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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-04-21

TOTAL ASSETS. . 81, 615,5 SO
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of in
dividuals, part n err
ships, and corpora
tons .$579, 3O6.2O
Time deposits of indi-
viduals, partnerships,
and corporations. -. 739,537.50
Depos it S of United
States government
(including postal saw
ings) ............ 9,611.45
Deposits of States and
political subdivisions. 138,932.56
Other deposits (certi-
fed and officers
checks, etc. .. 3,155.39
TOTAL
DEPOSITS 81, 47O,54S.1O
Other liabilities. 80. 4,664.79
Total Liabilities (not
including subordi-
mated obligations
shown below -. 81, ATS, 207.8 9
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital S 100000
Surplus .............. 45,000.00
Undivided profits. .... 45,325.09
Total Capital
Accounts. ........ 40,325.09
Total Liabilities and
Capital Accounts. 81 ,615, 532.98
@This banks capital consists of
first preferred stock with total par
value of 25,000.00, total retirable
value $25,000.00; and common
stock with total par value OF
$25, 100000.
MEMORANDA
Assets pledged or as
signed to secure liabili-
ties and for other pur-
poses .$230,0OO.O0
I, HERBERT S. HYATT,
Cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemn1y swear that the
above statement is true, and that
it fully and correctly represents
the true state of the several mat
ters herein contained and set forth,
to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
Herbert S. Hyatt, Cashier.
Cor~ect-Attest:
UPTON F. GLADHILL,
JOHN w. HAGER,
BRADLEY M. WOODFlELD,
Directors.
State of Maryland, County OF
Montgomery, SIS:
Sworn to and subscribed before
ma this In day of April, 1919,
and / hereby certify that am not
an officer or director Of this bank.
]. Leslie Woodfield, Notary Public.
Wy commission expires May 2.
1919.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-04-21
Third Day of May, 1949

OSS"O0Al tlOAA VI
900 AM. and 4:30 PM.
an election will be held for the
election of three supervisors for
the Montgomery Soil Conserva-
ton District of the State of Mary
land.
All persons, firms and corpo-
rations who hold title to, or are
in possession of any lands lying
within the boundaries of the said
district, whether as owners,
renters, tenants, or otherwise, are
eligible to vote at the said cleo
ton. Only such persons, firms or
corporations are eligible to vote.
Eligible voters residing within
the district shall cast their bal
lots at the polling place for the
division wherein they reside. Eli
gible voters not residing within
the district shall cast their bal
lots at the polling place for the
division which includes their land,
or the greater part thereof.
Eligible voters who will be absent
from their division on the day of
the election may apply in person
or in writing to o. w. Anderson,
Polling Superintendent, at Rock
vile Maryland, for absentee bal
lot. Each applicant for an
absentee ballot shall state his
name, residence, location and
acreage of land owned or pos
sessed, and interest therein.
STATE SOIL CONSERVATION
COMMITTEE
By Edward M. Davis, Secretary.
1904
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-04-21

Even those who yearn for world
peace as an ideal must be practical
in the face of world conditions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-04-21
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The
Bank of Damascus

of Damascus, in the State OF
Maryland, at the close Of
business on March 81, 1919.
ASSETS
Cash, balances with
other banks, including
reserve balances, and
cash items in process
of collection. .$178,573.12
United States Govern
ment obligations, d.
rect and guaranteed. 520,700.OO
Corporate stocks. .... 100
Loans and discounts. .. 03,800.58
Bank premises
owned. ..$9,111.02
Furniture and
fixtures. -. 2,893.74 12,004.76
Other assets. ......... 453.52
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-04-21
STATE SOIL CONSERVATION
COMMITTEE OF MARYLAND
NOTICE OF ELECTION
OF SUPERVISORS
TO BE HELD FOR THE
MONTGOMERY SOIL
CONSEDVT Al TONT nTCTDU(tT

