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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-10-12

for Theodore Simpson Mason, rs,
at his home 22e West Montgomery
Avenue in Rockville. Interment
was in Rockville Union Cemetery.
Mr.. Mason died at his home on
Thursday, October 5.
Born in Washington, Mr.. Mason
was resident of Rockville for
more than half a century. He was
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-10-12

Stedman Prescott, Jr.,
Solicitor.
Rockville, Md.
IN THE CIRCUIT. COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND,
Sitting as a Court of Equity.
LOIS B. OWEN,
20 Lincoln Avenue
Takoma Park, Maryland, @v
Plaintiff,
~. VS..
DUANE VAN OWEN,
Portland, Oregon, .r
Defendant.
Equity No. 1882
ORDER OF
u. PUBLIC CATION ,.f
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-10-12
NOTICE
LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD
FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY

MOANIuONAbASA NOOANA
Application having been made to
The Liquor Control Board for
Montgomery County for approval
of license to sell Alcoholic Bev-
erages pursuant to the provisions
Of Article 2B Of the Annotated
Code of Maryland as amended, no.
tice is hereby given that the said
application is made by:
J. Hardin Everitt, for a Class
"a" OFF Sale Beer and Light Wine
License for premises at 1920 Viers
Mill Road, Silver Spring, Mary
land.
Pursuant to law the Board has
fixed
Thurs, November 9, 1850
at 9:45 AM.
in the Hearing Room of the Dis
pensary Building, Silver Spring,
Maryland, for hearing on said ap-
plication, which is on file in the
office Of The Liquor Control Board
in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Any person desiring to be heard
in favor of or in opposition to the
approval of said application should
appear at the time and place fixed
for said hearing.
LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD FOR
> MONTGOMERY COUNTY
By: ]. FOREST WALKER,
n .ey, Chairman.
JAMES F. Erwin,
Assistant Secretary.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-03-09

BlKLES SHOE SHOP
II North Potomac treet
: HAGERSTOWN, MD.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-03-09

D. A. STICKELL & SONS, Inc.
67 West Baltimore Street
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
Evening star., 1950-10-04
This and That

Swifts cling to the inner walls Of Chin
neys like bats, and sometimes are smoked
out. to their sorrow.
Sudden blasts of heat, as from auto
matte heating, catch many of them
unaware.
Sometimes they fall dead into the tops
of dampers in fireplaces. and when the
damper is opened, the dead bodies fall
down.
Occasionally several swifts fly down
a chimney and into rooms. and there
they create great disturbance, and
sometimes real damage, owing to the
hutter Of their sooty wings.
The nest is inside the chimney. It is
made of small sticks and branches. glued
together with fluid secreted by the
salivary glands of the birds.
The nest makes a sort of pocket,
hitched to the wall on the side.
The eggs are pure white, from four
to six.
The sticky secretion used to hitch the
twigs together is the same thing some of
the Oriental races use as birds nest
soup"
Only the foreign swifts' nests are made
entirely Of this material, which, cleaned
and cooked. is regarded as great
delicacy.
The swift is not able to grasp branch
Evening star., 1950-10-04

Scarsdale days. "He even had his plant
on Long Island" former neighbor says
admiringly. HE used to drive over there
leisurely, sometime in the morning-none
Of this scrambling around to catch the
8:15 like the rest Of us commuters" That,
Of course. was BW.-before Washington.
Life is different now for Bill Foster.
At 8:15 every morning. he is in his Office.
He rarely leaves before 7:30 or 8 pm.
His subordinates swear that, in addition
to his regular duties, he reads every cable
that comes into or goes out of ECA head
quarters here.
Although he has been working for the
Government of and on for about eight
years now, Mr.. Foster is virtually un-
known to the public. which may need a
little time to adjust to the thought that
he is now holding one Of the worlds most
important jobs. ECA personnel will have
no such difficulty. The fact is that. for
practical purposes, Mr.. Foster has been
the working head of ECA for months.
His ex-boss Mr.. Hoffman. said recently
that If he himself had any special talent.
1t seemed to be one for finding better men
than he to carry on the jobs he had
begun. Mr.. Hoffman, Of course, Is mod
est man. But there is no doubt that he
feels, and rightly 50. that he Is leaving
ECA in good hands.
For Mr.. Foster has reputation as one
OF the best administrators around. He
Evening star., 1950-10-04

