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Evening star., 1947-08-19
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WASHINGTON, LUCY. The family of
the late LUCY WASHINGTON wishes to
express its deep appreciation to the neigh
bors, friends and relatives for their ex-
preston Of sympathy and kindness shown
y US in our recent bereavement
COSTINA WASHINGTON. 10
Evening star., 1947-08-19

The Arabian peninsula is half as
large as all Europe but has a popu-
lation Of only 1l.5OOOO0.
Evening star., 1947-08-19
CEMETERY LOTS.

each; for quick sale, $500 per lot WA.
$3.50. --1a
TWO 6-GRAVE SITES in Cedar Hill Gem
etery; choice location: reasonable Wo.
Evening star., 1947-08-19

GRAY. BERTHA. On Monday August g1B
Is 194 at Fresdmen,ts Hospital: nn,s sER a5R1
of 1877 Army-Navy dr.. Arlington, Va.
She leaves two sons, Clarence AUGUSTUS
sr and Jesse Augustus, sr.: two brothers.
ave sisters, two eranddaughters, two
erandsons, one great,,granddaughter and
a host OF other relatives. NotIce OF
Funeral Service.
Evening star., 1947-08-19

FRANCES ECkENRODE. GRAND RegehC.
MARGARET TAUGHER, Financial
Secretary. ~
ENG. CHUNG. On Friday, August s
lqt1, at Gallinger Hospital, CHUNG ENG
Services at Chambers Funeral Home
400 Chaplin st. NV, on Wednesday, Au-
gust 90, at 2 pm. Interment Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
FINE. MORRIS. On Monday August
Is. 1947. at Doctors Hospital, MORRIS
FINE, beloved husband of Ida Fine and
beloved father of Ruth. and Cecilia Fine
156 Pa ave NV. on Wednesday. Au-
gust 90 at 10 am Interment Cedar
Hill Cemetery. tSt. Louis papers please
ropv>
usurp CHARLES n sR On Saturday.
Evening star., 1947-08-19
CRIsMoND, MRS. MARTA. The mem

JR1SMOND, Il.
bers of Court Forest Glen
Catholic Daughters of America
H will assembel at Pumphrey's
SSkSSY Funeral Home, Silver Spring
NZ Md, at $50 pm, Tuesday
August 10, to recite the Rosary
for our departed member, MRS
MARY CRISMOND.
FRANCES ECKENRODE Grand Regent.
MARGARET TAUGHER, Financial
Evening star., 1947-08-19

COLLINS, MARION G. On SUNDAY.
Aops Aos9s N MMkRs 1916 G. 6 dokNs 55snd Msmo5s fbs ssl
Teresa J. kaufman Mrs: Lillian Mansold
Chambers Riverdale Funeral Home on
Wednesday, August 20. at pm, Inter-
nent St. Johns Cemetery. Beltsville, Nd.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
And the Prize Is Beef
Poee n

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gheed .seeny rec otop toR %04no cotohee c. for beet shoot
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Evening star., 1947-11-24
Souure Dance

Violin, piano and guitar reach teoered con-
cert pitch :.
And shake the ratters OF unpainted
peathered pine; q
Lauohter falls like falling donuinoes along
the hail.;
Intricate wheels of dancers Deave and
intert,oine.
Pon,aded hair and brilliant rdyon prints
reDolUe
In bright naail-order blaze of testtoe Sat-
nrday night,
Faces scrubbed, still shining NTH tho
sun,
Cares OF the weekday ,oorld forgotten
no1u and slight.
The tune the fiddler plays is generations.
old:
The figures called are tDorn and mean;
ingless NTH years,
But still the dance erokes perenniolly the
same
Recaptured happiness OF youth It did
nth pioneers.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT'
Evening star., 1947-11-24
No Reason at All

