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The guardian., 1953-01-24
DEACONS PRAISE
MRS. HOWARD

Among the dozen or so resolu-
tions read at the funeral of Mrs.
Sarah Wright Howard, the fol-
lowing from the deacons' is here
printed; it expressed so adequate
ly the character of the late
deaconess:
We gather here today to pay
our last respect to most noble
and esteemed person, the late
Sister, Sarah w. Howard. We can
truthfully say that there is a
vacant place where she once
stood. Yes the door keeper is
gone. We remember her in so
many phases of Church work.
Where are the table cloths and
towels? Sister Howard has them;
she will be here shortly. Where
is this and where is that? Just
wait little while, Sister Howard
will be here she knows where
they are. The door keeper is gone.
Her policy was her responsible
charge she had to keep and she
was personally chosen by Christ
to defend His Kingdom, and she
felt personally responsible for
this. She owes no one anythingq
but love, of which she gave free
y. She was quiet spoken, gentle,
mild, meek, and yet, ever alert to
her Christian duty, always on
guard to defend the truth, with
out selfish pride. And by the
bedside of the sick she was at hel
best through all kinds Of weather
BY auto, street car, or foot, she
would get there, notwithstanding
her own body pains. In the res
homes and hospitals, if she failet
to get there, they felt badly abou
it.
We recall one outstanding epi-
sode, when she insisted on visit
ing the late Sister Kate Brown,
who had been moved to another
hospital and we knew not where,
but Sister Howard would not give
up till we found her, and on
leaving she kissed her on the fore
head and said Goodbye Kitty,
if I don't see you any more, II
meet you in the upper room" We
also recall the sorrowful express
sion that was portrayed at the st.
Monica's Home when she was un-
able to serve them. But we could |
go on and on with testimony |
after testimony and still fail to
to tell it all. She has left her
to constantly remind us
of Love and Faithfulness.
We will miss you Sister Howard
like the Elm and the Oak when
they fall, the absences are ap-
paling. We loved you Sister
you made us love you,
not by coercion, but by your
sweet and lovable ways.
She never had life that was
her own,
She always answered other
peoples needs;
Her life was tuned in gentle
monotone,
No trumpet sounded for her
quiet deeds.
Her work of love was never done,
From morn till night she
worked unselfshly
And counted her success as easily
won
When those she loved could
reach prosperity.
May God bless all the women
such as she
Who give their lives to others
in this way;
The saints who live in sweet SIM
plicity
Their glory lighting up the
every day.
DEACON L. R. MORRIS, /
Chairman Of Deacon Board.
DEACON ROBERT SMITH,
Secretary.
Evening star., 1953-08-09

Kitten Curves ond Columns S5 in Glass AnmoI Le)
for Capt. Sam Serkn Headquarters. Air Weather Service
Andrews Air Force Bose.
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and prizes awarded each week the judges will select
each class $25 the of the contest These
perhaps including Snapsho will then be entered
the 18th Annual Newspaper National Snapshot Awards A
total of $4,000 will awarded 280 the national
contest of them will ST 900 Copies the
available
photo supply stores throughout the Metropolitan
Evening star., 1953-07-26
By Jacques FutreIIe. Jr.
The Stor's Trovsl Editor

planning. The overnight trip
saves some 200 miles of wear and
tear and expense on the car and
five to six hours of fast driving.
Virginia Beach is 225 over-the-
road miles from Washington; the
Old Bay Lines steamer puts the
motorist within 20 miles of the
resorts rejuvenated beach, with
sleep en- route.
Popularity of the steamer serv-
ice requires some timing to dove
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Highways Ahead

Highways Ahead
With the refreshing bay
breezes inducing deep sleep,
passengers can be oblivious to
arrival at Old Point Comfort
around $50 am, even on dock
ing at Norfolk an hour and a
half later. In the meantime,
breakfast is being served.
Cars are moved out on the
dock. To the east, over U. S. So,
is Virginia Beach, about half an
hour away. Virginia Route ITO,
headed almost due south, leads
toward the miles and miles of
Atlantic. seacoast beaches of
North Cardinals Outer Banks.
with Nags Head the center of
solid rows of cottages, apart
ments, hotels and motor courts.
U. S. II opens a more inland
route southwark.
The driving chore has just be-
gun, but some 200 miles already
have been negotiated.
Evening star., 1953-07-26
The rave|er's Notebook
Overnight Steamer Trip With Auto in Hold
Gives Motorist q 200-M MiIe Jump Into Virginia

