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Evening star., 1950-03-03
Only II Of as Bills
For Nearby Counties
Passed in Maryland
Special pispotch TO The Star


ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-Only II
of As Prince Georges and Mont
gomery County bills cleared both
houses of the State Legislature
which yesterday adjourned it's
first 30-day session.
Topping them was the Sothoron
measure authorizing revision of
the Prince Georges County gov
ernment.
Another was a bill limiting sale
of contraceptives in vending ma
chimes. Sponsored by Delegate
George G. McLeish. Democrat, of
Prince Georges, the bill would
ban such sales in restrooms ex-
cept at railroad stations. air and
bus terminals and places where
alcoholic beverages are sold for
consumption on the premises.
Constitutional provisions under
which the Assembly held it's 30
day meeting prohibited considera-
ton of measures other than the
budget matters affecting the gen.
eral public welfare and "acute
emergencies"
Study Proposed.
Gov. Lane at press conference
yesterday said he felt the result
ing situation was unsatisfactory.
He indicated he would favor a
study by the Legislative Council
of a plan to hold 60-day sessions
each year with any type bill
eligible for adoption.
Such a proposal was killed by
the Senate Wednesday but was
discussed, it was learned, when
the upper chamber went into
executive session yesterday.
The Governor said the restric-
tions had caused confusion and
added that he believed the 30-day
session afforded insufficient time
for action on many bills that
should have attention. He did
not commit himself definitely on
the 60-day plan. explaining that
he felt he should approach the
question with an open mind"
| Six Bills Signed.
/ Asked whether he foresaW
court tests of some bills, the Gov
ernor replied that all those sent
to his desk would be screened by
the attorney general. Only six
bills have been signed and OF
these he said he had no doubt
of their legality.
However" he added, Il woulc
not care to anticipate any decision
of the State Court of Appeals"
In response to a question as tx
why the $4,000 year post of COM
missioner of tobacco marketing
was retained when its functions
have been taken over by the State
tobacco authority, the Governor
had no comment other than to say
that if the salary was fixed in the
budget it would have to be paid.
Earlier Attempt Failed.
A bill to abolish the office was
passed by the House but did not
reach the Senate floor. A similar
attempt in 1949 also failed.
Other Prince Georges bills adopt.
ed concerned the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
They would permit a 81 million
bond issue to finance storm drain
lage; authorize supervision o.
house water and sewer connection!
and clarity a law passed in 1949
the legality of which had beer
questioned.
Montgomery County bills confel
additional power to borrow OF
uncollected taxes; provide penal
ties for improper loading of trucks
increase the sheriff'S salary; brinl
; children suffering from cerebra
palsy within the State education
system and reduce the number O
days jurors are required to serve
Another would transfer jurisdic
ton of prisoners in the count,
jail from the sheriff to a special,
lappointed warden.
Evening star., 1950-03-03
Virqiniu Cos Revenue Rises

RICHMOND, Mar. 3. (P.-Vir-
ginia's gasoline tax collections in
January amounted to $3,559,094
on 59,314,992 gallons, an increase
of $427,318 over the same month
a year ago, the State Division of
Motor Vehicles reported yesterday
Evening star., 1950-03-03
.Vhgiiniians Study
State Park Plan
Bill Drown CALLING
For Acquisition Of
Bancroft Reservoir
BULLETIN

RICHMOND (P).-A House
of Delegates committee today
killed all bills before it dealing
with abolition of the poll tax as,
a prerequisite to voting. The
Privileges and Elections Com
mittee acted after approving a
subcommittee resolution calling
for a study of the poll tax ques-
ton by the Advisory Legislative
Council.
Evening star., 1950-03-03

DAVIS OF MOnu-
gomery County
former diplo-
mat and educa-
tor.
His candida
cy was boosted
last night in
pamphlets dis
tributed by the
all = Republican
M y IL u s " III Cl y
delegation dur
ing the closing
minutes of the
session. He also
hoc hQpn in
Evening star., 1950-03-03
By O Stoff Correspondent, of The Ste

