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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

garden, the warm sunlight
THE long lovely days to go
out fearlessly and freely with
out wrapping up in cover
after cover and getting frozen
noses and fingers and toes.
Horrible winter!"
So now you know how Mrs.
w. Of Alexandria feels about
winter and summer.
A. r. of 18th street writes:
"One September Sunday
morning a flock of migratory
birds. flying southwest, stopped
to feed on the lawns of Thirty
first place.
These birds were slightly
larger than grackles, with
dark, irridescent feathers. The
head was entirely blue, slightly
lighter than navy blue.
IF you can advise me the
name of these birds, the in
formation would be very much
appreciated"
We believe our corresponds
ent has got her blackbirds
mixed up, mistaking the old
starting for the grackle.
Blackbirds flying onto lawns
these days are purple grackles.
especially if they have long
tails, and make. all together.
a sound that greatly resembles
the creaking Of wheelbarrows.
This wheelbarrow chorus, as
it has been called, is a very
strange performance, and UNI
mistakably points to grackles.
Sometimes the birds will fly
by the hundreds into trees,
and perch and make this
sound for a long time. then
will fly down to the grass to
see what they can pick up.
Sights and sounds
These are among the glories
OF the suburbs, where farm and
city meet.
At all seasons. both winter
and summer, spring and
autumn chow we wish the sea-
sons could be capitalized, be-
cause they deserve IT'D the city
person, now in the suburbs,
finds many strange birds and
animals at his door.
We hope no late mover from
the city viii be afraid when a
lonely 'possum comes TO his
back porch.
Take a slice of bread, and
pull 1t into sections, and put
them on the steps.
The gray fellow with the
long tail, the beautiful eyes,
and clever hands, will accept
this feast to help carry him
through the winter. He doesn't
think winter horrible. He likes
It, as he sleeps away the cold.
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But there are countless BIZ
lions Of smaller particles which
settle slowly into the cloud
systems of the lower atmo-
spere. They require from 80
to 40 days to fall.
Now rainfall peaks occur
with some regularity all over
the world within about q
month after each passage Of
the planet through a cosmic
dust cloud, according to a re-
port to Nature, official organ
Of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science,
by DR.. E. G. Bowen, physicist
of the Australian Common
wealth Research Corporation.
He has detected 10 such peaks
in the records of 800 stations
in both hemisphereS.
In only one case, he says, is
such a rainfall peak much
more than a month away from
the time earth passes through
a known cloud Of meteoric
dust. This is in middle Novern-
Der. Recent investigations,
however. have revealed a con-
siderable. hitherto unrecorded,
dust accumulation in the skies
of the Southern Hemisphere at
about the right time to account
for this rainfall.
When the tiny meteoric dust
particles fall into clouds they
serve as nuclei for formation
of raindrops, DR.. Bowen says.
No other theory accounts for
the annual rain peaks, hi
claims.
Earth has q violet twilight
robe.
It is an invisibly faint lumi-
nescence which can be detected
during some months in the
evening sky, apparently at an
altitude of about 100 miles.
1t is not detachable during the
day and is quite distinct from
the light Of the night sky and
of the aurora borealis.
This popularity of the twi-
light spectrum of the sky is
reported by Dr.. A. Valance,
Jones of the University Of
Saskatchewan, whose investi-
cations were sponsored by the
United States Air Forces Re-
search Center. The light APP
pears only internationally and
disappears completely for q
time in July.
The spectral lines, DR.. Jones
has reported, are due to ex-
cited calcium atoms in the
high atmosphere. The inter-
mittent appearance suggests
strongly, he says, that this
calcium comes from showers of
meteors. The light appears
quite strongly at the same time
as the Perseid meteor shower
in August.
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Inteqrotion View

