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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Damascus 1852

high school faculty will spend the
Christmas holidays in Kennett
Square, Penna. Miss Patricia Mes
sick who has been doing her prac-
tice teaching at Damascus was
called to her home in Ridgely last
week because of the serious illness
of her father.
Mr.. Vernon Houts entertained
the members of his 18th grade
home room at an open house Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert S. Hyatt
entertained at an open house for
members of the high school fac
ulty and the executive board of
the P.T.A. Monday evening from
TO. I
Mrs. Richard Jackson of Chapel
Hill, N. C. was recent overnight
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Jones.
A grand and glorious time was
had by all the children and grown
ups too at the American Legion
Christmas party Thursday. One
Hundred Thirty children, the larg-
est number ever attended. The pro-
gram was given by the children
themselves including:-Jerby Hy-
att, trumpet solos; Dale Cline, Just
before Christmas I'm as Good as
l can be; Bobby and Cathy King,
acrobatic stunts; Linda Burdette,
The Night Before Christmas; and
Jeanne Linthicum, / Saw Mommy
kissing Santa Claus. Santa Claus
was present and gave to each child
a hand puppet, ball and jacks, a
yoyo, an airplane or a truck, and
nuts and candy. Ice cream and
cookies were served. The legion and
the ladies of its auxiliary are to
be congratulated for a splendid
community project.
Mrs. Maxwell Burdette had a
recital of all her students at her
home Tuesday evening for the par
ents of the children.
The 9Th and 9Th grade children
gave. Christmas program and
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ject from the standpoint of high
way construction and utility value
to the travelling public"
The sentiments of both the Roads
Commission and the Board of Nat
Ural Resources will be included in
a report to be made to the Mary
land General Assembly next month
by a special committee it set up to
study the proposal. The Planning
Commission also was represented
On the committee.
The Federal government wants
the state to buy about 1000 acres
along the canal and turn the land
over to the National Park Service
for the expressway. 80 ef "A
A bill to do this was pigeon
holed at the 1850 legislative ses-
sion.
Price Has Jumped
Estimated of the land cost once
werewere as low as million dollars
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Croydon Park Club
Christmas Party Held

The Croydon Park Homemakers
Club held their annual Christmas
party Monday night, December
18th. A Christmas tree, surrounded
by exchange gifts provided the
main decoration for games and re-
freshments.
Mrs. Everett Trumbo started the
Christmas fun by humming famil-
lar Christmas songs which every
one was supposed to guess. APP
propriately enough, the closing
game was "Musical Chairs" or
"Going to Jerusalem" with Mrs.
Kenneth Lane ringing bells to start
and stop the music.
Refreshments were served from
a table spread in Christmas dec
orations and colors, even as to, the
decorated cakes and candles. Mrs.
Kenneth Lane, Mrs. Mary Lane,
Mrs. Evelyn Firminger and Mrs.
Gail Kelly acted as hostesses.
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Date|ine Damascus
Mrs. Ulysses Griffith w Damascus 1852
Mrs. Ulysses Griffith Nv

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stipe and
Mrs. Carl Snapp attended the we'd
ding on Saturday of Miss Peggy
Brown to Mr.. Charles Ecker which
took place in Westminster.
Miss Eleanor Darby and Miss
Nora Lynch were dinner guests
Wednesday of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Stipe.
Mrs. Maude Driver is recuperat-
ing following a recent illness at
the home of her son Ralph in
Washington. Mrs. Carl Snapp and
Mrs. Aubrey Mullineau were lunch
con guests of Mrs. Driver We'd
nesday.
Damascus High School continued
it's successful basketball season
Friday by defeating Mt. Airy-the
Varsity score 51-44 and the Jay
wees 52-43.
Miss Nora Frances Lynch of the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Paul ID. Summers
Serving in Korea

First 1t. Paul D. Summers Jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Burke Sum-
mers of Rockville, is serving in
Korea with the 10th Infantry Di-
vision.
The unit landed in Korea early
this year after intensive training
in Japan. Originally California
National Guard Division, it was
called to active duty in 1850 and
has since been filled with men from
every state in the Union.
Lieutenant Summers, commander
of the 223rd Infantry Regiments
Company M, graduated from the
United States Military Academy at
West Point, N. Y, in 1851 and ar
rived in Korea last May.
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LAYTONSV|LLE and WOODF|ELD
Mrs. Ulysses Griffith w.
Damascus 1882 e

