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Evening star., 1953-09-07

by many fond father, that those most
ready to play innocent jokes are most
apt to turn out to be first-claSs buSi-
neSSmen.
Today, the luncheon clubs, popular
through the land. attest to the longevity
of this simple creed.
X
Whether the old man was trying to
eat macaroni made out of rubber hose
or being chased by piece of f1rework
(whoSe name is no longer popular,
though named right out in the book.
he took it on the chin, and always came
up for more.
The groceryman, too, took it on the
chin Usually, when he closed up for
the day, he found sign which had
been out for hours, This Store Is
Closed Till Further Notice. Sheriff"
"Peck's Bad Boy" we regret to say,
seems dated-very dated-about 1883,
say.
Now, it is 1853, and it will soon be
1954.s
One thing is sure, we need lament no
longer over yesterdays humor.
1t has q queer, almost musty smell,
in the flare of atom bombs.
We will take Pogo" any day, and
will let the reader in on secret:
Walt Kelly calls Pogo possum, but
do you know who Pogo really is? Why,
Kelly, sure enough.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Stripping the Court

Recent events have established that
one of several reforms in our Constitu-
ton requiring attention has to do with
the Supreme Court, which rapidly is
assuming autocratic and dictatorial
power over the American people.
Under the guiSe of interpreting" the
Constitution, this group now has as
sumed legislative powers, and beyond,
since while Congress is held to the let
ter of the Constitution (by this court) +,
the court, by virtue Of its alleged inter-
pret1ve powers, is not. BY mere dictum
and fiat, they impose far-reaching and
revolutionary changes, a notable ex-
ample being the school segregation
cases In this latter endeavor, they
are being aided and abetted by hard
core of radicals, remaining over from
the Truman party, dedicated to i'm
pressing upon the American people
their brand and form of society.
There is no provision in the Constitu-
ton authorizing that this country be
governed by a judicial clique, whose
proposals cannot be debated in public
or voted upon, must be accepted as ac-
complished facts, and cannot be criti-
cized on pain of contempt. Not having
Evening star., 1953-09-07

Only seven when his formal education began,
he was ready for public appearance while
still child. With two brothers he formed a
trio which subsequently led to the organization
of partnership of the same kind with the
pianist Alfred Cortot and the cellist Pablo Casals
An ensemble which made history from 1905
to 1882
During World War Mr.. Thibaud was in
an infantry regiment at the front. He antici-
pated World War II by refusing to play in Ger
many under Hitler. When he returned to the
United States in 1947 another global conflict
was foreshadowed by the menace of imperial
communism. 1t was at the start of trip to
Indo-C China that he was killed.
But not even the most tragic of disasters
could spoil Mr.. ThibaudS contribution to the
universal cause of noble music. He was intensely
French and his performance was nationalistic.
Under his touch Beethoven and Mozart were
different than they were when read by other
artists but they were not less worthy. Mr..
Thibaud infused them with his own feeling and
did them honor In so doing.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
By Arthur H. Koonce

THE VISIT to the United States OF
4 Japanese Crown Prince Akihito is
the climax of six-month, 100000
course in Western ways.
1t was last March 80 that the young
heir to the worlds oldest throne sailed
from Yokohama. ostensibly to attend
the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in
June. The 18-year -old princes father,
Emperor Hirohito, had been invited to
send an official representative to the
great British spectacle.
The crown prince looks more like a
shy, freshly-scrubbed Schoolboy than
the 125th descendant of the Japanese
imperial line dating back some IL cenA
turieS. In fact, student he is, and
Tokyo dispatches indicate that his long
absence from the Peers School may
make it necessary for him to spend an
other year in classes there, even as lesser
students have had to earn their full
credits to graduate.
But the princes tour has been more
than an extended sightseeing jaunt
such as the young heir of an aristocratic
family might take. 1t is part of his edu-
cation to be the constitutional monarch
of Japan.
Akihito was the first imperial prince
to have Western tutor. Mrs. Elizabeth
Gray Vining, Quaker teacher, had
that important postwar assignment.
She taught him English, history. geog-
raphy and Western ideas. She said it
was Emperor Hirohito's idea to have his
son taught by Westerner.
"He wanted his son acquainted with
Western ideas-how to conduct him.
self with Western people-and to learn
Western ways" Mrs. Vining said.
Perhaps the prince was moved by
genuine respect, instilled by Mrs. VIM
ing, rather than mere diplomatic pro-
tocol when he bowed his head and laid
a wreath before the graves of United
States war dead in the national ceme-
terry overlooking Honolulu His stop
there on his way to the coronation was
his first on American soil
Akihito landed next in San Fran
cisco, flew to Vancouver and crossed
Canada. He came down from Mon
treal to sail from New York bound for
Europe.
Surely no one can doubt that the
princes time in Europe has been well
spent. Besides seeing the coronation
of the British queen, he visited most
Evening star., 1953-09-07
The Growing Traffic Question

