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Evening star., 1950-05-04
Dr.. lejins Named 10 Head
MARYLAND U. Faculty Club

DR.. Peter P. Lejins. professor of
sociology at the University of
Maryland. is president of a newly
formed Faculty Club at the uni
versity.
Other officers include Russell
B. Allen, professor of engineering,
vice president; Marie D. Bryan,
assistant professor of education,
secretary. and Cecil r. Ball, pro-
fessor of arts and sciences. treas
urer.
Members of the Board of Govern
ors are Dr.. Joseph M. Ray. Dean
Marie M. Mount. Prof. James
H. Reid. DR.. Allan G. Gruchy,
George o. Weber. Dean Harold A.
Benjamin and Alma H. Preinkert.
Evening star., 1950-05-04
Silver Spring Club Plans
Gurden Mort Saturday

The Silver Spring Garden Club
will hold a Garden Mart from 10
am. to pm. Saturday in the
Jesup- Blair Park. Proceeds will
be used for a proposed memorial
garden sponsored by the club.
The Mart will feature sales of
small rare. hybrid azeleas and
vegetable plants.
Evening star., 1950-05-04

attorney for the FEC.
He was born in Florence and
practiced law there for five years.
Prior to coming to Washington, he
was Judge of the 18th Judicial
Circuit Court in Alabama from
1923.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mary Johnson; a son. J. Fred
johnson III, 6. and his father, j.
Fred Johnson. sr., of Florence.
Evening star., 1950-05-04

pectedly lueS-
day night of a
h e art attack,
will be held at
3 pm. tomorrow
in Florence, Ala.
Burial also will
be there.
Judge john
son lived at
4615 Van Ness
street NV. He
came to Wash
ington fro m
Florence in 1898
when he was
made principal
Evening star., 1950-05-04

her home. 1872
Twenty fourth
sire let NV,
after an illness
of two days.
She was a
lifelong resident
of Washington
and before her
m rri a g e in
1904 was Miss
Esther Gordon.
Mrs. Minniger-
ode was the
daughter of the
late J. Holds
worth Gordon,
Evening star., 1950-05-04
Dental Head Installed

BALTIMORE. May 4 (P.-Dr.
R. S. Schlosser of Hagerstown was
installed as president of the Mary
land State Dental Association yes
terday at the closing session of
the groups 67th annual meeting.
Evening star., 1950-05-04
Rites for Judge Johnson
To Be Held in Alabama

Funeral services for Judge j.
Fred Johnson, ST. chief Federal
Communications Com ission
hearing examiner, who died unex-
Evening star., 1950-05-04
CEMETERY LOTS.

Park, BY estate. Any reasonable ofier &C.
eepted. NE. 1926.
SITES, TT. LINCOLN CEMETERY, Fort
and clock section, srestly reduced. 81.
Evening star., 1950-05-04
4nurtltn1

FRIEDMAN, SARAH The unveiling OF
the monument to the memory Of SARAH
FRIEDMAN will be held Sunday. May :.
1850. at 1890 Pm, Relatives and
friends are invited TO meet At the
T1fereth Israel Synagogue, l40l Euclid
at NV 8
Evening star., 1950-05-04
Mrs. kinnigerode, Il,
Wife Of Corcoran
Ex-Director, Dies

Mrs. c. Powell Minnigerode, u.
wife of the retired director of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. died last
night of coronary thrombosis at
Evening star., 1950-05-04

The League of Nations placed
the Solomon Islands under Aus
tralian mandate in 1920.
Evening star., 1950-05-04

this life on Tuesday, May >, 1850, at
Garfield Hospital. ALPHONSo D. GIL
LIS of 113 Euclid st. NV, beloved huS-
band of Mrs. Mary Gillis, devoted fa-
ther of Alicia. Lee and Alphonso D. Gil
lis, ir. He also is survived by his devoted
mother and father. Mathew and Bertha
Gillis: two devoted sisters, Mrs. Ruth
Williams and Mrs. Vsshti Gordon: two
brothers, Savannah and Reginald Gilis;
one devoted aunt, Mrs. Annie Freeman
many nieceS and nephewS and host Of
other relatives and friends Remains
resting at the, John T. Rhines &, Co. Fu--
neral Home, 3rd and Eye SITS. Aw., until
Thursday, May 4. at 3 pm; thereafter
at his late residence Funeral Saturday,
May 8, at am from St. Augustine's S
Catholic Church. 15th st. between R and
8 sts. NV. Interment PayneS Gene
terry
Evening star., 1950-05-04

