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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
Schee|e Would Apply
New Techniques TO
Aid Health Of Aging

Older people in institutions are
too often the forgotten men and
women to whom modern health
techniques are not applied. DR..
Leonard A. Scheele, Surgeon
General of the United States,
said yesterday.
He addressed the conference
of the National Committee on the
Aging. part of the National So
cial Welfare Assembly. 1t is run
ming through Monday in the
Willard Hotel.
1--WE need not have high pro-
portions of the older people in
institutions belfast, dependent,
mentally confused and leading
a worse than vegetable exist
ence," said DR.. Scheele. 1.-THE
place to begin better care for
better health is here-at con-
ferences like this-and in our
States and communities. in their
health and welfare programs, and
in the work of public and pri-
vate institutions"
Better Equipped Now.
"Never BEFORE" the speaker
said, has medical science had
such a wealth of pertinent knowl-
edge and effective techniques
ready for application to the
health problems of older people"
DIR. Scheele said that if such
advances are to be applied effec-
lively to the health problems of
the aging population. I'VE must
begin to build for better health
far in advance of that 65th year,
which supposedly signifies the
onset of old age"
Another speaker was Miss Ollie
A. Randall, vice chairman of the
National Committee on the Ag-
ing. Mrs. Albert w. Atwood,
chairman of the Committee on
Aging of the United Community
Services, extended the welcome.
Other Participants.
Among those participating in
the conference are w. H. Bart
kett, secretary of the UCS Com
mittee on the Aging: Miss
Josephine Albrecht. secretary of
the UCS health section; Miss
Eunice Minton, chief of the well
fare services standards branch
of the Health. Education and
Welfare Department: Miss Ruth
Adams, deputy director of nurs-
ing service Of the Veterans Ad-
miniStration.
Also DR.. Paul Cornely. profess
sor of preventive medicine at
Howard University; DR.. A. l..
Chapman, regional medical di-
rector of the Welfare Depart
ment. and John P. Lee, director
of the division of welfare
agencies of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of
America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
News Of Music !

New York Woodwind Quintet: Sam
uel Baron. flute; David GlaZar. clari-
horn; Bernard Garfield. bassoon. AS
sisting artist: Rosalyn Tureck, piano
At the Library Of Congress. Program:
Quintet In q minor for woodwinds,
isss) @ Concerto for ' piano aa and WOOD
wind quintet. Opus SO. Wallingford
Riegger ID. 1850: Quintet in E nat
for piano. oboe, clarinet, horn and
bassoon. K. 452. Mozart; La Chemi-
quintet), Darius Milhaud ID. 1922.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
New York Woodwind Quartet
Gives SuperIotive Recital

last year for the Koussevitsky
Foundation and played last night
for the first time, is a broad. en-
gaging piece, automatically writ
ten for the instruments. The
middle movement, an andante, is
moving piece Of exquisite ly-
ricism. Although the piano part
was played with great fortnight
ness and conviction by Miss Tu-
reck, the word concerto" may
be misapplied to the work, which
seems to be neither a concerto
crosse nor a classical concerto
but an integrated piece of cham
Der music.
Mr.. Riegger was present to
receive the warm applause of the
large audience.
The Danzi quintet Is a happy
find, an unknown piece full OF
witty effects, substantial and
melodious. The adroit and So
phisticated Milhaud is as French
as Couperin, and almost DIS de-
lightful.
It is the custom when writing
of the great Mozart wind quintet
"a custom I have no desire to
renounce-to start with the com
poser'S well-known dictum. In q
letter to his father in April. 1884
Mozart wrote: II have written
two big concertos. and also q
quintet which had a great sue
cess. I myself take 1t to be the
best work I have written in my
whole life"
These words are those Of a
man who had already composed
most of his symphonies and OPP
eras, and many of his best con-
certos and chamber works. They
may indicate more happy ebul-
Hence than sober evaluation. but
he who says so must point to
better piece.
The performance last night
was, on the whole. first class
although Miss Tureck was less
at home with Mozart than she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20

