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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16
Truman Ex-Aide'
WaiyesHearinu'

NEW YORK. Dec. ls tR.--I
Matthew J. Connolly. . former
President Harry s. Truman'sI
appointments secretary, has
waived q hearing on charges of
conspiracy to defraud the Cow
eminent in q tax case. He said
he wants to meet the issue
squarely."
Mr.. Connolly. 40, was held In
$1,000 bail yesterday before
United States Commissioner
Earle N. Bishop for an appear
anee in st. Louis Monday. Con-
nelly now has a public relations
Office here.
At his arraignment, Mr.. Con-
nelly's counsel, Francis w. H.
Adams, former New York police
commissioner, said the prosecu-I
ton springs from political mo-
tives and we want to meet them
as soon as possible"
Replied United States Attorney
Paul Williams:
This is definitely not q po-I
litical maneuver."
Indicted with Mr.. Connolly
were Harry I. Schwimmer, Sc.
former Kansas City (Mo0 attor-I
ney who now lives in New York,
and T. Lamar Caudle, 81, who
was fred by Mr.. Truman as head
OF the Justice Departments tax
division,
Mr.. Schwimmer, Mr.. CaudleI
and Mr.. Connolly are accused Of
conspiring to accept money and
favors for their influence In al
st. Lor~ Federal income tax
case.
Mr.. Schwimmer appeared be- |
fore Commissioner Bishop yes
terday and waived an identify
hearing. He Is also accused of
perjury in Missouri in an earlier
Indictment. He is due to appear
In st. Louis on Monday.
Mr.. Schwimmer has been free
in $4,000 bail on the perjury!
indictment. Commissioner Bishop
extended the bail to cover the
tax conspiracy charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16
Detention of33
IN US. Denied

GENEVA. Dec. Is up. - The
United States has denied a Red
Chinese charge that 80 Chinese
students are still detained
against their viii In America.
The charge was made in a
statement by the Chinese Com
muniSts which was distributed
here. United States Ambassador
U. Alexis johnson and Red
Chinese Envoy Wang Ping-nan
have been negotiating since
August | on repatriations and
other points in dispute between
Washington and Peiping.
The two ENJOYS agreed Sep
TENDER 8 that their countries
would cooperate in returning
home their respective nationals
who wanted to 60 back. About
20 Americans have been re-
leased from Red China since
that time, but IA others are still
In Communist prisons.
The latest Communist state
ment said that 80 of 1903 Chinese
students who asked "long ago.
for permission to return to their
country are being detained In
the United States.
Mr.. johnson declined to COM
ment in detail on the new Peip-
ing charge. he declared that
Red China's assertion 1t has
fully complied with the Septem-
Der 8 agreement and the charge
the United States has not done
so are completely contrary to
fact"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-02-04

More than $50 Jewish and Zion.
list leaders from twelve Southern
States will meet at the Biltmore
Hotel in Atlanta. Ca. for a two
day regional Conference of the
American Zionist Council. starting
Saturday evening. February S and
continuing through Sunday. Feb
ruarY 6. Prominent speakers will
address the gathering. At the
opening session on Saturday eve
ming one Of the speakers will be
Mrs. Samuel w. F1alprin. Vice
Chairman of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine: Chairman of the
Zionist Affairs Committee Of Had
assah.
The Southern Regional Confer
ence has been called by Rabbi IT.
wing Miller, Chairman of the
American Zionist Council, to dis
cuss Arab-Israel problems; the re-
lationship of. Americans to the
State of Israel; the Councils ex-
panded activities; and the work
that must be done by Jewish COM
munities to counteract the grow
ing anti-Israel, pro-Arab propa-
ganda which is being carried on
in the United States by enemies
of Israel.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-02-04
ALBANY, GEORGIA
ISrael'S Weatherman

nation, centered on the tower of
Lydia Airport. Organized in the
84-member international meteoro-
logical organization, they are in
constant touch with hundreds of
similar stations located between
Greenland, the Azores, India and
South Africa. They record Egypt's
and Jordan's weather information,
and the Arab neighbors do like
wise-as though there was peace
in the Near East. There is also
close exchange of information be-
tween Israel and the Arab States
on locusts.
During the next "a hours. the
weather will be fine" says the an
nouncer after the newscast. add
ing. "and this for shipping in the
Mediterranean: there will be a
south WESTERLY breeze during the
night. and the sea will be quallY."
To put this short announcement
together. the meteorclogists have
TO study countless coded reports
which come in over their wireless
from countless places. add to them
a look at the cloud composition.
measure moisture in the air and
air currents. and see from where
the wind is coming.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-02-04
FRENCH JEWISH CONGRESS
GROUP OPPOSES RE-ARMING
OF GERMANY

