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Evening star., 1953-01-14
Two Vital Roads to Be Joined
by Web of Bridges and Circles

A veritable nest of bridges and.
traffic interchanges is in store
for the area where the projected
Baltimore Washington Freeway
and Annapolis Expyessway con-
verge just outside the District
line in Prince Georges County.
The construction is a corollary
to the highway committees idea
Evening star., 1953-01-14

Ninth in a series detailing indi-
viduoI improvement projects recon-
mended by the Regional Highwoy
Planning Committee for nearby Mary
lond. Next: Londover- Tuxedo roads.
Evening star., 1953-01-14
ADVERTISEMENT.
Way to Relieve
Itchv PimDIes

When your skin is irritated with
pimples, red blotches and other
skin blemisheS, and you're crazy
with itching torture, here's fast
relief. Get a 40c box of Peterson'S
Ointment at your druggist and
apply this soothing balm. Prompt
ly relieves smarting and itching.
Your skin looks better, feels bet
ter. Money back is not delighted.
Evening star., 1953-01-14
PurkIuwn Group to Meet

The Parklawn Citizens Asso-
citation will meet at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the Grace Methodist
Church, Takoma Park, Md.
Evening star., 1953-03-15

Lee Ballston - Ballston fire.
house, Oil North Stuart street.
Arlington.
North -Four Corners - Four
Corners Elementary School, Old
Bladensburg road, Silver Spring.
Joseph M. Matthias, chairman
of the State Route 1913 Improve
ment Committee, will speak on
the purposes and progress Of
his group.
Tuesday.
Federation Of Fairfax County
Citizens Associations - AMMAN
dale School. Columbia pike. An
nandale.
Glenview- -Northbrook- Church
Of the Atonement, 10609 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring. DR.. Mil
ton c. Towner, scientist and edu.
Gator, will speak on present in
ternational affairs.
Wednesday.
Adelphi Langley Park Ele-
mentary School. Langley Park.
Oscar w. Tayman, Prince
Georges County Engineer will
speak on the county road sys-
tenn.
Beltsville-Vansville District -
Beltsville (Md.) School. Allen
Richards, chief Of the Prince
Georges County police depart
ment, will speak.
Thursday.
Rolling Terrace-Rolling Ter.
race Elementary School, Bayfield,
and Hood streets, Takoma Park.
Irving G. McNayr, Montgomery
County manager, will speak on
county government functions.
Templeton Knolls- Riverdale
(Md0 firehouse. 4714 Queens
bury road, Riverdale, Md.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Citizens Group Meetings

Representative Harris, Dem
ocrat, Of Arkansas, will address
the Shepherd Park Citizens AS
Sociation at 8 pm. tomorrow on
the problems involved in the re-
lationship between the Federal
Government and the District.
Mr.. Harris is a member of the
House District Committee and q
resident Of Shepherd Park. The
meeting will be in Shepherd
School, Fourteenth street and
Kalmia road NV.
Other meetings scheduled for
the week which begin at 8 pm
unless otherwise noted are:
Tomorrow.
Chevy Chase - Chevy Chase
Community Center. Connecticut
avenue and Mckinley street
NV. There will be a debate be-
tween members Of the Young
Republican Club on legislation
to change the form Of District
government.
Chillum Heights-Luther Rice
Memorial Church, 5315 North
Capitol street.
Connecticut Avenue-All Souls
Episcopal Church, $500 Cathe-
dral avenue NV.
Fort Davis-Ryland Methodist
Church. Branch avenue and S
street Sc.
Inter Federation Council -
Room 305. Evening Star Build
ing, Eleventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV.
Lincoln Park-Epworth Church
Thirteenth street and North
Carolina avenue NE.
Sixteenth Street Highlands
Brightwood School, Thirteenth
and Nicholson streets NV.
Tuesday.
AnacoStia-AnacoStia Metho-
dist Church social hall, Four
teenth and U streets Sc.
Citizens Forum of Columbia
Heights - Calvary Methodist
Church, 1859 Columbia road
NV.
Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park-St. Adams Parish Hall,
Massachusetts, and Wisconsin
avenues NV.
Petworth - Barnard School,
Fourth and Decatur streets NV.
Wednesday.
Bradbury Heights-Bradbury
Heights Methodist Church, 1900
Bowen road Sc.
Friendship Heights - Janney
School. Wisconsin avenue and
Albemarle street NV.
The Following meetings have
been scheduled in nearby Mary
land and Virginia.
Tomorrow.
Del Ray - Mount Vernon
School, Alexandria, A. c. Slay-
maker, chief sanitarian of the
Alexandria Health Department,
will speak on aspects of the city's
sanitation.
Evanswood - Bank of Silver
Spring, 8701 Georgia avenue, Sill
yer Spring. Wilton Allen, Mont
gomery County tax assessor. will
speak,
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Minstrel Show to Be Held

