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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
Song Plug

Since auditioning is to con-
tinue for an official D. c. song.
I would urge that the District
Commissioners hear the song,
washington, D. c." by Eliza
beth Barrett.
1t is a very moving, patri-
otto song. with a fine martial
air. and I would be proud to
say Of such a song that 1t
was the official song Of our
Nations Capital.
I am chairman Of the Inter-
national Friendship Commit
tee Of our church. In Febru-
airy Of 1856. this song together
with the program Of the eve
ming (given by an embassy
was broadcast over the Voice
Of America"
I also. heard this song some
time ago. played at a dinner
given by a State society.
In March. 1855, attended
a concert given by the Ma
tional Association for Ameri-
can Composers and Conduc-
tors, where I heard it given.
1t is my understanding that
all United States service bands,
as well as the Metropolitan
Police Band. have full band
arrangements Of this song by
Elizabeth Barrett.
Ethyl Clarke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
LETTERS TO THE STAR

ever, we are faced with a long
pull. and the more team work
we have by ball club and fans,
the sooner the ball will roll.
The Washington Senators
need something to make them
different from any other club.
Something to cause people to
become interested even though
we have no Mickey Mantle or
Ted Williams. Something that
may attract young players to
want to play for them, even
though the other clubs can
outbid us in giving q bonus.
When you do not have
money to spend. fight back
with what you have to give
and the Senators will find
some things money cannot
buy. True, money talks. but
how many remnants have
been bought? You still have to
play the game. Washington
fans are ready to give the
Senators the kind of support
they need. If the Senators are
willing to give us something in
return, we can take the years
needed to build the club. Just
give us something on which to
have faith. Marsh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02

Marylands General Assembly faces
some difficult legislative problems as 1t
begins its 1857 session today at Annapolis.
There are revenue tasks to be done for
the State as whole and for certain
counties, including Prince Georges Traf-
f1c safety will be Of major concern during
the session, with program of proposed
reforms that have proved controversial
in the past. And the Legislature will take
careful look at the long-range highway
improvement program, with a view to
speeding pending projects and launching
new ones. The outlook is for an unusually
busy session.
1t is expected that Governor Nc
Keldin will present budget later this
month requiring substantial additional
revenues to meet the cost of proposed
operations The budget for the current
year was 5000 million. The new budget
may be well over $3.50 million, according
to reliable predictions. This would mean
that the Legislature would have to find
ways and means of raising about 81 mil
lion more than present taxes produce.
And Prince Georges County has its own
special fiscal problem. 1t will ask author
ity to find new revenue sources to raise
about SIS million which it needs for its
annual budget. A cigarette tax has been
one proposal-but any such levy is bound
to encounter strong resistance from the
tobacco-raising part Of Prince Georges.
Perhaps the biggest headache Of the
new Assembly will come from a package
Of ~ bills calling for drastic revision of
the States motor vehicle laws. The
Legislative Council could not make UP its
mind about some Of these proposals, so
1t decided to submit the whole group.
Chief among the debatable measures are
those to require periodic denomination
and licensing of automobile drivers
maryland issues lifetime permits" now
and periodic inspection Of automobiles.
There are strong forces on each side of
these, issues and another lively battle Is
In prospect.
OF particular interest to residents Of
both OF the nearby counties will be bills
for the reorganization of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and for revised assessment
and other procedures of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission. The
main planning issue will be whether to
revamp and expand the present MNCPPC
or to abolish the bicounty setup III favor
OF county planning at the governing
board level. This fight will be watched
with great interest by Metropolitan Area
planning agencies, for a reversion to
intraCounty planning instead NJ inter
county planning by joint agency would
be looked upon by regional planners as
backward step.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02

fowl, which had previously
been imported from Africa by
way Of Turkey and was called
a turkey. 1t is believed this
name accompanied the bird
when European colonists re-
introduced it into the new
world. However, some experts
believe the name arose because
the birds call sounds like
"turk-turk-turk."
@. How m any whooping
cranes are now In existence.
%. B.
A. Less than 80. There are
three in ZOOS. The National
Wildlife Federation reported
in mid-November that "a Of
these rare birds, including
three young ones, had arrived
at their wintering grounds, and
that a few stragglers might
show up later. In past years
cranes have arrived as late as
December % at the Arkansas
National Wildlife Refuge and
adjacent areas on the Gulf
Coast of Texas.
@. How old was Pompeii at
the time 1t was buried by vol
canic ash?-O. p.
A. When the city was buried,
in AID. 70. 1t was about 600
years old and both a COM
mercial center and a fashion,
able resort for wealthy Ro-
mans. The population was
over $4,000.
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Parks Paradox

