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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
By Frederick Brown Harris
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kingdom Of God has come to the door"
The plain inference was that unless
there was a welcome from within their
mission ended at the doormat. No
preacher Of today can do more. He can
only 60 as far as the door. All he can
do Is to give the highest voice to
proclaim and hand to knock. He
cannot give his message hearing. The
prophets in all realms are faced by that
same limitation.
One of the poets speaks of the tragedy
of natures beauty knocking on the
heart in vain. And so it Is with music
and painting. with all art. and with
poetry which waits with closed door
until the latchstring Of appreciation.
understanding and responsiveness is
released from the inside. Gracious
Transforming and enriching ministries
are always at the door asking of US
only welcome. Beethoven symphonies.
Shakespeake's sonnets, flowers in woods
and meadows and gardens, and Christ.
with all His power to lift. seek a hos
pitality that so often is not evident
amid the din Of temporal, ephemeral
things as the door remains closed.
4
The knocking Of the priceless never
is loud or boisterous. Noisy propaganda
and the worlds uproar so often drown
out the call Of the things that matter
most. Alas, that the lowest is so often
the loudest! Sometimes the highest is
disdained and left outside because
something sinister. alien to the atti-
tudes and standards of the spirit of
the Great Master Of abundant life, is
entrenched in tyranny inside. For in
stance, John the beloved opened the
Jesus, and that life became as the gar
den of the Lord which is the fragrance
Of Love Divine in whose heavenly
aroma the ages have reveled.
But the head of the church in that
day. the archbishop, called the high
priest, had no hospitality for Jesus and
all for which He stood. For to him
religion was a selfish racket. Here is
the verdict: "CaiaphaS. the shrewd,
cagey old ecclesiastic, stereotyped and
Grabbed, had nothing in common with
the Young Prince of Glory whose re-
ligion was as fresh as the flowers on
the Galilean hillsides and whose good
will was as spontaneous as the affec-
ton of the children whom He loved"
What would he have done If he had
opened his hearts door and found
Jesus standing there: Jesus had Moth
ing he wanted.
The high priest locked Jesus out.
John the apostle let Him in. The diff
ference between the two is q tale Of
locks and latchstrings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Bonn and the Paris Accords

BY an overwhelming vote Of approval
in the BundeSrat-the upper house of the
Bonn Parliament-free Germany has now
completed its ratification of the Paris &C
cords in way that should spur the French
Senate into doing the same thing, in the
same emphatic spirit, without further delay.
AS far as the West Germans are con-
cerned, the Bundesrat's decision means that
they have firmly and unequivocally commit
ted themselves to contribute their fair share
to the defense of free Europe against the
continuing and undiminiShed threat of Red
aggression And they will do so assuming,
of course, that there are no last-minute
bitches in France) as sovereign and equal
members of the projected Western European
Union, which will operate within the larger
framework of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
This final act Of parliamentary affirma-
ton at Bonn represents great personal
triumph for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
who has rightly declared that it signalizes
the 'wiping out" Of the ten-year- Yalta-
Potsdam provisions that have kept free
Germany in an occupied nonsovereign and
disarmed status up to now. The French
Senate-the Council of the Republic-will
insure the completion of this historic change
when it votes next week, as expected, to
follow the lead of the National Assembly in
approving the Paris accords. After that,
there will be similar action by the few other
signatory powers that have yet to finish
the ratifying process.
Accordingly, barring some unanticipated
upset in the French Senate, the way will
soon be open to begin arming West Germany
within the control and command structures
OF the WEU and NATO. And this arming,
in turn, will equip the Germans, as partners
in the Atlantic alliance, with a 50,000-man
navy of small high-speed vessels, an $4,000
man air force of 300 bombers and fighters,
and 500,000-man army of six motorized
divisions, four tank divisions and two
mechanical infantry divisions.
A lot of time will be required, of course,
to make an effective operating reality of
these forces. But the prospect looks bright
for an early start on organizing them, and
as soon as that start is made-which should
be in the very near future-free Germany
and the Atlantic community as whole
will be well on their way toward acquiring
truly formidable new measure of defensive
power against the Soviet menace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20

