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Four Performances
For Herbert Concert

The Columbia Light Opera Co
will give four performances OF
Victor Herbert's "The Red Mill on
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday in Roosevelt Auditorium
Thirteenth and Allison streets NV
at $50 pm. Ethyl Manning will
direct the production which is spon-
sored by the District of Columbia
Recreation Department.
Joan Feole, lyric soprano. who
made a successful local debut with
the Columbia Light Opera in Octo-
Der, will be heard in the role of
Tina. Other leading parts will be
taken by jeanette Bittner Krassin,
who will impersonate Gretchen, and
Val Dubois, tenor.
Tickets for all performances are
on sale at the Columbia Opera Co.
box Office, 706 Thirteenth street NV.
All seats are reserved.
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Masonic High Priests
Form Association

Retiring high priests of Royal Arch
Masons together with 1912 and 1945
officers have formed the keystone
Association with the idea of pro-
noting Capitular Masonry here.
! The 1945 high priests also organ
lied with Harry j. Hunt as grand
high priest.
The 18th degree will be conferred
by the Scottish Rite MasonS Tues
day evening. -.
The following officers were in
STALLED at the last meeting of Mithras
Lodge of Perfection: Raymond N.
Babcock, venerable master; Marvin
E. Fowler, senior warden; Frank E.
Koch, junior warden: Arthur G.
Fessenden, orator; John c. Palmer,
almoner; Austin j. Lester, secre-
tary; Monte Sanger, treasurer: Mel
vile D. Hensey, trustee; Omer w.
Clark, master of ceremonies; John
T. Vivian, expert; Roy L. James,
assistant expert; Richard e. Titlow,
captain Of the host; Charles E. Bald
win, representative to the George
Washington Memorial Association,
and William F. Holmes, tiler.
Trestleboard.
Monday-Potomac, E. A.; Benja-
min B. French, r. c.; Anacostia,
II. c.; Pentalpha, social; Mount
Pleasant; Petworth Royal Arch,
ladies' night.
Tuesday-National, Arminius, My
ron M. Parker, King David; Lafay-
cite Royal Arch, Brightwood Coun-
Gil Royal and Select Masters.
Wednesday-Washingto Centen-
nial, Osiris, King Solomon Il pm) +,
East Gate, Theodore Roosevelt, Bar
risters; Columbia Chapter Royal
Arch, entertainment; Potomac Com
mandery.
Thursday-Naval, special (6.45
p.m.), M. NJ; New Jerusalem, George
g. Whiting, Temple Noyes, Cathe-
|dral: Washington Royal Arch, Will
liam r. Singleton Royal Arch.
Friday-St. Johns, Hope, Anacos-
tia, special, M. NJ; Eureka Naval
Royal Arch, Mount Pleasant Royal
Arch.
Saturday Grand Lodge School OF
Instruction.
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Pescara, born in Spezia, Italy, in
1900 and now living in New York
dedicated this work ito the spiritual
culture of China" 1t was written
in 1912 and given its premiere by
the Indianapolis Symphony under
Fabien Sevitzky in January of last
year. Mr.. Pescara will be present
to hear the performance.
The program will include further,
Schubert's symphony No. A."
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Bridge. |
By Frank B. Lord

The Women's Auxiliary Of the
Washington Bridge League made, q
substantial contribution to the War
Orphans Fund and the Red Cross
from the proceeds of its annual char
ity game last Sunday. The War
Orphans Fund sponsored by the
American Contract Bridge League
of which the auxiliary is unit, was
the principal beneficiary.
Twenty-four tables were in play
several Of the contestants coming
from Baltimore and Richmond
There were two rounds, with NO
eliminations. The players started
in the afternoon, took brief recess
for dinner and resumed In the
evening. The winners were Mrs
George Whitfield and George Ball
whose score was 673.1, and the run
ners-up, Mrs. r. w. Moorman and
LIE Roy Thurtell, with 6702. Fol-
lowing them were F. Decker and
Mrs. Allen Rutherford OF Balti-
more, third, 6618; Col. and Mrs
Vandersluis, fourth, 659.2; Mrs. j
A. Long and Mrs. Ray Richards
fifth, 632.8; j. P. Snyder and Mrs
Ida Terrant, sixth, 644.8, and Will
liam Cheeks and Mrs. Jack Bennett,
seventh, 632.1.
The Federal Bridge League played
it's monthly master point game
Tuesday night at the Wardman
Park Hotel. There were two Sec
tions, with the following results
Section A, north and south, Charles
Johnson and Henry Stearman, tied
for first place with Mrs. j. A. Long
and Mrs. Ray Shepard, each max
ing 1929; east and west, Maj.
Russell j. Baldwin and H. r. Web
ber, 157 points, first, and Mrs. M. E
Reddy and Mrs. Kitty Boyle, 153
points. second.
In section B, Nine. Boschan and
Mrs. Newland were firSt with 181,
north and south, and j. r. Boyd
and Tom Wallace, with 1856, were
second; east and west, Pearl Muir
ray and Mrs. Margaret Rucker had
151h for first place and Miss Paris
Keener and Doris Rothwel were
second with ISL.
Emphasis having been made that
lights would be cut at midnight to
comply with the Governments cur
few decree, the game was finished
before IL o'clock. AS long as the
order stands the play will begin
promptly at 8 O'Clock, and penalties
will be imposed upon those who are
not ready to start at that hour.
The standing of the various four
somes in the leagues team of four
series is as follows:
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Legion Commander
Guest Speaker for
Auxiliary Unit

