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Evening star., 1950-06-18
Equity Lesson

Some of these Washington newspapers
that are so eager to print real estate
propaganda" for ending rent control
should be given lesson in simple equity.
Here Is an actual case in point:
happen to know an apartment house
owner whose gross receipts from SO
apartments amount to about $45. 900 an
nually. The expense of operation, in
cluding taxes and upkeep in this case.
does not exceed $4,000 q year. This
leaves a net return-on an original cost
Of 100000. Is years ago--of $40, 900. or
10 per cent annually. which certainly Is
not losing" proposition. And yet this
same landlord has let 1t become known
that If rent control should end In the
District on June 80. an increase of about
Is per cent In the present monthly rent
ais may be expected by his tenants who
have already had an increase of 10 per
cent imposed on them two years ago.
At least four or FIVE Of the tenants in
this case are retired Federal employees,
whose retirement pay. as a matter Of
fact, does not warrant the amount Of rent
they are now paying at its present un-
reasonable and arbitrarily increased level.
How could equity" decree that in the
absence of governmental control after
June 80 categorical increase of IS per
cent In apartment house rentals should
be imposed under these circumstances?
d. A. Snyder.
Evening star., 1950-06-18

devotional song. called Lets Go to
Church on Sunday"
When q man. any man, no matter
what his burdens and duties, lists the
stresses and strains Of the week that
sap his strength, mental and physical,
and announces that on Sunday he needs
sleep and sunshine and exercise, and
then INDUCES in pious talk about the
necessity for filling his lungs with Gods
breath and revelling in Gods out-of-
doors with the trees and brooks as his
altar. he usually is rationalizing for his
neglect of public worship. With all
his heart he knows that he is just
begging the question. With all his ex-
cuses he cannot deny that he is robbing
himself of something vital and that
the subtle atmosphere Of a company OF
united worshippers. all seeking the same
end and sharing common hour of wor-
ship. just does something to those who
do not forsake the assembling Of them
selves together.
Certainly, 1t does something to that
fragile little plant called reverence, which
needs watering at least once o week.
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

A telegram from st. Louis, printed in
The Star of June 16, 1900, explained:
There being no inn
Stfeeteor mediate prospect of
Strike in St. Louis an honorable settle
ment of the street
railway strike, the situation has be-
come more strained than ever. The
transit officials say that as far as they
are concerned the strike is over, while
the men, backed by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, declare they will fight
to the bitter end. Dynamite was
used more freely yesterday than on
any day since the strike was inaugu-
rated. In addition to the wrecking of
car on the Page avenue division. four
others were wrecked last night In vari-
GUS parts of the city, but no one was
seriously injured. A car on the Baden
division had its trucks shattered, the
floor ripped up and torn out"
in China was going full blast, and Amer
ican Marines were an
Morines nounced to have been in
In chino action against q Chinese
army near Tien Tsin. The
Star of June %, 1900, said the United
States forces were cooperating with 400
Russians, but they could not break
through the line" of the rebels. Mai.
Littleton w. T. Waller, who had COM
manded the Marines at Santiago In
Cuba, was in charge Of operations Con-
ditions were much more serious than
folks at home realized.
The Star for June 10. 1900, featured
an account of the graduation exercises
of So young ladies
Norman Sehooi qualified to become
Commencement teachers in the pub
lie schools of the
District of Columbia" Supt. w. B.
Powell presided Among the speakers
introduced by him were: District
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Mr.. Horrimons White House Job

The President has done a good thing for
himself, for the Executive Branch of the Govern
ment and for the country at large in naming
W. Averell Hartman as his special assistant on
foreign affairs The ppointment-strongly
supported by Secretary of State Dean Acheson,
among others-will impose wide range of duties
on Mr.. Hartman, but his chief function will be
to serve Mr.. Truman as kind of strong right
arm in the enormously complex task of dealing
with the problems of the cold war and pulling
together the operations of dozens of Federal
agencies now active in that field.
Mr.. Harriman-who will take oyer his new
White House job in August-is admirably quail
fed for it. Few Americans can match his expert
ence in public service, especially as regards
international political and economic matters.
Besides having distinguished himself in private
life as banker and railroad executive he has
established a record that includes a key wartime
role in lease-lend operations outstanding work
as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Great
Britain, able administration as Secretary of
Commerce an important personal contribution
to the formulation of the Marshall Plan and
more recently-in his current post as the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administrations chief rep
xesentative abroad-hne achievements in helping
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Monument to Artigos

