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BibIIo graphy
 Now Available

Parents, teachers. and N other Alaskans learned this week that a bibliography on children's books on Alaska is now available. "Chil- dren's Books on Alaska" by Ellen M- Brinsmade is Iong-needed ad- dition to tL-e bibliographies on Alaska. Attractively bound in blue with the Big Dipper and the North Star representing the flag of Alas ka and published in Sitka, tt..e book Is distinctly an Alaskan product.
 The complete book annotations also include the approximate grade level for which each book is suitable and the topics which the book m hasfze e 5. A complete author-titl-a index and a subject classification add to its usefulness.
 The author has made an earnest effort to check the accuracy of the books as yell as the literary value and the suitability of the illuStra- tions. Those considerations n S prompted a division into Recon naended Books and Dou btful kooks.
 The books annotated q fiction and non-fction for grades one to nine, with strictly textbook ma terial omitted. Except for few out-of-print books of particular value that might be in book collec- tions, t. '. annotations are on books currently available in libraries or from book stores. '91ta
 The author, graduate of the University of Alaska, taught for seven y.,ars in the Department of Education of that irstution. The information on these books was compiled as a part of her Master Arts thesis for~the University of Colorado.
 Invaluable for teachers and L+
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JESSIE BAklKS-OKLA RED HEAD sPARK-PLUG

Basketball fans are in for a special treat in the person of the-one and Only-Jessie Banks, Red Head aBall Hawk" Jessie, native of
 Oklahoma is '-crrific driver super passer and classy performer. Jessie is fast, furious and with a gift of handling basketball. 3rd year with the All-American Red Heads, Jessie can hardly miss mak- ing the all time greats roster of the All-American Red Heads-fea- tured in special half-tir.e show wth her ball spinning, juggling and balancing routines. Jessie will be in the starting lineup of the All American Red Heads when they fangle with: Naval Al-Stars on wednesday, October g at ' pm in
 isse High School CHsss
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"ChiIdren's Books on Alaska" Is available at $1.00 from Adler's Book Shop and The GiIded Cage, Fairbanks; The University Book Store, College; The Glded Cage. Anchorage.
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brarians. "Children's Books on Alaska" will be useful for anyone seeking children's books with good literary quality that are, also reasonably accurate on Alaskan subjects.
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Anchorage,

HOW RUSSIANS SAY THEIR SA TELLITE SPINS-Back line in dicate satellite which Russians say northo south angle the equator Projected orbit of inc vel unfinished U & satellite shown by dotted lN
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MESSHAH REHEARSAL
 Rehearsals for the Messiah every Thursday from 7-9 at. the High
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School.
 Come sing in the Messiah.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
Burke Report

If the Presidents request for $35
million to move ahead with Burke air.
port project does nothing else, 1t may
serve to pry loose the Holland subcom-
n1ittee's report on its long study Of this
much-studied matter.
A year ago, when the Senate APP
preparations Committee set up the sub
committee headed by the Florida Sen
ator, there was some reason for study
Of the Burke issue. The basic facts
already had been rather thoroughly ex-
plored, but the air was so filled with
charges and countercharges, accusa-
tons and denials, that further inquiry
seemed desirable.
We do not know of any useful pur-
pose that can be served by further delay,
however. The Holland subcommittee
must have arrived at whatever con-
illusions 1t is going to reach, and we
think the public has a right to know
what they are. Perhaps the Presidents
money request, as 1t moves along
through House and Senate channels,
will stir up some action on the subcom-
mittee report, which was supposed to
have been filed last January. II it
does nothing more, this will be some
gain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
Pleasant Austerity