William A. Millen's recent article,
ID. c. Lags in Auto Safety Response
bility," prompt questions.
Should one be required to insure
against damages to others through the
medium of his own vehicle, and be pro-
hibited from insuring against damages
to his own vehicle while it is in opera
ton? In different words, should per-
son pay for hurting others and suffer
for hurting himself? This question is
asked with the thought in mind that
some persons would drive more care
fully if they were not driving insured
vehicles. Also it occurs to me that in
Surance companies would be receiving
double premiums for every accident if
all vehicles carried both liability and
damage insurance Therefore only one
or the other should be permitted, to
prevent mulcting of policy holders by
insurance companies.
Should deliveries to commercial es-
tabliShmentS not having off-the-Street
loading lots be restricted to early morn
ing hours? Attention is invited to the
fact that double parking by trucks
while loading and unloading (presum-
ably) occurs quite frequently during
even the very busy hours on the more
heavily travelled streets. Is not this
practice hazardous as well as frustrat-
ing to drivers who would like to keep to
the right on multilane streets?
Should streetcars be eliminated from
public streets? The effective dynamic
C'real") length of a streetcar is many
times its actual length, for two reasons:
First, it makes so many stops per mile
that auto drivers tend to avoid its
trail for 10 or more actual streetcar
lengths when possible; and second, the
stops are so frequent and of such
duration that the average speed is
much lower than that of an auto. This
means that a Streetcar occupies its ac-
tual street area much longer than does
an auto. Streets are intended for the
movement of goods and persons, move
ment is dynamic, and time is factor
of the latter Therefore, if the required
street area per unit of time per pas
senger is greater for streetcars than for
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Letters to The Star.
Pen-nan1eS may be used if letters carry
a0rtterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

autos. the former should be eliminated.
Should the pedestrian be allowed to
cross at his own risk a reasonable dis
tance between, rather than at, street
intersections? To cross safely at an in
terSection of two streets requires either
an intricate and expensive array of
traffic lights with frequently unneces-
sary delay to pedestrian, autoist, or
both; or else, without traffic lights, the
pedestrian subjects himself to the haz-
ards of traffic from four directions. To
cross safely, but at his own risk, be-
tween intersections requires no traffic
signals, does not delay motorists and
subjects the pedestrians to the hazards
of traffic from only two directions. The
pedestrian would never be delayed un-
necessarily. He would be less of a So
Geological Communist and more of a
free notwithstanding on his own
mental and physical agility to accom-
plish his objective.
Frederick A. Weiland.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Labor on Its Day

