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Evening star., 1955-05-22
LETTERS TO THE STAR

standing, I feel I owe it to
Mr.. Holmes and readers of The
Star to present the facts, which
can easily be obtained by tele-
phoning the American Dental
Association and perusing back
issues of the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
1t is not true that the time
requirements are the same in
both these professions. Only 6
of the A approved dental
schools require 3 years Of pre-
dental work, the remainder 2.
All approved medical schools
require at least 3 years of pre-
medical training. DR.. Merrill
misleads when he implies that
it is common for dentists to
intern, for internships are
available for only 10 per cent
of current dental graduates.
Dental internShip is required
law in but one State; medical
internship is required in 26
States and the territories. Most
doctors but few dentists hold
resident appointments as part
Of their training.
Thus a dentist can easily
start practice 6 years after
high school graduation, a doc
tor no sooner than 8 and more
typically 10 to IL.
The question of whether
dental care is worth $36 per
hour is so ridiculous as to re-
quire no comment from this
source.
Jasper T. Bohring.
Evening star., 1955-05-22

as major contributors to American pros
perity. And at least equally important, In
times of war, they have been key instru-
ments of victory both for ourselves and
our allies.
At present, numerous leaders in this
field are worried by the fact that the
United States, during the past year, has
dropped from seventh to twelfth place
among nations building commercial yes
sells. However, in view of what our Gov
ernment is doing to develop history's first
atomic-powered nonmilitary ship, the
worry seems in some ways to be exag-
gerated Certainly, if the past and present
are sound measure of future perform
ance, the American merchant marine can
be counted upon to continue rendering the
best Of service to all of us.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
PhHodelohio Story

local political SklrmlSh that may
have an important impact on the 1856
national elections has just been fought
out in Philadelphia. The result can be
interpreted, at this point as favorable
to the Eisenhower wing of the Republican
Party. 1t may also be favorable to G. O.P.
chances of capturing Pennsylvania's 80
electoral votes next year and of holding
Republican seat in the tight race for
control of the Senate.
The Philadelphia contest was a pri-
mary for nomination of mayoralty candi-
dates, with the significant test being
showdown between two Republican fac
tionS. One of these, the loser, was the
remnant of a city machine which for
years had controlled Philadelphia, thereby
eXerting powerful influence in State
wide Republican affairs. Deterioration Of
this machine became evident in 1851 when
a Democratic reform ticket won the mu-
nicipal elections. 1t was confirmed in 1852
when the Eisenhower Nixon ticket, al
though carrying Pennsylvania, trailed in
Philadelphia by $4,000 votes. The fact
that Statewide Republican power was
badly hurt by this crumbling of prestige
of Old Guard forces was demonstrated in
1854 when the Democrats won the Cover
norship for the first time in many years.
Even so, the discredited faction Of the
G.. P. city machine refused to give up
and the party went into the recent pri-
mary deeply split. The result was another
reputation of the Old Guard-at least
for the top prize of the mayoralty nom
ination-and victory for young liberal
group headed by Thacher Longstreth, a
34-year-old advertising executive who was
a prominent leader in the Citizens for
Eisenhower movement in 1852.
Significantly, it became known during
the primary fight that Republican Ma
tional Chairman Hall favored the Long
streth candidacy and reorganization of
the party in Philadelphia. So did Repub-
lican Senator Duff, whose seat will be
contested next year. The Republican city
ticket faces an uphill battle to win the
municipal election next November. Much
will depend upon whether the factional
strife can now be repaired, on whether
the die-hard machine followers will &C
cept and support the new leadership. In
any case, the first step toward revitaliza-
ton of the party in Philadelphia, and per-
haps in the State, has been accomplished.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
For q New Freedmen's

