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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Spires of the Spirit.
God in q Box

The reality which is back Of the
seen often has been distorted by small
conceptions. Some arc Of truth has
been treated as If it were the perfect
round. Some symbol has been accepted
as the very image of the immensely
it but family mirrors
At an important religious conference
distinguished speaker began by con-
Tossing that he had come without his
glasses. The chairman of the meet
ing. he said, looked to him only as "a
dignified blur" That phrase might
well suggest how the Creator appears to
many seekers after God who have been
exposed to the attempts of some too
certain folks to describe Him. AS re-
suit, God is but dignified blur. The
misty vaguenesS which sometimes sue
ceeds the rather vivid childish picture
of God as benevolent, kindly old gen.
tleman, sitting on throne somewhere
In the sky, is often the net result of
attempts to bring God within the ken
of our human categories and expert
ences.
The Maker Of the heavens and the
earth is far too ncomprehensibly great
to be contained within any Enclosure
man may devise. It is folly to say, 10,
He is there! A great hymn writer was
realizing how futile are human at
tempts to encompass the infinite when
he penned the lines: 1--WE make Gods
love too narrow by false standards Of
our own" The narrowneSs, the shall
lowness, the limitedness of inadequate
conceptions have been among the
greatest obstacles in making religion
compelling to questing minds.
Men have been tagged as atheists
simply because they have refused to
accept as valid small ideas of the
Eternal which, to them, seemed ridicu-
lous and blasphemous. Voltaire be-
longs in that list. What tragedies have
grown out of the notion in every gen.
Grafton that men can pour the final
truth with regard to the King eternal.
immortal. invisible, into any container
Of the faith they may fashion! That
is as If one bending or" the beach should
fill glass with salty water from the
sea and then, later holding 1t up before
the wondering eyes Of children should
declare: This is the ocean" The
refutation for any such attempt to
cram the dimensions Of deity into
tiny compass is suggested by the title
Of big, little book by profound mod
ern thinker: Your God Is Too Small"
The author puts his finger on lot
of fuzzy thinking about ultimate reality
He declares that the Something back
of the material world, and in 1t, is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13

National Lodge, No. IL, Masonic order.
His home was at 311 K street NV. A
son Rudolph was believed to have "cut
the capstone and the keystone of the
Washington Monument" while another
son, Adolph, was credited with erecting
the Martin Luther statue and helping
to set up the Sherman statue. Mr..
Jouvenals funeral was held from Con-
cordia Lutheran Church. with inter-
ment in Rock Greek Cemetery.
h
According to The Star of March II.
1905, 1.-The great Battle of Mukden,
which will probably go into
Bottle OF history as one of the long
Mukden est, bloodiest and most i'm
portant ever fought, is now
evidently closing. The Japanese ap-
pear to have been victorious on every
side. After terrific fighting lasting IL
days. they have captured all the DOM
inant strategic positions south, east
and west of the city, have occupied
the city itself, taken enormous quanti-
ties of stores, and driven Gen. Kuro-
patkin northward toward Tie Ling or
Tie Pass. They have, furthermore,
flanked him on both the east and the
west, driving columns across his line
of retreat and probably preventing his
escape. His laconic report to st. Pc
tersburg, I am surrounded may mean
further fierce fighting as he tries to
break his way through the japanese
lines to gain refuge Of Tie Pass The
encircling ring Of the Japanese has
probably been completely closed"
Field Marshal Oyama, Gen. Kuroki,
Baron Nodzu and Gen. Nogi were
named as the Japanese commanders
in the struggle, and Baron Kaulbars.
Gen. Grippenberg, Gen. Rennenkampt.
Gen. Linevitch and Gen. Mistschenko
as Gen. Kuropatkin's associates on the
Russian side. n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Wrong Impression

