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Evening star., 1954-05-04
WhyHistoryMoyCoIIIt'Fo 1t t'FobuIousF Fifties'
By Donald MichoeI Rouh

DROBABLY NOT since the late j.
4 Pierpont Morgan looked down and
found female midget perched on his
knee during the 1888 investment bank
ing investigation has the American
public been so entranced with a con-
gressional probe.
The incredible Capitol Hill imbroglio
is proving above all that nothing can
lure crowd away from preoccupation
with its own problems quite so much as
the prospect of seeing people in the
headlines happily run each other into
the ground.
Most congressional inquiries are sin
gularly unexciting, dry-as-dust pro-
ceedings routinely conducted and deal
ing chiefly with economic matters and
featuring perfunctory, If unreluctant,
witnesses.
On the other hand, monkeyshines on
the part of those in or close to Gov
ernment are vastly more likely to pro-
duce pyrotechnics. Examples of such
standing groom only type investiga-
tions are myriad in the past decade:
The Pearl Harbor affair, the dis
missal of Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
Voice Of America, communism and sub
version, lobbying and influence ped
ding, gambling and crime conditions,
juvenile delinquency. labor racketeer-
ing, the AD-X2 battery additive and.
most recently, the rise in the price of
coffee.
In the 20s it was the Teapot Dome
scandal. The 30s were filled with the
Wall Street fiasco, hi-jinks in the mu-
nitions industry, and the Tennessee
Valley Authority and lobbying eyebrow
raiSerS.
Not all investigations are conducted
in the idiom Of Barnum and Bailey,
notwithstanding the undeniably spec
tacular effects of television. device
which tends irrepressibly to bring out
the latent histrionics of everybody
from the committee chairman down to
the casual sight-seer from Dubuque.
Relatively dignif1ed hearings have
been carried on in recent years by
such legislators as Senator Hoey, Dem
ocrat, of North Carolina, on influence
peddling; Senator Fulbright, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas, on the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corp; Senator Margaret
Chase Smith, Republican, of Maine,
on the arms shortage in Korea, and
Senator Russell, Democrat, of Georgia,
whose Craftsmanship of the Macarthur
hearings was generally regarded as
superb.
At least two investigating commit
tee chairmen won popularity through
their sleuthing that they may not
otherwise have had. 1t was former
President Truman's indefatigable
watchdog Senate War Investigating
Committee in 1914 that catapulted the
Missourian into national prominence
Ironically, it was likewise the results
of number of congressional investi-
cations that contributed to his own
administrators defeat. Senator Ke-
fauver's meteoric rise as a 1852 presi-
Dental candidate in the Democratic
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Friendship Airport-or Else

1t is only natural that Maryland should
use every effort of which it is capable to induce
Washington to accept the idea Of Friendship
Airport as an auxiliary of the National Airport
here. Our neighboring State goes too far,
however, when it seeks through Senator Butler,
to block all plans for airport construction in
or near the District
There never has been any secret about the
selfish nature of Maryland's interest in Wash
ingtonS airport problem The States legislators
specifically opposed the Burke airport plan
and can take some of the credit for the killing
of that project after land had been bought and
preliminary work begun Their profeSSed SYM
pathy for the plight of Virginia property owners
affected by the proposed air terminal was purely
coincidental The Marylanders next turned their
guns on the suggestion that Andrews Air Force
Base be converted, in part into commercial
field That plan, too, seems to have been
defeated.
Now comes Senator Butler with a bill de-
signed to head off any attempt to find another
airport site anywhere in the Washington Metro
politan Area The bill would repeal a congress
sional act authorizing construction and opera
tion of an auxiliary airport to relieve the
dangerous congestion at the Gravelly Point
terminal. It is plain that Maryland thereby
hopes to force acceptance Of Baltimore's
Friendship Airport az an overflow terminal for
Evening star., 1954-05-04
A Book k-Lined Room