The Martha Tana Circle,
Mothers Club Of st. Aloysius
School. will sponsor minstrel
show at 8:l5 pm. tomorrow in
Gonzaga Auditorium, ~ I street
NV. The show will be pre-
sented by members of Washing
ton Lodge Is. B. p. O. z.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Rua-Mukina Glasses

A series Of eight weekly hooked
and braided rug-making classes
win be sponsored by the District
Recreation Department begin
ming Wednesday from 2 to 10
pm, in Roosevelt High School,
Thirteenth and Upshur streets
NV.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Gu Lunch and Tour

Catholic University will enter
tain seniors Of high schools in
the Washington area at a lunch
and campus tour on Saturday
A musical festival also will be
held.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Luncheon at BoIIino

The Army and Air Force
Dental Wives will hold a lunch
con at the Boiling Field Oficers
Club at 1890 pm. Thursday.
There viii be a talk on botanical
orchids by Mrs. George P. Bush.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24
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Terrell, who win play the part
of Washington, believes the cross
ing on Christmas, 1916, is Amer
ica'S greatest holiday story. He
hopes his project comes off so well
that the country viii make it ira
ditional.
The Snowman ana MS crew viii
wear uniforms copied in every de-
tail from the famous painting Of
the crossing by Emanuel Leutze.
They'll cross in a boat from one
third the size Of the bulky Durham
boat used by Washington's men,
but Terrell said il has been built
along identical lines.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24
Delaware River Crossing Will Be Re-Enacted Tomorrow

PHILADELPHIA N - George
Washington's historic crossing Of
the Delaware VIII be re-enaeted
tomorrow
Leading the group is Snowman
St. John Terrell, producer Of the
successful Music Circus at Lam
lbertville, y. j., a summer resort
or the Delaware.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24

families are leeFy enough OF this
already without our adding any
more perilS. They're coming 70
watch just 10 see If We fall in the
river"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24

sgeurs with = chilling dunking In
the river. Historians doubt there
we're any floating about III years
ago, anyway.
And besides. Terrell said, Our
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24

The European Christmas rose
mot really a rose at all, but OF
the buttercup family blooms
cheerfully in the snow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24

The old English form Cristes
Maesse, i. e., Mass of Christ, from
which our word Christmas derives,
was first recorded about 1898.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24

They'll even improve a bit on
the earlier voyage across the Del
aware. For instance, there win be
no ice cakes to threaten the voy-
Evening star., 1953-11-02
Letters to The Star. .
Pen-names mag be used if letters carry
1UriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

on juvenile delinquency but do little
but talk. Haven't most of us wondered
at the growth and enthusiasm of our
high school groups? The interest and
physical energy which they give to
seemingly unimportant affairs is
astounding. Let us harness this inter-
est and energy. Let them wear the but
tons and helmets. On them they look
good. ....
While anything is possible, our best
informed authorities do not expect an
enemy attack for several years. Our old
groups will be several years older. Our
young group will still be young. If we
are not hypocrites when we say that
the future of our country depends on
our youth, why not let them participate
in the civil defense efforts in a
major way? Our youth are far more
advanced and capable at their age than
previous generations. Get out OF their
way and let them use the enthusiasm
of football rally, parade or dance
in preparation for the defense of their
country. Let us stop our politics, our
money grabbing. our antiquated or
ganizing, and enable the youth OF
America to work for the country they
will inherit.
E. III. Woodward.
Evening star., 1953-11-02
By Charles E. TroceWeN

