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Evening star., 1951-05-03
Dorothy Thompson:
Dorothy Thompson:
General Viewed as the Father
People Desperately Feel the Need for Protection;
Leadership Lacking in Worst Crisis of History

The current American Mer-
curry" has an article on the
business career of President
Truman, which if it is not true
Is sizzlingly libelous, and which,
If it is true. is a further terrify-
ing revelation Of the state of
the union and its leadership
during the worst crisis in the
history of this Nation, and of
Western civilization.
Like others, we have specu-
lated on the reasons for the
extraordinary, even hysterical,
popular demonstration accom-
panying the return of Gen.
Macarthur.
We do not know, but we doubt
that this demonstration has
much to do with the obvious
controversy. Every poll has
shown that the Korean War is
profoundly unpopular. On the
direct isSue-that of extending
the war or restricting tive
would guess that the people
want less, rather than more
war. and anyhow. on the osten-
sible issue the quarrel between
the President and the general is,
in our opinion, more apparent
than real. But the ostensible
issue does not account for the
emotional upsurge greeting the
general. 1t is a more COM
plicated mass phenomenon.
The American people feel that
there is something rotten in
the state Of Denmark" They
have had unrolled before their
eyes and ears revelations of er-
rors and misdemeanors unique
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Oklahoma has ulterior motives
or has been slyly moving into
FPC by the back door of the
White House.
What has been happening at
FPC is even more serious from
the standpoint of the taxpayers
in whose presumed interest
this and other public regula-
tory bodies are established with
large stats and supported in
a style to which they rapidly
became accustomed. OF all peo-
pie. Senator Wiley of Wiscon-
sin, the Republican conserva-
tive, called attention to it in a
protest against the great in
creaSes the Phillips Petroleum
Co. has effectively leveled
against the people of Wisconsin.
With outward piety FPC af-
ter three years accepted Phil
lips motion to limit its hearings
to a purely jurisdictional ques-
ton. In his lone dissent, Chair
man Buchanan pointed out
that while appearing to put
first things first, the ruling had
the effect of delaying three
years the time before FPC
could look into the question of
whether Wisconsin consumers
were being overcharged. Since
the Natural Gas Act makes no
provision for reparations even
if FPC should finally so deter
mine. the extent of Phillips
victory is obvious.
The whole point of the Kerr
bill was to exempt independent
natural gas producers from FPC
regulations, a move which SEN
ator Douglas of Illinois, field
marshal Of the opposition,
charged would mean soaring
Evening star., 1951-05-03