Refusal of the superintendent of police
0 furnish information on traffic ticket
king to a committee set up by the District
Ear Association is not merely inexcusable
it is an astonishing bit of effrontery
hat is not going to remain unchallenged.
The District Traffic Court Conference
Committee is one of national group
rganized originally by the American Bar
.ssociation to improve traffic law enforce
lent. One of its recommendations last
ear was that police precinct captains who
lave some authority to fix" tickets by
ubstituting warning for traffic charge
,eep a record of the number and the rea-
ons for such adjustments.
That apparently is being done now in
he precincts. But when the chairman
t the committee asked for record of
UGH cases in each precinct this year the
Information was refused on grounds that
effect on the intelligence of the higher
police command.
"The number of ticket adjustments by
he captains of the precincts" says Major
Barrett should be treated as an admin
strative matter and should not be made
public" And why should they not be made
public? Here is the answer: "He major
3arrett) feels that as traffic conditions
rary considerably all over the city, and
here is more traffic enforcement in some
precincts than others, the adjustments
laturally vary also. He believes that the
verage person Mould not understand the
-ariance, and thereby forms distorted
1icture of untrue impressions of the real
ituation."
1t is unfortunate that Major Barrett is
'roing into the business of attempting to
ay what the average person would or
would not understand. He should stick to
lis knitting as a policeman. AS for this
raf1c fixing, it is confusing to read Major
3arrett's explanation of why the records
should not be made public, in that they
come into headquarters as a matter of
routine once week. The Police Depart
nent should be as interested as the Bar
Association in any steps designed to i'm
prove traffic law enforcement Major Bar
rett's curious refusal to cooperate is
untenable He will have to change his
mind.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
A Generally Creditob|e Record

Considering the unprecedented wartime
burdens which it was compelled to assume,
Government Services, Incorporated, seems
to have stood up we'll under the searching,
three-Way investigation to which it has
been subjected in recent months. Few
agencies have been pried into as thor
oughly the past year as GSI. The Baldwin
subcommittee of the Senate Civil Service
Committee has peered into virtually every
corner of the sprawling, Government
sponsored but essentially private corpora
ton. At the request of the subcommittee
the Federal Bureau of Investigation has
examined records of the lengthy hearings.
The Controller General has audited GSIs
books.
The FBI reported that it could find no
evidence of law violation to warrant fur
ther investigation by its agents. The Con-
troller General, while finding room for
Improvement in some phases of GSI oper-
alton, stated that, in general, the agency'S
affairs had been we'll conducted. And now
the worst that the Baldwin Subcommittee
has been able to find wrong with GSI is
what it terms its "loose management"
Even GSI's most ardent supporters had
never contended that its management has
been beyond criticism at all times, how
ever Mistakes have been made and ad-
mitted. But perfect management could
hardly have been expected, in view OF war
born problems which were thrust upon
Manager Hoover and his staff. The rapid
expansion of Government personnel which
took place between 1941 and 1945 required
a like expansion of cafeteria and welfare
services. The agency has grown until 1t
now comprises one hundred and thirty
units During the past twenty years 1t has
done a gross business of more than one
hundred million dollars. Last year alone
it crossed more than twelve million dollars.
It's activities range from feeding employees
to supplying them with recreational faclli-
ties in the District and several States.
Both the Controller General and the
Baldwin Subcommittee suggest that Con-
gress should consider reorganization OF
the existing trustee arrangement, under
which a group of Federal officials super
vises the management of GSI. The pur-
pose of this would be to separate the
policy making and administrative func-
tions. The Controller General also sees
the need for more clearly defined contracts
to avoid misunderstanding as to the limits
of responsibility of GSI and the Public
Buildings Administration in the equipment
field. These and several other proposed
reforms probably would improve GS1. To
this extent, at least, the long investigation
of sensational charges made by critics OF
GSI has been worth while. During all
this period, however, the agency inevitably
has been operating under a severe strain
that must have affected its morale and
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Bennins Buses

TO the Editor of The Star:
Mr.. Golden should have read the P. u c.
orders relating to the Bennng carline, for he
would have found the abandonment order was
predicated on financial reasons Underground
conduit and imitation don't mix welD. while
the prior retention order was based on en-
gineering reasons (the bus running poor
second). His comparison of the Petworth ex-
press with car service on Georgia avenue and
Fourteenth street is pointless, for wherever
one goes in whatever vehicle, express service Is
faster than local service-it's designed to be So
Except on Benning, where the experimental
express service bettered the local streetcar
service by very little-see the PUG recordso
Lastly, Mr.. Golden had better speak for Pa
patrons not Connecticut avenue riders, for
the strongest opposition to the Benning bus
proposal came from two regular Chevy Chase
bus riders. CHARLES j. MURPHY.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Rebuilding the Merchant Marine

