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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
Wrong Yordstick

Judged by their statements in the
resignation case of Private James Huff
man, Arlington authorities are using an
unreliable yardStick to measure police
efficiency. Generally speaking, it is unfair
to any policeman to gauge his law
enforcement abilities by how many or
how few arrests he makes during a given
period. Yet, according to memorandum
signed by Police Chief Fawver, Private
Huffman'S main offenSe seems to have
been his "very poor" record of arrests
in the traffic field.
Private Huffman, like all members
OF the Arlington force, was given
mimeographed statement on appointment
that assured him that no such thing as
an ARREST quota" existed in Arlington.
The statement was signed by County.
Manager Lundberg, Public Safety Direc-
tor tombstone and Chief Fawver. Yet
Private Huffman and at least one other
patrolman were warned that they must
step up the number of arrests forthwith.
The Police Chiefs memorandum pointed
out that for the Is months that Private
Huffman had been on the force "he has
@~4 oAACoGo W oAAOW lUI II--leSS JIldn III
arrests month" The chief said the
policeman had been admoniShed to do
better, but that he had mot tried to
show any improvement"
A question that must have arisen in
Private Huffmans mind was: How
many arrests per month constitute
good record?" If 10 arrests month are
too few, as in the Huffman case, how
many are required to get an average, a
good or an excellent rating? This sort
OF pressure to increase the number of
arrests may not involve the fixing of any
definite quota but the net effect is the
same. 1t tends to encourage arrests for
the sake of building a record, not for the
sake of public safety or intelligent law
enforcement. 1t tends to promote plea
yuniSh policing of sort that impairs
public confidence in the police fore as
a whole. We believe that the best test
OF a policeman'S efficiency is not the
number of traffic tickets he issues but
his all-around vigilance in detecting law
violations Of any kind and in bringing
Offenders to iustice--whatever their
number.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
Lost: One Issue

One of the more singular develop
mentS in this campaign is the virtual
disappearance of what once seemed to
be its most important isSue-the PreSi-
dents health.
Only few months ago, when the
President was still showing the effects
of his ileitis operation, and when his
heart attack was fresh in everyone'S
mind, it seemed as though the question
OF his health would be decisive in the
minds of the voters. And perhaps it still
may be. But If this is the case, no one
would suspect it from listening to the
current crop of campaign speeches
Just about everything else under the
sun is being worked over from stem to
stern. Farm prices, national defense,
civil rights, the cost of living, interest
rates, big business, the little man, school
conStruction-all of these come in for
generous share of campaign attention.
But of the Presidents health-hardly a
word.
Perhaps this is because the President
today looks like very healthy man in
deed. And as he steps up his motorcading
(no whiStle-Stopping of course) in the
home stretch of the campaign it may be
felt that it is not good politics to focus
attention on the health question. At any
rate, the Democrats are busy talking
about something else and the Republicans
seem happy to let the issue fade into the
background. That this should be so Is
strange thing, for it is still an impor-
tant, and perhaps the most important,
real issue in this election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
EIectronic Football?

The Cleveland Browns football
guards are taking it easier this season
than usual. For Coach Paul Brown, who
doesn't like to burden his quarterbacks
with the job of too much thinking, is
experimenting with bench to-field radio
communication via apparatus installed in
the quarterbacks' helmets In past years,
Mr.. Brown has run his guards ragged
carrying offensive signals out between
each play.
There are, of course, wonderful posi-
bilities in this idea. The Redskins, for
example, have thousands Of paying but
nonplaying "quarterbacks" scattered all
over Griffith Stadium each Sunday at
home. Allegedly, one of them even owns
the team, but there are plenty others who
would like to call the plays. What pos
sibly could make for happier customers
than to provide transmitter with each
season ticket? Some of the grandstand
quarterbacks might even have sponsors.
And an Eddie LeBaron wired for sound
would be really dandy
Like most innovations, this one has
its dangers also. Radio tanning has be-
come fine art and Mr.. Brown might find
his wave length all cluttered up at criti-
cal moment. Perhaps, on second thought,
he had better keep one Of those running
guards handy TO carry the message TO
Ratterman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
Plea for Landmark
Reader.

