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Evening star., 1953-09-20

all the disputations of the wise men
of Greece and Rome, PLATE asked
cynically: what is truth?" All, that
is the question mark which has lain
across every century, There are but
two possible answers. There is no half
way house Of faith. Either materialiSm
is the truth or Christ is the truth.
What is going on now is q spiritual
struggle between the Christian faith.
joined with other spiritual interpreta-
tionS of the universe and materialism,
whether that materialism is intrenched
in America or in Russia. The highest
stakes imaginable are involved. Those
stakes are whether men are to be
thought Of and treated essentially as
the sons of God or as the slaves of the
state, as co-heirs with Christ or as cogs
in a machine. The great struggle in
our time is not between armies and
navieS, airplanes and weapons of dev-
astation. st. Paul's words might have
been written for this very day: Our
wrestling is not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities and powers,
against the world rulers of this dark
ness"
What phrase! "This darkness
which has closed in and clouded and
poisoned the minds of men. In the
end it must be diSpelled with spiritual
weapons, however great and real and
sad is the present necessity for chal-
longing 1t with material might as we'll.
However poorly we practice our faith,
we proudly belong to the embattled
portion of the human race which
claims Christianity is true, that the
precepts Of Christ are the very laws of
life; that His revelation of what God
is and what man may be is the final
truth. But, on the other hand, there
are uncounted millions who have been
brought under the sway and the slavery
of the doctrines Of Karl Marx and are
making the earth tremble and the
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History and Stamps

With all due respect to Harold Bunt-
ing's research into the history making
value of stamps, it would still appear
that history influences the designs and
Importance of stamps, rather than
stamps changing the course of history
Ever since Christ chased the money
changers out of the temple, wars have
been the result of financial manipula-
tions, and it has only recently been a
cause of racial conflict between the
East and West, as Dorothy Thompson
so aptly pointed out in column, that
precipitated war in Korea between the
darker AsiaticS and the lighter Euro
peanS and Anglo-Saxons.
Mayer Anselm, founder of the House
of Rothschild, said: "Give me the power
nation and do not care who makes
the laws" Anselm, by placing his sons
in positions of financial power in Lon
don. Vienna, Paris and Berlin, started
banking and sponsored the Napoleonic
wars by juggling finances. We
have had wars ever since. and the
rise of Lenin and Stain in Soviet
Russia, Hitler in Nazi Germany, Franco
in Spain, and Peron in Argentina, have
not been because of the publication of
stamps or communism, but because
man in his greed has forgotten the
Sermon on the Mount and prefers to
pursue policy of imperial exploitation
rather than policy of brotherhood
and understanding.
]. Wilbur POtherby.
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deceased came here about four months
ago from China with the Chinese Min
lister. He leaves wife and two sons re-
siding in China" But a further story,
printed in The Star on September 49,
1908, put different complexion on the
tragedy, as follows: unless the un-
official advices received by the Chinese
Minister regarding the suicide at San
Francisco on Tuesday of Tom Kim
Yung, Chinese consular clerk, are found
untrue, action will be taken with
the view of vindicating the honor of the
young man. The minister already has
spoken to Acting Secretary of State
Adee about the case. These unofficial
advices are to the effect that the young
man was not arrested for gambling, but
was insulted by policeman, who
accoSted him on the streets of San Fran
cisco. In resenting the insult he struck
the officer a blow, which resulted in
his arrest. The case was set for trial
yesterday, but feeling that his ar
rest under the circumstances was
disgrace and indignity to one of his
station he ended his life
TAO1u OWIIISoVlIIC, n.y., 1Ilc Quar- VI
September l8. 1908, received a report
that: "A unique suit has
Sung tor been filed in the Bath
a Stor County Circuit Court.
1t is for the possession of
meteor which fell on the lands be-
longing to the estate of the late
F. N. Ewing. q. Thomas j. Per-
gram found the meteor. and the
heirs of the Ewing estate brought
suit for its possession. alleging
that as it fell on their land it
rightfully belongs to them. Pergram
has retained counsel and says he will
fight the case to a finish. He was re-
quired to give $1,000 bond while the
suit is pending. The meteor weighs
about 800 pounds and was the main
body of the big meteor which was seen
on November Is. 1902. from New Or
leans to Northern Ohio. Three pieces
of the meteor were seen to fall near
Owingsville. and two small pieces were
found few days later. One weighing
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Fifty Years Ago in The Star =.

