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Evening star., 1953-07-19
The Acc at Full Strenqth

President Eisenhower has chosen q man of
excellent experience to fill the last remaining
vacancy in the ave-member United States
Atomic Energy Commission. The man is So
year-old Joseph Campbell, vice president in
charge of business affairs at Columbia Univer-
sity. An expert in financial matters, he is
particularly we'll qualified for the Acc post
because of his key role in working out contracts
establishing the great nuclear-energy labora-
tory at Brookhaven, Long Island. He is thus no
novice in this field. His organizational work in
it has won him the so-called "A-Bomb Award"
of the now-dissolved Manhattan District and
a certificate Of merit from the wartime Office
of Scientific Research and Development
Mr. Campbell, Republican, has been
nominated by the President to replace Thomas
Keith Glennan, who resigned from the commits
sion some months ago. His term is scheduled
to run until June 30 1855, and there appears
to be no doubt that he will be confirmed by the
Senate promptly, and probably unanimously.
When he takes over his new job the Acc under
Lewis S. StrauSS-who has just succeeded Cor
don Dean as chairman-will be operating at
full strength for the first time in many weeks.
That is all to the good, for this most vital Of
Federal agencies, because Of its heavy work
load and uniquely solemn responsibilities func-
tions best when there are no vacancies in its
stan Of top directors
Evening star., 1953-07-19

the farmer. It is an agricultural motor
car, driven by a strong, single-cylinder
engine of about IL horsepower (actuaD
and can be used most efficiently for
many of the purposes Of the farmer
where power and tractive force ere re-
quired. It will haul a double furrow
plow twice as fast as four horses, and.
unlike the horses. does not give out
from fatigue at the end Of five or six
hours"
The Star of July IS. 1908, reported
the death of James Abbott McNeill
Whistler. Aged SO years. the
Whistler great American artist had
Dead come to the end of his
career at his home, "a
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, the
previous day. Though he had been
i'll for several weeks, his passing was
described as unexpected" A British
newspaper, referring to his talent for
controversial entanglements, remarked:
1T may safely be prophesied that the
light Of his genius will but burn the
brighter when his self-asserted in
dividuality has been little forgotten
or at any rate obscured." Whistler the
man, however, was not so easily dis
posed Of He still is fascinating legend.
an engaging problem. Whether he
would have been so distinguished an
artist II he had been a less colorful
personality is a matter of debate. but
a clue to the fact involved may be
found in his peacock ROOM" created
for the Princes Gate residence Of Fred
erick Leyland but now in the Freer
Gallery. here in Washington. The Ma
tional Gallery also has representative
examples Of his skill as painter.
Whistler was a Washingtonian himself
in his youth. working for some months
as an engraver in the Coast Survey at
New Jersey avenue and c street Sc.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Revision Unwise Now

The Stars recent editorial, Revision.
Unwise Now" was evidently another of
the too-numerous attempts to justify
by twisted reasoning an extension of
the reprehensible excess profits tax. A
very poor bargain was presented Amer
ican businessmen in the editorial sug-
gestion that principle and integrity be
sacrificed for the dubious benefits of a
purported $800-million tax revenue.
When realistically viewed in the light
of relative values. this $500 million
cannot possibly be needed enough to
merit extension of the tax-if at all
when Congress can blithely vote away
IS billion Of tax money for free distri-
button overseas.
It would appear. therefore, that The
Stars editorial and the majority vote
Of the House favoring an extension of
the excess profits tax merely because
$500 million Of tax revenue is so sorely
needed is an unsound and fallacious
reason without any substance In fact.
Thus the logical conclusion is reached
Evening star., 1953-07-19
An Appeal for Animals

Will persons with surpluses Of pets
please not be so cruel as to hand them
out indiscriminately to irresponsible
persons and small children, or worse,
deliberately "lose" them along high
ways and byways? They should real
ize that there are agencies for che
humane disposition of pets and strays
The phone number OF the Washington
Animal Rescue League is North 7-5730:
the Animal Rescue League of Prince
Georges County, Union 4-0887; Mont
gomery County (Md) Animal Shelter.
Juniper 5-5183; Animal Welfare League
of Arlington, Va, Jackson 7-6055; Alex
andria Animal Welfare League. King
9-3959; Peace Plantation, Sterling, Va,
Herndon 286-M. For real emergencies
over the week end, inquire Lockwood
4-6801, the Animal Protective Associa-
ton. Don't cast pet adrift to die of
hunger or thirst.
Virginia w. Sargent,
President, Animal Protective Asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Spires of the Spirit
Lest. We Sleep

