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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-03
Returns To Work

Miss Gladys Morris has return
ed to her duties at Bethesda. Md,
after spending several months IN
hospital in Maryland Her con-
dition is much improved
MI and Mrs. Dallas Rainey. of
Curdsvllle and MI and Mrs Jack
WIngo. Of DnlWyn and Arthur
Carwile. of Sheppards. visited Mr..
and MIS- +. r. Senger, Sunday
evening
Johnny Beasley and Miss Nam
ME Beasley visited Mrs. Alice
Forbes and Dr. and Mrs. R L.
Hutchlhgs at Sheppards. Sunday
afternoon They also visited Mi
and Mrs Garnet Elliott. Of
CurdsVille
Nh ana Mrs Arlis Maxwell. of
Pamplin, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. J W Glover
Mrs J w Jennings and How
ard Cary of Cullen, visited Mr.
and MIS- r l. Harris. Monday.
Dinner Guests
The Rev and Mrs j P Lett
ner and Tommy Anderson, Of
Vera. were dinner guests OF Mr.
and Mrs r. d Senger. Sunday.
r w Senger, Of Farmville, called
in the same home. Sunday after
noon
Nh and Mrs Ralph Repass and
Joan Carol and + r. Repass visit
ed MI and Mrs G. H Morris,
Sunday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. c. NJ Tucker. of
ScottsV!lle, called on Mr.. and Mrs.
r L Harris Visitors, Sunday,
were Nh and Mrs Hugh Hick-
man. of Lynchburg Mr.. and Mrs
P NJ Harris and family. Of Rich
mond Mrs r. f Chernault and
SON Of F'almvlle and Nh and
Mrs r r. OBrcn and children,
Mrs w r. O'Brien and Mrs. j
H Chernault and Bruce, Of
Prospect
Layman Falls, of Dillwyn. visit
ed Mr. ana Mrs J c Bersch
Monday
Sunday Visitors
Visitors Of MI and Mrs w H
Beasley sunday were Miss Louise
Dunkum OF Richmond, Mr.. and
Mrs Laythan Falls and children,
of FarmVllle. MI and Mrs. James
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-03

Dunkum and children. Of Elan
and Nh and Mrs Bill Senger and
son, Mr. and Mrs Odellc Kirby
and Mrs Weldon Simpson. Of
F'armyille
Capt + N Saul and F r. Re-
pass spent Monday IN Richmond
Miss Ann Cook was a Sunday
guest Of Misses Connie and Fran
ces O'Brlen at Vera
Mrs Frank GOWN and Mrs.
Wallace Sprouse and daughter
called Oh Mrs. H f Harris We'd
nesday afternoon.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-03
Buckingham Cadet
Trains Six Weeks

Cadet Johnnie w Gordon, son
of John w Gordon, of Bucking-
ham, junior at University of
Richmond, is one of 1860 cadets
assigned to the 1858 ROTC Sum-
mer Camp at Fort Eustls for the
slX-week training course. which
will continue until July 81.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-03

Mrs. Brown while she was in the
hospital IN Durham
Friends welcome Jack MANS,
who has recently received his dis
charge from the armed forces and
returned home
Capt and Mrs. T N Saul and
Mrs. + K Repass visited rela-
tiyes III Scottsville, Sunday alter
noon
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-07-03
Flynns Fetad
BY Riding Club

Mr. ana Mrs Huah Flynn We're
presented Com Away-Gift sd
the meeting OF the hi County
Riding CLUB Breakfast held SAT-
urday morninR AZ Endilc.d
home Of Nj ana Mrs Gordon
Dorrier The Flynns have been
Hospitality Chairman of 'Ae
Club and are leaving ScottS3ille
in August to make their home in
Tennessee. Mrs w A Dawson
and Mrs John DOrrier were made
mond. Mrs J II Chernault ana
Bruce Of Prospect ana AIRS II.
f Chegnault and son ot Farm
VILE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Minimum Wage Reform

