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Evening star., 1955-01-09
IOEs Activities in District Scheduled This Week

Mary 3. Gilbert: associate pa
tron. wellington j. Galbraith:
secretary. Evelyn e. Mills;
treasurer, Minnie 3. Shupp:
conductress. Gertrude w. Good;
associate conductress. Josephine
g. Michael; chaplain. Margaret L.
Morris; marshal. Edith ".
Kneipp: Adah. NJ. Elizabeth
Behrens: Ruth, Edna E. Coe:
Esther, Nancy w. Garrett:
Martha. Alice c. Whailey; Elec-
ia, Leanore s. Reilly; warder.
Edith Kraft; sentinel. Charles
A. Kraft: trustee. William H.
Fox; representative to board Of
directors OF the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home. Dorothy
Preston.
Lebanon-Willian r. Hunt:
Thursday, called on.
Evening star., 1955-01-09
Meetings This Week
OF Jobs Daughters

Jobs Daughters meetings this
week are:
Bethel No. saturday.
Bethel No. Friday, Mons
and Dads night.
Bethel No. 3-Thursday.
Bethel No. 7-Wednesday.
Evening star., 1955-01-09

During the war, odorless, colorless
Clyoxyl Diureide emerged as a
unique healer used to accelerate the
growth Of healthy new skin. In an
amazingly short time, the Clyoxyl
Diureide in every fragrant drop Of
Aquamarine Lotion actually heals
the little hurts that mar your hands
every day.
Evening star., 1955-01-09
Longest scandinavian Ship

Longest ship yet built in Scan
dinavia is the 32.000-ton. 667h-
foot-long motor tanker Josefina
Thorden, launched in Sweden
for charter by an American oil
company.
Evening star., 1955-01-09
LOTION

Save your hands and money the and only
lotion that agent which actually heals hands
hurt by detergs scratched by work. by Chores cracked by
weather Big doubeS $500 bottle of jewel blue fragrant
Aquamarine Lotion for only SIPS You you get it
before it's gone this special price What luxury be able
it layhly - 6ngertp tiny toe. Get yours today
*New miracle healer Clyo1yI Diureide !;
Evening star., 1955-07-16
The Tide Is Running

1t Is disappointing, albeit not sur
prising, that Community Chest Fedora
ton study group could offer scant hope
for united fund here in the foreseeable
future. The evaluation committee found,
in effect, that nearly everybody wants
merger of all health and welfare fund
drives, but nobody is sure how or when
1t can be achieved. So the committee
wisely has urged the next-best campaign
reform, namely, a more inclusive one
package solicitation, with closer Coz
ordination among city and suburban
chests.
AS the committee put it, 'stror>
tide is sweeping" toward consolidation
of fund-raising activities in the WASH
ington Metropolitan Area. The Commu-
nifty Chest was urged to take leading
part In promoting the movement for
unified campaigning, thus affording the
citizens relief from the multiplicity Of
drives now held annually. One of the
obstacles in the way of this tide is the
failure of the Federal Government to
provide for payroll deductions for it's
employees. Other cities have found that
widespread availability of the payroll
deduction plan is essential to success
full united fund The committee sug-
gested that every effort be made to obtain
legislative authority for Federal payroll
deductions. Such legislation is pending
at the Capitol.
To improve the present chest organ
ization and operations, the committee
recommended wider community repre-
sentation on the board of directors of
the Chest Federation, area-wide planning
and budgeting procedures, new regional
campaign units to canvass larger business
/ firms and other large donors and better
teamwork among the various chest stats.
The committees referendum of chest
leaders produced little sentiment for
breaking up of the federation into inde-
pendent units-which is not surprising,
either. It is to be hoped that the tide
which the committee found running for
fewer, rather than. more, fund drives
eventually will prevail in Washington and
its environS.
Evening star., 1955-07-16

eise--from tall buildings to automobiles
Is it subtle suggestion that all things,
like the purchasing power Of the dollar,
should be cut almost In half? II 50, could
Secretary Of Treasury Humphrey simply
scale down the national debt-without
virginia,s Senator Byrd insisting that the
debt limit must be reduced accordingly?
Or could President Eisenhower's program
of must" legislation be cut back to Ave-
eighths Of its present length-and per-
haps let Congress get out to California
in time for the Disneyland opening? And
what about the meeting aat the summit"
opening, coincidentally, on the same
day? Since it would be mathematically
difficult to cut the big Four" down to
62.5 per cent Of It's present size, perhaps
the "global tensions" could be reduced
instead.
Did you have something like this In
mind, Mr.. Disney?
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Milestone at West Milton