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-The Gen
eral Assembly session just ended
apparently produced a Republican
candidate for Governor.
He is State Senator Roy Tasco
Evening star., 1950-03-03
PreschooI PTA to Meet

The Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton of the University of Maryland
Preschool will meet at 8:15 pm.
Wednesday in the kindergarten
rooms, Building FF, on the Col
|lege Park campus.
Evening star., 1950-03-03
Assembly Fight Begun
In Virginia 10 Boost
Mental Hospital Fund
BY the Associated Press


RICHMOND, Mar. 3.-A deter
mined fight to. add 81 million a
year for operation and main
tenance of mental hospitals was
organized by House group today
The same group yesterday added
81 million year to the appropria.
tion for teacher salaries.
The House, meeting for its thirc
day of action on the $598 millior
budget, faced a night session to.
night and possibly tomorrow night
to break the enormous log-jam OF
bills which has piled up during
the consideration of the budget.
Nearly 200 bills were on the
calendar for action, not counting
a long list reported by committees
yesterday afternoon and early to-
day. They must be passed by
Saturday night or they will auto
matically die. Next week the
House may consider only Senate
bills.
The Senate, it's calendars in
good condition, took up today the
much-amended Gray Tax Com
mission bill which originally
would have given the same ex-
emptions on individual State in
come tax returns which are given
on Federal returns
Deduction Allowed.
Committee amendments leave
the State exemptions as at present
but permit the 10 per cent op-
tional deducation allowed in Fed
eral returns for contributions, and
some lesser exemptions. Sponsors
say the bill, with of the original
purpose deleted, is still worth
while. because it will make it
easier for the Tax Department to
check against Federal returns.
The fight to add 81 million for
mental hospitals in the appropria-
ton is headed by Robert White
head of Nelson, who was en-
couraged by the House action in
approving 81 to 33 his amend
ment for another ST million for
teacher salaries. His bill would
appropriate $3.50, 900 from the gen.
eral fund for mental hospitals and
earmark an additional $350,000 a
year received from paying
patients.
Defeated in efforts to prevent
$500 raises for long list of State
officials, to finance teacher re-
tirement out of the general funo
instead of the literary fund excess
and several minor amendments
the school teacher pay victory was
a sweet one for the Whitehead
coalition.
Almost Double Victory.
It was almost a double victory
Mr. Whitehead tried to write into
statute law guarantee of $4,000
for. each teacher with a certificate
at the college level and $1,000 fo1
those with the normal professional
license. Some of those who sup
ported the increased appropria-
ton switched, however, and the
amendment was lost, Al to so.
Mr.. Whitehead said the 81 mil
lion extra would give an oppor-
tunity for raises above the $4,000
level for teachers with long serv-
ice and encourage them. A lot of
delegates who had voted with
administration forces against his
various amendments switched over
and supported him.
In other actions yesterday the
House:
Killed an amendment by Dele
mater Davis of Norfolk to elimi-
nate the appropriation for the
Milk Commission.
Defeated a Boothe-Dodson-
Lynch amendment seeking to in
crease public assistance funds by
100000.
A number of major bills were
killed in committee action late
yesterday, These included:
Seven bills to weaken the
States water control law-killed
by House general laws.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
This and That = :.

