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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-26
Eisenhower Gives Anti-onti-C Communists
Something Of Volue to Think About

conspiracy in which he himself
Is guiltless must not be re-
quired to tel his Government
the facts. Their theory also is
that an alleged conspirator
should never be indicted by q
grand Jury II there il. doubt
about his. guilt. They contend
bitterly that an innocent man
must not have his reputation
hurt. But IL his associations
have been of q suspicious ma
ture, he is bound to be called
for q hearing or o trial at
which he has an opportunity
to establish his innocence.
With Communist stooges like
Alger Hiss immune from pros
ecution because the time for
possible indictment under GER
tain laws had expired, 1t was
fortunate that the House Com
mittee on Un-American Ac-
tivities was able to expose Hiss
and force q trial on perjury
charges.
Vice President Nixon, who
was a member Of the commit
tee that caught Alger Hiss, has
just made q speech to the
American Bar Association on
the phony criticism being made
Of congressional committees.
He said:
In times past much Of the
criticism of congressional in
vestigations was directed to
procedures rather than to sub
stance. But even in recent
weeks when committees with
admittedly fair procedures
have been conducting inves-
legations in this field the crit
icism continues.
''It is apparent that the real
basic objection of most Of the
critics Is not how committees
investigate in this field-but
what. Some contend that this
problem should be left to the
courts. But the courts can
move only when q crime is
committed, and this may be
too late when dealing with a
conspiracy.
Others say we should leave
Investigations to the FBI,
they are experts. But the FBI
can investigate only. It cannot
expose. It cannot institute
prosecutions. Still others con-
tend that congressional COM
mittees are limited consti-
tutionally to Investigations
which are conducted for the
specific purpose Of developing
legislation.
But / submit an outstand-
ing authority to the contrary.
Woodrow Wilson declared
there were three recognized
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-26
Smith to Quit as Chief
OF Young Democrats

DIES MONIES. Aug. 26 tR.--
Neal z. Smith, national president
of Young Democratic Clubs Of
America, said last night he win
not seek reelection at the ma
tional convention in Oklahoma
City December l-3. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-26
1000 Request Stomp

RICHMOND, Aug. 26 (P). --
More than 1000 requests for
first-day cancellations of the
new John Marshall stamp have
been received by the Richmond
Post Office. The first-day sale
Of the Accent stamp Is planned
here September "a.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Nathan Hale BicentennioI

Two hundred years ago today at
Coventry in Tolland County, Connecti-
cut, Nathan Hale, the patriot spy and
martyr of the American Revolution, was
born. Love of country and love of free
dom were in his bones. He was an active
worker for independence when he entered
Yale in 1859. Noted both for his physical
prowess and his literary talents he was
the librarian of Linonia, the college fra
ternity pledged to Indictment" and took
part in "secret eXertion" which still is
fabulously mysterious. His broad Jump
on the New Haven green was mere de-
tail of Hale's claim to fame while only
teen-age boy.
, After graduation in 1773, he taught
school at East Haddam and New London.
His speech upon receipt of the news of
the Battle of Lexington made profound
!. impression throughout the Colonies. He
proved his devotion to the Continental
cause by enlisting in IT'S and was cap
tain when the Colonial Army marched
from Boston to the environs of New York.
The growth of his celebrity was stimu-
lated by his cutting out" of sloop
loaded with supplies from under the guns
of a British man-ofwar. When Wash
ington needed an espionage agent to go
into Manhattan for strategic informa-
ton "in the darkest hour of the Revolu-
tion," Hale volunteered. The undertake
ing was hazardous, and he failed to reach
his own picket lines on his way back to
Harlem Heights. When arrested, he was
attired in civilian clothes, pretending to
be a Schoolmaster. Valuable data and
sketches were discovered on him, and he
was ordered hanged without trial, Sep
tember %, 1776.
At first, it seemed that his sacrifice
was useless; but soon it was plain that
the contrary was true. His dying pro-
nouncement, Il only regret that have
but one life to lose for my country"
swept through the Colonies. Hale became
immortal as "the ideal individual pa
triot'-the zen-Soldier ready and will
ing to give unlimited service to the
Nation. His statue outside the Depart
ment of Justice Building on Constitution
avenue testifies to the gratitude of his
beneficiarieS in the Nations Capital.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Time to ADOPT q Code

