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Evening star., 1956-03-29
The Office Seeks the Man

When David B. Karrick becomes Dis
trict Commissioner week from tomor-
row, Mr.. Spencer's term then expiring,
the new Board of Commissioners must
choose a president. The Engineer Com
missioner does not customarily serve in
that capacity, although there is nothing
IN the law to prevent it. The choice,
therefore, normally lies between the two
civilian Commissioners, with the Engi-
neer Commissioner in a position to cast
the deciding vote.
There is precedent for electing the
civilian Commissioner who is senior in
point of service. There is also precedent
for electing the most recently appointed
civilian Commissioner. The SoundeSt
precedent, followed many times, is to
choose the best qualified civilian Com
missioner, regardless of seniority. That
is the precedent which should be followed
now and Mr.. Karrick should be chosen
president of the new board.
In the present circumstances, more
over, there are particular reasons why
Mr.. Karrick should be president of the
board. We need fresh leadership in seek
ing to untangle the incredibly confused
muddle over public transit. That leader
ship can be supplied only by man who
can approach the problem with objective
detachment, free from the handicaps of
personal involvement in the commission
of errors which produced the mess. We
would hope that this point of view is
shared by Mr.. Karrick's Commissioner
colleagues. Certainly it should be.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
$2-MiIIion OBLIGATION

The $2-million supplemental appro-
priation requested by the Commissioners
before the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee amounts to an overdue Federal
obligation that ought to be paid in full.
The Government incurred the obligation
when Congress appropriated only $18 mil
lion of the $40 million which 1t had agreed
to pay under the financing plan for the
public works program. The failure to live
up to that agreement has added to the
Districts financial troubles during the
current fiscal year.
To refuse to add this sum to the
Federal payment for the year ending
next June 30 would be inconsistent with
the commendable action of Congress
now in voting to raise the Federal obli-
CATION from $40 million to $23 million.
Legislation authorizing certain pay
ment as the Federal share of the cost OF
running the Nations Capital is meaning
less unless the full authorization is sup
ported by appropriations. That is as true
of the increased authorization as of the
one which it will replace.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
Biu Job to Do

After long search, Defense Secretary
Wilson has picked a civilian chief for the
guided and ballistic missile program
His choice is Eyer v. Murphree, now
president of ESQ Research and Engineer
ing Company. Fifty-seven years old, he
has spent most of his career in research
and development work. During World
War II he was chairman of the planning
board and member of the Office of Sci
entific Research and Development here in
Washington. He is currently member
of the General Advisory Committee to the
Atomic Energy Commission.
From this, 1t would seem that Mr..
Murphree has the necessary qualifications
for the post. Mr.. Wilson has said that he
will be given the broad authority that will
be needed to do the job. We hope that
results soon will confirm both this
assumption and this assurance.
Evening star., 1956-03-29

The Justice Departments move to sell
large tractso land that District officials
had proposed as a site for large national
stadium has had the good effect of reviv-
ing public interest in the need for such
"bowl" in Washington. The threatened
loss of the National Training School prop
erty-one of the best available sites in
this crowded city for stadium-should
be matter of concern to Congress and
the District. Steps being taken by Rep
resentative Thompson of New Jersey to
revive the dead or dormant Memorial
Stadium Commission are therefore very
timely. The commission approach, which
became begged down several years ago,
might yet serve to get action started.
Representative Thompson is sponsor
ing legislation that would have the effect
of re-establishing the commission under
authority of a joint resolution passed in
1914. A nine-man commission was ap-
pointed in 1945 to advise Congress on the
scope of the proposed stadium and on
means of financing 1t. The structure was
to serve as a memorial to the Nations
war dead. Unfortunately, that commits
sion, headed by the late Senator Bilbo
of Mississippi, became involved in polit-
ical controversy and in disputes over the
size and nature Of the stadium The
chairman insisted on a fantastic 100000
capacity sports center. with removable
aluminium roof and other costly and i'm
practicable features. Congress soon lost
interest in the stadium idea and the COM
mission was not reappointed after the
death of Senator Bilbo.
The Thompson bill would re-create
the commission under the 1914 resolution
and give it the services of an advisory
committee representing veterans organ
izations, athletic associations and other
groups interested in such bowl. It
would be the task of the commission to
consider plans for a stadium on suitable
site in the District, with suggestions for
financing it. Such commission, if COM
posed of outstanding, realistically minded
citizens, could help to get the stadium
program under way, at long last. There
is urgent need for leadership to end the
apathy which has befallen the stadium
proposal.
Evening star., 1956-03-29

