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CONTINUED from yesterday
Cooperation IN Washington

Cooperation IN washington
Each time I 60 to Washing
ton, if even on a brief visit like
this one / am encouraged by
the pleasantness Of the associa
tions and I am impressed with
the willing and ready coopera-
ton which is SO generously
offered by the officials Of the
Department Of the Interior. To
be specific, on this short trip /
conferred with Under Secre-
tary Vernon D. Northrop (Se-
cretary Chapman was out Of
the city,, Assistant Secretary
Joel Wolfshon, Territories Di-
rector James P. Davis, Assis-
tant Territories Director Dan
H. Wheeler, Caribbean Divi-
sion Assistant Chief Alfred p.
Moon, Chief Counsel Irwin
Silverman, Executive Officer
d. III. Nucker, and with many
Of their assistants.Au these of
fcers are tremendously inter-
ested in the progress Of the
islands. We would do well to
retain such a reservoir Of IN
terest and of friendship be-
cause our progress and success
depend nearly as much upon
genuine help in Washington
as uuon our own initiative and
hard work.
Bull Linz Decision
am sorry to report that in.
a telephone conversation
which / had on Friday after
noon with Mr.. James Light Of
the Bull Insular Line, / was
advised that the Bull Line had
decided finally not to enter in
the interisland service be-
tween Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands because Of high
cost Of a suitable vessel and
, 1952-10-14

Keep Friday. October 81. 1852
for
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA GALA EVENT
tscholarship for ST, Croix studentsl
See und heu the ST. Croix Group repeot
the excellent show it gave in the
Porto Ricm Festival.
ono.
Donce, donce. ddnce your ore uwoY.
More detailed announcements later.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
Club Schedules
Varied Events

Members of the Takoma Park
Women's Club will end their &C.
tivities of the season this week
with round of picnics, luncheons
and garden tour. 4
The garden department sched-
Iuled a meeting today in the gar
dens Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
L. Pratt, 1924 Piney Branch road
NV. Mr.. Pratt was to give q talk
on the growing Of azaleas.
Mrs. Vincent L. Gingerich will
open her home at TAFT Cedar ave-
nue. to members of the clubs art
department for luncheon to be
held at 1915 pm. tomorrow. John
A. Pope. assistant director Of the
Freer Gallery Of Art, will give an
Illustrated talk on the subject,
Chinese Porcelain"
At noon Thursday, the music
department will gather for its an
nual picnic at the home of Mrs.
A. G. Stone, 606 Woodside park
way, Silver Spring. The choral
group will entertain with a spe-
cial program.
Members Of the drama depart
ment will hold their annual picnic
at 6 pm. Thursday at the Wood
moor Cabin on Old Bladensburg
road in Silver Spring. Miss Agnes
Carlton is in charge.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
Two B'noi Birth Chapters
Slate Installation Proqruns

assistant financial secretaries
Mrs. Jack Molk. recording secre.
tary; and Mrs. Reuben Braun.
stein. Mrs. Allan Coleman, Mrs
Ralph Cohn and Mrs. Herman
Lewis. board members.
At the Montgomery County
Chapter luncheon tomorrow, Mrs
Irwin I. Miller will take office al
president, succeeding Mrs. Harry
Solomon. -
Others to be installed include
Mrs. Sidney Wolfe. Mrs. Harry
IDobkin and Mrs. Charles Upper
man, vice presidents; Mrs. Melvin
Romanoff. recording secretary;
Mrs. Sam Aldock. financial secre-
tary; Mrs. Harold Gross. CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Nelson
Bodnick, treasurer; Mrs. William
Willcher. assistant treasurer; Mrs
BENJAMIN Ennis, auditor, and
Mrs. Isabel Vice, parliamentarian
Mrs. Helen Warfield, Mrs. Rob-
|ert Fellerman, Mrs. Harry Penn
and Mrs. David Perper will be in
STALLED as board members.
The opening prayer will be
given by Mrs. Nat H. Levy, a
member Of the Executive Commit
tee Of the organizations Supreme
Council.
Evening star., 1952-05-19