Lee r. Pennington, commander OF
the District Department, the Amer
1can Legion, will be the guest
speaker at a meeting of the Auxil-
iary Executive Committee at the
next meeting. His subject will be
Universal Military Training"
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty. auxiliary de-
partment chairman on membership
announced last week the member
ship is now LILO and it is expected
to reach 1000 by March 10. She
presented awards to Police and Fire
James Reese Europe and Agricul-
ture Units. Mrs. Hagerty also Of
fered a prize of $25 bond to the
unit securing the most new men,
bers by March 10.
Cooley-McCullough Unit will meet
at the Legion Club on Wednesday
at $3.50 pm, with Mrs. Marian
Money. president, presiding. The
unit will sponsor a bingo party at
Mount Alto Hospital at Z pm. on
March IL. A rummage sale will be
held March 40 at 1107 Fourth street
S.W.
Mrs. Lillian M. Judd, president
of Kenneth H. Nash Unit, announces
the unit will meet at the Hotel
Washington on Wednesday at $3.50
pm. The department president and
her staff will make their annual
visitation.
Sergt. Jasper Unit will meet al
8 pm. tomorrow at the Legion club
house, followed by a social and re-
freshments.
Mrs. Ann Goodwin, president, an
nounced there will be a discussion
OF the units participation in the
rehabilitation program as outlined
by the National American Legion
Auxiliary.
Mrs. Mary Stickley has been ap-
pointed Braille chairman and Mrs
Helen Mccoy salvage chairman.
Eight ct Forty.
Mss. Della Luther, la surintend-
ante of the Eight ct Forty, an
nounced plans are being made for
the mass initiation of new members
Mrs. Helen K. Ware, partnership
chairman, announced the salon will
admit many outstanding members
of the American Legion Auxiliary
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Public Library
Book Pointers
CANADA,
BY Clara E. Bennett,

Library.
ITO understand the Canadian peo-
pie, we must know more than Just
the geography and scenery of
Canada. we must also study their
racial origins" In Canadian Mo-
sale, the making of a northern
nation" John Murray Gibbon sets
forth the racial background of the
Canadian people, with such chapter
headings as France and Canada,
England and Canada, Scotland and
Canada.
A journey across Canada on horse
back is described by Mary Bosan-
quet in "Saddlebags for Suitcases." !"
Here's Canada" by Dorothy Dun
can, pictures each province of the
Dominion, from Nova Scotia to the
Arctic territories.
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Benefit at Arts Club

Felian Garzia, pianist, well known
in local circles, will be presented by
the Arts Club of Washington in a
benefit recital on Thursday evening
at $50 o'clock. The proceeds from
the concert will go toward the pur-
chase of new piano for the club
and tickets will be sold at the door
on the evening of the performance
Bach's Prelude, e Flat Minor, "
Mozart's Sonata, D Major" a
group, of pieces by Chopin, Mac
Dowell's "Marionettes and ''Po-
lonaise, E Minor" Paderewski's
Theme Varie," Debussy's LA
Cathedrale Engloutie" and Moszkow-
skis "Tarentelle' will constitute the
program.
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In Local
Music Circles

