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Evening star., 1950-11-19
; Polar Bears Invade
Northern Base, Find
Its Mobilization Slow
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

FORT CHURCHILL, Man.
Nov. 18.-The combined Ca
nadian-American defenses of
this sub-Arctic military base
have been tested by invasion
from the North and found to
be effective. if slightly slow
in mobilization.
Three polar bears wandered
into camp and roamed among
the quarters. BY the time
two hunting parties were
mustered, the bears had wan
dered back to the shore of
Hudson Bay. A pursuit by
jeep and station wagon along
the rocky coast led to the
elimination of two Of them.
The third is free to try again.
Evening star., 1950-11-19
Stoddert PTA to Meet

DR.. Carl Hansen, associate su-
perintendent of schools, will speak
on Living and learning in our
schools" at meeting Of the Stod-
dert Parent Teacher Association
at pm. tomorrow in the Stod-
dert School, Thirty-ninth and
Calvert streets NV,
Evening star., 1950-11-23
Huey-Fitch

Announcement has been made
by Mrs. T. Lindsay Fitch of War;
renton, Of the marriage of her
daughter, Margaret Dumesnil, to
Mr.. Robert Cochran Huey, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Spencer
Huey Of New Orleans. The we'd
ding took place October 20 In
Bay st. Louis, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huey are living
In New Orleans where the former
is associated with an insurance
firm. He attended Tulane Uni
versity and served in the Air
Corps during World War II. His
bride is the daughter of the late
4. Lindsay Fitch of Louisville,
KY, and Warrenton. She was
graduated from the Warrenton
Day School and attended Wells
College at Aurora. N. Y.
Evening star., 1950-11-23
Miss Vivos Stubbinqs
|Weds Mr. Allen

She is the former Miss VipdS
Marie Stubbings, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Stub
btngs, and 1oaS recently mar
ried to Mr.. AlDah DaDid Allen,
son of Mrs. AlDah X. Allen of
Kansas City, Mo. The ceremony
took place in the Holy Trinity
Church, Georgetown, Nth the
Req. Hugh McCarron, ST., OF
fciating. assisted By Dom Ber-
nard Theal, O.S.B., of st.
AnSeIm's Priory.
-SouthaU Photo.
Evening star., 1950-11-23
Martha LouderniIk
Bconoes Mrs Tanner

Married recently to Mr.. Mar
shall Collie Tanner, the bride is
the former Miss Martha Eliza-
beth Londernilk, daughter OF
Mr.. George Erpin Loudermilk
OF Rome, Ga, and Mrs. Mo,Dd
L. Fo,Dler OF Marietta, Ga. Mr..
Tanner IS the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Tanner OF Nal
Uern, Ark. The Req. Forest
Lanter otticiGted at the cere-
nony, tDhich took place at the
First Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1950-11-23

Diced celery and pimento-
stuffed olives are delicious added
to plain tomato aspic. Use about
two cups Of the celery and a cup
of the olives for an aspic made
with two cups of tomato juice.
Evening star., 1950-11-23

The ReD. Thomas Daniels Of
fciated at the recent Ueddinq
held In Saints Constantine and
Helen Greek Orthodox Church
OF Miss Cara Lee Kouis, daugh-
ter OF Mrs. PGno Kouis and the
late Mr.. Kouis, and Mr.. EdUard
G. Argerdke, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. George Argerake OF SilUer
Spring, Md.
-HesSler Photo.
Evening star., 1950-11-23

