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Evening star., 1947-04-27
Miss Graba,n " ed
To Mr.. E. w. Lego

In the Lincoln Chapel of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Miss Carol Hawthorne Graham,
daughter OF Mrs. Blanche c. Graham
Of Carlisle, Pa, became the bride
yesterday Of Mr.. Edward Warren
Lego, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
Lego of West Haven, Conn. DR..
Peter Marshall performed the
double ring ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage
by her brother, Mr.. Garnet S.
Graham of Carlisle, and she wore a
gray wool gabardine suit with pink
accessories and a corsage of pink
roses and white freesia.
Mrs. Edmund P. Primus OF Phil
adelphia was her sisters only at
tendant. She, too, was in gray
suit and her corsage was of blue
iris and white freesia. MIR. Franklin
H. Watts was best man.
A reception followed the wedding
ceremony, after which the newly
weds left for a trip to Virginia
Beach. Upon their return they will
reside in Washington.
Mrs. Lego has been employed in
Washington for the past seven years.
She is a member of the choir at her
church, former member of the
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BeaIe
(continued From Page D-I.)

Hunt yesterday and are staying with
the Barton Harveys who have a
lovely place in Green Springs VAL
ley. Taylor will graduate from Yale
this year, having interrupted his
academic career with four years at
war.
Senator and Mrs. Millard Tydings
will move to Darlington, their Mary
land country home on the Chesa-
peake, May l, and they won't be
returning to their apartment at
Wardman until October. =. Frances
Rosso returned from Evanston and
leaves today for a visit with Mrs.
Morton c. Hutchison on her farm
in Darlington, Md. She'll be back
May and then will be up to her
ears in preparations for a probable
sailing for Italy on the 23d. ;. And
the Eugene Swigarts will be enter
tanning this week for Jack and Jane
Beatty of Chicago, who arrive in
town tomorrow and will be at the
Carlton for a week. According to
Mrs. S., "she is short and cute, and
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Engagement Party
To Be .GiUen Today

DR.. and Mrs. Louis r. Maxwell
are holding open house today from
4 to O'Clock for the friends of their
daughter, Miss Miriam Jean Max
well, and Mr.. Gale Snedley String
ham, whose engagement they are
announcing.
Mr.. Stringham is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Warde B. Stringham. Both
he and his fiancee are students at
George Washington University. Dur
ing the war, Mr.. Stringham served
20 months with the 83d Division
in Europe
No date has been set for the
wedding.
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for the next few weeks and Mrs.
Andrews Will join him frequently.
Mime. Ericsson, wife Of the Swed-
ish Minister, also will stay IN Wash
ington and only join her husband
for short visits. Washington is so
beautiful to be in, at this season.
it is q pity to be away" The
Minister and Nine. Ericsson have as
their guest at the legation the
Financial Adviser to the Foreign
Office. Mr.. Dag Hammerskjond, who
also Is head Of the board of directors
of the National Bank Of Sweden.
They entertained informally at
luncheon Friday in his honor and
he will leave this week to return
to Sweden.
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Brooks
Continued From Page D-I.)

viii go there today and win be
absent for several weeks.
The New Zealand Minister and
Lady Berendsen will go back to New
York today for the United Nations
meetings. They came to Washing
ton for the Anzac ceremony Friday
and have made weekend visit in
the legation.
The South African Minister, Mr..
II. T. Andrews will be In New York
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The Saudi Arabian Minister,
Sheikh Asad A-Faqih, went to New
York last week Id time to meet
Prince Faisal when he arrived there
Friday. The Prince, who is the
second son Of the King. heads the
delegation from Saudi Arabia to
the United Nations. The Prince is
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announcement

MIR. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd Weaver
Of Garrett Park announce the en-
gagement cf their daughter, Miss
Lois Douglas Weaver, to Mr.. Almon
Whltbeck Spinks, son of Mr.. Edgar
Spinks of Kensington and the late
Mrs. Spinks.
The wedding is planned for late
June,
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expected to come to Washington for
q visit after the close Of the assembly
sessions, and his visit will be the
signal for delightful parties at the
legation.
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Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra
and now attends classes in harmony
at American University. Her hus-
band served with the Army for i've
years and is now studying at the
Capitol Radio Engineering Institute.
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The Syrian Minister. Mr.. COST K.
znrayk, delegate from his coum-
try, will be accompanied by Nine.
zuraky and they win be absent for
several weeks.
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Engagenzent Told

