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MATHEWS, RUTH F. In loving mem
ory Of our daughter and sister, RUTH F
ago today, December -, 1913. " '
She bade no one a last farewell.
She said good-by to none;
The heavenly @ gates lust opened wide,
God knew that she was suffering
That the hills were hard to climb.
And whispered Peace be thine"
The stars are brightly shining
Upon silent grave.
In Vt lies precious one
We loved but could not save
THE FAMILY
our mother, MARY NORRIS, who de.
cember 90, 1915.
Though you've answered his call
And passed away from us all.
Your loving memory, mother, dear,
o WIN always vs. !lnger very near. ,
AND GERTRUDE HARRIS.
ORR. IDA MAY peggy. In sad bu
IDA MAY iPEGdYJ ORR, Who was caliet
to her heavenly home six years ago today
Oft to my heart comes~a bitter cry,
Why, Oh why. did my darling wife die?'
Then comes the answer so soft and sweet
"she is not dead, she is only asleep"
Peacefully sleeping, resting at last
Life's weary trials and suffering past
bore,
Till God called her home to suffer no more
Keep her Jesus in Thy keeping.
Until reach that blessed shore.
Then. o Master. let me have her
And love her as / did before.
YOUR DEVOTED HUSBAND RALPH.
QUISENBURY, ALICE To honor tn
memory Of our devoted mother, AL1C1
wh IA
teen years ago today. December 22, 1880
Time speeds on. II years have passe,
Since death its gloom and shadows cast
It took from us q shining light
DEVOTED DAUGHTERS BERTHE AMI
MAY AND FLORENCE
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as Minister to Meredith Nicholson
Paraguay and Venezuela when he
was in his 70s.
His best known work was "The
House of a Thousand Candles" a
mystery novel popular for more than
80 years and still to be found in
libraries.
Entered Diplomacy In 1888.
A Democrat, in 1888 he was
named Minister to Paraguay, and
in 1895 Minister to Venezuela. In
1888 he was assigned to Nicaragua.
He resigned in 1941.
His first wife was the former
Eugene Kountz Of Omaha, Nebr.,
whom he married in June, 1896.
They had two sons and two daugh-
ters. After the death Of the first
Mrs. Nicholson, Mr.. Nicholson mar
ried Mrs. Dorothy Lanton of Mar
ion, Ind, in 1888. They were di-
vorced December "a, 1943.
Survivors include three children,
Meredith Nicholson, jr., Charles L.
Nicholson, and Mrs. Arthur Brown,
all of indianapolis; four grand
children and two great-grandchil-
dren.
Quit School at Is.
Mr.. Nicholson's formal education
ended in the first year of high school
at the age of Is, but before he had
finished with life, he was a master
not only of English but of Latin
and French.
From the time he was old enough
to vote he was active in the Demo-
cratic party. He stumped Indiana
through lean years, seeking no pre-
ferment for himself. Party man
ayers remembered him in time OF
victory and his Diplomatic career
followed. President Wilson nomf-
mated him as Minister to Portugal
in 1918 but Mr.. Nicholson refused
because he doubted whether Lisbon
would be a desirable place for his
children.
A couple of years experience suf-
feed for the printing business, SO
far as Mr.. Nicholson was concerned
Then he worked for a time in law
Office, but while so engaged at the
age OF 1S made his first literary
sales, a poem going to New York
newspaper for 50 and short fiction
story to a Chicago newspaper, for
$40.
He got into the editorial room of
the old Indianapolis Sentinel, but
soon shifted to the Indianapolis
News. There for IL years he was
first reporter and then successive
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BARNES, GERALD R. Sacred to the
GERALD r. BARNES, who entered into
eternal rest four years ago today Decem-
Time speeds on. four years have past .
Since death its gloom. its shadow cast
Within our home, where all seemed bright,
Death took from us shining light.
Deep in our hearts Lie 4. picture
In N memories frame we we shan Keep it.
sssau'e Sss one MorHGh g sai
JACKSON. EVA C. In loving remsm-
brance OF our dear mother. EVA c. JACK
day, December %, 1916.
God gave US a wonderful mother
And when her work on earth was done
He called her home to rest.
Her life was unselfish.
For others she lived.
Not for what she could get,
But for what she could give.
She had q smile for every one,
heart as good as gold;
To those who , snsT snd Loved I'D her
A precious one from US has gone,
voice we loved Is stilled;
A place is vacant in our hearts
Which never can be filled.
Although your soul is now at rest
And free from care and pain,
The world would seem like heaven
If we had you back again.
We only ask to live each day.
So when our work is done.
