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Evening star., 1953-11-11
Maryland PTA
ToConsider
Five Proposals
470 LocuI Units
| Meet Tomorrow
In Baltimore
BY the Associuted Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 11.-Mary-
lands Congress of Parents and
Teachers will be asked tomorrow
to adopt a campaign for new
laws to:
/. Create separate State
agency to handle the problems
of juvenile delinquency.
2. Increase the salaries Of
county school superintendents.
who were passed over when
higher salaries were provided for
teachers by the General AS
sembly last winter.
3 Expand driver training
courses in the high schools.
4. Increase State aid to IL
brarieS.
5. Expand Federal aid to
schools in districts which have
been swamped because thev are
close to military posts and other
Federal installations.
Mrs. Cook Is Chairman.
The proposals are embodied in
a program drawn up by the
Maryland PTA'S Legislative Com
mittee, headed by Mrs. Stanley
G. Cook of Indian Head.
She will submit it tomorrow
at the opening of the annual
convention. Delegates from 472
local units, representing almost
100000 PTA members in the
State. will consider it during the
convention and vote on it FRI
day.
Mrs. Cook and her group also
have marked for emphasis a
plea for Stricter enforcement Of
the State law on the overload
ing of school buses. They also
will ask for a review of the reg
ulation the State Department
of Education has on teachers
smoking in and around schools.
The proposed legislative pro-
gram is set forth in a report
which covers a score of subjects
from the intricate equalization
formula for State aid for schools
to foluridation of public water
supplies to prevent tooth decay.
Teacher Pay Stand.
The Legislative Committee re-
iterateS belief Maryland's pub
lie school teachers should get at
least $4,000 a year to start and
rise in 10 years to minimum
salary of $4,000.
The present scale starts at
$4,000 The range will jump to
$2,800-$4,600 in two years under
/ legislation already enacted.
In its study of the juvenile
delinquency problem, Mrs. Cook s
group agreed with the, Sobeloff
Commission on Administrative
Organization of the State:
Maryland needs a separate
agency to handle youngsters in
trouble with the law.
The PTA group did not take
sides in the current controversy
over, whether this should be a
new and independent agency OF
separate division of the De-
partment of Public Welfare.
1t was suggested the juvenile
court system in Montgomery
County should be studied as a
model for Statewide applica-
ton.
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Fires in Classroom
At Hine Investigated
By Juvenile Squad

Members of the juvenile squad
today were investigating a series
of small but persistent fires in
an ungraded social adjustment
classroom at Hine Junior High
School, Seventh and c streets
Sc.
Fire inspectors said the latest
blaze caused about 5000 damage
yesterday in a closet off the
classroom which contained books
and other school supplies.
Extinguished by Teacher.
The flames apparently had
been started with a match.
They were extinguished by
Ernest Summerville, teacher of
the adjustment class.
Eight boys ranging in age
from 13 to Is have been sum-
moned to a conference Satur-
day at juvenile squad headquar-
ters with their parents, school
officials and representatives of
the Fire Department.
One boy being questioned was
reported to have told an in
vestigator from the fire mar
shalS office: II can't answer
your questions until I consult
my psychiatrist."
This answer stalled that phase
of the inquiry, and was one of
the reasons that the conference
was called.
Is Recent Fires There.
About Is petty but potentially
dangerous fires have occurred
in and near the classroom in
recent months, police were told.
Some were the result of paper
gllQerS Wnlcn were set aDlaZe
before they were launched. One
of the fires was in a classroom
desk.
Meanwhile juvenile squad
members arrested two pupils of
Hine Junior High School on
charges of housebreaking.
Both boys, IA and is, are &C
cused of entering the school on
October 20 and again last
Saturday. Police said they had
nothing to do with setting the
fires.
Each boy. investigators said,
accused the other of suggesting
that they break into the school.
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Buzuur Is PIunned
At Episcopal Church

