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MRS. H. D. EULER
TAKEN BY DEATH

Mrs. Helen D. Euler, wife Of
Charles Miller Euler, architect
with the U. S. Housing Authority
died suddenly last night in George
town University Hospital. She had
undergone an operation week
ago and was thought well on the
way to recovery.
Born in Grove City, Ohio, Au
gust 25, 1897. Mrs. Euler was edu
Gated at Defiance College, Ohio
Coming to Washington during the
World War, she entered the Fed.
eral service and for many years
was employed at the Veterans Ad.
miniStration. She was married to
Mr.. Miller in this city on June 30,
1923. They later went to Durham,
N. c., where Mr.. Miller established
business of his own. They re.
turned to Washington several
years ago, and made their home
at 1880 Fuller st. N. w.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at o'clock at the S. H,
Hines funeral home. 1901 Four.
tenth ST. N. w. The Rev. Frank
Steelman will officiate and inter.
ment will be in National Memorial
Park Cemetery.
Besides her husband, she is sur.
vtved by a son, Charles Miller
Euler. jr.; a twin sister, Mrs.
James H. Yeatman, Of Dallas,
Tex, who flew here last night;
another sister, Mrs. Carl Fisch-
bach, of Paulding, Ohio, and a
brother, Walter Du Pre-, of BUT.
falo, N. Y.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 3d.
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Lieut.. Col. HixsOn
Rites in Arlington

Lieut.. Col. Arthur G. Hixson,
u. S. A., retired, who died Satur-
day in Walter Reed Hospital was
buried today with full military
honors in Arlington National
Cemetery. The Rev. Ora ]. Cohee
officiated.
Colonel Hixson, born at Gin
ton, Mich, October 81. 1877, en-.
listed as a private in the Spanish
American War. Promoted through
the grades as a cavalry officer, he
served throughout the World War
as a lieutenant colonel of infan.
try. He retired June 80, 1882.
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COL, READ RITES
At FORT MYER

Funeral services for Col. John
H. Read, u. S. A., retired, who died
Sunday at Walter Reed General
Hospital, will be held tomorrow at
3 o'clock in the Fort Myer Chapel.
The Rev. DR.. F. Bland Tucker
will conduct the services. Burial
will be with military honors in Ar
lington National Cemetery.
Colonel Read was born at Honey
vile. Va. August IS, 1872. He re.
tired September 80, 1884. He was
commissioned after beginning his
military service in the Spanish
American War as an enlisted man
and during the World War, served
as a major and lieutenant colonel
He was detailed for duty here
for a year in 1918.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs
Marguerite B. Read. of Baltimore
unTE EnR sIIEERAeE Appu an
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Rev.C.L.W Wells
SelOGnee TheOLOgian
Dies at ~

SEWANEE, Tenn, April 10
G.N.SO Funeral services were to
be held here today for the Rev.
Charles Luke Wells, 70, dean and
professor of the Theological School
at the University of the South
(Sewanee), who died yesterday
after a lengthy illness.
Born in Boston, June %, 1858,
the Rev. DR.. Wells was a gradu.
ate of Harvard University.
After being ordained a priest
In the Episcopal Church in 1888
he served rectorates in Massachu
sets and later became acting pro
fessor of history at Harvard and at
McGill University in Montreal.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
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Until his death, he had COM
pleted 81 years as treasurer OF
the organization, having served in
that position since the group was
first organized on April %, 1899
RECEIVED CITATION
For his invaluable service
rendered the council through his
many years of association. Mr.
Huneke was given a citation by
the supreme board of directors of
the Knights of Columbus, pre-
sented by the local group on its
thirty-eighth birthday anniversary
last year.
He was born in Hartford.
Conn, January 4, 1851 Entering
the Federal service. he served as
an auditor in the old General
Accounting Office in the Post
Office Building, for 81 years. He
retired six years ago.
Mr.. Huneke was an enthusiast
tt and active member of the Holy
Name Society of the Shrine of the
Sacred Heart Church.
SPECIAL SERVICES
Members of the Holy Name So
ciety will meet at Warren W..
Taltavull funeral home, 3619 Four
tenth st. N. W., tonight at 1880
for recitation of the rosary. Mem
bers of Spaulding Council will con-
vene there tonight at $50 o'clock
for brief prayer services. Officers
Of the council will act as pail
bearers at funeral services tomor-
r,v. They include F. j, Malloy,
f-and knight John Carmody,
Ceputy grand knight, and Past
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Rev.C. Wells
History Professor
Passes AU1y