PARIS, (JTA) - The French
Section of the World Jewish Con-
gress reaffirmed this week opposi-
to the rearming of Germany. In a
second resolution, the section ap-
proved of measures taken by the
World Congress to safeguard the
position of Jews in North Africa.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-02-04
BY NURA LASKY
Copyright. 1855, Jewish Telegraphic
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JERUSALEM
Even if in Israel there is a GER
tain regularity in the weather.
with seven completely dry and
warm months and the rest Of the
year cool and wet on the whole
bat with chances Of weeks Of sun
shine. the small band Of govern
ment weathermen are busy "a
hours every day and 365 days a
year. predicting what il will be
like tomorrow and the day after.
watching out for approaching
cold waves. heat waves. rains.
sandstorn1s. and measuring rain
fall and temperatures. and pres
sure and moisture in the air at
various attitudes.
Meteorologists have been busy
in Palestine for the past los years.
In the early days missionaries re-
ported and recorded what nature
brought the country. Now, a team
of highly trained scientists main
tain an intricate system of infor-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-02-04

Harpo Marx: "Some fellows be-
lieve in dreams until they marry
one"
Evening star., 1955-02-21
BY Charles E. 7roceweN

He throws in an extra word, hitched
onto one phrase, and thereby takes it
away from the next natural phrase or
group of words, and this whole process
makes his talk hard to understand, or
what is worse, 1t makes the listener
laugh at him, which Is something
he does not want. because he is deadly
serious.
No, correctness is not enough, but it
is something.
1t may be regarded as basic, and
every good writer and reader-they are
often the same-puts stress on cor
rectness.
He will not, however, stress it to the
point of making it the all-in-all OF
writing, as some do.
All the books about words are good.
The danger they run Is to put too much
stress on mistakes. Heaven knows, no
one wants to make a mistake, II for
no other reason than that one does
not care to give some one chance to
take a pot-shot at him, but there Is
something worse; 1t is simply falling
to catch the spirit of the thing. This
spirit. this inner conviction, as 1t may
be called, is the real heart of writing,
and If writer has it. he may be ex-
cused great deal, If necessary even
a plain mistake, now and then. He is
an unfortunate reader who ever lets
q small mistake spoil good whole.
Evening star., 1955-02-21
This Town of Ours

Something that is wholly bad has hap
pened in Washington when an elderly
woman can be yoked, beaten and robbed
at Seventeenth and K streets NV. at 10:30
in the evening.
Mrs. Potbury will survive the brutal
thing which happened to her while return
ing from a National Geographic Society
lecture to her home at the YWCA. And,
thanks to the alertness of a passerby, the
four men accused of this crime are under
arrest.
These fortunate circumstances will
hardly lessen the sense of shock, however,
that such a thing could happen in WASH
ington at such busy intersection at such
an early hour Yet we must face the fact
that vicious yokings and robberies are al
most nightly affairs in this Capital City of,
ours. Unless we stop dealing too gently
with these criminals and begin to treat
them for what they are, the condition is one
which lis going to get worse instead of
better.
Evening star., 1955-02-21
Mental Cuses at D. c. General

Lifting restrictions for the treatment
of mental patients at District General
Hospital may bring about some cures
and some good results.
The Star and those who have helped
accomplish this should not forget that
although District General Hospital
itself Is not a Jail, its psychiatric ward
certainly is-if the simplified definition
for Jail is a place you cannot get out
Of Many of the patients there are
held against their will and must serve
as guinea pigs for the psychiatric doc
tors.
OF course those doctors are humani-
tarians and have the best interest OF
the patients at heart, but many OF
these treatments are not past the
experimental stage. and using them on
patients who have not given their
consent or who are not adequately
protected by law seems to me to be
a serious abridgment of human rights.
If the psychiatric clinic at District
General Hospital were experimenting
on dogs, a great howl Of protest would
go up from the SPCA. It is not likely
that any one will care what happens
to a few mental cases, however.
RIG,
Evening star., 1955-02-21

