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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-15
Letters to The Star.

in smaller places to purchase their drug
store items in many instances at prices
below the full price which would pre-
vail should fair trade not exist. While
new antibiotic drugs are expensive when
first put on the market there is a log
ical reason due to the enormous amount
of research. These prices rapidly de-
cline due to increased use and produc-
ton methods. For instance, penicillin
has declined over IS per cent since first
introduced. It must also be remembered
that before an item can be fair traded
it must be in open competition with
similar products. The highly competi-
tive pharmaceutical industry keeps
prices as low as possible, consistent
with sound business principles.
think the good doctor should also
remember that the medical dollar to-
day buys more than could ever be
imagined 20 years ago, and that the
life span has been greatly increased.
due to medical and pharmaceutical and
allied sciences research. This. in the
main. must be done by private indus
try. as the American way of life would
have it. Also. America is ahead in re-
search work and will no doubt remain
ahead so long as we do not become en-
tangled in socialized medicine and the
evils that go with it. A fair profit is
necessary for the pharmacist, the doc
tor, the lawyer and other businesses and
professions, if they are to survive and
pay others a reasonable wage, taxes
and other overhead and not be a ward
Of the state. An analysis by Eli Lilly
of the percentage profit of the state
ments of over 1900 retail drugstores
shows approximately S per cent net
profit. Fair trade is in effect in A
States and the Supreme Court of the
United States has passed on it affirma-
lively. c,. r,.
Retail Pharmacist.
Danville, Va,
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Political Season Opens

The nrSt OF the series OF congressional NOM
mating primaries, or conventions, that will con-
tinue from now until the end of September took
place this week in Illinois without incident or
upset Even the relative lack of interest dis
played by both Republican and Democratic vot-
ers bore out the advance forecasts, although the
November results in Illinois could play large
part in answering the question of which party
is to control the next Congress. One explana-
ton for this apathy is that in the Senate pri-
mary, at least, the Republicans had too many
candidates (nine) whereas the Democrats had
too few (one). It is maxim of politics that a
ballot containing too many names leads to
confusion and diSintereSt on the part of voters.
At the other extreme, where there is no contest,
there is OF course no pressure to get out the VOTE
In any case, the Republican Senate choice
Joseph T. Meek-appears to be a middle-of-
the-roader whose greatest political strength
seems to stem from his long experience as a
lobbyist and head of Statewide retail trade
association. The fact that an almost solid
lineup Of Republican State Senators supported
him in the primary has drawn criticism, but
now that he has won the nomination in such
wide-open race this type of support may serve
to draw the party organization more firmly
behind him. Senator Douglas, unopposed in
the Democratic race, has been critical of 'big
Siders policies of "too little, too late" in COM
batting the current economic showdown. It ap-
pears likely now that the Illinois senatorial
campaign next fall will be fought out on these
domestic political issues.
All Is of the Illinois members in the House
is of them Republicans and nine of them
Democrats-won denomination as expected. To
the national Republican administration there
was encouragement in the victory of Chairman
Chiperfeld of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, veteran of 16 years in Congress, who
was being opposed in his 10Th district on the
ground that he had become an international
ist" Mr.. Chiperf1eld had closer race, however,
than three other House chairmen-Velde of the
Committee on Un-Amercan Activities, Allen of
Rules and Reed Of Judiciary. All Republican
incumbents had opposition on their party tick
cts, while of the nine House Democrats seeking
denomination only Mr. O'Hara of the I'd dis
trict-an easy winner-faced a rival
The meaning here may be that the Repub-
licans have more intraparty fences to repair
than do the Democrats. If this is so, they had
better get on with the task. Senator Douglas,
for example, is strong campaigner with large
personal following in Illinois. Republican
Party divided within itself might fare badly in
November.
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Little Extra for Red Cross

