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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
Recommended READING

Regarding the two major re-
tirement proposals now before
a Senate subcommittee, I read
with enthusiasm the comments
by H. w. Brawley, executive
director, Senate Committee on
Post Office and Civil Service, in
a recent letter to your paper.
Mr.. Brawley stated in clear
cut terms the basic differences
between: Cd The Johnston
bill, S-2875, designed to in
crease retirement benefits Of
career employees and eliminate
some of the inequities devel-
oped through piecemeal legis-
lation; and 90 the Carlson
bill, or Kaplan proposal,
geared. primarily. to benefit
noncareer or casual employees,
through a so-called co-ordi-
mated relationship between
social security and the civil
service retirement programs, or
amalgamation of the two pro-
grams This would perpetuate
many of the present inequities
and add other inequities-
major inequities.
To Federal employees who
did not read the dissertation
referred to above, l urge them
to find a copy of The Star Of
February % and read it.
John Edwin Stark.
Director. U. S. Retirement
Benefits Association, Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
Strife in Cyprus

British actions in Cyprus
bear a striking similarity to
what they did in Ireland in
the early 1920s.
The seizure and deportation
of the Cypriot archbishop was
paralleled in Ireland by de-
portation of Archbishop Man
nix of the Roman Catholic
Church. Lloyd Georges idea
of restoring law and order in
Ireland was to turn the in
famous BLACK and Tans"
loose on the civil popula-
ton. Those worthless carefully
avoided battle with the Irish
guerrlllaS, but Wreaked their
vengeance on unarmed civilians,
priests, women and children,
looting stores. destroying
farmers creameries, murder
ing public officials. The British
government gleefully inf1amed
the Protestant minority to
defy the Catholic majority, as
it today encourages the Turk
ish minority in Cyprus to re-
sist the Greeks. No doubt
when public opinion has been
sufficiently aroused by British
excuses in Cyprus, as it was
in Ireland, Britain will come
up with similar partition plan
as the Ireland one, giving the
Turkish minority custody of
a large body of Greeks, just
as it gave four counties in
Ireland with a Catholic ma
jority to the tender mercies
of the fanatical puritan, Prot
eStant Orangemen.
The Irish treaty of 1921 was
a laughing matter to the Brit
ish, but they didn't laugh in
World War II when the Irish
denied them use of their ports,
and so caused hundreds of
British ships to be sunk by the
Germans. They still have time
to make a deal with the
Greeks, but then empires never
learn by their past mistakes.
Edward ]. Hunter.
The British are justified in
taking action to hold Cyprus
in order to maintain the in
tegrity of Western defenses
from the Mediterranean to the
Persian Gulf to protect the
British oil supply.
Archbishop Makarios ceased
to be bishop when he as
sumed the role of master poll
tician, chief director of sub
version, and leader of terror
ism: hence it behooved the
British to deport him, together
with his three aides. The Brit
ish are an honorable people
and have no intention of
harming the deported arch
bishop. They simply mean to
hold Cyprus because it is Brit
aims last bastion in the Mid
die East.
Under the circumstances, I
think it would become Uncle
Sam to keep his long nose out
of the Cyprus situation.
Harry Daniels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
IIsotopes Not Miraculous in Medicine
By THOMAS r. HENRY

