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Chinese Rinq

A good salad is always a pleas
ure, and when one is as deco
rative as it is tasty, is should be
the epitome of what both the
lady and the gentleman of the
house demand in this type Of
food.
Take, for instance, a cheese
ring salad, filled with avocado
balls, Seedless grapes, and seq
ments of oranges and grapefruit.
This is perfect for summer
luncheon or supper.
Soak a tablespoon of gelatin
in cold water and melt it over
hot water. Add it to 2 cakes of
cream cheese, into which has
been worked a mixture of chop
ped pimentos, chopped sour
pickles, minced parsley, table
spoon or so of mayonnaise, and
plenty of salt. pepper and cay
enne. Add some chopped chives.
too, if you have them, or Use a
little onion juice. Now add all
this to half pint of cream-the
richest you can find. whipped
as best you can-turn all into
a ring mold. and set on ice tn
harden. When ready to serve the
salad, unmold it on a platter
garnished with lettuce and
watercress, and fill the center
with the fruits which have been
marinated in French dressing.
Pass heated crackers with the
salad.
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Miss Holland
I ellis Story
.OfCopitoI
BY Betty Miles

A native WaShingtonian who
loves her home town may still
have a lot to learn about it.
So Janice Holland discovered
while working on They Built a
City-The Story of Washington,
D. c." An illustrator of chill
dren'S books-she has over 80 to
her credit-with this book Miss
Holland bowed as a writer, too.
Miss Ethel Bubb, assistant CO.
ordinator of children'S services
for the District Public Library, in
Spired the Washington story by
informing the artist-author that
there were no children's books
about Washington. although they
were in constant demand. After
many trips to the Washingto-
lana division of the library,
where she had access to the
records of the Columbia His
torical Society containing the
"reminiscences of the early in
habitants, Miss Holland had her
story.
She learned. and retold simply
with handsome Illustrations, the
story of a beautiful city, once
alternately dust bowl and a
mud hole, as seen through the
eyes Of the great and the COM
monplace who helped create it.
Many of the anecdotes and
experiences she unearthed, much
Of the drama involved in its his
tory is included in this book,
which was published at inaugu-
ration time. One day she hopes
to use the rest of the material
in a book about Washington for
adults.
She would like to tell how
L'Enfant, for example, a tenn
peramental artist who resisted
interference, saved the American
taxpayer a great deal of money
by his plans for wide streetS-16O
feet wide, fantastically wide in
the days of the carriage. The
city went unpaved until after
1870. In his day, Thomas Jeffer-
son attempted to beautify the
raWneSS of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. with rows of poplars.
In those days before paving,
urchins with brooms stood watch
on "the Avenue" carefully swept
the dust from the path of long
skirted ladies, and were tipped
for their trouble. Whether there
were young retrievers of all the
shoes lost in the mud is not re-
corded.
Today, however, other cities
have spent millions of dollars
buying up valuable property lin
ing their streets in order to ex-
pand them. Washington's were
ready for progress.
New View
There was a time, when my
friends whose parents were in
the service went off to France or
India, that ! considered Wash
ington the place I was perma-
nently stuck in,' Miss Holland
recalled. "Now I feel I can sit
and watch the world go by, since
everybody seems to come here
sooner or later"
A graduate of Western High
School, she was, simultaneously
and prophetically, art editor and
reporter for the Western Breeze.
After graduation, she studied for
four years at the Corcoran, then
attended the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn for several months.
She also studied water color un-
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is a life member Of the world
WCTU.
Guests attending this after
Moons tea will have a we'll
rounded picture of WCTU work
in the Orient, for Mrs. Choy will
also talk about what WCTU
members are doing in Korea.
The tea will also celebrate the
Both birthday of Miss Elizabeth
Groves whose anniversary was
July %. She is also a District
WCTU member.
A musical program will be
presented by Miss Sylvia Burt
nett. soprano, accompanied at
the piano by Miss Marguerite
Mulholland.
The tea will be held in the
hospitality house of the National
Presbyterian Church.
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der Eliot O'Hara, enjoying the
honor of a one-man show at the
Corcoran while still a student
there.
After Pratt came a prolonged
and futile job hunt in New York
City until, through the insti-
tute's displacement department,
she learned that the Silver Bur-
dett Co. was looking for a text
book illustrator.
Il had wanted to do that kind
of work." she remarked, "but
felt I needed more experience
before applying for it," A fourth
grade reader called Distant
Lands" it gave her an opportu-
nifty to produce many and varied
Illustrations. She worked about
Is hours a day on the book, since
research was necessary before
illustrating began. She also
planned the layout of the book.
From that day to this she has
never been without work, con-
Quoting as a free-lance artist
what she describes as a mail
order business" from her home
at 3508 Morrison street NV.
New Honor
The artist was particularly
pleased when one of the books
she illustrated, "Our Country's
Story" by Frances Cavanah, was
selected by the State Depart
ment to be translated into Ko-
rean for children there. The
Korean text was set in place of
the English one beside her
Illustrations.
Versatile Miss Holland spent
a season in summer stock once
on the marionette circuit. Not
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Corn Bread

