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Evening star., 1953-09-23

In Europe recently / was re-.
peatedly confronted by the ac-
cusation that freedom has
reached its nadir in America,
that Mccarthy is second
Hitler, that non-conformism is
impossible. ETC., etc.
Like most citizens of other
countries. steady stream of
attacks on the internal affairs
of my country gets my dander
up. Such criticism, I feel, is
the reservation of those VINO
love a country. ! also detected
in some of the foreign criti-
cism a kind of triumphant
pleasure in finding something
to attack in "the strongest
world power"
Nevertheless, ! avoided sharp
answers. But did try to eX-
plain something that few Eu-
ropeans comprehend about
America, namely, that its more
constant and representative
expression is a somewhat puri-
tanical demand for a Fk,h de-
gree of conformity, and that
there is reason for it, inher-
ent in the structure of the Ma
ton.
No other nation has been
created-and in brief historical
time-out of the nationals Of
scores of other nations, all
bringing to America their own
customs, habits, traditions,
prejudices and experiences.
No other nation is so pluralis-
tic. To make a new nation
(not a multinational state)
out of many nations is some
thing never before tried on any
such scale in the whole of hu-
man history. It is a very dar-
ing experiment.
If the emphasis on "Ameri-
canism" is strange to an
Englishman, Frenchman, or
Italian, it is because, I think,
he cannot really comprehend
country whose majority
population, or their forebears
in the fairly recent past. were
"alienS." No one speaks o..
Britonism, Frenchism, Italian
ism, because the forebears Of
almost every Briton, French
man, or Italian have been that
for hundreds or thousands of
years. 1t seems as silly to ex-
act a loyalty oath" from them
as to demand loyalty to ones
own mother and father.
Other nations can trace
their origins back to tribal So
cieties. They have a kind OF
cement of the blood, so to
speak, entirely lacking in
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Dewey Calls Officials
Probing Union Killing
In Raceway Scandal
BY the Associated Press

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. %. -
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, pledged
to clean alleged labor extortion-
lists and racketeers out OF
Yonkers Raceway, confers today
with two district attorneys in
vestigating the Staying of union
leader linked with the harness
track.
At a press conference yester-
day, the Governor avoided a
question aimed at determining
whether he planned to order a
special grand jury investigation
of the raceway scandal.
Summons Prosecutors.
But he summoned District At
torney Samuel Faile of West
chester County, home of the
Yonkers track, and District At
torney George B. De Luca Of
Bronx County, where Union
Chief Thomas F. Lewis was slain,
to conference here.
Mr.. Faile and Mr.. De Buca
have been making separate in
quiries into. the shooting of Mr..
Lewis, and Gov. Dewey said he
wanted to determine whether
their Investigations should be
combined.
The Governor took four steps
yesterday in opening a drive TO
clear what he termed vicious
labor racketeering" from Yonk-
ers Raceway and any other
harness tracks that might be so
troubled.
/. Acting through the State
Harness Racing Commission, he
suspended the Yonkers Raceway
license until all its 1900 en-
ployes have signed affidavits OH
whether they ever have been
indicted for or convicted of a
crime.
2. He called on the AF'L Inter
national Building Service EN-
ployes Union to purge its Local
BE, which has 800 members
employed at the raceway.
3. He ordered the State Tax
Commission to check the books
of all eight harness tracks in the
State ito ascertain if any pay
ments to individuals connected
with labor matters have been ex-
torted."
4. He announced plans to
tighten the Harness Racing
Commissions regulations in
order to prevent track employ
ment of ex-convicts and known
underworld characters.
Locals President Slain.
Gov: Dewey made those moves
after a meeting here with the
three-member commission.
Mr.. Lewis, 35-year-old preSi-
dent of Local BE, was slain
August % outside his Bronx
apartment by Edward (Snakes)
Ryan, an ex-convict described as
a professional killer. A police
man shot Ryan dead as he fled.
The investigation of the Lewis
killing led authorities to believe
it might have Stemmed from a
feud over control of the local.
Evening star., 1953-09-23

