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Evening star., 1952-12-07
Two Bridges Instead of One

The National Capital Regional Planning
Councils recommendation for two new bridges
across the Potomac River should have ouieting
erect on the controversy which has been devel-
oping over bridge priorites and sites The council
was created by Congress to aid in resolving Just
such disputes among the planners The battle
OF bridges is a good test for it's co-ordinating
powers
The council with considerable logic. con-
tends that not one but two additional river
crossings are needed in the immediate future.
II mdorSed the proposals for q bridge from
Jones Point In Prince Georges County, Maryland,
TO alexandria, and for another one somewhere
between the Memorial and Key Bridges The
Alexandria bridge would serve chiefly as means
OF bypassing north-south traffic around WASH
ngton and also as link in the circumferential
belt highway long planned by the National Capital
Planning Commission. The central bridge would
relieve traffic congestion on the overloaded
Fourteenth street, Memorial and Key Bridges
The National Capital Planning Commission
has indicated its disapproval of new bridge in
the central area and has urged that priority be
given the Alexandria bridge. The District High
way Department favors span along the general
line OF street, route which would carry the
bridge over one end of Theodore Roosevelt Island
The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association
which controls the island, is strongly opposed to
any such invasion of its widife sanctuary. The
new Regional Planning Council, composed of
representatives of all planning agencies in the
Washington Metropolitan Area has jumped into
the middle of this debate with it's two-bridge
program, designed to satisfy advocates of both
the Alexandria and central bridges.
But the controversial question of where to
put bridge between the Memorial and Key
Bridges remains to be solved. The council care
fullV refrained from Srecifvino
to location of this essential traffic structure
And questions of financing the two bridges also
remain to be settled. These problems seem to be
headed for congressional study. If the council
can bring about unanimity among the various
planning agencies on these vexing issues before
Congress considers them, it will greatly improve
the chances of early and favorable legislative
action to give Washington the greater bridge
capacity 1t needs.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Spires Of the Spirit
If hen

A brilliant young woman, prominent
in the civic life of great and growing
city. devoted to the church and to all
good causes, recently sent the writer a
letter laden with deep insights as to the
direst need Of this anxious day in the
life OF America. She rightly senses that
the problems which cry to heaven for
solution are so central and crucial that
they must be resolved or catastrophe
awaits. In these desperate days, from
newspaper and magazine pulpits set up
in the most unlikely places, we are being
admonished that the fundamental uues-
tions are what might be called moral,
spiritual, religious. We have come to
such a plight that the choice which must
be made involves the blessing or the
curse, life or death. for our Nation and
Tor our boasted way Of life.
In the letter referred to was quoted
one Of the most monumental sentences
IN the Bible. Strangely enough, the
same verse has been sent to me by vari-
Gus deeply concerned persons in differ
ent parts Of the country. This sentence.
ancient but new as today's headlines,
was quoted in q prayer during the last
Congress, at the opening Of session of
the United States Senate. Overarching
II Is hope, glorious as q rainbow. But
sounding in 1t is also doleful Solemnity.
suggesting those for whom the bells toll.
Here 1t is: If my people which are
called by my name shall seek my face.
and pray. and turn from their wicked
ways. then will hear and forgive their
sins and heal their land"
In this awe-inspiring covenant the two
mighty monosyllables to write in letters
OF fire across the sky are IF" and
then: for they are rooted in the in
exorable law Of cause and effect.
What a momentous word is "if"!
One Of Rudyard Kipling's best-known
and oft-quoted poems might well be
called "H-Then." The burden of its
theme is: If you can practice this shin
ing virtue and that, then you can do
this and have this and be this. IF YOU
can-then. the world is yours, and all
that's in it.
IF" is one of the shortest and biggest
words in the Bible. 1t is written across
every promise OF spiritual guidance and
enrichment. From Genesis to Revelation
we are constantly assured that certain
things will happen. sure as the rising
sun, n-if-the conditions are fulfilled.
II with all your hearts We truly seek me,
then ye shall surely find mel" That is
not just lovely motto. It is a law Of
the unseen.
Too often people assume that in the
spiritual world what will happen is un-
predlctable It is a topSy-turvy, hap
hazard realm. The symbol Of science is
Evening star., 1952-12-07
E. M. Dawson.

