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MOVIE CAMERA. Revere, model II;
M1LoR, Monday, sH. 1891. 90.
MOWER. 2o-inch power: excellent
oGpenpdGition; $50, "a, 6545. 80
tarial, | typist desk, mahogany;
60-in. table, mahogany; Mimeo-
graph Dick 90; table cutter, Is
in; Meilink safe, small: rugs, Tx
10, green: 4-drawer, files. wood and
= ra Royal Go typewriteTs with stands.
oFF1CE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
$50; addressograph, model 27OO-B,
cleo, $500: time clocks. IBM: ,
desks and 2 steel files. 202S 14th
OIL BURNER, tank. all controls, GE.
OIL HEATER-compiete hot water
system for 6-room home; General
Automatic" New tank, modern
PAPER GTrT FER r. alg With stand
excel. for occasional cutting. Priced
PHONOGRAPH RECORDS - Victor
Columbia. Decca, Capitol and Mer-
sIG classical ali 5 'D speeds; D0p large
stock; sheet music. SPRING VAL
LEY ELECTRIC SHOP. 4SO5 Mass
ave. NV EN-. 1875.
PIANO. upright, Sohmer Il Co., ex-
cellent condition, S195. WA. 3014.
PIANO. upright, Aeolian; good cond-
dition; S55. Cali OR. 7o91. OWNER
PIANO, Knabe baby grand, mahogany
case; perfect mechanical condition.
Call Jefferson 3-O44S. 30
PIANO prornhonk l..
excel. tone; $3.50. ia. 2-6563. 2O'
new cond.. $75. sH. 1924. $500
Chenille I'd. Silver Spring. Md.
PIANO No spinlet; hospital bed; dehu-
PIANO, Huntington; original owner;
good condition; medium size: excel
lent tone quality. Tower 49l9. 20
board; has had very little use; out
1890 G st. NV. 10
PIANO, Steinway Grand. g. II. No.
333497. used only 4 mos. Substan-
$40. 1108 G st. NV. 10
sizes. ST. ~ b10Is". I SI1h@.
now available at CAMPBEiL
M SesIe9 G0 authorized Ut ni sts s4E4
ueaieI 1.-Two " So n'"'' Ii. c4Cf'
PIANOS-Fine selection, all styles.
rights, including Steinway. Mason
and Hamlin. knabe, Story and Clark
and othsr9 G Gan Me 81 v Wgr Hpn
cts, $685. up; grands. 1875 up; re-
paired by experts; best values in
D. c. area; free delivery; terms.
Open Fri; and Mon. till 9 pm:
SILVER SILVER, SPRING 81 sS a PIANo CO.. S57
1915 up; erand,. 1865 UP Up; terms.
Established 1901. Open ewes. till Q,
s sIRNo TIL SHOP p s95 s sonifa1t rs
SILVER Spring. sH. 3039. al
chase plan; new famous make planes
for only 50 per month. KITS,
1890 G st. NV. lie
PIA NOS q hard time finding
one from the following makes: Kim
s"inet, cable-Nelson Louis XIV " con-
So Also r Tssd apt. upright Ssst
P sseieSaz R ssn now so hays G nsy
bransen or Gable piano under our
famous RentaI-Purchase Plan.
Monthly rates from $3.50. All rent
paid applies on purchase prise S,, il i
Music CO.. 110S G st. NV. DI.
S464. 10
PIANOs-Uprts.. small Knabe, Ss5;
2 apt. sizes, S195 up, includes a
GOLIBART, corner entrance Ameri-
can Storage Bldg, 2SOI Georgia ave.
AID. 1928 (9:3O to 500. 20'
baby grands from $685. also famous
names, Brambach, Steinway, Bech-
stein. Also new spinets greatly re-
duced Open Sunday. GEORGETOWN
PIANO CO., 341a NJ st. NV. Cat Key
Bridge. HO. 6706. 30
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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

