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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-15
OBSERVATIONS.

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up had better ioait until he can reach
him.
ambition is the spark thar igniies the
motor of determination.
Live as most men ipe and die a
nonenfity.
Choose betsUeen extremes: the green
and the oUer-ripe fruit cause the worst
pain. n
John Harsen Rhoades.
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His Life Work."-Headline.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-15

cup water until
the vegetables
are tender. Drain.
Combine with
meat, add sea-
sonings, and form
into a roll. Cover
with biscuit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-15
Biscuit Meat Loaf.
(Serves 45)

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/ cup carrots (chopped) .
" cup celery (chopped)
"a cup green pepper (chopped)
2 tablespoons onion (chopped)
2 cups Leftover beef roast
(grouhd)
teaspoon salt
Va teaspoon pepper
/ recipe biscuit dough
Combine the vegetables, put
through meat grinder and cook in "a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-15
Surprise Frankfurters.

- Io6rVGS C-OJ =.
IA cups mashed potato
! egg (beaten) -
" teaspoon salt
rs teaspoon pepper
/ tablespoon parsley (minced)
6 to 2 cold, cooked frankfurters
" cup bread crumbs
Combine the mashed potatoes with
the beaten egg and the seasoning.
Cover each frankfurter with the po-
tato mixture, forming blanket"
about A-irch thick. Roll in crumbs.
Bake in a hot oven f425 degrees) for
20-25 minutes, or fry in deep fat
$3.50 Adegrees) until golden brown.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
School Pupils 10 GET
Half Day Off Tomorrow

Thousands of children in the
white divisions of the public schools
will have a half day off tomorrow
while their teachers attend an in
stitute on curriculum revision.
The institute will be held at Nc
Kinley High School at 2:15 pm,
with DR.. Charles H. Judd, director
of the educational program of the
National Youth Administration, as
speaker. He will discuss the youth
problem and the responsibility of
education.
A similar program will be held
for the teachers in the colored
divisions Thursday at 2:15 pm. at
the Armstrong High School. with
the children in those divisions hav-
ing only a half day of school.
The proposition of having insti-
tutes dealing with curriculum re-
visions held on school time with
the understanding that all teachers
and officers would be expected to
attend is being tried experimentally
under ruling of the Board Of
Education last month.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Polish Diplomats S Wife
Learns Of Fathers Death

Countess Marie Terese Lasocki,
wife of Count jerry Lasocki, Polish
Embassy attache, learned yesterday
of the death of her father, Alfred
Chlapowski, in Koscian, Poland. He
is believed to have succumbed to
pneumonia contracted in Nazi
concentration camp.
Word of his death came in cable
from relatives of the Countess in
Paris. Little was known of her
fathers whereabouts in recent
months other than that he had
been arrested shortly after the Ger
man occupation of Poland and con-
fined in a concentration camp. He
was 66 years old.
The Chlapowski estate was near
Bonikaw, about Is miles from the
old German-Polish border.
Besides serving as Polish Ambas-
sador to France from 1924 to 1895,
Mr.. Chlapowski was Minister of
Agriculture in the Polish cabinet at
one time and had served as deputy
for the people of Western Poland
in the German Reichstag before the
World War.
His wife, Mrs. Helen Chlapowski,
is at present with friends in
Krakow.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Association Orders Study
Of Income. Sales Levy Plan

Opposition to an income tax and
Endorsement of sales tax in the
District were registered last night
in a resolution presented to the
Burleith Citizens Association. The
motion, offered by John Gorrell, was
not, however, formally adopted
pending further investigation by the
Taxation Committee into the So
called Pond report which specifies
combined income and sales lcvies.
Mrs. Ernest Field Parkinson,
chairman of the committee, asked
that Mr.. Gorrell's motion be de-
ferred in favor of a plan that will
insure higher revenue in a more
equitable manner" Mrs. Parkinson
held that the Pond report looks to
that end more satisfactorily than q
straight sales tax. Final action will
be made at the April meeting of the
group.
Leslie Brown, chairman of the
Parks Committee, reported that the
National Capital Parks Office de-
clared no funds were available for
complete landscaping Whitehaven
Parkway, Thirty-seventr and T
streets NV. A resolution was
adopted asking that trees be planted
to screen the parkway from resi-
dences.
The operation of some old-style
buses in the Burleith area was
criticized. The Capital Transit Co.
will be notified of the action.
Committee reports were presented
on the proposed widening of
Wisconsin avenue NV. and on
the forthcoming membership drive
planned by the association.
It was announced that a sound
film on termite prevention will be
presented at the next meeting. The
meeting last night, held in Gordon
Junior High School, was presided
over by G. w. Winfrey.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Ohio State Society
Re-eIects Officers

Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
who has his eyes on the White
House as future home, last night
referred to the Office of President as
largely decorative" But he meant
the Office of president of the Ohio
State Society of Washington.
The Senator was reelected to
that Office at meeting and dance
of the society at the Raleigh Hotel.
Other officers reelected were A.
Rea Williams, secretary; Miss Irene
Neikirk, treasurer; DR.. James Shera
Montgomery, chaplain; S. j. Hess,
historian, and Ernest H. Van Fos-
san, member of the Governing Com
mittee.
Strickland Gillian, the writer,
was elected an honorary member of
the society and a member of the
Governing Committee. Vice presi-
dents elected we're Representative
Secrest, Democrat, of Ohio; James
A. Horton and Mrs. James L. Fieser.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Hiqher Tax Issue
Decision Deferred
By Federation
Montgomery Organization
Has Record Attendance;
Special Meeting Set

The proposal to raise the Mont
gomery County (Md) tax rate IS
cents to S1.65 per 500 valuation at
tracted a record attendance to the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
ton meeting last night, but action
was postponed until a special meet
ing Tuesday night, March 49,
The controversial issue was raised
by Frederic P. Lee, chairman of the
Public Finance and Budget Com
mittee, after an analysis of the
county's finances in which he esti-
mated the anticipated increase in
revenue resulting from the general
property reasseSsment now nearing
completion would not be sufficient to
retire more than about SO per cent
of bonds falling due because of
increasing expenditures, principally
for school construction.
Alternatives Offered.
His resolution offered alterna-
tives, first, that there be no reduc-
ton in the tax rate, which would
allow retirement Of So per cent of
debt maturities for next year with
out refunding or incurring a deficit;
and second, that the tax rate be in
creased from $l50 to $165, which
would permit meeting 80 per cent
of debt maturities due during the
next fiscal year.
Before the federation reached a
vote on the first proposal, Richard
M. Barker asked postponement of
the question. pointing out that
many affiliated groups would prefer
to consider the matter and instruct
their delegates. After considerable
parliamentary wrangling, a decision
to make the proposal the first order
of business at special meeting next
Tuesday was adopted.
The committee report brought out
the largest attendance most of the
delegates could recall at Fedora
ton meeting Copies of the report
were distributed for discussion at
affiliated citizens association meet
ings this week.
Committee Split Three Ways.
~ viz SOAA4AAAiCtSC LACAAAOC1S, Ollly
one, William w. Meyer, favored a
decrease in the tax rate. o. Merton
Kile, w. Everett McLaine, Roy P.
Moore and E. H. Myers favored re-
tanning the present tax rate. The
other committee members, Mr.. Lee,
Claude A. Cook. c. S. Duvall, jr., o.
S. Golf, Calvin Schaeffer. Felix
Stapleton and H. S. Yohe. favored
the 15-cent increase.
Allen H. Gardner reported that
the survey of the county government
being made by Brookings Institu-
ton would be completed in July.
Portions of the survey already have
been finished, but the final report
will not be assembled until other
portions depending upon the gen.
eral reassessment and the census are
completed, he explained.
The Federation approved resolu-
tions to ask the Maryland State
Roads Commission to equalize the
speed limits Or the east and west
sides of the Wisconsin avenue park
way and to authorize the county
commissioners to name a committee
of architects to serve without pay in
an advisory capacity to pass on new
buildings along arterial highways.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
She'd Planned for Watching
Progress of Airport Work

Sidewalk superintendent Of con-
struction work at the National
Airport at Gravelly Point will have
place of their own. If plans of
1t. Col. Sumpter Smith, engineer
in charge, work out.
Not only as safety measure but
as an educational device to keep
the public posted on work progress,
the engineer said today he intends
to erect shed" on the site for
the spectators.
In addition, he said, several
Works Progress Administration en-
ployes will be put on full time at
the shed" headquarters to explain
to inquiring visitors work being
done.
The shed" will house a map
outlay of the entire airport as we'll
as diagrams of work done to date.
Col. Smith said that as spring
weather arrives more and more
visitors will be stopping of to view
the job rising on the rivers edge.
Already. engineers on the site OF
the s1O,000,00O project have re-
ported hundreds of interested spec
tators dropping in" to see what's
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Meeting 10 Draft
Reorganization
Report Postponed
Consumers Conference
Asks Official Voice
To Curb Profiteerine