Another sign of the benefits to be
derived from the burgeoning nuclear age
is the announcement that the Govern
ment will soon make its first commercial
sale of atomic-produced electricity.
AS explained by the Atomic Energy
Commission, the sale has been made pos
sible by the reactor at West Milton, New
York-a prototype of the nuclear engine
to be fitted into the submarine Sea Wolf
The steam from this reactor will be
channeled into 10000 -kilowatt turbine
generator that has been installed and
will be operated by the General Electric
Company at no cost to the Government.
And the resulting output estimated as
enough to meet the annual lighting needs
OF about $4,000 homes-will be bought
from the Acc by the Niagara-Mohawk
Power Corporation
N The sales price involved in the trans
action-which may also embrace three
public-power organizations In the gen.
eral neighborhood of West Milton-will
be 3 mills per kilowatt-hour However,
4 although the figure is low, it does not
mean that our nuclear development has
now reached point where the atom can
compete commercially with the conven-
tional sources of energy in producing
electricity. Yet the very fact of this sale
serves as striking measure of the great
progress that has been made in that
Il direction through the combined efforts
OF the Government and private enter
prise.
>N In that sense, the West Milton prof.
ect may be regarded as a milestone of
! sorts. It justi1es expert predictions that
4 half the Nations electrical power will
4 come from atomic energy before the
century ends.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Five-Eighths Scale

The wonders of Disneyland, worlds
fair of fantasy that is due to open next
Monday in a former California 200-acre
orange grove, should be readily enjoy
able to young and old visitors. Where
else, for example, can one find a Euro
/ pean medieval castle close by an African
tJungle, watch Peter Pans flight to
4 snever-never land while buying tickets
fifor rocket trip to the moon, or visit
Snow Whites gold mine? Where else, in
fact, can one visit yesterday-and to-
morrow-today?
But there is another question here.
Everything, 1t seems, is built on Ave-
eighths scale-includipg jungles, castles,
sgold mines and even park benches. Is
this sly Disney trick to combat imitation,
or to refute the charge that Americans
alwa5s make things bigger than anybody
Evening star., 1955-07-16
More Social Security

Now that the House Ways
and Means Committee has
made several recommendations
to provide, in part, some
greatly needed improvements
in the Social Security Act,
Congress should not delay ac-
ton by quibbling over a penny
or so increase in the social
security tax. The American
people are now beginning to
fully realize what social Sc
curity benefits really mean to
the older unemployed, the
disabled and the aged. This
is one tax on which the mem
bers Of Congress are going to
hear fewer complaints from
the little people as time moves
on. Furthermore. the more
benefits that are given these
unfortunate citizens the more
business and employment 1t
creates Immediately.
Mamie M. Steabner.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
View From the Curb

xUu nave WTlttcu b BTchb uedl
about the transit strike, but
/ have yet to see a word about
the many citizens who abso-
lutely do not want to see the
fare increased one cent, for the
simple reason they cannot af-
ford to pay it. There are
thousands of us in the $40-$45
per week bracket. but you
seem to be- going along en- the
premise that we are all willing
to pay more If we get faster
service. Well, I've news for
you--we are not.
I should like to add a word
about, the motorists during this
time. / have been a resident
of Washington for 20 years and
have always considered the
people here to be very friendly
indeed. The strike has COM
pletely disillusioned me. I have
stood at the end Of the Calvert
street bridge and on Columbia
road and on Connecticut ave-
nue. for 20 minutes while a
stream of cars passed me. Most
contained one passenger and
the driver. I have seen hun
dreds Of cars stop at red lights
while people we're clustered on
the curb waiting for some kind
of transportation, and not once
have ! seen a car pick up a
passenger. I have changed my
opinion Of my fellow citizens.
III. o. B.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

