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Evening star., 1954-01-09
Catholic University Exponsion

News of the merger of Catholic University
and Columbus University has been received by
friends of both institutions with knowledge that
it means an expansion Of a useful work in two
important branches of adult education. The
latter center, established by the national board
of directors Of the knights OF Columbus with
funds left from activities related to World War
I. was needed in 1919 and still is needed. It
serves hundreds of young men and women who
want instruction in law and commercial science.
The degrees of LIB. and B.C.S. which it grants
are recognized by tie courts the bar associa-
tions and business organizations, as well as by
the several departments and agencies OF the
Federal Government.
What now is to happen is the removal OF
the Catholic University Law School from Brook
land to the downtown location on Eighteenth
street Northwest The new Columbus School
of Law will give graduate class instruction as
well as the courses formerly available. tradl-
ton dating back to the founding of the older law
school in 1895 will be invigorated by the changes
involved.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
InspirotionoI Editing

Warm and admiring commendation must
be extended to the editors of the State Scientific
Publishing House of Moscow. For some time
past although perhaps not as long as one might
think the editors have presumably been
disturbed at the fact that the latest volume OF
the Soviet Encyclopedia contained no biographi-
cal treatment of Friedrich wilhelm Bergholtz a
historian of the period of Peter the Great
1672-1725). Missing, too were some truly
representative pictures of the Bering Sea, that
cold northern waterway which guards the
peace loving Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
against invasion from warmongering forces in
Alaska But as all editors know, space is at a
premium in the worlds great publications: the
task of exercising editorial judgment often
requires long deliberation, imagination, inge-
nuity and other qualities not always recognized
by the layman.
Sheer inspiration sometimes is the answer
and, happily, it has come to the editors of the
State Scientific Publishing House. BY some
oversight, presumably inexplicable, four pages
in Volume of the encyclopedia had been taken
up with a socially mischievous glori1cation of
one Lavrenti P. Beria, policeman, deceased.
Such an indefensible waste Of space is easily
remedied. Mr.. Bergholtz and the Bering Sea
are neatly packaged in four pages-provided to
all subscribers with Recommendation" that
they be substituted for the non-signifcant
treatment Of the non-existent Mr.. Beria. Thus,
in one bold stroke, history is refined and edi-
torial security achieved.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
BY Charles E. TroceweN

though the fishes do not mind this in
the least. AS a matter of fact. unless
too dense. it is good for them.
1t is unsightly, however. and is best
avoided. If tank builds up too much
green color, it shows an abnormal
growth of algae, forced into prolifera-
ton by too much sunshine, or too much
leftover food, or too many fishes in
the given space, with too much waste
all around.
The remedy is plain enough. but not
always easy of attainment. Move the
tank away from strong sunshine, keep
it cleaner, feed less food, and be more
ScrupulouS about cleaning up leftover
foods and eXudateS with the dip tube.
All this might seem a great deal of
trouble to the beginner, but once he
attains really balanced tank he will
never think so again, the picture effect
is SO beautiful. The water is as clear
as crystal. But more than that, the
living inmates Of the aquarium are so
healthy and happy that they prove to
the owner that this is the only way to
keep tank. It ought to be this or
nothing, and certainly the combination
is worth striving for, not only for the
picture effect, and the happiness of
the fishes. but also because it is little
triumph of man, whose work so often
results in botching and bungling. The
balanced aquarium is work of art, as
well as real slice of nature set down
in few square inches or maybe feet.
It proves, in ones own living room,
that man is not helpless before
nature, but can secure happiness.
health and peace in his own affairs II
he wants them badly enough.
Evening star., 1954-01-09

