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Evening star., 1950-03-26
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

the picture said the operator. rs that
SOP inquired the sitter. looking quite
grieved over the information. If I'd ha'
knowed that I'd ha' wore somethin' else.
I thought it 'ud take just like it is But
color photography has not yet been per-
fected,'" the photographer apologized.
Other sitters were no less hard to crafty.
Yet each wanted to be portrayed by the
camera and none went away without
having been taken" The operators
comment was: "Whatever's in people
comes out in them"
The Star on March 26, 1900, COM
mented editorially: "A report has gained
currency of late that the
Holt-Cents Treasury Department is
Coming? contemplating the re-
newed issue of the half
cent piece, discontinued as part of the
metal money output about SO years ago.
This project is in response to a demand
by both the offerers and the purchasers
OF the bargains which form so large a
part of the retail trade in large cities at
present. So keen is competition in some
lines that it is found desirable to tempt
the buyer with the fraction of a cent in
the price, and it is felt that with suit
able coin for such purposes trade would
be stimulated " and the poor would
be enabled to effect a saving of COM
parative consequence to them. For
many years the disposition in the Far
West especially on the Pacific Coast,
has been to force the minor coins out
of circulation and to establish the To-
cent piece as the minimum of change.
This operated harshly upon the poor.
and OF late the penny has been brought
back into use and is now circulating in
increased volume. 1t would be in line
with this reaction for the Government
to resume the half-cent coinage and to
give the humble buyer every fraction of
advantage afforded by the rivalry of the
retail dealers"
Charles D. Kellogg and his bird carni-
val were publicized in The Star for March
.....- .. 81, 1900. An extern
Kellogg sive article informed
The Bird Man readers that bene-
fit for the National
Junior Republic at Annapolis Junction,
Md. had been arranged to take place at
the Columbia Theater and that faith
fully colored stereoptican views of feath-
cred SongSterS would be employed to IL
lustrate the lecture to be given by Mr..
Kellogg, interspersed as it would be by
warbling and whistling in harmony with
nature. The warbler and whistler had
appeared before the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holstein.
the Duke of Portland, Lord Edward Spen-
Ger Churchill and other distinguished
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Hospital Center Delay

In behalf of the Garfield Memorial
Hospital we wish to take this opportu-
nifty to express our sincere appreciation
for the splendid editorial which ap-
peared in The Evening Star on March
18 in connection with the Observatory
site for the new hospital center.
The action taken by the House Armed
Services Committee was naturally keen
disappointment to all of us who have
been connected with, this undertaking.
However, we were pleased to observe the
prompt action on your part in so intelli-
gently pointing out the deleterious effect
that this delay would have on the entire
project. In view of the time, energy and
Federal monies which have already been
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Let the People Decide

The theory behind the Commissioners pro-
posal for an extralegal referendum on daylight
saving is the sound one that the people of the
District should determine for themselves whether
or not to change their clocks again this spring.
The same principle underlieS the Senate bill
to give the Commissioners permanent authority
to proclaim daylight saving so long as the resi-
dents of Washington want it. This is a matter
that concerns only the citizens of this area 1t is
absurd. therefore, for Congress year after year
to debate whether the hot-weather time is good
or bad for the farmers or the factory workers or
some other class of constituents of the national
legislators.
bill to provide permanent local authority
to institute daylight saving here has been ap-
proved by the Senate District Committee But
bill on the House side would authorize adoption
of the plan for this year only. Representative
Tauriello of New York undoubtedly expressed the
evaporation of many fellow legislators when
he criticized the waste of time in passing day.
light saving bill for Washington every year.
Since questions invariably are raised in Congress
as to the ctys real desires in this matter, it is
a good idea to sound out public opinion again,
either through hearings or poll of some sort.
The difficulty of conducting fair poll in a city
which lacks voting machinery or experience is
obvious. 1t is not clear as yet what precautions
will or can be taken to insure true Sampling
of prevailing opinion. Whatever the outcome
of the voting however the need will still remain
for permanent authority on the part of the
Commissioners to institute abolish daylight
saving in accordance with public demands. Con-
greSS should wash it's hands of the problem for
good by enacting the bill now before the Senate
Evening star., 1950-03-26
A pSeudonyn1 is permissible only
1Ohen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Driter. Please be briet.
etters to The Star

