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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Inside Soviet Union

According TO The Star Of
November IA. Allen w. Dulles,
director Of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. said at a recent
meeting Of American edu-
Gators: "A little relaxation Of
freedom in the Soviet Union
where, after all. Russians we're
ruling Russians. was a very
different thing from using the
same tactics in Eastern Eu-
rope. On the latter case the
Russians we're ruling peoples
who were once free and came
to be dominated and con-
trolled BY a hated foreign
power.)"
In the same news item. The
Star quotes Air Secretary
Quarles as having said:
the Soviet dictators de-
prive the Russian people Of
more than half Of the fruits Of
their labors."
II seems incredible that
these two high American Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
Santa Arrives Early

I am writing about some-
thing ! am sure is dear to every
mothers heart. l was quite
disturbed to find, when / went
shopping in one of Virginia's
suburban shopping centers last
week, that Santa Claus has al
ready arrived in this area. If
I recall correctly in days gone
by his arrival was quite an
occasion and took place some
time after Thanksgiving which,
in my opinion. was in plenty
Of time for all the youngsters
to see Santa and still not get
worked up into q state Of high
excitement too soon.
I must admit 1 find it hard
to understand why Christmas
must be commercialized to the
extent that Santa comes so far
ahead Of time that his signifl-
canoe is almost lost. / have
two small children who believe
very strongly in the jolly old
gent and / hate to have him
showed down their Threats
every time they turn around
just to satisfy some merchants
greed. They are already ex-
pecting Christmas to be any
day now because of the extent
to which the stores have gone
in their Christmas prepara-
ton so much too soon. I am
sure many other families are
having the same problem.
What can we do to make
Christmas again the holy holi-
day 1t once was instead Of an
over-commercialized free-for-
all?
Carroll g. Good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
The Stoyed-for Guest

The portrait mobiles
AZ one atDdits the unheard
football.
The hours are long In their
passing:
DeristUe Is their measured call
While an image steps from its
pedestal.
Ones mouth holds tioht TO
smiling
But the heart finds no
bepuilfn1.
The dnory mind plans
terminal
For this prince OF beldted
ldoodrds,
This lord Of pledges temporal
N ones world Of kept
commitments
HIS place shall be peripheral.
Frances Hell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-19
The Words and the Deeds

