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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Wilson's Pew Seems Still to Add s Voice to Prayers for Peace

lily. Bountiful Mowers In the church
were often contributions from the
White House.
While this church has been
somewhat long on Presidents, it
has been somewhat short on pas
tors in quality, but In num-
bers. From the church's organiza-
ton In 1868 to the present-84
years Central Presbyterian has
had but four different ministers.
Others have occasionally filled in
but not on q regular basis.
The longest record was that
made by its first pastor, the Rev.
"A. w. Pitzer. who served from
1 1858 to 1906. and as pastor
emeritus from 1906 to 1927.
The Rev. James H. Taylor served
las pastor from 1906 to 1913: Rev.
William r. Mansell, from 1913 to
1916, and the present pastor. DR..
Lacy, came in 1947.
Started In 1868. .
From the even dozen that orig
|inally> started Central Presby-
terrain Church back in 1868, the
Sunday incoming congregation now
would count around so times that
number. or approximately TOO.
Then, the place Of worship was in
Ia room at the Columbian Law
Building on Fifth street NV,
between D and e streets.
The original members must have
possessed a big measure of that
early spirit Of pioneering, for the
records say that 'tthey had no
money, no officers, no Presbytery.
not q foot Of ground, nothing of
this sort to encourage them. Yet
they planned better than they
realized" so states the record; SO
stands the evidence Of the present
day.
A building must be had, and
on this subject the early record
says:
The very key to their success
was self -denial. Jewelry, paint
ings. bric-a-brac, and valuables
| Of all kinds were given and sold
in order to raise the money needed
to build"
Finally q lot was purchased at
the corner Of Third and I streets
NV. The present site Of the Cen
trail Presbyterian Church is its
third.
The Sunday morning service at
the Central Presbyterian Church
was over. The congregation filled
the aisles: shook hands, and with
friendley words passed by the min
lister at the doorway; clustered in
little groups for conversation, then
went on their various ways OF
life. many, no doubt, carrying in
their souls new or renewed cour-
age. hope, faith.
1.-THE congregation is q sample
of the community" Woodrow VIII
son said that. near the close of his
cornerstone address right at this
VERY spot, 80 years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31

Criticism Of Areas Transit Setup Searching
And Reasons forth Mess Are Many

transportation picture is the lacl
lof information available to the
public about the area-wide opera
ton. No serious study Of the
riding habits Of area residents has
ever been made. No agency OF
company, for example. will even
guess what proportion Of the Dis
Itrict's daily transit load is made
lup of people who live in Maryland
and Virginia.
Information Lacking.
Lacking such basic information,
lit is practically impossible to say
how good or how bad Washing
tons transit system is in terms
LOT service. The facts and figures
to back UP general impressions In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
P0gHocci's Lament:
Folk Have Trouble
USING His Name

A new lament from Pa
gliacci was noted in District
Court today when Dante
Pagliacci. q harbershop en-
ploye. petitioned for a .change
in name.
Mr.. Pagliacci Of 1910 Cal
vert street NV. stated: ''Busi-
ness and social acquaintance
experience considerable diff
Guilty in attempting to spell
andior pronounce the name
Pagliacci."
The petitioner asked his
name be changed to Dante
Pagi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Our Own Iron Curtain
By Crosby S. Moves

When Maryland's Representa-
tive Beall described Washington's
transit system as ''the damnedest. y
irregular. unsystematic way OF
transporting people ] ever heard
Of" a large number Of those who
make their home in this area
probably breathed q fervent
amen"
Certainly, there Is no kind OF
community service which has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Z y.
Man
Dies as Result
OF Collision
March u Accident
Proves Fotdl for
District Resident

