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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
LOOKING to the Future

The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee is looking far into the future in
recommending Federal acquisition Of
more than block of land adjacent to the
new Senate Office Building, under con-
struction. There is no immediate plan
for congressional use of this property,
but the time is sure to come when further
expansion of the Capitols satellite COM
munity will require more building space.
Delay in buying the future sites would
be costly, for real estate values on Cap
itol Hill are rising steadily.
Part of the property sought by the
committee already has been earmarked
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for a
monumental headquarters building over
looking the Capitol grounds. 1t would
be unfair to this organization to permit
1t to proceed with this project if, few
years from now, it should become neceS-
sary to use the site for legislative build
ings. In fact, it is time for general
survey of the land situation in the Cap
itol area with view to taking prudent
steps now to reserve for possible future
expansion whatever acreage may be
essential to the orderly development of
the Capitol, its Office buildings and its
grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
InseporabIe Interests

Answering a question on the home
rule legislation at his Wednesday press
conference, the President said that "it is
idle to compare this city to any other
city in the United States. 1t was estab-
lished by the Federal Government for
Federal headquarters, and the city has
grown up around that complex" There
fore, the President concluded, any home
rule system must make some provision for
the Federal Government to protect its
own interests in this Capital.
More than a century ago Senate
committee reported that g. the COM
mittee has been unable to separate the
interests of the District from the interests
of the United States"
Nor do we believe that it is a prac-
ticable undertaking to separate the in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10

terests of the United States lin this
CapitaD from the interests of the local
community, and each passing year makes
it more difficult. If either interest is
neglected, both interests suffer. A sep
aration of such interests, attempted for
more than 70 years after the Government
moved here, produced a disgraceful Cap
ital City and an impoverished and even
bankrupt local community.
That is the great defect in seeking
to remedy the lack of voting rights for
Washingtonians by the expedient of home
rule, sharply restricted form of suffrage
that would convey no real or beneficial
Self-government. One error in this APP
proach lies in the attempt to do what the
President very correctly said cannot be
done-"to compare this city to any other
city in the United States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
The Siren Soma

In recent ADDRESS before the amer
lean Economic and Finance Associations,
President Allan Sproul of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York expressed
timely word of caution to those who look
upon chronic, even though mild, imitation
as health-giving sort of economic tonic.
1.-THE siren song of gradual modest infla-
tion," he said, appeals to many groups,
political and economic There is a tend
ency to relax and enjoy the sound of more
money in the cash register, and the ap-
pearance of more dollars in the balance
sheet and in the pay envelope"
major objective of the Eisenhower
administration during the past three
years has been to bring under control an
1nf1ationary movement that had become
particularly vigorous after outbreak of
the Korean war. To large degree this
objective was achieved. In his economic
report last week, the President referred
to the maintenance of prosperity without
price initiation AS contributing factors,
he referred to the Governments holding
of the tax line in 1855 and the policies
of moderate credit restraint imposed by
the Federal Reserve System. But in ad-
vocating some payment on the national
debt this year, rather than politically
popular tax relief, the President indicated
that the fight against imitation must go
on look at some of the indices for
measuring dollar stability, and at some
Of the current price movements, suggests
that he was right.
For example, while the overall cost
of-living index has been relatively stable
for the past 18 months, only substantial
decline in food costs has Offset increases
in virtually every other item involved.
And while the wholesale price index also
has been steady during like period, only
Is per cent dip in farm prices has offset
sharp increases for metals, lumber, fuels
and other major items. January brought
a new round of increases in virtually all
of these, and the end is not in sight. Steel,
despite cutback in demand from its
biggest consumer-the automobile indus
try-is applying "selective' increases
steadily and may be forced to consider
an across-the board raise il a costly wage
settlement is negotiated this year. Textile
prices already have been raised in many
categories and the March / increase in
the statutory minimum wage may force
this industry into further price adjust
ments.
These may mean more money in the
cash register, the balance sheet and the
pay envelope. But Mr. Sproul was juSti-
fed in warning of the inflationary danger
which turks below the surface of this
appealing outlook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Nice to Have You