There are relatively few places
where the motoring vacationer
can start his journey with a boat
trip, car and all. Washington is
among these fortunate cities,
provided, of course, Norfolk, Va,
lis a convenient point for taking
to the highways.
For such destinations as Vir-
ginia Beach. North Carolina's
Outer Banks and other shore
points to the south, Washing
tons Old Bay Line service from
the Maine avenue docks lends
pleasant variety in vacation
Evening star., 1953-07-26
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muse Bathe from Enclosed hot cold outside tile
showers Free parking Moderate prevail. reduced
Pre'ssson and after Labor Day, -.
For reservations and information write phone.
Evening star., 1953-07-26

One Of q series Of stories on vocotions
ond troveI in Virginia.
Evening star., 1953-07-26

tall VacaClOn plans Win SalllngS.
Particularly is this true in sum-
mer, when such mass movements
as conventions wander East from
distant Illinois and farther, and
vacation motoring is at its peak.
When Florida beckonS in winter,
many Canadians, New England
ers and New Yorkers find the
overnight Potomac River -Chesa-
peake Bay run welcome break
in the drive, with the novelty of
cruise atmosphere, a cocktail
room, not = too = expensive meal
service and the scenic Potomac
shores.
Book Ahead
Time was when two Bay Line
ships provided nightly service
between Washington and Nor
folk. Loss of a ship to the Gov
ernment for war service left only
one steamer, the District of
Columbia, and brought about
a staggered sailing schedule.
This has frightened space to the
point that reservations for auto
passage, if not bedrooms, are
being snapped up two weeks
to a month in advance. It's even
tighter than that on the Old
Bay Lines nightly service be-
tween Baltimore and Norfolk.
Some Baltimore Sailings are sold
out two months ahead.
Under Washington'S staggered
departures. weekend starts ne
cessitate some forethought. The
same attention is required if the
vacationer takes advantage OF
the Norfolk to- Washington re-
turn. The Old Bay Lines ticket
office on H street currently is
giving out this sailing formula
Departures from Washington are
in late afternoons of odd dates
in July, even dates during
August. Sailings from Norfolk
are on alternate afternoons.
Sometimes the bid for cal
space is the stumbling block in
getting away. There is garaging
for less than 40 autos in the
hold. The waiting list for cal
transportation is usually longer
than that for bedrooms. With
unusually heavy passenger book
ings, such specifications as rooms
at a certain cost or adjoining
rooms have to be worked out
ExompIes in Cost
Obviously, two or three per-
sons can be transported in ones
auto cheaper than sailing aboard
the District of Columbia. In pay
ing passage, the vacationer buys
something extra in diversion and
puts himself on the road some
200 miles away, refreshed fol
driving. But what does it cost
Passage comes to $5.75 pei
person. one way; $11.50 round
trip. Staterooms some with
berths. some with double beds
and others with twin beds -
range from $2.88 to sits. These
prices include taxes and adjoin-
ing bathrooms. The stateroom
charge for the second person is
but a fraction more than the
cost for one. but, of course
there's passage to add.
Children under five years are
free; up to II years, they sail at
half fare.
Suppose a family of two par
ents and two children, ages
and II, make the trip. Passage
comes to total of $17.26, with
tax. One double-bed stateroom
Evening star., 1953-07-26

