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3 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1956 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 3 WALTER LIPPMANN Invitation to Confusion The following article was the Senate voted to send all the proposals back to the Judiciary in effect helps explain why this written i by Walter Lippmann before then pending electoral reform Committee. Mr. Lippmann's article action was taken.

WASHINGTON. HERE IS AT PRESENT strong support in Congress for a with variety the of constitutional reforms, all of which have to do presidency. The Senate is voting this week on several amendments dealing with the electoral college and how 1 the popular vote for President should be counted. There is in the background state legislatures though noththe revised version of the old ing is said about it--the right to Bricker amendment to limit keep the general ticket system treaty-making powers of provided they also elect their the national government. And there are in the works a number of bills to clear up the unsettled question of what happens if the President is disabled.

Of these three subjects, it may fairly be said that only on the Daniel Daniel last one is it both desirable and urgent to act now. The Bricker amendment is not only not needed but might well prove extremely embarrassing to the President. As for the reform of the electoral college system, the fact is that though a theobe made for retical, casercan no agreement among the reformers on what the reform should be. Choice to Legislatures. The leading proposal now before the Senate, the so-called Daniel-Mundt amendment, proves on its face that, Congress not ready to with the question.

This amendment not institute a new syswould, voting for President. It only sounds as if it might if one does not look at it carefully. All that it really does is to invite each of the 48 state legislatures to do what those legislatures have now, and have always had, the right and power to dent The Daniel-Mundt amendment is not in fact what it purports to be--a new and better system of electing the President. Only One Change. It offers each state legislature a choice of systems.

Senator Daniel of Texas, in section 2, offers each state legislature the right--which it already possesses- to order the electoral vote divided among the three leading candidates in proportion to the popular vote. Senator Mundt of South Dakota, in section 3, offers each state legislature the rightwhich it has always had, and has in fact at times used to let the electors be chosen like Senators and Representatives two at large and the rest by congressional districts. Senator Mundt also offers the UNIVERSITY CITY PUTS SCHOOL TAX TO VOTE Board Ignores Ruling Under Which It Could Increase Rate. The University City school board is submitting a proposed increase in the school to the voters next Tuesday although, under an opinion by the Missouri Attorney General's office, it could establish the higher rate without a popular vote, it was announced University City todaters in 1953 authorized a school tax rate of each $100 of assessed valuation for a four-year period. However, when real estate assessments in the county were increased last year, the school board reduced the rate to $2.03 in accordance with state law requiring such an adjustment in the rate.

Because of. the need for additional teachers, higher salaries and the failure of the state School Foundation Program to be fully financed, the board is asking for a 37-cent increase in the rate and an cents to finance outstanding bonds voted by the people. Noting that Attorney General has ruled that the state's Noble act does not prevent a school board from restoring previously authorized higher rates In the years following a general assessment increase, Board President J. E. Sigoloff said the proposed 70-cent Increase would nevertheless be submitted to the people.

"Whether we are right in submitting this I don't know, but at least we will feel comfortable," he said. "The people won't think they are having something put over on them." At a public meeting recently, he said, it was the consensus that the proposal should be put to a vote. Three other school districts in the county are putting increases into effect without a vote. The boards are relying on a prior authorization by the people and the advisory opinof the Attorney General. They are Webster Groves, Hancock Place and Clayton.

'GREAT TRIDUUM' SERVICES UNDER WAY AT VATICAN VATICAN CITY, March 28 (UP)-The most solemn rites of Holy Week marking the death of Christ began today in this tiny state which is the temporal and spiritual center of the Roman Catholic world. The "great triduum" (the three-day period) of Holy Week started in Rome at noon (6 St. Louis time). It will run through midnight of Holy Saturday. Pope Pius XII did not attend any special service today.

He said mass in his private chapel as usual and had brief sepamate audiences with his aids and 10 foreign visitors. COWDERY ART SHOW, GROUP EXHIBITS OPEN Quinn and Jackson Win Honorable Mention in Muncie (Ind.) Display. By HOWARD DERRICKSON Cowdery, prize-winning painter and also a theatrical makeup artist, today opened an exhibition of 30 new water devoted mostly to theatrical themes, specifically colors, to behind-the-scenes glimpses at Municipal Opera. The display will run six weeks at Petit Pigalle, 4207 Lindell boulevard, before beginning an out-of-town gallery tour. For the last 19 years Cowdery has done the makeup for annual gridiron dinners of the St.