The 7th of June has been selected
by Miss Carol Lambeth Wohlford
for her marriage to Mr.. Ralfe Mes
robian, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Mihran
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he is goodlooking, attractive and
does yogi They should ft into
Washington as q hand into q glove.
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Mesrobian of Chevy Chase. Their
engagement is announced by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Adolf
Wohlford of Charlotte, N. C.
Mr.. Mesrobian, a former captain
in the Marine Air Force, is a STU
dent at Duke University. Miss
Wohlford is student at Queens
College in North Carolina.
Evening star., 1947-08-16

ing at which the action was taken show
that Mr. Fox told the board that although
in the past it had been placing advertising
with the Journal, the editor of the paper
"has been criticizing the board of super
visors and has been very unfair in his crit
icisms"
There is also the rather striking fact
that the boards decision to yank its ad-
vertising from the Journal was taken the
day after the recent Democratic primary
election in Fairfax. In that election, Rich
ard M. Smith, the Journals editor, was an
unsuccessful candidate for commissioner
of revenue. Mr.. Smith also took a leading
part in putting into the field an opposition
ticket to the incumbent political organiza-
ton in Fairfax County.
The possibility remains, of course, that
no political considerations entered into
the decision to refuse county advertising
to the Journal. But that would seem to
depend upon what one means by politics.
70 most people it will look as though pol
itics-a peculiarly petty and regrettable
brand of politics-was at the bottom of
the whole affair
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Drivers Lose Their Skill

Traffic Director Keneipp has made out
q convincing case for periodic re-examina-
ton OF automobile drivers in his letter to
The Star, published in an adjoining COL
unn. Replying to reader who had pro-
tested the inconvenience of the proposed
program, Mr.. Keneipp has put the en-
phasis where it should be-on the pro-
lection which motorists and the public
generally will receive in return for the
small amount of trouble involved in the
examination.
The same sort of criticism was heard
when licensing of automobile drivers first
was proposed, back in the days when the
hOrSeleSs carriage still was novelty. Every
restriction on freedom of use of a motor
car has its annoying aspects to those who
consider themselves fundamentally safe
drivers, yet most drivers today accept these
restrictions as necessary to the safety of
themselves and others. They appreciate
the dangers involved in allowing an ire
sponsible, incompetent driver at the wheel
of a potential instrument of death and de-
struction-such as an automobile can be.
Why, then, should any responsible driv-
er object to the slight inconvenience of ap-
pearing once every six years to prove that
he has suffered no impairment of his ca
pacity to operate car? Mr.. Keneipp
points out that scarcely day passes but
that he receives request from some one
often relative of driver-to re-examine
a permit holder who has undergone an
impairment of physical or mental capaci-
ties. In six years or less ones eyeSight or
health may fail in way to render one
totally incompetent to drive, yet there is
no way now to detect the disabilities-un-
less a serious accident warrants an in
vestigation. Then it may be too late to
protect the driver against himself or to
save the life of his victim.
It is true, as Mr.. Keneipp says, that
some of the States still are extremely lax
even in the initial licensing of drivers. An
article by David Wittels in the current
Saturday Evening Post reveals how amaz-
ingly indifferent some of the States are to
the Importance of checking on the fitness
of motorists Mr. Wittels obtained four
teen drivers permits merely by writing to
motor-vehicle authorities of the, forty eight
States and asking for one. The permits
were mailed to him upon receipt Of the
proper fee-without mental, physical or
driving tests of any kind. This is, as the
editors of the magazine comment, "a
shocking and shameful story" But the
fact that it is so dangerously easy for
drivers in few of the States to obtain
permits in no wise warrants similar lax
ity in more enlightened Jurisdictions. And
If initial examinations are a proper
safety requirement, re-examination of
drivers at reasonable Intervals is just as
proper and necessary.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
New Korean Note