olution Of 1776 would not have occurred.
Except for 56 signers of the Declara-
ton of Independence and 80 signerS Of
the Constitution of the United States,
those great instruments would not have
been brought into being. The generals
and admirals are very small percent
age of our fighting forces, but what war
can be waged and won without them?
Within the last few days your coll
umns have carried two similar state
ments, one letter by Mr.. Miller in
this column and an Associated Press
report Of statement by Senator Hunt
of Wyoming. These statements show
the lack Of straight thinking and dem
onstrate the wisdom of Thomas Jeffer-
son in his zeal to establish education
for the people in order that we might
have enlightened voters who can think
for themselves. He considered the
founding of the University of Virginia
as one of the three greatest accom-
plishments of his life.
Mr.. Miller brushed of as unimpor-
tant the fact that 20-odd Americans
out Of 100 millions have embraced Com
munism, and Senator Hunt said that
out of the millions of men who saw
service since the Korean war started.
81 is IAN inf1nitesimal few" These
statements are absurd. Charity leads
one to think that these gentlemen spoke
before thinking. Only those prisoners
who were offered chance to decide be-
tween staying or returning can be con-
sidered in comparison. About one-half
of / per cent elected to remain with
the Communists. The millions of men
under arms or people living at home
cannot be considered in this comparison.
To do so is observation-disclosures. feeble
mindedness or possibly a deliberate ef-
fort to play down facts.
Those who think one-half of per
cent is negligible amount should re-
member that had that figure held for
all those in uniform during World War
II, over so 900 men would have gone
over to the enemy. Would that have
been insignificant?
The way to fight communism is not
to neglect or pooh-pooh it. We must
recognize it as a powerful force being
pushed fanatically by people who use
others to accomplish their purpose.
They use as their pawns those who
listen to the faults of our American
way but who never hear and never fig
ings Of life. liberty and pursuit Of hap
pineSs under q Government deriving
its power from the consent Of the gov
erned.
Braxton H. Tabb, Jr.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
This and That

too many fishes, even guppys: hearty
old busters of fishes, such as goldfiShes,
need far more water than they are
usually given.
The plant life helps provide oxygen
exchange, and the fishes love it. That
should be enough for any enthusiast.
1t is little enough one can do for these
prisoners. but if the layout is good,
their territory is simply vastly reduced
for what it is, it is OK. It is impos-
sible for human being to imagine
what similar limitation in his sphere
would be like, because he would know
that the invisible barrier was glass,
and he would fret about it. and his lack
of freedom, but the fish mentality can
not be expected to function in that
way. When the creature comes to the
end of his aquarium, without brushing
the glass he simply turns and swims
away. He seldom dasheS against the
walls except in times of extreme fright,
and if conditions are correct, these sell
dom occur.
The ideal tank would provide enough
surface for the number and weight of
the fishes, that is. insure them, through
this factor alone, of proper interchange
of given-off gases and incoming ones,
principally oxygen.
In usual practice, however, this per-
fection is not attained. It is made up
for by using small electric pumps. and
placing the tank where it will get some
sunshine. and thus force the plants to
send forth some oxygen.
Light, while necessary, often brings
about a tank with too much green
algae for the best picture effect, al
Evening star., 1954-01-09

Winter care of tropical fishes has
not changed much since 1884. when
this column carried many words on
the subject.
The main thing is to keep them at a
uniform temperature, somewhere be-
tween 20 and IA degrees. but before
that, the water must be good.
In other words. the tank must be
balanced.
This is understood by initiates. but
no doubt many persons with new fishes
as Christmas presents do not exactly
understand what balanced aquarium
means.
It means the relation between the
air. water. animal and plant life.
When this is right, the tank is said
to be balanced.
The balanced tank is secured by
cleanliness, not too many fishes, enough
plants and adequate exchange of
oxygen through the surface film of the
water.
Cleanliness is attained through feed
ing no more food than the inmates eat
and getting rid of the normal exudate.
Milky" water is mostly due to lack
of these precautions
If there are too many animals per
square inch of water surface. there
will be constant struggle to get
oxygen, with consequent upsetting of
the balance.
Once the number of fishes is ad-
justed, as the experts say, to the
amount Of water, the other factors can
function, but not before.
This means that we must not keep
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Coll to Adventure