bright new era for a rebuilt and
reorganized Freedmen's Hospital is fore
seen by the citizens commission which
studied the 90-year-old institution at the
request of Welfare Secretary Hobby.
Under the proposed development pro-
gram, the Federal Government would
provide fine new plant for the now run
down hoSpital-but gradually would with
draw its supervisory control and financial
support. Eventually Freedmen's would
become an integrated, self-supporting
hospital, serving Howard University as a
vital teaching facility for its college Of
medicine.
1t was proper that the Government
should reappraise Freedmens Hospital in
the light of recent racial integration
moves and rulings. Originally the insti-
tuition was established for the special ben
eft of freed slaves who f1ocked to Wash
lngton after the Civil War. The commits
sion said that until hospitals throughout
the country open their doors wide to pa
tientS of all races Freedmen'S Hospital
must continue to give primary attention
to the needs of Negroes. But the commits
sion added: There will be diminishing
need for Federal control and support as
lntegration is accomplished" In the end,
1t was pointed out, the hospital should be
able to stand on it's own feet, with no
more Federal aid than is extended other
private hospitals.
The commission found that Freed
mems is in urgent need of new building.
Since the hospital has no way now Of f.
nancing new facilities, the advisory group
recommended that the Federal Govern
ment appropriate the necessary funds.
1t also was suggested that administrative
control be shifted from the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare to How
ard University, but with regular Federal
inspections as long. as Federal financing
continued. Adequate District assistance
through supply of funds for treating local
indigents was proposed. In short, the
commission has outlined an attractive
and practicable plan for making venerable
Freedmen's over into valuable addition
to the city's hospital and training re-
sources. The transformation will require
legislation that the present Congress
might well include in its program.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Bible Background

In a letter published IN
The Star, May II. American
Citizen" criticized the practice
in earlier times of claiming or
otherwise securing Bibles to
reading stands in churches or
monasteries. What was wrong
with that procedure?
He might have become better
Informed had he visited the
Library of Congress and ex-
amined the three treasured
Bibles there displayed - the
Yonan Codex. the Great Bible
of Mainz, and the Gutenberg
Bible. Considering their size
and weight. and the delicate,
skillful workmanship which
went into their making, would
American Citizen himself have
done otherwise than to have
chained" or restricted the
general circulation of those
and similar precious books?
1t is nonsense to talk of any,
one being responsible for the
Bible being unclaimed from
the pulpit and given to the
people at large" If such a
statement is meant to imply
that the people we're being de-
liberately prevented from read
ing the Bible.
Before the invention Of
printing with movable type in
l440, and for the next four
centuries, until the coming OF
cylindrical and roller presses
Evening star., 1955-05-22

me motive means skulduggery
in the next election and
treachery to the next genera
ton. The ultimate in this
taking out" attitude is sug-
gested by a sentence from the
biography of well-known
financier, of whom it was
badly said: Life to him was
just one huge stock exchange
and his fellow creatures only
so many share-selling, share
buying bipedS. To him divi-
dends meant everything" He
might have been a great f1nan-
cier, but he was not a great
man.
When he heard of the death
of John Calvin, Pope Plus ~
remarked: "T hat heretic's
strength lay in the fact that
money never had the slightest
charm for him" This papal
eulogy can be truthfully ap-
piled to all who have meant
most in humanity's long trek
from darkness to light.
Once, in days when Amer
ica's other name was Oppor-
tunity, the national emblem
might have been a stairway
a stairway kept open from the
bottom to the top-up which
any individual could climb who
was ready to pay the cost in
effort. OF course, it always was
inherent in the American con-
ception that those who. with
reasons for which they were
not responsible, could not
climb must be assisted and
sometimes carried by the
strong, who gladly and CRATE
fully would share and bear
the infirmities of the weak.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
THE GAME OF POLITICS
The Hoover Reports Neglected
BY FRANK r. KENT