August is vacation month in France
and 2 million Partisan Frenchmen
can't be wrong. For while their govern
ment is appealing for austerity as a
means Of coping with a national eco
nomic crisis, the million gay Parisians
are streaming out of the capital city
in the biggest holiday exodus on record.
In their spending spree, they are plan
ming to spread the fragile franc from
Spain to Austria, from italy to Scandi-
navia and even to points overseas. Actu-
ally, 1t may come as surprise to many
that even last year France ran a deficit
on its tourist account as Frenchmen
spent more abroad than foreigners spent
in France. This may, indeed, have con-
tributed to the need Of austerity in 1857
as the Ministry Of Economic Affairs
looked sadly at the unbalanced balance
Of payments"
Still, the traditional nonconformity
Of the French always has been part Of
their cha4m. And life in Paris has not
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

deaths Of Kenneth r. Lari-
gey and his daughter and
serious injuries to the rest Of
the family speeding around
the wrong side Of Q curve.
When are our legislators
going to wake up to the fact
that our mild trafiic laws
really legalize murder?
Josephine Y. Barber.
- =
How long are we to allow
these young punks to drive
around in cars at a death
dealing pace. racing each
other and even the police?
Are we really trying to
make a game of 1t? They
think so, because when the
zone in a hundred" gets
caught. he gets of with a
light fine.
II 1t were q gun the author
tiles would treat 1t seriously.
and yet that is less danger
Gus to others because q gun
can be aimed. whereas a
recklessly driven car has no
choice Of victim.
Not So Old.
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Compromise and Principle

At one point in the civil rights de-
bate Senator Douglas, not without sar-
casn, chided Senator O'Mahoney for
having produced the third edition" of
the Jury trial amendment. He wondered
how many more there might be. For the
Jury trial amendment grew by stages.
It's final form on August 2, when APP
proved, bore only slight resemblance to
the original version suggested by It's
author on July 8.
Ridicule Of the evolutionary proc
esseS Of legislation, whether or not he
sponsors it, would not disturb Senator
OMahoney. He reminded the Senate,
on the day the debate began, that "1eg-
islation proceeds by compromise. :.
Those who propose legislation must be
willing, to compromise If they want to
get results" The Senator got results,
and willingness to compromise helped
to produce them. The amendments in
hts name, and those Of Senators Kefau-
yer and Church, for jury trial and nom
discriminatory jury service, were cleaned
from long hours of debate On the
principle itself, however, there was no
compromise.
The circumstance recalled, to SEN
ator Case of South Dakota, a certain
repetition Of history. Twenty years ago
OMahoney was one Of the leaders in
the successful fight against an attempt
to pack" the Supreme Court. Senator
Case was freshman member of the
House. He opposed the court bill and
Senator O'Mahoney's conduct in that
battle won his admiration. It was
OMahoney, who made the motion In the
judiciary Committee that instead of
pigeonholing the bill and thus killing 1t,
the committee should bring in an ad-
verse report. That adverse report was
made, concluding with a passage cred
tied to Senator O'Mahoney: "It Is a
measure which should be so emphat-
lcally rejected that its parallel will never
again be presented to the free repre-
sentatives Of the free people Of America"
Senator OMahoney told the Senate
on Thursday night that preservation Of
jury trial in the civil rights bill was as
important as preservation Of the inde-
pendence Of the Supreme Court from
Executive domination 20 years ago. In
both cases he was on the right side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04

been at its typical best in recent months
since the gendarmes started to enforce
an ordinance against blowing automo-
bile horns. The largest part Of this
years exodus will be by motor vehicle,
with the confident expectation that
horns will be sounded from the gates Of
Paris to the shores of the Mediterranean.
AS former Premier Paul Raynaud re-
marked in commenting on the govern
ment's appeal, there will be the de-
lightful combination Of "austerity and
pleasures" Who could expect more?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
Asiotic Flu

