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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-15
DINNERS
Secretary Dulles Gives
1903 Reunion Party

The Secretary Of State and
Mrs. Dulles combined pro-
tocol and pleasure last night
as they entertained at din
ner in honor of the Dean of
the Diplomatic Corps, Am
basSador Wilhelm Munthe de
Morgenstierne of Norway, and
Nine. Munthe de Morgen-
Stierne.
And at the same time they
made the dinner a sort Of re-
union of people with whom
they have been friends since
1908 when the Secretary was
attending George Washing
ton Law School here.
At that time Ambassador
Morgenstierne was a third
secretary at the Norwegian
Embassy here.
Also among the guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Glover
Che was at George Washing
ton with Mr.. Dulles; Mrs.
McCeney Werlich, whose hus-
hand was a young Foreign
Service Officer at the time;
Mr.. F. Lamont Belin, a for
mer Foreign Service Officer;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-15

Director Of the Central In
telligence Agency and Mrs.
Allen Dulles, the Undersecre-
tary Of the Treasury and Mrs.
Randolph Burgess, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Randolph Mason of
New York Che also was a stu
dent with Dulles at GW); and
the head Of ICA and Mrs.
John B. HOLSTER.
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THE GERMAN AMBAS-
SADOR and Mrs. Krekeler
entertained last night at a
dinner for "a in honor of the
Undersecretary of State and
Mrs. Christian Herter.
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The Korean President of the
National Assembly, XII Poong
Lee. was guest Of honor at a
s to 8 reception at the Korean
Embassy. Nine. Yang, wife of
the Ambassador, was hostess,
and receiving with her, in the
absence Of the Ambassador
were Minister and Nine. Han.
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The Australian Ambassador
and Lady Spender also enter
tanned yesterday, at a lunch
con. and the ranking guests
were the Ambassador Of Eth
opia and Mrs. Deressa.
More guests included Mr.,
and Mrs. Randolph Sewer
ines president of the Matson
Navigation Company, Mr.. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-15

Mrs. Allan Evans, Mr.. w. H.
King, a visiting Australian:
Mrs. Randall Hagnar and
Counselor and Mrs. M. r.
Booker.
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MRS. GEORGE PADMORE,
wife Of the Liberian Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Margaretta
GrigSEy, wife of the Liberian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-15

Secretary Of Interior. were CO.
sponsors Sunday at a benefit
tea given for the scholarship
fund of Beta Sigma Chapter
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
More than 300 guests at
tended, and in the receiving
line were Mrs. Padmore, Mrs.
Hattie F. Young. Mrs. Grigsby
and Mrs. Eliza P. Shipper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-15
Symphony
Elects
Mrs. 'Lippitt

Mrs. T. Perry Lippitt was
unanimously elected president
Of the Women's Committee for
the National Symphony Or
chestra yesterday.
The election of officers was
held at the annual meeting of
the committee following lunch
con in Barker Hall of the
YWCA. Mrs. Cyrus S. Ching,
retiring president presided.
DR.. Howard Mitchell, con-
ductor Of the orchestra, and
Mrs. Mitchell we're there. Mr..
Carson G. Frailey, president of
the orchestra association
spoke on the success of the
Women's Committee in the
sustaining fund campaign. Mr..
Ralph A. Black. manager Of
the orchestra, also spoke.
Elected to serve with Mrs.
Lippitt are Mrs. Abbot Low
Moffat. Miss Helen Newton
and Mrs. Lawler B. Reeves.
LIST, I'd and Sd vice presidents;
Mrs. Lawrence B. Rohde. re-
cording secretary: Mrs. Harold
Prizes, corresponding secretary
and Mrs. Robert Sher, treas
urer, who succeeds herself.
Mrs. Rohde has been serving
as corresponding secretary.
Mrs. Mppitt has lived IN
Washington since 1910 and Is
the former Miss Eleanor
Holtsberg Of Chicago.
Mrs. Lippitt says she works
for the orchestra for purely
selfish reasons. She can
not imagine life without
music or living in . commu-
nifty where is is not avail
able"
The new president also has
served as corresponding sec
rotary and for the past two
years has been first vice presi-
dent. She was a delegate from
the committee to the bien-
NAL meeting of Womens
Committees for Symphony
Orchestras held recently in
Atlanta.
Her other interests are the
Women's Committee for the
Corcoran Gallery Of Art and
the Junior League Of which
she has served as president.
Her hobby. she says. would be
gardening-if she had the
time.
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Of . Friday morning music
club scholarship will appear
in o concert at the Cosmos club
Saturday at $3.50 pm. with
the Senators, q vocal trio.
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Concert Planned

