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Evening star., 1953-07-12
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister. Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain. United States Senate.

tOun0xy Methodist C6ufchs
Chaplain. United States senate.
"What you call disheveled Sundays
are so relaxing. And I need that, after
hard week." But what about Satur-
day? Most folks have that now. Why
not dishevel that, instead Of Sunday,
given us, primarily to keep the soul
alive?
There Is no question now before our
National Legislature any more impor-
tant than this: What are disheveled
Sundays doing to America? As you
scan your Sunday papers, does it ever
occur to you that the startling accounts
Of gangsterism among youth, delin-
quency of teen-agers and the present
phenomenon Of our appalling religious
ly iliterate and poverty stricken gen.
Grafton may be a part Of the harvest
Of disheveled Sundays?
That type Of Sunday is. essentially
selfish. "It imposes no financial OBJ
legation. It accepts no serious re-
sponSibiNtieS or social duties. It builds
no churches. It leaves evil to increase
without protest. In case after case it
means that there is left to others the
religious education Of the young and
the undergirding Of the community
which is the result Of sacrifcial social
service which flows from the churches. {"
The use we make of Sunday con-
stitutes q searching test Of what we
are. To deliberately choose disheveled
Sunday is the act of a social parasite.
After all, it is not just what you are
doing with your Sundays. It Is what
you are not doing with them. Are you
using gold nuggets to fashion marbles
with which to play?
Some one has suggested If q harper
on his way to the kings palace, to sing
his epic and get his coronation, should
busy himself on the road in cutting his
harp strings, one after another, and
using them to lead his dog with or to
play with his child, or to fix his har-
ness. so that when he reached the
kings palace he would have no strings
to his harp, he would be like untold
thousands Of Americans who are build
ing ups their outward lives at the ex-
pense Of their spiritual instincts and
soul aSpiringS.
A well-known preacher has been tell
ing of how he was asked to call on an
old man who was dying, and who was
afraid Of death. Successful in busi-
ness. religiously he had lived a dishev-
eled life. las tenderly as he knew how
the famous preacher spoke to him
about God, the assurances of religion
and the unfailing elixir which would
restore the soul. Bitterly and brokenly,
as he said the words, the old man COM
planned: Il have led very busy life.
I have never had time for that sort
of thing" But he had had 1000 Sun
days!
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Spires Of the Spirit
DisheveIed SUNDAYS

"DiSheveled" means diSOrdered, dis
organized. undisciplined: In personal
appearance, careless. suggesting dis
regard for the opinions and appraisals
of ones fellows. It is an adjective
which appropriately might be applied
TO the disarray of hair or clothing.
But whoever heard Of q disheveled
Sunday? It is Karl Shapiro who uses
the term in a little poem The word
: stands out vividly in a verbal snapshot
depicting the mood Of soldier half
world away from home, during World
War IL. The candid camera took the
picture on Sunday morning in the
South Seas. It reflects the honest
confession Of a homesick American
boy. Let us look at 1t:
The bu0le sounds the measured can to.
Breakfast. the comics, 1tetOS of the latest
crime,
Talk trithout reference
Sleep and the Philharmonic and the
p0nder0nS Times.
What better word could be found in
the dictionary for a Sunday such as
is mirrored in those lines? That is.
assuming that the entire Sunday is
measured there. It is disheveled. form
less, purpoSeleSS. meaningless. To that
boy far from home Sunday did not
mean what 1t did to Richard Watson
Glider. who gratefully wrote lines about
Sundays not disheveled:
HoU oft haue /, a little child,
Hearkened my fathers voice preaching
the Word!
Again see those eager. circling tcces;
Again the deep-Doiced prayer ascends,
Giuing to the still summer afternoon
A sense of the eternal.
1t is that sense Of the eternal which
IS becoming tragically dim and faint
In the hearts Of increasing millions in
America, because an opulent gift is
being drained of its possibilities and
proStituted for less worthy purposes
than those for which it was destined
and designed. One does not have to
be blue-nosed Puritan, such as is
glimpsed in rldlculing caricatures of
some of our spiritual ancestors, to
admit that the one day which, rightly
observed. could go far IN redeeming
modern life from the seculariSm which
threatens to utterly damn it has fallen
among thieves who use it In a way
that cuts the very spiritual arteries
of the Republic. There are radio COM
mentators who tell Of their own Sun
days and list their doings on the first
day of the week. Such autobiographies
are often as pagan as darkest Africa.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Mr.. Dulles Warming