Up to now the great Uruguayan liberator.
Jose Gervasio Artigas, has been only name to
most WaSh1ngtonianS. The unveiling of his
monument at Constitution avenue and Eight
eenth street Northwest will serve to instruct the
local community in his merits as one of the
architects of freedom in this hemisphere He
will be better known throughout the United
States than he has been before
But it is much more important that Artipas
should be understood than simply that the story
of his career should be familiar to people at
large His life was not fruitful in his own time.
He failed in his immediate objectives and
spent his last thirty years in exile poverty sand
disiliusionment Only comparatively recently has
his grand idealism been appreciated for what it
actually was-a pioneer development of the
modern philosophy of liberty and responsibility
from benefcent dictators.
Artigas glimpSed the fundamental reality of
society at once organized and free. His famous
instructions of the Year 1S" was declaration
of republicanism and practical democracy based
on the Constitution of the United States. He
told his followers: my authority comes from
you" and that acknowledgment of popular SOW
ereignty is the specific principle of the unen-
shaved nations currently faced with the Red
menace.
Here in word is the significance of the
monument to ArtigaS in, Washington Setting
1t up the citizens of Uruguay honor their greatest
patriot. Receiving it, the citizens Of our own
country acknowledge the value of his example
as forerunner of liberty under law. He enters
tomorrow upon new phase of his fame because
OF this latest tribute to his services century ago.
Evening star., 1950-06-18

Commissioner Henry B. r. Mac
farland and Director Of High Schools
Francis r. Lane. The latter affirmed:
Americas place among the nations is
to be secured by the teachers Di-
plomas were presented by j. W. Whelp-
ley. president Of the School Board.
Among the girls to whom they were
given were: Christine and Olivia Arth,
May S. Clark, Alice A. Clarke, Grace R.
Fuller. Sue Gardner. Florence K. Hinkel,
Emma B. Jones, Eleanor A. Lamson, May
Lewis, Callie r. Moore, Recha Sanders,
Clara Sawyer. Virginia Turtle. Mabel c.
White. Mary c. Woodward. Fanny Wool
yerton and Leonora Wright.
Members Of the American Institute of
Homeopathy were in convention assem-
bled at the Arlington Ho-
Homeopathic tel and the National
Convention Theater on June 20.
1900; and the The Star
that date chronicled their doings ex-
tensively. Especially important was the
address OF the president, DR.. Charles e.
Walton Of Cincinnati. He urged uni
formity Of medical laws throughout the
Union and called on the national organ
izationS Of the healing arts In America
to cooperate toward that end With
regard to education, he insisted: Let
us teach homeopathy in homeopathic
colleges and see that it is thoroughly
taught"
william Mckinley Of Ohio and Theo-
dore Roosevelt Of New York were noml-
-. !, mated for Presi-
Republican Nominees dent and vice
Are Chosen President. respec-
lively, on the Re-
publican ticket at Philadelphia, as related
in The Star Of June 81. 1900. Only one
ballot was necessary for the choice and
the voting was unanimous. The name
OF Mr.. Mckinley was proposed by Sena-
tor Joseph B. Foraker and seconded py
Mr.. Roosevelt, who had to stand for o
Evening star., 1950-06-18

the European participants to make that plan
remarkably effective.
With such rich and varied experience to
draw upon, Mr.. Hartman undoubtedly can be
OF immense help to the President, whose bur-
dens-domestic and foreign-have weight and
complexity that can hardly be exaggerated.
Given the energetic and constant aid of his
gifted new special assistant, however, Mr.. Tru-
man will be in much better position to give
strong direction and leadership-as he must-to
all the far-ranging programs that the United
States is obliged to carry out in these difficult
and dangerous days. In that sense, certainly,
this appointment is at once significant and
encouraging.
Evening star., 1950-06-18

