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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
Exploiting Youth

Recently the papers carried the
tragic story of an 11-year-old, ciga-
rette-smoking, whisky drinking IL d.
Well, why not? These two industries
have done their level best to capture
the children.
In a recent donation Of candy to
the ,Childrens Emergency Home Of
Central Union Mission there were ru-
merous packages Of candy cigarettes
with their simulated cigarette package
cartons. There they were-Kools, Ches-
terfields. Lucky Strikes, etc. We i'm
mediately destroyed them and wrote
the candy manufacturer and the to-
bacco companies concerned telling them
that it was STOPPING to the very lowest
level when they seek even to put into
the hands of children this form OF
advertising to create potential Gus
toners.
Now comes the latest. A famous
race track in California has been pur-
chased and the new owners have des-
ignated that 80 per cent Of the profits
shall 90 to the benefit Of under
privileged children in a campaign to
curb juvenile delinquency. That GER
tainly is fighting fire with fire
gambling to prevent gambling.
What are we coming to when chill
dren are thus exploited? And, believe
it or not, committees of experts spend
hours trying to determine why we
have delinquency!
Herbert Eberhardt,
Superintendent, Central Union
Mission.
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toward their construction and mainte-
nance. There is one in Garrett Park.
There are plans for another in Ken
sington, and the writer understands
in several other communities. Present.
ly, the zoning restrictions prevent the
establishment of such pools, and on
July Is the County Council will hold
hearings on a proposal to amend the
coming laws to facilitate such pools.
Here, it seems to the writer, we have
the, problem referred to in the first
paragraph of this letter. Swimming
pools are needed in the county. and
community swimming pools do offer
an immediate way of giving access to
such pools to a number of residents
of the county who might not other
wise have a pool available. But is this
to be the easy way for the County
Council, other municipal bodies and
civic organizations to avoid the issue
of public pools? What about the poorer
communities in the county and the
communities without &C o m m u n ty
swimming pools? Are the community
pools" going to be open to kids in the
community whose families feel they
are not able to contribute the not-in-
substantial sums these community prof.
ects entail? To groups of kids, some
of whom are from the immediate COM
munity and some are not? And are we
to contribute to the expense Of county
inspection of a number of community
swimming pools" which we may not be
able to use freely? And. if these com
munity pools" spread, without public
pools, will the county be guinea pig
for a law suit based upon the theory
of the racial covenant cases?
The writer does not purport to be
sure that he knows the answer to this
problem, but he does feel certain that
it is best for the problem to be brought
into the open so that it may be given
the public consideration it deserves.
Philip Marcus.
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Juvenile Virginian from himself. The
ordinance recites that no minor shall
have, keep or carry any toy pistol or
toy rifle. The offender Is subject to a
fine of not less than flve dollars nor
more than ten. No person shall give.
sell or lend to any minor toy pistol
or toy rifle. Any offender against this
section of the ordinance is liable to q
fine of not less than ten nor more than
twenty dollars. The ordinance was APP
proved April 10. 1903"
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On June 2, 1904, The Star printed
telegram from Chicago reading: Ito
Himatsu. a japanese
Gift for merchant from New
an Emperor York, has arrived here
with q common split
leather valise containing $1,12O.0OO in
United States money which he will
give to the mikado to help defeat Rus
STA. The cash is all in United States
gold notes and bank bills. ut) was
deposited here with trust company
on the advice of the local japanese
consul. Ito HimatSu expects to sail
from San Francisco on June IL. He Is
u ICCOB1l4GC0 a0O4AOAAOy Ah SAAA@SAASS~ S~~
japanese art, and his discourSes at
Chautauquan assemblages for the last
i've years have been the subject Of
many written disquisitions on the in1u-
ence of japanese arts and japanese
ideas upon modern eStheticiSm."
The Star of June 8. 1904, contained
an account Of the laying Of the corner
stone Of the new
Annapolis Chopel chapel at the Naval
ceremonv Academy ct An
napolis-a building
which was described as 'the architec-
tural summit" Of q group Of structures
for which Congress had appropriated
$40 million. Consisting mainly Of light
blue brick, trimmed with Maryland
granite" the Navy sanctuary was to
rise 100 feet from . 30-foot plateau.
