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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-11-23
THE NEWS
FROM
Here And There
RMHS Spanking Clean!

The students at Richard Mont
gomery High School as well as the
faculty, are proud of their building
which is being completely painted
and redecorated. A writer in the
school paper Tide" states: "Most
schools don't have the beautiful
buildings, furnishings and the
grounds that our school has -
Rockville Civic Assn
The November meeting of the
: Rockville Civic Association will be
held Friday night, the oath in the
Social Agencies Building, begin
ming at 8 p. m. John MARYLAND,
assistant town engineer, will dis
cuss a proposed town plan for
Rockville. An important report
from the Associations Legislative
committee will also be heard.
HOmemakerS Xmas Party
The annual Christmas Party for
Rockville Homemakers will be held
in the Richard Montgomery Cafe
terra on December 7. Tickets should
be bought before December 5, from
Mrs. Bernard Poss, Mrs. Atlee
Burroughs, or Mrs. Selby Preffitt
The Serving Committee must know
how many members will be present
in advance of the party.
New Beauty Shop Opens
Mrs. Frances johnson is owner,
manager of the newly opened Olney
Beauty Shop, located on the Sec
ond floor of Olney Market. Mrs.
johnson, who is a graduate of
Vogue Beauty Institute of Balti-
more, was formerly associated with
Phyllis Beauty Shop in that city.
She will offer complete beauty
service, specializing in haircutting
and Helene Curtis permanent wav-
ing.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Airline Sued for $500, ,o0O|
In Crash Death Of Two Here

Capital Airlines, Inc. yesterday
was sued in District Court for 9
total of 100000 damages for the
deaths of two persons, who were
fatally injured last December IL
when one of its planes crashed
into the Potomac near Nationa.
Airport.
One suit asked for $3.50, ,0OC
damages for the death of George
Clifford Harrison. At, purchasing
agent of the Bureau of Federal
Supply, who died three days after
the crash.
The other suit asked the same
amount for the death of Neville
Lassiter, 40. traffic and trans
portation specialist with the Bu-
reau of Federal Supply, who was
killed at the time Of the crash.
Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Lassiter
were among four passengers IA
tally injured. The planes pilot
and co-pilot also were killed, and
Is other persons injured.
The suits were brought by the
widows of the two men. They
are Mrs. Florence M. Harrison,
1921 North Sixteenth street, Ar
lington. Va. and Mrs. Elizabeth
r. Lassiter, 2310 South Columbus
street. Arlington. The suits were
filed in their behalf by Attorney
David G. Bress.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Scott Gets Trucking Post

John r. Scott. of Takoma Park
Md, has been appointed executive
secretary of the District Trucking
Association. it has been an
nounced. He succeeds Robert j,
Test, Falls Church. Va. who re-
signed Tuesday to give full time
to duties as chief of publicity OF
the association.
Evening star., 1950-08-03

WISCONSIN Provincial dining room
group in French eroy with Chino-top
buffet, extension dining room toble,
z arm and 4 side choirs with red up
hostered backs and scots. Wos
$7l5.OO ----- now S359.OO
BAKER inIoid mahogany 66" buffet,
hond-podded finish. Wos $4,000,
now $4,000
WILLIAMS KENT solid mahogany
dining room chairs, hand rubbed fin
ish, rose stripe upholstered scots,
z orm and 4 side. Was $4,000,
now S265.oo
KiNDEL hand d-rubbed genuine mohoe-
ony fine bedroom group, serpentine
dresser base, mirror, chest on chest,
tull-sze bed and night stond. Was
$4,000 --now S4A5 90
BAKER inIoid mahogany 7-drower
chest, genuine leather puII-out writ
ing troy, superb hond-podded finish.
Was S427. .5O------now S3l8.OO
DREXEL mahogany HeppIewhite bed
room group. Ioree 62-in, o-drower
double dresser base, mirror, 7-drower
chest, fuII-size bed and night stond.
Was So2O.OO--------now S468.0O
Vanity and twin beds ovoiIobIe at
August sole prices.
KITTINGER teok-wood eroy modern
chest, red upholstered bed, night
stond. Was $5O4.OO--now S26o.OO
TOMLINSON modern blond mohoe-
any double dresser, chest, bed and two
night tobIes. Was $4,000,
now $4,000
OXFORD HOUSE hieh-bock ormIess
chair with loose spring cushion, uphoI-
stored St; in n epy and gold motslesse; @ Sc
KARPEN shaped arm lounge chair,
forest green moteIosse Was $4,000,
now $1,000
REGENT HOUSE custom-mode love
seat with kick pIeot, down cushions,
green fIoro linen upholstery. Wos
$4,000 -----------now S285.OO
KARPEN Larsen button-bock SOTO,
sIopine arms, 2-cushion, kick pIeot,
rose nnoteIosse upholstery. Wos
$495 90 ---.------ now $4,000
DONOVAN SHOPS Chppendole wing
chair, hair spring loose cushion, cov-
cred in chortreuse moteIosse. Was
$4,000 -------- --now SlO5.OO
KARPEN REGENCY channel back
barrel chair, shaped arms, loose eush-
ion. groy moteIosse upholstery. Wos
SZ6o X15X.OO
KENT ENGLISH LAWSON lounge
chair, fringe base, boueIe trim, uphoI-
stored in chortreuse texture noterioI.
Was $l2o.5 .5O--------now sos. 90
DRExEL genuine mahogany 18th Gen.
tury sweI-front bedroom suite, dresser,
chest on chest, vonity bench, fuII-size
bed, leother-top night tobIe and two
mirrors. Was $7O5. .OO-now S487. 90
'Foetory Ftred Prices Excepted
Evening star., 1950-08-03
time to buy is now!