long time. silent and flushed with en-
barrassment, while the audience mani
tested its affection for him" A "tu-
mutt of approval followed the Rough
Riders speech. By the time his own
name was submitted to the convention
by Lafayette Young of Iowa. the noise
had become habit with the delegates
and they cheered and applauded with
out waiting for further formal oratory.
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The Star for June %, 1900, reported
the dedication of the monument to
Samuel Hahne-
Hohnemonn Monument mann at Scott
Dedicated Circle. Those
participating in
the program included: DR.. j. B. Gregg
Custis. the Rev. DR., B. F. Bittinger, DR..
William Tod Helmuth. Col. Theodore A.
Bingham, Dr.. j. II. McClelland and DR..
Walton. In the audience was DR.. Nancy
Williams, most generous contributor to
the fund raised for the memorial. The
sculptor was c. II. Niehaus. Hahne-
mann, a German physician born at
Meissen in 1755, founded" the home
opathic system of medicine in 1910 and
deid in 1913. His lahors still are held in
reverence by multitudes Of people.
The Star on June IS. 1900, told its
readers: The first of the new IS silver
certificates have been printed
New Fives and are In the Treasury for
Reody circulation. From an artis-
tic point Of view they are
said TO be among the prettiest ever
printed. The face Of the bill bears the
portrait Of the typical American Indian
of other days. On one side Of this por-
trait is the blue seal Of the Treasury and
on the other a big letter w and the
word Five -. The figure Is repeated
around the bill. :. The back of the bill
contains considerable scroll work, two
large open spaces and the usual letter
ing" a
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Captain Richitt's Cars

The disclosure that Police Captain Richitt
and his family bought eight automobiles during
the postwar years. when it was difficult If not
impossible for most people to get even one car,
may or may not be something that should interest
Police Chief Barrett.
Major Barrett's attitude, however, seems to
be that since he knows the cars were purchased
he would prefer not to know the details
This may be all right, because there is not
necessarily anything wrong in the fact that
police officer was able to buy, and presumably to
dispose of, an unusual number of automobiles
In scarce market. But it would not be all right
II Major Barrett's apparent disinterest in this
matter means that he is also disposed to give
quiet burial to other complaints against Cap
tain Richitt
These complaints were investigated for the
Commissioners by Daniel B. Maher, who has re-
signed as special assistant corporation counsel
Mr.. Maher recommended that Captain Richitt be
brought before trial board on charges of in
subordination, conduct prejudicial to the good
order of the police force violation of an official
order, conduct unbecoming an officer and neglect
of duty
This recommendation was referred by the
Commissioners to Major Barrett. Major Barrett
said he would consult his police inspectors And
since then nothing has happened.
No one should be surprised that this has
given rise to the impression that Major Barrett
is trying to sit on hot potato until it coos off
and Is forgotten. The matters covered in the
generalized language of the Maher report may
be trivial or they may be serious. But if Major
Barrett thinks that the best way to handle them
is to do nothing about them, he should not be
surprised If the final result is distinct loss of
public confidence in his department.
Evening star., 1950-06-18
WhyMorrioees Break Up
By Bruce Borton

While make my living by being a
talker and writer. I am socially,
listener and an asker Of questions.
like to ask people where they came
from, what they do. what they read.
about their family life, their financial
situation. their problems with their
On occasion. when I have known a
woman well enough to be sure the
question will not be considered rude, I
have asked: why did you divorce your
husband?"
One attractive woman said: He used
50 many matches to light his pipe"
And she added: He had a boringly
commonplace mind . D.. talked in cliches
-. had no sense Of humor.
Sitting there in the library, evening
after evening, watching him read the
sports page. and light his pipe and let
it go out, and light it over and over
again-I finally thought would go
mad"
Another woman answered: Can you
imagine walking down the aisle between
the tables Of a restaurant, thinking to
yourself. Where would he like to sit?'
And stopping and looking up lovingly
into his eyes. only to have him always
say: Why did you stop here? Why not
take that table over there?
My friend, William Feather, the Sage
Of Cleveland. wrote recently: II have
done all could to reduce domestic
pickering. One contribution early In my
married life was the purchase and de-
livery Of two copies of the one morning
paper published in my city. Under this
plan the stay-at-home had q paper,
and the go-away-to-business had q
paper"
When I married I was receiving q
very good salary for a young man;
1t was paid twice month. I arranged
with the office to have the first Of the
month check sent to my wife, who de-
posted 1t in her bank and paid the
household bills and her personal ex-
penses. The middle OF the month check
I put in a different bank. Out Of It
came my lunches and club dues. our life
insurance and our savings.
Like all other married couples. we
have had some quarrels. but very few
about money.
My general conclusion Is that q good
marriage can stand pretty wide differ
ences Of opinion on the big things
political. social. even religious.
But no marriage can stand the per-
petual repetition Of petty annoyances.
tccpyrisht. 1880. Kirs Features syndicate. Insl
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Senator Byrd Hits Back

