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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-16

I'VE already are unable to get
jobs as airline hostesses. lady
policemen. telephone operators
1--WE can't reach the plugs). on
top of not being able to wear
horizontal stripes. low heels or
picture hats. And We get smoth-
cred in elevators.
But not being able to dance
on television is too much!" So
saying. informant reports, Miss
Fischer packed up her dancing
shoes and departed Burbank in
the direction of Culver City. She
hired herself out to M-G-M to
dance with Gene Kelly in
"Brigadoon." y
I'm going where ability and
not size counts" she admon-
ished the Comedy Hour" staff
before leaving. why did I study
for years to get jobs such as
doing the Agnes DeMille ballet
in oklahoma if / am going to
get inched out of television?"
Miss Fischer had one parting
thrust for Mr.. Ross, standing
there with his story about the
comedians demanding tall girls
for comedy contrast.
:'Ill tell you something" she
said. you don't see any short
old maids!"
COMING UP - Florian Ia
Bach, who made friends here
during several terms as the
Mayflower Lounge orchestra
leader. is in line for the Liber-
ace treatment on TV. He has
just signed with Guild Films to
make a series of half-hour
musical shows for fall release.
It was Guild which turned
the Liberace show into the most
widely syndicated filmed tele-
vision show. The same approach
will be applied to Violinist Ia
Bach's new enterprise. including
direction by Duke Goldstone.
who directs the Liberace pro-
gram.
Guild Films could turn out
to have something even more
popular here than its Liberace
series. Mr.. ZaBach is an alert
Snowman and. for musicianship.
Liberace can't hold q five.
stemmed candelabrum to him.
PROGRAM S-Both
Martin Agronsky and Elmer
Davis will get new ABC-TV pro-
gram times starting April 4. Mr..
Davis news commentary will be
heard on Sundays at $3.50, fol-
lowed Immediately by Mr.. Agron-
sky's "At Issue" at 3:45 pm. Both
will originate in the WMAL-TV
washington. studies. Parents
OF young viewers who want Il
Love Lucy" at an earlier hour
will get just that eventually.
though not until 1856. That's
when the returns could start. The
plan now is to keep first run
Lucy" films in the present Mon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-16
On the Air
On the Air
You See No Short Old Maids,
Says 5-Foot Jane Fischer
By Harry Macarthur

It may sometimes seem that
the United States Capitol is the
headquarters for all strife in the
country. but that isn't true. It's
just proximity that makes it ap-
pear so to us around here. There
are those outside Of Washington
who find time to argue about
other things than the latest move
Of the Junior Senator from Wis
consin.
There is, for instance, the tele-
vision controversy which is rat
Ting Burbank. Calf. like a small
earthquake. The comedians are
to blame for this one. The come
dians. generally. are not tall men
and they think it's funny tamong
other things, to have a lot of tall
girls around the premises.
So Howard Ross. casting OIL
rector for the NBC-TV Comedy
Hour" was forced recently to
stick his head in a feminine
buzzsaw. He let it be known
that henceforth the minimum
dancing girl height on THE
Comedy Hour" would be S feet
4 inches.
This is not precisely statu-
esque. but there are girls who
can't measure up to the new
specifications. They are not very
happy. either. West Coast OBJ
servers report.
One of these, a vociferous one,
is Jane Fischer. a former Metro
politan Opera ballet dancer, who
deserted Broadway two years ago
for "The Comedy Hour" Miss
Fischer lost even more than 9TH
er short dancers banned from
the NBC shows stage. She was
forced to turn over her post as
official Jimmy Durante nose
measurer. which she has held
for nearly D year. to S foot Z
Joan Larkin.
Miss Fischer, who can draw
herself up to q fine 5 feet by
taking a deep breath, babe THE
Comedy Hour" q loud if not ex-
actly a fond farewell.
This is i'll" she declared.
1--WE short girls are being dis
eliminated against. The tall ones
are getting all the jobs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-16

