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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

Mental health, long a stepchild
of medicine, was taken under the
paternal arm of Uncle Sam when
the Senate "okayed" a House APP
proved bill appropriating $780,
900 for an institution for research
on causes, prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of mental disorders.
It's considered a start on a nation
al health program.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
JOBLESS

Employment during May reached
the highest peak in history, accor-
ding to the Census Bureau. 1t re-
ports that 55,320,00 % had jobs,
which is 100000 more than the
previous high mark, reached in
July, 1945, in the middle of the
war.
The Bureau said 100000 peo-
Pile are jobless now, but it's figure
on unemployment does not agree
with those of the Social Security
Board and the Veterans Admin
istration, which are much higher.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
Free Use of Uncle Sans Uniform

When you see a n American army uniform in foreign countries, it
does not always mean that the man wearing it is an American soldier,
q ScrppS Howard writer pointed out.
y Our C. l." uniforms, he said, are worn by the French army in
Germany, by many of Chang Kaishek's troops in China, by London
Poles and Balkan refugees"
He could have added that U. S. uniforms are worn by the Dutch
soldiers who IRE fighting the natives in Java.
Usually, the foreign troops wearing these uniforms are also armed
with American weapons.
In many cases, such IS the Chinese and Dutch, they were trained
by American officers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
BRITISH BOOST O

Great Britan's concentration on
its export trade is producing re-
suits. A dispatch from London re-
veals that in the first year after
VI day, exports had been built up
to th~ree-fourths of the pre-war
volume.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

1--WE are laundering into a war
with Russia" declared Robert M.
Hutchins, youthful chancellor of
the University of Chicago.
1.-THE foreign policy upon which
the United States has embarked is
pure folly and it will end in dis
a~ster," the famous educator in
sisted.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

Brains don't always pay off, but common sense usually does.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Among the Bridge PLAYERS
By Fropk B, Lord

ton B-North and South, Mrs. Dora
Schwartz and j. G. Fletcher, first:
David Murray and A. I. Helm, sec
ond; Mrs. j. D. Boyd and Kenneth
Boyd, third. East and VEST. D.
Boyd and Comdr. w. A. Poissant,
first; j. r. Moore and w. s. Bene-
dict, second; j. G. Stone and Comdr.
]. j. Parish, third.
At the Euclid street studio the
August master point game was won
by James G. Stone and Lewis Tubbs.
Mrs. Mariana Boschan and Mrs.
Sybil Newlands were second and
Mrs. Katherine Mooreman and Capt.
Russ McGhee, third. In Wednes-
days game at the same place, win-
ners were Miller Roberts and Russell
r. Belt, first; Mrs. Marian Campbell
and Arthur Lane, second. Fridays
game was won by Capt. and Mrs.
Karl Itkin with Mrs. Edith Fink
and Mrs. Mildred Linderman second.
The Cumberland Valley tourna-
ment which was held at the Ward
man Park Hotel here during the
war years has been returned to it's
home grounds at Frederick, Md,
and Is scheduled for September 20,
81 and %. Its program includes
women's and mems pair game and
open pair match and team of four
contest. William Cheeks has been
designated by the ACBL, under
whose auspices It will be held. to act
as manager. 1t. Col. Russell J..
Baldwin of Washington will bs
tournament director.
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teenth street. which is today in the
heart of the city.
Lafayette's welcome in Alexan-
dria-where he arrived on October
16-was part OF the entertainment
accorded .him by the District OF Co
lumbia, since tl1b historic city was
then a part Of the 10-mile square,
and here he was received amidst
the shouts and welcome Of thou
sands Of voices" as he was escorted
through the town. The women, al
ways as loyal and enthusiastic as
the men, filled the windows on the
line OF march, being dressed In their
best attire as they waved "their
handkerchiefs to the veteran as he
passed in token of their participa-
ton in the joy manifested by the
multitude in the Streets
From here he went to Mount Ver-
non, where most touching scene
was enacted, for, we are told
After remaining a few minutes in
the house, the general proceeded
to the vault, supported by Mr..
Lewis and the gentleman relatives
OF the Judge and accompanied by
G. w. Lafayette and G. w. Gusts,
the children of Mount Vernon, both
having shared the paternal care of
the great chief.
when they arrived at the sepul-
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quarters. One of the children, be-
cause Of his parents illness, his
own illness and inability to find a
home, has always lived away from
his family in a children's home.
This will be the first chance to live
with his people in a house of his
own.
Mothers of big families no longer
brag about them. They lie about
them. They tell landlords their
families are small in order to find
a place to live, and risk eviction
when the truth is discovered. Chill
dren aren't too popular with land
lords. Children may be destructive,
noisy, they may cause complaints
and be expensive to property. A far
sighted landlord may see their fu-
ture value as citizens. But he has
his economic interests to consider
ard is motivated by the pressure
OF near-sighted tenants who aren't
interested in future citizens. Don't
blame the landlord-blame the
pressures upon him.
The problems Of doubled-up fam
lilies can be pretty serious and there
will be an estimated six and a half
million Of these by 1o47, with WASH
ington having It's share. Suppose
you are Aunt Susy or Uncle Ned,
living snug and comfortable with
your family of grown children, and
along comes q nephew with his wife
and two youngsters to stay a week
while they hunt new quarters, their
home having been sold over their
heads.
You try to be cordial, even II you
don't feel that way. You make your
daughters double up and put your
four visitors in the youngest girls
room. But the week becomes a
month, the month q year!
Your unwelcome visitors live, cook
and sleep in that one room. You
don't charge them rent, you're
hoping each day they'll leave. You're
so mad over your plight you forget
theirs-how 1t must feel to live, eat
and sleep in one room in q home
where you're not wanted. Your
nephew makes too much for low-cost
housing ($1,5 500 with two dependent
minor children, 81 800 with three or
more) and he isn't q veteran or a
Evening star., 1946-08-18