We are writing to correct some erro-
neous impressions as to the source and
sponsorship Of our paper on clinical
observation of persons coming into con-
tact with the security program, read
at the recent Chicago conference of the
American Orthopsychiatric Association.
We recognize the difficulty of making
selections for news purposes from a
moderately long technical paper. In
any event. recent newspaper accounts
may have led to the impression that the
Fairfax County Child Guidance Clinic
was in some way associated with the
paper. We would like to make 1t clear
that the study was private one based
on cases in treatment with a number
of therapists throughout the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area. The clinic was
in no way connected with the study
We must state also that we are not
clinical team" and that neither of
us Is a psychiatrist.
Herbert Kaufman,
Charlotte A. Kaufman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Letters to TheStor.
Pen-nan1es may be used if letters carry
1Oriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

and again on Monday. March 81. From
1877 to 1917 is 40 years. and in that
period there are nine leap years G900.
last year of the century, though divisi-
BILE by four not being leap year,, thus
making the additional days in every
year, including the nine leap years, 40.
which is Invisible by seven. Now. go
back to March S, 1849, the date of Tay-
lor'S Inauguration, and we have between
Taylor and Hayes % years. with seven
leap years. making the total of IS days,
which is divisible by seven. So, Taylor
was inaugurated on March S, but I
question whether he was the first Presi-
dent to be inaugurated on that date.
Go back another 20 years to March 5,
1921, exactly % years with seven leap
years, totaling IS, Invisible by seven
So, would say that the first President
to be inaugurated on March was
Monroe March S. 1921. his second
inauguration. Am right?
Arthur M. Blaisdell.
Editors note: Yes.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Joint Approach to Bridge Financing

The Importance of the toll-bridge study
for District, Virginia and Maryland authori-
ties should not be underestimate. Whether
or not one or more toll bridges eventually
are built in or near the Washington Metro
politan Area, the mere fact that the three
Jurisdictions finally have joined In study
Of the bridge-financing problem is some
thing of milestone In interjurisdictional
relations.
The toll inquiry, made by a consulting
arm, originated at noteworthy conference
OF regional highway and planning officials
at the Federal Bureau of Public Roads some
months ago. Top highway authorities of
the District and the two adjoining States
were called into the discussion in connection
with congressional suggestions that Mary
land and Virginia contribute their share"
Of bridge costs in this region. Neither State
so far has shouldered any of the costs of
Potomac crossing facilities here-beyond
certain approaches. And neither Virginia
nor Maryland has any present plans for
aiding in bridge financing. Virginia, in fact
is far behind in its highway program and in
no mood to consider any diversion of meager
funds to bridges in this area.
At the conference it was brought out
that Congress probably would reject any
plan for tolls on existing bridges, on the
general ground that visitors to the Nations
Capital should not have to pay fee to enter
the city. However, the idea of tolls for
bridges on the outskirts of the Metropolitan
Area, such as those proposed for Cabin John,
Great Falls and, perhaps, Jones Point,
seemed to be in somewhat different class.
These are planned essentially as bypass
bridges to enable through traffic to avoid
entering Washington. Whether the forth
coming consultants' report will recommend
such pay-as-you-go structures is not yet
disclosed. But the report at least will have
the virtue Of providing the first authorita-
tive data on toll bridges in the Washington
area. Even if the toll plan gets nowhere,
the basis will have been laid for further
regional discussions on bridge financing.
That is highly encouraging, in itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church:
Chaplain. United States Senate.