spent in the development of plans and
specifications. especially designed for a
hospital structure that is suited and
adapted to the Naval Observatory site,
it would seem to be unwise and un-
economical to make a change at this
time. In addition, it, of course means a
further delay in providing hospital ia
cilities that meet acceptable standards
for the care of the sick which have long
been sorely needed.
Congratulations to The Evening Star
which has ever championed the causes
and principles that are of benefit to the
interest and welfare of the community.
William r. Castle,
President of the Board.
Howard d. Parker, MD,
President of the Medical Staff.
L. G. SCHNEIDER.
Administrator.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

be bowl of cherries or bed of roses Harpers
Weekly of 1857 is merely one piece of great
mass of evidence that can be cited to show that
many a generation before us suffered a vast
complex of troubles of which no man could see
the end. Yet, as General Eisenhower has said,
our human society-up to now, at least-has
managed to survive and even to improve upon
itself, especially in material sense. The H
bomb, If it is ever produced and used, conceiv
ably may put an end to everything some day
Meanwhile, though, without being Pollyannas
we have to be reasonably optimistic and affirma-
tive in our faith and spirit if existence is to be
toerabe. Worry, and nothing else but worry, is
much too sterile to get any of us anywhere
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Spires Of the Spirit

The first two thirds of this phrase
seems at first rather unlikely site on
which to erect an altar to the Eternal.
Eating and drinking are the symbols of
the most ordinary routines of life. In
every age and every land they stand for
those commonplace processes and prac-
tices which make all mankind one. The
call to dine is the most ubiquitous sum-
mons under all skies. Such an invita-
ton, backed by food enough to appease
the gnaWing pangs of hunger, would be
the sweetest sound that half the human
race could possibly hear in this day
when surfeited America knows not how
to dispose of her surplus stocks. Some
day. perhaps, we will be wise enough
and brotherly enough to work out a
juster system in which the shared plenty
of the good earth shall be the answer
to our now partly mocking petition,
Give us this day our daily bread" When
that glad day comes, sitting down to
ample feasts, we will not have to forbid
our imagination to picture untold hum
cry millions, with their pinched faces
and outstretched, pleading hands.
X
Eating and drinking being the one
thing every human being must do or
die is shorthand for the multitudinous
burdens, duties and drudgeries which are
an inescapable part of the journey across
the isthmus of life from the cradle to
the grave.
Eating and drinking suggest the end
less, inevitable compulsions of life which
are the warp and woof of the common
task and the trivial round. AS a physical
animal, man must eat and drink. AS
q worshiping animal, he must find the
bread of life, which means God.
Man sees now more than ever that
unless some power from the beyond
grips him and sustains him in his
present tragic world situation there is
nothing ahead but chaos and disaster.
An awareness of the Divine is by far
the best and most important thing that
can ever happen to mortal in this
world. For a man to go on working. year
Evening star., 1950-03-26
There's Always Been Trouble

In the course of his recent address at Colurl-
ba University General misunderstanding as
president of the institution-gave voice to
quotation that deserves some attention. Slightly
abridged, the quotation is this: ut is a gloomy
moment in history. Not for many years. not in
the lifetime of most men who read this paper
has there been SO much grave and deep appre-
hension . In France the political cauldrOn
seethes and bubbles with uncertainty; Russia
hangs as usual cloud dark and silent upon
the horizon of Europe; while all the energies,
resources and influences of the British Empire
are sorely tried and are yet to be tried more
sorely Of our own troubles no man can
see the end"
When were these words written? Yesterday?
The day before? Last week? A month ago?
Not at all. Although they are very opposite to
our own time, they appeared, as General Elsen-
hover pointed out, in Harpers Weekly, Saturday,
october TO- 1857. Old as they are, however, they
have something to say to us. In their own way,
they serve as reminder of the fact that there
have been few eras in the life of the world when
men did not have lot of things to worry about
and brood over. OF course, what with the A
bomb and the prospective H-bomb and the
Kremlin and the cold war our lot may seem
particularly doom-laden, but If they could speak
to us, many of our forebears undoubtedly would
are no worse off than they were when they were
here, that in numerous respects we are much
better off, that we are likely to live out our allot-
ment of years, that our children and our chill
dren's children probably will do the same, and
that the chances are that the human race will
keep rolling on from generation to generation
sometimes up and sometimes down, never per-
fectly happy and never altogether burdened with
woe, but just sort of bundle of nerves and
mixed feelings.
After all, it is not in the nature of life to
Evening star., 1950-03-26