1t is very definitely a probability,
not just a possibility, that our country
will suffer sweeping outbreak of Ash
attic influenza in the coming fall and
winter. The Public Health Service has
made this forecast more or less in the
manner Of the weatherman, but 1t has
done 50 with a minimum of qualiflca-
tions. According to Surgeon General
Burney, there is precious little doubt
that the thing is going to hit us and
that it may temporarily incapacitate be-
tween 10 and 20 per cent of our entire
population.
The PHS feels pretty sure about all
this for two main reasons among others:
~ The ailment has been moving stead
lily in our direction after having swept
through the Far East and the Western
Pacific and (2) the responsible virus,
which has already afflicted thousands
OF persons In the United States, rep
reSents new influenza strain against
which Americans have not yet devel-
oped an immunity. Hence, since there
has been what DR.. Burney calls every
wide seeding" Of this villain throughout
the country, we have every reason to
look for trouble from it in the months
ahead-trouble in the form of great
numbers Of us suddenly getting high
temperatures and feeling weak and gen.
orally miserable for several days there
after.
But fortunately, judging from its
characteristics so far, the virus that
causes Asiatic influenza is relatively
mild, being nothing remotely like the
one involved in the terrible outbreak Of
1918. At any rate, as DR.. Burney has
explained, the ailments death rate is
very low, and around-the- clock efforts
are being made to produce enough vac
cine to immunize as many million Amer
leans as possible in advance Of the cpl
demic now regarded as probable. So this
expected visitor, although its arrival is
unpleasant to contemplate, constitutes
only a limited threat which we should
be able to cope with effectively. This is
the more true because the PHS and
other health groups, besides warning all
OF US to be ready for it, are doing a good
job In publicizing 1t and taking sensible,
systematic precautions against 1t.
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Is all mine to hold without
severing Q single slender
stem or harboring q thought
Of covetousness = mine as
the whole earth is mine to
appropriate to myself with
out the burden and bane Of
worldly possessions" But
who is this Michael Fairless
who seems to have struck it
rich in all the glories Of eye
and heart in THE Road
Member? It is the pen name
Of Q stricken woman. a con-
firmed invalid who wrote in
Q little room, 10 by s. using
her left hand and writing
the book on q pad rropped
UP against her own body.
Such is the wealth Paul.
having suffered the loss Of
all things, wrote about to the
infant church at Colinth.
The epistle was penned when
he himself was q prisoner in
Rome. Judged BY all ordi-
nary standards. the members
Of that church were paupers.
None Of them were in the
social register Of the city.
Yet 1t was to them that the
apostle wrote, "All things are
yours-you have struck 1t
rich" In an immortal pas
sage, he told them in sub
stance: You can claim the
past with all its great names.
They all belong to you. You
can claim the world with all
its glories; its unfolding and
enlarging capacities You
can claim the present and
in it you have the secret Of
Transforming even q cup Of
pain into O chalice Of victory.
You own the future. Even
death belongs to you, for it Is
but your servant to usher you
into q glory that mortal eyes
cannot see nor mind can see.
Long years ago I knew q
man who laid claim to all
those riches for himself. One
Of his heritages from the
past was that his own moth
er had written Q hymn which
had been sung raptuously by
untold thousands. My own
cody parents taught me to
sing 1t as q child. Here are
some Of its lines:
Ny Father Is rich in houses
and lands,
He holdeth the tDedlth Of the
Dorld In His hands.
OF rubies and diamonds. OF
SLIDER and gold,
His co6ers are full, He has
riches untold.
A tent or a cottage, tDhy
should I care?
They're building a palace for
me oUer there,
I'm the child OF q King
the child OF a King.
What better title for that
old hymn than Striking it
niN1H -
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Murder in Fact

Your Monday paper car
ried stories Of the usual week.
end murders under such cap
lions as 1.-TWO Killed, Six In
jured in Collision Near Lar
CO." 3 Die In Collision Near
Elkton, Nd" etc. While they
are not actually listed as
murders, the drivers who we're
speeding. who passed on
curves. crossed double white
lines, or who had been drink
ing are murderers Just as
surely as II they had taken
guns and killed their victims.
Shooting would have been
more merciful. because the
survivors would at least have
been spared the agony Of
their broken bodies--which
is added to their loss Of loved
ones.
Until our laws are amended
to make death due to negli-
gent or unlawful driving
murder in fact, the killing
and manning will continue
undated.
All Of the campaigns Of the
National Safety Council are
in vain until irresponsible
drivers know for certain that
one major violation will re-
suit In permanent loss Of per-
NIT and that they will face
charges Of murder for caus-
ing death. Drivers who are
responsive to the pleas Of the
Safety Council and who truly
drive with care are helpless
when they meet q driver. like
Lon Deery (who caused the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04