bouquet Of bride roses. Her attendants
were: Bertha and Maud Hoover and
Grace Sauter. Leon Herbert was best
man and the ushers included Harry
Herbert. Beverly North. Edward Os-
bourne and Frank Hoover. Mr.. and Mrs.
Burton were to make their home at 1915
Lamar place. There were five children
born OF the union-two sons, Elmon. jr..
and Douglas. and three daughters. The
boys are associated with their father
IN the awning and decorating business
at S11 street NV. Mr.. Burton, ST.,
said Friday that his firm had helped to
adorn Pennsylvania avenue for many
inaugurations and other parades. He
has 13 grandchildren to carry on the
family traditions.
Quoting from London Tid-Bits. The
Star OF December |. 1902, reviewed the
=, novels preferred by novel;
NoveIists lists, showing that Sir
Novelists Arthur Conan Doyle pre-
ferred Reade's ''The Clois-
ter and the Hearth" SCOTS 'Ivanhoe"
and Barrie's tales; James Payn "Ivan-
hoe" Thackeray's Vanity Fair" and
Dickens David Copperfield" and MAR
tin Chuzzlewit":: Sir Walter Besant
Blackmore's Lorna Doone," Hariy's
"Tess Of the D'Urbervilles" and Mere-
dith's Richard Feverel":: G. A. Henty
Lorna Doone":: II. Rider Haggard Wey-
mans Gentleman Of France: Marie
Coreln the stories Of r. Marion CraW-
ford, George Eliot. Charlotte Bronte.
Dickens and Scott; Robert Louis
Stevenson SCOTS Guy Mannering."
Red Gauntlet" and Rob Roy
Thackeray's .sEsmcnd" and Meredith's
Richard Feveral." George Meredith
himself chose Hardys "Far From the
Madding Crowd" and Under the Green
Evening star., 1952-12-07
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Anisssr aSu1drX 5rtd MeshcSst Church;


SO wisely by divine law set aside for
keeping the things Of the spirit alive is
more and more appropriated and ex-
plotted for selfish profit and pleasure.
In all America, groups readily sing with
vociferous sentimentalism, God bless
America" without an iota of spiritual
yearning in that which sounds like q
prayer.
In such day the national goal Of
our threatened Nation must not be to
return to democracy. but to return to
God. AS one Of Americas prophetic
voices has put 1t: I'm some quarters
the idea Is abroad that democracy is
the thing that must be preserved, and
that God must be brought In as its
servant" But the urgent summons now
Is not that we shall call upon God to
return to our democracy and bless It;
but, rather, that we shall cause our
democracy to return to God and be
blessed.
This Advent month. when the flaming
revelation Is God with us" the call to
our Nation, rich in things but poor in
soul, is to seek the face Of the Father
Coda God as near as the Bethlehem
Baby. Alas. that we look full in the
face score of materialistic things every
week. but with scarcely thought Of
Him who is the light Of all our seeing.
Alas, that so many millions in this So
called Christian country can be charac-
terized by the scriptural phrase: God
is not in all their thoughts" We are
lost If all we have to match the avowed
atheism Of communism is the practical
atheism Of secularism.
*
The great admonition Of the verse we
are holding aloft, which contains the
vital words "If-then," is pray" Prayer
is the master switch which, if pulled,
brings the Kindly Light flooding every
Granny of our beings. It is not neces-
sary to wait until you understand this
power. which, as Tennyson said, brings
to pass more wonders than this world
dreams Of. You do not understand elec-
tricity. Even Edison said that he did
not. But you can read these words in
the effulgence 1t produces.
So, here is the one word that America
needs to heed in this crisis, more than
any directive that can possibly come
from legislative halls: If my people
will turn their faces toward me-then;
If my people will pray-really pray
then; If my people will turn from their
sins to my forgiveness, them will heal
their land. Here is the signboard point
ing the road to personal and national
salvation. n-then, America is invinci-
ble-for it will lead the world to:
Peace that comes OF purity,
And strength to simple Justice due.
So runs our loyal dream OF thee,
God OF our fathers, make 1t true"
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Gazetteer of indians

