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Evening star., 1955-07-15
Not the Woy to Do 1t

The Star has been urged, by letter
and telephone, to sponsor fund-raiSing
campaign in appreciation Of the ex-
traordinary services being rendered this
strike-bound community by the police.
The money would be used to reimburse
policemen for uncompensated overtime,
including Sundays, holidays and regular
days of. The sentiment underlying
these proposals is shared by The Star.
We regret, however, that we cannot un-
dertake such drive, for several reasons.
In the first place, there is now pend
Ing before Congress legislation which
would accomplish the same end in reg
ular and proper way-by authorization
and appropriation. A community drive
for private contributions not only might
prove to be unnecessary but conceivably
might imperil passage of the special
legislation. Congress well might question
the need for passing bill If policemen
are to be given private help in the ener-
gency.
Anyway, it seems wrong to have to
pass the hat, so to speak, to provide funds
that should be a legitimate responsibility
of the Commissioners and Congress. The
police are entitled to be paid for all days
worked. They have been on duty seven
days a week during the strike but are
being paid for only five days week.
Senate and House District Committees
have moved for quick passage OF measures
to pay for extra days worked.
Moreover, Chief Murray, while CRATE
full for the praise being heaped on his
department from many quarters, believes
1t would be a mistake to raise fund by
civic subscription for his men. 1t is
against the departments long-standing
policy for policemen to accept gratuities
from citizens. Even rewards offered in
outstanding captures and other cases
must be passed on by the Commissioners
before they can be accepted. The Chief
prefers action through normal channels
In all matters relating to wages and hours.
For that reason he has declined, with
thanks, offers of financial aid to police
fnen during the current crisis. We think
his stand is sound.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
Raise for Annuitonts

Recently, Joseph Young
stated that Senator Johnston,
chairman of the Senate Post
Office and Civil Service Com
mittee, had introduced a bill
to grant an increase of $3.50 per
annum to all Federal Civil
Service annuitants, and. the
Senator said, IF the admins
tration approved the bill, it
could be enacted into law very
quickly, but If it met with op-
position and required time for
argument, it could not pass at
this session of Congress"
Congress has been very gen.
erouS in raising the pay of
classified and postal employees
and others and has been ex-
tremely generous in making its
own pay increases and allow
ances. Indeed, The Star stated
recently that there would be a
second round of pay increases
for certain House and Senate
employees.
Legislation has also been ap-
proved by Congress, granting
a rs per cent increase in the
annuities Of Foreign Service
officers who retired before July
/, 1945, and S per cent to those
who retired later. Why is ii
that Congress does not legislate
a Is per cent increase in the
annuities Of Federal civil serv-
ice employees who retired be-
fore July /, 1945, as the an
nuities Of these employees were
not figured on as generous a
basis as the annuities of later
retirees. Nor were they given
credit for all their years oi
service.
1t is hard for me to believe
that Congress will adjourn
without giving any thought tt
the plight of Federal civil serv.
ice annuitants, many of whom
especially the older retirees
need financial help more thar
those who have been favored
by Congress with pay increases
Veronica Quinn.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
First Born

All night the young mite lay
on the feather bed,
In the ebb and fotD OF pain
In q. suroino tide,
Her husband marked q Maroon
mile: iDith restless tread
And pondered stars where
the sky was dark and
iDide,
And the g)hy of men and trees
th0 OreD and died,
But left: their seedlings deep
In Jecund earth.
When the: ddwn iDGs a gem on
the. eastern crest
He learned the height and
breadth of the mystery,
A crumEiled rose-ledf son at
th1 mothers breast
Bespoke Gods pattern so
cl.ar and plain that he
Went forth to plant ten seeds
Of the tDincsap tree,
That vecurrent spring bring
forth erultdnt birth.
Mmo Robson Hisbes
Evening star., 1955-07-15

are not the final answer. This
can come only with the wiping
out of infection ITSELF goal
which still appears In the far
distance. The major way of
doing this is to catch an in
lection and eliminate 1t just
as soon as it develops. This
is accomplished In part by the
annual chest X-ray examina-
tions.
Once the disease gets q good
start. the report emphasizes.
it always has been quite ex-
pensive to treat and Is be-
coming more 80. During the
high tide Of the disease during
the 10th century the frequent
ly prescribed treatment was
"climate"-send the patient to
some warm, dry place with
plenty of sunshine. This was ,
all right so far as it went
but victims seldom actually re-
covered. They might live q
lot longer. But they were inn
mobilized, or greatly handi-
capped in earning a living, all
their lives. There grew UP
communities of consumptives
about whose only source Of live
lihood was taking In each
others washings." This was
hard. if not impossible, for the
poor.
New Treatment Techniques
For the past two decades this
change of residence philosophy
has lost adherents rapidly.
The requirement, 1t was found.
was skilled care over q pro.
longed period in specially de-
signed establishments. Loca-
tion and climate. with some
outstanding exceptions. made
little difference.
But this has only made the
cost greater for the individual.
1t would be fine II the great
white plague picked only on
the wealthy. but it never has
shown any tendency to show
such convenient discrimina-
ton. It has shown, in fact. a
considerable preference for the
poor. forcedly living in more
or less unsanitary surround
ings.
But one tuberculosis victim
is as important to society as
another - just as likely to
spread the infection to others.
AS a result. the report stresses,
it has come more and more to
be recognized that the fight
against TB is a problem fol
the community as a whole. The
danger is both to the unfor-
tunate victim and everybody
with whom he comes care
lessly in contact.
Now, says the report, some
of the largest private sanitaria
are closing down with the real
ization that treatment Is not
for q limited group.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

