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Evening star., 1954-06-21

Judging from speeches made the other day
at the Communist congress in Prague, Czecho-
slovakia'S economy-which has been function
ing poorly on number of fronts-now is going
to be tied in more closely than ever with that
Of the Soviet Union. In effect, what this means
is that the countrys chains are to be frightened
for the greater honor and glory of the Kremlin.
OF course, ever since the traitorous Red
coup in 1948 the captive Czech people have
been working primarily not for themselves or
their ce-independent land, but for Communist
Russia. To that end, their puppet regime,
taking its orders from Moscow, has forced them
to concentrate their labor chiefly on heavy
industry, with special emphasis on military
production. The result Of this has been that
their standard of living-which used to be one
of the highest in Europe-has steadily declined
to an exceedingly depressing level.
Thus, as the Czech Communists have them
selves just acknowledged, the country's agri-
cultural output is sadly deficient. It's cattle
production and certain important crop yields
such as potatoeS-are below the pre-1939 levels
The same holds true for numerous consumer
goods needed for household and individual uses
In sum, as result of having had their economy
hitched to the Soviet wagon, the people of
Czechoslovakia have been subjected to such
impoveriShment that even the puppet Prague
tyranny has been forced to admit the existence
Of poor working morale on widespread scale
This morale-which has expressed itself
in the form of shoddy and short production in
many felds-refectS the deep anti Communist
bitterness and resentment Of the country'S
masses. Nevertheless, to aSsuage it, all that the
Prague Reds now have to offer, again on orders
from Moscow, is greater enchainment to the
Kremlin. It is not difficult, in the circum-
stances, to imagine how the people Of Czecho-
slovakia must hope and pray that events will
somehow give them an opportunity to rise up
in successful rebellion to win back their lost
freedom.
Evening star., 1954-06-21
friendships SoIesmen

That the problem of providing Washington
with another major airport has not been given
up as unsolvable is reassuring to those who are
concerned over the increasingly serious air
traffic congestion at the National Airport. The
need for an auxiliary terminal has become so
acute that the search for a solution ought to
be pressed relentlessly, despite recurrent oppo-
sition to the project.
It may be hard for newcomers to the city
to understand why there should be such Wig
orouS opposition from outside sources to this
peculiarly local problem. The tip-off as to the
reason for an all-out, continued offensive by
Maryland against any new airport for the Ma
tions Capital, or even for use of part of An
drews Air Force Base, is to be found in identical
kilograms which Senator Beall sent to Air Force
Secretary Talbot and Commerce Secretary
Weeks. The kilograms, after protesting re-
ported negotiations for partial commercial use
of the Andrews facilities, said: Friendship In
ternational Airport remains available to relieve
the traffic burden of Washington National Air
port and am not convinced that either Air
or Commerce have given adequate consideration
to proposals that Friendship be used"
But there is plenty of evidence that every
body officially interested in relieving the dan
gerous congestion at the National Airport on
Gravely Point has given due consideration to
the repeated efforts to sell Friendship to WASH
ington as substitute for new air terminal
here. And everybody except the friends Of
Friendship seems to be agreed that the Balti-
more airport is too far from Washington to
qualify as an auxiliary terminal for the Capital.
Yet the selling campaign goes on and on. There
may be good reasons for not converting any or
all Of Andrews Air Force Base for airliner use
technical reasons as well as those relating to
public safety and neighborhood opposition But
the need for improving tagging business at
Friendship Airport should cut no ice in deciding
whether or not to use Andrews or any other
convenient location for a second Washington
airport.
Evening star., 1954-06-21
Sending Surplus Abroad