It is disgraceful that the Nations
Capital should lag in meeting it's 1854
Red Cross goal. Contrarily. our city
should be the pacesetter for the entire
Nation.
If every subscriber to the 1854 drive
in Washington would Immediately add
per cent to his original donation Che
it 1c or 81 ,000) we could in "a hours
have Washington set an example for
the entire country.
I have added my additional per
cent. 1 sincerely urge business and in
dividuals to send their additional 5
per cent donations Immediately.
A. G.. NeWmyer.
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Not q Discussion Group

On April TO- The Star carried brief
announcement that the Washington
Ethical Society will discuss To What
Should a Loyal American Be Loyal?'
at its Sunday meeting at the YWCA."
Please permit me- as long -time men,
Der of the society. to note correction.
The Washington Ethical Society does
no discussing at its Sunday morning
meetings. The Ethical Society is a
liberal religious fellowship without any
UNCONVENTIONAL creed or dogma. We
are part of a religious movement which
is now 70 years old. We have societies
in nearly 20 American cities, including
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Chicago. st. Louis and Los Angeles, and
in several cities abroad. We once had
societies in Germany and in countries
now behind the Iron Curtain.
At these meetings we have what the
traditional churches call sermon. but
which we call the address. Our meet
ings have been addressed by scientists,
authors. editors, Government officials,
college professors, ministers of other
churches, and leaders of ethical Socie-
ties in other cities. Our leader here. DR..
George E. Beauchamp, is comparable
to the minister or pastor of tradi-
tional church and is accorded all the
prerogatives of other clergymen. Our
membership consists of men and wom-
en- of all major denominations and Of
no denomination at all. We welcome
all to membership.
We are grateful to The Star for car
rying our announcements. We wish
they were carried with the other reli-
gious news where they belong. but we
are thankful just the same. But we
have no discussions. We just listen and
often draw strength and deep inspira-
ton. Grace WOlfsOhn.
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A Strange Breed Of Men, Our Scientists

Of the greatest rebellion in human his
tory, rebellion against the obvious, re-
bellion against the respectfully sane.
Their lives were the essence of rebellion.
They constituted an intellectual set.
They all knew each other, at least by
correspondence. But most of them,
regardless of country. were actual per-
Sonal friends who exchanged informa-
ton freely.
A few Of them may have lived in
ivory towers. as DR.. j. Robert Open
heimer insists he himself did for some
time. This. certainly. was not the
common pattern. In their personal
lives most were rather worldly. They
went to cocktail parties-and divorced
their wives-about as frequently as
other Americans.
Most Of them served Loyalty during
the war-often in quite dangerous jobs.
It is difficult to say what part patriot
ism played in all this. They certainly
were not shouting flag waivers. For
most Of them, it is likely. adventure
and peril. as such. were more impelling
motives than the particular cause for
which the adventure and peril were
undertaken.
It is safe to say that the very great
majority Of them. even most Of the
Germans, were violently anti-Nazi
because Hitler's whole scheme of things
with it's Stacking of free thought and
expression, was the ultimate of anath-
ema to them. A few unquestionably
were quite sympathetic to communism
as symbol of rebellion. But it seems
doubtful that communism could have
appealed to any of them as body of
dogma.
Without these men there would have
been no atomic bomb. Without them
there would have been no hydrogen
bomb. These discoveries may not be
very consequential in themselves. All
of them are just debris dropped along
the path of new ways of thinking.
The important thing is that these
men first explored the path from the
old reality. in which mans mind has
been immersed for million years, into
the new reality-in which the life of
the future must be lived.
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brought with him great number Of documents
and much oral information.
So the prospect is that something COM
parable to the Canadian spy ring Of 1916 will
be brought to light soon in Australia. One
must assume that there is no security anywhere
except as constant vigilance may insure it. And
it is basically because of this ceaseless Soviet
activity that we have in the United States the
atmosphere OF suspicion and distrust which all
sensitive people deplore.
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He questioned the very capacity Of the
human senses, bound as they were to
three dimensions, to comprehend real
ity. His questionings established the
foundations Of nuclear physics.
Some Of these nuclear scientists were
quite far to the left. A few of them
were quite far to the right. It is
hardly possible that a single one of
them was on dead center. They were
necessarily radicals, one way or another.
More than that. they were rebels.
They were the instigators and soldiers
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Fair Trade

