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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-01-09

and failure of congress to enact
indiseriminate civil rights legisla-
ton In keeping with the will of
the majority of our citizens and
appreciation for the several re-
cent judicial denominations Of
legal issues traceable to the prae-
tees of discrimination and segre-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-01-09

lines.
They would have to meet quail
ifieations. just as white applicants
do" asserted DR.. Cook. He made
it clear also that all white appli-
cants are not accepted as men,
bers.
He said that he did not know Of
any Negro doctors applying for
membership in the past, They
could have applied he st4ted Two
or three years ago according to
DIR. Cook, the society invited Ne
gro doctors to attend scientific
meetings, but no record is avail
able where any ever accepted
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January 10th.
In December, 1850. Judge Har-
old Schweitzer, Los Angeles ST.
peTior court, had forcibly turned
the children, IS and 10 over to the
Oklahoma father, who admitted
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-01-09
Waters Has Her
Best Movie Year
by Gloria Miller

Hollywood, Calf. - tChsl r-
In order to understand only a lit
tie Of the greatness of Member
Of the Wedding, one must APP
proach it very humbly. with all
ssnsitivities attuhed TO a great
new experience. This film which
brings to seven the number oil
Broadway plays that producer
Stanley Kramer has brought to
the screen, attains delicate yet dy-
anamie heights and it is very hard
10 put into words
The story concerns itself with
ihe problems of an imaginative
-adolescent child Julie Haf-
Pis4. Because she Is extremely
sensitive and of a very awkward
appearance, she continually grasps
Tor the security Of belonging To
someone or something Too old Tor
the younger children, and unae-
ceptable to the older group. she
faces a problem common to many
VINO strive to fit in with the 'ae-
copied pattern of society taking
matters into her own hands, she
attempts to evolve a solution by
identifying herself with her broth
er's wedding, feeling that tn e
young couple would take her a
way with them. In a more prae-
teal way, however, her problems
are met by the kindly wisdom OF
Bernice, the housekeeper, (Ethel
Waters and her young bespeeta-
eled cousin Brandon de Wilde1.
IN the role of the wise old
h. aaas per. Ethel Waters re-
turns to the screen for the first
time since she won an academy
award nomination for her per-
Torrance in Pinky ti94N. Miss
Waters, who has the further dis
tinction of being the first Negro
actress to see her name IN lights
ON d Broadway marquis. appears
IN the same role that she created
on the stage tenjoying "A sixty
two weeks run in New York and
on the road1 Miss Waters APP
breaches Carson MeCullers play
with intense sincerity. dignity and
intellectual respect. She Is the
universal earth mother" upon
whose bosom the perplexed world
has lain its problem for centuries
In her own sphere however. she
must not only deal with the I'M
happiness of her charge. but with
the manifold difficulties of her
step brother, exeitingly portrayed
by James Edwards.
Miss Waters performance is an
inspiring one. A new camera tech
riaue using Garusto balanced
lenses, makes possible great
depth of focus without distortion,
thereby enabling the viewers to
see great artistry Of facial EXPIRES
sion evinced by Miss Waters. A
NEST touching climax is reached
as she sings His Eyes Are on the
Sparrow. and the camera comes
in close before fading This scene
is landmark in motion picture
history.
Playing the adolescent, Julie
Harris, probably gives the greatest
performance of her career. 1t
would not surprise this writer If
she turns out TO be one of the
greatest actresses of our times.
Brandon de Wilde, Arthur Franz,
Nancy Gates and Harry Bolden
all turn In masterful performances.
Fred zimmerman, the director,
brings to his audience a great tone
poem in black and white
whose main theme is the pathetic
struggle to human emotions. Alex
North's musical score sustains tine
nrosd throughout.
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sociate with members of the Ne
gro race, that they held the Okal-
homa laws of segregation in con-
tempt. and that the mother had
expressed a strong, critical view
of the Korean war.
The fathers attorney admitted
before judge SehWeitzer that these
were the only grounds on which
they asked change Of custody.
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Evening star., 1953-12-20

gay, raucous. wonderful, awful,
huckster-ridden form of video.
Then, in the middle of last Novem-
Der, the government issued its
white Paper" which outlined
plan for introducing Grass commerce
to the hitherto unsullied British TV.
1t proved an ingenious plan, not
for eating its cake and having it,
too, but for eating it without ever
having it in the first place.
British television, or part of it,
would have it's advertising. But 1t
would be free of what is referred to
as American depravity." To do
this, under the terms of the white
Paper" a public corporation much
similar to the BIC would be set up,
responsible to the postmaster gen.
eral.
This would operate the new COM
mercial television stations. But it
would not have anything to do with
the commercial programs, beyond a
sort of censorship power. Instead,
it would lease its facilities to pro
gramme companies These would
provide the programs and sell the
advertising.
There would be no sponsors,
Evening star., 1953-12-20