l234 pounds was sold to Prof. Harry A
Ward of Rochester, N. Y, and Chicago
for $780, and he in turn disposed of it
to the National Museum at Washing
ton, D. C. The other piece was sold to
Kentucky State College at Lexington
Several months after the meteor fell
Pergram was hunting and found it on
the side of mountain, almost buried
by its fall He knew what it was and
by help of sled carried it home"
A telegram from Chicago to The
Star of September IL, 1908, reported ::
After wandering around
Lost Son the globe for Is years, for
Found getting even his birthplace
and the name of his par
ents, from which he had been kid
naped. Marcus Hechtman, now % years
old, walked into the store of his father
to look at watch and was recognized
by the aged man. Young Hechtman
was stolen by troupe of variety actors
when years old"
The Star for September II, 1903.
announced: The District Commission
erS today accepted the
business design submitted by
High School Architect B. Stanley
Simmons of this city
for the new Business High School,
which is to occupy, with its surrounding
parking, all of the square bounded by
Eighth and Ninth streets, Rhode Island
avenue and r street NV. From
a series of seven sets of plans sub
mitted in competition by local archi-
tects, the jury of award. consisting OF
the Commissioners and an architecture,
adviser, selected three designs, the
order of excellence. as fixed by the
judges, being tMr.) Simmons, first.
Julius Wenig, second. and Frank H
Jackson, third 1t was the opinion OF
the architectural adviser that none of
the plans could be carried out with the
S168, 900 available for the construction
OF the building. The Commissioners.
instead of rejecting all plans, however.
invited the three leading architects in
the competition to submit estimates
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showing the figures upon which thew
had based their calculations to bring
their respective buildings within the
available appropriation. Mr.. Simmons
has convinced the Commissioners
that his design can be carried out
safely within the appropriation.
CHe) will receive compensation at the
rate of ST day during construction
for his supervision of the Structure).
Mr.. Wenig will receive $4O0 as second
prize and Mr.. Jackson $500 as third
prize. The building is for the
accommodation of 800 pupils" Inquiry
at the Board Of Education office as to
the present status of what was to be
the new Business High School half
a century ago brought the information
by courtesy of Mrs. Lena Zimmerli
DuckWall-tkat it now is the head
quarters of the District of Columbia
Public Assistance Agency.
On September IA. 1903. the first mon
ument erected in Ohio to the memory
of President William
Monument to Mckinley was unveiled
Mckinley at Toledo and The
Star carried a report
of the ceremony. Dorothy Bonner.
daughter of Col. j. c. Bonner, president
of the memorial association. was chosen
to reveal the statue of the martyred
Chief Executive. The orator of the day
was Senator Charles w. Fairbanks OF
Indiana. He said in part: The place
of William Mckinley in history is Sc
cure. You make the future your
debtor by erecting this statue in COM
memoration of his life and services.
for like his immortal prototype, Abra-
ham Lincoln, he belongs to the ages
Hither the lovers of American i1sriru-
tions will come in the unnumbered
years before us and derive new hope
and new inspiration" The statue was
of bronze, stood feet high, weighed
1900 pounds. Money to pay for it was
collected in relatively small amounts
from $4,000 residents Of Toledo and
nearby territory.
Evening star., 1953-09-20
Spires of the Spirit
Our Faith Tremendous

