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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-24
Background Material

DR.. Eugene Mcdonald wrote
convincing letter to The Star
recently setting forth reasons
why a doctor Of medicine
should occupy a seat on the
Board Of Commissioners. He
Endorsed DR.. James A. Cannon,
Sr. for the vacancy which is
tn be flied next April. He failed
to mention, however, why DR..
Cannon is particularly quail
fed for the post. DR.. Gannon's
name was frequently men
toned for Commissioner when
Mr.. McLaughlin's appointment
was made and many substan-
tial citizens favored DR.. Gan
non. My friendship and in
tereSt in DR.. Cannon dates
from the time of my service
to what is now D. C. General
Hospital where / worked in
association with him for many
years while he was chief of
staff there. May / relate some
Of the facts which were men
toned the last time DR.. GAN
non was under consideration?
Please keep in mind that
large percentage of the work
OF the Board of Commissioners
pertains to the Health Depart
ment, the city's hospitals, pub
lie welfare and penal institu-
tionS.
In his early professional life
DR.. Cannon was for four years
physician to the poor. This
afforded opportunity to learn
details of public welfare at
first hand. He was a teacher
at the Georgetown Medical
School for rs years. dean of the
Capital City Training School
for Nurses for Is years, chief
Of staff of what is now the
D. C.. General Hospital for Is
years, where he was instrument
tai in securing the first appro-
priation from Congress for the
erection of the fine buildings
which now house the patients.
He was a director on the board
of the Columbia Medical Build
ing for four years. He held
many important Offices in the
D. c. Medical Society and was
chairman of the Executive
Committee for two terms. He
was member of the d. c.
Board of Education for IL
years and consistently insisted
on equal educational opportu-
nifty for white and colored
children. He also jealousy
guarded the prerogatives Of
the Superintendent and his
administrative staff. He served
as a member of the Draft
Appeals Board for 16 years and
received a citation from Con-
gress for this work.
He served as a member Of
the D. c. Civil Defense Council
for three years. He has been
a member Of the Oldest Inhab-
itants Association for nine
years. He conducted his own
radio feature c"Your Healthy
every Sunday for IA months
over Station VOL as a public
service. and has appeared on
television on several occasions
to discuss civic questions.
This is a partial list of DR..
Gannon's activities and they
are related here to prove that
his experience, civic interest
and energy should make him
the choice for the new Com
missioner.
Catherine Z. Moran.
Baltimore, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-24
THE EVENING STAR AS
Washington. D C
SATURDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1855

compiled the first Hebrew lexicon
in the United States.
The poems greatest popularity
lcame in 1868, after Moore's
death, when poetry critics and
publishers joined forces to help
the poem gain national recogni-
ton. AS a result, Moore later was
called "the greatest press agent
the old saint (St. Nicholas) ever
had"
| Statuette Missing
Here is a present-day Christ.
mas story.
On Christmas Day members Of
la church came there expecting
to see little statuette of the
Christ child in its crib. When
they arrived. the statuette was
gone. The parishioners looked
everywhere. but could not find
lit.
Finally the sexton went outside
and saw a little boy pulling a
bright red wagon. Within the
wagon he saw the statuette, set
upon a small blanket. The sexton
rushed angrily down the steps to
the child.
why did you take the statu-
ette?" he Numbered. 1T was o
terrible thing to do"
| The boy, whose eyes had been
bright with joy until then, hung
his head. His eyes suddenly lost
their luster.
Il didn't mean to do anything
wrong" he said. "All year I
wanted a little red wagon for
Christmas. And / promised that
If got the wagon would pull
the statuette around the block
twice"
Chaperon Needed
Help. Chaperon needed. Teen
ayers are holding a New Years
eve dance at the Vienna (Va.)
Youth Center from 8 pm. to l
la. m No drinking will be allowed.
They need chaperon or
chaperons. Can you help? Call
Dunkirk 5-9281 If you can.
| y \
II heard the bells on Christ
mas Day
Their old, familiar carols play.
And tDild and sUeet
The words repeat
/ OF peace on earth. good Diu
to men,"
| -Longfellow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-24
Help Wanted