cations of radioactive phos-
phorus in very superficial cam
GERS of the skin. 1t leaves less
of scar than surgery.
One of the most successful
uses of isotopes has been treat
ment of Graves disease. char
acterized by Superactivity of
the thyroid gland. with radio
active iodine. Dr.. Newell be-
lieves. however. that surgery
still is the best treatment be-
cause of the possibility that
the iodine eventually will lead
to development of thyroid
cancer.
Radioactive Iodine
Radioactive iodine also can
be used. DR.. Newell says. Ito
reduce thyroid function in peo-
pie with incurable heart dis
ease which doesn't kill but
only cripples them. Such a
person often is unable to walk
upstairs, or even walk on a
level. If you can reduce that
persons metabolic rate you
may bring the demands for
blood circulation down to the
level where the heart can
handle the load. But this
therapy should not be pushed
too fast lest too much stored
thyroxine be released. There
is evidence that this can in
crease the likelihood of coron-
airy thrombosis a few weeks
later.
The same radioactive iodine
is used with considerable sue
cess in treating actual can
GERS of the thyroid. The thy
roid takes up most iodine de-
posted in the blood stream.
Much has been made of cures"
achieved by this method, he
stresses, but carcinoma of the
thyroid accounts for only half
of one percent of cancer
deaths and only 10 per cent of
those cases take up radioactive
iodine. 1t follows that this is
a pretty triumph when you
have it, but woefully infre-
quent. There is some danger
in the use of iodine because
sometimes the destruction of
the gland releases the store
of thyroglobulin there. In
judiciously rapid attempts to
irradiate the thyroid can bring
on a thyroid storm.
Some success has been at
tanned in temporarily reliev-
ing the relatively rare, and al
ways fatal, form of cancer
known as multiple myeloma
with radioactive phosphorus,
he reports. Radioactive iodine
may prove even better, al
though nothing like a cure
is expected.
This is about the complete
roster to date of the much
heralded isotopes which have
proved of any value in medi-
cine. They have relieved some
suffering. They have saved
few lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

Place them in this order,
better:
/. Work. .-. ...,- -
2. Going around.
3. The inner self.
There is no substitute for
the first. AS for the second,
it means meeting people, the
raw ingredient of writing. here
and everywhere. now and for
eVermore. The young writer
may meet his people in class,
or on public vehicles, or in the
streets and on the sidewalks.
at sports events, in home or
office, but he has to meet them
some way. A few rare indi-
vlduals may meet them in his
own mind, as Henry James
did.
The inner self stands sane
tilted.
This is because it is from
God, and ends with God.
So writing is sacred.
Those who prostitute the art
transgress against the Holy
Ghost, in a very real sense.
The secret is being true to
the self which God made.
Each writer. especially the
young one, must work this out
for himself, and by himself.
1t means that he must first
be lnterested-he above all
before he can interest anyone
else.
This interest must be genu-
Inc interest. 1t cannot be con-
fused, though it often is. with
the wild urge to propagandize.
Propaganda has its place in
our American life.
We would be less Americans,
II we failed to understand this.
But propaganda, writing some
thing because someone else
wants you to, must never be
regarded as the same as writ
ing something because you
want to write it.
The whole science and art
OF writing is summed up there,
though it would take a genius
to explain it, and there are not
many geniuses around.
You see people budding
over people all the time, ex-
planning, arguing, telling
en-" inducing them to write
what they want to be written,
and you know who is to be the
hero.
The real writer does not
work that way. He looks with
deep suspicion on all such per-
sons, not just because they
want him to do something he
does not want to do, but above
all because they are trying to
get him to be untrue to him.
self.
Even a parakeet knows you
can't really sing that way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

