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Evening star., 1954-12-19

in the United States through
an article in the magazine
Outlook" He attracted the
attention of a young public
health worker in Wilmington,
Del, Miss Emily Bissell. She
was concerned over the fate of
a k-like sanitorium for
eight tubercular children. To
keep it going, $500 was needed.
She borrowed $40 from two
friends, designed a stamp with
a garland of holly and a red
cross, then asked a printer to
get out $4,000 stamps and wait
for his pay later.
1t Worked
1t was one Of those "they
said it would never work"
propositions. But Miss Bissell
fought for it. getting the help
Of the North American, a news
paper in Philadelphia.
The first Nationwide sale of
seals was staged in 1908 and
brought $l35.000. Until 1919
the seal carried the symbol of
the Red Cross which co-spon-
sored the sale with tubercu-
losis associations. Then. in
1919, TB associations went on
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Review: IS Legislative Outlook
Continued From Page A-23J

Continued From Page A-23J
one of 1855 biggest head
aches, as the Democratic-con-
trolled Congress will be loath
to vote the high rates.
Government Pay. To add to
the budget-balancing difficult
ties, the pay of civil service
and postal workers seems sure
to be increased next year. The
conference indicated details of
the pay bills have not been
worked out. ..>
Postal Rates. The Postmas-
ter General wants to couple a
postal rate increase with the
postal pay bill. Such a tie-in
was rejected by Congress this
year, and, consequently, Presi-
dent Eisenhower vetoed the
pay measure. Congress always
hates to boost the price Of its
constituents mail.
Health. Back to Congress
will 60 the Presidents health
Reinsurance" scheme. The
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program would in effect per-
NIT the Government to insure
private health insurance COM
panies. Health insurance pre-
sumably would be easier to get.
but private enterprise would
write the policies.
The plan was rejected in the
last session of Congress, mostly
because conservative Republ;-
cans thought it too radical
and liberal Democrats thought
it too cautious.
Housing. The Presidents
140,000-unit, four-year public
housing program was virtually
killed in the last session. The
feeling then was that public
housing was finished, but the
President wants to try again
next year. r
Highways. Mr.. Eisenhower
has suggested several times
that the Federal Government
increase Its aid programs for
highway construction. Details
are unclear, but apparently he
Evening star., 1954-12-19
The Outlook

It was difficult to see last
week how a President could
have made a more auSpicious
start in dealing with a Con-
gress controlled by the oppos-
ing party. Leaders of both
parties, from downtown" and
"the Hill" told reporters with
an earnest ring in their voices
that the agreement on Presi-
dent Eisenhower's program
truly was bipartisan and that
they would try to keep it that
way.
But can it be kept that way
when, the session gets under
way, and will both sides always
want to keep it that way?
The proof of the pudding. of
course, will be in the eating,
but there were a few whiffs
in the wind last week to indi-
cate the pudding might con-
tain a lump or two.
In the past 165 years per-
sonal interests, State interests.
party interests and plain old
fashioned differences of opin-
ion have had congressman and
Presidents at odds a good
many times during every ad-
ministration. President Eisen-
hover certainly viii tangle not
only with Democrats but men
Of his own party in the coming
two years.
And there was doubt ex-
pressed privately by men Of
both parties that big gobs Of
bipartisanship was good either
for the Nation or for politics.
The country, after all, thrives
on the two-party system.
Straining for agreement might
still some opposing voices
which could add much to the
legislative program.
Furthermore, it will be diff
flcult for either party to point
with pride and view with alarm
in 1856 If both back the same
bills in Congress. The Demo-
Gratis. of course. have the most
to lose on this score. A me-too
program wouldn't shake many
voters from the Republican
columns.
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rectly to their permanent set
ting place where they will
have to be independent from
their first day. The nraGbGrot
will be liquidated, forcibly. If
necessary, within the next two
years.
Take Pinhas Vakin for in
stance. He arrived in Septem-
ber with his wife and three
children from Morocco. The
boat docked in Haifa at 5
o'clock in the morning. At Z
am, he and 500 other immi-
grants were on their way to
Bar Giora in the mountains
of Yehouda near Jerusalem.
He was given a two-room
house. 10 dunnam (about az
acres) Of irrigated land, a few
dozen chickens. farming tools.
beds, blankets, a cooking stove,
food for IL days and cash for
seven.
Vakin, a tailor, had never
done physical labor. The next
morning he cleared stones
from a field.
Will Learn Farming
With the help of the agri-
cultural instructor in his viii
lage, he hopes to become a
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for free of charge and they
liked it.
So, beginning in 1850, immi-
grants were put into the tin.
wood or canvas-covered huts
of the ~maabarot" or transi-
tional villages, which were
erected near cities where work
was available. Immigrants had
to earn their living, but they
still received a number of free
services and they were doing
whatever odd jobs they could
find while waiting to be moved
to their permanent home and
Job.
The New Slums
These nlGabarot were con-
ceived as a temporary meas
ure. They are ugly and primi-
tive and are quickly becoming
the slums of the new state.
But people refuse to leave
them, because they got used to
them. The same amazing hui
man quality Of adaptation
which enabled these people to
survive the horrors of the con-
centration camps prevents to-
day their final settlement:
Hence, the new policy. I'm
migrants will be brought di-
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they

