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Evening star., 1946-04-21
Younger Men Attend
Service Dances Now

The director said servicemen now
using the canteen are strikingly young
er than those who came during the war.
Many of the boys do not know how to
dance. Those who do, want to dance
with girls their own age. This poses
problem in hostesses. for the girls who
were young for older servicemen are now
too mature for boys of 18 and 10.
Another feature of the YWCA-USO is
the Nisei girls and servicemen who oc-
cupy the fourth floor of the building.
This group previously was at ST. Johns
Episcopal Churchs parish house but
moved recently.
Characteristic of the servicemen at
tending the Church Door Canteen at
Calvary Baptist Church is their interest
in singing and games. Each Saturday
night the committee, headed by Mrs.
Gratz E. Dumkum, jr., sets theme for
the evenings entertainment. Typical
themes were Windy March," Back to
School, Thanksgiving" and Christ
mas" Girls are drawn from Calvary
and other Baptist churches to act as
hostesses. Food is provided by one OF
Calvary's organizations.
When VI day came, the committee
anticipated closing the canteen January
: /. But as other canteens throughout
the city closed, attendance increased 80
per cent, so the workers decided to go
on with the job. Church Door Canteen
will have been open three years this
May.
Servicemen's Club No. is another
hub of activity for armed personnel It
has square dancing, art classes, enter
tainment and Mother" Steed Emma
Steed is 80 years young and has been
running her Sunday breakfast canteen
since January, 1912. Every first Sunday
of the month the Army and Navy Union,
Department of Potomac, serves 400
Evening star., 1946-04-21

February registered decrease to 1882
volunteers, with 108, ,222 visitors.
The downward trend in volunteers
has persisted despite the observation by
Joseph McGarraghy, chairman of Rec
reation Services, that attendance at
many service clubs in the city has been
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Attendance Jumps
AS Other Places Close
Star stan Pi..

Square dancing, under the direction
of E. M. Daggit, Eugene Flynn and Mrs.
Clara Searcy, has proved to be extremely
popular at the club Director Arnold L.
Lovejoy said. He also observed attend
ance has increased sharply since other
canteens closed.
An unusual feature OF Servicemens
Club No. l is the art class conducted
several nights week with Teachers
Gertrude Dean, Alice Tate and Mrs.
Ethel Kuncis in charge. An average of
10 to IL attend classes. One she'll
shocked boy from Walter Reed Hospital
was granted permission to paint in
room where he could be alone. Since
then, other wounded servicemen have
requested similar privileges.
Servicemen coming to Washington
over the week end are still confronted
with the question Of where to sleep.
One of the most popular places is
George Washington Lodgings at Twenty
third and G streets NV. One boy
checked in Friday night and asked the
attendant to please call me at IL o'clock
in the morning day after tomorrow"
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received salary Of $1,000 a year-a
princely sum in those days. His house
address at that time was 66 C street
south, which today would be on G street
between Thirteen and-a-half and Four
teenth streets
He was Joined by his wife and they
boarded for a while until more salts
factory arrangements could be made,
and this resulted in the renting of
house on Capitol Hill. then numbered
BIT First street NE.
"It was quaint brick structure, two
stories high" he says, and 1t stood
somewhere on the site now occupied by
Evening star., 1946-04-21

into the United Nations Service
Center and looked shyly around.
He had been walking the streets
Of Washington most of the day and
was tired. He saw a piano, and hesi-
family sat down before 1t. His fingers
fondly tried the keyboard. Softly the
tunes came and, as though heartened
by the sound, the sailor struck the
keys more firmly as he played popular
song. Soon others drifted around the
the piano, and within a few minutes
they were singing.
There were other young servicemen
in Washington that day. They walked
up and down the streets, looked without
interest at shop windows and hesitated
before entering crowded restaurants.
They appeared lonesome, bored, un-
happy.
The war is not over, especially for the
18 and 10 year-olds recently drafted.
The need to help them with recreation,
food and shelter Is greater now than
pitality Committee officials who know
the problems.
Take Tom Morgan Of Murphysburg,
Ill. He is 10, has been in the Army since
January rs and is completing his basic
training at Fort Belvoir Tom and
two friends were wandering around the
streets, on leave, until they went into
the United Nations Service Center
where he learned about the Church
Door Canteen at Calvary Baptist
Church. Tom and his friends had a
fine evening at the canteen rather than
spending their time at less desirable
places.
William Locklin, 17-year-old inductee
OF Fort Worth, Tex, was enroute to
Camp Bell, Calf, with the prospect
of going to Japan. He was in Washing
ton between trains with nothing to do.
He was directed to the United Nations
Service Canteen, where he enjoyed the
hours between trains instead Of Just
sitting in the station.
Language Difficulties
Solved by Center
Miguel Roldan from Temple City,
Tex, found the Center an answer to
great need. Miguel was born in
Mexico City and had only seven years
OF schooling in his 18 years. He came
to the United States in 1943 and had
been migrant fruit worker until his
induction last November Miquel's
English is poor and he was happy to
find several volunteers at the center
who spoke and understood his Spanish
The War Hospitality Committee, ap-
pointed by the District Commissioners to
coordinate all lodging and recreation
for service personnel in Washington,
still functions to help men like these.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