CORRECTNESS is not enough" says
Sir Ernest Covers in his Plain Words:
Their ABC," as published by Alfred A.
Knopf.
For many years, H. w. and F. G..
Fowlers 1.-The Kings English" and
H w. Fowlers "A Dictionary of Modern
English Usage have been standard for
this sort of thing.
America has its own Rudolph Flesch
with his 1.-THE Art of Plain Talk and
other volumes, addressed to much the
same task, of trying to make us say
what we think in the best way we can
In other words, get as far away from
"gobbledy -gook" as possible.
Sir Ernest heads his last chapter with
the following quotation from Roger
Ascham, who, 400 years ago, wrote:
"He that will write well in any tongue,
must follow the counsel of Aristotle,
to speak as the common people do. to
think as wise men do: and so should
every man understand him, and the
Judgment of wise men allow him."
Official writing. as it may be called.
often tends to be lawyer like, which too
often means almost incomprehensible.
Plain, everyday writing often STUN
bles on simplicity.
To be plain, is to be so plain that the
reader knows exactly what the writer
means.
Too long sentences, elaborate
Notwithstanding thoughts, words that
Evening star., 1955-02-21

electric powss system and paying the
interest on this money from our taxes.
If the customers of iva had to pay a
6 per cent return on the cost of IVA,
their electric bills would be mere $100
million higher, not to mention tax
bill of around $40 million more. Surely
the customers of IVA should be willing
to pay the true cost of their electricity
by this time. Or does Senator Kefauver
want the taxpayers to keep on subsidi-
zing his constituents electricity in this
fashion forever?
What VEPCO and Dixon-Yates would
like to get rid of is this very misleadig
Government-subs ''yardstick."
say it is time for the private electric
companies to mobilize their customers
to fight for their fair share of any cheap
hydroelectric power the Government
has to sell and to demand that Uncle
Sam stop using their tax money for
interest-free steam plants to supply
IVA power! Let's start collecting inter-
est on the billions already advanced and
have fair payments in lieu of Federal
taxes on this huge business! President
Eisenhower is on the right track
incidentally, Senator Kefauver's COM
parison of PEPCO and VEPCO rates
is similarly misleading. PEPCO is now
making less than 5 per cent on its
investment and rate increase of
substantial proportions is now being
processed. PEPCO serves an urban and
suburban area with high income level.
Much of the VEPCO territory is poor
by comparison and expensive to serve.
The Alexandria rates include a subsidy
for these high-cost areas.
Parke Payne.
Evening star., 1955-02-21
This and That

do not actually mean what the writer
thinks they mean
These are few of the ways writer
may confuse the reader.
The reader, however. has his part to
play. .....
Unfortunately, there are some readers
for whom no amount of proper word
selection is enough.
Neither correctness nor word selection
gets through to them, because they do
not read well.
Primarily, we believe (after listening
to several well-known radio announc-
ers) the failure of many to read well
goes back to lack of understanding Of
the natural phrases in writing.
Phrasing is also part of music.
= Too often, otherwise good musicians
lack any real knowledge Of how to
phrase a melody, that is, give it as the
composer had it in mind.
In writing. phrasing is equally i'm
portant.
Words come in groups, in the mind,
in writing, and must be read in the
same groupings, If they are to be
understood, and, what is more, liked.
The phrase, as an integral part of
writing, is not understood as 1t should
be, hence too many readers fail to
phrase what they read. 1t is easy to
understand this. when some one reads
aloud, as O news broadcaster does.
Evening star., 1955-02-21
No Doctor in the House? ,

