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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27
PERSONALITY PARADE
Faith in Love
With Harp, That Is

of the harp than lust the win
TO play. She's had instruction
from sylvia Meyer. first harp
LIST with the National SYM
phony Orchestra. And this
year she journeyed to Camden,
Me-. for lessons from probably
the greatest harpist Of them
all Carlos Salzedo. Once =
month she goes 10 New York
for q lesson with the master
hnrpist.
Yet with such q busy sched-
ule. Faith finds time TO be q
normal teen-ager. That Is. she
has her share Of boy friends q
very special one Is q budding
concert pianist In New York;.
She goes to dances and has
parties at her home. This year.
too. she was elected vice presi-
dent Of the Youth Council Of
the Episcopal Diocese Of wash
ington.
But Sam Is never really for
gotten. Faiths parents. Mr..
I and Mrs. Herbert v. Carman.
faced with having to lug the
bulky instrument from appear
ance TO appearance. had TO buy
q used Cadillac limousine 1.-The
only car that win accommodate
the harp.
Despite school and her other
activities. Faith has 10 sacrifice
for her art. She puts In .
gruelling l6 hours q week prae.
ticing. practicing. practlcine.
And though the young miss
may look very graceful and
seem TO bring out the notes eff
fortlessly. it's hard work.
Il have muscles in my arms
and back and callouses on my
hands from plucking the
strings" she says. After all.
there's several tons Of pressure
on the sounding board"
Her parents sometimes have
q hard time pulling their
daughter away from the harp.
| though.
A perfectionist. Faith viii 60
over and over some minor mis-
take. seeking to iron out the
kinks. Her attitude was re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27
BY PHI THOMAS

Pert. sparkling Faith G. Car
man Is one teen-ager who'll
tell you without batting an
eyelash she's In love. The object
OF her affections Is Sam. .
harp.
More often than not Faith
skips the after-school coke a.
the corner drug store and goes
home 10 16o5 Norwood drive
In Chevy Chase. Md. There Sam
win be waiting for her. stand
ing in the corner Of the living
room. his vari-colored strings
ready to vibrate with music
ut the touch Of her hands.
The love affair with the harp
started when i5-yesr-old Faith
was about 5 years old. She had
q baby sitter who played one
Of the classical instruments.
II decided ] wanted 10 play
the harp. too. and ! kept asking
my parents until they finally
got me one when I was TO-"
Faith recalls.
First there was q rented
Irish harp. which might be
called the little brother Of the
stately concert instrument she
now plays. Faith then grad
uated to the large harp Sam.
Her ambition paid on in
recognition for the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School
senior. At Is she became the
first harpist 20 play with the
Foundry Symphony Orchestra
here. She Is the only student
harpist that belongs to the
exclusive Friday Morning Music
Club and has appeared on
television several times. once
on the Jim Gibbons Show on
WMAL-TV. and a couple Of
times as guest artist on pro-
grams at Easter and Christmas
for the Washington Fedora
ton Of Churches.
She also has appeared with
the American University Or
chestra. the Montgomery Sym
phony and the Maryland All
State You'll. Orchestra.
But there Is more to mastery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

fiected on her recent return
from New York after the FIRST
lesson with Mr.. Salzedo IN
many weeks.
IAN he did was compliment
me on my playing" she says.
Shed expected q bawling out
from the master harpist. and
was frankly surprised she
hadn't gotten one for what she
thought would be an inevitable
slip in the quality Of her play
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27
Boy Scouts to
Study Uranium

Boy Scouts from Washington
and nearby areas win have q
chance TO learn about how to
md and identify uranium min
erals. A lecture on that sub
ject. plus Q movie on geology.
will be shown for the Boy
Scouts at 10 am, November
10. &C the National Museum
auditorium. Tenth and Consti-
tuition avenue NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

ing during the intervening
time.
But an of this concentration
on her long hair" instrument
hasn't affected Faiths strictly
modern speech.
Straight backed and serious
while plucking out some COM
position of Debussy or Ben
pamin Britten, the young har-
pist Is Just as likely as not to
stop and say:
Man. that's crazy!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

ner to represent Washington
in the finals. which viii be held
here In February. At that time.
there win be . three day
awards program wnen four ma
tional co-eQual winners win be
selected and honored.
information about the con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27
Voice Contest
To Be Held

Plans to conduct q commu-
ity-wide Voice Of Democracy
Contest have been announced
by Roy Wonder. Of the WASH
ington Junior Chamber Of
Commerce.
All 10th. 18th and l2th grad
ers are eligible to enter the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

