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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
Sunday Services Announced

mann on Religion or Christian
ity" at $3.50 and II am. in
Mount Rainier and $50 am. in
Hyattsville.
Ascension Lutheran-The Rev.
Henry Schroeder on Christ
Prays for the Church"
Reformation Lutheran - DR..
Lawrence D. Folkemer on "Free-
dom of the Spirit" at 8 and IL
am.
AuguStana Lutheran - The
Rev. Clarence T. Nelson on 1.-THE
Life That Counts Is Free, Not
Shackled" at $3.50 and II am.
Georgetown Lutheran - The
Rev. Harold E. Beatty on 1.-THE
Hidden Mamma"
st. Peters Evangelical Luz
theran - The Rev. Donald F.
Brake on "The Universal Christ"
at 8:45 and II am.
Hope Evangelical Lutheran
The Rev. Otto Reimherr on
1.-THE Forgiveness of Sins" in the
University Of Maryland Agricul-
ture Auditorium.
Hamline Methodist-The Rev.
j. Artley Leatherman on with
the Master-A Heart Of Com
passion"
Gorsuch MethOdist-The Rev.
Davis Peck on Great Is Thy
Faith"
Trinity A. M. E. ZiOn-Bishop
w. J. Walls, senior bishop of the
A. M. E. Zion Church in Amer
lea, will preach.
Sixth Presbyterian-The Rev.
Robert N. Orter. jr., on 1.-THE
Cure for Worry"
GuntOn- Temple Presbyterian
The Rev. Eric Lindsay Cowall on
Like as a Father"
NOrthminster Presbyterian -
The Rev. William H. Kerler on
Judas, Who Betrayed Him." at
$3.50 and IL am.
Presbyterian Meeting House,
Alexandria-The Rev. Kenneth
Phifer on 1.-THE Cross Confronts
Our Sin"
HermOn PreSbyterian-Chap-
lain Willis Bergen on THE
Transforming Fellowship"
Trinity Presbyterian-The Rev.
William H. Foster. jr., on Out
lines in Theology" at $50 and
IL am.
Green Valley Presbyterian -
The Rev. Vernon K. Hoover on
1.-THE Conflict of Life"
Bethesda Presbyterian - The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27

Ministers OF local churcheS
will preach on the following
topics at the II am. service to-
morrow. unless noted otherwise:
National Baptist Memorial
DR.. Edward B. Willingham on
1.-THE Living Church" at 8:45 and
II am.
Chevy Chase Baptist-Dr. Ed
ward o. Clark on Jesus at
Caesarea Philippi."
Metropolitan Baptist-Dr. j.
Walter Carpenter on Defeated
Christians" at II am. and vic
torious Christians" at 7:45 pm.
Bethesda First Baptist-The
Rev. John Farmer Gates ON 1.-THE
Mission of Jesus" at 8 and II
am.
Second BaptiSt-Dr. j. L. S.
Holloman on THE Quest of Rec
onciliation."
Columbia Heights Christian
The Rev. Harry L. Bell on
+Christ. Plate and You" at
1880 am.
First Congregational - The
Rev. Carl H. Kopf on THE -Four
RS in a Broken World"
Westmoreland Congregational
The Rev. Philip Gordon Scott
on "This Is the Day"
Cleveland Park Congregational
The Rev. Alfred w. Hurst on
Homecoming"
Our Saviour Episc0pal-The
Rev. Alvin Lamar Wills on For
giving Others"
All Souls Episcopal-The Rev.
Frank Blackwelder on "Antidote
for Poison"
st. Paul's Episcopal-The Rev.
A. A. McCallum, rector emeritus,
will preach.
Christ Episcopal, Georgetown
The Rev. John r. Absolute on
1.-THE Story of Jesus. Part w."
Christ Episcopal. Washington
The Rev. Ivan E. Merrick on
"The Bread of Heaven"
Albright Evangelical u. B.
The Rev. George w. Speake on
Hope From God"
Christ Lutheran - The Rev.
William F. Bruening on 1.-THE
Objection to His Offer Over
ruled" at $50 and IL am.
Trinity Lutheran, Washing
ton-The Rev. Herbert B. Roepe
on Three CallS-One Answer, |"
at $50 and II am.
Trinity Lutheran, Mount Raj
nier-The Rev. Kenneth r. Hoff-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
Mount Rainier Pastor
Answers Call 10 Ohio