day night slot. televising the
second runs on Sunday after
moons. NBC-TV's Anything
Goes" starring Ethel Norman.
may get repeat showing. live"
There were tentative plans for
doing it on March %, then that
Commute RodgerS-H ammerstein
special was scheduled for that
night.
TV FOR HIRE-As it prom
Used. the Emerson Radio and
Photograph Corp. has an
nounced details of its rental plan
for color TV sets. After the first
month. the monthly rental fee
will be SIS. The first month the
charge will be 5000, which will
also include delivery and install
lation charges as we'll as instruc-
ton in operating the receiver
How this will appeal to those
who won't pay from $700 to
1900 for a color television set
remains for Emerson to learn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-16
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23

women. boys and girls, are traffic
victims. in one degree or another, we
cannot wonder that skunk and opos-
sum deaths are numerous.
Few onlookers will shed a tear for
either, and surely not for the skunk,
but the poor poSsum is another animal.
His tragic carcass lying in the road
way points to the strange lack of care
fulness which runs like a red thread
through all living creation.
Perhaps it is best that it should be
this way. lest all become neurotic.
Even the animals may, at times, ac-
cording to scientists.
Those who bravely set out on adj
venture would never go, perhaps, If
they totaled up all the chances for
disaster. drew a line, and saw how
many chances there were for not COM
ing back again. as compared with those
for success.
Whether 1t is climbing the worlds
highest mountain or just going to the
corner grocery store. men and women
seldom look very far ahead.
+
Those who have kept family budget
books know how worrying to the spirit
the things finally become.
It is all very well. for few months
or years. to see where your money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
This and That /.

Lacking most in a modern traffic
sense is the skunk, thousands Of which
are struck and. killed every day in the
country roads.
Next comes the opossum, often seen
lying in heavily travelled thoroughfares
in suburban communities.
How can these and other wild things
be expected to be acquainted with the
dangers Of fast going?
Wild things can speed, after their
fashion, but it is not the fashion Of
steel and gasoline on rubber feet.
1t was noticeable during the recent
heavy SHOWS how the roar Of traffic
was stilled, when tires no longer met
asphalt or concrete.
Perhaps three-fourths of ordinary
traffic noise Is due to this contact.
It Is not the rumble Of the cars, nor
the noise of the engines. but the sound
made by rubber on roadbeds that ac-
counts for the constant traffic noise.
i This noise human beings become
used to, but it is a question whether
the wild animals and birds ever become
accustomed to it.
Their only refuge Is to ignore It,
which thousands Of them do to their
peril, and even more thousands Of poor
human beings might tell them II they
could.
When we realize how many men and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
By Charles E. TroceWeN

goes" but after time the whole thing
is just trial.
It is precisely a trial to the mind,
which rejoices most in danger, whether
physical or mental or economic.
Most young couples have started out
bravely to keep budgets, and few can
say that they did not gain something
by the process, but in the end they
all give them over because it is too
much trouble, they say.
Actually, it isn't the trouble. 1t is
because the whole thing f1aunts the
spirit of man (and animals) in the
face.
We are all, two-legged and four
legged, on our way to adventure, even
If we do not know it,
Sometimes it would seem better to
die in adventure than to stagnate in
hole in the road, no matter how safe
.one is.
Shed not too many tears. then, for
the young man at war.
He is on his way.
Weep a little for the dead possum
in the road, but do not weep too much.
He was on his way.
Remember. the coward dies thou
sand deaths.
by my troth," said Shakespeare, II
care not: A man can die but once; we
owe God a death"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
An W-Advised Tax

