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Evening star., 1946-11-10

The latter fix their own holidays
but usually follow q presidential
proclamation. After the war Is OFF,
cially ended the President may pro-
claim 4 single Victory Day OF
separate We and W. days for an
nual observance.
The dedication of. the Nations s
greatest shrine to its soldier dead,
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in Arlington National Cemtery, has
helped to make November IL an
impressive date on the American
calendar. The Unknown Soldier
was laid to rest on November II,
1921, just as years ago tomorrow.
Millions Of Americans have visited
the tomb.
Second Unknown Will Rest
Beside Hero of Last War
An unknown serviceman-soldier
sailor, Marine or Coastguardsman--
Of World War II will be laid to rest
beside the Unknown Soldier OF
World War I. Congress passed .
dill last June providing for the re-
turn OF the unknown serviceman
and for ceremonies paying him the
highest honors. Details as to how
he will be chosen are to be worked
out by the War Department.
He will be selected from $500 ur-
identified bodies from battlefields
around the world.
The Unknown Soldier Of World
War / vas selected from among
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Governor of District, 1884.

passed by the assembly and to over
ride this required two-thirds vote
of the presidential appointees Of the
upper house as well as of the lower
chamber.
If this failed to choke off any leg
islation desired by the people of the
District, Congress had reserved to
itself the right to repeal or modify
all acts of the legislative assembly
"in as ample manner as If this chap
ter had not been enacted"
Henry Cooke of Georgetown
Named Governor in 1871 -.
The first Governor appointed was
Henry David Cooke, a native OF
Ohio, then residing in Georgetown
He served from February %, 1871, to
September l3, 1873, when he re-
signed and was succeeded by Alex
ander Robey Shepherd, who served
from September Is, 1878, to June 20,
1874. Meanwhile, temporary COM
mission form of government had
been provided by Congress effective
July /, 1874. This was made perma-
nent in 1878 and continues to the
present time.
Whatever may be said against the
conduct of civic affairs in the Dis
trict from 1871 to 1874, President
Grant cannot be blamed for his
choices to fill the positions provided
for by Congress. For the Board of
Public Works he nominated S. P.
Brown, A. B. Mullett, A. R. Shepherd
and James A. Magruder, and, sub
sequently, to fill vacancies, Adolph
Cluss, Henry A. Willard and John
B. Blake. The law provided that
the Governor should be president
of this board, but when the members
met to organize Gov. Shepherd was
chosen vice president though no
such office was provided for by law,
and yet 1t was this fortunate move
that placed him in a position to
carry on the splendid work he did
The Governors Office, during the
three years this form Of government
lasted, was the building still stand
ing at the northwest corner of Penn
sylvania avenue and Seventeenth
street, and here the Board of Public
Works met and organized in May,
1871. Prior to this, during the Civil
War, the adjutant general and the
provost marshal general had their
Offices on this corner, and here
rcsses were issued to cross the Long
E--.;dge and continue through the
FEDERAL lines.
Names of Persons Serving
In Legislative Groups
For the Board of Health, the Pres
icent selected DR.. N. s. Lincoln,
father of Gould Lincoln Of The
Star, and one of the physicians who
attended President Garneld after ne
had been fatally wounded; DR.. T. S.
Verdi, H. A. Willard and John Mar
bury. AS vacancies occurred, the
President appointed DR.. C. C. Cox
and DR.. D. w. Bliss, who attended
President Garfield from shortly after
he had been shot up to the time he
passed away, September 19, 1881.
The Council of the First Legisia-
tive Assembly, as appointed by the
President, included William Stick
ney, who became the president;
A. x. Browne, Samuel Cross, Fred
erick Douglass, Daniel L. Eaton,
John A. Gray, George F. Gulick,
Adolphus Hall, Charles F. Peck,
Daniel Smith and John w. Thomp-
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Unattached Bulls Retire
To Herd by Themselves