The Government Printing ONCE yesterday
published for the Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution, book which proves
once again the high scholarship which for many
years has been devoted to the study of the
Indians OF the Western Hemisphere. It is Dr.
John r. Swanton's Indian Tribes of North
America" The author is native of Gardiner
Maine, and now resides at Newton, Massachu-
sets; but he lived in the District of Columbia
or nearby from 1900 to 1914, and much of his
best work was done here. What he has accom-
plished in this latest of his researches is, in
effect, geography or gazetteer of the North
American Indians
DR.. Swanton began with the map of Major
J. w. Powell issued in 1891, and designed to
show the linguistic affiliations of the Indians
No more practical approach to migratory COM
munities ever has been devised. But the Indians
were not necessarily travelling. They often
settled" for decades, even for centuries Dr.
Swanton has reported both aspects of their
ascertainable history. For example he has
identified the Conoy, a division of the Algon-
quian- speaking stock, with the country between
the Potomac River and the west shore of Chesa-
peake Bay. Members of this tribe were encoun-
tered by Captain John Smith and by the Mary
land colonists. Their principal village" or
"town" was at the junction of Thinkers Creek
with the Piscataway in Prince Georges County
Susquehannas drove them up the Potomac in
1875. Gradually they moved as far West as
Texas. The turkey was their signature at
council held in 1898.
Similarly. DR.. Swanton places" the Mana
hoac Indians "in Northern Virginia between the
falls of the rivers and the mountains east and
west and the Potomac and North Anna Rivers
north and south" They likewise were known
as the Mahocks, both names tracing back
allegedly to the descriptive phrase, "They were
very merry"-congenial happy folk. Mahaskahod
on the Rappahannock near Fredericksburg was
one of their centers. Their neighbors included
the Monacan on the upper James above Rich
mond, where Smith visited them in 1907. The
Powhatan nation" too was related to the Conoy
and the Manahoac. Their villages ran into the
hundreds under the rule of their chief Wahun-
sonacock, the father of PocahontaS
It is obvious from these samples that DR..
Swanton has worked in the interest of the
average reader. His subject is infinitely compl-
Gated but he has made 1t attractive to every
body by reason of his skillful arrangement Of
material, his unpretending style and the four
maps which illustrate his text
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Mrs. Dovid Wallace

In her later years Mrs. David wilcox Wallace
had two famous resdences--the White House
here. where death has claimed her at the age
of 80, and the Little White House" in Independ-
ence, Missouri The Little White House"--as
1t came to be known after her son-in-law had
risen to the presidency and began visiting there
periodically as to a kind Of restful retreat-was
where she grew up as girl named Madge Gates.
It was her parental home. She left it for time
after her marriage to Mr.. Wallace, but In 1908.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
HoodIums on the Water Front

fsIt is shocking story of dockside racketeer-
ing that has been coming from the public
hearings in New York City of the State Crime
Commission. There have been partial disclosures
of brazen extortion and corruption on the New
York water front in the past, but not until the
crime commission delved into the sordid mess
was the lid really removed. The scene laid bare
Is so shameful as to make good citizens wonder
why it only now is being exposed.
The Kefauver committee, barely scratching
the surface, found enough to arouse its wonder
ment, too, as to why the situation was allowed
to continue. The committee questioned former
Mayor O'Dwyer about this, and got unsatisfactory
answers. The group learned in fact, that the
Mayor had called off a grand jury investigation
launched by the district attorney and never
ordered it reopened Yet Mr.. ODwyer admitted
under questioning: "There never was any doubt
in my mind that (Albert) Anastasia (reputed
gunman for ganglands Murder Inc.) really
owned the water front and had strong henchmen,
too"
How well the hoodlums owned the water
front" is shown by some of the amazing testi-
mony received so far by the commission. The
evidence shows that great international shipping
interests have been forced to pay tribute to
members Of the AFL International Longshore-
mems Union in order to avoid trouble" For
$4,000 in the past seven years to boss loader
who did no work but whose presence on the docks
was supposed to guarantee labor peace" Be-
cause this boss, an ex-convict, used an assumed
name on the payroll, he was known as "phan-
TOM" And the United States Lines disclosed that
remarkable pilferage" forced it to change piers,
although no complaint about the repeated thefts
was made for fear of stirring up stevedore
trouble The inquiry also has shown that con-
victs were hired for dock work even before they
got out of prison, that one stevedoring firm was
compelled to rehire gun-toting thief in order to
keep in the good graces of the "men on the pier"
and that gratuities and 'loans" had been made
to officials of the longshoremen's union to insure
smooth operations on the docks.
Much of the testimony should be of interest
to income-tax investigators. And it would seem
that another grand jury investigation is in
order, even at this late date To allow such
thievng, extortion and other racketeering to 60
unpunished would be intolerable
Evening star., 1952-12-07