The Housing Code Review Committee
has done good job of trying to reconcile
the widely differing views Of extremists
on both sides of the code controversy.
The latest version of the proposed new
code is a compromise worked out by the
committee after long and patient conSid-
Grafton of opposing opinions on the scope
of the regulations If properly enforced,
it should insure healthful and safe hous-
ing for all who live in single dwellings or
in multiple-unit structures, such as
rooming and boarding houses.
Being a compromise, the suggested
code will not be wholly satisfactory to all
criticsof the several reviSions of the orig
inal draft prepared a year ago. AS the
Dulcan committee points out, however,
the code can be amended by the addition
of any chapters deemed necessary to
cover licensed housing in general. The
draft recommended by the committee is
designed to meet Federal requirements
for a housing code that would qualify the
: District for allotment of Federal funds
for slum clearance and urban blight con-
: troll. Unless Washington adopts an ac-
ceptable code acceptable, that is, to Fed
eral housing authorities). Federal aid in
urban redevelopment will be withheld in
definitely.
There has been prolonged delay al
ready in settling the code controversy,
because of reluctance by some critics of
the earlier drafts to make concessions.
Of course, District officials who will have
the responsibility of enforcement should
have a reasonable opportunity to study
the draft and suggest revisions. But it is
! to be hoped there will be no more pro-
!: tracted postponements The time has
come to adopt a reasonable compromise
and place the District in select group Of
communities with modern housing codes.
Evening star., 1955-06-06

been measured scientifically. Even while
the major leagues were enjoying record
prosperity in the years Immediately fol-
lowing World War II. the minor leagues
suppliers of most of the needed young
talent-were suffering steady deteriora-
ton. More recently this decline in health
has been noticeable for all but the
choicest of the major league clubs, or in
cases where a shift in franchise has
brought fresh interest into the two
leagues. Lack of balanced strength-too
many weak teams obviously outclaSSed
by the few really good oneS-undoubtedly
is one important factor, but it is not the
only one.
Baseball is both sport and buSi-
ness. 1t is worth saving and an authori-
tative diagnosis of its troubles is In order.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Nuthun Hale

What schoolboy has not jutted
out his chin,
And squared proud Shoul-
derS, uttering your
speech?
Who does not thrill Whe1t
those fair i0ordS begin,
With honor striuing beyond
death to reach?
Noble regret-rather immor-
tai fame,
Undying dignity couched in
those words
That rise ioith Grro,Oed flight
to place your name
On treedom's altar, borne
By ,Dhite-,pinged birds.
II haze but one life" surely,
had you more,
These, too-though Jade
the nils OF C0Dentry-
Fine, ten, a dozen ,Dould you
giUe up for
The cause OF this young nd-
tion's liberty.
Hear that boy shout it-not
much older, you
Who said it frst-flre you
ttDo centuries deGd?)
Splendid reoret-dnd Splen-
did heritage, too;
The moose becomes a halo
round your head.
Alma Roberts Giordon
Evening star., 1955-06-06
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Lights of the High Atmosphere
By THOMAS R. HENRY