After a five-month visit in
Washington, I am about to re-
turn to my home in Oregon I
will miss The Star. Even in
this country. there are not
many papers like yours. I like
The Stars willingness to be
neutral and let its readers
make their own decisions I
admire a paper that does not
slant its news and then call
it "cruSading."
You are to be congratulated
on your quality features; your
Sunday Magazine and Review
of the Week are excellent, and
the legal and medical columns
very informative.
Best of all is Bergman, who
has insight as well as whimsy
and. in my opinion, is the
best in his field.
am going home in relative
peace Of mind. knowing that
our governing servants" have
The Star available to them.
Carroll Curran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Gloomy Outlook

Senator Morse, now a New
Deal Democrat of Oregon.
loudly declaims against failure
of heartless Republicans to
provide for the public well
fare" Evidently he considers
the multi-billion dollar well
fare program proposed by
President Eisenhower in his
state-of the Union message to
be entirely inadequate. Appar-
entity, this chameleon politi-
clan will be satisfied with
nothing less than the bread
and circuses" which resulted
in the decline and fall of the
Roman Empire.
Theodore MommSen, the
great historian of Rome. when
he visited us so years ago. was
asked what he thought of our
country, and replied: With
two thousand years of Euro
pean experience before your
eyes. you have repeated every
one Of Europe's mistakes. I
have no further interest in
you" One must wonder what
he would say today in the light
of the increasingly rapid de-
struction Of our traditional
values during the past Is
years.
Rev. Frederick Brown Har-
ris. chaplain Of the Senate, in
Spires of the Spirit" recently
said: I'm our intricate civiliza-
ton there is an increasing
tendency to seek first life's
securities and to taboo its
risks. When that becomes the
ruling passion, it spells ulti-
mate ruin to an individual or
a nation. History fairly shouts
that when any system takes
as its goal comfort and con-
venience, to such an extent
that the qualities of adventure
are bleached out, it is doomed. :"
Welfarism. liberalism, social
ism, communism; they all lead
to but one end-ruinism. win
this century witness the de-
cline and fall of the American
Republic? Old Reactionary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Mencken Not So Bad

1t would be good to know
the reason only one unloving
letter about H. L. Mencken has
been printed in The Star to
date is because only one has
been received. c. B. Philibert's
judgment of Mr.. Mencken's
contribution to atheism and
dielectical materialism among
young eggheads seems unjust.
Mr.. Mencken lived and wrote
in a time of atheistic and ma
terialistic influences, but his
attack, humor and ridicule
were directed against human
hypocrisy and smallneSs and
evils committed by humans.
One Is reminded of Able
Pierre, the French priest who
has done so much to find
homes for the homeless, say
ing during his visit to this
country last year that he has
never met anyone who attacked
God or church. only people
who attacked the distortions
men have made of God and
church.
Marjorie Murphy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10

I was disagreeably surprised
to read in your January 80
issue the statements of Con-
stantine Brown about Mendes-
Frances so-called ideas and
convictions.
Stating that Mendes-France
does not always voice his true
views, Mr.. Brown added that
Mendes-France believes firmly
that the future of France is
more dependent upon the
USSR than on its present
allies"
These statements are untrue.
I refer you to the comment of
Mendes-France in the Dec
laration of Atlantic Unity"
Mendes-France said:
Il am convinced that this
declaration can make an eff
fective contribution to the
reinforcement of cooperation
between the Atlantic powers in
the political, economic and cul-
tural areas-Such cooperation
is the foundation of OUR COM
mon security"
This comment was made in
December, 1854, when Mendes-
France was both president of
the Council of Ministers and
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Perhaps Constantine Browns
assertions have been prompted
by Mendes-France's political
adversaries, whose reasons are
clearly understood.
Firmin Roe.
President du Comite d'Union
Atlantique: Membre de
l'Institut de France.
Paris, France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Boycotts Pulpit