4. The nude is not the naked,
If it is tanned.
In our summers, 1t all de-
pends upon suntan.
If the skin is well tanned,
it does not look naked, or
what we think of as nude,
either.
Tan seems to put clothes
on us!
That is why we can all
stand all sorts Of nudity, in
summer, when at any other
time of year all the white skin
would make us flee. at least
mentally, to the structures of
the church for refuge.
There Is something very
wholesome about the suntan
vogue.
j 1t literally takes peoples
minds off what the old folks
called nakedness.
Nobody at all thinks of any
body being naked, in a very
abbreviated bathing suit, as
long as the person is tanned.
- 1t Is just that old white skin
that seems naked.
So three cheers for that
wonderful old sun, just float
ing around all day, and for
the modern fad of sunshine
and fresh air and suntan and
suntan lotions and bathing
suits and play suits and water
sports and outdoor eating and
ants and pickles and baskets
full of good food and bottles
full of good drink.
We have gone a long way
from the covered-up days Of
our ancestors. When we think
back on the silly long bathing
suit that mother wore, we are
inclined to snicker, and we
are right.
Something very good has
taken place, with the suntan
vogue. Little children love it,
and their elders, too. Every
body wants to be tanned. You
see as many well-tanned peo-
pie in a city today as you
formerly did on the farm or
at the seashore. We city slick
ers have made up our minds
that the farmers and the sail
ors had something good, in a
well-tanned epidermis, and we
have found out that the sun,
plus q little extra persistence,
and a good suntan lotion, will
do the trick; and, fortunately
for our soyls, minds and NOR
ais, we don't feel a bit naked.
Actually. we have forgotten
all about that, much to the
worlds betterment. we think.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
OH-Street Porkinq

The Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association is par
ticularly grateful during the
transit strike for the marvellous
cooperation received from
members Of the Washington
Parking Association in the
handling of all cars which have
been brought into the central
business district for off-street
parking.
It has been gratifying to the
merchants of downtown Wash
ington to learn that the facili-
ties for off-street parking have
proved ample during this un-
usual period. and we believe
that the owners of parking
facilities can point with pride
to the fact that they built suf-
ficient facilities to meet future
demands.
Customers have learned that
merely by avoiding the morn
ing and evening rush traffic
they can come downtown to
shop in their cars--Secure in
the knowledge that parking
lots and garages can accommo-
date them.
A vote Of thanks that we
have such off-street facilities
downtown!
E. A. Pritchards
Executive Vice President,
Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association.
There have been numerous
newspaper accounts with
which I am in full accord) of
the excellent job performed
by the Metropolitan Police
during the transit strike. It
seems to me there is one i'm
portant segment Of local in
dustry which has also per-
formed outstanding service,
but to my knowledge has re-
ceived no public recognition.
/ refer to the parking lot OPP
orators of the District.
At the outset Of the strike it
was feared that parking facili-
ties would not be able to meet
the demand, but this has not
been the case. Among my aSso-
ciates are several regular park
ing lot customers and others
who have found 1t necessary
to park on the lots as a result
of the strike. without excep-
tion. they have been pleased
with the courtesy and service
that has been received. The
parking attendant has ac-
corded to his regular custom
ers the same high level of
efficient service. while at the
same time accommodating a
much greater traffic load.
Midst the turmoil of the
Wolfson-Morse fiasco, may I
suggest that a public "Well
done" also be extended the
District parking lot operators?
Carl ". Lyon.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Bad Interpreter

What happened to me while
visiting in Washington could
have been avoided a had l
known your Police Depart
ment's vocabulary on parking
regulations.
! parked on Constitution
avenue, between Ninth and
Tenth streets NV, about $3.50
one afternoon. When ] re-
turned my car was gone.
Why can't there be some
uniformity of traffic signs
across the Nation? Had / been
In San Francisco and seen the
sign TOW Away Zone" ! would
have known Immediately what
was in store for me. Here I
saw q sign mo Standing"
which / interpreted as mean
ing no lettering. and passed 1t
of at that.
Charles Holmes.
Stockton, Calf. .
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Shopping Tour

