal in himself, charac-
ter of sterling integrity. His religion
was the secret of his life" That tribute
speaks of one who. in his character
was truly king size. And that. of course,
is the only thing that matters, on
throne or off it, That truth is mirrored
in lines that ring in the memories OF
Americans who, as children, learned
them by heart as they found them
enshrined in those treasure chests Of
literature, virtue and religion, the old
fashioned school readers:
"HoWe'er it be, it seems to me
IT'S only noble to be good,
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman
blood"
That means that all the trappings
of kingship are irrevelant. King size is
not in the realm of sales appeal, or
luxurieS, or even of necessities. There
is no more humiliating experience than
mans inner consciousness that in
some ethical test he has failed to
measure up, that he has proved to be
a small person when the situation
called for greatness, and that his size
belongs in the category of the mini
NUNS.
There is an old story regarding the
young artist Raphael, who, in crisis
of his artistic career, stepping for a
while out of his studio, had left there
some sketches upon which he was
working. Michelangelo happened to
come in and looked at the unfinished
work; then, picking up some crayon,
hurriedly drew around each sketch a
larger outline and wrote under it all
"Ampllus," which meant, of course,
Evening star., 1953-10-25

ing district under American jurisdic-
ton" Representatives of the Canadian
side contended that the Dominion
should have several seaports." British
members Of the commission were:
Chief Justice Alverstone, A. Bay
leSWartt of Toronto and Sir Louis Jette
of Quebec. The American commits
sioners-Secretary of State Elihu Root,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and
former Senator George Turner
agreed to Lord Alverstone serving as
president of the tribunal. John w.
Foster and Robert Lansing helped in
the setting forth of the American case.
President Theodore Roosevelt was
understood to be content" with the
verdict. He received hundreds of
messages of congratulation.
X
The Star on october IL. 1908. printed
a telegram from Browning. Mont, say
ing: Seven persons have
blocktoot been killed and two
TroqedY wounded during drunken
row on the Blackfoot In
dian reservation. The dead are: Wakes
up-Last, wife and three children; Mrs.
Susan Bigroad and Mrs. Little Plume.
The wounded Alice Bigroad, shot in
the leg, will recover; j. Little Plume.
throat and arm cut, recovery doubtful
A number of Indians secured quantity
of whisky Sunday night and started on
a big spree. In some manner Wakes
up-Last became engaged in a row with
the rest of the party. During the al
tercation one Indian was slightly
Wakes-up-Last shortly aft
erward went to bed. Later in the night
six friends Of the wounded man deter
mined to kill Wakes-up-Last, although
it is by no means certain that he was
the wounded Indians assailant. Wakes
up-Last was shot through the head
while in bed" His wife tried to escape
with her children but all four Of the
group were caught and murdered. Su-
san Bigroad also was shot and Mrs. Lit
tie Plume's throat was cut from ear to
ear. The dispatch ended: -Four ar
rests have been made"
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Wet Nam Is Overbiddinq

There is reason to fear that the Wet Nam
Nationalist Congress is overplaying its hand
to dangerous degree in choosing this moment
to say the country, when and if granted inde-
pendence, would no longer remain within the
French Union.
There has been great deal of sympathy,
particularly from official sources in the Ameri-
can Government for the aspirations of the
Associated States of Indo-C China for status
of genuine independence. After considerable
delay and equivocation, France recently ac-
knowledged these aspirations and made what
appeared to be sincere offers to negotiate the
matter. It was implicit, however, in the French
offer and in predatory statements by leaders
of the three Southeast Asia governments that
the objective was an independence of type
granted to various states within the British
CommonWealth-andt that the Associated States
would continue as part of the French Union.
The formalization of this status for Laos, the
smallest in terms of population of the three
states took place with the signing of treaty
in Paris on Thursday
The Wet Nam Congress, however, has de-
clined to name negotiating. council and has
further rolled the waters by passing its resou-
tion OF diStaste for continued affiliation with
the French Union. Aside from obstructing the
countryS best opportunity to date to gain q
status of independence, the Congress action
endangers the French decision to make
greater-than-ever effort to win the long war
against the CommuniSt-Supported Wet Mimi
forces With increased American help, the
French have launched an offensive which
already has recorded notable successes Obvi-
ously, If the Wet Namese are to disavow any
intent of further loyalty or association with the
French Union the backbone of the French effort
Is going to be weakened correspondingly.
What France, and the United States, may
do in the face of this Wet Nam attitude is not
yet clear. 1t should be obvious to the Wet
Namese, however that an independence" with
out support from and association with an outside
power of the West would leave them easy prey
for the Communist designs of Moscow and
Peiping.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Letters to The Star.
Pen-71an1es may be used if letters carry
a0riterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

