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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-09-21
! IN The CHURCHES :
PINES COMMUNITY CHURCH
TraviIah Road

Travilah Road
Thawley Holmes, Pastor
10 AM, Sunday School.
IL AM, Worship Service.
Thurs, 8 P. M, Gospel Hour.
LAYTONSVILLE CHARGE
Methodist Church
Harold B. Wright, Pastor,
10 AM, Worship :, Laytonsville.
HIS AM, Worship, Woodfeld.
1915 PM, Worship Etchison.
ROCKVILLE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
J. Virgil Lilly, Minister
9:45 AM, Sunday School.
Graded Glasses for all ages.
11:00 A. M. Morning Worship.
Nursery.
$50 PM, Christian Youth
Fellowship.
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POTOMAC METHODIST
CHIIRCH

G. E. Allis, Minister
9:45 A. NJ, Church School with
classes for all ages.
IL AM, Worship Service.
Up. NJ, Youth Fellowship.
Wednesday, 8 P. NJ, Adult Choir
practice.
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CULESV LILLE -ANUKEW
CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Paul H. Groseclose, Pastor
10 AM, Sunday School.
IL AM, Worship Service.
7:15 PM, Methodist Youth Fell
lowship.
Holy Communion first Sunday
each month.
Young Adult meeting, second
Tuesday in each month.
W.S.C.S., second Wednesday in
each month.
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ST. JOHNS, EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Olney
Rev. James Valiant, Rector
9:45 AM, Church School.
11:15 AM, Holy Communion.
LIST Sunday in monthly Morning
Prayer (other Sundays.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-09-21
EPWORTH METHODIST
CHURCH
Caifharchnru

Arthur w. Ewell, Pastor
$3.50 A. M. Church School.
Departmentalized. Organize
Adult Classes.
IL AM, Divine worship.
8 Pm. Wed, Prayer Meeting.
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HIGHWAY TABERNACLE
915 Viers Mill Road, Rockville
Rev. B. M. Slye, pastor i,
10 AM, Sunday School.
IL AM, Morning Worship.
8 Pm. Sunday Night Evan
gelistic Service.
Tuesday, 8 PM, Young Peoples
Friday, 8 PM, Bible Study.
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MT, ZION CEDAR GROVE
(UPPER SENECA) BAPTIST

C. A. Brubaker, Minister
10 AM, Worship Mt. Zion.
1880 A. NJ, Worship Cedar
Grove.
z PM, Worship, Germantown.
Service at Travilah Church at 3
P. M. every other Sunday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-09-21
ST.BARTHOLOMEw'S
CHURCH
LaytOffsviIle

William Baxter, Seminarian
$3.50 A.M.,-Church School.
1890 A.M,-Choir Practice.
Hoo A.M.-Church Services.
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ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL
CHAPEL
ASPEN Hill

.t. ASPEN HILL
Georgia Ave. and Aspen Hill Rd.
Knox -Kreutzer, Seminarian in
.-. Charge
IL A. NJ, Morning prayer and
sermon.
Holy Communion third Sunday
of each month.
Sunday School, beginning Sep
TENDER 10 at II A. M.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
Here From Texas

Here From Texas
MIR. and Mrs. Lewis Mauras
and twin daughters, Beaumont,
Tex, are visiting for several
weeks with Mrs. Mauras' parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Burroughs.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Boroughs
and Lewis Mauras visited Mr..
and Mrs, Alma Mcmillan in Van
cleave Monday.
John Clayton is sick.
f. A. Brown, Buras, La. visit,
ed his wife and children a few
days last week.
Sunday visitors in the c. H.
Taylor home were Mrs. Webb
Parker, mother of Mrs, Taylor,
and Mrs. Curtis Parker, Ocean
Springs, Mr., and Mrs. Clayton
Parker, New Orleans, Mrs. Ray
Parker, Pascagoula. They also
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Elkins
and made the acquaintance of
young Carl Stephen Elkins, Mrs.
Parker's great grandson.
Visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. C. +.
Tillman Sunday were Mrs. viii
Pendarius, sister of the former,
and Freddy Pendarius. and fam
lily, Bayou la Batre, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Rouse, Gautier.
Weekend visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Waller were Mrs.
T. S. Waller, mother of Mr.. Wal
Ter of St. Elmo, Ala, and Mrs. T.,
S. Waller, Jr., and Dianne Wal
Ter, Birmingham.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lebatard
and M. Lebatard's mother, Mrs.
Ed Lebatard, of Biloxi, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Lebatard.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
News From Bayou Cosotte :.
Misses Locker, SCovel, Hutchinson
Entertain AT Party Saturday Evening

