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Evening star., 1953-11-14
To Fete Students

Active and alumnae members
of Phi Delta Delta Legal Sorority
will entertain women freshman
law students attending the
George Washington University
School of Law at a reception to-
morrow at the home of Mrs
Ella Cooper Thomas.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Concert Planned

A concert will be given for
the Women's City Club tomor-
row by Miss Gunvor Santelius.
lyric soprano. who is with the
Swedish Embassy. and Gran
vile Klink. teen-age pianist.
Miss Helen r. Robichaux.
music chairman of the club. has
arranged the program which will
begin at pm.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Michiqun AIumnue

The University of Michigan
Alumnae Association will hold
it's November meeting at pm.
Monday in the home of Mrs. w.
C. Mendenhall, 9 Lenox street.
Chevy Chase. Md. There will be
a discussion of Washington jobs
in the field of economics.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Brunch Tomorrow

A brunch for Hillel students at
George Washington University
will be sponsored by the Inde-
pendence Chapter of B'nai Birth
at II am. tomorrow at the Hillel
House on the university campus.
Rabbi Aaron B. Siedman will be
guest speaker.
Mrs. Burton Dorfman is HilleI
chairman of the independence
Chapter, and is in charge of
arrangements.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Announcement

Retired Coast Guard Comdr.
and Mrs. William Homer Carroll
of Silver Spring announce the
engagement of their daughter
Brearley EnStone to Ensign
Robert Earl Wilson, U. S. N.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wesley James Wilson, Oakland,
Calf. The wedding will take
place in early summer.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
1947 Magazine Story
Says Eisenhower Met
White in Conference
BY the Associuted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. IA for
mer Treasury Department aide
wrote in a magazine article six
years ago that President Eisen-
hover met Harry Dexter White
in 1914 at Gen. Eisenhower's
headquarters in Southern Eng
land.
At his press conference last
Wednesday, the President said
he had never met White and
knew nothing about him.
The point arose as result OF
Attorney General Brownelrs
charge that former President
Truman promoted White, a
Treasury official now dead. after
the FBI reported White was a
Soviet spy.
The article, appearing in the
March, 1947, issue Of United
Nations World" was written by
Fred Smith. former assistant
to ex-Treasury Secretary Henry
Morgenthau. Mr.. Smith said he
was present at a meeting of Gen.
Eisenhower, Mr.. Morgenthau and
White when future policy toward
Germany was discussed.
In Ottawa, Canada, where Gen.
Eisenhower was visiting today.
a spokesman said the President
would have no comment on the
matter.
Existence Of the article was
first reported yesterday by the
New York Post.
Describes 1914 Meeting.
The article pictures Gen.
Eisenhower as favoring a stern
policy toward Germany, along
with White and Mr.. Morgenthau.
1t begins:
"On August 7, 1914, at approx
mately 12:35 pm. in a tent in
Southern England, the Morgen-
thau plan was born. Actually it
was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
who launched the project.
THE subject first came up at
lunch in Gen. Eisenhower's mess
tent.
white said, What I think is
that we should give the entire
German economy an opportunity
to settle down before we do any
thing about it.
Here Eisenhower became
grim. and made the statement
that actually sparked the Ger
man hardship plan"
The article explains that Mr..
Morgenthau's plan was to make
Germany an agricultural nation.
without industrial war potential.
The Post, in disclosing the
article, quoted almost in entirety
the first 500 words of the article.
which covered the only meeting
mentioned between Gen. Eisen-
hover and White.
NnhTBcS wrong SIant.
Reached in st. Louis, Mr..
Smith confirmed that the meet
ing took place. but said that the
Post put "the wrong slant on it
by pulling one piece out of quite
a lengthy article which at
tempted to show this seed Of an
idea grew into a whole plan
under the highly astute guidance
of Harry White
And Eisenhower just put one
brick into it without knowing he
put the brick there. They (White
and MorgenthauO we're able to
parlay Eisenhower's apparent in
terest into quite a project before
they got through.
"All Of my records are in New
York. but to the best of my
memory this is the way 1t is"
Mr.. Smith added: Another
misleading thing is Eisenhower
had nothing to say about making
Germany an agrarian nation.
The plan apparently was de-
veloped later"
What 1 was attempting to do
in that story was to show how
the rudiments Of this thing that
eventually became the Morgen-
thau plan was apparently
hatched in Harry Whites mind.
Ne sold 1t to the Secretary (Mor-
nanthau) and then when we saw
Evening star., 1953-11-14
-HarriS-EwinR Photo.

