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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-10-05
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MONDAY-FRIDAY

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MONDAY-FRIDAY
A. M.
B:00-News And Farm Program
7:05-Rise and Shine and News
8:45-Family Altar
9:O0-Robert Hurleigh
9:15-Tell Your Neighbor
9:30-Special Features
9:45-Music in the Letter Vein
10:00-Cecil Brown
10:15-Morning Devotions
i0:30-The Skyline Boys
10:45-Organ Melodies
11:00-Behind The Story
1t:30-Cavalcade of Music
11:55-news and Music
Pm.
12:15-Lanny Ross Show
12:30-Market Livestock Reports
I2:45-Music for Easy Listening
1:00-Cedric Foster
1:15-Harvey Harding Sings
(Tuesday and Wednesday,
1:15-Music in the Letter Vein
(Mon., Thurs, and Ffi)
1870 WORLD SERIES
To 49, BASEBALL
4:30-- GAMES
4:30-Special Features
5:00-Mark Trail (Mon. Wed. Fri.)
5:OO-Straight Arrow (Tues. Thurs.
5:30-Challenge of Yukon
(Mon. Wed. Fri.)
5:30-Sky King (Tues. Thurs.)
6:00-News
6:05--Sports Parade
6:30-Local News and Music
6:55-vAssociated Press News
(. 7:00-Fultop Lewis
7:15-Tune Toppers
7.30-Gabriel Heater
7:45-Mutual Newsreel
3:00-Bobby Benson (Monday)
8:00-Count of Monte Cristo (Tues.)
8:00-The Hidden Truth (Wed.)
8:00-California Caravan (Thur.)
7:55-HIGH SCHOOL
To FOOTBALL GAME
1000 FRIDAY
8;30-Crime Fighters (Mon)
3:30-OfIicial Detective (Tues.)
8:30-International Airport (Wed)
8:30-Rod and Gun Club (Thurs.)
8:55-Bill Henry and the News
9:00-Blue Barron Presents (exc.
F'ri)
9:15-Land Week Program (Mon.)
9:15-Stars on Parade (Tues.)
9:15-Out of the Dusk
"wednesday and Thursday
9:30-War Front Home Front Mon.
9:30-Mysterious Travelor (Tues)
9:30-Family Theater (Wed.)
9:30-Through Listening Glass
(Thurs.)
10:00-News and Music
10:15-I Love A Mystery
10:30-Special Features
11:00-Harriso Woods
11:30--Dance Orchestra
11:55-Mutual Reports The News
l2:00--Local News
Evening star., 1950-02-26
A Weak Spot in Our Defenses

The Joint United States-Canadian war games
In Yukon Territory, just concluded, confirmed
what our military experts have been saying all
along-that Alaska is a grave weak spot IN our
defenses An Achilles heel" is the way Governor
Gruening has described the Northwestern bull
wark against Asiatic aggression, and the maneu-
vers have shown the aptness of this description.
The frankness with which official observers
of Exercise Sweetbriar" discussed with news
correspondents the nadequacies of American
military strength in the Aleutian sector was
remarkable. But there is no sense in keeping
from the American people information undoubt-
edly already we'll known to Russia, just across
Bering Strait. Any curious visitor to Alaska can
see the reduced state of our garrison in this
important outpost, as result of postwar re-
trenchment. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have been
baked in their efforts to reinforce the single
combat battalion and the anti-aircraft battalion
now guarding the area. The obstacle is not lack
of men and equipment but lack of housing.
Lieutenant General Twining commanding
general in Alaska, told the correspondents that
the housing problem could be solved within two
years, That will be f1ne-if Russia, our only
potential enemy, will cooperate by staying away
from our door that long. The situation Is not
one to justify optimism, however, nor to justify
the hagglng over appropriations for military
housing that has been going on in Congress since
early in the previous session.
Evening star., 1950-02-26

the New England average had risen to 3S.3 years
for males and 405 years for females Apparently
the increase in longevity is a continuing phe-
nomenon in the middle portion of the twentieth
century. People now living may see the average
age at which death occurs elevated to 80 or
possibly even to IS years.
But human beings not only are living longer
There also are more of them getting born. Cur
rently the expansion of population the world
around is believed to be about 20 million
year. Guy Irving Burch and Elmer Pendel in
their Human Breeding and Survival" say: IF
suddenly India's death rate could be lowered to
the level of that of the United States India with
her present birth rate could fill five earths, as
full as ours, in single century. China could do
the same. and 1t would not take the U. S. s. r.
much longer"
Evening star., 1950-02-26

