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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14
Cold to Steel

The letter OF Gordon r.
Jensen repeats the deceptive
claims made by the steel
companies in their advertise
ment of August Is. One such
claim is that the increase in
wage payments was SO times
the increase in dividend pay
ments for the first half Of
this year compared to the
first half of last year. This
is a phony comparison.
In the first place the cur
rent dispute is over wage
rates, or dollar and cents per
hour, and not over wage pay
ments for more hours worked
or more workers employed re-
quired to produce more steel.
At the same hourly rates the
steel workers should, of
course, receive more wage
payments for more hours
worked. However, the in
crease in profits accruing to
the owners represents a
higher rate of return on ap-
proximately the same invested
capital. More employment is,
of course, desirable but is not
due to the generosity of the
steel companies but rather to
increased orders for steel
which also account for more
profits. The only significance
in comparing wage payments
with dividend payments is
that they are both payments
and thus have the effect of
being misleading.
The above mentioned letter
and advertisement further
claim that dividend payments
are the only true return to
the owners on their invest
ment and that reinvested
profits are not really profits
but phantom" profits. This
is also a phony that has con-
siderable acceptance. In the
one case the owners receive
cash and in the other case
their investment in the COM
pany is increased in the form
of whatever assets the COM
pany invests the profits. This
latter is often more desirable
than cash because the REIN
vested profits earn more
profits. Reinvested profits
have exactly the same value
to the owners as additional
shares of stock for the same
amount and, for that matter.
many corporations issue stock
to the owners to cover &C
cumulated reinvested profits.
There is nothing phantom
about a few shares of steel
company stocks but some of
these arguments advanced by
the steel companies, when
run down, turn out to be
phantoms.
Zalie v. Warner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Jones has a friendly regard
for primitive man. 1t is the
primitive man in all of us
that keeps us from making
complete fools of ourselves.
If it were not for old Og,
the primitive, we would heed
leSsly walk into fire and the
like.
Old Og learned it all for us
the hard way.
So,
The white spider, almost
one-fourth Of an inch long,
made Temp Jones start.
Jump would be the better
word for it.
Jones jumped, very slightly,
perhaps, but jump, neverthe-
less, he did.
The spider ran, or slith-
cred, whichever it is that
spiders do when alarmed.
1t was almost a draw,
whether Jones or the spider
was alarmed the most.
+ 4 -
Small white spiders should
be welcomed, greeted, that is,
if they are below half an
inch in width or breadth, or
both.
Above that, a spider be-
comes rather fearsome.
The point is that fall
drives many spiders indoors.
They seek shelter, just as
people do.
Also, food.
A milk-white spider gives
you a good chance to find
out whether you have the
milk of human kindness, as
it is picturesquely called, in
you.
If instinctively you slap
and kill, know that you are
a little dictator in essence.
But if you draw back, and
at the last moment, and let
the creature live, feel pretty
sure that life means some
thing to you.
Life, for the dictators of
this world, means nothing,
or less than nothing.
A spider, at the right time,
might have changed Adolf
into a better man, and so the
world would have been a
better place to live in.
Just for lack of a spider,
we have the cold war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14
Depressing Thouqht

The AFL-CIO leaders pre-
dict that we will run into a
depression within the next
few years.
We sure will if the labor
unions, through the steel
strike and the longshore-
mems strike, choke American
industry to death, while Rus
STA is left free to take over
the resulting idle markets.
Frank G. Campbell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14

What was the milk white
spider doing in Templeton
Jones new aforementioned
Office?
Here he was, the first of
his tribe to invade the sacred
precincts.
Jones, being a softie, let it
live.
The last he saw of it the
creature was going along over
the new tile as if made for
the material.
Insects. by and large, know
nothing of mans creations.
A big one came to a prison
cell, and a little one to a
nuns cell, and here was a
milk white one suddenly APP
pearing on Jones desk.
\ Il Il
Jones was buSily looking
into the new telephone direc-
tory.
This has now grown to
such a big volume, with cor
respondingly small type, that
Mr.. Jones found it difficult
to discover the number he
wanted.
Many people, of course,
know this perplexity.
Middle age sight, they call
1t.
Mr.. Jones had defeated it,
once, when he was forty.
He got himself a fine pair
of glasses, wore them a week,
decided he didn't like glasses,
and took them off for good.
At least, so he thought, then.
he is not so sure now.
Either the type in the tele-
phone directory is growing
very small, or else
Temp Jones finally found
the number he sought, but
just as he started to jot it
down. always a good habit
something came within his
vision.
Jones side vision is still
wonderful. evidently.
He had his back to the
spider, and he was not
thinking of spiders at all, in
fact his mind was far away,
but he saw it.
This faculty was the one
that often saved primitive
man from snakes or other
enemies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14
Only One Hurdle