SEWANEE, Tenn, April 10.
The Rev. Charles Luke Wells, 70,
dean of the theological school and
professor of ecclesiastical history
at the University of the South,
Sewanee, died yesterday.
Born in Boston, Mr.. Wells grad
uated from the Episcopal Theo-
logical School in 1882. He was
professor Of history at the Uni
versity of Minnesota from 1894 to
1899. In 1915 he Joined the Uni
versity of the South. His books
include The Age of Charlie
magne."
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Wilson, Famous
Artist, Is Dead

TRENTON, N. j., April 10.
Francis Vaux Wilson, SO, illustra-
tor and artist. died yesterday at
his home here following a long
illness.
Prior to his retirement in 1929,
Mr.. Wilson illustrated magazine
stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart,
Kathleen Norris, Robert w. Cham
bers, Temple Bailey and other
leading authors. One of his murals
is in the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He
is survived by his widow, two sons
and a brother.
-vnTE EnR sIIEERAeE ApRu H.
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Funeral Tomorrow
Mrs. Rumbaugh

Funeral services for Mrs. David
Sheridan Rumbaugh, wife of
Major David S. Rumbaugh. field
artillery, U. S. A., who died in
Manila, Philippine Islands. on De-
cember 7, 1887, will be held to.
morrow at 2 o'clock in Arlington
National Cemetery. Chaplain Pat.
rick P. Ryan, of the Army Medi-
cal Center, will officiate.
Mrs. Rumbaugh was well known
in Washington, having lived here
when Major Rumbaugh served as
junior aide at the White House
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by a son, David Huntington
Rumbaugh.
-VoTE FoR suEFRAeE APRIL So
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Grand Knights Thomas F. Car
lin, j. Fred Brady, Fred S. Mar
tir.. and Maurice McAullife.
Requiem mass will be celebrated
tomorrow at 9 a. m. in the Shrine
of the Sacred Heart, Sixteenth
Street and Park Road Northwest,
b. the Rev. John S. Spence, spirit
Lal director of the S. cred I7eart
Hoy Name Society. Interment
will follow in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Huneke leaves another
sister. She is Sister Mary Lo-
retta, a clustered nun at the
Monastery of the Precious Blood,
.,rooklyn.
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Herman Moore
Aims House Director
Dies at FOrestUiLLe

FOREsTv1LLE, Md, April 1s
Herman E. Moore, 81. Superinten
dent Of the Prince Georges county
aims house here for the past %
years, died last night at his home
Mr.. Moore, who is survived by
his widow and eight children, hac
been in i'll health for severa
months.
Funeral services will be hello
from his residence at 2 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon,
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 30
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Burial with military honors was
accorded Technical Sergt. Harry
Austin Magrane, so, quartermas-
ter corps, U. S. A.. today at Ar
lington National Cemetery. He
died Saturday at Fort Myer, Vir'
GINA. =.
Sergeant Magrane collapsed in
his office and died in the fort hos
pital, ending 20 years Of army
service. He had served on the Mex
lean border, with the Mexican
punitive expedition. and two years
overseas. He was a native OF New
Jersey.
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DuckWOrth Body
Found in River

