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Evening star., 1954-05-15

QueStion-We are planning to
paint our living room and din
ing room. There is an archway
between the rooms and it was
suggested to us to paint the un-
derside of the archway q darker
shade Of the same color we use
on the walls. Is this a good idea?
Answer Unless you partic-
ularly want the archway between
the two rooms to stand out" ]
advise painting the underSide
the same shade and finish as
the walls.
Question Would you please
advise me as to fabrics and
colors for draperies. bedspread
and scatter rugs for my young
sons room. The room is fairly
small. The ceiling and wood
work are painted white, the wall
paper has a floral pattern II
royal blue. white and touches Of
red on a light blue background.
The bed and chest are light gray
and the linoleum floor covering
is also gray.
Answer - Washable fabrics
would be practical selections for
your sons room, such as white
sailcloth for the draperies, red
pinwale corduroy for the bed
spread and royal blue cotton
throw rugs.
Released BY Mcclure Newspaper
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Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Aug. IS 09 (usDAl.-
evenly 10-40 higher; mostly rs or more
up on light weights; sowS $500 HIGHER:
bulk choice 190-270 ID butchers, 23.25-
23.75: latter price for choice No. / and
rs o so 30 IL ID; most butchers 230.2!0
including IN, some lots around no ID 22.50-
-: choice 330-400 ID sows 1850
20.50; lighter weights 2o.75.21,25 or
slightly above; large lots 425-600 Id
salabie cattle $4,000: calves 400;
SLAUGHTER steers and heifers generally
steady to % higher; choice and prime
grades active: some sales prime steers
30 higher; other classes mostly steady;
bulk choice and prime steers 1880
$3.50; around 20 lots 1,125-1,425 10
1878 and 27.00; good to low choice
steers 20.00-23. 90; good to high choice
heifers 1S.50-23.25: load lots high
choice and prime 23.50-25 rs; utility
and commercial cows 10.00-l3O0; can
ners and cutters S.00-l0.5 utility and
commercial bulls l2.50-15. so: good and
choice vealers 19.00-22. 90; Gull to COM
mercial 12.00-1S.00.
Salable sheep, 1000; slow: slaughter
spring lambs unevenly steady to fully
90 or more lower and O stable pro-
portion Of supply still unsold; yearlings
and slaughter sheep about steady; good
to-, prime spring lambs 19.00-22. 90;
Gull to low good grades l2.00-1 500; a
load of choice and prime 1903 ID year.
lingS 1875; Gull to mostly good slauRh.
ter ewes 3.50-4. 30.
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New Best & Co. Brunch

Best & Co. will open its new
Arlington branch at Arlington
boulevard and South Glebe road
on Saturday. The white brick
building provides one-floor
store and parking facilities for
nearly 200 automobiles. Misses
fashions including nationally
known specialties and exclusives
will be carried, as well as. dis
tinctive boys and girls clothes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
By Hector McLeon

A century old commercial
idea, born in the depths of pow
erty among English flannel
weavers, has expanded suddenly
over the last few years in the
Washington area.
The idea is that of the "con-
sumner cooperative, " under which
consumers-of groceries, drugs,
gasoline and oil, of clothing or
any other product. including in
Surance and housing organize
to supply themselves with what
they want.
ALI told, such organizations
did nearly $13 million of BUSH
ness in the area in 1858.
Greenbelt Coop Grows.
In nearby Maryland, Green
belt Consumer Services, Inc, mas
grown in the last 10 years from
a membership of 1,400 to more
than $500: from annual sales of
slightly more than ST million in
1914 to $4.629,114 in 1853.
1t expanded outside the town
OF Greenbelt for the first time
nearly three years ago, opening
a Takoma Park branch with a
supermarket grocery and drug
variety store at New Hampshire
avenue and Ethan Allen road
(East-W West highway three
quarters of mile beyond the
District line. 1t later acquired
the adjacent gasoline service sta
ton.
Further expansion is in the
works, with another grocery
drug variety store and Service
station to be completed this
year in Wheaton on a four-acre
leased plot at Georgia avenue
and Viers Mill road.
Named for English City.
In nearby Virginia, the con-
sumers cooperative organiza-
ton is the Rochdale Co-opera-
tive of Virginia, Inc, named in
honor of the English textile city
where the cooperative move
ment started in 1874.
Its first store-the darlington
.supermarket-was opened in
1916 at the corner of Quaker
lane and Fern street in Alexan-
dria.
Annual sales grew from less
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| New Jersey Funds
| Paid Personal Bills,
| Witness Iesiifies
BY the Asseeiu,sd Press