EILEEN DEACON. Is. freshman Al 81.
PniFicks-'I think they've changed in
duck backs. More boys wear pegged
pants and bombers. They're more POI
up to your door. They're not afraid to
meet your mother and father"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

contest. Entries are judged on
the content. delivery and orig
inality Of five-minute scripts
on the subject. Il speak for
Democracy"
There FIRST will be school
Examinations. followed by the
naming Of q community win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

sANDRA SCARCIA. Is, sophomore Al
s. Patrick's Before, none OF the bows
Coz ID dance. Now they an can. Their
hair IS better and they're much more
fr1endiy-not 50 conceited. They're
neater. now. They're getting away from
white bucks and wearing bombers.
Ike them and those pegged pants-Yes
Stree bobl-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

LINDA BLANKENsHTP. Is, junisr a
BladensbuEg High-~Boys dress much
nicer and have nicer looking clothes
were younger. Now they're more Ivy
League. with straight ties. They're wear
ing more bombers. you know. those thick
ter this year and they're friendlier."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

test. sponsored nationally BY
the United States Junior
Chamber Of Commerce. Elec-
tronic Industries Association
and the National Association
Of Radio and Teleyision Broad
casters. Us available In al
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Not Newsworthy

A great many headlines have been
devoted to the violence which has at
tended attempts to end bus segregation
in Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala
bama, and in Tallahassee, Florida. But
relatively little attention has been paid
to the announcement that 81 Southern
and border cities have abolished Segre-
cation on buses without violence.
There is nothing surprising about
this, for change or an attempted change
which is accompanied by violence has
always been treated as more newSworthy
than a change which is carried through
quietly and without disorder. But the
report of the Southern Regional Council
that 81 cities in Arkansas, North Carolina,
Virginia, Texas and Tennessee have done
away with bus segregation without court
action is more important, actually, than
the accounts of friction in other COM
munitieS. For this is the way in which
effective deSegregation will come to the
South. Violence in some areas will hold
the headlines for a long time to come.
And while this may obscure, it will not
alter, the fact that in a larger area the
process of orderly adjustment to inevi-
table change will be forging ahead, SO
quietly that it will receive little or no
notice in the daily flow of the news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
The Arab Refuuees

The United Nations now has received
one of the bleakest reports yet submitted
to it by its Relief and Works Agency for
the Palestine Arab Refugees. In sub
stance, what the report reveals is that the
plight of these acutely unhappy people,
who total we'll over $4,000 and whose
numbers are steadily growing, continues
to be at least as dismal as ever and that
no real progress has been made toward
opening up decent, self-supporting
future for them.
Indeed, according to Henry Labouisse,
director of the Relief and Works Agency,
even the inadequate doles and handouts
they have been receiving for mere sub
sistence will have to be sharply reduced
unless the agency'S dwindling funds are
repleniShed with urgent financial assist
ance. Up to now the United States has
been supplying the bulk of such assist
ance, and Britain has been the only other
U. N. member that has been making
comparable contribution in terms of its
resources. AS for the Soviet Union, al
though it has been parading itself as
friend of the Arabs, it has yet to contrib
ute ruble to the refugees.
Most of these people, forced to flee
during the 1913 war in the Holy Land,
want to return to their old homes, which
are in Israel, but Israel pleads that it is
incapable of taking them back on large
scale. Meanwhile, they continue to Ian
guish in spiritually corroding camps in
Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, and
the Arab leadership in general has been
doing little or nothing to improve their
lot or resettle them permanently. In
stead, as the LabouisSe report points out,
"unScrupulous political agitators" have
exploited the understandable bitterness
OF the refugees to create ill will not only
toward the IsraeliS but also toward the
U. N. relief program.
So the Arab refugee situation, instead
of getting better, appears to be getting
worse. Mr.. LabouiSse has not exaggerated
in describing it as the core" of the Pal
estine problem and one of the most ex-
ploSive factors in that criSiS-ridden part
OF the world. Quite obviously, unless or
until craftsmanship and humanitarian
ism combine to find a satisfactory new
way of life for these victims of war,
efforts to achieve genuine stability and
peace in the Middle East will have the
hardest kind of going.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
Envoy to Vatican

I was amazed to read c.
Stanley Lowell's shocked" re-
monStrations against Constan-
tine Browns championing a
Vatican envoy.
Even if we sent an am
bassador to the Vatican. we
might run the risk of having
him sent packing on arrival.
The Vatican is an ancient and
powerful state with some $500
years of history and prestige.
The ruler of the Vatican COM
mands the reverence and reli-
gious obedience of some one
half billion souls. Such a long
lived and magnificent tempo
raj state might justifiably re-
fuse to receive the representa-
tive Of neophyte nation ON
the other side of the water.
Perhaps we should wait a
few hundred years before we
beseech the Vatican to accept
our envoy. Many nations have
refused to acknowledge the
Vatican in the long march of
history. Most of them no longer
exist.
Robert Herzog Cignetti.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
New Line on Stain