In his appearance before the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee, Secretary Of State
Dulles has given voice to q solemn and alto
gether persuasive warning against any further
cuts in President Eisenhower,s request for funds
to finance this years program OF foreign mili-
tary and economic aid under the Mutual Se-
curity Agency. It is a warning that can be
ignored only at the risk OF playing fast and
loose with the safety of the Nation, and Congress
as whole will do well to ponder it most care
fully.
The President has requested bit more
than $50 billion for the MSA's operations
slash of $2.4 billion in the sum recommended
for the same purpose by the Truman admins
tration last January. In conference, both houses
of Congress have agreed on compromise legis-
lation to authorize total outlay OF $51 billion,
and now several members Of the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee have indicated that
they are eager to cut much more deeply into
the funds actually to be made available. Some
Of them have defended this position with wholly
demagogic arguments casting unjustitied asper-
sions on our allies. Others-with better sense,
but shortsightedly-ha taken the position
that additional economies are necessary because
the free worlds future depends largely on the
solvency of the United States and because that
solvency is threatened by our record peacetime
deficit and ever-mounting national debt.
Meeting both of these arguments head on,
and stressing how our topmost military au-
thorities emphatically view the MSA's outlays as
"the cheapest way to provide for our own Sc
curity," Mr.. Dulles has had this to say to the
Senators: ''You can cut this program substan-
TALLY If you want to, and I'll tell you just what
will happen. The entire mutual security pro-
gram will collapse. All free countries will say
they had better try to go 1t alone But some
countries will find they won't be able to go 1t
alone and will fall prey to Soviet communism.
Then in two or three years we will be back here
with program that will make this one look like
peanuts Meanwhile the balance of power will
have shifted tremendously in favor of the
SovietS through the acquisition Of additional
industrial capacity and the vital resources of
petroleum, iron, tin-and war will have been
made just that much closer and more probable"
Perhaps this exaggerates bit, but there can
be no doubt that such "a possibility is as real
and as threatening as the Kremlin.
True enough, as made clear by what has
happened to Lavrenti Beria, there is trouble
in the Soviet Union right now, and conceivably
the system of Red totalitarianism may be
headed for gigantic crack-up. However, since
conceivabilities are far from being probabilities
nothing could be more foolishly or dangerously
wishful at this stage than to hope for the best
without at the same time preparing for the
worst. AS far as mutual security is concerned
Congress-in keeping with the Dulles warning
should govern itself accordingly.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Nixon's Good Will Tour

I am one taxpayer who has to work
very hard in an Office that is not air
conditioned, when I am not physically
fit to work, and am tired Of paying
tax money for big shots to take So
called good will tours" which all come
at an opportune time and in nice vaca-
tion spots. Now we have the Nixon
family-including Checkers-abou to
take of. can't afford to take a much
needed rest And to think how we blame
the English and other countries who
lavish luxuries on worn-out aristocracy!
Taxpayer.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Labor Party Platform

The shape Of things to come in Britain If
and when the Labor Party regains control Of
government is portrayed in blunt fashion in an
18,0O0-word platform which the party has
placed in public circulation.
Briefly, the party proposes renewed and
expanded naturalization Of industries broader
and more generous social welfare plans, in
creased government controls over prices, invest
ments and trade; higher taxes on the rich, and
a tougher trade policy toward the United
States unless favored by new American tarif
and export-import concessions.
Eight months in preparation, the party
document reflects many Of the views Of Aneurin
Bevan, the vigorous Socialist minority leader
whose followers hold six of the seven seats
In the political subcommittee Of the National
Executive Committee of the Labor Party. Thus,
although Mr. Bevan may still be critical of the
platform for not going far enough, it still
represents a tangible accomplishment for his
extreme group.
Unless q parliamentary crisis forces the
Conservative government out sooner the next
general elections in Britain are scheduled in
the summer Of 1855. Circulation of the Labor
platform at this time, however, will give op-
portunity for full-dreSs debate on 1t at the
party's annual conference in october and will
permit its use as basic guide for Laborites
until elections are called. While the direction
of the document is not surprising the extent
to which the LaboriteS propose to Socialize
Britain If they regain power reflects the depth
of their own determination. It indicates, too,
particularly in the references to world trade
and the disapproval implied toward American
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Mr.. Stokes ScoIded

have never read Thomas L. Stokes
column prior to his invective against
the victims of the Texas drought But
drought that has reached the proper
tions of this one constitutes real disas-
ter and therefore catches the readers
eye in every case.
I am one of those persons who is
first to extol the virtues of the gentle
men of the press. particularly for the
quick aid and assistance they always
render in times of emergency. This
goes for entertainers, musicians and
athletes as we'll. But the harangue Of
Mr.. Stokes is SO unsporting, if not in
humane and un-Christian, that I am
inclined to wonder what such man is
doing on, the staff of fine paper like
The Star.
L. C. Greenwood.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
On'Admittine Aliens