As most of us know, at sun
rise on Christmas Day Of 1918
the first services we're held in
the first Christ Church,
Georgetown, on the site where
there now stands the third
church building.
Concurrent with. but not
identified with, the original
Christ Church, Georgetown,
between the years 1918 and
1922 a "two-story brick house"
was erected on the 60 by 100
foot piece Of ground which has
remained unchanged and un-
leveled from the year 1874
when 1t was designated in
Beall's Addition to George
town as lot So" which 1t is
this moment.
Inasmuch as this "two-story
brick house"--presently the
rectory at 3ll2 20" street
has stood side by side with
three church buildings on this
site at the southwest corner OF
Beall and Congress streets for
almost 1873 years. I earnestly
hope that some way will be
found 70 avoid destroying 80
worthy q contemporary Of the
gallant men who founded
Christ Church. Georgetown. in
1917.
Mrs. Charles N. CIekE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
Parkway Progress

II IS gratifying to know that the long
delay over extension Of the George WASH
ington Memorial Parkway along the
District-Maryland side OF the Potomac
River is ending. While fine progress has
been made on the Virginia side in buying
land and building part Of the parkway,
the project has been stalled by right-of-
way and financing troubles on the oppo-
site shore. Nov, however, the Federal
Government and Maryland authorities
have reached an agreement under which
land buying and construction will proceed
in the near future.
The Federal-Maryland agreement
calls for prompt purchase OF right Of way
for the parkway from the District Line
TO Great Falls. Speed in acquiring the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
.Gunston HnLI

In behalf OF the board OF
regents Of Gunston Hall, 1
wish to express our apprecia-
ton Of the page in your paper
OF September % devoted to
George Mason and his home.
Also Of the splendid article by
George Flynn OF the same
date.
Not only was the press work
outstanding in giving an ex-
cellent impression of the
physical beauties Of Gunston,
but the captions were inform
alive about George Mason and
his Importance TO Americans
and almost correct. (Jefer-
son did not draw UP the Fed
eral Bill of Rights. l think
he was in Paris at that timeJ
Mr.. Flynn took time and
thought in writing his article.
and the result was interesting
TO the general reader, and
gratifying 70 those who are
concerned with the manage
ment Of Gunston Hall.
Harriet &. Reese.
Wilmington, Del.
Editors note: Mrs. Reese
is right about the Bill Of
Rights not being the work Of
Jefferson or any other single
man II was. Of course. a COM
posite Of proposals advanced
by many patriotsJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
That's Wrestling?

I have been a wrestling fan
for some IS years, and I do
mean wrestling. During that
time, I have witnessed splendid
exhibitions by real champions.
Presumably. there is a local
governing body which sane
lions such events. Why, then.
do they appoint blind men as
referees who do not defend
themselves against attack by
the sadistic morons appearing
each week at Capital Arena?
Police have authority to
enter restaurants, stores, etc.
to quell disturbances and make
arrests if necessary. Being
present at the above place.
officers should use force in per-
Torrance Of their duty to
curtail fights which are a
common occurrence.
In the name Of good sports
manship, city ordinance
should be passed to abolish
such spectacles as are pre-
sented under the guise Of
wrestling.
Reader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Pumping Power of the Heart Is Tested
By THOMAS r. HENRI,