Constantine BrotDn is on
u1cGtion. His guest colunlnist
for today is You Chan Yang,
Korean Ambassador to the
United States, tDbo aDriteS of
the Korean iDdr from FIRST
hand kno,Dledge-Gnd from the
heGrt.)
Evening star., 1953-09-23

thousands of dead and our mil
lions of homeless have failed
to make an impact on the
conscience of liberty loving
mankind everywhere, then the
great mission of collective
security, which was given as
the reason for your response
to our call for help, simply did
not mean what then was said.
Our great patriot and Presi-
dent, DR.. Syngman Rhee. has
phrased the situation in these
telling words:
II know there are people in
various parts of the world who
argue that it is wise to be weak
in Korea in order to be stronger
somewhere else. There are
those who say that the issue
of collective security against
communism must not be
pressed in so 'unimportant'
locale as Korea. There are
some who say it is best to let
the Communists have a little
more success now. even to the
extent of letting the aggresSors
into the great peace-enforcing
organization of the United Ma
tions. in the hope that this sue
cess may satisfy them and
cause them to revert to the
processes of peaceful negotia-
ton.
Surely, all history, for as
far back as there are records
of aggression, proves the folly
of such views. Within the past
generation this policy of ap-
peasement has been disproved
time and time again. Strength
of arms, strength of purpose,
and strength of ideals are the
only foundations for lasting
peace.
1.-THE epic of Korea is not
yet concluded. Some of our
allies would advise us to end
the heroic struggle by meekly
submitting to Communist de-
mands. This we cannot and
shall not do. Even to consider
accepting such a miserable
ending of our struggle for ma
tional survival would be a be-
trayal of our own people and
a betrayal of the hope for a
stable and just world peace"
I have shuttled back and
forth to Korea many times
since this cruel war began,
and I have seen at first hand
its effect on my own people,
the most beat-up people in the
world. But their morale and
their will to fight and their
will to win remained constant
Evening star., 1953-09-23

goes too far. But as too much
tolerance creates a counter
defense for unity, too much
intolerance creates a counter
defense for freedom.
To find an equilibrium be-
tween freedom and disruption
is the perpetual American
problem. Liberty and justice
for all" follows "one Nation.
indivisible," in the oath to the
f1ag-and not without reason.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Melton Gives Concert
In Return for Favor
BY the Associated Press

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Opera
Tenor James Melton gave an
open-air concert for 1880 per-
sons recently, and his only fee
was a repair job on one brass
lamp.
Those attending the concert
we're employees of the Bridgeport
Brass Co., members of their fam
lilies and their guests. Mr.. Nell
son sang to show his gratitude to
the company for repairing a
brass headlight that fell off his
1907 Rolls Royce, one of his
extensive collection of antique
automobiles.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Pukistun Boosts Rice

Pakistan has more acreage un-
der rice this year and the crop
will be an estimated 8.147 900
tons of cleaned rice against T.
745, 900 tons a year ago. Karachi
reports.
Evening star., 1953-09-20
News of Music
Berkshire Birthday
Chamber Music Festival Marks
Its Anniversary This Week
By Alice Eversmon

An anniversary of signifi-
canoe to countless people in
Europe and in this country
will be celebrated this week.
It is momentous to so many
because it started an activity
and a philanthropy that has
been dispensed impartially in
various parts Of the musical
world. Through this means
interest has been awakened
and stimulated in what up to
that time was a little appre-
ciated branch of music by free
concerts to the public, awards
to the artists and promoters,
and monetary returns to COM
posers.
In 1918. Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge presented her first
Berkshire Festival of Chamber
Music in the Temple on South
Mountain, Pittsfleld, Mass.
Now, 35 years later. the in
auguration of that series will
be commemorated with pro-
grams in the Temple on We'd
nesday. Thursday and Friday.
For the first time in the his
tory of these festivals, the con-
certS will be sponsored by the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Foundation in the Library of
Congress. Frequently in the
past, the foundation has sub
sidized one or two of the events
held on South Mountain but
complete underwriting has
been reserved for the concert
series given in the Library.
New Works Heard
The establishment by Mrs.
Coolidge Of a foundation in
the Congressional Library was
the outgrowth of the Pitts
field Festivals held each fall
from 1918 to 1924. During
that period II new works were
premiered and eight given a
first American performance.
Desiring to give permanency
to a philanthropy which had
melted a remarkable response
from both public and artists.
she offered, in 1924, to con-
struct a chamber music hall
in the Library of Congress.
Her proposal was accepted by
the Government and in 1925,
the concerts that have won
world renown were started in
the new Coolidge Auditorium.
The South Mountain Festi-
walls have been held intermit-
tently since the establishment
Of the foundation in the Lii
brary. Only three have been
presented since 1924, the last
in 1888, the others in 1928
and 1884. The programs Of
Of these concerts, as well as
those in the Library, have in
cluded many works dedicated
to Mrs. Coolidge. Awards
were bestowed at each festival
on South Mountain on a COM
poser of an outstanding cham
ber music work and the prac-
tice has continued at the Lii
brary with the addition Of
awards to performers Of cham
Der music.
To Repeot EorIy Works
This weeks festival of five
concerts will have many of
those early awarded works or
those heard for the first time
in this country on the pro-
grams. The newest compost
tion will be Honegger's Con-
certo da Camera" for flute,
English norm, and piano, COM
pleted in 1948, and to be played
on Thursday morning by James
Pappoutsakis, Louis Speyer.
and Paul Ulanowsky. Com
Evening star., 1953-09-20
A. u. Orchestra
In Second Season

