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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

The Star for August "a. 1904, chron-
icled the arrival Of 1.-THE big monitor
Florida" "her sister ship, the Arkan-
sas." the Nevada, the torpedo boat de-
stroyers Worden and
Ships in the Whipple, the training
Potomac ship Hartford, "old flag
ship of Admiral Farra-
gut" and other Navy vessels in the
Potomac River of the Seventh street
wharves. Shoals prevented the Texas
and the Massachusetts, from coming up
"even as far as Alexandria" The
Arkansas had narrow escape from
collision with the tug Unity and three
sand-laden barees. "Middies" from all
the ships were expected on shore "to
make thorough inspection of the Gov
eminent works at the Washington Navy
Yard"
Two brief paragraphs In The Star on
August Is. 1904. told how Willie. H.
year-old son Of John Hill
Runaway Boy iburton. New York bro
Killed ker. had been run over
and killed by train at
Brunswick, Md. with two companions
Of about his age the boy had run away
from Berryville, Va. The three boys
succeeded in beating their way on Nor
folk and Western and B. q o. freight
trains from Berryville to Brunswick
When the latter place was reached, the
Hiliburton boy jumped from the freight
train upon track on which the ST.
Louis express was dashing westward
The engine of the express train struck
him and killed him instantly"
4
Under date, of August 81, 1904. The
Star announced: THE installation of
typesetting machines in
Machines the Government Print
A. e p q. ing ONCE win soon be
accomplished. In an
ticipation Of the arrival Of IS up-to-
date machines, force Of workmen. un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

Our souls haze sight OF that Immortal
And see the children sport upon the
shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling
eDermore.
That same turning to the sea is
captured in a lovely poem by w. B.
Yeats. It was his lot to spend the
passing years far from the scenes that
enraptured his youth, but which ever
after charmed his dearest memories
and to which often he returned as to
an enchanted childhood home.
AltDays night and day,
hear lake tDater tapping Nth the
loD sounds by the shore. &
While stand on the roadway or on
pavement grey:
hear it in the deep hearts core.
What an unforgettable picture of
man who. even though his feet were
treading the dusty roads of routine or
were pounding the grey pavements
where surged the jostling throngs, was
never far away from the sound of water
tapping with low whispering music by
the shore Only one could so write who,
whatever might be the diversions which
clamored for his attention. deliberately
turned his chair, despite distractions
toward the sea.
What a tragedy when portals through
which splendor might pour are I'M
opened, when energies and faculties
are so enmeShed and immersed in the
web Of the inconSequential that, as one
has put it, I'VE are too preoccupied to
respond even to beauty. and thus forget
the pulsating eternal life in which alone
we truly live. and cannot hear the waves
OF that immortal sea that brought us
hither"
Portals may be blocked, often are,
by things not bad in themselves but
fatal to the highest when they forget
their place as rt-jesters and usurp
the throne. Tiddly winks is an anus
ing and harmless game, but scarcely
worthy to be made enc o. life's major
interests when the span of the years
is so short, LIES energies so limited,
human needs so appalling and life's
reckoning privileges so enriching. Every
radio dial Is an invitation, not to in
suit ones intelligence by turning to
moronic dribbile but to tune in to cul-
tural voices, to turn ones face to i'm
mensity. Every day brings golden
chances to turn ones chair from the
gaudy shops to the glorious sea, from
the tiny to the titanic. Portals of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

mllitarily-and thereby the, creation Of
greater security against Communist designs
in the area seems promised through the
recent lifting Of the British embargo on
arms sales to the Cairo government and
the negotiation of nailitary-aid agreement
with the United States. Perhaps even
greater elements of developing strength in
that key Arab state are the understanding
and the practice of speaking forthrightly
that seem to mark the conduct of Premier
Nasserx and his colleagues on the Revolu-
tionary Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
BY Frederick Brown Harris
csspn 1ni.a ssasss seSs

