davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1955-05-20
In Good Stondino

1t is reassuring to learn that Mary
land University once more is in good
standing with the Middle States Associa-
tion Of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Accreditation by this important organiza-
tion is coveted mark of academic merit
that has bearing on the prestige of the
diplomas issued to its graduates. When
doubts are raised about accreditation, the
university involved and all its students
are seriously affected.
Actually, the association had never
withdrawn its long-standing recognition
OF Maryland as an institution worthy of
Its approval. However, it had postponed
a "reaff1rmation of accreditation" last
year, pending action by the university on
certain criticisms made in a report by
an association committee which inspected
the College Park institution in 1883 The
committee had intended the report to be
confidential, but when portions of it
were used by both sides in the Byrd
McKeldin gubernatorial race there were
justihable demands that the entire report
be made public. This was done by the
recent Maryland Assembly.
The report, while generally approving
the scholastic achievements of the uni
versity, was critical of number of things,
including the lack Of an adequate library,
"overemphasis" on athletics, faulty CO.
ordination among faculty groups and
shortcomings of the medical division.
Even before the report became public the
new university president, DR.. Wilson H.
Elkins, had instituted reforms designed to
meet these criticisms. Now the associa-
ton has notified Maryland that full ac-
creditation has been granted, on the basis
of Improvements already made or def
nitely scheduled to be made. Thus Mary
lands good reputation as one of the Wash
ington areas outstanding institutions of
higher learning has been preserved.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Hairs Date Ancient Empires
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

Tiny samples Of human hair
from predynastic Egypt and
ashes from very ancient South
Africa hearth fires are yielding
new dates for milestones of
mans progress through the
ages.
These are among the latest
objects analyzed for their ra-
diocarbon content by DR.. w.
F. Libby. now a member of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
and his associates at the Uni
versity of Chicago's Institute
for Nuclear Studies.
Radioactive carbon. it has
been established, is being Gre
ated by cosmic ray lombard
ment of nitrogen in the upper
atmosphere. It becomes incor-
porated in the bodies of all liv-
ing things, plant or animal, and
has a half life of approximate
ly 5000 years. In such a period
half of any amount originally
present will have disintegrated.
With the normal ratio Of ra-
dioactive carbon and normal
carbon in organic materials
known, it is possible to deter
mine ages Of archaeological dis
coveries with, for older sam
Piles. a possible error of a few
hundred years.
Egyptian samples" Tested
Very early Egyptian dates,
before existence Of any written
records, have been subjects Of
much speculation. DR.. Libby
and his associates worked with
bits of human hair collected
more than so years ago and
now in the collections of Cam
bridge University. Oldest was
a sample weighing less than
two-thirds of an ounce. OBJ
tanned from a cemetery at
Nagada in Southern Egypt.
The radiocarbon age estab-
lished is 56l9 with a possible
error of about 280 years. There
can be no question, says DR..
Libby's report. that the per-
son to whom the hair belonged
lived we'll over 5000 years ago.
A sample of human hair with
about half an ounce of skin
from the same locality, but
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Stubbed Our Toe?

Inc Cnerry Hill CltlZenS'
Association of Georgetown held
a dancing in the street" the
night of May IA to celebrate
repeal of the Alley Dwelling
Act. the paving of Cherry Hill
lane and the comforting on
one of our houses the Wash
ington Board of Trade biennial
architectural award for the
best remodeled dwelling in the
Metropolitan Area.
We appreciate The Stars
covering the event, but are
sorry that your reporter, to
meet a deadline, had to leave
before the fun really began.
The story and photo caption
said there wasn't much dane
ing, because the street was too
steep and the concrete too
rough. It made us look ridicu-
lous. And it wasn't accurate.
At $50. a professional square
and round dance director and
caller arrived with music. and
the dancing lasted until past /
o'clock. There were no COM
plants from the neighbors,
who were all invited. The
cost was prorated. There were
about IS special guests who
had helped in the alley dwell
ing repeal battle.
During the year-long battle
to remove the legal obstacles
to eliminating slum dwellings.
The Stars news reports and
editorials materially helped to
get the act finally repealed.
The members of our associa-
ton are grateful to The Star
for his public service. Not
wanting your record to end on
a sour note, we hope you can
print this letter to let your
readers know that there was
plenty of dancing in the street
on Cherry Hill. Some of US
senior citizens are a bit lame,
but the younger generation
took it in stride. Some of them
proposed to have one every
Saturday night" 1t was good,
clean fun, and a whimsical
ending of one chapter, at least,
in a tedious effort to eliminate
slums in what should be the
Nations proudest city.
Burton Davis,
Historian, Cherry Hill Citi-
Zens' Association.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

