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Administering the 4eaon blow
was the 7-man Senate Auleo Conn
mittee. Led by m~aJol4vy Roscoe
Walcutt it voted, III effect, never
come to a vote III the Senate.
The reason was simple. COP
leaders felt the terIIIIc pressure
for and against the PROPOSED $3.50
to allow the hlghly-lobDIea blu to
million rubber railroad" was al
fecting their legislative program.
No evidence abs been disclosed,
however, which indicates uhav the
COP has a program other than OF
obstruction.
So far the Legislature has en-
acted relatively unlmportant laws.
1t has also ordered several in
vestigations and taken occasional
pot-shots at the administration
of Gov. Frank j. Lausche. But
not a single piece of important
legislation has been enacted. Con-
troversial proposals have been
locked in committees throughout
the three months OF the session.
CRITICISM WILL BE aimed at
the action of the rules committee.
One important metropolitan news.
paper has called it a Highland
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ed, dlctatorial action" The news
paper called the refusal of the
senate to vote on the merits Of
conyeyor belt proposal plain
''coWaIdice."
1t is the second time the pro-
posal has been killed in the Sen
ate. The project was first proposed
VWo years ago. Backers Of the con-
veyor belt - an Akron railroad
wanted the right of eminent do
man to build the belt which would
have transported coal and iron ore
between Lake Erie and the Ohio
River.
The death of the proposal was
q blow to star lobbyist Ed. D.
Schorr. Schorr, former COP state
chairman, was been called the
party's legislative boss. He was
hlred by the conveyor belt inter
ests to push the bill through the
Assembly.
Action on the "belt" and other
recent issues also has hurt the
political future of Walcutt. The
majority leader was mentioned al
the start of the sessions as {
possible gubernatorial candidate.
OTHER BIG NEWS in the cap
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Rites Set
For Pastors Son

Funeral services for David Re-
we're Jr., 80, will be held at 1870
p.hm. Thursday in St. Luke's Bap-
fist Church at Lakeview and Cliff
ton DR.. The Rev. Frank C. Cleve-
land of, Columbus will officiate.
Burial will be in Woodland Gene
terry. Friends may view the body
after 6 pm. Tuesday and until 6
pm. Wednesday at the McLin
Funeral Home, 1130 Germantown
St. After 6 pm. Wednesday, the
body will be at st. Luke's Baptist
Church.
Mr.. Revere, who resided at 13-
So Home Ave-, died at St. Eliza
beth Hospital Saturday. He had
been a resident Of Dayton for 81
wears and was a native of Griffin,
Ga. He was employed at the De-
partment of Streets here for 10
years.
Survivors include his father, Rev.
David Revere ST., pastor of the
st. Luke's Baptist Church; one
daughter, Doris; one son, NAL
colin; five sisters, Mrs. Ruth
Webb, Mrs. Maude Jordon, Mrs.
Alkaline Hammond, Mrs. Mary
Barnes of New York City and Mrs.
Fannie Revere of Brooklyn, N. Y,
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and two brothers., Morgan Revere
of Dayton and William Revere OF
Georgia.
, 1951-04-03

