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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21

One of the main political bouts of
1858 has gotten Off to an early start with
Goodwin j. knights announcement that
he is a candidate for reelection as
Governor of California. That he would
be candidate was expected of course,
but the timing and the wording of his
announcement amounted in effect to a
declaration of war against Republican
and Democratic rivals alike. In his
initial statement, Mr.. Knight drew the
lines clearly for the anticipated show
down with retiring Senator Knowland
for the G. o. P. nomination. And few
hours later the Governor broadened his
field of combat by announcing that he
would also seek the Democratic nominal
ton in the primary voting next June.
Thus far, Mr.. Knowland has taken
two steps-but not final one-toward
entering the gubernatorial race. He has
declared himself not candidate for re-
election to the Senate, and he has an
nounced plans for Statewide Survey
trip" shortly after Congress adjourns.
1t is generally expected that he will
announce for the governorship, perhaps
while canvaSSing the State, and that
If elected in 1858 he will bid for the
Republican presidential nomination in
1860.
Mr.. Knight covered all Of these
possibilities in his own statement. He
pledged himself, for example, to "Stay
on the job" during full four-year term
if reelected next year and discounted
speculation that he might eventually
shift to the senatorial race by saying he
is not seeking any other office "either by
election or appointment" In addition,
Mr.. Knight took broad swing at the
idea of "the Governors office of Cali
fornia (becoming) pawn in the presi-
dental contest" All of this presents
Mr.. Knight in the light of man dedi-
Gated to his office and Ito the welfare of
the people" of his State-a politically
sound, even If not particularly original,
platform.
Even so. there probably are few who
would bet against Senator Knowland.
In 1852, he captured both Republican
and Democratic senatorial nominations
and went on to record the highest No
vember vote in the history of the State.
A Statewide poll last week, reported by
the Los Angeles Times, showed the Sen
ator almost a 2-to-1 choice over Mr..
Knight among Republican regiStrantS
and comparable favorite over the
leading Democrat, Attorney General
E. G. Brown, If the two are opponents in
November.
For the two parties nationally, Cali
fornia is major prize-both in terms
of controlling the State government and
capturing the bulk of the congressional
delegation. Winning the governorship
probably is the most important single
requirement in achieving the other
detectives. Accordingly, the fight will
undoubtedly get rougher before it ends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Loon, Lena, !, Ne

! was very much interested
IN reading a letter published
in the August Is issue of The
Star. signed by j. Blaine
Gwin and entitled Fractured
Grammar" dealing with the
poor English used by an
nouncers on various television
programs. He mentioned five
different grammatical errors
but failed to include the two
errors which l have noted
occurring most persistently,
namely. the use of the noun
loan when the verb lend is
correct. and use of the
nominative pronoun I when
the objective pronoun me
is correct.
In a recent television pro-
gram Randy Merriman said,
He will loan you the
money" He should have said
OF course. He will lend you
the money" You lend money
and it becomes a loan.
Another interviewer said.
He had dinner with my wife
and l." OF course he should
have said. With my wife and
me. Try saying, He had
dinner with 1" and see how
absurd it sounds.
These are two Of the errors
most persistently occurring
on the air.
IneZ J. Gilman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21

Of the Netherlands. Congress authorized
the freedom monument in 1854 but adj
ditional legislation is needed to permit
its erection on the Federal land near
Arlington Cemetery. The Senate and
House Interior Committees approved
identical bills for the latter purpose
without holding public hearings. But
legislation of such Importance to WASH
ington, to Virginia and to the public at
large ought not to be railroaded through
the present session in its closing days
without benefit of full hearings for all
concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Reuther on Cor Prices

Mr.. Reuther's generous
proposal that the automobile
manufacturers reduce the
prices on the new 1858 model
cars falls pretty fiat when
you read the fine print.
When / read the headlines
! assumed of course that such
a suggestion. purportedly in
the public interest, would be
accompanied by a statement
that in return the JAW
would make no demands at
this time for increased paw
or shorter hours. Alas, such
is not the case. and Mr..
Reuther's pretensions to
altruism and craftsmanship
are revealed as just another
step by the union in putting
It's fingers in other peoples
pies with the hope OF finding
a plum.
George ID. WatrOus. jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Freedom WuH

