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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04

Mr.. WolfSon and some of his asso-
ciates at Capital Transit Company may
remember the story of the man who was
ridden out of town on rail. IF it wasn't
for the honor of the thing" the man said,
II would just as soon have walked"
Yesterdays overwhelming vote of
Capital Transit stockholders, approving
sale of the companys assets to the Chalk
interests and reorganization of the COM
pany as new corporation dedicated to
seeking profits in other fields, without
benefit of Public Utilities Commission reg
ulation, in effect brings to a close the
Wolfson lynching bee.
Mr.. Wolfson and his stockholders
have survived very we'll Their necks are
not only intact, but they have a sizeable
amount of cash money and the prospect
of adding to it with additional dollars
saved from taxes. Mr.. Wolfson has per-
sonally triumphed over those who were
so anxious to stick him with the cost of
tearing up the streetcar tracks He has
passed on to willing-and we hope able
successor that and other obligations
assumed by a private operator in Wash
ington.
Only the future will determine
whether the absence of Mr.. Wolfson will
make the hearts of our people grow
fonder-of him, or of Mr.. O. Roy Chalk.
Mr.. Chalk will go into business with valu-
able rolling stock, equipment and real
estate. To help him out, he will have
number of tax and other concessions from
Congress and the Commissioners that Mr..
Wolfson never dreamed of asking for.
Had. they been given to Wolfson's man.
.agement the clamor would have. been.
suubearable. Mr. Chalk, however, has re-
ceived them on silver platter, modest
tokens of public gratitude for having
saved US from both Scylla and Charybdis
s--Wolfson on the one hand, public owner
ship on the other A queer chapter in
the history of this town, which we hope
viii never find repetition.
.a.v.- Mr.. Chalk'S first lessons in the opera
ton Of transit company will be taught
by the union, which has been waiting
patiently to outline his homework in ne
gotiations next week BY August IA,
according to the estimates. he will take
over. He has indicated his intent to
retain most of the management person.
mel, which is a good thing because the
transit management has been good. He
has made a favorable impression in
Washington, he has been successful in
other undertakings and he may be able
to prove that successful transit opera
ton, furnishing good service to the public
and fair profits for the ownership, is still
possible. We hope so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
Why Not Learn?

To me the outstanding fact
about this tragic affair at
Paris Island is the neglect of
those fathers and mothers who
never saw to it that their sons
learned to swim.
There are YMCAs located in
nearly every city in the United
States. MY brother learned to
swim at the "Y" when he was
seven years old; my son
learned when he was nine. My
husband taught himself TO
swim, and then taught two
neighbor boys. He was not able
to teach our son. however. as
he had received a hand injury
during the war. But our son
went TO the YMCA and in one
week learned to swim.
Outside Of the fun involved
in swimming, knowing how to
swim gives boys a sense Of ac-
complishment as well as in
creased self-confdence. / would
like to urge all fathers and
mothers TO help their children
learn to swim. When our boys
are 10 years old, 1t should come
as no astounding surprise that
our country wants them to
be trained as soldiers. and that
in the process they. may have
TO get wet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
One Crisis Eases

Although the Suez Canal dispute has
overshadowed other troubles in the
Middle East in the past fortnight 1t is
reaSsuring to read that United Nations
Secretary General Hammarskjold feels
relatively optimistic about the Arab
Israeli situation. Back from a trip to the
area, Mr. Hammarskjold has reported the
cease-flre agreement is generally effective
and has told news conference that he
believes a will to peace" really exists
between the parties. OF all the threats
to Middle East peace, and perhaps to the
peace of the world, none is more poten-
TALLY explosive than the uneasy truce
between these two forces. 1t was because
open warfare seemed imminent that Mr..
Hammarskjold was dispatched to the
region last spring, and it was primarily
through his efforts that the tension was
abated
Returning to that area for checkup,
the U. N. official talked with the chiefs
OF state of the three countries principally
involved-Israel, Jordan and Egypt His
conclusion, in summary. is that the cease
fire has been respected on the whole.
Furthermore. he has reported new assur-
ances from the principals that they will
make every effort to maintain this state
OF affairs in the months Immediately
ahead. Believing that his mandate from
the U. N. to seek a lasting relaxation Of
the Arab-Israeli tensions requires con-
tinuing observation and exploration Of
possible peace formulas. Mr. Hammar-
skiold probably will return to the Middle
East in October, shortly before the u N.
is scheduled to reconvene in New York.
Meanwhile, on his recent trip the
secretary general has emphasized to the
parties involved two particular require
ments. One is that Sniping and raids
across the truce lines must not be revived,
lest they invite large scale retaliatory
action. The other is that Israel must not
resume work on diversion OF the Jordan
River waters along her frontiers with
Syria and Jordan--a project that was
halted several months ago after repeated
outbreaks Of military action and strong
protests from the adjoining Arab
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
A Luckier Crossing