New York has sent us two first
class wind quintets this week.
Monday we had the New Art
Quintet. last night the New York
Quintet gave a superlative recital
at the Library of Congress. The
double measure of enthusiasm
generated by these outfits makes
one want to introduce the boys,
throw a party and enjoy some
10-piece woodwind musics, or. to
coin a word, "dixets."
It is curious, by the way. that
in chamber music the horn be-
comes a woodwind. In speaking
of the orchestra. the horn is de-
f1nitely in the brass choir. The
flute, on the other hand, while
clearly no more a woodwind than
the horn, is in the woodWind
section of the orchestra and also
in a chamber ensemble.
The New York Quintet is a
marvelouSly balanced ensemble,
meticulous yet spirited. A per-
Torrance of the group does not
prompt one to single out individ-
ual players for praise. but it
would be a shame to say nothing
of the clear and flexible tone of
Samuel Baron. the flutist, or of
the amazing legato and perfect
information of John Barrows'
horn. In the Riegger concerto
and the Mozart quintet. the
group was joined by Rosalyn Tu-
reck. a pianist best known for her
playing of Bach.
The Riegger concerto, written
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20
BeIvoir Contributes
$1,000 in Polio Eioht

Nearly $1,000 was contributed
this year to the March of Dimes
by the personnel of Fort Belvoir,
according to 1t. Col. Charles C.
De Vault. drive chairman at the
engineer center.
Leading donations at Fort
Belvoir came from The Engineer
Center Regiment with $1,068.
The Fort Belvoir -Quantico ben
eft basketball game totaled
$410.
The contributions of the en-
gineer center to the March of
Dimes represents an increase of
nearly 100 per cent over 1853.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-20

had been with Riegger. She
tended now and then for example
in the opening largo to play with
wooden touch and dragging
rhythm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-22

ATTENTION uSsase and bfoIds.
watches subject to 1O tai under
Federal Internal Revenue Act effective April 1854
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
ID. {. 10 Lose $4,000
In Scrap Iron Sales

The lag in steel production
will cost the District about $780,
600 this year. according to VIII
liam Xanten. superintendent OF
the Division of Sanitation.
Bids were opened last Friday
for the sale Of scrap iron taken
from the District dumps, but no
one put in a bid. The firm that
had the contract last year has
agreed to take the scrap away
for the time being but will not
pay anything for it.
The District has been selling
about $4,000 tons of scrap iron
every year to junk men here
With steel production averaging
IS or 10 per cent of capacity
there is no market for the Dis
trict's low-grade scrap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
Special Services Tonight
Open Puriirn Celebration

service at 8 o'clock sponsored by the
Jewish welfare Board-Jewlsh commu-
nifty Center Committee.
Montgomery County Jewish Commu-
Md.-Rabbi TsM II. Porath and Cantor
Norman Gewirtz will conduct the Purim
service at o'clock and the $3.50 pm.
worship tomorrow.
enth street N,W.-Rabbi zemach Green
O'Clock
CONVERSATION Beth Ell Of Monts emery
County. 8215 Old GEORGETOWN road Be-
thesda. Md;-Rabbi Morris Gordon and
7:30 o'clock service; DR.. George Tievsky
q member, will conduct the $3.50 pm
worship tomorrow. assisted by Cantor
Mostow.
street s.E-Rabbi Martin S. Haipern
will conduct the z o'clock; Rabbi Hal
perm on "Purim in Retrospect" at the
S:45 pm. service tomorrow.
The following CONGREGATIONS will
hold services tomorrow:
Wss ISats Hebrew Con.rsEatlon
sonduct ne worship. Religious school q
A' TemDle sinai. IN B sI Rem Chapel of
four Brickner will conduct the family
po FemD ssrY Baai JACOB sS 5o4 Naylor road
Spurim Then and e Nov Cantor oT'p Morris an
BeFEsr E sing cs an sso Sm
School Sc 20 Wheaton; Md;-Rsbbi Arthur
Redeemers' MModern Purim sssss" At a
Temple Emanuel Rock Greek Forest
Elementary School. Silver Spring, Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18
Maryland Woman Dies
In Auto Crush
BY the Asseeiossd Press

