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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-10
Not Mad at WoIfson

T. Bullockus is among the
present large group of anti
WolfSonites in Washington.
These people tend to blame all
their transit problems on Mr..
Wolfson. How disillusioned
they will be should new COM
pany replace etc or the
transit system here be taken
over by the Government!
Washington is not alone in
transit problems. Nearly every
city has them. However, there
are those who feel that be-
cause Mr.. WolfSon is a multi
millionaire capitalist he is
doing his best to soak the
public. It is true, perhaps,
that he should not have liqui-
dated CTC's cash surplus as
ne did, but Washington does
have one of the best transit
systems in the country, sur
plus or no surplus. We have
modern and well-maintained
equipment. Service is not too
infrequent on most routes.
Our fares are not higher than
most other big cities. / dis
approve of many of Mr.. Wolf
sons practices, but I'm not
sure that in throwing him out
we are not jumping out of
the frying pan into the fire. "
I am a rail and streetcar
fan. 1 am sure that service
will be worse with an all-bus
system than with our present
fast. comfortable and reliable
streetcar system. 1t seems to
me that the people who adj
vocate scrapping our fine
street railway system are not
transit riders.
Andrew Biemiller, Jr,
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

James Andrew is just two
years old
Not very old, when you think
of the pyramids. or the Coli
scum. or even the Washington
Monument.
Old enough, though, to give
his Mommy a wonderf u
Christmas present.
1t was this way:
James Andrew is young
fellow who has a way with
words.
Not a lot of words, it is true;
at two years, one seldom has
what people call a vocabulary.
Ones acquaintance with the
big word book called diction-
airy is rather rudimentary, too.
. Still, a great deal can be
done with one word, if you
know how.
James Andrew lived with his
mother and father and sister
in a small apartment.
The windows we're quite high
at least too high from the
floor for him-So that 1t was
like living in a baSsinet, or
something
You simply couldn't see out.
Trees were monsters you
saw only on walks in the cold
WIND, when you were occupied
mainly with keeping out of the
way of your feet.
Walking. for little fellows, is
a sort of obstacle race.
You see cars, and trees, and
dogs, and jabber your few
words at them. Nobody knows
you have fourth. and greater,
word up your sleeve.
Time came to move.
A little gray house in the
suburbs, with a fence, and
trees. and a rock garden and
everything.
There is all the trouble and
worry of moving, but the
thrill of it. too.
People have been moving for
centuries, but there is always
q thrill. But would the chill
dren like it?
A move is an experience.
1t is a great many things, all
rolled into one, packed in bar
rels, done up with cords.
1t is America with strings
attached.
1t is doing things, and going
places. beloved by us all.
whether we come from the
sunny South, or the North,
the Middle West or the Far
West.
We are all alike in that We
love to- move.
4
See the little family. as 1t
goes into the small gray home
in nearby Maryland, where the
taxes will get you eff you don't
watch out.
Neither Daddy nor Mommy
thinks a thing of taxes, as they
go about their work. CThat
will come laterD
There they are, busily NOV
ing the family and the family
goods.
James Andrew and Anne
Marie, one year old, are hay
ing a romp of it.
They move in wonder from
the lawn to the house, and
from the house to the back
yard, and the rock garden,
and the outdoor fireplace.
"Twees," says James An
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"In whatever direction we
look-tax policy, regulatory
policy, resources policy, credit
policy or what Motive see the
sharp outlines of what can
only be described as special
interest Government in Wash
ington, something we haven't
seen since the Republicans
were there last"
This is a quotation from
Adlai Stevenson's first speech
as a candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination,
delivered in Chicago, Novem-
Der 10. OF course, Mr.. Steven
son did not hope to stir UP
class strife with this remark.
He did not hope to align Or
ganized and unorganized labor
against the Eisenhower ad-
ministration. He is against any
effort to stir up class strife,
as he has just said in his ad-
dress to the AFL-CIO conven-
ton in New York. And in that
New York speech, Mr.. Steven
son charged the Republicans
with what appears to be a
design to play the ugly politics
of group conflict and hatred"
Farmer Needs Share
Another quotation from Mr..
Stevenson's Chicago speech;
Our society needs the farmer
more than anyone else. And
the farmer needs a fair share
of the national income. He
hasn't got it just now. And
there is precious little EVIL
dence that the team in Wash
ington (the Eisenhower team
wants to do anything about
it." OF course, Mr.. Stevenson
did not mean to stir hatred
among the farmers for Presi-
dent Eisenhower and his Sec
rotary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson. Mr.. Stevenson does
not believe in hate-mongering.
as he told his labor union
audience in New York.
And a third quotation from
Mr.. Stevenson's Chicago adj
dress: II suggest that this
whole pattern (of the Eisen-
hover administration is a re-
Election of the basic philosophy
our new managers brought to
Washington in 1858. We are
here in the saddle the Secre-
tary of the Interior said, as
an administration represent
ing business and industry.
Well, after two or three years,
l am convinced he knew what
he was talking about" Again,
it is impossible to believe Mr..
Stevenson was seeking to stir
hatred against the Republican
administration in the hearts
of labor.
In his speech to the united
labor convention in New York,
Mr.. Stevenson commented
And now the chairman of the
Republican Senatorial Com
-mittee has charged labor lead
ers are organizing a conspir-
acy of national proportions to
take over the Federal Govern
ment.' Mr.. Stevenson referred
to Senator Barry Goldwater OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-10

