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MISCELLANEOUS FOR RENT.

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BABY FURNITURE, cribs. high chairs,
play pens to rent; pickup and deliver.
Phone DU. 3444. g
REFRIGERATORS, washing machines,
waxers, sun lamps, etc. DISTRICT ELEc
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GEORGETOWN

14OO saith st. .w.-Immediate occupancy.
oil heat, new auto. gas range, new, re-
frigerator. large drawing room and large
porch with awning, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
servants room and bath, downstairs lava.
beautifully furnished and ideal for en-.
tertaining. $3.50 per month. HEIBERa
CO, 1900 Eye st. NV. MA. 1877. Ia
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completely recond and
fully guaranteed; also rentals. DISTRICT
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l947 table model; IKE new, new; automatic
others. DISTRICT EIEc, Wo. 1902. -i3
RECORD CABINET: large; SIS; table
REcoRD PLAYER. RcA, sa5: RcA port
able radio. $40; record boxes; So; 20
RECORDER. Emerson; perfect condition.;
sacrifice $50 or best offer. ROBERTSON.
Ii. 6S!:i after e pm. .
condition, good buy, $50 cash, Call OR,
REFRIGERAToR. westinghouse, Az Gu.
kREFRIcERAfok. Westinghouse, 8 Gu IT,;
RffRGfRAToks REF fsaa!GH sS SorHs wi Roator S2ts
cap, new unit installed 10 months. ago,
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RRGEGF1R1GERAToRs-save! savel Save!
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q sSsnt s55s Rs's oeorss WaHD ave- 81
kETRIGERAToRs-used West. Erisid;
del on new West; expert repairs, serv
i P. Q. SMITH. 344 H st. ne. Ii. 2545
RATORS-demonstrat 5-yeaI
guar, never used. only slight scratches
many nationally advertised models: s IT,.
$3.50 models at S1s9. STAR RADIO CO,
400 1lth st NV.
REFRiGERATORS. used, all makes, model.
and prices; FREDERICKS 39O5 l4tf
st. NV. ia. 1900
!, REFRIGERATOR-As we predicted. 1t hap
pened; you can now buy almost any lead
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cent of of list price: name your brand
!, and you will find 1t here at big savings
easy terms; in original crates, fully guar
and radios. ALPERSTEIN CUT-PRICI
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-07-17

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peiter. Ias lit nniere bel.tige Sis
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-07-17
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Evening star., 1948-05-09
Colombia Breaks With Moscow

That Colombia has severed diplomatic
relations with the Soviet Union should
occasion no surprise. The action was i'm
plicit ever since President Perez publicly
blamed international communism for the
bloody uprising in Bogota which so tragi-
cally interrupted the Pan-American Con-
ference held in the Colombian capital. In
deed, it should be recalled that, at that
time, a semiofficial statement announced
that diplomatic relations with Moscow
were being severed.
This statement proved to be premature,
the probable reason being opposition
voiced by Liberal members of the coalition
cabinet which governs the country, albeit
President Perez is a Conservative. The
actual severance, delayed by a month, in
have been withdrawn. And the reasons
for that shift are presumably several.
In the first place, the Bogota uprising
has been set in a larger framework OF
Communist plotting in many parts of Latin
America. It may be recalled that both
Chile and Argentina broke relations with
Moscow as far back as last October, fol-
lowing the discovery that disorders in both
countries had been planned and melted
by foreign Communist agents with the
completely of members Of the Soviet En-
bassy STATS. And there is evidence that
the Bogota uprising was timed to coincide
with similar revolutionary action in Brazil
and elsewhere All this has tended to
enlighten Latin American public opinion
and to consolidate for common defense
against Communist inflltration all shades
of political opinion except Communists
themselves or nearly related groups OF
the Extreme Left. The Communist
resolution passed by the Bogota Confer
ence is good proof of this.
In this connection, 1t is interesting to
review the attitude of Latin America
toward Soviet Russia since 1t emerged from
the 1olshevik revolution three decades
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Going a-Mothering
National Survival Seen Dependent Homes Where
"Best Traditions" Prevail
By the Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, D. d., Lit. D.

