davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1952-09-10
Club to See Movies
And q Magic Show

A magic show and motion pic
lures will highlight the first fall
meeting of the Ohio Girls Club
to be held at 8 pm. Monday in st.
Johns Parish Hall.
Alan Carter. Washington-Lee
High School student, assisted by
Karl Funkhouser. student at st.
Stephens Boys School, Alexandria,
will put on the magic show. They
will be followed by Blanch Hea-
cock, club member and traveller,
who will show movies of her
Mediterranean cruise.
Evening star., 1952-09-10
Cooked Dry Beans

When your children are given
cooked dry beans. the beans
should be mashed or put through
a food chopper to make them
thoroughly digeStible.
Evening star., 1952-09-10

The Hotel Greeters Of America Hotel Clarence Araa
Charter 3d. and the Womens the Greater National Capital
Division will their Goth mittee the Washington
with meeting at $50 of Trade will guest
pm the Carlton speaker.
Evening star., 1952-09-10
LoyerCoke

When you are baking layer cake.
be sure to stagger the cake pans
on the over rack so as to allow
full circulation of hot air during
the baking.
Evening star., 1952-09-10

Star Stan Photos BY Glen Leach.
COLOR ADDED - Dark
muIticolor kid bands with
black suede upper right
for an exciting shoe and bog
set. Also ovoiIoble in brown
ombre kid, or black suede
with foilIe.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

factual, to observe that some people are
like the Japanese beetle: They may be
snowy. but they are deadly. Their secret
of getting on in life is to use others
for their own selfish purposes. Were
1t not for nobler souls who put back into
the pool of life a little more than they
take out, these human parasites soon
would destroy the basis of their own
existence. exhausting the very things
on which they feed. But there are other
people who. in gathering riches from
many fields of knowledge and culture,
and thus developing their own personali-
ties, also enrich others. The fact is
that what we do for others always must
come through what we make of our
selves. It is life'S high art to coin the
precious metal of ones own personality
and then spend it on the counter of
others need.
Alas, there are human beetles who
blight everything they touch! Their only
thought is to consume for their own
selfish aggrandizement. They leave in
tatters the green stems and the white
flowers Of idealism and altruism in the
garden Of the common days. Much
modern fiction finds such insects crawl
ing on too many of it's smutty pages.
In many books that tens of thousands
Of people in our "best" homes are read
ing it is the accepted and expected thing
that ones private life is lived on the
level OF a more or less sanitary pigsty.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Spires of the Spirit
Bees and Beetles

Every window is picture window,
no matter how small the paneS An
inch of glass may frame infinity, re-
vealing sufficient of Natures handiwork
to suggest viStas of supernal wonder.
Such was the partnership of a WIN
dow and a garden which for one lonely
sojourner transf1gured a month spent
in the midst of busy city with it's
smoke and CRIME. His room faced q
quadrangle in which, amid bare pave
ments. a lovely garden was set like a
radiant gem. The window seemed to
annex the garden as part of the
living room. Among the visitors, which
the glass disclosed during the summer
days, were two kinds of winged crea-
lures. One was Strikingly garbed in a
coat of irideScent colors. This gaudy
marauder would glide in on filmy wings
and alight to stay on flower or leaf or
stem. This was no transient guest
Such an arrival always is a sentence of
death for the plant invaded. Any grow
ing thing will be devoured inch by inch,
until it is entirely destroyed by the
voracious vandal. That deadly insect
is called the japanese beetle.
But, daily in the balmy sunshine an
other visitor lowered over the leaves and
the blossoms. This one came not to de-
Stroy, but to fulfill. It was somewhat
dowdy in appearance, clothed in fuzzy
brown coat: its wardrobe was not as
colorful as the first. It did not remain
long on any plant. It fitted from bios
som to blossom, gathering from each
nectar and pollen. It came to take, but
its mission was to give more than it took
away From one petal to another it
transported the different pollens which
are the promise for the graden's next
generation of incensed beauty That
insect is called the honey bee.
No garden has problem with the
bee. Every gardener knows the menace
of the beetle. The bee Is friend. The
beetle is an enemy.
Now our lawns and gardens are in
many ways microcosms of the worlds
human activities. There are violets and
there are vipers. We are grateful for
feathered songsters, for humming birds
and the colored marvel of butterfly
wings. But there also are beetles as well
as bees in every field Of human endeavor.
1t is not being cynical. but simply
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

