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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Eurth Will Get Close Look,
AT Planet Mars Tonight

The planet Mars makes its
closest approach to the earth In
80 years tonight. but it won't
mean much TO Washington as
tronomers or amateur star-gazers.
The big red twinkler win be a
mere 35,163.00O miles distant to-
night, q mere hop, skip and q
jump by astronomical standards.
But because Of atmospheric
conditions, observers at the Naval
Observatory would not get much
out Of 1t. even If 1t we're a clear
night.
Unhappily. the Weather Bu-
reau holds little hope Of that.
Thundershowers are expected TO
kick up q fuss and obscure the
skies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06

DR.. John Hall, chief Of the OBJ
servatory's Equatorial Division.
said the best watching area will
be in the southern hemisphere
where astronomers can get a
direct overhead shot at the
planet.
Matter Of fact, Mars has been
hanging pretty close for a couple
of weeks and scientists regard
tonight's closest approach mere
ly as another night.
Speculation still goes on about
people and canals on Mars. It
Is hoped that observations in
this period will provide more in
formation on whether the red
dish tint Is caused by deserts
and whether the assures are Ire
rigation bitches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
President and Lodge
Meet for IS Minutes
By the Associated Press

Henry Cabot Lodge, United
States Ambassador to the United
Nations. met with President
Eisenhower for is minutes today,
then accompanied him TO the
weekly session Of the National
Security Council.
Mr.. Lodge entered Mr.. Eisen-
hower's, Office by q side entrance
thereby avoiding reporters.
Earlier Mr.. Eisenhower met
with Mongi Slim, Tunisia's new
Ambassador to the United States
who presented his credentials
Mr.. Slim. wearing a blue bust
ness suit and q colorful maroon
fez, talked with the President
for is minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Dr.. O'connor to TuIk
LAT St. Peters Forum

DR.. John ]. O'Connor, presi-
dent of the Catholic Interracial
Council Of Washington, will
speak at an open forum at st.
Peter Claver Center, 814 Seventh
street S.W., at 8 pm. Monday.
DR.. O'Connor, professor Of his
tory at Georgetown University,
will speak on "The Catholic
Church Around the World"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Transit Labor 7 uIks
To Begin Thursday

Labor negotiations between
the transit workers union and
D. C. Transit System, Inc. will
start at 2:3O pm. next Thursday.
The union. whose 52-day strike
last summer led to cancellation
Of the franchise of Capital Tran
sit Co.. is asking for a 25-cent-
an-hour wage Increase. improve
lments in pensions and working
conditions and arbitration of
future contract renewals. Last
month it granted an extension
until November I Of its old CTC
contract on the new company's
promise to make any settlement
retroactive to August is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
D. c. Man, 3S. Killed
In Virginia Crosh
By the Associated Press

virginia's 1856 trafiic toll rose
to $40 today with the death Of
a 38-year-old Washington man
near Petersburg in an early
morning accident.
The victim was Eugene Nc
Crea. colored, Of 1928 Stevens
road Sc. who died in a nom
collision wreck II miles south Of
Petersburg on u. s. 301.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06

close to meaningless, because of
organizational differences.
Board of Education President
c. Melvin Sharpe, too, warned
at yesterdays meeting that the
District school system has its
own special problems, which
aren't comparable with other
cities.
Some. Of these problems, DR.,
Corning informed the city heads
some time ago, are bound up
with indignation.
One specific question, raised
yesterday by Brig. Gen. Thomas
A. Lane, engineer commissioner,
dealt with the stating Of second
airy schools. Gen. Lane, it was
reported, asked why some teach
er funds couldn't be switched
from them to the lower grades.
Previously Blocked
A similar proposal was blocked
by Congress earlier this veal
after school officials and parents
protested. Gen. Lane has con.
tended that, on the basis of com.
parsons with other cities. the
city's secondary schools might
well be able to spare some
teachers.
If the Commissioners shoulC
revive this idea, it is expected t.
meet strong opposition again.
There was some discussion Al
the session about comparative
class sizes in parochial anC
public schools. Gen. Lane anC
one Of the budget officials citeC
personal experience with paro
chial classes bigger than the Dis
trict's averages. However. it wa
noted that parochial school,
have pupils more on a par ant
that difficult children can be ex
PEELED.
DR.. Corning, answering a ques
ton from Budget Oficer Waite
L. Fowler, told the session if al
the wanted. teachers are hires
next year, it will mean puttinI
nearly ITO first and second grad
classes on double shifts, becaus
of lack Of space. That woull
Ibe between a third and q fourtl
of the city's pupils in the tw
grades.
The school superintendent sal
this would be better than over
llsize glasses, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06