A white elephant sale and
Christmas shopping items will be
featured at a bazaar and dinner
tomorrow and Friday in the
parish hall of the Episcopal
Church of Our Saviour, Sixteenth
and Irving streets N. E.
The bazaar will be from $3.50 to
served at S am. each day.
| Served>at 5 pm. each day.
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Episcopal Bishops DepIore
Accusations by Hearsay'
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Nov.
1.-THE House of Bishops of
the Episcopal Church yesterday
deplored trial by uninformed
public opinion (and accusations
by hearsay the kind of
threat that Is too prevalent
today"
1--WE are for fairness and JUS
tice as a part both of Christian
ity and of our democratic way
Of life, the bishops asserted.
These statements were made
earlier yesterday by the Rt. Rev.
Henry Knox Sheriff., presiding
bishop of the church, and then
were adopted unanimously by
the bishops as an official ex-
preston. i
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Mrs. Irene Pancoast
Appointed 10 Succeed
West as Judge Jan. |

Mrs. Irene L. Pancoast has
been appointed judge of the
Alexandria Juvenile and Domes-
tic Relations Court, effective
January l..
Her appointment was made
yesterday by the four judges OF
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Eastern High Honored

Punch and Judy, Eastern High
School yearbook. has won an ALL
American honor rating in the
National Scholastic Press AsSo-
ciation's annual competition.
This is the fifth year the school
has won the award. 1
Evening star., 1953-11-11
CuyuIrY Veterans Meet

Former members of the 306th
Cavalry Regiment who served in
World War I will be the guests
at the Armistice Day meeting Of
the 306th Armored Cavalry
Group at 8 o'clock tonight at
213l G street NV.
Evening star., 1953-11-11
JuYcee Leaders Meet

The National Executive Com
mittee of the United States
Junior Chamber of Commerce
will begin four-day meeting in
Washington tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Norwich Alumni Meeting

The Norwich University Alumni
Club will hold its fall dinner
meeting at $50 pm. tomorrow
in the Army-Navy Club, Seven
teenth and I streets NV.
y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
Tuminq the Bureuucruts.

President EiSenhowers administra-
ton has found that % Government
job is privilege and 90 that the en-
ployes in the control agencies are no
longer needed. This was followed by an
announcement Of freeze on employ
ment.
Thus have the first steps been taken
in the tanning Of the bureaucrats. This
is general program that will have to
be carried through before our Govern
ment begins once again to function In
the way our constitutional documents
intended it should. In recent years the
executive was prisoner Of the bureauc-
racy to about the same degree that
the legislative was prisoner of the
executive. The judiciary. as well,
seemed. after long period Of Demo-
cratic control, to have acquired bu-
reaucratic coloration.
would suggest that the great issue
before this administration is whether
it can conquer the bureaucracy. /. e.,
make 1t conscientiouSly responsive to
the legislative and executive policies
that are laid down. Congress over the
last IL years has been almost wholly
disregarded by the administrative agen-
cies on our foreign policies. Decisions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
BY Charles E. Trocewen

selected and donned. The mother says,
It's good day for a warmer shirt,
with cold winds blowing A simple,
kindly suggestion. The retort, Well,
what of it? prefer this one
They are always saying there's
nothing to do. But at their disposal
are numerous things of interest. Most
Of the time they are so busy wearing
the defense against binders that they
can't see the answer to their own
whims.
To me. teen-agerS are like the half
way mark Of the ugly duckling into the
swan stage. Sometimes its pretty tough
waiting for the swan. Remember this,
please. dear conceited darlings.
Yours truly, B. B.
PSI bet last nights letter from
Margaret gives many q parent a
chuckle. Just little catbird who has
her feathers blown bit out of place.
Maybe her conscience spurred her on to
bit Of defense against answer"
This column would like to suggest
that the term ''teen-ager" be abolished.
It is an ugly word, or combination of
syllables.
It means nothing that '.girl" or boy
does not suggest, and carries with it
several connotations now neither help
full to parents, their children or others.
@Teen-ager" has served its usefulness.
Let's get back to boy. or girl, or
youth.
Youth Is q mighty fine thing to have
and the kids have it. Why suggest
"age" to them, or about them? They
are. for brief time. ageless, perfect,
all-knowing. May God bless them and
keen them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
Letters to The Star