timated the annual cost for a
l50-group force at Is billions.
The figure furnished him, said
Senator Wherry. was $34,600,-
100000 for the first year and Is
billion a year thereafter. This
would bring the military budget
up to rs billion a year, said
Senator Wherry, and Senator
Lodge did not dispute the arith-
metic.
Does the Senator know what
the total budget, military and
non-military. will be for the
next 10 years." Senator Wher-
ry asked.
II could not tell the Senator
out Of my head" Senator Lodge
replied. .
Several Senators, including
Morse and Humphrey. indicated
their agreement with Senator
Lodges general views, although
Senator Wherry suggested that
the additional money for the
Air Force should be taken from
the other armed services.
So there we have it. Senator
Taft believes the budget should
be slashed 20 billions to avoid
wrecking the national economy.
Senator Lodge believes it should
be increased by Is billions to
avoid possible disaster.
They could both be right.
Maybe there is no path to peace,
save the one that leads through
the graveyard to the poorhouse.
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Superiors. He was eased out
eventually to an insignificant
command. His intellectual in
dependence did not fit into the
new pattern of the administra-
ton.
When President Truman Or
dered him in July, 1947. to make
a comprehensive report on
China and Korea, Gen. Wede-
meyer was aware of the zap
peasement trend" in the State
Department. The directive ap-
proved by Mr.. Truman con-
tanned this significance sentence:
I'm making your appraisal it is
desired that you proceed with
detachment from any feeling of
prior obligation to support or to
further official Chinese pro-
grams which do not conform to
sound American policy in regard
to China"
Gen. Wedemeyer knew that
Gen. Marshall had decided to
stop any further aid to the Ma
tionalists after his endeavors to
induce the National government
to take the Communists into
partnership had failed. He also
realized that the State Depart
mont clique, which favored
the Chinese "agrarianS," would
strongly disagree with anything
that was in conflict with their
views. But Gen. Wedemeyer
decided that it would be against
the interests of the Nation for
him to water down his report.
He is said to have told friends
some time after his work was
finished: II may lose a couple
OF stars, but I shall keep my
self-respect." He challenged ap-
peasement in the first lines of
his report: IF the United Ma
tions is to have real effect in
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in American history: OF secret
international agreements whose
deadly seeds now bear their
poison fruits; of spies, native
and alien, who have penetrated
into state secrets with the ut
most ease and sometimes with
the collusion Of high officials of
Government; of brazen collu-
sions between gangsters and
police officers; of Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. funds to re-
ward political henchmen -
scandals reaching right into the
White House.
There is an immeasurable
crisis of confidence. The people
are outraged in every moral in
stinct, and wounded in their
pride, at a moment of great
reverses in a war they never
sought.
Into this crisis comes a man
about whom there has never
been hint of corruption. While
all this has been going on, he
has been serving his country,
with bravery and honor. He
had no part in any of the con-
ferenceS that have produced the
poisoned fruits. Among all the
victorS he was the most mag
unanimous; of all the postwar
administrators the most admir-
able. For IA years he has
not set foot in America, but
wherever he stood has been
America-and many cannot find
America at home. He exudes
independence-the most tradi-
tional American characteristic.
He looks the way Americans
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establishing economic stability
and world peace, these develop
ments (the Subversive technique
of the U. S. S. R.) merit high
priority on the United Nations
agenda for study and action"
But he really caused frowns
in the State Department when
he declared, few lines farther:
Indirectly. the United States
facilitated the Soviet program in
the Far East by agreeing at the
Yalta conference to Russian
entry into Manchuria and later
by withholding aid from Ma
tionalist China" This was re-
garded as a direct challenge to
President Roosevelt's and Gen.
Marshall's policies.
Gen. Wedemeyer correctly
warned his superiors that South
Korea would be attacked unless
the United States organized a
strong military force of South
Koreans on the pattern of the
famed Filipino Scouts to meet
the threat of a North Korean
army. then estimated at about
125, 900 men.
He recommended strongly or
ganization of an adequate Re-
public Of Korea force, capable of
defending the republic.
These views were not shared
by State Department political
planners, who had decided that
Korea was inconsequential. The
views of the unofficial expert on
the Far East, owen baltimore,
who believed that we had better
abandon Korea, prevailed against
those of Gen. Wedemeyer.
The Wedemeyer report was
suppressed and classified as top
secret until last Tuesday.
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picture the ideal American man.
He bears himself with ease and
dignity. He is aloof among back
slapperS, but without Supercili-
BUSINESS. In his speech there is
an echo of the old schoolbook
texts that have formed part of
the American SubconsciouS. AS
he rides through the streets,
with his young son at his side,
shy but poised, he is the picture
OF father who neither unfair
ly Furnishes nor spoils.
submit that in terms of pub
lie response, the matter of
whether his opinions are right
or wrong Is neglible. The
throngs cheering themselves
hoarse are not responding to an
opinion but to a personality.
They hold him responsible for
no ills; his life has not been de-
voted to money; they are conf
dent that he would never be-
tray, nor cheat, nor lie, nor
behave dishonorably. They can
not imagine him surrounded by
crooks and five percenters. In
the Augean Stables, he appears
godly and clean. They feel him
to be morally admirable. at a
time when they feel morally de-
based, in a collective sense of
shame.
He is, to use a psychological
term, the perfect father image.
: to a people who have begun to
feel that they are not the legit-
innate sons Of their present
political fathers-and who des-
perately feel the need for pro-
lection.
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prices and stynie effective con-
troll of all rates. President Tru-
man vetoed the bill in one Of his
outstanding displays Of political
courage, though it narrowly
passed the House and passed the
Senate.
Since then, however, FPC
under the Craftsmanship of his
own intimate has allowed the
Truman victory to fade away in
inanition. In no single case has
it asserted the powers to set fair
trade standards which the Presi-
dent intended to solidify.
This has tended to transform
FPC, in line with so many regu-
latory bodies established with
high hopes and maintained
against great odds, as a ratiflca-
tion agency rather than fair
trade monitor. The tendency has
been confirmed by State action;
Kansas and Oklahoma have by
enabling acts taken back to the
States regulatory powers ann
Texas is debating doing so. 1t is
notoriously easier for utilities to
put over their plans in Stat
legislatures.
The difficulty of making a new
fight on the issue in a country
steamed up over Gen. Mac
Arthur, Frank Costello and mink
coats is obvious. 1t is really all
up to the President by his choice
of aggressive men to carry out
policies In which he claims to
believe. And he is an embattled
and overburdened man.
Yet it would be more honest
to the taxpayers either to kill
their supposed protective agency
outright; at least then they
would save the taxes which sup
port it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16