Bonita Grove. pianist. COM
poser. member Of the Metro
politan Opera Company's
standing committee, and donor
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Annual Porty

The Junior Alumnae As
ISOLATION Of the local Alpha
Delta ri Sorority was to held
its annual party for the
Mothers Club tonight at 8
O'Clock at George Washington
University's Sorority Hall.
This annual function Is
being given in appreciation for
work the Mothers Club has
accomplished for the G. w. U.
active chapter.
Evening star., 1957-11-21

Caught in the middle of the crisis
over disqualification of INDECENT patients
in Washington are men, women and
children whose plight the community
can Ill afford to ignore. In the past no
ailing person in need of disqualification
has been turned away because of in
ability to pay for treatment. The city
must make certain, in cutting back
on treatment of indigents in private
hospitals, that no deserving patient is
denied disqualification in the future.
Health Oficef Finucane, in his
control of city health funds, had no
alternative but to notify the private
hospitals that the money for indigents
was running out and that further ad-
missions should be reduced or eliminated
as necessary to keep within available
funds. While Congress appropriated Sis
million for the INDECENT program last
year, which was supposed to provide for
some additional care, Congress also in
creased the disqualification reimburse
ment rate from $14 to $l8 day. This
higher rate, DR.. Finucane said, has used
up much of the extra money. Actually,
despite the rate increase, the hospitals
still are being shortchanged, for it has
been testified that the average cost per
day of treating an INDECENT is more than
SGT. However, the hospitals have been
absorbing the deficit because of the
value of the INDECENT program in the
training of doctors and nurses.
The next session Of Congress should
consider the joint plight Of the hospitals
and Of INDECENT patients in weighing
appropriations for public health in
Washington. The private hospitals
should not have to suffer for the in
adequacy Of indigent-treatment funds
and persons unable to pay for needed
disqualification should not be denied
care. DR.. Finucane has given assurance
that facilities will be found at District
General Hospital for those turned away
from private hospitalS-even If 1t means
serious overcrowding at the municipal
institution. And some Of the hospitals
will continue to incur deficits in order to
render aid to all in need Such a crisis
should not exist in the Nations Capital,
however, for adequate appropriations
would selve the problem.
Evening star., 1957-11-21

the general outlook. Unless additional
tax income can be secured through busi-
ness expansion, it was stated, q sales tax
will become almost inevitable. That is,
unless Virginia wants to follow the lead
of other States in adopting an about
borrowing program something It has
avoided in the past.
The sales tax is a hot political
potato in Virginia-too hot for the Gen.
eral Assembly to handle in recent years
despite mounting pressure. The last
Legislature disposed of the recurrent
question by ordering the Tax Study
Commission to consider the tax pos
sibilities, with special reference to
sales tax. The report of two-year study
by the citizens advisory group will be
submitted to the commission, which is
planning to report to the General AS
Sembly next year. The advisory COM
mittee, headed by DR.. George M. Modlin,
president of the University Of Richmond,
pointed out that two-cent sales tax,
similar to that in Maryland and the Dis
triot, would provide the State treasury
with an estimated $50 million in 1859
alone. That is an argument not to be
easily brushed aside by opponents of a
sales tax.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Egypt in q Web