self-supporting farmer within
a few years and able to pay
back his home in small
monthly miscellaneous. Until
then, he is guaranteed 10 to
IL days labor every month,
for which he will be paid 4.10
Israeli pounds a day. ($2.25
officially. but twice that much
in buying power.)
He will help to build his viii
lage. He will plant trees, build
roads, put down irrigation
pipes. It's tough for him and
the others who almost never
have an agricultural back
ground. But farmers are what
the new state of Israel needs
to build up the country, to
make it independent Of food
imports.
ABOUT 3O,0OU people $1,000
families) are expected to come
from Tunisia and Morocco
within the next year. On ar
rival they will move directly
to so new villages, most of
them situated for economic
and security reasons in empty
regions along the border. 1t
will cost about $4.400 to settle
each family. It's expensive for
the state and not easy for the
immigrant. But Israeli offi-
cials believe that they have
found the only way to solve
the problem Of settling and
absorbing immigrants.
It will be interesting to
watch. since refugees are as
much part and parcel Of our
age as the atom bomb.
Evening star., 1954-12-19
Israel Tries Sink or Swim Plan With Immigrants
BY Moreorito Dobert

A new experiment In adapt
ing immigrants TO their foster
homeland has been started in
Israel. Instead OF easing them
into the strange environment,
the Israeli government viii
drop the newcomers into the
water and let them learn to
swim right Of.
This iS o far cry from the
old system. Then the irnmi-
grants spent years In recep-
ton centers and transitional
camps" But 1t was found that
the long months Of being sup
ported by water wings made
the immigrants disinterested
In swimming under their own
power.
Now they win have to be-
come Self-sufficient from the
very first day-llo more char
ity, no more training periods.
no more provisional jobs or
temporary housing.
II the Israeli experiment
works, it may well become an
example that can be followed
by other countries with an Inn
migration problem.
Population Doubled
The new policy Is the OUT
come Of Israel's six-year strug-
gle with an unprecedented
wave Of immigration. More
than 100000 persons poured in
after establishment of Israel
In 1948-more than the entire
population Of the country be-
fore that date. Since 1851 the
flood has become a trickle, but
it never has stopped.
Jews came to Israel from IA
different countries and from
all five continents. First came
the survivors of the concentra-
ton and death camps in Ger
many and Austria. Then fol-
lowed the entire Jewish COM
munities OF Yemen, Bulgaria
and almost all the Jews from
Libya, Tripolitania, Yugoslavia
and Iraq. At present, with the
increase of tension in North
Africa, they are coming from
Tunisia and Morocco. All have
to be absorbed economically
and socially.
When the human flood
started, tent cities were hastily
erected. The immigrants were
housed and fed. The main OBJ
ject was to keep them alive
while preparing them for per-
manent settlement. But this
next step proved difficult. Life
in the camps was miserable,
yet people were being cared
Evening star., 1954-12-19
Howe Scour9e Was Conquered by Merry Christmas