If accurately reported, Nikita Khru-
shchev'S New Year remarks on Stain
indicate that the Kremlin has decided to
undertake at least a partial rehabilitation
Of the dead tyrant'S reputation. It was
Mr.. KhruShchev himself, of course, who
only last February ripped that reputation
to Shreds in his sensational speech to the
Communist Party Congress in Moscow.
But now, together with the other "collec-
tive leaders" of the Soviet Union, he
apparently is intent upon patching it ur
and making it shine bit again.
Thus, according to the reports, the
Soviet Communist chieftain has greeted
1857 with toast declaring that stain
was great fighter against imperialism
He was great MarxiSt. The imperialists
call us StalinistS Well, when it comes to
fighting imperialiSts, we are all Stain
iStS." Mr.. KhruShchev also is reported to
have said that the old dictator's mis-
takes" were overshadowed by his achieve
mentS and that responsibility for those
mistakes" must be shared by RuSsia's
present rulers, who worked closely with
him.
This Is certainly a far cry from the
KhruShchev speech of last February. For
that speech depicted Stain as an evil
and half-mad despot whose one-man rule
= characterized by lies, plots, counter
plots, torture, blood purgeS, total oppres-
sion and pitiless mass murder-had i'm
posed reign of terror on all of Russia
and come close to running the country.
Further, the speech suggested that his
crimes were entirely his own and that
his associates (today's collective lead
ers") either knew nothing about them
or were too frightened and powerless to
stay his hand.
Now, however, we are getting diff
ferent picture. Stain, it seems, was not
so bad after all. Indeed, his successors,
as the about-facing Mr. Khrushchev has
suggested, are proud to be known as
"Stalinists" because that means, in Mos
cows upside-down lexicon, that they are
valiant fighters against imperialism
as in Hungary where their brutal repres-
sion of a mass uprising for freedom has
profoundly shaken their satellite empire
and demonstrated to the world that their
policy is still as much policy Of enslave-
ment as it was in Stains day.
Presumably, the new Moscow line is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
Birth Control

A front-page article in The
Star on December 90 was
headed with a Population of
2.5 Billion, World Is over
crowded, Scientist Says" and
stated DR. George w. Beadle of
the California Institute of
Technology advocated birth
control to prevent the world
from becoming overcrowded.
DR.. Beadle is not the first
modern scientist to advocate
such measures and will not be
the last. 1t is a sad state that
much of science today has
obliterated God from its annals
and speaks from the ma
terialistic platform Of sup
posed. unqualified truth. OF
course science is only what the
individuals VINO practice it
make it. And though science is
potentially a valuable aid for
reaching the knowledge of
God and His creations for the
benefit Of mankind, certain of
its adherents today use it to
Justify their own selfish lives:
use it to defend their selfish
ends; use 1t to retaliate against
the emptiness with which COM
pensating nature fills their
lives.
The advocacy of birth pre-
vention for any purpose is
potential murder. Nature is
Gods creation. her laws are
His, and birth prevention Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
Northword via Suez

One Southbound convoy of 10 ships
trapped in the Suez Canal during the
recent fighting has been turned around
and is threading its way north toward
open water.
Fortunately, these vessels were
stranded near the bypass canal just
above Ismailia. At that point, there was
room enough to turn them around, and
they are now moving through the par
TALLY cleared northern portion of the
canal. The southern half of the water
way is still closed, except to salvage
equipment.
Aside from the freeing of the ships,
important economically, there are other
encouraging aspects to this operation.
First, there is the evidence that Egyptian
authorities not only are willing, but are
actually participating in the work of
reopening the canal despite earlier in
Sistence that the project must await full
withdrawal of Israeli as well as British
and French forces from Egyptian terri
tory. The GAIA strip and certain points
in the Sinai-Gulf of Aqaba area are still
in Israeli hands. Likewise encouraging
is the fact that Egyptian pilots and crews
were able to handle the tricky operation
of reversing convoy in the canal-the
first time such maneuver ever had been
attempted in the l00-mile passage. At
the time of naturalization of the canal
company last summer, the Egyptians in
sisted they were competent to operate the
waterway and it had been functioning
normally until the British-French in
vaSion in October.
There is, of course, big job still
ahead before the long ditch once more
is playing its full role in world commerce.
The major distractions to navigation
are scattered from Firdan Bridge south
ward to Port Suez. General Wheeler,
American chief of the United Nations
salvage mission, hopes to have them
cleared enough for one-way traffic by
March /, however, and for full service by
early May. The progress thus far in
creases hopes that these target dates
will be met.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08

