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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
Travel GIimpses

Theodore Kane is having o
solo exhibition at the Rou-
manian Inn, 815 Thirteenth
street, through February.
Twenty oils and watercolors
afford glimpses of cities she
has visited in the Eastern
United States, also in Mexico.
Haiti and Curacao. In addi-
ton, there are two particularly
good still life and flower sub
jects. and a figure in pastel.
The selection is a happy one
from the standpoint of variety.
Her philadelphia Museum" il
a good likeness of the institu-
ton on a sunny day. Her
Tavern on the Green" New
York, is gay and coiorful. wet
Night in Brooklyn" conveys the
feeling of lights reflected in
rainy streets. And a restau-
rant interior in Baltimore
turns the observers thoughts
to food in cheerful surround
inPS.
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Books
A Professor Takes
A Look at Virqinio
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

couple ago Marshall Fshwick who is associate
professor studies Washington and Lee University
brought book called american Heroes Myth and Reality
was penetrating explorations of Americana
In recent years. Mr. Fishwck with a book
THE VIRGINIA TRADITION public Affairs Press $250).
Here Mr. Fishwck his sights effectively from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
THE CASE OF THE TERRI
FLED TYPIST. BY Erie
Stanley Gardner. william
a

NE ShSE OE HE Ehnh~
FLED TYPIST. BY Erie
Stanley Gardner. william
Morrow & Co.; S2.75)
Maybe we don't know Perry
Mason as well as we thought
We die. And even with an old
acquaintance, it's impossible to
read his mind, which is what
Mr.. Gardner demands here.
The mystery is cleared up
without a suggestion of how the
astute Mr.. Mason got the key
to it. In this one. a typist is
put to work then vanisheS,
leaving some diamonds behind.
The diamonds come from the
Office of two importers, and
Mason finds himself retained
to defend one for murder.
Perry Mason on an of day.
CLOUDS OF WITNESS. BY
Dorothy l.. Savers. tHarper
g. Bros; $2.75D
This is the second Lord
Peter Wimsey story to be re-
issued by the publisher, who
plans to run through the en-
tire series, chronologically.
Clouds of Witness" is a superb
argument for the effect of a
good story teller on the creak-
lest plot imaginable. Uninhib-
tied Lord Peter sets about to
discover who murdered the
fiance of his sister. Lady Mary
"a murder of which his
brother, the Duke of Denver,
is accused. Yes. it's that trite.
But that entertaining.
&E*
POSTMARK MURDER. BY
Mignon B. Eberhart. IRAN
dom House; $685.
We've been a Mignon Eb-
erhart fan for years. Her
drawing room-rather, living
room-mysteries about murder
in the upper middle class were
essentially romantic. the sit
uations were often contrived,
but so well did she tell her
stories that we believed every
word Of them. Now she has
turned to foreign intrigue.
The father of a little girl
struggled out of Poland to be-
come the heir to a fortune is
killed. Whodunit? The Com
munists, from whom he fed.
or one of the circle who would
be that much richer If he and
his daughter were removed?
Timely and television-but not
Eberhart.
4
EXIT CHARLIE. BY Alex At
kinson. tAlfred A. Knopf,
Inc; $2.75.)
Chief Inspector Furniss Of
Scotland is a soulmate Of Sim
enon's Maigret. without dss-
counting the bizarre-to others
motives that drive some to
murder. he searches patiently
for the person whose motive is
as real to others as it Is to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
CRIME AND MYSTERY
By BETTY MILES