The body Of Charles j. Duck
worth, So, of Arlington, Va, was
found floating in the Potomac
River yesterday near Roosevelt
Island by park police.
Duckworth, according to police
reports, either leaped or fell into
the river from Key Bridge Novem-
Der 10. 1897,
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Marriages, Deaths
DEATHS

william H. Keithery 10 Providence
Hospital.
Bridget Stanley, "a. 1885 Morse st.
N. z.
Patrick ]. Hollohan. 10. 1903 K st.
N. E.
John ]. o'Brien. 81, U. s.. Soldiers
Home Hospital.
Catherine NJ. Davis, So sos Four
tenth St. N. e.
Joseph A. Edelin,. 81. U. s. Soldiers
Home Hospital.
Mamie Voegler. SO. 1923 Pennsylvania
Ave. s. e.
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DEATHS

BROWN, THOMAS Won Sunday, April
II 1898, THOMAS W. BROWN of 7O4
New Jersey Ave. \. W. aged 80 years
Home. 277 Carroll ST.. Takoma Park, D, e.
on wednesday, April 20, at p. m+ Rela-
tives and friends invited. 1nterment Wash"
ington Memorial Park Cemetery.
CAMPBELL-sAMPERTON. MARGARET
on Monday. April IS, 1888. at $40
a. m, at her residence. $40 Seventh 81: y.
III. MARGARET CAMpBELL-SAMPER
TON, beloved wife of the late Edward c.
Samperton, ST., and mother OF Josephine
Harper, Catherine Rontz, Helen Dillon and
Thomas Campbell-Samperton
Funeral will be held from the above
residence on Thursday, April "a. at $50
a. M. requiem mass at St. Joseph'S Church
Interment in Mount olivet Cemetery.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
DONALDSON, Jamie C.-on Monday,
April IS. 1898. at National Homeo'
pathic Hospital. Jamie c. DONALDSON,
the beloved wife of the late Joseph A:
Donaldson and daughter of Mrs. Mildred
B. Wrenn. and sister Of Mrs. A. W. KEEP
hart, of Malvern, Pa.
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Company funeral home. 1400 Chaplin Street
Northwest.
Notice Of funeral later
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DR. Krantz, Famed
Church Aide, Dead

PATERSON, N. j., April 10.
The Rev. DR.. John Krantz. who
raised more than 100000 for
the support Of churches Of all
denominations, died here last
night from the effects Of a stroke
suffered April Z. He was 81
years old.
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K. Of G.. Leader Dies;
Funeral Tomorrow

Ferdinand Huneke official of Spauding Council Knights
of Columbus and retired employee died yesterday
the residence of his sister Mrs George Welde 1889
Randolph St. n W. He had been i'll week with heart
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IN MEMORIAM

HUMEs, ALEXANDRIA, loving re-
membrance of our dear husband and
father. ALEXANDER HUMEs. who
passed away one year ago today. April
You are not forgotten. loved one,
Nor will you ever be;
As long as life and memory laRt.
We will remember thee,
LOVING WIFE. JESSIE.
DAUGHTER and S0N-IN-LAW,
JESSIE and GEORGE EVANS
LAWRENCE, ANNIE-In sacred memory
of our dear mother. MRS. ANNIE LAW:
RENEE (nee MacDonald). who departed
this life 81 years ago to-day. April 10.
1907. at her residence, sos Tenth Street
Northwest.
| Mother. your memory IL az dear today
As in the hour you passed away
By Her Daughter and Son-in-Law.
| LIEUT.. COMDR. AND MRS. NJ. c. KENT.
Rosemcnt, Lexington. Va.
ROBERTSON, CLARENCEAIn loving mem
DRY of my dear brother, CLARENCE
ROBERTSON. who departed this life four
years ago today, April 10. 1884.
Dear brother, you are not forgotten,
Though on earth you are no more;
Still in memory you are with me,
AS you always were before.
SISTER, NETTIE GOLDEN.
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DEATHS

