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Evening star., 1948-01-18
Bids Asked on Highways
In MARYLAND Counties
~ the Associuted Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 1.-THE State
roads commission today asked
sealed bids by February On the
following construction projects:
Montgomery County-Widenine
of "a miles Of the East-West high
way from Georgia avenue west to
Wisconsin avenue.
Anne Arundel and Calvert Coun-
Evening star., 1948-01-18

ties-Asphaltic concrete surfacing
|of 12.75 miles On State route SIC
from Wayson's Corner In Anne
Arundel County to Sunderland in
Calvert County.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
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Evening star., 1948-01-18
Lions PIun Dinner-Dunce

The Mount Vernon Lions Club
will hold its third annual night
dinner and dance at pm. Tuesday
| in the terrace dining room at the
National Airport.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Three Rs By.Products

To the Editor OF The Star
With reference to the letter of Ida r. Brown,
1t seems to me one very important item has
been overwhelmingly that progressive"
education is not q methodology but an theology
which uses what may appear to be activities
as its method. The controversy on progressive
education is entirely question of objectivity,
for, to be progressive, the development Of COM
munication skills or scientific skills (the Rs
are possible and incidental by-product only
which may or may not result from the de-
velopnent of particular philosophy.
But don't take my word for it-I am not an
educator. Let me refer you to DR.. Boyde H.
Bode, Professor of Education, who says: I'm
academic language, the progressive school is
place where children 60, not primarily to
learn, but to carry on way Of life" Also
Prof w. H. Fitzpatrick who says: I'VE must
not begin by setting up certain traits as items
of knowledge or certain habits or skills as
ends to be realized and then hunt about for
some experience to teach them" In other
words; we cannot intend that little Johnny
will read, write or spell as the result of what
we do but may only hope that he will also
and incidentally acquire such skills
believe that the public should devote more
interest to what is being produced for our
educational dollar and should put at the top
of the must list for background reading "Pro-
gressive Education at the Crossroads and
Modern Education" by Prof. Bode. Also
"Foundation of Methods" by Prof. Fitzpatrick
may be interesting. CARL w. BINKER.
Evening star., 1948-10-14

ourselves. Another strategic problem con-
Germs the attitude of the dominions toward
the Western European Union, of which
Britain is member. On the economic
side, this union likewise poses the problem
of empire trade and finance as affected by
Britain's closer economic association with
countries Of the European continent.
These and other matters will form the
basis for the discussions that are now
going on. It should be emphasized, how
ever, that these talks will be exploratory
and informal in character There is no
hard-and-fast agenda, no public debates,
no binding decisions. In conformity with
Commonwealth tradition, this is sort
of family gathering" for exchange of
views and helpful suggestions. Common
wealth fexibility is thus maintained.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Native Daughters Complaints


TO the Editor Of The Star: ~
Is washington bowing to the golden idols?
The ruthless way in which beautiful trees are
cut down along picturesque and historic streets,
the absolute heartlessness with which beautiful,
historic homes are torn down to make-of all
things-parking lots, are deplorable, to say the
least. With the housing shortage so bad, 1t Is
unspeakable to tear down SO many residences
to make room for parking lots or Office space.
We native residents count 1t privilege to
live in the Nations Capital, even though we
have no voice in our own government and are
classed with lunatics and criminals! One
often wonders whether some Of the foreigner"
who come from other cities and States and
take over the management Of our city do not
rightfully belong in that class though they
straddle the fence and vote back home" while
they rule here with an iron hand.
-. The older residents who have lived here and
worked for the Government for many years.
buying their own homes, hoping for measure
of security in the sunset years. Of hfe-what
peace do they have today? They continually
are harassed by telephone calls asking If they
want to buy cemetery lots or do they want to
sell their homes.
Let's restore the dignity and beauty which
should characterize the Capital Of the World"
and start working for peace right here ct home
before we tackle the bigger job Of world peace
and security. NATIVE DAUGHTER
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Andrea in Blue

The sir-year-old IN, chiffon smelling stoeet
With Lavender tnpudes my study, sure
OF praise, on pretty tiptoe poised to greet
This iron-gray sailor ,Dtth a kiss. ! hold
Her close, thank God He iets these arms
in1nlure t@'s s#s@-& Y
Her straight slim pride, my lamb ,oithtn
the fold! d.
This moment ] recall the cobalt sea
OF Malta, Persian fatence, porcelain
That seems to float on atr, dreams lost
to me -,
Yet neper tar, ,so1p imminent and fair
A. her blue cues, and humbly once again,
Touch lbs In tearty to monday hair.
JOHN ACKERSON.
Evening star., 1948-10-14