Although there are major differences to be
resolved in conference between House and Sem
ate, both branches of'Congress now have passed
legislation authorizing the President to dispose
abroad of some of the farm surpluseS now held
In storage.
The House bill, reported now as likely to be
nearer the final conference version, would per-
nit sale, for foreign currencies, goods or Serv-
ices, of 81 billion in American commodities. In
addition, the President would have authority to
give away an additional $500 million in COM
modities to relieve famine or meet "other urgent
relief requirements" While the legislation is
intended primarily to provide way to dispose
Of some of the Government-held surpluseS, the
House bill would permit Government financing
for export of certain privately held items in
surplus
Basically, the three-year program contem-
plated here is a good one. The tremendous
surpluses that have been piling up in Govern
ment-owned or leased storage places represent
a costly investment and one of continuing high
expense. In permitting their exchange for for
eign currency, goods or services, the House bill
provides means by which we can-wlthout
expenditure of so many dollars-acquire addi-
Honal strategic materials, defray part OF the
costs of our military base construction program
abroad or meet others of our overseas commit
mentS. AS Tar as the glVe7aWay SecClon Is
concerned there have been occasions when
gifts of food under crisis conditions have been
proved most effective stroke Of diplomacy.
Distribution of food packages in West Berlin
and the shipment of wheat to Pakistan are
examples of generosity fully rewarded by repay
ment in good will.
One important provision in the program
has been left to conference discretion, namely.
the matter of setting up an adequate restriction
against the dumping of our own farm surpluses
in way which could be damaging to the export
trade of friendly nations The charge was made
freely during House debate of the bill that our
own State Department has been more con-
cerned over protecting the trading position OF
other commodity exporting countries than over
the interests of our own farmers. Chairman
Hope of the House Agriculture Committee ac-
knowledged this sentiment in agreeing to take
the problem into conference, but he indicated
further that he would not personally favor leav-
ing the way open to "a price war among the
exporting nations of the world" While it is
unlikely that our own Government would initi-
ate sales of commodities under conditions which
would be harmful to our friends, some safe
guard in law might be desirable.
Evening star., 1954-06-21
Foster-Futher

His life irGs like tree that stood apart
From all the forest - lonely - far
GtDGy;
No one to fH the niche inside his heart.
Reserved By nature for child at
play;
At length. he found homeless lad
named Jim
Whose sad eyes seemed to search his
Uery soul:
He took the child; tree must hGve
limb
or more to make its structure bal.
Gnced-tUhOle.
And nom the breath of youth plays IN
the boughs
OF one glad tree-the forest seems so.
near
He sees it as a fun and happy house
With laughing children scGn1peTtnO
there and here;
At last he knotDS the strength brGnch
can ttTotD
Into the trunk to make the spirit
GTotu.
Jean choImers Donaldson
Evening star., 1954-06-21
Tragedy Of Our Times

At 1910 the flre alarm and air raid
signals sounded through our elemen-
tary-school building. Quickly but quiet
ly the children from kindergarten and
seven primary rooms filed into the cor
ridor and crouched on the floor with
backs to the wall and their heads and
backs of their necks covered by their
arms. They sat silently and nearly mo-
tionless for the duration Of the drill
until the all clear came.
The teachers who supervised them
looked on with pity. close to tears, at
the tragedy Of our times. In this school
alone. 240 children, all under 10, are
being trained for the death or terrible
injuries that may come without warn
ing because their elders in the world
have betrayed them in peaceful govern
ment and their faith in God.
No wonder children, plagued with
neuroses and psychoSes, present dis
cipline problems. What hope do they
have? What can they foresee Of secu-
rity, peace or happiness? A. B.
Evening star., 1954-06-21

Older members of the Washington press
corps knew Joe harrington as an esteemed
newspaperman before he left Washington to
return to Hawaii for a political career which
earned him distinction in other fields. His sud-
den death on Saturday is great loss to friends
here as well as to the people os Hawaii, whose
interests he served with singular devotion. A
native Washingtonian he became one Of the
Evening star., 1954-06-21
Letters to The Star.
Pen-nGn1eS may be used If letters carry
1UriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