For breakfast or to accompany
a summer salad, a square or two
of warm homemade corn bread
really tastes good. To make it
extra good add a few moist
chevy raisinS to the batter. Use
a packaged corn bread mix or
your own easy recipe.
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Extro CUPS

Keep extra custard cups to use
for small mixing jobs. refrigera-
tor storage and molding gelatin
desserts and salads.
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Dress Up Pudding
Dress up vanilla pudding with
a crunchy garnish of crushed
peanut brittle.
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D. c. Budget Hearings End
Tuesday Night, 20 to Testify

Public hearings on the Dis
trict budget for the next fiscal
year will be concluded next
Tuesday night. when about 20
witnesses plan to. testify on a
wide variety of subjects.
Chairman Wilson of House
Appropriations subcommittee
made this announcement late
last night, at the conclusion of
the third public session. Twen-
ty-five persons appeared in sup
port of funds for several items.
It had been hoped to finish
the open hearings last night,
but after more than three hours
of testimony Mr.. Wilson. Re-
publican, of Indiana announced
it would be necessary to hold the
fourth and final session Tues
day. It will open at 8 pm. in
the caucus room of the Old
House Office Building.
Featured at the hearing last
night were pleas for a larger
police force with increased SAL
aries, welfare facilities, veterans
service, the Piney Branch sewer
project, health department nurses
and other items.
A fixed Federal payment Of
Is per cent of the District budget
was urged by one witness, who
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stressed that inadequate Federal
funds have resulted in a heavy
accumulation of capital needs.
Witnesses gave strong support
to funds for construction Of a
new Industrial Home School for
Colored Children at the Chill
dren's Home in Laurel, Md. They
also stressed such other welfare
needs as increased relief grants
to the needy, an increase in fos-
ter home board rates from $45
to $50 a month and more equip
ment and staff for newly COM
pleted welfare buildings.
Chairman Wilson plans to con-
tinue closed sessions of his COM
mittee to hear District officials
on the budget, hoping to COM
plete them by next Wednesday
This would lead to subcommittee
action probably late next week
on the budget which seeks $147.8 6
million for the next fiscal year
beginning July /.
At an executive session today
the unit planned to hear justifi-
cation of estimates on recreation,
public library and the Depart
ment of Corrections. Yesterdays
closed-door meeting was on po-
lice, schools and health.
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in behalf of the budget request
for $29,435 for 10 more staff
members for the child welfare
division of the welfare depart
ment, and $19,950 to raise the
foster care board rates from $45
to $50 a month.
Mrs. Dodson's statement en-
phasized that an increase in the
rate paid to board child in a
foster home would make it pos
sible to find more foster homes
in the District. The present rates,
she said. compared unfavorably
with the $40 to SIS weekly rate
paid for day and nursery school
care.
Mrs. Leah Lachenbruch, rep
reSenting the Social Work Joint
Committee on Community Prob
lens. testified the public assist
ance grants constitute only 78
per cent of the recipients actual
need.
She indorsed the $50 minimum
rate for foster home care and
emphasized the need for larger
stats in public assistance and
child welfare.
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equip them properly and pro-
vide them with adequate staffs." "
Alexander B. HaweS, chairman
of the Committee on Public We'll
fare Services of the UCS Family
and Child Welfare Section,
strongly indorsed the Board of
Public Welfare'S building pro-
gram, looking toward the COM
pletion of the Chi.dren's Center.
He pointed out that the re-
quest for the new Industrial
Home School for Colored Chill
dren comes within a balanced
budget and that the funds are
now available. He stressed the i'm
portance Of carrying forward
construction of the institution as
rapidly as possible.
Timetable on Construction.
For later capital improvements
for welfare institutions. Mr..
Hawes gave his sections support
to the plan of the Addison Public
Works Committee for financing
welfare construction by the COM
bination of a lump sum grant
and authority for borrowing. He
emphasized the need for def
mite timetable OF construction.
In public welfare, he said, the
building program has been going
on by fits and starts, making
it impossible for the welfare
board to make intelligent de-
cisions on questions of repair,
maintenances and improvement
of structures now being used but
eventually to be abandoned.
Mrs. David L. Bazelon. chair
man of the UCS Special Citizens
Committee on public assistance,
told the legislators that go per
cent of those who apply monthly
for relief grants are rejected be-
cause of the strict eligibility re-
quirements.
The needy who do manage to
establish their eligibility for aid
are receiving grants IS per cent
below the minimum necessary to
maintain health, she added.
Mrs. Brazelon urged that Con-
gress appropriate enough money
to provide minimum subsistence
for those in need and enough
funds for an increased public as
sistance staff to provide adequate
service and thus hasten the re-
Mobilization of many persons now
dependent on public aid.
National Average Cited.
She presented chart showing
that the District spends $6.75
per inhabitant for public assist
ance, compared to q national
average of $15.52.
Mrs. Charlotte P. Dodson of
the UCS Special Committee on
Child Welfare Services appeared
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wide Safety Conference here last
night.
Judge George D. Nelson of the
Washington Municipal Court.
said mandatory jail sentences for
drunken, reckless and hit-and-
run driving would bring about a
miraculous reduction" in fatal
highway accidents.
Donald S. Buck. the Army
safety expert, said the motorist
who nearly causes a fatal acci-
dent should be as severely pun
iShed as one who does cause q
fatality.
If you can cut down on near
misses" he said, you automat-
ically cut down on all types Of
accidents"
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Good Case Made
For Child Center,
Rep. Wilson Says
By Miriom Gutenberg

