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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
For q Family Court

Local judges have submitted to a
Senate District subcommittee some per-
SuaSive reasons for establishment OF a
special Family Court in Washington.
Summed up, the testimony showed that
domestic relations cases are being badly
handled under the present syStem-which
is unique in this country. The fault lies
in law which requires Federal courts in
the District to hear divorce and other fam
lily cases that are handled in regular or
special State courts everywhere else. In
adequate attention to these difficult cases
has been the result in too many instances.
Chief Judge Laws of the District Court
pointed out that frequently divorce pro-
ceeding is heard by a succession of judges
If the litigation is protracted. This means
that each Judge must take time to ia
miliarize himself with the case before
acting on new phase of the litigation.
The rotation policy in effect at the District
Court makes such waSteful repetition
inevitable Judge Laws cited one case that
went before 10 different jurists. Under
the Family Court plan there would be no
rotation of judges on specific cases, thus
expediting the progress of the litigation,
with beneficial results for all concerned.
While the pending bill calls for an
independent tribunal, Judge Laws said he
could see no objection to the recommended
ton of judges of the Municipal Court that
the new court be made a branch of the
city tribunal If this were done, of course,
the Municipal bench should be enlarged
to take care of the extra work-and sufh
cient staff should be added to assure eff
cient administration of the new branch.
mere shift of jurisdiction in the domestic
relations cases from Federal to Municipal
Court would be no improvement at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
Formoso Negotiations

In agreeing to discuss a Formosa
cease-f1re without the participation Of
Chang Kai-shek, Secretary Dulles has ex-
tricated this country from thoroughly
untenable position.
Commenting Sunday on the Chinese
Communist offer to negotiate for relaxa-
ton of tensions" in the Formosa area, the
State Department said that "of course the
United States would insist on free China
participating as an equal in any discussions
concerning the area"
A retreat from this position was in
evitable. In the first place, George Yeh,
Chiang'S foreign minister, has said that
the Nationalist Chinese would not nego-
tiate with the Reds. In this situation,
for us to refuse to negotiate without
Chinese Nationalist participation would,
in effect, give Chang a veto over Americas
freedom of action. Secondly, and much
more important there is chance-just
a chance-that Chou En-lai's offer, to-
gether with a seeming shift in policy by
Russia in Europe, may mark first step
in a turn away from war and toward peace.
If this is so, or if there is any prospect
that it is so. we must retain our freedom
to act-and to negotiate. 1t may be that
the Chinese Reds, incapable of taking
Formosa by force, have offered to negotiate
on the theory that half a loaf is better
than none 1t may be, although it is not
necessarily true, that Chou has thrown
cold water on the prospect Of useful talks
by his reservation to the effect that nego-
tiations should not affect the just demand
of the Chinese people to exercise their
sovereign rights in liberating FormoSa"
1t may be that many other grounds for
doubt and hesitation can be cited.
But the fact remains that, in the
long run, the issues which divide the world
will be settled either by negotiations or
by war. The United States cannot and
must not sell Chang Kai-shek or the peo-
pie of Formosa down the river. But, as
Senator George has so persuasively urged,
neither must we be the ones to close the
door to negotiation and hard bargaining
in the interests of world peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
How TO Lose Privileges

More disturbing than the Federal
leave abuses discovered by the Controller
General was the revelation of apparent
official indifference to the fraudulent prac-
tices. Investigating at the request of the
House Civil Service Committee, the Con-
troller General found widespread abuses
of sick and administrative leave" In the
postal service. The report indicated that
supervisors in some instances condoned
misuse of leave privileges.
There is no better way to invite con-
gressional action curtailing Government
leave benefits than the deliberate abuse
of such benefits by the employees It was
because of similar abuses in the past that
Congress frightened up the Federal leave
program several years ago. The House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
Protecting the Capitol

Appropriation Of 100000 to reimburse
the Metropolitan Police Department for
extra protection rendered since the shoot
ing ARRAY in the House last year is move
in the right direction. Chief Murray's
force not only should be paid for this
added burden, involving 10-man detec-
tive detail. but should be permanently
relieved of the Capitol assignment. There
is little prospect of permanent relief, how
ever, until Congress provides itself with
first-class Capitol police force. Legislation
to reorganize the Capitol force on merit
system lines ought to be revived and
passed-political pressures to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27