1t is evident from hearings on the Internal
Revenue Service appropriation request that
Congress is not going to supply extra funds or
personnel for enforcement of the controversial
wagering tax AS revenue producer the tax
on professional gambling has been flop from
the beginning. And the testimony of Revenue
Commissioner Coleman Andrews shows that it
would be a flop even If money and men were
provided to undertake real enforcement pro-
gram. Under the circumstances the tax should
be abandoned.
While some advocates of the gambling tax
law will argue that 1t is deterrent to gambling,
whatever its merits as a revenue source, the fact
is that the Internal Revenue Service is not
supposed to be in the crime-suppression BUSH
ness. Any adequate attempt to enforce the
gambling tax statute inevitably would project
the Federal Government deep into field OF
local police work that is the rightful response
bility Of States and cities The law requires the
registration of all gamblers and their employees.
From the returns to date thousands of gamblers
are evading the law. Sponsors of the law had
predicted that 1t would yield up to $500 million
a year in revenues. Last year collections
totaled only sos million, including sales of
gambling stamps and payment of excise taxes
In order to round up the evaders, the
Federal Government would have to organize
special gambling-tax investigation squads in
every city and county. These squads would have
to duplicate the work of the police with respect
to gambling, for proof of evasion in Federal
court would require proof of gambling. Com
missioner Andrews put it bluntly but forth
rightly when he told the House Appropriations
subcommittee: "The returns just do not justify
1t. have serious doubts whether $40 million
or several times $40 million Tin enforcement
fundsl would ever produce $400 million or 500
million. The gambling transactions undoubtedly
loom large in this country, but getting at it is
matter Of very intensive enforcement and the
Revenue Service is not prepared to undertake it,
for reasons that you understand as well as do"
Commissioner Andrews testimony caps the
accommodating evidence that the gambling tax
law was passed without sufficient study of the
enforcement problem. And If this law cannot
be enforced it ought to be repealed, in fairness
to those to whom the impossible task was
assigned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Answering the Questions

The current series Of articles BY Star
Reporter John v. Horner will provide an
answer to questions raised by Attorney Jean NJ
Boardman as to the value of special domestic
relations courts. Mr.. HornerS reports from
Toledo, Ohio make it plain that the handling Of
family problems in a separate court has proved
successful in Toledo. He has been assigned to
check also on q similar court In Detroit, which
has been cited as good example Of the special
handling plan.
Nobody is apt to accept Mr.. Boardman's
challenge" to disprove his assertion, made in
an extravagant public statement, that there
exist only little handful of special courts to
handle domestic relations cases and few if any,
Of these, courts are the same" However few in
number they may be, the important considera-
ton is whether or not they are worth while.
The Star believes that they are-and so do the
judges Of the District Court.
Mr.. Boardman has made an extraordinary
attack on some of these Judges charging them
with using "the prestige of their judicial Offices
to induce lawyers to vote in favor of the Family
Court OF to refrain from voting in opposition
to it at the meeting Of the District of Columbia
Bar Association on February 8, 1854" Perhaps
this approach, If made as alleged, was unwise
but 1t IS quite obvious that the majority of
lawyers voting at the said meeting were not
intimidated by the judges-or induced in Mr..
Boardman's words, ito attempt to curry favor
or to retain favor with the judges by voting for
the Family Court" The vote against the Family
Court plan was given as 200 to 157
The real issue is not the propriety of the
method used by some of the judges to promote
the plan but the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting the
plan in Washington. The Stars own inquiries
SO far tend to support the judges the Judicial
Conferences of the United States and the Dis
trict of Columbia and other advocates Of ena-
bling legislation to be considered at hearings
before Senate judiciary Subcommittee this
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Fair Trode 'Unfuir'