Island. Both Antarctic Islands
now are occupied by AuStral-
ian expeditions.
Some radio observers win
explore the auroral regions
almost nightly by short wave
beams which will be echoed
back to the stations from the
auroral regions. BY this means
1t will be possible to detect
the lights both day and night
and the cloud cover Of the sky
viii make no difference. The
radio apparatus also will regis
ter any wave lengths emitted
by the auroras themselves.
Radiation Changes
A special effort will be made
to measure changes in the
radiation from radio stars
which passes through auroral
regions on its way to the earth.
Another investigation will be
that of the so-called ''Doppler
effect" the effect Of the
lights on the hydrogen atoms
which stream downward along
the auroral rays and are scat
tered in all directions. This
effect will be measured by
ionization chambers carried in
rockets launched from ball
looms to very high attitudes.
All over the earth the upper
atmosphere shines with Q
light of its own, the after
glow" This usually is far too
faint to be detected by the
unaided eye or photographed
with short exposures. It is
very diffuse and does not take
on the definite forms shown
by auroras. 1t is greatly en-
hanced at twilight but can
be detected even at MONDAY
with special instruments on
rockets.
1t will be studied by photo
electric apparatus arranged all
over the earth. especially sem
sitive to four bands Of radia-
ton known to occur in the
afterglow. These instruments
will make an automatic sur
vey of the entire sky each
half hour along a chain Of
stations from Thule, Green
land. through Canada and the
United States into Mexico.
Other stations will be set up
in Alaska, Hawaii and the Bel
gian Congo. Some special OBJ
servations will be made by
means of rockets, the majority
of which will be launched in
the neighborhood of Fort
Churchill in the Hudson Bay
territory.
The nature of the afterglow
still is only vaguely UNDER
stood, DR.. Chapman says. It
Is known to contain single
oxygen atoms, some sodium
dust and an cxygen-hydrogen
molecule.
Evening star., 1955-06-06

Many people must be won-
dering by now who was re-
sponsible for re-discovering
David Crockett.
In May, 1854, a Texas news
paper editor named Wendell
w. Ward purchased the news
paper Partisan at Paris, Tenn,
and on becoming it's publisher
learned that he was in the
home town of the late John
Wesley Crockett, a former
member of Congress and son
of the illustrious David. He
discovered too, that two great
grandsons of the King of the
Wild Frontier we're still living
in Paris. They are Dan Ma
this, a hardware merchant.
and Paul Mathis, a trainman
on the L. & N.
Mr.. Ward gave Davy a new
lease on life by publishing all
the material he could find
about him. In october, 1854,
this writer visited Rutherford.
Tenn, seeking a story about
Davy Crockett's log cabin,
which long ago had been dis
mantled and stored in a cot
ton gin. The town banker had
intended to reconstruct the
cabin as a showplace, getting
the idea after a carnival that
visited Rutherford had hauled
out the logs and put the cabin
Evening star., 1955-06-06
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

of the gardeners saint? A
charming little stone likeness
of him with a Towering branch
in one hand. and a spade in
the other, has made its ap-
pearance recently in one of the
many smaller hedged gardens
within the Bishops garden at
the Cathedral. ..
1.-TWO articles are enclosed.
which you may enjoy, one
about birds, and about how to
live in a picture window.
1.-THE other clipping, from q
recent edition of the New York
Times will sadden you, I'm
sure, as it did me, since 1t has
to do with the 400 beagles used
for radioactive test purposes.
Sincerely yours, P. B. G."
This article bears the re-
liable Associated Press label,
and shows once more how far
off from wholesome living the
world has got.
1t is. indeed. a sad story, all
about the 400 beagles, loveable
dogs, that are injected with
terrible elements in Beagle
VILE" a dog village on the
University of Utah campus.
Beagles were selected instead
of rats because of their easy
disposition, short hair and
Ideal size for laboratory
work"
The Atomic Energy Commits
sion invested an initial $780,
900 in the laboratory and has
spent about 100000 a year
since.
So there is where some Of
your tax money goesl
1.-THE beagles," the Associ-
ated Press article says, ARE in
jected with graduated doses of
radium. mesothorium, pluto
mum and radiothorium-all
highly radioactive-and then
observed closely"
The article states that some
Of the substances used at Bea-
gleville lodge in the bones and
attack cells with damaging
alpha particles. Some Of the
particles "go after the bone
marrow, others attack the
membranes covering the bones
and others the bone cells"
When you. dear reader, think
OF st. Fiacre. the patron of
gardenings, think also Of these
little four-legged saints that
are being tortured for your
sake.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Diamond Diagnosis

Judging by the record Of dWlndllng
attendance at the major league parks,
Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick has
taken wise step in engaging profess
sional research firm to analyze the prob
lens of the sport
For, as Mr.. Frick says, there has been
up to now only lot of guesswork about
the causes of this rather serious situation.
Actually, the real impact of radio and
television broadcasting of the games, the
shift generally from day to night play
and of various technical changes such as
the bonus rule, the unrestricted draft OF
minor leaguers and so Prth' never has
Evening star., 1955-06-06