and without knowledge on her
part, a perfectionist in all things.
Her tenseness and its effect upon
her small son may strain their
relationship, whereas a facing of
any problem we have is a good first
step to it's solution. The trained
staff at the Mental Hygiene Clinic
can help to locate these trouble
spots, and through their sympa-
thetic understanding can ease the
way for many troubled people.
Sometimes children go through
very strange behavior which if
analysed has a logical meaning,
and if helped soon enough could
be ironed out. The Clinic is large
ly supported by Chest funds, but
is no where near meeting the long
waiting list of this growing Coun-
ty. The clinic depends on the citi-
zens to encourage the growth of
mental hygiene facilities in this
county. DR.. Aaron Nadel, Silver
Spring, is President of the Mental
Hygiene Clinic, and DR.. Christopher
T. Bever, Medical Director. The
clinic is located in the Farmers
Bank Building in Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16
Greener Pastures
Contest Winners
Are Announced

County and community winners
in the Maryland Greener Pastures
contest were announced today by
T. A. Barnsley, Chairman of the
Production and Marketing Admin
istration in Montgomery County.
First place went to Henry B.
Hickerson who operates a stock
farm at Germantown. Placing
second in the county competition
were the pastures of Lotion S.
Wesley who operates stock
farm at Browns Corner.
This contest, now running for
the third successive year is spon-
sored by the Production and Mar
keting administration with the
cooperation of the University of
Maryland Extension Service.
Pastures were judged on the type
of forage, quality, pasture man.
agement practices followed and
other factors essential to good
pasture program.
Community winners were as fol-
lows:
First: - Laytonsville District:
L. E. Brashear, 2nd-Earl J.
Lombard; Clarksburg District,
1st-Henry B. Hickerson, End
VIM. E. Beall; Poolesville District,
1st-Lewis P. Allnutt, 2nd-G. L.
Walden; Colesville District, 1st-
Lotion S. Wesley, 2nd-G. R.
Candy; Jamestown District, 1st-
Drew Pearson, 2nd-J. E. Doug
las; Olney District, 1st-H. King
Vann, 2nd-Stanley X. Scheibe;
Gaithersburg District, W. Lawson
King; Potomac District, 1st-
Ray H. Norton; GAINESVILLE Dis
trict, 1st-Willson C. Poole, End
M. L. Bagley; Damascus District,
1st-J. Raymond Kemp, End
John L. King.
First and second place winners
in all counties are being judged
to determine area and State win
ners.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16
Fall Registration
Is Announced By
Carver Jr. College

Fall registration at Carver Jun
ior College for all students will be
held September 14th from $50 I'M
til 1000 PM. New students will
report Monday, September 10th at
700 PM. for Entrance Tests.
Classes for all students will begin
September 18th.
According to Dean parlett r.
Moore, pans are being made to
expand the curriculum offerings at
the Junior College this year to in
clude number of new courses
which were urgently requested by
groups of interested prospective
students last year. Among the
probable new courses for which
strong demands have been made
are:
/. Cosmetology (beauty culture)
very lucrative field for Negroes
in the Washington area.
2. Foods-including commercial
cooking, baking, meal planning and
serving and catering.
3. Building trades
A. Music including music APP
probation, fundamentals of music.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16
Mental Health Has Part In
EUerybody's Everyday Life

