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lime Bride

Miss Alice May Prigg, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Benjamin
Prigg, became the bride June 8 OF
Mr.. Douglas Jay Drummond, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Jay Drummond.
The Rev. C. Stanley Lowell off1ciated
at the ceremony in the Wesley
Methodist Church.
Miss Ninette Prigg, Mrs. Arlie P.
Baker, jr., and the Misses Joyce
Eubank, Mary Gore, Dorothy Drum
mund and Helena Foss were the
brides attendants. Mr.. H. Allan
Da us was best man, and the Messrs.
Ernest Bowker, Lawson Cantrell,
William and Carl Prigg, and Arlie
P. Baker, jr., were ushers.
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Townsend Rhodes

Miss Marjorie Trees Rhodes,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Boiling Rhodes, was married June 7
to Mr.. Charles Eby Townsend, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Williams
Townsend. The ceremony was per-
formed in st. Johns Episcopal
Church on Lafayette Square. the
Rev. DR.. c. Leslie Glenn ofdciating
in the presence Of only members OF
the two families.
The bride was attended by Miss
Barbara Jeanne OTlaherty and Mr..
James H. Stallings, jr., was best
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend are living
at the West View, where they have
taken an apartment.
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Miss Minerva Bernardino, chair
man of the Inter American Com
mission of Women, is under OBJ
servation at a hospital in Whining.
ton, Del, following an automobile
accident yesterday afternoon, her
office reported today. 1t was not
believed that her injuries were
serious, although her car was said
to be badly damaged.
Miss Bernardino was returning to
Washington from New York, where
she was honored at a reception
given Sunday by the United Women
Of Americas at the Plaza Hotel.
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Ranking Guests
and Dinner Hosts

The Cuban Ambassador and Sc
nora de Belt will entertain at dinner
this evening in honor of the for
mer's nephew and niece, Senor Jose
Aguero and Sonora de Aguero. The
visitors arrived yesterday and will
go to New York tomorrow. where
they will be for week or 10 days.
The Ambassador and Sonora de
Belt were ranking guests at the
dinner Senator and Mrs. George
w. Malone gave last evening at
the 1925 F Street Club.
Senator and Mrs Malone will
leave Saturday morning for the Re-
publican National Convention and
will be among those attending the
preconvention dinner to be given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pew. Follow
ing the convention they will spend
the summer at their home in Reno,
New, and in October they will leave
for a seven-week trip to Japan and
China.
The Austrian Minister, DR.. Lud-
wig Kleinwaechter, will be the guest
of honor at dinner tomorrow eve
ming at the Arts Club when Miss
Camille Allensworth and DR.. Nor
man P. Scala will act as hosts. The
Minister will share honors with DR..
William Swida, former professor of
cultural arts at the University of
Vienna. Dr. Swida will give an illus
trated lecture on Austrian culture.
The speaker now Is connected with
the Kress Foundation and has served
a number of the leading museums
in this country since he came in
1888. He now is a citizen of this
country.
Mrs. Narciso Ramos, wife Of the
Philippine Minister, was hostess at
tea yesterday afternoon entertaining
in honor of some of her distin-
guished countrywomen, Judge AL
media Lopez, Manila's only woman
jurist, and other delegates to the
recent convention of the Federation
of Women's Clubs. Spending sew
eral days in Washington with Judge
Lopez, are Mrs. Trinidad Legarda,
president of the Philippine National
Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs.
Conception Matelino, member of
the board of that federation, and
Miss Sylvia Lin, president Of the
Philippine Junior Federation.
Sharing honors with the visitors
yesterday was Miss Sylvia Aguila,
the only woman graduated yesterday
from Georgetown University where
she received her Phi. D.
Mrs. Ramos received her guests in
the pleasant drawing room of her
home on Northampton street and
presented the callers to the honor
guests.
The Naval Attache of the British
Embassy and Mrs. P. w. w. Wootten
are motoring to the West Coast and
expect to be in Los Angeles over
Sunday. They will go north and
visit in British Columbia and return
eastward through the Canadian
Rockies. They do not expect to be
back in Washington before the end
of July.
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Church Wedding