should like to question the letter
OF John c. Holland which was pub
lished June 80 stating that we should
not allow 100000 additional foreigners
into this country since this might cause
a. repeat Of the Rosenberg affair
Frankly do not see the connection
The Rosenbergs were born and reared
in this country fact which made
their crime doubly vicious. Many aliens
make fine and loyal citizens and GER
tainly should not be denied entry be-
cause one reader is little misinformed.
Roma Silberg.
Evening star., 1953-07-12

trade policies, that British American co-opera-
tion-at least In the economic held-would be
an increasingly provocative problem. Whatever
happens, it cannot now be said that the Labor
Party has not put the British voting public and
the world in general on warning.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Letters to The Star

Greek Park where 1t has been proposed
to lead the highway into the park. I
refer to the right of way of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, which might
be double -decked to carry the highway.
Thomas NOrrell.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Overseas Libraries

In my opinion. the condition Of our
overseas libraries is only part of the
awful mess in the State Department
inherited by President Eisenhower.
The purpose of these libraries was
limited strictly by Congress. The intent
of Congress was to combat communism
by spreading information abroad about
the United States. its people, and its
policies on government.
1t seems to me that the project, has
been bungled-a bungling that has
caused some embarrassment distor-
ton Of purpose bordering on fraud, and
complete disregard for the element
of time.
In the first place, it should not re-
quire well-stocked Libraries with large
number of titles. I doubt if it were the
intention Of Congress to provide enough
material to conduct postgraduate
Evening star., 1953-07-12

Pen-'1an1es may be used If letters carry
10rite~S' correct names and addresses
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1953-07-12

OF a popular radio singer, an interviewer
writes that he is as ''unspoiled as the boy next
door," which can be interpreted in various ways,
depending on the boys you have lived next
door to.
Evening star., 1953-01-01
uU become eHechUe
t0,1z0,r0u,- 9 A.M.

And this year, the excitement will be greater because the
reductions deeper and stocks larger Fine regu
lar Kuppenheimer and Grosner Suits and Coats a fairly
marked in the first place. get reduced for this Clearance
Sale Men of WASHINGTON know this merchandise and the
regular prices So thev realize that Grosner Clearance
Sale Reductions allow bargain privileges! Renem
Der, no sale goods just regular stocks with the
lowest price tags of the year.
Evening star., 1953-01-01
Formerly $50 g. S67.5O

Not just handful but large collection
of fine Covert, Gabardine and Cheviot
coats -. all with zip-in all wool Innings.
Raglan and set-in sleeve models. All
sizes.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Mrs. R. |. Rouse, Is,
Mother Of Broker

Mrs. Robert L. Rouse. 73,
mother of Edgar B. Rouse. wide
ly known Washington broker.
died Saturday afternoon at the
home of a daughter, Mrs. How
ard F. Vickery, 4007 Connecticut
avenue NV.
Services will be held at $50
am. tomorrow at Gawler's
funeral home. Burial will be in
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Mrs. Rouse was born and edu-
Gated in Richmond and came
here in 1917 with her husband,
who is now retired from the rail-
way mail service.
Her son is a partner in the
firm of Rouse, Brewer & Becker
and vice president of the Wash
ington Stock Exchange
In addition to her husband.
son and daughter, she is survived
by a granddaughter, Sue Ann
Rouse.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Liberty A. Jamison, so,
Retired Postal EmpIoye

Liberty A. Jamison, so, retired
Post Office employe, died Satur-
day in his home, 742 Crittenden
street NV. He had been in poor
health several months.
Born near Covington, Va. Mr..
JamiSon was graduate OF
Bridgewater College, Bridge
water, Va. He moved to WASH
ington in 1924 to join the Post
Office, from which he retired in
1851 for disability.
His widow, Ada Tinsley Jam
ison, a son, Allen, q daughter.
Mrs. j. F. Miller, Coronado.
Calf. and two grandchildren
survive.
Services will be at Hines fu-
neral home. 1901 Fourteenth
street NV, at Q pm. tomorrow.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Col. H. T.. GriswoId
Assistant Dean at
Maryland University

