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Evening star., 1947-02-09
Keep to the Right
By the Req. W. L. Darby d. D.,
District Secretary OF the American Bible Society

is truth well worth remembering,
as we seek for help and guidance to
learn and do what is right. Those Of
us who are Christians believe we
have found the right way in Jesus.
whom we accept as our Lord and
Master; but we follow Him all too
imperfectly.
An older book, which inspired many
millions, was the novel by Charles
Sheldon, I'm His Steps" The title
was taken from the Bible and its
primary purpose was to show what
might happen if people only took
Jesus seriously and tried to do what
He would have them do. Ours GER
tainly would be a different and q
better world, If we followed His
example. That book is not out of
date; it needs to be read by the
present generation.
In a recent sermon DR. Harry Emer-
son Fosdick said: There is an ever
lasting right to which our nations, our
business, our racial relationships, our
schools, o,Ar churches and our per-
sonal lives must be adjusted, II SAL
vation is to visit U.s." This is a very
comprehensive statement, but is it
not true? If so, that right should
control all OF life and all of our lives.
Abraham Lincoln believed this and
his life was governed by it. That is
why he could say in his great Gettys-
burg address: with firmness In the
right, as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive to finish the work
we are in" In trying times such as
these we need to hear those words
again and we need to heed them.
On beautiful wooded hilltop in
Northfield, Mass, lies the grave Of
Dwight L. Moody, the famous evange-
list and educator, and on his tomb
stone are these words of Scripture:
"He that doeth the will of God
abideth forever"
That will is always and eternally
right. Let us seek it earnestly and
prayerfully, so that we, too, may share
in that Divine inheritance.
Keep to the right" -
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Last Supper

The announcement that Leonardo
da vinci's Last Supper" finally has
disappeared from the refectory wall
in the church of Santa Maria dele
Grazie at Milan where he painted it
between 1894 and 1893 does not come
as surprise to those who saw it
there at any time in the past forty
years. 1t had been fading for a
century, and attempts to restore
it were of no avail.
OF course, the loss of any great
work of art Is tragedy. The
"Cenacolo" will be mourned espe-
cially because it was the grandest
achievement of perhaps the most
notable genius that ever appeared
in Europe. Other painters had at
tempted the same subject before
Leonardo; others tried it after him,
but none of them matched his
success. Even when the picture was
a mere ghost of its original self,
it remained indeScribably impress
sive. Thousands of pilgrims stood
before it in solemn silence. The fact
that it was mildewed, faxed,
blistered, badly resurfaced in spots
did not spoil its compelling appeal.
Leonardo certainly put his heart
into his endeavor unrese-vedly. The
countenance, the hands, the gesture
of the Saviour were conceived and
executed with reverence unexcelled
anywhere. He was shown at the
moment of His utterance OF the
fearful and awesome words: Zone
of you shall betray Mel" and the
Evening star., 1947-02-09
GETTING Healthier
m the Baltimore Sun

from the Baltimore ouH
Medical science has done miracles,
especially by means Of curative drugs.
in removing the danger from infectious
diseases which, speaking generally, are
the chief menace to children and the
younger groups. Recent figures from
Johns Hopkins reveal, for example, that
In eleven years the number of deaths
per 100 cases of pneumonia has dropped
from 81 to S, and between two world
wars. fatalities from epidemic menin-
gifts fell from 80 to per 100 cases.
Streptococcal infections. such as diph-
liberia, have in generation almost
ceased to be fatal. As the newborn
babies nearly all move into childhood,
so also, as a result of the victory over
the infectious diseases, more and more
of the young are moving into middle
and old age. Only the organic diseases,
such as heart failure. cancer and dia-
betes. usually the commitants OF later
life only, have increased their toll of
deaths.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Congress Street Church