in 1912, 1s43 or 1914 and as great as
in 1945 to date
The problem has been tackled ener-
getically by Recreation Services, whose
officers, in addition to Mr. McGarraghy,
are Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice
president; Mark Lansburgh, treasurer;
James A. Councillor, controller; Harry
S. Wender, general counsel, and Mrs.
William Calvin, executive secretary.
The organization works directly with
the Servicemens Club No. l, 306 Ninth
street NV; the United Nations Service
Center and War Workers Council, 819
Sixteenth street NV, and co-operates
with other canteens now running.
Typical are the Church Door Canteen
at Calvary Baptist Church and the
YWCA-USO at Seventeenth and K
streets NV. Servicemen seeking place
to sleep are sent to George Washington
Lodgings at TWenty-third and G streets
NV, one of many such lodging places.
The Recreation Services subsidlze
Banneker Service Center. Entertainment
and Volunteer Camps Shows No. 2,
Hearthstone Club and Women's Bat
TALON No. for colored servicemen.
First stop for many servicemen is the
United Nations Service Center, opposite
Union Station. The center averages
$1,000 service men and women every
week end. Here armed forces personnel
waiting between trains find a place to
rest or play, to shave and clean up to
eat and get directions for other things
to do. Frequently visitors on Saturday
nights are convalescent servicemen
from nearby service hospitals-ampu-
tees, blind and plastic surgery cases
among them.
The YWCA USO points up the prob
lem today facing canteens still open. 1t
holds dances every night except Sun
day, with approximately 1900 couples
present every Saturday. In the past,
the percentage of girls to armed per-
sonrel was SIS to As. Now the ratio Is
the other way around. Miss Gretchen
Feikir, director of the Penthouse USO
here, noted that many alumni OF the
YWCA-USO are returning in civilian
clothes. These veterans like to come
back and reminisce over the good times
they had at the canteen while in uni
form.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

nome of the Murphy
family, a little brick
building. Here. in
the yard was a most
delightful and re-
f r e S h in g well of
water that was free
ly pa tron IL e d by
those who travelled
that way, W h e n
Fourteenth street t
nort h of Florida
ave was a sea of mud
in winter and a cloud
of dust in the sum-
mer.
One of the Murphy
Evening star., 1946-04-21
John Burroughs Lived
In Old Neighborhood

On V street, between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets, John Burroughs,
the poet and nature writer, built his
home in 1867, l0-room brick house
with an ample front yard, but with only
a little garden patch. Here, according
to his statement he raised a few toma-
toes and some corn. But what Mr.. Bur-
roughS could have seen in this particu-
lar site to please his fancy, except, per-
haps, quietude, is hard to understand.
The outlook must have been anything
but fascinating, since, in addition to the
graveyard on which his house stood
there was in the block in front of him
what remained of the West Methodist
or Foundry Cemetery.
However, several blocks away to the
north the scenery changed and here
were several homes of wealthy people,
including the one belonging to DR.. Hall.
who later sold it to L. H. and Christian
Schneider. This old mansion now forms
part of the main building of Garfield
Hospital.
To the west was the home of the
widow of William J. Stone, which was
Civil War hospital from 1862 to 1865.
This mansion was later the residence
of Gen. John A. Logan, who gave it
the name Calumet Place. He died here.
When William Jennings Bryan was
Secretary of State he leased this old
home, which then stood at the north
east corner of Thirteenth and Clifton
streets.
But the noted writer of nature essays
loved to roam the woods and no doubt
took advantage of the forests and farm
lands not far distant, as we'll as the
nearby water courses, including Rock
Greek, Slash Run and Reedy Branch.
Indeed, he is known to have extended
his trips to more distant places and on
one occasion nearly drowned in the
Potomac near Little Falls. He was
rescued by a friend.
The naturalists tell us he preferred to
walk in winter rather than in summer
when the weather was too hot, and that
he had to go only miles to get to
real pine woods. After he left WASH
ington in 1873 he made occasional visits
to this city, generally stopping with his
old friends, DR.. and Mrs Frank Baker.
Army Career Lost
On Sight of Troops
John Burroughs came to Washington
in 1853, not with the intention of going
into the Army, but rather afraid that he
might enlist once he came in contact
with the troops. But his enthusiasm
wilted, he says, when he observed how
they shipped the men in cars herded
together like cattle. He decided he
would not make a good soldier when
he saw wounded men arriving from the
battlelfields and when he had chance
to visit the hospitals.
Through influence which he con-
fesses he obtained but more through
1nsistence and determination, he secured
clerkship in the Treasury Department
in the newly established Bureau of Ma
tional Banks on January 4, 1864, and
Evening star., 1946-04-21