The Kenmore, N. Y, Methodist
Church was the scene Saturday aft
ernoon of the wedding Of Miss
Dorothy A. Edighoffer and Maj.
Norman r. Schlicher, the Rev. John
Guyer of11ciating.
The bride is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert C. Edighoffer OF
Kenmore, and Maj. Sch1icher Is the
son of Mrs. william P. Schlicher OF
Trenton and the late Mr.. Schlicher.
Attendants OF the bride were Mrs
Carrel I. Tod, Mrs. William H.
Hodgson and Miss Rose M. Harley.
Mr.. William H. Higgins was best
man and ushers included Messrs.
William r. Schlicher and G. Howard
Nugent.
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EHg1PeUleHt

Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. Frank J. Imrey of the
engagement of their daughter, Fran
els Gloria, to Mr.. Pietro Santucci, jr.
Miss Imrey attended Trinity Col
lege and Mr.. Santucci is a graduate
Of Georgetown University and now
1t attending Georgetown Medical
School. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Santucci.
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Admiral Due Here

Rear Admiral and Mrs. Jack Dun
can and their daughter, Miss Jane
Duncan, will come to Washington
Saturday from New York where
they stopped off en- route from Lima.
Peru. Admiral Duncan has been
head of the United States Naval
Mission in Lima for the past three
years. He and his family will be at
Wardman Park Hotel for . week
or two.
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Engagement 1 old

Mr.. and Mrs. Quincy Claude Ayres
of Ames, Iowa, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Sarah
Ruth, to MI. Louis Walls Shroyer
III of Baltimore.
Miss Ayres is a graduate of the
Helen Bush School, Seattle, Wash,
and has attended Sweet Briar Col
lege for the past three years. Mr..
Shroyer was graduated from WASH
ington and Lee University. He was
discharged from the Army Air
Corps with the rank of captain after
five years service.
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PrenHbtiaL Fete

Miss Margaret Ann Benedict,
daughter Of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Jay
L. Benedict, was hostess at a lunch
con yesterday at the Army Navy
Country Club honoring Miss
Gwenda Pryse whose marriage to
1t. Charles Williamson will take
place Monday.
The guests included Mrs. Ray
mond Thayer and the Misses Ma
tilda Belts, Nancy Shilling, Monica
Gaillard, Ann Kingman, jeanne
Alvord, Alice Bowers of Frederick,
and Joan Fanciulli of Miami Shores,
Flo
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Debutaute Wbirl Continues;
Parties Gipen in WarrentOm

6. Rowland Chase tea Yesterday afternoon to
Chase entertaining their home
contemporaries
of Mr.
the
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inspired program under which the German
Communists are to do everything possible
to cripple the Ruhr's economy.
Hunger and communism are perfect
allies. If near-starvation is allowed to
grip the industrial sections of Western
Germany, Soviet agents will have weapon
they will be able to use most effectively in
their effort to stir up and organize mass
strikes. The Ruhr's production is of key
Importance to the success of the European
Recovery Program. 1t must be kept up
and increased. To that end, the Develop
ing crisis must be headed off. The Anglo
American occupation authorities must take
the firmest measures to counter the black
market and get the German farmers to do
their duty. In addition, if necessary, food
shipments from the United States should
be speeded up. Otherwise, the combination
of empty stomachs and Protocol M" may
do damage of deadly sort.
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Germun Hunqer

The sporadic strikes in German cities
the latest in Cologne and Nuernberg-add
I'D to a SOLDERING .forewarning Even If
there were no Communist master plan to
promote chaos breeding mass walkouts in
Western Germany, the situation would be
full of dangerous possibilities. This is so
for the reason that there is serious hunger
there-particularly in the British zone
and that this hunger can drive its victims
to desperate acts even without the agita
ton of German Reds conspiring to help
the Kremlin wreck the European Recovery
Program
Reliable reports from London indicate
that Britain-whose zone embraces the
Ruhr-is deeply worried over what may
happen If nothing is done to meet the
problem The Ruhr has oyer 100000 in
habitants. Their basic ration is 1850
calories day-considerabiy less than half
the average American intake. Ke..' work
ers among them-such as ceal miners
are supposed to get a supplementary
ration of $500 calorieS, but the fact is
that the figures are largely things of
paper. Actually, great numbers of Ger
mans are living on something not much
better than a starvation diet.
With the food-producing Soviet zone cut
of, western Germany has had to rely on
imports and on the output of its own
agricultural regions. But the farmers in
those regions, circrnventing an inept and
political-minded official German collection
system, appear to have diverted about a
third of their production into the black
market. where butter is selling for s27
pound and where half pig costs a one
carat diamond. Hence, unrest is mounting
and is likely to become critical unless
corrective measures are taken without
delay. A similar situation existed at this
time last year, but 1t can prove to be much
worse now, much more ominous, because
Of Protocol M"-the plan described by
Anglo-American authorities a. Kremlin-
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A Questionable Proposal