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. H.
An employe Of the New Jersey
Division of Employment Security
yesterday testified he prepared
fictitious State purchase orders
to cover more than $500 in
home repairs, furniture moving,
liquor and personal expenses for
his superiorS.
The witness said he also pre-
pared three fictitious purchase
orders totaling 5000 to pay for
moving scenery of the Circus
Saints and Sinners Club of
America, Inc, in June, 1858. The
late Harold G. Hoffman, director
Of the Employment Security Di-
vision until his suspension March
Is, was president of the club.
Raymond Harrison. buyer
for the division. gave the day.
long testimony at a public hear
ing on executive charges against
two suspended aides of Hoffman
William s. Lutz. personnel and
fiscal chief of the division, and
Thomas B. Faherty, chief of the
divisions purchase and stores
section.
Harrison's testimony filled in
details on. charge that Lutz and
Faherty worked in collision with
others to set up a "slush fund
for Hoffman and others. The
charge, revealed yesterday, was
added to the original charges
filed by Gov. Meyner when he
suspended Lutz and Faherty
June Is.
The committee of businessmen
gave Gov. Meyner information
which led to Hoffman's suspen-
sion and the ensuing sensational
probe Of the late Governors af-
fairs.
Hoffman died June 4 and in an
open-after-death letter confessed
to embezzling $300,000 from the
South Amboy Trust Co. The
attorney generals Office has re-
leased evidence indicating Hoff-
man juggled SIC million in State
funds over 20-year period in an
apparent effort to cover the
defalcation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
Annapolis Water FIuorine
BY the As,eeio,.d Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. Is.
"A fluorine compound has been
mixed, with the Annapolis city
water for the past month without
any public reaction, Mayor
Arthur G. Ellington announced
yesterday.
Use of the compound was APP
proved by City Council several
months ago. and the health de-
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Consumer Co-ops in Area
Grow to $13MiIIion Business

than 100000 a year in 1916 to
$1,454.048 in 1858; membership
now is 1900.
Also expanding. Rochdale Of
Virginia has Just opened another
center-its second-with q SUI
permarket and service station in
Falls Church on West Broad
street between North Pennsyl-
vania avenue and North Lee
street.
District Has Coop, Too.
There also is a consumer coop
in Washington, Rochdale Co
operative, Inc, Of the District
Of Columbia, with a grocery
store in Georgetown at 1919
Wisconsin avenue NV, and q
service. station at Twenty-sixth
street and Virginia avenue NV.
Although it is the oldest of
the Washington area co-ops Git
was started in 1887 as a buying
club. it also Is the smallest,
with a membership of LOO and
gross sales in 1853 of $481 800.
Unlike the burgeoning subur-
ban organizations which have
benefited from the postwar surge
Of population out of the District,
development of supermarket-
type stores and the full Towering
of the automobile age-Rochdale
of the District has gone through
stormy financial weather.
Before World War II, it was
spread out through the District
in several little "hole in the wall"
grocery stores.
When its big chain store COM
petitorS began undermining and
expanding into Supermarket
operation after the war, Roch-
dale of the District could not
keep up, partly because of lack
of capital and partly because
each store had its own small
group of member patrons who
lived nearby. Therefore, it could
not concentrate its business cas-
lily.
Based on Buying Club Idea.
There are other co-ouerative
businesses in Washington, in
Guiding Group Health Associa-
ton, Inc; three Farm Bureau
Mutual insurance companies;
Bannockburn Co-operators, Inc,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
Foreign Exchange

exchange rates follow, Great Britain in
dollars, others in cents (unchaneed UNI
less otherwise noted;
Canadian cans dollar in New York open
103.31h U. S. cents up lI32.
Europe: Great Britain pound,
S2.S1ss, of 70; .30-day futures 2Slss.
of "a; 60-day futures ASIA, of Va;
90-day futures 2.S1ss. OF u; Belgium
franc) 2.00M, UP .O0ls; France 0ranc)
.2Sss Of a cent; Germany (Westernj
26.42. up 001a; Italy diral .16ls Of
cent; Portugal tescudo) 800; Sweden
tkronal 1924 Switzerland (franoD
(free) 1888; Denmark (kronel 1850.
Latin America: Argentina Hree) 7.24:
Brazil tfreel 1855; Mexico 500; Vene-
Zuela lbolivarl BOOB
Far East. Hong kong dollar 17.5b
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
New York Produce

