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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
Breeze From Woodwinds

Just a line Of appreciation
to the National Capital Parks
for arranging the delightful
concerts at the Watergate, and
also an expression of thanks
to the service bands that so
generously give Of their time
and talent for the enjoyment
of the people in Washington.
One wonders how it Is posi-
BILE. during torrid weather, for
the conductor and musicians
to execute so beautifully each
his exacting part. For the
audience it is sheer delight to
listen to beautiful music in a
setting almost like fairyland.
where there are even occa-
sional cool breezes. 1t has
helped so much to make the
long, hot summer bearable.
NJ. T. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15

@. What is the forbidden
stitch" in embroidery?-A.McG.
A. The Picking stitch, a very
small French knot, which was
forbidden by law in China be-
cause many women ruined
their eyesight by working it.
@. How many business firms
in the United States have an
nual sales of a billion dollars
or over?-W. T. G.
A. A new Fortune survey Of
500 biggest industrial COM
panies named 81 with annual
sales Of 81 billion or over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15

readily by transit employees. I
say, what are they now watt
ing for?
Does this seem "slanted in
the company's favor" or even
in the riders favor?
What per cent of their earn
ings are transit workers pay
ing toward their pension? I,
a Government employe, am
paying six per cent.
i i +
Will somebody Splease in
form me what possible in
crease in transit fare could
be reasonable to residents of
the District of Columbia who
were sold by the etc to the
Wolfson outfit and now, after
all the rest of it. have had to
stand for this outrageous
strike? Why should they have
to meet the deficits of the
etc? Who has profited by
the last three fare hikes? The
operators?
The people who have been
paying should not have to
meet the deficits now. No
fare bike can be reasonable or
just.
J. E. S.
My heart bleeds for ]. G.
Bigelow whose three columns
of platitudes in his August 10
letter carefully circumvent the
basic issue Of the transit
strike, namely: Are there or
are there not in the Washing
ton area sufficient people
capable of manning transit
vehicles who are willing to
work for the slave wages"
paid by etc? You bet your
life there are!
Why then should these not
be hired to replace those who
believe that legislation can ever
repeal the law of supply and
demand in its effect on wages?
c. F. Brown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-15
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replacement Of the 86-year-old
Franklin Administration Build
ing.
School Offices and warehouses
are now scattered in more than
80 buildings across the city. Supt.
Hobart M. Corning and his aides
contend the cost of a new school
headquarters. estimated at ST.
125000. could be made up within
10 years through increased eff
cheney and sale of present build
ing sites. especially the valuable
downtown one upied by
Franklin.
In addition. officials expect
need tor a new elementary
school in the Central Northeast
area now served by the Hayes.
Ludlow, Logan and a large group
of other crowded schools, and a
new senior high school in the
far Southeast, to relieve crowded
AnacoStia.
New Senior High Sought
Citizens in the far Northeast
have been asking for another
new senior high. None of these
projects is in the 10-year pro-
gram.
BY 1860. the school system may
need as many as 140 more
elementary claSsrooms to meet
the minimum expected enroll
ment gain.
There is another major factor
that has made the building pro-
gram out of date.
In March, after long efforts
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Northwest area served by for
merly white Petworth and Ray
mond Schools. These schools
were over-large for former white
enrollments. but under integra-
ton the area Is filing so rapidly
with colored children that a new
school Is now expected to be
needed.
Hope to Replace Hine School
Another instance of the i'm
pact of integration involves Hine
Junior High School, Seventh and
Z streets Sc. The Commissions
ers last year shelved a proposal
to replace Hine. one of the city's
oldest and most dilapidated
school buildings. because its
small white enrolment was fall
ing Now. newly enrolled colored
pupils have reversed the trend
and officials plan to revive the
replacement proposal this year.
The project would cost at least
50 million.
The teachers colleges are also
in the integration picture. They
VIII merge their classes this sum-
mer. Next winter the merged
college will continue operating
in the present old Wilson and
Miner buildings, seven blocks
apart. But strons pressure for a
new building is expected from
the college faculties, and school
officials are committed to finding
School officials also expect to
revive another plan several times
rejected by the city heads for
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by organized teachers and par
ents, the Board Of Education
dropped the city's elementary
clasS-size standard of SO pupils
per teacher to a new standard
Of 80.
No school policy change in re-
cent years has had such vocal
public backing as this one, on
which the District trailed far
behind nearby communities and
most others in the country.
DR.. Corning last week said he
plans to ask for money to begin
putting the new standard in ef-
feet next year-that is. in 1856
81. The change currently would
require 263 new classrooms: By
1860 with expected enrolment
growth the total would probably
be around 293. The added con-
struction cost by then might
approximate s6,725, 900. although
no one can predict it exactly.
So far. the only project school
officials agree can be dropped is
a proposed 100000 grade school
near Massachusetts, avenue and
North Capitol streets.
This is so far the only project
made unnecessary because of in
tegration. The school was in
tended for colored pupils who no
longer must be provided for sep
arately. A replacement for the
nearby old Seaton School, for
merly white. remains in the pro-
gram.
There has been conjecture that
it might be possible to drop three
other projects originally planned
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alternative-building an addi-
tion-is not much favored by
school officials.
Ofhcials don't expect TO know
for another year whether the s
street neighborhood, now becom-
ing eommercialized, actually win
need a new school.
School planners take 1t as q
matter Of course that replace
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SCHOOLS