There are people who wake at the
slightest sound. There are others who
can sleep through anything, even an
earthquake. To some. all the fuss and
fury Of social revolutions are but an
noying disturbances temporarily up
setting the normal tempo of life. Their
attitude Is that Of the old song. please
go away and let me Sleep" The dis
ease most to be dreaded in this day of
social earthquakes is sleeping sickness.
A striking statement in one Of the
parallels Of the New Testament surely
has contemporary implications: while
men slept, the enemy sowed tares among
the wheat" It is one of the chief
functions Of the church in this day of
swift and violent change to stab sleep
ing spirits broad awake, to see to it that
men and women are aroused and alerted
to the dangers and opportunities in
these days Of crisis, as it cries: Awake,
thou that sleepest" But such warning
does not mean that we are to see moth
ing but "red" in every alarm.
Communism did not let loose the So
cial convulsion now shaking the earth.
4IAC tu1tUACSs ~ 4CCOS Ok1 IUS dSPlIdG1O11S
and its misery. The underlying revolu-
ton is something else. But to assume
that aroused peoples around this shaken
world can be persuaded to settle back
by any lullaby of normalcy is to prove
oneself oblivious to what is really 60
ing on. The same yeast which stirred
in the American Revolution Is working
now In the whole lump Of the sur
pressed. belated and often exploited
masses of the human race. The little,
SNUG, parochial world into which most
of us were born has vanished forever.
A new and very different world is
emerging from the quaking earth and
the churning waters about us. It is alb
solutely vital to be awake to the fact
that this is global earthquake.
There is nothing more important in
this heaving, seething day than that
those who have inherited worldwide
revolution should realize that all man
kind is standing on the tiptoe Of vast
changes in the pattern of human life.
Years ago. Churchill spoke Of India
as the brightest gem in the British
crown. Today, the yeasty millions
struggling to their feet are refusing
to be the jewels in anybody's crown.
Yet, in high places and low there
are these in the so-called advanced
nations who, annoyed at today's dis
turbances, grope for the old paths and
talk in their sleep of return to CO.
lonial normalcy. My good friend, DR..
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Fifty Years Aqo in The Star .

Shortly after o'clock on the after
noon Of Monday. July 20, 1908, Pope
. Leo XIII breathed his
Pope Leo XIII last in the Vatican in
Deceased Rome. He had been
failing for weeks, but
he continued to perform his duties un-
til the last. Just before death finally
came, the pontiff exclaimed: my dear
people!" AS soon as the news was
brought to the White House, Secretary
OF State John Hay cabled Cardinal
Rampolla: "The President desires me
to express his profound sense Of the
loss which the Christian world has sus-
.tained in the death of His Holiness
Leo XIII. BY his lofty character, his
great learning and his comprehensive
charity he adorned his exalted station
and made his reign one of the most T.
lustrlouS. as it has been one of the
longest, in the history of the Catholic
church" America" often the Pope
had declared, 'is the future"
L. H. Moore, The Stars correspon-
dent in London, wrote for the issue of
-. July IS, 1908, an article be-
King ginning: "Will King Ed.
Visitor? ward VID visit the United
States? I hear that some
OF the officers Of the American squad
ron have been discussing this very
interesting question with their British
friends and have expressed the hope
that it may be automatically made and
answered in the affirmative. They con-
firm the opinion, generally held by
American visitors to this country eng
lando. that II the King were to become
the guest of the great Republic he would
receive more cordial welcome than he
has ever met with in any country out
side of his own" Continuing the dis
cussion, Mr.. Moore expressed q doubt
that trip to the United States could
be arranged before the autumn Of 1904.
He though that his majesty would
not cross the Atlantic to New York or
Washington directly. but would go in
italy to Canada. Mr.. Moore, closing his
Evening star., 1953-07-19