In so short years the Christ
mas seal of some 5000 tuber-
culoSis associations throughout
the United States has become
q definite part of Christmas
as big a part as department
store st. Nicks, eggnogg and
lights that blow out on Christ
mas trees. The meaning of the
seal, however, is more in line
with the thinking -of-others"
spirit that breaks through at
Christmas time than most
other symbols of the season.
Naturally the seal sale can
be looked on with a cold, real
istic eye. The sale means
money to tuberculosis associa-
tions-their sole means of sup
port. 1t is actually just an
other fund drive.
But 1t is different. The whole
drive. wrapped up in the sale
of the seal, bears no resem-
blance to high-pressure tactics
used by some other fund-rais-
Ing organizations. In its so
years the seal has never pic
tured a hopeless tubercular pa
tient lying forgotten some
where in a dirty room-a pic
ture which could jerk the
emotion and open the pocket
book. Rather. Santa Claus
carrying a Christmas tree or
little children singing carols
has been enough to make the
drive successful year after year.
More and more money is raised
each year - though money
given for tuberculosis still is
less than that raised. for in
stance. for polio or cancer.
lmitotors
Apparently the little gummed
seal serves it purpose. It's
meaning is deeply engrained
In American people.
Because of its success over
so other organizations have
taken to the seal idea-the
first real effort to raise money
against disease.
The story of the seal. how
it started and who started 1t,
Is almost too nice to be swal-
lowed. But it started in q land
of tender. happy stories-the
country of Hans Christian An
sderSen.
During the Christmas Of
1908. in the post Office at CO.
penhagen. there worked one
Einar Holboell. a postal clerk.
In the rush of mail and in the
Joy of the season he got the
idea that maybe all packages
and letters might carry an
other stamp, one. he thought,
which could be bought for one
cent. The money from the
sale OF the stamps could be
used to help the children OF
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For q boost In the salary Of II.
Munson Corning.
Could it be the complaints that
Bill Xanten surround
When the town Is tied up with
some snow on the sroundf
Or the murmur that rises from
Gerard M. Shea
When he lacks enough money
the relief grants to pay7"
Offered Col. Tom Lane. the
third city head:
I'm too new TO know, but
from what ! have read.
It may be that near thing 10
nuclear fission
When Highway Department
meets planning commits
sion."
Then they dashed to the win
dow to learn the real
cause
And 10 and behold There was
old Santa Claus.
At that distance st. Nick In
his colorful raiment
Seemed small as the annual
Federal payment.
But his voice was big a. he
brandished q gift
Which he said should give all
city workers q lift.
tits community greetings to
you all-everyone-
For a thankless. year-long job
well DONE"
Then he left. And the noise
that had given them
pause?
The sound was no more than
plain civic, applause.
Evening star., 1954-12-19
Metropolitan Scene
Don't Fight, Riddles, Old St. Nicholos
Has Something for Every One Of You
By John w. Thompson. Jr.

SVhU W.
Twas the week before Christ
mas, and all through the
city.
Officials were dreaming Of tap
ping the kitty
Their estimates all had been
padded with care,
In hopes that some tax dollars
soon would be there.
But Walter L. Fowler and
Schuyler Lowe too
Were keeping close watch on
the towns revenue.
Their Christmas week dreams
turned TO nightmares-or
worse
At the thought Of the drain on
the dwindling purse,
The Commissioners-each In
his ofnce-relaxed,
Pondering departmental prof.
ects they'd axed.
When all Of q sudden there
rose such o clatter,
Each raced to the hall to in
uuire the matter.
Beamed Renah Camalier, ear
close to the ground:
'It's my denomination! Ali
What a sweet sound!"
"Oh no." said Sam Spencer,
"The tone is too deep"
Like a traffic light plea from
George E. Keneipp.
Like the protest we hear from
Dan Seckinger, wary
Lest housing code modifica-
tions should carry.
Like the schools plaintive wall,
heard on many a morning.
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tradesmen - formerly gifts
packaged in boxes. hence the
days name. but not usually q
cash gratuity. In Canada the
day Is a bank holiday and most
businesses are closed, giving
people a welcome day Of rest
after Christmas.
English Canadians mark
Christmas quietly, with the ac-
cent on the family. To French
Canadians it is much more q
time of deep religious signifi-
canoe and for feasting, drink
ing and merriment.
The religious aspect of Christ
mas dominates the devoutly
Catholic French Canadians
until after the deeply impress
sive midnight mass in all their
churches on Christmas eve.
Then they return home for
house parties which last until
5 or 6 o'clock in the morning.
They eat--and how they eat!-
meat pies, chicken, head
cheese, cretonS Ca kind Of
minced pork and rich pas
tries. The women take a little
wine. but the menfolk wash
their food down with whisky,
gin and rum and, in country
districts, the native French
Canadian potato concoction,
whisky blanc.
Loud WossoiI
The inevitable result Is q
noisy. boisterous party with.
everybody alternately eating,
drinking. dancing and singing
carols and the old French-Ca-
madam folk songs like "Alou-
cite" and "C'est l'aviron."
The parties break up at
dawn and everybody goes home
to bed, although in the coun-
try the farmers may retire
only after they've MIXED the
cows. Sleep lasts only a few
hours, for they all have q date
at the table at noon for their
Christmas dinners.
The French Canadian Gus
tom is to exchange gifts on
New Years Day--le jour de
Pan, they call it--when good
little boys and girls are re-
warded with presents from
L'Enfant Jesu. In the cities,
however, this custom is being
superseded by the English
Canadian custom, although
even then it isn't Santa Claus
who brings the gifts, but le
Pere Noel. or Father Christmas.
Despite the fact that Canada
is northern country. it doesn't
always have a white Christ
mas. More of it promises to
be white this year than usual,
with several inches Of snow on
the ground throughout most Of
Southern Canada.
The northern climate is Just
right for the growth of ever
green trees Of the balsam fir,
spruce, Douglas fir and pine
varieties. and Canada ships
about 10 million Christmas
trees to the United States every
fall. It's been estimated that
New York City gets two-thirds
OF its trees from Canada, while
great numbers also go to Wash
ington. Philadelphia, Boston
and other cities. Many a poor
lumberjack's son pins his note
to Santa on a tree, hoping
Santa will find it in the home
Of a rich American and stop
at the cabin in the Canadian
woods on his way back to the
North Pole.
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would increase Federal aid to
States by several times and
extend the program for per-
haps ten years.
District of Columbia. Again
the President will recommend
some sort of home rule and
national representation for
Washington. The proposal
never got of the ground in
the 83d Congress.
Taft Hartley. The Presi-
dent said he would try again
to amend the Taft Hartley
labor m a n agem ent law.
Whether or not he will try
for the same amendments
rejected last year was not
specified.
Minimum Wage. In his press
conference the President said
the time was approaching
when an increase in the rs
cent-an-hour minimum wage
would be necessary, but he
did not say the time had
arrived.
Parity. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Benson tossed two trial
balloons into the air last week.
The first was a suggestion that
a new formula for figuring
"parity"-the price for a crop
designated as fair" to the
farmer-Should be devised. It
would take congressional &C
ton.
Butter Barter. Mr.. Benson's
second proposal was a trade
with Iron Curtain countries of
surplus butter for scarce stra-
tegic raw materials. He obvi-
ously was cropping for more
ways to unload crop surpluses.
Evening star., 1954-12-19
Conodion YuIe-
Rodor Screen Must Be Faulty, Because
Pere Noel Gets Through 1t Eoch Yeor
By Gerold Woring