as there are two persons or more in
volved in human contacts there arises
the age-long problem as to how they are
to live peaceably together. Daniel Boone
came home from hunting jaunt and
greeted his wife by saying, Woman,
we'll have to move on I don't like
near neighbors nohow, and I just ran
onto settler but so miles back" If
this frontiersman could not find elbow
room under those circumstances, what
about human relationships amid the in
creased tensions of today?
Now what is the best way to deal with
this vital matter? Is it to preach BROTH
erhood? Is it to beg and beseech men
to love one another and to- be friends?
That, alone. leads nowhere. The final
solution is not in legislation which
changes our laws. but in Transformation
which changes our attitudes.
Suppose certain great conceptions &C
tually could capture the hearts of men.
For instance, suppose. so far as our
Anglo-Saxon world is concerned, that
Evening star., 1950-02-26
Spires Of the Spirit
Spires Of the Spirit
The Bells Of Brotherhood.

TN THE Capital City of the Nation,
4 which. with it's vast material and
moral might alone seriously challenges
the tyranny bent on engulfing the earth,
Brotherhood Week was ushered in by
the ringing Of church bells. 1t is to be
hoped that at least once each week,
across all the expanses of the republic
throned in power and beauty between
the seas. the changing bells which call
to worship will bear witness to crusad-
ing faith in and for something, in con-
traSt to mere protest against some
thing, heinous as false system may
be. Fear may hurl anathemas at the
object of its terror; but faith shouts its
confident creed which is stronger than
error.
In these days which tend to the hys-
terical, America, with her superior ide-
ology, needs above all to accentuate the
positive-the reassuring message of the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
OF man. Any attempt of one man or
set of men to lord it over their fellows
appears as the silly pretension that it
is. while the bells give voice to the
fundamental fact that the one God hath
made of one blood all men to dwell upon
the face of the earth. They chime of
relationship to the one God over all
which ignores the f1ctional frontiers OF
East or West, North or South or border
or breed or birth. Their voices speak
OF spiritual unity deeper than any
surface diversity and of needs and long
ings which make all humanity one.
X
Bells are not sectarian. belfry may
belong to one church. but not the BELLS
They know nothing of class or race
Their dulcet tones wander up and down
the streets and steal into houses with
melody and minstrelsy even when the
doors are shut.
The very word brotherhood" brings
us face to face with the frightfully Diff
f1cult task of living together happily and
securely in world like this. AS soon
Evening star., 1950-02-26

A pseudonyn is permissible only
Uten letter carries correct name
and address of 1oriter Please be brief
Evening star., 1950-02-26
Victory for Common Sense

The elimination in Senate House conference
of the Joker" requirement that yellow oleo-
margarine be sold only in prism-shaped prints
is victory for common sense This last-minute
amendment to the Senate version of the oleo
tax repeater bill assertedly was designed to pro-
tect consumers against fraud But the oleo in
dustry charged that IL would have imposed a
special packaging problem involving manufacture
of new machinery and added costs. The COM
promise bill, as reported by the conferees, has
adequate safeguards against deception. 1t would
require plain labelling of the butter substitute
as such, both on the outer and inner wrappings
and eating places would be required either to
post notices that margarine is served or to mold
the margarine into triangular pats. There is
ample protection for the consumer in these re-
quirements. The Senate should accept the con-
cession made by its conferees, without further
debate.
Once this is done and the President signs
the legislation, the long fight to end the dis
criminatory Federal taxes on margarine will
come to happy conclusion This does not mean.
however, that all discrimination against oleo
would cease There are still twenty -one States
which bar the sale Of yellow margarine. They
are diminishing minority. During the past ten
years restrictions have been removed in thirteen
States. Eight Of these repeal acts we're adopted
within the past two years. The fight for further
repeal will be bitter one, for most OF the die
hard States have large and powerful dairy in
dustries. The fight is worth continuing, however,
for State discrimination against oleo is no less
Objectionable to margarine users than the Fed
eral variety.
Evening star., 1950-02-26
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