ing in their name Illegally abrogates the
rights of an individual through the pow
er of his office.
In country such as ours, it is to our
advantage to have those men who con-
stantly urged forward by the prick of
honesty and idealism, raise their voices
in condemnation of existing evil Sum-
mary dismissal is no honorable answer:
neither is unsubstanJiated denial of
charges.
William r. Page.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

persons. He had closed tour of Europe
by entertaining 10000 people at the Crys-
tai Palace, London.
The members of the Shakespeare Club
were guests of Miss Miles at the West
minister, and The
Shakespeare Club Star, on March %,
Meeting 1900, gave full re-
port of the program
of the evening E. B. Hay, president,
opened the proceedings Warren Young
recited Edward Markham's "Hindered
Guest; w. Spencer Armstrong inter-
preted "The Rationalistic Chicken:
Anita Schade rendered Kiplings Battle
Hymn and DR.. Thomas j. Jones offered
an impression of Bridget and the Den
tist'
The death of DR.. Francis Sinclair
Barbarin, curator of the Corcoran Gal
lery Of Art, was an
Deoth OF nounced in The Star
Dr.. Borborin for March 20, 1900. He
was 81 years of age,
native OF Newport, r. l.. and a dentist
by profession. His taste in painting and
sculpture was conservative, but construc-
tive. He arranged the exhibits of the
gallery in such manner as to make his
services invaluable THE magnitude of
the work." declared The Star, "can
hardly be appreciated by one not famil-
lar with the collection"
On March 20, 1900, The Star society
column was headed by an account of
, the wedding of
Golbreoth Webster Virgie McLain
Wedding Galbreath and
Ben Temple Web
ster. The ceremony took place at the
home of the bride. 1876 c street South
east Rev. DR.. Byron Sunderland of the
First Presbyterian Church officiated.
THE bride came in with her father.
She wore white silk, trimmed daintily
with lace, and carried bride roses. She
was attended by little Elizabeth Bum
of Peoria, ILL.,, as flower girl, and by
Miss Van Anglen of New Brunswick,
N. j.. who wore blue crepe and carried
red roses. The best man was Alexander
M. Bum" Then followed long list of
guests attending the wedding, including
Mrs. j. Erskine Webster of Fredonia,
N. Y, mother OF the bridegroom. Mr..
Webster became a leading business
man in the District of Columbia. He
was a member of the firm of Boss &
Phelps. realtors. for 80 years, served as
president of the Washington Board of
Trade and was active in the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church. His wife, a widow
now for more than decade, still carries
on his interest in religious work in his
memory.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

Eating, Drinking and God s Se~: "
Pastor, Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain
United States Senate.