(See editorial, Speaking
of Freedoms-")
/ want to thank The Star
for alerting people regard
ing the huge monstrosity
CFreedom Waltz which is to
be built alongside the cher
ished Two Jima Memorial.
The Marines all over the
United States contributed
their own money for years
to build this fitting memorial.
Now. without adequate no.
tice and hearings. members
of the House and Senate
Interior Committees have
simultaneously. by some
strange coincidence. decided
for all of us that we must
have inflicted upon us that
huge 400-foot-long. o0-foot-
high monstrosity that will
dwarf all memorials in
Washington: and they use
the old gimmick of throw
ing it on the consent cal
endar during the last frantic
days of the session, where it
would have passed unnoticed
but for the alertness and
good reporting of your news
paper.
In addition to the unde-
STABILITY of dwarfing into
insignificance the Marine
Memorial and the Lincoln
Memorial, it would appear
that a far better use of the
Government land would be
to provide seriously needed
extension to adjacent Airing
ton Cemetery. to afford a
final resting place for men
who have contributed so
much to the actual preserva-
ton of freedom and not 10
its exploitation.
Mrs. Albert Y. Woodward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Loudoun Anniversary

The 200th anniversary Of
the founding Of Loudoun
County. Va, being cele-
brated this week at the coun-
tvs seat. LeeSburg. but a
short distance up the Po-
tomac from Washington.
seems a proper time to say
the county is pronounced
"Lau-den." The Eau" is
given the same sound as in
COW. the last syllable the
same sound as den" in
garden.
Many Of us from distant
States who have but recently
learned how TO pronounce
"Loudoun" have long known
from our history books some
of the thrilling past of the
county.
Just two instances:
DR.. William Jewell was
born in Loudoun County in
1889, the year Washington
was first inaugurated Presi-
dent: was brought up in Ken
lucky. where he was grad
uated in medicine, arrived in
Missouri in 1920, and became
famous in the latter State.
DR.. Jewell did much to found
the University Of Missouri. az
Columbia; was Mayor of that
city. and later established
William Jewell College. at
nearby Liberty, Mo. In 1847.
DR.. Jewell superintendent the
building of a new courthouse
at Columbia. and he had
chiseled over its door the
words: "Oh! Justice. when
expelled from other habita-
tions. make this thy dwell
ing place"
DR.. Jewell did not attach
his name TO the slogan, and
for over four decades the
Missouri Historical Society
tried in vain to find which
Of the classics the words
came from. and has now
given un the search, and
definitely concluded that Or.
Jewell authored the line him
self-enough to make him
famous for all time. and to
reflect no little credit on the
site Of his birth-Loudoun
County.
Then Edward Dickinson
Baker. United States Senator
from Oregon, and volunteer
officer in the Union forces of
the Civil War, fell in the
battle of Balls Bluff, Lou
doun County, Va. in Sep
TENDER, 1861. Baker is the
only man from west of the
Mississippi River whose statue
is in the Congressional Hall
Of Fame Immediately under
the Capitols dome. The other
seven are Washington, Ham
ilton. Jefferson, Jackson,
Lincoln, Grant and Garfield.
All hail "Lau-den" County!
It's really easy to pronounce,
once you get the hang of It.
A. w. Lafferty,
Congressman from Oregon
two terms, 19l1-l915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Cigarette Issue

1 noted in The Star of Au-
gust Is an article by David
Lawrence entitled. PRO and
Con on Cigarette Issue" 1
read the article with great in
tereSt.
l was glad that Mr.. Law
renee stated that he happens
never to have been a smoker.
Then he ought to be against
smoking on other bases than
Statistical association" or
suspicion. :
believe that there are
other bases to help scare
people into changing their
habits of life in regard to
cigarettes. People ought to be
willing to change their habits
Of life when they are danger
GUS and harmful.
Raney COppadge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Let's Save Our Trees

