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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
By RICHARD RODGERS

John Seago, a Briton who cap
tured a number of the Zoo speci-
mems, had his first look at the
city's animal park yesterday and
said it was too much for a one
day inspection.
1T is like visiting an art gall
lery," he said. "One must spend
more time at it,"
Mr.. Seago played nursemaid to
two rare rhinos that arrived here
Iyesterday-the first of their spe-
cies ever shown in this country,
and the most important acquisi-
ton in recent years.
He captured them in Africa. by
laSso.
The care and feeding Of rhinoS,
hippoS, zebras, snakes and their
untamed brethren seem far from
ordinary farm chores. But Mr.,
Seago sees a parallel.
Teaches Animals
I'VE run a herd of Guernseys
in Norfolk" he said. He spends
part Of each year at his farm in
England, near the village of Lud-
ham in Norfolk. IF you want
cattle for milk and cream. fol
the market. you have to feed
them well. take care of them and
give them herdsmen they like
1t is much the same with wild
animals"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

his young assistant, Tony Park
ison, and Reggie and Margaret
Bloom. The Blooms have since
left collecting for work at the
Spencer, England, Zoo. All four
are visiting here now.
Trips Over Snake
1T walked into my tent one
night and tripped over a big
python. Mr.. Seago said. 81
bent down to pick it up, think
ing it was a camera tripod.
When I learned what it was
went back out. Margaret was
baking a pie. I told her it was
a pity it wasn't daylight so ]
could photograph the python.
"She busted her hands on
her apron and said, "I'll catch
it for YOU The rest Of us helped
take the weight OF the snake,
and we caught it and put 1t into
a box. The next morning we
let it out Of the box, but before
We could photograph it. it went
up a tree and we never did get
a photograph"
Mr.. Seago and Mr.. Parkinson
are departing the colonies on
Friday. sailing back to England
and Africa. Those Guernseys in
Norfolk need looking after, and
there are still wild animals on
the Dark Continent to be taught
how to drink from a bucket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Hi-Fi Readings Planned
BY New Library Poet
BY BETTY MILES

People used to think of young
poets as wild and woolly. Today
they're tame and fleecy," de-
clared Randall farrell. the new
poet-in-residence at the Library
of Congress.
The 42-year-old poet, who be-
Ilieves the modern trend is a re-
Election of the quest for security.
added, Poetry is in a better
state than anyone has a right to
expect. though. since people in
general aren't very interested in
it,"
On a leave Of absence from the
woman's college Of the University
of North Carolina, Mr.. FARRELL
will, in effect, be working to
stimulate interest in poetry.
The people who recite it today,
or who write it themselves, are
"a dying breed, he implied.
THE last contemporary poet
men recited to girls in canoes
was Edna St. Vincent Millay, +"
Mr.. FARRELL declared.
Hi-Fi Addict
Records are taking the place
of romantic outburstS, he added
and wagered, I'll bet last night
there were hundreds of young
men playing Dylan Thomas to
hundreds of young girls in
Greenwich Village"
A hi-fi addict himself-he has
brought his hi-fi equipment to
the home he shares with his wife
and two teen-age stepdaughters
at 1916 Jenifer street N.W.-Mr
farrell believes long playing rec
ords are zone of the best cultural
developments of our time"
One of his functions as the
|library'S poet will be to revive
the poets recording program
there, which he, said has been
i'm a fairly inactive state" for
several years.
Poetry records do seem to
sell better than poetry books, y
he unused. I'm books you have
to figure out what it means.
With records you just sit there. "
Mr.. FARRELL has recorded some
|of his poems for the library's
Twentieth Century Poetry in
English Series" with poets read
ling their own work.
Will Arrange Readings
He will help arrange for read
Iings for this series, and added
that the library hopes to get
additional private funds" fol-
the program.
The 10th Of the library's
poets in-residence, and the first
to hold the post since 1852, Mr..
FARRELL said he believes a new
feature of his two-year job will
be his availability for readings
of poetry and lectures ii he is
invited to do SO by educational
institutions.
Primarily, he indicated, his
/ job is one of maintaining liaison
with the literary profession. He
| also will advise the library on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Animal Tropper Brings Rare Rhinos
To Zoo, Calls Ostriches Most Stupid