Herbert SommerS writes a
convincing letter to The Star
setting forth many valid and
realistic reasons why Rich
ard Nixon will be the next
American President. From
first to last, this is a superb
bit of political reasoning.
Only one hurdle remains for
Mr.. Sommers: He must get
the necessary millions OF
voters to agree with him.
A. L. HI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14

mainland understood the true
attitudes of Puerto Ricans
toward the United States, of
which they have been citizens
since 1917, the false image
created by recent unfortunate
events in New York would be
diSpelled. McGill'S article
and the compassionate under
standing with which it was
written, do credit to the
newspaper profession.
John P. Caldwell.
Director of Education,
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal En-
ployes, AFL-CIO.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry wrtters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14

@. Is it true that there is
no tipping in Australia? If
so. why'd. F.
A. Travellers in Australia
customarily tip as they would
in their own countries, but
the Australians themselves
rarely tip each other. Bar
bers, bartenders and taxicab
drivers are practically never
tipped; restaurant and hotel
walters are tipped only on
special occasions. One Aus
tralian explained the national
habit of nontipping as re-
sulting from "the strong
streak of independence in
our makeup that makes even
the Aussie bottle washer feel
he doesn't want charity from
anybody"
@. Why do doctors now
urge patients to get out of
bed as soon as possible after
an operation?-T. S.
A. Chief reason for early
ambulation is to keep blood
circulation at a rate near
normal. Movement is impor-
tant to prevent stagnation
of the blood, and the possible
forming of a blood clot.
@. Who signed the United
States declaration Of war
when we entered World War
I? G. K.
A. Champ Clark, Speaker
of the House of Representa-
tives; Thomas r. Marshall,
United States Vice President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14
Rats and monkeys can
count and tall time

HatS ana monkeys can
count and tell time.
The same probably is true
Of other higher animals, to
various degrees.
Both rats and monkeys
used in experiments now in
progress at the Army's Wal
ter Reed Institute of Research
appear to have clocks of some
sort in their brains, or some
where in their nervous sys-
TENS, which are accurate at
least within 2 seconds. Both
can count indefinitely.
This is one Of the findings
Of Walter Reed psychologists
in experiments designed to
put the animals on some
thing like a human work-a-
day schedule, Ito make them
earn their livings by the
sweat of their brows," as one
experimenter says.
The first step is relatively
easy. The rat or monkey,
kept long enough without
food so it is quite hungry, is
taught to press a key to get
a morsel to eat or a drop of
liquid. Otherwise it gets
nothing. In a few hours of
constant key pressing at a
rate of about once a second
a creature can earn" an
adequate days suStenance,
like a laborer's days wage.
In a short time the hungry
animals learn to work and,
by and large, there are no
Shirkers.
Quick to Learn
But for the average hu-
man being life is somewhat
more complicated. He is not
paid by the day but by week
or month. This situation is
duplicated among the ami
mails by arranging the keys
so that food or drink is de-
livered only once every 10th
or Goth time.
Naturally confused at first,
the creatures soon learn this
schedule. They apparently
have very little difficulty in
counting to 10 or 20. The
situation is equivalent to be-
ing paid after an extended
work period such as a week.
After a short time the rats
and monkeys show no an
ticipation of getting any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14

and president of the Senate;
and President Woodrow Will
son signed on April 6, 1917,
the Joint Resolution of the
65th Congress declaring that
a state of war exists between
the Imperial German Gov
eminent and the Govern
ment and the people of the
United States and making
provision to prosecute the
same"
@. How does the water
spider differ in structure
from the ordinary land spi-
der? B. T.
A. The structure is the
same, and the water spider is
equipped with no special ap-
paratus. He nevertheless
swims about and lives in wa
ter, and builds homes under
water. He somehow impris-
ons a globule of air around
his middle, which contains
his breathing tubes. He holds
this air-bubble to him as he
swims, and gets another in
the same way when he needs
fresh air.
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Questions and Answers
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-14