Chimney swifts doing their classic act
of flying as group down large CHM
ney delight all who see them.
Mostly observers call them chimney
Swallows"
Actually they are swifts. They are
about five and a half inches long, sooty
black, as BELTS anything having fancy
for the inside of chimneys.
In Audubon's day these birds nested
in hollow trees. Old sycamores were
favorites.
The coming of the white men to Amer
lea changed their habits.
The birds found man-made chimneys
more to their liking. And warmer.
X
These birds arrive here in April, and
many of them remain until October u,
some as late as the 25th Of the month.
These specimens as group seek shell
ter in large industrial chimneys, or some
of the larger apartment house chimneys,
or in the stacks of Government buildings.
Flying down as mass, they give the
impression Of cloud of smoke falling
in from the top, as they whir and fly
around and in, as if literally drawn in
at last.
It is only during the spring and q fall
migrations that these swifts indulge In
these mass flights into and out Of their
favorite chimneys.
Evening star., 1950-10-04
By Charles E. TroceweH

with its claws, as most birds can. It
must use its tail, too, to give it
clutch on the chimney wall.
Fortunately most chimneys are rough
inside, and this enables the bird to hold
itself securely.
Only the inexperienced young are
likely to fall down.
Woodpeckers are birds that use their
tails for additional support, too.
Although not swallows, the chimney
swifts do look much like them, and have
small triangular bills. long wings, and
very large mouths.
The large maws help the birds to COL
lect their only food, insects on the wing.
Experts regard them as among our
most useful species, and like to help them
nest near human habitation.
An old folk tale about the swift carry
ing bedbugs has been exploded by mod
ern science.
1t is now known that parasitic
insects on the swifts are harmless and
not bedbugs!-and would die If sep
arated from their hosts.
Real swallows belong to the order
Passeres; the chimney swifts to the order
Macrochires.
Young swifts are featherless when
Matched. They are fed in the nests for
two weeks. From then on they cling to
the wall like their parents.
Evening star., 1950-10-04
Don't Drop Animals

A great many people who have cats
or dogs that they no longer want follow
the practice Of dropping" them by the
roadside in the hope that some kind
soul who wants pet will give these
abandoned animals a home. It seldom
works out that way. In most cases, the
animals starve to death as result of
being thus abandoned.
I love animals, and what makes me
maddest about this situation Is that it is
so completely unnecessary. II you don't
want your cat or dog, the best thing
to do is to try to give it to somebody
who does. II nobody else wants it, the
next best thing to do is to get in touch
with the Animal Rescue League. II you
can't take the animal to the league.
they will come and pick 1t up for you.
If anyone tempted to drop pet by
the roadside would first read Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's poem. 1.-THE Beggar
Cat" they never would take this easy
and cruel way out OF their difficulty.
Edna b. Wilcox.
Evening star., 1950-10-04
More About License Tuqs

In letter to The Star recently one
OF your contributors recommended more
distinctive license plates for Washington
vehicles, stating that the initials D. c.
on tags are not understood in some
places outside the District and suggesting
that better inscription on the tags
would make the National Capital better
known to outsiders. I heartily concur
in the suggestion, and also suggest that
the numerals on District tags be as
distinct and legible as those on Virginia,
Maryland and other State tags.
Also may I suggest that if better
picture cards Of Washington were OBJ
the attractions Of the National Capital to
wider circle Of tourists. Why is 1t that
American picture card makers cannot
produce the pleasing picture cards picked
up in Europe? have collection Of
picture cards bought in several European
countries visited Is years ago. that
still prize for their beauty, but in America
the only pleasing picture cards have
ever found are the beautiful Swiss picture
cards of Colonial Williamsburg, the Mag
nolia Gardens near Charleston, s. c., the
Biltmore estate in North Carolina, and
the Bellingrath Gardens near Mobile Ala.
Washington hotel interests and other
local business men might interest them
selves in procuring beautiful picture card
scenes of the National Capital like the
imported and incompatible Swiss pic
ture cards that may be purchased for
S cents each at Colonial Williamsburg
and the other places mentioned.
Lewis L. Young.
X
We have just returned from motor
trip through New England and have
Evening star., 1950-10-04
A Hundred Years of Horper's