Attorney General Clark'S reported plan
to have the Government pay expenses of
defense witnesses in loyalty proceedings
is likely to encounter rough going in Con-
gress. It would be magnanimous gesture,
of course, for the Government thus to aid
innocent persons in proving their loyalty,
but the feasibility of such plan is ex-
tremely doubtful. And guilty as well as
possibly innocent would have to be aided
under an arrangement of this kind.
Exactly what Mr.. Clark has in mind was
not made clear in his speech at grocers'
convention in Atlantic City. He was quoted
as saying he would recommend that Con-
gresS provide fund which could be used
to defray witness costs entailed by employees
charged with disloyalty. But the plan
would have to include empowering the de-
partmental loyalty boards and the overall
Loyalty Review Board with subpoena pow
ers which they do not possess at present.
And it is hard to see how the cost of the
plan could be kept within reasonable
bounds by these administrative groups.
Moreover, actual Communists in the Gov
eminent service might be expected to make
the most of such an opportunity to delay
and confuse loyalty proceedings, by in
sisting on the subpoenaing of all sorts of
witnesses, regardless of the relevancy of
their testimony. Finally, why should the
Government finance the defense of persons
charged with disloyalty to their Govern
ment any more than it does in criminal
cases in the courts? Such aid is extended
in the courts only in the case of paupers
who take required oath as to their in
ability to pay expenses of defense witnesses.
In short, the Attorney Generals proposal
will require lot of persuasive arguments
in its favor-arguments that are not i'm
mediately apparent1-to overcome the
rather obvious objections to the plan.
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bombs, meteorological weapons, ETC., etc,
there can be no peace of mind, no reason
ably reassuring guarantee Of human sur
vival, without an effective. universal
agreement under which the different
powers of the world will SO police them
selves that none will dare to depart from
the straight and narrow and start shoot
ing. Until we have that, there will be
every reason for all peoples in all lands
to bite their nails worrying over the pros
pect of mutual extinction. Relatively
speaking, Lord Templewood's idea is adj
dressed to child 's-play problem.
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The Real Crime Worry

It is being proposed now that the United
Nations establish a special international
organization to combat crimes by tndi-
viduals in every land and to set up uniform
global standards of punishment. Advo-
Gated by Viscount Templewood-the former
Sir Samuel Hoare of Britain-the idea
certainly is meritorious as far as 1t goes,
and the worlds police chiefs and prose-
cutting attorneys conceivably may be able
to make good use of it. Still, the average
layman must be pardoned If he fails to
greet 1t with enthusiasm or shrugs 1t of as
a thing of little consequence.
After all, burglar, or even murderer,
is relatively a very small menace these
days, and it is hard to get excited over
suggestions for a great cooperative U. N.
effort to work out common. universal
plan for dealing with such people. In
fact, when related to the harsh realities
of the much-to o-warm cold war;" the
whole idea seems about as antlcllmactlc
or inadequate as any idea could be. Clearly,
it can do little or nothing to encourage
mass peace of mind or insure human sur
vival For the individual criminal-the
lelloW WIN piedhS AuIo AlouSeo VI SA"~no
an occasional heads not the great prob
lem Of our time. The great problem is the
actual or potential nation-thug, countries
with footpad PHILOSOPHERS, governments
displaying inherited or acquired gangster
characteristics. This is what the world
needs to worry about most-not the
ordinary, nongovernmental plug-uglies
who have made private enterprise out
of snatching purses or once in while
cutting threats.
The truth is that the average layman
is not likely to become excited over any
U. NJ crime-fighting program unless and
until that program is aimed at stopping
murder by the nations themselves. In the
age Of rockets, supersonic flight, atomic
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Finding the Cause is Easy