Col. Harland C. Griswold. 65,
assistant dean Of Maryland Uni
versity's college Of military SCI
ence and tactics. and an out
standing marksman. died yester-
day at Walter Reed Hospital
after a long illness.
After entering the Army in
1917 at Fort Sheridan, Ill. Col
GriSwold attended Officers Can
didate School and later served in
France.
He held the distinguished
marksman's badge, and for two
years was a member of the
United States Rifle Team at
Camp Perry. Ohio. Later he
coached the infantry team there
During World War II he served
on the staff of Gen. George F.
Patton.
Two Tours at Maryland.
Col. Griswold served two tours
of duty at Maryland, 1939-194O
and 1947-1949. While there he
coached the varsity rife team
four times national champions.
He also coached 1t. Arthur
Cooke, Maryland marksman who
in 1948 won both the Olympic
championship and the United
States title.
On retiring from the Army in
1948, Col. Griswold remained al
the university as assistant dean
of the college of military science
Family Services.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Edna Griswold, daughter
Edna C. Griswold of 6910 Garlic
ton terrace, College Park. Md.
the home address; a son, Russell
E. Griswold. New Orleans, and a
brother, Willis r. Griswold
Peru.
Funeral services will be helc
at / pm. Wednesday in the For
Myer Chapel Burial will be ir
Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Lee Moffett, Retired
VA Section Chief

Lee Moffett, 81, retired Vet
erans' Administration employe
died today at Doctors Hospital
after a short illness.
Mr.. Moffett, who lived at 4804
West Leland street, Chevy Chase
Md, retired from the Govern
ment last April after 80 years
service.
He was chief of the disability
section of the Disability Insur-
ance Claims service of the VA
A native of Crawford. Ind.
Mr.. Moffett was a veteran of
World War 1. He joined the
VA as a special expert for the
old Bureau of War Risk Insur-
ance.
Mr.. Moffet left Government
service in 1925 to enter the real
estate business. He returned
about five years later and served
with the VA until his retirement.
A graduate of Butler Univer-
sity, in indianapolis, Mr.. Moffet
was a member of the Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity. He also was
a member of the American
Legion.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Alma Moore Moffett; a daughter,
Mrs. Paul E. Mericle, 5602 Lone
Oak drive, Bethesda; a son,
Bertrand L. Moffett, 1902 Man.
chester road, Silver Spring; a
grandson and a sister, Mrs. Nor
ton Milford of Lafayette, Ind.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Wednesday at the Robert
A. Pumphrey funeral home, 1857
Wisconsin avenue, B It he S d a .
Burial will be in Arlington Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Mrs. Ida Moncure,
Alexandra Native

Mrs. Robinson Moncure. u,
widow of Alexandria Judge Mon
cure, died yesterday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Jack Cor
don Maize, 502 Janney's lane
Alexandria.
Mrs. Moncure, the former Ida
Virginia Grigg and a lifelong
Alexandrian, was a member of
Christ Episcopal Church. She
was corresponding secretary OF
the Mary Custis Lee 17th Vir-
ginia Regiment of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
A son, Thomas Moncure and
three daughters, Mrs. Maize, Mrs,
Robert v. H. Duncan and Mrs
Clyde c. Lamond, jr., survive
her, as do 13 grandchildren. All
live in Alexandria.
Funeral services will be held
at II am. tomorrow in Christ
Episcopal Church. Burial will
be in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
The family asks that no flow
ers be sent. Donations may be
made to the Alexandria Chapter
of the American Cancer Society
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Fred A. Kraft, Retired
Industrial Relations Expert
BY the Associoied Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. g.
Fred Arthur Kraft, 81, retired
industrial relations manager who
was affiliated with various pri.
vate firms and served on a num-
ber of Government boards and
commissions, died here yester-
day.
Mr.. Kraft was born in Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, and attended
the University of Michigan. He
had been living in Avalon, N. j.,
since his retirement.
The industrial relations spe-
cialist had served in the Office
of Production Management, the
National War Labor Board, the
Advisory Committee of the Ma
tional Planning Association, and
the National Security Resources
Board.
Among the private comapnies
he was connected with were
Decker, Alfred and Cohen, q
Chicago clothing Arm. and the
Consolidation Coal Co., of New
York and Fairmont, w. Va.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Mrs. {. {. Harrison,
Gaithersburq Resident