The victim is a matinee idol Of
a repertory theater. found poi
soned in his dressing room.
The author has acted in a rep
ertory theater himself and has
written several plays and two
novels. Aside from foresha-
downing with the subtlety of a
theater aside. he writes well. A
good mystery.
JEOPARDY. BY Manfred Con-
tie. william Sloane Asso-
ciates; $780,
Mr.. Conte's book. translated
by Cressida Ridley. is too long.
but then it is a story of a
strange, gifted mantle sus-
pense is incidental. This man
can reproduce. perfectly. a
priceless 18th century engrav-
ing. He also can reproduce a
hundred dollar bill. His real
name is not known. but a
United States Treasury agent.
who also Is a connoisseur of
arts, called to Europe to work
on the case. thinks he knows
it almost from the beginning.
Different and interesting.
JUDAS JOURNEY. BY Lee
Roberts. (Dodd, Mead &
Co.: $2.75D
A young lady Of means meets
a young man Of no means,
and love flames. The young
lady invites the young man to
share her bed and worldly
goods. Take the Packard"
she says. The young lady Of
means is murdered. The
young man is framed for the
murder. He can save himself
If he will use a pure, sweet
dancer who loves him to get
the money to pay of the
blackmailer. Still with US?
Enough said.
THE SECOND CURTAIN. BY
Roy Fuller. (The Macmillan
Co.; $2.75.)
Those who consider all egg
heads cracked will read this
book with satisfaction. Here
is the stereotype of the man
Of ideas. brought Unexpectedly
and ineffectively to face with
ruthless men of action. The
author is a poet and lawyer.
He tells well enough his story
Of George Garner. the aes-
thete. who gets into trouble
when he investigates the death
Of an old school friend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

NEW CIV TREASURE-"George Washington"
portfolio portrait by Rembrandt Peale, acquired by
George Washington University from Walter P.
Chrysler, jr. last autumn and now on view for the
first time in the universitys fifth annual February
exhibition concentrating the great American
whose name the institution bears
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
Senator Reoping Major Gains in North
And Pivotal States by New South Policy

Senator Estes Kefauver has
cast his lot with "the New
South
The TenneSSeanS challenge
to his native region to adopt
a liberal attitude toward the
antiSegregation policy of the
Supreme Court is both far
sighted and shrewd, He has
little to lose since Southern
conservatives oppose him any,
way and he has immeasur-
ably strengthened himself in
the North and among the
pivotal States.
He has taken the play away
from Adlai Stevenson, who
takes the same view Of the
courts decision but has at
tempted TO act the part Of
conciliator. Kefauver achieved
drama because he is himself a
Southerner, because he made
his New South appeal at his
take-off in the Florida primary
and because he took the often
sive in plain language.
One admirer said here: HE
has talked sense to the South"
a paraphrase of Stevensons
own talk sense to the Ameri-
can people which electrified
the 1852 Democratic conven-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

The strictly Southern angle
of the story is that Kefauver's
hopes for votes there now rest
with people favorably affected
by industrialization of the
South and the diversification
of its agriculture. with business
and labor and the increasing
number of voting Negroes in
Southern cities.
These people have been
shaken in their stability and
prospects for more abundant
life by the violence of the pro-
segregation campaign. They
have been slow to raise their
voices. and no national figure
OF stature has come along
until Kefauver-to rally them.
But what has been happen
ing TO them is no secret. BUSH
ness has tried to minimize its
troubles. but the financial
papers have told the story of
boycotts by both sides against
small firms and such large ones
as Ford. Falstaff Beer and
Philip Morris cigarettes.
1t has been reported too and
not denied that manufacturers
who had intended Southern
expansion have hesitated, lest
they be caught both North and
South in the middle of the
segregation battle. The result
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
CONSTANTINE BROWN
) Britoin's Setbocks Have Made u. S.
Guardian of West Stake in Area

