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Evening star., 1951-05-01
By Nike Anderson

Along with the first blossoms of
spring, a great many flower shows
are popping out on the calendar,
rearing their lovely heads over
the horizon. Thousands of women
in the Washington area will be
taking part in them - happily
placing their offerings on the altar
of beauty. But there will be others
who will enter their exhibits with
the grimness of a marathon run
ner and the petulance of prima
donna. So herewith are some
pointers on participating that will
help make exhibiting the adven-
ture-in-beauty it was intended to
be, rather than the nerve-wrack-
ing competition it has too often
become.
There are really only two rules
for flower show exhibitors, despite
the massive tones written on the
subject. Rule One: Make an ar
rangement with eye-appeal. Rule
Two: Be a good sport-whether
you win or lose.
Mrs. Sarah Coombs, author of
several books on flowers, includ-
ing the manual used as a rule
book by the judges of the Madi-
son Square Garden Flower Show.
entieated entrants, both winners
and losers, to be better sports.
The petty jealousies, the bitter
diSappointments, the clashing
rivalrieS spoiled many a show for
her. So remember that, no matter
what type of arrangement you
may make, it really has only one
purpose-to give pleasure. It is
amazing how often exhibitors lose
sight of that simple objective.
Somehow, some women feel that
losing the blue ribbon is tanta-
mount to a public announcement
that her taste is not as good as
her neighbor's! Yet often there
was a simple explanation for her
not winning; an exposed holder.
a drooping flower, ragged foliage,
spelling an otherwise delightful
design. Some judges, if not too
rushed, are kind enough to write
the reason for failure on the back
of the exhibitors card, especially
If that arrangement came close to
winning a ribbon. A good idea is
to have someone with shorthand
ability go round with the judges,
jotting down their cffhand COM
mentary as they come to a de-
cision. It is an education, however
ego shattering.
Having judged shows, and hav-
ing been judged as an entrant
gave me both sides of a flower
show. When I lost, which was fal
oftener than I won. I always
learned something, not by chal.
lenging the judges for theil
awards, but by asking for pointer.
on why an arrangement is az
award winner.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Attractive Brides-EIect

Of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Silberstein OF
this city.
The bride-elect attended Cam
bridge Junior College and Boston
University. Her fiance holds de-
grees from the University of Mary
land and Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology where he is assist
ant professor of mechanical en-
gineering.
The wedding will take place or
Sunday, June 3.
Bureer-Johnson
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence w. Bur.
ger. jr., of Arlington, announce
the engagement of their daughte,
Margaret Jane, to Mr.. Clifford
Mabp johnson, jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. johnson of this city.
The bride-elect is a senior al
the University of Maryland and is
Ia member of Kappa Delta soror-
Iity. Mr.. johnson also attends the
University of Maryland and is a
member Of Delta Sigma Phi
fraternity.
The wedding will take place. in
the summer.
| IO'Connor- Bowling
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel j. O'Connol
Iof North Arlington announce the
engagement of their daughter
Dorothy Grace. to Mr.. David H
Bowling. son of MI. and Mrs
James M. Bowling of South Ar
Ilington. The groom-elect attended
William and Mary College where
he was a member of Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
By Katherine IA. Brooks

The Turkish Ambassador, Mr..
Feridun Erkin, left this morning
for Istanbul for conferences with
his home Offices and will be absent
for several weeks. Before leaving
he entertained at luncheon yes
terday to say au revoir to heads
of several of the diplomatic mis-
Sions of other countries. Nine.
E. kin will remain in the Embassy
during his absence and continue
her work in singing.
The Netherlands Ambassador
and Mime van Roijen gave a late
afternoon party yesterday to cele-
brate the birthday anniversary of
Queen Juliana of The Neither
lands. Their guests were limited
to members Of their Embassy staff,
and Netherlands residents in
Washington and Baltimore. The
charming garden of the Embassy
with its many Dutch flowers was
enjoyed through the late after
noon hours by the several hundred
guests.
Gorden Fete at Treeoron
The third of the series of garden
parties at Tregaron was given yes
terday by Mrs. Joseph E. Davies,
wife of the former Ambassador to
Russia. Each year the Davies
plan two such fetes when the bios
SONS are at their heights. The
number of their friends is so large
as to necessitate the two parties.
This year they added another and
opened the gardens Sunday after
noon in between their own parties
for the benefit Of the National
Symphony Orchestra. The music
organization raised more than
$4,000. before the lightning storm
broke and drenched the gardens.
Yesterday. as Saturday, Mrs.
Davies greeted her guests alone
as Mr.. Davies sailed for England
last week with his daughter and
granddaughter, Mrs. Millard E.
Tydings and Miss Eleanor Tyd-
ingS. Former Senator Tydings
stood with Mrs. Davies for a part
of the reception hours and Mrs.
Augustus Riggs w took a turn not
only with her mother but at the
tea table.
Signora Tarchiani, wife of the
Italian Ambassador: Nine. Koo
and Sonora de Oreamuno, were
the hostesses from the diplomatic
circle who presided at the tea
table on the terrace yesterday.
Mrs. Stanley F. Reed. Mrs. Tom
c. Clark. Mrs. Clinton P. Ander-
son, Mrs. James E. Webb and
Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark were
Evening star., 1951-05-01

