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Evening star., 1953-11-29

was unfair and, now that sew
eral key Prince Georges groups
also protested that the money
was needed for important
county projects, the commits
Sioners are expected to drop
the idea.
Meanwhile, the Montgomery
County Council plans to meet
next Wednesday on the as
sessment situation as revealed
in the tax commission study.
Mysterious Copt. Gore
Emergency Hospital officials
scratched their heads over an
elderly entrant in their recent
hobby show who brought in
some gadgetS. gave the name
of Capt. Gore" and said he
had been connected with the
hospital board for years.
capt. Cores" entry was
displayed with the others but
they still don't know of any
Evening star., 1953-11-29
County Toxes

Montgomery County resi-
dents who are still simmering
over the increases in their
property assessments made
last year will draw small COM
fort from the study released
the other day by the Mary
land State Tax Commission.
While the figures showed
pretty clearly that equality of
assessments on a Statewide
basis simply does not exist,
Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties were among
Evening star., 1953-11-29

ously-regardleSS of any prin-
ciple involved.
The order, however, con-
tains the clear intent to inte-
crate the department "as soon
as the Commissioners deem
the public interest will per-
nit"
Commissioners Intent
In the case of the penal
institutions. where most of
the inmates are colored, the
issue was one of potential dy-
Mantle. Of the three-the
jail, the workhouse and the
retormatory only the Jail
could be classed as a security
institution. There was felt
TO be danger of incidents
among the prisoners which
the workhouse and reforma-
tory might not be able to
handle if complete integra-
ton were forced Immediately.
Nevertheless, the Commits
Sioners have stated their in
tent that ultimate and perhaps
gradual integration would take
place within the shortest
possible time consistent with
sound administrative and
pathological practices and the
public interest"
No comment has been forth
coming from the White House.
although it may be assumed
the draft was cleared with
Maxwell Rabb, presidential
aide on minority matters. The
minority groups, however, were
vociferous in denouncing the
order for the exemptions.
Time has a habit of taking
care of these things, though.
If you don't believe it, look
around you.
Evening star., 1953-11-29

IMPORTED FANCY SHIRTS BY
HATHAWAY. Fashion-wise, fancy
shirts are now at their peak in popular
ity. Men like them for daytime busi-
ness and social occasions as a welcome
change from conventional white, These
fine shirts by Hathaway are made of q
superb quality imported English broad.
cloth, in neat stripes and checks. Reg.
ular and short point collars, French
cuffs $40
Evening star., 1953-11-29

TATTERSALL VESTS. An extremely
smart and popular gift idea this Christ
mas. Worn for warmth as we'll as for
adornment. Our vests are made of the
finest imported English materials, thor
oughly hand-taiIored. In traditional tat
tersall checks; black and blue, tan and
black, red and black on white grounds.
Regulars and longs. 38 to 46. S25
Other fine Uests from 1885 to $3.50
Evening star., 1953-11-29

SKI-TYPE BALBRIGGANS BY
MUNSINGWEAR. Men who love
their comfort will love you for this gift.
Boys at school, TV addicts, travelling
men are among their greatest fans.
Made of downy-soft brushed cotton,
nylon reinforced at neck and cuffs. Will
never lose their shape. Wash like a
charm. Elastic c-waistband and knit for
permanent fit. Handsome two-tone color
effects. Sizes A, B, c, d $4.9S
Fine Quality "Tnterlock" Knit
BdlbriggGnS -$695
Evening star., 1953-11-29

"FITWELL' HANGERS. Not a sim-
mick but handsome, useful, worthwhile
gift that any man would be happy to re-
ceive. Made of finest imported seasoned
beechwood, these hangers are built to
last a lifetime. Shaped to the human
frame, they prevent sagging, wrinklins,
creasing =. actually make the garment
last LONGER and look better. The trouser
attachment has heavy fittings, works like
a charm ---- S2.95
Separate Trousers Hangers - CSC
Mail and Phone Orders Filled.
Evening star., 1953-11-29
We're no,C open Monday
and Thursday Nights

