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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
Recent Bride
Entertained
With Shower

Mrs. Norwood King, the former
Miss Edith Wells Hobbs, was en-
tertained at a shower given by
Mrs. Louis Wells at her home in
Nesbitt courts on August IL.
The honoree was showered with
many useful gifts.
Those p t included Mrs.
Irene Smith, Mrs. Katie Thrope,
Mrs. Ella Breech, Mrs. Charity
Batson, Mrs. Archie Lewis, Mrs.
Harold Davis, Mrs. Earl McCort-
ney, Mrs. Johnny Oliphant, Mrs.
Lloyd Wolfe, Mrs. E. E. Sternes,
Mrs. L. Corbett, Mrs. Edwin Hen
ry, Mrs. Virginia Wells, Miss
Doris Corbett, Miss Frances
Wells, Miss elan Wells, Misses
Christine and Joan Wells, Miss
Linda Batson, Miss Betty Ray
Lewis, Miss Betty Carol Oliphant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
Garden Calendar

All questions pertaining to your
garden problems will be answered
through tn e S columns if ad-
dressed to the garden calendar
editor in care of the Wilmington
News society editor.
CONCERNING ANSWERS BY
MAIL
Readers of this column wishing
Information by mail r requested
to send'a self-addressed, stamped
(3-ct.) envelope for same. An in
quiry has reached this office from
a reader in Alexandria, Va, con-
corning the name of a commercial
house from which he can buy GER
tain seed. Such specific infor-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
SOCIAL CALENDAR
MONDAY

MONDAY
700 p.m.-Beacon Girls at st. An
drews-Covenant church. All
members are urged to at
tend as the installation of
new officers and new mem
bers will be held at the can
delight service.
300 p.m.-The Junior hostesses
council will meet at the Sec
ond and Orange Community
center. This is an important
meeting.
800 p.m.-The Woman's Auxiliary
of Emmanuel Presbyterian
church will meet at the
church.
THURSDAY
1880 p.m.-Ths junior and senior
home demonstration clubs
of East Wilmington will
serve a picnic supper at the
clubrooms. The public is
cordially invited.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
Brown-CarveY
Marriage Announced

Francis Garvey of New London,
Conn.,. announces the marriage Of
his daughter. Alice Mae, to Chief
Richard Hill Brown, USN, on Mon
day, August II.
Chief Brown was stationed
aboard the USS Atule and served
patrol duty in the Pacific during
the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
Johnston-D Davis
Invitations 0ui

The following invitations have
been mailed in the city:
Mrs. Stephen Colon Johnston
request the honour of your
presence
at the marriage of her daughter
Sally Margaret
to
Doctor Aaron Heide Davis junior
on Saturday, the twenty-third OF
August
at five o'clock in the afternoon
Winter Park Presbyterian Church
Wilmington, North Carolina
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr.. and Mrs. Rayford W. Marett
announce the birth of a son, Ray
ford Wingo Marett, Jr., July Is
at Marion Sprunt annex. Mrs.
Marett is the former Mary Gather
inc Saunders Of Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Futrelle of
ChinQuapin, announce the birth of
a daughter, Jackie Faye, August
8. Mrs. Futrelle is the former
Mary Harris Bland Of Harrells
Store.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
1t Ought to be Repudiuted

