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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-26
Area High School Baseball Roundup
Area Games Friday

Fluvanna at Powhatan 1919
Buckingham at Kenbridee
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Cumberland at Bowling Green
afternoon
COLLEGE GAMES
Saturday
American u. at H-SC (2:.30l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Democratic Victory

Senator LauSche'S eleventh-hour de-
ciSion to vote with his own party to or
ganize the Senate is, we suppose, victory
of sorts for the Democrats 1t is even
more of victory, however, for orderly
government.
1t may be that the Republicans really
were hoping that Senator Lausche would
come over to their side and help them
organize the upper chamber, for the
committee chairmanships are desirable
plumS. But if this had happened, the
Republicans might very we'll have lived
to regret it.
In the first place, the people elected
Democratic Senate and we doubt that
they would have looked with much favor
on any shenaniganS which turned it over
to the G. o. P. Secondly, it is hard to see
how the governmental store could have
been tended successfully with a Republi-
can President, Democratic House and
Republican-organized Senate in which
the Republicans had no real majority.
1t probably would have developed into a
mess, mess in which it. would have been
virtually impossible to fix responsibility
anywhere. In this sense, the Republicans
probably were the real winners in yester-
days strange goings-on at the Capitol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Last Hurdle Cleared

With approval by the Commissioners
Of cooperation agreement" on South
west redevelopment, the last hurdle has
been cleared for Washington's-and the
Nation's-greateSt slum-clearance and
reconstruction undertaking. The agree
ment under which the District will spend
nearly SIS million on public works in the
redeveloped community. opens the way
for release of Federal funds with which
to start the epochal project. The rebuild
ing of the blighted Southwest will be a
joint Federal-District-pr industry
enterprise involving, eventually, public
and private Improvements costing an
estimated $500 million or more. The
whole city stands to benefit by the trans
formation of slum-ridden area into an
impressive community of modern apart
ments, houses, public buildings, shopping
facilities and handicapped approaches.
Some of the municipal construction
In the Southwest area would have been
carried out in the indefinite future, even
though the Southwest were not to be
redeveloped Only a part of such con-
struction, therefore, will be credited as
part Of the Districts share of the project.
Many other Improvements will be made,
however, in line with the general Zecken-
dorf plan for Transforming the 440-acre
area into AN attractive residential, cul-
tural and business district, overlooking
the waterfront. There will be 16 major
projects, including three schools, branch
library, fire and police stations, two rec
reational facilities and several important
highway jobs.
The next step is the formal applica-
ton to the Federal Housing and Home
Finance Agency for money with which to
begin the buying of land. Redevelopment
officials expect to be able to start acquir-
ing the necessary acreage, with its run
down buildings, early in this new year.
Thus, it should not be long before the
dream Of a new Southwest moves from
the drawing board stage into the realm
Of reality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Biqqer Soil Bank

The Department of Agriculture has
announced that it expects to invest about
$3.50 million in the soil bank program
during 1857. This will represent very
substantial increase over the outlay for
1856, when the soil bank got off to late
start as result of the political hassle
In Congress.
few years ago this business of
paying farmers not to plant basic crops
would have been looked upon as danger
0us nonsense, the type Of thing one would
expect from such radical as Henry
Wallace. Anyone who might have tried
to identify Ezra Taft Benson with such
q project would have been laughed out
Of the room. But here we are, hardly
4 decade since Mr.. Wallace vanished from
the national scene, and it is Mr.. Benson,
q conservative Republican, who is pro-
posing to hand over close to billion
dollars to the farmers If they will agree
TO let some Of their land lie idle.
! Actually, Of course, there is consid-
cradle merit at least in the short run,
to the soil bank project. 1t should help
reduce our farm SURPRISES to manage
able level. 1t will take some marginal
land, land that ought not to be farmed,
out of production. And II the farmers
in turn make an effort to improve this
unused land, 1t may build UP valuable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Communist False Face

The recent warning by the Fund for
the Republic that the Communist Party
would attempt to fool the public by put
ting on new disguise has proved to be
well founded Evidence of the false face
tactic has come to light in New York,
where State leaders of the party have
proposed that 1t change its name and
step forth as "nonparty political action
association" The plan will be presented
at a national convention of the party in
February.
The move is in line with prediction
made by Walter Mills in a pamphlet,
Communism and Civil Liberties" re-
leased by the Fund for the Republic last
month. The new "post-Stalin" objective
p. of the American Reds, Mr.. Mills reported,
is ito end its isolation and expand its
mass work." It will seek, he said, to
create the impression that it no longer is
dominated by MoScow-that it has be-
come bona f1de American political or
ganization. ITO this end" the Mills
pamphlet stated, sit will resume the fight
for legality; 1t will now operate in the
open; it will eschew 'left-Sectarianism';
it will endeavor to strengthen its appeal
to Americans by working less exclusively
in the interests of Soviet Russia and in
blind adherence to Marxist-Leninist
dogma"
But we doubt that many people will
be deceived by the new line. For accord
ing to the Mills report, "the new assump-
ton of virtue has not converted this
group" 1t is the same old Russian-con-
trolled conSpiratorial organization which
the Subversive Activities Control Board
has found it to be, whatever the name it
may choose to operate under in the
future
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Bricker Amendment