kiS w VII SluI
will give a concert at the Phillips
Gallery tomorrow evening at $3.50
O'Clock. The varied program will in
clude violin compositions by La
Sale Spier and Alba Rosa Victor
both played by Nine. Victor; piano
selections by Mary Howe and Doro-
thy Radde Emery, performed by the
latter; q choral composition by R.
Dean Shure, a new song by Nine
Victor presented by Clelia Flora
vanti, contralto, and numbers by j.
Alden Finkel, cellist, played by the
composer.
The Symphony Orchestra of the
Navy Band will feature Hugh
O'Meagher, pianist, in MacDowell's S
Concerto No. 2" at its next concert
Friday at $50 pm. in the Depart
mental Auditorium, Thirteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
The orchestral part of the program
will consist of Brahms Tragic
Overture in D Minor" Hindemith's S
Mathis der Mailer" and Gliere's
Russian Sailors Dance" from THE
Red Poppy"
The Friday Morning Music Club
will dedicate its next event, Friday
at 11:30 am, to compositions by
Robert Schumann. The musicale
will be held in Barker Hall YWCA.
Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee, pian-
ist; Vera Nicely Ross, contralto, and
an ensemble consisting of Cecilia
Mahoney and Jean Hers, violins;
Alice Gable Hayes, viola; Leonore
Bryan, cello, and Catherine Speh,
pianist. The latter group will be
heard in this masters Quintet Op.
a."
On Tuesday, the pianists group of
the FMMC will hold its monthly
programluncheon in the residence
of Tamara Dmitrieff, 2153 California
street NV, at 11:30 am.
Nathan Stutch, cellist, will be the
Soloist with the United States Ma
rine Band Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday at 8:15 pm. in the audi
torium of the Marine Barracks. He
will be heard in Haydn's Concerto
in D Major" The orchestral part of
the program will consist of "Benve-
nuto Cellini'' overture by Berlioz,
Walton's Facade" suite and Stra-
vinsky's Symphony No. l."
Doris Beaupre, young Canadian
coloratura soprano, will be the
artist sponsored by the Felicia Ry-
bier Music Club tonight at Dupont
circle at $3.50 pm. Admission by
invitation only. Miss Beaupre is
native of Montreal, at present living
in New York City. She has just
completed a successful radio and
concert tour through Canada. She
will be accompanied at the piano by
Allison Sanderford, who is the Off
cial accompanist of the club.
Carol Brice, contralto, winner of
the Naumburg Award for this year,
will give a recital on Thursday eve
IlIlR Ill AIluISW fLdllhlll NQcIIlOI ldl
Chapel, Howard University, at $50
o'clock.
Jean Heers, violinist; Frances Nc
Cartney, soprano, and Dorothy
Guion, pianist, members of the
Washington -Alumnae Chapter of
Mu Phi Epsilon, will give the pro-
gram for the music hour in Barker
Hall, YWCA, this afternoon at 4:30
o'clock.
Mozart's Sonata in E Minor" for
violin, songs by Wolf, Chausson,
Critics, Hageman, Malotte, an aria
from Verdi's "Aida," and piano
numbers by Bach -Rummel, Brahms,
Chopin, Debussy And Dohnanyi
will comprise the program.
Robert Nicholson, baritone, and
James L. McLain, organist, will give
joint program of sacred music in
the Wesley Methodist Church to-
Evening star., 1945-03-04

The Richmond City championship
games are in play over the present
week end. Washington players were
invited to attend, but owing to the
convention ban on attendance ex-
ceeding so requiring transportation
and hotel accommodations, the
number of local players participating
was smaller than usual.
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Park View Citizens Association
Park View School, Warder and New
ton streets NV, 8 pm.
FRIDAY.
Brightwood Citizens Association
Paul Junior High School, Eighth
and Oglethorpe streets NV, 8 pm
Washingtonians-Highland Apart
ments, California and Connecticut
avenues NV, BIS pm.
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Jobs Dauehters

Bethel No. will meet Thursday
at 8 pm. Masonic and Eastern Star
night and initiation Those to be
initiated will be Joan Dedmon,
Marion Louise Fry and Bette Jean
Wilson.
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The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at the Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV,
Tuesday evening at 8. An auction
OF foreign and domestic stamps and
covers is scheduled. The public is
invited to attend
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WARREN T. JOHNSON, oRGAkIsT,
CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS
I'D & ? Streets NV. 7:30 o'CLoCI
Prelude in c. -Bairstoy
Choral Preludes on "St James" Nobl
Evening star., 1945-03-04

Senior Vice Comdr. Lloyd B. Field
has been appointed chairman for the
Buddy Poppy sales, May "a, rs and
26.
Evening star., 1945-03-04

Mrs. Maud Roach Warren, wife OF
Philip Simms Warren, former treas
urer of the Washington Philatelic
Society and former vice president of
the American Philatelic Society, died
on Wednesday, February 81, after a
long illness. She never had been a
collector, but was well known in
stamp circles as a hostess and as her
husbands companion at conventions
and congresses.
Evening star., 1945-08-19

