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Subway for Defense

Washington is faced with two major
problems. both of personal concern to
the citizens and both interrelated. Upon
the solution of one hangs the existence
of the citizen and with the resolution
of the other contribution Is made
toward the resolution of the more vital
business of preservation
The interrelated problems are civil
defense and rapid mass transportation.
Present thinking calls for mass eyac-
uation of cities in the event of attack,
providing sufficient time is available in
which 1t can be accomplished. Since
the time factor is incalculable, this plan
seems to guarantee the highest, but far
from the absolute, rate of survival.
To accomplish any mass evacuation
requires. in addition to sufficient warn
ing time, adequate rapid transit facili-
ties, which Washington does not now
possess. -+.-- ....
A mass flight of Washington area
residents, in fear of their lives, frightens
me almost as much as the lethality of
the weapons which might be the cause
of the fight. Under present conditions,
such frantic exodus could result only
in CLOTHING of traffic arteries, which
inevitably would produce fatal paralysis.
Two inches of snow on Friday after
noon or a Sunday afternoon drive on
warm spring day is adequate proof of
this statement.
To prevent citizens in fear Of their
lives from attempting flight in private
conveyances would require enforcement
f0rcnS 0f innstimahla size wl1ich will
more than likely be impossible to mus
ter, be swamped in an effort to control
vandals and looters, which panic and
disaster always unleash, or be engaged
in essential rescue and survival at
tempts.
A possible solution to this problem
lies in the development of an under
ground rapid transit system. which
would, if buried at sufficient depth, pro-
vide cover and the essential three feet of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-27

Leagues Under the Sea" and other
Verne classics still are popular-for the
same reason.
Horrible crimes were no less COM
mon half century ago than they are
now. The Star for March
Children Is, 1905, reported THE
Murdered body Of Mary Deluka a
4-year-old italian child,
was found last night in blacksmith
shop at Dyers stone quarry at Howell
vile, Chester County, Pa, about 20
miles from Philadelphia. Beside the
body was found the 7-year- old brother
of the girl, Dominik, who was uncon-
scious from injuries he had received
-. It is supposed that the boy received
his injuries while attempting to defend
his sister Dominik is in the West
Chester Hospital in a dying condition
A posse is searching for the murderer"
On March 16. 1905, The Star announced
that the boy had died without recover
ing consciousness.
A meeting Of the Potomac Literary
Club at the home Of Miss Mary c.
81 Bennett. 218 A street
Potomac Sc, was reported
Literary Club in The Star for
80 March Is, 1905.
Maj. James Albert Clark, Silas Boyce
and S. H. Hall discussed "a Plea for
Emersonian Idealism," and Julia Mae
del and Elsie Fouts played a piano
duet. Grand Waltz de Concert"
Among those present were Mrs. M. J.
Arnold, Alice Brown, Mabel Ellis, Elsie
Gleason. Mrs. w. w. Baker. Amelia c.
Boynton. c. B. Ganse. Mrs. Maria
Stievlin, Mrs. j. L. McCreery, Ida M.
Horton, Z. B. Thompson. e. w. Weaver,
c. p. Peabody and Adolph Armands.
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BY Frederick Brown Harris
Minister. Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain United States Senate.