dustrial facilities ranging from
shoe repair shops to cloth
ing factories, from cement
mixing plants to sawmills,
from chain stores to tree and
garden nurseries"
There is the further asser-
ton that If the commissions
recommendations are followed
the budget can be Immediately
balanced without affecting any
vital governmental activity or
impairing the national secur-
ity. Coming from Mr.. Hoover,
certainly not given to exag-
geration (and high above any
suspicion Of political motive),
also supported by q remark.
able group of men on the COM
mission and its task forces,
who, without compensation,
have for many months given
unselfishly of their time and
labor. these statements can
not be lightly pushed aside.
They have been asSailed as
politically inspired, which
makes no sense whatever.
There may be certain details
open to honest attack and
certainly no one expects such
sweeping reforms in the gov
erning machinery to 60
through Congress without due
consideration and debate.
Queries Congress on Delay
What one has q right to
expect is that Congress with
out too much delay would in.
dorse these reforms in prin-
ciple. enact as many as pos
sible at this session and hold
the material it now has avail.
able for governmental i'm.
provement at sessions in the
future no matter what party
is in control. What is disturb
ing is the inertia Of the ad-
administration toward these
exceedingly valuable reports.
If any overt step to further
their enactment has come
from the White House in re-
cent months, 1t cannot now
be recalled.
This is the more strange be-
cause these reports are in
accord with the Presidents
personal desire to balance the
budget, to cut out waste and
promote efficiency. They also
are in accord with his po-
litical and personal promises.
It is, of course, true that he
has many other grave ma
tional and international prob
lens with which to deal. But
there are few, If any, more
important than those raised
by the Hoover reports. There
can be no doubt that Mr.. Eli
senhower at heart is in favor
of these reforms and very
little doubt that soon or late
he will make that clear. Never
theless, it would be in the ma
tional interest if he made it
clear emphatically, unequiv-
ocally-and soon. He owes this
to his administration. to the
country and to himself. Delay
in giving the Hoover Commits
sion his full support en-
courages the inevitable politi-
cal sniping and blocking tao
tics that have so often pre-
vented advance along these
lines.
Evening star., 1955-05-22

Most of the criticisms of the
Eisenhower administration in
the last two years have been
trivial and unimportant.
Either they have been washed
out by the facts Or they OBJ
viously have come from en-
venomed and ambitious poll
ticians such as Senator Morse,
of Oregon, Senator Kefauver,
of Tennessee, and a few others
of that type. Add to this the
output Of those painting presi-
dental aSpirants-ex-Gov
Adlai Stevenson, Gov. Averell
Hartman (plus their journal
istic boosters) and the total
seems quite formidable, in
deed.
Actually, when analyzed, it
is too personal and partisan to
be effective against an admin
istration less partisan than
any we have had for years.
However, there has recently
developed a criticism which is
not partisan at all, which
seems factually based. This
concerns the attitude Cor
rather absence of attitude) of
the administration toward the
Hoover Commission on Organ
ization of the Executive Branch
of the Government. This is
hard to understand because
the Hoover Commissions work
and purposes both seem iden-
tical with the Eisenhower dis
position and promises during
the 1852 campaign. This COM
mission constitutes the most
serious and promising effort
ever made to eliminate waste,
promote efficiency and econ
omy in our Government. 1t
came into existence five years
ago under the 80th Re-
publican Congress, when Mr..
Truman was in the White
House. To his credit, MIR. Tru-
man co-operated wholeheart-
edly with the commission. the
result being that nearly 70 per
cent of its recommendations
were adopted and a large
amount Of money saved the
taxpayers.
Ten Surveys Submitted
The scope of the commission
was then limited and, despite
the encouraging enactments,
it was not able, by any means,
to push through all it wanted.
However, the record was really
remarkable and held out such
promise that Mr.. Hoover was
induced to head a second COM
mission equipped with en-
larged powers and backed by
a real public sentiment. 1t
already has submitted 10 re-
ports and more are to come.
The reports already submit
ted cover Federal medical
service, transportation, food
and clothing, surplus property,
lending agencies, personnel,
civil service and business en-
terprises engaged in by the
Government. The facts and
figures particularly as to busi-
ness enterprises) presented are
astounding. For example,
there is the statement that the
Defense Department alone has
an investment exceeding SIS
billion in commercial-in-
Evening star., 1955-05-22

in the 10th century, it was i'm
possible to provide an abun-
dance Of Bibles for widespread
use So how could the people
have had easy access to the
kind of substantially bound.
attractively printed, handy
sized editions which today are
mass produced and are so in
extensively priced as to be
within the financial means of
everyone?
Present-day readers of the
Bible might well salute the
monks and other scholars who
for Is centuries before the
advent of the printing press
labored tediously, but will
ingly and lovingly, as copyistS
of Sacred Scripture, so that
Gods Word might be with us
in perpetuity.
r. Joseph.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR

ner and has a soft voice, not
at all one that would be asso-
ciated with the life of a woman
who had spent much of her
career before the public eye. -.
She seems like some conflding
little child, a woman to be
petted and cared for, caressed
and fondled and whose whims
must be gratified as soon as
known . There is no doubt
that she has the natural power
of fascination for men. She
showed it for two juries who
tried her for the murder Of
Caesar Young" Miss Patter-
son told The Star reporter: II
want all the world to know
that I never did and never
could do such a terrible deed"
Young had been killed by a
pistol bullet fired inside a cab
in which he was riding with
Miss Patterson to New York
pier where he was to board
a steamer sailing for Europe.
Last Veteran Of 1912
Hiram Cronk, los, last sur
viving soldier of the War Of
1912, died at Ava, N. Y. May
13, 1905, and The Star chron-
icled his passing in an article
beginning: "Cronk for years
occupied a unique place in
American history. AS the last
survivor of the first foreign
war in which his country en-
gagged after securing its inde-
pendence, he had been honored
by the national Government
and by his State as we'll" Born
at Frankfort, Herkimer County.
N. Y. April 90, 1900, he be-
came a member Of Capt. Ed
ward Fuller's company Of the
157th Infantry when only a
little more than IA and he
served five weeks in a camp
near Lake Ontario without
seeing any action. Later, he
was a private at Sacketts Har-
Dor for 40 days, assisting in
the construction of barracks.
He was honorably discharged
in November, 1914.
Sullivan Macy Wedding
The Star for April 80, 1905.
contained the following para
graph: "An interest very gen.
eral in its scope will attend
the marriage next Tuesday.
May 2, at Wrentham, Mass. of
Annie Mansfield Sullivan, the
widely known teacher of Helen
Keller, and John Albert Macy.
a member Of the editorial staff
Of the Youths Companion.
The ceremony will be on the
afternoon OF that day and Will
be attended by personal friends
and relatives from far and
near. Rev. DR.. Edward Everett
Hale will perform the mar
riage ceremony. Arden is the
name that pupil and teacher
have given the home they re-
Gently have established at
Wrentham, which is to be
idealized by this marriage, and
where Miss Keller will make
her home with the couple. 1t
is Miss Keller's intention to
devote her life to literary
work, but she will spend por-
tions of each year with her
mother in the South"
Evening star., 1955-05-22

The reason that the Dead
Sea is dead is that It takes
everything in and it gives
nothing out. It has no outlets.
1t does nothing to fructify the
region around it. That sort of
a self-centered policy ends al
ways in deadness-in a sea, a
person or a nation.
A modern sage declares that
q gentleman is one who put a
little more into the general
pool of human welfare than
he takes out. In the immortal
story usually called "The
Prodigal Son." the boy with
the wanderlust and the yearn-
ing for independent adventure.
as he prepared to cut the
apron strings of home. said to
his father, Give me my por-
ton of the family fortune"
And he made off with it. After
the far country had reduced
him to the status of the hogs
about him, he finally came to
his real self. Then he was
anxious, returning, to say to
his father: Make me a hired
servant-I want to make a
contribution to the family life
spurned."
There are the two attitudes
to life-"Give me-" Make
me-" The ambition of the first
is to store and of the second
to pour. The one thinks of life
as a selfish storehouse; the
other thinks of life as a chan
mel of service to others. The
symbol of one is a sponge.
which, by the way. is dead.
The symbol of the other is the
crystal stream which carpets
it's banks in verdant green and
paints them with flowers.
The most pernicious aspect
of our modern day, with its
opulent cornucopia of riches in
terms of gadgets, comforts and
amusementS, is the attitude
of multitudes who continually
are measuring their lives by
the returns and rewards made
to them by people, by society.
by government. Certainly, in
the present-day demand for a
paternalistic government we
have raised a generation who
think much more of a bill OF
rights than they do of a bill
of responsibilities.
Most success stories, whose
subtitle might be How to
Get On in the World" assume
that to get on is to "get."
Many in the modern race who
acquire things run right past
the red light of warning waved
by Benjamin Franklin, who
sagely observed: Success has
ruined many a man." Too
often. with the ruling passion
of life Give me-" so-called
success in the business and the
industrial world means to ac-
Evening star., 1955-05-22