We will see our darling mother
In Gods home beyond the sun.
For all Of us she did her best,
God, please give her eternal rest.
LEWIS, CLARENCE z. In sad memory
Of our dear son. and nephew, CLARENCE
e. LEWIS, who passed away eight years
ago today, December ~, 1889.
The depths Of sorrow We cannot tell
OF the loss of the one We loved so well,
And while he sleeps q peaceful sleep
His memory we shal1sslways keep.
LOVING FATHER AND MOTHER AND
AUNT BESSIE.
MACKEY, FLORENCE CUYLER. A trib-
ute Of love and devotion to the memory
Of our beloved mother and grandmother,
FLORENCE CUYLER MACKEY, who
passed to the great beyond six years ago
today. December 70, 19A1.
Where hearts at last are free from pain.
Your tenderness, love and devotion were
never falling and can never die in the
memory Of your DEVOTED dauEhters;
GRANDCHILDREN.
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Leopold PIaut, II, Dies;
Was Meat Packing 0fficia
BY the Assoeio,sd Press

BY the Assoeiotsd Press
KANSAS CITY. Dec. 22.-Leopold
Plaut, u, former general manager
Of Wilson & Co. packing plant here
and later vice president of the firm,
died yesterday after heart attack.
Member Of a Brooklyn family long
associated with the meat-packing in
dustry, Mr.. Plaut and his wife came
here last month from their home in
Brooklyn, intending to purchase q
house and make their permanent
residence in Kansas City.
His father was one of the owners
Of the old Schwartzschild- -Sulzberger
plant here which became the pres
ent Wilson & Co. plant.
Mr.. Plaut was general manager
for Wilson q Co. in South America
from 1915 to 1924 and was former
president of the American Chamber
of Commerce of Brazil. He retired
10 years ago and became an officer
in the Meat Packing Institute OF
America.
He was an adviser on meat mat
ters to the Office of Price Admins
tration during the war years.
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ly. State, telegraph, exchange and
literary editor.

ly. State, telegraph, exchange and
literary editor.
There followed years Of success as
a novelist. A rambling old house in
the country. eerie in the light Of
the moon, inspired him to write
"The House of A Thousand Can
dies" The house was situated near
Lake Maxinkuckee, at Culver, Ind.
1.-The Port of Missing Men" "A
Hoosier Chronicle" Broken Bar
riers," "The Hope OF Happiness" !"
"Blacksheep! Blacksheep!" AM
three volumes of essays, THE Pro-
vincial American" 'The Valley Of
Democracy" and The Man in the
Street." were other outstanding
works. Shortly before becoming
Minister to Paraguay. he completed
a novelized biography of Andrew
Jackson.
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Patrick H. Drewry, II,
Long Representative
From Virginia, Dies
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

FEIEHSbURG, va, dec. ZZ.-
Representative Patrick Henry Drew
ry, Democrat, Of Virginia, died of q
heart attack at his home in Peters
burg last night after serving In
Congress for q years.
Mr.. Drewry, who was 70, took an
active. part in politics from the
time he first voted. He took public
office for the first time when he
was So as Virginia's State Senator
from the Petersburg district.
After graduating from Randolph
Macon College at Ashland in 1896
he studied law at the University OF
Virginia and returned to Petersburg
to practice.
He soon became a member of the
Democratic City Committee here
In 1911 he was the successful candi-
date for the State Senate.
Mr.. Drewry made a name for him
self during the eight years hi
served as State Senator. He was
chairman of a commission on econ.
omy and efficiency and was instru.
mental in the passage of the bud.
get act which formed the basis fol
organizing and controlling the
States fiscal affairs. He also was
patron of bills for maintenance o1
roads and sociological measures af-
fecting the Health Department anc
the Board of Charities and Cor.
rections.
In 1920 Representative Walter A
Watson died and Mr.. Drewry was
elected to fill the vacancy.
In the Republican landslide OF
1928, Mr.. Drewry's district was the
only one in the State returning a
Democratic majority in the presi-
dental race.
Convention Delegate.
He frequently was a delegate to
State Democratic conventions and
was a delegate from Virginia to
the 1916 national convention in ST.
Louis, the 1896 Philadelphia con-
vention and the Chicago convention
in 1910.
At the st. Louis convention he
was chairman of the Committee on
RESOLUTIONS and was on the COM
mittee which presented resolutions
to President Wilson.
In 1923 he was named a member
Of the Democratic National Com
mittee and in 1885 he was named
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Congressional COMMITTEES
job he often said required him ito
elect 435 Democrats to the House of
Representatives"
Naval Committeeman.