Whether we like it or not.
the United States has become
the guardian of Western in
terests in the Middle East in
place of Britain, which has
abdicated some and been de-
prived of many others of her
traditional functions in that
most troubled area of the
world.
There has been disaster
after disaster to British pres
tige and century-old leader
ship there. But our State De-
partment has. for the most
part. been willing to accede
to the usual British hegemony
IN the area, and willing to
accept most of the costs and
a good part Of the blame for
everything untoward that has
occurred there since World
War II.
Britain is about to be ousted
from Cyprus; if not right now,
then surely at no distant date.
Her policy-makers waited too
long to take a firm stand there.
and when they did with
the expulsion of Archbishop
Makarios, they earned the dis
approval of the world. even
in the West. There are no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
DORIS FLEEsON
Kefouver's Gamble on Dixie

is described as a decline in tax
revenues in some Southern
States which has given even
conservative politicians pause.
1t may be that Kefauver's
Southern gamble will not pay
off. He has certainly done a
favor to business-which has
done him few favors-in plead
ing for a stable, nationally
minded South.
Kefauver'S out-spokenneSs
has narrowed the ground for
compromise within the party
with Southern conservatives.
Many Democrats were already
saying that it was time for the
party to choose. Now all candi-
dates will be forced to declare
a position making them more
or less unpalatable TO the
Southern right. mostly more.
That goes for Senator Stuart
Symlngton OF Missouri, the
currently favored dark horse
who. incidentally, has an out
standing civil rights record in
practice as a businessman and
Government official.
One thing the Senator has
not done is make himself any
more popular with his COL
leagues. But he has taken
positions which the 16 Demo-
cratic Governors outside the
South will be bound TO respect
and support for their own
Sakes.
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Area ronsit Authority
Declared Feasible Here

The problem of getting the
three Washington area jurisdic-
tons to surrender some Of their
powers so an interjuriSdictional
mass transit authority could be
established is mot insurmount-
able" the consultant now an
alyZing the situation asserted
yesterday.
Keneth Hoover. project di-
rector for the mass transporta-
ton study. made the observa-
ton in reply to a question raised
at the regular luncheon meeting
of the District Advisory Board
of the American Automobile As
ISOLATION in the Mayflower Hotel.
Seen as Feasible
Mr.. Hoover said he thinks it
is entirely feasible that the three
areas would be willing to relin-
quish some of their present in
dependent control over mass
transit.
Il simply do not conceive Of
the people in the States being
so stupid as to not want to do
the right thing" he said.
He enumerated some of the
fields that must be analysed as
part of the study. which is being
supervised by the National Cap
ital Planning Commission and
the National Regional Planning
Council.
Not only mass transit, but all
other modes of transportation
must be scrutinized. he said. Cur
rent land uSe-for work, resi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

April Is the last day for income taxes Only thing
about playing along with this Eisenhower crowd Aren't the
greens fees bit steep?
Harry Truman his future son-n-law will vote Demo-
cratic He reason but he proud of Amer
icas strengthand wants to it stand anything.
Democrats determined make health campaign
issue They will produce doctors certificate to show that
Vice President Nixon has been sick day in his life
Things slow in Washington these days that Ikes
advisers urging him to take another vacaono to
the country that he's still there.
Democrats Senator Kefauver far front
the presidency that he almost Ike's heels.
PeIciyal Brundage Budget Director.
He's the who keeps tabs prosperity telling each
year how much money the Government everybody.
Secretary Wilson clamps secrecy lid on
information. Wilson applies the need to know" All the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
$500 More NCHA
Units Advised

The Districts Urban Renewal
Council yesterday advised the
Commissioners to authorize the
National Capital Housing Au-
thority to build $500 more units
of low-cost public housing, sub
ject to detailed approval of each
project as it is proposed.
The council. however, stipu-
lated that this represented a
minimum figure necessary TO re-
house persons displaced by the
city's Stun clearance, urban re-
newal and housing code enforce
ment programs.
Council Chairman William II.
Dyer also urged that 1t be made
clear there are no regulations
10 prevent private real estate
developers from going ahead
with plans in the Foggy Bottom,
George Washington and North
west Urban Renewal areas so
long as no formal plan has been
adopted for the areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

