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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21
Clubs
Lexington Garden Club Has Annual
Christmas Pilgrimage; Visits Seven Homes

deer placed at random. Her use
of twisted candles was unusual
and very effective.
Mrs. J. F. Williams
An interesting treatment of the
traditional Christmas tree was the
focal point of Mrs. J. F. Williams
Christmas decorations. Her tree
featured limbs wrapped complete
ly in silver tinsel, with a figure of
Santa Claus by its side.
Mrs. Max ScobeY
The doorway of the Max Scobey
home greeted the guests with a
large pine wreathe, crossed with
a red and white candy cane tied
with red ribbon and hung with
punches of brightly colored Christ
mas balls.
Inside the living room, one of
the loveliest arrangements was a
bowl covered in silver coxcomb
with two large silvered palmetto
fans on a console table before a
mirror. Her dining table was
centered with three snowmen atop
a mound of plastic foam, with col
ored balls scattered about. This
arrangement was surrounded by
silvered magnolia leaves and
thanked by two large red candles.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21
Pr%esbyterions Have
Sunday School Porty

A Christmas party for all the
members of the Lexington Pres
byterian Sunday School was Civ
en- Wednesday night at the
church.
Gifts for all the children were
in gaily wrapped packages under
the Christmas tree and were dis
tributed by Santa Claus. A pro-
presented by a group of the chill
gram with reading of scripture
passages and singing of carols was
dren directed by Mrs. Bob Nc
Lellan, Mrs. William Staples, and
Mrs. Homer Davis.
Light refreshments were served
following the program. T. A. Lail,
superintendent of the Sunday
School, was in charge Of planning
the party.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21
Personals
Mrs. GEORGE Powell

In the center window of the
George Povall home were hung
four bright stockings, which can
be see from the outside. One of
the chief points of interest in her
inside decorations was her beau
tiful mantle scene, done all in
white. 1t was centered with the
Madonna, surrounded by kneeling
angels, and thanked by crystal can
delabra holding tall white candles.
Mrs. Leroy Paris
Mrs. Leroy Paris used a green
and silver motif in her very at
tractive living room, with Christ
mas balls, greenery and silver cox
comb used throughout the room.
Her mantlepiece was conferred
with a Santa Claus snow scene.
Particularly beautiful was the
Paris dining room, where the table
was centered with red carnations
in a silver bowl, with tall red
candles in silver candelabra on
each side.
Mrs. T. A. Lail
Striking modern effects were at
tanned by Mrs. T. A. Lail in her
holiday decorations. Across her
brick chimney she used a line ar
rangement of bare branches hung
with Christmas glitter, which har-
monized very effectively with the
lines of the room. A small table
on the opposite wall was conferred
with an angular plant fashioned
in the shape of a tree and hung
with Christmas balls. The length
| of the glass wall was outlined
with a swag of magnolia boughs.
The color scheme used by Mrs.
Lail was silver and burgundy.
In her dining room, a low chest
held gold Saline bells in as
! sorted sizes surrounding mounds
of black glass among gilded pine
boughs. A giant green candle was
the focal point of the arrangement.
The dining table was centered
with a large Lazy Susan filled
with assorted Christmas candies.
Mrs. William Ellis. Jr.
Mrs. William Ellis, Jr. featured
an attractive fireside scene, with
a figure of Santa Claus on one
side and a brass container filled
with giant pine cones on the other.
Her dining table was done in
| green and silver, with cedar and
red candles. She used the tradi-
i tional brightly decorated Christ
mas tree.
Tea In Jordan Home
The pilgrimage concluded with
a delightful tea in the home of
Miss Minnie and Miss Myrtle Jor-
dan. On the porch of their home
was a Christmas tree and a tall
cluster of smilax, placed on either
side of. the door. In the living
room, Christmas balls, green and
silver bells, and evergreens were
used literally. A basket of pine
stood just inside the door, and on
a table was placed a small Christ
mas tree.
/. The dining table was overlaid
with a Madeira cloth, draped with
red ribbon and green vines, and
conferred with a crystal punch
bowl flanked by silver candel-
abra. The bowl was surrounded
by smilax and hung with red bells
and balls. Silver trays containing
cheese straws, red and green cook
les, minis and nuts, were on either
end Of the table. The buffet fea-
tured two pine cone trees with
tall red candles on each side. Mrs.
Bud Hammett and Mrs. Billy
Jones presided over the punch
bowl.
Mrs. Parham Williams was
chairman of the pilgrimage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter D. Smith
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21

