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The Arizona post., 1954-08-20
BBW Social
On Wednesday

Prepared to get under
way" early in the season,
Bnai Birth Women begin the
fall season with a luncheon
card party Aug. 25 at Anshei
Israel. The luncheon will be
served at 1890. Local wom-
en-, irrespective of member
ship in BBW, are invited.
The luncheon has been ar
ranged, explains Mrs. Max
Goodman, president, to raise
funds for the USO projects
through which Bnai Birth
Women send gift packages
for Hanukah and Passover to
| all Tucson men and women
in the armed forces.
Luncheon hOStesSeS are
Mines. Meyer Agron, Harry
Bazar, Hyman Epstein, Nor
ris Ernst, Max Lukacs, Isa-
dore Morrison. These are
BBW members having sons
in the armed forces.
Luncheon charge will be
nominal and a pleasant aft.
ernoon is anticipated. Guests
are reminded to bring their
own cards and nah jongg
sets.
The Arizona post., 1954-08-20

NRneuh
Elizabeth Joy Kahn

Elizabeth Joy kahn
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey Kahn,
4432 Z. Poe, are the proud
parents of a second daughter,
born July +, weighing 6 lbs.
and 20 inches tall. Grandpar-
ents are Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
KIinger, Mrs. EStelle Kahn,
all of Tucson. Mr.. Kahn is
owner of Standard Home
Supply.
Barry Robert MOll
Last Friday, August 13, a
second son was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Sherman Moll, 21O6
S. Campbell, weighing 6 lbs.
IA OF. and 21 inches tall. Rab-
bi Bilgray read the ritual at
the naming of the baby. The
grandparents are Mr., and
Mrs. Ben Moll and DR.. and
Mrs. Nathan Schneck. Mr..
Moll is manager of the Saw
I On Service Station.
Maxine MOlinsky
The three sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Molinsky, 4818 E
Edison are happily welcom-
ing a sister born August Is.
At birth she weighed 7 lbs.
2 OF. Grandparents are Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Molinsky,
Maraneck, N. Y. Mr.. Molinsky
is owner of Admiral Painting
Co.
The Arizona post., 1954-08-20

Being entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. GOrstein are their
son and his family, DIR. and
Mrs. Herman GOrnstein and
two sons, Chicago Heights,
and Mrs. GOrnstein, Jr.'s sis
ter, Miss Lillian Eisenman,
Miami Beach.
The Arizona post., 1954-08-20
Women's Federation ReadieS
In All Day Institute

First meeting of the Community Council WOmen's Fed
Grafton will be aday institute Sept at the El COnquis
tador open to all the community Mrs. Marcus
Breger IS Federation president.
With the general theme, "Ths Is Your Federation, y
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Legion Training Course

Myron Francis, American Le-
gion department membership
officer, will discuss the qualitica-
tions of the post membership
officer at 7:30 o'clock tonight in
the Legion Clubhouse, 433 Third
street NV. The talk will launch
a training course to be held the
second and fourth Tuesdays Of
each month.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Workshop 10 Study
Racial Integrafion
Problem in Churches

The problem of integration in
the churches was to be taken
UP today by one OF the groups
at the annual fall workshop
sponsored by the Washington
Federation of Churches.
The two-day workshop opened
yesterday in National Baptist
Memorial Church. Sixteenth
street and Columbia road NV.
Discussion groups are studying
various aspects of life in our
city and also are being briefed
on conditions in India, Paki-
stan and Ceylon.
Lutheran Bishop Ellis Gideon
Gulin of Finland and Charles
P. Taft of Cincinnati were
scheduled to address a layman's
luncheon today in Epiphany
Episcopal Church, 1917 G street
NV.
Mrs. Margaret Haywood, local
attorney, yesterday told the group
studying integration problems
here that fears of trouble in
such fields as restaurants, play
grounds, housing and jobs have
not materialized with laws passed
banning segregation.
The Rev. N. Gordon Crosby,
minister of the Church of the
Saviour, told the gathering there
is no theological basis for segre-
cation. .
Fears engendered by integra-
ton include intermarriage, So
cial equality, economic compe-
tition, adverse public opinion, and
poor health standards.
Mrs. Theodore o. Wedel, wife
Of the warden of the College of
Preachers. Washington Cathe-
dral, served as moderator.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Stronqurm Greeting