Miss Patricia Maureen Wise.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
c. Wise of Falls Church, became
the bride on November 10 Of
Sergt. 1/c Franklyn w. Hook.
He is the son of Mrs. Clarissa
Hook Ellison also of Falls Church.
The ceremony took place at
st. James Church with the Rev.
John Rea officiating. There was
a reception at Evans Coffee
Shop. Sergt. and Mrs. Hook will
reside in Arlington.
Evening star., 1953-11-14

tice, how would the Supreme
Court look at it?"
II guess that answers the
question. But don't think Harry
could have done what you say
if he got up there before that
committee"
why not?"
Can you imagine Harry refus-
ing to talk! Why. he'd have
blown the roof off! Somebody
would remind him or he'd re-
member for himself that Attor-
ney General Brownell had said he
promoted a man after he knew
the man was a Russian spy.
Think he'd stand on his consti-
tutional right to ignore that?
Not Harry! Here he's been fight
ing the Communists all around
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Chest Lag Continues
With S3,11O,155
Of S4 Million Goal

The Community Chest cam
paign continues to run behind
last years fund drive, which
failed to meet its quota.
Report luncheons held yes
terday by the Business and Gov
ernment units brought the cur
rent total of gifts and pledges
to $3,110.155, or TITS per cent of
the goal.
Last year at this point. SO, ,168.-
816 or 1886 per cent of the goal,
had been achieved. The 1852
quota was $4.150,000. The 1853
goal is 81 million.
New contributions brought the
Government total to $1.390.473.
or 83 per cent of it's $1,674.712
quota. Interior Secretary Nc
Kay. who presided at the Gov
ernment volunteer workers
luncheon, warned that "the
last II per cent are the hardest. !"
He called on the volunteers to
work hard to get the remainder
needed in the nine working days
left before Thanksgiving. target
date for the end of the drive.
70 Pct. of Business Quota.
The Business unit reported
1927 ,535. The advance Business
unit reported 1892, ,299. The COM
bined percentage for business
houses was 10, compared to 76 at
this time last year.
Twenty-nine Oscars" SYM
bols of 100 per cent of quota
reached, were awarded to Gov
ernment divisions. The winning
Offices and the campaign workers
who accepted the awards. were: j:
FBI, w. Richard Glavin; Office
OF the Treasurer of the United
States. Joe Haight; Veterans Ad-
ministration General Counsel's
office, D. c. Byrd; VA Assistant
Administrators Office, Ralph
Webster.
In Health Offices.
Also these offices of the De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare:
Medical and Surgical Branch
OF st. Elizabeth's Hospital, DR.
Watson w. Eldridge; Chiefs
Office. Bureau of Medical Serv-
ices. Dorothy Schmidt; Nursing
Resources Division, Bureau of
Medical Services. Dorothy White
head; State Services, Chronic
Diseases and tuberculosis, Mary
Sage.
Also, Occupational Health Di-
vision, Public Health Education
Division, Carlyn Bingham: Pub
lie Health Nursing Division, Eve
lyn Hill.
Also, the Personnel, Library
and Immediate Office of the
Secretary. Ellen Commons.
8 Food and Drug Oscars.
Eight sections OF the Food and
Drug Administration also won
Oscars. They are:
Commissioners Office. Mrs.
Agnes Connolly: Cosmetic Di-
vision, Miss Anaraku Mischi;
Field Operations. Mrs. Hilda
Kurse: Pharmaceutical Chemis-
try Mrs. Edna Weihe: Food Di-
vision, Miss Ida Crazi; Program
Research. Miss Ezaltina Moniz:
Regulatory Management, Miss
Lois Gibson. and State Cooper
alton. Miss Nancy Scott.
Three divisions in the Health,
Education and Welfare Depart
ment Office of Vocational Reha-
bilitation also went over the top.
They were headed by Miss Mary
E. Sweitzer. Miss Helen Hollings-
worth, and Morris lyman.
Also, the Small Business Ad-
ministration, Wendell Barnes;
Federal Reserve System Board
of Governors, Clarke l.. Fauver,
and the Home Loan Bank Board,
j Francis Moore.
| Commerce Secretary Weeks
gave an Oscar to the Patent
Office, represented by Assistant
Commissioner of Patents Mrs.
Daphne Leeds.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Cocktail Purtv

The Evening Branch OF the
National Council Of Jewish
Women will hold a membership
cocktail party from to 8 pm.
tomorrow in the Gold Room of
The Woodner.
Evening star., 1953-11-14

Dance Tonight
The Virginia Society will have
a dance at the Sheraton Carl
ton Hotel at 10 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Lowell MeHett-

