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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01

Templeton Jones, the old meddler,
came around the other evening and saw
Bun-Bun. the baby rabbit. feeding in
the back yard.
why do you work up an interest in
hinn?" he asked, 1T seems to me that
you wrote once about the advisability
of not becoming emotionally involved
with the wild creatures"
What could we say?
Old Jones has way of putting his
finger on sore spot.
We had, indeed, so written. and still
think 1t Is best not to become involved.
except In very minor way.
After all, it Is one Of the beauties
Of wild nature at home that the crea-
lures look so very much alike.
Ten robins on the lawn are ten
robins on the lawn. that is all.
It would be mistake to single each
one out give 1t q name. become in
terested In it as an individual.
It Is as We see. q prime fact Of
watching the wild creatures in the
home grounds that they come and go
as they please. and no watcher pays
too much attention to them.
Not that every now and then one
Of them Is NOT singled out for special
attention. This ID bound TO happen.
There Was blossom, the possun. for
instance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
lntegrution OF Disinteorution

Senator James o. Eastland, Demo-
crat. Of Mississippi in fighting for re-
election has proposed q great crusade"
to maintain the existing status Of
segregation In the South. The Senator
is rallying the support Of his Southern
constituents to the battle Of the die
harts against the recent Supreme
Court ruling against segregation in the
American public school system. It
seems to me that such q crusade"
would be seriously responsible for "aid-
ing and abetting the enemy" Such
action on the part Of people in America
can only add fuel to the Communist
fire Of propaganda which has been.
at least on this one issue, banked by
the recent Supreme Court decision.
To those of us who believe In the
soundness Of the American principle
Of equal social and economje a=-sz.--
tunities for all AmericanS
petitive. capitalistic sys' spears
that the Senator EaG N seern to be
impervious to the fux.S x. ...sir tight
against Indignation iay the groundwork
for disintegratior.
yeszie b. solomon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Disappointment at Sokkoro

The alabaster sarcophagus found In the
buried pyramid at Sakkara is understood
to be empty This means that the imme-
date hopes of DR.. Mohammed Zakaria
Ghoneim have been frustrated. Predictions
made by his associate that the tomb would
yield gold mummy case and rich treas
ure Of Itinerary equipment have been
proved erroneous. When the sarcophagus
was opened in the presence OF Egyptian
officials, it contained nothing worth men
tioning.
But that Is not necessarily the end OF
the story Of the Sakkara quest. It Is part
Of the history of archaeology IN Egypt that
seekers often are disappointed. In many
cases modern explorers have learned with
sorrow that they have been preceded The
whole valley of the Nile has been flne-
combed for centuries. Few monuments Of
antiquity have escaped being robbed. Pal
aces, temples, sepulchreS AL have been
invaded, stripped of their wealth, then
abandoned to the desert wind and sand.
The hidden tomb Of Tut-ankh- amen was
one exception to the rule ard the skillfully
concealed solar ship Of Cheops was another.
It well may be that the empty sarco-
phagus ct Sakkara Is only the nrst of d
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
The Great Sphinx Today

News comes from Cairo that the Great
Sphinx OF CHA is being renovated. This
means that once more an effort is being
made to preserve what generally is consid-
cred the most famous statue in the world
Similar enterprises In the interest of its
survival date down from the time when the
huge figure was only one or two centuries
old. Nobody knows for sure the identity Of
It's creator. Some scholars attribute the
human-headed, lion-bodied eff1gy to Kha-
fra, the builder OF the second pyramid, and
this theory includes the suggestion that the
face Of the statue originally resembled ac-
knowledged portraits Of him. Called like
wise Chephren. he was king Of the Fourth
Dynasty, following Snefu and Khufu as the
authentic founders Of classic Egyptian civil
lization
All such pharaohs were believed to be
incarnations Of the sun, and the Sphinx In
Its pristine grandeur about 1900 BIC. rep
resented that cult Measuring 189 feet in
length, with the crown OF the head rising
66 feet above the pavement and the mouth
alone being feet, inches wide, the en-
tire work was painted with glowing red
ochre so as to shine in reflection of the
rising sun. An Arab historian wrote that
the face was VERY pleasing" and "of a
graceful and beautiful type" But the visage
always has had mysterious power to
brighten people. It seems to have been in
tended as guardian of the Nile Valley
Thus 1t was called "The Watcher" and .'The
Wise One" and, even after the head had
been mutilated by iconoclasts, It did not
lose its power to mystify.
The winged male or female creature
VAS . familiar conception Of antiquity In
Assyria, Phoenicia, Persia, Cyprus, Crete
and the Hellenic peninsula, and 1t inyaria-
bly, connected challenge Of human intelli-
gence It was from Ethiopia al1egedly that
the Theban riddle-asker defeated by Oedi-
pus came. Curiously enough, there are evi-
dences of sphinx mythology In Yucatan,
Mexico. The weird talent Of all such statues
to test mankind with difacult questions
may be studied right here in Washington
IN the royal Egyptian head which IS one of
the noblest and most valuable possessions
of the Freer Gallery Of Art. Like the Great
sphinx ct CHA It demands: Whither7
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Victory ii Guatemala