Chairman Wilson of the House
Appropriations subcommittee on
the District said today wit
nesses at the long budget hear
ings have made a very good
case for the Children's Center"
The parade of witnesses urging
the budget request for funds to
build an Industrial Home School
for Colored Children at the
Children's Center in Laurel, Md,
continued at the public session
last night.
Mr.. Wilson said he hopes to
visit some of the welfare inSti-
tutions before his subcommittee
completes it's work on the budget.
The fund request pushed at
the budget hearings is for $3.7
million. of which, 81 million
would become available in July
to start construction of the new
institution for colored boys and
girls.
Other Needs Stressed.
Other welfare needs, particu-
larry to increase the size of pub
lie assistance payments, were
stressed at last nights hearing
by five community spokesmen.
Glenn E. Mclaughlin. chair
man of the United Community
Services special committee on
public welfare institutions,
pointed out that $4,000 to pre-
pare plans for the new Indus
trial Home School were appro-
priated by Congress last year.
The boys and girls, he said, now
are crowded into the Industrial
Home School for Boys at Blue
Plains while awaiting the pro-
vision of adequate facilities.
He said it is urgent that Con-
gress authorize the construction
of the new and larger facility at
Cne CQllQrenS CenLef.
Mr.. Mclaughlin also support
ed these other budget requests:
A fund of $55,000 for storm
sewers and steam distribution
center at Blue Plains since the
property must be kept in good
condition to serve the needs of
Junior Village. the institution for
homeless youngsters which is to
move to Blue Plains when the
Industrial Home School for Col
ored Children moves to Laurel.
Staff Housing Urged.
An equipment fund of $135 900
for the new Industrial Home
School for White Children at
Laurel and a $134,00O equipment
fund for the new infirmary at
the Home for the Aged and In
firm.
A fund of $470,0O0 to build
housing for the staff of the In
dustrial Home School for White
Children. since recruitment of
key staff members is almost
impossible" unless living quarters
are provided at Laurel.
Funds to provide 81 additional
positions at the Industrial Home
School for White Children and 81
additional positions for the new
inf1rmary at the Home for the
Aged and Inflrn.
Nov that two of the public
welfare institutions are finally
obtaining modern structures"
Mr.. Mclaughlin said. "let us
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Weather HuIts Climbers

