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to ever go near the stage"
she explains. Now all the
little nieces and cousins want
to be players too. Oh, I tell
you it's a problem"
Miss Herlie comes from a
Scottish-Irish clan which had
old-fashioned notions about
the theater. BY some strange
alchemy, however, she had
made up her mind to act be-
fore she saw her first play.
finally set off from her Glas-
gov home to London with eX-
actly $500 in 1912.
Despite such a casual start.
Miss Herlie's subsequent path
has been remarkably free Of
pitfalls and blind alleys.
Three years later she stood
London's West End on its ear
with smashing success in THE
Eagle Has Two Heads" and
has been steadily occupied
since.
Il got that role because es-
tablished actresses didn't want
it," she comedies frankly. And
such sudden success, Eileen
adds makes problems too.
Wants to Stay
THE trouble is that after
only three years I still had to
learn acting" she says, "but
now I had to make all my mis-
takes right out on stage in
front of everybody"
A lady of remarkable and
lusty humor, Miss Herlie is
making her American debut
alongside Ruth Gordon as a
star of Thornton Wilder's 1.-THE
Matchmaker She has found
her reception highly crafty
ing and hopes to show the
town her versatility in subse-
quent roles.
One strong reason she wants
to stay is that business brought
her husband to the United
States just 10 months after
they were married. and they
had only brief reunions until
1.-THE Matchmaker" came
along.
Il guess a little separation
helps marriage out" Eileen
says, but it shouldn't be over
DONE"
X X X X
Off-BrOadway Arrival
Broadway Sidelights: Cur
rently Broadway has q shows
playing-and an exactly same
number of items are being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-11

Off-BrOadway Arrival
Broadway Sidelights: Cur
rently Broadway has 81 shows
playing-and an exactly same
number of items are being
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agreement to work with our experts in
prospecting for uranium deposits in their
big country. Actually, they themselves
would have been the chief benef1ciaries
of such cooperation, and their rejection
of it therefore amounts to sort of self
denial.
Nevertheless, in an international
political sense, the Rio governments ac-
ton constitutes setback for the United
States. This is so because it tends to
hurt the prestige of our Nation by throw
ing sop to the anti-Americanism of the
Communists and the ultranationalists.
It also casts shadow on other forms of
atomS-for-peace cooperation still in
effect between our two countries, or now
being considered. Looked at in any light,
it is thus disturbing development both
for the BrazilianS and ourselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Lives Were Saved

A forecaster who misses the mark
usually is embarrassed and apologize.
But not the National Safety Council.
Nobody could be happier than Ned Dear
born, head of the council, at the failure
of motorists to make the councils pre-
weekend prediction of 480 traffic deaths
come true. Latest tabulations of Nation
wide accidents on the highways indicate
a fatality total substantially under the
expected figure. While the number of
highway deaths rose above 400 overnight,
the total was only about rs above the
normal slaughter during 72-hour
week end.
There is only one explanation for the
inaccuracy of the councils forecast.
Holiday drivers must have exercised more
caution and more common sense than
statistical analyses had given them credit
for. We hope this presages permanent
change forth better in the Nations driv-
ing habits.
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For a New America

