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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-09-07

ROPER gas stove, table top, $40; up
right piano, good tone, $25. 21751 Ivan
ave. RE. 1-6597.
PRIVATE, five complete rooms Of fur
niture; rug, stove, wash machine,
misc, etc. Wickliffe 3-2029.
REFRIGERATOR. well known make
reasonable. 461 East 143rd ST., off
Westropp ave.
APEX washing machine, running con-
dition. Make offer. Ii. 1-4489.
DINING room set, 9x12 Wilton rug;
exceptional. 14O1O Woodwork I'd, No.
2. GIL. 1-2370 after 5:3O.
UPRIGHT piano, excellent tone and
condition, SIS RE 1896 after p. m.
LIVING room chairs, 8; lamps and
tables; china closet. w. 1-4568.
PROSPERITY table top gas range, q
years old, $50; juke box, large, will
sell cheap; 8 Gu. #. Coldspot refrig-
orator. $3.50; lawn table with large
umbrella, $40. Call before IL at Wick
life 3-2587. 1873 East 317th st.
THOR Gladiron ironer. used only few
times, SIS. RE. 1-6245
napkins, matches,
coasters. stirrers, for engagements,
weddings, anniversaries, new homes,
etc. The SCOOP, 814 East 152nd st.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-09-07
Business Directory

PERSONALIZED napkins, matches,
coasters, Stirrers, for engagements,
weddings, anniversaries, new homes,
etc. The SCOOP, 814 East 152nd st.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-09-07
FOR SALE-Household Goods

DAVENPORT, dusty rose, brocatell,
Regency style, good condition. kE.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-09-07

ROPER gas stove, table top, $40; up
right piano, good tone. $25. 21751 Ivan
ave. RE. 1-6597
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-09-07
FOR Household Goods

PORCH furniture, small red dinette
table, 4 chairs; large wicker chairs,
red. cheap. Ii. 1-4644.
Evening star., 1950-06-12

A man has written detective story
with an almost invisible bit of life as a
detective. The criminal is another
microbe. or something. In the end, the
detective gets his man."
Well, think what happens to fishing
worm when it goes for stroll.
Let us fictionize one, and see what
occurs.
Here is Sammy Worm. all on sum-
mer's day. wiggling his way through the
nice damp soil.
Worms and slugs like it wet.
Worms need dampness to get around.
also to keep their tissues In o good state
of repair.
Nov watch your step. Sammy" said
his mother, as the young one started out
for the day.
mo need to worry about me-" replied
Sam. He was weeks old, and had been
around.
All the way to the end Of the back
yard!
That was as far as Sam had been, but
it seemed pretty big to him.
Took him all of O week to make 1t,
but he did.
The wiggle back was more difficult.
A week Of dryness made for tough
going.
When he got back to the nest he was
almost exhausted.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
This and That

$50 watch your step, Sammy" said his
mother.
This time he was not so ambitious.
He planned to take little flyer around
the east end of the garage
He didn't call it garage" OF course.
"That big place. was nearer 1t. But
he knew perfectly well what he meant.
It was q fine morning for adventure,
moist and sultry. Many days Of wet
ness had gone by. The earth was In
fine worm state.
Everything is a matter of perspective.
What human being likes is not at all
what hshin worm likes.
Er. how could it be?
It must be an odd thing, to be called
something one knows nothing about
at all.
Take that term, fishing worm"
No honest worm knows a thing about
fishes. A fish is something out OF his
horizon, if it is possible to say any worm
has any horizon at all.
Sammy the Worm had one. that morn
ing. He had concentrated on the east
side of the garage. He knew that over
there, so far away. was real happy
hunting ground. He would find good
things to eat. and have high old time.
especially If he should run onto Myrtle
Worm. There was a gal for you!
Sammy started out on q run. He
siithered his way past q slug that cast
Evening star., 1950-06-12

that when the first charter was voted on several
years ago. its defeat attributed largely to the
inclusion of provision for non-partisanship.
The provision was absent from the charter finally
adopted-but one of the first acts of the new
council was to enact non-partisan election law.
1t is this county law which Montgomery County
Circuit Court and the Maryland Court of Appeals
have struck down.
The appellate court-highest in the State
held that the County Council went beyond its
legal authority in setting up special election
system for ITSELF without specific approval OF
the General Assembly. The Assembly had indi-
Gated its disapproval of non-partisan elections
in charter counties by passing the Lindsay Act,
which requires councilmen to be nominated and
elected in regular party primaries and to run
in general elections under party labels The ap-
pellate court in effect has upheld the validity of
the Lindsay Act. But home rule by charter will
continue in Montgomery County whether its
council is composed of Republicans or Democrats
or Independents, or combination thereof. And
the probability is that no disaster will result
from the courts ruling.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
By Charles E. TroceweN
Social Worker.