To all occupiers of land lying
within the boundaries of the
Montgomery Soil Conservation
District, notice is hereby given
that on the
Evening star., 1949-12-27

an egg, make toast automatically, Of
course) or warm can Of beans. That Is
something the men will not forget when
the cooks night OF gives rise to womanly
hints that a dinner downtown would be
in order.
. It would be grossly unfair to believe that
large cash prizes are needed to induce
some women to don apron, dig up the cook
book and start activities in the kitchen.
There are undoubtedly wives who still like
to cook. But, despite the modern allure
snents of cleaning streamlined stoves,
with rows of jukebox-like lights and push
buttons; whippers, juicers, dish-washers
and whatnot, too many women nowadays
spend as little time as possible in the
kitchen. If prize contests can get these
apathetic ladies back into the kitchen,
a great service will have been done the
long suffering men of afflicted households
Take heart, men-the kitchen may yet
return to its former place of Importance
in the home.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Proof Thot Women Con Cook

There was heartening news last week
for the man who, for reasons he had better
keep to himself. had begun to think that
the modern woman was allergic to things
culinary. It has been established that to-
days women do know how to cook. Some
of them, at least Even though 1t took the
lure Of $4,000 in cash prizes to prove the
point publicly, the fact remains that one
hundred housewives from thirty-seven
States, the District Of Columbia and Alaska
have demonstrated conclusively that they
not only can bake . cake Is well as mother
or grandmother but possibly better.
The remarkable demonstration took
place, Of AL places. In the grand ballroom
of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel In New York
City. It was the ANAL bake-down OF .
nationwide contest sponsored by -four
company. From this one may infer that
thousands Of other women considered
themselves suficiently skilled. in cookery
to compete in the earlier series Of contests.
No doubt Thousands upon Thousands OF
mouth watering pies, cakes, rollsiand other
tasty products Of the bake-oven were pro-
duced during the preliminaries. Perhaps
many husbands learned for the first time.
during this contest, that their wives could
do something mors complicated than fry
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Protect This Roads Beauty

The continuing efforts OF the Fairfax
County Board OF Supervisors to prevent
commercialization of the new Shirley
Memorial Highway are deserving OF pubic
support. Although the board has modified
its original stand in this connection, 1t has
shown commendable determination to
preserve the natural beauty OF this fine
scenic shortcut from Washington to the
Richmond Highway.
There is precedent for permitting we'll
planned shopping centers near the few
intersections along the Shirley route. The
one at Shirlington was carefully designed
with view to avoiding any clash with the
memorial nature of the boulevard. Also, 1t
is sufficiently far OF the road to make 1t
unobjectionable. The Fairfax board now
has decided to permit similar business
development at the Seminary Road inter-
section. It ordered the setting up of a
non-commercial strip separating the shop
ping center from the highway, however.
This seems to be reasonable compro-
mise. While keeping the highway ITSELF
free of hot dog stands, roadhouses, bill
boards and neon signs Of the sort that have
spoiled the appearance Of nearby U. s..
Route l, the new policy provides convenient
shopping opportunities, including service
station facilities, for motorists using the
road. It is to be hoped that the board
will not bulge from its announced purpose
of keeping the highway itself free Of COM
mercial enterprises.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Case of the Unwunted Patient

The case of patient given first aid
at Emergency Hospital and then trans
ferred to Galhnger over the protest OF
admitting officers there may be found, upon
proper examination, to reveal some loop
holes in the system of INDECENT care that
need closing. Or it may reveal nothing
more than misunderstanding on lower
levels at Emergency and Gallinger, IN
which, fortunately, the patient seems not
to have suffered. Whatever the full facts
may be, Health Officer Seckinger Is right
in deciding to get them.
For 1t may be that some redehnition OF
responsibility In such cases Is needed. II
a patient is not an emergency case, Is
classified as an INDECENT but lacks year
of residence in the District-who Is
responsible for his care? theoretically q
volunteer hospital which accepts such
patient is supposed to be paid for his care
out of Community Chest funds Emergency
Hospitals superintendent, James G..
Capossela, tells The Star, however, that
the mans physical condition, and not his
financial condition, was the determining
factor in sending him to Gallinger, where
facilities for treatment were available that
were not available at Emergency. But
under the law the patient was not strictly
eligible for admittance at Gallinger
because he had not lived in the District
a full year. Fortunately, he was accepted
anyway.
Perhaps the residence qualification is \
bit unrealistic, and needs further examina-
ton. patients condition and need for
treatment, not his length Of residence,
ought to govern. There are stories in
circulation which indicate that more than
one patient has been shunted from one
hospital to another In an effort to pass
the buck-and the expense-of free treat
ment. If publicity in this last case serves
the purpose of forcing re-examination of
where responsibility does lie, it will be
good thing Perhaps all the machinery
exists now, but parts of 1t are not working.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Long Life and Population