Since 1890 the Maryland Ma
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission has acquired
over 5000 acres of land in
designated stream valleys for
recreational purposes. Under
provision of the Capper-Cram-
ton stream valley system, the
Federal Government contrib
utes one-third of the cost and
the remaining two-thirds is
paid for by the taxpayers of
the Maryland Regional Dis
trict who pay the seven cent
park tax levy.
Like Zeno's paradox in
which the hare can never
catch up with the turtle, park
acquisition" according to the
Commission. marches behind
the unrelenting pace Of home
building" In its recent Mas
ter Plan" Of parks and recrea-
ton areas, the Commission
recommends for the Westmore-
land and Sumner recreation
center. "a playground west OF
the railroad to accommodate
younger children"
Six acres of a seventeen-acre
tract which was acquired by
the Commission under the
stream valley system in 1852
were located west OF the rail-
road" In fact 1t was q part Of
the Little Falls Stream VAL
ley" Although the six acres
were ideally situated as a play
area for the younger children,
the Commission sold them in
1854 to a real estate developer.
No wonder park acquisition
marches behind the unrelent-
ing pace Of home building.
Ho..o.. Hal
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States, it is reported by DR.. j.
w. Graham Of the Carnegie
staff, indicate that the north
magnetic pole hundreds Of
millions Of years ago was
somewhere in what is now
Korea. The same Is indicated
by rock studies In England.
No similar shift Of the poles.
however, is indicated by
studies Of South African for
nations.
DR.. Graham and his asso-
ciatss report at least one other
way in which the orientation
Of the fossil needles can be
explained in part but they do
not pretend to have the an
swer. The measurements. they
stress, often are extremely diff
ficult. Both polar wandering
and continental drift seem to
At into the ever more COM
pick picture, DR.. Graham
stresses.
Debated 80 Years
Whereas polar wandering
was formerly considered i'm
possible" he says, 'it now
seems, to some at least, to be
inevitable. Some regionally
consistent patterns of magnet
ization are most simply inter-
preted on the basis of such
wandering. and theoreticians
now grant that it is possible.
These tentative conclusions are
in marked contrast with strong
convictions of the previous sew
eral decades.
1.-THE concept of continental
drift has been debated for
nearly so years. During that
time an amazing array Of de-
tails, mainly geological, have
been assembled in support of
the idea. Geophysicists have
been staunch opponents, main
ly on the basis that there is
no possible way, with our pres
ent knowledge of the proper
ties Of the mantle and crust
of the earth, for continental
sectors to be translated rela-
tive to one another. But al
ready some of the available
magnetic data, when compared
with geological evidence, can
be most easily interpreted in
terms of continental drift"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
Segregation Setback

Virginia has lost another round in
its ill-advised and, we think, futile legal
battle to prevent any public school in
tegration anywhere in the State.
This latest defeat appears in the
form Of ruling by the Fourth Circuit
Court Of Appeals upholding lower court
decisions directing Arlington County and
the city of Charlottesville to desegregate
their schools. The appellate court, to
be sure, did not command Indignation
and approved an observation by Judge
Albert Bryan in the Arlington case to the
effect that the Supreme Court did not
require Indignation. But this is some
thing Of a, verbal exercise For 1t is
hardly possible, as practical matter, to
obey the desegregation order and also
avoid any Indignation.
Presumably, request for Supreme
Court review will postpone the effective
date Of this latest ruling. And Virginia's
new pupil placement law also remains
to be tested.
Some weeks ago, District Judge
Walter Hoffman, Of Norfolk, commented
on the placement law. Judge Hoffman,
who is not inclined toward restraint in
his announcements, said that If he had
to rule at that time on the placement law
he would throw 1t out the window"
There is language in the circuit courts
decision, however, which seems to frown
on this rather unjudicial attitude.
AS we read the appellate decision, the
placement law, which ostensibly provides
for assignment of pupils on other than
racial grounds, will be given fair test.
Judge Bryan said that his order was not
to be construed as multiplying State or
local rules now in force "or hereafter
promulgated" for the assignment of
pupils to schools, provided such assign
ments are not based on race. The Court
Of Appeals approved this language, and
suggested that it should apply also in
the Charlottesville case.
So the placement law, it would seem,
Is to be given trial. But we doubt that
The trial will be successful, for the
authors OF the law, which was not in
force at the time of Judge Bryans ruling,
have made 1t plain that its purpose is to
maintain segregation. And the courts,
IN our judgment, are not going to finally
approve plan which, in its application,
serves to prevent any indignation, even
though race is not mentioned as basis
tor school assignments.
In the end, the whole clumsy legis-
1ative structure which has been erected
IN Virginia is almost certain to collapse.
There will either be some indignation or
many public schools will be closed Hence,
It is becoming increasingly clear that a
bad mistake was made when Virginia
3urned away from the relatively sensible
provisions of the original Gray Plan. If
They were in effect now, this problem
could be handled without great difficulty.
But Governor Stanley chose to lead his
State in the other direction, and the day
of reckoning is not far away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02