SOFA AND HOLLYWOOD BED-Not
a VI. old; odd chairs: 2 chests Of
drawers: reas.; wk. days. ST. ;i4O5
after 6:30 pm. ii
STENOGRAPH MACHINE, good con
dition, used very little, SO or best
offer. Call TU. DAG ewes. 30
STENOTYPE. late. model: recondi-
tioneo guaranteed; S42 so. UNITED
TYPEWRITER CO. Sl3 14th St
r.w
STORE FIXTURES and lumber. Can
be seen a. 2453 18th ST. NV. or
call MI. 6637, ask for Mr.. Bean
STUDIO COUCH. red, gray, makes
into spacious dble. bed; $3.50, WI
$3.50 20
TABLE. maple. will extend to 66x30
Also t chairs. SO. Phone WI
TABLE. dinette and chairs; maple;
to inspect, call DI. SOB. Sat. OF
TELEvIsIoN. washers. refrigerators
Warehouse sale, almost all makes
and sizes. Must sell today. Extra
large. savings. No reasonable Offer
will be refused. Open til 8 pm
SILVER SPRING GAS & ELECTRIC
CO.. ga Wayne ave. JU. SS03S.
TELEvISION, IT. console; 4 mos
old; owner transferred, must sacri.
flee. 10. 2-l579. lie
TELEVISION treconditioned), legiti.
mately guar; priced to sell. Easy
SMITH S. d s., 1914 H st. ne. Ii
3-2545; Ii. 3-6050
TELEVISION
Gigantic clearance sale. Brand
1852 famous makes TV sets at be.
low dealers cost. Open till IL pm
AIMCO TV SALES
/. $500 N. Washington Blvd.
Arlington, Va, GIL. T&0l
TELEVISION
SALE
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Established 1870

PIPE. galv., black; copper, cast iron.
cut thread: fixtures. BLOCKS. 3056
NJ st NV. NO. 1903. WA 5501.
PLAY PENS, discontinued floor sam
pies, some with plastic rails, great
~ reduced QUALITY SHOP, 1929
PLEXIGLSSS SHEETS; approx: 50
50. #. of masked, eolored: "a in.
rose; 4 black; best offer. FA, 1854
30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-19

Acrosonic spinet
and console models. Baldwin de-
anteed. Embodies features of small
grand and uprights; full resonant
tone Baldwin patented. full blow
action, lifetime durability Available
in wide selection Of eye-appealing
cases in mahogany, walnut light
oak. avodite and ebony
EXCLUSIVE AT HUGO WORCH.
S25 e st; NV
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FURNITURE
2OG DISCOUNT

Spring Cleaning Sale"
a-kind; 90 bedroom suites. modern
and traditional, foam rubber units,
springs, mattresses; also sofa beds,
studio couches, sectional sofas,
chairs, dining room suites, dinettes,
drop-leaf tables, chairs. china.
desks, lamps, tables, mirrors; house
hold miscellaneous; open It'll 8 pm.
terms If desired.
DAWSON FURNITURE CO.
224h RHODE ISLAND AVE. NE.
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AIR CONDITIONERS
RENTED

DEPENDo REFRIGERATION CO.
UN 1912 UN. 1915
AFGHAN, good size and homemade
quilt. Reasonable. Call SH. 1867.
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MTRRoRED FURNITURE

Dressing. table. pair end tables. cot :
fee table, night stand. desk. beauti-
full gold and smoked mirror chest,
hamper. step table: all pieces are
floor samples from fine manufac-
turers; real bargains; some pieces
priced below cost. See for yourself.
''MIRROR-LAND," 1904 NJ st. NV.
~
MOVIE CAMERA. Revere, model II:
like new; 500 or best offer. Call MR..
MILoR, Monday, SH. 1921. 9-6.
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SEWING MACHINES
Clearance sale Of secondhand port
ables and consoles. All in perfect
condition and guaranteed. S19.95
to S6995. SEWING MACHINE Elk
CHANGE. 2412 18th st. NV" co.
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FURNITURE-sOFA. BREAKFRoNT
CHAIRS. TABLES, LAMPS, COM
PLETE DINING RIM. SUITE, 2 BED
PM SITTTES TIL 1871 -21
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PIANO TUNING

