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Evening star., 1951-12-09
By John CIoqett Proctor

The Raleigh site at the northeast
corner of Twelfth street and Penn
sylvania avenue did not have Its be-
ginning as a hotel corner until 1921
when David Appler opened there the
Fountain Inn. However, in the early
days of Washington the hotel pro-
prletors seem to have been almost
as transient as some of their CUSTOM
erS, for some hostelries changed
their names and proprietors every
few years. and so, in 1882, we find
the Fountain Inn being sold at
auction. After few years it was
opened again, this time by Azariah
Fuller. the proprietor of the Mansion
House, where is now the Willard.
Here Fuller was conducting the place
as the Fountain Inn when Dr..
James S. Gunnell was appointed city
postmaster by President. Martin Van
Buren. and transferred his depart
ment to this corner. This place seems
also for a while to have carried the
name of the City Hotel, and also
Fuller's Hotel.
Earlier Hotels
OF course, of the earlier hotels
which have occupied this corner, the
Kilkwood was the most historic,
and yet as early as 1850, while
the Irving House was still there,
the City Directory gives the
names of the following members of
Congress who made this hotel their
home: Senator William Upham of
Vermont, Representative George A.
Caldwell of Kentucky, Charles e.
Clark of New York, Andrew Ewing
OF Tennessee, William Hebard of Ver-
mont, John c. Mason of Kentucky.
Joseph E. Mcdonald of Iowa, j. K.
McLanahan of Pennsylvania and
Lucius B. Peck of Vermont
Naturally, the connection of the
Kirkwood House with the assassina-
ton Of President Lincoln has given
1t its most historic phase, though
there was nothing that occurred here
to the discredit of the house. 1t is
fortunate, too, that another murder
was not committed beneath its roof
on the same day. for Vice President
johnson, who lived there. was also
marked for assassination on the eve
ming OF April 4, 1865.
johnson was then making the
Kirkwood House his home and, ac-
cording to the confession of Atzerodt,
the plan was that Booth was to
kill the President and Gen. Grant.
Payne should murder Secretary
Seward, while Atzerodt would either
kidnap or dispatch the Vice Presi-
dent.
Booth and Payne carried out their
part OF the conspiracy as the cir
cumstances permitted, but aside from
Atzerodt renting roon in the Kirk
wood House on the n1prning of April
Ea%F
Evening star., 1951-12-09

salesgirl or the fellow whose radio
program entertains you.
Mr.. Kramer. a manufacturer by
vocation and a metaphysician by
avocation, constantly is looking for
the good in people.
I'VE see things through our preju-
dices," says Mr.. Kramer. IF thought
is directed toward seeing good and
Stressing it, we will find the rosy
hueS."
He originated the Thank -U-Gram
in 1948 to teach his children his
philosophy. Now he mails about TO-
900 Of the blank forms out every
month-"free, like all the best things
in life"
Mr.. Kramer pays for the printing
and in some cases the postage.
On the back of the blank forms
is the following explanation of their
purpose and use:
Thank Grams are designed to
be used to establish thought direc-
ton
THE individual pledges to him.
self to send three or more Thank-U
Grams per day to persons or groups
who may have expressed some good.
ut may be minister, a performer.
a grocer. boy. or a cab driver. The
very effort to find these points of
good and the taking of the physical
action of writing and mailing the
Thank U-Gram establishes the
thought direction of seeing good in
experience.
ut is like looking at a half glass
OF water and seeing that the glass
is half-full-not half-empty.
Thank Grams are furnished
without cost to any one who will use
them as prescribed Thankful
Grams aren't for sale-are not copy
righted-and may be reproduced by
any one without credit.
Thank ~ Grams, 1000 N. Second
ST.. st. Louis 6. Missouri. You may
include postage if you like-it is not
required"
To cynics who ask him what he is
getting out of it, Mr.. Kramer says:
ut has paid off in a lot of satisfac-
ton, Most of the things we get the
most fun out of, we do for nothing.
Thinking good is thanking God"
Evening star., 1951-12-09

