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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-15
Dam Workers Are
Killed In Mishap

THE DALLES, Ore. IA con-
crete bucket weighing several tons
broke loose from a crane and fell
on a group of workers at The
Dalles dam last night. Two men
were killed and six injured.
The coroner's office said Terrell
C. Ball, %, The Dalles, was killed
outright. Elmo Monroe Lawson, u,
died en- route to a hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-15
Gems OF Thought
INDIVIDUALITY

INDIVIDUALITY
The greatest things are accom-.
plished by individual men.
-Spurgeon.
Every individual has a place to
fill in the world, and is important
in some respect, whether he choos.
es to be so or not.
Hawthorne.
In obedience to the divine ma
ture, mans individually reflects
the divine law and order of being.
Mary Baker Eddy.
An institution is the heightened
shadow of one man.
Emerson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-15

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produced by the Division of Christi
ian Education, National Council of
the Churches Of Christ I'm the u. g.
A. and used by permission.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-15
Free and Open
to the Public

i he Christian 3 eisnes
Reading Room in your com
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II stands as an outward
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Release from disease, from
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for multitudes AZ they have
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teachings in this great new
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
A Religious Stamp

The Scent red white and blue Statue of
Liberty stamp released on Friday will serve
to bring the postal paper Of the United States
in line ideologcally with its currency and coins
1t certainly is as reasonable to inscribe stamp
with the motto I'm God We Trust as it is
to so inScribe the coins with which that stamp
is purchased at post Office window. Critics
who have objected to any stamp rejecting the
Nations spiritual character have been at vari-
ance with the countrys history. Americans
were pledged to both religion and freedom long
before their government of the people, by the
people, for the people" was established as such
If the Post Office Department ever has been
at fault in ordering the designs and inscriptions
of stamps, it has been in neglecting the theology
of the entire United States in favor of postal
adhesives of little or no particular meaning
Some issues have had no national significance
whatever, others have been limited to very
small geographic areas or to minority social or
political groups. The new Scent stamp Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Spires Of the Spirit
The One Fear to Keep

Fear in this terror-ridden generation
is making multitudes .of people victims
of life, rather than victors over
life. Unworthy fear is a prolific killer
An Eastern story tells of dread appa-
rition of the plague who, meeting a
traveller. was charged with having
killed thirty thousand in Damascus.
The fearsome form retorted: "Your
hasty judgment is wrong. slew but
three thousand. Fear killed the rest. "
However, on the other hand, legiti-
mate fear has kept from the grave
some of the most precious things ex-
istence holds. including physical life
itself. Well has it been said by keen
student Of human nature: Fear is an
elemental emotion. part Of our native
equipment. God-given: and. therefore.
like every other normal emotion, has
a constructive essential purpose. Our
basic problem is not how to get rid of
it. but how to properly, constructively
use it." Little books on getting rid of
fear just don't go deep enough. Some
fears may be red lights which we had
better not treat as green go-aheads.
+
I know wise father who said: IT
for one do not propose to teach my
children there is nothing to fear but
fear Too many rattlesnakes in the
swamps, too many speeding automo-
biles on the highways to afford that
luxury. At our house we are teaching
our children to keep alive some healthy,
wholesome fears. We want them to be
afraid of some things, playing with
matches and rusty razor blades, play
ing with children who have scarlet
fever, drinking liquids out of bottles
some of which are not labeled Poison
but are"
Not all our fears are groundless.
Some of our worst fears are rooted in
reality which no amount Of self-decep-
ton can drive out. There is q fear of
some things which is the beginning Of
wisdom.
Do you remember in that stirring
story, "Moby Dick" the captain said,
II will have no man on my boat who
does not fear a whale? To be sure,
we must get rid of fears that paralyze
us; but we had better keep some fears
that galvannize us. We have to admit
that on this Swallowed globe the con-
slant casualties of unwholesorne and
unfounded fears are legion. The pre-
scription for their cure has been pre-
scented by that eloquent statesman
warrior of England, Winston Churchill
Speaking to jittery world. he says:
Let us move forward, fearing God and
nothing else" This is the superb, cli-
mactic exhortation of one of the bril-
liant Prime Minister'S phillipics.
That inspired phrase voices the secret
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

