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Evening star., 1960-01-27
'Snobbish' Art

In the letter by Claire Fer
ritter defending the policies
of the Corcoran Gallery Of
Art. the jurors mentioned Of
national prominence are on
record as having castigated
the low estate of entries
of recent years to both
the Biennial and Area shows.
Judge Jack Levine was re-
ported to be "diSgusted with
the quality of the work"
Walter Stumpfig selected 3
works out of 1900 entries.
with 19 probableS. Robert
Brakeman was quoted that
the caliber of work was very
poor" Is this a record to
defend?
I have no quarrel with
abstract painting. Some work
is excellent. particularly that
of artists with years of for
NAL training. Experimental
painting and new ideas
certainly should be encour-
aged. But. I reject the fallacy
that any style or fashion
should be promoted and dis
played to the detriment of
all other styles. I am dead
against artistic or intellec-
tual snobbery.
1t is timely that Corcoran
policies be re-examined, in
asmuch as local taxpayers
are being asked to back an
excellent bill before Congress
supporting the local cultural
arts. The bill would take one
mill of every D. C. tax dol
lar for the cultural arts
(total collection amounting
to approximately $175,000)
of which Corcoran would get
a substantial share.
Under these circumstances,
we should insist that Cor
coran exhibit a broader and
more imaginative leadership,
encourage the participation
Of the finest artists of Wash
ington and the Nation by
abolishing snobbish art fash
ion and faddism.
Francis c. Peters,
President, American Art
League, Inc.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
Pursuing the Voter

The Associated Press, not given to
superlatives, says that Senator Ken
nedy'S first day on the New Hampshire
primary trail was a "rip-roaring sue
cess" Senator Kennedy evidently thinks
so, too.
AS he strolled through the streets
in Estes Kefauver fashion, shaking
hands with this voter and admiring
.another's baby, he renewed his chal-.
lenge to those reluctant Democratic
dragons who seem to think that enter
ing a primary is akin to swallowing
a dose Of lethal poison
For the benefit of such as Senators
Symington and johnson, he cheerfully
observed that if "the voters don't love
them in March, April or May, they won't
love them in November" And for the
benefit of Harry Truman, who says that
primaries are so much "eyewash," the
Massachusetts Senator, reveling in a
warm reception, indicated that he would
be quite willing to bathe in the primary
brand of eyewash
New Hampshire, of course, is some
0AAAhi6 oA a SpCCldI Case. OeIldIOr Hen-
nedy has it in his pocket, and he need
fear no man as he roams the streets
of Nashua and Manchester. 1t may be
different when he gets into Wisconsin.
But the Senator from Massachusetts,
is going to Wisconsin, and he, is going
on from there. If he does we'll in these
later tests, we doubt very much that
those rivals who are unwilling to meet
him in the primaries can hope to beat
him in the convention.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
Wrong Pew

The Star for January 20
carried an interesting article
about a new restaurant, the
Market Inn. opening in the
new Southwest. In the list Of
old items included in the
restaurant I would like to
make a correction. President
Coolidge was a member Of
First Congregational Church,
Tenth and G streets NV,
which was razed. last summer
preparatory to building a new
church on the same site. AS
a member of the building
committee, I know that the
Coolidge pew was retained
by the church and stored
with other furniture. Prob
ably Mr.. Mandis bought an
other pew from the old
church, possibly one that Mr..
Coolidge sat in while he was
Vice. President.
A. L. Fay.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
Rights for D. c.

In my recent letter on your
editorial on home rule for
Washington. I said that
Washington is q creature of
Congress in much the same
way, legally and historically,
that all American cities are
creatures Of their State Leg
islatures. 1t follows, there
fore. that Congress may
grant Washington true home
rule just as the States have
given home rule to their
cities. An editors note to my
letter said that there is no
parallel since other cities are
represented in their Legisla-
lures but Washingtonians are
not represented in theirs
Congress-.
If I understand your logic
land I do find it a bit pecu-
liar. Washington should not
have home rule because it
has no representatives in
Congress. Once. however, we
have two or three represent
atives in Congress to help the
other 437 pass local laws for
Evening star., 1960-01-27
Needles Doctors After GETTING Same

