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Evening star., 1947-01-26
Breaking u p Our Traffic Jams

flor the Port of New York Authority
agree that would be disastrous to
| business.
The answer, they say, is more
parking space off the street. But
encouraging more private parking
lots in the key areas is difficult.
Rentals usually are high. Parking
lot operators say the cost would be
prohibitive.
Yet parking areas are needed in
the downtown areas.
Mr.. BlucIer said long time park
ers-people who work in the busi-
ness section-should leave their cars
on the edges of that section. That
would make room for the short
time parkers-people who drive In
to shop or see a dentist or doctor
But, he suggested, the short
timer should be under indirect pres
sure to stay no longer than neces-
sary. That could be accomplished
through parking charges ranging
upward from Is cents for the first
hour to IS cents for three hours.
Washington's Own
Parking Problem
/ "A survey by the American Auto
mobile Association here In Wash
ington showed that the average
motorist cruised more than eight
blocks to find a parking space.
And he was awfully fussy about
where he parked. Another AAA
survey showed that If the motorist
had. to pay SO cents or more for
parking he wanted 1t not more than
block from his destination. For
free parking, he'd be willing to walk
eight blocks.
The current trend Of thought is
that parking is a municipal respon-
sibility
Mr.. Blucher favors the proee-
dure followed in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The city purchased strip of prop
erty, turned it into a shoppers park
ing lot and billed the benefciaries-
businesses in the neighborhood-
for the cost.
Mr.. Cherniak indicated a growing
movement for legislation requiring
new buildings to provide their own
parking and unloading facilities
rather than dump the burden on
city streets.
Los Angeles adopted zoning
ordnance requiring owners of new
buildings to provide minimum
amount of space for parking and
unloading away from the street. To
a lesser degree, at least IL other
cities passed laws of this type.
They include Cleveland, New York,
Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit,
Washington and Richmond, Va.
This should be good news to the
man in the crowded street.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

will hear from and later quiz Leor
Keyserling, vice chairman of, the
Presidents Council of Economic Ad-
visers, and Ernst w. Swanson, re-
search economist for the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
The afternoon session, to be pre-.
sided over by Mrs. James r. Bourne,
the local leagues economic welfare
chairman and director of the days
program, will feature panel Of six
economists. They include. as chair
man, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse
former Representative from Con.
necticut; also Donald Montgomery
consumer counsel of the United
Automobile Workers, CIO; Joseph
D. Coppock, economic adviser tt
the State Departments Office OF
Trade Policy; Wilbur j. Cohen, as
sistant director of research and sta
tistics at the Social Security Ad.
ministration; Carolyn Ware, chair
man of the Consumer Clearing
House and Howard University pro-
fessor, and Ralph Young, assistant
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Stefonsson Complies Historic Travels
To Intrique Armchair Adventures

Stefansson has used the diaries and
notes of the explorers, editing only
to make them more readable.
The book opens with the early
voyages by the peoples Of the Medi-
terranean, the Cartheginians,
Greeks and others. Then there are
the adventurous crossings Of the
worlds oceans by the Vikings, Por-
tuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Eng
lish. Here are the stories OF Vasco
da Cana, Balboa, Magellan and too
many others to list.
The account of each major ex-
ploration that led to life as we know
it today Is unrolled before the read
er-not by one explorer, but by each
Of the adventurers who constantly
pushed the frontier before him. To
make clearer the text, the book Is
we'll illustrated with maps designed
by Richard Fades Harrison. Great
Adventures and Explorations" is well
worth adding to any library, both
for pleasurable reading and for ref.
erence.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Full Course
In Surgery
MOUNTAIN TIME
By Bernard De Voto. little.
Bropn s. Co.; S2.75.)
NEVlPWeu Uy
IRVING r. LASH.