@. When was a 3-cent post
age stamp first issued in this
country? What was it like?
S. Mem.
A. The first one came out in
1851, only four years after the
Government began issuing adj
hesive postage stamps. 1t was
brick-red in color and bore a
profile of George Washington
designed from a bust by the
sculptor Houdon. Through the
years, the Scent stamp has
brought in more revenue than
that of any other denomina-
ton.
@. What was the size of the
smallest baby ever to be born
in this country and grow TO
maturity?-H. B. K.
A. The tiniest one on rec
ord was a girl born 3 months
prematurely in 1886, weighing
about IL ounces. At II years
of age she was 5 feet 5 inches
tall and weighed liz pounds.
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drew, patting the gnarled
bark. We told you he is handy
with words, but that was not
his wonder word. 1t would
come later
A few days in the house.
and then
Came the cold morning. the
very cold morning, the coolest
morning of the nearly ending
year.
Mommy decided to take the
children out for walk around
the neighborhood.
They passed more tweeS,
many cars, and some dogs.
There we're always dogs. There
would always be dogs.
The dogs bow-wowed, and
the cars Observation-Disclosures.
James Andrew whooped with
glee. This was fun to be 2
years old in December. 1865.
and not to know it. 1t is
always more fun when you
don't know it. Knowing makes
fun a little tragic, don't you
think?
Then they got locked out.
1t always happens in a new
house, and especially on cold
day!
They worked and worked,
but the old key wouldn't open
the old door.
They shook. and they shook,
and they shook, but 1t wouldn't
bulge.
There was a walk. then. to
a friends house. but nobody
was home.
They went to the drug store,
and found kind man there.
He went and opened the
door for them.
They walked in, cold and
red, and it was then that
James Andrew, out of the
wisdom of his years. chose the
wisest word to say, and see if
you could have done better.
Home" he said, smiling.
Home, Mommy. Home!"
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Hiqh-LeveI FumbIino2