Married recently to Mr.. Ho,D-
ard Payne Hale, son of Mrs.
Howard Payne Hale OF Roam
oke, Va, and the late Mr.. Hale,
the bride Is the former Miss
Helen Elizabeth Moran, daugh-
ter OF Mrs. Francis William
Moran and the late Mr.. Moran.
The Req. Walter J. Norris Of
fciated at the ceremony In the
Church of the Nativity.
F. Marion Clark Photo.
II you are redoing your kitchen
be sure to plan adequate storage
space. Kitchen utensils kept in
hard-to-get-at places make twice
as much work for the housekeeper
and cook.
Evening star., 1950-06-22

from the frst Monday In December until
March 4. A member Of Congress had
more time to spend at home.
The short session followed the biennial
congressional elections. and members
who had been defeated in November
continued to vote on major issues until
the following March, These defeated
members were called lame ducks" The
Norris lame duck" amendment TO the
Constitution abolished these short ses-
sionS. and now brings the newly-elected
Congress into session in January, about
two months after its members are in
dorsed by the voters.
For the past decade, Congress has
been in session the greater part OF nearly
every year. During the war it took
only few short receSses. and since the
war it has found plenty Of problems to
keep it in session longer than in pre-
war days.
Right now the leaders would like to
wind up their labors by July 81 to let
members get home and mend their
political fences for the fall elections.
But variety of issues threatens to keep
them here through August
It may be that the modern air-con-
ditioning system. which keeps all Of
Evening star., 1950-06-22

into corridor In 1888 a second
House Ofice Building was erected.
Now each House member has a private
office in addition to the working space
Of his clerical staff. The clerk hire al
lowance on the House side has gone
up from $4,000 in 1925 to about $40, 900 a
year.
Senators. whose mail is on a State
wide basis, also have had their clerical
allowances increased on a sliding scale
basis according to the size of the State
In addition, each Senator has been given
an administrative assistant who can
be paid up to $10,S46 a year, with the
basic rate at $8,400.
Before the first office building was
built in 1908, many House members had
to get their mail at their hotels, or
homes. A few found Offices in the base
ment Of the Capitol, and some had their
mail delivered to a desk in the House
chamber, where they answered 1t in long
hand.
In those days lawmaking proceeded at
more leiSurely pace. In fact, until Is
years ago the second session of each
Congress was short one. lasting only
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Unknown Soldiers

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is beauti-
full in its simplicity. Carved from white marble
1t bears the unadorned inscription: Here rests
in honored glory an American soldier known but
to God"
1t is planned, properly enough to place in
the tomb an unknown soldier killed in the Second
World War, and this will neceSsitate some change
in the inscription. Surely something better can
be devised, however, than this proposed Ian
guage: Here rest in honored glory members of
the American Armed Forces of the World Wars
known only to God."
The effect of this is to destroy simplicity in
the name of unidcation. A soldier, according
to the dictionary, is one who is engaged in
military service. He can be in, any branch Of
the service. And try as they may the uniica-
tionists in the Pentagon will never persuade the
American people to speak of the Tomb of the
Unknown Members of the American Armed
Forces In the years to come it still will be known
to the people as the Tomb Of the Unknown
Soldiers and it ought to be inscribed accordingly.
Evening star., 1950-06-22

man of today must keep up with what
is going on in Indonesia and Berlin as
well as on Main street.
But, as they say in labor relations, the
working conditions of Senators and
Representatives have improved, as duties
have been added to the job. And they
now make, $l2,500 year plus $2.500 in
expenses-about twice what they made
rs years ago. AS result, men and
women who make politics a. career are
always ready to go through the figors
of an election battle for the honor of
representing their people in Congress
With all the changes that have taken
place, the House and Senate remain
strange mixture Of the new and the old.
A Senator may carry ball-point pen
in his pocket, but on his desk in the
Senate chamber you will still find the
little salt-shaker of busting sand that
came before the blotter. He smokes a
factory made cigarette. But on the
wall Of the chamber is kept intact, as q
relic of the past, the old Snuffbox, more
popular in the days of Webster, Clay
and Calhoun.
You don't have to go back to those
days to find evidence of the changing
scene on Capitol Hill. There are men
in this Congress who have seen much
Of it take place in Is or 80 years.
Take Representative Burr P. Harrison,
Democrat, of Virginia, for example. He
now occupies the same Office in which
he served as secretary to his father, the
late Representative Thomas w. Har-
rison. The present Mr.. Harrison be-
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Kensington. Md.
The Humun Element