Athlete Folke Johnson met
his friend Bengt Mellinder at
Harnosand, Sweden, greeted him
with a hearty handshake and
broke Bengt'S arm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Dialogues of the Deaf

There are times when Russia's Foreign Min
lister Molotov seems almost waggish fellow,
deliberately prankish in his misstatements and
deliberately obtuse In his stubborn misunder-
standings. Seemingly mellowed from the ear
lier years when he shared the Soviet diplomatic
stage with the late Comrade Stain, Mr.. Molo-
toy has been displaying these qualities as he
filibustered more or less amiably through the
first 10 days Of the Berlin conference.
One of his best performances came on
Wednesday when he made a long speech full Of
neutrality-suspicious. of the Bonn and Paris pacts.
His complaint, in effect was that they make
the Federal Republic captive" Of the Western
powers and eventually would force q unified
Germany into military alliance against East
ern Europe. Explanations and corrections by
Foreign Minister Bidault Of France and Secre-
tary of State Dulles had so little effect that one
French spokesman described the exchanges as
dialogues of the deaf"
Almost as an afterthought, the Moscow
minister concluded that days performance with
the casual suggestion that peoples plebiscite"
be held throughout Germany on whether the
Germans prefer a peace treaty or the Bonn
Paris pacts. The Communist East German gov
eminent picked up the suggestion for heavy
propaganda treatment that night but Spokes-
men for the Big Three and for the West Ger
HAL BOVeTuueHb OlSLIliSSeO IL DIS meaningless.
Mr.. Bdault's answer was that genuinely free
alderman elections as proposed by the West,
would bring responsible German government.
This government, in turn, could negotiate a
peace treaty and decide also on whether 1t
wished to continue the relationship created in
the Bonn and Paris pacts.
Yesterday, however, Mr.. Molotov got down
to business by offering ibis formula for the hold
ing of the elections and the drafting of a peace
treaty. AS usual the first point in his proposal
was the formation of provisional alderman
government before, rather than after, the cleo
tionS. And as usual, it was proposed that the
Communist puppet regime of East Germany
representing approximately II million people as
compared with the so million in West Germany
should have equal footing with the freely
elected government Of the Federal Republic.
This and the other familiar Russian sugges-
tons. all designed to insure communism a secure
foothold in Germany and to draw the country
eventually into the Red orbit, constitute an
unacceptable formula to the Big Three and to
West Germany
In any case, Mr. Molotovs further sugges-
ton that all foreign troops be withdrawn from
Germany prior to an election assures Western
diSapproval. Such a step would indeed leave
Germany defenSeleSs. Red troops in Poland
would still be barely so miles from Berlin while
Western troops, If allowed to remain In France
or the low countries, would be 400 miles from the
main German city. There is nothing here to
offer encouragement now that any German solu-
ton will come out of the Berlin meetings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
By Charles E. TroceweN

What more romantic than the bands
OF stealthy Indians, living in small
groups in huge country?
And what more interesting than their
first contact with white men, and their
subsequent histories?
We have many readers, young and
old. and all will benefit from a reading
vacation" now and then.
The young usually have so many
sports that they do not abuse their
eyes in reading, but often enough the
older reader will.
1t is no unusual thing for such a
reader to take day off and spend it in
bed with book. That is wonderful
reading, but mighty tough on the eyes.
at times, especially if suffering from a
cold.
The thing to do, after such a bout
with print, is to clay off" reading for at
least week. This may be difficult for
the confirmed addict, but it is good
policy, none the less, and in the end will
keep him in shape for more reading.
The human eye demands special care
in winter, not so much from the cold as
from the dull days, hence poor light.
Be sure that when you read. you are
close enough to the window to get the
best light. all there is of it. Gray days
Of winter not only contain less healing
rays, but they also are short on light
itself, that wondrous commodity we
often fail to take into account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
This and That