and Sgt. Poole is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. James Poole and is sta
toned at Keesler. The bride wore
a suit of gray with navy Access
SORES.
Miss Jean Fay, Centralia,
Wash arrived recently to visit
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Henderson. She is
a former resident here.
Mrs. Fred Rice received a let
ter from her son-in-law and dau-
ghter, Mr.. and Mrs. Fank Diet
sch, that they are both much inn
proved following an automobile
accident en- route from San An
tonic. Tex, home for Christmas.
They have been hospitalized.
Elder and Mrs. r. N. Durham
spent Saturday night with Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Linder.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. o. Stringfel-
low, M. and Mrs. Ira String
fellow and Elder and Mrs. R. N.
Durham attended the Jackson
county singing convention at
Union Baptist Church in Hurley
Sunday.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
Guest From o b

George Tillman, Mobile, visit
ed Misses Glennie and Peggy
Tillman for the weekend.
M and Mrs. Fred Uric, Gulf
port visited Mrs. A. H. Linder
Monday afternoon.
Blonde Parker, Westwego,
La, visited Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Linder, Jr., for the weekend.
Mrs. A. H. Under, Mrs. A. H.
Under, Jr., and Wayne Linder
spent the day Sunday in Bayou
la Batre.
Capt, Henry Linder has gone
to Miami, Fla, to bring the yacht,
Pinafore, to Pascagoula.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Hill, Jr.,
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
BY Mrs. Lee Thomas

The Gautier Home Demonstra-
ton Club held its first meeting
of the year at the schoolhouse.
Mrs. E. B. Townsend, president,
opened the meeting, Mrs. j. H.
Rouse read the 23rd Psalm. Mrs.
Walter Fuller, Mrs. Francis Cliff
ford and Mrs. Lee Thomas were
appointed to the nominating
committee. Sandwiches, cookies
and minis were served by Mrs.
Alice Springle, Mrs. Donald Mar
tin and Mrs. H. B. Rollins. A val
entine motif was carried out.
Mrs. Vashti Garlotte conducted
a quiz and Mrs. Robert Hamilton
won the prize. Miss Strother, act
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

Miss G b e {, our grammar
school principal, spoke the other
night at the regular Parent-Tea-
chers' meeting on getting child
rem to do their homework when
they want to listen to the radio.
1--WE mustn't give them a flat
mo-" Miss Gilbert said. "If we
adults really believe in tolerance
and moderation. we should instill
these qualities in our children.
Listening to the radio is fine-in
moderation-as long as home
work gets done. too"
From where l sit, the lady was
dead-right. This radio VS.. home
work problem is a wonderful way
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
News From Coulter
Mrs. E. B. Townsend Presides Over
First Meeting OF lid Club This Week

ing home agent, won the door
prize and Mrs. Vashti Garlotte
won the mystery box. Mrs. Joe
Wier gave a demonstration on
how to make a eamellia corsage
and a paper on how to grow
camellies was read by Mrs.
Townsend.
Weekend With Parents
Mrs. Beverly Dilgo, Ocean
Springs, spent Friday night and
Saturday with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. l.. w. Fuller.
Saturday in Biloxi
MIR. and Mrs. Paul Lebatard
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Lebat-
ard visited Biloxi Saturday.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
TRADE PUSHED AT
FRONT LINE