The old Congress Street Methodist
Protestant Church a few weeks ago
was in danger of ceasing to be
religious institution. Unif1cation of
three hitherto separate Methodist
congregations in Georgetown re-
suited in its abandonment. There
was suggestion that the building
should be put to secular uses. Such
destiny for the ancient edifice
would have had tragic implications.
A solution of the problem was found
when a company of devoted follow
ers of Mary Baker Eddy offered to
buy the structure. Purchase having
been completed, Fifth Church of
Christ, Scientist, will hold services
at 1888 Thirty first street Northwest
beginning today.
Francis Asbury, the celebrated Wes-
leyan missionary preacher-bishop,
was one of the enlightened apostles
of practical Christianity, and the
discoverer of Christian Science was
another. The former was a sponsor
of the Congress Street Church in
1772; the latter set in motion the
worldwide fellowship which pre-.
serves it hundred and seventy-five
years afterwards. Both taught the
Bible as living source of power;
each believed in the capacity of
ordinary people to triumph over sin
and sorrow. What happens now is a
manifestation of the universal prin-
ciple of continuity.
Even those individuals who care
nothing for metaphysics should re-
joice in such development. The
only discernible alternative to faith
in processes of survival is blind,
fatalistic acceptance of death and
destruction as starkly triumphant
realities. It was as a working monu-
ment of Christian doctrine that the
Congress Street Church was organ
lied and built, and it is in that guise
and to that consecrated objective
that 1t will continue. Over against
the turmoil of the earth and the
suffering of it's inhabitants, this
may seem relatively small achieve
ment. For its symptomatic value,
however, it is richly important.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

This Is the rule Of the road, as
every motorist knows. It generally
Is obeyed on our highways, for If
1t were not the toll of traffic fatali-
ties would be far greater than even
the present tragic total. Drivers
realize that so many lives are at
stake and so much property is In
volved that usually they are careful;
otherwise somebody pays the penalty
for an accident and often that is
heavy.
But when people use the sidewalks
of the city they appear to be in
different to this rule, so that getting
through the crowds and across the
streets sometimes is difficult. Why
should not pedestrians keep to the
right also? That certainly would
make walking easier and more pleas
ant for their fellow men.
X x%
This rule has its moral aspects as
well, and they are of tremendous i'm
portance. One reason for both World
Wars was the view of certain Euro
pean leaders that might makes right
For them moral principles had little,
If any, weight. Wherever they are
now we can only hope that they know
better by this time!
In periods of confusion and uncer-
tainty men everywhere need this in.
junction. Each one of us should be
asking himself, Am T on the right
way of life and guided by right mo-
tives and principles?" If we are NOT,
let us quickly search for the right
way and persevere until we find it.
The appalling increase of nervous
and mental disorders in our day. to-
gether with the worldwide problem
of juvenile delinquency, should lead
us to more serious thinking and
appropriate action. A little book
read recently will be of great value
to worried minds and troubled hearts:
it was written by DR.. Stanley Jones
and is entitled simply, "The Way"
In Survival" Phyllis Bottome says:
eve must not try to manipulate life;
rather we must find out what life
demands of us, and train ourselves to
fulfill these demands" Surely, this
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Virginia Poe

Just about a century ago Virginia
Poe died in the little cottage in
Fordham New York, which has
been preserved as her monument
and annually is visited by thousands
of admirers of the work of her hus-
band, the saddest yet certainly one
of the most richly gifted writer's ever
to arise in America. She was only
twenty-five when her life. ended;
she had been married at thirteen;
she had known more than her share
of poverty, illness and suffering. But
she was the heroine of romance as
notable in it's own way as those OF
Abelard and Heloise, Dante and
Beatrice, Petrarch and Laura.
In order to under:tand her
achievement, it is necessary to see
Edgar Allan Poe's production OF
poems, short stories, critical articles,
fugitive pieces as a whole. No man
in the history of letters conceivably
could have turned out such guam
titles of manuscript unaided. The
gossip about the perpetual intem-
perance of the author of this tre-
mendous volume of material is con-
tradicted by its size and weight.
Only forty when he laid down his
pen forever, he survived Virginia
only thirty-odd months. His best
creative period was the time between
1885 and 1847. During that span he
had Mrs. Maria Clemm, his aunt
and Virginia's mother, to take care
Of him, and Virginia herself to
give purpose and objective to his
labors. The devotion of both women
testifies to his merits. Hervey Allen,
in "Israfel," declares: aside from
his great art, his abiding tenderness
for Virginia must remain as his
Evening star., 1947-02-09
As q Whole
From the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
Labor management relations present
a problem today which needs to be
thought of as whole and attacked as
such. It can't be solved by chipping
away now and then and here and there
at its more troublesome angles. Con-
gress is not dealing with anything 50
comparatively simple as workers who
just want more money or ambitious la
bor leaders who abuse their power. It
is confronted with men and women
who can't shake of the dread Of unem-
plcyment at the same time that man
agement is plagued with labor scarcities;
with a labor movement racked by in
ternal rivalries and strife, and hurting
others as well as itself; with preserving
those delicate balances between the right
to quit and the right to work, between
the right to strike and the right to do
business between the right to organize
and the tyranny Of monopolies.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