big a school budget the city
will set.
District budgeting officials
made a survey of a dozen cities
last winter. checking pupil
teacher ratios. But Washington
school officials challenged the
figures, contending they weren't
detailed enough.
The figures indicated District
schools compared poorly in ele-
lmentary grades but favorably in
Junior and senior high schools.
Commissioner Robert, e. Nc
Laughlin, after a two-houl
meeting yesterday, said the city
heads want to get better figures
He also said he hopes school,
and city officials can reach
agreement on the budget SO 9
united front can be presented
to Congress.
Wants $50 Teachers
School Supt. Hobart M
Corning asked the city head,
for a SIS million increase in the
$34 million budget allowed By
budgeting officers. Most of thu
increase is wanted to hire 26(
more teachers, chiefly in ordel
to reduce elementary classes
from an average Of around 81
pupils to an average of 80.
Eventually, school oficial
hope to cut the city average il
Grades 1 to 6. to 80 pupils.
Budget officers had banned
any teacher-hiring designed tt
reduce class sizes. But at yes
terday's session, the Commits
sioners agreed to drop this ban
| They didn't commit them
selves to allowing more funds
But Mr.. Mclaughlin didn't rul,
this out. A final decision will b.
made, he indicated. at anothe
Joint meeting set for October %
The decision will depend part
ly on revenue prospects and o.
the budget status of other de
partments, he said.
i Some Misgivings
School officials today expresses
some misgivings about relying o.
the results Of a survey Of othe
cities in deciding how Distric
schools should be budgeted.
l Deputy Supt. Charles N. Eel
Tiers said comparisons are ofte
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Branch once Agency
Of the Commonwealth Life
Insurance Co. continues its
sessions in the Shoreham
Hotel.
The American Political
Science Association opens a
three-day session In the
Maynower and Statler
hotels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
The
Rambler
Origin of Famous
Quote Is Obscure
By JACK JONAS

We had intended stopping
with Daniel Webster, but this
Wycliffe dispute threw us into
a tizzy.
It all began with an inno-
cent little question here a few
days back about where the
phrase Government of the
people, by the people and for
the people" originated.
More than a few readers
limited that there was some
thing wrong with our school,
ing in American history, and
that we ought to take a look
at Lincoln's Gettysburg Adj
dress.
M. L. Fearnow of 3640 Ka-
nawha street NV. hit on what
we had in mind. He wrote:
This phrase, freely quoted
by President Lincoln in his
Gettysburg speech, dates back
to. Theodore Parker and to
Daniel Webster.
sIn an address before the
New England Anti-Slayery
Society, held in Boston, Mass,
on May 80. 1850, Theodore
Parker defined a democracy
as Government of all the
people, by all the people, for
all the people,
But twenty years earlier,
on January 26, 1880, Daniel
Webster, in his famous debate
with Robert Y. Hayne on the
Foote resolution concerning
the sale of public lands, said:
=" The peoples government,
made for the people, made by
the people and anSwerable to
the people.
$50 we may safely conclude
that the idea expressed in
this familiar quotation was
first suggested by Daniel
Webster"
That's what we thought,
Mr.. Fearnow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Middle East Institute
Sets Public Lecture

DR.. Henry Field Of Harvard
University will speak at the Md
die East Institute, 1851 N street
NV, at 8 pm. tomorrow.
DR.. Field willslecture on Ba-
luchistan, which Is located in
the western area Of Pakistan.
His talk will be illustrated with
color slides and the public 10
Invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
By JOHN McKELWAY