Harper'S Magazine is celebrating its hun
dredth birthday anniversary. centennial issue
was released yesterday. 1t is an encyclopaedia
production and must be rated as "a collectors
item" from the start. But it will raise nostalgia
questions. For example, where are our modern
authors to bracket with Dickens and Thackeray?
The original monthly sponsored by James, John
Wesley and Fletcher Harper was designed to
afford a medium for the American republication
of the works of leading European literary artists
1t was financed out of the profits of a highly
lucrative textbook manufacturing plant. The
founders referred to 1t as "a tender to our busi-
ness" In time they added three other periodicals
to their lst-and each of the lot was money
maker.
To the 1850 equivalent of the Readers Digest
of today, however, especial credit is due. It was
the first achievement of its kind. There had been
other magazines, but they were relatively in
consequential Harper's, edited by Henry j. Ray
mond began with circulation of $500. Within
six months the print order had reached $4,000.
It climbed to 100000 by the end of the first
decade of it's history. A clue to an explanation
of this miracle may be discovered in the fact
that, though Volume Number l was "corny"
according to the sophisticated standards which
now prevail, it still is readable The writer's who
co-operated to set the pattern for Harper's knew
how to win friends and influence people. They
were not mao at anybody, tney were not trying
to reform anything. Their objective simply was
to entertain and to instruct.
The four brothers lived to see their invest
ment justified abundantly. Their pioneer monthly
27 when the last of them died. It long since
had become institution of reaching power
and value in the annals of the Nation. The
roster of its contributors is scroll of fame.
George Eliot, Du Maurier, Hardy Hewlett, Kipling,
Conrad, Hawthorne Melville, Henry James, Long
fellow, Whitman, Stephen Crane, Thomas Nelson
Page, Richard Harding Davis, Mark Twain, Wins
low Homer Howard Pyle, Charles Dana Gibson,
A. B. Frost we're but few of the Harper galaxy
of stars. William Dean Howells and George
William Curtis served as impresarios for whole
phalanx of young geniuses who made their bows
In the monthly and thus commenced to be
famous.
Leafng over the centennial number one
realizes how good the past was and develops an
ardent hope that the future may be as definitely
worthwhile. If Harpers in its second hundred
years can supply publication opportunities for
string of collaborators meritorious and dy-
manic as those presented between 1850 and 1850,
literature will not perish and worthy periodical
publishing will not vanish from the earth.
Evening star., 1950-10-04
What Kind of Peace for Korea?

AS will surprise nobody, Soviet Foreign Min
lister Vishinsky's peace" plan for Korea is fraud
calculated to enable the Communist aggressors
to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Calling for a cease fire. the plan offers these
big jokers: Cd A provision for the complete and
immediate withdrawal of our American and other
United Nations military forces from all parts of
Korea. (2) A provision under which the northern
Reds and the South Koreans would choose a
commission from among themselves to supervise
elections throughout the whole country and set
up temporary regime to handle affairs until
new government assumed power And CD a
provision to establish u N. committee-which
would include Russia and Communist China,
though the latter is not a member Of the U. NJ
to observe the voting and presumably to guard
against dirty work at the polls.
It is not necessary to look twice at this plan
to see how effectively 1t would cancel out what
the United Nations has thus far achieved against
the criminal war of conquest launched by the
puppet Communist regime of North Korea. On
the one hand, Mr. Vishinsky would leave that
regime intact with whatever arms it still has
or may continue to receive via Manchuria. On
the other hand, he would remove all the U. MS
military forces from the country. Then, under
the benevolent eyes of the Russians and the
Chinese Reds, the Pyongyang aggressors would
place themselves on an election commission with
the South Koreans whom they have done their
best to destroy. Thus peace" would come to the
tortured land-a peace" that would mean victory
not for decency. freedom and the rule of law, but
for Soviet-inspired aggression
Despite India's anxious efforts to the con-
Jrary, there be no compromises Mr..
Vishinsky himself has said-between this plan
and the one sponsored by the United States and
other nations in the Political and Security Com
mittee of the General Assembly. The latter plan
which by plain implication lends additional
u. N. sanction to the crossing and erasure of the
38th Parallel-calls for measures designed to put
an end to the governmental and military power
of the aggressors and to insure the creation of
a genuinely free and united Korea Stated very
simply, the Assemby's overwhelming majority
cannot fail to follow that course unless 1t wishes
to stultify itself and mock the brave men who
have died fighting for 1t.
Will the Chinese Communists intervene
directly If the u N. thus does what it should do?
The Indians seem to fear so. But whether that
fear is sound or not, the fact remains that the
w-abiding world will win nothing and lose
much, If the aggressor in Korea survives with
half a chance to try his crime all over again.
Evening star., 1950-10-04

