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Quality in Education

As Mrs. Average Washing
ton-Parent who read your edi-
torial of January %, saying
that tests showed that of Ass
10th-grade pupils enrolled in
our schools last fall. 1904 of
them had reached sixth grade
or under level in reading and
that of 1919 10th-grade pupils.
l.798 had reached a sixth
grade or under level in arith-
metic. l cannot help but
wonder why we should expect
our Commissioners or Con-
gressmen to provide us with
additional elementary school
teachers. Legislators are prob
ably asking tn e ms selves.
Teachers. for WHAT"
In a more recent Star, an
elementary school official tells
us that Washington schools
have been geared to develop
ing attitudes" toward learn
ing. The above tests seem to
indicate that while developing
attitudes" we've been over
looking achievement.
AS the parent of a young
child, it makes me i'll to think
that she may be passed on
from grade to grade, whether
or not she is capable of &C
complishing the work that
should be covered year by year.
If she should receive a Wash
ington academic high school
diploma. of what value will it
be? Will universities still rec
ognize our diplomas when our
children are knocking at their
doors? Or will Star classified
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11
THE POLITICAL MILL
kentucky Political Feud Flares Anew
By GOULD LINCOLN

with Clements-and both sup
ported Chandler last year.
Gregory is still a member Of
the HouSe-but he is not seek
ing the senatorial nomination.
Mr.. Bates has another grew
ance against Clements. Ken
tucky's representation in the
House. after the last census,
was cut from nine to eight. AS
a consequence the 9Th congress
sional district was merged with
the 5th district. Bates repre-
sented the 9th and Represent
alive Brent Spence, the 5th.
The Legislature, while the
nts-Wetherby organiza-
ton was in control, so gerry
wandered the new 5th district
that Bates had no chance of
winning against Spence-and
Bates dropped out.
Bates was educated at Noun
tain Training School and East
State Teachers College, and
became a school. teacher and
superintendent. For a num-
Der Of years he was county
clerk Of Green County, until he
was elected to the House from
the old 9th district, serving in
that body from 1887 to 1858.
He's a Kentucky mountaineer.
and he is saying that he told
his people he, personally, in
tended to defeat Senator Glenn
ents when the time came. He
doesn't, at this point, mean to
turn this job over to someone
else. Representative Gregory
also has a claim on Chandler
and might have had the pref
erence for the senatorial NOM
nation, If he had wanted 1t.
Hot Fight in Making
Everything seems to be
building up to a hot fight.
with Chandler and his forces
aligned against Senator Glenn
ents in this race for the
Democratic senatorial nomi-
nation. II the Republicans
should put a strong candidate
in the field. and Clements
were the nominee of the Dem
ocrats, with Chandler against
him, it might be difficult for
Clements to win reelection,
even If he won denomination.
Chandler. when he was cam
paigning, insisted he intended
to serve the full four-year
term as Governor, although his
opponents charged he intended
to use the governorship merely
as a stepping stone to other
and higher Office, and even
that he was seeking advance
ment so as to be a candidate
for a presidential nomination.
Happy fatty denied he had
any such ambition. During
the primary campaign Senator
Barley and others called
Chandler a "Dixiecrat," a
renegade" and other I'M
complimentary names. He
will undoubtedly control the
Kentucky delegation which
goes to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention next Au-
gust.
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Tired of Trucks

I'm glad that TRAFFIC Director
Keneipp hopes to do something
about horns. ] suggest that the
District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia areas also do
something about noisy trucks.
Other cities. st. Louis for ex-
ample. have cracked down on
trucks.
A noisy truck is not prog
ress." Its noise is either the
convenience or laZiness Of the
driver or the company that
operates it. In the summer,
with the windows open, / can
hear trucks shifting gears,
growing up grades in low gear.
or backflring as they idle on
a downstretch from as far
away as two city blocks. Why
stop the citizens horn, the
hot-rod's cutout muffier, and
yet allow the trucks to make so
much noise? Particularly since
they could be easier to control.
Frederick c. Dyer.
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Man and Weather

