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BrowneII on Schools
James A. Howard.

trust that the members Of the
Montgomery County Council and the
new County Manager took note of the
October 18 speech by the Attorney
General of the United States at New
Haven, Conn. 1t is to be hoped that
what Mr. Brownell had to say about the
wisdom of meeting school needs with
adequate funds will be kept in mind
when next years county school budget
is being considered. He said:
I'VE hear people today complain that
local taxes are too heavy q burden, and
one of the first targets of the mall
contents is the local school system.
They object to the gymnasium, the
elaborate laboratories for the classes
in chemistry. and other parts of the
plant which they would like to call
window dressing.
Actually, the expenditures for
schools are but minor part of the
appropriations by the cities and towns
of the United States. The good that
comes from them far outweighs all
other expenditures.
Expenditures for teachers salaries
are low in comparison with the value
obtained. It. shocked me, indeed, to
read recently some of the statistics on
teachers salaries prepared by the De-
partment OF Health, Education and
Welfare. We pay messengers in the De-
partment of Justice more per year than
a goodly number of our trained
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dict, so free from any political bias: 1T
is just as had heard. felt fine face
and a gentle smile. felt the courage
and the thought that had carried him
through such great moments in the
worlds history" And so, after feel
ing" the Presidents smile, Helen Kel-
Ter went out from the White House, to
go on for all the beautiful years that
may stretch ahead, to practice what
she declared is the secret of her ap-
parent perpetual youth: ITO keep one
self occupied with fresh interests"
It is good and Salutary for this weary
world with its bombarding problems,
its hopes deferred, its rainbows ruined,
with its chickering's and suspicious, to
be reminded that all is not lost as long
as men can smile and as long as other
men can feel that smile
There are two things which must be
labeled contagious: A frown and
smile. An old ballad which echoes
from the childhood days of some of us
has to do with Sweet Alice" and Ben
Bolt" Ben was reminded of his early
love, with hair so brown, who "wept
with delight when you gave her a smile
and trembled with fear at your frown."
OF course, there are smiles and smiles.
There are sardonic smiles that laugh
at people, instead of with them as
healing smiles always do. The great
Shakespeare warns us that lone may
smile and smile, and be william; there's
daggers in mems smiles" But he also
declares: There are smiles which cure
the wounding of frown"
The multitudes who read Dickens
Christmas Carol" as Christmas comes
in sight again, will be reminded of a
perpetual smile which means little
one way or another. That deathless
Yuletide story has In it this snapshot
of a certain woman: "On came Mrs.
Fezziwig, one vast, substantial smile"
However. the sort of a smile that can
be felt is forever mirrored in an item
printed in one of the leading Boston
newspapers. 1t was during the years
of Phillips Brooks glorious ministry In
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Dr.. PercivoI Hall

It is difficult to think of DR.. Percival Hall
as gone from this world He was so much alive,
so enthusiastic about living, so anxious and
willing to help others to live that it seems in
credible that his career has ended. Up to few
days ago he was as vigorous and active Of mind
as most men half his age. Even cruel physical
suffering did not defeat his brave spirit. He was
cheerful, uncomplaining, philoSophic until the
last.
Washington was DR.. Halls home except
for the few years he spent at Harvard and
teaching in New York A son of great and
famous astronomer he might have followed
his father into the celestial branch of science.
For while he planned to be an engineer. Then
he decided to make profession Of mathematics.
young friend interested him in the problems
of inStructing the deaf and the partially deaf
He joined the faculty of Gallaudet College in
1895, became its president in 1910, became
president emeritus in 1945.
But it was not as skilled administrator
merely that DR.. Hall served the only institution
of higher learning for those Americans handi-
capped by defective hearing. He remained a
teacher for half century, conducting classes
in business law as well as in arithmetic algebra
and geometry Coincidentally he wrote innu-
merable articles for the press on his specialtieS
lectured from coast to coast, appeared re-
peatedly before congressional committees, was
q public-Spirited citizen and faithful Uni
tartan church official.
Such personality is not lost by accident
Of death. The influence of Dr. Hall will continue
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Assurances to Canada