A scheduled meeting today of the
subcommittee of the House District
Committee in charge of legislation
for reorganizing the municipal gov
ernment was indefinitely postponed
by Chairman Kennedy.
1t had been Representative Ken
nedy's plan to have the subcom-
mittee review the recent testimony
before his group and start drafting
a report for the full District Com
mittee. He discovered. however,
that nearly all Of the members of
the subcommittee would be busy
the rest of the week attending
meetings of other committees of
which they are members.
No date has yet been fixed for
the postponed meeting.
Meantime the Consumers Confer
ence on High Prices and Profiteer-
ing filed with Mr.. Kennedy and
Chairman Randolph of the District
Committee a five-page statement
calling attention to what it de-
scribed as "a serious defect" in the
reorganization plan.
The defect" the statement indi-
Gated, is the failure to include in
any of the proposals for reorganiza-
ton the creation. as a part of the
Department of Weights, Measures
and Markets of consumers bureau
that would be charged with check
ing on suspected instances of profit
eering in foodstuffs and false ad-
vertising.
There is an acute need for con-
sumer protection and representa-
ton in the District government, "
said the statement. "The voteless
Washingtonian is less able to inf1u-
ence his public officials for protec-
ton against rising prices and profit
eering than if he had the right OF
suffrage. The public interest
demands a consumer voice in the
District government"
Evening star., 1940-03-12
-Four Operas 10 Aid
Firms as Benefit
Funds Increase
Association to Devote
IS Per Cent of
Proceeds to Cause

Widespread efforts to raise funds
for the Firms, which have already
resulted in a variety of benefits,
will extend to the opera. DR.. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. j., chairman of
the Washington Unit of the Finnish
Relief Fund, announced last night.
The 1910 spring season of the
Washington Civic Grand Opera AS
sociation, he said, would be devoted
to benefits for the fund. Four
operas will be presented by the
association at Constitution Hall on
May 8 10 and II. with rs per cent
Of all proceeds going to the aid
Of Finnish civilians.
Meanwhile, it was announced that
the Flights for Finland" have al
ready raised 500 for the fund and
will continue through Sunday.
Tickets for the aerial sightseeing
trips are on sale at 50 at the trans
portation desks of all leading hotels
and at a special booth in the May
flower Hotel. A..~ ..-~... -.
One Gift Totals S17S.75.
Another sizeable contribution was
reported today by the headquarters
of the fund. The gift, $178.75, was
raised by a Finnish coffee" held
by the Professional Writers Club at
the Y. w. c.. A. last Saturday.
More benefits-a dance, a doll
auction and a silver tea'-will be
held for the fund this week. On
Friday night the Finnish American
Society of Washington will sponsor
dance at the Almas Temple. More
than s275 has been received for
tickets already sold. Tickets, priced
at $3.50 each, are on sale at the
Shoreham, Wardman Park, May
flower, Willard and Washington
Hotels, all of which are donating
their ticket-sale services.
AS feature of the dance. three
dolls just received from Finland
will be auctioned off. The dolls,
made by three aged Finnish women
and dressed in authentic costumes
Of the three sections of Finland
AASAAA "AAASAA oAlCy SdhiC, dAC AldAACa
Faith, Hope and Charity. Ralph
A. Weschler will donate his services
as auctioneer.
Dance Committee.
The committee in charge of the
benefit dance includes DR. j. e.
Kotila, chairman; August Nikula,
Josephine Cruka. A. T. Maxi and
L. A. Williams.
The silver tea" will be sponsored
by the 1000 members of Wn;ow
Grove No. of the Woodmen's Circle
Sunday from to $3.50 pm. at the
Hotel Roosevelt. All funds received
through voluntary contributions at
the silver tea" will be turned over
to the fund for civilian relief in
Finland.
Guests of honor at the affair will
include Mrs. William H. King, Mrs.
Lawrence Wood Robert and Mrs.
Oliver Quayle. Mrs. Virginia Clarke
and Mrs. Pauline L. Rohrs are in
charge OF arrangements for the tea.
Evening star., 1940-03-12

