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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-12
Missionary Commission
For Miss Mary H. Lentz

Miss Mary H. Lentz will be COM
missioned as a foreign missionary
Of the United Presbyterian Church
tomorrow morning at the Wallace
Memorial United Presbyterian
Church.
Miss Lentz, 81 years old. is a
graduate of the School for Nurses
at Sibley Hospital. She lives at
536 Oneida place NV. and is the
daughter of Mrs. Minnie H. Lentz
of the same address. She was born
in Scranton. Pa, but moved here
at an early age attending the pub
lie schools of the city and gradu-
ating from Roosevelt High School
in 1941.
She will be under the supervi-
sion of the Women's General Mis-
sionary Society of the United
Presbyterian Church and her sta
ton will be in Pakistan.
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ORGANIZED Bible Glasses
By Dr.. Poqe Etchison

Methodist Church. Speaking on
why Do We Need Christian Edu-
cation?"
The Templemen's Bible Class OF
Temple Baptist Church will be
taught by j. Howard Ingram.
DR.. Nelson M. Blake of the Blu
reau of Archives will be the guest
teacher at a joint session of the
adult Bible classes of Sherwood
Presbyterian Church.
The Fellowship Glass of Foundry
Methodist Church will have as
guest speaker Miss Carolyn Nc
Dowell, who has recently been
commissioned missionary to Cuba.
The Trinity Mems Class OF
Trinity Methodist Church will
have the lesson presented by Ern-
est J. Higgins. The class picnic
will be held on August 18 for mem
berS and their families.
Guy T. Leavitt of Cincinnati
will teach the Bible class at the
conference of the Organized Bible
Glass Association at Western
Maryland College on September 8.
Mr.. Leavitt is editor Of the Look
out, a publication of the Disciples
of Christ denomination.
The Mems Glass of Mount Raj
nier Methodist Church will be
taught by Altha Warman. John
Harris will teach the Golden Rule
Glass and Miss Ada Kline will
teach the Triangle Class.
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erson, N. j., was appointed coun-
selor. From 1913 until the present
the congregation has worshiped
in the Washington Club, 1910
Seventeenth street NV.
The Washington church is affili-
ated with the Christian Reformed
denomination, which came into
being in 1847 when a group of
Holland people came to the United
States under the leadership of
DR.. Albertus Van Raalte. They
settled in the area around what is
now known as Holland, Mich.
At first the group formed a ten
tative union with the Reformed
Church of America, but in 1857
they became an independent de-
nomination. In their nearly CEN
fury of existence, the Christian
Reformed Church has grown to
a membership of 148,881 and BAL
churches in 81 states, the District
of Columbia and Canada. 1t has
a college and seminary, with an
enrolment of 1,775 students, in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
The denominations form of gov
eminent is Presbyterian, which is
government by elders elected by
members Of the church. These
elders. with deacons and the min
lister, formed a Consistory. Sew
eral churches make up a Chassis,
and the 10 Chassis meet annually
in General Synod. Washington
belongs to the Chassis Hudson.
Those who have served the local
church as officers are George
Monsma. William DeBruin, Quen-
tin Remein, John LIE Vries, Arthur
Wyman, Simon Kamminga, Ar
thur Often and Robert Velthuis.
The Rev. James M. Ghysels Is
the only pastor the church has
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had. He came in November, 1914,
and was installed as missionary
pastor on the 10th of that month.
A native of Grand Rapids, MIR.
Ghysels is a graduate of Calvin
College and of Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary. He served
churches in Passaic, N. j., and in
Grand Haven. Holland and Grand
Rapids, all in Michigan, and in
Lafayette, Ind, before coming to
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ghysels live at
$500 Sligo Mill road NE. They
have two children, Mrs. Carolyn
EtteSvold of Grand Rapids, and
Rosalyn Ghysels, a student nurse
at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more.
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Central Presbyferians
To Hear Dr.. ]. W. Thomas