The hope of the Districts new
Family Court" to explore al
means of preventing divorces
chiefly through informal at
tempts at reconciliation, was
roundly criticized by a number
of lawyers during a discussion
yesterday on proposed rules sci
up for the court.
The lawyers charged the pro.
posal could completely wreck 9
marriage that might be worked
out after separation and with
out court intervention. The at.
torneys said--at times heatedly
that such a procedure was moi
the intent of Congress when il
created the Domestic Relation;
wing of Municipal Court this
year.
But as Judge Frank Myers
one of the three judges of the
new court, met the criticism
1--WE would be trying to exhaust
all possibilities of reconciliation
The hearings would not be helc
in a judicial atmosphere. If We
save two marriages out of 100
it would be accomplishing some.
thing"
Despite Chief Judge Leonard
lP. Walsh's request for com.
ments and suggestions towarC
improving the list Of some Il
rules of procedure, the meeting
at one point, was turned into ar
indictment Of the three judges
intelligence in setting up recon.
Iciliation procedures.
BOardman Leads Attack
The wholesale attack on thu
procedure came from Jean NJ
Boardman. a member of The
District Bar Association anC
long a fighter against a Family
court.
In a charge which ended in (
nasty exchange between Mr.
Boardman and one of the new
judges. John H. Burnett, MI
Boardman said the judges would
be foolish to attempt a rec
onciliation of every pending
divorce case before you"
He described it as a danger
Ious rule"
Its possible" he said, you'll
cook the final goose Of a lot o
! people. You'll kill mar
! Iriages." Mr.. Boardman intimatet
that divorce attorneys probabl,
, are better. at arranging rec
onciliations than the cour
would be.
II Mr.. Boardman's main criticism
, was that appearance at the in
formal hearing was to be man
datory on both parties. He ais
challenged the right Of the cour
to subpoena an interested part
or material witness at such
conference. He said he woul
advise any client to ignore sue
a subpoena. Judge Myers sal
earlier that. If the husband O
wife objected to the conferenc
the issue would not be pressed.
RidIcules Procedure
Continuing. Mr.. Boardma
ridiculed the procedure by askin
how reconciliation could be real
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Rambling

Hyattsville restaurant was
displaying supreme lack Of
confidence in its chef by
prominently displaying, on the
cashiers counter, a box Of
digestion tablets for sale.
A lady writes that her
grandson saw a Red Cross
Grey Lady coming down the
street and exclaimed. Nom
my, here comes a bandage. !.
Three boys in a city park,
one watching another comb
the thirds hair into a duck
tail. 49,.
A boy on a bicycle on upper
Fourteenth street NV, trying
to balance a bucket Of water
in his carrying basket as he
rode along. 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Family Courts tentative
Reconciliation Rules Hit

ana become pregnant BY another
man."
"Or." he asked the judges
suppose your daughter has been
kicked in the mouth and stomach
by her husband and a couple OF
teeth have been knocked out?
Would you advise her to go home
with that man?"
Judge Burnett interrupted tc
angrily tell Mr.. Boardmar: "Yor
don't have to tell us we are
foolish. We are not damn fools
II don't like to sit here and be
Icastigated about the rules. The
hearing was called only to gel
your suggestions on new rules"
Said Mr.. Boardman: "Well
you can't read the English Ian.
guage if you think these rules
mean anything but mandatory
reconciliation efforts in every
contested divorce case"
\ Before Judge Walsh was able
to end the pickering. Mr.. Board.
man retired with the remark tc
Judge Burnett that 'there may
be an occasion in the future
when you can hold me in con.
tempt. but this isn't one of them,
you don't intimidate me in the
slightest"
Mr.. Boardman was backed
but not in the same manner
by DeLong Harris, a spokesman
for the Washington Bar Asso.
citation. in criticism of the rule
He said the court should Invite
the parties together for recon.
Citation instead Of a formal or.
der. He doubted, he added, thI
cour's ability to enforce the ap.
lpearance of husband and wifi;
at the pre-trial chat.
Joseph Sitnick. another attor.
ney, said the reconciliation ides
was a "usurpation Of the power
which Congress directly gave thiI
court"
Dangers Cited
Other lawyers talked Of thu
dangers Of reconciliation. on
said a woman who is talked intt
going back to the man who hai
beaten her might get a wors.
beating. Another said reconcile,
Iation might put the lid on {
: steaming bottle and result ii
Ia permanent blowup."
The lawyers also criticized {
rule which asked that a mar
; rage certificate be filed Will
every suit for divorce, annul'
: ment or custody Of minor chill
: dren. They said such certificate
often could not be found ant
III the certificate was required
/, the court would be denying
people the right to file a cours,
of action"
|, At the end Of the three-hou
/ meeting, in which almost al
' points in the set Of rules werl
I criticized. Judge Walsh empha
/ sized the rules we're only pro
, posed rules" and added that al
/ suggestions would be "consid
! cred seriously" before they ar
; promulgated.
He added the three Judge
would administer the court a
Congress intended"
d With Judge Myers and Judg
3 Burnett. Judge Godfrey l
: Munter will comprise the cour
flwhen 1t opens Septemer II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06