Two Washington area chapter.
Of B'nai Birth Women have
slated installation luncheons thi!
week.
New officers of the Independ.
ence Chapter were to be installed
today at program at the Willard
Hotel.
The Montgomery County Chap.
ter will hold its ceremony at q
luncheon at 1918 pm. tomorrow
at the Woodmont Country Club.
Mrs. Norman Marlowe, presi-
dent Of B'nai Birth Women, Dis
trict No. 5. will be the installing
officer at both events.
Mrs. Sam Fox is the new presi.
dent of the Independence Chap
ter. succeeding Mrs. Harold Katz
Other officers are Mrs. Harry Hais
Mrs. s. Gordon Middleman. Mrs
Irv Rich, Mrs. Nathan Shankmar
and Mrs. Edward Wagman, vice
presidents: Mrs. Nate Segal, treas
urer; Mrs. Joseph Francke, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Jacob
AaronSon and Mrs. j. Goldblum
assistant corresponding secretar-
les: Mrs. Julius Singer, financial
secretary.
Still others are Mrs. Jerry
Broder and Mrs. Herbert Zanoff
Evening star., 1952-05-19
By MurioTNissen

DEAR MISS NISSEN: I have
been married for 20 years, and
have four children, all boys in
their teens. -Four years ago took
my husbands parents to live with
us: his mother is now 50 and his
father 63. No one else wanted
them, though there are two other
boys and two girls in the family.
In order to support them I went
to work, leaving my mother-in-
law in charge Of the house and
children. The house never, gets
cleaned, or my clothes washed un-
til Saturday when I am off. The
grandparents boss the children,
who can't even have company
without them in the room. Be-
tween the children complaining
and all the extra work, I am COM
lpletely discouraged.
Should I take the children and
leave, letting someone else take
care of my in-laws? I have given
the children up as far as raising
them goes, and I have given up my
house due to his parents bossing
everything in it. I feel that
have nothing.
MRS. B. H.
| ANSWER: You have been q
Evening star., 1952-05-19
The Chef
Suys

There is always a controversy
about strawberry Shortcake -
whether it should be the cake
type or the old-fashioned, biscuit
sort. Usually the ladies hold out
for the cake and whipped cream
variety. but here is my favorite
and, I think you'll find. favorite
of most men.
Sift and measure 2 cups of flour.
4 teaspoons Of baking powder, "
teaspoon Of salt, VI teaspoon Of
nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons of
sugar. Resift into a bowl.
Using a pastry blender, cut in
"a cup of shortening. Add about
/ cup Of rich milk-just enough
to make a soft dough. Stir only
until a ball of dough follows the
fork without sticking. Turn the
dough onto a Toured board and
roll, very thin.
Cut into 2 round layers and fit
l layer into buttered layer tin.
Brush the top with melted butter.
Put the other layer on top of that,
and brush it, too, with melted
butter. Bake in a hot oven for
about Is minutes. Then remove
from the oven. and separate the 2
layers with a knife or spatula.
Put ! layer. cut side up, on a
platter. Drench with strawberries
and juice. Top with the second
layer. cut side up. Cover with
some more berries and juice.
To serve, cut into wedges like
a pie. and pass rich cream along
with each serving. This makes
just about the most wonderful
strawberry shortcake there is. You
can use frozen or fresh berries to
make it, so you can serve it the
year round.
The basic shortcake may be
used for a background for
peaches. raSpberries. blueberries,
cherries or any adaptable fruit in
|season-or canned or frozen.
In any event, it's bound to
prove a success with the family.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
Club to Present
bethesda Story

1.-THE Story of Bethesda" will
be presented through skits and
readings by the literature and
music groups Of the Woman's
Club of Bethesda at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the clubhouse.
Special guests will be foreign
students from the University Of
Maryland.
The original "Story of Be-
Ithesda", has been written by Mrs.
Allen v. Astin, chairman of the
creative writing group. Bethesda
history and interesting local land
marks from the early 1600's
through 1852 will be correlated
with state and national history
of the same period in the pres
entation.
An appropriate musical back
lground by the choral group will be
Ia part of the program.
Mrs. B. c. Noise, chairman Of
the literature group, is in charge
lof the event. Mrs. Arnold Babb
will be hostess for the evening.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
INeW Board Officers

The Board of Lady Managers of
the Children's Convalescent Home
announces the election of five new
officers for the coming year.
They are Mrs. Charles Whitney
Price. vice president: Mrs. Robert
F. Wilson. treasurer; Mrs. William
E. Miller, assistant treasurer; Mrs.
Charles c. Glover III, recording
secretary, and Mrs. Walter G..
Peter, corresponding secretary.
Mrs. George Y. Wheeler II, will
remain as president for another
year.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
Problems TODAY
Children Should Share Equally
In Support Of Aging Parents

