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Evening star., 1954-05-09
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military policy to command our sons to
die rather than be captured; or If cap
tured, to destroy themselves rather
than live at risk to our Nations
security?
AS a former soldier and father OF
soldiers, I ask if our Commander in
Chief, as final arbiter of all military
policy, gives his blessing to this verdict.
ask this because, at recent press
conference, President Eisenhower
seemed to intimate such finding and
recommendation was Forthcoming. We
fathers of soldiers wonder if Gen. Dean
has given substance to the implications
of this new policy when he declared
that in future battles with Communists.
he would Illustrate his captors with
capsule of quick-acting poison.
Isn't 1t time we ended this cowardly
business of continually descending to
the Communist level because they re-
fuse to come up to ours? Rather than
punish the Col. Schwables by inviting
them to commit suicide, should
not our policy be total retaliation
against those ruthless criminal aggres-
sors? II we did this, there would be
no Col Schwables.
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. ID.
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Eornest Albert Hooton

If physical anthropoIogy has made notable
progress in the past 40 years, good share OF
the credit is due to Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton.
He was Methodist minister's son who acci-
dentally became interested in the science of
man at the University of Wisconsin and had the
advantage of being Rhodes scholar at oxford
under r. r. Marett Appointed to teach his
speciality at Harvard in 1918, he spent the rest
of his life there and now quietly has died In
what he called his "pleasantest duty and most
priced privilege"-the training of men to carry
on where he left OF.
Not all Of his pupils agreed with him. But
without exception they respected his talents.
DR.. Hooton knew how to dramatic an idea 30
that 1t would be remembered, and his skill In
Evening star., 1954-05-09

The Star of May 2, 1904, reported
meeting of the members of the National
Geographic Society
Bells Experiments at nearby Virginia
With Kites where Prof. Alex
ander Graham Bell
had explained and demonstrated his
tetrahedral kite-a tetrahedron being
"a solid bounded by four plane triangu
lar faces and having therefore six edges
and four vertices." About 500 people
attended. Prof. Bell, addressing the
crowd, declared that he had not created
"a man-carrying kite" He wanted it
understood that he was not trying to de-
wise flying machine" Rather, he was
content merely to test the "tetrahedral
principle" of the "only known unit of
construction which offers correspond
ing increase of lifting power with in
crease in weight" To illustrate, he dis
played an aluminium frame for To-
cell kite, likewise his first kite" of
wood and red silk and some other
contraptions, several of which were sent
aloft successfully while the audience
watched admiringly. Prof. Samuel p.
Langley of the Smithsonian Institute
was one of the guests present.
On May 2, 1904. The Star announced
the death of Antonin Dvorak at Prague
in Bohemia the previous
Dvorok day. He was a native of
Decd Mulhausen son of
butcher and innkeeper, who
persuaded a village schoolmaster to
give him vocal and violin instruction
while yet child Later he studied at
zlonitz, Kamnitz and finally in the
Bohemian metropolis. where he played
in the National Theater orchestra and
was organist at st. Adalbert's Church
In 1873 his first compositions were per-
formed-a cantata and two nocturnes
The following year he had his E-flat
Symphony produced. An opera. "The
King and the Charcoal-Burner," was
the next Of his achievements. A series
Of Slavic dances was completed In 1873
and was q phenomenal hit. From 1892
to 1898 he was director Of the National
Evening star., 1954-05-09

History fairly shouts that in the ban
quet of consequences Louis XIV insures
Robespierre, that the blindness of the
Russian Gear brings Genin, and the in
humanity of human slavery leads on to
the American Civil War. Confidence,
never dimmed by hours of seeming de-
feat, grows out of the fundamental
belief that God always is on the side
of those who minister to great human
needs. That has ever been the guiding
star of those who have really prayed:
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. +"
The heart of Abraham Lincoln'S re-
ligion was to be sure that he was NOV
ing in the direction Of Gods intent
When some partisans were insisting on
putting a sanctimonious halo around
what they wanted to happen and claim
ing the proud distinction of having
the Almighty himself as an ally on
their side, Lincoln. with a moral in
sight which like lightning illumined a
dark landscape. had the perfect COM
ment, when he drawled: "Well, I am not
so much concerned as to whether God
is on my side as I am whether. am on
Gods side"
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first, nor the last. to raise the banner
OF "Me and God" over aggressive
schemes which never rightly could
claim the blessing Of the God Of good
ness, mercy and Justice. What hap
pened to him. and later tyrants in Ger
many and Italy at the banquet of con-
sequences history has recorded; and so
far as other autocrats are concerned,
on whose tables are piled the grapes
of wrath. the last entry not yet has
been made.
Now that the supreme test of Amer
lea has come and we face the record
of the past. we must be stripped of our
illusions and our false pride. We must
be purged of greed and injustice. We
must see the needs not only of America,
and of the Americas, and Europe; we
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Fifty Years Ago in The Star .

