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Evening star., 1955-11-24
400 WoshuEsIe eupesIxin Gloves

A. Hand-detailed Slpon s. hand stitching
outlines novel cuff and embellishes the GEN.
ter In single accent. White, black or brown.
through in the curve design Of cord trim.
Black with white, brown with beige.
c. Classic slipon. 81. White, black or navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24

Twenty years ago. when Hempleton
Jones started to collect photograph
records, the most often recorded OF
classical composers were Beethoven and
Mozart.
Today, in the "hi-fi" age, the most
recorded classical composers are:
Beethoven and Mozart.
Bruckner, Mailer and Berlioz may be
added to the list now, amid plenty OF
noise and instrumental confusion.
The great danger the average record
collector ran in 1885 was sighting pop
ular music. because almost invariably,
the collector becomes long hair
music" fan.
The tendency of most record enthusi-
asts is to become slightly highbrow in
their tastes, which reminds us OF an
anecdote of some famous man, we
forget who. who defined a highbrow
as q man who has enough intelligence
to find something more interesting
than women.
The disc collector, for his own good,
ought to find something else besides
popular American dance music, with its
invariable love, love, love theme.
He should not overlook the marvellous
new collections of folk music. nor the
fascinating rhythms of Latin-American
music.
In Jones' day, 1t was Hawaiian music.
The best discs Of Hawaiian music
were put out by Decca, which had
long list of famous Hawaiian singers.
the real thing. with many Of the records
entirely in the soft syllables of the
islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Walter White

Some leaders are made by their times,
and Walter White was one of the number
In a different era than our own "age of
confusion" he might have chosen different
work. Conditions being what he knew them
to be, he rose to their challenge and, head
ing the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, waged cam
paign of reform and correction which al
ready is historic. His cause was good, and
he did not spoil it by unworthy methods.
Americans of all groups recognized him as
a spokesman for millions. He lived to see
many of his detectives written into the law
of the land. Even more important, perhaps,
he saw them accepted into the standard
pattern of American thought and American
behavior. Thus he served the entire ma
tional community and, beyond that, the
high ideals of democratic civilization
throughout the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
The Green Cor

He stood upon MI doorsil,
Straight, serious and carefully polite
With the polish of his four long years:
MAY play, please, tOith your green
car,
The one that has real rubber on the
,Dheels?"
/ matched him as he knelt upon the
rug
And took the car upon lengthy trip,
HGna-brdked it on the turns
And finally garaged it on a shelf.
This tDGs our daily routine
As certain as the bells that ring
To ask for prayer each noon.
And as I matched, / Wondered.
With a sadness unexplained,
At the depth OF youthful totsdom
That never once has asked to haze
The green car for his o,on.
Elizabeth Jone Hiss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Matter Of 'NutionoI Interest

The March 16 edition of The Star.
however unintentionally, presented
most adequately the interests of the
Republican and Democratic parties on
the "so-called Democratic substitute" to
our tax laws. An editorial commencing
the action of the Senate on the proposal
stated 1T is one thing to try to make
record; something else finally to vote
for any scheme that is inimical to the
national interest" Just what is the ma
tional interest in this case? believe it
was most clearly defined on page one
of the same edition in the report by
j. A. OLeary of the action taken by the
Senate. He writes They defeated
Democratic substitute that would have
repealed several tax concessions given
to corporations and their stockholders
last year. The substitute would have
used this additional revenue to give
$40 cut to taxpayers in the low-income
bracket.
It is crystal clear that the national
interest" to The Star and the Repub-
lican Party is the maintenance of tax
concessions to corporations and their
stockholders, while it is equally clear
that to the vast majority of Democrats
the national interest" is concerned
with tax concessions to the low-income
groups.
The question now is which one OF
these conceptions of the national
interest" represents the majority of
voters, on whom our two parties pol
itical lives depend. The answer is
obvious and the Republican Partys
stand has only given further credence
to the assumption that the Democratic
Party is for the common man.
Stanley Drexler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
This and That

Perhaps Templeton Jones is stubborn,
but he has steadfastly refused to admit
the superiority of the long-play records.
Old fogy, indeed!
Today it is strictly against the COL
lector's code to say anything against
"hi-fi" as a sport or recording tech
nique or against the long-play records.
Yet Jones, who has no mean ear,
but very well trained one, and an
intensely musical soul, swearS that to
him, listening to the long-play records
come over the radio, they often sound
thin and pinched.
Jones believes that this is not to be
wondered at, when you consider how
microscopic the grooves of the new
records are.
No wonder-still according to Jones
that the tone that comes from these
practically invisible grooves is thin,
with pinched sound familiar to Jones
and all old-time record collectors. They
called it tinny, then.
That tinny sound goes way back to
the beginning of the record and phono-
graphy industry.
In those days, it was called 'tinny."
Even pianos sounded that way.
The violin and soprano voice the
acoustic records did well, but nothing
else. unless it may have been Cohen
on the Telephone" and record or
two of Sousa's marches.
Then came electrical recording, which
put the bass into the discs. and for the
first time made recordings really must
cal offerings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Boys Club Dispute

