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Evening star., 1960-04-17
100 Years AGO

Stephen Arnold Douglas,
who added to his stature of
Little Giant" two years
earlier by telling lanky Abe
Lincoln in a Senate-seat
contest, whetted his political
ak a century ago for a higher
notch. The Illinois Senator,
considering himself prime
presidential timber. cam
paigned vigorously for the
Democratic nomination. But
The Star, detecting flaws
in his plank, on April
18, 1860. acidly suggested:
IF there remains anybody
here wanting any of the
good things the next admin
istration will have to give
out, we advise them to call
on Senator Douglas, or some
members of his managing
squad now located in Wash
ington hotels, and pick and
choose to their hearts con-
tent. They can, one and all,
get positive promise of any
and everything good and fat
they may fancy to bespeak.
From the vice presidency or
cabinet places, down to
meSsengershipS in the de-
partments here, any aspirant
of whatever degree may have
thus promised whatever he
most fancies TO appropriate
to himself in advance. The
only condition eXacted is at
tendance at Charleston (con-
vention scene) and ceaseless
Logging while there for the
nomination of Douglas. e.
Those not willing to swallow
Mr.. Douglas phase of abo-
litionisn are splitting their
sides with laughter, knowing
well that ere the end of next
week the bubble will burst
at Charleston, running politi-
cally and financially the
spectators in politics who
surround Douglas :" Mote:
Douglas did fail in a dead
lock at Charleston, but won
the Northern Democratic
wing nomination two months
later in Baltimore. The
Southern wing nominated
Vice President John C..
Breckenridge of Kentucky
Distances were yielding to
Yankee enterprise 100 years
ago. The Star reported on
April 81, 1860: The Overland
Pony Express, between the
Evening star., 1960-04-17
rs Years Ago

Anti-New Dealers were be-
ginning the now familiar
chant Spend, spend, spend:
tax, tax, tax" 25 years ago,
but the man at whom the
barbs were aimed seemingly
cared not a whit. On April
81, 1885, The Star reported:
President Roosevelt has in
formed his closest associates
that he intends to take the
actual, as we'll as the implied,
responsibility for execution
Of the 81 billion works pro-
gram =. He will be the main
target if the program fails
to function properly -"
The "Kingfish," Louisiana
Senator Huey Long, packed
Senate galleries on April %.
1885, with another attack on
FDR. For the occasion he
wore a cream -coiored suit,
flashy brown tie, lavender
shirt and sport shoes. De-
Tending the fair name Of
Louisiana, Senator Long
shouted the President was
trying to foist again on his
State the "corruptionists" he
himself had driven out. The
Star had Long calling 1885
the third year of st. Vitus
80. The royal prerogatives
of administration leaders
have not yet been recorded
IN history. Some of their
titles are: The prime min
lister, James Aloysius Farley,
the nabob of New York. The
lord high ch a m b berlain,
Harold Ickes, the chinchbug
of Chicago. Hugh Sitting Bull
johnson and the honorable
destroyer, Henry Almighty
Wallace, the ignoramus of
Iowa
Evening star., 1960-04-17

lifted the gates Of empires of
their hinges. has turned the
stream of the centuries into
new channels, and still gov
ernS the years" He alone has
given the best we know of
God, and the best we know
OF man.
He is the light on God!
Christ's unequivocal response
to all mems wondering about
the likeness of God is: He
that hath seen me hath seen
the Father" 1t is the mind
back of all that man sees and
feels that Jesus declares He
reveals with an intimate per-
sonal knowledge. He talks
constantly about a Presence
in which He continually lived.
The final thing to say about
God in human terms is, He
is like Christ" AS Markham,
our modern rugged poet, de-
clares-"In Christ is all the
God we know"
In the light Of Gods ia
therhood every man on this
terrestrial sphere is revealed
as a child of the One who
created him in His image.
Christ was never deceived
by outward appearance and
cared nothing for it. His light
on strutting church officials
made them what they really
were, whited sepulchers. His
light was on motives, not
deeds. He reckoned good not
by the observance of some
rule, but good as determined
by the priority of inner val
ues. See that binding light
as it sweeps past all the
gilded facades of mock mo-
rality. as that One who is the
light of the world proclaims
a new decalogue, higher than
Mount Sinai.
For Christ, it was the mur-
der that lurked in the heart
and the unchastity that mas
queraded as decency that de-
filed. For with that light
there is nothing hidden that
shall not be revealed.
In the blaze of the ever
lasting light childhood and
womanhood have been lifted
to their rightful places of
care and honor. In that light
slavery was doomed - the
hateful institutions which
made one human being the
chattel of a master. To be
sure, vestiges of these ancient
wrongs still hide from His
cleansing light. But the final
destruction of social customs
and attitudes which deny
that "all Gods children got
wings" is less than a week
away. For with Him a thou
sand years is as zone day.
Thus, on the Divine calendar
it Is but two days ago since
there walked in Galilee the
Light of the World"
This old earth of ours is
still a child in its go-cart-
give it time! There is a hand
that guides and a light that
never fails.
SubtleSt thought may change,
And learning tdlter,
Churches change, forms per-
iSh, systems 90.
But our human needs they
do not alter,
Christ no after age can e'er
outgroW.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Here to Stay

