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Evening star., 1954-04-25
A Time for Better Education

DR.. Otto F. Kraushaar, president. of
Goucher College in Baltimore, is another of the
growing number of educators who are speak,
ing out eloquently against certain wide
spread sterility of mind and poverty of spirit
In our intensely chronological society. AS he
has put tin an address delivered the other
day to Phi Beta Kappa convocation-the
situation may be described as kind of Gin
tellectual recession" and there can be no
doubt that the Nations schools, together with
other centerS Of training and inspiration, have
reason to deal with it as problem and chal-
lenge OF prime significance.
One OF the important factors involved here
is what Dr. Kraushaar has called 'the preva-
lence of mass culture" This is a modern-age
development, and although it is not necessarily
bad in itself, it embraces such evils as "the
commercialization and vulgarization of every
decent and honorable thing-love pity, beauty,
vlrtue-and with consequent destruction of
depth and constancy and nobility in feeling
The heroes of the hour are the gods of enter
talnment and sports, and the symbols of our
taste in entertainment are the pinball ma
chine and jukebox, those monuments to our
arrested adolescence. The poetry of life is
turned into venal jingles"
Perhaps this criticism is bit on the ex-
travagant side, but we have only to look
around us to see that there is at least an
appreciable measure of truth in it. And we
have only to look around us to see, too that
DR.. KrauShaar is right in declaring that
major task of education today is to human
ize" in an effort "to counteract the excessive
pursuit of narrowly vocational and practical
ends"-the pursuit of limited specialties, the
pursuit of facts for facts sake, the pursuit of
certain types Of learning that may equip q
student for a job but that fail at the same
time to give breadth to his mind or to enrich
his spirit with an understanding or apprecia-
ton Of values far older, far deeper and far
more enduring than mere gadgets and bread
winning techniques.
good education, as DR.. Kraushaar sees
it, should therefore be one that imparts not
only techniques or narrow factual knowledge,
but also a broad intellectually and "there is
no better way of achieving this than to en-
courage students to consort freely with first
order minds in literature and philosophy so
that they may come face to face with the
vision of greatness" That may be something
that can be more easily said than done but
our country would surely be the richer for it
II more of us-in and out of our colleges and
universities a larger share of our
thinking time to the things that can ennoble
life in an age when there are all too many
influences tending to debase it.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

Under the headline, ,"Great Blow to
Russia" The Star for April 13, 1904,
explained that the battleship
bottleship Petropavlovsk. 1900 tons,
Lost had been sunk while going
out to meet the japanese
fleet off Port Arthur" The vessel struck
a mine in the outer harbor. turned
turtle and went down. Only FOUR officers
were saved. among them Grand Duke
Cyril. Practically the whole crew were
lost" This meant casualties adding up
to from 600 to TOO men, Vice Admiral
Makaroff, commander of Russias Pa
cific fleet. was drowned. The Petro-
pavlovsk had been built at st. Peters,
burg in 1898. She was 367 feet long,
with 69-foot beam.
James Croggan read a paper on "the
songs of the old days" before a meeting
of the Association of
Sonqs From Oldest Inhabitants of the
Circuses District of Columbia at
the Corcoran Building on
the evening of April 18. 1904. and The
Star of the following day quoted him
as saying in part: Many songs
IIdu tIlG1T l1luOQuCtlOu Uy tLlc SUdSC
and circus. for the performances were
interspersed with singing and dancing"
Canaan, the clown, was one Of the most
popular singers. "Old Baldy Palmer's
Circus. which performed at Louisiana
avenue and Ninth street . varied the
horse show by what is believed the
appearance of the first white banjoist-
Jim Sanford. who made his own instru-
ment, and who sang into popularity
Old Zip Coon Sitting On Rail- 'Sich
Getting Upstairs and other we'll
known pieces"
Prince Pu Lun Tsee, nephew of the
emperor of China, arrived in Washing
ton on April %, 1904.
Chinese Prince and The Star gave
Comes to Town front-page space to
an account of the
distinguished visitor, explaining that
he was clad in the rich silken robes
Sof the imperial family" was years
old and has very intelligeEt, hight
Evening star., 1954-04-25