other girl for thinking. how
ever, that he was honking at
her. He had been doing 1t
for a year, hadn't he?
He had, and this morning
was the payoff.
would you like q lift?"
asked the persistent suitor, or
something.
"Oh, thank you," said the
lady, politely but coolly.
The brightest specimen on
the Avenue smiled her &C
ceptance, too, and they all got
in.
The conversation was in the
best casual style.
No reference whatever to
the daily honking. no word
about the daily refusal either.
but all was nice and cour-
teous.
For some reason or other
(you would have to ask the
young ladies for this), no
names were passed, and by
the second day, 1t was too
late.
- - ~
So came the morning when
the one brown -eyed one was
taking her devious way
through the alleys. and the
other walked straight to the
corner, as usual.
This time the latter had on
a blue dress, which made her
more stunning than ever.
The dear reader will believe
by this time we are on the side
of the Christmas tree-neon
light-posture girl, and he or
she will be right.
This slight story OF hectic
traffic days we got from her.
It Is her story, and as far as
we are concerned, she is the
heroine.
We are willing to bet, at this
safe distance, that the guy Is
really honking for her. now.
as who wouldn't?
The blue dress isn't quite as
electrifying, but it makes the
old Avenue look very nice.
As far as we have found out,
no names have been ex-
changed yet, the first girl con-
tinued to wend her way out
of the alley, and the other girl
to come down the street, and
the kind fellow to take them
downtown.
1t was all a part Of the
traffic picture, a small vignette
of life in a modern city. and
showed why people weren't
taking the taxis, much to the
dismay Of their drivers. You
Just didn't have to, especially
If you had brown eyes.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
tuberculosis Still a Serious Threot
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

The "great white plague"
still Is rampant in the United
States.
More than 1,2o0, 900 Amer
leans still suffer with tuber-
culosis. with all its resulting
disabilities. The actual death
rate has dropped astoundingly
since the turn Of the century
from 245 per 100000 In 1904
to II per 100000 in 1854. The
fact remains that the number
Of new cases reported yearly
is not falling so rapidly as the
death rate. There has been
much public Misrepresentation
as so-called miracle drugs"
have been introduced since the
war, but the wax-armored tu-
bercle bacillus remains ma
levolent and threatening.
These conclusions are
stressed in the annual report
Just issued by the D. C. Tuber-
culosis Association.
Complacency Is Dangerous
Growing complacency. it is
pointed out, may well be the
greatest ally of the insidiouS
"bug killer"
During the past ten years
three widely proclaimed drugs.
and probably a half dozen
others not so widely known,
have been introduced. First,
in 1914, was streptomycin. 1t
prevented the multiplication
Of the tubercale bacillus in
test tubes and, it later was
demonstrated, in human be-
ings. 1t should be stressed,
the report says, that this drug
didn't actually kill the germs.
It stopped their reproduction.
1t saved lives but didn't pre-
vent infection, per Sc.
But within a few months
after streptomycin came into
general use a serious defect
developed. The bacillus is a
subtle organism, tenacious OF
life. Mutations developed, re-
sulting in strains Of germs on
which the miracle drug had no
effect. Some, in fact, may
have come to require it. !
Then it was found that the
ability of the germs to acquire
streptomycin resistance was
greatly inhibited by a syn
thetic chemical, para-amino.
salycilic acid, and that the
two drugs could be used in
combination with much more
effectiveness than the anti
biotic, close relative Of peni-
cillin, alone. About four years
ago a still more effective mu'
tation inhibiter, isoniazid, wa:
introduced. Other drugs, still
under test by hospitals ane
pharmaceutical houses, ma!
be even more effective.
But, the Tuberculosis Asso'
citation report stresses. thest
Evening star., 1955-07-15
Separation of Powers