Here. little daughter. you can
bug
A dress of rose or to match the
sky,
Or in any shade of the bright
rainb0p.
Princesses dreamt OF them,
long ago.
At any price. and trimmed
iDith lace,
And q hat ,uith a teather-tip
tickling your face,
or perhaps. a big black boD.
/ know a street iphere the
prices run loiD.
Queens neUer drednst of that,
long ago!
Here, little daughter, you can
buy
Anything you rant but the
sun and the sky
And a little space ,phere a girl
could 90.
Not too publicly, to meet her
beau.
An hour OF quiet and sunlight
on the grass
Are not In the aoindow of any
store you pass
Nor a home, tpith q garden,
Where q child could find
Space that is needed, for
growing limbs and
mind.
Here. little daughter. you can
buy
Lururies chedpiy - but hfe
comes high.
Morsery MonsfieIS
Evening star., 1955-07-16
THE POLITICAL MILL
n NAfnn lIkI(NTk
How shcH We Elect Our Presidents?
By GOULD LINCOLN

toral college vote. Another
reason given for the proposed
constitutional reform" Hes In
the fact that the presidential
electors-members Of the So
called electoral college
under the strict terms Of the
Constitution, are ct liberty 10
vote for any person they desire
for President. Hedged In by
party and State laws, thers
have been mighty few electors
who bolted the candidates Of
the parties who chose the
electors. But It still could hap
pen. A third reason given by
proponents Of the amendment
to the Constitution is that the
power Of the pressure groups"
racial, labor. etc., now 20 po-
tent In both the nomination
and election Of Presidents,
woulds be minimized or even
obliterated.
Mundt's Argument
Senator Mundt. Republican
Of North Dakota, and Repre-
sentative Coudert of New York,
also a Republican, argue par
ticuiafly that their proposed
amendment, which would re-
tain the presidential electors
but have them chosen by, CON
gressio1al districts instead Of
statewide-except for the two
representing Senators who
would be elected in statewide
contests-would destroy the
pressure group influence. Sem
ator Mundt maintains that
these groups potent now in
statewide elections because
they are able to concentrate
on large, populous areas with
effect-would have a tough
time getting into every
congressional district. The
friends of the Kefauver-
Daniel amendment, too, say
that their plan would make
pressure groups far less effec-
tive than under the old system.
One criticism which Mundt
and Coudert bring against the
Kefauver-Daniel resolution is
that the proposed amendment
does not really assure election
of the presidential candidate
with a majority of the pop
ular vote" And, indeed, this is
true, on the face of the reso-
luton itself. 1t provides that.
to be elected President, a can
didate must receive at least 40
per cent of the electoral votes.
1t could happen that, under
this proportional division Of
the electoral vote, a candidate
could have 40 per cent Of the
electoral vote and not receive
more than so per cent Of the
popular vote.
Friends of the direct cleo
ton of Presidents proposal
contend theirs is the only way
to assure election of the most
popular President. It is GER
tain. however. a plurality"
President could be elected
under either the LANCER or
Humphrey amendments.
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Litoshko and the Bard

The State Department has acted as
If it were "the mirror of all courtesy in
permitting Pravda's New York corre-
Spondent-a dyed-in-the-wool Russian
named Eugene Litoshko-to take trip to
Stratford, Connecticut. The permission
has been granted to enable him to accept
an invitation to report on the Shake
spearean festival now being staged up
there.
Under ordinary circumstances, of
course, no Soviet citizen is allowed to
travel in Connecticut. For the entire
State, along with numerous other parts
of our country, has been closed to the
Russians in reprisal for similar reStric-
tions in force against Americans in the
USSR. But Shakespeare is Shakespeare
an immortal against whom no barriers
should be raised. And so Secretary Dulles
has seen fit to let Mr.. Litoshko go to
Stratford to see and hear the great bard's
plays and move freely through the town
for the next several days.
Needless to say, this is not going to
menace our security. After all, STRAIT
ford is not strategic place, and Mr..
Litoshko cannot possibly uncover a
single military secret there. But he may
find the festival good for his soul. And
he may learn something worthwhile
about our history and way Of life as he
looks over the towns sights, one Of
which-according to the New York
Herald Tribune-is spot where a certain
man landed in 1649 after fleeing author
tiles who wanted to give him public
lashing for breaking law that forbade
husbands to kiss their wives on Sundays.
Anyhow, the State Department has
done the right and sensible thing. And
as result, to paraphrase Shakespeare,
Mr.. Litoshko- having been allowed to
taste the freedom and friendliness of
Stratford-may say nice things about us
instead sof merely reporting back to
Pravda that II have sighed my Russian
breath in foreign clouds, eating the bitter
bread Of bI pishment." q
Evening star., 1955-07-16
Not Easy to Fly Flag