When a sizeable sum Of
money suddenly falls into the
lap Of an individual from q
legacy, a fortunate invest
ment, a guessing contest or
the stored knowledge to an
swer correctly 64-or 100-thou-
sand dollar questions, 1t Is
called striking it rich"
There are some worthwhile
things that money can buy.
Some satisfactions for which
it is the open sesame. Often
it gives wings for ideas to ny
and sing. It is easy to preach
about the evils Of wealth.
One Of today's great preach
ers issues this salutary warn
ing to those in his profess
sion who are tempted to put
a curse upon gold: 1T is all
very fine for shallow pulpit
teers to deride the worth of
gold but / can prove that
half the pathos, the tragedy
and heroism Of the planet Is
wrapped up In money bags"
Some Of the bravest fights
and greatest heartbreaks
that have ever occurred have
been connected with the loss
Of money. The story Of what
U. s. Grant and Mark Twain
did to meet their financial
obligations Is beyond praise.
No wonder poor Charles
Lamb cried passionately. "Oh.
money. money, thou art
health and liberty and
strength, and he that hath
thee may rattle his pocket at
the devil" But there are Sc
we're limitations to moneys
charm, even to scare on dew
lis. There are some demons
for which gold is an invita-.
ton rather than q deterrent.
Out Of that danger grows
the New Testament warning
that the love Of money is the
root Of all evil and that a
mans life CONSISTENT not Of
the abundance Of things that
he possesses. The things
that matter most and that
are worth most, money can
not buy. The centuries shout
that money and riches are
not synonymous. Often 1t
has come to pass that the
so-called wealthiest persons
have had the least money
while those who have struck
1t rich have been the poorest.
When we come to look
closely at the precepts Of
Jesus, it is amazing to flnd
how large a place money has
in his teaching. In the Par
able Of the Sewer. the thorns
which choke the good seed
are the cares and riches Of
this life" The Parallels Of
the Rich Fool and Rich
Young Ruler, Of Dives and
the record Of the transfor-
nation of Zacoheus all have
to do with those who have
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toward God" and How
hardly shall they that have
riches enter the Kingdom Of
God"
Hearing Christ's warning
about riches the Pharisees.
who were lovers Of money"
scoffed at Him. What Q
never-to-be-forgotten mod
ern painting that is Of the
rich young man with his
back to the Master who Is
portrayed gazing sadly at the
receding figure. OF him the
New Testament says, "He
had great possessions" The
real trouble was that great
possessions had him. That
was why the Master, sensing
endless possibilities wrapped
up In his personality, gave
as q special prescription for
his particular case. Get rid
Of your riches and follow
me-" But his money was the
one thing with which he
would not willingly part.
Sorrowfully he went away -
to cater for q few brief years
to his tightly held fortune.
We do not know his name.
We only know that he might
have come down the CEN
turtles as the partner Of
Peter and James and John -
had he but joined his life
with the rich One who
called him, but Who had to
borrow q coin for the pur-
pose Of an illustration.
Michael Fairless' book.
1.-THE Road Member" mirrors
the life Of one who has struck
1t rich. It is full Of bird
song, rosy dawns. lovely sun
sets and the ripping ..Iusic
Of the loved little river that
meant so much TO Michael
Fairless. The author seems
to roam carefree over the
little da6odil-covered island
that lay in the midst Of toe
pellucid waters Of the stream
she adored. Listen to what
she says about her river: 1T
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becomes tighter and less
bearable. Actually. Of course.
high taxes, while q great
factor In this situation, are
not the fundamental cause.
The real cause is the steady
rise. month by month. in the
cost Of living. For this the
chief responsibility rests with
union labor and business
Observation-Disclosures else.
This was recently pointed out
by DR.. Edwin @. Nourse. GER
tainly one Of the most dis
tinguiShed economists in the
country and q vastly different
person from Leon Keyserling,
the Truman administration
and pro-AFL-CIO economist
and the one so frequently
quoted by the Americans for
Democratic Action and other
far-left socalled liberals. Says
DR.. Nourse, I'VE should stop
passing the buck to the
President. the Secretary Of
the Treasury. the Congress
and the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn. The real source Of In
fiation In postwar United
States has been in the market
place-the institutions and
practices Of labor-union bar
gaining and in corporation
price administration"
Appeal Ignored
That this game Of wage
price increases is the rock
bottom trouble with the
country today is not disputed
except by the big labor
bosses and the big business
magnates who go along with
them.
Not long ago when the
labor bosses again forced I'D
their wages. President Essen.
hover appealed to big steel
management not to advance
prices-and appealed. also to
labor to refrain from an
other insistence on q wage
increase. He pointed out
what this meant to the coun.
try and no one disputed it.
But neither union labor nor
business management took
his advice or acceded to his
request-quite the contrary.
The. only alternative, Of
course, Is for the Government
to step in. which is q direct
move toward national social
ism and abhorrent to most
Americans. Undoubtedly, this
Is the direction we have been
going since the Roosevelt
Trum q n New Fair Deal
started. This is exactly what
the President wants to avoid
but toward which he is
being pressed all the time.
Neither union labor nor
big business management
paid the least attention to
his advice and request. Each
continued to play its game
regardless Of the effect on
the Nation. Until and unless
the Congress wakes up, there
Is no way to decrease taxes
and no way to check the
rising cost Of living. In the
end, this means q collapse
horrible To contemnlafa
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Gornishments