The place of radioactive iso-
TOPICS. hailed a few years ago
as revolutionary in medicine,
still is highly debatable.
Early in atomic bomb days,
there were frequent predictions
that here was the answer to
cancer-that the exploding
atoms" would save more lives
than bombs would destroy.
This idea has fingered in the
popular mind ever since
Actually there have been a
few notable advances, but by
and large progress has been
slow and beset with frustrated
hopes. This is the substance
of a report by DR.. Robert R.
Newell, professor of biophysics
at Leland Stanford University
Medical School to the Office Of
Naval Research.
Well established, DR.. Newell
says, is the place on one iso-
tope, cobalt so. 1t can be used
in place of the X-ray tube or
radium and for the same pur-
poses. 1t is much cheaper and,
unlike the X-ray tube, never
gets out of order. 1t also can
be fashioned in the form of
thread or needles which can
be made in about any form
desired to insert in different
parts of the body. Radium
needles" for the same pur-
pose had to be taken as they
came.
Radio Gold Treatment
Perhaps second in impor-
lance, but much more debat-
able. is radioactive gold. Sus-
pensions of this now are being
injected into body cavities and
have proved temporarily help
full in at least two types of
cancer-that of the prostate
gland in man and of the cervix
in women. For the first, says
Dr.. Newell, Il am not very
hopeful Of a cure" although
the life of the patient may be
prolonged. AS for the second,
he says, treatments with ra-
dunn in the past have been
quite successful in curing the
local LESSONS, but the patients
often die OF spreading cancer
cells. The same presumably
will happen with radio gold
treatment.
The same radioactive gold,
in suspension, is being used in
lung cavities where cancerous
growths cause fluids to collect.
The previous treatment has
been by tapping the patient.
The radioactive treatment
largely obviates this. But, DR..
Newell says. mo cure is eX-
pected."
In highly fatal leukemia. he
reports. radioactive phospho-
rus has been found about as
good, certainly no better, than
treatment with X-rays. No
body has been saved by either
treatment. There has been
some progress in using appli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

is an internal problem" Of France.
Nevertheless, in declaring we stand
behind France" in her search for a solu-
ton, both Mr.. Dillon and President Eisen-
hover emphasized the words liberal and
equitable" Thus, there was no justifca
ton for an Algerian nationalist inter-
probation that this means the United
States favors the military reconquest of
Algeria at the expense of self determina-
ton of peoples"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

"In our block out North
west" writes I.R., I'VE have
a wild myna bird and six
trained parakeets that know
three bars of La Vie en- Rose.
Can you tell me why this
isl"
All we can say is that those
birds have good musical taste.
No prettier popular song of
the French variety ever struck
Washington.
If each of the parakeets
were taught different sections,
. and if each could be induced
to sing at the right time, the
entire song could be intoned.
Those who know their para
keets will doubt the second
"if."
Singing birds have their
own way of singing.
Like all true artists, they
respond most to their inner
urges.
1t is like inspiration in writ
ing.
Today, in our busy work-a-
day world, it is fashionable to
say there is no such thing as
inspiration. But there is. It
may not be of the grand va
riety, hair tearing, eyes blaz-
ing. 1t may not be as Homer
was, but there is such a thing,
and everyone knows it. Per-
haps it is no more than the
right combination of the
theme and the time. 1t may
be no more than that the
writer had a good protein
breakfast. Whatever it is, it
works.
I'm the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with
God
In the beginning is the
theme, and the theme is with
the writer.
1t is, for the moment, his
theme, and it comes home to
him with an electrical press
ing of a bell.
A little bell rings in his
head, and he says to himself,
maybe unconsciously; This
is it,
Catching the theme of the
moment. before it bounces,
this is the secret of writing.
All you young people keep it
in mind, because it won't do
you a bit of good. You will
have to work it out for your
self, in your own way.
Many classes are formed to
teach youngsters to write, and
then they go away and write
in their own way, with what
ever daily inspiration they
can muster. The inspiration
comes from going around,
from work, and from the in
ner self.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
Spring Song

Though its blossoms 1UiH die
and thornS eper sting,
though its lore iOiH fy
as a bird on the iCing
and its memory hurt so
youU forget holD to sing,
though all this you knoW
from past scars. tCul be so
say. fdreweH cold iOinter
and hail, hail stDeet spring!
Louise S. Ciccotto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
Lawrence a Must

David Lawrence's article on
Election Could Hinge on
South" appearing in The Star
on March ID. should be must"
reading for those seeking an
escape from the indignation
dilemma.
John X. keener.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

fiber can be adapted to almost
any type of clothing. includ-
ing luxurious fur-fabriC coats.
@. Where and at what price
can this years proof coins be
obtained?-J. j.
A. Proof CONS for 1856 are
now available by mail from
the Philadelphia Mint. Phila-
delphia, Pa, for S2.10 a set,
postpaid. Sale of these coins
will continue until october 81.
1856.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23