A Hyattsville man whose wife
was killed Thursday in an auto
truck collision, died at 4:30 pm.
yesterday from injuries he suf-
fered in the same accident, and
Ia District man died earlier In
the day following an accident
March 90.
Gentry w. Sanders, &c.. q retired
standard OIL Co. employee, Of
POOP Oglethorpe street, Hyatts-
willie, died at Prince Georges Gen.
leral Hospital. His wife was Mrs.
Jessie Lee Sanders.
The District man was Edward
ID. Cockrell. 48. of 947 Shepherd
street NV. a mechanic employed
by the Richmond. Fredericksburg
& Potomac Railroad. He became
the Districts 14th traffic fatality
Iof the year. There had been 20
traffic deaths at this time last
Year.
Crashed With Dump Truck.
In the Hyattsville accident, q
car driven by Mr.. Sanders collided
with q dump truck at Ager and
Riggs roads. The truck driver.
James L. Bargar, 10, Of Baltimore.
was not hurt.
MIR. and Mrs. Sanders came to
lHyattsville about three years ago
from Wyoming. Mrs. Sanders for
a time managed the Ager Road
Elementary School cafeteria.
Surviving are two daughters.
Mrs. N. B. Bennett, jr., of 20lo
Powhatan road, West Hyattsville,
and Mrs. Russell Gilmore Of New
York.
Stepped From Platform.
Mr.. Cockrell's condition had
been reported as not serious at
the time Of the accident March
%, when he was struck as he
stepped from q streetcar platform
in the 5000 block Of Georgia ave-
nue. NV. He was given q ticket
for violating the Pedestrian Con-
troll Act. His daughter, Mrs. Lor-
raine Parks, deposited $40 col.
lateral for him.
His death at Emergency Hos
pital was attributed to a blood
clot.
Driver Of the car which struck
him was Robert S. Tiger. So. Of
1857 Iris street NV, police said.
Woman Hurt in Collision.
i A 70-year-old retired Govern
ment worker was reported in fair
condition at Homeopathic Hos
pital today after q collision yes
terday in which the car she was
driving turned over at Thirtieth
land Que streets NV.
Miss Adele Moody Of 3133 Con.
necticut avenue NV. was driving
west on Que street at the time
Of the collision with another car
operated by James Adams Dorsey,
a., colored, Of Gaithersburg, Nd,
police said.
Dorsey was charged with collid-
ing.
Three Marines Injured.
Three Quantico Marines were
injured, one of them seriously.
when their car ran OF Of Route /.
struck a utility pole and over
turned about III miles north Of
Dumfries, Va, today.
Paul E. Johnson, 20, Of Company
IB, Headquarters Battalion, was
admitted to the Naval Hospital at
Quantico with serious head In
juries. His two companions, John
10. Perkins, 20. and James r. Sui
llivan. jr.. 81, were treated for
minor injuries and released.
Virginia State Police said Per-
kins, who was driving, apparently
fen asleep at the wheel. Police
did not know the ranks Of the
three Marines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Rock Creek PTA to Elect

The Rock Creek Forest Elemen-
tary School PTA viii hold an cleo
ton meeting at 8:15 pm. tomor-
row in the school. Grubb road and
Colston drive, Chevy Chase. "A
square dance will follow the bust
ness meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31

District and Maryland. In the
District the fares charged and the
routes and schedules maintained
depend on the ruling Of the Dis
ltrict PUG. Once over the Mary
land line. the control rests entire
~ with the Maryland Public Serv-
ice Commission.
These agencies are not merely
made up Of different men. They
also work from totally different
points Of view and determine rea-
sonable rates by entirely different
rules.
Method Of Fixing Fares.
In fixing the District fares Of
Capital Transit the District COM
mission pays no attention to the
area-wide operation Of the COM
lpany. It figures the company's
Operating costs and the reason
lableness Of its profit. exactly as
liz the whole operation lay inside
1.-THE District limits. The PUG does
not have to calculate this way.
When 1t comes to setting electric
rates, for example. the area-wide
lopertaion is taken into account.
I'm the case Of transit, however,
the costs Of the local operation
can be determined more easily.
And since the company's District
Operation Is more nearly a Ca
pacity operation-and therefore
more efflcient-it appears to the
advantage Of District residents to
figure the fares on a separate
basis.
Being exclusively q District
lagency, the PUG adopts the point
|of view that win most benefit
District bus and streetcar riders.
One result is higher fares outside
the District than inside. Another
lis a certain GOODNESS on the part
of the PUG to suggestions that the
transportation problem be at
tackled on an area-wide basis.
There is the well founded appre-
lhension that an attempt to regu-
late transit fares for the area as
10 whole would mean more ex-
Ipensive service for q majority Of
riders.
Plenty Of Angles.
There are plenty of other angles
to the transportation setup. There
lis the old complaint about the
lack Of joint fares. It has often
been pointed out that a resident
In nearby Virginia who wants to
ride 6 miles to the Capitol must
lpay full fares on two different
buslines to do it. The District
resident, riding the same distance
to the same destination pays only
one fare.
| The only exception to the lack
lof joint riding is the arrangement
Imposed on the transit companies
|by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission requiring joint fares for
passengers riding between the
District and Federal installations
lin the Pentagon area. The ques-
ltion has been raised why q similar
arrangement would not be equally
Inappropriate for Virginia residents
who travel daily to Federal in
Oscillations in the District.
j Apart from fares. there Is the
matter Of service. Critics Of the
system complain of q total lack
Iof coordination in schedules be-
tween Capital Transit and the
various suburban lines. There is
ALSO demand for more through
routes which viii get people where
they are going In 9 reasonable
length Of time and more connect
ling routes between points inside
1.-THE District and In the suburbs.
u The most striking thing IN ths
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Pupils to Give Dance Dromo