Pumps and pipes for irrigation were in
stalled and the whole thing enclosed with
fence to keep out the wild burros.
Meantime, plants were being raised in
nursery beds, were ready for transplanting
when the growing beds were completed. BY
the end of April, crops were harvested.
The beds are seven inches deep and filled
with cinders to hold the plant roots They
are irrigated every other day with solu-
ton containing nitrates, potash, phos-
phorus, calcium and magnesium. The Gin
ders are saturated with the chemical solu-
ton which is then drained and used again.
Another HeadAche
BURLAP over the cinders between cucum-
Der, tomato, and pepper plants cuts down
evaporation and saves precious water. Even
so, it takes about 1900 gallons of water
week. And the water for all uses at this
base has to be distilled from sea water
"a total of 100, 900 gallons a week.
It's always summer on Ascension, so pro-
duction will be continuous the year around.
Tomatoes lettuce and radishes - they can't
be grown successfully in tropical heat by
the usual methods - prosper under the
hydroponics system where partial shade is
provided by an overhead framework.
The ability to grow vegetables on Ascen-
sion Island may be important for long
time First purpose of this base was to pro-
vide refueling spot between Brazil and the
battlefront in North Africa Now it's an
important link in the air route to China.
Veterans of Ascension's hydroponics gar
den will supervise other projects, like Atkin-
son Field, British Guiana; coral islands in
the Pacific, and perhaps China where soil
contamination makes it unsafe to eat raw
vegetables
Chemical gardens won't be needed as a
substitute for soil in this country, but where
shipping distance and growing conditions
make the usual methods impractical, Army
Air Forces can still supply its men with
fresh foods - even in the most remote
corners of the earth.
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Stuck on a desert island
where nothing grew, these
CTS grew things anyhow!

CTS grew things anyhow!
VU1o MOST people the request made by
Gen. H. H. Hap" Arnold would have
appeared ridiculous. The Commander of the
Army Air Forces had ordered a garden
which would produce fresh vegetables in
waste of almost sterile sand at an isolated
Army air base in British Guiana.
But he knew that Air Forces technicians
had learned how to overcome almost all
handicaps of nature by growing vegetables
without soil. He had seen an experimental
hydroponics garden at the Air Forces Cen
eral Hospital at Coral Gables, Fla, had
tasted fresh vegetables grown in cement
basins" with chemicals and water. He had
had reports on the success of the largest
hydroponics installation in the world at
Ascension Island, "a square miles of VOL
canic rockpile halfway across the South
Atlantic from the eastern bulge of Brazil.
The Rock" as Ascension is called, has
plenty of cinders and ash, but no soil. Yet
more than 1000 men on this lonely, wind
swept island are eating fresh vegetables
every day from growing beds that occupy
less than an acre of space.
The Boys Like 'Em
AND the men appreciate fresh radishes, let
tuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers!
If you could have seen their faces and the
piles on their plates when they tasted the
first harvest, you would be convinced.
Nothing more important has been done
for the morale of these men since U. 5.
forces landed there in March, 1912.
Air Forces engineers descended on the
spot selected for the garden last January.
With dynamite and bulldozers, they cleared
and leveled the necessary space. Then they
dug cinders out of a mountainside with
steam shovel mixed them with asphalt and
made water-tight growing beds rs of
them, three feet wide and 400 feet long
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No RACE can trosr till learns that there is much dignity in
tilng field as in w1iting poen Booker T. washington
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TODAY and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN-