themselves in a workmanlike
manner.
The real workman has too
much to do to dawdle or to
spend too much time laughing.
shouting and carrying on.
The carrying he must do 10
Of heavy boards and the like.
The shouting, when necessary.
is from the ridgepole to the
man on the ground.
Il i ~
Watching a new home go
up is a fascinating experience.
Will it be an asset, or will
it somehow not be up. as peo-
pie say, to the rest Of the
block?
Even what the builder paid
for the land is a source of in
tereSt.
Old residents recall the
time when the lot he paid
$500 for could have been pur-
chased for $500, or maybe
$400.
Life in real estate is always
exciting, and mostly profit
able, at least in and around
the National Capital.
When the men with the
bulldozer come in to literally
push over the trees, a sort Of
pang goes through the more
sensitive of the watchers. Will
they leave the dogwoods? Yes.
they will, and there they
bloom against the new brick.
their tender pink blossoms
blending we'll.
So there are the new houses,
Some think them too narrow.
others profess to find them
very pleasing. You can't ex-
pect people to agree any more
about anything. From politics
to dogs. to houses, it is all the
same. One family goes in. for
boxer dogs, another swears
there is no breed like the Dali
matian. One family votes for
one candidate, the very next
for the other, and heaven help
the Republic. When it comes
to modern housing, there is
die-hard group that swings
high, wide and handsome for
the two-story affair, and an
other, perhaps more voci-
ferrous that wants only the
one-story house, once called
bungalow, now called a variety
VI names, from ranch house to
rambler, it is all much the
same. one-story. maybe no
basement. and often no usable
attic. What do the people do
with their possessions? Merci-
fully, they can't accumulate
so many things. The neighbor-
hood wishes the new owners,
whoever they shall be, well;
and wishing, hopes for the
best, with fingers crossed.
Evening star., 1955-05-20

presumably from a later burial.
yielded an age Of 5000 years.
with a possible error Of 200
years. Still another hair sam
pie ranged around 4,700 years.
Apparently, the Naganda GEM
etery was in use over many
generations just before the
dawn of history.
One of the more interesting
findings from the Middle East
was charcoal taken from one
of the lowest strata of a site
near the Biblical Beer-Sheba
in Israel. This charcoal was
associated with fragments of
early pottery related to what
is known as the Ghassulin cul-
ture of Eastern Palestine
a culture which never hitherto
has been dated accurately. The
Ghassu1ians, it is known, were
Stone Age predecessors of the
Israelites in Palestine. DR..
Libby's date for them is ap-
proximately $500 years ago.
South African Skull
The Oldest date for human
like remains in his new series
of determinations is for fossil
humanoid skull from Floris-
bad, South Africa, which is
more than 41.000 years old,
according to radiocarbon con-
tent indications. It was found
at a depth of 10 feet in
association with many stone
implements and numerous ex-
tinct species of animals, such
as horse. pig, hippopotamus
and antelope. For some time
one school of Psychologists has
maintained that South Africa
was the cradle of the human
race.
Further samples analyzed
were of ashes from the So
called Cave of the Hearths.
near Potgietersrus, South Afri-
ca. which date from the Mid
die Stone Age. BY this period
human beings had become
we'll established. The ashes-or
ashlike substance which is be-
lieved to be a remnant Of the
hearth fires-give ages rang
ing from about 1000 to $1,000
years.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
The Helper