There are many who have
proposed theses inconsistent
with progressive thinking and
Bible teaching.
Those who claim that it
takes time for indignation to
work" are very indefinite as
to how much time. When the
American colonists were dis
cussing breaking away from
England, there were many who
thought the time was not ripe
for such a radical STEP" The
ancestors OF even many Vir-
ginians, Patrick Henry, for ex-
ample, did not say, I'VE will
wait and see what others may
do" The colored Americans
have waited for nearly one
hundred years for first class
citizenship.
Those who call themselves
CHRISTIANS and are screaming
that God intended that there
be a white race and a black
race are invited to read Genesis
Chapter $50 God created
man in his own image, in the
image Of God created he him;
male and female created he
them"
1t is conceivable that the
legislators who signed that
abominable Capitol Manifesto
would vote billions of dollars
to give man a chance to die
on the battlefield, yet would
not vote to appropriate the
price of a used one cent stamp
to give millions of American
citizens a chance to live in an
unsegregated community.
Cato w. Adams
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
On Picking Presidents

a Presidents ElSenhoWer'S OBJ
lection TO the constitutional
amendment limiting the presi-
Dental tenure to two terms is
wholly inconsistent with the
undemocratic practices of both
major parties. He holds that
the amendment denies the
people a full and free right to
decide who shall occupy the
White House.
Here's the rub which Mr..
Eisenhower deftly and conven-
iently ignores: In 1913, 1852
and again this year the Re-
publican and Democrat con-
ventions were rugged to their
ear lobes with International
lists. The 1852 Republican con-
vention serves as an example.
A heavy percentage of Ameri-
cans wanted Senator Taft as
the party's nominee Il claim
"heavy percentage" in the
light of Ohio's verdict when
Taft ran against Joe Fergu-
son for the Senate). But in
ternationalists moved on Chi
cago en- masse, with numerous
influential New York Demo-
Gratis pushing their way into
Republican ranks, and the re-
suit was Eisenhower con-
firmed internationalist and a
recently remodeled Democrat.
Likewise the Democrat con-
yention named another de-
pendable internationalist.
Did the voters, about whom
Mr.. Eisenhower now is de-
voutly concerned, have a choice
in 1852? Do they have a choice
this year?
Not including the egghead
crowd of the East, it is an
amazing and lamentable DEM
onstration Of planned, orga-
nized, wholesale disfranchise-
ment that is uncovered when
one talks with voters across
this land who crave for and
work for and pray for an OPP
portunity to choose for their
President a Knowland, a Byrd,
a Dirksen, a Russell or one of
scores of capable statesmen
who hold the opinion that we
should cease and cease at
once to play further into Rus
sia's hands by bankrupting our
Nation and depicting its al
ready dwindling resources by
continuing to pour money and
goods down every rathole of
loafers in the world.
Of Mr.. Eisenhower and all
the other one-world do-good-
ers and give-away-and-meddle
proponents. I want to ask this
simple yet vital question: L.
you are sincere about our citi-
zens exercising their rights in
selecting a President. If you
really believe in practicing at
home the. democracy you
are examining down the
Threats Of minority nations
around the globe, why not let
us just once-once-make our
choice between a stay-at-
observation-disclosures
business candidate and a
Roosevelt-Hull- Acheson Tru-
-Eisenhower-Dulles Dew
ey-Stevenson candidate?
Is it undemocratic to afford
us that opportunity?
Is 1t democratic to deny us
longer this right?
Dan p. Van GOrder.
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For Better Schools

The cry for more teachers
seems to be the one idea in the
minds Of most people for over
coming the inadequacies in
our public schools.
Thirty years ago there were
more teachers than teaching
positions. The schools, there
fore, began putting into their
curriculums activities and
courses that could have been
left to church, club, social and
community life and home. This
tendency has increased over
the years, until today educa-
tors and parents seem to be-
lieve that the whole of a
child's development is the
responsibility of the schools.
There are now many things
being taught in the public
schools with full-time teach
ers and full-length periods)
that could just as well be
learned elsewhere.
Public schools should be re-
lieved Of all courses of study
except those which properly
have a place in a school. Ger
titled public school teachers
are college graduates and are
qualified to teach several sub
jects. When an unnecessary
course Of study is dropped
from the curriculum, the
teacher of that course will be-
come available to teach one Of
the indispensable subjects.
To help teachers get the
subject across to each pupil in
the inevitably large classes,
conditions should be such as
to help students keep their
minds on their studies. We can
go a long way toward bringing
about an atmosphere conducive
to attentive thinking by sep
arating the sexes.
In separate schools for boys
and girls. much social anxiety
will be left behind when a
young person enters the
schoolroom. and, thus, the
student will concentrate more
readily on the subject at
hand.
Students also should be d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
New Radio Messages From Venus
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