America as we see today. These leaf
colorations are exactly the same.
Today we can thrill as well as any
Big Chief (experts say they actually
had no chiefs. il. the usual sense) to
the seasonal changes.
One thing the modern American
should do is to take the opportunity of
studying the forms of trees without
leaves.
Every species has it's own way of
growth, and is interesting in its leaf
less aspects, yet too many of us refuse
to think of tree except in leaf.
Tree Identification ought to begin
with skeletal information, as it were.
If one knows tree in winter. he will
surely know it in summer, when it is
clad in all its glory.
X
Let us sigh ecstatically, then, over our
fall leaves, in their glorious colors, but
let us follow them up with better in
spection of trees as things.
When tree is stripped down to its
fundamentals, it still remains a mighty
work of nature and of art, a perform
ance, day by day, even in the winter.
Cold does not stop in any sense the
life of the tree.
Sometimes even older persons, and
often children, get to thinking Of trees
as senseless, almost lifelesS things, to
be harmed with impunity.
A little study of trees in their winter
condition will reveal. we believe, not
only aspects of beauty, but inspire feel
ings of reverence in even the youngest.
Evening star., 1953-11-02

There is probably no city in the world
prettier in the fall than Washington,
D. c.
The annual change in leaf color is
something unknown in many other
parts of the world. and all the more
striking here because of our large
numbers of trees still in the land of the
living.
There are many species of trees, and
/all of them change color under the
biting impact of frost. Some attempt
has been. made to give the reason as
the time element, but certainly most
people believe it is frost, and the voice
of the people is the voice Of God.
Our masses of trees, changing color
in valley and street, strike all visitors
to America, even returned Americans,
and that is the acid test.
From the red of dogwood leaves, to
the small yellowS of the locusts, and
the broad tans of the oaks, our trees
bear every shape and color of natures
alchemy.
No wonder the native Indians Can
absurd name) went in for colors in
their personal decorations, easily based
on the trees around them.
What still is wonderful about our
National Capital is that we have so
many trees left, out Of the original
forests of America.
The Indians lived in forests, practi-
cally, or rather moved from one to an
other woods. They did not go in much
for wood chopping.. except when they
Evening star., 1953-11-02
Enignotic Oriental Can't Fothom u. S.
By EorI H. Voss
Star STAFF Correspondent

SAIGON, ndo-China. Wherever
one goes in the anti-C Communist part Of
the Orient, one is struck with an almost
unanimous conclusion of the public:
Americans are sleepy people. They
were asleep at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
they were asleep at the 38th Parallel in
1850, and now they are doing of
again.
Some of this feeling doubtless is at
tributable to overzealouSness on the
part of special leaders, who do not see
Americas problems from the inside,
looking out at all of them stretching
into the far corners of the earth. There
is this natural tendency to overempha-
size the problem nearest home, which
they think should engage Americas un-
divided attention.
But this feeling about the United
States goes much deeper. Syngman
Rhee is more worried about what he
calls our "wishy-washy" attitude to-
ward communism than he is about
communism itself, it seems. He also
thinks we are unaware Of the menace"
: of the new Japan.
American officials out here generally
share these views about the inatten-
tiveness of public opinion back home.
Some of them, for instance, have their
fingers crossed, hoping the Kremlin
does not switch tactics in Korea. What
would happen, they ask themselves, ii
the Communists were to accept free
elections in Korea and then subvert
the country in the next five years?
America would be peacefully doing
again by that time. And there we
would be, with another CZechoslovakia
staring us in the face.
The Indians think we are completely
out of touch with reality in the Far
East, not only as regards the new
Asiatic nationalism, but even on mat
ters very close to us, like the prisoner
repatriation problem in Korea. They
profess to believe that "poor peasant
soldiers" of China and North Korea
are being dominated by "Rhee and
Chang agents." The Indians are be-
side themselves at the Americans in
ability to see it their way. Our staunch
refusal to believe the prisoners are
anything but fanatical anti-Commu-
nists exasperated them. All this in
spite of the POWs' recent performances
during explaining" sessions.
Even Japan, now feeling the prod of
American defense officials who think
the NipponeSe must rearm or succumb
to communism, thinks the United States
public is largely unaware of japanese
problems. Japan's desperate economic
situation, for instance, the absolute
necessity of continued large-scale aid
if Japan is to avoid severe depression,
is something Americans are too casual
about to suit the japanese.
Chang Kai-shek, on Formosa, goes
doggedly on hoping that the United
Evening star., 1953-11-02