1t was II years ago today that the first
Monday in September was set aside in New
York City as special holiday for labor. 1t is
legal holiday now throughout the United
States and Canada, and II million members
of labor unions in the two countries will be
marking it today. Actually, in the years be-
tween, the day has taken on an added meaning
to the Nation as a Whole-repreSenting the
ending of vacation and resort seasons and vir-
tually of summer itself as children return to
school and the warmer clothes come out of
hiding.
This particular Labor Day finds the union
movement in the United States in period of
transition and realignment. The shift to a
Republican administration last fall brought
union Notwithstanding of Labor Durkin-
into the cabinet for the first time in 20 years
but at the same time tended to reduce labor's
influence at the White House. William Green
and Philip Murray, longtime heads of the
American Federation of Labor and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations respectively, died
last fall and each of the big labor groups has
since gone through considerable internal politi-
cal upheaval. The AFL recently lost one of its
biggest unions when the Brotherhood of Car
penters withdrew and negotiations have been
opened to get the builders back in. Due to
meet in convention in San Francisco later this
month"; the Federation may take the initiative
in Kidding itself of another affiliate the Inter-
national Longshoremens Association. The CIO
has it's convention in Cleveland in November
and the seemingly uneasy truce that has gone
on between Walter Reuther, successor to Mr..
Murray, and David Mcdonald the losing cam
didate but president of the powerful steel
workers union, may break down at that time.
Meanwhile, talk of unity between the two
big organizations has increased since each
chose new president. joint committee rep
resenting both of them has met several times
in recent months to study their actual differ
ences and explore the possibilities of settling
them. BY contrast, there has been talk, too,
of the possible creation of third major asso-
citation of unionS-starting perhaps with the
now independent United Mine Workers and
the CIO SteelworkerS. Aside from its organ
national problems however, labor has little to
be deeply worried about on this particular
anniversary. Employment and average wages
are at record-hgh levels and the most con-
servative of observers do not foresee a major
downturn in business in the near future.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Transit Study Needed

One of the reasons given by Representative
Hyde in support of his plan for opposing legis-
lation for a comprehensive study Of transit
problems in the Washington area was the
"fact" that such study already had been made
by the Regional Highway Planning Committee.
Mr.. Hyde was miSinformed The survey con-
Quoted by this interjuriSdictional group dealt
primarily with origin and destination" Of
private passenger cars trucks and taxicabs.
Buses which happened to pass the checking
station were included in the traffic count it is
true, but no adequate study of public trans
portation was undertaken.
Such a thorough transit study is badly
needed. 1t should be made before Congress
commits itself in favor of the Hyde bill to set
up regional transit regulatory agency or any
similar drastic change in the existing control
pattern. The Broyhill bill, which, like the
Hyde and Johnson bills, became tangled in a
legislative snarl at the recent session of Con-
greSS, would authorize an intensive study by an
lnterJurisdictional commission The findings of
such commission might we'll include a recon-
mendation for creation of joint regulatory
agency for all transit lines serving Washington
and its suburbs. Congress then would have
before it sufficient information regarding the
plan to act intelligently.
The Hyde and Johnson proposals for
regulatory agency that would supersede the
Districts, Virginias and Marylands authority
over local transit operations seem to have
considerable merit. There also are difficulties
in the way of making the proposals work. Vir-
ginia already is on record against surrendering
any of its regulatory powers. This opposition
might disappear after a careful study of the
whole transit problem here by commission on
which the State was represented officially.
There are legal aspects of the planned joint
control that need more thought than has been
given to them to date. Nothing in the Regional
Highway Planning Committees report remotely
touches on such matters.
The sensible course for Congress to take is
to separate the now consolidated regulatory
agency and study commission bills and let each
stand or fall on its own merits at the next
session. And the orderly procedure then would
be to adopt the Broyhill study measure or some
similar bill and defer action on the control pro-
posals until the study commission has COM
pleted its Investigations and submitted its
report
Evening star., 1953-09-07
East Meets West and Finds 1t Friendly

not be completely shut of from con-
tact with the public.
While Akihito has been exposed to
western ideals and literature, he has
led a rather sequestered life. On the
tour his party of aides has continued
this as much as possible. Stag events
dominate the social calendar for his
Washington visit. Even before ne left
Tokyo care was taken by court officials
to prevent his having an opportunity
to fall in love.
In Japan there has been discreet
speculation on the princes future
choice of wife. But it has been much
more reserved and hushed than that
in England on prospective marital
partners for Princess Margaret.
Recently Michiharu Tajima, direc-
tor general of the royal household,
put the situation this way:
"The final selection of his wife will
be left to His Imperial Highness him
self"
But, Mr.. Tajima added quickly that
naturally the prince would be allowed
to make his selection only from the
candidates, or it may be a candidate,
presented to him after appropriate and
romantic screening by the household.
That screening is going on only
among the daughters of the five re-
gent families and former princesses of
the royal blood This restriction
leaves field Of fewer than a dozen
girls.
MIR. Tajima seemed to believe mar
riage outside that circle was unthink-
able.
On at least one instance during the
princes European tour care was point
edly taken to shield him from a mem
ber of the opposite sex. In Rome an
attractive 25-year -old blond painter,
Maria Matteini, sought to deliver per-
sonally to the prince portrait for
which she had earlier persuaded him
to pose briefly after she brushed past
guards at his hotel suite.
Staff members were quoted as ex-
pressing fears "there might be scam
dal" if they were seen together. The
prince sent note of thanks and a
small gift.
It should prove interesting to see
if the ideas gathered by the prince
on his Western tour include any West
ern ideas on matrimony which he is
able to introduce into the Japanese
court.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Hot at the Naval Annex