There are certain times when an offer
Of assistance from one who should be out
tending to the business of swings and slid
ing boards in the playground is distressing.
The intent is commendable in this offer
to fetch the nails or hold the boards. The
distress comes with the questions asked
as the nails which have been fetched are
being pounded into the board which is
being held
Why does the water go down the river
instead of up? Why is the grass greener
now? Why are the dandelions dug out of
the lawn? Why does the rain fall? Why
doesn't it snow in the summer? Why does
a dog scratch behind his ear? Why does
the man next door put water on his gar
den? Why do the birds fly so high? Why
are the flowers different colors? Why
does mosquito bite? Why?
This thirst for knowledge also is COM
rnendable. But when it comes at time
one is attempting to drive a nail straight
into board, it is disturbing. One asks
ones self, pettishly, where the schools are.
are these questions not put to the teach
er? And If they are, are they not an
swered? The taxpayer, indignant, would
like to know. But his reflections on the
state of modern education are interrupted
by further questions.
Why does the polar bear at the Zoo
fidget so much? Why is Saturday so
short? Why is the hedge cut down, if it
likes to grow? Why are some clouds dark
and some white? Why is spinach good
for growing boys? Why doesn't the sun
shine at night? Why does candy cost
money? Why does the screen door slam?
Why do the stars blink so much?
Why, indeed?
Evening star., 1955-05-20

I should like to express a
rather belated appreciation
for the series on United Funds
written by Francis P. Douglas.
AS one who has frequently
been called upon to collect for
many of the drives we cur
rently have. it is my earnest
hope that the Washington
Metropolitan Area powers
that be-" whether they be
Government officials or busi-
nessmen. will adopt the one
fund drive in the near future.
realize such a single drive
will put an initial burden on
these people and will also not
cover the many agencies which
could not be encompassed in
such a drive, but 1 sincerely
Evening star., 1955-05-20
A Man and His House

No one can know another,
Men suppose
From gldncing at my 'front.'
age am neat,
Precise and formal as my
country seat
Of terraceG NAPLES, rockerteS
and rose.
But they ignore myself that
dreams, that ipritheS
In storms like a heath pine
DhoSe bread is stone,
And those tumultuouS trans
ports / haze EnoiDn
As aDl1en great light through
ight- long ShGdo1D
ScytheS.
This house I chose to hDe Uith
shares the tount
OF my elusiue nature: that
is why
/ chose 1t out OF thousands.
Small and shy,
And unsuspected from its
frontal mount,
A bdckDuu trickleS to the past
wild heath.
To SunfoodS, irtSed deluge
thunder -cl1ngS,
To puppies quick tDith deus
and ddder-tdngS
Or Stul as neolithic kings be-
meath,
And / loue both, the modern
and the past,
The iDild and trim, life's pas
sion and its prose,
Each in its season good. But
no one knoDS
The essential self inside this
classic cast.
Geoffrev lohnson
Evening star., 1955-05-20

mercial and industrial install
lations, and central install
lations for homes, stores.
churches, ETC., and equipment
for trains, ships, buses and
automobiles make up the bulk
of the air conditioning field.
@. Do Quakers ever serve in
the fighting ranks in time of
war?-E. E.
A. Yes. Though all Quakers
are opposed to war. not all of
them are conscientious obJec-
tors. In World War II about
three-fourths of the $4,000
Quakers called up served as
combatants or medical corps
men.
: @. How many mental pa
tents are admitted to hospitals
n the United States annually?
w. N.
A. The American Psychiatric
Association reports that a mill
lion mentally disturbed pa
tients are hospitalized annual
ly.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Out on q Limb

On May Is you printed In
your paper an article. on the
Girl Scouts. The article men
toned the tree badge. You
said each girl who identified
Is trees got the tree merit
badge. You make it sound
simple There is a lot more to
it than that. If you look on
pages 435 and 436 of the new
Girl Scout handbook, you will
find it would take you three
or four months to complete the
activities,
Nancy ArbOgast,
Troop 223.
Evening star., 1955-05-20

believe that the end result will
be worth the trouble.
May I also take this occa-
! sion to give a word of thanks
for The Stars greater cover
age of suburban affairs. and
it's change in makeup. The
Stars improved "readability"
is a credit to its editors!
Anna M. Marcus.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Tourist Hazard

When a visiting high school
boy is beaten and robbed on
a downtown Washington street.
the incident must be pegged
as a new high for the hazards
of patriotism involved in pill
grlmages to the country's
foremost historically attractive
city.
How is the Tourist Bureau
going to react to this influence
against excursions to the great
national shrines of this area?
Curious.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
On the Soviet Home Front