Geonrey DAVIS letter, RE
QUEEN for church," shows
a depth of abysmal ignorance
insofar as the Protestant,
and especially the Lutheran,
Church is concerned, for it
is presumed that by his
statement "Mr. Luther is on
the way out" he meant the
Lutheran Church. Joe Nc
Carthy in his small insignif- =
icant way and character
killing method only made
the Protestant Church, if it
needed any incentive,
stronger. Don't blame the
whole corps of fine Air Force
officers for what one nincom-
poop wrote. The booklet re-
ferred to reflected no dis
honor on the ministers, only
on the Air Force for being
lax enough to let a Crack
pot" write such Mccarthy
TRADE.
Martin A. McGrOry, Sr.,
President, Federation of Lu-
theran Clubs.
y 4
In reply to Requiem fol-
Church?". the Protestant
Church is not too embar-
rassed or disarmed to pro-
test the so-called Decline
of Basic Religious Free
domS."
I read a prayer one time
that said, Dear Lord helI
me to keep my big mouth
shut until I know what l an
talking about, and then keer
me from babbling what lit.
tie I do know. Amen"
B. III, Petit,
Evening star., 1960-04-17
They Deserve Protection

The attention of Congress has been
called to flaw in the laws which make
1t Federal crime to assault or resist
Government officers engaged in law en-
forcement duties. Secretary Flemming
>. of the Department of Health, Education
= and Welfare has revealed that although
'zanumber of Food and Drug Administra-
ton investigators and Public Health
Evening star., 1960-04-17

waiting around impotently
we should start, with strong
public pressure and our best
experts, on a determined ef-
fort to reach a disarmament
agre e m ent a mong our
friends. This start should be
made at once, for someone is
extremely busy sowing and
forcing the growth of seeds
of distrust for each other
which could make even re-
gional disarmament impossi-
BILE.
Mrs. Chase s, Osborn.
Evening star., 1960-04-17

western frontier of Missouri
and San Francisco, only
lately established, is already
entirely successful Qt) has
brought San Francisco. for
most practical business pur-
poses. actually within 10 days
of Washington" CThis was
accomplished by telegraphic
relay of messages pony
expressed to Missouri from
San Francisco
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Brothers. Con You Spure q Dime?'
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry UriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
densdtion.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
The Everlasting Liqht
By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS, d. d.
Chaplain of the United States Senate

4ne most relevant TACT In
today's world is Jesus of
Nazareth. His is the most
astonishing figure ever to
surprise and stir mankind,
In Him, for this age and
every age, is the light which
reveals both God and man.
That which is perhaps the
most incandeScent sentence
in the New Testament is for
ever true-"In Him life lay
and that life is the light of
men," All the Christian
revelation is packed into that
dozen monosyllables regard
ing this inescapable person
who, under the blue sky of
Palestine. lived and taught
and healed and helped and
died and rose again.
There is no aspect of life's
mystery or mastery this side
OF death, or the other side,
upon which that One whose
coming broke the ages in
two does not shed illumina-
ton. His luminosity blazes
in every night. AS st. John
declared, "the darkness can
not put it out"
Of Jesus Christ it can be
said in an infinitely deeper
sense than with a lesser
meaning it was declared of a
great British statesman-"He
seemed independent of his
environment; the lighting
changed, but the light seemed
to be in himself as in an opal
or a star cluster" The
searching beams of that
everlasting light, turning in
all directions, throws it's
piercing radiance upon every
human path. There is no
nook or Granny of life which
is not crowned with light and
flooded with sunshine by the
revelation of The light Of
the world"
He said the highest and
truest things and said them
with a perfection that gives
them finality.
OF the great Galilean. who
for close to 20 centuries has
haunted the thought and
conscience Of mankind, Rob-
ert Browning standing in the
effulgence of the everlasting
light exclaimed: "I say the
acknowledgment of God in
Christ, accepted by thy rea-
son, solves for thee every
question in the world and out
Of it,"
A contemporary of Brown
ing, one Frank Morrison, was
a reverent skeptic and a
scholar. He approached the
study of Jesus with the in
credulous query-"How could
He be the light of the world?"
He set out to make havoc OF
that belief held by so many
of his fellows. He vowed that
in a volume he would rend
to pieces the alleged evidence
for the most dazzling burst of
light-the Resurrection. He
brought to his task the dex-
terity of a trained modern
mind. And. what happened?
The evidence he assumed was
to be shattered, shattered
his doubts. He saw himself
as a little FREELY denying the
sun. He found himself del
uged by the rays of the ever
lasting light and confessed +:
II set out to write one kind
of book and I found myself,
by sheer force of circum-
stances, compelled to write
quite another kind of book"
He was driven by intellectual
candor to acknowledge the
very light he set out to ex-
tinguish. He was smitten by
it as Saul was on the Damas-
Gus road. When he was
through with his investiga-
tion he was ready to agree
with that expert of history
Jean Paul Richter. who with
his eyes viewing the chang
ing centuries affirmed oi
Jesus, That crucifed Jew
with His pierced hands has
Evening star., 1960-04-17