If it could just be taken by Itself
as forwarded by Premier Bulganin to
President Eisenhower and his counter
parts in Britain and France-the Krem-
Inns proposal for a new summit" meet
ing on disarmament might be viewed as a
genuinely encouraging development. For
it depicts Russia'S collective leaders" as
Splendidly high-principled men in
tensely eager to eliminate the threat of
war by cooperating in the establishment
OF decent and lasting peace. And it
even suggests that they are not nearly so
opposed as they used to be to the Presi-
dents idea for an "open-SkieS" system Of
reciprocal aerial inspection to guard
against the danger of sudden, surprise
attack
Unhappily, however, this is some
thing that cannot just be taken by ITSELF
Instead, it must be evaluated against the
background Of current Soviet conduct.
Wholly apart from Nikita Khrushchev's
queer anti-WeStern diatribes at two
weekend receptions in Moscow, that con-
duct has been and still is ugly in the
extreme. Events in Hungary, of course,
constitute the most shocking case in
point. For the Kremlin's pitiless action
there, including apparently mass depor-
tation of suspected rebels, adds up to one
OF the blacklist crimes against humanity
in modern times, too shocking to be any,
thing but a supremely bitter mockery
OF Premier Bulganin's peace loving,
democracy-indorSing freedom eSpouSing
words. What hollow words! And how dark
the deeds that contradict them!
Similarly, Soviet behavior in the
Middle East continues, quite obviously,
to be aimed not at abating the crisis but
at intenSifying it. This reflects centuries
old Russian ambition to dominate and
possess that strategically crucial part of
the globe. More specifically, it reflects
the present Kremlin'S burning desire to
win a position there that would give it
the power to impose an oil CUTOFF that
could literally strange the economy of
free Europe as whole. Hence, as should
be clear to every knowledgeable adult
everywhere excepting possibly those
Indian and Arab leaders who seem to
suffer from a strange and exceedingly
perilouS kind of blindneSs), Mr.. Krushchev
and company are sparing no effort to
sabotage what the United Nations is
trying to do to pacify the situation.
1t is against this dark background
that Secretary of State Dulles, now in
Florida for recuperative period, has
seen fit to caStigate the men of the Krem-
lin for their inhumanity in Hungary and
for preSuming to substitute themselves
for the U. N. in the Middle East. Clearly,
unless and until they shift to new and
better line, the free world will have every
reaSon-urgently SOTO keep its guard
up and look with great skepticism on
their proposal for summit" meeting to
promote disarmament and peace. And
this seems the more true because they
have coupled with that proposal some
rather threatful claims about their abil-
ity to overrun all of Western Europe.
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MOST people have too many
ants. both in the house and
In the lawn. but here is a
lady who is going out looking
for them.
Mrs. M. @. Of Arlington
writes:
Il am a teacher and have
been loaned a glass ant house
to use in my classroom for
teaching my 4th graders about
insects.
II am told that local ants,
the red and the black ones,
are carnivorous and will eat
each other up if put between
two panes of glass, as in this
ant house.
II have written to the
maker Of this house, in Cali
fornia, where ants which are
not cannibalistic can be OBJ
tanned, but my letter was
returned unanswered.
do you know Of any place
I can write to secure live
ants to put in this ant house?
II am told that this is a
hobby now, and that a colony
will perform for about a year
with care. such as proper food.
etc. Thank you for your help"
The American Nature Asso
citation suggests the address 0.
a scientific company in Chi
cago. where colonies might b
had.
A pleasant gentleman at
local pet store says it is pretty
difficult business, but he be-
lieves any ants would do, so
long as they were all the same
sort. and the queen ant was
secured with them.
There are, in the main.
sweet-eating and fat-eating
ants. but how TO tell them
apart--except in the kitchen
is another matter.
Ants in the lawn, and in the
Kitchen
How pestiferous they are,
and how much energy is de-
voted to their eradication.
49,
On our desk recently a few
very small ants scurried about.
A small piece Of chocolate
candy definitely put them in
the class Of sweet-eaters. a
classification they share with
the rest Of America.
The growth in sugar con-
sumption has been tremendous
since George Washington's
day. Something like 100
pounds or 80. today. per per-
son, as compared with about
10 pounds a year then.
One has but to think Of the
ubiquitous candy bar. 10 UNI
derstand.
Ants lead communistic lives.
and do II In such a logged
fashion they are a perpetual
wonder to most humans. di-
vided as people are In govern
ments between dem0cracies.
kingships. dictatorships and
communism. 70 name but four
ways Of life.
An amazing thought to many
Is that in the last 50 years
both relationships and COM
munism have had great
growth.
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Senate Majority Whip

The Democratic majority in the Sem
ate would make sound choice if it were
to select Senator Mansfield of Montana
as party whip in the 85th Congress. Al
though serving only his first term in the
Senate, Mr. Mansfield had 10 years of
Capitol Hill experience in the House. AS
a member of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee in the Senate. he has travelled
extensively in the past two years and has
become an eloquent spokesman in foreign
policy debate. His suggested election to
the post of assistant to Majority Leader
Johnson of Texas has been greeted fa-
vorably by his colleagues. One conSid-
Grafton, aside from his personal qualiflca-
tons, is that it would give the party
leadership broader geographic base
the South being represented by Senator
Johnson, the West by Senator Mansfield
and the Southwest by Senator Hayden of
Arizona, who is scheduled to be named
president pro tempore in place of retiring
Senator George. An fastener, Senator
Green of Rhode Island, who is due to
become chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee, has Endorsed the Mans
field selection.
In political practice, Mr.. Mansfield
inclineS toward the moderate partisan
attitude which Senator johnson has
adopted in the majority leadership. They
served together in the House, as we'll as
in the Senate. From the standpoint Of
both partisan effectiveness and national
welfare in legislative matters, the Mans
field choice appears sure to be good one.
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Sorry State of Affairs

