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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Debate Dead Issue

A Star item reported
a collegiate debate to be
held February 81, on the
possibly already dead is
sue of whether Congress
should have the power to
reverse decisions of the Su-
preme Court" There are
two Interestingly lively as
poets to this question: %
Even If it had the power,
would the presently consti-
tuted Congress have the
gumption and integrity to
reverse the Supreme Court?
% Throughout the con-
gressional debates there is no
intimation anywhere that re-
versal of the Supreme Court
is sought or desired by any
member of Congress; only
limitation of jurisdiction has
been proposed. So. who
thought up this twist of
reversal?
This apparently is a
loaded" issue tossed at aspir-
ing and sincere young COL
legians TO ever-so-gently
twist their thinking away
from the truth of the matter.
Why didn't the promoters
of this 37-college debating
tournament held at the
University Of Maryland pre-
sent that group of hopeful
and enthusiastic debaters
with an honest issue based
upon true facts? The finalists
will have the honor of de-
batting this issue under the
dome of our Nations Capitol,
in the Senate caucus room.
1t will be interesting to note
their reactions when they
discover they have been
duped into using their valu-
able collegiate time to de-
bate a nonexistent question.
Franklin T. Miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
"UPPERVILLE. Va

OH GIbN LILLE, va.
Dear Sir:
Il hope sometime you will
write an article about keep
ing books. magazines and
newspapers. In our house
they are everywhere, and I
know that some of our snooty
guests look askance at the
display, but what can we do
about it?
I'VE love these fragile
things more than anything
else in life. Even more than
eating. And we like to have
our reading matter right at
hand.
I'm our house the walls are
all taken up with cases. and
still we get books, and liter
ally have no place to put
them except on the floor.
Once we had a remark of
one OF our guests retailed
back to us, you know how
that is; the person was sup
posed to have said, Those
people are crazy-they have
books all over the floor!'
For this crime. dear Lord,
and guests. forgive US.
Sincerely,
ANNIE MARY D."
This column is sure you
will be forgiven, Annie Mary.
There is a divine some
thing about books that
makes for forgiveness.
Not that all books are an
gelic. by any means. Some
sneak into good shelves,
though they are actually
dirty books, though the
learned judges said other
wise.
1t makes no difference.
Most any one with COM
mon sense can select. and
he or she, as readers, will not
make many mistakes. The
mistakes a reader makes
usually will be on the side
of the angels, as the saying
says.
The wonderful thing about
books on the floor is that
they are at hand.
One has but to bend over,
and there is the work de-
sired. No tiresome looking
for it; the good reader knows
exactly where it is!
This, OF course, until the
pile grows so high that it
tends to fall over of it's own
accord. After that, it must
be moved.
The beauty of moving a
pile is that a new pile can
be started Immediately.
Who wants to bother with
bookcases, now that they
cost so much, and hold so
few volumes? 1t is easier all
around to make piles.
< 4
A good book pile has the
advantage of being current.
1t contains only the latest
things. The word --latest"
need not be the newest book
at all, but just the latest
thing one has purchased.
The book may be as old as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

the hills, but if one has not
read it, then so much the
better.
Sanitation of book stacks
on the floor is a matter that
needs a bit of consideration.
1t is out of the question, Of
course, to move the current
pile-even for guests.
The best thing is to use
the vacuum cleaner carefully,
around and over the piles. In
this way. dust is kept down
and off.
= -
Only the non-lover of books
can find anything unsanitary
in nice helter-skelter book
pile.
The uninitiated may regard
the whole as unsyStematic.
1t has no wheels that 90
around, no levers to turn.
He may be assured, how
ever, that the people to
whom the books belong know
every book in the stack, and
Just where il is.
1t is easy for them to keep
track of the newest and the
oldest.
Each book is, in effect, a
pet for the time being.
Each will have one great
advantage over breathing
pets. 1t can be replaced
without sorrow.
This means that the pile
can be removed, when it
begins to topple. 1t must
be moved, in fact.
The problem of where to
place it anew bothers only
tne newest of book collectors.
Push it over there by the
wall, alongside that other
stack. Its aura of happiness
Will extend its sway out into
the room. right to the read
ing chair and lamp, and en-
velop the reader with love.
Inc fact that the books are
there waiting is the old white
magic of which no booklover
ever tired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Radio Telescope Has Vast Ronoe
By THOMAS R. HENRY