@. How many stones are
there in Florida's Monument
of States?-D. A. S. ~.
A. The 50-foot monument
contains over $500 stones and
curios from all the States and
from 81 foreign countries. 1t
was set up in Lake Front Park
in Kissimmee in 1943. IT,
Q. When was profit-sharing
with employees first practiced
in American industry?-G. l..
A. In the earliest days of its
history. The first of these
plans was installed in 1894 by
Albert Gallatin, later Secre-
tary of the Treasury in JET
ferson's administration, in his
Pennsylvania glass plant. Long
opposed by labor leaders, the
profit-sharing plan languiShed
until after World War II. BY
the end of 1854, however,
about 5000 profit-sharing plans
were on file at the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and new
ones were being submitted at
the rate Of about 200 a month.
@. Is the Navy Finance Cen
ter a new naval organization?
H. c. E.
A. What used to be the
Bureau Of Supplies and Ac-
counts Field Branch in Cleve-
land has been renamed United
States Navy Finance Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
7 HIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

without fanfare, and often
leave in the same quiet man
ner, trailing unseen clouds Of
glory as they come and go.
Such hours take care Of
themselves; it is with the Or
binary ones that most of us
have to do. a.
1t is the ordinary, average
everyday hour, the time APP
pointed for the doing of the
good deed, as Scouts call it,,
Every adult has smiled, now
and then, at the self-impor-
lance of the famous good
deed" but isn't it just right?
How else can we do good ex-
cept by thinking of it at the
very right time when it, lis
appropriate? n
Too often we merely think
of it in our minds, but some
thing gets in between the
thought and the deed, and
holds us back from doing our
best. u.
What we all need, Emerson
said, is someone to stand be-
hind us and make us do our
best. y
In that way. we will never
have to lecture ourselves as
DR.. johnson did his patron,
with those pungent but sad
words, had it been early. had
been kind: but it has been de-
layed till I am Indifferent"
Save us all. dear Lord,
from the sin of being indif-
ferent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27

One recent afternoon I tried
to make a left turn at Eight
zenith street and Glebe road,
in order to reach the Army
Navy Club. I was driving my
little 1941 coupe. Since it
doesn't have much pickup left,
I was waiting patiently for a
safe opening in the oncoming
traffic. The cars kept coming
and coming. I kept waiting.
An Evening Star truck, in
stead of flying by with the
other cars, stopped to let me
through. 1t closed off one
lane, holding UP the cars be-
hind. The driver waved to me
to cross in front of him. AS
if ashamed, another driver
stopped in the second lane
after your driver and I had
waited a while. I went on
through, saying Thanks"
1 thought that if l already
wasn't a subscriber to The
Star, I certainly would have
become one after such cour-
tesy. I thought you'd like to
know.
Esther J. Bonis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27