1t has been suggested in the
tragedy of the Stockholm and
the Andrea Doria that the
Stockholm may have been
"bulling" her way. I do not
believe this to have been the
case. To the pilot of the
Stockholm l believe that the
other vessel seemed a long
way off in the fog.
When I was returning from
England. via Halifax, coming
down the New England coast
we sighted the Nantucket
Lightship. which was anchored
26 miles off Nantucket Island.
At one moment she seemed
miles away. a ship on the hori-
zon. The next moment she hit
us right in the face. We almost
rammed her. A year or so later
she was rammed and, I think,
sunk.
Fog does strange things. 1t
seems to have no time sense
or distance sense either.
You would never believe that
a vessel could seem miles away
and the next second loom up
right in your path unless you
had seen it with your own
eyes. I'm not blaming the
Stockholm. 1t was probably a
freak accident. The same thing
could happen to any boats in
those waters.
Laura X. Pollock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
Careful Economic View

A wholesome caution toward any
thing which might encourage new round
OF imitation is being displayed at this time
by both Government and industry.
For example, the steel industry, shut
down for month by the recent strike,
has modified its original plans for i'm
mediate acrosS-the-b board increases In
steel prices. While scattered increases
already have been ordered, the leader of
the industry-United States Steel-haS
decided to make thorough analysis of
costs and productivity before making a
final decision on the overall price struc-
ture. There is no question, of course,
that the new three-year labor contract
will push up the costs to the industry. At
the same time, the precise impact of the
numerous contract Notwithstanding
various fringe benefits as we'll as straight
pay increases-cannot be quickly and
simply calculated The steel industry
constantly improving and expanding its
plants. likewise is steadily introducing
more efficient production methods. Many
of these factors tend to reduce production
costs per unit of finished steel and to
offset in some part higher payments to
labor
Meanwhile Secretary of Commerce
Weeks, aware that the final pattern in
steel will have direct bearing upon the
prospects for dollar stability in the i'm
mediate future, has warned that "a
watchful eye" must be kept on the pic
ture. In appealing for wise restraint in
pricing policies" he was, in effect, indors-
ing the very approach the steel industry
now indicates it will take. The Secretary
also found other encouraging signs in the
national economy July employment, for
instance, rose to another record peak with
66.6 million jobholders while unemploy-
ment dropped another 100 900 to a level of
2.8 million. Gross national product was
measured at a rate of S408 billion in the
second quarter and was expected to con-
tinue at this high level through the re-
mainder Of the year. Personal income
was per cent higher than year ago.
We are, in summary, still enjoying a
booming economy in which the greatest
current need Is to watch the infiationary
weather signs and exercise a normal
prudence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
The Happy Time

This Is the happy time In the
shadoiDy forest
When the world Is green
and the hunters gun is
stiH
And there Is a pause for
building and for
breeding.
For cubs to roll like boys on
a grassy Hill.
Too soon the mind iCtH strip
the ledty branches.
The hunters moon wM climb
the autumn sky
And tgild young things Dll
huddle in the thickets
knoutno that Man and
Death are passing BY.
Frances M. Miller
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04

countries. The border shooting has not.
unfortunately, ceased completely but
neither has it prompted more extensive
counteraction by either side.
There is, unquestionably, long way
to go before secure and permanent
Arab-Israeli peace can be guaranteed
But anything short of war is better than
war itself. In this respect, Mr. Hammar-
skiold has rendered fine service. His
continuing efforts should have whole
hearted support within the United
Nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
irresponsible Actions

Harold StaSsen processes to think
that the outlook for his campaign to
ditch Vice President Nixon is getting
brighter and brighter every day.
He is not discouraged by the fact that
the President has refused to support him.
The decision by Governor Herter, Mr..
StassenS choice, to nominate Mr.. Nixon
has made no impression. Nor has Gov
ernor Herter's announcement that he will
not consent to the placing of his name
in nomination. Mr.. StaSsen is all smiles,
although no Republican of any promi-
nence has Joined him in his project. He
remains unmoved despite the fact that
the chairmen of the Republican Senate
rial and House Campaign Committees
have issued formal statement accusing
him of irresponsible actions"
In view of all of this, we can see no
basis for Mr.. Stassens sturdy optimism.
But perhaps he can. If so, if he has some
real reason for believing that he can keep
Mr. Nixon off the ticket, then, of course,
he cannot fairly be criticized for carrying
on. There is, however, another side to
this proposition. One must consider the
case which arises if Mr.. StaSSen has no
rational basis for expecting to be sue
ceSSful. In that situation, and it looks
very much as though that is the situation
in which Mr.. Stassen finds himself, his
continuing campaign becomes an act of
responsibility on his part. 1t is ire
SponSible, assuming that he cannot sue
coed, because the things that he is doing
are destructive, not constructive, from
the party's point of view He will not
keep Mr.. Nixon off the ticket. But he
will succeed in hurting an Eisenhower
Nixon ticket when the voters go to the
polls in November We do not believe
that Mr.. Stassen wants to do this, and we
think, therefore, that he ought to take
a long, hard, realistic look at those en-
couraging signs which he, and he alone, is
able to see.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