itol: The Senate approved the
Governors appointments to the
Ohio Turnpike Commission. Con-
firmation of the four appointees
came after a brief skirmish in
which Sen. David Nick Ferguson,
Cambridge, opposed appointments
but said he didn't even know who
the appointees were
Turnpike Chairman James ".
Shocknessy Immediately called a
commission meeting for April 3
to receive a progress report on
turnpike studies. If the toll road
across northern Ohio is feasible
it may be started by the end of
this year.
New tax measure approved 101-
10 by the lower house would al
low county commissioners to OK
levies and spend money for work
of osil conservation districts. SEN
ate approval is needed.
WAR ON GAMBLING is con-
tinuing. House was to vote Tues
day on measure giving Governor
Lausche right to initiate custer
proceedings against sheriffs and
county prosecutors for failure to
enforce laws. Bill is the result Of
Lausche's career-long fight against
corruption and racketeering ele-
ments. Present law hits only at
mayors.
House approved and sent to SEN
ate a bill curbing fishing in Sand
usky Bay. Vote was 1872 to 2.
Measure is a compromise between
plasure and commercial fisherman.
It clears Bay for weekend and
holiday pleasure fishing and re-
gulates use of nets and seines.
Both House and Senate
scheduled first hearings during
the fourth month of the legisla-
tive session on Fair Employment
Practices Legislation. House In
dustry and Labor Committee
was to hear an Educational"
proposal on April a. Senate La
Dor Committee will hear a pro-
posal with enforcement machin-
cry in it on April II.
IA
Redistricting: Hearings were re
cessed by House Election Commit
tee, as subcommittee began draft
ing changes in congressional dis
tricts. The Senate was due to re
ceive another redistricting pro
posal on Monday but so far hai
not scheduled hearings on thu
question.
REAPPORTIONMENTS: Rep
Joseph Avellone, Clevelan
Heights, and Thomas Barrett
Youngstown, proposed a consti
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subsidy and intagible tax receipts
on the basis Of population and
coutny tax duplicates. The plan
was authored by Reps. G. D. Ia
black and Barrett of Mahoning
county.
Constitutional amendment: APP
proved by House provides authori-
ty for more than one probate
Judge in larger counties in Ohio.
Vote was 114-6. If approved by
the Senate, the amendment would
be submitted to the voters in Nov
ember.
Evening star., 1951-06-18

Young David was the family's chief
support from the time Of their arrival
In the United States. BY his early 2Os
he was so firmly established in lumber
ing that he never again worked for
any one else or borrowed / cent. It
was much later that his son learned
that If every one kept out of debt there
could be no capitalist system.
Although the economic situation was
considerably different, young Mariner
also went to work at 8. A summer Job
IN box factory paid him cents an
hour for l0-hour day. And his father
promised that if he saved 500 he could
have one share of Oregon Lumber Co.
stock at its par value.
"It's worth much more than that" he
explained, land If you own a share you
will become capitalist
At the end of his third summers work
the boy had saved the 500. He became
capitalist at the age of II and has
been one ever since.
At 19 he was sent to Scotland for two
years as a Mormon missionary. Con-
.verts were few. but he had chance to
see something of Europe Shortly after
his return his father died, and the task
OF managing the family fortune fell
largely to him. 1t continued to multiply,
while his attention turned more and
more toward banking in the late 192Os,
when the American dream apparently
had been put on sound statistical basis.
The economic collapse of the early
1930s led him to question for the first
time his fathers simple faith in hard
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Ignores Trunsit Ads

A recent contributor, writing in favor
OF radio commercials on streetcars.
stated she got amusement out of reading
the ads in streetcars She believed
patrons were thrilled by seeing pictures
of frosted beer bottles and girl diving
into a pool. She stated she had been
so entertained for years.
Well. might be interested in viewing
a painting by Rembrandt but cannot
say that have ever been enthused over
a commercial featuring a frosted beer
bottle, and doubt very much whether
any intelligent person would be so en-
tertained.
The writer further stated that car ads
constitute forced reading, the same as
radio commercials constitute forced lis
tening. I disagree, for I very seldom
read the printed ads. but must listen per-
force to the radio commercials. If the
printed ads were held directly in front
Of my eyes. whichever way turned, my
only recourse would be to shut my eyes,
but unfortunately we cannot close our
ears in like manner. Let us pray that
the Supreme Court will uphold the Court
OF Appeals and put an end to radio COM
mercials and music on public vehicles.
Pauline Langley.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Time to Get Tough

Maryland Governor Theodore r. McKeldins
advice that judges "get tough" with traffic vio-
latorS is justified by the States rising toll of
dead and injured on its highways. It is advice
which is in line with the program just adopted
by the Presidents Highway Safety Conference.
And it is advice which has proved remarkably
effective in reducing serious accidents in several
citieS-notably Detroit
Governor McKeldin told 80 magistrates at
a conference at the University of Maryland that
Maryland has set "a horrible example" in the
field of traffic safety It is near the bottom of
the list Of States, as rated for safety progress.
1t is near the top of the list of States having
the most highway deaths in proportion to popu-
lation. incidentally it has no vehicle inspection
system and it is the only State which does not
require periodic renewal of drivers permits u.
The Highways Safety Conference, referring
to last years traffic toll of $4,000 dead and mif
lion injured as national emergency" called on
the law Enforcement agencies of the country to
Evening star., 1951-06-18
By Belmont Fories