Before my 9th birthday, I had
made nearly $4,000 arrangements.
Although they were professional
arrangements. many for the win
dows of a Connecticut avenue
flower shop, the sort of thing that
garden clubbers consider CONNER
cial, they offered, nevertheless.
matchless opportunities for ex-
pertinent. Every morning I opened
an ice box filled with from 81 500
to $4,000 worth of flowers, any
of which / could use. There were
yellow callas from California that
looked as if Cellini himself had
hammered them out of pure gold.
blue butterfly orchids flown from
Hawaii, roseate camellias from the
South. sprays of white lilac
shipped from Holland in the dead
of winter, and chincherinchees all
the way from South Africa. But
experience soon taught me that
simple flowers could equal the
rare ones in appeal; white gerani-
umS, for instance, made into a
compact bouquet with ginger
leaves rivaled Parma violets; a IS
cent aquamarine bottle, overflow
ing with petunias in shades OF
burgundy and claret, or a single
magnolia blossom, accompanied
by its own carmine seed pod, was
as affective as any exotic flower
from far-away-places.
Pure enchantment can be mex
Ipensive, more often than not. For
instance. in the miniature class
Mrs. Robert Landreth's acorn cup
planted with minute red maple
in a cushion of contrasting moss
or Mrs. Ward Simmons gold
thimble of Tiny Tom roses and
forget-me-nots. In the novelty
class, we saw a cobalt blue porce-
lain cigarette box, lined with a
velvety green moss so that it re-
sembled jewelers. box. Inside
was a dazzling brooch" fash
ioned of small blossoms, golden
primroses. blue forget-me-no
crimson verbena and white sweet
alyssum. Flowers can be funny
too like Mrs. Jesse Cuthriell's
Dutchman's breeches, strung out
on a line so that they looked as
if they were Tapping in the breeze
and a champagne bottle fizzine
over with baby's breath.
But the memorable arrange.
ments, of course, are the beautiful
ones. Sometimes they are as com.
lplicated as a Flemish arrangement
or as simple as a spray of dogwood
Please don't confuse simplicity
with starkness. The Japanes,
school, which can make a master.
piece out of clinker and a plum
blossom, is best left to experts
CAS- matter of fact, it may anus,
you to know that, when the Jap
anese Embassy used to entertain
their centerpieces were not of law
llrock and nearly nude branches
but conventional boquets of bios
Evening star., 1951-05-01

Announcement has been made
by Mrs. Jennie Keller of Boston,
Of the engagement of her daugh-
ter, Estelle, to Mr.. Morton s. Sill
berstein Of Cambridge, Mass, son
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Mr.. Grace to See
Exhibit OPENING

