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Evening star., 1956-08-23
Dubious at Best

Although 1t has won the Presidents
"full concurrence" the State Department
still stands on highly dubious ground in
refusing to validate passports to permit
American correspondents to visit Commu-
mist China and report on what is hap
pening there. In view of the fact that
Mr.. Eisenhower has Endorsed this policy,
our press agencies, radio organizations
and individual newspapers have agreed
to comply with it, but they have done so
reluctantly-and with good reason.
The reason is simple enough. A few
weeks ago, when Peiping extended invi-
tationS for the visit, our news media were
accorded their first opportunity in about
eight years to get behind the Bamboo
Curtain, move through the vast territory
of Red China and send back to the
American people objective accounts Of
their findings. But the State Department,
without making good case for its de-
cision, promptly turned thumbs down on
the idea. And now-after having had its
Judgment and common sense sharply
criticized-it has sought to bolster its
stand with the Presidents Endorsement.
But the Endorsement, even though it
has persuaded the news media to yield to
the State Departments position, does not
alter the fact that the position itself
seems altogether shortsighted and mis-
taken. Nor is there much sense in the
official comment that our press and radio
should support this kind of policy toward
Red China "at least as long as ten
American citizens are still imprisoned
there" The ban on the correspondents
visit is certainly not going to help those
prisoners; about all it is going to do is
give the impression that our country
despite everything it has said in favor of
removing barriers to free interflow of
lnformation--has in this instance erected
a Bamboo Curtain of its own.
Such a policy seems self-contradic-
tory and self-defeating on it's face. Per-
hapS officials at the State Department
may yet come forward with an argument
persuasive enough to justify it. But up to
now-despite the Presidents "full con-
surrence"-they have failed to do so. In
The circumstances, they ought not to be
surprised If the American people, and not
iust our news media, strongly doubt the
wisdom of their action.
Evening star., 1956-08-23
Soma for Republicans

1 see that Irving Berlin was
selected to regale the Repub-
lican convention with his
New Ike Song" most Of which
consists of three words: -Four
more years." They would go
well with the old tune, .Three
Blind Mice" POLITICALLY and
politically speaking I have a
better song for the Republi-
cans:
"Now comes the time to vote
Republican,
And keep prosperity booming
over the land,
With peace, good will to ev-
eryone,
And no more mess in WASH
ington,
And everything is booming but
the guns"
Howard B. Smith.
Evening star., 1956-08-23

There are Islands Of the
north" vestiges Of a world Of
several thousand years ago, on
Maryland and West Virginia
hilltops.
They are anachronistic frag-
ments of q vast evergreen
forest which covered most of
the Eastern United States, at
least as far south as Virginia,
when vegetation came back
after the last ice age and the
climate was somewhat colder
than today.
Now they are mountaintop
swamps with trees and plants
hardly distinguishable from
those of Eastern Canada. In
some way they have resisted
successfully the encroachments
of southern woodlands. Tama-
rack and yew, or ground hem
lock, gradually forced north
still grow in these swamps. The
characteristic black spruce Of
Canada still survives although
it is getting scarce. There
cranberries still grow in the
bogs. But this is probably the
last generation of these fugi-
tivessfrom time.
Like Canadian Plants
Existence Of the islands of
the north" is described in a
publication of the Maryland
Department of Research and
Education. They are found in
the northwestern corner of
Maryland. more than 1000 feet
high, and in the nearby Alle-
ghanies of West Virginia.
Biologists refer to these
areas as belonging to the Ca
madam biotic province. They
contain some species of noun
tain swamp plants which have
become almost extinct even in
Canada. The swamp forests
are distinctly coniferous and
at one time black spruce pre-
dominated while white pine,
Canadian hemlock and tama-
rack were secondary species.
Where streams traverse the
swamps or where the stand of
trees is more open there are
dense thickets Of rhododen-
drons. The saturated ground
of bogs is covered with beds Of
sphagnum moss.
While existence of these
islands" has been recognized
for years. Maryland and West
Virginia botanists and ecol-
ogists now are especially ac-
tive in making short-term bio
logical surveys Of the areas.
1t is noteworthy that the
surrounding countryside is one
Of the southernmost stands of
the characteristically northern
sugar maple. and production of
maple sirup and sugar is a
major agricultural industry.
The altitude, which results in
a climate not greatly different
from that much further north,
is not the only answer to these
survivals, the Maryland biolo-
gists say, and they probably
depend on q complex Of cli-
mate, soil chemistry and vari-
Gus other factors.
~ \ \
There is an animal which
Evening star., 1956-08-23
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TRACEWELL