Srinagar, Kashrnir (AP)-
Barter trade is being conducted
across the cease-fire line in
Kashmir despite restrictions on
the movement of people and
goods.
Kashmiris living along the
line are reported to be using diff
ficult mountain passes for the
unauthorized trading. People on
the Pakistan side usually offer
rock salt, wheat flour and snuff
while residents of Indianlheld
Kashmir supply sugar, cloth,
rice and vegetables.
Moss Point, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
BY Mrs. Louis Under

Miss Dorothy Locker, Miss
Nora Seovel and Miss Dorothy
Hutchinson entertained at a
party in the formers heme Sat
urday night. Games were play
ed and string music vas furnish
ed by Fred Nelson and Ben Scov-
el. Others present were Leroy
Harris, Ruth Wood. c. B. Martin,
Frances Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. Pat
Scovel, Dorothy Scovel, Mrs.
Betty Stringfellow. Bobby Lad
nier, Eugene Henderson, Thelma
Jean Fry, Percy and Shirley Lin
der, Adele Howard, Johnnie
Srovel, Joseph Locker, Nora
Locker, Dot Ladnier and Make
Hagan. Sandwiches, cakes and
drinks were served.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

EAGN
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Horgan
spent the weekend in Mobile Wis
ting his mother and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marby Penton
and Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Penton
spent Sunday in Mobile where
they visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Penton and Mrs. M. A. Penton's
aunt, Mrs. Alice Noel, who is
confined to bed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Houston Penton
and Claude and II. c. Pentou
spent the weekend in New Or
leans. They visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Ravens and the Rev. and
Mrs. Kell Penton. They We're ac-
companied home by Mrs. Della
Martin and Penny and Donna
Penton who will be guests of
Mrs, Odom Ross Tor the next two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Saurez of BIZ
loxi visited in the M. A. Penton
home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Faucet,
Bloomfield, N. j., ard T. Bart
Faucet of McDill Field. Tampa.
and Mrs. Bart Faucet and Mrs.
Milton Seymour of Ocean Springs
spent Friday visiting Mrs. Sew
mour's and Mrs. Faucets moth
err, Mrs. Kate Roberts and fam
lily.
Andy Bond, USN, stationed in
San Diego, arrived home Thurs
day morning to spend a 3O-day
leave with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Bond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lebatard
and M. Lebatard's mother, Mrs.
Ed Lebatard, of Biloxi, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Lebatard.
Fullers Have Guests
Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Shuber,
Long Beach, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
John Fuller Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Nichols
had as guests Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Howard Fore of Bunkie, La, Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Nichols
visited Mrs. w. II. Steele and
Charles Steele in Atmore Sun
day.
Guests of Mrs. Salley Guillotte
were John Ward of Atmore, Ala,
who was enroute to Lake Char
les, La, Sunday and on Wednes-
day Charles Roulette enroute
from Memphis to Florida stopped
for a fey hours.
Alva Guillotte spent the week
end at home. He is stationed in
Burrwood, La.
Mrs. Earl Bond and son, Andy,
visited Mrs. Bonds parents. Mr..
and Mrs. j. M. Alexander in Van
Cleave Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. Toby Ross of
Bay Minette spent the weekend
visiting Mrs. Odom Ross.
Basketball Games
The Gautier girls and boys
basketball teams played Esca-
tawpa on the Gautier court Fri
day. The girls and boys both
played a very good game. The
score was 21-20 in favor of Es-
catawpa girls. In the boys game,
the score was lilo in favor of
Gautier.
Miss Mayfax Gautier was car
ried to the county hospital Sat
urday night suffering with a
conclusion. She was injured in a
basketball game Friday night.
She is still at the hospital, but it
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

