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1Z1O In1fCleCn
street NV,
after a two
week illness.
His anceS-
tors includ e
Lewis Morris,
signer of the
Declaration of
Independence.
and Gouver-
neur Morris,
signer of the
Constitution.
Mr.. Helfen-
stein attended
Vale and was
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three children, all of Old Green
wich, Conn, and q brother.
Thomas B. Meyer Of Min.
neapolis.
Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
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James He|ienstein,
Founder Of First u. 5.
Choir School, Dies

James M. Helfenstein, founder
of the first choir school in Amer
lea at Grace Church, New York,
died yesterday in his home.
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Uarn nf Chunks

CHAPMAN, JESSIE CosTLEY. The fam
MAN wishes to acknowledge with sin
cere gratitude and thanks to the Rev.
G: B. La. Grange. Rev. M. J.: Keys and
all branches Of the Eastern Star Lodge.
their sympathy. floral tribulas tele-
grams. cards and the use CT their ears
at the death Of our wife, mother. daugb-
ter and sister. The FAMILY. Ii
HALL, MARIAN. The family of the late
MARIAN HALL wishes to thank the
neishbors, friends and deborah House
hold of Ruth for the beautiful. ora.
contributions and expreSstons of SYM
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BROWN, KATE v. In loving memory
Of my dear grandmother. KATE v.
BROWN. who departed this life twenty
1929.
And courage to meet the blow;
But what It meant to lose her
This world will never know.
If all the world was mine to give,
I would give ii. all and more.
To see the face of my grandmother
Come p smiling nrn. I'll thr r9 the G1er
CAMPBELL. DANIEL: Sacred 70 the
CAMPBELL. who passed away two years
ago today, February II. 1851.
Our thoughts of you will never fade,
When all the years have. flown:
Your memory as the brightest star
DEVOTED wv M1rE Eene co Ssa CAM eaMpiBELL
AND FAMILY.
COLBERT, ANNA NJ. In sad but loving
remembranee Of my dear mother; ANNA
twenty,six years ago today. February
II. 1927. Anniversary mass st. Aloysius
YOUR LOVING DAUGHTER. KATH-
ERNIE E. CARBERRY.
DUVALL, BERNARD, and JOSEPH DYER
In memory of my husband, BERNARD
DUVALL, who passed away. twenty--four
seatses aso yE SSs and our
February Is. 1852.
May their souls rest in peace.
IDA DYER DUVALL. LUCINDA AND
CORA DYER.
HARVEY. DAISY BRUCE. In loving
BRUCE HARVEY e' Who Departed A this
1857 b5 oH' year ago '00a'' FEBRUARY H.
1t was in the morning,
One year ago today
And took our dear sister away.
Our hearts cannot tell how we miss her.
Our lips do not know what to say:
God only knows our true feelings.
HER foH e0s su AND S sRo od9
And AN cARLE cAMpBEEI. sr
HARVEY. DAISY BRUCE. In sad but
loving remembrance Of our deyoyted
BRUCE HARVEY, who departed this
life one year ago today, February II
OF those who loved her best,
Whose lives she frightened every day
More than she'd ever guessed.
God bless her for her smiling face.
And all she. tried to do;
To bring US happiness on earth.
There is still an ache in our hearts
That passing years cannot take away.
A place ace. in our hearts that nothing can
We miss you, dear ma Day" and
HF RoB h0sdSG GEoRaE iN BoH JAMES
BRUCE,
JONES. JOHN e. Sacred to. the memory
of JOHN e. JONES, who departed this
life nine years ago today, February
II, 1914.
Although nfe's sun for each must set,
ln0se Wh0m we love we s nsEfI forget
MARTIN, ELIZABETH. In sad but low
ELIZABETH MARTIN. who passed away
six years ago today, February II. 1947.
MY lips do not know what to '1 say W.
Which I hide under my smile each
HER DEVOTED DAUGHTER, JOHN
ANNA WASHINGTON.
MUSCHLITZ, ROLAND c. In loving
ROLAND G. MUsCHIITz, who departed
this life two years ago today, Febru-
beyond the morning blue,
And when the moon has disappeared
We shall remember you.
Not only now or even when tomorrow
But every time the darkness dims and
fades before the dawn:
It is quiet atmosphere that brings
your face to US.
And gives kind magic touch to every
memory.
We shall remember you in all the beauty
of the past,
This time tomorrow and Is long as
ever we may last.
When we forget your laughter and
brightness of your eyes.
When we forget your smile the sun
shall forset to rise.
the leafy glen.
When we forget, spring shall FORGET to
come to earth again.
LOVING WIFE, SUSAN, AND SONS,
ROLAND j. AND PAUL E. MUSCH-
LITZ.
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LORD. RALPH r: Suddenly, on Monday.
2717 Branch ave. Sc. RALPH F. LORD,
beloved husband of Anna NJ Lord (nee
Mccarthy. father of Edward. Ralph.
dali and Mrs. Marie Holiday. Funeral
from the Timothy Hanlon Funeral
Home. 1891 Ga. ave. NV, on Thursday,
mass at st. Francis Xavier Church.
18th and Penna. ave. Sc. at am.
1nterment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Rela-
tives and friends invited IS
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Lloyd, MABEL. omcers and members
OF Martha Chapter, No. II,
5: 'i|:;;
1858, at l p.rn.. to attend the
funeral services for our late sister,
MABEL LLOYD. BY order Of
EUGENE BROWN, w. M.
JAMES DAVIS, w. p.
JUSTINE MCCALL. Gerrefarv
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RICHARD I. st. Augustine
Commandery. No. s, Knights
u st. John, announce the
Heath OF Brother RICHARD
QUANDER. All members
ire .equested to assemble at
he Mcguire Funeral Home,
S2S 9th st. NV, on Tuesday,
III 1858, at $50 p.m.. to
RS for the repose of his soul.
FRANK WOOD. President.
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FHREE CENTURY LOTS, in best Sec
fion Of Cedar Hill: perpetual care; will
sacrifice for $500. Is need cash now.
Call Lu, 1868. -1S
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JONES, JOHN E. Sacred to the memory
Of JOHN E. JONES, who departed this
life nine years ago today, February
II, 1914.
Although nfe's sun for each must set,
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ruary is. 1858. at the home Of her
dauEhter, Mrs. A. NJ. Sisk. Lee Forest.
of the late Willard F. Carter. mother
OF Mrs. A. NJ. Sisk. Mrs. Ben D.. Smith
Ices and interment in Black Hawk.
Miss. Local ARRANGEMENTS by the
EVERY Funeral Home, Fairfax, Va.
Evening star., 1953-08-02