There can be little doubt that the
condition of the Soviet Unions domestic
economy is far from satisfactory The
latest indication Of that Is the Kremlin's
announcement that the State Planning
Commission has been split into two sepa-
rate and distinct agencies-one given the
task of working out programs for future
industrial development, and the other
charged with the responsibility of trying
to solve current production problems.
In connection with this significant
organizational change, Premier Bulganin
has delivered speech plainly suggesting
that the situation calls for urgent meas
ures in both short-range and long-range
sense. According to his exhortations Wig
orouS action must be taken in the indus
trial field to achieve much greater admin
istrative efficiency, lower management
costs, better utilization of present equip
ment, improved factory techniques, faster
and far more extensive chronological prog
ress, and numerous other advances aimed
at bringing about sharp increase in the
Russian workers output per manhour-
thing which now seems exceedingly
deficient by Western standards.
It is true, of course, that the Soviet
Union, by concentrating on the develop
ment and expansion of heavy industry
primarily for military purposes), has
made big gains. Actually and potentially,
however 1t still lags far behind the West
ern world-particularly the United States
and most experts are agreed that our
current wide margin of economic supe-
riority can be maintained and probably
even increased through the remainder of
the century. Meanwhile, as long as the
Kremlin insists upon producing guns be-
fore butter, the people of the USSR will
continue to suffer from a serious lack of
consumer goods And that lack, in turn,
must adversely affect national morale and
initiate against efforts to get more eff
cheney and output from the Russian
worker. After ALL If civilian commodities
are going to remain as scarce as ever for
him, what real incentive has he to do
better job?
Further, apart from the problems thus
entailed in subordinating light industry
to heavy industry the Kremlin is faced
with what has all the earmarks of crit
ical agricultural situation. The Soviet
population has increased enormously, but
the country has less grain per person to-
day than in 1926. And even more strik-
ing-indeed, astonishing-is the fact that
there are now fewer head of cattle in Rus
sia than in the pre-1918 days of the car
DOM Clearly, in nation whose numbers
are growing at rate of million annually,
these statistics can only mean that the
great bulk of the people must live on very
short rationS-a bleak diet hardly condu-
Give to mass contentment.
Although the implications of all this
can be exaggerated, it may we'll be that
the Soviet Unions industrial and agricul-
tural stresses and strains are far more
serious than outsiders have suspected
heretofore. At any rate, the possibility
seems real enough to be reckoned with as
the factor that may be chiefly responsible
for the Kremlin's current effort-a con-
ceivably sincere effort-to ease interna-
tional tensions and seek some sort of
modus vivendi with the West.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Public School Defender

I have been distressed to
read a series of letters which
have been uniformly negative.
derogatory and hostile to the
public schools. and have
claimed, for example, that the
schools were overstaffed. were
teaching "internationalism,"
were using subversive text
books, and that teachers had
never been taught how to
teach.
To attack a child's school,
and for most children the pub
lie school is their only school.
is the same as attacking chill
dren. The public schools are
the only hope our democratic
Government has of insuring
enlightened voters who will be
able to analyze issues and vote
by reason, not by emotion and
slogans. Public schools mold
the Nations future.
Those who attack the public
schools have motives. Usually
the motives are based on anti
social, economic or religious
reasons. Citizens who 40 not
have children in the public
schools, who think of saving
tax money first and welfare of
children secondly Gf at all,
who dislike extension of eou-
cational opportunity to all the
children of all the people. and
those who have their children
in nonpublic schools--these
are the people who oppose and
unfairly criticize free public
education. I do not know if
the above criteria apply to
those who have been writing
critical letters, but l trongly
suspect they do.
The public schools are hu-
man institutions and are ad-
mittedly not perfect. Whole
some criticism founded upon
facts is always helpful, but the
letters show an appalling
ignorance of today'S schools
and what goes on in the
schools Todays schools are
vastly different places than the
schools attended by the writ
ers of these critical letters. A
visit to a typical school will
open the eyes Of the critics.
They are obviously down On"
what they are no, "up on"
These critics would prevent
the schools from using litera-
ture written by "leftists," or
from using quotations from
such writer's. They would pre-
vent children from reading
the distortions of history and
economic fallacies which COM
prise such literature, and, by
making a prescribed list OF
books. invite the reading of
such books, and would prevent
their critical comparison with
the political and economic
theories of our founding
fathers Jefferson, Monroe,
John MARSHALL. We need open
and fearless handling Of The
Communist myth, not its hid
ing and suppression. Our way
Of life has nothing to fear
from pitiless truth, open to
discussion. Jefferson warned
against all forms of tyranny
over the mind of man. The
textbooks used in our schools
are not subversive. They are
factual and objective. Let
everyone who doubts this read
the textbooks his child brings
home.
The question facing America
today is not whether we can
afford good public schools
the question is whether we can
afford not to have good public
schools. Let those citizens of
good will who love children
and who love democracy rally
to the support of the public
schools, which are worthy of
our praise rather than critical
censure on unfounded charges.
Modern Horace Mann.
Evening star., 1955-05-20