they become taxpayers rather than
tax-consumers and the monetary and
social gains are enormous.
Your editorial mentions a return of
four times the rehabilitation expendi-
lures in the form of income taxes We
have figured the return to be above
10 times the cost. At least one expert
contends strongly that the eventual
return is 20 times the cost. Yet. to
paraphrase a Senator in a recent hear
ing, we would still be doing fine job
by restoring a human beings ability
to work, regardless of whether the job
produced so much as an even break
financially for the public.
We thank The Star for its consistent
and enlighted words of encouragement.
Mary E. Switzer,
Director, Office of Vocational Re-
Mobilization, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
The President on Politics

President Eisenhower, in announcing his
intent not to intervene in local elections has
written for himself political order that may
be more difficult of fulfllment than he realizes.
For whether or not he really likes the role,
the soldier President today is the head man
OF the Republican Party-and lot of Repub-
icans are going to need some substantial
political help between now and mid November,
1854. There are reasonable grounds on which
they might expect some help in one fashion
or another from President of their party.
Furthermore, no President would welcome loss
of congressional control by his own party-a
fact which General Eisenhower acknowledged
in his preSS-conference comment that he is
deeply interested in what happens to the COM
pleXion of the Senate and House of Represent
atives.
In a broad sense, the President was ex-
pressing a high-minded political philosophy
when he said that the occupant of the White
House is President of all the people-rather
than of a partisan group only-and that the
greatest service to both party and Nation could
be rendered by enlightened and progressive
administration It is true, and has been proved
so, that voters often resent outside intrusion
into district or State contests. On the other
hand, General Eisenhower's appearance last
fall on campaign platforms that often were
crowded with local Republican candidates for
all levels of public office contributed greatly
to the successes recorded by so many of these
anxious aSpirants. And despite some of the
spectacular rebuffS they encountered, Presi-
dents Roosevelt and Truman rendered similarly
signal service"to many of their party followers
in the years past
1t would be undignifed, and perhaps dan
gerous, for President to take openly to the
hustings in an off-year campaign. But the
practice of "coattail riding" has become a we'll
established tactic on the American political
battle-ground, and General Eisenhower is apt
to face considerable pressure, and probably
many ingenious suggestions as to ways and
means, for helping hand during the campaign
of 1854. Should he succumb to some of this
persuasion, he need not feel too badly at the
bending, If not the breaking, of his statement
of intent on October 81, 1853.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Georgetown University Expansion

The new program of expansion recently
announced for Georgetown University has 164
years of history behind it. Founded by Arch
bishop John Carroll in 1889, the famous Roman
Catholic school "open to students of every re-
ngious profession" has grown consistently from
the start. There never has been any retreat or
any retrogreSSion. The undergraduate COM
munity numbered so at the beginning; it ex-
ceeds 5000 today. A mere handful of professors"
has become a faculty of more than 600. One
humble little building on a single acre of
ground has been replaced with % different
edidceS dotting a campus of more than 100
acres. The influence and reputation of the
university meanwhile have spread to the ends
Of the earth Students consequently have been
attracted to Georgetown from many distant
countries The present demand upon the eX-
listing plant" and staff is such that a conStruc-
ton project including ten new buildings has
been devised and new resources of money for
endowments, scholarships, fellowships and
student loans are being developed. These OBJ
1ectiveS are bracketed In the Greater George
town Fund with a $14-million goal to be
attained by 1864. Alumni, parents of Students
industrial corporations, foundations and be-
quests are to be solicited.
OF course, the entire prospect is of interest
to Washingtonians in general. Georgetown
University has been enriching the Nations
Capital since 1t was commenced in 1871. What
now is planned is the erection of new buildings
for the Graduate School, the School of Foreign
Service the Institute of Languages and Lin
gutStics, the Law School, the Medcal-Dental
School, the School of Nursing, the Science De-
partment and the library; also a dining hall
and new hospital wing. Each of these units
will be created to harmonic with traditional
styles and yet to reflect modern conceptions of
architecture and engineering.
The theological side of the new expansion
program is of equal significance, and here, too,
noteworthy progress is forecast. Georgetowns
standards always have been high. The "age of
confusion" needs them kept so-and expanded
In application.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Fifty Years AGO in The Star