Mr.. Drewry was a member of the
House Naval Affairs Committee and
by seniority rose to ranking Demo-
cratic member Of that body during
the years of the great naval expan-
sion. AS a member OF that COM
mittee he also served frequently as
member of the Board of Visitors
to the Naval Academy.
Mr.. 'Drewry was an able speaker
but he made few formal speeches on
the floor. He preferred to conflne
his efforts to organization and COM
mittee work.
Mr.. Drewry often retired to his
cabin on the James River to hunt
and fish. He made a hobby OF
studying history, especially concern
ing the Confederacy, and was recog-
nized as an authority on the subject.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Metcalf Drewry;
two sons, John Metcalf Drewry of
Alexandria and Patrick H. Drewry
jr., of Richmond, and three grand
children
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete. .
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Robert W. Atkins Dies;
Director of Many Firms
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Robert w.
Atkins, So, newly-named president
Of the Hat Corp. Of America and
director of many corporations, died
yesterday.
A native Of Belmont, Mass, he
was the son Of the late Edwin
Farnsworth Atkins, at one time one
of the largest sugar plantation
owners in Cuba.
Mr.. Atkins was a director of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, the
United States Sugar Co., the Pitts
ton. Coal Co., the Carlisle Tire &
Rubber Co. and several hotel and
steel and coal companies.
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VAIL. MARTHA L. WHITE. In sad but
loving memory of our dear sister and
daughter, MARTHA L. WHITE VAIL. who
departed this life three years ago today
December 30, 1914.
Gone is the face we loved so dear,
Silent the voice we loved to hear;
'Tis sad. but true. we wonder why.
The best are always the first to die.
MOTHER AND FATHER, LURAY AND
GRANVILLE WHITE: SISTERS Al
BERTA PERMIT AND CLARA WHITE
BROTHERS. S/SERGT WALTER
WHITE, WILSON AND ALFRED
WHITE.
WISSMAN. JACKSON d. In loving re-
membrance of our dear husband and fa-
ther JACKSON D. WISSMAN who de-
parted this life ten years ago today, De-
cember 90, 1887.
Some day we'll find you
In Gods own holy plain
There shall we cherish YOU
Where mortals know no pain.
WIFE AND SONS.
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of Indiana lit
e r a t ure, who
died in Meth
o dist Hospital
y e S t er day of
bronchial pneu-
monia after a
long illness.
Mr.. Nicholson's S
vari e d career
embraced fields
of journalism,
fiction and essay
writing and di-
plomacy, a n q
carried him to
South America
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BrathH

PEARSON, HELEN 8. On Saturday. De.
cember 20. 1947. HELEN 8. PEARSON oi
Washington, D. c., beloved wife Of the late
Rufus w. Pearson. Services at the 8. H
Hines Co. Funeral Home. 29Ol 14th st
NV, on Tuesday. December 90. at l pm
Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.
PETIT. CLARK r. On Sunday. De.
cember 81, l947, at Mount Alto, CLARK R
PETIT, beloved husband OF Myrtle H
Petit. father Of George Clark and Harry
Funeral Home, 4th and Mass. ave. ne
where services will be held on Tuesday
December % at $40 am. Interment
Arlington National Cemetery.
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JOSEPH z. LINS, Secretary-Treasurer.
December 20, I947, at the Veterans Hos
pitai, Phoebus, Va, CHARLES E. CAN'T
OF Breezy Point, Md, brother of Mrs
Agnes Conard, Mrs. Grace Butler, MIS-
Helen Coder and Richard CAN'T. Serv-
ices at the Birch Funeral Home, 1854 M
st. NV, on Wednesday, December "a, at
1890 am. Interment Arlington National
Cemetery. 23
CAN'T, CHARLES e. special com
munication of Potomac Lodge,
No. 5. F. A. A. M, is called for
IN Wednesday, December "a, 1947;
MN 10 an, to attend the funeral OF
~~ our late brother, CHARLES E.
W. CAN'T By order of:
GEORGE E. SMITH, Master.
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RICHARD P. WADDEY. Secy.