There are some differences
he comedies.
wild animals take some
teaching" he explained. 1--WE
had a hippo who didn't know
how to drink from a pail. He
would stick his head into it anc
the water would go up his nos
Itrils. We had to reach through
the bars and nip his nostrils
shut with our hands so the water
would go into his mouth. He
finally learned how to drink"
Other animals must be shown
what hay and straw are for, he
added.
AT first they don't recognize
it as food" he said.
Ostriches are the most difficult
wards.
They are stupid things" said
Mr.. Seago. 1T takes them SIX
months longer to learn some-
thing than it takes the other
animals"
Mr.. Seago talks as If he were
Ia stranger to danger. He acts
embarrassed at the very sug-
gestion that his trade is perilous
But then he has different ideas
about what constitutes danger
Take the following instance
which he regards as just a jolly
good joke:
He was in the field once with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Army Review to Open
Civil Defense Week

A review at 4 pm. Sunday
featuring the Sd Infantry Regi-
ment and the United States
Army Band will touch of Wash
Iington's celebration of the first
annual Civil Defense Week.
Val Peterson. head Of the Civil
Defense Administration, will be
guest Of honor at the ceremonial
review. The program Sunday
also includes the displaying OF
civil defense equipment fur
lnished by organizations in the
area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

various literary programs and,
occasionally, will counsel with
them on acquisitions.
The job is supposed to be a
20-hour-a-week one, he ex-
planned. with time left to write.
Its like an academic job. he
added, since he will be free
during the summers.
Insure Of New Culture
Mr.. FARRELL, whose positive,
animated manner bellies his
somewhat gloomy picture of the
American intellectual scene, said
he cannot convince himself that
the new electronic culture-even
including long playing records
will be good for the Nation.
Reading in general no longer
has the same prestige it once
had" he declared. In the old
days, if you made money, you
wanted to appear cultured and
you read Pope.
To-day you go to the Stork
Club, and Pope would be a dis
advantage"
Mr.. FARRELL. who sports a
charcoal gray beard, already
has fallen in love with Washing
ton. Particularly. he added, he
would like to give the city IAN
enforced tribute from the point
of view of a man with a beard ?
Citizens of other cities can
only think of hackneyed phrases
like How are you fixed for
blades" when he walks by, he
explained.
Here. however, in the space OF
a single afternoon, he encoun-
tered one small boy who looked
at him and declared Grant, y
and another who just as en-
|phatically stated Shakespeare. "
Mr.. FARRELL appealed to the
press for help in one respect.
Il play small tournament ten
MIS-" he explained. I'm inter-
Iested in meeting tennis players,
and I just haven't met many
yet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Rambling

A sign of the machine age,
on Bladensburg road Me-:
Men and Equipment Work.
ing" -.
PesSimism note: The ste
venson for President" head
quarters at TIT Connecticut
avenue NV. is displaying a
For Rent" sign. =.
The electric sign on the
Alban Towers Hotel, on one of
those recent hot, muggy
nights, with the last two
letters in the word Hotel"
burned out. -.
A stray dog, collarless and
licenselesS, with its forepaws
braced against the outside
ledge Of a pet shop window,
and wagging its tail at an
other dog on display inside. i.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

NO MILLIONAIRES were
made in the Great Falls gold
rush. Mr.. Russ, and others
like him, went broke. Some
made a profit, but that profit
was small. 1t cost too much
to get the gold out.
There still are reminders
:. Of the gold fever.
The property where DR..
KempSter had his mine still
is known as the Gold Mine
property. 1t was in the news
recently as one site being
urged as the new location for
the Geological Survey.
Last month almost touched
off a new squirt when a piece
of quartz that looked as If it
had gold in it was found at
the Taylor Model Basin. That
turned out to be iron pyrite
fools gold"
But perhaps the most
permanent reminder is in the
bed of Macarthur boulevard.
! At one time that road was
macadamized with gold quartz
which a Geological Survey
man said would assay out at
about SIT a ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
The
Rambler
When the Gold Buo
Bit Our '8o-ers
By JACK JONAS