The American University
Orchestra, under the direction
of George Steiner, assistant
professor of music at the Uni
versity, announces the opening
of it's second season. The per-
formances will be devoted to
major and unusual compost
tions for chamber orchestras.
Registration for all instru-
ments will begin on Thursday.
Full college credit for partici-
patton in the orchestra may
now be received by students
working toward degrees. Par
ticipation without credit is
open to all amateur musicians
who qualify.
There will be a series of five
Friday night concerts. The
first program on November
20 will include Brahms Ser
enade No. l" and Mendels-
sohn's "Sinfonia No. TX" for
strings. Rehearsals will be
Thursday nights, beginning
October l. Musicians inter-
ested in joining the orchestra
should contact Mr.. Steiner at
the Music Department Of the
American University.
Evening star., 1953-09-20
The Mozart Trio
To Tour Europe

The Mozart Trio will make
it's first European tour begin
ming November 2 in Lisbon.
From there the group. consist
ing of Barbara Troxell, So
prano; John Yard and Joseph
Collins, baritones, and Paul
Higinbotham. pianist, will go
to Madrid and on to Paris,
Vienna, Salzburg (Mozarteum
concert) and other cities in
Austria and Italy.
The group will perform Mo-
zart's music, although most
American artists, appearing
abroad in concerts sponsored
by America House and En-
bassies, play American music.
In the Trio'S case an excep-
ton has been made.
The. New York debut in Car
negie Recital Hall in 1850 led
to successful concert tours
throughout the country in
major universities. Mr.. Yard
and Mr.. Collins, longtime
residents of this city are the
founders. Mozart's amusing
operetta "Das Bandel," dis
covered at an informal gath
ering, prompted them to or
f. ganize, and to arrange a
full-length program, since the
material lent itself so we'll for
the combination of the two
: baritones with a soprano.
Evening star., 1953-09-20
Artists Oil Paintings
Done on Aluminium

NEW YORK.-Artist Leon
Messina. Queens Village, N. Y.
recently exhibited eight oil
paintings on aluminium. He
says they are everlasting" It
has taken him six years to
perfect his method. He has
tested and retested his paint
ings under various types Of
weather conditions.
In addition to standing
wear and tear better than
canvas. Messina says. his
paintings have more life, bril-
lance, and certain metallic
finish that gives transparency
to the colorS.' Il
Evening star., 1953-09-20
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MuSICIOnS

The Washington Chapter Of
Mu Phi Epsilon will meet to-
morrow at the home of Sylvia
Meyer. 1853 p street NV. A
program win be given by Miss
Meyer, Lola Faust, soprano,
and James Faust, tenor.
Tickets for the performance
Of 'The Whirlwind," music by
Alma Grayce Miller and libret-
to by Earl Hague. are on sale
at the Talbert Ticket Office in
the Willard Hotel, the Dale
Music Co., Silver Spring, Md;
kits Music Store, Alexandria,
Va; Swiller's Music Store.
Clarendon. Va; Potomac Piano
Store, Cherrydale, Va, and the
Porter Studios, Falls Church.
Va. The opera will be given
Wednesday and Thursday
nights in Washington Lee
High School auditorium at
$3.50 pm
The Alexandria Civic Or
chestra, DR.. Wendell Margrave,
conductor, will hold the first
rehearsal of its ninth season
Wednesday at 8 pm. in the
bandroom of George Wash
ington High School. A concert
with q guest artist is planned
for the first week in December.
Mrs. Clinton Young, presi-
dent of the Civic Orchestra,
announced the recent forma-
ton Of an orchestra committee
to act as advisers and give
leadership in the development
of the Orchestra Association.
City Councilman Frank E.
Mann is chairman, serving
with Mrs. Patrick Hayes and
Mrs. Jay WalZ.
The Euphonic Chorale,
Henry Brooks Shepard, con-
ductor, will appear in concert
in Galbraith Church Friday at
$3.50 pm.
The YWCA announces classes
In sight reading Wednesdays
at z pm. and sight reading at
the piano on Saturday after
Moons. Two Interpretation
courses will be given by Frank
Sykora, cellist of the Balti-
more Symphony and formerly
on the faculty of the Chicago
Conservatory. He, will conduct
understanding Music" Thurs
days at Z pm. and "Know
Your Symphonies" Thursdays
at 8 pm. All classes will be
for a period of 10 weeks be-
ginning September %. Regis
tration can be made during the
day or evening.
Evening star., 1953-09-20