Homes Decorated
In Holiday Motif;
Jorduns Have Teu

Members of the Lexington Gar
den Club held their Christmas pill
grimage Tuesday afternoon from
800 to 500, visiting the beauti-
fully decorated homes of Mrs.
Will Wilson, Mrs. j. F. Williams,
Mrs. Max Scohey, Mrs. George
Povall, Mrs. Leroy Paris, Mrs. T.
A. Lail, Mrs. William Ellis, Jr.,
and Misses Minnie and Myrtle
Jordan.
Mrs. Will Wilson
About As Garden Club members
met at the City Hall and pro-
ceeded from there in cars to the
various open houses. Mrs. Wilson'S
attractive home featured an UNI
usual doorway arrangement. On
the outside Of her glass paneled
door was a snow scene, with fig
ures of children playing in the
snow. Her dining table was GEN.
tered with a rectangular block
covered with artificial snow sur
mounted by a miniature tree and
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21
Patients At The Hospital

December 8
Mrs. Charles Sims, Lexington
December Is
Estes Grace, West
December IL
Jeff Almond, Atlanta, Ga.
December Is
j. M. Guess, Durant
discharged I'D
December ~
Mrs. x. ". King and baby boy
Lexington
Mrs. J. T. Autry and baby boy,
Lexington
December 10
Buck Marshall, Lexington
discharged 19)
B. W. Killebrew, Lexington
Mrs. Claude Love, Durant
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter d. Smith
will spend the Christmas holiday
with the Brannons in Gadsden,
Alabama.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21

A touch Of oil should be applied
to the distributor cam each time
he car is fabricated.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21

Rated the worlds most COM
pressable substance at very high
pressure is the rare metal, cesium,
which is reduced to only three
eighths Of its original volume by
q force of $4,000 pounds per
square inch.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21

Wings whose position can be
altered in flight make it possible
for the new Martin jet light bomb
er to use short air strips.
There are 1882 species of ter
mites.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-12-21

December 20
Mrs. John Gwin, Lexington
Colored Patients
December IA
Mary Jane Buchanan and twins
Durant
Roosevelt Patrick, Tchula
discharged 15)
barrow Lynn Bowles, Durant
December Is
Carrie Redd and baby girl,
Durant
discharged 18)
December is
Reid Pitchford, Jr.
discharged 19)
Rosa Lee Bainson, Cruger
Florence Young, Tchula
Evening star., 1950-11-17
THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. c. A
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lords apartment! He'd get shot
in the foyer, if not before.
The landlord has the right to
tell me when I can sing, when ]
can play my radio. and when I
tcan perform on musical instru-
ments. AS a man who has long
been given to playing a trombone
solo each night at midnight, this
lis a crippling blow.
Under Rules and Regulations,
I can't take either my velocipede
or bicycle down in the elevator.
This too is tough. How is a man
supposed to get to work? All of
us don't have bus or subway fare.
The superintendent has the
right to tell me when 7 can hang
my undies on the drying appara-
tus in the basement. That's worse
than the Army, you know it.
I better quit right now before
the Standard Form Of Apartment
Lease of the Real Estate Board
Of New York, Inc, finds out that
I am writing on a typewriter and
breathing noisily at the same time.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.l
Evening star., 1950-11-17

point would not be drawn on te
assist the present government OF
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
Just as the North Korean ag-
gression of June Is forced us to
reevaluate our policies with re-
spect to Nationalist China and to
take steps to prevent the Com
munist conquest of Chang Kai-
shek's bastion on Formosa, so has
the growing Soviet menace in
Europe forced us to a more realis-
tic attitude with respect to Spain,
Opening Made in Boycott.
We have not thrown overheard
yet all the prejudices and ami
mosities which have stood in the
way. up to now. of our drawing
Franco Spain into full co-opera-
ton for the defense of Western
Europe-of which it is an integral
part-but an opening has been
made in the almost complete boy
colt which we maintained of the
Spanish government.
The Export Import Bank, dis
claiming any responsibility for the
reversal of policy. will begin MAX
ing selected loans for economic
projects which will strengthen the
Spanish nation and pave the way
for even further steps to re-
establish and strengthen Spain's s
ties with the West.
Although the Economic Co.
operation Administration an
nounced the new policy and the
Export Import Bank becomes the
operating agency for the loans,
Spain is not being given Marshall
Plan help to the extent that other
Western nations are receiving it.
Spain does not become q member
of the Organization for European
Economic Cooperation, which is
the European counterpart Of the
ECA. Nor is there any indication
yet that Spain is being brought
Immediately into the North At
lantic pact and becoming eligible
Evening star., 1950-11-17