I'll take no tDdlls OF ivory or gold
or euen picture iOtndoWs Though
they are
Just fine to match the rose OF spring
unfold
or When you wdnt to uiSit Uith
StGrU
choose a book lined roonll With books
that pray
or sing or laugh or Ueep; infntty
Is mine to knoiD, as common as day.
And euen HedDen is not strange to me.
oh, neUer pity me the close embrace
OF four such iDondrous Dalls, or eye
the gloom
Dispersed By lamp and freight; an OF
space
Is mine. all time. all lope. A book
lined room
Is song and talk that makes the Dord
"dlone"
A ioord as Darm and sweet as mind has
knotDn.
GeroIdine Ross
Evening star., 1954-05-04

dition against the Indians, more than
800 separate investigations have been
conducted by both Houses. The 82d
Congress set the all-time record with
286 between 1872. Senator Nc
Carthy'S own investigations numbered
153 last year. It cost the Senate $29
million and the House $2.8 million to
launch probes last year. Senator Ell
lender, Democrat, of Louisiana recently
came up with a statistic indicating
money provided for Senate investiga-
tions alone has shot up 1000 per cent
since 1910.
Costly though they may be, investi-
cations have paid off in many con-
structive ways over the years. The oil
scandals in the 20S resulted in several
top-level convictions and brought about
the recovery of millions of dollars in
swindled Government property. The
Securities Act of 1888 and Merchant
Marine Act of 1896 were both born of
the Wall Street probes. Alger Hiss went
to prison on a perjury conviction
through the work of the House Un-
American Activities Committee, and
reorganization of the Justice Depart
ment and the Internal Revenue Service
was attributable to the watchful bird
dogging Of congressional investigating
committees.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Showdown on St. Lawrence

What is very likely to be the final legislative
showdown on the st. Lawrence Seaway Project
Is due In the House this week. It will come on
a bill which authorizes the United States to
join with Canada in the building and control
Of certain portions of the deep-sea waterway
The measure, which already has passed the
Senate, would create Seaway Development
Corporation with authority to issue and to sell
to the United States Treasury $105 million in
bonds to cover the financing of the American
part of the project The bonds would be retired
from revenues received by the corporation from
toll charges.
Every administration from that of Re
publican President Coolidge to that of Demo-
cratic President Truman Endorsed some varia-
ton of the st. Lawrence development plan. AS
Army Chief of Staff, General Eisenhower sup
ported the project AS President, he has re-
affirmed this position and has cited the sup
port of the National Security Council and of
his cabinet.
In recent years the power-making and the
waterway parts of the project have been split
apart The Canadian Government has author
ized the Province of Ontario to 60 ahead with
a great hydro-electric power development
downstream from OgdenSburg, N. Y, and the
New York State Power Authority has received
approval from the Federal Power Commission
for its participation. The FPC ruling has been
appealed, however, by opponents of the prof.
ect and the power program is delayed accord
ingly.
Meanwhile, the legislation on the waterway
aspect alone, bearing administration blessing,
was passed by the Senate in January as several
previous opponents switched to support of the
plan. The House Public Works and Rules Com
mittees finally have cleared the measure to
the House floor with only slight revision but
with battle forecast over a proposed change
in financing which proponents claim would
torpedo" the administrations objective.
It is no secret that Canada has become in
creasingly impatient with American delays on
the overall ST. Lawrence program and Is
fully prepared to go it alone. Canadian cor
poration has been set up to build and operate
the seaway, and If the 83d Congress does not
complete action on the matter there probably
will be no "next chance" The weight of evi-
dence, particularly on the grounds of i'm
portance to the national security, favors United
States participation. The House should act
accordingly and approve the legislation as
already passed by the Senate.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Veterans Appeal Coses

Here is the way the Civil Service
Commission can speed up its veteran
appeal procedure that sometimes takes
a year to dispose of single case.
Set up a preliminary appeal panel to
quickly review an appeal and to render
an unofficial decision on the basis of
evidence submitted in a Commute
hearing by the veteran and an agency
personnel representative.
The hearing would be informal, with
either oral or written evidence and
arguments, and the decision by an ap-
peal panel member would be in writing
Of not more than so non-legal words.
I believe that in 80 per cent of the
cases this unofficial decision would be
correct, and would be accepted by both
the veteran and the agency involved.
Paul McIlvaine.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
outrageous and UnciviIized