RsssnPer beloved %" sa McaAEh Sally oeR 99
and MISS Marion Goldsmith. all Of Wash
liam Goldsmith, ali Of New York. sery:
sb sss St the o0SsTs as5day Eunese s
oxon Hill, Md. Mourning at s22 De-
GOODYEAR. WILLIAM v. On Monday,
snd St. Sc. wILL1AM y: doopYEAs: son
Of the seJ late John n Mv nd 4 * Sxs
Neason: Funeral from the above residence
S.nes Es g. ri at ws1e sse
will be offered at 8 am. Relatives and
friends invited. Interment Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. 25
GsoMaNN am Man,s On ssnday wmetas Rsssm
pI., Chevy Chase: Nd: beloved wife 2, 2,
W.sts RSds Tse4e a seryes.
will be held Tuesday. December 23, 2 pm
cember -: is4$, join J. HAMiIT6N
husband Of the late Nanny kerr sI;,tda namil: NJ
at at Gawiers Chapel, 1856 Pa. ave: NV
Mass will be Offered phod At St. Mstthews
NV on Tuesday, December %. at 1C
am >Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery
HANO, HENRIETTA o. On Sunday
December 81 l947 ssIs & hsE fT rssidence sS91 Hn
mother of Mrs. Estelle Salomon; Mrs
David D. Gross; sister Of Max -0ppen.
| Oppenheimer of Baltimore. Md. Sery.
Ices will be held at Gawler's Chapel. 1856
Pa. ave. NV, Tuesday, December 23. at
1890 pm Interment Washington He
brew CONGREGATION Cemetery.
HARDING. ELMER LEE. On Saturday,
December 20, 1947, at Gallinger Hospital
ELMER LEE HARDING. beloved husband
Of Grace Mullican Harding, 503 Schuyler
| I'd, Silver Spring. Md; father Of Mrs.
Kenneth Williams. Miss Frances Harding
and Merle Lee Harding. Also SURVIVING
ere his stepmother, Mrs. Mary (Mamie)
Henley, Washington six brothers and two
sisters; Funeral services Monday, Decem;;
| Der -, 2:30 pm. at Gartner's Funeral
Home. Gaithersburg. Md. Interment For
| rest Oak Cemetery.
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Meredith Nicholson,
Author and Diplomat,
Dies Of Pneumonia
BY the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22.-Fu.
neral services will be held here to-
morrow for Meredith Nicholson, 81
last survivor of the Golden Age
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A Not Impossible Task
By David La,crence
From the London Times.

from the LONDON IlmeS.
It is vital that wages should be made
to assist in bringing about better dis
tribution of labor. 1t Is of the utmost
Importance that there should be a gen.
eral policy to avoid the vexatious dis
putes resulting from the failure of some
sections of the workers to secure inn
provements accorded to others no more
deserving But the most serious con-
sideration of all is that a general In
crease in the level of wages will help no
one unless it is preceded by substan.
tail increase in productivity In the
long run consciously contrived eco
nomic policy is impossible without q
consciously contriyed wage policy. Wis
dom, firmness and frankness will all be
required If the government and the re-
sponsible heads OF industry are to carry
their followers with them, but it should
not be an impossible task. The first
necessity Is that any statement of policy
should be an agreed statement. OF the
nations need there can be no doubt,
and sectional interests must not stand
In the way of national interests. There
has never been time, even during the
war, when there was greater need OF
foresight and craftsmanship in our In
dustrial leaders.
Evening star., 1947-03-14

On Wednesday, Sumner Welles wrote In
his column: 1.-THE postwar period has
now entered its most critical phase.
Events are rapidly moving toward an
inevitable crisis. The American people
have entered the valley Of decision"
"Save in the new world" he continued,
"the democratic peoples have
neither the manpower nor the material
resources to make it possible for
them to cooperate in any major struggle
for it's (Western civilization's) preserva-
ton"
The issue, Mr.. Welles stated, lies in
Greece. In Greece we must stop Soviet
expansion. BY loans we must halt the
starvation and misery with which Europe
is presently afflicted. Otherwise, COM
munism (and Soviet domination) WILL
spread to the Atlantic. ..
1t is not too early to make these OBJ
servations. It is very much too late.
perhaps altogether too late. Hunger,
misery, disorganization, political apathy,
spiritual despair haunt Europe like
specter. Out of it must arise that
destructive fury of reaction that can
only be canalized by bolshevism and its
ruthless, scheming, conspiratorial, we'll
supported agents.
The conditions essential to the Bolshe-
vization of Europe have been created.
Hitler paved the way. "If I fall" he
said, "I shall throw open Europe to the
Soviet Union In the last year and a
half of the war, the ground was well
prepared for that Hitlerian revenge. Not
without method in the madness did the
Gothic apocalypse then reach its PIN
nacle.
But the western powers also collabo-
rated Systematically for the creation OF
the situation which we are now called
upon to halt What Mr.. Welles now
sees with fright started at Casablanca
with the unconditional surrender form
ula. The result of that formula was
the refusal of any aid whatsoever to
what we now know was a formidable
movement in Germany to overthrow
Hitler and set up an honorable regime.