All the Americas have reason to share
in the great satisfaction that President
Eisenhower has expressed over the turn Of
events In Guatemala. For the revolt led
by Colonel Armas has succeeded, as Sec
rotary Dulles declared In his address last
night, In eliminating at least one grave
danger" to the security and freedom Of the
Western Hemisphere.
IN effect, what the Armas victory
means is that the Kremlin has failed in its
none too-subtle effort to acquire firm
beachhead for the spread OF international
communism lii our inter American COM
munity. The sinister Arbenz government,
with its Kitchen cabinet" of MoscoW-Serv-
ing Reds, was the medium through which
that beachhead was to have been estab-
iShed. Guatemala, In short, was to have
been converted into the New Worlds first
full-dedged Marxist State5a strategic OPP
Grating base for q long range Soviet pro-
gram Of hemisphere infiltration, subver-
sion and aggression.
Certainly, had the Arbenz regime not
been overthrow, had 1t been able to faSten
its Tightening tyrannical grip on the
Guatemalan people, the time would have
come-in the not distant future-When
Honduras and other neighboring states
would have found themselves in imminent
peril Of Communist engulfment Indeed,
the whole Of Central America down to and
including Panama would have been REM
dered dangerously insecure against the
threat OF being undermined by open and
disguised operations directed from the,
Zremlin. Happily, however, that very real
menace has been removed by the Armas
uprising, which has now ended In cease
fire and negotiations for the formation Of
an anti-Red government.
But this does not mean that the Soviet
Union, having lost out on its initial ctal-
lenge to the Monroe Doctrine, viii hence
forth put an end to It's conspiratorial work
among the Americas. On the contrary, as
Mr.. Dulles has warned, the need for Wig
lance is not past. For the nations making
up our hemisphere have seen in Guatemala
merely an example, Of what to expect iii
they do not continue to act unitedly- po-
ntically, economically and militarily to-
protect themselves from the kind Of fate
that has befallen so many onee-free states
now held In captivity behind the Iron Cur
tain.
The Armas victory, which is a victory
for all the Americas, should serve as an
inspiration to such action-an inspiration
that should put new vigor in the common
hemisphere effort to build up strength
against the Sceaseless conspiracy of inter-
national communism. The strength is
needed in this part Of the world no less
than in Europe and Asia. Given 1t, free
nations everywhere can be confident Of
holding the Kremlin at bay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Depends Upon Who's Assaulted

The recent incident where visitor
to the Nations Capital and member
Of the House Of Representatives were
victims OF assault by an irresponsible
gang OF hoodlums was indeed deplor-
able, Was it. however. any the more
worthy Of an emergency hearing Of
the House District Crime Subcommit-
tee, at which District officials were
called to testify, than, for example, the
recent Staying of the registrar Of the
University OF Maryland, the recent rob-
berry Of Colds Market or the countless
aggravated assaults upon the citizenry
of this area?
Two, congressional secretaries were
accosted only three days before Was
there ringing denunciation of the
incident on the floor Of the House, and
was the Crime Subcommittee then
called into emergency session?
Are we to assume that 1t Is only
when member of Congress is rather
forcibly reminded Of the existence Of
evil forces that. the hue and cry Is
raised?
It Is interesting to note that extra
patrolnen viii circulate ct night in
the vicinity Of Capitol Hill. II Is also
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
-Justus. Minneapolis star
Between the Devil and the 2
Deep, Blue Sea-"

