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Evening star., 1954-04-24
He's frustrated before he starts.

done in no time" is the usual
answer.
Poor guy. He can't even
open a can of sardineS.
Our closets and every other
nook and Granny are filled
with ricket'y candlesticks,
lamps, clocks, radios, a record
player, rusty shutter hinges
that somehow "just wouldn't
fit on the shutters" and one
typewriter-to name a few.
But. as I said. the poor fell
low really does try
He attacks all tasks with
complete aplomb and much
energy. Things really fly
when he decides to get going
in the beginning, that is.
Enthusiastically he asks for
screwdriver. nails, hammer,
monkey wrench and pliers.
But. alas, this enthusiasm
is not long-lived. He's frus-
trated before he starts. The
main reason for this is that he
never knows where to find his
tools. Generally they're all
over the house in ridiculous
places.
It would not surprise me at
all if the pliers turned up in
the refrigerator, the nails In
the medicine cabinet and the
hammer among clothes in the
hamper.
How I hate to have him get
Evening star., 1954-04-24
BY Betty TrexIer

I might as well face it: I
just did not marry a handy
man!
It's not that he doesn't try
hard though. And when it
comes to optimism about any
around-the-hou job. he has
plenty of that all right. No
thing is too much trouble.
Sure. he'll be able to fix that
broken lamp. Sure, sure. it'll
be easy to tie UP the springs
on the broken-down sofa. And
it won't be a hard job at all
to saw of the legs of the
marble-top chest Of drawers.
Nothing to it, he says con-
fidently.
It'll also be a simple matter
for him to cut down that old
picture frame to just the right
size, put a new cord on a lamp,
get the clock in working order
again. build additional shelves
in the closets. reupholster The
love seat, and sand the floors.
Just leave it to me: it'll get
Evening star., 1954-04-24
This Here Gal Just Didn't Marry Hondymon

to grow against the fence, and
a few sprigs English ivy I
wanted to climb up the north
wall Of our house: why did he
have to go to work on them?
Why is it that all our friends
have beautiful recreation
rooms. almost Invariably built
by the man Of the house;
homemade cabinets. bookcases,
built-in radio. coffee table,
corner cupboard, and what
not?
Almost everywhere we go we
see a neat, tidy workshop
filled with numberless tools
and always in their very prop
er place.
Everywhere we confront
signs of handyman talents.
Kitchen cabinets. kitchen
shelves, old beds made into
tables, or old tables made into
beds.
But not at our house!
One night after a visit with
friends I said wistfully to my
husband:
Gosh, isn't it wonderful
how Bill can do just about
everything around his house.
That basement recreation was
really something"
My husband said: "Now you
just wait. Some time I'll fix
up a room just like Bills, and
with my own hands and it
won't cost much, either. I just
haven't had the time so far
that's ALL"
Maybe so. But I doubt it. I
just did not marry a handy
man
Evening star., 1954-04-24

clippers or pruning shears into
his well-meaning hands. He
cuts away oh so happily, but
lilacS, roses, spiraea. forsythia,
hydrangeaS and mock orange
are never the same again.
I wonder if any of this
once-lovely shrubbery will ever
stage a comeback.
zealously he pulls out those
menaclng weeds that invade
the lawn and garden. But
why does he include newly
planted tomato stalks, spring
onions and beets in his depre-
dations? And the Virginia
creeper I worked SO hard to
have cover the garage, the
hollyhocks that were supposed
Evening star., 1954-04-24
Sleepy Hollow Reduced 81 500 10 Sell!

Owner onsfeedoffers this sound for the future
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Large Thermopone windows both living dining room
moke picture of the lovely TWO THIRDS ACRE LAWN
trees and beautiful shrubs Three bedrooms de luxe both
de luxe oeecie kitchen, ground level with big picture
window ond fireplace, screened living porch
wcod dGne let to Knon hen lett 1890 KNOLL DRIVE
Evening star., 1954-04-24
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Evening star., 1954-04-24
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Enjoy living and months Of enjoyable swimming and boz
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Evening star., 1954-01-03

ing the greatest bargains history to the greatest
toners on earth-OUR CUSTOMERS. Our Annual January
Sale has become institution eagerly awaited by thousands
of Washngonians So avoid disappointment in early
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Just year, every 365 days. John Webster has
chance go all out in bringing gigantic savings water
heaters furnaces space heaters cabinet Sinks complete
kitchens and all types Of appliances This January we're offer
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Mark it on your calendar-January IS til the
months end. It's John G. Websters fabulous
Open House, our Annual Event when you can
win valuable -dishwashers, disposers,
ranges, refrigerators, freezers. and other ap-
pliances-simply by walking through our doors
and picking up a lucky Stub Visit John G.
Webster OFTEN during Open House-youre
sure to be a winner. Remember the dates
January 25th through the 3lst. 1t may be
your lucky week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
This and That
What stronger breastplate than a