Savannah. was first to employ steam
as motive power on an eastward
voyage. Its 26-day trip did not count.
however. for it used coal during only
80 hours of the trip and arrived at
Liverpool with its coal bunkers empty
and under sail.
The era of big ships started around
1893 when the Cunard line launched
the Campania and the Lucania. each
with $4,000 gross tonnage and capable
of developing 26lz knots. 1t reached
a near peak with the Leviathan,
which was GOT feet inches long and
was listed at 54282 gross tons. The
North German Lloyd line then put
out the Bremen and the Europa (now
the French Liberte). They We'd with
each other for speedy trips and the
Europa took the prize from the
Bremen in 1880.
Ship design had about reached the
limit OF size with the Queen Mary
(81,235 tons) and the Queen Eliza
beth (85.000 tons). The latter was
the largest ship afioat in 1910. The
Normandie had 83.423 tons.
The S. S. United States is longer
than the others, but simmer than
the Queens and more powerful. Its
30-knot rating is equivalent to 72O
nautical miles per day or 5,04O in a
week.
No ChoIIeneers -
There are 18 passenger ships on
the ways in the European postwar
shipbuilding program but none of
them challenges the United States
for speed, capacity or power. The
Orient line is building two for serv-
ice between England and Australia
which are the largest of the group.
They have 28,500 gross tons each and
are rated at 2212 knots. The Italian
line has two nearly completed. The
Giulie Cesare is ship of $4,000 tons
and is diesel-powered, with a rating
of 81 knots. The other is the Angus
tus of similar weight and both will
probably go into South Atlantic
service.
The French are not building now
and the Japanese are occupied with
building merchant fleet. In fact,
most of the shipbuilding now con-
sists of cargo vessels, tankers and
the like.
The United States. with it's extreme
length, can find but few ports in
which it can dock. 1t is a third
longer than most of the operating
liners and is only 10 feet shorter
than the Panama Canal locks, so its
use outside the Atlantic is improb-
able.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
$40 Million Worth Of Ship Gets Ready for the Sea

Some time next summer the United
States Lines $40 million luxury liner,
the S. S. United States, is expected
to go into service on transatlantic
runs and restore this country to a
dominant position in fast passenger
service. For a great many years,
European ships have held the laurels.
The maiden voyage will mark a new
chapter in race for Atlantic
supremacy which began with Colum-
bus and has no foreseeable finish.
The ship is now about IS per cent
completed in the outfitting dock of
the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry
Dock Co. on the James River. A cur
rent issue of monthly bulletin of the
United States Lines Co. gives its listed
speed at 80 knots, which is better
than any ship now building in Euro
pean yards. 1t may well develop a
speed greater than the Queen Mary,
the Cunard liner which now holds
the record for Atlantic crossing with
an average of 31.69 knots. American
ship builders say it's in the bag.
1t is not expected that the owners
will risk strain and damage by racing
the new liner on its maiden trip. but
under favorable conditions, the quad
ruple screw, turbine driven giant
might well trim down the 3 days, 20
hours and 42 minutes elapsed time
of the Queen.
Contender for Trophy
If it does so, the American ship can
claim the famous Blue Riband, an
ornate trophy of complicated design
which was believed lost for the last
10 years but which now rests with a
firm OF English silversmiths who
made it. The Blue Riband is a silver
cup, mounted on onyx and it's intri-
cate design depicts figure Speed,
brushing past another figure, Force
OF the Atlantic, bearing a three
stacker in her hand. Modern ships
and galleons embellish the group.
There is an enameled blue ribbon
across the middle.
Donor of the trophy was Harold
keates Hales, British MP, who
was one of the few legislators who
carried the red herring topic to the
extreme. Once during a debate on
herring. he produced a dead one
from paper sack and waved it in
front OF the opposition in Parlia-
ment
He was going to give the cup to
the Italian liner Rex, which had
made record run from Gibralter
to Ambrose Light. BY the time it
was to be presented, the Normandie
had broken the record, so there were
Evening star., 1951-12-09

guest Of Representative Samuel Hoop
er Of Massachusetts,, whose home
was where the old Shoreham used to
stand at the northwest corner of H
and Fifteenth streets.
There seems to be uncertainty as
to where President Johnson resided
after April Is. the day Lincoln died,
and the statement made by Mr.. Poore
OF his movements is not beyond
question. It was reported in The Star
OF May Is, 1865, that after Mr.. john
son was sworn in he moved to the
home of Attorney General James S.
Speed on street between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets: that he did
not take possession of the public
Office in the White House until that
date, and that his family did not
move into the Executive Mansion un-
til much later.
Evening star., 1951-12-09