In opposing the nomination of Martin A.
Hutchinson to the Federal Trade Commission
Senators Byrd and Robertson based the bulk of
their attack on his alleged untness for the Office
The Virginia Senators got down to the real heart
OF this matter, however, when they said that the
Presidents choice of Mr.. Hutchinson had def
mite and obvious political purpose" And it GER
tainly was this factor, more than any other,
which produced the adverse vote on the nomina-
ton in the Senate Commerce Committee and
which promises to defeat confirmation on the
floor.
1t was obvious to any one who had passed
the tenderfoot stage in politics that the President
was taking slap at the Virginia Senator's and
particularly at Senator Byrd, when he sent Mr..
Hutch1nSon'S name to the Senate Mr.. Hutchn-
son had been fighting the Byrd organization for
years, and ran against the Senator in the Demo-
cratic primary in 1916. When the nomination
was announced, Francis Pickens Miller, another
anti-Byrd Democrat hailed it as symbol of
"the unity that has been established between
the national forces of democracy and the new
Democratic movement which is arising in Vir-
ginia and in the South"
That shout of triumph seems to have been
bit on the premature side. For Senator Byrd
decided to fight back, and it looks as though he
has the votes in the Senate to send Mr.. Hutch
HlSoH paCk 10 RlcnmOnu ana 10 REMIND Mr..
Truman that Presidents who take sides in State
politics are apt to get their fingers burned.
The Virginia Senators may or may not be
right in their attack on Mr.. Hutchinsons quail
hcations for the FTC place. So far as this
newspaper knows he is as well qualified as many
of the Presidents other appointees. But in this
instance the matter of qualification is subordi-
nate to the political aspects.
The President tried to use Mr. Hutchinson
to weaken Senator Byrd's political position. It
Z looks now as though the attempt has backfred
and Mr.. Hutchinson, therefore, becomes the
victim, although not necessarily an innocent
victim, of some high-level political in-fghting.
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Chino RECOGNITION Problem

An editorial in The Star for June 9th
entitled "Mr. Lie. China and the U. NJ"
supports the position of Mr.. Trygve Lie
regarding the representation of China in
the United Nations. Taking what it de-
scribes as the view of realism, of cum
emotional, hard-boiled expediency," the
editorial suggests admission of the Reds
into the U. N. ito replace the Nationalist
delegation as the sole representative Of
China
The editorial points to the recognition
extended to Peiping by India, Pakistan,
Britain and other non-Soviet countries
to bolster the "reasonableness" of Mr..
Lies efforts to unseat the delegation from
the Nationalist government In favor Of
the Communists. Reference is also made
in the editorial to the "forlorn refugee
status" of the Nationalists ION the rela-
lively small island of Formosa'
1t may be recalled that during the war,
the United States recognized many gov
ernments with "forlorn refugee status"
And in the case of China, when it had
been overrun by Japan, the United States
continued to recognize the legal govern
ment Of that country instead Of bowing
to the fetish of realism and "hard-boiled
expediency."
With regard to the action Of other
countries, 1t is true that several, including
Great Britain, have given their recogni-
ton to Red China. On the other hand,
1t is also true that the recognition which
the present Socialist government of
Great Britain offered has not as yet been
accepted by Moscow's puppets in Peiping.
1t may further be noted that the spokes.
men of the Conservative Party have criti-
cized the action of the Socialists in rush.
ing to give recognition to the Commu-
nistS.
Even if number of countries, whether
from reasons of theology or from hard
boiled expediency." have recognized the
Red aggreSsors in China and are now
urging that the representatives of the Ma
tionalist government be thrown out of
the United Nations and the Communists
be seated in their place, does that in any
way affect the ethical side of the ques-
ton? Since when have mere numbers
made wrong right? There is still such a
thing as principle in the world
After all its errors of omission and
commission, why should the Government
persist in this diScredited policy? Why
should it now, by refusing to use its veto,
acquiesce in admitting another Kremlin
stooge into the United Nations and in
giving it a seat on the Security Council?
Surely such action is neither in the in
terest of the United States or of the
United Nations.
If appeasement of Russia and its satel-
lites is the only way to save the United
Nations, then the United Nations is not
worth saving. Better that it should die
Evening star., 1950-06-18
| cts Go to Church
Spires of the Spirit

