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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-03

MI. and MIS-. William Lakeland
Price, of Green Bay. Va, an
hounce the engagement and APP
preaching marriage CT their
daughter, Willietta Anne. to Ser
eeant Adrian Bruce c. Hayden.
.USAF, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
jay Hayden of Eldon. Iowa.
The wedding is planned for the
spring. Sergeant Hayden is nov
stationed at Sheppard All Force
Base, Texas
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-03
Girl Scouts Called
For Registration

The annual REGISTRATION of In
tcrmcdiatc GIrl Scouts for 1888 t
viii be held Tuesday April 7. al
$3.50 pm at the recreation room
in the home Of Mrs. Marnaret D.
Bruce Vonablc street
Mrs jean a Vachc adult ed
visor issued an invitation for IN
tcrcStcd persons TO attend
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-03

Guests enoyed binFo and croup
singing before the presentation Of
lifts to the honoree
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-03

Mr.. and Mrs William A. Wat
son. III, announce the birth OF a
son William Eugene Oh Tuesday,
March 81. at SouthsIde Commun-
ity hospital.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-04-03

Mrs Charles Wilson and son
md mother. Mis-. May Manning
we're Thursday guests of Mrs. c.
W. Bugg of Boydton.
Miss Irene Adams entered
Southside Community Hospital
Wednesday, for treatment.
Mrs Emma Anthony and
laughter, Sandra. Mrs. A. NJ
3ynum and daughter. Miss Mary
: Bynum, and Miss Julia Rove.
will leave Friday for q week at
Daytona Beach, Fla
H T Lawson. of Tails Church.
Va, is spending lew days in
Cumberland. as the guest of Mis-.
J. H Emerson.
Doug Agee, U. S Marine Corps
stationed at Portsmouth aboard
5he USS Des MONIES. arrived
Tuesday to spend a @O-day leav>
with his mother. Ms G. E Ages.
PFC Agee returned TO the u. s
on the heavy cruiser, from Cubs.
on March 3
John Steck viii spend the
Easter holiday With his sister
Miss Catherine Steck. and BROTH
er, Roger Steck. at Carlisle, Pa.
Miss Edna Putncy IS spending a
week with her sister. Mrs Leslie
Carwile. in Wilson. N. c.
guest of Nh and Mrs. Jack Bing-
ham. at Birmingham, Ala, for the
Easter holidays,
Miss Verona Massey will spend
The Easter holiday with her part
ents. Mr. and Mrs G. r. Massey,
in Goldsboro, N c.
Miss Lucille Jennings. Miss
Mary Nichols, Mrs Edna Nichols
and Miss Kate Trent left Thurs
day to spend the Easter holidays
in New York They accompanied a
group OF 20 LongWood College
students on a tour directed by
Professor Clarence Warrington
), William DunnnEjon left
Monday to spend several weeks at
Ponde Vedra Beach, Pa. where
ne Will be the guest cf Clyde AUS
tin Of Greenville, Tenn.
Mrs. Leland B Sanford VIII re-
turn Saturday after spending ten
days in Tuscaloosa Ala With har
Mrs Fred Hall Who Is
recovering satisfactorily after \
recent operation
Mrs vi Huntington has been
the guest this week of her daugh-
Ter, Mrs William Whiddcn. ara
Mr. Whldden in Richmond Nj
and Mrs. Whidden expect to spent
the Easter holidays With MIS-
Dunnington here.
Misses Edith d Brooks. Ann
Dudley and Patsy Sanford left to-
day to spend the holiday at Day
Evening star., 1953-11-15

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Evening star., 1953-11-15

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Evening star., 1953-03-08
Unfreezing Top Federal Jobs