Searchlight method in communicating
by the voice over long distances from
one station to another, as between ships
at sea, or across difficult country, or in
case of war from camp to camp over
territory controlled by an enemy. The
remarkable success of the wireless tele-
graphy system has greatly discounted
the wireless phone, however, for all such
purposes, especially for military use,
which demands the minimum of equip
ment and of conspicuousness. The chief
advantage of the telephone at present
over the telegraph without wires is in
rapidity of communication it being pos
sible to communicate at much faster
rate by this means than by the Marconi
method"
The Star of July %, 1902, reported:
"Rev. William H. Hunter, D. D., for
SO years preacher in
Rev. Dr.. Hunter the African Methodist
RetiYes Episcopal Church and
forming during that
time many responsible ministerial con-
nections, has retired at his own desire
from further active work." He was II
and was described as being of upright
and vigorous frame that bears hardly
any age-telling marks" but it was un-
derStood to be his intention to live
quietly at his suburban home on the
heights above Anacostia." Born in
slavery at Raleigh, N. c., he had been
freed through the efforts of his father,
"who succeeded in purchasing his fam
ily's liberty" At 81 the son was grad
uated from Wilberforce College. Shortly
thereafter he was appointed the first
colored chaplain in the Union Army.
"He participated in many hard-fought
engagements !. and displayed COOL
ness and courage while the troops were
under fire." When the war was over,
he was named minister of Israel A. M. E.
Church. Subsequently he served at VIII
mington, N. c.: Pittsburgh, Pa; Phila-
delphia, Boston, Richmond and else
where. While in charge at st. Paul's
A. M. E. Church in Washington he was
chosen presiding elder of the Potomac
district Of the Baltimore conference.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

their wishes, the enemy seems as adamant as
ever in demandng-as part of the price of an
armiStice-that they be handed over.
This is price that the United Nations, as a
matter of honor and humanitarianiSrn, can never
agree to pay. Accordingly, since the Communists
apparently are determined to keep on asking
for it, truce prospects look about dark as they
have ever been. In sum, as long as the enemy
holds fast to the position he has taken, or as
long as the men of the Kremlin want him to
hold fast to it, our American and allied forces
must reckon with the possibility that the present
limited-scale war may explode into much big
ger struggle at any time. Certainly, as of now,
the situation rules out optimism.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Neither Party Perfect

There must be better way of bring
ing to the American people the merits
of the Democratic and Republican
Parties than by tearing asunder the op-
position. How can we honestly ask God
to send His blessings and show us the
way to lead other nations when we
close the very channels through which
God works?
couldn't help but feel, as I listened
to the speeches of both parties, that
the system we have used these many
years-of throwing the opposition to the
dogs-needs rebirth.
I cannot feel that the Democratic
Party is the only party that can give
us peace, prosperity and security, or
that the Republican Party, if it gets
in, spells doom for the farmer, the small
business man, etc. think that we have
forgotten one thing-that this is still
Gods world. He is Lord and Master
of the universe and the blessings we
have received are by the grace of Cod
we are not worthy of them.
What we are doing is sowing the
seeds of hate, distrust and fear What.
starts out as noble ideals become idols
and the next thing we know self
Righteousness blinds our vision.
There are merits on both sides. Why
not tell the truth? Lay the cards on the
table, admit there have been errors in
this administration, and if the Demo-
cratic Party or the Republican Party
gets in there will be more errors for
there is no perfection in this world. It
is possible to tell the American people
what the Democratic Party has done
for the middle man without so much
emotion and antagonism for the oppo-
site party.
M,rv r. NN;lonv
Evening star., 1952-07-27
A Community Problem