I, too, wish to thank David
Lawrence for his article, Lay
men Take Issue With Clergy"
Neither the National Council
of Churches nor the Central
Conference of American Rab-
bis shall force or persuade me
to accept the race, creed,
color" Communist propaganda
slogan.
A way can and shall reg
lister my protest, as an indi-
vidual Protestant, is to stay
away from church on Sunday,
February II. M. E. Harris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
By THOMAS r. HENRY
|Reconstructinq Ancient Mammals

camel, the poebrodon. known
only from its teeth. 1t could
not have been much more
than a foot tall. This creature
undoubtedly. DR.. Gain says,
was the forerunner of a some
what larger and much better
known camel-like animal. the
poebrotherium, of tn sue
ceeding geological period. From
then on the geological record
of the camel family is better
than that of most other ami
mails.
There are five general areas
In the United States, DR.. Gain
points out. where upper eocene
mammal fossils have been
found. Most productive of
these is the Uinta basin in
Northeastern Utah, where he
made most of his own collec-
tons, and where the even-toed
ungulate remains are most
abundant.
Environment Changed
Reasons for the sudden di-
versity and appearance of
many new forms of these crea.
lures is difficult to determine,
DR.. Gain says, but the change
certainly was accompanied by
major changes in environment.
During the previous geological
period. the region had been
one of large lakes and lush
vegetation-an ideal environ
ment for the primitive NAM
mails known to have lived
during middle eocene times.
These lakes dried up or were
filled with silt and disappeared
in the upper eocene, presum-
ably over a period of millions
Of years.
Conditions evidently became
more suitable for the even
toed ungulates, while the odd
toed ones persisted but seem to
have been outnumbered. The
even-toed ones, DR.. Gain
holds, were presumably in a
better condition to flourish in
a more open environment and
it is quite probable that there
were extensive migrations from
other areas where fossil re-
mains of this age have not
been found.
In most cases, DR.. Gain
stresses, there does not appear
to be a direct relationship be-
tween these creatures and the
camels, sheep, deer and pigs
of today. Many of those now
known may have had their
origin in the old world. The
camels, however, like rhinos
and horses, apparently under
went most Of their geological
history on this continent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BY THE HASKlN SERVICE
A a to
st NV Washington
easstn clo

breeches, gray blanket, tall
standing collar, and black,
gold. and gray streamers OH
its ears and tail. Thereafter,
the cadets officially adopted a
mule as their mascot. The
present mascots are Hannibal.
a mule obtained from Fort
Reno. Okla, and Pancho. a
burro presented to the cadets
in 1899.
@. Where can Thomas A.
Edison'S laboratory be SEEM
PM.
A. In West Orange, a resi-
dental suburb of Newark. N. j.
The laboratory was recently
decided to the Government as
a national monument by Ed
ison's son and daughter Serv-
ing as the headquarters for
the inventors creative work
for the last A years Of his
life, the laboratory remains as
it was at Edison's death in
1881. The equipment has not
been touched.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

Ebert Hubbard was a strange
character.
His Little Journeys" for all
the sneers at them, came pref
ty close to being great.
A bit more of something. a
little less of something, and Eli
bert Hubbard would have gone
down in literary history.
AS it turned out, he was
just another successful printer.
writer, preacher, hard-headed
man Of business. the sort who
keeps the wheels rolling-in
his case, the printing presses.
His whole series of preach
ments came to fine flower in
the notices, all the way from
do 1t Yourself" to Garry the
Message to Garcia"
1t is impossible for a young
Ster today to realize the appeal
such things had to many Of
the oldsters, unless. perhaps,
he has one of those Think"
things on his own desk.
Such appeals are good. in
many ways.
We all do, without doubt.
need to think more than we do.
Above all, we ought to think
properly at the right time.
Maybe somebody could read
Signrund Freud to advantage
and come up with a whole new
series of notices, nodded on
modern minds and conditions.
and attuned TO the age in
which we live.
Then the word that pops in
to the mind might be the word
that will restore common sense
to the human race. and erase
once for all the blood lust of
the clawed creature, still we'll
ing up in the most civilized.
You can laugh all you want
to at businessmen, they are
still the life blood of our eco
nomic system. and sometimes
even more. And they are so
blasted solemn about it all.
Their signs and notices
mean something to them. or
they wouldn't love them; so
the rest of us ought to tread
softly. and speak gently of our
troubles.
When the sign says, Smile"
well. you had better smile, bud
dy. and don't forget to take off
your hat and wipe your shoes
on the mat.
You may be an executive
yourself, some day.
Think"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
! Thought ! Heard