face. which is made to look older by
the use of large, gold-rimmed glasses.
His black velvet red-corded cap
was Surmounted by large round knob
known as Chinese ruby and having
great value as gem. A plume jutted
outward and downward from the back
of the cap. and in it was peacock
feather which contained three of the
circles peculiar to this feather. His
headgear alone would signify his rank
to any Chinese. His jacket was of
bright yellow. From his right shoulder
hung a red, white -bordered sash which
fastened with a rosette at his left side.
On his breast, at the left side. he wore
a glittering. many-pointed medallion.
the paulownia, which Is the japanese
decoration of the first order of royalty
and which was conferred upon him by
the emperor of Japan. Over silk
breeches, he wore a heavy blue silk
skirt, divided in front. He appeared to
be democratic young man and
chatted away in lively manner as he
walked down the station platform with
Sir Chentung Liang -Cheng." The
prince was to be received by President
Roosevelt at the White House. Eventu-
ally he would go to st. Louis for the
opening of the exposition there.
"Play ball. called Umpire Connolly.
and q moment later Pitcher Howard
Wilson of the Sena-
Boseboll Season tors shot the little
Storts white leather sphere
across the plate Of the
Seventh street baseball park yesterday
afternoon, and the season of 1904 for
the American League in Washington
was oficially begun" In this fashion
The Star of April Is, 1904, reported
what 10000 enthusiasts saw and heard
at the place and the time indicated.
The visiting team was the Philadelphia
Athletics, and right earnestly
throughout the next hour and so min
utes did the Senators strive to reward
the loyal Washington fans by winning
the opening game. But fate and the
heavy batting qualities,of the Athletics
conspired to prevent that coveted re-
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Virqinio's Delay on Polio Vaccine

Vireiniu's Delay on Polio Vaccine
In recent meeting of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Ar
lington Chapter, learned Of the Ar
lington Medical Boards views on the
DR.. Salk vaccine. The Arlington Medical
Board goes on record that in their
opinion the Salk vaccine is safe, but
that there is not sufficient time now,
due to delays in the manufacture Of
the vaccine. to administer 1t since
schools will close for the summer before
the last follow-up shots can be made.
Being the father of a child who is
a polio victim, think that this is a
very calloused reason for postponement
until November. when the rate. of in
cidence of this disease falls off to a
point where infection is unusual rather
than the peril it is during summer.
If only half a dozen children in this
area were saved from the paralytic eff
fects Of this disease, then the tests
would have been worth while. I am sure
that anxious parents would be glad to
continue the inoculations at a desig-
mated place after schools have closed.
In the last Embarrassing campaign, do
natorS were promised that this summer
the vaccine would be available to some
Postponement is breaking of faith.
M. C.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Spires of the Spirit
The Golden Door

More glad eyes have gazed with
rapture at more radiant rainbows
arching New York harbor than ever
have gemmed any other patch Of the
blending blue. Frances gift to America
Liberty holding high her flaming
torch to all the earth-has become the
most revered symbol Of the free world.
To earthS remotest bounds it is the
inspiring emblem Of something new
under the sun, a free people in a free
land; all men equal before God and
the law, endowed with rights no state
can give or take away. That famous
statue, in sight of Manhattan's tower
ing skyScraperS, marking Freedoms
golden door has set more hearts re-
joicing, more tears streaming, more lips
praising, more hopes soaring than has
any other figure ever fashioned by the
skill of man.
Millions of Americans ocean-bound
have watched it fade in the receding
distance as gray leagues have stretched
ahead to other shores. The one fare
well consolation has been that when
"It's home again" the Lady with the
Lamp, keeping her constant vigil, will
welcome travellers abroad back to the
blessed Land Of Room Enough, where
the sky is full of sunshine and the
flag is full of stars"
1t is eminently fitting and meaning
full that in this day of desperate battle,
when goddess materialism is lifting
blasphemous banners of negation upon
which are emblazoned, "In our own
might we trust" that our America
should consecrate with the benediction
OF its top leaders and almost a hun
dred ENJOYS Of other countries postage
stamp as witness to the fundamental
faith by which the Republic lives.
A correspondent witnessing the
launching of this red. white and blue
proclamation Of nations faith de-
clared: Never before in history has
any stamp received such a gala and
lmpreSslvely serious inaugural" Thus,
millions of messages which will be
speeding over land and sea and air
are sealed with Liberty's familiar up
lifted torch inscribed with the humble
acknowledgment that I'm God We
Trust" These tiny banners become
hymns of national affirmation. This
stamp is sent forth on it's sacred mis-
sion with the triumphant certainty that
IN this quartet of mighty monosyllables
is stored more potent power than god
less forces. who see nothing higher
than the dirt on which they tread, ever
can mobilize
This new Scent stamp, which will
carry United States mail mostly across
the seas and is expected to reach an
annual sale Of 200 million. bears no
arrogant -than-thou" boast. It
does not egotistically assume that we
Evening star., 1954-04-25

