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Evening star., 1955-07-29

It Is, or was, Of q good thing
for Merriwether Lewis and Bill
Clark that the movies had not
yet become popular entertain-
ment when they set out on that
expedition. # they had. IL
would have been q duh trip for
them. Everything that occurred
would have given them the feel
ing that they had been here be-
fore.
You can, If you listen, hear
Major Lewis reporting to Presi-
dent Jefferson. "Dad-blamed-
est expedition I ever was on, sir.
You caIl that exploration? Why.
everything that happened to US
was some well-worn movie cliche.
we could have stayed at home
and gone to the Bijou every Sat-
urday afternoon and not missed
Ia thing"
This, at any rate, is the
thought left by "The Far Ho-
Irizons," new screen attraction
at the Capitol Theater. It's a
lbig picture, all right. 1t has
been filmed in Paramount's
vistaVision process and In
lTechnicolor. Much Of the filming
was done in the jackson Hole
country in Wyoming and in
vistaVision and Technicolor 1t
lis often exciting scenery.
~ **
The trouble is that it is more
Exciting than anything occupy
ling Lewis Erred MacMurray)
Clark (Charlton Heston) anc
Sacajawea, their Indian princess
guide Donna Reed. AS adapted
from Della Gould Emmons' novel
"Sacajawea of the Shoshones.
this tale of the exploration oi
1.-The Louisiana Purchase coun'
try degenerates into the stock
yarn about the two adventurer'
land the girl.
It's been played to death be-
fore without dying and is MOI
likely to be done in by thi'
!, repeat performance. 1t all JUS
seems too trivial for these stall
wart residents Of the histor!
s books.
: In the beginning here Levi
c and Clark, old Army buddies
r are romancing the same gir
(Barbara Hale). Clark wins bu
Lewis takes him on the expedi
ton anyhow. Before long the,
@ have this Sacajawea along ant
8 she soon begins to believe tina
q Clark is just the boy for hel
n What with proximity and on
: thing and another, he begin
s to think so, too.
y Il 4 4
s Lewis takes a dim view of thi
and there are squabbles in tn
Evening star., 1955-07-29
WHERE
AND WHEN
CURRENT THEATER
ATTRACTIONS
AND TINE OF SHOWING

Stage
Carter Barron Amphitheater
-- San Carlo Opera Co.; $3.50
pm
National-"The Skin Of Our
Teeth; $3.50 pm.
Olney Ring Round the
Moon; $50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - Mister Rob-
erts'; lis, 3:35, 5:55, $40 and
1925 pm.
Capitol-"The Far Horizons
II am, 1:10. 800. $50, TAO and
$50 pm.
Colony Doctor in the
House; 6, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Columbia This islam d
Earth: 1850 am, 1:50, $3.50,
5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Dupont-"The Great Adven-
ture":: /, 2:45, 4:30, $40, $40
and 9:55 pm.
Keiths - Lady and tn e
Tramp; 10 and 11:55 am, 2. 4
6, 8 and 10 pm.
Little-"The Lady Vanishes"
6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
Macarthur THE Intruder"
6:15, 8 and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - Mister Rob-
erts"; 1o:45 am, 1:05, $3.50, 5:55
8:15 and 1890 pm.
Ontario - you're Never Toe
Young; l, 2:50, 4:4o, 6:25, 8:3;
and 10:45 pm.
Palace-"Not as a Stranger"
1875 am, 2:15, Ass, 1885 ane
. 1915 pm.
PIayhouse-"The Seven Little
Foys";; 1890 am, 1920, 2:10
4:05, 5::55, 1850 and 9:45 pm.
Plaza-"The Bed; IL, LAO
S:25, Sis, 7, 9 and 1855 pm
Trans-Lux-"The Man From
Laramie; IL am, 1880. 2:45
4:35, $50, 8:25 and 10:15 pm
This Is Cinerama"
! and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-07-29

audiences than to his professors.
AS an inferno, his patients are
cases and his superiors on the
staff unworthy in his eyes of
the profession they practice,
And, when the circumstances
are right, he can enter clinlcally
into an affair with an attractive
divorcee with an utter indif-
ference to it's outcome.
The sort of life this man leads,
nevertheless, is a lively one.
Naturally. it brings him into
contact with more normal anc
superior humans than himself
One of these is the sacriflcial
nurse Miss De Haviland plays
Another is the idealistic doctor
on the medical school faculty
Evening star., 1955-07-29
The Cast