money and guarantee q farmer q GER
tain profit on his crops than it has to
guarantee q corner grocer. who is OPP
Grating at q loss, that he win be given
a profit of $1,000 per month out Of tax
payers money If he win continue to
keep his doors open.
There are reported to be nearly S.
billions worth of farm surplus products
now housed, which eventually will rot
and be thrown away. and at time
when farm commodities have scared so
high in prices because Of the farm
subsidy that thousands Of bread win
ners cannot afford to buy sufficient
amounts Of food stuff needed FOR their
families. In the beginning Congress
voted this socialistic farm price support
PLAN Now it is the duty Of Congress to
abolish 1t that the farmers might once
again return to the American way OF
supply and demand policy.
Nish showers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Seeing II Too Late

In desperate last-minute effort to
save their means of livelihood, some 1000
miners In Panther Greek Valley, Pennsyl-
vania, have offered to work for 20 days
without pay II the Lehigh Navigation Coal
Company will cancel its plans to close
down permanently. Unfortunately, how
ever, there Is only very slight hope
though still hope-that the company can
be rescued from liquidation.
This is story with an obvious moral
the story OF company that has been
driven to the wall by combination of eco
nonlic difficulties and wildcat unionism.
Four locals involved were willing to work
on the basis Of contract designed to keep
the business going without cutting wages,
but fifth-despite the majority's senti-
ment and an urgent plea from John L.
Lewis, head OF the United Mine Workers
refused to cooperate and set up picket
lines. The result today is an unemploy-
ment crisis in the area, with the hold-out
employees suddenly awake to the fact that
they have hurt themselves as well as every
body else with their dog the -manger
attitude.
These workers are now willing to Join
with all the others in the 20-day payless
plan, but their change of view appears to
be case of having come to see the light
too late, although there is prayerful wish
throughout the Panther Creek Valley that
the company will somehow be able TO re-
sumo full-scale operations. Seldom has
there been'a better example OF why enlight-
ened labor-management cooperation is
imperative In our economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Substituting the Farmer

The Federal Government should give
financial aid to farmers in drought
stricken areas but only until they are
back on their feet. not permanently.
Permanent Federal aid in any and all
cases is socialism. It seems that the
American farmers. under the 20 years
OF Roosevelt Truman leadership, be-
came so helpless and so downright lazy
that they just cannot get along without
Federal handouts of billions annually
Of taxpayers money. II
The United States Government has
no more right to take the taxpayers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01

the A to the II bomb and skipped all
the other letters in between!
But take these az million Govern
ment souls. They have to live. too. They
get paid same's you and me. If you take
the cost of their salaries. sick leave,
Office space. vacations. supplies. an
nual leave. automobiles, air-condi-
tioning units and annual leave
out Of that $40 billion. you only have
$50 billion left to run the country and
our allies. Now ] ask you-is that UNI
reasonable?
Martin Buxbaum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Go. Give Your Life

Go. 0iDe your life to some one else,
And iUeaUe for her the cloth 81 bread,
Go. 0ipe her roofs against the rain,
And keep her iUGrns. secure and fed.
But peDer iD1lk. sDinfer night.
And lean on silUer pasture bars.
And, iDtHter da1pHs, pun dosOn your
shades
on tOtndoiDs 5rOsted W With stors \. .
BsuIoh Fendsnoa Smith
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
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r. EDITORIAL Guilty Press. II isn't
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preston has gotten around that Nc
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II Is true. els you point out. that the
Senator from Wisconsin has been given
substantial assist "a this regard py
large segment Of the press which, prt-a
vately. has no use for the man.
Having read your editorial. turned
to another section Of The Star on June
"a and saw perfect example Of the
sort Of thing you had In mind. It was
story about the congressional ball
game which led with the following: "a
Slugger named Mccarthy split the Re-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Philosophical On Spending