suite were escorted by this fine
company (the Elk Ridge troop hav-
ing taken leaye) to Rossburg,
which place they reached about 10
o'clock at night, having been Joined
at Evansville by Capt. Snowdon's
company Of rinenen mounted. The
general lodged At Rossburg Hotel,
where preparations had been made
for his comfortable accommoda-
ton. ~ Jf {
About 8 o'clock on Tuesday
morning the general and suite left
Rossburg, escorted as before, with
the addition of Capt. Clarke's COM
pany of Prince Georges rif1emen,
also mounted, and proceeded to the
District Of Columbia, at the line
OF which he was met by the COM
mittee of arrangements from the
City of Washington and a number
OF Revolutionary officers, escorted
by Capt. Andrews handsome troop
of city cavalry and Capt. Dunlop's
company Of Montgomery cavalry.
Here the Committee of Arrange
ments from Baltimore took leave and
returned homeward. The meeting
of the general with his Revolution
ary compatriots and with the COM
mittee was affectionate and impress
sive in the extreme. After many en-
braces were exchanged, the general
was transferred to the elegant
landeau provided by the city for
his use, drawn by four fine grays, In
which he was accompanied by Mai.
Gen. Brown and Commodore Tingey,
member of the committee, and his
son, George Washington Lafayette:
his secretary and Mr.. Custls of
Arlington, who were placed in an
other carriage provided for the pur-
pose
Evening star., 1946-08-18

Washington's contingent of play
ers in the 10th tournament Of the
ACBL at Brooklyn was the largest
It has ever lad, but none was able
to capture any prizes in the world
and national championship contests.
In daily events which made up the
agenda, Washington contestants
were more successful. DR.. and Mrs.
A. J. Steinberg won master points
In the two-session st. George pair
matches; Mrs. Doris Vosberg and
Mrs. Breckenridge Long made top
score in one OF the open-pair events,
while William Cheeks, playing with
three different partners, took the
prize in four Of these open pair
special games.
1t. Col. Russell j. Baldwin of
Washington was tournament di-
rector. Al Sobel of New York, floor
manager; George Goff Of Chicago,
official scorer, and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Cheeks Of Washington
were in charge of entertainment and
publicity.
Results at the Federal League
pair game on Tuesday night were:
In section A-North and South,
Miss Serena Kramer and Miss Ann
Charest, first; Mrs. Eva Klein and
Mrs. Katherine Mooreman, second:
Mrs. H. q. Campbell and Leo Kersh-
enbaum, third. East and West
Ralph Webber and Dr.. H. j. VAN
dersluis, first; Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Mcintyre, second; Miss Lola Penn
yan and Walter Mobley. third. Sec
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Artillery Salute
Welcomed Him Here