The Presidents Advisory Committee on
the Merchant Marine has presented per-
suasive argument for an immediate start
on rebuilding our War-depleted merchant
fleet It's report should dispel any doubts
as to the need for continuance of Gov
ernment subsidies in the interest OF the
Nations welfare, both in time of peace and
In time of war.
The war left our merchant shipping in
dustry sadly demoralized. Our prewar
passenger feet of 1877 vessels, with Ca
pacity of $4,000 persons, emerged from the
conflict a mere shadow of itself. Today
the fleet consists of only three dozen first
quality ships in service or under construc-
ton, with a total capacity of little more
than 5000 passengers. All existing con-
tracts for Workmanship construction will
have been completed by early next year.
Many of the war-built ships are obsolete
or unserviceable.
Because of this shortage of good ships
the Government has been forced to retain
in operation some wartime troop ships
characterized by Coast Guard safety ex-
perts as "a national disgrace" These
ships are used to transport and support
our occupational and rehabilitation forces
abroad Although far below prevailing
safety and comfort standards, these ships
must continue in use until more American
passenger ships become available. That
means for an indefinite period.
The Presidents Advisory Committee
points out that expansion of the merchant
fleet is amply justified by peacetime COM
mercial shipping prospects of the 5immedi-
ate future, by the needs of our occupation
program and, not the least important by
any means, by the requirements OF
national security. Army and Navy ex-
perts told the committee that shipping
will play an even greater part in future
war than in the late one, and that the
Evening star., 1947-11-24
A Consuming Curiosity

70 the Editor Of The Star:
I wish some one would tell me:
Why we close our distilleries to save grain
and allow European distilleries to remain open
and use the grain we save?
Why butter bread and milk took jump
in price Immediately after the Presidents anti
imitation radio address?
Why they are begging for s3,900000 for the
Community Chest here, yet they can raise
billions for Europe? Can't they deduct just
little for needy Americans?
Where they are going to find homes and
Jobs paying enough to support the 100000
displaced persons when American World War IL
vets need the same SO badly?
Why the Supreme Court of the United States
composed of nine of the most brilliant lawyers
in the Nation can't read our Constitution or
laws we'll enough to understand them and
agree on anything? It's always fve-to-four
and yet they say, Ignorance of the law is no
excuse" and expect even children to under
stand and obey the law. Why can't our laws be
written SO they are understood by all?
Why the press has never said anything good
about Russia, a form of government that has
continued to survive and progress for over
Is years. Wouldn't an unsuccessful experiment
fail long before that?
Why our legislators can't understand that
they are giving away billions SO fast that
the slightest depression forcing loss in tax
collections endangers this country with bank
ruptcy?
Why the President on one hand says he'll
keep prices up and then decries our 1nnauon
and begs for lowering of prices?
Why producers constantly whine about the
cost of overtime pay when all they would have
to do is limit their production to the size OF
their force and eliminate overtime pay?
Why the muddlers need billions in Europe
while Macarthur is putting Japan on its
economic feet at no cost to the working people
of America? j. A. MATHEWS.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Stars, Men and Atoms :
Connecticut Tracks Show
Dinosaurs Bred There
Migration of Giant Reptiles Likened
To Trip Sea Lions Make Today
BY Thomas r. Henry

