davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Great Day at independence

The dedication Of the Truman
Library at independence was character
istically that blend Of -townliness
and international significance that was
the hallmark of the Truman Admins
tration. A cluster Of dignitaries from his
own and the other party sat on the flag
draped platform; before them the
townSpeople in ShirtSleeves and straw
hats famed themselves under the hot
prairie sun. The innocent air Of viii
lage festival chung to the occasion that
had Harry Truman, a man who keenly
values history and his own place in it,
giving to the world the papers that con-
stituted an account Of his stewardship.
1t was, Mr.. Truman said, "a great
day" and his pleasure in 1t was written
all over his smiling face. In the neigh
borly fashion that high office and close
acquaintance with the mighty have
never even denied, he spoke on a number
of matters dear to his heart He urged
more Immigrant colleges. He proudly
noted that his gift made the tools OF
history available to poor scholars as well
as the rich.
Mr.. Truman's cup may well have
run over as he heard the generous and
eloquent tribute of Chief Justice Earl
Warren. Few men ever heard more
glowing words spoken of themselves in
their lifetime by member OF an OPP
position party. The Chief Justice praised
Mr. Truman as "tireleSS, fearless and de-
cisive" and "a man of split-second &C
ton" And something the Chief Justice
said of the pioneers who settled the
midwest, Of which Harry Truman is the
true son, the ex-president might take
for himself as epitomizing his whole
career in politics, his courageous, often
stormy, course in the presidency: "The
timid never started, and the weak died
on the way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Park Snofu

I am aStounded at the
apathy Of the citizens Of the
District Of Columbia and our
neighboring States to the
evidence of poor planning
which has resulted in whole
sale interference with the
normal flow Of traffic here.
We all know that streets,
bridges, ETC., have to be i'm
proved and repaired but the
situation in Northwest
Washington represents the
worst example of operating
counter to the interests of
the tax-paying public.
The Park Road bridge
through Rock Creek Park
has been condemned. It is
generally accepted that a
steel bridge has an indefi-
mite life. For example, the
Brooklyn Bridge is still in
service but our Park Road
bridge was neglected. Why?
This bridge carried a con-
siderable traffic load and
condemning this route now
causes the motorist to detour
approximately a quarter of
mile to use the Klingle road
bridge.
At the same time Broad
Branch road has been closed.
Again bridge trouble. This
work could have been sched-
uled after the Park road
bridge was repaired. This
construction for q time closed
Beach drive to Military road.
Beach drive is now closed
from Military road to Roll
ingwood in Maryland due to
more Of the same: New bridge
north Of Military road at
Millers cabin and new bridge
at Kalmia road crossing.
In addition there is a new
bridge under construction
over the creek at Military
road.
I will not be surprised to
see Military road closed to
trafiic before many more
months.
The planners have effec-
lively blocked the park from
Klingle road to the Mary
land line. Much inconven-
fence to the public and traf-
fic congestion could have been
avoided by completing one
project at a time or at least
leaving one cross-park road
open.
n. F. Eisenheiss-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

candidates by his ballot on
July 8.
This year the arrogant
Democratic machine in Vir-
ginia is vulnerable. Its can
didate can be beaten in the
primary if the 10th will vote
in force. The dictatorship
counts on a light primary
vote: in fact, 1t has sent out
the word not to start po-
liticking till after July 8. And
even if the machine should
then support the Republican
choice. in defiance of its own
rules, that would mean the
wholesome appearance of
two-party government in the
Commonwealth.
Edith L. Hussey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
AIerts Voters

Political liberals In North
ern Virginia should not fail
to vote in the Democratic
primary on July 9. This year
the dominant machine came
perilously close to a Russian
type preselection Of candi-
dates. Only one man has
filed in opposition to the ma
chine choice for Governor.
For attorney general, the
machine. also presented a
single candidate, who was
replaced only when his prac-
tees became a subject of
Statewide controversy. This
is an attempt at monolithic
government: 1t should be
challenged in the name Of
democracy.
Fortunately. Virginia has
an open primary. and the
machine itself has estab-
lished a precedent for cross
ing party lines. When the
political powers feared that
Battle might lose the NOM
ination to Miller In the late
'40s. they invited Republic
cans TO enter the Democratic
primary and vote for Battle.
Every qualified voter Of either
party may express a prefer
ence between Democratic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

