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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Ads

May I thank you for giving
a fair Interpretation to my
remarks in your issue of March
3? The Siler bill cannot by the
widest stretch of the imagina-
tlon-except the somewhat in
hamed and distorted imagi-
nation of the liquor traffic-be
called a prohibition bill.
1t is merely a continuation
OF powers already exercised by
Congress under their authority
over interstate aspects of the
commerce in alcoholic bever-
ages. The alcohol tax unit of
the Treasury Department has
already been given, and is ex-
ercising, authority to regulate
and curtail alcoholic beverage
advertising. That this author
lty has failed of the effect in
tended-to keep such auver-
Using in bounds and to prevent
false advertising-is due to the
ingenuity of the traffic in
evading regulations.
Every sensible person admits
that alcoholic beverages are
not harmless like milk and
soda pop, but have disturbing
physical and social effects. It
is, therefore, a fraud on the
public to suggest that they are
conducive to good health or
may be INDUCED in to any
extent with impunity. Yet the
brewers continually associate
their product with sports
although athletes are put off
alcoholic beverages in train
ing - thereby suggesting the
contrary. that they are
especially favored by athletes.
The distillers employ words
associated with health,
clear, clean" ETC.. and extol
purity of the mountain spring
water used, which of course
merely dilutes to some extent
the alcohol which remains the
main part of the drink. They
use the suggestion to drink
glass after glass after glass;"
and in contradiction to COM
petitive Advertising, the
Brewers Foundation conducts
a series of Home Life i'll
America promotional ads in
home magazines implying that
you cannot even properly carry
on a private family converse
ton without serving beer.
II al OF us we're supremely
wise, We might be able to re-
Sist these suggestions. But
there are a large number of
good honest citizens whose
faith in the printed word is
still sublime. and even the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

mer afternoon, and counted
% different sounds that came
to his little pink ears.
These included the whirr of
a lawn mower. the cries of
children, the barking of a dog,
and the shrill cry of the spring
pepper.
Today he would hear no
pepper. because the last pond
was dried up and built on years
ago.
While it lasted. the spring
pepper, or hyla, made a noise
that fascinated Jones.
1t is Shrill, but not too much
so, with carrying power
marvellous indeed from such
a small creature.
The cry of this little tree
toad Is marvelously akin to
all nature. as some sounds are;
they fit in, as we say, with
other sounds.
One of these, usually over
looked. is the ordinary song OF
our faithful old robin.
X
Robin Redbreast, as he is
called (rather wrongly. since
his breast is russell has his
everyday music, and his spe-
cial music for calling rain"
as the country people say.
Actually, our robin is a
thrush, and this can be seen
in his young. which have
speckled breasts.
When the colonists first
came to this country from
England. they carried with
them precious memories of
their own robin redbreast, a
little fellow with a really red
coloring.
When they saw the closest
thing to it, in what was to be
the United States of America,
they Immediately dubbed him
robin redbreast, and the name
has stuck ever since.
The ordinary song of our
robin is a sort of MARBLE, with
out special characteristic ex-
cept that it blends in so we'll
with all other outdoor sounds
that it is normally not heard.
One must stop, now and
then, and think, to grasp the
significance of this music,
since it does not attract your
attention as the bold singing
of the mockingbird does on
moonlit nights.
To get back. to that Jet
plane:
IF all the people in the
world were talking at once"
They probably are" says
Templeton Jones, so what?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Taxpayers Lament

l read with great interest
a splendid article written by
L. Coleman Andrews, former
tax commissioner for the IN
ternal Revenue Service. Mr..
Andrews is one of the many
taX-paying citizens of this
country who is just about fed
up with the burdensome Az
year-old income tax law. and.
like many of us. would like to
see it abolished.
Mr.. Andrews states that al
though while commissioner it
was his job to enforce the law
IN respect to collecting taxes,
he nevertheless for the past
20 years has been opposed to
this method of extracting a
too great amount of money
from persons pay check.
AS he SO rightfully says.
there must be a less painful
way for one to contribute to
the cost of Government opera
ton, which incidentally is ex-
banding year by year.
In this writer's opinion, for
eign aid spending could and
should be drastically reduced.
Our efforts in squandering the
peoples hard-earned tax dol
lars abroad doesn't appear to
be paying dividends.
Why not substitute for the
obnoxious income tax a gen.
eral 5 per cent sales tax to
be operative throughout the
48 States Including our pos
sessions? 1t would seem to
me to be a far more popular
way of paying than the pres
ent system. Then everyone
making a purchase would pay
as he goes. My plan would
exempt food and medicine
from any sales tax.
According to estimates by
United States News and World
Report. total spending for the
first quarter of 1856 was $398.7
billion, which certainly proves
that tapping revenue at this
source would be profitable to
the Government.
Merritt Walden Abel.
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Tribute to Proctor