Police Chief Murray has serious manpoWer
problem on his hands. 1t is not just matter
of insufficient funds to bring the department. to
full strength Complicating the situation are Q)
the steady depletion of the force by departure
of policemen lured to other jobs by better pay
and hours and CD failure of the recruiting pro-
gram to bring in enough applicants to keep pace
with departures.
The authorized strength Of the Metropolitan
Police Department is 1890. This is the strength
which approved police standards indicate is nec-
eSsary for the suppression of crime in city the
size of Washington. But today Chief Murray has
only 2,079 men available for the big job Of polio
ing the ever r-growing Capital. Last year more
than 100 officers resigned to take more lucrative
work elsewhere, usually in entirely different lines
of activity With these men went thousands of
dollars in training and experience So far this
year there have been 80 designations, rate of
departure which, if continued will mean that
last years rate will be exceeded.
The department cannot afford to lose these
men, but it can do nothing to discourage them
from quitting, for it is impossible to compete
with pay and conditions of work offered in many
sectors of industry. In an effort to offset the
designations, Chief Murray last month launched
the most intensive and far-reaching recruiting
campaign in the history of the department.
Teams of officers, carrying patches of attractive
and informative recruiting material, famed out
from the District into several nearby States.
They enlisted the cooperation of local authori-
ties, the press, radio stations and other agencies
and organizations in the drive to sign UP police
recruits. But the recruiting publicity was not
helped by news of developments at the Capitol,
where the police budget was cut to a point that
blasted hopes of bringing the force to full
strength this year. This news undoubtedly
tended to discourage some recruits from sign
ing up.
month of vigorous recruiting has produced
only 100 applications, of which it is expected
only one-f1fth will qualify for appointment
Washington is not alone in having police-re-
cruiting troubles. Other large cities are having
similar difficulties There seems to be no real
cure for the police shortage as long as young
men can get more pay in more agreeable sur
roundings outside of law enforcement. This is
problem that concerns not only Chief Murray
but the whole community. There is no satisfac-
tory way of obtaining adequate law enforcement
without paying for Adequately.
You can't win: To discover military waste
OF the taxpayers money a congressional junket
made 41-day trip around the world
With all these new explosives Of fantastic
power 1t is sort OF cute and old-fashioned of the
Middle East to be only powder keg
Evening star., 1952-07-27

magic words that beat tune Of gladness
on the dainty eardrums of all the fair
daughters of Eve. All women love pretty
gowns. They say-people who ought to
be ashamed of themselves-that a con-
sciousness of being well dressed imparts
a peacefulnesS to the human heart that
religion is powerless to give" But the
author of these sentiments nevertheless
quoted with approval the remark Of
"one of the best gowned women of the
Floradora company" that: "A girl is pos
itively two persons in two different
gowns"
The Star of July 80, 1902. said edi-
torially: "The latest experiments in Ger
many with wire
Wireless less telephony have
Communication succeeded to such
an extent and over
such distances that the system may be
regarded as having almost reached the
practical stage. The vital principle in
this device is searchlight of high
power, the rays from which appear to
convey the sound to comparatively
great distance Yet there is some trans
. 4UIuIdtlOIl VI tIlC SOuI1O waves III VI dllolIs
for an ear interposing between the send
ing and receiving stations does not detect
the articulation. An instrument is re-
quired at both ends, so that the trans
mission is not merely mechanical, as in
the case of sound carried by a wind.
The precise relation between the trans
mission of light waves and of sound
waves in telephony without wires has
not yet been disclosed, if discovered.
Thus far the experiments, while success
full on small scale. have not been suf-
f1ciently developed to lead to the belief
that the wireless method of transmitting
human speech will become at once COM
mercially feasible. The searchlight used
in the German system is large at
present. and when enlarged to extend
the range of the vibrations viii become
cumbersome beyond practical use. An
obvious objection would prevent the
adoption of this method in city service.
but there is perhaps a field for the
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Hot Weather Theory