Two fundamental issues are involved
In President Eisenhower's special message
to Congress, informing the lawmakers
that he will consider as invalid one pro-
vision Of the $32-billion Defense Depart
ment appropriation bill "unless otherwise
determined by court Of competent juris-
diction." The provision would make sub
ject to House or Senate Appropriations
Committee vetoes any decision by the de-
partment to terminate its operation Of
business-type facilities.
The issue raised specifically by the
President is the constitutional one, bear
ing upon the separation Of powers be-
tween the executive, legislative and
judicial branches of Government. It Is
an issue on which other Presidents have
clashed with Congress in jealous guard
ianship Of the Executive prerogativeS. In
this case, Mr.. Eisenhower-noting he had
been advised by the Attorney General on
the matter-deScribed the provision as an
encroachment which would establish "a
dangerous precedent" and for that rea-
son he would not acquiesce unless a COM
petent court should find the Executive
position incorrect. Significantly, perhaps,
opposition comment in Congress placed
greater emphasis upon retaliation"
against the President than upon forcing a
court determination on the question.
The second issue is a more purely
partisan one, involving Democratic OPP
position to the Republican administra-
tions program to curtail Federal Govern
merit activities in fields normally suited
to private enterprise. The President often
has placed himself on record in favor Of
such curtailment and the second Hoover
Commission recommended widespread
withdrawal of the Federal Government
from business-type activities. The COM
mission, finding that the Defense De-
partment was operating approximately
$500 such facilities, proposed that 1000
of these be eliminated or transferred to
private hands. Actually, the department
already has rid itself of many of these
and, earlier this year, Budget Director
Hughes ordered similar effort by all Gov
ernment agencies and departments.
This is, of course, question calling
for careful determination in each case.
There have been good reasons for Govern
ment operation OF certain business-type
facilities and there will be good reason to
continue such operation in many cases.
It is dificult to see, however, how legis-
lative committee, divided on partisan
basis, could be more competent to make
these determinations than would reSpon-
sible officials of the executive branch.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
Appeal for Animals

With summers intense heat
upon uhs, may we remember
the animal world around us,
so many members of which are
in desperate need. not only
from heat distress, but from
purposeEy imposed distresses,
greatly ! aggravated by the
heat. Cdmmon sense and sim
pie mercy indicate that ami
NAL life; is subject, like us. to
greater or lesser measures of
suffering, in intense heat and
that mankind in exercising
dominion over it should avoid
neglect and deliberate exploit
tation upon 1t for any reason
whatsoever.
The greatest needs of heat
worried creatures are for COOL
ing water. food and shelter.
and the security and love of
home. Therefore, give all the
hot weat1 Ter comfort possible
to your own pets and farm
stock and befriend any pitiful
homeless DOR abandoned things
you might discover. In addi-
tion. pity. and speak for all
creatures Icaged in unnatural
confinement, often so home
sick, as in circuses. carnivalS.
ZOOS and pt,t shops, pounds and
shelters, and certainly in
slaughteririg plants and ex-
perimentaI laboratories. or
being transported to such. In
sist upon their humane care.
the create st possible allevia-
ton of their present condition
and the pr evention Of further
distress or pain to them.
Vinyinia w. Sargent,
Animal Protective Associa-
ton.
Evening star., 1955-07-15

When is the longest way
round not the shortest way
home?
When 1t is in the other di-
rection, of course. and espe-
cially when it occurs during q
transit strike.
Romance always waves q
hand or toots a horn.
One of those days when the
bus wasn't running, and there
were no streetcars, and peo-
pie tried to thumb rides in
stead of taking taxis, a very
lovely young girl with brown
hair and fine brown eyes came
slowly down a Northwest
alley toward a bus stop.
There was no bus, but the
stop was still there, and it was
the best place to smile sweetly
and get a lift downtown.
This young lady had not
come directly, but by devious
ways, because she didn't want
a certain young man with a
Southern accent to know Just
where she lived.
The guy had been honking
at her for a year, a sign OF
devotion, according to modern
city standards.
Never once had she let on
that she had ever heard him.
or seen him. It wasn't until
later that she learned he was
from the South. Probably sew
en- cut of ten in the District Of
Columbia and its environs are
from thataway. so this was
nothing unusual.
The girl with the brown eyes
had gone down one alley and
up another and very carefully
this way and that. to throw
the fellow off the trail.
This morning, however, with
no buses running, she rather
thought she might take him
up. If he honked.
Sure enough. this time he
honked as usual, but it was a
question of who or whom he
was shouting at, because there
was another brown-haired girl
there in perhaps the brightest
dress on the Avenue.
1t was a sort of cross be-
tween burnt orange or cardinal
red, something electric. as they
say, standing out on the drab
street like a mixture of Christ
mas tree and neon light.
The lady inside the dress
was a sumner, with real pos
ture, none of this slouch stun
so popular among the casual
set.
No. she was a real American
beauty.
You couldn't blame the
Evening star., 1955-07-15
Hopeful Petition

