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Evening star., 1953-03-29
Fifty Years Ago in The Star !.

that are admirable-once a friend they
will 60 the limit for you. They are not
afraid Of work. but are averse to doing
anything having an appearance Of
servitude." Capt. Pershing argued for
acceptance and toleration Of traditional
Moro customs. He agreed that a mill
tary government was necessary in the
islands. but insisted ''the man at the
head Of it ought to be vigorous, active,
wideawake officer. with q thorough
knowledge Of the people he is to deal
with"
"At the Hotel Lawrence last evening" {"
said The Star Of March %, 1908, ''the
organization Of WASH
Sold Fish ington Aquarium No.
Organized 4 Of the Social Order
Of Gold Fishes was
perfected and officers were
elected for the ensuing year. This order
is q comparatively new organization
and is composed Of theatrical people
and their friends. The first aquarium
was formed last summer at Atlantic
City. =. by King Whale Billy Hart, who
is at present character comedian at
the Empire Theater. AQuariumS
have been formed In Boston, New York.
Philadelphia and some 10 other cities.
Their aim Is purely social: there are no
dues: there are no benefits except pleas
ant evenings. Ladies are admitted i. !.
and they are termed 'minnows.' Every
thing about the order pertains to flsh,
and the meetings are held on flsh days.
Fridays. The meeting last night was
called to order by King Whale Billy
Hart with d blast on flsh horn. Of
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Frederic A. DeIono

Frederic A. Delano has passed on, but
Washington will never forget him. Those Of
us who live here and all who come from afar
to admire and take pride in their Nations
Capital cannot forget him because the impress
Of his good works is. evident nearly everywhere.
There could be no better monument to his
farseeing vision, intelligent planning and tire
less energy than the parks. Fairgrounds and
parkways which he helped so much to provide
for the city he loved so well
It was largely because of Mr.. Delano that
Washingtons haphazard growth was halted in
the early '20s in favor of an orderly, planned
expansion that set the pattern for future
development. He had a major role in the
creation of the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission (now the National Capital
Planning CommiSsion) and in passage by
Congress of the unprecedented Capper- Cram
ton Act. AS chairman for many years Of the
commission and Of the important Committee
of 100 on the Federal City, he gave valuable
leadership to the Capper- -Cranton program
of park and water front conservation and i'm
provement that has won widespread acclaim
He achieved planning renown in Chicago and
New York, too, but nothing to compare with
the outstanding job he did here.
Mr.. Delano was among the first to see the
need for extending the planning of Greater
Washington beyond the fixed limits Of the
District Of Columbia Gifted with personality
that aided in winning allies in the campaign
to make Washington more beautiful city, he
succeeded often in reaching goals which men
Of less tact and persuasiveness might well have
failed to attain. His influence for the better
ment Of the Capital was powerful before his
nephew, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, became
President. It was even more effective there
after-until age and additional wartime re-
sponsibilities began to bear heavily upon him.
Although he retired from the NCPPC In 1912,
he continued to give his advice and aid to
those who carried on his ideals. He particularly
pressed his concept Of an integrated Metro
politan Area, with all Jurisdictions working
together for greater National Capital. This
dream is gradually becoming reanty-a
further tribute to the foresight and missionary
work Of distinguished friend and citizen Of
Washington.
Evening star., 1953-03-29

slaves who were planning dash for
freedom. It was q dubious venture,
but be took that risk rather than
settle down among the princely luxuries
Of Egypt. These, and those other
heroic figures sketched on the vast
canvas Of the centuries, proved their
faith by fighting for it.
The old hymn sounds q timeless
truth in the line, "Sure, must fight
If would reign" And battle is
always venture. We revel now in our
democratic faith. How easy it is in
some great company, with comfort
able surge Of patriotism, to pledge
allegiance to the nag! But how dim
often is the realization that somebody
fought for the faith whose glories we
now simply recite!
The American Revolution was great
gamble. The faith Of the founding
fathers involved high adventure. In
stead Of being memorialized by the
Capital City which bears his honored
name and by q monument which leaps
skyward to tell Of the white virtues Of
his character, George Washington
might have been hanged as traitor to
the mother country. We owe the free
institutions Of government and religion.
which are ours today, to those who were
fierce fighters for their faith.
In one Of his lectures puncturing hy-
pocrisy, Robert q. Ingersoll convulsed
an audience with his clever gibes at
some contemporary inconsistencies Of
the Christian church. Then, pausing
until the laughter at his Sallies had
died away, he said solemnly: "But,
ladies and gentlemen. we must remem-
ber that we are not naked savages to-
night, dancing around some primitive
campfire, just because there were back
of us men and women who had beliefs
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Bibles and The Bomb