government and world peace. All that is over
now. In letter to Mr.. McGrath, he writes like
man without country. He wants his citizen
ship because its loss has helped to show him how
valuable it is. He had a good war record as
bomber pilot during World War II and his curious
choice of method to demonstrate his hope for
better world was manifestly the result of some
emotional urge to be martyr. Now he wants
to be good citizen of the country he loves,
much more practical and praiseworthy ambition.
1t would not be the first return of prodigal son,
and his father-who has been patient and under
standing throughout this trying incident-will
take care of the fatted calf
Evening star., 1950-10-04
Indonesio-the Goth

Last year, when the United States Of
Indonesia came into being as an independent
nation the Kremlin's propagandists called 1t the
puppet creation of American and Dutch "im-
perialists" Since then, however the Soviet
Union has changed It's mind, having been quick
to learn that it could win no friends In Asia by
hbeling the young new state
So 1t is not surprising that the Security
Council has not been stopped by the Russian veto
from voting to admit Indonesia into the United
Nations. Actually-agreeing with the majority
for the first time in long, long time-Soviet
Delegate Jacob A. Malik has not merely voted
in favor of admission, but has made point of
vying with the Councils other members in saying
nice things about the f1edging republic and its
government.
Thus with the vote 10 to in favor (the
Nationalist Chinese reluctantly abstaining be-
cause OF the republics recognition of Red
Peiping), 1ndonesia has won virtually unanimous
support for membership in the u N, AS for
the General Assembly, it has completed the
admission process by acclamation, without
single dissenting vote and with a surge of
applause from all Sides AS a result, the In
donesians have now taken their seats as full
fedged participants In the Assembly's current
session.
AS the eoth member of the United Nations,
Indonesia will represent more than 75,0O0000
people who are scattered over vast area of the
Southwest Pacific in an archipelago made up of
5000 islands. Though still faced with many
difficult problems, this new state-organized with
the U. MS help and granted full sovereignty by
the Dutch after centuries of colonial rule-has
tremendous resources and has already demon
strated its capacity to govern itself and play
constructive part in the world organization
Indeed, in time, Indonesia can become one of
the most influential of the countries that have
achieved independence in Asia and the Far
Pacific since the end of the Second World War;
That helps to explain why the Kremlin has long
since stopped insulting it as an American-Dutch
puppet 1t is a genuinely free republic with
strong friends in India and elsewhere on the
Asatic mainland. The Russians would have done
themselves no good, propagandstically or other
wise, If they had barred it from the u N
Evening star., 1950-10-04
By THE HAsKN SERVICE.

@. What American sea captain was
charged freight on four small cannon
which had been carried on to his ship
without the authority Of the ownerf,
They were used to protect the vessel
P. @. r. ~.
A. This experience befell Capt. WI
liam Sturgis Of the Atahualpa. A ieet
OF 16 Chinese pirate junks attacked the
ship in Macao Roads, below Canton.
Eventually Capt. Sturgis got his shin
lnshore where Portuguese forts could
protect him. but he had occasion to fire
his four cannon as he made his way
to them. Tradition says that the owner
OF the Atahualpa, Theodore Lyman of
Boston. thanked the gallant captain. but
charged freight on the cannon. With
out Lyman's authority. they had been
VA AA-' 'e0So1' ra~
@. What was the cost of the most
expensive airplane used during World
War II?-J. A. M.
A. According to the Department OF
Defense, B-29 superfortress, the larr- -
est bomber used during World War ii.
cost approximately $650,000. -
@. Who named "Gunston Hall" tha
beautiful house on the Potomac River?-.
E. S. -. ~ -.
A. George Mason named the mansion,
"Gunston Hall" after the home of his
maternal grandmother in Staffordshire.
England. The house was begun In IT'S
and completed in 1883. - :.
Evening star., 1950-10-04
By NewboId Moves, Jr.

