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24 EDITORIALS Revival of an Excellent Plan in San Mateo county have a most earnest interest in one of the three new major projects launched by the council of the city of Burlingame. The project proposed is not new, but time and the population growth of the county are conspiring to make it more urgent. The proposal is that the former trolley line right of way extending southward from Colma to the center of Burlingame be utilized as an inter-city arterial between those points. More elaborate planning could conceivably set up an arterial routing through San Mateo to a connection with the Old County road at Belmont and from Belmont southward on that road to Redwood City. The plan was first suggested by The Times several years ago, after the former trolley line ceased operations.

In anyi new consideration of this plan certain factors of realism' should be taken into consideration. These include: 1. The fact that the city of San Francisco, owner'of the right of way from Colma to Burlingame, will undoubtedly put a prohibitive price on this property. 2. That the right of way, as it now exists, does not meet ordinary specifications for a through arterial as to width, and has some other features that are undesirable from a highway engineering viewpoint.

3. That the construction would necessarily include some expensive bridges and culverts. 4 That the terminus in Burlingame would wreak havoc with Burlingame local traffic unless it could be properly integrated into another Burlingame council project, namely the construction of a Burlingame avenue overpass and the relocation of that city's railway depot. On the credit side the points are: 1 That San Francisco might be persuaded to set a fair price on the right of way if properly approached with representation that a public need is involved. 2 That, despite width and engineering deficiencies, the routing is practicable and, since it would be an undertaking of the cities involved, would not have to conform to the same specifications that the state highway division establishes for through arterials.

3 That the rapidly changing character of the adjoining land usage may offset the cost of bridges and culverts. 4 That it would be possible to integrate the Burlingame terminus with a new overpass at Burlingame avenue. South of Burlingame the problem is different and presents A I a a the difficulty of converting some streets that are now residen- TM tl shf tial in character to through arterial usage. This is not an plan to takg on an additic(nal ca insoluble problem and the solution would be one of ultimate she is going to follow in -r nVianop the footsteps of her famous fath- TMu b. dose, of purpose and effort, and of mutual co-operation than cities sional scat back in thc old home nf thP Peninsula have yet demonstrated.

Lacking such joint town, independence, seat Ot ttte r-eninsuid iidve hp doomed now held by Congressman Jeffrey purpose and co-operation, the plan would be TMf d00 TM Hillelson, a man her father con- Mayor Andrew Byrd of Burlingame is on the right tracK siders a Republican Mr in callm" for a conference of the cities involved for a begin- Hillelson was swept in on the MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1953 It's About Leadership in Critical Times BROADWAY MEDLEY By LEONARD LVONS Pot-Hall Syndicate, Int. Ray Tucker NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS MrCIon Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round nf fhp nroiect If thev will realize that they have more Eisenhower landslide Ot the piojeci. 11 uiey nvp cnrp By DREW PEARSON Copyright by the Bell Syndicate ing colleagues on Capitol Hill the general picture of what's happening. He's also been telling the White House that Ike will have to live with McCarthy for some time, that it's easier to catch flies with molasses, and that this is not thc time to tangle. From this background, Nixon first helped arrange the lunch between McCarthy and Secretary of State Dulles, then got the counsel for McCarthy's committee, Francis Flanagan, together with state department attorneys one last fall, nvp cnrp and Margaret's pappy, who knows to gain than to lose, and the possibility oi turning an eyerie Mlssouri politics as well as he hour before the luncheon to draft liability into a profitable asset, they will be well on the road knows the main strcet of In de- a face-saving statement following to success in the project.

It must now be sufficiently obvious to all of them that urban change in character of the Peninsula will insist on urban handling of the proposal instead of the municipal cross- purposes and jealousies of the past. The Hand of Moscow? In one night the Mau Mau zealots of Kenya, British East York is the best place in which to do it, though Mrs. Truman would prefer to live in Washington. NIXON TO RESCUE Young Vice President Nixon was the boy who privately kept his fingers in the political dike last week and stopped the growling flood of Eisenhower resent- Carthy. In fact, threw the it was Nixon administration who com- thinks have his home district almost sacrilegiously represented.

This is one reason why, when thc Trumans come back from Hawaii, Margaret will carefully keep her residence in Independence, though her father and mother will take an apartment in a Park avenue hotel. This doesn't mean 0 that the ex-president is abandon- massacred nearly as many persons as fell to their ing independence. He isn't. BUI maasawi cu. 1iri i ha rustic rn i nn writs clubs and firearms in the whole previous year up to then" It seems the whole Kikuyu tribe of a million natives may be about to run amuck in a mass hysteria-.