Secretary of Labor SchWellenbach Is
correct in contending that the Taft
Hartley law does not prevent Government
Services, Incorporated, from negotiating
with the UPWA-CIO Cafeteria Workers
Union in the current strike. But he is
wrong If he fails to see any difference
between GsI and any private employer
confronted with problem similar to the
one which GSI faces That problem is
whether to bargain with union which
refuses to certify that its leadership is
noncommunistic.
Mr.. Schwellenbach has been directed by
President Truman to investigate the strike
which began January when GSI declined
to negotiate a new contract unless the
union complied with the anti-C Communist
provisions of the Taft-Hartley law. The
Labor Secretary will not have to do much
digging to learn that the real issue in the
strike is not wages or working conditions
but the refusal of the Cafeteria Workers
Local All to sign the Communist
afidavits.
GSI officials have never argued that
they are prohibited by law from bargain
ing with union which adheres to such
policy. They have asserted, with much
logic, that GSI is in position apart from
that of the average restaurant operator.
GSI has a unique relationship to the
Federal Government in that it was
founded by Government officials to serve
Government employees. Its board OF trus-
tees is composed of administrative officials
of various Federal departments. 1t is, in
short, a quasigovernmental agency with
quasigovernmental responsibilities. Con-
gress holds it strictly to account for its
policies and its actions as witness the long
and -uncompleted investigation OF its
activities by Senate committee.
It is commended by GSI-again with
much logic-that Congress, in writing into
the Hartley law the anti Communist
p,ovisions, had in mind purging labor
urdons of communistic influences.
quasigovernmental body like GSI would
certainly be sticking its neck out If it were
to become party to union scheme to
circumvent the intent of Congress In this
respect GSI should not be subject to
criticism for eschewing an untenable
position It would undoubtedly bring down
on its head plenty of criticism from Con-
gress If 1t were to collaborate with the
union in any such subterfuge, especially
at this time of increasing vigilance against
communistic infltration of the Federal
departments.
Secretary Schwellenbach should have
little difficulty in finding simple solution
of the controversy All that is necessary is
that the union certify that it is free from
Communist domination. That should be
an easy thing to do if the union is, in
fact, not under communistic leadership
Whether the union, after so certifying,
could again qualify as bargaining agent
for a majority of GSI employees is ques-
ton which only another election could
determine. For a large number of new
employees have filled the vacancies caused
by the walkout. Thus, the recalcitrant
union leaders not only are subjecting their
followers to the unnecessary hardships of.
a strike but may be taking their jobs away
from them permanently.
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Nv THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

O. What is the rate of rejection for men who
apply for enlistment in the Army?-R B. VI
A. At present the Army is rejecting mere
than 40 per cent of the men who apply fog
enlistment due to its high standards. ) &
O. Please explain the purpose of the proxs
unity fuse that was invented during the war;
S. M. D. . .-A-
A. The proximity fuse causes o projectile 10;
explode II 1t passes within 80 to rs feet Of an!
airplane, or at height Of 80 to 80 feet as it,
approaches the ground, II the attack is against
ground detectives. In other words, the prox-
unity fuse does not need TO hit the target I'M
order to function and this enormously increases
the effectiveness Of the projectiles on which
the fuse is used.
@. WHAT is the most poisonous snake In the
world?-L. E. Y.
A. Some years ago Raymond L. DitmarS OF
the New York Geological Park described the
results of a series of tests Of snake poisons
which brought out some surprising facts. The
most poisonous snake In the world as regards
potency Of venom proved to be the Australian
tiger snake The most poisonous In the New
Brazil and the little coral snake Of South
eastern United States was found TO be more
poisonous than the Indian, cobra.
G. Please give the name Of the poem from
which the following line Is taken: Love will
stay for a whole life long, g.
A. It Is from act I, scene Of the dramatic
poem Harold" by Lord Tennyson.
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It's a Good Trick, If!
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
How one man, refraining from eating for six
days, can soften the hostility Of 600
Hindus and Moslems who have been in mortal
combat for months, is an impossible mystery
to many of us. Their sense of huuaor alone, If
they have any, during the elaborate ceremonies
marking the different stages of Mr.. Gandhis
fast, should floor his followers. But his hunger
strikes always work. Like a spoiled child who
cries until he gets what he wants, Mr.. Gandhi
always succeeds.
Why not apply the same technique to deadly
conflicts in other parts Of the world? Some
venerable man could sit, clothed in nothing
but diaper, by the gate of Jerusalem bowling
that he was not eating bite until Arab and
Jew kissed and promised to be good.
Or, to come nearer home, a leading advocate
Of self-government for the District OF Columoia
sould drape himself on the Capitol steps with
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@Psychoanalysis Finds a Defender