Hal Luccock, suggests that the most
striking thing about the story of Rip
Van Wrinkle was not that he had slept
score Of years: but that he had slept
through a revolution. When he began
his nap, the ruler was George III When
he awoke, he saw everywhere the pic
lures Of George Washington. His elon-
gated snore had made him oblivious
to the score Of those epochal years
which had made all things new. He had
been asleep. In commenting on Rips
Revolutionary nap. the professor says
with obvious relevance to the present
situation: Zone Of the great dangers
OF life is that of sleeping through a
time Of great change and failing to
achieve the new mental attitude which
the new conditions demand" There
is. indeed, a dire danger that our own
brief day be passed during these tu-
multouS decades of the Goth century
and we be mentally and spiritually
asleep to the revolution which is chang
ing the landscape Of human affairs.
Now the one institution eminent
ly prepared and commissioned to keep
vivid the spiritual and moral mean
ing OF this momentouS era is the
church. It is the church which today,
in every land, Is defying the obscene
blasphemies Of Marxism, as it endeav-
ors to degrade the individual and stifle
his God-given rights and powers. When
Marxism promises to free the world
Of what Hitler called the Course of
Sinai" and also of the mandates of
the Sermon on the Mount it is really
threatening, by denying the great He
brew Christian tradition, to strip man
of the glorious meaning that makes
him man. For it robs him of purpose,
direction, dignity and value.
It is potent voice, not from q pulpit
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Fumes Over Foreign Aid

There is one thing that has been
puzzling me in connection with Presi-
dent Eisenhower's (and The Stars in
sistence on extension of the excess
profits tax. This is supposed to bring
in $500 million, paltry sum when
compared with the billions we pour out
overseas. Why couldn't this sum have
been secured by deducting this amount
from foreign aid? It seems to me that
this would have accomplished several
purposes; it would have enabled the
Republican Party to keep its campaign
promise, it would have abolished
bad tax it would have been an in
centive to business, prevented a fight
within the party. and removed some of
the tax load from United States citi-
zens. And why. oh why, in the face
of common knowledge that France
refuses to collect income taxes, must
we send her billions?
HOOSier.
Evening star., 1953-07-19

dispatch, asked: could there be any
thing more happily appropriate than
that the first kingly guest at the White
House should be he who. if history had
not written itself differently, would
have been represented there by vice.
roy and not an ambassador" Ap-
parently. he had overlooked the fact
that Edward, then Prince of Wales, had
visited Washington and been received
at the White House in 1860.
Millions of visitors to the over
crowded Natural History Building of
the Smithsonian Institu-
Smithsonian ton have seen the cast
Whale of the gigantic sulphur
bottom whale exhibited
there. The Star of July "a. 1908, de-
scribed the original as "the largest
known animal on earth and explained
that the partial molds from which the
cast was being assembled had been
made at the station of the Cabot Steam
Whaling Co., Hermitage Bay. Newfound-
land. The carcass had been brought In
for reduction, and the Smithsonian
artists, Prof. Frederick A. Lucas, Will
liam Palmer and Joseph Scollick, await
ing its arrival, had gone to work at once.
Their impressions IN plaster were
brought back to Washington to be as
sembled, the understanding being that
the completed cast would be displayed
primarily at the st. Louis Exposition.
When it was returned to Washington it
immediately took its place as one of the
Smithsonian's prize attractions. Among
the visitors to the mammals division
have been several hundred who could
not resist the temptation to inScribe
their initials on the whale. One Of the
guards last Friday said: What I'm
looking forward to is the time when the
whale decides to put his initials on
Kiiroy!" The Balaenoptera musculus
itself has no individual name. Consid-
ering that it is 78 feet long and weighs
80 tons, 1t has been suggested that it
could be known as National Debt.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
HoOSier.