an Armistice," it reads as follows in
translation:
Is the initiative for an armistice
taken invariably by the vanquished?
There has been at least one case in his
tory in which the victor-(and what a
victor)-proposed the suspension of
hostilities.
On the 11th of Germinal, Year v,
March 81, 179D. Bonaparte. after a
year of victories-(and what victoriesD
was writing from Klagenfurth the
following letter to Prince Charles, Cen
eral-in-Chief of the Austrian Army:
"Sir General-in-C Chief: Valiant mill
tary men make war while seeking peace.
Have we killed enough people and
caused enough evil to wretched man
kind? Europe. which had taken up
arms against the French Republic, has
laid them down. There remains only
your nation and in the meantime the
blood will be shed in greater profusion
than ever before This sixth campaign
is being heralded by sinister omenS.
Whatever it's issue, we will kill on
both sides thousands of men, and
it must needs that we should end
it by coming to an understanding. be-
cause everything has an end, even hate
full passions.
"As for me, if the overture have the
honor of making to you is capable of
saving the life of a single man, would
esteem myself prouder of the civic
crown 1 would deserve, think, than of
the melancholy glory which might come
to me through military successes.
Napoleon Bonaparte."
This curious letter of Bonaparte, in
which boastfulness and humility COM.
mingle in the "tragedian" and come
dian" roles the future Napoleon was
to excel in, resulted in fact in the
armistice of Leoben and eventually in
the Peace of Campoformio,
Constantine A. Chekrezi,
Former Commissioner of Albania to
the United States of America.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Help From the Budget Bureau