In the highest realms 1t is an ex-
orable law that the door must be opened
from the inside. The riches of art and
literature never can be forced on any
body. And. surely, that is supremely
true on spiritual levels. Holman Hunt.
in his famous picture of Christ at the
Door, had no latch to be manipulated
from the outside. When his attention
was called to the omission he replied
that it was done purposely; that the
human heart never could be opened ex-
cept from the inside. That fundamental
fact is back Of the comment Of one
of the Goth century's keenest students
of the Masters ministry: "The crucial
difficulty of His life, which denied Him
the service he longed to render. closed
to Him the hearts He yearned to
change and brought Him at last to
Calvary, was something so simple, so
familiar and so little recognized as a
tragic evil--inhospitality to the truth
He brought" That was what blocked
His blessings.
Regarding Mans Best Man, Loves
Best Love, there is no statement more
freighted with meaning than the New
Testament saying: ITO as many as re-
ceived Him. to them gave He power
power to live His radiant life, power to
conquer, power to endure, power by
faith to remove mountains. But always
this power must be desired. eff any
man will open the door, will come in"
is the astounding promise.
Some one has said pertinently, Gin
hospitality was the central tragedy in
the life of Jesus" who came unto His
own and His own received Him not. He
stood at the closed door of His nation,
at the door of the church, at the door
of individual lives, and they opened not.
Even when He sent out His disciples two
by two with their message of life and
light He instructed them to say: The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Playing Politics With Safety

Evidence that Washington's serious air
port problem has become political football
continues to mount. First, there was the
amazing memorandum to the President by
cabinet committee, Surrendering to po-
Ltical preSSureS in behalf of use of Balti-
more's Friendship Airport as an alternate
Washington terminal. The same memo
randum, in effect, bowed to similar pres
sureS from Virginia against an airport at
Burke. Now comes Maryland's Senator But
Ter with demand that the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board compel the airlines to use Friend
ship as "coternlinal" for Washington pas
sengers.
No CAB order is necessary, of course,
to make Washington bound airliners land
at Friendship in emergencies caused by bad
weather or other conditions. What the
Maryland proponents of Friendship want is
a Federal requirement that the airlines
schedule regular flights to Friendship to
relieve congestion at the National Airport.
The CAB might be able to compel the air
lines to land and take off at Friendship, but
there is no law under which it could compel
Washington-bound passengers to use such
planes. And the prospect of a 45-minute
taxicab ride from Friendship to Washington
at the end of a flight is not apt to appeal
to many passengers. Nor are outward
bound local passengers likely to book pas
sage on a line that requires them to ride
the first 80 miles (from downtown Wash
ington) by automobile.
Senator Butler told airline representa-
tives at conference that if any stacking"
accidents occur at National Airport because
Of their reluctance to use Friendship as
coterminal "the airlines are going to have
to explain to the public" The Star believes
that those who have used political pressures
to block the building of an adequate auxil-
larry airport in the Washington area, Senator
Butler included, will have some explaining
to do. also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Remove the Stroitjocket

Attorney General Brownell chose good
time and place to make his latest comments
on wire tapping. New York City has been
aroused by disclosures of widespread caves
dropping on telephone lines by nonofficial
investigators. A grand jury inquiry is in
progress. MIR. Brownell's proposal that wire
tapping be outlawed except when authorized
in certain major crimes attracted more than
ordinary interest. That is encouraging, for
the efforts Of the Department of Justice in
the past to gain public support for controlled
Federal wire tapping, with permission to
use the evidence in court, have been of little
avail.
New York City has had taste of the
dirty business" of indiscriminate wire tap
ping. But, as the Attorney General told the
New York Patent Law Association, properly
regulated wire tapping has place in law
enforcement. Certainly it is absurd to give
spies, saboteurs and kidnapers free use of
wire communications, secure in the knowl-
edge that no information obtained by listen
ing in can be used against them in Federal
courts Under present law the Government
is foreclosed from using wire-tap evidence
to convict known enemies of the country.
Thus, as Mr.. Brownell said, congressional
reluctance to change the law along common
sense lines leaves Government prosecutors
in a "straitjacket" as far as intercepted
communications are concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Confidence in the Economy