"What stronger breastplate than a
heart untainted!
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his
quarrel just,
And he but naked, though lock'd up in
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted Henry VI.
These Shakespeareon lines have al
ways been source of comfort to Tenn
pleton Jones.
Jones probably gets in as many quar-
rels as any one else, which is plenty
There has been something in the
air in recent years, that builds up
anger, choler, ire.
Maybe it is that chlorine and f1uorine
they put in.
Anyway. people quarrel as frequently
and as violently as ever, and in addi-
ton they have built up whole new ways
of efeuding politely with each other.
4
Templeton Jones is no SLOUGH at
quarreling.
Some quality in his whole race arises
suddenly in his heart. and he speaks
out, pointedly and firmly.
This is what the old boys called
''choler." Perhaps it is as good word
as any.
Then. anger evaporates, and Jones
usually feels ashamed Of himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
By Charles {. TroceweH

This ire, or whatever one wants to
call it, is very human thing.
More than that, it is very animal
thing.
Picture the tiger barring its fangs. the
house cat splitting, the child breaking
into red face surrounded by tantrums.
Anger is something one has to learn
to live with. Perhaps the greatest gain
is when naturally angry person learns
how to handle his anger This he has to
do. unless he wants to 60 through the
world forever the sport II events
If he wants to have that strong
breastplate, as Shakespeare put it. "a
heart untainted,' he must find out how
to flare UP and then calm down.
1t does, indeed, give person a triple
plated armor, when he finds out how
to do this.
The getting angry. by itself. is good,
in most cases.
It releases tension. Some do this by
smoking and run the risk of getting
lung cancer.
Others do it with liquor. and run a
greater risk of killing somebody in their
anger. $3.50
But the man who has his quarrel
just. and has trained himself to cool
on quickly. simply lets the sudden fare
Of anger release his tension.
It is as easy as that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Gen. MurshuII's Detroctors

When Lieut.. Gen. George E. Strate-
meyer testified before the Internal Sc
curity Subcommittee of the Senate
Judiciary Committee at Orlando, Fla.
August 25, 1854, Subcommittee Counsel
Alva c. Carpenter asked Gen. Strate-
meyer what he attributed the failure
or collapse of the Nationalist govern
ment to, after Gen. Stratemeyer left
China in February, 1916.
Gen. Stratemeyer answered: well,
would say two things. The Marshall
mission, in which they tried to associ-
ate Communist and Nationalist together
and make it work"
In view of your recent strong edi-
torial criticizing Senator Mccarthy for
his Senate speech about Gen. Marshall,
and in view of the fact that Gen.
East Command and has f1rst-hand
knowledge of that area of the world,
also criticizes Gen. Marshall will you
now advocate that Gen Stratemeyer
be censured, or is .censure to be re-
served solely and exclusively for Sena-
tor Mccarthy, for saying what many
thinking people already know about
the Marshall debacle?
John S. BarStOw.
Editors Note: Senator Mccarthy
has questioned General Marshall's 10y
atty and integrity. General Stratemeyer
has not The Star thinks the distinc-
ton is importantly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Retail Trade Boominq

The pace of individual spending may
not always be reliable measurement of the
national economic well-being but it provides
good clue to the state of public confidence.
On this premise, the report given to Presi-
dent Eisenhower by the American. Retail
Federation on their high hopes for a record
breaking volume of business this year does
indeed indicate healthy confidence in the
near-term economic future.
The federation, representing q ma
tional and "a Statewide retail associations
with total of 100000 retail stores, re-
ported that sales and employment in the
retail trade for the first nine months of 1854
have run almost equal to the record figures
Of 1853. Even better things are expected
for the final quarter, however, and fed
Grafton spokesman predicted that the rec
ord for the full year will show a new high
mark. A steady increase in disposable per-
sonal income-the source of consumer pur-
chasing power-was cited as basis for the
cheerful forecasts for the quarter in which
retail sales ordinarily reach their highest
volume. Administration policies, notably the
reduction of taxes, were credited largely by
the federation for the healthy state of re-
tail trade.
NcTGdIuIy Tie TcuuCtlOu VI pcISOIldl III
come taxes leaves more spending money in
the hands OF consumers. Similarly, the re-
duction or elimination of excise taxes has
the effect of lowering prices. Each of these
stimulates trade. It could be, however, that
an even greater factor in the willingness of
an expanding population to buy freely is
the condition of competition which the fed
erat'pn also mentioned in its report to the
President. Competition never has been
keener the association said, with result
that buyers are offered wide selection of
merchandise at reasonable prices"
The state of the national economic
health will be debated at considerable length
during the coming campaign weeks. And
statistics" probably will be produced to
support each point of the debate. On the
same day that the retail trade made it's re-
port, the steel industry estimated its opera
tions at 66.5 per cent of capacity-best since
June-with the rate of new orders continu-
ing to improve. From retail trade to steel
production is a wide range and it is encour-
aging that the Statistics from both Of
these are such as to keep the lineaon the
business graph moving upward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18