The Rev. Kenneth r. Hoffman,
pastor Of Trinity Lutheran par
ish Of Mount Rainier and
Hyattsville, this week was re-
leased by his congregation to al
low him to accept the pastorate
of Grace Lutheran Church,
Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Mr.. Hoffman came to Trinity
Church in November, 1852. He
will assume his new charge
about May !,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
Foreign Students 10 Talk
Al Mennonite Church

-Four foreign exchange stu
dents. now studying at the East
ern Mennonite College. will speak
at a special service at 7 pm.
tomorrow in the Woodbridge
Mennonite Church, 5000 Twenty
second street NE.
The students are Miss Itoko
Mazda and Taizo Tanimoto Of
Japan, Horst Gerlach of Ger
many and Issa Khalil of Jordan.
The Rev. c. Nevin Miller is
pastor,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
OAR Award Presented
Principal at Bancroft

Miss Elizabeth M. Andrews,
principal of Bancroft Elementary
School, has been presented with
Daughters Of the American
Revolution national defense
award for fostering the American
way of life.
The presentation was made
Thursday night at a meeting Of
the Col. James Mccall Chapter
of the OAR. Miss Andrews has
been principal at Bancroft for
II years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
Professor Will Preach

DR.. joseph r. Sizoo. professor
Of religion at George Washing
ton University. will preach at
II am. at st. Johns Episcopal
Church, 3240 o street NV, and
at 7:45 pm. at National City
Christian Church, Thomas cir
Gle NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
BrookIond Church Sermon

DR.. Clarence Crawford, pastor
Of Calvary Baptist Church, will
be guest preacher at 8 pm. to-
morrow at the Brookland Bap-
fist Church, Sixteenth and Mon
roe streets NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27

Rev. James Albertson on Love
to the Uttermost."
Howard University Chapel -
DR.. Daniel q. Hill. dean Of the
chapel, will preach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-27
Jouett Shouse to Talk

Jouett Shouse, former chair
man of the Democratic National
Committee, will speak at 9 am.
tomorrow at the International
Crossroads Breakfast at the
YMCA, 1876 G street NV.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Joseph Herqesheimer

To appreciate Joseph Hergesheimer ade-
quately one should be able to remember Java
Head" when it was new The year of its appear
ance was 1919, and that was a good year for
such a book It's author may have owed some
thing to Joseph Conrad just as Conrad may
have been in debt to Herman Melville. But
readers cared little about this What made
the "fable" memorable to them was the con-
f1ict represented by Gerrit Ammidon's lovely
Chinese bride and Nettie Vollar, the Salem girl
who succeeded her when the tragedy Of her
isolation had been played out to its inevitable
finish. The story opened doors to the magic
as well as the mystery Of the Orient. Thou
sands of people caught the lesson of it and have
kept that lesson close in their hearts ever
since.
Mr. Hergesheimer came to best-selling sue
cess the hard way. For more than decade he
turned out manuscript that nobody wanted to
buy 1.-THE Lay Anthony in its original edi-
ton, sold only 900 copies. Mountain Blood"
was hit only with the professional critics and
"'The Three Black Pennys" also won enthusi-
astic reviews without gaining the publics at
tention 1t was Java Head" that put its maker
across as q novelist.
Then came LINDA Condor" "The Bright
Evening star., 1954-04-29

buggy whip business into a thriving
clothespin factory, which is offered as
an example Of what displaced indus
try can do.
One low-tariff opponent, Represent
ative Bailey. Democrat. of West Vir-
ginia, insists that clothespins are not
doing so good.
A paradox of the tug Of war is the
relative silence from organized labor.
which ordinarily is hip-deep in any
controversy involving jobs. The leader
ship of both CIO and AFL has given
polite nod to the trade program. because
the powerful unions of the assembly
lines are all in favor of expanded foreign
markets. But a conflict of interest
often develops at the local union level
where weaker and less efficient indus
tries are bedeviled by competition and
the high command consequently has to
>do the best it can to keep both elements
pacified.
John L. Lewis, as usual, is not both
cred by inhibitions. The United Mine
Workers is all out against the trade
plan, because of the iilroads on coal
that have been made by residual oil
from Venezuela.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Solution to Indo-Chinu War

