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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
BY GEORGE MORRILL,
illustrated br Al Moore

1t was hell of winter. Day after day the fell
hne-grained and cold When the came out. iccleS
grew along the and night the wind broke them
You could hear them rattle down the clapboards you
lay in bed calling yourself fool.
Kay It's going to flop
She turned the light and up. Don't say it.
Terry.
I'm not inventor and never will be-. he said.
She shVered. She was wearing faded pink bathrobe
over her nghtgown. Kay nineteen. slender girl
with ashyellow hair She the mother of Pete their
two-year-od.
Il think you're quite inventor. she said softly.
He turned away close TO angry tears. Kay would Suf
fer with him as long he wanted That hurt Of ALL
She clicked off the light and snugged in behind him.
Love you Slugger." she whispered.
Next morning. chatterng with cold Terry built fire
in the wood stove Then he peered at the barn.
Last nights wind had filled his path with snow. He'd
have TO waste an hour digging it out again.
such glorious morning. cried Kay, kissing him.
Breakfast was good - their moment of unity Hope
flowed through the sunlit windows. Terry slipped coffee
from a cracked cup. He joggled Pete his knee,
chuckng.
iii put in the four-cycIe motor today he said by
thunder that should throw enough power the rotors
He dug the path and unlocked the barn. The odors Of
grease and gasoline oaed out, mixed with the scent
of hay.
his was his workshop, ms incubator OF dreams.
An oak BENCH Uttered with tools and parts, full
length between the old horse stalls On the floor
ture of welded steel like Rube Goldberg nightmare.
The Invention.
He dark, rangy boy = Terry was Neghbors
said the cleft in his chin sign of stubbornneSS
like his father
He built fire in the o-drum furnace and soon the
barn warm. Terry sat down at his packing box
desk He thumbed the pages of his record book, and
under the page titled Power Feed Assembly wrote care
fully Q64 pe inadequate for weg Of hhe rofors.
OveThedfS.
Then he took wrench and started pulling out O64 -
the wocycle job that had failed sckeningly yeSter
day.
The invention the Soil-Mixer Harrow, to do the
work better than the oldfashoned pillow and harrow.
II was the fruit of long thoughts Terry tractor
seat watching burrows trail away behind.
Why not chWn the soil. he had thought instead Of
blowing it into fiat, sun-baked rows? Why not mix
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
CJUt9u

Terry and Kay had risked everything
on this monstrous machine.
Did thieVing mechanic now
hold their future in his hands?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

TW-A.l-5 Sc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Time to End the Dispute

The impasse which has developed
between District school and health Of
f1cials over plans for new crippled chill
dren's school is absurd and intolerable.
A dispute as to official prerogatives OF
departments or officials should not be
permitted to interfere with the steps for
alternating the conditions under which
the city's disabled children are being
taught today. There has been too much
pulling and hauling on this important
project already. The controversy between
school and Health Department authorities
over the site and design for the inSti-
tuition, at Thirteenth and Upshur streets
NV, has become clash of personalities
in which the welfare of the unfortunate
children apparently has become OF Sec
ondary Importance. 1t is time for the
Commissioners to step in and end the
unseemly battle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
No. ! Killer

Virginia State Police, after Statis-
, teal study, have announced that U. S.
Route was Virginia's leading death trap
for motorists in 1855. The statistical
confirmation of the highways hazards
comes as no surprise to those who use
the road or who read the newspapers. The
Northern Virginia stretch is lined with
reminders of serious Notwithstanding
that has been lowed to garages from the
scenes of sudden death or injury. And
the newspapers almost daily tell of head
on collisions or other grim tragedies, with
the victims frequently being military per-
sonnet from nearby posts.
That is why Army and Marine author
ities have decided to patrol the highway
between Washington and Fredericksburg,
in a move to reduce the number Of mill
tary casualties-and, withal, reduce the
dangers for all who must drivea on this
road. State police, meanwhile, have in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Holiday on the Hill