panioning it will be Villa
Lobos' trio, dedicated to Mrs.
Coolidge and played first on
the Founders Day program in
1945 in the Library. For this
and the Mozart Trio in E
fiat, K. $685." the artists will
be Alexander Schneider. Mil
tor Katims, and Frank Miller.
In the afternoon, Brahms
"Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65,"
will be sung by the Hufstader
Singers under the direction Of
Robert Hufstader. When the
work was performed at South
Mountain on September %,
1923, the singers were Mabel
Garrison, Elena Gerhardt,
George Meader, and the late
Reinald Werrenrath. Mrs. Coo
lidge. together with Coenraad
v. Bos and Kurt SCHNEIDER.
supplied the piano accompani-
ment. Wallingford Riegger'S
La Belle dame sans merci,"
awarded the Berkshire Cham
ber Music Prize in 1924, will
be given by four of the HUI
stader soloists and an instru-
mental octet Other vocal num-
bers will be Beethoven's set
tings of British and Italian
songs, and Barber's Dover
Beach" The program con-
cludes with Schubert's Der
Hirt auf dem Felsen," for
flute. clarinet. and piano.
Beethoven, Too
The Kroll String Quartet
and members of the Berkshire
Quartet will revive Frank
Bridges "Sextet," played first
on September q, 1923, on the
Friday morning concert. The
two groups combine in Georges
Enesco's octet" program
med on the same date 33 years
ago. Beethoven's Quartet in
E fiat, op. o." separates the
contemporary works. The
festival finishes Friday after
noon with the performance Of
a movement of Mrs. Coolidge's
String Quartet in E Minor"
transcribed for string orchestra
by the late Frederick Stock.
Also programmed Friday
afternoon are Respighi'S "Trit-
tico Botticelliano," dedicated
to Mrs. Coolidge and premiered
on September 81, 1928. and
Hindemith's music for the
ballet, "Herodiade," commits
stoned by Mrs. Coolidge and
performed by Martha Graham
and her company in the Lii
brary in 1914. The presenta-
ton at South Mountain will be
in an orchestral form with
Vera Zorina taking the part
of narrator. Another orches-
tral work, Stravinsky's "Apol-
Ion musagete." completes the
list. It's premiere, in the
Coolidge Auditorium in 1927,
was conducted by the late Hans
Kinder and served as his in
PRODUCTION as orchestra leader
to the Washington public he
was to serve so long as founder
and conductor of the National
Symphony.
Opens Wednesday
The festival opens with q
program Wednesday afternoon
by the Berkshire String Quar-
tet. Alone the group will play
Schubert's Quartet in D
Minor" It will be followed by
Arnold Bax's oboe quintet with
the participation of Albert
Sprague Coolidge, son of Mrs.
Coolidge, playing the oboe.
Nathan Gordon, violist, and
Avron Twerdowsky, cellist, of
the Kroll Quartet will Join the
Berkshire artists in Brahms
NCay&oA Il. y a. - 1oO
Evening star., 1953-09-20
SoIoists
Orchestru's Guests
Announce Proqurms