IA. he seems to have done nothing
worse than to have carried mes
sage for Booth to Oyster Bay. In
deed, he even denied that he had
rented his room in the hotel and
said that the firearms and black
coat left there did not belong to
him.
Booth. it would seem, was not alto
gether satisfied with the alertness of
his fellow conspirators, and not only
looked after his own plans for the
tragic event set for that memorable
Good Friday night, but even sought
to check up on the dastardly Job
given to Atzerodt to perform, and so
We find him stopping in at the
Kirkwood House on that afternoon
and sending card up to the Vice
Presidents suite. on which was writ
ten:
Evening star., 1951-12-09

thinks bullfighting is inhumane and
should be abolished.
Usually" Mrs. Thurber says, "let-
ters like that are written by some
one who has never seen a bullfight-
or who has seen perhaps a bad one.
I'll admit that a poor bullfght can
be disgusting spectacle. But there
is nothing more beautiful, more
artistic. than good corrida, per-
formed by excellent matadors and
brave bulls.
Most Americans who criticize
bullf1ghting think it's supposed to be
a sport. 1t isn't. It's an art-a
tragic drama-and should be viewed
as SUCH"
Evening star., 1951-12-09
New York.:

The producer of New York's most
popular spectacles is young archi-
tect with no theatrical connections.
His shows have a daily audience
OF 100000 people, and he is con-
stantly planning new eyecatchers.
Robert Carson is the designer-half
of the firm OF Carson & Lundin, who
yearly stage the biggest. fanciest and
most expensive project of the year
Rockefeller Center's Christmas dis
play.
This year an 80-foot Norway spruce
is the feature of the spectacle. Stud
ded with lighted plastic stars and
Evening star., 1951-12-09

Don't wish to disturb you: are
you at home? ~. Wilkes Booth"
Mr.. johnson was not in, and the
note was returned to the sender.
This, together with the fact that
Atzerodt got cold feet" or relented,
disrupted the plans and saved the
life of the Vice President. and, Incl
dentally, permitted Mr.. johnson to be
sworn in at the hotel as President
of the United States the following
morning at about II o'clock by Chief
Justice of the United States Salmon
P. Chase.
Stoyed With Hooper
After taking the oath of Office, the
President remained at the Kirkwood
but short while, and then, accord
ing to Ben. Perley Poore, became the
Evening star., 1951-12-09

tertainment. 1t is an art form. a
cherished spectacle of color and
drama which involves the basic hu-
man elements: Bravery and death.
Americans are divided on the cor
rida." Many regard it as unmitigated
brutality. Others admire its artistry
and courage. But most United States
citizens have never seen, and know
next to nothing about, a bullfght.
Mary Thurber, who has been fol-
Evening star., 1951-12-09
St. Louis:

Meet busy businessman who calls
halt in the grind of routine three
times day to express his gratitude
for the good in this troubled world.
He's Edward L. Kramer, the
originator of the Thankful Gram"
a novel way of saying thanks to the
obliging druggist. the thoughtful
Evening star., 1951-12-09
Ell Poso, Tex:

On the staff of the Ell Paso Times
is reporter who is quite possibly the
only woman bullfight critic in the
world.
Shes Mrs. Mary Evelyn Smith
Thurber. an Oklahoman by birth and
an afcionada (bullfght FAM by
choice.
Just across the Rio Grande in
Juarez, Mexico, is a frst-rate bull
ring. In this Juarez Plaza Mrs.
Thurber watches what she calls a
tragic drama of man against beast.
Mexicans look on bullfghting as
more than Sunday afternoons en-
Evening star., 1951-12-09
People in the News:
Prove There Are More Ways Make Headlines by no Doo

MAN bites dog" and Husband
slayS ,Uife" are not the only ways
for people to make neiDS. Often,
IN their quiet toay, men and women
make more interesting news Just
going about their everyday busi-
ness. There is nothing contro-
persial in the sir abbreviated re-
ports that tollo,0; they're Just
stories. gathered By Associated
Press reporters throughout the
country, about people uhose actiu-
tiles are a little out OF the ordinary.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
Norway Has Filmed
Lofoten Fisheries