Two kinds of radio ''mes-
sages" now are coming from
Venus, nearest planet to the
earth.
The first, with an Il-meter
wave length, are picked up in
bursts lasting a second or less.
They are very much like
the bursts sometimes received
from thllnderstorms on earth,
reports DR.. John D. Kraus,
radio astronomer Of Ohio
State University. He specu-
lateS that they may originate
from thunderstorms on Venus.
These could be extremely vio-
lent with the vast dust clouds
which forever hide the sur
face Of the waterless planet.
The second type of message
is considerably longer and,
says DR.. Kraus, sis slightly
reminiscent of signals from
terrestrial radio telegraph sta
tions." When the signals first
were detected this was believed
to be the source until it was
determined that they came
only when Venus was in the
antenna beam of the radio
telescope.
These messages come at in
tervals of from a few seconds
to a minute. Sometimes they
are followed by weaker signals
in a little more than a second
which sound like echoes. Actu-
ally. DR.. Kraus believes, the
signals originating on Venus
are echoed from some large,
fiat area on the moon which
happens to be properly ORR
ented towards the earth.
Such echoes could come, he
says, from a shallow moon
valley. but the proper oriental
ton would be very rare.
There are four peaks of ac-
tivity for the first type of
pulses during the day - at
lis, 2.40. TAO and sos.
Radio messages from Venus
first were detected by Navy
Research Laboratory astron-
omers a few months ago. AS
yet there has been no entirely
acceptable explanation of
their origin.
They are the only known
way to get any information
about conditions under Venus's
thick cloud cover.
+ X \ 4
Dust Of space may make
rain. :.
About 10 times a year the
earth passes through great
clouds of meteoric particles.
These are the times of the
meteor showers. The particles
are Of all sizes. Larger ones,
few bigger than sand grains,
are burned by friction of the
earth's high atmosphere and
appear as shooting stars.
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Under a Ginoko

One cannot sit beneath a
Otngko tree
And not dream golden dreams:
When autumn turns its leaf
fans md0icdlly
To ochre, then It seems
PdOodds rise, and Chinese
mdidens tD0lk
These paths. their robes like
dowers.
And one can hear the music
Of Their talk,
Gold notes to mark the hours.
Tomorrow in the park the
Otnoko's shade
May be like ash or elm,
But non beneath It. distant
dreams parade
From an e1otic realm.
Jone Morrison
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DARLINGTON, Va.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
with interest and much
laughter, my family and I
have read the letter about the
strange noises.
I'VE are almost certain the
'oo-ark' is coming from none
other than our little beauty,
chippy chipmunk.
"This may be hard to be-
lieve-Such a loud noise from
something so small-but see
ing-and hearing is believing.
-Four years ago we were
mystified by this unusual
sound and spent hours trying
to locate the bird, we thought.
responsible.
Then one morning I spied
the culprits, sitting there on a
pile Of wood, his tiny body
moving rhythmically and look
ing exactly like a bellows.
x + 4 y
"That was in the spring, and
we assumed it was mating
call, as we have seen and
heard him each spring since
that time.
However, we have been
treated to his call this August
and September.
early one am. we saw him
in a tree, calling as usual.
Then another chipmunk APP
peared. 'Mollie,' we like to
think.
1--WE have not heard him
since her appearance. but do
chipmunks mate in the fall?
1--WE have never heard the
sound as early as 2:45 o'clock,
but he awakened our neighbors
around 4 am.
when they investigated. he
ran back and forth between
yards, returning with his
ooo-ork as they turned off
lights and went back to bed.
Sincerely, H. A. H."
- &E
From Alexa n dria, Mrs.
]. M. w. has this to say about
summer and winter:
Instead Of good-by to sum-
mer, good-by. good-by. parting
is such sweet sorrow.
ITO part is to die a little
1.-THE long cold death Of
winter, with the windows shut
and a selfish closing ones
self inside
But you will come again,
dear summer, as you always
have, TO wake us up from the
cold death of winter TO see
the glories of summer
THE beauty Of summer, the
friendliness Of open windows
and open doors. the leaves on
the trees, the flowers in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15

animal traces found IN rocks.
ETC.. called fossils?--C. c. N.
A. The word fossil (from the
Latin FOSSILS, meaning dug
up") originally referred 70 .
rock or mineral or object dug
up out Of the earth. Now It
also means any trace or inn
preston Of a plant or animal
Of past geological ages which
has been preserved In the
earth's crust.
@. Is there q permanent
marker at the North Pole7
e. d. G.
A. The National Geographic
Society says that no perma-
nently fixed physical marker II
possible, because the pack ice
Of the Arctic Ocean drifts
across this point
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has been embarrassed. ALI of this adds
up to silly business. It has nothing
whatever to do with the working of in
tegration in the public schools, which the
subcommittee was supposed to be investi-
eating and to which 1t would do well to
devote its full attention.
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AppIouds President