One to six. they say, are the formative
years.
Maybe that was true of Templeton
Jones, whose liking for eats can be traced
back to his childhood.
In the old country town where he was
born and grew up, he found much amuse-
ment in the yard and house of his grand
father, Henry Jones, the lawyer.
There lived the ,gray-bearded man and
his wife Amanda. They had white
house, a grape arbor, an clubhouse, where
-four and oil were kept. Probably sum-
mer cooking was done there. Templeton
Jones does not remember
All he can recall is the carefree day,
the singing bees in the great Concord
grapes, the paper bags over the grapes,
the hollyhocks and altheas blooming.
X
Little Temp Jones was in the first
grade.
1t was the year Grandfather Jones
had his house painted.
1t was not large house, but it was
a good one, with sort of semi-attic, ap-
preached by q staircase.
In that low room of treasures the boy
found many interesting things
There was a bird cage of wire, in
habited by birds" made of chalk They
were on wires, so that they could be
spun around together with flip of the
finger.
Temp Jones made 'ern hum.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Letters to The Star
A pseudonyn1 Is permissible only
Dhen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Driter Please be brief.

belatedly engaged to represent the de-
fendant after trial and conviction. an
appeal Is noted or a Writ of Habeas
Corpus is filed in the District Court
This puts the Municipal Court of Appeals
or the United States District Court in
the difficult position of determining
whether the defendant knowingly
waived counsel and was given fair
trial in the trial court without having
the advantage of personal knowledge of
the facts. Confusion and delay in the
administration of justice as well as added
expense to the accused and the public
are the result. To remedy this situation,
and, more important, to safeguard the
freedom of the accused, it will hence
forth be my policy to assign counsel in
every case in the United States Branch
of this court. where the more serious
offenseS are tried.
I'm these perilous times when indi-
vidual liberty and freedom of expression
and thought are being suppressed and
crushed in many areas of the world, the
need is all the more urgent to protect
and uphold these inal!enable rights of
mankind to the end that the cherished
heritage of our judicial process will be a
bulwark of our democracy"
Evening star., 1950-09-21

mo, man," replied Templeton Jones'
Children said. eyes, sir" and mo, man,"
in those days, and were the better for it.
When Grandfather Jones' house was
painted, it was the whitest thing in
town. and the old man was proud of it,
Little Temp Jones was proud, too.
AS he walked home from school that
day, and came around the cleaning
house, on the way home through the
grape arbor, he had in his hand fine
new pencil.
He was proud of the pencil, and he
was sutfused with the madness of in
tellectuality, for that very morning he
had learned to spell his first word.
Thoughtlessly, effortlessly he wrote
in a flowing hand, as he walked by the
cleaning white boards, now dry enough
to make a perfect surface:
CAT"
Endlessly he scrawled, as he walked
along, until the whole side of the house,
as far as he could reach, shown forth
with the glory of his first word.
There was no glory when Grand
father Jones came home to lunch-only
the anger, the ire. of nightly Of
Tended white beard, wagging helplessly
in the crisp autumn sunshine.
Now, Henry" said Amanda Jones, 're-
member, he is just little boy"
Little rascal" spluttered Grandfather
Jones.
why. Henry" soothed grandmother.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Regional Civil Defense

Great stress is laid by the National Security
Resources Board on the Importance OF metropoh-
tan area planning for civil defense. Nowhere is
such Joint planning more vital to the safety of
community than in the Washington Metropolitan
Area comprising the city and its Maryland and
Virginia suburbs. 1t Is bad enough to have
disjointed plans in the park, highway and public
utility fields. 1t would be infinitely worse to have
Washington and the nearby counties go their
own way in preparing their civil defense pro-
grams.
The fate of Prince Georges, Montgomery
Arlington and Fairfax Counties Is so closely
linked with the fate Of the National Capital IN
event of an atomic attack on Washington that
Joint planning for what the board calls mutual
aid" and mobile support" is absolutely necessary
The various police fire, sanitation, health and
other public service agencies within the entire
area must be ready to rush to one another's
assistance in an emergency. There should be
no misunderstanding about this, and to avoid
confusion and possible misunderstanding care
full arrangements must be made in advance.
The civil defense guidebook issued by the
National Security Resources Board provides
general suggestions for development of metro
politan area plans in major target" areas. This
outline needs considerable revision to be adapted
TO the special situation in this region. Whereas
most metropolitan districts are within the bound
aries of particular State thereby facilitating
overall planning at the State level, the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area involves planning by
Federal District of Columbia Maryland and Vir-
ginia Notwithstanding, in the case of the
two States, municipal county and State levels.
The board lists several steps that must be
taken in any metropolitan area to insure orderly
mutual aid and mobile support, among which
l. The initial organization of all services and
facilities in the area to be used as civil-defense
communications and administrative procedures
8. Determination of what mutual aid and mobile
support will be needed. f. Estimates of the
materials equipment and manpower which will
be required by each civil-defense service. S.
Clarfication of legal, financial, supply and
administrative requirements for improving the
civil-defense program.
The only way to solve these common problems
is by close cooperation of the affected juris-
dctions and effective coordination of their
resources and efforts. This seems to call for
special type of regional civil-defense council
beyond that envisoned in the NSRB report
Washington Metropolitan Area Civil Defense
Council. composed of authorized representatives
of all the governmental Jurisdictions and of other
organizations concerned with civil defense could
bring about such cooperation and coordination.
This is something which Congress, the Comnlis-
should consider at an early date
Evening star., 1950-09-21
The Winds Go High