are GODS people and this is Gods
country. It does, as will the projected
Scent stamp for domestic use, carry
the soul-searching sense of commission
involved in the conviction that this
favored land, as Lincoln put it, under
God is freedoms last. best hope" for
world threatened by engulfing
tyranny. That SOLDERING, mandate rests
not on privilege. power or position. It
does rest on that trio dedicated as the
channels Of Gods purposes for all man
kind.
Woodrow Wilson uttered words which
forever interpret Americas manifest
destiny: 1--WE desire nothing for our
selves that we do not want for the
whole world" Malignant forces which
plot world domination have marked
America as their most hated foe, be-
cause it is her might, material and
moral. which is blocking fell designs
and, in this dread day of destiny, is
saying: They shall not pass" It is
this solemn ability and awful RESPONSE
bility to save the human race from
degrading Serfdom which makes Amer
leans Gods chosen people. That dis
tinction lifts us to no pedestal to lord
it over others. We sadly confess that
there are those born in America in
whom America never has been born.
If. as Gods chosen people, in Him
we trust, then with deep searching of
soul the paramount question is: Can
God trust us? Can God bless America?
If so, then He must be in the drivers
seat, not we. If God has chosen us to
prevent certain things happening on
this planet in this Goth century, then we
may be sure 1t is not an American pur-
pose He is after. To be chosen simply
means that we have been asked by
God to do something He wants done
in this generation-not for us, but for
all men.
Our colossal task in America as we
put under our feet the subtle tyranny
of things, expressed in gadgets and
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Censoring Movies in Virginia

]. Lindsay Almond. Virginia's attor-
ney general, is quoted as bemoaning
the Federal invasion Of States rights
before the Arlington County Demo-
cratic Executive Committee on April 81.
Yet. as recently as April 8. he was
quoted as having rendered an opinion
encouraging a new invasion Of these
same cherished rights. I refer to his
advice denying that Virginia has
right to bar motion pictures on the
ground Of immortality.
Suppose we inquire what are the
purposes of government? Is govern
ment designed merely to collect taxes?
Why are taxes collected-merely to
pay the salaries Of judges, attorneys
general and other government person.
mel. so that we may say we have a
government, so that it may collect taxes
to pay government personnel? Or do
governments exist to provide services
of sort which the individuals cannot
so well themselves provide, acting
alone? Are the services of government
confined to providing the water supply,
schools. roads, armies, poor houses and
prisons? Why are these services
deemed necessary?
OF course, the purposes of govern
ment are pretty we'll summarized in
the preamble to the United States
Constitution, the various items of which
are telescoped into the one phrase,
to wit, Ito promote the general well
fare" Is it not fair, therefore, to
inquire whether or not immortality has
anything to do with the general well
fare. and if it does. why government
should not be concerned with i'm
morality? And If it be agreed that i'm
morality is concern of Virginia
government, is it not fair to ask why
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Old Friend Of Red Cross

It is unthinkable that the Washing
ton quota Of the Red Gross funds
should not reach it's goal. Some
method must be found to obtain ad-
ditional dollars.
have just celebrated my SD birth
day, and Washington has always been
my home. Many of my years have been
devoted to helping philanthropic and
humanitarian groups. and know well
the great work of the Red Cross. A
birthday wish of mine is to see the
Red Cross make its goal. for we cannot
afford to fail in this vital organization.
May suggest that those who have al
ready given give 10 per cent more. and
that those who have not given contrib
ute single dollar or more now? To this
end I have sent my additional 10 per
cent to the D. c. Chapter. 2025 e street
NV. in the hope that Others will follow
my lead.
Minnie Goldsmith.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