President Eisenhower offered some friendly
but important assurances to Canada in his
address before the Canadian Parliament at
Ottawa.
Looking into the future relationship be-
tween the two countries, the Chief Executive
emphasized three points. The first containing
q reiteration of his own philosophy that there
must be further expansion and freeing of inter-
national trade, was that the existing economic
problems between Canada and the United
States will be "harmonized" and their solution
advanced through the recent creation of the
Joint Economic Board. TO Canada, our biggest
customer but also an important supplier of
essential raw materials, this prediction has
timely significance in the face of the Domin-
ions current trade deficit of nearly 81 billion
yearly with the United States. The second was
his assertion that "joint development of the
st. Lawrence-Great Lakes Waterway is inevita-
ble-iS sure and certain" Reluctantly Canada
has been prepared to go ahead with the water
way project alone although frankly hopeful
that 1t would become joint enterprise. The
President cited both security and economic
reasons why he feels our own participation Is
desirable His third assurance was that the
two countries "can and will devise ways to
protect our North America from any surprise
attack by air" Since Canada lies across the
shortest path Of any air attack from Russia
upon CnlS contlnenC THIS conndently expressed
promise must be meaningful and comforting
to the Dominion.
There are differences, of course, between
words and deeds. The problem of balancing
the trade between two nations cannot be solved
by simple decree but the first step toward its
accomplishment is the will to do it and the
President has expressed that desire. AS for the
q waterway project, powerful interests have
opposed it for years and probably will continue
to do so. Still, the resolute support of the
administration is strong factor and the Pres
ident was unqualified in his expressed convic-
ton. With respect to security Of the air, the
powers of attack and defense are constantly
shifting as new weapons of destruction are
perfected by friends and enemies. There is no
apparent reason however, why the great
resources of Canada and the United States
cannot be employed jointly to provide rea-
sonable guarantee of safety.
Beyond these specific assurances, the good
neighborly atmosphere surrounding the Eisen-
hover visit adds in itself to the prospects for
continued and increased Canadian-American
solidarity.
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Spires Of the Spirit
Feeling q Smile

The White House recently was the
setting for fascinating scene which
is, indeed an effective antidote for the
callous cynicism which poisons so much
of our contemporary life. If there is
one person walking the earth whose
faith has removed mountains, it is
soundlesS and sightless Helen Keller.
She has climbed the Himalayas of
handicaps Her fabulous story is one
for the ages. Across the years her
emancipation has been star of hope
for the physically disinherited
It is long time now since her won-
derful companion, interpreter and
guide, Anne Sullivan. after many fu-
tile attempts to open the closed doors
of the senses, felt the first slight re-
sponse to her signals indicating that
hinges had begun to move. Said that
yictoriously smiling teacher: II looked
into the beautiful unseeing eyes of
little Helen Keller. and I saw soul
a-borning." From that never-to-be
forgotten day, that valiant little lady,
through grade school, high school and,
finally, Radcliffe College, needed with
increasing wonder and delight the in
junction Of her mentor. "Open the
doorS!" Now past threeScore- -and-ten,
radiant Helen Keller is justly world ia
nous, and all the earth is hers and the
opulence of the ages. Out of that stale,
SoundleSS, SightleSS existence she has
come into magnificently melodious,
colorful, fragrant life. Emerging from
dark cavern of mere existence, she
has been led into boundless realms
co cY,1nT1did1xy cixyo thot most Y1n0r-
tails, even though amply endowed,
would find it difficult to comprehend
such divine dimensions.
Here, in these times of world con-
fusion, is life still going on conquer
ing and to conquer. whose epic achieve
ment, entitled, 1.-THE Adventures Of
Helen Keller" is worthy to be put
alongside of the Arabian Nights" and
"Alice in Wonderland"
X
What an electric moment when she
stood before the man upon whose
shoulders rest the gravest responsible
tiles and the heaviest burdens which
any servant of humanity IN all the
world is called upon to assume in these
battling days - the President of the
United States. She had been told of
the Eisenhower smile. She wanted to
see that smile for herself It must be
made real through her sensitive hands
which have been the channel for the
rich argosies entering her now wealthy
personality. "Mr. President, may touch
your face and feel the wonderful smile
have heard so much about?" she asks.
The ready reply, of course, was in the
affirmative. Then those unprejudiced
hands explored the presidential fea-
lures. There came the emphatic ver-
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Our Most Urqent Problem

Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey has
laid the cards clearly on the table in estimating
the 1855 fiscal year deficit at between So and $9
billion It is an estimate based upon the con-
tinuance of Government spending at the present
rate and the reduction in tax revenues as now
scheduled by law. In the face of this estimate,
he offers four alternatives on which decision
may be simple to state but terribly hard TO
accomplish"
The alternatives are: CD To accept the
projected deficit, (2) to cut expenses, (3) to
raise additional tax revenue, (4) to ind
formula combining the three others.
It is unlikely that the administration will
choose to accept" the projected deficit. In its
first shot at the Federal budget, the administra-
ton has succeeded in cutting the prospective
deficit for the current fiscal year from more
than $11 billion to less than So billion 1t has
made clear its determined desire to end indeh-
mite deficit financing, which Mr.. Humphrey said
correctly in his Detroit speech spurs the
forces of imitation and eventually cheats every
family In the Nation"
But the cutting of expenses is not simple
task and the employment of this alternative
alone might seriously endanger the national
security The costs of building and maintaining
an adequate defense establishment and ex-
tending what is considered to be essential
ala 10 our allies OFSISSdS w hAoAS
than two-thirds of the budgeted expenditures,
ANY reduction must be selective and be de-
termined with care. BY itself, under these
conditions, it hardly could wipe out an $8-bilion
deficit.
The tax problem is equally perplexing. In
Mr. Humphreys words, "the reduction OF taxes
is determined purpose of this administration. "
But SIS billion of annual revenue is due to expire
on December 81 when the excess profits tax
ends and indiyidual income tax rates are due
to drop by 10 per cent The whole field of taxa
ton is being studied now by congressional and
departmental experts. It is almost foregone
conclusion that the administration will recon-
mend legislation calculated to bring additional
tax revenue But again, by ITSELF this probably
will not be enough to wipe out an $8-billion
deficit.
So the answer appears to lie in Mr.. Hum
phrey'S fourth alternatives combination OF
all the others-continuanc of deficit financing
into the next fiscal year, further trimming
of Government expenditures through care
fully selective process, and an increase in tax
revenues through other means than the excess
profits tax and the present high individual
income tax rates. Short of war, no greater or
more complex problem faces President Eisen-
hover and his administration. Mr.. Humphrey
has done a service in stating the problem
frankly.
The modern breakfast might have been all
right to keep grandpaw from getting too hungry
before breakfast
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Featured in The Star of November s,
1903 was an article originating at
Bristol, Tenn, and setting
Wentz forth that: Edward L.
Mystery Wentz, the young Philadel-
phia millionaire, who mys-
teriously disappeared from his home
at Big Stone Gap, Va, October IA, is
still alive and a captive in the Cumber-
land Mountains. A letter has just been
received from him addressed to his
parents, in which he says that he is
well and asks that the ransom of
100000 demanded by his captors be
at once paid, so that he can get his
freedom" DR.. John S. Wentz, father
of the missing man, had indicated
that he was willing to negotiate.
On October 81, 1903, The Star re-
produced an editorial article from the
Girl ing in part: In no par
Editorial ticular has our social
and domestic machinery
shown more serious deterioration than
in the processes by which the girl has
been eliminated from the scheme. One
:
rarely meets today the girl who half
a century ago was factor in the
home, both potent and beautiful. AS
to whether the change which has given
us the young woman with a wide
knowledge of affairs and liberal edu-
cation on subjects that were kept out
of her grandmother's reach until after
she was of age is change for the
better there may be more than one
opinion. Once in her teens. the mod
ern girl lays aside many Of the time
honored attributes of girlhood. In the
category of these relinquished charac-
teristics there are unfortunately many
sweet and compelling charms which.
while they may have served no very
practical end. gave girlhood an aureole
Of sanctity, hedging about that mystic
age between the quiet Of seclusion and
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Modernizine Smithsonian
Athenian.