The Federal Budget Bureau has given its
qualified approval to the Commissioners public
works program with pronouncement of vital
Importance to the future of Federal-DiStrict
fiscal relations. Through the bureau, the Gov
ernment has put itself on record as recognizing
the need for Immediate and continuing in
creases in the amount of Federal contributions
to the District" The statement of policy should
carry great weight with Congress in its prospec-
tive studies of the Federal financial obligations
toward the Nations Capital.
The Budget Bureau has indorsed the prin-
ciple, often expressed by District officials and
others, that the United States should not only
pay in full for water and sewer services but
should reimburse the District in the approx
mate amount OF taxes lost by removal of Fed
eral property from the tax lists. 1--WE believe"
the bureau declared, that such an increase is
overdue and can be thoroughly justified at
figure in the neighborhood of $40 million year.
which is the approximate amount that the
board estimates would be levied on Federal
property under existing tax rates if such prop
erty were taxable" This would bring the Dis
trict about 500 million additional from Federal
sources over the 10-year period recommended
by the bureau for completion of the public
works program.
The bureau is completely right in contend
is overdue. The fact is that had the United
States long ago adopted the formula indorsed
by the bureau Washington would not today be
faced with public works problem of the mag
nitude provided in the current plan. The fifty
fifty division of cost which once existed between
the Federal and District governments has
dwindled over the years until today the Federal
Government is paying less than 8 per cent. This
is disgracefully small, considering the size of
the Federal establishment and its growing
demands for municipal facilities and services
This accumulated deficiency of Federal
payments must be taken into consideration in
connection with the Budget Bureaus suggestion
that the financing of the construction program
be kept within the regular budget framework
of the District" To do this would mean appar-
emily, substantial increase in local taxeS-out
of proportion to the Federal share, provided it
had always been at an equitable level. District
taxes are high right now-necessarily so because
of the failure of the United States in recent
years to pay up as it should. 1t is tremendously
encouraging, at long last to have the Federal
Government admitting its delinquencies and
agreeing that it should meet its obligations fully
In the future.
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products Of its industries. This essential trade
was reviving between 1946 and 1850, but the
outbreak of the Korean war and the Com
munist capture of China combined to shut it
off once more In the years between, United
Nations expenditures for goods and services
connected with the Korean war have been the
major factor in supporting japanese industry.
Although these are not yet at an end, and
American assurances have been given to Tokyo
that our own spending must remain at rela-
lively high level in Japan for some time, the
handwriting is on the wall
Japans association with the West, and
with the United States in particular, is i'm
portant in the current global struggle. Japan
wants. and needs, economic independence
eventually. Such independence almost GER
tainly requires a substantial japanese trade
with parts of the Communicated Asiatic
mainland The time is close for some concrete
and cooperative, economic planning on the
subject.
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Japan Wants Trade

Unanimous passage by the Japanese House
of Representatives of a resolution calling for
increased trade with Communist China en-
phaSizeS the seriousness which is placed upon
this particular economic matter in Japan.
Today no government and no political party in
Japan can safely oppose the theory Of renewed
Sino-Japanese trade, although pro-American
Premier Yoshida has cautiously urged his coun-
try not to expect too much too quickly.
Never self-suficient in terms of food and
raw materials, Japan became a 2Oth-century
world power through development of Its indus
trial capacity 1t fed It's population and that
industrial machine very largely by imports
from the Asiatic mainland, giving in return the
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