DR.. Henry Van Dyke, former Gov.
Frank s. Black of New York, President
John H. Finley jr., of the College of
the City Of New York, Robert E. Speer,
secretary of the Foreign Mission So
ciety; William B. Rowland. editor Of
the outlook, and F. HopkinSon Smith,
novelist. painter and engineer. Among
the eminent men assembled to hear
these worthless were: Secretary of State
John Hay. Speaker Of the House Joseph
G. Cannon, Herbert Putnam, Librarian
of Congress; Prof. Alexander Graham
Bell. DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Condo
Mast. John Cosgrave O'Hara, Frank A.
Munsey. Jacob A. Riis, Ernest Thomp-
son Seton. Emerson Hough. Dr. Daniel
C. Gilman. Albert Bigelow Paine, David
Graham Phillips, John Luther Long.
George H. Lorimer, Cyrus H. Curtis,
William Allen White, Edward Box.
Albert Shaw, Ellery Sedgwick, S. S.
Mcclure, John Adams Thayer, John
Brisben Walker, Alfred Henry Lewis.
Rev. DR.. Francis L. Patton, Charles D.
Lanier and Robert j. Collier. There
were giants in those days"
X
Featured In The Star of April IL,
1904, was report of the dedication of
Foundry Methodist
Foundry Church Episcopal Church.
Dedicated Sixteenth and Mad
iSon streets NV.
Those sharing in the program ar
ranged for the occasion included:
Bishop John W. Hamilton OF San Fran
cisco. Rev. Robert M. Moore. pastor Of
the church; Presiding Elder Henry r.
Naylor, Senator William p. Dillingham;
Of Vermont. H. B. F. Mcfarland. pres
ident Of the Board Of Commissioners
Of the District Of Columbia: H. L.
Amiss. organist; Rev. James j. DOL
liver, Mrs. William T. Reed, Elisabeth
Wahly, Howard Butterworth and H. r.
Lawson. musical director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

about the conviction of many Grim
inals. The system was first success
fully operated in India"
The closing concert of the Washing
ton Choral Society's season at Chase's
Theater, April 10, 1904.
'EIijoh' was reviewed in The
At Closes Star of the following
day with particular
reference to Reginald de Koven'S first
effort as an oratorio conductor" the
suggestion being offered that he was
''at disadvantage in that role" Men
delssohn's elijah was the work per-
formed. The title part was sung by
Gwilyn Miles, basso.
War was horrible long before mod
ern military methods were devised. A
dispatch to The Star
Thibetons for April 2, 1904. told
SLAUGHTERED of fighting at Guru,
Thibet, on March 81, in
which "the Thibetan general. the
whole of his personal escort and five
high Lhassa officials we're killed" and
Tic SIIldl1 DIlIlSIl 1OSSCS WCAc az
counted for by the fact that the Thi-
betans were SO huddled together that
the majority were unable 20 use their
swords or to fire. The swordSmen in
the front rank could not reach the
Sikhs, who had fixed bayonets, while
the men in the middle of the mob j..
probably killed each other in the mad
excitement. The scene recalled old
time fights in cockpits. Those Of
the Thibetans who tried to climb the
wall were met with terrific magazine
rife fire, but they did not falter, those
behind springing over the heaps Of
dead and continuing the fight until
riddled with bullets. *. A mountain
battery was brought into action and
tore the retreating lines with shrapnel.
A terrible trail Of dead and dying
marked the line Of march"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister Foundry Methodist Church:
Chaplain United States Senate