To say you're against S"Fair Trade"
makes you sound at first as If you'd
probably also be against Home and
Mother! But members of Housewives
United believe Fair Trade" is unfair
unfair to consumers, unfair to retailers
end unfair to manufacturers.
II housewife, because she needs to
save money. is willing to make a trip
to the store. pay cash. and carry home
hef bundles, is 1t fair for this house
wife to be forced to pay as much as
the shopper who simply telephones
fashionable shop and says. Send it
out and charge it?" The Fair Traders
talk a great deal about a minimum
price. But price can be high and still
not reach the Fair Trade" minimum.
The minimum starts the price of on a
platform. Nothing is said about maxi
mum price.
II retailer is willing to take a small
profit per item depending on quick
turnover. low overhead, efficiency, and
hard work to make his living - is it
fair for this retailer to be forced by
law to sell at high, fixed price If he
feels it would be good for his business
to share his economies with his Gus
toners? He has already paid the manu-
facturer the price asked for the goods.
Is it fair for this retailer to be bound
by price agreement he did not sign?
an agreement that only one retailer
in the State did sign with the manu-
facturer?
Representative Broyhill remarked re-
Gently concerning the proposed Fair
Trade" bill for the District of Column
bia: If it's fair for Virginia and Mary
land. it's fair for the District. -.
But who thinks it's fair for Virginia
and Maryland?
Mrs. Joseph N. Switkes,
Chairman. Committee Against Fair
Trade. Housewives United.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Drawing Cards in Korea

Marilyn Monroes draw" in Korea
has been compared with that of Car
dinal Spellman (The Star. February 16.
1854. May. readers now weigh these
comparisons:
Marilyn's trademark, sex. brought
thousands of Marines walking miles,
waiting hours, lusting. rioting, initiating
morale" lowering morals.
Cardinal Spellman's mission brought
spiritual and corporal works of mercy
to thousands in service following Christ,
elevating morale and morals to Him
Of higher plane.
It's a sad thing that sex appeal
should have such great drawing power
with the Marines with their high
morale and standards. and sadder still
that 1t should have greater appeal than
something spiritual
Before exporting military and Holly
wood personnel to promote democracy
(our free way Of life). we Americans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23

Of the Secretaries Of the Army. Navy
and Air Force. Thus it is conceivable
that all three services might establish
policies relative to POWs which would
be different and varied and the result
would be unfair and possibly preju-
dicial to the average CT. After all
he had little choice when he volun-
teered via the draft Consequently
there should be a unified policy or
procedure.
1t is also unfair to the officers
ordered or detailed to sit on boards
Of investigation. After more than Is
months interrogating and listening to
German and Polish officers and men
who had been POWs of the Soviets,
I would hate to sit on a board of
investigation and make decisions and
recommendation affecting others with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Eminent Authors

Within a single span Of "a hours two Of
Americas leading writer's finished their careers
and passed into the literary history both had
helped to create. One was Bliss Perry, aged SO
but not really an old man up to the last. Thou
sands of his Junior contemporaries remember
him as a teacher of the art of letters at Will
lams, Princeton and Harvard and as editor Of
the Atlantic Monthly and the Cambridge ed-
tons of the poets His biographies of Whitman,
Whittier, Emerson Carlyle, Richard Henry
Dana and Henry Lee Higginson and his auto
biography still are excellent reading, and the
same observation applies to his novels and his
random essays and reviews. Clues to his per-
sonality may be found in his friendship with
Presidents Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roose-
welt and woodrow Wilson and in his devotion
to baseball and fishing. The influence he exerted
on three generations of literary workers was
conservative yet humane and it should con-
tinue to be vital force for long while to come.
Younger than Professor Perry by three dec
AIDES was Frederick Lewis Allen, the author Of
"Only Yesterday" "Snce Yesterday" and "The
Lords Of Creation" and co-author with his wife
of "The American Procession" metropolis" and
II Remember Distinctly"-all useful and popu-
lar appraisalS of people and events in the
United States in the present "age of confusion"
He, too, was an editor Of the Atlantic Monthly,
subsequently having served both The Century
and Harper's in like capacities. Aiming direct
ly at the largest possible public, he was frankly
Journalistic in his style and proud Of the fact.
Student writer's coming within the range Of
his kindly but strictly professional guidance
left his Office inspired
Professor Perry's work was done; Mr.. Allen
has departed too soon, perhaps martyr to his
own intensity of labor. To lose both of these
eminent authors at once is double hardship
for Americans concerned with the literary
aspect of our national culture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Only One Answer