The recent pronouncement
from Russia that England and
the United States melted the
attack on Russia by Germany
is not as fatuous as it may
seem. / wildly recall the
startling headlines spread on
the front page of the New
York Times about the Danzig
merchants protesting the sign
ing Of the treaty agreed upon
by Poland and Germany that
provided a five-mile-wide cor
ridor connecting Germany with
Prussia. There quickly fol-
lowed the feverish activity of
Roosevelt and Churchill (the
latter not then in power in
collaboration with the Polish
high command, Biddle and
Bullltt acting as messengers,
and the consequent refusal on
the part of Poland TO sign the
treaty, which was followed by
the invasion by Hitler. Since
Poland is now a part of Rus
STA, through the grace of those
same two statesmen, who said
we must now be realistic, there
is warrant for so saying.
This fetish of realism has
so dominated our relations
with Russia restored to life
by Roosevelt) that the latter
now dominates much of the
world and is leiSurely prepar-
ing to blast FormoSa out Of
existence, while we stand idly
by and let our nationals and
drafted soldiers be tortured
and murdered, all in the name
of peace. The only firm
ness shown by the United
States has been against Ma
tionalist China, our only true
ally besides Korea, and we are
now threatening her with ex-
pulsion from the U. N. for
opposing the unconscionable
seating of Mongolia.
To top it, our citizenry is
rapidly being softened through
Federal welfare schemes for
which there is no authority
granted by the Constitution
by which Federal powers are
restricted to accept bureau
cratic dictatorship that must
eventually lead to government
dictatorship and communism.
The recent conference on edu-
cation called by the White
House. controlled by picked
indoctrinated group leaders
who announced the sentiment
of the conference without per-
hitting the delegates to vote,
shows how far the trend has
developed. Russia could not
have managed it better.
Joseph N. Nielsen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-10
In Appreciation

/ wish to express my sincere
appreciation for the efforts Of
Tom Burke and the other
m m b ers of your staff who
gave us the much-needed pub
licity to carry our battle to
keep open our beloved Grant
School. Their interest. their
sympathy. their patience and
their belief in our cause gave
us new hope and helped us to
wtn a reprieVe.
Please do not forget us when
, spring comes and we have to
reopen our battle to keep our
wonderful teachers and our ex-
tremely capable principal. Mrs.
Mary Henderson. at Grant
School.
Patricia CIeary Hart.
We wish to express our ap-
probation and thanks for the
wonderful spirit of commu-
nifty interest which your news
paper has shown in the COW
erage Of the situation existent
at Grant School. Your fair
and newsworthy appraisal of
the situation has been the
vital point in our battle to
bring to the attention Of the
superintendent of schools
facts which We feel could not
have been in his possession
when he made his original
recommendation.
1t is a wonderful thing In
this great country of ours that
we are able through the in
telligent cooperation of the
newspapers to bring facts to
the attention of the commu-
nifty which they would have
no means otherwise 10 gam
knowledge Of.
We also wish you to know
that the temporary resembling
Of the recommendation to
close Grant in January in no
way affects our intention to
continue to fight to keep this
school open for the benefit of
the residents of this area and
to continue to point out that
to have this school facility
open is vital to our efforts to
re-eStablish and rehabilitate
the section.
Thanking you again, and on
behalf of the Citizens Com
mittee to 6ave Grant School l
wish you would pass our sin
cere thanks on to your most
able reporters, James Deane
and Tom Burke.
Jerry T. Hart.
President, Citizens Commit
tee to Save Grant School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-10
Gray Report Black

AS a citizen OF Virginia. !
should like to enlist your sup
port to help me to publiciZe
the fact that many of us in
this State do not support the
provisions of the so-called Gray
Commission whose work his
tory will not judge to be
gray" but as black a page as
has ever been written in the
glorious history Of our State.
Specifically. I would hope
that you would publicize par
ticularly any signs of any
meetings to be held by either
white or colored citizens TOR
Chinese or Koreans or even
Indians, who happen to be red
mem to protest the action OF
our demagogues who met in
Richmond last week. Men of
real vision must band together
In Virginia to fight this retro
erosion and to save public law
and order from becoming a
farce by illegal" methods. II
the United States Constitution
can be fiouted in this manner.
no matter how many dema-
gogues vote to t1out it. then the
teachers who spend their time
teaching our children the
pledge of allegiance to the flag
are doing their work"in vain,
for the flag stands for the Con-
stitution. and the Constitution
is what the Supreme Court
says it is. q fact that no lawyer
in his right mind would deny.
/ might also add that the
ukases of the Supreme Court
cannot be lodged by expensive
expedients such as the Gray
Commission recon- m en- d S.
Every taxpayer in Virginia
white, black, yellow, or red
already is overwhelmed by
Federal. State and local taxes.
but this Gray Commission ex-
pedient will mean even more
expense piled upon our Shout
ders, and it will not work.
Those leaders" who blithely
recommend it. vote for it. and
stand idly by while 1t is fol-
lowed will one of these days go
down to defeat by the very
mobs they now lead, for the
people will not always be fooled
by this false issue.
Please let US who stand
against the Gray Commission
recommendations miscalled.
for they are blacker than the
ace Of spades-know what we
can do. as a group. to fight
for sanity in Virginia.
LarstOn d. Farrar.
The brave. befuddled efforts
of the State of Virginia to
maintain school segregation as
a general practice excite a sort
of admiration. One can ad-
mire devotion to a cause with
out giving approval to the
cause itself.
Admiration is replaced by in
credulity. however, when the
inevitable outcome OF this
course is envisioned. How can
Virginia adults, even in their
present frame of feeling. so be-
tray the trust of their chill
dren's future? They may live
long enough to have to answer
| that question.
J. w, Haywood, Jr.
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of an irradiated being. Then
how can a ceramics engineer
claim these dishes safe?
I'm not so sure I'll throw
mine out. On second thought,
I'll bury them.
Ralph Jaeckel.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Lush Gaming
Den Once in
TakOm0Park