Like Hamlet with "a counte-
nance more in sorrow than in
anger" I quote from an As
ISOLATED Press report in your
paper Of November Is:
'The Eisenhower adminis-
tration is reported planning a
major shakeup of ambassa-
doris in at least eight countries
during the next few months.
1.-THE reshuffle will send a
new lineup Of American ENJOYS
to the four most important
Western European countries
Britain. France, Italy and
West Germany.
Career diplomats will not
be appointed. regardless of
their Importance, officials said,
because salaries and allow
anceS do not cover the expense
Of running the embassies in
the four capitals. The posts
will continue to be regarded
mainly as political plums to be
awarded deserving party men,
berS and will go to those
wealthy enough to stand the
expense"
If we in the United States
have learned anything from
the foreign crisis in which we
now find ourselves, I should
think it might be that we need
professional Foreign Service
Officers in key positions
abroad today.
AS an eX-ambaSsador (this
time more in anger than in
sorrow I do not see why we
do not make more of an effort
to get and keep good career
men in these important posi-
tions. To do so we must pay
their expenses.
Let US trust that the adj
ministration will consider these
exigencies and request ade-
uuate appropriations for our
Foreign Service from the new
Congress.
Stanley Woodward.
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ficials should overlook a very
important (for the free world
fact that the USSR is not
identical with Russia, that
more than SO per cent of the
population of the USSR are
not Russians, but various ma
tionalities conquered by Mos
cows military force and OPP
posing the Russian rule ever
since. Every unbiased student
of history knows that 38 years
ago, after the revolution in
Russia, such nationalities as
Armenians. Bats, Byelorus-
slams, Georgians, Ukrainians
and others proclaimed their
independence from Moscow
and established their demo-
cratic governments. The rea-
son these nations did not last
long was not lack of determi-
nation to be free. but violation
by the Russian Bolsheviks Of
their right of SELF determine
ton. 1t is worthwhile to re-
call to those who have forgot
ten this that these rationale
ties did not join the Soviet
Union voluntarily but were
annexed by force after a long
and heroic struggle. In the fol-
lowing years, Moscow tried to
break their spirit of freedom
by massacres, mass deporta-
ton and political famine
which even surpassed Moscow's
recent brutalities in Hungary.
But it has never been fully
successful in this aim.
In view of this, the state
ment that elm the Soviet I'm
ion. after all. Russians are rul-
ing Russians" is incorrect. To
identify such peoples as Ar
menians, Balts, Byelorussians,
Georgians, Ukrainians, Aver
beidjanis and others with Rus
slams is to do them injustice,
because at every opportune
moment they have voiced their
desire to get rid Of MoScow's
bondage. Nor does it help the
free world and its cause to ig-
more these articulate nation
alities with their traditions.
cultures and languages, and
some of whom differ from Rus
slams racially and religiously.
These reliable friends of the
free world must not be ig-
nored or sighted.
effectively.
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Some years ago there was q
half-witted boy looking down
at a group Of ants milling
around on the sidewalk.
He looked up in amazement.
There are a lot Of them
things in the world, amt they,
mister?"
Perhaps this is the usual
thought upon beholding ants
at work and play.
Ruthless they are, guided
automatically, it seems, along
their lives, and yet who can
say that from an ants view
point 1t is not a good life?
The busy scuttIing here and
there, in the ant world. seems
to the watching human per-
fectly aimless. yet there must
be a good idea behind most
of it.
The cratic flight Of bats at
dusk is equally cratic, but
these creatures are after n.y.
ing insects. and their swooping
flights are in no sense aimless.
They know what they are
after. and get it, and are pro-
tected in their weaving by the
use Of radar Of a sort, which
notifies them perfectly and
endlessly Of an obstruction in
sheir way.
Wasps. ants and bees are the
9reat natural communists,
which place the welfare Of the
hive above that Of the indi-
yidual.
1t would seem strange 10
some Of US that any human
being would wish to emulate
them in this matter. but the
idea, evidently. is as old as life,
and as tenacious.
The world had to wait until
1917 TO see 1t come TO full
flower among men. II seems
to many Of us that it is against
mans best hopes and wishes,
but evidently millions Of hui
man beings do not think so.
Perhaps we Americans would
do well to study bees, wasps
and ants more than we do, TO
try to see what makes them
tick, and so TO understand bet
ter just why we are the way
we are.
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M. VoIeur's Address
(See editorial: "ForgiUe 1t
and FORGET mr.