The wall of train whistle at night, par
ticularly on crisp clear night when bright
moon is overhead, long has been siren call to
adventure, beckoning boys and men to come
along to unknown and exciting places. Every
one who heard it knew-as certainly as he knew
that it was passing him by tonight-that he
would be aboard tomorrow or next week or next
month, riding above the rhythmic click of the
wheels to somewhere new
In recent years the whistle has been all but
stilled, muted by the advances of a science which
grew too fast for boys and men. But now there
is good news in the announcement that the
voices of these boys and men, as piaintive as
train whistle in the night, have been heard and
needed. At least one major railroad is going
to do away with the strident, dissonant blast
of the Diesel horn to bring back the inviting
tone of the steam whistle.
The Diesel horn, of course, was doomed from
the time it was first attached to a locomotive.
Instead of Turing men to dreams of adventure,
it skaters dreams and brings men up sharply
to the realization that this is mechanical
world and they had better see about getting
more anti-freeze in the radiator, and leave
adventure and exploration to some one else. The
Diesel horn wakes the baby. 1t startles the
livestock. It CRATES the nerves.
We are going to welcome the return Of the
rnournful but inviting wall Of the steam whistle.
We will not mourn the passing OF the Diesel
Evening star., 1954-01-09
CoreIessness in Juvenile Cases

Deputy Police Chief Covell described as
"laSSitude" the police handling of a report
concerning the escape from the Receiving Home
of six boys accused of housebreaking. He said
the Missing Persons Bureau failed to follow up
on the case. From all accounts, carelesSness
would be more appropriate word than laSSi-
tude, which the dictionary defines as WEAKNESS.
And the careleSSneSS was not confined to the
Police Department. There were delays all along
the line in reporting the mass breakout of the
16 and II year old delinquents.
Although the youths smashed the glass of
door and fed at 7:30 an, it was not until five
hours later that general police lookout for the
fugitiveS was circulated. Yet these were not
inoffensive inmates of the home. They were
boys who had been picked up for attempted
burglary and four of whom previously had been
involved in similar offenSeS. The Stars inves-
tigation showed that it was only by chance that
the Police Juvenile Squad learned of the escape,
about three hours after 1t had occurred, from
messenger en- route to the Missing Persons
Bureau with list of the names of the missing
boys. That bureau had received telephone
notification of the escape, without the name
list, about an hour and a half after the escape.
The bureau neglected to pass the notice on to
the Juvenile Squad.
All of this seems to be typical Of the atti-
tude long too prevalent in dealing with delin-
quent juveniles in this city. The law has sur
rounded young criminals with so much protec-
ton against routine law enforcement procedures
that officials have tended to become lax in
dealing with juvenile cases. It Is hard to under
stand, however, why careleSsness should persist
in the face Of the recent alarming disclosures
regarding juvenile crime in Washington.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Sides With Stokes
Braxton II. Tabb, Jr.

never thought would be defending
Tom Stokes, whose column thoroughly
dislike. but I shall have to take issue
with Retired Treasury Employe" con-
corning the tax policies Of Andrew w.
Mellon. It so happens that I was Sec
retary to William r. Green during the
period when he was chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee, so
I have some personal knowledge Of
what occurred.
BY and large the benefits received by
the small taxpayer during the Mellon
regime were obtained in spite of Sec
retary Mellon and over his vigorous
opposition. They were put in the bill
by Chairman Green. Melons opposi-
ton to the Green proposals became so
strong that President Coolidge gave
Green Federal judgeship in order to
get him out of the way. and Coolidge
even insisted that Green take the va
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Storm

A rumble deep in natures throat
Is adequate alarm
To one ,Dho peaches her domain
On defiant farm.
A clatD of tightening slashes out
And SheGthes itself in air
Before the brain records the stroke
That laid a forest bare.
The farmer Uentures out at last
To match the clearing wentIler.
And splice the broken ends OF hope
And pull himself together.
Robert Lee Brothers
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Higher Fare for Students

J have been following the Capital
Transit dispute daily In The Star.
am now at the point where / am
inclined to agree that the Scent school
fare should be raised.
For Is years I lived in the District
and rode the Capital Transit daily to
work. Most days had to stand UP,
as the seats were occupied by school
children. One day / remarked to the
motorman about it and he agreed with
me that 1t was awful to think that
all Of the occupied seats came to
total Of 90 cents.
have recently moved to nearby
Maryland. which Is also served by
Capital Transit.
The school children out here have to
pay as much as II cents each way to
school; 10 cents for the first zone and
seven cents for any after that.
My own children in first and third
grades can walk to school, for which
I am thankful, as. don't believe I
could manage If they rode the bus
every day.
To top it all of, the buses that are
used out here on the B-6-8 out Of
Mount Rainier are so filthy and dusty
that you have to wipe the seats of
before you can sit on them.
If the District school children can
continue to ride for cents. then
think the children in suburban areas
who also depend on Capital Transit
should be given a break of lower fare.
Disturbed Reader.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Lindberqh's Discovery