President Eisenhower and Secretary Of
the Treasury Humphrey are on thoroughly
sound ground in emphasizing that conf
dence is an essential element In promoting
an expanding economy for our country
They are equally correct in suggesting that
any official action that may have an impact
upon this element of confidence should be
undertaken with caution; that there should,
In other words, be a sense of responsibility
for the national interest that transcends
partisan politics.
In each case, their comment has been
made in connection with the present in
quiry by the Senate Banking Committee into
the operations of the security markets. aThe
President, at press conference, added that
he knew of nothing in the inquiry thus far
that violated this need for caution. MIR.
Humphrey, in referring to the subtle nature
Of public confidence, said he did not know
whether some Of the speculation about
whether Government agencies should take
further action to curb trading in securities
might have "some effect on public morale"
At the same time, the Secretary welcomed
the inquiry as IAN opportunity for increased
public understanding of the market and its
functions (and) an opportunity to define
more clearly the Governments place in
relation to the stock markets operations"
Chairman Fulbright of the Senate COM
mittee has described the inquiry as a
friendly study" to determine whether the
markets are operating properly in the ma
tional interest. There has been no reason
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Cross in the Window

Why shouldn't we ask each Christian
family to put cross in the window dur
ing Holy Week or at least on Good
Friday?
Let's make the cross symbol of
Easter as the tree and the star are SYM
bols of Christmas. The cross belongs to
all Christians. We mus be "Christ's
living ambassadors and spiritual inter-
prefers" The cross in the window may
be one way of getting people to think of
lts meaning. Mrs. r. Y. Nicholson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Digs Those Crozy Toxes

Tax officials in and around the
metropolitan Area are either losing their
minds or are so incapable of under
standing their duties and responsible
ties in Government management that
it would be apropos to label their next
tax proposals as insane taxation"
Arlingt0nian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Forgotten Widows

Though receiving little publicity, it
is heartening to note that at least a
few of our congressman are at last
awakening to the needs Of the "for-
gotten" widows of Government en-
ployes who died prior to February %.
1913, and would favor granting them
the same annuities provided for widows
Of retired Federal workers who have
died since 1948. Many of these en-
ployes served Uncle Sam long and
faithfully on inadequate salaries, their
wives standing beside them, struggling
to make ends meet.
Let us hope that we may receive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
About Time

About Time
Once again we are fast approaching
the time when our clocks will be set
ahead for one hour. Heretofore, with
the first notice regarding Daylight
Savings Time" there have been many
dissenters voicing their dislike to the
change. Somehow this name carries
with it memories of many sorrows and
worries Of the last. war. Now, we are at
least temporarily at peace: and peace
Of mind in the individual may help
bring peace of mind to our country.
Can we not get away from the harsh
sound land connections it brings to
mind of the words, Daylight Savings
Time?"
Why not call it Freedom Time? I
think it might, unconsciously, make us
a little more proud of living in this
freedom loving country Of ours. Here
we are free to choose whether we shall
have the set-up time: to use 1t as we
WISH in work or play; to attend relig-
ious services at this time should we
desire; or free to travel without ques-
ton or permit. Cecilia b. Pooh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20

Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carry
Driters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20

some favorable recognition before all
purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Letters to The Star.