(See editorial: Forgive 1t
and Forget It."D
On November IA. you re-
ported the District of Column
bia Bar Associations meeting
of November Is, 1856. Your
version of the address given
by Mr.. Valeur of the French
Embassy was inaccurate and
misleading.
The meeting described in
your article was hardly recog-
nizable as the meeting at
which Mr.. Valeur spoke. There
was certainly no general ex-
odus of attorneys from the
meeting. The group sat in
rapt silence listening to Mr..
Valeur. At the conclusion Of
his address, the entire audi
ence arose as one to give him
a thunderous, spontaneous
ovation. Then, after the pres
ident of the Bar Association
had thanked Mr.. Valeur for
his splendid address, a motion
was made from the floor by a
former president of the Dis
trict of Columbia Bar ASSo-
citation that I'VE rise and pay
tribute to a gallant gentle
man, Mr.. Valeur". There then
followed a second standing
ovation = an event almost
without precedent at a D. c.
Bar Association meeting.
Lawyers are not readily
moved by speakers. Elocution
is their stock in trade. Law
yers are trained to analyze
facts in a logical way, to dis
tinguish between what is said
and how it is stated. Thus.
when a group of lawyers
soundly acclaims a speaker it
is certain that they have been
moved by his delivery, i'm
pressed by his logic.
While many of us may not
believe France was justified in
her armed Intervention in
Egypt, nevertheless we are
not so provincial as not to be
interested in hearing her rea-
sons for her actions. There
are two sides to every case,
as every lawyer knows. You
have done us a great dis
credit by the implication that
we were so rude as to walk
out on our invited guest, so
narrow minded as to be I'M
willing to hear "the other side
of the case.
Arthur A. Birney.
I happened to have had the
pleasure of sitting next to Rob-
ert Valeur, counselor of the
French Embassy, when he adj
dressed the District Bar AS
ISOLATION, and witnessed the
tremendous standing ovation
which he received at the con-
clusion of his remarks con-
corning the Suez situation. I
concurred in what was OBJ
viously an overwhelmingly
friendly response to remarks
which, while critical Of United
States policy, should not have
been in any way Objectionable
to adults capable of accepting
friendly disagreement. In gen.
eral. Mr.. Valeur repeated with
Gallo infections what our
American columnists have been
telling us for days. True, Mr..
Valeur is a Frenchman in a
foreign country, but it seems
to me that If our Atlantic al
lance is so flimsy that we can
not have open discussion Of our
common problems without vi
olent objection based upon
diplomatic niceties. then we
had better have no alliance
at all.
I. for one, vastly prefer Mr..
Valeur's brand Of frankness
to several carloads Of diplo-
matte soothing sirup and
hypocrisy.
r. aa.,--,, uo.,,,..,lt
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VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Metropolis Of New World IsExpIored
By THOMAS r. HENRI

trails have been cut through
the jungle. DR.. Shocks asso-
ciates report. A major DIM
Guilty still to be met is the
scarcity of drinking water for
the labor forces necessary for
the excavations.
Although known for three
centuries and visited by sew
eral Psychologists, the great
Maya city has been yet in its
jungle grave up to now be-
cause Of the extreme difficulty
of getting there through q
roadless jungle. This has been
remedied with construction Of
a landing field by the Qua
temalan Air Force, so that the
place now is in easy distance
from Guatemala City.
Existence Of Tikal has been
known since 1896 when 1t APP
parently was visited by q party
of Franciscan priests and lay
brothers led by FIR. Andres de
Avenado who. bearing a mes
sage to the then high priest
of the Mayas. came upon a
place Of lofty pyramids so
high that the sun Shone upon
them as they protruded
through the forest" Already
the jungle had gone far, but
the drowning Of Tikal in the
green sea was not quite COM
plete. The Franciscans, in q
zeal to break the idols on the
SUBMITS Of the pyramids tried
to climb them but failed be.
cause of their steepness.
Official "DiscOvery"
Almost 200 years later the
ruins were visited again, and
officially discovered, by Col.
Modesto Mendez, governor Of
the general area, and Ambrosia
Tut, a Guatemalan official.
Accompanied by seven assist
ants and fourteen servants.
they remained for six days
among the ruins. They dis
covered several affairs and
eleven sculptured stelae, the
stone columns upon which
the Magyar priests inscribed
their amazingly accurate
astronomical predictions.
Since then the ruins have
been visited by three or four
British and American arche-
ologists but none have re-
NAMED more than a few days
among the ruins. They have
come away with a picture Of
the general layout Of the
ancient city and have copied
various inscriptions from the
stone columns. But up to
now the difficulties Of any
considerable excavation have
seemed insurmountable.
The inscriptions have in
Dictated that Tikal was the
fourth. and by far the great
est, Of the religious cities Of
the Old Empire, which had
disappeared long before the
arrival Of the first white men.
Its only rival for size, and
perhaps Importance, among
New World antiquities is the
well-known Teotihuacan near
Mexico City with its massive
pyramid Of the sun. But this
was the work of a far diff
ferent people.
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The largest city in the New
World-before Columbus-cov-