OTTAWA.-Christmas trees
and boxes of unbreakable tree
Z decorations thudded into the
hard, wind-packed snow at 10
.outposts in the Canadian Arc
tic earlier this month.
They were parachuted from
= planes of the Royal Canadian
! Air Force. along with tons Of
mail. gift parcels. timed
Christmas dinners and fresh
fruit.
This was the RCAF's "Oper-
I: alton Santa Claus" to brighten
the holidays of scores of Cana
:dians and Americans at these
lonely Arctic posts, cut of from
civilization for the duration Of
the long polar winter.
The operation was carried
out In the second week of De-
cember, to take advantage of
the light of the full moon, for
the sun had long since sunk
below the southern horizon.
And perhaps even Santa Claus
himself, out for a dry run be-
hind Donner and Bitten,
.reined in over some cluster of
lights far out in the barrens
to watch the preparations be-
ing made for his coming.
: AS a matter of fact, it's be-
lieved that there's not much
going on in the Arctic or any,
where else that Santa misses.
Certainly the Air Force radar
stations which scan the north
ern skies for possibly hostile
aircraft have been consistently
unsuccessful in picking up
Santa and his reindeer on
Christmas eve. But that only
proves, they say, that Santa
knows where each radar sta
tion is. and that he gets right
down on the deck when he
passes them, to avoid detec-
tion.
BiIinguoI Welcome
I Be that as it may, it's GER
tain that there's no anxiety
or fear among Canadians that
Santa may not be able to make
his annual trip from the North
Pole this year because Of inter-
ference by the air force. In
stead. the Is million people in
this country, those who speak
French as well as those who
speak English, are getting
ready for Christmas celebra-
tions which in some ways are
quite different from those in
the United States.
The difference is perhaps
least marked In the English
speaking provinces. They, like
the United States, inherit their
Christmas traditions from
England and Germany, and SO
there's the familiar pattern Of
family presents under the tree
on Christmas morning, Christ
mas dinner, and visiting
friends and neighbors. The
mistletoe custom survives, but
other old English customs
like hauling in the Yule log
have all but disappeared. Few
Of the 100000 modern apart
ments and homes being built
In Canada each year have
flreplaces which could engorge
q log which had to be hauled
in rather than carried.
Boxing Doy Fodes
Even Boxing Day, December
rs, no longer has much sig
niflcance in Canada. In Britain
it's a day when one gives gifts
70 servants, postmen and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
By Rod Thomos