"A national salute from the ar
tinery of Capt. Burch's company Of
artillery, posted on Maryland
avenue, announced the generals ar
rival at the line of the city, which
was followed by national salutes
from the Navy Yard and the mill
tary arsenal. the last of which was
from field pieces captured during
the Revolutionary War at Ben
nington, Saratoga and Yorktown.
On rising to the extensive
plain which stretches eastward from
the Capitol to the Anacostia River
the general found himself In front
Of the most brilliant military spec
tacle which our city ever witnessed,
being a body of 1900 troops COM
posed entirely of volunteer COM
panies of the city"
These figures were later changed
to 1,500 troops. OF course, there
were the usual number OF delega-
tions on hand to extend invitations
to the distinguished guest to visit
their respective towns. Naturally.
Alexandria and Georgetown were
represented and replying to the
invitation extended by the commit
tee from the latter place, he said
that Georgetown was an old ac-
quaintance Of his, where he had
found many valuable and esteemed
friends, and said he would visit
there with great delight.
The Franklin Hotel, then at the
northeast corner Of Twenty first and
I streets at its junction with Penn
sylvania avenue. was selected by
the Citizens Committee as the stop
ping place for the notable guest and
his son and secretary. After the
ceremonies at the Capital, in which
he was oficially received by the
mayor OF the city, Roger G. Weight
man, he called on the President ut
the White House, where liberal re-
freshments" were served, and he
later repaired to his hotel, where q
dinner was given In his honor TO-
Evening star., 1946-08-18
BY John CIoeett Proctor

popular movement than that which
the visit of Gen. Lafayette has pro-
duced. There is nothing in his
tory which can compare with it.
All hearts are moved by the same
impulse; there is but one mind
among people of 100000.
ut is needless for us to offer to
the welcome guest the expression of
our feelings on this occasion. They
are in full accord with those of the
whole country"
1O-Verse Poem
Dedicated to Visitor
The country had its poets then
just as it has today, and in 1924
Grenville Mellon wrote a 10-verse
poem dedicated to the visitor.
Regarding his arrival In this city
we are told:
Gen. Lafayette arrived in the
City of Washington, according to
previous arrangements, about l
o'clock on Tuesday. He left Balti-
more on the afternoon of Monday,
with his son and secretary, accom-
panied by part Of the Baltimore
Committee of Arrangements, Col.
Dickerson and Col. Lloyd. the aides
of the Governor of Maryland, and
escorted by Capt. Hollingsworth's
handsome cavalry company Of Grays
from Elk Ridge. Fourteen or Is
miles from Baltimore, at O'Clock
in the evening, they were met by
the 1st Bladensburg troop Of cav
airy, commanded by Capt. Sprigg
Qate Governor Of the State OF
Maryland, and the general and
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Lafayette Was Here

A S we look backward over q
~ period of LAG years, or since
n the District of Columbia
first became the seat of the
Federal Government, we find that
many foreign personages of special
rank and distinction have visited
the Capital City and have been
shown every courtesy and consid-
Grafton our Nation could afford
Just one alone, Gen. Lafayette,
stands out supremely first, so far
as our genuine love, affection ano
appreciation is concerned. No Wis
itor to these United States has ever
been received and entertained so
fully and completely as this great
patriot and soldier, who visited this
country during 1824-5.
When Lafayette-or Marie Jean
Roch Yres Gilbert Motier, Marquis
de Lafayette, to give him his full
name and title-first came to this
country at the age of 20, he left be-
hind young and devoted wife,
whom he had married when he was
but Is; baby son, and even the COM
forts of royalty, to cast his lot with
the struggling Colonies in their war
for independence and American lib
erty. When he returned In 1924 he
was an old man with but 10 more
years to live.
In his own country, the career of
this distinguished Frenchman was
every bit as notable as it proved to
be in America, ever fighting for the
rights Of the people, ever ready to
partake of the bitter with the sweet
for the sake of humanity.
Eighteen hundred and twenty-four
was the last year of the adrninistra-
tion of President James Monroe.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
General Game Over
On Merchant Ship