wish to comment on the wonderful
article. MY Greatest Discovery" by
Charles Lindbergh, published in This
Week Magazine, January 3.
I wish every American could read it.
I do not believe many scientists will
acknowledge that God is above ALL"
Here is one who has studied, suffered,
and been tops in his scientific field. and
after 20 years or more admits that God
is All High
AS Lindbergh says, 1--WE must draw
strength from the virtues of simplicity,
humility, and prayer. It requires dedi-
cation beyond science. beyond self, but
the rewards are great and it is our only
hope" Muriel S. Geier.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Subway as Defense Measure

Construction Of subway in Wash
ington would be very good thing from
the standpoint of national defense and
national survival in the event of atomic
attack.
Washington is the only important
capital city, either on our side or on
the Communist side. which is without
subway system. London. Paris, and
Moscow have Subways. Even Stockholm
is building an ultra-modern anti-atomic
subway.
In Washington everybody is COM
PEELED to travel on the surface. A major
portion of the key personnel essential
for the continuance of the life of this
Nation could easily be obliterated by
one enemy A-bomb exploded at either
the morning or evening rush hour. But
once we had q subway in Washington.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Scientist Entitled to Opinion

A recent editorial in The Star sug-
gests that the distinguished scientist,
DR.. Harold C. Urey, g. should stick
to his profession" and further suggests
that he is not qualified to speak on the
legal significance of our Constitution.
This species of editorial has always
been very popular in the lesser news
papers. where the intellectual is ridi-
culed to the delight of the readers. The
scientist is pictured as an intruder out
side of his field. as a person whose
ability to comprehend and to interpret
the law is absent Admittedly he may
not be well versed in the complex ver-
biage of the legal profession, but his
ideas are as acceptable as those of a
Evening star., 1954-01-09
DisiIlusionment in Utopia

Nothing is so diSillusioning to follower Of
communism in theory as a taste Of commu-
niSm in practice. At least there was nothing
but diSillusionment awaiting Merchant Seaman
Leland Towers when he followed the party line
clear across the Russian border in 1851. 1t led
him to Soviet prison camp for unauthorized
penetration of the Iron Curtain. He saw enough
of the Soviet utopia to convince him that he
wants no more of it or its ideologieS.
Towers was one Of two Americans released
by the Russians as a result of long negotiations
between the State Department and Kremlin
authorities. The other liberated prisoner,
Private Homer Cox of Oklahoma, agreed with
Seaman Towers that Soviet detention camps
are hell holes" Private Cox told Of murders
and rioting at the camps. Towers was confined
for two years in a lumber camp which he de-
scribed as "bad-very bad" The 28-year-old
seaman from San Francisco, said he fell for
the Communist line in 1947, joining the party
and being given an identification card at that
time. He said he joined because he thought
there was something wrong" with the capital
ist system His curiosity about communism in
action led him to try to get passport to go
to Russia in 1851 When this effort failed, he
decided to pay an unoff1cial visit to the MARKHAM
paradise. He slipped over the Russian Finnish
border and in due course ran afoul Of the secret
police. Apparently they were not impressed
by his Communist Party card. With typical
dispatch, the machinery OF Russian justice
hustled him to three-year term in the work
camp.
The Russians made it plain that If any
American Communist wants to see what Soviet
communism is like he had better not do any
investigating on his own. One reason for this
can be cleaned from Seaman Towers discovery,
during his sojourn behind the curtain, that the
Communist state is in complete chaos" He
told reporters: II don't know any more what
the word Communist means" adding that it
was never again" for him as far as being
Communist was concerned. Too bad that more
American Communists and fellow travellers can
not have the same opportunity that Seaman
Towers had to see communism in the raw.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Way to Fiqht Communism

Those who either do not recognize or
do not want to recognize the threat Of
communism to our country brush on
all statements with the stock answer
that even II there are Communists.
they are SO few as to be negligible. King
George III Of England probably had
similar. thoughts.
Except for dozen or so patriots, who
stirred the Colonies to action. the Rev