We may look with suspi-
cion, therefore, on epidemics
from now on. no matter
where they begin. to see II
they are more than just at
tacks upon us.
The fearful thing is that
they may be natures way Of
taking down our pride. It is
impossible for humans to get
away from the belief in q
moral universe. We do not
like to think that all Is just
a blind fortuitous concourse
Of atoms.
We want to believe in q
great Intelligence, and do.
There must be something
more than mere existing.
Nature thought she had
this very nicely wrapped UP
centuries ago, but she had
made one mistake.
She overlooked the power
Of development in the human
mind.
The question is:
Has that power Of the hui
man mind overreached itself?
There is an interesting
title of a book few persons
have read. The Overreach-
err" a discussion Of the art
Of Kit Marlowe, the great
Elizabethan dramatist.
Never having read it 1--WE
still have it on our list), we
cannot say exactly in what
way Marlowe overreached
himself or his art. But the
title holds thought in its
meshes; it may be that man.
kind, in exerting its brain
power to evolve the modern
bombs. has at last gone too
far.
The writer's Of Genesis
thought so. centuries ago.
God was displeased with
what happened then. He may
be even more so with US of
today.
But rain still falls upon the
just and the unjust, and the
sun comes out at last. just as
it did on the ark.
The great moral problems
we face strangely resemble
those into whose glowing eyes
of thunder and lightning
Moses looked.
The answer must be the
same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
The Calm Commonwealth

After 10 days of quiet, businesSlike
meetings in London, the British Com
monwealth Prime Ministers Conference
issued a communique that was as far
ranging as are the countries Joined in
this unique political family. On the
broader international stage, they called
for steps = unspecif1ed in detail - to
strengthen the United Nations, for even
a limited agreement" on world diSarma-
ment, and for continued efforts to es-
tabliSh stability in the Middle East. AS
short-term requirements for the latter
objective, they listed the need to reduce
Arab-Israeli tensions, to find an accept
able solution for the plight of the Arab
refugees and to clear up remaining un-
certainties over operation of the Suez
Canal.
From both the communique and re-
ports emerging during the conference,
however, it was clear that principal
preoccupation of the 10 participating
countries has been their own economic
Internationally. It is, perhaps, this
relationship that has been the strongest
single factor in holding the Common
wealth together, and developments Of
the past year or two have introduced
considerations calling for adjustments
within the community. There has, for
example, been considerable progress to-
ward European economic indignation,
and Great Britain's own deSire-if not
outright need-to be part Of that move
ment requires review of its traditional
commercial links with other Common
wealth members. A second development
threatening to upset the historic eco
nomic relationship is the growing in
naturalization of such Commonwealth
members as Australia, New Zealand
and matchmaking them less depend
ent upon imports from Britain itself. A
third is the fact that Britain itself no
longer finds it easy to be the chief source
of investment capital for a community
In which development funds are needed
on large and continuing scale.
The conference communique
touched on these problems and indi-
Gated that they will be subject to fur
ther intensive consideration by the
technical experts in the months ahead.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker of Canada,
representing the new government of
that country, took the lead in these dis
cussionS and announced as he left Lon
don that he would submit soon broad
plan for expansion Of trade and stimula-
ton Of investment within the Common
wealth.
There was no expectation Of dra-
matte announcements or binding deci-
sions from this meeting of ministers
The interests of their peoples are var
led, but 1t is a tribute to British polit-
zeal genius that strength is maintained
through mutual recognition Of inde-
pendence and the will to seek solutions
beneficial to each and to all. The latest
conference kept this foundation secure
and with continued promise Of good
results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