how he erred. He always errs.
the sap.
This shows your own superb
ority, since you presumably
never forget ESPECIALLY If q
writer pin-points it for you).
S. Give him an idea.
He needs one. heaven knows!
Ideas, of one kind or another,
are his stock in trade. his life
and death, his heaven and
hell.
He needs ideas as the baby
does food, the dog a cat to
chase, the cat a mouse to
play with.
He will positively drool at
the mouth over a good idea
he can make his own.
The point is give him your
idea, not his.
Forget all about him and
his needs.
If he writes seriously, give
him a gag" indicating that
you think he ought to use it.
If he really specializes in
gags" and good stories. tell
him something deadly serious,
then look poker-face when he
blanches.
6. The coup de grace:
Speaking brightly, with
smiles in between. say:
II loved your piece about"
Then tell him. the story
from another column.
Before he can get in a word
edgewise. or sidewise. or other
wise, present the confounded
article in full, with every cliche
and poor pun as If they were
all the words Of the people and
wisdom will die with them.
BY this time the columnist
can only murmur, "But that
wasn't mine: that was by So
and-So. in Thus-and- Thus"
But you go away laughing.
with one parting shot!
Sometime. give US an article
on the sagacity Of politicians"
Since he has never written
anything closer TO politicians
than bears, or maybe puppy
dogs, this Is guaranteed TO
floor him completely.
He comes to his typewriter.
after a ferocious effort to
think what to write about,
with just one clear idea in his
brain.
How to annoy a columnist."
mot q bad idea," he CRATES.
Let's goI"
Evening star., 1956-08-23
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Nearby Vestiges Of Ancient World
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

spends its entire life in q silk
bag-its cradle and its shroud.
This is the bagworm-a cat
erpillar Of the moth family.
The female Of the species is
the bag dweller. She always re-
mains a worm" enclosed in q
silken cocoon into whose tex
ture she interweaves bits Of
leaf from the host plant. The
bag grows as the worm grows
and, in most American species,
in late summer it becomes as
much as two inches long. The
bags Of some tropical species
are as much as seven inches
long.
The female remains wing
less. At the end of the sum-
mer she lays within the silken
sack a mass Of eggs which
hatch in late spring. The
males metamorphose into
winged insects. The females
weave new bags for them
selves.
DR.. Frank Morton Jones Of
Wilmington, DEL, has just
presented to the Smithsonian
Institution one of the worlds
outstanding collections of
these insects. Sixty years were
spent in assembling this col
lection, which consists Of
4.400 specimens. OF these
LIZA are adult, winged males,
2,133 are bags showing the
many forms resulting from
differences in food plants,
and $50 are immature forms.
Bagworms, say Smithsonian
ento m ologists, are nearly
worldwide in distribution. In
this country they are chiefly
pests of ornamental trees and
shrubs, and are especially de-
structive to arborbital. They
are preyed upon by many
other insects.
In the eerie hours before
the jungle's dawn the ghost
lady walls.
"The Lost SOUP
Natives call her "alma per-
dida." the lost soul. The in
describably sorrowful call
heard by visitors to Barro
Colorado Island. the Smith
sonian Institutions tropical
preserve in the Canal Zone, is
a close relative of the North
American whippoorwill.
Il have never heard such a
human sound from a brute
before" wrote the late DR..
Frank M. Chapman, noted or
nithologist. 1T made the
gooseflesh rise all over me.
1t was a soft, but low. sad
flute-like note"
The sound also has been
likened to "a woman's voice,
a deep, mellow contralto call
ing in hopeless grief"
Local Indians sometimes
have attributed the mourning
to the voiceless sloth.
The bird itself seldom is
observed. 1t is almost en-
tirely a creature of the jungle
darkness.
Evening star., 1956-08-23
Democratic Circus