1t Is sadly strange thing that in our
have-and-have-not economy, the haves
have eyerything-even the sympathy of
the have-nots
In any contest between capital and
labor which issues in strike. the strik-
ing laborers Immediately become the
target Of the wrath Of all other laborers
momentarily denied coal or milk or
transportation.
write not to defend labor or capital,
strikes or injunctions against strikes.
am rather much more concerned-and
would have others concerned-about the
inherent selfishness Of the human animal
that thinks first, only, and always of his
own comfort and is appallingly indif-
ferent to what that comfort may cost
fellow creature.
No system Of government will be q
panacea for the worlds ills. no economy
will right "the immemorial wrongs" so
long as the human element remains un-
changed.
v. J. Dozier,
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Productivity and the Red Empire

Despite Cominform claims to the contrary,
there is ample reason to suspect that the Soviet
satellites in Eastern Europe are getting along less
than famouSly in the production field. Reliable
reports to that effect continue to come in from
many quarters, and some of the puppet regimes
have themselves made official statements indi-
eating that the communication process is acting
as drag on output
Czechoslovakia, for example, is industrially
the most advanced of the countries behind the
Iron Curtain. Yet, although it Is turning out
more pig iron and steel than in prewar days, It's
rate of productivity is still far from what 1t
should be in the light of chronological improve
ments and the gains scored by the West. Indeed
according to New York Times dispatch, the
Czechs have backslid seriously in some fields
their coal output, for one thing, being suhStan-
TALLY less today than in 1887, in spite of the
employment of more workers
The other satellites-none as advanced as
CSechoslovakia- certainly doing even less
well. Their notwithstanding regimes though
they boast a great deal about record breaking
production, have been forced from time to time
to come forward publicly with appeals and
threats aimed at getting the workers to increase
output and efficiency. AS an illustration of this,
high Hungarian puppets have within recent days
spoken out sharply against the country's declin-
ing productivity and the poor quality of goods
being turned out.
All of these countries, in short, seem to be
finding that collectivization and totalitarian
bureaucracy-while being represented as great
promoters of efficiency, ever-increasing pro-
ductivity and general prosperity-are in fact the
handmaidens of inefficiency, low output and a
miserable standard of living At any rate, judg-
ing from impartial reports and implied admis-
sions made by the puppet regimes, the satellites
apparently would be doing much better if they
were their own masters
This situation is not without meaning for
the free world. Together, the United States and
the West as whole are producing about four
times as much steel, five times as much electric
power and seven times as much oil as Russia and
its tyrannized empire can produce-hgures that
help to illustrate how vastly superior we and like
minded nations are in resources and productive
capacity. 1t is a superiority that should be con-
sidered in connection with any evalution Of the
threat posed by the Kremlin. Certainly although
there Is no reason for complacency, we ought not
to underestimate our own strength.
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Flies and the Declaration

Now that the Fourth of July is ap-
preaching, it is good time to remind
ourselves that great events sometimes
spring from mere trif1es, and that the
lowly fly played part in the signing of
the Declaration of independence on that
historic day in 1776.
The signing of the document might
have been delayed for days, even weeks,
had not the pesky little insects urged the
august members of Congress into action.
1t so happened that when the de-
Lucrative congressional body that gave
to the world the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was in session, the proceedings
were held in hall near livery stable
The weather on July was warm, the
air humid, and from the nearby stable
there came swarms of flies through the
open windows, and lit on the legs of
the honorable members, not forgetting
to send stinging bite through their
sheer silk stockings. Members on the
floor held large handkerchiefs, and had
to pause in their speeches every few Sec
unprotected calves.
The opinion Of the wigged and pow
dered men was not unanimous in favor
Of the document that had been pre-
sented by Thomas Jefferson, and there
were two or three expressions that gave
offense to some of the members. Under
the circumstances the discussions might
have gone on and on without definite
action. But the flies were intolerable.
Jefferson, who wrote the original draft
of the declaration, sat in silence, listen
ing to the speech of John Adams, the
defender of the document. He told a
friend later that as he watched the flies
swarming into the hall he felt they were
on his side.
The heat became more intense. The
flies grew worse, and the Tipping and
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Low-Moking Is Hard Work, Nowadays