Mrs. Whites parents in Mt. Vernon,
N. Y.
The Woodfield Farm Bureau Dis
cussion Group met Thursday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Windham and enjoyed a pleasant
Christmas party.
Pvt. and Mrs. Floyd Rhinecker
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of twin daughters Mon
day Dec. 18th at Montgomery Gen
eral Hospital. Valinda Lee weigh
ed in at 5 lbs. II or. and Brenda
Marie at 5 lbs. 141a OF. PRIV.
Rhinecker is at present at Camp
Meade and will receive his dis
charge from the army any day now.
The Mary Green Evening Circle
met Tuesday at the church hall for
their Christmas party with Mrs.
Roland Ward and Mrs. Lansdale
Williams for hostesses.
Mrs. Ellsworth King and daugh-
ter Esther Mae spent Thursday
with Mrs. Roland Ward.
Seen home from college for the
holidays were Janet Wilcox, Joyce
Riggs, Ronald Kile, Mary Ann
Ward, and Charles White.
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049.31 in Fiscal 1852.
In a statistical report of local
taxes levied by the municipalities
in the County, the Director of FL
nance's report showed that the
Gaithersburg rate has climbed
from 45-cents per hundred to So
cents per hundred in ten years.
In Laytonsville for the same per-
iod from 10-cents to 25-cents;
Poolesville from 18-cents to 90
cents and in Rockville (1947 to
1882 from sc cents to 80 cents.
Washington Groves tax rate is
the same as it was in 1947-ten
cents per hundred. In 1913 and
1949, however, the rate there was
35-cents per hundred.
The report showed also that the
cost of operating the County gen.
eral government was 1864, $3.50
in Fiscal 1852 compared to $685.
663 in 1913. 1t cost the County
about $350,572 for public safety
in 1913 and $1,273,O04 for public
safety in Fiscal 1862. Highway
costs jumped from $2O9,945 in
1913 to $S20.959 in Fiscal '52.
Health and hospitals cost the
County $57,944 in Fiscal 1913 COM
pared to $780, 1908 in the past fiscal
period. Public Welfare which ran
$127,313 in 1943 was 339,473 in the
last year. 1t cost $1,176,552 to
operate County schools ten years
ago and $5,484,574 in Fiscal 1852.
Libraries in the County cost ST.
300 in 1943 and $209,0SS in the
Fiscal year just ended.
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but they now have jumped to three
or four million.
In return for this, the state would
get highway estimated to cost as
much as rs to 80 million. Whatever
the state decides to do, there seems
little chance the project will act
ually get under way any time soon.
]. Glenn Beall, Maryland's Sixth
District congressman and senator
elect, has been strong for it and
succeeded in getting an appropria-
tion for preliminary surveys and
engineering studies.
That is far as the government
has gone.
Montgomery, Ere d erick and
Washington County residents
particularly sportsmen's clubs -
have reacted strongest against the
idea from time to time. They con-
tend it would spoil the hunting and
fishing. Some Washington county
civic leaders contend a big indus
try would have located in their
area but went elsewhere because
it could not be sure of access to
the Potomac.
Cumberland and Allegany county
have been strong for the idea, say
ing it would be a great stimulus
to the tourist trade in Western
Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25