Continued From First Page
normal and may have been in
part reaction to racial integra-
tion.
II this was the case, experts
in the school system think the
most extreme reaction is over,
however. In any event, the
steady increase of colored pupils
this year 8.6 per cents ex-
pected to assure a continuing
net gain.
New school needs are not
limited to colored children.
Some schools with few or no
colored pupils are seriously
crowded. The need for new
classrooms cuts across racial
lines.
Integration was expected to
ease crowding considerably. It
has done so. Several Thousand
colored children moved this
school year to formerly white
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ments win come second to pro-
viding new classroom seats. Thus,
projects like Phelps. Hine and
the teachers college might be
postponed.
DR.. Corning, last week, said
that under the $306 million city
public works program-of which
the l0-year school program Is O
See SCHOOLS, Page All
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for the old colored division.
These are q new elementary
school near Thirteenth and s
streets NV, formerly intended
partly to house colored crippled
children: q replacement. for
Phelps Vocational High, and q
new junior high in the far North
east Deanwood area. The total
saving. If these were dropped,
would be around $6.5 million.
Northeast residents already
are exerting pressure for the
junior high. however. And there
would probably be strong pro-
tests against discarding the plan
to replace Phelps. A possible
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buildings. spreading the city's
pupil load more evenly. Next fall,
with race restrictions now CON-
pietely dropped, this evening up
process will be continued.
But school officials. never ex-
pected integration to save much
construction money. Actually, In
opening up additional schools
and neighborhoods to colored
residents. 1t Is bringing some new
space needs.
One example is the Central
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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-06
Aiken, South Carolina
Hadassah Wins Film Award

First prize for the best sound
slidefilm in the field of education
has been awarded by the Ameri-
can Film Assembly of the Film
Council of America to Youth Ali
yah's new documentary filn1strip
depicting its program in Morocco
and Israel, "Sulamith Finds To-
morrow" The filmstrip was enter
ed by Hadassah, the official
agency for Youth Aliyah in the
United States.
Announcement of the first prize
award to "Sulamith Finds To-
morrow"-the only Jewish organ
national filmstrip honored-was
made by DR.. Miriam Freund,
Youth Aliyah Chairman for Had
assah, the Women's Zionist Or
ganization of America.
Written by two veteran script
writer's, Nina Brownstone and
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-06
site of the H-Bomb Plant"
Augusta Jewry Lend
A Helping Hand

It is with a great deal of COM
munity pride that we recognize
the efforts of the YMI1A Jewish
Community members who have
volunteered to aid the tagging
cancer fund campaign.
We realize that this so neces-
sary campaign has come along at
a time when the public has tired
of drives. But the funds are des-
perately needed to continue the
search for knowledge to defeat
this plague.
The Jewish organization has
taken over the project of visiting
200 business and industrial con-
Germs in Augusta in an attempt
to solicit the nearly $4,000 need
ed to complete Augustus quota of
$4,000.
So we salute Maxwell Estroff
and his organization for stepping
forward at this time of need and
wish them success in this civic
undertaking.
augusta Chronicle)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-06