The District Commissioners ex-
tended greetings today to Jewish
citizens of Washington in a mes
sage marking the start of New
Year for the latter.
The message was sent by Com
missioner Robert E. Mclaughlin,
president of the board ON COM
Imissioners. to Aaron Goldman,
president of the board of COM
immunity Council of Greater Wash
Iington.
ION behalf of the Board of
Commissioners of the District OF
Columbia, I should like to extend
to our Jewish fellow citizens OF
the District of Columbia sincere
greetings on the occasion of the
commencement of the Year 5717
in your religious calendar.
I'VE join with you in the
prayer that our country may
continue to be written in the
Book of Life as a Nation blessed
with religious freedom that has
made possible the splendid con.
tribution of so many of YOU
brethren to our national vel
fare.
! May the ensuing year be one
of peace, prosperity and broth
erhood for all mankind"
/ Period of Penitence
The Jewish New Year started
last night. Orthodox and Con
sentative Jews viii observe Rosi
tHashonah for two days and Re.
form Jews for one day, ending
lat shutdown today.
Rosh Hashonah, the Day o.
Judgment, begins Today pc.
lriod Of penitence that ends with
IYom Kippur, the Day Of Atone
ment. On Yom Kippur the Bool
of Life and the Book of DEATH
ARE closed, with the names o.
all written in one or the othel
book for the coming year. Yon
IKippur starts at shutdown Sep
TENDER IA and ends at sundowI
September Is.
Rabbi Norman GerstenfelC
told members of the Washington
Hebrew Congregation today thai
Integrity does not mean "what
we expect of others but what We
deserve of others because o.
what we demand of ourselves
The test is not our moral insight
but our own moral courage"
Weaklings who desire good but
lack the courage to labor for i
make "a sacrilege of thei
prayers and a deluSion of thei
hopes" Rabbi GerstenfelC
warned.
"Those who seek an easy roaC
find the ideal tomorrow always
recedes and their spiritual com
promise finally ends in the trivis
that makes a mockery of what
they once professed. Those whit
take the road upward. ready fol
sacrifice find that by Somt
strange miracle the difficult il
really the easy and the ideal Il
really the most practical and tn,
road to salvation"
A new $4,000 temple organ
was heard by the Washington
Hebrew Congregation for tn
first time last night.
Rabbi Balfour Brickner o
Temple Sinai declared today
man must achieve "a capacit,
for management" if he is t,
save the modern world from
destruction.
For such an achievement W
need to continue using our fines
minds. our deepest intellects, on
best educational processes AM
maintain a certain amount o
physical strength. But all o
these will be of little help with
out a willingness on the par
Of every individual to yield +
the soft, gentle prompting Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Corning Says 3 Rs
Need More Stress
Teacher Budget Awaits
Check in Other Cities

survey cities may help decide whether the District
public get all the teachers the Board Of Education wants
next year.
The and school leaders yesterday agreed
Joint study other big cities The study to be
peted by october 90 is intended to help determine how
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06

JIM WILFONG of the tele-
phone company pointed to
the same sources, then added:
However, Thomas Cooper,
stepson of the emigre Joseph
Priestly, used it in essence
-. as early as 1894 when, in
writing of the garden spot of
Pennsylvania, he said: The
government is the govern
ment of the people and for
the people"
And then along came the
Wycliffe supporters, taking
us back to the 18th century.
Among these are Attorney
Norris c. Bake, Mrs. Mathew
Briscoe of 6817 Georgia ave-
nue. NV. and Mrs. James E.
Milligan of 1885 Gainesville
street Sc. isa y
Mrs. BriScoe wrote:
ut was used by Wycliffe in
the FIRST English translation
Of the Bible in its preface as
follows:
"'This Bible is for the Gov
eminent of the People, by the
People and for the People. -
The others said essentially
the same thing, and Mrs
Milligan said it came from
Bartlett,s Quotations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06