Every piece Of Mayer furniture -. traditional life
time quality by Americas foremost makers -.
August sale priced! Bedroon-Dinne Room
Carpets -Bedding-Uphostey.
Evening star., 1950-06-25

mosquitoes each time. The first
two days nothing happened.
Major Reed was such a hero
in my eyes that I was really dis
appointed with myself, and so
was he," declared Moran.
But a few days after the third
trip. on Christmas Day. Moran
developed yellow fever!
Meanwhile, volunteers who
had stayed long periods in the
mosquito-protected part of the
same building remained free OF
fever.
Moran says Reed told him on
that memorable Christmas Day:
"'Mr. Moran. this is one of the
happiest days Of my life"
DR.. Robert P. Cooke, a "con-
tract doctor" with the Army,
was one of the volunteers for
the infected bedding" test.
Now living in retirement on
q farm at Whistle Creek, Va.
DR.. Cooke told the Associated
Press:
1--WE figured to be dead or we'll
within six or eight days after
we started the tests. No, I
wasn't particularly scared. :"
Moran. Cooke and James L.
Hanberry Of Orangeburg. S. c.,
are the only three known sur
vivors among the original
American volunteers.
Hanberry participated in the
infected bedding" test and later
volunteered to be bitten. He
contracted a severe case of
yellow fever.
OF the Is more volunteers.
IA got fever either from mos
quito bites or from infected
blood or syrum injected into
their bodies. None died.
DR.. Philip Hench of the Mayo
Clinic. Rochester. Mimi. who
has contributed much to the
clarif1cation of the Walter Reed
epic, said at a memorial meet
ing in honor Of Reed and the
others:
I'm these days. when mans
inhumanity to man is still so
pathetically apparent. it is well
for us to note the example of
these men who banded together
for high adventure, not to kill
or even die for one country
but to die If need be for their
fellow men of all countries. >"
Distributed by the Associated Press. }
Evening star., 1950-06-25

size that word demonstrate
that old DR.. Finlay had been
right"
Reed had three associates on
the yellow fever board
Drs. Jesse Lazear, James Carroll
and Aristides Agramonte, the
latter Cuban by birth.
After some fruitless tests on
another slant, the board decided
to test the theory of DR.. Finlay.
That was In August.
DIR. Carroll was the first hero
Of the research. He contracted
an almostfatal case of fever
after twice allowing himself to
be bitten by mosquitoes which
had fed on yellow fever victims.
DR.. Lazear also got sick-and
died.
Official records say DR.. Lazear
was accidentally bitten. but
Gen. Kean says Reed and the
others always believed he pur-
posely exposed himself.
Reed had been recalled to
Washington on other work and
missed these first tests. but on
his return he made a brilliant
deduction based on notes left
behind by DR.. Lazear.
The deduction was that a
mosquito can become infected
only if it bites a yellow fever
victim during the first three
days of his illness. And that
it requires at least IL days for
the disease to develop in the
insects body.
Reed and his colleagues
rushed together a report and
presented it to q medical meet
ing back in the States. Skep-
ticism greeted the reports. And
so in the late fall they set up
an experiment designed to show
that the mosquito-and the
mosquito alone-was the viii
lain. -s.vt5..A rs d"
They established an isolated
camp where there was no
chance of infection from pa
tients already sick with fever.
Volunteers were called for.
("They were to get 5000 if they
contracted fever, 500 If they
didn't" recalls Gen. Kean.
Almost a score of American
volunteers came forward, and
some Spaniards.
One Of the Americans, John
J. Moran. has never accepted a
penny for his part in the re-
Evening star., 1950-06-25