Then the COWS arrive in May and
June. Usually within few days
after her arrival each female gives
birth to q pup, weighing about IL
pounds. Mating soon follows.
Seals are polygamous. Each bull
will have q hsrem Of about 10 which
he must protect from the unattached
bulls by fighting. The unattached
bulls which are driven away and
the young bachelor seals herd by
themselves away from the rookery
in what are known as hauling
grounds.
Because Of the polygamous nature
OF the males it Is possible to kill the
surplus males without affecting the
number of young that are born.
From the hauling grounds are Sc
lected the seals for killing. chiefly
3-year-old bachelors. They are
driven inland q short distance and
killed by q club blow on the head.
They can be driven almost as
easily as q flock Of sheep. although
more slowly. Stops are made lest
the animal get overheated, for If it
does its pelt will lose patches Of fur
later. Rainy or cloudy weather is
preferred for the drive and for the
killing, which is done under the di-
rection Of Fish and Wild Life serv-
ice personnel by Aleuts who live in
villages on the two islands.
The skins are removed, cured in
salt and then shipped to st. Louis
where the Government has a con-
tract with the Fouke Fur Co. for
dressing and dyeing the skins and
selling them at auction. In prewar
years buyers at the auctions repre-
sented furriers all over the world
The auctioneer does not chant like
the man at the tobacco auction, but
the buyer. when he bids on lot OF
skins, makes = sound more like the
bark Of q sea lion than anything
else.
Back in the Pribilofs the southern
migration of the seals begins in Sep
tember and once they leave the
islands they never touch land again
until their return the next spring.
They 60 as far south as Southern
California. The pups, the weary
wee flipperlings," accompany the
mother. who shows it where to look
for food and how to avoid the shark
and the killer whale and, possibly,
~ Kipling wrote in THE White
Seal" how to sleep "in the arms Of
the slow-swinging seas"
Seals Were Slaughtered
Heavily Until 1911
The herd was discovered when
Gerassim Pribilof, Russian naviga-
tor, discovered the islands in l786.
It's number then was probably 1000
900. The Russians killed seals and
took the pelts and in about 50 years
the herd was 50 reduced that the
killing was restricted.
When the United States bought
Alaska In 1867 the herd had in
Evening star., 1946-11-10
President Appointed Boards,
Members of Upper House

A Board of Public Works, COM
posed of the Governor and four
other persons, Board of Health
q legislative assembly and Dele
gate in the House of Representatives
were also provided for in the law.
The President appointed both
boards and Congress in providing
for legislative assembly of coun-
Gil of II members and House of
Delegates, consisting of ~ members,
gave the appointing power of the
entire upper branch of the assembly
to the President.
How this worked out one may well
imagine.
The Governor could veto all bills
Evening star., 1946-11-10
By John CIooett Proctor

* INCE the plebiscite Tuesday
49, showed for the second time,
and most convincingly, that
the people of the District do
want local and national suffrage. it
is interesting to recall the so-called
territorial government here between
1871 and 1874
The bill for the territorial govern
ment was approved by President
U, S. Grant on February 81, 1859.
More accurately. this bill consoli-
dated the entire area into a gov
ernmental unit called 1.-The District
of Columbia effective June /, 1871,
and provided also that at that time
the corporations of Washington and
Georgetown and the Levy Court of
the County of Washington, which
had jurisdiction over the portion
of the District which was outside of
these corporations, should no longer
exist as such.
The supposition was that this act.
was passed to quiet the clamor OF
the people for greater power over
their local affairs, for delegate or
spokesman in Congress, and for
other reasons. But Congress was
not as liberal or as just as many
thought it would be, for, in addi-
tion tn giving the President the
power of selecting the Governor
subject to confirmation by the Sem
ate-it likewise delegated to the
President the authority to select the
secretary of the municipality thus
created
Evening star., 1946-11-10
District SeIf-RuIe { Ended ii 1874