nearest police department, which is in
Washington.
We have one Of the best police de-
partment's in the country and very
little crime. gambling and other vices
at all because Of our fine, clean-cut and
hard-working policemen, who have the
highest regard for their jobs. They
are doing the job Of law enforcement
and the protection Of my property and
yours exceedingly well. Most Of our
policemen have to maintain part-time
jobs in order to meet their expenses.
Why are all our police stations short
of men? Why doesn't our police de-
partment have reserve Of young men
ready to be trained to replace the
departments older men? What kind OF
a retirement plan can Montgomery
County offer to retiring policemen?
One main reason. in my opinion, for no
reserve of young men is a starting
salary Of $500 per year for police
man. A. Jack Kelly.
Uncle Sam Free Spender
AS an ordinary citizen, who is not
much more than a bare taxpayer, I
wonder when this Nation will stop its
march to socialism? Each evening your
paper carries reports of the tax money
of our Government being diSburSed to
this or that little group. History repeats
itself. Are the events of today signaling
the decline and eventual diSentegration
of the current greatest civilization on
the earth, the United States of
America?
Why is our Government possessed
with the abominable obsession that it
is our duty not only to regulate and
support all our own citizens, but also
to freely send our dollars and America S
finest young men to all countries except
those which have the dignity and cour-
age to refuse them? OF course we be-
lieve in helping others, but why must
we leave buckets Of American blood on
foreign shores, when the people OF the
other nations refuse to defend or even
help themselves? Have we really gained
anything by this waste of our Nations
most precious resources?
Our country is rapidly becoming the
laughing stock Of the world. South Ko-
rea criticizes us for not giving them
enough money, and furtheN criticizes us
for our slowness in compensating them
for the damage done to their country
by the American invaders" England
criticizes us because Of our blundering
diplomacy and our crudity. But that
accusing finger rapidly turns into an
outstretched palm, with fervent prayer
that the uncouth, unpublished American
dollar will soon grease it. India refuses
to permit our planes to fly over her
friendly" soil; yet, the very same day.
we give India $305 million Of our tax
Evening star., 1954-06-21
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to any question
Of fact by writing The Eyening Star Infor-
ton 5, D. Q. Please incloss three f3l cents for
return POSTAGE.
Evening star., 1954-06-21

IunQS TO DullQ power pIanC 70 neIp
our friends of India"
Who is the ostrich with its head in
the sand, and the common sense of
an idiot? Quo Vadis.
On Tighter Censorship
A recent letter to The Star called to
attention the evils Of comic books that
are filling our cnildren'S minds with
crime and all its sordidness. Now
understand that the motion-pictur
censors are revising their code to
permit more and more of this sex trash
to be thrust upon the public, and at
time when juvenile delinquency is
causing tragedy and heartbreak all
over America. 3" -si1Gma4).J
What's wrong with the American
people that we don't demand stop to
this constant lowering Of moral stand
ards? Has there ever been q time in
our history when we needed to be any
more morally strong than we need to
be now?
Our Congress would do well to in
veStigate the powers behind these
various sources Of trash-comic books,
motion pictures, television programs.
etc., for if there is anything that is
subversive in the true sense of the
word, it is any attempt to corrupt Q
nations morals. Can these people who
promote this filth be communistic, or
are they seemingly loyal Americans who
desire to fatten their pocketbooks at
the expense of the Nation?
No truer words were ever spoken than
those of st. Paul when he said THE
love of money is the root of all evil"
EB.
Evening star., 1954-06-21

@. What organizations are respon-
sible for buying the food for the armed
ServiceS?-G. g.
A. The Quartermaster Market Gen.
ter System is charged with purchasing
food for all the services. The annual
food cost Is well over billion dollars.
Evening star., 1954-06-21
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

Q. Where is the biggest shopping CEN
ter in the country?-L. F.
A. In YonkerS, N. Y. It Is the Cross
County Shopping Center. which has
~ million square feet Of selling space.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24

NC COME
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The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
Young POOlesville
Pastor Busy Man

Rev. David Winfrey, the new
preacher at the Poolesville M. E.
Church South, is a very busy
newcomer to the Upper Mont.
gomery County community.
Like many other young Meth.
odist preachers, he attends col.
lege classes during his first pas.
toral charge, committing from
Poolesville to the University of
Maryland three mornings a week.
Before going to Poolesville on
Sept. 1, Rev. Winfrey taught for
one year at the Capitol Radio En-.
cheering Institute, in Washing.
ton, DC, and prior to that time
was instructor of math and ply.
sizes at American University.
One of three sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. B. Winfrey, of Martins.
burg, w. Va, he is a graduate
of the Universities of West Vir-
ginia and Maryland and Drew
University in Madison, N. J. In
connection with his work in the
ology, he also completed two
years of field work with young
people in Summit and Morris
Plains, N. ].
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14