Folks are sQuaWking that the Cow
ernment IS going to spend about SO
billion this fiscal year. Now that sounds
like 3 mess Of money until you look at
the thing close like. The difference be-
tween d thousand and billion IS only
six zeros, and any school kid win tell
you q zero means nothing. With ten
zeros III the 7O-hillion figure, then ii
Just means that well have ten times
less this year than we had last year
after taxes times seven.
Actually, folks are 8 mite hard on
the Government. They forget that the
Government nowadays is made up Of
almost 2 " million men, women and
scientists That's just about three times
what It was 20 years ago. but then
again. there's three times as much GO
ing on these days. Things are develop
ing SO fast that they went right from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
b THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

O. How long has II been the custom
for symphony orchestras to use women
as harpists?--L. s. H.
A. This custom Is not traditional and
Is fairly new. In 1890, when Leopold
Stokowski appointed q woman as first
harpist Of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
she was the only woman to hold this
position with q major symphony or
chestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01

@. What are loco weeds2-S. A. A.
A. The name loco" the Spanish
word for crazy Is given In the West
ern and Southern States to several
species Of plants belonging to the yetch
family. which affect horses, cattle and
sheep that eat them. In much the same
way that the use Of drugs Affects hui
man beings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Questions and Answers

A reader can ret the answer 70 any question
Of fact by writing The Hyenin4 star 1nior.
ton 5. D. O. Please tncicsa three CD cents Tor
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01

Interesting To note that the 10 extra
plainclo thesnnen are still guarding Con-
gress IS they have been since the
shooting Of March /.
Perhaps next year when the budget
is being scrutinized, the Metropolitan
Police Department viii be given sur
ficent funds 50 that it may guard not
only congressman. but the rest Of the
citizenry rs well. II
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Todoy's Rddio HiohIiqhts

11:35, WTOP - Invitation to
Learning: Senator Paul Doug
las and DR.. Louis M. Hacker,
Dean of the Faculty of Co
lumbia University, discuss
John Maynard Keynes eGen-
eral Theory Of Employment.
Interest and Money"
1:O0, WRC- Citizens at Work:
The Columbia Story" is a
documentary about a reform
in municipal government
brought about by citizens of
Columbia, s. c.
2:25, WWDC-Baseball: WASH
ington VS.. Philadelphia.
$3.50, WRC - Youth Wants to
Know: Gordon E. Dean,
former chairman Of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
is interviewed.
$500, WGMS - The Fountain
Concert Series: The Catholic
University String Quartet
plays music Of Haydn. Turina
and Borodin.
$500, WCFM - Organ Recital:
Broadcast from the First
Congregational Church.
$3.50, WMAL = Battle Report:
An account Of the medical
campaign against major Grip
pling diseases, with DR.. Leon
ard w. Mayo.
500. WRC-American Forum
Of the Air: "The Supreme
Court Segregation Decision"
is discussed by Senator Paul
Douglas and Senator Price
Daniel.
$3.50, WRC-NBC Spring Sym
phony: Jean Morel conducts
the Introduction" to Nous
sorgsky'S ''Khovantchina,"
Schubert's Symphony No. 8
in B Minor, Chabrier's Suite
PaStorale" and Lalo's "Rhap-
sodie Norvegienne."
7:00, WCFM-Jeffersonian Her
itage: Claude Rains stars in
Natures Most Precious
Gift"
1880, WRC-Theater Royal: Sir
Evening star., 1954-05-23

Ralph Richardson stars ii
"The Aspern Papers" BY
Henry James.
1889. WASH-Drama: Heller
Hayes has the leading role II
THE Miracle Flower" q spe-
cial Memorial Day drama.
$500, WGMS-National Gallery
Concert: Pianist Jose Kahar
plays music Of Mozart
Brahms and Handel.
$500, WTOP - Bing Crosby
Show: Singer Rosem ary
Clooney is guest.
$500, WRC-Sunday with Gar
roway: Authors Rachel Car
son and Hans Haas. Band
leader Woody Herman, Singer
Mabel Mercer and Mrs. Ellen
Borden Stevenson are guests.
$3.50. WTOP-My Little Mar
gle: Father has q juvenile
delinquent placed. in his Gus
tody.
$500, WEAM-Georgetown Uni
versity Forum: The topic is
Mental Illness: Score?"
1000, WWDC-District Round
table: "The Problem Of Psy-
chosomatic Conditions" is
discussed.
1880, WRC-Meet the Press:
William White. president Of
the New York Central Rail-
road System. and Robert r.
Young, former president Of
the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
road, are interviewed.
HOO, WWDC-Chicago Theater
of the Air: Pianist Darice
Richmann is heard.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Viewing N
Viewing TV
He's uGenius or a Bum
Old Movie Hands Awed as Jack Webb
Applies TV Technique to Film
By Hal Humphrey
HOLLYWOOD.