MACINTOSH" ENGLISH REVERS.
lBLE GOLF JACKETS. Cleverest
idea of the season and a magnificent gift
for a man! Actually TWO complete
jackets in one! Made of lightweight
water-repellent poplin with pockets on
each side Of the reversible. Colors are:
navy and maroon, navy and light blue,
brown and tan, green and tan. Specially
made for us in England with elastic
waistband. button cuffs, storm tab at
neck. Sizes SO to 46 --- $29.5O
Macintosh English Raincoats, $3.50
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Loymon of the Year 1853

The Washington Federation of Churches
made Singularly happy and appropriate
choice in designating WoolSey w. Hall as the
outstanding "Layman of the Year 1858"
AS a churchman and a leader in civic
life, the retired Treasury Department employe
has brought to the Washington community
full measure of devoted and untiring service
for many years past. Named to the Citizens
Advisory Council when this representative
group was established last year, Mr.. Hall has
been a source of strength and wisdom in this
particular experiment of drawing upon the
highest type of civic consciousness for counsel
on the conduct of our local government The
quality of his service in this connection, how
ever is but continuance of the constructive
and tolerant qualities which he had demon
strated already in the service of his church,
the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian, the District
Board of Education. and the District Federation
of Civic Associations.
In accepting his latest honor, Mr.. Hall
remarked that "the approval of ones fellowmen
is the most durable satisfaction of life" Mr.
Hall has earned that approval and the giving
of it enriches those who have had the privilege
and the benefit of being associated with him.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

Wicks refused the request, the Governor called
a special session of the Legislature but made it
clear he would not take any steps in the mean
time to invade the prerogatives of the Senate
to pass upon its own officials.
It is not surprising that the issue split the
Republicans in the Senate Mr.. Wicks has served
for q years and has many friends in Albany
Governor Dewey, on the other hand, is the
leader of his party in the State and was on
sound ethical and political grounds in feeling
the Senator's conduct had been improper and
that he should not remain next in line to the
governorship. Mr.. Dewey has not been trying to
remove Mr. Wicks from public Office he has
simply been trying to remove him from the line
of succession to the governorship. Mr.. Dewey's
purpose now has been accom- plished-a result
that hardly seems a reputation of the Gov
ernor's point of view or a sign of weakening
of his leadership.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Mr.. Dewey VS.. Mr.. Wicks

The resignation of Arthur H. Wicks as
majority leader and temporary president OF
the New York State Senate has averted a
showdown on the Assembly floor on motion
for his custer.
AS compromise. it is being widely inter-
preted as a rebuff to Governor Dewey, who
asked on October IL for the Senator's resigna-
ton from the leadership posts, and as blow
to the Governors political prestige. This appears
to be strained Interpretation. In press con-
ference following four-hour meeting with Mr..
Wicks on october IL, Governor Dewey told
reporters he had informed the State Senator
of his disapproval of Mr.. Wcks visits to Joseph
s. Fay, labor leader and convicted extortionist,
at Sing Sing Prison and had suggested he
should resign the Senate leadership because
that put him in the position Of exercising the
duties of Lieutenant Governor" When Mr..
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

suit" The man thus finally captured
had been an assistant cashier at the
Northampton Bank in London. He al
legedly had embezzled more than $780,
600" and fed to the continent, then to
America. For while he had lived in
New York Later he was in hiding un-
der assumed names in Boston and in
Marion. Ohio. When at last arrested
he was operating jewelry store under
the alias Henry Jorgan. The detective
who was his nemesis was Edward Wes-
ton. a famous operative of Scotland
Yard Morrison agreed to return to
England without waiting for extradi-
ton proceedings.
A telegram from Seattle, reproduced
in The Star of November 8, 1903, quoted
Charles v. Sale, "a millionaire
Jopdn business man who has lived in
Reody Yokohama for the past %
years." as saying: Japan is
all ready for war with Russia" Most
japanese. he explained, expect war
and want it, but :. the government so
far has pursued very conservative
policy and has succeeded in keeping in
check the more radical ones. -. The
newspapers of Japan have entered into
an agreement to print nothing about
the movements of either the navy or
the army, and all strangers are closely
shadowed to prevent Russia becoming
aware of Japan's preparations"
X
The Star on November 10, 1908, an
nounced: Representative Champ Clark
of Missouri declared today
Clerks that he had in preparation
Bill his annual bill to be intro
duced providing territorial
form of government for the District of
Columbia. Mr.. Clark has introduced
this bill for number of years past
The provisions i. are well known. 1t
provides for the election Of local NUM-
cipal officers and for Delegate from
the District :. to the House Of Repre-
sentattves."
Evening star., 1953-11-22
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
ChAnlain rnifad Sfafes Senafe