Admiral George Dewey welded the
trowel, mallet and square, declaring the
cornerstone to b truly laid. Chaplain
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set of to render assistance. With the
steamer burning under his feet. the
captain wv. H. Van Schaick) stuck to
his post in the pilothouse. and the
engineer remained at his post below
deck until the boat was beached at the
lower end of North Brother Island, OF
Port Morris" Patients In nearby hos
pitfalls became almost insane from
fright and the terrible scenes they
beheld." Five hundred persons, mostly
children, were said to have persisted in
the fire or by drowning. The blaze was
declared to have started at the lunch
counter in the forward part Of the
vessel. AS the alarm spread the hurri-
cane deck was overcrowded with scared
and struggling humanity-until it col
lapsed. Many were thrown into
the water, but hundreds were precipi-
tated into the lower deck. which was
itself q mass of women and children"
On Monday, June 6. 1904, The Star
society column contained an account
of the wedding
Sheridon -Fohnestock OF Mary Sheri-
Wedding dan ano Bruce
Holy Trinity Church two days previ-
ously. Rev. Father Ennis. s. j.. ofhci-
ated at the ceremony. Haydn's Inn
perial Mass" was sung by Mrs. Armande
Gumprecht, Mrs. Edith Mccoy White.
Joseph L. Battle and Frank Rebstock.
George Herbert Wells was at the organ.
The matron Of honor was Mrs. j. =.
Sheridan. nee French, Of San Fran
cisco. Florence Rudge, Anna Coleman.
Bessie FahneStock. Margaret McDevitt
and Helen O'Mahony were the brides.
maids. Cardinal Gibbons sent his
ble1Ting to the couple.
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GuotemoIon WhirIwind

Guatemala today is reaping the whirlwind
which the Communist -infiltrated government
of President Arbenz has been sowing in recent
years.
At pace that has quickened in the past
few months, the Arbenz regime has fallen more
and more under the control of hard-core
group of card-carrying Communists-Some OF
them Moscow-trained In the course of this
subversion, Guatemala'S relations with the
American community as a whole and with
her immediate neighbors in particular have
deteriorated to the point of leaving her govern
ment, though not her people, friendlesS In this
hemisphere. And in the same period, hundreds
of Guatemalans-many of them influential in
the politics of the country-have gone volun-
tarily into exile. It is this group, rallying
around the leadership Of Colonel Castillo
Armas-who received part of his military
training in the United States-that forms the
backbone of the revolutionary effort now en-
quilting the country.
On several occasions, Secretary OF state
Dulles has made clear our Governments con-
Germ with the political situation in Guatemala.
And when Guatemala cast the single dissenting
vote in the otherwise solid front favoring the
anti-Communist Caracas resolution, Mr.. Dulles
words were almost prophetic I'VE shall have
the task" he said, referring to the II American
signatories, "of assuring that the enemies OF
freedom do not move into the breach which
has been disclosed within our ranks am
confident this hemisphere Is not good
hunting ground for alien despotS" Guate-
malans who favor liberty over despotism are
demonstrating today that Mr.. Dulles confidence
had sound foundation.
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Spires Of the Spirit
Under God

No matter how high our starry
emblem is lifted, It is under God"
On Flag Day President Eisenhower
attached his name to the bin ofdcially
inserting those momentouS words into
the pledge of national allegiance. The
Chief Executive must have been aware
of q tall form, with sad. scanned face,
standing by with approving gaze.
Abraham Lincoln was there! For had
he not appropriated the phrase in an
address that was to be immortal! The
words thus solemnly included in his
deathless message at Gettysburg did
not represent just hollow, pi0us
gesture tinged with political expedient.
Under God" was the fundamental
belief Of his life. The credo which
these two words proclaim ran like q
golden cord through all his concep-
tons of duty and destiny. He might
have been vague. indifferent or in
credulous as to some Of the theological
dogmas Of his day which seemed to
! libel the God in whom he really be-
lieved. But no man Of his troubled
times was more positive that: There
is q divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them how we will"
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But not only Honest Abe was there
when these words went into the Salute
to the Flag. knowing their faith in
guiding and overriding Providence,
who can doubt that every President
from George Washington onward Joined
the latest occupant Of that exalted
ONCE in applauding the action and the
significance Of the congressional reSo-
luton which by the presidential pen
was turned into law.
