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Evening star., 1951-10-29
By Nelson M. Shepard

When Thomas S. Settle gazes over the
wide expanse of Washington and its
environs he is likely to exclaim lyrically,
"Oh, what beautiful city!''
That aptly describes the emotions of
this veteran secretary and legal adviser
OF the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, who is retiring
Wednesday after 20 years of as close
official participation in Washington
planning problems as anyone.
But what this practical-minded vision
ary really thinks in terms of Washington
is this: With eternal vigilance and far
Sighted planning, We can make this the
most livable' capital of the world. as well
as one OF the most beautiful"
BY I'VE" Mr.. Settle means 1--WE, the
People" No one knows better the les
sons Of experience. Planning for the
future of Metropolitan Washington"
he says. requires the cooperation of
the Congress, Federal and regional
planning agencies, the District govern
ment and the loyal, understanding sup
port of the people who live in the area.
All this cooperation must be intelli-
gently co-ordinated to be really success
full"
To this he would add: There must be
boldness in planning for the future. Once
a good plan is made, stick to 1t, never
lose sight of it,
Mr.. Settles natural sizing up of q
city is whether it is "livable" place.
IF we make Washington more livable,'
people coming here will want to re-
MAN." he explains. There would be
fewer people moving out into it's en-
virons, problem most large cities face
today"
Livable conditions, to his way of think
ing Of future planning for Washington,
means more city and regional parks for
recreation. more Fairgrounds in easy
walking distance for children. More mo-
tor vehicle parkways. circuituous and
inner-ring routes to lessen traffic con-
gestion in the central area. Elimina-
tion of the sordid inhabited alleys that
remain a blot on the Capital. More. too,
of the present example Of orderly CO.
ordination between public housing and
redevelopment of blighted areas just
now starting. That latter program
should continue indefinitely, he believes.
All this and constant vigilance to hold
the gains. he says, should guide future
planning for better Washington.
For these reasons, he stands -four
square" on recommendations in the 1850
Comprehensive Plan as a promising
hope. AS drawn by the Federal agency,
this flexible program looks 80 years
ahead into the gauged needs of an esti-
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Bad News for Dope PeddIers

If Washington continues to be haven for
drug peddlers-as Federal narcotics authorities
say it is nowit will not be because of inadequate
laws Ineffective laws, leading to weak enforce
ment, have been blamed for a recent influx of
dope racketeers from Maryland, where sitter
statute enacted by the past Legislature, is max
ing life uncomfortable for drug offenders. But
passage in the closing hours Of Congress, of
strong amendment to the Harrison Narcotics
Act is hailed by Narcotics Commissioner Ans
lnger as potential dam against further inva-
sion. The new Federal legislation raises the
specter of Jail for violators who previously
banked on getting of with fines.
Henceforward there will be no fines for drug
peddlerS convicted OF second offense in the
District of Columbia. The new law-urged by
the Narcotics Bureau and by President Truman
provides mandatory prison sentences for "re-
peaters." There can be no suspension of SEN
tence by judge after prior conviction First
offenders will be liable to sentences of from two
to five years. second offenders would get from
five to 10 years and those convicted more than
two times would be given sentences ranging
from 10 to 20 years.
The Federal law in the past has made it
discretionary with the courts as to whether Jail or
fine was imposed Until the past year some
local judges have been inclined to deal leniently
with drug law violators, Mr.. Anslinger told Con-
gresS. In recent months, however there has
been noticeable tightening up in sentences
From now on the courts will have no alternative
but to impose minimum Jail sentences against
f1agrant violators If the Federal and local au-
thorities do their part in rounding up violators
and bringing them into court, there should be
an apprecable decline in illegal drug activities
in Washington from now on.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Letters to The Star .

$4.50 the waiter left an unopened
bottle Of beer on my table for is min
utes. 1t was hot day and when he got
around to taking my order and opening
the bottle. the beer was warm.
went to drugstore to get small
paste brush. The woman clerk insisted
that she not only had no brush, but
that there was nothing in the store that
would serve. got the assistant man
ager. He found a small brush used for
painting eyebrows. It serves well.
There is no snap or hustle about
service. The only way to get your check
in restaurant is to put on your hat
and start for the door. You get it fast
then.
Perhaps I seek too much perfection,
but certainly there Is not even medioc-
rity in Washington.
Victim Of Circumstances.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Political Seer

A year from next January, Bob Taft
will be the Chief Executive. When he
has delivered his inaugural address and
a message or two to Congress, we will
enter the Taft Era" What kind of
an era will it be?
The prospects are that it viii be an
era Of peace and prosperity. Like
Korea. most Of our present problems
stem from administration incompe-
tency.
One Of the things I expect to see is
q return of the feeling Of security and
permanency we have lost in the spree
we have been on. Taft will steady the
rocking boat. BY restoring efficiency In
government, he will stop the spend-tax-
imitation cycle. BY sober thinking along
all American lines. he will be able to
reduce our diversions abroad and stabil-
ize the world situation.
The climate in Washington will be
different as it win around all Federal
buildings in other cities. Men devoted
to long enduring America will re-
Evening star., 1951-10-29

