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Evening star., 1954-01-24
Miss Pressnun
Is Married

Miss Joyce Ann Pressman,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Pressman. became the bride
recently Of Mr.. Morris M. Abrams.
He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernard Abrams.
The ceremony took place at
the Hotel 24OO. with Rabbi. Ar
thur Bogner officiating. A re-
ception followed at the hotel.
Following a short wedding trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abrams are resid-
ing in this city.
Evening star., 1954-01-24
Sponsors Of Bal Bohenne
To Be Reception Guests

Secretary of the Air Force and
Mrs. Harold E. Talbot. Other
patrons from official Washing
ton are the Associate Justice Of
the Supreme Court William o.
Douglas, Mrs. Harold Hitz Bur-
ton, Mrs. Robert jackson, Sena-
tor and Mrs. Walter F. George
and Gen. and Mrs. Matthew B.
Ridgway.
Evening star., 1954-01-24
Thompson-KoetzeI.

Mrs. Pauline A. Thompson an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter Dorothy Elizabeth to
Mr.. Paul Kermit Kaetzel. He is
the son of Mrs. Paul E. Kaetzel
and the late Mr.. Kaetzel of
Frederick, Md.
The bridegroom is an alumnus
of Western Maryland College.
The wedding will take place in
the spring.
Evening star., 1954-01-24
Miss Tod to Wed

Mrs. A. B. Langworthy Of Ar
lington announces the engage
ment Of her daughter, Miss Bar
bara Ann Tod, to Mr.. Antonio
L. Caffi, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Antonio Caffi of Arlington. A
June wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1954-01-24
Mr.. Davidson Takes Bride

Mrs. Davidson attended Lin
coin School of Teachers College
in New York and has been a
member Of the law firm Of Day.
idson & Nikoloric in Portland
and Washington. Formerly AS
Sistant Secretary Of the Interior,
he received his LIB degree from
Tulane University and his j. S. D.
degree from Yale Law School,
which he attended under a
Sterling fellowship.
Evening star., 1954-01-24

Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Kaplan are
entertaining at a reception today
in their New York home in
honor of their son-in-law and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. G. Girard
Davidson. Mr.. Davidson and
the former Miss Joan F. Kaplan
were married recently in Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davidson went to
Cuba for their wedding trip and
will reside in Portland, Greg.
Mr.. DavidSon'S home.
Evening star., 1954-05-16
Miss MeInick
Is Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Norbert Melnick
of Arlington announce the en-
gagement Of their daughter Jean
Grey to DR.. James Milton Buch-
master. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam v. Buchmaster of Steuben-
vile, Ohio. No date has been set
for the wedding.
Miss Melnick received her B. s.
degree from Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, where she was the
first president Of Kappa Alpha
Theta Sorority.
The prospective bridegroom
was graduated from Northwes-
tern University Dental School
He served in the Navy during
World War II and in the Army
Dental Corps during the Korean
conflict. He now is engaged In
the practice of dentistry in Falls
Church, Va.
Evening star., 1954-05-16
Congress Club
| TO Spend Day
hAnn0poiis

Members Of the $50 Congress
Club have a pleasant day in
store for them. This Wednes-
day they will spend the day in
Annapolis.
Mrs. Frank Small and Mrs.
J. Glenn Beall have planned the
event. The ladies are to meet
at the old Office building parking
lot at 10 in the morning to motor
to Annapolis. They will have
lunch at Carvel Hall, tour many
Of the old houses and at 4 will
be the guests at tea Of Gov.
and Mrs. Theodore McKeldin.
A change in the plans Of the
club activities will center around
the dates of May Is and June /.
Lady Makins was to have enter
tanned the ladies at tea, but due
Ito the like party scheduled that
Evening star., 1954-05-16
Stute Society
News