"The President certainly made
you look foolish" said the Old
Timer.
Evening star., 1953-09-19
Hollow Triumph

Some people are hailing the victory by
Robert F. Wagner, jr. in New York City's Demo-
cratic mayoralty primary as a triumph for
liberalism" But it is hard to see what they
have to cheer about.
Only Is per cent of the eligible voters cast
ballots for Mr.. Wagner. If this is triumph
for anything, it is strictly in the relative sense,
since Mr.. Wagner'S opponent, Mayor Impellitteri,
got only about per cent of the potential vote.
The interesting question is what happened
to the IS per cent of the Democrats who might
have voted but who chose to stay away from
the polls. When this sort of thing happens in
some of our Southern States, the liberals have
a ready explanation: poll tax. But it is not
supposed to happen in New York City, where
there is no poll tax.
One guess is as good as another. There is
reason to believe however, that IS per cent of
the voters stayed home simply because they felt
they were not offered any real choice. Both
candidates were backed by old-line political
machines, and New York City has suffered
grievously from poor machine administrations.
Perhaps the general election in November will
provide an opportunity to vote for something
better. If so, the voters may turn out then in
force.
Evening star., 1953-09-19
Judge James M. Proctor

It has been more than 81 years since
CASTOR B. Means, Swindler extraordinary, stood
before Judge James M. Proctor in District
Court awaiting sentence
Means had been convicted of stealing
$1O4, 900 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean in the
Lindbergh baby ransom hoax. During the trial
his attitude had bordered on arrogance. But
all of this was gone as he stood before the
stern-faced judge and heard sentence pro-
nounced-15 years in the Federal penitentiary.
This was the first case of national i'm
portance to come before Judge Proctor, who
had been named to the bench two years earlier.
Since then, there have been many others. But
throughout the years. both in the trial court
and in the United States Court of Appeals, there
was no deviation from the pattern set in the
Means case-the pattern of judge who took
seriously his duty to administer justice,
procedures of the law and who would tolerate
no disrespect on the part of others in his
courtroom.
With all this, Judge Proctor had his warmly
human side. Of the bench, though often
plagued by illness, he was courteous, conSiderate
and helpful. To young reporter, new to the
courts, he seemed forbidding figure while on
the bench. This merely served however, to
enhance the pleasure of meeting the friendly
man who sat in his ShirtSleeves in chambers on
q warm summer day.
native Washingtonian, Judge Proctor was
the only member of the appellate bench who
had moved up from the trial court. And his
experience as trial Judge in this Jurisdiction
Evening star., 1953-09-19
Congress and Crime

congressional concern over the amount of
laWlesSnesS in Washington was reflected in
Representative Burr HarriSonS comments on
local conditions before an interclub group in
Danville, Virginia. Congress has right to be
concerned, for as our Legislature, it shares with
District authorities the responsibility for sup
pressing crime in the Nations Capital 1t must
also share the blame for conditions resulting
from any failure to supply the city with the
weapons needed to combat crime. The Virginia
Representative neglected to mention the i'm
portant role that Congress plays in local law
enforcement.
There is no question as to the seriousness of
the crime situation in Washington. Mr.. Harri-
son did not exaggerate when he described as
"a national disgrace" the sharp rise in criminal
offenses last year, particularly in the "aggra-
vated assault" category. The latter classical
tion includes attacks with switch-blade knives,
pistols or other deadly weapons. The Congress-
man, according to news reports, blamed the
upSWing of such outlawry on "a history of token
penalties from judges apparently unwilling to
deal sternly with offenders" There is con-
siderable Justification for this criticism as ap-
piled to some judges.
But the big increase in muggings, house.
breakingS and robberies during the past fiscal
year occurred after Congress had cut off funds
which the Police Department had been using
to put more patrolmen in the chief trouble spots
The money was denied Chief Murray despite
his warnings that it meant fewer men on the
beats. Part of the funds, although earmarked
for salaries of new officers had been used to
advantage to pay volunteer policemen for
sixth day of work Cutting off of this money
was tantamount to reducing the size of the
police force at a very critical time
Confronted with evidence of the alarming
result of its false economy, Congress at the past
session not only restored the recruitment funds
but granted general pay raise for policemen.
1t also materially strengthened the criminal
laws. A noticeable improvement in crime con-
ditions has taken place since the assignment of
more patrolmen to street duty, especially at
night. Just as it cannot escape from sharing
the blame when lawlessnesS rises, Congress has
a right to point with pride to the better con-
ditions prevailing here today in the law-enforce-
ment field
Evening star., 1953-09-19
KipIine Abused