(This is the fourth in a series of
sketches about Community Chest
Sponsored organizations and serv-
ices in Montgomery County pub
lished to inform the reader of the
important Red Feather functions.)
Many people when they hear the
word mental health think first of
mental illness. But mental health
is far more than merely the alb
sence of mental illness. Mental
health is something all of us want
Ggr ourselves, whether we know it
81 name or not. When we speak
Of happiness, or peace of mind,
or enjoyment, or satisfaction, we
are usually talking about mental
health.
Mental health has to do with
everybody's everyday life. 1t means
the overall way that people get
along, in their families, at school,
on the job, at play, with their as
sociates in their communities. The
demands of complicated life today
make it difficult to synchronize our
desires, ambitions, abilities, ideals,
feelings and conscience so that we
are very happy to see the person
who greets US in the mirror each
morning. Needless to say one can
become pretty entangled with ones
emotions and it sometimes takes
skilled help to thread the way back
to a new starting point. 1t might
be a mother, who became, slowly
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16
County Real Estate
Directory of 10000
Listings Now on Press

For the first time in its history,
Montgomery County will have a
Real Estate Directory, it was an
nounced by Rufus S. Lusk, the
publisher. The directory went to
press few days ago and it is
expected that delivery will be made
not later than the middle of Au-
gust.
This new book contains 488
pages and lists some 10000 pieces
of property including all farms in
the county. In Silver Spring, Be-
thesda, and Chevy Chase, prac-
tically all the property is listed
by street addresses. In these
areas, in addition to the address
of the property, the book will show
the name of the owner, the size
of the lot, the subdivision, lot and
block, and the assessmnte of the
ground and the Improvements.
In outlying areas the property
is either listed by subdivision, lot
and block or else alphabetically in
election districts by owners name.
The preparation of this directory
has taken almost 10 months. 1t
is about one-half the size of Mr..
Lusk's District of Columbia Real
Estate Directory which has been
abolished more or less continuously
Since 1874.
Many unusual and poetic names
of subdivisions were run across in
the course of its preparation. Up
in the Jamestown area, there are
such places known as Williams
Temptation, Double Distilled Bran
dy, and Triple Trouble, not to men
ton Wet Beginning.
In the PoolesviIle district Will
sons Bad Luck and Cations Good
Luck belong to the same owner.
Also in the same area is Proven
ton, Token of Love, Covenant of
Peace, and Royal Fancy.
And there are such places as
Land of Goshen. Accord, Concord
and Discord are all under one own
ership. In Burtonsville there is
Bachelors Addition.
Bite the Bitter, Pembroke, St.
George Slew the Dragon, Easy
Purchase and Bare Bacon are
other upper county property names
of record.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16
OAR Welcomes 80 New
Citizens With Flags

The Maryland State Chapter Of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Chevy Chase
Chapter were represented at Nat
uralization Court last week, when
80 men and women from all over
the world were made United
States citizens. Mrs. John r.
Arnold, State Chairman of Man
uals for Citizenship, and Chairman
of the Chevy Chase Chapter, gave
the Clerk of the Court OAR Man
uals for each applicant. After
each new citizen had completed
his examination, Mrs. Arnold
greeted each one personally and
presented him with silk Ameri-
can flag. Mrs. Roger J. White
ford, State Chairman of Ameri-
canism, and former Regent of the
Chevy Chase Chapter was also
present.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16

community band and private in
struction in piano and voice.
Other new courses which have
been tentatively planned are ac-
counting, art, business mathemat-
les, college algebra, psychology and
public speaking.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16
Employees at ROckmOnt
Hold Annual Bau OutinQ

Continuing a tradition begun in
1887 by the late Frank Williams,
ST., the employees of the Rock
mont Motor Company held their
annual outing on August II. Four
teen persons journeyed down the
Bay for group picnic, some
real fishing, and a seafood dinner.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-08-16

