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Evening star., 1955-01-23
By Riehord FykIund

The University of Maryland's cur
rent trouble over its administration
illustrates how "accreditationn-acts
as a guarantee to students that they
will be offered a good education.
Maryland dropped behind in its
educational standards as any uni
versity could Though it is rare
for any major university to be as
far behind as was Maryland. but
the students. the State Legislature
and the public had almost no way
Of knowing of the lapse. The ae-
crediting group now has spotted the
trouble. however. and made sure
the faults would be corrected. Now
the public has been warned.
Today's Maryland students can
reasonably expect that their years
spent in College Park will not be
wasted.
Almost every nation which has
an extensive higher education syS-
tenn has developed some way OF
maintaining standards through an
outside check. Ordinarily an arm
of the central government does the
job.
Capitalization Avoided
American schools, however, shied
away from centralized government
al control and devised system Of
checking each other.
1t is purely voluntary system,
yet few colleges of any significance
either public or private--choose
not to submit to the accreditation
procedure. And, as demonstrated in
the Maryland case, any college
given black mark by an accredit-
ing organization will make haste
to correct the faults and maintain
its good standing. The decisions Of
the accrediting agencies are ac-
cepted so wholeheartedly that few
schools ever appeal q decision. al
though they could.
There are 20 major accrediting or
ganizaticns for colleges. Most are
specialized. professional associations
working with colleges graduating
particular vocational groups. For
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Hoiti's President MogIoire
Poys Visit Here This Week
By Gene Thomos

One year ago today nations
eyes popped open when man picked
up q greasy wrench and reached
into the oily innards of an automo-
bile engine to tighten bolt.
His excellency, Gen. Paul Eugene
Magloire, President Of the tiny re-
public of Haiti, had led his people
another step up the long road Of
progress just by soiling his hands in
toll.
His act was symbolic one, OPEN
ing school. 1t was part Of con-
certed educational program designed
to improve the welfare of million
people whose illiteracy is estimated
at 80 percent. It was one more blow
hurled at q 150-year- Haitian
belief, inherited from slave ances-
stors. that manual labor is degrading.
And it worked.
Today, thanks to dynamic but
gentle Paul Magloire, there are more
than 100 more schools throughout
rugged, mountainous Haiti than
there were in 1850 when he was
elected president.
President Magloire has SO strongly
inStilled in his people the hunger
for learning that currently there
are more than three times as many
applicants for school rolls as edu-
cational facilities can accommodate.
This despite an appropriation OF
1874 percent of the national budget
for education. It is the largest edu-
cational budget, percentagewise,
among all Of the countries OF the
world.
Arrives Here Wednesday
Washington will get q look at
Haiti's President this week when he
arrives Wednesday for q state visit.
1t win be the years flrst-but as
suredly not last-visit by chief Of
state.
Shortly after Paul Magloire came
to Office in 1850 he took o hard look
at the health of his people and
found 1t not good. He found, among
other things, that 65 per cent of his
people were infected with the highly
contagious yawS disease malady
not unlike syphilis and almost as
debilitating. Gen. Magloire, con-
vineed that modern medicine could
eradicate yaws, consulted with
United Nations officials. Teams of
Haitian and U. N. medical men and
women treated more than 1.250. 900
yaws cases with massive shots of
penicillin. Today the disease is vir-
tually stamped out. Incidence Of
yaws has been reduced from SIS per
cent to less than one-tenth Of per
cent. This result cost only 81 ,240. 900
Of which Haiti paid $500. 900.
President Magloire is only Al years
of age. Although about six feet
tall, he gives the impression OF
being much taller. His has been
life Of vigorous exercise both in and
out of the Haitian Army. He is an
excellent horseman and an accom-
plished tennis player.
Far from being an Emperor
Jones" type of iron-fisted dictator.
President Magloire is shown by his
record, to be his peoples devoted
servant as wen as their leader. Four
Evening star., 1955-01-23