Man can do something more about
the weather than Just use 1t for con-
versation piece. In fact, despite its SEEM
ingly unmanageable capriciousness, 1t has
already been made to do a number OF
tricks significant enough to suggest that
it is yielding to controls capable Of disci-
plining 1t in way that could greatly
benefit the entire world.
This is the authoritative judgment, at
any rate, Of the Presidents Advisory Com
mittee on Weather Control. Made up of
experts headed by retired Navy Captain
Howard T. Orville, the committee-which
came into being in 1953-has carried out
an exhaustive study of the subject, with
particular concentration on cloud-seeding
operations In California, Oregon, Wash
ington and Northern Idaho. And one OF
its chief findings is that such operations,
involving release into the atmosphere OF
silver iodide smoke from ground gener-
atorS, produce results that "can be very
important to the water economy Of the
Nation"
These results, according to the COM
nittee, are not spectacular or breath
taking, but they prove beyond doubt that
seeding-at least in certain geographical
regions-brings about substantial and
economically valuable increases in pre-
cipitation or rainfall. Thus, in the States
covered by the study, the increases-as
averaged out over period of years
ranged upward from to II per cent.
Further, the committees analysis of this
achievement strongly indicates that the
techniques involved can be developed to
suppress" crop-damaging hail in very
large part, il not entirely, and there is
possibility that the same tonic" can be
exploited to check lightning, which is
one of two principal causes of forest
fires"
Indeed, in the committees opinion,
the day may well come when there will be
seeding operations effective enough to
moderate the fury OF tornadoes. or con-
ceivably to have tanning influence even
on hurricanes. In any case. as far as the
immediate future Is concerned, the COM
mittee believes that the gains made to
date in this field constitute historic
breakthrough" opening up great poten-
tialities in terms of enabling man to win
a large measure Of mastery over the
weather. decidedly promising outlook
in which intensified research and expert
mentation will most likely lead" to more
progress Of high value.
In making this report, the Presidents
committee has recommended, among
other things, that its own life be extended
for another two years The recommends
ton should be upheld. Captain Orville
and his colleagues have rendered good
service, but they still have much to con-
tribute to the cause Of weather control.
They ought to be kept on the job
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11
Shouting to Shooting?

The President is right in re-
peating to Premier Bulganin
that a 20-year peace pact
would be valueless.
But, how about offering Bull
ganin a two-year halt Of all
government inspired and man
ufactured propaganda - both
theirs and ours! Not for 20
years. but just for twenty-four
months. During this period
proof positive could be OBJ
tanned that government-in-
spired propaganda is largely
ineffective. Moreover, all peo-
piles everywhere disbelieve and
distrust all propaganda. both
theirs and ours.
II. in his newly professed
quest for peace and 20-year
peace pacts. Premier Bulganin
and his fellow promoters in the
Kremlin would accept this pro-
posal to end all propaganda,
the American taxpayers would
be saved millions. Further
more. hating the useless, ex-
travagant and, all too often,
provocative propaganda activi-
ties of the u. S. Information
Agency would eliminate en-
ployment of many foreign
press agents who owe no ale
glance to the United States Of
America.
The late George Creel
warned that Shouting wars
always lead to shooting wars"
Mr.. Creel knew what he was
talking about. He was Woodrow
Wilson's able propaganda d.
rector throughout World War
/. When that war ended, Mr..
Creel promptly shut up our
Governments propaganda shop
in Washington because he
strongly believed there is no
place or justification in the
United States for a Govern
ment-operated propaganda oc-
topus in peace time or even in
cold-war time. Such activities
promote politicians where there
are no votes to be had. They
do not promote peace.
Eugene w. Castle.
New York City.
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