Amid all the tumult and the shout
ing of these hectic days when Stupen-
dous issues hang in the balance, two
fundamental faiths are contending for
the mastery of the minds and souls
Of men. The boundaries of the struggle
are not racial or national. This is a
global war. Temporary combinations
of seemingly incongruouS allies must
not be allowed to deceive as to what
the paramount meaning of this world
confagration is.
If ever there was holy war in the
realm of ideas, it is raging now. Each
person reading these lines is a particle
pant involved in the present smoke
and noise and in the future outcome
Of the conflict. There are no neutral
spectators, however much tired, fear
full and cautious humans, caught in
this maelstrom. may yearn for such
role. The mid-20th century is wit
Messing fight to the end-not be-
tween peoples or nations, nor with mis-
sileS from the air or on the ground;
but between systems and ideas, between
divergent PHILOSOPHERS Of life.
So far as ultimate belief is concerned,
there have been and there are two
great PHILOSOPHERS Of life. They reach
back all the way to ancient Greece.
One school of thought has insisted
that everything can be explained and
Interpreted in terms of materialism-
that even what is called beauty, good
ness and love are really but manifesto
tions of atoms; even the things that
are familiarly spoken of as spiritual
and moral are derived from matter. On
the other hand, what across the long
years has been labeled idealism denies
that matter IS ultimate. 1t insists on
the f1nality and supremacy of mind
and OF spirit, Of ideas and ideals.
In the flight of time, so much has
changed. And, yet, fundamentally,
how little has changed! In this year
Of our Lord 1858. the centuries-old duel
OF ideas, between materialism and
idealisnd, between q ceiling and the
sky, between dust and destiny, is the
furious battle going on today on a
more gigantic scale than ever before.
The tidings Of that battle are as new
as today's headlines. They are todays
headlines.
When Jesus of Nazareth, who de-
clared OF himself, II am the truth"
stood before Plate, that puzzled, vacil-
lating Roman judge asked the gentle
victim, as His accuSers hurled their
vicious charges against Him: cart
thou, then, king?" For this pur-
pose," replied the Master of the years,
was I born. And for this cause came
I into the world. that 1 might bear
witness to the truth" Remembering
Evening star., 1953-09-20
Krushchev's Rise

Only the top leaders of the Kremlin are
in a position to comment authoritatively on
Nikita S. Khrushchev and they are not COM
menting. Outsiders can do no more than guess
at the significance of his rise to the Office of
First Secretary Of the Communist Party in the
Soviet Union-a post comparable to the one
in which the late Josef Stain built himself up
into the worlds most formidable dictator But
there is no reason to doubt that he is at least
the No. 3 man in the Moscow hierarchy ranking
right after Premier Malenkov and Foreign
Minister Molotov. Indeed, judging from the
exceptional amount of publicity that Pravda
and Izvestia have given him and his agricultural
statement, it may underrate him to suggest
that either Malenkov or Mootov is his superior
Actually, he may be their equal right now-an
equal contestng with them for supreme
personal power
In a sense, because the mystery men of
the Kremlin are as mysterious as ever, it is
idle for outsiders to speculate on this matter.
Still, such speculation is not altogether without
point, for it has the virtue of reminding the
free world that the Soviet Union still seems to
be suffering from the vacuum of power-the
lack of absolute dictatorial leadership-caused
by Stalins death. Nobody-not Malenkov, not
Molotov not acknowledgements to be in
firm or interchangeable personal control In
stead, after all the years of unquestionable and
unquestioned one-man rule, there is kind of
uneasy collective government or multi-headed
tyranny made up of ambitious and ruthless
individuals who may at any time be at each
others throats, as in the case of Lavrenti
Beria in a grim and bloody struggle for
dominance.
Such a struggle marked Stalin's rise to
power, and it was a struggle that lasted for
more than decade, from 1924 to 1888. Some
thing much like it may we'll be in the making
now The Soviet system being what it is, this
is thing inherent in it-a thing in which the
Malenkovs, Molotovs and Khrushchevs, in the
process of warning with each other for top
control can throw Russia into convusionS until
one or another of them finally emerges as the
victor-the supreme dictator beyond challenge
The e-mighty Beria has already fallen in
this contest, and there are likely to be similar
casualties in the future. Meanwhile, given this
uncertainty behind the Iron Curtain, the free
world obviously should try to make the most
Of it.
Evening star., 1953-09-20
Super-Weopon StoIemote?