There was an understandable note
of hopefulneSs in the Republican con-
gressional petition asking President
Eisenhower to run for a second term.
For the 54 signers of this appeal are the
COP. freshmen and sophomores" OF the
House of Representatives who were first
elected to Congress in the Nationwide
Republican victory of 1852 or in the more
limited party success in 1854. In either
case, the petitioners are not alone In
their obvious feeling that the Eisenhower
name very probably contributed signif1-
cantly to their political popularity-and
that it might do so again in 1856. In
politics, as in so many other games,
there is great reluctance to tinker with
a winning lineup.
In all fairness, though, it might also
be said that the petitioners drew up
reasonably persuasive document In en-
phasizing the current economic good
health of the Nation and the fact that
there is kind of peace in the world. For
both ofsthese, the Republican group quite
UNDERSTANDABLE conferred major credit
upon the Eisenhower administration and
It's policies. And while there are, OF
course, differing opinions on this question
of where credit belongs, the existence OF
prosperity and peace is less subject to
debate.
AS for Mr.. Eisenhower's reaction to
the congressional appeal, it probably was
no more or less conclusive than expected.
The business of smoking out" Presi-
dent on his next-term intentions is
standard political procedure. Both
friends and foes, as well as neutrals,
would like to know the answer-each for
their own reasons Mr.. Eisenhower has
learned this, as part of his political edu-
cation. His most definitive answer, up
to now, was that given at his news con-
ference on July when he said: THAT
is decision have to reach for myself
sometime"
Evening star., 1955-07-15

even though one has guided similar ex-
cursions for dozen Sundays past.
The wheatland City Council now
should take the next logical step, and
make loafing mandatory for one hour
day. 1t might start a Nationwide trend
and give one the time he needs for doing
nothing at ALL
Evening star., 1955-07-15
LETTERS. TO THE STAR

Pa1 names may be used u
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sGti0t.
Evening star., 1955-07-15

@. At what age Is a person
considered too old to learn?
r. Y,
A. One is never too old to
learn, according to modern
ways Of thinking. Learning is
related to the brains ability to
create certain new electric cir
cults, and as long as that
power remains q person can
acquire new knowledge or
skillS-even at 90.
Evening star., 1955-07-15

of Kigidly scheduled buses in
quantity would free great areas
of city streets for parking. space
for cars and quicken the gen.
eral tempo of traffic, while at
the A'ame time providing ade-
quate transportation for former
trolley passengers.
ClarkSOn ]. Beal.
Evening star., 1955-07-15
Eiohts On
ClarksOn ]. Beah.

sSs"sS Sb
Hel,er H. Rice's recent let
ter recalling Lincoln's Civil
War prayers is wicked. His
intinnation that the inglorious
Yankee victory at Gettysburg
was brought about through
the will of God is near to sac
rilege& Were not thousands of
suffer- ng people in the South
earnestly praying that this
battle would bring to an end
the most hateful and iniqui-
tous War ever urged against
a people?
The Confederacys magnifi-
cent struggle for four years
against overwhelming odds
brought on by the Unions
treacherous. abandonment of
the sacred covenants of the
founding fathers will be
praised by all liberty-loving
people through all ages.
Sece ssion was the-on1y hon.
orable1 answer to the Unions
betrayal Of its trust, but the
infami,us Yankee invasion of
1861 was not only a swagger-
ing display of unmitigated gall
and insult heaped upon base
tyranny but a supreme ex-
ample yof early United States
Imperialism;
En- gene F. Malcolm, jr,
Evening star., 1955-07-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Evening star., 1955-11-20
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SIDNEY GIRLS IN SENIOR
YEAR OF NURSES TRAINING

Miss Mary Lawrence, daughter
Of MI. and Mrs. Harold Lawrence,
and Miss Erma Fink, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Fink, who
have been vacationing at their
respective homes in Sidney, left
Saturday evening over the N. P,
from Glendive for Glen Lake,
MINI, where they will take the
first six weeks of their senior
year of nurses training at the
Glenn Lake Sanitarium. After
they have completed their course
at Glenn Lake they will go to
Omaha, Neb., for utilization in
psychiatry at Creighton Universe
ty with clinical experience at St.
Joseph's hospital until Nov. 81.
Both girls are student nurses at
Holy Rosary hospital in Miles
City. Miss Lawrence has been a
popular soloist both in the school
and for civic affairs in the city.
Miss Fink was chairman of the
committee for the recent outdoor
western show given by the stu
dent nurses for the Central School
faculty.
The Sidney herald., 1955-10-13

grammarian Clint Fulkerson and
gave suggestions for improved
meetings.