Minister, Foundry Methodist Church:
Chaplain. United States Senate.
is. with every debasing fear that leers
at us, that we can be assured Of love
at the heart Of things-that is, that
God is love.
Today, with waving palms the world
does homage to One who Jared forth
in spite of the pleading of friends and
the threats Of foes, fearing nothing but
God. The church of that day, which
had degenerated into a political racket
whose chief fear was losing its lucrative
perogatives, tried to paddock His lips,
endeavored to turn Him back by shud-
dering apprehensions. But He set His
face steadfastly to go to Jerusalem and
death. Why? His trust in God was
the shield that flattened and blunted
every threat. That was the conviction
for which Re defied every fear, on
which He staked His life and marched
to the waiting cross.
What was it that made Him stand
unafraid with such regal silence before
His judges? Certainly, it was not q
isenSeless contempt for what they could
do to Him. 1t was the clear vision
that behind them was Some One else.
and that it was that other who
really was in the Judgment seat and
on the throne.
In this year 1854, dated from His
birth, that Prisoner rides on! And those
who accused and sentenced Him, where
are they? They are less than the dust
beneath times chariot wheels. We only
know their names because for a tragic
hour they stepped within the effulgence
of His light. He. is saying to our fear
full day: Fear not. I have overcome
the world" That means that truth in
the dungeon is on the way to the throne.
always. And error on the throne is on
the way to the dungeon, always.
Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omni-
potent reigneth! Crosses, tortures, con-
centration and slave camps, the crack
of tyrants' whips, doom 's-day bombs,
these are not the final words. The
gates of hell cannot prevail. Then, in
the name Of the Lord our God, let
us set up our bannerS LET us move
forward together, in discharge Of our
mission and our duty, fearing God and
nothing else"
That exhortation breathes the tri-
umph Of the palms which Gilbert
Chesterton has caught in his lines:
Though giant rains put out the sun,
Here stand for sign.
Though earth be filled Nth ,uaterS dark,
My cup is filed NTH t0ine.
Tell to the trembling priests that here,
Under the deluge rod,
One nGmeleSS, t1ttered, broken man
Stood up and drank of God
, That is the toast of any man, or
woman, who fears God and nothing
else. That is the uplifted cup of Palm
Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

AN international wedding of unusual
Importance because of the prominence
of the brides fam
Potterson-Gizycki lily in this country
Wedding and the bridegroom
and his family in
Russia and Austria" said The Star of
April IA, 1904. took place today in the
palatial home of the brides parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert w. Patterson. on
Dupont Circle. Their daughter Eleanor
and Count Joseph Gizycki were mar
ried at noon by the Rev. Thomas S.
Lee. rector of st. Matthew's Church,
the bridegroom being a Catholic. AL
though the wedding followed closely
after the announcement of the en-
gagement. the preparations for it. while
hastily made, surrounded the happy
event with the appropriate charms Of
flowers, the faces of smiling friends,
gathering of relatives and the official
presence of the representatives of sew
eral foreign governments, to which
Count Gizycki now owes or has formerly
owed allegiance. The bride was escorted
to the scene of the ceremony by her
father and Count Gizycki was attended
by Count Itchy of the Austrian en-
bassy. +. Miss Roosevelt, with other
young associates of the bride, was
present"
On April IL, 1904. The Star said:
Maj Sylvester. superintendent Of po-
lice, is arranging for the
Fingerprint adoption of the fingerprint
Method method of identifying
criminals. such as has
been in vogue in England a num-
Der Of years. 1t is not his inten-
ton to abandon the Bertillion sys-
tenn. however. but win have both
systems used. for q time at least.
The Scotland Yard. London. police
rely almost entirely upon the finger
print method, which has proven salts
factory to them. and which. 1t is
stated. has been the means Of bringing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
A Stronger Voice

should like to urge the Senate to
carefully deliberate the momentous sub
ject of the United States Information
Agency budget. After the cut, the ane-
mic House-approved budget of SIG mil
lion is downright reckless when COM
pared to similar expenditures of the
Soviet Union. In fact. it is far less than
the price of two modern submarines
here at home.
How can we sit back and watch
seemingly remote lands slowly slide into
the Communist frying pan because.
we're too lazy to present our viewpoint
on the witness stand of world public
opinion, too unconcerned to prevent
democracy from losing by default?
Surely this is one area where we cannot
afford to be skinny.
Let us not neglect the theological
aspect of the cold war. If one approach
is weak or ineffective, surely another
might be sought and mastered Amer
lean statesmen, so peculiarly a national
product were not created successful
overnight.
So then let us be heard, and heard
properly, while adjectives instead of
atoms are still deciding issues.
Robert L. Trb0vich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Supreme Court on Offshore Oil