The announced intention of President
Eisenhower to remove by executive order the
civil service status now covering several hun
dred policy making and administrative jobs is
justified in the interest of proper governmental
administration.
Most of the individuals affected acquired
civil service status and protection in other, and
lower ranking, Government positions. In the
course of recent years. however, they have been
promoted to jobs falling in the so-called
Schedule A category-a level of Government
employment of policy-making or confidential
nature that has been exempt from regular civil
service procedures of appointment. Executive
orders issued by President Truman in 1947 and
1948 extended to these incumbents the same
procedural safeguards in connection with re-
moval that apply to the civil service system.
While the proposed Eisenhower order would
remove those safeguards, it will not mean
necessarily that the affected individuals will
lose their Government employment The Vet
erans' Preference Act of 1914 undoubtedly will
protect some; others may revert to their
previous civil service jobs if openings are
available
Regardless of the motives of the Truman
orders, they have had the effect with the
change in party administration of preventing
the new heads of agencies from selecting top
assistants of their own choice. It is true as
White House Press Secretary Hagerty said that
such circumstance goes beyond the basic and
proper concept of the civil service system-and
that it constitutes handicap to the formulat-
ing and application of policies of a new
administration.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
By Any Name, 1t Was Wronq

There has been some remarkable hair
splitting over whether it was an agreement"
an understanding" or something else that
prevented the Federal Bureau of Investigation
from checking on complaints of police brutality
in New York City But there has emerged from
the conflicting testimony before House
Judiciary Subcommittee the salient fact that
the FBI found itself temporarily barred from
carrying out its duties under the Federal Civil
Rights Act. And the exclusion came after
conference between police officials and repre-
Sentatives of the Department of Justice.
Former Assistant Attorney General Nc
Inerney testified that there was no agreement"
only an experiment" in which the New York
Police Department was to conduct preliminary
Investigations of third degree" accusations
and turn their findings over to the Department
of Justice. Meanwhile, the FBI was to remain
aloof, although it had no knowledge of the
arrangement. When Director Hoover learned
of it, he properly protested to then Attorney
General McGranery, who promptly Cancelled
the arrangement. Mr.. McGranery characterized
the plan as an agreement which would have
abridged Federal enforcement of the Civil
Rights Act. BY whatever name the expert
ment" is designated, it was plainly improper,
if not Illegal
Evening star., 1953-03-08
MoIenkov's Foreign Minister

In it's own curious words in order to prevent
"any kind of diSarray and panic" within post
Stain Russia, and in order to insure "uninter-
rupted and correct" Soviet leadership in world
affairs, the Communist high command under
Georgi Malenkov-the new dictator-has re-
shuffled the key personnel making up the
Kremlin's hierarchy. The significance of these
changes can only be guessed at, but certainly
none of them seems more interesting than the
one that has deposed Andrei vishinsky as
Foreign Minister and replaced him with
Vyacheslav Molotov.
If 1t is true, as reported, that these two
men have been engaged in long standing feud,
then Molotov has scored victory that will
enable him to make things uncomfortable for
VishinSky. For Vishinsky, whose demotion has
been offset by his appointment to succeed
Valerian Zorin as permanent Soviet representa-
tive at the United Nations, will occupy an alto
gether subordinate position in which he will be
in kind of eXile-While in New York-from
his country'S highest councils AS result,
although he has been named as one of Molotov's
first deputies, he may now become little more
than messenger boy for the new Foreign
Minister instead of having, as in the past,
voice in the shaping and execution of the
Kremlin'S international policy.
AS for the policy itself, its future develop
ment is one of the big questions of the hour.
The fact that Molotov has been chosen to serve
again as Foreign Minister-a post he held from
1889 to 1949, when he was succeeded by Vishin-
systematically may foreshadow important
changes in the Soviet line in the United Nations
and elsewhere. At any rate, the point may be
worth noting that the Korean war and all
related troubles have occurred during Vishin-
sky's occupancy of the Office he has just lost,
and Molotov's return to that office may possibly
mean that the Malenkov regime is contem
plating some new approach to the international
situation. 1t could be a tougher approach, or
it could be a softer one. That Is an entirely
speculative matter that is likely to be clarified
only with the passage of time.
Meanwhile, in view of his past record, there
would seem to be ample reason for a crossed
fingers reaction to the news that Molotov is
back as Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the
pact that gave Hitler the go-ahead signal in
1885, and long considered the man most likely
to succeed Stain, he has contributed to inter-
national tensions and obstructed the peace
promoting work of the United Nations every
bit as much as Vishinsky, if not more so.
Nevertheless, in naming the latter as its
permanent U. N. representative and in sending
Ambassador Gromyko from London to New
York to fill in for him while he visits Moscow,
the Kremlin under Malenkov appears to be
taking the world organization quite seriously.
is nothing in Molotov's story to warrant any
optimism about a possible change for the better
in the Soviet line
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Crowds at the Flower Show