A paragraph in the society column
OF the october 81, 1908, issue of The
Star read: THE en-
MItchell-Stokes gagement of Miss
Engagement Carol Mitchell, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Clarence
Green Mitchell of 1870 K street, to the
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. jr, assistant
rector OF st. Paul'S Protestant Church,
New Haven, was announced yesterday
in New York. The Rev. Mr.. Stokes has
been secretary of Yale University since
189 and has been talked of as likely
to receive much higher -honors from
Yale, from which he graduated in 1896.
He is the third son of AnSon Phelps
Stokes of New York. The wedding day
is not yet announced" Half century
later DR.. and Mrs. Stokes are planning
their golden wedding anniversary cele-
bration for December 80 next. One of
their sons carries on the name Anson
Phelps and the family tradition of serv-
ice to the church as rector of st. Bar
tholomew's in New York City; another
is Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, former
State and Commerce Departments law
yer. Their daughter is Olivia, Mrs.
OOAlAA LAWS 11dtCIIS JI Lie 4oAAAlAJ
home was in Washington while DR..
Stokes was a canon at Washington
Cathedral, 1924-1939; it now is at
Lenox Mass.
The Star for September %, 1903
featured a report from Washington,
Pa, concerning
Murder and Robbery the murder of
BY Dynamite Samuel T. Fer
guson. As, a
member Of the Ferguson Construction
Co., and his bookkeeper, Charles L.
Martin. 36. who were killed in an ex-
plosion of dynamite placed under a
culvert over which they unwittingly
drove with a payroll of $500. Un-
known robbers had planted enough
dynamite :. to blow up skyScraper,"
connecting 1t with insulated copper wire
60 a concealed battery. When Fergu-
son and Martins team and buggy
Evening star., 1953-10-25

DR.. August Groth on October 10, 1903,
in machine of his own
Dr. 6roths contriving, and The Star
Experiment of the following day de-
scribed his adventure
appreciatively. His invention was a
cigar-shaped balloon filled with gas
and a car weighing about 300 pounds
with a 12-horsepower gasoline motor
DR.. Groth assembled from lot almost
in the heart of the city" and attempted
to encircle towering newspaper build
ing about a mile eastward, but found
the high current too strong for his
power and then turned in an opposite
direction. The winds carried him ocean
ward, and for a time he lowered over
the vicinity of the Golden Gate, making
various successful trials of his steering
gear" When currents threatened to
take him out over the Pacific he
decided to make a landing on the pa
rade grounds of the Preside Military
Reservation, but made the mistake of
letting out too much gas" so that "he
landed in the bay about 200 feet from
the shore. The crew of the life-saving
SCdIlO11 1CoCuCu IllC dIlu LIE
flying machine. which was little dam
aged" DR.. Groth, it was suggested, had
demonstrated that "in many essentials
he has solved the problem of aerial
navigation"
On October 20. 1908, the "big news
in The Star was the announcement OF
the decision of the
AIosko Boundary Alaskan Boundary
Decision Commission "a
complete triumph
for the United States on all essential
points" Dating back to 1872, the con-
troversy had been aggravated by the
discovery of gold in the Klondike.
Spokesman for the American side
argued that: "The boundary line fol-
lows the sinuosities of the coast line
and thus cuts of Canada from all the
arms Of the sea, putting Porcupine
Creek, for instance, and the gold-bear-
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Two Kinds of Justice