WESTMINSTER, Md, Mar.
18.-Mrs. Emma Lydia Selby. II.
Of near Westminster. was killed
yesterday when a car and a
truck collided at nearby Silver
Run, State police reported.
Police said she was riding with
her husband. Chester Lee Selby.
when the car collided with a
truck backing out of driveway.
They said James Cloyd Cassell
Of Westminster, was operating
the truck and was charged with
manslaughter and failing to
grant right Of way.
Rabbi Leon M. Adler on "Purim Is for
cho2Se eS sholo s'S CoDDImneration, 500 Eye
street N.W.-Rabbl Albert !. Davis on
THE Aftermath. Of Purim," at1.9 am;
s held at s oeioek tonieht service VIII Dc
Arlington Fairfax Jewish Center. ,292o
Arlington boulevard. Arlington. Va
the 'p Sabbath foiioWin az the s: sRf PM a.
B'nai Israel CONGREGATION, sixteenth
and Crittenden streets N.W.-Rabbi
Henry Segal on Recipe for a Miracle -
Cantor Jacob Friedman will sing at
$40 pm. !.
Langley Hebrew CONGREGATION. in the
Memorial Chapel University of Mary
land--Rabbi Meyer Greenberg will con-
duct the pm. worship.
Young Peoples Synagogue, 3147 Six
tenth street N.W.--Rabbi Morris Godon
on 'NDemand of Our Destiny" Cantor
Ben Wostein will oficiate at the s:45
q m service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-18

Jewish residents Of the Wash
ington area will begin their cele-
bration of Purim by attending
special services in synagogues
and temples tonight.
Purim observes the saving OF
the Jews by Queen Esther during
the reign of King Ahasureus OF
Persia. The story, told in the
Book of Esther, relates how
Hannah. premier of AhaSureus
plots to destroy the Jewish peo-
pie because of his enmity to
Mordecai. Esther is told of the
plot and intercedes with the king
to save her people. Hannah Is
executed.
The Purim observance is q
gay one. with the Book of Esther
being read during the service and
then the children and adults
joining in parties. plays and
pageants.
Congregations holding Purim
services tonight follow:
Adas Israel CONGREGATION. Connecticut
avenue noni1 q and Porter street NW.-Rabb1
Z o'clock service; Rabbi Panitz on 9TH.
pm, service tomorrow, with Cantor
'As %ashi nst@ s JeWish Community Cen
ter. 1929 Sixteenth Street NW.-Purim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23


cal use, for example. would be
as an added Identification in
eashing of checks by strangers"
he pointed out.
It was natural for Pvt. Single
ton to wind UP with the Police
Identification Bureau. He had q
scientific background, with two
years of premedical training at
Mount st. Mary's College in
Emmettsburg, Md, and a year
and a half at Georgetown Med
ical School.
He had worked most Of his
life, helping the family make
ends meet. but in college he
found that outside work and the
stringent medical courses didn't
mix. He looked around for a
job. and remembered his pa
ternal grandfather. who had
been a police captain In st.
Louis, where Pvt. Singleton was
born.
Pvt. Singleton joined the
Police Department July 10, 1887.
He was in traffic first, but his
special training finally led him
to the Identification bureau.
He does photo-laboratory
work, makes plaster casts, pre-
pares fingerprints for court
exhibits and makes many types
of chemical analyses.
Before going with the Police
Department. he worked briefly
in Washington as a guard at
the Supreme Court Building and
as a clerk-carrier in the Post
Office. He has been working
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23
Know Your Policemen
Wider Use Of Fingerprints
In Industry Urged by Expert

since he was 10-the time he
got his first job helping a sight
less salesman who sold door-to-
door.
Pvt. Singleton is married and
has three children Paul, Is.
and Susan Anne. 8. pupils at
st. Michael's Parochial School,
and Linda Mary. 6. in kinder
garten.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23
Know Your Policemen

Police Pvt. John Barton Single
ton, an expert on fingerprints, Is
q man with a message.
He feels that there are many
uses for fingerprints outside po-'
lice work, and hopes some day
to see them more widely used
commercially.
"One interesting and practi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23
Productivity Boost
Luid to Incentive Pay

CHICAGO. - One American
machine company credits indi-
vidual wage incentives applied
to both direct and indirect labor
with a IS per cent increase In
productivity.
In, one case, the concern says.
q machine that originally took
Its hours to assemble can now
be assembled in $40 hours, and
the assembly men still earn q
Is per cent bonus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23