Twenty thousand people are sent to
penal institutions in Washington each
year. One organization. the Metropoli-
tan Police Boys Club, has done much
good the past 81 years in an effort
to diminish delinquency.
Unfortunately, 80 organizations are
bringing pressure upon the Boys Club.
urging that its directors should not
operate on a segregated basis, even
though service is available for the
colored clubs also.
I understand that the yearly cam
paign for funds will start April l.
1t is my sincere hope that generous
contributions from both individuals
and organizations will continue to be
forthcoming I hope everyone will
realize that the ITS directors of the
Police Boys Clubs are volunteer work.
ers whose only object is the welfare
and interests of the boys alone. With
a little faith in them, and in their
best judgment. there is no reason for
enormously concluding that their goal
will not be reached. I hope it will be
exceeded. Paul Chiera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Mr.. Boruch Talks Sense

Bernard M. Baruch has put in perspec-
tive for the Senate Banking Committee the
questions bearing upon our national econ
omy today and the operation of the stock
market in that economy.
The market, Mr.. Baruch explained at
the outset, is not "the cause of booms and
busts -. it is the thermometer, not the
fever" Abuses in the market largely have
been eliminated, he said, by the Securities
and Exchange Commission and by self
regulation of the exchanges themselves.
Prices in the market reflect "the judgments
of multitudes of buyers and sellers about
the many factors which affect business"
today and in the future. Whether prices
are too high today mo one knows" and no
one can predict with certainty the course
of these prices in the future. With these
few observations Mr.. Baruch appears to
have answered implications that the market
itself is somehow an evil instrument within
the economy, particularly when it fluctuates
sharply upward or downward.
More important for this inquiry, as Mr.
Baruch said, is the actual state of the econ
omy and the factors that have caused the
general rise in stock prices. His answer to
the latter question was a convincing one,
but not surprising one, namely: Q) The
dramatic expansion and improvement of
SO many industries have given investors con-
f1dence in the future of American enterprise
and (2) inflationary fiscal policies of the
past is years have encouraged investors to
seek protection of capital through purchase
of common stocks. AS for the economy Mr.
Baruch likewise dealt in realities in remind
ing that the so-called cold war actually is
a total psychological, economic, politi-
cal, military and moral-and that preServa-
ton of national security and national credit
are the fundamental requisites for sound
economy. To achieve these we have one
priceless asSet-"a stable Government and a
belief in that Government by it's people"
1t is the duty of such government, he
added, to make our defenSeS secure and to
protect the national credit by balancing the
Federal budget, before attempting further
tax reductions. 1t is the duty of the people,
in turn, to discipline themselves to what
ever is required in the face of these needs.
Mr.. Baruchs testimony, in short, was
a primer in economic education-recom-
mended reading for much wider audience
than the Senate committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
By Charles E. TroceweH

Some Of the tonal effects achieved
just before the long-play records
which are just five years old, marvellous
TO think-were very good, indeed.
They possessed soft deep tone which
even 'hi-fl" finds it difficult to surpass
Templeton Jones wouldn't say as
much. of course, before his younger
record-collector friends
No doubt they are the people, and
wisdom will die with them, but they
have no background of experience and
there is nothing to take its place.
Jones thought he would get rid of
some of his old Hawaiians the other
day. After all, he hadn't played one
of them for is years, long time in
anybody's life.
He sorted and sorted. trying to get
the ones put aside to keep which he
knew he liked best.
This was not an easy task Temple
ton Jones has enough Hawaiian records
alone to play continuously for four
days and nights. Let anyone figure
it up who will
nc pidceu tIie ulSCdrOS III Tie ga
rage, and then went back to play some
of the favorites.
What gentle. sweet music that they
are, even the silly ones!
Templeton Jones listened for time.
then he solemnly went out to the ga
rage, and began bringing the piles of
records back into the house.
We'll throw something else away"
he said, mot these. Maybe those noisy
HIN things. but not these"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
They Agree on the Basic Need