Mau Mau fanatics are inspired by a special savagery which the world may not have seen, since the days of Indian massacres in America. From murderous revenge on white planters the madness has grown into a sort of genocide that could become mass suicide of the Kikuyus if and when they become divided into large camps. With cold determination the British are going after the Mau Mau leaders, trying to ferret out the source of infection, ment against turbulent Joe Mc- Communist or not, the whole bloody business is right down Moscow's allev. The thought keeps arising: A change in the Communist pietely into reverse and managed party line can have instant and powerful effect everywhere in the world Is, perhaps, the "mystery" of Mau Mau nothing Harold stassen after st a sen had more than a tight line of communication from Moscow to tribal delivered the toughest speech leaders as yet unidentified? so, the massacres could cease almost over night, leaving only the wonder what the Russians were up to next. dent, had sold Ike on the idea An exchange makes much of the fact that everybody has getting along with the McCar.

thys, the Jenners and the Veldes. a right to work. Even father. Thjs was early in the Eisenhower administration. But as McCarthy began to pop off his pyrotechnics, and staged his bitter battle against Ambassador Bohlen, White House advisers began to wonder whether Nixon was right.

And when "Jumping Joe," as he's called in the White House, took upon himself the job of negotiating agreements with foreign shipowners, the president was reported by friends to have hit the ceiling. That was why his mutual security administrator tangled with McCarthy publicly. At this point, however, young Mr. Nixon came rushing back into the- picture. Mr.

Nixon has not been exactly idle since he became vice president. He has been holding private breakfasts with new members of the house and senate, against McCarthy yet given by an Eisenhower spokesman. It was also Nixon who, well before the Greek shipping inci- Let's Explore Your Mind Bj ALBERT S. W1GGAM, D. Sc.

rue MARRIAGE' RATE OF MALE COLLEGE GRADUATES INCREASING? VESO WOO 1-ii Is the marriage rate of male college graduates increasing? Yes. In their book, Ernest Haverman and Patricia West show that in 1940 71 per cent of men college graduates were married, as compared to 76 per cent of men in general. In 1947, 85 per cent of the graduates had married, as compared to 87 per cent of the latter group. Ninety-six per cent of the graduates were living with their wives, while only 89 per cent of married men in general eating out of the home plate, ft Can mental whiz kids be discovered easily? No. Psychologist Ruth Strang says that half of our most brilliant children are not discovered because IQ alone does not always reveal the extra brights.

School counselors at Long Beach, California, study not only the IQs of children suspected by teachers of being gifted, but also the bright sayings, a a i social achievements, personalities, hobbies, games, and other cues to real mental power. A big step toward discovering our future leaders! Are first or second born children more subject to maladjustment? The results of several studies and many opinions by psychiatrists warn that parents should prepare the first child for the arrival of the second, because the former may even become maladjusted from jealousy. A study of 26 families by A. E. Ascher concludes that "unfavorable behavior by the first-born is less frequent, well-defined and intense than that of the second-born." Wise handling by parents usually overcomes the tendency to maladjustment of either child.

the luncheon. At the luncheon, Dulles completely ignored a memo by his state department advisers that McCarthy was acting illegally in negotiating with Greek shipown- ers. Note Eisenhower himself, meanwhile, has come around to a long-range policy regarding McCarthy. He believes he can't afford to break with the Wisconsin trouble maker until he can first win over the Republican right wing senators who invariably support him. Once he has Taft safely in his corner, also Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, powerful chairman of the senate appropriations committee, Ike feels he can afford to break with Jumping Joe.

POLITICS VS. TRANSPORTATION Both the politicians and tha transportation industry are watching to see whether politics or transportation will win out regarding Ike's next appointment to the interstate commerce commission. Last January, a delegation from the trucking industries defense committee, including Dave Beck, president of the Teamsters union, Roy Freuhauf, head of Freuhauf Trailers, B. M. Seymour, and Arthur Condon, called on Eisenhower to urge the appointment of a trucking expert to the I.C.C.