Louis Advertising Club and last two for three Missouri Athletic Club productions. A confirmed dabbler, he lectures on art at Washington University School of Fine Arts, writes advertising copy and, on occasion, does professional acting. Like a theatrical production, has a titlehisarexhibition Bottles." This seems rather like "playing to the orchestra," however, since the not be comprehensible to viewers who forget that Cowdery's last one-man show was called "Bars, Bottles and An occasional painting in the new show such as "Table No. 2." the artist's own favoritehas a certain theatrical slickness. This quality is not unpleasing, because of his unmistakable flair and Lautrec-like draftsmanship.

Colors are more subdued, generally, than in his last solo display. They take on a French subtlety that seems especially fitting in two large paintings of New Orleans. William Quinn, winner of an anonymous donor's $100 prize in City Art Museum's last Missouri Show, and Billy Jackson, St. Louis artist teaching at the University of Illinois, have won honorable mentions in a Muncie (Ind.) contest, it was announced today. Works by two other St.

Louisans- Albert Aloe and Robert Solomon-were chosen for the display, the Second Annual Small Sculpture Drawing, Ball State Teachers College. The exhibition will close Saturday. Two paintings by Herbert Cummings, artist who teaches College and freehand drawing at Washington University School of Architecture, are in the current twentysixth annual show the Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum. They are "White Saint," an oil that was in the City Art Museum's recent Missouri Show, and "Mute Oracle," a new egg tempera and oil painting. Also in the Springfield exhibition is an abstract sculpture by Elizabeth Phelan of Ladue.

The display opened Monday and will close April 18. LOUIS A. DAMMERT DIES, HEAD OF MORTGAGE FIRM Louis A. Dammert, president of Dammert Real Estate Mortgage Co. and member of St.

Louis family, died "today after a long illness at his home, 3438 Russell boulevard. He 83 years old. was, Dammert, a graduate of the Washington University School of Law in the class of 1899, started in the real estate business when he was 14 and had operated his own firm since 1901. He had been a guarantor and subscriber of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for 45 years and a guarantor of the Civic Music League since it started.

His father, the late Carl Dammert, was a cavalry officer in the Civil War. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Olga Tietjens Dammert, and a sister, Miss Caroline Dammert. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Lupton undertaking establishment, 7233 Delmar boulevard.

University City, with cremation in Valhalla Crer matory. ALBERT SMITH DIES AT 82 Albert Smith, a retired postal clerk, died early today of a stroke 82 at St. John's old and Hospital. lived He at years 2647 Lyle avenue, Maplewood. Funeral services will be at 6:45 p.m.

tomorrow Kriegshauser's undertaking establishment, 4228 South Kingshighway. Burial will be Friday at Verona, Mo. Mr. Smith is survived by his two sons, Capt. Albert T.

Smith, a Navy densist stationed at Bethesda, and Dr. Julius Smith, a dentist of Stroud, and two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Tucker and Mrs. Alta Morris, both of St. Louis.

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NOYES MRS. EISENHOWER HAS NEW OUTFITFOR WARM EASTER MRS. EISENHOWER WASHINGTON, March 28 (UP)---Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower has a new Easter bonnet and a new outfit to go with it. Newswomen got just that much news about her Easter finery and no more yesterday in a brief encounter with Mrs.

Eisenhower. They questioned her as she hurried between sessions of being photographed for the Veterans of Foreign Wars' buddy poppy campaign and the Crusade for Freedom. Mrs. Eisenhower, voted again to the New York fashion academy's 10-best dressed list, did not elaborate on her Easter outfit. She said only "Om, yes, I've got a new outfit.

But I don't know if it warm enough to wear it." JOSEPH MADRAS, OWNER OF PETROLEUM FIRM, DIES Joseph Madras, owner and president of the Energy Petroleum 2130 Kienlen avenue, Wellston, died of a heart ailment yesterday at his home, 8817 Powell avenue, Brentwood. He was 55 years old. Mr. Madras had owned the firm, which distributes gasoline and sells fuel oil, since 1937. Survivors include his wife, two sons, Joseph and Donald Madras, and a daughter, Mrs.

Kathleen Lochner. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, 2618 Brentwood boulevard. Brentwood.

Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery. YOU SAVE 1956 LATEST MODEL NEW THEORY OF LIFE ENERGY ADVANCED Nobel Prize Winner SzentGeorgyi Bases Hypothesis on Electro-Magnetism. LA JOLLA, March 28 (AP)-A Nobel prize scientist today offered a new hypothesis that life's energy can be understood only in terms of electromagnetism. term "electronics and linked it 'excitations with thyroxine, the human hormone of the thyroid gland. Dr.