an evil eye at him. He felt the earth
quiver as a moving machine went over
head.
Through his hearing processes he could
hear the birds sing. and the children
shout.
He was. at this time, no more than
7 inches from the surface.
He was tempted to come up through
the wavering grass.
It tickled ones sides so nicely.
What was 1t has mother had told him?
Nov, watch your step. Sammy" she
had said. or the equivalent thereto. No
body knows precisely what a worm says,
Of course.
Sammy didn't know that exactly above
his head Old Man Robin was bob-bob-
bobbing along.
Old Man Robin had his head turned
down to the ground. He seemed to be
listening. and he was listening, but not
with ears. He was depending upon
what humans call bone conduction. The
bone Of his skull tfngled when Sammy
slithered. 1t was as easy as that.
And when little Sammy Worm came
near enough to be heard through the
tickling green grass, Old Man Robin was
right there waiting for him.
It was really too bad for poor little
Sammy Worm. His kind mother would
never see him again. He had become
food.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Judge CockriII
HOratiO r.. Nelson.

In my official capacity have been In
the Juvenile Court and observed Judge
Cockrill on the bench several months ago.
The Judge was dignified, pleasant. and
there was no evidence Of punitive atti-
tude on her part. She listened with close
attention to the statements of the chill
dren and their parents. who were obvious
ly ignorant and under privileged I was
particularly impressed with the care with
which the parents were advised of their
right to counsel a matter frequently
overlooked in the previous administration.
During the entire time I was in the
court room there was no evidence of hos
tility, and while the atmosphere was Sc
rious 1t seems to me that appearance be-
fore Judge should be a serious matter.
1t is fallacy to assume that the judge
lacks sympathy and understanding be-
cause after careful weighing Of the evi-
dence before her she decides that COM
mitment of some children to the best
available institutions is preferable to con-
tinued social case-work service in their
own homes.
Social Worker.
Evening star., 1950-06-12

wealth and social prominence. But
they do hope to make start at re-creat-
ing something solid. dependable and
livable.
To get the project rolling, Is Eastern
High School students spent a day re-
painting six homes in the 1900 block Of
G. street Sc. This is only one example
of how Southeast hopes to give itself.
If not "the new look" at least new
look '-.
This project and its less pretentious
predecessors may at first glance appear
to be just cleanup" campaigns. But
they go deeper than that.
The Southeast actually is doing what
the best city planning brains of the
country are recommending as an i'm
portant step in fighting urban blight
and the physical, economic and moral
evils that accompany it.
Washingtons own planners. in blue
printing redevolpment. are calling for a
three-phase operation to Cd protect
sound and stable areas, (2) rehablitate
areas that have started on the down
grade and 60 raze and rebuild actual
slums.
Neighborhood associations are urged
to do what Southeast is doing, as vital
part of phases one and two. The
Evening star., 1950-06-12

cause its victims intense pain of the
sort decribed by Mrs. Kramer. The
malady is rare. except in old age. It
cripples. but does not in itself kill the
sufferer. There is no known cure)
Anti Communist TomfooIery
Crude and cruel jokes concerning
"pansies" and "pinks" are currently
bouncing around the bars and Offices Of
our fair Capital. AS pointed out in
local editorial recently, it does seem
rather absurd to identify sex-normal
or abnormal-with subversive activity.
But Communist tomfoolery SEEM
ingly knows no bounds.
Down in Tennessee, last summer. cer-
tain farmers refused to have anything
to do with their local Community Prof.
ect (club) on the grounds that the word
Community" looked and sounded like
Communist" This Is. of course. an ex-
treme example Of anti-C Communist hys-
teria but the retrogreSsive section of
the press and other un-American "in-
terests," are quick to exploit just such
pathetic mental confusion as this.
am not now, have never been and
never expect to be a member of that
wildcat religious fraternity known as
the Communist Party. But certainly
do not identify Americanism with the
theoretical exact opposite of commu-
nism. For instance, Senator McCarthy's
brand of "Americanism" is poison to
me.
There is disloyalty more subtle than
the obvious surface manifestation of
communism: The treason of the mind
and heart to ideals. This form Of dis
loyalty Is much more prevalent and
more dangerous than communism, do
mestic or foreign.
Getting back to the all-pervading sub
ject, sex. Those who glibly crack jokes
concerning "queers'' are themselves
likely to be caught in the murky whirl-
pool they are stirring up.
David III. Weisgarber.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Mrs. Smith, Pro and Con