Astronomers soon will be
able to look" 100000. O00.-
0O0.000.O00, 100000 miles into
space.
This is about the distance
light. moving 10000 miles a
second. traverses in 10000
100000 years.
Such a vast space penetra
ton is estimated for a new
radio telescope now being set
up by the Navy in the noun
tains of West Virginia. 1t will
have a bowl 600 feet in dia :
meter, more than twice that
Of the largest radio telescope
new in operation-that of the
University of Manchester at
Jodrell Bank, England, the
diameter of whose bowl is
only $50 feet. This has been
the main reliance of Inter
national Geophysical Year
scientists probing the far
thest reaches of Creation
Soviet scientists are re-
ported to be building one $50
feet in diameter.
The Navy astronomers. OF
course, will not actually see
any objects 250.00O billion
billion miles away. They ex-
pect. however, to pick up long
radio waves from families of
billion-star galaxies. COM
parable to the great. star ag-
gregation of which the solo
system is a member.
Tremendous Range
The range will be abou
20 times greater than thai
OF the worlds largest optical
telescope-that of the Car
negie Institution of Wash
lngton on Mount Palomar,
Calf. On a cosmic scale the
Milky Way galaxy with its
blllion-odd stars is rather
little. Light crosses from
one side to another in only
little more than a million
years.
From the radio emanations
the Navy astronomers expect
TO get some information on
the numbers, sizes and con-
centrations of galaxies. They
may even look beyond all
creation into an ultimate
nothingness - beyond space
itself which, after all, is a
human concept. There are
hardly even any speculations
now on the total extent of
all things. Doubtless some of
the philosophic implications
OF the findings will be rev.
dictionary.
The site. selected after 30
others all over the country
had been eliminated is at
an altitude of about $500
feet in West Virginia's Deer
Greek Valley, and is sur
rounded on all sides by mile
high mountains which will
shut out radio interference
from cities of this part of
the country.
The signals received, it is
expected. can be distine-
uished from man-made radio
interference because they can
be traced to particular places
in the sky. The celestial OBJ
Jects from which, it is ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26

ture behavior on the part of the Cas-
tro government, AS offensive as this
attitude is, it should not be permitted
to stand in the way If there is any
reasonable prospect of constructive ne
gotiationS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26

@. Did Lew Wallace, author
OF Ben Hur, ever visit the
Holy Landry. M.
A. Gen, Wallace visited the
Holy Land many years after
he wrote Ben Hur. So ex-
tensive had been his studies
that he afterwards said that
he did not find a single error
in his record.
q. How many persons are
bitten by snakes each year
IN the United States?-TJ.
A. 1t has been estimated
that as many as 5000 per-
sons per year are bitten by
snakes in this country. In
only 10 to 20 of these cases,
however, do the bites prove
fatal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26

pected, signals will be re-
ceived will be enormously hot
spots like the Crab Nebula
in the Milky Way system. the
remnants of star which is
believed to have exploded a
few billion years ago with an
energy of about 100000
O00,0OO,000 ,O0O,000,O00 nu-
clear bombs. The astron-
omers also expect signals
from great clouds of hydro
gen gas from which stars are
in the process of being
formed.
A few miles away another
radio telescope is being
erected by a group of univer-
sites, under a contract with
the National Science Founda-
ton. With two dishes" one
85 and the other 185 feet in
diameter, it is expected, finer
discrimination can be made
within shorter distances. This
station will have a permanent
taft of so astronomers.
4
Life may be created anew
" man in our time.
Organic chemists already
nave enough knowledge and
skill which they are devoting
70 what they consider more
practical ends.
This is the prediction Of
Dr.. Joshua Lederberg. pro-
essor of genetics at Leland
Stanford University.
If" he says in a report
just published through the
american Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1.-The
ingenuity and craftsmanship
so successfully directed at the
fabrication of organic poly
meters for the practical need
of mankind were to be con-
centrated on the problem Of
constructing a self-replicat-
ing assembly along these lines
l predict that construction of
an artificial molecule having
the essential functions of
primitive life would fall with
IN the grasp of our current
knowledge"
Nature Did Fair Job
The only question, he en-
phasizes, is whether it would
be worth the time and ef-
fort. Accidentally or other
wise, Nature seems to have
done a fair job already.
Production of a molecule
or group of molecules Show
ing most of the characters
Of living things is just a first
step, DR.. Lederberg points
out. Perhaps it has been done
already. The next, and prob
ably more difficult, step is 10
endow this molecule with the
capacity of reproducing it,
self with considerable preci-
sion.
This, he stresses, will re-
quire deep study of the basis
OF heredity on a chemical
level - the mechanism by
which single cells divide into
two identical cells. This is es-
sentially the basis of growth.
In his report he outlines
what he considers the sim
plest procedure possible start
ing with intensive study of
the protein DINA, the split
ting substance of cells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriters correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-26
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKINS SERVICE