The Vermont Association elects
new officers this morning at $3.50
o'clock at q breakfast in the
Washington Aviation Club, 1701
Nineteenth street NV.
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The Delaware State Society
meets Wednesday at $3.50 pm. in
Room 445 of the Old House ONCE
Building. for election of officers,
Plans for a picnic Sunday, June
27. will be made.
\ \ X \
The Massachusetts, Society will
will have a dinner dance at
pm. Saturday in the Dodge
Hotel. Bowling trophies will be
presented. y
\ 4 + 4
The Pennsylvania Society has
its last dance Of this social sea-
son at 10 pm. Saturday in the
Hamilton Hotel.
Evening star., 1954-05-16

to Mr.. Herbert Richard Horwitz.
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard
II. Horwitz Of Mount Rainier.
The wedding viii take place in
August.
The bride-elect is a graduate
of st. Paul's Academy and at
Evening star., 1954-05-16

day by Mrs. Eisenhower for the
wives Of Representatives, Lady
Makins has changed her date to
June /.
Mrs. Frank A. Barrett is the
president Of the club.
Evening star., 1954-05-16

tended Dunbarton. College. Her
fiance attended the Corcoran
School Of Fine Arts. Chuinard
Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Frochot Academic in Paris,
France, and is now continuing
his studies at the University Of
Maryland.
Evening star., 1954-05-16

1895 Wrought iron fve-p piece dinette suits, in
cIudng postc-top extension tobIe with
four upholstered scot and back over foam
rubber side chairs ------------------ -
$3.50 Wrought iron with white plastic top ex-
tension dnette table, including eof----- 50
2leOO Three-piece lined oak bedroom suite in
cIudng double dresser with mirror, chest
and double bed d-------------------- 1z9
$500 Four-drower lined oak chest---------- 49,
1900 BIeoched korino three-piece bedroom
suite, including double dresser with mirror,
chest, and double bed --------------- 149
$500 Custom Furnished Gold mahogany, Chi
nese Modern, -drower chest-------- 80
3o8o5 Haywood Wakefield wheat on solid birch
three-piece bedroom suite, including six
drawer double dresser base, fVe-droWer
chest and double bed --------------- 319
Evening star., 1954-05-16

$3.50 Reversible foam rubber cushion button
tufted back and arms lounge chair. Up
hoIstered in Persmmon textured fobric- S.
1900 Reversible foam rubber scot and back
lounge chair Upholstered in pumpkin
metoIllc tobrlc c--------------------- -
1895 Button -tufted seat with two bolster back
upholstered in green or gold single studio
COuCneS p
5oo5 Fox Fornnico top with black locquered base
end or steP-end table Observation-Disclosures 3S
$500 Button -tufted seat and back with black
Iocquered frame occasional lounge choirs
Choice Of gold, grey, corol or green up :.
holstery IS
1895 Red plastic, fully upholstered occasional
chair, webbed coil spring base -------- Is
1000 Original Contour lounge chair. Choice Of
green or red Upholstery Y=-=====-===--- US
Evening star., 1954-05-16

237.5O Stewortstown spiced walnut finish on mo-
hoeony five piece dnette, including ped
estol bose extension table with two leaves
and four uphostered-seot side choirs--
1890 ThomosvIe swirl mahogany junior dining
room buffet
5000 BIeoched mahogany 3o-nch three-drower
utility chest
$500 BIeoched mahogany five-Piece junior
dining room suite, including extension
table with leof and four uphostered-seot
side chairs
Evening star., 1954-05-16
Check Each Item Carefully for Reductie

$3.50 Driftwood mahogany glass top, BoIi-Hi
Cocktail table, with drawer
$500 Plank top piece bedroom suite, choice
of Cherry cordovon or Fown Oak. Includes
9 drawer triple dresser with large mirror,
drawer chest on chest and double size
bookcase heodboord, bed------------- z
327Oo SEQ Mist mahogany piece bedroom suite,
including large double dresser with mirror.
-js:s drawer chest and double size bed ------.
+ 1890 Two-pece love seat SECTIONAL sofo. Re-
versibIe cushion, charcoal metallic up
holstery -----------------------
l14.OO Comfortable reversible cushion lounge
chair Choice Of natural charcoal
upholstery ----------------------
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
This and That

Addressed to Hon. Templeton
Jones. Gods Agent for Animals" the
following letter speaks for itself:
Il am lover Of birds. Being an
old gray-haired man, have to have
a hobby. When any one has q grippe,
they write to the newspaper.
Il bought three pounds of wild bird
seed Saturday, As cents plus cent tax
II said, Tax on food? Anything
that goes in the stomach is not taxable ;
The merchant said, If you say you
are going to eat it, I won't tax you,'
and said he called up the wholesale
house, and they said it was taxable.
II am not stingy about paying the
l cent, but it gripes me as much as
being taxed on soap and soap powder
to keep clean with.
1T just seems like the ones in power
are little too hard boiled on us,
and we have to call it Free America.
yours truly, c. A. O."
X
Hobby is a word which, though we
have used IL often, we do not like.
It has q connotation of fad, which is
not good.
An older definition of hobby" means
something thought-and talked about
to the point of undue attention.
We think the word interest" is
much better one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
BY Charles E. TroceweN

