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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-31
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for listeners still puzzles the
WIDOW crew.
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TV KEY PREVIEWS

Todcrs top shotps as pyepieped By TV KEYS star.
tuho attend reheGysals icdtch screenings and adize
scripts In Mem York and Hollywood Their opinions are
offered a guide to area UteiCerS @sR
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Preview of Tactics

President Eisenhower has urged Re-
publican State Senator Malcolm Forbes
to dramatic and simplify" the issues in
the coming campaign for the governor
ship OF New Jersey. In doing so, the
President himself has dramatized the
g. o. P. determination to win this key
race in a year of few election contests
and to retire" from office Governor
Robert B. Meyner, potentially strong
candidate for the Democratic preSiden-
t1al nomination. For Mr.. EiSenhower's
1atherly counsel to the youthful Mr..
Forbes was given in the honey atmos-
phere OF White House visit by the en-
tire Forbes Notwithstanding mother,
three sons and two-year-old daughter
complete with presents and pictures.
1t was, by accepted standards, good
politics and fully understandable. Nor
mally, New Jersey is Republican State
and its Is electoral votes are worth a
major effort. Elected in 1858, Mr.. Mey-
ner was the first Democrat to win a
Statewide Office since 1910 but his mar
gin OF victory was wide one. A repeat
in 1857, after the State went heavily for
the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket last year,
would make Governor Meyner highly at
tractive to the Democratic Party leader
Ship-and comparably dangerous from
the G. o. P. viewpoint. In his own rela-
lively brief political career, however,
Mr.. Forbes likewise has shown energy
and effectiveness as campaigner. Mr..
Forbes thinks he has the issues. Mr..
Meyner thinks he has the record. No
doubt both will be dramatizing and sim
plifying their respective causes in stead
lily increasing intensity during the next
four months.
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Another Prop Falls

Strictly speaking, the decision of
the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
does not find unconstitutional Vir-
ginia's pupil placement law. To all in
tents and purposes, the effect may be
the same. But what the court is really
saying is that the pupil placement law
does not circumvent the Supreme
Courts decision that no child shall be
denied admission to school on the
basis Of race or color. 1t was intended,
of course, to do just that.
The point is made clear in the
courts approving reference to Judge
Bryan's opinion in the Arlington case.
Judge Bryan said the Supreme Court
decision does not compel the mixing of
different races in the schools, and I'M
less there is denial of admission on
the basis Of race or color, "the school
heads may allow the pupil, whether
white or Negro, to 60 to the same school
he would have attended in the absence
of the ruling of the Supreme Court"
In the Norfolk case, the Fourth Circuit
upheld Judge Hoffman in his finding
that the pupil placement law taken in
conjunction with Virginia's other laws
designed to maintain segregation in the
schools, offers no remedy for a child
denied admission to school because he
is Negro.
There is no doubt, however, that the
Fourth Circuit Courts decision knocks
another prop from Virginias legislative
program to retain segregated schools.
The pupil placement law remains valid
until 1t is applied to circumvent the law
OF the land as defined by the Supreme
Court. When so applied it has no stand
ing in court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Parkway Compromise

OmcialS OF the National Capital
Planning Commission have given recog-
milton to changed conditions in their
proposal to shift the course Of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway away
from the Potomac River from the Lang
ley area to Great Falls. When the route
for the parkway originally was charted
along the Potomac palisades on the Vir-
ginia shore there was wilderness to
be traversed. In the Intervening years,
however, some Of the acreage has been
bought for fine homes. These property
owners have protested extension Of the
parkway through or near their estates.
In response to these protests, the
National Capital Planning Commission
has been restudying the parkway plan
with a view to finding route that
would cause a minimum Of disturbance
to property holders. The commissions
director and its consultant now have
expressed willingness to adopt a pro-
posal to curve the parkway away from
the river bank and follow generally the
course Of Route 1913. In addition, the
commission has agreed to modify the
ASoA6h Va OAAC POI SSyOAio AdAiBACy,
making 1t two-lane instead of a four
lane highway. These changes in the
plan should meet the objections Of prop
erty owners and park conservationists
who have fought against an invasion"
Of the Great Falls area by bulldozers
They have pointed to the scar" across
the palisades below Chain Bridge as
something to be avoided.
There will have to be further con-
ferences among Federal, State and Fair
fax County authorities before a arm
plan for extending the parkway to Great
Falls can be worked out. Once an agree
ment is reached, Congress should grant
the appropriations 1t has held up, pend
ing restudy Of the parkway. For early
completion Of the parkway is advisable,
before the cost Of rights Of way rises
evenhligher. 4
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On Reading the Fine Print