Though trucking is classed as the second biggest industry of the nation, it has had no representative on the body which is charged with regulating transportation. Ike lilted the idea, and has been considering the appointment of Frank Landsburg of Portland, who already is working for the I.C.C. as a district director. However, Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington suddenly decided he wanted a friend of his on the I.C.C., recommended Owen Clark of Yakima, a re- no transportation experience. Langlie happens to be one of the B-C Eisenhowerites--namely, an Ike-rooter "before Chicago." So Ike is now torn between politics on one hand and transportation on the other.

CLEANING GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS The house appropriations subcommittee, headed by California Republican John Phillips, is trying to "clean up" the government in the literal sense of the term. Phillips' committee is making a survey of how much it costs to hire charwomen, janitors and window cleaners in thousands of government buildings. At present the government has a regular staff of custodial personnel to handle the huge chore of sweeping, cleaning and maintaining federal buildings; but the Phillips committee wants to see if the job can be done better by private firms working under contract. Interesting aspect about this probe is that Congressman Phillips chose Irving Schwartz of New York to head up the inquiry, and Schwartz happens to head two private New York building jani- toring firms Victory Maintenance, of 17 East Forty-second street, and Lincoln Maintenance, 99 Hudson street. Schwartz's companies sweep and clean dozens of private buildings under contract, including the United Nations headquarters building.

It came as no great surprise, therefore, when Schwartz recommended that the government turn over the cleaning and maintenance of public buildings to private concerns. Despite Schwartz's investigation, however, the Building Owners and Management association claims that permanent maintenance employes do a much better job than outside "contract" em- ployes. In fact, most large buildings, like the government, have their own housekeeping employes. Today, government maintenance costs are 20 per cent below the average for private buildings in New York city. But what really worries congressmen is that private janitor- ing of government buildings will mean F.B.I, checks on every contractor's personnel.

And, because of the heavy labor turnover this field, it's next to impossible to check adequately on the thou- sands new people who be cleaning government desks SECRECY: A prominent union leader asked to see President Eisenhower. He added that the meeting need not be ah official one--that perhaps, in fact, it might be better for the president not to have the union leader's name listed among the official visits of the day. General Eisenhower's reply to him was: "The president of the United States is not afraid of Westbrook Pegter." ERROR: Claude Nollier, star of the prize-winning French film, "Justic Is Done," flew from Paris to New York. In the press room at the airport she was asked to remove thc jacket of her Dior suit, and obliged the cameramen. Miss Nollier wore no blouse under her suit.

'0h," she stammered, later, "I thought you men were the immigration health authorities." SIN: There are two versions being (filmed of Alec Guinness' new movie, "Paradise." -In the British version Guinness plays a sea captain who has a wife at each end of the run--Yvonne De Carlo and Celia Johnson. In the version for America, Miss Johnson plays his wife but Miss De Carlo is only his mistress "The American movie censors," the producers explained to Guinness, "find an illicit relationship less objectionable than bigamy." MEETING: Judith Anderson and Tilly Losch were at La Vie en Rose, and they discussed people they knew. Miss Anderson asked if Miss Losch ever met II. G. Wells Miss Losch said she had known him, and told of their first meeting and of his first words-which were sure to leave an unforgettable- impression.

They were dinner partners. Wells said nothing to her throughout the dinner. Then he finally spoke: "What do you think about God?" STAR: Aubrey Hepburn, who became a star with her first play. "Gigi," received a copy of the original edition of the Colette novel, illustrated by Christian Berard. It was presented to her by the producer, Gilbert Miller, whose inscription was: "To Audrey Hepburn, newest star--from an old astronomer lucky enough to discover her." LEVANT: Oscar Levant attended an opening and said at Sardi's later: "I snubbed two good friends --and if anybody can't afford that, it's me'' Levant, incidentally, read a music critic's review of an album recorded by a musician he respects.

He phoned the critic, who is an old friend, and said he disagreed with the unkind review. said the critic, "I'm entitled to my opinion, and you're entitled to yours" "That's right," replied Levant, "but who in hell's going to read my opin- Viai rv vi. spected, conservative lawyer with and files during the night. TIMES' BOOKS W. G.

ROGERS- "THE SOUTHPAW," by (Bobbs-Mtrrlll; S3.30). Mark Harris a "Give me a baseball and I know helping to get Gen. "Slick Per- re I am at sa cocky young sons, Ike's contact man with Capitol Hill, better acquainted. Persons has been out of touch in recent years. Nixon also sent his close friend, Congressman Don Jackson of California, with mercurial Congressman Harold Velde out to California in order to keep Velde from blowing off steam.