Laytonsville school was the scene
OF much activity for the two days
this week that school was in ses-
sion. Monday night the children
presented an interesting and most
worth while Christmas program
which was the eliminating activity
in a unit on which every child in
the school had worked. The facul =.
ty this year wanted to help the
children understand that Christmas
is and should be time of giving
as well as getting. Every child
worked to collect good used cloth
ing, and toys and to make new
toys all of which were on exhibit
Monday night and were then sent
on to the Christ Child Convalescent
Home for the use of the children
there. On Tuesday the children
enjoyed a good turkey dinner with
all the trimmings in the cafeteria
followed by Christmas parties in
each of the home rooms.
Miss Margaret Randolph will
spend the Christmas holidays with
her mother in Hendersonville, N. c..
Mr.. and Mrs. Vestus Wilcox will
entertain Mr.. and Mrs. John Lam
don Rose and Mr.. and Mrs. James
Ramsey at dinner on Christmas
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Griffith
and Mrs. William Warfield and
Mary will be Christmas dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Worthing-
ton Griffith of Middlebrook.
Mrs. E. H. Davis who recently
sold her farm near Etchison will
spend the Christmas holidays with
her sister and will then leave for
Florida to spend the rest of the
winter.
Mrs. Richard White and Karen
returned Sunday from visit with
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pageant at the school Monday eT
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Roelke'
Frederick entertained in honor,
their son, Robert Hyatt Roelk@
Bird birthday Sunday. Dinner CUES
included Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert HI
att, ST., Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Hyatt and Jerby, Mr.. and MI
Jerry Williams and Mr.. and MI
Roland Green and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Williams wi
entertain at a family dinner Chrid
mas day. Guests will be Mr.. al
Mrs. o. E. Williams, Mrs. O
Burdette, and Mr.. and Mrs. HID
bert S. Hyatt and Jerby.
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Roads
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Advisory Council covers a twelve
year span, because that period of
time will give US what we need
as rapidly as we can sensibly af-
ford to pay for it. You'll find in
a later article an explanation of
how we can pay for the job we
need done. At the moment let's
see how the plan provides for our
needs.
The plan proposes that we divide
the twelve-year overall program
into three periods of four years
each. In the first period have been
placed those projects with the
greatest urgency, improvements
which, for the most part, we ought
to have right now. In the second
period are projects that will have
just as great urgency by the time
we can build them. To the third
period have been allocated those
projects which, in the opinion of
experts trained to forecast traffic
trends, will be obvious necessities
well before we move into the ninth
year of the program.
Some of the projects overlap the
time boundaries of the four-year
periods. Take the case, for in
stance, of a road planned as an
eventual divided highway. In the
first four years one lane can be
built and the rights-of-way ac-
quired for the other lane. In the
second four years, if the traffic
trends are found to be following
the forecasts, the second lane can
be added for the full length called
for in the original plan.
That phrase, "if the raffic trends
are found to be following the fore
casts" is the clue to an important
part of the plan. The State Roads
Commission and the Advisory
Council have agreed that their plan
should have a built-in provision
against errors that might result
from looking too far ahead. There
fore the plan provides for periodic
review of the urgency of every
item, particularly those in the sec
ond and third four-year brackets.
If the need factors take on a diff
ferent pattern, if any project be-
come less imperative or more i'm
perative, it can be shifted from
on eperiod to another without
greatly affecting the final result.
We need plan to achieve that
final result. Whether we follow
precisely the plan now being Of
fered, or some modification of it.,
remains to be determined. But we
must have a plan-and it must
look far enough ahead to be a
realistic plan, not just an exped-
lent.
We need plan for the per-
fectly simple, and very human,
reason that we keep changing our
minds. Individually, we seem all
to be aware that our highway sys-
tenn is inadequate, unsafe, obsolete.
Evening star., 1952-12-09
Constantine Brown:

President elect Eisenhower
and the men who are to be his
principal cabinet members are
engaged aboard the cruiser Hell
ena in the formulation Of the
future foreign policies of the
United States.
During his three-day visit to
the Korean battlefields, Gen.
Eisenhower absorbed more facts,
atmosphere" and first-hand in
formation than could have been
given him by all the briefings
and confidential reports Of the
Joint Chiefs Of Staff.
But it is safe to conjecture
that while Gen. Eisenhower may
have acquired some definite
views of what to do to end the
present deadlock. he realizes
that the Korean problem is only
a part Of the general world crisis.
Mr.. Dulles had completed q
survey of world political con-
ditions before he was summoned
by the future Chief Executive.
He had known most of the
fundamentals for some time.
The State Department last week
added the last pertinent infor-
nation concerning the principal
hot spots in the world.
And since it is evident that
the u. s. 8. r. is waging a global
cold-hot war, no decisions in
the Asiatic crisis can be taken
without considering the posi-
bility of chain explosions in
other sections Of the world.
Smouldering fires in the
Middle East and North Africa
are among several of the i'm
mediate threats and could de-
velop as dangerously as Korea.
France has developed as short
sighted a policy toward the ris-
ing nationalism in Tunisia and
Morocco as the British in Iran,
Iraq and Egypt. There was a
time. no longer than a year ago,
when the French could have
prevented the present crisis by
certain concessions and intel
Evening star., 1952-12-09
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Ike churn toward Hawaii the Helena comforting with his
aides. This isn't q crlsade-nS an aquacade
Watching the hecoper and cruiser show of the
cabinet the Pacific committee revises its inaugural
planstheres always chance that Ike the
Potomac by schnorkel submarine
Now know why Ike didn't pick the usual Republican angels
to head his administration He needed the amphous knd-wh
water wings.
The Government thinks the Federal deficit be only IS
billion instead Of $40 billion That's the kind of good that
makes fellow cheer before brakas-and right
back to bed afterward.
CIO President Reuther and AFL President Meany plan unity
conference January They'll meet atmosphere of mutual
concessions side pooling its share of Taft.
State Department official arrested for being drunk while
carrying secret documents The moral that should
out while high in the councils of your Government
Queen Elizabeth orders that her coronation in should be
televsed AS fitting American for the show the British
would prefer digned ancient slightly threadbare
insttution-such the United States Treasury.
Evening star., 1952-12-09
Politics on the Generals Ship
Presence Of BrowneI Probably Means That Patronage
Shares Interest at Hieh-LeveI Talks on the Helena