FAILURE to put Federal spending on a
4 pay-as-you-go basis. as an essen
t:al step to curb initiation, can cost us
our domestic freedom, regardless Of our
success, in the struggle against COM
munism. This is the grim warning that
comes today from Mariner Eccles
The same man argued heatedly in
the depression ridden 1930s that only
by foregoing the fetish of balanced
budget and spending millions to put
men back to work could the Nation be
restored to economic health.
The inner consistency OF these ap-
parently contradictory positions is the
theme Of Reckoning Frontiers" Mr..
Eccles' Autobiography In Economics" !"
lust published Knopf. So. In 1t he
attemrts to tell how democratic capital
ism can, avoid the evils Of booms and
depressions, which, II unchecked, can
DESTROY our political and economic free
dUlz1s.
Mr.. Eccles, former chairman Of the
Federal Reserve Board, is the Million
ai1e Republican banker who came out
OF che West In early New Deal days with
an economic philosophy which made
hun anathema to conservatives OF both
parties. AS he struggled successfully to
keep his own banks open while others
closed all around, he had become con-
virced that free enterprise was not the
whole answer to the problem OF de-
ptessions.
Only the Government. with its tax
ing, borrowing and spending powers. he
decided, could balance an unbalanced
economy. Never man to keep his
opinions to himself, he began to propa-
ganize his new economic faith wher-
ever he could find an audience. Almost
before he knew 1t he was New Deal
official in Washington,
His theory of the Government as a
compensatory agent for an economy
based on private enterprise hardly seems
radical today. It was formally accepted
in the Employment Act Of 1946. But
in the depression years, Mr.. Eccles
seemed to many a traitor to his class,
a distinction earned. he points out with
a touch of pride. '1ong before Franklin
Roosevelt was called one"
The fact that an Eccles was a mem
ber of the wealthy, ultra conservative
class reveals much of the opportunity
offered by free enterprise in frontier
economy. His father, David Eccles,
born in Glasgow slum and forced to
work at 8. practiced so energetically the
virtues Of thrift and hard work that he
died in 1912 many times a millionaire.
He did it not through any windfall dis
covery Of gold or oil. but through ex-
panding lumber operations. sugar fac
tories. coal mines. heavy construction,
banks and utilities that contributed to
the upbuilding of Western America.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
RHODE ISL AND AVENUE

"RHODE ISLAND AVENUE
Dear Sir:
Reading your account Of 'Templeton
Jones and his Scent piece reminds me
Of my early school days.
I'VE could make a choice between a
candy store and a bakery.
"The candy store sold old-fashioned
jaw breakers, all-day suckers, candy
barrels heavily filled with sirupy
whisky and something called wine
barrels They were pyramid shaped
and filled with sweet liquid.
"The bakery specialized In huge sour
pickles and cinnamon buns still hot. ]
don't know what we would have done
with 3 cents, though.
Both places were across from the
school. Our time was limited but we
made it. My. how my thoughts go back
to old times!
Near our house was another penny
store run by lady who had the patience
Of job.
I'VE kids must have been q trial
81 am one Of those rare creatures, a
native Of Washington.
Sincerely. M. T. s."
.&*
The thoughts Of youth are long, long
thoughts the poet said.
There was small boy once who stood
for many minutes In front Of one of
those stores.
It was not, strictly speaking. q penny
STORE. N
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against the Jewish state will bring them
victory.
The Jewish state is counting heavily
on American financial assistance to help
it in its great work Of development and
integration and productivization Of the
new immigrants. Israel is faced with
a dollar shortage at present And un-
less Israel receives United States aid, 1t
will find it difficult to survive under
current conditions.
Look at it from another vantage
point. The United States cannot afford
to have another Middle East war on
its hands Such an outbreak will benefit
the Communists.
The Arab states are already flirting
with the Soviets in the hope of getting
material and other aid.
Any United States aid to Israel will
be beneficial to the entire Middle East
in many ways.
The Arabs will not attack Israel so
long as the Jewish state has United
States backing-f1nancially and politi-
cally. And thus, peace will be pre-
served, or at any rate, the chances for
peace in the Middle East will be
strengthened.
Charles M. Segal,
Press director, National Committee for
Labor Israel.
New York City.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
By Charles E. TroceweN

