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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10
MalOney's Inc. Presents
Farm Market Reports

Maloney's Inc, of Silver Spring,
is presenting a daily radio pro-
gram of Farm Market Reports,
consisting of the latest prices on
fruits, vegetables, poultry, live
stock, and grain. The program is
broadcast over station WGAY
every day, Monday through Satur-
day, at 1890 P. M. At P. M.
on Sunday over the same station
they bring you a program entitled
Gardens for Freedom" featuring
the nationally famous commenta-
tor, Norman Brokenshire.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10
CoIesviI|e Still Unbowed
In Montgomery League

, mainly responsible for the 5 runs
Sandy Spring scored in the sixth.
Joe Powell went all the way for
Sandy Spring and the way he went
has now been told.
Next Sunday will find Colesville
at Sandy Spring and Bethesda at
Rockville, while Potomac enter
tains Wheaton at McConhie Field.
All games start at 3 P. M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10

If Congress gets in some fast
work there is still time to pass leg
islation limiting the length of COM
mencement orations.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10

The saving grace of the nation is
the reluctance of the common peo-
or April and the outbreak is over
before the end of May.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10

Every community, including this
county, has some local nabobs who
think that the law was made for
others.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10

1t is a mistake to assume, when
someone asks your advice, that the
questioner is interested in what
you try to say.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10

Every newspaper, including this
newspaper, deserves some criticism
but not all criticism is deserved.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10

DR.. Finklestein calls power lust
threat to survival.
Evening star., 1948-12-19

AN AMAZING SALE THAT TOOK ALMOST YEAR IN TIL
MAKING Sounds crazy! Like in July, Yale at
Harvard Here's the figured last January
sWhy watt like everybody It'll October Christms
buyng? October month bargain for anything
bathing Why bargain in January and February whe
tongues were hanging sales when the
really mood bargain? If could buy big saving
could sell at big savings could even haze safe
appliances Christmas time! 1T WORKED LIKE CHARM
When stuck good old American fon unde
the of saehungy manufacturers during the
'slow MONTHS they did nip.ups they drooled and u
ON these amazing savings you Right Christmas tim
right when it'll do the good We aren't allowed
mention the famous manufacturer here but reae
like a of 'Who's Who in the Appliance Business!
You'll when you and soiH you be urprised Eve,
item brand-new in original factory CUA
ANTEED BY THE FAMOUS MANUFACTURERS AND BY SU
RADIO Need Sun al,eays sells ,eha advers
Evening star., 1948-12-20
A Shokeup Is Needed

The shakeup in the District National
Guard planned by President Truman is
one that has been needed for long time.
There is good reason to believe that the
Guard will benefit by change in COM
manding officers. If, in addition, the ac-
tive overall supervision of the outfit is
transferred from the President to the
National Guard Bureau of the Army De-
partment, the local Guard will have the
advantage of close military observation
and control at all times. With such su-
pervision there would be hope of an early
end to the factional feuding and fussing
that have hurt morale and efficiency in
recent months.
Brigadier General Albert L. Cox has
passed retirement age, so that change
In command can be effected readily by
retiring him to make way for successor.
It Is reported that General Cox may be
succeeded by Colonel William H. Aben-
droft, formerly Adjutant General of Idaho
and now @ member of the General Staff
Committee on National Guard Policy.
Since he is an outsider, Colonel Abendroft
would not be identified with either of the
warning factions within the local organi-
zation and hence would be in position
to restore peace and discipline in short
order. He has splendid record of service
In both World Wars. Furthermore, he is
familiar with conditions in the District
Guard, having been assigned to study the
troubles underlying the unfavorable pub
ncity which the Guard has been getting
In the past year.
A reorganization of the sort indicated
would enable the District Guard to get
down to the business of being what it is
supposed to bean up-to-date military
unit prepared for instant service to the
community and the Nation in event of
another war. 1t cannot measure up to this
standard as long as 1t is plagued by poll
tics, back-biting and other disrupting
influences.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Social Medicine