splendor suddenly may open in unex-
pected places If the one inside but
needs the tapping at the door. A field
of waving grain is as likely q place as
an ornate fame. It may be at a table
where bread is broken or at q temple,
where bells are pealing. 1t may be at
burning bush; but. as Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning reminds us, even there
only those who see take of their shoes;
the rest, with no portals Of splendor
open, 'just sit round it and pluck
blackberries." To pluck blackberries
oblivious to the bush that burns is
life's most devastating tragedy.
The knocking may come in some
soaring passage of great music, some
uplifting hour Of temple worship, some
poem singing its song like morning
lark at heavens gate; some twilight
hour casting strange spell over the
landscape, erasing all that blots and
blights; moonlight on the jewelled sea,
a sun-kissed valley as viewed from
perch on lonely, tempted hills; the hush
and awe as we look up and wonder at
other woAlds than ours twinkling in
the heavens so high. The knock may
come in hundred ways when splendor
approaches the portal. And when the
door is open, what happens? I'VE
know that riches and power are, silly
toys that cannot endure; that lust and
selflshness can only satisfy for a brief
span: that crushing another person in
ruthless pride enthrones a false, not
a true self in ones own heart" and
brings harvest of bitterness and gall.
The God who made us has put us in
a kind of world. where. in spite of all
the barricades we erect. in the hours
when we are most alive there comes
sweeping past the Sentinels Of our
guarded hearts invasions of the eternal.
AS Robert Browning put it, "Just when
we're safest" there comes sunset, a
flower. death. poem: and, as we
are sure he would agree, the seattle
sea!
And that's enough for fifty hopes and
fears,
As old and neU at once as natures self,
To rap and knock and enter In our soul.
To a life walled in by business, en-
crossed in pleasure. afraid of quiet and
meditation and worship, suddenly some
tremendous spiritual reality comes
rapping at the barred and bolted door.
And just as we think we are safely in
sulated against mere feeling, senti-
mentalism or emotionalism, there
comes the call OF the sea. sunset, a
garden, sorrow. a poem; and that's
enough to arch the sky with SO hopes
and break the letters of so fears.
/ gaze aloot at the tinSeled roof,
Where time and space are the Uarr
and ,Doot
Which the King of Kings like a curtain
filings
Ger the dreadtulness of eternal things
But it I could see. as In truth they be
The glories that encircle me,
should lightly hold this ISSUED fold
With its marvelous curtain of blue ana
gold:
For soon the ,ohole, like parchment
scroll,
Shall before my amazed eyes unroH
And, without screen, at one burs
The glory In which I haze altDays been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Letters to The Star. i.
Pen-n1n1es may be used it letters carry
aDriteTs' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

about it. but are helpless to correct 1t.
An investigation of security practices
and review of procedures is very much
needed.
HI. Hinton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Beginning at Manila

Although Secretary of State Dulles has
described the impending Manila meeting as
lone of the most important international
conferences of our time" no quick or spec
tacular results are likely to flow from 1t. For
1t represents only the beginning Of DIM
cult and complex effort to build up an eff
fective defensive system against the threat
of Communist Subversion and aggression In
Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
The immediate objective of the confer
ence-in which Pakistan. Thailand, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, the Philippines, France,
Britain and the United States are partici-
pating-is to reach agreement on treaty
that would pledge these eight nations to
work together in new collective security
arrangement that could eventually be
broadened to include other free lands in
Asia and the far Pacific, such as India and
Indonesia. In all probability, the agree
ment will be attained readily enough, but it
will still mark merely the starting point Of
long, hard road toward genuinely strong
mutual defense in that part Of the world
This is so because the project--which
may come to be known as the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization-muSt be eStab-
lished, at least in it's initial phase, on a
strictly limited basis and without the sup
port or participation Of numerous nom
Communist nations in the Far East. Thus,
under Prime Minister Nehru, India has
made clear that it will have nothing to do
with the enterprise and midas lead has
been followed by Burma, Ceylon and Indo-
nesia. At the same time, the Manila con-
ferees seem to have agreed in advance that
FormoSa, South Korea and Japan should
be excluded from the undertaking at the
present stage, If not permanently.
In these circumstances, with so much
of the Far East ASSOCIATED from the found
ing of the project, SEATO (if that is to be
it's name) obviously must make its bow with
far greater limitations than those Of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. At its
start, for example, it will include at most
only two nations on the Asiatic mainland
(Thailand and Pakistan), and it will there
fore be much weaker than the NATO alli-
ance in terms of geographical cohesiveness
and cooperation among neighboring states.
Certainly-in its early form, at any rate
it will be politically, economically and mil
itarily quite unlike the Atlantic community,
which embraces practically all OF free Eu-
rope, together with Canada and our own
country.
Nevertheless, despite these and similar
considerations, the projected Far Eastern
security system is imperatively needed, and
it undoubtedly can be Of immense value
given the time and the will to build 1t up
as deterrent to aggression by Peiping and
Moscow. That is why the Manila confer
ence, in it's potentials, is every bit as impor-
tant as Mr.. Dulles has said, and the greater
it's success, the more chance there will be to
save free Asia from Red engulfment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
A Positive-ond Justified-Veto