reader can get an ansro
mail. to any question of fact nv
s r The Star Information an.
EeSu 635 street NV Wasbineton
Please inclose return postaga
of SeH-addressed stamped envelope
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Continued From Preceding POSe

Even SEN Kennedy's fioor-men were keeping IN
touch via the walkie-talkieS.
So what can we expect this week as the Re,
publicanS assemble in Chicago?
For one important thing, there should be
no acoustical problem of the kind which made
it difficult for delegates to hear the speakers
The Chicago arena has been tested in the only
way that counts-by the satisfactory conduct of
previous conventions.
But there is still the problem of aises clut-
tered by reporters, TV interviewerS with their
creepie- peoples land technicians to hold their
lights), pages, celebrity guests, ushers and the
like.
Just how the Republicans will solve this
problem remains to be seen, but TVS new mo-
biity as evidenced by the Democratic conVen-
ton, obviously adds new headaches
The TV men seemed to travel In clusters
ABC's John Daily waited moment too long TO
switch to Paul Harvey, who thought he had Jim
Farley for an interview Farley, he explained,
was busy. He was-giving another interview
Earlier CHS man interviewed Farley and the
ngure lowering in the foreground was NBC's
Evening star., 1960-07-24

Martin Agronsky whenever Ted Kennedy
moved a half dozen newsmen moved with him.
Convention officials may have to give some
thought to the wisdom of restricting the number
of reporters permitted on the floor or eliminat-
ing them altogether The Senate or House
would have terrible time transacting business
If this order of operation prevailed
And SO few of the interviews seemed worthy
of the time or effort!
other thoughts:
The injudiciousnesS Of anchor-men at
tempting to ascribe particular emotions to
man on the basis of an interview. He may not
be "curt" at all; merely exasperated, as anyone
should be when interrupted in his activities 10
answer the identical question again and again
watched all three networks from time to
time and the reporter felt the Sorriest for was
MICS Sandy vanocur, who trailed Sen. Kennedy
from his hideaway to the arena and seemed to
have run all the way. Even then, Vanocur sup
piled his customarily fine description
What hgh-wat marks there were for FV
viewers were provided by the delegates, speakers
and the action, not necessarily by the interpre-
tation thereof.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
The. Convention Expert

LOS ANGELES (AP).-The best covered
conventions In history.
That's the view OF Bill Henry, and he should
know He's co-ordinator of radio-TV arrange
ments for both conventions and he's done the
job since l948.
"The coverage of the Republican Convention
is going to be almost as big. think that people
sense this is going to be a hot campaign
Nobody is a sure winner, and this time an in
cumbent isn't running"
Long time columnist for the Los Angeles
Times Henry has also been broadcaSter since
the early days of radio and will be reporting
for NBC at the convention as he did in Los
Angeles He told how he fell into his CO.
ordinator post:
Il helped out on arrangements at the 1894
conventions where there was only radio, IN l94o,
when nv coverage was only a local affair In
New York and Philadelphia, they needed help IN
setting it up. was head of the House Radlo-IV
Gallery at the time, so was enlisted.
"Ive done it ever since. It's thankless
lob and unpaid; don't even get expenses. But
the National Committees need someone on the
other side to help them weed out the station
managers and statesmen who try to worm their
way into free seat.
my Job is to see that the local stations
needs are taken care of. The networks can nno
for themselves and do so very well"
Evening star., 1960-03-05
New Trial Cuts
DamdgeAward
$4,000 Verdict,
Trimmed to So, 500