Fair trade is fair trade and, as
pharmacist in the retail drug business
for As years, cannot agree with DR..
Roland Bieren's views on fair trade as
stated in recent letter in The Star.
The statements he made must be due
to misunderstanding of the true facts.
Fair trade, in my opinion, has done
much to stabilize drugstore prices. and
they have had fewer advances in the
last IL years than any other COM
modify. It has not only kept prices
down but has enabled people residing
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Pen-nan1es may be used If letters carry
WriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
Hal Boyle
Says

NEW YORK R-Sidewalk reflec-
tons of a pavement Plato:
If a grinning, skinny old man
wearing a neatly clipped grey mus
tache, pink shirt, and a stylish
charcoal black suit climbs down
your chimney on Christmas Eve,
don't shoot him or phone for the
police.
He may be Santa Claus!
Christmas has gone so modern
istic that, sooner or later. some
one is going to start a movement
to take away old Santa's beard,
put him on a diet and turn him
into a fashion plate.
But do we want that? Would il
really improve Santa Claus to make
him look like one of those neat
crisp fellows in the men of dis
tinction ads?
The great value of Santa Claus
has been that he makes no effor
to keep up with the times, anc
has remained jolly and changeles!
and old-fashioned for centuries
a symbol of selfless kindness.
1t is a mistake to try to mod
ernize great traditions, and Christ
mas is a great tradition. But il
recent years it has been getting
more and more arty and, perhaps
less and less hearty.
Take the Christmas tree itself
Any person of middle age can re
call the shared joy of time wher
decorating the Christmas tree wa!
a matter of family pride. Every
body took part - dad, NON, anS
the kids.
| Practically all the ornament!
were homemade. Remember the
thrill of threading popcorn ant
cranberries to rope the green tree
with strands of white and red:
Remember cutting long slivers O
tinfoil from cigarette wrappers
boarded for months? And remem
Der the moment of ecstacy wher
dad, standing on stepladder, care
fully fastened the cardboard star
covered with tinfoil, to the very
top of the tree?
Probably in thousands of homes
this simple family ritual still goes
on unchanged except that most ol
the ornaments now are bought al
the 10-cent store.
But in many other homes the
Christmas tree has become so arty,
so tortured out of shape, it is un-
recognizable. You 60 into a guys
home and ask what he's doing
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
By Bill Glib

of happiness in the homes of al
coholics at Christmas. 1t is either
all Christmas spirit and happiness,
or it is all Christmas spirits and
misery. For them there is no in
between. My wife and l will visit
many friends during the Christmas
season. OF these, the happiest will
be homes, a dozen or so, where
misery and suffering used to reign
but which has now been replaced
with joy and gladness. These are
the homes where the true Christmas
spirit has brought to the alcoholic
release from the grip of what we
have been calling Christmas spir-
it's and we don't mean ghosts.
In these homes the Christmas tree
may lean little, but father won't
Pat O'Brien, chairman, Louisiana
Commission on Alcoholism.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
Philippines
To Have First
|BullFight

MANILA R-The Philippines Is
going to have Its first bullfight
Dec. 26-and If action in the ring
is as furious as it has been outside
it will be a corker.
The Philippines, although a for
mer colony of Spain, never has
gone in for the Spanish pastime.
And If some legislators, civic
groups and the Society for the
Prevention of Crelty to Animals
had their way, the Philippines
never would.
President r a m o n Magsaysay
with considerable hesitation grant
! ed promoters permission to 60
ahead. Builders began erecting an
arena in Manila's Sunken Gardens,
only 100 yards from the Legislative
Building. >@
When word of this got around,
irate congressman descended on
the promoters. A bullfight only 100
yards from the halls Of Congress
was "undignified."
Work was held up until the con.
gressmen were placated. Then
there was another uproar. Some
opponents argued that the bulls
couldn't be killed. There was a
law against it.
They cited a law against the
slaughter of water buffalo. There
was an out, however. The bulls
are imported, and they are not
water buffalo.
Promoter Jes Cortes, with per.
mission to stage six fights, has
imported a troupe of bullfighters
from Spain and Portugal, and 2s
bulls.
Cortes says the Manila fights
will follow the Spanish and Mexi.
can style. The bulls will be killed.
This has made the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
most unhappy.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20