that contravene the law, myriads of
exceptions. basic notifications, all
these are part of our day-to-day for
eign business.
This entire problem is hopelessly
aggravated by the security problem.
Security for some absurd reason has
now become identified with loyalty.
Thus every scrap Of information is
classified, not to be published, not to
be given to the press or the public. The
mutual involvement of the security and
loyalty questions has very grave i'm
port for the country. Some measures
must be taken to diSpel the curse that
has fallen upon Government business,
the curse Of Secrecy-because out of
secrecy grows responsibility.
At the same time another serious
problem has developed. Individuals
are being less and less tolerated. The
whole question of dissent is now moot.
It is dangerous. No foreign mission
is nowadays willing to tolerate dis.
sent. Granted that differences are ex-
hauSted by democratic procedures, /. e.,
conference after conference after con-
ference, it is nevertheless true that
it Is not possible to hold a different
basic view (even though the individuals
work is in accordance with the re-
ceived view and long remain at any
foreign post. Dissent has now become
equated with disloyalty to the bureauc-
racy.
These are not small matters. Basic
changes are needed. The President has
taken some very important first steps.
The import Of these steps should be
fully examined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23

from the Maoris Of New Zealand to
the Hawaiian cowboys.
Sam has parlayed an eighth share
Of Polynesian blood-far less than the
blue plasma he got from the Holmes
family Of Boston-into a fortune in
popularity.
The sunny sages Of the U. N. believe
that President Eisenhower has grasped
the point they made in naming Ralph
Bunche. an American Negro, to the top
post in the U. MS board for trusteeships
and non-self-governing colonies.
Their point is that men must be
chosen for their gifts and energy, not
for their color. DR.. Bunche could even
be Trygve Lies successor as boss of the
U. NJ, If Russia would accept.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
Saving Through Joint Action

The estimates of savings which would be
effected If Alexandria and Fairfax County we're
to build joint ewage-disposal facilities are, as
one ofacial aptly put it, too tremendous" to
be ignored. The savings not only would be
realized in initial outlay but in maintenance
and operation costs over the years.
According to engineering studies disclosed
at meeting of Alexandria and Fairfax authori-
ties the two Jurisdictions would save at least
$2.4 million in construction costs by joining
in building single plant to serve both areas
Moreover, during the first 10 years of opera
ton, Alexandria would save 1,481 500 and
Fairfax County 100000 in operating costs
The prospect of such economies should
bring prompt agreement between the two areas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
Fovors Nicely Bill

The resignation of James Flanagan,
chairman Of the Public Utilities Com
mission, in order to become vice pres
ident Of Capital Transit, a company
he formerly regulated, came as great
shock to all Federal employees. While
not accusing Mr.. Flanagan of unlawful
practices. it seems pertinent to observe
that within the last few years he has
allowed his forthcoming employer, Cap
ital Transit. five raises in fare. Federal
employees in Washington have had to
use increasing amounts of their salary
for transportation as a result of Mr.
Flanagan's decisions.
Although do not personally advo-
cate telling an employe where he must
work, do believe that the new Nicely
bill, which would prevent any one who
works for the Government from join
ing the company he has regulated until
he has left that type Of employment
for at least two years. would alleviate
future trouble in this field. Such q bill
should be passed.
Dewitt Burke, President,
NFFE Local No. 261.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
This and That