I Cor. Shepherd was maligned for
most everything he did Or did not
do. he did. undoubtedly. do many
things In & high-handed sort OF =
way. bat II was his disposition to
surmount eli obstacles IN whatever
he undertook to DO, and in this he
generally succeeded. especially while
hs was head q the Board Of Public
WORKS. 4
Gov. Shepherd Acted Boldly
TO, Surmount Obstacles
Il The story Of his removal OF the
Baltimore a Ohio Railroad tracks
from First street west, where they
had been laid and used as . military
necessity, but without warrant Of
law during the Civil War, has oft
been told. According to the late
|Dr.. william T1ndall. @this lire Of
track extended from the Long
Bridge at the southern terminus Of
Maryland avenue, along that avenue
10 First street west. then TO Indiana
avenue and thence to the Baltimore
q Ohio Railroad Station ut New
Jersey avenue and G street NV.
and obstructed the work Of improv-
inx the streets. When 1t is consid-
cred that Mr.. John w. Garrett, the
then president Of that road, was rs
influential in the political and
financial world at that time as J.
Pierpont Morgan In the height Of
his power, the audacity Of that act,
although In the discharge Of pub
lie duty, was . phase Of moral
grandeur" a... ,..
mot less decisive was the de-
struction of the old Northern Lib
erty Market House at the tntersec-
ton OF New York and Massachusetts,
avenues NV, where the Public La
brary Building nov stands.
TN both cases prompt action be-
came necessary by the imminence
of injunction proceedings which
might have indefinitely delayed the
progress of improvements. In fact,
the constant threat Of interference
by the courts or by Congress was
the stimulus to the feverish haste
with which all OF the work of the
Board OF Public Works was done
and leading cause Of its conse-
quent expensiveness for which the
board Is often reproached."
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frankly 1t wasn't known why the
seals make the Pribilofs their head
quarters. He suggested, however,
that one reason may be that the
sea around the islands provides an
abundance of food that seals like.
Some fish go North In the summer
and the seals may follow to feed
on them.
The first seals arrive at the tree
less, foggy islands in the spring.
They are the bulls. heavy. expert
enced and frequently well SCARED
from fights. A bull stakes out his
claim on the barren rocks and fights
OF other bulls and young bachelor
seals who. want to encroach- There
Is tremendous believing and roar
ing.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
By Froneis P. Douglas

~ Yards Of Uncle Sam which
NA/ produce the fur coats
wv which women prize most
highly are now more nu-
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Anmist;ee Day undimmed by Year,
By Alexander R. George

Nation tomorrow will OBJ
serve the 28th anniversary
of the end of q war which is
now oyershadowed by World
Evening star., 1946-11-10
CI,EVE AND. n.

CLEVELAND, n, g.
B ACK w OOD s school
teacher died here November
IS, 1876, and nova full
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

In jackson this week, mississippi thump-
ed for national recognition in the industrial
field with a state-supported advertising pro-
gram to hit every section of the country, a
wire service release from the State Capitol
revealed.
And in Jackson County, officials and civic
leaders moved to consolidate the gains of a
decade in the industrial field with increased
production and income for its farmers and
a truly balanced economy.
Jackson County led the state in its intelli-
gent acceptance of former Governor Hugh
Whites dream which became a program to
Balance Agriculture With Industry" in Mis-
sissippi. Our leaders Seized the opportunity
to industrialize with a determination and
foresight which predetermined the results
we enjoy today.
We were pleased and encouraged to see
that same spark kindled again Monday night
at the Moss Point Young Mems Business Club
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
Reckless Driving

overloaded with traffic, the amount OF taxi
cruising is abnormally heavy. All of these
conditions come into play in the school zones
several times a day when the children are
entering or leaving school, and result in a
very dangerous half hour We have been
lucky that there have been no serious acct
dents in recent weeks. But we ourselves have
seen enough narrow escapes to cause real
anxiety. The traffic situation is bad. We must
do something about it. Let us not look on
this as only another pious platitude which
we. agree to and then forget about. 1t is i'm
portant.
In brief, two things must be done. We, the
public, must do something outselves-we
must bring down the average speed of our
driving all over the city, and most particu-
larly in school zones and at intersections. We
must check our automobiles, and especially
the brakes. There are a great many one
wheel skid marks around own and we see
this evidence of faulty brakes every day
while driving. We are responsible, each of us
for his own machine.
The second thing that must be done is the
rigid enforcement of traffic regulations by
the police force. Where we fail as individuals
to meet this responsibility, the police must
bring us to book, and enforce the response
bility upon US, unpleasant though the medi-
cine may be. Nobody likes to be arrested and
fined. But nobody on the other hand likes to
be injured by an automobile, or to have a
child injured. OF the two alternatives, it is
better for some to feel the arm of law en-
forcement tapping them on the shoulder
than for others to experience greater and
more tragic shock in the city's streets.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