A cable from London to The Star of
July IA, 1903. announced that: Samuel
Herbert Dougal, the perpe-
Dougol traitor of the Moat House
Honued murder, who was convicted
at the Chelmsford assizes,
June %, Of the killing Of Miss Camille
Cecile Holland at Saffron Walden,
Essex, and sentenced to death, was
hanged at the Chelmsford Jail at 8
o'clock this morning, after making a
full confession of his crime The
murder had been perpetrated four years
earlier. Dougal had lived with Miss
Holland as her husband, but it later
was discovered that they were not
married. His real wife came to Moat
House to reside IN the role of his sister
After a while, Miss Holland disap-
peared. Then Dougal sued his supposed
sister for divorce. An investigation
followed. Dougal eventually was ar
rested for cashing check purporting
to have been signed by Miss Holland.
While he was in custory. a laborer
accidentally found her body. She had
been shot through the head and buried
in an old ditch, which then had been
filled in and planted with shrubs.
''Dougal was suspected of having made
away with at least five wives" One
day more than half q century later
The Star printed similar story about
the hanging of John Reginald Halliday
Christie in Pentonville Prison, London.
He had gone Dougal at least two wom-
en- better.
From statistics compiled by the
American Motor League" said The Star
for July "a, 1908, "it is esti-
Lots OF mated that the number of
Autos automobiles in use in the
United States is about ST..
600 and is increasing at the rate Of
1900 to 1900 a month" Vast growth
Of motoring in the rural sections of the
Nation was indicated from the fact
that: IAN automobile has at last been
devised which meets the approval of
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Indispensable Partnership

In his address to the Institute Of Public
Affairs at the University of Virginia, Sir Roger
MakinS, the British Ambassador, has said things
that should have the attention of all who be-
little the world significance of Anglo-American
relations. They should have the attention par
ticularly of those not-too-numerous but loud
people-both in the United Kingdom and here
In the United StateS-who seem dedicated to
the proposition that our two countries should
dissolve their partnership and travel along
separate roads, willy y-nilly, toward different
objectives.
The absurdity of such mischievous view
can readily be appreciated when the view itself
is considered in relation to the simple but all
important facts set forth by Sir Roger at
Charlottesville. These facts, wholly apart from
the common heritage of language, law, political
philosophy, etc., are many and varied, but only
one need be cited to demonstrate why close
Anglo-American ties are absolutely imperative.
This fact is that Britain and the United States
have many grave global responsibilities that
are co-extensive with and complementary to
each other in an economic, industrial, military
and moral sense.
These responsibilities, as Sir Roger has
said, have made Britain and the United States
the two key powers in the alliance of free
nationS-an alliance that could not survive if
the Anglo-American partnership were dissolved.
Our share of the economic and military burden
throughout the world-in Korea Europe and
elsewhere-is tremendous, but the British, with
their smaller population and lesser resources,
rank q good second to us in carrying the COM
mon load. Among other things, besides making
bomber bases available to us in the United
Kingdom, and besides supplying us with the
basic design for practically all our jet engines,
they have contributed the largest armored
force to NATO, and they have deployed their
formidable air, land and sea strength to stand
firm against aggression along line extending
from Asia through Africa and the Middle East
to the most crucial Western areas.
In sum, although lot of Americans make
a kind of game out of batting the British, and
vice versa what still remains one of the most
important realities of our time is that our two
countries are indispensable to each other. Our
interdependence, in fact is so great and so far
ranging that nothing could be more vital to
our mutual security, and indeed to the safety
OF the entire free world than that we maintain
our partnership in the healthiest and friendli-
est possible condition.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
HHoire BeIIoc