lieves the work Of Congress has increased
ten-fold since he was secretary.
Opening and answering mail Is a
growing problem for nearly all members
To cope with it the STATS in congress
Sional Offices have been enlarged in re-
cent years. Whether q sudden food OF
mail on given subject sways congress
sional action is a debatable question.
Generally. its effect depends on whether
1t appears TO be spontaneous, or arti-
flcially stimulated by the appeal OF
some organization to write or wire your
Congressman. Whatever its effect. the
volume Of mail increases the burden of
clerical work In every members office.
Twenty-Five years ago, each House
member had a one-room Office and
staff Of two. II a Representative
wanted to have a private conversation
with constituent. they had to step out
Evening star., 1950-06-22

Capitol Hill as comfortable as an r
street movie theater. has something to
do with the difficulty the leaders have
In getting Congress to talk less, vote
more, and 60 home.
One old-timer recalled the summer
days at the turn Of the century, when
old-faShioned fans with wooden blades
like the propeller Of a helicopter revolved
feebly under the ceiling of the Senate
chamber. stirring up the air that was
forced into the building through the
underground duct from the foot of
Capitol Hill. Senators had to keep
hand-propelled palm-leaf fans on their
desks, and in mid-afternoon q bowl of
cold lemonade was placed in an ante
room to help them cool off In those
days. it was easy to induce Congress to
adjourn.
Evening star., 1950-06-22
By Charles E. TroceweN

with which your readers may not and
need not agree.
Sincerely, e. II. r."
The bird may have been a Philadel-
phia vireo.
This is one that does a good job of
lowering.
1t is not too often seen in this vicinity.
but sometimes is spotted in migration in
late May or the first few days Of June.
It is regarded as rare migrant here.
usually seen between May and May 80.
There is chance that our correspond
ent's bird might have been a yellow
throated vireo. Or even one of the
kinglets, which also hutter. The "Au-
dubon Bird Guide" says Of the Phila-
delphia vireo:
THE birds feed both in treestops and
in the dense shrubbery Of moist areas.
When feeding they are quite active for
a vireo. often hanging upside down or
fiuttering before tuft Of leaves to pick
up insects"
AS for space devoted to that wonderful
trio Of underdog birds. or underbirds. as
they might be called-the jays, common
SparrowS and starlingS-we do not feel
that 100000 words out of 10000 900 in
26 years is too much.
Even eur correspondent unconsciously
says. "AsA we ate. I saw q small bird,
smaller than an English sparrow"
Many bird lovers think starlings
beautiful, especially when the sun shines
on them. and do not feel In the least
that English sparrows are really com.
monplace or unexciting. Read wings
at My window" which we are always
happy % xeecmmend.
Evening star., 1950-06-22

that the reason my neighbors were such
placid individuals and I was so nervous
was that was the only woman around
here who was always aggravating herself
with other peoples children. Some of
the children will not mind when told
not to do something. and many of them
refuse to go home when I take my
children into the house for lunch. They
are so fresh that they talk back to grown
people in way that we never would
have thought Of doing a generation ago.
If people who have children would
realize that they are their responsibility
and not the neighbors', and II they
would have more consideration for other
people, it wouldn't be so hard for people
with children to find places to live.
Mother.
KenSinrtnp Md
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Rise of Counterfeitinq