There really isn't any rea.
son President Eisenhower
shouldn't be reelected. There
are, however. potent reasons
why he should. He deserves
credit for:
Less emphasis on class
struggles and the evolution of
national unity, inspired by UNI
Swerving interest in the dig
nifty of every man and his per-
sonal welfare.
An efficient, dependable ma
tional Government, devoid Of
sensationalism, administered
by distinguished, capable, hon.
est members of a strong cab
met.
A willingness to serve re-
CARELESS Of physical conse-
quences!
Loyalty to and love of FAM
lily, country, humanity, that
transcends party politics and
selfish ambition.
Soldier turned statesmanl
Modest, friendly, sincere, pa
tient! Enviably recorded as
a man schooled in war but who
brought peace instead, to the
Nation and, by example, to
the world.
The trust bestowed upon his
administration that ensured
stability Of the American dol
lar plus a national prosperity
never equalled!
It is, ordinarily, the custom,
that a good flrst-term Presi-
dent, regardless of party, be
honored with a second term.
Ike isn't perfect; neither is
the next man. So, by all
means, let's show our gratitude
and give Dwight Eisenhower q
big vote of confidence.
b. S. McClane,
Murray, KY.
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Q. When a diver goes down
TO a great depth in the sea
(say 200 TO $50 feet does the
increased air pressure affect
only his blood, or the tissues
Of his body as well?-N. T.
A. When q diver goes down.
the increased air pressure Is
at once transmitted 10 the
whole inside Of his body. II he
goes down far enough, his
blood vessels and tissues be-
come saturated with nitrogen.
Saturation Of the blood Is very
rapid; that Of the tissues de-
ponds upon the blood supply.
Saturation Is quick in the
brain and spinal cord. slow in
the fibrous tissues around the
joints.
n.y.. - 1000 49, =.
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letters carry iDriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
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Faith and Charity

Murray. KY.
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DATELINE PARIS
By BRENDA HELsER
Miss FdirdH Soys She Hopes
PQris Will Modify Sheath