The Democratic convention
had some of the aspects of q
three-ring circus to this OBJ
server. The serious misstate-
ments Of fact in which some
OF the speakers INDUCED were
to say the least, amusing. To
the uniformed, apparently
the Republicans have done
nothing right. and the Demo-
Gratis can do no wrong.
The speech of Gov. Frank
Clement, the key-noter, was
very much Indictment" /
have never before listened to
a speech which contained so
many departures from the
truth. His attempt to initiate
the silver-tongued William
Jennings Bryan in his refer
ence to Bryan's Gross of Gold"
speech reached a new high in
the ridiculous. He referred
to a crown Of thornS," but
he didn't elaborate on that.
Specifically, to what was he
alluding? I listened in amaze
ment to the grandiloquent
ending to his speech and his
closing words. Precious Lord,
lead us on!"
How anyone can call on the
Lord for leading, after such a
brazen collection of untruths
and invective. is more than I
can fathom. It offends the
senses of any intelligent person
as to the fitness Of things.
A person had better be sure
he is in the will of the Lord
before asking Him for leading.
1t is my belief that a shoe
maker should stick to his last;
in other words, Gov. Frank
Clement shouldn't try to be-
come evangeliStic or do gospel
preaching in political atmos-
phere. Leave that kind of
preaching for the proper place,
for 1t is out of place at a
political convention. And
leave that kind of talk to those
better qualified, the evangelist
or minister Of the gospel who
is called Of God to so speak.
I also noted that practically
all of the speakers in making
reference to Truman and
Eisenhower, called them pres
dent Truman" and General
Eisenhower" or just "Eisen-
hover" Whether this was de-
liberate and the person was
trying to be cute. or just plain
ignorant. no one will ever
know. However, President Ell
senhower is entitled to the
use Of his proper title and ex-
President Truman the use Of
his.
The professional Democrats
sidestepped the issue of civil
rights neatly, to preserve
party unity" Anyone can see
this as an attempt to get the
votes of the Southern States.
OF course. the Supreme Court
decision is "the law Of the
land" That is stating the OBJ
vious.
Evening star., 1956-08-23
Clean Plank

Though an ardent Demo-
crat, I. nevertheless indorse
most heartily the plank in the
Republican platform proposed
by Gov. McKeldin-that of
Keeping America Beautiful"
The Governor of our neigh
boring State of Maryland
points to the enormous sums
of the taxpayers money
now being paid to keep the
highways free Of the litter
caused by thoughtless motor
lists and picnickers.
But why center attention
solely on the cleanup, keep
up Of highways? Why not
include city streets and alleys?
In the streets of a once
lovely section of our city, news
papers, broken bottles, beer
cans and other trash too
numerous to mention call at
tention to the fact that the
good old horse-and- buggy days
God bless them-are no
more, when the white wings"
kept all of these unsightly OBJ
jects in proper receptacles and
made Of our "City Of Magnifi-
cent Distances" a thing of
beauty and a joy forever to
those of us who called it
home"
A thing to remember seems
to be that slums are not
cleared" but moved" unless
restricted in some measure.
And SO all power to those
who would keep the highways
beautiful. but let the Repub-
lican platform include keeping
our city streets beautiful.
Evening star., 1956-08-23

Six ways to annoy a
columnist:
l. Say something about his
'little piece"
This always makes a hit.
and puts him in his place at
once.
He thinks he works hard at
his job, just as you do at
yours.
BY using little" you slap
MIN down neatly and COM
pletely.
You indicate. without ex-
actly saying so. that you think
he loafs miserably through
life, toying with ideas, while
the rest of America tolls con-
structively.
2. Another favorite gambit
is:
rs that all you do?"
For heavens sake, don't you
repair the plumbing Of your
{ building between times. sweep
out the Office. and see to things
in general?
Intimate that surely, surely
he must write most of the
editorials. at least, between his
stints.
8. Use the word stint" as
much as you can.
This always makes a COL
umnist, even the biggest, feel
very humble.
stint" is a good old word.
1t comes from the Middle
English "stinten." and carries
the idea of an assigned task.
Have you finished your
article for today?" would be
a bit on the nice polite side.
Have you finished your
stint?" carries just q slight
curl Of the lip, and lip curling.
as a sign of middle America
smugness, is very much in
today's picture.
4 \ 4
4. II loved your article
about"
Never finish the sentence,
Of course.
Grope around as If you want
to say something pleasant, but
just for the life Of you, you
can't remember what his
piece" was about.
The fellow may have slaved
his heart out, turning out a
lulu. but by your inability TO
recall what 1t was all about
you suggest TO him that some
Evening star., 1956-08-23