about 20 miles and automatic
cally radios back to the OBJ
serving station aboard ship the
strength of X-ray and ultra
violet radiationS from the
flare.
These can be measured only
in the upper reaches Of the
atmosphere.
Sir Winston Churchill has
just received q unique souvenir
from the depths Of the Antarc-
tic.
1t is a page torn from the
London ByStander for Febru-
airy 5, 1908 with q photograph
Of a party. including Churchill,
on an African safari.
At the feet of the group is
the carcass Of rhinoceros.
The caption of the picture
reads: "Bagged by winston. A
Churchill on his African tour"
This sheet was found by
Capt. Richard M. Black Of the
United States Navy at Nc
Murdo Point, on the Ross Sea,
a camp occupied by Sir Robert
F. Scott. Inflated co-diScoverer
of the South Pole, and later by
Sir Ernest Shackleton. Hut
Point, site of the two camps,
was visited by Capt. Black,
himself a distinguished Ant
arctic explorer, on the last
Navy expedition into the Far
South.
1t was wrapped around the
stub of a homemade candle
inside a rusty tin can.
X 4 \
The worlds great hunger
is for proteins, the nitrogen
containing substances in food
which are the building stones
of blood and muscle.
Purely vegetable diets, al
most the sole diet of vast
populations in under-devel-
oped areas. are deficient in
these proteins or in the SIM
pier substances, amino acids,
from which the proteins are
synthesized by the body itself.
The amino acids can be
added to food, especially
bread. OF special Importance
are lysine and threonine. The
first can be synthesized in
quantity quite cheaper. The
second is prohibitively expen-
sive for any widespread
bread-enriching program.
United States Public Health
Service experiments have just
demonstrated that one of the
lowliest organisms on earth, an
alga or a plant known as
Scenedesmus, is rich source
of this amino acid. Rats
thrived when powdered algae
were added to an otherwise
deficient diet.
This alga can be mass Gull
tured in great quantities. It
also contains lysine, but not
enough fully to supplement
diets.
The experiments have Just
been reported by Drs. J. M.
Hundley and r. B. Ing Of
the Public Health Service
laboratory of nutrition and
endocinology.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES T. TRACEWELL

But If for any reason I
can't. the birds are not sore
at me.
"They do not harangue me
the next time they see me.
II question very much
whether they have any real
sense of me, at all.
Their main interest is food,
and the bus, In the first place,
represents something to eat.
Then this paper bag. I'M
questionably. stands for food
in their minds.
Il come a poor third, with
them. Anybody else would do
just as well. so long as he
had this sack"
49,
Did anybody or anything
ever interfere with the birds
at their breakfast?
Yes. sometimes dogs, he said.
Dogs ramble into the ter
minal grounds in the search
of adventure, as dogs do
everywhere.
When they see the pigeons
on the ground. eating. the dogs
sense prey, and make a dive
for them.
Away fiutter the pigeons,
going back to the roof Of the
buildings, until the menace de-
cides to run away. This the
dog usually does, after he has
sampled the food.
Bird feed. as it Is usually
called, is not good dog food.
Most dogs are sensible enough
to know this. but occasionally
some old pooch will eat his I'LL,
and suffer later.
We asked the man If people
interfered with his pets.
Not often. he said, and then
only by not realizing what was
up.
Most people. he said, like to
watch wild things eat. Some
thing about 1t reminds them Of
their own childhood. especially
II they come from the country
or small town.
We shook hands with the
man and bid him good-by.
II was nice. we suggested, TO
get honest answers TO honest
questions.
THE birds taught me that"
he smiled. Birds are as honest
as they come. And as greedy.
Just like people, there" he
grinned. as he got on his bus TO
the downtown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
Virginia Stands Pat

Your recent editorial, Vir-
ginia Stands Pat" reminds me
that a patient with asthma
tries any remedy. Virginia has
now adopted the asthma-dog
treatment but the Roanoke
World-News sees it only as the
first in a long series of efforts
to stop erosion of Constitu-
tional rights.
The late Chief Justice Fred
Vinson listened to an eager
beaver attorney describe his
honorable courts power as be-
ing so great nothing could
halt it. To which the genial
Kentuckian replied:
well, I don't know about
that! 49,.
Virginia, wheeling with
asthma on the indignation
issue, is. of course, sick. The
other day as we passed through
from Bristol to Harrisonburg,
the Old Dominion never looked
worse. Our view of majestic
Mount Rogers was cut of by
the rain and mist and winds
OF Hurricane Flossy, which
dumped tons of water on U. s.
Highway IL, but still we knew
it was there. The eagle, symbol
Of American power, flying over
White Top Mountain, looks
down on it. So with the let
pilot. Only the motoriSt looks
upward with time to see proud
Virginia when the sunshine
comes through the clouds. In
Washington, there seems to be
a tendency to Took down" on
other capitals - particularly
Richmond-as nothings. The
frenzy is somewhat like the
New Yorker, looking out be-
yond the North Cor Hudson)
River. who sees in his minds
eyes. only Indian wigwams,
beyond.
We don't have much hope
Tor other capitals. Just now.
But in time we may come to
see themAthough probably not
for a long, long time-as Chief
Justice Vinson must have seen
them in his minds eye. as he
rubbed his chin and, with a
far-away look said:
well, I don't know about
that"
E. II. Alexander.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08