Movie producer Lauritz F k
has made a documentary film of
this seasons Lofoten cod fisheries.
Sponsored by the Sonomic Cooper
alton Administration, the film
features several hundred Nor
wegian fishermen in their daily
struggle with the elements.
Mr.. Falk is the only profess
sional actor to appear in the all
male film which links the Lofoten
fisheries with scenes from Italy
Norway's largest market for
prime quality stock fish. Italian
born, mechanic Giuseppe Durante,
on two months leave from
Stockholm workshop, plays a ma
jor part.
Well over five thousand fishing
craft, manned by 10000 fishermen,
take part in this seasons cod
fisheries off the Lofoten Islands
in Northern Norway According to
latest reports, 21,493 tons of fish
had been caught so far this year,
or 2.749 tons more than at the
same time in 1850.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19

Mr.. George Tanier, secretary of
the company, who controls the
quality and design of the mer-
chandise to be shipped here, COM
mented that 1.-THE Swedish retain
the feeling of the peasant crafts.
and the feeling for the material in
the industry. Characteristic is
their love of wood, and playing
the grain"
Grains Show Through ~
Lovelier perhaps than any ex-
terror garnishments are the cleart..,
polished grain patterns that usualSl
ly show through on modern Swe4-
dish-made cabinets and tables.
They might reveal all endless in
tricacy in treatment of contrasting
wood against wood = in diamond
shapes, squares, rhomboids, clover
leaf and butterfly effects, radiat-
ing circles or rays.
Wood choices are varied, too.
The Swedish craftsman doesn't
limit himself, but ranges from
light, buoyant tones to rich. dark
shades, and works with Circassian
or platinum walnut, mahogany,
primavera, with novelties like sar-
angani, imbria root, teak or avo-
dire, or with their native forest
products, pine, beech, elm, oak
and birch. He handles each with
a deftness becoming the best.
The Difference to wood patterns
is particularly helpful in modify
ing the sharpness of modern cab
met pieces and tables.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
j. S. Trenchers
To Aid norWav

Professor Oivind Haugen, d.
rector of the Norwegian Agricul-
tural Engineering Institute. is
touring the United States under
the ECA Technical Assistance
Program. He is here to study ma
chine farming, as well as teach
ing methods used in agricultural
colleges and in courses for farm
mechanics and managers of farm
machine stations.
He recently watched demonstra-
tions of u. S. made trenchers in
DC, Virginia, Tennessee and
Georgia. One of these machines
will be tested in experimental
clearing of new farmland in
northern Norway this coming
summer.
So far, nearly all trenching in
Norway has been done by hand.
The acquisition of 5000 trenchers
would cut costs and speed work.
Trenchers also could be used to
good purpose by the State-owned
Telegraph Works.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19

finished for television, radio Or
monograph.
There is also a home-office unit
with many drawers, adjustable
shelves, and movable dividers,
trays for legal-size papers, a place
to house a portable typewriter.
Not especially included in the
new group, but illustrative of con-
venience elements in Swedish Mod
ern, is round dining table that
screws in piano-stool fashion to
coffee-table height, or it may stop
at any intermediate point. Out of
neat buffet may be drawn an ex-
tension table for dining.
Other Distinctive Pieces
A piece that looks like a living
room cabinet is actually a ward
robe containing a myriad of draw
ers of different shapes behind it's
cabinet doors. A cozy high-backed
upholstered rocker has a little
pillow neatly arranged for throw
ing back when not needed, a fea-
ture of long-ago brought into 1850
focus.
Dining chairs use a hand-grip
such as was once common on ships
chairs, as part of the design. En-
ameled copper, free-form pulls for
drawers are artistic and colorful
introductions on some of the
chests. Many pieces use a recently
developed plastic finish that rend-
ers surfaces practically imperv-
ious to all harm - resisting stain,
water and fire.
Connected with this experiment.
al working plan are Carl Erich
Ekselius, a designer who also
heads his own factory, and Emo
Fabry, also designer of the new
retail building for Swedish Mod
ern, Inc, in Dallas. The Dallas
shop is one of many to be situat-
ed in various parts of the country,
a store plan made possible by the
Joint working program.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
Norway Center Drive Completed