q half q day during the sum-
mer. 1t is composed Of glacier
ice about 160 feet thick. Its
origin is unknown. One guess
is northern Ellesmere Land,
based on bits Of silly clay,
found embedded in the ice.
1t once probably was an ice
shelf. embedded in q bay or
ford.
Since 1858 the island has
been manned periodically as
a weather station. Small par.
ties have ski landed and car
ried a minimum Of equip.
ment. In order to land the
large number Of persons and
tonnages Of supplies required
for the ICY program some
thing more than ski equip
ment was necessary. A large
cargo aircraft was the only
answer.
Unit Lands by Ski.Plane
In February an advance
party led by Mai. william
Knutson landed by ski-plane.
The detachment put super
human efforts into removing
snow. only to learn that the
snow above was not like the
ice below. They worked for
weeks before the rugged ice
even looked like the nat
surface required for Q run
way. An engineer team. long
experienced in Arctic prob
lens, was landed, on May 1.
Surveying Of the surface was
started and continued with
out sleep for "a hours. One
mans nose was frozen. Tenn
perature was 80 below. BY
May Z. the runway was ready
for a full load.
A few hours later the final
decision was made. The first
successful wheeled landing
was made. A final "a hours
was spent to bring the sur
face within a few inches Of
allowable tolerance.
To date all ICY equip
ment, scientists and supplies
have been landed without in
cident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

One of the amazing things
about rain is how it can start
as if it had never stopped for
days.
Somehow, the server
thinks, there should be an
edict or something, not just
this dropping of moisture
upon us.
There should be music,
maybe!
Rain must be the sweetest
music to growing things.
It falls upon the stunted
plants and the vigorous ones,
it drops into the earth and
stirs the worms, and the rob-
ms fly down.
In no way does rain, even
after dry days, strike US as
odd, or unusual.
1t is here much as with the
robins, themselves. In early
spring, We look out, and see
no robins.
Then, suddenly, all at once.
there one is, and he looks as
if he had always been there.
x Il Il
This is the best part of ma
ture. that she belongs to us.
The rain. and the sun, the
clouds and the winds, are
ours.
Even extremes cause a GER
tain mental stimulation, de-
spite floods and hurricanes.
1t is for this reason that
nature lovers. in the best
sense, rather resent the eff
forts of misguided people to
interfere with her.
Our study should be to find
out what nature is and what
she wants, and then to give it
to her.
So those who kill. when no
killing is necessary. may
strike terror into the inner
processes of the universe.
These huge bombs are de-
livering underhanded blows
into the soft underbelly" of
the universe.
y 4 \ \
Maybe it is natures way Il
strike back at us.
Too many people?
When this happens among
animals. some epidemic comes
along to take away part Of
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Drifting Around Pole on Ice Islands
BY THOMAS R. HENRI

A party Of American scien-
lists now have started an epic
drift around the North Pole.
This is q part of the In
ternational Geophysical Year
program. They are encamped
on q drifting island of ice
The drifting is due to the
work Of Army engineers who
have worked heroically for
the past six months to make
the occupation of Fletcher's
Ice Island possible.
Fletcher's Ice Island is one
of the several masses Of ice
in the Arctic Ocean which
have come to be called "ice
islands" because Of their diff
ference from usual pack ice.
1t was named in honor of Col.
Joseph Fletcher of the Air
Force who made a safe land
ing there with a ski-equipped
plane five years ago.
Differs from Pack Ice
The surface Of the island
is greatly different from pack
ice. Although still rough, 1t
is not broken by treacherous
heaves. Such an island drifts
around the North Pole APP
proximately every two or
three years. The path is
southwest from the northern
tip of Greenland to the Beau
fort Sea north Of Alaska,
northwest from the area
north of Bering Straits,
then almost due north to-
wards the pole.
The first camp on the
island was in 1913. A CT on
this expedition, the son of
a prominent New England
newspaper man who likes to
kid me on any claims to being
a polar explorer, came to
see me a few nights ago. He
wants to be a weather officer
in the Air Force. think there
is a good deal to be said for it.
The islands orbit still is
not fully known, but this
boys party learned that the
four mile by nine mile is
land moved about a mile and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Clean Bomb