greatest claim for . hold on the
average human heart"
Perhaps the pale, volet-eyed
child-wife will be remembered when
Poe's Raven" and Gold Bug" long
have been forgotten. The picture
of her lying in the tiny white bed
in the cold little Fordham cottage
with Edgar's coat around her and
her pet cat at her feet is a scene
which is instinct with Immortality.
1t has the qualities of such COM
pelling tableaux as ordinary people,
deeply sensitive as they indubitably
are, keep among their precious
traditions.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
From City Hall
By John w. Thompson, Jr.

IL FOllCc SIilcI I1dItcy SdlldIldll lldu
stood pat" on his shuttle of jobs among
his inspectors, he would have had the
complete backing of Commissioner John
Russell Young. Instead he gave way
to the political pressure they lined up
to get back their old districts. The
story is, though, that he told them this
was the last time they would do any
politicking against his decisions on pain
of being reduced in grade. Inspector, it
seems, is a rank held at pleasure of the
Commissioners and not subject to civil
service.
Diplomatic relations between En-
gineer Commissioner Gordon r. Young
and the National Capital. Park and
Planning Commission appear to be i'm
proving. Some bad feeling developed
over remarks by Gen. Young on Federal
planning contained in his 1928 200, 900
six-year plan for city development re-
leased last summer. 1t reached its
height in a bitter letter to Chairman
U. S. Grant, Sd, last fall over news
release put out by the planners after
a conference with Gen. Young and
Commissioner Guy Mason. According
: to the grapevine, things have improved
lot since then. Good.
- ~
Tom Brahany, member Of the District
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission, telephoned the District Building
the other day and asked the operator
for Mr.. John Russell Young. 1t must
have been new operator because she
said: What Department does he work
IMP"
How about the Naval Observatory
tract as a site for the new District
hospital center? Like Soldiers Home
and Columbia Institution for the Deaf
the land is already tax exempt and
hence would cause the city no money
pains
Whispers of interest in sales tax
in Montgomery County recently might
make things easier for District sales
tax. One of the objections to the tax
here has been the fear that Washington
would become an island of such taxa
ton in the overall Metropolitan Area.
For the first time in history the
District Commissioners have sent nom-
nations direct to the Senate for con-
frmation. They were three nomina-
tions for membership on the District
Redevelopment Land Agency. Two other
nominations by the President COM
plete the agency which is slated
to administer the $20000,O00 city
slum clearance program. Originally it
was planned to send all five names
from the White House. The require
ment for Senate confirmation OF the
Commissioners selections is written into
the redevelopment bill passed by the
last Congress
Did you know? Commissioner Guy
Mason once tried out for second base
with the Washington Baseball Club.
He said the company was "too fast"
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Also in Vancouver
From the Vancouver Province,

Visitors agree that Vancouver drivers
are among the worst. 1t is significant
that insurance companies have found it
necessary to increase public liability and
property damage rates because of the
mounting volume of accidents. 1t is en-
tirely in the hands of the motorists
whether these rates will be further in
creased. The task Of reducing the ap-
palling accident toll rests largely with
the man behind the wheel
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Towurd q Better City