But. alas, now many seem
ready to put the stairway to
be climbed by personal exer-
ton in the museum of out
dated contrivances and to
adopt, in place of it as a SYM
Dol of American society, NOV
ing eScalator which carries
everybody up automatically,
whether they themselves move
or not.
There are ominouS indica-
tions that too many people
who belong to the give-me or
carry-me group are perfectly
willing just to recline on the
moving stairs and spend their
time looking at the scenery.
Life which is geared as an es-
calator, while conceivably it
might get many material
things for people, might at
the same time do terrible
things to people by robbing
them of self-respect and a
sturdy independence which
fosters personal initiative and
develops character. Anyone
who understands human ma
ture knows that when any sys-
tenn takes away from a man
the lure of accomplishment by
his own prowess and powers it
is tampering with something
very precious-his opinion Of
himself. A great English
churchman, commenting on
the sort of social system a good
many Englishmen seemed to
think would solve all present
ills, recently made this signif1-
cant statement: What is so
often forgotten is that if you
give endleSsly to people who
are at heart grabbing and self
ish you will bring the life of
the community to chaos. HUI
man motives can be poisoned
with a drug that steals away
the moral grandeur and sta
nina of the whole land. We
might label this drug: How
can I do less and gain more'?"
- X
Personal responsibility is the
central theme of Christianity.
One of the fundamental prin-
ciples of the Master of men
was: If a man shall save his
life, he shall lose it. That puts
life abundant. as Jesus taught
it, at the disposal of those
whose ruling passion is not:
How much can I take out?"
but: How much can I put
in?" The symbol of all that
has made our American de-
mocracy great and mighty
enough now. in this desperate
day, to be the greatest factor
in saving the world from the
horror of regimented commu-
nism is not the automatic es-
calator on which people ride,
but the stairway up which
people climb.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Gruenther's Counsel

In his New York address to the United
States Conference of Mayors, General AL
fred M. Gruenther has voiced a timely
note of caution in connection with the
projected Big Four meeting "at the sum-
nit" He is confident, of course, that
President Eisenhower and the other West
ern leaders will not let themselves be be-
guiled into any Soviet trap. However,
with good reason, he feels that they need
"the understanding support of an in
formed public opinion" throughout the
free world-a public opinion wary of wish
fulnesS and on guard against the dangers
inherent in political compromises of sort
that could be catastrophe.
Thus, speaking as supreme commander
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
ton, General Gruenther has made spe-
cial point of reminding everybody that the
effective common defense of the free ma
tions against the threat of Red aggression
still depends largely on two things. The
first of these is that West Germany must
be armed as an ally contributing its full
share to that defense. And the second is
that NATO must be able to make imme-
date use of atomic weapons in the event
of Communist attack. Yet, understand
ably enough from its own viewpoint the
Kremlin is Sparing no amount of propa-
ganda in an effort to 'neutralize" the Bonn
Republic and talk the rest of the world
into some kind of quick agreement-with7
out real enforcement teeth in ito outlaw
nuclear, thermonuclear and other instru-
ments of mass destruction.
The Soviet objective in all this is quite
obvious. 1t is simply to disarrange NATO's
defensive plans and render them ineffec-
tive by undoing the present actual and
prospective balance of power in Europe.
AS it stands now, in terms of conventional
military strength, that balance is unsatiS-
factory from the Western standpoint, and
it will remain so until free Germany is
fully functioning as an armed Atlantic
ally. Nevertheless, as General Gruenther
has explained, this deficiency is compen-
Sated for right now by the fact that we
have air and atomic hydrogen superiority
over Russia, and hence "it would be folly
for us to throw away" that superiority by
agreeing-at this stage-to ban on A
and H weapons.
There have been indications that the
men of the Kremlin will press hard for
such ban at the heads-of-governmen
meeClng, JuSC as tney are likely to press
hard for West German naturalization"
But their efforts to that end-wholly apart
from the Bonn Republic, whose alignment
with NATO is beyond bargaining-must
continue to be rebuffed unless and until
they are ready to accept atomic c-hydrogen
controls that will really work. General
Gruenther has made that point very clear.
To lose sight of it would be to play fast
and loose with the most vital security in
terests of the free Western world.