CARR, MaFEaret-on Tuesday April 10
1888 at her residence 1887 Kearney
the beloved wife of the late william 4.
Carr.
Funeral from above residence on Thurs.
day April FL, 1898 at $50 g.. M. thence
and Lawrence Streets Northeast where
requiem mass will be offered at a. m.
for the repose Of her soul Relatives and
friends are invited. Interment Mount olivet
Cemetery. Peg
FISCHER. JACOB HENRY-on Monday,
April Is, 1898, JACOB HENRY
sber and h fssE RmanGS e AnS
Fischer.
Funeral services from the W. W. Cham
bers Southeast funeral home. SIT 18th
Street Southeast. on Thursday, April 81,
interment Prospect Hill Cemetery.
FLORENCE, DANIEL BOWEN-on Non
day. April 1s, 1888. DANIEL BOWEN
FLORENCE. beloved son Of the late Ben.
iamin F; Florence and ND, Alice Lynn Flor
ence. and brother Of Mrs. Joseph A. Her
bert, sr.
Services will be held at Milburn 7. zir-
kle's funeral home, $40 c Street North
/ ). no on wednesday April ~ 1855 A.
Services and interment at Dumfries, Va.
at 80 p. m.
Manassas, Va. papers please copy)
HUNEKE, FERDINAND H.-on Monday.
ADrM Is aSss M Rs rss ID s q as hi:
dolph Street Northwest.
.r Funeral from the he, ". Warren Taisavun
Northwest. on Wednesday. April 20. 1888.
Shrine of the Sacred Heart at 8 a. m.
+ Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Interment in Mt. olivet Cemetery.
HURST, DELLA MARY-ou Monday,
April ls; 1888, At Emergency Hospital,
Of the late Robert J. Hurst, and mother
of Margaret N. Hurst.
Funeral from the W. W. Chambers Co,
funeral home, 14oO Chaplin St. y. W. on
Thence to ST. Pauis Church, 15th and
v SITS. N. w. where mass will be offered
at 9 a. m. for the repose Of her soul.
Relatives and friends invited.
Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
KETTHLEY, WILLIAM A.-on Sunday,
April II. 1898. At Proyidenee Hospital:
uncle Of Mrs. Maude Blaine and George
Higgs,
bers Co. Southeast funeral home SIT Elev'
enth St. s. E.. on Wednesday. April 20.
1898. at 2 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
Interment in Congressional Cemetery.
MAGRANE. TECHNICAL sERGT. HARRY
A.-0n Saturday. April 49,, 1898, At
Fort Myer, Va. TECHNICAL SERGT.
HARRY A. MAGRATE, the beloved hus.
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Company funeral home. 1400 Chaplin Street
Northwest. until / 80 p. m. Tuesday. April
10, 1898.
Funeral services at Fort Myer Chapel,
Fort Myer. Va, at 2 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Interment in Arlington National Gene
terry.
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RICHTER. CHARLES CHRISTIAN on
Tuesday. April 10 1888. at Sibley Ne
mortal Hospital, CHARLES CHRISTIAN
RICHTER, the beloved husband OF Lena
N. Richter. He is also survived by one
son and four daughters.
Funeral services will be held from the
14OO Chaplin Street Northwest. on Thurs
day. April 81. 1888. at IL a. m:
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Interment in Washington Memorial Gene"
i farv
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VOEGLER, MAMIE-on Sunday, April II,
at her residence. 1928 Pa. Ave. s. E..
MAMIE VoEGLER.. beloved wife OF Ru"
Wright Thelma Turner and Audrey Barg-
hansen sister of Hays Burkitt and Annie
Funeral services from W. W. Chambers
Is 2 funeral home. ST. Eleventh ST. s. E..
on Tuesday. April 10, 1888 at 2 p. m.
Relatives and friends invited. mterment
washington National Cemetery.
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WFINRERG, MARTHA E.--on Monday.
MARTHA z. WEINBERG. the beloved
wife of william Weinberg and mother of
Frank, Michael. John. George, Joseph
Adolph and Preston Nobel, and Mrs. Marie
funeral services will be held from the:
residence of her daughter. 142 Adams st.
In. W.. on Thursday. April 81, 1885. at
to attend. Interment in Fort Lincoln Cenfe.
terry. Service by the W. ". Chambers Co.
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McDONOUGH, GRACE EVELYN-On Sum
day, April II, 1898, at the Alexandra
Hospital. Alexandria. Va, GRACE EVE
LYN McDoNOUGH. the beloved daughter
the fourth year of her age. Late resi-
dence. 1874 East Windsor Avenue, AlexaH-
dria. Va.
Funeral services will be held from the
Street, Alexandria, Va, on Wednesday.
April 90, 1888, at ii, a. m, -.
Interment in ST. Mary's Cemetery, Alex
andria Va. =.
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PLANE, BLISS-on Monday. April 10.
1888. at 8 a. m. at Walter Reed Gen.
eraI Hospital, after a. lingering illness
tie C. PLANE, brother of Julia Plaine Mills
and uncle Of Clarence Harvey Mills. jr:
and Bliss PLANE I'd. He is also survived
by many friends.
Avenue Baptist Church on Wednesday.
April 20, 1888. from p. m. to II p. m.
and on Thursday from a. m. to II .. m.
Funeral services at Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church on Thursday. April FL.
1888. at 12 noon.
Interment in Arlington National Gene
terry.
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-V0TC FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 30
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ADVERTIsENIENT
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MORRILL,, WILLIAM CYkUS-SuddenV
on April 1s, 1888, at his residence;
MORRILL,, beloved husband Of Virginia
Poland Morrill, and father Of Mrs. Howard
Hill, william C. Morrill,, jr. and Leila G.
Morrill, Charles Alfred Morrill, and brother
of Mrs Arthur Pepin. ST., Of Washington,
Mamie Morrill,, of Macon, Ga.
Services at s. H. Hines Co. funeral
home 1901 14th St. n. W., on Wednesday,
April 90 at 80 p. m.
Relatives and friends invited.
Interment Arlington National Cemetery.
Atlanta, Ca: Macon, Ca. and Memphis,
Tam naners nlease CODY.
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-vo1E FoR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
Evening star., 1938-12-03