error in too hasty an appraisal
of facts.
It so happens that I am in
a peculiarly advantageous po-
sition to judge the administra-
ton of the Refugee Relief Act.
I helped the congressional
committees in drafting the act
and, as the first deputy ad-
ministrator of it, I assisted in
writing the regulations, pre-
pairing the necessary applica-
lions and forms for use in its
administration. and in setting
up a worldwide organization
for it's operation. In fact, I
deferred my desire to retire
from active duty until I could
put the refugee relief pro-
gram in operation, and re-
spectfully declined Mr.. Dulles
plea that I stay and operate it.
A more liberal act of Con-
gress might work better. but
in drafting the law we had to
consider what kind of a bill
Congress would enact. rather
than listen to the advocates of
a more liberal measure which
might be desirable from Ger
tain points of view but which
would never get out of a
congressional committee. Sim
ilarly, in formulating and
establishing a program and
personnel for the administra-
ton of the act, we had to cut
the operating pattern accord
ing to the available cloth. That
is, we had to confine opera
lions to legal limitations. and
personnel and other facilities
to available funds. Moreover,
I saw no purpose in tooling
and stating for operations on
a gigantic scale when the VOL
ume of business represented
by applications for visas
amounted to mere trickle.
The present staff and other
operating facilities are suf-
ficient to dispose of all avail
able applications within the
time limit. Mr.. Mcleod is
maintaining that balance in
the program, and as long as
he does it no criticism is justi-
fed. 1t is not possible for him
to issue 100000 visas when he
has only 100000 applicants,
many of whom will be found
to be disqualified under the
law. Robert c. Alexander.
I would venture the opinion
that your admirable editorial,
"Mr. Corsi Proves Nothing"
will gain widespread approval
among readers of your excel
lent newspaper.
1t now seems clear beyond
question that Mr.. Corsi has, in
the words of Representative
Walter. proved himself to be
"a man of very poor judg-
ment loose treatment of
the truth and scorn for the
law"
Such being the case, it is a
bit surprising that editorial
opinion did not earlier empha-
size Mr.. Corsi's admitted con-
tempt and Scorn for the exist
ing immigration and natural
ization law of the land as suf-
f1cent reason in itself for his
dismissal by Mr.. Dulles.
w. NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
FOREIGN Trade

The League of Women Vot-
ers is deeply concerned with
the fate of trade relations be-
tween our country and the
rest of the free world. We be-
lieve that thriving trade is the
life blood of harmonious inter-
national economic relations.
The current struggle over
HR l, the trade agreements
bill, is basic to this issue. This
bill, as it was passed by the
House, contained the essen
tials of President Eisenhower's
tariff program. Now that the
bill is in the Senate, special
interests are still fighting for
restrictions on the executive
power to negotiate and main
tain tariff which will en-
courage stable and healthy
trade. The economic interest
of the United States as a
whole, as we'll as the economic
well-being of other nations, is
involved in this legislation.
On behalf of the member
ship of the League of Women
Voters of the District Of
Columbia, I wish to urge all
citizens who have a vote and
who are concerned with trade
policy to write or call their
Senator's Immediately.
Mrs. John F. Latimer,
President. League Of Wom-
en- Voters Of the District
of Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
Accent on Atoms

The accent is on nuclear warfare In
the 13-billion naval building program
just approved overwhelmingly by the
House. The huge sum would be used to
expand and strengthen the Nays capacity
to inf1ict atomic punishment on an enemy
by air, on the sea and below the surface
of the sea. The construction program will
hasten the evolution of the American fleet
from its conventional" characteristics of
World War II into an atomic-age fighting
force of high mobility and versatility, with
atoms employed for power as well as
weapons.
The bill, approved by the House with
372-to-3 vote, calls for "a new combatant
ships, including a fifth large carrier of the
ForreStal class, and for modernization OF
81 other fighting vessels. The latest ad-
dition to the big-carrier group would pro-
vide the Navy with another floating base"
for long-range atomic bombers, as we'll
as jet fighters and other planes. This ship
provoked the SharpeSt debate In the
House, opponents contending that it would
be vulnerable to enemy air attack. But
Chairman Vinson of the House Armed
Services Committee and other champions
of carriers argued, persuasively it devel-
oped, that a maneuverable floating base
was less vulnerable than fixed land base
and that it had the great advantage of
being able to carry an attack close to
enemy shores and bases.
Included in the measure were funds
for three more atomic-powered subna-
rines, expected to be far more potent and
efficient than the pioneer Nautilus. And
a considerable part of the conversion pro-
gram would be devoted to enlarging the
fleets facilities for launching guided mis-
siles with nuclear warheadS. The overall
prospect is for a formidable new look"
for the American Navy of the future-an
aspect designed to deter potential agrees
sors from embarking on reckless new
adventures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
Federal Pay Raise

