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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-01-14
Seventh Annual Northwest Classic
Opens Here Friday with Sweepstakes;
BowlerS to Relax at Dance Sunday
Americans slap
ping down tenpins this Main

It's almost time for the seventh
annual Northwest -Nisei Invitational
Classic, scratch bowling tourna-
ment sanctioned by ABC and WIBC.
The affair will lure scores of men
and women seeking to grab their
share of the cash and trophies in
this rich meet.
The dates: Friday, Jan. Is; Sat-
urday, Jan. IT; and Sunday, Jan. 10.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-01-14
Pee-Wee' Cagers
Eye Jamboree Set
Friday at Baptist

A Pee Wee" basketball league
jamboree, sponsored by the Inter
Church Council, will be held at 7:3C
pm. this Friday, Jan l6, in the ia
panese Baptist church gym. The
loop will be divided into two divi-
sions: IL years and under, and 10 to
IS years of age.
The drawing for Jan. Is follows.
II years and under-Baptist VS..
Methodist; Presbyterian VS.. Congre-
gational
13 to Is years of age-Baptist VS.
Presbyterian; Methodist VS.. Congre-
gational.
The boys will play every Friday
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-01-14
In Main Bowl

FRIDAY, Jan. Is
d. $50, 9, 11:30 pm.-Six-game
sweepstakes.
SATURDAY, Jan. II
10 am Mixed doubles.
IL noon-Women's doubles.
LAS. 4, 6:15 p.m.-Mn's teams.
$3.50, $50, 11:1O, 1890 p.m.-Men's
doubles.
SUNDAY, Jan. Is
1:50 a.m.-Men's doubles.
Gas a.m.-Women's teams.
II noon-Women's singles.
1:20, 2:40, 4, $40, $40 p.m.-Men's
singles
SUNDAY, Jan. 18
$3.50 p.m.-Tournament awards
dance at Spanish Castle.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-01-14
AUNT APARTMENT

Close in. Each apartment has
living room, one bedroom, a bath
and a modern kitchen. All apart
ments partly furnished Hardwood
floors Two apartments with fire
places. q basement with laundry
room New oil burner. AC hot wa
ter heating system. Close to Mt Ba-
ker bus Selling price $4,000 $4,000
cash down, balance 500 per month
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-01-14

boNLiNG EN- OVER FOR MAIN BOWL CLASSIC
bowling balls bags will probably Don't
let the stars in eyes" average
and women who dare to scratch tour
nament Friday Saturday Sunday pants will
be web pressed the rmped
depart in the awards pay
the winners the sneepin splits
will be the many indignant
twists spins throws the spares
punched together like the peo-
pie will be drifting alley a kegers
home,
ahead the O
SIDELINE TOPICS
it's qhe simple keep
Albert subscription
Sports missing
Larry
Yokoyama Nguma Benny Bill
there anyone Savoys hoop
dipped considerably
training Air Force
bowling seventh annual
program the sixgame
stakes here men,
take an ex IA O following the Lotus YBAs
annual teenage tournament Council
sponsoring "Pee-Wee" casaba circuit.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-01-14
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Sls Jackson st. Main 0z0o
Seattle 1. Wash.

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AND HOME HOUR is presented
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Features of this week
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Evening star., 1953-12-07
For Less Atomic Secrecy