More. he realized that perhaps he
never would be able to play it.
He wanted it. however. How much of
the wanting in life is self induced? MAY
1t not be that the longings of later years
are thus built up in the child, and all for
good purpose?
Without longing, without building I'D
the ego. no one can get very far. And
the American creed, of course. calls for
one to get far, or farther.
The small boy longed so for the violin
that all his waking hours were con-
cerned with it, to the detriment of read
ing and writing and arithmetic, and
also mumbly peg.
The boy so longed for the violin that
finally there was family conspiracy to
get it for him.
The full price, SIPS, had been too
much for him.
He wasn't used to thinking Of things
IN such large sums. A penny usually did
1t. or cents at the most.
They got him the toy violin, and his
joy was complete.
Complete, that is, for about "a hours
After that, he wondered why he had
ever wanted the thing.
He was to find out, later, that life is
often that way. What one wants turns
out to be nothing; what one never
thought Of is bd det Of all.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
This and That

It sold everything in the way of no.
tions, as the odds and ends of commerce
are called, with the accent heavily on
those articles beloved Of childhood.
There were balls and tops and dime
novels.
Not really 10 cents, of course, since
that was an unchildlike sum.
Five cents bought the very latest copy
of Buffalo Bill weekly, and Tip Top,
in the latter of which one could follow
the adventures of Frank Merriwell him
self. childhood's hero.
The boy stood looking in at the bright
covered books hung over string.
But it was not Of the Liberty Boys, or
even Of Frank Merriwell that he was
thinking.
His whole being was intent on violin
which he could see on a high shelf far
back in the store.
He had been watching that violin for
days, weeks, months, years it seemed to
him.
His soul longed for the instrument,
but why he could not explain.
His elders had asked him that very
question.
'But why do you want toy violin?''
he had been asked, very pointedly. "You
couldn't play 1t. In fact, it probably
won't play ut all. It is just a toy violin.'
The small boy had nothing to say.
He knew he couldn't play 1t.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Teen-Age Dope Addicts

Testimony given during the New York in
vestigation of school-age drug addicts makes it
quite clear that this can become very serious
problem. 1t does not follow, however, that every
bit of gossip and every scrap of rumor concern
ing teen-age dope addictS should be swallowed
hook, line and sinker.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
seems to have gone off the deep end in this
respect. The board, having heard reports OF an
alarming" drug menace among children in
nearby Virginia, and especially in Arlington
County, has called for legislation to impose
mandatory life sentences on any one convicted
of selling narcotics to juveniles.
If an alarming situation actually existed
there would be strong reason to support this
recommendation. But the drug menace to chill
dren in nearby Virginia, far from being alarming
appears to be nonresident. The whole thing
apparently started from one unconf1rmed report
that some unidentified students at Washington
Lee High School had been buying and smoking
"reefers." This report was investigated, but it
has not been confirmed. And so far as The Star
can learn. the best-informed officials do not
know of a single instance of a dope peddler
operating in Arlington It is possible, of course.
that some sales have been made. But the avail
able information hardly justifes the hasty action
taken by the Fairfax supervisors.
Much the same thing may be said of the
report from the Senate Crime investigating Com
mittee concerning the sale of marijuana and
heroin in Washington
Undoubtedly there are both addicts and
peddlers in Washington No one really knows
how many. But it is neither accurate nor helpful
to picture Washington as drug ridden city on
the uncon1rmed basis of statements taken from
inmates of two Maryland institutions, and pub
lished anonymously.
There most certainly should be no COM
placency and no laxity in dealing with the drug
traffic. It is an unmitigated evil wherever it
flourishes But it is not an evil that can be
curbed by headline reports or by official action
that is not based on facts
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Revealing the Aqoro