No1o at the time OF copper moons,
the Seed-flled pod and crimson leaf,
The ,Dtr1ds 90 high on lonely hills
To moan the measure of their grief.
For they k1ao,D sadness and song.
ForeUer young and yet 1Uorld-old.
They 10alked at dusk Nth EUe and heard
The burning lies the serpent told.
They sGlU the 1Dorld's first battlefield
And hotD the earth recoiled from, blood,
And hoUered oDer Noah i1hen
He built the ark to ride the food.
And they ,Dere there 1Dhen Rome 1Uent up
In flames :. they bore the ashes far,
Then turned the smoke aside that men
Might lift their heads and see star.
NotD at the time of copper moons
Their sad complaints find no surce1Se-
Ho,p long, hotD long till they shall sing
Aboue the ne,D-built tents of peace?
INEz CLARK THORSON.
Evening star., 1950-09-21

That one element, they point out.
has averted other disasters which could
have exceeded the one at Galveston. Fifty
years ago, there was no radio to flash
a hurricane warning hours and days
ahead of the first churning cloud.
Weather observation instruments were
primitive compared to the mass of tech
nical equipment available today. The
habits of hurricanes were relatively
unknown. even though the first Govern
ment warning service had been set up
in 1873.
In many cases, the first sign of
hurricane came when coastal dwellers
awoke to q gray dawn of twisting clouds
and Shrieking winds, too late to prepare.
AS the Weather Bureau extended It's
observations and research, the warning
limit became broader until storms with
12-hour safety margin. And today, aided
by Air Force and Navy hurricane
hunters" 1t Is possible to predict the
behavior Of storm days in advance
on a rough estimate and with amazing
accuracy within "a hours.
With such elaborate precautionary
measures. even Is years ago. why should
1900 persons have died in the 1928
hurricane and nearly 900 more 10 years
later? Why should any one be killed
in the future from storms? The answer
lies in public education to the danger
Of natures tropical weapon and the
methods Of escape, Weather Bureau off,
cials say.
In 1928, nearly every death occurred
in Florida's Lake Okeechobee area,
where thousands Of itinerant farm work
ers and boom stranded families lived
in f1imsy shacks around the huge lake.
Except for the native swamp dwellers,
few Of these people had any idea of
Evening star., 1950-09-21
By Charles E. TroceweN