I should hate to be charged
with cynicism. but, so help
me, what l am about to tell
you is gospel truth.
The first results Of the Ke-
fauver investigation into high
prices Of drugs is being noted
lately in prescriptions written
by a few local physicians who
no doubt possess a highly de-
veloped sardonic sense. The
new gimmick, calculated no
doubt to impress the poor pa
tient whenever the prescrip-
ton calls for a suspected item.
is to add in parentheses the
words IAN inexpensive kind"
I call it a gimmick because
despite the doctors profound
sympathy and deep concern
for the patients pocketbook,
his fee remains five to eight
dollars per. The explanation
would be that among practi-
TONERS Of medicine there is
no inexpensive kind"
A case in point. About a
month ago / asked my doctor
to shoot some Asian flu vac
cine into my arm. The actual
Evening star., 1960-01-27
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Bad Informotion?

In New York on January IL,
George v. Allen, director of
the United States Informa-
ton Agency, slandered the
American people with his
remarks:
I'VE have been chiding the
u. S. S. r. since the end of
World War II for not doing
its share in helping to
eradicate sickness and pow
erty in the world. Now that
the u. S. s. r. is beginning to
show some activity in this
direction, there is q tendency
on the part Of many Amer
leans to view the develop
ment with great alarm. I for
one do not take this ap-
proach." (The New York
TimeS.)
When the war ended, the
Soviet Union was in no condi-
tion to help underdeveloped
countries. Much of the coun-
try lay in ruin, its population
decimated by a war brought
on the country by its criminal
Communist leader Joseph
Stain and his satraps. Its
reconstruction task was un-
precedented. 1t would have
been heartless on the part of
Americans to have expected
Russians to help underdeve-
loped countries at the ex-
pense Of their own starving,
ailing, undernourished and
impoverished people. Amer
leans, always sympathetic to
suffering in other countries,
have never been known to be
so heartleSS as TO chide a ma
ton in distress for not shar-
ing with other helpless
peoples.
Those Of us who are in
timately familiar with the
true aims and goals of the
Red regime, which has tor
tured and murdered tens of
millions of its own people,
believe that its interest in
the fate of underdeveloped
nations Is in line with its
world communication design.
1t hopes thereby to entrap
the beneflciarieS, to deceive
the masses of the real Soviet
motives, and ultimately to
enslave them as done in
many other countries.
J. Anthony Marcus,
New York City.
Evening star., 1960-01-27

social security, to hypocriti-
cally play the role of bleeding
heart and protector of the
poor.
The opposition of the ANA
to health insurance, which
medicos have branded so
cialiStic" and the current op-
position to medical and hos
pital care to retired persons,
are motivated by what may
be described with all honesty,
even If a bit cruel, as a greed
for money, the need to hold
on to their own economic
position in our society.
The five dollar Office fee
and the ten dollar house call
must be safeguarded, and the
ANA, backed by ninety nine
percent of its members, will
see to it they are.
The pharmacist and the
drug makers could retaliate
by advising patients to seek
the services of a less expen-
sive doctor. but as I mention
ed before there exists no such
category in the honored pro-
fession.
B. S. BercOvici
Evening star., 1960-01-27

ooW one bitter winter day
in the cold and snow.
She wore a single diamond
OF ice on her brow, and
somehow it made her COM
pletely beautiful.
Ever since that day we
have regarded the female
redbird as the best, and the
prettiest.
The male. Of course, con-.
tinues to attract the atten-
ton of the world. A red
singer is wonderful. sure
enough.
The sheer physical strength
Of the male is not usually
realized.
Once old yellow Quincy.
the cat, caught a cardinal.
The cat had been asleep
in a flower border, and the
bird flew down right between
his paws, awakening him.
1nStinctively. the cat grab
bed the bird.
We tried to take the catch
from him, and succeeded, but
the trouble came in trying to
hold the cardinal to see if it
had been hurt.
1t seemed a veritable
broncho in feathers.
First it pulled one way,
then another, and soon be-
came too hot to handle.
1t scared away at once,
demonstrating that it was in
good condition still.
The pretty action of hold
ing out a seed to his lady
love is the cardinals own.
AS far as we know, no
other bird does this little
trick.
Sometimes people think
the cardinals do not bathe,
but this Is a mistake: they
do, but are rather secretive
about it. ,
A good way to catch a
cardinal bathing is to fix
up a shower bath for him.
This is done by turning
the hose nozzle so that it
makes a fine mist or spray,
and then playing it on the
top Of an evergreen.
In this way the mist
trickleS down through the
branches, wetting them all
thoroughly.
In no time at all the car
dinalS find the shower, and
fly up and down through the.
branches, wetting themselves
thoroughly.
Chickadees and other,
smaller species love this type
of natural shower. the very
kind provided by nature In
any spring rainy time.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
Split Personality