advance. Once tenant place.
his signature on the dotted line
he becomes a serf of the land.
lord. Men at Sing Sing, Dame
mora and Alcatraz have many
more privileges than the tenant
does.
Let's look at parts of this stand
ard lease and have the creeps to-
gether. That is, of course, If you
are not a landlord. If you are
be considerate enough to keep
your sinister chuckles to yourself
until I've finished.
Article No. 4 makes the tenant
swear he'll practically wear him
self to skeleton taking good care
of the premises and fixtures, but
article 10 says the landlord or the
landlords agents shall not be liza
BILE for what happens to the ten
ant If he is hit on the head by
falling plaster, burned by steam
overcome by gas, shocked to death
by electricity, drowned by water.
or frozen by snow.
P0aching Rights.
Article IA gives the landlord
what consider poaching rights
He or his representatives have
the right to wander about my
apartment at reasonable hours, u
and I am quite sure that some
where in the fine print there is
an article granting the landlord
the right to say what hours are
reasonable. Let poor tenant
try to take a stroll in the land
Evening star., 1950-11-17
This Changing World
Truman Foreign Policy Re.appraisal
Now Being Forced BY Many Events

for share in the Military Aic
Program.
Much remains to be done. there
fore, before Gen. Frances gov
ernment is thoroughly integrated
with the other Western nations
who are Tightening their belts
against the day when they will
have to defend themselves against
aggression by power-hungry Rus
Sia.
| Before Spain can be considered
to have taken it's rightful place
in Western defense plans it must
be taken into the Marshall Plar
and it's European organization, ii
must become a member of the
Atlantic pact and it must sit in
as a full partner with the rest
of the Western nations in all
discussions about creating uni
fed Western forces.
Thinking Readjusted.
We have already readjusted our
thinking about Germany, and
there is no difficulty-in American
policy-in the way of rearming the
Germans for their ultimate role
of bearing the first brunt of a
Soviet aggression. The obstacle
lies wholly in French policy,
which is dead set against permit
ting the Germans to rearm for
their own defense, except as part
of a Western European army.
This. however desirable, is far
from achievement.
The French, like the British,
are also an obstacle to thorough
going acceptance of Spain in the
ranks of the Westernpowers. But
they will realize in time, as the
American administration is be-
ginning to realize, that we can
not utilize Western resources to
the utmost for our common de-
fense until Spain is given a role
commensurate with its resources
and willingness to fight Soviet
expansion.
The American Government it.
self has not purged itself COM
pletely of its animosity toward
the Franco government of Spain,
and the present moves to open
the floodgate of financial assist
ance to Franco are hedged about
with conditions about economic
reforms.
While we are obliged to re-
quire the most efficient use of
our loans in Spain as we have
done elsewhere. notably in Greece,
we apparently are no longer in
sisting that Spain overthrow the
Franco regime and adopt our
style Of democracy before we ac-
cept her in the ranks of the
anti Communist world. This is
progress toward a realistic attitude
not only toward Spain but toward
all nations whose governments
may differ but whose will to fight
Red aggression wherever it oc-
ours Is strong.
Evening star., 1950-11-17
for Congress
Defense Plan Calls for Million Men
Under Arms At $40 Billion Yearly Cost

fact is that in the last year and
a half, MIR. Matthews has either
not cared or not dared to beard
the lion in his den. The chair
man does his Navy business with
Undersecretary Kimball and Ad-
miral Sherman. Chief of Naval
Operations.
Admits to- Little Notes.
While Mr.. vinson blandly as
serts that he has confidence In
the drive and energy of these men.
what drive they lack he clearly
intends to supply. Last year he
spurred them on tanks: he is al
most ready with report show
ing that the production lines are
filling up nicely. He admits with
a family guilty grin that now
and then he sends little notes to
Undersecretary Loyett when re-
suits seem to him little slow.
The defeat Of Senator Tydings
will put another Georgian. Sena-
tor Richard Russell, in command
of Senate Armed Services. The
two chairmen are old friends and
the younger Senator, whose own
parliamentary skill is such that,
Southerner or no. his colleagues
are proposing him for majority
leader, has long called admiring
attention to the Vinson operating
skill. The two committees can
be expected to work in close
harmony.
MIR. Vinson would like to get Air
Force organization out of the
way in the lame duck session and
will open hearings promptly. What
is needed. he explains, is to get
those generals on a statutory
railroad without any spurs so
they can't be changing their
schedules all the time and shift
ing their operations from one
base to another as the mood
seizes them. The Vinson bill out
lines five major air commands:
Continental, Strategic. Tactical,
Materiel and European Support.
Since the Army and Navy long
ago were put on similar statutory
rails. not too much difficulty is an
ticipated. The Air Force is under
stood. however, to be vehemently
opposed to those provisions of
the bill which conflne them to
Army Navy disqualification facin-
ties and to the quartermaster.
engineering and legal facilities Of
the Army. The Air Force wants
its own.
Evening star., 1950-11-17
Pioneers for Peace
2 House Members Plan Speaking Tour
To Win New Support for u. N.