Modern life, with its endless COM
plexities, and hidden Tres, demands that
one know how to give himself this re-
lease from nervous tensions that eat
into the hidden fibers of the very being.
Bottled up. ire can corrode, as almost
every one has found out, at some time
or other.
But when it is handled well. it will
bring the blood pressure up to a pleas
urable degree.
That is why many persons, after
good quarrel, feel better than they have
in long time.
There can be no question that some
misguided persons keep their lives in
continual uproar of quarreling just to
keep themselves going.
T. Jones believes he has better way
of handling it.
He gets mad, then he cools Of. then
he forgets the whole thing
If you were to ask him an hour later
what he was mad about, he could
scarcely tell you.
AS for the words that were uttered,
he has forgotten them utterly.
What stronger breastplate than
heart untainted!" smiles Jones to him
self.
The main thing. Of course. is TO be
sure that it really is untainted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18

had been rearrested on another trafac
charge. Looseness. Of the system for ham
ding prisoners at the court was well
adapted to the preparation of such wrong
doing as occurred in this. case. e
Court officials believe they have locked
the barn door against further illegal re-
leases. They have Instituted receipt sys-
tenn under which no prisoner may leave the
building until he has been checked out
properly and the clerks Office notified in
writing. This is the arrangement used in
other local courts. It seems to be free of
such loophole as enabled bailiff at the
Municipal Court to effect, wholly unde-
tected, the release of a prisoner on payment
OF an unauthorized fine" Why the Mu-
nicipal Court waited so long to adopt the
check-out system is hard to understand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Second Look at Budget

The Eisenhower administrations goal
of balanced budget has moved consider
ably farther out of reach in the revised
estimates on expenditures and revenues for
the current fiscal year. Instead of an eX-
pected deficit of $2.9 billion, the Treasury
Department and Budget Bureau now fore
see one of SAT- billion as of next June 80.
This compares-unfavorab deficit
of So billion recorded for the fiscal year
which ended last June 80.
Although there are valid explanations
readily available, this progress" backward
must be viewed with regret and misgiving.
For the administration did quite an extraor-
binary job in cutting the fiscal 1854 deficit
to So billion after $94 billion increase in
the indebtedness in fiscal 1858. And it had
hoped to continue this. reduction in deficits
and in the national debt-this year.
It would be difficult, however, to place
blame for what appears to be in the max
ing. Although the administration is candidly
tipping it's plans for non-defense spending,
as calculated last January, the total of Gov
eminent spending by the current estimate
will be lower-$64 billion versus $685. bill
lion-than it was figured eight months ago.
Highway, housing and various other pro-
grams of spreading money among the
States account for projected increase of
STA billion in the domestic non-defenSe
spending. While it may be assumed that
the approach of congressional elections fig
ured in the decision to put more Federal
money in the pipeline to the people, the
real blow to the budget has come from the
revised estimates of revenue losses. Receipts
for fiscal 1854 totaled $64.6 billion and the
administration figured on $62.7 billion tax
take this year. The reduction in excise
taxes voted by Congress over protest of the
administration, and an Unexpectedly large
decline in corporation income taxes are
combining to force current estimate of
only $593 billion in revenue.
Actually, with nine months still re-
naming in the fiscal year, the revised esti-
mates necessarily are little more than sin
formed guesSes." Revenues for the year
s might still move substantially higher than
foreseen, or lower, if there is major shift
in the pace of business. Also, administra-
ton pressure to keep tight rein on spend
ing may result in greater savings than now
anticipated. Secretary Of Treasury Hum
phrey has repeated the administration
vow to reduce the Federal. deficits. But the
task looks tougher now than 1t did eight
months ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Logical Next Step

The Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin has made a logical
move for better anti-pollution teamwork
among the Ave jurisdictions in the basin
compact. Up to now these Jurisdictions
the District, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
g1n1a and PennSylvania-have consulted
one another about pollution problems, but
nave gone their separate ways in search of
solutions It is time to draw up compre-
hensive program for the whole area Only
In that way can the whole basin be expected
to pull together toward the common objec-
tive OF cleaner, more healthful Potomac.
Today there are no minimum standards
to guide the District and the States in their
immediate pollution control programs The
percentage of treatment accorded sewage
IN the various communities along the river
varies from zero to less than so per cent
In other words, some communities still toll
crate the dumping of raw sewage into the
river, others have primary treatment facil-
tiles for part of it Gas in the District and
Arlington), and still others are planning or
building secondary treatment plants that
will end the hazards of treating the river as
an open community sewer. The District is
engaged in 10-year improvement program
that will provide secondary treatment for
sewage within a few years. Alexandria,
which now dumps raw sewage into the river,
has Joined with Fairfax County in a
sewage-d disposal and treatment plant.
Without some sort of minimum stand
ards to aim for, however, the general
outlook along the river, particularly in it's
upper reaches, is for continued tagging in .
-anti-pollution measures. That is why the
regional agency, in its interstate program,
has decided to prepare general target for
all communities to shoot at. It will not be
easy to devise standards agreeable to all,
but the effort certainly is well worth the
time and energy which the commission
intends to give it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18

servants and laborers. All told. there
were about SO men in the party.
When the outfit reached the summit
of the Little Allegheny in June, 1855.
1t paused, since now it was about to
tread on the toes of the formidable
Six Nations or Iroquois. These redskins
claimed they were lords of the territory
which the surveyors were about to en-
ter, and, tomahawk in hand, they were
ready to back, up their claim against
any and all .comers. So the survey
halted until the Iroquois could be per-
suaded to tolerate further running Of
the line.
To this end the executives of Penn
sylvania and Maryland turned now to
Sir William johnson. For if anybody
could get the Iroquois to permit the
extension of the line, it was this genial
Irishman Britain's superintendent for
the, northern Indians.
Sir William replied he would be glad
to assist, and that he would call a
meeting of the rednen and do all he
could to remove any suspicious they
might have about the survey. He
pointed out, however, cit would be
1lCCCoodIy W AldfC ola WIG NAAASA oetSAASAAAo
and principal warriors of the six Ma
tions present for rendering 1T more
effectual," and this would cost not "less
than $500 N York Curry in presents
to the chiefs & entertainment on their
way to, and at the Congress for
there is no calling of them on any
business without expenses"
After delay caused by unusual floods,
the congress was held. And the Indians
sat around, listened to Sir William,
smoked their pipes and took time out
to gulp toddy, rum and wine paid for
by their host out of the $500 N York
Curry.
In the end, the Iroquois not only
consented to Mason and Dixon running
their line west of the Allegheny Noun
tains, they even sent along IA tribes
men as an escort for the surveyors.
When the Monogahela River was
reached, 26 men in the surveying party,
afraid they would lose their scalps to
Shawnee and Delaware Indians, took
French leave But Mason and Dixon
pressed on with the Is ax-men who
remained. IT.
The line now had been run to the
western border of Maryland, but the
survey was not completed. so the two
Englishmen continued on until their
Indian escort called halt at the large
war path close by Dunkard Creek. This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
Arlington Textbook Rentals

Each child attending the new Wake
field Junior Senior High; School in Ar
lington, Va, has been given form letter
reading. in part: 1.-THE school budget
for 1954-55 does not provide for free
textbooks in grades 8 through, IL.
It does, however, provide for free text
books in grades through 7. Since no
funds are available from the budget for
textbooks fol- grades through II, it
Will be necessary that the cost of the
books be borne locally and fee has
been, therefore, established by the Ar
lington County School Board of 81 for
pupils in grades and 9 and SIS for
pupils in grades 10 through 12.''
This has become yearly habit of our
School Board. and the cash must be
paid before child is permitted to enter
classes
A deposit" to guarantee the return
of classroom books lin good condition"
can accept as a necessity But having
dren attending WakefielO each year
just for the use (rentaD of classroom
texts calls for some explaining.
I have been informed that around
1000 students are enrolled at Wake
field. Dividing that down the middle,
means 1000 children donate 81 each
for total of $4,000. and the other
1000 children chip in cat SIS each) S.
600, for grand total of $4,000. Now
no one can convince me that 1000
children destroy or damage beyond use
textbooks each year to the tune of
$4,000. Neither can be convinced that
$4,000 is spent by the School Board
every year for new textbooks for this
school, I judge by the condition of
the books our children are issued for
the year.
Just why is school board permitted
to charge. child every year for the
use of his books? Where is the tax
money that is set aside for school sup
plies? Are the schools run for the
glory of the school or to educate our
children? So many questions confront