With the appointment OF five
representative citizens to the Dis
trict Redevelopment Land Agency,
the way is opened at last for
concrete start on tie long-delayed
task of ridding the Nations Capital
of notoriously disgraceful slun con-
ditions. The men chosen for this
epochal undertaking, while lacking
in experience as builders, are busi-
ness and professional leaders who
will have the advantage of open
mindedness toward project that
too long has been embroiled in
controversy.
None of the five has been identi-
fed with either the public housing
versus private housing debate which
marked consideration of the legisla-
ton at the Capitol and which nearly
blocked final agreement on the pro-
gram at the previous session of Con-
gress. Mark Lansburgh and James
E. Collif1ower are successful busi-
neSsmen, George A. Garrett is prom
inent in the financial field, Richard
r. Atkinson is colored lawyer and
civic leader and Edward A. Dent is
District assessor and, as such, an
authority on land values in Wash
ington. All have demonstrated their
deep interest in making the Capital
a better city in which to live and
work.
The new agency will have an
unprecedented opportunity to ad-
vance the city toward this desirable
goal. Before it can start its work,
however, Congress must appropriate
the S2OO0O,00O which the agency is
authorized to spend in eliminating
unhealthy and unsightly areas now
blighting some of the older parts
of the community. And before the
agency can make use of this money
it must receive from the National
CAPITAL Park and Planning Com
mission and the District Commits
sioners specific slum clearance and
redevelopment proposals. The areas
to be improved will be selected by
the planners and submitted to the
Commissioners for approval The
Commissioners then will hold
hearing, on the basis of which the
final action will be taken at the
Distr..cc;5 Building.
Once the particular project has
received the green light in this way,
the Redevelopment Agency will pro-
ceed' to carry out the enterprise
under a procedure which, by con-
gressional edict, gives private in
dustry an edge over public housing
In winning a contract for the job.
In order to qualify for such con-
tract, the public agency must of1er
terms so much more advantageous
than those of private builders that
the public interest would suffer il
the bid were rejected. Moreover,
public housing bids are restricted
to projects intended for the so-called
lower fifth of the population. as
judqed by net family income. This
is the type of construction likely
to be least interesting to private
industry.
This whole program gives hope
that before many more years have
passed the Capital City will have no
cause to be ashamed of alleys and
streets which now are social and
economic sore spots in an otherwise
progressive community.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
No Tit-Bits for Tourists
q, ,,,sInn Daily Herald

From the London Daily Herald
The British people themselves expect
the government to stick to its pledged
policy of first things first" and to re-
lax controls on the hotel trade only as
and when the interests Of the whole
community permit such relaxation. The
government is doing what it can for
the hotels; but the possibilities are linn
tied. This great country's effort to safe
guard It's citizens by careful rationing
and controls Is a far better advertise
ment for British prestige than could bs
obtained by the reservation OF tasty
tid-bits for tourists.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

Geologists tell us there are sixty
six active volcanoes in the world.
This does not include either Mr..
La Guardia or Mr.. IckeS.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

Few citizens among our 140 900 900
ever get as much applause in their
whole lives as does a man who flubs
an easy question on radio quiz.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Old Custom Revived

From the Cleveland News.
With the big break in dairy prices, the
con gentry is understood to have gone
back to doctoring the brick to look like
Evening star., 1947-02-16

