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Evening star., 1950-07-02
The Travellers Notebook
Scrbblings About Vacation Pieces, Events

were stranded in New York on
their way to Europe. Their char
tered Norwegian freighter Sval-
bard, was ruled unfit for the trip
by the United States Coast Guard,
a stickler for safety at sea. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Laura Waters,
Washington travel agent and Sec
retary of ASIA, agency members
Of the society earlier had been in
vited to cooperate with sponsors
Of the Svalbard trip, but declined
after the experience of the spon-
sors was brought into question.
Her comprehensive statement
warned that wildcat operations
can break down confidence in the
long established and proved serv-
ices rendered by the established
travel industry"
Five New England cities and re-
sorts have been added to the list
having regularly scheduled all
services for summer travels
Northwest Airlines inaugurated
service at Laconia, N. H.: Bar
Harbor. Rockland and Brunswick
Me-, and New London, Conn.
The marlin season at Ocean
City. Md. recorded it's second
catch last Monday. The weekly
prize went to Hershey (Pa.) Wis
|itor who boated a 72-pound white
marlin. It was 7 feet 4 inches
long.
New Cruise Idea-A new twist
is freighter cruises has been in
troduced by the Alcoa Steamship
Co. for its standard freighter
trips. Under the novel arrange
ment the cruise fare will entitle
the passenger to return to his de-
parture port by first-class rail
transportation. For example, if a
cruise passenger leaves Baltimore
to cruise through the colorful Car
'ibbean and return to the United
States at Mobile. Ala. he is auto
matically eligible to rail transpor-
tation from Mobile to Baltimore.
That also holds good for depart
ures from Montreal, New York,
New Orleans and Halifax. The
new plan follows recent announce
ment Of cuts in Alcoa freighter
fares, ranging up to II per cent.
Last years tour Of is old. his
torical and interesting houses in
Cape May County, N. j.. will be
repeated July IA. The tour will
extend from Beesleys Point, on
the Shore road, to Cape May, and
from Cold Spring to Woodbine
road on the Delsea drive. Tickets
on sale at each open house, will
be So per person.
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Cars going abroad-The idea of
shipping ones car for use abroad
has doomed business of the In
ternational travel department OF
the American Automobile Associ-
Evening star., 1950-07-02

Cars going abroad-The idea OF
shipping ones car for use abroad
has doomed business of the In
ternational travel department OF
the American Automobile Associ-
Evening star., 1950-07-02

alton. In the first five months
of 1850. AAA arranged transporta-
ton for 2.307 autos. The figure
was higher than for all of 1948,
the first full postwar year in
which autos were accepted as
transatlantic baggage. BY the
end OF this year, the auto-ship-
ment figure may rise to $500.
Work on reconstructing the CO.
lumbia icef1eld highway is con-
tinuing this summer beyond Mile
80. G. H. L. Dempster, superin-
tendent of Jasper National Park
in the Canadian Rockies, said it
is hoped the project can be pushed
to Mile SIS by late summer. That
would leave only IA more miles
of roadwork to be done to the
south boundary Of the park.
A public ceremony will be held
Wednesday in st. Petersburg. Fla.
when bids will be received for the
13-mile, $40 million bridge across
Tampa Bay. The span will link
st. Petersburg with the Florida
mainland at a point near Braden-
town. Work is scheduled to begin
in September, for completion in
two years.
Immediate confirmation of hotel
space in the Hawaiian Islands is
open to passengers under plans
worked out by United Airlines. Ten
hotels on the islands are CO.
operating with United in the sery-
ice. the last two added being the
famed Royal Hawaiian and the
Moana.
Air Coach Continues-Until re-
Gently, Northwest Airlines' Chi
cago-Portland air coach service
was under orders to discontinue.
The Civil Aeronautics Board has
extended the permit, however.
Northwest operates the only air
coach service between Chicago and
the Pacific Northwest. via Mime
apolis, Billings, Mont. and Spo-
kane.
Bordering the Annapolis VAL
ley IN Nova Scotia is peaceful
little valley known as Little Swift
zerland." Through it winds the
Bear River. The surrounding
country, with its birch and spruce
clad hills. is a network Of streams
and lakes and abound in deer.
duck, partridge and woodcock plus
excellent angling. The picturesque
village of Bear River, nesting on
the side of a hill. is in the heart
OF a cherry-growing region, and
each year it becomes the center
OF a gay festival. the Bear River
Cherry Carnival. The celebration
is to be held on July 10. The
cherry becomes king for a day.
Home-baked cherry pies are sold
to visitors by the country folk,
as well as bottles Of jam. Most
priced by visitors, though. is the
chance to rent a cherry tree for
a day. If they are early enough.
they may take over a tree for
that day and eat all they can of
the delicious cherries.
Under a new system passengers
on All American Always flights
to Ocean City. Md, will be trans
ported from the Salisbury Airport
to any point within the city limits
for 81. Ocean City officials an
nounced the Red Star Bus Co.
has agreed to have limousines
meet all daily flights, and that
the same arrangement holds for
return trips. Ocean City visitors
may call the Shoreham Hotel
there for information on sched-
ules.
Evening star., 1950-06-15
(9)95
NO BLASTS, NO DRAFTS, SPEED
FOR CONSTANT CIRCULATION