arms. for as much as Is or q
minutes. is helpful.
There are on the market a
complete battery of poison ivy
remedies.
The best modern ones con-
tain a substance which tends
to dry up the eruptions and
contain the spread of the in
lection.
Children are we'll advised,
if they will take the advice,
to stay out of places where
there is unattended shrubbery
and tall grass.
But not even the best gard
eners bother about small pois-
on ivy plants among their
flowers and foundation plant
ings.
One Chevy Chase resident,
trailing his hands in some
bushes along Connecticut ave-
nue.. came up with a nice case
of poison ivy.
$50
Poison oak and sumac pois-
oning, while much the same,
are not as common as poison
ing by the old ivy route.
Those who come down with
itching of the skin, and appear
ance of red spots. had best
go to the doctor at once, be-
cause fooling around with this
trouble merely allows it to
spread.
The proper treatment at the
very first will save a lot OF
pain and expense.
Above all, persons who like
to think of themselves as dar-
ing, disregarding the chances
Of poison ivy infection, had
best beware.
1t is not smart any more to
be foolish.
We recall a rather promi-
nent Government worker who
thought 10 show of" before a
group Of children.
He said he was immune TO
poison ivy. and selling a bunch
Of the leaves, he smeared them
all over his face and hands
to show how fearless he was.
He may have been fearless
enough, but he was very fool
ish. because the next day he
came down with the worst case
anybody ever saw.
He landed in the hospital
and even his best friends said
it served him right.
Fortunately for him, In those
days hospitals didn't cost so
much. but his face never
looked the same again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
THE POLITICAL MILL
D., HNIHn IIkI(NI
Only Truman Draft May Beat Stevenson
BY GOULD LINCOLN

In a final desperate effort
to head of the nomination Of
Adlai Stevenson for the 1856
Democratic presidential nomi-
nation, Gov. Averell Harri-
man of New York and his sup
porters are launching a cam
paign to convince the party
leaders and the delegates to
the national convention that
Stevenson cannot win against
President Eisenhower. 1t does
not seem likely to prevent Ste
vensc~ nomination. 1t may
~ e unfortunate for the Dem
ocratic ticket-if Stevenson is
the presidential nominee-in
the general election campaign
which is to eliminate in the
November election.
The withdrawal of Senator
Kefauver from the presidential
race and his support of Ste
venson was a sickening blow
to the Hartman forces. While
some of the Kefauver delegates
probably will vote for Harri-
man-several already have said
they will-more of them are
expected to follow the Kefauver
lead and PUNK for Stevenson.
Truman Still Neutral
The Hartman forces-and
Gov. Hartman himself-have
been hopeful that former Pres
ident Harry S. Truman would
throw his influence with the
convention delegates to the
New York Governor Truman,
however, has declined up to
date to state a preference for
the presidential nomination.
Indeed. when Kefauver with
drew, Truman still maintained
his neutral position. But if
Truman has a real desire to see
Hartman nominated, as some
seem to think, Kefauver'S sud-
den action was like sticking a
knife into the man who helped
to prevent a Kefauver nomina-
ton in 1952-when Kefauver
went into the national conven-
ton with a greater number of
delegates pledged to him than
any other candidate.
1t calls to mind the case of
the late Senator William Gibbs
McAdoo. In 1924, McAdoo,
then a Senator from Califor-
mia, entered the Democratic
National Convention with a
large number of delegates
only to be blocked by the
forces headed by Gov. Alfred
E. Smith of New York. When
1882 rolled around, Smith
wanted a second nomination
for President Che had been
the party nominee in 1929.
McAdoo's moment of revenge
was at hand. In a dramatic
move-following an all-night
session of the convention in
Chicago-McAdoo arose and
turned the California delega-
ton and that of Texas over to
Franklin D. Roosevelt-giving
Roosevelt the two-thirds ma
jority he needed for nominal
ton.
Harriman's drive to dislodge
Stevenson as the front-runner
for the nomination is based
on his contention that having
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
Wormy Platform?