In whatever form the Ger
berus-like Bricker Amendment
TO Article vi is presented to
the 85th Congress, it will be
inconsistent with any honest
attempt to maintain the in
tegrity and tensile strength of
our constitutional Federated
Government.
Furthermore, Congress has
given the President absolute
power to weave the entire in
dustry Of the United States
into a firm, unacceptable mesh
with 80 or more foreign ma
tions. Yet the ambivalent rea-
soning Of the author of the
Bricker Amendment has led
him to never vote against ex-
tension of this power.
The Senator's ambivalence
arises from going along with
the abdication to the Execu-
tive of Congressional constitu-
tional duties, then attempting
to remedy the injury by emas-
culating the Constitution.
Mrs. Charles M. Clegg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04

There is some reason to hope that
the Presidents latest letter to Premier
Bulganin marks first step toward some
substantial progress in arms reduction
during 1857.
Mr.. Eisenhower, to be sure, rejected
the Soviet Premier's suggestion for
meeting of the heads of state in the i'm
mediate future. Instead, the President
stated his own preference for working
within the framework of the United
Nations" and he said the United States
will make further proposals there, pre-
Sumably before the U. N. Subcommittee
on Disarmament. But the President did
not rule out subsequent meeting at the
the sort may be forthcoming If any en-
couraging developments emerge from the
U. N. negotiations.
At the moment, the international cli-
mate does not seem favorable for prog
reSS in this field. And of course it is
possible that no progress will be made.
But we do not think that the field should
be abandoned to the peSsimiStS. If the
ornaments burden seems heavy to us,
~ 40 JuoO do AACdNy, ACdNlCAS
for the Russians. This was clearly shown
in the recent comments in Moscow on
the partial failures in Russia's latest nve-
year plan. Furthermore, Mr.. Bulganin,
in his November II letter to the Presi-
dent, indicated some willingness to mod
ify the Soviet position, especially with
reference to aerial inspection. And we,
in our turn, certainly are willing to make
concessions, if this can be done consist
emily with national security.
1t must be evident to the Russians,
as it is to us, that a sound agreement for
a reduction of ornaments would be mu-
tually advantageous What remains is to
convince the Kremlin that this can be
done with safety to both countries, and
that we are not going to enter into any
one-Sided agreement which would unilat-
orally weaken the United States. If this
can be done, and the "if' admittedly is a
big one, there will be reason to look for
some significant progress this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Tito as Deboter

If soft answer turneth away wrath,
then the Kremlin should stop assailing
President Tito of Yugoslavia for his crit
iciSm of Soviet policy toward Hungary
and other satellite lands. Moscows prop
agandists, echoed by Peiping'S, have been
bitterly accusing him of splitting the
Communist world and serving the West
ern "imperialists" with his outspoken
anti-StaliniSt comment and his persist
ent eSpouSal of the idea that the captive
countries should be allowed to follow
their own independent roads to So
cialism" without dictation from Nikita
Khrushchev or anybody else. However,
despite the severity Of this attack, he has
chosen to respond to 1t almost gently, as
If speaking more in sorrow than in anger.
Thus, in an interview with Belgrade
chief Communist newspaper, Marshal Tito
has declared that he is opposed to en-
gaging in an exchange of invective and
that he sees no reason why differences
between his brand of communism and
the Soviet brand should hurt relations
between his country and Russia. AS he
has put 1t, 1--WE want no noisy polemics.
We are against the sharpening of ten
sion." Instead, he has appealed for frank
debate in gentlemanly manner, making
clear at the same time that he does not
intend to eat his past words and that he
will continue to seek "active cooperation
with all countries In the West and East"
1t remains to be seen whether Russia's
leaders-who regard his views as kind
Of Red neutralism--will respond to him
in similar spirit. Probably they won't,
but he seems determined to hold his
ground and avoid being riled into con-
test of harsh words. In that respect, he
already has had much the better of the
argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

