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Evening star., 1954-01-01
WI Officer BIomes
Parents for Problem

Vice president of the Student
Council at VII is 16-year-old
Junior, Mike Durfee. "Delin-
quency is largely the parents
fault. It seems like the whole
problem is the lack of a church
home and a little more spiritual
life. I believe that more van
dals are in the early age group
from 10 to 13. instead of in the
higher teens, since most high
school students have jobs that
keep them busy. Recreation
might help. hut religion more So"
And Mixes New Year reso-
lutions?
"I wouldn't resolve to study,
since that's too square, nor
would I resolve to use the car
less, but ! do resolve to clean
and keep clean my black white
bucks"
Dave Houser. who is president
of SEA, a member of the Honor
Society and Key Club, and twice
elected most outstanding student
of his class is student of Falls
Church High. Delinquency is
present more in a big school
than a small one. We have van-
dals here. but not major delin-
quency. Fraternities and So
rorities help keep the students
busy and off the streets; they
are a good idea. More teen
clubs should be organized. VAN
dals are not in the senior class
group, ! think. 1t occurs more
in the sophomore students when
they think they are big wheels
in school and show off. And of
course. it's quite simple to bor-
row an older brothers draft
card to buy beer" Dave has
only one resolution:
"I resolve not to fight and
argue with anyone anymore. :"
Sounds good coming from the
SEA president, huh?
Bob Rusevlyan. II. only the
greatest basketball and football
player in the area, is senior at
st. Johns who is an officer in
the Cadet Corps and member of
the Sabre Club. II don't believe
that we have any delinquents
here. I think we have the best
schooling and guidance around.
What kids need are more play
grounds for younger teens from
8 to IA. Older ones are not to
blame"
Bob resolves to stop teasing
his little brother. (Famous last
Words,
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CONTINUED From Page B-3.)
Detroit's big hall to take care
Of the demand.
To give up smoking as fast
as did Senator Dick Russell
while on a fishing trip down
in Florida a few weeks ago with
Senators Smathers, Symington
and Lyndon johnson. Lyndon
spent all his time putting on
a cigaret and reading a maga-
zine article to Dick Russell
about the cancer-producing ef-
fects of smoking. The latter
got so scared he stopped then
and there and his colleagues
say they haven't seen him
touch a cigaret since.
To be as frank as Doris
Brownell. The wife of the At
torney General not only has
something to say, but she's not
afraid to say it.
To be as affable as Under
secretary OF State Donald
Lourie.
To be as amusing as Grace
Carney, wife Of the Chief Of
Naval Operations.
To be as popular as Chief
Justice Warren II it's not
worldwide it's the next thing
to it and deservedly so.
To be as bright and gay
come what may as fame
haired Dorcas Hardin.
To be as generous as Peggy
and Gregory Smith.
To be as charming as Gen.
tral Intelligence Director AL
len Dulles.
To have the sweetness of
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Sisters to Give
Tea Today

The Misses Elsie and Mildred
Green will be hostesses this aft
ernoon from S to Z o'clock at
their traditional New Year tea at
their home, 3151 Tennyson street
NV.
Invitations have been ex-
tended to all of the members of
Phi Delta Gamma and Pi
Lambda Theta. and the past
presidents of both sororities will
assist at the tea tables.
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Dr.. Eliot to Speok

DR.. Martha M. Eliot, director
of the Children's Bureau of the
Department of Health, Educa-
ton and Welfare. will be guest
speaker at the monthly meeting
of the Twentieth Century Club
to be held next Thursday at
the YWCA.
She will speak on the program
of the Children's Bureau. with
special relation to its juvenile
delinquency project.
The meeting will open with
a business session at IL am.
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Carol Thinks Teens
Should Join Teams

Carol McWhorter, Is. a junior
at Montgomery Blair who is on
practically every committee in
the whole school, believes "Juve-
nile delinquentS exist anywhere
and Washington has it's share.
but not to such a great extent as
everyone thinks. Poor environ
ment and lack of spiritual life
are the main reason why there
are deiinquents. The best cure,
I think are school teams. Both
boys and girls should go out for
Evening star., 1954-01-01