for House Concurrent Resolution
81 which they introduced June Z,
1949. and which subsequently en-
listed as co-sponsors 100 other
House members and % Senators
representing both parties, the
largest support thus far received
for various proposals to revise and
strengthen the U. N.
Like the earlier Fulbright and
Connally resolutions which put
Congress on record for an inter-
national peace organization, the
Hays-Judd resolution would put
Congress on record for the next
step. as follows:
''It is the sense Of the Congress
that it should be a fundamental
objective Of the foreign policy of
the United States to support and
strengthen the United Nations and
to seek its development into q
world federation open to all ma
tions with defined and limited
powers adequate to preserve peace
and prevent aggression through
the enactment, Interpretation and
enforcement Of world law"
Called Most Timely.
These are rather grim times
but nevertheless hope lies now
more than ever in the United Ma
tions. This particular pioneering
is most timely.
The U. N. now is meeting its
severest test In the Korean wal
and the new problems posed al
the wars present stage. The u
N. gained worldwide prestige anc
support when, at our initiation, II
threw itself boldly athwart the
North Korean Communist aggres.
sion only to confront graver issue.
when, with apparent victory ir
the grasp of its forces, the Rec
Chinese moved across the Man.
churian border.
The need for strengthening tn.
4 U. N. is now clearly recognized BY
our Government. In fact, it tool
the first step with the proposal,
of Secretary of State Dean Ache.
son to give the U. N. Assembly, it.
self, authority to meet aggression
after the U. N. Security Council
got begged down by Russian OBJ
: Struction. The u. N. n1ovef
promptly to adopt those proposal
to reveal general recognition O
the need for revising its proceed
ures.
! Still further changes are neces
sary and they can be realized |
our people bring to bear such pub
lie pressure as resulted in creatio,
OF the U. N. originally and con
tinue the support given to the U
N. throughout its ordeal in Korea
Evening star., 1950-11-17

portion, with the burden of proof
on the Navy to explain why 1t
doesn't want four Marine divi-
sions.
Statutory organization of the
Air Force with Congress fixing the
pattern for It's conduct and future
development.
Work Lined Up in Detail.
The returning Congress will find
this homework lined up for ~them
In painstaking detail by Chairman
Carl Vinson Of the House Armed
Services Committee. The crucial
illness Of Mrs. Vinson. who died
yesterday. kept the chairman from
campaigning and what time he
was not with her. he spent on
the defense establishment he
knows and serves SO well. The
9Th Georgia district understood; |;
1t has been sending "the Admiral
to the House since 1914 and lately
It has firmly discouraged any one
from venturing to annoy him in
a primary.
When MIR. Vinson discusses the
shape Of things TO come, he takes
care to begin with praise for the
Defense Departments new heads.
Secretary Marshall and Under
secretary Lovett. He had q long
experience with both In World
War II.
He has kind words. too. for the
comparative newcomers, Secre-
tary Of the Army Pace and Sec
retary Of the Air Force Finletter.
By omission. it appears that Sec
retary Of the Navy Matthews has
failed to impress him and the
Evening star., 1950-11-17

tions this year
of $40 billion
dollars.
At least one
flush deck air.
craft carrier for
the Navy SINH
lar to the late
United States
whose construc-
ton was stop
ped by ex-De-
fense Secretary
j o h n S n. A
down the .
line Navy ex-
-~--S~~ IT, ,.~~
Evening star., 1950-11-17

ment Lease of the Real Estate
Board of New York, Inc.
Horror Reading.
I signed this standard form not
so long ago, but it was not until
today that I got around to read
ing it. I wish I never had made
this mistake for it makes horror
reading for tenant such as Poe
never dreamed of at his maddest
moment.
The lease runs thousands and
thousands Of words but none
guarantees the tenant any right
except to pay the rent-and in
Evening star., 1950-11-17