A discount house was offer
ing Geiger counters the other
day, but there weren't too
many takers.
Washington nowadays
doesn't feel the lure of pros
pecting as it did in the past,
and it's doubtful if there will
ever be a uranium rush to
equal the Great Gold Rush of
Great Falls in 1889.
The Great Falls boom was
the second case of gold fever
to hit the Washington area.
Only 40 years before that,
after John Augustus Suffer
found gold in his millrace in
California, a group of Wash
ington's own Forty-Niners set
out for the West.
A newspaper account of that
'49 groups journey, published
April 8, 1849, said:
1.-THE pioneers proceeded to
Pittsburgh, where wagons,
tents, ETC., were procured and
a steamer was chartered to
take them to st. Louis, the
cargo having been insured.
An odometer was purchased
at st. Louis and attached to
the wheel of a wagon by
which the Travelled distances
were measured.
Numerous Indians were
encountered on the route,
among them the Pawnees,
Sioux, Cheyennes, Crows,
Shoshones or Snakes, and the
PiuteS, or as they term them
selves, the Pi-u-tahs."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

JOHN SUFFER-, whose dis
covery sent the Washington
ians on their way to Califor-
mia, died in Washington in
1880, at the old Mades' Hotel
at Third street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue N. w. That was
nine years before gold fever
hit the city again.
In the spring of 1888, a
Georgia miner named Kirk
came north and discovered
gold on the Harrison farm,
near Great Falls. A syndi-
cate headed by a DR.. W..
KempSter bought the prop
erty in 1889, and began work.
ing 1t.
Reports that gold assayed
at from $12 to $50 a ton sent
the hopes of residents in the
area soaring. Most of the
people in the Great Falls
section fell victim to the gold
fever.
They hurried into their
farmlandS to dig shafts and
prospect holes in some cases,
and in others to pan the
streams and do a little super
fetal digging. Most of the
prospecting was of the latter
variety, because it cost money
to sink mine shafts.
At about the same time,
in another section of Mont
gomery County, a little north
of Great Falls, A. B. Russ of
Chicago, opened his Potomac
Mine.
He invested heavily in his
mine, and, as befitting a gold
miner, entertained lavishly.
In the winters he lived in the
National Hotel. In one room
Of his suite there was a table
bearing samples of gold quartz
from his mine.
In the summers, when most
of his entertaining was done,
he lived in a plushly fur
nished house at the gold mine
site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

TODAY

The Branch once Agency
Of the Commonwealth Life
Insurance Co. meets in the
shoreham Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
PooIesviIIe Tension
OnIntegrafion Eases
Segregutionists
Quit Picketine;
Attendance Off

Quiet prevailed today at the
Poolesville tMd0 school where
yesterday parents sought to keep
children from attending classes
with IA newly integrated colored
students.
Although no white parents
were seen on the grounds, it APP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

Segregation has no place in
modern education, a Catholic
prelate declared today at a
solemn pontiflcal mass in st.
Matthews Cathedral.
The Most Rev. John K. Music,
bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, in
|praising the contributions Of st.
Joseph Calasanctius to education,
said, "His mission, spelled out to
him by God Himself, was to pro-
vide education for every child
without discrimination as to
social class. religion or race.
"This public school system was
Ia revolutionary idea in that age
(400 years ago. and in some re-
spects remains so today. For
segregation has no place in the
concept of st. Calasanctius."
Saints Work Cited
The speaker pointed out that
we are today meeting this prob
lem in education.
1.-THE school policy Of today
needs st. Joseph Calasanctius--
the sooner it adopts his thought
in its entirety, the sooner will 1t
perform its great functions Of
education without the ineptitude
born Of prejudice and false val
ues. st. Joseph Calasanctius is
not a figure Of a past era. but
rather a teacher far ahead Of
the educational thought and
practice Of this age"
Bishop Music spoke to more
than 1000 teacher and prin-
cipals Of Catholic schools in
the Washington archdiocese. The
mass at which he spoke marked
the formal opening for Catholic
elementary and high schools in
the archdiocese Of the 1956-57
school year. Glasses in most
Catholic schools open tomorrow.
OBOyIe Presides
The Most Rev. Amleto Clio
vanni Vicognani. Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, was
celebrant Of the mass. The Most
Rev. Patrick A. OBoyle, Arch
bishop Of Washington, presided.
The mass also observed the
400th anniversary Of the birth
of st. Joseph Calasanctius,
Spanish educator who founded
the first public school at Rome
in 1897. He also founded the
Order Of Pious Schools. an order
that STATS Catholic schools in
81 nations. The Piarists came TO
the United States in 1913.
They have established five
houses in the United States, one
Of them in Washington.
Bishop Music declared that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Insurance Department