SACRAMENTO. Calf. GA
woman without fingerprints got
a passport here. Police Capt.
Leslie Cox. who has fiingerprint-
ed some $4,000 persons in 80
years. said she told him she was
born with almost perfectly
smooth flngertipS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23
Reach Turkey

Hundreds of additional Kayak
refugees have arrived in Turkey
after a hazardous journey from
Outer Mongolia across Central
Asia's deserts and mountains.
Istanbul reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-06

NTor long ago. my Office of the United States
IN Treasurer received this letter:
Dear Madam Treasurer" wrote the lady.
1T occurs to me that it might be good thing
for the government to modernize the plates
it uses to make money. Frankly. the design
used on the current ones is so unattractive.
Maybe you'll want to take out dollar ball
and look at it while you read the rest OF this
letter. know did. 1t made me realize how
little had noticed what is on our money.
There isn't any reason why our currency
should look so stodgy." the lady continues
For instance. what are all those spider webs
doing all over the dollar bill? That eye. and
the pyramid and the Latin inscriptions. and
that skinny Hooking eagle? We could dispense
with so much netting.
''And couldn't you romanticize George
Washington just a little? Please give this
your attention right away"
This letter is just one Of many we get every
day and proves again that just about every
ones favorite subject is money. People write
us with suggestions about our money. what
to do with the size. shape. color. design. and
a few people have ideas on how we can get
more of it, legally.
Like the lady writer. many people think
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-06

Changing the shape Of the bills into round.
octagonal, square. ETC., for easy Identification
appeals to many. But except for the blind.
and III come to them shortly. can't think Of
anyone this would really aid except the coun-
terfeiters who would be happy to change
rectangular one-dollar bill into round ten
dollar bill with the aid of pair of scissors
OF course. where they can pass their round
Item" dollars, except to the blind or anyone
playing pinochle in a blackout. is another
problem.
While we're discussing the design Of our
money. don't want to forget those who feel
the dollar bill is as good place as any to dis
pense little patriotism. These suggestions
range all the way from printing two stanzas
(words only of The Star-Spangled Banner
on one side of the dollar bill to putting Lin
coins Gettysburg Address with him on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-06
WIDE W0aID

five and the Declaration Of independence on
the two with jefferson.
I'm sure this would make very good reading
and there is no doubt it would be educational,
but again our competitors. the ccunterfeiters.
would find it much easier to reproduce authen-
tic-looking texts than to bother with all the
tiresome netting and molding which helps to
battle them now.
SO and as DooSu7
How would you like to get your money in
books like the stamps which come that way?
Writers tell US we could put out SIS book
with FIVE ones and four fives. The $50 book
could have 10 ones, four fives. and two tens.
These people forget, however. that stamps.
unlike money. are torn from the book and
used only once Money once torn out by the
Confined on page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-06

the design of our bills could be improved.
I'm the first to admit our money looks
elaborate 1t is deliberately designed that way
to make things as difficult as possible for the
cOmterfeiters.
While a simplifed dollar bill might please
many Americans. you can imagine how much
easier it would be for clever counterfeiter to
duplicate it. All those spider webs and pyra-
mids, and that unromanticized portrait OF
George Washington are the downfall of many
a counterfeiter.
Mow ShApeS3
BEFORE 1929. we used a different design for
each denomination of each kind Of currency.
Because it was very confusing, we adopted
new designs, wholly on denominational
basis, and made smaller bills. Our money
has been pretty much the same ever since.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-06
Of the United States

just of the ideas that pouring i'm
every day lady Treasurer People suggesting
everything oval bills vespots with ads them
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-29

UNLIMITED CHOICE

If today, you could walk into a typical
food store of the 1900 type you might think
you'd returned to something resembling a
dark age. At that time there were only
200 food and related items on grocers'
shelves. Now food stores stock as many as
5000 different items-including all kinds of
frozen, canned, dietetic, prepared and other
wise-prOcessed foods that would have SEEM
ed miraculous to our Overworked grandma
thers In other branches of retailing, such as
the variety and department stores, there has
been comparable progress. Their offerings
are virtually limitless. The main problem
of the consumer is to make a choice from
the vast array of attractive goods.
The retail store is Americas show case.
1t is the perfect reflection of the competitive
free enterprise system. Under that system,
mass production creates what people want
Then mass distribution, as pioneered by the
chain stores, brings the incredible wealth of
goods to the ultimate consumer. Competition
sees to it that the purchasers dollar goes as
far as possible. Retailing, taken collectively,
is one of our biggest employers and taxpay-
ers. 1t provides a huge market for the goods
and services of all enterprises, large and
small. It is the visual evidence of our living
standards which the world can see.
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-29
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Taylo