The Star reports congressional con-
fusion and opposition to the Presidents
health plan. Even Mrs. Hobby is a
little vague about its operation. She
refers congressional questioners to her
niore-informed Assistant Secretary.
Roswell B. Perkins. Where was DR..
Chester Scott Keefer, Mrs. Hobby's
own selection as special assistant in
health and medical affairs? The an
swer to this question might well explain
why the Presidents health program
has more enemies than friends.
Organized medicine always has wanted
a separate Department of Health. Such
cabinet Status for doctor would give
the Nations estimated 10000 physi-
clans in private practice direct partici-
patton in policy making. Shortly after
his inauguration, President Eisenhower
appeared before an unprecedented spe-
cial session of our ANA House of Dele
gates. With Senator Taft to back him,
President Eisenhower told organized
medicine he was opposed to giving
medicine cabinet status, comparable to
labor. Instead, under his proposed Re-
organization Plan No. /. the political
humanities, health, education and vel
Evening star., 1955-02-21
Town and Gown Make Up

FeudS between "town and gown" have
been relatively commonplace throughout
history, but certainly one of the Oldest and,
unhappily, one Of the bloodiest has been
going on for 800 years between Oxford
University and its home community OF
Oxford, England. It has ended only now,
in ceremonies clothed in dignity typical
of English pageantry and in an atmosphere
of good will between the scholars and the
townsmen. To symbolic this "burying of
the hatchet," the university has conferred
upon the Mayor doctorate of civil laws,
while the Town Council made the univer-
sity's vice chancellor freeman of the
town."
Antagonisms that arose when the uni
versity was founded 800 years ago-with
carousing and irresponsible students pitted
against obdurate tradeSmen and towns
people-reached its most tragic climax 200
years later when there were mob killings
on each side and most Of the college build
ings were burned to the ground For the
past 100 years, the feuding has been more
in the nature of good, clean fun" although
with its traces of bitterness at times.
In our own country there have been
manifestations of this mutual distaste be-
tween the academic and the workaday
worlds, but none comes to mind that ap-
proaches the emotional pitch displayed in
theoretically sedate England. In fact, one
must move to other stages in American life
to find some "feuding and fussing" that
offers any parallel in violence. The Hatflelds
and the McCoys, for example, managed to
do a little part-time killing although their
exercises in craftsmanship were confined
primarily to eligible family members. Our
great civil war" is still being fought"
conversationally over many cheering cup,
but the killing and the burning ended for
the most part some 80 years ago. 1t could
continue for a long time, OF course. in the
taverns and the drawing rooms, but the
principal weapons-the accents of North
and South-are not noticeably dangerous
to life or limb. One suspects, in fact, that
some of this kind of feuding may continue
for a while in "olde Oxforde towne."
Evening star., 1955-02-21
Fons the Flames Of Genius

MONTGOMERY County is to be con-
graduated on It's plan to do something
about the future of the gifted children
in its puDlic schools. Much has been
ACCOMPLISHED in the field of special
education for the retarded child. but to
date no similar consideration has been
given the child of higher than average
intelligence upon whom the progress OF
our country depends.
It is high time that those who have
been entrusted with the expenditure OF
our tax dollars in the field of education
realize that no greater folly could be
committed than to deny the gifted
child the accelerated program and
special teachers that would permit him
to progress according to his mental
capacity and special abilities. Unless
his parents can afford the added ex-
pense of good private school, the
gifted child is confined to the level OF
the average and slow learners in his
age group in the public schools.
Although the program in our public
schools today is geared to the attain
ment level Of the average child, there is
no justification for forcing the above
average, fast-learning children to pro-
ceed far below their mental capacities
at this same level. Such method is
every bit as cruel and wasteful as it
would be to force the average and slow
to keep pace with the gifted.
AS a taxpayer in Prince Georges
County and the mother Of an 8-year-
old whose school, administered achieve
Evening star., 1955-02-21