tudes. In other words, 1t Is just be-
yond the limits Of vision with the ur1-
aided eye AS yet the superintendent
of the Naval Observatory is not
prepared to say as to the probability OF
the comet growing brighter. 4. =. It is not
yet known whether the comet is ap-
preaching or receding." DR.. Brooks.
as it happened. deserved to be taken
seriously. He had been hunting comets
for 40 years more or less in 1904. built
his own instruments and was skilled
photographer as we'll as a flrst-clasS
astronomer. At his Red House OBJ
servatory at Phelps. N. Y, and subse-
quently at the William Smith observa-
tory at Geneva. he discovered a total
of 26 comets. "only one less than the
record number by Pons."
4
On April 16. 1904, The Star an
nounced that Vassili Verestchagin had
died in the Petropav-
Verestchooin lovsk, sunk by mine
Decd off Port Arthur. He was
undoubtedly "the best
known Russian artist who has ever
lived" famous throughout Europe
and America less on account Of his
technique than of the subjects Of his
pictures, which were usually of the
kind known as sensational. He made his
reputation as q painter of the horrible
things that are attendant on every
war" Among other conflicts. he had
portrayed the Spanish American. meet
ing President Theodore Roosevelt and
creating a large composition showing
him leading the Rough Riders charge
UP San Juan Hill. Verestcha3in illus
trated Napoleon's invasion of Russia,
covered" the Russian expedition to
Samarcand accompanied British troops
in South Africa and took part in the
Allied campaign in China. Perhaps his
most widely famous work was a can
vas in which Sepoy rebels were depicted
being blown from cannon's mouths. in
punishment for the so-called indian
mutiny. Some representative examples
of his work once were owned and oc-
caskonally exhibited IN Washington. but
tho seem to have disappeared.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church
Chaplain, United States Senate.

gain. is to bring the realization of our
democratic practice up to the Alpine
levels of I'm God We Trust" To this
people, strangely mingled and as
strangely welded into one, has been
given place of leadership, a time of
opportunity, and resources equaled by
no other peoples.
The significance of our motto on
coin and stamp depends on whether
1t is a boast or q prayer. "'In God We
Trust declares our belief that it is God
who undergirdS all ordered, lasting
society. Man never can have any con-
tinuance of national life, or of civiliza-
ton. without recognizing Him and what
He wants" In this mid-twentieth CEN
tury, beset as we are by crises and con-
fusion, we need to find the words of
famous Frenchman who visited Amer
lea long ago: "A despotism can do with
out faith. But liberty cannot. Belief
in God is an essential in republic"
And so as we publish our faith and
profess it. for Americas sake, for the
worlds sake. may we prove it by our
practice, cost what it may!
A democracy is the most costly thing
there is. It must be validated by self
imposed disciplineS, which are now,
alas, too often in what we call "our
way of life" conspicuous by their alb
sence. A discerning prophet Of our day
warns: Perhaps the most diScouraging
aspect Of this tumultuous generation is
the. fact that we have loosed our hold
upon the spiritual beliefs that ami
mated the founding of this Nation"
But as we lift our prayer, America,
America, God mend thine every flaw"
even as we send forth our I'm God We
Trust" stamp. let us thank Him who
hath made and preserved us Nation
that the statue on Bedloe Island still
stands with its torch Of fire. Pictured on
the stamp and seen in the harbor it
awakens within the breast of every true
lover of freedom the same exultation
as it did in the heart of an American
woman, back at last in America after
living through the Fascist tyranny in
Italy where she had seen q great
people cowed into silence and fright
ened into conformity. AS, with emo
ton too deep for words. she passed the
Statue of Liberty, it was with q sense
Of great release-of fetters snapped.
Suddenly" she exclaimed afterward,
II knew what America is, and what I
wanted most in America to hear. I
wanted to hear somebody talk back.
And wanted to hear somebody laugh
spontaneously. laugh out loud, in the
freedom of his SOUL"
That we can still talk back, and
laugh out loud, and spontaneously,
we thank the God We trust, and raise
our Jubilate that in a world like this
Liberty still lifts her lamp beside the
golden door.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Peipinq's Status at Geneva