and bath adds 1851. A connect
ing room for the children comes
to $3.50 more. Then there's the
car, which is transported for
$7.73.
Putting the car aboard is no
more trouble than steering onto
the dock. An attendant takes
over and drives into the ships
storage space. The car is locked
up with whatever baggage the
family decides is not needed in
the stateroom overnight, and the
Key turned over to the purser for
safekeeping until the steamer
docks the next morning at Nor
folk.
Activities Aboard
The District of Columbia
shoves off from its Maine avenue
dock at $50 pm, and from then
until twilight, even into the
night these pleasant summer
evenings, crowds sit about the
open decks to catch the river
breezes and watch the shores
OF Virginia and Maryland move
by-Mount Vernon on the right.
Marshall Halls amusement lay
out on the left, river docks here,
a group of waving campers there
on a bluff.
From below comes the tinkle
OF glasses and laughter in the
cocktail lounge-nothing plush,
but convivial. Another fight
down, dinner is being served! I
found the meals good, the prices
attractive and the walters atten-
tive.
In the main lounge, the ships
hostess and an attendant have
a series of horserace games un-
der way, and they can be as ex-
citing on the Old Bay Lines Dis
trict of Columbia as on
glamour ship in the Caribbean.
Groups of four sit at tables play
ing cards, here and there a soli-
tary figure is buried in a book.
But until darkness closes in,
large groups sit at some van
tage point to catch the breeze
and watch the shoreline changes.
One favored spot is directly un-
der the bridge. Those who are
interested in the principal land
marks along the river can iden-
tify them without asking ques-
tions, with nothing more than
a watch and a list posted op-
posite the purser's Office. Alex
andria at 6:54, says the list;
Fort Washington, 1928: Indian
Head, 8:14; Maryland Point,
$40. Those who stay up to
about 1870 am. can see the ship
leave the Potomac and enter
Chesapeake Bay, off Maryland's
Point Lookout.
Bar service closes down when
the passengers thin out for
sleeping. anywhere from 10 pm.
to midnight.
! l:nkma,e ALa~l
Evening star., 1953-01-18

trained men for either future or
present needs.
Selective Service Director Her.
shey has been speaking Of the diff
flculties that loom in filling draft
quotas within presently established
limits: Childless men between the
ages Of 1872 and 26. Occupational
defermentS cut into the numbers
available and so do educational de-
ferments, although men in school
are, in theory, only postponing the
time when they will serve (The
fact that there are deferments
doesn't mean that the present Sys-
tenn makes for an ineffective system
of UNIT. 1t would be naive to sup
pose that any UNIT law passed by
Congress would be completely uni
versal." Congress can hardly escape
making certain defermentS possible
If not mandatory
Since the end of the Second World
War, public opinion polls have often
reported that the American people
favor UNIT. But Congress hasn't.
1t went through the motions of
voting for it in 1851, but Withdrew
those motions in 1852.
In any event, the Congress, the
people and the new administration
can watch the present system, espe-
cially the Reserve forces as they
are to be reorganized, to see how
it works and if they like it. The
Nation never has had anything like
it before. This system can be a
yardstick for judging whether a
peacetime UNIT system would be
worthwhile.
Evening star., 1953-01-18

Reserve units are also eligible for
pay for attending regular drill Pc
riods. In addition, it is now pos
sible for National Guardsmen and
reservists to earn military retire.
ment. Other incentives include
promotion possibilities and methods
whereby enlisted men may earn
commissions. Reservists also can
attend service schools and serve
short periods of active duty training.
Two Years on Duty
Most proposed UNIT systems advo-
cate six months to year of active
duty training and service. The pres
ent law requires % months, which
gives man his basic training plus
a good taste of active service. When
today's draftee completes his ac-
tive duty he is not honorably dis
charged but honorably released
from active duty and assiged to
the Reserves. If he joins either the
National Guard or unit of the
Ready Reserve, he can at the end
of three more years of service trans
fer to the Standby Reserve.
The difference between Ready
and Standby Reserves is that the
Ready Reserve can be called to &C
tive duty at any time the President
declares a national emergency,
while the Standby Reserve can be
called only when the Congress de-
clares a national emergency.
If the reservist with a six-year
obligation decides that he has neith-
er the time nor the inclination to
participate actively in a military
Evening star., 1953-01-18
BY Mary McGrory