instance, the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education
keeps an eye on the country's teach
ers colleges and university depart
ments Of education. Similarly, the
American Association Of Collegiate
Schools of Business, the American
Bar Association, the Council on Dem
tai Education of the American Dem
tai Association and the Engineers
Council for Professional Develop
ment, among others, keep up edu-
cational standards in their fields.
Six regional accrediting groups
deal with an entire college or uni
versity. Maryland works with the
Middle States Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools, as do
District of Columbia colleges. Vir-
ginia colleges, on the other hand,
are in the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Similarly. there are associations
for New England. North Central,
Northwest and Western colleges.
Ordinarily school seeks to be ac-
credited by its regional group and
as many specialized groups as 1t has
specialized departments. A large
university such as Maryland could
be accredited by more than two
dozen associations
And of course a university could
get into trouble simultaneously with
more than one aecrediting group.
Maryland was criticized not only by
the Middle States Association, whose
report was made public last week,
but also by some of the individual
professional groups. All Of the criti-
cism, presumably. was wrapped up
in the Middle States report.
How Accreditofion Works
If a college has never been ac-
credited. but feels its program is
good enough to rate that stamp of
approval, it applies to its regional
group and as many specialized as
sociations as seem appropriate. II
it passes the inspections it is duly
accredited.
Once on the list it is subject 70
subsequent ch6eks TO see that the
Evening star., 1955-01-23

How much laboratory space Is
available. for instance. for each
chemistry student?
. The program. What classes are
taught? How much help do stu
dents get in planning their work?
How much original research do
graduate students do? How many
faculty members have doctors de-
grees, masters degrees? What kind
OF tests do the professors use?
Q The product. Does the school
follow the careers Of its graduates?
How many graduates Of the 1852
class in the department of educa-
ton, for instance, are successful
teachers? Are students given stand
ard examinations? How do their
scores compare with students in
other universities?
Thousands OF other questions In
those five areas are asked and an
swered. Then the evaluating team
reports its findings to the associa-
ton. 1t makes no recommendatiens.
Sometimes that ends the study.
The college gets copy Of the re-
port. notes any deficiencies found
some almost always are found--and
sets about in its own way to correct
them.
Seldom Publicized
The reports rarely are made pub
lie. There is seldom anything in the
report Of interest to the public. and
OF course, when the criticism is on
vast scale. all persons concerned
would rather. work out the problem
quietly. within the academic world.
In the Maryland case. the man
responsible for the defects in the
school, retired President Harry c.
Byrd, was running for Governor.
His record at the Uniyersity---and
the accreditation report-became q
campaign issue. The document was
not made public, however, until the
legislature decided 1t needed the re-
port In order 70 correct deficiencies
that still existed.
Under normal circumstances the
initial report on . college Is followed
&iortly By accreditation. Or II It y
Evening star., 1955-01-23

China militarily in Korea means
that the Peiping regime will con-.
tinue ON the march In Asia, carry
ing the main Communist threat.
and using force where necessary
until stopped by force.
q. Despite the American policy Of
nonrecognition Peiping is winning
the highest measure Of international
recognition, through strength. not
peacefulness. Its prestige in Asia
scared through the Geneva Confer
ence, which settled Indo-China
fighting, and the recent visit of
United Nations Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to Peiping, seek
ing the release of II imprisoned
American aifmen.
8. Indo- China, divided at Geneva
and facing general elections by July,
1856, already is lost to Communism.
The rest Of Red-threatened Asia
can be saved only by strong meas
ures designed to cut down Red
China's power and restore American
prestige.
4. Peiping used the II American
airmen as q trick to gain prestige.
just as it forced reopening of K0-
rean truce talks by Offering to ex-
change war prisoners, When 1t
suits them, the Communists will
produce other American captiyes
for future advantage. These Incl
dents were enough to cause war in
the past. and the power-loving
ASians interpret Western attempts
to compromise as weakness.
S. Mr.. Hammarskjold's visit to
Peiping, instead Of at least insisting
on neutral city. was propaganda
boon to the Communists and was
typical of long standing Western
failure to understand Oriental psy-
chology. Gen. Macarthur believes
Western policies are bound to fail
unless the Asians are convinced the
West has more power than Red
China, coupled with the will to use
it. But he says blockade now
would be an act of war, bringing
complications with American Allies.
that could be enforced only by a
war declaration.
His intimates say that the gem
eral now is watching the fulfllment
Of predictions he made years ago.
notably the threatened loss Of all
Indo- China.
When informed of the Korean
truce, an intimate says. Gen. Mac
Arthur replied: This is the end Of
Indo- China"
Globol Plon
Two years ago. Gen. Macarthur
outlined to President Eisenhower and
Secretary Of State Dulles the global
peace plan he had suggested in a
widely publicized speech to the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
(NAM). Intimates say this was the
plan:
Meet the Soviets secretly and as
sure them they would be permitted
to maintain adequate defensive posi-
tions all along the global battle line
as it then existed, in return for
settling all outstanding East-West
problems. Gen. Macarthur argued
that primarily the Russians wanted
to make sure of defending them
selves against attack.
The alternative would be an Amer
ican threat to renew the Korean
fighting, using it as an anvil to
knock out Red China as fighting
force and to consolidate North
Korea into the free world. Peiping
could be defeated then. Gen, Mac
Arthur argued. by aerially destroy
Evening star., 1955-01-23
By Russell Brines