A worldwide investigation
of the mystery of the northern
and southern lights, the
strange greenish-white lu-
minescence seen almost nightly
at high latitudes, now is
planned.
The lights seldom are seen
south or north Of latitude go,
and then only in times Of mag
netic storms.
During the international
Polar Year. which starts in
November 1857, a great net
work of auroral stations will
be set up In high latitudes
equipped with automatically
operating cameras which will
photograph the whole sky once
every five minutes every night.
This will show the changes in
the area covered by the polar
lights and their changes in in
tensity and color from moment
to moment. Previous observa-
tions have not followed a con-
tinuous pattern.
At some of these stations
there will be automatic ap-
paratus for scanning the light
spectra. These will swing con-
tinuously from horizon to zen
ith and back again to deter
mine changes in the wave
lengths of the lights. which in
turn will make it possible to
tell the nature of the atoms
and molecules from which the
lights come. There will be
few stations similarly equipped
in lower latitudes where the
auroras seldom are visible.
Observers With Filters
In addition, according to a
statement of the international
year plans by DR.. Sidney Chap
man of Cambridge University.
England, there will be a large
network of volunteer observers
equipped with optical filters
which will enable them to see
only specific wave bands of
the auroral light. This will
cut down the background light
of the sky in late twilight and
on moonlight nights. These
observers will be both profess
sional scientists and amateurs.
Volunteers now are being
sought.
Airplane flights are planned
to photograph the auroras
above the clouds on nights
when the sky is overcast. A
special watch will be kept for
auroras which appear stimuli
taneously in both northern and
southern hemisphereS in the
same longitudes. Stations at
high latitudes in both hemis-
pheres have been paired for
this work-Fairbanks, Alaska.
with Maquerie Island in the
Antarctic and a station in
northern Siberia with Heard
Evening star., 1955-06-06
India Ahead

On May 81, The Star carried
an editorial entitled India
Ahead" which referred to "an
economic study just completed
at Stanford University" I
think it fair to point out that
while it is true that the au-
thors-Profs. Yuan-li WI and
Robert C. North-are on the
faculty of Stanford University,
their study was commissioned
by and appeared in the latest
issue of Problems of Commu-
nism, a bimonthly published by
the United States Information
Agency. Your readers will be
interested to know that Prob
lens of Communism carries
scholarly, well-documented ar
ticles on the Soviet Union.
China, the East European sat-
elites, as well as the manifold
facets of international COM
munism, and that it is sold by
the superintendent of Docu-
ments at 35 cents per single
copy, $3.50 per yearly subscrip-
tion.
Also it is not quite correct to
state that the study proves
"India's program of industrial
ization well ahead Of Red
China's." Rather, it cites evil
dence showing that (a) per
capita consumption in India
has improved. while that OF
China has deteriorated; CD in
contrast to China, India can
now boast of impressive gains
in agricultural production; (c)
China, unlike India, has re-
sorted to forced labor; I'D
even in the industrial field In
dia has outstripped China in
the production of many COM
modities on a per capita basis.
The authors aScribe these sue
cesses to the fact that India
has chosen a broader pattern
of economic development and
a lower rate of investment
than China; more succinctly,
to the fact that "the Indians
are using planned democratic
techniques while the Chi
neSe depend on totalitarian-
ism" The one salient Sue
cess of the Communist PLAN
ners-a faster increase of ma
tional production-has been
achieved "at a high cost in
deprivation, RECOMMENDATION and
isolation of the Chinese peo-
pie"
Although the lessons of this
study may thus be more linn
tied than suggested in your
editorial, there is no doubt
that they do constitute-as you
stated-"a significant and en-
couraging report on one of the
most crucial tests in Asia"
One hopes that they won't be
lost on the peoples of other
underdeveloped areas, strug-
Cling with similar problems,
and faced with the same alter
natives as those faced by the
free people Of India.
Abraham Brumberg.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Dim View of Landmark