l946, and on another memorable date, Decem-
Der Z, 1941.
Franco made no bones OF his synnpathies for
the Axis until it was evident that it was COM
pletely defeated. The Spanish Blue Division
actually fought for the Nazis. True, this was
against the Russians but their presence per-
mitted the Hitlerites to shift German division
against our TROOPS believe our troops would
much rather nave faced the Franco troops.
As threat to worlds peace, Franco today
means nothing. But as threat to democracy,
he is still as dangerous as ever. Not as dan
gerous as Stain, but certainly not to be under
estimated, If we are at point where we Aeed
Franco, we have reached solution that is
distasteful. If the U. N. changes its attitude
and seeks to appease the despicable Spanish
fuehrer, we should go along with "Our U. N
Policy" but we need not like it, In fact, we
should regret having to do business with such
a creature. If Franco were half the man he
claims to be, he would quit and rid the Spanish
people of an embarrassment. G. j. S.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Mr.. Vinson Out of OrderP

TO the Editor Of The Star:
President Truman's determination to send
Justice Vinson to plead before the throne of
Stain has brought forth unfriendly criticism
from both political friend and foe. However,
no criticism has been aimed at Mr.. vinson.
Was he not equally guilty Of consenting to
commit diplomatic blunder OF the first
magnitude? He knew that he was about to
60 over the head Of our Secretary Of State.
Presumably, he knew that the matter had been
submitted to the United Nations. He also
knew that he was not obliged to accept the
assignment II he felt that his exalted posi-
ton would make an impression on Mr. Stain.
he and his associates would do well to employ
Mr. Gallup to find out just where they stand
in the eyes of the American people. The result
of the poll might induce them to stick to the
law. j. FRED PARSONS.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
MontoomeY's Charter Upheld

BY upholding the conStltutlonallty OF
disputed section of the proposed Mont
gomery County charter, the Maryland
Court of Appeals has cleared the way for
a decisive vote by county residents on the
home-rule question. The court has left
no room for doubt as to how much of the
charter is to be voted on. 1t will be the
entire instrument, not truncated ver-
sion of it, or version containing pro-
vision which might later be declared
invalid.
It is fortunate that the high State court
has disposed of the constitutional issue
in such forceful and unequivocal terms
and before the election rather than after
the charter is adopted. And there seems
to be little doubt that majority OF the
citizens are in favor of adoption. Had
the appellate tribunal been less explicit
in dealing with the debated portion of the
document, many voters who otherwise
would have supported the plan would have
had misgivings. They might have had
difficulty in making up their minds to
vote for a charter containing clause
which the Circuit Court had held to be
unconstitutional and which the higher
court had left clouded with doubt.
Since the Court of Appeals is Marylands
court of last resort, the validity of the pro-
vision for budgetary executive session OF
the proposed County Council month after
the regular legislative session of the coun-
Gil has been definitely established. This
provision had been attacked successfully
before the lower court, which ordered the
section deleted before the charter was
submitted to the voters The Circuit Court
had held that State constitution re-
.quirement that all Legislative" acts by a
county council must be performed within
the period of month-long legislative
session precluded any appropriations in a
later executive session. Under the charter,
the council would hold its regular legisla-
tive meeting during May and then would
meet in executive session in June for
budget-making and appropriating.
In overruling the lower courts opinion
that budgeting and appropriating are "leg-
islation" and hence could not be done
except in the May meeting, the higher
court contended against a narrow con-
struction of the constitutions language.
To give straight and unnatural mean
ing" to Legislation" would be to "emascu
late" the charter, Chief Judge Marbury
pointed out.
Thus the chief technical issue raised by
opponents of the charter has been wiped
out and the home-rule plan now will go
to the voters on its merits. That Is the
way this question, so vitally affecting the
future of the county, should be decided.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Steel in the White House
70 the Editor Of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
Much is being said concerning an expenditure
of $1,0 ,000, 900 for remodeling the White House at
this time of short material supplies and high
costs of construction. Edward Egger, writing to
The Star. states that the. White House Is the
same 132-year- old structure, built when steel
and concrete reinforcements were both un-
known and unobtainable.
Mr. Egger undoubtedly is unaware Of the fact
that in 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt
secured an appropriation from Congress in the
amount of $53o,000 to cover complete remodern-
ization and refurnishing Of the White House
and steel beams replaced the wooden ones.
The purchasing value of dollar in 1902 was
over twice what it Is today
WALTER L. CARTER.
Evening star., 1948-10-14

for balance between individual desires and
the general welfare, and Of the imperative
requirement that every citizen participate
intelligently and effectively in democratic
affairs" Americans who never will matricu-
late at Columbia or in any other institu-
ton of higher learning can appreciate the
challenge implicit in these words-words
which offer a new hope and a new de-
termination for "the greatest temporal
power yet seen upon the earth, power
dedicated to- the betterment and happi-
ness of all mankind"
Evening star., 1948-10-14
General Eisenhower's inaugural