The political parties are now
preparing their platforms to
submit to the people follow
ing their nomination of can
didates for the presidency. In
asmuch as Secretary of State
Dulles is said to have written
the foreign plank in the 1852
platform of the Republican
Party, let us look at that plank,
or segment of it, and see to
what extent Mr.. Dulles and
his colleagues have kept the
faith.
1--WE shall eliminate from
the State Department and
every Federal Office all wher-
eyer they be found who share
responsibilities for the need
less predicaments and perils in
which we find ourselves"
Twelve of the assistants to
Dean Acheson, under the New
and Fair Deal, are Dulles adj
visers. These men had some
thing to do with the "perils"
in which we found ourselves
when Mr.. Dulles wrote that
plank. Why are they still
there?
1--WE shall sever from the
public payroll the hordes of
loafers. incompetents. and I'M
necessary employees who clut-
ter the administration of our
foreign affairs" Payroll and
expenses4ef the Department of
State have never been higher
than today.
I'VE shall see to it that no
treaty or agreement with other
countries deprives our citizens
of the rights guaranteed by
the Federal Constitution. Yet
Dulles fought with all his
might to prevent the Bricker
amendment from being passed
to validate that platform
pledge. Mr.. Dulles and his
colleagues had better dig up
some new phrases for the
forthcoming Republican plat
form.
George E. Stringfellow.
East Orange, N. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04

been beaten by Eisenhower
decisively in 1852, Stevenson
has no chance of defeating
the Republican President in a
second try. 1t is based, too,
on Harriman's contention that
Stevenson stands for "moder-
ation." and that a moderate
cannot win. And finally that
Hartman. himself, is a hard
fighting candidate devoted to
the principles and programs
of the New Deal and Fair
Deal-and that Stevenson is
not.
He is having difficulty with
his charge that Stevenson is
not at heart a New Dealer and
Fair Dealer. Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, widow of the late
President Franklin D. Roose-
welt, is in the Stevenson cor
ner. and so is Senator Herbert
Lehman of New York-both
the most ardent New Dealers
and both from Harriman's
own State. Mrs. Roosevelt
has spoken out strongly in
support of Stevenson and
against the Hartman claim
that he is the only bona f1de
New Deal candidate.
The argument that Steven
son, having been defeated once.
cannot win next fall was used
against Stevenson in the Cali
fornia presidential primary and
in the Florida primary last May
and June by Senator Kefauver
and his friends. 1t did not pre-
vent Stevenson from carrying
both primaries. Nor has it been
effective in other States. 1t still
remains. however, the last best
hope of Hartman in this
preconvention, denomination
campaign.
FavOrite Sons No Threat
Kefauver's decision to take
himself out of the presidential
race has made a coalition
against Stevenson in the COM
ing convention so difficult as to
be almost impossible. There are
not enough favorite-son candi-
dates with enough delegates.
plus Hartman and the other
announced active candidate,
Gov. Happy" Chandler Of
Kentucky, to tie the conven-
ton up.
If this is a correct estimate,
the sole remaining chance for
a defeat of a Stevenson NOM
ination seems to lie in a draft"
of former President Truman.
Truman has given no indica-
ton he would permit himself
to be either nominated or
drafted" Four years ago. he
fatty declined to run. He is
four years older-72-and
little more than a year ago
underwent serious operation.
Nevertheless. there are some
Democrats in high place who
have predicted that the ma
tional convention, when the
showdown comes, will nominate
Truman. They contend that he
would be the strongest candi-
date the Democrats could put
forward. And they point to his
victory in 1948 when all the
odds were against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04

Poison ivy is one of the
summer hazards Of thin
skinned people.
The seeds are planted by
birds and come up in the most
unexpected places.
The oil which causes the
trouble may be conveyed by
smoke.
The susceptible person is in
danger all the time, whether
at home or in the woods.
Thousands of charming lit
tie poison ivy plants are grow
ing in flower borders and beds,
alongside the best-kept high
ways, in hedges and the like.
4
Templeton Jones once up
rooted a 4-inch plant and put
it in a pot.
His intention had been to
carry it down to the Office, as
a living example of a mild
danger in the everyday life.
His caution got the better
of him, however, at the very
last moment.
But it was a pretty plant!
The three little leaves were
neat and green, and the way
the shoot grew in the small
red pot was charming.
In the fall. the leaves in nature
urn a beautiful red. vying with
any other plant whatsoever for
beauty.
City people, unacquainted with
nature in the raw, sometimes
tear up whole armfuls of the
beautiful red leaves to bring back
to their living rooms.
They will rue the day they did
so, because the poison in the
leaves is then at a high point.
For every person who positive
ly cannot catch the infection
there will be 10 who can, and do
1t may be that people with
very oily skins dilute the oil that
causes the trouble. Or there
may be something in the very
skin chemistry that dilutes the
trouble making oil.
That is what one is trying IL
do, when washing the skin with
some harsh soap right after ex-
posture. as commonly advocated
This is still the best thing
to try.
ANY soap will do. The harsh
kind may be a bit better. but
not much. The desired thing Is
to emulsify the oil and wash
as much Of it away as possible.
Permitting the cold water from
the faucet to run over the ex-
posed places, If the hands or