The unprecedented rise in counterfeiting
operations, as reported by U. E. Baughman, chief
OF the Secret Service is proper subject for study
by Senate investigators of interstate crime condi
tionS. For Chief Baughman, teStifying before
Senate appropriations subcommittee asserted
that the big counterfeiting rings generally use
criminal connections" in the Nations major
cities as outlets for disposal of funny money"
Invariably, he said, counterfeterS have long
criminal backgrounds, with an amazing knowl-
edge of police methods in various parts of the
country
Indicative of the skill of counterfeiters both
In making a hard-to-detect product and in
eluding arrest is the fact that the Secret Service
head believes there is more spurious money cir
culating in the United States than at any time
in the past ten years. This is the situation
despite the fact that bogus bills are being seized
at the rate of $100y000-face value-every month.
Not all of this is in circulation, of course. Only
little more than third of the million dollars
in fake currency confscated last year was in use
That counterfeiting also has international
ramifcations is apparent from the discovery that
$68 496 of the fraudulent bills seized in 1949 had
been produced abroad, chiefly in Europe. In
fact the increased interest in Europe in American
counterfeiting has prompted the Secret Service
to request additional funds for Investigations in
foreign Jurisdictions Mr.. Baughman wants to
assign two agents to this work, in the hope of
tracing the sources of the foreign bill supplies
The high value of the American dollar abroad is
believed to be responsible for the heightened
activity in manufacturing bills of American
design.
The Kefauver crime investigating commit
tee should find Mr. Baughmans testimony of
special interest particularly that part OF treating
Evening star., 1950-06-22

--.e4-.a,e operations of rings which have their
headquarters in New York and Chicago. ANY
one that has q criminal tie in another section"
he said, apparently can 60 to these cities and
purchase a certain amount of counterfeit notes
and then go OF to an area and pass them OF. !"
A number Of gamblers-currenty the subject Of
intensive investigation by the committee-are
involved in the counterfeiting racket, according
to the Secret Service chief. Whatever the find-
ings and recommendations of the Kefauver group
may be- Mr.. Baughman has made out good
case for adequate appropriations for the Secret
Service, which is charged with the suppression
Of counterfeiting.
Evening star., 1950-06-22
VIERS MILL ROAD.

: Lear Slr. -
81 should very much appreciate your
identifying bird for me- My bird
guide is excellent but it doesn't help
me with this one.
About week ago, we had a picnic
supper at Montgomery County'S new
Wheaton Recreation Area. opened that
day. The park is at the site of former
private summer home. Both the house
and the picnic table at which we ate
are a short distance from a small
stream
"As we ate. I saw a small bird smaller
than an English sparrow am not GER
tain how much smaller-f1y down to the
ground close by the house from some
height in nearby tree. After lighting
on the ground he repeatedly few up to
the under side of a window box at
tached to the house and suspended
himself there for, perhaps, a second.
huttering his wings much in the fashion
of hummingbird, though of course not
so rapidly.
He was substantially larger than the
ruby-throated hummingbird.
''In coloring. the overall impression
was one of yellow-green.
L believe his back was an indistinct
gray-green with under parts quite yell
lowiSh.
He seemed to have fairly well defined
light wing bars. He allowed us to come
rather close without being disturbed.
"A short while later he was flying
from the ground to the under side Of
window shutter Ia the same way.
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Down Is Here

Early morning stars ttDinkls In the
CroiDipg light:
And like song and O prayer bIendeG
together
In one harmonious measure: O delicats
fragment
OF rhythmic sound sttys the lucent air:
Family, yet stDeetIy -clear: q lon choral
T1HrmuTinO ~
Perrddes the mating atmosphere: no
tDord is heard:
Just continual hummin0. like Attte.
mellon pneGn IS
OF thanks0iUtng, to mark the darkness
going.
The light coming: under the moving
stars, the winds
OF datDn seem eager to bear and to shafs
And TO treasure the cadence Of praver
and OF song.
GRACE MEREDrTK
Evening star., 1950-06-22
Physician.
Other Peoples Children

In reply to a letter written by "An
Old Landlady." can understand why
her tenants do not want children around.
The reason is not because they do not
like children. but because too many
people nowadays have large families Of
children and think that it is up to the
neighbors to be bothered with them.
We are buying a home in an. area
where everyone has large yards and
plenty of space for children to play
However, the street is always full Of
children too small to be away from home.
They are at everyone's house but their
own. I have been letting them come
into the yard to play with my children
however, found that if was the least
bit nice to them, they would be back
early the next morning, and I found
myself practically running free nursery
school.
suddenly became aware of the fact