ion. It is place to bow in humility
and contrition, place to kneel If one
desires; an altar on which Is the
opened Book of Books. lamp for the
feet to all who will follow its kindly
light. Each one who crosses, that
threshold brings his own religious ira
dition as he gazes at the kneeling figure
of the father of his country, that VAL
liant. reyerent leader, still first in the
hearts Of his countrymen. lifting UP his
soul to the Father Of Lights. In the
pictured glass is proclaimed his faith.
in the words OF psalm he loved:
Preserve me. o Lord. for in Thee do
put my trust"
It is said by those who knew him
best that the great English statesman,
William E. Gladstone. in all his bril-
liant, strenuous legislative career in
Parliament spent some time each day
In a little nearby church, for season
of meditation and prayer. Who can
doubt that in such hours, snatched
from ruthless demands on time and
strength, was nourished the faith which
glowed undimmed even when his re-
form Bill was defeated? It was fresh
from a prayer room in that crisis that
he said to his gloating foes: "The great
social forces which move UPWARDS in
their might and majesty and which the
tumult of your debates does not i'm
pede or disturb-those great social
forces are against you. They are mar
shaled on our side" And time proved
that they were.
In that spirit and with that vision
splendid, who can doubt that Ameri-
can legislators. coming with their own
contemporary problems and gazing at
Washington praying when all seemed
lost and the dream Of American indie
pendence fading hope. will ind the
strength to struggle on in other dark
hours Of today and the tomorrows?
And so, with infinite satisfaction that
the altar is there and the prayer room
is there, under the dome, may 1t set
singing in millions Of approving. and
grateful hearts across all the land, as
they think Of their representatives en-
tering that chapel with sense Of utter:
dependence on the God who hath made
and preserved us q Nation.
"StDeet time of prayeri Sweet time OF
prayer! - e 81 O.
That calls US from aporld OF care 70
And bids US. at our Fathers throne, s
Make all our wants and a0iShes knoaUn, ,
In seasons OF distress and grief st
Our souls haze often found relief:
And oft escaped the tempter's snare,
By thy return. s1oeet time of prayer"
In the nearby chambers of legisla-
ton members may suggest the absence
Of a quorum. In the prayer room,
quorum is one-and God.
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Agony Of Modern Music

Congratulations to The Sunday Star
for presenting the commentary by Day
Thorpe on the recent book Of Henry
Peasants, 1.-THE Agony of Modern
Music" have read most of the Pleas
ants book, and am, in the main. in very
sincere emotional sympathy with its
general approach to the painful prob
lens Of so-called contemporary compo-
sition-problems indeed of discord, and
carefully calculated chaos.
Yet Mr.. Thorpe has, in a critical
analysis Of the Peasants thesis, laid
bare it's essential weaknesses in man
ner worthy of the best traditions of
criticism.
I still believe Mr.. Peasants to be
substantially correct in his evaluation
of the stuff that passes as modern"
music But do agree with Mr.. Thorpe
that Mr.. Peasants has not, in any ac-
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Peace Born of Panic

The British Labor Party appears to be
making a panicky effort to compose It's
internal troubles. BY 14-13 vote, the Ma
tional Executive Committee has offered to
Aneurin Bevan, whose defiance Of party
leadership created the current bitter divi-
sion, an opportunity to repent and to avoid
the threat of expulsion from party member
ship. A peace committee" was named to
left-wing Welshman.
The move u.s. in effect, reversal OF the
earlier narrowly divided vote by the par
lamentary Labor delegation to remove Mr..
Bevan from its ranks. It has happened,
apparently, because even the victorious
party leadership realizes in the face of its
small supporting majority that the issue
has split it's ranks deeply and dangerously.
There is serious question, however, whether
this belated about-face can undo the dam
age already inflicted, or lead to anything
more than an uneasy truce among the party
factions. More probably, it has led to crys-
utilization of third faction-a compromise
bloc that stands midway between Mr..
Bevan's extremist following and the rela-
lively conservative group that provided the
IS contemporaries votes in the Executive
Committee.
Whatever the next development may
be, the Labor Party's preoccupation with It's
internal differences has reduced It's effec-
tiveness as an opposition party in British
politics. Too much of its energy in recent
months has been directed at attempting to
tailor a policy that would suit all its own
divergent views. Observers of the British
political scene report Labor's support from
the independent voters at a postwar low,
almost certainly to be reflected in a general
election II one is called this year. 1t has
been, in sense, surrender of response
bility.
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Keep Them in Federal Hands