Butter steady to firm. Receipts 7sg, fa2,
Wholesale prices on bulk cartons fresh) i,
Creamery SO score tAA). 5Sh-5Ssl
cents, 92 score (Al 55e.-5s, 90 score tBl
Cheese steady prices unchanged. Re-
Wholesale egg prices unsettled. Re-
New York spot quotations follow;
Midwestern: Mixed colors: Extras (4S-50
43.431a extras medium 34-34h; stand
ard large $40; dirties 26-27: checks
2dh-25h. Whites: Extras t4s-5Q lbs)
46ha-4S; extras large t45-4S lbs) 1916;
$3.50 lbs) 47-4s; extras large (45-4s
Nearby: Whites: Top quality $3.50
24h.25: peewees 17-1s. Browns: Top
quality t4S.50) $3.50; mediums 37-3S:
smalls 27-27Ia; peewees 16-1sh.
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olnclalS said. 1t will have q chill.
dren's barber shop.
lBA Moves Here
Headquarters of the Invest
ment Bankers Association OF
America, moved here from
Chicago. has been opened in the
new Pennsylvania Building,
Thirteenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV Murray
Hanson. the associations general
counsel, is managing director Of
the new headquarters. The
local staff consists of Is mem
bers. The association desired
to be near the Securities g. Ex-
change Commission and other
Government agencies and this
was a factor in the shift from
Chicago, officials said.
President Thomas j. Groom
Of the Bank of Commerce and
Savings announced the board of
directors elected Louis o. Hodges,
jr.. as an assistant vice president.
He graduated from George
Washington University in 1880
in law, practiced law from $780,
38, joined the staff of the Morris
Plan Bank of Washington then.
He joined the Bank of Commerce
and Savings as an assistant
cashier in January Of this year.
New Mountaineering Drink
Tap-a Cola, a new non-fatten-
ing cola drink in cans, is being
introduced to the Washington
and Maryland markets. officials
of the Pabst Brewing Co. an
nounced. Good Bros, Inc. 1901
Thirty-seventh place, Brentwood.
Md, will be the distributors.
officials said the new drink con-
tains only three calories in q
12-ounce can, containing SUI
caryl, a mountaineering sweetener
used in many low-calorie food
products instead of sugar.
Traffic Congestion Costly
Washington's traffic problem
could be solved if money lost due
to traffic congestion could be;
used for street modernization and
parking facilities w. B. Benson.
vice president of Universal CIT.
Credit Corp, automobile finan-
cling firm, declared. He said the
city is losing tax revenues be-
cause of the traffic congestion.
He commended business is losing
retail sales and entertainment
spending due to lack of sufficient
parking space. !"
The Atomic Development Mu-
tual Fund. Inc. has voted a di-
vidend of 4 cents share, payable
September 20 to purchasers of
shares by the close of business
August 81.
John P. Gallagher of CAL
lagher's Laundry and Cleaning
Co. here, has been elected ma
tional president of the Alumni
Society of the National Institute
of Dry Cleaning, Silver Spring,
Md.
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ager of the
H y a t t S v lille
Agency. At
the same time
he said Her.
bert r. Frank
lin has been
advanced to
division sup
erintendent of
agents, relin-
gushing his
H y a t t S vile
post.
Mr.. Frank
lin has man
AGED the Hu-
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aCCSVllle agency since January
1858. Previously he managed
the Annapolis agency, under
the Baltimore district. He Joined
the Washington agency as ar
agent in 1881. He is a member
OF the Hyattsville Baptist
Church, Lions Club and the
University Park Citizens AS
ISOLATION. He is a World War II
Army veteran and served over
seas.
The new Hyattsville manager
Mr.. Bair, joined Peoples in Au-
gust, 1880, here as an agent. He
was in the Navy 1925, served
the company later at Annapolis
and went to the Hyattsville
agency in January, 1858. He
is a member of the Baptist
Church, American Legion Post
No. 108, and Cheyerly Mems
Club.
The seventh annual Office
Management Training Confer
ence will be held at the Univer-
sity of Maryland November IL
IS. The National Office Manage
ment Association and the De-
partment of Office Techniques
and Management of the Uni
versity's College of Business and
Public Administration are CO.
operating in the ,ropram
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18