PARIS, July 21.-If Paris
means daring floor shows and
high prices to men, it means
high fashion to women.
And since we can't claim
credit for being an expert on
such a highly specialized sub
ject as the Haute Couture
openings each season, we have
to call for help. Last year, as
autumn collections were about
to be sprung on us, we asked
fashion expert Marjorie Dun
ton to be guest specialist. This
year came the long sought
chance to query Miss Eliza
beth Fairall, recently retired
dean of fashion buyers for
Washington's Julius Gar
finckel & Co.
Modify Sheath?
Miss Fairall said it's hope
less to try to find out what
Dior and the rest have in store
because they won't say a
thing that's important at this
time. But I hope they do
something to modify the
sheath. They'll probably add
panels and a bit of fullneSs
but with hats remaining large
and bulky they can't give
skirts any serious fullnesS."
Although these hats will still
be large they will be of much
lighter materials even for
winter. Miss Fairall dislikes
the present trend and minces
no words about it. when I
was buying I bought what
women wanted but told them
it was unbecoming if that's
what l really thought"
From Baltimore, Miss Fairall
went to Washington in 1905
and until last october her
prime concern was the ele-
gance of the ladies of Wash
ington. She believes that,
fashionwise, the one thing
which distinguishes them
from ladies of other American
cities is the ball gown. I'm
New York one can wear a short
dress in the evening"" she
says, but it would be unthink-
able to appear at a dinner at
an embassy in a short dress"
Otherwise, she sees little that's
very different about Washing
tonians' tastes and those of
well-dresSed cosmopolites any,
where. Mrs. David Bruce, wife
of our former Ambassador to
France, is outstanding in Miss
Fairall's mind as the most
fashion-conscious woman in
Washington. Mrs. Bruce is as
aware as if she were in the
business" she says.
Marjorie Post was the "lov-
Hest" girl or woman she's ever
dressed. When she was at
Mount Vernon Seminary 1
chose everything for her. I've
never seen a lovelier girl" This
remark was accompanied by
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women then buying ready
made clothes. Those who
wanted Paris models bought
them in Paris.
Nowadays Its high fashion
they want" she says, and it
can come under any good
label. American, French,
Italian or Irish. Miss Fairall
very much admires the work
of Ireland's Sybil Connolly.
OF the Italians she says only,
"They have very nice fabrics
and materials" and not an
other word will you get out of
her on the subject of Italian
high fashion.
Miss Fairall has noticed in
creaSing interest in French
fashion, "Why they're asking
for models even before we
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look for it in Garfinckel's
windows on IF" street andthen
every other fashion window on
IF" street. She found nothing
on "F" street and nothing like
it anywhere in Garfinckels.
Not even Mr.. Garfinckel could
remember having seen such a
dress. Finally. a sheepish Miss
Fairall rang the White House
with her negative report.
Never Makes Mistakes
Said Mrs. Coolidge, THE
President never makes mis-
takes" The dress was never
found, but Miss Fairall is OF
the firm conviction that Presi-
dent Coolidge would have adj
mitted his mistake had he
made one and discovered it
later. He was that kind of
man." she avows. She added,
"Mr. Coolidge was so interested
in his wife'S clothes that she
never wore a thing he hadn't
chosen or fundamentally APP
proved. Besides, he was so
generous with what she spent
for clothes that it annoys me
to hear stories that he was
stingy. 1t just can't be true"
At the time Garfinckel's was
moving from Thirteenth to
Fourteenth and "F" the store
had to be closed for a long
week end, but Mrs. Herbert
Hoover needed something very
much on that particular Sat-
urday. The store was opened
for her and the other day,
while Miss Fairall was sorting
old papers, she found this
message from Mrs. Hoover:
THANK you for Saturday"
There was day when Mr..
Garflnckel ripped foreign
labels out of imported dresses
and sewed in his own. A Paris
label meant nothing to the
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several remembering signs and
emphatic "bar-none" shakes of
the head.
Dior Collection
Like everyone else, Miss
Fairall is a fraction more
eager to see Christian Dior's
collection than the others.
After all. since the war, Dior
has set every style that's held.
OF the others Miss Fairall said
the recent collections of the
young bachelor Hubert, Mar
quiS Givenchy, were remark
able" And she says Lanvin is
definitely back on top. Lanvin
has never been really out of
the picture but had not re-
Gently been at peak form.
The rebound success can not
be credited to new in-law,
Grace Kelly, but rather to
Castillo the designer whose
name now joins Lanvin's with
hyphen. Miss Fairall thought
the gown he sent to New York's
April In Paris Ball fabulous"
Inevitably in her long buy
ing career Miss Fairall bought
some things ahead of fashion.
These had to be marked way
down for clearance but she
remembers another mistake.
1t was early in this decade.
Irishman, designer John Cav
anaugh was then chief assis-
tant to Pierre Balmain. Came
the day John figured he ought
to strike out on his own. He
hoped ito take to London my
idea OF how the chic English
woman should look in French
haute couture" This was
quite an order and Miss Fairall
advised him not to try, and
she wasn't the only one at the
time who thought so. John
went ahead with his plans
anyway. He's so successful
today that every beautifully
dressed English woman Miss
Fairall has admired since
seems to have been dressed by
Cavanaugh.
This is embarrassing, but
scarcely her most embarrassing
moment. While Calvin Cool
idge was President, Miss Fair
all had an early morning tele-
phone call from the First
Lady. while the President
was walking this morning"
she said, "he saw a dress in
one of your windows on 'F'
street and he should like me
to have it," She described
the dress in minute detail.
Miss Fairall went at once to
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Daughters Elect

At a recent meeting, the fol-
lowing were elected to serve
the Elizabeth Jackson Chap
ter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, for the coming two
years. Mrs. Stanley Gordon,
regent; Mrs. Clarence Bennett,
vice regent; Miss Jean M.
Molster, chaplain; Mrs. Rob-
ert A. Ferguson. recording sec
rotary; Mrs. Vernon Baker,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Frank Jenkins, treasurer; Mrs.
Madeleine Leckie, registrar;
Mrs. William ]. George, his
torian, and Mrs. Helen Warner,
librarian.