Adlai StevenSon'S program "for a
new America" is primarily blueprint for
extended social legislation. Outlined yes
terday In an address at Detroit that for
mally touched off the Democratic preSi-
Dental candidates 1856 campaign, it is
a program calling for increases in unem-
ployment compensation and minimum
wages, greater rehabilitation and aid to
distressed industrial areas, repeal of the
Taft-Hartley Act, extension of Federal
aid to education and an expanded Federal
attack on health problems. AS Labor
Day message to labor audience it con-
tanned the appropriate promises in an
appealing bid for votes in November. AS
such, its political effectiveness should not
be underrated-particularly in industrial
Michigan where 20 electoral votes are at
stake.
1t is in Michigan, also, at this par
ticular time, that Mr. Stevenson had his
best chance to pick flaws in the picture
OF general prosperity which the Repub-
Hcans quite naturally consider an asset
In their own campaign planning. For
more than 100000 automobile workers,
centered mostly in that State, have been
laid OF as sales and production dropped
in recent months. And while many of
these undoubtedly will be called back in
the next few weeks as manufacture of
the 1857 car models begins, their current
unemployment very probably places them
in mood receptive to promises of
greater security through Federal pater-
naliSm.
Even so, Mr.. Stevenson no doubt is
aware that his party does not have an
overly strong case for attacking the cur
rent status of the national economy. Most
OF the social measures to which he re-
terred have been accepted by this admin
iStration as fixtures in the economic
structure, and indeed have been ex-
tended during the past three and one
half years. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley
Act has become more of a conversation
piece than an urgent objective, even of
labor. And at the very moment Mr..
Stevenson was referring to the scattered
spots OF unemployment the Department
OF Labor was releasing figures to show
that August employment for the country
as whole had reached a new record
peak of 66.8 million
There will, of course, be further bids
for labor support this fall. Union lead
ership, by a divided vote, has Endorsed
the Democratic presidential ticket but
the individual working vote is not by any
means. committed through this action.
Mr.. Stevenson has made clear the lines
OF his principal bid The Republicans,
with employment high and times good,
probably will offer more of the same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Job Yet to Be Done

Postmaster General Summerf1eld has
cause to be proud of the progress which
the Post Office Department has made in
reducing the postal deficit and putting
the whole service on a more efficient
basis. He cited reduction in the an
nual deficit under the Eisenhower admin
iStration from $727 million in 1852 to
$3.50 million today. That is substan-
tial cut-and one achieved despite pay
increases and other employee BENEFITS
aggregating $136 million.
But even a $460-million deficit each
year is too much to impose on the tax
payers in these times of rising costs and
heavy taxes Mr.. Summerfield agrees.
However, his efforts to bring further
reduction in the shortage, through in
creased postal revenues, failed to receive
congressional approval. Yet higher postal
fees are the only real hope for further
shrinkage Of the big deficit. We hope the
next Congress, with election-year politics
out Of the way, will get down to the
business Of undermining postal rate
structure that has undergone little
change since 1882.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

Plans of nearby counties for tapping
the Potomac River for an additional
source Of water give force to recent
warnings Of a possible water shortage
here by 1870. The seriousness Of the
threat justifies studies now being made
by the Army Engineer Corps Of water
impounding dams and other measures
to control the flow of water in the river.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, serving Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties with water,
relies at present on the Patuxent River
as supply source. But this river does
not have the capacity to meet the ex-
pected demands of growing Maryland
communities during the decades ahead.
So the commission is considering plans
for building q dam across the Potomac
some distance above WaShington'S intake
facilities. The new source would furnish
about so million gallons of water a day
to nearby Maryland. Meanwhile Fairfax
County, too is considering plan to tap
the Potomac for its proposed countrywide
water system.
The Maryland and Virginia moves
follow by only few weeks warnings by
Colonel Ray Adams, District Engineer in
charge of the Washington water supply,
that control and conservation steps are
urgently needed to assure plenty of water
for people of the Metropolitan Area IS or
20 years from now. He advocated an early
start on construction of dams and reSer-
voirS for the collection and storage Of
water during periods of excess flow.
Unless this is done, future generations
may face grave water supply problems.
There is no imminent danger of a
shortage, however-even II Maryland
were to draw an additional go million
gallons day from the river and even If
Fairfax County also were to tie into the
river as proposed. The present water con-
sumption of the whole Metropolitan Area
is well under the all-time low mark of sos
million gallons day recorded in the
Potomac during the 1880 drought. But
the safety margin will narrow as the
areas population grows. Now is the time
to insure ourselves against the possibility
of dangerous scarcity In the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Hum0nizef Justice