Your July 4 editorial,
"Doubters and Clean
Bombs" is a terrible and ter
rifying indictment of our
moral bankruptcy. What pu-
crescent camel are we being
asked to swallow as we strain
at the gnat?
The clean" nuclear bomb,
this pristine bauble, can blot
out a people. a tremendous
city and its hinterland. all its
inhabitants - men, women,
children; combatants, nom
combatants: the good, the
evil; the innocent, the guilty:
all life and the work of mems
muscle and brain. Oh, shades
Of Rotterdam and Coventry!
Then we rose up In righteous
wrath at the blind destruc-
tivenesS of the barbarian.
This was the rubble we
cleaned up after the work Of
the childish, but immacu-
lately clean" bomb of World
War II.
How less a defiance Of all
humanity can the clean"
nuclear bomb be? How much
more pleased and comforted
may we be as we smirk that
only the tens Of millions are
destroyed. and they only by
precise calculation? Is this
what we ask the world to APP
plaud and accept? Is this
what the "doubters and
poohpooers" are invited to
rejoice in-that we are not
opposed to letting other ma
tons know how clean bombs
can be made? That we shall
commit suicide by blast and
burn. but spare our corpses
merely the insult Of radioac-
tivity?
There is a clean bomb. 1t is
the bomb that doesn't go on
II is the bomb that in one
mighty spasm Of sanity Man
must decide shall never again
exist.
Humanitas.
Your editorial. "Doubters
and Clean Bombs" says
that Mr.. Eisenhower has IRE
assured the Nation and the
world that there really is
such q thing as the clean
nuclear bomb" and that he
has done 90 speaking from
the sureness Of his own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Senotors-ot-Lorqe

With Republican and
Democratic ex Presidents
now living, and keenly in
terested in continuing to
serve their country. now is
the time to amend our Con-
st!tution making ex-Presi-
dents members of the United
States Senate for life. They
could be called Senators Of
the Republic"
Partisan politics aside. who
else could better serve in the
Senate and contribute more
than the ex-Chief Executives
Of the Nation?
GinO J. SINH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

@. How long did the Haps-
burgs rule? Who was the
first and the last Hapsburg
to rule? i'll.
A. Members of this family
held thrones in Europe from
1878 until 1918. except for a
few years. The first Hapsburg
to become a ruler was Ru-
dolph. elected German King
and Holy Roman Emperor in
1878 The last was Charles /,
Emperor Of Austria and King
OF Hungary. who renowned
his throne in 1918. Attempts
TO regain his Hungarian
kingdom failed. He died in
1922.
@. What is a beche-de-
NERD. D.
A. This Is one name for q
trepang-any Of several vari-
cites Of large sea-worms or
grubs or slugs. also called
sea-cucumbers and sea-pud-
ding which are found chief
ly on coral reefs in Eastern
seas. They are repulsive in
appearance, but vast guam
titles Of them are taken in
East Indian and Australian
waters and prepared for food
principally for use in China
by boiling, drying, and smok-
ing them.
@. Is music said to charm
the savage breast" or
beast? F L.
A. Both words have been
used in this well-known say
ing. In 1897. William Con-
greve. English dramatist in
his tragedy The Mourning
Bride, wrote Music hath
charms to soothe a savage
breast" In 1929. James Bram-
ston. in Man Of Taste. wrote
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
the Facts

IL is more than high time
that The Star ceases printing
such vague. unfair and harm
full so-called news items as
the John M. Hightower item
which appeared on page Al
July l, under Trouble Seen
for U. S. on Red China Boy
cott."
Mr.. Hightower mentions
various pressures at
home and abroad; "argu-
ments for change: "critics
to deal with; "the pressures
which seem to be develop
ing both domestic and
foreign: and under heavy
criticism. Why does he not
name names? He did not
name one critic in the entire
item. He should tell the
American people-if he must
write in the vein he does
Cd who are exerting various
preSsures both (a) at home
and (b) abroad; (2) who are
advancing arguments for
change; 90 who are the
critics to deal with; (4a) who
are exerting the pressures
which seem to be developing
and where they are develop
ing here and abb abroad;
go who are directing criti-
cisms at Secretary Dulles.
I applaud 100 per cent
Secretary Dulles statements
and restatements. He is very
obviously one of our most
able statesmen-not a poll
tician out to lick the boots of
certain American business
men who would deal with
Red China at any cost to the
United States. And he is
right in not letting loose in
the Communist china shop Q
lot Of bulls of the Fourth
Estate to play havoc there.
Oscar L. Lancaster.
What John M. Hightower,
Associated Press staff writer,
fails to appreciate in his ar
ticle in the July / Star, is
that any nation that trades
with Red China today is
faced with two problems:
First: What does Red China
have to export that will not
further ruin her economy?
Second: Why prevent Red
China's collapse, which Re-
publican Leader Martin pre-
olctS IN TWO years without
Western trade?
OF course, as President Eli
senhower said, TRADE in
the long run cannot be
stopped" But in Red China's
case the run is going to be
awfully long. even though
Japan and Britain are fool
ish enough to accept prom
ises to pay instead of goods
in return for what they ship.
Sooner or later. newsmen
ought to realize that China
has for centuries had, and
still has. a deficit economy.
This means that China is an
economic vacuum which must
constantly suck in more than
1t can possibly extrude. That
is the reason trading with
China has always been a
suckers game. and China is
definitely never that kind OF
a sucker.
New Realist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