Mr.. Charles M. Grace Of Great
Neck, Long Island, is in town to-
day as the guest of Mr.. James H
Bailey. Mr.. Grace is here for the
opening tonight of the Pan Amer
ican Union of the exhibit of Co.
lonial Art of the Americas from
the Latin American Collection OF
the Grace Line and PANAGRA.
Evening star., 1951-05-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Maurice
Eanes II Of Bassett. Va, an
nounce the engagement of their
sister, Miss Ann Law, to Mr.. F.
Brett Miller of this city. The
wedding will take place in early
summer in Martinsville, Va.
Miss Law. daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Venable
Law of Rocky Mount, Va, is a
graduate of Mary Washington
College of the University of Vir-
ginia. She is now teaching at
Chuckatuck. Va.
Mr.. Miller is the son of the Act
ing Assistant Secretary of Com
merce for Foreign Affairs Mr..
Raymond Clendenin Miller and
Mrs. Louise Noonan Miller of
Washington, and Locust Hill,
Charlottesville, Va. He is a grad
uate of the Landon School for
Boys. the United States Merchant
Marine Academy at Kings Point,
N. Y. and the University of Vir-
ginia. He is a member of Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity and is a
lieutenant, j, g., in the naval re-
serve.
PlyIer-HeIIwie
DR.. and Mrs, Earle K. Plyler of
Chevy Chase announce the en-
|gagement of their daughter, Mary
Eleanor, to 1t. Gustav Hellwig, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav A. Hellwig
of Stratford, Conn.
Miss Plyler attended George
Washington University and Fur
man University, from which she
received her B. A. degree. She
also attended the Graduate School
of the University of Florida.
1t. Hellwig was graduated from
the University of Bridgeport with
a B. S. degree in business manage
ment after serving in World War
II. He is now on active duty with
the National Guard Bureau at the
Pentagon.
Forks Daley
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman q. Parks
of Travilah, Md. announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Charlotte Ann, to Mr.. Raymond
David Daley. son of Mr.. John c.
Daley and the late Mrs. Daley of
Terre Haute, Ind. No date has
been set for the wedding.
Miss Parks is junior at State
Teachers College, Towson, Md.
Mr.. Daley is a graduate of the
University of Illinois.
Keller -Silberstein
Announcement has been made
by Mrs. Jennie Keller of Boston,
of the engagement of her daugh-
ter, Estelle, to Mr.. Morton s. Sill
berstein Of Cambridge, Mass. son
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Dance Scheduled
By Supper Club

The st. Johns Lafayette
Squarel Supper Club will hold its
annual Spring Dance from 9 to
midnight Friday at the United
Nations Club ror the benefit of
the children's summer camp fund.
Music will be by Sidney.
Sponsors for the affair include
Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Houghtel-
ing, Mrs. Ives Lowe. Mr.. and Mrs.
Detlow Marthinson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace Peaslee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas H Shepard, jr., Admiral
and Mrs. Horatio Gillmor, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Lawrence Cheate and Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Messenger.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Society News
Parties at Embassies; Garden Fete
Of the DNies; Mrs. Lewis Hostess

among the official hostesses taking
Ia turn at the tea table. Others
assisting were Mrs. Clifton B.
Gates. Mrs. Virgil L. Peterson,
Mrs, L. Conger Pratt, Nine. Rosso,
Mrs. Stephen B. Early, Mrs.
Charles Carroll Glover, jr., Mrs.
Edwin Garavies Graves. jr., Mrs,
NJ. Robert Guggenheim, Mrs. O..
Max Truitt, Mrs. Parker w. West
and Mrs. Orme Wilson.
Ewens Are Honored
Mrs. Lewis, wife of the late
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of
Chicago. was hostess yesterday
afternoon at the tea hour enter
tanning at the Sulgrave Club in
honor of her nephew and niece,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward
Coyle Even. Mrs. Lewis had
planned the party for them but
when she sent out cards she did
not know the date Of their ar
rival. Admiral Even has been in
command Of Task Force n in
Korean waters. his flagship the
Philippine Sea, and Mrs. Even
has awaited him in Honolulu.
They expect to be in Washington
some time as he will be in con-
ference with Defense Department
officials.
The party yesterday was the
scene and the cause of a number
of reunions of old friends. Mrs.
Ballard Moore, of Chicago, who
is the house guest of Mrs. Newbold
Noyes, took her turn at the tea
table. Mrs. Moore, the former
Olive Graef. was presented in
Washington by her parents, the
late Mr.. and Mrs. H. Campbell
Graef. and always finds a warm
welcome in Washington where
Mr.. Moore was born and spent
his boyhood.
Also receiving a warm welcome
from old friends who did not see
her at the Davies garden party
Saturday and other festivities
Sunday was Miss Vera Bloom,
daughter of the late Representa-
tive and Mrs. Sol Bloom. Miss
Bloom is staying at the Fairfax
through the remainder of this
week.
Mrs. H. Conger Pratt took a
turn at both Mrs. Lewis party
and that of Mrs. Davies and also
presiding at Mrs. Lewis table
were Mrs. James Lawrence Hough-
telling, Mrs. McCeney Werlich and
Miss Carolyn Nash. Carrying out
her custom Mrs. Lewis also had
men assistants. too These in
|cluded Mr.. Fred Roy and Mr..
George Williams.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Kiine-Shoffer

kIlne- Sh0ffer
Announcement has been made
by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kline of
Bowie, Md, of the engagement
Of their daughter, Elizabeth Dren-
ner, to Mr.. Harry Harrison Shaf-
fer, jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Shat
fer Of Bel Air, Md.
Miss Kline is a member of the
May graduating class at Mercy
Hospital in Baltimore. She is the
granddaughter of the late Judge
Elizabeth r. Menefee of Cumber-
land. Md. Mr.. Shaffer is in his
Junior year at the University of
Maryland.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1951-03-01
STARTING FARMING
IS HARDER NOW