While its most dynamic spokesman
lies gravely i'll, Britain's Labor Party ap-
pears to be moving steadily toward an
all-out civil war between it's left and
its right. The absent leader-Deputy
Leader, by title-is Aneurin Bevan, hos
pltalized since late December. Ranged
IN personal conflict are Hugh Gaitskell,
party chieftain who may be stalking his
future on strategy of undermining and
moderating Labor's historic commitment
to extreme socialism, and Michael Foot,
eloquent leader of the radical left.
BaSically, the problem is one Of
split personality" in the Labor move
ment itSelf-divided between a preoccu-
patton with Socialist constitution that
was written in 1918 and the require
ments of practical politics in an entirely
different era. 1t is problem that both
factions have recognized for longer than
they have discussed it openly, but which
was clearly placed on the record at an
inquest" into their shattering defeat at
the polls last October. It was then that
Mr.. GaitSkell proposed modification,
second thought about the "be all and
end all' commitment to naturalization
OF industry as "the ultimate first prin-
ciple and aim Of socialism" The "war"
that might have erupted then was
averted by Mr.. Bevan, who calmed down
his most emotional left-wing friends by
asserting that his own differences with
Mr.. Gaitskell were mot fundamental"
With the return of Commons to Ses-
sion, and with Mr.. Bevan out of action,
the feuding is moving now to its climax
Perhaps holding the key to its outcome
are several influential party figures who
have thus far chosen silence as their
strategy of the moment. Within fort
night, however, there will be unavoid-
able tests of factional strength-and
perhaps answers that could bear widely
on Britain's political history in the pres
ent decade.
Evening star., 1960-01-27

may say so, provide much food for
thought.
Mrs. Clare B. Williams, assistant
Republican national chairman, is one
of those already thinking about it..
Women" she says, rather triumphantly,
nov hold the balance of power" And
Mrs. Katie Louchheim, her Democratic
counterpart, speaks rather darkly of
"arming" the gentler sex with formidable
new political techniques" Whittier are
we drifting? Toward a matriarchy?
The question is too portentous for levity.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
Takes McGM to Task

Ralph McGill takes Sem
ator Symington to task per-
sonally and the Democratic
Party to task collectively for
not being noisy and showing
fight, now that campaign
days are upon US. "The
Democrats badly need q few
cold-eyed. keen-minded nav
ericks who will take a bulldog
hold and growl. They aren't
rude enough or noisy enough,
opines he, and he also COM
ments that one reason the
Democrats are not competing
on the peace and prosperity
sales talk Of the opposing
party is because Democrats
are too polite. While it is
obvious that no Democrat
could ever stoop to the skull
duggery Of the Republicans,
and while I agree with every
word Mr.. McGill has set
down. still he has no room
to talk.
Judging from some Of the
recent commentaries that
have appeared in Mr.. McGill's
columns, especially those
which were positively pan
egyric with Nixon as subject,
one would think that the
writer has forgotten his Ten
nessee raising and gone over
heart and soul to the opposi-
ton. No columnist is stressing
he Nixon-is-hard- o-beat
angle more vigorously than
Mr.. McGill; his expositions
and his analyses of this
theme are enough to make
even the die-hards give up,
and rush to the polls to mark
x beside Nixon's name.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
No Choice at Polls?