Toke the temper out Of the temperature with your
Berns "Air King. AttroetiveIy styled and finished
to blend with the finest home furnishings ]. its
portable you'll use it upstairs, downstoirs any
where! Click the switch and you creote founton
Of cool breezes over wide oreo. Equipped with
lone-Iife three-speed unit with four Z" blodes.
Evening star., 1950-06-15
EMERSON Window Fan
CIRCULATING FAN BY DAY.
WINDOW FAN BY NIGHT
4 | 40

2speed l6-nch Window Fan thot whips the breezes
through during the doy gently crcuotes the dir ot
night sofey "snop-n" guard gives added protection
against contact with blades equipped with an efficient
motor and balanced overlapping blades to move large
volume of air quietly without vibration Fon does not inter-
fere with raising lowering Of the sash.
Evening star., 1950-06-15

Mothes gives you beautiful hardwood eobnet OF the
finest veneers with super powered motor that works
quietly effortessy and efficiently Jet flow fon bodes
are shielded with fine sofey grille. You set the air
poce with touch Of your finger to the variable speed
CONTROL Equipped with top honde thot nokes CORY
ing the fan to any room easy and energy sowing.
Smyrna times., 1950-12-21
limited States ls
Christmas Carol
.Neeting Place

TN TOWNS AND CITIES through
I out America. in churches. public
squares and along home lined
streets. over millions of radios and
public address systems come the
strains Of the worlds Yuletide melo-
dies-old as bygone centuries, young
as TIN dreaming of white Christ
mas. :"
The United States. meeting
place of carols from all Chris
tendon, contributes yearly to
the traditions of Christmas
music by writing new songs and
pOpularizing old ones.
The carols OF Europe arrived
with the peoples who came to
America to settle. 20 Come. All Ye
Faithful" (Adeste Fideles). even
tually translated into 119 languages
and dialects. belonged to no one
nation but was the common gift Of
the continent. From Germany came
Luther's hymn for children. Away
In a manger, no crib for a bed .
England sent God rest you, merry
gentlemen. let nothing you dis
may. :" And France provided the
beautiful "Cantique de Noel" or 20
Holy Night"
Three American composers did
much to revive the ancient custom
by writing new songs which are. to-
day. among the worlds best be.
loved carols.
''It Came Upon a Midnight
Clear" was the inspiration of
Edmund ii. Sears, a Massachu-
sets Unitarian minister, in 1S49
Less than 10 years later DR..
John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Epis-
copal rector from Williamsport,
Pa, composed both the words
and music for eve Three Kings
of Orient Are"
Perhaps the best-known Ameri-
can carol, 20 Little Town Of Beth
lehem," was written in 1868 by
Phillips Brooks in Philadelphia. The
young Episcopal minister, later
bishop Of Massachusetts. was in
spired to write the poem by the
memory of trip to the Holy Land
two years earlier. The rollicking
Jingle Bells" though non-religious
in theme, also came from the pen
of churchman, John Pierpont,
and has enjoyed almost a century
of popularity.
Evening star., 1950-07-07
BY Charles E. Trocewen