ment Of 5000. Instead of the $500
Springfield rifles carried by the
World War doughboy regiment, the
new regiment is to be armed with
1892 emi-automatic rifles, giving
three times the fire power Of the
World War regiment. It also will be
equipped with heavier and more
numerous machine guns and auxil-
iary weapons. The 369 horses and
mules of the World War regiment
will be replaced by 141 motor vehicles.
Infsntry squads will be composed OF
twelve rather than eight men.
Drastic though these changes may
appear to conservatives among mill
tary people, the Army is convinced
they are sound and necessary. The
studies upon which they are based
have taken into account experiences
Of the Italians in Ethiopia and the
japanese in Manchukuo and China.
They indicate that our national de-
tense is in the hands of men who are
alert to changes in world affairs and
scientific progress.
Evening star., 1938-12-03
Anthony Eden's Visit

Washington very much hopes 1t
may have look at, and word or
two from, Anthony Eden. The youth
full scion of British statesmanship,
who relinquished the foreign secre-
taryship early this year, is arriving
in the United States next week, to
address the National Association of
Manufacturers at New York. His
sojourn will be brief. He is not
known to have any public engage
ments beyond the one which brings
him to these shores.
The statesman who was at the
helm of the foreign Office before he
was forty and is now only forty-one
years old, made a vivid appeal to
the American imagination when he
left the Chamberlain government in
protest against the Prime Minister'S
policy of European appeasement
through realistic" accords with the
Italian and German dictatorships.
Mr.. Eden opposed in particular the
Evening star., 1938-12-03