It carries with 1t the human being,
whereas the word hobby" seems to
say something about parrots, and
horses, and the like. (See the big die
tionarieS.)
Gripping, or complaining, is every
bodys business.
We all like to do it. and mostly it
does no good.
Our correspondent should have said,
Sure. am going to eat it,"
After all, he was going to consume
1t vicariously, as it were, through the
outlets of the birds he feeds.
There is no use complaining about
taxes, as some one has said.
If you do, you are fighting 100 mil
lion people, and that is lot of people.
X
Bow your gray head, friend, and
take it on the chin-or pocketbook
nerve.
1t will get so bad, some day, that
nobody will be able to buy anything.
That. at least, is the way it seems
to many.
It isn't the / cent, or the cents.
as our correspondent says.
It's the principle of the thing, as
some one else has said.
In the meantime, the best we can
do. when we try to do good in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
By Gould Lincoln

humble way, is to pay what the man
says.
Suet being human food, is not
taxed, but if you admit that you are
doing good deed, by feeding the
wild and helpless things, why, you
are mild sort of sap, dear friend,
according to some, and deserve all you
get. And, Of course. you usually get it.
X
If one objects to such taxes, there
are two remedies:
Buy less, or use human foods, as far
as possible.
Bread, for instance.
Some birds love bread.
It's high carbohydrate content con-
tains exactly the heat units they need.
Galleries." those heat units are
called in reducing diet. The wild
birds know nothing of reducing-what
they want is building up, since their
normal temperatures range from 103
to Ill degrees.
All they have on is a thin coat Of
feathers, but they are marvelously
good inSulators, when backed by some
good solid grub.
Be not too particular then, about
what you feed the wintering birds.
Experiment little. Some old crab. Of
course, is likely to charge you with
leaving garbage around" but you will
know better, and so will the birds. =,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
'Repudiotion' as ReprisoI

The letter from the president of the local
branch of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People-printed today
with other communications from readers COM
menting on recent Star editorials reveal
ing expression of one point of view. 1t would be
difficult to believe however, that it reflects the
considered opinion of wise Negro leadership
in Washington.
For the MA. A. p. president breaches a
brand of intolerance which is conSpicuously
unbecoming and which will turn out to be self
defeating because it is irresponsible DR.. w.
Montague Cobb, eminent Negro physician and
teacher. has resigned from the associations
executive committee in protest against its stand
in this matter. DR.. Cobb points to the Con
tradiction to the principles which the
Ma AC.P. advocates" in its representation
of nninorities, and the appeal to mob psychology
in its Reputation" of such men as Colonel
west A. Hamilton and Wesley S. Williams.
Neither Dr. Margaret Butchers choice of
tactics as member of the Board of Education
nor segregation in the public schools Is the
issue. The issue is whether members of the
Board of Education are to vote according to
their convictions as citizens entrusted with
the responsibility of supervision of the public
schools, or whether they are blindly to follow
q Zine" laid down by somebody else with the
knowledge that deviation will bring reprisal.
When the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People advocates the
latter course, it ceases to advance the interests
Of the people it is supposed to represent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

census taken every 10 years. But the countys
population has been growing phenomenally
between these censuses. The added population,
as matter of fairness, should entitle the county
to larger shares of the State revenues. Yet,
unless the law is changed Fairfax County's
allotment will not be increased until the 1860
census figures are available. It has been esti-
mated that the Fairfax share of the ABC fund
would increase about $150,00O year If special
census could be held today. 1t Is not right that
rapidly growing counties should be short
changed by the State simply because the Federal
Government takes its census at 1O-year intervals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Arthur n. Dean: Test Case