Mrs. Jean Nicol Harrison, ST.
of Gaithersburg, Md. widow OF
Edward Cunningham Harrison, a
Montgomery County farmer, died
yesterday in Doctors Hospital.
A native of Lexington, Va.
Mrs. Harrison was a graduate OF
Madison College. She taught
school in Montgomery County
for a time and later worked for
the Public Health Service.
Two sisters, Miss Mary B. Nj
col, Gaithersburg, and Mrs. Ar
thur B. Metcalf, Chevy Chase,
survive, in addition to two broth
ers, j. B. Nicol. Gaithe1Sburg,
and Charles w. Nicol of Miami.
Services are scheduled for
Wednesday morning in the Rob-
ert Pumphrey funeral home, 800
West Montgomery avenue, Rock
vile. The time has not been
set. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
William ). Howard ,
Georgia Attorney,
Former Lawmaker
BY the Associofed Press

ATLANTA, Aug. 3.-William
Schley Howard, who defended
about 500 persons accused of
murder and lost only one to the
electric chair, died Saturday
night of a heart ailment. He
was IS.
During a legal career stretch
ing over more than half a CEN
tury, Mr.. Howard served as
prosecutor, legislator and Con-
gresham. But it was as a de-
fense attorney that he gained
fame.
Mr.. Howard was once told by
FBI Director j. Hoover that he
had defended more persons
charged with murder than any
other lawyer in the United
States. His son Pierre. also a
lawyer, estimated the total at
500.
Lost Client in 1927.
The only Howard client lost
to the electric chair was Ted
Coggershall. son of a wealthy
Illinois man, who was executed
in 1927 for the Staying of w. c,
Wright. Eatonton, Ga. school
superintendent.
Born in DeKalb County, Mr.
Howard was private secretary
for the late Senator Patrick
Walsh, Democrat, of Georgia, in
1894. A year later he resigned
to study law and was admitted
to the bar in 1897.
In Congress 4 Terms.
He served as solicitor general
of the Stone Mountain Circuit,
position he resigned to run
successfully for the House of
Representatives in 1911. He
served in the 62d and three sue
ceeding Congresses.
In 1918 he was defeated when
he sought nomination to the
Senate, and then resumed his
practice of law in Atlanta.
Probably the most noted case
defended by Mr.. Howard was
that of Robert Elliott Burns,
escaped convict and author of
II Am a Fugitive From a Geor-
gia Chain Gang"
Burns, serving a term for rob-
berry, escaped in 1922. Later, he
returned to Georgia and at the
request of Gov. Ellis Arnall his
sentence was commuted by the
State Parole Board to the time
he had served. At the time of
communication, Burns was a pros
porous New Jersey businessman.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Mrs. Earl 5. Hoag, Wife
OF Former Air Official

Mrs. Earl S. Hoag, So, wife of
Maj. Gen. Hoag, retired director
of the Joint Air Transportation
Board, died yesterday at Walter
Reed Hospital after a long ill
ness.
She recently had undergone a
major operation.
Mrs. Hoag was the former
Ruth T Golf, a native of Lynch
burg, Va. She lived at 1926 Fort
Sumner road, Bethesda.
In addition to her husband.
she is survived by three broth
ers, Robert E. Lee Goff. 6621
Fairfax road, Bethesda; Albert
c. Golf, Roanoke, Va, and
Randolph w. Golf, Lynchburg;
and three sisters, Mrs. Helen K,
Long, San Antonio, Tex; Mrs.
Gladys Beemer. Lynchburg, and
Mrs. Lucy Green. Dallas. Tex.
Graveside services will be held
at 1880 am. Tuesday in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
John Imirie, 81,
Patent Attorney

John Imirie. 80, a patent at
torney here for over so years,
died Saturday in Suburban Hos
pital. He lived at 305 Winnett
road, Chevy Chase, Md.
He was a native of Washing
ton, the son of John and Ellen
Scott Imirie, who came to Wash
ington from Scotland shortly
after their marriage.
Mr.. Imirie represented such
companies as the original Victor
Talking Machine Co., the Singer
Sewing Machine Co., the Cluett-
Peabody Co., the Long Bell Lum-
ber Co. of San Francisco. AL
bert DeWandre of Liege, Belgium
and Fairyland, Inc, of Paris.
He was an active worker in the
Presbyterian church, belonging
to several congregations here.
He also belonged to the Interna-
tional Order of Odd Fellows and
the United Order of the Golden
Cross.
At 81 Mr.. Imirie married Miss
Mary F. Boswell. After her death
in 1945 he married Miss F. Eliz-
abeth Conner, who survives him
Six children-Mrs. Helen I. Con-
tee, Baltimore; Scott F.. Imirie
Chevy Chase; John F. Imirie.
Richmond, and George w. Imi-
rie. Donald Imirie and Paul
Imirie, Bethesda-survive, as do
IL grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 pm.
tomorrow in the Robert A.
Pumphrey funeral home, 1857
Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.