We could have made peace with that
regime, and avoided the horrible destruc-
ton of the last year of the war, and
saved a Germany with real leadership.
Then came Tehran. Yalta, and finally
Potsdam. Each one of these conferences
brought nearer the present inevitable
crisis" Governments supporting West
ern civilization, governments that had
fought with us, were thrown into the
ash can. 1t was not Russia. but Britain
and ourselves who introduced Tito in
Yugoslavia and opened the Polish
vacuum to his long time comintern col
laborators, Beirut and Berman in Po-
land.
Then proceeded the systematic smash
ing of Germany She was truncated Of
one fourth of her territory, while from
it and from the Sudetenland poured
Evening star., 1947-03-14

of war and without justification of any
kind are ruthlessly numbering civilians.
~" David Lawrence called it the
most important declaration of Amer
ican foreign policy since the Wilson
notes to Germany in 1915 and 1917.
a.. Borah Wanted to Stay Aloof.
Reporters telephoned Senator Borah
at Boise The old lion of isolation was
consistent. He was pessimistic about
collective pressure on Japan. THE only
thing we could and should do" he said,
sis to pursue our own course and keep
aloof from all entanglements.
"As I see it, he continued, "this
is lust another case of Great Britain
expecting every American to do his
duty"
Senator Nye was called to the tele-
phone at Bismarck, N. Oak. I'VE are
drifting into war;" he said. I'VE are
getting in deeper every hour"
The writer interviewed him in New
York a few days later The Senator
was tempted by the idea of quaran-
tine for Japan-but not for pressure
on Germany. That was what started
the last war
Declaring aggressor nations in quar-
antine" in conjunction with other ma
tions did not become American policy.
Whether the disease could have been
checked will never be known. The
Hitler timetable was uninterrupted
Anschluss was followed by pressure on
Czechoslovakia for the Sudetenland. At
Munich it was given to Germany and
in England school children were given
came the annexation of Bohemia and
Moravia. BY the time the pressure
was put on Poland a check was lmpos-
sible. 1t was, by that time, all or nothing.
And all it was.
Here is the point stressed by President
Truman:
ITO ensure the peaceful development
of nations, free from coercion, the United
States has taken leading part IN estab-
fishing the United Nations. The United
Nations is designed to make possible
lasting freedom and independence OF all
its members. We shall not realize our
obiectiveS, however, unless we are willing
to help free peoples to maintain their
free institutions and their national
integrity against aggressive movements
that seek to impose upon them total
itarian regimes This is no more than
a frank recognition that totalitarian
regimes imposed on free peoples by
direct or indirect aggression, undermine
the foundations of international peace
and hence the security Of the United
States"
Perhaps Wednesdays message marks
the most important change in Ameri-
can policy of the century-more i'm
portant than the decisions forced upon
us by the resumption of U-boat war
fare in 1917 and the attack on Pearl
Harbor in 1941.
1t will be interesting to check the
files 10 years from now-if we and the
files are extant
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Battle Royal in Commons

Britain's historic House of Com
mons, THE Mother of Parliaments,"
has Just finished echoing to one OF
the hottest forensic battles in many
years In accordance with the par
liamentary system. the government
was compelled to fight for its very
life against the threat of a mo
confidence" motion by His Majesty's
Loyal Opposition, which, if carried,
would have spelled the cabinets
resignation and elections for new
Parliament.
The main issue on this occasion.
was the Labor party's domestic pol
icy, the manner of it's handling
Britain's current economic crisis,
and the efficacy Of its plans for get
ting the country out of the mess it
is now in. The government was
plainly on the defensive through
out, with the Tory champion,
Winston Churchill. in top form,
COUGHING his slasLling attacks in
coruscating phrases, accusing the
Laborites Of setting parry before
country, as when he thundered:
Before they nat.onalize .our in
dustries, they should nationalize
themselves"
Aware of the gathering storm, the
government had issued three
line wl1ip'-an imperative order to
all its followers to be in the House
for the decisive votes that would
climax debate. In British politics,
4 party discipline is much stricter
than with us, so the government
was assured of substantial solidarity
in the final showdown, despite con-
siderable criticism of its methods
within its own ranks. And this
solidarity made the outcome certain,
because OF the Labor Fatty's de-
cisive majority in the present
House. Nevertheless, it is interest
ing to note that the adverse vote
included almost all M. Ps not in the
Labor fold, the Liberal contingent
and the scattering of independent
members backing the main Con-
| servative opposition in its censure