The President takes positive, not
negative position in withholding his ap-
prevail of the Metropolitan Area transit BILL
The bill, as The Star has argued, should
have been killed, for it was bad bill. But
in killing it, the Presidents statement
clearly establishes the nature of the desir-
able detectives in the field Of Metropolitan
Area mass transportation regulation and
expresses the hope that the next Congress
will approach them with appropriate legis-
lation.
One of the chief detectives of such
legislation is that concept of the problem
which the President expresses in these
words: 1.-THE regulation of public transpor-
tation in the Greater Washington area
must contend with the growth OF an in
tegral economic community spreading far
beyond the boundaries of the District Of
Columbia to include Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties in Maryland and
Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the
cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in
Virginia. Within this community, the daily
travel of persons back and forth across
State lines has reached dimensions with
which present facilities cannot cope.
The present division of responsibility for
regulation :. I. no longer meets the needs
of the area. s. The situation plainly re-
quires the unification of regulatory authori-
ties over public transportation throughout
the Metropolitan Area"
This unified regulation of mass trans
portation will best be achieved, as the
President suggests, by means OF compact
between Maryland, Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia, in which the Federal
Government will participate-not merely
to protect it's own interests, but to assume
its own responsibilities in helping to pro-
vide adequate mass transportation for tens
of thousands of Federal employees. Metro
,politan Area Transportation Authority, pro-
tecting and forwarding the interests of the
people of the whole Metropolitan Area, is
inevitable But we must work toward 1t
In an orderly and sensible fashion.
The Star believes that the orderly ap-
proach would be represented in the creation
of Presidential Commission to make
detailed study of mass transportation needs
including unified transit regulation
the Metropolitan Area. That study should
p;recede the decision as to the form and
powers of the regulatory agency. While the
bill which the President vetoed provided for
OOUn STUDY dIlU GIlC 4CSuldVOAy o6SASJ' ."
was badly drawn and, as far as regulation
is concerned, omitted Virginia areas entirely.
Both the vetoed bill and the Presidents
statement indicate that there is no great
difference of opinion as to what Is needed.
The Star hopes, with the President, that
the next session of Congress will perfect
the legislation to meet the need. And If the
legislation provides for study by compe-
tent people as the foundation for future
reform in unified regulation of Metropolitan
Area mass transportation, that regulation,
when established, is more apt to be effective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

Pravda will be writing editorials that
Uncle Sam is training these little bugs
to create islands in the Pacific for new
air bases.
My radio is tuned-up hourly and I
eagerly scan the papers for any forth
coming signs of the trouble we are now
in. Yet, I, as well as others must re-
member that the strange ways of
nature are often responsible for friction
between mankind.
Paul TWitchelI
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
by Mrs. George Darby
Gaithersburg 500

If you enjoyed the Halloween
dance that the Gaithersburg-
Washington Grove Fire Depart
ment sponsored, you must be
looking forward to the Valentine
dance the department will have
this Saturday, February 13, from
9 to 1 at the Agricultural Cen
ter. The fall dance was such a
success that the powers-that-be
thought another dance had to be
held. A twelve piece band will
provide the music, door prizes
will be given, and the price of
admission is low (Only $3.50 per
coupled, so it should be must
for all who are interested in help
ing this fine organization.
Another word about the fire de-
partment. The open house was a
huge success. Not even intensely
cold weather could keep interest
ed people away, for over 300
guests were present. Shortly
after the open house a prominent
local business man donated a new
tile floor for the Wesley-Briggs
room. This generous gift is deep
ly appreciated and adds so much
to the room.
Pvt. Lee Roy Lowe was home
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
Page F. Hopkins
Announces for
County Council