KATMANDU, Nepal. May 8
R.-Reports reaching this Ne
palese capital today said a Brit
ish expedition seeking to climb
Mount Everest has reached the
21,000-foot level and is awaiting
favorable weather before climb
ing higher. The 29,002-foot
Himalayan peak, the worlds tall
est, has never been scaled before
by any one who returned to tell
about it.. s-'
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Jail Terms Urged
In Virginia for
Reckless Drivinu
BY the Assoeioied Press

ROANOKE. May 8.-Virginia
judges have been urged to throw
sitter penalties at traffic viola
tors to discourage the type of
driving that leads to highway
accidents.
This advice came from a
Washington judge and the
Armys chief of highway safety
addressing the Virginia State
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Cory Davis Detained
After Dash to Queen
Dy the Assoeiuted Press


LONDON, May 8. - Garry
Davis, Self-styled world citizen
No. l." dashed through the gates
of Buckingham Palace today in
an attempt to ask Queen Eliza
beth if she could extend his stay
in England. He was caught in
the palace yard. taken to a police
station and later removed to St.
Pancras' Hospital. A Scotland
Yard spokesman said he was be-
ing detained for mental OBJ
Servation.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

Overlapping Federal, State and
local taxes have, over the past 40
years, caused many frustra-
ton for the downtrodden American
taxpayer, whose income and pur-
chases sometimes are subject to
assessment from two, three or four
governmental units. Every so often
the area of overlap has to be pruned.
That time has come around again
and politicians on all levels of gov
ernment are getting set for the
assault.
Both the Republican administra-
ton and the Democrats on Capitol
Hill are aware of the problem. 1t
was studied at some length a year
ago. President Eisenhower set up
a White House conference recently
to study the whole broad field OF
intergovernmental relationships.
The administration seems agreed
that the first step in removing the
undesirable overlap is a thorough
study of the whole complicated pic
ture. There already is a bill before
Congress to set up a study commits
sion. It has been sponsored in the
last several Congresses by Senator
Hendrickson, Republican, OF New
Jersey. This year 10 other Sem
ators have joined him as co-spon-
sors. Senator Hendrickson has been
interested in the conflicting gov
ernment functions and taxing
authorities since he was in the
State LEGISLATURE in New Jersey.
Another New Jersey official, Gov.
Alfred E. Driscoll, has been a leader
in the movement for better CO.
ordination between the various
levels of government.
Little Overlap Till 1913
Up until 1913 there was COM
.paratively little overlap in the
American tax system. The Federal
Government got all the revenue it
needed from customs-which States
were forbidden to levy-and from
excises on liquor and tobacco, which
the States had not yet begun to
tap to any great extent. The States,
counties and cities got theirs from
property taxes.
AS Government costs went up in
the tense period before World War
I, however, all levels of Government
started looking around for new reve-
nue. sources. BY the 18th Amendment
to the Constitution. the Federal
Government started taxing incomes
A very few States followed suit i'm
mediately, but most of them met
their expenses by levying excise
taxes on selected commodities.
It was not until the great depres-
sion that the States and cities founC
themselves hard-pressed for revenue
They tried general sales taxes, but
still could not bring in enough
money to meet their expanding
expenses. The Federal Government
finally stepped in to provide then
direct assistance, in the form oi
loans or grants in aid" for relief
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Transport by sea could easily be
blocked by the Western powers,
transport by rail or road would be
exceedingly difficult in any quantity
that would be of great value.
Little Impact on Iron
At the moment, the erosion Of the
Iranian economy has had surpriS-
ingly little impact. Primitive at best,
it has licked along under the forced
feeding of several Mossadegh ex-
pedients- tinkering, de-
fault on private contractual obliga-
tions, control of imports, reduction
in public services, borrowing from
the national bank, etc. It does, how
ever, have potential bearing upon
the political situation-a worsening
one for which no happy conclusion
is yet in sight.
The principle of naturalization
is a popular one in Iran, a fact which
DR.. Mossadegh knows full well and
which he has manipulated to his
obvious advantage. AS it's champion,
he has been we'll armed to do battle
with his political opposition and his
strategy has been clever and ef-
fective-in Iranian opinion If not
elsewhere. Simply defined, it has
been the strategy of "divide and
conquer" With it he has isolated.
one after the other, each of the
political forces which might have
forced him out and he has dealt
to each of them in turn a crippling
defeat. His trump card, whenever
he needed one. has been the threat
to invoke public opinion.
4 Political Views
There are in Iran today only four
clearly recognizable political posi-
tions.
DR.. Mossadegh represents one. It
is a basic devotion to nationalism
but contains willingness-although
exercised in tiresome and exasper-
ating faShion-to continue negotia-
tions with Britain, mostly through
the United States, on the oil issue.
AydtollGh Kdshani represents a
second. Kashani is Moslem priest
politician, the leader of a group that,
given its own free choice. probably
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l-AP Photo.