Nevertheless. what has happened In Tifiis
serves as a reminder that the USSR is not
really monolithic and fanatically united.
On the contrary, it is a multinational
country where there are still plenty of
people-including young students-who
are bored stiff with Marxism-Leninism
and who crave more freedom and better
times than they are now allowed to have.
This is condition of public opinion that
may well lead, no matter how slowly, to
real liberalization of the Soviet way of
life, and the debunking of Stain may con-
ceivably be a good first step in that
direction.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
Good Neiqhbors Meet

The practice Of good neighborli-
ness which has prevailed generally in
inter-American relations for the past 20
years gained strength in the three-power
meeting held this week at White Sulphur
Springs. For in two days of informal and
relaxed conversations the chiefs of state
of Canada, the United States and Mexico
talked of many things-mutual hopes as
well as common probIems-in much the
way that friendly neighbors often discuss
community interests.
Suggested originally by Secretary of
State Dulles during visit to Ottawa last
September, this was meeting without
formal agenda and without official COM
muniques at its closing It was sum-
married. best, perhaps, by White House
Press Secretary Hagerty in saying that
1t produced exactly what it was called
to do-to help us get better acquainted"
In the process, it covered most of the
problems and tensions that are disturbing
to world peace today as well as the nor
NAL differences as those involving
trade and economic questions exist
between three adjoining countries. There
was, apparently, no attempt to establish
infiexible common policies on world af-
fairs. The fact that there has been no
major divergence in the past indicates
there is little likelihood of any developing
in the near future. The local differences,
none of them grave, are matters that are,
negotiable through ordinary diplomatic
channels with the summit" talks
merely confirming the background atmos-
phere Of mutual good will.
The meeting itself, of course, was an
other exercise of President Eisenhower's
favored practice of personal diplomacy as
distinct from the more formal type
of international conference. It is an
approach to foreign affairs in which he
has demonstrated his own skill and per-
suasiveness, and which he has Endorsed
for the much travelled Mr.. Dulles. It has
supplemented, rather than supplanted,
more conventional diplomatic dealings.
There are indications there will be
increasing recourse to it in the months
to come, probably the next occasion being
the scheduled visit of Prime Minister
Nehru of India in July. On the record
thus far, it has proved an effective
formula.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
Trouble in TifIis

The Soviet Republic Of Georgia Is
distinguished for more than the fact that
Josef Stain was born there. It's once
Independent people, like the Ukrainians
and some of the other nationalitieS max
ing up the USSR, have long and proud
history of their own. Although brought
under the domination of Czarist Russia
and although tightly controlled by the
Kremlin since the Bolshevik revolution,
they still display highly individualistlc
tendencies, and these tendencies have
recurrently created headaches for the
central authority in Moscow.
Thus, within recent days, In their
capital city of Tifiis, large numbers OF
GeorgianS seem to have staged demon
strations sufficiently serious to disturb
Nikita Khrushchev and the other mem
bers of Russias collective leadership"
Soviet censors have moved in on the sit
uation, but enough official and unoff1c1al
information has leaked out to indicate
that there have been disorders of rather
major nature. Although the exact cause
of the trouble remains unexplained, the
Kremlin's mounting attack on Stains
reputation apparently has had something
to do with it, if only in the sense of serving
as an excuse for letting off steam.
At any rate, judging from news re-
ports allowed to pass through the censor
ship, there can be little doubt that
Georgian youths-mostly students-have
cut up in way that has struck Mr..
Khrushchev and company as bad show
of hooliganism or juvenile delinquency in
the theological field AS a result, the top
Communist authorities of Tiflis Univer-
sity have been fired from their jobs for
failure to "indoctrinate" the young
Heorgians and suppress "nationalistic
elements" among them. An indignant
Tifiis newspaper has revealed, for ex-
ample, that these "nationalistic elements"
have been repeatedly playing hockey and
going to the movies instead Of faithfully
attending classes In Marxism-Leninism
and dialectical materialiSm.
None Of this trouble, Of course, seems
to add up to revolutionary threat.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
To Heinrich Heine
On the Tooth anniversary
Of the poets DEATH