1t is surprising and disheart-
ening to find The Star con-
tinuously upholding the White
House in the pay-raise battle.
I will go further and state that
the paper is ungrateful. With
out the support of the Govern
ment employe and his family,
there could very possibly be no.
Star.
On the one hand, the Presi-
dent recommends $3.5 billion
to help the other populations
of the world and yet, accord
ing to you and the President,
we cannot afford the few mil
lions of dollars involved in
decent pay raise to the postal
and classified services! The
$3.5 billion will bring us
only further abuse from our
friends.
Too, The Star was not averse
to taking last years tax cut,
regardless of the state of the
budget, but by its editorial
attitude deplored, along with
the President also, the $40 tax
cut for the little fellow.
Your attitude compares ia
vorably with the famous ex-
preston Let them eat cake"
How can you justify biting the
hand which feeds you? The
few issues which go to the
White House and its friends
are not to be compared with
the nearly 100000 Government
employees and their friends
when it comes to supporting
your newspaper and you would
be wise to understand this very
important fact and slant your
editorials accordingly.
William ID. Garvey.
Editors note: Mr.. Garvey
does not define his idea of a
decent" pay raise. However,
the President has indicated he
would approve a postal raise
not greater than 7.6 per cent
and The Star has supported
this compromise figure as one
offering the best hope of final
enactment.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27

committee was justified in sending the
Controller Generals findings to all agen-
cies, with an implicit warning of congress
sional wrath to come If similar Irregular
tiles are found to be general throughout
the Federal establishment. This Is an ad-
ministrative matter that the executive
branch ought to be able to handle effec-
lively itself. Failure to do so is apt to bring
further legislative restrictions on the
Federal leave program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
BY THOMAS R. HENRY
New Life Chemical Isolated

of animals and in the urine
of human victims of various
categories of heart failure.
A characteristic Of heart
failure, regardless of the i'm
mediate cause, is edeTna-
swelling of hands and feet due
to too much salt in the system
which retains water. The
traces of electrocortin have
been found chiefly in the
urine of heart patients. The
implications are obvious.
Edema is due to overpro-
duction of the newest dis
covered hormone. ~
Excess Secretion a Problem
Thus medical science is con-
fronted with one of its fire.
quent paradoxes. 1t seems
highly probable that one. of
the major complications, of
heart disease may be due to
an excess secretion of cleo
trocortin from the adrenals.
Recent observations have in
dicated that there is an excess
of the new hormone in the
urine of heart patients. The
obvious implication is that the
adrenals of these unfortunates
are too active in producing
this particular substance, al
though perhaps normal in
every other way.
1t is recognized, according
TO the National Heart Institute
authorities, that the number
of secretions from the adre-
mails. sometimes called "the
fifth brain" because of their
significance in evolution, still
is completely unknown. Those
found to date, like the life
saving adrenalin and corti-
some, may well be only second
degree products. Even cleo
trocortin may be the second
or third phase of something
else which is secreted from
these glands, sometimes pic
tured as the original brain of
vertebrates before the founda-
lions of the actual brain were
laid.
The British announcement
said that electrocortin was at
least 80 times as effective as
cortiSone. National Health
Institute scientists were COM
pletely at a loss to interpret
this statement since reports in
the United States to date give
no indication that there is any
relation between the two
hormones. Neither the British
nor the Swiss experimenters
have given any indication that
they have experimental with
the new hormone in arthritic
conditions. or anything else
for which cortisone now is
used. -.
The impression is growing,
however, that the secretions
from the adrenals are known
only in the vaguest way, and
that even cortisone may be a
mixture of several hormones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
A Cypress
Hides the Sun

Rest nell. great Heart. This
1OiSh may reach your
hearing;
This roses breath may lift
a mortal sigh.
Bend close to touch my eyes,
Which net are peering
into the icy hush that heedS
no Why?
Untutored were the lips Which
dubbed you "mGrble";
Unliohted WdS the earth
bound, gaping mind
That sdW your shell. and so
could only gdrble
The truth that in your pity
ing gaze tD1S Shrtned.
What tempest roured. whdt
dreams ,Dere blo,pn atdr,
What deSolation paled your
gloDino face
Are not for me. I sdw your
steadtdSt star,
And felt the light ,Uhich hate
could not debdSe.
No man Dill eper kno,D hop
Uhite the heat
ThGt burned your lonesome
trail aboue deteati
BIonehe KendoII Mickey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27