In a surprise move, the Supreme Court
on March Is brought to close the long
battle for control of the oil-rich lands
at the bottom of the ocean.
In brief per curtain opinion. the
court held. in effect, that the Sub
merged Lands Act is valid exercise of
the power granted to Congress under
the Constitution Ito dispose of
property belonging to the United
States"
BY its latest decision, the court has
given new scope and sweep to the
property clause" of the Constitution.
Originally inserted to enable Congress
to raise money for the payment of the
Revolutionary War debt from the sale
of lands coded to the National Govern
ment, the power conferred by it was
held at one time to be so restrictive as
to apply only to property belonging to
the United States at the time of the
formation of the Union and not even
to after-acquired property Chief JUS
tice fancy in the bred Scot decision) .
The court has now brought within the
purview of the clause every kind of
property belonging to the United States.
Under the doctrine of the present case
Congress alone can determine how it is
to administer this great trust over the
public domain. 1t may sell the property
and thus swell the Golfers of the Fed
eral Treasury for the benefit of all or it
may transfer the property without COM
pensation to segment of the popula-
ton for it's exclusive use and enjoyment,
as it has done under the Submerged
Lands Act. These are the stark realities
of the new decision.
1t is perhaps too soon to appraise the
full impact of the Courts decision But
if We no longer are to have the protec-
tive backstop of the Supreme Court in
this area of Congressional prerogative
then the people of America might well
ponder this latest judicial pronounce
ment.
A. l.. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Momentous Mission

This is not the time for pickering in the
Senate over the question of foreign aid, >
Mr.. Dulles has gone to London and Paris
on journey of high Importance. His basic
purpose is to hold together, and if possible to
strengthen, the Western alliance in the face
of the stresses which the threat in Indo-China
and the forthcoming Geneva Conference
impose upon it. In this delicate situation,
there is but one trustworthy guide to follow
in the matter Of foreign aid. And that is that
aid should be allocated in ways which best
serve the interests of the United States. These
interests are not necessarily identified by
senatorial statements which are notable more
for fervor than for wisdom
When Mr.. Dulles discusses the problem of
Western unity with his opposite numbers in
London and Paris he certainly will not seek
to beguile them with the carrot of promised
aid nor will be undertake to threaten them
with the club of aid withheld. His appeal will
be to reason. reinforced by the plain teachings
of history. General Macarthur, nearly is years
ago. said it as well as any man has been able
to say it, His letter to William Allen White
has been printed before. but it may be worth
while to publish the following excerpt again:
You have asked me my military opinion
as to whether the time has come for America
to give continued and further aid to England
in the fight for civilization. The history OF
failure in war can almost be summed up in
two words: Too Late. Too late in compre-
hending the deadly purpose OF potential
enemy; too late in realizing the mortal
danger: too late in preparedness: too late in
uniting all possible forces for resistance; too
late in standing with ones friends. To
face an adversary in detail has been the
prayer Of every conqueror in history. 1t Is
the secret Of the past successes OF the Axis
powers in this war It is their main hope
for continued and ultimate victory. The
greatest strategical mistake in all history Will
be made if America fails to recognize the
vital moment, if she permits again the
writing of that fatal epitaph: Too Late.
Prophetic words-then and now. Pearl
Harbor blasted America out of isolationlSm IN
1941. and the Axis finally was beaten down.
It was close thing, but the war was won.
Now it is much the same tragic story all
over again. The ultimate enemy is not now
at the Threats of Britain and France, as in
1910. And the drive for united front, the
pleas to face up to the mortal danger, emanate
this time from WashingtonA But the age-old
question remains unchanged Can the poten-
tia victims of aggression be aroused, in time,
to stand together? This is the fateful business
which takes Secretary Dulles to Paris and
London Let us not be rocking the boat here
at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