@. Why are little bows put
in the Innings of mems hats?
"A. c.
A. The little bow, which
now serves to mark the back
of the hat, is a relic of the
past when hats were made
in only a few sizes, the draw
strings were put in the
lining to make the hat fit
the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

the White House during most
Of the administration Of
President Herbert Hoover.
Allan Hoover, who was 20
when his father became Pres
ident. was not married and
was very popular with the
younger set.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt,
daughter Of President and
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt
(now Mrs. James Halstead,
living in Iran) was a hand
some young matron, Mrs.
Curtis ID. Dali. and the
mother Of the famous White
House children "Sistie"
eleanor Roosevelt Dall) and
"Buzzie" (Curtis Roosevelt
DalD at the beginning Of the
first administration Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. She married
John Boettiger, q newspaper
man in 1885.
The four Roosevelt sons
James, now q Representative
from California: Elliott;
Franklin. jr., who has also
served in Congress, and John
who is now q staunch Repub-
ican, and their pretty wives
and children furnished many
interesting paragraphs to the
chronicles Of the families of
Presidents. James and Elliott
were both married at the be-
ginning Of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. Franklin, 10,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

and John. II. were acquiring
their Quotations.
Margaret Truman, only
child Of President and Mrs.
Harry s. Truman, now the
wife Of E. Clifton Daniel OF
the New York Times and the
mother Of q son, applied her.
self to her studies at George
Washington University and
with voice teachers after her
father became President on
the death OF Franklin ID.
Roosevelt. She graduated
from George Washington at
the same time a degree was
conferred on her father. The
reading public is familiar
with Margaret Humans
singing career and her APP
pearances on stage and tele-
VlSlOn.
Mai. John Sheldon Doud
Eisenhower, who was over
seas when his father was
elected President. is now an
aide to President Eisenhower
at the White House. He and
his wife and their children
are very much in the present.
hour White House picture.
Another son Of President and
Mrs. Eisenhower, Dwight
Doud Eisenhower. died in in
fancy.
Next week: Children in the White
House in the eorIy days Of United
Stotes history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

been the 18th White House
bride at q brilliant wedding
in the East room. November
25th. 1870.
Margaret Wilson was most
interested In singing, and
gave a number Of recitals
In the East room and made
records TO be sold for the
benefit Of the Red Gross:
she was also interested In
establishing community CEN
tiers In public school build
ings In the District. She
died In India about twenty
years ago. Jessie-the mother
Of the Dean Of Washington
Cathedral, Francis Bowes
Sayre, who was born in the
White House in 1915; Flea
nor Arson Sayre, born In
1916, and Woodrow Wilson
Sayre. born in l919-died
in 1888.
John Coolidge
John Coolidge was II years
old when his father became
President on the death of
President Warren q. Harding.
in 1923. His brother, Calvin,
is, contracted blood poison
ing from q heel blister while
he was playing tennis on the
White House courts and died
in Walter Reed Hospital in
1924 despite the efforts to
save him Of Capt. Joel
Boone, now Admiral Boone,
White House physician and
a group Of specialists. John
was o handsome Amherst
student in the second admin
istration Of President Cool
idge, and he found his mail
filled with invitations when
he was at the White House.
All Washington soon knew
that his romantic attention
was directed towards Miss
Florence Trumball, daughter
Of the Governor Of Connccti-
cut, a student at Mount Holy
oke College. Their marriage
took place in 1929. shortly
after the end of the Coolidge
administration.
Herbert Clark Hoover, jr.,
and his pretty wife, the for
mer Margaret E. Watson and
their three children, Peggy,
Herbert and Joan, lived at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19
THEY LIKED 1T
Children Living in the White House
Were q Lively, Laughing Group