'The American Scene" an origi-
NAL dance-drama, win be pre-
scented in the Fairmont Heights
High School at 8 pm. TOMORROW,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Addict Pledges Fight
On Dope in Sermon !
From FdiIief 5 Pulpit

A minister's son, charged last
week with selling drugs, took his
fathers pulpit last night to tell
more than 1000 churchgoers he
would spend the rest Of his life
preaching against dope.
Smallwood e. williams, IT,, col
ored, %. for six years saxo-
phone player in the big time
vowed he was finished with jump
bands and "hop needles, and from
now on is dedicated to helping
other young people"
He made his repentance speech
before a congregation that over
flowed his fathers Bible-Way
Church, 1880 New Jersey ave-
nue. NV.
The Rev. Smallwood e. vii.
liams. ST., said he was surprised
by his sons of -the-cud "off-the-
stuff" remarks.
Worse Than Snake Bite"
Williams, who is living at hi
fathers home. 1928 Monticello ave.
niue NE warned the churchgoerl
that drugs are worse than &
|rattlesnake's bite"-that a rat.
tiers victim may die instantly
but a drug addict must endure q
living death"
The musician was arrested last
Monday on a downtown street
corner. Police said undercove1
agents had bought drugs from
him.
His father denied today thai
Williams lever made a penny
selling dope. The minister sale
the son merely acted as the mid.
dleman for "a friend" who wanted
drugs.
Asked Medical Care.
williams has undergone treat.
ment for drug addiction at Thu
United States Public Health Serv'
ice institution at Lexington, KY
When he was arrested last weel
he admitted he was still an addict
and asked for medical care.
This is the second time in {
month that the minister's famil,
has been in the news.
The father recently staged I
Shutdown strike at the Wheatle!
School. trying to enroll Q youngei
Ison In the white school. He gav'
lup the strike in favor Of proposed
legal action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31

The first Of series Of weekly impressions
Of Washington churches attended By
Presidents Of the United Stotes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31
Churches Of the Presidents centrol Presbyterian:
By olgo Jones

20 God. who hast made Of one
blood all the nations of the earth;
mercifully hear our supplications.
and remove from the world for
ever the dreadful menace Of war"
Down there in the third row
it seemed that Woodrow Wilson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-03-31

lseeond Of a series)
Evening star., 1952-09-12
ARLINGTON, Va"
Dear Sir:

ARL1NG1ON, va"
Dear Sir:
IT'D like to draw your attention to q
bird that hasn't been featured in This
and That recently, namely, the crow,
which. seen or heard in the city, never
fails to delight and amuse me. While
looking at model Of hat in q store
window heard q raucouS Cav, cav.
caw,' and the incongruity was really
laughable.
During my childhood in Maine, I
recall that crow was never seen flying
over or near house. although their
cawing was regularly heard from the
edges Of the fields. Seeing Of crows at
relatively close hand was accomplished
only when we were in the woods picking
berries. looking for trees with big chunks
Of spruce gum. collecting balsam tops
for stufing pillows, or gathering Christ
mas green's.
Perhaps the reason I regard the
crow with something close to affection
Is because Of his association with those
days and the memories he starts flowing
through my mind-the view over acres
of pines and hemlockS to the Atlantic,
the warm gray lodges. the fragrance
Of sweet fern, the delicious taste Of
spruce gum. and the loving remembrance
Of personalities now lost to me through
distance or age or death.
"In the country the crows knew that
the farm buildings contained rifles and
that war had been declared on crows.
SagaciouS as ever, they have also learned
that Washington ID 1852 holds no threat
Evening star., 1952-09-12
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweN

to them. They fly over our house to their
conclave In the cemetery: they perch
in the elms around the Ellipse and in
the White House Grounds. and they
shout hoarsely and loudly wherever they
are.
"As a city bird. say. long live the
crow!
Sincerely yours. J. N. s."
This is deserved tribute to q mis-
judged bird.
The war ON the crow Is another Of
the unnecessary wars.
Yet. as so often is the case, probably
nothing ever can be done about it. One
might as well try to defend the devil,
with some people. as this bird.
Yet on frosty morning, soon to come.
there Is no sweeter music in the world
than that made by this big one, as he
flies high above.
The sound comes down, and reminds
every listener Of something.
To some 1t viii mean the West, with
its great ranges and prairies and noun
tains; to others. the South; to countless
thousands the Midwest, where fields of
corn and soybeans ripen In the sun.
Did you know that Illinois is now the
first State, in raising soybeans. and that
Indiana Is second?
The soybean is another mderrated
thing. Yet today 1t enters into the max
ing Of thousands Of articles. from food
products to paint.
The soybean Is one Of the marvels
Of the world, known In China hundreds
Of years before America discovered It.
Evening star., 1952-09-12

This has been called the bean with
out any 'it," because its taste is some
what fiat. Yet it holds more good protein
than any other vegetable, and minerals
and vitamins. It is made into an excel
lent milk for babies and others allergic
to cows milk.
Did you ever hear Of brown Swiss
cows?-
We never had, until the other day.
in the home town paper; saw para
graph about Sam Smiley; he had just
purchased a brown Swiss bull. Evidently
they word brown" Is not just deScrip-
tive, but part Of the name. When you
speak OF these. please say brown Swiss.
Our own childhood recollections Of
the sea are associated with q more
prosaic bird. the turkey vulture.
Though there were reed birds at
Ocean City. Md. and few gulls. now
and then, the prevailing species was the
old vulture.
These fellows perched on the tele-
phone poles on the avenue" back Of
the boardwalk, where nobody lived who
could afford an ocean-front place.
The buzzards perched there to keep
an eye on garbage cans, we suppose:
our only small-boy interest in them was
to pop away at them with BIB gun
watch out, they will vomit on you,"
we were told, but the big vultures never
did. They, too. in their way, are inter-
esting and valuable. pioneers at gliding.
They may be seen almost every day
over Rock Greek park.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
By Fred B. Hubbard

CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 12.-For
the next five crucial years Australia's S
defense planners will have one of Brit
aims ablest military men at their elbows.
He'll be Field Marshal Sir William Slim,
now the 61-year-old chief of the British
army's imperial general staff.
Next January Slim will leave England
to take up the $22,500-a-year tax-free
post as Australias 18th governor-gen-
eral.
1t is largely f1gurehead job with lin
tied constitutional powers corresponding
in Australia to those of Queen Elizabeth
in Britain.
And as such, it is usually passed out
as high-claSs form of reward to British
subjects who have distinguished them
selves.
Sims recent appointment by the
Queen, however. is believed by informed
sources here to be the result of Joint
British-Australian decision on important
international factors.
These sources see the appointment A
a Shrewd move to:
l. Strengthen British Australian liai-
son on matters affecting Middle East
and Pacific defense planning and supply.
2. Make available to Australia a top.
drawer military leader who is thoroughly
familiar with Western defense policies In
the worlds hot spots.
3. Assist Australian defense chiefs with
Evening star., 1952-09-12
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Challenge

Beneath the oak the ripened ncorns fall:
Potential trees encased In hornv
shells,
They meet the earth and. even though
so small,
They sense. perhaps. that In their
being dtueIis
The deep design OF roots to search and
gain
A spot of earth. support an upvard
thrust
OF sturdy trunk to slotuly, surely train
The mighty tree an acorn holds In
trust.
While one. deUoid OF Wakenino reach.
may lie
And come to nau0ht IN truitless mere
decay.
Another heeds the challenge of the sky
And sets course to follow day by
day.
The ready acorn In the forest hears
The call to triumph borne By patient
years.
Florence Pedigo Jonsson
Evening star., 1952-09-12
American Justice VS.. Russian