The peculiarly vacillating position Of
the administration with respect to in
jecting American soldiers into the war
in Indo- China, described so succinctly
by Crosby S. Noyes in The Star on
April 26, suggests that the people of
the United States are being offered
series Of trial balloons. Since the de-
cision on whether our troops shall fight
in Indo-China may well be the most
fateful decision in our lifetime, hope
that our citizens will speak QUITO the
newspapers, to their Congressman, to
the President.
I, for one. hope and pray. for my
children's sake as well as my own, that
we will turn away from inviting atomic
war; that we will encourage the French
to negotiate peaceful solution to the
Indo- China war; and that we will bend
our efforts to seeking universal disarm-
ament as the only alternative to the
devastation of third world war.
Walter r. Volckhausen.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
This and That

Templeton Jones recently saw tele-
vision for the first time.
Oh, sure. sure. he had glimpsed it
in stores and the like, and one memor-
able evening he had watched" at
friends home
In the latter case, he closed his eyes
during the whole time. and refused
to open them. listening to the voices
only.
This time, on the occasion Of the
Mccarthy hearings, Jones really
watched.
The show reinforced his belief that
he was not missing anything by not
owning q televiSion set.
What is it. after all. he asks, except
pictures?
And humanity has been exposed to
pictures for millions of years.
They began back in the caves and
have come on down through the ages
with ever-increaSing vim.
We are a picture minded race.
Photographs, then movies
These conditioned Jones, along with
the rest of the race, to good pictures.
The radio, really. if you can believe
Templeton Jones, is far greater in
vention.
To actually hear voices. music. over
the air
That was . thrill!
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Our Children and Their Muscles

The Stars recent editorial. "Our
Children and Their Muscles" agreed
with the thesis of Mrs. Ruth P. Hirsch-
land and DR.. Hans Kraus of the Belle
vue Medical Center of New York that.
There are signs that great numbers
OF American children are seriously in
danger of growing up to be weaklings."
The Star logically ascribes a cause to
be lack of the challenging games.
exercises and chores that were a part
OF life IN our cities before the coming
of automobiles, television and work.
saving gadgets. But The Star does not
suggest remedies or answers. although
it led quite campaign a few years ago
to increase the hours of physical edu-
cation in our high schools for boys and
girls.
Since then the so-called Strayer Re-
port showed our elementary-age chill
dren were not receiving as much rugged
physical exercise as they should. Junior
high boys and girls in our school system
are given supervised exercises only two
periods week, whereas the average
time in most cities of comparable size
is greater.
The Star did not mention the report
of Brig. Gen. Louis Renfro of Selective
Service who reported that Of $500 900
draftees, 1,750,000 were unfit for serv-
ice. OF course. neglect in education, in
mental health service and social segre-
CATION policies of the Southern States
account for many reflections.
It was just such deterioration Of
manpower that brought about the de-
cline and fall of Greece, Rome and
some other civilizations. With all our
devotion to democracy and efforts to
prevent the spread Of communism. un-
less we keep our people vigorously
strong, even with our weapons of power
we may go the way of all peoples who
fell prey to soft and easy living.
E. b. Henderson.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Propaganda Mills Grind on Trade Policy
By Joseph A. Fox