|doclle doormat long enough. and
no one could possibly blame you
for revolving. Walking out of the
house with the children may be q
drastic step. but it's probably the
only way to show your ungrateful
family how much you have been
doing for them.
The most sensible solution to
the problem, in the beginning,
would have been to keep the in
laws in their own home, with every
one Of their children contributing
something toward its upkeep.
All children, whether boys or
girls. are morally bound to care
for their parents; your sisters-in-
law are casting off their response
|bilities very easily when they ten
you the daughters Of q family have
no such obligation. AT the ages o1
81 and So, nom and pop are quite
capable >(unless they are ilD of
caring for small home of their
own. Your place is at home with
your own family, caring for them
during the day-not working out
side the home to ease the burden
|of your brothers and sisters-in-
law. You've been entirely too good
to the whole family, and a good
jolt will do them no harm.
If the family can't agree to set
ting the old folks up on their own,
the least they can do is take turns
caring for them. Two and a. halt
months out Of each year wouldn' I
be too much of a drain on any
ones resources, and is certainly
Ia much more equitable arrange
|ment than having the entire bur-
den on your shoulders. Should
both these possibilities fail, take
the children and let the family see
how well they can manage without
you. It won't be long, you may be
sure.
A very interesting and informa-
tive book called "You and Your
Aging Parents" by Edith Stern
and DR.. Mabel Ross, has recently
been published on this subject.
Read it for further light on your
own problem.
DEAR MISS NISSEN: For the
past year and a half I've been GO
ing with a boy and we are really
in love. Lately. however, he has
begun to drink. I'm sure he'll stop
when we're married. He's 20 and
I'm II. Do you think I should
marry him now, or wait?
A. L.
ANSWER: I cannot urge you
too strongly to put all thoughts of
marriage out of your head for a
while. At your age, to acquire a
husband who drinks would be
utter tragedy. Women much older
than you are unable to cope with
such a situation, and for young
ster it would be impossible. # the
boy loves you. he'll give up drink
ing of his own accord. Wait until
you're sure he's stopped the habit
before thinking of wedding bells.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
AAUW MeetinQ
The Bethesda-CheyY

The Bethesda Chevy Chase
group Of the American Associa-
ton Of University Women will
meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the
auditorium of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase branch of Woodward &
Lothrop's department store. DR..
Hide Adams, recipient of the
branch's Katherine S. Burgess In
ternational Name Grant Fellow
ship, will be the speaker.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
Donor orEuncheon

The fourth annual donor lunch
con Of the Sisterhood Of the
Northeast Hebrew Congregation
was to be held today in the Shore
ham Hotel. Mrs. Harry Burka was
guest speaker.
Also scheduled was a musical
program by Mrs. Louis Balotin and
her daughter. Betty Anne.
Mrs. Louis Robbins is president
Of the group. Mrs. Irving VAN
Crack is chairman of the lunch
con and Mrs. Edgar Lipman. CO.
chairman.
Evening star., 1952-05-19
AIunnue Meetino

The Alumnae Club of the Mis-
sissippi State College for Women
will hold a luncheon meeting at
12:45 pm. Friday in the Iron
Gate Inn. Miss Alice Hamer,
alumnae secretary, will show COL
ored slides of the college. Reser-
vations may be made with Mrs.
Harry D. Cutting, 1910 Crittenden
street NV.
Evening star., 1952-05-19

So smartly detailed that you
can wear it anyplace from this
season through the next. This
pretty collared style has an inter-
esting yoke treatment, comfort
able sleeves, the beloved gored
skirt.
Pattern No. 1881 Is q sew-rite
perforated pattern in sizes IA, 16,
Is. 20; 40, AZ, A. Size 16, Az
yards of 39-inch.
For this pattern, send SOC in
coins, your name. address, pattern
number and size wanted to Bar
bara Bell, The Washington Star,
P. o. Box SO, Station G, New York
10. N. Y.
Basic Fashion for so is filed
with ideas to make your clothes
budget go further - time-saving
and economical designs that are
easy to sew. Gift pattern printed
inside. Is cents.
Evening star., 1952-03-18
By Charles E. Trocewen

Usually this casualty ended the war
for the day.
Templeton Jones managed either to
be good dodger, or something, because
he never got hit.
In time, he came to look upon this
as something special.
Cant hit me. can't hit me-" he would
scream.
Thus Jones came to be regarded as
a sort Of wonder boy, to be thrown at by
everybody, including now and then some
wight on his own side.
Probably this always happens In war.
The top sergeant is popularity regarded
as the prime victim.
In young Jones' case it was simply
matter Of yelling once too often, Cant
hit me, can't hit me. can't"
Popl
That. Of course. is the way it always
happens.
1t was true then. it is true today, it
will be true tomorrow.
Templeton Jones got hard unripe
peach right above his right ear.
He went down like two-legged ten
pin, and lay there with stars before his
eyes. The boys gathered around, won
dered for q few seconds what to do. but
by that time Temp Jones was bawling
bloody murder.
Even war didn't provide for hitting Q
guy IN the ear with green peach.
Evening star., 1952-03-18
Communism in the JAW