Constantine Brown states
that the new Japanese Premier
has apparently absorbed, like
Prime Minister Nehru, the
Chinese Communist line that
unless the Reds are admitted
to the United Nations. and the
United States regularizes its
its relations with the Peiping
regime at the expense of the
remaining free Asiatic coun-
tries, q new violent outbreak
in the Pacific will be in
evitable."
1t is possible that certain
Asian leaders, rather than abb
sorbing any Communist line,
have independently arrived at
the conclusion enunciated by
John Foster Dulles in his book
"War and Peace" that 'if we
want to have a world organiza-
ton. then it should be repre-
sentative Of the world as it u.s."
The U. N. already contains q
number Of dictatorial govern
ments that came into power as
a result Of revolutions. Even
though we strongly disagree
with the fundamental concepts
and methods Of Red China. the
fact remains that she governs
nearly a fourth of the worlds
population.
Furthermore. why would
Nehru, leader Of the worlds
most heavily populated democ-
racy, favor a step which he
knew would be "at the expense
of the remaining free Asiatic
countries? Quite to the con-
trary. wouldn't he, before sup
porting Repatriation of re-
lations with Communist China.
have become convinced that a
lessening Of tensions between
Peiping and the Free World
would be advantageous at least
to his own country, and most
likely to the majority Of nom
communist Asian nations?
Mr.. Brown himself says that
"there has been a growing
feeling in Japan-even among
the ultra conservative indus
trial tycoons-that commercial
relations between their country
and the USSR and especially
with Communist China are es-
sential for survival Of the
country" Tim Coss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

own, that they get into
trouble.
This is a dispute that will
never end. apparently, but
many people are betting on
the starlings-and the squir-
rels.
They feel that we need the
merry note they inject into
everyday life.
Heaven knows. modern life
needs humor as never before.
Some creatures, notably
these two, seem to embody a
sense of fun.
All one has to do is watch
them rather intently for a
time.
With all this watching, one
must be fair.
1t is possible to look at
something unfairly. It is done
every day! On all sides we see
people who never try to be
fair in their looking. They
have preconceived ways of
looking. They are jury and
Judge, all in one, and the
verdict is loaded from the
start.
This system is often found
In amateur watching of living
things.
One moves to the suburbs,
begins to be interested in the
wild birds, and then at once
begins to take sides.
One puts out a free lunch,
then grows red in the face
because some hungry living
thing takes him at his word.
1t is much better, we feel,
to realize right at the start
that the living community is a
very large one, and that it is
all bound together with a
golden thread.
The study of this relation
ship is called geology, and
thousands of persons today
study it without ever having
heard of the word or knowing
anything about it.
Basically it means that all
living things exist together,
and apparently have a right to
exist together.
The very observer, himself,
is part of the plan.
1t is only a very Anticipated
conception of mans place in
the universe which will insist
on drawing lines where the
Creator has drawn none.
These little things sit in
Judgment on us, really, not so
much us on them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
January

January. youthful sage,
Is tDo-tdced, I admit.
With one he scans his heritage,
Picks fine old thread to knit
into the fabric OF the nep,
The year notD Just beginning,
DiScardS the tDorn, retains the
true.
He starts a strong peb
spinning.
Mekkin S. Perkins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
Regional Planning