is said to be encountered at 30
the problem has come to the fore
again.
The committee found various
groups and organizations making
unco-ordinated attempts to solve
some of the problems. The COM
mittee said:
1--WE agree with the statement
Of the New York State Joint Leg
islative Committee on Problems of
the Aging that there is need for
first establishing a broad public
policy which will define Govern
ment's obligations to its elders.
Only in this way can the objective
of an old-age program be cor
rectly charted and policy of action
prescribed
Highlights of Report
AS to what the Government Is
obligations are, the committee did
not 60 beyond the statement that
"the Federal Government should
establish a clearing house for
studies of and programs for the
aging population, with broad au-
thority for research and promo
ton In this field"
The committee divided its re-
port into sections. Here are some
Of them, with some of their high
lights:
Employment-In 1870, 80 out of
every 100 males 65 and over were
gainfully employed: today the
number is between'45 and so. Re
search is needed to determine the
extent to which the declining
strength and speed of movement
may be offset by better Judgment,
fewer accidents. less absenteeism
and greater stability.
Management and labor should
be encouraged to seek methods of
employing more older persons, to
consider shifting older workers to
jobs in line with their capacities.
creating part time employment
and reducing wages as individual
productivity declines rather than
dismisSing the worker.
Support for Retired Older
People-An FSA estimate a year
ago put at only 80 per cent the
persons IS and over who had any
income from employment. Others
had income from social insurance
and private retirement programs
or were dependent on relatives
and friends. There was no esti-
mate of the proportion with saw
ings or Of the amount of savings.
Because families are smaller
Evening star., 1950-06-25
Uncle Sam Try His Hand Soluing Problems of Old Age

rival at the deadly age Of IS means
man is unemployable.
He cited that research had
shown that mental capabilities rise
sharply from 20 to 40, then rise
more slowly. The peak is reached
at so. Then comes q decline, but
such slow one that at 80 a mans
mental capacity is equal to that OF
man of IS.
Obviously such a conference
should have the benefit of the
advice of outstanding persons who
have passed the 65-year mark and
who have continued to do i'm
portant work. Bernard Baruch,
for example, has been invited. He
is 70. He is said to have replied
that he will come If he has the
time to attend all the meetings.
Others will be. invited. A list
of those who would be exemplars
of achievements undeterred by
age and who could add greatly to
the interest in the conference
might include these:
Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson
Moses - Grandma Moses - who
started her career as an artist at
rs and is now 80: Fritz Kreisler,
the violinist, IS; Albert Einstein,
II: Carl Sandburg, the writer, 70;
John Dewey, philosopher and
teacher. 90: Charles F. Kettering.
automobile pioneer. 73; Represent
ative SABBATH, Democrat, Of
Illinois, 81.
Also. Gen. George c. Marshall,
SO, who shouldered a new job as
head of the Red Cross last year;
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. 10;
Ethel Barrymore. 70; Maude Ad-
ans, n, who retired from a dis
tinguished stage career but start
ed new career in teaching in re-
cent years.
From the field of baseball might
be cited Connie Mack of the Phil
adelphia Athletics. 81. and Wash
ington's Clark Griffith, 80.
Reasons for Concern
There have always been old
people. Therefore one may ask,
Why this concern now? There
are two answers:
1. There are more elderly peo-
pie now than there used to be
and their proportion to the total
population is larger.
Q. The change In our social
structure caused by a shift from
a rural, agricultural economy to
an urban, industrial economy has
Evening star., 1950-06-25

brought to the elderly many prob
lens that did not exist before.
Families have grown smaller
and the abatement of infectious
diseases has added 20 years to
the average life expectancy.
In 1900 there were 5000 900
persons 65 or older. Today 1t is
estimated that there are more
than II million persons in that
age bracket.
In 1850. where society was pre-
dominantly rural. one of every 80
Americans was over IS. BY 1900
the shift from a rural to arfurban
economy was well advanced and
one of every Is was over IS. To-
day it is estimated that the pro-
portion is one to 13.
Back in 1850, when it took three
persons to grow food for them
selves and one other, old people
had a secure place in the econ
omy. Today one can grow enough
to feed himself five others.
The rural areas do not need the
proportionately large population
they formerly had.
BY 1900 the urban scene still
had many of the characteristics of
the rural one. Families still were
large. homes of eight to 10 rooms
were not unusual. rooms were
large and perhaps the largest was
the dining room where eight to
10 persons might sit down for
dinner.
The differences between then
and now can readily be realized
by thinking of some Of the terms
we use:
Efficiency apartment; dinette,
which succeeded the dining room,
was followed by the breakfast
nook" which in turn Is giving way
to the card table In the living
room; kitchenette, now replaced
Evening star., 1950-06-25