On the Tooth anniversary
Of the poets death)
One hundred gears ago you left
this Dorld,
Free of the anguish of your
"mattress-graDe,"
Your task 1Dds done, your ctdl-
lenge had been hurled,
Your passion, life itself, you
freely gaze;
They called you 'Sybdrite in
pleasures deep,
A grdpe-crowned DionySiuS
spent Nth tDine,
And yet the fail of rose leaf
broke your sleep,
You dreamed of Lorelei along
the Rhine.
They called you ,Dit and skeptic,
you toho built
A realm of fantasy Which
nsoved the heart,
Who caught the thunder and
the gentle Tilt,
The cadence of the soul, the
perfect art;
They thought Olympian idols
Dere your choice
They did not hear the psdlmist
In your Uoice.
EIihu PIott
Evening star., 1956-03-29
Commendotion

The Business and Profess
sional Women's Club of the
District of Columbia. Inc, has
been particularly active in
support of the proposed Metro
politan Police Force increase
to $500 men. Steps taken by
our groups, as well as specific
examples of attacks upon
women all over Washington,
were woven into a clear, COM
prehensive story in Miriam
Ottenberg's March Is Sunday
Star survey. 1t is not a pleas
ant story, but nonetheless one
that needed the authoritative
reporting done SO well by Miss
Gutenberg and The Star.
Miss Gutenberg deserves high
commentator for her accurate
and detailed story of the rea-
sons behind the organized eff
forts of Washington club wom-
en- to obtain proper police pro-
lection. On behalf of the club
I extend grateful appreciation
Of the story.
Lauretta G. Hupman.
Chairman, Public Affairs
Committee, District of
Columbia Business and
Professional Wom en-,
InC
Evening star., 1956-03-29
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

This being slow. instead Of
fast, he says, takes real men
tai effort.
It is another use Of what
used to be called will power.
We hear no more about will
power, though books were
written about it in the old
days.
Schooling was supposed to
build it up, among other
things, such as teaching one
how to think.
What has become Of that
idea?
Evidently today's children
are supposed to be born with
the ability to think.
And ethics?
In the gay '90s, learned men
wrote books called Ethics"
Now. nobody even knows the
word.
Well. times change. and with
them men and conditions, but
if you will believe Templeton
Jones, the one unchanging
thing Is a snowStorm.
- A real snow, any real snow.
piles up danger all around, and
especially to people whose
years in this world have
mounted to 40 and above.
Jones says such persons
should let it lie.
Trying to remove it with
shovel or even home snow plow
is something best left to youth.
There are many such matters
which youth alone can handle
correctly; the trouble is that
so many older persons have
trained themselves to fear the
loss of youth, and to pretend
they have that magic quality
when they no longer possess
it.
Life is a whole thing, as
Browning told us. We must
learn to value "the last of life,
for which the first was made"
Surely the poet, Templeton
Jones says, never thought
snow shoveling would be q
part Of the latter part.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
THE POLITICAL MILL
Hartman Poses Party Problem
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Adlai Stevenson for Steven
sons declaration that the
times seem to call for '.moder-
ation." He said that there is
no place in the Democratic
dictionary for moderation. and
his public speeches since then
have all been far to the left
of center, even for a Demo-
crat, particularly when he has
discussed racial. labor and
farm issues.
Under the tutelage Of De
Sapio, Gov. Harrimon has
studiously declined to enter any
presidential primaries. The
Harriman-De Sapio strategy
has been to let Stevenson and
Kefauver fight it out in these
primaries, in the hope, first,
that Kefauver would be able
to take the 1852 Democratic
presidential nominee to the
cleaners. Knowing the opposi-
ton of the leaders Of the
Democratic organizations in
many of the States to Kefauver
and particularly the distaste
of the Democratic bosses in the
big cities to the Tennessean-
the Harriman-De Sapio COM
bination hoped then to move
into a commanding position.
So far. the strategy seems to be
paying of.
Leaders in q Dither
Already, these Democratic
leaders have begun feverishly
casting about for someone to
stop Kefauver, If it turns out
that Stevenson Is hopelessly
left at the post as a result Of
the primary contests. And
even If Stevenson should re-
gain some of the ground he has
lost, by winning one or two Of
the primaries in which he is
entered, they believe he will
have faded-aS q vote-getter-
in the minds Of organization
leaders. Hartman, Governor Of
the most populous State in the
Union, with the huge New
York delegation to back him,
will be on hand to make his
bid for the nomination.
Gov. Hartman, however,
with his mo moderation"
talk and his Tammany label,
will not be acceptable to the
South-either in the party's
national convention or there
after. AL Smith lost five South
ern States to his Republican
opponent, former President
Herbert Hoover. Former Pres
ident Truman lost four of these
States to a Dixiecrat candidate
in 1948. and Adlai Stevenson
lost four of them to President
Eisenhower four years ago. It
is possible that Hartman
might lose even more Of them
to Eisenhower next November.
And, as between Eisenhower
and Hartman. the President
may appeal far more to the
Midwest than would Hartman
with a Tammany label. Nor is
it sure Hartman could do well
against Eisenhower in New
York, which the President car
ried in 1852 by some 850,000
votes.
Evening star., 1956-03-29