Senator Gains vigorous ana 1Ortnrlght
condemnation of the District income tax
law is fully merited by the facts. The
Star has said before and repeats it. now
that the income tax law as amended is
an unconscionable abuse of the power to
tax and a grave reflection on the Congress
of the United States.
The tax should be corrected of its dis
criminatory features or it should be
repealed. It is improbable that the House
will ever enact a fair, local income tax
Senator Cain is therefore recommending
the practical course when he argues for
it's repeal His bill-which repealS the
personal income tax but leaves. as it
should, the corporation income tax, will
be up for consideration in January
The correction of an inequitable tax
is not the only consideration. Budget
Officer Fowler and others, including Chair
man Walt Koran of the Subcommittee on
District Appropriations, have warned
already that the tax program approved
by this past session of Congress will not
support the needs of the District. A sales
tax seems inevitable. 1t is the only tax
that promises to collect something from
all the people who are deriving benefit
from work or residence in Washington
ana therefore owe something in support
of the local government Representative
Dirksen, chairman of the House District
Committee was convinced of that two
years ago. An increasing number of legis-
lators have come around to his point of
view. The logical substitute for an
unworkable, inadequate and viciously
discriminatory personal income tax is a
sales tax.
lot of hard work and honest effort by
Representative Bates and Senator Cain,
co-chairmen of the joint subcommittee,
went into framing District tax program
The O'Hara amendment of the income
tax rendered much of their work futile,
so that six months of committee prepara-
ton went out of the window in a few
minutes of House debate. With so many
complaining expressions in Congress over
the waste Of time over local matters it
seems strange to The Star that Congress
does not grant to the Commissioners the
authority to fix rates of taxation, leaving
20 Congress merely the determination of
he fields of taxation in which the rates
will be applied.
If Congress granted such powers, con-
tenting itself with definition of the tax
sources, we would probably come out with
a better-balanced and more productive
program of local taxes. The advantages
of doing this should receive the attention
of Congress next January, when the ques-
ton of how to balance the local budget
will be up again.
Evening star., 1947-07-28

any event, we can be certain that expert
ments are in process to step up the destruc-
tiveness of the atom. The Acc report
reveals that we have established special
proving grounds in the Pacific, and i'm
portant new tests are indicated. The post
poned deep underwater blast may be tried
one of these days, and there may be an
underground blast to measure the shock in
terms of the vulnerability of modern cities
and to weigh it's effects against those of the
midair explosions over Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
All this adds up to a grim picture But
the United States, with the world in its
present state, cannot backslide in its
atomic strength without gambling with
it's survival. The secret of the bomb is not
ours to have and to hold forever. Other
powers are capable of developing what
we have now, and they are losing no time
trying to catch up Unless strict interna-
tional control is established, there will be
the most terrible armaments race in his
tory. Russia, by change in attitude, by
honest cooperation, could brighten the
whole outlook overnight. Until that hap
pens, however, America can only hope for
the best and prepare for the worst with an
unremitting effort to maintain its ascend
ancy in fear-ridden age.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Lincoln Documents

The Robert Todd Lincoln collection, 1t
seems, contains nothing for which the
world need have waited twenty-one years
after his own demise. Persons who mag
ined that something scandalouS, something
discreditable to somebody, would be re-
vealed when the eighteen thousand docu-
ments were opened to public inspection
have been disappointed. What has hap
pened, instead, is a marvellous enhance
ment of the character of the martyred
President as a man and as leader. The
papers gathered together In the White
House after his death demonstrate how
profoundly great was the loss which the
Nation suffered in his assassination. They
also prove how tremendous was the advan-
tage to all parts of America inherent in
his availability at the time of the breach
between the North and the South
Suppose Salmon Chase or Horace Greeley
or Edwin M Stanton or George B. McClel-
poraries had been Chief Magistrate at the
moment when Fort Sumter first was
threatened: Would any of them have
been truly equal to the task shaping up
before them then? The answer is obvious
from glance at their contributions to this
treasury of Lincolniana. No other indi-
vidual of his time equaled him in the quail
ties that were demanded of savior of the
Union. A vastly important book could be
compiled from the Robert Lincoln docu-
ments simply as they reflect his fathers
maturity of spirit. He was Solemnly serl-
Gus in the face of the disastrous impact OF
secession; he was hopeful of reunion as
practical potentiality; he was courageous
in his choice of policies that would hasten
victory and peace he was stalwart In his
faith in those he commissioned to do the
required work; he was charitable in his
judgments of them when they failed and
generous in his concentrations of them
when they succeeded; he was equitable
throughout and scrupulously careful not
to ask more than human hearts and minds
could give; above all he was devoted,
self f-immolated to his overwhelming re-
sponsibility.
All of this is clear from what Lincoln
himself wrote and from what his corre-
spondents said II no other material
relating to the era of the strife between
the States existed, these papers would
suffice to furnish scholars with data for
a practical history of that epoch. Fortu-
nately, however, they do not stand alone.
The Library of Congress possesses correla-
tive files of monumental value. Other
documents almost certainly will be added
In the future. Thus not merely history will
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Small Things