stance, completed action on only 80
bills considered of major Importance.
But many more undoubtedly will be
recommended by the President in
his January messages to Congress
and his later supplementary mes
sages. If the President can secure
passage of only 38 important bills
he will beat the record of all election
years under President Truman.
The heavy program, the outlook
for a short session and the small,
divided Republican force on the Hill
all will be obstacles to Republican
record of accomplishment. But for
President Eisenhower there still is
an important ray of sunshine:
On any program he has indicated
he will press for, he can secure a
solid. bipartisan majority in Con-
greSS.
1t will not always be the same ma
jority, but study of Congressmen'S
voting records shows the support is
there even if the Democrats aban-
don their f1rst-session policy of CO.
operation with the administration
and revert to their normal voting
habits. On most domestic policy the
Chief Executive will be able to de-
pend on support from Republicans
and enough conservative Democrats
Evening star., 1953-12-20

proper names-cowcatch and ca
booSe.)
The true nature of the British
television controversy probably is
fully understood only by those who
can digest a London Times report
on parliamentary proceedings.
There seem to be two firmly op-
posed factions. Both agree that the
BIC could do with some COMPETE
ton and the English viewers with a
wider choice of programs. Two
would be a wider choice than they
are now offered.
Opponents of commercial TV in
Great Britain range from Bertrand
Russell to the Archbishop of Can
terbury The Archbishop of York
has been quoted as warning that
Commercial interests may degrade
television, as in the United States,
into channels of sensationaliSm and
vulgarity"
American television is the hor-
rible example brought up recurringly
in the British debates.
It is quite apparent in the English
debates that an attitude different
from that of this country prevails.
Broadcasters here regard Il Love
Evening star., 1953-12-20

to ask for something like 500 billion
for the coming fiscal year, 81 billion
under current spending, but still
enough to leave a S. billion deficit if
Congress does not cut appropriation
substantially. President Eisenhower
already has said he did not expect a
balanced budget in fiscal year 1855.
. TaTeS. Some SIS billion-a-year
worth of taxes will expire at the end
of this year, and the President will
not ask that they be put back on
the books. But he is expected to re-
quest poStponement of a cut in cor
porate rates set for April l and ask
for excise tax reviSionS to make up
for automatic cuts April l on those
taxes. There are no plans for a gen.
eral sales tax or manufacturers tax
. Debt Ceiling. Congress refused
last year to raise the ceiling on the
national debt. 1t is an embarrassing
thing for the economy" party to
do in an election year, but it will
have to be done.
. Trade. The Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act expires June II. A
commission will report recommen-
dations for revision by March 8.
Any suggestion of lower tariffs
would kick off long fight in Con-
greSS.
Q Farm Prices. The existing farm
price support program will expire
at the end of 1854. Congress will
have to write new one, and in view
of farmer unrest this year over Re-
publican plans to lower price sup
ports, the new law is expected to be
merely a modified approach to the
same high price supports.
. Labor. Revision of the Taft
Hartley law still rates as the biggest
headache facing this Congress. No
faction will hold still for any mid
dle-Way' approach the President
has been able to advance. The COM
mission working on this one gave up
and disbanded. Betting now is that
the law will be touched lightly, if at
all, and the headache will be held
over for another Congress.
. Social Security. Congress likes to
extend the social security program
in an election year. but this time
there will be friction between Eisen-
hover extension plans and Ways
and Means Committee hopes to re-
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Do Cigarettes Cause Lung Cancer? Proof Positive Is Lacking

wear tweed suits will contract can
Ger after the age of 40' it can be
shown there is an indication the
idea is basically sound-if silly.
A thorough test recently COM
pleted at the National Institutes of
Health under strict conditions of
investigation concluded: 1T appears
that though the association between
cigarette smoking and lung cancer
seems real, the significance of this
association remains unestablished.
The American Cancer Society is
currently undertaking an investiga-
ton of the smoking habits of 204,-
900 men in the Soto o-69-year-old age
group. Concentration is on the
heavy smokers.
Even the tobacco companies have
been able to show through statistics
that people were smoking one par
ticular brand more than any other
Evening star., 1953-12-20

almost all of them Southerners-
to win. In foreign policy, if the
President does not change his course,
the necessary support will come from
internationalist Republicans and a
large body of like minded Demo-
Gratis.
Last week, President Eisenhower
faced up to one of the toughest jobs
of the coming legislative year when
he brought more than 80 congress
sional leaders to the White House
to confer on his state-of- the Union
message to Congress. BY winning
some measure of advance approval
from this conservative group, he
made the coming task much simpler.
Three Messages
The broad outline of the PreSi-
dents program will be revealed to
the public in three messages to Con-
gress: The state-of the Union on
January 7. his economic report prob
ably toward the middle of the month
and his budget message which ira
ditionally comes few days later.
Here is a list of some of the jobs
Congress is expected to tackle in the
coming session:
0 Budget. The President is expected
Evening star., 1953-12-20
By Harry Macarthur