There is no danger Of him
picking up a pet.
Tall stories about eagles
carrying away babies and the
like are mostly just that-tall
tales. Maybe it happened,
once. but no eagle in its right
sense would go after such prey.
The smell, for one thing,
isn't right.
Eagles are as natural as they
come. and the baby smell is
highly artificial, what with
talcum powder, or do they use
that any more?
Eagle talonS can carry fish,
but not much else.
Even II a cat were seized.
it probably would be dropped
before the bird got very high.
With a cat. this would not be
too much, because a cat is sup
posed to land on all four feet.
Whether they always do, as
they are reputed to do. is
another matter.
A cat is supposed to have
jumped. or been pushed off
the Washington Monument
when it was half finished and
is said to have landed on its
feet and run away. There was
no telling what happened to
it afterwards, although one
story has it that a dog saw
the cat making off and
snuffed out the last of its
lives.
Pets struck by automobiles
often arise and run away, but
have suffered liver rupture
and die soon afterward.
though there may be no
marks to show damage.
The beagle is, indeed, q
wonderful dog.
Probably none OF these
agile little fellows would per-
NIT an eagle to catch it, in
the first place. and as far as
we know, eagles do not like
beagles.
Eagle" and beagle" are
two odd words. The second
is eagle with "b" in front
OF it. but evidently they are
not related.
Beagle" comes from the
old French. beegueule. mean
ing open throat. a clamorous
person, referring to the sounds
made by the little dog in
hunting.
Eagle" comes from the old
English, egle, from the old
French. aigle, and both from
Latin for eagle aquila. from
which we derive aQuiline
which means curved, hooked,
prominent. like the beak Of an
eagle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
SoIk Vaccine May Bring Bigger Boons
By THOMAS R. HENRY

side-"like a hot dog in q
bun," says the report.
Discovering such q detail
about an organism a millionth
of en- inch in diameter may
not seem important" the re-
port continues" but what can
come out Of it may be. Already
scientists. supported by the
March of Dimes, have learned
to strip the coats out Of some
kinds of viruses and wrap
them around the insides Of
others. Since the coating
seems to be the part that
causes a human being to de-
velop immunity, the prospect
arises that vaccine may some
day be made out of these
protein coats alone. Likewise.
by shutting coats and core.
viruses may be made to order.
possibly fol use in preparing
live virus vaccines."
Much of the work of the
foundation, it is reported,
deals with viruses that attack
plants, rather than animals or
men. Especially painstaking
studies have been made of
those which attack tobacco
leaves, the easiest to study.
These have made it possible
to determine the highly COM
pick chemicals constituting
the cores or centers of viruses.
1t now appears that these
complicated molecules are like
twisted strands of stems bound
together, to which other
groups of atoms are connect
ed at intervals, almost like
berries on a long vine.
May Be Key to Heredity
Scientists now believe that
the sequence of these attach.
ments. may represent a stor-
ing up of information, some
what akin to the information
that is punched on tape to
be fed into a calculating ma
chine. Nucleic acid is a COM
ponent of all living things,
and the manner in which in
formation is stored on the
twisted strands may be a key
to heredity.
My wife. poor soul, referring
back to the late lamented
Samuel Pepys. has been pre-
vailed on by somebody to make
collections around the neigh
borhood for contributions into
research on muscular distro-
ply" At many intelligent
homes she has met with a dis
couraging reception.
I'VE never knew anybody
with muscular distrophy," the
neighbors say.
She comes back utterly dis
ourage d after tr a m pi n G
blocks.
They are right" I tell her.
II don't know anybody with
muscular distrophy either.
But the best place to start
on the study of cancer is
probably the study of muscular
diStrophy. I don't know any
body with paralytic polio
either.
"A cure for this would make
very little difference in the
world. But study Of it may
bring another half century of
living to the average human"
Which wouldn't be a good
idea either, the more I think
about it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Always the First c ouse'

In your editorial December
%. Always the First Cause"
you use the genealogical argu-
ment for the existence of God
as a stick to beat atheism"
Doubtless many readers were
gratified to learn that The Star
casts its vote for the Deity.
although In these times Of
mounting social pressures
toward religious conformity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04