VIII the States of the Mid
west. the West and the South
accept q Democratic candidate
for President with a Tam
many label? This is a prob
lem with which the Democratic
National Convention, meeting
in Chicago next August, may
have to concern itself. Since
Senator Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee dealt body blows to
the candidacy of Adlai Ste
venson in the Minnesota and
New Hampshire presidential
primaries this month. and Ke-
fauver became the front-run-
ner for the party's presidential
nomination, the name of Gov.
w. Averell Harrim an Of
New York has come promi-
nently into plans to stop"
Kefauver. Mr.. Hartman is be-
holden to Tammany Leader
Carmine G.. De Sapio for his
1854 nomination and election
as Governor.
DeSapi0 Consistent
Mr.. De Sapio, earlier this
year, took the lead in propos-
ing Mr.. Hartman as a poten-
tial Democratic presidential
nominee - and he has kept
working right along that line,
although he has been operat-
ing more quietly. Indeed, Mr..
Hartman owes his success in
the political field. up to date,
almost entirely to De Sapio.
If Hartman should be sue
cesSful in the Chicago conven-
ton, he will owe much more
to Mr.. De Sapio-New York's
Democratic National Commit
teeman and a shrewd political
operator. Hartman will have
an almost impossible task If
he tries to shuck of a Tam
many label.
In the Midwest, Tammany
still has diabolic connotations
and the same goes for the
South. The last Tammany
Democratic candidate for
President was the late AL
Smith, then Governor of New
York. And while there were
other issues raised against
Gov. Smith which seriously
initiated against him, the
Tammany label played its part
in his disastrous defeat in
1928. The next Governor of
New York, Franklin D. Roose-
welt, was nominated for Pres
ident by the Democrats over
the strong opposition Of the
Tammany delegates in the
1882 Democratic convention.
He was four times elected
President.
Gov. Hartman has never
admitted publicly he is an
active candidate for the presi-
dental nomination-but it is
recognized that he Is far more
than a receptive candidate.
Indeed, it has been well under
stood that he desires the presi-
Dental nomination, and that
when a proper time arises he
will be in there fighting for
the prize. He was the first
leading Democrat to attack
Evening star., 1956-03-29