A recent letter called at
tention to the sparse number
of flags displayed on national
holidays, and means. "Is patri-
otism dead?" No one could
be more in accord with the
thought that every American
citizen should own a flag" and
display same on appropriate
occasions, but it takes more
than patriotism to hoist the
Stars and Stripes these days.
First, it takes a f1ag-and
this precious item isn't stand
ard stock in a great many
stores.
Secondly. after you make or
buy your American flag, you
have the problem of displaying
it. In the good old days Of
two-story houses and spacious
porches, one could hang a flag
from a second-story window
or the rail of a porch roof: but
where does one hang a flag
from a rambler-type house
without having it touch the
ground or dangle in the shrub
berry? The obvious-but not
simple-answer is a flag pole
erected in the front yard. The
commercial type pole used by
schools, institutions, ETC., is
prohibitive in cost for the av-
erage homeowner.. It's also
far too large for the average
lawn. So, one can buy an g.
foot length of stair rail, wood,
or a piece of pipe, rig up a
pulley and then try to figure
out some way to make the pole
stay upright when in use and
still be movable when not in
use. This is a major feat for
a mastermind. A 5-foot Mg
on an 8-foot pole, in a good
breeze will pull the pole over
even If its base is buried in a
bucket Of cement or two feet
of dirt. After five years Of
going out with pick and shovel
on most Of the national holi-
days, digging holes, pouring
cement, and erecting flag poles
which invariably topple in q
strong breeze, I know it takes
a way. as well as the will, to
fly "Old Glory"
Anne Snyder.
Evening star., 1955-07-16

The stage has been set in
the Senate for another debate
over the method Of electing
Presidents and Vice Presidents.
The so-called Kefauver-Daniel
amendment to the constitu-
tion, identical with the old
lodge Gossett amendment.
which calls for proportional
division Of the electoral votes
depending on the popular
vote cast In each State-is on
the calendar and may be called
up any time. The chances are.
however, the resolution for
submission Of the proposed
constitutional amendment win
60 over until the second ses-
sion Of this Congress. opening
In January.
The operation Of the Ke-
fauver-Daniel proposal. and
also Of the Mundt- Coudert
amendment which win be
offered as q substitute. was de-
scribed in this column two
days ago. along with the OPP
Grafton Of the present system.
Supporters of the two resolu-
tions, and also Of the Hum
phrey and LANCER amend
ments to bring about the elec-
tion of Presidents and Vice
Presidents by direct vote with
out regard to State lines.
are a unit in attacking the
present electoral college sys-
tenn. First of. they say that
under the existing system
Presidents have been elected
by a minority vote Of the peo-
pie. This they contend Is bad.
1t happened in the cases of
more than a dozen Presidents.
The first was John Quincy
Adams and the last was Harry
S. Truman.
Lincoln and Wilson, Too
Included in the group were
also Abraham Lincoln and
Woodrow Wilson. Since the
birth of the Republican Party,
to become a major political
party along with the Demo-
cratic Party. two Republican
Presidents were elected, al
though each received fewer
popular votes than their Demo-
cratic opponents Rutherford
B. Hayes in 1876 and Benja-
min Harrison in 1888. Lin
coin was a minority" Presi-
dent, in popular vote in 1860,
because a majority Of the pop
ular vote was cast for three
Democratic candidates, Breck-
enridge, Douglas and Belk
Wilson was a minority Presi-
dent in 1912, because a ma
jority Of the popular vote was
cast for Theodore Roosevelt,
the Bull Moose candidate, and
William Howard Taft, Repub-
lican, and three other minor
ity party candidates.
Because Of the operation of
the electoral college system,
all of these minority Presi-
dents were able to win out
although to win each had to
have q majority of the elec-