ID RESIDENT EISENHOWER'S lib
= eralized foreign trade program is
only accommodating dust in the legiS-
lative log-jam on Capitol Hill, but in
the meantime it is providing field
day for partisans in both pro and anti
camps, who are keeping the propa-
ganda mills whirring at top speed.
Publicity handouts. speeches. news
conferences every known device cal
culated to get the printed and spoken
word on the explosive issue out in the
open-are being used. And while the
arguments of high tariffs VS.. low or no
tariffs are being largely relegated to
back pages of the newspapers or the
oblivion of the wastebasket by such
affairs as the Mccarthy hearing, Indo-
China and the housing uproar, the
disciples of the conflicting schools con-
tinue to swing from the heels in the
hopes Of landing blows that will be
felt in the showdown later on.
One ambitious protectionist advo-
cate even tried to do himself some good
at the opening Of the Mccarthy Army
hearing by distributing china ash trays
plugging the cause of the domestic pot
terry industry, which is having lot Of
trouble with foreign imports. The Sem
ate, however. has rule against out
siders muscling in with publicity
stunts, so it was no sale.
The big push is being Spearheaded
by rival organizations which owe their
existence to the trade fight.
The low tariff group, backing the
administration position, is the Com
mittee for National Trade Policy,
headed by Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati
attorney and brother of the late Re-
publican leader, Senator Taft of Ohio.
The protectionists are carrying on
in the imposing sounding Nationwide
Committee of Industry, Agriculture and
Labor on Export Import Policy, which
is master-minded by 0. r. Strackbein.
The Taft group roster is made up
of star-studded list from banking
and the big industries that want to
encourage foreign trade because they
don't have to worry about competition
and have profitable markets overseas.
The Strackbein legion takes in the
groups that are vulnerable to the
operations of their foreign counter
parts, largely because Of the vast diff
ference in wage rates.
Behind these two major committees
are additional groups concerned in one
aspect or another of the fight, and
even the staid Library of Congress has
become an involuntary participant in
the struggle through it's Legislative
Reference Service, which is making a
series of spot checks for members of
Congress who are interested in know
ing what the foreign trade stake of
their district or State amounts to.
Congressman are being belabored
with claims and counterclaims from
both sides. Some are even sending out
their own queStionnaires to sample
sentiment back home. For these, the
Congressional Record is handy me-
dium for disseminating publicity, par
ticularly in an election year
The overriding issue in the debate.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
By Charles E. TroceweH

sons shown until they could have told
just how many buttons each had on
his coat.
Yet not a one ceased to glare at
the screen, never taking the eye from
it for fraction of second.
T. Jones, bookman, and addict Of
good eye care, now and then looked
around the room.
In this, Of course. he was violating
some sort of television ethics. Evident
ly, you are not supposed to do that.
But Jones did 1t, and he was amazed
at the rigidity Of posture Of every other
person there.
Their neck muscles were actually
strained, their eyes glaring.
Another fact that impressed Temple
ton Jones was that the voices did not
seem to come from the lips at all.
The peculiar jaw action on television.
Jones thought. is odd. but he was not
fooled at all about where the voices
were coming from; they were issuing
directly from the loud speaker. and
those lips were quacking away some
place else.
Close your eyes, Jones says. and it
amt nothin' but a radio. and not q
particularly good radio, at that.
All In all, Templeton Jones was
rather unimpressed with the perform
ance.
He sti1l prefers books.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Financing New Bridge

Virginia wants new bridge: WASH
ington wants a new bridge, but both
say the Federal Government is the
only body that has money for build
ing this bridge.
When a lack OF funds for a joint
project exists in other States, the
needed capital is raised by legislating
that the new construction be a toll
bridge for certain length Of time. A
toll bridge cannot be used here. If the
new bridge were so designated, it would
remain new" because motorists would
use one of the other four bridges which
now cross the Potomac.
The question still exists-what funds
can be used to finance the bridge? The
solution is obvious. Let us all start COL
lecting pennies and contribute them
to the bridge cause. Virginia wants the
bridge; Washington wants the bridge,
and who says the Federal Government
is the only body with sufficient funds?
Arlington Resident.
Evening star., 1954-04-29

Templeton Jones will never forget
his first crystal set Nor will anybody
else.
But this television thing
There is nothing much to it we
haven't had before.
Except the terrific jumping around
of the picture from one scene to an
other.
There you were, watching Mccarthy.
and suddenly
Snap!
Away you went to Jenkins.
Then you are hurled back into Nc
Carthy's lap.
After the watcher gets used to this,
and is lulled by the droning voice
cf somebody or other. there is shuttle,
a drift Of "snow'' across the screen
and away he goes to general view
of the room.
Just at the time he wants to watch,
he is transferred without warning to
closeup OF some other guy.
The outstanding fact Templeton
Jones got from his first extended view
of TV was the fascination of the bright
light.
Everybody in the room was glaring
at the big tube end as if his very life
depended upon it..
Every one there had seen the per-
Evening star., 1954-04-29