homesickness for his mother q the Atlantic
Ocean rolled between them. In his first letter
from Europe, as 1t started on its long way, ne
said, II only wish you had this letter now to
relieve your mind from anxiety. For. while I
am writing can imagine you, mother, wishing
that you could hear Of my arrival and thinking
Of q thousand accidents which may have be-
fallen me- wish that In an instant could
communicate the information. But 5000 miles
is not passed over In an instant-yet, why
not?" And the homesick boy who wrote that
letter to his mother was destined to make pos
sible the very thing of which he dreamed.
It is forever true that the hand that rocks
the cradle rules the world For governments
or schools to build on anything else than the
fundamental unit of the home is to build on
sinking sand
In the crises of these days the Government
is called upon to do much, and must do much
more to lift the levels of living. The school Is
doing much, and is seeing the necessity OF
doing much more to strengthen the moral fiber
of those who pass through the classrooms
But the foundation stones upon which all
other agencies must build are forever hewn in
the quarry of the home. There is an appalling
proportion Of children in the United States
who are now being reared without any reli-
gious education worthy of the name. Mothers
Day is good time for multitude of parents
in America to ask themselves honestly where
the goddess road they are travelling really is
leading.
If homes we reverence have meant so much
to us who are now in life's midday or past, If
mothers who held our formless, plastic lives in
their hands put upon our souls their image
and superscription and determined under God
the trends, the directions and the af1lnities Of
our lives, ought not, then, Mothers Day be q
time when we frankly face the orninous situa-
ton of the present day by asking ourselves
searching questions. With all the dazzling
splendor Of the frst half of the 2oth century,
are we endeavoring to build lives into the
modern temple Of humanity without the moral
stamina without the power to endure without
the character deposits once put there by
Christian mothers? That cannot be written
into last will and testament We can inherit
all the outward frames Of Christianity and
democracy from a generation that has gone
before, the institutions and the constitutions,
but the inner ideals that created them, the
spirit to perpetuate them, these must be re-
born in every generation. They cannot be
handed down.
The beauty and fragrance Of sacramental
flowers is reminding a Nation this sacred day
that our civilization cannot be saved by politi-
clans. not even by statesmen, certainly not by
bombs but by fathers and mothers. There can
be no assurance Of national safety until there
is recovered the highest ideals and best tradi-
tions OF q family life of which Mothers Day
is the wistful symbol
Evening star., 1948-05-09

feet of grateful generations. How ancient is
the idea of an annual day dedicated to mother
hood is suggested by the lines:
Long ago, when earth was thr1ulng, WIN
the rapture of the spring,
And the lovely hope and promise every heart
was quickening,
Men and maids in Merrie England useo 10
go a-motherin'."
This reference is to a custom prevalent in
the spacious days of Good Queen Bess. Then
it was that once every year English foik OF
all ranks and classes exchanged violets ana
simnel cake in honor of their mothers. IL Is
a matter of history that thus 300 years ago
employers cheerfully allowed their apprentices,
sons and daughters, to visit distant homes and
to pay mothers this annual act OF homage.
And so today there are flowers Tor tnought,
grateful thoughts for many OF us as we pluck
them in the garden OF the yesterdays FOR
Mothers Day brings recollections that are
benedictions. The album OF vanished years
varies greatly as fingers turn its pictured pages
and eyes ~glisten as they gaze upon Its scenes
But that album in millions of hands today will
be alike in the holy title upon its cover,
Mother" That word speaks Of love without
alloy a devotion without measure. faith
without wavering, sacrifice without stint.
Mothers Day means thronging thoughts OF
mothers ways and mothers looks and mothers
PRAYERS and mothers words and the thousand
constant expressions Of mother love. 1t all
comes back now like the scent of lavender on
old lace. The scenes which our infancy knew
are today but the frame for the picture which
Mothers Day unveils.
In many a heart is the sound of great
amen to the reply of famous man to one
who said to him, II congratulate the mother
who has such a son." His reply was Rather,
congratulate the son on having such mother"
With Mothers Day kilograms weaving the
country in loom Of love, it is good to remem-
ber that what put the idea of instantaneous
communication in the head of young Samuel
F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph was
Evening star., 1948-05-09