The Rev. John N. Thomas, dean
of the graduate department of
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond, Va, will be the guest
preacher at II am. and 8 pm
tomorrow at the Central Presby-
terrain Church.
DR.. Thomas is q member of the
General Council of the Presby-
terrain Church in the United
States, member of the American
Theological Committee of the
Faith and Order Commission of
the World Council of Churches,
a member Of the Executive Com
mittee of the Presbyterian World
Alliance, and chairman of the
western section: member Of the
Boards of Trustees of Mary Bald
win College and of Washington
and Lee University.
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DR.. FoIkemer to Speak
At Luther Memorial

DR.. Lawrence D. Folkemer. head
of the Department of Religion at
George Washington University,
will be the guest preacher at 8
and IL am. Sunday at Luther
Place Memorial Church. His SER
mon is "Tears That Spell Trag-
edy."
The Young Peoples Luther
League meet at 6 pm. at the
Lutheran Church Center, 1856
Jackson place NV, followed by
the supper at 7 pm. Albert R..
Burkhardt, student pastor at
Luther Place Church, will speak
to the group about Father Divine
and his activities. His talk is
entitled, Heaven in Harlem"
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Mary Ellen Bruce, president; Miss
Clara Hanson, vice president; Miss
Margaret Mitchell, recording sec
rotary: Miss Bergetta Russell, cor
responding secretary and Miss
Helen Dillon, treasurer.
DR.. Paul Geron, State Depart
ment, will continue his discussion
on India" as guest speaker OF the
Burial Glass of Calvary Baptist
Church. Representative Charles
B. Deane of North Carolina will
teach the Vaughn Class.
The adult Bible classes of
Brentwood Park Methodist
Church will hold a joint session
with John C. Bryan as the guest
teacher.
Ernest N. Hall will teach the
Harrison Bible Glass Of st. Luke's
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The Woman'S National Bible
Glass of the National City Chris
tan Church will have as guest
speaker. Mai. Jesse T. Nicholas,
U. S. A., who recently returned
from Japan.
The Susannah Wesley Class of
Mount Vernon place Methodist
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Dr.. Harry Bell to Preach
At National Christiun

DR.. Harry L. Bell. minister Of
the Columbia Heights Christian
Church, will be the guest speaker
tomorrow morning at the National
City Christian Church. -
His subject is 1.-THE Acid of Ex-
perience.
The Rev. David A. Rowand, as
sociate minister, will preside at
the service which begins at
1880 am.
DR.. j. Warren Hastings, min
lister Of the church, is mentioning
in Savannah, Ga, and will return
to his pulpit September 3.
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Wichita Pastor Guest
At N. Y. Presbyterian

DR.. Emory w. Luccock, pastor Of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Wichita. Kan. who will be the
guest preacher at New York Ave-
nue. Church, in Lisner Auditorium,
Twenty first and H streets NV.
tomorrow at II am. His topic
will be "Sons of Encouragement"
DR.. Luccock has recently ac-
cepted a call to an Omaha church.
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Christ, Georgetown

At Christ Episcopal Church,
Georgetown, there will be at II
a m. tomorrow a sermon on the
second of the four freedoms,
Freedom of Speech" by the as
sistant rector, the Rev. Arthur H.
Underwood.
On Wednesday at 1890 am,
Mr. Underwood will conduct a
prayer service with meditation on
1.-THE Mystery of Redemption. "
This will be one of a series OF
Wednesday meditations built
around the Apostles Greed.
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BY Cospor Nonnes

The Christian Reformed Church
of Washington will dedicate its
new building at Oneida place and
New Hampshire avenue NE, on
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EIdbrooke Methodist

The Rev. Allan F. Poore, retired
minister of Eldbrooke Methodist
Church will be the guest preacher
during August.
Robert L. Landers, minister of
music who has been in Europe on
q concert tour has returned.
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Church Will De
taught by Miss
Sue ShiverS.
Mrs. j. H. Boil
ton will present
a dev o tion al
message. M r S.
M arg aret C.
Mitchell is at
t ndin g t h e
conference of
he w orl d
Christian Edu-
cational AsSoci-
alton at Toron-
to. The new
officers are:
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%
T he dedica-
ton will mark
an historic step
in the life Of
the small con-
gregation. The
$4,000 chapel.
first unit in a
C h u rch edihce
that will event.
ually cost $780,
900, will have
an auditorium
seating $50, a
S t u d y and an
office on the
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Michigan Park se snS 1o Dsto' 3, A. 4 :.
ARTHUR A. ALLEN, Minister
1000 o.m.-Church School.
II 100 abandoning Worship.
First Service in New BuiIdnq
Evening star., 1950-02-13
By the kssoeiotsd Press