I thought l heard your foot
steps yesterday,
Soft on the sand as coins
from a Siluer sky;
/ tolloWed fast and thought !
heard your laughter,
BlotOn back to me as in some
old reply.
I thought / felt your hand
there in the SUM-
Surely your heart kneW !
WdS passing bu:
But only the empty day so fuH
OF beauty
Only the gull. NTH its de-
mented cry
Marjorie Louise Asnew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10

About 40 million years ago
remote relatives of camels,
pigs, sheep and deer became a
dominant group of animals in
North America.
These were the artiodactyla,
or even-toed hoofed animals,
a group that has been a prom
inent part of animal life ever
since, and one of the major
groups of mammals today. But
the creatures of the upper
eocene geological period were
very different in appearance
from their descendants of
10000 millenniums later.
Previously the dominant
creatures of the mammal world
had been very primitive flesh
eaters. Their day was waning.
Carnivores of the modern type
were about to supplant them.
The contemporary hoofed ami
mails had been odd-toed. in
Guiding progenitors Of horse.
tapir and rhino. The even
toed ungulates had been quite
unimportant.
The ancient Sheeplike,
camel-like and piglike crea-
lures constituted a remarkably
diverse neutrality-suspicious.
don, protylopus. pentacemylus,
protoreodon. diplobunops. and
a host of others. They are
known chiefly from teeth and
occasionally from other parts
of the skeleton. found in geo.
logical strata exposed mostly
in the Rocky Mountains.
Confusion Over Names
Hitherto there has been
much confusion over the names
to be applied to these animals.
Collections have been scattered
among different museums in
the country. A major effort to
bring together these materials
and resolve the confusion in
relationships now has been
made by DR.. c. Lewis Gain,
Smithsonian Institution cura-
tor of vertebrate paleontology.
DR.. Gain himself made some
Of the most notable collections
about 20 years ago. He now
distinguishes approximately IS
species.
On the basis of teeth and
fiagmentary bones, DR.. Gain
says, it is impossible to con-
struct an adequate picture Of
what the creatures looked like
when alive. Only a few are
represented by anything APP
preaching complete material.
Among the ancestral lines
that can be traced, however,
is that Of the camel. In this
period there was a very rare
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Lowrence's Views

One OF your readers accuses
David Lawrence of inconsist-
encies in his recent column on
District school indignation.
complaining that his word
etchings all have the same
overtones of black and gray"
permitting absolutely no light
whatsoever to shine forth in
any of his articles.
The Holy Bible is etched in
blacks and grays. and that
Truth has continued to shine
and will continue to shine
along with the truths of David
Lawrence's column.
A. c. Neagel.
II David Lawrence had per-
mission to quote from the arti-
Gle entitled. do Mixed Schools
Lower Educational Stand
ardS?" in U. S. News g. World
Report, why did he leave out
significant statements. unless
to have his article favor segre-
CATION? In the original arti-
Gle a white principal in WASH
ington was quoted as saying
that not until the schools were
integrated did tests show how
different the two. systems were,
and further that now the
chickens have come home to
rooSt."
Norms OF grade achievement
for white schools in any segre-
gated school system are made
up by averaging the perform
ances of the smart and the
dumb, the poor and better-of
white children. The article
Mr.. Lawrence quotes from
indicates that children who
come from homes on the low
socio-economic level in gen.
eral achieve less than other
children. A white school in.
Washington, where the pupils
come from such homes showed
the same lower achievement
that some Of the colored
schools showed whose homes
were lacking in cultural or ed
vocational advantages. In fact,
the admission of some colored
children actually raised the
average tests.
E. b. Henderson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Complete Revolution