The Kremlin must be more than a little
upset by the fact that within recent months
IN places like Japan, Australia and West Ger
many-it has been losing number of its secret
agents. For these agents. in detecting to the
side of freedom, have been revealing things that
can hardly fail to cause the Malenkov regime
embarrassment abroad and measure of worry
at home.
Certainly, as far as the outside world is con-
cerned, the revelations made by the defectors
have exposed enough dirty work in the field of
espionage and terrorism to justify what has
been said about it by Walter Bowling, Acting
United States High Commissioner for Germany.
AS Mr.. Bowling has put it-n formal protest
to his Russian counterpart in Berlin-the whole
business points to "a deliberately outrageous
and uncivized course of conduct on the part of
the government of the Soviet Union" More
than that, as for the Kremlin's internal affairs,
the desertions of the undercover agents indicate
that the u S. s. r. IS secret police organization
largely the creature of the late Lavrenti Beria,
who had strong support among the personnel
may we'll be riddled with low morale, fear, Bit
terness and incipient disloyalty as a result of
Beria's sudden downfall and execution not long
after Stalin's death.
OF course, since only a relatively few of
these agents have fed to the West up to now,
1t would be wishful to read too much into the
situation. STILL enough of them have detected
to throw new and luridly instructive light on
the grim nature of the Soviet system and on
how that system operates on both sides of the
Iron Curtain. Clearly, despite Moscow's occa-
sional dovelike noises, the free world has as
much reason as ever to build up and maintain
the strongest possible defenseS against this con-
tinuing and undiminished menace.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
This Calls for Further Study

Acting under rather obscure provision in
the Federal budget, congressional subcommit-
tees considering proposed Improvements at ST.
ElizabethS Hospital are said to be planning to
saddle the District with about rs per cent of the
cost of S7-milon maximum security building
at the Federal institution. Congress should go
very slow in approving any such radical depar-
ture from usual policy. 1t has not been the
policy in the past to assess against the District
any of the costs of capital improvements at
st. Elizabeths, hospital over which the Dis
trict exercises no control whatever But the
pending budget would charge the District
"proportionate" share of the cost of new
construction.
II the policy is to be changed-and the
maximum security project would set a prece-
dent which inevitably would lead to more req
uisitioning of District funds-a serious question
arises as to the effect on the future development
of the District General Hospital Right now. as
part of the public works program the District
is planning $2.5-million psychiatric addition
to the municipal institution. 1t is possible that
later, under the proposed new formula, the Dis
trlct might be called on to help pay for new
psychiatric building at st. Elizabeths Would
not this be waSteful duplication of facilities
at time when the trend is toward elimination
OF such waste and consolidation of activities?
The District already pays more than 50
million year to ST. Elizabeths for patient care
one of the largest expenditures in the local
budget. Yet District authorities have no con-
troll over. rates charged. (The rate-making is
done by the Federal Budget BureauD 1t would
be highly questionable to require the District
also to pay major part of the cost of capital
Improvements at the Federal hospital in addi-
ton to building its own mental institution.
There ought to be lot more study given to this
matter than appears to have been given it to
date.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Integrity Of Zoninq'

The Star is to be commended on its
editorial, Integrity of Zoning," which
appeared April %.
The threat of apartments in first
class residential areas of North Arling-
ton is of very serious concern to its
citizens. The carefully drawn zoning
regulations" to which you refer are
but mockery if they are not to be
preserved against the intrusion of
apartments in single-dwelling areas
built up by homeowners who had every
right to rely upon the integrity Of the
regulations. AS homeowners they have
an important stake not only in their
home but in the proper development of
the county AS citizens, they have a
right to look to the County Board for
protection against any such intrusion.
Orval L. Dubois.
Chairman, North Arlington Zoning
Council.
write in appreciation of and agree
ment with your editorial of April %,
entitled Integrity of Zoning." The
Star has" performed real service for
its readers in commenting on this prob
lem and expressing its concern for the
interests of the homeowners.
Our Maplewood Citizens Association
was born as a result Of the efforts Of
real estate promoters to build apart
ments in our front yard" Since that
time. nearly flve years ago, we have
battled continuously. and fortunately
successfully, to keep apartments out
of this residential section.
While you do not mention Mont
gomery County, can assure you that
the problem here is a very real one.
The County Council has always pro-
vided the citizens with courteous hear
ings and has decided the cases on their
merits. There is land already zoned
for apartments in the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area which will accommodate
all reasonable apartment developments
for some years to come. That fact does
not deter spectators from trying to
make fast buck at the expense
Of and detriment to the homeowner
who has invested his life savings in a
modest home in an established residen-
tial community.
We have found particularly disturb
Evening star., 1954-05-04

Washington air travellers. There Is a faw in
this scheme that Congress should not overlook,
however. It Is the consensus of aviation experts
that Friendship is too far away from Washing
ton to meet requirements for an alternate
Capital air terminal Therefore, Senator But
ler's Friendship-or-else bill deserves the same
sort OF fate that the Burke airport encountered
Evening star., 1954-05-04

@. According to American custom,
on what finger should a married man
wear his wedding ring?-C.J
A. Although men customarily wear
a. ring only on the little finger, the
only exception to this rule is the we'd
ding ring, which is generally placed
on the ring" finger.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Leorn-to-S Swim Campaign
G.. w.