THAT SENT US back to
the source books, and finally
to the Library Of Congress,
which can find the answer to
almost anything.
The man at the Library
pored over the ancient Eng
lish style in the preface to
his copy of the 1850 London
edition of Wycliffe's Bible
based on the translator's
manuscripts of 1882 and re-
garded as the standard edi-
ton. He said he couldn't find
it there.
1.-THE authorities" he said,
"seem to be in dispute. Bart
lett still carries it as coming
from Wycliffe's preface. But
Stevenson's Book of Proverbs,
Maxims and Familiar Phrases
classes that as a tradition. II
may be that one of the editors
of Wycliffe-and there were
many-slipped that phrase
into one of the editions.
"Of course" he went on, I'll
you want to go into similar
quotations, there's John Mar
shall's opinion in McCulloch
VS.: Maryland, on March 6,
1919:
"'The Government Of the
Union is a government of the
people. It's powers are
granted by them, to be exer.
cised directly on them, anc
for their benefits. >"
We decided to quit right
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Ridicules Procedure

Continuing. Mr.. Boardman
ridiculed the procedure by asking
how reconciliation could be real
lied when the wife has run on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Book Fund Inadequate

Mr.. Petersen said the book
fund "has not been adequate
for a period Of many years
The rise in book prices, he
declared, has aggravated this
situation" and Furthermore,
books wear out faster now be-
cause they are not as well made
physically as they used to be-"
He said the extra $4,000
would give the library a book
fund Of $200.422 for 1858, less
than Cleveland. Boston and
Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-22
Keneipp Studies
Converting | Street
To 1-Wuy Traffic

A study Of possible conversion
OF part of street NV. to one
way operation has been ordered
by Traffic Director George E.
Keneipp.
He said the plan would provide
westbound traffic flow from
New York avenue TO Pennsyl-
vania avenue. counterbalancing
the eaStbound movement OF
traffic on L street.
Also. he said, extension OF
eastbound one-way operation
on l. street is being considered.
l. street is restricted 10 east
bound traffic from New Hamp-
shire avenue TO Massachusetts
avenue. The study deals with
the possibility Of eaStbound OPP
Grafton between Twenty-fifth
street and Fifth street.
Mr.. Keneipp said staff officials
OF the Public Utilities Commits.
sion had agreed to report on
any necessary bus reroutlng at
the next meeting January 8 OF
The city's co-ordinating commit
tee.
Mr.. Keneipp said the possible
Ivy OF one-way operation on I
street might permit designation
OF curb lanes reserved for buses
only. but insisted the study was
not the result Of the request
Tor bus lanes made recently by
9 Roy Chalk. owner Of d. c.
Transit System.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-22
Belfast Arrests
IRA Suspects

BELFAST. Northern Ireland.
Dec. % (P).-Northern Ireland
police struck swift surprise blows
at dawn today against political
extremists, rounding up 80 sus-
poets in raids in half a dozen
communities.
Raids were continuing through
the day, one police officer re-
marking. There will be 10 or
more by the time we have
everyone we want"
The action was a drive to
stamp out violence along the
border separating Northern Ire
land from the independent Irish
Republic.
The men rounded up we're
taken to local jails and Belfast
Prison. A police spokesman said
they will be held indefinitely
under special powers act which
permits police to arrest and in
tern suspects without warrants
or trials. A Home Office official
said that after inquiries many
will be released within "a hours.
There have been IA acts Of
violence in Northern Ireland
since last week end. Many ex-
tremists crossed the border from
the Irish Republic, but most Of
those rounded up today were
Isympathizers with the illegal
Irish Republic army who live
north of the border.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-22
Robbers Loot
2 Gas Stations

Montgomery County police
today reported that thieves,
using the fog as a cloak for their
activities. broke into two filling
stations last night and smashed
the safe at the Lone Oak Ele-
mentary School in Rockville.
The first theft was reported
lat Z am. by William Schu-
macher and Clyde E. Mitchell,
owners of the ESQ filling sta
ton at the crossroads in Poto-
mac. They said $125 was taken
from the office cash register by
robbers who climbed up a
drain spout and broke open a
Idormer window on the station
root.
In Silver Spring. detectives
said a total of $160.4o was taken
from the ransacked office of an
Amoco filling station at Bill
Piney Branch road. The thieves
broke a window to enter the
station.
About $40 in cash was stolen
from the broken safe at the Lone
Oak School. The school is at
WOODBURY. road and Grandin
avenue, Rockville.