Distances were yielding to
Yankee enterprise 100 years
ago. The Star reported on
April 81, 1860: The Overland
Pony Express, between the
Evening star., 1960-02-08

penalty of 200 points was not
exactly a triumph.
Go back to the third trick
and try leading a heart instead
of of a spade. The heart f1nesse
works and you lead a diamond
while entries to the dummy are
still plentiful. West can take
the ace of diamonds but can
do nothing to hurt you.
Regardless of the defense
you can take the ace of hearts
ruff a heart in dummy, discard
a club on the king of diamonds
ruff a diamond, and ruff your
last heart. The defenders car
Evening star., 1960-02-08

and South wisely decided to
put up dummy's king.
Unfortunately for him, South
was not a lawyer. He had the
impression that something in
the Constitution said declarer
must draw trumps before he
does anything else. Any ex-
perienced lawyer would have
told him this wasn't so.
Knowing no better. declarer
led the seven of spades from
dummy and let it ride for a
f1nesse. West was ready with
a small spade, and South
thought his finesse had won.
Declarer promptly repeated the
f1nesse, but this time West took
the king Of spades. He re-
turned a trump, and now South
was in serious trouble.
Leads Diamond
South led his singleton dia-
mond toward dummy, but West
stepped up with the ace and
returned the deuce of hearts
Declarer played low from
the dummy, and East wisely
f1nessed the eight of hearts
keeping the king over dummy s
jack.
The rest of the hand was 9
nightmare, but South man.
aged to get eight tricks. Tht
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Peter Loina
BY the Buers

get one club, one diamond, and
one trump, but nothing else.
Daily Question
Partner bids one spade, and
the next player passes. You
hold:
ASA VK983 D1084 %Q981
What do you say?
Answer: Pass. Avoid respond
ing on a 5-point hand unless
you have a fine fit for partners
suit. When you have nc
strength and no fit, stay out OF
trouble by passing.
CCopyright, 1850, Gen. Features Corp.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
GreenbeIt Sufety
Prourum Planned

Dick Mansfield, school safety
director for The Star, will bt
master of ceremonies for d spe-
cial observance of Safety Patrol
Week at the North End Elemen.
tary School, Greenbelt, at
pm, February II.
Honored during the ceremony
will be members of school safety
patrols in Greenbelt, when the
week of February 1920 has
been proclaimed Safety Patrol
Week. Sergt. Austin Green, su-
perviSor Of safety patrols, is
co-ordinating the observance.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Ghunu to Be Topic

Phaon Goldman, director Of
Africa House, will speak on the
new African republic Of Ghana
at 8 pm. Wednesday at the
Mount Airy Baptist Church, II
L street NV.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
SHEINWOLD ON BRIDGE
Develop Weak Suit Before Trumps
TIE BERRYs
MRS. FITZ'S FLATS
HI AND LOIS
SCAMP
UNCLE CHARLIE
BY ALFRED SHERWOOD
United States Masters Team Champion

When there are gaping holes
In all Of the side suits you may
need dummy's trumps to ruff
out a side card or two. Don't
draw trumps early in such a
hand.
South dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
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2V Pass 3A Pass
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Opening lead: Ace of clubs
West opened the ace of clubs
and East played an enthusias-
tic nine. West led another club
Evening star., 1960-01-11
HuIo Bowl Is Bockdrop
For Lucas and Cannon