Because Of the present
drought. which in a way has
been going on since January
Of this year. the trees in
Washington and the sur
rounding area have been and
are dying by thousands. So
far, have seen no remedy
offered.
However, If each person
will water the trees immedi-
ately in front OF his own
house, and each businessman
will water the trees in front
Of his establishment. some OF
the trees may be saved. If one
does not own hose. a dozen
buckets full OF water will do
for a starter, The drought has
been going on so long now
that a few minutes sprink-
ling with n hose will not be
enough. The roots must be
slowly soaked. Washington
has always been noted for It's
fine trees. Let's keep 1t that
wayl
Native Washingtonian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Hospital PIunnino

1t is interesting to note
from your editorial Of August
Is regarding the Sibley site
that you have come to the
conclusion that there is an
evident lack of proper ma
chinery in this city for de-
termining where a private
hospital should be located in
best serving the public in
terest.
You may be interested to
know that when DR.. George
c. Rutland was health officer
he anticipated the problem
which now confronts the
community and in 1913 rec
commended to the Commits
sioners that they secure rep
reSentation on some body
which would administer both
the hospital center and the
Halliburton construction
funds for the District Of
Columbia.
In 1853 DR.. Ruhland's sue
cessor repeated his recon-
mendation.
In 1855 and again in 1856
DR.. Herbert Ramsey and his
associates on the Hill Burton
Hospital Advisory Council
suggested that their council
be empowered to review the
need for hospital beds and
submit recommendations to
the Commissioners. This sug-
gestion, 1 understand, is I'M
der consideration by Commits
Sioner Karrick.
The lack of adequate plan
ming has resulted in the use
of millions of dollars of pub
lie funds to move hospital
facilities out of Southeast
Washington and then makes
it necessary to spend mill
lions more to construct an
other hospital in the South
east. Henry Gavens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Defiont Youth

The spectacle Of young
people journeying to Red
China in defiance of the
State Department order is.
in my opinion. Just another
example of the utter dis
regard for law. or authority
of any kind. whether it be
traffic laws, the Ten Com
mandments or their Gov
eminent, that an appalling
number of teen-agers land
those just out Of their teens)
have today.
] am not an "old fogey"
with Victorian ideas but I
am for the "woodshed" or
razor strop psychology"
used when l was growing up,
not this do as you please"
so-called progressive psychol-
ogy and educational system
in use now. When I hear Z, 8
or 9 year olds telling off"
their parents. teachers or
anyone older than them
selves, ! am Just dunn
founded. II I had talked to
any Of my parents or elders
as these youngsters do, I'd
have eaten of the mantel-
piece for a. week land l
love, honor and respect my
parents and. for the infor-
nation Of the psychiatrists. I
am not inhibited.
Revoking the passports
of these young people will not
be enough. They deserve
prosecution as criminals,
since theirs is a criminal of
Tense as much as any other
law-breaking action. Their
parents are also to blame
for not instilling In them
respect for their country and
its laws.
Teen-Ager
Vintage Of World War III.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES (. TRACEWELL

Despite the passage Of CEN
turtles. and the minting Of I'M
told numbers Of 1-cent pieces,
dreams remain as evanescent
as they were in Caesars day.
eve would have used the
name Of a famous Bible char
acter. except we don't know
how to spell IT'D
Despite the work OF Sig
mund Freud, who wrote a big
book on dreams and their
everyday psychopathology. no
ones dream Of the moment
amounts to very much.
Perhaps the only real And
ing in six centuries is that
the average dream, no matter
how much time it seems to
take, actually requires only a
second or two.
y
Evidently we dream be-
tween pulse beats.
1t is here much as it is
said to be when a swimmer
goes down for the third and
last time.
Folk lore has it that at
such a time, all the events
of ones life suddenly pass
through the mind.
Perhaps this is based on
nothing more than the tale of
some old wight who made
such a claim once. Folk stories
and superstitions have a COM
mon determination, a desire
of the human mind to make
something out Of nothing. But
just as no one can make a
dollar out Of a single penny.
so 1t is impossible to clothe a
single fact with the anthem
ITCHY Of multiplicity. In
shorter and palmer words,
there is much hokum. in the
world Of men. The deeds I'VE
do can be embroidered to
seem gigantic, but the dreams
of every night amount to lit
tie and that little Of no par
ticular help to the dreamer.
Temp Jones suddenly real
lied this. when he reached
into his pocket, usually load
ed down with pennies, only to
find nothing there but quar-
tiers, nickels, dimes and one
fifty-cent piece.
But why" some reader
asks. impatiently, we hope,
didn't he ask the man to
change a nickel9"
That. Of course, is the point
of the whole story. Temple
ton Jones always suffers his
own defeats.
He should have had a
penny, he had no penny, so
he sullenly plodded home and
got on his own weighing ma
chine.
"One hundred and sixty
one pounds" the thing said.
Just where he had started
from I'VE weeks before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Where are the pennies?