In all the discussion of tie
new plans for Washington's
downtown development, no
mention has been made of the
plan of the 1930s. providing for
the development of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and the compile
tion of the classical buildings
along its south side. There
stands the old gray stone Post
Office Building at Eleventh
street, an antiquated, gloomy
eyesore, and a great hollow
and inefficient structure
which prevents completion of
the Internal Revenue Build
ing and its circular court.
Why consider erection of
Government buildings in new
areas when the valuable space
the old Post Office Building
occupies is available? Let's
tear it down and proceed with
the original development plans.
Mabel Van Dyke Baer.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Lo, the Red Man

This year many Of our young
people and children of Protes-
tant denominations under the
National Council of Churches
will study the Indian American
and his many problems. One
hour or less a week they may
see a small, inadequate picture
from the Christian and Indian
viewpoint. But of course it
will have little effect against
the powerful propaganda
thrown at them from all sides
about the Red Man. Do they
not know for a fact, from
movies, books and songs. that
Indians were always wrong
and deserving of the misery
inflicted upon them? Do they
not hear their hero, Davy
Crockett, sing Farewell to the
land I redeemed from the
savage" when a better word
might be "stole"?
Since I recently moved from
Oklahoma, I am acquainted
with some of the living condi-
tions of Indians in that area
their abject poverty and hope
lessness. The average Indian
does not own oil wells and is
not the proud Red Man" pic
tured, by many adults. but an
ignorant, many times alco-
holic, second-class citizen. with
as much prejudice working
against him as against Negroes
in many areas. He is still
showed around at the whim of
the Government, moved from
his home, or, as in White
Swan, Washington, his only
livelihood wiped out. There,
despite protest, a dam is being
built by the Government which
will take away the fishing busi-
ness of the Yakimas, the only
thing left for them to do.
The hour is far gone when
we may erase this terrible
black mark from American
history or undo the wrongs
heaped upon Indian Ameri-
cans; but the least we can do
as parents and teachers is to
present a true picture to our
children. and show them how,
in Christian love, the Indian
situation may be helped.
CarOIe ]. Bayer.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
War Aqoinst the Nation

major automobile strike IN tnlS
country, if one develops, win divert at
tention from the crisis being forced upon
Britain by irresponsible union leaders.
Strike troubles of our own, however,
should not serve to obscure the lessons
implicit in the British situation.
Britain's pro-Labor Daily Mirror calls
the strike of railroad engineers and fire
men a "war against the nation" This Is
hardly an exaggeration. The striking
union is the Associated Society of Loco
motive Engineers and Firemen, whose
10000 members constitute about 80 per
cent of the engineers and f1remen on
Britain's nationalized railways. The re-
naming 100000 rail workers in all cate
gories belong to the National Union of
Railwaymen.
The members of both unions par
ticipated last fall in general wage in
crease But the A. S. L. E. F., claiming
special skills for its members, is demand
ing an additional increase. The N. U. r.,
however, says that if the differential is
Widened in favor of the engineers and
firemen, comparable increases will be de-
manded for it's own members. The gov
ernment caught in the middle of what is
essentially an inter-union squabble, has
refused to grant any increases, and is
moving to arm itself with special powers
under a state-of emergency proclama-
ton by the Queen.
It remains to be seen, however, what
steps, if any, will be taken by the govern
ment against the strikers. British poll
ticianS, even more than our own, have
been notably reluctant to use compulSion
in labor disputes. Instead, the practice
has been to rely on the Trades Union
Congress, with which some 8 million
union members are affiliated. The
T. U. c. has tried, unSuccessfully, to pre-
vent this strike.
Meanwhile, Britains economy is
grinding to halt under the impact of
strangled railway system and spreading
juriSdictional strikes on the docks Once
again, handful of people who happen to
belong to unions are using their economic
power to enforce selfish demands, and
are doing this in total disregard of the
welfare of the rest of the nation. Gov
ernments put stop to this sort of thing
on the part of big business long time
ago. If unions continue to abuse the
special privileges which have been con-
ferred upon them, the day may yet come
when public opinion will force the poll
ticians to apply similar restraints to
labor.