If you are a Communist in
Russia you have a voting
choice between Khrushchev
and Khrushchev. II you are
a Republican in the United
States of America you can
vote for either Nixon or
Nixon. If you are a Democrat
in Ohio you can choose be-
tween Kennedy and Kennedy.
Like Abraham Lincoln said,
"You can't fool all the people
all the time" I've got a feel
ing this sort of thing is not
going to be accepted by the
American public.
Evening star., 1960-01-27
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Few birds hereabout seem
to exert the pull on the
heartstrings that the cardinal
or redbird does; the glowing
male, the Sedate but beauti-
full female, each in its turn
beloved.
L. A. C. Of Lincoln Park
area expresses the general
feeling when she writes:
There is only a short
season, during the molt and
early winter, when the male
is not singing. When the days
start to lengthen and the sun
is beginning to gather a little
strength, he commences his
chorus.
First it is a simple query,
What cheer then it length
ems to What cheer. cheer,
cheer and for variation it
may be Whit, whit, whit
"As the days grow longer, he
calls to his mate. Pretty girl.
pretty girl. pretty girl and
sometimes he says Chew,
chew, chew
among birds it is not Gus
tomary for a female to sing,
but the lady cardinal will
often sing a whisper song. in
form like the song of the
male, but quieter, as if she
were singing not to the world
or even to him but for her
own comfort and delectation.
Her song is like her cos
tune; it has a grace about
it that warns the heart of
every nature lover who is
within reach or hearing
distance.
Our redbird is one species
known to every child. 1t is
the only bird that is red
all over and has a crest. The
only contrasting color is the
black patch at the base of
the bill, for even the bill is
red.
"As is the case with most
species, the female is duller
than the male. Some think
that her asheS-of -roses plum
age. deepening into red on
the folded wings and tail, is
even more beautiful than the
brighter feathers of her
spouse.
1T won't be long now
until we hear the love call
of the male as he stakes
his claim on some nearby
barren tree"
\
Birds, like human women,
sometimes need an accent
point for their beauty.
We will never forget the
mother cardinal that perched
outside the dining room win
Evening star., 1960-01-27
'VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Probing Mans Sensitiyity TO Pain
By THOMAS R. HENRY
Pain really is.

Pain really is.
Quite aside from what one
feels, 1t causes quick, lasting
and measurable changes in
body chemistry. This is one
of the findings of the Air
Force Office of Scientific Re
search contractors investigat-
ing action Of stresses of all
sorts on the secretion of hor-
mones, chemicals put out by
glands which initiate and
direct great physiological
changes.
Pain is, at the best, a para
doxical phenomenon. Appar-
emily 1t varies greatly, with
the same stimulus, from per-
son to person and with the
immediate circumstances. To
this extent it exists largely in
the mind and is unmeasura-
BILE. I know how much a bee
sting hurts me. I don't know
how much it hurts you.
The Air Force researchers
have found at least one meas
urable physical effect. A
painful stimulus, it is re-
ported by DR.. George Sayers
Of Western Reserve Univer-
sity, is followed very quickly
by a marked increase in the
blood of a hormone, the So
called "adrenocortistropic ic
hormone," which is secreted
by the pituitary gland at the
base Of the brain and causes
other hormones to be secreted
into the blood by the adrenal
glands over the kidneys.
DR.. Sayers has perfected a
technique which enables him
to follow the release rate of
this pituitary hormone. This
has been masked by all tech
niques used in the past. The
increase caused by pain. he
reports, persists for as much
as q half hour.
Reaction Under Ether
When the anaesthetc ether
is given before a painful
stimulus, such as would come
with surgery, secretion Of the
hormone first is increased and
then inhibited altogether. The
excitatory action of ether is
completely abolished when a
minute part Of the hypothal-
anus, one Of the basal parts
Of the brain, is destroyed.
DR.. Godfrey Harris of the
University Of London. work.
ing under an Air Force con-
tract, Is carrying out an ex-
tensive series Of experiments
on the effects of pain and
emotional excitement on Sc
cretion of another pituitary
hormone which stimulates
secretion from the thyroid
gland. Upsets in this system,
there is some reason to be-
lieve. may be one cause for
the malady Of hyperthyroid-
ism.
The actual extent of pain
consciously felt by anybody
soon may be measured objec-
lively. according to progress
reports from another Air
Force contractor, DR.. Nc
Keine Of the University Of
Louvain, Belgium. 1t is indi-
Gated, he says, by the electri-
cal response Of the skin, the
so-called "galvanic skin re-
sponse." Statistical analysis
OF a group Of volunteer sub
jects, he reports, show that
the same pain response shown
by this measurement was also
reported by the individuals.
"A fellow can stand Just
so much" but maybe he can
stand a lot more.
Evening star., 1960-01-27