Federal Narcotics Commissioner An
singer in recent years has been a per-
sistent critic of lax drug law enforcement
in Washington. He has found fault with
the police and with the courts as we'll.
There is news, therefore, in his recent
testimony before House Appropriations
subcommittee about the VASTLY improved"
situation here in the war on the dope
traffic.
Two years ago, Mr.. Anslinger told the
subcommittee, conditions in the Capital
were pretty bad" The Federal authori-
ties he said, had failed to get the right
kind of cooperation from the police and
the judges in the efforts to drive dope
racketeers from the streets and hide
Always. In fact, there was time not so
long ago when Federal agents suspected
that some local policemen were in collu-
sion with the racketeers. But, under the
direction of Police Chief Murray, a
cleanup of the narcotics squad was eff
fected, with two key officers reSigning
after their acquittal on graft charges.
The squad was reorganized and strength
ened.
AS result, COMMISSIONER AnSlngeI
testified, a complete revolution" has
taken place in local drug law enforce
ment. He said the change included not
only policing improvement but an en-
couraging tendency on the part of the
judges to impose stiff sentences on
peddlers. And the compulsory commit
ment law, he added, is helping to reha-
bilitate addicts. Best Of all, the "revolu-
ton" is having beneficial effects on the
crime situation generally. For, as the
Federal official stressed in his testimony,
drug peddling spawns other types OF
crime. A blow to the dope racket inevi-
tably has repercuSsions in such often
related fields as purse snatching, yoking.
burglary and worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
BY THE HASKlN

@. Are there any skyscrapers
in Tokyo? What is the city's
population now-F. F.
A. In downtown Tokyo. there
are modern steel and concrete
office buildings up to eight
stories high-no greater height
is permitted because of earth
quakes. The metropolitan gov
eminent census of 1854 re-
ported the population of the
city as 7,736.113, placing it
third in rank among the
worlds biggest cities, after
New York and London.
@. When did the Army adopt
a mule as mascot for its an
nual football game with the
Navy?-W I.
A. The earliest reference to
a mascot appears in 1899,
when a quartermaster officer
in Philadelphia donated the
services of a white mule which
had been used to haul ice. For
the game 1t was dressed up in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10

Templeton Jones called up
on an executive friend the
other day, and the first thing
he saw upon entering the
sacred precinct was a big sign
on the desk.
Keep Smiling" 1t said in
flaming red.
Jones thought back over all
the signs, notices and re-
monstrances he had seen in
recent years.
Think" was the universal
favorite.
You were adjured to Think"
in and out of school, on desks,
in windows, and even on the
windshields of automobiles.
Most such signs have a
hidden meaning that is. never
theless, perfectly plain.
keep smiling, you so-and-
So" the red sign really said.
Think, you triple-plated
son-of-a-gun."
The hidden nastineSs Of the
"Think" sign perhaps went
beyond all the rest.
Think, you mutt" it said,
"if you have any brains left,
which we doubt"
II y y
Such signs, notices and re-
monstrances against the evils
and failings of this world stem
from a juvenile state of mind.
The eternal boy in every
man thinks 'em up. writes 'en1.
and poses them on the glass
topped desk.
This is really a good thing,
though.
II businessmen were all
business, this would be a very
gloomy world, indeed. mates.
1t is a happy thing that even
the biggest stuffed shirt can
unbend enough to lecture his
clients. guests and friends.
If he couldn't, something
would have to blow.
X \ 4
Ebert Hubbard began 1t.
The Sage of East Aurora was
lost aboard the Titanic, but his
spirit still lives on.
1t was he who printed a Sc
ries Of beautiful little notices
on cream colored paper.
The printing was in red and
black, the same as in his mag
azine, Fra" the most beauti-
full thing of its kind ever seen,
then or now.
Memories of regret chase
through the minds of many
oldsters as they recall Fra. and
its perfect pages of preach
mentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
Not Rolling in Clover

If John Porter House really
believes what he wrote about
being fed up with farmers,
maintaining they are "a class
of rich beggars," he knows
naught and knows not that
he knows naught. The farmer,
per Sc, works harder, re-
ceives less and, by modern
standards. lives worse than
any single group of wage
earners in the United States.
Those are the facts. son! Don't
bite the hand that feeds you!
A. ID. Snyder.
Gainesville. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-10
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names mar be used II
letters carry tDriters correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.