sPsychoanalysis Finds Defender
To the Editor of The Star:
AS one who, has experienced most expert
and thorough psychoanalyss, and who has
studied great deal on the subject of mental
illness, must beg to differ with Julius David
sons conception OF the neurotic personality
In the first place. the notion that only the
most intelligent and sensitive are subject to
neuroses is a naturalization. All the mani
festations of neuroses have been deliberately
developed in pigs and goats. Pavlov IN his
experiments used dogs
In the final analysis, neurosis depends on
the delusion that one is unloved-Without ca
pacity either to accept or to invest affection
It follows, Of course, that one also is unwor-
thy, inadequate, inferior.
The universal and perfectly normal responses
to this false state of mind are fear, hatred,
jealousy, self-pity dstrust suspicion, etc. Then,
of course, there is the always present sense
of guilt and its derivative, self consciousness.
Ones motivation necessarily will be abnor-
mal-for if one cannot obtain affection and ap-
proval in legitimate, acceptable ways theh
one must otherwise achieve at least their err
satz forms. OF course, abnormal behavior
ranges the whole gamut-from slight eccen-
tricity to outright criminality. But there Is
no difference in motivation-except IN degree.
The cure for a neurosis Is to discount the
symptoms thereof-the emotional responses
and the motivation-and to concentrate the
light of truth and reality on the delusion
upon which they depend. In other words, 1t Is
necessary for the neurotic to learn to love him.
self, his neighbor and his God. That SUCH
capacity must be developed by more or less
long difficult effort is just part OF the pen
atty one pays for having been frustrated IN
the first place, in childhood. But when we
realize that all the natural, normal forces OF
the Creator, as they are vested in man, in
cline one toward affection for oneself and
ones fellows, one should take heart.
One cannot have been neurotic and found
the vay to recovery, without accepting at full
face value the biblical prescription to love
thy neighbor as thyself."
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geniuseS was Robert Mills.
truly a great artist. He
wanted a shaft 600 feet
high, emblazoned with gil
gantic stars and sur
rounded by a vast circular
colonnade, of the Doric or
der, $50 feet in diameter
and 100 feet high. Mills
estimated the cost of his
ensemble at 81 100000.
His composition actu-
ally was accepted by the
Government and by a vol
unteer association organ
lied to raise money for the
project. The cornerstone
. was laid July 4, 1848, and
during the next seven years
.the stump" was raised to
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marble "profusely enriched
with paneling," he would
have set up a Renaissance
framework for a colossal
statue of Washington GO
feet high, then four stages
of rounded arches of differ
ent dimensions and stand
ing at the apex a figure of
Fame with a laurel wreath
for the national hero way
down below.
Still a third tower, Of
fered by M. P. Hapgood of
Boston, was an English
Gothic affair with a Ian
tern on top and an efflgy
of Washington in a niche
of pointed outline at the
bottom. But again an
a,oo1 woo o5dod of tho
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to proceed. Henry r.
Searle, an architect well
known locally, came for
ward with a scheme for
three terraces with bat
tering walls" adorned with
sculptured panels and top
ped with a pointed tower in
a pseudo Oriental style, as
reproduced above.
John Frazer of Philadel-
phia next advocated a
campanile of seven stages
in the manner of q convent
bell-tower of North italy
In the Middle Ages. His
stories were to be of similar
heights with "round-arched
openings, one at the bot
tom, two in the middle,
- x,fr
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surely have not considered
what easily might happen
to the Nations Capital If
there were no formal re-
sistance to the ideas of in
novaturs who ardently de-
sire to express themselves at
the expense of the public.
Take the Washington
Monument for example: It
has been described as "the
material symbol of Wash
ington the city and Wash
ington the man" The same
writer declares: "Its SIM
plicity and austere dignity
make it an appropriate ma
tional memorial to the first
President"
But the beautiful white
obeliSk south of tie White