God must hare made q prolonged study OF
The things called commonplace, else
how could be
Erplained the many patterns where He
stroDe
To set the mould OF pure simplicity?
The pasture rose, the datsy's honest face;
The pealth of pine trees harbored on
hiU
Erouisite texture OF trail Queen Anne's
lace,
The mint of gold that dandelions fill;
And little people trudgtng by the pdy-
All intermingled in His generous plan
OF struggle, toll and living day by day,
Leaving honespun beauty Whers
they can:
Quite unaUare OF uhnt they really bring
To life and loue's collective bargaining.
RUBY ALTIZER ROBERTS.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Attacking q Health Problem

washington should be model for the
rest Of the country" Impoverishment of
welfare institutions and programs has
caused that phrase to be uttered more
often in sarcasm than in hope.
But there is hope, due to the passage of
the Hebert bill in the closing hours of the
session, that Washington will pioneer
successfully in a scientific attack on alco-
holism as public health problem.
This welfare program will not lack funds.
The Hebert bill finances the clinics it will
establish with tax on the liquor trade.
The protests of the liquor dealers were
followed by elimination of this plan in
the House. But they were ignored in the
Senate. The Senate wrote in tax on the
license fees and the Senate prevailed
The Star supported the Hebert bill since
its introduction in this Congress. The bill
grew out OF the jail breaks last year. An
investigating board found 80 per cent
OF the inmates of the Jail and the Work
House were habitual drunkards. James
" Bennett, director of the Federal Bureau
OF Prisons and member of the investi-
eating board, drafted the bill Represent
ative Edward F. Hebert, Democrat, of
Louisiana introduced it, Senator John S.
Cooper, Republican, of Kentucky, chair
man of the District Welfare Subcomnit-
tee, revised it, All are to be commended
for forward piece of legislation
The problem of alcoholism is a difficult
one. 1t is a greater problem than even
the court records indicate, For many
persons die of alcoholism, many families
are broken up and suffer want without
having suffered the humiliation of an
arrest That great changes in the methods
by which we have dealt with this problem
are possible is indicated by something that
has already occurred. The drunk popula-
ton of the Work House has declined so
per cent, from an average of $50 to one
of 275, since the Hebert bill started giving
the problem so much publicity. Arrests
for drunkenness are as high as ever. The
reason may be that instead of committing
drunks as heretofore. the judges already
are sentencing in the spirit of the Hebert
bill which reads: "The courts of the Dis
trict Of Columbia are hereby authorized
to take judicial notice of the fact that a
chronic alcoholic is sick person."
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Costs at St. Elizabeths