N a tional
Bank, as Gus
todian. h a S
reach e d So
m fllion in
business.
This W a S
q n nou need
t o d a y b y
C h arle S r.
C o n n oily
p r e S i d e n t,
C al Re-
serve Corp,
1346 Connec-
ticut avenue
At VIZ -, l.;nh
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Causes No Complaints

partment went ahead with the
operation.
Mr.. Ellington said it was not
announced before since the city
wanted to see If there was any
reaction. There have been none.
he said.
Fluorine is a compound which
many agencies have approved as
an aid in helping prevent tooth
decay,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
BY WILTON A. MilIen

The Potomac Plan for invest
ors making monthly purchases
of Potomac Electric Power COM
mon stock through the Hamilton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18
So Million Pepco Investments
Reported Under Potomac Plan

officials said. It will have q chill.
dren's barber shop.
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w. l. Boir Promoted

President S. w. Hauser,
Peoples Life Insurance Co.. 1343
H street NV, today announced
promotion Of w. L. Bair to man
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is sponsoring the program.
Mr.. Connolly made public OPP
erations for the past fiscal year
showing investment plans
reached an all-time high of ST.
| SAC, 900, up sos. 800 or so per
cent. A year earlier, the figure
was $1,236.800 He said total
commitments since the plan
started operations are now suf-
ficient to underwrite 100, 900
shares.
The 1854 prospectus of Capital
Reserve shows on April 80 Ham
ilton held 40,209 shares of Pepco
for hundreds of participants.
These had market value then
Of $756,299, up $282,617, or 80
per cent over the prior year, Mr..
Connolly pointed out.
40, 600 Shares Held
"This holding of over 10000
shares is understood to rank
among the largest in existence, +"
declared Mr.. Connolly.
Under the plan, Hamilton re-
ceives and receipts for all funds,
deducts expenses and invests the
balances in Pepco. It also coll
lects and reinvests dividends,
does the accounting, reports
progress of individual accounts
and holds the accumulated
shares in its trust department
for the five-year period of a
plan, Mr.. Connolly explained.
Dividends reinvested by Ham
ilton for participants during the
year totaled 32.485, up $10,874,
or Ga per cent, Mr.. Connolly
declared.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-10