The largest city in the New
World-before Columbus-cov-
cred almost 80 square miles.
This is the revised estimate
of the area of the Guate-
malan religious metropolis of
Tikal by DR.. Edwin M. Shook
and his associates of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania. who
have spent six months "bush-
ing" the area preparatory to
extensive excavations of the
ruins next spring.
AS more of the dense north
ern Guatemalan rain forest,
full Of yellow-mouthed vipers
and deadly red coral snakes,
is cleared away, the more ex-
,tensive seems the tempted
town, presumably in its heyday
about the time of Christ, when
1t was the center Of the weird
planet-and-serpent cult Of the
Maya Old Empire.
The "skyscraper" stone build
ings with concrete floors made
Of the local white earth mixed
with burned lime have been
drowned for centuries in the
overwhelming green sea of
jungle-so much so that a
low flight over the area would
reveal nothing. Nobody knows
what the University of Penn
Sylvania excavators may find
as they uncover one after an
other the terraced temples
surmounted by gigantic stone
masks" Of the grotesque jun
gle gods.
Distinctive Features
The best idea of what is
hidden in the dense foliage,
say associates Of DR.. Shook,
can be had from the extensive
excavations already carried out
on the site of Caracol in Brit
ish Honduras, a much smaller
ceremonial center of roughly
the same period and the same
people. Present evidence indi-
Gates that Tikal was a much
bigger Caracol, but probably
with distinctive features.
There were two types of
buildings still standing in both
places-the massive, ornately
constructed, lofty houses of
the gods and the less elabo-
rate houses of the priests.
Some Of these buildings were
connected by stone causeways.
A major effort will be made to
determine what was between
the great structures. Rela-
lively little is known of the
ways of life of the people of
the Old Empire. Tikal may
have had a very large popula-
ton.
If this were the case, how
ever, the inhabitants lived in
rather fragile wooden struc-
lures long since devoured by
wet jungle. 1t was the
custom, however, to build con-
crete floors for these houses
and many Of these still should
be in place. If they are found
they will give some indication
of the numbers-and possibly
Of the ways of life-of the lay
population of the ancient
metropolis where the culture
of the American Indian
achieved its greatest heights.
About six miles of passable
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troubled world today is the result Of so
many errors of judgment that we hope
the State Department will forgive and
forget those of speaker whose emotions,
under the stress of informal discourse on
a subject close to his heart, may have led
him temporarily into fields customarily
avoided in the practice of diplomacy.
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Q. VINO played opposite John
Barrymore in the Warner Bros.
productions Of Moby Dick7--
L. L.
A. In the 1925 silent version.
The Sea Beast. which was
chosen az one Of the 10 best
pictures Of that year, Dolores
Costello had the feminine lead.
Joan Bennett played opposite
Barrymore In the 1890 picture.
Moby Dick.
O What Is the source Of the
words. The glass Of fashion
and the mould Of form"7
"A. q.
A. This line Is spoken By
ophelia in Act ., Scene 1, Of
Bhakespears's "Hamiet."
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