The present 5000 exemp-
ton law on garnishments Is
q farce. People who need and
are entitled to exemptions
are not getting them-unless
they are employed by very
small firms.
An employe cannot claim
his own exemptions; his COM
pany must do II for him. and
this is why the present ex-
emption law is practically
worthless.
To fulfill the requirements
for an exemption. an en-
ployer must I'LL out forms.
take payroll records to court,
and spend considerable time
In court.
Some concerns have hun
dreds Of wage attachments
for their employees each year.
so one can see why 1t would
take q man full time work.
ing on exemptions for large
firms.
Knowing this, certain cred
itorS attach every week until
the debt is paid. And what
does the poor unfortunate
do, with no income and q
family to feed? The present
10 per cent law is bad in
many ways.
Make 1t possible for the
employe to apply for his own
exemption under penalty Of
perjury, or have him bring
in his pay stubs To prove his
earnings.
It's that simple.
Martin Buxbaunl
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Catching Criminals

A spokesman for the International
Association Of Chiefs Of Police has told
a House Judiciary subcommittee that
the Supreme Courts decision in the
Mallory case, If applied to the States,
would destroy modern law enforcement.
And the acting chief Of the United
States Park Police has testified that nu-
merous criminals, including murderers,
would not have been caught by his men
had they been "saddled" by the require
ments Of the Mallory ruling.
In the Mallory case, rapist was
questioned internationally for about
seven hours prior to being arraigned. No
third-degree tactics were used. Mallory's
conviction was set aside, however, and
he was released, although clearly guilty
of the crime. The court held that NAL
lory was not arraigned with the prompt
ness required by law. But 1t did not
specify how long suspect may be held
for questioning, and legislation has been
offered to Ak this time period by act of
Congress.
This brings to mind the case Of
Nathan Leopold, whose application for
executive clemency, as a preliminary to
getting out Of prison, was turned down
the other day by the Governor Of Illinois.
Thirty-three years ago Leopold and
his friend, Richard Loeb, committed a
murder that shocked the country. They
were thrill" hunters, planning to COM
nit the perfect crime" They snatched
a 14-year-old boy from a playground,
killed him with chiSel and destroyed
his features with acid in the hope Of
preventing identification. Then Leopold
and Loeb, sons Of wealthy parents, tried
to collect a $4,000 ransom" from the
parents Of the boy they had already
killed.
But the perfect" crime was not
quite perfect. Although he didn't know
it, Leopold had dropped his eyeglasses
where they dumped out the boys body,
and the police eventually traced them to
him. When picked up for questioning,
he told the police he lost the glasses
while on bird-watching trip. He also
said he had been with Loeb on the
day Of the murder. Loeb, subsequently
killed in prison, denied he had been with
Leopold that day when the police ques-
toned him. Both of them, Of course,
denied any connection with the crime.
But the questioning went on over
period Of several days, and bit by bit
other discrepancies developed in their
stories. Finally, the perfect" crime
came apart. Leopold and Loeb were
never subjected to any third degree. FL
nally, however, realizing that they could
not reconcile their stories, they pleaded
guilty and threw themselves on the
mercy Of the court-which was not very
merciful.
The point is that under the doctrine
laid down in the Mallory case they could
not have been held and questioned. In
all probability the perfect" crime would
have remained perfect, and Leopold, in
stead Of seeking clemency today, prob
ably would never have gone to Jail. 1t is
very difficult for us to see how any legit-
innate interest could have been served by
such result.