The International Executive Board Of the
United Auto Workers, pursuant to testimony
developed at a House Un-American Activities
Committee hearing in Detroit, is displaying
commendabe determination to clean out the
Communist influence in its giant Ford Local 500.
After an all-day session. during which the
local officers were examined the Executive Board
declared itself convinced beyond any doubt that
a highly disciplined Communist minority has
been subverting the operation Of the local and
functioning in the interests of the Communist
Party rather than of the Ford workers. To cor
rect this condition, the board set up six-man
administrative authority headed by UAW Presi-
dent Walter Reuther to direct affairs of the local.
The Ford local. with membership Of nearly
$4,000 workers, claims to be the biggest local
union in the world. It represents large segment
of the labor in one of the key companies In a
kew industry It's behavior would be important
at any time; it is doubly important in period
when the automobile industry once again is
filling a vital function in rebuilding the Nations
military strength. The threat to national secu-
rity is that of Communist aggression and it would
be unthinkable folly to allow strategically
located union leadership to be serving the cause
Of communism.
Organized labor in the United States is not
q creature Of communism, but its vital role in
our economy makes it an inviting target for
Communist subversion and infiltration. Mr.
Reuther has been one Of labor's leaders who has
fought the Communist menace most vigorously
Evening star., 1952-03-18

had other and more exciting things to
remember.
There was gravel walk that led from
the kitchen to the street.
Capt. Catlett must have been English,
for everything about the place reminded
one Of something out of novel Of the
period. say "BarcheSter Towers" or
some such volume.
To the east, toward the car tracks
there was simply big vacant lot, sur
rounded on the Fourteenth street side
by q high billboard.
It was in this lot that many stone
battles were fought.
This feature of ancient Washington
happily has passed.
There was never much sense in It, and
now and then boy got severe wound.
Each neighborhood had its gang. not
at all vicious. but intent on seeing who
could score the neatest bull's-eye on a
comrades head.
Templeton Jones still recalls how ex-
citing and ferocious those battles seemed
There was much, running, much
lodging. much shouting.
This was warfare. . fourth-grade
model
Occasionally there would be . sharp
cry. and some boy would begin to bleed.
Evening star., 1952-03-18
This and That

After Templeton Jones, as small boy,
got the terrible cap pistol burn, nothing
much happened to him until
The story starts from the library Of
the home the Jones family then occupied
just of Fourteenth street at Euclid.
The house is still there, occupied by
a nursery school, or something.
In the old days it sat four-square to
the world, fully detached house in a
neighborhood of detached houses.
The house had been rented from an
old Capt. Catlett. who lost leg in the
Civil War. The old warrior liked to
travel, and In the intervals he always
rented his house. furnished.
The kitchen was on the front, great
novelty in those days. as perhaps it is
still.
There was a parlor. dining room.
paneled. and library at the rear, OPEN
ing onto a porch on level with the
ground.
The feature Of the library was the
shelves built in. from floor to ceiling. all
the way around.
Every inch Of space was filed. too.
The young Jones found here haven
and heaven on rainy days.
He mostly has forgotten the books be
read there, for he was not very old, and
Evening star., 1952-03-18