Our Continental Congress published
its version of the Bible in 1882 at Phil
adelphia. Congressional authorizations
appear on pages following the title page.
Congressional members stood about
Robert Aitken, printer, while he set the
type and impressed the Bible.
Reason for publication: Our Bibles
had been used for -wadding by the
soldiers; our ports had long been closed
to imports; Bibles were wearing out
and they were scarce.
own a copy of this Congressional
Bible. The Library of Congress owns a
copy Of it. But, few copies are extant.
My copy is not for sale. mention the
incident as an interesting phase Of
Bible productions from the early He
brew. Greek, codex; through the early
monasterial incunabula; through the
early printed editions. to modern times.
It seems that nothing has ever
stopped the production Of Bibles. Wide
spread use of our lately demonstrated
bombs could conceivably stop such pro-
duction for a considerable time.
Franz E. Rogers.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Sides With Morse

It Is my hope that Senate Demo-
Gratis grant Senator Wayne Morse his
desire to cross the aisle and sit among
the loyal opposition. He has long recog-
nized the capture" of the so-called
liberal President Eisenhower by con-
servative business interests.
Outspoken opposition to the Republi-
can candidate cost Morse his seniority
rights to sit on important congressional
committees. Relations between the
Oregon Independent and his former
colleagues have gradually worsened,
verbal donnybro0ks not being uncom-
mon.
The Democrats should not only well
come their liberal kindred spirit, but
offer to recompense the q. o. p. with
Senator McCarran or possibly Senator
Byrd. Morse has voted nearly consist
emily with the liberal Democratic wing,
while Byrd and McCarran have bolted
to the Taft Mccarthy banner on most
major issues, including the recent
presidential election.
To those who assume that Morse has
committed political suicide would re-
call that he was reelected in 1850 by q
majority of n per cent, the highest
among his party elected that year. This
Evening star., 1953-03-29
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States Senate.

- ~~-~-~'
for which they were ready to die" In
that statement Of an eloquent Ameri-
can is heard across the long centuries
the testimony Of those who looked
without flinching into the Sunken sock
cts Of death, and did it with the defiant
challenge, 'T believe"
Safety first never is the mark Of true
knighthood. When we think of the in
security and jeopardy which every faith
chapter Of fighters depicts, some pres
ent tendencies become very disturb
ing. "A rather alarmed student Of to-
days trends warns: 1.-THE security our
age is seeking and which it exaltS as
its god, may in the long run turn out
to be not its triumph, but its tragedy"
History shouts that when any system
makes its goal comfort and convenience
and bleacheS out the qualities Of ad-
venture, it is doomed. Christianity be-
gan not as an ivory tower Of escape, not
as an opiate for life's pangs and pain;
but as great adventure. Discipleship
with the Christ of Palm Sunday has
always been costly exploit, taking
courage to begin it and fortitude to con-
tinue it.
In the New Testament, faith is mat
ter of personal ventureSomeneSs. It is
q personal relationship to the Christ
who said and says, Follow Me! That
means that faith is not preservative; it
is creative It is not just set Of as
sumed and assured finalities. It means
daring new sallies into the unknown.
Faith is not retreat into supposed
citadels. It is an open road to new ad-
venture.
Too often there have been those who
have endeavored to take a religion
which is q revolution and turn it into
q refuge. The Christ Of Palm Sunday
is saying: "He that saveth his life
shall lose it. He that loSeth his life
that is, risks it-for my sake, shall
keep it unto life eternal"
Palm Sunday means that faith is
a venture in which we invest every
thing we have and are. and we do
it without guaranteed returns. It means
launching argosies Of hope across un-
charted seas. It may be we must go
to our Calvary and mount our cross
without knowing whether it will bring
us shame or fame. But remember.
when darkness fell over Dead Man
hanging on a cross His relentless enc
mics thought that, at last, the Palm
Sunday Disturber was utterly defeated.
Even His friends agreed that He had
lost His gallant fight. But
"When that westering sun went down.
Growing the day with crimson
crown
He knew that He had won."
Evening star., 1953-03-29