Few insects have had more or better
books written about them.
Only last year a new one came out.
Bee manuals are to be had by those
ambitious to handle them properly.
Improperly handled, as every one
knows, they can cause great deal Of
personal damage.
A man out in Kensington found bees
had set up housekeeping in his attic.
Owing to the heat, the honey had be-
gun seeping down through the ceiling!
X
Dislodging bees from such position
is not easy.
Sometimes deadly gases are recon-
mended, but. these should be used only
with the greatest caution, and only in
the open air, with complete protection
from breathing the fumes and care to
avoid getting liquid on the hands. If
the latter Is inevitable, thorough wash
ing should be done on descending from
the ladder.
Bees in ones attic are no more desir-
able than bees in the bonnet. Smoking
them out. then sealing up the entrance,
is best, and best done by some one ia
miliar with bee habits and how to pro-
tect ones self from them.
Usually there is some one in q sub
urban neighborhood who keeps bees and
would like to have the colony. He will
take them ou4gladly. in most cases.
Evening star., 1950-07-07

merce Commission report for 1919. One
day I read speech by Senator Taft.
That. however, was dangerous. It
caused me to contemplate the deplorable
condition the country would be in If
Mr.. Taft's predictions over the past 20
years had come true. That could cause
another heart attack. But digress.
The six weeks are nearly gone. Your
original rebellion against the enforced
rest also has slipped away. Your read
ing. your visitors and mail have taken
your mind of your troubles. The pains
have long since been gone. Your appe-
tite is good. You sleep like child.
And last-but hardly least-the old
pulse is throbbing normally and there
isn't a sign Of rigor mortis. You realize
it-you feel swell.
Now it's time to go home. but remem-
ber. friend, take 1t easy. That's another
way Of saying "live sensibly." AS a mat
ter Of fact, II you had taken it easy and
lived sensibly in the first place, you
probably wouldn't have had the heart
attack.
Taking 1t easy means relaxing and not
worrying. Lock up those Office problems
and peeves when you close your desk at
Evening star., 1950-07-07
A Heart Attack Can Be Good for You

in flowers and, at first. you're not sure
that you aren't dead. The laboratory
reports come back and they don't look
too good either. But the real blow 10
your morale Is when you are told you
must spend six weeks in bed.
What? Six weeks in the sack? Me?
You can't do this to me-"
But they do. Six weeks Of quiet, rest
and solid comfort is par for the course
with a run-of-mine heart attack.
Another blow to your ego and morale
is the readjustment to the severe regj-
mentation of the hospital. But soon it
all becomes routine - being shaved,
bathed and fed--the medicine, the
thermometers-even the hypodermic
needless
At first. hypodermic needle is a
major operation Later. you become
needle immune and seem to develop the
characteristics Of q self-sealing inner
tube. I. for instance, now am getting
feelers from the Goodyear people.
You have countless hours to read.
read everything from How to Trim a
Hedge Fence" to the Interstate Com
Evening star., 1950-07-07

ls4s He painted "The Crucihxion" for Saint
Stephens Church in New York and "The Holy
Trinity" in the cathedral at Mexico City. Then
he was engaged by Captain Montgomery G..
Meigs to decorate the Agricultural Committee
Room at the Capitol, where he chose as his
subject Cincinnatus at the Plow
The list of Brumidis subsequent undertak-
ings is long. He painted symbolic figures of
history geography, mechanics, commerce, the
arts and the sciences and war; portraits of Benja-
min Franklin, John Fitch, Robert Fulton, Samuel
F. B. Morse and other worthless Originally his
compensation was So day. jefferson Davis had
1t raised to $40. For three years labor on the
canopy and frieze of the rotunda he was given
lump sum OF $4,000 He left no estate. Gradu-
ally his name faded. Even his grave was for
gotten. But Mrs. Murdock located it. She also
has rediscoyered 25 OF Brumidi's preliminary oil
sketches for his major works. Further investiga-
ton, she believes, may bring still more to light
She asks the public's help in the quest
Evening star., 1950-07-07
Unwise Personnel Restrictions