The Star on May T. 1904. published
an advertisement for the Barnum e.
Bailey Circus which
Bornum & Boiley still is interesting
Advertisement reading. Using the
slogan, THE Great
est Show on Earth" the "big show"
also claimed to be "the only circus
exhibiting in New York" 1t was
coming undivided" to present ere
production OF the gorgeous Delhi Dur
bar, just as the grand ceremonial
pageant was produced in India" Fea-
tured attractions included: Ancillotti,
"the modern Ariel" in "the death
defying deed. looping the gap; Solo
and Chico, 'the marvellous unicyclists,'
executing "a carrying act while de-
scending a ladder on one Wheel" and
Volo, "the wizard volitant," riding down
IAN inclined chute" A full herd of
giraffes, three herds Of elephants and
two droves of camels were scheduled
for display. Also publicized were a
baby elephant and its mother the
smallest horse in the world. jumping
horses and leaping ponies. The pro-
gram embraced 100 thrilling acts Of
fered by 800 performers-"the grand
est and most costly show ever pro-
iected" A street parade was to be
staged at 9 am, Monday. May 9. with
40-horse team in line. The biggest
man in the circus was George Anger.
a Welsh giant, feet tall. and the
smallest man was Paul Horvath of
Hungary. 26 inches high. Their photo
graph was printed in the news section
of The Star.
According to The Star for May S,
1904, "the Seventh-Day Adventists have
Just concluded
Seventh -Doy another large and
Adventists' PIons important real
estate purchase
within less than q year. The property
just acquired covers an area Of nearly
five acres. about one-half lying within
the District and the remainder in the
corporate limits Of Takoma Park, Md.
Just across the District line. The deal
Evening star., 1954-05-09

Conservatory of Music in New York. A
strong nationalist in his life as we'll as
in his work, he returned to Bohemia
"for patriotic reasons" The last por-
ton Of his career was devoted mainly
to writing music which was coinciden-
tally noble and popular. His Fifth SYM
phony-The New World-still is played
and heard with enthusiasm.
The 22d annual reception and ball
Of the Coachmen's Union and Aid AS
sociation, No. /, held
Coochmen's at Convention Hall,
Annual Ball Fifth and L streets,
Northwest, was men
toned in The Star for May II, 1904.
as having attracted representatives of
Coachmen's Unions of Baltimore Phil
adelphia and New York, and about
5000 other guests" Members of the
Executive Committee in charge of the
affair were: Burl Jordan, chairman; w.
Williams, c. W. Hale, r. Blackburn,
j. H. Brent, j. E. Forrest, c. E. Rodgers,
H. Watson, H. Madden, j. r. Marshall,
F. Howard, J. West, W. Beckett. j. H.
Lee, Novel Smith and P. T. johnson.
The library of the late Bishop John
F. Hurst was sold at auction in New
York on May 3. 1904. by
Rore Books order of the executor of
Are Sold his will, the American
Security & Trust Co..
and The Star of the following day gave
an account of the prices realized. of
f1cial Letters to the honorable Ameri-
can Congress, Written during the War
between the United States and Great
Britain by His Excellency, George
Washington" Washington's personal
copy, bearing his autograph on both
titles and also an autograph account
Of his career as commander in chief
of the army" brought $2.S60: first Of
the series of Poor Richards Almanac,
1899. 1855: Gibbons Decline and Fall
Of the Roman Empire" London, 1888,
containing Washington's signature. in
each Of six volumes, $1,626. The total
amount paid By purchasers was $13.636.
Evening star., 1954-05-09

