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Evening star., 1955-11-27
Hollands
.GoodSdint
To Arrive
BY DAISY CLELAND

st. Nicholas and Black Peter
will arrive in Washington next
week.
These two are the most
loved characters in all of
Holland. by the Queen and
her four daughters and the
average Dutch citizen. They
will make their appearance at
The Netherlands Embassy here
on December 6 to the delight
Of 70 Dutch children.
If you do not believe in
fairies and good spirits, read
no further.
Nine. van Baarda, wife of
The Netherlands First Secre-
tary, recalls the customs of her
homeland-and the most fes-
tive holiday in The Neither
lands.
December 5 Holiday
This holiday takes place on
December 5. which is on the
birth of st. Nicholas. The
kindly, bearded man Che is no
less than $500 years old
brings gifts and sweets to all
on this day.
1t would seem that in 400
AID. in Asia Minor there lived
a sanity bishop named st.
Nicholas. When the Moham-
medans invaded Asia Minor
his worshippers brought the
cult to Southern Italy and from
there the sailors introduced it
to Western Europe,
From Italy. st. Nicholas
moved to Spain where he still
lives. although no one there
can tell you where. Each year
he sails to Holland with his
white horse and Black Peter.
his helper.
Black Peter always arrives
with two bags, one full of toys
and candies and the other
empty to carry away bad chill
dren.
The evening of December 4
is one of the most exciting
nights Of the year for the chill
dren Of Holland.
Big Shoes
They get out one of their
shoes (the biggest one they
can find), write a letter to st.
Nicholas and leave them by the
fireplace with a carrot for the
white horse. Next. they sing
songs of welcome up the Chin
ney to the saint before going
to bed to await the great mir
acle.
Behold! The morning brings
shoes filled with sweets. They
are more than fit for the wide
eyes that devour them first.
It is an exciting day and who
knows but what st. Nicholas
himself may drop by. He will
bring his book that has a rec
ord of each child and Black
Peter will be there with his
birch rod and his bags.
st. Nicholas. who after all
speaks very good Dutch. since
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versity undergraduate chap
ters, will meet at 7:30 pm.
tomorrow in the Maryland
Chapter House, 1912 College
avenue, to celebrate Founders'
nav
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Alumnoe Celebration

The Phi Sigma Sigma Alum
nae Club, in conjunction with
the University Of Maryland
and George Washington Uni
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of the children to their COM
plete amazement-what their
marks in school are. whether
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he has been visiting the
Netherlands for so many
years, knows all about each
Evening star., 1955-11-27

RHYMING TlME-Mme van Boordo, wife of the
First Secretary of the Netherlands Embassy, okes to
her typewriter to whip off few verses. In Hollond
the birthday of St Nichoos on December is the most
popular holiday with much present giving ond excite
ment Eoch of the gifts ore given in the old bishops
name and must be accompanied by verse.-Stor
Stoff Photo
Evening star., 1955-06-30
No NoCompIoints

Having been Mayor for,
three years of the City Of
Alexandria, which is the fourth
largest city in the Com
monwealth and has a popula-
ton of $4,000, and served as
a member of the City Council
for seven years, I want to ex-
press to The Star my sincere
gratitude for your assistance.
Being a public servant. I feel
was elected by the people to
represent the community and
all the people. When I first
ran for Office, I stated In my
platform that I would keep the
people advised as to what was
going on in their government.
This could have been done only
by the press through your
good reporters. who always
give both sides Of q question.
At most Of our City Council
meetings there were only a
dozen or more people except
when there was an issue raised,
and this was raised only by
the press giving information
to the public.
I feel what I have tried to
accomplish has been through
the freedom Of the press. There
have been many important
issues, and the citizens Of the
community would not have
known what was going on in
their government except
through their reporters and
the press.
If I should ever run again
for public Office, I will always
feel that the press will give
its support to a public servant
whose first concern is to keep
the people advised as to what
is going on in their govern
ment.
Marshall ]. Beverley,
Mayor. City Of Alexandria.
Va
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Lottimore's Days in Court