Smokeless powder first was
used by the War Department at
Sandy Hook, N. j., in 1891.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
Red Cross Maps
Staff Aide Class

Staff aide classes sponsored by
the Montgomery County Red
Cross will begin next week. They
will be held from 10 am. to noon
on Oct. 20, 25 and q and Nov l.
Mrs. Kester Hastings and Mrs.
Allen N. Hoyt will conduct the
sessions. Some staff aides, after
finishing the course, will serve at
the Naval medical center and
Forest Glen section of Walter
Reed hospital. Others will work
at Red Cross County headquar-
tiers. Still others will do tipping
and filing at Bloodmobile visits.
Persons interested in taking the
course have been asked to call
the chapter, Juniper 8-2515.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
|MOssburg Rites
Held on Monday

Funeral services were held in
Rockville Monday for Mrs. Mary
A. Mossburg, age 81, widow of
Charles A. Mossburg, Seneca
farmer, who died last week at the
Washington Sanitarium in Tako-
ma Park.
The funeral services were di-
rected by the Rev. Thawley
Holmes of the Rockville Com
munity church Burial followed
in the Jamestown cemetery.
A lifelong resident of Montgom-
cry County, Mrs. Mossburg was
resident of Rockville RID 1 at
the time of her death.
She is survived by four daugh-
ters, four sons and two brothers.
The daughters are: Mrs. Thorn
as Thrasher of Seneca; Mrs. Ray
mond L. Marion of Laytonsville;
Mrs. Nellie Nicholson of Spring
Lake Park; and Mrs. ]. Vernon
Brown of Margate City, N. ].
The sons are George D., Char
les E, and Woodrow Mossburg,
all of Rockville, and William
Mossburg, Seneca. The brothers
are Charles Traile of Gainesville
and William Traile of Cumber-
land.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
B00KM0BILE

Friday, Oct. 15-Burtonsville,
3:15 to 4;30; Cabin John, $3.50
to Sis; McKenney Hills, 3:15 to
4:30; Rock Creek Gardens, in
front of the shopping center, $50
to 900 pm.
Saturday, Oct. 16-Brookmont,
HOO to 1900; Woodacres, 12:45
to 2:45; Glen Echo, 800 to 4:30;
Sumner, $50 to 10:45 am.
Monday, Oct. 18-Alta Vista,
3:15 to 4:3O; Connecticut Ave.
Estates, 3:45 to 500; Piney
Branch & Flower Ave-, 300 to
4:3O; Twin Brook, 600 to us;
Wheaton City, 7:30 to $40 pm.
Tuesday, Oct. 19-Glenmont,
3:15 to 4:30; Lake Shopping Cen
ter, 3:15 to 4:30; Lone Oak, 3:15
to 500.
Wednesday, Oct. 2O-Brook-
vile, 3:15 to 3:45; Chevy Chase
Shopping Center, 300 to 500;
Northwest Park Apis, 3:15 to
$50; Unity, 400 to AS.
Thursday, Oct. 21-Oakview,
Parkwood, Potomac-all from
3:15 to 4:30.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
FARM FACTS By Jonathan Blade

When the eggs you market aren't
up to snuff, the experts say, don't
blame the chickens. 1t may be the
way you've handled them. The in
terror quality of practically all eggs
is excellent when they're laid. Here's
how to hold that quality until they
get to the market.
Gather eggs three times a day.
Store in room no warmer than 50'-
600 and with about 1870 humidity.
Take egg cases into egg room sew
eral hours before packing eggs.
Warm, dry cases will draw moisture
from eggs and lower quality. It's
best to market them twice week
to avoid loss of freshness, flavor
and quality.
incidentally, if you do not have
a good egg room, ask your farm
agent to suggest a good place for
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14