designed to show that the men of the
Kremlin, far from being split between
Stalinists and anti-Stalinists, are firmly
united. Presumably, too, it reflects
decision that the Discrimination pro-
gram must be bridled to prevent fur
ther weakening OF international COM
munism and to combat satellite moves
toward Titoist independence. In that
sense, it may well foreshadow marked
hardening of Soviet policy. But full
return of StaliniSm, which can hardly be
turned off and on like a spigot of water,
seems unlikely in view of the great and
damning blow struck against it by Mr..
Khrushchev last February.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
Authors of Civil War

Prime Minister Costello of Fire has
made fortnight and persuasive case
for an end to the current terroristic raid
ing across the North and South Irish
frontier. For however deep and emo
tional are the feelings across this border,
Mr.. Costello is clearly correct in saying
that partition cannot and never will
be ended by force" and if it were to be
accomplished by arms the legacy of bit
terness would thereafter divide us more
deeply and more lastingly than ever
before"
There is no question, of course, that
the government in Dublin bears no re-
sponsibility for the military violence that
has been directed in recent weeks at
the Ulster authorities. The so-called
Irish Republican Army of the South is
an outlawed organization in its own home
territory as well as in the six counties
of the North. It's lack of Legitimate
authority" to wage war, as it has been
doing, could not be more complete. The
evil has been compounded by similar
activities on the part of rival southern
terrorist groups contending, in Mr.. Co.'S
telloS words, Tor the privilege OF being
authors of civil war"
The preference of the North Irish
counties to remain within the United
Kingdom was their own free choice, one
of elf-determination, made long before
Fire became an independent republic.
Both economic and religious reasons were
strong factors in this decision and efforts
to unity the country by negotiation thus
far have been fruitleSs Mr.. Costello and
other responsible leaders of government
on both sides of the border have APP
preached the problem, however, with the
proper understanding that the only hope
for political agreement lies in negotiation,
not in violence. Those who are guilty Of
the current return to bloodshed are doing
a disservice to all the Irish people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-08
SCOPES Drama

Viewers of the play Inherit
the Wind" at the National
Theater would be interested in
certain points about the Scopes
case in Dayton. Tenn, in 1925.
The play is good drama. but it
also uses dramatic license.
The undersigned. then a
teen-ager. acted as Office and .
errand boy for Scopes lawyers
at the trial. There were peanut
vendors and charlatans in
Dayton. But the Scopes case
was not circus or a Salem
witch trial. There were sincere
and intelligent men on both
sides debating an important
and difficult question of basic
law. Scopes was not jailed. He
was popular with the towns
people. He consented. upon re-
quest. to be the defendant in
this court test of the constitu-
tionality of the State antievo-
luton law.
The townspeople of Dayton.
as in other Tennessee COM
munities, were deeply religious.
They paid the taxes that sup
ported the local public high
school where Scopes taught
biology. To use the words OF
the prohibitions in the State
law. they did not want their
children taught a theory Of the
creation of man contrary to
that related in the book of
Genesis or that man was de-
scended from a lower order Of
ANIMALS. They believed that
the Bible is literally the Word
of God. The question was, act
ing on this sincere belief, could
the people of Dayton and the
State prohibit by law their
employe. Scopes, from teaching
the theory OF evolution in the
public schools. Clarence OAR
row. the agnostic. but also the
great defender Of academic
freedom and personal liberty.
argued they could not. William
Jennings Bryan, the great pro-
ponent Of economic freedom for
the South and West, argued
they could. Darrow was a
curiosity to the people Of Day.
ton but he was treated courte-
ously. Those people were reli-
gious but not bigoted. They
were a basically intelligent
people trying to prevent their
children from being taught in
a school which they supported
theory which they believed
undermined the authority Of
the Bible.
Scopes was convicted. On
appeal, the Supreme Court Of
Tennessee upheld the consti-
tutionality of the Law.
This was another episode in
the continuing struggle be-
tween the collective judgment
of the people of a State. eX-
pressed through their legisla-
ture. and the individual rights
of citizens of the State as in
terpreted by the courts.
This play recalls Scopes and
Dayton. But the spotlight to-
day is on loyalty oaths. teach
ing of religion in public schools
and public utility and school
segregation. The majority has
rights as we'll as the minority.
What is the proper balance?
That question is as pertinent
today in Washington as it was
in Dayton in 1925.
John N. WheelOck.