AN OLD BELIEF THAT
'BRUMFIELD'S BLEW SKY HIGH
Until recently most people believed that there could be only TWO types o stons,
the GLASS STORE" and the soconed MASS STORE"
prices we're high, so high that the overuseo or mass buyer could not reach them.
In the other type, tn MASS STORE" prices werec cheaper puff quality was DOOR,,
style was ntc considered imporont,s good and known brands of merchandise wereE little
more Than q hope.
BRUMFiELDS STORES ARE DIFFERENT FROM BOTH OF THESE In BuAmfkds
Stores you find the fnet merchandise obtanabL--natonaHy famous brands such as
CURIEE AND HART, SCHAFFNER g. MARX CLOTHNG FOR MEN NELLY DON
DRESSES = BETTY ROSE AND PRNTZESS COATS AND SUITS - FL0RSHEM
AND QUEEN QUALITY SHOES : ARROW SHIRTS.
greater merchandising efficiency hos brought prices right down TO eorh in reach of the
great mass of buyers.
Often in our torres w hear customers remark about some Quality Branded item.
why I'VE been paying more thn thatfo q much cheaper grade"
e.
We invite you to make her most of the advantages YOU Bumfeids Stores offer
today und every duy.
onP aaogouau d Moss Point Stores ore Ii 0i1IlI l. Sy !NC @l
ded all dye very WednsduYOM B lM RI I s !. A L IFNRIoP1
Store is coed Thursday afternoons only g43M E1HoSsRoN1 @ :.
Our Fdnope Store closed oil day. Every - .SCS~ SSs
Thursday
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
Poole. Acoste Wedding

News of interest here is the
marriage of Sgt. Jesse M. Poole
and Miss Bertha Acoste which
took place Jan. Ia in Pascagoula.
Mrs. Poole is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Acoste, Moss
Point, formerly of New Orleans,
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

Fer or information. write Mississippi Division. U. S. Brewers Foun-
datiou, Room ia. Deposit Guaranty Building. Jackson. Mississippi
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

is hoped she will be able to
come home soon.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27
From where | sit :. by Joe Marsh
How TO Get
That Homework Done

to see to II that our youngsters
acquire e sensible moderate
habits they'll need later on.
I've never believed in hard and
fast rules-except where abso-
lutely Necessary. Let the other
fellow do as he likes, as long as
he's temperate and tolerant.
Guess that's why I've never felt
we should quarrel with the fell
low who is partial to a glass of
bce.rthe beverage of M0dera.
tioIEE
M M~k
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

Our ~Poscogould dnd Moss Point Stores are
closed oil day every Wednesday,. Our Biloxi
Store is closed Thursday afternoons only.
Our Foirhope Store is closed oil day every
Thursday.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1950-01-27

Moss Point, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
L. j. Hill Sunday.
Evening star., 1950-04-28

vintage and little can be done
about it. 1t is not possible there
fore to pass a hearing miracle by
removing from the White House
to the old State Department.
Indian Memory.
AS the President recalled in an
other amusing demonstration of
his Indian memory for a griev-
ance, he had planned a press
conference room in the west wing
renovations he scheduled to &C
company his famous White House
balcony. The uproar over a pro-
posed cafeteria in the plans led
Congress to cancel the whole ap-
preparation. The President stub
bornly built his balcony out of
other funds; he has not attempted
the west wing alterations again.
The experiment amid the Cleve-
land vintage cherubs of Old State
will continue because the Presi-
dent likes it better when he can
see and identify the reporter who
asks questions. He has felt that
some of the press were not behav-
ing with suitable respect and
decorum for long time. He thinks
the new plan will improve the
situation.
An inkspot is reported in one
Evening star., 1950-04-28