Well, maybe, and well, maybe not.
We feel sure that one class, at least,
Is not being chased away.
Those who like to read still read. and
the group includes the old, the middle
aged. the young, and the very young,
to wit, the children.
Not all the little ones, by any means,
devote all their spare hours to watch
ing televiSion, or rolling up and down
the block on wheels.
Thousands of them read, as may be
seen in the huge sales of recent series
of historical works for the young.
These series. put out by old and repu-
table publishers, are going over like hot
cakes with the small fry.
On a bus recently we saw two young
girls, about IL years old. One held q
copy Of Clusters Last Stand"
We tried to get a glimpse Of the
volume the other girl was reading, but
try as hard as we could. we could not
see the title. Undoubtedly it was an
other historical work in the same series.
These books serve double purpose.
They not only entertain the youngsters
as much as television, evidently, but
also make them history conscious.
Surely no country has more thrilling
story than our own.
America was pure romance from the
very start, even before the white men
came.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05

Proper winter eye care demands
cessation from reading every now and
then.
Those who love to read do not usually
stop to realize how unnatural. in
sense, reading Is.
Looking is one thing
The native American Indian looked
at his writing, such as 1t was and in
some ways 1t was very good; but he
never spent hours looking at it.
Even the old Roman, coming his
scroll. had more eye sweep in his
reading.
We Of today only now and then
think how small our type faces are, as
rule. and just what it means to the eye
to swing from one end of line to an
other, but only few inches at the most.
4 4
Needlework once was held up as most
trying.
Fine needlework, as it was called,
did make severe demands upon the eye,
especially upon the muscles which con-
troll their action in the everyday.
It is a question. however. whether
this sort of eye use carried with it as
much harm to the human eye as read
ing.
Perhaps part Of the difhculty lies in
the charm of reading for the reader,
urging him to overdo.
In this day and age we are told that
many other forms Of communication
are chasing people away from books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
No Such Critter

It is all right for Yale's Professor Dewey
to advance the claim that the Moa big bird
which couldn't fly, vanished from the earth
because 1t was stupid enough to feed in swamps
His theory is that the Moa's legs were not long
enough. The birds sank down in the mire of
the swamp and so many Of them either
couldn't get out or were killed by their natural
enemies that the species finally just disappeared
II Professor Dewey had been willing to
stop at that point there would be no occasion
to quarrel with him. But like so many other
people, he had to overstate his case He went
on to say that the Moa, or at least the Moa he
was talking about, was four times as tall as a
chicken and ten times as stupid.
The Moa may have been four times as tall
as chicken. Professor Dewey may even be
able to sell the rest of his proposition to city
folks, who have never seen chicken except in
fried form. But he will not be able to sell It
to those who grew up in the country, and who
have had the frustrating experience of trying
to get live chickens to do the things that
chickens ought to do. Professor Dewey will
never be able to convince them that the Moa
was ten times as stupid as a chicken. Nothing
could be that stupid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
'BIudensburo Flood Relief

have read with interest your edi-
torial Of January %. 1854. entitled
"Bladensburg Flood Relief" which
raises questions that unfortunately you
have left unanswered.
Flood control in the Peace Cross area
is indeed urgently required. am sure
that no resident Of this area would
ever consider appropriations for this
project as water that could be squeezed
out Of appropriations for rivers and
harbors." Your editorial implies that
there are other projects which can be
so squeezed.
Aside from a generally unfounded
implication, believe 1t further involves
a distinct misunderstanding Of our
civil works program in the field Of
water resources. There are too many
projects vitality needed for the protec-
ton. growth, and development Of our
country ever to permit the Corps Of
Engineers to dissipate its efforts on
questionable or unnecessary projects.
In order to determine precisely the
relative necessity Of the many projects
required throughout the United States.
we have, under the. direction Of Con-
gress, evolved a system for comparing
the tangible economic benefits Of any
given project with its cost. Where
costs exceed benefits. We recommend
against the project: and in this con-
nection. you might be interested to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Chains Hard on Streets