that regard was closely tied to an active sense
of humor which had the effect of vitalizing his
classes-"keeping the customers awake" as he
described it. Experience had given him ready
sympathy with people. He was secret and in
corrigible philanthropist, helping his needy jun
iors to the limit Of his means. Yet he contended
that such charities were errors, serving princi-
pally toward prolonging the existence of the
weak at the expense Of the strong
If not invariably popular with the laity, DR..
Hooton was appreciated by anthropologists as a
class. He leaves dozens of young scientists in
strategic positions throughout the world to con-
tinue his work in his own energetic and sue
cessful spirit
Evening star., 1954-05-09

was made through Andrew A. Lips
comb and John P. Earnest, trustees for
what is known as the Thornton tract.
=. 1t is located on Carroll avenue. be-
tween Willow and Laurel avenues near
the log cabin. The purchase was
made by the trustees of the Review and
Herald Publishing Association con-
sisting of Prof. w. w. Prescott. Prof.
w. T. Bland. S. N. Curtiss, w. M. Lewis
and DR.. J. H. Neall. and the trustees Of
the General Conference Corporation Of
the Seventh-Day Adventists. consisting
of A. G. Daniels, H. w. Cottrell. A. P.
Needham S. N. Curtiss. Prof. w. T.
Bland and j. NJ Nelson. The price paid
was about $l,700 an acre. The Sew
enth-Day Adventists. according to their
present plans, expect to establish the
general Offices and publishing plant on
the property. All of the buildings
will be of cement stone"
A telegram from San Francisco to
The Star Of May 9. 1904, said: "A mas
sive gold seal. worth intrin-
Chinese sically $4,000, and one Of
Relic the priceless treasures Of an
ancient Chinese dynasty, has
been offered for sale in this city to q
local smelling company. Word was
sent to the Chinese consul general.
He deciphered the worn inscriptions
upon 1t and declared that 1t was one
of the most valued relics (and
that the gold came from the great
range Of the Khinga Mountains and
the sands OF the Cobb Desert.
1t is said the consul general has guar
anteed the payment Of $4,000 for it,
which is twice its intrinsic value If
melted up"
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Spires of the Spirit

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to
banquet of consequences, declared
Robert Louis Stevenson in penetrat-
ing comment on life. That suggests the
solemn reminder of the Master Teacher,
that men cannot expect harvest of
grapes from thornS or figs from thistleS.
At the banquet of consequences to
which every person and every nation
and every civilization sooner or later
sits down the cook is cause" and the
menu prepared in the kitchen of
thoughts and deeds is effect" The
Creator has put us in universe which
is not whimsical or haphazard, but
breakers on the highways of Gods
world are angels with flaming swords;
and no traffic tickets can be fixed"
On the banquet-of consequences table
there often are found things bitter and
sour which set the teeth on edge, and
where one is compelled to eat his own
words and actions. All the great reli-
gions stress the truth that there is only
one way to make the inevitable BAN
quet of consequences pafatable and
devoid of wormwood and gall. And that
is to find and accept the will Of God.
The deepest secret of a victorious life
is to move in the direction in which
the kindly light of the Divine purpose
is leading.
Long ago st. Augustine put in one
sentence what dozens of modern
volumes, which purport to point the
way to peace of mind. are trying to
say. In that handful of words is the
quintesSence of all wisdom: I'm his
will is our peace" William E. Gladstone
spoke as a true statesman and sage
when he declared that the height of
wisdom in any one day is to find out
where God Almighty Is going In the
next so years, and then to move out in
that direction. It was because England's
grand old man believed and practiced
that high art that he could say with
unruffled assurance, when his reform
bill, even then long overdue, was de-
feated: "You can't fight against the
future. The great social forces which
move onwards In their might and maj
esty and which the tumult Of our
debate does not for moment impede
or disturb-those great social forces are
against you; they are marshaled on
our side" That was the utterance of
statesman, not time serving politician.
BY faith Gladstone was living in a
later hour, when enraged and outraged
justice would say to those who had
gloated over some temporary victory,
The banquet of consequences is ready:
dinner is served" And so it came to
pass-and not to the delight of the
taste buds of those who. defying Sc
quences, had prepared the bill-of fare.
Evening star., 1954-05-09