urged continued strong research
programs to get facts that can be
integrated into a sound agricult-
ural philosophy.
National Notes
Cash grain markets were
strengthened during the week
ended October Z, the Department
of Agriculture reported. The
President has signed proclama-
ton limiting imports of oats to
the United States to 40 million
bushels for the period October 1,
1854 to September 80, 1855. Wheat
prices generally advanced 1 to 8
cents per bushel influenced by the
smaller offerings. Wheat prices
with 1870 and higher protein
gained 4 to 5 cents per bushel.
Durum Wheat prices advanced S
cents per bushel. Rye prices de-
clined 5 to 9 cents per bushel as
eaerlier expected export sales
were not confirmed. Corn prices
gained 3 to 7 cents per bushel
influenced by unfavorable harv-
esting conditions and the smaller
offerings. Dat prices advanced 2
to a cents, while barley prices
were unchanged to 2 cents per
bushel higher. Grain Sorghums
declined 1 to 2 cents per 100 lbs.
Solbean prices were about un-
changed to 2 cents per bushel
above the previous weeks level.
Flaxseed prices were unchanged
at Minneapolis.
Feed markets were mixed dur.
ing the week ended October 5, the
Department of Agriculture re.
ported. Prices of high protein
feeds generally advanced while
most grain byproduct feeds were
about unchanged to slightly low
er. The demand for most feed.
stuffs was generally slow as buy
ing continued on a hand-to-mouth
basis. Oilseed meal markets
strengthened. Soybean meal pric.
es averaged $500 per ton higher:
Linseed meal prices were I'M
changed at Minneapolis. Cotton
seed meal prices CANNED $500
$500 per ton. Wheat Millfeed
markets generally weakened with
prices so cents to $1.00 per ton
lower at the principal markets.
Hominy feed uprices declined so
cents-$1.50 per ton while gluten
feed and distillers' dried grains
were about unchanged Brewers
dried gain prices advanced so
cents-$100 per ton at most mid
west markets. Animal protein
prices were unchanged to $500
per ton higher at most markets
except for meat scrap prices
which declined $500 at Kansas
City. Alfalfa meal markets
strengthened and prices averaged
$3.50 per ton higher. The index
number of wholesale feedstuff
prices advanced 81 points to 216.6
compared with 203.4 year ago.
The feed grain index advanced 2.9
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
Hollywood Film
Will Tell Story of
Ex-BrOOkvillianS

Two former residents of
Brookville, Admiral and Mrs. J.
M. Hoskins, will have the past
10 years of their lives told in a
film currently being made by Re-
public Pictures of Hollywood.
The role of Admiral Hoskins
will be played by Sterling Hay<
den while Alexis Smith will take
the part of Mrs. Hoskins. Films
will be shot of naval units at
San Diego and Pearl Harbor.
Admiral and Mrs. Hoskins were
residents of Brookville during a
part of the period that will be
treated by the film. Director John
Auer hopes that the premier of
the picture can be held in Wash
ington:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14
Community Club Meets

The book department of the
Women's Community club of
Kensington will meet at 1890
pm. Monday at the home of Mrs.
James Beddie, 1909 Washington
Street. Mrs. w. Wolaver will be
co-hostess. Mrs. C. N. Hartman
will speak on 'They Walk Again"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14

AntibioticS sometimes serve a
useful purpose in feeds, but it
should be remembered they are
drugs = not food. They appar-
emily act by influencing microor-
ganisms and can never replace
minerals, and proteins.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14

With photographs of startling
sunsets and sailing ships, the
grizzled, sea-sprayed waterman,
Baltimore's waterfront, birds in
flight, out-of-the way islands and
so on, Bodine weaves a magical
story.
End papers have been created
by Richard @. Yardley, cartoon.
list for the Baltimore Sun.
Released last week, the book
is distributed by Hastings House
Price-S10.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-14

When someone, many years
ago, coined the phrase about one
picture being worth a thousand
words, it was masterful look
ahead to the days of Aubrey b.
dine.
In his new book, chesapeake
Bay and Tidewater," Bodine en-
erges as one of the greatest of
the camera story-tellers.
A sequel to my Maryland"
this book contains 22O of the best
pictures Bodine has taken during
a quarter-century along the Bay.