Majority Leader Johnson told his
colleagues on Friday that the value of
Senate procedures has been dramat-
ically demonstrated by the preliminary
debates on taking up the right to vote"
bill. He is right No recent issue of such
importance to the country has been ex-
amined SO searchingly under conditions
and in an atmosphere which so clearly
reveal the traditional role Of the Senate
at its best.
There is certain analogy between
this debate and the soundneSS of advice
to purchasers of insurance to read the
fine print" Many able Senators have
been examining the fine print in this
bill and reading it aloud What they
have found has genuinely surprised good
Americans who were thinking of this
bill all along as mere insurance, by the
Federal Government, that no qualified
American, regardless of his race or creed,
will deliberately be deprived of his right
to vote. Conditions imposed in the fine
print, however, are correctly causing dis
comfiture to some of those completely
In favor of what they thought the policy
meant. For they are not sure what it
means, or whether it injects more risks
than 1t was designed to eliminate.
We shall not speculate now on the
detail of amendments that will be
sought in this bill 1t is now certain
that such amendments will aim to rid
the bill of its antiquities, narrow its
application to the right to vote and
guarantee that juries will determine
the facts in contempt cases. Such
amendments will be wise. AS an old time
liberal, O'Mahoney of Wyoming, re-
minded his colleagues the other day,
1T is impossible for any person to stand
before legislative body in free gov
eminent and say I know what the law
ought to be-" The law that ought to
be is the result of compromise, examina-
ton of all its implications and the
avoidance of those that are dangerous
No one can argue logically that this
bill should seek removal of certain evils
by substituting other evils; that the pro-
lection of one set of civil rights should
be strengthened by placing others in
jeopardy Yet that is what the bill, in
the form it passed the House, proposes
to do.
The late Justice Brandeis wrote
these lines: Experience should teach us
to be most on our guard to protect lib
erty when the Governments purposes
are benef1cent. Men born to freedom
are naturally alert to repel invasion Of
their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The
greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insid-
iouS encroachment by men of zeal, we'll
meaning, but without understanding
The aptnesS of that warning, we
think, has been demonstrated by a de-
bate which is now about to enter its
second DhaSe
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numerous independent authorities-dis-
tinguished doctors in no way associated
with the business of selling cigarettes
have Joined in sharp criticism of those
conclusions, apparently because the con-
illusions lack the support of SUFFICIENT
biological and clinical evidence.
Nevertheless, regardless Of all such
reservations, the general picture looks
disturbing enough, If not alarming
enough, to warrant the most complete
kind Of continuing study. This is a
challenge not only to the tobacco in
dustry but also to every governmental
agency charged with the responsibility
of safeguarding Americas health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Suns Crown Key to Solar Mysteries