finding an answer when the high
school COY or girl asks. What
can | do tonight? l have seen all
the movies
Policewoman Milliken has
found two answers. One is ex
emplified in a public "hangout".
The Club-Teen lust opened in
Washington It's a model IF
what could be set up in eve~y
town in the United States. n
"drop-iE" place where there are
young books. young music and
young people. At night there's
always a dance. A soft drinks
and ice cream counter is a good
substitute for the corner drug
store. Inc Club-Teen belongs 10
them. Ctaperones don't seem to
ehaperone. A council of parents
finds special treats, Recently, Ra-
dio Singer Lanny Ross appeared
and sang his heart out for tie
youngsters. The autograph col
lectoIS were thrilled.
If Captain Milhken had her
way about il, there would be a
Club-Teen in every part of town
in every city in the United States,
But to her. even a Club-Teen is
no substitute for the neighbos-
hood hangout run mot obviously
by the parents in the neighbor-
hood-maybe in the big recep
ton rooms in orc of the homes
where 1--WE music can be screech-
ed and there is always something
10 do. 1t would 10 a place where
BOYS and girls can have a good
time together in the natural (and
protectivel atmosphere.
The meeting in Washington in
October will bring together the
top-minds on the subject of jul
venile delinquency.
Right now, some 500 men and
women of 10 federal agencies are
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
Plan For Rural Development

meeting and to know that some of the same
leaders in the industrial movement are just
as determined to fight the country's rural
development battle through the same success
sful conclusion. And we were pleased to see
the younger business men and citizens grasp
ing the magnitude of the task and showing a
foresight equal to that of their elders.
1t is pleasant to reflect on our accomplish
ments-to review and revel in the progress
we have made. Far be it from us to detract
one iota from the credit due the men who
are largely responsible for our prosperous
cities and large p~ayrolls. We just think that
the job is only half done, and we are glad
that the majority of business leaders agree.
Let us all show the same determination
and leadership in our fight for a creamery,
sweet potato processing plant, freeze lockers,
canning plants, and other rural developments
that was so effectively demonstrated in our
fight for industries.
The result will be worth the effort.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
laeWAsHlNCT
Club Teen Idea May Help
Solve Serious Situation

that the idea of becoming a ju-
venile delinquent has become
g%lamorized and desirable. Boys
and girls are intrigued to become
that awful thing their teachers
and parents rant about. They
even fafm juvenile delinquent
clubs as a defiant gesture said
this poiieeWoman.
She is often asked. what other
name can YOU call them?'
why call them anything
is her quick retort. adding, you
don't call grown-ups adult de-
linquents'." To her, they are
merely boys and girls with spec
ial problems.
The town itself creates some
of the problems. Washington is
no execution. Not a factory town
with a payroll or minors, the
capital has the biggest industry
in the world in the federal gov
eminent itself.
During the war, errand BOYS
AMI girls were paid as high as
81, 600 a We ir, more money than
maybe either parent hrd ever re-
ceived Those parents asked for
room and board money but when
they triea TO take more money
the children rebelled. Some left
home. Other l8-year-old lads,
with new money in pocket, strut
ted around night clubs and beer
joints.
Many o. delinquent cases conc
from a laek of definite program
Of activities TO KEEP the youngs
ter busy. They come from II
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

Editorials written against reckless driving
are so commonplace in American newspapers
that they make little more impression than
the usual sermon preached "agin sinP--to
quote the phrase of the late Calvin Collidge.
They are like an editorial against the man
eating shark"-said editorial being part of
the humorous shop-talk of newspapermen
the country over. There used to be a witty
old editor, whose name now escapes us, who
was once asked what type of editorial ne
wrote when to take either side OF a contro-
sial public issue would ALLEVIATE the other
side and lose friends and support for his
newspaper. "In that CASE he replied, after
reflection, Il don't take either side, but
simply write an editorial against the man.
eating shark" The man eating shark has no
partisans and defenders, of c~ourse-except
perhaps among 9th n nfan-eating sharks. But
these do not subscribe to newspapers.
Printing traffic editorials has become the
equivalent of writing against the man-eating
shark for many newspapers. So much SO, IN
deed, that people have learned to shrug them
off. They seem to have little effect. And this
is regrettable. For wien the speed of driving
begins to rise in a community, when reck-
lessness becomes infectious, when taxis and
private drivers go racing through school
zones. and there is a general relaxation of
traffic law enforcemcnt-the problem is a
great deal more real and serious than the
problem of the man-eating shark. And we
face that problem right now in Pascagoula.
This community is still crowded the school
load is still almost az heavy as it was during
the war; the town and the older streets are
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