put her name down first
well aware of her magnetic
personality, fund of bon
mots, rapierlike wit and
comments, political sagacity
and erudtion on many topics.
AS a White House debutante
and the 18th White House
bride, she was the cynosure
of all eyes wherever she
went. Columns were printed
describing her marriage to
Representative Mich olas
Longworth Of Ohio in the
East Room. Her wedding
gown was lovely white satin,
trimmed with ancestral lace
with a silver and white bro
cade train 5 yards longs.
Mrs. Richard Derby of New
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in 1919, while he was on duty
with the United States Ma
rine Corps overseas. He made
football history when he
tackled Charles Phelps Taft,
son of President William
Howard Taft on the Yale
team in a Princeton-Yale
football game. Mrs. Richard
Cleveland is the former Ellen
Douglas Gailor, daughter Of
Bishop Gailor of Tennessee.
Francis Grover Cleveland,
born in 1908, married Alice
Erdman, daughter Of Rev.
DR.. Charles r. Erdman, in
1925. He still delights in the
memory that he was Kissed
when he played the villain
in a charity play in his youth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
the former Alice Lee Roose-
welt, daughter of President
Theodore Roosevelt and his
first wife, Alice Hathaway
Lee of Boston, boasts proud
ly that she was rs years old
Lincoln's birthday, February
IL, 1859. She became ''Prin-
cess Alice" to all the world
when she took her place as
the young lady of the White
House at the age of II. when
her father became President
after the death of William B.
Mckinley. 1t would take many
pages to tell the story of
Alice Longworth adequately.
Hostesses who wish to give
emphasis to their dinner lists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

Lille WIN Fabner Will
take on new meaning when
over a dozen children Of
former Presidents of the
United States arrive in
Washington on April 80.
These living children Of
former Presidents will be
Note: This is the first Of two ar
tieIes on children in the White
House from late administrations
to the days Of our first Presidents.
here as guests of the Wom-
ems National Press Club
which is giving a luncheon
In their honor on that date.
A look backward to the
time when they lived in the
White House proves that as
a whole, they were a lively,
varied lot-but with the in
terests of other children
whose parents were neither
in the White House, nor so
often in the spotlight.
Cleveland Children
A special place in this group
who share a common hertz
age must be given to Esther
Cleveland, daughter of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land (now Mrs. William Sid
ney Benee-Jones Bosanquet
Of England) the only child
Of a President born in the
White House in its 159 years
occupancy.
Washington and the Ma
ton exercised a proprietary
interest in Esther, the White
House baby born in 1898;
Ruth born in 1891, during the
interim of the first and Sec
ond terms of Cleveland; and
Marion, now Mrs. John Har-
Ian Amen of New York City,
born in 1895 in the middle of
the second term Of Cleveland
at the summer home, Gray
Gables on Massachusetts, Bay.
ThrongS watched them as
they were wheeled in peram-
bulators or rode in pony carts
and played in the White
House grounds. One woman
cut of a lock of Ruth's
golden hair and another in
sisted that she had the right
of a citizen to hold the baby.
They received gifts and toys
from all over the world. They
wore white null dresses with
gay silk SaShes when they
rode with their parents
through the parks in the
White House victoria.
The tiny finger of two
months-old Marian pressed
the button in the gun room
at Gray Gables, setting in
motion the machines and
booming cannons for the
opening Of the Cotton States
and International Exhibition
in Atlanta in 1895. Ruth
Cleveland died in 1901.
Richard Folsom Cleveland
of Baltimore. born in 1897,
the year of the end of
the Cleveland administration,
created quite a furore in
his sophomore year at
Princeton in 1917 by refusing
to join a social club on the
grounds that they were I'M
democratic. He was voted
the most respected man in
his class in his senior year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19
MmI@hap
come watch her scissor your
likeness in a matter of minutes
THE SILHOUETTE LADY