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t is apparent that the popular demand for
more assured and less expensive medical care
is going to bring about changes in the organi-
zation of medical practice and methods OF
financing medical costs. 1t is the duty OF
legislators to make sure that these charges
preserve individual initiative, rewards and COM
petition, while assuring medical care to more
people than in the past. The proposals now
being publiczed do not satisfy all these criteria
national law should require .all income
earners to contribute a fixed percentage OF
their income into a health prepayment FUND
administered largely by local doctors and meol-
cal administrators In return for this pay
ment. each income Garner and his family up
to six persons should be entitled to stipulated
types of medical care and disqualification.
Each person should be free to choose his
own doctor as at present and to pay Tor addl-
tional care outside the prepayment system
Each doctor should be compensated from the
fund on differential reward basis His total
fees should be determined by multiplying the
number of his patients by the fixed-unlt cost
of the services he performs. This unit cost
would be varied locally.
In such a system, all the existing encourage
ment for better doctors to achieve relatively
greater incomes would be preserved, since
patients automatically would retain the petter
qualified doctors in greater numbers. Stimu-
lation of doctors to give the best quality care
would also be maintained At the same time,
most persons would be assured OF care and
would seek care when needed, and the relative
certainty of reasonably good incomes for medi-
cal practitioners would tend to reduce the
unit cost of their services. The advantages of
socialized medicine would be achieved without
its disadvantages.
Encouragement to persons to preserve their
health and not to make excessive use of health
prepayment funds might be attained If such
persons were penalized for not following medi-
cal advice in the prevention Of disease. Such
penalties might include enforced larger con-
tributions TO the fund. At the same time,
those who over period of time make little
use of the fund might be rewarded by being
permitted to make smaller contributions. This
would prevent the tendency Of q minority to
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Christmas Cards Not Christian

To the Editor of The Star:
1t often is charged these days that our Amer
ican civilization is being secularized, and one
evidence of it is what you find on at least
three fourths of all the Christmas greeting
cards exhibited in our stores. Having use Tor
more than bought, ventured out in down.
pour of rain to two local stores selling Christ
mas cards In a ten cent store found a case
marked Religious Christmas Cards" as II re-
ligious Christmas cards were an unusual thing,
which is the truth. Only there in their exten-
sive display did I find anv cards with any
thing but the most perfunctory religious en-
blems, and usually no emblems at ALL much
less scripture verses
In higher grade store were more expensive
cards but not one in dozen gave the least
indication that Christ or the Christian religion
has anything to do with Christmas. All that
~as on nine tenths of the cards was Greet
ings of the Season" or some equally vapid ana
meaningless expression. Not an indication any
where that Christmas is celebrated as the an
niyersary of the birth of Christ or that we
should in any way remember what His lie
means to us. So far as the Christmas caro-
business goes, it is almost literally Christmas
without Christ F. L. L. HlLLEH'
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Correction
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A letter from the Housing and Home Finance
Agency commenting on the discussion of the
Taft-Ellender Wagner bill, appearing in my
article OF December 6, points out that certain
of the figures quoted there convey an erroneous
impression Of the probable cost Of the program
to the Federal Government. The column stated
that the bill contemplates the construction
with Federal funds of 1,250,0O0 rental units" i"
This figure was taken from the report Of the
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
which reported out the bill. The bill itself,
however, authorizes Federal assistance in the
form of loans and contributions for only 500,-
600 units of low-rent subsidized public housing
to be built over five-year period. The bal
ance Of the contemplated goal was to be pro-
vided through private enterprise, 80 per cent
of which would not be subsidized. This is
true Of the yield insurance" provisions of the
bill intended to encourage private corporations
to undertake large-scale housing projects. It
is not intended that rents on these projects
would be fixed below a fair return" but
rather at levels providing for the amortization
of the original investment and a minimum an
nual return of not less than 3h per cent. The
Federal Government would guarantee up to 2A
per cent OF the return plus per cent amortiza
ton. Consequently, the liability Of the Treasury
is contingent rather than absolute, as would
have ben the case If such rentals were subsi-
died. The proponents Of the bill did include
provisions to encourage the use of prefabricated
materials and the application of mass produc-
ton techniques to reduce construction costs.
While the research program into such tech
niques received only limited approval by Con-
gress. the agency states that broader authority
for such research will be sought from the new
Congress. GERARD D. REILLY.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Peace and Supersonic FLIGHT