chaplain. United States Senate.
me-" who declared Himself "a greater
than the temple is here" in the sweep
ing outreach of His spacious ideas was
too big to be fitted into the narrow
and bigoted conceptions Of the religious
leaders of His day. His God was too
big for that.
The embroidered officials were so
petty and SO mastered by animosities
that they would not deflle themselves
by treading Samaritan soil. But when.
defying their taboos, Jesus walked
through that despised land, 10. the
barriers and walls were a mass of
ruins! His great. loving heart burst
asunder all the regulations that kept
Him from people.
At the very beginning of His min
iStry Jesus insisted that the treasure
box in which the most fervent beliefs
were locked up was not big enough
even for the God of the Old Tesla
ment. In modern novel one charac-
ter, fanatical old Norwegian preach
er, had one passion in life, namely, to
build a church big enough for God.
In that he was like Jesus. When Jesus
began to make clear that Gods care
ana GODS redemption had nothing to
DO with any exclusive and naughty
private domain, the church officials
turned Sabbath service into a riot.
But Jesus went on to rip pickets from
their carefully guarded fences and to
disregard the regulations and restric-
lions which, as He put it, make void
the word Of God"
The Christ of these lenten days is
telling us that God is not confined even
in thoughts of Him that the centuries
have petrif1ed, but in the living, throb-
ping sense OF divine Presence such as
was His when He walked our earthly
ways. The greatest heresy is to say:
Il have got all truth tucked away in
my ark, IN my formulas, in my the
ology." You have no corner on God,
Jesus was always exclaiming. You can't
put Him in box of your loyalties and
regulations and rituals.
There was room in His soul for every-
body His ideas, in every century so
perenially fresh. are still alive. And
the very words in which they are ex-
pressed seem destined to outlast the
stars. DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick has
said 1t for us all. Jesus Christ Is in
our world the supremacy revelatory Fact
unwilling what is everlastingly So"
Surely, that is too big to get into any
theological or ecclesiastical box.
Our little systems haze their day,
They haze their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of Thee,
And Thou 0 Lord. art more than
they.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
They Won't ImperiI Us

1t is good that our Government, after
long period of delay, has decided to open
the doors Of the United States to II editors
of Soviet student and youth publications.
The decision will enable them to make a
30-day survey of educational institutions
In various parts of our country, and it will
propaganda ridculing our protracted official
Discrimination to let them in.
This represents common-sense course
Of action And by the same token there
seems to be no sound reason for an I'M
favorable response to the Kremlins note
inspired by the Des Moines Registers pro-
poSal Inviting" Russian farmers to visit
Iowa-formally asking our Government
whether it is willing to allow an exchange
of such visits by Soviet and American agri-
cultural groups. OF course, although Presi-
dent Eisenhower himself has Endorsed this
idea, our immigration law imposes general
ban on admitting citizens of Communist
countries, but it also permits the Attorney
General-aS in the case Of the II editors
to waive that ban when and if the State
Department so recommends.
Certainly it is difficult in the extreme
to see how supervised visits by Soviet editors,
agriculturaliStS and similar groups can in
any real sense endanger our national Sc
curity. True enough, there may be chance
that these people, after touring our country
and returning home, will grossly misrepre-
sent us in a fresh outpouring Of anti
American propaganda. On the other hand
despite such a possibility, which could
hardly imperil our countryside visitors,
especially those concerned with Russia's
faRmins failures, may take backEith them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Testimonial to Public Schools

eStlmonIol TO PUBLIC schools
&c. H." in the letter Stands Edu-
Gators in the Corner" confesses the
source of his prejudice against public
school methods when he says he at
tended parochial schools.
My mother saw the first free schools
established in Virginia. My children
are the product of North Carolina
New York. Virginia and District public
schools. My grandchildren are etsr-
nally indebted to the schools of the Dis
trict, Nevada, California and Pennsyl-
vania. And my great-grandchildre
are ready for Nevada and Maryland
free-School guidance.
More information was placed before
my family-line before being graduated
from high schools than George Wash
ington had access to. I and each gen.
eration's parents saw to it that, at all
ages, the developing youths were made
to understand that, next to the church.
Americas free public schools have been
and are now and will continue to be the
hope of the human race.
REV. Norman Sandridge.
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really far too vast to be forced into
Lilliputian man-made boxes with neat
labels upon them. He speaks with bit
ing sarcasm Of the parade Of religious
organizations, of which there is dis
cordant medley on the church an
nouncement pages Of the Saturday
papers. which individually seem to be
saying: IF you will Jump through our
ecclesiastical hoop or sign our particu-
lar and exclusive dotted line. we viii
introduce you to God"
Now, to the so-called outsider. that
seems the height Of presumptive non
sense. The usual reaction Of one to
all that is: 81 can't see that anybody
can say they've q corner on God, or
that they can shut Him up in their
private box" The fallacy of the box
like Ark of Israel of old was the idea
that. as it was borne about, God was
in 1t. If anything happened to the
Ark it also happened to the God in
side it. That was why Uzza, when he
feared that the sacred object was about
to topple over, died of heart failure
brought on by fright as he reached out
his hand to save 1t. All, how many
hands across the cropping centuries have
been just as anxiously extended to pro-
tect some human continuance which al
legedly contained Godl It mistakenly
has been assumed that God Himself was
involved If disaster came to any ark
Of faith which good men were carrying.
We say with the utmost reverence:
You can't fence God in! You cannot
imprison Him in any system, or any
form or any creed. Let no man scott
at John Calvin. But his cold. metallic
system did not have room for all the
truth Of God. Surely, there was little
evidence Of God in a doctrine that
would consign all non-elect infants to
eternal damnation! But the One who
said, Let the little children come to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
A Principle Worthy of Support