NLLIAM c. FOSTER used to play a
w lot of golf in those good old days
when he was gentleman manufacturer
up in Scarsdale. N. Y. Still. occasionally
he shoots under 80.
HE swings hard" friend said the
other day. But the main thing about
Bill Foster-he has hell of good follow
through"
The friend knew he was talking to a
reporter. so his choice of words may not
have been purely fortuitous. But the fact
remains that he put his finger on the key
to Mr.. Fosters career as public Official
For whether Mr.. Foster is engaged with
small white ball-or with the work of
administering ECA, the biggest business
enterprise In the history of international
co-operation-he knows how to follow
through. He isn't f1ashy: he isn't even
particularly colorful But he has that
one great strength and it happens to be
the strength which Is needed in his job.
Mr.. Fosters golf game, according to
observers, looks like the end product Of
lot OF loving care by competent pro.
In the vernacular, it is an expensive"
game. Mr.. Foster Is an expensive man.
A lot of people live in houses which cost
less to build than Mr.. Fosters Scarsdale
home cost to paint. In Georgetown, now,
he rents the house that David Bruce, our
Ambassador to France, bought from
Wayne Chatfield Taylor
In private life, Mr. Foster was president
Of the Pressed and Welded Steel Products.
Inc. It used to be standing joke be-
tween him and former ECA Administra-
tor Paul Hoffman, whose deputy he has
been for two years. that he sometimes
made more money with his small plant
than Mr.. Hoffman made with the Stude-
baker Corp, which Is a big one.
Mr.. Foster was born in 1897. He was
not born in log cabin, nor with a silver
spoon in his mouth. Despite the lack of
such biographical aids, he has always
managed to make go Of things. Bill
Fosters personal history" says an ECA
press handout, "has been solid and con-
sistent." That about sums 1t up. His
father, still very much alive, was and
remains mechanical engineer. Young
Bill left the Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology in his senior year to join the
nascent Army Air Force. and in 1918 was
commissioned flying second lieutenant.
The next year he went to work for
Packard Motors in Flushing. ~ Y, then
moved over to the Public Service Cor
poration of New Jersey. He made his
debut with Pressed and Welded in 1922
as sales engineer. He became president
Of the company In l946.
Life was pleasant and relaxed, In the
Evening star., 1950-10-04
Autumn

Winter is too like age to be a comfort s
able season. 5sz =
Spring is sick Nth memories OF Other
springs, 9LeN-r
Ghosts of promises 3Ts1f,
Life has not kept. q 500
Summers fruitful industry reproaehes
Our summer languor. fWhI you ueed e.
garden; rise to pluck rose?) $50
But autumn's the drama OF life ard its =
passing.
Autumn is realization for all. .->s.---,
Harpest In, and every leaf painted. Epery
tree -
A torch to blaze in the mind joreper. 80
No one Is eper too old for autnnsn, nor
eDer too small - 'T5
Autumn is like the memory Of beautt-
tul life.
MARGERY MANSFIEEDs~zal
Evening star., 1950-10-04
Beside the Point

In commenting upon the accomplishments OF
his House District Committee during the past
session. Chairman Mcmillan says that in enacting
% local laws only hours were spent by the
House in discussion and passage-an average of
minutes per law.
Mr.. Mcmillan uses the figure to ridicule an
argument in favor of home rule, the bill for
which, incidentally is still bottled up in the House
District Committee This argument is that home
rule should be granted the people of Washington
IN order to save the time spent on local legislation
by Congress 1t was estimated in 1948, that the
House District Committee spent 5000 man
hours during the first session of the 80th Con-
gress in consideration of local legislation So Mr.
Mcmillan, in his 3-hour figure, is not talking
about the same thing that the advocates of home
rule were talking about.
But both sets of figures, it seems to The Star
are pretty much beside the point The time spent
on local legislation by Congress ought to depend
upon the Importance of the bills and the need
for the legislation and should not be regarded as
waste Under the Constitution, Congress is
charged with the exclusive power of legislation
in the Seat of Government Congress is not apt
to surrender that exclusive power, nor is it
certain that the time spent in Congress on local
legislation necessarily would be shortened if
Congress delegated some legislative powers
subject to Congressional review-to a locally
elected city council.
The real principle at stake has nothing to
do with time. It concerns the inherent right of
American citizens to representation in their own
Government. The people of Washington should
be represented in Congress. They should be able
to vote for President of the United States. With
such representation there Is no doubt about the
fact that methods would follow to expedite the
consideration Of laws affecting the District of
Columbia alone. For one thing, voters would de-
mand that 1t be done. But nobody in Congress is
being hurt now by the amount of time spent on
local legislation The people who are being hurt
are those who have no voice whatever In their
Government.