Inc upper Connecticut valley appears to
have been breeding ground for hundreds Of
thousands OF dinosaurs about 100000 900 wears
ago.
Especially to an area around the present
town Of Turner's Fall, Mass, these protesoue
reptiles of many sizes and varieties appear to
have made periodic migrations, presumably for
breeding, although the young were born else.
where. This Is the theory of Prof Richard s.
Luu. professor of paleontology at Yale, Who
pow Is making a study and classification of
the thousands of dinosaur footprints found In
Triassic rocks of the area
Like Sea Lion Migratons.
The location, he believes must have had
some such place in the life of the dinosaurs
over many thousands of years as the Pribiloff
Islands now hold in the life of sea lions The
reptiles, the arrangement of the fossil foot
prints shows, were not permanent residents in
any great abundance. They appear to have
congregated here only at certain seasons per-
haps years apart.
Throughout much of the valley the foot
prints are found 1t is by far the richest area
in the world for these imprints of the distant
past. Amherst College alone has 81 500 speci-
mems. The Peabody Museum at Yale has the
second largest collection, now being studied
by Or. Lull. Curiously enough, very few fossil
bones of dinosaurs have been found Appar-
emily few of them died at this point in their
periodic migrations.
AT that time the upper Connecticut valley
appears to have been a rather low, swampv
area through which flowed river which can be
considered as the ancestor of the present Con-
necticut. 1t was fairly warm, dry period but
with torrential downpoufs at some seasons.
Some Were Herb Eaters.
The dinosaurs were mostly f1esh-eaters with
an occasional herbiverous species among them
The size ranged from about 81 feet in length
to few inches
From the footprints Dr. Lull is able to make
many deductions as to the appearance and
habits of the creatures in life and these can be
checked by the rare discovery of skeletal re-
mains The same dinosaur complex was spread
as far south as Georgia. Numerous remains
have been found in New Jersey and Mary
hnd
The scarcity of dnoSaur bones in the Con-
necticut valley, DR.. Lull says, is difficult to ex-
plain in view of the great numbers that must
have been here at various times. The finds
to date have been fragmentary and purely
accidental. The largest part of one of the best
fossils is known to be in block of stone used
IN the foundation of a small Connecticut bridge
Must Tear Down Bridge.
To recover it will require tearing down the
structure. Dr. Lul has obtained permission of
the town selectmen to do this if there is no
interruption of traffc'-a requirement which
can be met only by building a temporary
bridge.
More than 100 different types of footprints,
possibly representing that many species of
dinosaurs, have been distinguished to date and
it is expected that more will be found in the
new study
Evening star., 1947-11-24
New Look for PAGES

Announcement that Senate pages here
after are to be permitted to wear long
trousers is not really such revolutionary
news AS it might seem. The first of the
predecessors of the present generation of
Congressional Mercuries did not appear in
short pants. On the contrary, they we're
costumed very much as their sponsors,
John c. Calhoun and Daniel Webster, were
dressed-little gentlemen sartorially fol-
lowing the models of the great Senators
and Representatives of those palmy days.
Such, anyway, are the impressions of
Carl A. Loeff1er, who was appointed page
in 1889, and now after SO years of service
on "the Hill," is Secretary of the Senate.
From an old scrapbook he produces data
indicating that the earliest of all Capitol
pages was Grafton D. Hanson, named
messenger in the Senate in December, 1929.
He got the job through the Intervention
of his grandfather General Montroy
Bayley, then sergeant at arms. The second
page was Isaac Bassett, employed in 1881.
1t is a tradition that he served Congress
a total of 62 years, rising at last to be
assistant doorkeeper.
The age bracket at the start was IL to
16 1t now has been changed to mini
mum of IA. The Pages School, directed
by Ernest L. Kendall since 1912, will be
discontinued as an independent Institution
under a new arrangement whereby the
District school authorities will be respon-
sible for the education of the boys. One
reason for the decision to substitute long
trousers for short is that the pages them
selves being bigger than their forerunners
of half century ago, prefer full-length
garments. Another explanation of the
change to the original style is that manu-
facturers of youths clothing no longer
make short pants for lads as tall and as
heavy as their fathers-or even taller and
heavier! The familiar black-ribbed stock
ings of the COS also have vanished from
the market. j. Mark Trice, a page in
1916 and secretary to the Majority in
the Senate now, agrees with Mr.. Loeffler
that "the new look" of the Capitol messen-
gers is "just one of those things" for which
gradually altering circumstances and con-
ditions, rather than individual reformers,
must be credited.
Short pants were fashion when they
were introduced at some unrecorded date
after the Civil War. Ceasing to be the
mode in 1947, they become symbol of a
sort of the mutability of life, even in the
halls of Congress.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