The Board of Trades advocacy of a sep
arate workmen's disability compensation
law for the District of Columbia is based
on a sound principle that deserves more
consideration than it has received from
critics. including the Secretary of Labor and
Commissioner Spencer There are separate
laws of this sort in every State Only in
the District of Columbia is the local work.
mems compensation law made an appendage
to Federal statute applying to longshore-
men and harbor workers. There should be
a separate District law that takes into con-
sideration the conditions in the District of
Columbia, just as the laws in the States
are based on local conditions
Late in the 20s, when workmen's COM
penSation laws were still relatively new,
several efforts were made to enact a law
for the District. But when Federal statute
was enacted, applying to longshoremen and
harbor workers, whose activities in some
areas came within divided jurisdictions,
provision was tackled on to 1t making it
apply to all workers in the District of Co.
lumbia. When the rates are increased in
the Federal statute, as the administration
Is now proposing in the longshoremen's bill,
they are arbitrarily increased here. Pend
ing increases in the Federal statute, for
example, would increase the cost of local
premiums, to employers covered by insur-
ance, by about 40 per cent. 1t would put
the cost of this particular item of doing
business in the restricted area of Washing
ton far ahead of comparable costs in Mary
land and Virginia.
Rates and benefits proposed for the
District in a separate law are not as liberal
as those proposed for the Federal law, but
they are ahead Of comparable rates in the
adjoining as well as most other, States.
If the rates are fairly arrived at, however,
with regard to conditions in Washington
rather than on the New York and California
waterfronts, the rates themselves are not
so important as the principle that such
laws should be drawn for the jurisdiction
in which they are to apply, and not made
dependent on what Congress decides is wise
for somebody else in specialized line Of
work far removed from the city of Wash
ington. a. g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13