Mip!s:s5 iPou11Fy a,.d MsthSass Church;
cant words: mo social mechanisms.
no economic systems, can save US now.
Not unless man himself can be i'm
proved can any social order now sur
vive AS scientists we can no longer
sneer at what are called spiritual quail
tiles. for on their strength depends our
very survival"
It is becoming increasingly clear
that strenuously avoiding the dangers
of religious indoctrination has blinded
instruction. However. there is new
vision for our public schools centering
around the conception of teaching
about religion That is note being
emphasized in teacher training by the
American Council on Education, as it
declares: THE public school can teach
effectively about religion without adj
vocating any religious creed. To omit
from the Nations classroomS all refer
ences to religion and the institutions
of religion is to neglect an important
part of American life" To deliberately
taboo all teaching as to the vital place
of spiritual verities in building charac-
ter and to be silent with regard to the
irrefutable historic facts of religion
in molding our very culture is as il
logical as it would be to compel class
to sit in blazing light streaming from
electric bulbs and then, for fear of con-
troverSy, forbid any reference to
Thomas A. Edison. No wonder Associ-
ate Justice Robert H. jackson Of the
Supreme Court, in enunciating an i'm
portant decision, declared: Education
and religion are inSeparable. One can
hardly respect a system of education
that would leave the students wholly
ignorant of the currents of religious
thoughts that move the world society,
for part in which he is. being pre-
pared" Certainly the fourth r. looms
in all it's true Importance in that Su-
preme Court pronouncement.
We never must forget that freedom
is religious concept What we call
our inalienable rights are conferred
not by any government. but by the
Creator. Freedom remains valid only
on hallowed ground from which the
spires Of the spirit leap up. speaking
of the God who is in all and above all.
The future of all that we hold dear
uCPCA1uS upOA PuttulS IISIlUCOuSAcSS
into the educational cup so early lifted
to the lips of our future citizens.
The trumpets are sounding for
new crusade as the holy trinity of the
home, church and school march to-
gether to dispel the darkness of a
materialism which has in it the germs
OF death. We must make the ancient
motto of oxford our own: God My
Light" For Americas future and the
worlds we fight with light. And that
means with that upon which our
Nation was established, the fourth
"R"-religion.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

On November 7. 1908. The Star
society column contained an account
of the party given
Florence Towers for Florence Towers
Porty on her 18th birthday
anniveP Sary. Her
home then was at 1910 D street Sc.
and the parlor there was crowded with
members of The Evening Star Sunshine
Club--all in fancy costumes. Nioba
Giles, for instance, appeared as Little
Lord Fauntleroy, and Summerville Nc
LeareIl was >Mephistopheles, while May
McLearen was. Bo-Peep and Genevieve
Staley a ghost. Ella Smallwood and
Clifford Hodgsen came as a bride and
a groom. Selena Yost was flower girl,
William Yost cowboy, Bessie Yost
fairy, Elsie Yost Grecian lady. Others
attending included: Harold King.
Florence Smith, Madge Staley, Ethel
Giles and Florence's brothers, Edward
and Raymond Florence herself grew
up to be Mrs. Garrett l.. Mothersead.
She lives at 1912 South Ives street,
Arlington, and is employed in the De-
partment of Agriculture. A son. Charles
T. Mothersead, and daughter, Mrs.
John A. O'Keefe, have provided her
with four grandsons to be proud about.
She is active in new Lutheran church,
temporarily meeting in the Oak Ridge
School Ella Smallwood is Mrs. Her.
bert Poole, and Elsie Yost is Mrs.
John c. Leukhardt, jr.. research as
sistant in the District of Columbia
public schools who still resides at 1902
Pennsylvania avenue. Sc, and next
Thursday will celebrate Thanksgiving
with her family for the 59th occasion
in the same house.
A telegram from Chicago. printed on
the first page of The Star on October
81. 1903, announced
John Morrison the arrest of John
Arrested Morrison. latter
chase lasting IA
months and In which two continents
were traversed with q detective In pur-
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Letters to The Star.
Pen-1aGn1es may be used If letters carry
10riterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