Rules for the Domestic Relations
Court preSage new era of "humanized"
justice here in the difficult field of divorce
litigation. In the past, when the District
Court handled these family cases, the
overloaded Federal judges had little time
In which to try to work out reconciliations
or other out-of-court settlements. The
problems underlying the final resort to
divorce could not receive the careful in
quiry or consideration which might have
led to pretrial agreements and hence to
the saving Of broken homes.
Now the outlook has changed, thanks
to the creation of the important new
branch Of the Municipal Court. Three
specially chosen judges will devote their
time to the family-type cases, under rules
which give the judges wide latitude in
trying to patch up marital disputes and
averting divorces and separations. For
example, informal pretrial hearings will
be encouraged, with a view to bringing
sparring wives and husbands together.
A 90-day cooling off" period also is
provided, before court action is taken.
Efforts will be made, through question
naires, to get at the root of marital dis
puteS and, If possible, arrange for solu-
ton without court decree ALI Of these
procedures are in line with family court
reforms instituted in number of other
cities. We are glad that Washington has
gotten into step with other enlightened
communities.
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THE POLITICAL MILL
ALL clio Action Doesn't Add Up
By GOULD LINCOLN

ments In the law. and to try
to make political capital of the
fact the Taft-Hartley Act
stood unchanged in the pres
ent national campaign. Cheap
stuff, which shouldn't pull the
wool over any workers eyes.
Peace and Prosperity
The status of American labor
has more to it than the en-
actment Of labor laws desired
by labor's political leaders
laws which would give them
more power. The economic
condition Of the country-and
peace-are profound factors.
Secretary Mitchell, in his re-
port to the President said that
the level Of the economy has
never been higher in peace or
war.
This can be proved--not-
withstanding the cries of the
Democratic leaders that the
American farmer and small
businessman have been ruined
under the Eisenhower admin
istration. And notwithstand-
ing the efforts of these same
Democratic orators to ridicllle
the claim of peace and pros
pei1ty made by the Repub-
licans.
What do these Democratic
orators want anyway? Do they
want a depression, or Just
enough depression to make the
Eisenhower administration look
sick?
The present move by the
Executive Council Of the ALL
Go, which comprises the great
mass Of the labor unions, into
the field Of politics, and on
one side-the Democratic side
has its implications.
Political ChatteI?
Does organized labor plan to
take over the Democratic Party,
or is union labor to become a
political chattel Of the Demo-
cratic Party? What becomes
OF a very considerable number
of union members who are also
members of the Republican
Party or favor the Eisenhower
ticket?
The labor leaders have a
right, Of course, to indorse any
ticket or candidates they wish.
Mr.. Reuther has backed
away from the idea that Re-
publican candidates for all Of
fees are to be repudiated and
their Democratic opponents
given labor support. The fact
remains, however, that when
the leaders Endorsed the DEM
ocratic national ticket they
discarded every shade of neu-
trality.
Judging from the past
from the Roosevelt and Tru-
man administrations - the
labor leaders will again domi-
nate the government If Steven
son and Kefauver are elected
November 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

For better or for worse, the
Executive Council of the ALL
CLIO, under the leadership of
Walter Reuther, vice president,
has Endorsed the Democratic
national ticket - Stevenson
and Kefauver-over the Re-
publican ticket - Eisenhower
and Nixon.
1t has done so on the theory
that the Republican Party is
an enemy of labor. and the
Democratic Party is labor's
friend. 1t doesn't add up.
Never in history has labor
the working men. and women
Of the country-been so well
of, organized and morgan
lied. Secretary Of Labor James
p. Mitchell in a Labor Day re-
port to President Eisenhower
showed that there are more
than So million more people
employed today than when Mr..
Eisenhower took Office in jan
uary, 1858, or a total today of
66.8 million. 1t showed that
the average American factory
worker today makes almost $13
a week more than he did four
years ago, and that his take
home pay, after adjustments
have been made for taxes and
costs of living, has increased
by more than $3.50 a week. It's
the take-home pay that counts.
Workers Not "Slaves"
All this has occurred under
q Republican administration.
and without the repeal of
the Taft Hartley Labor Act
which the Democrats and
union labor leaders have in the
past called q slave labor act"
1t would be a foolhardy polit-
ical leader or labor leader who
tried to convince the ordinary
American worker today that he
is a slave"
The Taft-Hartley Act was
put through Congress (Repub-
lican-controlled) by both DEM
ocratic and Republican votes.
and when it was vetoed by the
then President Truman, these
same Democrats and Republic
cans passed the measure over
his veto by more than the nee
esSary two-thirds vote of each
house. The act still remains,
however, the target Of Demo-
cratic leaders and labor lead
ers.
But in the S4th Congress,
now closed unless called back
to special session, dominated
by the Democrats, no effort
was made either to repeal or to
amend the Taft-Hartley Act.
There are changes in the law
which should be made-and
President Eisenhower has re-
peatedly pointed them out and
urged the necessary amend
ments-in favor of organized
labor. The Democratic leader
ship-and seemingly the labor
leaders. too-preferred, how
ever to put of these improve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Setback in Brazil