During Easter week. the heart of
many lad was gladdened by the op-
portunity to learn to swim under expert
and patient instructors. The Star and
YMCA have jointly performed super
fine service. AS an observing parent, I
desire to express heartiest thanks to
both.
]. w. Haywood, Jr.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Names in the News

am sure am expressing the graft
tude Of many people for your new
column Names in the News"
Americans generally couldn't possibly
know how to pronounce the names of
all these different nationalities figuring
in the news these days and appreciate
very much the phonetic spelling you
give.
G. W.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. What per cent of aged people In
the United States are receiving social
security benefits?-P. B.
A. In mid-l953 only 32&s of persons
IS years and over were receiving re-
tirement benefits.
Evening star., 1954-05-04
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer 70 any question
OF fact by writing The Evening Star Infor-
nation Bureau 1900 Eye St NV, Washing
ton D. G. Please inclose three f3l cents for
Evening star., 1954-05-04

Pen-''Gn1es may be used If letters carry
1OriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-HOme at 16 Elizabeth
street, Milford, bath, oil heat, base
ment, expansion attic, hardwood floors,
vacant. Seven room home in Milford
hot water oil heat, two car garage,
double lot, vacant, only $1,000. Eight
room home on South Walnut street,
two baths, oil hot water heat, four
acres land, two fireplaces and other
extras, vacant. New home on Reho-
both Highway, completely modern with
two car garage, vacant. Three year
old six room home i'm Milford, bath,
oil heat and extras, $500. Six room
home at Causey avenue, bath, gar
age, and excellent location, $1,000
Eight room home at 3l7 South Walnut
street, bath and powder room, laund-
ry oil hot water heat, two fireplaces,
large Handicapped lot, fiagstone patio,
outside storage room, old shade, hard
wood floors, completely insulated, We
netian blinds, storm windows and
screens-this home is i'm perfect con-
ditiOn and is priced for immediate sale.
Truly a home for good living i'm an
excellent location. Inspection at your
convenience by appointment only. Six
room home out of town, large lot, only
$4,000. Five room country home with
five acres of land, bath, oil heat, base
ment and other extras, $1,000. Three
year old home on Cedar Beach Road,
all cOnVeniences and over one acre OF
land, So, 400. Six room house on ia
south of Milford, i'm excellent cOndi-
tiOn with sun porch and garage, So, 500.
Apply Harvey G. Marvel, Real Estate
and Insurance, Milford. Phone 4466.
234-2-26-lt
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26

FOR SALE-G0 acres Of land near
Ellendale, 90 clear, 6 room house, cleo
trio. Outbuilding, $4,000. Small farm
near Lincoln, 16 acres tillable, room
house, electric, coal hot air heat good
location, immediate possession, S7,500
Near Harrington, ia acres, 45 tillable
with 5 room bungalow, expansion at
tic, and a beautiful modern kitchen,
100000 ll5 acres land with cabins,
completely furnished, main dwelling
has rooms and bath, restaurant fully
equipped, service station with two
rooms i'm hack, laundry house for cabin
occupants, possession 80 days, a good
buy at $17,500. 525 acre farm, 426 till
able, excellent land, S85,000 $40 acre
farm, $50 tllahle, suitable for grain
and dairy S65, 600. $50 acres, 300 till
able, suitable for grain and dairy, main
dwelling has z rooms and bath, hot
water heat, dairy barn has AZ stan
cions, silos, granaries, 100 acres
now seeded in rye grass, all fenced,
hut 30 acres, immediate possession,
$4,000. 8 rooms and bath, pa Com
merce street, Harrington, call and
make an offer. Three bedroom house
with one acre of land, near Dover Air
Base, hardwood floors, oil hot water
| heat, $4,000. Six rooms and bath I'm
Frederica, immediate possession, can
| be bought with $500 down and priced
at $6, 500. Service Realty Company,
State and LoockeTman streets, Dover.
Phone 5752, or Lulu p Wilkins, Asso-
ciate Realtor, Frederica 4761.
2l8-2-26-lt
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
CARD or THANKS

We wish to extend our thanks to
all relatives. friends and neighbors
for their kindness, cards and for
al tributes during the recent
death oe our husband and brother.
Charles A. McColley. (Signedl !:
Mrs. Virginia McColsey and lis
Family. 2-26-1t
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
CARD OF THANKS