READ YOUR EDITORIAL in the
Feb. Is issue of Montana Farmer
Stockman entitled els it Easy to Start
Farming Today" I don't agree with
Mr.. Whitman that it is just as easy
to start farming now as it was in
1912.
Mr.. Whitman maintains that he was
1920 short at the end of year of
paying his debt of $1,000 which he
borrowed tc get started. AT the end
of a years time Mr.. Whitman had
800 acres and four head of horses
and machinery to run the place.
Young Bill comes in 1850, rents
$50 acres of which 200 is wheat. Mr..
Whitman says at the end of a year
he has $500 to start 1851, but I
think he must have underestimated
the cost of the crop because I don't
think he can prepare the soil, buy
seed and harvest for $4,000, including
the rent.
say it will cost him about $500 to
plow, providing the land needs no
discing and only to be narrowed.
That would be $500. Seed wheat is
always higher than market price,
so his seed would cost $500 and about
$500 for combining it. 1t has now
cost him $1,820 to obtain his 1000
bushels of wheat.
From what have seen of renting,
rent is about rs of the crop to the
man who owns the land, that would
amount to about $4,000. I say his
total cost for the year would be
about $4,320 instead of $4,000.
Say my figures are wrong and too
high, and Bill does have $500 to
start 1851. He has only money, no
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1951-03-01
TOUGH FOR OLD-TIMERS
BUT NOT EASY NOW

AFTER READING the editorial
in the Feb. Is issue concerning get
ting started farming today and how
it compared with getting started so
years ago, would like to write some
of my opinions.
I have much respect for the old
timers and know they had tough
time, but I cannot agree with Mr..
Whitman that it is easier now.
In the first place, there is no free
land to be had as there was SO years
ago, and in those days they could
go to any bank and get all the fl
nancial aid they wanted. Some of
the homestesders had no farming
experience at all yet they had no
trouble in getting loan.
Frorn personal experience I know
that it is impossible to get any fl
nancial backing now unless you are
already started or have rich father.
worked seven years for. wages be-
fore was finally able to start farm
ing in very small way. Only then
was 1 able to obtain any financial
assistance.
The only land that was available
in this county was land that was
very poor or worn out and nobody
wanted, but I was lucky enough
also to rent two sections of land
from retiring sheepman, all native
sod which I plowed and fenced. That
was lucky break for me, as there
are many young fellows skimping
along on half enough land, as the
old-timers have it all taken.
For most of us starting farming
today the $1,000 that young Bill
crossed won't go as far today as the
$1,280 that Mr.. Whitman crossed his
first year of farming.-Edgar SAILS
bury. Richland county.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1951-03-01

land, no equipment. If Bill is to
obtain 800 acres of land as Mr.. Will
man had at the end of a year, it will
cost Bill $4,000 if he has to pay only
$25 per acre for it.
Now he has to have a tractor to
run the place. That will cost $4,000.
A pillow will cost him 5000. That still
is not enough equipment to run
place, as everyone knows. But say
he borrows the rest to seed and har-
vest his crop. He will still be in debt
more than Mr.. Whitman was to be
as well fixed for the times.
Bill is now in debt $500 in order
to own 32O-acre farm like Mr.. Will
man and a tractor which replaced
his four horses for the change in
times.
In 1912 MIR. Whitman obtained his
800 from the Homestead act, and then
horses were all that was used for
farming. Bill could not get 800 acres
from the government, so he has to
buy in 1850 and to meet the change
in times Bill has to have tractor.
I don't think it is easier to start
farming now than it was in 1912.
Bill must have had an extra good
neighbor to have the machinery and
work furnished him for that much
land, as it would take considerable
time for Bill to work that much land
by himself.
I am inclined to agree with DR..
Kelso in his article of Feb. /, 1851.
Victor Surial. Gallatin County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1951-03-01
Letters to The Editor

Constructive letters on subjects of gen.
eral rural interest will be published under
this heading as space permits. Montana
Farmer Stockman may or may not agree
with the opinions expressed
Evening star., 1951-05-11