longer British garrisons in
Suez or in the Sudan. Pales-
tine is an independent Israel
surrounded by an Arab world
seething with hatred of Israel
and diStrust of Britain. Except
for Gibraltar and Malta, there
is no British power in the en-
tire Mediterranean, once a
British lake. Most of the naval
forces Of the Western powers
presently stationed in the
Mediterranean are American.
The assumption by the
United States Of the dominant
role of Western power in the
Middle East may we'll turn out
to be a good thing, if our
leaders can work out a reliable
policy and keep to it with firm
ness and wisdom. The oppor-
tunity certainly exists for great
advantage to the free world
if we are both sagacious and
lucky.
But with all the obligations
we seem to have inherited,
there 60 also all the head
aches. all the enmity, all the
resentment that the peoples
of the Middle East have built
up over centuries against Great
Britain. The United States, of
course. has not of itself the
long and bitter heritage of
the British in that area of
the world; America has never
been known as the colonial"
power SO much feared and de-
Spised throughout the colo
nized areas of the world. But
we must make the most of
our past reputation, for as
surely as the sun will rise to-
morrow we shall inevitably
take over the role Of target
along with the role of Western
leader.
American dollars, sin C e
World War II particularly,
have kept the feeble economies
of the Middle East from a
collapse into anarchy. More
than that. the rapid develop
ment of the immense oil re-
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Americas New Role in Mid-Eost

sources of the region has cast
us again into a principal role
in economic matters. The
johnson plan for the joint
Arab-Israeli development of
the Jordan River valley in a
sort of giant iva is an Ameri-
can idea and is still being
pressed as a means of ending
the bitter hostility between
Jew and Arab.
Yet while all this money and
effort were being expended,
our. diplomatic and military
leaders still found themselves
awaiting the British lead in
matters of policy. The situation
was ridiculous to begin with,
but today it is more than that.
it is dangerous and nearly
fatal. To permit inertia to die
tate a reluctant following OF
British leadership" in the
tangled affairs of the Middle
East would be the worst stu
pidity, with the punishment
certain and drastic. However
belatedly. we seem to have &C
copied maturity and the facts
at last and have begun to act
like the boss as well as meet
ing the payroll.
With the Kremlin busying
itself more and more with the
promotion of discord and strife
in the Middle East, and with
Red arms bolstering the large
ambitions Of the Egyptians to
dominate the Arab world, the
United States can have no
choice on her involvement
there. Abandonment is i'm
possible, however reluctant we
are to extend our already
heavy involvement in the
world. Events that have gone
before are now demanding full
payment from us, and nothing
less than a complete reversal
of American policy in the
struggle against world commu-
niSm can get us out of our
unhappy corner.
We are we'll into the spiders
web, and there is nothing left
to do but fight the spider. The
web holds us too fast for es-
cape.
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JungschIoger Case Points Up Struggle
In Adjusting to Western STANDARD of Law

ing there is still hope for
break in this trial, which will
make the verdict-whatever it
may Unacceptable in the eyes
Of the West.
Jungschlager was, for some
time, during Dutch admins
tration of the islands, chief
Of the Dutch Intelligence Serv-
ice. He remained in the Jaw
anese republic. Obviously he
must have had numerous Sc
cret connections throughout
the islands. To many Java
nese, and to the judge himself,
this appears prima facie EVIL
dence that he continued to use
them. to the damage Of the re-
public. There seems to have
been no pertinent. reliable ev-
idence that he did so. But the
Javanese mind will doubtless
argue that lack of evidence
only shows the mans clever
ness Of which they deem them
selves TO have been past and
probably continuing victims.
But judgment by such argu-
ment is not justice.
The sudden cessation Of
long-established foreign rule
is very likely to lead to COM
plete anarchy. and the an
archy to produce conditions
favorable TO another foreign
rule. For a time 1t looked as
though this might happen in
Indonesia.
But it has not. and the
mere fact that the trial Of a
Dutch national there should
not end promptly with a fat
declaration Of guilty" is en-
couraging to all Of us who
pray for a really free 1ndonesia,
which means. OF course. one in
which even a Dutchman can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
Measuring the Work of Congress