| bf ms AS8octoIeu FTts4
Midnight of March IS Is the
deadline for settling up on your
1949 income tax.
If your 1949 income was $500 or
more, you must file a return,
whether or not you owe any tax
If you owe any, you must pay it in
full.
This applies to every man,
woman and child, married or
single, who had $500 or more in
come in 1949.
Income under $500 is free of tax.
If your less-than-$600 income in
1949 had some tax withheld from
it, the Government will return it
but only if you file a return. It's
the only way you can get a refund
The Internal Revenue collector
has sent most people income tax
blanks. If you don't have yours
you can get it at the nearest col
lector's Office or at most banks and
postoffices.
A number of points will be ex-
planned separately and in detail In
the other II stories Of this series
such as:
Who uses what form for filing
his return; the problem of hus-
band-wife filing and their filing OF
Evening star., 1950-02-13
Your Income Tax
Everyone Who Earned $500
|Or More Must File Return

joint returns: exemptions: deduc-
tions; dependents; and how to Ali
out various forms.
Keep these highlights in mind
In every case where the wife
has no income, a couple can't
lose money by filing a joint re-
turn. Joint. returns will save
money even in most cases where
husband and wife both had in
come.
That's because under present
law husbands and wives are al
lowed to split their income, each
claiming half, thus throwing
each half into a lower tax bracket
and making the total tax less.
Watch your exemptions. Each
exemption you can rightfully claim
means $500 chopped off your in.
come before what's left of it car
be taxed.
Each person filing a return gets
a 5000 exemption for himself
5000 for each dependent, and
$500 for his wife if she had nc
income or files jointly with him
If she had. income and files &
return separately, she claims hel
own $500 exemption.
In addition to the usual $500
exemption he gets for himself
anyone filing a return also gets
an additional 5000 off If he.
blind, and another 5000 off If he,
IS or older. He gets the same
extra $500 exemptions for his
Evening star., 1950-02-13

wife II she's blind or IS. But he
does not get these extra exemp.
tions for q dependent.
Watch your deductions as q
way Of reducing your tax.
To cut down the length of these
articles, repetition will be avoided
where possible. So 1t is suggested
you clip each story of this series
as it appears, for ready reference
on a point that may be men
toned briefly in one story but
explained more fully in another
Tomorrow: Who chooses what
form for his return2)
Evening star., 1950-02-13
Klein to Address VFW

Representative Klein, Demo-
crat, of New York, will address
a meeting of Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Department of Justice
Post No. 9915 at 1890 pm. We'd
nesday at the Hotel Carlyle.
Evening star., 1950-02-13
Your Income Tax

fEditors Note: This is the first Of
II articles explaining who must do
whot and how ebout his 1s4s income
tex retuYn.)
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Wisdom of Washington, Lincoln

Did Gen. Macarthur speak for himself
alone. as the 'Voice of America" is
telling the world? Not so! When he
said it was a vital necessity for our
Pacific defense that the island of For
mosa remain in friendly hands, he spoke
for me. and feel sure that he spoke
for every real American worthy of the
name.
We cannot expect unbiased action in
the United Nations councils from coun-
tries like England and France as long as
they have territorial interests within
countries threatened by Russia nor can
we expect other fine countries to speak
freely when they have unfriendly guns
at their back.
Early in our history. George Washing
ton advised us against "entangling al
liances" with the Old World. History
has been in the making since then.
The United States has grown in inf1u-
ence and resources until her prosperity
today is the lure Of the world; her
liberty is the inspiration Of the down.
trodden of mankind; and her flag is
the symbol of her democracy. Uncle
Sam is the big brother, the philanthropist
Evening star., 1950-09-04
BY Charles E. TroceweN