ana more widely dispersed, con-
tributions from relatives will con-
tinue to decline as the number Of
years an older person needs sup
port increases. Also, the same fac
tors that contribute to the flnan-
cial insecurity of the older people
place young people under greater
necessity of saving for their own
later years.
Retirement benefits. whether
public or private, seldom provide
full support.
Many private retirement plans
require a worker to retire at 65
regardless Of his ability to con-
tinue on the job. Many require
a specific number OF years of
employment to establish eligibil-
ity to retire. and for this reason
many companies decline to hire
workers too near the retirement
age.
One effect Of all these retire
ment programs Is to label the
person 65 as unemployable.
Despite the fact that some men
are old at 40 and others are young
at 70, the retire-at-65 rule makes
that age synonymous with retired,
old, and sometimes useless.
Other Angles
Family Trends and Living Ar
rangements-As more people live
beyond middle age the number Of
families increases and the aver
age size decreases. Children
leave to set up their ewn homes.
Already majority Of the families
in which the husband is over SIS
and the wife over As has no per-
son under As in the family.
AS the number of three genera
ton families is increasing the
number of three generation
households is decreasing. A seri-
Gus problem for housing the fam
lilies of older persons is apparent.
One suggestion is that the Hous-
ing Act Of 1887 be amended to
permit Federal aid to public hous-
ing projects which include units
for the elderly who are living
alone.
Health - The major problems
that age presents TO medicine and
public health are control of
chronic diseases. research In the
aging process. developing and
teaching rules for living with the
informities and illnesses of old
age. and devising programs for
the care Of Ill and infirm old
people.
Evening star., 1950-06-25
BY Froncis P. Douglas

You can't keep q person from
growing old but you can help
him solve some Of the problems
that age brings.
This Is the idea behind a Con-
ference on Aging scheduled ir
Washington August IL, II, and Is
1t has been called by Federal
iSecurity Administrator Oscar r
Ewing at the request of President
Truman.
Several hundred persons are ex-
Ipected to attend the conference
and consider what can be done to
help older people meet the prob
lens that come with age.
Mr.. Ewing described the aim as
helping the average American
achieve his dream of growing old
gracefully, with security, con-
Ttentment and dignity" He added
that the average man. as he grows
old, also wants to continue as an
independent contributing member
of his community.
Prominent Examples
The conference is not expected
to produce any legislative pro-
gram, the fruit of so many Wash
ington meetings. It is expected to
explore and define the problems of
the aging and to outline some
thing which might be done about
them.
Mr.. Ewing, in announcing the
conference, stressed that while
there may be problems in the ad-
vancing age of our population,
that development itself is not a
problem"
"All of us. barring misfortune. "
he said, will be old people ourselves
sooner or later. We do not con-
slider ourselves problems now and
we should not have to consider
ourselves problems in our later
years"
Those who will attend the con-
ference will come from the fields
of education. religion, labor,
health. agriculture. industry. in
surance, public welfare, recrea-
ton and community planning.
One of those invited is DR..
Martin Gumpert, So, noted in
geriatrics. the field of medicine
concerned with old people. Re-
Gently he was the subject of a
New Yorker magazine profile. In
that a statement. by him was
quoted which will give comfort
Ito those who do. not believe ar
Evening star., 1950-06-25