Your editorial of July 20, entitled "A Chance
to Be Heard in referring to the method by
which the per diem charge made by St.
Elizabeths Hospital to the District is set,
speaks of the Board of Visitors of the hospital,
ION which the District was unrepresented"
Perhaps word of explanation is in order, in
view of the current welter of words about the
cost of giving proper care to the mentally Ill
of the District.
When Dorothea Lynde Dix wrote the basic
law enacted in 1855, she provided that there
should be Board of Visitors consisting OF
nine Citizens" Of the District Of Columbia, to
be appointed by the President, who should
visit the hospital at stated periods, and ex-
ercise so careful supervision over its expendi-
lures and general operations that the Govern
ment and community may have confidence
in the correctness Of its management"
These visitors were the unpaid public trustees,
more completely neutral than any paid official
can be, interested In the patients and In the
public; their services were terminated IN 1916
by congressional action. At that time the
board two positions being vacant, consisted
of the following public-spirited residents of
the District: President Cloyd H. Marvin of
George Washington University. president Of
the board; Mrs. Anne Archbold, Mrs. Milton
King, Miss Mary E. switzer, Gen. Hugh S.
Cumming, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire
and DR.. John W. Rustin Of the Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Church. I am glad to pay
tribute to their loyal and devoted public serv-
ice. The rates set by them reflected ac-
curately the actual cost Of rendering "the
most humane care and enlightened curative
treatment" for the patients, as do the rates
later (since 1944 successfully set by the
Federal Board of disqualification, the President,
and how by the Bureau Of the Budget. Through
no desire on the part of administrators, the
cost of rendering hospital service, or indeed
service of almost any kind has risen sharply
in the last few years, and st. Elizabeths
Hospital is of course no exception; our present
cost of $685. per day Is hardly over one-half
that of operating Gallinger Hospital and Glenn
Dale Sanatorium. I doubt however. whether
the most ardent champion Of economy really
is desirous of saving money at the expense
of those who are too i'll to care for themselves
whether by reason of mental or other disease.
The hospital will continue to aim at the best
possible care for its patients and at the judi
cious and conscientious expenditure of all pub
lie moneys appropriated for its use. =
WINFRED oVERHOLSER. M. D.,
Superintendent, st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
stors, Men and Atoms
Migration to America
Before Columbus Seen
Vanished Greenland Settlement Offers
Scientists No Other Conclusion
By Thomas r. Henry


There must have been q mass migration OF
white men to the North American continent
at least $50 years before the first voyage OF
Columbus.
Nothing else can account for the disappear
ance of the Morse settlement on the western
coast OF Greenland, according to report just
published by DR.. K. Fischer-Moller, Danish
archeologist Of survey of the remains.
The settlements were established some time
In the 10th century in Greenland, which
then may have had a more equabie climate
than now, by Icelanders following the trail
OF Lief the Lucky. One was on the east, the
other on the west coast Of the Arctic island.
The fasteners, the archaeological evidence
shows, kept up some contact with Europe until
about the middle of the 18th century. They
led. at best, dismal existence. Skeletons
from their graveyards show progressive signs
Of malnutrition. Eventually most of them
were massaered by the Eskinos.
Other Side Of Isle Different
On the other side of the island the picture
is quite different, Fischer-Moller says. Skele-
tons show no evidence of degeneracy or NAL
nutrition. There was some interbreeding with
the Eskimo, but the basic stock remained Ice
landc to the last There is no evidence that
they were massacred or their farms burned.
Yet there was no sign of them when relief
expedition visited the site in 1870. The cattle
were running wild in the fields. The buildings
were intact-but the people had disappeared
into thin air
Here we have something which is Of
interest to the whole northern world" says
the British archeologist T. c. Lethbridge,
interpreting the Danish report
IF these people left West Greenland by
sea and did not return to the western settle
ment, to Iceland or to Norway, it is incon-
ceivahle that they went anywhere but to
America. 1t is in America that we must search
for remains of their later settlements.
Whether these were in Newfoundland, Lab
rador or the Great Lakes region time alone
will show, but students in America can no
longer be so skeptical about Morse remains
being found in their country. 1t is only
what one would expect Of such a hardy race
as the Greenland Norsemen They knew Of
a better country and would surely 60 to it
when relations with the Eskimo became
impossible"
Remains Subject to Skepticism.
Although many alleged Morse remains have
been found scattered through Canada and
the northern part of the United States, none
has been entirely accepted by archeologists
lneTe mas peen growing pelle1, however,
that there must have been a small admixture
of white blood somewhere on the continent
at the time of Columbus discoveries In $50
years it might have spread a long way.
although communications necessarily were
difficult.
The latest reports OF the Danish arche-
illogical survey Of Greenland resumed since
the war, thoroughly dispose Of an alleged
prehuman skull found there few years ago
which looked something like that Of q
Neanderthal man. Actually 1t was that OF q
Norseman with pituitary gland abnormahty
Evening star., 1947-07-28
A Grim imperative