Most of us at some time artlessly ap-
propriate workable quotations for our
own uses. Just now am referring to the
September 13 issue of This Weeks
"Words to Live By" The heading is:
"Kipling Was Wrong"
Kipling was not wrong! Yet future
generations will continue to abuse the
famous lines from "a Ballad of East
and West as ingenuously as the past
has done and the present is doing.
Let us see what unfinished reading
and switching a period into the place
of comma at the end of the second
line can do toward creating a mis-
conception and a half-truth.
"Oh. East is East. and West is West,
and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently
at Gods great Judgment seat;
But there is neither East nor West,
Border. nor Breed, nor Birth
When two strong men stand face TO
face, tho they come from the ends
of the earth!"
This stanza holds too brave truth
to be distorted. Moreover, the ballad
Evening star., 1953-09-19
This and That !.

There is no use in butting your head
against the wall of this mans ideas
of the novel.
He had more ideas, probably, than
any other writer who ever lived.
There can be no question that his
ideas about his own work held him
back at least in acceptance by the
average reader.
Now, the average reader reads for
amusement, no matter what he reads.
Information, art a sense OF construc-
ton and plot-these are secondary, as
far as the reader is concerned.
He wants a story, and he wants it
to move.
Too many asides, as it were, too
much concern with the art" OF novel
writing, may get in the way OF the
narrative.
With the publication of James note
books, every faithful James reader has
the opportunity of seeing how he re-
manned faithful to himself.
He had a vision of the novel as an
art form
He had it when he began writing,
and he had it when he died.
His conception was that novel
should not be just story but work
of art. embodying certain rules and
regulations Everything in the story
was to hold fast to these, at the same
time the story was told.
Most modern writer's of novels never
heard of James rules. They mean
nothing to them The idea of novel
as art, rather than narrative true to
life. is something many of them will
sneer at, regarding such an idea as
wholly unnecessary.
Evening star., 1953-09-19
More on the Weston Case

Undoubtedly your editorial on the
Ross Weston acquittal for contempt OF
court will evoke many answers.
Let me take only one sentence: Fur
thermore, if he (Weston) is concerned
about these days of fear and hysteria'
he should give serious thought to the
extent to which such sermons as his
are calculated to foster fear and hys-
terra"
I suppose you mean that he should
keep quiet. Keep quiet like all the other
ministers in Arlington did-and do
while we who are Federal employees are
kicked around by officialdom.
Weston. you indicate. should keep
his nose out of our affairs. Second
class citizens are no concern of their
ministers. Inequality of rights and
privileges of an Arlington citizen
should not interest the pulpit. Control
of the judiciary by whatever political
organization, or for whatever purpose,
should be overlooked by the ministry.
Charles E. PIanck.
Editors note: The editorial did
not suggest that Mr.. Weston should
keep quiet. The suggestion was that
fear and hysteria are apt to be fOs-
tered by the eXtravagant and eXag-
gerated character of the language
used in his sermon.)
Evening star., 1953-09-19
PoIoeoIithic Art

A new chapter has been added to the history
of art-at the front of the book. This is the fair
inference of disclosures recently made through
the Illustrated London News by Mrs Jole Mar
conf Bovio, superintendent of antiquities at
Palermo in Sicily. Nine of a series of photo
graphs made in cave on Monte Pellegrino tell
the story. They show rock engravngs evidently
executed at time when Scandinavian Europe
still was covered by Arctic glaciers. Some of the
pictures represent animals comparable with
those of the caves of the Dordogne in France
and Altamira and Lerida in Spain. Included in
the "menagerie" are oxen, deer and horses.
But still more interesting is a sequence
of sketches of human beings-spirited engrav-
ings of men and women as accurately drawn as
the unknown artist of the Old Stone Age could
manage to do them In the center of the
mural" are two athletes performing an aero
batic routine resembling that of the jumpers
or vaulters of the Minoan culture of Knossos
in Crete Around these figures are a number
of dancing spectators constituting chorus OF
Sort each of the dancers wearing mask
stimulating the head of a bird Mrs. Marconl
Bovio interprets the scene as being ritualistic.
The narrative quality of the overall compost
tion certainly suggests that it deals with an
incident of more than average significance to
the artist. He not only was skilled; he likewise
was in earnest. Able Breuil, great authority
in such matters, has declared the Monte Pelle-
grino discovery "a new capital fact"
The Illustrated London News stresses the
accidental character of the revelation of the
engravings. They came to light as result of
the explosion of "a few shells which had been
found in the cave and whose demolition was
ordered by the command of the allied forces
in Italy" Thus World War II chalks up another
cultural plus. Less violent procedures might
have opened the "lost" gallery of prehistoric
Sicilian art, but they did not In any case the
calendar Of esthetics has been supplemented
notably, pushed back centuries, possibly thou
sands of years.
Evening star., 1953-09-19
Fluoridution