D cation Of washington Centen-
& nial Lodge, No IA, F. A. A,
~ NJ, is called for 1:15 pm.
NO Friday, May 5, 1850, for the
N purpose OF conducting the last
~ Masonic rites for our late
V brother, GEORGE C. MEEKS.
members are urged to attend.
VIII L
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22
REA Increases EIectrification
OF Farms 10 Per Cent

Chicago-Claude R. Wickard, Rur-
al Electricifation Administrator, told
the National Rural Electric Co-opera-
tive Association that SO per cent of
the nations farmers now have cleo
tricity as compared with only 10 per
cent when the REA program got un-
derway in 1885.
He said the farm borrowers had
repaid to the government almost
1925 million and are now delinquent
on only four-tenths of one per cent
of their loans.
Montana still lags behind the ma
tional average, with approximately
II per cent of rural homes ener-
gized
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22
WAGE STERILIZATION
POLICY ANALYZED

WASHINGTON, D. CA business
source here says gist of the Admins
tration's wage sterilization policy is
this:
Instead of wage freeze there is
to be sterilization line which will
be geared to an average fifth round
wage increase somewhere near 1Oc
per hour.)
Unions will be allowed to get the
most they can until prices are con-
trolled.
Unions that haven't obtained a post
Korean wage boost will be permitted
to move up to the line after prices
are fixed.
In addition, a formula will be de-
vised to allow adjustments upward.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22
BY JOSEPH S. SMOLLACK
Anaconda

Well, Americans, here we go again.
For the third time within the short
span of forty years, American lead
erShip has declared us in on the
rat-race of world destruction. We
have again, apparently, been placed
in an untenable position, from which
we can only eXtricate ourselves at
the expense of face abroad-of adj
hitting that American foreign policy
makers have committed another
blunder. Let us be frank, and honest
ly acknowledge that a greater blund-
er will absolutely not constitute alb
solution of the lesser blunder.
Once again the manhood and the
womanhood of Canada and the United
States, citizens of this Continent, are
being conscripted to fight for the
status quo of old country ideologies
and Asiatic relationships against the
odious totalitarianism of Cap
italistic Communism. Citizens of this
Continent are again being sent over
seas to die in European and Asiatic
mud, as a futile gesture in con-
flict that is entirely alien to the
destiny of North America. And this |
is happening because the political |
leaders, corporate leaders and church |
leaders of Canada and the United |
States have not been notified by the |
American people in emphatic terms
hat they must not commit for this
bird time, the same mistake that
made this Continent party to the
wo previous holocausts.
Technocrats are citizens of this
Continent. Technocracy Inc, is for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22

shows that national business has sabo-
tagged every attempt to design and
construct an adequate system of ma
tional defense, except upon those rare
opportunities of national disaster
when they could privately profit
from the carnage and have the ex-
pense charged up to taxation paid by
sick, the devil saint would be-, and
every prominent businessman is out
leading the vanguard of the ma
tional anvil chorus of fear.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22

ing the international feuds of some
other Continent.
America continues to indulge in the
greater escapism of it's fear of a
foreign enemy Yet in America from
1776 down to today adequate de-
Tense of the United States has always
been decried and shouted down by the
chizelers of private enterprise. Ma
tibnal business has always been
afraid that this Continent might
someday possess a planned and
trained force of defense. Our history
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22

"Divide and rule" has been the
fundamental premise of European
craftsmanship for over 1000 years.
Written across this Continent by our
engineering equipment is the tech
nological dictum: "Unite and Oper-
atep' We of America have but to
obey.
Technocracy's blueprint of Total
Consumption is the only adequate plan
of Continental Defense. Study 1t,
discuss it, advocate it. 1t is our one
and only hope.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22
Murray, Mansfield

Continued from page one)
panded program of transplanting, the
problem will be effectively disposed
of and we are sure that there will
be no large-scale destruction of elk
within the Park boundaries.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES E, MURRAY, USS
MIKE MANSFIELD, NC
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fer the benefit of those to whom
Freedom of the Press is not clearly
defined, and for all readers, let
state that the opinions expressed i'm
Letters to the Editor" are those of
the writer. and do not necessarily
represent the opinions of this pub
Iieafien.-EDITOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-22
FORESTRY NOW REGULAR
COLLEGE COURSE

Today there are % professional
forestry schools in the United States
functioning as branches of colleges
or universities of recognized stand
ing.
Evening star., 1950-11-03
Musical Street Repairs?