widow. she returned to it with her three sons
and the daughter who in 1919 wed Harry s.
Truman. patrician type, interested in music,
civic affairs, charitable enterprises and good
society," she liked quiet and unoStentatious living,
and she had no taste for publicity. She was
fine wife, mother and grandmother who through
all her rich years enjoyed nothing so much as
the close ties of love and affection between her
and her kin. Mrs. Truman has lost a great
treasure.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
The AFL Makes LooicuI Choice

In your editorial, "The AFL Makes
Logical Choice" the use of the word
"heir-apparent" in regard to William
Green's successor, George Meany. was
appropriate and to the point
For the new president was elected
unanimously by the AFL's 14-member
executive committee. with the member
ship itself having no choice in selecting
their leader. Thus it is that this COM
Evening star., 1952-12-07
PuroIIel to What?

Does history repeat itself? In 1876,
when James q. Blaine was Speaker of
the House, certain letters were located
showing that he had sold his influence
to various business firms. In one deal
he received $4,000 in bonds and cash
for performing various services includ-
ing the saving Of land grant for the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.
The incriminating evidence was in the
hands of Boston bookkeeper by the
name of James Mulligan.
When the storm broke, Blaine rose in
the House and dramatically threw the
Evening star., 1952-12-07
5By Fronk R. Kent

wood Tree" Scott, Thackeray and Dick
ems. Half century later the same works
are popular as books and in movie,
radio and television adaptation.
On December 6, 1902, The Star told
its readers: Postmaster John II. Merritt
will shortly make prac-
Streetcor tical test in Washing
Post Offices ton Of what is known
as the trolley mail coll
lection system, 49,. which will possibly
bring into play all the city and suburban
trolley cars. Efforts will be made to ar
range with one Of the local traction COM
panies for thorough trial Of certain
mail devices designed to gather up let
ters along the routes Of street railways
and deliver them at once to the general
post office. The 'McAllister mail system
-. will operate in the following manner:
Any one having letter to post. whether
in the city or In the suburbs, may, under
the operation Of this system, drop it
into q slot or mouth on the side of
the first passing streetcar and thus have
It carried at once to the distributing
tables at the general post office. The
citizen desiring to post letter on a
trolley car will go about it In precisely
the same way that he now goes about
boarding car to ride. AS the car ap-
proaches the street corner. he will step
from the sidewalk to meet 1t. The
motorman. at few PAGES from him.
viii 'down-break' just as he does at
present when one is about to ride. but
in this case only to the extent Of q
quarter stop Of the car" Nothing was
said about delivering letters by streetcar.
The trolley post ofilces were aimed at
speeding up the collection Of mail only.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Burmese Problem

tVDbSUu
hope that President Truman and his
successor fully recognize and will take
adequate measures about the Burmese
problem. OF which not much has ap-
peared in the press.
Burma has asked Russian economic
aid we are told. If economic aid were
all Burma would get, we should not feel
concern. But Russian economic aid
probably will lead to political domina-
ton, so we should be interested.
Burma, a new and weak country, lies
like wedge between India and Thai
land. Thailand, in turn, is between
Burma and Indo-C China. To the north
OF Burma and India is Russian -domi-
mated China and Tibet.
Suppose the French lose Indo- China,
as seems possible. Suppose Burma goes
with the Soviet. Then Thailand will
drop like plum into Russian hands.
The next stop for Russia would be
India, which the Russians covet.
It Is the duty Of our statesmen to
weigh these chances and they should be
anticipated, just as a chess player would
try to figure out his opponents moves.
Don't act too late! Lock the stable be-
fore the horse escapes! No wonder Rus
sia doesn't provoke open war! She has
got plenty by bluff and intrigue. Why
risk war, she says?
E. M. Dawson.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Evil Days at Thomos Circle