Opening August 10 of the $44-mion Delaware Memorial
Bridge sixth longest spon in the world ends one of the
worst terry boenecks eastern eaboards north south
rotfc routes The spon bridges mile of water with
towers rising 437 feet TO support foUone roadway hieh
above the largest oceon-goine vessels Engineers and work.
men OF u s. Stee American Bridge Company planned and
obored yeoond oholf the mighty structure usinq
$4,000 tons OF steel to replace the Newcastle Ferry shown
here at the height of Sunday ofc snor. Opening cere-
monies with governors of Delaware and New Jersey oend
ing, dedcate the bridge TO World War II dead of the two
stotes
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JAMES p. TREACY

James Patrick Treacy, Second
street, died last Friday afternoon,
June 8, in Garrett County Memorial
hospital Oakland, where he had been
patient for several days. He had
been in ailing health for several years.
Born in County Galway Ireland, he
came to the United States as a child
His parents were the late James and
Mary Boyle Treacy.
In 1905 Mr.. Treacy opened a gen
eral store in Oakland and remained
in the business 43 years. He operated
the first Ford automobile agency here
and later handled other makes of
cars. He also conducted a garage in
Keyser, w. Va, until 1886.
Mr.. Treacy was a director of the
First National Bank in Oakland. He
was a member of st. Peters Catholic
church, the Holy Name society, and
the Knights of Columbus.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Es-
telle Rasche Treacy, two daughters,
Miss Estelle Treacy, Vienna, Austria;
Mrs. William Weimer, Gainesville,
Fla; five sons, James j. Treacy,
Hagerstown attorney; John T.,
Maurice F., Leo E., and William 0.
Treacy, all of Oakland; two sisters,
Mrs. Annie Pendergast and Miss
Margaret Treacy, also of Oakland;
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the broad shoudered frame of a GMC!
And standing guard over these long time trucks
are husky brakes with more area than most the
surest, easiest steering ever devised to direct
pay load home all controlled from a spacious
" Six Footer" Cab that's Weathersealed for
lifetime.
GMC's made in the widest variety of engine
body chassis combinations to meet any trucking
need. And the prices? No better buy anysOhere!
Come see for yourself.
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DIED
MICHAEL X. MARONEY

Michael Robert Maroney, aged 80,
died Saturday morning at his home
on Seventh street, Oakland. He had
been in i'll health for several months.
Born in Oakland, Mr.. Maroney was
a son of the late Michael r. and Cath
crime Keefe Maroney. He was a MEM
Der of st. Peters Catholic church
and the Holy Name society, the
Knights of Columbus, and Frostburg
Moose Lodge.
Mr.. Maroney served as street COM
missioner of Oakland for 35 years.
He was charter member Of the Oak
land Fire department.
Survivors include a son, Robert R.
Maroney, at home; two daughters,
Mrs. Frank Bauman, Silver Spring;
and Mrs. George w. North, Crisfield;
brother, Patrick R. Maroney, Oak
land; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Coglan,
Washington; and Mrs. Alice Veeder,
Cincinnati, o.; also one grandchild.
A requiem mass was celebrated
Monday morning at 1920 o'clock in
St. Peters church, with burial in the
Catholic cemetery. Members of the
Oakland Fire department attended in
body, and active pallbearers were
charter members of the company, Will
liam Cover, Lawrence NJ. Fraley,
Walter w. Dawson, Grover C. Stem
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SWANTON

At meeting of the Swanton boy
scouts last Thursday they completed
plans for a weekend camp at Big
Run, six or seven miles north of
Swanton. Rev. John J. Atwell had
church services for the scouts at Big
Run at 500 a. m. June 10, followed
by Sunday School classes led by the
assistant scoutmaster. Foster Riggs,
scoutmaster, is making final plans to
take the troop to Camp Potomac July
s to Is.
The Anderson Episcopal chapel at
Swanton has been reopened by Rev.
John J. Atwell, rector. All are well
come to attend the regular services.
Daily vacation Bible school will be-
gin at the Swanton school June IS
and will continue through June %. A
picnic is planned on the 29th. The
sessions will be from $3.50 to 1870 a.
M, daily through Friday.
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