The Soviet Union appears to have
drawn its sinister web just a little bit
tighter in entering into new commit
ment for economic aid to Egypt. It is
web that the Moscow artisans have been
spinning diligently since 1855, when the
NaSSer regime in Cairo first turned to
the Soviet bloc for arms assistance.
In the two years since, the historic
Russian dream of gaining foothold in
the Middle East has moved steadily
closer to fulfillment. The Nasser gov
ernment, anti Communist in its domes-
tic political policy, has broadened its
friendly" relations with the Soviet
Union not only by accepting military
aid, but by shifting large proportion Of
its export-import trade to the Commu-
mist bloc. Meanwhile, Syria, Egypt's
closest ally, has gone even further in
accepting Communist political influence
along with Russian military and eco
nomic assistance.
Not surprisingly, the latest Russian
Egyptian agreement has been an
nounced in Moscow in extravagant
words of mutual friendship and under
standing, but without details on exactly
what is involved. One thing only has
been made clear-that the Soviet aid is
being promised in response to an appeal
from President Nasser, delivered to the
Kremlin by Major General Abdel Amer,
Egyptian Minister of Defense. Whether
it is to be extended in cash, credit or
commodities remains to be seen, and
there is only speculation that additional
military aid might also be included.
AS for the Egyptian economy, its
Shaky condition has been evident for
some time. The original Soviet arms
deal repeatedly called for long-term re-
payment through shipment to Commu-
mist nations of a major portion of the
Egyptian cotton crop, the country's prin-
cipal export commodity. heavy mill
tary budget, disruption of otherwise
normal foreign trade by the Suez crisis
last year and the freezing of Egyptian
exchange funds in several Western
countries at that time have added to
the financial troubles Imitation has
been marked.
It may be that President Nasser has
found help more easily available from
the Soviet Union than from any other
source. But 1t is help that is likely to
prove not nearly so "selflesS" as de-
Scribed by Premier Bulganin. Egypt is
deluding itself if its confidence in the
policies of the Soviet Union"-as ex-
pressed by General Amer-makes it
overlook the high price tag attached to
the Kremlin's largeSSe.
Evening star., 1957-11-21

The people Of the United
States and abroad watch
with increasing alarm the re-
suits Of Secretary Dulles in
adequacy.
If Roosevelt had been
President owe have nothing
to fear but fear") and Gen.
Marshall Secretary of State.
there would have been no
Korean War. Eisenhower. the
key to European peace, would
be holding 1t there today. He
would not have appeared In
the false role Of stopping q
war which his party stam-
peded Truman and Acheson
into. Eisenhower is an honest
man, an able diplomat. who
achieved his career under
Roosevelt and Gen. George
Marshall; Western Europe
remembers that. To appoint
George Marshall as Sec
retary Of State today would
give tremendous confidence
to them and to the Ameri-
can people.
Elizabeth w. SteptOe.
Charlottesville. Va.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Veterans Day Apathy

A recent letter in your
paper bemoaned the fact
that so few flags were flown
on Veterans Day. The expla-
nation is simple. The word
veteran" has long since lost
any honorable significance it
ever had and has acquired
new meaning.
Today a veteran is simply
someone who has worn a
uniform during a period of
war and shortly thereafter
or is in some way related to
him. Combat service is OPP
tional. Many never heard q
shot fired in anger in their
lives, yet till the end of their
days they can claim all the
privileges of veterans.
Until the word veteran"
ceases TO evoke in the pub
lie mind a vision of a mon
strous creature consisting Of
a great mouth believing for
privileges and a pair Of
grasping hands clawing at
the public till, there will be
few flags flown on Novem-
ber IL. If the holiday were
called Remembrance Day or
Soldiers Day or even League
Of Them Which Gets Shot At
Day, it would be different.
But Veterans Day. no.
william j. Pullin.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Civil Rights 'Fiosco'

One of the motivating
forces behind integration has
been the contest for Negro
votes. BY forcing integration
even to the point Of military
invasion Of recalcitrant DEM
ocratic communities, the Re-
publicans hoped to gain po-
litical power in the South and
some sections Of the North
by attracting Negro votes. 1t
was toward this end that the
administrationforced through
the civil rights bill.
The Democrats have dem
onstrated they do not need
the civil rights expedient to
win, for they won in New
Jersey and New York where
there are large concentra-
tions of Negroes. May they
not. then, lean toward a
friendlier attitude toward the
South and away from the
NegroP / believe they will.
For this reason we may wit
ness the nomination of a
presidential candidate in 1860
whom the Southern Demo-
crat can swallow without
gagging.
I am further convinced
that / have seen the last Re-
publican administration dur
ing my lifetime and that the
party, per Sc. will disinte-
crate in Whig fashion soon
after the 1860 elections.
There should then follow a
coalescence of conservative
Northern Republicans and
Southern Democrats into a
new political party giving
representation to conserva-
tives everywhere for the first
time since Landon.
Modern liberalism has been
likened by Ralph de Toledano
as opinion in arms" s"-infan-
tile; and. being infantile, 1t
lacks the judgment to know
when to ease up on pressure.
Thus. instead Of consolidat-
ing their victory on civil
rights, modern liberals have
antagonized many sympa-
thizers with its Little Rock
f1aSco.
American conservatives
cannot forever be kept dis
Evening star., 1957-11-21