In politics. words do not always mean what
they seem to mean If the State Departments
announcement in the case of Arthur H. Dean,
our Ambassador to Panmunjom, means any,
thing, however, it must mean that Mr. Dean
is not going to be sacrificed to appease those
who have been clamoring for his official scalp
Mr.. Deans case has been a curious one
He was sent to Panmunjom to undertake the
unreWarding task of working out arrangements
with the Communists for setting up Korean
peace conference. When he got there he dis
covered something that bothered him. In the
negotiations preceding his arrival the Com
munists had been in the habit of MAX
ing extravaganza charges against the United
Nations or the United States or both The
U.N. negotiators would reply merely that
the Communist statement had been noted.
Then, few days later, the Communists would
start broadcaSting throughout Southeast Asia
that they had made the accusations that they
had not been denied, and that therefore they
must be true.
Mr.. Dean decided to take this propaganda
bull by the horns. And so, when Communist
spokesman accused the United States of "per-
fidy," he put on his hat and left Panmunjom
announcing that he would not return until the
charge had been withdrawn.
Since then many things have happened
There have been suggestions that he used bad
judgment in walking out of the meeting He
has been accused of being not quite bright, or
maybe little soft on communism, because he
was once connected with the Institute of Pacific
Relations. When he returned to the United
States Mr.. Dean told a private gathering, in
effect, that we should try to keep an open mind
with respect to future developments in China
To listen to the uproar from the extreme
Republican right wing, one would think that
More recently, a report has been circulated
that Mr.. Dean will not be sent back to Pan
munjom, that he is to be replaced.
This report has been denied by the State
Department. And these are the words that
were used:
There is no basis in fact for the report that
Ambassador Dean is being withdrawn from his
assignment. Ambassador Dean is prepared to
return to Panmunjom for the resumption of
negotiations toward peace conference pro-
vided that the conditions which he has laid
down for the resumption of conversations are
met by the Communists. The department enter
talnS the highest regard for the exceptional
ability Mr. Dean demonstrated during the nego-
tiatons at Panmunjom.
These are words which seem to be clear and
unequivocal 1t is to be hoped that the State
Department will stand by them. Mr.. Dean is
Wall Street lawyer and former partner of
Secretary Dulles. If he can be condemned and
banished as suspicious character because he
believes in the open mind then no one is safe
not even-the Secretary of State, indeed, who
may well be the ultimate target of some of the
shafts being fired at Mr.. Dean
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Correct an Injustice

Inequities in the ALLEGATION of State funds
to Fairfax and other fast-growing counties Of
Virginia would be eliminated under legislation
introduced at the Virginia General Assembly
by Delegate Omer Hirst of Fairfax County. His
bill to authorize special census counts between
the regular decennial censuses would remedy a
defect ins existing law that has cost Fairfax
County large amounts of State aid in recent
years. "a ;.
Under the present system of distributing
funds from such State revenue sources as the
gasoline tax and the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Fund, Fairfax's share is based on the Federal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
The President on the H-Bonb

Back in May of 1851 in a statement COM
nenting on its testing operations at Eniwetok
Atoll in the far Pacific, the Atomic Energy Com
mission declared that the program included ex-
perimentS contributing to thermonuclear weap
-ons research More than year later it used
exactly the same phrase in terse report on the
additional detonations that took place out there
In the fall of 1852. And ever since then, because
Of the special meaning of the word "thermonu-
clear" the general assumption has been that
the super-deadly hydrogen bomb-which can
haze destructive force equivalent to 20 million
tons of exploding TNT-is being rapidly devel
oped as part of our American arsenal
Not until now, however, has the rightness of
this assumption been officially confirmed in
straightforward language. The confirmation
has come from the Nations most authoritative
source-from President Eisenhower himself. In
statement to Congressman who have just seen
hitherto top-secret movies of the 1852 Eniwetok
tests (the movies may be released soon for unre-
stricted public exhibition, he has asserted that
the detonationS included ''the first ful-scale
thermonuclear explosion in history the first
step in the hydrogen weapon program Of the
United States" Further, he has made clear
that the step has been very big and portentous
one in terms of opening the way to STEADY
improvement" along the same line.
this, have been grimly emphasized by many ex-
perts. For example, Acc Commissioner Thomas
E. Murray, who witnessed the gigantic 1852
explosion, has summed up that matter this way
"Had you been with me you would have no
doubt that mankind now has within the range
of his grasp means to exterminate the human
race" True enough, as pointed out by Chair
man Cole of the Joint Congressional Atomic
Committee, the Presidents statement should
not be interpreted as meaning that this par
ticular Eniwetok test set off hydrogen weapon
that could have been dropped by plane on
target. However, in the near future, there will
be more experimental detonations at the Pacific
site, and there is very strong ground for the
belief that at least one of them will have to do
with proving" deliverable hydrogen weapon
craft like the B-36.
But the United States, of course, is not alone
in this business The Soviet Union, which ex-
ploded its first thermonucear device last Au-
gust, is an extremely active competitor and
although it may be considerably behind us at
the moment, there can be no doubt that it is
doing Its best to overtake and surpasS U.S. That
is why we must continue, as the President has
said, to do everything we can to keep ahead in
the race-"in the hope that our weapons will
deter war and in the determination that we
shall be able to retaliate Immediately, with
crushing force, If war should come" Clearly
as long as the Kremlin turns thumbs down on a
peace in which all nations could feel secure, we
have no choice but to follow this course. The
law Of self-preservation makes it mandatory
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
The FESTIVE East Germans