am greatly disturbed by the story
appearing March % concerning the
death Of BerveI Briscoe, victim Of a
yoke bandit attack. In a comrhendable
attempt to present the facts effectively,
the reporter left much unsaid. and this
reader can't help but interpret the
given facts in an unhappy light.
The police officers who found the
unfortunate man believed" that he had
been drinking, and called for patrol
wagon. I wonder whether any poor
soul found lying in the street must be
automatically diagnosed as a drunk,
and therefore q fit candidate for jail?
The story doesn't give the reason for
the officers belief, but surely the VIC
tim Of bandits attack, a stroke, or
a heart attack, may crumple to the
ground as grotesquely as the drunkard.
Surely a man may be rendered as
senseless by an attack as by drunk
enneSS.
don't question the good faith Of the
officers involved, but it seems sad
commentary on oug time that, despite
the tremendous advances made by med
ical science. q man may lie for hours
in an agonized stupor, without medical
attention because he looked like q
drunk.
Julie Ann Johnson.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
.ure Of. PostoI Putronuae'

VI VSASb H,NNsObSSS
Your March 23 editorial, Lure Of
Postal Patronage" is unfair-that is.
unless you go back to the 1920s and
the Republican Harding Coolidge
Hoover regimes which handpicked
thousands upon thousands Of rural mail
carriers and placed them under civil
service. = A truly accurate check will
show that, especially in many small
cities and towns where there are two to-
ten rural carriers for only one postmas-
ter, the 1920 Republican appointees to
these positions still far outnumber the
Democratic selections Of postmastefs
Please present both sides of the story.
to your readers and continue your good
work in the newspaper field.
My father was one Of the $4,000 post
master appointees, but he received the
appointment only after many long
hours Of hard study for the examina-
ton. Josenh w. Dorothy.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Dangerous Weapons

OSnSSsSSS W SSAtD~s'S
The Doylestown (Pa.) Borough
Council recently passed city ordi-
nance outlawing the carrying and sale
of switch-blade knives. The ordinance
provides $50 fine for the sale or pos
session of such knives. This type OF
community action should aid in COM
batting the very serious rise in crime
rate here in the District. The store
keeper who sells switch-blade knife is
as much a party to an assault as the
person who Yields the knife.
The time has come for District citi-
zens to take more positive action
against the increased crime rate. It
is up to police and the courts to prose-
cute vigorously all persons found with
such knives. The rise In crime rate will
diminish when D. C. citizens begin to
take positive action as the people did
in, DoyleStown.
Wendan A. Paris.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Round She Goes

viii the public ever return to their
senses and accept natures regulation Of
time? Isn't there enough chaos and
confusion in the world without tying
to make out that the sun is over our
meridian (noon) at about half-past 10
am?
The clock at present is 20 to Is min
utes ahead Of actual sun time; does it
look like per-intelligence to move it
up another hour? Why don't the
people who want more time to play
agree among themselves to go to work
as early as they wish without upsetting
the schedule Of the general public?
Reader.
This daylight saving time helps only
the folks who want to get of early
from their jobs to run home for an
early start on a fishing trip or small
JOHN the flower garden.
Congress should not take any hand,
in such affairs as setting the clock
ahead for the good OF only a few. Is
it not wise suggestion for banks,
stores, factories, Government agencies.
ETC.. to take vote by the employees
and present their petition to the boss
and see If he won't agree to let them
of earlier during the summer months?
# he agrees, then they simply get UP
an hour earlier and get of an hour
earlier by the same clock that is used
by the world and is set according to
the schedule Of the sun. r. NJ. B.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Letters to The Star. ;s e .s, r.; ss:;ss i

too. in spite Of his peculiar brand Of
Republicanisln.
Evening star., 1953-03-29
Not Victim of Alcohol