which he proposes to lower
himself.
. He has discovered. by past
cleansings, that there may be
a peculiar mixture of SCOT and
oil.
He emissions some honest
cleaning woman, with q big
oily rag, going around in a
hurry, wiping and wiping and
polishing.
When Jones gets aboard. 1t
is a bus that has just come
from the barn.
No other patron has wiped
the seat clean with the back
of fine topcoat or overcoat.
So what does Jones do?
Why. the most natural thing
in the world, it would seem
except to other people, and
people aboard bus.
He takes out a tissue, folds
it. and starts to wipe of the
seat.
Then the grins begin.
The idiots smoker. they
laugh, they almost slap their
sides at such a funny, bowling,
grotesque, performance.
All Jones is doing is protect
ing himself, but the rest have
not protected themselves. so
he is all wrong.
Even when he holds the
paper so they can see the
grease. they are unconvinced.
Not one of them takes a
lesson from what they all see.
They want to find fault. and
do so, en- masse, enjoying the
proceedings hugely. No, they
don't spit in his face. but that
would be next.
Yes, the foibles of male hui
man nature. Hortense, are
much the same as those of
the female. The main differ
ence, as we have said, is that
women and girls are more or
namental.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11

Kentucky political feuding,
which reached a climax last
year when Happy" Chandler
trod on the PROSTATE forms OF
Gov. Wetherby and Senators
Barley and Clements, winning
election as Governor, is burst
ing out again. For Gov.
Chandler is making good, APP
parently, on his campaign
pledge to lift the political scalp
of Senator Earl Clements
and Clements is up for re-
nomination this year. Chan
dler is going to support a
candidate against Clements IN
the primary election August :.
He has said so. publicly. But
he, is not entirely happy with
the candidate. former Repre-
sentative Joe B. Bates, who
insists upon running against
Clements. Bates supported
Chandler in his battle for the
governorship. and the Governor
cannot turn him down, al
though most Of his political
advisers say that Bates Is not
a strong candidate to run
against Clements. Chandler
has given a tentative indorse-
ment to Bates candidacy
perhaps with a lingering
thought that Bates may yet be
persuaded to step aside ana
seek some other Office.
Bitter Pill for Clements
In the closing hours Of the
gubernatorial election OF 1853.
Senator Clements went on the
platform with Chandler and
urged his election over his Re
publican opponent. 1t must
have been a bitter pill, but
Clements swallowed it. Chan
dler in those days was telling
his confidants he intended to
knock of Clements in the 1856
primary, and that Clements
knew the score. But Chandler
had not yet decided whom to
use to beat Clements over the
head in the senatorial primary.
Happy was elected by a huge
majority, and some of the
Democrats hoped that peace
might prevail. especially since
Senators Barley and Clements
had both come out for Happy
and Barley campaigned
vigorously for him. But
Happy's supporters - among
them Bates-had other ideas.
And so did Happy. Unless a
deal should be made to help
get Chandler a place on the
1856 Democratic national
ticket-and 1t is only a rumor
that Happy would enter into
such a deal-Chandler is going
ahead with his plans to stick a
knife in Clements.
Joe Bates, in his support OF
Chandler, was feeding a dislike
he himself had for Senator
Clements. The Senator and
Bates and Noble Jones Greg
ory were members of the Ma
tional House of Representa-
tives when Clements left to be
elected Governor. Later both
Bates and Gregory fell out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11
Song Remembered