is a dramatic man, a perfac-
zionist intolerant of human
weakness and as such deficient
in the humanity that might
make him a great surgeon.
The two hours and Is minutes
of the film provide an extensive
portrait of Mitchum's man as
medical student, lover, stormy
petrol of the science that OBJ
sesses him, and a competent saw
er of life who is woefully deflc-
lent in his understanding of life.
This is a long time to look at
a character so static but the in
cident of the film is varied and
dramatic enough to redeem
Mitchum's portrait from mo-
notony.
The detail with which the
screenscript by Edward and
Edna Anhalt deals ranges from
Mitchum's heartless courtship OF
the girl played by Miss De Havil-
land to an extremely graphic
heart operation which he per-
forms at the films climax.
It is, therefore, quite an edu-
cation in medicine the movie
Igoer gets although 1t is also a
lone-sided one.
The power of mot AS A
Stranger" lies in the fact thai
Its substance could not be more
human, being life itself. In its
presentation of DR.. Marsh a.
medicines hottest friend anc
severest critic, it does not paint
him as a hero.
He is treated frankly as a dea,
Iof heel. He is shown as cap.
able of marrying Miss De Havil.
land for the money that will
get him through medical schoo
as he is incapable of returning
her love and loyalty. His class
room attitude as a student is M
more likely to endear him Il
Evening star., 1955-07-29

and q third, the warm -hearted,
average mortal In medicine
played by Frank Sinatra.
The fourth member Of this
group and next to Miss De Hav-
Iiland in the possession of heroic
dimensions is the country doctor
played by Actor Bickford.
In his first job as director, Mr.
Kramer has been so set on ex-
Iploring the human values of the
experience of these that he has
fallen here and there into some
of the unoriginal sins of film
makers. These, however, consti-
tute no more than minor defects
| in an engrossing story of a dra-
matte figure in a field that is
today obsessively interesting.
Evening star., 1955-07-29
THE PASSING SHOW
Medicine Is x-royed
In an Exciting Film
BY JAY CARMoDY

mot Stranger which shot to the top Of the besseler
novel. should be equally popular hm despite the
fact of sturdier competition.
Thompsons been translated to the by
Stanley fidelity
Evening star., 1955-07-29

NOT AS A STRANGER an United
Artists release of Stanley Kramer pro-
duction, directed by Mr.. Kramer. screen
play BY Edna and Edward Anhalt based
upon Morton Thompson'S novel, musical
score by George Antheil At the Palace
theater.
Evening star., 1955-07-29
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Congress considers pay boost for high administration
officials This brings the intriguing possibility that Air
Secretary Tabot penalty for working at outside jobs may
be raise in pay. s5e=.
Democrats claim they're gaining all the country.
fact heard the Democrats might draft him to
Keand he's already gained 20 pounds the
draft
Mai John Eisenhower he hasn't asked his dad whether
he'll again. It's old West Point adition-never
around with politicians.
network buys IS British movies for TV showing. All
enjoy these films love of English scenery-and
British babyser interpret what the actors saying
about It,
depores the defeat of his highway Congress
merely looking to the future AS long these to be
the highways Of tomorrow Congress figured generation
yet unborn should pay for them.
Republican Senator Flanders wants to parachute surplus
wheat China from United States bombers It had
come may 60 to make the enemy, accept
gifts from
Evening star., 1955-07-29

Looking through some dusty
files of the Congressional Rec
ord, this reporter came across
a speech delivered on the floor
of the Senate IS years ago
by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts,, grandfather
of the present Ambassador to
the United Nations.
Senator Lodge, one Of the
giants among American states
men of his times. made the
speech during his successful
fight to keep the United States
out of the League of Nations
in 1920. His words had tell
ing effect on his countrymen
then, and helped more than
any other single thing to de-
feat the Wilson administra-
tons attempt to shackle
America to the juggernaut of
1nLernaJ1onallSIu.
The words have an ageless
validity to Americans: they
ring more true today than they
did in 1920 in the light Of the
disasters that have come to
America through international
meddling and commitments.
Here they are:
IT am as anxious as. any
human being can be to have
the United States render every
possible service to the civiliza-
tion and the peace of man
kind. But I am certain that
we can do it best by not put
ting ourselv es in leading
strings or subjecting our poll
cies and our sovereignty to
other nations.
1.-THE independence Of the
United States is not only more
precious to ourselves but to
the world than any single pos
session. Look at the United
States today. We have made
mistakes in the past; we have
had shortcomings; we shall
make mistakes in the future
and fall short of our own best
hopes. But nonetheless, is
there any country today on
the face of the earth which
can compare with this coun-
Evening star., 1955-07-29
AVID LAWRENCE
How Much Giving to Reds?