each shoulder and one on the
shield in her left hand.
Thomas Crawford, the faith
ed of F. Marion Crawford, the
novelist, designed her in his
studio in Rome. He received
$4,000 for the plaster model
which was shipped to this coun-
try on April 10, 1858, on the
bark Emily Taylor"
The bark sprang a leak and
put in for repairs at Gibraltar.
Starting forth again, it sprung
more leaks. Some of the cargo
was tossed overheard. The bark
put in at Bermuda, where it
was condemned and sold.
Freedom began to arrive
from Bermuda in pieces. Part
of her came in December 1858.
Along about March 1859 the
last piece arrived. Then the
Civil War delayed the casting
of the statue in bronze by
Clark Mills, of Washington. :
Finally the great day arrived
for hosting the lady to the
top of the dome. AT noon, Dec.
2, 1863, the ceremony began.
The statue was in five sections.
Four had already been adjusted
to their place. The fifth was
the shoulders and head.
A special War Department
order, No. 248, provided that at
the moment the lady found her
head and a flag was unfurled
from the statue a national sa-
lutte of IS guns should be fired
from a field battery on Capitol
Hill.
When the last gun was fired
it was answered by a similar sa-
lutte from II forts surrounding
the city of Washington.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
Bronze Lady Of Capitol
Must Wait For Next Bath
BY JANE EADs

Washington. = Freedom, the
lady in bronze who looks off
to the east from the Capitol
dome, will have to wait un-
til 1913 to get cleaned up.
She had her first bath in
five years in 1874. David Lynn.
Capitol architect, says she isn't
entitled to another until year
after next. In normal times
she gets a going-over every
four years. 5
Freedom is 10 feet, six
inches high and weighs a
hefty l4,985 pounds. She is a
very expensive lady. She cost
$23, 796. 82, and this didn't in
eludc putting her in her place.
Most folks who've seen a rep
lica Of her at the Smithsonian
Institution or glimpsed her out
line against the sky don't think
she's very attractive. She is
sort of awkward and her head
gear would give even a mad
hatter the willies.
The lady holds a wreath and
a shield in her left hand. Her
right rests on the hilt of a
sheathed sword. She wears
flowing draperies with a
brooch at the waist bearing
the letters ~. s." holding the
draperies in place. On her
head a helmet is encircled with
stars and surmounted by a
crest composed of an eagles
head and what Mr.. Lynn des-
cribes as a bold arrangement
of feathers, suggested by the
costume of our Indian tribes"
As a protection from lightn-
ing, 10 bronze points, tipped
with platinum. r placed one
on the head, six on the feath-
ers in the headdress, one on
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
Washington's Police Lady
Views Delinquent Problem
Special to Central Press

Special to Central Press
Misunderstanding is be-
ing done, on a national basis,
about the sweeping increase in
Juvenile delinquency, always an
aftermath of war.
Behind the Delinquency
meeting called in October here in
Washington by the department Of
justice, is a new idea. Rather, a
collection of new ideas and con-
cepts from all parts Of the eoun-
try about the entire problem OF
wsyNard boys and girls.
1t is told well by the No.
policewoman of Washington. D.
C. Capt, Rhoda Milliken is the
police lady" She is a lady and
looks it. She doesn't wear a
uniform and if she carries a POI
hceman's club. il must be hid
den in her feminine handbag.
This police lady" is not hard.
boiled as a picnic egg, as might
be expected, but she can be firm
It takes frmness, with justice
to handle the more than sever
thousand delinquency cases ina
come to the Woman's Bureau ev.
cry year in our nations capitol.
As d beginning. Captain Mill
ken would stop the use Of the
words Juvenile delinquents.a
$50 many dire stories have
been written and told about id.