Albert, Szent Georgyi, 1937 the Nobel prize in 1 physiology and chemistry, said the hypothesis was based on known behavior of electrons. He applied this behavior to explain transmission of energy within animal muscle. The Hungarian-born scientist, now director of the Institute of Muscle Research at the Woods Hole (Mass.) Marine Biological Station, recent discoveries about molecules had disproved chemical explanations of muscular action. "It became evident," he said, "that there had to be some mechanism to carry the energy from one part of the molecule to the part that had to contract. I asked myself what form of energy could travel in this way.

The only answer was the energy of electronic excitation." Szent-Georgyi said that he believed the energy stored in a chemical within a muscle was transmitted by this electronic excitation. He explained that an electron was excited into leaving original energy level by reversing its spin. He said that without the presence a magnetic field, the electron would return to its level too quickly to do any work. "Disturbances of the electromagnetic field," he added, "will help to reverse the spin. Such disturbances can be created by the oxygen molecule, or by heavy atoms like those of iodine.

"This is most remarkable because thyroxine, the hormone of the thyroid gland, contains iodine this hormone dominates and regulates our whole energy household." Szent-Georgyi, whose talk was given prolonged applause by assembled scientists, spoke at an international symposium on marine biology sponsored by the United States Office of Naval Research and the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Grateful Immigrant, NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y, (UP) -A native of Romania is so appreciative of his newly-acquired American citizenship that he's going to do some free teaching. Dr. Angel Rugina, who came to the United States from Germany in 1950 and is now a Niagara University professor, will conduct free courses in basic French and German at the institution. -at Central PRE-SEASON CHECK THESE TERRIFIC FEATURES: INSTALLED GUARANTEE By a Post-Dispatch Photographer.

dean of St. Louis University gavel as new president of Schools from his predecesof University of Oregon, DENTISTRY'S USES OF TV EMPHASIZED Educators Meeting Here See How It Can Be Adapted to Teaching. Use of television and other audio-visual aids in teaching dentistry formed the theme of a final general session today at the thirty-third annual meeting of the American Association of Dental Schools at Hotel ton-Jefferson. The program included talks on maintenance and employment of television equipment. An exhibit called "Color Television in Medicine" was shown by the Army Medical Service Graduate School, Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

A demonstration. of closedcircuit television enabled the persons attending the fourday meeting to see how cameras pick up a dental operation and project it to an auditorium, where a large audience may view close-ups of the procedure. One of the most significent uses of television in dentistry has been the use of the medium in teaching postgraduate students, it was pointed out by Dr. Saul Levy of the University of Illinois. Such courses are now being given to groups of dentists in a number of cities.

At a concluding business session today, Dr. Lee Roy Main, dean of the St. Louis University School of Dentistry, succeeded Dr. Harold J. Noyes, University of Oregon, as dent of the association.

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Complete with all the latest engineering features. London Newspaper Urges Eisenhower to Quit Race Daily Mirror Says World Needs More Vig- orous Leadership Than He Can Give After His Illness. Representatives at large. So far as I can make out, as to how the popular vote shall be counted, the one and only thing the amendment changes is to prohibit a state from electing its Representatives by districts and its electors on a general ticket. Tinkering Invited.

If the state wanted to have the general ticket system for electors it would -like New Mexico and North Dakota to-have to elect its Congressmen on a general ticket. The temptation to do just that would be strong, especially in the smaller states because with all the electoral votes counted as a unit, the state has a greater impact on the choice President. The best proof of this is that for more than a century all the states have voluntarily adhered to the general ticket system. The reason they have adhered to it is that this system gives them their greatest political weight. Whatever may be said in favor of the Daniel reform, the Mundt reform or any of the other proposed reforms, nothing can be said in favor of a constitutional amendment to invite each state legislature to consider before each presidential election how it will have the popular vote in its state counted.

A Passing of the Buck. That, however, is what the Daniel Mundt amendment really does. It decides nothing. It merely invites and incites the majority party in each state legislature to tinker with the system in order to help shape the result of the election. Thus the system of electing Presidents, which is now stable and uniform by general consent throughout the nation, would become variable and unsettled.