God bless the America of Senator Mar
garet Chase Smith! Her moral courage
and righteous indignation has started
Christian crusade against the paganism
of Senator Mccarthy. She holds aloft
the single standard of the Golden Rule
and pleads for God and country. Will
her call to the conscience of true patriots
go unheeded?
It will unless all of us return to the
God of our forefathers. Senator McCar-
thy and his ruthless paganism is SYM
boil of our dilemma. Processing loyalty
to the Christian ethic, he has perverted
and lynched every ideal of Jesus. The
Kremlin itself is not more atheistic and
unprincipled.
It happens that the Catholic church
is in position to help bring America
back to God. The Pope frequently has
pleaded for a common front of all be-
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Road to Wor-ond Defeat

The central theme of President Truman's
address at the dedication of Thomas Jeffer
son Memorial Park in st. Louis was not new
one. It is theme, however, which bears
repetition because of the human tendency TO
forget and ignore the obvious.
The talk essentially was an appeal to the
American people to bear in mind what Mr.
Truman rightly called the "clearest lessons"
of two world wars-namely, that peace-loving
nations must be strong, determined and united
If they are to preserve the peace.
Mr.. Truman used plain words in reviewing
and denouncing the policies of the Soviet gov
ernment which have nullified all efforts to
achieve stable peace, and which, instead, have
raised the grim prospect OF another war. But
the Soviet policies-barring the unlikely event
that Stain and the men around him are COM
nitted to war-can be and are being checkmated.
The facts bear out the Presidents claim that
much progress has been made toward directing
structure of strength in the West which the Rus
slams will not care to challenge. Without a
sustained, continuing effort on our part, how
ever, all of this progress can be, and almost
certainly will be, wiped out.
1t is at this point, Mr.. Truman said, that
the second major force operating against peace
comes into play. That force consists of the
effort on the part of our own so-called isola-
that we should abandon or disastrouSly modify
our programs of foreign aid, both economic and
military The argument is that these programs
are too expensive and that, in the end, they
will leave the United States so weakened that
the whole structure of freedom will collapse.
This belief probably is sincerely held by
those who preach it. For these people, except
for the handful among them who do their
preaching through such mediums as the Com
munist Daily Worker, stand to lose as much
as any of us if the Russians ever should achieve
their aim of world domination. But sincerely
held view is not necessarily the correct one.
And If two world wars have taught anything,
it is that a powerful, would-be aggressor can
be turned back only by concerted action on
the part of the intended victims
Hitler's early bloodless conquests were made
possible by timidity, procrastination, blindness,
fear of cost and fear of consequences among
the natiors he had marked for destruction. It
was not ur Ill the eleventh hour that concerted
stand was made against him, and then absolute
disaster was Tended off only by the narrowest
of margins and at frightful cost
It is this road that the isolationists would
have us travel again. They may be wholly sin
cere but they are also utterly wrong. Mr.
Truman was right when he said that this is
the road to war, and, even worse, the road
to defeat in war.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Our Benefieent Lords and Masters