The reported disagreement among local
judges over the proposed Family Court for
Washington is more apparent than real
Actually there is no evidence of any dis
agreement as to the need for establishing
special tribunal to handle domestic rela-
tionS cases. That has been made plain at
the hearings before House Judiciary sub
committee. There are, however, differences
of opinion as to how the new court should
be set up.
Chief Judge Laws of the District Court,
speaking for the Judicial Conference, testi-
fed at the hearings in favor of completely
separate tribunal for the various family
cases. Chief Judge Walsh of the Municipal
Court told the subcommittee he and his
fellow judges favor the idea of special
court but want it created as part of the
Municipal Court Judge Walsh reiterated
his views Saturday night before the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations.
But Judge Laws following the testimony
of Judge Walsh. told the subcommittee that,
personally, he could see no objection to in
clusion of the new tribunal in the Municipal
Court jurisdiction, provided the essentials"
of the Family Court plan are retained
Judge Laws has cited as key points in the
plan the assignment of judges to domestic
relations cases exclusively, the supplying of
adequate information to the judges by
competent staff, the undertaking by the
court of reconciliation moves looking toward
out-of-court settlements and authority for
the court to make collections in divorce
cases.
If these essential features of the Fam
lily Court plan are written into law, it would
seem to be relatively immaterial whether
the tribunal operates independently or as
part of an established local court system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
UnfriendIY to Friendship

AS a frequent user of air transporta-
ton, should like to enter protest
against the proposed use of Baltimore's
Friendship Airport to relieve conges-
ton at Washington National Airport.
Maryland's desire to attract more
airline business is understandable. But
should not the interests Of the passen-
gers deserve some consideration as well?
The extra travel time will very ma
terially reduce the overall time saved
on trips of such distance as New York.
for instance.
If traffic must be diverted to Friend
ship, while more accessible, supple
mental facilities are being built. let
it be overseas and long -distance. nom
stop traffic, such as the Los Angeles
or Houston runs.
Meanwhile, let's take this problem
out Of politics, cease talking about it.
and get going on the construction of
a reasonably located field.
+
Kurt Salmon.
Someone has said that Jimmie Dur
ante never looks in a mirror because
"he can't see his face for his nose"
The various committees trying to solve
the National Airport problem seem to
be in somewhat the same position.
There seem to be at least three solu-
tions already partly made, any one of
which would be better than either the
Burke project or the even worse Friend
ship idea.
First idea: Transfer Andrews Field
activities to Friendship and make An
drews the main National Airport with
Gravelly Point kept as supplemental
field.
Second idea: Incorporate Boiling
Field with Andrews, move the Naval
Air Station down river few miles or
to Annapolis and add these areas to
the National Airport with ferry serv-
ice between.
Third idea: About midway between
Washington and Annapolis is a stretch
of open, level country much nearer
than either Burke or Friendship. sup
piled with good roads. being between
Route so and the new Annapolis road.
well away from crowded residential
districts, and needing little grading or
filling and valued at much less per acre
than the other sites. This is presently
occupied by small private field and
flying school, called Dixie Field. Looks
like the best solution of all.
Airminded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Pearls Among Oysters

There is something suSpiciously f1shy
about the Interior Departments partisan
interest in Southern oysters. Three univer-
sites close by the Gulf of Mexico-Florida
State. Louisiana State and Tulane-have
now been granted sums ranging up to $12,-
400 for research into the habits and attrac-
tions Of this popular marine bivalve mollusk,
Southern variety. But what about the Blue
Points of New England? And the Lynn
havens? And the Chincoteagues of our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
President to His Party

President Eisenhower has given some
excellent advice to those Republicans who
seem to think they can make political hay
out of the published Yalta papers.
It is both possible and desirable, Mr..
Eisenhower said, to profit from study of
the mistakes made at Yalta. But it is not
desirable and it will not be profitable to
try to heat up those cold ashes for the sake
of some fancied partisan advantage.
AS the President put it, there is nothing
to be gained from going back 10 years and
showing that someone may have been right
or that someone else may have been wrong
Neither is anything to be gained from using
the advantage OF hindsight to question mo-
tives and damage regulations.
One would think that the Republicans
who are talking about arming campaign
speakers with handy little texts from the
Yalta documents would know this without
being told. But apparently they do not.
So of these it may be said that they are
Singularly fortunate in having Mr.. Eisen-
hover as their party leader-not only be-
cause of his demonstrated abilities as
campaigner, but also because he, though
a newcomer to the political game, seems
to have an instinct for doing the right
thing and saying the right words, which is
far superior to the comparable instincts of
the old hands in the Old Guard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Letters to The Stor...

force the United States to do as she
desires.
Britain is after world trade domino
ton and will go to any length to get
and maintain it, as she has proved
repeatedly for over 300 years.
Before World War I, our greatest
friend was Germany and an American
German alliance threatened British
world trade dominance. She succeeded
in splitting the United States from
Germany and getting Germany's rich
colonies, which she still holds under
one pretext or another, and in killing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
The Low and the Luwless