The third annual National Capital Flower
and Garden Show was a success from the
moment of its opening. More than twelve
thousand people attended on the first day.
They have been followed by crowds of men,
women and children attracted by wonderful
dramatization of the natural interest of hu-
manity in growing living things. A tradition
dating back for ages has drawn them to the
National Guard Armory They have found the
vast structure transformed with trees, shrubs,
plants, brought together in infinite variety and
yet to constitute one single tapestry of beauty
one single harmony of vibrant lovelineSS.
Much of the show was designed to preserve
old-time conceptions of garden art much of it,
in contrast, represents ideas distinctly modern.
But there really is no conflict. Flowers familiar
to the ancient Greeks are neighbors to flowers
unanticipated as recently as fifty years ago.
The wealth of orchids, for example, or that of
African violetS could not have been guessed by
our immediate ancestors. If proof of the rich
ness of this present age in terms of flowers is
needed, the current display certainly can
furnish it,
OF course, the achievement at the Armory
is no mere accident. 1t is the result of careful
planning, skilful enterprise, devoted labor. The
whole Washington community owes a debt of
gratitude to the National Capital Garden Club
League and the Allied Florists of Greater Wash
ington and their associates for truly marvel
Gus show. It will be remembered with pleasure
by all who attend, with the hope that this fine
salute to spring is going to be fixture in
Washington's calendar.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Getting to Be a Habit

Tax-burdened MarylanderS will welcome
the Is per cent income tax reduction voted by
the General Assembly, but they are not apt to
be content to let matters rest there. The
discovery by the State Board of Revenues that
the States surplus is SIS million larger than
previously estimated, coupled with reassess-
mentS that have pushed real estate taxes to
new high levels in many sections of the State,
will lend support to demands for further and
more substantial cuts. Ironically, the new
highway program recommended by the State
Roads Commission will require more tax
revenues. Perhaps the income tax credit will
smooth the path for new taxes or tolls to
finance needed road improvements
Maryland seems to be getting into the
habit of giving its citizens IS per cent income
tax credit. reduction again this year became
virtually inevitable when the revenue board,
pressed for a reStudy of the surplus situation
made the surprising announcement that it had
undereStimated the excess by millions. In the
wake of that announcement, it did not take
the Legislature long to swing into action behind
proposals for another income tax reduction.
strong movement developed in the Senate for
20 per cent cut, but was dropped. Proponents
OF the larger slash gave up their fight when
they were promised that part of the surplus
would be used to reduce the proposed real
estate tax by two cents Legislators discussed
even further reduction of the real property
tax through budget economies.
The average taxpayer will save about $3.50
as a result of the income-tax action. That is
something, of course, but far from enough to
Offset the substantial increases in realty taxes
experienced by most nearby Maryland property
owners recently. Since the income tax-credit
plan is becoming a settled policy with the
Legislature, there is increasing support for
adoption in Maryland of Virginias so-caled
Byrd system of automatic income tax reduc-
tions. Virginia's taxpayers receive the benefit
of this reduction whenever the States revenues
produce sufficient surplus for rebates The
Byrd plan probably would be as popular with
the taxpayers in Maryland as it has proved to
be in the neighboring State.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Operation Economy

The business approach" to Federal econ
omy now is being followed by the legislative as
well as the executive branch of the Govern
ment. Chairman Taber of the House Appropria-
tionS Committee has disclosed that task forces
drawn from a group of IS business and man
agement leaders are taking stock of the Federal
establishment with view to squeezing every
drop of water" out of the budget. Mr. Taber
calls the undertaking '"Operation Economy" If
similar experiment during the 8Oth Congress
is criterion, there are good prospects of SUBJ
Stantial savings in the plan.
Mr.. Taber pointed out that in 1947 and 1948
a limited test of the task-force arrangement
resulted in numerous economies designed to
balance the national budget. Some of the cuts
were bitterly criticized by the Democrats as be-
Ing of the meat-ax variety. Already opposition
voices have been raised to revival of the plan
under the new Republican rule. But the whole
idea suggests anything but the meat-ax tech
nique OF effecting budget reductions. Instead
the House committee will have the advice of a
group of experts in business administration and
accounting-men who have achieved success in
private fields of endeavor
There is no reason why the Democrats
should object to Operation Economy" since it
actually is based on procedures approved in
resolutions proposed last year by two Democrats
and promptly adopted by the committee as
guides to future policy. One resolution, spon-
sored by Representative Whitten Of Mississippi,
provided that programs and budget estimates
Evening star., 1953-03-08