ago. The initial Latin American reaction
was hostile, few countries in the Western
Hemisphere recognizing the Soviet Union.
A marked change followed our own recog-
milton of Moscow shortly after the advent
of the Roosevelt administration in 1888.
During World War II, recognition of Mos
COW became general in Latin America. But
there, as in other parts of the Free World,
the increasing revelation of Soviet aims
and policies, linked closely with interna-
tional communism, seems to be swinging
the diplomatic pendulum back to nom
intercourse. For such reversion, the
aggressive masters of the Kremlin have
no one to blame but themselves.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Libruriun's Report

When the Second World War ended, DR..
Luther H. Evans, Librarian Of Congress,
hoped that the greatest photographic
establishment on earth could settle back
into normal habits of existence" Quite
a number OF other persons briefly enter
tanned the same idea. They soon were
educated out of it. Peace, which has its
problems no less great than war, inherits
in addition wars unresolved problems"
Specifically, the Librarian explains in his
annual report for fiscal 1947, the General
Reference Division gave service to 267 $50
readers, "a considerable increase over the
total of TITS reported the previous year"
How, by what trained and instructed
employees and with the use of what facil-
tiles this help was afforded is DR.. Evans
day-to-day problem. The Government
first and citizens as individuals second
have claims upon the Library which must
be met if America is to maintain its lead
ership in world progress. knowledge is
power" as much in the atomic age as ever
it was in Classic Greece.
A large part of the labor Of the men
and the women working under the direc-
ton of Dr. Evans is that of finding the
significance, the worth, the meaning, the
utility, the basic value of the materials
which they continuously are gathering
The Library of Congress Is not simply a
storehouse. It produces a variety Of lend
products" analyses, tabulations-
which themselves are pragmatic in char
acter. It likewise does a duty of a spiritual
sort in the aid which 1t gives to cultural,
ethical, sociological advancement. Walking
through the reading rooms, even the casual
visitor notices a preoccupation with the
humanfties.
These researches are purposeful. It is
interest in others which takes reader to
the Library's door. Perhaps to an extent
nowhere excelled, its patrons are pledged
to what the Constitution calls "the general
welfare" No great educational, scientific
or artistic enterprise now current in the
United States is altogether independent of
our national university of the people,"
isolated from our national photographic
treasury.
DR.. Evans tells his stoT against back
ground of rich experience. He makes plain
why nobody can settle back" The pace
of life has been quickened by events, and
activity is not apt to slow down in the
discernible future. Meanwhile, the Library
of Congress is an asset useful and helpful
to the whole public. The expense of opera
ton for 1947 was $7,757 ,782-a mere frac-
ton of our annual budget for chewing gum.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
United Community Services

Qualified community organizations can
do the city major service by entering the
United Community Services organization
now being set up to absorb the functions
of the Washington Community Chest and
the Council of Social Agencies.
Whether these community groups have
been severely critical of or strongly behind
the program and operations of either the
Chest or Council or both, they can best
remedy the faults they have found or
continue their earlier support from within
the successor organization rather than
from the outside. Shipping from the side
lines is negative approach scarcely likely
to insure permanently good results. Apa-
thetic support obviously is equally un-
productive
The attacks last year on the Chest and
Council and subsequent failure OF the
Chest to meet its goal locally were con-
elusive evidence Of gap between the
health, welfare and recreational programs
the community was willing to accept and
finance and those that were being offered
at that time The new organization must
close that gap 1t can do so If eligible
community groups representing the senti-
ment of the general public here take an
active part in the development Of its social
program. If they develop the program,
certainly they will support it financially
and there should be no future failures of
Chest drives by such wide margins as that
of last year.
The United Community Services will
consist of general assembly which will
elect smaller board of trustees. In turn,
the trustees will name an executive COM
mittee to do the bulk of the work. There
will be represented in the assembly public
and private agencies now operating in the
fields of health, welfare and recreation the
public at large, and the community groups
Most of the agencies will be those which
were members of the Council. The public
at large was represented in both the Chest
and Council. although not to the degree
proposed in the new organization. Thus
the introduction of community groups is
the new feature of the reorganization. If
they do not join, United Community Serv-
ices might we'll be the same Chest-Council
group under new name.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Another Problem on the Way