ready learned, but you prefer to make
your own decisions. You resent, even
detest suggestions from the parents.
"You feel like blowing fuse when
your mother asks you, Why didn't
you The thing you didn't do was
the thing you should have done, you
realize. but you cannot bear hearing
about 1t. Well, you are still teen-ager,
typical teen-ager.
How the picture will be changing
in q couple Of decades! You will then
want to remind your son or your
daughter. You will want to pass on to
your children wisdom that comes to
those who have lived longer. You will
say. Why didn't you wear your
Sweater?' And some one else will be
ready to blow fuse!'
Sincerely. B. F. B."
"TAKoMA PARK, MD.
Dear Sir:
IT have been quite interested in your
teen-ager writeups Of late, since am
the mother Of one. The greatest out
standing point Of the life of q teen
ager seems to be defense against every
suggestion. good or bad.
They snap up their own decisions
without the slightest regard for the
feelings Of others. They seem to save
their choicest darts for their parents.
They expect the poor parents to view
them as wizards Of the know-it-all
class. They forget that fathers and
mothers have lived longer. and do have
q little Judgment.
Let US take D small example. It is
cold. windy day. The closet Is fun Of
warm shirts. A cool summer one Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
"BARNABY STREET.


Dear Sir:
Having son in high school, I
thoroughly appreciate Margaret's letter
telling of the grave hardships ex-
perienced by the average teen-ager in
this complex world.
what parent goes through a day
as we do?' asks Margaret. Then she
raves about the early morning rush. the
slow bus, the lack Of seats, the stam-
pede in the hall at school, unreasonable
teachers. the long line in the cafeteria,
45-hour week and so on. She even
condemns her mother, who greets her
after school with the remark, Why
didn't you
81 should like teen-agers to know
that they are not alone in these ex-
periences. Mothers do little rushing.
too, to get every one on on time in the
morning. We often wait half an hour
for bus. and we know what it is to
lose your balance when you have to
stand in the aisle. We aren't toting
heavy books, but many Of us carry big
loads Of groceries. And didn't we wait
in line when we purchased them? Is
not our day just as long as yours?
life is not easy, nor is it made to
order. We learn that before we finish
High School. Waiting at the bus stop
and at the cafeteria are hindrances,
but hindrances may help to develop
patience. ALI Of us need more Of that
virtue.
We're adults. you say, not exactly
like you think you mean, Margaret.
that you and other teen-agers are still
learning what your parents have q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
Gen. Peron Visits Gen. Ibonez

Much speculation but very little authorita-
tive information Is attending the state visit now
being made by Argentine President Peron to
Chilean President Ibanez in the latter's home
city of Santiago.
The two men are close personal friends and
the government controlled Argentine press was
highly vocal in supporting Ibanez during his
successful election campaign last fall. In fact,
their personal ties and the Argentine attitude
during the election period led to belief that
Ibanez would follow many of the Peronist tao
tics of one-man rule-and perhaps a hostile
policy toward the United States-when he be-
came president. During previous tenure as
president. General Ibanez did function as vir-
tual dictator. Fears also were expressed last fall
that his victory would be followed by trend
toward naturalization Of industries, with cop
per and nitrates-two of the biggest and most
important in world trade-being most fire.
quently mentioned. These fears have not yet
been borne out
One explanation, up to now is that con-
greSsional elections are due in Chile in March
and General Ibanez appears anxious to gain
political support through this constitutional
process. Some observers feel that General
Peron's political appeal, particularly to the
poor may have direct value to General Ibanez'
cause in the voting, although reports that the
Argentine leader received only lukewarm pub
lie reception in Santiago seem to contradict
this theory.
Chile and Argentina have had close bonds
in the past and were once joined in an ABC
political-economic bloc that included Brazil
Argentine Brazilian relations have been too
strained during most Of the Peron years, how
ever. to make 1t likely that such formal asso-
citation Of these three powers will be revived
at the present time. There is reason to believe,
though, that the community Of interests which
exists between Chile and Argentina-and not
necessarily q sinister one-will result in a new
pact between these two countries It may be
significant in this regard that the current de-
velopment plan Of President Peron in Argen-
tina places greatest emphasis on agriculture,
and that the Chilean industrial capacity might
supplement this in manner helpful to both
nations.
In any case, there appears no obvious rea-
son now to take suspicious attitude toward the
close relationship between the two countries
and their highly individualistic presidents.
The young reporter who writes up the aged
pedestrian" Of AZ has disc Jockey ousin-the
one who strolls down memory .>sne all the way
to 1e4S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
BY George Weller