Washington and Franklin, Madi-
son and Hamilton, knew that II
negotiation is to be deliberative,
which means that men are open to
argument and can change their
minds, it must be confidential. AS
long as the results agreed upon
are made public before they are
put into effect, confidential nego-
tiation is not, in the true meaning
of the term, secret diplomacy. 1t
is essential, as the authors of our
own Constitution knew, to a sue
cessful and constructive meeting
of mind.
Thus Senator Vandenberg, who
is making some kind of personal
public commitment about every
other day, is gradually working
himself into position where he
will be unable to debate the is
sues. He is burning all his bridges
behind him by saying what ne
thinks before ne has heard what
any one else has to say.
It is, of course, out of the ques-
ton that the San Francisco con-
ference should be true delibera-
tive assembly. Under modern con-
ditions general international
conference must be a spectacular
affair, and, therefore, it should be
asked to do only what can in fact
be done by spectacular methods.
That. is to expound and explain
the meaning, and to solenlnize the
acceptance, of agreements reach
ed in advance.
To throw critical issues into a
great public international meeting
is to take the most imprudent
risks. Either the publicity will
magnify them until the issues are
insoluble, CT the delegates, fear.
full of the effect of disagreement,
will not resolve the issues but will
agree to bury them in ambigui-
ties.
No issue has as yet arisen which
goes so deep but that it can be
settled if able men will take the
time to deal with it patiently and
thoroughly. The question of null
tiple voting in the assembly is a
striking example of what happens
when a few tired and preoccupied
men try to settle something in a
hurry.
Stain asked that the United Ma
tons recognize the autonomy, as
stipulated in the new Soviet con-
stitution, of two Of the Soviet re-
publics. The Ukrainian and the
White Russian, by giving them
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seats in the assembly. The proper
response was to say that it these
two republics are In fact sover-
eign states in International affairs,
they should be given seats. II they
are no more sovereign than, Let
US say Texas and Vermont, then
they should not be seated. To de-
termine whether they are sover-
eign, they, and not Stain and the
U. S. S. R., should apply to the
other nations for recognition and
for an exchange Of ambassadors.
II the two Soviet republics had
followed this orderly procedure,
the allies Of the Soviet Union
might well have stretched point
in their favor, as in fact they have
stretched it for several other only
nominally sovereign states. They
would well have done this not on
ly because in the assembly two
more votes controlled by Moscow
will make no practical difference
whatsoever, but also because any
move, even symbolic, toward de.
Capitalization of authority in a
great military state is in the gen.
eral interest of liberty.
But what the President actually
did was to ask for two counter.
vailing United States votes. This
was a double blunder: it amount
ed to saying first that we regard.
ed the autonomy Of the two repub'
lies not as sincere goal at which
the Soviets are aiming but as
pure fiction now and in the future;
and second, that we do not hold te
our own pledge that in the assem-
bly, there should BE- the sovereign
equality Of recognized states.
But have said all this, let u,
remember Winston Churchilrs ter
rible judgment in 1919: 'the wal
of the giants has ended, the quar-
rels Of the pyg.nies have begun. .
These debates about voting ant
about the representation of state'
which unsttled governments are
in tn egrand perspective Of thu
war and of the future of mankind
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pygny quarrels. Our real business
is to see to it that we have time
and opportunity to settle them as
best we can without jeopardizing
the supreme objective of an order
ed peace.
Therefore we must decide in
the next few days whether enough
agreement can be reached by di-
plomacy before April "a. If not,
then two main alternative are
open to US. The cne is to postpone
the conference until we have
made certain it can succeed. The
other is to alter the character OF
the San Francisco meeting.
For this second alternative we
have an interesting precedent
from the recent conference at
Mexico City. The act of Chapul-
tepec did two things: it establish.
ed, under the war power, a pro.
visional interim security system
effective immediately" and il
reached an agreement to draft a
permanent treaty, embodying Gre
tain principles, later on.
At San Francisco, after diplo.
matte exchanges which could be
made at once, provisional in
teri1n organization could be estab
lished effective Immediately
and this provisional organization
could be vested with the task o,
drafting a permanent charter. Thi.
might well be the way to over
come the dilemma: whether te
postpone the whole thing, and tt
have no international organization
in the closing phases Of the war
or to try to settle in top much
OF a hurry the terms of a per
manent charter.
Copyright, 1915, New York Tri
bune Inc.
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Whether San Francisco should
Be postponed, or its agenda revis-
ed best be decided, it seems
to me, by trying to find out wheth-
er substantial agreement on thy
critical differences can be reach
ed by diplomatic negotiation be-
fore April Is. Agreement on the
substance is infinitely more i'm
portant than to meet a dead line
on a certain day at a certain
place. For issues which cannot be
resolved by quiet negotiation will
be harder, not easier to resolve,
under the klieg lights of the San
Francisco conference. We shall be
flying in the face of all experience
and of common sense. if before
the grand assemblage convenes we
do not make sure that there is
agreement not only by the five
but also, at the least, by those
middle powers which, like Cana
da, Australia, the Netherlands,
have borne so heavy burden in
the war.
An assemblage of more than
forty governments working under
the scrutiny Of the press and radio
of the whole world, including that
of our enemies, cannot possibly
be deliberative body. The Phila-
delphia Convention of 1887, which
was ths most successful delibera-
tive body of its kind the world
has ever seen, was attended by
fifty-five delegates, was conducted
behind closed doors, the official
journal Of the proceedings was not
printed until 1919, and the full ac-
count of the debates was published
for the first time only in 1910.