Quiet, pious Takoma Park for
a short time harbored the Wash
ington areas pluSheSt horse par
lor and bookie center. The scene
of these activities was the Glen
Sligo Hotel, a resort center
which went bust and fell into
the hands of a syndicate of
gamblers.
In 1900, Alva Wiswell, a gold
mine and real estate promoter,
bought a tract in Takoma Park
to build a hotel and summer re.
sort. His grandiose plans called
for eight rooms, a luxurious bar,
a dance pavilion and a man-made
lake with islands.
These islands were named for
those in the West Indies - not
ably Cuba and Puerto Rico =
so that guests could tour the
Indies in Takoma Park.
The hotels popularity as re-
sort increased rapidly and Wis,
we'll was encouraged by its sue.
cess, His first tragedy struck
his West Indies, which were
washed away in a flash flood.
Shortly after, one of Mr.. Wis.
nells gold mines collapsed and
the hotel had to be sacrificed to
pay the mines stockholders. The
property went into receivership
and William A. Mellon gained
the controlling interest.
Word was received that a
group of people were interested
in leasing the hotel, and the deal
was made.
This group turned out to be a
syndicate of wealthy Baltimore
gamblers. They quickly changed
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

the character of the place. The
hotel specialized in race track
information, making book and
paying off on the premises.
With the new prosperity came
"A new clientele, including at.
taches from the Washington EN-.
bdssies, a smattering OF Con-
gressmen and some race track
regulars. Telegraph lines we're
brought in from the b. and O.
Railroad TO handle the expand.
ing business.
After about year of this high
life, citizens complaints led 10
official action. Sheriff Ben IIar.
deSty rounded up a posse Of IS
or 20 men, armed with nickel
plated Tcvolvers -- but no war.
rant.
On hot afternoon in July, the
posse piled into two wagons and
the raid was on. They broke
through the door and entered the
main lobby, full Of embassy per.
sonnet. The walls were lined
with blackboards showing the
results Of every race east Of the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
So He BLelU Out Parrot,
Unbound Clock, Retired

Despite wartime "austerity life in Montgomery County
ing World War had its high according to Sentinel
files of 1918.
1t seems that certain gentleman in the County
something of high liver" invited dinner by neigIbor
The night dark and in order guide him
he took with him the stable lantern clumsy
around with wires.
The dinncrwas good the wine excellent and plentiful.
Presently the hour for the return trip arrived forgot
reght his lantern but he arrived home all right
ing morning he could not find his lantern he gardener
to his friend with the following hotc:
Dear jones' Will you kindly return the lantern which
at your home last night"
He received the following reply:
Deaf Blank: returning the lantern but you kindly
send back the and its which you away with you
last night instead Of your lanern?"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