IN the nature of an inventory ad.
Justment." Put more bluntly, once
again Americas power to produce
outstripped the purchasing power
of the American people.
The lag in purchasing power is
fully documented in the Report.
While the cost of living "inched
a little higher" the income OF
farmers declined.
While the cost of living "inched
little higher" wage increases in
manufacturing were less than they
had been under the wage control
program of the government de.
spite the fact that the gross an
nual product of the nation was in
creasing about 81 per cent and
production in manufacturing rose
some 8 per cent. To quote the Re-
port:
However, the monthly rate of
increase in average hourly earn
lngs for factory workers (exclud-
ing premium pay for overtimel
during the period from INDIAN
uary, 1853, to the end of the year
was somewhat below that during
the period of controls and was less
than half the monthly rate of in
crease during the second half of
1850, before controls were i'm
posed"
Certainly this is not the result
expected to stem from the benefits
of ending the dead hand of gov
eminent controls.
But the result of freedom as re-
Elected in corporate profits was
quite the reverse. Unlike wages
before-taxes, profits before-taxes
have reached an all-time high since
the abolition of controls. The rates
of profits for the first three
quarters of 1853 were higher than
the peak profits of World War
II by very substantial amount.
The peak in profits was reached in
194S when the then all-time high
of S25 billion was attained. A new
alltime high record was made in
1853 when profits accrued at an
annual rate of roughly $45 bill
lions. Even the slight "contrac-
ton" of the fourth quarter will
not endanger the record for profits
set up during 1853.
Yet, in his letter of transmittal
to Congress, the President con-
cludes that the Slight contraction"
was "due mainly to a decline in
spending by business for additions
to inventory"
Emphasis added.)
This definition of what caused
the downtrend - from the view
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unless the government is pre-
pared and willing to use its vast
powers to help maintain employ
ment and purchasing power, even
a minor readjustment may be con-
verified into q spiraling contrac-
ton"
With this declaration as the
measuring rod, let US review the
Report both as to what happened in
1858 and what the proposals of the
Administration are. Do the pro-
posals actually demonstrate that
the government is prepared and
willing to use its vast powers to
maintain employment and purchas-
ing power?
According to the Report, "Per-
haps never before in their history
have the American people come
closer to realizing the ideal of
high and expanding employment,
without price initiation, than in
1883" Unfortunately, however,
this ideal" was not actually reach
ed because the nation suffered
from what the Report calls "the
minor contraction of ecent
months"
Specifically, what happened in
the course of this "minor contrac-
ton" - according to the Report
was that farm income continued
to shrink, stock prices began drift
ing down, the average length of
the workweek in manufacturing
started to decline, orders for dur
able goods declined, retail trade
failed to expand, consumer debt
continued to rise, inventories also
continued TO rise, interest rates
rose to an accelerated rate, and by
December unemployment had risen
to 1.8 million.
Nevertheless the Report excludes
confidence and predicts:
"Our economy is highly prosper
Gus, and enjoys great basic
strength. The minor read
justment under way since mid
1853 is likely soon to come to a
close, especially if the recommends
tions of the Administration are
adopted"
Before presenting the recommen-
dations of the Administration for
correcting the downtrend of the
economy, it is worthwhile to no.
tice just what it believes was the
cause of "the minor contraction of
recent months"
According to the Report, "the
immediate cause of the contraction
was an imbalance between produc-
ton and sales that developed earl
Ter in the year.; in other words,
"the contraction since last June
or July has thus far been largely
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of hardship or difficulty"
"Still another condition of eco
nomic progress in our times is a
floor of security for the individual
and it is incumbent on government
to help to establish it."
"It must also be recognized that,
while it is desirable to bring down
the scale of government, our society
has become so complicated that,
quite apart from large and contin-
uing needs for defense, the gov
eminent now properly assumes OBJ
legations unknown to earlier gen.
erations."
But the program arising from
the same Report bears no discerni-
BILE relation to these vigorous de-
descriptions of government. In
stead, it appears that the Admins
tration does not wish to breast
the economic tides which are now
running against the nation but is
satisfied with a cautious wetting
of toe at the waters edge.
Faced with the problem of great
unsold Inventories" the Admins
tration proposes policies designed
TO increase the production of more
inventories" The incentives of
producers are to be stimulated,
not the ability of consumers to buy
the inventories which allegedly
Caused" the adjustment"
Faced with the fact that wage
increases have been insufficient
to place adequate consuming pow
er in the hands of wage-earners,
the Administration refuses to raise
even minimum wages. Faced with
rising unemployment, the Admin
istration decides to STUDY" the
planning of public works but not
to make use of plans now ready.
This timidity in connection with
a public works program demon
strates wildly the split-personality
illness of the Administration.
For example, in the Report there
is the frank admission that:
"A growing economy brings new
needs for building and engineering
projects that clearly lie outside
the realm of private enterprise"
within limits, expenditures for
public works can be timed to
serve the interests of stability"
"The backlog of desirable fed
eral, state and local public works
is counted in tens Of billions of
dollars"
although the rate of public con-
struction has been rising signific-
antly in recent years, it is much
smaller than what is needed !"
to eliminate within, say, the next
decade the accumulated need for
extensions or improvements of
highways, schools, hospitals, sew
er and water facilities, parks, for
ests and other elements of tn
public estate"
But no policy designed ITO serve
the interests of stability" is sug-
gested.
1t most certainly seems that the
requirements of prudence would
dictate that in uncertain times
ench &C thaso Uoruirc holiness
would set into motion a public
works program. Certainly this does
not mean a program measured in
terms of tens of billion of dollars.
Rather it does mean the expendi-
ture of funds in the nature Of
premium payment on insurance
against the risk that the current
contraction" may become full
blown recession or depression, as
the Council Of Economic Advisers