mocracies. The British and
French and other govern
ments Of the free world viii
side with the President on
any concessions he makes.
They are terrorized by the idea
of a nuclear war. But the test
inside America viii come when
the people find out just what
Mr.. Eisenhower meant when
he said that in october at the
foreign ministers meeting
there would have to be some
giving" on our part.
What do we give? The
Communists hold in prison
camps many Americans and
Europeans who ought to have
been released long ago. Does
the West have to pay a price
to get Russia to keep her word
on past pledges?
Do we give" by accepting
the status of the enslaved
countries of Europe and by
accepting a disarmed or weak
ened Germany?
These are questions that
will not be answered decisively
for a long time perhaps, but
the trend of the Soviet policy
on these matters cannot be
concealed even for a few
weeks more. Moscow is de-
lighted with Mr.. Eisenhower's
friendliness. his peacefulness.
his amiability and his sincerity,
but right now the Kremlin can
misconstrue this as a peace
at-any-price psychology and
make a grave error. There is
a better climate for peace only
because the spokesmen for
both sides choose to say so.
There actually isn't any sign
of a change on any vital issue,
and the shooting down of a
civilian airplane by Commu-
mist Bulgaria indicates that
the relaxation Of tension" is
still one-sided.
These are some Of the cir
cumstances surrounding the
risks which the Presidents
popularity curve may undergo
in the next few months, and
1t may be said without ex-
aggeration that everybody
hopes Mr.. Eisenhower will con-
tinue to satisfy the millions
of Americans who are unwill-
ing to make any compromises
with principle and who want
peace only with honor and
justice.
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Evening star., 1955-07-29
Southern Group Blocks SobeIoH

lished the power of the court
to overturn acts of the legis-
lature, cites not one case
either.
In particular the Senators
object to a speech by Mr..
Sobeloff in which he said:
"The court may reject a case,
not because the question Is
important, but because it
thinks the time not ripe for
decision. In our system the
Supreme Court is not merely
the adjudicator of controver-
sizes, but in the process Of
adjudication it is in many
instances the final formulator
of national policy"
As to this, the chief judge
of the Fourth Circuit and one
of the most distinguished Of
the Nations jurists, Judge
John j. Parker, wrote Senator
Kilgore, chairman of the SEN
ate Judiciary Committee, that:
II heard that speech and saw
nothing in it to criticize. That
it is the proper function of
the Supreme Court to inter-
pret the Constitution of the
United States and Acts Of
Congress and that such inter-
probation is often the final
formulation of national policy
has been recognized so long
that 1t has never occurred to
me there could be any doubt
about the matter"
The action by Senators
Eastland and Johnston will
probably prevent Mr.. Sobeloff's s
confirmation at this session Of
Congress. That he will be
eventually confirmed no one
can doubt But the delay will
work a hardship on an al
ready overworked court and
materially slow down the ad-
ministration of justice in the
States which 1t serves.
Evening star., 1955-07-29
Horrors Possible in Peace, Too

But is it true? Who shares
this common knowledge?
Do I? 1t is not true. It is
a lie. Is truth, then. inimical
to peace?
Bertrand Oord) Russell has
just published a book of short
stories, Nightmares of Emil
nent Persons" which, accord
ing to the critics, reveals that
the brilliant mathematician,
philosopher, and essayist is a
lamentable writer of satiric
fiction. But in it he imagines
a future President (Joe Nc
Carthy) dividing the world
with his congenial friend
Georgi Malenkov. eve think
Lord Russell is also a bad
prophet of American and
Russian domestic politics.)
But what does he foresee as
the result?
A complete suppression OF
political criticism and unre-
mitting brain-washing - the
end of all free thought, con-
science and will. and there
with the end Of man as hui
man person.
There were some who re-
gretted these changes; but it
had to be conceded that by
means Of the pact the danger
of world war was averted and
it became possible to cut down
armaments drastically in
America and Russia"
George Orwell, in 1894"
described a similar big
Brother" world in the midst
Of unremitting war. Lord
Russell is penetrating enough
to see that world peace be-
tween still armed powers
might produce the same mind
and-soul- destroying horror.
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Evening star., 1955-07-29
Senators to Survey
JERSEY Cos Wurs