Special. SIS, by exper. professional,
locally; for limited time. Call RE.
2499, mention this ad. Save at
RATNER'S MUSIC STORE, 736
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PAPERING AND PAINTING-Ccmmi
or res: satisfied customers oseI
* yrs. MR.. LAWRENCE. RE-. arcs
PAPERJNG, 5-rm., 4-story hall house
low IS So: own work; white reSa-
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- v ST. NV rooms. also bsmt.
apt; gentlemen preferred: references
REQUIRED. North 1883. 80
TV AND REFGR. in every room:
small single, $40 wk: double or
triple. Sl5-&1. 2I47 r, EX 0653.
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IN sealed cartons. 5-year guar
antee. $3.50.
We also carry other leading brands
at comparable low prices.
Standard Tire & Battery Co.
10th and H SITS. NE. oooo
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TET,EVISTON
- - : - - - ,-' = -
TELEVISION
SALE
A Few Samples

A Few Samples:
1. 1852 Tin cartonl, 11-in. mahog
table model famous make, top
quality set. Regular price. S299 %.
Just 90. now S215.95. Save SS5.
2. 1851 Motorola, 19-in. console. per-
feet cond.: mahog. cabinet Was
$4l9.95, now S1S9.95; demonstration
model. Just |.
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PIANO. upright. Aeolian; good cond-
dition; $55. Call OR. 1901, OWNER

PIANO, Knabe baby grand, mahogany
Call Jefferson 3-044S. 30
PIANO, Bramback apartment grand
excel. tone; $3.50. ia. 2-6563. 90"
PIANO, Hugo Worch, large upright,
new cond., $75. SH 1924. 1900
Evening star., 1952-12-31
This and That

broadly speaking, between Sixteenth and
U streets and Columbia road.
Oh, yes. there was an apartment on
the corner at U street, and HenderSon's
castle, and the red clay bluffs. and few
houses here and there.
Most of the buildings now seen had
never been dreamed up.
There were few Shanties on little
street to the west. up above the Castle
To the right or east, were broad fields
stretching away. in places, to Fourteenth
street, as Jones recalled.
You could get into the fields from Fiji
teenth street, just above st. Paul's Cath
olic Church.
The fields were profitable places. filled
with high weeds. in which there were
abundant blue flowers and fine yellow
spiders.
The spiders always intrigued our
young naturalist.
He liked the way they lurked. and the
way they ran.
Probably one has to be naturalist at
heart to like spiders. The black widow
spider, now such terror, fortunately
was unknown in those days.
Templeten Jones today wondered
where the black widow had been when
he was a small boy.
. There were no japanese beetles, either.
~ The virus. as an entity, was unknown.
= Probably what in those days was called
Evening star., 1952-12-31

Templeton Jones never passes McNdil-
Ian Park without recalling his youthful
days there.
high red clay banks.
The popular sport among the young
fry, ages to 10, was to climb up and
slide down.
A silly performance, no doubt, but
aren't many performances, at all ages,
rather on the silly side?
Viewed dispassionately. they fade into
the light of time, without leaving .
glow behind.
What makes life good. of course. is
precisely that we cannot view 1t dis
passionately.
At Christmastime, surely not even
the sternest pessimist would ask that
any one so do.
Templeton Jones, driving by the we'll
ordered park, with its high walls and its
evergreens. suddenly saw in memory 3
troop of youngsters busily running the
seats of their trousers.
They paid no heed to the red clay
about the reddist clay ever seen, unless
it was that over on the old "red lot"
in Georgetown, where Washington ado
lescents went to play baseball and foot
ball in season.
At that time, in the history OF the
National Capital, there was nothing,
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Probinq q Prober