When man like Lawrence D. Bell says
that aircraft manufacturers now know
how to build passenger-carrying planes
capable of flying at speed Of 5000 or
more miles an hour, people of this genera
tion have good reason to believe that either
they or their children may live to see the
day when they will be able to travel from
here to London in As minutes or so. They
have good reason, too, to shudder a bit
over what that possibility may lead to in
case the world has neither the wit nor the
wisdom to establish an enduring peace.
AS one of the foremost aeronautical ex-
perts of the age, Mr.. Bell speaks with
authority. Among other things, he is the
designer and builder of the celebrated XII,
the rocket-propelled experimental plane
which Captain Yeager of the United
States Air Force has piloted at speeds con-
siderably faster than sound Precise fig
ures about its performance have not yet
been revealed, but authoritative hints have
left no room for doubt that the craft-the
first to crash through the so-called sonic
barrier-has been flown at the rate of at
least 1000 miles an hour
Accordingly, when Mr. Bell declares that
it is now possible to build man-carrying
planes three times faster than the XII. we
may take it for granted that he is not jok-
ing but is speaking on the basis of what
has been learned from that experimental
craft. AS matter of .fact-as he said here
the other day during the Wright Brothers
celebration marking the 45th anniversary
of the worlds first flight by heavier
than-a machine-the XII could attain a
speed of upwards of 5000 miles an hour
but for the limitation imposed upon it by
its four-minute supply of propulsive power.
Actually, according to Mr.. Bell, "other
supersonic planes are being built which
will not suffer" from that limitation In
his opinion, our experience with the XII
"opens an entirely new frontier of flight
heretofore not dreamed of'-an opinion
strongly suggesting that he himself be-
lieves in the not-too- distant advent of
.piloted aircraft flying at speeds of 1000 or
5000 miles an hour, with power plants
(conceivably atomic) equipping them for
nonstop transcontinental and trans
oceanic travel. When we consider avia-
tion's fabulous development in the past
few decades, such prospect is not nearly
so silly or exaggerated as it may seem at
first glance.
Unpiloted supersonic rockets of limited
range already are a reality. If they are
improved, as they probably will be, and
If equally fast carrying planes are
developed, as MIR. Bell anticipates, then
'the annihilation of space and time" will
become much more than a rhetorical
phrase. Indeed, unless men and their gov
ernments achieve genuine collective Sc
curity, the phrase will have to be expanded
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Loose Talk and the ECA

Within recent days two key figures in
our Economic Cooperation Administration
have had such sad experience with their
own offhand remarks that 1t seems rea
sonable to hope they will henceforth be
inclined to speak with greater circumspec-
ton.
In all probability, Paul G. Hoffman, the
very able head of the ECA, never antici
pated the stir created by his talk with
reporters in Shanghai. Having had time
for second thoughts, however, he must now
realize the carelessness of his of-the-cuff
opinion suggesting that the United States
had already washed its hands of China's
Nationalist government and would be will
ing, under certain conditions, to support
new coalition regime including Commu
nists.
Similarly, but much less pardonably,
Howard Bruce, Mr.. Hoffman's deputy, could
hardly have appreciated the explosiveness
Of his remarks when he gave the impress
sion to press conference here that Brit
ain, Belgium and the Netherlands were
engaged in a kind of confidence game
against us-a game in which they took our
and then made millions of extra dollars by
selling it back to us in the form of scrap
But almost as soon as that impression was
given, the three countries issued fiat
denialS; the heads of our ECA missions
abroad backed them up, and Mr.
Bruce himself in a strangely cavalier
manner-acknoWledg that there was no
factual proof to support his implicit charge
OF bad faith and sharp dealing on the part
OF these friendly governments. Up to the
moment, in short, even though it may yet
be found that some private British, Belgian
or Dutch citizens have been playing tricks,
there appears to be no evidence to justify
the sweeping nature of the original Bruce
statement-a fact making that statement
seem doubly deplorable.
The upshot of all this has been to oblige
Acting Secretary Lovett to explain that
Mr.. Bruce said his say without having frst
consulted the State Department and that
Mr.. Hoffman, in his Shanghai remarks,
expressed only his own personal opinion.
But it is question whether this will be
enough to clear the. air for the British,
Belgian, Dutch and Chinese governments.
OF course, the ECA has neither the right
nor the responsibility to speak for or carry
out our foreign policy, but because of the
very nature of it's international economic
operations, its actions are bound to affect
the conduct of that policy in one way or
another. Hence, when any of its top off,
cialS comment on countries abroad, those
countries naturally attach great impor-
tance to the comment.
In the circumstances, the ECA-from
Mr.. Hoffman on down-ought certainly to
guard against making casual or impulsive
statements, and the same care should be
exercised by other key agencies of the
Government. The times are too serious
for a confusion of voices in the field of
foreign policy. What is needed-obviously
is special effort to coordinate the
words and actions of the rest Of the
Evening star., 1948-12-20