part" of President Mckinley. He was
stopping at the Willard and people pass
ing through the lobby were attracted
by mis- remarkable facial resemblance"
to the Chief Executive. Proprietor OF
farmers restaurant in Warren, Uncle
John" had journeyed to the Capital as
"a full-fledged candidate" to be post
master of that community. His son,
George Campbell, was street cleaning
foreman here in Washington, having
two years ago."
President Mckinley attended meet
ing Of the Sons Of the Revolution at
Woshineton's Birthday Theater on
Celebrated February 20,
1900, and The
Star chronicled his participation in the
annual celebration of the birthday of
George Washington, explaining that the
made his acknowledge by boWine."
Senator Chauncey M. Depew Of New
York was the orator of the occasion.
he received most cordial welcome
When he arose to speak /" = and held
the attention Of the large audience and
elected from them many expressions of
approval. He gave a picture of the
first President that was instinct with
life.' At the close of his effort, the
Senator publicly commended the diplo-
macy of Mr.. Mckinley. This
created great enthusiasm in the audi
ence, which was manifested by prolonged
applause" The Children Of the Ameri-
can Revolution meanwhile celebrated at
the Columbia Theater and the Associa-
ton Of the Oldest Inhabitants at the
Corcoran Building.
The Star on February 10, 1900. ex-
planned: "At the meeting Of the Column
bia Typographical Union,
Tsotest'n9 held yesterday, the subject
Printers Of having the printing OF
the Census Bureau done by
machines in that building instead OF at
the Government Printing Office was dis
cussed at much length. and 1t was de-
cided to file protest with Director
Merriam against the use Of such ma
chimes. The statement was made that
while it is the reported intention Of Mr..
Evening star., 1950-02-26
Mistakes
Bv Bruce Barton

One of my friends-70 self-made and
prosperous-has tried to become more
humble, rather than dictatorial. with age.
He gives his young associates wide dis
cretion and expects that they will lose
money in the process of making more.
His technique of imparting wisdom Is
unusual.
Once a week he calls his young men
together. opens up the newspaper, and.
selecting some item from the financial
page, reaches back into his experience
and proceeds to tell story.
whats so unusual about that?" you
ask
He never mentions his success. He
talks only about his mistakes!
II note that everybody of Importance
is predicting very prosperous 1885," he
remarked recently. Perhaps they are
right; / hope so. But whenever you find
that everybody is agreed as to just what
is going to happen. that's the time to
start to wonder. I learned that in 1929.
It cost me plenty"
He has a bundle of shiny red, green
and gilt stock certificates, every one Of
them once "sure thing" every one now
worthless. Each provides the text for .
morning chat.
He says that regret is silly and waste
full. Mistakes should not be regretted:
they should be turned into profit. He
says that no man should be criticized for
making a mistake once, or forgiven for
making the same mistake twice.
He says that highly successful men are
especially vulnerable because they tend
to be surrounded with people who tell
them the things they like to hear. He
won't keep in his Office any one who
hasn't CUTS enough to disagree with him.
He is not different, of course. from the
best practitioners of any trade. profess
sion or sport. No one of them kids him.
self that he can be good all the time.
Bobby, Jones, golf's greatest, told
Grantland Rice: II never learned any,
thing from the matches I won; all that
I know about golf learned from the
matches lost"
When Brand Whitlock was elected
Mayor Of Toledo. he wrote to Tom john
son, famous Cleveland Mayor. and asked
his advice. Decide quick" wired john
son, "and be right 81 per cent"
Cy Young. greatest pitcher in big
league history, hung up q record that
never has been equaled. He pitched 874
games. How many victories does 1t take
to make man world champion? How
many did Cy win?
Five hundred and eleven-more, but
not much more. than halt.
Evening star., 1950-02-26
Exhuming a Forgotten Law