Page F. Hopkins this week an
nounced his candidacy for the
Montgomery County Council.
Mr.. Hopkins, now a resident of
Silver Spring, has lived in Mont
gomery County for 80 years. He
received most of his education in
the County Public Schools. He is
a graduate of the University of
Maryland and has degree in en-
ginneering.
AS an employee of the Bureau
of Yards and Docks, Mr.. Hopkins
was overseas during World War
II, stationed in the Tenth Naval
District. From 1944-45 he was AS
sistant County Engineer. In 1915
he entered private business as a
partner in the surveying and
mapping firm of Maddox and
Hopkins, located in Silver Spring.
Mr.. Hopkins is active in nu.
merous civic organizations, in
Guiding the Silver Spring Lions
Club, Elks Club, Silver Spring
Board of Trade, and the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers.
He is married and has two
daughters.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11

We are glad to report that Mrs.
J. Thomas Neel is improving fol-
lowing her recent illness.
Mr.. Al Livesay, seminarian as
sistant at st. Bartholomew, was
a Sunday dinner guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Douglas Riggs, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Beck and
children of Baltimore were Sun
day dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Hill.
We are glad to report that Mr..
Joseph Lechlider is out after an
attack of flu. Mrs. Dorsey Crit
fifth is also feeling much better
after her recent illness.
The Misses Mary Taylor and
Mary Allison Seek were weekend
guests of Mrs. Mary Allnutt and
Mrs. Ethel Taylor.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
Rag Apple
Dead at Is:
Sets Record
At University

Wimbledon Emperor Rag APP
pie 1883, record-setting bull of
the University of Maryland's
dairy herd, is dead. His death at
age IS was announced this week
by the College of Agriculture Elk
tension Service.
The University estimates that
5000 of Rag Apples daughters
now are on Maryland farms.
The University in writing Rag
Apples lengthy obituary said his
accomplishments in the artificial
breeding cooperative are best
remembered. Rag Apple was
used in natural service for sever.
al years by the University and
made such an outstanding record
that he was one of the first bulls
selected to go into the States
Artificial Breeding stud when it
was organized in 1913. His 71a
years service is a record for the
stud. He was used weekly dur
ing that period and was credited
with 10000 first services.
The University said Rag APP.
pies daughters are proving him
a great bull. Because it takes
several years to get production
records on a COW, only 107 of the
daughters have completed Dairy
Herd Improvement Association
records. Many other daughters,
however, are in process of max
ing outstanding records.
The average of .107 daughters
with records is 1914 pounds of
milk which tested SO per cent.
butterfat. Butterfat production
averaged 420 pounds. All the
cows figuring in this average
were MIXED twice a day over a
305 day period.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
Local Moose
Attend Recent
Legion COncIave

Rockville Loyal Order of Moose
1910 was represented at the re-
cent Legion Conclave held in
Dundalk. Governor Harold j.
Tanner, past governor Ray West,
trustee John Case, treasurer Ben
jamin Burroughs, and several
other members attended.
Four new members sponsored
into the Legion at that time were
Brothers Otis Smith, Emerson
Woodward, Thomas Waters and
Frederick Schneider.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
Laytonsville Fire Department
Elects Officers; Organization
Plans Cain Headway This Week

past week in Baltimore with her
sister, Mrs. Robert Benson.
The Cabin John Methodist men
met Wednesday. February 10,
with the Wesley Grove Methodist
men.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hawkins
entertained at dinner Sunday.
Guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd
Grimes and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Grimes and family. The dinner
was in honor of Mrs. Floyd
Grimes birthday.
Jimmy Warfield underwent a
tonsillectomy at Frederic k
Memorial Hospital Monday. His
sister, Diane, is staying with her
grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Kemp until he is feeling
better.
The church membership class
for those above sixth grade who
want to join the church at Easter
is now being held at Wesley
Grove Church each Wednesday at
3:15.
The Misses Sara Elizabeth
Welsh and Jean Sudduth returned
Monday to the University of
Maryland after a two week be-
tween semester vacation.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
Carver High Is
Now Accredited
On School List