In his inaugural address at Columbia
University, General Dwight D. Eisenhower
was speaking not merely to the faculty
and student body assembled there but
also to the Nation at large. Specifically
it was to the whole country that he de-
clared: 1.-THE common responsibility of
all Americans is to become effective, help
full participants in way of life that blends
and harmonizes the dercely competitive
demands of the individual and of society"
A citizen, he insisted, must be free to make
the most of himself and of his opportuni-
ties; the society must be stable-"other-
wise it is nothing but temporary truce
with chaos" But freedom for the indi-
vidual must never degenerate into the
british struggle for survival that we call
barbarism" and neither must the sta
bility Of society ever degenerate into the
enchained servitude of the masses that we
call statism."
This is good American doctrine in the
Generals own engaging language. He was
talking in the tradition of Washington
and Lincoln when he reasserted the fun
damental principle of liberty and order.
But his mind was not focused on the past.
He faced the issues and the problems Of
the present and the future as they not too
often are faced-the dangers of "too great
a concentration of power in the hands of
any individual or group" "too much power
in centralized government" social explo-
siveness and a demand for revolutionary
change" selfish retaliation" Gloss of unity
through demagogic appeals to class self
iShneSS, greed and hate"
General Eisenhower reviewed those
perils courageously, remembering how the
English historian Macaulay in 1857 had
written to an American friend: when
society has entered on this downward
progress, either civilization or liberty must
perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon
will seize the reins of government with a
strong hand; or your republic will be as
fearfully plundered and laid waste by bar
bariaps in the twentieth century as the
Roman empire was in the fifth; with this
difference, that the Huns and Vandals
who ravaged the Roman empire came
from without, and that your Huns and
Vandals will have been engendered within
your own country by your own institu-
tionS"
But the General had an answer for that
prophecy of disaster. The day foretold
by Macaulay-and forecast likewise by Ger
tain more modern pessimists-"can never
come" he affirmed, 1T In our educational
system we help our students gain true
~ "" of our society, Of the need
Evening star., 1948-10-14
This and That
By Charles z. Trace1Uell

Templeton Jones was showing of his new
television set to neighbor.
They were watching the football game, when
in came Mrs. Jones.
And where have you been, my dear?" asked
Jones.
"out on the front steps, talking to Mrs.
Brown"
These ladies'" smiled Jones. Always gos-
siping"
1t was the sort of thing one will say, not
meaning 1t, exactly.
Il suppose you men never gossip" said Mrs.
zones. Mr.. Jones grtnred, the neighbor grinned.
The two men kept looking at the screen.
Templeton Jones finally asked, well, did
you find out anything?"
1T wouldn't interest you" replied his wife.
"You must have talked about something
1--WE weren't talking much, just watching" "
Temp Jones kept his eyes on the screen, but
Mrs. Jones was deliberate, even SLOW, in
answering
"well," she finally said, there was police
car down the block"
These women"
That was what Jones started to say, but
suddenly he snapped to attention
He took his eyes of the end of the big tube,
jumped to his feet, and walked over.
"A police carr" he asked. What was it
doing?"
"I don't know"
"Where did 1t go?"
"Oh, down the block somewhere?"
Don't you know whose house?"
well, think 1t was the Greens house"
"0id the cops go in?"
Eyes, they went in, all right. But why are
you so interested? Only women, believe you
said, are interested in such things"
;,, l,;r J,,,%I,
couldn't keep his attention on the screen.
"What else did you see?"
"Not much"
Something must have happened"
There probably did, but don't know what. "
Jones tapped on the set.
did they bring anybody out?"
1.-TWO officers went in, and two officers came
out"
Didn't they have anything with them9"
''Well, one Of them had a piece Of paper in
his hand"
"And when he came out"
"He had the same. piece Of paper in his
hand"
The small figures on the television screen
were running up and down the field, but
Templeton Jones had forgotten all about them.
Nov, wonder" he unused, what the cops
were doing at the Greens"
It was question no one there could answer.
Mrs. Jones, however, who knew her hus-
band better than most persons, was not through
yet
"By the way" she said, "you probably won't
be interested, but there is moving van COM
ing down the block, too
"A moving van-now wonder which house?"
"Oh, that old one that hasn't been occupied
"Have you seen the people?"
eyes"
"How many?"
"Oh several, and nice looking dog, and a
nice cat In collar. Now you had better 60
for the present" ..-
These women" srinned Templeton Jones
always gossiptng."
Evening star., 1948-10-14
'Thirty.Niners' Defended