In view of the changed defense picture,
Congress ought to take another look at appro-
priation riders which would restrict civilian
strength of the Department of Defense The
growing Far Eastern crisis calls for reassignment
of most uniformed personnel now on routine
desk duties Their places will have to be taken
by civilians. To hamper the defense agencies
in meeting the shifting personnel problem would
be risky and dangerous right now.
The House tackled two riders on the pending
Federal budget bill that are unrealistic insofar
as they apply to the Army, Navy and Air Force
Departments however justifiable they may have
been before the outbreak of the Korean war;
One is the Taber-Johnson amendment, which
would impose an outright personnel reduction
all along the line. The other is the Jensen
amendment, which would prevent the depart
ments from filling certain vacancies as they
occur. These restrictions would be superimposed
on the civil service reductions already made by
Defense Secretary Johnson in line with his own
economy program.
The military budget for 1851 is likely to be
revised hastily upward, as a result Of the grave
operations by our armed forces in the Pacific
theater. The budget as submitted was based
on an assumption of non-war conditions during
the ensuing year. That the President will ask
for more funds for personnel and materiel is
almost certainty. To order civilian retrench-
ment at such time would be shortsighted in
the extreme.
Evening star., 1950-07-07
This and That

One wonders If today's alert haber-
dashers are quite alert enough, in failing
to remember that clerks can be too
dressed up.
Thousands Of men shrink from enter
ing.
It is even whispered that hundreds Of
men never enter. but depend upon their
wives for the purchase of socks, ties, coll
lars. even suits!
One ambitious lady, tired Of seeing her
good spouse in the same old suit, took
his measurements and hied herself to
one Of WaShington'S SwankieSt stores.
The inmates OF this store, evidently,
did not realize the situation at all.
They refused to sell suit in any such
fashion.
II simply couldn't be done, they as
serted.
Not to be scuelched so easily, the lady
left, went to nearby haberdashery,
equally swank. but found an intelligent
clerk.
He not only said it was possible to
sell suit In such fashion. but said it
could be done properly. too.
And 1t was. Today the shy gentleman
who was afraid Of the sporty boys In
the aisles wears the suit. perfect model.
But back to the bees:
They are interesting insects, as the
lore OF mankind shows.
Evening star., 1950-07-07
Brumidi Memorial

Congress has passed and President Truman
has signed bill providing for a simple monu-
ment for the grave of Constantine Brumidi in
Glenwood Cemetery. He was the artist respon-
sible for the decoration of the rotunda of the
Capitol-the first great muralist in American
history. Credit for commemorating him is due
to Mrs. Myrtle Cheney Murdock, wife of the
Representative from Arizona. She has spent
years in research and investigation of his career
and now has written book concerning his
achievement
Mrs. Murdock's manuscript quotes many
references to Brumidi in The Star. One dated
February 10, 1880, announces his death at 921 G
street Northwest, latter an illness of some
months"-an illness caused by fall on the
platform on which he worked under the Capitol
dome, not by fall from it. The last of his
frescoes was left unfinished, despite the fact
that, as The Star observed, 'tit had been his
cherished hope to complete this work with his
own hands and to leave 1t as illustrative of his
abilities as an artist"
Other productions he had sponsored were
perfected by him. Brumidi, born in Rome in
1905, came to America after the revolution Of
Evening star., 1950-07-07
What to do about bees?