Although undocumented, the reports about
East German unrest are plausible enough to be
believed At any rate they have been pouring
into Berlin from so many sources and in such
volume that they can hardly be brushed aside
as nothing but empty rumors. Where there's
smoke, there's usually fire, and when stories
OF this sort seep out of the Soviet-occupied
zone, 1t is not illogical to interpret them as signs
that the general mood there, even if held in
check, Is still rebellious as it was at the time
OF the electrifying riots of last June IT,
After all, as far as the East German people
are concerned, nothing has changed for the
better since that day Nothing has changed
for the better since they demonstrated. with
bare-handed resistance to armed force, a deep
spirit of revolt against harsh working condi-
lions, lack OF adequate food and the continuing
partition OF their country under Russian occu-
patton and the puppet Red tyranny of the
Grotewohl regime. These men and women
especially in the Cities are still being exploited
as cheap labor They are still being denied
enough to eat And they are still suffering
from oppression-still yearning for independ-
ence In unified Germany under a single
overall government chosen through genuinely
free elections.
In such circumstances. even though great
numbers of them have been subjected to
savage punishment in reprisal for the June
uprisingS, it is entirely belevable that these
Sorely tried people remain filled with a fiery
sense of rebellion. It is entirely believable too
that they may be on the verge of displaying
their feelings once again in open rioting Ger
tainly-in their hearts, if not in public-they
must be reacting bitterly to the position taken
by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov at the
Big Four Conference in Berlin. For that
position holds out no promise or hope to
them. The only thing it holds out is a prospect
OF continuing partition, continuing occupation,
continuing tyranny and continuing hard times
in system of political and economic en-
Slavement.
Given only this and nothing better to look
forward to, the East Germans may well feel
sufficiently desperate to unleash new uprisings
They may rebel even though Molotov has
indirectly warned them at the Berlin Con-
ference that the June riots never can be
repeated"-a warning strongly suggesting that
the Grotewohl regime, not to mention Soviet
occupation forces, is prepared to crack down
on them numerically If they resort to open
defiance. In short, since revolt could be suicidal
for them, their plight is one in which prudence
would seem to be the better part of valor.
enforcement agencies, at present, are
unable to use evidence gathered by wire tap
ping, but no such restrictions apply to anything
the little woman may learn about the poker
game by listening in on the upstairs extension
What with low collars and other refine
ments the tuxedo has become so comfortable
there is no fun for a wife In bounding her
husband into wearing one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

Done by order Of NAACP Executive
Committee.
Your editorial entitled, "Of Dubious
WISDOM" in The Star of February
IN my opinion Is timely and construc
tive and wholesome step in the right
direction. You rightly score the NAACP
for its irresponsible accusations against
two Negro board members (Col. Ham
llton and Mr.. Williams), charging them
with betrayal Of their race and de-
manding their designations because
they did not support certain motions
OF third Negro board member (Mrs.
Butcher). However, your efforts would
nave been OF greater public service if
you had, in turn, suggested that Mrs.
Butcher was the one to be removed.
On assuming Office, Mrs. Butcher swore
to well and faithfully discharge" the
duties OF her Office. Since that time
her actions have been singularly and
uniformly inconsistent with that oath.
l cannot agree with you that: Mrs.
Butchers right to the choice of meth
DDS for exploiting her cause" is not to
be questioned Her methods have am
ply shown that she deems herself first
and foremost to be representative of
her race on the board. According to
tradition, am told, three of the nine
members appointed to the board are
Negroes. Whatever may be the rea-
soning behind this racial division of
the boards membership, I am certain
that the ultimate obligation of each
member, regardless Of his race1 is to