AS far as wars and rumors OF wars are
concerned, mans world today may look pretty
bad, but man himself is not standing completely
still when it comes to making progress toward
beautiful future. The latest case in point is the
invention of a machine that rips up pavements
and cuts through cobblestones with sound that
promises relatively speaking-to be as soft as
the purr of kitten as dulcet as the murmur of
a hidden brook and as soothing as the charms
that music hath to calm the savage breast
This blessed device, according to its creators,
is likely to revolutionize the public's attitude
toward street repairs Technicalities to one side,
it will operate in such way as to seem as sweet
as q we'll played violin when compared to the
present-day pneumatic hammer. The awful
noise of that hammer-its terrible cacophony OF
decibels beating against the ears and shriveling.
up the soul of the late sleeper-will fade away
into the whispering past, and pavement-ripping
in due course will become hardly more annoying
than a ride on Capital Transit listening to
piped-in music by Fred Waring or somebody like
that
Here, certainly, is progress on the peacetime
front. Here is an event of high order Of impor-
tance. The world improves even as 1t seems to
deteriorate. The dark cloud has silver lining.
And who is to be thanked for the develop
ment? None other than an outfit called the Joy
Manufacturing Company. O. splendid aptness!
O. joyous news about the pneumatic hammer!
What q world Of promise lies before usl
Evening star., 1950-11-03
Rep. PIumIey and Home Rule

AS New Englander born and bred,
was shocked at the statement Of Repre-
sentative Plumley of Vermont that "the
Negro population of the District OF Co
lumbia has become dominant majority"
and IT am not for the creation OF
Negro State" was shocked that any
one from New England, especially Yer
mont, should take that attitude. even If
his facts were correct, which they are
not. I know, Of course. that such mis-
statements of facts are made to inf1u-
ence the ignorant and prejudiced
against home rule for the District, but
a member of Congress is not supposed
to be ignorant, and Vermonter is not
supposed to be prejudiced where Negroes
are concerned.
AS briefly as possible would like to
enlighten the Congressman. and others
who may have read his statement, as to
the facts:
l. Home rule for the District Of Co
lumbia would not create State. It
would create municipality which would
be under the rule of Congress, exactly as
Montpelier is a municipality under the
rule of the legislature of the State Of
Vermont.
Evening star., 1950-11-03
This and That

we look at watch, we think we know
the time, but we are completely at sea,
really.
What time is it?" some one asks, and
we reply, heartily -Four o'clock" but
is it?
In the winter we think we know the
time O. day, but then along comes day
light saving, and we are thrown out OF
focus again.
Comes late fall, when we have the
time by the tail
Then we are thrown again, by decree.
so that we have to get used to the old
slow time anew.
Travels through space and time
They have changed from stagecoach
days, even from the fast express days and
those of the flying automobile.
Today we have space ships.
If you don't know what space ship is,
you should watch television, or read
science fiction stories.
Time, in strictly up-to-date talk, is
something you have lot Of fun with.
You are John Jones, living in the year
1850, one moment, and the very next you
are in the year 100000 AID.
Time warp" they call it.
One has experienced time all his life.
yet at any moment 1t may seem to stand
still, or race furiously to an unknown oh.
jective.
Evening star., 1950-11-03
CAPITOL VIEW PARK.