It Is noteworthy that Communists who loudly
criticize the American system of government are
quick to make use of its safeguards against
injustice. The case of Harry Bridges, convicted
of lying to the Government about his Communist
membership is good example. Although a
three-judge appellate court has upheld Bridges
perjury conviction and the collateral cancellation
OF his citizenship the end of this long -drawn-out
case is not yet. An appeal to the Supreme Court
Is planned. That, OF course, is the radical West
Coast labor leaders right-a right he would not
have enjoyed under the Communist system, had
he been accused Of entering Soviet Russia
Illegally
The Bridges case has been in and out of
the courts and OF departmental boards for many
years The foundation for the Governments
troubles with the Australian-born immigrant was
laid In 1920, when he entered the United States
without ditficulty-and legally. He soon began
to muscle in on West Coast waterfront workers
and to assert undisputed claims of leadership.
He had much to do with fomenting the violent
San Francisco waterfront strike in 1884 Mean
while, he pretended to seek American citizenship
filing several applications but invariably letting
them lapse. The first effort to deport him was
made In 1888, when the Government charged
that, as an alien, he was advocating overthrow
of the Government by force or violence This
effort failed when the Supreme Court, in the
SCrecKer case, ruleQ LnaC past membership In
an organization advocating such overthrow was
not cause for deportation. An effort then was
made to prove that Bridges remained a member
of the Communist Party, but James M. Landis as
special adviser to the Labor Department., reported
he could find no proof of such membership.
Another deportation attempt was made in 1941,
after Congress had amended the immigration
laws to permit deportation of persons who
formerly were members of organizations advo-
eating violent overthrow of the Government.
But, after long court fight, the Supreme Court
illegal Not long thereafter Bridges succeeded
in obtaining citizenship through usual naturan-
zation proceedings, upon swearing that he was
not a member of the Communist Party.
That oath of n-membership proved to be
Bridges undoing. The Federal Bureau Of Investi-
cation began long and thorough investigation
which produced the evidence which led to
Bridges conviction of perjury in 1850 after an
81-day trial He was sentenced to five years in
prison and his citizenship was ordered revoked
Now three Federal judges have turned down his
appeal in 70-page opinion. spokesman for
Bridges has announced that the appellate court
will be asked for rehearng and, If this is denied,
the case will be taken to the Supreme Court.
That means more delay. And the whole history
of this protracted litigation indicates that
Bridges must have had his tongue in his cheek
when he charged, in his appeal. that he had been
denied due process of law. The long record
supports the appellate courts ruling that such a
claim Is without merit" And the processes have
not been exhausted.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
A State Responsibility

survey by the American Bar Associations
Commission on Organized Crime has revealed a
widespread feeling among local law enforcement
authorities that the Federal Government should
extend the scope of its crime suppression activi-
ties. Creation Of a sort of Federal superpolice
agency to aid in fighting organized crime was
urged bv these officials and indorSed by the
commission. The new agency would keep tab on
the operations Of big crime syndicates and supply
local police with information on which to act.
But the Senate rejected somewhat similar
proposal by the Kefauver committee, which later
conceded that it would be difficult to obtain pas
sage Of any such legislation. Objections to the
plan In a minority report by Senator Wiley of
Wisconsin were very persuaSive-and still are.
Senator Wiley opposed such an agency on
the grounds it might result in (a) "the basis
for a nationaltype police force which is contrary
to Americas tradition and which has been vigor-
ously opposed by all outstanding Federal law
enforcement agencies; (b) unnecessary harass-
ment and interference with Federal inveStigative
agencies; (c) an unnecessary and costly super
structure imposed upon the present operating
agencies, and ID dissipation of the function of
the legislative branch The Kefauver commit
tee, in its final report to Congress- laid the
Federal-monitor plan aside in favor of pri-
vately financed and operated national crime
commission, to promote organizing of local crime
commissions to arouse public interest In and
support of local law enforcement.
After making the sound statement that
"organized crime can be effectively suppressed
only by top-level intelligence work in local police
departments" the lawyers group reported de-
mand by local officials for Federal agency to
collect information about racketeers and gang
sters and pass it on to the local law enforcement
agencies" But, according to the Kefauver COM
mittee, some of these local authorities are corrupt
and could not be trusted with secret information
on crime syndicates. Furthermore, the collection
of information of this sort presumably would
require extensive Investigations beyond the field
covered by present Federal agencies like the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal
Narcotics Bureau and the Internal Revenue
Bureau. This would not only be a costly enter
prise. but inevitably would involve duplication Of