In its search for ways to ecenomize, 1t
As understandable that the Interior De-
partment would like to transfer to some
other Jurisdiction the responsibility
cost-of maintaining the new Washington
Baltimore parkway and the older Suitland
parkway. Neither road lies within Fed
eral park or connects with one. But the
departments willingness to give both park
ways to the State of Maryland is not so
understandable.
Interior representatives recently told
House Appropriations subcommittee that
the department has been considering offer
ing the parkwayS to Maryland because the
department does not regard them as prop
erly park roads" If Maryland does not
want them, the department would be glad
to let the Federal Bureau of Public Roads
have them Perhaps the latter agency is
better equipped to handle the parkways
than the Park Service. But it is important
to the future protection Of both highways
that Federal control be maintained.
Both parkways were built primarily to
serve as military roads in national emer-
gencies, the Suitland parkway connecting
Washington with Andrews Field and the
Baltimore parkway connecting the Capital
with Fort Meade. Furthermore, the Bal
timore parkway was specifically designed
by order of Congresses passenger
thoroughfare, except when required for mil
itary purposes. Maryland already has ig-
nored this concept on the State owned por-
ton of the expressway near Baltimore, per-
hitting heavy trucks to invade 1t as far as
the Federal section.
Even though the Federal part of the
road was not built for heavy truck traffic,
there would be no assurance that Maryland
would bar truck traffic from the Federal
segment once the State acquired control
of it. The risks of deterioration Of the
beautiful route are too great to justify seri-
Gus consideration by Congress of such
give-away of Federal property to Maryland.
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Old Schools

Your story on the dedication Of the
new Terrell Junior High School omitted
one important point. The old school
Terrible Terrell" built in 1890, is now
being used as an elementary school,
with an enrolment CAS- of September,
1854 of 1913 children. 'ns -
This is only one example Of the old
and inadequate buildings being used for
schools, with the public works program
providing little relief. "s'
-s. Anne Lerman.
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Plight ofWidows

read with interest Forgotten Wild
ow's" letter and hasten. to say How
true!" I, too am the widow of a
faithful servant of Uncle Sam. My hus-
band worked for the Government for
AZ years. He passed away in 1916.
During our married life we planned
and worked together to buy our home
and to save for the proverbial "rainy
day" His annuity was hardly adequate
by today's standards. and upon his
death it stopped. All I have now is
my home as security in my old age
I am now over 80 years old. so my
period of gainful employment is over.
Let us hope that Congress will remedy
this situation and care for these sen
Tor citizens" Surely this group is not
so large as to seriously affect the ma
tional economy.
Another Forgotten Widow.
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ceptable sense. either developed or
proved his basic premises.
And have never known a daily
newspaper to be so fortunate in its
selection of music critic as is The Star
in the happy possession of Mr.. Thorpe.
His critical review of the Peasants work
is a rnasterful study in logical refuta-
ton, succinct presentation and devas-
tating rebuttal. &aat 49,:
All this from convinced foe OF that
tripe we call modern!
4Tc Lance Breton.1sd
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

many records rather than too
few is due, I imagine. partly to
radio and television and partly
to the extreme history-conscious-
ness today that makes people
carefully bank-vault every snip
pet Of paper. When Serge
Rubinstein. the. draft-dodging
financier, was murdered awhile
back, investigators found he had
kept ledgers for years of every
thing-even incoming and out
going tele hone calls. Police
checked literally thousands who
had had some contact with him
including two surprised friends
Of mine, a reporter who had in
terviewed Serge in 1850 and a
theatrical producer who had
tried to persuade him to invest
in a Broadway show II years ago.
On a higher plane, library
has already been built to house
the papers of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, and plans are COM
plete to put those of Harry S.
Truman under one roof. Also,
President Eisenhower hadn't f1n-
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FoshionNotebook
Japanese Theme Seen
In California Show