Thomas E. Murray of the Atomic Energy
Commission has delivered another effective
Speech-this time at Marquette University in
Milwaukee-against excessive secrecy in the
field of nuclear armaments and related de-
velopmentS The substance of his warning is
that grave polcy-makng errors can flow from
the continuing inclination, within the Govern
ment itself, to leave the whole business in the
hands of relatively few Acc and associated
experts
To emphasize his point, Mr.. Murray has
harked back to the spring of 1945 when the
United Nations was founded at the San Fran
cisco Conference. At that time our atomic
project was so wrapped up in wartime secrecy
that our American elegation-including John
Foster Dulles, now Secretary of State-knew
nothing whatever about the possibility OF A
weapons. True, the first bomb had not yet
been fabricated or tested, and there was no
absolute certainty that an effective one would
be produced, but sufficient progress had been
made to leave little room for doubt that such
a destroyer would soon be in our arsenal. Never
thelesS our delegates went to San Francisco
without the slightest awareneSS of that fact,
whereas if they had been properly briefed on
the subject, they might we'll have held out for
more realistic disarmament provisions in the
U. N. Charter.
Murray has cited number of other examples,
including that of Harry S. Truman While in
the White House, Mr. Truman did about as
much as any one man could have done to pro-
mote the Nations supremacy in A-weaponS but
even So only few days after leaving office, he
made a public statement doubling that the
Russians had developed such weapons In Mr..
Murrays Judgment this shows that the experts
failed to get clear picture across to the former
President and that there is still much room
for education of our Government officials in
atomic matters. We have heard much lately
about the need to educate the American people
on this score. I agree that there is such
need. But any policy of candor with the
American people should certainly be pre-
ceded by policy of candor with our Govern
ment officials"
To that end, remarking that he and other
Acc commissioners have taken only limited
part in the work of the National Security Coun-
cil-the countrys top policy making agency
Mr.. Murray has proposed that nucear energy
be accorded permanent and full representation
in the councils proceedings Further, he has
proposed that all Federal officials and military
leaders who may one day have some response
bility, be it ever SO small for decision for war
should know atomic facts at first hand" and
that they should gain this knowledge not
merely from briefingS or moving pictures, but
from direct physical observation of test ex-
plosions in Nevada and at Eniwetok in the Far
Pacific observation of the kind that has been
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Fourth Public Health Problem

An article printed elsewhere on this page
today reports on the Districts Alcoholic Reha-
bilitation Program and the clinic around which
that program is built The Star was inStru-
mental in obtaining the legislation which estab-
lished the clinic The results have not been too
impressive. Yet, as DR.. Wexberg and Dr. Zap
pala point out in today's article, the emphasis
may have been misplaced in the original con-
cept of what the clinic might accomplish.
Experience has shown that while the dis
NAL crowd of police court "repeaters," spending
much of their time in jail between periodic
drunks, has not been visibly affected by the
facilities of the Clinic the clinic is perhaps
serving more important element of the Dis
trictS alcoholic population-those who are
1ncipient or active sufferers from alcoholism,
who have not yet reached the low level of skid
row.
Alcoholism is regarded as the fourth most
important public health problem. following, in
that order, such killers as heart disease cancer
and tuberculosis. The clinic represents the
communitys only organized, publicly supported
effort to combat alcoholism and rehabilitate it's
victims. If the statistical evidence of its accom-
pliShments is not yet impressive, neither is the
relatively small amount of money being spent
to maintain it. The doctors are not discouraged.
And in conducting the clinic, they are adding
to the knowledge enough as it is-of
most distressing problems
Evening star., 1953-12-07
To End Political MeddIinq'

House Ways and Means subcommittee
has gone even farther than the first Hoover
Commission in recommending reforms to take
the Internal Revenue Service "out of politics"
The fourth instalment of subcommittee re-
port on two years of inquiry into operations of
the tax bureau suggested that the Treasury
keep its hands off the revenue service except
in matters of basic policy. The group cited half
a dozen instances of political meddling' with
specific cases that were advantageous to few
taxpayers but costly to the Government. Un-
fortunately there would be no absolute guar
antee against such meddling even if the service
were made wholly independent of the Treasury,
But the more non-poitical an agency can be
made, the less subject it will be to political
influences, and todayS aX-colection system is
further removed from politics than ever before
in history.
The most effective step in divorcing the
service Cthen known as the "bureau') from
politics was the Scrapping of the old system
under which collectors were appointed largely
because of political considerations These key
officials today are chosen because of their fit
ness to do their important work, not because
they earned reward for serving the party in
power. But the service still is under admins
trative as we'll as policy control of the Treasury
Department. some of whose officials in the past
particular tax-settlement cases. The House sub
committee therefore decided that it would be
wise to prevent such "meddling' by giving the
Internal Revenue Service exclusive authority
to handle tax cases, subject only to general
policy laid down by the Treasury under the
revenue laws.
In weighing such plan, the fact should
not be overlooked that there have been times
in the past when Treasury interference has
blocked tax decisions that were disadvanta-
geous to the Government. The House investi-
gators found several instances of this type OF
intervention The report conceded that there
were certain indications that alert Treasury
officials acted as check on venality and in
competence in the bureau" What the subcom-
mittee is seeking is the elimination of interfer-
ence inspired by political or other improper
motives The best safeguard against this, of
course. is the appointment of honest efficient
public servants. Lacking this safeguard, even
an independent Internal Revenue Service would
be under an enormous handicap.
Evening star., 1953-12-07