1912, Judge Clagett served there until he was
named to the Municipal Court Of Appeals in
March, 1946. In both of these assignments he
proved himself a master of legal principle in
action. His colleagues have said of him that
he personified judicial conscientiousness Affable,
courteous, scrupulously considerate, he had but
one single purpose-to see that justice and
nothing but justice was done. He leaves an
example which certainly could be remembered
in the annals of jurisprudence in the Nations
Capital.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Popular Responsibility

The next national administration is
our responsibility when every voter goes
to the polls in 1852. If we believe we
are drifting from day to day, confused,
undecided. with no clear-cut policy, do
mestic or foreign: that from top to bot
tom there is too much dead wood in the
Federal Government; too loose moral
fiber. If not corruption, in high office;
that there is grave danger of disaster
ahead, financial and political; then a
new broom" is a must for Washington
in 50. The ultimate responsibility is
ours. so we must see to it that every
citizen is registered and that every cit
izen gets to polling place
Fred p. Patton.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Virginia Traffic improvements

K. S. Coulter was for reexamining the
Arlington road program by unbiased
minds. The unbiased minds should repre-
sent those who are not interested in the
increase in the dollar value of the
acreage bought up for development by
big building interests. This applies to
the storm sewer program also The first
program should be to correct the exist
ing accident traps like Lee highway,
Quincy street Washington boulevard in
tersection, Washington boulevard -Shir-
ley highway intersection. Why not an
inlet for Rosslyn vicinity traffic to Wash
ington Memorial highway?
r. s. Long.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
A Walk in October

The heart grotDn up, the heart croDn old,
Finds melancholy in the gold
OF Autumn: in the scarlet leaf
brave reminder OF the brief,
Though lopely. internal
Before the 1Uinter shadows fall.
Ho1o blessed to be only fve. ...
To see these colors as Glive:
The sudden burst OF bronze and red.
Around. about. and overhead.
An equal miracle to Spring
Another kind OF blossomiro.
Shirley Boushman o'LsoY.
Evening star., 1951-10-29

place yes-men. The merit system will
be restored.
For business. there will be freedom
from government controls but rigid en-
forcement of the antitrust laws. For
labor freedom from boss domination and
higher real wages. For the farmer, ex-
panded markets at home and abroad.
For the consumer. more value in the
dollar. For everybody, that good old
feeling Of unity as Americans with con-
fdence that the Government is intelli-
gent and reliable.
Average Man,
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Wotchtower Thinks
Average Man.

I am little late in writing. but I do
want you to know that the pictures and
articles appearing in your paper during
the time of the Watchtower Convention
here at Griffith Stadium were much ap-
preciated by our organization. The pub
lie were given good opportunity to
see the growth of our organization and
to see how thousands of people of more
than one race can meet peaceably to-
gether without any friction.
Nettie A. Werdig.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Gen. Vouehon ScoIded

Reading Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan's
statement that 'it is easier to die
for your country than live for 1t
under the attacks of the character
assassin -" wonder just how much
living for his country the controversial
MisSourian has done
would urge Gen. Vaughan to
visit the wards Of Walter Reed and
Bethesda Hospitals, and see the victims
Of his boss police action" who almost
died for their country, or to look upon
the rows Of crosses at Pusan. Korea, of
men who have died for their country,
before he makes such statements.
Mrs. John Doe.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Retiring P|onner EnVisions Greater Civ