When we old Washington
ans read of the death of our
friend John Clagett Proctor,
we felt as if a near and dear
relative of our own family had
left us.
When illness overlook him
and his weekly historical and
always instructive Sunday COL
umn ceased to appear, his
many faithful and admiring
readers missed them greatly.
I regard his book "Proctor's
Washington" as a legacy left
to us old timers. We shall
never forget this dear good
teacher and friend.
Anita Schade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

AS freshman in one of Vir-
ginia'S high schools, l chal-
lenge Mothers" statement
that. Our children are being
poorly educated" 1 also do not
believe that she was better
equipped after finishing sew
enth grade" in her little one
room schoolhouse than a grad
uate of Montgomery County
High School, if Maryland's
school system is anything like
Virginia's. Although I do go to
Mclean High School, in Vir-
ginia, and am not acquainted
with Maryland's school system,
I feel that it's fairly safe to
say that she wasn't any better
equipped after completing sew
enth grade than anyone else
now completing seventh grade,
unless. of course, she was an
exceptionally intelligent child.
In our high school at least,
there is no playing around
and by-passing work" for the
normal student land / think
you will find this true in most
high schools in this area.) Yet,
most Of us enjoy most of our
studies. And why shouldn't we?
Is there any sproven rule that
says that education that is fun
isn't education? There is an
easier road to learning than
there was in her day, progress
doesn't stand still! Teachers
are a lot better equipped to
teach the students now than
they were then! Qualifications
are higher. We, at Mclean.
have beautiful text books (and
plenty and I know they do at
Falls Church High School too,
for went there last year.
We have a good school sys-
tenn. and good teachers, who
are well trained in their fields.
Students in our high school
are a fortunate group. If her
child isn't learning. he is either
stupid. lazy, or has that rarity
now days, a very incompetent
teacher. and if this is so, I sug-
eeSt she move to Virginia, and
Fairfax County, and try our
school system.
Peggi Anderson,
9Th Grade, Mclean High
School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

TO this close companionship.
Scientists believe that a few
pairs of these egrets may have
been blown over the Atlantic
by wind currents.
@. Is it true that one Of the
earlier Presidents was nomi-
mated in a church?--G. N.
A. Yes. William Henry Har-
lison was nominated in Zion
Lutheran Church OF Harris
burg. Pa. in 1886, while the
Wing national convention was
meeting there. The convention
afterward thanked the trustees
for the use OF their beautiful
edifice so handsomely accorded
10 them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

BOGOTA (By MaiD Here
candles grow ON bushes.
The white berries from
which the candles are made
also produce oil of such ex-
cellent quality that it is used
almost exclusively for all altar
lamps in Catholic churches
throughout the country, as
well as to light country homes,
according to DR.. Antonio
Olivares, eminent biologist of
the Colegio de Virrey Soils
here.
Father OlivareS was collect
ing these berries the other day.
They grow prolifically on a
jungle plant with leaves like
those of rhubarb. Collecting
these berries is a profitable
sideline for country children
and in only one part of the
country is it cultivated. 1t is
a crop of the semihostile Paez
Indians of the Tierradentro
area.
Harvesting is somewhat diff
flcult, for the oil-containing
white seed is inside a buried
coat. almost like chestnut
burr. This must be removed
and the seeds placed in hot
water. The oil rises to the
surface. The seeds are mostly
oil.
Many Queer Plants
When it is desired to make
candles a dozen or more
berries are strung on a stick.
This can be stored indefinitely.
Such candles. Father Olivares
says, give off a beautiful soft
light and are priced in some
churches.
The land is full of queer
plants being brought into the
museums by collectors from
hitherto UNEMPLOYED areas.
For example. explorers in the
deSolate heights of the Santa
Marta Mountains. just back of
the Caribbean coast, have re-
ported seeing f1ocks of sheep
grazing placidly among the
rocks. Then, looking the other
way. they see an assembly of
cowled, white-robed priests,
apparently in the midst of
some weird ecclesiastical cere-
mony.
But these are neither sheep
nor priests. They are bushy
plants which grow on other
wise nearly barren ground with
branches about as thick as a
mans finger. These branches
have a dense covering of many
layers of long leaves covered
with white. wool-like hairs.
Sometimes these leaves are so
thick that the point of a pen
Gil hardly can be thrust be-
tween them. Some of the more
or less recumbent plants are
the size of parlor sofas.
These wool coats are an
adaptation of the plants to
hostile conditions. They are
exposed to violent shifts from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