My son gave his life as a
pilot with the 9th Air Force
and his body was returned
in 1949 and reburied in Ar
lington National Cemetery.
But I have had to forgo try
ing to visit his grave on Vet
Grams Day or on Memorial
Day. I have attended the
services at the amphi-
theater and we were allowed
to drive in only when we had
a Gold Star Mothers sticker
on our car. Otherwise we
were told to park outside and
walk up. I have seen mothers
walk from the outskirts Of
the cemetery. up the long
winding roads to reach their
boys graves. I have also
heard arguments among diff
ferent organizations as to
who was entitled to be first
In line at the amphitheater.
Does this respect our dead?
1t is about time somebody
changed things to really
honor our dead-not by fly
ing a few flags. Obstacles
should not be erected in the
path of those whose loved
ones rest in Arlington and
who want to spend a few
moments at their gravesides
on Veterans Day or Memorial
Day.
@-nA Gk-- AH-AA-.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Ship-of- Rolls

If this country is to be
saved from the dreamers and
schemers that brought it
amongst the rocks and mar
rows where it steers its course
today. its salvation must nee
essarily come from outside
the framework Of both old
political parties. For with
both Democrats and Repub-
licans, as of now, it's a case.
it seems, Of the irresponsible
trying to out-irresponsible the
irresponsibles.
With a head of steam of
seventeen thousand pounds
built UP in the outmoded
boiler of our outmoded tax
machine, something is bound
to bust soon. It can't keep
on forever. If it isn't to keep
on at least until it blows up,
we must look beyond both
Democrats and Republicans
to something else.
J. B. Worthy
White Bluff. Tennessee
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Senator Johnson's Chore

It is reaSSuring that Democratic
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson has
emphasized once again that the impend-
ing senatorial inquiry into our satellite
missile program will be conducted in a
thoroughly nonpartiSan spirit. AS he
has put it, facts, and facts alone-not
any politicking-will determine the
course of the proceedings, and Amer
leans can be reasonably confident that
he will enforce that wholesome rule as
chairman of the investigating Armed
Services Preparedness Subcommittee.
All of which is as it should be. Ger
tainly, If ever there were subject that
needed calm, dispaSSionate, nonpartisan
and coldly factual study, this is it. For
the American people, ever since the
launching of the first Soviet Sputnik,
have had to cope with brain -dizzying
welter of contradictory comment on
what the situation actually adds up to.
There have been charges and counter
charges. There have been expert"
evaluationS that cancel each other out
There have been stories from every kind
Of source that simply do not make
sense when they are read together. And
the whole business, which so far seems
to have generated a lot more heat than
light, has been rendered worse still by
the fact that various congressional COM
mittees have been tempted to get in on
the act
In such a situation, who can be
blamed for feeling pretty much con-
fused? Senator Johnson, together with
his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., will be doing
good job for the Nation if he does no
more than establish sense of perSpec-
tive by doing away with the present
muddle of information and misinforma-
ton. In placing his main stress on facts,
and in setting himself firmly against
partisanship. he has laid the ground
work for the kind of inquiry that the
country wants and needs. He is adnira-
bly, equipped for the chore, and we wish
him every success in it.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Narrowing the Search

All of the possible sites for second
Washington airport under final consid-
Grafton by the QueSada Board have been
studied by other agencies in the past.
There was nothing really new, therefore,
in the disclosure that the search has
been narrowed down to four locations
that are in top-running positions. The
only surprise was that Baltimore's
Friendship Airport was listed among the
top four under consideration.
Burke, Chantilly and Pender in
nearby Virginia and Friendship near
Baltimore remained after all other pos
Sible sites had been eliminated. The
Burke site is best known to the public,
of course, since the Federal Government
already has title to nearly 81 million
worth of land there, bought for an air.
port under the original legislation. OPP
position to this site by residents of the
area and by Maryland legislators (who
favor only Friendship caused a stale
mate which Congress at last asked the
Quesada Board to study and report on.
The board, officially known as the Air
ways Modernization Board was directed
to examine all possible locations and
name its choice, with the understanding
that this selection would be final.
Chantilly and Pender are alternate
sites which previously had been rejected
by the Civil AeronauticS Administration
in favor of Burke. Friendship had been
advocated only by the Maryland dele
cation in Congress and by Baltimore
interests concerned with poor patronage
at the Baltimore terminal 1t is hard to
see how Baltimore's airport could quail
ify as the best-or even the second-best
location for Washington's auxiliary
air terminal. However, inclusion of
Friendship among the four sites to be
given final consideration should con-
vince Marylanders that their entry was
not taken lightly by the board.
Whatever the outcome of the CON
test" Congress has made it plain that
1t wants the controversy ended with the
boards report, with actual construction
of new airport begun promptly. A
long-suffering public shares that desire.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Tribute to Planes?