T. Grooming, chairman of Norway Centers finance
mttee reports to this paper that the goal of the
bond sale drive reached The leg the long
stretch $150O0 Gin the bag shortly after the Off
cial dedication ceremony Grooming and his committee
should be commended for work well DONE Their task was
the most trying and important too, the project
given the ahead signal We greet this important bit of
with the utmost satisfaction.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
Boosting Sweden

Albert Edward Wiggens has sought to ques-
ton put to him. Is the United States the best and hap
piest nation in the world? This is what he said
mo Economists socioogsts and population experts
believe Sweden the hapest because nobody very rich
or very poor. Everybody has home and usually job
The happes thing is that the educated half of the people
who on the average live longer and have better health
and moral character than the uneducated half pro-
ducing children than the uneducaed Thus Swe-
dish people steadily improving in health happiness and
character Just the opposite is true in Great Britain
France Germany and the United States where the uned
Gated half producing the most children and
ly these nations starting downward in intelligence
health and moral character"
We would like to concede many believe that Sweden
is the most prosperous and fortunate country Europe
today This may also evident from the fact that Swedens
emigration to the United States has comparatively re-
duced to mere trckle the quota is filled But Wig
gems ought to know that dividing the Swedish people into
educated and uneducaed halves is not practical Swedens
rate of eracy is OF percent is really uneducated
and those who seek the highest education don't have to go
around begging for it. The moral character of the So
called uneducated be just good if not better
Most Swedish Americans returning from visits Swe-
den after the last will agree that has made much
progress and is fine country But So very few of
them want to stay there after long absence.
Happiness is intangible thing and mostly matter of
conscience which makes almost impossible appraise
by comparisons But people apparently will keep
pairing United States with the old countries arguing for
and against way the other It's old story now
and humorous if not silly at times
It's easier to get down to brass tacks and start talking
about how much money can buy here there. There's
where we have personal oonote to make Recently we
bought suit of clothes and pair of shoes for weeks
wages but, relatively speaking would have had to
work at least two three weeks to buy the in any
of the Scandinavian countries.-T N.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
BY Margaret Warren

Rejecting the Swedish love for
hand-craftsmanship are many of
the designs in mass-produced piec-
es of Swedish Modern furniture
reaching America today. They are
also scaled down to proportions
necessary to fit Americas homes.
And they are equipped to do the
multiple-duty that new homemak-
ers demand from all new furni-
ture.
Recently Swedish Modern, Inc,
in New York had a showing of
household furniture which was
constructed in Sweden under a
new cooperative business and de-
sign program with Swedish fur
niture export designers and man.
ufacturers participating.
Part of this plan provides for
designs originating in Sweden to
be submitted to the firm in this
country where suggestions are
made for improving their suitable
ity to the American home, taste,
and what's more, price.
Visiting Designers
About a year and half ago the
Swedish Modern Shop succeeded in
bringing to the United States from
Sweden a group of designers to
study more thoroughly the needs
of the American household. The
direct result of the sharing of
ideas has been the designing CT
many new pieces.
For example, they worked out
two groups of storage units, one
uniformly more massive than the
other. Each group is composed of
modules that may be used togeth-
er along a wall, or separately in
different parts of the house.
One interesting section incor-
porates an overhanging, slant
front cabinet that extends above
and to one side of the base cab
inet's surface. It's interior may be
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
-. And Macarthur

General Macarthur has burst forth upon the Ameri-
can scene in blaze of glory. The common people may
well wonder at his bright golden halo They seen the
emergence of new strong man" and he comes with
cure, war, for their emotional alment
They need cure the common people, for they frus-
trated and weary. Above all, they camor for peace in
their hearts, only they at loss to find it, If Mac
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
Norwegian Eggs

More than $4,000 tons of cargo
were weighed in by Norwegian
Egg Centrals, Inc. in 1850. an in
crease of. 1920 above 1949. Well
over 5000 tons of the total were
exported.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19
Morse Cancer Drive

The Norwegian cancer drive mas
now passed the IL million kroner
mark, exceeding the minimum
goal by 2 million.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-04-19

Arthur them of this almen the aching desire
for peace then he is greater than his staunchest
advocates say he is But have yet professional
war leader make peace in this country