@. Will any Of the armed
forces accept for pilot train
ing a candidate who wears
eyeglaSseS?-G. P.
A. No. Pilot training candi-
dates who wear glasses are not
accepted in the Air Force, the
Army or the Navy.
@. From what substance is
Darlan fabric made?-H. H. N.
A. Darlan is a chemical
made from petroleum. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names mdy be used II
letters carry t1riters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
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names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sation.
be provided with continuing
stimulus and information. The
key to solution is more teach
ers at all levels.
Edith U. Fierst
X X 4
While I agree basically with
many of Commissioner Lanes
startling" proposals, tn ey
would, if carried out, throw a
different kind of burden on
the community. For example,
would it be better to turn out
these problem children from
the schools and have them
roam the streets in packs, I'M.
trained for work? In this case
we would need a special budget
for policemen instead of teach
ers.
Perhaps group of schools
in a particular area could Gull
from their classes the prob
lem children or nonlearners
and have a special class COM
posed of these children. with
out employing another teacher.
This same type of arrange
ment could be used for very
gifted children. AS it is now,
many parents send their bright
children to private schools, and
this entails a great deal of
travelling.
In the elementary grades,
why not put all the present
first group" children in one
classroom, split up the average
group into the necessary class
rooms, and do likewise with
the low average and slow
learners? Undemocratic, you
say, but is not the slow child
constantly being reminded of
his place in the class under
the present arrangement? He
probably would feel less in
ferior if he were in a class
room with children of his own
ability. and teachers might be
able to handle larger classes
if the children were all on
approximately the same level.
F. P. G.
The Washington Chapter of
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton opposes any program for
reorganization of the student
body of the public schools by
means of wholesale down.
grading.
Such a move would be psy-
chologically unsound. 1t would
damage the development and
self-confidence of children
who are tagging through no
fault of theirs-but of ours
and set them back still further.
This action would, for the
most part, penalize Negro chill
dren because they have been
the helpless victims of gross
discrimination. For years they
have borne the brunt of part
time instruction, of deprivation
Of Kindergarten training, of
inadequate buildings. of in
sufficient books, equipment
and supplies, of lack of suffi-
Gent regular classroom teach
ing services, and of special in
structional services. All of
these have been available to
their white contemporaries,
solely on the basis of skin
fermentation.
Mass demotion will not rem
edy the situation. Wholesale
downgrading will add to
classes that are already over
populated and therefore now
producing students who can
not reach grade-level achieve
ment. In other words, down.
graded students will be given
more of the very treatment
that produced their present
intolerable situation.
The only effective solution
lies in the direction of smaller
regular classes and more-and
even smaller-remedial classes.
That means more teachers and
more schools-now.
Mrs. Todd Duncan.
President. Washington
Chapter, Americans for
Democratic Action.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

BY THE HASkIN SERVICE
Is
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with problems within their sep.
arate counties.
Membership of these planning
boards would be composed in
each county Of three residents
selected by the governing body
and two eX-officio members: a
member of the governing body
and the county manager in
Montgomery and the head Of
the department of public works
in Prince Georges.
Each planning board would be
responsible for planning activ-
titles primarily local in scope
Thus, Mr.. Segoe said, 1.-THE
county governing body will have
direct access to the planning
board for advice on a wide va
riety of county problems"
Simple Majority
The boards also would be avail
able for formation of capita
improvement programs and COL
liberation with other county
agencies and officials on county
problems.
At present a simple majority
vote of either governing body
can overrule planning recon-
mendations of the commission
THE citizens of the two coun-
ties thus lack protection for their
long range interests as embodied
in official plans and planning
policies" Mr.. Segoe asserted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-29
Magistrates Should Be Free
Of Pressure, Judge Says