Commercial television is coming
to England. It is coming, appar-
emily, over the anguished if not
precisely dead bodies of some
vociferously protesting die-hards.
There were rumblings in the halls
of Parliament, hoarse cries in the
letters-to-the-editor columns of the
British press. Some observers voiced
the fear that the maneuvers
of the pro-commercial TV set in the
House of Lords might "bring down
the government" so heated was the
controversy. But Wednesday night
the House of Commons approved
commercial. TV without any such
dire consequences.
So far, the British have gotten
along with completely different
system of broadcaSting from the
one we know. The British Broad
casting Corp. compares neither to
our Federal communications Com
mission nor to one of our big net
works British broadcasting is not
government controlled" however,
any more than ours is.
How BIC Operates
The BIC is a corporation which
operates under license from the
postmaster general. It provides
several different program services
in radio and one-about 35 hours
week-in television. It's revenue
comes from license fees paid by
radio and television set owners. The
programs generally are regarded as
dull by Americans exposed to them.
Some, on the other hand, are ex-
cellent.
The English listeners and viewers
have been doing it that way and a
great many of them like it that way.
To them, the better of two evils
clearly is televiSed lecture on the
nesting habits of the gold-crested
titmouse. Especially when the other
evil is singing commercial about a
deodorant accompanied by moving
pictures in the living room of a
scantily clad girl demonstrating it,
Sometimes viewers in the United
States think that just possibly the
British have something there.
Well, anyhow, television came
along and, in England as in America,
turned out to be costly. About a year
ago the government suggested that
commercial TV was in order. A
fearsome din was set up in church,
in university, in pubs and clubs. The
British recoiled in hoI Ikor to the
thought Of switching brands to this
Evening star., 1953-12-20

will report to the President or to
member of his cabinet. The White
House then will pass most of the
findings on to CongreSs-for action.
Congressional Quarterly also found
that 38 laws of some Importance will
expire during the coming year.
Congress will have to extend or
modify many of them.
IS Mojor Projects
There is much duplication in the
lists of expiring laws and the SUBJ
jectS studied by the commissions.
but quick count can find at least
35 major subjects for congressional
action in the coming year. This, of
course. is in addition to a full load
of appropriation bills which will be
examined closer than ever before
for economy cuts. And investiga-
tions will continue to take up much
of Congress- time. (The boom in
probes, started when the 82d Con-
greSS launched almost as many eX-
traneous Investigations as it passed
public bills, continued on into the
83d Congress.)
Passage of even 35 major bills
the number now in sight-Would be
good election-year's work for Con-
gress. The '52 Congress, for in
Evening star., 1953-12-20

despite claims to the opposite by
the makers of the other brand.
Research Stimulated
The trial of the cigarette has Stim-
ulated research into lung cancer
Cigarette companies are financing
some projects, while the National
Cancer Institute has made grants
to others. DR.. Graham has furnished
a lead and it could take us into
something other than the smoke of
a cigarette.
AS the trial proceeds-it may last
for years-the best advice to the
worried smoker, according to doc
tors, is to have a chest X-ray every
four months.
If the cigarette is found guilty it
may only mean a temporary end
to cigarette smoking For scientists
will then hop to removing the can
cer-causing agent in it's smoke.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

though, and thus no sponsor control
of program content. Advertising
would be inserted before and after
programs. Later it was decided that
it might be all right for an adver-
tiSer to insert his message between
the acts of a televised drama. Amer
lean broadcasters still are trying to
figure out how this differs from the
middle commercials the English
make so much fuss about.
System Is q DeIusion
Some cynical observers of the
facts of broadcasting life also have
observed that this matter of no
sponsor control of program content
is a delusion An advertiser, who
withdraws his fore -and-aft support
of London Conf1dential' and offers
to return to TV advertising if pro-
gram called Il Love Lucinda" is put
on, is in truth exercising some de-
gree of program control.
(The American commentator,
Eric Sevareid. incidentally. has OBJ
served that the English becoming
involved in this strange business had
better learn to speak English. They
had better learn to call these fore
and-aft announcements by their
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Congressional Prospects:
By Richord FrykIund