Dying at 81, Hilaire Belloc leaves a name
sure of long remembering. Readers of The
Star who saw and heard him when he came
to Washington to lecture at Georgetown Uni
versity know the magic Of his gifts He was
brilliant without being arrogant or proud,
witty yet not sarcastic, profound but not in
any sense bore. The values he pleaded for
were excellent values. He was a leader in the
Catholic literary movement and almost pro-
fessional propaganda for the church, but he
was larger of mind and heart than any de-
f1nitive dogma.
To read Belloc at his best was to develop
a pride in the English language as a medium
of art. He wrote creatively and there was
pleasure in following him from word to word
from thought to thought. The skill which he
possessed for painting portraits through printed
pages was phenomenal. His pictures of Richie
lieu, Wolsey, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, Danton
Robespierre, Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette
Charles 1, William the Conqueror, Marlborough
and many, many other celebrities may not have
been perfect in every detail, but they made his
subjects live again-and that, certainly, is
biographerS business. The histories that came
from his pen coincidentally were reSurrectionS
of whole ages as well as whole nations. His
eSSays-Some Of them about such intangibles
as the silence of the sea-were inciSive, too.
And he was real poet even when he was
turning out "The Bad Childs Book of Beasts"
and similar trifes.
Large Of frame, heavy and slow in his
later years, Belloc was prodigious worker. His
book production runs to 153 titles, but his
scattered fragments probably would fill at least
half again as much shelf space. What drove
him on was, besides his religion, his love of
nature and animals and people and his love
of doing things generously and well.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
We Are Sure of 1t Now

There was a story in Fridays Star about
the young Air Force pilot who had Just set
new air-Speed record by flying 715.7 miles per
hour in Sabrejet airplane.
There was another story in the same Star
about young man who had just been arrested
in Arlington on a charge of assault with
dangerous weapon, in that he had held two
policemen at bay-momentarily, be it quickly
said-with bow and arrow.
The proximity Of these two items Of news
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Relief for Baltimore BottIeneck

Motorists who travel the main routes
north and south across Maryland will be happy
to know that something is to be done at last
about the States worst traffic bottleneck the
city of Baltimore. While great deal has been
accomplished in recent years in relieving con-
geSted conditions for transient traffic in the
city, it has been evident that the only permanent
solution was to bypass through vehicles around
the metropolitan area. A long controversy
over bypass plans proposed by the State Roads
Commission had stalled action until recently
Now, however, the commission has decided
definitely on a route that will carry traffic
under part Of Baltimore Harbor. The travel
time between Washington and points to the
north OF Baltimore thus will be reduced con-
siderably-and so will the blood pressure of
drivers who have suffered from Baltimore's
Showdown blues"
State road engineers have been ordered
to draw up working plans for the key link in
the bypass, $75-million tunnel beneath the
Patapsco River, between Fairfield and Canton,
just outside the city. The bypass will connect
Pulaski Highway, north of Baltimore with the
old Washington Baltimore Pike, the new Wash
tngton-Baltimore ExpresSway and Ritchie High
way. The Pulaski Highway leads toward
Philadelphia and the New Jersey Turnpike.
When the job is completed, motorists will have
q IlmlCeo-acceSS nlgnWay from the Jersey Turn
pike to Washington via the new expressway,
under construction.
Officials estimated that, barring complica-
tionS, the big project should be ready for traffic
by 1857. The schedule calls for about year of
preparatory designing and other work and
three more years of actual construction opera
tionS OF course motorists must expect to help
pay for this relief measure The plan is to
charge tolls for use of the tunnel route under
self-liquidating fiscal program Those who do
not like to pay tolls may still use the old city
route. The toll plan has proved so successful
at the Havre de Grace bridge and in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and elsewhere, however, that
there is every reason to believe it will solve the
financing problem for the bypass. Most motor
lists would willingly pay reasonable fee to
avoid Baltimore's congestion when possible
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Connie Book Case

SVbbbuUuS OVVN SOSS
Before I expire from boredom over
the connie book controversy I am 60
ing to put my finger on the real villains
in the case. Nope, not Senator Nc
Carthy or his private eyes" The
villains are the librarians. They are
responsible for the uproar, the shrill
cries Of the commentators, the diatribes
in the press, the speech making. If these
librarians had been sufficiently imbued
with the spirit of Syngman Rhee, long
ago they would have stealthily slipped
out in the night and quietly dumped
the offensive connie volumes into the
Amazon, the Brahma -Putra, the Congo,
the Danube, the Elbe, the Ganges. the
Indus, the La Plata, the Niger, the
Nile, the Po, the Rhine, the Rhone, the
Seine, the Thames, the Tiber, or any
other convenient watery grave. Gwen
the sewer would have been an ap-
propriate place Of disposal.) Then
there would have been no connie
books for Senator Mccarthy to find,
and what a relief that would have
been all the way round.
Observer.