ABERDEEN. Md. Oct. 20 Up.
"A Circuit Court Judge has call
ed for longer tenure and non
political appointment procedures
for trial magistrates.
Judge Stewart Day. OF the
Third judicial Circuit. urged
that control over magisterial APP
pointments be taken from the
State Senate and vested in a
non-political nominating body
His recommendations were made
in a speech before the Trial
Magistrates Association yester-
day.
The moves. he said, woulc
withdraw trial magistrates from
political pressure and influence.
Judge Day. who lives in Be
Air. sits in both Hartford anc
Baltimore county courts.
He suggested that the term Of
Office for trial magistrates be in.
creased from two years to at Least
six. and possibly eight. He sale
the resulting greater stability IL
the Office would improve tn,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-29
Area Planning Control
Extension Recommended

Iof the District and county
boundaries"
He also urged extension of tn,
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commissions jurisdiction to in.
clude all of both counties.
The expansion also was adj.
vocated to make for proper plan.
ming for relocated Federal sgen.
cieS outside the Regional Dis.
trict and better protection Of
stream valleys and the Potomac
River.
Is Members
The proposed commission
would consist of Is members.
Four would be appointed By
the governor. two from Mont.
gomery and two from Prince
Georges. The WSSC would ap.
point one of its members to the
commission.
In addition, there would be
five members appointed by each
OF the governing bodies of the two
counties to constitute sub-agen.
icies which would deal solely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-29
'MARYLAND-VIRGINIA NEWS
Pastor Hits Tax RULING
Against Ethical Society

A Unitarian minister said
yesterday that a court decision
last Monday ruling the Wash
Iington Ethical Society is not
IA religious body STRIKES at the
very roots of religious liberty"
The Rev. Ross Allen Weston
told his Arlington Unitarian
Church congregation that every
liberal Protestant, Unitarian,
IUniversalist, humanist, agnostic
or atheist sis now exposed to
attack from an absolute, ORTIZ
odox creedal religion"
Action Called Incredible
Mr.. Weston asserted it was
absolutely incredible that an
American judge in the mid
twentieth century Judge Joe v.
Morgan of the District Tax
Court would arbitrarily define
religion in supernaturalistic
terms and rule that any society
or congregation of people which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-29
BY WILLIAM TALBOT

Extension Of planning. coming
and sanitary controls through
out Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties is recon-
mended in a report made public
today by the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
Also recommended are changes
in commission membership and
Organization.
The report was prepared for
the agency by Ladislas Segoe g.
Associates. city planners and
consulting engineers of Cincin-
natl. Ohio.
planning should anticipate
growth; growth should not force
planning" Mr.. Segoe said.
Both Counties
Therefore, he recommended
that all Of both counties be in
Icluded in the agency'S Regional
District to eliminate "the con-
Ifusions. inefficiencies, inequities
and simple inconvenience oc-
casioned by the non-concurrence
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does not measure up. to his per-
sonal definition of religion is
not religious"
The judges view that "rever'
ence for morality, ethics anC
right living is not religious wor.
ship" was challenged by the
minister, who insisted it i.
rather "the very essence of re.
ligion."
Defines Religion
Mr.. Weston defined religion
as that which serves the up
ward reach of the heart"
Judge Morgan ruled the prop
erty of the Ethical Society is
taxable because the society is
opposed to belief in God.
Three years ago, Mr.. Weston
was cited for contempt of court
because he criticized an Airing
ton Circuit Court decision bar
ring Federal employees from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-29
$1,000 Fire Routs
Arlington Family

A widow and her two daugh-
tiers escaped injury when FIRE
damaged an Arlington home to-
day.
Fire Inspector r. G. Buckrop
estimated damage to the one
story brick home at 5037 Fifth
street at $1,000.
Mrs. Marian B. Roberto and a.
daughter Marian, Is, were
awakened by younger child,
Kathy, IL, about 8 am. when
she smelled smoke.
According to Inspector Buck
rop. a mattress fire broke out
in the mothers bedroom about
8 pm. Sunday. Mrs. Roberto
thought she had extinguished
the blaze.
Because Of the mattress FIRE.
the mother had moved into
Kathy's bedroom for the night.