Each bird had yellow tail.
That is about all he recalls about
them. Perhaps they had an influence
on his life, too.
The house was low. fiat, with a big
kitchen and in the kitchen was a well.
The well had fiat cover of wood over
it. It made fascinating spot, all the
more intriguing because it was forbidden
to linger there, or to take up the cover.
Also there was Arbuckle's coffee. Who
remembers that? 1t wasn't the brew
itself that intrigued the 6-year-old boy.
Even critics said Grandmother Jones
could make good coffee with it.
It was the picture card in each pack
age. Each card bore colored illustra-
ton of bird.
Young Jones collected his cards. and
tried to throw them down the WE'LL but
escaped both with his life and his cards,
since Grandmother Jones was close at
hand.
His grandfather was an irascible man.
When he got angry his great white
beard fairly flew up and down on his
breast.
Temp Jones liked to watch it. The
beard seemed to be the embodiment of
something or other that had its lair in
the well, mostly called cistern.
Don't go near the cistern, honey"
said grandmother.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
General Marshall Confirmed

In voting 81 to II to confirm General Marshall
as Secretary of Defense, the Senate has given a
sufficient answer to the contemplate and SLAM
derous attacks made on the nominee by Senator
Jenner, Republican, of Indiana.
1t may be that some of the II Republicans
voting against confirmation were sincerely mott
waited by opposition to the appointment of any
military man as Secretary of Defense That,
however, cannot be said Of the disgraceful
criticisms offered by Senator Jenner. 1t is a
shame that man whose whole career has been
marked by : distinguished and disinterested
service to his country has to be subjected to
such venomous abuse. But in our system it
cannot be helped If it is system which
occasionally brings into prominence men like
Senator Jenner, 1t is also system which pro-
duces men of General Marshalls caliber
AS for the question of principle involved, it
seems to The Star that, generally speaking, it
is desirable to keep control of the Defense
Department in civilian hands. AS this present
experience shows, however, there is doubtful
wisdom in attempting to erect statutory bars
against any military man in that position We
have had to tear them down in the case Of
General Marshall, and 1t may become necessary
to tear them down again. The real question Is
not whether particular individuals background
has been in the military service, but whether,
when all things are balanced, he is the best
man for the job. There is only the most remote
danger of military grab for power through the
office of Secretary of Defense as long as the
holder of that position remains subordinate to
the President. For it is the President who is
the Chief Executive, and there Is no reason to
suppose that any President would permit one Of
his subordinates to exalt the military at the
expense of our democratic traditions. Perhaps
fo ha Wo
have undertaken, by law, to bar a military man,
with the exception of General Marshall, from
the Defense post unless he has been 10 years out
of service. But there is nothing at all which
forbids the election of military man to the
presidency. Any general may be chosen in any
election to fill the highest post in the land, and
as long as that is true 1t little unrealistic
to be passing laws against appointment of q
military man to a subordinate position.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Mr.. Denhom's Departure

The President, in accepting the resignation
of Robert N Denham as general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board, said: 'I believe
that the differences which have arisen between
the board and the general counsel are so deep
seated that there is little prospect of restoring
between them the harmonious relationship nee
essary to the effective administration of their
mingled responsibilities"
That probably is an accurate statement. 1t
does not go into the reasons for the differences
between Mr.. Denham and the board, and the
former may be right in saying that the board
has not wanted to cooperate with him in the
discharge of his duties under the Taft-Hartley
Act as he interprets that statute. The fact
remains, however, that the breach between the
board and the general counsel resulting in part
at least from Mr.. Denhams public criticism of
the board, had brought about situation in
which either Mr.. Denham or the members of
the board had to go. And if that is correct it
is not surprising that the President gave Mr..
Denham his walking papers.
The important question now has to do with
Mr.. Denhams successor. The Office is highly
important one, and Mr.. Truman's labor union
friends will do all they to secure the appoint
ment of some one who will be sympathetic, if
not SubServient, to their point of view. To
appoint such person, however, would be equiv
alent to sabotaging the law. The President ought
to select as the new general counsel competent
lawyer and administrator who is not hostile to
the Taft-Hartley Act. If he should not do this,
if Mr.. Denham's designated successor should be
some one who shares laborS prejudices against
the law which is designed to serve employers and
the public as well as unions, the Senate should
refuse to confirm him.