They are everywhere, ex-
cept when you want one.
The ubiquitous cent plays
the most important role in
its history, as it becomes
essential in every purchase of
everything. due to taxes.
No honest consumer knows
any more what an article
costs, he just leaves it to the
salesgirl. who figures away
with pencil on the bag.
The purchasers pocket or
handbag is loaded down with
pennies. new bright ones. old
faded looking ones. some that
more resemble a soiled dime
than a one-cent piece.
The humble coin has come
into its own.
You can't buy anything
without one. no matter what
it costs.
This strange state of affairs
leads to queer developments
in the personal life. some
times.
Templeton Jones has been
complaining that he had too
many pennies.
They loaded down his
change pocket and seemed
somehow and somewhat
dirtier than other coins.
Jones, along with most
Americans, has a wholesome
respect for germ life.
He knows. as all do, what
one little invisible bit Of life
can do to one.
80 ~
Recently he got interested
In weighing himself.
Finding some reason to
doubt his home or bathroom
scales. he thought to weigh
himself on a public one, such
as may be found in almost
any drugstore.
He would have no worry
about the cent required, he
thought.
When he got to the place,
he thrust his hand into his
pocket in his usual confident
manner
Out came a wad Of coins.
a few quarters, one f1fty-cent
piece. two dimes, and four
nickels.
No penniesl
Can you beat that" said
Templeton Jones. Here l
always have them, except at
the one time / wanted one.
1t is always that way"
1t is, indeed, even with
pennies.
The thing we expect never
happens, the unknown comes
TO pass.
We are such things as
dreams are made Of, and
every dreamer knows how
silly dreams can be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21

Recently a messenger
from Red Cross headquarters
delivered a radiogram:
Warm greetings to you
from southern border of
Weddell Sea, Edith Rome
Land. Here 38 men now pass
ing darkest winter night with
me and looking forward to
return latter part of August.
All we'll. Best wishes to you.
Finn Rome"
Capt. Finn Rome, U.S.N.,
is in command of 38 Ameri-
cans at the remotest and
lonelieSt outpost on earth.
Their camp now is estab-
lished near the southern end
of the Weddell Sea in
Antarctica.
Its commander is a true
son of the polar regions.
His father was an Arctic ex-
plorer. a ski expert. a dog
team driver. skilled in han
ding open boats in the
worlds toughest seas.
Finn Rome was nine years
old when word was flashed to
his home in Horton, Norway,
that his hero Amundsen, ac-
companied by his father, had
planted the flag of Norway
on the bottom of the earth.
Martin Rome expected his
son to follow in his foot
steps.
In the black tent set up by
Afnundsen at the Pole a
message was left for the boy.
Martin Rome was confident
that Finn would pick it up
someday. This was, OF course,
a futile hope. In nearly a
half century the tent and all
it contained have sunk
fathomS deep in the ice.
Father Aided Byrd
When Admiral Richard E.
Byrd was planning his first
Antarctic expedition in 1929,
Martin Ronne's advice and
experience proved of inesti-
mable value. The admiral
wrote later that he con-
sidered the Norwegian lone
of the greatest men l have
ever known"
At the time Admiral Byrd
was planning his second ex-
petition Martin Rome was
to have been his right-hand
man. At the age of II,
the grizzled hero of the
Arctic and Antarctic died
suddenly in Norway. A few
days later Finn received a
radio message from the adj
miral:
If you are half the man
your father is I want you on
my next expedition" AG-
miral Byrd radioed.
That message started Finn
Rome on the realization of
dreams of his lifetime.
Some of the most daring
explorers and navigators of
all time for more than a
century have struggled in
vain to reach the coast where
Capt. Ronne's party now is.
The 80 American scientists
and sailors mentioned in the
radiogram have slashed and
crashed their way through
monster-infested solid white
seas to the 250-foot-high
walls of blue ice with which
this Ultima Thule of the
twentieth century faces the
rest of the world. Edith
Rome Land, northeastern
corner of the Antarctic con-
tinent bordering the Weddell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Rome at Eorth's LoneIiest Outpost
By THOMAS r. HEINZ