fare. were to be combined. But to
compensate for this bitter disappoint-
ment, the primacy Of health security
was to be recognized by creating the
high-level position of Special Assistant
in Health and Medical Affairs. Presi-
dent Eisenhower left no doubt that this
appointee not only would be prac-
ticing physician but he would have
responsible leadership. Our ANA re-
luctantly approved the disappointing
half loaf
After four months of screening nomi-
nees for security and professional cre-
dentials, DR.. Keefer was appointed the
Nations first family doctor. Unlike
every other appointee to high-level
Government post, DR.. Keefer was per-
mitted to continue as chief physician
of Massachusetts, Memorial Hospital
and as Wade Professor of Medicine at
Boston University. There is nothing
morally wrong about shutting between
Boston and Washington to carry out
commitments in both cities. Phone in
auiries I made recently would indicate
that being the Nations family doctor
still is part-time job. I am sure that
when President Eisenhower promised
our House of Delegates to give the
healing arts substantial recognition and
authority, he did not mean second
class delegation of responsibility and
power. He should require Mrs. Hobby
to carry out both the spirit and the
letter of his Reorganization Plan No. l.
And when that is done doctor will
speak for doctors. just as President
Eisenhower solemnly promised our
House of Delegates in the presence OF
Senator Taft.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Evening star., 1955-02-21
Too Many Words

One can readily sympathize with Rep
resentative Ostertag, Republican, of New
York, who complained the other day about
"mankind's ferocious habit Of putting every
thing down on paper" Mr.. Ostertag's chief
sorrow was for the Library of Congress and
the tons of books with which 1t is deluged,
but it does not stop there. There are too
many words to be read everywhere. Long
before one raises the price of new book
which has excited the interest, there are
ten more published that seem equally inter-
esting. The confusion drives ones head into
the sand of rereading old favorites
It Is not only books. There are maga-
zines to be read and reports to be read and
seed catalogs to be read. One promises
oneself to throw away, without reading, the
daily allotment of advertising matter in
ones mailbox, but this stage is never quite
reached. 1t is difficult to ignore an un-
opened envelope. Bulletin board notes must
be carefully read, to keep abreast of hap
penings at the office and in the neighbor-
hood.
The club magazine must be read, lest
an item in which one Is mentioned be over
looked. There are letters to be read and,
worse, to be answered, thereby creating
more reading. The interofiice memoran-
dunn, too. is out of hand, as even the lowest
Evening star., 1955-02-21
Retires to an Active Life

I was very much interested In 81.
Leslie's" recent letter entitled, "Those
on Fixed Incomes" I retired about a
year and half ago at 81, after nearly
40 years Of Government service. and
am writing of my experiences first be-
cause I believe "Leslie's" approach to
the problem of retirement is pathet-
ically wrong and secondly in the hope
that some Of those who will retire in
the future will read this and profit
thereby.
Retirement-as see its phase
of life that calls for careful and we'll
thought-out planning similar to the
preparation for ones life work. A per-
son who retires cannot expect to sit
back and let society take care OF his
activities. He has got to make his
place in the sun entirely through his
own efforts. If he wants to feel
needed" he. must engage In useful
activities that produce goods or serv-
ices needed by society; otherwise he
is like the small boy whose family
moved to a new neighborhood and who
ran crying to his mother because the
kids did not ask him to play with
them.
I am not referring to the unfortu-
nate people who retire because OF dis
ability, but a person who has led an
active life can't expect to retire at go,
65 or 10 and live happily for the rest
of the journey in a rocking chair with
hands folded in his lap. Society at large
is not going to seek out retlree and
wet-nurse his activities. If retiree has
not outlived his usefulness it is up to
him to prove it. No one else will do 1t
for him.
My many friends, relatives and &C
uuaintances who have retired may
properly be divided into two classes.
In the first group are those who have
planned their retirement in accordance
with their financial means and per-
sonal preferences. You will find this
group travelling and seeing places they
have wanted to see for years, or II
they elected to stay put you will find
that they are 5usily engaged in some
constructive activity; If not on their
own, then in some community activity.
church work, Red Cross scout troops or
PTA, to mention a few. The other
group idly sits around bemoaning the
fact that they have nothing to do and
crying that no one loves them any
more.
In my own case, started planning
for. retirement at least five years before
it was a fait accompli. I have been
self-supporting since was IL and have
led an active life, picking up three
college degrees en- route. I have two
hobbies that keep me busy and bring
in a few dollars and am seriously
considering qualifying for a third.
do not intend to rust out-I'me gonna
wear out.
Retired but Busy.