In regard to the noise made
by a let plane:
SHOW that fang, orangu-
tang!" writes c. Y.
Something's wrong with
your sound suppressor, pro-
lessor.
If all the people of the
world were talking at once,
the sound would not be as loud
as an Air Force B-52 on the
ground, according to an acous-
tics scientist I talked with last
month"
That's too much noise. boys.
Leave her, beaver; and don't
forget. marmoset.
The civilized world has been
trying for half a century to
get away from noise. and now
comes along the greatest sound
producer of them all.
What is the world coming
to?
1t is. of course, the small
noise that annoys some people
the most.
That still small voice" of
which We have heard is not
very loud, but it has led to
reform and betterment, and
the making of new worlds.
The slight noise of a scam
pering mouse in the walls
seems louder than thunder.
sometimes. Noise is what you
make it, partly, with your own
mind and ears.
Some famous men have alb
horred noise.
Mohammed disliked it. and
raised a spiritual kingdom.
The noisy way is not the
best way, in too many cases.
They put mufflers on auto
mobiles, and it is a good thing
but so far nobody has been
able to do it to the airplane.
\ y y
In the old days, if noises
annoyed one. there was always
some wight around to say you
should use will power.
In fact, there was one whole
book. of rather good bulk. de-
voted solely to helping people
get over being annoyed by out
side noises.
After all, it is the noises
Of other people which worry
you.
Your own noises, for some
mysterious reason, sound pref
ty good.
y
Templeton Jones once sat
in his lawn chair on a sum-
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Curtsy From OAR

Please accept the thanks OF
my chapter for the most ex-
cellent coverage and publicity
you gave the 65th Continental
Congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution.
Martha n. Condee,
Regent. Col. James Mccall
Chapter, OAR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Fire Victims Grateful

Our thanks to all those who
helped us rehabilitate our
selves after the fire in the
Randle Apartments. The Red
Cross. the Congressional Hotel.
the Southeast Citizens Asso-
Citations. the Potomac Electric
Power Co. and many individ-
uals really outdid themselves.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. l.. Stinedurf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

duties as member Of the planning body.
And it certainly is to the advantage
of Washington to have on the commission
a resident of the community so thor
oughly familiar with the Capital and so
tireless in his efforts to promote its
betterment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry iDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-12
BiIlion-DoIIar
Beach
1y BENNETT CERT

Standing at window the top floor of the new
600 Fontainebeau Hotel in Miami Beach, and gazing
southwark at Of luxurious stuoco palaces and
ming pools it difficult to realize that barely 20 years ago
this entire almost inaccessible jungle wilderness.
The transformation Of the greater Miami
story Of typical American imagination and daring When
Carl Fisher, with John S. Collins, and few other hardy
operators, surveyed Miami Beach IN 1918. was overrun
with tangled deeprooed palmetto and mangrove ALI
gators and snakes ured in its eacherous marshes The
mosquitoes were most murderouS Of ALL
But Fisher had only discover noted Will Rogers that
sand would hold up reaestae sign and that mosquitoes
could be reheased not to bite until after bought
Two years and many millions Of dollars later, causeway
linked the Beach with Miami proper and Lincoln Road
had been hacked through the wilderness Recently property
Lincoln Road has sold high $4,000 front ootD
For the season Of 1856 Miami Beach boasts $50 hotels.
Every year, they have fantastic and elaborate
But it's hard how they're ever going to top the
Fontainebeau With five of cabanas. three
beaches (were sometimes than you've
basked fo six imposing restaurants ballroom seating
5000 and BAT unkeys entirely possible to lose
wife Tuesday morning and find her again until Sunday
night = without either Of you leaving the premises.
There moments, admittedly when the French decor
becomes bit overpo~ering Furthermore the management,
in keeping with the Gallo spirit has thoughtfully printed
all warning signs and directions in French The sentiments
Of the first garbage who confronted with the
admonItion, Defense denfrev have not been recorded
When Jack Benny visited the FontanebIeau, he had
only complaint. IAN eightpieoe orchestra in the mems
room really much" he observed "A piano and violin
would be plenty"
That wasn't his only surprise. big convention in
session and the bars doing landofce business
soda and ginger ale Have these guests gone mad?
mareled Jack mo. SIR explained President Ben Novack.
This is a convention Of Alcoholics Anonymous"
The last straw In 1915 Carl Fisher offered 600 feet of
frontage the heart Of Miami Beach free anyone
who would build $4,000 hotel it, No nibbled
the bait few years later however, the Roney Plaza shot up
Of two million. And there's talk Of replacing
with edifce at 10 times THAT figure
There's stopping that Miami winter sunshine hotel
entrepreneurs from cashing in it, They're not greedy.
either insists Joe E. Lewis Some don't if il takes
them entire make back their original investment
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POLITICS