The proposed new addition to the
Smithsonian Is not an example of Com
ist-inf1uenced design. In the March
issue of Progressive Architecture, 1858,
an article by T. H. Creighton reveals
the architecture behind the Iron Cur
tain as being completely bound by ira
dition Communist thought does not
allow for any change in the humans
which they consider to be machines.
In this country where man is expected
to express himself. it is contradictory
to express that which is only tradition
al. 1t IS appropriate to reflect here
Thomas A. Edisons warning that tech
nological advancement without corre-
spending cultural progress spells the
end of our civilization. The architec-
ture of the Mall is not an express
sion of the degree of our technolog-
ical advance today. It is not an ex-
preston of the social advance made by
the founders of this country, for that
matter. 1t is an expression of the
Greek and Roman stage of develop
ment.
John d. Winters.
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teachers get in some parts of our
country.
"We at the United States Department
Of Justice have an official concern in
the improvement of schools and
teacher training in this country. For
our school teachers are one of the bull
warks against the rising tide of juvenile
delinquency"
trust the Attorney Generals re-
marks will not be characterized as
propaganda" by the Montgomery
County Taxpayers Association and
other "malcontents" who seem to feel
that penny -pinching at the expense of
school children and teachers is sound
economy.
Athenian.
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BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States Senate.

that city. And this is what it said:
"It was gray and gloomy day yes
terday, lowering clouds and drizzling
rain all day. But Phillip Brooks
walked down Newspaper Row, bowing
and smiling to his many friends. and
the day was all sunshine" That smile
was felt then and across the years.
Truly this is q day in which both
frowns and smiles can be felt. When
we least expect it we are touching and
affecting other lives all the while. We
assume that we are singing or sobbing,
smiling or frowning to ourselves; but
always we have an unseen audience, we
are on the air. It does make tre-
mendous difference what kind Of pro-
gram we are sending out. We frown,
and we broadcast frownS; we put them
into the very air, where they can be
felt. We are cynical, and we become
broadcasting stations for cynicism, and
that poison eats like canker. There
is a sneer in our heart and our sneer.
smears other lives; we put sneers into
the very atmosphere. We smile and
the world smiles with us. We wall
and the woe we broadcast shadows
other lives.
This is plea for little less smear
ing and little more cheering. For, day
by day. hour by hour. we are on the air.
Sometimes the static of what we are
browns out, alas, what we say But
waves and vibrations, perhaps finding
their best incarnation in a smile, go
out from us, and life is bigger and
brighter and more beautiful because of
them; or else it is more hopeless and
difficult for somebody who has looked
in vain to us for smile of reinsurance
and of courage.
Helen Keller was speaking for multi
tudes who reach out their hands in
today's darkness, cropping to feel a
smile. And may we say. with no political
implications whatever, for Americas
sake, for our Nations sake, for the
worlds sake, let us do our part to keep
the smile where Helen Keller found 1t!
We do not give our Presidents half
chance. AS we sit in the cushioned seats
of the scornful, knowing so little of the
awful, lonely weight that is upon them,
we demand the impossible
The smile that Helen Keller felt is a
smile of belief in America, smile that
comes from the conviction that because
of her moral and ethical strength she is
invincible in this world crisis. Main
tanning our democratic right for con-
structive criticism and informed ap-
praisals. nevertheless let none by un-
heedingly hurting the cynic's ban be
party to changing that smile of con-
fident hope into an expression of
disillusionment and despair. In her
direct crisis, our dear land desperately
needs smiles of hope and courage
which can be felt by cropping hands.
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to be force for good far into the future. He
will be remembered as benefactor not only
of the deaf but of humanity at large.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Civic Commendution