Apparently it's going to take
more than q 100000 budget
and the facilities of a major
movie studio like Warner
Bros. to change Jack Webb.
The star and director Of TVS
''Dragnet" series is shooting
the feature length 'Dragnet"
in the same brisk style he en-
ploys for TV.
Old heads around the War
ner lot are shaking in wonder
ment at some Of the Webb
techniques. They never saw
teleprompters, until Webb
moved in. Those are the semi
automatic machines which
have the script printed in
tnch-high letters on paper that
rotates as the actor reads it.
His camera Is mounted on
what's known as a "crab dolly"
The wheels on it can turn in
any direction, eliminating the
laborious time consuming
business of laying a track for
the regulation camera dolly.
The Warmers makeup de-
partment threw up their hands
in despair when Webb let it be
known that his cast would not
use makeup. The picture is
being shot in color, but this
makes no difference to Webb.
who insists that makeup de-
stroys the reality.
Webb Is directing the entire
Shebang, including his own
scenes. When Webb, the direc-
tor, turns on Webb. the actor.
and criticizes the latter's per-
formance, even the Warner
publicity department doesn't
believe it.
If this first Webb movie.
even the cast of which has
been recruited from radio and
TV, is a flop when it hits the
theaters in August, Warner
Bros. will simply dismiss
Jack as another bum from TV.
If it's a success. he'll be hailed
as the genius who is revolu-
tionizing the movie industry.
Beck to Broodwoy
Ed Wynn, who was the first
Of the veteran comics to have
his own TV show, says ne IS
tired of waiting to get back
into the medium, and is plan
ming his own Broadway show.
He has been dickering with
CBS-TV to do a combination
comedy and audience partlcl-
patton show, but nothing has
come Of it. =,
"After So years in show busi-
ness I'm certainly not going
to get on my knees for the
Madison avenue boys to ask
for a job" says Ed.
But this inactivity Is killing
me-" says the 71-year-old CO.
nedian. "I've got to get back
in front of an audience to hear
the applause or the misses. ana
I don't care which it is"
Tom Doesn't Dig 1t
Tom D'Andrea, the Gillis on
"Life Of Riley" and creator OF
those CT skitS with Hal March
on several Comedy Hour"
shows the past two seasons.
has worked up a hilarious
sketch about an Army private
who hobnobs with Pentagon
Evening star., 1954-05-23

officials and hires other GIs
: to shine his shoes.
So far, however, he can't
find a TV producer who is in
terested. "I guess I just don't
dig this TV thing. Everybody
tells me I've been a hit in all
of those IA CT bits. but no.
body wants 'em now. Maybe II
I can get back just long
enough to lay q bomb, I can
be a success!" Tom exclaims,
disgustedly.
Groucho Eyes Pounds
Groucho Marx is heading for
England to negotiate for the
sale of his "You Bet Your Life"
TV show, now that the British
are dipping their toes into
commercial TV.
The owlish quizmaster doesn't
seem too thrilled with the pros
pecC OF MS "trip, however.
I'm too old for France and
too young for England" he
cracks. "And anyway, by the
time I figure out the various
currencies over there. I'll be
home"
This Isn't Eosy
Sid Kuller. the TV comedy
writer who did the Donald
O'Connor shows this season,
has scripted a show for Sammy
Davis. one of the most versa
tile entertainers around today.
Now, all he has to do is find
a sponsor who will buy a show
with a Negro cast and this
isn't easy, says Sid.
Copyright. 1854, Mirror Enterprises
Syndicate.)
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Color V
This Week

Network color television
broadcasts will be confined
to one program this week.
bride and Groom" will be
televised in compatible coll
or by NBC-TV (WNBW)
tomorrow. Tuesday and
Wednesday at noon.