But merely to mention con-
servation Of the citizens finan-
cial resources is to arouse
cries Of conservatism" or lack
Of "progressivism." The mod
ern concept of progressivism
can lead to financial deteriora-
ton by increased spending, but
it is today applauded as pop
ular" and a good way for
ambitious individuals to get
elected to public Office.
1t was Thomas Jefferson
who first declared the doctrine
of equal rights for all. special
privilege for none" but today
he would be called a man with
out a heart and a reactionary
who wants ito turn the clock
back" Insolvency, however. is
threatened when legislators in
a democracy can spend tax
payers money without re-
straint. There is today no sign
of permanent halt to the
steadily diminishing value of
the dollar in America in terms
of purchasing power. Solvency
cannot be assured without
sound fiscal methods. The
pages of history are strewn
with the wreckage caused by
those in government who tried
to spend more money than the
taxpayers could pay.
Congress has earned the
characterization of do moth
ing" if by the opposite of that
term is meant doing some
thing" for people. For Congress
has spent more of the tax.
payers money than it should
and has done nothing" to
relieve the taxpayer of the
burden of high tax rates. Con-
gresS has done nothing"
moreover, to reduce the ma
tional debt. So, by the yard
stick of fiscal Soundness,
maybe it has been a do Moth
ing Congress. But by the
yardstick of bills that have
been kept from passage maybe
Congress deserves a good deal
of credit.
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Rapid Transit
In Center Strip
is Discussed

The possibility of using the
center strips of interstate high
ways for mass rapid transit facil-
titles was discussed yesterday in
connection with the Washington
Area Mass Transit Survey.
! Members of the surveys Steer
ing Committee met with the four
experts retained as consultants
and with survey director Kenneth
M. Hoover.
District Commissioner Robert
E. Mclaughlin. member of the
Steering Committee, said the dis
cussion of the use Of highway
median strips was tentative. He
said the Chicago experience was
cited.
In Chicago, the center strip
of the Congress street express
way is used for rapid transit.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said the addi-
tional cost for the right-of way
less than 5 per cent-was de-
frayed by State and Federal
funds.
1t was reported at the meet
ing that there was nothing in
pending highway legislation to
prevent similar projects here.
The proposed interstate high
ways here have not yet been
located. however, so such use
for center strip use is not now
in the planning state.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said plans
were made for the use of a
Univac computer in the travel
origin and destination study.
This study is being carried on
by the District Highway Depart
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Quest for Justice in Indonesiu

expect that measure of justice
that would be meted to an
Indonesian in a Netherlands
court.
The Communists have con-
demned Jungschlager out Of
hand. But they do not wish
the Indonesian republic TO
demonstrate its capacity to
govern with justice. They wish
the exact opposite. The con-
Germ of Indonesia's real friends
is to see her independence
prosper. and to be able to say,
you see. after all, justice was
done, and our faith justified"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

Someday therell really be
q do nothing Congress" that
everybody can cheer. Just now
the Republicans are accusing
the Democrats. who control
both houses, Of having con-
Quoted a do nothing Con-
gress," but the criticism seems
to be that the Democrats
haven't allowed enough legis-
lation to pass.
The Democrats. on the
other hand, reply with a box
score giving the number of
bills passed and comparing 1t
with the record of other
Congresses.
Spokesman Of both political
parties, however, miss the
point. The country isn't in
terested in what the quantity
of laws passed happens to be.
but in the quality-the i'm
pact of the legislation on the
people.
There are at each session
of Congress Just as many
worthy bills that fail to be
enacted as there are bills
passed that never ought to be.
The fundamental flaw to-
day is that party responsible
ity has vanished from the
scene and every individual can
play his own game in Con-
gress as he pleaseS--introduc-
ing bills that embarraSs his
colleages. if they are forced to
vote on them. or bills that
cost the taxpayer more and
more money but nevertheless
get votes for the Congressman
or Senator affected.
The work of the present
Congress can be measured by
many different kinds of yard
sticks. The businessman will
measure it on what damage
has been done or is threatened
to the economic system as a
whole. 1t is. for example. good
politics, certain Senators and