A vitamin tablet or two and some
hot tea may help the tinid reader
through the operating room Sc
quences Of this novel about young
surgeon who gets rs far as the
threshold of success and then locks
himself out. 1t takes . strong
willed person to absorb Mr.. De Voto's
full course in surgery without q
stimulant.
Cy Kinsman takes his medicine
seriously, carrying it proudly from
Harvard, through the mud OF
France in World War I and thence
to New York as head resident Of q
big and busy hospital. He also finds
time to give nonprofessional atten-
ton to Josephine, q singer OF du-
bious talent, who sings for her sup
per as well as that of her two-timing
husband, Sam.
A stunted genius. Little Mac, the
hospitals chief surgeon, has X-ray
f1ngertips and can't be bothered by
clinical indications that often con-
tradicted his diagnosis. This an
noys Cy, who doesn't read Braille
and believes in letting the labora-
tory assistants help solve q patients
problems. A run-in with little Mac
eases Cy out Of the hospital and back
to his home town, where he becomes
a garage mechanic, and a bootlegger
on the side. He's through with
surgery, except for q couple Rf tn-
licensed jobs.
To wind up a pretty plot, Josephine
divorces Sam Ind catches up with
Cy, who marries her and then de-
cides to teach high school physiology.
ESSAY ON MARRIAGE, by Anne
Finch (Rinehart & Coo. Domestic
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Women Voters Open School
ToStudy National Economy
By Louise EnqeI

director of research and statistics
at the Federal Reserve Board.
Classes Will Be Held
Throughout Country
Miss Anna. Lord Strauss, national
president of the Women Voters, viii
open the morning session. She has
mapped out study and action pro-
grams which will fan cut through
her leagues 535 State and local
chapters. AS studies progress. many
league members will lead discussions
in hundreds Of other audiences,
small and large, throughout the
country. In private homes, schools,
clubs, churches, hotels, department
stores and theaters meetings are
already being scheduled where
housewives and their husbands
=. can gather with prominent
economists and talk out their
qualns about booms, busts and
budgets.
A slide film, Economics for
Everybody" and pamphlet, How
the Wheels Go Round, An Eco
nonic Primer" are part Of the kit
Miss Strauss is supplying her local
leaders. She previewed the films
and reviewed the primer last week
with members Of her District Of
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia
branches, and their applause was
genuine.
The day may be approaching
when the economists inflationary
bulges will look no more impress
sive than their deflationary says
to the American housewife: For
the League of Women Voters is out
in full force to take those economic
books off the library shelves. swish
off the dust and perk up 'the dismal
science" for practical feminine pur-
poses.
Half million is a modest estt-
mate of the numbers they expect to
reach in their Nationwide meet
ings. Schools" similar to Wash
ington's have already been an
nounced in Cleveland, Los Angeles,
Minneapolis. Philadelphia and
Seattle.
Ever since the Women Voters
Evening star., 1947-01-26
GREAT ADVENTURES
AND EXPLORATIONS
Edited by Vilhjalmur Stefans-
son, with collaboration of
Olive Rathbun Wilcox. (Diaf
Press; S5.)
reviewed Dy
7 N. HAMILTON,

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, himself an
explorer of renown, has compiled
for the armchair adventurer, in his
latest book, over TOO pages Of au-
thentic and historic material rela-
tive to the explorations Of man from
the earliest recorded times to the
discoveries in the polar regions by
Amundsen, Cook, Shackleton. and
others. That years Of arduous re-
search went into the compilation Is
evident, for wherever possible Mr..
Evening star., 1947-01-26