In connection with the art
exhibition-"Our Town-1749-
1865"-to be held in Gadsby's
Tavern next spring, the Exhi-
bition Committee Of the Alex
andria Association would like
the help Of your readers in
locating two items known to
have been sold in the WASH
ington area some time since
1888.
One is a Autograph of Ben
jamin Hallowell's School in
Alexandria as 1t appeared In
the 1820s. 1t was done by Henry
Stone, an early American
photographer. for a broadSide,
advertising the school. 1t was
printed by Haas. and has tut
ton. ETC., on the reverse side.
Hallowell was the famous
Quaker schoolmaster who tu-
tored Robert E. Lee in math-
ematics for West Point. A
Quaker. opposed to war on
principle, he soon found as a
result Of Lees record at West
Point that he was tutoring
more and more officers of the
future. We would be grateful
II print collectors would check
their treasures to see If they
have that one, and then notify
the committee chairman.
The painting we are seeking
is portrait of Robert E. Lee
by Hector caches. signed with
the artists initials H. B. E."
caches, an Alexandria artist
and son Of an early major,
enlisted in the 18th Virginia
Infantry in 1851. and being
wounded In the first year of
the war. served the rest OF the
time as q draughtsman for the
Confederate forces ct Rich
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-24

On the eve OF the High Hoydays the faith of Israel faithful
ans have rendered profound expression their spiritual
radhp the spirit city
these prayerful greetings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-16
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TOOTH
BRUSHES

ATTENTION.: Certain ssI!et prsDaratisn., ,lusFess.
slissss e. IT, s.a j:.sSy siseks snS Ssssns.
Aes effective Apff 1st, 1854.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
No Grass in the Streets?

1t is astonishing to note the lengths
to which some normally level-headed
politicians will go when caught up in the
spell of their own oratory.
Take, for instance, the case Of Ten
nessees Governor Frank G. Clement, who
is not given ordinarily to seeing bogey-
men under the bed. The Governor was
called upon to say few words at
recent f1ve-State rally in support of
self-f1nancing plan for the iva. What
he said must set some kind of a record
for rhetorical extravaganza. "The time
has come" Governor Clement declared,
"to rip away any veil of deif1cation from
the President on down If we expect to
keep the electric lights burning in Ten
nessee."
The overtones of this comment take
one back almost quarter of century
back to the days when Herbert Hoover
was saying that grass would grow in the
streets if his opponent, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, should be elected President of
the United States. The fact is, however,
that very few of our streets have been
turned into grazing areas. And the
chances are that the electric lights will
continue to burn in the Tennessee Valley
even if President Eisenhower should be
elected for another term.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Good Investment

At relatively small cost in public
funds-about SIS million-the Depart
ment of Commerce in cooperation with
private industry has put American enter
prise on display at approximately dozen
international trade fairs during the past
six months Most of these have been in
European cities where the holding of
these exhibits has gained wide popularity
and has proved successful medium for
advertising products and techniques of
the participating countries. This initial
experiment on the part of our own Gov
ernment-one of the steps advocated by
President Eisenhower in his program for
expanding free world commerce-already
has brought approximately 10000 in
quiries on American production methods,
market possibilities and trading
exchanges.
The Commerce Department and more
than 1000 American Arms already are
Evening star., 1955-06-18
War Clouds Over GAIA