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Please inclose 8 cents for return postage.
O. Is the mother Of the Marx brothers still
living?-D. D. E.
A. Minna schoenberg Marx, the mother Of
the Marx brothers, died in 1929. She is buried
in New Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, New
York. Their father, Samuel, died in 1888.
@. Please distinguish between estate and in.
heritance taxes-W. T. L.
A. These, although quite different are some.
times confused. An estate tax is levied on the
total estate left by deceased person An in
heritahce tax applies to that part of deceased
persons estate passing to a particular heir or
beneficiary. The Federal Government levies
an estate but not an inheritance tax.
@. Which is used more as finish on new
automobiles, enamel or lacquer?-A w. T.
A. The National Bureau Of Standards says
that baked-on synthetic enamels and lacquers
are used on new cars in about equal numbers
l. e. there are about as many cars finished with
enamel as with lacquer. Actually the figures
are about 81 per cent lacquer and 40 per cent
baked-on enamel.
Q. Where was the first community Christ.
mas tree lighted?-J. H. M.
A. The custom of lighting a community
Christmas tree began with the erection Of the
Tree of Light in Madison Square Garden, New
York City, in 1912.
q. How many English sparroWs are there In
the United States? In what section of the
country are they most numerous?-W. o. c.
A. The Fish and Wildlife Service says there
has been no tabulation made on the population
Of the English sparrow but that the peak was
reached several years ago and is now definitely
on the decline. The heaviest populated area Is
around DeS MoineS Iowa.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Scott's Home at Abbotsford

One need not close the eyes to piston here
The long ago. The Uery atmosphere .s.,
Is charged ,Dit1 nobleness OF chiualry
In lord and king; ,vtth flaming history
OF highland, loDland, and the border
chief;
With loue, adventure, happiness, and grief.
We hear defiant ,1ords of Marmion,
See Lochinvar in flight tDith Ellen ,Don;;
We clasp the hand of Jennie Deans and
touch
Elbows Nth GYPSY, sn,uggler, bard on,
such
A oolden privilege Is ours to tell
Crusaders, valiant of heart, tare1ceH.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Clersymen in Secular Affairs