M q d e any
great N e W
Years reSolu-
tions? This
week seven
teenagerS re-
veal thei ir
rooney resolu-
tionS and ex-
press the ir
ideas about a
very serious
current prob
lem
delinquency.
Seventeen
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Here's q Combined Consensus
On DeIinQuency and Resolutions

baseball and basketball teams.
Just to get interested in sone-
thing else."
Carol is not one to be trapped
by resolutions. She says:
II resolve to get to bed early
and to work hard to go to Duke,
Evening star., 1954-01-01

rex Dirk" Hawver. who is a Sc
nior at the Capitol Page School
and is president of the National
Honor Society, editor of the
yearbook and plays on the bas-
ketball team (nothing like q lot
of activitiesD says, Juvenile de-.
linquency is too over-emphasized
here. All teenagers know it ex-
lists, but in California it's lots
worse than in Washington. Derek
Evening star., 1954-01-01
RY Shoron Dorm

Hiya 1864! And to all of YOU
guys and dolls a very happy and
hep New Yearl (Ah-ha, thought
I'd say frantic first. huh?l.
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Teen Scene:

eating so much. stay of the
phone and give up boys (Oh.
listen to the wind blowD.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Getting the Date Straight

This is the season of new calendars Some
arrive by post, some by delivery boy. Some are
for free and some are for sale. Some are too big,
others are too little. Some concentrate on in
spirational sentiments for each day of the year;
others just concentrate on pretty pictures
pretty girls, pretty places where one can go if
one has money and picks out the right airline,
the right steamship line, the right railroad or
the right busline. The one that offers perhaps
the greatest service to the greatest number of
people is one that sorts out all the special days,
weeks and months of the year. For example,
April 1924 has been designated Honey for
Breakfast Week" and an even more pleasant
interlude is set up May 1922 under title of
Lets Go Fishing Week." For some reason or.
other, hard to nose put, the current week is
designated as "Odorless Decoration Week" But
the big week of the year, II it works, will be
that from April ! to April 9-designated as
National Leave Us Alone Week.
Evening star., 1954-01-06

A great woman who signed her books
by the name of George Eliot once
said. Animals are such agreeable COM
panions-they ask no questions. they
pass no criticisms"
No doubt this is one of the unspoken
reasons why pets are so popular. In
an age when criticism masks itself
under a guise of knowledge, the un-
complaining attitude of dog and cat
and parakeet is more grateful than
ever.
Their loyal subservience to our moods
is seldom taken into consideration.
They meet us on the common ground
of food, and work their way into our
hearts by famous route.
Mankind has made the word "criti-
cism" almost synonymous with fault
finding. The animals find no fault
with us, but we seldom give them any
credit for that; only the author of
1.-THE Mill on the Floss remembered.
A homely woman. with large cow
like eyes and thick braids of dark
hair, she gathered up in her mind and
heart the impressions Of sensitive
child, and then wrote them out in the
words of sensitive adult.
Sensitivity, then, was her offering
to the public, which is the same as
saying she gave the public what any
good writer gives 1t.
It is nice to find an old-fashioned
home today. where the works Of the
older writer's are given honored
shelves.
We were in such house not long
ago and found the collected works Of
Eliot, Stevenson, Conrad, together with
Evening star., 1954-01-06
By Charles E. TroceweN

We would not be surprised to see the
return of the player piano soon.
The amazing thing is that 1t ever
went out.
Here was a wonderful instrument,
mechanical in a sense, and in it's
cheaper form, but very good in its more
expensive and later phases. BY the
time people were ready, for some un-
known reason, to give up the player
pianos, the makers had managed to
put more of the artist and less of
mechanical expression into the rolls.
Those rolls, which always reminded
us of the great rolls of the laws. and
the classic books" of the Romans in
their great days, were works of art,
containing the means of making a
piano perform even when you could
not play a note, even by ear.
+
The player piano brought to thou
sands Of persons one Of the greatest
of all musical instruments. It gave
happy hours to those lazy persons who
would not learn to play the piano for
and by themselves.
The player piano, too, did not criti-
cize; it asked no questions. AS long
as the human element would pump it.
it would respond with agreeable, if
slightly mechanical, music. In the
view of many today, this mechanical
aspect. inherent in keeping strict time,
is very good thing, as contrasted to
swing and bop and other forms Of stay
ing of the beat
We believe that a rebirth Of the
player piano Is about due, and that
when 1t comes, thousands Of Ameri-
cans will wonder why they ever gave it
up for o while.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Unions Have Come q Lonq Way