prepare designs. The Star. in 1904, spoke
approvingly of the compromise" in the
designs in relation to a more radical
treatment put forward in 1874.
That editorial observed that while the
appearance of the dome gave the i'm
preston from some angles, described
by Mr.. Truman as hanging in the air" !"
this seemed to concern the architects
more than it did the general public.
The general public, The Star noted at
that time is concerned lest the changes
in the architecture would destroy the
character and individuality of build
ing that has won admiration all over
the world.
The 1904 plans were never executed,
but they were revived from time to time.
Early in the 1930s. when Congress was
appropriating money for employment
creating public works, Capitol Archi-
tect David Lynn revived the proposals
and interested The Star in running
sketches of what was under considera-
ton. The Star supported the changes
editorially, and printed many articles
and pictures explaining what Mr.. Lynn
had in mind. One new reason advanced
for the change was that the Aqua
Greek tVirginia) sandstone, of which
the old part of the Capitol was built. is
said to be deteriorating.
The Senate passed bill approving
the changes in 1885. The bill that Mr.
Truman probably recalls is a comparable
one passed by the Senate in 1887,
for he was a member of the Public
Buildings and Grounds Committee and
took an active part in the Senate hear
ings on that bill.
The 1885 Senate bill went to the
House Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee. The hearings lasted more
than month. The bill was never re-
ported on the House side. There were
20 members of this committee. The
only member from Iowa was former
Representative Otha D. Wearin. He
opposed the bill in committee and went
over to the Senate side, in 1897. and
opposed it in the Senate hearings in
which Mr.. Truman took part, and Mr..
Truman questioned him on his opposi-
tion
Mr.. Truman may have regarded Mr..
Wearin as pinhead. But other mem
bers Of the New Deal administration
did not so regard him. He was the
gentleman they backed in Iowa to run
against Senator Gillette. hoping thus
to purge Senator Gillette for not toeing
Evening star., 1952-03-18

the mark Senator Gillette beat Mr..
Wearin. But the Republicans beat Mr..
Gillette. The Senator is now back in
the Senate, and Mr.. Wearin. as far as
The Star knows, is still back in Iowa.
Mr.. Wearin wanted to leave the Capt.
tol Building as it is. as sort Of memo
rial, and to build new United States
Capitol in Iowa. The Star did not string
along with Mr.. Wearin. regarding his
proposal with some suspicion.
What seems to have killed the bill in
the House committee was an opposition
resting mainly on sentimental considera-
tions. The hearings contain several
pages Of kilograms from architects and
preservers Of historic buildings around
the country, protesting the proposed
vandalism" )" although the changes were
supported by other eminent architects
and the Fine Arts Commission. It is
unlikely that Mr.. Wearin or anybody
else could have held up the bill, If there
had been any desire by the administra-
ton to bring it out and pass it. But
Mr. Wearin was not alone in his opposi-
ton. When the Senate passed the 1897
bill, former Representative Treadway of
Massachusetts, seems to have expressed
the prevailing sentiment of majority
of his colleagues when he told the House:
II think it was great mistake to build
the enormous, elaborate and gaudy SUI
prerne Court Building. Now it is pro-
posed to desecrate the Capitol ITSELF"
The House took no action of any sort
on the 1887 Senate bill and did not ever
hold hearings on IL.
At any rate. The Star did not defeat
the bill.
The Star did oppose, unsuccessfully,
the balcony in the south portico Of the
White House. It was more concerned
over a principle than with the balcony
itself. The principle was that the Fine
Arts Commission should approve archi-
tectural embellishments added to his
toric buildings. Mr.. Truman not only
overrode the Fine Arts Commission, but
refused to reappoint the members who
disagreed with him. This, The Star
still believes, was mistake, setting
bad example for succeeding temporary
occupants of the White House who so
often are receptive to whimsical ideas
in many fields, including architecture,
when advanced by themselves.
But the balcony does not look so bad
now and probably will be remembered
as one Of the Presidents relatively
trivial errors.
Evening star., 1952-03-18
Give the csc Tools for the Job

Legislation sent TO conference by the House
would transfer from the Federal Bureau of IN
vestigation to the Civil Service Commission the
responsibility OF making routine investigations
of applicants for Federal jobs. That Is good as
far as it goes. But if the change Is to keep
the applicant-screening system operating as
effectively as it has under the FBI the COM
mission must be given sufficient funds and staff
to do the work.
Disclosure in The Stars Federal Spotlight"
column by Joseph Young that the commission
is many months behind right now in checking
on new employees indicates the urgency of sup
Elemental appropriations to enable the CSC to
take on additional screening burdens Mr..
Young told of personal experience with the
slow-moving machinery of the commission. He
received recently QUESTIONABLE concerning an
applicant who had been appointed nine months
ago and had since resigned from the Federal
he found, resulted from the inadequacy of CSC
facilities for conducting such inquiries.
The FBI has been doing this routine screen
ing of applicants for certain sensitive agencies
while other cases have piled up. At the request
of the FBI and with the consent of the csc,
Congress has approved legislation shifting most
of the load to the commission. The FBI will
retain, however, the responsibility of investi-
eating 10y employees in the sensitive agencies
and it will make full field Investigations
in any case in which the csc finds there
is derogatory information regarding an appli-
cant. Provided the CSC is given the means to
do its part of the checking with thoroughneSs,
the new arrangement should strengthen the
whole security setup.