In recent years we have experienced
excessive summer heat. This is the case
in Europe and other widespread areas.
Glaciers have receded over period of
years. One would think that scientists
would offer some explanation for this
condition.
Many years ago I heard a college
professor explain how the amount of
heat retained in the atmosphere was
contingent upon the quantity of carbon
dioXide contained in the air.
We give off this gas carbon dioxide)
in our breath when we burn the carbo-
hydrates in the blood stream, coming
in contact with the oxygen in our
lungs.
Disintegrating rocks and other ma
terial give off carbonic acid gas More
carbon dioxide now is expelled into the
atmosphere than ever before in history.
The carbon monoxide from the exhaust
OF motor cars is similar to carbon
dioxide, and ! have been assured that
this becomes carbon dioxide. Think of
the vast amount of this gas expelled
by gasoline motors of all descriptions;
also the gas given out by oil burners
and the coal used in industry and homes
GIIOuSIlOuG JIl6 WOTlu. Lie VdSG IuIIlaIl
and animal populations which exceed
those of past ages would account for
a great deal of this gas. ..
I cannot help but think that all this
must have some decided effect on the
weather.
This tremendous amount of carbon
dioXide given off in various ways may
be cumulative, that is, it may increase
in the atmosphere faster than it is
absorbed by growing vegetation.
Growing plants build up their struc-
lures by the process known as photo
synthesis. More than 900 of all the
substances of plants (other than water)
is derived from the atmosphere, not
from the soil.
There should be some way of de-
termining the content of this gas in
the atmosphere from time to time so
that 1t could be correlated with the
temperature.
I believe that we cannot hope for
cooler summers if this trend of higher
temperatures continues.
I hope that this matter will bring
forth discussion from physicists and
others. Irwin N. Hoffman.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
What Has Made Us So Bud?.
By Bruce Borton

From the press. the pulpit, the class
has happened to the ancient American
virtues of honesty. integrity and re-
spect for truth.
Why this decay Of our morals? When
and where did it begin?
The decay began. think. with Roose-
velt's imperious annulment of the gold
clause in 1888. That act Of autocracy
made lie of the sacred promise Of the
United States Government that its
bonds and certificates forever would be
redeemable in gold.
Citizens had put their trust in that
promise for more than hundred years.
From the housetops," said the four
dissenting justices Of the Supreme
Court, men proclaimed its merits while
bonds for billions were sold to support
the World War" The results of the
Presidents felonious act, they added,
were bound to be "loss of reputation
for honorable dealing (which) will
bring us unending humiliation; the i'm
pending legal and moral chaos is ap-
palling."
Throughout the campaign Of 1910,
F. D. r. cried out to mothers and fathers
of America his promise "again and
again and again" that their sons would
not be sent across the sea. But nearly
five months before Pearl Harbor, in a
secret meeting off the Grand Banks,
he promised Winston Churchill un-
equivocably that there would be sent
to Iceland two divisions to replace the
British serving there. To the New York
reporters who asked him if there had
been any such commitment, he returned
an indignant: "No!"
From Washington the cynical dis
regard for truth and solemn promise
has seeped down to the cities and towns.
, The City Of New York, urgently needing
help in Slum clearance, encouraged the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. to
invest millions (the savings Of its policy
holders) In new low-rent apartments.
The city gave its solemn promise that
the company should receive a return Of
per cent on its investment. A few weeks
ago, in response to the lawless claraor
Of tenants who jammed the council
chamber, the City Council voted to break
the contract by denying the company a
rent increase necessary to meet mount
ing costs-costs which the city's own
figures proved were correct.
Said the Democratic leader of the
council: There's not faint of legality
about what we are doing. We are break
ing faith and breaking contract" But
he and % others voted to break the
contract: only one member. the single
Republican, voted mo"
Can water run uphill? Can good come
out of evil? Can the common people be
expected permanently to be better than
their leaders?"
tCopyright. 1852. King Features synAisata loal
Evening star., 1952-07-27
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister. Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States Senate