A certain little girl know
Spends hours, pen-dipped in ink.
She doesn't haze to concentrate
on words or even think.
The pages pile to postage-due.
With thought and hope and tDish,
She hasn't time to iron her blouse
Or euen tDaSh a dish.
The symptoms are so Dery plain,
Such things 90 hand in -gloUe,
The indications are that she
Is very much In love!
Mary Gustofson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23

out having endured the same expe-
rience. ! believe any fair-n1inded
American would feel the same way.
believe the problems presented
above basically affect our way of life
and therefore it is my duty to set
forth a possible means of solution
After all the knowledge and expert
ence I gained as an employee of the
taxpayer in both the legislative and
executive branches of our Government
warrants this action. 1t must be
clearly understood that I have not
been employed by the Government
since January 3, 1853. when I finished
my work as counsel for the Katyn
Forest Massacre Committee Of Con-
gress. and. therefore, have no inside
information on this POW subject.
John J. Mitchell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23

in today's world such Is almost impossible. One
must be out and doing when holiday comes,
gathering blisters and aches, to compare them.
come Tuesday, with the blisters and aches Of
his fellow workers. This necessity for COM
pairing notes adds to the dificulty Of getting
back to work after holiday week end Today
is the fddler's payday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Slow Start

It is not easy getting back to work on a
Monday, but when a holiday intervenes to
lengthen the week end and stretch it to Tues
day, the business of getting back to work is
doubly difficult. The routine has been inter-
rupted for three, not two, days. It has been
a week end long enough to allow for firing
trip, but not long, enough for recuperation.
There has been enough time to paint the kitchen
cabinet and haul the old newspapers to the
scrap dealer, but not enough to work out the
stiffness in the back These things must be
done at the office, where it seems that the
work, too, has doubled
Saturday, Also seems nearly upon us again.
It is hard to get down to work with another
week end SO near at hand, and plans to be made
for the leisure time. Tomorrow will be Wednes-
day, the middle of the week, when we should be
well into our projects. But one can scarcely get
the papers into the proper piles by Wednesday,
when it falls in Monday holiday week. let
alone get to work on those papers, The deal
should be boiling, but the fire is dead.
It one treats holiday week end. with the
respect due it, relaxing with book or pile
OF records, or sitting quietly with pleasant
thoughts he arrives back at the office refreshed
for the concentrated effort Of q short week. But
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Lincoln No Coward

G. G. Moore in his recent letter at
temptS to show. that Lincoln was a
coward and that he chose civil war
to political opposition. Mr.. Moore
says, Nothing can alter that fact" 1t
is not fact. but rather a delusion.
In his first inaugural address, Presi-
dent Lincoln stated: In your hands
my dissatisfied fellow countrymen. and
not in mine. is the momentous issue of
civil war. The Government will not
aSsail you You have no oath reg
istered in Heaven to destroy the Gov
eminent, while l shall have the most
solemn one to preserve, protect, and
defend it,
And in message to a special session
OF Congress he said: -. . it was also
resolved to notify the Governor of South
Carolina that he might expect an at
tempt would be made to provision the
fort. and >. if :. not resisted
there would be no effort to throw in
men. arms. or ammunition without fur
Their notice. :. This notice was accord
ingly given, whereupon the fort was at
tackled and bombarded to it's fall, with
out even awaiting the arrival of the
provisioning expedition.
1T is thus seen that the assault =. . :.
and reduction of Fort Sumter was in
no sense matter of self defense on the
part of the assailantS."
The threat of opposition would not
have deferred the President from a
plan. And he was by no means bound
by the decisions of the cabinet, because
they are merely advisers. Lincoln was
not coward. and he did not choose
war. 1t was forced upon him.
George SymOnS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-23
Questions and Answers

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