The suns pearl gray crown.
visible to the naked eye only
during total eclipses. holds
the key to many mysteries of
solar phenomena.
This crown is the so-called
corona. which extends out
ward for about two million
miles from the suns surface
and has q temperature of at
least 1000, 900 centigrade.
Its significance is stressed
by Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
former aStronomer-royal Of
Great Britain. in the annual
report of the Smithsonian
Institution.
He speaks especially of the
Importance of radio wave
length radiations from the
sun at irregular intervals
which cannot be accounted
for by the known temperature
of the solar surface.
Astronomer Explains
The atmosphere. or electri-
fled layer of the earth's upper
atmosphere from which radio
waves are bounced back to
earth, is created by radia-
tons from the sun close 10
the X-ray wave length.
The astronomer explains:
Theoretical Investigations
have led to the conclusion
that the observed degree of
ionization Istripping Of outer
electrons OF atmospheric
atomsl In the E-layer of the
ionosphere requires radiation
whose intensity is Of the or
der Of 10000 times that of
a black body Of a tempera-
ture 5000 K. THAT Of the
suns visible surfaced. This
high intensity Of radiation ;.
is readily accounted for by
the high temperature Of the
corona.
There has been much
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speculation about the mech
anism by which the high
temperature Of the corona Is
maintained. One theory at
tributes it to the infall Of in
terstellar dust, the kinetic
energy Of the dust particle
being distributed as heat
throughout the coronal mat
ter. Another view Is that it Is
produced by magnetic proc
esses, associated with mag
netic fields on the sun and
the emission Of high-speed
particles. the corona possibly
being heated by electric cur
rents flowing through it. A
third suggestion Is that sound
waves are generated by the
turbulent motion Of gases in
the suns atmosphere and
that as these waves move
outward into more tenuous
regions they develop into
shock waves, which produce
the high temperature Of the
corona
Wavelengths Differ
The increase In effecu,.
temperature from centimeter
to meter wave lengths thatis
required to account for the
observed intensities Of radia-
ton on radio wave lengths
from a quiet sun. can be ex-
planned on the assumption
that the centimeter waves
originate in the level Just
above the visible surface Of
the sun. while the meter
waves required for iono-
spheric ionization originate
at a much greater height.
where the temperature is
much higher. II these latter
waves were generated near
the surface of the sun they
would be absorbed and would
be unable to escape into
space"
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Inteqrotion Views

A tennessee dlSpatch 10
The Star from William Hines
lists the Federation for Con.
stitutional Government as a
white supremacy organiza-
ton. As q member, this is
the first time I've heard Of it.
As an individual I'm OPP
posed to white, red, black.
brown or yellow supremacy.
Members Of the federation
live in various States, and
their views may not always
be the same. But there are
white supremacy" advocates
even in New York City, which
has been having trouble
lately. In fact. there seems
to be no end Of name-calling
where colors are mentioned
Not long ago an Indian
chief came to Washington to
protest a regulation that re-
quired Indians living along
each side Of the st. Lawrence
River, and the Great Lakes.
to carry pass cards. 1t was
explained that the cards
we're merely to identify
American Indians. and TO
keep Europeans. Asiatics. and
others from crowding US out
Of the territory Of the United
States. So. the noble Red
Man took no offense when
the policy was explained. II
was not because his skin was
red that he was asked to
carry q card.
The New York Times. a
vigorous advocate Of desegre-
CATION for the South, now
finds itself the victim of
name-calling from the New
York Post. The surest way to
cure an "integrationist' is to
dump the problem on his
doorstep. and that is exactly
what happened when the
New York City Council pro-
posed a bill--and an amaz-
ing one-to require 100000
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apartment owners to rent
their property to any appli-
cant or face a $500 fine and
a possible term in jail.
The New York Post COM
planned that the Times was
using the same argument
that the Southern States used
when 1t said:
I'VE do not think the peo-
pie of New York have been
adequately prepared for the
passage of this bill ;"
Certainly not. But. with
vastly greater numbers of
non whites in Dixie, how
would they expect the South
ern States to accommodate
themselves to a sudden and
uprooting change?
Integration-for somebody
else-is just fine.
E. ii. Alexander.
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Left Waiting at the Church
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Therein lies oar Nations
strength.
There are a few mentally
blind persons with reckless
disregard for the rights of
others.
Now is the time for all good
Americans to come to the aid
of the President for the pres
ervation Of their own rights
and see that he gets the civil
rights bill through Congress
so that America will not be
held up to public ridicule by
the nations Of the world.
James o. Holmes, LIB.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