Ex close national tion could come to depend on whether a particular state legislature had for that election picked one system rather than another. Congress is quite evidently not ready to propose a reform of the electoral system. For what is now before it in the Daniel-Mundt amendment is in fact an elaborate pretense. It covers what is simply passing of the luck the 48 state COUNTY STUDENTS WIN ELMHURST SCHOLARSHIPS Three St. Louis county high school seniors, all 17 years old, have scholarships for the 1956-57 school year at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, it was announced today.

scholarships were given "superior all-around academic achievement." Winners of the awards are: Donald Harry Driemeier, son of Mr. and Driemeier, 11217 Bellefontaine, road, St. Louis Sawyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Sawyer, 7312 Nottingham avenue, Webster Groves, and Mr.

and William Haub, Karen Lee Mauty, daughter of 9435 Westchester drive, Jennings. Driemeier and Miss Haub are students at Jennings High School. Miss Sawyer attends Webster Groves High School. Driemeier, an Eagle Scout, is on the school's high honor roll and has received the National Forensic League degree of distinction. Miss Sawyer has been active in intramural sports, and Haub member the Spanish Club and the modern dance group at her school.

CHILD CONSERVATION GROUP INDORSES $1.30 SCHOOL TAX The St. Louis school tax levy on each $100 proposed, of assessed property valuation, which will be submitted to city voters for approval on April 12, was indorsed yesterday by the Child Conservation Conference. The conference, which is active in child welfare work, adopted a resolution asking voters "to continue the wonderful job our St. Louis schools are doing by voting for the levy." favorable vote "is one of the best investments we St. Louisans can make," the resolution stated.

Clifford H. Evans principal of Dunbar elementary school, told the conference that if the levy was not approved, remedial reading clinics, schools for handicapped children and many other programs would have to be discontinued. The conference is the one hundredth school or parent organization to indorse the proposed tax rate. Dependable Family Laundry Service all-ironed or part-ironed 3-DAY DELIVERY Hollis E. Suits, Family Laundry 1517 CLARK CE.

1-8177 LONDON, March 28 (AP)The tabloid London Daily Mirror devoted its entire front page today to an editorial pleading with President Eisenhower not to seek re-election. The Mirror is politically independent but usually supports British Labor party policies. It claims a circulation of more thanke! 4,000,000 Please copies think daily. again!" said the Mirror headline in twoinch type. "As friends, it is our duty to be blunt," said the secondary headline.

The paper said that after his illness Eisenhower is a "spent man." It professed great admiration for him but insisted the world needs more vigorous leadership than he can give in his advancing years. "He is a part time President who offers to carry on his job to oblige his friends of the Re- 3-DAY WEDDING PROGRAM LISTED BY PRINCE RAINIER MONTE CARLO, March 28 (AP) The palace of Prince Rainier III yesterday announced an official program of three days of celebrations for his wedding with American movie star Grace Kelly. The official program starts on A April 17 with a diplomatic reception at the palace in the afternoon, and songs and dancing far into the night. A program by the London festival ballet, a massive fireworks display and grand ball will top off the evening. The following day the civil ceremony in the throne room will start the morning.

Afterward there will be more singing, theater programs and dancing. The big event is the religious ceremony, which takes place at 11 a.m. on April 19. The couple will ride through the streets after the ceremony in a special flower-draped car. In the afternoon there will be a football match in the Louis Il stadium, named after Rainier's grandfather, and in the same publican party," the Mirror said.

"But Ike has a wider circle of friends the countries of the western alliance. stanand down owes it (withdraw) to them before to it is too late. "What right has a British newspaper to poke its nose into America's domestic affairs? "Before the war, none. "Now, in these postwar years, every right. "Britain's interests are now riveted for better or worse with those of America.

"America is the senior partner the West. "What affects America affects us." The Mirror added that Britain has put its old leaders "out to grass." It noted Sir Winston Churchill, who is 81 years old, is in retirement and Laborite exPrime Minister Attlee at 73 1 is in the House of Lords. MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE TO FOCUS ON COMMUNITY The Mental Health Association of St. Louis will sponsor its fifth annual institute between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

tomorrow at the Kingsway Hotel, it was announced today. The institute this year will focus on the relationship between mental health and the community, with the title, "Civic Progress in Mental Health." Keynote speaker will be Mike Gorman, executive director of the National Mental Health Committee, Washington, D.C. and author of a recentlypublished documented study of the nation's treatment of its mentally ill. Gorman, who won the Lasker Foundation Award for distinguished newswriting in medical field before assuming his present post, will deliver a morning address on "Community Action for Mental Health." A panel discussion dealing with federal, regional and state mental health programs and four working seminars will also be held. stadium at night a special dance program.

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