NEWARK, N. j.. July 90 (R.-
An investigator for q United
States Senate Small Business
subcommittee will make an ON
the-spot survey of gasoline price
wars in New Jersey. which has
been plagued by a recent wave
of bombings at service stations.
The prober will look into
competitive conditions which
confront service station oper-
ators" in the State, it was an
nounced yesterday in Washing
ton by Senator Humphrey.
Democrat of Minnesota. chair
man of the subcommittee.
Within less than q week there
have been bomb explosions at
two North Jersey cut-rate gas
stations. and unexploded bombs
with partly burned fuses have
been found at other stations.
In addition, several gas sta
ton owners who refuse to boost
prices have reported receiving
telephone threats. ID
Evening star., 1955-07-29
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Called
Free u. S. Vital to Worlds Good

try In ordered liberty, in peace
and in the largest freedom.
1T is well to remember We
are dealing with nations every
one of which has a direct in
dividual interest to serve. and
there is grave danger in an
unshared idealism.
Contrast the United States
with any country on the face
of the earth today and ask
yourselves whether the situa-
ton of the United States is
not the best to be found. ]
will go as far as anyone in
world service. but the first
step to world service is the
maintenance Of the United
States.
"You may call me selfish, If
you will. conservative. or re-
dictionary. or use any other
harsh adjective you may see
fit to apply. but an American
I was born. American I have
remained all my life. I can
never be anything else but an
American, and I must think of
the United States first; and
when think of the United
States first in an arrangement
like this I am thinking of what
is best for the world, for If the
United States fails the best
hopes of mankind fail with it.
II have never had but one
allegiance; I cannot divide it
now. I have loved but one flag.
and I cannot share that devo-
ton and give affection to this
mongrel banner invented for a
league. Internationalism, illus
trated by the Bolsheviks. and
by the men to whom all 'coun-
tries are alike, provided they
can make money out Of them,
Is to me repulsive.
National I must remain,
and in that way I, like all other
Americans, can render the am
plest service to the world. The
United States Is the worlds
best hope, but If you fetter
her in the interests and quar-
rels of other nations, If you
tangle her in the intrigueS Of
Evening star., 1955-07-29
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Moral Equivalent of War Is Needed
To Check Submerqence of Free Men

The greatest gain in the
United States from the Geneva
Conference was in the field of
public relations.
During the past several
years opinion abroad had be-
come alarmed about the ag-
gressiveness of American aims.
The original fear of Russia as
q potential war-maker had
been replaced by apprehension
that America was more likely
than the Soviets to precipitate
O major war.
The President, in a few
days, dissipated this impress
sion, to the relief Of the West
ern peoples who are highly
skeptical Of Soviet good inten-
tions, but have been fearful
of American impetuosity. At
this moment few If any Euro
peans believe that war will
come through, Americas over
reaching herself, and II the
Russian representatives at
Geneva can be credited with
sincerity, they are also con-
vinced that as long as Eisen-
hover is President no war will
be initiated by the United
States.
But this still leaves us with
the problem of finding a moral
equivalent for war. This COL
umn has steadfastly main
tanned that in the Einsteinian
age war has become "impos-
sible." We are, however,
aware that freedom has often
required blood for its fuel"
and that world peace, in es-
sence a tate-destroying idea,
can result in q condition
Evening star., 1955-07-29

where a few great powers
barter away for the sake of
their own freedom from war
the lives and liberties of the
helpless, with no one raising
a finger to aid his neighbor.
In short, world peace is not
necessarily an instrument of
freedom, justice or truth. It
may be the opposite.
We recall that when the
various wartime agreements
notably that of Yalta-were
negotiated, conscientious crit
icisms were invariably quash-
ed with the cry, "You are
rocking the foundations Of
peace" The Russian Com
munists, in particular, have
called everybody a war
monger" who has reported
factually about human con-
ditions in Communist coun-
tries or about Communist
parties and apparatuses ev-
erywhere. Does peace" mean
nonresistance or nonviolent
resistance? And are we NOR
ally and intellectually pre-
pared for the latter?
In his opening address at
Geneva, Premier Bulkanin dis
missed the matter of the East
European satellites with the
phrase 1T is common knowl-
edge that the regime Of peo-
pies democracies has been
established in those countries
by their peoples themselves
through the free exercise Of
will"
No one took up the issue.
1t would have disturbed the
atmosphere Of good will"
Evening star., 1955-07-29
BROWN
Speech of 1920 Still Rings True