but brass ham '
dies, off-the- shoulder, pallbearers,
and plunging calla lilies simply
make me look q fright.
Nevertheless I, along with thou
sands of other far-Seeing Ameri-
cans. have made reservations for
a trip to the things you look at
through a telescope. 1t can be
done, you know. through the Space
Travel Bureau of the Hayden
Planetarium in New York.
First departure is scheduled for
June. 1875. give or take a few
decades. I won't be at all angry
with the company if something
delays departure and I am kept
hanging around the depot for
Is or 80 years.
But I do hope that we get to
the Moon in June. because
would like to be the first man to
send back postcard from there
saying. Having wonderful time.
Wish you were here. x marks my
crater"
If I were at all thrifty I
wouldn't book for the first fight,
but would wait until the tourist
season had passed its peak. Then
I would be sure to be able to take
advantage of those marvellous,
uncomfortable. 30-day, round
trip, all-expense excursions. You
know, the kind which. to lure you
to places when 1t is either boiling
hot or so cold that the natives
Evening star., 1950-04-28

been high Thomas L. Stokes.
lighted as major issues by Presi-
dent Truman's surprising re-elec-
ton in 1948.
That was the program, flgur-
atively, that you were handed at
the door.
Nobody suspected then that, at
this point, midway of the session,
Congress would be all worked up
with another Communists-in n-Gov-
ernment investigation, though
that's been a familiar spectacle
for the last few years; or that
Senators would be sitting listen
ing, with rapt attention, to big
shot gamblers telling about their
business discreetly; or that an
other Senator would be pointing
with alarm about the morals of
Hollywood though all these are
good, juicy circus material.
The experts were right when, at
the outset, of the session in cata-
loguing the various items of the
Truman social welfare program,
they forecast that little would be
done about it and that it would
be left hanging in mid-air, unen-
acted, for campaign purposes
labeled as welfare" for Demo-
cratic arguments; socialism" for
Republican aims.
Attention has been diverted
away from all that, from what
some consider fundamental mat
tiers, by the side-shows in which
ex-CommuniSts now ready to tell
all, and soft-spoken gamblers
ready to tell not too much, have
become the leading characters.
ing for live spooks or scapegoats.
Reports from the outlying pre-
cincts indicate that Senator Joe
Mccarthy. Republican, of Wiscon-
sin has got lots of people stirred
up with his one-man, whirling
dervish crusade against Commun-
lists in Government, so that people
have come to wait for the next
edition to find out if he's found
one.
In his tactics and technique he
reminds old-timers around here
more than anyone else of the
late Huey Long. who played on the
fears of the people in another era
of confusion, that of the depres-
sion years, when the Louisiana
dictator dangled before them the
delusion Every man a king" But
Joe offers no such mirage of hope
He offers only hobgoblins, and it
will be interesting to see how long
the people will enjoy a vicarious
thrill of fear.
The major crime investigation
which hasn't got going yet. also
holds political potentialities for
Republicans who hope to show q
connection between big city Demo-
cratic machines and rackets. This
was dramatized in the recent
Binaggio murder in Kansas City
in President Truman's home baili-
wick. The political dynamite that
may lurk in the crime investiga-
ton is indicated by the skittish-
ness of Decocrats in organizing it.
1t Is going to be interesting to
see how Mr.. Truman. who is a
one-man road show himself, meets
Evening star., 1950-04-28
This Changing World
New American Policy Toward Tito
Seen as Beginning to Pay Dividends