On March IL. 1908. The Star repro
duced a drawing of the facade of the
new Union Station
Union Stotion on the north side of
Sketch Massachusetts avenue
east of North Capitol
street. It was described as "a rough
preston The lofty flag poles, how
ever, were missing from the compost
ton, and the whole conception there
fore seemed smaller, less inspiring than
the building in fact is today. David H.
Burnham was the architect, and even
his trough sketch" proved that he
knew his art thoroughly. He worked
in the classic tradition which had been
stipulated for the Federal City of the
United States by Washington and JET
ferson. But it also is to his credit
that he anticipated the growth Of
Washington and designed terminus
equal to the Capitals needs in our
time as well as his.
The Star of March ii, 1908, told how
the Washington Aerie. No. 125, Fra
ternal Order Of Eagles, had
EoqIes celebrated the second an
Celebrate niverSary of its organiza-
ton at the National Rifles
Armory. more than 800 people attend
ing. A banquet was one of the attrac-
tions, literary and musical program
another. Carl Mueller sang 1.-The
Palms and "Violets." Arthur Middle
ton and Mrs. Adam Gumprecht were
additional vocalists. Finley F. Hayes
gave some readings and Albert Marsh
contributed gymnastic exercises. Hugh
F. Harvey was toastmaster and the
orators Of the evening were Judge
Evening star., 1953-03-08

said: ut has long been my earnest
desire that something should be done
to help the blind to support themselves.
1t is terrible to be blind and uneducated.
but it is worse for the blind who have
finished their education to be idle.
Their very education becomes burden
because they cannot use it. They
think. think, think in the long days
that are nights. They have been taught
to aspire; they have read books; per-
haps they have tasted the higher edu-
cation and now they are sent back
from school, often to poor homes. with
nothing to do except to contrast with
bitter longing the school days, full Of
books and music, with the hopeless.
inactive present. The education was
delight and privilege. but for what
have they been educated? If this
Commonwealth will establish COM
mission to place the blind in positions
of self-support, it will be doing three
things Helping the blind, relieving
itself Of the burden of caring for them
and setting an example to other States"
Half a century after these words were
first published Helen Keller still is
working to help not only the blind. but
all persons handicapped by misfortune.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

of each department or agency shall be inspected
and checked by investigators of the Appropria-
tions Committee each year." The other, intro
duced by Representative Mahon of Texas, au-
thorized the appointment of mot less than 20
consultants and such additional numbers as
may be required" to conduct special surveys in
the Federal establishment.
The fact that Mr. Taber has chosen as ad-
visers men who have proved their capacity for
budget-making in private industry should con-
tribute to a careful, busnesslike consideration
of the Federal budget. Only by that kind of
approach can there be much hope for any ef-
fective reduction in Government spending-a
prerequisite, President Eisenhower has said. to
tax reduction.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Fifty Years Ago in The Star (.