The Star does not presume to pass judgment
m the merits of the strike which has tied
up delivery of milk in Washington. Like other
strikes, both sides will suffer until the side
that suffers the most gives in
But the arrangements announced Tor sup
plying milk to people who really need 1t are 1ul
of inconsistencies and represent, in The stars
opinion, piece of sap-dash, unmltlgated gan
on the part of those who made them.
One learns that the poor, underfed weak
lings of the armed services, for example, will re-
ceive their regular supply of milk If they eat
in the military meSSes. But a mother who needs
milk for her little children must obtain doc
tors certificate to that effect and take 1t with
her as she goes, directed, to an ADDRESS al lz'u
South Capitol street between the hours OF am.
and 6p.ra purchases supply and carries it home
with her. Hospitals permitted to receive
milk through the benefcence of our lords ana
masters, and District MISUNDERSTANDING
the iail no doubt-will receive their regular
supplies of milk. But the poor, unorganized puohc
and its members who have been able to keep
themselves off the military payroll or out OF
public institutions, including the jail, will be
punished
The public has been pretty well punished
already. monopolistic arrangement for the
benefit of the farmers keeps the price OF milk
much higher in Washington than 1t should BE-
All dairy products are priced too high, for some
body's benefit. And now the public is being
asked to submit to further injury, not to men
ton inconvenience by being denied milk While
the strike settles down to run the usual course
of its insanity.
The public ought to remember this. A lot
of people have to drink milk. But this strike may
demonstrate to lot of others that they can get
along very we'll without milk, butter and numer-
~ous other articles of diet in the same category
save money and get rid of excess fat during the
summer months that lie ahead.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Hard to Understand

When one has been ill over period
of years it is sometimes difficult to be-
come reconciled. This has lasted so long
with God have His promise, II will
never leave thee nor forsake thee"
have seen six doctors and specialists
over a period of eight years, with the
hope that some help might be gained
for disease about which little is known,
Parkinson's Disease. I write about it
only because I might give some one else
little glimmer of encouragement.
I want to tell you that led perfectly
normal life as school teacher and then
as homemaker. But for long time
before the climax of this illness I was
continually tired. My arms became diff
f1cult to move: I went to the doctors,
but none of them seemed able to help
me. Then a doctor in Washington. to
whom I went for advice. told me had
Parkinsons Disease.
began to lose my balance and had
terrific pain in my head. I had trouble
with my eyes-oculogyric crises, which
sometimes accompanies Parkinson's Dis
ease.
be the way was before, and there
seemed to be no medicine that could
take that would help my condition. This
is a disease of the muscles and nerves.
1t is difficult to write, dress or feed your
self. 1t is very difficult to sit comfort
ably. in fact you are never at ease.
Walking is task. the muscles of the
neck are tense.
suffer so much pain that it is difficult
to do much of anything. I can only
speak to those with whom I come in
contact of the God who doeth all things
we'll. and urge them to make him part
of their life.
The cost of this illness, you ask? Health
cannot be measured by money. We are
people in medium circumstances-or,
shall say, we were? It has covered q
period of eight years and has cost all
we laid aside. Knowing it will last in
definitely, we live each day as it comes.
am blessed with devoted children and
a kind and patient husband, who help
me in every way they can; also father
and sister who have through the years
stood by me faithfully. have resolved
to try to do little tasks about the house
and keep interested in each days hap
penings.
To all who suffer from Parkinson's
Disease. my message is: Give your life
into Gods keeping, and keep trying no
matter what the COST"
I have been inspired to write this
message after reading an article entitled
who Knows?" written by courageous
sufferer from this same malady. who
lives in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ethel G. Kramer.
Editors Note: The doctors say it
is unusual for Parkison's Disease to
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Old Southeast Battles urban Blight
By Rudolph Kouffmonn I

MORE than four years have gone by
IVA since Congress passed the District
of Columbia Redevelopment Act, an
instrument aimed at removing and
preventing the peculiar form OF
municipal cancer called urban blight"
Urban blight" means simply the de-
terioration of the inner core OF Q city.
It's mainly caused by people moving
away from crowding, poor bathrooms.
lack of parking. too many cars. streets
unsafe for children, inadequate schools
and Fairgrounds and parks-noise. dirt,
disease and so on.
Urban blight" riddles the older sec
tions of Washington today. Congress
sional sightseers are shocked at condi-
tions. But nothing much gets done
about it.
To date there have been no appropria-
tions under the Redevelopment Act. The
city is like a man who's been given q
prescription that will cure him, but who
doesn't have the money to pay the drug
gist. It is treading water, while the
people who pay its way move to out
lying areas. Increasingly large areas of
the city cost more to maintain than
they can possibly contribute in taxes.
But a significant ray of sunshine
seems to have appeared in old South
east Washington.
The Southeasterners are redeveloping
themselves, insofar as it's possible for
private citizens to do the job. without
the help of acts, commissions and
shocked members of Congress.
A program to spruce up this basically
sound residential area has been under
way since 1945. This year. the move
ment is bigger and better than ever.
Sparked by the Restoration Committee
of the Southeast Businessmen's Associa-
ton, Southeasters are competing this
spring and summer for prizes in two
classes: Best job of exterior painting.
repair, seeding and fencing, and best job
of exterior alteration-the removal of
unsightly porches from well designed
doorWays. for example, or the installa-
tion of picture windows.
Schools, citizens associations and
other civic groups are cooperating. All
of Southeast. lying within East and
South Capital streets and the Ana
costa River. is included.
The Southeasters don't aim to create
another Georgetown. because a large
part of Georgetown's success is owing
to intangibles that have attracted
Evening star., 1950-06-12