God at the table will never see Him in
the temple. No wonder the most sacred
rites of Judaism and Christianity, and
even other religions, proclaim Gods
nearness in such ordinary acts as eat
ing and drinking. Back in the most
crucial days of Hebrew history. when
their very destiny as a people was in
jeopardy, the men of Israel who went
up into the mount were vouchsafed a
vision. The record is: They saw God,
and did eat and drink" They saw God
and then turning to a common meal
found it gilded with glory it had never
known.
And when the great Galilean came
walking under the blue sky of Palestine
uttering words about the Father God
which still are heard above the shouting
of dictators and the warning noises of
these frenZied times, it was said He
came eating and drinking" And in the
moment Of His clearest vision, confident
that evils monstrous temporary triumph
would be it's ultimate defeat, He gave
His followers bread and wine as an en-
during memorial, and said, "Take-eat
drink" And so it comes to pass that
the most sacred sacrament of all Chris
tendon has written upon it, Eating
and Drinking and God.''
Maltbie Babcock, seeing more than
bread in waving grain, erected an altar
even by dusty mill, as he sang:
Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
And back of the flour is the mill,
And back of the mill is the wheat and
the shower.
The sun and the Fathers will"
Years ago, a famous surgeon had
been invited to operate before a dis
tinguished group of fellow surgeons
Afterward. some one asked him how he
could work with such crowd around
him. We'll" he said, "it was like this:
There are just three people in the thea
ter when I operate-the patient and
myself" Three" said the friend. "but
that is only two. Who is the other?"
And the surgeon answered. God"
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Praise for Norton Story

1t was indeed a pleasure to read the
article about Congressman Mary T. Nor
ton by Mary McGrory that you printed
in The Evening Star for March IT,
AS Mrs. Norton's niece, I have been
reading articles about her for many
years, and I consider this to be one of
the very best have ever seen. Miss
McGrory did superb job and should be
congratulated on it.
Jeanne McDOnagh.
Evening star., 1950-03-05
JOSEPH HEPPNER

DEAR MR. HAYES As elevision prob
habits TV What do think
of them?
feel qualified declare that the greatest
today does from foreign powers abomanagment
disputes education Nothing threatens the American family
than the primitive habits of the hoes swarming
household that televsion set
only hope for teevison will
organized fashion defense Post the following rules your
house if rule violated you
personal invitation But invitation does
include blanche for invite all friends along
Once there be positive that haven't usped the
member of the family If such seat offered demur at least
Make you're drain the famlys refrigerator
liquor supply Eat before you bring refreshments
particularly dislike the channel your host has
you may only suggest another program.
No permitted about the position of the
antenna light the the focusing of the
Remember this televsion Do make the entertain
the with talk of clever business deals
neighborhood gossip If that's what outside
speak the demoazng effect Of teevison upon the
social structure either before during after teecast
Members of the family considered to be only those persons
If rules fail only of action is left go your
neighbor's house before he can get to yours.
GETTING ENGAGED? Read sUeek's contribution by
Marguerite Bentley author Wedng Etiquette Complete"
on engagemaent etiquette.
Evening star., 1950-03-05
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tenn of electing supervisors, rural
districts may find themselves with
no voice in government-having
a supervisor who does not have
the support or sanction of his
neighbors.
They also find danger in allow
ing full appointive powers to the
county administrator, believing,
rather, that the board should ex-
ercise these powers on the advice
of the administrator.
1t is not inconceivable, they say.
that the entire government could
be damaged by an arbitrary ad-
ministrator who. under the man
ager plan would ha"e to - =
charged by the board in order to
make changes in depal umenU ,Jcr-
sonnel that he did not approve.
Other than these two major
differences, which certainly will
be discussed fully during the COM
ing campaign, proponents of both
plans find themselves in hearty
agreement on the principal issue:
A real need for government re.
form in Fairfax County.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Pacific AirIift Huge Task

ment with the following COM
mercial carriers:
Pam American, Northwest,
United, Transocean. Seaboard and
Western, Flying Tigers, Overseas
National, TWA. Alaskan Airlines
and Sabena Airlines "a Belgian
commercial line).
MATS uses three types of planes
all leaving Fairfield -Suisun with
minimum loads on the long haul
to Hawaii and building up in the
later and shorter hops.
A C-54 Skymaster starts out
with 5000 pounds of cargo or IS
passengers. A C-74 Globemaster
takes of with $4,000 pounds Of
cargo or so passengers, A C-97A
Stratofreighter with 81 900 pounds
OF freight or SO passengers.
Each carries a crew of five-the
pilot, co-pilot. navigator. radio op-
orator and engineer. OF course,
that swells a bit sometimes.
When they land at Hawaii, they
are under the jurisdiction and are
the responsibility of MATS Pa
|cif1c Divtsior1-headed by Rear Ad-
miral William G. Tomlinson.
MATS is a globe circling outfit.
The Pacific and European divi-
sions actually meet at Kharan.
Saudi Arabia.
The Army has a priority system
for shipping priority one, two,
three, four, etc. Practically all the
materiel and men aboard the air
lift planes are priority one.
But none is treated any bet
ter than the wounded flown back
from Korea.
Distributed bv the Associated press.)
Evening star., 1950-09-10