Continued From First Page
and sometimes Statewide, which
do not affect other congresSion-
al districts and States, are at
times Of the greatest Importance.
The strength Of the party or
ganization is another vital fac
tor. and so may be changes in
population.
Can't Project Picture
For these reasons 1t is widely
incorrect to figure that the per-
|centage gains in Democratic
strength in the 1856 Maine elec-
lions can be projected to show
the relative strength of the
Democrats and the Republicans
in the. coming Nationwide con-
greSsional elections.
In 1852. the Republican total
congressional vote is given as
%. 1893, 1856, and the Democratic
vote as 28,336,127-almost q
$3.50 proposition. In that cleo
ton. however, the Republicans
elected 221 members Of the
House, the Democrats 212, Inde-
|pendents /, and there was one
vacancy due to the death
of Democratic Representative
Adolph j. SABBATH of Illinois
later filled by the election of q
Democrat. The closeness of the
vote was due to the fact that in
congressional elections in the
solid South" the Democrats
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life just at the time when II
appears she was about to be
hooked again. She told US she
had inhaled heroin only three
days earlier and she implied that
she was waiting for a shot that
night. We believe she should be
in some form of protective Gus
tody where she can get training
and guidance without entire
freedom"
There is one other sequel to
the night of the addict hunt
Told about the difficulties en-
countered that night. United
States Attorney Oliver Gasch
conferred with Deputy Chief
Clarence Lutz and Capt. McCor-
mick. Then he issued this state
ment:
ION reviewing the experience:
Of the police. I find instance,
indicating unnecessary red tapt
hampering their activities. I fee
it would be highly desirable tt
discuss these matters with thu
chief of police. with Distric'
Building officials and with Dis
trict General Hospital. We viii
have further conferences to clar.
Eify operations under the new
law to get maximum benefits
| from it."
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The detectives had promised
Clara what she had told them
would not go beyond the squad
without her consent. Thus, the
next morning, three detectives
from the narcotics squad called
on the girl. By that time. she
had seen her mother. With her
mother, she had gone to the adj
uniting Office and been officially
signed in as a voluntary patient,
The trio Of detectives talked
to her as patiently as Detectives
Holcomb and Panetta had during
the night. Would she be willing
to swear to an affidavit that the
men she named had supplied her
with narcotics? She had had
some sleep by then and a chance
to think. She was willing.
On the basis of her affidavit
arrest warrants were issued fol
John Lee. 81, colored, of the 1900
block of Corcoran street NV
and Eddie Thorpe, %, colored
of the apartment where Clara
had opened the door.
! That night-WedneSday Of last
week-Lee was taken into GUS
tody by Capt K. G. Mccormick
Lee admitted administering mar
Icotics to the 16-year-old girl II
the presence of Thorpe. with mar
cotics supplied by Thorpe.
Admits Taking Heroin
Before dawn Thursday. Thorp,
was arrested at his apartment
: Thorpe had already admitted tt
police that he took heroin him.
self. 1t was on the basis of thai
; admission that the pickup ordel
had been issued for him-tht
treason Detectives Panetta anC
lHolcomb went to his apartment
capt. Mccormick reported thai
after his arrest. Thorpe-con.
Ifronted by Lee and the girl--ad-
mitted he had bought heroin
admitted that Lee had injected
it into him but denied supplying
the girl with narcotics.
/ Later Thursday, the two mer
appeared before the United
States Commissioner on charge:
of violating narcotics laws. They
were held under $4,000 bono
each, AS the week ended. the
United States Attorneys Office