A reader wants to know If detective
stories. SO called, are worth reading.
He says that recently he read one in
which the corpse of the murdered
man was hustled from one refrigerator
to another, and this was supposed to
be funny.
The reader said he could see nothing
humorous about it, and wondered if
this was typical of the modern who
dunit
The answer is, of course, that it is
not, that such a production represented
just one phase of the telling of crime
stories.
Detective stories are often misunder-
stood by readers at large.
One does not read them for crime,
despite their name, but for puzzle.
It is the puzzle that intrigues the
devotee. just as most puzzles Of any
nature appeal to many.
What is puzzle.
1t is anything of which the outcome
is in the hands of the gods, as the ex-
preston is
The unknown always appeals,
whether it stems from an expedition
into Africa or from words in book.
A great many more persons find their
puzzles in books than ever go on far
flung expeditions
The great appeal of the detective
story is to this instinct rather than any
Yet countless persons believe to the
Evening star., 1953-12-07

group makes up relatively small por-
ton of the total alcoholic population
Of the District of Columbia, its men,
berS are often regarded by many people
as "the" alcoholics. This miSconception
arises from the fact that chronic court
case alcoholics present a dramatic and
recurring spectacle to our courts, jails
and welfare agencies. This small seq
ment of the alcoholic population is
readily seen. The major segment of the
problem is, however still in the COM
munity at large where chronic suffer-
ing economic loss to patients, families,
friends and employers are staggering.
With this group still in the community
the public health principle of preven-
tion has been effectively applied by the
present clinic program
"The problems incident to the chronic
court-caSe alcoholics must not be shed,
however. Our responsibility for them is
keen and active, although with present
resources success in rehabilitation is
limited. Complex social, psychological
and biological factors have come to
complicate the treatment process. Our
experience would indicate that con-
trolled, cuStodial environment stated
by trained workers, where the chronic
miSfit drinker would be confined for
an indefinite period would provide the
most promising opportunity for recov-
cry. Change in laws and additional
large sums of money would. of course,
be necessary.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Protecting Rights

One paragraph in the President 'eply
to Senator Mccarthy may deserve NOR ten
tion than it has received. I'm all thatN do to
combat subversion," he said, cit is inn iative
that we protect the basic rights OF loyal
American citizens. I am determined to protect
those rights to the limit of the powers of the
office with which I have been entrusted by the
American people"
Since no names were mentioned, this
cannot be applied to specific cases. 1t may be
taken to mean however, that the President
is not going to be coerced by senatorial threats,
express or implied, into dealing unjustly with
American citizens. DiSloyalty should be dealt
with Sternly and promptly. But an accusation
of diSloyalty and proof of disloyalty are diff
ferent things. The Presidents statement seems
to mean that he is fully of the distinction,
and that he will exercise his powers accordingly.
If this is correct, the statement is one which
should be heartily welcomed.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
This and That
BY Charles E. TroceweN

contrary, that any one who is inter-
ested in the detective story is plotting
something.
Nothing could be more silly than
such an idea. The average reader of
these stories is just a plain, Simple and
often kindly man who wouldn't murder
fly. but he has high regard for
seeing how things turn out.
He will occasionally even follow the
Vaccinations of one of these writers
who somehow find a murder highly
humorous.
The high priestess of this odd cult
had to take time off to rest up after
collapse; maybe she found that the
straight detective story. without fun
with the corpse. was the less trying on
the teller of tales. as it is on the reader.
The comic cult in detective writing
stems from Americas desire for humor.
We are fun-loving people. We try
to find something funny in everything,
and probably we are the better for it.
So it was not strange, perhaps, that
a certain segment of writer's of such
fiction found something hilarious in the
corpse.
1t is a fundamental tenet of the
detective story to refrain from winning
the sympathy of the reader for the VIC
tim. 1t will not do to win the affection
of the reader for a beautiful girl only
to slap him in the face with her demise.
Most detective writer's do refrain
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Arnold BusIine Finances