The other day the papers reported
sat 4:50 am. today. running hard,
cottontail rabbit dashed across the
intersection of Thirteenth street and
Massachusetts avenue NV"
This phenomenon is explainable I'm
doubtedly the rabbit wandered into the
Thomas Circle area during the night.
He very soon learned the place is a local
Bowery where one can Count that day
lost, whose slowly rising sun, sees
neither robbery nor wanton murder
DONE" Mr.. Cottontail only did what
came naturally and stopped not on the
order of his going.
Gen. Thomas, from his carved horse,
now surveys a street given over largely
to greasy spoons, liquor stores and flop
houses. Panhandlers. drunks and (no
doubt) murderers are its habitues.
Within the past 30 days the area has
witnessed burglaries, deadly assaults
and rape-murder. Truly if Washing
ton has "Helrs Kitchen" Thomas
Circles environs can Justly lay claim
to the title.
Gen. Thomas's Orderly.
Evening star., 1952-12-07

mittee, which is forever giving lip serv-
ice to the cause Of democracy" has
unlimited dictatorial powers.
The precedent having been established
that the president shall "reign" until his
death, the process of retiring that Of
fetal by the proper means Of an election
does not exist. The executive committee
itself consists Of vice presidents who are
not elected but who are chosen by
the committee members when there is a
vacancy caused by death. A%
The AFL executive committee is re-
ported to be now negotiating with the
C1O for merger The membership
has not been consulted in this matter.
The union policy makers will make this
decision. exercising the divine right of
kings" although a truly democratic
organization would submit this question
to referendum.
Evening star., 1952-12-07
Letters to The Star
Pen-non1es may be used II letters cdrry
aoriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation

discriminating letters on his desk and
cried out In frenzy, Thank God AL
mighty, I am not afraid to show them"
After reading portions of the letters, the
House in an exceptional frenzy shouted
his vindication. But sad to relate, when
the letters were reproduced in print,
they showed Blaine to be guilty as
charged. ID ".
Eight years later Blaine was nomi-
mated for President. Millions of Repub-
licans no longer cared about the Multi
gan letters. Only the blunder of Rum,
his election. Nuf sed. John L. Reilly.
Evening star., 1952-12-07

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-02-21

A coal shortage in Great Brit
ain has caused the imposition of
a compulsory dimout until the
end of March, 1862.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-02-21
CoLesviLLe
Miss Lucille Priest
Ashton 3112

Mrs. Effie Stevens, Mrs. Hannah
Glen-Jones and Mrs. Annie John
son have returned from four
week visit with Mrs. Glen-Joness
sister in Florida.
Remember the Pancake and
Sausage Dinner given by the Men
of the Church on Tuesday, Feoru-
airy 26 beginning at 4:30. The
men cook and serve the dinner 50
be sure and come for the fun as
we'll as the dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Boerum enter
tanned at dinner on Friday evening
in honor of their son Donnie's
birthday. Those there were Mar
ilyn Swafford, Ellen Foedich, Jan
ice Patton, and Lewis Boerum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carter en-
tertained at dinner on Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Snyder Of
Washington, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Bradford of Four Corners, and
Mrs. Herbert Anderson, who had
been their house guest all week.
Mrs. Whorton Nichols is keep
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-02-21
Rev. Best to Speak
At Beth Ell Services

Rev. Charles H. Best, Associate
Rector of All Saints Episcopal
Church, will deliver the sermon at
Church, will deliver the sermon at
the regular Friday evening service
of Congregation Beth Ell of Mont
gomery County, as part of the OBJ
servance of National Brotherhood
Week.
Rev. Best will speak on Bro
therhood as Faith and Fact
Services will begin at 8:15 pm.
in the social auditorium of All
Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy
Chase Circle, and will be under
the leadership of Rabbi Jerome M.
Pines.
Rabbi Paul Richman will lead a
discussion on What is Judaism"
at the regular Sunday morning
meeting of the Congregations ed
ucation group, to be held on Sun
day at 1918 am. in Room 218,
Building C, B-CC High School.