Back in the 1905 when I was a
young man working in a paper mill,
the corporations had their feet on the
workingmen'S necks. In factories then
employees worked seven days a week
two shifts for "a hours. Every two
weeks one shift worked "a hours
straight to give the other shift Sunday
off-all this was for low wages in COM
parison with the not so low cost of
living. When reporting of at the end
of the 24-hour shift. the workingmen
showed in their haggard looks that
they had been working too long. This
was as bad as slavery. Other factories
had similar conditions.
Some one has said, Lincoln freed the
slaves and F. D. r. freed the working
men," but in so years it has gone to the
other. extreme. Labor unions have or
gariZed and acquired strangle hold
ing monopoly on corporations and
other employers, to the detriment of
the majority and the national economy
The minority have prof1ted at the ex-
pense of the majority.
The Sherman Antitrust Act is
aimed at preventing corporations from
building up competition killing monop-
olieS. Corporations can be sued for
violation of the act, but there is no
protection against the labor monopoly
causing Nationwide shutdowns in in
dustries. with the distress and price
rises that follow. In other words,
Meet our demands or we will strangle
you and the public in general" is what
the union ultimatum amounts to. This
is selfish because it gives no considera
ton to non-union persons, white collar
workers, or persons retired and on fixed
incomes, such as social security and
pensions, who do not get raises. Every
union raise actually means a cut for
those on fixed incomes, because prices
go up while their incomes remain con-
slant.
Undoubtedly the unions are the
major factor in causing imitation; they
force one raise. then prices advance
This process is repeated and evidently
will be definitely-unlesS some means
is evolved to check it-until it wrecks
the national economy. An economy
cannot indefinitely exist with minor
portion of the people elevated f1nan-
cially at the expense of the major part
of fixed income dependents.
No one wants to repeat the labor con-
ditions of the 90s, but the other ex-
treme should be held within reasonable
bounds for all people. But it never will
be unless a law is passed to control
Evening star., 1954-01-06
The InfiItrutors
Leo DOlOf

The anonymous Adviser to DEM
ocrats" who accuses the Truman ad-
minstration of laxity in efforts to get
rid of Communists also implies that
some are still active in the Government
He and others seem to forget that the
responsibility for such matters is now
Republican
Since the change of administration,
all that has been dug up is one very
dead-of natural causes-possibleC Com
munist. Harry Dexter White may have
maneuvered this country into inciting
World War II just as a proven Russian
agent did in Japan after he inf1ltrated
the Nazi embassy staff. If White was
guilty of such actions it has never been
proven publicly.
Irespect and admire President Eisen-
hover and I have faith in his ability.
If there are Communists still in the
Government I am sure he knows more
about what to do about them than any
self-appointed advisers, Democratic or
otherwise. To continue to harp on this
theme. will only cause him public and
international embarrassment.
Roland Bieren, NJ. ID.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Food for Second Thouqht