The Maryland IN a tional
Capital Park and Planning
Commission is gratified at the
public support which it Is re-
ceiving. including, Of course,
the remarkably fine editorial
which appeared in The Star
on December 10.
I noticed the recent Joint
letter signed by Messrs. Stolz-
enbach and Harris and Eliza
beth Rohr in The Star, in
which the writers-although
not complaining Of any mac
curacy in the editorial-never-
theless disagree with the con-
illusions reached by The Star
and indeed the press generally
as we'll as most of the mem
bers of. the public.
This group. however. seems
now to have abandoned its
recommendation that regional
planning for the Maryland
area be transferred to the Ma
tional Capital Regional Plan
ming Council. This. proposal
was probably so unsound and
impractical that they have
forgotten about it.
I note. however. that in their
Joint letter these individuals
say "bicounty planning prob
lens as between Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties
are those that pertain to any
two adjoining counties any
where" This statement is OBJ
viously fallacious on its face
and is Of course entirely UNI
supported by any responsible
planning authority. It is per-
haps sufficiently refuted by the
report of LadislaS Segoe and
Associates of Cincinnati, pages
IV-3, 4. as follows:
CAS- Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties lie within
the Washington Metropolitan
Area they share in most of the
planning problems Of that
area. The two counties have
many natural, physical and
developmental characteristics
in common. suggestive Of a
more or less homogeneous re-
gion to begin with.
This pattern presents the
people of the two counties
with many planning problems
which are of concern to them
but which transcend their To-
cal political jurisdictions. The
need for a regional planning
agency to deal effectively with
these problems is apparent"
]. Bond Smith,
General Counsel. Maryland
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02
Hot Stove League

My heartiest congratulations
to The Star and Reporter Burt
Hawkins for that excellent
series on the Washington Sem
ators. 1t was the most refresh-
ing and frankest statement on
the condition of the club that
has appeared in the papers for
20 years.
Mr.. Hawkins definitely got
to the root Of the problem
when he suggested that some
realistic thinking and planning
is required If the Senators ever
hope to progress. This idea Of
picking up a few cast-offs each
year and bringing UP a few
rockies from the very low
minors results in exactly what
the club deserves-Second divi-
sion clubs. It's high time the
management got off their seats
and took a long look at the
situation. Either sell out to
someone who can sink some
money into the franchise or
else take some drastic steps
toward improving present con-
ditions. The park is too small,
poorly administered, parking is
impossible, and the quality of
the teams is just plain sub
standard.
Granted that the late Clark
Griffith was one of the finest
men ever connected with the
game. there is little for Wash
ington fans to hope for If the
present management decides to
continue his policies. Let's face
it; they're Just out Of date. I've
been going out to the park
since 1884 and there's been
little to cheer about-as Mr..
Hawkins put 1t so well.
Gordon Cones.
4 n ~
The articles on the Senators
by Burton Hawkins were very
interesting and revealing. I
am sure the. job of Calvin is
not an easy one to cope with.
The fact still remains that we,
the fans. are looking for a
ball club which we can be
proud of. Almost everyone
agrees we have a choice spot
for a club. If we could get
out Of the rut. The question Is
how or when will 1t come?
Enough has been said about
the ills that we face, such as
securing players, parking.
leadership. and feuds between
stockholders. II we could pluck
some players out Of the blue,
and get the club on q winning
streak. these other problems
would be small indeed. How
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02

AS / stood on the sidewalk
adjacent to a downtown park
ing lot, I observed one Of the
auto Jockeys move my car into
a parking space. He got into
my car. raced the motor, caus-
ing the wheels to spin, and
moved about 40 feet. Needless
to state the car was stopped by
rapid and hard application Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02

One may weep over a killed
squirrel, and still say: "Drat
'em!"
This is the dilemma Of a
Woodley road correspondent,
who writes:
+. II read your recent article
praising squirrels. Believe me,
you can wax enthusiastic
about them, but I hate the
miserable rodents when they
have driven away my chicka-
dees. downy woodpeckers, nut
matches and titmice.
THE pests come straight up
the wall to my fifth floor
apartment and eat the whole
peanuts that are put out for
the blue jays and redbirds.
They crawl in and eat the
sunflower seeds.
Il used to weep when q
squirrel was run over on
Twenty-ninth street, but now
they have become so skillful,.
not a death in q year,
drat 'em.
1.-TWO mockingbirds fight the
miserable starlings. which
come to eat raisins."
y 4 ~
The war against the STAR
lings goes on.
The National Capital is try
ing to get them out of town
by using a spray on their
favorite roosts.
Some cities have empowered
policemen to use shotguns on
them. plainly contrary to
law.
Over in England, where
they value the startling at its
true worth, one city has
lighted up a whole park for
their benefit, making the
trees warm roosts. This, it is
hoped, will please them. as
they like to have warm feet.
1t is not always realized
that their tender feet is what
makes the starlings seek
roosts on downtown buildings.
The lodges and sills and
corniceS are warmer there.
\ y 4 4
Sometimes starlings, roost-
ing on metal roofs in the cold,
freeze their claws to the
metal, and cannot get loose
until the sun thaws them out.
Actually. squirrels and star
lings are capable, interesting
and beautiful living things.
1t is only when they infringe.
in some way or other, on what
human beings regard as their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-02

Pen names mdy be used u
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
s1tton.
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