Federal Judge Holtzoff, in imposing the
maximum penalty of to IS years on each of
two holdup men in payroll robbery expressed
regret that the law would not permit him to
send the pair to prison for longer terms An
armed robber he declared, is "a potential
murderer" Law-abiding citizens will agree
with the judge as to the gravity of robbery by
violence or threat of violence. These same
citizens may wonder, however, at the leniency
OF another branch of the machinery of justice
which permits other potential murderers" to
run at large, because of their youth.
In the edition of The Star which reported
Judge HoltzoffS fortnight comments in the
holdup case appeared a news item about the
knitting and robbing of Mrs. Ruth Prebilich by
one of four boys who attacked her near her
home in Northeast Washington Mrs Prebilich
told police the boy with the knife slashed her
wrists and threatened to "cut her in half"
Police have arrested 16-year-old suspect who,
they say, has made complete confession.
1t should have been surprising to the Police
Department Juvenile Squad to learn that this
boy has long record of arrests for major and
minor offenSeS. From his record one might
assume that he would be confined to an inStitu-
ton, instead of roaming at large. The record
showed arrests in the past several years for
purse-Snatching 1.-TWO cases., housebreaking,
sounding false hre alarms and "dlSorderly con-
duct" involving aSsaulting a girl at a junior
high school. His most recent arrest prior to
the current case was on July II of this year for
purSesnatching. Yet there is nothing on the
police record to indicate what disposition was
made of any of these charges when the boy was
brought before the Juvenile Court. The courts
secrecy policy has kept the police in the dark
as to what action, if any, the court has taken
In anV of the previous cases
This time, however, Police Chief Murray
wants to make sure that the public is properly
protected from the anti-social tendencies of this
multiple offender. He will ask that the case be
transferred to District Court to be handled
there as any similar crime involving an adult
potential murderer" would be handled. That
course would be in the public interest-and,
after all, the welfare of the community as a
whole ought to be the dominating consideration
In prosecuting such dangerous offenders how
ever youthful.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
View Of Locol Conditions

once again, this time before the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association,
Civil Service Commissioner Young has
come forth with his explanation of the
current plight of the Federal career
service employe as we'll as the tense
business situation now prevalent in
Washington. To him there has been
no business recession in Washington
there has only been fear that there
might be one" That's pretty analysis
but one can't help but wonder whether
it will convince two appliance chain
stores which recently entered into bank
ruptcy due to the declining consumer
market. And what about the Wash
ington Board of Trade and the Ma
tional Association of Home Builders,
both of which, within the past month,
have stated publicly that serious slack
in the local economy has developed as
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Hiring the Handicapped

Such editorials as Hiring the Handi-
capped" which appeared in The Star
are greatly encouraging to all of us
who have responsibility for returning
our handicapped people to work. We
take this newspaper support as both
cause and an effect of the widening
public consciousness of the potentiali-
ties of people who for too many years
were thought useless because of some
physical or emotional impairment.
In truth, there is little mystery con-
corning the increasing value of the
handicapped. DR.. Howard A. Rusk has
pointed out often that great numbers
OF us do not use even 10 per cent of
our potential in our jobs. Even the
severely disabled people generally have
at least residual 10 per cent of
normal competence. When this is in
creased markedly by physical restora-
tion, counseling toward compatible
employment objectives, training for
specific and available work, plus intel
ligent placement practices, it is no
wonder that the handicapped prove to
be at least as good as the average
worker, and in so many instances
superior.
Unquestionably the burning desire to
achieve success after long denial of op-
portunity has motivated the majority
OF successful handicapped persons. The
worst thing we can do to the handi-
capped is to ignore them, and thus
kill their hope and with it their zeal
for success. On the other hand, the
best thing we can do for them is to
prepare them, through the services of
vocational rehabilitation, for useful
and self-sustaining employment. If we
try to ignore them, our costs of public
relief will continue to mount-and un-
necessarily. If we rehabilitate them.