Just about every element needed to
touch off war may be found within and
adjacent to the GAIA strip A narrow
finger of arid land less than Is miles long
and six miles wide at any point, it juts
northeastward from Egypt proper along
the coast between the Mediterranean Sea
and Israel To it's normal population of
about 10000 Palestinian Arabs have been
added an estimated 100000 refugees from
the adjoining lands of what once were
the GAIA a-Beersheba areas of Palestine.
1t is policed, with difficulty, by Egyptian
troops under authority of the Egyptian
Israeli armistice of 1949. But it's frontier
with Israel has provided a narrow no.
mans land for raid and repriSal, attack
and ambush, that constantly have threat
ened to explode into full-scale resump-
ton of the Arab-Israeli war.
Fully third of GAIA is nothing but
sand dunes, and the production from the
remaining acreage hardly would support
the normal population. The United Ma
tions and some of the Arab states indi-
vidually are contributing aid to the refu-
gee population but no permanent and
constructive solution has been worked
out-either for repatriation or resettle-
ment. Meanwhile, neither the Egyptian
military nor the U. N refugee authorities
can control the GAIA inhabitants AS
PaleStinian Arabs, they consider the
farms and groves Immediately behind the
Israeli frontier as still theirs and
guerrilla form Of raiding has been inces-
SAINT. ISraeli-Egyptian military clashes on
~ IF
the raid and reprisal pattern that Major
General E. l.. M. Burns, Canadian chief
of the U. N. truce staff, recently has
visited both Cairo and Tel Aviv to seek
moderation of the frontier tensions.
One proposal that joint Israeli Egyptian
patrols police the border has been re-
jected by Israeli authorities, though they
favor system under which military off,
GERS on both sides would cooperate in
establishing controls against marauding
elements. Another proposal that repre-
sentatives of the two governments meet
in direct negotiation, rather than dealing
through the U. N. Armistice Commission,
has been rejected by Egyptian authorities.
Meanwhile, Egypt's Premier NasSer,
advising the U. N. Commission that any
attempt by Israel to seize the strip would
mean war-a pronouncement later af-
flrmed by other Arab states-has pro-
posed a demilitarized zone along the
troublesome frontier. The initial Israeli
reaction was that this merely would
create another "lawless area where any
thing could happen" While this may
be danger, it seems increasingly clear
that formula must be found to end the
Egyptian-Israeli clashes If the greater
danger Of a new war Is to be averted.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Defense-Minded

Apparently. there Is no i'm
mediate prospect of attack by
Russia. But since the posi-
bility exists and there is the
supposition that public apathy
does not mean a lack of sur
vival spirit, education must
occur. So why not put civil
defense under an expanded
National Security Agency or
the National Guard? In ad-
dition. the best civil defense
would be peace, not through
appeasement but by power
an expanded pilot reserve
training program and a greatly
expanded Air Force. Teddy
Roosevelt said in effect, "Speak
softly and carry a big stick"
The Star is doing its part
to educate the public. The
general disbelief, the ostrich
ead-in-the-gro effect of
not facing reality. is mass
psychological phenomenon. Or,
the general public is Just
stupid. AS for evacuation, let
it be staggered. Cities would
be evacuated totally only
under imminent attack. Out
door tent cities sufficiently
distant, providing dispersal,
would be better than nothing.
Small radio devices. pocket
size, priced reasonably, would
give personal warning.
Joe DOakes.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
More Than This Needed

Legislation proposed by Senator Ke-
fauver would improve the administration
of justice in juvenile delinquency cases
in general. However, experience has
shown that a more drastic reform is
needed than that called for under the
package of bills presented by the chair
man of the Senate subcommittee which
investigated youth in crime.
On the key problem of court juris-
diction in 1agrant cases of adultlike
criminality the Kefauver recommended
tion falls short of what a number of law
enforcement leaders think is required
here. On this controversial subject a
Watered-doWn compromise has been
offered. Instead of giving the United
States Attorney the right he seeks to re-
move such prosecutions from the Juvenile
Court to the District Court, or to appeal
to higher court against what he regards
as imprudent refusals of the Juvenile
Court voluntarily to waive jurisdiction,
bill would merely make it mandatory"
to give the prosecutor and the police the
opportunity" to present their reasons in
favor of a waiver. Mr.. Rover is probably
justified in feeling that this plan would
not work any better than the present
system. The record shows that efforts
by the prosecutor and Police Department
to prevail on the Juvenile Court to grant
waivers have been only sporadically sue
ceSsful.
1t was the relatively small number
Of waivers granted in recent years that
led the District Law Enforcement Council
last year to recommend that the United
States Attorney be given full authority
to transfer to District Court prosecutions
involving juveniles who have committed
major crimes. The council. went further
than it's Juvenile Court committee, which
had recommended only that Mr.. Rover
have authority to recommend waivers
and to appeal to the Municipal Court of
Appeals in the event his recommendation
was ignored. But the committee pointed
out that there are obviously a number
of cases which the Juvenile Court is
simply not equipped to handle" That
this is fact is not seriously disputed.
The public welfare requires that some
official or agency outside the Juvenile
Court should have the power to make
certain that the rights of the citizens
at large, as we'll as those of juveniles,
are adequately protected in serious
crimes involving youthful offenders.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
"A Fair Fare