States eventually will see the light and
feels keenly that the tragedy of China
could yet be retrieved. if only America
could be awakened to the possibilities.
The same thing goes in Indo-China.
Both the French and the natives there
think America was too long lackadaisi-
cal about the Wet Mimi rebellion.
Even now, there is apprehension that
the aid will be too little. People all over
the Far East ask themselves uneasily
if America would bound up from its
dream-couch to rescue Indo-China and
were made there. In this case they
are not only worried that the United
States sleeps" now, but that they won't
be able to arouse her when the bugle
sounds next time. Would America send
troops to save Southeast Asia, they ask,
with sly references to Republican
cracks about the China "give-away."
They think the answer is mo"
But what about all the United States
rearmament, the American asks? What
about the training of native armies?
What about the big arms aid programs?
What about our big base on Okinawa?
All of these vidences-impressive to
Americans-draw mostly shrugs of
shoulders. They are too little to be a
real deterrent, says the Oriental man
on the street. He points to the recent
cuts in defense spending by the United
States. He makes references to the
guns and-butter philosophy of America,
Evening star., 1953-11-02
New Honor for General Marshall

In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for
1858 to General of the Army George C. Marshall
the NorWegianS have honored great American
whose life, both as a soldier and a statesman,
has been dedicated to the task of making this
a decent world safe to live in. Of course, as
in the case of other men similarly dedicated
it cannot be said that he has succeeded in that
task, but he has fought uniquely good fight
to deter the dark, war-breeding forces of
enSlavement and aggression, and his contribu-
tion in that senSe-even though he has been
in retirement now for the past two years
is still serving the best interests of mankind.
1t is for this reason that General Marshall
has been constantly reviled by the Red totali-
tarianS. 1t is for this reason, too, that they
will be infuriated by the splendid new honor
bestowed on him. For just as he was one
of the chief architects of allied victory over
the Berlin Tokyo Axis in the Second
World War, so he has been since then, one
of the most towering figures in the effort of
the free world to preserve its freedom against
the KremlinS implacable drive for global DOM
ination. 1t was under his name and leadership,
as Secretary of State, that the European
Recovery Program stopped the westward march
of communism. 1t was in large part with his
guidance that the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization evolved from a paper blueprint
into the formidable defensive alliance that it
Is today. It was during his one-year term as
Secretary of Defense-from September, 1850,
to September, 1951-that the American-led
United Nations Command survived the first
desperate phases of the war in Korea and
Evening star., 1953-11-02

went ON from there to hurl back the criminal
aggressors in a great and heroic enterprise
that history may yet celebrate as a decisive
turning point in the age-old struggle for
good and enduring peace
With all this in his background, and
despite some mistaken judgments that have
been grossly exaggerated and viciousy dis
torted by small band of detractors in this
country, it is not surprising that General
Marshall has been chosen for the 1858 Nobel
Peace Prize Like Dr. Albert Schweitzer-the
Alsatian philosopher and medical Good Samari-
tan, who belatedly has received the same prize
for 1952-he has labored exceedingly we'll in
behalf of better and happier world in which
men and nations, because of just such work
as his, may one day be liberated from the
nightmare fear of a nightmare war. So his
new honor is altogether fitting, and Americans
have reason to take pride with him in it.
Evening star., 1953-11-02
New Blood for Civil Defense

In Montgomery County. as we'll as
other sections of the Nation, we hear
complaints from civil defense author
tiles that the citizens are too compla-
cent, will not participate in activities,
appropriate funds, etc. Perhaps, if the
civil defense organizations were not
influenced so much by old fogies, pro-
fessional joiners and those who make a
living from them, an appealing pro-
gram could be offered which the public
would buy. The same old methods are
being used by the button and helmet
brigade" of World War II, who with
the authority of shiny buttons and
brightly marked helmets tried to force
a fear program upon our complacent
populace.
Without the intent of slurring the
middle age group (of which I will
soon be a member) and the older age
groups. recommend that all civil de-
fense plans and operations be patterned
so that all major programs will be con-
Quoted by the youth of the country.
Keep the old groups for what little
financial guidance will be needed and
for specialized training purposes. Re-
quirementS for these functions will
eliminate large percentage of present.
day participants. We continue to harp
Evening star., 1953-11-02