with q clothes rack In his living
room, and he replies Indignantly:
"What do you mean clothes
rack? That's our Christmas tree"
To make one of these modern
istic Christmas trees, the last thing
in the world you want is an actual
tree. First you need a course IN
expressionism in the nearest art
school. Then you take a stuffed
moose head, and lay q piece Of
bone-white driftwood across its
widespread anuers. Next you tear
apart an old mattress, then attach
the coils of sprinqs to the antlers
with a pair of pliers. I
Man, you've got something - the
most up-to-date Christmas tree in
the block, even if you have to ex-
plain to the neighbors what it is.
The same situation holds true
with Christmas cards. There was
time when you could pick up q
Christmas card and tell what il
was by how it looked and the mess
age printed on it. II you can do
that today, the card is regarded
as a flop.
just opened an envelope on
my desk a moment ago. II held a
card showing q clown seated on
an old soda fountain chair and
bore this message: "Ah, Merri.
ment." 1 assume this is a Christ
mas card, and not an invitation
to the circus. merely because this
is December and the circus isn't
in town.
Well, maybe I'm just getting %
be a middle-aged fosy. But don't
most of us look back to a time
when Christmas, always 4 season
of the Towering spirit, had more
of heart than art in it? Let's make
the modernists keep their paws of
Santa Claus. He's perfect as he Is.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20

Fclco Quileici, author Of "The
Blue Continent" is a professional
photographer who combined his
profession with skin diving to docu-
ment the findings Of the Italian Ma
tional Underwater Expedition in
1852 and 1858. He has done bet
ter Job Of recording with his un'
derwater camera than he did with
q typewriter above ground.
Outlets observations and exper-
fences are interesting to read mere
ly as underwater fun and adven-
ture but the scientific aims of the
group do not sound convincing as
he attempts to tell about them.
On the other hand his photos are
beautiful and in the appendix he
generously lists data for exposure
of color film, black and white, tells
how to use artificial lighting under
water and writes on special effects
The expedition headed for the
Red Sea because il is believed thai
this body of water contains the
greatest variety Of undersea life II
be found. After preliminary train
ing, experimenting and testing O.
| equipment, much of which the
group developed, they were ready
to set out. Preparations for the triI
however. had eaten up much o.
their funds. At this point, another
member of the group, Raimondt
Bucher decided to attempt to breal
the skin diving record of lis fee
| in order to bring publicity ans
money - to the expedition. For
tunately Bucher was successful
diving to 12s feet, and food, more
equipment and money arrived II
time.
One of the goals of the skin div
ers of the group was to determine
just how dangerous sharks are K
swimmers in the water. After sew
eral encounters, their, conclusion
was that a completely submerged
person has a much better chance
than one swimming on the surface
and that sharks that live closer tc
land are less dangerous to mar
than sharks of the open sea.
In collecting vast number oi
specimens of marine life, the grour
hoped to add to mans knowledge
of the underwater world. OUTLETS
''blue continent" the underwater
world, is "a world of such riches
that all the farms and factories
and mines of the exploited and de-
veloped world above the seas could
not provide a tenth of the energy
minerals, and foods Of this new
continent. The human race.
needs a new world to explore anC
develop :" The blue, cOntinen
is that world, Quicili believes, ant
is mans to learn to control ant
harvest. sasts.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
This Rock
Of Ours