NEW YORK. General Of the
Army Douglas Macarthur turns
vigorous rs next Wednesday. con-
vinced that Asia is being lost
through American policies he con-
siders weak.
He also believes that Asian wars
are not over. despite the present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02

TODAY

American Public Welfare
Association today heads into
the third Of a four-day seS-
sion at the Hotel Statler.
About 1000 will be in at
attendance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02
Oops!


A young lady waiting out
side an I street Office building
for her father to pick her up
after work thought she spied,
his car, in the seasons dark
ness Of. quitting time.
She walked to the curb,
opened the door and slid into
the front seat. When the
driver said "Well!"-indig-
nantly-she realized it was
the wrong car. Making her
embarrassment complete was
the fact that the drivers wife
walked up as she was getting
out of the car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02
Jesus and His Times Begins
This Sunday in The Star

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first of 10 installments the story Of Christ
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STOPPED BY THEIR TRACKS-While any schooboy
knows enough not to leave dngerprnts at crime,
usually the criminal will trip his own footprints
Brian Bell tells you why and how In The Star
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BREAKING THE HEAT BARRIER-Lt Col. Frank X.
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plane ever built to try for 1000 miles per hour
tells his own story of the fights terrific hazards
in This Week Magazine.
STAR CRITIC REMEMBERS SIBELIUS-Jan Sibeius,
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Day Thorpe, recalls the memories of an afternoon
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YEARS BEST MOvIES-Their selection is critics
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02
Trapped Diver Talked With Buddy
During Ordeal in Degree Depths

Finally, Gray Renegar. 80, of
I65l1 Roane road. Oxon Hill, Md,
managed to secure a line to the
mine.
Mr.. Renegar said that when
he worked his way to the trapped
man. II got the warmest hand
shake I ever got in my life."
Then started the tedious pro-
cess Of bringing him up, raising
him slowly to avoid the dreaded
Iaffliction to divers known as 1.-The
bends"
Joe began to become bit in
coherent, and his answers, I'm
still OK" came more slowly.
At Z pm, Joe's head bobbed
to the surface. He was quickly
hauled aboard the crash boat,
and they began frantically strip
ping him of his heavy diving
suit. Underneath. Joe wore only
his long winter underwear. The
crew swathed him in blankets
and opened the boat full speed
for shore. In five minutes, they
reached the dock and q waiting
Ambulance.
Three minutes later, he was
in the decomposition chamber
on the road to recovery.
His condition is excellent
said Capt. Motif Holler, medical
Officer of the experimental diving
unit at the Naval Gun Factory
here. Hes much better than
Thought he'd be few hours ago
He was down far beyond the
period a diver should remain
But he was extremely robust"
Mr.. Church, himself exhausted
agreed.
THAT Joe, he's q tough
-,ionkey," he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02