How much?" is the sub
ject Of research underway in
both this country and Europe
by scientific contractors of
the Air Force Office Of Scien-
tiflc Research.
1t varies naturally from
person to person. The con-
tractors are trying to find
and measure actual physical
effects Of all sorts of physical
stresses. There is every rea-
son to believe that in the
coming space age men will
be subjected to such stresses
as hitherto hardly have been
imagined. Ways may be found
to make them endurable. The
Air Force scientists are look
ing especially for ways to
measure effectively the ex-
tremely complicated inter-
play Of nervous, chemical
and hormonal factors which
change with environment.
Up to now they have found
some curious paradoxes. DR..
Honig Of the University of
Rochester is trying to explain
his puzzling finding that
nitroglycerine, and the hor-
mones adrenalin and nora
drenalin all increase the oxy-
gen tension Of the heart lin
ing. Angina pectoris, one of
the most distressing and
fatal of heart maladies, has
been believed to be due to
failure of this tension. Nitro
glycerine pills are an estab-
lished remedy for attacks.
They are aggravated by both
the adrenal hormones.
Other Factors Sought
The finding shows, says a
preliminary Air Force report,
that medical scientists now
must look for some other fac
tors than oxygen tension to
explain the rather common
malady.
The role of the two adrenal
hormones is being investi-
gated by medical scientists
at Boston General Hospital
under an Air Force contract.
They have infused these sub
stances at different levels
into the blood stream. With
ardenalin they produce a
rise in heart rate and sys-
tolic blood pressure and a
fall in diastolic pressure. With
noradrenalin the heart rate
decreased and both blood
preSsureS rose. These para
doxes, it is stressed, need to
be resolved for the output of
the adrenal gland increases
with emergencies with sup
posed bad effects on the
heart-as when persons drop
dead in moments of sudden
excitement or fear.
Another traditional area Of
medical research has been
the body's response to lack
OF oxygen. This is being
studied fundamentally by
Prof. Ciaranf1 of the Uni
versity of Milan, Italy. His
field is especially the effects
Of decreased oxygen tension
on the ability of the body to.
form proteins, essential body
building bricks, from their
constituent elements, the
amino acids. obtained in food.
When tissue slices are in
cubating in oxygen, DR..
Ciaranfi has just reported to
the Air Force Office, they are
able to incorporate one of
these acids, glycine, into pro-
tein about four times as rap
idly as in air and 10 times
as rapidly as in a nitrogen
atmosphere.
Evening star., 1960-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

BEDROOM, dining rm.. contents of
home; cash. We do moving, .stor-
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BOOKS BOUGHT. any quantity
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SHOP. 922 9th st. NV MA. S-9402
Open ewes til $3.50
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refrigerators, gas stove and piano
Call Mr. GRADY. Ma S-2679
Evening star., 1960-01-19

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ROOMS WITH BOARD

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Evening star., 1960-01-19
ROOMS, HOUSEKEEPING

FLORAL MANOR, 1912 18th st
n.w.-Large, bright, single, Ink.
room, running water. near shower.
FOGGY BOTTOM STUDIO RIM.
refgr., grill. clock-radio, TV, foam
mattress; S10-S16. Elk. 3-6636
PALMER HOUsE-145O Girard St
n.w.--Nicely furn. l.hk. room
running water. nr. bath: SIS wk.
P ST. NV, 174O-Large room with
efficiency unit, linens; $3.50
1854 PARK RID. N.W.-Sleepins
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attractively furn.; reasonable.
18th ST. NV, 2SO3-Lge. rm-,
next bath, refgr., hot plate, lin.
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1917 M ST. N.W.-Lge. front rm.,
single. phone and auto. laundry;
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Evening star., 1960-01-19

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Evening star., 1960-01-19
FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

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Evening star., 1960-01-19
DOCS, PETS, ETC.
CATTLE AND LIVESTOCK

GELDNG, black; excel. ropine,
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THREE YOUNG THOROUGHBRED
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PIANOS, returned from rental:
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