There is distinct suggestion of arrogance
in the letter which Capital Transit President
Broadwater has written to Senator Payne,
chairman of the subcommittee investigating
local transit matters
Mr.. Broadwater wrote that Capital Transit
management recognizes its responsibility to
provide the best transportation at the lowest
possible cost, and he outlined a 12-point pro-
gram which, he said, would materially improve
the existing situation If it were adopted.
Furthermore, he contends that representatives
of the Federal and District governments, as
well as local business associations, have a
"share of the responsibility" to see that the
program is enacted. If they refuse" to accept
their share of the responsibility, Mr., Broad
water says in his letter, present conditions can
only continue to worsen. Then comes this
implicit threat:
Under these conditions, the day is fast
approaching when private ownership will have
to give serious consideration to whether it
wants to continue operations or whether it
will be more prudent to surrender its franchise
and lquidate its investment
It is quite possible that Mr.. Broadwater
and his associates in the Wolfson group would
be entirely willing to surrender the Capital
Transit franchise and iquidate their invest
ment. They have already obtained $50 per
cent return on their initial stock investment by
cutting deeply into $5-million dividend melon
which the former management had been hold
ing for a rainy day. The stock which they
bought for $40 share, and on which they have
already collected $31 share in dividends, has
been split four ways. It is being quoted cur
rently on the Washington Stock Exchange
between $12.50 and $13.50-meaning between
$50 and $54 for the equivalent of the old stock.
So the Wolfson group, on first thought, may
be quite willing to surrender the franchise and
liquidate Capital Transit They may also dis
cover, however, that second thoughts are in order
Existing law provides that, under certain
circumstances, Capital Transit can be required,
when service is abandoned, to take up the
streetcar tracks and repave the streets. A few
years ago the company had to take up three
miles of double track on its Benning line and
repave the street The job cost the company
1884 0O0 the salvage from recovered materials
was $51 ,OOO and the net loss to the company
was $3O3,OOO. There are, in all, 1l8O9 miles of
track in the District
The Star does not know precisely what
application this law would have if the present
management of Capital Transit should con-
clude that it would be more prudent to sur
render its franchise and liquidate its invest
ment" This is a question, however, which, in
view of Mr.. Broadwater's statement, should be
receiving the earnest attention of the ap-
propriate District officials It is also question
holders who are not in the Wolfson group.
Evening star., 1954-01-06

versed. If the Russians are reasonable
and offer serious concessions, many
Frenchmen would be tempted to listen.
The French still distrust and fear the
Germans more than the Russians. And
to them, reappraisal of American
policy means only one thing: The
United States is pulling out of Europe
and returning to a policy of isola-
tioniSm.
Economy The outlook remains
bleak. Although production is high
compared to prewar standards, little is
being done to put the fragmented in
dustrial setup on real competitive
basis with more modern countries.
Plants are deteriorating; housing gen.
orally is in pitiful shape. The working
man feels rightly that he is. getting
the short end of the deal. but is too
diSorganized to do much about it. tThe
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Change Of Address

This Is Uhere once the baby ScrdDled
face .s. o..
Upon the nursery tDall, and here John
stood .-v
Measuring his length against the
fireplace,
Marking ,Dtth pencil-line the polished
Dood
And here are fo,Ders on the window
sill
Brought from a pleasant day upon
hill.
Possessions can be fitted in Udn
With trunks and bores and a store OF
things.
But 0ro,Dth of mind and stature neper
can
Be housed, except in our rememberings
SOt happy hours. So much Is left
behind
That only memory can bring to
mind.
Marguerite Jonvrin Adams
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Rhetoric and Facts

Former Ambassador Grew has fired an
opening gun in renewing the battle of the
bridges. AS chairman of the Theodore Roose-
velt Island Committee of the Theodore Roose-
velt Association, he has released a letter to
Engineer Commissioner Prentiss, taking him to
task for advocating a Potomac bridge which
would pass over the down-river part of the
island. II the argument to do this prevailed,
he said. it would lead logically to the desecra-
ton of every great national Shrine whenever
the claim is made that this is necessary for any
utilitarian purpose"
That is tall talk. But it follows in general
the rhetorical approach to a decision about
where to build another bridge across the
Potomac. The other, and the preferable ap-
proach, is for a committee of Congress to hear
a presentation of the facts by both sides-and
then to make decision in the public interest
Congress directed the Commissioners in 1852
to o'determine and to report back to Congress on
the most suitable location for bridge crossing.
Under former Engineer Commissioner Robinson
studies were made-with the help of hired con-
SultantS-which persuaded the Commissioners
that the street location was the correct one
Nothing has shaken their conviction since. AS
for the business of crossing over Roosevelt
ISlande-variously known in the past as AnaloS-
tan Island, My Lord Island, Barbados Island
and Mason's Island-the Corporation Counsel
rendered an opinion saying, in effect, that Con-
gress, and only Congress, could decide whether
such crossing violated the terms under which
the island was presented to the United States
as memorial to Theodore Roosevelt.
If the Commissioners-past and present
are convinced on the basis of engineering
studies that the E street location is the best
location for bridge, they would be dishonest If
they failed to say SO. If the United States is
foreclosed in perpetuity from permitting a
bridge to pass over the island, that fact must
be determined by Congress-not the Commits
sioners. 1t is disingenuous for Mr. Grew or
anybody else to imply that the Commissioners
are advocating breach of trust with the
Theodore Roosevelt Association when they tell
Congress that in their judgment the public
interest will be best served by an street
bridge, with some piers resting on the island.
If Congress decides that this would be a
breach of trust, that fact should be made
known. for it could be very significant piece
Of information. It could persuade Congress
that it would be wiser to return the island intact
to the Theodore Roosevelt Association with the
suggestion that some other and more appro-
pirate way be found to keep alive the memory
of great and vigorously progressive President
of the United States.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
This and That =.