The Department Of Insurance
asked for five new employees
one assistant actuary, three ex-
Iaminers and one interviewer
to meet a growing workload
This would require a $3O,005 in
crease, bringing the depart
mental total to $151,60
The Minimum Wage and In
dustrial Safety Board proposed
to hire two more wage-hour in
vestigators and two safety in
spectors for an increase Of s2l,-
$50. bringing the total budget
to S115.400.
The Corporations once re-
quested S3l5.100, with an in
crease Of $s,04S to let 1t hire two
more clerks.
The Public Utilities Commits
sion asked for $185, 900, includ-
ing an increase Of $3.078 to re-
place ONCE equipment and at
tempt to I'LL jobs held vacant
TO absorb wage increases.
The Planning and Zoning Of
fee sought $4,000, an increase
Of Ss2i to pay within-grade
salary raises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

He was in the field once with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

DRESS SUIT: Oscar Wilde
once ordered dress suit from
his tailor. A few days later, he
was taken seriously i'll, with his
life hanging on thread.
The tailor asked one of the
writer's friends if he should still
make the suit. When the friend
Irelayed the query, Wilde said:
Tell him to finish it. No mat
ter what happens. will need a
dress suit"
DISTRACTION: In his more
active days, novelist w. Somer-
set Vaughan practiced rigid
self discipline. He permitted
nothing to interfere with his
work schedule. Every morning
after broadcast, without fail, he
would retire to his study for a
three-hour session at his desk.
One afternoon, in his villa in
Southern France, he was visited
by friend. AS the two entered
the study. the visitor remarked:
Hasn't som thing been
changed in this room?"
"Changed?" said the novelist.
IF memory serves me-" said
the other, there was window
in this corner the last time I was
here. 1t afforded an excellent
view Of the Mediterranean"
"Oh that" laughed Vaughan.
Eyes. there was a window. The
view was so beautiful, I couldn't
get any work done. So I had
liz bricked up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18

introduction Unanswered by my
late husbands cousin. We have
been seeing each other frequent
ly and we have discussed mar
rage.
Now. my relationship with my
parents-in-law looms as an in
soluble difficulty. When my hus-
band died, I was so downcaSt II
never occurred to me I would
ever again want to be married
I agreed to stay on with them
permanently, but I don't see how
a new husband would mt into the
picture.
My mother-in-law seems un-
derstanding, but my father-in-
law refuses to see that there IL
any problem. He simply says my
husband is welcome to come into
the home but that my boy should
remain with the grandparents II
I should decide to leave them.
b. S. K.-We had only one
child, and he Is gone. Now We
have only one grandchild, anC
it would be wrong to take him
away from us. I took my sor
into the business as a partner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
d: c. Statistical
Committee Named

An interdepartmental statisti-
cal committee was established
yesterday to appraise and CO.
ordinate statistical programs In
the various District government
The commissioners approved
the idea on the suggestion Of
w. K. Holl, management oficer
in the General Administration
Department.
Named to the committee were
Mr.. Holl, Raymond F. Clapp,
research analyst of the Public
Welfare Department; Howard
West, chief of the Biostatistics
and Health Education Division
of the Public Heath Department;
Inspector Earl p. Hartman, chief
clerk of the Metropolitan Police
Department, and Frank Cush,
management analyst of the Lii
censes and Inspections Depart
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
LAW IN THE NEWS
QuorreIs on Religion
No Divorce Grounds