In this article, written espec.
tally for The SENTINEL'S
Centennial Edition, DIR. Chate.
laine discusses the relationship
of Montgomery County to the
District of Columbia. DR.. Cha.
telaine, the recognized author.
ity on the States history, has
been Professor of history of
Maryland at the University of
Maryland since 1915.
DIR. ChateIaine is a member
of Phi Kappa Phi, national
scholastic honor society, the
American Historical AssOcia.
ton and the Mississippi Val.
ley Historical Association. He
is president of the University
of Maryland chapter of the
American Association of Uni
verSity Professors. Before
joining the Maryland faculty,
DIR. Chatelaine served as the
first chief historian for the Ma.
tiOnaI Park Service of the u. S.
Department of the Interior.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

the springs. 1t was located at
Poplar and Elm Streets.
In 1891 it was sold to a COM
mercial firm, the Takoma Park
Spring Water Co., which fenced
in the property, built a house for
storage and bottling, and sold
the water in northern cities.
The fence was torn down by
determined citizens. who vigor.
ously demanded access to the
water as their right. The title
was Investigated and it was
proved that the tract of land
had been dedicated to public
use.
The town then took over the
property, including the Spring
House, and the spring was re-
stored to public use. For a time
the lower portion of the building
was used as Jail and the upper
part by the Washington Mission.
airy College Band for regular
Sunday afternoon band concerts.
Charles M. Heaten, one of the
first settlers and the first town
clerk, writes that "Mr. Gilbert's
friends all knew him to be a
stickler for pure drinking water.
In fact, he preached pure water
as cure for all the ills flesh is
heir to, and l have heard him
say that it was while he was in
search of a pure spring, which
he found in this locality, that
he discovered Takoma Park.
Although the water of the
spring was noted for its purity
and medicinal qualities in the
early days, it was condemned
for drinking purposes a few
years ago, and in 1913 the Town
Council voted to abandon the
spring.
The building was torn down,
the spring was closed over, and
the site is now known as Spring
Memorial Park.
AT the beginning of the presi-
Dental campaign of 1883, when
Benjamin Harrison was nomin.
ated by the Republican Party,
Mr.. Gilbert built log cabin and
6O-foot tower just off Luadrel
Avenue. During the campaign,
the cabin and tower were used
by both political parties for
rallies, with music, fireworks
and speeches. The cabin was
later used as jail, and then to
house the fire engine.
Originally nearly all of the
land upon which the town is
built was heavily wooded. A
large number of stately old trees
have been preserved, even in the
most thickly built-up area, Civ.
ing the city today a park-like
appearance.
There are no heavy industries
in Takoma Park. To this day.
it remains an exceptionally quiet
and clean residential community.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

Mississippi. Telegraph tickers
chartered on.
I'm closing this point" said
Mr.. Hardesty, and everybody
here is under arrest"
The irate manager stalked
through the crowd and demanded
to see the warrant. There was
none.
That doesn't make any differ.
ence," insisted the sheriff. Come
on, all Of you!"
A few clients meekly entered
the wagons, but the rest stayed
where they were. The raiders
bundled their prisoners off TO
await trial, and business as usual
was resumed.
The management sued Ben
Hardesty for illegal trespassing,
false arrest, and several other
charges, but the case was never
heard because Mr. Hardcsty died
two days after he received notice
Of the suit.
Legal fiasco that il was. the
raid was still the major factor
in the closing down of the hotel.
Continued citizens protests led
TO cancellation of the gamblers
lease.
In 1903, the city council took
over the lease and the resort was
closed. In 1920 the hotel was
torn down and the property sub.
divided into Individual lots.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

working out the plans to develop
the Nations Capital.
This grand vision, so dear to
the heart of the incompatible
Washington, was one which Mont
gomery County also took to its
own heart, and in so doing, aided
in inSuring a result of which all
Americans today are vastly
proud. Thus, too, Montgomery
County can justify point to the
fact that a part Of its own soil
today has become a shrine, dedi-
Gated to the hopes and aspira-
tons of men and women every
where.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Spice Brings Crowds

Court House crowds haven't
changed.
In front column of musings
called "As We See 1t, by Mont
ico' which ran in the SENTINEL
during the carly '30s, a paragraph
from the Jan. 10. 1885, issue
reads, What a thrill people get
from attending court sessions
when a murder tale or spicy
damage suit is in progress. You
can always judge the nature of
the proceedings by the crowd
which mills around the court
house door When a particularly
racy bit Of testimony is forth
coming, see them surge forward
with hand cupped to ear"