The fact that Nevadas Senator Pat McCar-
ran admits accepting free rooms and free meals
while staying in Las Vegas hotel-gambling
casinos will not come as an earth-shaking sur
prise. And only those who are more than
normally naive will be shocked to learn that the
Senator has advocated changes in the gambling
tax law which would favor his gambling con-
atituents. After all, gambling is legal enter
prise In Nevada. And this is not the first time
nor will 1t be the last, that men in public life
have availed themselves of free bed and board.
In way, however, it is fortunate that this
particular spotlight was turned upon an influen-
tisl Senator. One shudders to think what would
have happened If, instead of Senator McCarran,
the free bed and boarder had been some under
ling in the State Department or perhaps secre-
tary at the White House. If such victim had
Evening star., 1952-12-31
By Charles E. TroceweN

''putrid sore throat" really was a strep-
tococcuS infection of some type.
The city at this time, so long ago, had
Just began to expand past its old boun-
diaries at Florida avenue.
Fourteenth street has struck its COM
mercial arrow as high as Fairmont street,
Jones recalled.
Above that, at least until almost to
Park road, there were no buildings ex-
cept individual homes and apartment
houses.
One of Templeton Jones' bitterest
childhood memories attached to that
long stretch down Fourteenth street from
Park road.
He was about . years old, bad age
and was going home with a bucket of
ice cream when gang of older boys
accosted him.
What you got there?" asked the bully
of the crowd.
"Nothin'." answered Temp Jones.
Looks like ice cream to me-" replied
his tormentor.
"No, it aint." said Jones, fighting
alone. It was the last time in his life
he ever tried to lie out of q predica-
ment, mainly for the good reason that
he found It never worked.
The boys conf1scated his paper bucket
Of ice cream. and went away whooping
and hollering to their feast In the broad.
vacant lots, leaving discounted Temp
Jones to plow his way home, Sadder
and wiser boy
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Examples of lnteqrution

"Inalienable RICHTER" has discussed
Negro revolt against continued segrega-
ton in our public schools as if it will
remain an academic abstraction. With
scholarly arguments and historical
quotes he condemns integrated public
schools as unconstitutional coercion and
invasion of States rights. If segrega-
tion in our public schools is to be sup
planted by obnoxious integration, he de-
nlands the change be effected by amend
ments to the Constitution.
Most of us in this quasi-Southern
community would prefer to let sleeping
dogs lie. No matter what happens as
the result of Negro minority challenge
of the separate but equal" 1896 ruling
of the Supreme Court in Plessy VS.. Fer
guson, disruptive changes will take place
in our archaic pattern of segregated
public schools. In a recent Review of
the Week." The Star realistically as
sumes some change is inevitable. Sob
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Shortening Congress- Work Year

Senator Taft is pursuing worthwhile OBJ
1ective, but one which it may be impossible or
impractical to achieve, in seeking to shorten the
work year of Congress-
Briefly, the Senator's proposal is that the
Congress should sit in non-election year-Such
as 1953-from January until July g. 1t would
then recess for the summer months, returning
about October for session running until early
December. In the following year, the session
would run from January through July, freeing
the members then for primary and election cam
paigns. The legislative schedule in general would
be to deal with appropriation measures and
must" bills in the first sitting, to clear up the
remainder of the years program in the autumn
session and begin work on the next appropriation
measures. With this head. start, the longer
meeting of the following year might suffice to
handle the legislative schedule without being
stretched into the campaign period
There is an obvious danger in attempting to
impose a rigid schedule upon Congress. The
Importance and quick changing nature of todays
problems of Government are such that the
presence of Congress in session may be required
beyond any arbitrary date, Senator Taft Is
aware of this, of course, and he would be one
of the last to suggest curtailing the response
bilites of the legislative body, 1t is true also,
that the very volume of work facing Congress has
q simple matter to assure its accomplishment
In reduced working period. The problem OF
dealing with the appropriation bills alone has
grown not only in terms of dollars but in the
variety and intricacy of the requirements for
these dollars. Serious consideration was given
in the last Congress to setting up permanent
technical committee to assist both branches and
both parties in anayzing supply bills in much
the same manner as the Joint Committee on
Internal Revenue Taxation now functions on tax
measures.
The virtue in shortening the congressional
sessions does not rest in tightening the work load
on the members; there would, in fact, be just
as much work but its consideration might be
expedited by deadline. Also, special committees
could use the recess periods for much of their
work. freeing them perhaps for more time on
the floor or in regular committees during the
sessions. There has been tendency, however,
without a deadline, to allow business to drag.
In election years particularly this has had bad
effect either in preventing members from at
tending to the perfectly proper job OF seeking
reelection or in high rate of absenteeism for
this purpose while important legislation is under
consideration.
On the whole, Senator Taft's proposal is
worth consideration although it's application
would necessarily have to be sufficiently flexible
to permit dealing with each years problems.
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Lots of Casualties in That Landslide
By Dovid A. Heller