It is traditional in an election year
that Congress attempts to get out OF
Washington early. All House seats and
at least one-third of those in the Senate
are in shooting range of the voters every
two years. Most of those who have been
occupying them are UNDERSTANDABLE anx-
ious to be back in the neighborhood of the
ballot boxes in plenty of time for cam
paigning. And very often the legislative
record of Congress is one Of the most
lively issues With ten-day Easter
recess beginning this week, the record
thus far is hardly impressive. To make
it so by adjournment date will take lot
of hard work or more time than usual
or both.
The major jobs done so far are more
negative than positive The Senate spent
weeks passing the natural gas bill, only
to have it vetoed by President Eisenhower.
It spent additional weeks passing farm
bill, greatly different from the version
passed last year by the House-and facing
at least the threat of another veto. Both
branches have approved extension OF
excise and corporation income taxes at
present rates. The House has passed
half-dozen of the departmental appro-
priation bills. But most other issues
foreign aid, highway and school construc-
ton, housing, social security liberalization
and flock of other legislative proposals
either are stalled in committees or
waiting their chances on one floor or the
other
Divided partisan responsibility for
governmental Republican executive and
a Democratic legislative branch-provides
part of the explanation for lack Of &C
complishment. For even though the Re-
publican administration and the Demo-
cratic congressional leadership favor leg
islation in the same fields, there are
enough differences in detail to make
agreement difficult. Furthermore, the
question of who will be entitled to credit
If and when there is credit to claim
becomes important politically in an cleo
ton year. President Eisenhower's con-
valescence and his consequent delay in
making known his second-term intentions
accounted in large measure for the lack
of action in January and February.
Still, those who have watched Con-
gress in action for many years are aware
that much can be done in hurry-when
the legislators want to hurry. When a
target date for adjournment is in sight,
rambling debates often dry up, committee
and conference deadlocks often are COM
promised and partisan leaderShipS resolve
many of their differences. The congress
sional record this year probably will not
be either the best or the worst. But each
party can be expected to claim credit for
the good and disclaim responsibility for
the bad: And the voters will have their
usual chance, with sufficient time, to de-
eide what they do or do not like about
1t all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
LeUninq at Home

am astounded at the let
ter by Mrs. Todd Duncan in
which she enumerates in de-
tail what the colored child
has lacked in educational OPP
portunities before indignation
and fatty states the white
schools had every advantage.
This is pure nonsense. What
have colored pupils been doing
during school hours-playing
ping pong?
Not once does Mrs. Duncan
mention possible lack Of
proper parental control-fam-
lily interest in the Negro home
toward learning the daily les
son. You can take a horse to
water but you can't make him
drink-neither can you instill
knowledge in a child unless
he has the desire and will to
do so. Let's give the teachers
a break by starting the learn
ing in the home. Only then
will Negro children measure
up to white children.
Ralph johnson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Arouses Parents

Certainly we want more
teachers for elem e ntary
schools. But not at the ex-
pense of secondary schools.
The teacher-pupil ratio in
D. C. elementary schools is
very bad. We must have far
fewer pupils per teacher. One
person can't teach the funda-
mentals and basic learning
skills to 33 or AZ young ones.
Our bad elementary school
situation has gone on for
many years. Are we now 60
ing to punish our Junior and
senior high schools and the
children in them. because of
a situation we. the people, ig-
nored for so long in our lower
schools?
Had we not all been so
apathetic, we would have in
sisted long ago that Congress
give us more grade school
teachers.
Where, oh where, is DR..
Corning, who should be
breathing fire and making a
fight for his secondary schools
and teachers?
Parents, back your PTA's
and your home and school as
sociations. Phone. write. and
call upon your Commissioners,
and Congress that they may
hear the great indignation Of
US all. Audrey B. Oliphant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
New CT Chocolate Is in the Mokino
By THOMAS R. HENRY