was exploring the possibility Of
bringing the men specifically
within the scope of the new law
which provides that the jury ir
its discretion can recommend the
death penalty for anyone supply.
ing narcotics to juveniles.
At District General Hospital
one psychiatrist after another
has talked with Clara. Her par.
ents have been brought in fol
conferences. No decision hao
been made as of yesterday on
whether Clara had gone back
on the dope habit sufficiently to
warrant commitment to the Fed
eral Narcotics Hospital at Lex
Iington,, KY.
/ AS DR.. John Schultz, chief Of
the psychiatric service, puts it
THE detectives came into hel
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good job and start over if you
got we'll"
/ The girl began to cry again.
MY mother will help me. II
she said. "She doesn't know
now but could tell her"
I'VE wouldn't be doing our job
if we didn't send you to the hos
pital." Detective Holcomb told
her.
i Agrees to Volunteer
1--WE can get the papers and
get an order for you or you can
volunteer. Which way do you
want to do it,"
volunteer" she whispered.
The detectives quickly searched
1.-THE desk for a waiver form. They
read it to her. Then she moved
over to the desk and signed a
dozen papers-copies of the adj
dict form and the waiver form
She had made up her mind.
I On the way to the hospital
they stopped once more at the
house of the 19-year-old. 1t was
nearly am. He still wasn't
home.
They swung into the grounds
of District General Hospital
The nurse on duty in the psy-
chiatric building sent for the
resident physician.
The detectives handed him thu
form they had spent hours per-
suading the girl to sign.
Need Motorized Statement
This is no good" said thu
doctor. you're supposed to ge
Ia motorized statement and ther
II issue you a pickup order"
"A juvenile can't sign a waiver
I"chimed in the nurse.
1t had been a long night but
the detectives kept their temper
She's SICK" said Detective
Panetta.
1 The doctor looked at the CIR
land asked the detectives to joir
him in the hall. They told him
the circumstances. The doctor
came back.
He examined the girls arms
You understand you signed
yourself in?" he asked her.
She nodded.
How long have you been TAX
ing dope?"
!, She told him that and how
many capsules day and how
often. She said she had las
"snorted" heroin three days
: earlier.
II I'm going to take a chance
and sign her in" the doctor sale
; abruptly. I'VE can straighter
; it out in the morAing."
Detective Panetta called hel
, mother.
I Then, the detectives turned tc
go. Detective Holcomb paused
Got any money!" he asked
the girl.
| She shook her head.
He suited some bills in hel
hand and the two detective.
strode out, leaving doctor anc
two nurses staring after them
!, In the story Of the young ad-
dict. this is the aftermath:
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Seventh Election District
GLEN ECHO HEIGHTS

Batchelder, f. B. & A. Got
%, Block 1412, "Glen Echo
Heights" containing 1888 square
feet, assessed at $1,64000. Taxes,
interest and costs, $685..
Hayes, Susan S. e. II. Blot
81, Block IA, Glen Echo Heights"
containing 1914 square feet and
improvements, assessed at $13,-
$4,000 Taxes, interest and costs,
S401.04.
Hood, Percy C. & M. A.-Lots
IS and 10, Block 13, Glen Echo
Heights" containing $4,000 square
feet and improvements, assessed
at 81 10000. Taxes, interest and
costs, $174.26.
Johnson, William D. & T. F.
Part of lot %, Block 10, Glen
Echo Heights" containing 270
square feet, assessed at $1,000
Taxes, interest and costs, SLOTS.
O'Connor, John J. & j. Blot
50, Block 80, High Point" con-
tanning 10000 square feet and i'm
provements, assessed at $14,-
5000. Taxes, interest and costs,
$441.97.
Watkins, Theodore & M. B.
Lot %, Block "a, "Glen Echo
Heights" containing 5,075 square
feet and Improvements, assessed
at $5,06000. Taxes, interest and
costs, S16447.