If the Attorney General Is right IN
dropping the baltimore case now, after
two and half years Of litigation, was ne
also right in deciding at the outset to
prosecute it vigorously? The circum-
stances indicate that he was right both
times.
MIR. Brownell inherited the Latti-
more perjury indictment from the pre-
vious administration. The extent, II any,
of his own misgivings as to its substance
is not known. As chief law officer OF the
Government, however, he had no reason
able alternative but to present the mat
ter to the courts.
In this undertaking, the Government
has spared no effort. It was never able
to get the case to trial on the issue OF
Mr.. Lattimore'S guilt or innocence OF
perjury. Mr.. Lattimore's first move was
to attack the indictment, and this was
done so effectively that Judge Youngdahl
and the Court of Appeals threw out its
vital counts. After they were redraWn
in an effort to meet the judges objec-
tions, the same thing happened again
the Government losing the second time
by an evenly divided vote in the Court
of Appeals.
The decision now to drop the case,
instead of seeking a Supreme Court re-
view, seems to have rested on the con-
clusion that the counts Of the indictment
which are valid were too closely linked
to those that were dismissed. In other
words, the Department of Justice lawyers
were persuaded that they could not con-
vict Mr.. baltimore on the evidence they
would be able to use. The reasonable
course was to drop the matter.
On the record written in the courts,
the Government is well rid of the busi-
ness and MIR. baltimore has won his vim
dication, some five years after he was
Arst attacked in the Senate. While he
Evening star., 1955-06-30
The Hormonico Kinu

When the dehnitive history of show
business in the first half of the goth
century is written, its authors will not
be likely to forget to mention the man
of undoubted genius who was Borrah
Minevitch. A native of the slums of Kiev
in the Ukraine, the youngest child in
family always hungry, he was brought
to the United States by his parents just
prior to World War l. When his father
died shortly afterwards, he became
newsboy on the streets of Boston. Exactly
how he first acquired mouth organ and
realized its musical potentialities is
matter Of mystery.
What is certain is this: Borrah
proved that the dinky little instrument
Endorsed for its eloquence by Shake
speare can discourse" melody-in the
hands and backed by the lung and throat
power of a master The go Minevitch
Rascals were musicians of distinction.
They worked on their chromatics and
high and low jinks until they could per-
form miracles with them. Their program
range ran from the loftiest classics all
the way down to the profoundeSt
squawks; they initiated nightingales and
they simulated guinea hens and razor
back hogs; they could seize upon theme
and rip it to threads, then weave them
again into rhapsodic loveliness of tune
and tone.
Borrah raised mouth organs into
a prosperous industry. Five million
copies of his scientific monograph on
the nature and use of the harmonica
were distributed. The contests he spon-
sored brought out excellent talent in
cities and towns from coast to coast and
influenced similar enterprises abroad.
Minevitch himself played the Metropoli-
tan Opera House, and the audience almost
took the roof of with their appreciation.
Customers paid unparalleled prices for
the Kings services. His company was
tops in vaudeville wage scales, and Borrah
became rich and famous. From 1947
until his death few days ago, he was
motion picture producer In Paris.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Also Points With Pride

I missed John Logan's letter
to The Star In which he indi-
Gated Mount Carmel, Pa, had
"one-room school shacks."
However, I did read the letter
of Joseph ]. Breskiewicz in
which he attempted to set
the record, and Mr.. Logan,
straight.
Like Mr.. BreskiewicZ, ! too
was born and reared in Mount
Carmel, and like him I am un-
aware Of any one-room school
shacks in the town.
Just as in any other place,
there may be things wrong
with Mount Carmel, but GER
tainly its school system is not
one Of them, and the people
Of that community have every
reason to point with, pride to
their modern school facilities.
James M. Quigley,
Representative from PENN
sylvania.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
THE POLITICAL MILL
President stiTWonts G. O.P. Congress
BY GOULD LINCOLN