| founded their league. Is years ago,
they have been conducting annual
schools" in one to three day ses-
sions. The idea is, in fact, inherited
from the citizenship schools" which
their first president, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, conducted through
those all-but-forgotten years when
she campaigned for the woman
suffrage amendment.
This is their first intensive cam
paign on economic problems. But
the Women Voters have since 1884
backed specific tax measures, and In
recent months postwar anti-infla-
ton legislation. Other measures
which they have supported, often
effectively, include conservation,
housing, higher teachers salaries
and tax policies designed to promote
the country's economic health.
Many Leagues Fought
In1ationary Prices
Many of their local leagues have
rallied their communities to fight
inf]ationary prices. Last fall Wash
ington, Maryland and Virginia
members pledged thousands OF
neighbors to hold down purchases
of overpriced articles and to pay
no more than 60 cents pound for
meats. They took turns, standing
two hours each in this areas shop
ping centers, while customers stood
in line for the privileges of signing
up.
"Of course, most of the signers
were women" sighed one member OF
that corps. Mine out of ten women
we approached signed, but the men
nine out of ten waved us away.
They laughed off our reminders that
it was their money we were trying to
save on skyrocketing food bills"
But many of the merchants COM
mended their drive. In one Airing
ton center they insisted on the
ladies serving their cause inside
their warm shops on particularly
cold day. TITS okay by U.s." they
assured their customers. So the GUS
toners, leaning on counters to sign
pledges, turned thumbs down on
90-cent steak. t
The Voteless District of Columbia
League is following its one-day
school with Know Your Con-
gress" course in four weekly lessons,
beginning February 6.
| More and more women confess
they are beginning to see clear
relation between Governments bill
lion dollar headaches and their own
struggle to make ends meet. This
year, in making their New Years
resolutions to watch the pennies,
they pinned a degree of hope on
such innovations as the Presidents
economic report and the joint res
olution of the budget. They see the
critical need of Mr.. and Mrs. John
@. Public thinking through the en-
tire picture that links home, town
and Federal purse strings to an in
terdependent world. And that world,
| they tell you, sees us, not as the
leveryday folk we are, but as one
Nation, holding the balance between
prosperity and depressions, war and
peace.
Evening star., 1947-01-26


IN business centers, and yet
many persons recall when
there were only a few boarding
houses and limited number of
business places anywhere along
these two streets.
In the writer's youthful days,
when as a newsboy he sold the Daily
Critic, published at 5l1 Ninth street,
he recalls few if any stores on either
side of Ninth street between E and F.
OF course, the st. Cloud Building
was there, and had been there for
many years before as the Herndon
House, and later as an ONCE build
ing.
The late Henry E. Davis, describ-
ing this neighborhood Just prior to
the Civil War, wrote:
"The west. side of Ninth street
from z to G was also occupied by
dwelling houses as also was the east
side of Ninth street from E to r,
with the exception first of the
Methodist Church, since converted
into the Maccabees' Temple, and the
Chronicle Office, which joined 1t on
the south. The northwest corner
OF Ninth and e streets was occupied
by the former home Of Joseph Gales,
jr., Of the National 1ntelligencer,
consisting Of a spacious residence
with large yard and outbuildings,
such as stables, a smokehouse and
the like. the whole approximately q
square lot extending from the pres
ent vatoldi Cafe, formerly the home
Of. DR.. A. Y. P. Garnett, to the cor
ner of e street"
DR.. Garnett, Mr.. Davis wrote, went
South at the start Of the Civil War
and became surgeon to President
Davis Of the Southern Confederacy.
Shops Started Appearing
Late in Century
Twenty years and more after the
time Of which Mr.. Davis speaks
shops began to appear on Ninth
street. In 1881 there was a barber
shop at SOL. conducted by Parker
g. Lucas; a stove store at 503, run
by w. o. Berry & Co.; Thomas H.
Lyons, painter, was at sos; Mrs. H.
Zypprecht> stamping, at sol; the
Critic Office was still at 5l1, and here
Ringwalt, Hack & Miller, owners of
the Critic, did commercial printing
besides, and Charles e. Hall had
printing office on one of the upper
floors.
Sarah E. Thecker did stamping at
513, William Young did shoemaking
at SIG, while Seaman johnson had
a restaurant at 521 and H. Hinkle
kept a jewelry store at SIS.
At the corner of Ninth and E
Frederick Philling sold mems and
women's furnishings, o. r. Wixom
& Co. had a grocery at 504; next
door was Simon Heller, dealer in
fancy goods; Mary Ragan's restau-
1 It was at SOB, then came Yer
milyas shoe store, Mr.. Price fur
nishings and Ignatius F. Mudd tai
lor. Cyrus Keiser, milk dealer, had
his business at 514 and d. P. Hollo-
way, patent attorney, occupied quar-
ters upstairs; John Boles, real estate
dealer, occupied the adjoining build
ing, while S. D. La Fetra had a res
taurant at 518. Roger G. Glasscock
had his ice cream parlor at $40,
Douglass e. Bro. sold fancy goods at
524 and hoopSkirts and corsets at
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Riders in Private Cars
Monopolize Street Space