James A. Fechtig Of Baltimore, Mai.
John Doyle Carmody and Rosa F.
Downing. Five decades later Aerie No.
125 still carries on in the traditional
Eagles spirit. It's meeting place is
1880 Fourteenth street NV.
A telegram from Chicago to The
Star of March 9. 1908, reported that
Norman Argo, "said
Original to have been the origi-
Uncle Tom nal of Uncle Tom,' :"
had died at Paint
Lick, KY. "at the reputed age Of Ill
years." He had been born a slave and
belonged to Gen. Samuel Kennedy. a
wealthy planter of Gerard County,
KY. Harriet Beecher Stowe allegedly
had obtained most of the material
for Uncle Toms Cabin from the Ken
nedy plantation"
The Star Of March 6, 1908, quoted
an old-timer, otherwise unidentified.
as saying that the
An Earlier Gridiron Club had had
Gridiron Club a forerunner in a
literary or journalistic
society which met at intervals at the
home of E. Kingman, strawberry
HILL" Fourteenth and P streets NV,
in the sos and SOS. Members in
cluded Judge Wylie, Samuel L. Cow
ener, John Savage, william A. Rind,
Comdr. Samuel Reid, U. S. N, and his
sons Sam and WILL Caleb Cushing,
L. A. Gobright, Henry Watterson,
Ben: Perley Poore, Thomas B. Con-
molly, John F. Coyle, w. B. Shaw.
w. A. Rind. w. D. Wallach. G. F.
Morrison, John M. Binckley, John
Mitchell, Isaac Strohm, william Col
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Bigger Type for Good News

DR.. Frederick Brown Harris, whose
column in your Sunday paper is so
inspiring, recently stated from his pull
pit that an Australian newspaperman
had asked if there was recent upsurge
of interest in spiritual things in this
country as in his.
Had this newspaperman passed by
famous Constitution Hall one night re-
Gently and caught a glimpse of the
orderly crowds singing in barber-shop
harmony (and later the whole group
joining spontaneously in songs such as
Onward Christian Soldiers') believe
his question would have been answered
There were three lines proceeding from
each door to the sidewalk, awaiting the
second showing of "Oiltown, U. S. A."
a picture honoring Christ during this
lenten season.
The next morning eagerly ap-
preached the newsstand hoping some
photographer had caught that crowd
and that this wonderful sight from our
Nations Capital would help cancel
some of the recent unpleasant news.
The headlines of three papers blared
forth MURDER.
My mind flashed back to the head
lines of large Boston paper last sum-
mer: Prayer AnSwered-Child Un-
harmed After Night in Forest"
That headline brought tears of joy to
my eyes as said to my companion,
There's real blow at Communism"
Another such blow could have been
struck could the headlines, instead of
MURDER, read
Overflow Crowds Witness
Special Film Honoring Christ
At Famous Constitution Hall.
Esther McCroSSan.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Oil for Education

May I suggest that columnists Tom
Stokes and Lowell Mellett do a little
checking before they continue their ex-
citing serial on "oil-for-
A recent study compiled by the Leg
islative Reference Division of the Lii
brary of Congress from figures fur
nished by the U. S. Geological Survey
shows that oil revenues from the SUBJ
merged lands where the oil already has
been discovered would provide less than
l per cent of the average annual ex-
penditure of the 48 States for the pur-
poses of education-totalling $2.918.-
812500.
While the survey covers a 50-year
Evening star., 1953-03-08

Inns, E. Tucker Blake, Prof Alexander
Dimitry, Prof. Fitzgerald Tasistro and
Gen. Albert Pike. The last named of
these worthless was famous for his
singing of "The Arkansas Traveller" :"
A "self-elected member" of the group
was Mr.. Kingman's parrot, more
loquacious than the others and often
as amusing"
Mr.. and Mrs. M. G. Brown of Acco-
tink, Fairfax County, Va, were in
Washington so years back.
Kunowoy The Star for March 10. 1908,
Girls explained that they had come
to ask help in finding their
daughters, Portia. II, and May, Is, who
had run away in the direction of the
Nations Capital. "One has brown, curly
hair and dark eyes, and the other short,
dark hair and light eyes. Porto went
away on a previous occasion, but re-
manned only one day. She had some
little difference with her mother, and
it is believed that she persuaded her
younger sister to go away with her"
Capt. Boardman at local police head
quarters suggested that the girls had
gone toward Richmond" Does any
reader know if they ever returned to
Accotink?
On March Z, 1908. The Star printed
an account Of an appearance of Helen
Keller before the Legis-
PIeo BY lative Committee on
Helen Keller Education at Boston.
The famous deaf. mute
and blind girl, then a student at Rad
cliffe College. spoke through an attend
ant-perhapS Anne Sullivan, who was
her companion for many years. She