The Federation of American Scientists
has put forth an interesting though debat-
able idea in proposing that our Government
take the lead in an effort to set up special
United Nations commission or subcommittee
"to study and assess the potential dangers
In atomic and thermometer bomb tests"
In making this suggestion, the fedora
ton has not Endorsed the unrealistic pro-
posal-as first advanced last April by Prime
Minister Nehru of India-for an immediate
and complete ban on all such experimental
ton. Nor has the organization disputed the
Atomic Energy Commissions recent assur-
ances ~ that the total of the tests to date
ours, RusSia's and Britain'S combined
has caused only an exceedingly minute and
thoroughly harmless increase in the amount
of radiation received by Americans and (2)
that none of the Aces exhaustive studies
shows that residual radioactivity is being
concentrated in dangerous amounts any
where in the world outside the testing
areas"
Nevertheless, despite these assurances,
the federation has warned that future &C
CELEBRATED H-bomb test programs, by several
atomic powers, will ultimately reach level
which can be shown to be a serious threat
w VIC 6CACt1S od4CCy VI pCOPAC VI C110
world" This same possibility was discussed
by The Stars Science Editor, Thomas R.
Henry, in series of articles last November.
The Aces experts apparently discount the
danger. But even so, while emphasizing that
a continuation of experimental detonations
Is Of great Importance to the security of the
United States and other free nations, they
have acknowledged that there is rather
wide range of admissible opinion on this
subject" and they have made clear that the
whole question still involves enough offs"
to require constant and thorough study.
This fact-the fact that the Acc itself
does not absolutely rule out the possibility
of serious long-range genetic hazards-lends
strength to the federation's proposal for
U. NJ commission to inquire into the matter
with two primary detectives in view: (1)
The establishment, If warranted, of safety
limit or danger threshold" for future A
and H tests and (2) the creation of inter-
national machinery to guard against any
nations experimentation that would 60 be-
yond that threshold. Certainly, since it
bears upon the reproductive health of the
human race, the subject calls for full
dress study of some sort-a fact that ex-
plains why it will be up for at least a little
discussion at our American-sponsored scien-
tif1c conference scheduled to be held in
Geneva next August, with the Russians at
tending.
True, on close inspection by qualified
experts, the declarations idea may be found
to be impractical or otherwise unsound, but
1t seems impressive enough, as it stands, to
merit careful official consideration For if
it is feasible, and if our Government takes
the initiative with 1t in the u NJ, it can do
good In terms both of promoting the Presi-
dents atoms-for-peace plan and winning
favor for the United States in those parts
Of the free world where our nuclear tests
have been either woefully misunderstood or
grossly misrepresented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Iysistrutu' Controversy

I was much amused by the recent
account in The Star of the antics to
which the Post Office Department has
been aroused by shipment from Eng
land to book dealer in Los Angeles Of
some volumes of Aristophanes' "Lysis-
trata," translated by Jack Lindsay and
Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. The
postal authorities are said to be espe-
cially shocked by Norman Lindsay's
hilarious cartoons.
1t happens that some years ago there
was printed in the United States (no
doubt as a reprint of the English edi-
tom an edition of "Lysistrata" trans
lated by Jack Lindsay and illustrated
by Norman Lindsay. It was published
by Halcyon House, Garden City, NJ Y,
and sold and shipped by mail. There
are probably thousands of copies of
it scattered throughout the country.
some doubtless in public and college
Libraries. 1t would thus appear that any
readers of classic Greek literature cor
ruptible by such book are probably
already thoroughly corrupted. So, why
all the fuss?
r. r. BriStOw
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Knows His Presidents

In a recent issue, the feature "Our
Presidents" asked: who was the first
President to be inaugurated on March
50" The answer was Zachary Taylor
was inaugurated on March S, 1849. as
March fell on Sunday"
Now, the dates are correct. as I was
able to figure back: Wilson was inau-
gurated March S, 1917, a Monday. Hayes
was inaugurated on March 5, 1877
Though he took the oath twice, as a
matter of caution, on Sunday, March 4,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Fifty Years Ago in The Star :.

District Commissioner Mcfarland"
said The Star for March IS. 1905, Ito
Evening star., 1955-04-21
EostIond Hopes Probe
Will Put Motusow in Jail

fessional witness" He says he
is a former Communist.
Faces Texas Sentence
Matusow told the subcomn1it-
tee yesterday that "If I 60 to
jail. I'm going to go proudly"
He is free on bond now while
fighting three-year prison SEN
tence for contempt of Texas
court.
Senator Eastland said he hopes
within just a few days" to
write a report of findings to
be sent to the Justice Depart
ment. He said he took Matu-
sow's latest testimony only be-
cause II desired to strengthen
the record on certain points in
case there is some action in the
courts"
And the Senator said he hopes
the Government will find some
Evening star., 1955-04-21

zona. These would cost q total Of
81. .092. .999. 300.
Senator Watkins. Republican,
of Utah. in a statement following
Senate passage. said he is con-
vinced that House approval viii
come.
Opponents of the bill in the
Senate went down fighting.
Senator Douglas, Democrat. Of
Illinois, called it a ''lavish. ex-
travagant, unjustif1ed program" /"
Senator Fulbright. Democrat.
of Arkansas. said the develop
ment particularly is not justified
now. with the Nation trying to
get rid of food surpluses.