The proposed increase in the minimum wage
rate for women employed in retail trades here
is in line with the national trend. Several
States have raised their rates in the past two
years to meet higher living costs, and in each
instance. the rate was higher than the $25
week established by law in the District in 1947.
A $30-a-week minimum for retail business
in Washington has been recommended by the
Retail Trade Minimum Wage Conference COM
posed of representatives of employers, labor and
the general public. The District Minimum Wage
Board will hold public hearing on the pro-
posed change at an early date. About $1,000
women employed in retail stores would be af-
fected by the increase. The hearing also will
consider possible reduction of hours for retail
workers.
Whatever the fate of the conferences
recommendation, Congress should consider
legislation to strengthen administration of
minimum wage laws and regulations in Wash
ington Most States now have empowered their
minimum wage boards to collect wages from
employers seeking to avoid compliance with the
law. A bill to give similar authority to the
District board died with the last Congress. It
had previously been passed by the Senate The
board is handicapped, too, by an inadequate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
By Charles, E. TroceweH
Analyst.

blues as we call it today. as durable
by a plant, or infusion thereof. It was
all very interesting, and probably got
results, if the faith of the patient was
large enough.
"The human side of plants! We can
all gather renewed zeSt for life and
living by growing such plants as have
these precious old relationships with
the human kind.
Sincerely yours, NJ o. D."
We believe this correspondent to be
right.
We might add that one good point
about many Of these older, especially
the medicinal. plants, is that they at
tract no attention.
Every gardener has suffered at the
exploring hands Of various toddlers.
eager to snatch the heads of the crocus
and tulip and then cast them away.
They know no better, it is true. but
this does not much ease the gardening
heart.
The Sweet Woodruff seldom attracts
attention, except from the knowing.
The Spring Beauty. in bloom, attracts
every child's eye, but the Sweet Wood
ruff they regard as just weed.
Such weeds that have stories Of their
own. and long history. filled with
magic. might and power! The planter
Of such things adds little magic, some
might. and a source of power to his
own thinking. whenshe purchases them
and puts them in the soil, and watches
them grow and thrive at his bidding.
He Is the magician, waving . wonder
full wand.
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This. and That :.

launches himself into veritable sea Of
mild splendor. in which he may splash
to his hearts content
@He can go to a%small drug store on
Eleventh street, 1.-THE wishes, and there
purchase an ounce of golden seal pow
der. made from the root It is sup
posed to have a considerable and pleas
ant stomachic action.
u, .efls1owefs and the mind go together,
Of at least should.
= Surely he or she who plants the
~wilddowers, for instance, will be led in
time to read up about them, and in
doing so will have a measure Of knowl-
edge the average person lacks. There
is no Intellectual snobbery here. Far
from it, the person who works up such
an intelligent interest in plant mate
rails will find sympathy growing with
all living things.
Take the Sweet Woodruff.
Here is a small, green woodland
denizen that has a way Of entwining
itself around the heart of the grower,
as it stands in the shady border, fresh
and green.
'Its very small flowers are insight
flcant. but its fresh appeal is some
thing all growers will realize: and when
they turn to the old herbals. they will
discover that here is plant with real
human relationships.
I'm its day, which was several Gen.
turtles ago. it was held to be good for
almost everything from wounds and
sores to UnhappineSS. The old herbals
had . wonderful way Of regarding the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
''Reno Road.

Dear Sir: .:
ST notice you have taken UP garden
articles again. am glad. because I al
ways valued your fresh approach to
this, as to many other subjects. I mean
no disrespect to regular garden maya
zines and Columns, but do think they
mostly miss the real human side.
with spring coming on, think
many a person becomes garden-minded,
at least for time: they plant the usual
shrubs if just moving into place; or
they go in for the typical perennials. or
may content themselves with ANIMALS.
"All of these are fine, and wonderful.
but they all have one thing in COM
mon. They lack consistent appeal.
That is, they grow to their limit, the
gardener enjoys them, and at last grows
tired of them. At least, many gardeners
do. because the plants have no par
ticular mental appeal.
plants with true appeal to the hui
man mind are the botanical medicinal
plants, which have history and human
life all entwined with them.
These can be grown in any back
yard, and have the advantage Of af-
fording the grower a whole treasure Of
books into which he may look, if he is
so inclined.
Even such fine flowers as the iris
and the gladiolus have no particular
literature. But the golden seal plant.
for instance. has. It is not particularly
handsome, certainly. but the moment
the grower starts to investigate 1t, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Are They Artificial Meteors?