TO the Editor Of The star
In . recent communication to your paper
criticism was aimed at clergymen for preaching
mainly on secular subjects. There is enough
Of truth involved in such criticism to call for
further word
From q clergyman's viewpoint, I am con-
vinced that the safer plan, as well as the most
effective one, is for the preacher Of the Gospel
to stick to his text" and to let that text be .
principle Of the Bible which embodies eternal
truth. The preaching of politics" economics,
housing racial questions which time and higher
civilization under Gospel training alone can set
Alright, betraying partisan or sectarian bias as
an inducement or warning as to . course In
moral attitudes-an are but using nostrums to
cure symptoms without reaching the causes Of
the evil which created those symptoms. Almost
any well-advertised remedy" will be purchased
by thoughtless persons II 1t promises quick re-
lief from pain. But the pain may be, as it
often is, but warning Of q root-cause which
calls for radical treatment The world evils
are the offshoot and fruitage of causes too deep
for anything less than heart regeneration. And
when the heart Of man Is right all other mat
tiers in time fall into their proper sphere. Force
coercion, be 1t in any form, cannot do more
than suppress what will sooner or later break
forth in some new outburst
The preaching Of the principles Of the Gospel
has in every age, from apostolic days to our
own, built up moral character in individuals
and through individuals has built up the morals
of nations. by their fruits ye shall know
them" Look at the nations Of earth and Judge
for yourselves what has made them strong or
weak. Look at the character Of the preaching
which the people have and demand. Look at
moral advance and recession and see how thev
follow the principles Of the Gospel or side issues
which are mere substitutes for those principles
If Savonarola, Joseph Parker of London, or
Henry Ward Beecher Of America felt called
upon to enter the political world in their
preaching, the mass Of our clergymen will do
well to follow such men as Frederick W. Rob-
ertson, Phillips Brooks, Horace Bushnell and,
may add, the great radio preacher of today,
DR.. Ralph W. Sockman, in stressing great prin-
ciples Of our Bible and thereby reaching every
form of evil without particularizing or running
off on tangentary matters.
JOHN O. KNOTT.
Evening star., 1948-12-20

to include the humiliation OF humanity
itself. Our shrunken world, still shrinking,
is much too small to absorb the shock Of
an all-out atomic and archaeological war
waged with hghtning-like aircraft. If
sanity prevails, the very nature of our
age should make peace inevitable.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Telephone Prooress

It is less than seventy-three years since
March 10, 1875, when Alexander Graham
Bell spoke the command: "Mr. Watson,
come here; want you" The words were
addressed to his assistant in the shop at
100 Court street, Boston, and represented
the first complete Ineligible sentence"
ever transmitted over telephone wire.
That the inventor appreciated fully the
value OF his discovery is evident from the
fact that he already had applied for
and been granted on his twenty ninth
birthday-a patent covering its principle
But the larger significance of Bells
achievement has become apparent only
recently. The new issue of Telephone
Statistics of the World" released last week,
indicates that his device, perfected by
unceasing research and experimentation,
now probably Is the most commonly used
mechanical instrument of modern date in
the world. There are go, 1900, 900 telephones
in use at present. This means that one
Is available for every thirty eight indi-
viduals alive on the globe today.
Naturally the highest telephone "den-
sity" is that of the United States Our
country has only per cent of the earth's
population, but it has nearly three-fifths
of all the telephones in operation. During
1947 it gained 3,25O,O00, making a total
Of "a 1857 900 in service from coast to coast
--one for every four persons. Sweden is
next, with one for every. five. The United
States, logically enough, "out-talked" all
other nations. Our count of telephone
conversations reached $4,000 100000 The
average American used the facilities of
the telephone system SIT times during the
year.
What effect such development has
upon the folk culture of the world Is q
subject for social philosophers to specu-
late about. Even the merest laymen, how
ever, must realize that in the. telephone
richly creative genius has been de-
mocratized widely. The result that Bell
accomplished was a public, not simply a
private advantage. His invention always
has been commanding in character It
began with a command, and it still COM
mands. Few other sounds have any COM
pulsion to match the ringing of a telephone
alarm. 1t stirs people into action, and
action Is the prime requisite of progress
Tt.;a Cc3 l.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,ortter, although 1t Is permissible for
a ,Driter knoDn to The Star to use
a non, de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-12-20

executive branch with those Of the State
Department. This may be more easily
said than done, but nevertheless there
should be real attempt to do it.
Evening star., 1948-12-20

INCEST thing we ever listened in on a
this season was 5-year-old girls descrip
ton of Christmas to S-year-old,
Evening star., 1948-12-20

1t is sage of Taunton (Mass.) who de-
fines getting up in the morning as {
triumph Of mind over mattress.