search. Now living in Havana,
he told the Associated Press
recently:
II felt it was q chance to do
some good in this life. Also I
didn't want them writing on my
tombstone: Here lies John
Moran. who died for $780,"
Moran, and his roommate.
John r. Kissinger, a Medical
Corps man, were the first to
volunteer.
Kissinger was the first to be-
come i'll. He let infected mos
quitos bite him on the arm.
Reed said later of Kissinger,
I'm my opinion this exhibition
of moral courage has never
been surpassed in the annals
of the Army of the United
States"
Some other volunteers were
also infected thus.
But the doctors wanted to try
two other things.
They built two special build
ings.
One was designed to test the
common theory that yellow
fever could be contracted from
"fomites"-the soiled bedding
and clothing of yellow fever vic
tins.
The small, one-room, poorly
ventilated building was heated
with a coal stove to tempera-
lures up to 100 degrees. but it
was completely screened.
Volunteers Still Alive
Into that chamber went a
number of volunteers. For 21
nights they slept on filthy and
blood stained sheets. They
covered their pillows with towels
soiled with the blood and vomit
of fever victims. At times the
stencil was enough to drive
them out, but always they re-
turned.
Not one contracted yellow
fever.
The second building was i'm
maculate, well ventilated but
divided into two parts, one
screened, the other open to mos
quitos.
First to be exposed in the
mosquito" side of the room was
Moran. Fresh from a bath and
clad only in a night shirt, he
went into the room on three diff
ferent days. got bitten by Is
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sometimes by the still smaller
Pullman Kitchen" studio couch
which makes a bedroom of thu
living room and which followed
the in-a-door bed and which i!
being followed by what is a chail
by day but. unlimbered, a bed BY
night: utility room, the successor
to the basement with its furnact
and laundry.
Obviously, couple and theil
children living in homes to which
these terms apply have no space
for the parents of one of the
couple. The elderly people, more
over. would not want to sandwich
themselves into the lives of theil
children and grandchildren in
this way.
Problems Studied
The Federal Security Agency
has had a Committee on Aging
working for two years. exploring
the problems of the older people
and inquiring how these problems
are being met. 1t made a prelimi-
nary report several months ago
which led to the calling of the
forthcoming conference.
This report called attention to
the changes in the economy and
in the proportion of older people
the total population. 1t pointed
out that during the depression
years of the 1930s the cumulative
effect Of these changes became
visible when youth had q hard
time getting jobs and older work
ers had hard time keeping them.
In the war years, when older
workers were sought after for war
production, attention to the prob
lem Of age was diverted. But now.
when a man over IS has difficulty
In finding q john some Cali
fornia communities this difnculty
Evening star., 1950-06-25

bridge the almost bottomless
cavern between the reactionary
Conservatives and the Apristas,
whose dynamic leader was Victor
Raul Haya de la Tore. The
Apristas, or the Partido del
Pueblo. was a conglomeration OF
leftist intellectuals, large elements
fof the white collar and laboring
classes in the cities and the cholos
the mestizos and Indian masses.
Bustamante's administration ac-
tually was the first in which the
ApriStas had officially taken their
place in the national congress and
in the government on an equal
footing with other political groups.
In fact they held majority of the
seats in the lower house of the
Legislature, the Chamber of Depu-
ties, but not in the Senate. The
Conservatives and other Right
lists still controlled the upper
house. The Apristas were even
given three important posts in the
cabinet. including the ministry of
finance.
Political Murders
But Bustamantes task proved
hopeless. There were to be no
compromises between the oppos-
ing groups. Parliamentary amen
tiles were observed for the first
few months. but soon the lines
were rigidly drawn. Neither
party would agree to anything
proposed by the other. Each tried
to pressure the President into ac-
cepting its policies. Each de-
manded that he part company
with the other. Eventually Haya
de la Tore pulled his representa-
tives out of the cabinet. Then the
Conservatives walked out of Con-
gress. The result was a legisla-
tive stalemate.
Finally violence broke out be-
tween Conservatives and Apristas.
Several political murders served to
fan hostilities. Deserted by both
important political parties the
President turned in desperation to
the military to help preserve order.
AS last resort he formed a mill
tary cabinet. But the military
failed him, if they did not de-
liberately betray his trust. Headed
by Gen. Odria and backed by the
Conservatives they took over, and
Bustamante the duly elected Pres
ident, was rushed out of the coun-
try. Apristas were rounded up
and imprisoned wholesale.
Haya de la Tore succeeded in
taking refuge in the Colombian
Embassy in Lima, where he still
Is. after nearly two years. The
Junta has steadfastly refused to
grant him safe conduct out of the
country. in keeping with the long
established Latin American treat
ment of deposed politicians. in
sisting that Haya is not a politi-
clan but a common criminal.
Odria finally agreed, after strong
urging by neighboring govern
ments, to submit the case to the
World Court at the Hague. but no
decision has yet been handed
down.
Whatever else may be said Of
Haya de Ia Tore. he has been one
of the most outspoken opponents
of communism in this hemi-
sphere. He has constantly fought
the influence of such pro-Soviet
labor leaders as Vicente Lom-
bardo Toledano of Mexico. In
recent years he even manifested a
liberal attitude toward foreign
capital, and particularly United
States private investments in
Peru. That is more than many Of
the old Conservatives have done.