at its height, LANCER refused to join
the general hue and cry for his
custer. To the intense discontinue
of other and more orthodox Repub-
licans, he called the roll of those
party members who had voted to
confirm Acheson in the first place.
Mr.. LANCER was not among them.
Such quixotic action prepared Re-
publicans for Langer's refusal to
mention Eisenhower during the re-
cent campaign.
In spite of all this, the Senator en-
joys friendly personal relations with
his colleagues. In the role of chair
man of Judiciary, he will be in
charge Of judicial appointments, a
fact that causes some apprehension
when it is recalled that the Senator
has not failed to use strong arm
methods to provide proper recog-
milton for North Dakotans. Once
he threatened to hold up all con-
firmations until his constituents got
some consideration. Last spring, he
engineered the appointment of
Thomas Whelan as Ambassador to
Nicaragua. Mr.. Whelan was men,
Evening star., 1953-01-18

the f1rSt custer proceedings against
him. The charges brought against
him were "gross impropriety, rab-
ble-rousing, breach of the peace,
tampering with court officials and
conspiracy to defraud the Federal
Government"
Senator LANCER recalled his past
on the wide-open spaces in his own
words. The record reads like a COL
lection of Wild West stories, most
of which would make Hollywood
blanch with envy. There was the
time. for instance, when the young
attorney broke into a sheriff's desk
to get keys to the cell of some In
dian clients. Or the time he led
raid on three houses of prostitution,
aided by 40 private detectives and
10 counterspies to check on the other
40. After three fake raids, Mr..
LANCER held up the local telephone
agency to prevent any tip-off,
and staged the coup. He was ac-
quilted on the ensuing charge of
melting a riot.
he Oster Cose
The most dramatic episode, with
the full flavor of frontier justice,
concerns Mr.. Langer's efforts in the
OSter Case of 1929.
One day while in court on other
business, he saw a young couple
waiting to get a divorce. He ex-
hn iC if,yf oil
opposed to divorce" So he walked
over and talked Jake and Emma
Oster into a reconciliation. It was
short-lived. Several days later, he
got a collect wire from Jake'S
brother. urgently summoning him to
the OSter home. Jake had shot his
wifeS lover in the cornfield. LANCER
took the case.
Mrs. Oster was the only eyewit-
ness to the shooting. The judge,
LANCER relates, ruled that if Mrs.
Oster remained married to Jake, she
could not testify against him. Di-
vorced, however, she would have to
describe the shooting. The States
attorney held her incommunicado
while resuming the divorce proceed
ings. The decree was granted.
Recalling the impasse, Mr.. LANCER
told the Senators. "It was sort of a
challenge to me-" He swung into
action-action later judged by the
Senators to have been high-handed.
He hired a man to spirit Mrs. Oster
out of hiding. For $50 the man
brought Mrs. Oster to Bismarck.
Meanwhile, LANCER got himself
sworn in as a deputy sheriff, and,
in that capacity, freed Mr.. Oster
from Jail. A rendezvous between the
estranged couple was arranged at q
nearby cafe. Mr.. LANCER urged Mrs.
Oster to remarry her husband, prom
ising her that if. after the trial,
she wanted to be married to
some one else, he would get her q
divorce forthwith. She bought it.
Any duress. investigating Sena-
tors wanted to know?
Mr.. LANCER remembered "they
kissed real lover-like."
Mrs. Oster's divorce action had
stipulated she would be in contempt
of court If remarked within a year
in North Dakota. Undaunted, Mr..
LANCER drove the fairly happy couple
over the State line to South Dakota.
where they were reunited in mar.
riage. Once the knot was tied, Mr..
Evening star., 1953-01-18

organization, the law requires that
his name must be enrolled in the
Ready Reserve where it will stay
for the full six years. This, Of
course, Is real incentive for active
participation. Most men prefer to
get into the Standby Reserve in
three years instead of six. There
are other incentives. BY active par
ticipation the reservist can earn
extra money, retirement credits and
promotions.
Even all these attractions may not
be enough. For the majority of
Americans seemingly do not like
military life in any form. So it may
be that only a few men with a six
year obligation will join an active
unit and the majority will prefer to
take their chances on a Gallup.
If it turns out this way, the ready
reserve is not going to be so very
ready. And it will be evidence that
II we are going to have really
trained and organized Reserve force
ready for immediate mobilization,
Congress will have to make active
participation In the Reserves or
National Guard compulsory.
Just how Congress could enforce
such an edict, barring the threat of
recall to active duty, is hard to see.
Congress can draft men, to be sure,
but would Congress say to a man,
you will earn your own living as
best you can, or as you prefer, but
you will report for drill every Tues
day evening and you will go to sum-
mer camp every summer?"
The wonder is that the proponents
Evening star., 1953-01-18