men and women present were
Mrs. Earl Warren, Mrs. Stanley
Reed. Mrs. Herbert Brownell, IT,,
Mrs. Arthur Summerfield, Mrs.
Renah Camalier, Mrs. Thomas
Lane. Mrs. John H. Stokes, jr.,
Mrs. Samuel Spencer and Mrs.
Taiichiro Matsuo and Mrs. To-
shire Shimanouchi. whose hus-
bands are with the Japanese
Embassy. Also at the head table
was Mrs. Corneal Mack, chair
man for the event.
Before the fashion show
started, the Cherry Blossom
Princesses were introduced to
the audience by Eddie Galleher.
PRINCESSES INTRODUCED
Several radio and television
personalities did modelling stints
in the show. These included
Aletha Agee, Bill Malone, Jerry
Strong, Mac McGarry, Don
Richards, and Everette Severe.
The women present seemed de-
lighted to see a few men in what
otherwise is strictly woman's
fashion world. The male models
wore California mems wear in
Guiding handsome shirts. Stacks,
suede jackets, walking shorts and
evening attire by Louis Roth.
Color has always set California
fashions apart from others. The
show had every known artist and
natures color present on the
current fashion palette.
Bathing suits by Catalina with
deep v land we mean really cut
low to the waistline) backs
caught the audiences fancy as
did the Spanish group by Cole
of California with their sun
kissed colors and braid trims.
A Gantner black leotard fitting
like a second skin drew the
whistles from the men and
where would you wear that?"
from several of the women pres
ent.
Cute California children's
fashions also captured the spot
light yesterday. The tiny models
seemed to draw the most APP
plause, This is nothing new
it happens all the time when the
little ones get out on the runway.
Apparently getting quite a
thrill from the reception the
fashions received yesterday was
Mr.. Louis Tabak. president of
the California Fashion Creators.
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ished half his term before an
Eisenhower Museum was estab-
lished.
Moreover, contemporary his
torians and those on the inside"
no longer await the judgment of
time to start writing about ma
tional and international figures.
Books full of estimates of, and
anecdotes about, prominent men
pour out during their lifetimes.
So Mrs. workmanship is OBJ
viously right. The historical de-
tectives of the future will do
their original research from mi
crofilm. tape recorders and kline
scopes in a soundproof reference
library.
But I wonder if perhaps the
very modern methods that pre-
serve so much won't at the same
time prevent posterity from
learning the more important
fundamentals about today's hero.
Everybody will know that he ate
ice cream for breakfast and had
a taste for flamboyant neckties,
but what he felt when deeply
moved by anger or sorrow will
be forever lost, because instead
of writing letters about it he will
telephone or telegraph his deep
est feelings.
When President John Quincy
Adams was informed of his
mothers death, he sat down and
wrote a memorable, moving let
ter to his father. That letter,
with many others of his, has
come down to us and sheds i'm
portant light on Adams charac-
ter. If it had been 1855, there
would have been no letter. In
stead. Mr.. Adams in Washington
would have picked up the tele-
phone and talked to his father
in Boston, or simply hoped a
plane.
(From AP Newsfeatures)
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reFeted

The women who will serve as
hosteSses for the House and EN-
bassy Tour on Saturday. April 8.
were entertained at a luncheon
given yesterday by the commit
tee at the La Sale du Bots.
The luncheon committee in
cluded Mrs. Andrew S. Keck,
chairman of this years tour, for
which II houses and embassies
will be open; Mrs. Richard T.
Mcdonnell, board chairman Of
the Washington Home for In
curables, which is sponsoring the
tour; Mrs. Lawrence Houghtel-
ing, ticket chairman. and Mrs.
Myron Cowen, publicity chair
man.
Among those honored were
Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, Mrs.
Nathan B. Twining, Mrs. Robert
B. Carney, Mrs. Lemuel c.
Shepherd, jr., Mrs. Orme Lewis.
Mrs. H. Strive Hensel, Mrs.
David McKendree Key, Mrs.
Alcott H. Deming and Mrs. MUIR
rey L. Royar.
Also there were Nine. LIE GAL
lais, Miss Talat Ali, Mrs. Frank
F. Everest, Mrs. James Dawson.
Mrs. George E. Clark, Mrs. H.
Clayton Beaman, and others.
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ICIcling the Countryside
Horse Show Season
Opens Saturday

at DR.. and Mrs. Archie Ran
dolph's party, where a number
of the Melons guests fingered
after the Melons party had
ended.
Jane McIlvaine's latest book,
"Cintra'S Challenge" is hot off
the press and Jane says it's still
not an autobiography although
it's about a girl and a horse in
the Virginia hunt country. Mar
quis Child was at the Melons
with the Monroe Bushes from
Waterford: Mike Smithwick had
only a small patch on his good
looking nose to show for the fall
he took on Mrs. Randolph's Es-
sex; George Twomey was press
ing Paul Mellon. hard, to enter
a horse at Aintree next year and
Hubert Phipps' English bride had
a chance to meet more and more
of her neighbors.
The William Graysons, also at
the Melons. are planning on a
summer at their farm across
from Rokeby and have just come
back from a few weeks in Florida.
The race committee was being,
or should have been, congratu-
lated on two counts. the new
race cards, which gave even
novitiates an inkling of what
horse had what number and be-
longed to whom, and the new
snow fence which kept the
crowds from surging down to
the finish line.
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Readers Clearing House
S. o. S.