Come in, or make an appointment,
to have Mrs. Lourene Rose Diehl,
The Silhouette Lody, scissor your
likeness in minutes. SiIhouettes in
teak black Paper on q 5hx7"
white background each LOO
At our Corners Store: Monday, Tuesday
ond Wednesday tApril 20. Il and ~
during store hours.
AT our Chevy Chase Store: Thursday, Friday
end Saturday April %, "a and Isl during
store hours.
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Note: This is the first Of two ar
tieIes on children in the White
House from late administrations
to the days Of our first Presidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19
THEY LIKED 1T
By VILLA POE WILSON
GNr,4r{hnftYa0 yUritaT

Life With Father" will
take on new meaning when
over a dozen children of
former Presidents of the
United States arrive in
Washington on April 80.
These living children of
former Presidents will be
Evening star., 1959-11-03

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husband almost from the be-
ginning.
Their romance blossomed
in the early days of his rise
as a TV personality when
his fan mail was so great
that he needed help in cop
ing with it. She Sprovided
the assistance.
In the spring of 1857, after
the young Columbia Univer-
sity professor "lost" on the
show, the couple left for a
weeks vacation on the Vir-
gin Islands where Miss Bern
STEMS aunt and uncle owned
the fabulous Virgin Isles
Hotel.
They indicated they
planned to be married "some-
time later" But they re-
turned to New York from the
romantic setting as man and
wife. The marriage saved
Evening star., 1959-11-03
MRS. EISENHOWER
STAYS HOME
WITH COLD

Mrs. Eisenhower passed
up one Of the greatest
privileges of democracy
today-the right to vote
in a free election.
President Eisenhower
went up to Gettysburg,
their voting residence,
with their son Mai. John
Eisenhower. They made
the quick trip by helicop-
ter.
Mrs. Eisenhower, who
hates to fly, has only made
a helicopter hop once
last summer at the OPEN
ing of the st. Lawrence
Seaway.
Mrs. Mary Jane McCaf-
free, secretary to Mrs.
Eisenhower, further ex-
planned that lit is a chilly
day and the First Lady is
still recuperating from a
cold.p
Evening star., 1959-11-03
Charles Van Doren's Wife
Stands By Him dt Hearings

Charles Van Doren's wife
was close by in the packed
House caucus room yesterday
when her husband confessed
that he was deeply involved
in the deception which per-
mitted him to win 1929, 900
on the television quiz show.
Twenty One.
When he had completed
his testimony, she pushed
through the crowd to en-
brace him.
The former Geraldine Ann
Bernstein, wearing a dark
suit and blouse and a sin
gle strand Of pearls about
her throat. sat quietly next
to her father-in-law, Puliti-
ger prize-winning poet, Marx
Van Doren, as her husband
told how he was coached
from start to finish on the
quiz program which brought
him fame and fortune.
The slight brunette had
shared the drama with her
Evening star., 1959-11-03
Tartan
Ball Set

The colorful Tartan Ball of
the st. Andrews Society of
Washington will be held Fri
day. November 20. in the ball
room of the Sheraton Park
Hotel.
Mr.. George w. Baker,
president Of the society, has
appointed Comdr. Horace r.
Amrine, USNR. retired. as
schairman Of the ball COM
snittee. according to an an
iouncement.
Comdr. Amrine said details
afe being worked out for an
unusual feature expected to
BE especially pleasing to the
ladies but that it will remain
Evening star., 1959-11-03
Women Voters
Pldn Meetings

The Fairfax County League
of Women Voters has planned
several meetings in their area
which are open to members
and guests.
Meetings are taking place
through the 4th and from the
10th through the 18th. The
theme governing these activ-
ties is by the People, for
the People, Of the People. ~
The 400 members of the l8
Fairfax County units are
taking part in the program
planning, which provides a
review Of the past and a
preview of the future.
Those interested should
contact Mrs. Fritz Kahn.
Evening star., 1959-11-03
Wheaton Group
Holds MEETING

At a recent organizational
meeting Of the Washington
Wheaton Club, Mrs. Robert
Briskman, president, intro
duced the new officers.
Included were Mrs. Thomas
Ward Miles. secretary, and
Mrs. Weaver w. Dunnan,
treasurer.
Mrs. BriSkman also an
nounced that the club would
have three standing commit
tees including program, mem
bership and alumnae-student
relations. The first activity
Of the year will be a coffee
for alumnae and local stu
dents the end of December.