A newly discovered adrenal
gland hormone, so scarce in
nature that less than a thou
sandth of an ounce can be
extracted from a ton of cattle
adrenals, and 100 times more
potent in maintaining the salt
potassium balance of the body
than the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
secreted from the adrenal cor
tex, may offer a new approach
to understanding of deaths
from cardiac failure.
Finding of this substance,
electrocortin, has been an
nounced in the British scien-
tific journal Nature by Drs. j.
F. TAFT and S. A. Simpson of
the University of London, who
have worked closely with Prof.
T. Reichstein, one of the
worlds foremost experts on
adrenal hormones. of the Uni
verSity of Basic in Switzerland.
The news, showever, has
been circulated among bio
chemists for some time, and
experimental work is in prog
ress in several laboratories
both in Europe and the United
States. Among these labora-
tories is that of the National
Heart Institute of the U. S.
Public Health Service.
HormOne's Function Balance
The function of this elusive
hormone apparently is to
retain just sufficient salt in
animal blood and tissues to
maintain the delicate balance
essential for life. Complete
breakdown of this balance
would be the cause of death in
extreme adrenal deficiency.
For the past two decades
this function has been credited
to the adrenal cortical hor-
none OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
better known in medical
laboratories as "doxy." BY
means of this it is possible to
keep alive indefinitely animals
from which the adrenal glands
have been removed. "Doxy,"
likewise present in extremely
minute quantities, was also
isolated from cattle adrenals.
Recently, however. some ques-
ton has been raised as to
whether it is produced by the
adrenals in nature. There is
some reason to believe, &C
cording to National Heart
Institute scientists, that it
may be a chemical breakdown
product resulting from the
maSceration and stirring
around of the adrenals during
the extraction process.
1t was this doubt which led
to the intensive search in
many laboratories for some
thing which might be con-
sidered a "doxy" precursor,
unquestionably produced by
the living and functioning
adrenal cortex.
Since the EngliSh-Swiss dis
covery traces of electrocortin
have been found in the blood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27

Of all the justly famous re-
marks of DR.. Samuel johnson,
one of the most famous is:
THE notice which you have
been pleased to take of my
labors, had it been early. had
been kind; but it has been de-
layed till 1 am indifferent and
cannot enjoy it; till I am
known and do not want it,"
The occasion for this little
slap was the failure of Lord
Chesterfield, his patron. to pay
any attention to his latest
work until everybody was talk
ing about it.
Most of Johnson's state
ments have universal applica-
ton.
The patron, he who footed
the bill centuries ago, is not
so openly known today.
Almost every one, however,
has experience with what the
old fellow was talking about.
TOO late and too little" was
a noted World War II state
ment.
1t embodies something of
the same idea.
DR.. johnson put the mat
ter more pointedly, with bit
of hidden venom, some might
say, with a divine regard for
truth.
Life brings to most some
situation where praise comes
too late.
What has happened is that
time has worn down the keen
edge of appreciation.
1t is an edge that holds
sharp and keen only so long.
He who withholds praise,
when it is due, loses some
thing, as well as infiicts loss
on the other.
Had it been early, had been
kind" sure enough.
If such A statement seems
boring, that is where one be-
gins to slip.
Slipping, in the every day
life, is not matter, often,
of being thrown out of a job,
or being kicked downstairs,
or even being "bawled out"
1t is finding something Dor
ing that ought not to be Dor
ing. The moving finger writes,
and having writ, as the poet
said, it points directly at you.
This is what is often over
looked, or, deliberately not
faced. The one who should be
kind at the right time turns
away, and misses his chance.
He may think he is hurting
the other, but actually he is
hurting himself most.
So now the other Is indif-
ferent; he cannot enjoy be-
lated praise, no matter how
sincerely sounding.
He is now known, at least
in his own estimation, and no
longer wants the praise.
Keep the eye, then, on the
necessary time, the appointed
time, as some call it, for in it
lie all the issues Of everyday
life.
The important hours have
their own rules. They come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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letters carry 1DriterS' correct
names and addresses All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
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