well, for Gods sake. hurry
up: I can't take any more OF
this cold"
What kind Of shape are you
imp"
I'm standing up over the top
of the mine. but I can't get to
my tangled lines"
Joe had gone down there at
1880 am, to stay IS minutes
He had been down there over
az hours.
He wanted to know what time
1t was.
ooh, just before H." Mr.
Church told him, shaving about
Ia half-hour of the time. Then
for the remainder Of the day
each time Joe would ask the
time. his pal would cut 1t back
IT didn't want him to know
how long he'd been down there,
Mr.. Church said later.
Joe stayed calm. But after
more than three hours of it, thu
cold became almost unbearable
"My hands are getting numb.
Hold on, joe"
How far along are we?"
Wen get you up soon"
I'm still OK, but stop foolini
around and get a little move on.
Joe has been q diver for II
years He knew what kind Of {
spot he was in. But he stayet
calm as Mr.. Church kept TIN
conversation going in an easy
matter-of fact tone.
Several divers were trying II
free him. but each time they't
get close, the swift current woult
sweep them away from theil
m41. And the rescuers were
wGrEing in total darkness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02

Joe Tallarico is a rugged
Isailorman.
The temperature under 100
feet of water at the bottom OF
the Patuxent was 80 degrees, and
Joe was down there nearly nine
hours. The Navy doctor on the
scene said only the toughest kind
Of man could have taken that
lonely damp cold.
Did Joe panic?
Joe panic? He'd never dc
that" said his buddy, CWO Ger
aid Church, Of Messick, Va, who
stayed on the telephone talking
TO the trapped diver for several
hours.
Mr.. Church, diving officer al
the Patuxent Naval Air Station
was eating lunch when he re-
ceived word that a diver wa.
trapped under water near tht
Opposite bank Of the river.
It was Joe Tallarico, who wal
down there, they told him. Mr.
Church jumped from the table
and headed for the piers. 4
crash boat was idling, waiting
flor him. He climbed aboard anc
headed across the choppy three
Imile-wide river. The spot wi1er.
Joe was trapped was a quarter
mile Off Point Patience.
Reaching the work boat on thu
surface above the trapped diver
Mr.. Church grabbed the phon,
and began talking.
"Joe?"
"Yeah, how are you making
out up there?" .....
Were doing all right. Wei
it to you soon."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02
Diver
Is Back on Job

Continued From First Page
tor said. "He is lucky. He is ex-
ltremely robust and under the
conditions remained very calm"
Just before going to bed after
leaving the decomposition cham
Der, the diver told DR.. Holler he
wanted to apologize for his
Language during his entrapment.
DR.. Holler smiled. shook his
head and said II can't recall
any man being under this deep
flor this length Of time under
these conditions. I'm glad to
say his condition is excellent"
As diver after diver tried to
reach him against the surging
current. Chief Tallarico was
standing atop the mine. a few
feet of the bottom, doing
clumsy calisthentics In an eff
fort to keep warm.
Gray Renegar. a chief gun
ner's mate, Of 651l Roanne
drive, Oxon Hill, was the one
who finally secured a line to
Chief Tallarico's diving rig. He
had been on the rescue dive 50
minutes-well over the normal
limit. James B. Talent. an
other member Of the rescue
team, was treated for exposure
after staying down too long.
when Renegar shook my
hand down there" the trapped
man said later, at was the best
think ever felt in my life.
Believe me, that was real good!"
1t was so dark at that depth
that the trapped man took Chief
Renegar's hand and guided 1t
to the mine cable.
Surfacing Begins Slowly
After rescue lines were at
|tached the surfacing began
ever so slowly because of the
danger of giving Chief Tallarico
the bends" dreaded affection
of deep water men. Because of
Inability to unsnarl the divers
lines, the rescuers picked up
mine. anchor, rig and all. 1t
weighed some 900 pounds.
It was almost three hours after
Chief Renegar shook his hand
that the trapped man surfaced.
The last 80 feet were rapid
q calculated risk because the VIC
TINS voice was getting weaker
and rescuers deemed it better
to risk the bends than to have
the seaman die Of cold and shock
so close to safety.
AS he surfaced, dozen help
ing hands lifted him ilto a
crash boat, freed him Of his
200 pound diving suit and
wrapped him in blankets. 1t
was 7:15 pm.
Within seven minutes he was
| in a decomposition chamber at
Solomons. A simulated condi-
ftion of 1865 feet was maintained
for a time and he was given a
ham sandwich, coffee and
brandy.
BY 8:46 pm. the decompres-
sion chamber pressure was simu-
Ating go feet.
AT 11:19 he walked out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02