Split were picked I'D by Allied
naval vessels and carried to
Bari, whence they were sent by
rail to camp for reprocessing
and transshipment to q camp at
Suez in Egypt.
Studied Currents
This Yugoslav inflow into
Italy. 10000 persons in all, Of
whom 5000 were in camp at one
time. was one Of the widest spy
roads ever opened through or
behind q fighting army. The
refugees were pledged to stay in
the camps and not to contact
Italians. Instead dozens of them
escaped from the underpoliced
trains as they crossed Italy and
at once began working on the
native population. with results
that are still felt today. German
spies. of course, came in. too.
generally disguised as royalist
sympathizers seeking protection
from their Communist neigh
bors. Almost no one had proper
papers. Names were yards long
and unwritable for Americans or
British.
Nevertheless British field
police caught and sent back
many commissars and captured
and dealt with several German
spies. Two Of the trapped Ger
mans said they had been work.
ing on air and sea currents in
South Russia as late as 1888.
Whether they were German or
Russian agents in 1888 was
anybody's guess. Likewise for
1914. However there was no
doubt they knew the Caspian.
It should be borne in mind
they placed more value on air
currents from the south than
from the west. Furthermore,
the directions apply to late
summer and early autumn only.
For instance in winter the wind
around Baku comes powerfully
from the north, even in mid
Caspian. z
Is the idea practical as of to-
day? Can hundreds of thou
sands Of small balloons be
launched from ships in the
Arabian Sea or from larger
balloons or planes near the
Russian border and sent drift
Ing down properly timed to
shower flames on dry crops or
moist oil fields?
Nuisance Value?
The balloons recently used
to carry propaganda messages
into Upper Silesia were only
foot in diameter. Evidently
something larger than that
would be needed for a small
payload Of inflammables. But
not much larger.
If enemy planes succeeded in
shooting them down, would
they not still have considerable
nuisance value?
What Of the psychological
factor if day after day the sky
were filled, locustlike. with
these plaques of tiny flreships?
Western Europe, with no oil
fields. stone houses and COM
paratively wet terrain, suffered
heavily from a fairly moderate
experiment with incendiaries.
What of dry Russia, with
wooden houses. thousands of
miles of dry grain and hun
dreds of acres of oil fields?
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China and Burma nearly 10 years
ago.
One of his right hand men here,
1t. Col. William w. Jones, who
commands the 1704th Army
Transport Group, is another vet
eran flyer. Col. Jones was in at
the start Of the project Beetle"
which brought about the re-estab-
fishing of Alaskan bases. He has
been commanding officer of the
transport group since May of last
year. During the war, he few B-24
bombers in the European theater.
Col. Jones says the Pacific air
lift is 80 times more difficult from
the distance-time standpoint than
the famed lift to Berlin-operation
"vittles." First place in point of
distance went to the lift operated
to China in World War II. How
ever. that operation was not near
ly the size of the present air lift.
Airlines Help
The colonel, a native OF Dublin,
Tex, said the initial problems en-
countered by air lift officers after
the Korean outbreak were Short
ages of personnel, equipment and
ground handling implements.
However. the MATS planes soon
were aided by the commercial
craft. Seven days after the out
break of hostilities the first COM
mercial plane was winging It's way
to Tokyo.
Presently 58 commercial planes
are making the trans Pacific
flights. They were provided
through contracts by the Govern