HONOLULU, Jan. II (AP)
Two All-America backs,
Billy Cannon Of Louisiana
State and Richie Lucas of
Penn State. used yesterdays
l4th annual Hula Bowl game
as a backdrop to display indi-
vidual talents as the East
trounced the West, 34-8.
More than 10000 fans saw
Cannon. currently the center
OF a pro contract dispute be-
tween the Los Angeles Rams
and Houston Oilers. score three
touchdowns. One came on one
OF two touchdown passes
thrown by Lucas, who was
drafted by the Washington
Redskins but instead signed
with Buffalo of the new Ameri-
can Football League.
Played in balmy weather,
the game developed into a rout
in the first quarter when the
East scored three touchdowns
The spectacular cannon
chalked up the first on a So
yard punt return straight
down the middle. Lucas threw
an l1-yard touchdown pass to
Larry Grantham of Mississippi
midway of the quarter and fol-
lowed with another l2-yard
strike to Cannon before the
period closed.
Don Meredith. Southern
Methodist's great passer who
starred in the East-West game
at San Francisco. was COM
pletely muffied by the fast.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Frick Says Third League
Is Sure to Come Eventually
Commissioner
Lists Problems
For Keotine
BURTON HAWKINS
Star staf Writer

Baseball Commissioner Ford
Frick declared today that
the Continental League cant
miss" ultimately in its ambi-
ton to become a third major
league. His statement followed
a meeting with Senator Keat-
ing. Republican Of New York.
Frick'S visit to Capitol Hill,
prompted by meeting Heating
held last week with Branch
Hickey and Bill Shea of the
Continental League, found the
commissioner reiterating his
willingness to cooperate with
Continental officials.
1T can't miss Prick said
when asked about the possi-
bility of the Continental
Leagues ultimately becoming a
third major league. Its a
cinch. Expansion of the majors
is inevitable, and the Conti-
mental League is the only thing
before us in the form of ex-
pansion."
Two Serious Problems
Frick repeated, however, that
the embryonic league must meet
specifications for major league
status set down last summer in
a meeting at Columbus. Ohio.
The requirements deal with
population areas, proper play
ing conditions. willingness to
provide a pension plan as gen.
erous as that now backed by
the majors. etc.
"As see it. there are only
two serious problems" Frick
said. THE first is for a new
league to satisfy the minor
clubs whose territory they will
be usurping. The second would
be that it provide a pension
plan, either by joining ours or
coming up with one of its own
equally as generous.
Willing to Meet Hickey
Frick, accompanied to the
meeting by Paul Porter. at
torney for his Office, said he is
willing to sit down with Presi-
dent Hickey of the Continental
League "in the next five min
utes, but he added that Hickey
had not contacted him.
Heating, who has offered to
serve as an informal mediator
if difficulties arise between the
Continental League and the
present majors. said it was his
understanding that Hickey will
add an eighth club within 10
days or two weeks and then
will request a meeting with
Frick.
Il feel the country can sup
port a third league and possi-
See FRICK, Page A-l6
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Aga Khan Takes Ski Spill
Trying for Olympic Squad

slalom events. In one race he
came in third and defeated
some of Britain's best skiers.
He was the center Of attrac-
tion yesterday in the Duke Of
Kent downhill race, a tricky
2,85Q<meter course with a ver-
tical drop of 1866 feet.
He started off we'll but
dropped a ski on a particularly
difficult stretch and crashed
into a snow bank. He did not
finish the race although he
was not injured.
Sources close to competition
officials expressed doubt that
the Aga Khan could have
made the Olympic team
whether he had taken the spill
or not. Race officials would
only reply mo comment" to
queries about his participation
Evening star., 1960-01-11
MORE SHOWERS FORECAST
Play Doubtful Again
In Lax Open Tourney

LOS ANGELES. Jan. IL
(AP) The situation is fluid,
That about sums up the
prospects for playing the third
round of the Los Angeles Open
today. The third round of the
72-hole tournament was rained
out yesterday-the first post
ponement since 1850.
The Weather Bureau predicts
more showers today, but 80
players still in the S37,50O golf
tournament are keeping their
fingers crossed.
Eric Monti is still on top
after the first two rounds The
4l-year-old Los Angeles golf
instructor shot a II Saturday
after his opening Sc for a 36-
hole total of 1877, five strokes
under par for the distance.
FinsterwaId Stroke Back
One stroke back after a fine
SO Saturday is Dow Finsterwald
of Tequesta. Fla.
Young Jim Ferree. Crystal
River, Fla, is alone at 139 after
a second-round II.
DeadlOckpd at ian arc nirk
Knight of San Diego, who had
the low round of Sc Saturday;
Johnny Bulla of Phoenix, who
won this event in 1941 when
some of this field were still in
ISwaddling clothes; Dave Ragan,
Orlando, Fla; Ken Still, Ia
coma, Wash, and Bill Collins,
Denver.
Several of the big-name con-
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Elliott Gets
Approval for
Trip to u. S.