CAPITOL VIEW PARK.
Dear Sir:
Thank you for your article on pup
pies. Your genius is much needed in this
field.
For instance, in another department
was a letter from loving mother asking
advice as to what sort of small dog to
buy for her toddler son for Christmas
present.
"Of course, this mother probably does
not have any idea of what toddler can
do to dog, or that her daily care of her
son will be multiplied by her trying to
keep them apart.
II for one would be very grateful If you
could have an article now and then Git
bears repeating) about animals as
Christmas presents. Especially puppies
and kittens.
cit doesn't seem possible, but it seems
as though another Christmas season is
again approaching.
"As one grows older, they do sneak up,
don't they?
Sincerely yours, F. s. D."
Time has a way with it.
Not only is it mystery more SO today
than ever in its long history. but it gets
more unbelievable every day.
We live in time and space, and yet we
know nothing of either.
Alarm clocks simply fool up. When
Evening star., 1950-11-03
BY Charles E. TroceweN

Personal age has lot to do with it.
Every one remembers how, as q child.
an hour seemed utterly endless. But
when the age Of so arrives, time changes
its ways.
It fairly races, now.
Time flies,' indeed!
It does just that but 1t is curious how
it does it mostly after the age of so
years.
Maybe science can explain that.
Insomnia, at any age, can make it
stand still.
The very hands of the clock slow down.
There is little movement to the minute
hand, and seemingly none at all to the
hour hand.
AS for the insomniac-a thoroughly
nasty word-he is left suspended in
time and space. unable to get back to
the dreamless sleep of infancy. far from
the lotus eaters heaven of the poet.
One thing, however, time always does
on schedule-it brings the same old
problems to mankind, and many new
ones, thrown In for good measure. For
instance, How to Survive an Atomic
Bomb" new 25-cent book, just right
to slip into the kiddies' stockings for
Christmas.
Sweet dreams, dearies, and don't forget
to fall on your little faces In corner OF
the basement If the bomb goes of, as we
hope it won't, but you never can tell.
Evening star., 1950-11-03

cation really is in terms of conduct "St. Joan Of
Arc" because it is tremendous affirmation OF
spiritual courage needed in our time; Caesar
and Cleopatra" because it reflects the comedy
as well as the tragedy of human love; "The
Sanity of Art" because it represents Shaw's
realization of the artists place in life. Each OF
these was-and still is-important. Whether his
best endeavors will keep the great Irish COM
mentator in the company of Shakespeare to
which he is supposed to have aspired remains
to be seen, It was distilled from the chaos of
the shavian age and is rife with that ages
confusion, but it seems good to us and we hope
that it will last The legend of Shaw certainly
will continue to prosper, and it was for that
legend that Shaw himself labored.
Evening star., 1950-11-03
Weutherwise

knoiD little to,Dn phere people 90
In cracked and yello,o oilskins up and
dotDn.
The ,pinds are salty ,uhen they land,Dard
bloto,
But sDeet NTH human spicing from,
the totDn.
1t ,Das q golden day I heard the tide
Rocking the painted boats In Danton
play
Against the crunabling pharves; and sea-
men eyed
The signs that spelled to then. too
fair day.
The fall of night and rime to salt the
lips
OF men In seaboots, out to gauge the
time
TO pear the knowing helms OF ,ci,,d-
f1yed ships,
Sucking their breath to heal the bite
of rinte. s-s
Da,pn and lapis sea and men pl,o
strobe ss,a
To,pn,pard In boots a-fnp to ease the
knee, 81,
Their blackboard glances turned ION craft
that rode
Into an oGshore breeze on ouileless sea,
GERTRUDE ROBINSON.
Evening star., 1950-11-03
Pen-1aanaes may be used if letters carry
writers' correct names and addresses.
All letters subject to condensation.

your mind?", what did the white-su-
premists pay you?", etc.
It was funny at first, but 1t no longer
is laughing matter now that have dis
covered that a number Of persons whose
opinion value take it seriously. Frankly,
having devoted the most Of my life, at
considerable but willing sacrifice, to fur
thering the causes of democracy. par
ticularly racial democracy, it is humili-
ating to be berated for the supposed
authorship Of what at most was a
thoughtless and indefensible letter, ad-
vocating violation of the very tenets for
which our Nation Is celebrated and for
which our boys now fight and die in
Korea.
Had the other AL Smith been identified
as writing from. say, Fairfax, Va, or
perhaps as "Al Smith the Conservative" :"
all of this could have been avoided. But,
since such was not the case, would
appreciate it II. In all fairness to the New
York AL Smith who gave the name In
this form some measure Of fame, to the
other AL Smiths in the directory and to
me, you would print this letter or peril
nent parts Of it, and identify me as the
AL Smith who Is q news correspondent,
who sometimes writes under the pen
name Charley Cherokee" and who be-
lieves In and practices democracy with
out side excursions into racial prejudice.
Al Smith.
Evening star., 1950-11-03
One Vanishing American Is the Voter
a
BY Crosby S. Noyes