IRON coast to coast and border to
Il border a melancholy group of Sen
ators and Representatives Is about to
descend on Washington for a last look
around and to crate personal belongings
for shipment back home. These are
the victims Of the upheaval that swept
Gen. Eisenhower in while sweeping out
so many others.
While the so-called lame duck" ses-
sion of Congress doesn't amount to
much any more. the term "lame duck"
still applies to those members who are
bowled over on November 4, but do not
officially relinquish Office until jan
uary 3.
The origin of the expression is OBJ
scure and disputed, but many sources
credit Abraham Lincoln with popular
izing lame duck" In memoirs of
Charles Sumner, Lincoln is quoted: "I
usually find that Senator or Repre-
sentative out of business is a sort of
lame duck. He has to be provided for"
Lincoln also is said to have chosen
John Parker Hale, defeated Senator
from New Hampshire, to be Minister
Of Spain "out Of general kindness and
good will to lame ducks"
The term as used in American pol
itics is believed to derive from dead
duck" first heard in English financial
circles several centuries ago. A member
Of the London Stock Exchange who
went bankrupt was designated by his
fellow spectators as a dead duck.
Gradually the phrase Tame duck" de-
noted a broker whose pocketbook was
only bent, not broken.
Americans used dead duck" in this
financial sense for a long time. In
1900, 1t was banded about in the JET
ferson-Burr presidential fracas and An
drew jackson referred to his arch en-
emy. Henry Clay, as a political dead
duck" Thomas Mast, the great po-
ntlcal cartooniSt who originated the
Democratic donkey and the Republican
elephant, caricatured President Andrew
johnson as dead duck.
1t was two decades ago, in 1888, that
lame ducks became such problem that
a special amendment to the Constitu-
ton was passed to deal with them.
AS the founding fathers framed the
Constitution, there were two sessions
of each Congress- including the short
or lame duck" session from December
l through March 4, starting on even
numbered years. This session usually
contained many members who had been
defeated at the polls the previous No
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Prohibition Again?

Item: "Fairmont Heights market oper-
ator ordered to surrender his alcoholic
beverage license temporarily because he
was convicted of selling whisky on Sun
day"
What is there about the manufacture,
sale or drinking of whisky on Sunday
that is wrong on Sunday and all right
on Monday or Saturday?
Prof. Sheehy of Catholic University
called the other day in your columns for
a national prohibition for duration of
Korean War. At this point let those who
start screaming at the mention of pro
hibition." show the rest of us in what
ways what we have now is better than
prohibition.
Repeal has not Cancelled the national
debt Repeal has not made us more
temperance conscious" Repeal has not
emptied our poorhouses. Repeal has not
lowered the crime rate.
How about it? Donald F. Haynes.
Evening star., 1952-12-31
December 81