and the insinuations. His interest
in the plight of nationals of PAX
istan sprang from visit by a poorly
dressed stranger who came to the
Senator's Office after a night spent
sleeping in Union Station. The for
lorn Pakistani told sad story of
diSpossession and threatened depor-
tation.
Did the man come to Senator
Danger because of the latter's repu-
tation as a friend of aliens?
mo-" says Mr.. LANCER. Nobody
else would see him."
Underdog's Friend
The Senator regards himself as
friend Of the underdog and the
champion of the farmer, the work.
ing man and the civil servant. AS
chairman of the Post Office and Civil
Service Committee, he often took the
floor to defend Government en-
ployes or to try to increase their
salaries and benefits. He is indig-
nant at the thought that this Gov
ernment is 'the only one in the
world that does not provide ma
ternity benefits for its workers.
His speeches. incidentally, send
page boys Scurrying to remove any
thing removable from his immediate
vicinity. AS he proceeds in his
hoarse fashion, his voice rising to
something of scream. he pounds
the desk with fury that sets papers
dancing.
Now ST, Senator LANCER is a big,
gray-eyed, gray-haired man with
flying eyebrows and a garrulous, in
formal manner. He denies he is
unpredictable or-perish the thought
inconsistent. His thinking was
formed, he says, by the Non-Par-
tisan League, a progressive farmers
political group founded in 1915.
At the height of it's power it sent
As men to Congress from Is States.
Its partisans have included Senators
Wheeler and Nye. Like LANCER,
they were progressive at home and
isolationist abroad.
AS young man he worked to
elect Robert La Toilette and Hiram
Johnson to the presidency In 1947.
he proposed a National Non-Parti-
san League. Under the NPL,, he says
proudly. North Dakota, with it's
State-owned grain mills and eleva-
tors, its State banks and insurance,
has become more socialistic than
Denmark or Sweden.
Opposed u. N. Chorter
But if he wants all possible aid to
American farmers he is intransigent
against spreading any largesse
abroad. He was one Of two Senators
who voted against the ratification of
the United Nations Charter. He op-
posed the Marshall Plan. saying he
would not send "even single dollar
more to nations which are COM
munistic in fact or to other nations
which are not in sympathy with
American ideals and ways"
He sometimes shows unexpected
sympathies. When President Tru-
man took a swipe at Henry Wallace
for his defense Of Soviet Russia in
1948, saying he ought to go to the
country he loves so we'll. Senator
LANCER had a soft answer: "Mr.
Wallace" he said. "is just as pa
triotic. just as honest and just as
considerate as Harry Truman"
In 1850, when Republican wrath
with Secretary Of State Acheson was
Evening star., 1953-01-18

Of UNIT and members of Congress
who passed these laws don't recog-
nize that they add up to a remark
ably thorough system of universal
military training and service. If
any of them do realize it they are
being remarkably close-mouthed..
There is, of course, the possibility
that they don't want to stir up the
animals just now.
The official line in the Pentagon
is that I'VE must nave UNIT" The
retiring Secretary of Defense, Robert
Lovett, said so again in his recent
report to the President. He wrote
of the need for "a form of universal
military training which will provide
sufficiently trained personnel for the
Reserve components to permit a
reduction in the size of the active
forces"
No Room for Both
This is a laudable objective, of
course. and one highly desired by
all Americans. But it is difficult
to see how any formal UNIT could
be superimposed on the present Sys-
tenn as long as men are needed
for active service in Korea and
elsewhere in the world. It is un-
reasonable to suppose that Con-
gress would not be most happy
to reduce the size of the active
forces and increase the size of the
reserve forces if the Nations COM
mitments would permit it. A for
NAL UNIT system on top Of the
present manpower recruiting setup
would require manpower to operate
it and yet it would furnish few