Dark iUas wrapped around my
heart,
And deep i0ithin its folds I lay
In captiue sleep, until the day
You sang, and stirred the folds
apart
And led my heart awdy.
Hold me, loUe, Nth one clear
song
Remembered. So tDhen I Mould
tDeep,
Watching the numbin0 dark
ness creep
Around you, ! may sing the
long
Prelude to the longer sleep.
Marion. Leonard
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is a right to the same treat
ment at the hands of gov
eminent to all citizens, with
out regard to color. II by "psy-
Geological effect" he meant
mental damage resulting from
association in school with chill
dren less advanced educa-
tionally, ! think the parents
will have a hard time proving
such a point. In the over
crowded schools so common
today. there are probably a
lot Of children suffering from
such a situation, and nobody
has gone to the courts to
remedy it. -
The most disturbing element
in Mr.. Lawrence's article was
that he missed the point that
was most clearly established
by the results of the achieve
ment tests of the 1886
school year. They showed
plainly that the education
provided under a segregated
school system for the minority
group is measurably inferior to
that furnished the majority.
Margaret J. Butcher,
Member, District OF Column
bia Board of Education.
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why don't you write about
the foibles of men. for a
change? You always write
about women" writes Hortense
L. H.
Well, why not, Hortense?
Men have their peculiarities.
without a doubt.
Women are more pictur-
esque, when they start to sling
their big brass-bound hand
bags into gentlemen's eyes.
But men are interesting. too.
And they have their faults.
One type of male, for in
stance, is always creased to the
razor's edge. but still smells
of a combination of old sweat
and new tobacco.
You can always tell these
when they get aboard a public
vehicle, by the trouser crease.
It seems that there is some
obscure relationship between
the too-obvious crease and the
bad smell.
This is a peculiar odor, one
which other smells in a bus
do not obliterate.
The experienced rider looks
for the crease. especially If it
is too sharp, and also for the
color of the cloth.
This seems to happen mostly
to men who wear gray.
So watch out. If the gray
clad fellow gets on.
He doesn't mean to offend
you. No doubt he thinks he is
the ne plus ultra of something
or other.
Still, he needs a bath; and
not an ordinary bath. either.
but one with one of these
soaps with hexachlorophene
in it.
The modern bus is a great
observatory of human, nature.
Here not only the brute in
man comes out, but also the
brutess in women.
Everybody aboard partakes.
although he or she may not
realize 1t, of the herd instinct.
This old herd or mass mind
is what makes the students at
foreign universities rebel.
1t operates everywhere,
though, in Washington the
same as abroad. except that it
manages to manifest itself in
quieter ways.
In a bus, nobody talks to
anybody else.
1IlC Olu llClu lIloIlAlSO 10 otAiA
there, so what happens?
People look and grin at any
thing, no matter how small
the happening. Something of
the same urge is felt aboard
modern elevators. People stand
herded together and any idiot
aboard who happens to say
anything at all is greeted with
glad smiles, at the expense of
others. Idiots constitute a
group, and all its members
know. from past experience,
what will get a laugh.
4 y
Templeton Jones is the
latest victim of the herd in
stinct in motion.
He has discovered that the
slightest action on q bus will
attract the gaze.
He dares to wipe of the
sometimes grimy seat into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11
mr.. Baseball Himself

Connie Mack, one of the kindliest
and quietest of basebalPs great figures,
died this week. And 1t was fitting that
when death came to Mr. Mack, only
few weeks after his 93d birthday anniver-
sary, 1t understanding to a member OF
his family-"very peacefully"
Connie Macks long career in profess
sional baseball began in 1884 in New Eng
land. He was first major Lacquer right
here In Washington, spending three years
as a catcher with the local club in 1879.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11
Demon Rum

I was much interested in
your editorial, The Alcohol
Factor" and heartily approve
Of same.
How we'll I remember the
appeals for the return of
alcoholic beverages, in order
to bring added revenue into
the. Treasury and to do away
with bootlegging. The plea
was. give us 80 beer, that's
all we want, nothing else.
Well. let's take stock and
see what have been the gains
since repeal:
We still have hootlegging,
and it's on the increase.
We have over three million
alcoholics in America alone.
We have a daily increase Of
automobile accidents due to
drunken driving.
VIC ildNC q SlCdIly lIlCIcdSSu
number of alcoholic patients
in hospitals and mental insti-
buttons.
Alcoholic mothers and ia
theirs are on the increase as
noted by court records.
Juvenile delinquency and
divorces are on the increase.
Rescue missions are over
crowded due to alcohol.
King Alcohol is softening
up America. preparatory to
its delivery to Communist
Russia. for a drunken nation
Is easier to conquer than q
sober nation.
A large billboard in Balti-
more contains the following:
1T Goeth Down Smoothly"
1t should add the words from
Proverbs xiii, 80: AT Last 1t
Biteth Like a Serpent and
Stingeth Like an Adder"
Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson. =.
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$50
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Filmed religious comment.
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The role of music in Africon life.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-10