long standing Virginia Boundary Line
dispute, the Alley Dwelling Authority
Act, and urban redevelopment, to name
few-Mr. Settles chief interest appar-
emily centers on recreation and the
Capper- -Cramton Act. Under advance
land purchase and lending powers given
the Planning Commission, Washington 8
park and playground system has kept
pace, restricted only by some lean years
of appropriations. Maryland is benefit
ting greatly by Its Capper-Cramton
agreements Virginia is just now begin
ming to realize the possibilities.
AS chairman Of the parks committee
of the Chamber of Commerce Mr.. Settle
battled for its enactment in 1880. He is
forever challenging with factual argu-
rsent those who complain about lands
being taken from taxation for park
purposes.
The Commissions wisdom in acquir-
ing outlying areas we'll in advance Of
development. Mr.. Settle says, has saved
taxpayers millions from increased costs.
The problem now is in acquiring in-town
Fairgrounds, which are costing more
money for less land because of meager
appropriations during and since the war.
Mr.. Settle keeps at hand to back up his
contentious, statistics compiled from
records of the District Tax Assessor.
In 1924, when the Planning Commis-
sion was created, total assessed value
of real estate Qand and improvements
was $788.8 million. Twenty years later.
after large amounts of land purchases
and depression, the total rose 1873 per
- Fl lry TNfra
it had risen to SIT billion, valuation
Of $567.8 million on land and $1.1 billion
on improvements.
Mr.. Settle hopes more Capper-Cram-
ton funds will be made available to
complete the start made in nearby
Maryland to combine half dozen small
stream valleys in the Metropolitan sys-
tenn before encroaching subdivisions
make land costs excessive.
But his heart is even more centered
on completion of the George Washing
ton Memorial Parkway, a start on con-
struction having been made from Spout
Run on the Virginia side. To finish this
parkway connecting from Great Falls
to Fort Washington, he contends, con-
stitutes challenge" to the Planning
Commission and counties involved.
Equally important to Washington, he
believes. is concentration on the Fort
Drive as a high-speed ring" road to
distribute traffic on radial routes and
to handle circumferential traffic in the
city. Likewise. he is booster, too, for
defense funds to bring the Baltimore
Washington parkway into the District
as an alternate passenger route.
Evening star., 1951-10-29
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can ret the answer %
snsn,1 any question Of fac. BY either yFitins The
NV, Washington s. d. c., and inclosing 8 cents
return postage or by telephontng ST. 1883,
Evening star., 1951-10-29
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Was the so-called Roman nose
typical of the Romans?-S. w.
A. The high-bridged nose was popu-
larly believed to have been characteristic
of the Romans. 1t is referred to by
Shakespeare, and may be seen in por-
traits of members of the ruling classes.
There is. however, no evidence that it
was typical of the Roman people as
whole.
Evening star., 1951-10-29

@. Is there any way to keep the pic
ture flaps in billfold from becoming
cloudy?-B. j. M.
A. The National Bureau Of Standards
says that transparent plastics usually
become cloudy because of minute
scratches which develop when parts in
side the pocketbook constantly rub over
one another. There Is no remedy.
Evening star., 1951-10-29

Pen-nanaes may be used if letters carry
a0riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1951-12-16

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Evening star., 1951-12-16

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Black, tan or brown. An appreciated
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Evening star., 1951-03-04
.RCA Gives N Industry
Details Of lis Color Tube
by the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-Radio
Corp. of America has made its
tri-color direct view television
tube available to the remainder
of the industry.
This was disclosed today when
other television tube manufactur-
ers licensed to use RCA patents
received full information on how
to make the new tubes so they
can design their own models.
The tube face contains 100000
tiny red, blue and green dots ar
ranged in triangular fashion,
Only the desired one of the dots
is lighted by the electron beam
from a color telecast in forming
a color image. -.t
The tri-color tube was designed
by RCA for use with its own color
television broadcasting system,
which was rejected by the Fed
eral Communications Commission
last October when it adopted the
color wheel method of the Colum-
bia BroadcaSting System.
RCA, which is fighting FEC
adoption of the CHS system in
the courts, turned down a request
by FEC Chairman Wayne Coy
that 1t make its tri-color tube
available to CHS for experiment
tation.
RCA'S release of information on
the tube to other tube makers ap-
parently still does not make it
/ available to CHS.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Artist Held in Staying
OF Stepson;; Is Seized
After Fleeing Barefoot
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK. Mar. 3.-A Hun
garian-born artist. arrested wear
ing a woman's beige sports coat,
was charged with homicide today
in the fatal stabbing of his mill
tary cadet stepson.
The tragedy occurred in the
Park Avenue apartment of the
artist, Laszlo Pinter, 40. during a
quarrel with his estranged wife,
Christine, 40.
She was slightly wounded in
the neck and ear.
Tried to Shield Mother.
Police gave this account:
The Stepson, Leonard Allen
Fleming. IT, wearing his cadet
uniform, tried to shield his mother
as Pinter menaced her with a
knife.
The knife flashed.
The youth stumbled down the
stairs, clutching his abdomen,
and died in a nearby doorway.
Bloodstains covered the uniform
he wore as a student of Oakland
Military Academy at Oakland,
N. j.
The step-father barefoot, clad
in trousers and undershirt, fled
from the apartment. He went to
the home of a friend, Mrs. Frances
Grassl, 35, also an artist, and
borrowed the coat and a paint
stained pair of shoes.
Police learned this and broad
cast a description.
Hundreds See Arrest.
Patrolman James Mann spotted
Pinter in the woman's coat walk
ing from the ferry in Staten Is
land. where the artist was in the
habit of going on week ends.
Hundreds of commuters witnessed
the arrest.
Mann quoted Pinter as saying
the boy had urged his mother to
leave the apartment. He quoted
Pinter as saying:
For six years she's been giving
me a lot of trouble. The boy hit
me. What could I do? They tried
to push me out the window. I
put up with it long enough"
Pinter expressed surprise the
boy was dead.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
CONTINUED From First Page.)