Europe, you will destroy her
power for good and endanger
her very existence.
Leave her to march freely
through the centuries to come
as in the years that have gone.
Strong. generous and confident.
she has nobly served mankind.
Beware how you trif1e with
your marvellous inheritance.
this great land of ordered lib
erty. for If we stumble and
fall. freedom and civilization
everywhere will 60 down In
ruin"
Evening star., 1955-07-29
President Gets Full Booking on Goal
Of Peace, but Appeosement Is Barred

Dwight Eisenhower Is today
more popular with the Amer
lean people than any Presi-
dent Of the United States has
been in the last half-century.
This is due not only to the
kindly and fair-minded per-
sonality of Mr.. Eisenhower but
to the confidence which the
people generally have in his
conscientious desire to carry
out the national and tnterna-
tional policies they want.
Politically, Mr.. Eisenhower
would win by a landslide II a
presidential election were held
this month. But whether he
will win in 1856 depends on
whether he maintains his
popularity - months from
now or suffers q dramatic re-
versal. Likewise, his political
fortunes a year hence would
depend on whether the Nation
is in a prosperous condition
or in the midst Of a recession.
One possibility of a decided
change in the curve Of the
Presidents popularity is re-
lated directly to some sources
Of his present strength which
could become weaknesses.
The urge to peace Is the
strongest passion In America
today. Mr.. Eisenhower to an
amazing extent has the sup
port of the two main bodies
of American opinion.
First, the President is
trusted by the average man,
who cannot be expected to
follow the details of world
problems and who feels that
Mr.. Eisenhower will do every
thing in his power to avoid
another world war.
Second, the President has
the confidence of those who
do follow foreign policy closely
and who believe that he will
not be taken in" or deceived
by the Russian strategy be-
cause, with his military back
ground, he is not likely to be
fooled or victimized by mere
promises without perform
anceS.
The months ahead will in
dicate what the true course
of the Communists is to be.
Mr.. Eisenhower may have to
Evening star., 1955-07-29

choose between a course for
America that could mean ap-
peasement-a tendency to let
the Communists consolidate
their gains-and a fortnight
and adamant position against
permitting Communist tyranny
to become a permanent fix
ture in the world.
The Democrats, although
divided as a party and lean
ing for the most part now to-
ward the appeasement side,
will not hesitate to take
political advantage of any
breaks" that go against the
President. They will hold him
responsible for any encourage
ment that the Russians may
derive for further acts of ag-
gression or enslavement of
weak countries. This has been
the political direction such de-
velopments usually have taken
in other parliamentary bodies.
The Communist game is a
tricky one. America is too
strong to be challenged in a
nuclear war. So the Soviets
have decided that what they
would not win by war they
might win by peaceful CO.
existence" So anxious are the
Western peoples for peace that
Mr.. Eisenhower promises to 60
ito any length" consistent with
justice and honor. But there
is a large element in America
which would just as readily
omit the qualification and ask
him to go to any length and
pay any price for peace.
The Soviets have turned on
the fountains of conciliatory
words and pleasing gestures.
Visits are to be exchanged by
high officials. Exchanges of
citizens groups are to be en-
couraged-and what is more
logical, they think, than the
opening thereafter of trade
barriers so that needed ma
chinery and raw materials can
flow to Soviet Russia?
It will take months for this
policy to be digested by the
Western world, and then will
come the appraisal by the pub
lie as to whether Mr.. Eisen-
hower's leadership has had the
net effect of strengthening
Soviet Russia's position at the
expense of the Western de-
Evening star., 1955-07-29
DORIS FLEESON

Fighting a rear-guard action
against racial integration in
the public schools, a relatively
small number of Southern
Congressman have killed the
school construction bill and
the public housing program in
this session of the Congress.
Now they have turned their
efforts to delaying the confir-
nation of Solicitor General
Simon E. Sobeloff who has
been nominated for a vacancy
on the Fourth Circuit Court
OF Appeals.
Mr.. Sobeloff, former chief
Justice Of the Maryland Court
of Appeals. is possessed of
that rare quality known as
wisdom. He Is both learned
and humane. AS Solicitor
General, an Office often more
desirable to lawyers than the
Attorney Generalship, he has
demonstrated a remarkable
independence of judgment.
He denies generously that
his independence, as demon
strated in the Peters case an
which he declined to sign the
Governments brief. has had
anything to do with his ap-
pointment to the bench. He
points out that the possibil-
ity of his appointment was
broached before that case
reached the Supreme Court,
and he declares that his rela-
tionships with Attorney Gen.
eral Brownell have been on the
pleasantest level.
Mr.. Sobeloff has, however.
in his insistence on the purity
of the Governments approach
to cases before the Supreme