For late teIeyision program
chonges see --latest TV in
formation" in the Sunday
Amusement Section and on
the dolly Tv poee.
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not giving T eomne or animals though
pm R,t 1 ihe IN filmed Performance Sunday
perlng over Leo G. Carrols
WRC-4 -Opp0' . 00ai1ns a repeat run SUNDAY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-15
SoIk Vaccine Results
In Epidemic Revealed

under quiet conditions where no
epidemic actually is underway.
The Pearl Harbor outbreak Of
fered the first opportunity to
test the vaccine under epidemic
circumstances.
Critics of the vaccine had
raised early the disquieting pos
sibility that vaccination itself
might precipitate paralytic
cases. This had been reported
to result from injections of
diphtheria. whooping cough and
tetanus antigens and penicillin
in previous epidemics. The crit
icism was not that the vaccine,
but the fact of vaccination,
would precipitate paralysis.
In the Pearl Harbor program
"a control group was left un-
vaccinated to compare with
those vaccinated. About 10000
we're in the first group, 10000
in the second.
The results; After the mass
vaccination program. attacks
rates were lower in those vac
cinated than in the unvaccinateo
population, although this diff
ference was not statistically
significant.
In a search for a possible pro-
voking effect, attack rate;
among those vaccinated ano
those not were compared for the
.30-day period following the start
of the program and found tc
be equal.
THE clinical data did not re-
veal evidence of any provoking
effect" the Navy doctors said
However" they added, "fur-
ther studies of the use Of the
vaccine under epidemic condi.
tons will be necessary If the
tentative conclusions of this
study are to be firmly estab-
IliShed."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-15
Talbot Addresses
Meeting on Plustics

NEW YORK, June is (R.-
Plastics have changed the mer-
chandising concepts in many de-
partments of the modern de-
partment store" Philip M. Tai
bott. president of the National
Retail Drygoods Association. told
a meeting of the Society OF the
Plastics Industry yesterday.
In some cases plastics have
almost revolutionized depart
ments and even merchandise di-
visions" Mr.. Talbot said. An
outstanding example is how
plastics have changed the home
fashions picture. They have
come like a colorful vitamin to
put a new appearance, a new
concept into such departmental
groupings as housewives, home
furnishings, linens and domestics,
curtains and draperies and din
nerware."
Mr.. Talbot, senior vice presi-
dent of Woodward g. Lothrop,
Washington. ID. c., said great
narm has been done to the plas-
tics industry by occasional in
ferior products
Good eye appeal in design,
color, finish and workmanship
will be profitless If the product
is unsatisfactory, returned OF
exchanged" he asserted. But,
he added. effective performance,
'brand names" and informa-
tive labelling will build consumer
confidence for plastics products,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-15
BY THOMAS r. HENRY
star stan Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 15.-The first
mass vaccination of popula-
ton with Salk polio vaccine
during an epidemic was reported
to the American Medical AsSo-
citation here yesterday afternoon.
The results were in general, al
though not absolutely reasSuring
but no evidence was found
that paralytic polio actually was
precipitated by the vaccinations.
The report was made by Capts.
Robert S. Poos and John r.
Seal of the Navy Bureau OF
Medicine and Surgery on use of
the vaccine among approx
mately 10000 Navy personnel
and members of their families
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during
an epidemic which extended from
July. 1855, to last March. There
were SO cases and two deaths.
Public Health Service studies
have already shown that the
vaccine greatly reduces the in
cidence of the disease in the
population at large-but only
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with States and local commune
ties.
The present status Of this pro-
gram was reported by DR.. John
w. Cronin, chief of the medical
facilities division of the Public
Health Service. At the start of
this year, he said, 2,673 projects
have been approved and 1865,
providing 10000 beds, have been
completed and are in operation.
A grand total of $4,000 new
beds is proposed, in addition to
583 public health centers.
The cost of all projects APP
proved is estimated at about
$2.l75. 100000. The Federal con-
tribution toward this will be $70S
million, to be matched by State,
community and university con-
Itributions of 81, ACT ,00O,0 900.
The majority of all approved
applications are for general hos
pitfalls. More than half Of these
are in areas which had no hos
pitfalls of any kind hitherto. The
great majority are in towns OF
less than 5000.
Appropriations of 5000 million
Ia year are authorized under the
Federal hospital survey and con-
|struction program. There is still
an estimated shortage of about
$50, 900 hospital beds.