"Pat" O'Brien, Of Baton Rouge,
has written an editorial which most
of the Louisiana newspapers have
used. Pat is Chairman of the Louis
lana Commission On Alcoholism.
He and were discussing his job
while he was visiting Key West a
couple of weeks ago. He wanted
to know if I'd be interested in pub
fishing some timely articles on al
cuholism and l told him "This
Rock" was always anxious to car
ry anything which might benefit
the public.
So here's O'Brien's
Spirit Or Spirits?
Several years ago, at a Christ
mas party, a couple of guys threw
a friend of mine onto the floor
and tried to pour adrink into him.
Alcoholic that he is and sober for
many months, he knew full well
that one drink would send him into
a big drunk and q miserable
Christmas. he fought off his
friends" and made that Christ
mas happy for his wife. his daugh-
ter and himself.
His "friends" didn't know what
they were doing. They didn't know
that the alcoholic cannot stop at
one drink! l know that you and
l are not going to throw our friends
{ or even our relativeS) onto the
floor to make them drink. But, we
thoughtlessly might accomplish
with words what those fellows fail
ed to do with force. l refer to the
all-too-common practice of coax
ing" Such as, ooh. come on, one
little drink won't hurt" or "just a
glass of wine couldn't possibly do
any harm" and latter all, Christ
mas comes but once a year."
You might be speaking to a Sob
er alcoholic in the midst of his
greatest battle. He may never have
been sober at Christmas before.
Alcoholics may stay sober for
weeks or at least, for days during
the year but at Christmas time?
1t is unthinkable, He may have to
live through one sober Christmas
to realize fully that the Christmas
spirit and Christmas spirits are not
the same at all. The tension at
Christmas is very great; ordinary
people want to drink. This reason
gives an alcoholic a good excuse
and a lot of free drinks too.
Your coaxing, you see, may be
putting words to his music, you
may be singing his tune. He may
already be thinking himself into
drinking. 1t goes like this - 'Well,
after all it's Christmas, I'll quit
again right after New Years, and
I've stayed sober now for four
months and ! can do it again. Any
way I'm not going to get drunk,
no sir, I know better than that
now. Even if l should, every one
else is drinking and / can get away
with it; even the boss and the little
woman will forgive me at Christ
mas. But | just know won't get
drunk, won't touch any whiskey
at ail-that's what ruins me. After
all Just a little wine or a bottle
of beer certainly isn't going to do
any harm!"
Unaware of these thoughts, you
unwittingly push a drink into his
hand, not realizing the split second
reaction that can bend that elbow
and carry the glass to those wait
ing lips the alcohol to that sick
mind and finally miserv and suf-
fering into the hearts of a wife or
a mother or a child or all three
and maybe morel Because the al
coholic cannot stop at one drink!
Tharo are M shades nr da0rnee
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
Fictitious Name
Used 50 Years

ST. LOUIS Up - Charlie Sum-
mers worked for one firm 50 years
but it wasn't until his funeral that
fellow employees found out that
name was fictitious.
Thomas J. Dempsey gave him.
self the name on the spur of the
moment when he came here from
Quincy, ILL.,, before the turn Of
the century and got a job as a
porter with the Luyties Pharmacal
Co. He climbed to head the firm s
shipping department.
Dempsey's identity leaked out at
his funeral last week. Company
employees who attended the rites
also met his wife, whom he hadn't
mentioned.
Mrs. Dempsey said yesterday
"we never cared to take the trou-
BILE to straighten things out"
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
Secy. Inherits

ST. LOUIS N - Mrs. Grace
Thayer was named sole heir to
the $S6, ,4s7 estate left by the man
for whom she served as secretary
for 80 years.
The information was reported in
an inheritance tax appraisers re-
port filed in Probate Court Satur-
day for the will of Edward L.
Plattner, 79-year-old head of the
foreign trade bureau Of the Edwin
F. Guth Co., a st. Louis electrical
equipment firm. He died last May.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20

law adopted Tuesday by the Peron-
dominated Congress. A veto is not
considered likely.
The Episcopate, highest church
body in the country, met Friday
and Saturday to consider the law.
1t permits divorce in Argentina for
the first time.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-20
December 20, 1894

At q special meeting of the City
Council held yesterday afternoon,
the liquor ordinance, which was
passed on its first reading the day
before, came before the council and
was passed on its second, third and
final reading. The ordinance pro.
vides for the payment of a license
of $500 annually for the selling Of
intoxicating liquors.