A rabbit-blood bank is being
set up by Department Of Agri-
culture scientists.
It will be used for the pro-
duction of substances which
will make easier and quicker
the Identification Of the major
virus diseases which now at
tack American cereal crops.
Rabbits Yield Antibodies
Rabbits are being used in
this bank as a living source Of
antibodies against these vi
ruses. The plant disease or
ganisms, according to the Agri-
culture scientists cooperating
with the Nebraska State ex-
pertinent station, are made up
largely Of proteins. Any warm
blooded animal forms anti
bodies to an injected virus.
These are specific only for the
virus injected and are formed
in the blood serum.
Once a stock of antisera has
been prepared the scientists
will have a faster method Of
Identification and will speed up
breeding for resistance. It also
is expected that the bank will
provide for closer study of the
diseases. how they are spread.
and their relationship to each
other.
In building the bank, Drs.
Ellen Moorhead and M. Brake
get virus from the juice Of
diseased plants and inject it
into rabbits. The reaction is
similar to that of humans with
smallpox vaccine. They do not
get the disease. but they build
up antibodies against it. The
rabbits, Of course, do not get
the plant diseases, but they
build up similar substances.
Diseased plants can be tested
either in the field or labora-
tory with the antibodies in
the rabbits serum. If anti
bodies and virus are from the
same disease. a precipitation
forms in the test tube due to
their reactions with each
other. If they are unrelated.
there is no precipitation. Al
ready antibody supplies against
six serious viruses have been
built UP in the blood of the
Nebraska rabbits. Some others.
including one that causes a
serious disease of wheat, are
proving difficult to handle.
One difficulty is in getting Q
sufficiently pure virus prep
aration.
After incubation, the blood
of the rabbits is tested period
ically to see If the desired rel
alive strength of antibody has
been reached and is being
maintained. At any time the
blood of an animal can be
drawn off in small quantities
and used for the field tests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28

The news should be kept
from top sergeants Of the pre-
war Army-but candy has
become one of the essentials of
war.
Not hard, tooth-breaking
candy, but nice. soft chocolates.
At least United States De-
partment Of Agriculture scien-
lists are working on a military
chocolate, the chief require
ment for which is good keeping
quality. They have succeeded.
they report, to the point where
the chocolate coating and their
centers-fudge. caramel OF a
nut = sugar mixture-remain
firm at temperatures up to
100 F. The fudge type, they
report. contains sorbitol. a
chemical obtained from corn
sugar, which gives it q smooth
texture and retards drying.
The caramel and combination
candy contain sweet whey.
which supplies proteins.
Agriculture Departm en- t
chemists, whose work is CEN
tered at the Southern Re-
search Laboratory in Louisiana,
are, naturally, not so much
concerned with the sweet tooth
of the American soldier as in
finding new uses for sugar and
dairy products. The candy
market is important for both.
1t is essential that candy be
kept from drying out-espe-
cially for military purposes.
Chalky spots and flavor are
caused by loss of the original
moisture content. The re-
search now is directed toward
preventing transfer of mois-
ture into and through the
coating.
New Form of Sugar
The research has shown,
says the report, that many fine
candies can be produced at low
cost with turbinado sugar,
which is made directly from
cane juice during the harvest
ing season without refinement
by bine char or carbon. This
accounts for about five per
cent of the 100000 tons of
sugar used annually by Amer
lean candy manufacturers.
Research in the dairy field is
showing new ways in which
milk solids can be used in
candy making.
A new cheap form of sugar
which does not require direct
refining now is being produced
experimentally at the labora-
tory and should find a wide
market in candy making when
commercially available, the
chemists report.
Tests are also in progress on
starch jellieS made with diff
ferent combinations of corn
syrup solids to produce new
candy f1avorS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

All one has to do is look
around at the world, as 1t Is.
not as some say it is. The
cruelty, war, suspicion, insin-
cerity one sees are enough to
make any man suffer from
melancholia.
Maybe dogs, too.
Who knows the mind Of q
dog?
He looks at you so wisely, so
we'll. If he is a boxer, he gazes
with love, too.
But limbo was q different
kind of dog.
He was German shepherd.
to begin with. Perhaps he had
been trained in a rigorous
school.
Who knows the mind of Q
dog?
limbo was, in plain words.
what most people call a police
dog.
And he was mean.
There, friends of dogs, Is q
combination.
A mean little dog can be in
Inundated, but not mean big
one.
limbo was guarding his
house, when along came a
suspicious looking character.
He was nobody but old
Templeton Jones, but the surly
dog didn't know that.
To him, Jones was the
Enemy.
limbo stiff legged it out to
the walk, and, as the Enemy
came by, gave nasty growl.
Templeton Jones, brought
up in the fear school of dog
training, extended his hand in
a way that Mrs. F would have
approved.
limbo didn't bite, either up
or down,
He just took poor Jones
hand in his mouth, and walked
along with him.
At first. Jones was petrified.
Then he got to thinking (al-
ways good thing to do) and
decided that there was moth
ing else to it, he would walk.
So along the dog and the
man walked. all on a beautiful
spring day, when the dicky-
birds We're singing, and all
nature was in tune, well, al
most.
Good bye, limbo, turn in
here" said Templeton Jones,
in his best voice Of command.
Then the miracle happened.
limbo let go the hand. and
trotted back home, satisfied
with an escort-duty well per-
formed.
Maybe limbo was mean, but
he knew a thing or two.
Templeton Jones decided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Miracle of Time