Warner A. Klemm.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweU

A physical injury he suffered as a
youth did, indeed, keep him, in sense,
on the margin Of life.
This, selected as a gibe, is his glory.
It was because he watched, not as a
participant. but as an observer, that
he was able to see the inner workings
OF the human mind, heart and spirit.
He had the ability to see, as a natural
gift, what lay behind human action,
but 1t was as watcher, a gifted OBJ
server, from the sidelines, that he was
able to sound depths Of character sell
dom discovered before him, and scarcely
as well since.
Although he lived in England most
OF his life, he wrote as an American.
and this Is coming more and more to
be recognized today. as the recent spate
Of books about him shows. Far too
much stress has been put in the past on
his European learnings. It is recog-
nized now that few American writer's
depended so much on his native land
as James. He came from the same
stratum as did Walt Whitman, and
heartily disliked the good gray bard"
at first, sas. indeed. did many an Amer
lean. ct was France that first took
Whitman to its heart) It is to the
credit of James,. ''on the verge Of in
delicacy," that he at last came to ap-
preciate the worth of the literary phe-
nomenon known as Whitman.
Delicate to the verge Of indeli-
cacy-"
Evening star., 1953-04-21

A recent number Of the Saturday
Review. one of the best of the literary
magazines. had the following para
graph:
Harold ]. Laski, in 'Holmes-Laski
Letters (Harvard) on Henry James:
I read James letters and if ever God
made lame-cat James was the boy.
Culture without perception, delicate
to the verge Of indelicacy, narrowly
warm-hearted, clinging to the margin
OF life-it all sounds to me like high
middle-class life described from the
angle Of a natural born valet"
This callouS opinion Of great writer
an American-will offend some,
amuse others, please a few. Not that
there is not some truth to it, Of course:
when smart man takes his pen In
hand, he usually hits at least 10 per
cent truth.
Henry James was writer's writer,
and appeals most to those who write,
but he has something for all. Since the
beginning of World War II there has
been James revival: more than SO
books, his own and about him, have
been published, at prices varying be-
tween So and $40.
Such a man and writer, dead for
almost half a century, must have
something more than narrowly ascribed
to him in the above opinion.
And he did.
In the first place. the 'lame-cat"
designation is as false as any such
pieW Of ridicule usually Is.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
British Job Bid Rejected

The article in The Star April 16 quot
ing Joseph c. Harsch on the subject of
our Government rejecting the low bid
by a British firm for electrical equip
ment for the Chief Joseph Dam does
not give fair picture of the matter
at all.
To be sure the British bid was lower,
and they can always underbid our
country in matters of this kind because
we pay our workers over three times
as much as the British do, and we pay
a much higher tax to the Government
in manufacturing. To be sure, the
British bid was lower, but our Govern
ment would have lost an untold amount
which would have been paid them by
the manufacturer and by every indi-
vidual engaged in the manufacture.
Furthermore, it would be difficult to
get replacement parts, and in some
cases impossible from a foreign coun-
try; and to get their repairmen if we
had to have them. We have staff of
engineers and repairmen, and a stock
of repair parts for this vital dam essen
tial to our defense.
We can buy British in many cases
but in case of our National defense
think the decision was perfectly cor
rect not to give it to British firm for
the reasons above and many others.
G. w.
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Pro-McCorthy

In the controversy over Senator Nc
Carthy, there seems to be exposed a
pitiful ignorance by otherwise good
Americans over the fact that America
was deliberately sold everything that
Russia wanted except perhaps the
humiliation of the japanese emperor
and the ruination of the Japanese in
duStrial system. I refer of course to
the plot which reached into the State
Department (according to testimony
before the McCarran and other COM
mitteeS) to give Russia all she had
been working for in Asia, without
fighting.
The whole Red plot in Asia had been
quietly brewing poison for years and
its effect on the American people was
to dull the public conscience. Every
thing pro-Russian seemed to gain the
plaudits Of press and public; the book
reviewers raved over volumes written
by one-sided pro-Russian authors.
Any one who objected was jeered and
smeared, and when Senator Mccarthy
arose and pierced the veil with one good
shot in the dark, he received bath of
abuse which Is still running and getting
worse.
It seems to me that Senator Nc
Carthy deserves something better than
the ridicule of the rabble.
Kitty O'Connor.
Evening star., 1953-04-21