IN later years, say "nineteen ftty-ttDo,"
To any of US tUhere iDho Watch 1t dte.
And ,pe ,0iU pause, and search our
memories through,
And one WiI think. That was the year
that
Met Jim, and one. That ,Das the year
Elaine
Was born, the same year iDe began to
build.
And one will think. Uith undiminis|tcd
pain,
That ,Das the year that Ken and Sam
tUere killed.
To each Of US tt iDds different year.
And yet to each Of US tt is the same
In the inpersonql symbols that appear
On printed pages, symbols that can
claim
No recognition sGUe by our intense
Recalling OF our own experience.
Jane Merchant
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Rather Lote-But Welcome Still

1t is too bad that Secretary Chapman's warn
Ing to President Truman on the serious financial
emergency facing Washington as the National
Capital comes so late, when both of them are
about to leave public office Had it come earlier
In his own administration of the Interior De-
partment followed up with some Of the aggres-
sive tactics the Secretary has displayed in other
areas, it might have done a lot of good.
Congress is primarily responsible, it is true,
for the disgraceful evasion, by the Federal Gov
ernment, Of its financial responsibility to the
Capital. This evasion, amounting to reputation,
has become progressively conspicuous during the
twenty years of Democratic administration. But
congressional policy in that connection as vigor-
ously opposed as it was by few men in Congress,
took its course largely because Of the lack of
effective leaderShip-and even ntereSt-from the
President and the executive branch of the Gov
ernment. The program for public works to be
presented by citizens of Washington at the new
session of Congress consists of public needs that
have accumulated as a result of reputation by
Congress of its just obligations to this city.
Mr.. Chapman does not exaggerate the seri-
business of the financial impasse" which is pro-
ducing a deterioration in public facilities in
Washington. AS private citizen, he will be
welcome to the ranks of WashingtonianS who
have prepared a constructive program to over
come this condition AS Mr.. Truman says, in
his reply to Mr.. Chapman's letter, There is not
very much that can do about it now
But great deal can and must be done to
persuade the incoming Republican administra-
tion to reverse a trend that has become so
evident under It's predecessors.
Evening star., 1952-12-31
Letters to The Star

erly, The Star asks: Given a decision
outlawing segregation, what happens?
Twice in my life have had oppor-
tunity to observe the effects of segrega-
tior. outlawed by higher authority. In
World War the pattern of segregation
was outlawed in treating sick and
wounded soldiers in our hospitals in
France. Race riots and refusal of white
soldiers to salute Negro officers had
preceded the command to integrate. 1t.
Col. Charles r. Luce, well known as a
family doctor in this city, effected the
integration without single untoward
incident. He simply told rebellious Sou
thern soldiers that the sick and wounded
had no color to their skins.
AS a commanding officer of field
hospital unit in New Guinea, observed
q repeat performance of integration
commanded by higher authority. There
hao been race riots in Brisbane. AUS
t"alia. We feared the worst in New
Guinea when complete abolition of seq
regation in our hospitals was COM
n;srded. I think what happened there
will be repeated in our voteless COM
nunity, when or if higher authority
commands integration of our public
schools.
A. the sick and wounded were evacu-
ateG to our hospital, they were admitted
in the identical order they voluntarily
presented themselves. They were sent
to the wards without regard to race.
But the Negro imposed a consistent pat
terr of voluntary racial grouping upon
themselves. They preferred, without
any coercion or guidance whatsoever, to
sleep together and eat together. Where
there was no mandatory segregation
there was nevertheless an inevitable
grouping of congenial association.
believe the same thing will happen
here. Schools serving areas which are
r,edominantly white or colored will re-
tam their present racial character. In
fringe areas, integration will be limited
and gradual. For most part these fringe
areas will represent former white COM
Munities slowly becoming inf1ltrated by
cclored residents. If such limited in
grafton is resented, then irreconcil-
ahles have the option Of residence in
community where common consent and
copcerted planning makes segregation
an acceptable and legal reality.
Thomas E. Mattingly, NJ. d.