In his recent address here to the National
Health Assembly, Dr. Theodore G. Klumpp
of New York merely repeated what he
and other experts have said more than
once before about the revolutionary pos
sibilities implicit in current population
trends. Despite the repetition however,
the subject remains fascinating, for one
has only to think about it bit to be
enthralled by it, and perhaps just little
frightened.
The essential facts involved are these:
% World population is increasing at the
rate of 2OO,OOo00O every decade; (2) If
this trend continues, there will be 4,C00,-
100000 human beings century from now,
or double the present number CD in fact,
the total may be considerably larger than
that because the life expectancy Of the
average individual is constantly increasing,
and some day-what with new advances in
medical science-most mortals conceivably
may be able to count on living for as long
as $50 years; and finally a., as far as
the United States is concerned the situa-
ton probably means that we are in for
ar-reaching economic and sociological
CIldllStS tNcll IL AlllCllSdll lOllSCFlty
tics remain pretty much what they are
today.
In DR.. Klumpps opinion, by the year
1880, after our aging population levels off
at maybe 100000 900, with 60000,000 over
IS years of age and 21,000,000 over IS, there
will be a real problem as regards retire.
ment, social security and trying to find
enough work for everybody to do. The
productivity of American labor has in
creased enormously, and it is reasonable
to expect that chronological improvements
will keep on increasing it. AS result,
according to DR.. Klumpp, it is possible that
three decades from now we may have
surplus of 3O,OOOO0O workers, and the 30
hour work week is likely to become stand
ard in our lifetime
similar view has been expressed in
even more startling terms by DR.. Seymour
E. Harris, the distinguished Harvard econo-
mist. He has observed that in 1e41, Co.
100000 Americans turned out a volume
of production that would have required
the time of 15o,0O0,o0o in 1900, and his
judgment is that 100000 may be able to
produce the same volume before the end
of this century-a possibility that would
mean trying to divide 30,0O0000 Jobs
among an employable labor force of about
7OooO,0OO 1t could mean, too, as DR..
Harris has said, that we might have to
adopt a 2O-hour work week and 35-week
work year-a setup allowing for annual
vacations of four months duration.
This is a prospect that makes the mind
reel. Of course like the possibility of a
15O-year average life expectancy, it may
never materialize. But what if it does
Clearly, with our population trends and
things like the atom, we are living in a
strange and unprecedentedly problem
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Another Chooses Freedom

Another Russian Army cficer has chosen
freedon-and it is all pretty embarrassing
to the gentlemen behind the iron curtain.
This time it is Colonel ]. D. Tassoev, chief
of the Soviet Repatriation Mission in the
United States zone in Bremen. Like Victor
Kravchenko, Igor Gouzenko and others less
we'll known to the public, Colonel Tassoev
did not relish the idea of returning to his
native land. &c. when orders came to
repatriate himself to Moscow forthwith, he
decided it was high time to quit the re-
patriation business.
When Colonel Tassoev failed to report
for duty recently the Russians charged
that he had been "kidnaped" by American
agents. What actually happened, accord
ing to the British Foreign Office, was that
Tassoev, after receiving orders to go to
Moscow, went instead to the office of the
United States port director to say goodby
and there met "a friend" The upShot was
the colonel's decision to renounce Russian
citizenship and become political refugee
in Britain. The British have taken him
in in accordance with traditional British
practice"
1L was GllC IcCClpU VI SuIl1ol OlOClo w
return to Moscow that prompted Krav
chenko and Gouzenko to desert the Soviet
cause. Kravchenko, captain in the Red
Army, was an official of the Soviet Pur-
chasing Commission here when he took
the fateful step in 1914. He explained the
reason for his action in book, II Chose
Freedom" which became best seller.
Gouzenko, Red Army lieutenant, was
cipher clerk at the Soviet Embassy in
Ottawa, Canada, when he made his choice.
He carried with him as he left the embassy
for the last time sheaf of papers which
led eventually to exposure by Royal Com
mission of an extensive Russian spy ring
in Canada and the arrest and conviction
of number of Canadians as Communist
spies.
What Colonel Tassoev's detection may
portend in the way of similar exposures
undoubtedly has the Russians wondering
and perhaps biting their fingernails. No
telling what an officer of Tassoev's rank
might be in position to disclose, if he
should be so inclined. Unfortunately for
the Russians and fortunately for us, there
is every reason to believe that Colonel
Tassoev will have no qualns about reveal
ing a good deal of what he knows about
maneuverings behind the curtain.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Fifty Years AGO
The Star on May 3, 1898. said: THE audien