MRS. H. E. A.. Siluer Spring.
This is a plea for a quick an
swer. We are being transferred
to Portland. Greg, and I'll be
travelling with a 6-year-old, a
cat (who will, of course, be in
the baggage COMPARTMENT and
9-month-old baby. 1t was with
great sadness I learned that
the airlines had discontinued
sleeper planes. I'd appreciate
hearing anyone experience
holding a baby for so many hours
and still being able to supervise
a 6-year-old.
I have read of services offered
by planes to persons travelling
with babies and yet am alarmed
at the lack Of details. I have
travelled half across the United
States and back with a s.
year-old and a cat. but this
rather stumps me. I am con-
cerned about disturbing other
passengers as the baby has not
been subjected to plane traffic
and the noise involved.
On second thought. would a
roomette on a train be prefer
able?
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Foshion-Notebook
BY ELEM

East and West met yesterday
The meeting that brought Cali
fornia fashions to Washington
also accounted for one Of the
most beautiful shows Washing
ton has seen in some time.
Outstanding as the fashions
were, the Japanese garden-like
atmosphere created in the Pres
idential and CONFESSIONS ]
Rooms also deserves comment.
The decoration committee under
the direction of Mrs. C. Ray
mond Wire transformed the
rooms into a delicate pink and
white setting for the fashion
show. Three dimensional cherry
blossom murals were painted on
the huge backstage mirror. The
Japanese decor was carried
through in the miniature fans
that were favors and the parasols
decorating the tables. Even the
sherbert was a cherry pink in
honor of the Cherry Blossom
Festival fashion show staged for
the third time by the California
Fashion Creators.
MRS. NIXON ATTENDS
Two native California daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Richard Nixon. wife
of the Vice President, and Miss
America, Lee Meriwether, starred
in their respective roles as hon
orars chairman and fashion
show commentator.
Among the more than 1000
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Mrs. RunsduIe
Speaks at Rally

Mrs. Col. A. E. Ramsdale Of
Atlanta, Ga, secretary for the
women's activities in the Saliva
ton Army in Is Southern States,
was guest speaker at a united
rally of area Salvation Army
home league members last eve
ming in Peter Marshall Hall,
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Mrs. Brigadier William Range.
wife of the Washington division
commander, was in charge of
arrangements for the dinner
meeting.
Preceding the meeting there
were displays and judging of
layettes made by representatives
of the individual area home
leagues. Prizes were awarded and
the layettes then turned over to
the Salvation Army welfare de-
partment for distribution to
needy families.
Table decorations were pre-
pared by members of the Airing
ton and Georgetown home league
groups under the direction of
Mrs. Captain Robert White.
These included miniature mon
uments and cherry trees in BIOS
som.
At the conclusion Of the pro-
gram, a pageant was presented
entitled Cherry Blossom Time
in Washington Music was
played by the Washington Sal :
walton Army Divisional band,
directed by Capt. E. w. Holz.
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Tiny Tot Fashion
Show on SATURDAY.

A Tiny Tot Fashion Show and
Spring Tea will be presented at
$3.50 O'Clock Saturday at the
Rock Spring Congregational
Church Neighborhood House,
5000 Little Falls road, Arling-
ton.
Twelve youngsters from the
Rock Spring Cooperative Pre-
school Association will model
spring styles.
Following the fashion show in
the auditorium, tea will be
served in the Council Room,
and. weather permitting, on the
terrace.
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THANK YOU NOTE

MRS. D. E. B., Washington
I do so want to thank the RICH
readers who so kindly answered
my request for foreign dishes.
I was completely amazed at the
wonderful response. My special
thanks to Mrs. r. E. T. and Mrs.
A. F. of Washington, to Mr..
H. w. A. of Washington and to
Mrs. F. J. H. of Cheverly.