Isidore Abramowitz, and photo
graphed by Mrs. Hazel Greenwald
in the mellahs of Casablanca,
Marrakech and Rabat, "Sulamith
Finds Tomorrow" is the joint
product of the Youth .Aliyah De-
partment of the Jewish Agency
and of Hadassah. Miss Brown
stone is Promotion Director of
Hadassah and Mrs. Greenwald is
National Film Chairman of the
organization.
The prize-winning document
airy, which features an accom-
panying long-play record MARIA
ton and musical score, runs %
minutes and tells the dramatic
story of the rescue and resettle-
ment in Israel of a typical Jewish
youngster from the mellahs of
North Africa.
"Sulamith Finds Tomorrow" is
available to local Hadassah chap
tiers and to other interested groups
at SIS per unit from the National
Film Department of Hadassah, 136
w. So Street, New York City.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-06
Bernard Boruch
In Aiken for
Byrnes' Dinner

Elder Statesman Bernard Bar
UGH, advisor to u. S. Presidents
from Wilson to Eisenhower and
Jewish-born philanthropist, was
a recent visitor to Aiken and at
tended the local dinner honoring
former South Carolina Gov. jim
my Brynes.
Baruch, native of South Caro-
lima, made a short talk at the
dinner lauding my old friend,
Jimmy Brynes."
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1955-05-01

quarter of century, to offer
sort of jumping board for our
politicians and statesmen in their
greater adroitness, to stage politi-
cal and diplomatic feats worthy of
the admiration of mankind.
We need not feel unduly belit-
tied by this article. According to
Stuart, u. S. Diplomatic and Con-
sular Service, the foreign service
of this country before President
Wilson was inept The u. S. Con-
sular and Diplomatic Service was
used as an excuse for the children
of the rich, and lame duck poll
ticians, with or without proper
training, to vacation abroad. Over
a century passed before basic and
positive reforms were instituted
by the scholarly President, who
had been a professor in political
science before becoming a politi-
clan and then a statesman, which
would seem to indicate that ade-
quate knowledge and proper an
alysis are needed before synthesis
and reforms should be executed.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1955-05-01
Needed consuIur Reorganization
BY TRINIDAD A. ROJO

We have made good beginning in Consular and
Diplomatic Services but there still much for i'm
provement especially in the United States and Hawaii
field in which we are very familiar.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1955-05-01


tration. 1 do not expect the CHIEF
Executive of a nation to know all
of the problems confronting his
people at home and abroad. With
regards to the Filipino immigrants
here and Hawaii, we expect our
Consuls and Ambassadors to sur
vev our problems and then pre-
sent to the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs and our President a con-
crete program for their solution.
Perhaps our Consuls and Am
bassadors, past and present, have
been fully absorbd in laying the
foundation of our Diplomatic and
Consular Service to have any eX-
ira time left for a sociological sur
yev of Filipino immigrant COM
munities and to work out dy-
manic and progressive policies in
the realm of creative leadership;
perhaps they felt satisfied in con-
filming themselves to what is
called "Status-quo' leadership.
At any rate, there is no con-
vincing evidence by way of con-
crete and constructive program
that our Consuls understand our
problems more than the delegates
to the First Filipino National Con-
vention held in Sacramento, Cali
fornia, sixteen years ago under the
auspices of the late Francisco
Varona.
There are agencies in the Unit
ed States whose task is to solicit
donations for colleges, universities,
hospitals, etc, for countries in
Asia Minor, and Europe. Even
Nationalist China has such an
agency.
But the Philippines, which is
supposed to be the Asiatic daugh-
ter of America, never has had
such an office in this country. 1t
is enlightening to note that Year
Book listing the addresses, the
fields, the Board of Trustees, and
the capital of American Founda-
tions fills about $50 pages. Shelby
M. Harrison and F. Emerson An
drews, in their book, American
Foundations For Social Welfare,
has a descriptive directory of sos
Foundations.
1t will not cost the Philippine
Government a dollar more to Gre
ate a subdivision under the Phil
ippine Embassy in Washington
DC, whose task would be to keep
track of the social and cultural
problems of the Philippines with a
view to contracting appropriate
foundations or individual philan-
thropists interested in such enter
prises.
At one time the Philippine Con-
sulate in San Francisco, alone,
had 81 employees. Three men in
the Philippine Embassy could have
served as the core to attend to the
office work and research needed
for the solicitation of donations
It is just a matter of reorganiza-
ton and reshuffling of duties and
responsibilities of the existing per-
sonnet.
Taxes and Foundations
The American era of high taxes
for excess profit, ushered in by the
great humanitarian, Franklin Del
ano Roosevelt, gave a boom to
philanthropic enterprises. Dona-
tions to responsible institutions is
deductible from taxable income.
1t is for this reason that the Ford
Foundation, the towering colossus
among foundations, is sometimes
referred to as the greatest tax
doge in history. Robert L. He'll
broner, in his article. THE Fabu-
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1955-05-01