To put the words under God" on
millions of lips Is like running up the
believers flag as the witness Of o great
nations faith. It Is also displayed to
the gaze Of those who deny the sacred
Sanctities which 1t gymbolizes.
On that June day, within q few
minutes after the signature Of the
President had written under God" in
the Pledge Of Allegiance. the bill that
legalixed it leaped to life In Q scene
silhouetted against the white dome OF
the Capitol. There stood Senator Homer
Ferguson, who had sponsored the reso-
luton In the Senate, and with him
group Of Legislative colleagues from
both houses Of Congress. As the radio
carried their voices to listening thou
sands, together these lawmakers re-
peated the pledge which is now the
Nations. Then, appropriately, as the
flag was raised bugle rang out with
the familiar strains Of Onward, Chris
tian Soldiers!"
Thus at the White House and at the
Capitol was under God" written across
the Stars and Stripes. In its homage to
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Too Much Comfort?

With one of them already operating in
jersey CITY, moving sidewalks now seem to be
here to stay At any rate, according to sur
vey by the Wall Street Journal, 1t looks as
though they are going to be installed in dozens
of our bigger communities throughout the coun-
try, north, east, south and west. Apparently
there is q lot to be said for them. They prom
Use to help bundle-laden, foot-weary housewives
trekking for bargains at shopping centers. They
point the way to some measure OF tratnc relief
in congested downtown areas And they con-
tain a number of other alluring possibilities
that should make them, according to their
enthusiastic advocates, real mechanical bless
ing in our Supermechanized civilization.
Regardless of all that, however there is at
least little reason to wonder about whittier
we are drifting when we approach point where
we develop sidewalks specifically designed to
do away with walking. Is this good? In an age
when we are being warned from every side
that Americans-with their automobiles, with
their labor saving devices, with their televison
sets. and so on and so forth-are growing peril
ously soft for want Of exercise, are we on safe
ground when that ground ian ingenious sort
of conveyor belly carries us from one place to
another even as we stand still?
As some one has written, q man has two
doctors-his left leg and his right. What will
happen now II with our latest gadgetry we elm
mate the need for those doctors? VIII they
atrophy through disuse? VIII we become weak
and aabby while the Russians continue to mex
and tougher their muScIes7 A biped must ask
himself these Questions-and with considerable
niSgivinE-no matter how much he may Ike to
do things the easy way and travel around In
the utmost comfoyf
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The Star editorial page Of June z.
1904, featured the following sentiment:
Beating the British at golf
Golf is beating them at their own
V;ctorv game, and beating them at
Sandwich is rubbing 1t in.
It is golf superstition that man to
play the game with certainty and nm
ish must have been born with club in
his hands and have used the links as
nursery. Golf is a game rich-freighted
with traditions, and to puncture one OF
these traditions is to give acute pain
to Britishers. But here Is Walter j.
Travis. He never drove or putted a
golf ball till he was of middle age. He
never trod the links till 10 years ago.
Yet he applied himself to the classic
pastime and beat the best amateurs OF
Scotland, England and Ireland. The
only consolation the British have is
that Mr.. Travis was born British sub
ject. If he had remained British sub
ject he might have played no better
golf than the British themselves play.
He was born in Australia. but came to
the United States and was naturalized.