A terrible situation exists at the Naval
Annex in Arlington, Va. This building
was built primarily for the purpose of
storage. not of Government workers
but of naval and marine materials. The
first, second and third decks have been
nicely converted into Offices, but the
fourth floor remains unceilinged and
unair- conditioned.
For the past miserable week, the en-
ployes of the Naval Annex Except
those fortunate enough to be in air.
conditioned Offices have sweltered in
the l00-degree heat. The gods smiled
upon us one day, and we received per-
mission to go home; but on subsequent
days, when the temperature scared. we
remained at our posts, sweaty, but un-
bowed, so to speak.
A SteWed Tomato,
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Unseen Hurts Left
By Shock Treatments
Subconscious Hurbors
Memories, Expert Soys
By Thomas R. Henry

Shock treatments, now widely used
in treatment of mental patients, often
leave deep hurts in the depths Of the
unconscious.
This conclusion is reported by DR..
D. w. Abse of the University of North
Carolina in the Quarterly Review Of
Psychiatry and Neurology issued here.
In some of these treatments convul-
sions are produced by electricity, in
others by various drugs. Excellent re-
suits have been claimed for them. They
often are rather terrifying to witness,
but psychiatrists claim that patients,
regardless of appearances, are COM
pletely unconscious and unaware Of
any suffering.
This is true enough, so far as out
ward memory is concerned, DR.. Abse
admits. But, he says, often very pain
full memories are left in the subcon-
SciouS depths of the mind which color
and diStort overt memories through the
rest Of the life of the victim.
May Satisfy Subconscious.
Great improvements often follow
shock therapy, and these have been
attributed to some physiological effect
on cells of the brain. The psychology
ical factor also is important, the North
Carolinat professor insists, and the
shocks may satisfy in the patient only
subconscious feeling of the need for
punishment. The situation, he points
out. may be analogous to that of a
child who feels better after whipping
because he feels the slate has been
wiped clean.
Shock treatments should be given
only after serious consideration DR..
AbSe says, because there are serious
psychotherapeutic disadvantages asso-
ciated with them, and they make harder
the job of producing permanent cure.
1.-The appeasement of the masochistic
(need of punishment strivings of the
patient, he says in his report, results
in additional difficulties in helping a
patient to develop out of sado-maso-
chistic organization in later therapeutic
work. The patient needs help to enjoy
life and not merely to submit to it. In
general, shock therapy operates along
with the defenses of the patient SO
that he may later be even more fright
ened of relinquishing ineXredient and
Self-sacrificing devices than he was
before the onset of his illness"
Evening star., 1953-09-07

been elected to Office, and beyond re-
straint, recall or the reach of the elec-
torate, it is high time that this situa-
ton was remedied
The solution lies alternatively in
Cd stripping the court of all injunctive
power in connection with the admins
stration of public law, both State and
Federal Except in such limited areas
as may be specifically authorized by
Congress), and thus to frustrate it's
super-legislative proclivities. or (2) to
permit an incoming President to dis
miss forthwith designated number,
such as three to five members, or (3) to
divide the country into nine regions,
and permit each region to elect men,
ber for specific term of office.
Citizen.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Dust of Summer

Pollen of 1Dayside foUers is not more
SUeet
Than dust of the summer road.
breathing of heat,
PoUder- -tUhite piles, scattered BY
chldren's feet.
The odor of green things bruised Is
clean like pain;
Dear as first lone is the scent of
summer rain.
But the smell OF dust tOil rise, and
cling, and remain.
PotOder of rocks and earth, that the
mind has borne,
SilUer pale film on the fern and the
bloom and the thorn
Dust. that bare children'S feet cGreSs
tUithout scorn.
RocheI Harris CompbeIl
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Normal Eyes Able to Read
Six Hours Before Trina