was glad to see the letter from
Engineer in your February issue,
requesting increased discussion Of flying
saucerS in your pages. I would like to
point out that the most probable expla-
nation Of the saucerS is that they are
products Of secret United States re-
search. AS an engineer myself, have
studied the subject carefully, and would
like to present briefly few little-known
facts which support the United States
research" explanation.
/. The United States Earth Satellite
Vehicle Program has been supported by
the Department of Defense since 1948.
and work is now going on at various
installations around the country. De-
tails of this work are unknown to the
Air Force officials supposedly investi-
eating flying saucers.
2. In December, 1916, the United
States started an artificial meteor"
launching program at White Sands,
N. Mex, and shortly thereafter mys-
ferrous green fireballs were seen over
that State. (See article, Artificial Me-
teors." by DR.. F. Zwicky. in Ordnance
magazine, July-August, 194D.
3. The Director of Air Force Intelli-
gence, Maj. Gen. John A. Sanford. at
his famous saucer" press conference
at the Pentagon on July 20, 1852, would
not fatty deny that the saucers were
very highly secret new weapon that the
United States is working on. He only
would say 1--WE have nothing that has
no mass and unlimited power!"
leave it to your engineer and scien-
fist readers to demand more pertinent
and meaningful answer from our public
officials. No newspaper science writer
has yet seen At to press for proper
answer. Yet even half hours queS-
tioning of Air Force Intelligence people
would easily demonstrate to any techni-
cal person that the Air Force saucer
investigation" is cover-up operation
and hoax. The Air Force has not seen
fit to make public the details of any of
its correlations of the reports, or the
names of the scientists supposedly
studying the data.
Analyst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
MEETING Under Control

I trust that you win print this reply
to the letter written by the person who
signed his name as Bob" which you
published in recent edition OF your
paper. - q .'sff s,<4r@ - :
For the record, want to state that
Mr.. Malloy, who introduced himself to
me just before the meeting, stated that
he was an attorney for the Capital
Transit Co. as well as member
of our association and requested that
he be permitted to address the members
regarding the proposed change in the
Sargent road bus route. He did not
give up, as Bob" stated. but was re-
quested to take his seat because he
was arguing with some OF the members
and creating disorder.
Every member present had an oppor-
tunity to present the route he favored.
and several members did so. Each OF
the proposed routes, including the one
proposed by the Capital Transit Co..
was voted on and the route pro-
posed by our Transportation Commit
tee was approved by more than 10 OF
the 80-odd members present. The other
two routes proposed by our members
received three votes and one vote. The
vote was taken by members raising
their right hand. The proposed route of
the Capital Transit Co. received but
three votes.
At no time was the meeting out Of
hand, and only when Mr.. Malloy en-
gagged in argument with. some OF the
members was it necessary to ask the
members to be quiet.
I also wish to challenge "Bob's"
statement that only few Of the mem
bers present represented the people
served by the busline. The association
not only notified the members of the
meeting to vote on the question OF
changing the bus route but went to the
expense of mimeographing and dis
tributing circular letter to all persons
living on or near the bus route. When
all new members were asked to stand
and be accepted in the association. more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
A Burned President

It may be that the Senate would have con-
hrmed Robert c. Sprague, Massachusetts, manu-
facturer, as Undersecretary of the Air Force.
Certainly, as far as any conflict of interests is
concerned, he should have been confirmed.
Mr.. Sprague was not willing to sell his stock
in the family corporation which he founded,
had severed all of his connections with the firm,
and, in addition, the firm, which has never
done much business with the Air Force, agreed
not to enter into any contracts with that de-
partment during Mr. Sprague's incumbency.
This would seem to take Mr.. Sprague's case
outside the scope of the statute which makes it
a crime for an officer of the Government to
transact Government business with any firm in
which he has direct or an indirect financial
interest.
President Eisenhower evidently thought
otherwise, however. His fingers were badly
burned when his first batch of Defense Depart
ment appointments ran afoul of the conflict
of-interests law in the Senate, and it is hard to
blame the President if he has decided not to
risk another smuggling in the senatorial fire.
Mr.. Sprague says that the decision not to
send up his nomination can be attributed to
the fact that mere stock ownership has be-
come a fetish with the administration" Per-
haps so. But as long as the law in question
remains on the books in its present form,
President is going to hesitate to nominate any
man whose stock holdings run into the millions
of dollars. The real remedy is to revise the law
SO that it will not produce or encourage the
absurd result that has come out of this and
other cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13