On July 13, 1924, he embarked at
Havre for this country in the
American merchant ship Cadmus
Capt. Francis Allyn commanding
accompanied by his only son
George Washington Lafayette, and
his private secretary, Col. A. Levas-
seur. The Cadmus reached New
York Oh August Is and on the fol-
lowing day he was officially re-
ceived. From that time on until
he left our shores for France. he
was lavishly entertained everywhere
he went-and he went everywhere.
At Baltimore, Lafayette went first
ashore at Fort McHenry, where he
was soon taken to the tent used by
Gen. Washington during the Amer
lean Revolution.
On one side of the tent was
mounted French cannon and on
the other side an American cannon
both Of which were used in the
siege of Yorktown.
This same tent was used a few
days later in the exercises In this
city outside the Capitol. LAFAYETTE
walked under it upon leaving the
rotunda of that building. It has
been in the National Museum since
1888, having been transferred there
from the Patent Office.
The visit of Lafayette to the Dis.
trict Of Columbia was looked for.
ward to with keen interest and
pleasure. the Intelligencer tell.
us that in its issue of October u
the day he was escorted into thu
city:
Let us this day." it says, "or
which we are to receive in thu
Capitol the guest of the American
people, be secured to harmony
gratitude and universal pleasure
Never was there on any occasion 9
more emphatically spontaneou.
Evening star., 1946-08-18

war worker. Without priorities, he's
another forgotten man. You have
to remember him, no one else does.
But the Chest gives him a hand
through the Family Service Asso-
ciation. Sometimes they induce him
to take on second job and this
gives him sufficient income to ven-
ture to buy small house.
Evicted Families
With No Place to Go
An evicted family these days is
like the leftover man in the Going
to Jerusalem" game. That's how
the family OF seven felt when they
asked help from the welfare depart
ment Of the American Legion. The
illness of the breadwinner, World
War II veteran, prevented his pay
ing back rent and after some months
he was put out. The agency helped
the family with a food allowance.
and after they'd lived around with
friends while a relative opened his
four-room dwelling and II people
doubled themselves into it. The
Legion is trying to do something
more for this family In the way of
medical care and permanent public
relief.
A veteran with his wife, and six
children arrived with all their be-
longing from distant State, hav-
ing heard Of job opportunities here.
Most OF their money was spent in
travel and they soon had to ask help
OF the Travellers Aid. Nineteen dol
lars day for family of eight isn't
so much to pay considering inflated
food costs and room rent. The min
imum standard of living budget used
by Chest agencies hasn't been ad-
Vanced along with rising prices. In
fact it sometimes has had to be
pared down because of needed funds.
With no place to cook and none
IN which to do the family laundry
this family had to eat in restau-
rants which added to the expense
and the wife ironed her husbands
shirts on the floor to make him pre-
sentable for job hunting. When the
family found a furnished house at
500 q month the agency paid half
OF = months rent and felt it was
saving money. If the mans job ma
terializes he'll try to pay back some
thing. Meanwhile-there he is with
dependent wife and children-and
no cash. He's one Of many transient
veterans who think the District a
mecca for employment and Congress
an employment agency.
More and More Families
Are on the March
People are on the march. You see
them on the road, whole families
trying to thumb a ride or bumbling
along in worn-out cars. They come to
Washington because their Govern
ment is here, and they believe their
Government can solve their difficult
ties. Millions were on the move
after the last war. Millions will be
after this.
Single people and elderly couples
have little chance to secure an
apartment or house, not even a Gold
Star mother of this war, widow of a
World War veteran, living in one
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only II per cent Of these placements
were in dwelling units, the rest were
in sleeping rooms, though by far the
greatest number of applicants
wanted homes. A need for $4,000
new dwellings in the District for
veterans alone is estimated by the
D. c. Emergency Housing Commit
tee. And since January Is, veterans
priorities have been tightened all
along the line.
The effort of the housing shortage
is to magnify family problems. In
creased mental strains, divorce,
separation. juvenile delinquency,
and disease trail the homeless. At
time when agencies have less be-
cause of the low 1916 campaign yield,
rising prices and lack Of housing
increase the cost of helping the
needy. Agencies, short Of staff, are
piled with desperate pleas to find
homes. And that's like hunting
four-leaf clovers. The present va
cancy rate in Washington Is four
tenths of one per cent. Five per
cent is normal.
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for he was to retire on the following
March 4. He was very desirous of
having Lafayette visit this country
before his term expired and had
written the general several letters
upon the subject, the last invitation
being Of such q cordial and pressing
character that 1t could not easily
be declined. Here Is the Presidents
letter:
Washington City,
February Oath, 1924.
MY Dear General:
Il wrote you letter about Is days
since, by Mr.. Brown, in which /
expressed the wish to send to any
port in France you should point out
frigate to convey you hither, in
case you should be able to visit the
United States. Since then Congress
has passed resolution on this sub
Ject, In which the sincere attach
ment of the whole Nation to you is
expressed, whose ardent desire is
once more to see you amongst them.
The period at which you may yield
to this invitation is left entirely at
your option, but believe me, what
ever may be your decision, it will be
sufficient that you should have the
goodness to inform me of it, and
immediate orders will be given for a
Government vessel to proceed to any
port you will indicate and convey
you thence to the adopted country
OF your early youth, which has al
ways preserved the most grateful
recollection of your important serv-
ices. I send you herewith the reso-
luton of Congress, and add thereto
thee assurance of my high consider
alton and of my sentiments of affec-
ton. JAMES MONRoEn
Though accepting the invitation
vet Lafayette declined the offer of
Congress to send a frigate to con-
vey him across the Atlantic, pre-
ferring to come here at his own
expense
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Congress Gave Him
100000 and Land