mended Saturday (the Sabbath) as
among the other days on which special
sales should take place. There are in
this community several thousand Sab.
bath-keeping Jews and Seventh-Day
AdventistS as we'll as several tiny groups
of Sabbath-keepers such as the Sew
enth-Day Church of God, SeventhDay
Pentecostals, and Seventh-Day Bap-
fists. 1t hardly seems fair to recon-
mend that day held sacred by sew
eral thousand people should be espe-
cially commercialized any more than.
should Sunday, even though those peo-
pie are a minority. -.
Nevertheless, I am sure that all OF
us Sabbath-keepers are hopeful that
Sunday sales which interfere with the
majority going to church will volun-
tarily cease so that the religious life of
the Nations Capital shall not suffer.
Lee Holloway,
Pastor, Washington Seventh-Day
Baptist Church.
...
1t appears that DIR. Reissig would
like to see the Board of Trade exert
some sort of pressure on businessmen
to close their businesses on Sunday,
irrespective of their personal beliefs.
DR. Reissig did not mention Sunday
law ir his letter. but any such act to
restrain businessmen could very we'll
lead tc such law or to stricter enforce
ment of one perhaps already on the
books. I wish to say that am 100 per
cent opposed to any such restraint on
the personal liberty of the individual,
ol to any suggestion in that direction.
I should like to remind DR.. Reissig
that it is traditional in this free land
of ours to respect our neighbors right
to rest on his chosen day or to work
sever days a week if he so chooses.
Warren F. Adams.
X
Well they are at it again, or shall
say yet. Who? The blues" (blue law
advocates), and the dangers from the
Evening star., 1953-11-22

ernor of one of our States has called
an abandoning of fashioned, Ten
Commandment honesty" The harvest,
with the fourth "R" largely ignored, is
now being reaped in the steadily in
creaSing crime wave, a coarsening of
morals. lowering of the common
practices of courtesy and decency and
debasing of sex, the 1ewd levels of
which are revealed on almost every
newsstand. Much of our modern fic-
ton in its depletion of what goes on
under the facade of responsibility bor-
ders on the pornographic Contempo-
rary books that tens of thousands of
people in our best" homes read as
sumo that the old moral sanctions are
taboo and that decency is only another
name for immaturity. If such novels
mirror the truth, then our ailing civili-
zation, now spending with prodigality
it's moral capital, will sooner or later
be dead and damned.
Gen. Omar Bradley but utterS
the sober truth when he says: "Ours
is world of nuclear giants and ethi-
cal infants" Americas StupendouS Job.
vaSter by far than propping up Sagging
government abroad, is to educate these
ethical infants at home. This cannot
be done If the fourth "R' is left out
Of the pedagogical quartet. Our very
national survival, let alone our ability
to exercise the awesome responsibility
of world leadership, depends on the
successful prosecution of the task now,
at long last, thank God, being blue
printed by our religious and educa-
tional leaders to put ethical cement
back in the loosened walls of America.
1t is now daWning even on many whose
spiritual insights have been dulled by
acquisltive secularism that democracy
minus character spells despotism and
decay.
In speaking to a graduating class,
DR.. Sinnot of Yale, president of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, uttered these signifi-
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Sunday SoIes'