ing the principles Of Christianity and
religious freedom instilled by our fore
fathers.
Here the problems of the hungry, the
oppressed. the needy. the downtrodden
people of the world, become our prob
lems Here men seek to aid those less
fortunate than we are and endeavor to
tighten their burdens. Washington to
me means a city of unsurpassed in
spirationS. To mention few-the i'm
pressive memorials to three of our
Presidents: the Washington Monument
towering majestically toward the sky:
the Lincoln memorial with likeness of
Abraham Lincoln so real it is gazed
upon with awe; the Jefferson Memorial.
stately and beautiful in design; the
natural beauty of japanese cherry
blossoms encircling the Tidal Basin In
early spring; in Lafayette Square the
statue of Andrew Jackson by Clark
Mills silhouetted against the skies of
evening; the White House. thing of
beauty visible in the background;
historic st. James Church, the Church
OF the Presidents, standing nearby as
symbol of worship; the red, white and
blue neon sign Of the USO shining like
harbor light of safety and symbolizing
truly "a home away from home" for
our boys in uniform.
Washington means the crowds hurry
ing each morning to places of occupa-
tion-to the multidinous government
offices, each having a part. however
small, in the great plan of our Nations
business. 1t means the march of color
full parades to the step of martial
music; the thrill Of seeing visiting
royalty, the excitement Of learning
momentous news the minute it happens
this is Washington. With all of its
perhaps too rapid growth, its heat, its
absence Of the right to vote, Washing
ton is still my home town. and I'm
proud of it. Ona Lee Sans.
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Limited but Promising

Bernard NJ. Baruch has stated an obvious
fact In declaring that the Presidents atoms
for-peace plan-even If 1t wins full Soviet
eo-operation-will not solve the problem of
nuclear ornaments or end the threat of war
with A-weapons and the hydrogen bomb. In
pointing that out however, he has not criticized
the proposal as some reports have suggested
He has merely emphasized, as have our highest
Government authorities that 1t has definite
limitations despite all the great promise implicit
in 1t.
AS explained by the President in his his
toric December address to the United Nations,
his immediate objective is simply this: To
establish an international pool Of fashionable
materials in order to begin harneSSing the atom
for the betterment of peoples everywhere. Be-
yond that, the basic idea of the plan is that its
effective operation with all the countries chiefly
concerned participating in it, would tend to
lessen distrust among nations generate fresh
climate of good will and promote new spirit
Of world cooperation that could lay the
groundwork for eventual control and prohibit
ton of A-weapons the H-bomb and other in
strumentS of mass destruction.
That is the sum and substance of the
Presidents proposal. AS he has said, and as
Mr. Baruch and other experts have said, 1t
would not eliminate the menace of nuclear
warfare but it would be decidedly hopeful
step away from such warfare. For If 1t is put
to work to do all the good that it can do for
mankind, and if the Russians cooperate sin
cerely in it, it may we'll break the present
atomic deadlock and open the door, slowly but
surely, to a bright new era of peace without
fear.
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Spires Of the Spirit
Banquet Of Consequences By z2sssssz s s:sx !s''
dinister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States Senate.

must also feel the suppressed yearning
OF a billion retarded members Of the
human family in Asia and Africa
Somehow we must see through their
eyes the meager lot that hitherto, partly
through the selfishness of the West,
they have been doomed to endure. We
must be on their side so far as their
legitimate strivingS are concerned if we
are to be on the side Of the God of all
the earth, the Father of all mercies
who even now Is laundering to en-
trenched and callous privilege, Let my
people go!"
The banquet table Of consequences at
which we now sit is suggested by what
Dean Inge. who recently departed from
this mortal stage, warned us of years
back, when he said from the lofty ped
estal Of st. Paul's Cathedral that the
chief danger of the white man is his
arrogant contempt of other races.
Western nations today are reaping the
whirlwind of resentment among the
native peoples Of the East. because they
have too often sowed the wind of
selfish exploitation. The yellow and
brown folks of the Orient now are de-
manding that the boaSted "whiteness'
of the West be expressed in interna-
tional and interracial living which shall
match the reality and sincerity of the
White and Winning Christ whom the
East gave to the world. Only if in this
sense are we on Gods side, the side
of his children everywhere and who are
made in His image in all the earth, can
q ~ "a
appealing phrase: God bless America" !"
That never must mean that we call on
God to return to our democracy and
bless it; but, rather, that together We
shall cause our democracy to return
to God and be blessed.
Where Gods will lies is not the vague
question which many have assumed
Always, that will is identified with the
welfare Of people. That is what the
Bible means when it says that the
stars in their courses fought against
Sisera. It Is q vain thing to claim that
the stars are with us. It is everything
if we are with the stars.
Said an effusive young lady to a great
theologian and preacher at one of
Oxfords colleges, do tell me what
you think about God" To which the
great scholar replied: THAT, my dear
young lady. is a rather unimportant
question. The only thing that signifies
is what God thinks about me-"
Individuals and nations need have no
fear of the banquet of consequences if
at last it can be said. in the words of
the Old Testament. HE brought me to
his banqueting house. and his banner
over me was love-" If love is the auto
crat Of that dining table, all will be we'll.
Evening star., 1954-05-09
What Washington Means to Her