taxes when Henry Ford, l., and
Edsel Ford died. Control would
have passed to another. At pres
ent, the Ford Foundation owns
ninety per cent of the assets Of
the Ford Company and it has an
annual spending money of twenty
five millions dollars, more than
the total endowment of Stanford
University when Senator Stanford
founded it after the death of his
son in Italy.
A conservative estimate by Har-
rison and Andrews places the cap
ital assets of sos American Foun-
dations at $1,817, 299, 900, which is
only fifteen per cent of present
United States philanthropic en-
dowment, which is estimated from
twelve to fifteen billion dollars, if
we include property. According to
Geneva Seybold, in American
Foundations And Their Fields, the
total capital of 33 who have a
100000 fund or over, was $751;
346,746.49. This was before the
emergence of the Ford Founda-
ton, whose capital assets is over
three quarters of a billion and
whose petty cash" of liquid assets
is S6S,oO0,OoO.
Up to 1890, American Founda-
tons contributed $15,000,000 to
colleges and universities in the
Balkans and Asia Minor The es-
tate of the late Charles M. Hall,
alone, donated $3,5O0,O0O; John d.
Rockefeller, 100000; Edward S.
Harness, $1,O0O,OOO; Rockefeller
Foundation, $1,OOO,OO0; Laura
Spellman Rockefeller Memorial,
$750,000.
Since then, the donations to the
Balkans and Asia Minor has null
tiplied
During the Second World War,
because of the Leonidas-like re-
sistance in Bataan and Corregidor,
the Filipinos were the darlings of
the American heart; the Philip
pine Government in exile could
have solicited untold millions for
worthwhile philanthropic causes.
But President Quezon was bed
ridden and whatever energy he
had left was devoted to helping
President Roosevelt map out the
Pacific counter-attack
The agency suggested above
need not be under the Philippines
Government. 1t could be a private
institution sponsored by eminent
Fflipinos and Americans, like Gen
eral ROmulo, General Douglas
Macarthur, eX-President Truman,
eX-President QuirinO, or some re-
tired educators and businessmen
who made their fortune in the
Islands. The sponsorship could be
active or honorary.
1t will do well for the Philippine
Embassy, in Washington, DC, to
have a labor economist, and for
the Philippine Consulate in San
Francisco and Honolulu to have
one Labor man each.
Labor Aids Needed
While most of the Filipinos In
America originally came here to
study, most of them now belong
to the laboring class. In this con-
nection, it seems pertinent to point
out when in 1914, with other la
Dor leaders, 1 met Lord Halifax, as
British Ambassador to the United
States, he introduced us to his la
Dor expert, who helped him pre-
side in a labor open forum. I'm
doubtedly, the labor man was
charged with the task of looking
over the welfare of British work.
prq in this pn11ptrxy an1 Of aetoh
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1955-05-01