And yet the minority who came by
private auto took up the most room
Studies show that the average
peacetime load of an auto is IL per-
sons. On this basis, 20 autos, enough
to fill up a city block, are needed
to carry so seated persons. One
public transit vehicle, public tran
sit groups happily emphasize, car
carry that many passengers.
This might lead to the conclusion
that the best solution is to prevent
all private autos from entering the
congested areas. But men like
Mitchell, Henry K. Evans, director
of traffic engineering of the Ma
tional Conservation Bureau; D
Grant Mickle, traffic engineer o1
the Automotive Safety Foundation
and Nathan Cherniak, economist
Evening star., 1947-01-26
We Must Rebuild Central
Areas of Our Cities

Probably the major solution is
the rebuilding of the centers of our
cities so they again are desirable
places in which to live. That would
make it possible for people again
to walk to work or to take a short
ride on mass transportation"
Traffic Engineer Robert A. Mitch
ell sold Philadelphia on the need
for banning parking during rush
hours in a 100-square block area. AS
a result, overall vehicular traffic in
creased almost so per cent, street.
car movement was stepped up 20
per cent and accidents in the area
fell per cent, while they increased
city wide by % per cent.
Downtown parking also was
banned in whole or part last year
by New York, Los Angeles, Dallas,
Tex; Jacksonville, Fla, and other
cities. The New York Police De-
partment says its ban was effec-
tive because of the stiffness of the
fines. They range from SIS to $40,
depending on the number of Of
fenSes.
Such restrictions are motivated
by the principle that it's more i'm
portant to move people than to
move vehicles. Mitchell pointed out
that S8 per cent of all midcity shop
pers in Philadelphia came to the
area by some form of mass trans
nortation.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

Members of the League of Women Voters examine
film to be used in their classes ON national economy
They are from lett Mrs. Adrian W. De0ind of the Ae1
andra League of Women Voters Mrs. John Langdon
Taylor of the District of Columbia Voteess League (hold
ina f Miss Anna Lord Strauss, president Of the Ma
tional League OF Women Voters; Mrs. Robert Leonard
president of the District of Columbia League and Mrs.
D. v. Sandifer first vce president OF the Maryland
League.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
By John CIoeett Proctor

526, Weissenstein's jewelry store was
at 528, while a number of businesses
were conducted in the st. Cloud
Building.
The Washington Loan Il Trust
Building now occupies the south
west corner Of Ninth and F, where
it erected the present massive
structure in 1890. This highly re-
garded financial institution was
founded August Is, 1889, and at first
occupied a building at the corner
of Tenth and F streets.
On the northwest corner OF Ninth
and F. once stood the Model House,
a bluish-gray brick building, that
housed q hotel and restaurant run
by a man named Brewer. In 1850
the proprietors were Kipp g. Brewer
(Seth w. Kipp and Albert Brewer)
and here in 1854 the same tlrm
also kept a market store.
Fishing Was Done
On F Street in 1910
An unsigned article, written many
years ago tells something of ths
locality of Ninth and E streets az
far back as 1910:
"Gannon's Row, the four old two.
story brick houses located in the
ravine on the south side Of E street
North, near Ninth street West, will
be remembered by many of the ole
citizens. They have long since beer
demolished. Up to about the veal
1910, long boats containing som.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
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Private Industry
And Government Enterprise

The Wednesday school" will open
promptly at 10:45 am. in the Stat
ler's main ballroom, with Mrs. Rob-
ert F. Leonard, president of the
local league, presiding. Discussions
will center quickly on money prob
lens that plague everybody in that
audience, from the Maryland and
Virginia farmers wives, to the wives
of white-collar workers and officials
who struggle with Uncle Sans
budget. On such questions as What
part should Government play in
these problems; what part private
enterprise?" the assembled voters
Evening star., 1947-01-26

United States conditions
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Evening star., 1947-01-26
OIL FOR VICTORY, by the edi'

OIL FOR VICTORY, by the edi-
tors of Look (Whittlesey House.
A profusely illustrated story OF Pc
troleum in war and peace.
THE TRADE OF NATIONS, by
Michael A. Heilperin (KnopD. An
introduction and guide to interna-
tional trade and economies; Amer
lea Is Q world business power.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
New Angles to the
One-WorId Theme
NATIONALISM AND
INTERNATIONALISM
By Don Luigi Sturzo. (Ro,
Publishers: S3.5O.)
Reviewed by
ZANNE BINGHAM.