@. In time Of war. is II legal
for one nation TO blockade the
ports Of another nation?--
A. N. B.
A. II a warning nation for
mally declares a blockade and
Is able to enforce II. the block
ade is legal under interna-
tional rules Of war However.
II a nation proves powerless
70 enforce It's announced
blockade. other nations may
legally ignore It. Formal dec
laration that a nation is 10 be
blockaded puts neutral coun-
tries on notice that their ships
may be seized. crews arrested.
and eargoes cona5cated II thty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08
Embassies Clash

In his letter of September
90, the military attache of the
Embassy of Iraq makes a num-
Der of categorical statements
which are incorrect.
The writer states that Israel's
"aim is now, as it has always
been, to start a war of expan-
sion at the expense of her
neighbors." Brigadier MuStafa
appears to be confusing the
statements of Israel and Arab
leaders. 1t is Arab spokesman
who continually urge the de-
struction of Israel, while Israel
leaders have on countless &C.
casions appealed for peace and
cooperation with their Arab
neighborS.
Addressing the United Ma
tons Security Council last
June, the delegate of Syria,
Ahmed Shukeiry said: 1.-The
establishment of Israel, its
membership in the United Ma
tons, and all other resolutions
-. will have to be revoked"
Fahdil el-Jamali, at that
time Prime Minister of Brig
adler Mustafa'S own country,
Iraq. told the Iraq Parliament
on January Is. 1854: Whoever
called for peace with Israel
would be guilty of high trea-
son and should be hanged"
and said again a month later:
1.-THE destruction of Israel will
be achieved only by the
strengthening of the Arab
states"
In an interview with the
correspondent Of the New York
Post in October. 1855, Col.
Nasser Of Egypt said: 1.-THE
hatred of the Arabs against
the zionistS is very strong and
there Is no sense talking about
peace with Israel. There is not
even the smallest place for ne
gotiations between the Arabs
and Israel" Similar remarks
were included in Col. Nasser's
famous IN a tiona liZation
speech" last July.
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion
Of Israel, on the other hand,
addressing the Israel Parlia-
ment in November, 1855, said:
I'VE have never initiated war
against any one, and we never
will. We do not covet a single
inch Of foreign soil" These
sentiments were again reiter-
ated by Mr.. Ben-Gurion on the
occasion of his SEVENTEEN
birthday last week. In an in.
terview with the correspondent
Of the jerusalem Post, Ben
Gurion said: "As long as it is
for me to decide, we shall make
no war. If war had come last
spring, we might have lost
how many? $4,000? 10000?
1t would have been the best of
our youth, and we need them.
/ will never make war. You can
tell anybody that"
II. Y. Orgel
Information Attache
Embassy of Israel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08

Her head is bent. a prow that
cleaUes the Uind
That busters down the Maroon
ddrkenino street;
Beneath her chin a faded scarf
Is pinned,
She plods along on tired and
aching feet.
AZ home she turns the key
the ldmplioht blooms
on dust and rumpled bed aud
dishes piled.
She sits and thinks OF fresh
and ordered rooms
The cleaning iDomdH Is the
cobblers child.
Alice Hornish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08