There should be an ordinance pro-
hibiting the use of chains on automo-
biles except under very icy and snowy
conditions. The very heavy ~use of
chains during this last light snowfall
has ground years of normal wear off
the surface of the streets. The chains
have Scared and ground and broken
the fine surface usually found on
asphalt, to the point where streets
really need reSurfacing.
cite Connecticut avenue. all the way
to Chevy Chase Circle, as an example
If any one will stand on the front end
of a bus with the driver and watch
the street as he travels along, he will
see that there are spots where the
surface has actually become ribbed,
such as will often be found on gravel
roads. Where the asphalt was cracked,
or where there were weak spots in it,
the chains have chewed and ground
the asphalt away to the extent that
the concrete is now exposed. ]. F. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Rule Them OF the Hiqhwoys

The problem to be discussed at the forth
coming White House Conference on Highway
Safety is not the finding Of new methods of
reducing the Nations rising traffic toll, but how
to put available know-how into action more
effectively than in the past. It has been proved
beyond doubt that lives can be saved by better
enforcement, better engineering and better
education of drivers-the "three Els" of high
way safety. President Eisenhower hopes that
the conference of Governors and other State
officials called for February 1913 will stimulate
public interest and support of the three-way
program.
Highways engineered for safer driving
have helped to avert accidents. So have educa-
tional campaigns sponsored by safety organiza-
tons, the police and traffic authorities. But
both of these approaches too often have little
effect on reckless drivers Of the habitual type.
That is why State and city officials are giving
increased attention to stricter enforcement of
existing laws and to proposals for strengthen
ing the laws. In this connection the conference
should be interested in an analysis of arrests
under Virginia'S new second offender speed law.
The analysis revealed that thirds Of the
motorists whose driving permits were suspended
last year for second-offense speeding could be
classed as ''habitual offenders"
OF 1925 speed "repeaters" ruled of the
States highways during 1858, 2,430 drivers had
been convicted previously of serious traffic
violations, or had been involved in one or more
accidents. or BOTH According to State Police
Superintendent Woodson, So of the drivers had
been convicted from IL to 20 times and hun
dreds more had from three to II convictions
listed on their traffic records. 1t is not surpris-
Ing that, with SO many fragrant violators Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Riding High

It is characteristic of Senator Mccarthy
that he should brush aside his latest critics
with a comment which has little if any rele-
vance to the point at issue. l
The criticism came from the United States
Advisory Commission on Information. It's report
said that congressional Investigations, meaning
primarily Senator McCarthys Investigations,
had largely Offset, if not destroyed" the effec
tiveness of the United States Information
Agency, and had demoralized its employees. This
report was signed by responsible people-Erwin
D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science
Monitor; Philip D. Reed, chairman of the board
of the General Electric Company; Ben Hibbs
editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and JUS
tin Miller, chairman of the board Of the Ma
tional Association of Radio and Television
BroadcaSterS.
Senator Mccarthy was not impressed. Il
know we scare a few Communists and demon
alize them" he said. 81 don't mind demoralizing
Communists"
This is cavalieriSh dismissal of the con-
illusions of competent men. There is quite
distinction, even though the Senator will not
recognize it, between demoralizing few Com
munists and demoralizng an agency which has
rendered some important and valuable service
to this country. However, If the Senator from
Wisconsin is riding a bit high these days. he
can hardly be blamed too severely. After all,
the critical report on his USIA investigation
came close on the heels of the 85-to-1 vote by
which the Senate continued the life of the
Mccarthy subcommittee, with more generous
allotment of lands. And if Senator Mccarthy
interprets this vote meaning that he need
not be overly concerned about such things
the report of the Advisory Commission on In
formation, he can hardly be accused-at this
stage at least-of taking too much for granted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Avoid 1t Like the Plaque!

United States Attorney Rover is right. We
do not want any censorship committee in Wash
ington. passing on publications that may or
may not meet the committees standards of
decency, unless that committee Is created by
law and it's duties and powers specifically de-
scribed We may not want it even then but
that is another question.
Police Chief Murray, man Of high char
acter and an excellent police official, falls into
an all-too-common error when he expresses the
opinion that there should be group to exer-
else restraining hand on (book and magazine)
dealers My idea is to call Objectionable mate
rial to the attention of dealers, and, If the
material is not withdrawn, to take action"
That proposal has been made in other
cities by police chiefs whose intentions are as
worthy as those of Mr.. Murray. Here is what
happens: The censorship group or committee
secures from some source list of publications
considered offensive. Policemen note such listed
books on dealers shelves and warn him to get
rid of them. The average dealer, as matter OF
expediency, will follow the policemans sugges-
ton. To make an issue of it might be considered
an unfriendy act by the policeman, and not
worth the trouble or expense to the dealer.
The result is full-blown system of censor
ship operating without legislative authorize
ton of any sort. That has happened in other
cities 1t could happen here As Mr.. Rover
says there are laws on the books banning indie
cent literature. Let such laws be legally en-
forced, and avoid, as one would the plague,
unofficial groups of censors supported by coer-
cion of the Police Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
Arlington Teaching Methods