being done to give Washington a
model airport.
Under plans being worked out by
Col. Smith, the w. P A. workers
will conduct regularly scheduled
tours of the airport.
Reports from the airport site in
dicate many motorists are stopping
TO view the construction work.
Large signs will be erected at
both the north and south ap-
proaches, giving a view of the field
and a brief description of the
project. Also on the signs will be
directions for those caring to have
a close-hand view and a thorough
description.
Work on the terminal building
and the hangers is scheduled to
begin April l, with bids being
opened March o. The terminal
building is to be $40 feet long, 108
feet deep and three stories high
The central control tower will rise
73 feet above the field. The four
hangers are to be 240 feet wide, POT
feet deep and S. feet high, &C
cording to the specifications just
made public. The total costs of
these is expected to approach
So, 500 900.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
School, Police, Fire
Items Up Today
In Subcommittee
Bollou, Mrs. Doyle
And RuhIund Slated
To Testify

Estimates approved by the Budget
Bureau for the public schools, the
Police. Fire and Health Depart
ments for the fiscal year beginning
next July were considered
today by the House subcommittee
in charge of the District appropria-
ton bill
Witnesses were DR.. Frank w.
Ba4lou. superintendent of schools;
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the Board of Educa-
ton; DR.. George C. Rutland, health
officer, and Stephen T. Porter, chief
engineer of the Fire Department.
After taking testimony of the
school officials, members of the sub
committee indicated they would not
make many changes in the total
recommended by the Budget Bu-
reau. which called for appropria-
tions totaling about $40 300 900 for
the coming fiscal year.
With unprecedented speed, the
subcommittee at an an-day session
yesterday considered the estimates
of 20 municipal departments as well
as listening to statements from the
three Commissioners and Maj. Dan
iel j. Donovan, auditor and budget
officer.
Some Estimates Reviewed.
Estimates of the departments al
ready reviewed include building in
spector, purchasing Office. assessor,
Board of Tax Appeals, corporation
counsel, Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board, public libraries, coroner's Of
flee, city refuse. weights, measures
and markets, Public Utilities Com
mission, insurance. surveyors Office,
Minimum Wage Board, register of
wills and the recorder of deeds.
Representative Caldwell of Flor
ida, chairman, indicated the sub
committee would proceed just as
rapidly in passing on the estimates
OF other municipal agencies and
bring the hearings on the 1941 ap-
preparation bill to a close as soon
as possible.
Welfare Officials Prepare.
Welfare officials, anticipating an
early call to appear before the sub
committee, consulted today with the
Commissioners concerning prospects
for larger funds for institutions COW
cred in recent investigations.
The Commissioners said no formal
proposals as yet had been offered
as to what additional sums should
be sought and that no final program
had been agreed upon.
While no direct statements were
made, it appeared that some officials
are anticipating tough sledding''
on any proposals for any consider
able increase in outlays for the
Home for Aged and Infirm, the Re-
ceiving Home and other welfare in
stitutions for which an enlightened
program was recommended by the
DAlesandro subcommittee of the
House District Committee.
Those attending the conference
with the Commissioners were DR..
H. j. Crosson, Mrs. Spencer Gordon
and Edgar Morris, members of the
Board of Public Welfare, and We'll
fare Director Robert E. Bondy.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
D. {. Welfare Work
Depicted in Play
Al Barker Hall
Neiehborhood Councils
Activities Dromotized;
Mrs. IhIder in Cost