OF the National Symphony Or
chestra, is not yet ready to
release the full programs for
the coming season. Work on
tabulating the QUESTIONABLE,
sent out earlier this summer,
Is still in progress at Ameri-
can University and the results
may influence his program Sc
lections.
The numbers to be presented
by the symphony's Soloists are
at hand. however. Both the
Even and the Odd series of
Wednesday night concerts will
be opened by singers. George
London is the first, presenting
the Coronation Scene" Mon
ologue." "Clock Scene" Death
of Boris" from Moussorgsky's
Boris Godounov" on october
81, with the choirs of the
National Presbyterian Church,
Theodore Schaefer. conduc-
tor. singing the "Polonaise"
and taking part in the "Coro-
nation Scene"
Astrid Varney chooses
ocean Thou Mighty Monster"
from Weber's "Oberon," and
the "Monologue" from Strauss
"Elektra" for the october %
program. Soloists for Han
del's Messiah" on December
9 are Phyllis Curtin, soprano;
Beatrice Krebs, contralto; John
McCollum, tenor, and Edwin
Steffe, baritone, singing with
the choirs of First Baptist,
Harwood V. Hall, conductor;
First Congregational, Whitford
L. Hall, director; Mount Ver-
non Place Methodist. r. Deane
Shure, director. and New York
Avenue Presbyterian Churches,
Stephen H. Prussing, director.
The Howard University Choir,
Warner Lawson, director, with
Helen Vlashek, soprano; Rilla
Rowe Mervine, contralto;
Jacob Barkin, tenor, and
Fague Springman. baritone, as
soloists, sing in Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony" on April
ID.
Vronsky and Babin are the
first pianistS to appear Novem-
ber II in Bach's Concerto for
Two Pianos" and Lopatnikoff'S
Concerto for Two Pianos"
Rudolf Serkin plays Beetho-
ven's Concerto No. 4 in G
Major" November 18; William
Kapell, Chopin's Concerto in
E Minor" and de Falla's
Nights in the Gardens Of
SPAIN" on January 13; Ellen
Ballon, Villa-Lobos' Con-
certo," January 20; Maryan
Filar, Chopin's Concerto in
F Minor" February IT; Artur
Rubinstein, Brahms "Con-
certo No. /. D Minor" Febru-
airy "a; Gina Bachauer. Pro-
kof1eff's Concerto No. g."
March "a; Oscar Levant,
Tschaikowsky's Concerto No.
/, B Flat" on March 81.
Julian Olevsky makes his
local debut in the Brahms
violin concerto on December
Is; Werner Lywen plays the
Mendelssohn concerto Decem-
ber 80; Isaac Stern will be
heard in the Bach Concerto in
A Minor" and the Prokofief
first violin concerto February
10; and Heifetz plays the Bee
thoven concerto March II.
Vronsky and Babin and Miss
Bachauer will repeat their
solos on the Lisner concerts
of November 5 and March Is
respectively. Leopold Stokow-
ski conducts the orchestra at
the LiSner on January 7 and
Beethoven's Ninth Sym
phony" with singers will be
repeated there on April Is.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
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>GaM@;zz1

TURNAB0UT. If US. taxi drivers think
they have it rough with heavy traffic and
complaining passengers, let them ponder the
problems of cabbies in Budapest, Hungary.
According to NeWs From Behind the Iron Cur
tain, published by the National Committee
For Free Europe, they are told to spy on
their passengers and report any anti-regime
sentiments. To their credit the cabbies haven't
co-operated, but now they've become victims
of an ronic reversal: the management has
begun to plant agents in the'guise of passen-
gers to spy on the drivers!
FINS. We think we've found stopper for
what might have become ''this-could-go-
on-forever" department. As you may know,
several items about odd US. place names have
appeared in this column. The last featured
Knockemstif, Ohio, and we really thought
it wO4H be the last. But now we hear from
Ernest ]. Parkin of Arlington, Va. who has
sent in list of AZ places located near state
boundaries which derive their names from
those of the adjoining states" Here are Is
pl(hCO at LoIL>IOAl AbC\1OC lOA yOOu WAuCu
states they're derived from: Alaf1ora, Texla,
Calzona, Utida, Monida, Kensee. Artex,
Texico, Moark, Idmon, Calada, Tennemo.
Tennga, Orcal and Uvada.
LAST RESORT. Have you ever felt so deeply
depressed that you didn't know where to turn?
If 50, chances are you eventually solved your
own problems, or got help from someone else.
But many thousands of Americans choose
another way out each year - and they're the
ones who are listed as suicides. Next week
young woman necessarily anonymous) tells
how desperation led her to make an attempt
on her own life. Her step-by-step story, Il
Tried Suicide" was told to reporter Lester
David. The lessons she learned might help
someone you know. The EDITORS