From an American point of view, the thesis
advanced by Navy Secretary Anderson in his
talk to the Marine Corps at Quantico offers no
occasion for rejoicing.
His point was that the super weapons-the
more powerful A-bombs and the hydrogen
bomb-may tend to cancel themselves out; that
the time may come, If it is not already here,
when neither we nor the Russians would be
willing to assume the risk of using these
weapons of total destruction.
Mr.. Anderson did not discuss specific cases.
But suppose, for instance, we knew that the
Russians had acquired a substantial Stockpile
Of A-weapons and hydrogen bombs, and that
we also knew they had the means to deliver
them against the important targets in this
country. Suppose, also, that the Russians in
this situation, were to launch an attack with
conventional forces in Western Europe or in
Asia. Would we be willing to counter with a
Super-weapon attack against Russia, knowing
that the Russians had the capacity to retaliate
by destroying scores of American cities and
killing millions of American civilians?
The question: perhaps, is one which can
not be answered now, for our decision pre-
Sumably would be governed by the conditions
which might prevail at the time and which
cannot be foreseen with any degree of assur-
ance. Nevertheless, it is clear that as the Rus
slams acquire their own absolute weapons, the
advantage which we have enjoyed from our
superior atomic capacity will begin to slip away
Once equality, or relative equality, in this
weapon is reached its deterrent effect will begin
to disappear And If the time comes when the
destructive potentiality of these weapons be-
comes so great that neither side would risk
using them they will cease to have any appre-
ciable restraining influence on an aggressor.
This is the essential point that Mr.. Ander-
son was making. And his main conclusion was
that, faced with this prospect, we cannot afford
to neglect the building of conventional means
of waging war. AS he put it, "the advantage in
such circumstances "a super-Weapon stale
mate) would then go to the side best able
to attain its objectives through conventional
military means"
The difficulty here is that the advantage in
such circumstances presumably would lie with
the Communist world, and not with us. If this
is correct, it would seem to follow that, while
trying to build up the free worlds conventional
forces, we should also strive to hold and in
crease whatever margin of superiority we have
in the field of the super-weapons. For it is
quite possible that this still may prove to be
out best and perhaps our only hope.
Evening star., 1953-09-20
Power and the Sun

According to prediction heard this week
at the University of Wisconsin, the day is
coming when it will be imperative for man
to harness l per cent of the rays that come
s. to our earth from the sun. The prediction
made at a Solar-energy conference sponsored
jointly by the university and the National
Science FOundation-iS based on a study indi-
eating that within the next 245 years the
worlds usable supplies of coal, gas, oil and
atomic raw materials will be exhausted and
that Old Sol will therefore have to be exploited
to provide the heat and power needed to
maintain civilization on a planet whose popu-
lation will be tremendously greater at that
time than it is now.
Although there is more than a little reason
to regard this forecast as an excessively alarm
ist one (other studies, for example, indicate
that our own country is endowed with prac-
tically ineXhauStible coal supply, there can
be little doubt that common sense justifeS an
earnest effort by men and nations to make
use of the suns energy-an almost incompre
hensible force dwarfing anything we can think
of in terms of other sources of power, con-
Ventional and unconventional, including the
atom. At the present stage of research and
experiment, solar heat-although it can be
controlled for effective work on a laboratory
scale-can be harnessed, whether with elaborate
only at very great cost, far too much cost to
permit it to compete economically with COAL
Oil, etc. as supplier of what is needed to
support our chronological way of life. Yet,
despite this, the fact remains that it can be
harneSsed for such purposes, and human in
genuity and inventiveness are impressive
enough to suggest that the time will arrive
when it will be utilized on large scale and
inexpenSively to serve the everyday needs of
the entire world.
The advent of this kind of solar energy
solar energy economically captured and con-
trolled to illuminate cities, heat homes and run
factories-SeemS at the moment to be very far
distant But when we keep in mind how remote
nuclear power appeared to be decade or so
ago-when most people regarded it as just
fantastic dream-t becomes clear why nobody
should pooh-pooh or laugh off those scientists
who feel that the sun, like the atom, can be
put to work for man and his civilization at
relatively early date. We are living in an age
of great wonders, and this is one that may
conceivably materialze before the century ends
in the lifetime of our children, if not in our
own lifetime
Evening star., 1953-09-20