Did the President of the
United States sit down to dis
cuss leasing tensions" with
the heads of Murder Incor-
porated"? Then why in the
name of American self-respect
should our President confer
with and beg crumbs of peace
from the heads of the largest
Evening star., 1955-05-20

corporation dealing in mass
murder" the world has ever
known-Soviet Russia?
America must regain its
honor. Brand the men in the
Kremlin" as moral lepers, un-
clean and unfit for humIl
society. Conferences, compro-
misses, and pacts with the
devil" will bring not peace,
but war!
Elizabeth Lippitt.
San Francisco.
Evening star., 1955-05-20

@. What portion of the total
air conditioning industry do
room cooler sales represent
F. McN.
A. Sales of all types of air
conditioning equipment dur
ing 1854 amounted to very
nearly So billion. only Is per
cent of which came from room
air conditioners. Large COM
Evening star., 1955-05-20

@. Does the government of
Soviet Russia have direct
supervision over the nations
athleteS?-M. M.
A. Yes Sports are so i'm
portant in Soviet Russia that
the chairman of the Soviet
Unions Committee for Physi-
cal Culture and Sports has the
rank of a government minister.
There are II major sports uni
versities and colleges of physi-
cal education. Scouts tour the
entire country for lively pros
poets to be trained for inter-
national contests like the
Olympics.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
LETTERS TO THE STAR

names may be used II
letters carry Driters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BY THE HASKIN SERVI(

A
WashnEop
D I.
, 1955-05-11

SHRED eggs and sausage are q delightful and easy dressed-uR
version Of the traditional sausage and egg favortte. "Shirring.
actually = no more than baking the eggs with 2 small amount noun G Uf
make 1t q real favorite Of your family. Bake the eggs either IN indi-
vidual casseroles or prepare the combination for the whole family
and exciting. new breakfast dish: While this eombination cooks un-
Because the wonderfully fulfayored Brown IN Serve sausage
links are ready.cooked as purchased and require only browning @
eagss are ready for the table in the same time II takes TO prepare
erss IN any form and In this recipe the plump links heat cosny with
ths eggs Ii the casserole. In this recipe 2 half pound Of the sausage
will make generous servings. Because these sausages are precooked
as purchased. ne waste faf Is removed so that a half pound Of the
cooked sausage is equal to full pound Of regular sausage. and there
ts no grease 70 dispose Of later.
Sausage and SHRED EggS
Yield: 5 seTVNgs
tpacRage Ql2 pound Swifts Premium Brown N Serve Sausage
@&ggs
Tablespoons cream
Salt and pepper
I Break che eggs into d buttered shallow baking dish II < z inches.
Place two sausages between each egg. Sprinkle with salt ana pepper:
Pour I tablespoon cream over each egg. Bake In Q moderate oven
C8bO'Fj nfteen minutes Serve hot
, 1955-05-11
SHIPPING NEWS


The SIS. G RUNNER
is scheduled to sail from Balti
more May 10th, New York
May 18th and is due at Fred
eriksted : via Puerto Rico and
st. Thomas May 21st, accept
ing freight from the above
ports and for San Juan and
New York.
.Robt 1. Merwin & Co, Inc.
A1coA M COMPANY
, 1955-05-11
YES, WE REPAIR
AND SERVICE
WATER PUMPS!
CARD Of THANKS

The family Of the late
Williams through this
express thanks to all
those who expressed or sent
tokens Of sympathy.
Special thanks to the Nur-
ses at the Kings Hill Hospital
for their kindness during his
illness.
, 1955-05-11

". $. .,..
The Communists used to at
tack American planes, shoot
ing down some with loss Of
life; the Reds usuelly brag
about it and promote the fly
er that did the shooting. Then
American flyers were ordered
to shoot back if attacked;
there have been two attacks
since the order and each time
the Communists have been on
the losing end. First they lost
enc and in a second encounter
they lost two.