Weather and all it means is the back
bone of the country life.
Many person, moving fresh to the
farm, takes an immediate interest in
whether it is going to rain. perhaps for
the first time in his life.
Conversely, the farmer moved to the
city, through politics or business, never
forgets the face of storm clouds above
him.
He peers out his Office window to
see what the weather is going to be.
and often hits" it better than the
weather man.
This fusion of city outlook with the
pure country outlook is good thing,
since it keeps the city-bound man In
touch with the farm folk.
If he feels, at times, that farmers are
being pampered Cat his expense) he
realizes that if any set of men must be
pampered, the farmers constitute it. Be-
cause of them and their work, all Of
us eat
Without farmers. men peering into
the sky. like men at sea, to glimpse the
first onrush of the storm, those in cities
would starve to death.
Templeton Jones, farmer at heart.
city man by choice, knows what a
person means who. living in the city.
claims to be from the country. He means
he Is q good American.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Do Something or Do Nothing

1t is possible that good case might be made
for doing nothing about local civilian defense,
on the theory that anything done would be made
quate should Washington be the target of an
atomic bomb attack
But it would seem that the more intelligent
approach is to establish an organization for
civilian defense charged with the task of perfect
Ing the plans that would be made effective in
such dread emergency, educating the people
as to what they should do as individuals and as
members of the community and training volun-
teer personnel in the discharge of certain fixed
responsibilities
If this is to be done, it will require money
The $2900O0 requested by the Commissioners
was cut to $4,000 by the House, but is up for
consideration by the Senate. The $4,000 is so
inadequate that it would be of very little help
The $29O000 is also inadequate, but provides
the initial outlay considered necessary
The Star suggests that Congress adopt one
Of two alternatives. Either abandon the idea
of civilian defense and appropriate nothing. Or
appropriate the money recommended by re-
sponsible authorities who have studied the prob
lem, and do SO with the thought that it probably
will be followed by additional appropriations.
The $4,000 recommended by the House is
unrealistic amounts to nothing of any real value
and is neither fish nor fowl as a means of estab-
fishing the beginnings of civilian defense.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
This and That

Templeton Jones is always hearing
a phrase or two in public, word or
two to intrigue him.
Perhaps he is easy to intrigue.
He heard the woman with the flowers
say. "You see, l am just a simple
country girl"
A big city, such as Washington has
grown to be, is a rather bad place for
a country girl, he thought at first.
Then he wondered if that were true.
Isn't the National Capital good place
for people from the country?
Jones recalled one neighbor out his
way.
This man lived for years in small
row house.
He was a farmer at heart. however,
and found his 20-foot backyard far
too small
So he moved to the suburbs; on three
50-foot lots.
There he had more scope, still not
enough for farmer, but there at
least he could play at it.
Day and night he worked on his
garden.
He gave the lawn intensive treatment.
He planted trees, Shrubs, flowers.
He was having the time of his life,
when he was ordered abroad and
necessarily was obliged to rent his house.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Questions Men in Office

Governments are instituted among
men to secure the rights given to them
by their Creator. Through governments.
we can place under control those insti-
tutions which will protect us against q
wilful. evilly purposeful minority and
which will further our common aims and
aspirations.
u The greatest ills in many nations Gin
cluding our own have arisen from the
fact that people are not sufficiently in
terested in their government. Public
apathy encourages official corruption.
Failure to use the rights bestowed by
democracy advances the rapid growth of
dictatorship. If people generally with
draw from the arena of politics, then
selfish and tyrannical minorities can
and do monopolize the great powers of
government. That is what we are going
to witness in this country, if we do not
wake up to the fact that daily our
Congress is placing more and more con-
troll into the hands of one man.
What are these men whom we have
placed in Office aiming to do? Are they
living up to their oath to defend and
uphold the Constitution of the United
States of America. or are they treading
it into the ground for the sake of
few votes this November?
James X. Hall.
Evening star., 1950-09-04