proud spirit is unbroken. It was said
that the beating was given for writing
notes to ladies of this city (Atlanta)
and signing DR.. Adams name to them"
On August 8. 1908, The Star said
editorially: THE case of Lawrence
Murphy, late treas
SteoiInq urer of the Stone
Stolen Money cutters Union Of
New York, is in
structive. Accused of stealing the funds
Of that association to the tune of
$4,000, he entered as his defense that
in the first place the money he took
was not honestly acquired by the union,
having been squeezed from employers
by dint of threats of strikes and, fur
thermore, that others had dipped their
fingers into the unions purse quite as
freely as he had. Notwithstanding his
plea, which attracted general attention
and faiSed all sorts of row among the
stonecutters, jury found him guilty
and the court last week sentenced him
to serve five years and half at hard
labor. The convicted man made a scene
in court and begged for mercy, de-
nonncing those who had shared his
graft and demanding their punishment.
-. If, incidentally. this trial and those
which it is expected will soon follow
will shed any light on the methods of
the trades unions in the large cities
in their dealings with employers we
shall have moved forward decidedly
toward the goal of a permanent Solu-
ton of the so-called labor problem"
A cable from Dublin to The Star on
August 6, 1908, reported IAN examina-
ton =. of the grave supposed
EmmetS to be that of the patriot
Grove Emmett" What the investi-
gators found was skeleton
of a man feet tall. while Emmet
was only 5 feet Z inches" The skull,
instead Of being found lying prone
and attached to the trunk, was in an
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upright position, which, as Emmett
was beheaded, may strengthen the
theory that the remains were his"
This. however, is inaccurate as state
ment of history. Emmett was not be-
headed. The records say that he was
hanged.
The Star for August 8, 1908, reported
that Prof. Samuel P. Langley's "15-foot
model aerodrome" had been
lonoIeys "shot off the houseboat in
Airship the Potomac, near Wide
water, Va, "this morning" :"
Describing the experiment as "a par
tial success" the author of the ac-
count said: THE machine got away
with a velocity of 10 feet per second.
She travelled 500 yards. coming down
to the surface with considerable force.
The water splashed up all around the
strange craft The next moment it
was beneath the waves. Instantly, the
tug D. M Kay. which is used as a
tender for the houseboat; the small
naphtha launch and three rowboats put
out to the spot. Within Is minutes
after the start from the launching
table, the aerodrome was again inside
the houseboat." The actual flight" had
lasted only one second. In a briet
editorial, The Star said the experiment
threw no light ION the prospect for the
success of the ultimate tests"
X
Lynchings were common half CEN
tury ago. The Star for August S, 1908,
carried telegram from
Lynchinq Asotin, Wash, reading:
at Asotin Despite the efforts of
the victims father, Sher-
if Richards of Asotin County, who had
sworn in Is deputies to guard the
man, william Hamilton, a well-to-do
farmer, the self lf-confessed murderer Of
little Mabel Richards, was forcibly
taken from !. jail shortly after mid
night and lynched by mob of more
than 1000 men. who had been con-
gregating all day. When the lynch
Evening star., 1953-08-02

A dispatch from Rome to The Star.
dated August 9, 1908. and published
the following day, read:
PopoI "The ceremony of the
Coronation coronation of Pope Plus
x took place in the
basilica of st. Peters, in the presence
of the princes and high dignitaries of
the church, diplomats and Roman
mobiles. AS Cardinal Macchi, the
dean of the cardinal deacons, placed
the triple crown on the head of the
venerable pontiff, the throng of 10000
persons . burst into unrestrained ac-
clamation and the bells of Rome rang
out joyful peal"
Quoting the New York World, The
Star of August 10, 1908. declared: Gov
j. j. M. Terrell vigorously
loshing denounced today the off,
a Girl cials of the State prison
farm at Milledgeville. Ga.
for applying "a lashes to the bare back
of Mamie De Christ, the delicate, cul-
tured girl inmate, whose Sufferings at
the whipping post have just become
known. The Governor says he will do
away entirely with the whipping of
women and will order an investigation
of the inhuman affair. Capt. r. R.
Foster. superintendent of the prison,
resigned today because of the wide
spread indignation. The terrible
lashing given the young girl is made all
the more pitiful by the popular belief in
Georgia that Miss De Christ is not
criminal but is insane and should be in
the asylum instead of in prison with
the States convicts. The girls life in
the aristocratic old city Of Savannah,
her known culture and refinement, all
tend to convince that the diamond
thefts of which she was convicted were
the promptings of disordered mind
rather than desire for gain. j.. Capt.
Allgood, who applied the lash. and DR..
Adams, the prison physician. both say
that the girl took her whipping with
out the least sign Of humiliation. Her
Evening star., 1953-08-02