Corporation Counsel Vernon E. West has made
a sensible recommendation which leaves it to the
courts to determine whether an anti-segregation
law OF 1873 applying to restaurants, bars and
soda fountains, is still on the books and enforce
able. He has been unable to find any record of
formal repeal. Whether it has been repealed by
implication, as Mr.. West says, can be argued
either way. The proper forum for such an argu-
ment is provided by the courts.
The Star files for June n, 1873, contain
three-lne reference to the law in question. The
Third Legislative Assembly for the District came
to a close on the evening of June 26. Much
legislation was approved that night in the rush
toward adjournment and The Star ran more
than column of small type the next day report
ing all the business. One act imposed regulations
for the conduct of eating places, soda fountains,
bars, ETC.. and one of them, according to The
Stars account, required "all persons respectable
and well-behaved to be accommodated in said
establishments at said prices and in the same
rooms"
That is the only reference But there had
been a comparable law enacted the preceding
year. under which at least two prosecutions of
restaurant keepers were attempted, without sue
cess. The law of 1873 may have been an attempt
to clarity the original statute of 1872. The
Districts territorial government, of which the
notorious "Featherduster Legislature" was
part was abolished in 1874 Some of the acts
of the Legislative Assembly were later declared
invalid. The fate of all of them would require
considerable research test case on the anti
discrimination law may settle the legal question
of it's status now. The more important question, it
seems to The Star, is community acceptance of
the principle involved. Progress is being written
all the time in acceptance of the principle which
depends so much more on changing attitudes
than-as demonstrated by the public exhumation
of a forgotten law-the mere enactment of
statute
Evening star., 1950-02-26

An advertisement Of D. j. Kaufman,
1907 Pennsylvania avenue NV. printed
in The Star on February
Reasonable 16. 1900, announced that
Toes ,ancv ess ,"os.tsds ssauI ' hisct anG
blue dress worsteds, and
vicunas, in round-cut sacks. double
breasted sacks. cutaway frocks" were
available at $14.85 each, and finest over
coats - vicunas, imported frieZe. best
grades of kersey and Meltons" at $3.50.
D. j. K. white dress shirts. aft and wear
guaranteed" were 10 cents, and collars
and cuffs, 10 and Is cents. Even better
bargains apparently were "all best quail
ity trousers - the finest grades OF
worsteds in nobby, up-to-date patterns,
honestly worth $3.50 and 50" at $3.50.
The Kaufman store wanted it under
stood that it was "the popular mans
store"
In The Star for February 81. 1900. a
lengthy account of hearing before a
subcommittee of the
Trouble About Senate District Com
SneIi;no mittee appeared. The
theme was the public
school system Of Washington and nearby
communities. John D. Freeman, super
vising principal of the eighth division,
complained about the deficiency Of the
children in spelling. Many Of the
youngsters, he said, "have greater
vocabulary than ever before, but a
majority Of them will not use. after their
school life, the words they learn Mr..
Freeman argued: 1.-THE mass Of words
they cannot spell are the words they
will have to spell in after life" He
thought, "in former years. when there
was a drill in spelling, the children
spelled as well or better than they do
today" More drill in all fundamental
branches Of education" seemed to be
needed. The opinion thus phrased seems
familiar half century later, doesn't it?
Two-column portrait photoengravings
were something Of q rarity In The Star
=, -, so years ago, but one was
Uncle John published in the issue for
Arrives February II, 1000 pic
ture of John Campbell OF
Warren, Ohio. double and twisted
cousin" and almost IAN exact counter
Evening star., 1950-02-26
McMahons Proposals Hold Their Own
As Readers Debate the Pro and Con