It looks like we women, in and
around Washington. have got to assert
ourselves and see to 1t that our beauti-
full city once more becomes a safe
place where we may walk the streets
unmoleSted.
The very idea of lowering bond for
those vicious thugs who so brutally
beat up an elderly woman-so that
they might have their freedom-while
she lies imprisoned" critically in
jured, on some dreary hospital cot.
Chief Murray seems to be doing his
part. His men bring the fiends in.
But to what avail if they are to be
released Immediately?
The police shouldn't tell us not to
fight either When beast grabs your
purse and knocks you down, how do
you know what his intentions are?
may be alive today only because
fought back when one Of these crea-
lures grabbed my pocketbook and threw
me to the ground near public library
one night. His evil words left no doubt
of his intentions and his threats to
choke me If screamed were unneces-
sary-I couldn't scream. But he did
every OuIlCc VI StfcI1Stl Ain0 WCAe AAoo
one swift, well-placed kick, and as
dashed for help, it was gratifying to
see the creature, still doubled up, try
ing to run in the opposite direction.
Legal or not, ever since that night.
have never been out after dark without
an ammonia pistol in my coat pocket.
and If I am out late in a cara .38
reposeS by my side. Better to break
law or two for self protection than to
be a white-robed, law-abiding corpse.
And what if am arrested for carrying
a concealed weapon? Then I'll just
sing, I'm Little Teapot" and the
court will quickly adjudge me insane,
with all the rights and privileges that
go with such judgment.
Tabby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24

anese Industrial Empire Tin Manchuria
and Korea) operating under the super
vision of American technicians, and the
German Industrial Empire operating
under American directions, plus the
islands of Northern Japan possibly in
American hands would neutralize Eas-
tern Siberia and give United States
undisputed world power. This is where
the Yalta treachery paid off and how
the United States was sold out by her
supposed friend.
William NJ BaSnett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24

nearby Chesapeake Bay? And doesn't Sec
rotary Of Interior Mckay know about the
favorites of his own Oregon deep-sea from
tier? What kind of national interest is being
served by this preoccupation with an oyster
destined to end anyway at Antoine's or some
such palace for gourmets in New Orleans?
This Southern Republican influence in gov
eminent is becoming little top-heavy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
Atlanta Constitution

Baby, ALlanta Constltution
"Flash, Mr.. and Mrs. America -"
hitting Western and Southern Europe
before Russia could beat Germany
down.
Malta was where Britain really sold
Roosevelt their propaganda line. Bri-
tain. through dropped hints. let the
Russians know how far they could go
in their demands: Russia made the
demands and got them. Britain came
out of Yalta the victor. This is why:
The Nationalist Chinese with the Jap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-24
The YoItu Papers

Here's one armchair diplomat who
welcomes the release Of the Yalta
papers.
Taking into consideration problems
of security, it seems that we Americans
should be better informed on matters
so directly concerning our own well
fare.
Certainly the right of nation or
nations in a position of world power,
to toy with the fate of smaller nations
without their knowledge or the privilege
of exercising their rights of sovereignty
is questionable from the standpoint Of
"democratic' principles as we'll as dam
gerouS.
am Korean veteran who was lucky
enough to come home with a whole
scalp and can't help but think of the
buddies left behind who were unwit-
tingly pawns on chesSboard now that
the policies of the administration then
in power are well known. No doubt
the consensus of the man in the street
or the smaller nations parallels this
sentiment.
If nothing more release of these
papers has accomplished one good pur-
pose and that is to identify the late
Franklin Delano Roosevelt either as a
political schemer or an unwilling tool
of the Hiss combine that apparently
dictated the policies of the United
States during those years. can well
believe Mrs. Roosevelts statement that
the papers would not have been released
were her husband alive today; and,
since smut rubs off. can understand
Mr.. Churchill's objections. Uncle Joe"
must be grinning in his grave.
One other thing: What's the differ
ence between secret diplomacy openly
arrived at or open diplomacy secretly
arrived at. or are there such animals?
H. L. Bibber.
One good thing publication of the
Yalta papers has done is to prove that
secret agreements land the most i'm
portant secret agreements have not yet
been publishedD by very fallible high
officials are not in the interest of the
American people. Or for that matter,
of any people anywhere.
On the front page of The Star of
March 20 we read, Angry Europeans
DCIluc ". .. lOT fteledSulR alLd
Papers," This is another example of
European abuse of Americans for any
thing-even the saving of their own
lives and fortunes.
We think it was a public service to
publish these papers. The idea of send
ing millions of men to their death be-
cause of the secret agreements of few
very fallible men is a social crime and
should never be INDUCED in again.
P. A. Trapier.
The present controversy over the
Yalta papers is not getting to the point.
The point is that Britain skillfully
Unanswered the United States, under
the guise of friendship, into granting
fantastic concessions to the Soviet
Union.
This was done so that, in the postwar
world. the power of the Soviet Union
and the United States would stalemate
each other, leaving Britain holding the
trump card-the balance of power. She
could throw this power whenever and
wherever she chose. She has been and
lie ,,Sipu fhiS in clocad conferences tn