One would have to be excessively opti-
mistic to assume that this Governments
latest note to Russia on the Korean issue
is going to result in any noteworthy change
of heart on the part of the Soviets.
This latest note calls upon the joint
Soviet-American Commission in Korea to
explain by August 21 why 1t cannot come
to an agreement on procedures that will
lead to Korean independence, and the mes
sage is described unoficially as being of
the put up or shut up" variety.
But there is really very little mystery
about the reasons for the inability of the
commission to get anything done. For the
Russians, month after month after month,
have been stalling the negotiations, and
they have made it perfectly clear that they
will continue to stall unless and until we
agree to formula that would result in the
setting up of Korean regime dominated
by Communists and Communist sympa-
thizers.
To this we have steadfaStly refused to
agree, and it is to be expected that we
will persist in our refusal to accede to any
arrangement unless it can be expected to
result in reasonably representative Ko-
rean government. Hence, the prospect is
shat August 81 will come and 60 without
bringing forth any satisfactory response to
our note from either the commission or
from Moscow.
This leaves the question of what General
Marshall meant when he said that, failing
of satisfactory reply, each government
may Immediately consider what further
steps may usefully be taken to achieve the
aims of the (1945) Moscow agreement,
namely, the establishment of an inde-
pendent united Korea which can take its
place among the United Nations"
When the Foreign Ministers met in Mos
cow last spring, General Marshall called
for resumption of the Korean negotia-
tions and stated that if negotiations were
not resumed the United States would take
without further delay such steps in it's
zone as will advance the purposes" of the
original agreement. This implied threat of
independent American action in our South
ern Korean zone brought from Mr.. Molotov
a response which seemed on its face to be
favorable, but which has as yet done moth
ing to break the deadlock in Korea.
So it may be that General Marshall is
thinking again of going ahead in our own
zone, and attempting to repair the damage
done there by the fact that most of Korea S
industry and power is in the blocked of
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Russian zone, while ours is predoninantly
agricultural. If this is what he has in
mind, however, he labors under handicap
OF which the Russians certainly are not
unaware. Last spring $40 0000, 900 pro-
gram for rebuilding our Korean zone over
a period of three years was drafted, only
to be shelved when it became clear that it
faced strong opposition in Congress
So there again one can see the outlines
of what has become familiar dilemma
namely, the problem of how the executive
branch OF eur Government can go forward
with a strong program for the protection
of American interests against the spread
of communism when Congress seems un-
willing to provide the necessary funds and
accept the inescapable risks
Evening star., 1947-08-16
On q BookIover's Shelves

Gaze at these shelves-the man beneath
shines clear. a.
These uolumes, like contessionals, con-
tain
The readings of the spirits atmosphere,
The autograph of his SelectiDe brain.
Transports and longings, as upon chart,
Are here made Uistble; he keeps tryst
With song, romance and drama, music, art,
Trauel or fo1Der-lore-a lifelong list! -,
1oJ
Turn from the clean neU pages-peer
beyond 'T1
At those dog-eared and scrawled wtth
many note
There, mirrored like landscape in pond,
Reflections of his clouds and SUBMITS
float "a
Times last recording angel surely looks
Not at mans deeds alone, but at his books.
STANTON A. COBLENTz.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Charlottesville Festival

The first music festival at Charlottes-
vile, Virginia was such a notable success
that 1t has been decided to attempt a
similar affair next year. Miss Meta Glass,
president of the sponsoring group, has
announced that plans have been formed
to constitute the event an annual occasion
Commenting on this decision, The Musician
magazine credits the festival idea to DR..
Hans Kinder and says that he, Through
his imagination and energy, has made the
National Symphony Orchestra one of the
country's leading musical organizations in
spite of the fact that it has no endow-
ments, free hall or financial aid except
that contributed by ticket sales and
voluntary contributions"
Friends of the orchestra who have
watched its development since 1881 will
rejoice in the acknowledgment of merit
implicit in these words from an admittedly
authoritative source. The Charlottesville
festival derives directly from Dr. Kindler's
work not merely as distinguished musi-
clan but also as an apostle of great music
He has interpreted the title National" to
mean exactly that. Under his manage
ment, the orchestra has Travelled and
played far beyond the boundaries of
Metropolitan Washington. The visit to
Charlottesville each year sets a pattern
for other communities in this section of
the country if not for neighborhoods more
distant. 1t would be difficult to exaggerate
the significance of the influence of DR..
Kindler's organization as it gradually
expands from the Nations Capital out
ward. He himself must be pleased by the
circumstance, and those who have been
proud to aid him in his endeavor will share
his pleasure.
1t likewise is worthy of mention that
the democratic support of the orchestra
to which The Musician calls attention is
an asset of Importance. The people at
large in Washington and wherever else the
orchestra has appeared have financed it.
Future success in Charlottesville and other
friendly towns as well as in Washington
will depend predominantly upon continued
purchase of tickets and generous subscrip-
tions. The National Symphony Orchestra
symbolizes the basic American principle
of civilization arising from the masses,
not descending to them from above.
Evening star., 1947-08-16