much of Trollope. all Of Dickens and
scores of the stories of Alexandra
Dumas Not all of the great French
man, by any means. Probably nobody
has complete set" of Dumas, maybe
it never existed, not even in the home
of the great Alexandra himself. He
was such a prolific fellow, many Of his
stories have never been translated into
English. Here was writer whose
works could be turned into another
language with practically no harm to
them at all. The careful reader will
feel, when he reads Dumas in English,
that he is just about as good as he
must be in French. The loss is scarcely
felt, because his sentences are depend
ent upon their general flow, not exact
imagery. They are nearer, indeed, to
modern journalism, whose strides in
good writing have come with better
education of most modern newspaper
men.
It is enheartening to find these old
mildewed books in modern home,
alongside the TV set.
Sometimes we get the idea that to
be strictly modern, it is necessary to
throw out all that men once thought
good.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. This day, along with its silly
side, close to its awful and cruel side.
also shows a remarkable faithfulness
to the good things Of the old days.
Even the youngsters show this in
their acceptance Of old photograph
records, which have got into the class
Of faithful collectors items.
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Year of Decision

The signs and the portentS are not too
encouraging as the 83d Congress convenes for
its second session. It is q session, however,
which heralds the opening of political year
which may well be decisivefor the Republican
Party.
For this is the year in which the g. o. p.
must deliver. In the last session, when a
politically inexperienced President was feeling
his way, and when his party was trying to
accustom itself to the seat of power after 20
years in exile, not too much was expected. The
people were willing to give the new Republican
regime opportunity to get its bearings, and
they were willing to accept the premise that
time was needed to lay the foundations for a
new Republican program.
That will not be the case in this session. and
no one knows it better than President Eisen-
hover. From all indications he has worked up
program-certainly he and his advisers and
aides have tried hard enough to prepare recon-
mendations which may be offered to Congress,
and to the voters, as constituting that dynamic,
forward-looking" program to which the PreSi-
dent has so often alluded
The storm warnings are already flying,
however. Influential Republicans of Old Guard
persuasion have already served notice, more or
less openly, that they will fight certain recon-
mendationS which the President is expected to
make. Some Democrats, usually thought of as
being among the more responsible members of
Congress, have been taking partisan pot shots,
even in advance of the opening session
And most ominous of all are two statistics.
One is the division of the Senate-47 Republi-
cans 48 Democrats and Independent. The
other is the House division-219 Republicans,
2l5 Democrats and Independent.
This, taken with the split within the Repub-
lican Party, strongly suggests that the President
will not be able to get any controversial measure
through Congress without Democratic support.
So the question is whether the old coalition of
Republicans and Southern Democrats will hold
together in an election year. If the President
pitches in and really fights for his program or
at least its essentials, he may be able to win
enough Democratic support to make creditable
showing. With the control of both House and
Senate at stake in November however, it will
be something of a political miracle If the
Democrats should be willing to play ball with
G. o. p. President. To repeat, the signs and
the portents, from the Republican viewpoint
are not encouraging
Evening star., 1954-01-06
Our Country

Dapiel Webster said:
Let our object be our country. our
whole country and nothing but our
country. And by the blessing of God,
may that country itself become a vast
splendid monument, not of oppression
and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and
of liberty. upon which the world may
gaze with admiration forever!"
Here indeed are some of the noblest
words that have ever been written that
we should live by. Let us carry forth
this creed in dealings amongst our
selves and with other nations. Let not
those who would destroy us take
refuge behind the fifth amendment
Let US be 1907 American citizens in
thought and in prayer. and the resul-
tant chain of strength and integrity of
purpose that will be created can never
be broken.
Leo DolOff