Q. Why is the name rope
walk applied TO plants where
rope is made?-T. w. II.
A. Ropewalks we're given
this name back in the days
when length Of cordage was
limited by the length Of the
building in which 1t was made.
As the rope began to emerge
from the machine q man had
to walk away backward
with 1t while II was being
fabricated. The rope could
only be ~ long ~ the walk
ing space. The walk at Bos-
ton Naval shipyard was .
Evening star., 1956-08-23
Jeer and Cheer Truman

Jeer and Cheer Truman
Is it true that Harry Tru-
man is planning to remove
his place Of residence from In
dependence, Mo-. to Broken
Bow, Okla?
And that henceforth when
he sits down at his piano and
plays Turkey in the Straw"
that he has promised to quit
calling it Brahms, Bach and
Beethoven?
And is it true that Gov.
Averell Hartman has prom
ised not to remove the air
brakes from his private pull
man car which he intends to
loan to presidential nominee
Adlai Stevenson for campaign
purposes?
Yea. verify. we are only poor
weak mortals after all.
A. C. Narrower.
! felt that Stevenson would
probably be nominated by the
Democrats, and I believe him
to be a worthy nominee. How
ever. ! must record my dissent
from the opinion expressed by
many editors, columnists and
news commentators to the ef-
feet that there was something
rash, foolish, egotistical, per-
maps even discreditable. in
former President Truman's OBJ
position to Stevenson's nomi-
nation and his efforts to secure
the nomination of Gov
Hartman. If Harry Truman
was convinced that it was most
desirable for the country to
elect a Democratic administra-
tion, that Hartman would be
the strongest Democratic NOM
inee. and that Hartman was.
IN ability. experience and polit-
lcal philosophy, the best ouali-
ned man to be President in
these critical and perilous
times. then was it not his
right and prerogative. if NOT
his duty. to fight for Harri-
mans nomination? If he chose
70 make such a fight on behalf
OF his convictions, against
Overwhelming odds and at the
risk of the loss of popularity
and influence in the party
then he deserves respect and
not condemnation for It.
Kemp p. Yarborough.
Pride goeth before destruc-
ton and a naughty spirit be-
fore a fall"
The mighty (?) man from
missouri, IN imaginary pomp
ana power, descended upon
chicago to make the Demo-
cratic convention his toy. In
that great assembly he trod
the path of pride while a flock
OF political vassals sought his
counsel and sllnnort
Basking in q sense of self
Importance, this Missouri
oracle cast his eyes on the
Far East and beheld the no.
tential possibility of a third
world war, and his soul was
vexed. Fearing that his be-
loved party may be deprived
OF the honor of perpetuatinQ
the policies Of his Great
American War Party, he
pointed a finger Of scorn at
Stevenson. THAT man is unit
to become the President of
these United States-he does
not possess a fighting spirit"
That statement was supposed
TO be the exit" route for
Adlai.
Then came the hour of
reckoning with its ballot-boxes
and. 10, it proved TO be the
comm for the wizard Of Mis-
souri, and the political bone
yard is now his depository.
Observer.
-
At long last Harry Truman
has been delegated by his own
party to the place he best
adorns-the back reaches of
the bottom shelf Of curios ia
the political museum.
J.H.
Evening star., 1956-08-23
Now You Can Lookv
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry Driters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
s1tion.
Evening star., 1956-08-23
Phenomenon