Ho,O Hmitless the miracle of
time,
As constantly it giUes and
takes, and scars,
Builds temples for the heart
that dreams may climb
To gardens Shimmering tDith
mystic stars!
While gentle flutes from silenceS
may bring
The ghosts from beauty,
hushed' and calm. and
sDeet,
As life leans backward learning
hoW to sing
OF lore. that graced each
ancient years retreat.
Time ntoues in transient
moments out across
The centuries, and brings
all thirsty eyes
A quiet that is peace, out
reaching loss,
A majesty OF spirit, loping
tDiSe
And time, past all that earthly
hours haze oiuen.
May grant immortal life, the
GIFT OF heaven.
Avis Turner French
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28

cured in this drive will become
permanent foster homes. The
caliber of the prospective fos-
ter parents is unusually high.
The Public Welfare Advisory
Council wishes to express its
deep gratitude for the part
played by The Star in this
extremely worthwhile project
through publicizing the need.
and. in particular. would like
to commend Reporter Frank
Sartwell.
Mrs. Theodore o. Wedel.
Acting Chairman,
Public Welfare
Advisory Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Miss Thompson's Views

OF all the many arguments
pro and con integration, the
sanest reasoning ! have yet
seen is that of Dorothy
Thompson. 1.-THE judges" said
Miss Thompson, may be ex-
cellent lawyers. But they were
bad psychologists" There can
be no doubt that the over
whelming sentiment in the
South is against Indignation.
Miss Thompson quotes Ed
mund Burke in this respect.
as follows: II know of no way
to bring an indictment against
a whole people" Miss Thomp-
son contends, and rightfully
so, that Americans have too
strong a prediction to believe
that reform can be accom-
pliShed by passing a law" and
she adds: Laws reflect reform
rather than induce it, and laws
that violate the current sense
of a community never bring
social peace" 1t might be we'll
for Congress and the Supreme
Court to mediate on the wis
dom of this superior minded
and extraordinary woman be-
fore rushing headlong into a
situation which even a civil
war could not change.
]. T. p.
Dorothy ThompSon's recent
article, Miss Lucy and Public
Opinion" is an attempt to
show the futility of the Su-
preme Courts desegregation
decision. ! am afraid Miss
Thompson has missed the
boat. Her premise is that a
law has little chance of en-
forcement unless it has sup
port of a large majority.
In the first place, a majority
of the American people are
not in favor of the suppression
of human rights. Only a small
minority of the people are in
favor of this kind of reaction
and stupidity. In fact the
Supreme Court and the ma
Jority of the thinking people
are in favor of abolishing the
remaining vestiges of second
class citizenship for Negroes.
The law is bigger than the
whims of the few. All the
forces of right and justice are
modifying against injustice
and intolerance. The door of
injustice and intolerance can
not endure forever the crush
ing blows of justice. The time
may not be the immediate
present. but the old bastille
of segregation and its asso-
ciated evils shall crumble I'M
der the march of time and
progress.
william Baker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Unwise Economy

The protests of Federal and MARYLAND
officials over the $275, 900 reduction made
by the House in the budget of the
National Capital Planning Commission
are justified. Most of this money repre-
sents an obligation by the Federal Gov
eminent under the Capper-Cramton
park-development program in Maryland
Maryland stands ready to put up its share
of matching funds, as provided in the
agreement by which park lands in the
Metropolitan Area are being preserved.
This park program is important not only
to the suburban areas around Washington
but to the Nations Capital. Having been
authorized by Congress, it should be
carried forward to completion
Chairman Harland Bartholomew of
the Planning Commission told a Senate
Appropriations subcommittee that the
full amount asked in the budget, S., 910,-
600, is needed to proceed with the Mary
land extension of the park system and
to extend the George Washington Memo
rial Parkway.
The Capper-Cramton program has
become the target of so-called economy
moves in recent years, with Federal budg-
etary and congressional critics joining
In the attacks. But the money spent so
far by the Government, Maryland and
Virginia under the park and parkway
partnership plan has proved to be wise
investment for all concerned. Congress
should give the program its continued
support, through funds and legislation as
needed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
Lawrence on the Races