A British physician named DR.. Maurice
Ernest Is returning home In high spirits
after visiting this country to talk with
three anonymous nillionaires who are said
to have offered to subsidize his efforts to
show people how to live to be $50 or 400
years old. Like number Of other medical
men-including some distinguished ones
DR.. Ernest believes that that kind Of
longevity, with continuing mental and
bodily vigor, is possible for all Of US.
But there Is reason to wonder about what
may come Of trying to make reality out
of such a possibility. Today the average
life expectancy Of mortal man In the United
States is not yet equal to the Biblical
allotment of 10 years, and 1t Is much less
than that in most other countries. Never
theless, our American population, which
now stands at about $50, 100000, Is increas-
Ing at the rate of 100000 every month,
which means that there may be at least
27O,000O00 of us by the time this century
ends. As for the world at large, It's more
than 2,000, ,000,0 900 inhabitants are multi
plying by 260,000,0 900 each decade, so that
If the present trend continues, there will
be at least 5000 ,000, 900 human beings In
1000 AID. and 4,000,000000 in 1850.
OF course, 1t is possible that the current
rate OF increase will decline. On the other
hand, 1t may grow, in which case the
earth's population may total 5000 900 900
or more 100 years from now. Certainly, Il
projects like DR.. Ernest's should succeed,
this would become a decidedly crowded
world. As matters stand, with the human
beings average life expectancy consider
ably less than 10, our numbers are doubling
every century Obviously, therefore, If the
time should ever come when the newborn
will be able to look forward to living for
$50 or 200 years, bipeds will become 20
multitudinous everywhere that they may
be hard put to find enough room to move
around in, not to mention enough food to
eat, or enough jobs to provide economic
security.
Actually, even if average life expectancy
stabilizes at the present level ct has in
creased by 20 years In the United States
since 1900, the current rate Of population
growth is striking enough to suggest that
real and serious problems are In the
making for both peoples and governments,
Wholly apart from the question OF raising
adequate quantities OF food Developments
In atomic science and other fields may
create plenty for alb, economic, political,
military and social adjustments will be
needed to keep pace with the profound
changes (including change in the
international balance Of power) implicit In
the idea of a United States with about
800 0o0, 900 inhabitants and world with
5000 ,00o, 900 or 1000, 900 900.
Add to this prospect the possibility Of
spectacular gain in longevity gain under
which the average person could expect TO
live for well over 100 years and II becomes
clear how In due course the world may
suffer even greater headaches than the
ones that af1ict it now. Still, the human
instinct for survival and long life u 30
natural, great and compelling that men
undoubtedly will keep on striving toward
lust such q goal o. Dr.. ErnestS. The
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Letters to The Star

Protests Proposal To Use Churches
To Accommodate Congress Heights Schools
To the Editor Of The STAR
It recently was reported that school
authorities here are considering the use OF
churches to relieve overcroWdlng IN the
Congress Heights elementary schools. Such
unsatisfactory and makeshift arrangements
are typical of the short-sighted, hand-to-
mouth policies of school authorities and
Congress.
The danger inherent in such makeshift
arrangements is that here in the District
they tend to become permanent instead OF
temporary" expedients and become an OBJ
stacle to the new schools we desperately
need now!
The use of churches to relieve overcrowd-
ing cannot answer even the immediate need
of children for more space. These are build
ings without adequate sanitary and fire
standards to meet the needs OF school.
There is no play space. Rooms which were
never intended for schoolrooms will be USED
to crowd classes
We are opposed to having children attend
public schools in denominational buildings.
Even if the utmost caution is observed to
separate the normal functions OF the church
from the conduct of the school. the two are
associated in the young child'S mind.
If the parents in the Congress Heights
area permit the adoption of such temporary
measures" they will be defeating their own
efforts to obtain two new schools. They Will
be doing serious disservice to parents and
children in other crowded areas by setting
precedent for the use of churches as an
alternative to the building Of new schools.
This would be especially true for the Negro
areas where the dual school system has bred
q double standard of education with school
facilities for Negro children appallingly in
adequate.
The only sound solution to the need for
new schools is to build new schools. Public
education for his children is the right Of
every citizen. He is entitled to adequate
schooling by law and pays for it himself in
taxes. We insist that the School Board stop
trying to patch up our archaic school system
and turn its efforts to the sound long range
planning and building proposed by DR..
Strayer in his report.
MRS. SELMA r. REIN.
Chairman, s. E. Club. Progressive Party.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Worrinq on Accidents