Ministers, police and social work.
ers strobe the boards of Barker
Hall, Seventeenth and K streets
NV, yesterday in a two-act skit
demonstrating the role Washing
tons eight neighborhood councils
play in District welfare work.
The play, entitled "Neighborhood
Councils in Our Town." was spon-
sored by the Washington Council
of Social Agencies and featured its
monthly meeting.
Included in the plays cast was
Mrs. John Ihlder, wife of the di-
rector of the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority. Mrs. Ihlder is a member
of the agency's Co-ordinating Com
mittee representing the Georgetown
Neighborhood Council.
Mr.. Ihlder was in the audience
that numbered more than 200 per-
sons.
In the first ,ct cast of nine
staged mock protest meeting
called because of juvenile delin-
quency, and then demonstrated
methods of the various councils in
combating it. The second act
showed a typical meeting of the
Co-ordinating Committee presided
over by James Ring, who also off,
ciated at the luncheon meeting.
The cast included Mrs. Eta v.
Frye, the Rev. Edward Gabler, pas
tor of Christ Church; the Rev.
Harry Porter, committee chairman
of Southwest Council; Police Sergt.
William Murphy, Pvt Karl McCor-
mick, Susan Craighill, Mrs. James
WEIGH, Miss Emily Tilton, Miss
Fern Chapman, Mrs. Olive j. Mont
gomery, Horace Christopher and
Miss Mildred Green.
The eight neighborhood councils
have been organized under the
guidance of the Council of Social
Agencies.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
5000 Hear Concert
By CupeIIu Choir

Some 5000 high school students
and members of is Washington
choirs thronged Constitution Hall
last night to hear the A Cappella
Choir present its 9th annual lenten
concert.
The choir, conducted by Mrs. Ruby
Smith Stahl, presented 18 compo-
sitions. Eleven of the eighteen
numbers were selected from the
works of contemporary American,
English and Russian composers.
Tickets to the concert were given
by the choir to the music faculties
of the public schools and were dis
tributed to students.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Businessmen Hear
Civic Leaders

The meeting of the Cleveland
Park Businessmen Association was
turned over to citizens association
leaders last night and the guest
speakers delivered messages of
"friendliness and cooperation.
Mrs. Leslie B. Wright, president
of the Forest Hills group, and God
frey L. Munter, president of the
Chevy Chase Association, spoke, as
did William Weigle, first vice presi-
dent of the Connecticut Avenue
Association
A picture presented through the
courtesy of American Airlines was
shown at the conclusion of the
meeting, held in the Connecticut
avenue branch Of the City Bank.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Civil Procedure Rules
Outlined to LAWYERS

Effects of the new Federal rules
of civil procedure governing plead
ing were outlined to members
of the District, Federal and Wom-
ems Bar associations last night
in the first of a series of lectures
by Dr. James A. Pike, George Wash
ington University law school pro-
fessor.
"A number of noteworthy de-
cisions." he declared, ''have demon
strated that under the new Federal
rules of civil procedure party will
obtain the relief to which he is en-
titled regardless of the legal theory
his attorney may have in mind In
drafting the pleadings."
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Thomas Circle Subway
Open to Pedestrians

The Thomas Circle underpass was
to be open today and tomorrow from
2 pm. to 5 pm. for pedestrians
only, as preliminary to opening
the new subway to vehicular trafIic
Thursday morning.
Several civic and business groups
will be welcomed by District officials.
and shown through the subway, first
of its kind in the city.
Vehicles will begin to pass through
the subway at 10 am. Thursday.
when it will be dedicated by this
Commissioners in an informal
ceremony.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Inauguration Bills
Passed by House
Amid Joshinq

BY the Associated Press.
Amid considerable joshing
about whether January 20, 1941,
would be q Republican or
Democratic Inauguration day,
the House passed and sent to
the Senate yesterday two bills
providing for special inaugura-
ton parade stands and the'spe-
cial licensing of peanut and
souvenir vendors.
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Niqht Exhibit of Azoieus

To accommodate those unable to
visit the azalea exhibit at the Bo-
tanical Gardens during the day, Wis
iting hours will be heightened
until 9 pm. today, tomorrow and
Thursday, 1t was announced by Of
f1cials of the Gardens. After Thurs
day and until Easter, visiting hours
will be from 9 am. to 1 pm. daily
as usual,
Evening star., 1940-03-12
Park View Businessmen
Elect New Officers

Election of officers was held last
night by the Park View Business
mems Association for the ensuing
year. Officers installed were: D. E.
Nlchol, president; Benjamin @.
April, first vice president; A. Heat
wole. second vice president; H.
Clarke, financial secretary; A. E.
Elm, recording secretary; A. F.
Elgln, treasurer; M. c. Schwartz,
A. Simon and Capt. Floyd Prescott
OF No. 10 precinct, trustees.
Other business was held over
until the next meeting of the asso-
citation. A party concluded the
meeting which was held in the
Georgia avenue branch of the City
Bank.