Sea. hitherto has proved I'M
reachable.
The UNEMPLOYED country
now bears-with the ap-
prevail of the United States
Board of Geographic Names
the name of Capt. Ronne's.
wife. one of the two women
who has ever stepped on the
Antarctic continent.
Expedition after expedi-
ton came to grief in efforts
to reach the ghostly Edith
Rome Land. The British
mariner James Weddell. first
to enter the berg filled seas
which bear his name in 1923,
failed. The German Fitch
ner, for whom is named the
great and hitherto suppos-
edly impenetrable ice-shelf
which extends outward from
the coast. failed. So did the
Scotch explorer Bruce and
the Swede Nordenskjold. Sir
Ernest Shackleton, whom
many consider the greatest
of all Antarctic explorers, dis
aStrouSly fail.
One morning just after
plans for the present expedi-
ton had been announced a
messenger boy rang Capt.
Ronne's doorbell in Washing
ton and handed him a cable
gram which seemed like a
message from the dead. It
was from Zurich where the
85-year-old Capt. Wilhelm
Filchner now is living in
close retirement. Good luck"
the message said.
Rain Of Ice Cakes
The obvious reason why all
these heroic figures of Ant
arctic exploration failed to
reach the coast of Edith
Rome Land is that it is
probably the most difficult
place to reach on the face of
the earth. A strong coast
wise current sweeps in large
quantities of pack ice through
which it is almost impossible
TO navigate.
But Capt. Rome has flown
over some of the country.
observing that the Filchner
SheH appears to front. at
least for considerable
stretches, on a narrow strip
of open water.
The major problem was to
reach this open water and
then skirt the shelf until
a landing place suitable for
getting provisions ashore and
setting up a camp was found.
This required slaShing
through about $500 miles of
a white desert of ice, from
10 10 80 feet thick. by two
Navy ships-the icebreaker
Staten Island and the cargo
ship Wyandotte-by a round
about route which had been
partially surveyed.
The vast interior of Edith
Ronnie Land will be explored
on the ground with dog teams
and motor sledges.
The major detectives OF
the Edith Rome Land party
are scientific observations of
the sort prescribed in the
international Geophysical
Year Observation-Disclosures
OF the winds sweeping north
ward from the Pole, OF the
shakespeare which here dips
low over the earth, of the
movements of the mighty
ice rivers into the sea, and
of a hundred other natural
phenomena.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21
Sorry, Young Man, But Was Here First!
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry wTfterS' correct
names and addresses An
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-21

Teen-Ager
Vintage Of World War III
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-26

who used to swoon for Merle
Oberon. will try to join Liliane
Montevecchi in Paris to do THE
Young Lions" with Marion
Brando. Montgomery Gift and
Dean Martin.
Vic Dam0ne will sing the title
song over the Cary Grant-De-
borah Kerr smasheroo, "An AZ
fair to Remember" Seems this
is becoming the fashionable
thing TO do. Frank Sinatra start
ed the singing title business with
Three Coins in the Fountain. +"
Pat Boone founded q new career
on his singing of Friendly Per-
suasion" over the credits. Bling
Crosby, who doesn't sing a note
in his dramatic MAN on Fire, +"
MARBLES the title song. frankie
Lame does ditto for Gun Fight
at OK Corral" You'd think a
title like this wouldn't do for a
song. but the Tiomkin- Washing
ton tune Is great.
\ \
Dawn Adams flounced out of
the Cork Film Festival when the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-26

wouldn't let her take
a milk bath. TOO many unem-
ployed people would resent the
waste" she was told. This is an
insult. Dawn countered and she
and her husband, Prince Mas
sim0, left Ireland.
Debbie Reynolds and Eddie
Fisher won't be back from
Europe until August. After
Eddie's appearance at the Lon
don Palladium, they'll take OF
for France, Italy and wherever
the mood takes them. Eddie also
win sign UP some stars for his
fall TV show.
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