The selection Of General Jacob L. Devers
Is managing director Of the American
Automobile Associations Foundation for
Trafnc Safety Is an appropriate one. Dur
ing the war General Devers strove to
reduce the number Of American casualties
by training our soldiers how to match wits
and weapons with the enemy. The toll Of
dead and injured would have, been higher
but for the training which our boys
received before going into battle. General
Devers peacetime task win be to reduce the
grim list of trafiic casualties through
safety education and training.
In warning on automobile accidents,
General Devers faces foe that annually
Injuries more persons than were wounded
on the American side during all of World
War II. More than 1,400, 900 persons were
injured in traffic accidents last year, which
Navy and Marine casualties in the late
war. Traffic deaths have averaged $1,000
a year for the past ten years. Last years
total was $4,000.
The AAA r. spending upwards Of a
million . year on safety efforts designed
to cut this terrible peacetime casualty list.
The AAA foundation is devoting its at
tention largely to two fields: First, making
adults more safety-conscious, whether at
the wheel of car or walking across 4
street, and, second, training young people
to be better drivers and pedestrians
through special training courses in the
Nations high schools. The latter field is
particularly promising one that is in need
OF wider development not only in the
District but throughout the country.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Trumpetinq EIephunt

II Republican National Chairman Ga
brielson has his way, the voice Of the COP
elephant is going to be heard throughout
the land in this coming year.
Mr.. Gabrielson has appointed policy
group of fifteen members to draft state
ment of Republican principles, and the
enunciation of these principles will serve
as starting point for a now-or-never
campaign to win the 1850 congressional
elections.
Those who believe in the two-party sys-
TEN win welcome this show of activity.
Mr.. Gabrielson is going about 1t In an
intelligent manner, soliciting the views OF
125,000 party workers as to what should
be contained in the policy statement. This
is suggestive Of a certain broadening OF
the base In Republican policy making, an
indication OF . real desire to consult the
wishes of the workers in the party ranks.
But this move, while commendable one,
is not likely, in itself, to bring much i'm
provement In COP political fortunes.
In the first place, it is going to be very
will be more than q collection of mean
ingless generalities. Gould Lincoln, writing
in The Sunday Star, has reported some
of the recommendations that are coming
to Mr.. Gabrielson as result of his poll.
And as might be expected, they reveal a
wide divergence of opinion within Repub-
Hcan ranks. One man wants statement
OF principles that reverts to "the old sound
thinking" Of the Republican Party, and
he believes the party should stand or fall
on the public reaction to these principles.
Another points out however, that set
of principles on which Republican could
win an election in New York would almost
certainly bring about the defeat of Repub-
licans running elsewhere.
And so it goes. What is sauce for the
goose in our political system is not neces-
sarily sauce for the gander, and the COP
policy makers are going to be hard put to
draft a statement which will take stand
on the real issues Of the day and which
will not at the same time, ALLEVIATE blocs
that are essential to COP success.
Still another question runs to the politi-
cal value Of statements Of principles. If
1t be assumed for the moment that Mr..
Gabrielson and his aides will succeed in
drafting the finest of policy statements
an assumption that seems hardly war
ranted when one reads the names of some
of the men and women appointed to the
committee-there still remains the ques-
tion whether votes In any considerable
number can be attracted by policy state
ment.
At best, 1t is very doubtful. Political
experience In this country indicates that
there are two effective ways of enlisting
the support Of the voters. One is to choose
candidate who can appeal to them on
the strength Of his own personality.
Franklin d. Roosevelt should have demon
strated this to any ones satisfaction. The
other is to organize down to the precincts,
60 after the voters in their homes and
see that they get to the polls on election
day.
A statement Of principles, II one can be
drafted In any meaningful terms, may
help. But II the COP wants to win an
election, 1t had better look to its candi-
dates and the house-to-house canvass of
the voters
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Would Use Part Of Sales Tax Fund
To Pay Bonus To Veterans