said the Judge, SIS not the law
in this or any other State in the
Union" In other words, religious
differences do not constitute
legal justification for abandon
ment Of one spouce by the other.
AS reasoned by the New York
court. the idea behind the ruling
is this:
That religious freedom is so
fundamental to Americans that
it cannot be restricted even
through marriage. That is, each
spouse is expected to be tolerant
of the others beliefs. OF course,
if certain acts inconsistent with
martial harmony are committed
as a result of religious argu-
ments. that may be different.
But the difference of belief itself
is insufficient for divorce.
The next article in this series will
oppeoT EFidov.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
THE GOLDEN YEARS
Those Not Yet IS Bow
Often to False Gods

has mattered to him is gone
gone irretrievably. If he is fool
ish enough to visit the old scenes
of his triumphs, however simple
or grand they were, he is made
to feel he is an outsider.
No One to Impress
"All the trappings Of his for
mer self are no longer useful
There is no one to impress. AND
what need for difference now?
All too often he becomes little
more than a Debated balloon.
Why? Because all his as
surance, his very self-respect
has through the years been built
on transient values false
and insecure gods.
How much better for him tC
have bolstered his inner self with
interests and values that endure
He could have done this with
no detriment to his advance
ment in the world of business
All he needed was a proper per-
Spective. a curb to his vanity
and humbleness before God.
1T seems that we're q pretty
dumb, stubborn and misguided
lot. How true that we reap what
we sow. It's a pity we haven't
the foresight to prepare our
selves for these mellow years
Take to heart these words Of
Mr.. Keller If retirement still lies
before you. He speaks a gospel
OF retirement that too many
people still refuse to believe.
tCopyright. 1855, General Features
Corp)
This column oPpeors every Wednes
doY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Homemuker Service
Planned in Virqiniu

A home-maker service is being
planned by Family Service OF
Northern Virginia to provide
emergency help for families in
which the mother is unable to
care for children because of ILL
ness or other difficulties.
An allotment of $4,000 has
been received from the Com
munity Chest Of Fairfax County
toward cost of the new service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
BY THOMAS COLLINS

From a wise man living in
retirement in New England
comes an unusual piece of testi-
mony about the years beyond IS.
To some of you 1t may seem
harsh. But there is invaluable
guidance in what he says for
those not yet retired. Because
he knows what he's talking
about.
The man is G. w. Keller. He
believes that retired people, for
the most part, are fumbling
around In an uncharted world
for which they have been made
quately equipped. He thinks
most Of them are failing to find
a satisfactory life.
you would think" he says
"that a man who has reached
those ripe years would have ac-
cumulated just a little sense, If
not wisdom, to carry him along
without wet-nursing. That
Is Just what he has not done.
"All his lifetime. right UP to
the day they give him q fare
well banquet and aSsail his all
too-willing ears with fulsome
eulogies, he has worshipped the
false gods Of prestige. position,
power and wealth in all their
various guises.
Job Has Been His Life
His Job in the business world
has been his life. 1t has guided
his social activities, established
his position in the community.
Worst of all, it has been the
basis of his own self-esteem.
And if he achieved a posi-
ton of authority where others
had to look up to him, then the
real poison went to work. The
Difference of others gave him a
false estimate of himself. He
built an outward personality to
fit this estimate"
Then, according to Mr.. Keller,
comes the jolt. Retirement ar
rives, the fanfare ends, the sew
erance with the world he has
known becomes complete.
And what does he have|'
Mr.. Keller asks. If he is lucky
he has a pension. g.. But every
thing that for SO many years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Cross Burners
Urged to Give Up

Deputy Police Chief Edgar E.
Scott and Detective Sergt. Joseph
Chennault today issued an in
vitation to several other persons
involved in the cross hurnings to
come to Washington police head
quarters and post collateral.
1t was indicated that the per-
sons involved live outside the
District, since the cross-burning
charge-kindling q bonfire-is a
misdemeanor for which extra
dition is impossible.
Deputy Chief Scott said the
persons involved are now being
investigated, but that the inves-
tigation will be dropped If they
] give themselves UP.