MY, it's hot" said the old
lady. as she sat down in the
seat beside Templeton Jones.
You from Indiana, MANI"
asked Jones.
The woman smiled in a
pleased fashion.
Yes" she answered, "how
did you know"
Temp Jones grinned.
Il always know HooSiers.
he said. They are not afraid
of people. You showed that
by speaking. The people here
usually don't"
Il am from TT. Wayne,
she said. IT'S a wonderful
town. Do you know it?"
\ +
Jones smiled at this booster
spirit.
Yes, I do" he said. II
was born in Corydon."
This statement made no
more impression on her than
it probably does on the reader
here.
"Corydon,' she asked.
what is that"
You should know" gently
reproved Jones.
TT was the first capital Of
Indiana. Old Gen. Harrison
selected 1t, and named it.
HE was a great devotee Of
English pastoral poetry. be-
tween bouts at fighting the
Indians
"At the time, he had been
reading a pastoral poem
called 'Corydon and Phyllis
"He selected the site of the
town, about 20 miles north of
New Albany, which is Just
across the Ohio from Louis
vile. KY.
Then he chose 'Corydon'
as the name, and so it has
been ever since"
Jones smiled.
1T may interest you to
know" he went on, that l
was born within two blocks
Of the Constitutional Elm.
"Is the tree still there?"
the old lady ventured.
Nothing but the trunk,
surrounded by an iron fence.
1t succumbed to the elm
disease"
The old lady from Indiana
is not the only Hoosier. Jones
has found, who had never
heard Of the States first
capital.
Recently he tried the name
on half a dozen. and they
all looked blank.
He wondered why this was.
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Rides City Heads

The District governments
decision to press for removal
of streetcar tracks on the
Rhode Island avenue and the
North Capitol street lines is
made in fragrant disregard Of
the wishes of many Of the in
habitants of the District and
vicinity. Newspaper surveys
have determined that over
half Of the users of the city's
transit system prefer street.
cars over buses, in spite Of
the occasional electrical fail
ures which tie up the system.
The first duty of the Com
missioners of the District is
to look after the wishes of
the people who live in the
District-and not oblige a lot
of outsiders who do not even
use the city's transit system.
I have stressed as a repre-
sentative of a citizens asso-
citation before the District
Subcommittee on Appropria-
tons for the District and also
before hearings conducted by
the District Commissioners.
that the District highway
program. for other than local
streets. is conducted entirely
on the wrong principles. This
program, costing millions of
dollars to District taxpayers
and to taxpayers of the cour-
try as a whole, is evolved
around the half baked theory
that nothing is too good for
our strangers; they spend
money in the District, and so
it is perfectly all right to ex-
pend enormous amounts to
perfect a system of freeways.
beltways. bridges, tunnels.
etc.. to serve ruSh-hour traf-
flc from the suburbs. This
principle is wrong, and it
should not be allowed to go
any further. The user here
can and should carry the load,
and it is up to the Commits
SionerS and Congress to see
to it that this is done. If
toll gates were set up at the
bridges across the Potomac
and the Anacostia, and the
people who used tn e
bridges finally became con-
WINGED of the futility of trying
to cross free. a lot of them
would be also convinced that
there was no necessity to have
further crossings built. So the
thing to do is curtail your
highway program, not tear up
streetcar tracks.
The users Of city transpor-
tation-the streetcar and bus
riders-should have the say
as to whether the tracks
should taken up or not, and
not Commissioners whose sole
concern seems to be to serve
everyone's interest except the
people whose interest they
were appointed to serve.
william p. Thomas, Jr.
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Noxious Weed