Boston papers during the
last snowstorm carried long
lists of the victims Of, Of all
things, snow Shoveling.
Lists included such state
ments as stricken while clear
ing snow from driveway" +"
collapsed after shoveling side
walk" found collapsed in
snowbank," stricken after
shoveling snow at his home, "
etc.
The ages Of these poor peo-
pie ranged from 40 to 10
years, with most Of them about
60 years Of age.
Templeton Jones, on reading
this list, spoke right up, after
his usual fashion.
II always thought" he said,
"that no one should shovel
snow after his younger days"
According to Mr.. Jones.
snow is best left on sidewalks.
Some communities, 1t was
suggested, have laws flning
people who do not clean of
their sidewalks.
"It would be better to be
fined" fumed Jones, than fall
over with heart disease"
The chances are that there
will be no more snow in this
or other Eastern. communities
for the rest of this year, but it
it well for older persons to
keep Templeton Jones words
of wisdom in mind.
There is, truly. something
about snow that seems to get
the wind, and so the heart
and entire vascular system of
the older person.
Even walking on a snowy
day is difficult for them.
If there is a wind too. this
adds to the danger.
X \ 4 4
Sometimes such people will
find their hearts humping
disagreeably after half a block.
The thing to do, Jones says,
in such cases. is to stop.
Stand right still, and get
your breath again.
Then walk more slowly.
Templeton Jones has come
to the point in his own life
where he is beginning to be-
lieve in slowness, as a cult.
You have to think about ID.
We undoubtedly eat too
quickly, he says, for one thing.
He read a diet book the
other day which said that
eating slowly, the old-fash-
ioned Fletcherism, undoubt-
edly makes food digest and
"sit" better.
Such slow eating permits the
digestive juices to marshal
their forces, as it were.
+ X + \
Those who can talk and
laugh a long time at meals
have the best Of it, the book
said.
1t also permits one to eat
less, and this is a good thing
in a day of too many fat
people.
So went the book. and Tenn
pleton Jones gives his approx
al. He has spent many dollars
buying reducing books over the
years. and enjoys every word
Of them. even II he never tries
to put them into action.
Evening star., 1956-03-29

@. How many piers are
there in the port Of New York
suitable for use by large
ships?-L. w. T.
A. New York, the worlds
greatest port, owns 139 COM
mercial deep-water piers. Its
Pier 81, North River, is called
the worlds most modern, and
Is the first one to rest on
caissons that give buoyancy
and provide storage space be-
low water level.
@. When did Babe Ruth
once play baseball = the rain
while holding an umbrella
over his head?-E. D. w.
A. This happened during a
tour Of Japan in 1884. Because
of driving rain the visiting
team suggested calling of the
game but the enthusiastic
japanese would not hear Of it.
Babe Ruth played first base
holding Q parasol over his
head.
Evening star., 1956-03-29
On Reimbursinq Arabs

I am one Of the Americans
who generally favored a home
land for the prosecuted Jews
of the world, and during a
trip to the Mediterranean
about a year ago I spent some
time at Beirut, Lebanon, and
there saw the refugee camps
of the Arabs who had been
run out of the nearby Jewish
state Of Israel. Partly by &C
cident, had the opportunity
of comforting in confidence
with q very able American
who has spent a great part Of
his mature life among the
people Of the Near East.
He expressed the opinion
that the best chance for set
ting the Jewish-Arabian prob
lem was to have the Jewish
people and their friends pay
the dispossessed Arabs for the
homes and property which
had been taken over by the
Israeli state and people. He
estimated this cost at some
$500 million. This is a large
sum of money. The United
States, its people, including
our Jewish population. have
contributed annually over a
long period of years without
solving the problem Of those
wretched, homeless refugees,
so this may be a cheap solu-
ton. For, aside from the risk
of war which might cost
untold billions. the actual
continued outgo of relief for
these dispossessed people may
amount in time to far more
than the money which may be
needed to solve this problem.
AS President Truman, acting
on his own responsibility, rec
ognized the State of Israel
and thereby created an acute
world problem, I feel that our
country has some responsible
ity for its settlement. If it can
be settled.
So on my return from my
Mediterranean trip I wrote
Ambassador Lodge at the
United Nations. After consid-
cradle delay, he wrote that my
suggestion had been referred
to our State Department. Some
months later, the State De-
partment announced approval
of this suggestion. But have
not noted that anything has
been done to compensate the
Arabs for their lost property.
A year ago the press Of Cairo,
Alexandria, Lebanon and the
Arab countries was filled with
the bitterest invective against
Israel. Evidently during the
past year conditions in the
Near East have been getting
worse. And nearly a million Of
these wretched exiled Arabs
constitute perpetual reminder
of an injustice done. Americas
Zionists through their press
keep bringing out one side Of
this problem. But while the
American Jews and the Zionist
press present the one side,
there is a third phase to this
question. Americas responsible
ity for what Mr.. Truman did to
recognize Israel and the pos
sibility of our Nation being
involved in another small war
which may evolve into another
world war. I still think my
friends suggestion is worth
considering.
James M. Thomson,
Gaylord, Virginia.