The government in Rio de Janeiro
has done regrettable thing In putting
an end to two aspects of its atomic Coop
Grafton with our country. 1t has stopped
the export Of nuclear materials to the
United States and cancelled its year-old
agreement with us for joint uranium
search in its territory. From the stand
point of Brazips own best interests, the
action seems unrealistic and self-defeat-
ing, but President Kubitschek apparently
has felt obliged to take 1t because OF
powerful political preSsures from ex-
tremists on the left and right.
These extremiStS-the Communists
and the rabid nationalists including
some influential military leaders-have
been allied for long time in noisy
and unremitting campaign against the
kind of Brazilian-American collaboration
that has now been ended. Although in
many respects strange bed-fellows, they
have constituted an effective combina-
ton on this particular issue, and the
Kubitschek administration, by yielding
to their demands, has given them a
victory that is likely to add to their
political power, which is already for
midable enough.
In itself, of course, DR.. Kubitschek's
decision will have no noticeable effect on
our own atomic program. We have been
importing only very small quantities Of
thorium from the Brazilians, and 1t is OF
negligible significance to us-in terms Of
our supply Of nuclear materials-that
they have elected to denPunce the 1855
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Teochinq Problem

When will legislators, edu-
Gators and parents stop the con-
troversy over the school prob
lens and necessary remedial
programs, and use their intel
ligence toward a solution?
Each child has an individual
personality. Emotional hered-
ity and home environment are
important factors toward its
development. The first years
are spent under home influ-
ence. In this setting a child
may be taught social conform
ity or allowed free rebellion.
When a child enters school,
he may have difficulty with
any one or a multiple of SUBJ
jects. 1t may be reading arith-
metic. spelling. English, or adj
juSting to group relations. All
this depends on the mental
capacity Of absorbing knowl-
edge. Many parents expect
more from the child than they
allow for his age level to grow.
It takes patience and encour-
agement to develop a slow
child. and to challenge the in
terest of a fast child.
It takes years for a child to
grow into a mature person, and
develop the talents toward a
successful career. The system
of education may require
changes to meet the stream
lined living of today, but the
thinking of the general public
also needs adjusting to a
slower pace.
Dorothy Denison.
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Sides With Doctor

DR.. Thomas E.. Mattingly's
letter Of August IL was an ex-
cellent contribution to the
problem Of Indignation. His
central theme was this: Some
Negroes do not accept inte-
grafton and civil rights as a
challenge to give to others that
which they seek for them
selves" These words remind
me Of the Golden Rule.
Subsequent well-written let
tiers published August 20 have
commented on the doctors
views. These, however, fail to
offer a solution" to the doc
tors dilemma.
This dilemma is best Illus
trated by quoting his own
words. II frankly admitted that
II I catered to colored patients
! would lose most Of my white
ones and I had no Intention Of
inviting that disaster.
What comes home forcibly
is the conviction, held by many,
that nothing can be done to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL

plain. or ornamented with
fiiigree and scroll work as
you please.
The martins love them all.
No one should be too disap-
pointed, however, If no mar
tins come.
This is often the case, even
when all the precautions are
taken.
Just why this is no one
seems to know.
Yet another fact is that If
the birds do come, and are
happily nesteds they are al
most sure to come back the
next year.
Almost all birds share in
this sort of homing instinct,
and the martins do it to an
exceptional degree.
In one city, on a busy cor
ner martins came back year
after year to a site not more
than 10 feet above a busy
street.
Martin establish m ents
should be painted white, the
gloSsier the better. Two coats
are best.
II color is used, it should be
very, very light, such as a pale
blue or very pale pink, but
white is the best; the birds
seem to like it, and it makes
a good show.
1t is said that the martin
was the first bird in America
to use a man-made house.
Indians liked martins, and
attracted them with gourds on
poles above their tepees.
In the South, followed out
gourdS are hung from the
spokes Of wagon wheels
mounted on high poles.
The height Of pole must be
stressed.
Nothing less than is feet
will do, and 20 feet is better.
This makes a pretty heavy
and difficult thing to handle.
and two persons are best at
it. not just one, no matter how
strong he is.
House walls and roof are
best hinged. to facilitate the
annual cleaning process.
Again let us caution that
one must not be too disap-
pointed If the martins do not
come. There are not as many
OF them hereabouts as in the
old days, evidently.
This sociable, pleasant and
pretty bird has its own right
TO live where 1t pleases, and
you can't make 1t come, only
try 70 entice 1t as best you
can. And sometimes your best,
Tor no known reason, Is not
good enough.
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ANYTHING for q Vote

In your editorial Of August
II. Anything for a Vote" you
refer to the Democratic plat
FORMS foreign policy plank,
which pledges to assist in
carrying out large-scale prof.
ects for the resettlement Of the
Arab refugees in countries
where there is room and OPP
portunity for them" Your edi-
torial poses the question What
countries?" Allow me, then,
to point ont that it has been
the stand of the U. N. and the
position taken by American
official spokesman that the So
luton to the refugee problem
should be sought primarily on
the basis Of resettlement and
integration into the economy
Of the Arab states.
Thus, the U. N. General AS
sembly in its Resolution 1893 (V)
Of 1850, called for the "reinte-
grafton of the refugees into the
economic life of the Near
East"
The U N. Palestine Concilia-
ton Commission Report to the
U. N. General Assembly in 1850
advocated "only through an
economic approach mainly
along the lines Of the refugees
integration in their present
countries Of residence"
Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles said. on June /, 1853.
after his return from a tour of
the Middle East that most of
the refugees could more read
lily be integrated into the lives
OF the neighboring Arab
States"
Mr.. Wadsworth, United
States Delegate to the U. N.
speaking before the u. N. Ad
Hoe Political Committee, sum-
married. the position Of the
United States Government in
regard to the solution of the
refugee problem in the follow
ing words: Il wish to urge upon
the Arab and other delegations
my delegations conviction that
the eventual solution of the
refugee problem lies In a new
and stronger economy for the
Arab countries, coming to re-
gard many Of their refugee
brothers as permanent mem
bers Of the community and CO.
sharers In the Near East's
future" (A/AC.76/ SR. 80, No
vember "a. 1954.)
1t seems to me that the DEM
ocratic platform. in advocating
the resettlement Of the refugees
in countries where there Is
room and opportunity for
them" did nothing more than
reafirm the stand taken by
the U. NJ, and our own Gov
eminent.
E. L. Brennan.
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@. What is the average cost
TO a big company for each call
its statesmen make on prospec-
tive customers?-N. r. E..
A. The cost Of a personal
sales call in industry now aver
ages more than SIT. Ten years
ago the average was SO to $l1.
@. Which part of the body
is most affected when a person
goes a long time without suf-
ficient sleep?-T. T. r.
A. The brain. The first
symptoms Of prolonged lack Of
sleep are increased irritability,
loss Of memory, and q tend