AHe quar- OH May S, 1875, SAID: 'The audience
which attended the matinee performance of
the Ringing Brothers circus yes
Circuso terday afternoon was a large one,
Hit but the attendance at the evening
performance broke all records
Every seat in the huge tent was occupied
and many unable to find seats were satisfied
with points Of vantage around tent poles and on
the ground directly in front of the seats"
Among the featured performers were: Minnie
Fisher, "the IRON jawed woman, who is hauled
to the top Of the tent holding to rope with
her teeth; the Foy family Of acrobats; Mile.
Tounour, trapeze artist; the Fishers and the
Dacomas, aerialists and Prof. Lockhart, animal
trainer and exhibitor. The show was presented
on grounds between L and M streets on
North Capitol. Tickets were on sale at Ogram's
drug store, Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
An editorial In The Star for May 5, 1898,
declared "The military value of Hawaii to
the United was never more plain
Howoii ly apparent than today, when
Wanted events in the Pacific have shown
how necessary 1t Is for this coun-
try to possess resting point in that great
ocean. Commodore Dewey's victory at Manila
has demonstrated the force Of all that has
been theoretically advanced in favor of Ha-
waiian annexation for many years. The
matter has been debated fully and is thor
oughly understood by all. Further argument
Is unnecessary. The House can pass the joint
resolution within few days or even q few
hours. The Senate should then be sufficiently
patriotic to lay aside its traditions as 1t did on
the historic occasion when 1t passed the
s5o,O0000o war fund bill unanimously and in
oS,l oi, ~
Under date OF May 8, 1898 The Star an
nounced military changes including capt.
Charles L. Cooper, 10th Cavalry,
Army has been detailed to muster into
Orders the service of the United States
squadron of the regiment Of
mounted rifemen to be commanded by Col.
Wood and Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt; and Lieut..
John j. Pershing 10th Cavalry, has been re-
lieved from duty at West Point and ordered
to join his troop" From these brief items de-
veloped the saga of the Rough Riders, "the
most widely publicized single regiment in
American history and the career Of the Mis-
souri, school teacher who became the fifth
American soldier to achieve permanent rank
as a general-the commander Of the AEF In
1917 and 1918.
James w. Swank, the best penman In the
Treasury Department, was selected to write =
Gift From letter to Miss Helen Miller
A;s. Gould Gould of New York, acknowl-
edging the receipt Of . check
for 100000 which she had
sent to Ellis H. Roberts, Treasurer OF the
United States, as contribution toward the
prosecution of the war. The Star for May Q,
1893, quoted the communication forwarded to
the generous donor as saying that the money
would be used I'm the present difficulty with
Spain" Mr.. Roberts added: Permit me to
recognize the superb patriotism which prompts
you to make this magnificent gift to the Gov
ernments
Evening star., 1948-05-09

laden age when we must worry even about
having too much leisure! II this epoch Is
to be called anything at all, 1t ought to
be called the Epoch of Thousand Self
Multiplying Quandaries. At any rate,
posterity will never be able to say of US
that our lot was simple or carefree one