anthropic foundations, such as
Rockefeller's, which has spent
$50, 100000 for the interchange of
students.
Consular Directory
The Philippine Consulates should
also have a directory of Filipino
technicians and farmers expert
enced in the modern method of
agriculture. Many of these want
to go to the virgin islands of Isa-
bella, Mindanao and Mindoro, if the
Philippine government a ssis s
them in making the needed and
encouraging arrangements. If they
are placed at strategic locations
in Mindanao, Mindoro and Isabella,
they could serve as important lev
ers in the introduction of modern
methods and modern machinery in
farming. This leads to my next
suggestion.
Saving Device
The late Honorable Francisco
Varona told me that it would be a
good idea to adopt policy of the
Swiss Consulates. He said that
every Swiss Consulate here had a
map of Switzerland, indicating
lands for sale and Swiss immi-
grants can buy them by install
ment, thus encouraging them to
save. The area of fertile virgin
lands in the Islands exceed that of
the area of Switzerland and Bel
GUM. It may be worth while for
the Philippine government to
adopt similar real estate promo
ton. 1t may be advisable for the
Philippine Consulates to popular
ize a list of sound enterprises,
private and public, for investment
in the Philippines, similar to the
United States Bond Drives.
Least Resistance
In fairness to our Consuls, it
must be stated that those who are
stationed in America and in. Ha-
wall, where there is a total of
100000 Filipinos, are bombarded
with invitations to parties of all
sorts, as if every week is a
Thanksgiving season. Under such
circumstances, it is not hard for
one to have diarrhea or indiges-
ton of the stomach and constipa-
ton of the brain, especially if the
brain cannot rise very much high
er than the stratosphere of the
Consular visas or bombastic ora
tory.
We, therefore, await reorganiz-
alton and reorientation from the
top, since the bottom may be
swamped with routine, perhaps in
some cases, due to lack of ade-
quate personnel, to think basical-
ly, deeply and creatively.
We do not claim that we have
all the answers to our problems
but perhaps we know enough of
Filipino problems abroad which
we have been studying for over
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1955-05-01

ped from college indefinitely The
Philippine Consulates in the Unit
ed States should have census of
such students through the Presi-
dents of the Filipino Communities,
with view OF securing scholar
ships for such students from the
Philippine government, the United
States Government or from phil
anthropic foundations, such as
Rockefeller's, which has spent
$40, 100000 for the interchange of
students.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

An "unsolyed mystery" in con-
nection, with a picture at ma
tional society headquarters Of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution was described today
by Mrs. Katharine McCook Knox
of the OAR Art Critics Commit
tee.
In pre-convention talk at
the OAR Museum. 1776 D street
NV. Mrs. Knox told about
a damaged picture entitled
George Washington at Dorches-
ter Heights.
THE perpetrator of this paint
and-canvas crime viii never be
apprehended," she said. mo one
in this building is in any way re-
sponsible. It happened long.
long ago.
Perhaps before the picture
was actually painted, some
wicked gremlin in the world of
chemistry did its uncanny worst.
A shrinking canvas some might
call it: improper mixture of
paint and varnish, others might
hold; humid storage for over a
score of years might be the YER
dictsof still another group.
II do not know. nor will I ever
All that matters now is the &C
QUESTION of knowledge which will
assure in the future a proper
program of conservation.
Several years ago, the Art
Critics COMMITTEES chairman, in
company with a top New York
restorer tnow deceaSed) came to
the OAR to look at this canvas.
They judged it dismal to
behold and quite rightly decided
that it should not remain on
view"
Mrs. Knox said the artist was
Darius Cobb, and that Wendell
Phillips. the Boston orator. posed
for the figure of George Wash
ington.
OF the aforementioned paint
ings she discussed in her talk,
Mrs. Knox said that probably
the first in Importance was the
painting of George Washington
oy Rembrandt Peale.
This, she said, lis a fine work
of art in equally fine condition. /"
The Martha Washington full
length. recently restored, was
painted in 1905 by Eliphalet F.
Andrews, the speaker said. The
artist established the Corcoran
School of Art and directed it for
a number of years, she added.
She described also the portrait
of sweet little Mary Lightfoot
Cater to become the wife of Col.
William Allen) BY John VOL
laston. and its restoration to its
present fresh and attractive"
state.
Another painting she dis
cussed was one Of Thomas Nc
Kean. who was chief justice of