of course, is the extent to which do
mestic lines would be hurt by President
Eisenhowers plan for further reduc-
ton in tariff rates and easing of the
Buy American" restrictions. The big
gest single talking point. however, is
the effect on employment.
The protectionists contend that the
job loss in American industry due to
competitive imports already is around
the 100000 mark, and forecast that
doors will be closing with additional
thousands looking for work if the ad-
ministration program prevails.
The National Trade Policy-ite coun-
tering from another angle. contend that
foreign trade keeps better than four
million workers operating in factory
and field. AS clincher they say that
the fractional displacement of labor
that lower trade barriers would entail
could be cured by having the Govern
ment underWrite a resettlement and
retraining program.
AT time when the employment situ-
alton already is showing disturbing
signs. this particular solution is getting
a chilly reception despite one glowing
account of the evolution of a rnoribund
Evening star., 1954-04-29
The Circus Must Go On

There would be little reason, ordinarily to
take note Of criticism by a British newspaper
reporter of an American scene. For there is
ample evidence that the British are as quick
to misjudge our politics as we are to misjudge
theirs
Certainly the correspondent of the London
Daily Mirror was misjudging the significance
Of the Mccarthy hearing when he cabled his
paper: II have been watching circus so fan
tastic, so degrading, so puerile and so recklessy
dirty that the disgust one feels is matched only
by alarm over the behavior of our closest ally
in the conduct of their domestic affairs"
Unfortunately, however, this is an estimate
which seems to be shared in some degree by a
number Of our own people, and that is matter
OF concern.
No one would deny that there are unedify-
ing aspects of this hearing. But it is for this
Mccarthy also uses this word to describe the
hearing) should go on to the end
The correspondent for the London Daily
points. This clash between Senator Mccarthy
and the Army has been building up for con-
siderable period of time. When it finally
erupted in charges and counter charges, the
effect was to bring into question the integrity
of either the Department of the Army or an
important Senate committee. Conceivably,
even at that stage, the lid might have been
clamped on and the whole business hushed up
Perhaps it would have been done that way in
London. Under our system, however, there are
certain controversies which cannot be politely
stified and forgotten.
In this instance some one is not telling
the truth. And, principally speaking that
some one is either the Secretary of the Army
or the Senator from Wisconsin. It becomes
extremely important to try to identify the
offending party, and that is why this hearing
is being held. It is, one must concede, an ugly,
brawng affair, and this cannot be helped It
may disgust" or "alarm" some of our British
friends. But If the hearing is carried forward
with determination and fairness there will be
constructive results. Perhaps no formal basis
for criminal action will be established But at
the least, the people who watch this "circus"
will come away with judgment as to who is
lying and who is telling the truth. And the
excesses of which the Daily Mirrors corre-
spondent complains will contribute to forma-
ton of the judgment. 1t is important for the
American people to reach decision in this
matter and their doing so will hardly nullify
our usefulness as an ally to the British.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
An Obnoxious Pest

Virginia's Anti-Litterbug Council could not
have chosen a more fertile field for its next
campaign than Northern Virginia. This ener-
getic and highly vocal organization, backed by
the State Highway Department and other
authorities is sounding off in condemnation Of
a strange species of human, dubbed by the
council the "litterbug." This peculiar type Of
citizen has a split personality. In and around
his own home he is meticulous about keeping
the house and yard clear of rubbish. His per-
sonality changes soon as he gets into his
automobile, however. He then without qualms
and seemingly with secret glee, joins with
others of his ilk in littering the States roads,
parkways and parks with discarded beer cans,
bottles, luncheon debris and even bags Of house.
hold garbage.
Recently the Anti-Litterbug Council con-
Quoted pleasantly successful cleanup drive in
Albemarle County. Posters. newspaper pub
licity, radio and other media were used in an
effort to curb the litterbug menace. AS result
of that campaign, the council voted to turn its
attention to the 13 counties in the Culpeper
district of the State highway system. These
include all of the highways near Washington,
including that notorious target of trash and
garbage bumpers, the Shirley highway. The
council asserts that this memorial highway. one
of the finest in Virginia, has the highest litter
rate" of any in the State. There are laws
against dumping trash on State property, but
it is difficult to catch litterbug at work. II the
council, with the cooperation of the apprecia-
tive public, can drive this obnoxious pest into
obscurity, it will have the admiration and
gratitude Of all citizens who have pride in their
community and their State.