survey, which was two years in the
making, with the arresting statement
that art is an activity as essential to
the general welfare as education or
recreation" 1t follows that education
and recreation must include the fine
arts as essential activities, as American
educators at the high school, college
and university levels increasingly have
recognized in recent years by empha-
sizing participation in the fine arts as
part of the curriculum. These pro-
grams spring from a deep conviction
that an education which includes the
-humanities is essential to political wis
DOM" Outstanding programs which
come quickly to mind are the art pro-
grams of Yale, Stanford, Arkansas,
Indiana. Michigan, Wisconsin, North
Carolina and Catholic Universities. The
fine work of the drama department of
Catholic University, under the inspired
leadership of Father Hartke, is widely
supported by Washingtonians of all
religious perSuaSions and is interna-
tionally recognized. Nor have forward
looking recreation leaders neglected the
arts as form Of recreation. The D. G.
Recreation Department under the able
leadership of Milo F. Christensen, for
instance, sponsors music and other art
activities which include a symphony
orchestra. choral work, a children's
theater of national repute. and so on.
These were authorized by the 1912 act
OF the Congress establishing the de-
partment, which authorized important
art activities. The high-standard SYM
phony orchestra sponsored by the en-
ployeS of the Department of Agricul-
ture as a recreation activity has also
achieved an enviable reputation for
fine work under its conductor, Dr.
Frederick Fall.
I can find nothing in the commits
Sion'S report which indicates that the
commission recognizes the Importance
of educational and recreational fine
arts programs such as these. Yet these
are the soundest ways to democratize
art in America yet devised. Under the
heading "Art Education" the COM
mission recommends, instead, that Fed
eral museums should be given funds
with which to make color reproduc-
tions. photographs, slides and motion
pictures of their collections available
w PuU1lC OCLlOOIS dIlu CUllCSCS bIlIOuSu.
out the country" Under this heading
it also recommends that Congress pro-
vide funds for use in radio and tele-
vision broadcasts in the fields of the
visual arts and music" Since these are
the only recommendations under the
heading it is clear that the commits
sion has only rudimentary knowledge
of what art education is. It should be
noted. however, that one of the most
trenchant criticisms of educational
programs which do not include the fine
arts was made by David E. Finley,
commission chairman. In his foreword
to the recently published book, Great
Paintings from the National Gallery
of Art" Mr. Finley writes in part as
follows:
I'm recent years the trend in this
country has been to emphasize tech
nological or vocational training, with
the result that men and women are
becoming specialists. knowing only their
own subjects. On other subjects their
critical faculties are becoming dulled,
so that too often they accept, more or
less without question, what the critics,
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Time to Contemplate

Time to Contemplate
In his sermon of November TO- 1907,
Canon Samuel A. Barnett of Westmin-
Ster Abbey. concluded with these words:
THE duty for this age, for you and
for me, is the hardest which can be
required. All progress is by sacrifice
and each age gives its nearest and
dearest to the age that is to come. Our
duty. our sacrifice, is to lay aside work,
enjoyment, passion and to think. With
out this sacrifice there can be no vision
and without vision the people perish
eth. Because of this truth, we must
think and wait"
A truce has been signed in Korea and
the above seems most appropriate. We
have allowed our gadgets to run away
with our time. and we have forgotten
how to contemplate and to understand
the deeper meanings of living. We talk
in platitudes, in ideologies, using words
which we have not defined adequately.
Now comes time when words around
a council table become the most i'm
portant factor in shaping our national
future and our international relation
ships. Let us not be hasty, but rather,
let us be deliberate and prayerful, that
we may find the true vision without
which peace in the world can never
exist.
Oliver Whitwell Wilson.
Evening star., 1953-08-02

ers with Hamilton reached First and
Fillmore streets, they halted under a
guy wire connecting electric light poles.
Hamilton was asked if he wanted to
confess. He did so. >. Then there was
another delay. The manner of Hamil-
tons death was being discussed. Some
wanted to torture him, but it'was de-
cided to hang him. mask was put
over the mans head, rope around his
neck was thrown over the guy wire and
seized by many of the lynchers. When
they were certain he was dead, the
body was left suspended"
Quoting the London Daily Graphic,
The Star on August 4, 1908, said:
IN. John Grand-Carteret
Greeting has made discovery which
Cords proves that the picture
postcard is not the modern
invention it has hitherto been believed
to be. In the Almanach de la Petite
Poste de Paris for the year 1777 he
has found a statement that people are
sending by post. to convey congratula-
tions or compliments, cards engraved
and often annotated. which are sent
open for all the world to see.' The
Almanach goes on to say that this
innovation. invented by an engraver
named DeSmaisonS, is being much dis
cusSed. some people disliking it on the
ground that it enables servants to learn
too much of their masters secrets"