are crossing us up!
When you stop to think of it, we
live in different world than today's
Oldsters began working in. Yet our
impressions of people are still in
fiuenced by the works Of writer's
and artists of the past-which also
influence the casting directors who
thus more or less confirm our own
precOnceived notions. People are
probably no different than they ever
were, but they don't wear their
vOcations on their sleeves any more.
Noa
Should We Take To The Hills?
Probably the most startling dis
cOvery yet on the lung-cancer in
VestigatiOn front is that burning
cigarette paper produces a "carcin-
ogenic" (cancer-producing) chem
ical. d. " Lefemine, chemist at the
Cancer Institute at Miami, has pre-
sented before the American Chemi-
cal Society at Birmingham, Ala,
the first scientific report of an ac-
tual cancer-producing chemical, 3,4
benzpyrene, to be recognized in any
form Of smoke material"
Mr.. Lefemine, in his paper told
the assembled chemists how he had
burned enough paper to manufac-
ture $4,000 cigarettes-an II year
supply for pack-a-day smoker
and retrieved IL pounds of tar.
From this residue, he extracted the
benZpyrene, a substance that has
induced cancer in laboratory ami
mails.
A "semi-technical summary" of
Mr.. Lefemine's treatise, released by
DR.. J. Ernest Ayre. Director of the
Cancer Institute at Miami, says: "Of
equal Importance to the smoking
public is the belief by scientists that
the agent can be eliminated from
the paper by chemical procedures.
The question has been asked, does
the cigarette tobacco contain the
same deadly chemical? Much fur
ther research is needed, but pre-
liminary studies indicate that if so,
it is present in much lesser duan-
titles and better still-there may
well be a protective chemical COM
pound in the tobacco which inhibits
the development of the benzpyrene
as the tobacco burns"
We we're a little surprised to
learn that smoking had been sus-
pected as a factor in lung cancer
since 1912. but in all these years of
researching "the only scientific
proof that a correlation exists has
been that nicotine is present
in smoking materials and that a
black tar is liberated by the burn
ing of cigarettes and tobacco. The
chemical makeup of this tar is un-
known" The paper goes on to say
that this "tarry material" is SINH
lar to the SCOT that was found years
ago to be a cause of cancer among
chimney-sweeps
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-29
I'm TIE AIR FORCE"
BY Elalno Townsend Dieksrson
} townsend Dickofson

Mennonite country around York.
Pa, and ! was again reminded Of
pleasant surrounding and a sweet
girl named Gladys Vert. who oriei-
mated from McAllisterville. a small
town north Of Harrisburg. GLADYS
was my Mennonite nurse when
Dawn was born four years ago. Ia
the three weeks she lived with ns
we grew 70 love her and appreciated
her way Of life. / always Thought II
would be a dream come true IA live
where my grandparents did and
ride in horse and buggy, have big
family dinners together with lots
OF Dasteries for dessert, have 4
meat house stocked with country
hams, coy fireplace in the house
where the children could huddle to-
gether and hear bedtime stories
Gladys brought all this dream to
life for me because this was how
they lived at her home. Saturday
was market day and they would
take more baked goods TO town to
sell than we make in a year. Can't
you just smell that home baked
yeast bread. Mmmmm! Gladys now
lives in Greenwood and met her
husband Jesse YOder, while she
was living in Milford with us.
On these lovely days one hates to
be in doors, but duty calls" to-
morrow. Each squadron is assigned
a week when their better halves are
in charge Of hospital mending. To-
morrow the wives whose husbands
are assigned to the 338th squadron
are to "be at the Oficer's Club for
mending duty" This will be farce
with my nimble (haD fingers in
attendance. or course, you know
I am not so inclined so per usual
| will be assigned the "Pinning
detail" Oh! well I'll enjoy the
chatter and the refreshments any
way.
Until next week.
Always,
E. T. d.