ence of one-quarter Of one per-
cent a year-$2.50 per $1,000 in
securities-can mean a difference
of thousands of dollars to some
purchasers.
Will Be Lure to Big Buyers.
This, the Treasury Department
feels. should prove a potent lure
to the big buyers.
But there is one joker In the
terms Of the new iseue. The
Treasury will offer the new bonds
in exchange for marketable 2k
per centers maturing between 1867
and 1912. The old bonds are
marketable. but the new ones will
not be.
It apparently is the feeling of
the Federal Reserve and Treasury
that the additional one-quarter
of one per cent interest will in
duce holders of the old issue to
turn them in for new ones-and
to hold on to the higher interest
bonds.
The Treasury announcement of
the new issue said owners of
such non-marketable bonds will
be given an option Of exchanging
them prior to maturity for mar
ketable Treasury notes bearing
terms to be announced In the off,
cial Offering"
Official Unable to Answer.
One well-informed fiscal Off
cial was asked what would be
gained by trading in old bonds
for new and then re-converting
to q still newer issue when the
occasion arose. This official, who
refused to be named, said he could
not answer that question.
1t was indicated, however, that
at least some Federal Reserve of
f1cials had taken the attitude that
the new-issue plan was not en-
tirely satisfactory to them.
The argument which officially
If not actually-is now at an
end, started several months ago.
The Federal Reserve Boards Open
Market Committee sought to dis
continue price-support buying of
Government bonds, while the
Treasury demanded a continu-
alton of the practice in order to
hold down interest rates.
President Truman called q
meeting January 81 with members
Of the Open Market Committee
at which fiscal policies were dis
cussed. Following the meeting he
wrote and made public letter
to Mr.. McCabe thanking the COM
n1ittee for what he called its
assurance of support of Treasury
policies.
Eecles Released Minutes.
Board Member Mariner s.
Eccles then released q copy OF
minutes of the meeting, and
denied that such an assurance
had been given. James K. Varda-
man. jr., another board member
assailed Mr.. Eccles and declared
that the group had left that i'm
preston with the President.
Early in February Mr.. McCabe
wrote letter to Mr.. Truman, the
contents of which were never re-
vealed, but which was said to have
backed up the Eccles version. Al
about that time, a Federal Re.
serve Board spokesman said Mr.
Vardaman stood alone among the
board members in his attitude.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

every right and hope to have,
does not help their Illustration
and bitterness.
Agony is Understandable.
This agony OF spirit, so under
Standable and right, makes it hard
to believe that so monstrous an
evil can exist in a world based on
infinite mercy and justice.
But the fact is that it does
exist. The fact is that it twists
and tortures all our lives. And,
believe, to each of us in this case
as in so many others, the great
thing is not what happens to us
but how we bear what happens
to us.
For our country, and for most
Iof us as individuals. the period
which has passed since We and
W Days has been one Of cruel
disappointment, slowly forming
resolution, and. finally. great de-
termination and effort. The high
hopes, for which great sacrifices
were made during the war. did
not come to ready fruition. That
did not mean that these hopes
for peace. and for good life for
all-were wrong. or that the prin-
ciples Of freedom and justice on
which they were based were not
worthy or these sacrifices.
What 1t did mean was that it
was going to be a good deal
harder to build the kind Of world
we wanted, than we thought it
was going to be.
1--WE started out, even before
the war had ended. building the
foundation Of the structure of
peace. Of law and order in the
world. in the United Nations. We
hoped that all nations would work
together in bringing this about.
"We came very close to realizing
this aspiration. An international
organization has been started
functioning. and in some cases,
1t has performed extremely sue
cessfully. The role Of the United
Nations in the disputes in Pales-
tine and in Indonesia suggest that,
far from being discouraged, we
should be heartened by the pro-
gresS that has been made.
However as it became clear
that the rulers Of the Soviet Union
not only were not interested in
cooperating with us, but were
challenging the survival of our
free institutions, and the inde-
pendence of all nations. we have
been obliged to build up our
strength again. all of us.
Problem Ancient in Some Ways.
I'm some ways, this is an ancient
problem. Our forbearers on this
continent had it cruelty impressed
upon them that the liberty we
enjoy Is not won and preserved
without unremittting effort, with
out sacrifice. without eternal Wig
lance But we had for so long
enjoyed the blessings Of freedom.
that we had come to accept this
condition as automatically as
sured. It has fallen to us-to your
sons generation. and to ours-to
take up again the defense Of free
dom against the challenge Of
tyranny.
In other ways. this Is q new