The people he got in were not farmers
by instinct.
They let the place go. and today
not even the owner would recognize
it, it Is so overgrown with weeds.
X
Country boys and girls do all right
in Washington, Templeton Jones decided.
After all, wasn't he yokel, himself?
In every country town there are many
dapper. well-dressed people.
They used to be called dudes" Now
that word has different meanings.
Being country boy or girl, at heart,
is a common thing.
Men such as Charles Schwab and
Wendell Willkie were carried the good
things of the country boy with them
always.
To Templeton Jones, being country at
heart means liking the things of the
country. the early morning rising. the
going to bed with the chickens, the
interest in rain and wind and sun, the
liking for animals, and flowers and
vegetables as they grow. along with
the insects and rabbits and the squir-
rels, and the birds.
These interests, all of them, can be
carried to fruition in the city.
Even In an apartment there is still
to be had a keen interest in the weather.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Enqineer Commissioners Time

A Star editorial recently raised the
question of the advisability of having
the Engineer Commissioner Of the Dis
trict of Columbia serve as a member Of
the Public Utilities Commission.
Your attention is called to the fact
that, at its regular meeting last March
4, the Federation of Citizens Associ-
ations unanimously approved a recon-
mendation of its Public Utilities Com
mittee that legislation be requested
which would replace the Engineer Com
missioner as member of the PUG by
full-time Commissioner appointed on
the basis of his qualifications.
During deliberations of the commit
tee, it was brought out that the Engi-
neer Commissioner should be retained
as an adviser to the Commission on mat
ters related to engineering. but that
he should not be expected to spend
days-often dragging into weeks-sit-
ting in on hearings which frequently
involve no engineering problems.
That the chairman Of the Federation's
Public Utilities Committee did not i'm
mediately endeavor to further the
initiation Of such legislation is under
standable, since he was intensively en-
gagged in preparing the court case against
the PUG whereby last falls increase in
household gas rates was voided @'{
AS soon as the pending appeal to
higher courts in the gas case is heard,
the matter of replacement of the Engi-
neer Commissioner on the PUG no
doubt will receive the attention of the
very able committee chairman.
Mrs. Edw. B. Morris.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Its Death Was Deserved

Gratifying as it is to know that the discrim
inatory postal pay raise for veterans is dead, it
is disturbing to find that SO many members of
both houses of Congress were willing to vote for
this palpably political measure. The vote in the
Senate for overriding the Presidents veto of the
bill was 48 to 29-just four votes shy of the two
thirds majority needed to pass the legislation
over MIR. Truman's veto. The House previously
had overridden the veto by vote of 213 to 72.
This unwise proposal, pressured through
Congress by postal employees groups, would have
singled out 100 900 war veterans in the Post Office
Department for pay benefits denied some 100000
other veterans in the Government service. The
plan would have cost more than $3.50 million
If limited to the postal group and Sis billion
If similar raises had been extended to all veterans
on the Federal payroll.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Refugees in South Korea

In addition to the South Korea military
problem, the United States and the United
Nations are faced with the problem of feeding,
clothing and housing huge army of refugees.
Something like 100000 men, women and chill
dren have fed from the Red aggressors into the
relatively small area still held by our forces.
They must eat they must have shelter, they
must have things to wear, and the task of meet
ing those needs is difficult and costly one.
The situation has been rendered particularly
serious by the fact that the Communists now
control about 80 per cent of the rice producing
regions where the harvest is due early in October
The area flying the U. N. flag raises only about
rs per cent of the food needed for its normal
population of 100000 Add to these the 100000
refugees, and the magnitude of the feeding
problem becomes clear. Short of recapturing
the Red-occupied rice provinces before the
harvesting, the only way these South Koreans
can be saved from near-starvation is through
a special relief effort to import and stockpile
foodstuffs in sufficient quantity.
This effort-which has already been set in
motion by our Economic Cooperation Admins
tration in concert with u n agencies and the
South Korean government-probab will have
Evening star., 1950-09-04
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which they will point with pride when
campaigning for reelection.
They will claim it was pared to the
bone, knowing full well that, eventu-
ally, sufficient funds for defense here
will have to be appropriated. But in the
meantime there is the danger that it
may be done too late. However, this does
not concern them SO long as they can
not be charged with individual respon-
sibility for failure to make this provision.
They believe it will help to reelect them
as will their votes on large Rivers and
Harbors Appropriation bill whereas both
votes contravene true national economy.
Take politics out of national defense!
n f. C.