MELBOURNE, Jan. II (AP)
The Victorian Amateur Ath-
letic Association tonight gave
approval for Herb Elliott. world
record miller. to run in Los An
geles January % and New York
January 80.
1t is expected the Australian
Amateur Athletic Union will
IAT automatically grant Elliott
permission to make the trip
although there may be hag-
Cling over a manager.
The Victorian body is insist
ing on an American manager
for Elliott, but the Australian
union has made a rule of ap-
pointing only Australian man
ayers recently.
This is believed to be unac-
ceptable to the Americans
sponsoring Elliott's trip.
Elliott said he realized Off
cials were objecting mainly be-
cause the Americans would not
reciprocate by sending their top
athletes to Australia.
Evening star., 1960-01-11

in which Johansson won the
title from Floyd Patterson.
In addition to comforting with
boxing authorities, Johansson
will receive the Edward ]. Neil
trophy from the Boxing Writers
Association Thursday night as
the outstanding fighter of 1859,
The award is given annually in
memory Of the late Edward ],
Neil, Associated Press sports
writer, who was killed while
acting as a correspondent DUR
ing the Civil War in Spain.
First of all. we want to
see the situation here and talk
to the authorities and the box
ing commission" continued Jo-
hanson. I'D like to know some
things before I make any def
mite statements. The whole sit
uation depends on my confer
ences with the authorities and
the boxing commission"
How about Roy Cohn. the
attorney for the late Senator
McCarthy's investigating com.
mittee, who is trying to pro-
mote the return with Patter-
son?
Mr.. Cohn and his group are
very nice people," he answered
with a smile. but want to bt
sure the situation is all right.
He added that when he /,
satisfied that all the details art
satisfactory, he would like K
have the fight in New York
preferably in June.
Evening star., 1960-01-11

. ST. NORTH, Switzerland
Jan. II CAP).-The youthful
Aga Khan took a spill yester-
day in a steep downhill event
in the British Ski Racing Week
competition. The events decide
the makeup of the British
Olympic ski team.
The 24-year-old Aga Khan
entered the week. long competi-
ton against Britair'S top sklers,
who are competing for berths
on the British team in next
months winter games in the
United States.
Unconfirmed reports said the
young religious ruler of about
20 million Ismaili Moslems had
set his sights on a place or
the British Olympic team.
The Harvard-educated prince
who holds a British passport
entered all the downhill anc
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Davies Wins Title
In Dixie Tennis;
Don Floyd Scores

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. II (AP)
Mike Davies of London is the
Dixie international tennis
champion after a careful back
court campaign against veteran
Gardnar Mulloy of Miami.
Davies, "a, usually plays a
more forceful game. He said he
couldn't go to the net much
yesterday against a player as
good as the 46-year ar-old Mulloy,
a former Davis Cupper.
The Briton won, 6-1, O-6,
6-1, Ga in the best-of five
duel.
Sandy Warshaw, 16, of
Tampa upset Laura Lou Kun
men, Clearwater and Tampa,
6-3, 4-6, Ga. for the wom-
ems title.
Don Floyd of Arlington, Va,
won the veterans singles with
Ia 6-3. 6-1 victory over Larry
Shippey Of st. Petersburg.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Cautious lingo Confers
With N. Y. Authorities

NEW YORK, Jan. 19 CAP).-
Heavyweight champion Inge-
mar Johansson is taking no
chances of having his fingers
burned twice.
Absolutely nothing has been
signed and absolutely nothing
has been promised on my next
fight" Johansson said today.
Johansson and his adviser
Edwin Ahlquist. arrived last
night from Sweden and i'm
mediately went into a huddle
with representatives from the
attorney generals Office.
1T was just a preliminary
conference" JohanSson said
I'm going to visit the attorney
general tomorrow for some
further talks and also see the
New York State Athletic Com
mission
Attorney General Louis J
Lefkowitz has been conducting
an investigation into the pro-
motion of the fight last June