Dear Sir:
I'VE live down river, where
eagles fly overhead now and
then. and we see them perched
at the end of long limbs high
up over the stream.
What are they doing there?
Are they looking for fish?
"A friend had an eagle come
down in the yard. Is there
any danger that one will catch
a pet cat or dog?
Our dog is probably too big,
being a great dane, but could
an eagle pick up one Of the
little beagles?
Sometime please write
something about the beagle. It
is a wonderful little dog.
rs there any way to at
tract eagles? Do you think
putting out fish would do any
good?
yours truly, G. D. c."
An eagle is not a desirable
garden bird.
Our bald eagle is often seen
along the Potomac, and that
is where he belongs.
He will not come inshore
very much.
II he did, as he does oc-
casionally, he would be no
great help to the garden
picture.
He would brighten all the
smaller birds away. and have
nothing to offer the house.
holder except a thrill. maybe.
for, after all, an eagle in the
yard is a rarity.
Mostly our eagles confine
themselves to the river and
back some distance. They keep
a lookout for fish, and prefer
ably fish caught by some other
bird.
Then they make a dive, and
the other bird drops the prey,
which the big bird retrieves.
Now and then an eagle egg
is found.
This egg is roughly the size
Of a hens egg. slightly darker,
and not the same shape.
The shell is pebbly in ma
ture.
Those found are probably
infertile.
Eagles make good parents,
and may be seen now and then
feeding the young in the high
nest.
There is little danger from
our famous American eagle,
whose claim to national fame
rests on his aggressive look,
rather than from good habits
When he was chosen as an
emblem, we wanted to put fear
in our enemies. and he was
chosen as embodying, at least
in appearance. qualities which
we needed as a Nation.
\
There is no known way to
attract eagles.
Putting out fish wouldn't do
1t, and besides would be rather
messy.
The eagle wants his Ash q
10 natural, % II were.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
ime

Time is like a Snow
That drifts and coverS all,
The years SDeep to obliuion
The t0hole beneath its fall.
1t DiH not melt the morroiD,
Barring beauty thus held
thrdll-
What lies beneath the snow Of
Time
10 cdpttue, beyond recall.
Morooret Speer Edwords
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04

Great reduction in the rate
Of paralytic poliomyelitis
achieved to date by the Salk
vaccine may prove in the long
run a minor achievement Of
the long and costly research
program Of which this vaccine
has been the most publicized
result.
This research, carried out by
grants to scientists and insti-
buttons all over the country, is
opening vistas in many fields
cancer and the whole gamut Of
diseases due. like polio, to NJ
terable viruses-according to a
report just issued by the Ma
tional Foundation of Infantile
Paralysis.
Paralytic polio. per sc, seldom
has been one Of the highly
prevalent maladies.
The Salk vaccine is expen-
sive. It is kept alive in monkey
kidneys. This requires importa-
ton Of thousands Of monkeys
from India. The animals are
expensive. delicate and diff
cult to handle.
Experiments DiscOuraging
Researchers have been try
ing to find some other kind of
cell tissue which can be grown,
and in which the virus can be
grown. in limitless quantities
inexpenSively in laboratories.
They have experimental with
several promising types of cells
but the results. from the polio
vaccine standpoint, have been
quite discouraging. The cells,
after a period of propagation,
have become malignant-free-
living cancer cells. Obviously
they can't be used to grow
something to be put into
humans.
But they have opened a new
field Of research into cancer
itself. What makes them
change? If this question can
be answered. science may be
much closer to knowing what
causes cells in human beings
to become cancerous and a
new line in the fight against
cancer may be opened.
Says a report from the
Sloan-Kettering Institute for
Cancer Research: Recent de-
velopment of a vaccine capable
of rendering human beings
immune to polio has stimu-
lated greatly the possibility
that one could equally we'll
immunize against cancer"
Much Of the present work
supported by the Foundation.
the report says. is not aimed
at the immediate finding of
cures or preventions but point
ed towards the ultimate ma
ture OF life and disease. Such
work now is in progress in
laboratories in California. St.
Louis, Chicago and elsewhere.
First. what is a virus? An
answer to this question would
be of infinitely more signi-
flcance than a guaranteed
cure for polio.
Answers are beginning to be
found. 1t has been learned
that viruSes-perhaps all of
them-appear to be made of
two parts: nucleic acid on the
inside and protein on the out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04

asset for the future, when rapidly ex-
panding population will need more food
and other things from the farms. But
the soil bank idea should not be oversold.
It is merely one of a number of things
that will be needed If our agricultural
problem is to be successfully dealt with.
Still, it is useful device, and it is graf
flying to see this latest evidence that
more farmers are going into it this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
UnweLcome Guests

II the report is true that
the President is considering
inviting Tito to visit this coun-
try, shouldn't the Columbine
also be sent to pick up Russia's
Khrushchev and Red China's
Chou? If we are to sit down
with murderers and thieves,
let's not discriminate.
N. Z, q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Calls for a Vote

Lest the proponents Of vot-
ing franchise for citizens Of
the District of Columbia be
unduly discouraged. this is to
remind them that 80 years ago
ION January S. 1860 Congress
passed a suffrage bill for the
District over the veto of Presi-
dent Johnson.
Maybe before the century
has expired a new and benign
Congress will awake from it's
long sleep.
Harry r. Lee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-04
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What does 1t cost to tele-
phone to England?-N.S.
A The present cost Of q
three-minute call between
Great Britain and any point
in the United States Is $1,000
during week days and $500 on
Sundays and evenings. plus
the Federal excise tax.