Sun0dy S0leS
Why does DR.. ReisSig want stores
closed on Sunday? Is it, as he infers.
because Sunday is a religious day? If
so, then the forceful closing of stores
and other business places on Sunday
would be forcing religious institution
on good citizens and deprive them of
their Godgiven rights.
Preachers are ordained to preach the
gospel, to persuade men, not to force
men to accept their views.
If the open store is not uncivil on
Monday then it is not uncivil on Sun
day. A civil act on religious day does
not make the act uncivil. That which is
really uncivil is such every day in the
week. The civil government should
never have to do with any act but that
which is a violation of civil law.
E. w. Carey.
In reference to Dr. Reissigs recent
letter on Sunday Sales" I believe ALL
Christians can sympathize with the
main sentiments of his thesis that any
thing such as special sales on Sunday
which completes with church worship
and modern "back to God" movements
is to be decried. Surely commercial
firms which reap many benefits from
the good character instilled by our
churches and synagogues ought to re-
Spect the churches enough not to try
to draw people away from the worship
of God on the day most people are in
clined to go to church.
would like to point out, however,
that better solution to this problem
would be for the large Christian
churches to correct themselves and re-
turn to observing as a special day of
rest and worship the only day in the
week which God himself has hallowed.
That day is the seventh-day Sabbath,
which falls on Saturday.
In view of the above facts, think
DR.. Reissig should not have recon-
Evening star., 1953-11-22

The Star of November 6, 1903, an
nounced the death of James O'Neil, 818
B street NE, "last
Death OF evening"" He had
james O'NeiI been dealer in
books for nearly 40
years though at the moment of his
demise he was only 49 years old. Three
decades of his career had been spent in
the employ of j. K Williams. Later, he
conducted the Washington Book Shop,
500 Seventh street NV. "An exceed
ingly popular man." he was buried in
Mount Olivet Cemetery after services at
st. Joseph's Catholic Church.
X
On November IL, 1908, The Star
featured an account of the dedica-
tion of the Germanic Mu-
6ermonIc scum at Harvard Univer-
Museum sity-"the newest mile
stone of German American
friendship" Kaiser Wilhelm II was
the principal donor of the gift. It in
cluded books. pictures, reproductions of
precious gold and silver utensils of the
Middle Ages and scientific materials.
Prof. Kuno Francke had been desig-
mated curator. The opening ceremony
was presided over by Prof. Hans G. G.
Won Jageman. Carl Schurz was one
of the speakers. DR.. Charles w. Eliot
responded for the university.
Front page space in The Star for
November 13, 1908, was used to tell of
the murder of An
Murder of drew H. Green. SO.
Andrew H. Green famous lawyer
and father of
Greater New York" that day. He had
been shot by q man who wished him
to discharge q maid In his employ
and had died instantly. The name of
the murderer was Cornelius M. Will
liams A native of Massachusetts,, Mr..
Green had devoted his talents to the
development Of New York City for more
than half century. He had been
president Of the Board Of Education In
1856, presidpt Of the Park Board from
Evening star., 1953-11-22
How Not to Join a Club

In effect in it's application for membership
in the International Labor Organization, the
Kremlin has acted more or less in the manner
of a bumptious individual brassy enough to
propose to club that he should be admitted
into it on the basis of a prior understanding
permitting him to ignore and violate the clubs
rules.
At any rate, in seeking to join the ILO-a
specialized agency affiliated with the United
Nations-the Kremlin has declared thatit looks
with great disfavor on certain provisions of the
organizations constitution. Further than that,
it has attached to it's membership application
several presumptuous reservations that would
give it the right if accepted, to refuse to abide
by those provisions 1t has done this despite
the fact that the HOS prime rule for admission
is that every applicant must formally accept
the HOS constitutional obligations.
All this of course. is typical of the Soviet
approach to international undertakings in every
field Needless to say, the HOS director gen.
eral, using remarkably restrained and polite
language, has rejected the application of the
Russians and suggested that they may wish
to consider the desirability of giving the matter
further consideration" Stated another way
they can have membership when and if they
agree in advance to live up to the clubs rules
including the rule that certain disputes should
be referred to the World Court.
The men of the Kremlin will not like this
rebuff, but they have asked for it. After all, a
club Is club whether 1t Is made up of indi-
viduals or nations and when one asks to join
it, one has to accept its rules instead of filing
reservations against them. To argue to the
contrary Is merely to display q large measure
Of booriShness.