NO oOubt one OF the most interest
ing of all the events occurring here
during his stay was the dinner given
him by Congress at Williamson's
Mansion House-site of the New
Willard-on the evening of January
l, 1925.
Just few days before this dinner,
Congress passed bill giving to La
fayette outright 100000 and one
township Of land. When one con-
sidered the great sacrifices made by
this most useful man, his inestima-
BILE benefit to the cause of liberty,
together with the fact that during
his services In the Revolutionary
War he had expended an amount
equal to $4,000, one can see that
the bill as passed was only Just and
proper one.
To show the true worth Of the
man, Senator Robert Y. Ffayne
pointed out that in 1903 Congress
made grant of 1880 acres of land
to Gen. Lafayette and that later it
granted to the corporation of the
City of New Orleans a space of 600
yards around the Notifications of
that city, including a valuable por-
ton Of the very land which had
been previously entered by the gen.
eral-of an estimated value of $780,
900.
1t was not until December 8, 1925,
that Lafayette sailed down the Ches-
apeake in the U. S. frigate Brandy
wine, sad at heart in leaving be-
hind his multitude of friends ii the
United States, but, on the other
hand, longing to see his children,
grandchildren and great-grandchild
back on the LIE Grange estate in his
beloved France.
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ward evening and where he de-
livered one of his famous toasts
The City of Washington: The GEN.
tral star of the constellation which
enlightens the whole world" At the
Capitol had been placed a civic arch,
and here it was that Miss Sarah NJ
Watterson, on behalf of the people
OF the District, delivered to Lafay-
ette an address of welcome.
At night there were fireworks and
many private buildings were illum-
mated, conspicuous among which
was the old Columbian College, then
in its infancy and located on the
west side of Fourteenth street, few
blocks north of Florida avenue.
Indeed, the marquis put in a full
day being entertained by the peo-
pie OF the District of Columbia.
Georgetown, Alexandria
Also Held Ceremonies
From the 9th of October, 1924,
until early in December, 1925, La
fayette was in and out of Wash
ington at various times. In the
first few days he visited Tudor
Place, Arlington; Col. Cox, Mayor
OF Georgetown; Georgetown Col
lege, the home Of the Minister of
France. Judge Duvall, the Secre-
tary of State; the Caldwell house
at 206 Pennsylvania avenue and
the Navy Yard, where he dined at
the quarters of Commodore Tingey.
He also called on Secretary Craw-
ford land breakfssted with him at
his cottage residence in the coun-
try" which, strange as it may seem,
was then on the northwest corner
of Massachusetts, avenue and Four