fourth. OF all the individuals in
the political picture, the young
Shah probably has the most pro-
Western outlook and the best in
tentions. He has not yet demon
strated anything else, although the
crisis of last week end gave him an
opportunity. 1t was in this con-
nection that DR.. Mossadegh almost
overplayed his hand. Feeling the
Shah represented threat but that
he had him in the usual isolated
position where he could dictate his
own terms, the premier accused the
palace Of intriguing against him.
decreed the Shah should see no
one not cleared by Mossadegh, that
he should discontinue his program
of direct distribution of the royal
lands, and that he should account
for all funds given to members of
the royal family. When the Shah
said he would prefer to leave his
country, DR.. MosSadegh agreed. It
was here that Kashani went on the
offensive, briefly, and the public
demonstration on the Shah's behalf
has been traced in large part to his
maneuvering.
Still in Choree
When the shouting and the ston-
ing had ended, however, DR.. Mossa-
degh was still holding the reins. He
has since ouSted group of high
ranking army officers who were ac-
cused of being too friendly toward
the palace and closed down several
newspapers which had been critical.
He has resumed his interminable
conversations with American Am
bassador Henderson. But the Shah
is remaining, perhaps to emerge on
another day to talk to the people
from his palace balcony.
According to DR.. Mossadegh, even
a qualified Endorsement does not
warrant cheerful confidence that he
will finally come to terms with the
West. But unless some relatively
unknown figure on the political
sidelines comes along to inspire
greater hope, the alternatives listed
above are more depressing than the
doctors ready flow of tears.
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Democratic Suggestions

Here is a list of the methods the
then-Democratic Treasury Depart
ment outlined:
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By EurI H. Voss

lected in 1850; the States got IL
per cent and local governments 9
per cent.
The search for more revenue by
all levels of government tends to
increase the areas of overlapping.
In 1851, more than half of the As
States whose Legislatures were in
session raised at least one major
tax.
Exclusive Areas?
Each time the issue of tax over
lap has come up, there have been
some who want to move sharply in
the opposite direction. They want
to stake out exclusive areas for
Federal, State, county and city gov
ernments to levy taxes. This would
simplify bookkeeping all around,
but it wouldn't be very practical.
enough to stand the load of two
or three governments taxes. Other
areas cannot produce enough reve-
nue. for even one. There just are
not enough strong, taxable areas
to go around.
Separation of sources, as it is
called, also would cause an un-
equal distribution of tax revenues
in many areas. The present system
tends to protect States with pre-
dominantly low-income taxpayers.
It gives them services similar to
those enjoyed by States with more
high income taxpayers. Separation