He was as shrewd in picking out
country to adopt as he is in playing
golf"
An editorial in The Star for June 3,
1904, read as follows: Richmond has
an ordinance against the toy
Toy Pistol pistol. and there are loud
Menace calls in that city for the
rigorous enforcement Of the
law. The sentiment among the adult
population Of Virginia's capital Is unan-
imous in favor Of the suppression Of
this menace. Virginia has had 50 much
trouble because Of the comparatively
harmless six-shooter that she is not dis
posed to temporize with such Q deadly
weapon a. the toy pistol. Death BY .
bullet is 90 much pleasanter than death
by lockjaw. Lockjaw Is nearly always
fatal. The only man known to be Inn
mune to lockjaw issa politician who
= lives In Lincoln. Nebr. But Richmond
\ In earnest In IL desire to ia8Ne the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

H. H. Clark led the prayers at the
start of the proceedings Secretary OF
the Navy Moody was the principal
speaker. "Our civil power" he said, has
always stood Loyalty behind our mill
tary, because it knows that the mill
tary power has always yielded loyal
obedience to it"
Friends Of Crosby. Stuart Moves, edi-
tor of The Star, gave him testimonial
dinner on June z. 1904.
Honor to and his paper the next
Mr.. Moves day acknowledged their
kindness in an article
describing the event. listing the
guests and reproducing the speeches.
Mr.. Noyes himself was quoted as
saying: From the time. nearly
so years ago. when I, poor,
sickly. thinly clad boy-a promising
candidate for the graveyard-entered
Washington one cold winter night.
have received nothing but kindness,
sympathy and encouragement from the
people of this city. All possess in the
world owe to these same good people.
and should be an migrate indeed If
failed to give in return my best services
in behalf of the city that sheltered me
and the people who befriended me when
I so sorely needed friendship and aid"
The Star placed before its readers on
June IS, 1904, 1.-THE running story Of one
of the great horrors Of the
SIocum early Goth century-namely.
D;snste, the burning Of the excur-
sion steamer General Slo-
cum in the East River near Hell Gate,
New York. Largest vessel Of its kind in
those waters, the ship carried more
than 1000 persons assembled for the
annual Sunday school outing Of st.
Marks German Lutheran Church. Near
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street
people on shore saw flames and smoke
rising from the upper part Of the
doomed craft. The disaster was Wit
messed by thousands >. from both sides
Of the river. and as rapidly - possible
hundreds Of small boats and launches
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deity taking its place with the In God
We Trust" on our coinage and "the
power that hath made and preserved
Concerning this meaningful event the
White House made this thrilling pro-
nouncement. to which is the sound OF
q great amen" In mighty host OF
God-fearing hearts:
From this day forward the millions
cf our school children will daily pro-
: claim in every city and town, every
village and rural schoolhouse the
dedication Of our Nation and Our
people to the Almighty. /. Over the
globe millions have been deadened
in mind and soul by q materialistic
philosophy Of life. In this way
we are reafirming the transcendence
of religious faith in Americas herit-
age and future; in this way We shall
constantly strengthen those spiritual
weapons which forever shall be our
country's most powerful resource In
peace or in war.
OF course, this reverential acknowl-
edgment IL nothing new. It Is but q
rcdedication to the faith in which the
Republic was Graded. To be under
God" is to be under an Ineligible ex-
PLANTATION Of the mysterious universe In
which we ind ourselves. To believe in
nothing, higher than the nag Of ones
nation Is to thWart the souls highest
instincts, as well as to insult the intel
lect. To regard will. memory, imagina-
ton, thought, love and the faculties by
which men conquer space and time and
matter as the reaction Of chemical ele-
ments. to perceive no mind speaking
through the infinite complexities Of the
cosmos. to be blind to the one final,
irreducible and inescapable denomina-
tor of the universe.
The results of blasphemous denials
Of God on . tremendous scale already
are being shudderingly shown by the
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DepIorobIe Lack of Cooperation

Three questions arise as result OF Juvenile
Court Judge Cockrill's press statement concern
ing several cases Of alleged police brutality
toward, or intimidation of, juvenile prisoners.
First, why has Judge Cockrill waited so long
(since last December In one case) to make pub
lie such serious charges? Second, why does
Judge CockriI withhold important information
of this sort from the Police Department unless
Chief Murray specifically asks for 1t? Third,
what weight does Judge Cockrill give to unsup-
ported allegations in considering whether or
not to accept confessions introduced in her
court by police?
With respect to the first two questions, 1t
is deplorable that there should be such poor
cooperation between the Juvenile Court and
the Police Department as Judge Cockrill's state
ment has revealed. Judge Cockrill must believe
that the accusations she listed, in part, at her
press conference have substance or she would
not have made them public in the way she did.