Republicans generally sighed
and hoped this did not mean a
further renewal Of the Dewey
Taft feud which has so long
harassed the party. It does
appear, however, that Mr..
Brownell is still very much in
the picture as his presence in
Korea and Hawaii shows.
Meanwhile a Republican ma
tional chairman to take over
from Arthur Summerfield
when Mr.. Summerfield becomes
Postmaster General has still to
be named. There Is general
agreement that Wesley Roberts
Of Kansas will be the man.
But Mr.. Roberts cannot yet
move on patronage, and Mr..
Brownell is beside the throne
during these crucial days Of
planning for the Eisenhower
dQIululSCr6GlOQ,
Mr.. Brownell served Gov.
Dewey as national chairman,
and he knows the political
ropes. He can, in the gen.
erals spare moments, brief
him on the principal figures
of the party who don't run for
office but do its chores and COL
lect its funds. The chances
are that the new White House
assistants also with the Eisen-
hover encourage are getting
some Of the same briefing both
from Mr.. Brownell and Press
Secretary Hagerty, who learned
the facts of political life In
Dewey campaigns also.
Evening star., 1952-12-09

ceiling on the power to tax.
without a like ceiling on the
power to spend, could likely
result In larger and larger
deficits and grave financial
unsettlement. And the rigidity
of a constitutional amendment
would be a source Of danger In
possible future emergencies. /.
I'm other words. a prudent
and positive administration
should be able to approach the
goal which the Government
seeks without the difficulty
and dangers involved in the
adoption or continuing opera
ton of such an amendment to
our Constitution
This is timely warning.
Forty-three of the 48 State leg
islatures will meet in the COM
ing year. The proponents Of
the so-called ''millionaires'
amendment" have hoped to
make it their big year.
Evening star., 1952-12-09
Dorothy Thompson:
Police Actions ina Bygone Era
Hard to See Analogy Between the U MS Problem in Korea
And Britoins l50-Yeor Struggle on Indios Frontier

Victoria R. and Of Britons in
tropical helmets and on horse
back. in a thousand leafy
squares. before scores Of hand
some government houses. be-
side q hundred odd : n a m e d
rivers, where any Briton trod-
ding felt at home.
The empire was myth and
reality. sentiment and sentiment
tality. pride and prejudice. trade
and education. unity and di-
versity. debt and profit, honor
and hypocrisy. and it was all
British-the expression of one
people, in their time.
And in the hundred and fifty
years of that policing operation
on the northwest frontier-and
In many other places-r1ot one
single Briton was ever drafted.
The Royal Navy, the storied
regiments were all stated with
volunteers.
Can the U.N. raise from all
its populous states a police force
Of devoted volunteers?
If 1t cannot. the analogy falls
down.
Evening star., 1952-12-09
Donqer Shoulders in Mid-Eost
Eisenhower Must Consider Threats Of Rising NotonoIs
As Result of Shorsehted French and British Policies