Thousands OF servicemen
turn in for a nights sleep
each aDeek end in these lodg-
ings at Twenty-third and G
streets. Star stan Photo.
The lodging, leased to Recreation Serv-
ice by George Washington University,
has SIS beds ready for occupancy on
Friday and Saturday nights. The Amer
lean Legion supervises operations.
The problem of entertaining, feeding
and providing sleeping quarters for
armed forces personnel particularly for
the boys recently drafted, will continue
for an indefinite period, the War Hospi-
tality Committee officials said. Volun-
teers are asked to call the War Hospi-
tally Committee at 500 North Capitol
street, National 5000.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Bringing Cheer to Peacetime Army
BY Caspar Names.

.HE boyish looking sailor edged
into the United Nations Service
Center and looked shyly around.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

west by Columbia road and on the north
by the old Adams Mill road.
On the southwest corner of Florida
avenue and Thirteenth street was the
Evening star., 1946-04-21

The committee has properly pointed
out the burden is heavier now, with
such standbys as the Stage Door Can
teen, the Pepsi-Cola Center and several
USO centers closed.
The needs are daily mounting while
volunteers are steadily falling of. Fig
Evening star., 1946-04-21

In March, 1945, there were 2O45 VOL
unteers to handle the 95,126 service men
and women. January figures for 1916
show 1892 workers for 113,747 armed
forces personnel using the center, and
Evening star., 1946-03-31

How often? You would probably
be surprised to know that medical
authorities estimate that rs % of
all diabetes are overweight
and that fat people are ten times
more likely. to develop diabetes
than are thin people.
Your doctor might describe dia-
betes and overweight as a vicious
circle. Overeating can start the
trouble, which in turn produces
greater appetite. Satisfying this
appetite again aggravates the
j. condition and you are in the
sorry plight of being hungry while
your body is full of the kind of
food you crave.
No wonder doctors look on
obesity as a danger signal of
diabetes. If you are now in
normal health, but are gaining
weight, it IL time to be on your
Evening star., 1946-03-31

item and hangs some of his own jokes
on it. There's plenty of room. An
inveterate cigar smoker. he says he
likes to buy Corona Coronas be-
cause they make his nose look
smaller.
Radio, night club and vaude-
Vile engagements loom ahead in
abundance. He has only just begun
to scratch the surface OF his bonanza
And during the dawn OF his success
he has not forgotten the wonderful
audiences boys who made"
Evening star., 1946-03-31
GI RUNNYMAN
Continued from preceding page

SOSbSW~LU JJO" pclG0JNk pnSS
Garden and a remarkable one-shot
radio appearance on the Kate Smith
program. His spot took IL minutes
- seven of gags and five of laughs.
something unheard Of in the annals
Of broadcasting.
Later the War Department or
dered him to Washington for huge
War Bond Rally in Constitution
Hall. And shortly before he left the
service, Harvey was invited along
with some of the country's best
known performers to be guest of the
President during the March of
Dimes festivities last January.
Won BY 4 Nose
Today, still blinking his eyes in
the bright light of civilian life, he is
ready to tackle the tough, demand
ing, postwar market for humor. He's
smart and he has the temperament.
of stage or on, he likes a laugh.
He's confirmed ribber, an ad-libber
very quick on the draw.
Better still, he's not averse to
kidding himself, particularly his
Jimmy Durantenna-like nose. Har-
vey takes lot of kidding about that
Evening star., 1946-03-31

standing that the speed of a ship is
expressed in either miles per hour or
knots. but never in knots per hour
In seagoing sense a knot" can be
defined as "a nautical mile per
hour" hence the second per hour"
is superfiuous not to mention its
effect on seafaring eyes and ears!
How would Wally like "a ham
burger with onions with onions?
NORMAN B. CHRISTIE
New York. N. Y.
Captain Boren has been de-
mOted.
Evening star., 1946-03-31

him - that can go along with gag,
too.
For them. in hospitals and Army
posts, Harvey Stone continues to
spin his CT humor, the kind that
sprung him into promise and promi-
nence on the nations comedy front:
When We start a hike, the lieu
tenant says: Men, the Army has
issued you much valuable equip
ment. and. so it won't be stolen,
we're taking it with usr HE carries
a compass. :. The End
Evening star., 1946-03-31