A familiar picture, hung in the little
red school houses Of long ago, depicted
the Pilgrims on their way to church,
carrying both Bibles and rifles. The
stern piety of that sturdy, God-fearing
breed, who bent about the cradle of
the State, has been grossly caricatured
by those for whom humor is more i'm
portant than honor. There were rea-
sons enough why the New England
pioneers might have remained near their
primitive homes and worshipped under
the sheltering trees with one eye on
any prowling Red Men. But the we'll
known painting shows them, men, wom-
en- and children. trudging along the
snow-piled forest path on their way to
the rude meeting house their reverent
hands had fashioned for Divine wor-
ship.
Let us never forget that America was
built upon the church. The Pilgrims
on their way to church remind us, as
these spiritual ancestors of ours fought
for their very lives, that Sunday morn
ing for them was not .time to catch
UP in sleep. not an opportunity to clear
more needed land or to plant crops: not
time to indulge in sports and amuse-
ment. In spite Of the hazards Of it
and the hardship OF it, it was a time
to go to church. And they went. It
was the time to contribute their physi-
cal presence as witness to the faith
byNwhich they lived.
One of the most ominous signs Of
our civilization" is that Sunday is so
devoured by claimant secular interests
that for literally millions church at
tendance is not even on the list of
serious bidders for the precious hours
of the first day of the week. commonly
called Sunday. No wonder, with a
growing realization that the house of
worship is the. bulwark and arsenal of
all that makes our Nation great, even
the radio stations across the land are
sandwiching between commercials new
Evening star., 1950-06-18
Two-Fisted American?

A few days ago a letter writer in The
Star characterized himself as two
listed American" and dared you to print
his letter. am very dubious as to the
wo-flstedness" and quality Of Ameri-
canism Of any one who would thusly
designate himself
Communists are indeed hateful and
misguided people. But our loud d-mouthed.
gold-plated patriots" of the extreme
right are equally hateful and misguided
and probably more dangerous to genuine
Americanism than are the Communists.
David HI. Weisgarber.
Evening star., 1950-06-18
By,Frederick Brown Harris
Pastor. Foundry Methodist Gnu
Church: Chaplain. Omitted States ssnass.

And surely there can be no question
that unless We give regular expression
to an emotion or q conviction it viii
die or grow dim.
The faith in spiritual verities which
the church Of every name and sign
symbolizes marks the very thing that
differentiates our way Of life from the
goddess regimes of the police states.
In the present crisis. with all Of Amer
ica's might being pledged for world
peace. nothing would be more effective
witness OF our deepest beliefs than for
every place Of worship TO be crowded
habitually. Deserted churches give the
Lie to the creed We claim to profess.
When on Sunday morning the church
bells call to worship. certainly q golf
course is an incongrouos place from
which to thank God for the churches.
Multitudes across the ages have found
In going to church q glorious window
into the immenSities, which saves life
from being cramped and petty. In a
certain novel there Is q description Of
two men standing outside a church lis
tening to the inspiring cadences Of the
last hymn, as mems and womens voices
and little children's Joined In it. One
listener said to the other There Is
something in folks singing when you're
outside a church which makes you feel
as though you ought to be inside"
1t is because of that conviction that,
telling about an ordinary Sunday morn
ing service in his verses. entitled THE
Church." Edward Ford Piper declares:
"This meager hour may lift
Some groveling face to see the
blessed sky,
Master a soul and yield it back
to life,
Tempered against the evil days to be.
A little thing, this church! Remove
it's roots.
Ossa upon Peleon would not Ill
the pit"
Let's go to church on sundayl