MCMdHOn proposals hOl0 lnelf OWN
As Readers Debate the Pro and Con
There are probably millions of people
in this world who do not believe that we
have done all that we can to avert war.
In their eyes, if there is another war, we
shall at least be partially responsible. To
them we appear to have retired into
shell of self-righteousness declaring that
we have done all we can and that the
next move is up to Russia. They look to
us for leadership and they find none.
was amazed to see the President an
nounce that we are going to build the
Hbomb. this and nothing more. It was
Senator Vandenberg who displayed
craftsmanship when he said that we
should tell Russia that we will stop build
ing the H-bomb If she will agree to gen.
uine atomic controls Should not the
President have made that statement?
Possibly the President feels that 1t
would be undignif1ed and not in accord
with the tenets of conventional diplo-
macy for us to make any further offers
to Russia. But the world is praying that
we will forget conventional diplomacy,
not stand on our dignity, and continue to
make unremitting efforts for peace.
We have one possible big weapon that
Russia has not. We can galvanize world
opinion in our favor. and this Russia
cannot do.
Russia claims that the Marshall plan
is imperialistic. Let us say to Russia that
we will extend similar aid to her or any
of her satellites that will hold free elec-
tions-to the satisfaction of the United
Nations.
Russia claims that the Atlantic Pact Is
an aggressive move. Let us declare our
willingness to dissolve it If she will lift
the Iron Curtain and permit free inter-
change of opinion between her people
and ours. Russia might say that we are
merely trying to spy upon her. In which
case, we might be more definite and say
that all we want is three hours Of radio
time per week to speak to her people, and
we will give the same privilege to her
representatives.
We must make our position plain in
the eyes of the world so that 1t can In
nowise be distorted or falsified. We can
not do this by reciting historical ac-
counts that show our good faith. We can
only do it by making definite proposals.
ALEXANDER WYMAN.
like Constantine Browns crisp and
forceful presentation of facts. have
Evening star., 1950-02-26
People Living Longer

The Federal Security Agency has announced
that the average length of life in the United
States has increased to 67.2 years, "the highest
figure on record; but it does not follow that
all problems related to the duration Of life have
been or are being solved For example, there is
the question of infant mortality. Vital statistics
for 1948 show that 35 out of each 1000 children
under one year died in babyhood. The rate for
all ages was 9.9 thousand Obviously, there Is
room for improvement in the care of infants
when 113 ,169 of them are born only to die within
q few months. That means improvement IN the
care of mothers, too-and improvement in the
techniques involved in dealing with epidemics
In hospitals and nurseries where infants are
sheltered.
At the other extreme, there is the problem
of employment for older people What Is the
virtue, many of them ask, in prolonging the
average life span to 672 years if the result is to be
lowering of the age at which older people must
retire from their work? We live in time when
1t is becoming increasingly difficult for persons
as young as forty-f1ve to find new jobs, and it is
obvious that the prolongation of life, plus the
entry of growing numbers of young people into
the job market will intensity this pressure. One
obvious remedy for this lies in better retirement
and pension systems. Perhaps others will be
found.
OF course normal human beings want to live
as long as they can in health and utility. The
instinct to survive always has been regarded as
q sign of physical and mental well-being. Thus
the Federal Security Agency's report would seem
to indicate trend for the majority OF people
to rejoice about. The presumption OF life in
Philadelphia in 1882 was estimated to be only
Is years. In Massachusetts, in 1889 newborn
child might expect to live 35.5 years. BY 1850
Evening star., 1950-02-26

Merriam to put but eight or 10 ma
chimes in the bureau, to do even this
will be violation of the understanding
between the Government and the Inter-
national Typographical Union, to the
effect that machines to set type would
not be placed in any of the departments"
The Star for February %, 1900, said
editorially: "A new White House, Gre
~ x.,.. ated either by absolute
a New VnIre reconstruction or by
House judicious enlargement,
would stand forever as
a memorial Of the first century Of the
Capitals existence. It would be q dis
tinct addition to the city's beauty and
attractiveness and efficiency as a capital
It would breathe the national spirit. II
planned upon proper lines, preserving
the original character Of the structure,
1t would bespeak the dignity Of the
architecture Of the fathers, modernized
in q spirit of reverence. There is no
lack Of suggestive material from which
to draw for this enterprise. Plans have
been prepared in abundance in the past,
some OF them with high authority The
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grounds could readily arrive at q con-
clusion, if the matter were to be taken
up vigorously and in desire to accom-
plish something practical in the irnme-
diate future"
From Hagerstown. Md. The Star of
February 20. 1900, reported: Judge
Ctakc IN, his cho rOe
Nniiofen Steoiin9 to the grand jury
Cool now in session here,
II called attention to
the wholesale arrests of children for
stealing from railroad cars as they stand
on the tracks or pass through He
said it was the duty Of the jury to care
fully discriminate against the prosecu-
ton Of mere children Of tender age and
those Of maturer and responsible ages.
The public treasury had been made to
stand the expense Of these prosecutions,
which should be borne by the railroads
themselves. who should also watch their
own property. The judge said the jury
should dispatch business economically.
as times were hard. business dull and
agricultural products low