Would Use Part Of Sales TAX Fund
To Pay Bonus To Veterans
To the Editor Of The star:
Why not use part Of the proceeds of the
District sales tax for veterans bonus?
am certain that the majority Of District
Of Columbia vets feel pretty badly when they
read of the bonuses paid (and to be paid)
to the veterans of New York, Pennsylvania
and other States. Unfair enough that we
cannot vote and have say in our Govern
ment, it's even more unfair that we have
to be left out of bonus benefits simply be-
cause we live in the Nations Capital. Why
not use part Of the sales tax for this pur-
pose?
I'm proud to have served my country in
time of need and don't expect anything for
my four years in the service, but It's only
human to feel omitted when others receive
bonus payments. HARRY SCHECKMAN.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
Objects To Paying Sales Tax
On Each Small Purchase
~ tba Tdftor NJ The StaY.


To the Editor OF The Star:
Why is not something done about the
racket going on in Maryland with regard
to the sales tax charged on small purchases
those at the five and ten cent stores? 1t
seems to be the opinion Of many of the
clerks that even at the same counter one
cent must be charged on every fifteen cents
worth of sales and again on everything over
fifty cents. BY the time q customer has pur-
chased perhaps six l5-cent articles he has
been charged six cents tax. The sales tax Is
levied at two cents on dollar. yet this
violation Of legislative laws goes on daily
on hundreds Of purchases. Does the store
pay all this surplus tax to the Collector Of
Internal Revenue or does the store keep it?
Whatever the answer. 1t Is Illegal and. as
taxpayer, should like to see something
done to correct 1t.
ETHEL c. WOODWARD.
Evening star., 1949-12-27

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
10riter, although 1t Is permissible for
,uriter knoi0n to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1949-12-27

Among other things, Russia claims to
have discovered vegetation on Mars-a
thesis which was somewhat moss-covered
when last examined in these parts.
Evening star., 1949-12-27
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY The HASkIN SERVICE.
@. What is the worlds longest railway
E. H. H.
A. The Trans-Siberian Railway Of the
U. S. S. r. is at present the longest, extend
ing for about 5000 miles. If plans for COM
pleting the Cape to Cairo Railway are car
ried out this will be the worlds longest rail-
way and extend for 10000 miles from Cairo,
Egypt, to Capetown, South Africa. At pres
ent, portions have been built southwark and
northward from the two terminal cities.
out Mountain near Denver, Colo.?-F. W. T.
A. Buffalo Bill civilian Frederick Cody
died on January 10, 1917, and was buried
in tomb blasted from solid rock on Look
out Mountain on June 8, before a vast
assemblage. Gene Fowler in "Timberline"
describes the ceremony at some length. The
body lay in q bronze casket with a glass
cover through which the face could be seen.
There were numerous speeches.
Q. How many Christmas trees are pro-
duced In the United States annually?-W. B.
A. According to the Department Of Agri-
culture the number is about a 100000 and
about 100000 OF these come from the ma
tional forests. Some 100000 acres Of wood
land. owned mostly by farmers, are devoted
solely to growing Christmas trees. Balsam
fir and Douglas fir are the varieties IN great
est demand for the Christmas trade. Other
popular trees In order Of production. are:
Black spruce red cedar, white spruce,
Scotch pine and southern pine. red spruce,
Virginia pine, white fir and Norway spruce.
q. What city is the only one. In the world
to lie on two continents?-L. H. ].
4. It is Istanbul (Constantinople) the
former capital Of Turkey. The city Is built
around the southern end Of the Bosporus.
the narrow strait which separates Europe
from Asia. Uskudar, the commercial and
manufacturing suburb Of Istanbul. lies in
Asia. the rest Of the city In Europe.
@. What was the last team to beat Notrs
Dame before the beginning Of the present
football seaSon?-C. L.
A. At the beginning Of the 1919 season.
Notre Dame had string Of 28 games with
out defeat to its credit, having been last
beaten In 1945. In the last game Of the sea-
son, by Great Lakes. 39-7. The only other
defeat Notre Dame had in that season was
BY Army, 48-0.
Evening star., 1949-12-27

chances are. moreover, that they will con-
tinue to make appreciable headway toward
1t by learning to conquer cancer and other
mass killers.