thing except for success in college or
for controlled living. The high-school
student comes out of school with a
worthless diploma, no real knowledge,
a set of false values, and belief that
life will continue to offer him, or her.
something for nothing. A rude awaken
ing-life. High School Teacher.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Twinbrook's Pool Ru ming Out
OF Money, Swimmers Discover

this area in order to achieve
maximum participation in the
drive now being conducted.
We have been most unhappy
to hear that two of our most
active citizens have been hos.
pitaliZed this last week. We
honestly believed Trudy Morse
was indestructible, and we Ger.
tainly hope she'll bounce back
quickly.
AS for Kate Dudley's misfor.
tune, it's time to demand a re-
count, no one could be thrown
for so many losses in one year
in a fair game.
Last Friday evening, the
Crusader Lutheran Church was
the scene of a gala Halloween
party for the members of the
Mission Band. The group was
divided into six to eight year-olds
and nine to II year-olds, for
games and costume contests.
Refreshments were served by
the ladies sponsoring the party:
Mary Miller, Laura Zimmerman.
Pearl KoontZ, June Manuel and
Alma Hansen.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Police Vehicles
Get Banged Up
In Line of Duty

It's been a bad week for Coun.
ty Police Department vehicles.
Saturday night cruiser slam
med into the gate at Walter Reed
Army Hospital and was damaged
$3.50 worth. Tuesday a motor
cycle threw its officer and cost
$40 to repair.
Officer George Fusco escaped
serious injury when cruiser No.
II hit the hospital gate, climax
ing go mile-an-hour chase of an
elusive "old Ford. Officer
Fusco began chasing the auto
mobile after it Traced" a station
wagon from stop light at Geor-
gia and Bonifant in Silver
Spring.
Pvt. James Lawrence was fol-
lowing car on Route 24O near
the P. ]. Nee furniture store
south of Rockville when his
motorcycle hit large some. The
policeman suffered face cuts but
required no disqualification.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
First in Series
OF CD Panels
Set Wednesday

Montgomery, Prince Georges,
Northern Virginia and D. C..
sections of the National Council
of Jewish women are sponsoring
four Civil Defense panel work
shops, open to the public. The
first workshop at the District of
Columbia CD office, 1920 Howard
Street, NV, from l to 3 pm.
Wednesday will take up the
nature of the CD problem.
Panel members will be Justin
Chambers, former FCDA execu.
tive administrative assistant and
presently a member of the Mont
gomery County CD advisory
committee to the County Council
who will outline the nature of the
A and H-bomb threat; R. Schaef-
fer, former Red Cross Service
director, who will lead the discus.
sion on the role of CD in natural
disaster; George Quincy, former
ly FCDA shelter consultant and
now on the staff of the office
of Defense Mobilization. will
chairman a discussion on Shelter
and how much protection is
necessary for survival; George
Rothrock, former District of Co
lumbia shelter engineer and at
the present time evacuation plan
ner with FCDA, will lead the
panel on evacuation - where to
and how"
The workshop panels will dis
cuss on December IA the Federal
and local responsibility for CD
and the possible legislation based
on hearing of the Kefauver sub
committee; on January II, the
Washington area situation and
what individuals can do now; on
February 8, Civil Defense in the
schools.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

held at the Episcopal Church last
Friday. The pack welcomed
three new Bobcats, Tom Dunlea
Billy Linton and Albert Carballo
Five other boys joined the pack
Billy Day came from out OF
town and Bruce Ide, Robert COT
fey, John Rousch and Brian Free
man are Twinbrook boys who
had Joined packs in other parts
of the city until opening occurred
here.
Charles A. Earnest and Jerry
Oyama won their Wolf badges,
and Pat 500 and Billy Murphy
became Bears. Henry Richards
stepped up to the rank of Lion.
Now that Halloween is over,
the school children are rushing
into their next field of emphasis,
Thanksgiving and h e early
settlers. Said Bobby Garel, II
must have a book on the early
settlers.
Said his mother, "I'll help you
find one. Do you know who the
early settlers were?" Said Bobby,
"Of course, Adam and Eve"
The Homemakers III Club met
last Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Tom Collins on Vandergrift Ave
nue.. Mrs. Glenn Tarenteau, Mrs.
Dan Durham and Mrs. Russell
Stems were co-hostesses for the
evening.
They provided Halloween de.
corationS and refreshments,
which were enjoyed by a record
turnout of "a members.
Mrs. Mickey 500 (our Brownie
LEADER gave a demonstration on
the preparation of fancy sand.
wiches and Mrs. George Pitten.
ger spoke on methods of protect
ing the consumer. The group also
voted to take on the job of dis
tributing the TB x-ray flyers in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Page s
By Helen Settler
Pc. 2.4I91