their visit, and hospitality received. How good
1t would be to have vacationers and business
men show their appreciation Of all the beauti-
ful, interesting States, cities and towns they
visit!
1t would be selfish for me not to express
my appreciation of the friendly manner of
the people of our Capital, Virginia and Mary
land They were so kind and helpful on every
occasion. feel as my family does, that our
southern brothers and sisters are to be con-
graduated for their possession of the grand
American spirit, enabling us, by their manners
and smiles, to enjoy their CITY,
People should exchange smiles and share
each others ways of life, considering that the
others have much to contribute Let's forget
ourselves and learn what our Nation and people
have to offer. Thrill after thrill awaits US all.
Dover, N. j. CLIAR v. RARICK.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Senator Pepper and Friend

Florida's Senator Pepper, dubbed Red
Pepper" by those who do not always speak
kindly of him, has cut loose from the
foundering Wallace-fo President craft
and has gone down the line for Truman
in 49,
1t may be doubted that this is ter
Pepper pronouncement received promi-
nent display in the newspapers it must be
remembered that this is the midsummer
season, when news often is not all that
one might wish it to be-
Perhaps it would not be unreasonable,
however, to infer that Mr.. Pepper has come
to the conclusion that his preferred presi-
dental candidate, Henry Wallace, is a
dead duck in the political sense of that
term. But too much stress should not be
put on this. For Senator Pepper has con-
sistently SHE'D away from third-party talk,
and has repeatedly stated that he would
stay within the Democratic Party and
support its nominee, be he Henry Wallace
FIRST choice or Harry Truman. Hence,
since Mr.. Wallace seems to have pretty
well read himself out of the party, it is
not surprising to see Senator Pepper
looking for a good spot on the Truman
band wagon.
OF course, there are few things to be
overlooked, such as the Senator's speech
of year ago in which he accused Presi-
dent Truman of creating "a policy of
seething propaganda" against the rail-
road strike and his attacks on the Truman
foreign policy, which boil down to the
complaint that the United States and
Britain have ganged up on poor Russia
for the sake of promoting British imperial
ISM
But these things can be, and no doubt
will be, overlooked. For the Senator has
suddenly discovered that he never really
knew Mr.. Truman; that the President, far
from being an imperialist and a foe of the
railroad workers, is actually sincere, hon
est, human, the salt Of the earth"-a Presi-
dent who has done ian extraordinarily
fine job" in his first term in office, and
who should be, and undoubtedly will be,
reelected.
The record does not show how Mr.. Tru-
man reacted to all of this. He may take
Pepper compliments with grain of salt,
recalling some of the earlier blasts And
he may have his doubts about the Pepper
prophecy of the victory to come .ins 1913,
remembering that the Florida seer was
equally confident last October that the
Democrats would retain control of Con-
gress "by good margin"
But if there is any doubt as to the Presi-
dents position, there is no doubt whatso-
ever about Senator Pepper. He wants it
known that he is for Truman in 4S, and,
like the young lady in the Oklahoma musi-
cal comedy, he hes gone about as far as
he can 60.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Midsummer Madness