Charles rs coronation was also ILL
omened. The King dressed in white
instead OF royal purple, wore his crown
before being anointed and complained
OF It's weight. The sermon text was:
BE thou faithful unto death, and
WILL give thee crown of eternal life."
He was beheaded "a years later.
Around the head of Richard flew a
bat. There was later a riot in the at
tending throng. He was one of several
monarchs twice crowned Another was
9-year-old Henry III, who was given a
makeshift crown at Gloucester because
French troops occupied his capital.
Most unusual coronation was on the
battlefield of BoSworth in 1485. There
the crown Of the slain Richard III
rolled of his helmet, was found under
bush. and placed on the head of the
victorious Henry VII.
Henry vi had a Paris coronation as
well as an English one. He was King
OF France and England, too. Formal
claim to the French throne was main
tanned by British monarchs until the
time Of George III.
Several English kings had first been
rulers of other lands. James I and
Charles II were Kings of Scotland at
their English coronations. George I
was Elector of Hanover. His British
coronation, incidentally, had to be
conducted in Latin. He knew no Eng
liSh.
William, Prince Of Orange, came
from.the Netherlands to be installed as
joint sovereign with his queen, Mary II.
Duplicate regalia and thrones were
made for this unique double ceremony.
Other wives of British kings have
been given only the title of consort, al
though as such they had right to be
crowned. To assert his authority,
Henry VII made his wife wait three
years for her ceremony Much mar
ried Henry VIII stopped crowning his
queens after the first two. George w
banned his wife from his coronation
ceremony.
Two kings were never crowned at
all, while one prince was crowned in
advance of inheritance. Edward v had
never worn the diadem when he was
murdered in the Tower of London at
Evening star., 1953-04-21
Lewd Literature

Newsdealers, drugstore operators and
others are legally selling raw sex in
the form of pocketbooks to an extent
that is alarming to the parents OF
growing children.
Defense attorneys and others hired
by operators in the multimillion dol
lar smut racket like to use the term
freedom of the press" to influence
juries slow to convict under such an
appeal, although it is an abasement
of an honorable term to use it in this
connection.
Touring foreigners sometimes con-
clude their visits to this country by
asking: How do you define the Ameri-
can way of life?" Shall we define 1t
in part for them as the freedom to
print a hundred pages Of obScenity for
sale to any child for a quarter? Or
shall we rather define it in part as
the freedom to teach ones children
such immortal names as Shakespeare,
Dante, France and Mark Twain, names
that are without meaning to the writer's
and publishers moving the machinery
Of the smut factories engaged in the
prostitution of the heritage rightfully
called literature?
Writers and publishers of sex pock-
etbooks are not disturbed, for it is a
lucrative field if you do not have a
conscience and can proceed unimpeded
by antiquated obscenity laws. Read
the report Of the Select Committee
on Current Topographic Materials,
H.R., 82d Congress, December 81. 1852,
then draw your conclusions and act on
your convictions.
Wells Mears.
Evening star., 1953-04-21

the age Of IL. His uncle usurped the
throne Edward VIII was not crowned.
He abdicated in 1896 for love of the
American woman to whom, as Duke of
Windsor, he is married.
Henry us heir was installed during
Henry's lifetime to insure the success
sion. He died before his father, how
ever, and his brother, Richard I, in
herited the throne in 1889.
George Tvs coronation celebration,
costing more than 81 million, was the
most lavish in British history. It also
was the last at which fully armored
Kings champion" appeared.
In contrast. the 100000 ceremony
for 65-year-old William Nv was dubbed
the half -crownation.'
They called Victoria's $35O0O0 ritual
the penny coronation" Her corona
ton ring was too small. It had to be
forced on her finger, and the Queen
almost tainted with pain.
Evening star., 1953-04-21

One sees what the critic meant by
that. It is true that James in a gloved
manner wrote about some pretty ter
rible things. But this in part was
dictated by the age in which he wrote.
Cultured without perception"
This is one of those aggregations
of words that actually mean little. One
is either cultured, or not. The outer
habiliments of culture, knowing which
fork to use. ETC., are swept away
when the real persons are known.
Henry James seems to most of his
readers a cultured man with plenty Of
perception.
Narrowly warm-hearted-"
This is understandable. His whole
life range was limited The fate of
many of his heroes shows this. "A
man of his rectitude and honesty did
not have 1t in him to blubber as they
do in soap operas. He would have
been ashamed to have been too warm
hearted.
"Clinging to the margin of life"
He chung so splendidly that he left
behind a legacy that endures.
If his great stories and novels. sound
life, whatever that is, "aS described
from the angle of the natural born
valet" then let us have more such
valets.
Henry James. a, least. never sneered.