itself against Communist aggres-
sion, first applied in Greece and
Turkey, presumably stands also
for Yugoslavia, even if it Is a
Communist state.
There is, more than a little sus-
picion that Marshal Tito is edging
away from extreme emphasis on
communism" and stressing in
stead socialism" OF course, it
can be argued. socialism means
communism in the Red countries.
But there is an important distinc-
ton between the two in Western
minds. and Marshal Tito could be
taking advantage of that distinc-
ton.
Extreme Form of Socialism,
Yugoslavia has not been COM
pletely communized, by Russian
standards. That is one thing that
led to Tito's break with the Com
inform. 1t has gone in for a cer-
tain amount of farm collectiviza-
tion, but by no means all of Yugo-
slavia's agriculture is collecti-
vized. Naturalization has been
almost completely carried out in
the nations business and indus
try, but this represents only an
extreme form of the same thing
great Britain has done in the
mama Of socialism
Tito's YugoSlavia unquestion-
ably is totalitarian. and as such
is inimical to our democratic way
Of life. Totalitarianism can exist
in one part Of the world alongside
democracy in other parts, how
ever, if neither is aggressively in
clined toward the other.
The thing that makes Russian
totalitarianism dangerous for us
and the thing that made
Nazism and Fascism dangerous in
their day-is the expansionist
drive which accompanies it. AS
long as the Soviet Union did not
direct its foreign policy toward
worldwide expansion-as was true
to a great extent before World
War u-and as long as the Com
munist infiltration of other coun-
tries could be held in check, the
Soviet Union did not represent a
great threat to world peace.
Yugoslavia is a Communist to-
talitarianism, even if Marshal
Tito actually is moderating his
emphasis on the point. But it
need not be a menace to peace
and to our way of life. Indeed,
at this moment it gives every
evidence Of not being such
menace. AS long as this is true
it deserves Western assistance in
defending itself against the Com
inform. Tito is doing something,
at least, to make that assistance
possible.
Evening star., 1950-04-28

goslavia has been engaged in q
struggle with Italy, are the most
heartening developments to come
recently from Yugoslavia.
Re-establishment OF relations
between Greece and Marshal Tito's
government will end a situation
which at its height threatened to
extend Moscow's domination all
the way to the Mediterranean.
Yugoslavia at one point was carry
ing the ball-and a hot ball it was
for Dictator Stain in the at
tempt to destroy the legitimate
government of Greece.
Cooperation For Defense.
Tito's expulsion by the Comm
form, however. ended all that and
it was not long before Tito not
only had withdrawn his support
from the Greek guerrillas but had
closed the Yugoslav frontier to
Communist guerrilla operations.
The collapse of the Greek Red
army in Greece followed.
When Athens and Belgrade ex-
change ENJOYS they will make
possible a great deal closer CO.
operation for mutual defense
against Russia and her satellites.
1t will provide also a possible base
in Greece for stockpiling arms for
immediate dispatch to Yugoslavia
in the event that she becomes in
volved in a shooting fracas with
the Cominform countries.
We are pretty well committed
to do something for Tito in the
way of defense against Russian
attack if that attack ever comes
The commitment is not down in
black and white. as it is with other
countries, but it exists nonethe-
less.
The Truman Doctrine Of aiding
economically and militarily every
country which is willing to defend
Evening star., 1950-04-28
Reporters Dislike Shift
Truman's New.Look Press Conference
Works Out Much on Old Principle

White House quarter to be the
last straw. The story runs that it
landed right on the eagles wing
in the costly carpet specially
woven for the Presidents oval
study and that it positively could
be traced to the press conference.
President Truman is a neat and
orderly man. Collectively reporters
cannot claim that they leave any
place in quite the same beautiful
order in which they may have
found it. The inkspot may be
apocryphal but it fits the opposing
temperaments Of the press con-
ference protagonists.
Twitted Reporters.
The President twitted the re-
porters about hating change. Old
timers admit they prefer the inti-
macy Of the oval study. Wash
ington, and the White House
especially become in one sense the
personal possession and pride of
residents here. 1t is one of the
rewards of a reporters job that
he is privileged to enter the White
House freely. that he has a right
there.
The Old State building Incl
dentally has its special flavor,
too, for reporters who watched
Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles
struggle through the prewar years.
1t was in Old State that Mr.. Hull
was negotiating with the Jap
anese peace ENJOYS when jap
anese planes were setting out to
bomb Pearl Harbor.
But there is nothing like the
White House. Mr.. Truman was
never so popular here as when he
announced the President would
certainly return to 1900 Pennsyl-
vania avenue to live. It had just
been discovered that the historic
residence was a mere shell and
must be entirely rebuilt at great
expense. The suggestion was put
forward that the building be con-
verted into a shrine and a more
secluded. more private home be
found for the President. But it
just wouldn't be Washington, as
Mr.. Truman felt, too.