A pdTddor for scientists 10
ponder.
Far from the pild or blue,
not even yonder,
TtDo etght-yedr-olds OF brisk
imagination
Perform astounding Jedts OF
aviation
Burst the sound barrier, rocket
to the moon
IN one sntaH room one rainy
dfternooHl
Harold Willard GIeason
Evening star., 1956-08-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BY THE HAsKIN Sc
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE
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quarter Of a mile long. Ma
chinery long ago outmoded
the ancient method and its
limitations Of length. but the
name ropewalk remained in
use.
Q. How many people own
stock in the steel Industry
l.. O.
A. At the end Of 1855. stock
holders in steel companies
totaled nearly $4,000. Ths
number Of stockholders was
nearly $4,000 greater than the
number Of employees.
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SOVIET AMBITION: There is speculation in u N circles
about the role which Moscow hopes to play in the Arabs
dispute centers that the Soviet Govern
would like to become the mediator between Israel and
the Arab countries This rumOr sprang after long
between the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo and
Egyptian Premier NaSser during which the Soviet
allegedy outlined for Col NaSSer the KremnS views
prospects between Egypt and Israel Later the
semofficial Egyptian AL Gahmoura appeared
with article praising the Kremn for viewing Israel as
reality proposing mutually acceptable settlement
Kremlins reward for it's role peacemaker would
be- according to Observers influence in Middle
affairs and would become major stabilzing
the final arber to Middle Eastern states This
would mean that Moscow take the role held by
Britain for nearly century
WASHINGTON VIEWS: Secretary of State Dulles is
operating closer to Moscow than to Britain and France
on the ArabIsraeI issue This may sound startling in
that Mr. Dulles is trying to check Soviet
penetration into the Middle East However this opinion
The Arizona post. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz.) 1946-1990, 1956-06-01

Dear Editor:
Three weeks ago an Israel
bond drive at FL Conquistador
was attended by several hun
dred of our co-religionists who
heard a lucid exposition of the
plight of Israel by Jan Bart,
who put before us a profound
ly appealing array of facts in
urging us to buy Israel bonds.
And how did he succeed?
Only a very few responded
with pledges to buy more than
a $500. bond! Among his hear
ers were many wealthy Jews
whose style of living betokens
affluence or wealth.
After eighteen hundred
years the privilege is given us
American Jews of restoring
the Scattered Nation" to its
homeland and enabling Israel
to invite our dispersed people
to 60 back to their ancient
home and breathe the air of
freedom.
But it is evident that many
of us are Indifferent! 1t seems
that we like to be the Cypress
ed and the outcaStS!
Is Israel worth saving?
M. S.
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On June 9 Robert Henry
Brook will be Bar MitZvah at
Sabbath services at Congrega-
ton Anshei Israel. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Brook, 1926 E. 18th Circle.
They invite the community to
participate in the service and
kiddush afterwards.
Robert is an honor student
in the seventh grade at Alice
Vail school. Interested in ath-
letics, he is an outstanding
swimmer and an avid stamp
collector. He has won honor
able mention in the school
hobby shows for his stamps
and post card collections. An
accomplished clarinetist, he
plays in the school band.
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prevails among foreign ulplO-
mats i'm Washington They
note that the American-Brit-
ish-French talks in Washing
ton on the ArabIsrael conflict
have broken down At the
S a m e time, it is obvious TO
them that the u. S. has en-
parked on a Middle East pol
lev VIII i C h involves the con-
currence of the Soviet Union
i'm any future settlement
This is seen from the fact
that Secretary Dulles insists
that the Arab-Israel question
should be kept in the United
Nations and not be handled by
the Western big Three"
The general opinion in Wash
ington now is that Mr.. Dulles
is no longer trying to exclude
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Moscow i'm the Middle East settlement Other
wise he would comply with the British and French views ON
selling defensive Israel to balance the o1tehsvo
arms which Moscow sends the Arab countries ne
would also not be so persistent leaving the AraDsrae
issue to the United knowing well that the Sovets arc
the masters of the situation there by being able to inject e
veto any they wish Mr. Dulles is apparently
ing on the possibility be willing TO take
part construcvely attempting to stabilize the Mdde ~
although this does not seem the opinion of the British
Government
The Arizona post. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz.) 1946-1990, 1956-06-01

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Hour is IL am. Sunday
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