TedOJuStIuSuI Is
removing some
serious contra
dictionS.
The latestyre-
verSal is the
a d ninistration
decision to be-
gin using the
| S 2, 5 0 0 0 0 0
which Congress
approp r j a t e d
for loa ms to
S p a in an d
which President
Truman m a d e
Evening star., 1950-11-17

of Alaba m a. Thomas L. Stokes.
One is now on the Supreme Court.
Justice Harold H. Burton, then a
Republican Senator from Ohio.
Another. former Senator Carl A.
Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico
is now a Federal Judge in New
Mexico. The other was former
Senator Joseph H. Ball. Repub-
lican. of Minnesota.
Their pioneering activity helped
to prepare the way for later dec
larations by Congress for an in
ternational organization which
eventually followed in creation OF
the United Nations at San Fran
cisco in 1945. Their operation
got the name. through the news
papers, of B-2. H-2. because OF
their initials.
Old American Custom.
Pioneering is a good old Ameri-
can custom. We now have an
other example of it in a similar
enterprise, bipartisan in nature
to carry the U. N. idea further by
strengthening the internationa
organization and giving it a bod.
of world law.
| Figures in this mission are twt
House members. Representative!
Brooks Hays. Democrat, of Ar.
kansas and Walter Judd, Repub.
lican, Of Minnesota. They ar,
beginning tour together late thi
month from coast to coast, open
ing at Seattle. November %. I
will take them to several othe
cities. Already scheduled are Sal
Francisco. Dallas, Pittsburgh
Cleveland, st. Louis, Chicago ant
Suffolk County, Long Island. New
York.
! They will urge public supper
Evening star., 1950-11-17

hamburger ana
a bulldog.
But I have
changed my
mind.
Such a fight,
even with the
h a m b u r 6 e r
spotting tn e
b u og 63
pounds, would
be an even
money contest
compared to
what is known
as the Standard
Form of Apart
Evening star., 1950-11-17
Bv Doris FIeeson

Three million men under arms
at an annual cost of $40 billion
dollars.
Additional defense authoriza-
Evening star., 1950-11-17

an ] II y z tn D.
tional organi-
zation after the
war to preserve
peace and JUS
tice.
It was a BIZ
partisan enter
prise, with two
Republ | C a n S
and two Demo-
Gratis. Only one
of the four is
still in the Sen
| ate Ii S t e !
| Hill non0arot
Evening star., 1950-11-17
By Constantine Bro,cn

Events are forcing re-appraisal
of many points of long standing
foreign policy of the Truman ad-
ministration, and the consequent
Evening star., 1950-11-17
By Thomas L. Stokes

In the midst of the last war
four United States Senators toured
the country making speeches to
arouse the people to the need of
Evening star., 1950-11-17
McLemore
Lease Makes Tenant
Serf of Landlord
Rp Henrv McLemore

OV 11EWyy WCLEWUTE
Up until a few days ago I be-
lieved that just about the most
one-sided thing in the world would
be a 15-round fight between a
Evening star., 1950-11-17
DOncaSter
SUITS
600

Take the advice of experts and
you will become acquainted with
the Doncoster suit. For tailoring
detail, wide choice of smart new
fobrics and styling that feels as
we'll as it looks Doneoster
offers you all three at their very
best. In the seasons newest
shorkskins, flonneIs, twilIs or
unfinished worsteds. Single or
doubIe-breosted.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
American Bar Association
Plans District Convention

Plans for the national conven-
ton of the American Bar Associa-
ton at the Statler and May
flower Hotels September 1922
are being discussed today in Chi
cago by top executives.
John l.. Laskey, president OF
the District Bar Association. which
will be host to the visiting law
yers, is attending the session,
James D. Mann. the Washington
groups executive secretary, also
is attending the meeting at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel.
A meeting of the ABA's House
of Delegates will follow that meet
ing. Chief Judge Bolitha j
Laws and Judge Alexander HoltZ-
off of District Court; Walter M
Bastian, George M. Morris, H
Cecil Fitzpatrick, chairman Of the
Section of Taxation of ABA. ano
L. WEIGH Pogue, chairman, Aero
nautical Law Committee, all prom
inent Washington lawyers, will
attend the House of Delegates
meeting.
Charles H. Burton and John G
Poole, Washington lawyers. viii
attend sessions of the Council OF
the Junior Bar Section of ABA
at Chicago.