AS I leave Office as president of the
Deanwood Civic Association, I take this
opportunity to commend The Star for
its civic interest in our city, and also
for it's high standard of news reporting.
Being the recipient of your silver Cup
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Letters to The Star
Pen-7aGn1eS may be used If letters carry
aOriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

of Achievement in 1852 for outstanding
civic work, the Deanwood Civic AS
sociation in aspiring to achieve other
awards first praises The Star for this
very noble gesture. Nothing could be
more expressive of civic concern.
Our thanks for reporting our civic
events. May you continue in your demo-
cratic actions
James A. Howard.
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Northwest Branch of the Ana
costa River.
Meanwhile, the Mount Rainier
Town Council has taken note Of
the large vote favoring it and is
preparing to ask the State Legis-
lature for the subdivision, &C
cording to Mayor Herbert w,
Reichelt of Mount Rainier. The
Landhardt area and Mount
Rainier are contiguous along a
brief stretch of the Northwest
Branch.
Chairman of the Residents
Committee, which conducted the
informal poll. is Donald E. Miller,
5035 Thirty-sixth place, an adj
dress listed as being in West Hy-
attsville. Mr.. Miller said group
to be known as the Landhart
Civic Association is being formed
this week.
In his opinion, many residents
who favor joining Mount Rainier
do so for tax rate reasons. 9th
ers, he said, feel the municipal
services to be gained by affilia-
ton with the town would be as
good or better than they could
get elsewhere. n
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Suspended Sentence
Given in Morals Case

A Potomac (Md.) man, accused
of molesting young girls at the
Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School. pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault yesterday and
was given a general suspended
sentence by Trial Magistrate
Oscar j. See in Montgomery
County police court at Bethesda.
He was Roberts c. Griffith, 33,
of Backyard road, who told the
court he was an air-conditioning
subcontractor. Griffith is the
father of two children.
According to county police,
Griffith molested a number OF
girls in the halls of the high
school when he was there on
business last February 10. Police
said they watched his home for
three weeks in an attempt to ap-
prehend him and finally did so
on March 6.
Detective Sergt. Ed Barber said
Griffith had a record of indecent
exposure, disorderly conduct and
assault going back to 1887. Sergt.
Barber said he had been arrested
Is times, including once for
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny.
Griffith told the court he pre-
viously had gone to a psychia-
trist but had cut short his treat
mentS.
Judge See, in giving the gen.
eral suspended sentence, ordered
Griffith to continue treatment,
which was recently resumed, and
report to the court once a month.
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Light Load in Prospect
For County Grand Jury

The Montgomery County Cir
cult Court March-term grand
jury got under way yesterday.
with an anticipated light load
Of cases to be presented to it.
Frank P. Jenkins, president
Of the Rockville Fuel e. Feed Co.,
is foreman. The other 20 grand
jurors were selected. yesterday.
States Attorney Walter w.
Dawson said he expects to pre-
sent some 40 cases to the grand
jury for its consideration. The
jury is expected to complete ito
work by Thursday. 2
Grand jurors selected were Ida
D. McCeney. Geraldine B. Ryer+
son. Oliver w. Youngblood. Ed
ward A. Osborn, Harold A.
Brooks, Frederick G. Harting. jr..
Jennie c. Fulton. &
Also, Anna L. Thrift, Janet w.
Bell. Lloyd W. Burdette. Law
renee H. Reed, w. Paul Benson.
Augustus w. Lee. Welsey D..
Shaffer, John E. Pollock.
Also, Andria Conklin, Jessie
E. Clark, Clarence E. Painter.
John B. Nutter, j. Everett Shri-
der. Aubrey NJ. Green and John
p. HORNE. 3
On the bench were Chief Judge.
Charles w. woodward and Judge
Stedman Prescott. :
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Poston Given 80 Days
In Schoolgirl Case

John w. Poston, 37-year-old
physical education teacher, yes
terday was sentenced to 80 days
for simple assault in a case in
volving an 8-year-old girl, a
student at the Riverdale (Md.)
Elementary School, where he was
employed.
A second charge of carnal
knowledge was dismissed by
Judge Theodore L. Manga in
Hyattsville Trial Magistrates
Court. Poston was released under
$500 bond, pending an appeal.
Poston, a University of Mary
land graduate and an active
sports promoter locally, was
charged on February "a with
having molested the little girl
in his basement Office at the
school. At yesterdays hearing
he denied having done anything
but pick the child up.
William S. Schmidt, Prince
Georges County school superin-
tendent, yesterday said Poston's
suspension as a teacher at the
Riverdale school will be con-
tinued until the final outcome of
the charge Is known.