Letters should Be addressed 10 Tie Leffers
Editor. THIS WEEK Magazine, 420 Lex
ington Are. N. Y. II. N. Y. They cannot
be acknowledged or returned. bat ms wiH
pTiHt the shortest and best
Evening star., 1946-03-31

Reader Dcnman has IA fine
memory. The story WAS Horse
Play" by Parke Hanley and
appeared May IL, 1885.
In YOUR article. The Movies Go
To Church." one of the illustrations
shows the use of chairs in a scene
from the movie. "A Woman To Re
member"
have never heard of chairs being
used in connection with the Life of
Christ. | have been informed time
and again that only couches or
benches were used - and that the
people reclined even during meals.
F. z. MARkERT
Bogota, N. J.
John Coyle, who directed the
picture, says: "Thcrc were chairs
in the time Of Christ. The Ro-
Evening star., 1946-03-31

You don't need a crystal ball to
check on your Wheaties. All you
need is an eating acquaintanceship
with those famous whole wheat
Evening star., 1946-03-31

flakes. Once you know Wheaties,
you'll make sure there's always
a good supply on hand. You'll
want your Wheaties every day.
Evening star., 1946-03-31

mans and Greeks both had them.
The custom Of reclining on
couches during meals was prac-
ticed mostly by political poten-
tates and persons of wealth,
whereas the poor. with no at
tending servants. sat upon ~ hat
ever happened to he handy and
comfortable"
Evening star., 1946-03-31
THE NAVY WAY

l READ with interest the paragraph
in 'Sidelines" that told of messages
addressed to Generals Eisenhower
and Macarthur being returned be-
cause of insufficient address"
One of my boys had card sent
him from another officer and the
only direction was Ensign Elliott
X. Hale {nothing else). The card
was delivered at his home in Lisbon
Falls. That's the way the Navy
does it.
ELLIOTT X. HALE
Lisbon Falls, Me
Evening star., 1946-03-31
AARY'S LAIgD

THINK your illustrated version of
"Mary's Little Lamb" was very
clever and up-to-date. | suggest the
following verse for it:
Mary had little lamb
With fleece white as snow:
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sheared to 20,
H. T. GUTHRIE
Perryville. Mo.
:. How about this:
Mary had little lamb
1t followed her to school
But Mary had the wool on her
Which left the lamb quite cool.
BESSIE B. GRIM
Frostburg, Md.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
How about this:
WALLYsS WAGON

In A recent issue your lunch wagon
eer, Wally Boren. goes nautical. He
boards Navy PIT boat and Pretty
soon or Jack pushes all three throt-
ties forward an we start roarin'
through the water at so or so knots
an hour.
Since Wally admitted being
landlubber, "Op Jack" should have
been allowed to do little proofread-
ing. 1t has always been my under
Evening star., 1946-03-31

guard. One good insurance against
diabetes and all the other ills that
excess fat invites, is to see your
doctor, and follow his advice
about reducing.
AN EAsv REDUCING METHOD for the
normal overweight is the Ry-Krisp
Plan, approved by many doctors No
rigid dieting, no strenuous exercise.
just eat sensibly of protective foods as
indicated, enjoy 23-calorie Ry-Krisp
az bread. Ry-Krisp supplies regulat-
ing bulk and vitamin B, and it's
deliciousi
Evening star., 1946-03-31
WHAT A MEMORY

WHAT n E4klUVAy
lHE amusing story of "Buttercup"
reminds me of highly entertaining
though fantastic tale about a man.
girl and horse which appeared in
THIS WEEK years ago.
My husband and l laughed so
much we had to take turns reading
it aloud.
Part of the young man difficulties
arose when he tried to coax the horse
up some stairs and into his apart
ment, while trying to feel sane
about it.
ORA DENMAN
Riverside, Conn.
Arizona sun., 1946-10-11
Urban League
News
BY JOHN G.. WILLIAMS,
Executive Secretary