were presented to the grand master
las consecrating elements" and the
Marine Band played "Miserere" from
"IroVatore. -
mc1920, after World War I, the old
Courthouse Building was remodeled.
The Commission on Public Buildings
and Grounds. in charge of the remodel
ing; decided that the foundation Of the
Lincoln statue was Every insecure" It
was not an idealistic statue and they
wanted to get rid Of it. A District de-
ficiency appropriation bill in that year
included an item for "the removal Of
the statue"
The statue disappeared and an I'M
expected storm burst. The survivors of
the Grand Army Of the Republic unanf-
mously condemned the outrage" The
Loyal Legion. the Aztec Club and the
Sons of the American Revolution were
heard from. Howard University asked
that the statue be placed on its campus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
By George Kennedy

THERE were no wreaths placed yes
l. terday at the Lincoln statue in front
of the old Courthouse. As usual they
all went to the great Daniel Chester
French statue in the Lincoln Memorial.
But the stone figure in front Of the
Courthouse is bit Of the real Lincoln
It is by Lot Flannery. man who saw
the live Lincoln and was very successful
in reproducing him.. s
It is not heroic statue. Lincoln was
not small man. He was feet and
weighed 1870 pounds. He had a small
neck and his hat size was IN.
The French Emissary de Chambrun.
whose journal was republished recently,
spoke Of him as being slight" The
term is understandable in the sense OF
the burdens this figure was carrying.
It is visible in this statue, which is life
size. g =
This is the first public statue to Lin
coin A committee started out to- make
this memorial possible only few days
after the assassination. There were
three members, Richard Wallach,
Mayor Of washington; Crosby S. 5Noyes
Of The Star and George W.. Riggs, q
banker.
The story Of the statue is well told
in Lincoln in Marble and Bronze" by
F.. Lauriston Billiard (Rutgers Univer-
. sity Press, 1882. The sculptor was
chosen in open competition. Lot Elan
merry, a native of Limerick, who had
done an ideal representation of Grief"
in the Congressional Cemetery, won it
with his model He was in Europe dur
ing the opening years Of the Civil War.
He returned to Washington during the
conflict, and there is no doubt that
he saw the living Lincoln, as every one
who was interested in the little Capital,
of that day had an opportunity to do.
The statue was unveiled with much
honor in April, 1863. The ceremony
started with the members of the No. 2
Steam Engine Company firing salute
with q fieldpiece. The Marine Band
led the members of the Grand Lodge Of
Masons to the pedestal. They were
followed by the Sons of Temperance
and, among others. the knights Of
Pythias.
The 18th Infantry band played 1.-THE
Heart Bowed Down" from 1.-THE b.
hemian Girl" The Masons applied the
plumb and level; the corn. wine and oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
No Short Cuts for the FBI

The rush to have the Federal Bureau of
investigation check on the loyalty of newly
appointed Government officials and on all
Americans in the United Nations is an UNDER
Standable manifestation of the new administra-
tion'S determination to clean house. But the
FB1 very properly refuses to be rushed in such
an important undertaking. When the bureau is
asked to make "full field investigation" of
prospective appointee it believes in doing lust
that, with no short cuts. That is why the an
nounced plan of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee for thorough checking by the FBI
OF all State Department appointments has had
to be revised. And it is why Senator Lodges
plan for similar FBI investigation of all Amer
lean employees of the u N. has been modified
To the FIJI, full field investigation means
an exhaustive inquiry into family background,
associations, employment and general reputa-
tion of the subject" This cannot be done at a
desk. It involves the assignment of special
agents to conduct numerous interviews and
examine police and other public records Ordi-
narily such an inquiry can be completed in two
or three weeks. But sometimes, especially when
inquiries abroad are required it may take as
long as two or more months The agents report
must be complete.
When the Senate committee learned that
State Secretary Dulles was planning to send
about 125 foreign-service nominations to the
Capitol before long, it became apparent that
operations OF the State Department might be
stalled indefinitely if full inquiries by the FBI
were to be insisted on prior to confirmation
The sensible alternative of a preliminary GER
LITIGATION of loyalty from Secretary Dulles was
adopted. The FBI meanwhile will make its care
full investigation of each appointee. Committee
members said they have an administration
promise that if the FBI findings in any case
should be adverse, the appointment will be
revoked
Senator Lodges original plan for full field
investigation by the FBI of all American en-
ployes of the U. N. likewise has been changed
to conform with an executive order issued by
Mr.. Truman just before he left Office. Under
this order the FBI will have to give the full
investigation treatment to about 345 key u. N.
employees, but only a routine check of its files
will be made in, more than thousand other
cases of minor employees. It is interesting to
learn that neither Mr.. Lodge nor the Senate
committee consulted the FBI before announcing
their full-inquiry programs. II Is always good
idea to take the FBI In on any plan requiring
Its participation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
For an Orderly Pay System