which he regards as largely fiction.
He thinks it impossible to have guns
and butter in this time of crisis. If
we have butter, we are not prepared,
he reasons.
But, the American asks, surely
our atomic and hydrogen bomb pro-
grams have been the major deterrent
to World War III. The Oriental come
back is typical: Yes, you barbaric
Americans, you make such horrible
weapons, you will blow us all up If
you are not careful.
Thus having come full circle, we
find that not only do OrientalS think
we are too sleepy, they think we are
department.
What does America do in situation
like this? officials strive for patience
unlimited. They know they can stand
it, but they aren't so sure about the
American public-particularly Congress
Meantime they work hard at the job
of educating the people and their
governments about American motives
and try to show the global problems the
United States faces. They know that
understanding will not come in years,
maybe not even in decades. But all
they can do is keep chipping away and
conducting themselves on as high
moral plane as possible.
The unjust criticisms they suffer
through are the price all leaders OF
the world have paid for greatness,
down through the ages.
Evening star., 1953-11-02
OfCouruqe

haze loUed courage; hare loved
the tUord,
Its look on any printed page. its shape
on any lips, its meaning. clear.
nnbIurTed
In tDeGthered faces, seeking no escape
In bitterness from bitter circumstances.
And hare loued it in the candid mind
That, scorntng easy talSitieS, advances
ToWard truth, hoWeUer vigorously
nnkind.
/ hare loued ,Oel each t0inter- blooming
fotDer
And each oaunt stubborn ttOiSted tree,
that brought
Neto courage to me in a desperate hour,
For, louino courage, haze GltDGys
sought
For tt in eUerything that hare knoton
Because I haze scant courage OF my
otCn.
Jone Merehdnt
Evening star., 1953-11-02
The Red POW Defeat

The Communists at Panmunjom continue
to suffer great loss of face in their effort to
WOO back North Korean and Chinese prisoners
of war; Accordingly, as if to cover their own
embarrassment, they seem to be intent once
again upon stalling the repatriation machinery.
this time by demanding the right to broadcast
messages to the POW compounds before dealing
with the captives individually, at persuasion"
sessions.
Because such broadcasts in the past have
served only to stir up trouble, the Indian chair
man of the proceedings has rejected this de-
mand, but the Communists appear to be insist
ent on it at the moment. The result is that the
whole repatriating process has come to another
halt Just as it did a fortnight ago when the
North Korean POWs refused to leave their COM
pounds to listen to explanations designed TO
get them to return to their homeland.
The North Korean refusal ended the other
day after the majority of the Neutral Nations
Repatriation Commission had turned down
Communist demand that force be used against
the recalcitrant POWs and after the Indians
had prevailed upon the latter to go voluntarily
to the persuasion" sessions. However, out OF
the first 438 to attend the sessions, only 21-or
less than per cent-chose to return home.
The rest, for the most part, reacted violently
against the "explainers" and the prompt Red
response has been to raise the new broadcast
demand.
In all probability, the Communists have
made this demand in full anticipation OF the
Indian rejection. If they keep on insisting upon
it, therefore, they will be leaving themselves
wide open to the suspicion of wanting to wreck
the repatriation procedure in order to extricate
themselves from further embarrassment They
have good reason to feel this way. After all,
in addition to the 81 North Koreans, only 20
Chinese POWs have been persuaded by the Red
interviewers to go home, and if the persuasion"
sessions continue, the chances are that only
a very small fraction-between and per
cent-of the total number of captives will be
Wooed back.
All told, there are about $500 North Korean
and $4,000 Chinese POWs still to be interviewed
Accordingly. If only tiny percentage of these
is likely to accept reps tration, it is understand
able if the Communists would like to call off
the whole procedure. What has happened thus
far has inflicted great propaganda defeat on
them. The fact that so many of their former
troops are determined to choose an uncertain
future in the free world rather than go back
under Pyongyang's or Peiping's control Is at
once an eloquent and damning commentary on
the nature of Red totslitarianism-a thing that
inspires not love or loyalty but only fear and
hate.