President Eisenhower. II he
runs again next year, viii ask
for the election Of a Repub-
lican Congress just as he did
during the congressional elec-
tion last year. Senator Lyn-
don johnson of Texas and
other congressional Demo-
Gratis, who have been saying
that the President has gotten
much legislation out of this
Democratic ontrolled d saith
Congress, and who challenge
the President on q 1854 state
ment that II q Democratic
Congress should be elected the
result would be a cold war Of
partisan politics" and nothing
done, take notice! The Presi-
dent does not intend to let
Democrats get away with the
suggestion the country win be
just as well of with a Demo-
cratic Congress, with Mr..
Eisenhower In the White
House.
When the Presidents at
tention was called. at his press
conference, to the johnson
statement in which the Demo-
cratic leader Of the Senate
pointed with pride to the
Senate's action on 275 bills
during the present session and
quoted from the Eisenhower
''cold war" speech, the Pres
ident said he wanted more"
much more. He listed a series
Of important measures whose
passage he asked Of Congress
and which have not been
passed, and others which have
passed the Senate or House
but not in the form he re-
quested.
Sees Politics
The President apparently
still sees the Democrats in
Congress playing politics
and Of course they are. The
President himself spoke as a
partisan, a Republican, and
there was no mistaking. He
got on his chest the fact he
did not like the way the Demo-
Gratis had treated his high
way legislation, housing legis-
lation, his proposals for a
military reserve system. health
reinsurance, anne n d m e mt of
the Refugee immigration Act
amendment, for aid to schools,
for a minimum wage act. for
amendment Of the Taft-Hart-
ley Act, construction of an
atomic peace ship, Hawaiian
statehood, and for a revision
Of the Customs Duties Act.
As a matter Of fact, the
Democrats, Senator johnson
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Mistaken Identity

I want to call attention to an
error in your interesting article
on the Appian Way, in The
Star of June Is.
It was st. Peter. not st. Paul.
who was fleeing Rome when he
met Christ and said "Quo Va
dis, Domine?". Christ said, Il
must go to Rome and suffer in
your place."
Rose Vickers.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Fiscal responsibility

Presumably the House and Senate
conferees on the District budget regard
the $18 million Federal-payment figure
as an expedient compromise. 1t is not
fair or reasonable compromise, however,
for 1t is neither right nor just. Any
reduction In the Federal obligation pre-
viously agreed upon by Congress as its
share Of the public works program is
a breach Of faith with the citizens Of
Washington.
Congress entered into solemn bar
gain with the District on definite
sharing of the costs of improving the
Nations Capital, after a long period Of
public works stagnation and deteriora-
ton. Careful studies we're given the
fiscal problem both by District authori-
ties and appropriate committees of Con-
greSs. The $40 million Federal share
represented an increase in the Federal
obligation designed to take care of the
improvement program. The Districts
part Of the agreement was heavy
increase in local taxes. District tax
payers are required to keep their part
Of the pact. The Federal Government,
through Congress, is able to welsh.
A reduction in. the Federal payment
means that local taxpayers must pay
even more than was provided in the
original understanding. The question
now is not whether there will be another
increase in local taxes, but when. #
teachers salaries are increased this ses-
sion, it could mean that local tax
increase bill must be considered in the
closing days Of Congress. Anybody
knows what that means. The outlook
for District progress and for District tax
payers suddenly has become confused
and discouraging. No better example of
fiscal irresponsibility," a term misap-
piled to the District by a House COM
mittee, could be had than the shameful
compromise worked out at the Capitol.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
VANISHING American
Rose Vickers.