The Arnold busline story is even
worse than your November 80 editorial
indicated.
The original 1941 lease obligated the
Arnold buSline (W. v. & M. Coach Co.,
Inc.D to pay for the Arnold family
owned terminal at the rate of only
$1,000 month, of $14,4 400 a year, not
the $4,000 of your editorial. The
$4,000 lease was the second lease
signed between the parties, not the first.
Also, the original lease stated on its
face that it was to run to December 81,
1860. This was nearly five years be-
yond the March 81, 1856, termination
date Of the $50, ,000-a-year lease, which
lease your editorial thought the bus
company should not have voluntarily
surrendered.
If the $50, 0,000-a-year lease, having six
years to run, should not have been VOL
unfairly surrendered for one requiring
an annual rental of $4,000, what can
be said for surrendering in 1941 a lease
calling for annual payments of $14 400,
which lease was scheduled not to ter
inmate until December 81, 1860?
Laurence S. Knappen.
Editors note: Records of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission confirm
Mr.. Knappen's statements as to the
original lease details. The recent ICC
examiners report, however, referred
only to the $4,000 and subsequent
leaSeS.)
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Star stan Photo.

Beyond any measure of doubt the
value of the present clinic as a COM
munity public health facility is estab-
liShed. Collaboration with other agen-
cieS, volunteer and official, promises
achievement of rehabilitation, educa-
tional and research goals as major steps
in the ultimate prevention of alcohol
ISM
DR.. Wexberg was not one of the op-
timistS concerning the provision in the
Hebert Act which authorizes the court
to commit alcoholics to the clinic. He
always had his doubts about involun-
tary patients.
His article includes tables on results
obtained in about $500 cases, about
one-fourth of them referred by the
court. OF the voluntary patients, IA
per cent were reported much i'm
proved; of the involuntary, per cent.
Much improved" is defined as sobrietv
or marked decrease of drinking six
months or more after treatment started
These comparisons clearly indicate
the better motivation of the voluntary
PATIENTS DR.. Wexberg reports.
Another table shows the results in a
group of 1872 patients, $50 voluntary
80 court-referred, who were treated
with disulfiram CAntabuse), the aver
sion drug which has been in use for
the past five years. In this group "a
per cent of the voluntary and 36 per
cent of the court-referred patients
were much improved"
Evening star., 1953-12-07
The Seven Nurcissi

Once more the Seven narciSsi, yet once
more
Stared from the boDl and held my
haunted eyes;
NeDer on earth Glighted butterflies
OF such boredl ,DhiteneSS; neUer before
Wandered do,Dn endless auenues OF
sense
Such trail aroma: not the scent
tOhereby
The moth do,Dn miles of sunlmer-tiDtlit
sky
Intallibly finds his mate, could draw
so tense
Desire to marriage ,Oith some fame
Gtdr.
Those fowers became white curues of
Psyche-t0ings
Ideally poised beyond the fur of things.
And softer than pibrGttons of star,
The plumeS of Shelley whispered round
the door,
And Keats and Plato whispered, I'VE
are here"
IL come" l murmured. why should
there be tedr?"
The D-bro1Oed ceiling, heiohtentn0
more and more,
Became white light, and wtdened, lost
all bound,
And through the shining ether, Sptre
By Spire,
The Pdrtdn Cosmos of their long desire
Rose like a poem to enchanting sound.
Geoffrey Johnsoa.
Evening star., 1953-12-07

from this. but certain ones insist on
scenes in which the corpse is found
here, there and everywhere.
1t is not good story telling, and it
most certainly is not funny, in any
real sense.
The British, with their wonderful
sense of humor, never fall for this.
They tell the detective story in a
straightforward way, one which many
American writer's might initiate with
profit.
After all, there is nothing humorous
in death.
If there is anything in life that is in
dead earnest it is death, itself
1t must be treated with respect,
whether it is the death of some famous
person, or that of common sparrow
in the gutter
The best detective stories never in
dulge in pleasantly at the expense Of
truth and the essential seemliness of
things.
They depend for their effect on good
writing plus the readers desire to know
how things will turn out. Hence the
puzzle element.
The reader, in his turn, will do we'll
to drop like hot cake the story which
makes an attempt to be funny where
no real humor exists or can exist.
Let him turn to another whodunit
Heaven knows, there are enough of
them,
Evening star., 1953-12-07