Members Of the Public Utili-
ties Commission need a shot
of benzedrine to wake them
up to their responsibility to
the citizens of Washington,
who look to them for fairness
and equitable treatment.
Specifically, I am speaking
of the pnreaSonableness of the
owners of Capital Transit and
the continual concurrence of
the P. U. C. Capital Transit
complains of loss of riderS-as
they have often done imme-
diately subsequent to fare
hikes The decrease in number
of passengers is understand
able, inasmuch as people OBJ
ject to being gouged, and in
view of the excessive rate of
fare many feel that they could
just as economically own and
drive a car-and have pro-
ceeded to do $3.50 that &C
tually the cause of the loss of
riders can be laid directly at
the feet of Capital Transit it.
self.
Has it ever occurred to any
one that the persons for whom
it is a necessity to use public
transportation to and from
jobs, in order to earn live
llhood, are the ones who cannot
afford to buy or operate an
auto? Yet they are the ones
who are to be made to pay
excessive fares, even for a
short distance, to compensate
the company for those who
have ceased to ride. A public
service for the benefit of the
natives, or residents of a city,
even though privately owned,
should certainly not be allowed
to practice racketeering. The
procedures of the last few
years, since the advent of the
current ownership, most GER
tainly reflect that practice.
l, as a spokesman for all
transit-using Washingtonians,
am petitioning members of the
Public Utilities Commission
not only to turn a deaf ear to
Capital Transit's present re-
quest for another impossible
increase, but to advise CTC
officials that by lowering the
fare they would in all prob
ability regain lost passengers;
otherwise, they should have
learned from past perform
ances that with each increase
they have lost more and more
riders. Those who must ride
should not be made to pay a
penalty for doing so.
HI. L. III.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
An Unidentified Life

If Government Employe"
believes the case of Hopeful
Annuitant" m erits sym
pathy, astonishment and in
dignation," she should hear
my case. Hopeful Annui-
tant" has 500 to live on.
I receive a monthly annu-
ity check from the Govern
ment for $62. I pay a rela-
tive $50 for a room. This
leaves $32 for food and other
living expenses. Naturally
ones wants must be pared
down to the barest necessi-
ties. have dropped all clubs.
all small charities and all
amusements
For diversion I read books
and magazines rent free from
the library; but other free
items such as concerts and
lectures are out because of
carfare.
AS this country is building
up a tremendous backlog of
older persons. it is strange
that something is not done
for the Federal annuitants' so
that they may at least exist
with a degree of dignity.
Another Annuitant.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Church and State

The affair in Argentina
should cause Americans to be
exceedingly happy that we live
in a country where we have
separation of church and state
and complete religious free
dom for all people.
Events during the past few
years in certain countries re-
garding the question of sep
aration of church and state,
and freedom in religion, prove
conclusively that our fore
fathers who wrote the Con-
stitution of the United States
were men of profound wis
dom and great foresight in
that they produced such a
document to be the basic and
fundamental law of our land.
From a careful study of the
Last Will and Testament of
Our Lord, commonly known as
the New Testament, it appears
certain tn at the church
which Christ established was
to be entirely free from the
state and have no authority
whatever over matters per-
tanning thereto. The church
as originally established was
to be a teaching institution,
or organization, as set forth in
Matthew xviii, 10, 20 and in
Mark xvi, Is, 16. But nowhere
do we read of the Apostles be-
ing connected with or directing
the affairs of the state. Truly,
they stood before kings and
other dignitaries of the state
and preached the gospel, and
Of course persuaded all men
everywhere to be Christians.
for that was the mission of
the church then, and it should
be the mission of the church
now. In John xviii, So Jesus
said, MY kingdom is not of
this world"
Christian,
Evening star., 1955-06-18