What to do about bees?
A resident of East Falls Church, Va,
writes as follows:
"A large swarm of honey bees has de-
scended upon the rear Of my log cabin
structure, where the bathroom joins the
main house, and was first observed by me
at sundown when ! was in the act Of
spraying them with DDT, not knowing
what kind Of insects they were, when o
neighbor stopped me In the nick Of time
with the admonition that I would be
.stung to DEATH expressing the belief
that they would go away after while.
Almost week has elapsed and they
still swarm about. There must be thou
sands Of them, which makes me believe
they have the queen and would like to
make honey II a suitable place is pro-
vided, SO have erected an open box con-
tanning comb-like metal rack, formerly
used for placing flowers in q vase, and
am content to watch the results"
zss3s S5
There was nice swarm Of bees high
In tree at the northwest corner Of
Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
right in front Of the store that still bears,
high up. the name OF James Y. Davis =
Probably few today. happening to see
the name, remember the mems haber-
dashery store run there by Mr.. Davis for
many years.
It was quiet, old-fashioned place, the
sgt men were not afraid to enter.t
Evening star., 1950-07-07
Gambling War Victory

The United States Court of Appeals has
materially strengthened the hand of United
States Attorney Fay in his drive to cut of the
race news service Of local gamblers The courts
unanimous decision upholding the right of the
Federal prosecutor to initiate telephone removal
proceedings outside well as inside the District
OF Columbia is of prime Importance, for Mr.. Fay's
recent campaign was based on an assumption
Of such authority
The appellate judges set aside District Court
injunction OF last April forbdding the District
Attorney from requesting the Chesapeake g.
Potomac Telephone Co. OF Baltimore to remove
equipment allegedly being used ito aid and abet
In the violation OF statutes prohibiting gambling
In the District of Columbia" The lower court
also had enjoined the company from discontinue
ing service, apparently" the Court of Appeals
said, because there was no evidence that the
telephone had been used to place bets in the
District of Columbia" Only the United States
Attorney appealed from the District Courts
decision, however.
The appeals tribunal held that Mr.. Fay was
acting for the United States when he made
the requests Of the company and that he was
acting within his authority when he did So
even II the information on which he acted was
incorrect In the latter event, the court pointed
out, redress could be had against the telephone
company Attention was called to recent Sill
preme Court ruling rejecting the argument
that AN officer given the power to make decisions
is only given the power to make correct decisions
Presumably the appellate decision applies to
telegraph ticker service just as it does to tele-
phone service. Mr.. Fay last year requested the
removal not only of more than 800 telephones
but also of more than two dozen ticker outlets
from race information sources. The requests were
made under authority of Federal Communica-
tions Commission regulation requiring communi-
cation companies to remove equipment reported
by competent authorities as being used for illegal
purposes.
Although the appeals court held that the
District Attorneys right to make such requests
cannot be questioned, it emphasized that sub
scribers have the right of action against the
company If they have a grievance. This places
great burden Of responsibility on the company
which acts on the prosecutors requests. And it
is plain that a great burden of responsibility
rests also on the United States Attorney--to make
sure that the competent evidence" on which
requests are based is really competent Other
wise the communications companies will be SUBJ
ject to litigation that they should not have to
undergo, and innocent subscribers will be forced
to resort to expensive and troublesome court
proceeding to protect thaE rightA
Evening star., 1950-07-07
Whot Is q Bureuucrot?

The top Fair Deal strategist, address,
ing the Newspaper Guild the other eve,
Is said to have defined a bureaucrat as
"one who holds a Government Office that
someone else wants.
That joke is getting bit corny, as
the Weep, during the 1948 election cam
paign. used the identical term.
It is interesting to note the new slant
that the twin deals-New and Fair-have
put on the meaning of "bureaucrat." Back
in 1882, FDR, campaigning for President,
used as his prime slogan: Lets balance
the budget" He branded the administra-
ton then in Office as the most extra
VACANT in history. He referred to those
in power as bureaucrats, and his defini-
ton OF bureaucrat definitely was not
lone who holds Government Office that
someone else wants"
An elephant never forgets. A donkey
is too stubborn to remember.
w. B. G.