DY NAMING "Sampan Sam" King
- as Governor Of Hawaii, President
Eisenhower has given healthy boost
to the racial ideas prevailing in the
U. NJ The blood of Hawaii's forgotten
chiefs runs in the Governor and spills
out in his actions.
The Americans, as seen from the
U. N. skyscraper. are now plunking the
soft ukulele Of tolerance and brother
hood. This theme song sounds happier
than Gen. Eisenhower's off-key opener.
Let the Asiatics fight the Asiatics."
Genial Samuel Wilder King is partly
Polynesian, mostly New Highlander, and
all Hawaiian Islander. The 67-year old
great-grandson of Princess Mahdi Is
q prize package: Navy captain and An
napoliS graduate, real estate operator,
and politician Observation-Disclosures
polls.
For years U. N. diplomats have been
asking themselves: when will Wash
ington learn to play the game Of mi
norities the clever way the Russians
do?"
The Soviets dig up a Polish
Soviet army marshal to take the Polish
forces from within. They plant Rus
sian governor in the strategic Western
Chinese state, Sinkiang. They sow
Soviet hyphenates in the Battles.
But the men named by the White
House to our own territory of Hawaii
have always been pure-blood Anglo
Saxons. These "carpetbaggers," as
Honolulu calls them, lack the happy
blend of muscular Hawaiian.
But here comes unpretentious Sam
King. adaptable as a grass skirt. He
plays the ukulele better than Harry
Truman plays the piano. He can wise
crack in Polynesian with any chief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-23
Coordination in the Far East

The continuing revelations and speculation
about future American policy in the Paci1c-Far
East area lend cogency to the idea that there
should be an increasing degree of coordination
of strategy and tactics of France, Britain and
the United States in combating Communist ag-
gression in that part of the world
At the present time, the United States is
bearing the brunt of this burden in Korea.
Britain is doing likewise in guerilla type war
fare that has been going on for years in
Malaga. France is heavily committed, at high
cost in money and lives, in Indo-China. Each
is the front for shooting war; imposing heavy
drain on resources that might otherwise be
devoted to building up the economic and mill
tary strength of Western Europe generally
considered the first line of defense against a
CommuniSt-provoked World War III
While the Korean action is the closest to
an about war in the Far East in terms of
men and materiel committed and the powers
represented, there is substantial body Of
military opinion-including some of our own
that a successful ending of the Indo-China
fighting merits first priority in terminating
these local wars. The reasoning is that the
whole defensive structure of Western Europe
has been planned on the principle that France
must be the keystone in terms of ground
strength. With the best of its young of1cer
and non-commissioned corps being drained
away interminably in Indo-China, France
cannot fill this European role.
There has been hope expressed, particularly
in American and French quarters, that Asiatic
troops can be recruited and trained to replace
in large part the non-Asiatic manpower now
committed in Korea and Indo-C China Secretary
of State Dulles reaff1rmed this hope in recent
press conference and France has sent top
ranking military mission to the Far East to
study the stepping up of this effort. Obviously,
it Is procedure that requires time, and con-
tinued support in equipment particularly, but
the results already measured indicate that the
fighting capacity does exist in the native man
power. Along with easing the burden upon
foreign troop requirements, the building of a
genuine Vietnamese army is considered move
that would solidify the political autonomy Of
that country and contribute on long-term
basis to the stability of Southeast Asia.
As far as coordination of overall Big
Three planning in the Far East is concerned,
France also has taken the initiative by seeking
a greater exchange of intelligence on DISPOSE
ton of Chinese Communist strength, the type
and performance of materiel found in enemy
hands and the capabilities of the various ma
tional forces allied with the Western powers
The net effect of these steps should tend
to tie together this long Asiatic front, and
perhaps to facilitate breakthrough that would
reduce the Communist pressure.