The revisionS in the civil service system
proposed by special Senate subcommittee,
after two-year study, are generally in line
with recommendations of the Hoover Commits
sion on Organization of the Executive Branch
of the Government 1t is noteworthy that the
congressional group is in agreement with the
Hoover Commissions plan for keeping Federal
pay adjusted through administrative action.
Congress has been cool toward this plan in the
past.
The Senate Civil Service Subcommittee sug-
geStS the creation of Federal compensation
board as part of the Civil Service Commission.
This board would have the duty of keeping
Government pay approximately in balance with
that of outside jobs-but within the salary floor
and ceiling fixed by Congress. Existence of
these outer limits, of course, would complicate
the task of such board. One big advantage of
this plan would be that it would provide means
for keeping the Federal pay structure in order.
Haphazard congressional pay legislation in
years past has knocked the structure out of
kilter almost soon as it was put in balance
under Redistribution legislation.
The Hoover Commissions task force on
Federal personnel advocated establishment,
under the President, of Board on Compensa-
ton Policy and Awards" composed of IL men,
bers appointed by the President from both
major political partieS-four from private life,
four from Congress and four from the executive
branch. This part-time board, aided by full
time staff, would survey Federal pay each year
and recommend upward or downward adjust
ments, within the upper and lower salary limits
previously approved by Congress- The recon-
nendations of the board would become effective
go days after approval by the President unless
Congress vetoed them in the meantime. The
commission particularly stressed the need for
study of the present Federal pay ceiling, with
a view to lifting it by legislative action.
The similarity between the Senate subcom-
nittee's proposals and those of the Hoover
Commission should help to revive tagging con-
gressional interest in the whole problem of
Federal personnel reforms. AS the.subcommittee
points out, the problem embraces not only pay
ihequitieS but cumbersome grievance procedures,
controversial leave policies and other issues.
The lengthy report on this complex subject is
a useful guide for legislative action, now and
in the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
FiIo':,od7iime


The black mud oozes sDhere the rtUer
creeps,
A shining ribbon iUtdening toUdrd the
sea,
1t makes dark patterns mItere a shadoto
sleeps.
Where earth mounds fail to hold a
boundary.
Each gear the mud runs out In
sickeninO 1DGDes.
The precious topsoA OF d once rich
land,
Caught By the Hood and sped to far
flung gTGUeS,
To mingle NTH the oceans bed Of
sand.
Year after year the riuer takes its toll.
The creeping mud slides past the
Deary men
Who trhdoe knee deep in it. their sorry
role
A lifetime spent in earthS grim
regimen.
As old as time and tide, this tragedy
Leaves Ddrning flood marks for postertty.
Catherine {. Berry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Mass DismissuIs

Speaking before an American Fed
Grafton of Government Employee din
ner, Senator Carlson recently said:
wholesale dismissals which occurred
in prior years solely for political reasons
will not recur under the Republican
administration" Surely Senator Carl
son knows that those mass firings oc-
CURED under the 80th Congress, con-
trolled by the Republicans, and then
many of those people, those who would
come back, had to be rehired. No Won
der he also says he ''can understand
why a change in administration may
cause concern"
So let's be honest and not by innu-
endo blame the Democratic administra-
ton for something like this. 80.
Honest Democrat.