@. How many ties are there
in the average mile of railway
track?-G.G.
A. In the United States
there are about 5000 crossties
to the mile. They are spaced
approximately 81 inches
apart. center to center.
@. How many classes are
recognized in boxing? What
are they?-T. B. e.
A. There are eight classes:
Heavyweight. light heavy
weight, middleweight, welter-
weight, lightweight. feather
weight, bantamweight, fly
weight.
@. What are the dimensions
Of the largest United States
hag?-T.F.
A. What is claimed to be
the largest in existence Is the
135x250-foot flag owned by
j. L. Hudson Co., the Detroit
department store. This i'm
mense flag is displayed on
national holidays.
@. What is the oldest unit In
the U. S. Army from the stand
point of continuous service2
-R.M.F.
A. Department Of Defense
records show that this distinc-
ton belongs to Battery D, 6th
FA Battalion.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
THE POLITICAL MILL
Body Blow Prepared for Dixon Yates
By GOULD LINCOLN

build its own steam plant,
making any power from Dixon
Yates unneeded. 1t is con-
fidently predicted by Tennes-
scans that his recommendation
will be accepted; that Mem
phis will go ahead to build a
$100-million, $50, ,000-kilowatt
plant. So, the opponents of
the Dixon-Yates contract will
take their fight to the Senate
floor and there move to strike
from the bill the $6.5 million
item for the Dixon-Yates
transmission lines. The Mem
phis City Council, they have
been assured, will at the
same time agree to build a
steam plant in their city. The
argument to the Senate will
be: why appropriate SOS mil
lion to build transmission lines
that will not be used?" The
Dixon-Yates opponents be-
lieve they can muster more
than enough votes to knock
the appropriation out of the
bill under such circumstances.
President Still Wins
What will happen in regard
to the Dixon-Yates contract
if all this transpires-remains
to be seen. The contract was
entered into by the Govern
ment in order to make possible
the furnishing of more power
to the Atomic Energy Commits
sion and permit the iva to
fulfill its contracts to its other
clients. including Memphis.
With the Memphis plant in
the field, it is contended the
Government will have no need
to go ahead with Dixon-YatsS.
1t is possible, of course, that
Arkansas and the area around
it can consume the power gen.
Grated by Dixon-Yates. But
Memphis will have none Of it.
The President still wins an
important victory in his fight
to put a halt to creeping So
cialism"-as he called it. The
House action against the ap-
preparation to start a new IVA
steam plant was decisive. and
the Senate was prepared to go
along with the House on this
issue The most ardent sup
porters of IVA in that body
admitted they had little chance
of reversing the House stand.
The defeat for spreading the
Governments public power
operations came, too, in a
Democratic controlled Con-
greSs.
The iva supporters. how
ever laid their plans last week
to checkmate Dixon-Yates, in
the event they lost their fight
in the House.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Polluted WATERWAYS

1t appears that we hardly
are justified in complaining
about the harmless litter the
starlings and other birds cause
on our streets so long as we
continue to pipe our own po-
tentially harmful litter into
our beautiful streams and other
waters. making them virtually
uninhabitable for aquatic life
and menace to the health of
anyone who even so much as
dips his fingers into them.
Some of us may not be aware
of it, but sanitarians have at
tributed some of the worst
human plaques of the past di-
rectly to open cesspools. This
is what many of our streams
and other waters are rapidly
becoming.
j. J. Sperry.
Woodstock, Va.