A S ELECTION time draws near, both
4 n sides are beating the bushes for all
they're worth, trying to rout out that
most elusive Of political animals, the re-
luctant voter. Both sides claim that
they will be helped-or at least satisfied
If the people really get in there and
speak their pieces the way they are
supposed to according to the rules of
the game.
From all parts of the country come
reports of the strenuous efforts by party
workers to see that their voters show up
at the polling places next Tuesday.
Stories Of record breaking registrations
in many States lead to the impression
that the efforts may be meeting with
some success.
If so, the result will reverse voting
trend that started in 1914. Since that
year, the percentage of eligible citizens
turning out to vote has been dropping at
a rate that draws howls of anguish from
many political observers.
The good old days were back in 1916,
when 7O8 per cent of the potential voters
cast their ballots. That was the last
election in which politics was game for
men only, and subsequent statistics are
not complimentary to the suffragettes.
In 1920, out of 54.418,928 potential
voters of both sexes, only 26,705,34
votes were cast, or 49.1 per cent. -Four
years later, things were even worse, and
the percentage of citizens who did their
duty hit an all-time low of 48.4 per cent.
Since then, until 1910, the figures rose
slowly but encouragingly in both presi-
Dental and congressional elections. In
that year, out of nearly 80 million po-
tential voters. nearly so million or GA
per cent, voted.
The nosedive that can't. be explained
by pinning the blame on the women
came in 1914 Then, for the first time
there was an actual decrease in the
number of votes cast from the previous
election. Out Of potential vote OF
Evening star., 1950-11-03
The Chickens Come Home

DR., Alan Valentine, the new economic staoi-
lization director, says that 'many good Americans
are not yet ready to make real personal sacrifices
to serve in the war against imitation"
Warning that each of us may have to choose
between peace and stability on the one hand and
a new car, new television set or new home
on the other, DR.. Valentine urged that we all
reduce little bit our concept of what we must
have to be happy.
IF we all did not expect Government to do
so much for us" he said, "and really urged
economy in nonessentials; if we were all ready
to pay more as we 60 in terms OF higher taxes
and of less credit buying for our personal use
if all of us did all this there would be little need
for an economic stabilizaton agency"
Those are very big ifs. And there is no
reason why any one, least of all any one con-
nected with this administration, should be sur
prised. And the point can be illustrated by
turning the clock back two years.
Confidence and security have been brought
to the American people by the Democratic Party
!. Never in the world were the farmers OF
any republic or any kingdom or any other
country as prosperous as the farmers in the
United States, and if they don't do their duty by
the Democratic Party they are the most migrate
full people in the world. Wages and salaries in
this country have increased from $40 billion in
1888 to more than $128 billion in 1947. That is
labor and labor never had but one friend In
politics and that was the Democratic Party and
Franklin D. Roosevelt. And I'll say to labor just
what said to the farmers They are the most
ungrateful people in the world if they pass the
Democratic Party by this year" That was not
Dr. Valentine speaking. The speaker was Harry
S. Truman accepting the Democratic nomination
for the presidency
Reduce our concept of what we must have
to be happy? Stop expecting the Government to
do so much for us? Really urge economy in
Government expenditures? No, DR.. Valentine,
1t simply isn't in the cards.
For too many years the American people
have been bombarded with propaganda to the
effect that the Government (of the Democratic
Party) will look after them. A political empire
has been built on Government subsidies and
Government favors, and the benefciaries have
been told by no less parsonage than the Presi-
dent himself that they are expected to show
their gratitude at the polls. Why be surprised
that many good Americans" are not ready to
make real personal sacrifices? They can hardly
be blamed. 1t is not their fault that some
political chickens are coming home to roost.