Most persons with normal eyes can
read without interruption for six hours
before suffering eyestrain or fatigue.
This finding has just been reported
by DR.. Leonard Carmichael, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, follow
ing an experiment in which eye move
ments of 40 subjects were studied over
two six-hour reading periods The tests
were made at the Jackson Laboratory
at Bar Harbor.
Six hours of steady reading, DR..
Carmichael said, produced no meas
urable fatigue changes in eye perform
ance or in comprehension of what was
being read. This was true, not only
for subjects who read from the
printed page. but also for those who
read from microfllm.
Valid for All Reading Matter.
The conclusions also were found
valid for both interesting and dull
reading matter, although several sub
jectS who considered the material dull
reported feeling tired as the experiment
progressed. These feelings of fatigue,
eyestrain and wishing to STOP" how
ever. were not correlated with any loss
OF measurable efhclency OF reading, or
any change of comprehension of the
material read.
The work was carried out while DR..
Carmichael was president of Tufts
College. Two recommendations can
be made on the basis of his findings,
he told the Bar Harbor conference:
Longer assignments may we'll be
given in much educational work than
usually is the custom at present.
Training of students in secondary
schools to disregard apparent feeling
OF fatigue in reading may be recon-
mended.
Through the use of electrical devices,
continuous recordings were made Of
every eye movement. during each six
hour reading period for all the sub
jects. These records-totalling some
Is miles in length-later were edited
and individual measures tabulated.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Home Owners Problem

Perhaps you can tell us how we can
get the weeds cut down in the vacant
lot next door.
We have appealed to Police Precinct
No. IL three times and to the Health
Department twice this summer with no
results. The last appeal to the Health
Department brought, the response, "Oh,
yes, we had that call in June" Nothing
more.
Now, the thing which we hoped to
avert has happened. We suffer from
hay fever as result of weeds five feet
nigh under our windows.
We thought that we paid our hard
earned dollars for taxes for protection.
Are we wrong?
Native WaShingtOnian.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
'FIuoridution Up Aouin'

May I thank you for the editorial
that appeared in your paper August
Is. entitled "Fluoridation Up Again?
To have paper such as yours state
so clearly and wisely the case of f1uori-
dation is great help to all of us
who are opposing it as best we can
in our own communities and wherever
else we may have contacts.
We have found that forewarned is
forearmed. 1t has been our experience
in several cases that where somebody
in the community knew what fluori-
dation really is before a movement to
promote it was started the community
could be alerted in time to stop it.
Wishing you more power in your
opposition to f1uoridation,
Myra V. Smith.
Natchez, Miss.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Water for Animals and Birds

Water needs for animal friends and
helpers will still be great during lesser
heat spells liable to follow this severe
one. If not before, at least help these
now. The birds need baths kept filled
and in the shade. Keep shaded cool
water available for pets and four-footed
passersby. Add food scraps Tor home
less cats and dogs. Rabbits must have
plenty of room, water and shade. City
horse drinking troughs should be clean
and running. Please report any dirty or
empty ones. We must make the heat
more bearable for these humber crea-
lures, especially those of the city and
suburbs so dependent upon us for water.
Virginia w. Sargent.
Animal Protective Association.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
Peach CobbIer'

Fifty Years Ago in The Star" is in
teresting reading. So is whats Cook
ing" In the former (Sunday, August
23) I read. Modern menus make no
mention of peach charlotte or peach
cobbler." In the latter (Thursday,
August 20) I had read in the menu for
Saturday, Fresh Peach Cobbler."
Apparently, Section A knoweth not
what Section B doeth.
Housewife, A and b.
Evening star., 1953-09-07
jacques Thiboud

An airplane crash in the Alps has closed
the career of Jacques Thibaud, indubitably the
greatest French violinist of his time He was
72 when he died, yet his powers were unim-
paired, and he leaves a record of achievement
not surpassed by any contemporary violinist and
perhaps not equaled by any except Fritz
KreiSler.
Born into musical family, Mr.. Thibaud
spent his whole life in the service of harmony.