Republican leaders who gathered
in the White House last week to work
out the legislative program for the
coming year were in the same mood
as the paratrooper who gulps
nervouSly, This is it!" and jumps
into space.
For the 1854 session of Congress
is cit" for the Republican Party. on
the good authority of the new
G.. q. P, Commander in Chief.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
This years first session of the
83d Congress was time for prep
aration. 1t was a ground school for
Republicans newly transferred from
the pleasant duty of shouting advice
and criticism at the Democrats to
the job of leading the attacks them
selves. While learning their new
duties. the Republicans tackled as
few projects as possible, postponed
as much as possible and then gave
Congressman an early furlough so
they could gather strength for the
year ahead.
Presidents Hope
President Eisenhower has warned,
however, that the 1854 congressional
elections ought to be fought over
the accomplishments of the coming
Congress. And the outcome of the
1856 presidential and congressional
elections will depend on a continual
ton of the looking" pro-
gram he expects to push through
next year.
(There are some Republicans, of
course, who claim another good
crusade against Harry Truman and
communism will win more votes,
but the President plans to prove
them wrongD
1t will be difficult for the Repub-
licanS to make their outstanding
record in the coming Congress. In
the first place. they make no more
than minority party in the Sem
ate (47 Republicans, 48 Democrats
and one independent who votes with
the Democrats) and hold an ef-
fective margin of only three votes
in the House (219 Republicans, 215
Democrats and one independent
who also votes with the DernocratS)
So the party is in no position to
steamroller its program through
Congress. 1t will have to rely on
Democratic support. as it did during
the first-session honeymoon this
year.
Even Republican solidarity is far
from a sure thing. Most Of the Re-
publicans on Capitol Hill, including
most key leaders and committee
chairmen, were Taft men in so and
worked for the Senator's nomination
over Gen. Eisenhower. They are
happy the Nation liked Ike in No
vember, but they still would rather
have in the White House the more
orthodox G. o. P. conservatism the
late Senator Taft represented.
There are many planks of the Eli
senhoWer platform, particularly in
Evening star., 1953-12-20

cancer in urban areas than in rural
areas? These answers can only be
found by further research.
Much of the recent evidence pre-
sented against the cigarette was in
the form of statistics. Similar find
ings have been reported from time
to time-not quite SO bluntly-
showing an "association exists be-
tween heavy smoking and cancer of
the lung"
But SkepticS point out medical
statistics can be as tricky as virus.
And statistics always go through
punching sessions in medical
circles. One criticism of the Smok-
ing Investigations is that "the in
vestigator proceeded from the start
with the assumption that smoking
does cause lung cancer" And it has
been shown, that starting out with
the assumption most men who
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Brons Move Toward TV Commercials Draws Cries Of Anguish

Lucy" as most successful TV pro-
gram because it obviously pleases a
large number of viewers. British
broadcaSting is not considered a sue
cess when it merely gives the au-
dlence what it wants. The idea
there seems to be to give the home
viewers what somebody thinks they
ought to have.
The proposed system. Lord
Waverly told the House of Lords,
would give the advertisers the whip
hand. In the end programs would be
influenced not by Single-minded
desire to give good public service
but influenced by a different motive
not an ulterior one--of selling
their goods.
To sell their goods, the anti
commercial argument goes, these
cynical advertisers would support
only popular programs which put
their messages before the largest
number of people And the above
mentioned correspondent Of the
Times. Michael Astor, knows what
that means.
so far as the programmes them
selves are concerned" he wrote, 1T
is truism that popular taste is
not and never has been good taste"
Curious Stond for Trodesmen
This whole vociferous argument is
all the more comic to an outsider
for taking place in the center of an
empire built on commerce, which
keeps telling US that it must trade
to survive. But te!evision in trade?
Horrors The tradesman's entrance
is still the rear door.
A certain amount of this British
apprehension is understandable.
however. Many of the popular BEG
programs are transplanted versions
of American shows One of these is
a British whats My Line?" Ac-
cording to report, its stellar pa Il
member is a rude boor who insults
guests and wouldn't be tolerated for
two minutes on the commercial ver-
sion here.
Then there is advertising as the
British know it. One sample selling
cigarettes from the back of maga-
zine sticks in the mind. 1t had taxi
driver chanting:
MY fare was in an awful rush.
He made the train (touch woody
And tipped me well-but what I
need
Is Kensitas-that's good!"
Set to music and sung by mixed
choir with suitable dancing on the
side, that would drive any one to the
eullest BIC non-commercial proA
gam. L