with the ruling passions and desires
chiefly strong drink and loose women.
In modern story after story there is
depicted the daily life of those in high
position who, on occasion, talk with
angelic JUNCTION about democracy and
about the American way of life; but
they, themselves, off duty, live like
libertines. In the utterly goddess and
sensual portrayals which are often
among the best-sellers there is the
cynical and sophisticated assumption
that this is normal modern life. But
there is no sign of an altar or a spire
anywhere.
If this type of novelist mirrors the
truth, then our ailing civilization soon
will be dead and damned. If these are
realistic portrayalS of America, we have
nothing of moment to say to the world.
No wonder that even lovers of disciplined
freedom sometimes are almost driven
to the conclusion that there may be
more salvation in some forms of regi-
mentation than in a license which has
no brakes.
And, then, there are many who, with
their unclean minds, use casual con-
versation as carriers of their own con-
taminating imagination. They cannot
express themselves without leaving a
foul trail in the garden of another's
thoughts.
But thank God for those who. like the
bee, dwell in beauty and fragrance, and,
carrying the best of the present, become
architects of the patterns that are yet
to be. Thank God for those who, while
they carry on the commerce of their own
high purpose, also are the pollenizers
of tomorrow's gardens. Such a one, for
instance, was Alice Freeman Palmer. Her
distinguished husband, in his biography
of her, speaks about talking with a
Wellesley girl regarding the impression
that his wife's great spirit made on her
students. The girl said: when I was
called into her Office, whether for COM
mendation, social visit or reprimand,
left her desk and her presence feeling
as if had been dipped in sunshine"
Blessed are the creators who dip every
thing in sunshine! And cursed be the
destroyers whose blight is the breath
Of death!
Hear, We, the parable of the beetles
and the bees!
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Still the Deadlock

There appears now to have been no justif-
cation whatever for the recent furry of optimism
over the outlook for near-future truce in Korea.
The secret sessions at Panmunjo jom-Which have
been held at the request of the Communists
have come to an end without any apparent effect
on the long and dreary negotiating deadlock.
The prisoner issue still remains as the big stun
bling block, and there seems little or no chance
that the resumption of on-the-record talks will
lead to much more than a revival of the enemy's
propaganda harangues.
Those harangues were suspended at Pan
munjom on July 4, when the United Nations
assented to the secret meetings asked for by the
Communists. Their request for such meetings
was Immediately interpreted as an indication OF
a possibly important change in their position.
In addition, as the non-public discussions went
on hopeful meaning was read into jacob A.
Malik's sudden cancellation of ship reservations
for holiday return to Russia. The cancellation
strongly suggested to many observers that the
Soviet representative on the U. N. Security Coun-
Gil had been ordered to stay on the job in New
York because of expectations in the Kremlin
that there would soon be truce agreement.
Mr. Malik, however has since explained that his
vacation has been postponed only because of
illness in the family of the man designated to
replace him temporarily. AS for the off-the-
record talks, they have been officially described
as completely 1rultieSS ana at the nrSt session
of the resumed "open" talks the Reds have
displayed such cutter hypocrisy" that our top
Observation-Disclosures General William K. Harrison
has taken walk and served notice that he will
not return to the conference tent until August 8.
Judging from all appearances, the prisoner
issue continues to be the only thing blocking an
armistice The United Nations has 10000 cap
tives and the enemy insists that practically all
of these, If there is to be truce, must be re-
turned to Communist control-at bayonet point
if necessary. But almost 10000 of them have
declared that they will violently resist being
repatriated, and the U. N. has taken the final
and irrevocable" position not to hand them over
against their will. This is a position based on
common decency and the simple dictates of
humanity, for the names of these men are well
known to the Red high command and their
forced repatriation would be tantamount to a
death warrant for them. Nevertheless, brushing
aside proposals for a neutral rescreening OF
Evening star., 1952-07-27

This is in reply to. people protesting
deadly poison" being added to our
local water in order to combat tooth
decay. They say. and it is quite true,
that it is being used as a rat poison.
But for quite while we have been
drinking an even more poisonous gas
in our water-chlorine- harm
full effects.
These people had better be careful
where they are getting their bottled
water, because several large areas in
this country have naturally fluoridated