10 the Editor OF Inc Star:
Like many other American newspaper
readers, I have been following the Use. Koch
case and the ensuing debate with the greatest
Of interest But having been both born anc
educated in Germany as well as served, as
an American citizen, with the United States
Army and with the American administration
in Germany, have also been deeply shocked
by some statements in Leon B. Poullada's
lengthy dissertation on the case take par
ticular issue with his allegations concerning
what he calls the Thirty Miners"
I, too, am one of these Thirty Miners"
inasmuch as I left Germany in the thirties be-
cause happened to disagree with Hitler. But
just because of this, feel that and others
like me were doubly qualified to represent
America and the United States Government
in postwar Germany. We did not 90 there
in order to give vent to any feelings Of cheap
revenge, as Mr.. Poullada implies (nor for that
matter, to deal in the black market or for any
other "get rich quick" scheme). 1t is strange
that from other quarters just the opposite
charge has been made: Namely, that I'VE"
have been far too friendly and lenient towards
our German brethren"
AS q matter of fact, serving with Military
Government in Germany or in related assign
ments, we simply believed that knowing Ger
many and the Germans and German mental.
ity as we do and also having embraced Amer
lea wholeheartedly, we might be able to do
more in the way Of developing and executing
the policy Of USING than many a native fel-
low-citizen. There are many quite prominent
figures among Mr.. Pounada's so-called Thirty
Niners"-aside from the unnamed thousands
of GIs, officers and Military Government off,
cials and employes-who prove Mr.. Poulladas
insnuation to be what 1t really is: malicious
and, in its intolerance and unfairness, basically
un-American.
Aside from the dubious merits Of the Koch
case, there Is one more point definitely in
favor of the Thirty Miners and the de-
plorable handling of the Koch case substanti-
ates this point: We read, with ever-growing
apprehension Of "the Frauleins winning the
peace" by matchmaking our gullible represent-
atives over there, high and low, with Nazi ideas,
instead Of, as it should be, the other way
around. whatever the case pro or con on the en-
ployment Of recent citizens Of German back
ground in USING may be, one thing Is sure:
With their insight into the German mind, they
would not have fallen for this, and one may
venture to say that many trouble we are
facing in Germany today might have been
averted had the powers-that-be made better
and wider use of their specific knowledge and
experience. ERNEST s. CARSTEN.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
1t Should Have Been Pounds


An editorial in the October 10, issue of The
Star entitled "An Improved B-36" says:
noteworthy revisions and further modifica-
tions within a year will enable it to carry ten
thousand tons of bombs twelve thousand miles +"
A noble weapon, indeed
But do you not think that the Strategic
Air Command, from which you probably got
your information is being overly modest in its
claims for this world-shaking and unique We
hicle? Only ten thousand tons, forsooth!
And, in view of the above statement, your de-
duction that "the B36 could deliver an atomic
bomb great distances via the polar regions"
just takes our bresths away and amazes us no
end.
Tut! Tut Tut! Some of us who have salt
in our blood know that two plus two equals six
and q quarter-or could you have been slightly
wrong in your figures? A. G. BOWERS
Editors note: The figures were right
but the unit of weight was wrong. Pounds
were meant, not tons)
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Leroy w. Heron

An Garner illness this year brought about
Leroy w. Herrons formal retirement in
July from The Star as Advertising Director
But his relationship with The Star was too
intimate thing to be severed by retire.
ment. Death came to him while return
ing from trip to business meeting in
Ohio which he had attended Of his own
volition because of his love for the work
and associations of lifetime. He did not
find it easy to adjust himself to leisure or
rid himself of responsibility. He was hap
piest when actively at work and there is
some satisfaction in the thought that in
his final hours he may have considered
himself as still being on duty.
He came to The Star more than half a
century ago when his father, the late
]. Whit Heron, was active in the manage
ment of the papers business affairs. His
death thus ends family connection that
goes back nearly seventy years, when his
father began work, in 1879, as a clerk in
the business Office. To the son, as to the
father, The Star is indebted for a deep
loyalty, the influence of clean and manly
character and many years of happy and
delightful companionship as coworker in
development of this newspaper.
Colonel Herron's attainments as an ad-
vertising executive are attested in part by
the honors that came to him at the hands
Of his business colleagues throughout the
United States. He enjoyed wide circle of
friends in Washington. He was a good
citizen and a successful civilian. But he
was also distinguished as a soldier, and
from the time of his boyhood he loved and
honored the military traditions of disci-
pline and allegiance to country. He fought
in two wars, commanding regiment in
France, and he was one of the enthusiastic
builders of the District National Guard.
Popular and respected as leader of men,
one Of his great disappointments was that
age prevented him from going on active
duty once more in the Second World War.
His associates at The Star will not forget
the moving eloquence with which he spoke
to members of "The Star family" in uni
form at dinner given in their honor after
the war, and the pride he took in their
service.
With the members of his family and
the great number of his friends The Star
shares loss, but also the pleasant
memories of good and useful life.