drivers into easing up on the accelerator, show
ing more consideration for other drivers and
using greater care in operating their cars. Yet
there is proof that constant educational efforts
are well worth while. The local crusade, to be
Waged with the cooperation of civic organiza-
tionS, the press, radio and televison is patterned
after a very successful one held recently in
Omaha, Nebraska. Officials there reported a
80 per cent decline in serious traffic accidents
as a result of the city-wide, intensive drive to
make drivers more safety conscious"
Any decrease in the accident rate here
would be most welcome especially right now.
In contrast to the fine safety record of Wash
ington in the past several years. record which
has won the city numerous national awards
the traffic toll so far this year is 48 deaths in
nearly $4,000 serious accidents For the same
period of 1852 there were SO deaths. At the
present rate. as Commissioner Prentiss warned
in opening the crusade, the Nations Capital
will end up with its worst accident record since
the early ''30s when the annual death toll
reached peak of 1874.
OF course, driver education is not Just a
matter of keeping motorists confronted with
accident statistics or safety slogans. Enforce
ment can and should play part in educating
reckless drivers as to the risks involved in
taking chances with their own lives and the
lives of others. Judge Nelson and other con-
ference speakers stressed the educational effects
of jail sentence on the average drunken or
careless driver. This sort of education is apt
to be more impressive on some drivers than
barrage of safety warnings and notices could
be. Actually, each of the three Es of traffic
safety has its Importance in the fight to make
the highways safer for all who use them.
Evening star., 1953-09-20

The Star for Saturday September
H. 1908, carried a lengthy special dis
patch" from represent
Maryland ative at Newport News.
Launching Va, describing the
launching of the cruiser
Maryland. Jennie Scott Waters of
Baltimore was the young woman chosen
to christen the ship. She waited until
the vessel began to move" and then
dashed the bottle against the receding
bow. and, as the sparkling wine foamed
over the unyielding prov of the new
fighter. she exclaimed: I christen thee
Maryland!" The reporter continued:
Gathering momentum as she went
the new cruiser majestically swept
down to the embrace Of the dancing,
ripping waves. greeted by salvos of ap-
plause and by pandemonium of steam
whistles and bells. Far out upon the
bosom of the lordly James she swept,
curtsying to the right and left as she
passed between the row of excursion
steamers" But The Star was misin-
formed. What really happened was
that the Maryland refused to be
launched. Another special dispatch"
printed on Monday, September IA,
1908, said: "The armored cruiser
is still stuck at the bottom Of the ways.
. This morning a force of several
hundred men were put to work to at
tempt to get the ship afloat by means
of hydraulic jacks applied to the bow"
A telegram from San Francisco to
The Star of September Is, 1903, said:
Tom King Yung, a
ShInese OffIcIoI high official in court
Suicide circles at Peking, Mil
itary Attache at the
Chinese Legation at Washington and
secretary of Jung Bow He, the acting
counsul general at San Francisco, has
committed suicide by aSphyxiation at
the Chinese consulate. Yung was ar
rested on a charge Of misdemeanor on
Friday morning last and this disgrace
led him to take his life. He left let
ter for the acting counsul general con-
tanning q statement to this effect. The
Evening star., 1953-09-20
Teamwork Against Delinquency

Prospects for thoroughgoing investigation
of the rise of juvenile crime in Washington
are growing brighter. two-way, co-ordinated
attack on the problem could result from a
senatorial inquiry of the type proposed by
Senator HendrickSon of New Jersey and an
integrated study by the District Council on
Law Enforcement.
Senator Hendrickson, chairman of Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Juvenile Delin-
Quency, has in mind the task force" approach,
in which local committee of outstanding citi-
zens interested in fighting juvenile crime would
conduct survey preliminary to a full-scale
senatorial inquiry. Members of the Senate
SubcommtteeS staff already have taken look
at the local situation and found it anything
but good
The executive committee of the Law En-
forcement Council has recommended survey
by the council which is composed of representa-
tiveS of official and unofficial agencies con-
cerned with the increase in lawlessness among
youth of the city. Such survey conceivaby
could fit in with the task force" program of
the HendrickSon committee. Under the execu-
tive committees proposal the council, through
a special committee, would study all phases of
the delinquency problem including arrests
prosecution and final disposition of such cases.
The findings of such a committee would be of
great help to any senatorial group in its quest
for the reasons for the alarming upsurge in
teen-age lawleSSneSS here and elsewhere
Particularly encouraging is the cooperative
attitude of Judge Cockrill of the ultrasecret
Juvenile Court. Judge Cockrill, a member of
the Law Enforcement Council has promised
to assist in the study to the limits allowed by
the law. She had reference to statutory re-
Strictions on releasing details of cases before
the Juvenile Court. liberal Interpretation of
these restrictions in the interest of reducing
juvenile crime here would be in the public
interest.