A retrial of a damage case
resulting in a $4,000 verdict
for the woman plaintiff the
first time-ended here yester-
day when a Municipal Court
jury awarded her $4,500.
The jury brought in the vcr-
dict after almost nine hours
Of deliberation in favor of Mrs.
Ruth Fisher, SO, of 1709 Ninth
street NV. Mrs. Fisher last
year refused a $4,000 settle
ment of the case after former
Chief Municipal Court Judge
(now District Court) Leonard
p. Walsh set aside the $4,000
verdict-the highest amount
ever awarded by a Municipal
Court jury in a damage case.
The judge set aside the higher
figure awarded on grounds it
was excessive.
Mrs. Fisher was injured in
April, 1856, when a piece of
glass fell three stories from a
building and struck her in the
head as she was walking in the
TOO block of Seventh street
NV. In testimony during the
second trial that ended yester-
day, Mrs. Fisher said she was
in Casualty Hospital for six
days and still had an unpaid
$256 hospital bill.
She said that her head aches
"all the time" and that she
can't sleep very well. She also
said that her hair has started
coming out.
The defendants in the case
were Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Small
Of the Apex Decorating Co.,
which occupied the building
near which Mrs. Fisher was
walking at the time Of the ac-
cident.
Mrs. Fisher is unemployed
and receives an $83 a month
check from the Welfare De-
partment. Last June her at
torney at that time asked
Municipal Court to appoint a
guardian for her to accept the
settlement offered at that time.
However, Judge Walsh ruled
that he did not have the power
to take such step despite the
fact that the woman has a
history Of mental illness.
Evening star., 1960-03-05
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
Is Your Temperament
Driving Your Car?

PERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY IMPORTANT According
to Safety Expert Leon Brody, per cent of our
licensed drivers emotionaly unfit to be behind
the wheel To learn whether you or your emotions
are driving your car take DR.. Brody'S driving
attitude" test in This Week Magazine.
TEEN-AGERS AS DRIvERS-Wth some exceptions, of
course, teen-ager are often better drivers than
their elders. Many of them have formed car clubs
to promote aafer driving with membership depend
ent on good-driving honor system TEEN Maga-
zine takes you visiting with one of these clubs in
the Washington this Sunday in The Star.
THE BIG COUNT-Beginning April /, 100000 census
takers start taking their profile of the United States
See when the Census-Taker Visits You' in SUN
DAY, The Star Magazine, and find out what you
need to know before he knocks on your door.
THEY KEEP OUR SECRETS-The Governments most
secret agency-the CIA-comeS IN for careful exam
ination on how it works, who makes it work and
its effectiveness in article by ]. F. Ter Horst
in The Sunday Stars Editorial Section.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1960-03-05
3 Used Car
Firms Appeal
License Loss

Three more District used cal
dealers whose applications fol
license renewal were deniec
have filed appeals with a city
agency.
The three firms. whose per.
NIT renewal requests were re.
jected on grounds of unethica,
practices, are:
Bob Wilson, Inc, 227 K street
NV; Discount Auto Mart, Inc.
1900 and 1902 K street NV.
and Bill Ross, Inc, trading as
Ross Discount Motors, 948 New
York avenue NV.
In line with a court order
the three dealers were served
last Friday with papers speci-
flying the basis for the permit
reflections by the city's Ii
cenSeS and Inspections Di-
vision. The appeals were filed
with the Board of Appeals and
Review in time to meet a one
week deadline set by the court
Two other used-car dealers
whose permit renewal appli-
cations were turned down haG
taken their cases to the board
earlier. They are Lloyd's Auto
Sales, Inc. 1925 BladenSbure
road NE, and Morton Mo-
tors, Inc, 2121 Benning road
NE.
Evening star., 1960-03-05
Hindemith in ReheorsoIs

ago in mourning for the death
! of Abraham Lincoln.
II knew the poem years and
years ago." Mr.. Hindemith re-
called, land I've always liked
Walt Whitman. I really don't
remember when the idea oi
setting it to music first oc-
cured to me-"
1T was a general feeling
had for this country and the
men who made this country
he unused, men like Walt
Whitman and Lincoln"
The German-born Mr.. Hinde-
NTH lives in Zurich, Switzer-
land, where he teaches music
at the University of Zurich. but
he is strongly tied to his
adopted land. the Unite q
States.
In 1884, while still in Ger
many, he wrote his most IA
nous work, Mathis der Mailer
which concerns the defeat ot
German liberalism. This was
! not an acceptable theme ir
Evening star., 1960-03-05
Lesser Term
Melted toKi|feI
After Retria|
Toxi Driver Gets
7-2l Years for
Sluyinq Woman