Speaking through Surgeon General
Burney and the Public Health Service,
the Federal Government now has given
qualified support to the somber thesis
that people who smoke excessively, par
ticularly cigarettes, are far more likely
to get lung cancer than those who smoke
lightly or not at all
This offlcial position is similar to
that taken recently by the British gov
eminent. AS DR.. Burney has explained,
It is based on many independent studies
that have confirmed beyond reasonable
doubt that there is a high degree Of
statistical association between lung can
Ger and heavy and prolonged smoking"
More specifically, in DR.. Burney'S warn
Ing words, IAN increasing and consistent
body of evidence" indicates that such
smoking is zone Of the cauSative fac
tors" in the disease.
DR.. Burney and the PHS, however,
have given voice to some important
qualifications. One of these is that more
biological and clinical research, as well
as more statistical study, is needed to
establish definitive case against ciga-
rette smoking in relation to lung cancer.
Another is that there is no convincing"
evidence as yet that heavy use Of to-
bacco is a "causative factor" in heart
disease. And third is that air pollution
.lurban smog and the like) is highly
suspect thing that calls for intensive tn
vestigation to determine how big and
villainous role 1t may be playing in this
matter.
In effect, these qualifications con-
cede that the whole subject still entails
such measure Of uncertainty and spec
ulstion that the time is not yet here for
a final judgment The Tobacco Industry
Research Committee, for example, has
cogently challenged the validity Of the
I antismoking statistical conclusions. And
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1918 to 1917. He died March
IL, 1919 Of wounds suffered
In World War !. A private in
Company L, 30th Infantry.
he had been awarded the
Purple Heart and the Silver
Star.
Q. How. old Ia New York
University, in New York City,
Il. 2.
A. This nonsectarian, pri-
vately controlled and en-
dowed co-educational institu.
ton received its charter in
1882 and began instruction
In 1882 in arts and pure SCI
ence. The School Of Law dates
to 1885. and the College OF
Medicine to 1889. More than
80 separate fields OF interest
are now represented in the
university's various divisions.
Q. Was q census taken In
Kentucky in l790?-M. F.
A. Yes. At the time the first
national census was author
lied March /, 1900, Ken
lucky was a part Of Virginia
and was classed as O separate
district for census taking:
before the actual census
taking began, Kentucky had
become a separate Territory.
The census was taken, but
the returns we're destroyed
when the British burned the
Capitol at Washington dur
ing the War Of 1912.
O. Is II true that Eskimos
do not have diabetes--O. Y.
A. This disease Is reported
10 be extremely rare among
Eskimos. II is not yet known
whether this freedom from
the disease is due 10, heredity
or TO nutritional factors.
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It was true, all of those ques-
toned were elderly, and
probably didn't have much
schooling.
In the old days, when THE
Hoosier Schoolmaster" was q
popular book. five grades Of
school was about par for the
average.
Corn and hogs we're much
more important, in the pio-
neer days, than book
larnin."
Americas place names
have a charm all their own.
What a wonderful name.
Mauch Chunk!
1t is Indian for Bear
Mountain"
Templeton Jones was very
much upset the other day to
read an item to the effect
that Mauch Chunk had for
mally changed its name to
Jim Thorpe, Pa.
Jim Thorpe is a wonderful
name for an athlete, he had
growled, but not so good for
a town.
Jones recalled that he had
seen Thorpe play on the
Georgetown University field.
about 1914, as he remembers
it.
HE sure could rum" was
the only comment Jones
made.
When the old lady got of
the bus. she turned to Jones.
and asked:
What did you say the
name of that town WASP"
"Corydon," replied Temp
Jones. "C-o-r-y-d-o-n. Be
sure to look it up. Every
Hoosier ought to know the
name by heart"
In the days since the old
Southern Indiana town was
named, the name has BIOS
somed all over the United
States. so that today there
is a Corydon in every State
In the Union.
Jones was still upset about
Mauch Chunk.
They ought to have kept
that name,H he said. ut was
one Of the most wonderful Of
names. but I suppose people
outside pretended 1t was very
odd. indeed. The very oddly
was one Of its virtues"
Jones says that Americans.
VIGOROUSLY irresponsible with
their old buildings. at least
should treasure their place
names and hold onto them.