One of the hitherto unSuspected wonders
OF this increasingly wonderful age has
come to light in the form of Veterans
Administration admonition to it's employees
that they must stop rushing for exits at
quitting time and indulging in other prac-
tices which are held to be eccentric.
On the latter point there is room for
honest difference Of opinion. After all,
these are the dog days and neither
man not beast can be held to standards
of personal conduct which ordinarily
the powers -that-be at the Veterans Ad-
ministration become perturbed If stenog-
rapher decides to sit down in a waste
basket? When the heat has gotten in
its willing work. a young lady is not neces-
sarily eccentric if she feels a certain
affinity with the trash container. Nor
should there be any occasion for eyebrow
raising If man tilts far back in his chair
or develops sudden fondness for chewing
typical of the normal abnormalities which
attend the arrival of the dog days.
But this business of stampeding for the
exits at quitting time is quite another
matter There, indeed, lies cause for con-
Germ which goes we'll beyond the fact that
three VA clerks are said to have been
trampled in the rush. For when men
and women, with the temperature in the
COS and no relief in sight, can spring from
their desks when the working day is done
and sprint for the nearest exist, one has
sound reason to question their sanity.
Where are they going, and why are they
IN such hurry to charge out OF hot
office onto hotter street?
One may well fear the presence OF omi-
nous symptoms in such irrational conduct.
For it suggests, alas. that the madness of
the dog days has taken a firm hold on
these unfortunate people
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Fuirfux Politics

has voted to withdraw all of its adver-
tising from the Providence Journal, a
weekly newspaper published in the county
A spokesman for the board, Maurice w
Fox, has stated that there was no politics
involved in the action" adding that the
governing consideration was that 1--WE can't
afford to advertise in so many papers"
This is a statement which may be ac-
cepted with some reservation.
For one thing, the minutes of the meet
Evening star., 1947-08-16
What Is 'Charity?'

To the Editor Of The Star:
One reason for the confusion among those
who have been studying the Community Chest
is that words are used without definition and
so have different meanings for different users.
The most important of these confusing words
is charity. This word was the basis of the
report by that minority of the Citizens Study
Committee which advocated dropping some of
the Chest agencies because they do not give
food, clothes or other material relief to the
needy: the assumption being that almsgiving
is, with some stretching, the be-all and the
end-all of charity
So question as to the meaning of Charity"
was raised at the meeting of the Chest Trustees
on August II, and the Biblical conception was
contrasted with the narrower" (this was the
word used by the chairman of the meeting)
conception adopted by the Federation of Citi-
zens Associations: the first being described as
beautiful and inspiring, the latter as sterile
and demoralizing
st. Paul seems to have had much the same
idea for he said First Corinthians, Chapter 10,
third verse;, And though bestow all my
goods TO feed the poor, ., and have not
charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity, he
said, "suffereth long and is kind" =
"vaunteth not ITSELF, "rejoiceth in the truth
the prescribed agencies believe they are seeking
the truth. Charity, according to st. Paul. is
spiritual, and he says that If one has not char
ity he becomes "as sounding brass or tinkling
cymbal".
So, having told what charity is, having said
that without charity it profits one nothing to
give "all" ones goods to feed the poor, he ends
with, "and now abideth faith, hope charity
these three-but the greatest of these Is
charity.
JOHN IHLDER
Evening star., 1947-08-16

Homemade Hammocks Remembered
To the Editor OF The Star:
Your recent editorial on the Fashioned
Hammock and its fine service in helping to
keep folks on even keel was fine with the ex-
ception that the author evidently did not live
out in the midwest as I did. We had the
hammocks all right but not any of the knitted
ones he told about. Ours were made out of the
slaves of sugar barrels which our grocers gave
u.s. We bought 10 cents worth of rope, bored
holes in the ends of the slaves, threaded the
rope in and out to hold the slaves together and
then suspended the ends of the entire affair
to a couple of shady trees. For padding for the
stats" we used an old handmade quilt which
We obtained from our mother or grandmother
The result was q real comfortable hammock
Evening star., 1947-08-16

I wish I could
persuade t h e
public to write
to their editors,
or to initiate
frie ndly dis
covery clubs in
each State or
town they visit,
and in SINGER
ity tell the in
ha hifnnfc of
Evening star., 1947-08-16

ON VISION ana
on the traffic
r e g u ! a t / ons
would offer only
a maximum Of
in convenience,
confusion and
possibility of
favoritisnl for
an a hsol u t e
minimum of
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