knowledge" However, the
President has not claimed
sure knowledge on his own
part. On the contrary, as
James Reston stated in the
New York Times: THE Ad-
ministration is responding to
the outcry against continued
testing of atomic weapons by
pointing to the report of the
National Academy of Sci
ences issued a year ago this
week" (Ju.ie 100. When the
New York Times printed the
text of this report on June
13, 1856. it ran the 'front.'
page headline: Scientists
Term Radiation a Peril to
Future of Man" This re-
port. in addition to empha-
sizing in many places the I'M
certainty beclouding the
subject, said: 1.-THE concept
of a safe rate of radiation
simply does not make sense
if one is concerned with the
genetic damage to future
generations"
The President did not
speak from the sureness of
his own knowledge" The
President is not a scientist
and does not claim to be.
However. he has been i'm
pressed by the statements of
Drs. Edward Teller and Err
nest Lawrence that a clean"
bomb is in sight.
1t happens that on the eve
of the Presidential election
these two scientists stated
that, according to the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences
report, it was shown that
past tests have not put into
the atmosphere an amount
OF radiation which is harm
ful in any manner" They
were not stating their own
opinion either, but were US
ing the National Academy of
Sciences report as authority
for a statement in direct
contradiction with what was
in fact in the report.
Your editorial asks: "Are
there still some doubters or
pooh-poohers? This implies
apparently that certainty is
the only reasonable attitude.
The President has spoken
you seem to say, therefore
all doubts must be stilled.
This however is in conflict
with the attitude Of science
which refuses to acknowledge
any personal authority. not
even that of great scientists
themselves. much less of one
whose authority is political,
for any statement whatever.
The final test is experiment
and experience.
Sidney KOretz.
Your editorial "Doubters
and Clean Bombs" is silly.
nonsensical propaganda. Be-
cause the President, who ad-
mittedly does not read the
newspapers or governmental
reports, alludes to a hypo-
thesis as an established fact,
merely to assuage presumptu-
Gus warmongers. it is incon-
trovertible or sacrosanct. It
is probably your intention to
elevate IKE" to the status Of
a deity.
Fl. A. Sheehan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

Music hath charms to
soothe the savage beast and
therefore proper at a sheriff's
feast" Many other writer's
have used variations Of this
idea.
@. When did people develop
the dance?-O. r.
A. Dancing is probably as
old as the human race. The
earliest records Of people
dancing are cave paintings
found in northern Spain.
which are believed to. have
been drawn about $4,000
years ago.
@. How can corn on the
cob be frozen at nome?-J. S.
A. Remove husks and silk.
Scald for seven to IL min
utes. depending on size Of
ears. then plunge the corn
into ice water and cool one
and a half times as long as
the scalding time. II corn
is not scalded long enough,
or cooled long enough. II will
taste Of the cob. When thor
oughly cool, put the ears in
freezing bag or foil. Use only
corn that is tender, Juicy
and freshly gathered, as the
frozen product can be no
better than the fresh.
Q. What is q MoSlem min
rab?-A. II.
A. This is a niche, or some
times merely q decorated
slab, In one Of the interior
walls Of q Mohammedan
mosque. 1t marks the direc-
ton Of Mecca. 50 that
Moslems who enter the
mosque to pray viii know the
direction in which they
should face.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry lDriters' correct
names and addresses. An
letters are subject to conden-
SGtton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

m. .esdsr Gan E sstgsl
9 Please neose =