AS it has just emphasized in its SEMI
annual report to Congress-, the United
States Atomic Energy Commission has one
responsibility that overshadows all its
activities at this time. That responsibility
is to keep America supreme in the field
of nuclear armaments, to strive constantly
for more and more improvement In the
A-bomb and related weapons-in short, to
concentrate the main effort on the fullest
possible development of incomparably the
most destructive force ever harnessed by
man.
The commission, of course, Is not
neglecting the atoms benefcent poten-
tialities in such fields as health and indus
trial power. But its report makes clear
that this phase of it's operations is def
nitely secondary to the military phase 1t
could not be otherwise. The law creating
the Acc specifically directs that top pri-
ority attention be paid to work on A
weapons More than that, the realities OF
the hour, the international tensions, the
split between east and west, the Inability
to agree on decent peacemaking measures,
all combine to make it a life-or-death
matter for the United States to maintain
it's present lead in nuclear armaments and
do everything it can to make them even
more powerful than they are now.
In it's report, because of security consid-
erations, the Acc has touched upon this
subject in only the vaguest language. 1t
has said enough, however, to impress all
countries with this fact: That America
will continue to put special stress on de-
veloping the atom for military purposes
until the world polices itself with an effec-
tive vetoless system of control. Accord
ingly, far-reaching new efforts will be
made in fundamental research to expand
our present knowledge of nuclear physics.
The bomb that wiped out Hiroshima-a
single bomb equivalent to 10000 tons of
TNT-represented but crude beginning.
It was made obsolete by the Nagasaki
bomb and we may safely assume that the
Nagasaki bomb, in turn, has since been
outmoded by the ones we have been storing
away.
It is instructive, even If frightening, to
keep in mind this outlook for the progress
sive increase in the death dealing eff
cheney of A-weapons, including radioactive
gases. It has been authoritatively sug-
gested that their power may be multiplied
tenfold in the not distant future 1t is
conceivable, moreover, that scientists,
working with hydrogen and helium, may
yet develop bomb 1000 times more
deadly than those that fell on Japan. In
Evening star., 1947-07-28
By John ". Thompson, Jr.


What should branch library look like?
That, according to a representative citizens
committee, is question which demands good
deal of study unhampered by any Of the exist
ing designs.
The committee has just submitted to the
Commissioners an 11-year program OF civic
improvements to bring public facilities and
services in line with demands of the postwar
population.
The l3 present branch structures are .
hodge podge." Efforts according to the
report should center on the development OF q
pleasing but functionally efficient design which
can be adopted as basic plan for future
branches.
In recommending for the library system a
81 691 900 shot-in-the- arm, the committee
allows for six new branches, new buildings for
three existing branches and early construction
of Unit No. of the new Central Library.
This, the members say, is about the most
that can be accomplished within the next few
years and still be in keeping with the overall
financial condition of the city.
Branch Library Building Delayed.
OF all the library services, the development
of branches has particularly Jagged behind the
growth of the city in recent years.
Seyen of the 13 were installed before 1880
when the population was 487 900. Three more
were added during the next decade when the
population leaped to 663,091. OF these 10, seven
were concentrated in the Northwest section.
Since 1910 three other branches were added
but only one-the Anacostia-iS east Of the
Anacostia River in small rented store.
It is this area, however, that has mushroomed
in growth during the war period.
Thus the greatly increased population east
Of the Anacostia, in the northeastern and
northern parts of the District and in the newly
developed areas of the northwest areas is badly
underserved as compared with the older popu
lated areas" the committee says
Book circulation reflects this situation. For
all branches the average circulation is 81 times
the number of books in stock. The Anacostia
branch with 84 leads all of them and the Chevy
Chase branch is above average.
Below average are the branches for the we'll
established communities of Mount Pleasant,
Georgetown and Takoma Park.
The physical appearance Of the l3 existing
branches is varied. Both the librarian and the
Board of Library Trustees have ideas on the