/ would like to recall to your
readers a notable and nostalgia
figure Of an earlier era--the
Fourth Of July orator.
In the days before the family
automobile and the movies.
one of the highlights Of the
Fourth in any town large
enough to boast a bandstand
was the patriotic speech. The
orator was sometimes some
what florid of language and
overly longwinded Especially
for small fry waiting for the
grand fireworks display, but
he served a useful purpose. All
over this great Republic. at
crossroads, in villages and in
cities, the Fourth of July ora
tor reminded Americans of the
freedom and opportunity that
was theirs by reason of their
citizenship, of the greatness of
this Nation, Of its dedication
to God and to justice.
Generally, the orator re-
counted some Of the sweat and
blood that went into the free
ing and founding Of this coun-
try. The vision and heroism
of those who made the United
States possible and kept it
alive down the years was not
overlooked, and I can remenn-
ber still the great feeling of
pride and patriotism / had
as a small boy over being a
tiny part Of it all.
The Fourth of July orator
has gone out of style, and I
cannot help feeling that we
are worse off for it. Today.
when hundreds of millions Of
human beings are living under
the yoke Of Communist despot-
ism, there is a greater need
than ever to be reminded that
we are privileged to be citizens
of the United States; that our
country is the great, bright
inspiration for millions upon
millions who hope someday to
achieve the freedom that is
ours-or even a small part
Of 1t.
cannot hope that one brief
letter can begin to substitute
for the patriotic spirit that
the old-tirne Fourth of July
evoked: but I do hope that 1t
will cause those who read 1t
to count and treasure the
blessings that our form Of
government makes possible.
walter e. Ditmafs.
Hartford. Conn.
Evening star., 1955-06-30

curtain countries has been
characterized as "Tieing Ike's
hands"
On the contrary, the resolu-
tion, If passed. would strength
en- Ike's hand. The only pos
sible benefit that we can get
from the summit" confer
ences would be the psycholog-
ical advantages coming from a
discussion Of the satellite
countries. It would put the
world on notice that we be-
lieved in liberation, and it
would give the people of the
satellite countries some hope
something they have had little
reason up to now to have.
AS things now stand, the ad-
mission of Red China and the
sell-out of Matsu and Quemoy
will probably hold the center
stage. In discussions On these
two topics, we have everything
to lose and nothing to gain.
Let's get OF the defense.
Cortland Herbst.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
The Humble Way

Dear Lord, / humbly kneel to
pray
For grace to Ddlk the loDly
tDGy;;
And may my spark of light
so shine
That all ,oin knoio it part OF
Thine.
Help me to keep it FURNISHED
bright
So like q beacon in the night
It's steady glo,Ding fame may
guide
Some lost Ddyfarer to Thy
side.
o may / never bury deep
The talents that for Thee !
keep!
Teach me to multiply each
one,
Like seeds that orop In rain
and sun.
May each small talent that /
hold
Yield for Thee a hundred
foldi
Help me to let my light so
shine
That all iDiu knoaD 1t part OF
Thine.
Emily Carey AIIemon.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
Hopeful President

There is nothing in the Presidents
latest remarks to encourage the belief,
evidently held by some, that our dele
so many lambs down the road to another
Yalta
Mr.. Eisenhower made it clear he does
not believe that the MARKHAM doctrine of
world revolution has been abandoned by
its advocates And therefore, he said, we
have got to be careful. In other words,
the President and his staff are not going
to the Geneva Conference under any
illusion that peace is just around the
corner, and that the only thing needed
is to get Soviet signature on piece Of
paper.
At the same time, however, the
President took rather hopeful view Of
the prospects for making progress toward
an improvement in international rela-
tionshipS. He noted that obviously some
change has come about in the Soviet
attitude, and he added that If this
change is one which makes 1t easier to
live with the Russians, easier to nego-
tiate with them and easier to solve the
PAObACAAAc UAA0V al 11OlIk Ody W Udys
then it is almost certain to have good
effect on the general situation. The
President also commented, rather crypt
cally, that he personally believes from
what he learned in San Francisco, and
through talks that he has had, that the
outlook for easing fears and tensions is
better than he thought two months ago.
All of this is hardly solid basis for
soaring optimism. But at the least it
lends persuasive support to the view that
the President should go to Geneva to
explore the possibilities of some kind of
settlement, and that it would be grave
mistake If he were not to enjoy full
freedom Of action and full public sup
port in this exploratory phase of the
negotiations.
Evening star., 1955-06-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