was very glad to see the letter Of
"JuSt Parent" on the Arlington
schools. It is time that some questions
were raised about the curriculum which
our children take.
Arlington schools follow the progress
sive system of education-a system
whose object. so far as can judge, is
to keep the child happy. The theory
is that happy child will be better
pupil because he will be taking subjects
in which he is interested and there
fore be better educated (and happier)
than the child under the old system
of drilling fundamentals.
was a school and university teacher
for IA years: and as a university
teacher had many students whose
education had been progressive" They
were. when they entered university,
so woefully unprepared that they could
not SPELL write complete sentence,
develop paragraph, use any sort Of a
vocabulary, or even sort out their
thoughts logically.
have found that girl in the tenth
grade of the Arlington schools does
not know in what countries Berlin,
Rome or Edinburgh are located. She
does not know how many Great Lakes
there are or what they are named.
In the progressive Arlington schools
she took course in Latin, and at the
end of it she knew not a single declen-
sion, no conjunctions, no vocabulary.
She did not know the difference be-
tween subject and predicate. Yet
she received the two highest grades
possible during the year in Latin!
Another child in the sixth grade
cannot yet spell. nor does he know his
multiplication tables. These are trivia,
1t is true, but the learning of them is
what makes mental discipline and
prepares and toughens the mind for
the disappointments which life is bound
to offer at one time or another
A child who has never had any drill,
who never has to take subjects he dis
likes, who skips over all mental effort
and only "absorbs" "a word an Arling-
ton teacher used to me- the funda-
mentalS of a subject, is not going to be
prepared either for college or for life.
One must face unpleasant facts in life
and do things he does not want to do.
If he is spared all these during his
school years. how can he be adequately
prepared. either intellectually or psy-
chologically?
The fault of this type Of education
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-05
MoryIond's Record Budget

The predominanty Democratic MARYLAND
General Assembly may be expected to give crit
ical attention to Republican Governor Nickel
dinS record-breaking, $238-million budget The
aim will be to cut enough from various items
to obviate the necessity of doubling the State
property tax-one of the Governors more con-
troversial proposals If the reduction in spend
ing can be accomplished without hindering
needed construction, everybody will be happy,
including, no doubt, Governor McKeldn.
But the Governor insists that the budget
he has submitted has been pared to an irreduc-
ibe minimum. It is fact that department
heads asked for much more than the admins
tration was willing to grant them More than
81 million was trimmed from the budget by the
Governor in his effort to bring expenditures
within what he considered to be allowable lin
its. Nevertheless he found it necessary to make
a naturally unpopular recommendation for an
increase in the property tax from the present
low figure of SGT cents 500 valuation to 11S9
cents 500. similar recommendation pre-
viously had been dropped when the State Board
of Revenue Estimates revised its estimates of
income to figure low enough to avert an
increase. Hope for some means of once more
forestaling the increase will spur the Assem-
bly, to study the income -outgo problem very
carefully
1t is proper that this 30-day session of the
Legislature should devote most of its time to
the budget and means of financing it, for the
short session is designed to deal largely with
fiscal matters. Only legislation of Statewide
and emergency nature can be enacted at such
session, under the constitution. Yet, as in the
past great many bills have been introduced
or prepared that could hardly qualify for action
by this Legislature. Among such measures are
local bills to reorganize the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Commission and to
repeal the Lindsay Act barring non-partisans
from running for office in Montgomery County,
It will be difficult to obtain serious consdera-
ton of such proposals at a session dedicated to
Statewide and emergency legislation