On April 8, 1904, The Star an
nounced thu demise of former Queen
Isabella II of Spain.
Deoth OF grandmother of King
IsobelIo Alfonso" in Paris. She
had been in exile from
her own country almost continuously
from 1868 onward Born in Madrid in
1880, the daughter of King Ferdinand
VII, she was proclaimed his lawful heir
in 1888 and her mother, Maria Chris
tina. acted as regent for her while her
uncle, Don Carlos, attempted to gain
the crown for himself by seven years
OF revolutionary war. The corteS
confirmed ISabellaS claims but her eff
forts to govern were unsuccessful until
1846, when she married her cousin,
Don Francisco d'ASSissi. Even then
her reign was unfortunate. A republic
can provisional regime forced her to
relinquish the throne. Her husband
died in 1902, and she spent her final
years in works of religion and charity.
At least one great picture in the Ma
tional Gallery of Art here in Washing
ton once was her property-the So
called Portrait of Lady," by Bernar-
dino Luini.
X
The Star of April 8. 1904, gave more
than three columns of space to an &C.
count of "the first
Associated Periodical annual dinner" of
Publishers Dinner the PERIOD cal
Publishers ASso-
citation of America at the Willard Hotel
the previous evening. One of the
speakers was President Theodore
Roosevelt, who began his address by
saying: "It is always a pleasure to q
man In public life to meet the real
governing classes" Hamilton Wright
Mabie was POSTMASTER. introducing in
succession: j. j. Jusserand. Ambassa-
dor Of France; Baron Speck Won Stern
burg, Ambassador Of Germany; Senator
Albert ia Beverage Of Indiana. Rev.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

The mysterious crash into the Medlterra-
mean Sea of one more British jet airlner of the
Comet series was another of the tragic events
that, paradoxcally, have marked the spectacu-
lar record of progress of aviation.
Twenty-one persons met their deaths in
this as vet unexplained plunge of the sleek
airplane only a few minutes out OF Rome en-
route to London. This was the fourth fatal
crash of this pioneering type of aircraft within
the past IS months, in this case following by
only Is days long period in which the entire
Comet fleet of British Overseas Always Corpo-
ration was grounded for extensive overhauling
and modification in the interests OF safety
company official estimated that more than So
changes were made in the airliners during the
ten weeks grounding following the last previous
crash on January 10. Parts of that ship, which
also plunged inexplicably into the Medlter-,
ranean waters, are still being examined in
search of the cause of these crashes.
But Just as surely as these events are tragic
ones, so surely will the record OF development
and greater safety performance for aircraft go
on This is an air age, one that has moved with
a rush indeed in the short SO years "since Kitty
Hawk" And mans conquest Of this challenge
of flying-how to do it at greater speeds, with
greater safety, for longer nonstop distances
and with bigger payloads-has eXacted price
that has been measured often in tragedy. The
conquest is not yet complete, the challenge has
not vet been fully and finally met, and the last
tragedy has not yet been recorded. Jet propul-
sion has proved itself in many ways its adapta-
ton to commercial transport unquestlonaply
will be proved also. When it u.s. those who have
pioneered with the Comets will be entitled to
full share of the credit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
To Protect the Public

An uncertain fate awaits the Juvenile Court
waiver bill prepared by the Board of Commits
soners. Even before it reaches Congress it is
subject of official controversy The Commits
sionerS themselves are divided over it's merits,
two of them being in favor of it and one Com
missioner Spencer, being against it. Despite
these handicaps, this bill or something like it
deserves very careful consideration at the
Capitol
The measure would transfer from the Ju-
Venile Court to the United States Attorney the
responsibility Of deciding whether certain
5uvenile-crime cases should be tried in Judge
Cockrilps court or in an adult court Long ex-
perience with the present system, under which
the Juvenile Court Judge exercises exclusive
discretion with regard to waving Jurisdiction,
has disclosed serious shortcomings Reluctance
OF the court to surrender even some of the more
fragrant cases to higher tribunals has been crit
tcized frequently by police and prosecution Of
flcials, concerned with protecting the public
from criminal vciousness, whether adult or
Juvenile.
Commissioner Spencer favors leaving the
waiver authority under control of the Juvenile
Court, but giving the United States Attorney
the right to appeal waiver refusals to the Mu-
nicipal Court of Appeals Commissioners Prem
tiSS and Camalier prefer the proposal of the
District Law Enforcement Council that the
waiver discretion be shifted outright to the
United States Attorney. Whatever the form If
any legislation finally voted by Congress, the
public interest calls for drastic reform in a
15-year-old system that has failed to work
properly 1t would be a mistake to leave exclu-
sive waiver authority in court that has ndi-
Gated more concern over the plight of individual
juveniles than with the broader problems of
law enforcement in Washington