of very great value to members OF the Joint
Congressional Committee on the atom.
With such measures, according to Mr.
Murray, it should be possible to spread through
out the top level of Federal executives per
sonal, direct knowledge and awareness of the
great change that has taken place in mans
relationship to nature" as a result of A-weapons
development and especially as a result of the
thermonuclear demonstrations hydrogen bomb
tests) of the past year. What he advocates
probably would require changes in the law to
permit relaxation of present security restric-
tions. His argument for that is SO persuasive
that Congress and the administration should
certainly give it careful consideration.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Reds South of Border

The Star has performed a tangible
service in its publication of the article,
"CommuniStS in Central America,
written by the able Henry B. Lee,
November 90.
There are some who will deride the
spreading Red menace throughout Latin
America as making a mountain out of
a molehill." Yet. we need only recall
the statesman and first President of
CzechoSlovakia, Mr.. Benes; the patriot
and soldier of prewar Germany, Won
Hindenburg; or the abject Prime Minis
ter of England, Chamberlain, who rep
resented his country in the Munich
fiaSco. Gen. Montcalm learned to his
everlasting sorrow, that it is far wiser
to adjudge the molehill as a mountain,
when he watched the band of some "a
men, led by Gen. Wolfe, scale the Plains
of Abraham and so wrest Quebec and
all of Canada from France.
It is an axiom of Soviet militarism
that a militant minority can always
overpower a lethargic majority, and in
their usual consistency of this line of
thought, they strive, not for numbers,
but for entrenched power - power
tightly held in the hands Of a few who
understand and will act on the prin-
ciples of the militant minority.
1t is scarcely conceivable that there
remains single alert American who
does not recognize the Soviet infiltrators
Of the Western Hemisphere for what
they really are. This is no cloak-and-
dagger melodrama. It is, in reality, a
military organization, directed from.
and operated by the Kremlin.
Though we have concentrated our
attacks against communism in the
Pacific and European theaters, and
have launched a campaign to rid our
own land of Soviet agents, precious little
has been done toward aiding our neigh
bors to the south in their own battle
for survival
But the Red military organization in
Latin America is not wit out it's
opponents. The Mexican Legion, an
organization 100000 strong, founded
and administered by former Latin
American presidents, generals, business
men, union leaders and ordinary citizens
patriots all-have long since recog-
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Letters to The Star

nized the danger for what it is, and
have taken steps to combat it with
education, recreational and housing
facilities for the underprivileged, as
we'll as carefully planned programs to
foster the spirit of liberty and Western
Hemisphere solidarity against the COM
mon enemy. Spearheaded by Leon
Jurras, the Mexican Legion's general
agent in the United States, the cam
paign is expected to enlighten the un-
informed of this spreading Soviet
threat to this hemisphere, and it is
fervently hoped that the work of the
Mexican Legion will meet with the
cooperation and enthusiastic response
of all patriotic Americans.
Henry ID. Spalding.
Evening star., 1953-12-07

@. How many refugees are entering
West Germany each year from the So
Wet Zone-D E. B.
A. BY the end of August, the 1858
figure had already passed a quarter OF
a million.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

O. Is a doctor required by law to &C
cept a patient who comes to him for
treatment?-S. J.
A. A physician is under no legal OBJ
legation to accept any one as patient.
according to the American Medical AS
Sociation.
Evening star., 1953-12-07

@. What is the oldest existing capital
city in the Western Hemisphere
founded by white men?-H. M.
A. The capital of the Dominican Re-
public, Ciudad Trujillo. The city was
founded in 1896 and formerly was
called Santo Domingo.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Questions and Answers

1he Sttr's readers can get the answer TO any
question Of act by either writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau, 1900 street NV,
Washington 3 n. C.. and inclosing cents re-
turn postage u by teephoning ST 3-7363
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-01-16

ed before the game that they
would win by 20 points. AS it was
they had a hard time winning at
all.