ly apart from what Is in it.
The real book friend holds
his latest volume in his hand
In a special way, snugly yet
with care. He never allows it
to drop to the ground, even
when he becomes sleepy. He
knows the signs too well-he
puts the book up beforehand.
It may be that this special
care tells, in the final analy-
sis, at about the time the won-
derful mind begins to 60 back
on one. Every one has q won
derful mind. It was there in
the beginning. it was helped
by school and study, but 1t
was there when life began,
ready to function.
4 = y \
The first signs of failure Is
the book liked but unread.
There is no reason to worry
about this. It. too. Is a part
Of living.
The love of books is still
there. AL one has to do Is
slow up.
There is no need to feel
ashamed. Everybody slows
up. Those who pretend not to,
simply make fools out Of them
selves.
So do not let the fact
that you have q number Of
unread books lying around
make you apologize. even to
yourself.
There is no need to shrink
from one Of the facts Of life.
Slower reading may mean
reading half a dozen or maybe
a dozen books at one time, a
bit here, and a bit there. That
is one way Of getting through
a book. Getting through a
book" what a dreadful
sounding phrase! But the
physical endurance to read is
slackening, and the reader
must realize it, and make the
best Of it.
If he reads carefully, and
rests when a rest is demanded.
he will find that in this way
he keeps his love of books,
whereas If he tried to force
matters, he might end up with
nothing to care about except
the passing moment.
The fast reader resents most
Of all his little failure. He.
in particular. must be aware
Of what is happening to him.
and realize that nothing Is
really lost because he does not
swing through q volume in the
old way. The mind does not
keep attentive as it did yes
teryear. Maybe something is
wrong with the way some vita
min affects some brain cell.
There is not much that can
be done about it, except to
slow UP. take it easy. and re-
member that a book is q won
derful thing. the one real Gre
alton of the mind Of man.
Evening star., 1955-06-30

among them. have been crow
ing over the fact that the DEM
ocrats have passed highway,
housing. and minimum wage
bills Of their own--in prefer
ence to those recommended by
the President. In the Presi-
dents view, the Democrats
cannot have it both ways. They
can't claim they have sup
ported his program, and at the
same time claim they have put
through a program Of their
own.
A "cold war" of partisan
politics apparently means one
thing to the President and an
other to Senator johnson. The
President was willing to give
the Democratic Congress credit
for favorable action on some
things he considers Of value
and Importance. But he was
emphatic in his assertion It
had failed on a long series OF
needed measures.
The dispute between the
President and the Democratic
leader flared anew, with Sem
ator johnson declaring that
Congress is not going to carry
out the Presidents recommen-
dations 'like q bunch Of second
heutenants taking orders"
How far this White House.
Democratic Congress row win
go at the present session re-
mains to be seen. But the
further 1t goes, the more Mr..
Eisenhower's prediction Of Q
cold war Of partisan politics
viii have been justified. The
President has been trying to
get his program-which is the
Republican program-through
this Democratic controlled
Congress.
Foreign Affairs
Particularly has progress
been manifested in meas
ures which had TO do with for
eign affairs. The Democrats
have backed the Presidents
foreign policy generously. And
just as obviously. the next
session Of Congress Is going to
see some political inflghting,
with each side seeking advan-
tage.
One thing is certain, a con-
siderable part of the PreSi-
dents program has been
blocked by the Democrats up
to date. That's what the Pres
ident sees in the situation, and
no amount of argument that
his program is better of at the
hands of a Democratic con-
trolled Congress than 1t would
be at the hands Of a Repub-
lican Congress is likely to
shake him.