This helped the administration with the churches. Nixon also attends two White House meetings regularly each week--cabinet sessions and the national security council-and he's quite considerate in giv- Henry Wiggen in this astoundingly, delightful fresh novel about the one sure-fire American hero: the baseball pitcher. Give Hank a map, a piece of of machinery, a book, and he isn't so sure of himself. He's a little fellow from Perkinsville; he has a girl named Holly; his Pop, with the Scarlets, helped him with a screwball, and a speedball, and the marksmanship that could plop it right in the mitt every time. What can he take from Perkinsville to the New York Mammoths, and what can he bring back? Thedabara Brown is an extra sexy little number back home, and Patricia whose old man owns the Mammoths, is the Theda Bara of the big city, but it's Holly who offers our uncouth hero the needed steadiness if only he realizes he needs it.

In the clubhouse, on the diamond, are Sad Sam, Ugly Jones, Krazy Kress the newsman, Bruce the drinker, Traphagen the cynic, Mike the churchgoer. Shamelessly boastful, Henry tells this in his own words, some of which are priceless, like his description of an incident hi training: "I do not consider it no honor to be the pitcher that somebody hit the longest ball in his- ion?" SEARCH: Grace Hegger Lewis, the novelist who was Sinclair Lewis' first wife, is writing a book about the late Nobel Prize winner. She is advertising in the London papers for information from anyone who knew Lewis in the years she was his wife. Her ad is a controversial one, for she describes their married years as Sinclair Lewis' "most fruitful" period. Fred Waring, who campaigned for President Eisenhower, will be one of his golf partners in Augusta The president also will play at Waring's Shawnee club this summer Lady Ravensdale is writing her memoirs here.

Her father was Viscount Curzon, viceroy to India Dave Beck, of the Teamsters union, will testify before a congressional committee on changes in the Taft-Hartley law. EMERGENCY: An El Al Israel plane, scheduled to stop at Gander, had to take another route because of a storm, and landed in the Azores. The plane, of course, served kosher food. But the steward was unable to find any matzohs, to supplement his store. The supply sufficed, however, because 12 German passengers eagerly accepted the only food which be purchased during the Azores stop-over; ham-and-egg sandwiches.

ROLES: Michael MacLiammoir, author of "Money In Thy Purse," the book about Orson Welles' version of "Othello," reveals that two Hollywood stars worked as extras in the film. It happened during the filming in Venice. Joseph Cotton, whose career began with Welles, played an anonymous Roman senator, and Joan Fontaine played a page boy. SHIFT: The TV networks still are seeking additional space in New York, for there aren't any more theaters available for the tory off of." There is hilarious clowning; the most comical spoofing, like the "spontaneous" demonstration with printed banner, band and prepared speeches; and a matchless chapter on how to write in which Holly, old Aaron and Pop try to argue him into cutting a scene. Players play for money, and at times the spirit of sportsmanship is not all that motivates the national sport, says the author.

But Harris is still, in the larger sense, a madcap romantic about baseball; and his hero, a left-hand champion pitcher, is expected to be, again in the larger sense, something more than a left-hand, bumbling guy in the basic business of living and building a home and family. Harris writes with extraordinary zest; he really takes you out to the ball game, takes you out to the park. This is as good as Ring Lardner; in fact it's better; you can kill the umpire if it isn't better. NATIONAL Washington Nations, and especially the United States," asks R. O.

of Binghamton, N. "tolerate Russian membership in the United Nations meetings? They never have- and they never will go along. Are we afraid of the Russians, or are we still having an appeasement program?" Answer: I have discussed the question of continued Soviet membership in the UN with state department experts, U. S. delegates and newspaper correspondents permanently assigned to cover the international organization.

Despite the Russians' nonco-opera- tion, all favor the existing setup at New York. In the first place, the UN offers the only forum and meeting place for diplomats on both sides of the cold war. We can detect shifts of Moscow policy by delegate Vishinsky's behavior and the content of his speeches, for he does not dare to breathe save on orders from his bosses. From his voice and manner we get an echo of Kremlin thoughts and plans. Russia cannot be 1 OSlllOn forced out so long as she has a veto in the security council.

Should she withdraw under western pressure, the UN would become only an anti-Russian alliance, like NATO. It would lose any international meaning or reason for being, as did the League of Nations many years ago. We are not appeasing Russia now. Nor are we afraid of them. As I recently wrote, and as Dulles has noted subsequently, we are strengthening our diplomatic and military around the globe, with some success.