levers in God against the slavemasters
of the Kremlin. He has vigorously de-
nounced those of any faith whose spirit
ual treason betrayed free nations to
communism. He has communicated
Catholics who gave aid and comfort to
communism.
Cardinal Spellman saw fit to intrude
into national politics when he denounced
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Will the Catho-
lie conscience have the moral courage
to denounce McCarthyism? Will the
Catholic church join a courageous and
noble lady In bringing this Nation back
to God?
Thomas E. Mattingly, NJ. ID.
Senator Margaret Chase Smiths "decla-
ration of conscience" leaves me cold.
Voices like hers have been strangely
silent for many years and did not dare
to protest against the encroachmentS
upon the rights of others by an arrogant
oligarchy, privileged few who preached
the gospel of tolerance yet were intoler-
ant of the views of others; would not
tolerate criticism Of their policies yet be-
smirched the characters of the most hon.
orable of men. They went so far as to
direct their fire against the House Un-
American Activities ComSnittee. the
American Legion, and the Daughters of
the American Revolution; they tried to
pack the Supreme Court with political
f1unkies, and attempted to purge mem
bers of Congress who opposed the type
of legislation they proposed.
If Senator Mccarthy succeeds in pre-
venting whitewash of traitorous politi-
cal elements within the Fair Deal frame
work, the methods he uses may be ex-
cused, and the country will be indebted
to him.
HOratiO r.. Nelson.
Evening star., 1950-06-12
The Oder-Neisse Line

Undoubtedly acting on orders from the
Kremlin, the puppet regimes of Poland and East
Germany have now negotiated" an agreement"
which purports to establish permanent bound
ary between them along the line of the Oder
and Neisse Rivers. Their action, however, has
no standing in international law 1t amounts
to sheer fakery and it presumably will be dealt
with accordingly when and If a deflnitive peace
treaty is ever drafted for the Germans.
In a. sense, the new agreement" must be
blamed in part on the lack of vision displayed
by Britain and the United States at the Potsdam
Conference Just after the downfall of Hitler. At
that time-and hindsight has long since amply
demonstrated their hortsightedness-they con-
Cured with the Soviet Union that German
territory up to the Oder-Neisse line should be
placed under the temporary jurisdiction OF the
Poles. But though the Western Powers thus
made a mistake of the first magnitude, they
nevertheless emphasized that the final settle
ment of the territorial and boundary question
would be subject to negotiation in connection
with treaty for Germany.
But the Poles, in the years that have passed
since Potsdam have worked hand In glove with
Russia in clamping down an iron grip on the
area invoved-an area equivalent to fourth
of Germanys former territory. In the process
of doing so, moreover, they have expelled about
10000 Germans, thus virtually annexing and
absorbing the region despite the temporary"
nature of their Jurisdiction. ostensibly although
the Kremlin is really the master of what they
have taken, they thus have compensated them
selves for the land they lost to the Soviet Union
under the Infamous Ribbentrop- -Molotov deal
that started the Second World War.
In agreeing" to all this, East Germanys
puppet Red regime has taken step which, in
addition to being legally invalid, will be regarded
by most Germans as a traitorous sell-out To
that extent therefore, the act will intensity their
anti-Sovet feelings. They look upon the Oder
Neisse line with the deepest bitterness, and they
will never be reconciled to it-a fact that will
have to be taken into full account II ever an
acceptable German treaty is to be written.