O. What does the Navy include under til
new system?-R. G.
A. Under the terms of the Army-Navy Uni
fication Act, the Navy is comprised of naval
combat and service forces, naval aviation
and the Marine Corps.
Q. Where was the first atomic bomb put
together?-M. R. M.
A. The first atomic bomb was put together
as Los Alamos, N. Mex The site will prob
ably become national monument even
tually At present it is fenced and guarded
and strangers are not allowed within Is miles.
@. Please give the origin of the English Gus
tom of having Lord Mayors show each year
in November-C. c.
A. When the city of London obtained char
ter from King John giving the citizens the right
to elect Mayor, it provided that their
choice be presented to the King for approval.
The original riding to Westminster" for an
audience with the ruler later became the Lord
Mayors show The date of Lord Mayors Day
is November 8.
O. How many Presidents of the United States
were military men? What other careers were
chiefly represented by the men who have oc-
cupied the White House?-A. NICE.
A. Military careers have been prominent
among those leading to the presidency. Wash
ington, Jackson, William Henry Harrison Tay-
lor, Pierce Grant and Garfield were generals.
Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt were colonies
and Mckinley major. President Truman was
a major at the end of World War I. The
law has been we'll represented. Theodore and
Franklin D. Roosevelt were Governors of stra-
tegic State. Wilson. Harding and Hoover had
careers in education Journalism and engineer
ing, respectively.
@. What kinds of wood are best suited for
use in an open fireplace?-G. K. w.
A. Ash, oak and elm, among the more COM
mon woods, make the best frewood. Dogwood,
hazel and poplar are others that burn well
without producing many sparks. Firewood
should be dry, but not too dry
O. In what States are the chief cigarette pro-
ducing areas?-W. M. S.
A. Approximately half of all the cigarettes
made in the United States are produced in
three counties of North Carolina. Virginia
produces "A of the total, leaving less than 20
percent for all other areas.
Q. Where was Mary Queen of Scots buried?-
G. r. T.
A. Her embalmed body lay for five months
unburied and then was laid with great state
and reverence in Peterborough Cathedral, In
1872, it was removed to King Henry Wis
chapel in Westminster Abbey, to a sumptuous
tomb erected by her son James vi.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Too Many People

To the Editor of The Star:
Even though the United States could increase
it's food production to point where 1t would
be able to feed the worlds present peoples
which some of our political leaders have
contended it could but which Is extremely
doubtful, that would not permanently solve
the worlds food problem-at least not with
the worlds peoples following the prevailing
idea of propagation.
Suppose that India, for instance, was sup
piled with food enough adequately to feed her
present huge population. How long would 1t
be until that population will have increased
to a point where it again will be without ade-
ouate food? Well, it's a safe bet that it wouldn't
be long, and then there would be new food
problem One Of the principal reasons why
India does not have more people than she now
has is the lack of food. The thousands that
starve there annually are proof of this. sd
It appears that one way permanently to
solve the worlds food problem is for no nation
to have more people than 1t can feed from its
own land. This, of course, presents problem
for both scientists and educators.
Woodstock Va. J. j. SPERRY
Evening star., 1947-11-24

availability Of shipbuilding facilities and
experienced shipbuilders will be indis-
pensable. This holds true no less in an
atomic era than before the A-bomb was
factor in war, the military men agree.
The committees report should be of great
value to Congress when it begins a study
of the postwar decline of American ship
ping and proposals for its resuscitation.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Duplicate Word Contest

TO the Editor Of The Star:
AS long time reader of The Star, permit
suggestion which believe might possibly,
increase interest in the sports or other columns
of your paper. The suggestion is somewhat
In the nature of contest. There might be .
small prize offered. The contest would be to
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Questions and Answers

reader get the answer to any question OF
fact by writing The Washington Star Information
Bureau 316 street NE. washington 2, D.
Please lnclose 3 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,0riter, although it is permissible for a
,oriter kroUn to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1947-11-24

The race for vice-presidential nomina-
ton in 48 is wide open. For this, one
need only rehearse look of stupefaction
and the remark, in stricken voice. who?
Evening star., 1947-11-24
He Likes Streetcars

To the Editor of The Star:
What Washington needs is not less street.
cars, but, more. How could buses take care Of
the mass transportation, if your transit COM
pany had only buses to serve the thousands
during the rush hour each work day? If a bus
only makes a few stops between rush hour,
naturally it will take less time, but how about
those passengers that live in the different sec
tions of the city? Local stops would have to
be supplied. There are always two sides to
every question. Some day the United States
Government or the District will either have to
run the transportation in the city and run 1t
not for the profit but for comfort and to take
care of the future population.
Yes, what we need here is more streamlined
streetcars Old streetcars are needed for the
rush hour. Those who want streetcars off the
street are those who own automobiles. But
they are ticked to death to ride a streetcar
when the weather is such that they want to
keep their cars in the garage.
What Washington needs eventually is sub
way system, with buses for feeder system, not
for through service FELIX A. URY.