May I, former resident of Seattle,
Wash, which voted down the fuorida-
ton of our water supply over to l,
answer Murray Churchill's letter with
facts, not fancies We went into the
matter thoroughly and didn't confuse
the issue with such irrelevant matters
as pasteurized milk and boiled water.
The people got the facts and decided
they didn't want any part of it.
WHAT'S this fluoride? Before the big
boom of wholesale poisoning of water.
it was used only as rat poison and
laundry bleach. From the magazine
Chemical Week. July Z. 1851, entitled
Water Boom for Fluorides
per cent of the Nations water is now
treated; thus the market potential has
huoride chemical makers goggle-eyed
-. Standing to benefit from the boom
are chemical companies and equipment
firms. Most of these firms are now
aiming sales campaigns at municipal
water authorities. It adds up to a nice
piece Of business on all sides. :"
Chlorine and f1uorides, which Mr..
Churchill mentions in the same breath,
have no similarity whatever Chlorine
is not absorbed into the tissues. It kills
the bacteria and when drawn from the
faucet evaporates some and can be
eliminated entirely by boiling. Not so
with huorideS, which are absorbed by
the body tissues.
From the Congressional Record,
March "a, 1894 check of vital
statistics of Grand Rapids, Mich,
which is the only city of size that has
had artificial f1uoridation for more
than years, shows that the death rate
from heart disease rose from 585 in
1914 to 1859, and in kidney ailments
and brain LESSONS it rose so per cent
in the same period"
Hydro1uoric acid cannot be shipped
in either glass bottles or metal con-
tainerS because it will penetrate, cor
rode or eat its way through a glass
bottle in a very limited time. When
this acid is added to sodium you have
the sodium fluoride used in your drink
ing water. In an aluminium plant in
the State of Washington the by
product, sodium fluoride, drained off
into a stream nearby, killed all the
surrounding vegetation and the cattle
that drank the water.
We are told that the amount we get
is the right amount" but no two
people drink the same amount, nor
the same amount in winter as in sum-
mer, so who can determine what is
the right" dosage for any one? Also,
the best f1uoridation can promise is
help for children up to 8 or 10 years,
which is only 10 per cent of the popu-
lation. And of the whole water supply
only per cent is used for drinking,
so 10 per cent of the per cent means
only one-half of per cent of the
f1uorides is used-a waste of 99.5 per
cent. Why not have fluoridated milk
or bottled water for the children and
save that enormous expense? Also,
the prime causes of tooth decay
candy. soft drinks. refined foods. faulty
nutrition and oral neglect-cannot be
overcome by fluoridated water.
twenty-five years ago the Public
Health Service recommended the uni
versal use Of iodine in drinking water.
Later on it was discovered that iodine
affected people with golfers and it was
discontinued. Today fluorideS which
affect heart. kidneys and brain are
being forced down our throats, but 25
years from now we may not be around
to testify to its effects.
Gail A. Gideon.
Evening star., 1953-09-19
Vienette

His shop below the hill Is small.
compact:
Pretension has no room to dtDeu NTH
him,
His tools. his plans, his measurements
enact,
The furniture he makes is chdste and
trim.
Credtiuely he deals NTH ,0ood to use
It's rugged strength in weH-concetred
design,
REJECTING sham, his craftsman hands
refuse
To mar clean simplicity OF line.
He oipes himself to euery piece he
makes,
According each his skill, his time, his
thought:
IJnerrinoly. NTH patient hands. ne
lOdkeS
The Uood to charm: its character IS
caught, =.
And in his finished Uork. t0hen placed
on UieD,
The character of him is captured. too.
Florence Pedieo Jonsson
Evening star., 1953-09-19

Taft-Hartley Act that will satisfy
labor"
Why should any labor act be ex-
pected to satisfy labor?
Do we expect the taxpayers to be
satisfied with the tax laws? Do we
expect motorists to be satisfied with
the traffic regulations? Do we expect
the criminal elements to be satisfied
with the penal laws? Does any law
ever please everybody? The answer to
all these questions, of course, is: mo"
The respective laws. however, were not
made to please the individuals or
groups concerned but for the good
of the people as a whole.
Let's forget this talk about satisfying
labor and amend the law, if necessary,
for the good of the country.
George d. WatrOus, Jr.