But nobody at Washington or among our allies, even to satisfy national pride or prejudice, wants a war without first trying every honorable means to avoid it. industry's expanding needs. The networks therefore may unite in creating a television city on the site of the former World's Fair grounds, and move all TV facilities there. BALLET: Martin Feuer, the producers of "Guys and Dolls," are about to open a London production. They invited their London barrister and his wife to see the show on Broadway, to test whether Londoners would understand the Damon Runyon characters and the gamblers' talk.

The visitors sat through the show and applauded it all, including the ballet conceived around the dice game theme. "The only thing my wife couldn't understand, at first, was craps," said the barrister, "until I explained to her that in America, when they shoot craps, everyone dances." While there is even a tenuous peace, there is always hope of avoiding a grevious and unnecessary waste of blood and treasure. Power Fvil" whatgoo i tjwei. i i purpose is served by the vote power of the committees in congress and the state legislatures," inquires Mrs. G.

W. F. of Los Angeles, "and what drawbacks are there to this sysiem? I maintain that the committee system almost annihilates representative government. Consisting of a small number of men, they are easily reached by lobbyists." Answer: I agree that the vast power invested in committees, especially the more important units, is a evil. Time end again, major questions are determined by one or two men, providing they vote with the majority or sometimes these key figures are moved by petty or regional rather than national motives.

It is also true that they more susceptible to sinister influences. However, the committee method is a human, parliamentary necessity. They must hold prolonged hearings, listen to advice from a variety of interests and then write the final bill. The 435 members of the house and 96 of the senate obviously cannot devote the time required to all the major questions raised during a. session, not even if they sat every day in the year.

And such a large group would never agree on anything. Having observed the working of the system for more than 30 years, here and at Albany. I can think of no substitute for this legislative device. Ambiguous J1 "When the court has three times ruled that the undersea coastal lands belong to all the people as a part of the public domain," writes Mrs. J.

E. S. of Bremerton, "how can congress pass a law giving thesa lands to the states? Is congress more powerful than the supremo court?" Answer: The supreme court'i ruling on this matter is ambiguous. It said that the federal government enjoyed a "paramount interest" in these properties, but it never defined what it meant by that term. Congress is making its own interpretation in the pending bill, which may be declared unconstitutional by the high tribunal.

But the supreme court frequently hearkens to the voice of con. gress and the people, as it did with respect to many new deal reforms. Another congressional declaration on this question may lead the jurists to clarify or change previous decisions. ever forget that these judges aro human and also politicians. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Answer to ACROSS I--A state (abbr.) 4--Parent (colloq.) 6--LaPt Idng of Troy 11--Part of 13--Forest guard 15--King of Bashan 16--Ingredient 18--Compass point 19-- Hypothetical force 21--Caudal appendage 22--Killer whale 24--Spirit 26--ignore 28--Old Dutch measure 29--Dirks 31--Paradise 33--Lesal seal (abbr.) 34--Pierce 36--Prepare for print 3S--While 4t)--City In Russia 42--Spirited horse 43--Hawaiian wreath 47--Hebrew month 49--Rational 50--Skin disease 52--Man's name 54--Title of respect (abbr.) 5ii--Preposition 56--Showy ornaments 59--River In Siberia 61--Inter 63--Empower 65--Food 66--Saint (abbr.) 67--Cloth measure DOWN 2--Shallow lake 3--Part of "to be" 4--Liquefy 52 bi JZ an aaiis Sanaa g--Regions 6--Introduce 7--Hastened 8--Preposition t--Symbol for silver 30--Kind of 32--Hebrew letter 4--Paper measure (pi.) IT--Possessive pronoun charges 23--Sun Kod U--Steamship (abhr.) 15--Mother of Apollo 17--Articles ot furniture JO--Girl's name 52--Insect's 35--Besmears 37--Athletic groufl 38--Winged 39--Supplementary 41--Wool producer 43--Enlist 44--Prefix: flown 46--Preposition 43--Parts In play 51--Central American 63--Dispatched 67--Danish division' 5S--Symbol for samarium 60--Assyrian ge4 62--Note of scale 64--An auxiliary verb used with participles and inflnitlvn 59 OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed "You needn't come, Dr.

give him a bath washed off.".