If she believes that it is hard to understand
why, in each instance, she did not get in touch
Immediately with Chief Murray to demand an
investigation. It certainly should not be nee
essary for the chief of police to make formal
request for this type of accusation against his
department. Chief Murray points out that in
the District and Municipal Courts, where pro-
ceedingS are in the open, any charges OF third
degree tactics against his men are brought
instantly to his attention either by the court or
by the press. In closed tribunal Like the Juve-
nile Court the police are at disadvantage In
defending themselves If allegations Of rough
treatment are allowed to pile up for months and
then are released in q press interview. 1t Is
extremely difficult to investigate these allega-
tons after weeks or months have passed, dur
ing which physical evidences Of brutality dis
appear Chief Murray encountered this dim
Guilty in trying to check on number OF similar
charges given to him last January by Judge
Cockrill.
With regard to the question Of admitting
confessions allegedly forced by police brutality
or threats, Chief Murray said he could recall no
case in which Judge Cockrin has summoned any
Of his men for questioning about complaints by
young defendants against police. Is the court
deciding on admissibility Of confessions on the
basis of testimony only by the juveniles making
the charges?
OF course, Police Chief Murray should lose
no time in asking Judge Cockrill for specific
details of the cases she outlined to reporters
whether or not the Judge elects to hand them
over voluntarily The facts, whatever they may
be- should be turned over to him without any
conditions which might restrict his investiga-
ton of the cases at this late date-such as q
requirement that parents be present during
Interrogation of the youths making the charges.
And the public will hope that some way will be
found to bring about some common-Sense rule
of cooperation between the Juvenile Court and
other agencies sharing the responsibility Tor
combating juvenile crime in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-20
BY Frederick Brown Harris
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baneful social pattern Of atheistic ma
terialism. Suspicion begins to grow
that It Is not the believer who Ii IRA
tional, but the cynical denier. Ger
tainly, one who accepts the beliefs Of
unbelief, with It's assumption Of q uni
verse that is dead and goddess. is called
before the bar Of reason to explain such
undeniable facts as self-Sacriflce,s no.
bility and heroism, which have made
the earthen vessels of humanity blaze
with a shining glory. The unbeliever
has to assert that the grandeur and
splendor of life at its best are but the
product of blind chance. TO deny the
Implications of under God" and to
point to dust to explain destiny is about
as sensible as declaring that you could
take a bag containing the letters OF
the alphabet and, throwing a few
handfuls of them up into the air, ex-
pect them to fall to the ground in the
form Of a Shakespeare's sonnet or Of
Tennyson's "In Memoriam. The thing
Is absurd.
There is no liberty anywhere except
under God. All history shouts that.
What avail all the fair slogans Of lib
erty, equality and fraternity as the
streets of Paris ran red with blood and
the guillotine rolled its ghaStly heads.
II q lewd woman Is lifted up rs the
goddess of reason in Notre Danes
temple to the Most High!
The promising streams OF freedom
disappear in the sands Of futility when
there is nothing higher than the state
With a deified state in q goddess realm
iron curtains but hide broken strands
of rainbows which once arched the sky
of those who imagined themselves
pioneers Of q new freedom. Without
God, unkept promises become the fet-
tiers of q worse thralldom at the hands
of alleged emancipators.
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In this dread day the faces Of scien-
lists and national leaders who know
the stark facts are blanched by fear.
For man has achieved the awesome
capacity to produce O star as hot as
the sun: he has Snatched the secret OF
starting a fire that can incinerate the
planet. We are suddenly aghaSt at the
dire possibilities Of Stupendous power In
the hands Of men who have no God In
their hearts.
William Penn expressed Q pertinent
principle when he declared: Man will
either choose to be governed by God or
condemn himself to be ruled by ty-
rants" The Quaker was saying. long
before Lincoln, that the only freedom
there is is under God.
The saving formula for today's crisis
is: This Nation UNDER GOD must
have a new birth of freedom" Any So
called freedom, if it is not under God,
is under sentence of death.
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re-exananed. Once, however, the decision Is
finally made to deny clearance, as . practical
matter, it Is never reopened"