We are deeply appreciative of
the many kindnesses shown us
during the illness and death of our
beloved mother and grandmother,
Jennie NJ. Clendaniel. We especial
" want to express our thanks to
the pallbearers and Rev. Revelle
for his comforting words. The
Family. 2-26-1tp
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
MAN WANTED FOR PROFITABLF

aA1N- 7 l1INI7IAAINIAN OOIL IOIN1 WHO
is active with initiative and mature
judgment to represent the Continental
American Life Insurance Company H..
Milford and Dover area. Age 25 to 40.
Attractive income arrangement. in
Guiding salary and incentive commits
sions. Please write fully your past
business experience and other quail
ficatiOns which will be considered
strictly confidential Victor O. Davis,
Manager Vernon Powell Building, Sal
isbury Md. 65-2-I9-3t
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
FOUND
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to all our
neighbOrs, friends, relatives and
minister for the cards, flowers and
kindness shown during the recent
illness and death Of our mother,
and grandmother, Georgiana New
nom. William Newnom and Fam
lily. 2-26-1tp
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
USED TIRES AND TUBES FOR

SALE-TwO 6OOx16 6-ply commercial,
like new; two 600Xl6 4-ply white walls,
like new; two 6OOX2O S-ply, like new;
twenty-five 6O0X16 used tires, good /:
others: 670X15, 710x15, S2Ox15, 55OX17,
55OX18, 640X15, plenty used tubes, all
sizes; one 65OX20 used; one G00x20, us
ed; two 7OOx2O 10-ply, used, like new.
New tires, all sizes: AmOcO, Goodyear,
I'irestOne. Goodrich. Let's trade now.
Milford Amoco Service Center, Dewey
r. Sapp, East Front and Rehohoth
Boulevard. Phone Milford 1913 or 4403.
S4-2-26-1t
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
FURNISHED WATFRFRONT

HOMIE FOR SALE-On Indian River.
ranch type house, asbestos shingles
with red roof and TRIM Seven rooms.
bath, enclosed sleeping porch and large
attic. Very large living room, dining
room, all electric modern kitchen with
deep freeze, 4 bedrooms and bath,
heater and everything for year-rOund
comfort, completely furnished, beauti-
ful interior. Must he seen to be an
preciated, wharf, lot 120 1867, large
garden. Charles d. Bird, III Race
street, Richardson Park. Delaware
Phone Wilmington S-5015.
S0-2-12-4t
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
ROOFING TROUBLEI GAIL

Jimmy Dukes, AL Nero and Company
Laurel 3l42. Complete roofing and
metal service. Built-ups, Stag, shingle,
tin or gutter and apoutlng. We are
Rubberoid Bond Roofers, also Perma.
stone Applicators. Estimates freely
given. Re-roof old roofs on chicken
houses. 44Sc per Il. Special. We viii
recoat your chicken house roof with
hot asphalt for l1kc per 50. IT,, on 1000
80. II. or more. AL Nero and Cone
pany, Laurel, Del Phone S7l1 or 410b
I6-l-26-tf
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
NEW INTERNATIONAL FARM

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE-SiX months
old, used on so acres land. Selling on
account of health as follows: One Su-
per NJ Farmall hydraulic tractor, 2
tenders; 1 HM $50 hydraulic cultiva-
tors with 2 hillers; one 90-peg tooth
harrow, three sections; one special
built wagon, steel frame on rubber,
with steel A. X g. 12' girders and
two 2" G" X e steel girders. ]. S.
Stackhouse, near Pennington. Phone
Harrington 408. S8-1-I5-tf
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26
BUNGALOW FOR SALE =. i'm

III ANUhAVW EUh OAAE . III
excellent condition, consisting of three
bedrooms, living room, dining room,
den, kitchen, bath room, powder
room and fun basement. Fully insu-
lated, storm windows, screens, Vene-
tian blinds, automatic oil heat and
televis on antenna, has two car gar
age and located on lot IS it. 125 it.,
and we'll handicapped. Shown by ap-
pOintment only. Phone Milford 53S2
H-52-2-26-1t
Milford chronicle., 1954-02-26

FOR SALE-S.5 cubic foot refriger-
ator, 1851 Frigidaire, beautiful. like
new, $l85.00; Hot Point electric range,
large burner just replaced, good oven,
$500; 1887 Chrysler cut down to
truck has q ton rack, $4,000; Mont
gOmery Ward electric washer $500;
bucket day hot water heater, 500.
Mrs Alfred Love. Eiliendale, Del, r.
d. Phone Milford sS7s. 1<l-tf