At least one of the airlines
using Washington National
Airport is asking the Gov
ernment for a subsidy to
bolster its sagging financial
status. A better way for any
airline which needs more
money would be for the air.
line to ask for a five-dollar
contribution each year from
each citizen in the District
who is annoyed by low-flying.
In this way the airline would
take in millions of dollars.
In return. the airline would
promise that its planes
would not fly low over the
houses of citizens paying this
tax" I am opposed, how
ever, to giving any airline
subsidies directly from our
Treasury.
"a
Evening star., 1957-11-21
Vnqinio Sales Tax?

Against the prospect of a possible
Virginia deficit in the near future, an
advisory committee on the States econ
omy has raised anew the controversial
issue of sales tax. While the group of
SO leaders in fiscal and tax matters found
some hope for avoiding any new taxes
in the next few years, provided ad-
ditional producing industries
could be induced to come into the State,
the report was far from optimistic over
Evening star., 1957-11-21

Miss Dorothy Thompson's
November IA column, Con-
ference on Nuclear Weap-
ons" relates that no less
a person than Prof. Otto
Hahn, himself a nuclear SCI
enlist and a Nobel prize win
ner in this field. had called
a conference of all scientists
in any related fields in every
country. including the USSR,
to confer on how to stop any
atomic use for military weap-
ons. Unfortunately he failed
in this. Both Russia and the
United States treated the
idea coldly.
However. the concept was
not a complete failure. for
there seems to be a suspi.
cion, one gathers from Miss
ThompSon's article, that
West German scientists did
refuse to perfect atomic weap-
ons. At any rate. the idea
still lives, and Russia is now
reported interested and will
ing to allow her scientists to
discuss means OF ending the
manufacture Of instruments
capable Of destroying all life
on earth.
Is this another chance for
US? Will we take it2 Re-
member we dropped the first
atomic bomb. which makes
us more responsible than any
nation to try to stop the hor-
ror that hangs over all man
kind.
Clara X. Stutz.
Evening star., 1957-11-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES (. TRACEWELL

A reader wanted to know
about yellow jackets.
How could she get rid Of
them in the yard?
They were everywhere. and
simply wouldn't behave them
selves, as good wasps should.
In past seasons. the nests
could be found, but this year
the canny insects had hid
them too well.
The result was chaos, or
something.
What to do?
The best thing. with an
infestation Of any kind Of
wasps. is to build a nice
bonfire.
Plenty of smoke will drive
the pests away, for they are
super sensible creatures.
ready and willing to attack
or run.
Attack or run
This is what life is for,
according to some Of the
scientists.
These actions comprise all
there is. except for a little
brain power, called intelli-
gence, and something or
other called soul.
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If there is any excuse for
burning leaves in the open
air. yellow jackets are it.
These mighty warriors can
sting good. and sometimes
do. though not too often,
really.
II they did wage war on
mankind. nobody would put
UP with them for a minute.
Ordinarily. they are decent
citizens. as long as they are
left alone.
But they do not like
smoke. No members Of the
bee tribe do.
Nobody but human beings
likes smoke. and they posi-
lively imbibe it.
The wild creatures Of
fields and forests need no
warning to stay away from
FIRE.
It is the original terror to
all created things except
man.
SO II anyone wants to get
rid Of yellow jackets, or any
others Of the wasp tribe, let
him or her build a nice
smoky fire.
1t will not be long before
the winged ones take of with
speed for parts unknown.
They may venture back.
from time to time, but their
hearts will not be in 1t.
Beware" says that acrid
smell to them.
Foolish people. smiling
vigorously. may say, "Ah, the
smell Of autumni"
Wasps and bees Of various
sorts say. LET me out Of
here"