there is imminent danger Of
a full-scale uprising in North
Africa. and France. with her
hands full in Indo- China. may
have to make further military
efforts to keep the North
African protectorates under her
control. This will further re-
duce the efforts Of that coun.
try to meet her already much
delayed NATO commitments
and weaken that coalition.
The situation in Egypt and
in the Middle East Is still far
from improving. The bloodless
revolution last summer in
Egypt, where Gen. Naguib
overthrew King Farouk and
established a personal regime.
was expected to bring an i'm
provement of British Egyptian
relations. Unfortunately for
the free world, the British
government seems no more in
clined to adopt a conciliatory
policy toward the question Of
the Sudan than it did when
Farouk's corrupt government
was in power. Gen. Naguib
knows that If he made con-
cessions which would offend
Egypt's nationalism, he would
share the fate Of other "strong
men" in the Near and Middle
East and would lose not only
his grip but also his life.
An anti-British sentiment
which has now become anti
Westerns raging throughout
the Middle East from Iran to
Iraq and the Atlantic Ocean.
Muscovite agents are every
where. They are melting these
nationalists not only by propa-
ganda against the Western
nations, which have so far
committed only blunders, but
also are helping them with arms
and advice.
These are some of the con-
siderations which Gen. Eisen-
hover must take into account
in the formulation Of foreign
policies for the next four years.
Evening star., 1952-12-09
Dorothy Thompson:

At q press luncheon in honor
Of Anthony Eden. during his
recent visit here, the British
Foreign Secretary remarked,
apropos American impatience
with Korea, that Britain had
fought indecisive actions on the
northwest frontier of India for
$50 years, without either quit
ting or enlarging the war.
It occurred to me that any
comparison between Britain in
India and the United States in
Korea must omit the most tell
ing factors. ,
In those $50 years India was
the brightest jewel in the British
diadern. The empire was British.
Tommy Atkins. somewhere east
Of Suez." was not preserving law
and order for some fifty-odd
states. but preserving and ex-
tending the world power and
prestige of his own Land Of
Hope and Glory"
The empire was visible in
great festivals, when a sover-
eign died or was crowned, and
regiments Of dark-faced men
paraded the mall in gorgeous
uniforms, and Amirs and Ma
harajahs of fabulous report paid
respect to a tiny island, thou
sands of miles from the teem-
ing countries from which they
came.
The empire was the world
a quarter of its area, nearly q
fifth of its people: Britons
colonized in America. Africa, the
Pacific. It was men of nearly
every race, ruled by q few thou
sand British civil servants. ex-
ercising only yelled force, gov.
erning-it now seems-by an
almost mystical authority.
That authority was accepted
as a law Of nature. It was the
white mans burden, carrying
liberty and law" carrying mis-
sion schools and hospitals to the
heathen, and Mother Hubbards
(of Lancashire cotton) to Ewes
who had never met the serpent;
carrying plumbing, medicine.
Evening star., 1952-12-09

teachers, chemicals and engines;
bringing back silk and rubber,
oil and tin. silver and gold.
The empire was profit: Cheap
food and raw materials for a
people Of inadequate home re-
sources, and privileged markets
for their manufactures.
It was the pound sterling gov
erning the worlds money mar
kets.
Some part of 1t went into
every workman'S pay packet,
and it cleaned on the throat or
wrist Of every English beauty
in Claridge's.
The empire was lure to the
adventurous. the training ground
Of the martial, the attraction Of
the uplifter, the protection Of
the explorer, the Joy of the
novelist. the magnet of the
archeologist and anthropologist
and the rehabilitation camp Of
Britain's prodigal sons.
The empire was young men
from Eton and Harrow, Oxford
and Cambridge, austerely
trained for leadership - and
learning half a dozen outlandish
tongues. It was immense erudi-
ton. thousands of volumes on
geography, languages, religions,
history. tribal customs and art
on British museum shelves. Ii
was thousands of incoaspicuous
men knowing a great deal about
a great many things.
The empire was legend. It
was Rhodes and Give, Warren
Hastings (and Burke denounc-
ing him), Wellesley and Kitch-
ener. It was Kipling adoring
1t and praying the Lord God Of
Hosts for mercy. ''lest we for
get" It was pride and re-
sponsibility. arrogance and
gentleness. nobility and cruelty.
It was the chivalrous Gordon,
dying in Khartoum; General
Dyer nnassacring natives in
Amritsar, and Lord Halifax
kneeling and praying with
Gandhi.
The empire was statues OF