VOU do not pay any yearly subscription fee as
l. member of the Book -of-the-Month Club Yoa
simply pay for THE particular books yo3 decide to take
and you may take as few as four books-of-the-
month in any twelve-month period. The Clubs
judges are sure to choose least four books each
year you will be anxious not to miss reading.
Since the books you take from the Club are only
those yox uoxld bxy anyay the saving is extraordi-
nary. The amount you pay for the book-of-the-
month is the regular retail price-frequently less:
"a small charge is added to cover postage and
other mailing expenses Yet itb every second book
ettbe-montb yoa take yox reeeiDe-free-one Of tbe
Ckxb's book-dividendS These are beautiful library
volumes, sometimes two-or-three volume sets,
sometimes highly popular best-sellers. Last year,
Evening star., 1947-02-16
You month ANYwAY-w not get them
from the Club PAY

the retail value of the free books Club members
received was in excess of $40, ,O0O-these
were given, not sold!
This is how the system works. you receive
careful bre-txbieafiom report about each book-of-
the-month, and at the same time reports about all
other important new books. Whenever you decide
you want the book-of-the-month, you let it come.
want or simply write, Send me nothing next
month"
Thus, you keep yourself well-informed abort all
the new books you get only those you want, you
often pay less for them, and-on top of that-on
the average you get at least 5oss more books for
the money you spend than you otherwise would.
prices are slightly higher in Canada)
Evening star., 1947-02-16
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Evening star., 1947-02-16

THE indispensable in every home library is of course
Shakespeare In this Library Set you will hnd
handsomely presented every Comedy and Tragedy he
HAMLET MACBETH, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE ROMEO AND
JULIET MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM and all the Others every
a person loves and reead in of leisure
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-26
Many Dead In Typhoon-Ravaged Philippines
Continued from Page One)

tCOntlnueu rom Fage One) the Norwegian motor vessel Sam uel Bakke, which was aground it. self but managed to pull free.
 The Bakke radioed that it had picked up five survivors, all from the Kina's crew. It added there were more survivors" but did not say whether they were passen- gers.
 The Steamship line reported the passenger list included thre e American WAC's, three married couples and three children.
 Manila, which escaped damage from previous blows the past few months, was caught directly in the center of this one.
 A report to the Chinese Com mercial News from isolated TacIo- ban on Leyte Island said 70 per cent of the business district of that city has been wiped out by fire which whipped through the town on the wings of the typhoon.
 Preliminary reports of the Ma nila police listed three killed here and II injured The city's trans portation system was completely disrupted and the power, light and telephone services operated on a limited emergency basis.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-26
U. s. Builds Many Fishing Vessels; Catch Is Same

ASHING TON, (A) - The United States is producing about four times as many fishing boats as before the war but fish produc- ton is much the same, the fish and wildlife service has stated.
 E. A. Power, commercial fisher ies Statistician, said l,156 vessels of five net tons or more received their first papers as fishing craft during the first 10 months of 1947. He predicted the total by the end of the year will be 1900.
 "This is nearly four times the pre-war rate of 300 or $50 new fishing boats year." power told a reporter.
 "Yet the total fish catch is about at the pre-war average of 4,4O0,- 100000 pounds a year."
 Power said that during the war the government requisitioned TOO fishing vessels and imposed re- strictions which limited the opera tion of the remaining boats.
 Hence, he said, the industry was unable to benefit from the rise in the nations food-consumption rate which saw meat consumption in crease from 125 to 150 pounds per boats withdrawn from service are not available, and so the total size
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-26
Old Timer Dies In Washington

SEATTLE, (R - Mrs. Florence D. Brown, 80, a longtime Alaska resident who first went north in the gold rush days of '98, died Wednesday at her home at Zenith.
 Mrs. Brown lived in Fairbanks until 1943 when she moved to Zenith.
 She was a member of a number of organizations in Fairbanks, in cluding the Golden North Rebekah Lodge, of which she was past mo- ble grand; the Midnight Sun Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, and the Pioneer Women of Alaska. She was also a member of the Fairbanks Episcopal church.
 Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Helen Dietrichs, Zenith; a niece, Mrs. Leota Walker, Bellevue, and a nephew, T. A. Dietrich, Zenith. Funeral services will be held to- morrow.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-26

of the fishing fleet is not known. capita per year. ~
 Poor postwar runs of salmon and pilchard on the Pacific coast have further retarded the industry, he added. The annual pilchard catch of 25O,OOO,OOO pounds year compares with pre-war production of a billion pounds.
 Power said statistics on old