The Communists never take mo" for an
answer Despite the Vests emphatic past re-
fusal to accept the idea, the Kremlin has once
again demanded-in formal notes to Paris Lon
don and WaShington-that the Geneva Confer
ence be organized as Big Five" get-together
at which Red China would be recognized as
power participating on an equal footing with
Soviet Russia, France, Britain and the United
States. The demand, which has been answered
with another fiat Anglo-French- American re-
lection, fully supports Peiping's pretensions to
such status, and the fact that it has been
repeated on the eve of the meeting strongly
suggests that the negotiations may open with
prestige-and-protocol issue that could fill the
air with q great deal of non-germane, time
consuming debate.
II the Communists precipitate such q de-
bate, however, they are going to find the United
States-with France and Britain concurring-
adamantly determined to reject any procedural
arrangements that would differ substantially
from what was agreed upon at the Berlin Con-
ference early this year. For that conference,
as Secretary of State Dulles emphasized when
he departed the other day for Europe, clearly
decided-with the Soviet Union finally agreeing
that the Geneva meeting on Korea and Indo-
China would not be big Five" affair, but
gathering sponsored by the Anglo French
attending merely as an invited" participant
rather than as co-equal And it was further
decided, most specifically, that the Chinese
Reds presence at the meeting would in no sense
imply our diplomatic recognition of them.
But now in Mr.. Dulles words, there is evi-
dence "that the Soviet Union may attempt to
make the Geneva Conference something other
than what had been agreed upon at Berlin"
The attempt may be aimed, for example, at
broadening the agenda to include much more
than Korea and Indo-China. And it may also
seek to force the acceptance of a rotating
Craftsmanship procedure that would enable the
Chinese Communists to preside over part of the
talks and thus be bolStered internationally with
a special measure of recognition and prestige.
: Quite obviously, as Mr.. Dulles has indicated, our
country cannot and will not agree to any ar
rangements Of that sort. Accordingly, If the
Communists continue to insist on big Five'
status for Peiping, the talks are likely to be
begged down at the outset in way that could
well justify an American walk-out.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Letters to The Star.
Pen-',Gnaes may be used if letters carry
1DriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

Mr.. Almond unctiously ushers in a
United States Supreme Court ruling
on immortality in films and makes it
the uncontested rule of our sovereign
State? What about his fawning
obeisance to States rights on yes
terday?
In the matter Of interference Of the
Federal Government in the States
school system, this official would ad-
wise all countermeasures. In the hoary
disfranchisement of one-half the
citizens of the State, he heartily con-
ours in f1outing the United States
Constitution. Why is he so obsequious
to Federal invasion of the States right
to protect itself from immoral motion
pictures?
Richard L. Feldman.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

suit" The score was: Senators, 8; visi-
tors, 8. Players in the local lineup
in addition to Wilson were: Morgan,
Coughlin, Selbach, Stahl. Mccormick,
Thoney. Hoffman and Kittredge.
Special correspondence" from Homo
lulu to The Star of April 4, 1904, said:
There is great sur
Howoii CoIled prise (here) at the in
Defenseless difference which has
developed at Washing
ton in the matter Of military and naval
plans for Hawaii. The Federal Gov
ernment spent several hundred thou
sand dollars securing valuable lands at
Pearl Harbor for naval station. press
ing lengthy litigation to a close and in
dredging the channel entrance and
it secured reports and surveys from
several Arynv boards as to sites for
military camps and iand Notifications.
Then the whole matter was dropped,
and the utmost indifference appears
to be the rule now. Meanwhile, Hawaii
on shore on the island Of Oahu of any
otICISIII WOILll COIlSlOcIlIlS III SUCH
matter L. If the war for which there
is so much preparation and outlay
were to suddenly start, a single foreign
cruiser could take Honolulu"
Half century back there were many
sky-gazers interested in comets, and
The Star for April 18.
Comets 1904, told how DR.. VIII
In the News liam Robert Brooks of
Geneva, N. Y, had dis
covered one of those mysterious celes-
tial wanderers on April Is and his find
had been confirmed by two observers
at the Naval Observatory here in
Washington the following evening.
LAS seen in the telescope, the comet
has the general form of i. =. fairly faint
telescope comets. It has a rather
strong central condensation and the
semblance of faint bushy tail. 1t IS
Of about the brightness Of a star be-
tween the sixth and seventh magni-
Evening star., 1954-04-25
New Librarian of Congress

DR.. Lawrence Quincy Mumtord, nominated
Thursday by President Eisenhower to be
Librarian of Congress- is a professional librar-
ian. sponsored by the American Library
Association. He is not politician. His
views on controversial subjects are deliberately
neutral Born in North Carolina little more
than half a century ago and educated at Duke
and Columbia he made library service voca-
tion while yet boy and has been faithful to
his hoice ever since. Successfully employed at
bcv his alma matters, the New york Public