I offer congratulations to
David Lawrence for his excel
lent article "Integration and
Inter-marriages."
Mr.. Lawrence's comments
will go a long way toward
Qualification and promoting a
better understanding Of the
real issues and problems in
volved in this controversial
issue.
It is inconceivable to as
sumo that the founders of our
constitutional form of govern
ment foreSaw the possibility
of this grave problem which
now faces our Nation and
made no provision for its So
luton. 1t is equally incon-
ceivable that the trainers Of
the Constitution intended to
vest in the Federal Govern
ment the power to regulate
the public school systems
within the several States, or to
say to the States who should
be permitted to vote, or hold
public Office.
Can this right now be taken
from the States, by action of
the Supreme Court, and vested
in the Federal Government?
We think not.
Mr.. Lawrence points out
that the solution has not yet
been reached, and that we
should face the issues with the
greatest candor, tolerance, and
understanding.
Cecil S. BarkSdale.
y =
David Lawrence says the
South opposes school integra-
ton because it fears "mongrel-
ization" of the white race. This
is a specious argument based
on emotionalism and designed
to hide the South's real fears.
"Mongrelization" of both
white and Negro races has
been going on in the United
States since the first slaves
were imported.
The term "mongrelization,"
as used by Mr.. Lawrence is de-
rogatory to both races. "Hy-.
bridization" Of black and white
is a less emotional and more
realistic term.
"White Liberal"
David Lawrence's recent ef-
fort. "South's Fear of Mongrel-
ization," is full of fallacies,
misstatements. insults and as
sertions calculated to inflame
racial prejudice. Furthermore,
his blueprint for deliberate cir
convention of the law of the
land. as interpreted by the Ma
tons highest court. arrogantly
bespeaks the mind of an ego
fist so suffused with ethnocen-
trism that he considers himself
and his ilk above the law, the
courts. and the people of the
Nation.
M. A. TignOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-28
NEW YORK
WORLD-TELEGRAM.

Dear Sir:
"One of my many scouts in
Washington just sent me a
copy of your column in which
you wrote of meeting Eric,
your first boxer acquaintance.
That really was q honey.
1.-The paws-on-s houlder part
reminded me of a day when
old man boxer and ! alone
handled the parking of cars
at a pistol shoot that my first
and best newspaper boss ran.
His wife came out to help
and she squatted toward the
ground to greet Azot.
"Her shoulders got met by
the old mans paws, and down
she went, with one big boxer
tongue washing her face.
From then on. until I
moved up country, they were
buddies. You can see a lot Of
breed and obedience at the
Potomac Boxer show at Fort
Myer.
"Kindest regards and a
basket of dogwood for a he'll
luva fine piece.
Sincerely, j. B., dog writer"
n y
ARLINGTON, VA.
Dear Sir:
. Il was very surprised to see
in pne of your articles a few
days ago that you advised.
when testing out a dogs dis
position, to offer the hand
with the palm up.
This is contrary to all
safety rules. The hand should
be offered with the palm down.
In other words, offer the
back of the hand, then if the
dog snaps, he has nothing to
bite, as it is very hard to bite
the back of a hand. 4
IF the hand were offered
with the palm up. a nasty bite
could be received on one or
more fingers.
II have worked with dogs
for twenty odd years and know
this to be a fact.
Sincerely yours, K. F."
y y y
Did you ever have a dog, a
big dog, take your hand in his
mouth?
This happened to Templeton
Jones many years ago. on one
of those beautiful spring
mornings that come only few
times in a life.
No one knows how it is.
The sun is shining, the dew
is on the rose, the little buds
are swelling, and everywhere
there is that feel of springtime.
so precious to humanity.
If it were not for spring, we
would all be melancholy.
To be melancholy, is the
sign of a wise man.