In promoting the general well
fare of the city, everyone must be-
come civic-minded. People must
interest themselves in housing, ed
ucation, health, employment, juve-
nile delinquency, recreation pro-
grams, and better race relations.
Every citizen should be interested
in these things, and every citizen
should be interested in and 1000
behind any agency that espouses a
program that covers all the afore-
mentioned fields of human welfare.
It is hardly necessary to say that
the Urban League has done an ex-
cellent and creditable job in these
and many other sociological fields
for over 35 years. There are local
affiliates of the National Urban
League in Sc cities throughout
these United States. Here in Phoe-
nix the local Urban League which
has been in existence for approx
mately three years is well on its
way to covering similar program,
fully and adequately-but we need
your help-you! you! and you!
Join now! or be sure and join
when the big membership drive
starts this month. 1t is an invest
ment in the future. It is an in
vestment in good citizenship! 1t
is an investment in America and
in American ideals-life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. A
fuller democracy.
We are still discussing employ
ment with the Telephone Com
pany. Your letters-you who are
subscribers will help. Tell them
you feel that Negro girls should
be employed as telephone opera
tors. They are elsewhere. Too,
the League office has referred IA
very capable girls to their office at
the invitation of the manager, Mr..
R. w. Grant, but as yet not one of
the girls have been hired. Yet,
everyday the company is still ex-
panding and advertising more op-
orators and girls to work in the
business office. We must make
this city a part of a true democ-
racy. America cannot advocate
abroad what it does not practice
at home. Your letters will help.
j. c. WILLIAMS,
Executive Secretary.
Arizona sun., 1946-10-11
sunshine"
BY Mrs. Nellie Maye Taylor

Hello there, here and every
where. Things are getting higher
and higher and much higher aren't
they? I just wonder how high is
up. Up where? Oh we'll up any,
where. Especially where prices
will stop. Everything goes up but
the poor folk wages unless we
strike for them. Then the other
folk say, they should be ashamed
to strike, like that. People are
never satisfied the Creator who
made us, can't please us. Now if
that be true and it is true-we can
never be pleased with the same
thing. Scientists have proven that
there are no two people alike. 1t
is said that Paul Robson insulted
the President of the United States,
during his visit to the White House
on last Monday. He demanded that
the President do something about
those horrible lynchings. "The
temper of the Negro is changing,
Mr.. President. Negro war veter-
ans, particularly, who fought for
freedom, want to know that they
can have freedom in their own
country. If they can't have pro-
Arizona sun., 1946-10-11
Veterans Can Now
Buy Fabricated Steel
Fence and Posts

Three and a half million steel
fabricated fence and anchor posts,
which cost the government $1,031,-
$50 were offered for sale today by
the War Assets Administration as
war surplus material.
The sale will last through Oc-
tober ii for certified World War
II veterans and other priority buy
ers and what remains after that
will be made available to the gen.
eral public.
The sale will prove particularly
attractive to farmers, ranchers,
the Hardware trade, to building
contractors, railway companies and
public utilities.
Up for sale are one million an
Arizona sun., 1946-10-11
Miss Evelyn Burwe|I
To Appear Here Al
Williams Field

Miss Burwell, talented pianist
singer will appear in Concert at
Williams Field, Sunday afternoon
at 4 pm.
Bus leaves at 18th and Washing
ton at pm, will return immedi-
ately after the concert. There
will be another bus leaving at 7
pm. for those wishing to go out
for the Sunday night dance.
The public is cordially invited to
come out and hear Miss Burwell,
singing and playing anything from
Bach to Boogie."
Miss BurWell who before enter
ing her colorful career in the the
ater, was a music teacher in the
Winston-Salem, N. c., the home of
Mrs. Weems who is hostess at Will
liams Field, and by their reunion
of old friendship was able to get
Miss Burwell to appear at Williams
Field.
Arizona sun., 1946-10-11

chored drive type posts, feet high,
100000 drive type posts 2 feet s
inches high and 100000 fence
drive type posts 5 feet high. The
posts are fabricated from re-rolled
steel, channelled and Hanged and
contain slots in their sides for wire
stringing.
1t was pointed out that the
fences can be welded together to
any desired height.
The minimum purchase require
ments are 5000 worth for World
War II veterans and other priority
buyers; one carload each for
wholesalers and large retailers,
and 5000 worth for small retailers.
Purchasers may be made thru
any regional WAA office. The
fence posts may be inspected at
the Barstow Depot Annex be-
tween 9 am. and 4 pm, Mondays
through Fridays.