If you can "get through" the first
part of the book, which Is really a
preface, eulogizing Catholicism, ra-
tionalizing church policies and con-
tanning q wordy definition OF many
"isms," you will find in the latter
part an intelligent and thoughtful
discussion of world problems. You
may not agree with DR.. Sturzo's s
solutions to these problems, but you
will find them interesting.
OF American foreign policy. he
says we must have definite plan
and then be prepared to back 1t up
He decries appeasement OF the
Soviet Union, which he predicts, Will
lead to another war.
DR.. Sturzo suggests that interna-
tionalisn is inevitable, that, in time
we will subject national loyalty to
internationalism. He presents the
question Of whether this will come
about voluntarily or through coer-
cion.
As to another war, DR.. Sturzo
doubts that geographical and politi-
cal problems will bring it about.
THE core Of the problem" he says.
"is the control of atomic energy
This, he thinks, will be infeasible
under present world organization
Public opinion is his answer: Public
opinion, directed by individual pos
session of a morally social con-
science.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

ESSAY ON MARRIAGE, by Anne
Finch (Rinehart & Coo. Domestic
problems described In verse.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

y arise! You have nothing to
lose but those wells OF mys-
terry that set you apart from
your fellow men and women.
But no more. the women! For this
week in Washington, at the Stat
Ter Hotel, the fair sex sets forth
to publicly dismantle your hitherto
awesome figures, and to mirror you,
fore and aft. at the Sixth Annual
One-Day School Of the Voteless D.
G. League Of Women Voters.
"You and Your Dollars" is the
fortnight overall topic that is
bringing together for this all-day
session 1000 Of that organization's s
members and friends, including a
sizable showing of men. But when
they have finished discussing the
implications with eight nationally
known economists, the women will
have traced the housewives dollar
into such elusive backdrops on the
economic stage as wages, prices,
profits. agriculture, foreign trade,
fiscal policies, social security and
consumer and producer relations.
This all-day battle of dollar
scholars will be opening maneuvers
of campaign by the League Of
Women Voters to show thousands
more of their sisters and BROTH
ers in simple English, how the
wheels of economy go round.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
By J. A. O'Leory, Jr.

we are going to take care of those
additional parkers I don't know"
Mr. Blucher said, II think one
solution IS improvement of mass
transportation facilities. That isn't
going to be easy. Another Is a re-
quirement that all buildings which
generate parking provide parking
space.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

- NTH and r streets NV
M is one OF the city's early
l business centers, and yet
noopy y>orcou< recall when
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-06
U. S. TO deport
Steve Tandaric

Steve Tandaric, former steel
worker and member of the Gas,
Coke & Chemical Workers, CLIO,
has been ordered deported to
Yugoslavia by the immigration
and Naturalization Service, it was
announced this week by the Mid
west Committee For Protection of
Foreign Born.
Tandaric, a resident of Ham
mond, Ind, has lived in the United
States for SO years. His attorney
has requested special hearings in
the case before the Board of I'm
migration Appeals in Washington.
In October, 1914, the Immigra-
ton and Naturalization Service
started deportation proceedings
against Tandaric on the ground
that, in 1899, he re-entered the
country illegally upon his return
from Spain, where he had fought
with the International BrigadeS
against Franco.
The Midwest Committee For
Protection of Foreign Born urged
organizations and individuals to
write to Hon. Watson B. Miller.
United States Commissioner of
immigration and Naturalization,
Philadelphia, 2, Pa, protesting the
attempt to deport Tandaric.