1t warmed my heart to read the
recent comments by Native Washing
tonian" in The Star in letter entitled
Home Town" While I cannot speak
AS native. have grown up in Wash
ington, and it has endeared itself to me.
I am grateful 1t was chosen by my
parents to be my home. Its traditions,
its history. its beauty, it's atmosphere,
are unique. It is the heartbeat of the
pulse of a Government which to us is
the greatest in the world-our own
United States. where Congressional
sessions are opened with prayer, reflect
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Chino, Southeast Asia
By Fred Thompson

HONG KONG.-This year
should bring more sullen and
suspicious maneuvering in
China and Southeast Asia. But
that depends on Korea: If
the guns remain spiked there
other wars will shrink.
Indo-China may simmer to a
hot truce despite great OBJ
Stacles.
Not peace, but a peace Of
fensive, lies ahead. The Com
munists will try to promote
their revolution by less violent
means while the West watches
warily
Peiping is tired. Commu-
nism's course in China has
been contradictory. In their
first year the Reds rebuilt rail-
roads. boosted acreage. re-
stored production. Yet now,
IN their fourth year, they have
breadlines and rationing. Al
ways they have tried too much.
Finally, by adding a war. they
overstrained. They likely will
avoid fighting for a while now,
and reduce their supplies to
the Indo-C China war-Moscow
willing and Korea permitting.
The Philippines are a 1854
hopeful from the Vests view
point. President Ramon Mag
saysay, while untested, is un-
Evening star., 1954-01-03
By james IA. Minifie

BY james M. Minifie
Aklavik is big time stuff. It
has a permanent population Of
400 people. In July and August
the season" SO to speak,
when ESkimos. Indians, trap
pers and miners come in to
meet the river boats-the pop
ulation doubles. Besides the
RCMP post there are a Ro-
man Catholic mission. a school
and a radio and meteorological
station.
In summer the flat-bot-
toned river boats bring sup
plies from the distant civiliZa-
tion to the south and pick up
furs brought in by the Indians,
A float seaplane puts down on
the Mackenzie River. Oil geol-
ogists work on their maps
which indicate that the north
country is floating on OIL"
How to get the equipment in
and the oil out is the problem.
Aklavik badly needs an all
season airport, roads and es-
sential services. AS it is, the
settlement is completely cut
of for three months every
year, during the spring break
up and in the fall before the
river has frozen sufficiently to
Evening star., 1954-01-03

cludes some chemical and tex
tile plants.
KAZAKHSTAN is the second
largest republic Of the U. S.
S. r. 1t reaches from the Volga
Delta to China. The Soviet
Unions largest mineral pro-
ducer. it provides so per cent Of
Russia's copper. lead and zinc.It
Is the worlds largest chromium
producer and contains fair
amounts of coal and oil. Ust-
Kamenogorsk dam Is located
here.
TURKMENTSTAN is almost
as big as France, but nine
tenths of it is covered by
desert. The economic life could
be revolutionized If the TOO
mile Kara-Kum canal and ir-
rigation project is ever COM
pleted.
KIRGIZISTAN is situated
primarily on the high ranges
Of the Tien Shan Heavenly
Mountains and is known
mainly for its sheep and
cattle production. It also has
oil. coal and a few small fac
tories
TADZHIKISTAN touches
the borders of Afghanistan
and, as the crow flies. is the
closest of the republics to
Pakistan. It is known as the
most political of the re-
publics because It's people are
racially akin to the Persians.