A driver for an airport taxicab
service was shot to death early
today under circumstances which
police were trying to unrayel.
Witnesses told police the VIC
tim, Malcolm. j. Ripley, As. OF
|2523 Fourteenth street NV, was
shot when he inexplicably at
tempted to force his way into an
apartment at 1889 U street NV.
lat $50 am.
Homicide Sergt. Albert Mode
said the fatal bullets were fired
by James CASTOR. 81, colored, Of
the U street apartment after o
scuffle in which he and Q neigh.
Dor attempted to eject Mr.
Ripley.
CASTOR, q short-order cook
was charged with homicide and
| an inquest was set for II am
Monday. CASTOR. his wife
Fannie, IS, and the neighbor
John johnson, colored, all said
they never had seen MIR. Ripley
before.
Four Shots Fired
Four shots were fired In the
hallway outside the Castor
apartment near the building en-
trance. When he arrived there
Sergt. Mode found Mr.. Ripley
kneeling on the sidewalk, his face
resting on the lower step to the
building. He died soon after Q
police car took him to Freed.
mems Hospital.
From CASTOR, Mr.. johnson, his
Iacross-the-hall neighbor. and
Mrs. CASTOR, Sergt. Mode got this
version:
Mrs. CASTOR was about tt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02
Commission Will Hear
Last Transit Applicant

The District Public Utilities
Commission today reaches the
end Of its '1ast-ditch effort to
persuade private enterprise" to
take over the dying Capital
Transit Co. franchise next Aug
ust Is.
It scheduled a final interview
with the fifth applicant for the
franchise, I. William Stempil,
representing the Washington
Rapid Transit System.
And, said Chairman George e
C. Hayes. the commission hopes,
within "a week or 10 days" to
he able to announce the date OF
Ia public hearing on the appltca-
tions.
Before then, the, commission
faces the chore Of evaluating the
claims Of financial backing made
by the applicants-claims that
ranged from $3.5 million to $8.5
million. according to Mr.. Hayes
The highest was made yester-
day In q night conference with
the commission by Gregory Han
kin, former New Deal chairman
of the commission and counsel
for the Metropolitan Transit Co
operative.
He said the cooperative has
been promised $8.5 million to
finance operations If it is granted
"a permit by the commission. He
said IS million would be put UP
by the Wolf Oil & Gas Co.. Inc,
of "a Commerce street. Newark.
N. j.. and backed it up with q
letter signed by H. Ernest Strub-
be. ST., as president.
Mr.. Hankin said the other $3.5
million would be put up by the
Stanwood Oil Corp. of the same
address, and backed 1t UP with
a letter signed by John A. Kaye,
as president.
Mr.. Kaye, however. has been
listed by Mr.. Stempil as a vice
president In charge of finance
and controller for the Washing
ton Transit: SvStarn At the time
Mr.. Stempil identified Mr.. Kaye
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-02
Toxicob Driver Shot Dead
After ScuffIe on u Street

leave for her job at Arcade
Sunshine Laundry when a heavy
pounding was heard at the door.
AS she cracked the door to peep
out, 1t was forced open by a man
identified as Mr.. Ripley.
She screamed. arousing her
sleeping husband. who ran in
and pushed the man into the
hall. The noise brought Mr.
johnson into the half and he
helped CASTOR shove Mr.. Ripley
|out the front door Of the
building.
The three tenants said Mr.
Ripley insisted on returning, and
when he did. Castor went to the
bedroom, took a .32-caliber re.
volver from q dresser drawer ant
fired from short range.
one bullet struck Mr.. Ripley
lin the left chest and another
pierced q hand. Police have not
accounted for two others, but be-
lieved they win be found In the
autopsy.
Topples Down Steps
The victim turned after he wa.
shot, reeled toward the from
door, half fell down the step!
and dropped with the snow fall
ing on him. Police were sum.
moned by Leslie Smith, colored
Ijanitor at the apartment build
ing.
Sergt. Mode said Mr.. Ripley
was wearing the cap Of an Air
port Transport. Inc. driver. Hi
wife, q Government employe
told police Mr.. Ripley had moi
worked yesterday. They have
l12-year-old daughter.