The pump power" of the
heart now is being measured
by Public Health Service
scientists.
They have found a way Of
determining, in animals, the
velocity with which blood is
elected at a given instant
from the heart into the aorta,
the great artery which arches
the top of the heart to sup
ply blood to the entire body.
This technique, it is an
nounced by the National Heart
Institute, will soon be applied
to humans and will make it
possible to calculate from the
measured power output Of the
heart the reserve heart power
Of both normal persons and
heart patients.
Developers of the technique
are DR.. Donald L. Fry and his
associates. The velocity meas
ures are obtained by putting
a slender, flexible tube. known
as a catheter, through a small
cut in a leg artery. This
catheter is double. consisting
of two hollow tubes fused side
by side.
The tubes are so arranged
that one tube measures pres
sure in the artery about two
inches below the other. The
researchers have deduced
mathematical formula for call
culating the instantaneous
blood velocity from the pres
sure difference.
1t is a complex formula
and computations are quite
involved. An electrical COM
puter is being considered
which will make the calcula-
lions instantaneouSly.
" Il y
Navy scientists will launch
10 balloon-supported rockets
into the upper reaches of the
earth's atmosphere from ship
board about 400 miles west Of
San Diego during the next IL
months.
The specific object will be
to determine the effect of
specific disturbances on the
sun, such as solar hurricanes
and tornadoeS, on the electro
magnetic radiations from the
sun which effect radio COM
munications.
The program. under the di-
rection of DR.. Herbert Fried
man, of the Naval Research
Laboratory, is preliminary to
the extensive upper air re-
search to be carried out dur
ing the International Geo.
physical Year.
Plastic balloons SO feet in
diameter. supporting 12-foot-
long rockets which carry in
struments weighing 20 pounds
will float over the ocean until
a solar flare, a great geyser Of
flame thousands of miles long
shot from the surface of the
sun, is observed. Then a radio
signal from a transmitter
aboard the ship automatically
fires the rocket.
In the next minute or two
this reaches an altitude Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08

Americans can toss away
their tranquilizing pills. Even
lifelong insomniacs will hap
PLY doze off as Adlai eloquently
crates about the shortage Of
schoolrooms and school marms
and Ike expounds the glories
Of the party Of the future"
Unfortunately. TO enjoy Ike's
future idyllic, political para
disc, we'll all have TO be
"Bridey Murphys" and reincar-
nate as progressive mode
rates" And, If Adlai is a
sample Of overproduction.
American parents will tear
down the school houses and
send the kids back to the little
red school house"
Elizabeth Lippett.
San Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08

What is the question most
often asked of the man who
feeds the pigeons every
morning at Chevy Chase bus
terminal?
The birds know his bus, and
soar of the roof of the sta
ton the moment 1t stops. -
When the man emerges,
with his sack Of mixed grains
and seeds, and some bread,
the pigeons and sparrows form
a living umbrella of welcome.
as they soar over the bus,
then wheel to come to ground.
They recognize the sack.
unquestionably, before their
friend.
1.-THE most often asked ques-
tion?" he unused.
We'll, it is interesting" the
man went on.
1T is not how much it costs,
or what is in the bag.
ut is always one question:
Do I come down on Satur-
day?
"And what do the birds do
on Sunday?
ITO this perennial question,
l have but one answer.
mo. I don't feed them on
Saturday, nor Sunday.
II have no contract with
them.
1.-THE birds are simply glad
to get what / bring them,
and accept 1t on my terms.
Il believe they recognize the
bus, not me, since they have
a pretty good time sense,
dictated by their stomachs,
just as among us.
~
People" went on our phi
losophical friend. seldom rec
ognize that their own lives
are from meal to meal.
Why, can tell when 6
o'clock comes for my supper
just as well as If I looked at my
watch.
"These pigeons, like all wild
creatures, soon come to rec
ognize their friends. but If
the friends do not show up.
they are not angry, as human
beings would be.
1.-THE birds Just wait for a
time, and II nothing appears.
then they fiy away. TO come
back another day.
"They must eat, OF course.
that is why ] bring them food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-08

try 70 take food, arms, or
aviation gasoline TO the block
AIDED nation.
q. How much steel will be
needed for the new Federal
highway proiect?-H. d. 8.
A. In 1857. the programs
first year. the United States
Bureau Of Public Roads esti-
mates about 3.3 million tons Of
steel win probably be needed.
The entire l3-year program
calls for a total Of nearly 40
million tons. About rs million
tons OF this will be structural
steel shapes for the construc-
ton OF bridges. uaducts and
overpasSes. 4
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

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