"'In reaching a final decision
lbout Korea, I shall have to give
constant thought to the main
threat from the Soviet Union and
Ito the need for rapid expansion Of
our armed forces to meet this
great danger.
"'I am encouraged to believe
chat the free world is getting a
much clearer and realistic pic
ture Of the dangers before us and
that the necessary courage and
energy will be forthcoming. Re-
cent proceedings in the United
Nations have disclosed a certain
amount Of confusion and wiShful
thinking but I believe that most
members have been actuated by
a desire to be absolutely sure
that all possible avenues to peace
full settlement have been fully ex-
plored. ] believe that the great
majority is now rapidly consoli-
dating and that the result will
be an enco Iraging and formidable
combination in defense of free
dom. The entire nation is great
full for your splendid leadership
in the difficult struggle In Korea
and for the superb performance
of your forces under the most.
difficult circumstances
Evening star., 1951-05-11

see nothing in any Of them that
could be SO interpreted.
Now. we turn again to the let
ter to Congressman Martin. his
letter to Gen. Macarthur being on
page 1876 and the beginning of
Gen. MacArthur's reply at the
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Use of Air Power
Aooinst China Reds

Senator Observation-Disclosures,
Is there any substantial doubt In
the minds of our military author
tiles that the Chinese Communists
will not use air and use every
weapon at their command before
they would eventually capitulate?
Won't they use all the force
they have to prevent a defeat? =.
Gen. Marshall's answer deleted
by censor)
Senator Hickenlooper- II
we are not using our air power to
go back and destroy before they
can get off the ground their air
power, or to destroy before they
can re-supply their troops, to de-
stroy the supplies which they will
use to build up new offensive,
as I see in the paper they are do
ing today, that decision therefore
must be a political decision and
not a military decision, doesn't it
follow?
Secretary Marshall-It follows
to an extent. but there is a heavy
military involvement in making
the decision.
Evening star., 1951-05-11

|itary Situation in the Far East byI
This committee. to which he rel
|ferred, and which contained al
number of statements, on page
|l81, document e." statement oil
Gen. Macarthur, February 49,
1851, beginning with the fourth
paragraph and continuing through
1.-THE fifth paragraph Of that docu-
|ment there, believe that in an
|swer to a question Of Senator
johnson you stated that that was
lone Of the Objectionable state
|ments that Gen. Macarthur had
made.
Called Factual Situation.
: have read those two para
graphs very carefully, and seel
nothing in them that does any,
thing except recite the factual sit
uation at the time; and ! see
nothing that disagrees with anyl
policy in that. and yet that seems
to be an Objectionable statement.
It does state that "the concept
advanced by some that we should
establish a line across Korea and
enter into positional warfare Isl
wholly unrealistic and delusory." u
It would seem to me that Is al
statement that could be veryI
properly made by a commander in
the field. No decision had been
made on it. He was expressing
what a great many people be-
lieved to be true: and the whole
discussion in those two para
graphs there would seem to me to
be the expression of known fact.
Also on page 1872 of that, the
paragraph beginning at the bot
tom of the page with the words
vital decisions - Gen. Mac
Arthur is quoted in the public
press as saying, Vital decisions
have yet to be made. decisions far
beyond the scope of the authority
vested In me as the military COM
mander. which are neither solely
political nor solely military, but
which provide on the highest in
ternational level an answer to the
obscurities which now becloud the
unsolved problems raised by Red
China's undeclared war In Korea. y"
I fail to see anything in that
except an acknowledgment that
he is subject to these decisions.
which every one apparently was
aware had not finally been made
were in a state of flux at that
time: and it seems to me to be
perfectly factual. perfectly true,
and certainly a -inflammatory
statement.
Senator johnson - There is
in the question of the
Senator from Texas to indicate
he had objection to statements
made by any one and, as near as
| can recall, there is nothing in
the reply that referred to objec-
tion.'
The question merely was wheth-
er it was Gen. Marshall's opinion
that those statements were in con-
flict with the directive, and Gen.
testified that it was his
opinion.
Senator Hickenlooper-I merely
to canvass them because l
Evening star., 1951-05-11

bottom of that page, but the
which were referred to
in Senator Johnson's questioning
are on 1856 in the second para
graph, beginning with the second
sentence of that paragraph, which
saws:
Evening star., 1951-05-11

Generally these views are well
known and clearly understood. as
they follow the conventional pat
tern of meeting force with maxi
mum counter force, as we have
never failed to do in the past"
Now, on that sentence, general,
Evening star., 1951-05-11

do you consider that an untrue
statement-that is. a statement
that is not supported by facts? :
Secretary Marshall-Senator, I
consider the letter is an expression
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