Archaeologists recruited by the American
School of Classical Studies are digging up the
Agora in Athens The ancient market place is
natural magnet for scholars interested in the
classic past. Exploration of it may answer ru-
merous questions. Within its boundaries all the
fe all the vitality of mo mean city" was focused
during at least thousand years. The Agora was
the forum of the Hellenic world. It drew visitors
from the farthest edges of the Mediterranean
basin. Travellers also came to it from the remote
East, from India and possibly China, Korea and
Japan. The areopagus or council is supposed to
have been established in the neighborhood in
1907 B. C. There II kings, 20 more or less per-
petual archons and many annual archons main
tanned their court under the 'violet crown" of
friendly skies. 1t was an ideal outdoor meeting
place, blessed with climate congenial beyond
words.
Solon employed the Agora to announce his
code of laws. It was from it that Aristides the
Just was banished Xerxes occupied it and Mar
donius burned the buildings which surrounded
it, for Themistocles to rebuild Pericles and Cimon
Wed in adorning the new structures In their
shadow Herodotus read his chronicles to all who
cared to listen Socrates was put to death nearby,
and Plato founded his academy in the vicinity.
Demosthenes delivered his Philippics to Agora
assemblies, and Philips son, Alexander, rode into
the precinct conqueror demanding still grander
detectives for his sword Then followed the Ro-
mans, especially Sylla, abetted by famine Cicero
and Horace were visitors in their respective days.
and the apostle Paul preached to the areopagus
in So A. D. The last of the noble builders was
Hadrian. Then appeared Alaric, next the Turks,
afterwards the Venetians, finally the Turks again.
Liberation was accomplished in 1888, but freedom
is not safe even now The Red tide may sweep
over Greece any moment.
Meanwhile, the archaeologists excavating the
Agora are not digging simply for the sake OF
antiquity. Athens was the democratic ideal when
all the rest of the earth was in darkness. Under
the present floor Of the ancient market place are
fragments Of human experience worth retrieving
practical lessons worth learning Three levels
already have been explored, and the work is being
continued Systematically. America is glad to help
the enterprise directly through ECA and indi-
rectly through Princepn University.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
We All Know the Bucket

We may haze forgotten the old oaken
bucket
But De all knotD "The Pair on the
broad highU1y,
"The Kettle" "The Barrel" ."The Well
ot-Nantucket,"
"The Cofee-Pot," "Tin-Can" and
"StoD-It-A1DGy."
Each stop-in and drop-in, each drdtD-up
and pop-in,
Each BARBECUE, eat-G-tew. hot-do0
stand,
The food shops and teGroonS that spring
up like mushrooms
Wherever highDGy traDerses the
land.
Yes. Ue all knolD "The Bucket" ho,p
could Ue forget it?
Though the old odken bucket may call
us in Unin,
The pop stand and beanery are part of
the scenery
And succor the traueler from TerGs
to Maine.
\ Helen HowIond Prommel
Evening star., 1951-06-18
For q United Front on Planning

The Committee OF 100 on the Federal City
has made a sensible move in proposing delay
in congressional consideration of planning COM
mission bills until AN agreement can be reached
on one measure by all parties concerned There
are already pending two bills for reorganization
of the National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission and a third is under study by the Budget
Bureau. All have the objective of providing
basis for better overall planning of the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area, but they differ in
numerous details. It will be confusing to Con-
gress to have groups of supporters OF the various
bills appearing in sort of contest for favor
One bill was introduced by Chairman Nicely
of the Senate District Committee. It would
abolish the present commission and create in
its place National Capital Planning Comnis-
sion, composed of two representatives each from
the District, Virginia and Maryland and two
members-at-large. This bill is similar to the
original proposal of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, proposal which en-
countered considerable opposition from some OF
the nearby planning and governmental authori-
ties. The other pending bill was introduced by
Representative Howard Smith of Virginia. 1t
would transfer functions of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission to regional
planning commission and would create also
District planning commission.
Meanwhile, the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, taking cognizance OF
criticisms of its original plan, has prepared
new proposal-the one now being considered
by the Budget Bureau. The commission hopes
that the revised bill will meet the objections of
Maryland and Virginia planners to the first
plan, yet it would retain the authority which
the commission needs to coordinate planning
in the Greater Washington Area. If the Com
yoiff ST o,nS& &Ion TaIa Iari,ae
supporters of the various plans together in
mutual agreement on one measure or a con-
solidated measure it will have laid the basis for
early legislative action. There is little likelihood
of serious congressional attention to the planning
problem until there is greater unanimity of
opinion on the subject by all of the planning
agencies in the area.