Carver High School was added to
the list of accredited schools Of the
Middle States Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools at the
Associations annual meeting in
November. Official notification Of
the schools accreditation was not,
however, released until early in
January.
The school was evaluated by a
visiting committee early in March
of 1853. The committees report
commended and cited the school for
excellence in several areas includ-
ing the school building, building
services, classrocms and admins
trative staff.
Other areas commended and
rated rs very good included: aca-
demic and professional preparation
of the teaching staff, educational
leadership, guidance services and
school management.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
Poultry Reference
Book Available at
Extension Office

Wade Rice, Maryland Exten-
sion poultry husbandman, has
announced publication of the 1854
Maryland Poultry Reference
Book which will be sent to any
person who requests it and sends
stamps to cover postage.
The 1854 book is the 10th an
nual edition. 1t is published by
the Maryland State Poultry Coun-
Gil, Inc, and is edited by Mr..
Rice. Requests for copies should
be sent to Perry F. Twining, Sec
rotary of the Maryland State
Poultry Council.
Subjects discussed in the refer
ence book range from publica-
tons of interest to Maryland
poultrymen, to- a list of mer-
chants who deal in poultry sup
plies. Miscellaneous articles give
directions on how to cook bar.
becued chicken, how to use poul-
try manure on field crops and
how to determine the require.
ments of good litter.
Other articles are grouped &C.
cording to subject. There are
sections on eggs and layers,
broilers, turkeys, Maryland poul.
try organizations, economics and
marketing, All and FLA poultry
projects and poultry health and
statistics.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11

Miss Ellen O'Donoghue, native
Washingtonian and experienced
social worker, assumed duties
this week as the new public re-
lations director and planning as
sistant of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Community Chest and Council
at Chest headquarters, 81 Perish
ing Drive, Silver Spring.
She replaces Miss Donna Hoov-
er who resigned to join the Com
munity Chest Federation staff in
Washington. David Scull, Chest
president, also announced the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Betty Ruth
McDevitt of Silver Spring, on a
part-time basis, to handle news
releases.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-02-11
By Mrs. Ulysses Griffith
Damascus 1852


LAYTONSVILLE
Plans seem to be shaping up
to make the long worked for
dream of a fire department in
Laytonsville district somewhat
nearer reality. On January 81
"a general meeting of those in.
terested was held at the school.
The following officers were
elected: president, Henry A.
Perry, Jr.; vice president, Har-
rison King; secretary, Lewis C.
Kibbee; treasurer, LaRue Evans.
Mr.. Spencer Brown was elected
fire chief and Charles Barber,
sergeant-at-arms.
The following executive COM
mittee was named: the Messrs.
Luther ward, Washington
White, Samuel Riggs v, Edwin
Fry and Mowatt Windham. The
next general meeting will be held
at the school, Wednesday, Febru-
airy "a, at 8 pm.
Any person wishing to become
a charter member of this organi-
cation must have signed up and
paid his dues on or before Febru-
airy %. Please contact any of the
officers or executive committee
members if you have additional
questions you would like to ask
or help you would like to give.
Sgt. Charles Richards was dis
charged last Thursday at Camp
Pickett, Va, and is now at home
in Laytonsville.
At the January meeting of the
Laytonsville Farm Bureau discus
sion group held at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. z. Kile the fol-
lowing officers were elected:
President, Thomas Garrett; vice
president, Mrs. A. w. Hines; Sec
rotary, Mr.. B. z. Kile, and dis
cussion leader, Mr.. Frank Sickle.
Mt. Tabor w. S, C.S. meets
Thursday afternoon, February II,
at the home of Mrs. Wilbur
Burns. st. Paul's W.S.C.S. meets
Thursday evening at the church
hall.