District Court Judge Alex
ander Holtzoff yesterday SEN
fenced a man to serve a prison
term of from 7 to 81 years for
second degree murder in the
fatal shooting Of a woman in
February. 1859.
The defendant is Frank B.
Wilson. 40, of the TOO block of
Seventh street NE, a taxicab
driver. The victim was Mrs.
Florence E. Smith, SO, a former
friend of the defendant, who
was fatally shot in her home
in the 2100 block of Savannah
terrace Sc.
Last November, Wilson was
convicted on a charge of first
degree murder for the same
offense. Judge Holtzoff, how
ever, later set that verdict aside
on grounds that the prosecu-
ton had failed to prove pre-
meditation. Wilson was reUried
last January by another jury
which found him guilty of the
lesser charge.
In another District Court
case. Judge Leonard P. Walsh
sentenced two men to serve
from 3 to 8 years each for
assault with intent to rob a
policeman with a dangerous
weapon at a restaurant.
The defendants are Francis
M. Thompson. 36, of the 1400
block of Newton street NV,
and Samuel E. Young, %, of
the first block of L street NV.
Judge Walsh suspended i'm
position of sentence for two
brothers from Florida and
placed them on probation for
two years on simple assault
charges. growing out of tussle
with police last July at a res
taurant.
The two given probation are
Raleigh N. Jordan. %, and
Wayne Jordan, 81, Of Opa
Locka, Fla. Both had been
charged with assault on police
officers. A jury which tried
them on those charges was un-
able to reach a verdict. Sub
sequently both of the brothers
pleaded to two lesser charges.
Evening star., 1960-03-05

Nazi Germany. and the pre-.
miere performance was delayed
until l938-and then in neu-
tral Zurich.
Mr.. Hindemith subsequently
came to the United States, and
served in the music depart
ment Of Yale University until
1853.
I became-and remain-an
American citizen" he recalled
proudly at rehearsal.
Sometimes called a goth CEN
tury Bach, partly because OF
his fondness for counterpart
Mr.. Hindemith says much
Western music is losing the
favor of nationalism and is be-
coming "internationalized."
A kindly, gentle, round
faced man. Mr.. Hindemith is
clearly in favor of that. He
saw the worst of nationalism
he says, in NaZi Germany.
But those things are over
now" he concluded quietly
Spiritual things are stronger
than political"
Evening star., 1960-03-05
Gen. Grant
Gets Fathers
Tiny Bible

A tiny Tom Thumb" picture
Bible, inscribed by the son of
Civil War Gen. U. S. Grant,
has been given to the Grant
family by a Washington woman
who had cherished it for years.
The child's Bible was in
scribed by Frederick Dent
Grant, father Of Maj. Gen. U.
S. Grant III, when the Civil
War generals son, only II
years old, was with his father
in the Vicksburg campaign.
The boy inscribed it to his
sister: "Nelle Grant from her
brother. Fred. May 2, 1853"
Young Fred was shot by a
Confederate sharpshooter and
slightly wounded at Port Glib
son. Written on the flyleaf was
this notation: This book cap
tured the morning after the
battle of Port Gibson" Appar-
emily was young boy had lost
it when he was wounded.
The book has been in the pos
session Of Mrs. Elizabeth S.
jackson. Of 1911 Linden street
NE. for many years. She said
her husband received it among
a number of miscellaneous
books given him by a friend.
Il hated to part with it,"
Mrs. Jackson said, but I was
determined that it should be
returned to the Grant family. -"
She sent it off special delivery
to Maj. Gen. Grants office and
he sent her a long letter thank
ling her for it.