rented one-room apartment in that
town, and I got after the Veterans Bu-
reau again, and finally Mr.. Jarnagin con-
sented to allow me to appear before
section of the board. Two doctors sit
ting in that section saw then had been
telling the truth and arranged for an ex-
animation at Mount Alto. Their findings
at Mount Alto concurred in part with the
four doctors and my contention.
During September, 1888, the Court of
Appeals granted me compensation, effec-
tive September 80, 1888, instead of effec-
tive date of April %, 1885. Now have an
other appeal for retroactive action to
the 1885 date, and this has been hanging
fire since September 80, 1888.
In the meantime I have not had en-
ployment and We were evicted by court
order from the apartment at Hyattsville,
Md. because We could get no relief.
My wife and have lost our residence
in our home State and are in distress
We have appealed in vain for assistance
to almost every charitable institution
here in Washington. We are at the
present in tourist house and owe nearly
$500 board bill. What are we to do?
I have appealed in vain for my back
pay at the Veterans Bureau 1t wouldn't
be quite so bad if the case were new one.
but the damage was done in 1918 and all
these doctors know it.
In the meantime what are we to do,
starve? LEON G. MACDONALD
November 81.
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Postal Regulations

The postmaster at Atlantic Beach,
New York, who admitted embezzling
some twelve hundred dollars in
postal funds, offered the novel de-
fense that he had supposed the post
office was "his own little business" }"
and that he was entitled to all re-
ceipts. With this understanding he
had even gone so far as to move the
post office to what he thought was
better location, and put on an ad-
vertising campaign to make the
public Stamp-conScious.
To avoid repetition of such Incl
dents, it is rumored that hereafter
the following circular letter will be
sent to all new postmasters:
Dear Sir-You have been rendered
a signal honor in being given the
privilege of serving your glorious
community as postmaster. This is
the height of something or other,
and marks an epoch in the Nations
steady trend toward political purity.
You are requested, however, not to
lose sight of the facts of life, the most
important of which is that I am not
Santa Claus.
please feel free to sell al the
stamps and money orders you can,
even to Republicans, but do not offer
discounts for cash or reduced rates
for quantity orders, and be sure to
put the money away in the safe every
night. It belongs to the Government,
sad to say, in spite of any impressions
to the contrary you may have re-
ceived.
''The stove in your Office Is not
nailed down, but please refrain from
selling that, or the building itself.
Do not feel discouraged because the
postal funds are not yours. Just when
life seems blacklist, and you wonder
what you are going to use in place
of money, you will receive a salary
check from the Government. Trust
ing that you will continue to vote
Democratic, and indorse the policies
of the administration, whatever they
may be, I remain sincerely yours
Uncle Sam"
Evening star., 1938-12-03
Finish the Job

The Montgomery County Civic Fed
Grafton scored a signal victory yes
terday when the county commission
ers rescinded their move to legalize
infractions of the zoning laws.
The success of the civic campaign
to stop an unwise course on the part
OF the commissioners came quickly
on the heels of the Federation's tri-
umph in getting the commissioners
to authorize the Brookings Institu-
ton to make an extensive survey of
the county government. The two in
cidents again demonstrate the value
OF an alert; intelligent, non-partisan
and active civic body which speaks
with such weight that the county
government respects it's opinions.
Although the danger of losing the
protection afforded by the zoning
laws is past, the zoning issue is by
no means closed in Montgomery.
Civic leaders still would like to
know just what caused the commits
sioners to recommend that all in
fractions of the past ten years be
legalized. The commissioners have
said the step was taken because liti-
cation imperiled an allotment of
Federal funds for park development.
The civic leaders point out, however,
that the litigation was dropped and
the funds made available before the
commissioners acted. The unusual
procedure became all the more mysti-
flying when counsel for the park
board announced the commissioners
had acted without his knowledge, ap-
proval or acquiescence.
Now that the subject of infractions
OF the zoning laws is before the pub
lie, the time is ripe to prosecute
them.
The citizens of the county who
have rendered such valued service in
preserving their zoning ordinances
cannot afford to rest on their laurels
now. Every effort should be made to
see that all agencies cooperate to
the fullest in enforcing the zoning
code so that the law will afford real
protection to property owners by dis
couraging any and all violations.