Rex Wood has done it again
scared the daylights out of many
an unsuspecting passerby on Hal
lowe'en!
A "bodiless horseman" stand
ing in bush near the Woods
sidewalk sent cold chills up the
spineS of all those who ventured
by. 1t was not only the sight of
this blinking apparition but its
"spooky' voice which had every
one baffled.
Rex had some sly way of
knowing when someone was right
beside "the" bush. At the psyche
logical moment from inside the
house he would light up a pump,
kin head suspended in mid-air in
the bush and say sudden boo"
from a concealed speaker.
With his typical dry sense of
humor, Rex told your reporter he
intended going out Immediately
after each trick" and treat him
self to the trick or treat goodies
dropped by his terrified victims"
Isn't it fun to have neighbor
who plays PUCK" on Halloween?
Each year Rex comes up with a
more unusual Halloween prank.
Halloween was celebrated for
another reason by Mrs. Ray
Keto of Dean Drive and her
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Notice of
Ordinance Abortion

Notice is hereby given that the
County Council for Montgomery
County, Maryland, has adopted
Ordinance No. 1858, which revis-
es Section % of the Temporary
Zoning Ordinance for the Upper
Montgomery County Planning
District by providing that the
Ordinance shall become effective
on January 10, 1856.
Copies of this Ordinance may
be obtained in Room 615 in the
County Office Building, Rock
vile, Maryland.
WILLIAM B. MCKINNEY,
Clerk County Council for
Montgomery County, Md.
SIG
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

Virginia Dietz were the clever
ones for the nine to II group
For the oldsters over II, Betty
Wilson, Peggy Gould, Susan Pet
RE, Edward Duvall and Carolyn
King won titles as Damascus
fairest. Funny bones were tickled
by Linda Pruitt, Doris Hawkins.
Virginia Dietz (mother of the
other Virginia Dietz), Kenny
Pruitt and Goldie Burdette.
Jeanette Burke and Barbara
Cashell, Patricia Disch, Patrick
Duvall, Druid and Bobby Clod.
felter and Nellie Lynch had the
most unique costumes for the
group.
GaitherSburg awarded prizes
for the prettiest, ugliest, fun.
NEST, most original and in few
cases most cute, in four age
groups.
Four-to-eight: prettiest, Bonnie
Sacco; ugliest, Mike, Earl and
Pat Bitely; original, Bruce Mar
chu; funniest, Terry and Kathy
Boland; and most cute, Richard
Hagan and Richie Sacco.
Nine-to-12: prettiest, Jackie
Reber; ugliest, Bobbie Barber;
original; Patricia Marchu and
INFANCY Bradley; funniest, Mar
tin Yankee; and most cute, Allan
Thompson.
Thirteen-to-20: prettiest, Shir.
ley Repass, Rose and Jean Bur
roughs; ugliest, Bobbie Gartner;
original, Martha Keph\~t; and
cute, Nancy King.
Adults: ugliest, Norma Hand,
Edith Cross, Theo Nettles and
Mary Jane Repass; original,
Irene Kreger, Louise Wolfe, Mar.
tina Doody; funniest, Jack Sim
mons and Lavonne Benson Sim.
mons.
Among the % winners at the
Gaithersburg Firemen'S Dance
last Saturday were Mrs. James
Federline, most appropriate; Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Magruder, sec.
ond most appropriate; Mrs.
Janita Beach, prettiest; Norman
erosion, most repulsive; and
Mrs. Pauline Kinder and daugh.
ter, most original.
Carroll Kearns, Rockville. foot.
ball coach at Gaithersburg, won
the TV set door prize; Norman
Jacobs, ST., the toaster; and AL.
ger Barbee, the steam iron.