If duckpin bowler can aver
age 1876, he's considered top
flight. Just two pins under
that figure is Bill Lewis of the
Gondola Restaurant team in the
District Major League, following
a record performance last night.
Lewis shot a set of ATS, highest
OF the season in the star packed
league. 1t lifted his average to
124-85 for 81 gaines.
Lewis hammered out Is spares
and four strikes to top by 10
sticks the previous high set
rolled by Charley Beall of Chevy
Chase Chevrolet. In spite of
Lewis effortS-his games were
172. 161 and 142-abetted by Joe
Pricci's 4l2, the Gondolas lost
to National Bohemian. 81, as
Bob Miciotto tossed in a de-
cisive 424.
Another District League season
record fell when Bob Guethler
of Glebe Radio rolled a game of
1919, which included three spares
and five strikes. The 1879 sup
planted the 1856 rolled by Bill
Stalcup of Glebe.
In winning two games from
Rex Engraving, second place
Glebe gained on leading Takoma,
which dropped two to Arcade
Pontiac when Julie Singer (41D
and Lindsay Scott (416) deliv-
cred one-two punch. Chevy
Chase won two from Frederick,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Correlation Flown North
For Wood Memorial
By the Associufad Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 24.-Cor-
relation, winner of the Florida
Derby at Gulfstream last Satur-
day, arrived at Idlewild Airport
last night after a nonstop
flight from Miami.
The 3-year-old. owned by
Robert S. Lyle of Los Angeles,
will be pointed for the 100000
added Wood Memorial at ia
maica April "a.
IF he is in as good condition
as he is now, he will have a
good chance to win the Ken
lucky Derby" said Trainer No
BILE Threewitt, who made the
trip with Correlation and a g
year-old colt.
The, horses were vanned to
Belmont Park.
Correlation was flown to Gulf
stream Park from California
March II. He is the first horse
to fly from West to East for a
Florida stakes race.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
High Set and Game Marks Fall
In D. 6. Duckpin Major League

Md, as Jack Talbert led the way
with 402.
Bill Mischou of Chevy Chase,
league leader in average, gained
on his three closest rivals by
rolling 394, which lifted his aver
age to 128-40 for. SO games.
Frank Micalizzi of Takoma regis
tered 1854, which dipped his
average to 1921 for SO; Larkin
Weldon of Takona rolled BAT
and slipped to 1861 for IS and
Stalcup, also with BAT, faded to
1854 for 81.
The team standings: Takoma
50-34;' Glebe, 51-36; Rex, 46-41;
Gondola. 43-44; Chevy Chase,
41-43; Frederick, 42-45; Arcade,
36-48; National Bohemian, 1880.
For the second straight year
the Barnes & Kimel Furniture
team is the handicap winner of
the Washington Women's Ten
pin Association tournament,
having prevailed with a score of
465-2,666. In the scratch COM
petition. Ajax Construction won
with 2.259 and finished third in
gross scores with 339-2,598.
Others in the top five were:
Gardeners. second, sol 2,6O5;
Harris Bros. of Baltimore, fourth,
654-2,587, and o. c. E. No. 3,
fifth. 555-2,579.
The tournament will be con-
cluded Saturday and Sunday
with doubles and singles at the
Rosslyn Tenpin Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Looking to Kentucky Derby
Out Of Homebreds, King Ranch
Pins Hopes on Pair 1t Bought

20 at Jamaica. On November z,
he won his third start of the
season. In between these two
races, he was unplaced at Gar
den State.
Pelouse started seven times as
a 2-year-old. He began his cam
paign at Belmont's spring meet
ing. and won two races before
he finished for the year. He also
was once third.
Pelouse made the only stakes
appearance of either colt at 2.
He was one of IL starters in the
East View Stakes at Jamaica
October II. The King Ranch
colt was never a contender and
finished 18th to Fisherman. Cor
relation. Palm Tree, and others.
Trainer Hirsch, who has win
tered the King Ranch colts at
Columbia, has saddled three
winners Of the Churchill Downs
race. In 1887 he trained M. l..
Schwartz's Bold Venture. and
handled that winners two sons
which duplicated their sire's tri-
umph. In 1916 Hirsch saddled
Assault and in 1850 he won
again with underground. Both
carried the colors of King Ranch.